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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

7:00 PM · 4h 26m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Comprehensive Plan Amendments AB 9202 12/20
2021 Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments AB 8191 2/5
Central Park Pad #3 Turf Replacement AB 8130 2/3
2020 Community Awards Recognition ID 0790 2/2
2020-2021 Budget Reauthorizations AB 8111 2/2
First 2021 Budget Amendment AB 8112 2/2
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First for Roll Call Vote: Hunt
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3a
2020 Community Awards Recognition ID 0790
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov
7. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
7a
Community Survey 17 - 41 ID 0836 - Central Park Pad #3 Turf b) Replacement ID 0805
packet pp.7–16
Topics: Parks
Staff report:
Provide the City Council an informational update prior to implementing the City’s next community survey.
8. CONSENT CALENDAR
8a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Feb. 16, 2021, $ 6,490,583.91 ID 0757
Approved · packet pp.43–62
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
8b
Minutes: City Council Study Session, Jan. 26, 2021
Approve · packet pp.63–65
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 01-26-21 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Council Study Session 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting January 26, 2021 MINUTES
8c
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 1, 2021
Award Bid · packet pp.67–70
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR c) 02-01-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
8f
2020-2021 Budget Reauthorizations AB 8111
packet pp.95–106
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
In each year's budget, funding is provided to complete a series of projects or programs. It is not unusual for a government entity to not complete all of those projects and programs in that particular fiscal year - whether that be because there was an unanticipated delay starting said project or program or because a project or program takes longer to complete than originally anticipated. In the case of the proposed 2020 reauthorizations, many projects faced setbacks due to COVID- related delays.
8g
First 2021 Budget Amendment AB 8112
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.107–118
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
Budget amendments are required when the expenditures of a fund are forecast to exceed the adopted appropriation level or when changes are needed to interfund transfers - or transfers between funds. This budget amendment includes 13 items adjusting 10 of the City's 22 financial funds. In total, these adjustments account for $1,580,568 in increased revenues and $2,422,511 in increased expenditures. The amendments to the General Fund total $459,400 of the decreased expenditures and do not include any General Fund revenue adjustments.
8h
Amendment to 12th Avenue NW AB 8121
Authorize · packet pp.119–135
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
8i
Interagency Agreement with the City of Sammamish for Jail Services AB 8131
Authorize · packet pp.137–148
Staff report:
The Issaquah Jail serves the City of Sammamish with jail confinement needs.
9. REGULAR BUSINESS
9a
2021 Docket of Proposed Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments AB 8080
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.149–172
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The state Growth Management Act requires that certain counties and the cities within those counties (including Issaquah) adopt comprehensive plans. The cities’ plans must contain the citywide visions, goals and policies for Land Use, Housing, Transportation, Utilities, Community Facilities, Parks, and Economic Development.
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
9b
Funding for Emergency Housing AB 8127
Carried 7-0
Authorize Funding · packet pp.173–183
Topics: HousingPublic SafetyBudget
Staff report:
Through the Human Services Grants, the City of Issaquah provides funding for a variety of housing services in East King County, including homelessness prevention (such as emergency financial assistance, food, and basic needs) and homelessness intervention (such as emergency shelters, transitional housing, or supportive housing services). However, funding provided through the grants covers the cost of services only partially and is not enough to meet the demand for services. With the implementation of a more Issaquah-focused outreach program, these funds will provide additional emergency housing resources for the Outreach Coordinator and program to be more effective in reaching our homelessness intervention outcomes.
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
9c
Business Assistance Grants AB 8128
Failed 3-4
Authorize Funding · packet pp.185–195
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The City created business grant programs in 2020 to respond to COVID-19 impacts. The City received over $2.6 million of requests through three grant programs: • Small Business Support Grant • Business Reinvention Grant • Winterization Grant
Roll call:
Moved by HUNT · seconded by WALSH
In favor: de Michele, Hunt, Walsh
Opposed: Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Tola Marts, Chris Reh
9d
Fit & Fun Outside Funding AB 8129
Authorize Funding · packet pp.197–199
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
In late 2020, the Mayor's Recovery Task Force sought ideas from a variety of Issaquah Boards and Commissions on creative ways to support the community through COVID-19 recovery in 2021. One of the themes was opportunities to encourage healthy activities outdoors. The Park Board members focused their brainstorming around this theme, and prepared ideas for presentation at the January 14 Recovery Task Force meeting.
10. GOOD OF THE ORDER
10a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:00 activity council meeting to order and
0:02 before we move on to tonight's
0:04 agenda items i want to acknowledge that
0:06 this is a remote meeting format
0:09 on march 6 i issued an emergency
0:11 proclamation declaring a civil emergency
0:13 in the city
0:14 due to the covet 19 outbreak on march
0:17 24th the governor issued proclamation
0:19 20-28 relating to the covet-19 emergency
0:23 and open public meetings the
0:25 proclamation has been extended
0:27 until termination of the state emergency
0:29 or until repealed by the governor or
0:31 legislature
0:33 due to these proclamations tonight's
0:34 meeting will be held entirely remotely
0:37 the meeting will be recorded streamed
0:39 live and available for later viewing on
0:41 the city's youtube channel
0:43 a call-in number was provided on the
0:45 meeting agenda for members of the public
0:46 who wish to call in by phone
0:48 to listen live to the meeting or to make
0:50 comments
0:52 for those members of the public who've
0:54 called in this evening welcome
0:56 at this point we'll take a moment to
0:58 take a roll call of the council members
0:59 in attendance so please stay here when i
1:02 call your name
1:03 councilmember d michelle here thank you
1:06 councilmember goodman here thank you
1:09 councilmember hall here thank you
1:12 council president hunt here thank you
1:15 councilmember martz here great
1:19 deputy council president ray here thank
1:22 you and councilmember walsh
1:24 here thank you so the next item on our
1:28 agenda this evening is the pledge of
1:29 allegiance and i would ask if you could
1:31 all keep your microphones muted
1:34 but please you are welcome to join me in
1:36 the pledge of allegiance so if you could
1:38 all mute now
1:42 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
1:44 united states of america
1:46 and to the republic for which it stands
1:50 one nation under god indivisible with
1:53 liberty and justice for all
1:56 thank you the next item on the agenda
1:58 this evening is special business
2:00 id 0790-2020
2:04 community awards recognition each year
2:07 the greater issaquah chamber of commerce
2:09 holds its annual community awards
2:11 where we present the city presents a
2:14 hall of fame winner
2:16 because of the covet 19 pandemic the
2:18 2020 awards were put on
2:20 hold not once but twice and so like much
2:23 of what we've all been doing this past
2:25 year
2:26 the chamber reinvented the annual event
2:28 and held it virtually on january 28th
2:31 from ruth keys to harvey manning the
2:33 impressive list the fiscal hall of fame
2:36 fame inductees truly embodies the best
2:39 of our community
2:40 over the years and through their many
2:42 contributions to issaquah
2:44 members of the hall of fame have raised
2:45 the bar with their inspiring examples of
2:48 service
2:49 leadership and civic mindedness i am
2:52 proud to add another
2:54 exceptional community member david
2:55 wagner to our hall of fame
2:58 david is a long time resident of
3:00 issaquah following 21 years of us army
3:03 service
3:04 he is a vietnam veteran and received a
3:06 purple heart medal for wounds received
3:08 in combat
3:10 david is the consummate volunteer always
3:13 willing to step forward when there is a
3:14 need
3:15 he has displayed outstanding leadership
3:18 an initiative for veterans
3:20 seniors and the environment for example
3:23 dave was instrumental in spearheading
3:25 the effort to update the veterans
3:27 memorial to include
3:28 issaquah sons killed in the korean and
3:31 vietnam wars
3:32 and to change the name of memorial field
3:34 to veterans memorial field
3:37 he is also a 19-year master docent for
3:39 the friends of the east coast famine
3:41 hatchery
3:42 and has taught thousands of children
3:44 about the salmon life cycle
3:46 in addition dave served with distinction
3:48 on the issaquah
3:49 cemetery board for 12 years eight of
3:52 those serving as
3:53 chair david is also a tireless advocate
3:56 for seniors and veterans
3:58 he has served four terms on the king
4:00 county veterans advisory board
4:02 and was helpful in acquiring ninety
4:04 seven thousand dollars from the king
4:05 county veterans and human services levy
4:08 to replace the windows and make other
4:10 improvements to the issequest senior
4:12 center
4:12 he is also a member of the vfw and is a
4:15 veterans
4:16 service officer volunteering to process
4:18 claims and to provide transportation for
4:21 vets
4:21 to the va hospital from working with the
4:24 issaquah press
4:26 to publish its less we forget series
4:29 to personally organizing issaquah's
4:31 memorial
4:32 and veterans day ceremony since 2005
4:35 david has always worked behind the
4:37 scenes to
4:38 promote civic mindedness in our
4:40 community i'm going to give david
4:42 an opportunity to address and i'm hoping
4:46 that he will address
4:47 one of the other activities that he's
4:49 been doing for veterans the honor
4:50 flights which has been amazing
4:52 but before that i just want to tell a
4:54 little personal story of how
4:56 david helped me out one day when i had
4:58 been up at swedish hospital
5:00 and had encountered a vet who had just
5:03 been discharged
5:04 and was so obviously
5:07 homeless with nowhere to go and i had
5:10 called dave and asked what
5:11 i could do to help and he told me to
5:14 bring the gentleman down to the senior
5:15 center
5:16 to gather some information to make sure
5:18 he had coffee and something to eat
5:21 and dave came by and met with the
5:23 individual
5:24 and found a way to help provide him with
5:26 transportation to get him back home
5:29 and so i actually got to see dave in
5:31 action and it was really cool
5:33 so dave there's so many stories like
5:35 that
5:36 i just want to thank you for your
5:38 decades and decades of service
5:40 and give you the opportunity to say a
5:41 few words
5:43 thank you mayor um so uh
5:47 i remember that day when we took that
5:49 vet in
5:50 something that uh i got reminded about
5:54 today
5:54 something that the council doesn't know
5:56 and you don't know
5:59 in the city of snoqualmie
6:03 we have now long-term leased our
6:06 american legion building
6:08 to snoqualmie valley shelter services
6:11 for three years to house the homeless
6:16 and so what an honor it is to be a part
6:19 of that
6:20 and to watch that happen and the only
6:23 other thing i would like to
6:24 uh counsel to know i think you know it
6:29 every year for the last 12 years i think
6:34 and mayor you were there one saturday
6:37 at the lake when we disposed of
6:41 over 400 u.s flags
6:45 and we teach the boy scouts how to
6:47 properly uh
6:49 dispose of those i can tell you after a
6:52 day by the fire
6:53 i know exactly what a marshmallow feels
6:56 like
6:57 um anyway one last thing i would like to
7:01 talk about
7:02 is something that i never want our
7:04 community to forget
7:07 you know how much of an advocate i am
7:10 about the pow mia flag
7:12 and that flag is extremely important to
7:15 our vfw
7:16 and american legion because it
7:18 represents
7:20 all those wonderful
7:23 soldiers sailors marines air force that
7:26 never
7:27 came back home after their vigil
7:30 uh in wartime and little
7:34 does our city know uh in fact i just
7:37 found another name
7:39 so we have six six mias
7:43 missing in action
7:46 five from world war ii one from vietnam
7:50 that left our wonderful little city and
7:53 went away to serve
7:55 and never got to come back home i i
7:58 don't
7:58 ever wants to forget that so when you
8:01 see that black and white flag
8:03 flying before below the american flag
8:07 on any given day and we fly it 10 times
8:10 a year in this state if it was up to me
8:13 and i was king we would fly it every day
8:17 to let people know that we have not
8:20 forgotten their family members
8:22 and how important that is to our
8:24 community
8:26 this is a real honor but uh
8:30 the biggest honor i've ever had in my
8:32 life
8:33 happened in 2018 when i
8:37 went on an honor flight back to
8:39 washington dc
8:40 and by the way we've flown over 1400
8:44 veterans back
8:46 no cost to the veteran to see the
8:49 monuments
8:50 built and memorials built in their honor
8:53 and visit arlington
8:57 and in 2018 i was asked if i would
9:01 lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown
9:04 soldier and i can tell you i did
9:06 and i saluted and i remembered our
9:10 vets from the city of issaquah
9:13 and something was in my eye because it
9:16 kept tearing up i don't know what it was
9:18 but
9:20 please let's not ever forget those six
9:23 that left here issaquah and never came
9:27 back home
9:28 that's that's the most important thing i
9:31 could ever say
9:32 to the council thank you for the time
9:34 thank you for the honor
9:35 i'm truly humbled by this but now it's
9:38 time to get back to work there's a lot
9:40 of volunteering to do
9:43 dave thank you so much it was very fun
9:46 to actually surprise you which
9:48 it was kind of hard to do in a virtual
9:50 format but you were genuinely surprised
9:52 and that made it all the more special
9:54 but i'm very very proud to be the mayor
9:55 who got to induct you into the hall of
9:57 fame
9:57 so stay well my friend
10:07 so in addition to the annual hall of
10:08 fame award this city
10:10 this year the city chose to honor three
10:12 recipients
10:13 who recognized a need in our community
10:15 during the covet 19 pandemic
10:17 and answered the call for help these
10:19 recipients are
10:21 the isoqua food and clothing bank the
10:24 downtown issaquah association
10:26 and issaquah resident michelle anibo
10:29 these recipients were also recognized at
10:31 the january 28
10:32 2021 event and they will be featured in
10:35 the city social media platforms
10:37 throughout this month
10:38 very proud of the kindness the
10:40 generosity and all the hard work
10:42 that we see in our different community
10:44 groups
10:45 and individuals so we're going to move
10:48 now into the audience comments portion
10:49 of our meeting
10:50 and for those of you who submitted the
10:52 online form to make comments
10:54 your name will be called shortly for
10:56 those who have joined us tonight by
10:58 phone and would like to make comments
10:59 but did not sign up in advance
11:01 please press star three on your phone
11:04 and we will call the last two digits of
11:06 your phone number when it's your turn to
11:07 make comment
11:09 um to be clear has anyone signed up to
11:11 speak this evening or indicated a desire
11:13 to speak
11:19 thank you uh yes we have several who
11:22 have signed up and again
11:24 if you are on the line and didn't have
11:25 that opportunity press star 3 and we'll
11:28 reach you in the order after we're ready
11:33 thank you city clerk i'm going to go
11:34 through a couple of directions about
11:36 public comment
11:38 so please ensure that you direct your
11:40 comments to the whole council tonight
11:41 and not to individuals
11:43 and while this is not a question and
11:44 answer session we will contact you to
11:46 follow up
11:47 if needed when you are recognized
11:50 unmute your microphone state your name
11:53 address
11:54 and relationship to the city speak
11:57 clearly
11:57 and pause frequently please limit your
12:00 comments to five minutes
12:02 and re-mute your microphone when done if
12:04 you do not respond after your name or
12:06 phone number is called or if your
12:08 connection is lost
12:09 unexpectedly the meeting will still need
12:11 to proceed and you are encouraged to
12:12 rejoin the meeting if able
12:15 personal attacks obscene language
12:17 derogatory remarks and disruptive
12:19 behavior will not be permitted
12:21 citizen comments written and verbal are
12:24 an important aspect of the public
12:26 process and the city takes these
12:27 comments seriously and we thank you for
12:30 taking the time to address us
12:32 so city clerk can you please identify
12:34 the first person speaking this evening
12:40 yes i can first on our list is kathy
12:43 mcquarrie
12:44 i do not see kathy's number listed
12:48 i will certainly keep my eye out for a
12:50 new caller to call in
12:52 next on the list it is excuse me is
12:54 nathan
12:57 wessler or bob
13:03 and i do not see nathan on the line
13:05 either i will keep a lookout
13:07 next on our line is mary lynch
13:10 and let me find in a request to unmute
13:13 on my
13:14 end and you may need to do so as well on
13:16 your side so just give me a moment here
13:18 to find that setting
13:24 and mary you have the floor if you can
13:29 there you go okay
13:32 this is mary lynch and i reside at 2690
13:35 northwest oakcrest drive issaquah
13:37 washington
13:38 um i want to also just say i'm glad
13:42 they've got
13:42 the recognition tonight he's done so
13:44 much and i've had the honor to know and
13:46 work with him
13:47 as a volunteer that being said i'd like
13:51 i did send an email which all of you
13:54 should have gotten just
13:55 probably 15 20 minutes ago but before i
13:58 address that
13:59 i would like to ask that during the
14:01 pandemic
14:02 it's been really hard to reach out and
14:03 stay in touch with
14:05 what is going on and i've recently
14:08 you know found out about several
14:10 projects that have been happening
14:12 that haven't been appearing in a timely
14:14 fashion
14:16 on the city's website and it's very
14:18 concerning to me because we've still got
14:20 a lot of development going on especially
14:22 out
14:23 on newport way and i signed up for
14:26 alerts
14:28 and thinking that i would be getting
14:29 them from the city and have not been
14:31 getting them
14:33 and so i went back and just checked the
14:34 city alerts
14:36 page again and found out like for
14:38 transportation
14:40 there isn't any way to get alerts on
14:42 what's happening with the transportation
14:44 board nor is there any way to get alerts
14:46 on what's happening with the
14:48 um environmental board
14:51 and i would hope that in the near future
14:53 we will have alerts there so we know
14:55 when there's meetings and like the
14:57 transportation board looking through the
14:59 calendars it looks like they may be
15:01 having a special meeting
15:03 but i shouldn't have to as a public have
15:05 to constantly go
15:06 to the city website and comb through the
15:11 the project lists the calendar list the
15:13 individual meeting list to find out what
15:15 meetings if you sign up for alerts i
15:17 would hope that in the future we
15:18 can do a better job of communicating
15:20 with people
15:21 that being said the real issue i'm
15:23 writing you is
15:24 last spring or last summer
15:28 we had newport way was completed out
15:30 here for riva
15:31 and when it was completed we were very
15:33 much concerned
15:35 and many of us from out here have been
15:37 talking to the
15:38 development staff as also public works
15:42 about the fact that newport way was
15:44 widened
15:45 to the point that with the anti-aircraft
15:48 creek
15:49 culvert that we no longer have a
15:52 pedestrian access to the trailhead
15:54 which number one the
15:58 city central area plan defined the
16:01 parkway out here that was supposed to
16:03 have sidewalks on both sides
16:05 complete street says you're supposed to
16:07 have sidewalks on both sides
16:10 since the development commission
16:12 meetings with river been going on
16:14 since 15 2016 we have been promised
16:18 the developer commissioned
16:21 development commission members were
16:24 promised by city staff that we would
16:26 have
16:26 a pathway to that it might be gravel
16:30 which we said all right but we would
16:31 have a safe access
16:33 we do not have one nor have we got any
16:36 temporary or long-term um
16:40 solution identified and with covert
16:42 we're getting more and more people than
16:44 that trailhead
16:45 and it is just appalling the fact that
16:48 people are coming and having to step
16:50 out with their backs to the traffic to
16:52 get to that trailhead and we need a
16:54 solution
16:55 that being said i couldn't call in
16:57 because i didn't know that i
16:59 since i didn't sign up last week i
17:01 didn't know that i could call in
17:02 when you during your study session we're
17:04 reviewing complete streets
17:06 i am not at all comfortable that the
17:09 complete streets
17:10 program redo will prevent this from
17:13 happening again
17:14 because we alerted public works we were
17:17 following
17:18 development staff and were assured by
17:20 both groups that we would have a gravel
17:23 pathway
17:24 what we ended up with is none and
17:26 currently have
17:27 no solution from the city from either
17:30 development services
17:31 or from public works that will have any
17:33 safe access
17:35 and many of you on the council weren't
17:38 on the council
17:39 in 2016 when we had the accident out
17:43 here
17:43 around 15 when we had the accident out
17:45 here
17:46 but we for years prior to that did not
17:49 want that crosswalk
17:50 there during development commission
17:53 meetings during the newport planning
17:55 meetings
17:56 we all and kpmg agreed that the site the
17:59 crosswalk should be moved from new
18:01 parkway
18:01 or from oak crest down to the trail head
18:04 and
18:05 there they put it in when they water
18:08 when they redid the road they put
18:09 in where it's supposed to go but
18:12 development staff
18:13 refused to put it in there and they
18:16 put the crosswalk back in on our
18:19 oak crest and we now have to cross a
18:21 wider street
18:23 closer to the curve from the west and on
18:26 top of this now we have pedestrians that
18:28 are work
18:29 walking with their back to traffic in a
18:32 narrowed
18:33 lane mary thank you for
18:36 your comments i'm going to give you a
18:38 chance to wrap up and thank you for
18:40 sending the pictures along with your
18:41 written
18:42 email do you want to wrap up for the
18:43 counseling as we walk i would like to
18:45 see
18:46 the complete streets use this as a
18:48 project to show how this will not happen
18:50 in the future
18:51 thank you thank you mary city clerk who
18:54 is up next to speak
18:56 thank you uh next we have corby
19:00 uh let me unmute you on my end
19:04 and if you can do so on your side i will
19:08 keep my eye out
19:15 i will send another request to unmute
19:19 and corby if you are on the line and can
19:22 hear me you may need to meet unmute
19:24 on your end
19:28 give you another moment
19:32 i'll move on to our next caller oh i see
19:36 corby i looks like we might have sound
19:39 yes thank you
19:40 you have the floor for five minutes
19:42 thank you oh
19:43 thank you and again this is corbie
19:45 kessler and
19:46 um madam mayor and council members i
19:49 just wanted to let you know that as an
19:51 employee of the downtown ithaca
19:52 association or dia
19:54 and a long time resident and friend i
19:57 want to thank you for your service and
19:58 work on behalf of our community
20:00 i know we all need positive feedback at
20:02 this important time so
20:04 there's my cheerleading message for
20:06 today also many thanks for
20:09 our community award we're so honored to
20:11 be part of uh this wonderful group of
20:13 people so thanks again
20:14 i'd also like to reaffirm dia's
20:16 commitment to working with you
20:18 to further our common goals we all want
20:20 the same thing
20:21 to ensure our businesses thrive and our
20:23 community and visitors continue to
20:25 fall in love with our city every day
20:28 these spent every day with
20:30 individual businesses and we are their
20:32 advocates and closest communicators
20:35 we've earned their respect thankfully
20:37 and are so grateful to have that close
20:39 relationship
20:40 because of that i just want to again
20:42 offer to the city our expertise to your
20:44 efforts we can be
20:45 an invaluable champion for you so don't
20:48 be afraid to reach out
20:49 i'm here for you christine is here for
20:52 you anything you need
20:53 our businesses count on all of us so of
20:56 course
20:57 collaboration is the most important
20:59 efficient effective way to conduct
21:01 business so
21:02 i just ask for your support in helping
21:04 us put it into practice with every
21:05 action
21:06 involving our downtown finally and
21:08 perhaps
21:09 most important i'm speaking on behalf of
21:11 baby 8128
21:14 i can't imagine waiting any longer for
21:16 our businesses to get the help they need
21:18 and deserve they are frustrated scared
21:21 and for good reason
21:22 so please help our businesses stay in
21:24 business and
21:25 bring their employees back to work 250
21:28 000
21:28 is small but it's an important lifeline
21:31 for them
21:31 any delay i'm afraid would have dire
21:34 consequences for many
21:35 um they're just struggling to survive so
21:38 thank you again for your consideration
21:42 corby thank you for your comments uh
21:45 city clerk who's up next
21:46 yes ken hughes you have the floor
21:49 you have five minutes oh thank you
21:53 uh thank you uh madam mayor and all the
21:55 members of the city council i really
21:56 appreciate all the support
21:58 um from you guys both presently and in
22:01 the past
22:02 when we weren't going through what we're
22:03 going through now it's always nice to
22:05 see
22:06 your faces out in the community and um
22:09 it's much appreciated
22:10 i'm also calling in support of ab 8128
22:14 the business assistant grants
22:16 we've been lucky to receive both
22:20 government uh city and state grants
22:23 to help us uh bridge this sort of
22:27 this this terrible time we're going
22:28 through and i've been very thankful for
22:30 um it's truly with the help of the city
22:34 and the dia um over the summer with some
22:37 outdoor seating and
22:38 um and the things that we were able to
22:39 get um was truly the only reason that we
22:42 have been able to continue to operate as
22:44 we have i forgot to mention that
22:46 my name is ken hughes i'm with jack's
22:48 grill
22:49 uh l42 canteen are both on front street
22:51 and uh sunset l house in the
22:53 in the plaza so i i skipped over that
22:56 part um but
22:57 um so i wanted to thank you for um all
22:59 that support in the past and the things
23:00 that we've gotten
23:01 up to this point um uh as far as our
23:04 current situation is
23:06 um with the 25 indoor seating and
23:09 obviously the weather being
23:11 not very conducive for outdoor seating
23:13 we're losing money
23:14 um and we'll continue to lose money
23:16 until we can get into the summer
23:19 hopefully get a really nice outdoor
23:22 seating section
23:22 area for all of our restaurants and
23:26 hopefully some more increased indoor
23:28 seating but given
23:30 the way things have been going and all
23:31 the unknowns
23:33 that's really something that we are
23:35 hoping for in order to bridge this until
23:37 we can get through the pandemic
23:41 as far as the grants go with all the
23:43 tremendous uncertainty
23:44 of the pandemic i would ask that the
23:46 council please expedite any grand money
23:48 that's available
23:50 i do believe we'll survive i'm probably
23:52 one i'm one of
23:53 many many business owners that's
23:55 scraping and scrapping and doing we can
23:57 to keep our people employed but there's
24:00 just still so many unknowns
24:01 i'm a hopeful person i feel like things
24:04 are going to get better
24:05 vaccines are going to get out you know
24:09 summer weather is going to help we're
24:10 going to get past this but
24:12 it could also go a different direction
24:14 and with that being said
24:16 any money available however small
24:19 for the businesses out here myself
24:21 included
24:22 is literally helping us make decisions
24:25 to keep people employed
24:26 and stay open as long as we can until we
24:29 get the other side
24:30 so um thank you very much for your
24:32 service all you guys leadership and
24:34 support
24:35 um i love this town been here for a long
24:37 time i know we're going to be
24:39 great in the future i just wanted to
24:40 call and weigh in and let you guys know
24:42 um that we're still struggling but we're
24:44 going to make it with all of everybody's
24:46 help so thank you
24:49 thank you ken city clerk who else do we
24:51 have on our list tonight
24:53 susan bridges susan i've sent a request
24:56 to unmute
24:57 and if you can do that on your end
25:06 give you a little bit of time there
25:10 i'll send another request
25:19 just a reminder season you may have to
25:21 press star three on your own phone as
25:23 well
25:23 or star six there's one muting perfect
25:28 and i'll make a note i'll um come back
25:31 to susan
25:31 and see if we can oh susan if
25:34 can you see perfect you've got the floor
25:37 for five minutes
25:38 okay never done this before but i just
25:42 wanted to reach out this is susan
25:44 bridges um owner of
25:45 yummy yogurt 96 front street
25:49 and once again i want to also thank
25:52 everybody for all that you guys do
25:55 because i know
25:56 that you guys have been working around
25:58 the clock trying to
26:01 you know help all the businesses it's a
26:04 tough time
26:05 i just wanted to um just briefly tell
26:09 you
26:09 what we're going through um as
26:12 as we all know front street's really
26:15 quiet and
26:17 we are um we have not been so lucky to
26:20 get this date help
26:22 or um the issaquah we weren't chosen out
26:25 of the
26:25 lotto drawing for the issaquah funding
26:29 um we have gotten the ppp federal money
26:32 which was the only way that we were able
26:33 to reopen after we
26:35 had to close for a few months
26:38 and right now just in running at
26:41 less than half revenue for this time of
26:43 year
26:44 we are very very close to not being able
26:47 to stay open we're hoping
26:50 that we can the ppp will
26:53 help us to go until the you know
26:55 customers return again
26:57 but just wanted to share and
27:01 um and encourage
27:05 if there is a chance that the city will
27:07 release more
27:08 grant money just like um the previous
27:11 gentleman was saying
27:12 any little bit does help so
27:15 i just want to thank you and thank you
27:18 for all you do
27:19 thank you thank you susan
27:22 city clerk who's next on our list thank
27:25 you
27:26 brenda devore
27:29 i will send a request now and if you can
27:31 unmute on your end
27:34 looks like we have you yes greetings
27:37 madam mayor polly and city council
27:40 this is brenda devore and i represent
27:42 the issaquah chamber of commerce
27:44 at 155 northwest finland boulevard
27:48 and we are addressing council tonight
27:49 from our request
27:51 that additional grants may be considered
27:54 and provided for our business community
27:56 similar to susan's comment we hear from
27:59 all of the businesses in issaquah
28:02 and we've heard loud and clear from our
28:04 businesses that they need additional
28:05 support
28:06 and assistance you know grants will
28:08 equal jobs and jobs will equal less
28:10 need for rental assistance getting
28:12 people off assistance should be
28:14 the major focus and that is done by
28:16 stimulating the business economy
28:18 without additional support there will be
28:20 more jobs lost
28:21 and more small business owners closing
28:23 their doors
28:24 we've already seen so many and we don't
28:26 want to see any more
28:28 of our businesses going dark and they
28:31 will be joining the lines of those that
28:32 need help
28:33 this is the exact opposite of what needs
28:36 to be done to require or recover from
28:38 the pandemic
28:39 so on behalf of the issaquah business
28:41 community we thank you
28:42 for continuing to support and for all
28:44 that you've done
28:46 and just uh you know we just want to add
28:50 encouragement to uh to keep our
28:52 businesses in mind with additional grant
28:54 funding
28:55 thank you very much thank you brenda uh
28:58 cindy clark who's next on our list this
29:00 evening
29:01 thank you uh rick and riza
29:04 really can't find you
29:09 and i've sent a request for you to
29:10 unmute on your end
29:13 rick or risa
29:19 and we'll give you a moment you may need
29:22 to press star 6.
29:26 hello everyone it's rick and risa reagan
29:30 received go ahead you have got the floor
29:31 for five minutes
29:33 i appreciate it and first off thank you
29:35 madam mayor city council and everyone on
29:37 the call for
29:38 giving us just a few minutes to voice
29:39 our opinion as well
29:41 and uh you know i'll be rather short i
29:43 don't want to uh you know
29:45 um keep going over the same subjects
29:47 that the other business
29:48 owners have but i i would have to say
29:50 that i agree i'm hoping that
29:52 uh the city will move quickly although
29:56 my little business has seen an increase
29:58 in revenue we're blessed to have the
29:59 outdoor seating
30:01 but talking with the other city council
30:03 member i mean the other
30:04 business members of the community there
30:07 are a lot including
30:08 ourselves that are still hurting from
30:10 2020 it'll take a lot
30:12 more than probably 2021 for us to get
30:15 back up to a financial where we need to
30:17 but just a reminder and i know that
30:19 brenda said this as well a reminder that
30:21 when pushed out to the business
30:23 community um support
30:25 the rentals and the hourly employees
30:27 that are that are
30:29 uh depending on us for their way of life
30:32 and so
30:33 i know that there's many who feel like
30:35 rental assistance
30:36 might be a good way to allocate that
30:37 funds but i think a
30:39 a better way that will help start our
30:42 economy and keep everything moving is to
30:44 supplement that fund into the business
30:46 community
30:47 and let us keep our employees working
30:49 which keeps their benefits going and
30:51 and quite frankly it's just good for
30:53 overall morale of your team
30:55 and the community so uh you know reece
30:57 and i are still
30:58 feel blessed to have chosen issaquah to
31:00 be a place where we
31:02 uh are building our business and
31:05 um we just feel blessed with the support
31:08 we've
31:08 gotten from the city council and the
31:10 downtown issaquah association
31:13 the other business owners in the
31:15 community
31:16 have been outstanding but we just ask
31:19 that you move quickly
31:20 250 000 isn't a lot of money but
31:23 if divided out it really could help all
31:26 of us
31:27 with our staffing and all the other
31:29 expenses that have come along with the
31:30 covid
31:31 so that's really all i have the reason i
31:33 say thank you to the community and thank
31:35 you to
31:36 madam mayor and the city council thank
31:38 you
31:40 thank you rick and thank you lisa city
31:42 clerk who do we have next on our list
31:44 tonight
31:45 uh last on my list is uh claude from
31:48 vinobella
31:49 quad if you're on the line and can
31:52 unmute on your end
31:55 we'll give you a moment
31:58 hello hi yes we can you've got the floor
32:02 for five minutes if you'd like
32:04 hi my name is claude limitlegg and i'm
32:06 the owner of the novella in downtown
32:08 issaquah
32:09 and uh you know along with everybody
32:12 else that's been talking tonight you
32:14 know i feel the same way i've been here
32:15 for 15 years
32:17 you know it's just been it's been a
32:18 great great going
32:21 great everything has been great for me
32:23 down here in the sephora
32:25 met a lot of people and this this is a
32:28 community
32:29 and unfortunately we've gotten into this
32:31 whole pandemic
32:33 and you know it's kind of like what i
32:34 feel like this is not a choice
32:36 it's it's it's a it's a it's a mandate
32:40 to us so it kind of hurts to be told
32:43 on what we do and what we can't do 25
32:46 is not a lot of a lot of business can be
32:49 had
32:50 it's it's it helps the tenth of the
32:53 honesty
32:54 i've been very grateful to the downtown
32:56 city of downtown
32:57 uh dia they've done a lot for us you
33:00 know as far as like doing the shootery
33:02 uh along with uh the tents that are
33:06 provided for us
33:07 all these things help but again you know
33:10 this
33:10 this extra money that comes in you know
33:14 a lot of people could use that money
33:15 right now because 25 is not a lot
33:17 even though people have uh to go orders
33:20 and stuff it still does not make up for
33:22 any of the lost
33:24 uh money that anybody has lost
33:27 uh i know that we have quite a few
33:29 people in our downtown associate in
33:31 in our downtown ithaca that support us
33:34 everybody has regulars everybody you
33:37 know wants to support our community
33:39 i hope that the downtown or the city of
33:42 issaquah can actually
33:44 let this money go through a little bit
33:46 faster to help
33:47 everybody and to kind of to kind of keep
33:50 up with everything that's going on it's
33:54 not been easy for anybody and nobody
33:56 everybody wants it to happen faster and
33:59 i'm hoping that
34:00 you guys would actually realize that
34:03 it's not
34:04 like something that anybody wants to
34:06 have for free
34:07 i think everybody wants to work they
34:10 don't want any
34:11 additional money you know out of like
34:13 any extra money
34:15 from anywhere everybody wants to work
34:17 the people that work for us
34:19 and that we hire we try to help them as
34:21 well too
34:22 so again this money that's coming in is
34:25 helping us
34:26 achieve some of our goals but also
34:28 achieve some of their goals
34:30 and making them pay their rent i mean
34:31 some of them employees were like getting
34:33 maybe one to two shifts a week
34:35 which is nowhere near where it was
34:37 before so therefore
34:39 if you guys can make it happen i would
34:42 say you know just everybody's been doing
34:44 so good for us
34:45 that please don't give up on our our
34:48 downtown ethical association you guys
34:50 have been
34:50 all great and supportive of everything
34:52 that everybody's done i've seen a whole
34:54 lot of you guys
34:55 downtown you know eating different
34:56 places and we all go to different
34:58 establishments to secure each other
35:00 but i would hope that this money
35:02 actually can come up from you guys and
35:05 and expedite it so that everybody can
35:07 actually just like it's
35:09 the amount of money it's like you know
35:10 for the last grant that we had for ten
35:12 thousand dollars ten thousand dollars
35:14 you know it paid for two months worth of
35:16 rent that's you know
35:17 i'm very thankful for that very thank
35:19 you for the rent and the chance
35:21 but again if you guys can help us out i
35:23 think it would be very good
35:24 and again i'm very thankful for
35:26 everything this town has provided for me
35:29 and my well-being and i just want to
35:31 make it good for my people that work for
35:34 and also make this calendar a good place
35:36 to for everybody else to come down and
35:38 visit us again
35:38 so with that i say thank you
35:42 marilou and thank you for the city
35:44 council everybody on tv council
35:46 and thank you for the change of commerce
35:47 and thank you for the bia
35:49 i really appreciate you guys help and i
35:51 believe that we can make it happen
35:55 thank you claude city clerk do we have
35:58 anyone else signed up to speak or anyone
36:00 expressing an interest to speak
36:02 we do not i did want to provide an
36:04 opportunity for caller
36:06 whose phone number starts with 206
36:09 and ends with 1-4 if it's your intention
36:11 to speak this evening under audience
36:13 comments you can press star
36:14 three and that will raise your hand
36:18 and i'll give you a moment if that's
36:20 your intent
36:24 and i see none uh but if if you do have
36:27 comments for the council you can email
36:29 them to city council at issaquah.gov
36:32 thank you thank you city cleric and
36:35 thank you to all those who joined our
36:37 meeting this evening
36:38 it is awkward to do this by phone and
36:41 we're hoping to
36:42 have a better system coming soon but
36:44 thank you for calling in
36:45 uh the majority of our callers tonight
36:47 were calling in in support of
36:50 agenda bill 8128 which is proposing
36:52 additional 250
36:54 000 in grants for local businesses
36:57 we also heard from a resident who is
36:59 concerned about some
37:01 of the uh items that are associated with
37:04 the projects on newparkway not being
37:06 completed
37:07 so thank you all for coming in and
37:09 sharing that with us this evening
37:11 uh council president hunt did you have
37:14 any email comments
37:15 to summarize tonight on any of tonight's
37:18 agenda topics
37:20 thank you madam mayor yes i have um
37:22 several
37:23 emails comments on multiple items that
37:25 will be
37:26 on our agenda this evening and while
37:28 we're doing virtual meetings i'm
37:30 summarizing those email comments the
37:34 first email comment touched on several
37:36 items that are
37:37 both on the consent agenda as well as on
37:39 our regular
37:40 meeting agenda including on
37:44 ab-8112 which is the first 2021 budget
37:47 amendment
37:48 urging us to screen and consider which
37:51 items should be funded in light of our
37:53 most recent updated city revenue
37:56 forecasts
37:57 on ab-8080
38:00 the 2021 docket of proposed
38:02 comprehensive plan
38:04 and zoning amendments there were um
38:07 uh comments and then additionally we
38:09 received one other email that referred
38:10 to this item
38:11 and um this person was concerned about a
38:15 item that was a walk-in walk-on item at
38:18 the planning policy
38:19 commission and was concerned that there
38:22 was not supportive information
38:24 on that item at that meeting and also
38:25 not a way to make a public comment at
38:27 that meeting
38:28 regarding ab-8127 which is around the
38:32 emergency housing
38:34 we received the email comment in support
38:36 and appreciative of that funding
38:39 and then regarding ab8128 we received
38:44 i believe it's six emails um one of the
38:47 people who emailed us also spoke to um
38:51 one of the people who emailed us also
38:52 spoke directly to
38:54 their comments which were in support as
38:56 a small business owner and then
38:57 additionally
38:58 we received one email in which
39:01 the person urged us to focus our
39:04 small business grants on the hospitality
39:06 and the service industry as those are
39:08 particularly hard hit industries in the
39:11 pandemic
39:13 received the email that suggested we
39:16 give money
39:18 in small business grants depending on
39:20 the number of employees and scaling by
39:22 number of employees
39:24 receive the email in broad support of
39:26 small business grants and then a email
39:29 urging us to to include non-profit c4s
39:32 and c6s in the next round of small
39:34 business grant
39:35 applications and then lastly we did
39:38 receive
39:39 a email opposed to the small business
39:42 grant funding at this time
39:44 uh on accounts of that we do not have
39:46 the future funding
39:48 that's referenced in the bill actually
39:50 secured at this time and saying
39:52 did not seem wise um to not have that
39:54 money in hand
39:56 then regarding ab-8129 which is the fit
39:59 and fun
40:00 outdoors um we received a comment by
40:03 email on this that
40:04 it seemed reasonable but also was
40:06 concerned that the outdoor fitness
40:08 equipment might not
40:09 get practical use and then also wanted
40:12 to express concerns about the
40:14 concerts on the green safety concerns
40:17 and that
40:17 concludes the comments that we received
40:19 by emails on agenda items this evening
40:22 thank you so the next item of business
40:25 on our agenda this evening is committee
40:26 and regional reports
40:28 and i will start with council member
40:29 hall
40:34 thank you mayor paulie short um reporter
40:36 actually i have no report this evening
40:38 sorry about that very short reports
40:44 next is council member d michelle
40:47 thank you mary mayor paulie uh this is
40:49 councilmember
40:50 d michelle this morning i attended the
40:53 east side transportation partnership
40:55 meeting
40:56 the groups representing the three
40:58 suburban regions have been meeting
40:59 together since last
41:00 april so together we received a service
41:03 update from
41:04 sound transit and i'm
41:07 abbreviating it for the most important
41:10 items
41:11 uh the main one is that over the next 20
41:13 years
41:15 sound transit is projecting a six
41:17 billion dollar
41:18 loss in revenue and a 12 billion dollar
41:22 increase
41:22 costs which results over the next 20
41:25 years in a
41:26 11.5 billion dollar gap
41:30 of course they are working on
41:31 realignment plans and
41:33 focusing on increased revenues claudia
41:37 balducci who's the chair of sound
41:39 transit was on
41:40 the zoom call and she commented that
41:43 cost overruns have completely eclipsed
41:45 the revenue reductions
41:47 these are due my mostly to land
41:49 acquisition costs costs of materials and
41:52 labor costs
41:53 which have continued to go up even in
41:55 the midst of
41:56 the pandemic and reduced revenues so
41:59 there will be a final report on costo
42:01 runs due in july
42:04 that is the same month that currently
42:06 sound transit is scheduled to
42:08 make some major decisions um she
42:11 was cautious about whether that would
42:14 actually happen
42:14 in that time frame there will be a
42:17 listening session in april
42:19 and we were all encouraged to
42:21 participate
42:23 um at that time san francisco will be
42:25 reaching out to all the communities
42:26 and requesting input into their
42:29 realignment plan
42:31 and it was just emphasized that it was
42:33 really important
42:35 for every community to be involved in
42:38 those listening sessions
42:40 and that concludes my report thank you
42:43 councilmember d michelle councilmember
42:44 walsh
42:47 thank you i have a fairly short report
42:49 as well i'm just noting that i will be
42:51 attending the
42:52 chamber of commerce board meeting on
42:54 friday morning
42:56 where i'm sure i will hear more from
42:57 businesses about
42:59 all of the difficult times that they're
43:01 having um and i will be sure to bring
43:03 that information back to you afterwards
43:05 that concludes my report
43:08 thank you councilmember goodman
43:14 thank you councilmember goodman here
43:17 lodging tax advisory committee will meet
43:20 next thursday february 25th at 10 am
43:24 we do not have a agenda quite set yet
43:27 my other report is that eastside fire
43:30 and rescue's board of directors
43:31 met last thursday um
43:35 it was primarily a lot of covet
43:38 related updates which i will
43:43 brief everyone on now eastside fire
43:46 received
43:47 12 000 n95 masks that were counterfeit
43:51 those were masks that they had received
43:53 from king county king county spent
43:55 two million dollars for half a million
43:57 masks
43:58 and as of last thursday 80 percent of
44:00 those were determined
44:02 to be counterfeit in 95s efer luckily
44:05 had not issued any of those to
44:07 any employees so there wasn't um there
44:10 weren't any
44:12 compromise issues due to that and
44:15 efr does not have a supply issue
44:18 regarding masks as of now and will be
44:20 getting
44:21 um the real n95 masks
44:24 soon um it was also reported that the
44:27 rapid testing before
44:28 um before shifts is working quite well
44:32 um this is the rapid testing covet
44:34 testing that they're doing
44:36 before before employees and firefighters
44:39 actually come to work on their shifts
44:41 they get a quick test
44:42 and then they are allowed to work if
44:46 it's negative
44:47 so one firefighter tested positive
44:49 recently before a shift
44:50 was sent for the gold standard test
44:53 which was also positive
44:54 and then the firefighter was quarantined
44:56 at home and the reason this is so
44:57 important
44:58 is because that means that there were no
44:59 other exposures to employees as a result
45:02 of the testing and that's great because
45:04 it minimizes the exposure
45:06 while also saves the agency um
45:09 money keeps firefighters working and
45:11 employees from
45:13 getting sick and as of last thursday we
45:16 heard
45:16 during that meeting that the johnson and
45:18 johnson vaccine had been improved for
45:20 emergency use
45:21 and it could be available as early as
45:24 march
45:24 um and had heard that they had a good
45:26 supply of
45:27 that so that's some really good news
45:30 that's also a
45:32 vaccine that only requires one not two
45:36 then unfortunately the vaccination rate
45:38 has trended downward in king county for
45:40 the past three weeks due to supply
45:42 issues um east side fires mobile
45:45 vaccination team which we've heard
45:47 a lot about in our recent meetings um as
45:50 of last 30
45:50 thursday had given at least 100 doses so
45:53 far they're giving the modern vaccine
45:56 all the adult family home in east side
45:58 fire and rescue service area
46:00 have received vaccinations either to
46:02 residents or staff
46:04 and they'll get second doses in about 28
46:06 days seattle public uh king county
46:08 public
46:09 health had just as of last thursday
46:11 authorized east side fire to also
46:14 vaccinate at adult congregate settings
46:17 the vaccination team was to be at
46:19 eastwood house in
46:20 east ridge house in issaquah starting
46:24 today or tomorrow
46:26 and just as a reminder eastside fire
46:28 sole source of vaccines
46:30 is um seattle king county public health
46:32 so eastside fire just
46:34 is doing everything that it can with the
46:35 supply that it gets
46:37 now the snoqualmie tribe gets its own
46:39 vaccine supply
46:41 and of course they're under different
46:42 rules because they don't fall under the
46:44 jurisdiction
46:44 of king county or the state there have
46:49 they have their own tribal
46:50 laws and rules and east side fire will
46:53 be their vaccinators
46:55 starting i believe it was last friday
46:58 and they are hoping that on february
47:00 20th they will start a mass vaccination
47:02 at the snoqualmies casino in one of the
47:06 ballrooms there for tribe members their
47:08 families and casino staff
47:10 and it's anticipated that 200 to 300
47:14 people will be vaccinated in all
47:16 he said fires the vaccinators they just
47:17 have to rely on other sources
47:19 for the vaccine they're also working
47:21 east side virus to get a mass
47:23 vaccination site going at lakes mammoth
47:25 state park
47:25 they're working on an agreement with
47:27 state parks now and there
47:29 is um planning to have 500
47:32 to 1000 vaccines a day depending on
47:34 supply of course
47:36 and they're hoping for it to be a
47:38 six-month project that starts on march
47:40 1st it's modeled after the drive-through
47:42 sites in kent and auburn
47:44 but it's likely for eastside residents
47:46 only now
47:47 and they will use the vat the state's
47:49 vaccine phases
47:50 and of course all that subject to change
47:52 based on supplies
47:55 uh the um chief clark
47:58 and some of the board members praised um
48:01 ben lane
48:02 andrew stevens dana shutter and glenn
48:04 huffman and others for everything that
48:06 they're doing
48:07 regarding covid and many of their
48:10 efforts have been adopted by other
48:11 agency other agencies
48:14 and so eastside fireboard has and the
48:17 agency as really proud of all the work
48:19 they're doing
48:20 and we thank them and chief clark also
48:22 praised the city of issaquah for its
48:23 vision and partnership
48:26 we also heard that fema is reimbursing
48:28 vaccine
48:29 vaccine operations possibly to a hundred
48:32 percent
48:33 possibly hopefully is what we heard to
48:35 100 percent
48:37 um for last year's covid related costs
48:40 um eastside fire's total was about 988
48:43 000 and total so far in 21
48:47 2021 as of last thursday was 179
48:50 thousand dollars and on the other
48:54 business at the meeting was that north
48:56 bend uh council member
48:58 alan gottelf was re-elected as board
49:00 chair and i was elected as vice chair
49:02 for 2021
49:04 and that completes my report thank you
49:07 thank you councilmember goodman
49:09 councilmember mert thank you madam mayor
49:11 this is councilmember martz
49:12 the sound cities association public
49:14 issues committee met
49:16 last wednesday february 10th from 7
49:18 until 9 00 pm
49:20 no action was taken but we had an
49:22 initial
49:24 feedback i would say on a proposed best
49:26 starts for kids replacement levy uh
49:30 as currently envisioned
49:33 uh it would be it would be substantially
49:36 larger
49:37 than the levy that it would be replacing
49:40 so i would say there was a robust
49:43 conversation
49:44 about that and i'm pretty confident that
49:47 feedback
49:48 made its way back to the county folks uh
49:50 best arts for kids has been
49:52 important uh uh was important when it
49:55 got
49:56 put in uh four years ago so uh
49:59 getting it right if there's gonna be a
50:00 replacement levy uh
50:02 and if it's gonna pass uh in the
50:04 community
50:05 um there will be some there will be
50:08 further conversations i think with
50:10 municipalities just the way there was
50:12 uh four years ago so this conversation
50:15 continues
50:16 uh puget sound regional council growth
50:18 management policy board
50:20 met on thursday thursday february 4th
50:24 and no actions basically were taken so
50:27 that concludes my report
50:29 thank you councilmember martz deputy
50:30 council president ray
50:32 thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
50:35 the king county growth management
50:37 planning council is scheduled to meet on
50:39 february 24th
50:40 at four o'clock in a virtual format the
50:43 meeting will review the comments on all
50:45 the draft chapters of the
50:46 county planning policies and updates on
50:50 growth targets the specific agenda has
50:53 not yet been
50:54 set and that concludes my report this
50:56 evening
50:57 thank you council president hunt
51:00 thank you madam mayor the king
51:02 conservation district
51:04 advisory committee met on february 9th
51:07 king conservation district is a natural
51:09 resource assistance agency and they do a
51:11 lot of work throughout the county
51:13 to improve stewardship of natural
51:15 resources they work with
51:16 communities and with landowners on a
51:19 variety of conservation issues and
51:22 they provide grants as well as technical
51:24 assistance and implementation
51:27 at our meeting one of the main topics
51:29 was around the upcoming election
51:32 king conservation district has a board
51:33 of supervisors and they do have an
51:35 election
51:36 it is held at a different time than all
51:38 of the other elections
51:39 and so it's very important to try to get
51:42 the word out
51:43 about this election and they will be for
51:46 i believe the first time
51:47 sending out postcards to all people that
51:50 are eligible to
51:51 vote in the election which is a good
51:53 step on getting the word out
51:55 um but i think it because it's occurring
51:57 at a different time than other elections
51:59 it is important that we use all of our
52:01 communication channels to let people
52:02 know that they can vote on
52:04 the board of supervisors for this
52:06 conservation
52:08 district and the election will be
52:12 open for eligible voters starting on
52:14 march 1st and it will close on march
52:16 23rd
52:16 and it is online so you can vote online
52:19 there are
52:20 other alternatives and there's a lot
52:21 more information on it on the website
52:23 for the most part people do vote online
52:26 and
52:27 then we also discussed potential future
52:30 advocacy
52:31 efforts around having this election
52:34 coincide with
52:35 other elections which would be good for
52:37 both visibility and would also be good
52:39 for the
52:40 costs associated with having a
52:41 standalone election
52:44 um then uh one other topic of interest
52:48 that we discussed at the meeting was
52:50 they are um
52:51 undergoing a search for a new executive
52:52 director the advisory committee will be
52:54 engaged
52:55 in that process and lastly we heard
52:57 about their ongoing
52:59 firewise type fire preparedness work
53:03 that they
53:04 do with uh with homeowners and because i
53:07 know this is a concern to many people in
53:08 our
53:09 community if you go to the king
53:11 conservation district
53:13 website which is kcdkingcd.org
53:17 um you can learn more about that that
53:19 program and they do work throughout the
53:21 county
53:21 to help homeowners prepare for fire or
53:24 to avoid
53:25 future wildfire that concludes my report
53:28 thank you council president next item on
53:31 the agenda this evening is the mayor's
53:32 report
53:33 uh there will be an executive session
53:35 this evening to discuss the sale of city
53:37 real estate for rcw
53:40 42.30 point paran1 parenthe
53:43 and the item is expected to last 30
53:45 minutes no action is anticipated in open
53:49 session
53:50 i wanted to talk a little bit about our
53:52 virtual council meetings
53:53 and public participation beginning at
53:56 the march 1st council meeting the public
53:58 will be able to join the virtual council
54:00 meetings
54:01 via their computer using a new webex
54:04 meeting platform
54:06 the option will allow the public to see
54:07 the council members and any presenting
54:09 staff
54:10 as well as any presentations that are
54:12 shared in real time
54:13 the public will also be able to turn on
54:15 their cameras if making public comments
54:18 joining meetings and making comments by
54:20 phone will still be
54:21 still continue to be an option and the
54:24 experience for council members and staff
54:26 will be nearly identical to the current
54:28 platform that you're working on
54:30 some changes will need to be made to
54:33 council members webex accounts and staff
54:35 will be reaching out to schedule a short
54:37 transition and test
54:38 next week city will begin transitioning
54:41 boards and commission meetings to the
54:43 new webex platform in march
54:45 and in april for more information
54:48 including the meeting links and
54:49 instructions
54:50 will be provided with the march 1st
54:52 council agenda
54:55 i have some comments on the escort
54:56 vaccine partnership but some of them may
54:58 duplicate what councilmember goodman has
55:00 already said
55:01 so bear with me the israel vaccine
55:04 community partnership
55:05 met earlier today for our weekly
55:06 coordination meeting
55:08 eastside fire and rescue continues to
55:10 receive limited vaccines from public
55:12 health
55:13 seattle and king county to administer
55:16 via a mobile unit
55:17 for long-term care facilities as well as
55:20 low-income senior housing
55:22 there are limited vaccines available
55:24 each each week at local pharmacies
55:26 for example about a hundred doses were
55:28 distributed at the costco
55:30 in ischool last week the partnership is
55:32 currently focusing on advocating for
55:34 future
55:35 vaccine allocations to this area at both
55:37 the county and state level
55:39 king county council member kathy lambert
55:41 and or her staff
55:42 attended our coordinate have attended
55:44 our coordination meetings
55:46 each of these last couple of weeks and
55:47 we plan to send a letter to king county
55:50 executive del constantine soon
55:52 earlier today smamish mayor karen moran
55:55 and i along with our staff
55:57 met with a representative from the
55:58 governor's office to further advocate
56:01 our partnership is also preparing to set
56:03 up a vehicular
56:04 covet 19 vaccination site in issaquah
56:08 eastside fire and rescue is working to
56:09 set up logistics now
56:11 so that when vaccines are more readily
56:14 available
56:15 we will be ready we are also working on
56:17 an agreement between the cities of this
56:19 club
56:19 and some amish as well as the site fire
56:21 and rescue that defines
56:22 roles reimbursement and more for both
56:25 the mobile vaccination efforts as well
56:27 as the future mass vaccination site
56:29 i've invited each state fire and rescue
56:32 chief clark
56:32 jeff clark to join us tonight and
56:34 provide a short update on the work that
56:36 his team is doing
56:38 do you have anything to add i do not
56:40 have too much to add but i will
56:42 update council councilmember goodman's
56:43 numbers a little bit excellent job
56:45 councilmember goodman i'm impressed how
56:48 much
56:48 paying attention and we're able to get
56:50 all of that right
56:51 um two things uh from her company uh
56:54 we did today uh visit east ridge and
56:58 last week we were only getting an
57:00 average of
57:00 30 vaccines a day we did get 50 to
57:03 deliver today
57:04 and we're hoping to keep seeing that
57:05 number go up and we were also successful
57:07 at the tribe this weekend at a test run
57:10 and we will be vaccinating 300 people at
57:12 the tribe this next weekend
57:14 so we're moving in the right direction
57:15 and i cannot thank the city of
57:17 issaquad enough for your leadership and
57:19 putting this partnership together
57:21 this would not be happening without the
57:22 vision of the city and
57:24 getting the meeting together hosting the
57:26 meeting and driving this to a
57:27 successful conclusion so let's keep up
57:29 the great work and thanks to
57:31 everybody for the work they're putting
57:32 in on this
57:34 thank you very much chief clark it's
57:36 been great working in this collaboration
57:39 the next couple of items on our agenda
57:41 this evening are informational updates
57:43 and we will start with id
57:45 0805 community survey and i'd like to
57:48 invite the assistant to the city
57:49 administrator autumn monahan to make a
57:52 presentation
58:20 hi there can you hear me okay and see my
58:24 screen
58:25 yes we can great thank you
58:28 hi there um mayor paulian city council
58:30 members thank you for your time tonight
58:32 my name is autumn monahan i'm the
58:33 assistant to the city administrator and
58:35 i have managed
58:36 our community survey project over the
58:38 past several years
58:39 jeremy bercher haimson is also here
58:41 tonight to partner on this presentation
58:42 thanks to his work on performance
58:44 measurement
58:47 so to start off here is a graphic from
58:49 our strategic plan on
58:50 our annual process which is a plan do
58:53 check and adjust cycle right now we're
58:56 in the work plan implementation phase
58:58 for 2021.
58:59 next comes some performance evaluation
59:01 and a community survey before we report
59:03 out to the community
59:04 and then make any possible strategic
59:06 plan adjustments ahead of next year's
59:07 budget
59:11 we have conducted a community survey
59:13 every other year since
59:14 2014 and previously we hired national
59:17 research center to conduct the survey
59:19 and produce the reports that we use
59:22 tonight we're here to brief you on a
59:23 change to that vendor we're now going
59:25 with etc
59:26 institute etc
59:29 has implemented community surveys for a
59:31 variety of local government agencies
59:33 and our neighbors including shoreline
59:34 and mercer island and they're also used
59:36 by many
59:37 nationally recognized what works cities
59:39 that use data and evidence to engage the
59:41 public and improve
59:42 their services including austin and
59:44 kansas city
59:46 this company is also an expert in survey
59:48 research and we're really excited to
59:49 work with them on survey development
59:50 this year
59:54 while we'll be making a change to
59:56 vendors there will still be a lot of
59:57 consistency on our community survey we
59:59 plan
1:00:00 to retain some key questions we've used
1:00:01 in the past which will help with a
1:00:03 trends overtime analysis
1:00:05 and we'll still also have data reported
1:00:07 by both demographics and location
1:00:09 and uh key questions will be benchmarked
1:00:11 with other communities both at the local
1:00:12 and national level
1:00:14 well not everyone will receive an
1:00:16 invitation to take our formal survey
1:00:18 we'll also offer an
1:00:19 online version for anyone to fill out
1:00:21 and do a lot of outreach
1:00:22 ahead of time let people know that they
1:00:24 can take it um and so
1:00:26 this also expands our data pool even
1:00:28 further
1:00:29 and next i'll hand it over to jeremy to
1:00:31 talk a bit about the benefits of the
1:00:32 transition to etc
1:00:34 thank you adam can everyone hear me yes
1:00:38 great uh good evening mayor paulie and
1:00:40 members of the council
1:00:41 so as autumn said i'll now be talking
1:00:43 about the new benefits of transitioning
1:00:45 to etc institute
1:00:47 so in terms of flexibility on survey
1:00:49 design and alignment with our
1:00:51 performance measurement program
1:00:53 etc encourages cities to design their
1:00:55 surveys with residents and pertinent
1:00:57 policy areas in mind
1:00:59 they have a standard template but are
1:01:01 very flexible in allowing cities to
1:01:03 design their own questions
1:01:05 with up to 35 questions around 35
1:01:07 questions
1:01:08 in the survey so this flexibility will
1:01:10 allow staff
1:01:11 to align questions with our adopted
1:01:13 performance measures
1:01:15 such as including questions on commute
1:01:18 and for testing the questions before
1:01:20 launch
1:01:21 edc pilot tests the survey questions
1:01:24 internal survey specialists and with a
1:01:26 small sample of issaquah residents
1:01:28 to ensure that the survey quality is
1:01:30 high and that respondents
1:01:32 understand the meaning of questions and
1:01:36 in terms of follow-up emails and phone
1:01:37 calls this is new from our previous
1:01:40 community survey after seven to date
1:01:42 seven to ten days
1:01:44 after a mailed survey is sent out etc
1:01:46 follows up by phone
1:01:47 and email to increase response rates
1:01:49 this also ensures that residents have
1:01:51 multiple modes of response
1:01:52 and that the city receives a
1:01:54 representative sample of the community
1:01:56 um and so etc carries this out until we
1:01:59 receive 600 responses which is
1:02:01 approximately a four percent margin of
1:02:03 error
1:02:04 and then lastly one other benefit uh can
1:02:07 we go to the next slide
1:02:09 one other benefit of transitioning to
1:02:11 edc is that they provide
1:02:13 what they call an important satisfaction
1:02:15 analysis such as the one shown here
1:02:18 from the city of shoreline in 2018 and
1:02:21 this analysis asks community members not
1:02:23 their satisfaction with varied city
1:02:25 services as we have
1:02:26 in the past uh but also their perception
1:02:28 of importance
1:02:29 for various policies and programs so edc
1:02:33 then creates a matrix like the one
1:02:34 we're showing here uh which emphasizes
1:02:37 in the lower right quadrant
1:02:38 for programs or policies that residents
1:02:40 believe are very important but have
1:02:42 lower levels of satisfaction
1:02:44 and so these are areas that could
1:02:46 benefit from increased investment
1:02:48 and based on this analysis um we have
1:02:51 these
1:02:52 these different quadrants and can
1:02:54 identify what are important areas for
1:02:56 for investment in the future
1:03:00 so that's our presentation today so are
1:03:02 there any questions
1:03:05 thank you jeremy thank you autumn i'll
1:03:08 leave the chat open for a second or two
1:03:10 to see there is no action being
1:03:12 requested
1:03:14 this evening from the council this is
1:03:15 just an informational presentation
1:03:19 and i'm not ah there we go deputy
1:03:21 council president ray has a question
1:03:23 thank you mayor paulie uh two questions
1:03:26 really you can take them into the order
1:03:28 one what was the catalyst for changing
1:03:32 our survey provider and when do we
1:03:34 expect the survey to be fielded
1:03:37 i can start with that we hope to launch
1:03:40 the survey in march and april
1:03:41 and then have a report out to you by may
1:03:44 um so that we've got plenty of time
1:03:46 to not only report out but then make any
1:03:49 tweaks
1:03:50 um to the strategic plan and then that
1:03:52 would really help inform the budget
1:03:53 process moving forward
1:03:55 so that's our timeline right now as far
1:03:57 as conducting the survey
1:03:59 and then the reason why we switched is
1:04:01 we thought it was time just to see what
1:04:02 else was out there
1:04:03 and so jeremy and i did a lot of
1:04:05 research on different firms that
1:04:07 conduct community surveys and we were
1:04:09 impressed with the satisfaction and
1:04:11 importance
1:04:12 um scale i think that's a really
1:04:14 important um
1:04:15 addition as far as oftentimes we'll get
1:04:18 the survey and then say what's next
1:04:20 and so this really helps informs us what
1:04:22 is not only important but is
1:04:23 is um you know it
1:04:27 has low satisfaction in our communities
1:04:29 so areas we can really make improvement
1:04:31 um and then also i'm really excited that
1:04:33 we'll have other options for following
1:04:35 with folks on um filling out their
1:04:38 surveys
1:04:39 before with the national research center
1:04:41 it was just through mail
1:04:42 and so i'm excited that hopefully we'll
1:04:45 reach a more diverse
1:04:46 community base with these other outreach
1:04:49 tools
1:04:52 thank you thank you did you council
1:04:54 president rady have any other questions
1:04:56 no i'm good well i am not seeing any
1:04:58 other in the chat
1:05:00 jeremy and autumn thanks very much
1:05:03 also i'm just going to embarrass jeremy
1:05:05 and say congratulations
1:05:06 he's got a new position with king county
1:05:08 and he's leaving us really soon and i've
1:05:10 never actually got to sit in a room with
1:05:12 him but i'm so proud of him that he's
1:05:13 going to his
1:05:14 new position and jeremy your position in
1:05:16 king county has something to do with
1:05:17 vaccinations i understand and data
1:05:21 it does yeah thank you mayor paulie um
1:05:23 it's been it's been a pleasure working
1:05:25 at the city and i'm
1:05:26 also sad that we never got to meet in
1:05:27 person um
1:05:29 but yes i'm really excited about the new
1:05:31 opportunity and
1:05:32 and also very sad to leave the city
1:05:36 yeah i think our death literally would
1:05:38 have been less than 40 feet apart if we
1:05:40 were in the office but anyway we're very
1:05:41 proud of you and congratulations on that
1:05:44 thank you very much autumn going to go
1:05:46 to the next
1:05:47 informational item which is id 0836
1:05:51 central park pad number three turf
1:05:54 replacement and i'd like to invite
1:05:56 parks and community services director
1:05:58 jeff watling to make a presentation
1:06:02 mayor thank you mayor paulie good
1:06:04 evening council
1:06:05 i am sharing my screen are you able to
1:06:08 see this yes we can
1:06:11 great uh it's showing up in uh
1:06:14 yeah let's see it's showing up with your
1:06:17 next slide in series as well i don't
1:06:19 know if there's a different way to show
1:06:20 that is that one better now
1:06:22 or is it still showing that yeah we
1:06:24 still see your your next slide in your
1:06:26 notes if you have them
1:06:29 which i don't i apologize
1:06:36 i'm seeing it both on my screen so i'm
1:06:38 i'm sorry
1:06:39 if you don't mind we'll just we'll go
1:06:41 with this version let's just go with it
1:06:43 first time sharing on webex the joy of
1:06:46 every platform good evening council
1:06:48 thank you jeff watling parks and
1:06:49 community services director
1:06:51 here to provide you a project update on
1:06:55 2021 budgeted capital item our turf
1:06:57 replacement of central park
1:06:59 pad 3. share with you the approach that
1:07:02 we took
1:07:03 as well as a recommendation
1:07:06 a recommended action that we're
1:07:08 preparing to bring back to you
1:07:10 on march the 1st a little bit of
1:07:13 background
1:07:14 um on this project and on on this
1:07:16 facility these synthetic turf fields
1:07:19 originally um constructed and installed
1:07:22 in 2008.
1:07:23 um the infill used was a hundred percent
1:07:27 chrome
1:07:28 rubber for this project
1:07:31 anticipated life cycle for synthetic
1:07:33 turf projects like this are anywhere
1:07:34 between eight and fifteen years
1:07:36 depending on use
1:07:38 i think what we've seen with these two
1:07:40 fields up at central park
1:07:42 we've seen very heavy use the
1:07:44 communities love them
1:07:46 and like inviting the entire community
1:07:49 to your house the carpet starts to get a
1:07:51 little bit tired
1:07:52 which it has so we've gotten 12 years of
1:07:56 life out of this uh we really are
1:07:58 entering the end of its
1:08:00 uh useful life um appreciate council's
1:08:03 action on our recommendation of creating
1:08:06 the turf replacement fund
1:08:07 uh in 2018 with that
1:08:10 implementation a couple years ago a
1:08:13 portion of this project will be funded
1:08:15 uh with that turf replacement fund uh we
1:08:18 with the adoption of that fund and given
1:08:21 the short amount of life
1:08:24 of that fund it would not fully fund
1:08:26 this project but
1:08:28 proceeds from that fund are certainly
1:08:30 contributing
1:08:31 greatly the fields themselves
1:08:37 provide sports recreation for
1:08:41 soccer lacrosse and football so really
1:08:43 all your major rectangular
1:08:45 sports are represented we as we reached
1:08:49 out to
1:08:50 the user groups we
1:08:53 certainly saw support for
1:08:57 continuing with that initial programming
1:08:59 uh and that
1:09:00 is what we are anticipating to do
1:09:04 so along with that project goal we are
1:09:07 also looking as
1:09:08 we consider replacement of the turf as
1:09:10 well as the infield system
1:09:13 um we wanted to um and we recognized the
1:09:17 value of being able to keep the field
1:09:18 drainage and the base
1:09:20 that's underneath the carpet as is
1:09:23 one of the benefits when you do a turf
1:09:25 replacement it
1:09:27 thus is not doesn't replicate the entire
1:09:30 cost of the project when you install it
1:09:33 the second bullet though was a real key
1:09:35 one for us
1:09:37 given where the industry is as it
1:09:40 explores
1:09:42 alternative infill options we really
1:09:44 feel like this project was at a
1:09:45 strategic moment
1:09:46 where we were able to consider other
1:09:49 infill options whereas historically
1:09:52 crumb rubber was really the only option
1:09:54 that existed
1:09:56 enough advancements have happened enough
1:09:58 newer generations of alternative infills
1:10:01 we're at a point that we wanted to do
1:10:02 some exploration
1:10:04 of those options as we explored those
1:10:07 options though we wanted to look at
1:10:08 infill considerations that
1:10:13 would not require additional watering
1:10:17 or excessive additional maintenance
1:10:22 some smaller elements to this project
1:10:24 we're replacing some damaged fencing and
1:10:26 other
1:10:27 just life cycle maintenance capital
1:10:29 repairs
1:10:30 as we're doing the work with the turf
1:10:34 another strong consideration as we
1:10:36 explored turf and infill options were
1:10:39 to work within the 2021
1:10:42 budget of 1.6 million dollars
1:10:49 this is an aerial of the proposed lines
1:10:54 configuration that we're proceeding with
1:10:56 the project i just wanted to share this
1:10:58 real quickly
1:10:59 to show as we reached out to user groups
1:11:01 we are sticking with this
1:11:04 similar rectangular sport uses of soccer
1:11:07 lacrosse as well as football practices
1:11:11 through that feedback with the user
1:11:12 groups we've been able to
1:11:14 provide some enhancements that we're
1:11:16 going to have both men's and women's
1:11:17 lacrosse
1:11:18 lines on both fields that wasn't the
1:11:21 prior so that'll give some additional
1:11:23 flexibility in use we're also
1:11:26 going to add some 10 yard or some
1:11:29 designations along all four sidelines
1:11:31 every 10 yards to really assist and
1:11:34 aid in youth football practices that
1:11:37 occur up
1:11:39 at the facility
1:11:42 uh lastly as we explored infill options
1:11:46 um where we looked at um three
1:11:49 it really came down to three options um
1:11:53 as we looked at these we wanted to
1:11:55 explore the options as i said earlier
1:11:57 fit within the available project budget
1:12:01 there are a number of options in the
1:12:03 industry that
1:12:04 would have required additional budget
1:12:06 that we didn't want to consider at this
1:12:08 and certainly recognized as the as the
1:12:10 industry continues to advance
1:12:12 in alternative infills we'll be able to
1:12:15 explore them
1:12:16 um maybe in in future years or future
1:12:19 replacements but the three options we
1:12:21 looked at
1:12:22 for this installation are an sbr rubber
1:12:25 which is a synthetic rubber
1:12:27 forgive me i have an acronym on this
1:12:29 that i don't know the
1:12:31 scientific name it's a pretty fancy
1:12:34 polymer
1:12:34 but it's a synthetic rubber with a sand
1:12:37 infill
1:12:38 was one of the options we explored the
1:12:40 other option was utilizing a natural
1:12:43 and sand combination infill in that case
1:12:46 we would also look at
1:12:47 adding a pad underneath the carpet so
1:12:50 much like you would put a pad in your
1:12:52 carpet at home
1:12:53 it adds additional safety and cushioning
1:12:57 and safety and falls the third option we
1:13:00 looked at for infill was a hybrid
1:13:02 looking at both natural core a
1:13:04 combination of natural cork
1:13:06 synthetic rubber and sand that would
1:13:09 include a pad again all of these options
1:13:14 were within our available project budget
1:13:17 we worked with our
1:13:19 consultants and we then
1:13:23 as we explored these options brought
1:13:26 them before the park board on january
1:13:27 25th to have a conversation
1:13:30 as we've had discussions with our
1:13:32 consultant as we met with the mayor our
1:13:34 recommendation would be to proceed at
1:13:36 this time with the natural cork
1:13:38 the 100 natural cork and sand infill
1:13:41 option
1:13:43 as we express this these options in
1:13:46 detail with the park board they
1:13:47 unanimously
1:13:48 unanimously forgive me supported uh this
1:13:51 action at their january 25th
1:13:53 meeting much like we did with the
1:13:57 synthetic turf purchase when we did
1:14:00 central park pad 1 in 2018
1:14:02 we would go through our co-op membership
1:14:09 a few other items on the natural cork
1:14:12 infill as i said earlier um
1:14:14 i you know the the industry this newer
1:14:17 generation of cork
1:14:18 really allows for
1:14:23 much lower maintenance than some of the
1:14:24 additional the
1:14:26 previous generations of cork provided it
1:14:31 i think meets many of our environmental
1:14:33 and sustainability goals
1:14:35 as a city and as a community
1:14:41 our next step in this project would be
1:14:45 request council authorization at your
1:14:47 march first
1:14:48 meeting and then proceed with
1:14:50 procurement
1:14:52 once we have the product procured we
1:14:54 would work with scheduling
1:14:55 we've already been in communication with
1:14:57 all the user groups who use this field
1:14:59 we would obviously remain in very close
1:15:01 communication with them
1:15:02 as this project gets scheduled in 2021
1:15:06 so that's the end of the staff report
1:15:08 i'll certainly invite any questions or
1:15:10 feedback you may have at this time
1:15:12 thank you very much and forgive me for
1:15:14 my awkward
1:15:17 presentation uh visual thank you
1:15:20 director watling maybe just this one
1:15:22 uh deputy council president ray was
1:15:24 quick on the draw and
1:15:25 sbr's styrene beauty dine rubber
1:15:28 so thank you deputy council president
1:15:30 ray i'll give
1:15:32 give a few seconds to see if anybody
1:15:34 signs up for additional questions but it
1:15:37 does look like this is coming back to
1:15:38 council on march
1:15:39 first
1:15:42 and at this time i'm uh yes we do we
1:15:45 have a comment
1:15:46 from councilmember hall a super quick
1:15:50 one mayor paulie this is councilmember
1:15:51 hall i just wanted to say thank you
1:15:53 and everyone else who contributed this
1:15:56 you very clearly did your homework and i
1:15:58 appreciate that and as a former
1:16:01 member of a user group of those fields
1:16:04 when i played high school soccer i
1:16:05 certainly appreciate all the outreach
1:16:06 you did to the user groups too so
1:16:08 thank you thank you councilmember
1:16:12 let's go to council member mark for a
1:16:13 question thank you madam mayor
1:16:15 uh not to be pedantic i think
1:16:18 that that pad was done in 2009 not 2008
1:16:22 you might want to double check the date
1:16:24 because it was brand new
1:16:26 when i started on council and i was just
1:16:28 looking it up
1:16:29 kind of trying to quickly double check
1:16:31 but pretty sure it was installed in the
1:16:33 summer of 2009 not 2008
1:16:36 not that that would influence uh our
1:16:39 decisions going forward
1:16:40 but you know history matters thanks
1:16:44 thank you councilmember martz see no
1:16:46 further questions
1:16:47 i guess you're good director watling
1:16:49 thanks we'll see you on march
1:16:50 1st thank you
1:16:54 okay next
1:16:58 on our agenda this evening is the
1:16:59 consent calendar which was distributed
1:17:01 to council in advance and if authorized
1:17:04 these
1:17:04 items on the consent calendar will be
1:17:06 considered together and approved by one
1:17:08 motion
1:17:09 have the payables and payroll been
1:17:11 reviewed
1:17:12 they have
1:17:16 thank you council member does any
1:17:18 council member desire to remove
1:17:20 any item from the consent calendar and
1:17:22 consider it under regular business
1:17:27 give a few seconds
1:17:31 okay would anyone care to make a motion
1:17:38 council president thank you this is
1:17:42 council president hunt i move to approve
1:17:43 the consent
1:17:44 agenda as presented deputy council
1:17:47 president ray
1:17:48 this is chris reyes second to motion it
1:17:51 has been moved and seconded and i'll ask
1:17:53 the city clerk to do a roll call vote
1:17:57 thank you we'll be starting with uh
1:17:59 council president
1:18:01 hunt aye
1:18:04 councilmember marx hi
1:18:08 deputy council president ray hi
1:18:11 councilmember walsh aye
1:18:15 councilmember d michelle aye
1:18:18 councilmember goodman
1:18:19 aye councilmember hall aye
1:18:22 that's seven eyes zero nays
1:18:26 thank you city clerk that passes
1:18:28 unanimously we're now going to move into
1:18:30 the regular business portion of our
1:18:32 meeting
1:18:32 and first up out of four items is ab8080
1:18:37 it is the 2021 docket of proposed
1:18:41 comprehensive plan
1:18:42 and zoning map amendments and the
1:18:44 request before council this evening is
1:18:46 to approve the docket so i'd like to
1:18:48 invite senior planner christian leeson
1:18:50 up to present the item
1:18:58 here we go third time's a charm good
1:19:00 evening uh madam mayor
1:19:02 and city council i am here to discuss
1:19:04 the 2021 docket of proposed
1:19:07 comprehensive
1:19:08 plan and zoning map amendments
1:19:13 the purpose tonight is to review
1:19:14 deliberate and take action on the
1:19:16 proposed
1:19:16 bucket as a reminder
1:19:20 comprehensive comprehensive plans may be
1:19:22 amended
1:19:23 once a year and to ensure that that is
1:19:26 done the right way
1:19:27 we are required to approve a docket
1:19:31 and the docket is a list of items
1:19:34 a list of proposed amendments that will
1:19:36 then be studied and considered
1:19:39 and voted on at a later time this
1:19:41 ensures
1:19:42 a holistic look a holistic consideration
1:19:44 of a comprehensive plan
1:19:48 first thing on the docket is the land
1:19:50 use element so
1:19:52 tables l1 and l5 are related
1:19:55 each year we send information to the
1:19:57 office of financial management
1:19:59 who then returns to us confirmations and
1:20:02 numbers one of those confirmations
1:20:04 is the number of housing units that we
1:20:06 have in the city
1:20:07 several years ago the city council asked
1:20:09 us to track our units toward our state
1:20:11 mandated housing target and that's where
1:20:14 that number goes
1:20:15 they also send us household projections
1:20:19 and estimate population estimates in
1:20:21 which then we are supposed to
1:20:22 do population projections that comes as
1:20:25 well that information doesn't become
1:20:26 available until s until
1:20:28 june we are also looking at table l3
1:20:31 jobs toward the 2031 adopted state job
1:20:35 target
1:20:35 that also comes from the state in june
1:20:37 and is another
1:20:39 item that council asked us to track back
1:20:41 in 2016.
1:20:44 this year we get to update issaquah's
1:20:46 remaining land supply and capacity
1:20:49 this information comes from the growth
1:20:51 capacity study that is done
1:20:54 periodically it was started in 2019
1:20:58 late 2019 wasn't quite complete last
1:21:00 year and i believe it will be done on
1:21:02 march 5th of this year so we get to
1:21:04 update it
1:21:05 lastly we will there is going to be a
1:21:08 new climate change plan
1:21:10 so to ensure consistency between the
1:21:12 goals and policies of that plan and our
1:21:13 comprehensive plan we will probably need
1:21:15 to make some amendments
1:21:19 next come our proposed redesignations
1:21:22 and rezones
1:21:23 this one comes from the city it is
1:21:25 blackberry park a little over half an
1:21:27 acre it's an existing park currently
1:21:29 with a dozen
1:21:30 with a land use uh or designation of low
1:21:33 density residential
1:21:35 the proposed designation is community
1:21:37 facilities
1:21:38 the existing zoning is single family
1:21:40 small lot and the proposed zoning is
1:21:42 community facilities recreation
1:21:45 just as a reminder the land use
1:21:47 designation is sort of an umbrella that
1:21:49 is in the comprehensive plan
1:21:50 and certain zoning districts fit within
1:21:53 that umbrella
1:21:54 and then you have permitted uses and
1:21:57 regulations that are attached to the
1:21:58 zoning
1:22:01 second request from the city is uh
1:22:04 anthology formerly known as gateway um
1:22:08 it's about six and a half acres
1:22:11 it is currently has a multi-family
1:22:14 residential land use designation
1:22:16 and the proposed designation is
1:22:17 community facilities the existing zoning
1:22:19 is village residential
1:22:21 parcel b the requested zoning is
1:22:24 community facilities recreation
1:22:26 and the proposed zoning 4c is
1:22:29 community facilities open space
1:22:35 next is the harvey panning harvey harvey
1:22:38 manning park extension
1:22:39 which is formerly known as bergsma and
1:22:42 there are
1:22:43 six parcels associated with this
1:22:46 uh with a lot of acreage i can't do the
1:22:49 math right now
1:22:50 it's currently a low density resident
1:22:53 residential designation
1:22:54 with a request for community facilities
1:22:58 uh we have both single-family suburban
1:23:00 and single-family estates
1:23:02 zoning currently here but the request is
1:23:04 that all parcels be zoned community
1:23:06 facilities
1:23:08 open space
1:23:11 let's touch on these really quickly
1:23:13 there's a reminder
1:23:14 uh community facilities recreation
1:23:16 allows for parks and allows for fields
1:23:18 it allows for
1:23:20 restrooms and picnic tables community
1:23:22 facilities open space however allows for
1:23:24 trails maybe an overlook maybe a bench
1:23:27 it's limited on what can go there
1:23:30 lastly is a request from a private
1:23:32 property owner it's called the milano
1:23:33 property
1:23:34 and that's what we're calling it it is
1:23:37 0.81 acres it is located
1:23:39 um on the sort of west side of newport
1:23:43 across from the gateway or anthology
1:23:46 regions as you can see
1:23:49 it's currently uh low density
1:23:51 residential designation
1:23:53 and the property owner is requesting
1:23:54 multi-family residential
1:23:56 the existing zoning is single-family
1:23:59 suburban and the proposed or requested
1:24:00 zoning is multi-family
1:24:02 medium there's currently a single family
1:24:04 house located on this property and
1:24:06 the property owner is proposing to put
1:24:11 rental town homes
1:24:15 old town sub-area plan we just need to
1:24:17 do some updates to the action
1:24:19 program part of it is years when things
1:24:21 are going to happen
1:24:22 part of it's just updating what can some
1:24:24 of the things that can and can't be done
1:24:26 and then updating this implementation
1:24:28 status chart that council asked us to
1:24:31 include last year
1:24:34 the capital facilities element all we
1:24:36 need to update is the capital
1:24:38 is the public facilities map we need to
1:24:41 add the community center pool
1:24:42 senior center and pickering barn
1:24:47 as you all know we are in the middle of
1:24:49 the title 18
1:24:50 cleanup and there will likely be some
1:24:54 some adjustments or amendments that need
1:24:55 to be made into the comprehensive plan
1:24:57 and to the comp
1:24:58 into the central issaquah plan as title
1:25:01 18 is updated
1:25:04 that's all i have on the docket to you
1:25:07 your options tonight are either to
1:25:09 approve the docket as presented
1:25:11 to approve the docket with changes or do
1:25:13 not approve the docket which means that
1:25:14 there would be no comprehensive
1:25:16 amendments this year
1:25:19 and our recommendation is to approve the
1:25:21 docket
1:25:22 as presented and just to let you know
1:25:25 the timeline process
1:25:26 the ppc held in public hearing on
1:25:29 january 28th
1:25:30 you all take action hopefully tonight uh
1:25:33 march through august
1:25:34 we work on individual amendments june
1:25:37 through september ppc reviews
1:25:39 the amendments the public hearing is
1:25:41 held in september and october
1:25:43 and it comes back to the council in
1:25:44 november for study session and then
1:25:46 december for action
1:25:48 and that is all i have thank you thank
1:25:50 you kristin looks like we have a couple
1:25:51 of questions lining up as well
1:25:54 let's start with council member marks
1:25:57 thank you madam mayor this is council
1:25:59 member marx can we take a look at that
1:26:00 milano property again please
1:26:04 yes let me
1:26:20 so the first thing and i i looked it up
1:26:24 because it was so funky
1:26:25 um it doesn't have access to a road does
1:26:27 it so how
1:26:28 how does the how does the homeowner
1:26:30 currently access newport
1:26:32 there's a driveway i have not found
1:26:36 a an actual recorded easement on the
1:26:39 um next to it it would have to access
1:26:42 through the site where it says northwest
1:26:43 pacific
1:26:46 place it's like you place um
1:26:50 that's where they would have to access
1:26:51 through i have not found an easement but
1:26:53 there is a driveway currently that goes
1:26:54 through that property
1:26:55 yeah on to on to newport uh okay
1:26:58 so the second question um that i have
1:27:02 is this is not
1:27:05 in central issaquah right
1:27:09 okay so there has to be
1:27:12 a public benefit to going to higher
1:27:16 density right so what's the proposed
1:27:18 public benefit here
1:27:20 the proposed public benefit from the
1:27:22 applicant is that
1:27:23 they're adding housing needed housing to
1:27:26 issaquah
1:27:28 uh all right uh and
1:27:32 so the option so if we approve the
1:27:35 docket today
1:27:37 are we're not approving this this isn't
1:27:40 this wouldn't be final approval this
1:27:42 would just be
1:27:44 to allow the administration to work on
1:27:46 the proposal right
1:27:47 and then as you showed it would come
1:27:49 before us in december
1:27:51 exactly have we allowed housing
1:27:55 um increased housing to function as
1:27:58 the public benefit on increased density
1:28:01 in the past
1:28:02 haven't we usually required some other
1:28:04 public benefit
1:28:06 uh we have not allowed it as far as i'm
1:28:09 aware
1:28:10 but then i think we've only had four
1:28:13 requests for four private requests for
1:28:16 up zones or rezones in 20 years
1:28:21 councilmember martzy mind if i um ask
1:28:25 clerk or the administrator question i
1:28:27 think the
1:28:28 docket is just an item
1:28:32 that is set up to explore whether or not
1:28:35 you might want to do it so i wanna i'm
1:28:37 wondering if there is a
1:28:39 format that a conversation can come back
1:28:42 to you in the council where you can
1:28:43 ask some probing questions i just i'm
1:28:45 not sure if it's tonight so if you don't
1:28:47 mind let me check with the clerk and the
1:28:49 administrator and see because you sound
1:28:51 like you have some interesting questions
1:28:53 and madam mayor members of the council
1:28:55 i'd ask jim haney the city attorney
1:28:57 to chime in
1:29:04 at some point just trying to turn on my
1:29:07 video
1:29:09 thank you um the
1:29:14 the decision on the docket is as
1:29:18 councilmember mark said just a decision
1:29:22 allow this to be
1:29:26 explored it is not a final approval
1:29:30 there are no criteria in
1:29:33 either the code or in state law for
1:29:36 approval of the docket
1:29:37 it's an entirely discretionary decision
1:29:40 on the council's part
1:29:41 so there is no requirement in city code
1:29:44 or state law that a public benefit be
1:29:46 found
1:29:46 at this point certainly there are
1:29:50 criteria for
1:29:51 approval of the comprehensive plan
1:29:53 amendments in the city code and you
1:29:55 would need to meet those
1:29:57 it would need to meet those in order for
1:29:59 it to be approved
1:30:00 but there's no criteria for placing it
1:30:02 on the docket at this point
1:30:05 um i guess i'm wondering mr haney is if
1:30:08 the council
1:30:09 if council member marks or others wanted
1:30:12 to provide
1:30:14 commentary on this particular item on
1:30:16 the docket what would be the venue that
1:30:18 they could do that where they could have
1:30:19 their
1:30:20 questions posed so that staff can take
1:30:23 them away and go through the public
1:30:24 process with them
1:30:26 well they they certainly can pose
1:30:28 questions now
1:30:29 if they believe that it is relevant to
1:30:32 determination of whether to keep the or
1:30:34 put the
1:30:35 the rezone on the docket if
1:30:39 they wish they can make that
1:30:41 determination and put it on the docket
1:30:43 and then
1:30:44 ask questions later this is a
1:30:46 legislative process
1:30:47 so they can raise those questions at any
1:30:49 time great
1:30:50 okay let's go back to council member
1:30:52 martin councilmember mertz
1:30:54 uh i'm done with questions thank you
1:30:57 okay great and then we have council
1:30:59 member goodman
1:31:02 thank you councilmember goodman here um
1:31:04 staying with the milano property
1:31:05 we heard uh one question um or my
1:31:08 understanding is that
1:31:10 this one was a was a walk-on and
1:31:13 um kristen you can correct me if i'm
1:31:16 wrong
1:31:17 i think we got a comment that this was a
1:31:19 walk-on and was it not on the agenda
1:31:20 before ppc
1:31:22 um and if that's the case then i'm
1:31:24 wondering um
1:31:26 if if somebody can address what the
1:31:30 if that's if that's okay if that's
1:31:31 proper procedure that's
1:31:33 that's really the basis for my question
1:31:35 thank you
1:31:37 so this is kristin leeson and it was it
1:31:39 was sort of a walk-on
1:31:40 it was the application was submitted the
1:31:42 evening of
1:31:43 26th of january the public hearing was
1:31:45 the 28th of january
1:31:46 so the commission heard about it on the
1:31:48 28th um
1:31:49 i added it to the presentation this is
1:31:52 allowed to happen
1:31:53 uh the private sector is allowed to
1:31:56 make requests to for
1:32:00 amendments potential amendments on the
1:32:02 docket until either the
1:32:04 second meeting in january or january
1:32:06 31st whichever comes first
1:32:09 so had this person come to the meeting
1:32:11 that night and presented it at that time
1:32:13 it still could have been accepted and
1:32:14 added to the docket
1:32:16 okay thank you so much thank you
1:32:19 councilmember goodman we'll go to
1:32:21 councilmember walsh
1:32:23 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
1:32:25 so my understanding is once we
1:32:27 approve the docket these are the items
1:32:30 that the
1:32:30 administration reviews and that
1:32:34 no other changes can be made or
1:32:37 considered
1:32:39 this year is that correct
1:32:44 that is correct there are some certain
1:32:46 circuit the
1:32:47 private sector may not make any more
1:32:50 requests
1:32:51 after the public hearing so they can no
1:32:53 longer do that
1:32:54 tonight if the city council wanted to
1:32:56 add some things to that or change it the
1:32:58 city council may do so
1:33:02 okay um i'm thinking about title 18
1:33:05 and where we are in progress of that
1:33:09 if we make progress
1:33:12 on title 18 let's say we have some
1:33:15 things ready
1:33:16 in say september or october
1:33:19 that would have to go through the
1:33:21 comprehensive plan would they have to
1:33:23 wait until 2021
1:33:26 2022 yes yeah oh my gosh
1:33:30 you're in 21. this is kristen and it
1:33:33 kind of depends the
1:33:34 planning policy commission needs time to
1:33:36 consider any of the changes
1:33:38 it could not be we already have a
1:33:40 placeholder for any amendments that come
1:33:42 up due to the title 18
1:33:44 updates whatever those may be but
1:33:47 the planning policy commission still
1:33:49 needs time to consider that and
1:33:52 you know have a public hearing on that
1:33:54 with the rest of the amendments
1:33:55 and i will let jim haney correct me if
1:33:57 i'm wrong um
1:33:59 but it's my understanding as long as we
1:34:01 had time to still consider that then yes
1:34:03 it could be
1:34:04 included as part of this year there's
1:34:07 there's two issues
1:34:08 one is when you have comprehensive plan
1:34:11 amendments you have to consider them
1:34:12 all at the same time so that you can
1:34:14 look at the cumulative effects
1:34:16 so the first uh issue would be
1:34:20 have they been considered in a public
1:34:22 hearing by the planning policy
1:34:24 commission together with all of the
1:34:25 other amendments
1:34:26 to consider the cumulative effects the
1:34:29 other issue
1:34:30 is sipa and when we do sipa on
1:34:32 comprehensive plan amendments
1:34:34 we're doing it on all of the
1:34:35 comprehensive plan amendments on the
1:34:37 docket
1:34:38 and so it would need to be
1:34:42 anything that we come up with would need
1:34:44 to be added
1:34:45 and considered in that sipa process
1:34:48 whenever that is going to occur
1:34:50 lionically in august
1:34:52 or september if i understand it
1:34:53 correctly fifa
1:34:55 standing for the state environmental
1:34:58 policy act
1:34:59 thank you uh i lost
1:35:03 place was that council member walsh that
1:35:05 we were on
1:35:06 okay so chris thank you very much
1:35:09 kristin if you could pull up the capitol
1:35:10 facilities map councilmember d michelle
1:35:12 has a question on that
1:35:14 our comment on that thank you
1:35:17 um this is councilmember d michelle uh
1:35:20 kristen and i've
1:35:21 actually been um emailing back and forth
1:35:24 on this for on some very technical
1:35:26 questions but
1:35:27 just want to put it on the record i
1:35:28 noticed that there were some errors on
1:35:30 the map
1:35:31 actually when we did the master mobility
1:35:33 plan and i had
1:35:34 i talked about it at that time and
1:35:38 i was just requesting that we make sure
1:35:40 those corrections are
1:35:42 made as we go through the process this
1:35:45 very specifically uh tiger mountain
1:35:48 community high school is still listed
1:35:50 as a school on the map and it's been
1:35:53 closed for six years
1:35:55 uh it was replaced by gibson eck high
1:35:57 school we need to
1:35:59 indicate where gibson act is and give it
1:36:02 a place
1:36:02 on the map and then there's a very
1:36:05 confusing designation
1:36:08 number nine for um
1:36:11 the new the proposed new schools
1:36:14 at providence heights and uh so i
1:36:16 requested
1:36:17 uh a clarification on the language for
1:36:20 that designation
1:36:21 so those are very technical issues
1:36:24 but um christian advised me that i
1:36:26 should probably put those on the record
1:36:28 so i am doing so
1:36:30 thank you councilmember d michelle next
1:36:32 we have a question from council
1:36:34 president hunt
1:36:36 thank you this is council president hunt
1:36:38 i had uh
1:36:39 asked a question before about um
1:36:42 things that could be changed with the
1:36:45 docket after it was approved and i just
1:36:47 wanted to confirm
1:36:49 the other category of things that can be
1:36:51 changed if city initiated proposals and
1:36:53 from your email wanted to confirm that
1:36:55 those can be added at
1:36:56 any time to the docket
1:37:02 apologize i forgot to let me this is
1:37:04 kristin um
1:37:06 as jim haney just mentioned they can be
1:37:09 added
1:37:09 as long as they are city initiated but
1:37:11 they still have to be done before the
1:37:13 public hearing
1:37:14 and the planning policy has to have time
1:37:15 to consider those
1:37:17 okay thank you anything to add mr haney
1:37:22 uh just that uh again
1:37:25 they have to be done so that they can be
1:37:28 done through the state environmental
1:37:29 policy act process as well
1:37:31 so anything that anything can be added
1:37:34 by the city
1:37:35 after the docket is established but you
1:37:39 do have to have
1:37:40 a final docket to do the state
1:37:42 environmental policy act determination
1:37:45 and then for the ppc planning policy
1:37:48 commission hearing
1:37:49 thank you mr haney i am not seeing any
1:37:52 additional questions or comments at this
1:37:54 time if someone prepared to make a
1:37:55 motion oh so i
1:37:56 am councilmember goodman it sounds like
1:37:58 you have a question
1:38:02 um never mind thanks
1:38:05 okay i'm gonna go to council president
1:38:07 hunt for a motion
1:38:09 thank you this is council president hunt
1:38:10 i moved to approve the 2021 docket of
1:38:13 proposed comprehensive plan and zoning
1:38:15 map amendments
1:38:16 as presented deputy council president
1:38:20 um this is chris roy ii thank you it's
1:38:23 been moved and seconded and i'm going to
1:38:24 get the city clerk to do a roll call
1:38:26 though
1:38:28 i believe uh this is appropriate for
1:38:30 council to discuss
1:38:38 sorry yes you're absolutely right
1:38:41 council discussion i will check in the
1:38:45 comment section to look for raised hands
1:39:00 thank you let's start with council
1:39:02 president hunt followed by council oh
1:39:04 let's start with council president hunt
1:39:12 um actually i think maybe council member
1:39:15 remarks has
1:39:16 indicated i'll go after councilmember
1:39:19 remarks
1:39:20 okay the way i was reading it was um it
1:39:22 sounded like you had a comment and it
1:39:24 sounded like
1:39:25 he had wanted to um
1:39:30 uh discuss emotion yeah that motion i'd
1:39:33 like to propose amending a b
1:39:34 80 uh 2012 daca to propose comprehensive
1:39:38 plan and zoning map amendments to remove
1:39:40 proposed amendment number six
1:39:41 redesignation rezoned private property
1:39:43 parcel 202-406-9056
1:39:48 thank you and before we go to a second i
1:39:50 just want to check in with
1:39:52 our attorney uh mr haney if you are
1:39:55 allowed to
1:39:56 deny a request for a rezone
1:39:59 mr hayden you are
1:40:02 allowed to deny a request for the to go
1:40:05 on the docket the docket as i said
1:40:07 is entirely discretionary and it is up
1:40:09 to the council as to whether it approves
1:40:11 any item to move forward
1:40:13 on the dock okay thank you then i will
1:40:15 look for a second
1:40:26 wait a few more seconds
1:40:31 council president hunt this is council
1:40:34 president hansel second
1:40:36 thanks so it has been moved and seconded
1:40:38 to promote
1:40:40 propose amending ab 8080 2021 docket of
1:40:44 proposed comprehensive plan and zoning
1:40:46 map amendment to remove proposed
1:40:47 amendment number six
1:40:49 redesignations last free zone private
1:40:52 property parcel
1:40:56 202-240-69056
1:40:59 and going into discussion maybe we'll
1:41:01 start with a question from councilmember
1:41:02 walsh
1:41:04 thank you this is councilmember walsh
1:41:06 trying to understand
1:41:08 um what the difference is between
1:41:11 potentially
1:41:12 removing something from the docket at
1:41:14 this point versus
1:41:16 having it progress to the point of
1:41:19 comprehensive plan
1:41:20 once once we're looking at making these
1:41:23 annual
1:41:24 amendments um
1:41:27 what options would we have
1:41:30 and can we deny one item and not the
1:41:34 others
1:41:35 at that point and the student council
1:41:37 member walsh that
1:41:38 that would be for um mr haney
1:41:42 mr haney yes um
1:41:46 right now you have the opportunity to
1:41:49 use your discretion to determine whether
1:41:51 or not you want to place something on
1:41:52 the docket again all the docket means
1:41:56 is that you are compiling a list of
1:41:59 amendments which
1:42:00 you desire to have the staff work on
1:42:03 the planning policy commission to
1:42:05 consider
1:42:06 and you to take action on at the end of
1:42:08 the year if you decide not to place
1:42:11 something on the docket
1:42:12 it means that there will be no further
1:42:14 action on it this year
1:42:16 it can come back next year potentially
1:42:19 if you put it on the docket you still
1:42:22 have every right
1:42:23 at the end of the proceedings to
1:42:27 make a decision not to approve it and
1:42:30 you can
1:42:30 say you're not going to approve it even
1:42:33 though you're approving the others
1:42:35 it's just you do have criteria in your
1:42:37 code for approving comprehensive plan
1:42:39 amendments
1:42:40 and as long as you can differentiate
1:42:42 that some of them meet your criteria and
1:42:44 some of them don't
1:42:46 you you have the ability to do that in
1:42:48 the end
1:42:50 any other comments or questions on the
1:42:52 amendment uh council member marks to
1:42:55 speak to the motion
1:42:57 thank you madam mayor this is a council
1:42:58 member mart uh you know i realize
1:43:01 it's uh we could wait to do this until
1:43:03 later but
1:43:04 i think that this on the face of it
1:43:08 there's no reason to move forward with
1:43:10 this potential amendment
1:43:11 i don't see any argument for it it i
1:43:14 believe it clearly violates both the
1:43:16 growth and development and environmental
1:43:18 stewardship goal
1:43:19 of our strategic plan no public benefit
1:43:23 has been proposed for it it's outside
1:43:26 the central issaquah
1:43:27 plan area which is where we believe
1:43:30 growth should occur
1:43:32 so i just i don't see any arguments in
1:43:34 favor of it and in a year where our
1:43:35 staff has limited resources
1:43:37 i don't see i don't see why they should
1:43:39 spend time
1:43:40 on on something that just on the face of
1:43:43 it doesn't meet any of our criteria for
1:43:45 for us considering up zones we always
1:43:48 have real public benefit when we
1:43:50 consider options like this and
1:43:52 there's none in this proposal so let's
1:43:54 just let's get it off the plate now
1:43:56 thank you thank you councilmember martz
1:43:59 any other council members wishing to
1:44:00 comment or anybody with questions
1:44:05 council president hunt with a question
1:44:07 um thank you this is council president
1:44:10 um i have a question if was there any
1:44:13 discussion on this
1:44:14 at planning policy and then also does
1:44:17 the staff that reviewed that application
1:44:19 did you
1:44:21 see anything um else that we should be
1:44:24 aware of or that was discussed at
1:44:26 planning policy regarding this item
1:44:27 because
1:44:31 i'm just asking for if there's more
1:44:33 information to it thanks
1:44:34 thanks kristen hi this is kristen and
1:44:38 planning policy planning policy
1:44:40 commission did not
1:44:41 have any more discussion on it i didn't
1:44:42 have much to present however
1:44:44 um honestly i don't give
1:44:48 particularly as council member march
1:44:50 just pointed out i am the
1:44:51 sole long ranger right now so don't
1:44:53 until the docket is approved
1:44:55 i don't have the time to give it my full
1:44:57 consideration
1:44:58 and so i have not done that yet i i did
1:45:01 look at the application though and it
1:45:03 was deemed complete so that is why it
1:45:04 was included on the docket now
1:45:08 thank you kristen next question is from
1:45:10 council member walsh
1:45:14 [Music]
1:45:15 in listening to kristin speak i just
1:45:17 completely blanked on my question so
1:45:19 let it come back to me yes that's
1:45:22 allowable deputy council president ray
1:45:24 thank you mayor paulie this is chris
1:45:25 wray over the next year if we were to
1:45:28 put this on the docket
1:45:30 would the applicant or the requester for
1:45:33 the rezone have an opportunity to
1:45:34 provide more information
1:45:37 about what they plan to do including um
1:45:40 possibly
1:45:40 outlining a public good or is is
1:45:44 everything that they're going to do done
1:45:47 i'll go to kristin for that all right
1:45:49 this is kristen
1:45:50 uh the applicant would have an
1:45:52 opportunity uh this goes to the planning
1:45:54 policy commission
1:45:55 a couple of times before it goes to
1:45:57 public hearing and
1:45:58 they usually have questions and then the
1:46:00 property owner has time to answer those
1:46:02 questions in reviewing the applications
1:46:04 too i found out last year that i had
1:46:05 questions
1:46:06 so i contacted property owners to find
1:46:09 out more about
1:46:10 their intents or questions that i
1:46:12 couldn't figure out from
1:46:13 you know informationable information
1:46:15 available to me
1:46:19 thank you kristen councilmember walsh
1:46:23 remembers her question and that was that
1:46:25 so now we'll go to council member given
1:46:26 with a comment
1:46:29 thank you councilmember goodman here are
1:46:31 we just at questions or our comments
1:46:33 uh it is open for a discussion right now
1:46:35 questions or comments
1:46:36 we have a proposed amendment on the
1:46:39 table that's been seconded
1:46:41 and we're just discussing it or making
1:46:42 comments thanks
1:46:44 um so from what i'm hearing the
1:46:47 um the request to put this on the docket
1:46:51 was allowed it was timely and
1:46:54 um i don't have any information before
1:46:58 to um
1:47:02 to to decide that it shouldn't be on the
1:47:04 docket
1:47:05 and we have to not deny things in the
1:47:07 past um the applicant
1:47:09 takes a risk that they're going to you
1:47:11 know be a part of this process for
1:47:14 several months the better part of a year
1:47:16 and then have something
1:47:17 potentially denied um if i were a
1:47:20 property owner
1:47:21 i would think it's not fair
1:47:24 to not let me at least go through the
1:47:26 process
1:47:28 and they spend time and probably money
1:47:30 doing that
1:47:32 so i don't think i support this taking
1:47:35 it off the docket
1:47:36 i have no idea um how i might
1:47:40 just what i might decide to do at the
1:47:42 end of this process
1:47:43 but i think it's fair to the applicant
1:47:45 if they've done everything
1:47:47 right at this point and they have an
1:47:48 opportunity for the rest of the year to
1:47:50 take part in the process
1:47:51 um to provide enough information that we
1:47:56 decide whether to approve it or not i
1:47:58 think it's i think it's
1:48:00 i think it's fair to leave it on the
1:48:01 docket so i would not support removing
1:48:03 it thanks
1:48:05 keeping my eye on the chat to see if
1:48:07 there are additional questions or
1:48:09 comments do we have an amendment on the
1:48:10 table
1:48:11 uh council president hunt with a
1:48:13 question followed by council member mark
1:48:16 thank you this is council president hunt
1:48:19 i think this was mentioned but i just
1:48:20 wanted to ask it again there's there
1:48:22 isn't
1:48:22 actually any criteria for us to consider
1:48:26 when removing items from the docket we
1:48:29 can just do that at our
1:48:30 discretion if we choose is that correct
1:48:35 that is correct okay thank you
1:48:39 thank you back to council member mart
1:48:41 for a comment
1:48:43 sure uh so i think
1:48:46 so i have almost two acres high up on
1:48:49 squat mountain
1:48:50 if i put in a request to convert my
1:48:52 property
1:48:53 to multi-family higher density uh
1:48:56 it would it would get it would get you'd
1:49:00 shoot it down tonight
1:49:01 um this is adjacent to higher density
1:49:05 but we don't you know we don't put
1:49:07 higher density
1:49:08 outside the areas where we've targeted
1:49:11 for higher density it's one of the
1:49:13 fundamental concepts of the city
1:49:15 is that we have uh
1:49:18 with the central issaquah plan and then
1:49:20 re-enshrined with our strategic plan
1:49:22 uh targeted areas for higher density and
1:49:26 beyond those areas single-family housing
1:49:28 will remain single-family housing
1:49:30 so i see no reason to
1:49:33 uh look at this uh today so i i hear the
1:49:37 arguments to counter but i think it goes
1:49:39 against everything that we've said
1:49:41 about uh managed growth in our community
1:49:44 over the last decade
1:49:46 thank you thank you councilmember martz
1:49:48 i'm going to give it a second i'm not
1:49:49 seeing any additional questions or
1:49:51 comments right now
1:49:54 i'll wait another second okay
1:49:58 so the amendment that's on the table is
1:50:01 to amend ab
1:50:02 8080 the 2021 docket of proposed
1:50:06 comprehensive plan and zoning map
1:50:08 amendments to remove proposed amendment
1:50:10 number six
1:50:11 redesignation slash free zone private
1:50:14 property parcel
1:50:15 202 406 905 sex
1:50:18 and i will go to the city clerk for a
1:50:21 roll call vote on the amendment thank
1:50:23 you city clerk
1:50:24 speaking uh we will start with council
1:50:26 member marks council member mark all
1:50:28 right
1:50:28 thank you council excuse me deputy
1:50:32 council president ray
1:50:35 councilmember walsh nay
1:50:40 councilmember d michelle
1:50:44 councilmember goodman name
1:50:47 councilmember hall a
1:50:50 council president hi
1:50:54 those are two in favor and five opposed
1:50:58 so the amendment does not pass um we'll
1:51:01 go back to the main motion
1:51:03 and um i will leave it open for a few
1:51:06 seconds to see if there are additional
1:51:09 comments or questions before we go to
1:51:11 the vote in the main motion
1:51:20 i am not seeing any oh
1:51:23 there we go council president hunt
1:51:26 thank you this is council president hunt
1:51:29 i think one um one ask that i would have
1:51:33 from this conversation is to make it
1:51:34 clear
1:51:35 to the applicant of this one parcel um
1:51:38 that we did have a conversation that we
1:51:40 um that we do have these substantive
1:51:43 questions about
1:51:44 the application for the rezone on that
1:51:46 one um
1:51:47 parcel because as councilmember goodman
1:51:50 mentioned this can be
1:51:51 um a labor-intensive time intensive
1:51:54 uh money-intensive process to go through
1:51:57 application process and so just want to
1:51:59 be clear with applicant that even from
1:52:01 the beginning we are
1:52:02 having questions and then other than
1:52:04 that uh i
1:52:06 am in support of the items that are on
1:52:07 the docket and i think we'll have a lot
1:52:09 of conversations coming out of the title
1:52:11 discussions this year thank you
1:52:16 not seeing any other additional comments
1:52:21 the main motion on the table is to prove
1:52:23 the 2021 daca to propose comprehensive
1:52:26 plan and zoning map amendments as
1:52:28 as presented it has been moved and
1:52:30 seconded uh city clerk do you want to do
1:52:32 the rural call vote
1:52:37 yes thank you clerk edgar speaking we
1:52:39 will start with
1:52:40 deputy council president ray hi
1:52:44 councilmember walsh aye councilmember d
1:52:48 michelle
1:52:48 aye council member goodman aye
1:52:52 councilmember hall aye
1:52:56 council president council member mark
1:53:00 that's seven in favor zero post
1:53:04 thank you city clerk that passes
1:53:05 unanimously and we'll move on to the
1:53:07 second item under regular business which
1:53:09 is a b
1:53:10 8127 funding for emergency housing
1:53:14 and the request tonight is that council
1:53:16 approve or authorize the funding and i'd
1:53:18 like to invite human services manager
1:53:20 monica negrilla
1:53:22 to present this item welcome monica
1:53:25 thank you madam mayor
1:53:26 good evening and good evening council
1:53:29 members
1:53:30 um i'm gonna
1:53:34 just need a moment i think i'm
1:53:38 presenting now
1:53:40 um so thank you for having us here
1:53:42 tonight um
1:53:44 we are seeking city council
1:53:45 authorization
1:53:47 to allocate um 45 000 in additional
1:53:50 funds
1:53:51 for emergency housing shelter services
1:53:55 our intent with these funding requests
1:53:58 is to support the homeless outreach
1:54:00 services in the next few months
1:54:02 specifically in the next
1:54:04 90 days and as
1:54:07 a background information at the january
1:54:11 2021 council study session
1:54:14 uh we saw it council's direction
1:54:16 regarding a proposed allocation of 75
1:54:21 towards emergency um shelter services
1:54:25 um the proposal was part of the covet 19
1:54:29 pandemic response and um recovery task
1:54:33 force
1:54:34 um and at that time
1:54:38 um the city council directed us to
1:54:41 return to a regular council meeting
1:54:44 uh with a specific proposal for how we
1:54:47 will spend the 75
1:54:49 five thousand dollars um since then
1:54:53 um we amended the original
1:54:55 recommendation
1:54:56 um to the newly proposed forty five
1:54:59 thousand dollars
1:55:00 uh to better account for the estimated
1:55:02 capacity needs in the next
1:55:04 90 days additional background
1:55:07 information
1:55:10 detail regarding service needs i wanted
1:55:12 to add
1:55:13 that as you may know shelter capacity
1:55:16 has been an issue for a very long time
1:55:18 however due to covet pandemic
1:55:21 restrictions
1:55:22 um additional strains have been put on
1:55:25 the already limited shelter capacity
1:55:28 um and in addition to the
1:55:31 safety restrictions we also many of the
1:55:34 shelters on the east side
1:55:36 had outbreaks among shelter staff and
1:55:38 participants
1:55:40 so all of the shelters on the east side
1:55:42 currently have very limited
1:55:44 or no capacity
1:55:48 to accept new referrals this causes
1:55:51 challenges for our outreach
1:55:54 coordinator and he has difficulties
1:55:57 effectively response responding to the
1:55:59 homeless needs in our community so
1:56:02 our goal really with requesting these
1:56:04 funds is to provide a tool for the
1:56:06 outreach worker
1:56:07 um in order to help him be more
1:56:09 effective in responding to the needs of
1:56:11 our homeless community members
1:56:15 so specifically our proposal and how we
1:56:17 would
1:56:18 um spend these funds we would like um to
1:56:21 propose
1:56:22 uh that forty thousand dollars
1:56:24 specifically forty thousand
1:56:26 two hundred dollars i'll go to um
1:56:29 towards adding capacity uh this would be
1:56:33 added newly um
1:56:36 um this would go towards adding
1:56:40 new um emergency housing shelter
1:56:44 capacity
1:56:45 the funding will not support shelter
1:56:48 deficits or budget deficits
1:56:51 nor would support rental assistance for
1:56:53 existing housing
1:56:55 we are hoping that funding for
1:56:57 additional rental assistance or other
1:56:59 preventative services
1:57:01 will be addressed at a future date once
1:57:04 we would have
1:57:04 more information regarding expected
1:57:07 state
1:57:08 and or federal refunds um
1:57:12 in addition in terms of time frame we
1:57:14 would
1:57:15 like to spend the money in the next 90
1:57:19 we would like to focus on
1:57:22 the time frame between february and
1:57:24 april
1:57:26 um we would estimate that
1:57:29 the average bed night the average cost
1:57:32 for that night would be about 67
1:57:35 um this is um cost estimated based on
1:57:40 um also leveraging existing funds that
1:57:45 our shelter provider
1:57:46 currently has um
1:57:50 and um in addition to the forty thousand
1:57:54 dollars
1:57:55 we are hoping to allocate forty eight
1:57:57 hundred dollars
1:57:59 um towards flexible funds uh these
1:58:02 uh will be spent on on as needed
1:58:06 um basis uh sometimes we have
1:58:10 um various costs that come up from
1:58:13 changing the tire for someone who lives
1:58:15 in a car
1:58:16 um or on moving costs or
1:58:20 id expenses or other miscellaneous fees
1:58:22 so we would like to
1:58:24 allocate 4 800 towards that
1:58:27 um and we are also proposing that um
1:58:31 the number of residents served with
1:58:34 these funds will be included
1:58:36 in a report at the end of the 90 day
1:58:39 period
1:58:40 we left the number of residents
1:58:43 open although we can estimate if you
1:58:46 want to
1:58:47 approximate number however we wanted to
1:58:50 leave it open just because
1:58:52 actually the purpose of providing these
1:58:55 funds
1:58:56 and the purpose of having an outreach
1:58:59 coordinator
1:59:00 in the first year is to actually provide
1:59:03 a better idea of um the number of
1:59:06 residents that need support
1:59:08 um and so with that
1:59:11 um in terms of options and who we would
1:59:14 spend the money
1:59:15 for we selected snokomi valley shelter
1:59:17 services
1:59:18 as one of the providers that we already
1:59:21 work with
1:59:22 and we fund through the human services
1:59:26 um the number one reason why we select
1:59:28 selected snokomi
1:59:30 valley shelter services as our partner
1:59:32 is because
1:59:33 they have a current capacity for
1:59:35 expansion and
1:59:37 even more so an immediate ability to
1:59:39 increase capacity
1:59:41 they also serve on all genders
1:59:44 and individuals as well as families
1:59:49 and also we have an opportunity to
1:59:52 leverage
1:59:53 other funds with them i think you might
1:59:55 have heard earlier
1:59:57 in the meeting we had someone who
2:00:00 was commenting that um
2:00:04 the snoqualmie valley shelter services
2:00:06 was able to
2:00:08 lease um space for a long period of time
2:00:13 uh this allows them and allowed them the
2:00:16 capacity to
2:00:17 move from winter shelter services to a
2:00:21 7 model they also received king county
2:00:24 county funds recently so we are able to
2:00:26 leverage
2:00:27 all those resources in order to really
2:00:30 increase
2:00:31 uh capacity uh in a short period of time
2:00:36 um and so with that in the summary again
2:00:39 our request tonight
2:00:42 is that we would like to seek support
2:00:45 from council to allocate a total of
2:00:47 forty five thousand dollars
2:00:48 for emergency housing shelter services
2:00:52 to support the outreach uh services um
2:00:56 and to support the homeless individuals
2:00:58 in issaquah uh specifically
2:01:00 distributing the forty five thousand
2:01:02 dollars towards
2:01:04 forty thousand dollars and two hundred
2:01:06 dollars uh
2:01:07 to snokomi valley shelter services for
2:01:10 uh expanded capacity for emergency
2:01:12 housing
2:01:13 um that will be um this motels or
2:01:17 shelter
2:01:18 um in the congregate module and forty 4
2:01:22 to set aside for flexible funds
2:01:25 um in terms of timing and next step
2:01:29 once we if we receive
2:01:32 a city council approval we would pursue
2:01:35 with contract amendment and service
2:01:37 delivery and
2:01:39 um we are gonna have a
2:01:42 90-day report at the end of this period
2:01:47 and so with that i'm gonna stop and
2:01:50 we can take questions
2:01:54 that's great thank you monica and it
2:01:56 looks like the first question we have
2:01:58 and comment is from councilmember t
2:02:00 michelle
2:02:01 thank you this is councilmember d
2:02:03 michelle well first of all thanks
2:02:05 to monica and michael matthias and
2:02:09 efr and the wonderful team that you put
2:02:12 together
2:02:12 and the magnificent job you did of
2:02:15 finding
2:02:16 housing for people this this uh during
2:02:19 the snowstorm and the severe weather
2:02:21 so i'm just uh i'm just so proud of you
2:02:24 and thank you
2:02:24 for all your service um my question is
2:02:29 um i think when we discussed this
2:02:31 earlier i actually was asking
2:02:34 why we weren't spending more than 75 000
2:02:37 so so um i could live with the 45 000
2:02:42 but i'm concerned about the 90-day
2:02:43 reporting period
2:02:45 if we have another round of bad weather
2:02:49 or flooding which is predicted in the
2:02:52 you know a few weeks here
2:02:55 and we use up all this money in the
2:02:57 first 30 days is there going to be
2:02:59 a flexibility to bring this back earlier
2:03:02 than the 90 days
2:03:03 and monica i don't want to put you on
2:03:05 the spot that might be a question for
2:03:07 uh wally bopkowicz so yeah
2:03:10 thank you councilmember d michelle you
2:03:14 monica is working on issues related to
2:03:18 covet and the fact that there aren't
2:03:19 very many shelter spaces open but during
2:03:22 the year we do suffer
2:03:23 emergencies and we do spend money
2:03:25 without coming back right away so i'll
2:03:27 let administrator bob could
2:03:28 explain how that happens uh yes thank
2:03:31 you man
2:03:32 members of the council yes we do spend
2:03:33 money in emergencies
2:03:35 um so we would do that i think we're
2:03:38 looking tonight for
2:03:39 just general direction from the council
2:03:41 confirming that this is
2:03:43 the way you want to go we put a short
2:03:45 time frame on this because
2:03:47 of the circumstances continue to change
2:03:49 and we want to be mindful
2:03:50 of the council's concern about funding
2:03:53 we're still waiting to see
2:03:55 what the federal government might
2:03:56 provide so we thought 90 days was a
2:03:58 prudent
2:03:59 approach but certainly if there's
2:04:01 extraordinary circumstances
2:04:03 we'll take appropriate action okay i
2:04:05 appreciate that and can i have
2:04:07 one more question absolutely um
2:04:12 uh i appreciate the fact that um
2:04:16 you know that we'll be flexible um on
2:04:19 on the time there um
2:04:22 i just um you know the question just
2:04:25 went right out of my mind
2:04:29 i kept thinking it was gonna come back
2:04:30 and it's just not coming back so
2:04:32 i will let others ask and then i'll come
2:04:34 back if it comes to me okay that's
2:04:36 funny and i'm going to stall to give you
2:04:38 some time because council member ray
2:04:40 got his question answered so
2:04:44 i'll stall also i'll just take the
2:04:47 temperature we have a few more items
2:04:48 this evening
2:04:49 we are two hours into our meeting and
2:04:51 i'm wondering if at
2:04:53 some point after we deal with this
2:04:55 particular a b would like a five minute
2:04:57 break oh couple thumbs up thumbs up okay
2:05:00 so there was my big stall
2:05:02 um back to council member to michelle if
2:05:04 you can remember your question
2:05:07 okay um so looking for a
2:05:10 agent okay uh sorry we do i still have
2:05:12 another question council president hunt
2:05:15 thank you council president hunt it's
2:05:16 related to council members
2:05:18 michelle's questions i wondered if in
2:05:21 the event that we are
2:05:22 approaching the 40 000
2:05:26 limit before significantly before the 90
2:05:29 days if you could just report back to
2:05:31 council i think it could be even an
2:05:33 email
2:05:34 but i think that might address some of
2:05:35 the concern and i think we've done that
2:05:36 with some other
2:05:38 new programs that we've been rolling out
2:05:39 that we weren't sure exactly how
2:05:41 how long um or how quickly we would
2:05:44 um use funding yeah great that's not
2:05:46 necessary at all
2:05:51 thank you and thank you monica uh i am
2:05:54 looking council president hunt would you
2:05:55 care to make a motion
2:05:58 thank you yes i will make a motion i
2:05:59 move to authorize the allocation of 45
2:06:02 thousand dollars for emergency
2:06:03 housing shelter services to help support
2:06:07 individuals who are homeless
2:06:09 in issaquah as presented and directs the
2:06:10 finance director to include 45 000
2:06:13 in a subsequent 2021 budget amendment
2:06:15 from the general fund
2:06:18 thank you deputy council president ray
2:06:20 thank you this is chris ray ii
2:06:23 it's been moved and seconded is there
2:06:25 any discussion
2:06:32 okay still
2:06:36 checking no discussion um
2:06:39 we do have a comment uh council
2:06:41 president hunt thank you this is
2:06:44 council president hunt i'll be brief i i
2:06:45 wanted to say
2:06:47 also thank you for for the response
2:06:49 during the snow event
2:06:50 um and also thank you for putting
2:06:52 together this
2:06:54 very comprehensive um proposal in terms
2:06:58 of helping individuals um experiencing
2:07:01 homelessness
2:07:02 and i appreciate the um
2:07:05 this response very much and the approach
2:07:07 and the explanation of the approach
2:07:09 thank you council president i saw some
2:07:11 other head nods here as well
2:07:14 seeing no other comments the motion
2:07:17 before you is to authorize the
2:07:18 allocation of 45 thousand dollars for
2:07:20 emergency housing shelter services to
2:07:22 help support individuals who are
2:07:23 homeless in issaquah as presented and
2:07:26 direct
2:07:26 the finance director to include 45 000
2:07:29 and subsequent 2021 budget amendments
2:07:32 from the general fund and it's been
2:07:33 moved and seconded and i'll go to the
2:07:35 city clerk for a roll call vote
2:07:37 thank you we'll begin with council
2:07:39 member walsh
2:07:40 aye councilmember d michelle
2:07:44 aye councilmember goodman aye
2:07:48 councilmember hall aye
2:07:51 council president hunt aye councilmember
2:07:55 aye deputy council president ray
2:08:00 at seven in favor zero post
2:08:03 thank you very much that passes
2:08:04 unanimously and moves us
2:08:06 into the third item under regular
2:08:07 business which is ab-8128
2:08:10 business assistance grants and again the
2:08:13 request this evening is to authorize
2:08:15 funding thank you very much monica
2:08:18 i probably should i wanted to preface
2:08:20 this with a few comments and i probably
2:08:22 could have done this before item b
2:08:24 but just for those who were not aware
2:08:27 items b c and d today are proposals that
2:08:30 were presented to council in a study
2:08:32 session
2:08:33 a few weeks ago relating to items and
2:08:36 suggestions that the council may want to
2:08:38 consider
2:08:39 during covid and the economic recovery
2:08:42 so i'm just going to add a few comments
2:08:43 right now and then move into the staff
2:08:46 presentation so before we move into this
2:08:49 item this evening i wanted to offer some
2:08:51 opening comments
2:08:52 any businesses in issaquah are currently
2:08:54 hurting due to the closures
2:08:56 and partial openings that have been part
2:08:58 of a very responsible
2:09:00 set of actions taken by our state and
2:09:02 county health department
2:09:04 to control the coronavirus and its
2:09:06 dreadful impacts on our community
2:09:08 i believe it is important to move
2:09:10 additional business support forward now
2:09:12 and have included it in this particular
2:09:14 agenda bill
2:09:15 the council recently had a study session
2:09:17 on additional covenant
2:09:19 funding support for businesses and has
2:09:21 provided feedback
2:09:22 which was incorporated into the proposal
2:09:24 recommended in the next agenda bill
2:09:27 i want to highlight that it's been a
2:09:29 very difficult
2:09:30 11 last 11 months to truly understand
2:09:34 the totality of all of the needs and the
2:09:36 long lasting impacts on our community as
2:09:38 we move forward
2:09:39 and that we are still in the midst of
2:09:42 both the health crisis
2:09:43 and its financial fallout this is the
2:09:46 third and likely not the last time that
2:09:48 i will be proposing financial support
2:09:51 there have been numerous uncertainties
2:09:53 that still remain and many moving parts
2:09:56 and that has made it very difficult each
2:09:58 time we have to move forward
2:09:59 with a decision on one of these
2:10:01 proposals today there were a number of
2:10:03 additional emails from council members
2:10:05 requesting additional data and i want to
2:10:08 ensure that all council members are
2:10:10 provided with an opportunity
2:10:12 to review these questions and answers
2:10:14 and to consider them
2:10:15 prior to making a decision on this
2:10:17 funding
2:10:18 and since this information only
2:10:20 circulated today by email
2:10:21 and was not available to the public it
2:10:24 would be good in tonight's presentation
2:10:26 to have our city staff
2:10:28 review the questions and provide those
2:10:30 answers on camera
2:10:31 so that the public is also informed if
2:10:34 the city council continues to have
2:10:36 questions they may opt to not act
2:10:38 tonight and move to consider at a later
2:10:41 the administration's recommendation is
2:10:43 for approval this evening
2:10:45 so i will now call on
2:10:48 i believe it is jen oh nope it's parks
2:10:52 and community
2:10:54 oh nope i'm on the wrong agenda item
2:10:58 it is missing adam there okay there you
2:11:00 go thanks thank you for making me scroll
2:11:02 all over on my tiny little screen that's
2:11:06 okay so um i can begin into my
2:11:10 presentation or did you want to take a
2:11:11 break first
2:11:13 i did a nice introduction so i didn't i
2:11:16 don't want to
2:11:17 i do believe the council would like a
2:11:19 five-minute break so if it's okay with
2:11:21 everybody let's take five minutes it's 9
2:11:23 12. we'll be back at 9 17. thank you jim
2:15:38 david i was just gonna check and see if
2:15:40 you'd head the camera
2:15:41 off or like do you need a warning from
2:15:44 me to give you a
2:15:46 five second warning
2:15:56 i'll take that as a no
2:16:00 call out to our ictv folks david
2:16:03 mitchell
2:16:04 just checking in with you uh we're still
2:16:07 on break
2:16:08 want to make sure we're in the queue for
2:16:10 returning when you're ready
2:16:12 how you'd like us to communicate that
2:16:15 thanks i'm just waiting for a couple
2:16:18 more people
2:16:19 yep and then the mayor will announce
2:16:22 thank you david
2:17:05 there we go we have council member walsh
2:17:07 so i'll just take a five seconds
2:17:09 till we i call us back to order
2:17:17 thanks we are back from a five-minute
2:17:19 break and i promise to keep
2:17:20 a closer eye on the chat obviously i
2:17:23 guess i didn't need to break as much as
2:17:24 everybody else because there were
2:17:25 several reminders in there that i had
2:17:27 missed
2:17:28 it uh so we'll get back to
2:17:31 having jen start her presentation on
2:17:34 ab-8128
2:17:35 business assistance france with the
2:17:37 asking authorizing funding
2:17:46 i need first i need to be mute i'm
2:17:48 trying to share my screen and
2:17:50 let's see if that works double clicking
2:17:52 it would help so good evening
2:17:54 um madam mayor and council members thank
2:17:57 you for uh speaking with us
2:17:59 having us here tonight to talk about the
2:18:01 business grants we
2:18:03 uh tonight we'll discuss the
2:18:05 administration's recommendation to fund
2:18:07 an additional 250 000
2:18:09 in direct business grants i'll provide a
2:18:11 summary of what
2:18:13 past grants we've had to date and the
2:18:15 options we explored as well as present
2:18:17 present our recommendation details
2:18:20 first off uh as you know in 2020 we
2:18:24 provided
2:18:25 three different grant opportunities
2:18:27 funded by the state
2:18:29 pass-through and king county
2:18:30 pass-through cares act funding as well
2:18:32 as 500 000
2:18:34 of general funds the small business
2:18:36 response grants were
2:18:38 for any business 25 employees or less
2:18:40 that were impacted by covid19
2:18:42 and applications were due in july the
2:18:45 reinvention grants were focused on
2:18:47 creative ways that businesses adjusted
2:18:49 to the pandemic and applications were
2:18:50 due in august
2:18:52 and winterization grants helped
2:18:53 restaurants create safe spaces
2:18:56 outdoors and indoors to serve their
2:18:58 customers and those applications were
2:19:00 in october we funded 142 businesses
2:19:05 through these processes as you see in
2:19:07 the slide there were still over six
2:19:09 hundred thousand dollars of eligible
2:19:11 grant applications that were unfunded
2:19:13 i will note that these estimates are
2:19:15 based on our first look at eligibility
2:19:17 we double and triple check to ensure
2:19:19 that we don't disqualify somebody
2:19:21 due to a mistaking answer on the
2:19:22 application or other circumstance
2:19:29 um as we looked at creating
2:19:32 another a new allocation for grant
2:19:35 funding we did look at a few options
2:19:38 one was to look at
2:19:41 grants to the existed unfunded
2:19:43 applications so that would be
2:19:44 through the small business response
2:19:46 grant and the reinvention grant
2:19:48 we spoke to the to the vision partners
2:19:50 which includes the greater isla
2:19:52 chamber of commerce downtown issaquah
2:19:54 association
2:19:55 uh vision visit issaquah gilman
2:19:59 village merchants association at niskwa
2:20:01 highlands council
2:20:02 at two of our weekly friday meetings the
2:20:04 input we receive on
2:20:05 is noted on future slides the
2:20:08 conversations focused on ensuring
2:20:10 up-to-date information was collected
2:20:11 from businesses ease of application
2:20:14 and adjusting past processes to address
2:20:16 businesses that have
2:20:18 had different levels of expenses in
2:20:20 addition we also looked at
2:20:22 other king county city business grant
2:20:24 programs
2:20:25 as you may remember we were quick to
2:20:27 respond early early last summer
2:20:29 and many city grants other city grant
2:20:32 programs were instituted after
2:20:33 ours we reviewed the size of grants and
2:20:36 size of businesses that other cities
2:20:39 provided funding for we spoke to the
2:20:41 staff at city of renton to learn more
2:20:42 about how they collected information
2:20:44 from businesses according to employee
2:20:47 size again
2:20:48 our goal was to create a program that
2:20:50 addresses the current needs
2:20:51 and doesn't need to create an undue
2:20:53 burden on businesses
2:20:55 finally our approach included the
2:20:56 assumption that we would only fund
2:20:58 businesses that did not receive a grant
2:21:00 previously
2:21:01 from the city of issaquah so we looked
2:21:06 these three options again grants to
2:21:08 existing unfunded applications
2:21:10 continue to offer up to ten thousand
2:21:12 dollars for all businesses and offer
2:21:14 different grants and
2:21:15 amounts for different types of
2:21:16 businesses i'll provide some more
2:21:17 details on the
2:21:19 on the next slides
2:21:24 one of the requests from the council's
2:21:26 uh study session was
2:21:28 the idea of uh to
2:21:31 take this funding and to find out how
2:21:33 many businesses we could fund
2:21:35 of those that applied in july as part of
2:21:38 the small business response grant and
2:21:40 also the reinvention grant so we we
2:21:42 crunched those numbers
2:21:44 and as you see here we could if we only
2:21:46 funded those businesses in a small
2:21:48 business response
2:21:49 pool we could fund about 24 businesses
2:21:52 at 10
2:21:52 a little over ten thousand dollars each
2:21:54 if we if we funded
2:21:56 all the businesses in both the programs
2:21:58 taking out the
2:21:59 the winterization program um we could
2:22:03 uh 53 businesses with just over forty
2:22:06 seven hundred dollars
2:22:08 as we discuss this option with visit i'm
2:22:10 sorry vision partners
2:22:12 um we're all in agreement the conditions
2:22:14 have changed uh pretty drastically since
2:22:16 july and new grant application helps us
2:22:18 to ensure
2:22:19 that we help those that need the help
2:22:21 now and
2:22:22 also collects information that would be
2:22:24 helpful to
2:22:26 to report on if for future funding is
2:22:29 reimbursed for this
2:22:32 when we looked at the grant amounts one
2:22:34 of the um one of the things we
2:22:36 we heard from some folks is that perhaps
2:22:38 providing lower grant amounts
2:22:40 would be able to allow us to fund more
2:22:43 businesses so
2:22:44 as we explored this we looked at our
2:22:45 different peer cities and what they
2:22:46 provided so
2:22:48 we saw that uh they did provide between
2:22:50 two thousand and twenty thousand dollars
2:22:52 so the amount that we provided was
2:22:54 pretty much in that range
2:22:55 um again as a reminder our previous
2:22:57 maximum grant requests were ten thousand
2:23:00 dollars for the business support
2:23:01 small business support and the
2:23:02 reinvention grants and five thousand
2:23:04 dollars for the winterization
2:23:06 that's a maximum grant request they
2:23:08 could always ask for less
2:23:11 but again most businesses are asking for
2:23:13 the full amount
2:23:14 we had discussions about the desire to
2:23:16 help more businesses and
2:23:18 um in turn we think that that's um
2:23:21 we agreed that offering uh more grants
2:23:25 to more lower amount to more businesses
2:23:28 made sense so that
2:23:29 brings us to our um what our
2:23:32 recommendation
2:23:34 one of the other um things we looked at
2:23:38 is whether or not to offer to home-based
2:23:40 businesses as we did in the first round
2:23:42 or just to brick-and-mortar businesses
2:23:45 some of our premier peer studies only
2:23:47 provided brick and mortars
2:23:49 um but we we do believe that um
2:23:52 recognize that all the businesses pipes
2:23:54 contribute to issaquah's vitality
2:23:56 the home-based businesses live in our
2:23:59 community shop and dine in our community
2:24:01 and pay taxes in our community
2:24:02 they may also employ employees as well
2:24:06 so the input from vision partners was
2:24:09 recognized that while both business
2:24:10 types are deserving
2:24:12 brick and mortar businesses have
2:24:13 commercial building overhead costs that
2:24:15 home-based businesses don't have
2:24:17 as well as other expenses and therefore
2:24:19 we should consider a higher grant amount
2:24:21 to brick-and-mortar businesses
2:24:29 we did look at um at uh
2:24:33 creating two tiers for brick and mortar
2:24:35 business size
2:24:37 related to their employee size again one
2:24:40 of the things that we heard from some
2:24:42 feedback from
2:24:43 multiple people in the last round was
2:24:44 that a one person business may have
2:24:46 received the same amount as a 20
2:24:48 employee business
2:24:50 we learned that some small businesses
2:24:51 that rent space within another business
2:24:53 may have received a 10 thousand grand
2:24:55 dollar grant
2:24:56 while that owner of that larger business
2:24:58 didn't did not receive anything
2:25:00 we do recognize that the grant to the
2:25:02 sub leasing did help them pay rent to
2:25:03 the business owner but it did
2:25:05 feel a little uneven the conversation
2:25:07 around this topic was robust with our
2:25:09 vision partners there was not consensus
2:25:11 on this part of the proposal because
2:25:12 it's easy to find the antidote that made
2:25:14 the proposal solution not make sense
2:25:17 overall there was consensus that
2:25:19 employee size for the most part related
2:25:21 proportionately to
2:25:22 overhead costs for instance a business
2:25:24 that had three employees
2:25:26 leased less space than a 20 input
2:25:28 employee business
2:25:29 payroll of course costs increases
2:25:31 employee size and that's impact to our
2:25:33 community
2:25:34 throughout the nation and here
2:25:36 regionally we have learned that smaller
2:25:38 businesses were less successful
2:25:39 to receive uh the full benefit of
2:25:43 uh what they're eligible for through the
2:25:45 first round of the federal
2:25:47 paycheck protection program and
2:25:50 um so we really um took that into
2:25:53 account as we
2:25:54 developed our recommendation so getting
2:25:57 to this brings us to the tonight's uh
2:25:59 recommendation from the administration
2:26:01 so we recommend three different business
2:26:03 categories
2:26:03 for moving forward with the business
2:26:05 grant one
2:26:07 for home-based businesses no matter what
2:26:09 the size of their employee account so
2:26:11 that maximum grant amount would be 2500
2:26:13 and we would provide approximately 10
2:26:16 business grants again if
2:26:18 people applied for less than 2500 we
2:26:20 would be able to provide more
2:26:21 business grants the next one would be
2:26:24 for a brick and mortar
2:26:25 for 10 employees or less that maximum
2:26:28 grant amount would be 5 000
2:26:30 the pool amount for this amount is
2:26:32 larger so we can help more smaller
2:26:34 businesses
2:26:35 so we'd be able to provide um at least
2:26:38 businesses uh a business grant and then
2:26:42 uh the brick and mortar uh businesses of
2:26:44 size of
2:26:45 11 to 25 we would offer up to 7 500
2:26:48 and we would have approximately 14
2:26:50 businesses for a total of 49 businesses
2:26:53 that we could fund through this
2:26:54 grant program our plans our next steps
2:26:57 are if approved tonight to open the
2:27:00 application period tomorrow
2:27:02 morning and accept applications through
2:27:04 march 8 at noon
2:27:06 and awards will be made by march 31st
2:27:11 um if that's the end of my presentation
2:27:16 thank you jen i'm going to keep an
2:27:20 eye on the chat to see if there are any
2:27:22 questions or
2:27:28 comments
2:27:34 okay we will start with deputy council
2:27:38 president ray
2:27:39 i just barely got in there
2:27:46 uh chris ray uh can we talk a little bit
2:27:49 about the timeline so
2:27:51 if we approve this tonight you will go
2:27:53 ahead and do the grand applications
2:27:56 um you know immediately um leave that
2:27:58 open for it looks like about two weeks
2:28:00 and then about a three week evaluation
2:28:02 period is that
2:28:03 the timing you're you're suggesting on
2:28:06 on this um yes and we we do think we
2:28:10 probably get
2:28:12 the information or the approval out
2:28:14 prior
2:28:15 uh the the uh little
2:28:18 caveat is we rely on other people to
2:28:20 provide us some of the databases so our
2:28:22 eligibility review
2:28:23 consists of um getting information from
2:28:26 the department of revenue
2:28:27 their business license database looking
2:28:29 up in the washington state secretary of
2:28:31 state
2:28:32 um database corporate database as well
2:28:34 as getting information from our finance
2:28:36 department
2:28:37 and then if something looks a little
2:28:39 askew we make calls to businesses make
2:28:42 sure that again
2:28:43 um the information is is is uh correct
2:28:46 sometimes
2:28:47 for instance in our first round somebody
2:28:48 if several businesses and i think it was
2:28:50 one of those they just kept going yes
2:28:52 uh are you you know are you are you
2:28:55 following all the rules or
2:28:57 do you have you have you followed all
2:28:58 the rules of washington state and they
2:28:59 wrote no
2:29:00 and it's like oh no i meant yes but they
2:29:02 were answering no along the lines of the
2:29:04 thing so we
2:29:04 so we want to make sure again we don't
2:29:06 disqualify anybody so
2:29:09 i i do believe that we can get out
2:29:10 before the 31st but that's the the
2:29:12 process we would
2:29:13 we would make we would uh make sure that
2:29:15 the word got out
2:29:17 we would inform all the businesses that
2:29:18 did not get funded in the last few
2:29:20 rounds
2:29:21 we would put it out through our business
2:29:23 e-news which has over 3 800
2:29:25 subscribers we would send a separate
2:29:28 email communication to our property
2:29:31 owners and managers we'd work with our
2:29:32 vision partners to get the word out
2:29:34 and of course have it out in all of our
2:29:35 social media and insider so
2:29:38 we think we can get the word out pretty
2:29:39 quickly and um the
2:29:41 simplified the application is a pretty
2:29:42 simple uh thing form
2:29:44 online to do and um you can get it
2:29:48 out money in hands pretty quickly so if
2:29:51 um didn't take action tonight what
2:29:53 impact would that have on
2:29:55 on awards could we move ahead with this
2:29:58 this process
2:30:01 and just make the words contingent on
2:30:03 cancel action
2:30:06 i you could do that uh that would put
2:30:10 some some you know businesses would do
2:30:11 the work and apply for it and when and
2:30:13 all the work would be done without the
2:30:15 the guarantee of being funded
2:30:18 we could do that and then what if any i
2:30:22 mean are we is this going to be a
2:30:23 lottery
2:30:24 system again is that is that the
2:30:26 thinking that
2:30:27 that we will award based on um
2:30:30 drawing
2:30:31 [Music]
2:30:33 yes i'm sorry i did not mention that um
2:30:35 we we do a random selection to ensure
2:30:38 equity um that every type of business
2:30:41 um no matter if they you know uh
2:30:44 if they are known to us or not has the
2:30:46 same chance to be selected for a
2:30:48 business grant
2:30:49 um it and so that has worked well our
2:30:52 pure cities have done
2:30:54 uh the same so it's something that we're
2:30:56 going to continue to do
2:30:58 and final question if we if someone has
2:31:00 received an earlier grant they
2:31:01 they would be eligible again for this
2:31:03 round of funding
2:31:05 we have suggested that they are not but
2:31:07 that can um change
2:31:08 okay that makes more sense to me so this
2:31:10 is this these are
2:31:11 from the pool of unfunded plus
2:31:15 people who didn't apply for the earlier
2:31:17 grant great thanks jen
2:31:28 mary you're muted
2:31:32 you couldn't hear that desk slap i've
2:31:34 been so good the last
2:31:36 like 10 days okay thank you deputy
2:31:39 council president
2:31:40 ray next question comes from council
2:31:42 member hall
2:31:44 thank you mayor paul this is council
2:31:45 member hall um i had a similar question
2:31:47 to the deputy council president about
2:31:50 um random selection process of awardees
2:31:54 and you answered part of my question
2:31:56 with what peer cities are up to
2:31:58 can you speak a little bit to what the
2:32:00 conversation was um
2:32:02 amongst the vision partners about that
2:32:06 specific
2:32:06 item or or was that exactly what the
2:32:10 conversation was that they wanted to
2:32:11 ensure equitable outcomes and
2:32:13 you know if we had any blind spots on
2:32:15 potential um
2:32:17 businesses that we don't know of that
2:32:18 they're still in the running
2:32:21 sure um i have to remind myself exactly
2:32:24 of the details i think there was some
2:32:26 desire
2:32:26 there is some desires spoken from some
2:32:28 of the partners that we
2:32:30 do uh have some criteria and review that
2:32:34 um i guess part of it again is we
2:32:38 we did help to select the first round of
2:32:40 the washington state business
2:32:42 awards um with a criteria list that was
2:32:45 partially provided and we
2:32:46 we created and it is really a challenge
2:32:49 to decide which businesses are more
2:32:51 deserving now unless we wanted to be
2:32:55 descriptive and decide we want to focus
2:32:57 on there was a comment earlier about
2:32:59 hospitality businesses
2:33:00 and restaurants um then that's a lot
2:33:02 easier but
2:33:04 to um everywhere you slice the the pie
2:33:08 there's an
2:33:08 opportunity to leave out businesses um
2:33:11 if you say
2:33:12 more employees are good because they're
2:33:13 providing more jobs and you leave out
2:33:15 really small businesses if you
2:33:17 um say that you you provide more
2:33:21 an opportunity or more points for um
2:33:24 again size of space or type of business
2:33:27 and other business types feel like they
2:33:29 don't get a fair shake so um it is a
2:33:32 really challenge
2:33:33 to um truly be able to
2:33:37 be subject objective um when you have a
2:33:40 community where you know a lot of the
2:33:41 businesses owners are known by those who
2:33:43 would be reviewing it so
2:33:45 we feel again to have an equitable
2:33:47 opportunity for everybody who applies
2:33:49 that's eligible
2:33:51 to get that grant that the random
2:33:53 selection is the fairest way
2:33:57 um jim we have a couple more questions
2:33:59 lined up but one of the reasons i wanted
2:34:02 to provide
2:34:03 some comments earlier on was because
2:34:05 there were some emails
2:34:06 questions today and email answers today
2:34:10 and because most of our council
2:34:12 has jobs and this is their hobby job
2:34:15 they may not have been able to read
2:34:18 those emails
2:34:19 and i wonder have you covered that in
2:34:21 your content yet
2:34:26 the um i did i believe i did to the
2:34:29 email communication with council member
2:34:31 hunt a president hunt
2:34:33 um and so if she shakes her head no that
2:34:35 maybe i didn't address
2:34:36 the comments i can she had some
2:34:39 questions regarding
2:34:40 um the uh classification of the
2:34:44 home-based businesses that includes like
2:34:46 one employee
2:34:48 and um also about the
2:34:51 um something that really really didn't
2:34:53 make sense it says one category for
2:34:54 business size makes
2:34:56 sense because employee accounts changed
2:34:58 oh and i did not address that sorry
2:35:00 so um one of the conversations with the
2:35:02 vision partners was that the recognition
2:35:04 that some businesses have laid off
2:35:06 either temporarily or permanently
2:35:09 employees and so if they were going to
2:35:12 um mark off they have between you know 1
2:35:16 and 10 or 11 and 25
2:35:18 businesses they may have had over 10
2:35:20 employees
2:35:21 and have a much bigger space rented at
2:35:23 least an overhead
2:35:24 but currently they may have less
2:35:26 employees and so we spoke
2:35:28 when we spoke to our peers at the city
2:35:30 of renton they had three tiers of
2:35:33 business size and we asked them how they
2:35:34 handled that and they helped us to
2:35:37 identify they used a ir irs
2:35:40 quarterly reporting form that that they
2:35:43 required the businesses to submit to
2:35:46 true numbers but they did allow them to
2:35:49 their highest number of employees in
2:35:51 2020 and so that's what we would do as
2:35:53 well so
2:35:54 if a restaurant for instance had 15
2:35:56 employees
2:35:57 they had to scale back because of all
2:35:59 the the reductions and now they have
2:36:01 nine employees
2:36:02 they would still if in 2020 they could
2:36:04 show that
2:36:05 form from the irs or another
2:36:07 documentation they would be able to
2:36:08 apply for that higher tier
2:36:11 because they'd still have those higher
2:36:12 over cost head
2:36:14 overhead costs and you know again plan
2:36:16 to bring those employees back once
2:36:18 things kind of get
2:36:19 back to normal there was um
2:36:22 an email interaction um from friday from
2:36:25 council member walsh about
2:36:27 just asking for information about uh
2:36:29 nonprofits and the difference between
2:36:31 c4s and c6s
2:36:33 and um and uh what other peer cities
2:36:36 have done and i've shared
2:36:38 that information i cannot say that i'm
2:36:40 an expert on that but shared some
2:36:42 information from the irs
2:36:44 definitions and um didn't get into that
2:36:47 in this case because that's not part of
2:36:48 our recommendation
2:36:51 okay thank you and i guess we had some
2:36:53 more questions and so if there are
2:36:54 council members who
2:36:56 didn't feel like the question they
2:36:57 answered by email got answered maybe
2:36:59 they can repeat it here today as well
2:37:01 so everybody has the same information
2:37:02 thank you for that jen
2:37:04 let's go to council member walsh and
2:37:06 then council member g michelle
2:37:07 thank you this is councilmember walsh so
2:37:10 one of the
2:37:11 um useful pieces of information that you
2:37:14 had shared over
2:37:15 email was kind of a history of
2:37:18 all of the ways that we've responded to
2:37:22 the covid pandemic as far as um
2:37:26 budget allocations and so i wondered if
2:37:30 you could talk about the
2:37:32 so you've shown on a previous slide one
2:37:35 of the things about
2:37:36 how much we have so far approved and
2:37:39 allocated for
2:37:40 business grants i'm wondering if you can
2:37:43 talk about
2:37:44 how much of that 1.3 million
2:37:49 has come from cares act
2:37:52 funding basically pass-through money
2:37:55 through us
2:37:55 which we're reimbursed for versus
2:37:59 the amount so far that we've allocated
2:38:02 which has come from our general fund
2:38:04 which basically means issaquah
2:38:06 taxpayers have paid for that um i'm
2:38:08 wondering if you can
2:38:09 talk through the difference in our past
2:38:12 allocations
2:38:15 sure um that's pretty easy uh 500 000
2:38:19 was general fund grants so the the
2:38:21 remainder
2:38:22 800 000 was passed through care grants
2:38:24 money now
2:38:25 most of that was through the state
2:38:27 pass-through
2:38:28 we did have fifty thousand dollars from
2:38:30 king county pass-through
2:38:32 grants and we actually utilized all of
2:38:33 that for the business reinvention grant
2:38:36 program
2:38:37 um along with um some other monies and
2:38:42 that the 500 000 was added in to provide
2:38:44 some additional funding
2:38:45 of 45 000 uh so that's why it's a total
2:38:48 of 95 000. so
2:38:50 again 500 000 from general funds the
2:38:52 remainder from pass-through grants
2:38:54 from cares act funding from the king
2:38:58 county
2:38:59 and the state jen can you clarify or
2:39:02 could you have administrator bob quits
2:39:03 clarify
2:39:04 if the feds do provide additional money
2:39:07 is the 500
2:39:09 dollars from the general fund eligible
2:39:10 for reimbursement
2:39:15 we did follow all of the when we did the
2:39:17 care the application
2:39:19 and the funding we did follow all the
2:39:21 same rules we did
2:39:22 for the cares act funding in
2:39:24 anticipation if we could get reimbursed
2:39:27 and we talked to uh council uh city
2:39:30 attorney jim haney
2:39:31 uh to see if there's anything else we
2:39:33 should do and also for this uh process
2:39:35 as well so again making sure that we
2:39:37 meet the
2:39:38 uh constitutional requirements to not
2:39:41 public funds etcetera so i don't know if
2:39:44 council
2:39:45 or city administrator bob kwich has any
2:39:47 other details about
2:39:49 future federal funding yes
2:39:52 members of the council as i think all of
2:39:55 you are aware
2:39:56 we've been following what's happening in
2:39:58 washington dc as closely as we can
2:40:00 i think the best information that we
2:40:02 have thus far
2:40:03 is from the united states conference of
2:40:05 mayors they provided information
2:40:08 which we passed along the council uh
2:40:10 dated
2:40:12 wednesday of last week when the u.s
2:40:15 house of representatives began its
2:40:17 discussion of actual language
2:40:19 uh so the the language that is currently
2:40:22 being discussed
2:40:23 as far as the use of funds but for the
2:40:25 additional dollars that would be
2:40:26 available
2:40:27 all are as follows the funds may be used
2:40:30 one respond to or mitigate the public
2:40:33 health emergency
2:40:34 with respect to coba 19 or its negative
2:40:37 economic impacts
2:40:38 two covered costs incurred as a result
2:40:40 of such emergency
2:40:42 three replace revenue that was lost or
2:40:44 later decreased
2:40:45 as determined by the city based on
2:40:46 revenue projections either january 27
2:40:49 2020 as a result of such emergency or
2:40:52 address the negative economic impacts of
2:40:54 such emergency
2:40:56 that's pretty broad language that's
2:40:58 broader certainly than the cares act
2:41:00 a language from last year so if that
2:41:03 language were to remain in the bill
2:41:06 and money is allocated to issaquah i
2:41:08 would think certainly anything
2:41:09 the city is looking at for allocation
2:41:13 and the one date that was there was a
2:41:15 january
2:41:16 2020 date uh i think that we would be
2:41:19 able to claim those dollars
2:41:23 i'm going to go back to council member
2:41:25 walsh to see if that fully answers your
2:41:27 question
2:41:28 oh i've got several more do you want to
2:41:31 cares or do you want to get all of your
2:41:33 that i have council members michelle and
2:41:34 hunts as well
2:41:36 um i want to continue on this funding
2:41:39 and then i'll section off the other
2:41:43 questions so it we've seen
2:41:47 historically then um of the 1.3 million
2:41:50 what we're looking at is half a million
2:41:53 that at this point because we don't know
2:41:57 federal funding could be in the future
2:42:00 and we don't know if it would
2:42:01 uh allocate to pass so right now we've
2:42:04 spent
2:42:05 half a million dollars from general fund
2:42:08 about
2:42:08 800 000 from cares funding
2:42:12 and we're looking at another 250
2:42:15 000 at this point because we don't have
2:42:18 any idea about federal
2:42:20 funding this 250 would come from
2:42:24 general fund is that correct that's
2:42:27 correct
2:42:28 and and i think that at this point we
2:42:30 would have to characterize that we have
2:42:32 some idea
2:42:32 that there is a language in the house
2:42:35 bill now
2:42:36 that actually goes down to the city
2:42:38 level
2:42:40 so we have a sense of what money we
2:42:42 would be receiving and that number
2:42:44 is a little north of seven million
2:42:46 dollars
2:42:47 so it's really it's not passed yet it's
2:42:51 not been approved but i think this is
2:42:53 the first time in
2:42:55 in maybe through the entire pandemic
2:42:57 that at least we have some
2:42:59 uh dollar amount attached to the city of
2:43:01 isquad and we have
2:43:02 some language on how it could be spent
2:43:06 okay um i will
2:43:10 save the other questions for a bit later
2:43:12 okay i'll come back to you
2:43:14 let's go to council member dean michelle
2:43:18 uh thank you this is councilmember d
2:43:20 michelle so
2:43:21 you touched on the question of the 501
2:43:25 c 4s and 501c6s
2:43:29 and and i'll also throw in the 501c3s
2:43:33 and i understand the difference between
2:43:35 each of those categories and for the
2:43:37 general public those are
2:43:38 all under the rubric of nonprofits
2:43:42 um so what i'd really like to know is
2:43:45 what was the discussion and why
2:43:48 haven't we opened up the grant
2:43:50 application to those
2:43:52 businesses that are under that category
2:43:55 uh can you give me a little insight into
2:43:57 what the thinking was there or is there
2:44:00 federal law that prohibits offering
2:44:02 grant applications
2:44:04 to that group i just like some more
2:44:07 insight into why they weren't included
2:44:10 that's great um we'll let council or
2:44:12 sorry city administrator bob
2:44:14 would take that and also wally if you
2:44:17 could talk about whether or not they
2:44:18 were covered and whether or not they can
2:44:20 be covered
2:44:20 those would be two good questions to
2:44:22 answer sure uh
2:44:25 they are currently not covered in the
2:44:26 administration's uh request i think if
2:44:28 council wishes to
2:44:30 consider uh covering them uh that that
2:44:33 certainly is possibility
2:44:34 um i think as we've shared information
2:44:36 with the council and i think many in the
2:44:38 community are aware
2:44:39 uh 501 c 3s c4s and c6s are
2:44:43 all are different kinds of non-profit
2:44:46 organizations
2:44:47 uh the c4 and c6 variety
2:44:50 uh tend to be uh business related uh
2:44:53 where the c3s are generally more general
2:44:56 charities as we've looked at the
2:44:58 numbers of these uh in this squad and
2:45:01 uh jen if you have the specific numbers
2:45:03 at your fingertips it's
2:45:04 several hundred c3s and i think
2:45:08 less than a dozen c4s and c6s so
2:45:12 there's a big difference there uh and i
2:45:14 think when you talk about business and
2:45:16 as mayor paulie has said in her
2:45:17 comments earlier this evening you know
2:45:19 we really want to focus on businesses
2:45:21 uh clearly there are a handful of
2:45:23 non-profits in this squad that would
2:45:25 consider business
2:45:26 uh that they operate uh you know have a
2:45:29 bricks and mortar
2:45:30 location uh they have employees uh
2:45:33 others
2:45:34 uh nonprofits uh are exactly that
2:45:37 usually a collection of volunteers
2:45:39 so i think certainly if the council
2:45:40 looks at this if you wish
2:45:42 to you know include those c4s and c6s
2:45:46 that have employees uh you know that may
2:45:49 a something that the council wishes to
2:45:51 consider i i think it was excluded
2:45:53 really for the sole purpose as mayor
2:45:55 paulie has indicated to really focus on
2:45:57 the needs of business
2:45:59 really nothing nothing more more
2:46:01 complicated than that but clearly
2:46:03 there are a handful of 501 c4s and 51c6s
2:46:08 in our community that operate as a small
2:46:10 business city minister about
2:46:12 so could you take it a little bit
2:46:13 further i think what i'm hearing is that
2:46:14 the council member would like to
2:46:16 understand in the next round of funding
2:46:18 you describe generally what would be
2:46:20 allowed is there a possibility to open
2:46:23 it up to
2:46:24 this new round of federal funding
2:46:27 you know again based on what we're
2:46:29 seeing uh was passed along last week for
2:46:31 the united states conference of mayors
2:46:33 uh it's a pretty broad definition of
2:46:35 what the
2:46:37 federal funding in this next round could
2:46:39 could be so if the council chose to do
2:46:42 um i think that you know the economic
2:46:44 i'll bring the language back up
2:46:46 uh here i think we would just have to
2:46:48 connect
2:46:49 um how uh that those particular
2:46:52 non-profits
2:46:53 you know again the point four was
2:46:55 address the negative impacts
2:46:57 of such an emergency so um you know we
2:47:00 uh uh the issaquah greater squad chamber
2:47:03 of commerce
2:47:04 uh certainly they are focused on
2:47:06 economic development economic needs we
2:47:08 have highlands council
2:47:09 also focuses on that so i think you know
2:47:12 organizations like that
2:47:14 are very clear as you get into other
2:47:16 kinds of
2:47:17 especially 501 c3s i don't know that
2:47:20 every 501 c
2:47:21 3 uh would uh you know deal with
2:47:23 negative economic impacts
2:47:25 uh under those definitions and can i ask
2:47:29 a follow-up
2:47:30 oh absolutely sorry mayor paul
2:47:33 sorry about that oh dear it's getting
2:47:35 later
2:47:36 um so uh if if we wanted to include it
2:47:40 include let's just say 501 c 3s um
2:47:44 i think that c6s and c4s are clearly
2:47:48 business related but if we wanted to go
2:47:50 to 501 c3s
2:47:51 could we attach requirements
2:47:55 to that group that match uh business
2:47:58 requirements in other words brick and
2:47:59 mortars
2:48:00 they have employees and perhaps some
2:48:03 language around
2:48:04 their contribution uh whether they have
2:48:07 one or not
2:48:08 uh to to the business environment
2:48:10 because some of them i think clearly do
2:48:13 contributions to the business
2:48:14 environment and i would agree that
2:48:16 others do not so
2:48:18 if we had that language would that be
2:48:20 could that be included as part of the
2:48:22 of a future grant application
2:48:26 and again council member democrat
2:48:28 members of the council it's really up to
2:48:30 the body how they'd like to do that uh
2:48:32 i'm clearly hearing from many members of
2:48:34 the council that we would like to try to
2:48:36 make sure that if there is federal
2:48:38 funding available that
2:48:40 you know these funds could be reimbursed
2:48:41 and covered and i i think just as we're
2:48:43 talking about it this evening
2:48:45 uh it's it's a harder needle to thread
2:48:47 on the c3s
2:48:49 and i think we would just if the council
2:48:50 wishes to do would just be very
2:48:52 prescriptive
2:48:53 as to the type of c3 would be eligible
2:48:58 all right thank you very much thank you
2:49:00 council member michelle
2:49:01 we'll be going to council president hunt
2:49:03 and then i hope she's ready because
2:49:05 we're going to go back to council member
2:49:06 walsh
2:49:09 thank you i have a question on the
2:49:11 federal stimulus
2:49:13 funding um and i think this is a
2:49:15 question for city administrator bob
2:49:16 quite
2:49:17 to the best of our current understanding
2:49:20 which i know it's still
2:49:22 evolving but to the best of our current
2:49:23 understanding what's the
2:49:25 timeline for when we expect to
2:49:29 know that the federal funding is
2:49:33 actually coming to issaquah and the
2:49:36 amount uh thank you council president
2:49:39 members of the council
2:49:41 uh i think it's our best uh
2:49:43 understanding
2:49:44 that uh this is going to be a focus of
2:49:46 the congress's work
2:49:47 in in the coming couple of weeks um the
2:49:50 united states senate has been busy with
2:49:52 other matters which have concluded uh so
2:49:54 their plate is now
2:49:55 clear and they are prepared to deal with
2:49:58 certainly uh in hearing president
2:50:00 biden's comments uh
2:50:02 over the last several days he's
2:50:03 indicated that this is his number one
2:50:06 priority
2:50:06 uh so my guess is that in the next two
2:50:09 or three weeks
2:50:10 uh these matters will be before the
2:50:12 congress and will be
2:50:13 we acted upon there's already been
2:50:15 groundwork laid
2:50:16 again the information we received from
2:50:18 the conference of mayors uh
2:50:20 was that it was the work was beginning
2:50:22 in the house on the specific language of
2:50:24 the bill
2:50:25 uh last friday um i i think the congress
2:50:28 is still
2:50:29 uh on a president's day recess so i'm
2:50:32 not sure how much
2:50:33 uh work continued the balance of this
2:50:35 week but certainly
2:50:36 as they come back for next next week so
2:50:38 i don't imagine this is something
2:50:40 that will linger more than a few weeks
2:50:46 thank you thank you um i'm actually just
2:50:49 in to be fair
2:50:50 i will go to council member mertz before
2:50:52 i go to council member walsh
2:50:55 thank you madam mayor this is
2:50:56 councilmember martz so
2:50:58 the this seems to be the uh a poster
2:51:01 child
2:51:01 for you can please some of the people
2:51:03 some of the time but have we
2:51:05 taken this particular
2:51:08 uh equation and gotten any feedback
2:51:13 in the from the community i mean
2:51:14 obviously any
2:51:16 particular person in any particular
2:51:18 situation would probably love to have
2:51:20 their particular
2:51:21 opportunity maximized but have we gotten
2:51:24 any feedback
2:51:25 on the permutation that we have in front
2:51:26 of us thank you
2:51:30 and madam mayor uh maybe jen can help
2:51:33 with this as well i know that we have
2:51:34 shared this with
2:51:36 other vision partners again that's a
2:51:38 group of the
2:51:39 uh economic development organizations
2:51:41 within
2:51:42 the city of squad the chamber downtown
2:51:44 issaquah eska highlands uh
2:51:46 gilman village association so they have
2:51:49 been through this
2:51:50 uh the economic vitality commission also
2:51:52 has had this information shared with
2:51:53 them via email
2:51:54 they have not had a meeting uh they have
2:51:56 one coming up and
2:51:57 what jen the next week 10 days
2:52:01 but it's also been shared with them and
2:52:02 i think the feedback we've gotten as
2:52:04 you've heard
2:52:05 this evening was uh pretty uniform
2:52:08 you know focus on bricks and mortar
2:52:10 focus on number of employees
2:52:12 uh you know the biggest criticism that
2:52:15 we received from the
2:52:16 first rounds of grants was that we did
2:52:19 not focus enough on that and so what you
2:52:21 see here tonight is really in response
2:52:23 to that feedback we've received um i
2:52:25 would just add one thing
2:52:27 uh city administrator bob quits the
2:52:30 items that you're seeing now
2:52:31 are items that were suggested by the is4
2:52:34 recovery task force which is
2:52:36 anywhere between 11 and 14 residents
2:52:38 from our community
2:52:40 not necessarily from the business
2:52:41 community although i know at least pavel
2:52:44 runs a daycare here
2:52:45 so um they were the group that got a
2:52:48 report out from each of the boards and
2:52:49 commissions about
2:52:50 potential covet activities and that's it
2:52:53 as far as public outreach beyond what
2:52:55 you would call
2:52:57 reaching out to the business community
2:52:58 itself so these are things that came out
2:53:00 of that
2:53:00 recovery task force thank you
2:53:05 and we're going back to council member
2:53:07 walsh
2:53:08 thank you uh one of my main questions
2:53:10 was the 501c4 and c6 so i'm glad that uh
2:53:13 councilmember d michelle had brought
2:53:15 that up and asked the question
2:53:17 um i'm wondering if you jen can
2:53:20 give us a sense of how our funding
2:53:24 compares to other cities in the region
2:53:27 i know obviously all of the city's got
2:53:30 some set of cares act funding
2:53:34 um but do we have any sense whether any
2:53:37 of the other cities
2:53:38 have gone beyond their cares act
2:53:41 reimbursed funding
2:53:42 into their general fund for business
2:53:44 grants
2:53:46 and council member walsh if it's
2:53:47 appropriate as well um
2:53:49 we have had some corporate help in
2:53:50 issaquah we've had twenty five thousand
2:53:52 dollars
2:53:53 as a corporate donation to one of our
2:53:54 non-profits which is
2:53:56 the kinds of things we don't keep tabs
2:53:58 on but i'm
2:53:59 not sure if jen is able to share or not
2:54:02 tonight but i know kirkland also set up
2:54:05 a foundation
2:54:06 that received grants and they were able
2:54:08 to do business grants that way as well
2:54:10 that might be something interesting for
2:54:11 us to understand
2:54:14 yeah from what i understand again as
2:54:19 mayor paulie mentioned so kirkland was
2:54:21 one of the early grants as well they
2:54:22 receive a large donation from google
2:54:25 and distribute that money other cities
2:54:28 have used community development block
2:54:29 grant funds
2:54:30 and so i know that everett and seattle
2:54:33 we uh don't have an allo
2:54:35 direct allocation so that wasn't an
2:54:36 option for us
2:54:38 seattle also utilized some general funds
2:54:41 i'm not sure if uh the other cities
2:54:45 added on to their uh karex funding
2:54:48 um a lot of again so kent renton
2:54:51 received much higher allocations and
2:54:53 they then distributed higher allocations
2:54:55 um and each city was varied according to
2:54:59 how much they distributed um uh for
2:55:02 instance some again some cities as you
2:55:03 probably know in the region spent more
2:55:05 of their karazhak dollars reimbursing
2:55:06 city costs versus other things so
2:55:09 um when we did uh did that first initial
2:55:12 general fund grant we made a few calls
2:55:15 around but hadn't got
2:55:16 a lot of response um i think most people
2:55:19 were kind of done with their grants and
2:55:20 moving on to the next thing
2:55:22 but for the most part the cares act
2:55:23 funding because we typically don't do
2:55:25 business grants at the kerry zac funding
2:55:27 provided that opportunity for the first
2:55:28 time in a while
2:55:33 thanks member walsh that's all thanks
2:55:37 i am looking over the um cat box
2:55:40 see if there um council president hunt
2:55:42 has a question
2:55:44 thank you um you had mentioned that
2:55:48 under the proposed plan the businesses
2:55:50 would not be
2:55:51 eligible if they had received city
2:55:53 funding but it's my understanding that
2:55:56 if they received state funding or if
2:55:58 they received pvp
2:55:59 funding that would they would still be
2:56:02 able to
2:56:03 get city funding is that correct
2:56:08 yes that is correct the one thing we
2:56:09 would require that they can't have
2:56:11 received
2:56:12 a ppp loan so that's a paycheck
2:56:15 protection program um or another grant
2:56:18 for eligible expenses so if they
2:56:20 provided us
2:56:21 with a receipt to say we want to pay we
2:56:24 want here's you know november
2:56:25 december's rent they can't have also
2:56:27 provided that receipt to
2:56:29 um sba for reimbursement so we
2:56:33 you know we have them sign the contracts
2:56:35 stating that we have them sign an
2:56:36 accounting agreement stating that and so
2:56:39 we're really clear about those eligible
2:56:41 expenses i think
2:56:42 we would we talked about the details
2:56:44 about focusing on the last quarter
2:56:47 and since since the last quarter for
2:56:48 those expenses that kind of does
2:56:50 remove the um the ability the ability
2:56:54 but the um overlap of expenses through
2:56:56 those those programs
2:56:58 the ppp program was mostly for payroll
2:57:00 so we think if we cover rent and some
2:57:02 other expenses we
2:57:03 are okay with that okay
2:57:07 thank you um and then i think there's
2:57:08 also state funding
2:57:10 is there any same is it the same sort of
2:57:13 the same thing
2:57:14 no double accounting yes no double
2:57:16 counting now if they received a loan so
2:57:18 the pp
2:57:19 you know it got converted into a grant
2:57:21 but if they receive a loan from their or
2:57:22 from the bank etc those were allowed you
2:57:26 know payments of loans were allowed
2:57:27 through the federal funding because
2:57:28 again they're not getting
2:57:29 it free they have to pay it back so they
2:57:32 would be able to
2:57:33 count that but again that's not a grant
2:57:35 they would have to pay that back so it's
2:57:37 not double counting
2:57:39 okay thank you
2:57:42 looking for additional questions or
2:57:45 comments any council members who have
2:57:46 not yet an opportunity to ask a question
2:57:48 have any questions so we have several
2:57:52 options now
2:57:53 as i mentioned in the process the
2:57:55 administration's
2:57:56 [Music]
2:57:58 motion is in the chat box there were
2:58:01 some other motions potentially being
2:58:03 complemented
2:58:05 wow okay it's 10 o'clock
2:58:08 contemplated as well and so i'm going to
2:58:11 go to council president hunt for a
2:58:13 motion
2:58:16 thank you um this is council president
2:58:18 hunt i am going to
2:58:19 move to postpone ab-8128
2:58:23 to march 15th 2021.
2:58:27 council member walsh this is
2:58:28 councilmember walsh second
2:58:30 so it's been moved and seconded and
2:58:32 council president would you like to
2:58:33 speak to your motion
2:58:35 thank you yes i would this is council
2:58:37 president hunt
2:58:38 my reason for making this motion is
2:58:42 quite straightforward i think i i have
2:58:46 reason to believe and the
2:58:47 city administrator just spoke to this
2:58:48 earlier that we will
2:58:50 have more information about the federal
2:58:52 stimulus funding that is available to
2:58:54 issaquah and concrete information on
2:58:56 within the next few weeks and that i
2:59:00 strongly believe and feel this way too
2:59:03 that the city has been very supportive
2:59:05 the business community and we've
2:59:07 allocated 1.3
2:59:08 million dollars and um
2:59:12 and as well as general fund
2:59:15 money for the business community so i
2:59:17 think we have demonstrated that we are
2:59:19 very committed to this
2:59:21 in this particular case we're about to
2:59:23 get information
2:59:24 that i think will help us make a better
2:59:26 decision and what
2:59:27 we can consider the funding that is
2:59:30 actually in hand and the timing is just
2:59:33 within the next couple weeks
2:59:35 so i'm proposing that we postpone the
2:59:37 authorization because
2:59:38 we will know how much funding is
2:59:40 actually available shortly and then we
2:59:42 can focus
2:59:43 this discussion tonight on the
2:59:45 eligibility issue
2:59:47 before us because i think if we clarify
2:59:49 who's eligible for funding
2:59:51 then the application process could start
2:59:54 and in that case
2:59:55 if we are even receiving applications i
2:59:57 really don't see why we wouldn't
2:59:59 um why we wouldn't make the best
3:00:01 decision possible with all the
3:00:02 information
3:00:03 possible which i believe we could do
3:00:05 within
3:00:06 the next couple of weeks and we could
3:00:07 have a study session discussion and
3:00:09 actually discuss the merits of the
3:00:12 allocations that are in the current
3:00:13 proposal and how they address the needs
3:00:16 that we've heard from the community and
3:00:17 have that full conversation
3:00:19 thank you thank you councilmember walsh
3:00:22 and then councilmember jim michelle
3:00:24 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
3:00:26 i'll echo much of what council president
3:00:28 hunt just said i
3:00:29 i think with federal funding
3:00:32 potentially um coming forward
3:00:35 it is really hard to
3:00:39 approve spending money
3:00:42 from our general fund without
3:00:46 knowing that that money is coming
3:00:48 through i think we have
3:00:50 absolutely supported our business
3:00:52 community
3:00:53 and i would love to continue to do so
3:00:57 i just also have to be aware of
3:01:01 our general fund in a year when revenues
3:01:04 have been down
3:01:05 when we need to be protective of our own
3:01:08 ability to
3:01:09 continue running the fort um i
3:01:12 am concerned about kind of putting the
3:01:15 cart before
3:01:16 the funding course um in that sense i
3:01:19 also think there are some
3:01:20 questions still remaining around the 501
3:01:23 c4 and c6s how we can make
3:01:25 those eligibilities happen and then
3:01:28 finally
3:01:29 from our study session when we talked
3:01:31 about some of these potential areas
3:01:34 one of the things that several council
3:01:36 members brought up
3:01:37 was the sense of wanting to support some
3:01:40 of the human
3:01:40 human services areas particularly rental
3:01:43 assistance and that didn't come forward
3:01:46 in this package
3:01:47 and if we're going to potentially
3:01:49 receive
3:01:50 a dollar amount from federal
3:01:54 i want to have a robust conversation
3:01:56 about how that should
3:01:58 be allocated out making sure that we're
3:02:00 supporting our city
3:02:02 um needs and backfilling some of the
3:02:04 expenses that we've had there in this
3:02:06 extraordinary year
3:02:08 and then also figuring out what our
3:02:11 kind of overall need is as a community
3:02:14 and how we can best support the
3:02:15 community
3:02:16 um in in just a focused effort
3:02:20 and so that's why i'm going to support
3:02:22 this uh
3:02:23 alternate motion thank you councilmember
3:02:26 walsh councilmember jimmy fallon
3:02:30 oh you got caught barb
3:02:36 oh a dollar for the jar okay
3:02:40 uh this is councilmember d michelle and
3:02:44 i am supporting of this motion
3:02:47 um i think this is a really good time
3:02:50 us to take a deep breath and step back
3:02:53 and see um how we really want to spend
3:02:58 um the funding i think circumstances
3:03:00 have changed since the last time we
3:03:02 talked about this um previously congress
3:03:05 was embroiled in an impeachment
3:03:07 um and uh they weren't focused on
3:03:11 the what i'm going to call the biden
3:03:13 package the the 1.9 trillion package
3:03:15 that's being proposed
3:03:17 but now they are done with the
3:03:18 impeachment and then moving forward and
3:03:20 from everything i'm reading they're
3:03:22 going to be moving very quickly on this
3:03:24 and i think hopefully it will be a very
3:03:27 short period of time
3:03:28 before we uh have some idea
3:03:31 uh about the exact amount or at least a
3:03:34 known amount that might be coming to the
3:03:36 city of issaquah
3:03:38 um i would very much like to see
3:03:41 the 501 c4s and 501c6s
3:03:44 uh included and i would like to just
3:03:47 remind everybody that we're
3:03:49 we're not guaranteeing that that 501c4s
3:03:52 or 6s would get
3:03:54 funding all we're doing is allowing them
3:03:57 to apply
3:03:57 for the available funds and 501c3 if we
3:04:02 can come up with some very clear
3:04:03 guidelines
3:04:05 around business around
3:04:09 rent needs around employees
3:04:12 but clearly there are 501 c 3s that
3:04:15 provide an economic benefit to
3:04:17 our city and i think they should be
3:04:19 included as well and they haven't
3:04:21 had the opportunity to apply for those
3:04:24 funds
3:04:25 so overall i think let's step back let's
3:04:28 let's take a deep breath let's
3:04:30 do a little bit of thinking about who
3:04:31 should be eligible and why
3:04:34 and um what kinds of funds will we have
3:04:37 and can we
3:04:39 create a more comprehensive and balanced
3:04:41 package
3:04:42 with the funding and if it turns out
3:04:45 congress doesn't move um we we can set
3:04:48 our timeline and
3:04:49 and move forward appropriately thank you
3:04:52 thank you councilmember michelle
3:04:54 councilmember goodman
3:04:56 uh thank you councilmember goodman here
3:04:59 so i'm not going to support this um
3:05:03 we have had businesses um
3:05:06 come to us um in the last couple of
3:05:09 months and we had businesses come to us
3:05:11 tonight
3:05:12 um asking us for help we heard
3:05:15 a representative from one of the
3:05:17 business associations
3:05:19 say businesses are frightened they're
3:05:21 frustrated
3:05:23 they're scared and that any money
3:05:26 any money at all is helping people keep
3:05:28 employed
3:05:30 i guess my own personal experiences that
3:05:34 my husband owns a business not in
3:05:36 issaquah so i don't have a stake in any
3:05:38 of this decision
3:05:40 that we whether we fund business more
3:05:42 business grants or not
3:05:44 but i can tell you that business owners
3:05:48 at least mine and i know many who feel
3:05:50 the same way
3:05:51 um feel a very strong moral um
3:05:54 responsibility
3:05:55 to keep people employed and to keep the
3:05:58 businesses open and to
3:06:00 not lay people up because you don't just
3:06:02 employ somebody
3:06:03 and you feel responsible for their whole
3:06:05 family the well-being of their family
3:06:07 so i um do not understand at all
3:06:11 why we would delay something for a month
3:06:13 when people are coming to us
3:06:16 literally begging us for help if we want
3:06:19 to consider
3:06:20 non-profits then we can direct the
3:06:23 administration to
3:06:24 bring back more information at a council
3:06:26 meeting within the
3:06:28 two weeks um i think that
3:06:32 the re i am i would be perfectly willing
3:06:35 to take the risk that we don't get
3:06:36 reimbursed
3:06:37 for an additional two hundred and fifty
3:06:39 thousand dollars
3:06:40 um i think it's a great investment to
3:06:43 make in our
3:06:44 uh our local economy um i think we have
3:06:47 emergency here it's a pandemic and i do
3:06:50 believe that um telling businesses that
3:06:53 we need to take a step back
3:06:56 and think about it
3:06:59 and wait for congress to do its thing i
3:07:02 don't think that that
3:07:03 is uh i just don't
3:07:06 think that that's the right thing to do
3:07:09 i think the
3:07:11 the most i would consider would be um
3:07:15 reconsideration in two weeks but um
3:07:19 not not a month so i'll be voting now
3:07:25 thank you council deputy council
3:07:27 president right thank you mr paulie this
3:07:29 is chris freya
3:07:30 um i have a couple of of thoughts on
3:07:34 particular motion um the first is i hear
3:07:36 a very
3:07:37 very real impressive lead from our
3:07:38 business community
3:07:40 um and clearly we heard uh during public
3:07:43 comment a number of our
3:07:44 local merchants um expressing not only
3:07:47 their appreciation for what we what we
3:07:49 have done
3:07:50 but also um a
3:07:54 need for additional assistance to help
3:07:56 them weather this storm
3:07:58 and i don't know if a month is the break
3:08:02 point where
3:08:02 it won't work but i did hear a certain
3:08:05 amount of urgency in there
3:08:07 in their requests so i think time is of
3:08:09 the essence on this
3:08:10 i don't believe this is something we can
3:08:14 take uh deferral take lightly um
3:08:17 i gotta tell you i don't share the city
3:08:19 administrator's optimism
3:08:20 on how well the congress will work in
3:08:23 washington d.c
3:08:25 i just think the mechanics of passing
3:08:27 legislation particularly a 1.9 trillion
3:08:30 dollar
3:08:30 piece of legislation is not something
3:08:32 that's going to happen um
3:08:34 easily and it's not something that's not
3:08:36 going to go back and forth so
3:08:37 um i i don't really honestly believe
3:08:40 that we will have the answer
3:08:42 um but if we have the belief that we're
3:08:45 going to get
3:08:46 the funding as in in the house bill is
3:08:48 written
3:08:49 then i say let's go ahead with the uh
3:08:52 the current grants because we're clearly
3:08:53 in line for reimbursement and we have no
3:08:55 risk to take and
3:08:56 we're going to be in a better space but
3:08:59 i don't know that
3:09:01 but i do know that we need to take care
3:09:04 of our businesses
3:09:05 we need them to be here and operational
3:09:07 when the pandemic is over
3:09:09 we need them to you know to be able to
3:09:12 sustain because that's our tax base
3:09:14 that's what makes
3:09:16 people come to issaquah that's what
3:09:17 drives our our tourism
3:09:19 that's what makes us not a bedroom
3:09:21 community which makes us a
3:09:23 a multi-use vibrant community that we so
3:09:26 desperately want we have to have those
3:09:28 businesses
3:09:29 and i don't want to see them um not be
3:09:32 able to survive this
3:09:33 and um and so i'm i'm weighing this as
3:09:37 time is of the essence if we think that
3:09:40 congress is going to get their act
3:09:41 together
3:09:42 and come through with the house plan
3:09:44 then i think we're golden
3:09:45 and i think we will get reimbursed for
3:09:47 all of this and and our
3:09:49 general fund will get uh reimbursed
3:09:52 um and if they don't um we won't know
3:09:56 any different
3:09:56 um you know i i just don't see the point
3:10:00 in delaying quite honestly i don't know
3:10:02 we will know it i don't believe we'll
3:10:03 know anymore and if we do what we'll
3:10:05 know is what we're assuming now so
3:10:07 um i don't i don't think it's in our
3:10:09 best best interest to defer on this one
3:10:13 deputy council president ray thank you
3:10:15 council member mark
3:10:17 thank you madam mayor this is
3:10:18 councilmember martz um
3:10:20 that's a tough one but i think i'm going
3:10:24 not support the motion that's in front
3:10:26 of us because i see
3:10:28 three sort of three scenarios three
3:10:31 possible scenarios going forward one is
3:10:32 we get nothing
3:10:34 uh two is we get something like the
3:10:36 amount of money we're talking about
3:10:38 and three is we get a bunch more money
3:10:40 um i don't think in any of those three
3:10:42 situations i wouldn't
3:10:43 want to spend 250 000 right now
3:10:47 shoring up our businesses so uh
3:10:50 i think we'll have the opportunity if
3:10:51 we're lucky enough to get option three
3:10:54 then that'll be a great problem to have
3:10:56 and we can go back
3:10:57 and see how else we want to support the
3:10:59 community
3:11:00 but i agree uh i feel i feel a little
3:11:04 touched
3:11:04 by councilmember ray's comments i agree
3:11:07 with him that
3:11:08 what makes us uh a real city and not
3:11:12 you know a bedroom community at the kind
3:11:14 of city that i was so excited to move
3:11:17 uh a long time ago seven eighteen
3:11:20 eighteen years 18 years ago uh you know
3:11:23 is having uh vibrant businesses as well
3:11:27 as all the amenities for residents and
3:11:29 so i think
3:11:30 now is the time uh to help out our
3:11:32 businesses and so i understand
3:11:35 the urge to measure once uh to measure
3:11:37 twice and cut once
3:11:38 but i think uh this is a situation that
3:11:41 calls for
3:11:42 uh perhaps cutting cutting is the wrong
3:11:44 analogy but
3:11:46 we can have our cake and eat it too i
3:11:48 think on this and
3:11:49 regardless either way whatever happens
3:11:51 in dc and i think councilmember
3:11:53 is also right to be very cautious you
3:11:55 know some
3:11:56 elected bodies are not as collaborative
3:11:58 as ours
3:12:00 um so i don't want to wait for dc thanks
3:12:04 thank you councilmember merits council
3:12:05 president if it's okay i'm going to go
3:12:07 to council member hall first he hasn't
3:12:08 spoken yet
3:12:09 thanks councilmember hall followed by
3:12:11 council president hunt
3:12:14 uh thanks mayor paulie this is
3:12:15 councilmember hall um i
3:12:18 hung back on making a comment because i
3:12:20 genuinely wanted to hear
3:12:21 um the argument for um the motion and
3:12:25 consider it genuinely
3:12:27 although i i'll be voting against the
3:12:30 motion tonight i just i'm
3:12:33 kind of struggling to see the rationale
3:12:35 and i think
3:12:36 councilmember goodman put it really
3:12:38 really well in her comments so i won't
3:12:43 i won't repeat everything but also to
3:12:46 say that i was thinking too that
3:12:50 i'm perfectly comfortable having this
3:12:53 hit to general fund if necessary
3:12:55 i was really um
3:13:01 touched isn't the word but moved by some
3:13:03 of the comments we heard
3:13:04 earlier today and wrote down some
3:13:07 um similar to that have been said
3:13:09 earlier and i just think that those are
3:13:11 compelling enough that um i'll be voting
3:13:13 against
3:13:14 this motion thanks
3:13:17 thank you councilmember i'm coming back
3:13:19 to council president hunt
3:13:20 and anybody else who would like to have
3:13:22 a second comment please enter it in the
3:13:24 chat box council president hunt thank
3:13:26 you this is council president hunt
3:13:28 i think um like i like i mentioned
3:13:32 the motion really was to give council
3:13:35 the best
3:13:37 opportunity to have a
3:13:40 decision with information that is i
3:13:42 believe is coming
3:13:43 shortly or we have reason to believe is
3:13:45 coming shortly to us
3:13:46 and i think we've made a lot of
3:13:48 decisions we've acted really
3:13:50 nimbly and quickly and in a lot of cases
3:13:52 that's been really
3:13:54 really important for
3:13:57 our response to the pandemic and in this
3:13:59 case the timing just
3:14:01 it seems like in this case we could have
3:14:03 more information
3:14:05 and also counsel when we discuss this
3:14:09 proposal last study session we did not
3:14:13 actually have the details of the
3:14:14 proposal
3:14:15 in front of us and we've also as mayor
3:14:17 paulie mentioned
3:14:18 we had a bunch of emails including
3:14:20 spreadsheets and information about how
3:14:23 was reimbursed and how much hasn't been
3:14:25 reimbursed and what our total
3:14:26 expense recovery is and how much has
3:14:29 gone to
3:14:30 cities which is about how much has gone
3:14:32 to businesses which is about half
3:14:34 actually and more than we've reimbursed
3:14:36 our city
3:14:38 expenses so so all of that information
3:14:41 is important i think it's important to
3:14:43 consider how much federal funding we're
3:14:45 getting
3:14:45 the timing to me seems like we could
3:14:47 make a better decision shortly and
3:14:49 that's why i made this
3:14:50 motion i i agree with all the statements
3:14:54 about the importance of the business
3:14:56 community
3:14:56 and part of why i mentioned in my
3:15:00 comments earlier too is um this is the
3:15:02 first time that council has discussed
3:15:04 this actual proposal and there's
3:15:06 eligibility concerns around
3:15:08 nonprofits and i think that that's a
3:15:10 good conversation for us to have
3:15:12 and then on top of that there's
3:15:14 questions about making sure that we're
3:15:15 targeting the most
3:15:16 need the businesses have the most need
3:15:18 and if we if this proposal
3:15:20 does that and i think if we had one
3:15:22 study session we could have
3:15:24 a better policy making and i think it's
3:15:26 also our fiscal responsibility to
3:15:28 consider that we're
3:15:30 about to get more information on the
3:15:32 fiscal impacts of recovery and there are
3:15:35 a lot of needs
3:15:36 and there's going to be a long recovery
3:15:38 process and to me
3:15:39 it seems like we could make we could
3:15:41 start making better decisions and having
3:15:43 those conversations
3:15:45 so that's why i made the motion i think
3:15:48 if we
3:15:48 discussed eligibility we could still
3:15:50 accept applications
3:15:52 and we could have that part of the
3:15:53 conversation this evening and then we
3:15:55 could consider
3:15:56 targeting the most need and also
3:15:58 targeting non-profits and those things
3:16:00 at a study session because i do think we
3:16:02 could have a better conversation with
3:16:04 tenant night um and i i frankly think we
3:16:08 could do that and we could still meet
3:16:09 the march
3:16:09 5th or march 31st allocation of the
3:16:12 funding
3:16:13 um so it wouldn't actually impact those
3:16:15 businesses as long as we
3:16:17 have the eligibility discussion this
3:16:19 evening
3:16:20 and i appreciate all the comments i
3:16:22 understand too and like i said i
3:16:23 completely support the business
3:16:24 community so i understand that i just
3:16:26 wanted to make the best possible
3:16:28 decision
3:16:30 i'm looking at the chat box i'm not
3:16:32 seeing any others so i will ask the city
3:16:35 clerk to call for a roll call vote and
3:16:38 the motion is to authorize uh no it's
3:16:42 okay could i get the alternate motion
3:16:46 thanks the motion on the table that's
3:16:48 been moved and seconded is to postpone
3:16:50 ab-8128 business assistant grants to the
3:16:53 march 15
3:16:54 2021 regular city council meeting
3:16:58 and city clerk can you do a roll call
3:17:00 vote yes thank you
3:17:02 starting with council member d michelle
3:17:05 hi councilmember goodman
3:17:09 nay council member hall
3:17:13 nay council president hunt
3:17:17 aye councilmember mars
3:17:23 deputy council president ray
3:17:27 and councilmember walsh aye
3:17:30 that is uh three in favor uh four
3:17:33 opposed
3:17:35 thank you city clerk uh three in favor
3:17:37 for opposed
3:17:38 emotions fails uh we
3:17:42 can consider
3:17:46 uh i okay it's gonna say we can consider
3:17:48 a different motion council member good
3:17:50 man would you like to make a motion
3:17:52 yes thank you i would move to authorize
3:17:55 the allocation of 250 000
3:17:58 for business grants as presented and
3:18:00 direct the finance director
3:18:01 to include 250 000 in a subsequent 2021
3:18:05 budget amendment
3:18:06 from the general fund uh deputy council
3:18:09 member ray
3:18:10 uh second the motion um there is some
3:18:13 other comment in the chat here as well
3:18:15 so i'll allow council member goodman to
3:18:17 speak to the motion
3:18:18 and then account for president hunt if
3:18:20 you'd like to make a comment
3:18:22 um i think i um i spoke earlier about
3:18:26 the same reasoning i have for not
3:18:28 supporting the delay it's the same
3:18:29 reason i have for supporting this
3:18:31 um council member ray also um
3:18:34 not also but not that i spoke eloquently
3:18:37 councilmember ray spoke very well to
3:18:39 this previously
3:18:40 um um the prior motion um
3:18:43 i just think we have an urgent need i i
3:18:46 feel for the businesses i really do and
3:18:48 i realize we have other needs this is
3:18:50 the one that's before us tonight
3:18:52 i don't think we have to have everything
3:18:53 before us in one work session
3:18:55 after all the decisions are made in
3:18:57 congress in order for us to make a
3:18:58 decision
3:18:59 um and i am happy to consider
3:19:03 bringing the question of nonprofits back
3:19:06 to us
3:19:07 at an upcoming council meeting but i
3:19:10 think this is the issue before us
3:19:12 and i wholeheartedly support it thank
3:19:16 thank you council president han i
3:19:18 noticed in the chat that you were also
3:19:19 considering making a motion but there is
3:19:21 a motion on the table would you like to
3:19:22 speak to it
3:19:26 um i i will actually be making an
3:19:29 amendment
3:19:30 so um i can make the amendment now or
3:19:33 if we would like to if you'd like to
3:19:35 entertain other comments on the main
3:19:36 motion
3:19:38 um i would take the temperature of the
3:19:40 body i'm assuming that if there's going
3:19:42 to be a proposed amendment they might
3:19:44 want to hear what it is
3:19:49 okay thank you i would move to
3:19:53 include
3:19:56 non-profits in the eligibility criteria
3:20:00 for the business fund grants if they
3:20:02 meet the same
3:20:04 criteria including being brick and
3:20:07 mortar and having
3:20:09 employees
3:20:12 thank you looking in the chat for a
3:20:15 second
3:20:24 council member to michelle
3:20:27 i'll second that motion uh council
3:20:30 member it's been moved in second
3:20:32 council president hunt would you like to
3:20:33 speak to that
3:20:36 yes this council president i think that
3:20:39 we have heard from several of these uh
3:20:42 nonprofits in the city that operate as
3:20:45 businesses they have the same sort of
3:20:46 expenses as businesses they have
3:20:48 employees
3:20:49 they have potentially brick and mortar
3:20:51 business in issaquah and i think that
3:20:54 they have the same sorts of needs as the
3:20:57 businesses
3:20:58 so i would like to include them in this
3:21:01 round
3:21:01 of funding for the same reason we would
3:21:04 be funding
3:21:05 businesses i think the the real issue is
3:21:07 just making sure that they
3:21:09 do meet the same criteria including
3:21:11 being having a brick and mortar
3:21:13 building in a squad and having employees
3:21:16 because
3:21:17 those are the groups that we're
3:21:18 targeting with this round
3:21:20 thank you and councilmember walsh has a
3:21:22 question thank you this is councilmember
3:21:25 walsh my question is are we
3:21:27 does this amendment include 501c3s or
3:21:31 just 501c4 and c6s
3:21:40 i am open to
3:21:43 um discussion on this i was considering
3:21:46 including 501c3s as long as they meet
3:21:49 the criteria because when i read the
3:21:50 information provided by jen i didn't
3:21:54 it seemed to me that you could have a
3:21:56 501c3 that also operates like a business
3:21:59 that is
3:21:59 in the city limits that has brick and
3:22:01 mortar and has employees so i didn't
3:22:03 see that differentiation the only the
3:22:05 only reason i saw was that there are so
3:22:07 many of them but i imagine there are not
3:22:09 very many of them that actually meet all
3:22:10 of those
3:22:11 criteria so i i was thinking of it as
3:22:13 being open to c3s
3:22:14 i also i think um if we had
3:22:18 more information we could make a better
3:22:21 decision on this but that's what i was
3:22:22 thinking
3:22:24 thank you council member hall
3:22:29 thank you this is councilmember hall
3:22:33 i guess first i'll just say i also think
3:22:36 that we ought to consider supports for
3:22:39 non-profits too i agree
3:22:42 my question is for the administration
3:22:44 though
3:22:45 because this particular agenda bill
3:22:48 was written specifically with businesses
3:22:50 in mind
3:22:51 had you considered non-profits including
3:22:55 501 c
3:22:56 4 3 and 6 which you must have because it
3:22:59 came up at the
3:23:00 council study session it came up via
3:23:02 email
3:23:04 would the amount have looked different
3:23:08 than it does right now to administrative
3:23:11 quiz uh the dollar amount yes the dollar
3:23:15 amount
3:23:16 no i i think we felt that 250 was the
3:23:19 right
3:23:19 dollar amount um as we as we talked
3:23:22 about this more broadly
3:23:24 again i think you've heard the
3:23:25 explanation as to why it was not
3:23:27 included in the administration's
3:23:28 original recommendation
3:23:32 slammer hall do you have does that
3:23:34 answer your question
3:23:36 [Music]
3:23:38 it does for now let me stew on that for
3:23:40 a minute
3:23:41 okay deputy council president ray
3:23:46 um i just don't know the uh the answer
3:23:48 this obviously
3:23:49 what's the tax stat i mean the tax
3:23:53 implications of not-for-profits who
3:23:55 operate here in town
3:23:56 i mean do they pay property tax do they
3:23:58 pay via no tax
3:23:59 i i know that they get exemptions from
3:24:02 things like
3:24:03 federal property tax but i don't know
3:24:04 about the other tax
3:24:07 bases and then also um
3:24:10 you know do they generate any sales tax
3:24:14 uh deputy council president members of
3:24:17 the council i'm going to ask jim haney
3:24:19 answer uh much of this um you know i did
3:24:23 a quick google search as we've been
3:24:24 talking about this the 501 c3s and
3:24:27 issaquah
3:24:28 and mostly what i got were churches and
3:24:31 uh you know i think that there are
3:24:33 churches that
3:24:34 uh would pay certain they certainly pay
3:24:36 sales tax
3:24:37 uh when they purchase things but i'll
3:24:40 ask mr haney
3:24:42 who's more familiar with washington
3:24:43 state law than i am
3:24:45 as far as the issue with property tax um
3:24:48 my guess is that they're all all exempt
3:24:50 from paying property taxes that correct
3:24:52 mr trainee
3:24:54 first of all let me say i'm not a tax
3:24:57 lawyer
3:24:58 i always say i'm the best kind of tax
3:25:00 lawyers because all my clients are
3:25:02 cities and none of them pay taxes so
3:25:05 um i do believe that some
3:25:09 non-profits are indeed uh exempt from
3:25:12 property taxes they would pay sales
3:25:14 taxes on transactions
3:25:16 uh as uh as the purchaser
3:25:19 uh and they would pay sales tax on that
3:25:23 um as far as b o tax
3:25:26 um i believe there is uh at least in the
3:25:30 city of issaquah's
3:25:32 and in the state business licensing
3:25:34 regulations
3:25:35 there are some exemptions for
3:25:36 non-profits with respect to that as well
3:25:41 but i'm not sure i would differentiate
3:25:43 between 501
3:25:44 c 3s fours and sixes i'm not that
3:25:48 sophisticated in terms of my
3:25:50 tax knowledge at this point
3:25:54 debbie counts president reyes i answer
3:25:55 your question enough
3:25:57 yeah i think so i'm good i'm good
3:26:01 councilmember goodman thank you
3:26:03 councilmember goodman here
3:26:05 um so i believe
3:26:09 correct me if i'm wrong that this is the
3:26:10 first time we've considered
3:26:13 um bringing the nonprofits in for the
3:26:15 business grants
3:26:16 is that right the first time we've had a
3:26:19 substantive conversation about it
3:26:23 can somebody answer um so
3:26:26 it's not included in the bill before you
3:26:29 and there is not background information
3:26:31 on the bill before you i think the
3:26:32 administration suggested would be that
3:26:34 it is a good
3:26:36 thing for a study session to talk about
3:26:38 and bring forward all the information
3:26:40 based the questions you're hearing now
3:26:41 what taxes do they pay what taxes don't
3:26:43 they pay what type of business
3:26:45 may it be or not and i think council
3:26:48 member d michelle made some very good
3:26:49 points about
3:26:50 c4s and c6 you may actually be able to
3:26:53 draw a nexus
3:26:54 right towards a economic benefit in town
3:26:56 but we don't have any of that
3:26:57 information for you this evening
3:27:00 yeah and i um and i said before that i
3:27:02 am um
3:27:04 absolutely open to considering it and i
3:27:07 would be happy to consider it very very
3:27:09 soon um
3:27:10 but i don't i'm not comfortable at 10 30
3:27:14 at night
3:27:15 trying to guess at what the questions
3:27:17 would be and what the answers
3:27:18 would be and so i
3:27:21 don't think i support adding them in at
3:27:25 this point
3:27:27 but it's for those reasons that's
3:27:28 because we haven't had a conversation
3:27:31 um about uh and had an opportunity to
3:27:34 ask and
3:27:34 um ask questions and have our questions
3:27:37 answered and have them
3:27:38 included in a presentation that has a
3:27:40 lot of information in it
3:27:41 but that is the only reason i know
3:27:43 there's other information
3:27:45 to consider too about you know that we
3:27:47 might want may want to consider for
3:27:49 criteria
3:27:50 um some of the nonprofits in town get
3:27:53 rent free or almost rent free buildings
3:27:56 from the city
3:27:57 um you know i don't know what
3:28:01 questions we want i mean i don't i
3:28:02 honestly don't know what questions we
3:28:04 want to want to ask
3:28:05 um but i i would like to consider it i
3:28:08 just don't think that this is the right
3:28:10 time but i'm happy to do it as soon as
3:28:12 possible
3:28:13 so if only for that reason would i vote
3:28:18 thank you um before i go back to council
3:28:20 president hunt i think we've gone
3:28:22 almost all the way around the wheelhouse
3:28:24 uh councilmember marts if you have a
3:28:26 question go ahead otherwise i'm going to
3:28:27 return to council
3:28:28 president hunt no um no thank you madam
3:28:32 mayor
3:28:33 um i'll i'll comment um
3:28:36 uh it's always tough trying to parse
3:28:40 something that's
3:28:41 new uh even if it's at seven o'clock
3:28:44 versus
3:28:44 ten o'clock um i have too many
3:28:48 questions about um the nature
3:28:51 of non-profits to want to include
3:28:54 non-profits tonight
3:28:56 uh i don't know how much
3:29:00 of the benefit of nonprofits
3:29:03 um it goes local if it's a non-profit
3:29:07 that's
3:29:07 a funding agency and they fund
3:29:11 statewide or nationally on specific
3:29:14 issues
3:29:15 um that's one of those businesses that
3:29:18 you know in the new economy could
3:29:20 potentially be located anywhere
3:29:22 um and the locating of nonprofits
3:29:26 um i just there's just a bunch of
3:29:28 questions that i have about
3:29:30 um nonprofits and i don't think i
3:29:32 understand
3:29:33 uh that audience as well as i do
3:29:36 the the for-profit businesses that we
3:29:38 have listed here so i'm gonna be a no
3:29:41 um just because i i don't know
3:29:44 who this would be going to thanks thank
3:29:47 you councilmember martz
3:29:48 um it looks like we have some council
3:29:50 members that would like to go around
3:29:51 again so let's start with council
3:29:53 president hunt followed by council
3:29:54 member g michelle
3:29:58 um thank you this is council member
3:30:00 hunts i uh
3:30:02 councilmember goodman had asked a
3:30:03 question about if this was the first
3:30:05 time we had this substantive
3:30:06 conversation on this and i
3:30:07 i would say we this is the first time we
3:30:10 as a council have had a substantive
3:30:11 conversation on
3:30:12 all of the all of the um proposal we
3:30:16 didn't actually see it at the last
3:30:18 meeting we did see it in advance as
3:30:19 opposed to this but i think we also did
3:30:21 ask questions
3:30:22 and we received comments from the
3:30:24 community about this non-profit issue
3:30:26 um so i i wanted to have more
3:30:30 conversation on all of it but
3:30:31 uh now i'm putting forward this because
3:30:34 i think
3:30:34 it's um something that
3:30:38 we are um that we
3:30:41 should consider with this package we've
3:30:44 had specific non-profits explain to us
3:30:47 that they have the same sort of expenses
3:30:49 and they do serve
3:30:50 people in the community the same way a
3:30:52 business that's located in the community
3:30:54 i guess i would also just say i don't
3:30:56 think we have anything
3:30:58 any requirements on the businesses if
3:31:00 they have a brick and mortar but they're
3:31:02 serving people primarily outside of our
3:31:05 community i don't think that we're
3:31:06 having any sort of requirement about
3:31:09 community benefit for the businesses
3:31:13 that are getting the application so i
3:31:15 i don't see that personally as an issue
3:31:18 i would have
3:31:19 liked a lot more information about
3:31:20 nonprofits but i'm still
3:31:22 going to make this motion i think
3:31:24 tonight because um
3:31:26 from what i understand there are
3:31:27 businesses that would meet these
3:31:28 criteria and i don't want them to
3:31:31 be shut out of another round of this
3:31:33 funding when we've already given 1.3
3:31:35 million and they've been shut out of the
3:31:36 city funding
3:31:37 up until this point thank you and
3:31:40 councilmember d michelle
3:31:45 thanks uh this is councilmember jimmy
3:31:46 shaw i just wanted to speak to the 501
3:31:49 c4s and 501c6s we were sent a list of
3:31:53 all of the ones that are in issaquah
3:31:56 and so you know we're basically talking
3:32:00 about the chamber of commerce
3:32:01 and the um thailand's
3:32:05 council council or the association
3:32:08 anyway
3:32:09 uh maybe not the council um
3:32:12 [Music]
3:32:13 these are uh is speaking especially to
3:32:16 the chamber
3:32:16 um there's definitely an economic engine
3:32:19 our city if we didn't have salmon days
3:32:23 um that brings in how many millions of
3:32:25 dollars every year to
3:32:27 all the prophets and non-profits in the
3:32:30 city of issaquah
3:32:32 same thing in the highlands they put on
3:32:34 highland stays they put on all kinds of
3:32:36 ways of bringing in tourists and
3:32:39 supporting
3:32:40 uh businesses and yet they're not
3:32:42 eligible for these grants and so
3:32:45 we have a very defined
3:32:48 of businesses that qualify for the 501
3:32:52 c 4 and 501 c 6. so
3:32:55 uh we have questions i'm hearing about
3:32:57 501 c
3:32:58 3s um i believe i hope i'm not speaking
3:33:02 incorrectly that
3:33:04 the downtown issaquah association is a
3:33:06 501c3
3:33:07 so the these designations some of them
3:33:11 very business oriented and i would agree
3:33:13 that others are not
3:33:15 um i don't know what i i'll offer a
3:33:18 friendly amendment
3:33:19 to the amendment that maybe we just
3:33:22 uh speak to the 501 c 4s and 501c6s in
3:33:26 this amendment
3:33:27 and consider 501c3s later
3:33:34 so a second for the uh does the um
3:33:38 motion maker agree the amendment maker
3:33:42 agree with friendly amendment
3:33:44 council prison hunt can i ask you a
3:33:46 question
3:33:48 uh clerk do we need to have a second
3:33:51 before we go into questions well it's a
3:33:54 question on whether i would
3:33:56 support the friendly amendment it's a
3:33:58 question that would help me
3:34:00 know if i was for the friendship yeah i
3:34:01 just want to make sure in parliamentary
3:34:03 process that
3:34:04 we have a motion in a second before we
3:34:06 have a question
3:34:07 so city clerk what would be the
3:34:09 appropriate process here
3:34:12 um well i i don't want to over
3:34:15 parliament
3:34:15 but um there is a question about a
3:34:18 friendly amendment
3:34:19 so i'm not certain what a
3:34:23 council member hunt's position is on
3:34:27 however you could proceed as a as
3:34:29 another amendment
3:34:30 um which would require a second in order
3:34:32 to be considered
3:34:34 uh okay so um
3:34:38 is there a second for uh let's consider
3:34:42 council member jim michelle's amendment
3:34:44 an amendment
3:34:45 and is there a second for the amendment
3:34:47 if we have a second we can discuss it
3:34:54 council president hunt um
3:34:58 i will second okay and i think um
3:35:01 based on barb's explanation sorry
3:35:03 councilman michelle's explanation
3:35:06 uh before she made the friendly
3:35:08 amendment there's probably enough
3:35:09 information we can just go right to
3:35:11 uh councilmember hunt's president's
3:35:13 question um can i do a point of order
3:35:15 sure um i don't think we can amend an
3:35:19 amendment don't we have to take action
3:35:20 on the amendment that's pending and then
3:35:22 come up with another amendment we're
3:35:25 going to go to
3:35:25 our parliamentarian deputy president
3:35:28 thanks for the question
3:35:29 tina hi thank you city clerk yeagers
3:35:32 speaking
3:35:33 um i believe that since you are defining
3:35:35 what the
3:35:36 the with non-profit status is that that
3:35:39 would be
3:35:40 um your second amendment but i will pose
3:35:44 our city attorney if he has um something
3:35:47 different for us to consider
3:35:50 my understanding is that there can be
3:35:51 one um
3:35:55 it can be one amendment of an amendment
3:35:58 um but there cannot be more than one so
3:36:01 as i understand it there has been a
3:36:03 motion to amend
3:36:05 the motion is to amend the amendment
3:36:08 that is in order
3:36:09 but there cannot be an additional motion
3:36:12 at this point
3:36:13 got it so deputy council president we're
3:36:16 going to proceed with the amendment to
3:36:18 the amendment
3:36:19 which has been moved and seconded and
3:36:21 council
3:36:22 president hunt i was going to go to your
3:36:24 commenter question
3:36:27 thank you um so i seconded
3:36:30 for the conversation so i could get an
3:36:32 answer to my question and my question
3:36:34 is i i
3:36:37 read the information that was provided
3:36:39 about the difference between c3 and c6
3:36:41 it seemed to me like yes it's a tax
3:36:44 designation but we could still have
3:36:46 a smaller subset of those c3s that meet
3:36:50 the criteria that
3:36:51 have employees that serve that has a
3:36:54 brick and mortar
3:36:55 operation in issaquah so i guess i would
3:36:58 like more information my question is
3:37:01 what are the practical differences and
3:37:04 could we have businesses or
3:37:07 non-profits that are operating like
3:37:09 businesses that are under the c3
3:37:10 designation
3:37:14 is that a question for the
3:37:15 administration
3:37:18 yeah i'm not sure we would have an
3:37:20 answer for you tonight on that
3:37:23 um okay i guess it's a question if if
3:37:26 the city attorney or if
3:37:28 anyone in the city administration would
3:37:29 have an answer
3:37:34 uh mr haney shaking said no and i'll see
3:37:37 city administrator bob quits turn on his
3:37:39 camera and
3:37:41 let us know if he has any information on
3:37:43 that um
3:37:45 council president members of the council
3:37:49 ms davis hayes was able to compile a
3:37:51 list of c3s from an irs
3:37:53 database as we've been talking um you
3:37:56 know we could go through that list and
3:37:58 try to
3:37:58 fare it out just based on the name of
3:38:01 the of the organization i mean
3:38:03 that would be an exercise
3:38:06 that would take a little time but we
3:38:08 could do it um i
3:38:10 i think if i could be so bold madam
3:38:12 mayor um i think that the
3:38:14 c4 c6 is a safer route uh to go i think
3:38:17 it's more straightforward it's more in
3:38:19 line with what
3:38:20 um the funding requirements from the
3:38:23 congress we've talked about earlier
3:38:27 that might be a little bit more
3:38:28 straightforward and if the council
3:38:29 wanted us to come back at a future
3:38:30 meeting
3:38:31 and talk about c3s we could do a greater
3:38:34 analysis and a future
3:38:37 so i'm hearing a couple of options here
3:38:39 and i'm just going to try and throw them
3:38:40 out on the table and see where we want
3:38:42 to go
3:38:43 um it doesn't sound like we have the
3:38:45 answer to council presidents hunt's
3:38:47 question
3:38:48 this off this is this afternoon oh my
3:38:50 god tell me it's not this afternoon
3:38:52 um this evening but there is an
3:38:54 amendment to the amendment that's been
3:38:56 seconded and can be voted on
3:38:58 and the council has the option to vote
3:39:00 on that amendment which would include
3:39:02 um c5s and c6s the council has the
3:39:06 option to vote that down as well and
3:39:08 proceed back to the original
3:39:10 amendment uh which adds
3:39:14 non-profits to the original motion from
3:39:16 the administration and i believe that's
3:39:18 where we stand
3:39:19 is everybody clear on what they will be
3:39:21 voting on on the amendment to the
3:39:23 amendment
3:39:24 uh council president hun thank you um i
3:39:28 have a procedural question so i
3:39:30 i believe that this was a friendly
3:39:31 amendment so i think the other option
3:39:33 and um no no we can't i can't just
3:39:36 amend i can't just no it's been seconded
3:39:40 and um yes thank you on it okay
3:39:44 cancel my remarks before we go to the
3:39:45 vote it sounds like you might have a
3:39:46 question
3:39:47 i do have a question at a mayor this is
3:39:49 councilmember martz
3:39:50 um you said c5s and c6s did you mean c4s
3:39:54 and c6s
3:39:56 c4s and c7 c4s and c6s all right thank
3:40:01 is there any other discussion or
3:40:02 questions on the amendment to the
3:40:05 amendment before i get the city clerk to
3:40:08 a roll call vote
3:40:15 all right um tina could you do
3:40:18 a roll call vote for us oh nope sorry
3:40:20 hands are raven i missed it
3:40:22 uh councilmember goodman so the thank
3:40:24 you councilmember goodman here
3:40:26 so they don't say excuse me but it does
3:40:28 say quizziton and not questions so maybe
3:40:30 that's why i was confused
3:40:32 really yeah yeah you'll you'll get paid
3:40:35 back tomorrow
3:40:36 um so
3:40:41 the information we had today so that
3:40:44 so the are we really
3:40:48 so we only have two
3:40:51 c4s and c6s in the entire city
3:40:58 um to the ministry of baptists
3:41:01 yeah this is part of the information
3:41:02 that was that came around today that
3:41:06 was not posted as part of our meeting
3:41:10 so tell me what the c4s and c6s are
3:41:14 um and i'll ask for jen's help or
3:41:16 andrea's help too
3:41:18 i don't have the email in front of me i
3:41:20 think we've been talking about
3:41:21 two uh of those organizations that we
3:41:25 uh are have bricks and mortar and have
3:41:27 employees and that is the highlands
3:41:29 council
3:41:30 and the greater squat chamber of
3:41:31 commerce uh we do have
3:41:33 the the full list of jen i don't know if
3:41:36 you have it in front of you or andrea i
3:41:38 will i do not and i can try to pull it
3:41:40 up um
3:41:42 but that is not that's not the complete
3:41:45 yes this is jen davis hayes so we we
3:41:47 have again this is from the irs database
3:41:50 we have uh there are 10 i'm sorry there
3:41:53 are 10
3:41:53 c4s and 2 c6's registered in issaquah
3:41:56 and actually we did not
3:41:58 do an analysis if they have the issaquah
3:42:00 address but they're outside of
3:42:02 the city limits etc but that's again
3:42:04 from a
3:42:05 irs database when we pull um non-profits
3:42:08 and looked at those two categories and
3:42:11 there's 216
3:42:12 c 3s that are registered and
3:42:15 jen do you have the the actual list in
3:42:18 front of you could you just run through
3:42:19 quickly
3:42:20 the fours and sixes
3:42:25 if i can get back to my mute yes so the
3:42:27 uh 10 c4s
3:42:29 are the evergreen golden retriever club
3:42:32 pacific technology alliance the
3:42:35 highlands council
3:42:37 washington continuing care residents
3:42:39 association
3:42:41 air vote washington miramont community
3:42:45 association
3:42:46 volunteers for isquas schools issaquah
3:42:50 sportsmen's club east king
3:42:53 school retirees association unit a16
3:42:57 and kiwanis international the
3:43:00 c2 i'm sorry c6 is there are two of
3:43:03 those
3:43:04 northwest wireless association and the
3:43:07 greater issaquah chamber of commerce
3:43:12 so i just um i'm going to make a comment
3:43:15 here before we go to questions
3:43:17 um just a matter of process and
3:43:19 procedure
3:43:20 i'm just going to throw this out on the
3:43:22 table
3:43:24 there is definitely an interest it seems
3:43:27 some council members or a majority of
3:43:29 council members
3:43:30 getting more information having some
3:43:32 careful consideration
3:43:34 of this it is 10 44 at night
3:43:37 and we're reading off lists of names and
3:43:39 trying to figure out who they are
3:43:41 and where they are i'm not sure
3:43:44 if this is where i thought we were going
3:43:45 to end up tonight or not and so
3:43:48 it would be helpful to me if this is
3:43:50 what council
3:43:51 desires to do to proceed with the
3:43:54 consideration of the names that were
3:43:56 just read and the amendments that we
3:43:59 give me a thumbs up and we'll keep going
3:44:01 with this um
3:44:03 but there may be another way to do this
3:44:04 as well with a work session
3:44:07 and a vote in two weeks and whatever
3:44:10 so just give me a thumbs up that this is
3:44:12 going the way you want
3:44:14 and we'll consider with the questions
3:44:16 consider continue with the questions and
3:44:18 comments
3:44:19 and get the clerk to do the vote
3:44:22 um well that was my
3:44:25 question and so then i
3:44:28 have a comment um after i guess i can
3:44:32 have a comment i'll
3:44:33 after all the questions thanks a
3:44:36 question from councilmember walsh
3:44:39 thank you this is councilmember walsh
3:44:40 mayor paulie i'm sorry i did not
3:44:43 grok understand at 10 30 at night what
3:44:46 you are suggesting are you suggesting
3:44:48 that we bring this entire bill
3:44:51 back in two weeks and
3:44:55 have this fuller conversation about
3:44:59 non-profits status and the inclusion
3:45:02 within or are you only suggesting that
3:45:05 we break off the conversation on the
3:45:07 non-profit and still vote tonight on the
3:45:11 business grant funding thank you sorry
3:45:14 that was not clear
3:45:15 where i think it has wandered this
3:45:18 evening
3:45:19 is that as you are asking questions
3:45:21 staff is searching databases rapidly and
3:45:24 trying to find you lists of things
3:45:27 it is really about the non-profit
3:45:31 uh conversation and how much information
3:45:34 you would like to have
3:45:36 and what else you would like to know
3:45:38 about the businesses and how it fits
3:45:40 into the program and whether or not
3:45:42 if if you're feeling comfortable having
3:45:44 the staff search as we go
3:45:46 and that's providing you enough
3:45:48 information tonight that you're ready to
3:45:50 then we should continue with the vote on
3:45:52 the amendment to the amendment
3:45:54 and the amendment and the main motion so
3:45:57 i was not suggesting
3:45:59 putting everything off just the part
3:46:01 where they're actually doing research
3:46:02 tonight
3:46:03 while they're sitting here and listening
3:46:06 process question from deputy council
3:46:08 president ray
3:46:09 and thanks mayor polly chris ray i don't
3:46:11 know that we can do that we've got
3:46:13 uh two or three emotions kind of that
3:46:16 are on the floor that need to be
3:46:17 dispatched
3:46:18 i don't know how we can move forward
3:46:20 without dispatching these motions
3:46:23 let's rock on okay rocking on uh
3:46:26 councilmember goodman with a comment
3:46:28 uh thank you i am um for the same reason
3:46:32 as before
3:46:33 not going to support the amendment to
3:46:35 the amendment others
3:46:37 i just have the same comments um too
3:46:40 many questions i don't think it's
3:46:41 appropriate that we're reading down
3:46:43 lists of the names of my just
3:46:46 my my concern has nothing to do with the
3:46:49 names of them it has to do with the fact
3:46:51 that we
3:46:52 haven't had a conversation about it
3:46:54 again i'm willing to have it very very
3:46:56 after we gather some more information
3:46:58 and have our
3:46:59 questions answered but has nothing to do
3:47:03 who they are um of course i
3:47:06 know who they are and of course i
3:47:09 care about them but i think we have to
3:47:12 have a
3:47:14 conversation and have our i mean i just
3:47:16 don't think that this is a good
3:47:18 i don't think this is a good way to make
3:47:20 policy
3:47:21 by just kind of trying to pull answers
3:47:23 but that's the only reason i'm happy to
3:47:25 direct the administration and come back
3:47:27 super super super soon thank you
3:47:32 looking for additional comments or
3:47:33 questions or we'll call for the vote on
3:47:35 the amendment to the amendment
3:47:37 i'll give it a second
3:47:43 okay city clerk can you read the
3:47:46 amendment to the amendment thank you
3:47:51 uh the amendment to the amendment is
3:47:53 that nonprofits be defined as 501c4s or
3:47:58 501c6s
3:48:00 thank you so it's been moved and
3:48:01 seconded to
3:48:03 modify the amendment with the language
3:48:06 that the city clerk just read
3:48:07 and i'll get the city clerk to do a roll
3:48:09 call vote
3:48:11 thank you on this one we'll be starting
3:48:13 with california
3:48:14 hang on one sec i have a question
3:48:17 council member government you have a
3:48:18 question
3:48:20 um i was just
3:48:24 confused about what we were gonna vote
3:48:25 on okay let's
3:48:27 let's restate it because i i don't i
3:48:29 don't want i don't want anybody to be
3:48:31 confused
3:48:32 um there is a main motion on the table
3:48:34 there is a motion to
3:48:36 amend that motion and there is a
3:48:40 second amendment to clarify the language
3:48:43 in the amendment and that was made by
3:48:45 council member jim michelle
3:48:47 and the clarification that council
3:48:48 member d michelle added to the original
3:48:50 amendment
3:48:51 is that the only non-profits that would
3:48:53 be included in this round of funding
3:48:55 would be the two that the city clerk
3:48:57 mentioned because i know if i
3:48:59 guess i'll say it wrong uh city clerk is
3:49:02 that a clarification of where we are and
3:49:04 what this vote would mean
3:49:06 yes just looking around to make sure
3:49:10 everybody's eyes are like yep
3:49:14 so if the the
3:49:19 the amendment to the amendment passes
3:49:21 what would that
3:49:22 motion what would the amendment say
3:49:26 i would re-read the amendment that was
3:49:28 proposed by council president hunt with
3:49:31 the new amended language and have you
3:49:33 vote on that
3:49:36 so an option is to vote to include that
3:49:39 language
3:49:40 and that does not preclude you from
3:49:42 voting yay or nay
3:49:44 on the original amendment proposed by
3:49:46 council president
3:49:47 right it's just not it's not in the chat
3:49:49 box i'm just looking for it oh
3:49:51 sorry tina could you um put in the
3:49:54 amendment
3:49:54 the second amendment and i think tina
3:49:57 asked me to type it in so i'm going to
3:49:59 type it in
3:50:00 oh thank you and what i have
3:50:04 yeah while we're waiting for that is uh
3:50:07 the amendment says to include
3:50:09 non-profits as eligible
3:50:11 with same criteria okay
3:50:14 but i think uh council council president
3:50:17 hunt may have
3:50:18 um more
3:50:22 specific wording for clarity let's
3:50:25 get the original amendment in and then
3:50:28 city clerk
3:50:28 could you enter the amendment to the
3:50:32 amendment
3:50:34 so if both of them were to pass it would
3:50:37 be to include
3:50:38 c3s c4s and c6s um
3:50:41 okay i got it now okay and uh
3:50:48 yeah for all the reasons i said before
3:50:49 i'm just going to vote no so okay
3:50:51 so we'll be taking them one at a time
3:50:53 and one is just to clarify the language
3:50:55 of the amendment
3:50:56 so the first vote is whether or not to
3:50:58 add or clarify
3:50:59 the amendment with the words non-profits
3:51:02 defined as 501c4s or 501c6s
3:51:06 that is what you're voting on you are
3:51:08 not voting on the amendment itself you
3:51:10 are just voting on whether or not the
3:51:11 language of the amendment should be
3:51:13 changed
3:51:15 clear i see a lot of nodding heads
3:51:18 okay uh city clerk if you could do the
3:51:20 world call vote all right
3:51:21 we are going to start with council
3:51:22 member goodman nay
3:51:26 councilmember hall hi
3:51:31 council president hunt aye
3:51:35 council member march
3:51:39 deputy council president ray hi
3:51:44 member walsh aye
3:51:47 council member d michelle hi
3:51:52 that is five um in favor and two opposed
3:51:56 thank you so the amendment to the
3:51:58 amendment carries and we're now going to
3:52:00 go to the amendment
3:52:02 and uh tina i wonder if you could put
3:52:04 that in the chat box for me with the
3:52:06 amended wording
3:52:25 thank you and tina i just want to
3:52:28 clarify
3:52:29 um now that we are now voting on the
3:52:32 amendment
3:52:32 do i or should i offer an opportunity to
3:52:36 speak
3:52:36 to the amended amendment to the council
3:52:39 i see a couple nods they'd like
3:52:41 to it appears that they wish to
3:52:44 have continued conversation thank you so
3:52:46 they wish so
3:52:47 um please put your name in the chat box
3:52:49 and i'll call on you for a comment or
3:52:52 question
3:52:54 let's go to deputy council president ray
3:52:57 uh thank you mayor paulie um i think
3:53:01 this uh you know the the looping back on
3:53:04 this amendment as amended um
3:53:09 every dollar that we would give to a 40c
3:53:12 4 or a 4 401 c
3:53:15 6 is a dollar that not we're not going
3:53:18 to be giving
3:53:18 to one of our our businesses that that
3:53:22 have expressed in need and what i find
3:53:23 very interesting and ironic is we
3:53:26 actually had
3:53:27 a couple of our um not-for-profits our
3:53:31 uh or 501c6s
3:53:35 um today during public comment talking
3:53:38 about
3:53:38 how they wanted us to move forward on
3:53:40 this agenda bill they didn't say
3:53:42 move forward on this agenda bill and you
3:53:44 know include us too
3:53:46 um this is a question of where the
3:53:47 greatest need is and
3:53:49 um and i you know looking at the list of
3:53:52 501cs that we just went through um
3:53:56 i'm just not seeing that level of need
3:54:01 i just don't want to take a dollar away
3:54:06 our businesses that are definitely
3:54:08 expressed significantly
3:54:10 thanks thank you deputy council
3:54:13 president ray
3:54:14 uh going to council member hall
3:54:21 uh thank you mayor paulie this is
3:54:22 councilmember zach hall um
3:54:25 i was happy to support narrowing the
3:54:28 scope of this amendment but i'll be
3:54:30 opposing this underlying amendment
3:54:33 um there is absolutely no arguing that
3:54:36 501c four and six organizations need our
3:54:40 support
3:54:41 um but i would prefer that we pass
3:54:44 this agenda bill as is as it was
3:54:46 proposed
3:54:47 and then revisit the issue um very soon
3:54:51 on supporting our 501c4 and sixes
3:54:54 thank you thank you councilmember hall
3:54:57 councilmember d michelle
3:55:01 uh thank you this is councilmember d
3:55:03 michelle just a reminder
3:55:04 that uh we're we're not
3:55:07 what we're doing is we're giving these
3:55:10 um organizations the ability to apply
3:55:14 um they may not if they do not meet the
3:55:17 criteria that we've established
3:55:20 they won't be included in the lottery if
3:55:23 they're included in the lottery they
3:55:24 might not be chosen
3:55:26 all we're doing is opening it up for
3:55:28 applications
3:55:30 um we did receive an email that i recall
3:55:33 from the highlands council asking us to
3:55:35 consider
3:55:36 501c4s and 501c6s
3:55:39 uh in conversations with uh
3:55:42 representatives from the chamber i know
3:55:44 that they have
3:55:45 lost a huge amount of revenue this past
3:55:48 um and of course they had to mostly
3:55:51 cancel
3:55:52 seven days uh i believe that the
3:55:54 highlands council is in the same
3:55:55 position
3:55:56 a lot of their revenue streams have
3:55:58 stopped um
3:55:59 they still have employees they've all
3:56:02 had to trim
3:56:03 staff just like every other business and
3:56:05 they support our business community
3:56:06 so i think that
3:56:10 it's really appropriate for us to
3:56:12 include them and give them the
3:56:13 opportunity that's all we're doing
3:56:15 is giving them the opportunity it it
3:56:18 doesn't mean that they're guaranteed to
3:56:19 receive
3:56:20 anything thank you thank you
3:56:22 councilmember d michelle uh council
3:56:24 president hunt
3:56:28 thank you this is council president hunt
3:56:30 i was going to
3:56:31 make a similar comment to council member
3:56:33 d michelle in response to
3:56:35 council deputy president ray because uh
3:56:38 we did receive
3:56:39 information from we did receive comments
3:56:42 by email as well as in communication um
3:56:47 that that there are non-profits that
3:56:49 specifically did request and explains
3:56:51 their
3:56:52 their business expenses just like any
3:56:54 other business including employees and
3:56:56 and operating a facility like a business
3:56:58 would and also that they serve
3:57:00 local people so i um i disagree that we
3:57:03 haven't heard from them
3:57:05 and i also i think that they
3:57:08 have in my opinion made the case that
3:57:12 have the same sort of expenses and they
3:57:13 also provide the same sort of community
3:57:15 benefit and there aren't very many of
3:57:16 them now that we've narrowed down
3:57:18 the criteria um even further than
3:57:22 c fours and c sixes of which we don't
3:57:24 even have that many to begin with so i
3:57:26 think you know
3:57:27 we already have built-in criteria into
3:57:30 that it has to be
3:57:31 coveted related expenses they can't have
3:57:33 received um
3:57:35 other funding to cover those expenses so
3:57:38 there's a bunch of
3:57:39 there's a bunch of criteria in there i
3:57:41 think that
3:57:42 they have the same sort of expenses as
3:57:44 businesses so i
3:57:46 will be supporting it and that's why i
3:57:47 put it forward um i also
3:57:49 i think we aren't making the best
3:57:51 possible decisions and i
3:57:53 i hope that we can because we're
3:57:56 authorizing funding so we have to have
3:57:57 this conversation now i
3:57:59 think we can have a discussion about
3:58:00 future funding later but
3:58:02 while we're authorizing this funding we
3:58:03 have to i think fully
3:58:05 discuss where the funding should go and
3:58:07 how we can best target and that's why
3:58:08 we're having that discussion
3:58:10 now because council
3:58:13 felt that we should and expedite it so
3:58:16 i i commiserate that i think it's hard
3:58:18 to make these
3:58:19 decisions at night but at the same time
3:58:22 this is the funding
3:58:23 that we're authorizing tonight thanks
3:58:26 thanks
3:58:27 councilmember walsh followed by
3:58:28 councilmember goodman
3:58:30 thank you this is councilmember walsh i
3:58:32 was going to read from the email that we
3:58:34 received from christy gerard from the
3:58:36 esco highlands council
3:58:38 um she said and we received that email
3:58:41 on january 29th she said hyland's
3:58:43 council is a 501c4 and we pay taxes and
3:58:45 licensing fees like
3:58:47 other corporations it's been extremely
3:58:49 difficult to find relief
3:58:51 support for which a c4 would qualify as
3:58:54 continues on for a venue but not a
3:58:56 performance center
3:58:58 we're a gallery and art making studio
3:59:02 arts aren't our primary and uh business
3:59:05 i think it just demonstrates the need of
3:59:08 these particular businesses as
3:59:11 nonprofits
3:59:13 i would also reiterate what we have
3:59:15 heard before
3:59:16 that they support our business community
3:59:19 are businesses themselves they have
3:59:22 suffered needs we have certainly seen
3:59:24 they've had to let go staff in these
3:59:27 organizations and if we've already
3:59:30 determined that it has to be somebody
3:59:31 who has suffered
3:59:33 a loss of revenue from covet 19
3:59:37 that they have to have staff and they
3:59:40 have to have a brick and mortar location
3:59:42 um these are tax paying
3:59:45 organizations um
3:59:48 who from my perspective meet the
3:59:50 criteria
3:59:51 um so i'm going to be supporting this
3:59:54 councilmember goodman
3:59:56 uh thank you um i don't uh disagree that
4:00:00 there is a need
4:00:01 um it's a um it but i think it needs to
4:00:05 be as i've already said
4:00:06 a different conversation and
4:00:10 we this would um add um
4:00:14 a few to a large pool and if we bring
4:00:17 something
4:00:17 separate with a separate funding request
4:00:20 it's a
4:00:20 much smaller pool and i would say that
4:00:22 the chances are
4:00:23 even better that the nonprofits
4:00:27 would um get funding um so i actually
4:00:30 think it's potentially better for them
4:00:32 to be considered in a separate funding
4:00:33 request
4:00:34 so um i will be um
4:00:38 i will not be supporting that but i will
4:00:40 again
4:00:41 um support bringing something forward
4:00:44 super super super soon
4:00:46 thanks thank you
4:00:49 i am looking there are a few folks that
4:00:51 have not commented yet so i will give
4:00:53 the chat a minute to see if anyone
4:00:55 additionally wants to comment before i
4:00:57 get the city clerk call for the vote on
4:01:00 the amendment
4:01:06 okay seeing nothing further the motion
4:01:09 that's on the table
4:01:10 is to the amendment that's on the table
4:01:13 is to
4:01:14 amend the main motion to include
4:01:16 nonprofits
4:01:17 non-profits defined as 501c4s or 501c6s
4:01:21 that are eligible with brick and mortar
4:01:23 and employees criteria
4:01:25 uh city clerk do you want to call the
4:01:26 roll call though
4:01:28 thank you we will be starting with
4:01:31 council member hall
4:01:34 [Music]
4:01:38 thank you council president hunt
4:01:42 hi council member mark
4:01:46 nay deputy council president ray
4:01:51 councilmember walsh aye
4:01:56 council member d michelle aye
4:02:01 council member goodman nay
4:02:05 that is three in favor four opposed
4:02:10 the amendment to the main motion does
4:02:11 not carry and
4:02:13 city clerk i need your assistance i can
4:02:16 see the main motion
4:02:18 up above and i just want to make sure
4:02:23 we had a mover in a second and i believe
4:02:25 the mover was council member goodman
4:02:28 the second was deputy council president
4:02:32 correct okay and that at this point in
4:02:34 time if there's anyone that would like
4:02:36 make a comment on the main motion i'll
4:02:39 allow a few seconds to see
4:02:40 what shows up in the chat and then i'll
4:02:43 have the city kirk
4:02:44 do a real call vote
4:02:54 okay so um city clerk would you do a
4:02:56 roll call vote i guess i should read the
4:02:58 motion
4:02:58 uh it's been a little bit uh the motion
4:03:01 is authorized the allocation of 250
4:03:03 000 for business grants as presented and
4:03:05 direct the finance director to include
4:03:08 000 in a subsequent 2021 budget
4:03:10 amendment from the general fund mr clerk
4:03:15 thank you we will start with
4:03:18 council president hunt hi
4:03:24 council member mars aye
4:03:28 deputy council president ray aye council
4:03:31 member walsh
4:03:34 aye council member d michelle
4:03:37 aye councilmember goodman aye
4:03:41 councilmember hall aye that is
4:03:44 uh seven in favor zero post thank you
4:03:47 city clerk that
4:03:49 passes unanimously and i see that uh
4:03:52 council member goodman has entered in
4:03:53 the chat that she'd like to make a
4:03:54 motion
4:03:55 thank you um as indicated earlier i am
4:03:58 interested in
4:03:59 um i'm interested in very very soon
4:04:03 i'm getting some information getting a
4:04:06 information brought back to us
4:04:09 and i suppose before i make a motion i
4:04:13 hoping to get some feedback from the
4:04:16 administration about how
4:04:18 quickly they think it would be
4:04:20 appropriate to bring back
4:04:21 information and some
4:04:24 [Music]
4:04:26 options for the council for non-profits
4:04:28 that we could consider
4:04:30 city administrator bob quits yes madam
4:04:33 mayor councilmember goodman
4:04:34 um i i think if you're looking at
4:04:38 501c4s and 501c6s i think it's a pretty
4:04:41 quick
4:04:42 uh turnaround if you're including 501c3s
4:04:44 it's going to take longer because we're
4:04:46 just going to have to sort through a lot
4:04:48 of other issues so
4:04:49 um you know we we could come back
4:04:53 as early as your march first meeting um
4:04:56 two weeks uh to talk about 546's we
4:04:59 probably need a little
4:05:00 additional more time for if you're
4:05:02 including c3s so
4:05:03 let's say we could come back on the 15th
4:05:06 if you want to include c3s as well
4:05:09 um okay i would make a motion to the
4:05:13 direct administration
4:05:14 to come back to the council and our next
4:05:19 did you say next council meeting that
4:05:21 would be the first
4:05:22 um with uh um
4:05:26 information and options for the council
4:05:28 consider
4:05:30 regarding um
4:05:34 business grants i guess for 501 c4s and
4:05:39 c 501 c 6's and
4:05:44 looking in the chat to see if there is a
4:05:46 second
4:05:51 second thank you
4:05:54 expedient council president martz has
4:05:57 used the verbal
4:05:58 old-fashioned way of seconding so we
4:06:00 have a motion uh
4:06:02 and a second and i'm hoping the city
4:06:03 clerk was able to capture the motion but
4:06:06 i think it's fairly clear
4:06:08 it uh is okay direct the administration
4:06:10 to return at the next council meeting
4:06:12 march 1st
4:06:14 uh with information and options for the
4:06:16 council to consider
4:06:17 regarding business grants for 501c4s and
4:06:20 501c6s
4:06:22 um opening that up for comments or
4:06:24 questions
4:06:26 um sorry motion maker would you like to
4:06:29 uh address your motion thank you um i
4:06:32 don't think i need to repeat anything
4:06:34 that i said before i think everybody's
4:06:35 clear on
4:06:37 uh why i made the motion and i would
4:06:39 only like the opponent of point of order
4:06:41 um the council president is council
4:06:44 president hun and not counsel president
4:06:48 did i compound for president yeah see i
4:06:50 got you
4:06:51 i got you back there you go all right
4:06:53 11-07 same night that's unfortunate
4:06:56 yes okay i am still looking at the chat
4:06:58 and not seeing any other comments or
4:07:00 questions
4:07:01 uh give it a council president comment
4:07:05 thank you this is council president hunt
4:07:07 and um i
4:07:08 i still uh have questions about the c3s
4:07:12 i know there are more of them but i
4:07:14 think they have the same sort of
4:07:15 expenses potentially and i don't really
4:07:17 enough about the differences and it was
4:07:19 mentioned some of the ones that were
4:07:20 mentioned earlier
4:07:22 i do recognize the names and i know they
4:07:24 have locations in asic while they have
4:07:26 employees they have all the same things
4:07:28 as far as i know so i i think if we're
4:07:32 bringing this back
4:07:33 my roof respectful request of council is
4:07:37 if we are bringing this back about
4:07:38 nonprofits we have that information too
4:07:40 it sounds like we could have that
4:07:42 on march 15th um i i
4:07:47 am hopeful that council can have a
4:07:49 discussion about
4:07:50 the whole nonprofit picture
4:07:54 and it seems like we could have that if
4:07:57 waited a little bit longer to give the
4:07:58 administration a little bit more time to
4:08:00 get that information to us
4:08:02 so you know this is probably going to
4:08:03 sound super painful
4:08:05 but um you could make an amendment to
4:08:07 the motion to include 501c3s and change
4:08:10 the date to march 15th so that you could
4:08:12 hear from your counsel or i could ask
4:08:14 the clerk
4:08:15 is there a way just to have those
4:08:17 comments expressed now without going
4:08:19 through the amendment and motion to game
4:08:20 process
4:08:25 thank you i guess my advice would be
4:08:45 the motion
4:08:50 phrase and be seconded
4:08:53 um negatively on the changes that were
4:08:56 proposed by council president hunt then
4:08:58 we may be able to proceed
4:08:59 with that for the amended motion thank
4:09:01 you council
4:09:02 member so i'm looking to see if anybody
4:09:05 would speak against
4:09:08 the um revised
4:09:11 ocean language it's basically is anybody
4:09:15 objecting
4:09:16 does anybody object to the revision
4:09:19 to the it sounds wrong when i say
4:09:21 revision
4:09:22 to the motion language and if you do
4:09:24 object please put your name in the chat
4:09:26 i'll allow you to speak to it otherwise
4:09:28 i'll assume that we're going forward
4:09:30 the language that includes 501c3s
4:09:35 i'm not seeing anything uh it has been
4:09:38 moved and seconded to do
4:09:40 to direct the administration to return
4:09:43 at the next
4:09:44 to return at the march 15th council
4:09:46 meeting with information and options for
4:09:48 the council consider regarding business
4:09:50 brands for 501 c4s 501c3s and 501c6s
4:09:55 any comments or questions
4:10:03 not seeing any i will ask the city clerk
4:10:05 for a roll call vote
4:10:12 thank you for your patience why i
4:10:15 script my next voting sheet
4:10:19 [Applause]
4:10:22 and let me move my screen here for just
4:10:24 a moment thank you for your patience
4:10:37 all right we'll be starting with council
4:10:39 member mark
4:10:43 deputy council president ray all right
4:10:47 council member walsh aye
4:10:51 council member d michelle aye
4:10:55 councilmember goodman aye councilmember
4:10:58 aye council president hunt
4:11:01 aye seven in favor zero opposed
4:11:05 thank you so that carries unanimously um
4:11:08 i did get some information from the
4:11:10 deputy city administrator that we will
4:11:11 not be having the executive session
4:11:14 this evening after the meeting we will
4:11:15 be scheduling it next week
4:11:18 um there stop celebrating we're not
4:11:21 there yet
4:11:22 um we still have an item under regular
4:11:26 business um it is also came out of the
4:11:30 escort recovery task force and it also
4:11:32 has to do
4:11:33 with providing opportunities
4:11:37 for residents out
4:11:40 outdoors but at 11
4:11:44 12 at night and after
4:11:47 some more emergency funding type
4:11:50 conversations i'd like to take the
4:11:53 temperature of both
4:11:54 the city administrator and the parks
4:11:56 director and the council of do we want
4:11:59 go through this item tonight it does not
4:12:01 seem to have the same level of urgency
4:12:03 tell us guys thumbs up okay lots of
4:12:05 thumbs up we're going with it okay
4:12:07 so i will introduce the last item under
4:12:09 the regular business tonight
4:12:11 which is ab-8129 fit and fun outside
4:12:14 funding the request this evening
4:12:16 is to authorize the funding and i'd like
4:12:19 to invite parks and community services
4:12:20 director jeff watling to present this
4:12:24 mayor paulie thank you so much given
4:12:26 that the late hour council thank you
4:12:29 i'm going to i'm going to strive for
4:12:31 brevity
4:12:33 within the staff report you see as as
4:12:35 the mayor
4:12:37 identified this is requested to
4:12:39 authorize allocation of forty thousand
4:12:41 dollars
4:12:42 for the fit and fun outdoor initiatives
4:12:45 that came directly from
4:12:46 the mayor's recovery task force as the
4:12:49 staff report lays out
4:12:51 we presented these five ideas at the
4:12:54 january 26 study session
4:12:57 you gave us some really good feedback at
4:13:01 discussion based upon that feedback what
4:13:04 we initially
4:13:06 saw as a cost estimate for these five
4:13:09 projects of seventy five thousand
4:13:11 dollars
4:13:12 we've modified that what you have before
4:13:13 you tonight is a
4:13:15 funding request for forty thousand
4:13:17 dollars uh to accomplish those five
4:13:19 tasks
4:13:20 um the recovery task force uh certainly
4:13:23 recognized
4:13:24 uh much like you did there are a lot of
4:13:27 priorities and very high priorities for
4:13:29 pandemic
4:13:30 recovery and response though this is not
4:13:34 of the highest priority it's certainly a
4:13:37 seen as a community priority of finding
4:13:39 ways to
4:13:40 initiate encourage
4:13:44 advocate for family fun activities
4:13:48 safe and fun activities out in our
4:13:50 issaquah public spaces so
4:13:52 these five items that are before you
4:13:54 tonight for this funding
4:13:55 include providing some outdoor fitness
4:13:59 equipment
4:14:01 we do not have a final identifi
4:14:04 identified location but we are
4:14:08 focusing on uh the rainier trail area
4:14:11 and on downtown issaquah we feel like it
4:14:14 is most accessible to our mixed income
4:14:16 community
4:14:18 as well as our mixed multi-generational
4:14:21 community
4:14:22 somewhere along that popular trail we'll
4:14:24 be working with
4:14:26 a group of sports medicine professionals
4:14:30 as well as others as jennifer fink leads
4:14:32 that effort as you'll see in the request
4:14:33 a majority of this forty 000 request
4:14:36 would be for that
4:14:37 uh that project so with that
4:14:40 i will see if there's any questions or
4:14:42 feedback um
4:14:44 on this request thanks
4:14:48 thank you director wildling see my
4:14:51 chat box to see if there's anything else
4:14:54 and i do just want to add a
4:14:55 clarification to council member mart i'm
4:14:58 assuming that the motion you were
4:15:00 originally planning on making was an
4:15:01 amendment and is no longer applicable
4:15:03 okay sorry about that
4:15:05 so the notion has been placed in the
4:15:08 chat box and i'm also
4:15:09 waiting to see if there are any
4:15:11 questions for the director
4:15:12 before we proceed
4:15:19 i'm not seeing any right now uh
4:15:23 council president would you care to make
4:15:25 a motion thank you i moved to
4:15:27 authorize the allocation of 40 000 for
4:15:29 the implementation
4:15:30 of the fit and fun outside initiative
4:15:33 as recommended by the recovery task
4:15:35 force and direct the finance director to
4:15:37 include 40
4:15:37 000 in a subsequent 2021 budget
4:15:39 amendment from the general fund
4:15:43 and council member goodman i'll second
4:15:47 so it's been moved and seconded and
4:15:49 let's go to discussion
4:15:51 is there any council discussion
4:16:00 great let's start with
4:16:04 oh gosh it's moving too quickly uh
4:16:06 council member hall followed by deputy
4:16:08 council president ray
4:16:11 thanks mayor paul this council member
4:16:13 hall i'll be real brief i just wanted to
4:16:15 thank director watling i thought that
4:16:16 this was a good response to our
4:16:18 conversation at the study session and
4:16:20 i appreciate you taking our comments to
4:16:22 heart and coming back with a refined
4:16:24 proposal thank you thank you
4:16:26 councilmember hall deputy council
4:16:28 president ray
4:16:30 i think this is a a great idea but one
4:16:33 i'm not
4:16:33 particularly supportive of or willing to
4:16:35 fund at this time
4:16:36 i think given the discussion we just had
4:16:38 in our priority of needs
4:16:41 this doesn't elevate to the same level
4:16:43 as some of the things that we've been
4:16:45 discussing
4:16:46 and i i appreciate the work went into it
4:16:49 i appreciate the need that's been
4:16:52 expressed
4:16:53 i just think we have greater needs and
4:16:55 we have finite dollars
4:16:56 and we haven't found the bottom yet and
4:16:59 so i just cannot get behind
4:17:01 supporting this initiative thank you
4:17:04 deputy council president ray
4:17:05 council president hunt followed by
4:17:07 council member goodman
4:17:12 um thank you i i think one
4:17:16 interesting thing about this request is
4:17:18 that the
4:17:19 amount that is being requested is so
4:17:22 small that i believe the administration
4:17:24 could
4:17:24 funds this without the authorization of
4:17:28 council so it's it's not a very
4:17:31 large amount of money and it was
4:17:33 requested by the recovery
4:17:35 task force i think that it's before
4:17:37 council because we did have a discussion
4:17:39 about
4:17:39 a larger amount of money previously um
4:17:42 and it was also discussed in the context
4:17:44 of a larger
4:17:46 recovery fund but um i think
4:17:50 i my comment is mostly that it's a very
4:17:52 small amount of funding and it was
4:17:54 recommended and it's um equipment that i
4:17:57 think
4:17:57 for the most part the largest amount of
4:17:59 this money is equipment that will be
4:18:00 installed in parks and will be
4:18:02 a lasting asset in those parks thanks
4:18:06 thank you councilmember goodman followed
4:18:08 by councilmember mark
4:18:10 uh thanks councilmember goodman here um
4:18:13 am supportive um thank you um to our
4:18:15 parks director for
4:18:17 working on this um i would also um
4:18:21 [Music]
4:18:23 appreciate keeping an eye out for what
4:18:26 is going to happen
4:18:27 um with in the pandemic
4:18:30 um because
4:18:34 we're not out of this and as people as
4:18:37 we're not out of this
4:18:38 people are looking for um safe things to
4:18:40 do outside
4:18:42 and so um i actually feel like there are
4:18:45 probably some
4:18:46 would might be depending on what happens
4:18:49 opportunities to make more
4:18:50 investments in um in the
4:18:54 outdoor area for our residents who are
4:18:57 itching to do things that have been
4:19:02 of largely caged so i um i do
4:19:05 very much support this and if there are
4:19:09 is there if there's a need and an
4:19:10 opportunity to do more
4:19:12 um a little bit later this year then i
4:19:14 would be interested in
4:19:16 entertaining that as well thank you
4:19:18 thank you councilmember goodman
4:19:19 councilmember marks
4:19:21 thank you madam mayor this is
4:19:22 councilmember mart yeah i
4:19:24 i do see this as covid related
4:19:28 i think that i've seen in the people
4:19:31 that i know
4:19:32 and the people in the community a real
4:19:35 correlation between the ability to get
4:19:39 out of the house
4:19:40 and the ability to uh
4:19:43 weather this a little bit uh
4:19:46 more it's a little bit easier to weather
4:19:48 if you can get out of the house
4:19:49 on a regular basis and so uh this very
4:19:52 modest amount of money
4:19:54 um i i'm i'm amazed if
4:19:58 i know what it cost to put an even
4:20:00 modest play structure
4:20:02 in a part so i'm amazed that forty
4:20:04 thousand dollars
4:20:05 um will do very much but if but i trust
4:20:09 uh director watling so i'm going to
4:20:11 support this bill this evening thank you
4:20:14 thank you councilmember merits
4:20:15 councilmember dean michelle
4:20:19 thank you this is councilmember de
4:20:20 michel um i support this
4:20:24 request um however i had a question for
4:20:27 director watling
4:20:28 um i was surprised that the funding for
4:20:31 the concerts on the green was taken out
4:20:33 so i was just wondering if we could have
4:20:35 an update on
4:20:37 uh what's the planning there because i
4:20:39 would sure like to have those
4:20:41 in august if we could and so
4:20:44 uh is there just uh could you give us
4:20:46 just a little bit of an update on
4:20:48 what the thinking is about getting those
4:20:50 going absolutely yeah the request
4:20:53 from the study session was for
4:20:54 additional uh concert
4:20:56 funding so we have our already budgeted
4:20:59 concert funding that
4:21:00 you've already approved in the 21 budget
4:21:04 we've already reached out to our concert
4:21:06 partners just last week to begin
4:21:08 planning what we recognized is we we've
4:21:10 got these next three months to really
4:21:12 determine what
4:21:13 concerts are going to look like what um
4:21:17 what level we're going to be at in terms
4:21:19 of phase recovery what size crowds we
4:21:21 can have and so let's allow
4:21:23 us to do that work that planning work
4:21:25 with our partners
4:21:26 um and then we'll have a much better
4:21:28 picture in three months as to
4:21:29 if we'll need additional funding but the
4:21:33 show goes on is the plan
4:21:34 we're just planning to do it with
4:21:36 additional
4:21:38 additional budgeted funds cats allowed
4:21:41 if they're
4:21:43 on leash yes thank you
4:21:46 thank you councilmember d michelle i do
4:21:48 not see any other
4:21:50 comments or questions so i will ask judy
4:21:53 clerc if you can do a roll call vote
4:21:55 i'll read the motion again uh nope i'm
4:21:58 seeing waving
4:22:00 deputy council president ray um thank
4:22:02 you mayor foley i just have one
4:22:04 final thought for y'all to chew on i
4:22:06 think the council president's comment
4:22:08 that this was
4:22:08 uh not a significant amount of money is
4:22:10 right on i think
4:22:12 that her comment that this is an expense
4:22:14 that can be absorbed is right on
4:22:16 and so um it's one i don't think we need
4:22:19 to take action on
4:22:20 and i just want to tell you that you
4:22:22 know if we took that forty thousand
4:22:24 dollars and we put it into grants
4:22:26 we could give every 400 501 c
4:22:30 uh four and six in the city five
4:22:33 thousand dollars
4:22:34 so it's it's a matter of where you wanna
4:22:36 spend your money and
4:22:37 um and i don't think it's gonna be the
4:22:41 that's gonna be um making people i'm
4:22:44 gonna go out and go down and
4:22:46 use the exercise equipment i i just
4:22:48 don't think that's the thing that's
4:22:49 going to make people get outside
4:22:51 i think it's going to be the sun's going
4:22:53 to come out and that'll make people get
4:22:54 outside so
4:22:55 um i i just don't see the bang for our
4:22:58 buck and i just
4:22:59 i really believe we have so many other
4:23:01 higher priorities that we've spent
4:23:03 hours talking about tonight
4:23:07 thank you deputy council president ray
4:23:10 um so the motion on the table unless
4:23:12 there's anyone else who would like to
4:23:13 make a comment
4:23:14 is to authorize the allocation of forty
4:23:16 thousand dollars for the information of
4:23:18 implementation of the fit and fun
4:23:20 outside initiative as recommended by the
4:23:22 recovery task force
4:23:24 and to direct the finance director to
4:23:26 include forty thousand dollars in a
4:23:27 subsequent 2021 budget amendment
4:23:30 from the general fund and city clerk
4:23:33 thank you uh we will be starting with uh
4:23:36 deputy council president ray
4:23:41 member walsh aye
4:23:44 councilmember d michelle aye
4:23:48 councilmember goodman aye
4:23:51 councilmember hall aye
4:23:54 council president hunt i'm
4:24:01 and councilmember mark aye
4:24:04 thank you that is six in favor one
4:24:07 opposed
4:24:09 thank you city clerk um that
4:24:12 motion passes six to one and that moves
4:24:16 to the good of the order and do any
4:24:19 council members have anything for the
4:24:20 good of the order make sure i can see
4:24:24 everybody's face
4:24:26 can i make an amendment to emotion uh
4:24:29 yeah that's not
4:24:29 really a good of the order item so we're
4:24:32 just gonna rule you
4:24:33 out of order um i've got one item for
4:24:37 good of the order
4:24:38 and then i'm going to move into upcoming
4:24:40 council meetings and i guess the good of
4:24:42 the order item is
4:24:43 that it's pretty loud and clear from the
4:24:46 really amazing conversations that you
4:24:48 have had this evening that we have some
4:24:49 work to do for march 15th
4:24:52 and that we will have some more
4:24:53 information by march 15th hopefully
4:24:55 good information about what the feds are
4:24:57 doing
4:24:58 and that um you had a very thoughtful
4:25:02 and engaging conversation tonight it
4:25:04 took it's 11 30 but i
4:25:06 think i think it went really well so
4:25:08 thank you for that
4:25:09 the next um council study session is
4:25:12 tuesday february 23rd
4:25:14 and the potential agenda items include
4:25:16 the police accountability
4:25:18 equity and human services action plan
4:25:21 update
4:25:22 while and the second item that is
4:25:24 potentially being included is the
4:25:26 wildfire strategy
4:25:28 uh the city council regular meeting of
4:25:30 march first has the following potential
4:25:32 agenda item
4:25:33 a regional coalition for housing
4:25:36 administrative budget and work program
4:25:39 and trust fund recommendations
4:25:42 and a second item the 2021 arts grant
4:25:45 recommendations
4:25:47 uh the last item on our agenda this
4:25:49 evening was to be an executive session
4:25:51 but we are going to be moving that
4:25:53 to um a separate meeting next week
4:25:56 and so therefore if i can get my notes
4:25:59 where i need them
4:26:01 that means that there is no further
4:26:03 business and we are adjourned at 11
4:26:05 27 pm thank you all

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (10)

Approve the 2021 Docket of Proposed Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments as presented.
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
Amend the 2021 Docket of Proposed Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments to remove proposed amendment #6, “Redesignation / rezone: private property parcel 2024069056.”
Moved by MARTS · seconded by HUNT
Failed 2-5
. (Proponents: Hunt, Marts) . b)
Moved by MARTS · seconded by HUNT
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Authorize the allocation of $45,000 for emergency housing/shelter services to help support individuals who are homeless in Issaquah as presented; and direct the Finance Director to include $45,000 in a subsequent 2021 budget amendment from the General Fund. . c)
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
Postpone AB 8128, Business Assistance Grants, to the March 15, 2021 Regular City Council Meeting. . (Proponents: de Michele, Hunt, Walsh)
Moved by HUNT · seconded by WALSH
Failed 3-4
In favor: de Michele, Hunt, Walsh
Opposed: Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Tola Marts, Chris Reh
Authorize the allocation of $250,000 for business grants as presented; and direct the Finance Director to include $250,000 in a subsequent 2021 budget amendment from the General Fund.
Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Amend the business grant program to include non-profits that are eligible with the brick and mortar and employee criteria.
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
Amend the amendment, so that non-profits are defined as 501(c)(4)(s) or 501(c)(6)(s). AMENDMENT TO THE . (Opponents: Goodman, Hall) . (Proponents: de Michele, Hunt, Walsh) .
Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by HUNT
Carried 5-2
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Opposed: Goodman, Hall
Direct the Administration to return at the March 15, 2021 Regular City Council Meeting with information and options for the Council to consider regarding business grants for 501(c)(3)(s), 501(c)(4)(s) and 501(c)(6)(s). . d)
Moved by DE GOODMAN · seconded by MARTS
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Authorize the allocation of $40,000 for the implementation of the Fit and Fun Outside initiative as recommended by the Recovery Task Force; and direct the Finance Director to include $40,000 in a subsequent 2021 budget amendment from the General Fund. . (Opponent: Reh)
Moved by HUNT · seconded by GOODMAN
Carried 6-1
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh
Opposed: Reh