City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, March 1, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Councilmember Walsh

6. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of March 1, 2021, $ 2,999,874.56 ID 0758

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.5–32

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

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

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

Minutes: City Council Study Session, Feb. 9

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.33–35

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 02-09-21 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000)

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

Central Park Pad #3 Turf Replacement AB 8130

Carried 7-0

Award Bid · packet pp.53–54

Topics: Parks

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Staff report:

The Central Park Pad #3 artificial turf fields were originally constructed in 2008. Over the last 13 years, the turf fields at Central Park Pad #3 have received significant use by soccer, lacrosse and football teams. It is customary that artificial turf field carpet and infill systems are replaced as part of routine maintenance every 8-15 years depending upon wear; much like the carpet in a home. The turf fields at Pad #3 are at the end of their lifecycle and in need of replacement, as a budgeted 2021 capital project.

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

PSE Green Direct 2 First Amendment AB 8132

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.55–62

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

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

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

Surplus City Equipment AB 8135

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.63–66

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends approval of the proposed resolution declaring the items as surplus and authorizing the Administration to dispose of them in accordance with Washington State law.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

7. REGULAR BUSINESS

2021 ARCH Administrative Budget and Work Program AB 8074

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.75–110

Topics: HousingBudget

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Staff report:

ARCH is a partnership of King County and east King County Cities who have joined together to assist with preserving and increasing the supply of housing for low– and moderate-income households in the region. There are 14 other member cities (mostly concentrated in east King County) and representation from King County.

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

2020 ARCH Trust Fund Recommendations AB 8075

Approve Resolution · packet pp.111–150

Topics: HousingBudget

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Staff report:

2021 Arts Grant Recommendations AB 8098

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.151–160

Topics: Arts & Culture

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Staff report:

The City supports arts and culture programs and projects in and for the community through an annual arts granting program administered by the Arts Commission. Due to the impacts of COVID 19 on the local arts sector and the challenges of producing public programming, the annual granting process was delayed several months until January 2021 to give applicants more more time to assess the feasibility of delivering arts projects.

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

Interlocal Agreement with Eastside Fire & Rescue and City of Sammamish re: Vaccine Partnership AB 8126

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.161–169

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

In early 2021, Mayor Pauly formed an Issaquah Vaccine Community Partnership to ensure close coordination with a variety of partners on local vaccine distribution, including Eastside Fire and Rescue (EF&R) and the City of Sammamish.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by REH

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

8. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Goodman - Title 18

packet pp.171

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

GOOD OF THE ORDER a) Good of the Order – March 1, 2021 It is possible that future requests could be made of the Council to revise, add, or otherwise address parts of Title 18 on a separate schedule or track than is currently being done primarily holistically. In light of that possibility, the Title 18 Ad Hoc Committee recommends the Council adopt guidance when considering such possible future requests, for purposes of being transparent and consistent. The committee recommends the Council consider adopting the following:

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:00 ↗ needing to order it's amazing it is

0:03 ↗ march

0:03 ↗ already before we move on to tonight's

0:06 ↗ agenda items i'd like to acknowledge our

0:08 ↗ remote meeting format

0:10 ↗ on march 6th let's see

0:13 ↗ last night's trip there we go on march 6

0:17 ↗ 2020 i issued an emergency proclamation

0:20 ↗ declaring a civil emergency in the city

0:23 ↗ due to the covet-19 outbreak

0:25 ↗ on march 24 2020 the governor issued

0:27 ↗ proclamation 20-28 relating to the covet

0:30 ↗ 19 emergency and open public meetings

0:33 ↗ the proclamation has been extended until

0:35 ↗ termination of the state

0:37 ↗ of emergency or until repealed by the

0:39 ↗ governor or legislature

0:41 ↗ due to these proclamations tonight's

0:43 ↗ meeting will be held entirely remotely

0:45 ↗ the meeting will be recorded streamed

0:48 ↗ live

0:48 ↗ and available for later viewing on the

0:50 ↗ city's youtube channel

0:52 ↗ this is an exciting night tonight as we

0:54 ↗ have the public with us

0:55 ↗ virtually in the meeting as well as on

0:57 ↗ the phone so for those members of the

0:59 ↗ public who are joining this

1:00 ↗ us this evening thanks and welcome

1:03 ↗ i'd like to explain a few aspects of the

1:05 ↗ new meeting format

1:07 ↗ for city council the meeting experience

1:10 ↗ will be very similar to our past

1:12 ↗ platform for these webec event meetings

1:14 ↗ you are considered panelists

1:17 ↗ and if you'd like to view those

1:18 ↗ attending the meeting open the

1:19 ↗ participant panel

1:21 ↗ there you will see a list of panelists

1:23 ↗ and attendees in the meeting

1:25 ↗ your vidi videos are viewable by meeting

1:28 ↗ attendees

1:28 ↗ as are any visual presentations there

1:31 ↗ are more options in the meeting chat

1:33 ↗ now please use all panelists

1:37 ↗ in the chat to relay a desire to speak

1:40 ↗ please continue the practice of

1:42 ↗ identifying yourself before speaking as

1:45 ↗ there may be still individuals who are

1:46 ↗ joining this meeting by phone

1:49 ↗ for the public joining by computer or

1:50 ↗ smartphone welcome

1:52 ↗ your video and audio is turned off

1:55 ↗ automatically

1:56 ↗ if you'd like to make a comment tonight

1:57 ↗ under audience comments and you did not

1:59 ↗ already sign up in advance

2:01 ↗ please raise your virtual hand we will

2:03 ↗ show you some visual instructions

2:05 ↗ in a future slide when it is your turn

2:08 ↗ to speak your name will be announced and

2:10 ↗ you will be moved up

2:11 ↗ to us as a panelist you may then

2:14 ↗ unmute for your five minute comment

2:16 ↗ period you may also choose to turn on

2:18 ↗ your video during that time

2:20 ↗ you are able to send a chat directly to

2:22 ↗ the host but not to others

2:24 ↗ and at this point in time we'll take a

2:26 ↗ moment to do a roll call

2:28 ↗ of the council members in attendance so

2:29 ↗ please stay here when i call your name

2:32 ↗ councilmember d michelle here

2:35 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here

2:37 ↗ thank you councilmember hall

2:39 ↗ here thanks council president hunt here

2:43 ↗ thank you councilmember martz here thank

2:46 ↗ you deputy council president ray

2:48 ↗ here thank you and council member walsh

2:51 ↗ here that's seven of seven

2:55 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

2:56 ↗ is the pledge of allegiance and if you

2:58 ↗ could keep your microphone muted i

3:00 ↗ welcome you to join me

3:01 ↗ in the pledge of allegiance

3:04 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

3:06 ↗ united states of america

3:08 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands

3:11 ↗ one nation

3:12 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

3:14 ↗ justice for all

3:17 ↗ the next item on the agenda is audience

3:19 ↗ comments for those of you who've

3:21 ↗ submitted the online form to make

3:22 ↗ comments your name will be called

3:24 ↗ shortly for those who have joined us

3:26 ↗ today and would like to make comments

3:27 ↗ but did not sign up in advance

3:29 ↗ please raise your virtual hand to do

3:32 ↗ this

3:32 ↗ if you are on a phone press star 3 if

3:36 ↗ you have joined by computer or

3:38 ↗ smartphone

3:39 ↗ see the displayed tip sheet clerk has

3:42 ↗ anyone signed up to speak or indicated a

3:44 ↗ desire to speak this evening

3:49 ↗ not at this time

3:53 ↗ thank you and just as a reminder written

3:56 ↗ comments can be submitted at any time to

3:58 ↗ the city council at city council at

4:01 ↗ issaquah.gov

4:02 ↗ council president hunt do you have any

4:04 ↗ email comments to summarize on any of

4:06 ↗ tonight's agenda topics

4:08 ↗ and mayor paulie can i interrupt i'm

4:10 ↗ sorry we have

4:12 ↗ my apologies we didn't have anyone

4:14 ↗ signed up in advance but we do have an

4:15 ↗ individual who'd like

4:24 ↗ oh i'm sorry um we do have an individual

4:26 ↗ who'd like to make comments give me just

4:28 ↗ a moment

4:29 ↗ great thanks tisha

4:34 ↗ okay colin user

4:37 ↗ with the last i'm sorry with the first

4:40 ↗ six digits four

4:42 ↗ two five six seven seven i'm going to go

4:45 ↗ ahead and unmute you now

4:50 ↗ you have the floor thank you my name is

4:53 ↗ elizabeth mo penn

4:56 ↗ i'm a resident of issaquah and have

4:59 ↗ formerly been

5:00 ↗ on the human services commission

5:03 ↗ and i wanted to comment on

5:08 ↗ the homelessness

5:11 ↗ outreach my indications

5:15 ↗ have been that it's been very successful

5:18 ↗ i hope that this program will continue

5:22 ↗ and i would love the city council to

5:25 ↗ give consideration

5:27 ↗ to having some kind of a drop-in center

5:31 ↗ for people who need the services

5:34 ↗ so that they have a place to go

5:37 ↗ especially

5:38 ↗ when we have really cold weather thank

5:40 ↗ you

5:42 ↗ thank you elizabeth city clark have you

5:44 ↗ seen any other indications of a raised

5:47 ↗ hand or desire to speak

5:49 ↗ i don't at this time i'll make one more

5:52 ↗ announcement i don't see that we have

5:54 ↗ any members of the public that have

5:55 ↗ joined us by computer but i do see a few

5:57 ↗ more

5:58 ↗ phone and callers so if anyone wants to

6:00 ↗ make comments please press star three

6:03 ↗ on your phone that's star three

6:08 ↗ if you'd like to make comments

6:16 ↗ and i don't see that anyone else is

6:19 ↗ interested in speaking

6:20 ↗ thank you city clark i'll go back over

6:22 ↗ to council president hunt and see if

6:24 ↗ there are any email comments to

6:25 ↗ summarize

6:26 ↗ on tonight's agenda topic thank you

6:29 ↗ madam mayor

6:30 ↗ this is council president hunt and while

6:32 ↗ we are doing virtual meetings i am

6:33 ↗ summarizing email comments that we are

6:36 ↗ receiving

6:37 ↗ um on topics that are on tonight's

6:39 ↗ agenda and

6:40 ↗ emails that we've received since the

6:42 ↗ last time we've discussed

6:44 ↗ topics where we've discussed them

6:45 ↗ multiple times and

6:47 ↗ um on tonight's agenda we did receive um

6:51 ↗ a few emails one um one individual

6:54 ↗ commented on

6:56 ↗ ab-8132 pse green direct

6:58 ↗ two first amendment which is on consent

7:00 ↗ for this evening

7:02 ↗ um this individual wondered why it

7:04 ↗ wasn't closer to

7:05 ↗ a hundred percent of renewable energy in

7:08 ↗ that agreement so i had a question on

7:10 ↗ that

7:11 ↗ um and then for ab-8074

7:14 ↗ arch administrative budget and work

7:16 ↗ program which is on our regular business

7:18 ↗ agenda for this evening

7:19 ↗ this individual expressed some concerns

7:23 ↗ around the administrative funding and

7:25 ↗ expressed that they their preference

7:28 ↗ would be to cover

7:31 ↗ projects or that the funding would be

7:34 ↗ used to directly

7:35 ↗ impact affordable housing stock

7:38 ↗ and then had some concerns and questions

7:40 ↗ around the

7:41 ↗ goals uh and then regarding ab-8075-2020

7:46 ↗ arch trust fund

7:47 ↗ generally expressed support for arch

7:50 ↗ again wanting those funds to be used

7:52 ↗ directly for

7:54 ↗ uh impacting and improving increasing

7:57 ↗ the

7:57 ↗ affordable housing stock uh and then

8:01 ↗ um in january not directly referencing

8:03 ↗ this but

8:04 ↗ um on the same topic of arch we and

8:08 ↗ um related issues in january we we did

8:11 ↗ receive an email

8:12 ↗ uh that expressed concerns regarding

8:14 ↗ imagine housing and allied residential

8:16 ↗ which is the management company that

8:18 ↗ manages properties for

8:20 ↗ magic counseling and that concludes the

8:22 ↗ email

8:23 ↗ uh emails that we've received on

8:25 ↗ tonight's generations

8:27 ↗ thank you we will move into

8:31 ↗ committee and regional reports and we'll

8:34 ↗ start with council member hall

8:37 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is

8:39 ↗ councilmember hall no report this

8:41 ↗ evening but a couple quick announcements

8:43 ↗ the next meeting of the cascade water

8:45 ↗ alliance board of directors is wednesday

8:47 ↗ march 24th

8:49 ↗ at 3 30 p.m on the same day

8:53 ↗ the affordable housing committee of the

8:54 ↗ growth management planning council

8:56 ↗ is also meeting at 1 pm so that'll be a

8:58 ↗ busy day

9:00 ↗ and i'll have more information to share

9:01 ↗ on the agendas for those meetings at our

9:03 ↗ next

9:04 ↗ city council meeting on monday the 15th

9:06 ↗ thank you very much thank you

9:08 ↗ councilmember hall

9:09 ↗ councilmember d michelle thank you mayor

9:11 ↗ paulie this is councilmember d michelle

9:14 ↗ and i too have no report tonight uh

9:17 ↗ thursday

9:18 ↗ march 4th the healthier here governing

9:21 ↗ board will be meeting and i'll be

9:22 ↗ joining that meeting

9:24 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember d

9:26 ↗ michelle councilmember walsh

9:28 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh uh

9:30 ↗ last friday

9:31 ↗ i attended the issaquah chamber of

9:33 ↗ commerce meeting

9:34 ↗ where we discussed some you know

9:37 ↗ including the 250

9:39 ↗ 000 um grant allocation um

9:43 ↗ which they were very interested in um as

9:46 ↗ well as having

9:47 ↗ chief bierbaum of the escort police meet

9:50 ↗ with the chamber members who have

9:52 ↗ expressed

9:53 ↗ concerns about increased burglaries

9:56 ↗ particularly in

9:57 ↗ retail and self-storage the information

10:00 ↗ that was presented at that meeting can

10:02 ↗ also be found

10:04 ↗ on the escuela police department's

10:06 ↗ website

10:07 ↗ in the data section where they were

10:09 ↗ talking about the increase

10:11 ↗ in certain types of crimes that we've

10:13 ↗ seen in the last

10:14 ↗ six months versus that same period in

10:18 ↗ 2019 to 2020 and they were very

10:21 ↗ appreciative of the time with chief

10:23 ↗ bierbaum

10:24 ↗ and so we'll continue to follow up on

10:26 ↗ that if needed

10:27 ↗ and that concludes my report thank you

10:30 ↗ councilmember walsh next up is

10:32 ↗ councilmember goodman

10:34 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor the lodging tax

10:36 ↗ advisory committee met virgil

10:38 ↗ virtually last thursday february 25th

10:41 ↗ and um you all on the council will

10:43 ↗ recall that

10:45 ↗ the council approved a hundred thousand

10:46 ↗ dollars for grants for tourism

10:49 ↗ initiatives and the first half of those

10:51 ↗ grants were awarded last fall

10:53 ↗ and the process for the second half the

10:56 ↗ second fifty thousand dollars is

10:57 ↗ beginning now

10:58 ↗ uh the committee approved the process

11:00 ↗ and the application

11:01 ↗ which was largely the same as the last

11:04 ↗ process

11:05 ↗ applications will be accepted for about

11:07 ↗ a month so

11:08 ↗ until early april and then the committee

11:10 ↗ will review those applications and make

11:12 ↗ funding recommendations to the full

11:14 ↗ council

11:15 ↗ probably in may the committee did agree

11:17 ↗ to accept

11:18 ↗ applications for tourism

11:22 ↗ related initiatives and organizations

11:25 ↗ that had received funding last time but

11:27 ↗ with the specific

11:29 ↗ um express

11:32 ↗ acknowledgement that there is no

11:34 ↗ insurance that they would get additional

11:35 ↗ funds but they

11:36 ↗ they may apply and the east side fire

11:39 ↗ and rescue board of directors will meet

11:41 ↗ virtually next thursday

11:44 ↗ that next yes march 11th at 4 p.m

11:47 ↗ uh one of the uh primary agenda items

11:50 ↗ the board will be addressing

11:51 ↗ is the interlocal agreement with the

11:53 ↗ cities of issaquah and sammamish

11:56 ↗ regarding the covid vaccine partnership

11:58 ↗ that is on our agenda

12:00 ↗ tonight which is agenda bill 8126

12:03 ↗ and that concludes my report thank you

12:06 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman

12:07 ↗ councilmember mertz

12:10 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

12:11 ↗ councilmember martz

12:13 ↗ the puget sound regional council growth

12:17 ↗ management policy board

12:18 ↗ will be meeting this thursday march 4th

12:21 ↗ from 10 am to 12

12:22 ↗ noon it's going to be a little bit

12:24 ↗ different of a format

12:26 ↗ there's going to be a discussion item on

12:28 ↗ regional housing strategy needs

12:30 ↗ assessment

12:31 ↗ key finding and next steps and then

12:33 ↗ there's going to be a

12:35 ↗ there can be breakout sessions to

12:37 ↗ discuss

12:38 ↗ regional housing strategies further

12:40 ↗ which should be uh

12:41 ↗ interesting it's not entirely obvious to

12:44 ↗ me how those are going to work

12:45 ↗ but it'll be different

12:49 ↗ and then we'll come back together uh for

12:52 ↗ a group strategy discussion at the end

12:55 ↗ of that so i'll let council know how

12:57 ↗ that goes

12:58 ↗ then wednesday march 10th the sound

13:00 ↗ cities association

13:02 ↗ public issues committee will have their

13:04 ↗ meeting

13:05 ↗ that's also going to be a little bit

13:06 ↗ different there's going to be a couple

13:08 ↗ of workshops

13:09 ↗ a king county county-wide planning

13:11 ↗ policies workshop

13:13 ↗ and then a best starts for kids levy

13:15 ↗ workshop

13:16 ↗ which the latter i'm sure if history is

13:18 ↗ any

13:19 ↗ judge will be about

13:22 ↗ how do you decide how to spend the money

13:24 ↗ and how do you oversee the spending of

13:26 ↗ the money

13:27 ↗ and uh how might a levy proposal look

13:31 ↗ that comes in front of the public i will

13:34 ↗ report back

13:35 ↗ on that as well at the next council

13:37 ↗ meeting that concludes my report

13:39 ↗ thank you councilmember mart deputy

13:41 ↗ council president ray

13:43 ↗ uh thank you mayor paulie this is chris

13:45 ↗ wray the

13:46 ↗ king county growth management planning

13:48 ↗ council

13:49 ↗ met on february 24th

13:52 ↗ of significance on the agenda was an

13:55 ↗ update from the

13:56 ↗ affordable housing committee related to

13:59 ↗ amendments to their charter

14:01 ↗ as well as some updates to the housing

14:04 ↗ committee's

14:05 ↗ membership there was a briefing on urban

14:08 ↗ growth capacity report

14:10 ↗ and a briefing on the 2021 county

14:13 ↗ planning policy updates

14:15 ↗ including an overview of where we are

14:16 ↗ with the planning policies

14:18 ↗ discussion around the housing chapter

14:21 ↗ highlighting proposed changes to each of

14:23 ↗ the chapters in the cpps

14:25 ↗ and then next steps and so this is a

14:28 ↗ meeting is

14:28 ↗ a part of a continuing effort in

14:31 ↗ degree in developing the

14:35 ↗ updates for the accounting planning

14:36 ↗ policies the

14:38 ↗ next meeting oh let me just before i go

14:41 ↗ to the next meeting

14:42 ↗ i'd be very interested from

14:43 ↗ councilmember martz what uh sca picks um

14:46 ↗ feedback is on the cpp so we can fold

14:49 ↗ that into

14:50 ↗ um the next meeting of the gmpc

14:53 ↗ that was a lot of acronyms um the next

14:56 ↗ meeting of

14:57 ↗ the growth management planning council

14:59 ↗ will be on

15:00 ↗ march 31st at four o'clock and it will

15:03 ↗ be in a virtual format

15:04 ↗ and then i have uh one update um

15:08 ↗ related to eastside fire and rescue and

15:11 ↗ as of today

15:12 ↗ uh eastside fire rescue is officially a

15:15 ↗ not-for-profit

15:16 ↗ uh municipal corporation and not just an

15:19 ↗ agreement between

15:20 ↗ uh five entities so that was a long time

15:24 ↗ in coming and something that i know

15:26 ↗ many um people here had a lot to do with

15:28 ↗ so

15:29 ↗ congratulations to sci fire and rescue

15:31 ↗ for being being a thing

15:33 ↗ that's amazing

15:37 ↗ and with amazingness i'll just conclude

15:39 ↗ my report there

15:42 ↗ council president hunt thank you madam

15:45 ↗ mayor

15:45 ↗ the king conservation district is a

15:48 ↗ natural resource management

15:49 ↗ district and they do conservation work

15:52 ↗ throughout king county

15:53 ↗ i serve on the king conservation

15:54 ↗ district advisory committee and the

15:56 ↗ committee has not

15:57 ↗ met since our last regular meeting but i

16:00 ↗ did

16:00 ↗ just want to let people know that the

16:03 ↗ election for the board of supervisors

16:05 ↗ went live today and it will be going

16:09 ↗ through

16:09 ↗ march i believe um so you can vote

16:11 ↗ online

16:12 ↗ and i wanted to make sure that people

16:14 ↗ are aware about this election because it

16:16 ↗ is occurring at a different time

16:18 ↗ than usual elections um so to find out

16:22 ↗ more and to vote if you are eligible to

16:24 ↗ vote um

16:24 ↗ please go to kingcd.org

16:29 ↗ and then additionally the title 18 ad

16:31 ↗ hoc committee met on thursday february

16:33 ↗ 18th

16:34 ↗ this is a ad hoc committee that works on

16:37 ↗ the

16:38 ↗ plan to improve our city's land use

16:42 ↗ code which is referred to as title 18

16:45 ↗ and this is a committee of three council

16:48 ↗ members

16:49 ↗ which are myself council member goodman

16:52 ↗ and councilmember walsh

16:53 ↗ we met with the deputy city

16:54 ↗ administrator andrea snyder and lucy

16:56 ↗ sloman the planning manager in community

16:58 ↗ planning and development

17:00 ↗ and we discussed several things we

17:02 ↗ discussed the rfp responses

17:05 ↗ and the consultant selection and

17:06 ↗ timeline we got an update on the plan

17:09 ↗ for

17:09 ↗ the sign code which is expected to be

17:14 ↗ approved or to be considered by council

17:16 ↗ on a different timeline than

17:18 ↗ other items in the title 18 update

17:21 ↗ and then we discussed about additional

17:24 ↗ items that might be considered for a

17:26 ↗ separate track from the rest of title 18

17:28 ↗ and this was subsequently discussed by

17:30 ↗ the three council members that are

17:32 ↗ on the ad hoc committee and council

17:34 ↗ member goodman will be

17:35 ↗ bringing our recommendation on this item

17:38 ↗ forward at good of the order

17:40 ↗ this evening so i won't talk too much

17:42 ↗ more about that but we will be

17:43 ↗ discussing more i go to the order about

17:46 ↗ that in particular and that concludes my

17:50 ↗ report

17:50 ↗ thanks thank you council president

17:54 ↗ next item on the agenda is the mayor's

17:56 ↗ report out

17:57 ↗ there will be an executive session this

17:59 ↗ evening to discuss pending and potential

18:01 ↗ litigation for rcw

18:03 ↗ 42.30.110 for n1 parani

18:06 ↗ the item is expected to last 20 minutes

18:09 ↗ and no action is anticipated

18:11 ↗ in open session i'd also like to give a

18:14 ↗ brief update on the king county sales

18:16 ↗ tax

18:16 ↗ that was just put in place last year the

18:19 ↗ city of issaquah

18:20 ↗ adopted a one-tenth percent sales tax

18:23 ↗ per student to washington state house

18:25 ↗ bill 1590

18:27 ↗ to fund affordable housing and support

18:29 ↗ services the sales tax was also adopted

18:31 ↗ by the cities of bellevue

18:33 ↗ north bend maple valley renton

18:36 ↗ kent snoqualmie and covington the king

18:40 ↗ county council also adopted the tax to

18:42 ↗ cover the remainder of king county

18:44 ↗ the administration has been working on

18:46 ↗ an agreement with king county

18:47 ↗ which would allow a portion of the tax

18:49 ↗ to be retained by issaquah

18:51 ↗ for the transit oriented development

18:53 ↗ opportunity center project

18:55 ↗ and then the funds would be transitioned

18:57 ↗ to be collected

18:58 ↗ from the tax would go to king county

19:01 ↗ given the ongoing work associated with

19:03 ↗ the pandemic king county's desire to

19:05 ↗ quickly identify and purchase existing

19:07 ↗ hotels with these funds for housing

19:09 ↗ homeless

19:09 ↗ individuals and families and the

19:11 ↗ county's discussion with many other

19:13 ↗ cities involved

19:15 ↗ negotiations with the county on

19:16 ↗ issaquah's tax have

19:18 ↗ proceeded rather slowly i will keep the

19:20 ↗ city council apprised of any further

19:22 ↗ developments

19:24 ↗ also going to give an update on

19:25 ↗ issaquah's community vaccine partnership

19:28 ↗ the isoqua vaccine community partnership

19:30 ↗ met earlier today for our weekly

19:32 ↗ coordination meeting

19:33 ↗ our focus remains that when vaccines are

19:35 ↗ more readily available

19:37 ↗ we will be ready our team is close to

19:39 ↗ securing a location for a drive up

19:42 ↗ mass vaccination site in issaquah

19:44 ↗ meanwhile tonight the city council is

19:46 ↗ reviewing an interlocal agreement with

19:48 ↗ eastside fire and rescue and the city of

19:49 ↗ samamish

19:50 ↗ to formalize our partnership on vaccine

19:52 ↗ distribution and reimbursement

19:54 ↗ that partnership along with king county

19:56 ↗ council member kathy lambert and state

19:58 ↗ legislators from districts 5

20:00 ↗ and 41 also sent a letter to king county

20:03 ↗ executive dow constantine last week that

20:05 ↗ described our plans

20:06 ↗ for a mass vaccination site and requests

20:09 ↗ for approval

20:10 ↗ of not only operating the site but also

20:12 ↗ receiving future vaccine doses

20:14 ↗ vaccine availability throughout king

20:16 ↗ county and statewide is still severely

20:19 ↗ limited

20:20 ↗ one idea we discussed today is that once

20:22 ↗ our site is approved we consider

20:24 ↗ implementing a soft rollout and offer

20:27 ↗ even a small amount of vaccines as

20:29 ↗ supplies allow

20:30 ↗ i have some great news to share our

20:32 ↗ mobile vaccination efforts continue

20:34 ↗ and eastside fire and rescue is now

20:36 ↗ reaching many high-risk seniors

20:38 ↗ with their second dose and finally we're

20:41 ↗ working on how best to promote vaccine

20:43 ↗ acceptance to a variety of audiences

20:46 ↗ communities and cultures moving forward

20:50 ↗ my second last bit of news in my update

20:53 ↗ uh and i'm sure most of you know this

20:55 ↗ rei has selected issaquah for one of its

20:58 ↗ satellite offices

21:00 ↗ so late last week we learned that rei

21:02 ↗ co-op

21:03 ↗ a specialty outdoor retailer recently

21:06 ↗ announced it selected issaquah as the

21:08 ↗ location for its first

21:09 ↗ satellite office the nation's largest

21:12 ↗ consumer co-op selected rally's property

21:15 ↗ newest development

21:17 ↗ called 2005 poplar for its innovative

21:20 ↗ satellite office

21:21 ↗ occupancy is planned for late summer or

21:24 ↗ early fall

21:25 ↗ and post-pandemic the building will

21:27 ↗ accommodate up to 400

21:29 ↗ people at one time we are thrilled to

21:32 ↗ welcome rei which shares our passion for

21:34 ↗ sustainability

21:35 ↗ environmental protection and outdoor

21:37 ↗ recreation to our city

21:40 ↗ and the last item on tonight's mayor's

21:42 ↗ report is a recognition for

21:44 ↗ council member goodman and her 10 years

21:46 ↗ of service to our community

21:48 ↗ so each year we as a city recognize our

21:50 ↗ employees for various 10 years of

21:52 ↗ service

21:53 ↗ in five-year increments and i'd like to

21:55 ↗ take a moment

21:56 ↗ to thank and commend councilmember

21:57 ↗ goodman tonight as she has served 10

22:00 ↗ years as city council member

22:02 ↗ this coming march 7th congratulations

22:04 ↗ councilmember goodman

22:08 ↗ that concludes the mayor's report and

22:11 ↗ the next item on our business calendar

22:12 ↗ this evening is the consent calendar

22:15 ↗ this was distributed to council in

22:17 ↗ advance and if authorized the items on

22:19 ↗ the consent calendar will be considered

22:21 ↗ together

22:22 ↗ and approved by one motion have the

22:25 ↗ payables and payroll been reviewed

22:27 ↗ they have they have thank you very much

22:30 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

22:32 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

22:34 ↗ consider it

22:35 ↗ under regular business

22:40 ↗ okay seeing none do

22:44 ↗ i have somebody interested in making

22:46 ↗ emotion

22:50 ↗ council president hunt thank you this is

22:54 ↗ council president hunt i move to approve

22:56 ↗ the consent

22:56 ↗ calendar as it appears in this evening's

22:58 ↗ agenda thank you deputy council

23:00 ↗ president right

23:01 ↗ this is chris ray ii thank you

23:04 ↗ it has been moved and seconded and i

23:06 ↗ will now hand it over to the city clerk

23:08 ↗ for a roll call vote

23:11 ↗ starting with council member walsh aye

23:15 ↗ council member d michelle aye

23:18 ↗ councilmember goodman aye council member

23:21 ↗ hall

23:22 ↗ aye council president hunt

23:25 ↗ aye councilmember martz aye

23:29 ↗ and deputy council president ray hi

23:32 ↗ that's seven i zero nays thank you that

23:35 ↗ passes unanimously

23:37 ↗ we're now going to move into regular

23:39 ↗ business and the first item up is ab8074

23:44 ↗ the 2021 art administrative budget and

23:47 ↗ work program

23:48 ↗ the ask before council this evening will

23:50 ↗ be for approval

23:52 ↗ um for this presentation ab-8074

23:55 ↗ will be presented jointly with ab-8075

23:59 ↗ the 2020 arch trust fund recommendation

24:01 ↗ so i'd like to invite

24:03 ↗ lindsay masters the executive director

24:05 ↗ of a regional coalition for housing

24:07 ↗ to present these items hi lindsay hi

24:11 ↗ thank you for having me

24:12 ↗ nice to see you yeah i'm going to try to

24:15 ↗ share my screen

24:17 ↗ i just want to remember i was here about

24:18 ↗ a year ago i think for the first virtual

24:21 ↗ meeting

24:22 ↗ um presenting on a similar topic so

24:24 ↗ we've come a long way and

24:27 ↗ let's hope the technology serves up well

24:35 ↗ it looks like we're able to share your

24:36 ↗ screen lindsay

24:38 ↗ great see your screen thanks

24:45 ↗ all right so i'm gonna be

24:48 ↗ quickly talking about our work program

24:50 ↗ and budget which was um

24:52 ↗ approved by our executive board last

24:54 ↗ june

24:55 ↗ and then i'm gonna go into our housing

24:57 ↗ trust fund

24:58 ↗ program first talking a little bit just

25:01 ↗ about the program overview

25:03 ↗ and then getting into the specific

25:04 ↗ funding recommendations that are before

25:06 ↗ you today

25:09 ↗ um so just in a very brief single slide

25:12 ↗ i've tried to capture here

25:14 ↗ the big picture of what's what's new and

25:16 ↗ what's

25:17 ↗ was done with our 2021 work program and

25:19 ↗ budget

25:20 ↗ was adopted as i said last june when

25:25 ↗ many cities were at the height of

25:27 ↗ figuring out what some of the longer

25:28 ↗ term implications

25:29 ↗ the pandemic were going to be so we

25:31 ↗ tried to take a really conservative

25:33 ↗ approach

25:34 ↗ by holding all dues constant at the same

25:37 ↗ levels that they are at for 2020

25:40 ↗ and then trying to find other ways to

25:42 ↗ sort of come up

25:43 ↗ with the difference between growth and

25:45 ↗ art and our expenses

25:48 ↗ primarily by establishing administrative

25:52 ↗ and really just keeping our programs

25:54 ↗ constant not trying

25:56 ↗ to take on any significant growth this

25:58 ↗ year

25:59 ↗ but carrying forward our core services

26:02 ↗ um

26:03 ↗ and as a part of you know looking at our

26:05 ↗ work program we

26:08 ↗ sought direction from the board about

26:11 ↗ priorities that's something we've been

26:12 ↗ trying to do

26:13 ↗ from year to year we have a a big work

26:15 ↗ program admittedly and a lot of things

26:18 ↗ um going on all the time but really

26:20 ↗ trying to hone in on what are the top

26:22 ↗ priorities that are that our cities will

26:24 ↗ focus on and so we carried some of those

26:26 ↗ forward this year

26:28 ↗ and those number one is stewardship of

26:31 ↗ existing affordable housing

26:33 ↗ um excited to really be

26:36 ↗ making significant program improvements

26:38 ↗ to our home ownership program

26:40 ↗ this year we're undertaking a much more

26:43 ↗ intentional focus

26:44 ↗ on marketing and so we're excited

26:47 ↗ especially to help

26:48 ↗ market and sell some new homes for

26:50 ↗ highlands this year

26:52 ↗ been doing a lot of work planning for

26:53 ↗ that

26:55 ↗ um a second major goal for us this year

26:58 ↗ which is carried forward from last year

27:00 ↗ is to try to establish some regional

27:03 ↗ goals

27:04 ↗ amongst the arch communities for

27:06 ↗ affordable housing so we can start to

27:07 ↗ measure

27:08 ↗ and report on our progress year we're

27:12 ↗ going to continue

27:12 ↗ trying to discuss what options for

27:15 ↗ dedicated revenue forces there are

27:17 ↗ that's obviously a dynamic landscape as

27:20 ↗ there are

27:20 ↗ new sales tax uh tools in the toolbox

27:23 ↗ and other things going on

27:25 ↗ coming out of the state legislature and

27:28 ↗ then the first half of the year

27:30 ↗ work that's actually already underway is

27:32 ↗ we are trying to do some work with the

27:34 ↗ consultant

27:35 ↗ that we were able to take advantage of a

27:38 ↗ grant opportunity

27:39 ↗ from coming out of king county trying to

27:42 ↗ support sub-regional collaboration

27:44 ↗ and taking advantage of that to do some

27:47 ↗ assessment

27:48 ↗ of our capacity and looking at some of

27:50 ↗ the gaps and potential opportunities for

27:52 ↗ expansion in the future

27:54 ↗ and then really continuing to make sure

27:57 ↗ we are keeping our pipeline growing

28:00 ↗ you need to add more affordable housing

28:02 ↗ and and focusing on the projects that

28:03 ↗ have the highest impacts

28:06 ↗ and then of course we did not know what

28:08 ↗ this year was going to look like last

28:09 ↗ year so we wanted to make sure that we

28:11 ↗ were going to be

28:12 ↗ simple and responsive to needs that

28:14 ↗ might emerge um

28:16 ↗ recently i think we've been having

28:17 ↗ discussions about rental assistance as

28:19 ↗ a potentially a big need in this coming

28:22 ↗ year so we've been trying to facilitate

28:23 ↗ conversations about that

28:26 ↗ but that's the work program and budget

28:30 ↗ um the trust fund is is a really

28:33 ↗ important program i

28:34 ↗ i love talking about it and we decided

28:37 ↗ this year that we wanted to take

28:39 ↗ time to step back and look at it as a

28:41 ↗ whole program

28:42 ↗ especially for for council members that

28:44 ↗ haven't had many years of

28:46 ↗ familiarity of seeing projects come up

28:48 ↗ and be funded year to year

28:50 ↗ but it's really an incredible program

28:52 ↗ that uh takes advantage of

28:54 ↗ the collective will and investment of

28:58 ↗ all the cities inside a diverse

29:01 ↗ array of affordable housing projects for

29:04 ↗ many types of populations

29:06 ↗ geographically distributed throughout

29:08 ↗ the region

29:09 ↗ so we've been able to fund a wide

29:11 ↗ variety of over the last

29:13 ↗ close to 30 years now and have a

29:16 ↗ significant track record

29:18 ↗ for it over the years there's been a set

29:22 ↗ of principles that have really developed

29:25 ↗ over time that try to that have driven

29:26 ↗ the program

29:28 ↗ um we are constantly trying to leverage

29:31 ↗ your local dollars to get the maximum

29:33 ↗ impact

29:34 ↗ uh historically there's been a ten to

29:36 ↗ one leverage ratio so for every dollar

29:39 ↗ local dollar support there's ten dollars

29:41 ↗ of other

29:42 ↗ funds that have come into the projects

29:44 ↗ funded

29:45 ↗ we have sought to create broad

29:47 ↗ geographic equity so that every

29:49 ↗ community gets the benefit of some

29:51 ↗ affordable housing

29:52 ↗ and that people who are seeking housing

29:54 ↗ are able to have choice

29:56 ↗ a significant choice where they're

29:58 ↗ looking for housing

30:00 ↗ we have a citizen advisory board and

30:02 ↗ have

30:03 ↗ had wonderful representation from

30:05 ↗ community members

30:07 ↗ including it from issaquah and some

30:09 ↗ other communities

30:10 ↗ as well who really helped to shape these

30:13 ↗ project recommendations before they come

30:15 ↗ to you

30:17 ↗ um and then finally we are

30:20 ↗ we are really looking at these as

30:22 ↗ long-term investments so

30:24 ↗ we have new projects every year but

30:26 ↗ we're also we are also significant

30:28 ↗ stewarding a significant amount of past

30:31 ↗ investment

30:32 ↗ and housing that as that grows that's

30:34 ↗ going to become

30:36 ↗ increasingly important years to come

30:40 ↗ this is a broad snapshot

30:44 ↗ of the program production

30:47 ↗ have succeeded in making sure there are

30:50 ↗ projects in just about every

30:51 ↗ member community that has the zoning

30:54 ↗ that that affords

30:55 ↗ housing you see on the map here that the

30:59 ↗ housing trust fund projects are

31:00 ↗ in green complementary to that are all

31:04 ↗ of the projects that we've been able to

31:05 ↗ support through land use and other

31:07 ↗ incentive programs

31:09 ↗ and together the two kind of um

31:12 ↗ are able to address the entire spectrum

31:14 ↗ of housing

31:18 ↗ um stepping back again uh we wanted to

31:22 ↗ take some time

31:23 ↗ this uh this year to start looking at

31:26 ↗ the demographics that

31:28 ↗ served our various programs a few slides

31:32 ↗ here on the trust fund we've also

31:33 ↗ started gathering analyzing this data

31:35 ↗ for our other programs

31:37 ↗ and i love to come back another time and

31:39 ↗ share that

31:40 ↗ the housing trust fund has has really

31:43 ↗ over time

31:45 ↗ a critical resource for people at the

31:47 ↗ lowest end of the

31:48 ↗ of the income spectrum you can see here

31:50 ↗ the majority of

31:52 ↗ households living in developments are

31:54 ↗ earning less than

31:55 ↗ 30 percent

32:00 ↗ um we've also had a significant share of

32:03 ↗ households who've been able to

32:05 ↗ become housed who have come out of

32:06 ↗ homelessness

32:08 ↗ both families and individuals and find

32:10 ↗ housing within

32:11 ↗ development also a significant share of

32:15 ↗ parent households compared to the

32:17 ↗ general population

32:21 ↗ and then this shows you the race and

32:23 ↗ racial and

32:24 ↗ ethnic uh backgrounds of how the heads

32:26 ↗ of household within

32:28 ↗ housing trust fund projects um so

32:30 ↗ significant share

32:32 ↗ of households of color in them

32:35 ↗ and a significant year of hispanic

32:37 ↗ households compared to the broader

32:39 ↗ renter population county

32:45 ↗ so moving on to the projects themselves

32:49 ↗ um starting here with a project that

32:51 ↗ will be a permanent supportive housing

32:53 ↗ project located in bellevue

32:57 ↗ neighborhood and undertaken by

33:00 ↗ through a partnership with plymouth

33:02 ↗ housing a very experienced

33:04 ↗ housing provider that has developed

33:06 ↗ primarily in seattle

33:08 ↗ up until now and horizon housing as

33:11 ↗ their development consultant

33:13 ↗ this is part of a larger master

33:15 ↗ development that i'll show you a slide

33:17 ↗ that gives you a visual of what that

33:19 ↗ campus looks like

33:21 ↗ the funding request here is for a total

33:23 ↗ of five hundred thousand dollars

33:26 ↗ it will fund 93 studio units plus some

33:29 ↗ additional

33:30 ↗ uh apartments for on-site staff

33:33 ↗ and i'm going to talk a little bit about

33:35 ↗ permanent support of housing the next

33:37 ↗ slide

33:38 ↗ as well as some of the partnerships here

33:40 ↗ that

33:41 ↗ that are make this development

33:44 ↗ so permanent supportive housing if you

33:46 ↗ haven't

33:48 ↗ been able to learn much about it in the

33:49 ↗ past is a critical housing model for

33:53 ↗ people

33:53 ↗ coming out of homelessness unlike

33:56 ↗ transitional or shelter programs it

33:58 ↗ really is permanent housing

34:00 ↗ time limits on it or none

34:04 ↗ it is paired with intensive wrap around

34:06 ↗ services that are designed

34:09 ↗ efficient to the needs of the people who

34:11 ↗ are coming the program

34:13 ↗ and it's really intended to be for

34:16 ↗ individuals

34:18 ↗ with significant barriers to long-term

34:20 ↗ housing ability

34:21 ↗ um potentially people who have been

34:23 ↗ homeless a long time

34:25 ↗ who need really need those additional

34:27 ↗ supports

34:28 ↗ with the housing have long fast

34:32 ↗ um an important feature too is that it's

34:35 ↗ plymouth in particular

34:37 ↗ and together with other providers who

34:39 ↗ operate

34:40 ↗ permanent supportive housing that it's a

34:42 ↗ housing first philosophy

34:44 ↗ that housing uh is is the first thing

34:48 ↗ you provide there are not barriers or

34:50 ↗ other

34:50 ↗ conditions left in where they in

34:54 ↗ um and then just some of the important

34:56 ↗ building features things that are that

34:57 ↗ are very typical of this housing model

35:00 ↗ there is a big focus on community space

35:03 ↗ and creating um venues people to get

35:06 ↗ together

35:08 ↗ uh there's in addition there's um

35:11 ↗ dedicated space for the delivery of

35:13 ↗ social services within

35:14 ↗ the building and then there's typically

35:18 ↗ 24-hour staffing

35:19 ↗ and a secure entry

35:23 ↗ there is a significant research base now

35:26 ↗ that's developed over

35:27 ↗ over many years that has studied this

35:29 ↗ housing model it showed

35:31 ↗ uh long-term um long-term

35:34 ↗ effectiveness in housing stability

35:37 ↗ making sure people retain their housing

35:39 ↗ over time

35:40 ↗ uh you the individuals who um

35:44 ↗ are able to move into housing typically

35:46 ↗ experience

35:47 ↗ uh significant improvements in their

35:50 ↗ health

35:51 ↗ and then there's been a lot of studies

35:52 ↗ about sort of the overall

35:54 ↗ cost system for uh this type

35:58 ↗ of housing versus the continued cost of

36:00 ↗ people being homeless and

36:02 ↗ showing that this overall creates costly

36:05 ↗ things

36:07 ↗ so this as i mentioned the broader

36:09 ↗ campus

36:10 ↗ this project is complementary previous

36:14 ↗ projects that we have

36:15 ↗ funded and that are now being developed

36:17 ↗ together as one master development

36:20 ↗ one is the very important inside men's

36:23 ↗ shelter that has been long

36:25 ↗ long coming uh we're excited to

36:27 ↗ hopefully see that finally get off the

36:29 ↗ ground this year

36:31 ↗ and then another workforce housing

36:33 ↗ development

36:35 ↗ uh kind of on the upper shelf there of

36:37 ↗ the site there

36:41 ↗ the next project is being undertaken by

36:44 ↗ imagine housing

36:45 ↗ another one that you've seen previously

36:48 ↗ he

36:49 ↗ made an initial award to the developer

36:52 ↗ to be able to purchase the property um

36:55 ↗ last year

36:56 ↗ that was a previous report of 750 000

36:58 ↗ and then there's an additional request

37:00 ↗ here for another

37:01 ↗ 500 000 and that will

37:04 ↗ help to create 76 new studios

37:07 ↗ affordable at fifty percent of the

37:09 ↗ income

37:10 ↗ or seniors in bothell a project that has

37:14 ↗ been

37:15 ↗ really important to the city of bothell

37:17 ↗ they have

37:18 ↗ made the property available for

37:20 ↗ affordable housing

37:22 ↗ undertaking some zoning changes as well

37:24 ↗ to be able to accommodate

37:26 ↗ more housing on the site

37:31 ↗ and then we have final project which is

37:34 ↗ uh called totem horizon at totem lake

37:38 ↗ and this is uh i'm sorry i don't know

37:41 ↗ what happened the title on the slide

37:42 ↗ there but this is a project that's being

37:44 ↗ co-developed by inland and horizon

37:46 ↗ housing alliance

37:48 ↗ modeled sort of on the development

37:52 ↗ process at the together center in

37:53 ↗ redmond

37:55 ↗ um that's a project that has a mix of

37:58 ↗ different housing components

38:00 ↗ workforce housing as well as housing for

38:03 ↗ people with lower incomes and hope for

38:07 ↗ to create some set-asides for families

38:08 ↗ coming out of homelessness

38:11 ↗ would be served by hope link

38:14 ↗ this project is a little bit earlier in

38:17 ↗ in development and so there's still some

38:19 ↗ parts with the financing but um

38:23 ↗ city of kirkland was excited to be able

38:26 ↗ to

38:26 ↗ provide additional funding larger

38:29 ↗ funding requests

38:30 ↗ so we've been able to manage of some you

38:33 ↗ know funds there to

38:34 ↗ to be able to respond to the entire

38:37 ↗ request

38:38 ↗ additionally in the last year we stood

38:41 ↗ up

38:41 ↗ a pilot program with microsoft to be

38:44 ↗ able to provide

38:45 ↗ short-term funding from their uh

38:48 ↗ from their affordable housing initiative

38:51 ↗ just as an additional tool in the

38:53 ↗ toolbox to help

38:54 ↗ projects pencil and come together and so

38:57 ↗ we were able to make the first loan from

38:59 ↗ that

39:00 ↗ program last year and they've agreed to

39:02 ↗ make an additional commitment

39:04 ↗ here to this project

39:09 ↗ this provides you a snapshot of all the

39:11 ↗ other

39:12 ↗ funds that are anticipated to come into

39:14 ↗ this project

39:16 ↗ we have a significant rate of leverage

39:18 ↗ um

39:19 ↗ more than i think we've been able to

39:21 ↗ achieve historically i said

39:23 ↗ been about ten to one for arch funds

39:26 ↗ other funds and here we are

39:30 ↗ rising about three percent of the total

39:32 ↗ funds effective

39:34 ↗ projects

39:38 ↗ and this provides you an overview of all

39:40 ↗ the other arts

39:41 ↗ contributions that are being recommended

39:45 ↗ um help fully fund all three

39:48 ↗ developments

39:51 ↗ so my video is covering up the amount

39:54 ↗ first club but it looks like it's 118

39:57 ↗ and 300 contributions to make these

40:00 ↗ three developments

40:01 ↗ go forward so i'm going to

40:06 ↗ stop sharing but i can pull it back up

40:10 ↗ if there's any questions about the

40:11 ↗ slides

40:14 ↗ that is great lindsay it's nice to see

40:16 ↗ you again and it's nice to hear such a

40:17 ↗ long

40:18 ↗ and detailed presentation of what you

40:21 ↗ are working on

40:22 ↗ i also want to let the council know that

40:24 ↗ we have kristin leeson also on hand

40:26 ↗ for questions this evening and so i'm

40:28 ↗ going to keep my eye on the chat

40:30 ↗ to see if council members have questions

40:33 ↗ or comments

40:34 ↗ and they do so we will start with

40:35 ↗ council member hall

40:38 ↗ thanks mayor paulie this is

40:39 ↗ councilmember hall um thank you very

40:41 ↗ much for the presentation i appreciate

40:42 ↗ the thoroughness

40:43 ↗ um i have a question about the work

40:46 ↗ program

40:46 ↗ for 2021 and i was wondering if you

40:49 ↗ could speak to or elaborate on

40:52 ↗ on page seven under education and

40:54 ↗ outreach it says housing 101 in

40:56 ↗ education efforts so i was wondering if

40:57 ↗ you could kind of elaborate on that

40:59 ↗ for the council but also for the

41:00 ↗ community watching for sure

41:02 ↗ um housing 101 is an event

41:06 ↗ that arch has done over the years

41:10 ↗ and the primary purpose of that is

41:14 ↗ to provide some basic education for our

41:16 ↗ members

41:17 ↗ particularly council members but also

41:21 ↗ planning community members about housing

41:24 ↗ about the arts model how we work

41:26 ↗ together as a

41:27 ↗ company i will admit

41:31 ↗ talked we had a discussion last year

41:33 ↗ about what does an event

41:35 ↗ what does an event look like exactly and

41:37 ↗ couldn't quite

41:39 ↗ kind of wrap our heads around something

41:42 ↗ in person

41:43 ↗ um so this year we're looking at

41:46 ↗ something more of a of a virtual

41:49 ↗ we're gathering some input on what's the

41:51 ↗ best

41:52 ↗ format time topics uh to do that we're

41:56 ↗ also talking to the

41:57 ↗ sound cities association see partnership

42:00 ↗ there come together um

42:04 ↗ together so still kind of in the plans

42:07 ↗ of what that what

42:08 ↗ and what that event used to look like

42:10 ↗ was uh often a bus tour

42:12 ↗ um visiting affordable housing sites

42:14 ↗ like that um

42:16 ↗ in this context we're still sort of

42:19 ↗ talking about what

42:20 ↗ what's going to be most effective

42:21 ↗ alcohol

42:28 ↗ caught myself thank you lindsay uh next

42:31 ↗ up for questions is councilmember walsh

42:34 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh um

42:37 ↗ looking at

42:38 ↗ your budget for the year i just wanted

42:40 ↗ to dig

42:41 ↗ into you said you were keeping the

42:44 ↗ member cities dues um steady but

42:47 ↗ obviously

42:48 ↗ everything costs more every year and so

42:51 ↗ i see a 728 percent

42:55 ↗ increase in costs in your other income

42:59 ↗ category

43:01 ↗ which includes a forty five thousand

43:02 ↗ dollar new home

43:04 ↗ owner new home ownership program fee

43:07 ↗ assessment can you talk through what

43:10 ↗ that is and who pays it

43:12 ↗ and what kind of impact do you think

43:13 ↗ that'll have on the program

43:15 ↗ for sure yeah um so

43:19 ↗ you might recall we went through a an

43:21 ↗ evaluation of that program

43:23 ↗ ago and we received a whole set of

43:26 ↗ consultant recommendations

43:28 ↗ for how to make sure the program

43:31 ↗ continues to be successful and it's

43:33 ↗ capable and that we staff it

43:34 ↗ appropriately

43:36 ↗ long list of recommendations we've made

43:38 ↗ a lot of progress tackling those one of

43:40 ↗ them

43:41 ↗ that was kind of near the top was to try

43:43 ↗ to create

43:44 ↗ a sustainable revenue source

43:47 ↗ but as the program grows and the

43:49 ↗ forklift grows we're able to actually

43:51 ↗ add staff to

43:53 ↗ respond to that so as a follow-up to

43:56 ↗ that study

43:58 ↗ about another consultant who's

44:01 ↗ a national expert in land trust

44:04 ↗ kind of give us what are the menu of

44:07 ↗ options

44:08 ↗ for how we create some kind of

44:11 ↗ trade of figures start to collect some

44:12 ↗ revenue program

44:14 ↗ and so she went through a process with

44:16 ↗ our board give us some resolutions

44:19 ↗ and the final recommendation was that we

44:24 ↗ one percent fee that it's collected

44:27 ↗ when homes are resold um and that is

44:30 ↗ paid by the seller rather than

44:32 ↗ the buyers that comes out of the

44:33 ↗ proceeds

44:39 ↗ uh last year and we i think we're able

44:42 ↗ to

44:43 ↗ uh start seeing what that is going to

44:46 ↗ create over time

44:48 ↗ um again last year there was a lot of

44:50 ↗ unknowns we didn't know if there was

44:52 ↗ going to be

44:53 ↗ extra housing prices there was going to

44:56 ↗ be equal time selling some of these

44:58 ↗ homes we haven't seen any of that

44:59 ↗ yet fortunately um but when we developed

45:02 ↗ the policy or

45:04 ↗ did sort of have a discussion about what

45:06 ↗ would what would be

45:07 ↗ our position if that was if that was

45:09 ↗ starting to happen and

45:11 ↗ some of the homeowners in the program

45:12 ↗ might be experiencing impacts to their

45:15 ↗ equity that they're hoping to get out of

45:17 ↗ the

45:18 ↗ out of home ownership so we've um

45:22 ↗ sort of had some experience with that

45:24 ↗ we've started to develop

45:26 ↗ some thinking and some policy still

45:28 ↗ still in

45:29 ↗ under consideration by the board but

45:31 ↗ talk about

45:32 ↗ the event that there are financial

45:34 ↗ hardships like that

45:36 ↗ how could we wave or reduce the so um

45:40 ↗ that's kind of the experience so far but

45:43 ↗ for fortunate knock on wood that housing

45:46 ↗ prices have not

45:47 ↗ been coming down yet it sustains

45:50 ↗ demand for homes as they as they resell

45:55 ↗ thank you thank you lindsay next up is

45:59 ↗ council president

46:00 ↗ hunt thank you and thank you very much

46:03 ↗ for the presentation and the information

46:06 ↗ my question um is following up on a

46:08 ↗ email that we received back in january

46:11 ↗ regarding concerns about imagine housing

46:14 ↗ i wondered if you could talk about the

46:17 ↗ role

46:18 ↗ of arch which does fund or which is

46:21 ↗ involved with funding a lot of the

46:23 ↗ imagine housing

46:24 ↗ and and then also generally what arches

46:28 ↗ role is in

46:29 ↗ when there are concerns around um

46:32 ↗ management

46:32 ↗ or when there are issues around

46:34 ↗ management of properties

46:36 ↗ yeah i know i'm glad i'm glad you

46:38 ↗ brought that up um

46:40 ↗ big picture is imagine housing has been

46:43 ↗ around

46:44 ↗ i think about as long as arch so has

46:47 ↗ evolved over that time and has developed

46:49 ↗ a portfolio that has been supported by

46:52 ↗ our city

46:52 ↗ for the years from a really significant

46:56 ↗ housing provider on the side and they've

46:58 ↗ got

46:59 ↗ a portfolio that's a valuable community

47:02 ↗ resource so

47:03 ↗ big picture is we need them we want we

47:07 ↗ want them to be doing a good job of

47:09 ↗ managing all their properties

47:11 ↗ and we're invested in making sure that

47:13 ↗ happens received the same letter i

47:15 ↗ believe that

47:16 ↗ um some of our member city council

47:18 ↗ received

47:19 ↗ and followed up on that a number of

47:23 ↗ different things

47:24 ↗ um that are also detailed in a memo that

47:26 ↗ was provided for our board

47:28 ↗ which we'd be happy to share as a

47:30 ↗ follow-up interesting

47:32 ↗ um but we have met with the leadership

47:36 ↗ of imagine housing

47:38 ↗ there was recently a leadership

47:39 ↗ transition there so there is

47:41 ↗ a new kind of approach and

47:45 ↗ thinking about how to respond to

47:46 ↗ community concerns

47:48 ↗ but in addition to that we wanted to be

47:51 ↗ able to have

47:52 ↗ make sure we have some accountability

47:53 ↗ mechanism

47:55 ↗ make sure that all the complaints that

47:57 ↗ are have come up are resolved

48:00 ↗ so we held a special board meeting in

48:03 ↗ the last month was either late january

48:06 ↗ or first week of february

48:08 ↗ to discuss the letter and the concerns

48:10 ↗ raised

48:11 ↗ to bring some additional information

48:13 ↗ that our staff

48:15 ↗ went out and gathered about property

48:17 ↗ conditions

48:18 ↗ things like that and then to consider

48:20 ↗ some additional funding conditions

48:22 ↗ that we could uh insert into this

48:25 ↗ particular funding award that you're

48:28 ↗ acting on tonight for the family senior

48:30 ↗ housing

48:31 ↗ project so the board had a really good

48:34 ↗ discussion

48:36 ↗ about that um appreciated wally's

48:39 ↗ participation on the board

48:41 ↗ and they did uh vote to approve

48:44 ↗ two additional funding commissions that

48:47 ↗ are

48:48 ↗ a condition of any additional future

48:50 ↗ funding going to imagine

48:53 ↗ so one of them is about specific

48:57 ↗ issues and concerns that were presented

48:59 ↗ at the letter that are immediate and

49:00 ↗ going on in the properties right now

49:02 ↗ so we have requested and already

49:05 ↗ received

49:07 ↗ a response and an implementation plan

49:09 ↗ from imagine to be able to address those

49:12 ↗ um and then that will come with it some

49:15 ↗ ongoing reporting

49:18 ↗ basically a monthly basis to make sure

49:19 ↗ they're following through with that

49:21 ↗ um and then an additional condition

49:23 ↗ that's about the future project

49:25 ↗ which is additional contractual language

49:28 ↗ around

49:28 ↗ property habitability for the long term

49:34 ↗ answer yes thank you

49:39 ↗ thank you lindsay i am looking at the

49:41 ↗ chat and not seeing

49:42 ↗ any additional questions at this time

49:46 ↗ give it a second

49:50 ↗ council member hall

49:54 ↗ thank you my apologies round two i have

49:55 ↗ another question um

49:57 ↗ about the first project the eastgate

49:59 ↗ supportive housing

50:00 ↗ um is this the only project of the three

50:04 ↗ with those wraparound services that you

50:06 ↗ described

50:06 ↗ because it's targeted towards people who

50:09 ↗ are at risk of becoming homeless

50:12 ↗ it is it is unique amongst the the three

50:15 ↗ projects

50:16 ↗ the level of services that we've

50:18 ↗ provided

50:20 ↗ um and it's it's for people who are

50:23 ↗ who are literally coming out of

50:25 ↗ homelessness i failed to mention that

50:27 ↗ um an important part of that project is

50:29 ↗ the partnership with congregations for

50:31 ↗ homeless

50:32 ↗ so there's going to be it's

50:34 ↗ intentionally designed so that people

50:36 ↗ who are

50:37 ↗ being happy pals housed who are coming

50:40 ↗ from the shelter that's

50:41 ↗ developed on the site will have a

50:44 ↗ pathway

50:45 ↗ housing at the support of housing

50:47 ↗ development um the same pathway

50:50 ↗ it's discussed and hoped and planned for

50:53 ↗ for women

50:54 ↗ coming out of the shelter um in kirkland

50:57 ↗ that you also helped to fund through

50:59 ↗ arch

51:00 ↗ so we're we're excited for that we're

51:02 ↗ really excited for that permanent

51:04 ↗ supportive housing it's

51:06 ↗ um uh it's been absent as a model on the

51:10 ↗ east side and so

51:11 ↗ we're really filling a gap but that is

51:14 ↗ there for

51:14 ↗ people who've been honestly having

51:17 ↗ long-term relationships with both feet

51:19 ↗ away in cfh but the housing is

51:22 ↗ there for them so we're excited about

51:25 ↗ that

51:26 ↗ there will be some level of services um

51:29 ↗ actually at the other two developments

51:31 ↗ but not

51:32 ↗ for that to that same level

51:37 ↗ great um thank you lindsay it looks like

51:40 ↗ our staff member kristen wilson has a

51:42 ↗ comment

51:43 ↗ kristen hi this is kristen leeson and i

51:46 ↗ council member hall asked why that one

51:48 ↗ had been targeted as part of the

51:50 ↗ discussion tonight and

51:52 ↗ um that is the only one requesting

51:54 ↗ funding this year as well the other two

51:56 ↗ pieces the other two phases of that

51:57 ↗ project have already been funded both in

51:59 ↗ 2017 and 2019

52:01 ↗ so that's the only piece requesting

52:02 ↗ funding this year

52:05 ↗ thank you kristen i am not seeing any

52:09 ↗ other

52:09 ↗ uh questions or comments if someone

52:11 ↗ would care to make motion

52:13 ↗ council president hunt

52:17 ↗ thank you um i moved to approve the 2021

52:21 ↗ administrative budget and work program

52:23 ↗ for a regional coalition for

52:25 ↗ housing arch and approve resolution

52:28 ↗ number

52:30 ↗ 2021-02 authorizing the duly appointed

52:33 ↗ administering agency for arch to execute

52:36 ↗ all documents necessary to enter into

52:38 ↗ agreements

52:39 ↗ for the funding of affordable housing

52:40 ↗ projects as recommended by the arch

52:43 ↗ executive board utilizing funds from the

52:45 ↗ city's housing trust fund

52:49 ↗ and deputy council president ray second

52:54 ↗ okay it has been moved and seconded

52:58 ↗ i have to ask the clerk a question i

53:00 ↗ confess i wasn't listening to

53:02 ↗ exactly which motion was read is this

53:05 ↗ both motions that we're voting on at

53:07 ↗ once

53:08 ↗ yes both were moved together okay great

53:11 ↗ thank you uh so comments or discussion

53:20 ↗ so give it a few seconds

53:26 ↗ okay seeing none i will go back to the

53:29 ↗ city clerk for a roll call vote

53:37 ↗ starting with council member d michelle

53:41 ↗ i council member goodman

53:44 ↗ aye councilmember hall aye

53:48 ↗ council president hunt aye councilmember

53:51 ↗ martz

53:52 ↗ aye deputy council president ray aye

53:57 ↗ councilmember walsh aye that's 7i

54:01 ↗ zero nays thank you that passes

54:04 ↗ unanimously lindsay thank you for

54:05 ↗ joining us the year is a long time

54:08 ↗ uh your presentation was excellent and

54:10 ↗ i'm glad kristen got to pop in there

54:12 ↗ for making it come to a night meeting

54:14 ↗ and at least uh provide some

54:15 ↗ clarification

54:16 ↗ thank you both for coming thank you

54:18 ↗ we're we're going to move on to our

54:20 ↗ third item this evening which is ab8098

54:23 ↗ the 2021 arts grant recommendation

54:27 ↗ and i'd like to invite our arts program

54:29 ↗ administrator amy dukes to present this

54:31 ↗ item

54:32 ↗ the request for council this evening

54:34 ↗ will be for approval

54:36 ↗ amy

54:42 ↗ good evening mayor paulie and council

54:45 ↗ members thank you for

54:47 ↗ having me i am going to share my screen

54:54 ↗ and there we go

55:01 ↗ are you all able to see the presentation

55:04 ↗ amy we can see your presentation great

55:07 ↗ thank you

55:08 ↗ so i'm here this evening um just to

55:10 ↗ present the

55:11 ↗ 2021 arts grant funding recommendations

55:14 ↗ round one

55:15 ↗ um these are being forwarded from the

55:18 ↗ arts commission

55:19 ↗ after their review last month

55:23 ↗ february and the recommendations

55:26 ↗ include 15 grants that total 82

55:30 ↗ 540 dollars i'm just to give you a

55:34 ↗ little bit of overview about the arts

55:36 ↗ grant program this year

55:37 ↗ which is a little different um our

55:40 ↗ budget is

55:41 ↗ 145 000 this year it is reduced um due

55:44 ↗ to the fact that

55:46 ↗ our major source of revenue admissions

55:48 ↗ tax

55:50 ↗ is pretty much on pause with regal

55:51 ↗ theater being closed we are utilizing

55:54 ↗ our fund balance in the municipal arts

55:56 ↗ fund to cover this expense

55:59 ↗ and because of all of the restrictions

56:02 ↗ that have been placed on

56:04 ↗ gathering and celebrating as a community

56:07 ↗ we decided to do the grant application

56:10 ↗ in two rounds this year

56:11 ↗ um one this first quarter basically in

56:13 ↗ january in february

56:15 ↗ so that applicants would have some

56:18 ↗ flexibility

56:19 ↗ to suggest some

56:22 ↗ projects and programs that they would

56:23 ↗ actually be able to

56:25 ↗ carry out right now and then we will

56:27 ↗ have a second round

56:28 ↗ of applications toward the end of the

56:30 ↗ second quarter when hopefully there'll

56:32 ↗ be a little bit more clarity

56:33 ↗ on gathering in larger groups as the

56:36 ↗ year progresses

56:38 ↗ and again really wanted to focus this

56:40 ↗ round on projects that can be delivered

56:43 ↗ within the healthy washington roadmap to

56:45 ↗ recovery guidelines

56:47 ↗ which currently uh have us at 25

56:51 ↗ indoor capacity and up to i believe 200

56:55 ↗ people gathering outside

56:58 ↗ um and so the grant criteria hasn't

57:00 ↗ really changed

57:02 ↗ this year except that we kind of honed

57:05 ↗ in on some

57:06 ↗ words that are important to us we moved

57:08 ↗ public benefit to sort of the

57:10 ↗ primary most important criteria

57:14 ↗ and then artistic value we actually made

57:17 ↗ a word change from artistic quality

57:20 ↗ on this one um we really want art to be

57:22 ↗ at the core

57:23 ↗ of these projects and programs and that

57:26 ↗ participants can really have

57:28 ↗ meaningful involvement is what that

57:30 ↗ artistic value

57:31 ↗ means um feasibility and managerial

57:33 ↗ capacity

57:35 ↗ um are really focused on in this case

57:38 ↗ in this round the ability of the

57:40 ↗ organization or the artist to conduct

57:42 ↗ the project or program given

57:44 ↗ our current restrictions and then just

57:46 ↗ the ability to manage grant funds and

57:49 ↗ provide the financial and participation

57:51 ↗ reporting that we require

57:53 ↗ and then lastly a diversity of funding

57:55 ↗ sources and leveraging grant

57:57 ↗ dollars and you know this means a lot of

57:59 ↗ different things depending on the size

58:01 ↗ of the project

58:02 ↗ but we just want to see that there are

58:03 ↗ others who are supporting the project or

58:06 ↗ program and that can just be as simple

58:07 ↗ as

58:08 ↗ volunteers or in-kind support from the

58:10 ↗ community

58:13 ↗ so here is the list of the 15

58:17 ↗ grant recommendations we were really

58:19 ↗ excited to receive

58:20 ↗ quite a new quite a good number of new

58:23 ↗ applicants

58:24 ↗ this round we have um six new applicants

58:26 ↗ that

58:27 ↗ we have not um funded previously

58:30 ↗ and we feel like this group really kind

58:32 ↗ of

58:33 ↗ reaches far and wide across the

58:35 ↗ community and

58:37 ↗ will make a big impact even for that

58:39 ↗ small dollar amount

58:45 ↗ and then just to give you a snapshot of

58:47 ↗ how the funding will break out between

58:49 ↗ the two rounds

58:50 ↗ um so we're recommending the arts

58:52 ↗ commission is recommending 82

58:54 ↗ 540 for round one and that will leave

58:56 ↗ sixty two thousand four hundred and

58:58 ↗ sixty dollars

58:59 ↗ for that round two application in the

59:01 ↗ second quarter

59:02 ↗ to third quarter and we feel

59:06 ↗ that that does provide adequate support

59:09 ↗ for

59:09 ↗ a second round of of applicants and

59:13 ↗ if you notice most of the grants that

59:15 ↗ are being recommended are sort of more

59:16 ↗ in that three to five thousand dollar

59:18 ↗ range

59:19 ↗ so that should provide um a decent

59:21 ↗ number of

59:22 ↗ um support for other projects and

59:24 ↗ programs that second round

59:28 ↗ so the recommendation um is to improve

59:31 ↗ the round

59:32 ↗ one of 2021 arts grant um funding as

59:35 ↗ it's being recommended by the arts

59:37 ↗ commission

59:38 ↗ for a total expenditure of 82 540

59:42 ↗ and i would be more than happy to answer

59:45 ↗ questions and i'm gonna

59:46 ↗ just stop sharing for um

59:49 ↗ and i can come back if we need to do

59:52 ↗ that

59:53 ↗ thank you amy it does look like we have

59:56 ↗ a question

59:57 ↗ i believe a council member

1:00:01 ↗ my chat is not scrolling uh council

1:00:04 ↗ member

1:00:04 ↗ hall is that right go ahead

1:00:08 ↗ yes uh thanks mayor paulie this is

1:00:10 ↗ councilmember hall uh my question

1:00:12 ↗ oh and thank you amy by the way thank

1:00:13 ↗ you very much i appreciate the

1:00:14 ↗ presentation

1:00:15 ↗ um my question has to do with the rounds

1:00:17 ↗ so if an applicant

1:00:19 ↗ uh you know tonight is awarded with

1:00:22 ↗ round one funding can they also be

1:00:24 ↗ rewarded with round two funding because

1:00:26 ↗ it sounded like

1:00:27 ↗ round one was very specific for this

1:00:29 ↗ road map to healthy recovery so

1:00:31 ↗ obsessively round one

1:00:33 ↗ applications and round two applications

1:00:34 ↗ could look fairly different depending on

1:00:36 ↗ what the public health

1:00:38 ↗ landscape looks like in the coming

1:00:39 ↗ months

1:00:41 ↗ yes that's correct we did say that

1:00:44 ↗ applicants could apply to both

1:00:45 ↗ round one and round two and really did

1:00:48 ↗ ask applicants to focus on what they

1:00:50 ↗ could accomplish right now

1:00:51 ↗ in the current restrictions so if that

1:00:54 ↗ changes dramatically we really hope we

1:00:56 ↗ will see

1:00:57 ↗ other types of applications we're

1:00:59 ↗ crossing fingers

1:01:01 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember hall

1:01:04 ↗ i'm looking to see if there's any

1:01:06 ↗ additional questions or comments

1:01:11 ↗ otherwise i'd be looking for someone to

1:01:12 ↗ make a motion

1:01:16 ↗ council president hunt

1:01:19 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

1:01:21 ↗ i moved to approve funding for the first

1:01:23 ↗ round of 2021 arts grants as recommended

1:01:25 ↗ by the arts commission for a total

1:01:27 ↗ expenditure of eighty-two thousand five

1:01:29 ↗ hundred and forty dollars

1:01:31 ↗ thank you deputy council president right

1:01:33 ↗ second

1:01:35 ↗ it's been moved and seconded is there

1:01:38 ↗ any council discussion

1:01:42 ↗ let's go to council president hunt for

1:01:45 ↗ comment

1:01:47 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

1:01:49 ↗ i am supportive of the

1:01:51 ↗ recommendations from the arts commission

1:01:53 ↗ i did want to

1:01:55 ↗ um to raise for council's

1:01:58 ↗ future consideration that i think in

1:02:01 ↗ later in this year we should think about

1:02:03 ↗ how

1:02:04 ↗ um we might make sure that there is

1:02:07 ↗ continuation of funding for these arts

1:02:10 ↗ grants because

1:02:11 ↗ uh as far as i understand the main

1:02:14 ↗ source of funding

1:02:15 ↗ for these grants is um the theater uh

1:02:19 ↗ movie theater tickets and that is still

1:02:21 ↗ not um

1:02:22 ↗ a funding source right now due to the

1:02:25 ↗ restrictions and due to the pandemic and

1:02:28 ↗ um we obviously have a lot of

1:02:29 ↗ uncertainty around

1:02:31 ↗ that right now so i think in the future

1:02:34 ↗ later this year

1:02:35 ↗ um we should consider how we can make

1:02:38 ↗ sure that

1:02:39 ↗ this very important um funding continues

1:02:42 ↗ because i do think it's

1:02:44 ↗ more important probably now than ever

1:02:46 ↗ that people have

1:02:47 ↗ things to do to get together and enjoy

1:02:51 ↗ the arts uh and i will also

1:02:54 ↗ mention that this is a smaller amount of

1:02:56 ↗ funding than

1:02:57 ↗ in the previous year and we have a

1:02:59 ↗ growing population so

1:03:01 ↗ i would not want that to be a trend but

1:03:02 ↗ i understand that this is uh

1:03:04 ↗ under extraordinary circumstances thank

1:03:06 ↗ you

1:03:07 ↗ thank you council president

1:03:08 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:03:11 ↗ uh thank you this is councilmember d

1:03:13 ↗ michelle i

1:03:14 ↗ was really struck when i was reading

1:03:16 ↗ through the proposal

1:03:18 ↗ uh with what a well thought out um

1:03:22 ↗ program this is and i want to commend

1:03:25 ↗ the arts commission for the work that

1:03:26 ↗ they did on it because

1:03:28 ↗ it really addressed the changes that

1:03:30 ↗ have come before us because of the

1:03:32 ↗ pandemic

1:03:33 ↗ and created a way for arts groups to

1:03:36 ↗ respond to

1:03:38 ↗ to the pandemic and i was very

1:03:40 ↗ appreciative of all the thought that

1:03:41 ↗ went into this

1:03:43 ↗ i can only second all of the comments

1:03:45 ↗ from council president hunt

1:03:48 ↗ the arts play such an important role in

1:03:50 ↗ our economic development

1:03:53 ↗ as well as adding so much to the

1:03:54 ↗ character of our town and so

1:03:57 ↗ if it looks as though we're going to

1:03:59 ↗ lose funding for this

1:04:00 ↗ arts fund for the next year or so

1:04:04 ↗ i think we we need to start thinking

1:04:06 ↗ about what else can we do to support

1:04:09 ↗ uh such a vital part of our community

1:04:11 ↗ and thank you

1:04:13 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle i'm

1:04:15 ↗ looking to see if there are any other

1:04:16 ↗ comments

1:04:18 ↗ and not seeing any right now

1:04:22 ↗ the motion is to approve funding for the

1:04:25 ↗ first round of 2021

1:04:27 ↗ arts grants is recommended by the arts

1:04:28 ↗ commission

1:04:30 ↗ for a total expenditure of 82 540

1:04:34 ↗ dollars and i will turn it over to the

1:04:36 ↗ city clerk for recall vote

1:04:40 ↗ council member goodman aye

1:04:44 ↗ councilmember hall aye council president

1:04:47 ↗ hunt

1:04:48 ↗ aye councilmember martz

1:04:52 ↗ deputy council president ray aye

1:04:55 ↗ council member walsh aye

1:04:58 ↗ council member d michelle aye that's

1:05:01 ↗ seven eyes zero nays

1:05:04 ↗ thank you city clerk that passes

1:05:06 ↗ unanimously amy i would really like you

1:05:08 ↗ to take a message back to

1:05:09 ↗ um the arts commission as well they have

1:05:12 ↗ done amazing work many of our boards and

1:05:14 ↗ commissions this year have been working

1:05:15 ↗ with extremely unusual circumstances yet

1:05:18 ↗ they still put all the passion and drive

1:05:20 ↗ in

1:05:20 ↗ that they do and i have not been able to

1:05:22 ↗ visit as often as i would like to so

1:05:25 ↗ passing on the comments that you heard

1:05:26 ↗ this evening would be great they're

1:05:28 ↗ doing really good work

1:05:29 ↗ thank you amy thank you so much and i

1:05:32 ↗ would definitely pass that along

1:05:34 ↗ thank you thank you amy uh the fourth

1:05:37 ↗ and last item under regular business

1:05:38 ↗ today is ab-8126

1:05:40 ↗ interlocal agreement with eastside fire

1:05:42 ↗ and rescue and

1:05:43 ↗ city of sammamish and this is with

1:05:45 ↗ respect to our vaccine partnership

1:05:48 ↗ the ask of council this evening is to

1:05:50 ↗ authorize this item

1:05:52 ↗ the item was discussed by council at the

1:05:54 ↗ january 26th

1:05:55 ↗ 2021 council study session and i'd like

1:05:58 ↗ to invite our city administrator wally

1:06:00 ↗ bobkowitz

1:06:00 ↗ to introduce this item molly

1:06:04 ↗ thank you man members of the council

1:06:06 ↗ good evening uh you have before you in

1:06:08 ↗ their local agreement

1:06:09 ↗ between uh some city of smanish site

1:06:11 ↗ fire rescue and the city of esqua

1:06:14 ↗ as i know you have been updated by mayor

1:06:16 ↗ paulie over the last uh

1:06:18 ↗ several weeks we've embarked on a pretty

1:06:20 ↗ unique adventure

1:06:22 ↗ and that is to take our destiny in our

1:06:24 ↗ own hands as far as

1:06:26 ↗ vaccinations for the kobe 19 values and

1:06:29 ↗ come up with our own plan we've been

1:06:31 ↗ working with lots of

1:06:32 ↗ community partners this quest school

1:06:35 ↗ district swedish

1:06:36 ↗ hospital the costco has been a great

1:06:40 ↗ partner so far and many others are

1:06:42 ↗ elected officials

1:06:43 ↗ but really if we're going to have a mass

1:06:45 ↗ vaccination site here in this squad we

1:06:47 ↗ really need to build it ourselves

1:06:49 ↗ so we went through mayor paulie's

1:06:52 ↗ direction

1:06:53 ↗ to eastside fire and rescue and asked

1:06:54 ↗ for their assistance

1:06:56 ↗ from that uh came this interlocal

1:06:58 ↗ agreement with the city of samamish and

1:07:00 ↗ i really want to

1:07:01 ↗ commend their staff and their city

1:07:04 ↗ manager

1:07:05 ↗ for their willingness to really partner

1:07:08 ↗ with us

1:07:08 ↗ as we move forward with this really

1:07:11 ↗ still not knowing quite

1:07:12 ↗ when we'll be able to receive vaccine

1:07:14 ↗ but we want to move forward with the

1:07:16 ↗ mass vaccination site

1:07:17 ↗ as well as continue with the mobile

1:07:19 ↗ vaccinations that we've been doing

1:07:21 ↗ through eastside fire and rescue over

1:07:22 ↗ the last several weeks fire chief jeff

1:07:24 ↗ clark

1:07:25 ↗ is on the call and the chief clark

1:07:28 ↗ if you'd like to add anything as far as

1:07:31 ↗ the work that we've done on the mass

1:07:33 ↗ vaccination sites or the mobile

1:07:35 ↗ vaccinations

1:07:36 ↗ we'll welcome you to do that at this

1:07:40 ↗ point

1:07:43 ↗ thank you mr city manager and members of

1:07:45 ↗ the council mayor

1:07:46 ↗ i appreciate the opportunity uh i think

1:07:49 ↗ all of you have been

1:07:50 ↗ um well updated on what's been going on

1:07:52 ↗ with the vaccines while he gave a

1:07:53 ↗ wonderful summary

1:07:54 ↗ we have uh we are ready to go

1:07:57 ↗ uh when we can secure the vaccines and

1:08:00 ↗ there is more and more chatter about the

1:08:02 ↗ ability of vaccines to be delivered

1:08:04 ↗ uh in the weeks and months to come so

1:08:06 ↗ we're looking forward to that and as

1:08:08 ↗ as mr the manager mentioned we have been

1:08:11 ↗ doing an awful lot of mobile

1:08:12 ↗ vaccinations at this point

1:08:13 ↗ it is a daily occurrence now in all of

1:08:15 ↗ our communities from east side fire and

1:08:17 ↗ rescue

1:08:18 ↗ and we have been doing uh really mass

1:08:21 ↗ vaccination sites on a smaller scale

1:08:23 ↗ than we're designing here

1:08:25 ↗ uh with the tribe of the snoqualmie

1:08:26 ↗ tribe the last three weekends

1:08:28 ↗ and that is going very well so we're

1:08:30 ↗ looking forward to this

1:08:31 ↗ continued partnership and we appreciate

1:08:34 ↗ uh

1:08:34 ↗ the vision of issaquah to put this

1:08:36 ↗ together and

1:08:37 ↗ help us move forward on this important

1:08:39 ↗ endeavor

1:08:41 ↗ and chief clark if i could ask you to

1:08:42 ↗ talk a little bit about the money

1:08:44 ↗ piece of all this this agreement uh

1:08:47 ↗ allocates costs but

1:08:48 ↗ we feel very confident that all the

1:08:51 ↗ costs associated with this will be

1:08:53 ↗ a reimbursable by the federal government

1:08:55 ↗ could you speak a little bit to that

1:08:57 ↗ yes uh thank you so uh this agreement

1:09:00 ↗ calls for

1:09:01 ↗ for the max fascination site uh

1:09:03 ↗ specifically seven hundred thousand

1:09:05 ↗ dollars

1:09:06 ↗ in reimbursement to east side fire and

1:09:08 ↗ rescue which we will essentially invoice

1:09:10 ↗ issaquah and sammamish based on a

1:09:12 ↗ population based formula

1:09:14 ↗ uh and we are confident that issaquah

1:09:17 ↗ some amish will be able to be reimbursed

1:09:18 ↗ for these activities

1:09:20 ↗ through the state and the federal

1:09:21 ↗ government initially we designed the

1:09:25 ↗ contract so that east side would be the

1:09:27 ↗ one putting in for the reimbursement

1:09:28 ↗ however we've been advised by the state

1:09:31 ↗ that that would not be

1:09:32 ↗ a successful endeavor as currently

1:09:35 ↗ eastside would not be able to receive

1:09:36 ↗ those funds directly however invoicing

1:09:38 ↗ the cities and the cities applying for

1:09:40 ↗ that

1:09:40 ↗ will allow the reimbursement as for the

1:09:43 ↗ mobile vaccinations

1:09:44 ↗ uh there's a hundred thousand dollars

1:09:46 ↗ that smamish would uh

1:09:48 ↗ up to a hundred thousand that smammish

1:09:49 ↗ could reimburse us and up to fifty

1:09:51 ↗ thousand that city of vistaquad could

1:09:53 ↗ reimburse us

1:09:54 ↗ uh to date all of the mobile vaccination

1:09:56 ↗ activities we've had

1:09:57 ↗ have been getting funded and reimbursed

1:09:59 ↗ from the county

1:10:01 ↗ so so far all of the mobile vaccination

1:10:03 ↗ activities we've been doing we will not

1:10:04 ↗ be asking for any reimbursement

1:10:06 ↗ and this contract is only it'll be our

1:10:10 ↗ last

1:10:10 ↗ source of revenue to speak and that's

1:10:13 ↗ just to keep east side whole

1:10:15 ↗ if and when that's necessary hopefully

1:10:17 ↗ all of these partnerships will manifest

1:10:19 ↗ into reimbursement endeavors like we

1:10:21 ↗ have with the mobile vaccination

1:10:22 ↗ where the the county is reimbursing us

1:10:25 ↗ and hopefully that'll continue as we get

1:10:26 ↗ into the mass vaccination site as well

1:10:28 ↗ but only time will tell with that

1:10:30 ↗ great thank you thank you clark and

1:10:32 ↗ madam mayor members of the council

1:10:33 ↗ we feel real excited about this we think

1:10:36 ↗ we are only the second community

1:10:38 ↗ in king county uh that has taken its own

1:10:41 ↗ initiative to put together

1:10:42 ↗ its own sites the second only to the

1:10:45 ↗ city of seattle so

1:10:47 ↗ again very excited about this and the

1:10:49 ↗ chief clark and i are ready to answer

1:10:50 ↗ any questions you may have

1:10:52 ↗ that is great thank you chief thank you

1:10:54 ↗ wally um it looks like deputy council

1:10:56 ↗ president

1:10:57 ↗ ray has a question thank you mayor

1:10:59 ↗ police chris ray

1:11:01 ↗ in terms of um reach of the mass

1:11:05 ↗ vaccination site

1:11:06 ↗ would this be um made available to

1:11:10 ↗ to anyone um and i uh

1:11:13 ↗ kind of if you're eligible uh first come

1:11:16 ↗ first serve show up at the site or

1:11:18 ↗ what's the

1:11:19 ↗ what's the population served what's the

1:11:21 ↗ thinking around that

1:11:24 ↗ chief

1:11:28 ↗ well i'll admit i have not been involved

1:11:30 ↗ in the in the intimate details of this

1:11:32 ↗ andrew stevens has been handling that as

1:11:33 ↗ part of the task force with glenn

1:11:35 ↗ huffman

1:11:35 ↗ uh but i will say that once once you

1:11:38 ↗ arrive and you are eligible

1:11:40 ↗ we will most likely have to deliver the

1:11:42 ↗ vaccination

1:11:43 ↗ it's as far as how we do the reach and

1:11:46 ↗ how you become eligible to show up at

1:11:48 ↗ the site

1:11:48 ↗ is where we can impact who uh in some

1:11:51 ↗ amish we're facing a question

1:11:53 ↗ from one of the council members right

1:11:54 ↗ now about the demographics of

1:11:56 ↗ vaccinations and the success of

1:11:58 ↗ diverse subgroups in our population of

1:12:01 ↗ being able to have access and receiving

1:12:03 ↗ the vaccine

1:12:04 ↗ what we can do is put together a site

1:12:06 ↗ like this to deliver the vaccination and

1:12:08 ↗ we will vaccinate everybody

1:12:09 ↗ that shows up that is eligible and we

1:12:12 ↗ have vaccines for

1:12:13 ↗ uh getting people to the door is where

1:12:15 ↗ all of us on this call

1:12:17 ↗ and everybody that we work with through

1:12:18 ↗ the partnership can help advocate within

1:12:20 ↗ the community in order to

1:12:22 ↗ let those folks know who is eligible how

1:12:24 ↗ to get access and how to get to the mass

1:12:26 ↗ vaccination site so

1:12:28 ↗ a roundabout way of answering that

1:12:30 ↗ question but we will deliver the vaccine

1:12:32 ↗ to whoever comes to the site

1:12:34 ↗ uh it is up to us to advocate for our

1:12:36 ↗ communities to show up at that site and

1:12:37 ↗ especially those

1:12:38 ↗ that may have a more difficult time

1:12:40 ↗ getting there and of course we have the

1:12:41 ↗ mobile vaccination site

1:12:43 ↗ uh capability to get to those who simply

1:12:45 ↗ cannot get to the mass vaccination site

1:12:48 ↗ thank thank you and madam mayor if i can

1:12:51 ↗ just add

1:12:51 ↗ a couple of comments uh right now we are

1:12:54 ↗ looking at receiving the vaccine through

1:12:56 ↗ king county so

1:12:57 ↗ uh it is possible that there could be uh

1:13:01 ↗ some conditions placed by king county as

1:13:03 ↗ i think you're aware of the county's

1:13:04 ↗ operating

1:13:05 ↗ sites in the south king county in auburn

1:13:08 ↗ and kent

1:13:09 ↗ for the last couple of weeks there's

1:13:10 ↗ been a 75-year uh age limit and above

1:13:13 ↗ which has been reduced just today to 65.

1:13:16 ↗ so those

1:13:17 ↗ kinds of restrictions could be involved

1:13:19 ↗ we would probably have some sort of

1:13:21 ↗ reservation system again

1:13:22 ↗ king county has been using so our

1:13:25 ↗ conversations with king county health

1:13:27 ↗ has been to be a part of their larger

1:13:29 ↗ efforts because we would be receiving

1:13:31 ↗ the back seat from them uh as part of

1:13:33 ↗ the mayor's uh

1:13:34 ↗ community vaccination partnership this

1:13:36 ↗ morning just recently this morning

1:13:38 ↗ talked about ways to continue to reach

1:13:41 ↗ out to

1:13:42 ↗ members of the community who may not

1:13:44 ↗ have easy access and may not have

1:13:45 ↗ english as their first language

1:13:47 ↗ so we are working on additional

1:13:49 ↗ initiatives

1:13:50 ↗ uh to reach out to those populations

1:13:52 ↗ spoke with monica nagrilla

1:13:54 ↗ our human services manager this

1:13:55 ↗ afternoon trying to be creative

1:13:58 ↗ using leveraging some of the information

1:14:00 ↗ that's already been produced in multiple

1:14:02 ↗ languages by king county

1:14:03 ↗ so we will continue to do that so you

1:14:06 ↗ know our efforts here to make sure that

1:14:08 ↗ the residents of this fund smamish

1:14:10 ↗ are covered certainly the eastside fire

1:14:12 ↗ and rescues looking at their entire

1:14:13 ↗ service

1:14:14 ↗ area including uh smoky north bend

1:14:17 ↗ as well but we're really committed as a

1:14:19 ↗ larger community to make sure that

1:14:21 ↗ everyone

1:14:22 ↗ was eligible for a vaccine receives the

1:14:24 ↗ vaccine as quickly as possible

1:14:27 ↗ thank you city administrator above quits

1:14:28 ↗ deputy council president ray did you get

1:14:31 ↗ your answer to your question oh and then

1:14:33 ↗ some thank you and then some

1:14:36 ↗ thanks i think both the chief and the

1:14:38 ↗ city administrator did a good job

1:14:39 ↗ showing that while the clinic or wildest

1:14:41 ↗ math site may be set up in issaquah

1:14:43 ↗ the geography it serves may be bigger

1:14:45 ↗ because we are working with

1:14:46 ↗ in a partnership with king county public

1:14:48 ↗ health and just

1:14:50 ↗ my comments back to the council about

1:14:52 ↗ the vaccine partnership meetings that we

1:14:54 ↗ have on monday is that they're

1:14:56 ↗ really well attended there's a lot of

1:14:57 ↗ excitement

1:14:59 ↗ uh we have the school district we have

1:15:01 ↗ swedish hospital we have costco we have

1:15:02 ↗ cities to manage you have you said fire

1:15:04 ↗ and rescue and i don't know who i'm

1:15:05 ↗ forgetting

1:15:06 ↗ but it's really been inspiring to be a

1:15:08 ↗ part of it and i'm

1:15:09 ↗ just so proud of eastside fire and

1:15:11 ↗ rescue and

1:15:12 ↗ all that they've been able to do to help

1:15:14 ↗ us get mobile going

1:15:16 ↗ and now looking at this uh mass

1:15:18 ↗ drive-through site's been

1:15:20 ↗ a pretty great process looking to see if

1:15:22 ↗ there's any other questions or comments

1:15:28 ↗ i will re-read the oh there we go deputy

1:15:30 ↗ council right

1:15:31 ↗ now i just i just wanted to do a

1:15:33 ↗ follow-up i think that there

1:15:35 ↗ um i applaud each side fire and

1:15:38 ↗ uh the city for getting ahead of this

1:15:40 ↗ and and projecting leadership and

1:15:43 ↗ and taking our destiny in our hands i

1:15:45 ↗ still think that there is some work

1:15:47 ↗ obviously to do based on what i heard

1:15:48 ↗ from from the chief and the city

1:15:50 ↗ administrator

1:15:51 ↗ to work through some of the details and

1:15:53 ↗ i would be

1:15:54 ↗ um very much open to the notion of

1:15:58 ↗ engaging with some of the other east

1:15:59 ↗ side fire and rescue

1:16:01 ↗ partners as well as maybe some of the

1:16:02 ↗ other surrounding cities that will

1:16:04 ↗ likely benefit from the mass vaccination

1:16:07 ↗ site

1:16:08 ↗ to help us defer some of the costs

1:16:10 ↗ associated with standing this up

1:16:12 ↗ that being said i think this is a great

1:16:14 ↗ idea i'm very supportive of this motion

1:16:17 ↗ to keep the ball and get the ball

1:16:18 ↗ rolling so when

1:16:20 ↗ the proverbial iron is hot we are ready

1:16:22 ↗ to strike with or without

1:16:23 ↗ anybody's help thank you deputy council

1:16:27 ↗ president

1:16:28 ↗ uh council member goodman

1:16:32 ↗ thank you madam mayor councilmember

1:16:34 ↗ goodman here and um

1:16:36 ↗ if we're done with questions i'll make a

1:16:38 ↗ motion we are done with questions

1:16:41 ↗ as far as i can tell from the chat so

1:16:42 ↗ please go ahead and make a motion all

1:16:44 ↗ right

1:16:44 ↗ i would move to authorize the mayor to

1:16:46 ↗ enter into and execute the interlocal

1:16:48 ↗ agreement with the city of sammamish

1:16:50 ↗ and eastside fire and rescue regarding

1:16:52 ↗ covid19 vaccine distribution and

1:16:54 ↗ reimbursement

1:16:56 ↗ and direct the finance director to

1:16:57 ↗ include up to 256 thousand two hundred

1:17:00 ↗ dollars

1:17:00 ↗ for the mass vaccination site or sites

1:17:03 ↗ plural

1:17:04 ↗ and fifty thousand dollars for the

1:17:05 ↗ mobile vaccination team

1:17:07 ↗ in a subsequent 2021 budget amendment

1:17:10 ↗ from the general fund

1:17:12 ↗ and deputy council president right

1:17:14 ↗ second thank you very much

1:17:16 ↗ it's been moved in second is there any

1:17:18 ↗ additional discussion

1:17:21 ↗ and i'll keep my eye on the chat

1:17:25 ↗ tola without you raising your hand no

1:17:27 ↗ it's okay

1:17:28 ↗ okay just checking

1:17:31 ↗ okay uh comment from councilmember

1:17:34 ↗ goodman

1:17:36 ↗ i i probably don't have anything new to

1:17:38 ↗ add i i just am extraordinarily proud of

1:17:41 ↗ all the work that we've

1:17:42 ↗ done together the administration and

1:17:44 ↗ east side fire

1:17:46 ↗ it's it's really been a herculean effort

1:17:49 ↗ and

1:17:49 ↗ with so many uncertainties and issues

1:17:52 ↗ with

1:17:52 ↗ um the vaccinations and when we get them

1:17:56 ↗ and how many we get them

1:17:57 ↗ and you know who's who's in charge and

1:18:00 ↗ who's not in charge and all the rules

1:18:02 ↗ uh it's just really been a web and so i

1:18:04 ↗ just applaud everybody who's been

1:18:06 ↗ involved thank you

1:18:08 ↗ very kind thank you councilmember

1:18:10 ↗ goodman um with that

1:18:13 ↗ uh we can call for a roll call vote

1:18:18 ↗ city clerk

1:18:23 ↗ starting with council member hall i

1:18:27 ↗ council president hunt aye councilmember

1:18:30 ↗ martz

1:18:31 ↗ aye deputy council president ray aye

1:18:35 ↗ council member walsh aye

1:18:38 ↗ council member d michelle aye

1:18:41 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:18:42 ↗ hi that's seven eyes zero nays

1:18:46 ↗ thank you that passes unanimously thank

1:18:48 ↗ you for coming in tonight chief thank

1:18:50 ↗ you city administrator for your

1:18:51 ↗ presentation and your comments uh we are

1:18:54 ↗ now

1:18:55 ↗ moving into good of the order and i do

1:18:57 ↗ believe i saw at least one

1:18:58 ↗ email with the good of the order item

1:19:00 ↗ was the councilmember goodman

1:19:05 ↗ uh yes madam mayor councilman

1:19:08 ↗ goodman here and it was me uh

1:19:12 ↗ so this is a um this is a proposal that

1:19:15 ↗ is coming from the title 18

1:19:17 ↗ ad hoc committee that is me and council

1:19:21 ↗ president hunt and council

1:19:22 ↗ member walsh and um

1:19:25 ↗ just as a brief intro here you're you

1:19:28 ↗ know you're all aware that we have the

1:19:30 ↗ title 18 um the

1:19:33 ↗ significant title 18 project and that

1:19:36 ↗ is going to go into next year and there

1:19:39 ↗ are

1:19:40 ↗ um there is one part of title 18 that is

1:19:44 ↗ from the beginning had been moving on

1:19:45 ↗ its own schedule and track and that's

1:19:48 ↗ the sign code for various reasons

1:19:50 ↗ and we also worked on a budget a budget

1:19:53 ↗ for

1:19:54 ↗ the consultants and that was kind of a

1:19:57 ↗ moving target for a while we've spent a

1:19:58 ↗ lot of time on that

1:20:00 ↗ and then a few months ago we

1:20:04 ↗ had the eevee charging code

1:20:10 ↗ pulled out i'm not sure if that's the

1:20:11 ↗ right word but moving on its own track

1:20:13 ↗ and schedule

1:20:15 ↗ and so the discussion that the three of

1:20:16 ↗ us had this week

1:20:18 ↗ is about whether we want to put forward

1:20:20 ↗ some

1:20:21 ↗ um we started out with criteria and then

1:20:24 ↗ we changed it to

1:20:25 ↗ guidelines about suggestions about what

1:20:28 ↗ the council

1:20:28 ↗ should do in case we have other requests

1:20:31 ↗ or proposals

1:20:33 ↗ to have a part of title 18

1:20:36 ↗ pulled out on its own and moved on its

1:20:38 ↗ own schedule in its own track

1:20:40 ↗ and so what you have and i'm not going

1:20:42 ↗ to speak for every

1:20:43 ↗ everybody on the ad hoc committee they

1:20:45 ↗ can also speak for themselves i'm just

1:20:47 ↗ going to introduce this

1:20:48 ↗ so what you have before you is um

1:20:52 ↗ a proposal that says

1:20:55 ↗ that it is possible that future requests

1:20:58 ↗ could be made of the council to revise

1:21:00 ↗ add or otherwise address parts of title

1:21:02 ↗ 18 on a separate schedule or track

1:21:04 ↗ than is currently being done primarily

1:21:06 ↗ holistically

1:21:08 ↗ and in light in light of that the ad hoc

1:21:10 ↗ committee recommends

1:21:12 ↗ on that should that happen that we

1:21:15 ↗ consider the following

1:21:17 ↗ um um guidance

1:21:21 ↗ and there are five items one is whether

1:21:22 ↗ there is an urgency or time sensitivity

1:21:25 ↗ what the budgetary or resource

1:21:28 ↗ parentheses staff impact might be

1:21:30 ↗ is there other planned is there other

1:21:33 ↗ planned work that would be delayed as a

1:21:34 ↗ result

1:21:35 ↗ what benefit public or otherwise would

1:21:38 ↗ be gained or what would be lost

1:21:40 ↗ by not pulling the topic out and doing

1:21:42 ↗ it on its own are there trade-offs or

1:21:44 ↗ potential conflicts

1:21:45 ↗ with other parts of thailand 18 and any

1:21:49 ↗ other considerations

1:21:50 ↗ um appearing relevant and we called it

1:21:53 ↗ guidelines

1:21:54 ↗ and our guidance and we suggested that

1:21:56 ↗ the council

1:21:58 ↗ consider that as a framework for future

1:22:00 ↗ discussions if there's a suggestion

1:22:02 ↗ or a recommendation from whatever the

1:22:05 ↗ source is whether it's the public

1:22:06 ↗ or a council member or the

1:22:07 ↗ administration to pull something out

1:22:10 ↗ separately um so we were bringing it

1:22:13 ↗ out tonight for good of the order for

1:22:15 ↗ discussion and questions

1:22:17 ↗ and the idea was that we would bring it

1:22:19 ↗ back next time unless there was a

1:22:22 ↗ huge uproar if you didn't want it um

1:22:26 ↗ and uh for uh we could consider adopting

1:22:30 ↗ it

1:22:30 ↗ so that's what that's um that's what you

1:22:33 ↗ have

1:22:34 ↗ and um all three of us are open to

1:22:37 ↗ questions and i'll let council president

1:22:39 ↗ hunt

1:22:40 ↗ and council member walsh contribute um

1:22:43 ↗ as well thank you thank you so prior to

1:22:45 ↗ going to questions let's get some more

1:22:47 ↗ input from the other two ad hoc members

1:22:49 ↗ and then i

1:22:50 ↗ see that there are some questions so

1:22:52 ↗ council president hunt called by

1:22:53 ↗ councilmember walsh

1:22:55 ↗ thanks this is council president hunt

1:22:57 ↗ and i think that um councilmember

1:22:59 ↗ goodman

1:23:00 ↗ did a very thorough job explaining this

1:23:03 ↗ we did

1:23:03 ↗ talk as an ad hoc about um that this

1:23:07 ↗ would be

1:23:08 ↗ guidance and this is something to

1:23:09 ↗ consider when there is an item

1:23:11 ↗ um and then for example um

1:23:15 ↗ of the sorts of potential issues that we

1:23:18 ↗ thought about we were thinking about

1:23:20 ↗ um things like where one of our

1:23:23 ↗ goals for instance if one of our goals

1:23:25 ↗ is to streamline

1:23:26 ↗ across different neighborhoods a certain

1:23:28 ↗ part of the code with title 18 and then

1:23:31 ↗ there's a specific part of that

1:23:34 ↗ a specific neighborhood that is going

1:23:36 ↗ down a different track and that would

1:23:38 ↗ have a different code that could be

1:23:39 ↗ in conflict so we would want to raise

1:23:41 ↗ that sort of um

1:23:42 ↗ for consideration with council when

1:23:45 ↗ those sorts of

1:23:46 ↗ issues come up with title 18 and

1:23:50 ↗ and we thought these seemed reasonable

1:23:52 ↗ and the last one

1:23:54 ↗ which is item six any other

1:23:56 ↗ considerations appearing relevant also

1:23:58 ↗ seems like

1:23:58 ↗ that gave us the flexibility to consider

1:24:01 ↗ anything else that might be relevant

1:24:04 ↗ thank you council president i'm also

1:24:06 ↗ going to go to council member walsh if

1:24:07 ↗ there's anything you'd like to add

1:24:11 ↗ no thanks just want to make sure you had

1:24:15 ↗ an opportunity

1:24:16 ↗ okay council member hall has a question

1:24:21 ↗ thank you uh this is councilmember hall

1:24:23 ↗ um and thank you very much to the ad hoc

1:24:24 ↗ committee you clearly put a lot of

1:24:26 ↗ thought into this so i really appreciate

1:24:28 ↗ that

1:24:28 ↗ um so just just clarifying question then

1:24:31 ↗ these are just

1:24:32 ↗ um points to help drive a city council

1:24:35 ↗ conversation

1:24:36 ↗ not aiming to answer a yes or no for a

1:24:39 ↗ specific question before moving on

1:24:42 ↗ like a checklist or anything like that

1:24:43 ↗ it's just to guide a conversation

1:24:44 ↗ correct

1:24:47 ↗ uh counselors yeah let's share all of

1:24:51 ↗ the ad hoc

1:24:51 ↗ okay sure i'll answer and if anybody has

1:24:53 ↗ anything to add uh councilmember goodman

1:24:55 ↗ here

1:24:55 ↗ that's exactly right and it says the

1:24:58 ↗ council should consider and be guided by

1:25:00 ↗ the following

1:25:01 ↗ it just gives us a place to start

1:25:04 ↗ and um so we're not sort of

1:25:09 ↗ scrambling or trying to figure out what

1:25:11 ↗ we might want to talk about

1:25:13 ↗ we just we came up with these at a time

1:25:16 ↗ when we weren't considering anything

1:25:18 ↗ else

1:25:19 ↗ and it was exactly what you said not to

1:25:21 ↗ drive a specific

1:25:22 ↗ answer but to raise what we thought were

1:25:26 ↗ relevant considerations that any one of

1:25:28 ↗ these could be relevant

1:25:30 ↗ they're not elements and they're not

1:25:31 ↗ criteria it's just a framework for

1:25:33 ↗ discussion

1:25:36 ↗ thank you um wondering if we could take

1:25:40 ↗ down

1:25:40 ↗ tisha the the content just so that i

1:25:44 ↗ could see everybody else's

1:25:45 ↗ faces and see i'm not seeing that there

1:25:49 ↗ is much other discussion

1:25:50 ↗ and while i'm waiting to see if anybody

1:25:52 ↗ wants to say something in chat box

1:25:54 ↗ come to remember goodman this would be

1:25:55 ↗ coming back and be adopted or this is

1:25:58 ↗ just

1:25:58 ↗ guidance as is

1:26:03 ↗ uh well it's my understanding from my

1:26:05 ↗ fellow committee members that

1:26:07 ↗ if there was if we didn't hear any um

1:26:11 ↗ push back that it would come back at our

1:26:13 ↗ next regular

1:26:14 ↗ meeting for adoption and maybe it would

1:26:16 ↗ be a resolution

1:26:17 ↗ okay thank you and i'm not seeing any

1:26:21 ↗ additional discussion but i will wait a

1:26:23 ↗ second to see if there's any other

1:26:25 ↗ comments weighing in

1:26:28 ↗ thank you for bringing that up is there

1:26:30 ↗ any other items from council members oh

1:26:32 ↗ councilmember hall question just in the

1:26:34 ↗ nick of time

1:26:36 ↗ uh thank you again this councilmember

1:26:38 ↗ hall uh not necessarily a question about

1:26:41 ↗ um this but if it is going to be coming

1:26:44 ↗ back

1:26:45 ↗ to council at the next meeting some

1:26:48 ↗ helpful information

1:26:50 ↗ for me would be what is the risk or

1:26:52 ↗ impact of actually considering something

1:26:54 ↗ outside of the title 18

1:26:56 ↗ um revamp because i don't think i have a

1:26:59 ↗ good enough

1:27:00 ↗ holistic understanding of what taking

1:27:02 ↗ something out actually means

1:27:04 ↗ so that would be what i'd want thanks

1:27:07 ↗ great comment thanks i'm going to before

1:27:12 ↗ i go into upcoming meetings to see if

1:27:13 ↗ there are any other topics for good of

1:27:15 ↗ the order

1:27:20 ↗ okay feel free to still put it in the

1:27:22 ↗ chat while i go through the meetings

1:27:24 ↗ some of the upcoming council meetings

1:27:26 ↗ there's a special council study session

1:27:27 ↗ on monday march

1:27:28 ↗ 8th the agenda items include potential

1:27:31 ↗ grants to non-profit organizations

1:27:34 ↗ 501c3 501c4 5126

1:27:37 ↗ in relation to covid19

1:27:40 ↗ a city council study session scheduled

1:27:43 ↗ for tuesday march 9

1:27:44 ↗ potential agenda items include the

1:27:47 ↗ housing overview

1:27:48 ↗ the growth targets transit-oriented

1:27:51 ↗ development memorandum of understanding

1:27:53 ↗ and a city council regular meeting on

1:27:55 ↗ march 15th

1:27:57 ↗ the potential agenda items include

1:27:59 ↗ community courts

1:28:00 ↗ informational update green issaquah

1:28:03 ↗ funding opportunity that's

1:28:04 ↗ forest carbon credit program potential

1:28:07 ↗ grants to non-profit organizations

1:28:09 ↗ 501c3s 5124s 5126

1:28:13 ↗ with respect to covet 19.

1:28:16 ↗ and i'm not hearing seeing anything else

1:28:19 ↗ for good of the orders

1:28:20 ↗ so as earlier announced the last item on

1:28:22 ↗ our agenda this evening is an executive

1:28:24 ↗ session

1:28:25 ↗ there will be an executive session this

1:28:27 ↗ evening to discuss pending potential

1:28:29 ↗ litigation for rcw

1:28:31 ↗ 42.30 0.110 for n1 for an

1:28:35 ↗ i and the item i'm gonna go on camera in

1:28:37 ↗ a minute

1:28:40 ↗ okay

1:28:42 ↗ the item is expected to take

1:28:44 ↗ approximately

1:28:45 ↗ 20 minutes and no action is anticipated

1:28:49 ↗ to follow an open session

1:28:51 ↗ so as a reminder executive sessions are

1:28:53 ↗ closed to the public

1:28:54 ↗ and we will now recess into executive

1:28:57 ↗ session

1:28:57 ↗ at 8 29 pm and city clerk do you want us

1:29:01 ↗ just to stay

1:29:02 ↗ here are we moving to another room

1:29:25 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (4)

Approve the 2021 Administrative Budget and Work Program for A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH); and Approve Resolution No. 2021-02, authorizing the duly-appointed administering agency for ARCH to execute all documents necessary to enter into agreements for the funding of affordable housing proj…

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

Approve funding for the first round of 2021 Arts Grants, as recommended by the Arts Commission, for a total expenditure of $82,540.

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Interlocal Agreement with the City of Sammamish and Eastside Fire and Rescue regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution and reimbursement; and direct the Finance Director to include up to $256,200 for the mass vaccination site(s) and $50,000 for the mob…

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

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA 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