City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, March 15, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Council President Hunt

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Community Courts ID 0854

packet pp.5–15

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Staff report:

Tonight’s presentation to City Council is to provide an update on the Municipal Courts goal of implementing a Community Court, answer questions, and obtain feedback.

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 16, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.51–55

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 1, 2021

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 02-16-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting February 16, 2021 MINUTES

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. 23, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.57–59

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 02-23-21 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Council Study Session 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting February 23, 2021 MINUTES

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 Special Meeting, Feb. 23, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.61

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR d) 02-23-21 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 8:00 PM Virtual Meeting February 23, 2021 MINUTES

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 Regular Meeting, March 1, 2021

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.63–66

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR e) 03-01-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting March 1, 2021 MINUTES

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

Mobility Master Plan Adoption AB 8100

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.85–283

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

On December 7, 2020, City Council approved amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, which included a new Transportation Element (Ord. 2935). The new Transportation Element contained the vision, goals and policies developed in the Mobility Master Plan (MMP) to set a new multimodal foundation for Issaquah’s future transportation system. The components of the MMP that were not adopted into the Comprehensive Plan include the strategies and actions which build the path toward the vision. The City Council is now requested to adopt the entire MMP, including these strategies and actions.

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

Interagency Agreement with the City of Bellevue for Jail Services AB 8115

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.285–295

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Staff report:

The Issaquah Jail serves the City of Bellevue with jail confinement needs.

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

Interagency Agreement with the City of Maple Valley for Jail Services AB 8116

Carried 7-0

Approve Hearing Schedule & Procedures · packet pp.297–306

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Staff report:

The Issaquah Jail serves the City of Maple Valley with jail confinement needs.

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

Non-Profit Relief Grant Funding Postpone to April 5, 2021 Council Meeting l) Appointments & Amendments to IMC 2.89 AB 8139

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.549

Topics: Land UseBudgetBoards & Commissions

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends postponing the non-profit relief funding

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

Banking Services Agreement and Designating Authorized Signers AB 8148

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.569–624

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Staff report:

The City of Issaquah has used U.S. Bank as its designated bank since approximately 2010. State law requires City Council approval of banking services agreements. A review of City records while the State Auditor's Office was completing the City's 2018-2019 Accountability Audit completed at the end of 2020 revealed that there is no record of the City Council approving this agreement.

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

8. REGULAR BUSINESS

Transit Oriented Development AB 8150

Direct Administration · packet pp.631–665

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

In 2017, the City selected a developer team based on responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP) it issued for a transit- oriented development project. As a result, the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) project is a 3-party public-private partnership between the City, Spectrum Development Solutions, King County Housing Authority (KCHA), and Lumen (formerly known as CenturyLink) to redevelop the current Lumen site into a mixed use transit-oriented development. In 2017, City Council authorized the Mayor to execute two memorandums of understanding (MOU's) with its chosen developer team (Spectrum and KCHA) to reflect the shared understanding of the TOD project (see AB 7452).

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:01 ↗ good evening and welcome everyone i'm

0:03 ↗ calling the march 15th city council

0:05 ↗ meeting to order

0:07 ↗ before we move on through tonight's

0:08 ↗ agenda items i'd like to acknowledge

0:10 ↗ that we are in a remote meeting format

0:13 ↗ on march 6

0:14 ↗ 2020 i issued an emergency proclamation

0:18 ↗ declaring a civil emergency in the city

0:20 ↗ due to the covet 19 outbreak

0:23 ↗ on march 24 2020 the governor issued

0:26 ↗ proclamation 20-28

0:28 ↗ relating to the covet 19 emergency and

0:31 ↗ open public meetings

0:32 ↗ the proclamation has been extended until

0:35 ↗ termination of the state emergency

0:37 ↗ or until repealed by the governor or

0:39 ↗ legislature

0:41 ↗ due to these proclamations tonight's

0:43 ↗ meeting will be held entirely remotely

0:46 ↗ a meeting link and call a number were

0:48 ↗ provided on the meeting agenda for

0:49 ↗ members of the public

0:50 ↗ who wish to attend the meeting this

0:52 ↗ evening and for those members of the

0:54 ↗ public on the call

0:56 ↗ welcome the meeting will be recorded

0:58 ↗ streamed live and available for later

1:00 ↗ viewing on the city's youtube channel

1:04 ↗ at this point we will take a moment to

1:06 ↗ take roll call of the council members in

1:07 ↗ attendance

1:08 ↗ please stay here when i call your name

1:11 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:12 ↗ here thank you councilmember goodman

1:15 ↗ here thank you councilmember hall here

1:19 ↗ thank you council president hunt here

1:22 ↗ thank you councilmember mertz here

1:26 ↗ thank you and deputy council president

1:28 ↗ ray here

1:30 ↗ thanks and council member walsh

1:33 ↗ here great we have all seven council

1:36 ↗ members in attendance this evening

1:38 ↗ the next item on our agenda is the

1:40 ↗ pledge of allegiance so i would ask all

1:42 ↗ attending if you could keep your

1:44 ↗ microphone muted but i do welcome you to

1:46 ↗ join me in the pledge of allegiance

1:50 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

1:52 ↗ united states of america

1:54 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands

1:57 ↗ one nation

1:58 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

2:01 ↗ justice for all

2:04 ↗ thank you next item on our agenda this

2:06 ↗ evening will be audience comments

2:08 ↗ and for those of you have submitted the

2:10 ↗ online form to make comments your name

2:12 ↗ will be called shortly

2:14 ↗ and for those who have joined us tonight

2:16 ↗ and would like to make comments but did

2:18 ↗ not sign up in advance

2:19 ↗ you are able to raise your virtual hand

2:23 ↗ if you're on the phone please press star

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2:26 ↗ and if you have joined by a computer or

2:28 ↗ your smartphone

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2:33 ↗ vary by device

2:34 ↗ one option may be to go to the

2:36 ↗ participant panel

2:37 ↗ and select your name and then choose

2:40 ↗ raise hand

2:41 ↗ um city clerk has anyone signed up to

2:43 ↗ speak or indicated a desire to speak

2:45 ↗ this evening

2:46 ↗ yes thank you i'm going to

2:50 ↗ make a few additional comments before we

2:52 ↗ go to our list

2:54 ↗ for all of those speaking this evening

2:56 ↗ please direct your comments to the whole

2:58 ↗ council

2:58 ↗ and not to individuals and while this is

3:01 ↗ not a question and answer session we

3:03 ↗ will contact you to follow up if needed

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3:34 ↗ personal attacks obscene language

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3:40 ↗ citizen comments written and verbal are

3:42 ↗ important aspect of the public process

3:44 ↗ and the city takes these comments

3:46 ↗ seriously and we thank you for taking

3:48 ↗ your time this evening

3:50 ↗ to address us so city clerk would you

3:52 ↗ please identify

3:53 ↗ the first person who has signed up to

3:55 ↗ speak

3:57 ↗ yes the first person is danny franwich

4:00 ↗ danny i'm going to make you a panelist

4:02 ↗ now

4:03 ↗ you should shortly have an option to

4:04 ↗ turn on your

4:06 ↗ audio and video as well if you'd like

4:15 ↗ hi everyone

4:19 ↗ uh so i'm danny franich i'm the

4:21 ↗ associate advancement director at

4:23 ↗ village theater

4:25 ↗ rob hunt who is our executive producer

4:27 ↗ and jerry dixon who's our artistic

4:29 ↗ director

4:30 ↗ are both in a board meeting this evening

4:32 ↗ so they asked me to come and represent

4:34 ↗ village theater

4:36 ↗ uh first we wanted to thank the city of

4:38 ↗ issaquah for your support over the last

4:40 ↗ year

4:40 ↗ we appreciate all that has been done for

4:42 ↗ village theater

4:43 ↗ we're so grateful to be part of this

4:45 ↗ community for the last 42 years

4:48 ↗ so that's an incredible achievement in

4:50 ↗ so many ways

4:51 ↗ um your support has enabled us to

4:53 ↗ continue to keep

4:54 ↗ a small staff going hold virtual youth

4:57 ↗ education classes and productions

4:59 ↗ and continue to support our new works

5:01 ↗ over the last year of having our doors

5:03 ↗ closed

5:04 ↗ um you may have heard over this last

5:06 ↗ week that we had a pretty incredible

5:08 ↗ announcement

5:09 ↗ we are lucky and humbled to receive an

5:12 ↗ anonymous three million dollar gift

5:16 ↗ that gift has now been put into a

5:17 ↗ reserve account to help us close the gap

5:20 ↗ in our budget

5:20 ↗ that we'll undoubtedly have over the

5:22 ↗ next few years as we work to bring our

5:24 ↗ main stage productions back

5:26 ↗ and reopen our doors to the public again

5:29 ↗ as an organization with a 14 million

5:31 ↗ dollar annual budget we know it's going

5:33 ↗ to take us some time and support from

5:35 ↗ our patrons and community

5:37 ↗ to return but this gift is really

5:39 ↗ inspiring and we hope that everybody

5:41 ↗ else is inspired by it as well so we

5:44 ↗ look forward to continuing talking to

5:46 ↗ everyone about our plans for the future

5:48 ↗ our exciting paths to reopening and i

5:51 ↗ appreciate

5:52 ↗ the time given to me tonight thank you

5:54 ↗ so much

5:55 ↗ thank you danny and we look forward to

5:57 ↗ your future reports congratulations on

5:59 ↗ your donation

6:00 ↗ that's really great news city clerk

6:04 ↗ who is next on our uh list this evening

6:08 ↗ next on our list is elizabeth ma penn

6:11 ↗ i don't see elizabeth's number listed

6:15 ↗ elizabeth if you are calling in by phone

6:18 ↗ can you please raise your hand by

6:19 ↗ pressing

6:20 ↗ star three that's

6:23 ↗ star three you can

6:26 ↗ also race raise your virtual hand

6:29 ↗ which varies by device

6:32 ↗ um let's move on to our next

6:35 ↗ the next individual who signed up to

6:37 ↗ speak is brian thompson

6:40 ↗ i also don't see brian

6:43 ↗ on the call at the moment brian if

6:45 ↗ you're on the phone

6:46 ↗ could you please press star 3 on your

6:48 ↗ phone

6:51 ↗ or if you're here by computer you can

6:53 ↗ raise your hand or send me a message

6:57 ↗ and while we're pausing for elizabeth or

7:00 ↗ brian if there's anyone

7:01 ↗ else who's attending by phone or

7:04 ↗ computer who'd like to make comments now

7:06 ↗ please press star 3 on the phone or

7:08 ↗ raise your virtual hand

7:10 ↗ in the webex platform to let us know if

7:13 ↗ you'd like to make comments

7:19 ↗ mayor i'm just taking a minute to

7:20 ↗ monitor this list here

7:23 ↗ city clerk i think that's wonderful i

7:25 ↗ think what i will do is leave it open as

7:26 ↗ we go to council president hunt and we

7:28 ↗ let her do

7:30 ↗ email comments that she may want to

7:32 ↗ summarize on any of tonight's

7:34 ↗ agenda topics and if you do see a raised

7:36 ↗ hand please let me know before i move on

7:37 ↗ to

7:38 ↗ the next item council president hunt

7:41 ↗ thank you madam mayor we did receive

7:43 ↗ several emails

7:44 ↗ on different topics that we will be

7:47 ↗ discussing this evening or that are on

7:49 ↗ the consent agenda for this evening and

7:51 ↗ i have been summarizing these emails

7:53 ↗ while we're doing virtual meetings the

7:55 ↗ um

7:56 ↗ first email we received express support

7:58 ↗ for ab-8151

8:00 ↗ which is the expression of support for a

8:03 ↗ state transportation revenue package

8:06 ↗ this community member also had

8:10 ↗ expressed general support for ab-8150

8:13 ↗ which is the transit-oriented

8:15 ↗ development mou memorandum of

8:18 ↗ understanding

8:19 ↗ but also expressed several concerns such

8:21 ↗ as concerns about the parking ratios

8:23 ↗ and a request that the city work with

8:25 ↗ raleigh properties as an adjacent

8:27 ↗ party that would be impacted by the

8:29 ↗ project

8:31 ↗ um also on the ab-8150 which is the

8:36 ↗ mou for the tod transit ranks oriented

8:39 ↗ development

8:40 ↗ we received an email that expressed

8:43 ↗ concern about any language that would

8:44 ↗ imply

8:46 ↗ that the mou committed items

8:50 ↗ committed made any commitments on items

8:52 ↗ and was also concerned about the public

8:54 ↗ process around this and that there

8:55 ↗ needed to be more community conversation

8:57 ↗ on certain

8:58 ↗ items in this uh

9:01 ↗ then regarding the

9:05 ↗ mobility master plan which is ab-8100 we

9:08 ↗ received

9:09 ↗ um two emails that commented on this one

9:13 ↗ requested a change around wording on sr

9:16 ↗ 900

9:18 ↗ to add language about barriers for this

9:21 ↗ um and then also we received another

9:23 ↗ email from a community member

9:25 ↗ expressing concerns also suggesting um

9:27 ↗ changes to the master mobility plan

9:30 ↗ including to address um school citing

9:33 ↗ and additional concerns

9:35 ↗ then regarding um

9:39 ↗ ab8146 which is the title 18 land use

9:42 ↗ code

9:43 ↗ we received a couple emails on this one

9:45 ↗ as well and

9:46 ↗ um one was expressing concern that there

9:49 ↗ wasn't more

9:50 ↗ um process in that a b

9:53 ↗ and then one email expressing

9:56 ↗ um some comments on the actual

10:00 ↗ uh scope of work for title 18 because

10:03 ↗ there was some information provided

10:04 ↗ about title 18 and that agenda bill

10:07 ↗ and lastly we received a letter

10:11 ↗ or an email rather regarding ab-8142

10:14 ↗ which is the

10:15 ↗ economic vitality commission and

10:18 ↗ this was an introductory email for

10:21 ↗ a candidate for the economic vitality

10:25 ↗ commission

10:25 ↗ introducing himself and thanking

10:29 ↗ us for considering his appointment to

10:32 ↗ that commission

10:33 ↗ and that i believe concludes

10:37 ↗ the summary of emails that we've

10:38 ↗ received on topics we will be discussing

10:40 ↗ this evening

10:42 ↗ thank you councilman president i'm going

10:44 ↗ to go back to the city clerk city kirk

10:45 ↗ did you get any notification that

10:47 ↗ somebody would like to speak this

10:48 ↗ evening

10:49 ↗ yes i do see one raised hand from collin

10:52 ↗ user with the first six digits

10:54 ↗ 206 300. i'm going to unmute you now

11:02 ↗ hi this is steve pereira thanks for the

11:04 ↗ opportunity to speak

11:06 ↗ i guess my concern is with the tod

11:09 ↗ project

11:09 ↗ and my concern specifically is with

11:13 ↗ 163 proposed affordable housing units

11:17 ↗ what concerns me is that 50 of those are

11:20 ↗ at the 80

11:21 ↗ or above ami level and i believe that

11:24 ↗ those need to be re-geared towards a

11:27 ↗ more equitable or lower distribution of

11:29 ↗ the 40 60

11:31 ↗ or 80 maximum level not at the 80

11:34 ↗ percent

11:35 ↗ or above 80 percent level for this deal

11:38 ↗ to

11:39 ↗ pan out or be

11:42 ↗ a real equitable distribution of

11:44 ↗ affordable housing

11:47 ↗ thanks for the input i appreciate it

11:50 ↗ thank you steve city clerk has anyone

11:52 ↗ else raised their hand or shown an

11:54 ↗ interest in

11:55 ↗ speaking to council this evening

11:58 ↗ mayor paulie i don't see that anyone

12:00 ↗ else has and i would ask steve if he

12:01 ↗ would um

12:02 ↗ kindly lower his hand by pressing star 3

12:05 ↗ on his phone

12:06 ↗ thank you so i just want to remind

12:09 ↗ everybody who's watching

12:10 ↗ at home we're here that the council

12:12 ↗ receives their information

12:13 ↗ in many ways um so you can always submit

12:16 ↗ count comments at any time to the email

12:20 ↗ address city council at this

12:21 ↗ schoolwide.gov

12:22 ↗ and as council president stated during

12:25 ↗ these

12:26 ↗ uh remote meetings we are summarizing

12:29 ↗ those as well

12:30 ↗ so thank you to uh the folks that

12:32 ↗ testified this

12:33 ↗ this evening about the village theater

12:37 ↗ it's gratitude for support during this

12:39 ↗ year and also their amazing three

12:40 ↗ million dollar anonymous donation

12:43 ↗ and also comments on making sure

12:46 ↗ comments and concerns

12:47 ↗ about what type of affordable housing

12:49 ↗ units and at what levels may be

12:51 ↗ incorporated into the transit-oriented

12:53 ↗ development project

12:54 ↗ mayor paulie yes i am i'm so sorry for

12:58 ↗ the interruption but i do see one of the

13:00 ↗ um individuals who signed up to make

13:01 ↗ comments tonight has joined us by phone

13:04 ↗ fabulous okay thank you so much

13:07 ↗ uh elizabeth i believe you've now joined

13:11 ↗ us by phone so i'm going to request that

13:13 ↗ you unmute now

13:15 ↗ how do i unmute we can hear you now

13:19 ↗ okay uh i'm sorry i tried to join by

13:23 ↗ computer but i wasn't able to get

13:25 ↗ through um so what i wanted to say

13:29 ↗ is that i really support the idea of

13:33 ↗ having transit oriented development

13:36 ↗ and the opportunity center project

13:40 ↗ my concern is that

13:43 ↗ we seem to have a lot of units

13:46 ↗ at um 80 percent ami

13:50 ↗ and above and at 60 percent

13:54 ↗ and above but

13:57 ↗ not very many that are

14:01 ↗ at the 40 percent level and none that

14:03 ↗ are below that

14:05 ↗ we have a much greater need

14:08 ↗ at those lower levels we have a lot of

14:11 ↗ nurses in our community

14:14 ↗ who work in our community but can't live

14:16 ↗ in our community

14:19 ↗ there are shop clerks who have to come

14:21 ↗ tremendous distances

14:24 ↗ i couldn't survive here as a home care

14:26 ↗ aide on just what i

14:28 ↗ earned if i had to rent a place

14:32 ↗ i would like to see us

14:35 ↗ find money from the

14:39 ↗ the taxes that we're going to be getting

14:42 ↗ through that one percent

14:44 ↗ uh increase and just

14:47 ↗ expand the number of units that will

14:50 ↗ really be affordable for the people who

14:53 ↗ most need

14:54 ↗ to be near transit people who earn 80

14:58 ↗ percent of ami and above

15:00 ↗ can afford cars and um

15:03 ↗ i think the idea of the bottom floor

15:05 ↗ being owned by the city

15:07 ↗ and rented out is great

15:10 ↗ i've found that with the affordable

15:13 ↗ housing that we

15:14 ↗ currently have that is not owned

15:18 ↗ by the city um the city

15:21 ↗ invests in it but we don't really have

15:24 ↗ a lot of control over how it's

15:26 ↗ maintained

15:28 ↗ and i think when the city has

15:32 ↗ some ownership of the property the

15:35 ↗ incentive for us

15:36 ↗ to maintain that property and keep it

15:40 ↗ viable and usable for people who need it

15:43 ↗ is much greater so those are my comments

15:47 ↗ i'm a citizen who's been here for a long

15:50 ↗ time since

15:51 ↗ 1982 pretty much and i

15:55 ↗ i really care about this thank you thank

15:58 ↗ you elizabeth

16:00 ↗ uh city clerk is there anyone else uh

16:02 ↗ this evening that signed up

16:03 ↗ for individuals okay great i think we

16:06 ↗ captured it all

16:08 ↗ we will move to the next item on our

16:10 ↗ agenda which is committee and regional

16:12 ↗ reports

16:13 ↗ and we will be starting with council

16:15 ↗ member hall

16:17 ↗ thank you mayor pauly this is

16:18 ↗ councilmember hall just a couple of

16:21 ↗ quick reports

16:22 ↗ um a reminder that uh the cascade water

16:26 ↗ alliance board of directors

16:27 ↗ uh our next meeting is next wednesday

16:29 ↗ wednesday the 24th at 3 30 p.m

16:32 ↗ an agenda hasn't been posted for that

16:34 ↗ yet

16:35 ↗ and then the next meeting of the

16:37 ↗ affordable housing committee of the

16:38 ↗ growth management planning council is

16:40 ↗ also that wednesday march 24th

16:43 ↗ and that's at 1pm and some of the things

16:46 ↗ that

16:46 ↗ we will be discussing are

16:50 ↗ uh we'll prove we'll be providing uh

16:52 ↗ some

16:53 ↗ input on the health through housing

16:56 ↗ implementation plan which is king

16:58 ↗ county's plan for implementing their

17:00 ↗ health through housing proposal which um

17:04 ↗ was the 0.1 sales tax increase for

17:06 ↗ affordable housing needs

17:07 ↗ um so that'll be really interesting and

17:09 ↗ i'll bring those details back to the

17:11 ↗ council

17:12 ↗ um we will be discussing the status of

17:15 ↗ the growth management planning council's

17:17 ↗ consideration of our

17:19 ↗ county-wide planning policies housing

17:21 ↗ chapter

17:22 ↗ amendments which we all learned a lot

17:24 ↗ about last week

17:26 ↗ making some new member appointments um

17:30 ↗ getting an update on what we're calling

17:32 ↗ the affordable housing

17:33 ↗ dashboard which will be a website that

17:35 ↗ you can go to to see

17:37 ↗ affordable housing metrics across the

17:39 ↗ region which will help policy makers

17:41 ↗ um in developing affordable housing

17:43 ↗ policy so i'll be sure to share that

17:44 ↗ link

17:45 ↗ as soon as that's finally put together

17:48 ↗ that'll be really interesting for

17:50 ↗ us policymakers and then we'll get a

17:52 ↗ quick update on

17:54 ↗ the legislative session in olympia with

17:56 ↗ regard to affordable housing and that

17:58 ↗ concludes my report

18:01 ↗ thank you council member hall uh next up

18:03 ↗ is council member michelle

18:06 ↗ thank you uh mayor paulie this is

18:08 ↗ councilmember d michelle

18:10 ↗ i attended the healthier here governing

18:12 ↗ board on march the 4th

18:14 ↗ we continued our discussion of equity in

18:16 ↗ health care with the pledge that each of

18:18 ↗ us will develop an

18:19 ↗ equity goal for the coming year and hold

18:21 ↗ each other accountable for that goal

18:24 ↗ of general interest was a report on a

18:26 ↗ new behavioral health apprenticeship

18:29 ↗ apprenticeship program developing

18:32 ↗ through a partnership between the seiu

18:34 ↗ which is the service employees

18:36 ↗ international union

18:38 ↗ the university of washington eastern

18:40 ↗ washington university

18:41 ↗ and several community colleges the

18:44 ↗ program will offer associate degrees and

18:46 ↗ apprenticeship opportunities for

18:48 ↗ three entry-level careers including

18:51 ↗ behavioral health technician

18:53 ↗ peer counselor and substance use

18:55 ↗ disorder professional

18:57 ↗ the program is designed to give people a

18:59 ↗ low-cost way to get into the field

19:01 ↗ and sets them up for an eventual degree

19:04 ↗ program

19:05 ↗ for 20 openings in the initial program

19:08 ↗ over 200 people applied nearly all of

19:11 ↗ them

19:12 ↗ people of color the program is being put

19:14 ↗ in place as a way to begin to address

19:16 ↗ the need for many more mental health and

19:19 ↗ substance abuse

19:20 ↗ disorders practitioners and i'm really

19:23 ↗ excited

19:24 ↗ about this because it begins to

19:27 ↗ address a huge gap that we have between

19:30 ↗ the

19:30 ↗ need for counselors and social workers

19:33 ↗ um

19:33 ↗ and the capacity to provide those people

19:37 ↗ for for places where they're needed i

19:40 ↗ also attended the connect to community

19:41 ↗ advisory group on wednesday march 10th

19:44 ↗ we approved the group's charter and

19:45 ↗ began a discussion of the virtual

19:47 ↗ community information exchange

19:50 ↗ platform design i am hoping that council

19:52 ↗ member ray will

19:54 ↗ give me some pro bono uh consultation on

19:56 ↗ this

19:58 ↗ and uh as we move forward with this

20:00 ↗ project and that

20:01 ↗ concludes my report

20:06 ↗ you council member d michelle next up is

20:08 ↗ council member walsh

20:10 ↗ thank you this is council member walsh

20:12 ↗ very very short report

20:13 ↗ just saying that i will be attending on

20:15 ↗ friday the chamber of commerce is

20:17 ↗ chamber of commerce's board meeting and

20:20 ↗ i will we have no agenda yet so i will

20:22 ↗ report back

20:23 ↗ um after we have the meeting thanks

20:26 ↗ thank you council member welsh council

20:28 ↗ member goodman

20:29 ↗ thank you madam mayor council member

20:31 ↗ goodman here um the eastside fire and

20:33 ↗ rescue board

20:34 ↗ of directors met on march 11th there's

20:36 ↗ not a lot to report out

20:37 ↗ it was the board's first meeting of the

20:40 ↗ um entity as a non-profit so that was

20:42 ↗ um exciting that was um in effect

20:44 ↗ starting on march 1st

20:46 ↗ we were briefed on the agency's regional

20:48 ↗ recruitment efforts that are aimed at

20:50 ↗ increasing diversity in hiring six

20:53 ↗ agencies are part of that hiring

20:55 ↗ consortium

20:56 ↗ which has a website at

20:59 ↗ wawafirecareers.org

21:00 ↗ for people who are interested there is a

21:03 ↗ single test for applicants regardless of

21:05 ↗ how many fire agencies the applicant is

21:07 ↗ interested in when they apply uh which

21:10 ↗ cuts testing time enormously

21:12 ↗ applicants also um sorry the group who

21:15 ↗ was working on the regional recruitment

21:17 ↗ efforts also

21:18 ↗ has cut testing fees by half would like

21:21 ↗ to provide

21:22 ↗ provide hardship waivers for fees and

21:24 ↗ also hopes to cut fees

21:26 ↗ to zero one of these days and that's my

21:30 ↗ report thank you

21:31 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman

21:32 ↗ councilmember mertz

21:34 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

21:35 ↗ councilmember martz the puget sound

21:38 ↗ regional council growth management

21:39 ↗ policy board

21:41 ↗ met on thursday march 4th there were

21:43 ↗ extensive conversations

21:44 ↗ about regional housing strategy but no

21:48 ↗ actions were contemplated or taken

21:50 ↗ the sound cities association public

21:52 ↗ issues committee

21:53 ↗ met on wednesday march 10th there were

21:55 ↗ two workshops that were held

21:57 ↗ the first was on king county county-wide

22:00 ↗ planning policies

22:01 ↗ where i conveyed what i had heard

22:04 ↗ two days prior from this council and

22:07 ↗ there was also a workshop on

22:09 ↗ best starts for kids levy the proposed

22:13 ↗ upcoming levy and there was much

22:15 ↗ feedback and discussion

22:17 ↗ of the package and

22:20 ↗ it is it would be as currently

22:23 ↗ configured or it's configured when we

22:25 ↗ saw it it would have been about or is

22:27 ↗ would be about twice the size

22:29 ↗ of the five-year package that preceded

22:31 ↗ it the previous package was 400 million

22:33 ↗ dollars

22:33 ↗ over five years this would be 800

22:36 ↗ million dollars over five years

22:38 ↗ so that feedback i believe was uh

22:42 ↗ conveyed

22:43 ↗ uh to the accounting executive uh we'll

22:46 ↗ see where that whole

22:47 ↗ conversation goes that concludes my

22:49 ↗ report

22:51 ↗ thank you councilmember mertz next up is

22:53 ↗ deputy council president ray

22:55 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray

22:57 ↗ the king county growth management

22:59 ↗ planning council

23:00 ↗ not to be confused with the growth

23:01 ↗ management policy board

23:04 ↗ will be meeting on march 31st at four

23:07 ↗ o'clock in a virtual format

23:09 ↗ the purpose of the meeting will be to

23:11 ↗ direct the release of the public review

23:12 ↗ draft of the

23:14 ↗ county-wide planning policies and it

23:16 ↗ will also include

23:18 ↗ draft growth targets and that concludes

23:20 ↗ my report this evening

23:23 ↗ thank you deputy council president

23:24 ↗ council president hunt

23:26 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

23:28 ↗ president hunt um i have an upcoming

23:30 ↗ meeting to announce on march 18th the

23:33 ↗ wyra 8 salmon recovery council will be

23:35 ↗ meeting

23:36 ↗ wire eight is the technical acronym for

23:38 ↗ our watershed

23:40 ↗ and on the agenda um we have

23:43 ↗ the king county clean water healthy

23:45 ↗ habitat initiative as well as

23:47 ↗ the wyra8 diversity equity and inclusion

23:50 ↗ strategic plan

23:51 ↗ that concludes my report thank you

23:54 ↗ council president we are going to move

23:56 ↗ on to the mayor's report i have a few

23:58 ↗ items for tonight

24:00 ↗ the first is that there will be an

24:01 ↗ executive session this evening to

24:03 ↗ discuss pending and potential litigation

24:05 ↗ per rcw

24:08 ↗ 42.30.110 paren one for ni

24:11 ↗ and this item is expected to last 30

24:13 ↗ minutes with no

24:15 ↗ action being anticipated in open session

24:18 ↗ i'd now like to make a proclamation for

24:21 ↗ national safe place

24:22 ↗ week and one of our speakers that was

24:25 ↗ coming this evening was going to also

24:27 ↗ address

24:29 ↗ this proclamation and what it means and

24:32 ↗ we weren't able to have them tonight so

24:34 ↗ here we go whereas

24:35 ↗ safe place is a program that quickly

24:38 ↗ connects runaway

24:39 ↗ and homeless youth ages 12 to 17

24:42 ↗ to services either by reuniting them

24:45 ↗ with their family

24:46 ↗ or providing them with emergency shelter

24:49 ↗ whereas more than 379

24:51 ↗ thousand youth have been helped at a

24:54 ↗ safe place location

24:56 ↗ or received counseling as a result of

24:58 ↗ the safe place

24:59 ↗ information received at school and

25:02 ↗ whereas

25:03 ↗ since the program inception

25:06 ↗ in 1983 more than 50 million youth have

25:10 ↗ been educated throughout

25:11 ↗ the national safe place networks

25:13 ↗ outreach efforts

25:15 ↗ familiarizing them with the safe place

25:17 ↗ sign

25:18 ↗ and providing them with the information

25:19 ↗ about how to seek help

25:22 ↗ in in order to stay safe and whereas the

25:25 ↗ friends of youth

25:26 ↗ and youth care have run in partnership

25:29 ↗ since 2012

25:30 ↗ to provide safe place services for youth

25:33 ↗ in crisis

25:34 ↗ across king county and whereas increased

25:36 ↗ awareness will encourage more

25:38 ↗ communities to establish safe place

25:40 ↗ locations

25:41 ↗ where youth can readily access the help

25:43 ↗ they need

25:44 ↗ please join me in the observance of

25:47 ↗ national safe place week

25:49 ↗ march 21st through 27th 2021

25:53 ↗ in the city of issaquah

25:56 ↗ during women's history month in march we

25:59 ↗ also joined organizations throughout the

26:01 ↗ country to celebrate march

26:02 ↗ 19th as women in public office day

26:05 ↗ women play a critical role in the

26:07 ↗ vitality and diversity of our

26:09 ↗ communities

26:10 ↗ and are essential to assure ensuring

26:12 ↗ issaquah is well represented

26:14 ↗ while the 20th century was a pivotal

26:16 ↗ time of growth for women entering

26:18 ↗ politics

26:19 ↗ women still remain underrepresented in

26:22 ↗ male-dominated fields that's why

26:24 ↗ providing opportunities to support women

26:26 ↗ in public office

26:27 ↗ is imperative recognizing women in

26:30 ↗ public office

26:31 ↗ also brings awareness to the fundamental

26:33 ↗ necessity of their work

26:35 ↗ and will hopefully inspire other young

26:37 ↗ people to serve their communities

26:39 ↗ i am proud to ha hold the title of

26:41 ↗ issaquah's third female mayor

26:43 ↗ and serve alongside four fantastic

26:47 ↗ female city council members thank you

26:49 ↗ all for your service

26:52 ↗ i'm also going to give an update on the

26:54 ↗ issaquah community vaccine partnership

26:56 ↗ the partnership met earlier today for

26:58 ↗ our weekly coordination meeting

27:00 ↗ our focus remains that when covid19

27:03 ↗ vaccines are more

27:04 ↗ readily available we will be ready the

27:07 ↗ partnerships drive up mass vaccination

27:10 ↗ site is now ready for operation initial

27:12 ↗ and we share the details of this site

27:15 ↗ with king county leaders

27:16 ↗ planning for future distribution

27:18 ↗ locations according

27:20 ↗ to public health seattle and king county

27:22 ↗ there is still a scarcity of the coven

27:24 ↗ 19 vaccine right now

27:26 ↗ with only one dose of the vaccine

27:28 ↗ currently available

27:29 ↗ for every eight eligible people

27:32 ↗ the agency is for first uh focus on

27:35 ↗ managing distribution

27:36 ↗ as equitably efficiently and quickly as

27:40 ↗ possible

27:41 ↗ meanwhile supporting our most vulnerable

27:43 ↗ residents remains a top

27:44 ↗ priority issaquah is partnering with

27:47 ↗ east side fire and rescue to offer

27:48 ↗ limited mobile

27:50 ↗ covet 19 vaccination clinics to eligible

27:53 ↗ residents who are not

27:54 ↗ physically able to travel outside of

27:56 ↗ their home

27:57 ↗ appointments are dependent on available

28:00 ↗ vaccine supply

28:01 ↗ if you are eligible for this mobile

28:03 ↗ clinic or you need special assistance

28:05 ↗ please call us at

28:14 ↗ three 425-837-3300-425-837-3300 we are

28:16 ↗ here to help and finally i'd like to

28:19 ↗ play a video

28:20 ↗ of our mass vaccination site at lake

28:22 ↗ spanish state park

28:23 ↗ for our council and for the viewing

28:28 ↗ audience

28:39 ↗ and it is supposed to have music and not

28:41 ↗ be choppy but what can you do in this

28:44 ↗ digital world

28:45 ↗ we get what we get

29:24 ↗ so

29:31 ↗ thank you tim for preparing that video

29:33 ↗ and giving everybody an overview of

29:35 ↗ what's been set up at the state park

29:37 ↗ now we just need vaccine so i have been

29:39 ↗ notified by the cleric

29:41 ↗ that brian from friends of youth is here

29:43 ↗ and so i think i would like to give him

29:45 ↗ an opportunity to say a few words since

29:47 ↗ he

29:48 ↗ just missed my proclamation and just

29:50 ↗ missed public comments so brian if you'd

29:52 ↗ like to

29:54 ↗ provide us some comments tonight we

29:56 ↗ would really appreciate it

30:03 ↗ and brian this is tisha i've just moved

30:05 ↗ you up as a panelist so you should

30:08 ↗ have an option to unmute and address us

30:13 ↗ i think i'm unmuted am i unmuted you are

30:16 ↗ unmuted

30:17 ↗ go ahead brian welcome see all the nods

30:19 ↗ so that must mean yes

30:21 ↗ um yeah i just want to say thank you

30:23 ↗ guys very much for recognizing national

30:24 ↗ safe place and

30:26 ↗ issaquah it's a super awesome program

30:28 ↗ i'm not saying that just because i'm

30:29 ↗ paid to say that

30:30 ↗ i really believe it's really cool um

30:33 ↗ just having 24 access

30:34 ↗ for youth to call young people um

30:37 ↗ adults case managers police law

30:40 ↗ enforcement like cps it's just such a

30:42 ↗ cool program to come out there and

30:44 ↗ um recognizing it as national safe place

30:47 ↗ week is just a really cool thing

30:49 ↗ so thank you very much i appreciate it

30:53 ↗ and thank you for coming to speak to us

30:54 ↗ tonight brian yes

30:56 ↗ sorry i was a little late my wife got

30:57 ↗ stuck at the bus stop so i had to

30:59 ↗ change my priority there for a second as

31:01 ↗ i'm sure you all can understand

31:02 ↗ it sounds like you had it in the right

31:04 ↗ place thank you for coming

31:06 ↗ we appreciate it for sure thank you all

31:09 ↗ i am going to move to the next item on

31:11 ↗ the agenda this evening which is

31:12 ↗ informational updates and we have id

31:15 ↗ 0854

31:16 ↗ community courts and the council did

31:18 ↗ hear a brief update on this item at the

31:20 ↗ february 23rd council study session

31:22 ↗ and has requested some additional

31:24 ↗ information about the program about the

31:25 ↗ program

31:26 ↗ so i'd like to invite judge stewart and

31:29 ↗ court administrator christie shorn to

31:31 ↗ make a presentation

31:32 ↗ and there will be no action required

31:34 ↗ this is for information only

31:36 ↗ come on up

31:41 ↗ waiting for christy christie you can

31:42 ↗ join us

31:47 ↗ yeah um there we go um

31:50 ↗ good evening um mayor council um i think

31:53 ↗ most of you know me if you don't

31:55 ↗ uh my name is scott stewart and i have

31:57 ↗ the honor of serving as the is

31:59 ↗ dispute court judge um i want to

32:01 ↗ introduce christie shawn i know you've

32:02 ↗ all met christy but i take every

32:03 ↗ advantage i can't

32:04 ↗ introduce her um we stole christy from

32:07 ↗ rent a couple years ago

32:08 ↗ and um it was a coup especially with the

32:11 ↗ pandemic we had no idea the pandemic was

32:13 ↗ coming but

32:14 ↗ at the point we stole christie we were

32:16 ↗ aware she was smart we did not

32:18 ↗ fully realize that she literally

32:21 ↗ is the washington state guru on

32:23 ↗ everything having to do with computers

32:25 ↗ virtual court uh documents and as we've

32:28 ↗ developed in this virtual world

32:30 ↗ we've become the go-to court uh it's

32:32 ↗ kind of humorous we kick back and

32:34 ↗ we're watching some of the larger courts

32:35 ↗ get awards from the supreme court about

32:37 ↗ uh some of the work they're doing and

32:39 ↗ they literally

32:39 ↗ are copying things that we've been doing

32:41 ↗ since may and they just started doing

32:42 ↗ them and that's because of christie

32:43 ↗ we're on top of things

32:45 ↗ we had our courts handling full

32:47 ↗ calendars where other courts are about

32:48 ↗ one-third and we all that all to

32:49 ↗ christine you guys should know that we

32:51 ↗ did a good job hiring her

32:52 ↗ uh today um i'm here for the purpose of

32:55 ↗ presenting

32:56 ↗ on a municipal court's goal of

32:57 ↗ implementing a community court calendar

32:59 ↗ community court's kind of a misnomer

33:01 ↗ it's not a new court our court operates

33:04 ↗ a 30 on a

33:05 ↗ on a month-long calendar basis we have

33:07 ↗ uh the first

33:08 ↗ week of the month we have infractions

33:10 ↗ arraignments pre-trial second week of

33:12 ↗ month we have pre-trials pre-trials

33:13 ↗ reviews

33:14 ↗ third week of the month jury trials

33:16 ↗ pre-trials jury trials

33:18 ↗ each each month is relatively the same

33:19 ↗ as far as the calendars that we go

33:21 ↗ through and what we would be doing

33:23 ↗ is adding a community court calendar uh

33:25 ↗ to that particular calendar setting it

33:27 ↗ would just be a different calendar

33:28 ↗ within the confines of what we do now

33:30 ↗ same prosecutors same defense attorneys

33:32 ↗ just a different specific calendar

33:34 ↗ for those i'm guessing you're all aware

33:36 ↗ of it for those of you that aren't

33:38 ↗ um a district municipal court obviously

33:40 ↗ handles infractions we handle all of the

33:42 ↗ infractions that are filed in the city

33:43 ↗ of issaquah

33:44 ↗ in addition both the basic infractions

33:46 ↗ law enforcement officers come out lights

33:48 ↗ going behind you the police officer

33:49 ↗ pulls you over but also the photo

33:51 ↗ enforcement

33:52 ↗ over in front of the school but the vast

33:54 ↗ majority of that we work that we do

33:56 ↗ um at least on a workload daily basis

33:59 ↗ are criminal cases

34:00 ↗ um we handle approximately over the last

34:02 ↗ three years an average of 400 criminal

34:04 ↗ cases

34:05 ↗ uh 1400 criminal cases excuse me a year

34:08 ↗ um so there's a total of 1400 criminal

34:10 ↗ cases filed into our court

34:12 ↗ and those cases are all misdemeanors and

34:14 ↗ gross misdemeanors

34:16 ↗ gross misdemeanors are the most serious

34:17 ↗ they carry up to 364 days in jail on a 5

34:20 ↗ 000

34:20 ↗ fine misdemeanors are the less serious

34:23 ↗ uh they carry up to a

34:24 ↗ 90 days in jail 1 000 fine and of course

34:27 ↗ within

34:28 ↗ misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors

34:30 ↗ there are more or less serious crimes

34:32 ↗ depending upon how the community views

34:33 ↗ them

34:34 ↗ from most people that practice in our

34:36 ↗ courts in general i think from the

34:38 ↗ community in general the most serious

34:40 ↗ crimes that we deal with

34:41 ↗ at our level are driving under the

34:43 ↗ influence and assault primarily assault

34:45 ↗ domestic violence and other domestic

34:47 ↗ violence charges

34:48 ↗ and those cases are more serious for

34:50 ↗ obvious reasons a dwi

34:51 ↗ is just one step away from being a

34:53 ↗ vehicular homicide or a vehicular

34:55 ↗ assault

34:56 ↗ and an assault in the fourth degree

34:57 ↗ domestic violence is just one step away

34:59 ↗ from being assault three assault two or

35:01 ↗ so one or even a homicide so those cases

35:03 ↗ um are the crimes that we uh a lot of

35:06 ↗ the emphasis

35:06 ↗ a lot of the court time goes into

35:08 ↗ managing those particular cases but

35:10 ↗ they're only a small percentage well

35:12 ↗ depends on your definition of small but

35:14 ↗ of the 1400 criminal cases that we've

35:16 ↗ averaged over the

35:17 ↗ last uh three years it's been a pretty

35:19 ↗ consistent number of just under 300

35:22 ↗ that are either duis or domestic

35:24 ↗ violence assault domestic violence

35:26 ↗ malicious mischief

35:28 ↗ and regular assault type cases um

35:31 ↗ the traditional model that you see in a

35:32 ↗ courtroom and i know that at least i

35:34 ↗ don't know how many lawyers you have on

35:35 ↗ your

35:36 ↗ uh um council i know that uh council

35:39 ↗ member goodman's a lawyer but the

35:40 ↗ the traditional model that we have in

35:42 ↗ the courtroom on

35:44 ↗ criminal cases is adversarial just like

35:45 ↗ every other courtroom

35:47 ↗ um the prosecutor the defense attorney

35:48 ↗ they come in and they're fighting for

35:51 ↗ opposite goals the prosecutor wants a

35:53 ↗ conviction uh they want accountability

35:55 ↗ they want punishment the defense

35:57 ↗ attorney um is looking for

35:58 ↗ an acquittal and hopefully their client

36:00 ↗ not being held responsible

36:02 ↗ um sentencing most cases get the

36:04 ↗ sentencing the way the process goes

36:06 ↗ every case starts with an arraignment

36:08 ↗ there's a number of pre-trials

36:09 ↗ motion state readiness calendar and a

36:12 ↗ very small number of cases get to jury

36:14 ↗ trial

36:14 ↗ we actually are back we did one set of

36:16 ↗ jury trials in october during the

36:17 ↗ pandemic

36:19 ↗ spikes hit we're back to try and jury

36:22 ↗ trials again next

36:23 ↗ next month or in april with some very

36:25 ↗ specific social distancing but very few

36:27 ↗ cases get there

36:28 ↗ i think both of them is shorter than i

36:30 ↗ would agree it's probably likely none

36:32 ↗ will go although we need to open up the

36:33 ↗ the opportunity for it simply because

36:35 ↗ we're getting so backed up with jury

36:36 ↗ trials because of the pandemic

36:38 ↗ um but most cases go through that

36:40 ↗ process the vast majority result in some

36:43 ↗ type of a disposition

36:44 ↗ and there's lots of dispositions that

36:46 ↗ happened in um

36:48 ↗ a district administered court setting um

36:51 ↗ the way this position typically works is

36:54 ↗ let's say the defendant

36:55 ↗ is charged with a possession of drug

36:57 ↗ paraphernalia or criminal trespass in

36:59 ↗ the second degree

37:00 ↗ both of those are simple misdemeanor

37:02 ↗ crimes both of those carry

37:04 ↗ up to 90 days in jail in a thousand

37:05 ↗ dollar fine both of those crimes make up

37:08 ↗ a significant number of the crimes that

37:09 ↗ we see

37:10 ↗ in the escrow municipal court i think

37:12 ↗ that's true of most courts throughout

37:13 ↗ the state

37:14 ↗ for a lot of our time is devoted to

37:16 ↗ people that are charged with

37:17 ↗ domestic excuse me possession of drug

37:19 ↗ paraphernalia and or criminal trespass

37:21 ↗ and these are the same people that are

37:23 ↗ charged

37:24 ↗ all the time it's it's um there are

37:26 ↗ regular faces that we see

37:28 ↗ at the district administer court level

37:30 ↗ um and

37:31 ↗ we see them all the time same people um

37:34 ↗ because it's

37:34 ↗ it's a cycle it's revolving door cycle

37:36 ↗ that we're seeing the same people

37:38 ↗ if this if person number one comes in

37:40 ↗ front of me for sentencing on a

37:41 ↗ possession of drug paraphernalia charge

37:43 ↗ what i'm typically going to do is i'm

37:45 ↗ going to sentence him to 90 days in jail

37:48 ↗ i'm going to suspend some portion of the

37:49 ↗ jail time uh remember jail is a limited

37:52 ↗ resource uh we we can only put so many

37:54 ↗ people in jail that's become

37:55 ↗ very obvious during covet because the

37:57 ↗ jail is having to do social distance

37:59 ↗ uh so we're heavily using the jail for

38:01 ↗ the folks that really scare us

38:03 ↗ um so um 90 days in jail maybe suspend

38:07 ↗ all the jail maybe suspend all but two

38:09 ↗ days

38:09 ↗ so we sent them to 90 days to spend all

38:11 ↗ but two days they're gonna do two days

38:13 ↗ in jail and we have 88 days in jail that

38:15 ↗ we can hang over their head for two

38:16 ↗ months to try to correct their behavior

38:19 ↗ and it's hung over their head on the

38:20 ↗ condition of suspending descendants

38:22 ↗ uh the individual might get um

38:26 ↗ an order that they have no criminal law

38:27 ↗ violations that they show up at

38:29 ↗ all court dates that they not consume

38:31 ↗ any alcohol or non-prescribed drugs and

38:32 ↗ typically

38:33 ↗ we're going to order them to get an

38:34 ↗ alcohol drug evaluation and follow-up

38:36 ↗ with the expectation that we'll set a

38:38 ↗ review hearing about 30 days out

38:40 ↗ and that they'll return to that review

38:42 ↗ hearing and they'll obtain this alcohol

38:43 ↗ drug evaluation

38:44 ↗ and there are any number of private

38:46 ↗ agencies um

38:47 ↗ in the state that will do alcohol drug

38:49 ↗ evaluation friends of youth who just had

38:51 ↗ those alcohol drug evaluations although

38:53 ↗ they're limited to youth and so a lot of

38:54 ↗ our clients don't fit into that category

38:56 ↗ the city works with ths through human

38:59 ↗ services they do all call drug

39:00 ↗ evaluations icron is alcohol drug

39:02 ↗ evaluations

39:03 ↗ one of the major agencies that we deal

39:05 ↗ with um

39:06 ↗ on in our area is raging river which is

39:09 ↗ over in snoqualmie

39:10 ↗ uh they take apple healthcare so a lot

39:12 ↗ of our more marginalized community is

39:14 ↗ able to get their alcohol drug

39:14 ↗ evaluations through them

39:16 ↗ we ordered them to get this alcohol drug

39:18 ↗ evaluation we set a review hearing out

39:20 ↗ about 30 days

39:21 ↗ we wait for them to come back they come

39:22 ↗ back for the review hearing

39:24 ↗ at that review here and we check and see

39:25 ↗ if they have the new criminal law

39:26 ↗ violations

39:27 ↗ and we ask about the alcohol drug

39:28 ↗ evaluation and inevitably they haven't

39:31 ↗ done it

39:32 ↗ and the reason they haven't done it is

39:34 ↗ for the first time we find out

39:35 ↗ they don't have a way to get to the

39:36 ↗ alcohol drug evaluation they've never

39:38 ↗ signed we all know that apple healthcare

39:40 ↗ is out there and available they've never

39:41 ↗ signed up for apple healthcare

39:43 ↗ um so they can't get anyone to accept

39:45 ↗ them for the alcohol drug evaluation

39:46 ↗ we said it over again say about 30 days

39:50 ↗ we tell their attorney they need to come

39:51 ↗ back with the alcohol drug evaluation we

39:52 ↗ need to find a way to get to this

39:54 ↗ evaluation

39:55 ↗ they come back in the 30 days and

39:56 ↗ they've just signed up for the apple

39:58 ↗ healthcare

39:58 ↗ the healthcare should be in place in a

40:00 ↗ couple of weeks so we end up sending it

40:02 ↗ over for another 30 days

40:03 ↗ and keep in mind throughout this entire

40:05 ↗ process each of these folks

40:07 ↗ what the system recognizes is that the

40:10 ↗ quicker we can get

40:11 ↗ someone that's got an alcohol or drug

40:12 ↗ problem into treatment the more

40:14 ↗ likely they are not to reoffend more

40:16 ↗ likely they are not to use

40:18 ↗ we put people in patient treatment all

40:19 ↗ the time when they get out of the

40:20 ↗ inpatient we need to put them in

40:21 ↗ aftercare because they're less likely to

40:23 ↗ reoffend

40:25 ↗ sometimes it takes 90 120 150 even 180

40:28 ↗ days before we can get somebody from a

40:30 ↗ sentencing to the point where they're

40:31 ↗ actually in treatment and during that

40:32 ↗ time

40:33 ↗ the vast majority of them reoffended

40:35 ↗ that review hearing what happens when

40:36 ↗ someone reoffends is there's a

40:38 ↗ revocation hearing

40:39 ↗ at the revocation here and there's a

40:40 ↗ sanction the court

40:42 ↗ has sentenced them to 90 days they've

40:44 ↗ suspended 88 they haven't done that

40:45 ↗ they're supposed to do

40:47 ↗ we have to find a sanction sometimes

40:49 ↗ that sanction involves jail time

40:50 ↗ which again uses part of that commodity

40:52 ↗ jail time also has the collateral

40:54 ↗ consequences of people that are working

40:57 ↗ it's not a heavy percent of these folks

40:58 ↗ that are working end up losing their job

41:01 ↗ and so we become very very much aware of

41:03 ↗ that

41:05 ↗ um and i just realized i'm supposed to

41:07 ↗ be sharing my

41:09 ↗ screen and i'm not doing it because

41:14 ↗ so we're going to flip ahead real quick

41:15 ↗ here and see if i'm smart enough for

41:16 ↗ doing this

41:24 ↗ it seems just like you were doing a

41:26 ↗ pretty clear presentation without it but

41:28 ↗ i'm sure it's going to help a few people

41:29 ↗ if they also see the presentation

41:32 ↗ that's got to make sure i'm on the right

41:33 ↗ i've only two slides in so we're okay

41:35 ↗ now

41:36 ↗ so after the the the community court

41:38 ↗ concept

41:39 ↗ is is based upon a collaborative system

41:42 ↗ a collaborative model

41:43 ↗ um and we aren't going to be the first

41:44 ↗ court to do it i will tell you folks

41:46 ↗ um when lynn campbell was my court

41:48 ↗ administrator a number of years ago

41:49 ↗ before she passed away

41:50 ↗ her and i were talking about a community

41:52 ↗ court um two courts in the state had

41:54 ↗ started at that point in time

41:56 ↗ uh spokane and um olympia

42:00 ↗ olympia has actually become one of the

42:01 ↗ national leaders on it um

42:03 ↗ and miss campbell and i were talking

42:05 ↗ about it we put together some of the

42:06 ↗ major ideas about how it might work in

42:08 ↗ the city of issaquah

42:10 ↗ um and then unfortunately ms campo

42:12 ↗ passed away when

42:13 ↗ when christy shawn came on we talked

42:16 ↗ about it and then bam we got hit with a

42:17 ↗ pandemic

42:18 ↗ and just the ability to provide court

42:20 ↗ became the primary responsibility

42:22 ↗ of the court now we're looking at some

42:24 ↗ of the other things the court can do to

42:26 ↗ serve the community and hopefully

42:27 ↗ address some of the problems that we

42:28 ↗ deal with in a better fashion than we

42:30 ↗ are at least for some of the folks that

42:31 ↗ appear on our court

42:32 ↗ so rather than be an adversarial uh

42:35 ↗ prosecutor versus the tense attorney

42:36 ↗ defense attorney with the judge

42:38 ↗ judging uh community court calendars

42:40 ↗ allow a collaborative

42:41 ↗ model what that means is the prosecutor

42:43 ↗ the defense attorney the core of

42:44 ↗ probation

42:45 ↗ were working towards a common goal and

42:48 ↗ the common goal is to address the

42:49 ↗ circumstances that resulted in the

42:51 ↗ criminal behavior these circumstances

42:53 ↗ can be simple

42:54 ↗ get an identification if you've ever

42:56 ↗ talked to somebody

42:57 ↗ that's on the street or somebody that's

42:59 ↗ in a marginalized community and it's not

43:00 ↗ working often times

43:02 ↗ um we'll hear that they tried to get the

43:04 ↗ job at wendy's

43:05 ↗ uh but they just flat out didn't have an

43:07 ↗ id and therefore they couldn't get it or

43:09 ↗ a social security guard

43:10 ↗ signing up for that health care um

43:12 ↗ getting them in touch with apple

43:14 ↗ healthcare or whatever health care might

43:15 ↗ be available and getting them signed up

43:17 ↗ as well as more complex issues like

43:19 ↗ addressing drug addiction

43:21 ↗ just about every person we're going to

43:23 ↗ see in community courts can be involved

43:24 ↗ some type of an alcohol or drug

43:26 ↗ treatment program

43:27 ↗ mental health issues oftentimes they go

43:29 ↗ with drug addiction completing high

43:30 ↗ school diplomas or getting a ged

43:32 ↗ those are huge i mean getting a ged or

43:36 ↗ some of the folks are so close to

43:37 ↗ completing the high school diploma but

43:38 ↗ have given up

43:39 ↗ it just doesn't make sense if we can

43:41 ↗ encourage them to this program to get

43:42 ↗ that high school diploma we all

43:43 ↗ recognize it increases their likelihood

43:45 ↗ for employment

43:46 ↗ and other issues with regard to lack of

43:48 ↗ employment homelessness

43:49 ↗ um once the participants are identified

43:52 ↗ support

43:52 ↗ prosecutor um the defense we support and

43:55 ↗ encourage them

43:56 ↗ in trying to move forward with what it

43:58 ↗ is they need to restore

43:59 ↗ or address their needs the goal here is

44:02 ↗ restoring

44:03 ↗ them being a protective member of

44:04 ↗ community and no longer committing

44:06 ↗ crimes rather than a punitive goal

44:08 ↗ which is what you find in the

44:10 ↗ traditional setting

44:13 ↗ way the way the process works is simple

44:16 ↗ the case is filed the prosecutor is the

44:18 ↗ one that filed the case we get the case

44:19 ↗ from the prosecutor

44:21 ↗ the prosecutor after he files the case

44:23 ↗ identifies

44:24 ↗ those cases um which they think are

44:26 ↗ appropriately for

44:27 ↗ for the community court calendar and

44:29 ↗ refer them to the community court

44:30 ↗ calendar

44:31 ↗ prosecutor works directly for the

44:33 ↗ executive that gives

44:35 ↗ the executive branch the ability to

44:37 ↗ control the types of cases so if they

44:38 ↗ have concern about certain cases not

44:40 ↗ being sent in the community court that

44:41 ↗ could come from the prosecutor

44:43 ↗ once a case has been identified for

44:45 ↗ community court the person shows up at

44:47 ↗ that first court date called an

44:48 ↗ arraignment

44:49 ↗ and they're offered an opportunity to go

44:52 ↗ into community court

44:53 ↗ um if they opt into community court it's

44:55 ↗ set over to a community court calendar

44:57 ↗ they meet with the case manager the case

44:59 ↗ manager finds out what their needs are

45:01 ↗ they present those needs the prosecutor

45:03 ↗ the defense attorney and the prosecutor

45:05 ↗ defense attorney

45:06 ↗ develop a plea disposition uh to address

45:08 ↗ the needs of the particular person so

45:11 ↗ that person

45:11 ↗ may need an id uh they may need some job

45:14 ↗ training they may now call drug

45:16 ↗ evaluation they don't have insurance the

45:17 ↗ median

45:18 ↗ insurance that person is then offered

45:20 ↗ one of two things they're either

45:22 ↗ offering a deferred sentence or they're

45:24 ↗ offered a stipulated order of

45:25 ↗ continuance

45:26 ↗ i went back and watched the video from

45:27 ↗ the last one and council member goodman

45:29 ↗ talked about the deferred sentence and

45:31 ↗ that's one of the main

45:32 ↗ tools that they use both of those tools

45:34 ↗ the deferred sentence and the stipulator

45:36 ↗ continuance are tools we have in the

45:37 ↗ present system

45:38 ↗ they're just used in a different manner

45:41 ↗ deferred sentences

45:42 ↗ i anticipate is going to be more often

45:44 ↗ used in situations where the person has

45:46 ↗ some

45:47 ↗ type of a criminal history but they want

45:49 ↗ to give them some encouragement for

45:51 ↗ addressing their needs

45:52 ↗ and so the deferred sense requires the

45:54 ↗ person to plead guilty

45:56 ↗ they plead guilty they come in front of

45:57 ↗ the court and they're presented with a

45:59 ↗ plan

46:00 ↗ um the stipulated order of continuance

46:03 ↗ is not a guilty plea but an agreed

46:05 ↗ continuance

46:05 ↗ prior to pleading guilty where the

46:07 ↗ defendant's required to stipulate to the

46:09 ↗ facts in the police report

46:11 ↗ that case is then continued and the

46:12 ↗ defendant's given similar conditions a

46:14 ↗ similar plan that they have to meet in

46:16 ↗ order to accomplish the goal

46:18 ↗ in both cases the court takes the full

46:20 ↗ jurisdiction of the case

46:21 ↗ 24 months that means that we could have

46:23 ↗ up to 24 months to get a

46:26 ↗ time or or um consideration hanging over

46:30 ↗ the particular defendant's head

46:31 ↗ but we also create graduation rates

46:33 ↗ based upon

46:35 ↗ the um decision of the prosecutor and

46:38 ↗ the defense as to how long it should

46:39 ↗ take this person to complete what the

46:40 ↗ goals are and if they complete it within

46:42 ↗ those goals be these six months

46:44 ↗ nine months the case is dismissed and we

46:47 ↗ actually have a little bit of a

46:48 ↗ celebration there's certificates that

46:49 ↗ are

46:50 ↗ provided and we have done certificates

46:52 ↗ we don't have a full community court but

46:54 ↗ we've had a couple

46:55 ↗ of defendants in our court that have

46:58 ↗ excelled

46:58 ↗ with regards to uh addressing heroin who

47:01 ↗ have addressed heroin gone to college or

47:03 ↗ no longer

47:04 ↗ uh actively using heroin i i

47:07 ↗ i'm not willing to get to say i have

47:09 ↗ take care of him because i mean

47:11 ↗ any addiction is a lifelong battle but

47:13 ↗ we're able

47:14 ↗ we celebrate that people stand up and

47:16 ↗ cheer and it's a big moment in that

47:18 ↗ person's life and we hope to have a lot

47:19 ↗ of those moments as part of our

47:21 ↗ community court

47:23 ↗ community court calendars would

47:24 ↗ generally occur weekly rather than

47:25 ↗ monthly they would be smaller counters

47:26 ↗ we don't anticipate more than 75 people

47:29 ↗ being our community card at least in the

47:30 ↗ first year

47:31 ↗ um this allows for the court to um

47:35 ↗ have a closer monitoring of the

47:36 ↗ defendants a quick response where they

47:38 ↗ fall out of compliance

47:40 ↗ but also recognition for the folks that

47:41 ↗ are doing well

47:43 ↗ calendars will place special emphasis on

47:45 ↗ treating parties with dignity and

47:46 ↗ respect

47:48 ↗ and a primary goal is to reduce the

47:49 ↗ barriers faced by these folks and

47:51 ↗ obtaining services remember one if you

47:53 ↗ go back to my

47:53 ↗ possession of drug paraphernalia person

47:55 ↗ earlier on that person

47:57 ↗ the court essentially gives

47:58 ↗ responsibilities and sends them out

48:00 ↗ we didn't find them and we don't have

48:03 ↗ the ability to

48:05 ↗ give every one of the defendants

48:06 ↗ apparent our court somebody to hold

48:07 ↗ their hand while they go out in the

48:08 ↗ community but the folks that we identify

48:10 ↗ that really need the special treatment

48:12 ↗ the community court brings those

48:14 ↗ resources sources to them

48:16 ↗ way it works in

48:19 ↗ olympia for instance is these people all

48:20 ↗ sign into a zoom meeting the judge is

48:22 ↗ even on the bench at first

48:24 ↗ and inside that zoom meeting they create

48:25 ↗ breakout rooms break a room with dshs a

48:28 ↗ breakout room with an alcohol drug

48:29 ↗ treatment breakout room with somebody

48:31 ↗ that can provide them with

48:32 ↗ uh how to sign up for um

48:35 ↗ health care break out room with somebody

48:36 ↗ that can help them to get a driver's

48:38 ↗ license or other id

48:39 ↗ the case manager has identified their

48:41 ↗ needs and they just send these people

48:42 ↗ into the breakout rooms

48:44 ↗ when they've got the breaker rooms they

48:45 ↗ come in front of the judge the judge

48:46 ↗ sees how they're doing and they move on

48:48 ↗ to the next court

48:49 ↗ to the next court date which will be

48:50 ↗ typically one week off

48:53 ↗ one of the rewards that they get is when

48:54 ↗ they're doing well it becomes two weeks

48:56 ↗ off and when they're

48:56 ↗ doing even better it becomes a month off

48:58 ↗ eventually they graduate

49:00 ↗ and there's a celebration

49:04 ↗ the great thing is the research is sown

49:07 ↗ this is the great thing

49:08 ↗ the reality is research has shown that

49:10 ↗ some of these lesser crimes crimes like

49:11 ↗ malicious mischief

49:13 ↗ crimes like criminal trespass crimes

49:14 ↗ like pedestrian and drug paraphernalia

49:16 ↗ can result in more serious crimes they

49:18 ↗ can be crimes that start off on more

49:20 ↗ dangerous behavior

49:21 ↗ i will tell you that we asked the

49:23 ↗ prosecutor and the defense attorney to

49:25 ↗ come up with

49:26 ↗ um the names of folks and until i

49:29 ↗ started doing

49:31 ↗ um being involved in criminal law i did

49:34 ↗ not realize

49:35 ↗ the percentage of our population um one

49:37 ↗ of the things they teach us in judge

49:38 ↗ school we have to go to judge school

49:40 ↗ is gather a room of about 100 people

49:42 ↗ together um

49:44 ↗ of those hundred people 98 of the

49:46 ↗ hundred have never been involved in the

49:48 ↗ criminal justice system which means it's

49:49 ↗ a general rule we're dealing with two of

49:51 ↗ those people

49:52 ↗ a gather room of just those two people

49:53 ↗ together 98 of them have had

49:55 ↗ one thing like that one dui and then

49:58 ↗ that's been there one thing

49:59 ↗ at least there's one person you put a

50:01 ↗ hundred of those people together and

50:02 ↗ those folks are

50:03 ↗ with you deal with on a regular basis uh

50:05 ↗ prosecutors point out that

50:07 ↗ um we have folks in our jail um who've

50:10 ↗ served five or six hundred days

50:12 ↗ um in jail on ten or more or convictions

50:16 ↗ um all for nine violent offenses so

50:18 ↗ these are people that are taking up jail

50:20 ↗ space

50:21 ↗ for non-violent criminal trespass

50:22 ↗ possession of drug paraphernalia

50:24 ↗ type offenses just because they continue

50:26 ↗ to not comply with conditions when we

50:28 ↗ send them out in the world and ask them

50:29 ↗ to take care of them on their own

50:31 ↗ the goal is that if we grab them early

50:34 ↗ and we get into our community court we

50:37 ↗ put them in front of these providers

50:39 ↗ we built up a plan that gets them from

50:42 ↗ identification health insurance to

50:44 ↗ alcohol drug treatment

50:46 ↗ that they no longer become part of the

50:47 ↗ criminal system

50:49 ↗ so not being part of the criminal system

50:51 ↗ they're not able to commit border

50:52 ↗ violations

50:54 ↗ we've changed a person's life achieve

50:56 ↗ public trust

50:57 ↗ in the justice system and ultimately

50:59 ↗ create a safer community

51:01 ↗ um this slide um is according to the

51:04 ↗ findings of this

51:05 ↗ olympia municipal court this program has

51:07 ↗ been in existence for five years it's

51:08 ↗ one of the early

51:09 ↗ earlier systems uh that is going here in

51:13 ↗ the state of washington

51:14 ↗ olympia has determined that 86 percent

51:16 ↗ of their graduates the community court

51:17 ↗ have not convicted

51:18 ↗ i've been convicted of a new crime 64

51:21 ↗ experience in homelessness are connected

51:23 ↗ to homeless related services

51:25 ↗ 44 of participants are connected to

51:27 ↗ employment

51:28 ↗ 79 mental health services 49 to

51:31 ↗ substance abuse services 15

51:33 ↗ decrease in their jail population and a

51:35 ↗ 23

51:36 ↗ reduction in criminal filings

51:40 ↗ um we do want to be aware

51:43 ↗ that the folks that will be involved in

51:46 ↗ community court

51:47 ↗ um are non-violent offenders um

51:51 ↗ when you add all the violent offenders

51:52 ↗ together you had 1441

51:54 ↗ average cases about 400

51:57 ↗ a third of those criminal offenses filed

51:59 ↗ are non-violent criminal defenses 480

52:02 ↗ we anticipate 75 participants and

52:04 ↗ annually enrolling the community corps

52:06 ↗ program again

52:07 ↗ it will be heavily controlled by the

52:08 ↗ prosecutor the prosecutor is going to

52:10 ↗ have to make the referral we've listed a

52:12 ↗ number of the cases here that are

52:14 ↗ potential uh non-violent offenses

52:16 ↗ i think the two main ones we're going to

52:18 ↗ see pedestrian drug paraphernalia

52:20 ↗ uh um criminal trespass

52:24 ↗ um disorderly conduct um those cases the

52:27 ↗ prosecutor is going to be able to look

52:28 ↗ at

52:29 ↗ they're going to be able to say is this

52:30 ↗ a case that we can refer to community

52:32 ↗ court

52:32 ↗ um and then if the person accepts it we

52:35 ↗ figure we'll get about 75 participants a

52:37 ↗ year

52:39 ↗ so far what we've done we've identified

52:41 ↗ a core team a person is working on the

52:43 ↗ project

52:44 ↗ our prosecutor lynn moberty and um her

52:46 ↗ assistant

52:47 ↗ alexa mcbarron um our defense attorney

52:50 ↗ a whitney gardner um and her team

52:53 ↗ probation officer melanie banik um

52:57 ↗ monica negrilla from the human service

52:59 ↗ department we've all been working on

53:00 ↗ this looking into the possibilities

53:02 ↗ we've identified some of the needed

53:03 ↗ services that will provide the court

53:05 ↗ calendars

53:05 ↗ i do want to emphasize that

53:09 ↗ um this is something that i think only

53:12 ↗ works

53:13 ↗ if if all branches of the government's

53:15 ↗ is interested in it and

53:17 ↗ is and and i point that out because one

53:20 ↗ of the things you want to do

53:21 ↗ is you want everybody to say this is

53:23 ↗ what we think some of the issues are

53:25 ↗ that need to be addressed for this

53:26 ↗ portion of the community and we can add

53:29 ↗ those services um into the program

53:31 ↗ right now the city already funds icron

53:33 ↗ and ths and obviously we have this squad

53:34 ↗ food and clothing bank and they've all

53:36 ↗ indicated a willingness to work with us

53:38 ↗ our probation officer melanie vanek much

53:40 ↗ to our luck

53:41 ↗ has already completed the necessary

53:42 ↗ training through department of social

53:44 ↗ health services that will allow or

53:45 ↗ assist participants in applying for

53:47 ↗ services

53:47 ↗ as a community connection partner uh

53:50 ↗ christie

53:51 ↗ myself or ms shorn myself mr gorilla we

53:54 ↗ visited the trial municipal court

53:55 ↗ we visited the uh olympia mr court

53:58 ↗ they're all

53:59 ↗ very willing to work with us you should

54:01 ↗ know that there are community courts

54:02 ↗ operating in redmond kirkland uh

54:05 ↗ community court opened this month

54:08 ↗ rent is in the process of opening the

54:09 ↗ community court um those are obviously

54:11 ↗ bigger jurisdictions

54:13 ↗ um but we meet we with with regard to

54:16 ↗ curriculum we've already worked with

54:17 ↗ them in developing some of the forms

54:18 ↗ they needed to develop forms we want

54:20 ↗ forms

54:21 ↗ let's save money and work together we're

54:23 ↗ working with rent municipal court

54:25 ↗ uh christie's got connections there but

54:27 ↗ on top of that they're in the staging

54:28 ↗ process

54:29 ↗ and so we're working at the possibility

54:31 ↗ of sharing resources

54:32 ↗ um we've identified a number of eligible

54:35 ↗ offenses

54:36 ↗ had phone meetings with the number of

54:38 ↗ the courts and we're in discussions with

54:39 ↗ the consultant

54:40 ↗ to aid in setting up the process

54:43 ↗ that means i'm open for questions i i

54:46 ↗ talk real fast it's high school debate i

54:48 ↗ never got over it i apologize

54:50 ↗ um that was a fantastic presentation

54:54 ↗ and um just a special little quick shout

54:57 ↗ out to you and christy for all you've

54:58 ↗ done through covid that we were able to

55:00 ↗ operate

55:01 ↗ as we have which has been amazing we

55:04 ↗ have several

55:05 ↗ questions in the chat so we will start

55:07 ↗ with council member mertz

55:09 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

55:10 ↗ councilmember martz hi judge stewart

55:12 ↗ um always great to hear from you uh can

55:15 ↗ you go to slide

55:16 ↗ 13 i have a question about criminal

55:18 ↗ filings and eligible non-violent

55:20 ↗ offenses

55:24 ↗ figure out how to go back here and i can

55:26 ↗ do it

55:34 ↗ yeah so could you explain there's three

55:37 ↗ of these that i'm

55:38 ↗ i don't i don't understand malicious

55:41 ↗ mischief

55:42 ↗ criminal trespass and theft third degree

55:45 ↗ can you explain those three crimes and

55:46 ↗ why they would be part of this program

55:49 ↗ well they're not considered violent

55:51 ↗ offenses and i i honestly carry the

55:52 ↗ concealed weapons on there as well and

55:54 ↗ whenever i see the word weapon it makes

55:56 ↗ me a little bit nervous

55:57 ↗ and the answer to that is they would be

55:59 ↗ on the program but they would be

56:01 ↗ controlled again by

56:02 ↗ the prosecutor so i think that uh

56:05 ↗ for instance malicious mischief fits

56:07 ↗ into a number of cat categories i walk a

56:09 ↗ real fine line

56:10 ↗ when i talk about specific cases but i

56:12 ↗ can think of cases

56:14 ↗ uh um a malicious mischief cases where

56:17 ↗ it might be appropriate for community

56:19 ↗ court and malicious basis where it might

56:21 ↗ not be appropriate for the community

56:22 ↗ court

56:23 ↗ that being said the prosecutor who again

56:26 ↗ works for the executive branch and

56:27 ↗ controls what comes in here could decide

56:29 ↗ i'm not going to do any

56:30 ↗ malicious mischief cases um she has the

56:34 ↗ ability to

56:35 ↗ to keep those off uh the ones that we've

56:37 ↗ said as a court

56:39 ↗ aren't going to come on are dui i i

56:42 ↗ don't think it's ever appropriate um

56:44 ↗ to especially with the concerns about

56:47 ↗ domestic violence to allow any domestic

56:48 ↗ violence case in the community court

56:50 ↗ even if the prosecutor wants to we're

56:52 ↗ not going to be willing to do it i don't

56:54 ↗ think it's ever appropriate to allow any

56:56 ↗ dwi into community court even if the

56:58 ↗ prosecutor wanted to we're not going to

56:59 ↗ be willing to do it

57:00 ↗ there may be theft charges and there may

57:02 ↗ be malicious mischief charges that were

57:04 ↗ appropriate on the specific facts of the

57:06 ↗ case

57:07 ↗ um i i can tell you and i can't talk

57:09 ↗ about specific cases

57:11 ↗ i can tell you i had one case of

57:13 ↗ malicious mischief in my court that had

57:15 ↗ to do with

57:15 ↗ salmon days it was one of the more

57:17 ↗ egregious cases that i

57:18 ↗ i'd ever seen and there's no way that

57:20 ↗ case is making it into

57:22 ↗ community court but the prosecutor

57:23 ↗ wouldn't refer it anyway the way cases

57:25 ↗ come into the court

57:27 ↗ um we're not a direct file court so the

57:29 ↗ police office department files with the

57:30 ↗ prosecutor the prosecutor reviews it

57:32 ↗ she would then make a referral community

57:34 ↗ court which is much the way most of

57:35 ↗ these courts work veterans court the

57:37 ↗ prosecutor makes a referral

57:38 ↗ uh um militia uh mental health court the

57:42 ↗ prosecutor makes a referral

57:44 ↗ um so these are just cases that aren't

57:46 ↗ traditionally there i'm not sure i'm

57:47 ↗ real comfortable with

57:48 ↗ anything that involves a weapon but

57:50 ↗ these are cases that are potential

57:52 ↗ community court cases no no final

57:54 ↗ decisions been made

57:56 ↗ i think you will see transmission and

57:59 ↗ disorderly conduct which are

58:00 ↗ are pretty common cases uh put in the

58:03 ↗ community court i don't think until

58:04 ↗ uh malicious mister domestic violence

58:06 ↗ would ever make it to community court

58:08 ↗ but does that answer your question yeah

58:10 ↗ council members give you additional

58:11 ↗ information

58:13 ↗ uh i don't think it does answer my

58:15 ↗ question i'm trying to

58:16 ↗ understand um you know most of these i

58:19 ↗ can see an argument that says

58:21 ↗ that they're and forgive me if this is a

58:23 ↗ a precise term

58:25 ↗ but victimless crimes but

58:28 ↗ but melissa malicious mischief criminal

58:31 ↗ trespass

58:31 ↗ step third degree these all seem like a

58:34 ↗ different category because

58:36 ↗ it seems like there's probably a clear

58:38 ↗ victim in these three cases

58:40 ↗ in these two sure i will tell you that

58:43 ↗ one of the art

58:44 ↗ the rcw 10.20 on

58:47 ↗ on either malicious mischief or a theft

58:49 ↗ in the third degree

58:50 ↗ authorizes the case to be resolved by

58:52 ↗ way what's called a compromise and

58:54 ↗ misdemeanor

58:55 ↗ a compromise a misdemeanor means that

58:57 ↗ they pay for the damage and the case

58:58 ↗ gets dismissed

59:00 ↗ uh um any community court

59:04 ↗ program look any there's no treatment

59:06 ↗ there's no nothing the case gets

59:07 ↗ dismissed

59:08 ↗ any community court process um would

59:11 ↗ involve restitution whenever you've got

59:13 ↗ theft and whenever you've got malicious

59:14 ↗ mission it's going to involve

59:15 ↗ restitution

59:16 ↗ any every community court uh charge is

59:19 ↗ going to

59:20 ↗ involve uh um community service and

59:22 ↗ community service is going to be

59:23 ↗ determined based upon the significance

59:25 ↗ of the crime

59:26 ↗ so to the extent and i i don't want to

59:29 ↗ mislead you not all malicious mischiefs

59:31 ↗ and not all

59:32 ↗ theft charges are resolved by way of the

59:34 ↗ um um

59:35 ↗ compromise of misdemeanor but that's an

59:37 ↗ option that's available

59:38 ↗ um not all malicious mischief and not

59:40 ↗ all theft charges

59:42 ↗ if any are going to be resolved by way

59:44 ↗ of community court but to the extent the

59:46 ↗ prosecutor makes the determined

59:48 ↗ nomination upfront that the society is

59:50 ↗ benefited

59:51 ↗ this is a person that's theft arises out

59:54 ↗ of a heavy drug problem

59:55 ↗ we have not been able to satisfy

59:59 ↗ uh or we've not been able to and he's a

1:00:01 ↗ regular in our court

1:00:03 ↗ um every time we let him out of jail he

1:00:04 ↗ goes back and does the same thing we

1:00:06 ↗ have not been able to motivate him to

1:00:07 ↗ get into treatment he needs a drug

1:00:09 ↗ treatment in order to avoid the criminal

1:00:10 ↗ behavior so he can get a job

1:00:12 ↗ it's just another tool that we would

1:00:13 ↗ have uh that might be available to him

1:00:16 ↗ it would always involve restitution and

1:00:17 ↗ it was always involved um

1:00:19 ↗ community service as a sanction

1:00:23 ↗ it would have to motivate them by the

1:00:24 ↗ prosecutor

1:00:27 ↗ councilman uh all right tough

1:00:30 ↗ tough topic but i think that's all the

1:00:32 ↗ questions i have for right now thank you

1:00:34 ↗ thank you councilmember demichelle

1:00:39 ↗ thank you this is councilmember d

1:00:40 ↗ michelle and i have a few questions

1:00:43 ↗ first of all judge stewart i'm i really

1:00:46 ↗ respect you

1:00:47 ↗ and christy and what you're trying to do

1:00:48 ↗ with this program i think it's

1:00:50 ↗ a wonderful proposal um

1:00:53 ↗ we get a packet ahead of time and

1:00:57 ↗ on page six of that packet it says

1:01:00 ↗ individuals do not need to be involved

1:01:03 ↗ with the criminal justice system

1:01:05 ↗ before taking advantage of the resources

1:01:07 ↗ or services available at the community

1:01:09 ↗ court

1:01:10 ↗ and i was kind of surprised by that and

1:01:12 ↗ i was just wondering

1:01:13 ↗ under what circumstances would people

1:01:16 ↗ who aren't

1:01:17 ↗ involved with the criminal justice

1:01:18 ↗ system how how would they

1:01:20 ↗ how would they be referred to or how

1:01:22 ↗ would how would it happen that someone

1:01:24 ↗ who's not involved the criminal justice

1:01:25 ↗ system would

1:01:26 ↗ be involved with a community court um

1:01:31 ↗ i think any number of ways our idea is

1:01:33 ↗ is it's a service that we're providing

1:01:35 ↗ as one of the branches of government in

1:01:37 ↗ the city of isquad and that

1:01:39 ↗ if we've got a member of the community

1:01:41 ↗ that that needs these services that

1:01:43 ↗ didn't commit a theft but but needs to

1:01:45 ↗ get id or needs to get signed up for

1:01:47 ↗ apple healthcare

1:01:48 ↗ or or needs to um get into alcohol drug

1:01:51 ↗ treatment

1:01:52 ↗ and we can provide this this tool that

1:01:55 ↗ we would make it open to them and we're

1:01:56 ↗ working obviously with the human

1:01:57 ↗ services department i know that the city

1:02:00 ↗ is looking at hiring somebody

1:02:02 ↗ um to work with the police department i

1:02:04 ↗ don't remember that the title that that

1:02:05 ↗ person has

1:02:07 ↗ um but the idea would be that they could

1:02:08 ↗ refer people to

1:02:10 ↗ our court and that they would then be

1:02:12 ↗ put in contact

1:02:13 ↗ yeah um councilman michelle if you came

1:02:16 ↗ into the room this uh our court we're

1:02:18 ↗ using zoom and it's very similar to this

1:02:20 ↗ right

1:02:20 ↗ so you sign on uh to one of our

1:02:23 ↗ community court calendars

1:02:24 ↗ and you don't have a case we'd identify

1:02:26 ↗ who you were

1:02:27 ↗ and if you were someone in need of

1:02:29 ↗ services we'd refer you to our case

1:02:30 ↗ manager

1:02:31 ↗ if you were from issaquah if you wanted

1:02:33 ↗ the local folks from mystical

1:02:34 ↗ and you would then have access to the

1:02:36 ↗ resources i i think it was just

1:02:38 ↗ something that we wanted to provide the

1:02:40 ↗ public because not everybody that

1:02:42 ↗ uh um is is having difficulty accessing

1:02:46 ↗ these resources

1:02:46 ↗ necessarily um has committed a crime

1:02:50 ↗ but there are folks out there that have

1:02:51 ↗ difficulty accessing resources

1:02:53 ↗ so i think that's just a goal in talking

1:02:56 ↗ with the human services department it

1:02:57 ↗ would be a way in to the resources that

1:03:00 ↗ the city's trying to provide anyway

1:03:02 ↗ and we just offer a one-stop shop in in

1:03:05 ↗ a non-coveted world

1:03:07 ↗ um you show up at court at

1:03:10 ↗ eight o'clock um you're charged with

1:03:11 ↗ criminal trespassing second degree

1:03:13 ↗ and they have tables set around the room

1:03:16 ↗ and one table's got a sign that says get

1:03:18 ↗ your driver's license one table signs

1:03:20 ↗ on and you just balance between the

1:03:22 ↗ tables you've been assigned by your case

1:03:23 ↗ manager

1:03:24 ↗ and you get set up with dates as far as

1:03:26 ↗ what you need to do and you get set up

1:03:28 ↗ with a plan

1:03:29 ↗ you come in front of the court of the

1:03:30 ↗ first date and say this is what the plan

1:03:32 ↗ is

1:03:32 ↗ come back in a week so this is where we

1:03:34 ↗ are in the plan come back in a week at

1:03:36 ↗ some point

1:03:37 ↗ you've satisfied the plan now you're

1:03:38 ↗ moving into treatment

1:03:40 ↗ we just want to offer the same option to

1:03:42 ↗ uh

1:03:43 ↗ all members of the community that might

1:03:44 ↗ be needing services the city's

1:03:46 ↗ trying to provide the services anyway we

1:03:48 ↗ just think that we're one of the tools

1:03:50 ↗ um that might be available to use them i

1:03:53 ↗ will tell you at one point

1:03:55 ↗ uh there was a there was a young boy we

1:03:56 ↗ made it to the news uh early in the

1:03:58 ↗ pandemic

1:03:59 ↗ there was a young boy that he and his

1:04:00 ↗ friends had made all these masks

1:04:02 ↗ um and uh they were calling around and

1:04:05 ↗ they recognized that a place that needs

1:04:06 ↗ mass is gonna be courts because we're

1:04:08 ↗ forcing folks in off the streets

1:04:10 ↗ at that point in time that was a concern

1:04:11 ↗ and a lot of poor people that couldn't

1:04:13 ↗ afford masks and so we had these masks

1:04:15 ↗ available to them it's just a

1:04:16 ↗ uh we're the only one of the few places

1:04:18 ↗ out there that forces this

1:04:20 ↗ particular part of the marginalized

1:04:21 ↗ community to come to a place

1:04:23 ↗ and so the resources available we just

1:04:25 ↗ want to make it available to more people

1:04:28 ↗ council member d michelle before we go

1:04:29 ↗ to your next question

1:04:31 ↗ um i just want to let you know that

1:04:34 ↗ um judge stewart and his court have

1:04:36 ↗ always sort of been

1:04:37 ↗ ahead of the rest of us and what we have

1:04:40 ↗ been trying to do is identify

1:04:41 ↗ those gaps and where interdisciplinary

1:04:45 ↗ teams can start to pull resources

1:04:46 ↗ together

1:04:47 ↗ so they've been doing an amazing job but

1:04:49 ↗ now we're weaving in

1:04:51 ↗ those other roles and those new

1:04:53 ↗ positions that the city has to try and

1:04:55 ↗ really have a safety net

1:04:57 ↗ a public safety net that is as

1:05:00 ↗ you know strong and robust as we can get

1:05:02 ↗ it and i'm sure you have another

1:05:04 ↗ question

1:05:05 ↗ i i do but and i really appreciate that

1:05:07 ↗ answer judge stewart

1:05:09 ↗ uh thank you and mayor paulie as well

1:05:10 ↗ thank you um

1:05:12 ↗ and the next question is is somewhat

1:05:14 ↗ related but

1:05:16 ↗ a defendant comes in front of you and uh

1:05:18 ↗ is not just an

1:05:19 ↗ individual that persons has a family

1:05:22 ↗ sometimes the family needs help as well

1:05:25 ↗ as the individual

1:05:26 ↗ with is there going to be opportunities

1:05:28 ↗ here then to bring in

1:05:30 ↗ family counseling or provide

1:05:33 ↗ where where it's appropriate would

1:05:35 ↗ people be able to access

1:05:37 ↗ help for their families uh in whatever

1:05:40 ↗ circumstances that might be in

1:05:43 ↗ um i don't completely know the answer

1:05:45 ↗ that i do know that

1:05:46 ↗ obviously one one of the resources that

1:05:49 ↗ that human services

1:05:50 ↗ put in contact with is icron um and icon

1:05:53 ↗ provides some of that service so to the

1:05:54 ↗ extent

1:05:55 ↗ uh that the agencies that we're working

1:05:58 ↗ with are open to that yeah we would be

1:05:59 ↗ we would be

1:06:00 ↗ they would be part of the community so

1:06:01 ↗ we would be trying to do that

1:06:04 ↗ sure one of the other agencies we're

1:06:06 ↗ looking at

1:06:07 ↗ is hope link and i believe hopelink has

1:06:09 ↗ a grant

1:06:10 ↗ through the city and they offer family

1:06:13 ↗ support

1:06:13 ↗ counseling and that was christy shawn

1:06:16 ↗ our court manager

1:06:20 ↗ that's okay thank you christy um

1:06:23 ↗ councilmember

1:06:23 ↗ michelle did you have any additional

1:06:24 ↗ questions i just have one more

1:06:26 ↗ and that is uh you know you're dressing

1:06:29 ↗ non-violent

1:06:31 ↗ situations people who are fall into that

1:06:35 ↗ category

1:06:36 ↗ sometimes i mean i hear often so often

1:06:39 ↗ of someone who's mentally ill

1:06:42 ↗ in a psychotic moment or experiencing

1:06:44 ↗ psychosis

1:06:46 ↗ they become violent uh and then

1:06:49 ↗ you know basically primarily caused by

1:06:52 ↗ that mental illness

1:06:53 ↗ would you know if is there any way to

1:06:56 ↗ recognize

1:06:57 ↗ that they have gone through that

1:06:58 ↗ experience they may not be overall a

1:07:01 ↗ violent person

1:07:02 ↗ and they would be able to get help

1:07:04 ↗ through a court like this or would they

1:07:07 ↗ be treated in a separate in a separate

1:07:09 ↗ uh process

1:07:11 ↗ i would i can't begin to talk about

1:07:14 ↗ specific cases but we deal with those

1:07:15 ↗ cases

1:07:16 ↗ um we deal with and some of those ones

1:07:18 ↗ are the ones that frighten me the most

1:07:19 ↗ are the ones i lose sleep over

1:07:21 ↗ and um a lot of them are

1:07:24 ↗ honestly um if you were to go into our

1:07:26 ↗ jail are sitting in jail

1:07:28 ↗ because we we every time we let them out

1:07:31 ↗ they it seems to escalate and so you're

1:07:34 ↗ concerned and so we're constantly

1:07:36 ↗ looking for treatment for them

1:07:37 ↗ there are and it's the answer is uh

1:07:40 ↗ i don't know and it's just i don't know

1:07:42 ↗ because it's gonna and this goes back to

1:07:44 ↗ the council member mark's question with

1:07:47 ↗ regard to the malicious mischief

1:07:50 ↗ the vast majority of malicious mischief

1:07:52 ↗ may not qualify for community court

1:07:54 ↗ some might a significant percentage of

1:07:57 ↗ the folks that you're talking about with

1:07:59 ↗ regard to the mental health issues

1:08:01 ↗ uh that are committing violent offenses

1:08:03 ↗ um well the violent offenses aren't

1:08:05 ↗ going to qualify but we have two other

1:08:07 ↗ tools available

1:08:08 ↗ um where we see the escalation uh people

1:08:11 ↗ that are attacking cars people that are

1:08:13 ↗ attacking strangers on the streets

1:08:15 ↗ i don't know where the point comes

1:08:17 ↗ between somebody walking up and

1:08:18 ↗ attacking a stranger on the street and

1:08:20 ↗ somebody walking up and killing someone

1:08:21 ↗ on the street i just don't know the

1:08:23 ↗ answer that

1:08:24 ↗ i do know that i'm limited in the amount

1:08:26 ↗ of a sanction that i can pose and if i

1:08:28 ↗ impose a year in jail on person at that

1:08:30 ↗ point i lose all jurisdiction over them

1:08:32 ↗ and all ability to control their future

1:08:33 ↗ behavior

1:08:35 ↗ so we're constantly looking for

1:08:37 ↗ typically releases to an inpatient type

1:08:39 ↗ treatment

1:08:41 ↗ environment for those folks in lieu at

1:08:44 ↗ some point in a jail commitment

1:08:45 ↗ with the hopes that they'll get the

1:08:46 ↗ treatment whatever is needed so that

1:08:48 ↗ their behavior

1:08:49 ↗ can be controlled in the future and

1:08:51 ↗ we're not seeing them back

1:08:52 ↗ um but if it's a violent offense they're

1:08:55 ↗ probably not going to qualify for

1:08:56 ↗ community court but that does not mean

1:08:57 ↗ we're looking for treatment we're just

1:08:59 ↗ doing it in a more traditional mode

1:09:02 ↗ the way jail typically works is um

1:09:05 ↗ at this level you're trying to fix

1:09:06 ↗ people to dix or help people fix

1:09:08 ↗ themselves to the extent you can

1:09:10 ↗ but when the point comes that they it's

1:09:12 ↗ not working you got to protect the

1:09:14 ↗ community

1:09:15 ↗ and that's kind of why i say when you

1:09:16 ↗ when you've got somebody that's

1:09:17 ↗ committing these criminal trespass cases

1:09:19 ↗ and you're locking them up for five or

1:09:21 ↗ six hundred days

1:09:22 ↗ you're using five or six under the days

1:09:24 ↗ you could have been using for that

1:09:25 ↗ person that you're truly protecting the

1:09:26 ↗ community from

1:09:28 ↗ and uh um i'm not saying that it's a

1:09:30 ↗ positive thing to lock the mentally ill

1:09:31 ↗ up i'm just saying that we need to find

1:09:33 ↗ appropriate treatment for them and we

1:09:34 ↗ are there's there

1:09:35 ↗ there's a gal named christy mitchell um

1:09:38 ↗ who

1:09:38 ↗ provides services to the state that

1:09:40 ↗ comes into our jail meets with them

1:09:42 ↗ and assesses them and then tries to find

1:09:44 ↗ appropriate treatment to put them into

1:09:46 ↗ at state expense

1:09:47 ↗ the great thing about all this stuff um

1:09:50 ↗ from a

1:09:50 ↗ from a budgetary perspective is the

1:09:53 ↗ resources that we're talking about

1:09:55 ↗ the vast majority of them are already

1:09:57 ↗ paid for by somebody else

1:09:59 ↗ they're just looking for clients we're

1:10:01 ↗ finding a way to get them clients

1:10:03 ↗ uh um through our court so we do have

1:10:05 ↗ people that come into our jail

1:10:07 ↗ uh when someone's in the jail um the way

1:10:10 ↗ the way it happens with someone with a

1:10:12 ↗ mental illness if the if they're a

1:10:13 ↗ violent person we have two categories we

1:10:15 ↗ have violent non-violent

1:10:16 ↗ um the prosecutor has to make a

1:10:18 ↗ determination as to whether they're

1:10:19 ↗ competent that's independent

1:10:21 ↗ of being insane or in need of treatment

1:10:24 ↗ if they are incompetent they can't

1:10:26 ↗ prosecute the cases are dismissed

1:10:28 ↗ they're referred to the county mental

1:10:30 ↗ mental health professionals to see

1:10:31 ↗ whether or not they're going to be

1:10:32 ↗ involuntarily committed that almost

1:10:33 ↗ never happens and then they're released

1:10:35 ↗ to the street because we can't prosecute

1:10:37 ↗ somebody who's incompetent

1:10:39 ↗ if they're competent uh then we have to

1:10:41 ↗ make a determination

1:10:42 ↗ whether they'll remain in custody or out

1:10:44 ↗ of custody while the prosecutor and the

1:10:46 ↗ defense attorney figure out what to do

1:10:47 ↗ with them

1:10:48 ↗ um and to the extent the defense

1:10:49 ↗ attorney recognizes that this is not a

1:10:51 ↗ case they're going to win

1:10:52 ↗ they're looking for appropriate

1:10:53 ↗ treatment to try to get the person the

1:10:56 ↗ medication or the counseling or whatever

1:10:57 ↗ it is that they need

1:10:59 ↗ uh to avoid uh further criminal behavior

1:11:02 ↗ so but i don't think those folks will

1:11:04 ↗ necessarily be handled through a uh

1:11:06 ↗ a community court environment because

1:11:08 ↗ you're talking about violent offenses

1:11:09 ↗ great thank you george stewart thank you

1:11:12 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:11:13 ↗ i am going to go to councilmember walsh

1:11:16 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh um

1:11:19 ↗ judge could you go back to

1:11:21 ↗ your presentation to the slide 13 again

1:11:35 ↗ great so i have oh

1:11:38 ↗ um the other yep that one um so i have

1:11:42 ↗ three questions first of all it says

1:11:45 ↗ we anticipate about 75 participants

1:11:47 ↗ annually enroll

1:11:48 ↗ in community court um

1:11:52 ↗ is there a certain level of your budget

1:11:56 ↗ that supports this versus looking at the

1:11:59 ↗ larger scope of the

1:12:01 ↗ 480 cases sure sure

1:12:04 ↗ um we don't have a budget for community

1:12:07 ↗ courts so

1:12:08 ↗ so essentially um

1:12:11 ↗ what we're trying to do is we're trying

1:12:13 ↗ to work into the confines of what we

1:12:15 ↗ think we can do

1:12:16 ↗ fitting under regular calendars you have

1:12:17 ↗ a prosecutor and a public defender

1:12:20 ↗ that commit to some that i signed up for

1:12:23 ↗ so many court hours

1:12:24 ↗ a week um and christy and i moving cases

1:12:28 ↗ around in cases where where

1:12:30 ↗ some calendars you recognize um

1:12:33 ↗ um we can double up calendars

1:12:37 ↗ um and squeeze community court calendars

1:12:39 ↗ in there so we're moving our calendars

1:12:40 ↗ around

1:12:41 ↗ to decide um to be able to proceed

1:12:44 ↗ without the public defender and the

1:12:45 ↗ prosecutor

1:12:46 ↗ thinking that they're entitled to more

1:12:48 ↗ money i mean if it works

1:12:50 ↗ um and the council and this is a council

1:12:52 ↗ decision decides hey this is something

1:12:53 ↗ that's working for us we really want to

1:12:55 ↗ expand on it

1:12:56 ↗ then you might be paying your prosecutor

1:12:57 ↗ and your public defender for the

1:12:59 ↗ additional court calendars that were

1:13:00 ↗ involved

1:13:01 ↗ in addition charlotte for instance

1:13:05 ↗ uh puyallup uh andrew beal is the judge

1:13:07 ↗ in the prologue i'm real familiar with

1:13:08 ↗ their program because andrea beal and i

1:13:10 ↗ used to be part of a law firm called

1:13:11 ↗ stuart

1:13:12 ↗ beal mcnichols and armelle we were law

1:13:14 ↗ partners and then she became the

1:13:15 ↗ judge so i talk about it all the time

1:13:18 ↗ they decided to create a community court

1:13:20 ↗ down in puyallup

1:13:21 ↗ and what they did was uh they they did

1:13:24 ↗ what we're what we're working out up

1:13:25 ↗ front they want to see whether it works

1:13:26 ↗ whether or not there was a need whether

1:13:28 ↗ or not we could push it forward

1:13:29 ↗ and they did it small like we're doing

1:13:31 ↗ it um

1:13:32 ↗ ultimately they went to the uh center

1:13:35 ↗ for

1:13:36 ↗ uh work it's a it's a it's a national

1:13:39 ↗ organization that looks at alternatives

1:13:40 ↗ for courts to try to

1:13:42 ↗ reduce uh recidivism reduce violence

1:13:45 ↗ that type of thing

1:13:46 ↗ and they got a grant and that grant

1:13:48 ↗ entitled them

1:13:49 ↗ the grant entitled them to hire a case

1:13:51 ↗ manager

1:13:52 ↗ and gave them some additional money for

1:13:54 ↗ court calendars um

1:13:56 ↗ and now they've got a case manager and

1:13:57 ↗ that case manager makes things run a lot

1:13:59 ↗ more smoothly

1:14:00 ↗ case manager allows you to add more

1:14:02 ↗ cases because the case manager is

1:14:04 ↗ handling all these cases what a case

1:14:05 ↗ manager does is they're the person that

1:14:06 ↗ meets with the individuals

1:14:08 ↗ does an assessment with regard to what

1:14:09 ↗ the individual's needs are

1:14:11 ↗ one of the issues that you have it's

1:14:13 ↗ really been helped by a virtual court

1:14:15 ↗ because people can zoom in but it's

1:14:16 ↗ applause a small court

1:14:18 ↗ so let's say that we have two people on

1:14:20 ↗ a calendar

1:14:21 ↗ or one person on a calendar that we

1:14:23 ↗ think is going to

1:14:24 ↗ need information on getting something

1:14:26 ↗ simple like signed up for a ged

1:14:29 ↗ um that the service provider that

1:14:31 ↗ provides a ged in a non-virtual

1:14:33 ↗ world um would um

1:14:36 ↗ have to drive their squad sit at a table

1:14:39 ↗ get up their whole morning four hours to

1:14:41 ↗ meet with that one person

1:14:42 ↗ in a virtual world we can schedule it so

1:14:43 ↗ they zoom in spend 15 minutes and they

1:14:46 ↗ can go back to doing whatever they were

1:14:47 ↗ doing

1:14:48 ↗ in a big court like olympia which is a

1:14:50 ↗ multi-person court or rent which is a

1:14:52 ↗ multi-person court

1:14:53 ↗ they might get that person to show up

1:14:55 ↗ for court because they're going to meet

1:14:56 ↗ with six or eight people

1:14:57 ↗ in the morning um what a case manager

1:14:59 ↗ allows you to do

1:15:00 ↗ is that the case manager has done the

1:15:02 ↗ assessment they can then figure out

1:15:05 ↗ um which providers you need that day

1:15:07 ↗ because they know what the assessment

1:15:08 ↗ resulted in contact those providers and

1:15:10 ↗ have those providers available for the

1:15:12 ↗ particular clients

1:15:13 ↗ um case manager because they're managing

1:15:15 ↗ the cases allows you to expand

1:15:17 ↗ um and we frankly don't know how many

1:15:20 ↗ cases the prosecutor is going to be

1:15:21 ↗ willing to

1:15:22 ↗ refer to community court um and because

1:15:24 ↗ we don't know many how many cases the

1:15:25 ↗ prosecutor is going to be willing to

1:15:27 ↗ refer

1:15:28 ↗ um um i think 75 were based upon what

1:15:32 ↗ other courts have done their first year

1:15:34 ↗ as far as what's a reasonable

1:15:36 ↗ by the apple um and there's some cases

1:15:38 ↗ that just aren't appropriate

1:15:42 ↗ councilman remarks points out correctly

1:15:44 ↗ i mean a serious malicious mischief

1:15:46 ↗ that's a violent offense uh um

1:15:49 ↗ uh someone that's there's you know

1:15:50 ↗ there's different kinds of people that

1:15:52 ↗ steal stuff but someone that's stealing

1:15:53 ↗ peanut butter because

1:15:55 ↗ uh they ran out of funds that month to

1:15:57 ↗ money feed their king uh family

1:15:59 ↗ um is different than the person that's

1:16:00 ↗ stealing large amounts alcohol which we

1:16:02 ↗ see a lot of because they're selling it

1:16:03 ↗ on the market

1:16:04 ↗ uh to fund a drug habit those are two

1:16:06 ↗ completely different people

1:16:08 ↗ um but it's the same crime periods under

1:16:10 ↗ up to 364 days in jail and five thousand

1:16:12 ↗ dollar fine

1:16:13 ↗ so we don't know how many of these folks

1:16:14 ↗ are going to fit into the category for

1:16:16 ↗ community court we're anticipating it's

1:16:17 ↗ probably going to be

1:16:18 ↗ at least 75 we're going to try to limit

1:16:20 ↗ it the prosecutor is going to control

1:16:22 ↗ that by referrals

1:16:23 ↗ but could it be bigger sure it could be

1:16:25 ↗ bigger

1:16:27 ↗ okay and then i will go into just one

1:16:30 ↗ other question is

1:16:31 ↗ timeline on this what are you looking at

1:16:34 ↗ for kind of when are you going to come

1:16:37 ↗ back and

1:16:38 ↗ evaluate whether or not you think this

1:16:40 ↗ is a success whether you're

1:16:42 ↗ looking to expand and what are those

1:16:45 ↗ metrics that you would use um

1:16:48 ↗ metrics is a really hard word for a guy

1:16:50 ↗ that went to law school rather than one

1:16:52 ↗ of those

1:16:52 ↗ math schools but we're starting up in

1:16:54 ↗ july i would think

1:16:55 ↗ probably by the end of the year we'll

1:16:57 ↗ have a sense as to whether or not

1:16:59 ↗ it's working and um when when you do a

1:17:02 ↗ community court your first graduations

1:17:04 ↗ come in about six months

1:17:06 ↗ uh you're gonna be measuring it based

1:17:07 ↗ upon the number of folks that are

1:17:08 ↗ exceeded succeeding

1:17:10 ↗ um our public defender right now whitney

1:17:12 ↗ gardner

1:17:13 ↗ um and partially whitney's a resident of

1:17:16 ↗ iskwa

1:17:17 ↗ and unlike a lot of cities don't have

1:17:19 ↗ that she's tremendously

1:17:20 ↗ committed to the local community so our

1:17:24 ↗ fta we call ftas as failures to appear

1:17:27 ↗ in most courts throughout the area fta

1:17:30 ↗ rate runs anywhere from

1:17:33 ↗ uh 40 to 60 percent which means about 40

1:17:35 ↗ percent of the folks show up for court

1:17:37 ↗ our fta rate runs around 10 percent

1:17:39 ↗ because whitney is constantly on top of

1:17:41 ↗ all these folks

1:17:42 ↗ so she may her very existence um

1:17:45 ↗ may increase the success of the

1:17:47 ↗ community court because you need people

1:17:48 ↗ that are very vested in it

1:17:50 ↗ and uh she likes the idea of being able

1:17:53 ↗ to help her community

1:17:55 ↗ so i we'll know by succeed july how well

1:17:58 ↗ we're doing

1:17:59 ↗ and then whether or not we expand it's

1:18:02 ↗ going to be up to you guys i mean that's

1:18:04 ↗ because it's going to cost money to

1:18:05 ↗ expand and we know that

1:18:06 ↗ hiring a case manager i can tell you uh

1:18:09 ↗ we just looked at it

1:18:10 ↗ we christie and i were laughing at today

1:18:12 ↗ because like i said one of the courts

1:18:14 ↗ in that is the most successful is

1:18:17 ↗ olympia it's an

1:18:18 ↗ it's one of the nationwide awards and

1:18:20 ↗ stuff like that and they just put out

1:18:22 ↗ a um request for uh um

1:18:25 ↗ applications for a case manager for the

1:18:27 ↗ city of olympia municipal court

1:18:28 ↗ with a pay range of 65 to 75 000 at the

1:18:31 ↗ same time they put it out

1:18:33 ↗ thurston county put out a request for a

1:18:36 ↗ community court manager and a pay range

1:18:38 ↗ of 85 to 95

1:18:40 ↗ 000 which led us to believe that

1:18:41 ↗ possibly thurston county is gonna

1:18:44 ↗ uh steal olympia's uh case manager i

1:18:46 ↗ don't know but those are the type of

1:18:47 ↗ things that you're potentially looking

1:18:49 ↗ at

1:18:50 ↗ um and that's gonna be up to you know

1:18:51 ↗ where the council is you know obviously

1:18:54 ↗ we've got a pandemic going on i know

1:18:55 ↗ that's affecting budgets

1:18:57 ↗ we're willing to work within what we

1:18:58 ↗ have right now and if we can make it

1:19:00 ↗ work we're going to make it work

1:19:02 ↗ uh if everybody thinks it's something

1:19:04 ↗ that we can make better i'm going to be

1:19:05 ↗ all for that

1:19:06 ↗ but we're also opening i i think it only

1:19:09 ↗ works if it has support of the council

1:19:11 ↗ the police department

1:19:12 ↗ um and um so why it would be a it's a

1:19:15 ↗ court calendar

1:19:16 ↗ we're a separate branch of government i

1:19:18 ↗ i think it only works if the council is

1:19:19 ↗ some it's something the council is

1:19:21 ↗ behind so we want to make you guys happy

1:19:24 ↗ thank you judge stewart i am not seeing

1:19:27 ↗ any additional comments but i just want

1:19:29 ↗ to make sure that the council

1:19:30 ↗ knows that judge stewart did throw out

1:19:33 ↗ some dates there today about when he may

1:19:34 ↗ be coming back

1:19:36 ↗ the criteria that we'll use is that

1:19:38 ↗ there is enough data to evaluate

1:19:40 ↗ effectiveness

1:19:41 ↗ and how it ties into council's annual

1:19:44 ↗ planning and budget process so it may be

1:19:46 ↗ six months

1:19:47 ↗ or not i just want to leave that out

1:19:49 ↗ there a little bit because i want to

1:19:50 ↗ make sure he's got the information he

1:19:51 ↗ needs when i say six months i mean six

1:19:53 ↗ months

1:19:54 ↗ after july first i mean so um would be

1:19:56 ↗ probably the earliest so we'd at least

1:19:58 ↗ get an idea of whether people were being

1:19:59 ↗ successful in it but it'll take that

1:20:00 ↗ long to know

1:20:02 ↗ yeah i think that is great um i have a

1:20:05 ↗ comment from councilmember goodman

1:20:08 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor councilmember

1:20:09 ↗ goodman here um

1:20:11 ↗ judge stewart and um christy shawn i

1:20:13 ↗ want to thank you for all the work that

1:20:14 ↗ you've done

1:20:15 ↗ i'm um i'm really excited about the

1:20:18 ↗ program

1:20:18 ↗ and really encouraged about the

1:20:20 ↗ information that you you brought to us

1:20:22 ↗ and about the um

1:20:23 ↗ the opportunity that this has to make a

1:20:26 ↗ real difference

1:20:27 ↗ one of my concerns um with all the you

1:20:30 ↗ know

1:20:30 ↗ money we we throw it um we throw it

1:20:34 ↗ uh a lot of the problems we're seeing is

1:20:38 ↗ that they're not necessarily addressing

1:20:39 ↗ specific problems and i

1:20:41 ↗ think this program the way it's

1:20:42 ↗ presented to me

1:20:44 ↗ or to us um is that

1:20:47 ↗ it addresses precise problems that

1:20:49 ↗ people are having

1:20:51 ↗ that are keeping them down on their luck

1:20:52 ↗ or in certain circumstances that are

1:20:55 ↗ that are just

1:20:56 ↗ that are just bad and keeping them down

1:20:58 ↗ and

1:20:59 ↗ um i i appreciate the way that you

1:21:01 ↗ described the

1:21:02 ↗ um the potential um

1:21:06 ↗ non-violent um circumstances that

1:21:09 ↗ could qualify and the thoughtfulness

1:21:12 ↗ regarding that i just really am

1:21:15 ↗ encouraged by this program and i'm

1:21:16 ↗ really really glad that you're starting

1:21:19 ↗ it and

1:21:20 ↗ i'll be excited to see the um the

1:21:22 ↗ results thank you very much

1:21:24 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman uh judge

1:21:27 ↗ derek christie thank you so much for

1:21:29 ↗ coming and sharing the presentation

1:21:31 ↗ i wish we could see you in person but

1:21:32 ↗ we're still doing these things digitally

1:21:35 ↗ and look forward to having you back for

1:21:37 ↗ an update in the future

1:21:39 ↗ you should know that i've lost 65 pounds

1:21:41 ↗ in the pandemic so when you see me

1:21:43 ↗ it'll be less of me than you've seen

1:21:44 ↗ before oh goodness so there are some

1:21:46 ↗ success stories here

1:21:48 ↗ in the pandemic congratulations judge

1:21:50 ↗ stewart and thank you for coming tonight

1:21:52 ↗ and thank you chris

1:21:54 ↗ you ever need anything from us let us

1:21:55 ↗ know absolutely

1:21:58 ↗ but thank you very much the next item of

1:22:01 ↗ uh

1:22:01 ↗ business this evening is the consent

1:22:03 ↗ calendar and it was distributed to

1:22:05 ↗ council in advance

1:22:06 ↗ if authorized the items on the consent

1:22:08 ↗ calendar will be considered

1:22:10 ↗ together and approved by one motion

1:22:13 ↗ uh have the payables and payroll been

1:22:15 ↗ reviewed

1:22:17 ↗ they have they have

1:22:20 ↗ thank you very much um i do want to note

1:22:23 ↗ that there was a minor correction

1:22:24 ↗ brought forward by council member d

1:22:26 ↗ michelle

1:22:26 ↗ to the february 16th council meeting

1:22:29 ↗ minutes agenda item

1:22:30 ↗ b to remove the dangling letters d

1:22:33 ↗ e following it was moved by regarding

1:22:36 ↗ the motion to direct the administration

1:22:38 ↗ ari the non-profit business assistance

1:22:41 ↗ the clerk's office has circulated a

1:22:42 ↗ revised copy of the minutes and this

1:22:44 ↗ corrected

1:22:45 ↗ version will be adopted on approval of

1:22:47 ↗ the consent calendar

1:22:48 ↗ does any if any council member wishes to

1:22:52 ↗ remove something from the chat please

1:22:54 ↗ indicate uh

1:22:55 ↗ sorry remove anything from the consent

1:22:57 ↗ agenda please indicate

1:22:59 ↗ in the chat and i see council member

1:23:02 ↗ goodman

1:23:03 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor councilman

1:23:05 ↗ goodman i would like to bring

1:23:07 ↗ down agenda bill 8146 please

1:23:11 ↗ thank you very much um are there any

1:23:13 ↗ other council members who would

1:23:15 ↗ like to bring any items down from the

1:23:16 ↗ consent agenda and i will give you a

1:23:18 ↗ second or two to use the chat

1:23:24 ↗ okay um ab18146

1:23:29 ↗ oh sorry um oh sorry here we go um

1:23:32 ↗ ab-8146 will be brought down

1:23:35 ↗ and put under um uh

1:23:38 ↗ regular business as the first item that

1:23:40 ↗ we deal with this evening

1:23:41 ↗ and now i would be looking for a motion

1:23:44 ↗ to remove

1:23:45 ↗ what is remaining on the consent

1:23:46 ↗ calendar council president hunt

1:23:50 ↗ i moved to approve the consent calendar

1:23:53 ↗ as

1:23:53 ↗ amended thank you and definitely deputy

1:23:56 ↗ council president ray

1:23:57 ↗ second it's been moved in second i'll go

1:24:00 ↗ to the city clerk for a roll call vote

1:24:04 ↗ starting with council president hunt hi

1:24:08 ↗ councilmember martz aye deputy council

1:24:12 ↗ president ray

1:24:14 ↗ council member walsh aye council member

1:24:18 ↗ d michelle

1:24:19 ↗ aye council member goodman aye

1:24:23 ↗ councilmember hall aye that's seven eyes

1:24:27 ↗ zero nays

1:24:28 ↗ thank you very much city clerk that

1:24:30 ↗ passes unanimously

1:24:32 ↗ so we mil we'll move to regular business

1:24:34 ↗ and the first item we will deal with

1:24:35 ↗ this evening

1:24:36 ↗ is ab-8146 which was brought down off

1:24:39 ↗ consent

1:24:40 ↗ and i will go over to council

1:24:42 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:24:44 ↗ for comments thank you madam mayor

1:24:47 ↗ councilmember goodman here

1:24:49 ↗ agenda bill 8146 is

1:24:52 ↗ contains a resolution that the title 18

1:24:55 ↗ ad hoc committee worked on uh together

1:24:58 ↗ um and i will let um each of our

1:25:04 ↗ committee members speak for themselves

1:25:05 ↗ but it's my understanding that um

1:25:07 ↗ this resolution has um unanimous

1:25:09 ↗ agreement among the three of us um

1:25:12 ↗ the change that um i wanted to

1:25:16 ↗ propose

1:25:19 ↗ would be was circulated i believe by the

1:25:23 ↗ city

1:25:23 ↗ administrator and it would be a section

1:25:26 ↗ two about procedure

1:25:28 ↗ and it would have the ad hoc committee

1:25:30 ↗ um consider

1:25:32 ↗ um or sorry would have the ad hoc

1:25:34 ↗ committee address

1:25:35 ↗ um any requests that would come to

1:25:37 ↗ consider

1:25:38 ↗ um anything within title 18

1:25:43 ↗ being considered on a separate schedule

1:25:47 ↗ or track

1:25:48 ↗ than the overall um title 18 that

1:25:52 ↗ update overhaul that we're working on

1:25:54 ↗ right now

1:25:56 ↗ um and so it really addresses the

1:25:58 ↗ procedure so it would go to ad hoc and

1:26:00 ↗ then it would come back

1:26:01 ↗ to the city council to make a decision

1:26:04 ↗ um and the ad hoc

1:26:05 ↗ would be considering the the guidelines

1:26:08 ↗ or criteria whatever you want to

1:26:09 ↗ call it that's in section one of the

1:26:12 ↗ resolution

1:26:16 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember

1:26:18 ↗ goodman um do you have anything else to

1:26:20 ↗ add or would you like me to move to the

1:26:21 ↗ other two members

1:26:23 ↗ uh you can move to the other two members

1:26:25 ↗ thank you thank you council president

1:26:27 ↗ hun

1:26:27 ↗ followed by council member walsh thanks

1:26:30 ↗ this is council president hunt

1:26:31 ↗ i agree with what councilmember goodman

1:26:35 ↗ was talking about i do

1:26:36 ↗ believe that we um should probably make

1:26:39 ↗ emotions there's a motion on the floor

1:26:41 ↗ to be be considered so i will go ahead

1:26:44 ↗ and make the main motion

1:26:45 ↗ um and the main motion is so i move to

1:26:48 ↗ approve

1:26:48 ↗ resolution number 2021 06

1:26:51 ↗ adopting criteria for considering

1:26:53 ↗ changes to title 18 separately from

1:26:55 ↗ title 18 land use code update project

1:27:00 ↗ i'll second the motion council member

1:27:02 ↗ council member goodman seconded the

1:27:03 ↗ motion so it's been moved and seconded

1:27:05 ↗ council president hunt would you like to

1:27:06 ↗ make some comments

1:27:08 ↗ um thank you this is council president

1:27:10 ↗ hunt i i agree with um

1:27:12 ↗ councilmember goodman we did work on

1:27:14 ↗ this together and we

1:27:15 ↗ um uh and we thought it would be helpful

1:27:19 ↗ to have

1:27:20 ↗ some more information about the

1:27:22 ↗ procedure and that's why

1:27:24 ↗ um that's why there's a change being

1:27:26 ↗ proposed right now

1:27:27 ↗ thank you councilman walsh i have

1:27:32 ↗ nothing ted

1:27:35 ↗ brief and i'm not seeing any other folks

1:27:38 ↗ wanting to comment in the chat but i'll

1:27:39 ↗ give it a second

1:27:45 ↗ okay i have a comment from councilmember

1:27:47 ↗ goodman

1:27:48 ↗ uh thank you councilmember goodman here

1:27:50 ↗ um

1:27:51 ↗ so it seems to me that the next would be

1:27:54 ↗ a motion

1:27:55 ↗ to amend to add the um proposed

1:27:59 ↗ section two and i can read that proposed

1:28:01 ↗ section two just for the record

1:28:03 ↗ um uh i would like to

1:28:06 ↗ amend the motion to

1:28:10 ↗ amend the resolution to add the

1:28:12 ↗ following language

1:28:14 ↗ section 2 procedure the ad hoc committee

1:28:17 ↗ shall make a recommendation to the city

1:28:18 ↗ administration and city council

1:28:20 ↗ concerning any proposal to place topics

1:28:22 ↗ within the title 18

1:28:24 ↗ scope of work on a separate schedule or

1:28:26 ↗ track the ad hoc committee shall base

1:28:28 ↗ its recommendation on the criteria set

1:28:30 ↗ forth in section one

1:28:31 ↗ the city council shall consider the ad

1:28:33 ↗ hoc committee's recommendation

1:28:34 ↗ and may approve a reject or approve the

1:28:38 ↗ recommendation with modifications

1:28:40 ↗ using the criteria set forth in section

1:28:42 ↗ one

1:28:43 ↗ and do i have a second uh council

1:28:46 ↗ president hunt

1:28:48 ↗ this is council president hensei second

1:28:51 ↗ thanks so this is an amendment to the

1:28:52 ↗ main motion

1:28:54 ↗ would anybody like to provide comment or

1:28:57 ↗ discuss

1:28:58 ↗ and i'll look to the chat

1:29:02 ↗ and i wonder if the city clerk would

1:29:04 ↗ actually put that amendment into the

1:29:05 ↗ chat for me

1:29:09 ↗ awesome

1:29:12 ↗ okay i'm not seeing any so i'm going to

1:29:14 ↗ me read the amendment to the

1:29:15 ↗ uh i am seeing council member hall

1:29:19 ↗ i wonder why it took so long to show up

1:29:22 ↗ just real quick thank you mayor paulie

1:29:24 ↗ this is council member hall i just

1:29:25 ↗ wanted to say this seems very thoughtful

1:29:26 ↗ to me

1:29:27 ↗ um and makes a lot of sense so i'll be

1:29:29 ↗ supporting this motion thanks

1:29:31 ↗ thank you very much so the amendment to

1:29:35 ↗ the resolution

1:29:36 ↗ section 2 procedure the ad hoc committee

1:29:38 ↗ shall make a recommendation to the city

1:29:40 ↗ administration and city council

1:29:41 ↗ concerning any proposal to place topics

1:29:43 ↗ within the title 18 scope of work

1:29:45 ↗ on a separate schedule or track the ad

1:29:47 ↗ hoc committee shall base its

1:29:49 ↗ recommendation on the criteria set forth

1:29:50 ↗ in section one

1:29:52 ↗ the city council shall consider the ad

1:29:53 ↗ hoc committee's recommendation and may

1:29:55 ↗ approve reject or approve the

1:29:56 ↗ recommendation with modifications

1:29:58 ↗ using the criteria set forth in section

1:30:01 ↗ one

1:30:01 ↗ it has been moved and seconded and i'll

1:30:03 ↗ go to the city clerk for a roll call

1:30:05 ↗ vote on the amendment

1:30:07 ↗ starting with council member martz aye

1:30:11 ↗ deputy council president ray aye

1:30:14 ↗ council member walsh aye

1:30:17 ↗ council member d michelle aye

1:30:20 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:30:21 ↗ aye councilmember hall

1:30:25 ↗ aye council president hunt

1:30:28 ↗ aye that's seven i zero nays

1:30:32 ↗ thank you the amendment passes

1:30:33 ↗ unanimously so we are back to the main

1:30:35 ↗ motion and i will

1:30:36 ↗ look in the chat to see if there's any

1:30:37 ↗ additional comments or discussion the

1:30:40 ↗ council would like to have before i call

1:30:41 ↗ for the vote

1:30:44 ↗ i'll give it a few seconds

1:30:47 ↗ okay back to the proposed main motion

1:30:51 ↗ which has been moved and seconded to

1:30:52 ↗ approve resolution number

1:30:55 ↗ 2021-06 adopting criteria for

1:30:57 ↗ considering changes to title 18

1:30:59 ↗ separately from the title 18 land use

1:31:01 ↗ code update

1:31:02 ↗ project and i will go back to the city

1:31:05 ↗ clerk for a roll call vote

1:31:08 ↗ starting with deputy council president

1:31:10 ↗ ray hi

1:31:12 ↗ councilmember walsh aye council member d

1:31:15 ↗ michelle

1:31:16 ↗ aye councilmember goodman aye

1:31:20 ↗ councilmember hall aye council president

1:31:23 ↗ hunt

1:31:24 ↗ aye councilmember martz aye

1:31:28 ↗ that seven eyes your own a's thank you

1:31:31 ↗ that passes unanimously and that was

1:31:34 ↗ ab-8146 on the council resolution

1:31:37 ↗ the next item under regular business is

1:31:40 ↗ ab-8151

1:31:41 ↗ expressing support for a state

1:31:44 ↗ transportation

1:31:45 ↗ revenue package in the action before

1:31:47 ↗ council this evening will be to approve

1:31:49 ↗ the resolution and i would like to

1:31:51 ↗ invite gene paul our management analyst

1:31:53 ↗ to introduce this item

1:31:57 ↗ good evening madam mayor and members of

1:31:58 ↗ the council i'm gene paul the management

1:32:00 ↗ analyst in the executive office

1:32:02 ↗ the request from the administration for

1:32:04 ↗ this agenda item tonight is for the

1:32:05 ↗ council to approve

1:32:06 ↗ a resolution the proposed resolution in

1:32:10 ↗ tonight's packet expresses support for

1:32:12 ↗ transportation funding

1:32:13 ↗ and urges the state legislature to pass

1:32:15 ↗ a funding package during the current

1:32:17 ↗ session

1:32:18 ↗ we're joined this evening by marion

1:32:20 ↗ dhaka and holly cochi

1:32:21 ↗ two governmental affairs consultants

1:32:23 ↗ from gordon thomas honeywell

1:32:25 ↗ they're part of the team supporting the

1:32:27 ↗ city while shelly helder is on maternity

1:32:28 ↗ leave holly is going to provide an

1:32:30 ↗ overview of the house and senate revenue

1:32:32 ↗ frameworks and then there will be an

1:32:34 ↗ opportunity for questions and discussion

1:32:36 ↗ so holly please take it away thank you

1:32:39 ↗ jean for the introduction

1:32:40 ↗ and good evening mayor and council

1:32:42 ↗ members again my name is holly cochi

1:32:44 ↗ and i am joined by my colleague marion

1:32:46 ↗ daca

1:32:47 ↗ as i'm sure you all know like um jean

1:32:50 ↗ had

1:32:50 ↗ said shelly helder is currently on

1:32:52 ↗ maternity leave so

1:32:54 ↗ marian and i are before you today and

1:32:56 ↗ continue to work hard to fill in for

1:32:58 ↗ shelley as she spends his time with her

1:33:00 ↗ family

1:33:01 ↗ and of course uh brianna murray on our

1:33:03 ↗ team is leading the charge for the city

1:33:04 ↗ as well

1:33:06 ↗ uh before you this evening is a

1:33:08 ↗ resolution encouraging the state

1:33:09 ↗ legislature to adopt a transportation

1:33:11 ↗ revenue proposal this session

1:33:14 ↗ to give a bit a bit of background in

1:33:16 ↗ addition to cities

1:33:17 ↗ there is a broad coalition that is

1:33:19 ↗ pushing to have the legislature adopt

1:33:22 ↗ a transportation revenue package uh that

1:33:25 ↗ coalition thought one way to create more

1:33:27 ↗ momentum behind a revenue package would

1:33:29 ↗ be for cities to adopt

1:33:31 ↗ resolutions a similar effort was done in

1:33:34 ↗ 2015 when the connecting washington

1:33:36 ↗ package was adopted

1:33:38 ↗ so with that bit of background on where

1:33:40 ↗ this resolution stems from

1:33:42 ↗ i'm going to dive into where we are

1:33:44 ↗ currently at in the legislative session

1:33:46 ↗ and the two transportation package

1:33:48 ↗ outlines

1:33:49 ↗ we have seen from both transportation

1:33:51 ↗ committee chairs

1:33:52 ↗ representative jake phi and senator

1:33:54 ↗ steve hobbs

1:33:56 ↗ the legislature is over halfway through

1:33:58 ↗ the session

1:33:59 ↗ we're not counting overall the

1:34:02 ↗ house passed 200 of its 747 bills

1:34:07 ↗ and the senate passed 208 out of its uh

1:34:10 ↗ 695 bills

1:34:12 ↗ that means there are about 400 bills

1:34:14 ↗ remaining under consideration

1:34:16 ↗ the house of representatives and the

1:34:18 ↗ senate have shifted from

1:34:20 ↗ approving bills on the floor to now

1:34:23 ↗ meeting in committees

1:34:24 ↗ holding public hearings and voting on

1:34:26 ↗ bills but the opposite chamber approved

1:34:29 ↗ bills need to pass out of their

1:34:30 ↗ respective policy committees by

1:34:32 ↗ march 26th to continue to advance

1:34:36 ↗ through the legislative process

1:34:38 ↗ um on mor march 17th so coming up the

1:34:42 ↗ washington state

1:34:43 ↗ economic and revenue forecast council is

1:34:46 ↗ meeting to discuss the march

1:34:47 ↗ revenue forecast it is anticipated to

1:34:51 ↗ reflect

1:34:51 ↗ higher actual and anticipated revenue

1:34:54 ↗ collections than the previous

1:34:56 ↗ november forecast the senate was

1:34:59 ↗ anticipated to release its proposed

1:35:01 ↗ budgets shortly after the release of the

1:35:03 ↗ revenue forecast

1:35:05 ↗ however last week president biden signed

1:35:08 ↗ the

1:35:08 ↗ american rescue plan into law which will

1:35:11 ↗ provide the state with 4.25 billion in

1:35:13 ↗ federal funds

1:35:15 ↗ it may take the legislature an

1:35:17 ↗ additional week or so

1:35:18 ↗ to release its initial operating capital

1:35:21 ↗ and transportation budget proposals to

1:35:24 ↗ reflect

1:35:24 ↗ both the revenue forecast and the

1:35:26 ↗ federal funds i will note that

1:35:29 ↗ the federal funding has the ability to

1:35:32 ↗ be used to backfill the revenue loss

1:35:34 ↗ experienced by the state in both

1:35:36 ↗ tolls and gas tax tax however

1:35:40 ↗ all three of the state budget writers

1:35:42 ↗ are hoping to use this funding

1:35:44 ↗ and this this funding would not only

1:35:46 ↗ address

1:35:48 ↗ all of the state's needs such as our or

1:35:50 ↗ i'm sorry it would not address

1:35:52 ↗ all of the state's needs such as our

1:35:54 ↗ legal obligation to fish culverts

1:35:56 ↗ and the backlog of maintenance and

1:35:58 ↗ preservation

1:36:00 ↗ uh again both the house and senate have

1:36:02 ↗ released their versions of a

1:36:04 ↗ transportation package i'm going to

1:36:06 ↗ start with representative fry's proposal

1:36:08 ↗ um his is set to raise 26 billion over

1:36:13 ↗ 16 years as um as we expected

1:36:16 ↗ this initial draft of his transportation

1:36:18 ↗ package

1:36:19 ↗ does not include a proposed list of

1:36:22 ↗ projects to be funded

1:36:23 ↗ throughout the package instead projects

1:36:26 ↗ will be added throughout the legislative

1:36:28 ↗ process as

1:36:29 ↗ legislators commit their support to

1:36:31 ↗ voting in favor of the transfer

1:36:33 ↗ transportation revenue package it was

1:36:35 ↗ also announced that

1:36:36 ↗ revenues generated within his proposal

1:36:38 ↗ would not be bonded

1:36:40 ↗ which means this package can pass the

1:36:42 ↗ legislature by a simple

1:36:44 ↗ majority vote uh the proposal includes

1:36:49 ↗ the following revenue sources

1:36:51 ↗ so an 18 cent gas tax

1:36:54 ↗ 10 cent increase in 2021 and an 8 cent

1:36:57 ↗ increase in 2022 after 2022

1:37:01 ↗ the gas tax will be indexed

1:37:04 ↗ to inflation there's also a carbon fee

1:37:07 ↗ uh 15 dollars per ton in 21 2021 to 2023

1:37:12 ↗ 20 per ton in 23 to 25

1:37:15 ↗ and 25 dollars per ton and 25 through

1:37:18 ↗ 27.

1:37:20 ↗ there's a one percent rental car sales

1:37:22 ↗ tax increase

1:37:23 ↗ three percent inc or i'm sorry a three

1:37:25 ↗ cent increase

1:37:26 ↗ in diesel fuel tax to be dedicated to

1:37:29 ↗ freight specific projects

1:37:31 ↗ and various weight and user fee

1:37:32 ↗ increases

1:37:34 ↗ and then share hobbs has also released

1:37:36 ↗ his transportation revenue proposal

1:37:38 ↗ which aims to invest

1:37:40 ↗ 18 to 19 billion over 16 years in both

1:37:43 ↗ state and local transportation systems

1:37:46 ↗ the proposal

1:37:47 ↗ includes two options for the state to

1:37:49 ↗ generate funding for transportation

1:37:52 ↗ one is a carbon fee of twenty dollars

1:37:54 ↗ per metric ton

1:37:56 ↗ and the second is a cap and invest

1:37:58 ↗ system which limits greenhouse gas

1:37:59 ↗ targets

1:38:00 ↗ and utilizes resulting revenue for

1:38:03 ↗ transportation purposes

1:38:05 ↗ both options would include a six cent

1:38:08 ↗ gas tax increase

1:38:09 ↗ an assessment on new construction a fee

1:38:12 ↗ on four higher vehicles like uber and

1:38:15 ↗ lyft and automobile parts

1:38:17 ↗ sales tax rental car tax a sales and use

1:38:20 ↗ tax on bicycles and some other fee

1:38:22 ↗ increases the proposal would generate 15

1:38:26 ↗ billion

1:38:26 ↗ in new revenue which once bonded would

1:38:29 ↗ make

1:38:30 ↗ about 18 to 19 billion available for

1:38:32 ↗ investments

1:38:33 ↗ so unlike cherify's proposal since

1:38:36 ↗ chairhop's proposal would be bonded

1:38:38 ↗ it does require a two-thirds vote

1:38:42 ↗ so as you all know the city has two

1:38:44 ↗ legislative priorities in the 2021

1:38:46 ↗ legislative agenda that are tied to a

1:38:49 ↗ new transportation package

1:38:51 ↗ the first being the widening for state

1:38:53 ↗ route 18

1:38:54 ↗ and the second is the interstate 90

1:38:57 ↗ under overcrossing

1:38:59 ↗ the state has already committed roughly

1:39:01 ↗ 175 million to sr18 widening effort

1:39:05 ↗ but the current estimated cost for

1:39:07 ↗ completion of the project

1:39:09 ↗ is 744 million due to the department of

1:39:12 ↗ transportation's most recent

1:39:14 ↗ analysis of the project's needs this

1:39:17 ↗ the senate version of the transportation

1:39:19 ↗ package includes

1:39:21 ↗ 500 million for this project and we have

1:39:24 ↗ also been notified that representative

1:39:25 ↗ ramos

1:39:26 ↗ has submitted a request for 500 million

1:39:29 ↗ as well to be included in the house

1:39:30 ↗ proposal

1:39:32 ↗ there is still an effort to try and

1:39:34 ↗ decrease the cost of this project

1:39:36 ↗ considering how high it's become in the

1:39:38 ↗ last year um

1:39:40 ↗ so that it's likely that's likely where

1:39:42 ↗ the 500 million number is coming from

1:39:46 ↗ uh the city is also requesting 3.4

1:39:49 ↗ million

1:39:49 ↗ in the 2325 biennium to begin the

1:39:52 ↗ pre-design

1:39:53 ↗ and environmental documentation process

1:39:56 ↗ for the i-90 crossing project

1:39:58 ↗ this project is not identified currently

1:40:01 ↗ in a draft transportation package

1:40:04 ↗ so really over the next several weeks

1:40:07 ↗ the transportation committees in the

1:40:09 ↗ house and senate will

1:40:10 ↗ further refine their proposals and

1:40:13 ↗ contemplate the merits of a cap and

1:40:14 ↗ invest

1:40:15 ↗ revenue versus a carbon fee uh where it

1:40:18 ↗ will be challenging to move a

1:40:19 ↗ transportation package

1:40:21 ↗ forward really lies within that broader

1:40:23 ↗ conversation about

1:40:24 ↗ carbon pricing and we expect it will

1:40:26 ↗ take at least a few

1:40:28 ↗ more weeks before we see any

1:40:30 ↗ transportation revenue proposals

1:40:32 ↗ most likely shortly after the budgets

1:40:35 ↗ are released which we expect to be by

1:40:36 ↗ the end of the month

1:40:38 ↗ so with that um mary and i are happy to

1:40:41 ↗ answer any questions

1:40:42 ↗ thank you thank you holly thank you

1:40:45 ↗ marion

1:40:46 ↗ i'm looking into the chat to see council

1:40:49 ↗ members have questions

1:40:52 ↗ or comments um

1:40:55 ↗ i wonder um i'm not sure holly if you

1:40:58 ↗ can

1:40:59 ↗ add some additional information but i

1:41:01 ↗ sit on the cltc team which is advocating

1:41:04 ↗ for highway 18 and it's a coalition of

1:41:06 ↗ cities and chambers

1:41:07 ↗ can you uh provide a little bit more

1:41:09 ↗ information about

1:41:11 ↗ the discussion around including culverts

1:41:13 ↗ in

1:41:14 ↗ state route 18 versus constructing

1:41:17 ↗ culverts within state route

1:41:19 ↗ 18 but funding them from a different

1:41:21 ↗ package than the transportation package

1:41:23 ↗ has that been a discussion that's been

1:41:25 ↗ going on down in olympia

1:41:28 ↗ thanks mayor um you know i probably

1:41:30 ↗ would have to get back to you on that

1:41:31 ↗ breakdown

1:41:32 ↗ i don't i don't have that memorized so

1:41:35 ↗ if i can get back to you on that

1:41:36 ↗ question unless marion can chime in but

1:41:39 ↗ i can certainly get back to you um thank

1:41:42 ↗ you for the question i can

1:41:44 ↗ just add the context i don't know the

1:41:45 ↗ specifics of the project and how

1:41:48 ↗ culverts would be integrated in that

1:41:50 ↗ specific project

1:41:51 ↗ however both the house and senate

1:41:53 ↗ proposals both are allocating 3.5

1:41:56 ↗ billion

1:41:56 ↗ over 16 years towards uh fish barrier

1:42:00 ↗ uh removal um currently both

1:42:03 ↗ chairs have indicated that they would

1:42:04 ↗ like to take a more

1:42:07 ↗ uh a coordinated approach and go

1:42:10 ↗ watershed by watershed versus a previous

1:42:13 ↗ barrier removal was odds and ends and

1:42:16 ↗ then you know the state would invest

1:42:17 ↗ significant amount of money on removing

1:42:19 ↗ one barrier and then

1:42:21 ↗ you would be in the middle of a city

1:42:23 ↗ barrier so

1:42:24 ↗ they are hoping to have a much more

1:42:26 ↗ coordinated effort

1:42:28 ↗ if i answer your question if not we can

1:42:30 ↗ follow up with more information

1:42:31 ↗ marion that helps that very much

1:42:33 ↗ reflects what i've heard is that we have

1:42:35 ↗ two

1:42:36 ↗ overlapping issues and

1:42:39 ↗ what funding is done and

1:42:41 ↗ programmatically how do you get the best

1:42:43 ↗ bang for the buck and the most effective

1:42:45 ↗ for the watershed so thank you very much

1:42:46 ↗ i think that's helpful

1:42:48 ↗ looking to see if there is emotion in

1:42:51 ↗ the chat

1:42:51 ↗ do i have somebody to move the motion

1:42:55 ↗ council president hunt thanks this has

1:42:58 ↗ come from president hunt i moved to

1:42:59 ↗ approve resolution number

1:43:02 ↗ 2021-07 expressing support

1:43:05 ↗ for state transportation funding

1:43:06 ↗ including the adoption of a new

1:43:08 ↗ transportation revenue package

1:43:11 ↗ and a second deputy council president

1:43:13 ↗ ray second

1:43:15 ↗ so it's been moved and seconded and i'll

1:43:17 ↗ keep my eye on the chat looking for

1:43:19 ↗ questions or comments

1:43:25 ↗ a council member hall followed by

1:43:27 ↗ council president hunt

1:43:28 ↗ that's a member hall uh thank you mayor

1:43:30 ↗ paul this is council member hall um

1:43:32 ↗ just a quick reminder to my colleagues

1:43:35 ↗ on council that i

1:43:36 ↗ i'm actually an employee of the state

1:43:38 ↗ legislature and

1:43:40 ↗ as an employee our legislative ethics

1:43:43 ↗ rules

1:43:43 ↗ say that we're not allowed to lobby the

1:43:45 ↗ state legislature so

1:43:47 ↗ um i will be recusing myself from

1:43:49 ↗ tonight's vote and i hope

1:43:50 ↗ none of you have a problem with that

1:43:52 ↗ thanks

1:43:54 ↗ all head nods no thank you very much

1:43:55 ↗ councilmember hall council president

1:43:57 ↗ hunt

1:43:59 ↗ thank you uh this is council president

1:44:01 ↗ hunt and i think that

1:44:02 ↗ this resolution does a good job of

1:44:06 ↗ explaining

1:44:06 ↗ why the transportation package is so

1:44:09 ↗ important for

1:44:10 ↗ our community it explains the safety

1:44:13 ↗ explains the

1:44:15 ↗ economic value of this the

1:44:18 ↗ importance of mobility for lots of

1:44:20 ↗ different aspects of quality of life and

1:44:22 ↗ i think it does

1:44:24 ↗ a good job at explaining all of that in

1:44:25 ↗ the whereas statements

1:44:27 ↗ the one area that i did noted um

1:44:30 ↗ and because it is actually a really

1:44:31 ↗ important uh component

1:44:34 ↗ of this work and and also very costly

1:44:37 ↗ um the one area where i thought it could

1:44:40 ↗ have

1:44:40 ↗ more explanation of the city's position

1:44:44 ↗ or the city's reasons for feeling that

1:44:47 ↗ this is such an important transportation

1:44:49 ↗ package and so important that we

1:44:50 ↗ that it be passed right now is around

1:44:53 ↗ the fish

1:44:54 ↗ passage barrier um clause and so

1:44:58 ↗ i would like to make a motion to add

1:45:01 ↗ one piece of information to that

1:45:04 ↗ clause in particular and then otherwise

1:45:07 ↗ i am in support of

1:45:08 ↗ this so i will move to add to the

1:45:12 ↗ seventh whereas

1:45:13 ↗ clause removal of fish passage barriers

1:45:17 ↗ is important for the survival and

1:45:18 ↗ restoration

1:45:19 ↗ of migratory migrating fish populations

1:45:24 ↗ um so city clerk if i can get that

1:45:26 ↗ amendment

1:45:27 ↗ in the chat box that would be great and

1:45:30 ↗ i'm looking for a second

1:45:34 ↗ dividing council president ray second

1:45:37 ↗ the amendment's been moved and seconded

1:45:39 ↗ it is to add some language

1:45:42 ↗ that i can't yet read so just hang on a

1:45:44 ↗ second

1:45:47 ↗ i think it's pretty clear um without me

1:45:49 ↗ rereading it um i'll just open it up for

1:45:52 ↗ comments right now and council

1:45:54 ↗ president hunt would you like to speak

1:45:55 ↗ to it first thank you mayor um

1:45:59 ↗ like i said i think that this resolution

1:46:03 ↗ is very strong it explains in many

1:46:06 ↗ different

1:46:06 ↗ ways why this is so important and i do

1:46:09 ↗ i agree with those reasons the one

1:46:13 ↗ whereas clause that i think we could

1:46:15 ↗ better explain our position is

1:46:16 ↗ this one about the fish passage it

1:46:19 ↗ currently

1:46:20 ↗ says that how much it will cost to meet

1:46:23 ↗ an injunction and because

1:46:24 ↗ fish survival and salmon populations in

1:46:27 ↗ particular are

1:46:28 ↗ very important to our community i

1:46:30 ↗ thought we should um explain

1:46:32 ↗ that in this whereas clause and then

1:46:34 ↗ also

1:46:35 ↗ it it better aligns with the rest of our

1:46:36 ↗ legislative agenda where we do talk

1:46:38 ↗ about supporting

1:46:40 ↗ the state's efforts especially the

1:46:41 ↗ watershed based effort

1:46:43 ↗ um to remove fish passage barriers and

1:46:48 ↗ across the state so that that language

1:46:49 ↗ is actually actually already elsewhere

1:46:51 ↗ in our legislative

1:46:53 ↗ agenda and i thought this would better

1:46:55 ↗ align

1:46:56 ↗ thank you and i am looking in the chat

1:46:59 ↗ to see if there's anyone else who would

1:47:01 ↗ like to make comments and i would also

1:47:04 ↗ ask uh if the council is interested in

1:47:06 ↗ having our lobbyists that are here this

1:47:08 ↗ evening

1:47:08 ↗ and provide general comments on the

1:47:10 ↗ amendment

1:47:12 ↗ just look for heads of nods or not

1:47:14 ↗ necessary

1:47:18 ↗ kind of getting and not necessary okay

1:47:21 ↗ let's go to council member goodman

1:47:24 ↗ ah thank you councilmember give me here

1:47:25 ↗ well i was actually typing in question

1:47:27 ↗ when you said that

1:47:28 ↗ and i would like our um lobbyists to

1:47:31 ↗ provide any comments i can't imagine

1:47:33 ↗ that it's um

1:47:35 ↗ that the language um is any problem at

1:47:37 ↗ all but i would like our lobbyists to

1:47:39 ↗ address

1:47:40 ↗ how it's um helpful or i suppose

1:47:42 ↗ potentially not thank you

1:47:45 ↗ all right so holly or marianne marion

1:47:48 ↗ i can take this one thank you very much

1:47:50 ↗ councilmember for the question

1:47:51 ↗ and for the opportunity to comment um i

1:47:54 ↗ do think it's it's very helpful to add

1:47:56 ↗ to the resolution

1:47:57 ↗ um um goes without saying the fish

1:48:00 ↗ passage barrier removal is not only

1:48:04 ↗ very important for the environment but

1:48:05 ↗ also very important

1:48:07 ↗ to make sure that we are taking care of

1:48:09 ↗ those watershed by watershed

1:48:12 ↗ and not just investing with the state

1:48:14 ↗ but also within local governments and

1:48:15 ↗ counties

1:48:16 ↗ so i think highlighting that is

1:48:17 ↗ definitely on par with what other cities

1:48:19 ↗ are also doing

1:48:20 ↗ um as well as the work of the

1:48:22 ↗ association of washington cities and

1:48:23 ↗ uh washington counties so it's very

1:48:26 ↗ great super helpful

1:48:27 ↗ thank you marion thank you i am i am not

1:48:30 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman i am not

1:48:32 ↗ seeing any other questions or comments

1:48:34 ↗ so i will ask the city clerk for a roll

1:48:36 ↗ call vote and i'll just re-read um

1:48:38 ↗ the resolution which i believe is up

1:48:41 ↗ here

1:48:42 ↗ it's been moved and seconded to approve

1:48:44 ↗ the resolution number 2021-07

1:48:47 ↗ expressing support for state

1:48:49 ↗ transportation funding including the

1:48:50 ↗ adoption of a new transportation

1:48:53 ↗ revenue package mayor paulie can i

1:48:57 ↗ clarify i don't believe a vote's been

1:48:58 ↗ taken on the

1:48:59 ↗ amendment gotcha okay sorry thank you

1:49:02 ↗ very very much

1:49:04 ↗ okay so the first vote we'll be taking

1:49:05 ↗ tonight is actually on the amendment to

1:49:07 ↗ the motion

1:49:08 ↗ which uh has been moved and seconded and

1:49:10 ↗ reads whereas removal of fish

1:49:12 ↗ fish passage barriers is important for

1:49:15 ↗ the survival and restoration

1:49:17 ↗ of migrating fish populations thank you

1:49:19 ↗ for that

1:49:20 ↗ um and city clerk can you call for the

1:49:22 ↗ vote on the amendment

1:49:24 ↗ to the main motion yes starting with

1:49:26 ↗ council member walsh

1:49:28 ↗ aye council member d michelle aye

1:49:31 ↗ councilmember goodman aye councilmember

1:49:34 ↗ hall is excused

1:49:36 ↗ from voting council president hunt

1:49:40 ↗ councilmember martz aye deputy council

1:49:43 ↗ president ray

1:49:45 ↗ that's six i zero nays thank you that

1:49:48 ↗ passes with six in favor and one

1:49:50 ↗ abstaining

1:49:52 ↗ uh the regular motion on the table which

1:49:54 ↗ i believe now is

1:49:56 ↗ ready for a vote is a motion to approve

1:49:59 ↗ resolution number 2021-07

1:50:02 ↗ expressing support for state

1:50:04 ↗ transportation funding including the

1:50:06 ↗ adoption of a new transportation revenue

1:50:08 ↗ package

1:50:08 ↗ city clerk can you call the roll call

1:50:10 ↗ vote

1:50:13 ↗ yes starting with council member d

1:50:15 ↗ michelle

1:50:16 ↗ hi councilmember goodman

1:50:19 ↗ hi councilmember hall is excused from

1:50:22 ↗ voting council president hunt

1:50:25 ↗ hi councilmember martz

1:50:28 ↗ aye deputy council president ray

1:50:31 ↗ aye council member walsh aye

1:50:35 ↗ that's 6i zero nays thank you

1:50:38 ↗ that's six in favor with one abstaining

1:50:40 ↗ i would really like to thank

1:50:42 ↗ uh holly and marion for coming tonight

1:50:44 ↗ and talking us through this resolution

1:50:47 ↗ uh we will be moving on to the next item

1:50:50 ↗ of business

1:50:53 ↗ which is ab-8150

1:50:56 ↗ transit-oriented development or tod it's

1:50:59 ↗ a memorandum of understanding and short

1:51:02 ↗ form for us for that is an mou

1:51:04 ↗ we are looking for some direction this

1:51:07 ↗ night tonight from council to the city

1:51:09 ↗ administration

1:51:10 ↗ this is the first council touch point on

1:51:13 ↗ the updated memorandum of understanding

1:51:15 ↗ there is not a formal council motion

1:51:18 ↗ being requested tonight

1:51:20 ↗ but rather informal feedback with action

1:51:22 ↗ anticipated in april

1:51:24 ↗ and i'd like to invite deputy city

1:51:26 ↗ administrator andrea snyder to present

1:51:28 ↗ this item

1:51:31 ↗ thank you mayor paulie good evening

1:51:32 ↗ council members good evening members of

1:51:34 ↗ the public

1:51:35 ↗ my name is andrea snyder and i'm the

1:51:37 ↗ deputy city administrator

1:51:39 ↗ and project manager for the transit

1:51:41 ↗ oriented development project

1:51:43 ↗ also will be referred to as the tod

1:51:46 ↗ project this evening

1:51:47 ↗ i believe tisha will be sharing the

1:51:51 ↗ presentation

1:51:52 ↗ shortly while she's pulling that

1:51:55 ↗ up also with joining joining me tonight

1:51:59 ↗ for this presentation

1:52:01 ↗ are dan landis from king county housing

1:52:03 ↗ authority as well as hal ferris from

1:52:05 ↗ spectrum development so they'll be here

1:52:07 ↗ available to answer any questions that

1:52:09 ↗ council may have

1:52:11 ↗ um here's our next slide please

1:52:16 ↗ so the purpose of our discussion tonight

1:52:18 ↗ is for the administration to get

1:52:20 ↗ feedback

1:52:21 ↗ on the memorandum of understanding which

1:52:24 ↗ i may refer to as the mou

1:52:27 ↗ with the city's development partners

1:52:29 ↗ again that's kcha

1:52:30 ↗ king county housing authority and

1:52:32 ↗ spectrum development

1:52:34 ↗ for the transit oriented development

1:52:36 ↗ project

1:52:37 ↗ and before we go any further i just want

1:52:41 ↗ to offer an apology

1:52:42 ↗ for this alphabet soup because there are

1:52:45 ↗ a lot of acronyms

1:52:47 ↗ and i am sure that i'm going to slip up

1:52:50 ↗ and refer

1:52:50 ↗ to the acronyms and you know mayor polly

1:52:54 ↗ always does a great job of trying to

1:52:56 ↗ make sure we're speaking in a common

1:52:58 ↗ tongue and i will do that but please uh

1:53:00 ↗ if i get too caught up in the shorthand

1:53:03 ↗ um please uh pause uh

1:53:06 ↗ stop me and let me know how i can

1:53:08 ↗ clarify and make sure that i'm speaking

1:53:10 ↗ in english

1:53:12 ↗ okay thank you next slide please tisha

1:53:17 ↗ so as mayor paul indicated the direction

1:53:19 ↗ needed tonight is really

1:53:21 ↗ council feedback on the any concerns or

1:53:25 ↗ changes

1:53:26 ↗ that you have over the updated language

1:53:28 ↗ and the memorandum of understanding

1:53:30 ↗ specifically what would be helpful to

1:53:32 ↗ hear from council is if you have any

1:53:34 ↗ concerns or changes you'd like to see on

1:53:36 ↗ the programming of the site

1:53:37 ↗ the design standards exceptions that are

1:53:41 ↗ included in the

1:53:42 ↗ mou and any other changes of course that

1:53:45 ↗ that council would like to see and then

1:53:48 ↗ the second piece

1:53:49 ↗ of information that we're seeking is if

1:53:51 ↗ council is comfortable

1:53:52 ↗ considering the purchase and sale agree

1:53:54 ↗ considering

1:53:55 ↗ the mou with the purchase and sale

1:53:58 ↗ agreements

1:54:00 ↗ or if council would like to see the mou

1:54:02 ↗ again before they consider

1:54:05 ↗ approval of the purchase and sale

1:54:07 ↗ agreements and the and the memorandum of

1:54:09 ↗ understanding and we'll talk about the

1:54:10 ↗ purchase and sale agreements a little

1:54:12 ↗ bit later on this evening

1:54:16 ↗ a little bit of background on this

1:54:19 ↗ the purpose of the memorandum of

1:54:23 ↗ understanding

1:54:24 ↗ is that it will guide the work that's

1:54:27 ↗ completed

1:54:28 ↗ between now and when we form the

1:54:30 ↗ development agreement

1:54:31 ↗ with the development partners and it

1:54:34 ↗ will form the basis

1:54:36 ↗ for that development agreement so it

1:54:37 ↗ really sets the groundwork

1:54:39 ↗ for for between now and then

1:54:42 ↗ and will help us form that development

1:54:45 ↗ agreement

1:54:46 ↗ it will also provide increased

1:54:48 ↗ predictability

1:54:49 ↗ and certainty for the city in terms of

1:54:52 ↗ what to expect with the project

1:54:53 ↗ as well as for the development team

1:54:55 ↗ that's really the intent behind

1:54:56 ↗ the mou this

1:54:59 ↗ we're asking city council to update the

1:55:01 ↗ mou

1:55:03 ↗ we had two memorandums of understanding

1:55:06 ↗ one with each development organizations

1:55:09 ↗ one with spectrum one with

1:55:11 ↗ king county housing authority and those

1:55:14 ↗ were approved by council in 2017.

1:55:16 ↗ what we're asking is to update that

1:55:18 ↗ language based off of what we've learned

1:55:20 ↗ since then and the work that's been

1:55:21 ↗ accomplished since then

1:55:22 ↗ and also to consolidate that instead of

1:55:24 ↗ having one for each development

1:55:26 ↗ uh organization a development partner

1:55:28 ↗ we're looking to have it be a

1:55:30 ↗ three-party

1:55:31 ↗ agreement between the city spectrum

1:55:34 ↗ and king county housing authority we

1:55:36 ↗ believe that provides additional clarity

1:55:38 ↗ for each party also

1:55:42 ↗ as we discussed last week at the study

1:55:45 ↗ session

1:55:46 ↗ the administration is currently

1:55:47 ↗ negotiating purchase and sale agreements

1:55:50 ↗ with lumen formerly known as centurylink

1:55:53 ↗ and

1:55:53 ↗ the development team those are also

1:55:55 ↗ three-party agreements

1:55:57 ↗ and um and we would ask that the

1:56:01 ↗ updated mou be an exhibit to the

1:56:04 ↗ purchase and sale agreement so when the

1:56:06 ↗ city

1:56:06 ↗ uh should the city decide to sell

1:56:09 ↗ property

1:56:11 ↗ in exchange for this tod project

1:56:15 ↗ opportunity that the city provided some

1:56:17 ↗ certainty as to what types of public

1:56:19 ↗ benefits it's getting et cetera

1:56:21 ↗ and so that's why we're suggesting it

1:56:22 ↗ would be an exhibit

1:56:24 ↗ to any purchase and sale agreement to be

1:56:26 ↗ considered by council

1:56:29 ↗ and uh finally the city council vote

1:56:32 ↗ on the purchase and sale agreements is

1:56:34 ↗ anticipated in april so we are working

1:56:37 ↗ on that we're

1:56:38 ↗ nearing the final steps and stages of

1:56:40 ↗ that would be coming back to

1:56:42 ↗ city council for your consideration in

1:56:43 ↗ just a few short weeks

1:56:48 ↗ so i'd like to spend some time this

1:56:50 ↗ evening talking about some of the key

1:56:52 ↗ provisions

1:56:53 ↗ within the mou that um have

1:56:56 ↗ changed and others that have not changed

1:56:59 ↗ since that first

1:57:00 ↗ those first mousse were approved things

1:57:03 ↗ that have not changed

1:57:05 ↗ the general understanding of the project

1:57:08 ↗ so general description of the project

1:57:10 ↗ and the and what we expect to be

1:57:12 ↗ included in the project those

1:57:13 ↗ those things have not changed in the

1:57:16 ↗ updated language

1:57:18 ↗ also um discussion of community

1:57:20 ↗ accessible recreation

1:57:22 ↗ that's what it was called in the first

1:57:24 ↗ mou how we're referring to it in the

1:57:26 ↗ second is a public plaza

1:57:29 ↗ uh the second meaning of the updated

1:57:31 ↗ language referring to that as a public

1:57:32 ↗ plaza

1:57:33 ↗ parking requirements considerations for

1:57:35 ↗ structured parking

1:57:37 ↗ that language has not changed in the

1:57:38 ↗ updated mou being proposed for you

1:57:40 ↗ tonight

1:57:42 ↗ development of 13th avenue northwest

1:57:44 ↗ we'll talk about that a little bit

1:57:45 ↗ in more detail a little bit later but

1:57:48 ↗ the requirement for developing 13th

1:57:50 ↗ avenue northwest which is a new roadway

1:57:53 ↗ that remains unchanged as well as the

1:57:57 ↗ provision of

1:57:58 ↗ the multifamily tax exemption benefits

1:58:01 ↗ that's something that

1:58:02 ↗ was contemplated in the first mmous

1:58:05 ↗ passed and

1:58:06 ↗ is reflected in the updated language and

1:58:09 ↗ same with the impact fees waived for

1:58:11 ↗ affordable housing

1:58:12 ↗ those impact fees are part of existing

1:58:15 ↗ city code

1:58:16 ↗ and something we contemplated with the

1:58:20 ↗ first

1:58:20 ↗ version of the mouse and again it's

1:58:23 ↗ reflected in the updated language so all

1:58:24 ↗ of those things are unchanged

1:58:28 ↗ things that have been changed in the

1:58:31 ↗ updated language

1:58:33 ↗ for your consideration we have more

1:58:35 ↗ detail

1:58:36 ↗ on the programming of the site we talk

1:58:38 ↗ about 163

1:58:40 ↗ or more units of affordable housing

1:58:45 ↗ and we really break down what that level

1:58:47 ↗ of affordability looks like

1:58:49 ↗ this is unchanged for those of you who

1:58:51 ↗ may recall there was a

1:58:53 ↗ presentation on this project

1:58:56 ↗ last february this information is

1:58:58 ↗ consistent with that

1:59:00 ↗ same presentation that we had about a

1:59:01 ↗ year ago

1:59:03 ↗ um and i will pause for a question

1:59:10 ↗ thank you deputy administrator um

1:59:12 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:59:15 ↗ uh thank you uh we heard comments

1:59:17 ↗ tonight about

1:59:18 ↗ this mix um and concerns about this

1:59:22 ↗ mix um and i have a couple of questions

1:59:25 ↗ um and maybe mr ferris could help answer

1:59:28 ↗ these

1:59:28 ↗ as well but it's my understanding that

1:59:31 ↗ this

1:59:32 ↗ kind of mix of different levels of

1:59:36 ↗ income ami

1:59:39 ↗ have a great deal to do with the

1:59:41 ↗ viability of the project

1:59:43 ↗ for the developer um and that's

1:59:46 ↗ just my understanding maybe somebody

1:59:48 ↗ needs to correct that impression but

1:59:49 ↗ that's

1:59:50 ↗ that's what i've thought and heard for

1:59:53 ↗ many years

1:59:54 ↗ is that this kind of mix

1:59:57 ↗ makes a development like this possible

2:00:00 ↗ and then could you uh clarify the use of

2:00:03 ↗ the term workforce housing

2:00:05 ↗ uh would any part of this uh

2:00:08 ↗ be designated as of what we've heard in

2:00:10 ↗ the the term workforce

2:00:12 ↗ housing what part of it would be would

2:00:14 ↗ be that

2:00:15 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember d

2:00:18 ↗ michelle i would

2:00:20 ↗ like to see if perhaps dan landis from

2:00:22 ↗ king county housing authority

2:00:24 ↗ would like to weigh in and help answer

2:00:26 ↗ your questions

2:00:27 ↗ dan are you able to respond

2:00:32 ↗ uh yes sure i'm dan landis from king

2:00:34 ↗ county housing authority

2:00:35 ↗ and uh we we are

2:00:39 ↗ in the process of looking at the design

2:00:41 ↗ and seeing if there

2:00:42 ↗ isn't a way that we could increase the

2:00:44 ↗ number of units in our side of the

2:00:46 ↗ project so

2:00:47 ↗ what's being developed here are two

2:00:48 ↗ different uh

2:00:50 ↗ towers one that king county housing

2:00:52 ↗ authority will will

2:00:54 ↗ own and manage or and the other one that

2:00:56 ↗ the

2:00:57 ↗ spectrum development solutions is is

2:01:00 ↗ developing and i'll let uh paul farah

2:01:02 ↗ speak to to that side but

2:01:04 ↗ the 60 and 40 ami units are

2:01:08 ↗ in our building and if we're able to

2:01:10 ↗ increase the size of our building that

2:01:12 ↗ the number of units

2:01:14 ↗ that are in those uh that are at those

2:01:17 ↗ various income levels would increase as

2:01:19 ↗ well

2:01:20 ↗ uh some one of the comments that uh you

2:01:23 ↗ got earlier

2:01:24 ↗ from a citizen was that uh it would be a

2:01:27 ↗ it's a shame that uh

2:01:29 ↗ the 40 units aren't lower um

2:01:32 ↗ the reason that they're targeted at 40

2:01:35 ↗ right now

2:01:36 ↗ is because that's what the king county

2:01:38 ↗ tod funds

2:01:40 ↗ that we receive for this project uh

2:01:43 ↗ allowed they did not allow deeper income

2:01:46 ↗ targeting

2:01:46 ↗ although there's a fix moving forward in

2:01:48 ↗ the state legislature right now

2:01:50 ↗ that would allow you to go lower than

2:01:51 ↗ that but we do intend to have

2:01:53 ↗ uh subsidies in those units so that

2:01:56 ↗ anybody

2:01:56 ↗ below 40 of area median income could

2:02:00 ↗ afford to live there

2:02:01 ↗ so hopefully that's helpful uh the

2:02:03 ↗ reason that

2:02:05 ↗ the units that are at 60 and 40 is

2:02:07 ↗ smaller than the rest is because our

2:02:09 ↗ project is smaller than

2:02:11 ↗ the other part and that is because we

2:02:13 ↗ have

2:02:14 ↗ uh limited public funds that we can draw

2:02:16 ↗ on them and it's

2:02:18 ↗ we it's not feasible for us uh to to

2:02:20 ↗ build a bigger project unless we can do

2:02:22 ↗ it uh

2:02:23 ↗ just make what we've done a little bit

2:02:25 ↗ more efficient and we're working on that

2:02:32 ↗ i wanted to add to what dan said just

2:02:35 ↗ because i think there's some confusion

2:02:36 ↗ on the

2:02:37 ↗ numbers here and this would be health

2:02:39 ↗ errors from spectrum development

2:02:42 ↗ or i'm sorry

2:02:47 ↗ the 163 units are the number of

2:02:50 ↗ affordable

2:02:51 ↗ units those that are at 80 and below

2:02:54 ↗ and then there's approximately the same

2:02:56 ↗ number that are above

2:02:57 ↗ 80 so it's not 163 units total with only

2:03:02 ↗ half of them being affordable

2:03:03 ↗ all 163 units are rent restricted units

2:03:06 ↗ for the life of the project

2:03:09 ↗ and then the remainder our market rate

2:03:11 ↗ or and to

2:03:13 ↗ address council member demon shells

2:03:14 ↗ question the work

2:03:16 ↗ workforce housing is generally

2:03:18 ↗ considered from 60

2:03:20 ↗ to 100 percent of very immediate income

2:03:23 ↗ and all of our units in the in the

2:03:26 ↗ southern building would fall within that

2:03:29 ↗ category

2:03:30 ↗ so we have very few units that would be

2:03:32 ↗ over 100 percent

2:03:33 ↗ of very median income and they're just

2:03:35 ↗ barely over so

2:03:36 ↗ the project in itself is both a um

2:03:40 ↗ low income moderate income and workforce

2:03:43 ↗ level housing in its entirety

2:03:47 ↗ thank you thank you thank you very much

2:03:50 ↗ um councilmember d michelle did you have

2:03:51 ↗ an additional question

2:03:55 ↗ no that was very helpful thank you

2:03:57 ↗ awesome thank you okay let's continue

2:03:59 ↗ with the presentation

2:04:02 ↗ thank you madam mayor uh this is andrea

2:04:04 ↗ snyder again

2:04:06 ↗ um other elements for programming of the

2:04:08 ↗ site

2:04:09 ↗ include the opportunity center the

2:04:11 ↗ opportunity center is

2:04:13 ↗ about a 10 000 square foot

2:04:17 ↗ facility that the city would own so it

2:04:19 ↗ would be condominiumized

2:04:21 ↗ and the city would retain ownership of

2:04:23 ↗ that

2:04:24 ↗ portion of the development and the

2:04:26 ↗ opportunity center

2:04:28 ↗ would provide medical services a variety

2:04:32 ↗ of medical services for low-income

2:04:34 ↗ populations

2:04:34 ↗ and we're working with a tenant who

2:04:36 ↗ would be able to provide those services

2:04:39 ↗ for the community another component of

2:04:41 ↗ this project

2:04:43 ↗ is the leo or life enrichment

2:04:46 ↗ opportunities that they would have a

2:04:48 ↗ space reserved for them for an adult

2:04:49 ↗ family home

2:04:51 ↗ for adults with disabilities

2:04:59 ↗ and other key provisions that you'll see

2:05:02 ↗ different from the last mou design

2:05:05 ↗ standards exceptions the first one of

2:05:08 ↗ those being

2:05:09 ↗ a an exception to the step back

2:05:12 ↗ requirement is something that our

2:05:13 ↗ development

2:05:14 ↗ development team is seeking this picture

2:05:16 ↗ that you see here

2:05:18 ↗ is not a picture of the pod project

2:05:22 ↗ it's just meant to represent what a step

2:05:24 ↗ back is

2:05:25 ↗ and so above a certain height the

2:05:27 ↗ project would be required to

2:05:29 ↗ step back from the base to preserve

2:05:33 ↗ views and sight lines that's the intent

2:05:36 ↗ of the code and they're looking for

2:05:38 ↗ a small exception to that additional

2:05:41 ↗ exceptions

2:05:42 ↗ include loading dock size the

2:05:45 ↗ centralissaqua

2:05:46 ↗ design and development standards

2:05:50 ↗ have standards for how how wide a

2:05:53 ↗ loading dock might be and they're

2:05:54 ↗ looking to reduce that size to make it

2:05:56 ↗ tailored to the site and also fit within

2:05:58 ↗ the core

2:05:59 ↗ street standards that the city has and

2:06:04 ↗ the other uh another

2:06:07 ↗ item related to the design standards

2:06:09 ↗ exceptions is the density bonus so

2:06:12 ↗ should the project require two

2:06:14 ↗ additional stories

2:06:17 ↗ then does it meet our density bonus

2:06:20 ↗ requirements

2:06:20 ↗ which require a certain level of public

2:06:23 ↗ benefits be provided

2:06:25 ↗ and what you should see in the packet

2:06:28 ↗ and the proposed mou that we have before

2:06:30 ↗ you this evening

2:06:32 ↗ is that we feel you know that

2:06:35 ↗ the affordable housing provided with

2:06:37 ↗ this project does meet those density

2:06:39 ↗ bonus requirements

2:06:45 ↗ additional uh key provisions that you'll

2:06:48 ↗ see changed is the discussion of

2:06:50 ↗ 13th avenue northwest and as i stated

2:06:53 ↗ earlier this is a new roadway

2:06:55 ↗ that is reflected in the central

2:06:57 ↗ issaquah plan

2:06:59 ↗ to help increase the city transportation

2:07:02 ↗ grid

2:07:03 ↗ and it's reflected here in this map in

2:07:05 ↗ the slashed purple lines between newport

2:07:08 ↗ way and maple

2:07:09 ↗ going north south and that's that would

2:07:11 ↗ be 13th avenue northwest

2:07:14 ↗ and

2:07:17 ↗ this development would be required to

2:07:18 ↗ build out that new street

2:07:20 ↗ but there is a small problem in that

2:07:24 ↗ there is a very large and

2:07:26 ↗ complicated telecommunications hub that

2:07:28 ↗ was installed by centurylink

2:07:30 ↗ years ago that telecommunications hub

2:07:33 ↗ happens to be

2:07:34 ↗ pretty much right in the middle of what

2:07:37 ↗ that

2:07:37 ↗ 13 what would be 13th avenue northwest

2:07:41 ↗ and so we've been working with the

2:07:42 ↗ development team on how to

2:07:44 ↗ stay true to the understanding that they

2:07:46 ↗ would be able to develop

2:07:48 ↗ at least part of the 13th avenue

2:07:50 ↗ northwest roadway

2:07:51 ↗ and so we that's something that we would

2:07:53 ↗ need to develop

2:07:54 ↗ further as we talk go through the

2:07:56 ↗ entitlement process and go through the

2:07:58 ↗ development negotiations and finalize

2:08:00 ↗ design that they may need

2:08:01 ↗ some additional exceptions to what that

2:08:03 ↗ roadway

2:08:05 ↗ would would look like so that

2:08:08 ↗ we could maintain that very important

2:08:10 ↗ piece of telecommunications

2:08:11 ↗ infrastructure

2:08:12 ↗ where it is because we understand that

2:08:14 ↗ it's nearly impossible to move

2:08:17 ↗ um so that's another exception that's

2:08:20 ↗ noted in

2:08:22 ↗ in the proposed language and you know

2:08:24 ↗ i'd like

2:08:25 ↗ uh i'd like to also make sure that i say

2:08:28 ↗ this

2:08:28 ↗ explicitly in the presentation that this

2:08:31 ↗ mou that we're proposing

2:08:33 ↗ in the updated language it's not a

2:08:35 ↗ binding mou

2:08:37 ↗ and the purpose is that it helps create

2:08:40 ↗ some predictability

2:08:42 ↗ provide a mutual understanding of our

2:08:45 ↗ discussions to date

2:08:47 ↗ but that there would be a lot that we

2:08:49 ↗ would need to finalize

2:08:50 ↗ in the development agreement process and

2:08:52 ↗ that's really when all of these

2:08:54 ↗ provisions would become final there

2:08:57 ↗ would be

2:08:58 ↗ additional ability for us to finalize

2:09:00 ↗ design

2:09:01 ↗ to learn a little bit more from the

2:09:03 ↗ community and hear more from you before

2:09:05 ↗ any of this language becomes binding

2:09:09 ↗ deputies city administrator snyder i

2:09:11 ↗ wonder if we could take a quick question

2:09:13 ↗ um council member martz was it related

2:09:15 ↗ to a certain slide

2:09:18 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor i would i

2:09:20 ↗ withdrew my question it's true

2:09:22 ↗ you've been true it comes through like a

2:09:24 ↗ few second delay i apologize

2:09:26 ↗ that you say administrator please

2:09:28 ↗ continue

2:09:30 ↗ thank you madam mayor so in general

2:09:33 ↗ uh there are a couple of options before

2:09:37 ↗ city council

2:09:38 ↗ one is to revise the proposed mou

2:09:40 ↗ language

2:09:41 ↗ and the other is to not update the mou

2:09:45 ↗ those are really the options that city

2:09:47 ↗ council may exercise

2:09:49 ↗ next slide please tisha the

2:09:53 ↗ administration recommends that we update

2:09:55 ↗ the mou language

2:09:57 ↗ again to provide increased clarity for

2:10:00 ↗ all parties involved

2:10:02 ↗ and again we also ask

2:10:05 ↗ next slide please tisha that city

2:10:08 ↗ council

2:10:09 ↗ provide feedback on the mou as proposed

2:10:13 ↗ this evening before we get to that

2:10:16 ↗ the this is the approximate timeline of

2:10:18 ↗ what we can see are the major milestones

2:10:20 ↗ that we can anticipate moving forward

2:10:22 ↗ this should look a little bit familiar

2:10:24 ↗ because we presented this last week at

2:10:26 ↗ the study session

2:10:28 ↗ but the purchase and sale agreements and

2:10:30 ↗ the

2:10:31 ↗ memorandum of understanding would be

2:10:35 ↗ developed further and considered here in

2:10:37 ↗ the month of march and coming

2:10:39 ↗ back to council for approval

2:10:42 ↗ or for your consideration in april

2:10:46 ↗ and following that the development

2:10:49 ↗ agreement and site development permit

2:10:51 ↗ would be submitted in september of 2021

2:10:55 ↗ again with the mou forming the basis for

2:10:58 ↗ that

2:10:59 ↗ development agreement we anticipate the

2:11:02 ↗ development agreement would be complete

2:11:04 ↗ in the first quarter of next year

2:11:06 ↗ and the lumen formerly known as

2:11:09 ↗ centurylink their relocation site

2:11:11 ↗ would be complete and constructed

2:11:14 ↗ by the end of next year q4

2:11:17 ↗ 2022 with the tod project construction

2:11:21 ↗ itself being complete

2:11:22 ↗ in 2025

2:11:28 ↗ and so again we're looking tonight for

2:11:31 ↗ feedback from city council

2:11:33 ↗ for any concerns or changes that you

2:11:35 ↗ have over the updated language

2:11:37 ↗ specifically on the programming of the

2:11:38 ↗ site any of the design standards

2:11:41 ↗ exception language

2:11:42 ↗ or any other changes to the mou as it

2:11:45 ↗ please counsel

2:11:46 ↗ and then and then whether council

2:11:49 ↗ is comfortable considering the mou with

2:11:52 ↗ the purchase and sale agreements or if

2:11:53 ↗ we need another touch point before

2:11:56 ↗ we reach that april date

2:12:03 ↗ the eqwc administrator i wonder if it

2:12:05 ↗ wouldn't be helpful if you could leave

2:12:07 ↗ that last slide

2:12:08 ↗ up as we sort of move through the seven

2:12:10 ↗ council members and allow them to

2:12:12 ↗ provide input and i just want to remind

2:12:14 ↗ council members in the public that we

2:12:16 ↗ are not taking a vote today

2:12:18 ↗ this council is just providing feedback

2:12:21 ↗ and i will look into the chat to see who

2:12:23 ↗ volunteers and then i'll just start

2:12:25 ↗ going alphabetical if nobody volunteers

2:12:29 ↗ so um we need to hear from all seven and

2:12:32 ↗ it could be a

2:12:34 ↗ as simple as everything is fine or

2:12:37 ↗ people may have some questions and

2:12:38 ↗ comments you need to dig a little bit

2:12:39 ↗ deeper before

2:12:40 ↗ so let's start with uh council member

2:12:42 ↗ mark

2:12:45 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

2:12:46 ↗ councilmember marks uh

2:12:48 ↗ yeah the everything is fine uh

2:12:51 ↗ i think there's this is a what the

2:12:54 ↗ public needs to understand is that this

2:12:55 ↗ is a very

2:12:56 ↗ complicated uh

2:12:59 ↗ set of balancing equations of all the

2:13:02 ↗ partners involved

2:13:04 ↗ and it is not easy to just move

2:13:07 ↗ one piece of it you know if you increase

2:13:10 ↗ the

2:13:10 ↗ the affordability that basically

2:13:14 ↗ changes the fundamental uh balance on

2:13:17 ↗ the deal

2:13:17 ↗ right because a more subsidized unit is

2:13:20 ↗ is more expensive so uh this

2:13:24 ↗ process has been going on longer than

2:13:27 ↗ any other

2:13:29 ↗ issue before the city i believe that

2:13:31 ↗ i've been involved in

2:13:33 ↗ in 11 years but

2:13:36 ↗ all the parties involved seem to be

2:13:38 ↗ moving towards

2:13:40 ↗ a place that they

2:13:44 ↗ have agreement and i continue to believe

2:13:47 ↗ that the benefit

2:13:48 ↗ served by this project is important and

2:13:50 ↗ substantial

2:13:52 ↗ and would be exciting for us to have as

2:13:53 ↗ a city so um

2:13:55 ↗ i am good with the proposed uh mou

2:13:58 ↗ changes as recommended by the city thank

2:14:00 ↗ you i'm just going to double check with

2:14:02 ↗ you council member mertz it's also in

2:14:03 ↗ response to the

2:14:04 ↗ second question a process went on

2:14:06 ↗ comfortable considering the mao

2:14:08 ↗ mo memorandum of understanding with the

2:14:10 ↗ purchase and sale agreement

2:14:13 ↗ yes thank you very much uh we have some

2:14:17 ↗ questions from deputy council president

2:14:18 ↗ ray

2:14:21 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is chris

2:14:22 ↗ wray i just want to go back to the mou

2:14:25 ↗ itself and under the recital

2:14:27 ↗ the second to last one h the last

2:14:30 ↗ sentence it says

2:14:31 ↗ parties recognize that spectrum and

2:14:33 ↗ kcha's financing is limited

2:14:36 ↗ and the ability to provide amenities

2:14:38 ↗ will be restricted by the availability

2:14:40 ↗ of funds

2:14:41 ↗ can someone tell me what that means

2:14:44 ↗ sure um deputy administrator schneider

2:14:47 ↗ who would be best prepared to answer

2:14:48 ↗ deputy council president ray's question

2:14:53 ↗ uh thank you uh deputy council president

2:14:56 ↗ ray

2:14:56 ↗ this is andrea snyder i i'm going to uh

2:15:00 ↗ ask for perhaps hal ferris to provide a

2:15:04 ↗ little bit more insight but i think

2:15:05 ↗ the general point that they're trying to

2:15:09 ↗ convey here is that

2:15:13 ↗ referring really to council member

2:15:14 ↗ marx's point

2:15:16 ↗ once you start to add more things to the

2:15:19 ↗ project that can also

2:15:20 ↗ affect other parts of the project and so

2:15:22 ↗ if at this time

2:15:23 ↗ council would like to consider

2:15:26 ↗ additional public benefits

2:15:29 ↗ then that would be something that we'd

2:15:30 ↗ really need to

2:15:32 ↗ discuss with our partners in addition

2:15:35 ↗ there are concerns about

2:15:37 ↗ uh costs related to some of the

2:15:40 ↗ the public benefits and that we would

2:15:43 ↗ need to make sure that

2:15:44 ↗ the project can once fully designed that

2:15:47 ↗ we can take on all of those costs and

2:15:49 ↗ i think we've talked at council before

2:15:51 ↗ about the opportunity center

2:15:53 ↗ that's certainly part of it and i know

2:15:55 ↗ council has pledged a certain amount of

2:15:57 ↗ money to help ensure that that

2:15:59 ↗ can proceed hal ferris would you like to

2:16:03 ↗ add anything more to that

2:16:14 ↗ from development um you know i thought

2:16:18 ↗ actually council member marx and

2:16:20 ↗ deputy city administrator steiner did a

2:16:22 ↗ very good job of answering your question

2:16:24 ↗ and it is a balance and and we worked

2:16:28 ↗ really hard the housing authority and

2:16:29 ↗ ourselves

2:16:30 ↗ to try to honor and keep forward all of

2:16:33 ↗ the public benefits that the city had

2:16:34 ↗ originally outlined

2:16:36 ↗ to make this budget go and believe me

2:16:37 ↗ there's a whole bunch of moving parts

2:16:39 ↗ behind us that you can't you know we

2:16:41 ↗ don't go into every time

2:16:42 ↗ and it's been a difficult balancing act

2:16:44 ↗ but we feel like we're honoring our

2:16:45 ↗ commitment

2:16:46 ↗ if anything we are hopeful to improve as

2:16:48 ↗ you heard

2:16:49 ↗ uh dan speak earlier on the total count

2:16:52 ↗ of affordable units that could be part

2:16:54 ↗ of this project so that's

2:16:56 ↗ that's what we continue to strive to

2:16:57 ↗ achieve which was kind of the

2:16:59 ↗ overarching goal of the project itself

2:17:02 ↗ thank you hal dippy council president

2:17:04 ↗ ray do you have any other questions and

2:17:06 ↗ are you prepared to make some comments

2:17:09 ↗ um i have uh i'll make some comments

2:17:12 ↗ um my first one is i'm uncomfortable

2:17:14 ↗ with that

2:17:15 ↗ it appears to me that we're going to

2:17:17 ↗ take all the risk and

2:17:19 ↗ we have a real long history of of

2:17:23 ↗ not getting what we bargained for on

2:17:25 ↗ development projects

2:17:26 ↗ and that looks like a get out of jail

2:17:29 ↗ free card to me

2:17:29 ↗ and i'm not comfortable with the city

2:17:32 ↗ taking all the risk on this

2:17:33 ↗ so that is a big deal to me

2:17:36 ↗ um so that's the first for my first one

2:17:39 ↗ so i am

2:17:40 ↗ in terms of other changes the mou yeah i

2:17:42 ↗ i have some that would make me happier

2:17:44 ↗ um in terms of the second question i'm

2:17:47 ↗ fine

2:17:48 ↗ considering the mau and the psa at the

2:17:49 ↗ same time thank you

2:17:52 ↗ and next up is council member d michelle

2:17:58 ↗ thank you this is councilmember d

2:17:59 ↗ michelle so i will admit that

2:18:02 ↗ approaching the mou i approached it with

2:18:04 ↗ some trepidation because

2:18:06 ↗ generally it's a reading slog and

2:18:10 ↗ i'm not always sure what this that or

2:18:12 ↗ the other thing means and

2:18:14 ↗ so i want to compliment i presume that

2:18:16 ↗ was deputy administrator

2:18:18 ↗ snyder who wrote the mlu it was

2:18:20 ↗ exceptionally

2:18:22 ↗ easy to read and so i appreciated the

2:18:25 ↗ clarity on everything

2:18:27 ↗ um i am generally just satisfied with it

2:18:30 ↗ there are two different places i believe

2:18:33 ↗ in there where it

2:18:34 ↗ says this is a non-binding agreement

2:18:37 ↗ that we will have uh time to uh

2:18:41 ↗ to uh reauthorize it to look at it again

2:18:44 ↗ we'll have a point of looking at it when

2:18:47 ↗ we get the purchase the sale agreement

2:18:49 ↗ and then

2:18:49 ↗ when the development agreement comes

2:18:51 ↗ through so i am very comfortable i think

2:18:53 ↗ it lays out

2:18:54 ↗ uh the questions that need to be

2:18:56 ↗ answered in the

2:18:58 ↗ negotiations ahead and so i'm very

2:19:00 ↗ comfortable with it

2:19:02 ↗ the setback exception i thought was well

2:19:06 ↗ explained and i understood that i could

2:19:08 ↗ use a little bit more information about

2:19:10 ↗ the

2:19:11 ↗ landing dock exception because i'm a

2:19:13 ↗ very visual person and i

2:19:14 ↗ couldn't quite couldn't quite see what

2:19:16 ↗ that was about but

2:19:17 ↗ um overall i'm comfortable with this

2:19:21 ↗ and i am comfortable considering the mou

2:19:23 ↗ with the psa

2:19:24 ↗ when it's brought to us in april and uh

2:19:28 ↗ if deputy administrator um snyder wants

2:19:31 ↗ to

2:19:31 ↗ talk a little bit about the landing doc

2:19:33 ↗ that's fine or not that's fine too

2:19:36 ↗ so thank you thank you councilmember d

2:19:39 ↗ michelle i think i'm going to continue

2:19:41 ↗ the rotation through and give andrea a

2:19:43 ↗ chance to address things at the end of a

2:19:44 ↗ couple things come up but thank you very

2:19:46 ↗ much for that we'll move

2:19:48 ↗ to councilmember walsh

2:19:51 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh um

2:19:54 ↗ i'm wondering if you can talk to me a

2:19:55 ↗ little bit more about

2:19:57 ↗ 13th avenue northwest

2:20:01 ↗ i understand the concept of lumen having

2:20:04 ↗ a telecom hub in

2:20:07 ↗ the area and meaning that that would

2:20:10 ↗ require

2:20:11 ↗ rerouting a planned road but i'm one i'm

2:20:14 ↗ trying to get my head around to this

2:20:16 ↗ concept what that means

2:20:18 ↗ for the city as far as costs

2:20:21 ↗ what that means for our road

2:20:24 ↗ infrastructure

2:20:26 ↗ and why in general something would be

2:20:29 ↗ built in an area where we have a pl

2:20:33 ↗ where we had a planned road network um

2:20:36 ↗ that

2:20:36 ↗ could not be removed i don't understand

2:20:39 ↗ that part

2:20:40 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh i think

2:20:42 ↗ the quick answer is the

2:20:44 ↗ lumen infrastructure predates our road

2:20:46 ↗ network planning

2:20:47 ↗ so there would be one little one um

2:20:51 ↗ deputy city administrator snyder some

2:20:53 ↗ more information

2:20:55 ↗ uh yes thank you mayor paulie this is

2:20:57 ↗ andrea snyder that's

2:20:58 ↗ exactly correct so we that

2:21:02 ↗ infrastructure

2:21:02 ↗ definitely predates the concept and plan

2:21:06 ↗ for the 13th avenue northwest roadway

2:21:10 ↗ that roadway

2:21:14 ↗ rather the infrastructure is in the

2:21:17 ↗ street towards the edge of the parcel

2:21:19 ↗ there's also some other complications in

2:21:21 ↗ terms of

2:21:23 ↗ the property boundary dispute i think

2:21:26 ↗ that was also referred to

2:21:28 ↗ in the mou that the city would work with

2:21:30 ↗ the partners to try to help resolve

2:21:32 ↗ that property boundary dispute but that

2:21:36 ↗ telecommunications infrastructure hub is

2:21:38 ↗ right on that boundary

2:21:40 ↗ which is where the city had envisioned

2:21:42 ↗ that street without knowing that that

2:21:44 ↗ not realizing that that piece of

2:21:46 ↗ infrastructure was there and so

2:21:48 ↗ lumen would need to retain an easement

2:21:50 ↗ to be able to maintain

2:21:51 ↗ that infrastructure which presents some

2:21:55 ↗ some difficulty as i said earlier we're

2:21:58 ↗ looking at finalizing design

2:22:00 ↗ options and it's possible that

2:22:04 ↗ that we may still be able to work the

2:22:06 ↗ site

2:22:07 ↗ in a way that we can still construct

2:22:09 ↗ that full roadway as

2:22:11 ↗ as intended um but it's it's a difficult

2:22:14 ↗ maneuver

2:22:15 ↗ and so what i don't know that that would

2:22:18 ↗ mean anything in terms of

2:22:20 ↗ city cost what it would translate into

2:22:22 ↗ what does that roadway look like

2:22:24 ↗ and how does that defer from the

2:22:26 ↗ standards i'm sorry

2:22:28 ↗ deter from the standards and so we

2:22:32 ↗ had planned on that being a core street

2:22:35 ↗ course streets have certain standards

2:22:37 ↗ associated with them

2:22:39 ↗ we may initially only only be able to

2:22:42 ↗ build out half of that street so

2:22:44 ↗ some circulation benefits to the city

2:22:48 ↗ and related to that project would occur

2:22:50 ↗ but

2:22:51 ↗ uh not as we would expect for a full

2:22:55 ↗ core street and without pulling out more

2:22:59 ↗ diagrams and diving into the details

2:23:02 ↗ especially since we have not finalized

2:23:04 ↗ design

2:23:06 ↗ um that's kind of the best general idea

2:23:09 ↗ that i can give you though if you have

2:23:10 ↗ more questions

2:23:12 ↗ perhaps how ferris can speak to those

2:23:16 ↗ thank you and i'll go back to council

2:23:18 ↗ member walsh did you have additional

2:23:20 ↗ questions because i know you also

2:23:22 ↗ indicated you had comments

2:23:24 ↗ yeah no additional questions that gives

2:23:27 ↗ me enough thank you andrea

2:23:28 ↗ um and so just comments generally um

2:23:32 ↗ i am comfortable with moving forward and

2:23:34 ↗ considering the mou and the psas

2:23:36 ↗ together

2:23:37 ↗ i appreciate all of the updates and all

2:23:40 ↗ of the

2:23:41 ↗ late nights and early mornings and all

2:23:44 ↗ extra time that has gone into this very

2:23:47 ↗ very very long

2:23:49 ↗ project um and coming to this point so

2:23:52 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember walsh

2:23:54 ↗ it looks like councilmember hall is up

2:23:56 ↗ next

2:23:58 ↗ uh yes thanks mayor paulie this is

2:24:00 ↗ councilmember hall um

2:24:03 ↗ so uh for question one um i am quite

2:24:06 ↗ happy with

2:24:07 ↗ uh the mou i don't have any suggested

2:24:09 ↗ changes to the proposal

2:24:11 ↗ uh as we're seeing it although i'm not

2:24:14 ↗ sure i follow

2:24:16 ↗ the deputy council president's concerns

2:24:18 ↗ so how perhaps we could follow up and

2:24:20 ↗ elaborate on

2:24:22 ↗ that further because i want to make sure

2:24:23 ↗ i'm not missing anything here so perhaps

2:24:25 ↗ the deputy city administrator or the

2:24:27 ↗ deputy council president could

2:24:29 ↗ could speak to that um i appreciate what

2:24:32 ↗ the deputy city administrator

2:24:34 ↗ um gosh that's a mouthful andrea said um

2:24:37 ↗ that this isn't binding

2:24:39 ↗ um and that it helps inform

2:24:41 ↗ predictability and mutual understanding

2:24:42 ↗ and as a development agreement

2:24:44 ↗ um it forms and begins to be developed

2:24:47 ↗ we'll finalize those provisions and have

2:24:48 ↗ an opportunity to have additional

2:24:50 ↗ touches with the community which is

2:24:51 ↗ really important

2:24:52 ↗ uh and then for question two yeah i'm

2:24:54 ↗ i'm comfortable considering the

2:24:56 ↗ memorandum of understanding in the

2:24:57 ↗ purchase and sale agreements together

2:24:59 ↗ and

2:24:59 ↗ also just a big big big thank you to

2:25:03 ↗ andrea and everyone who touched

2:25:06 ↗ all this incredible work i know you've

2:25:08 ↗ put on a lot of time on this project

2:25:10 ↗ and i i really appreciate your work

2:25:11 ↗ ethic thank you

2:25:14 ↗ thank you councilmember hall so now i'm

2:25:16 ↗ threatening uh

2:25:17 ↗ to go alphabetical which means goodman

2:25:19 ↗ followed by hunt thank you councilmember

2:25:24 ↗ goodman here

2:25:25 ↗ um i don't have any concerns or changes

2:25:28 ↗ and i'm fine considering the mou

2:25:29 ↗ with the psas thanks thank you very much

2:25:32 ↗ council president hunt

2:25:34 ↗ uh thank you this is council president

2:25:36 ↗ hunts i too

2:25:38 ↗ have no concerns or um changes and i am

2:25:42 ↗ comfortable considering them

2:25:43 ↗ together um i did want to

2:25:47 ↗ request um i was just reading a couple

2:25:49 ↗ of times the

2:25:50 ↗ loading dock information and i guess

2:25:54 ↗ i think just for future projects or for

2:25:57 ↗ my understanding of

2:25:59 ↗ the sids requirement and why this is an

2:26:02 ↗ issue it would be

2:26:03 ↗ good to better understand that issue

2:26:06 ↗ sort of in the broader context of why it

2:26:09 ↗ was an issue and how it's

2:26:10 ↗ being considered in the staff decision i

2:26:13 ↗ agree with councilmember d michelle

2:26:14 ↗ would be helpful to have maybe a

2:26:16 ↗ visual as well otherwise i have no no

2:26:19 ↗ concerns

2:26:21 ↗ thank you council president hunt because

2:26:23 ↗ the council is not voting this evening i

2:26:25 ↗ would respectfully suggest that the two

2:26:27 ↗ issues that were brought up by several

2:26:29 ↗ council members do require

2:26:31 ↗ some information and not that we have to

2:26:32 ↗ get through it tonight

2:26:34 ↗ but additional information on the

2:26:36 ↗ loading dock and additional

2:26:38 ↗ clarification and answer to deputy

2:26:41 ↗ council president ray's question

2:26:42 ↗ about risk and who is absorbing the risk

2:26:46 ↗ and so i believe that is something that

2:26:47 ↗ we can provide you

2:26:49 ↗ um as a follow-up because you are not

2:26:51 ↗ voting this evening

2:26:53 ↗ if that's okay

2:26:56 ↗ that would be fine with me that was my

2:26:58 ↗ intent actually

2:26:59 ↗ okay great thank you um so we

2:27:03 ↗ are at the end of the presentation the q

2:27:06 ↗ a and q

2:27:07 ↗ a and i just want to check back with the

2:27:08 ↗ development team

2:27:10 ↗ um andrea um and

2:27:13 ↗ hal and dan do you have everything that

2:27:15 ↗ you need from us this evening

2:27:18 ↗ thank you mayor paulie i believe that we

2:27:20 ↗ do

2:27:22 ↗ fantastic the next item on the agenda

2:27:26 ↗ this evening is good of the order

2:27:28 ↗ and so i will take a look over the chat

2:27:30 ↗ box to see if any council members have

2:27:32 ↗ anything to add and while i'm waiting

2:27:34 ↗ for that

2:27:34 ↗ i will go through a couple of upcoming

2:27:38 ↗ council meetings so there is a special

2:27:41 ↗ city council meeting on tuesday march

2:27:43 ↗ 23rd that will

2:27:44 ↗ include equity training there is a

2:27:46 ↗ special counsel study session monday

2:27:48 ↗ march 29th with potential agenda items

2:27:51 ↗ that

2:27:51 ↗ include the council rules of procedure

2:27:55 ↗ the city council regular meeting on

2:27:56 ↗ april 5th has the following potential

2:27:59 ↗ agenda items lined up the consolidated

2:28:02 ↗ appeal

2:28:02 ↗ of the hearing examiner's denial of the

2:28:04 ↗ preliminary plot

2:28:05 ↗ of the high street collection edisco

2:28:07 ↗ highlands

2:28:09 ↗ a public hearing on the purchase and

2:28:11 ↗ sale agreements in support of a transit

2:28:13 ↗ oriented

2:28:14 ↗ development project and the electrical

2:28:17 ↗ vehicle charging ordinance

2:28:20 ↗ and i'm not seeing anything in the chat

2:28:23 ↗ for additional good of the order items

2:28:25 ↗ so i'm going to assume that we are

2:28:28 ↗ finished with our council

2:28:30 ↗ business this evening besides the

2:28:32 ↗ executive session that is happening

2:28:34 ↗ and so i will now hand over the

2:28:36 ↗ presiding officer role to the council

2:28:38 ↗ president

2:28:39 ↗ to begin the executive session

2:28:42 ↗ thank you mayor paulie

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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 (7)

Approve Resolution No. 2021-06, adopting criteria for considering changes to Title 18 separately from the Title 18 Land Use Code update project.

Moved by HUNT · seconded by GOODMAN

Amend the resolution to add: “Section 2. Procedure. The Ad Hoc Committee shall make a recommendation to the City Administration and City Council concerning any proposal to place topics within the Title 18 scope of work on a separate schedule or track. The Ad Hoc Committee shall base its recommendati…

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by HUNT

Carried 7-0

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

Approved Resolution No. 2021-07, expressing support for state transportation funding, including the adoption of a new a transportation revenue package. Councilmember Hall declared a conflict of interest due to the ethics policies applicable to him as an employee of the Washington State Legislature. …

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Amend the resolution to add the following to the WHEREAS clause regarding fish-passage barriers: "removal of fish-passage barriers is important for the survival and restoration of migrating fish populations" (Recused: Hall). MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED, 6-0 (Recused: Hall). d)

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 6-0

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS AMENDED. a) ID 0759 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of March 15, 2021, $3,768,982.99; Approved. Page 54 of 383 CONSENT CALENDAR f) 03-15-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) b) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 16, 2021; Approved. c) Minutes: C…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

Main motion as amended: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS AMENDED. a) ID 0759 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of March 15, 2021, $3,768,982.99; Approved. Page 54 of 383 CONSENT CALENDAR f) 03-15-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) b) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 16, 2021;…

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 7-0

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

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 6-0