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City Council Regular Meeting

Monday, May 3, 2021

7:00 PM
Topics tracked across meetings:
2021 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) AB 8102 1/2
Non-Profit Relief Grant Funding AB 8139 3/4
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First for Roll Call Vote: Goodman
6. CONSENT CALENDAR
6a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of May 3, 2021, $6,209,102.38 ID 0820
Approve · packet pp.5–34
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
6b
Minutes: Special City Council Study Session, March 29
Approve · packet pp.35–36
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 03-29-21 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Council Study Session 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting March 29, 2021 MINUTES
6e
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, April 13, 2021
Approve · packet pp.45–46
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR e) 04-13-21 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
6f
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, April 19, 2021
Approve · packet pp.47–50
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR f) 04-19-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
6g
2021 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) AB 8102
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.51–52
Topics: Public Safety
Staff report:
The Federal Department of Homeland Security administers EMPG's with state governments, who in turn share the grants with local governments. The grants are administered as reimbursement grants. Local governments procure eligible items and then invoice the Washington State Military Department, Emergency Management Division for reimbursement.
6h
Non-Profit Relief Grant Funding Postpone to June 7, 2021 Council Meeting AB 8139
packet pp.53–54
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The Administration recommends postponing the non-profit relief funding
6i
Amendments to IMC 2.62, Dept. of Emergency Management, Regarding the Emergency Manager Position AB 8155
Adopt Ordinance; Authorize · packet pp.55–62
Topics: Land UsePublic Safety
Staff report:
Historically The City’s Public Works Operations Director served as the City’s Emergency Manager under IMC 2.62. While Emergency Management has always been an important role of City government and required under RCW 38.52, in 2020 it became an imperative line of business due to COVID-19 (coronavirus).
8. REGULAR BUSINESS
8a
Amending City Council Rules of Procedure Re: Adding Council New Business AB 8165
Carried 7-0
Approve Resolution · packet pp.125–179
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
At the City Council retreat held earlier this year, there were "a number of concerns expressed around ambiguity of Agenda Bill (AB) development processes, and concerns around City Council communication." In response to the retreat
Roll call:
Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
9. GOOD OF THE ORDER
9a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:09 i'm just giving you a 10 second head
0:14 start
0:20 welcome everyone i'm calling the may 3rd
0:22 city council meeting to order
0:24 due to the governor's proclamation 20-28
0:27 relating to the covet-19 emergency and
0:29 open public meetings this meeting will
0:31 be held entirely remotely
0:33 and at this point we'll take a moment to
0:35 take a roll call of the council members
0:36 in attendance
0:37 please stay here when i call your name
0:39 councilmember d michelle
0:41 here thank you councilmember goodman
0:44 here
0:45 great councilmember hall here thank you
0:49 council president hunt here thank you
0:52 councilmember marks
0:55 thank you deputy council president ray
0:57 here
0:58 thank you and council member walsh here
1:02 all seven council members are in
1:04 attendance this evening
1:05 the next item on our agenda will be the
1:07 pledge of allegiance and i would love
1:08 for you to join me in that but please
1:10 mute your microphones at this time
1:15 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
1:17 united states of america
1:19 and to the republic for which it stands
1:21 one nation
1:22 under god indivisible with liberty and
1:24 justice for all
1:27 thank you the next item on our agenda
1:30 this evening is audience comments
1:32 and for those of you who submitted the
1:34 online form to make your comments your
1:35 name will be called shortly and we do
1:37 have at least a half a dozen or so
1:39 signed up this evening
1:40 for those of you who have joined us
1:41 tonight and would like to make comments
1:43 but did not sign up in advance
1:45 then please raise your virtual hand and
1:47 if you're on a phone
1:48 you do that by pressing star three if
1:51 you have joined by a computer or
1:52 smartphone
1:54 look for a hand icon this can vary by
1:56 device
1:57 one option may be to go to the
1:59 participant panel and choose the raised
2:01 hand icon in the lower right hand corner
2:04 there will also be a public hearing this
2:06 evening a ab-8123
2:08 the 2022-2027 capital improvement plan
2:12 including the transportation improvement
2:14 program and if you would like to make
2:16 comments on this topic
2:17 you will have an opportunity to later in
2:19 the meeting
2:20 and clerk has anyone signed up for
2:22 general audience comments or indicated a
2:24 desire to speak this evening
2:26 yes thank you i'll just add a few
2:29 additional comments
2:30 for those speaking to council and the
2:32 mayor this evening please direct
2:34 comments to the whole council
2:35 and not individuals and while this is
2:37 not a question and answer session we
2:39 will contact you to follow up if needed
2:41 when you are recognized please unmute
2:43 your microphone
2:45 get your name address relationship to
2:47 the city
2:48 please speak clearly and pause
2:50 frequently and limit your comments to
2:53 five minutes
2:54 when you are done please remove your
2:55 microphone if you do not respond after
2:58 your name or phone number is called
2:59 or if a connection is lost unexpectedly
3:02 the meeting will need to proceed you are
3:04 encouraged to rejoin the meeting if able
3:07 personal attacks obscene language
3:08 derogatory remarks
3:10 and disruptive behavior will not be
3:12 permitted citizen comments written in
3:14 verbal are an important aspect of the
3:16 public process and the city takes these
3:18 comments very seriously
3:19 we thank you for taking the time to come
3:21 this evening to address us
3:23 clerk can you please identify the first
3:25 person who signed up to speak this
3:26 evening
3:29 yes the first person signed up to speak
3:31 is doreen russell however i don't see
3:33 doreen
3:34 on the call at the moment our next
3:37 speaker who signed up is frank
3:39 stillwagner
3:40 frank in just a moment i am going to
3:42 move you up as a panelist
3:44 you should then see an option to unmute
3:47 and you may also choose to turn your
3:48 video on
3:56 and whenever you're ready you have the
3:58 floor
4:02 hi good evening my name is frank still
4:04 wagner
4:05 um i am a resident of visqua i live at
4:09 15932 259th avenue southwest
4:13 um i also uh work at village theater
4:17 i've had the pleasure of
4:18 meeting and talking with all of you in
4:20 the past so thank you for taking the
4:21 time today
4:23 um i'm here to talk about uh
4:26 streetery um and uh
4:29 just to let you know that um
4:32 excuse the buzzing of my inbox
4:35 um i just uh you know village theater
4:39 is really supportive of
4:42 community projects and wanting to bring
4:45 people downtown
4:46 um what concerns us
4:50 is shutting down front street every
4:53 single weekend
4:54 in the summer we have shows that will be
4:57 happening with our youth ed program this
4:59 summer
5:00 uh we have classes and camps that are
5:03 happening
5:04 all summer long now where um and we're
5:07 concerned about people coming
5:09 back to the theater to begin with and
5:13 in doing so and you know we were totally
5:17 supportive of
5:18 shutting down you know once twice a
5:21 month
5:22 but shutting down on our performance
5:23 weekends is really gonna keep people
5:26 away from the theater um it's
5:29 you know um we've heard
5:33 we've heard from both sides to be honest
5:35 um and
5:36 i know that letters have been sent in i
5:39 do have some letters of support from
5:41 some folks who on the street that aren't
5:44 necessarily restaurants
5:45 that are like their business is
5:47 completely affected by it as a resident
5:49 i live
5:50 south of front street um on weekends one
5:53 that's
5:54 shut down i'm gonna go to renton it's
5:57 easier
5:58 than having to deal with the traffic
6:00 when you shut down front street that's
6:02 plain and simple as a resident um you
6:05 know as an employee of village theater
6:08 i want as many people on front street as
6:10 can possibly happen but i think that
6:11 there's more than just the restaurants
6:13 that need to
6:14 be taken into consideration and more
6:16 than just front street
6:17 um we feel strongly about supporting
6:21 uh the businesses in gilman the other
6:22 restaurants down in gilman village and
6:24 along gilman um just uh
6:28 other restaurants and businesses uh you
6:31 know
6:31 north of front street that are are
6:34 affected
6:34 when front street is shut down and um
6:38 we just feel it's more detrimental to be
6:41 every weekend
6:42 than selecting then choosing select
6:44 weekends
6:45 so i really appreciate your time i thank
6:47 you for listening to me
6:49 i know that this is a big decision and
6:51 discussion you all have to make
6:52 and i appreciate you all
6:56 giving the time uh and your talents to
6:59 the city of israel
7:00 thank you thank you for coming tonight
7:03 i'm gonna
7:04 add a few clarifying comments in here
7:06 because i know we have many speakers
7:07 tonight on this topic
7:08 and it is unusual to provide some
7:10 context but can do it anyway
7:12 um thank you for giving your
7:16 voice to this discussion there isn't a
7:18 one side or another
7:20 there is one community event and so
7:23 what the city is waiting for is for a
7:26 permit
7:27 request that reflects the needs of the
7:30 main street community and so that's not
7:33 are you for against closing front street
7:35 it's what do we all want and so we're
7:38 hoping that
7:39 our main street organization downtown
7:41 this fantastical association will apply
7:43 for that permit
7:44 there won't be a decision that comes
7:45 before the council to make they don't
7:47 vote
7:48 event permits up or down but they do
7:50 appreciate having business owners and
7:52 representatives come and tell them
7:54 about what their hopes are for community
7:57 events like this so we really appreciate
7:59 you coming in tonight
8:00 thank you frank i'm sorry to put it at
8:03 one side or the other that
8:04 oh no i think i think that's a key point
8:07 that
8:07 we got one side like i said what does
8:09 this event look like
8:11 yeah we're completely supportive we just
8:13 hope it's not every single
8:14 weekend so that is great thank you very
8:17 much frank
8:19 city clerk who's next
8:24 the next speaker who's signed up is john
8:26 houlihan
8:27 john in just a moment here i will be
8:29 moving you up as a panelist you'll then
8:31 have the option
8:32 to unmute and you may also choose to
8:34 turn your video on
8:45 you have the floor thank you
8:49 hi good evening i'm john houlihan
8:54 108 front street is our connection to
8:56 issaquah
8:57 my family owns the building most of you
8:59 know it as the domino's
9:01 building on front street and alder
9:05 i did sign up to provide comment on
9:08 the streetery or the front street
9:10 alfresco this evening
9:12 and ensure that the council is getting
9:15 kind of a balanced view of
9:18 other businesses and property owners
9:22 on front street the streetery
9:26 significantly and adversely impacted
9:30 uh our tenant
9:33 it's not a corporate store it's uh
9:37 just sorry about that uh it's not a
9:40 corporate store it's a family owned
9:41 business
9:42 uh and you know our tenants they
9:45 run that business it's domino's has been
9:48 on trent street for over 20 years
9:51 um last year the streetery uh
9:53 significantly impacted their ability of
9:55 their drivers to get
9:56 in and out and it was a last minute kind
10:00 of event
10:01 uh but it caused significant uh
10:03 financial damage to them
10:05 and when it was announced that this was
10:07 now going to be
10:08 you know basically a five month long uh
10:11 closure
10:11 every weekend they decided not to renew
10:14 their lease and are leaving
10:15 downtown um so we've lost a tenant a
10:18 long tenured business
10:19 there's going to be job displacement and
10:21 literally tens of thousands of dollars
10:23 of damage not only to that but to
10:25 my family as we try to re-tenant the
10:26 space
10:29 we agree that you know in are supportive
10:32 of downtown issaquah and the success of
10:34 all the businesses
10:35 uh we think that there are some
10:36 alternatives that have not been explored
10:38 and that is a more intensive use of uh
10:41 sidewalk permits and and parklets
10:44 without closing
10:45 you know an arterial street and an
10:48 arterial
10:48 you know it's it's a blood supply it
10:50 brings people in uh it's critical
10:52 and then you cut it off things die uh
10:55 and that's what's happened at our
10:56 location uh we're losing a
10:57 long tenant and a good business
11:01 we think that there's an opportunity to
11:04 have
11:04 individual businesses apply for permits
11:07 if they choose to do so
11:08 keep front street open maintain ingress
11:11 maintain
11:12 access so that the you know people who
11:15 need to get to the theater
11:16 uh domino's drivers coming in and out
11:18 people whose businesses really depend on
11:21 that traffic count on front street can
11:23 also survive
11:25 um we you know at the end of the day
11:28 um it seems to me that a blanket
11:30 approach closing
11:31 every single weekend one size fits all
11:35 really burdens uh quite a few businesses
11:38 benefits some but just know that
11:42 there is not unanimity amongst the front
11:45 street
11:46 uh community as to what's the best use
11:49 front street in terms of access keeping
11:52 it open
11:52 and how it's closing um you know from my
11:55 perspective
11:56 uh and also i think from you know my my
11:59 tenant's perspective domino's
12:02 um we'd like to keep main front street
12:04 open uh very similar how bellevue has
12:06 done it
12:06 uh with their uh restaurants and
12:09 sidewalk and
12:10 parking use i think it can be easily
12:11 replicated and it's a good balance
12:14 um i don't think that you know the the
12:17 permit
12:18 uh is is appropriate you know it creates
12:22 you know significant
12:23 impairment to vehicle flow and adversely
12:26 affects businesses
12:27 in and around front street and helps
12:29 some and
12:30 madam mayor my understanding is that a
12:34 permit has in fact been submitted to the
12:36 city
12:37 and it is for 22 weeks
12:41 you know almost 63 full days of closure
12:44 so that's two months and we hope that
12:47 the
12:47 the city you know declines that permit
12:50 and gives individual businesses
12:52 the opportunity to apply for um you know
12:55 a sidewalk use permit or
12:57 a parklet permit if they deem it
13:00 necessary
13:01 rather than a one-size-fits-all approach
13:04 thank you for your service for your time
13:06 and for the opportunity to speak with
13:07 you this evening
13:09 thank you john city clerk who's next on
13:12 our list this evening
13:17 yes the next person who signed up is
13:19 ashwin ashwin
13:20 in just a moment i'll make you a
13:22 panelist you should then have the option
13:24 to unmute and may also choose to turn
13:26 your video on
13:30 you have the floor well thank you so
13:34 much
13:34 uh for uh letting me talk to the council
13:38 and the mayor um appreciate your uh
13:41 time and your service to listen to our
13:44 businessmen here
13:45 in issaquah uh first of all i serve
13:48 in the isfa vitality commission as well
13:50 and i am a local businessman as well
13:53 i own the chevron which is at the front
13:55 intersection of front and gilman
13:57 i've come here before in front of you
14:00 and i've spoken to you a few weeks ago
14:03 and i explained to you the traffic for
14:05 traffic flow and traffic pattern that
14:08 helps
14:08 my business survive and do business over
14:11 there
14:11 any street closures does not help my
14:14 business
14:15 as simple as that right let me be
14:18 straight forward with you on that
14:19 any street closures impacts my business
14:24 it's very clear on that i'm very clear
14:26 on that i am totally supportive of
14:28 treated right there is no doubt about
14:30 that i mean it helps
14:32 it helps your businesses that's great
14:34 make makes them survive makes them move
14:35 forward that's great
14:37 but it also impacts other businesses as
14:39 well
14:40 so the council the cd has to keep that
14:43 in mind
14:44 when they weigh their pen right so it's
14:47 very very important that you keep that
14:48 in mind
14:49 there have been solutions out there
14:52 which are being
14:52 uh implemented and are very successful
14:56 a great example is the old
15:00 main uh uh in bellevue old main in
15:02 bellevue
15:03 has plenty of restaurants plenty of
15:06 retails
15:06 retail outlets and other service
15:08 businesses as well
15:10 and they all work together there are no
15:13 street brochures
15:14 absolutely no street closures let me be
15:17 very clear on that
15:18 absolutely no street closures not even a
15:20 single street
15:21 is closed for the operation of those
15:23 businesses and they still
15:25 operate well people are on the sidewalks
15:29 people eat with their have their dinner
15:32 in front of the restaurants on the
15:33 sidewalks
15:34 people still walk on the sidewalks i
15:37 take a show
15:38 on bellevue maine every day and i
15:41 walk through that street every day and i
15:43 know how it is so that's why i'm trying
15:45 to share that information with you
15:47 that there is no road closures there is
15:49 no sidewalk closures
15:50 people still have restrooms open people
15:54 dying on the sidewalks and there's no
15:57 issue
15:57 right why do we need a street closure on
16:01 front street
16:02 i just can't understand that and i just
16:04 can't
16:05 uh get an answer for that i've tried
16:08 reaching out to people
16:09 but not a single person has come here in
16:11 front of me or
16:13 explained to me why do you need a street
16:16 closure
16:17 you can still connect business with no
16:18 street closures right
16:20 so please evaluate that option it hurts
16:23 our business
16:24 when you close the street as simple as
16:26 that right
16:27 so i'm hoping that this message gets out
16:30 to you very clearly
16:31 that there are businesses that are
16:33 getting hurt by these
16:35 actions and it does not help other
16:38 businesses
16:39 uh with that i would like to make sure
16:41 that you understand
16:42 my viewpoint and i hope you make the
16:44 right decisions thank you
16:46 thank you ashland city clerk who next is
16:52 yes next we have kristin carrera
16:56 in just a moment here and kristen
17:00 in just a moment here i'll move you up
17:01 as a panelist you'll have the option to
17:03 turn
17:04 your audio on and also your video if you
17:07 choose
17:08 if i could also ask ashwin if you would
17:11 mind lowering your virtual hand
17:13 when possible
17:20 kristen you have the floor
17:35 kristin i'm going to go ahead and unmute
17:37 you in case you're having issues on
17:39 kidding yourself
17:41 okay here we go yeah sorry we can hear
17:44 you now so sorry about that
17:47 my name is kristen carrera and my
17:50 husband and i
17:51 recently bought a place in the downtown
17:54 area we're about a five to ten minute
17:55 walk away from front street near the
17:57 community center
17:59 and so i'd like to um i'd like to
18:01 provide the
18:02 perspective of a resident somebody who
18:04 lives here in the community
18:05 and i've volunteered with the dias since
18:08 i since i moved here and i i really love
18:10 it here i'm happy here
18:12 last year during the pandemic especially
18:15 when we had first moved here
18:17 i can unequivocally say that the
18:19 streetery got us through
18:21 the pandemic and got us through that
18:23 really difficult summer
18:24 because it was really hard being in our
18:26 house and we didn't know anybody
18:28 and being able to rely on something
18:31 every weekend where we could go
18:33 out be outside support local businesses
18:37 and not take our food out on the
18:39 sidewalk but enjoy the safety
18:42 and security and camaraderie of being on
18:44 a pedestrian-only street you really
18:46 cannot replicate it
18:48 and as far as i understand the vast
18:50 majority of businesses
18:51 benefited greatly monetarily
18:55 and foot traffic in other ways and i
18:57 don't think you can put a cost a
18:58 monetary cost
19:00 on the boost in morale that the street
19:02 are you provided to the community
19:04 and it looks like the pandemic is not
19:06 going away i keep hearing that we're
19:08 rolling back to stage two or whatever
19:10 and so we are going to need this
19:11 streetery more than ever we're going to
19:13 need the street to be closed
19:15 and we're going to be need to be as
19:17 aggressive as we
19:18 possibly can be with having it open and
19:20 accessible to the community
19:26 so that's all i had to say thank you so
19:28 much for your time thank you very much
19:30 kristen
19:30 welcome to old town uh
19:35 city clerk who do we have next on our
19:37 list
19:39 next we have art freyas
19:44 art i'll be moving you up as a panelist
19:46 now in just a moment you should have
19:48 the option to unmute and may also turn
19:51 on your video
19:56 you have the floor good evening madam
20:00 mayor and city council
20:02 i'm the one of the owners my wife and i
20:05 own art by
20:06 fire in essequa we have been in issaquah
20:09 as a comp as an as a company for 13
20:12 years
20:13 my wife and i are going on six years
20:15 owning it
20:18 i'm not here to ask the streetery to
20:22 make me not hurt
20:24 i'm not here to ask
20:27 that this streetery help
20:31 increase my business to to make me
20:33 profitable
20:35 i'm here to ask for the streetery to
20:37 help me survive
20:40 the only thing that got us through the
20:42 pandemic
20:44 from the months of you know when we were
20:47 you know unqua
20:48 unlocked down until probably october
20:52 was the streetery without it i'm not
20:55 sure we would have survived
20:57 and without it again i'm not sure we
20:59 will survive
21:01 i mean i'm not asking to not be impacted
21:03 i'm asking to survive
21:08 the streetery it provided a lifeline for
21:12 we're not like other businesses you know
21:15 i understand the value that village
21:17 theater brings i understand their
21:19 concerns
21:20 but i'm not sitting on millions of
21:23 dollars of reserves
21:25 and i don't get millions of dollars of
21:27 donations every year you know we have to
21:30 make our money one vote of at a time
21:33 one vase at a time we are still not
21:36 whole because we're not allowed to have
21:40 the same kinds of events we had before
21:43 in june we'll be able to have limited
21:46 you know make your own ornament parties
21:47 but for very small family units
21:49 very small teams and that's the most
21:52 impactful and profitable part of our
21:54 business
21:54 and that's gone away the
21:58 restaurants are going to be even more
21:59 impacted to us because if we go back
22:03 to 25 of capacity
22:07 i don't know that it's going to be
22:08 economical for them to run their
22:10 kitchens
22:11 and we're going to be putting a say you
22:13 know it impacts segments of our
22:15 our population who have little to no
22:17 reserves
22:19 artists and restaurant workers are not
22:21 highly paid people
22:24 our businesses are also going to be
22:25 impacted by
22:27 uh minimum wage increases and cost
22:31 increases because covid makes it more
22:32 expensive to get materials
22:35 we're fighting we're fighting to survive
22:40 other businesses don't want to be
22:41 impacted we just we want to still be
22:44 here
22:45 we've got people who have whole
22:46 christmas trees dedicated to ornaments
22:48 they've made in our shop
22:50 that will go away
22:54 we just want to survive
22:57 we're not looking for optimizing we're
22:59 looking for survival
23:03 it's disappointing to me as well as i'm
23:05 also supporting dia on the committee
23:07 for the streetery and only one business
23:11 has provided
23:12 any kind of compromise or alternative
23:14 thought and that's ashwin
23:16 and i thank him much for it there were
23:19 issues that
23:20 made it work because you can't really
23:22 have food service next to dumpsters
23:25 or food service 25 feet away from
23:29 from the restaurant or 25 yards away
23:31 from the restaurant but he thought it
23:32 out he thought about it we appreciate
23:34 that
23:35 so i'm asking you give us a significant
23:38 number of street art events don't hold
23:40 us hostage to businesses
23:42 that are going to survive anyway we're
23:45 not on that list
23:48 i thank you for your consideration i
23:50 thank you for all you do
23:52 um and i hope we all can find a solution
23:55 that
23:56 rises all boats as much as possible
23:59 thank you arch city clerk
24:03 who do we have next on our list um next
24:06 on our list we have
24:07 sharon freyas and i will bring sharon up
24:09 in just a moment
24:11 um i'd also like to mention that if
24:13 there's anyone on the call who hasn't
24:15 signed up in advance to speak
24:17 you can let us know you'd like to make
24:19 comments by raising your virtual hand
24:22 it varies by device but look for a small
24:25 hand icon it may be located under the
24:27 participant panel
24:29 if you're on the phone you can press
24:31 star 3 to raise your hand
24:33 you're also welcome to send me the host
24:36 a chat message
24:37 and sharon going to move you up now
24:41 in just a moment you should have the
24:43 option to unmute
24:46 and turn your video on if you'd like
24:49 you have the floor
24:55 thank you unfortunately my pc doesn't
24:58 like webex so i can't turn video on
25:02 um i do also want to speak
25:05 on behalf of the screening and also
25:08 urge the businesses that feel they will
25:11 be impacted
25:12 to work with us more closely we
25:16 have tried to reach out with various
25:19 proposals
25:20 um and tried to schedule meetings and we
25:24 really
25:25 need to get this sorted out
25:28 and moving forward at the moment
25:31 it's going round in circles which is
25:34 going to lead to no
25:35 no screener this summer if we don't
25:38 get a move on it takes a while to set up
25:42 yeah but i've lost pocket hours we've
25:45 put into trying to get this
25:47 moving forward and as i said
25:51 we want to be good neighbors
25:55 and we want to come up with creative
25:57 solutions that will make sure that
25:59 people can still get to their theater
26:01 parking
26:02 or can get in and out to do the
26:05 deliveries by
26:06 providing extra parking spots that were
26:09 dedicated to the business like we did
26:11 last year
26:12 and other additional creative things
26:15 that people have come up where they've
26:16 offered coupons for freebies to make up
26:20 for any inconvenience
26:22 etc but we
26:25 need this extra business
26:28 to get through this next summer
26:33 the restaurants you know yeah
26:36 they can have a couple cables on the
26:38 sidewalk that's not gonna get them
26:40 through
26:43 we need the extra foot traffic that that
26:45 extra restaurant traffic brings
26:48 to bring people in any shop
26:51 i've done everything i can online
26:54 we've put out thousands of dollars in
26:57 ads
26:58 we have a facebook presence i have a
27:01 full-time
27:02 online support season halftime online
27:05 store specialists
27:08 you know we're doing everything we can
27:09 think of to pivot
27:11 and make our business more profitable
27:15 we're just trying to get back to where
27:17 we're not
27:18 hemorrhaging and we need that extra
27:22 people down there and that extra traffic
27:25 to be able to get through
27:29 so i'm asking the city to work with us
27:33 and coming up with clear directions on
27:36 what we need to do
27:39 because it keeps seeming to shift
27:42 and i'm asking all these other
27:44 businesses that are on here
27:46 to work with us to creatively come up
27:48 with something
27:49 so that you are not islands in a ghost
27:52 town
27:53 because it is getting that desperate
27:57 so please work with us
28:00 let's get this moving and let's help
28:03 this city survive
28:05 thank you all for your help thank you
28:07 sarah
28:09 pretty clear is there anyone else that's
28:10 indicated they'd like to speak this
28:11 evening
28:13 yes um doreen russell has signed up to
28:17 speak i understand she may be on the
28:19 call
28:20 but doreen if you're listening i i'm
28:22 unable to see you
28:24 in our attendee list nor do i see either
28:27 of the phone numbers you provided listed
28:29 so if you're here please raise your
28:32 virtual hand or send me the host
28:34 a chat message our next
28:37 speaker is kathy mccoury
28:42 kathy in just a moment here i'll make
28:44 you a panelist you'll have the option to
28:46 unmute and can also choose to turn your
28:48 video on
28:55 you have the floor thank you
28:59 hello city council i just wanted to
29:01 share with you
29:02 a quick thank you for the city support
29:05 for last
29:06 week's eastside regional business summit
29:11 it was a great event it was well
29:13 attended
29:15 we had amazing panelists and speakers
29:18 and it just it would not have been
29:21 possible
29:21 without the support of that your
29:24 economic development team
29:26 and one of the port grants that was
29:28 shared with us
29:29 so again i just want to share my sincere
29:32 thanks
29:33 the business community really needs that
29:35 continuing education
29:37 and they also i believe really needed
29:40 the motivation that came out of last
29:42 week's
29:43 summit so thanking you again
29:46 it was our third year doing this um
29:49 with any luck it's our last year doing
29:52 it virtually
29:53 but who knows it might be worth keeping
29:55 up some sort of
29:58 modified um activities for a while but
30:01 again on behalf of the greater issaquah
30:03 chamber of commerce thank you for your
30:05 support with
30:06 with helping us bring that to the
30:08 community
30:11 thank you kathy tiffy clerk has
30:14 doreen been able to raise her hand
30:19 i'm still unable to see doreen in our
30:21 meeting
30:22 here so we do have another speaker who
30:25 would like to make comments which is uh
30:28 corby kessler
30:29 corby i will make you a panelist here in
30:32 just a moment
30:32 you should have the option to unmute and
30:35 turn your video on
30:42 hi everyone can you hear me yes yes you
30:45 can
30:46 thank you my name is corby kessler i'm
30:49 executive director of the downtown
30:51 issaquah association
30:52 thank you so much for listening to this
30:55 important
30:56 information from all sides um actually
30:58 it's not all sides it's one community so
31:01 i really appreciate your your i did want
31:04 to just point out a few
31:06 facts um and just a reminder that
31:09 last year the streetery um happened
31:12 because of a great need
31:13 and it was built as an operational ex
31:18 expansion of our businesses we had
31:20 volunteers
31:21 um about up to 400 of them put in 7
31:24 000 hours and in fact won the hero award
31:28 i want to thank them too because it
31:30 wouldn't have happened without them
31:32 i also want to let you know that we are
31:35 hearing from the community
31:36 and all the businesses and we've had um
31:40 an amazing response from residents and
31:42 it was 100 percent
31:44 of dozens and dozens of people who said
31:46 they want the streetery
31:47 they will come down and dine and shop
31:50 and
31:51 they did there were a couple who
31:52 indicated that traffic
31:54 might be an issue and they still want
31:57 the streetery so these are from our
31:59 community
32:00 members and it's just another balance
32:02 that i wanted to provide that
32:04 perspective
32:05 we really want to have that balance and
32:08 i'm
32:08 i'm really grateful to hear that people
32:12 are
32:12 really eager to make something work for
32:15 our businesses
32:16 because that's what the downtown isco
32:17 association is all about it it's all
32:19 about advocacy
32:20 for our community our downtown nothing
32:23 else
32:24 there's no other reason why we would
32:25 want to do el fresco on front i also
32:28 want to clear up a couple of facts is
32:30 that when we submitted the permit
32:32 it was basically a conversation to have
32:34 with the city we were asked to provide
32:37 information that would provide the
32:39 streetery
32:40 from april 30th to september 26th so
32:44 that's what we submitted that's where we
32:45 got the 22 weeks
32:47 since then we've had a lot of
32:49 conversation and there's a lot of moving
32:51 parts including governor ensley coming
32:53 out tomorrow
32:54 hopefully not but maybe pulling us back
32:57 to phase two
32:58 so this is the conversation is with the
33:00 city we're partnering with them
33:02 we're listening to all of you um i i
33:05 think that we
33:06 have come up with some creative
33:07 solutions you know we are
33:10 looking at alternatives that create a
33:12 solution such as
33:13 you know having shuttles move you know
33:14 the parking again giving coupons and
33:17 freebies to retail customers
33:19 we will have a marketing plan this year
33:21 again very coveted friendly but helps
33:24 all businesses
33:26 let people know they're open get the
33:29 excitement up
33:30 and ensure that we are providing their
33:32 customers the kind of service that they
33:34 all deserve
33:35 so those are some things that i just
33:36 want to make sure that is understood
33:38 because i'm hearing things that
33:40 are very that were unflexible and that
33:43 we're really not listening and i don't
33:44 think that's the case and and
33:46 again i'm gratified to be on this
33:48 meeting to hear that
33:49 um everyone is being very gracious and
33:51 in how they want to go about doing this
33:54 i'm not sure how it would work with the
33:56 bellevue model with our city but it is
33:58 something that
33:59 i would love to take a look at and talk
34:01 to jen about more
34:02 and see you know what are some of those
34:05 options
34:06 i'm excited about village theater and
34:08 would love to work with them on
34:10 you know it probably won't be two weeks
34:12 at this point it definitely won't be
34:14 22 weeks but what can we do to make sure
34:17 that we
34:18 have a village theater live i'm a patron
34:21 of village theater i love it it's an
34:22 important integral part of downtown
34:25 but how again can we make sure that
34:27 those people shop
34:28 and dine when they're down there and how
34:30 do we make sure that
34:32 we are open during you know good weather
34:34 and all the other
34:35 things that we need to consider when you
34:37 you pick and choose your date
34:39 so i do appreciate everyone i do want to
34:42 let people know that there is a lot of
34:44 misinformation out there so
34:46 if you have questions please feel free
34:48 to reach out to me
34:49 i've heard that last year two businesses
34:52 closed because of street area which is
34:53 not true
34:54 so i will use facts and make sure
34:57 they're accurate anytime you have a
34:58 question for me
34:59 so i appreciate everyone and thank you
35:01 we'll be in touch we'll
35:02 be working with the businesses on a
35:04 daily basis
35:06 thank you kirby thanks for coming
35:08 tonight checking back in with the city
35:10 clerk to see if doreen is here or has
35:13 indicated a desire to speak
35:16 yes madam mayor i believe doreen has
35:18 joined us um
35:19 doreen i believe you've called in by
35:20 phone so i am going to unmute you now
35:27 hello are you oh are you there yes
35:30 yes yes there's there's a glitch on my
35:33 webex site
35:34 okay well thank you for persevering you
35:37 have the floor
35:38 okay thank you um i was at the last
35:43 board meeting and that was a week ago
35:46 monday and i was under the impression
35:49 that we were working out a
35:51 four week which was stated at our board
35:53 meeting
35:54 a four week compromise
35:58 plan and didn't hear until last night
36:02 that we were now considering a much
36:04 longer
36:07 plan that dia had submitted on
36:10 thursday apparently so it was
36:14 a surprise to me that um
36:17 transitioning to a completely new
36:20 thought
36:21 once again um i have
36:24 a dual hat because i am also
36:27 representing i'm a merchant on the
36:29 street ming's gallery
36:31 and so i have a number of issues that
36:34 i've already gone
36:35 over at the last council meeting
36:38 that have not been resolved and
36:42 i am quite aware that there are other
36:44 businesses
36:45 that their issues have not been resolved
36:48 and they can speak for themselves
36:50 but when i attended the meeting uh last
36:53 night
36:54 i was quite surprised that um
36:58 dia had since the last board meeting
37:01 only a week ago
37:03 changed what the discussion was about
37:07 only four
37:08 [Music]
37:10 weekends which i was
37:13 certainly willing to listen to um
37:17 as a proposal to now going to apparently
37:22 possibly 22 weekends
37:25 and the constant shift
37:29 of what is being discussed is
37:32 very distressing and it's very difficult
37:36 for the merchants especially being
37:40 called to
37:41 a merchant's meeting on thursday
37:44 suddenly when we
37:47 had already had a
37:51 chamber meeting planned for months and
37:53 months
37:54 for the merchants to attend um that was
37:58 in conflict
37:59 um the same day that apparently
38:03 the dia board
38:06 or or our
38:10 e.d was submitting a new
38:14 uh plan that we didn't even know i don't
38:16 know what time
38:17 the um the uh
38:22 the permit was resubmitted if it was
38:24 before or
38:25 after that merchant's meeting but a
38:28 great many of us
38:30 objected to not only the meeting but
38:34 a new resubmit
38:37 of the permit being put through
38:41 before we could all sit down and again
38:44 discuss where we were and then to find
38:48 out
38:48 again on sunday that
38:52 our issues had not been resolved with
38:55 the board of dia
38:56 so i am asking that we have some
39:00 transparency and some clarification
39:04 before the city council
39:09 consider any new plan or resubmission of
39:13 the permit
39:16 be given so that all of our voices
39:20 can really understand where we
39:24 are we really don't know what the budget
39:28 still on the board and what the
39:31 amount of weeks are and we only
39:34 understand that
39:37 the corby
39:41 the um executive director who's
39:43 resigning his
39:44 who has put in her resignation has
39:46 signed an application
39:48 for a plan other than it was last monday
39:51 and that some of the restaurants would
39:55 like the plan
39:56 and that there are other merchants that
39:59 don't even know what the plan is
40:02 and we would like to be able to have
40:05 some clear
40:08 lines of communication as to what
40:11 exactly the plan is what exactly the
40:14 budget is
40:15 and we would like to have all the
40:17 merchants present
40:18 and being able to attend a meeting
40:21 together
40:22 before something is
40:25 submitted and and that clearly has not
40:28 happened
40:34 so that's my statement as far as where
40:36 we are right now
40:37 darien thank you for joining us this
40:39 evening uh city clerk do we have anyone
40:41 else that is interested
40:43 in speaking or indicating a desire to
40:45 speak this weekend
40:47 uh no one else is indicating a desire to
40:49 speak at
40:50 this time we do have a sum in the queue
40:52 for the public hearing occurring later
40:54 yes
40:55 we do that's great um so thank you to
40:57 everyone who came to speak this evening
40:59 we did hear a thank you note to the city
41:02 about participating and supporting the
41:04 eastside regional business summit
41:06 we've heard very passionate commentary
41:08 from many of our different businesses
41:09 downtown as well as the downtown
41:11 issaquah
41:12 or association about the streetery
41:14 because doreen wasn't on at the
41:15 beginning of the call
41:16 i'll just state on camera again that the
41:19 permit
41:20 does not come through the city council
41:21 nor even the mayor's office
41:23 it is an administrative process that
41:25 staff approves
41:26 the city's hope is that the entire
41:29 business community
41:30 will develop the plan and then work with
41:32 the
41:33 to create a permit from that plan so
41:35 that is our hope that there is enough
41:37 goodwill and energy
41:38 in this beautiful historic arts and
41:40 culture district
41:41 that all the merchants get together and
41:43 can figure out something that
41:45 is good for all the merchants but also
41:47 for the community what happened last
41:49 year during an emergency
41:50 is different than what will likely
41:52 happen this year and likely different
41:54 again than what will happen next year
41:56 so we have to be creative and flexible
41:59 all the way along here
42:00 so hopefully all the merchants will
42:02 participate in the planning
42:03 and dia will be able to submit a per
42:05 permit application that reflects that
42:07 planning
42:08 that is our hope um and before i go to
42:11 the council president to summarize some
42:13 email topics
42:15 that she has received the city council
42:16 has received on agenda tonight
42:18 i'm just going to share a very grateful
42:20 thank you to both the council president
42:22 and the city administrator for the
42:23 amazing amount of email that they have
42:25 managed in the last four days
42:27 it has been over the top crazy they have
42:29 been responsive
42:32 and very timely so thank you very much
42:35 and
42:35 what would you like to share with us
42:36 about any of the items on tonight's
42:38 agenda
42:40 thank you mayor paulie this is council
42:42 president hunt we did receive
42:44 multiple emails on agenda topics on
42:47 tonight's agenda
42:49 and during our virtual meetings i have
42:51 been summarizing those emails that we've
42:52 received
42:54 and so i will be summarizing for the
42:57 vip i will summarize emails we received
43:00 between
43:00 now and the last time that we discussed
43:03 the cip at our study session
43:05 between now and the last time we
43:07 discussed this topic we received three
43:10 four emails on the tr028
43:14 the northwest smamish road non-motorized
43:17 improvement project
43:18 this relates to on our agenda this
43:20 evening ab-8123 the 2022-2027 capital
43:25 improvement plan
43:26 including transportation improvement
43:28 program and
43:30 of those 34 emails the
43:33 the main overarching message was around
43:36 prioritizing
43:37 the northwest marriage road
43:39 non-motorized improvement project for
43:40 its
43:41 safety implications most of the
43:44 emails directly referenced safety and
43:47 several spoke
43:48 specifically to see bikes pedestrians
43:51 cars getting in and out of driveways and
43:55 several of the messages also referenced
43:58 that this has been a long-standing need
43:59 of the community
44:00 and several people that wrote to us also
44:04 referenced how long they had lived in
44:06 the neighborhood
44:07 including 20 plus years 30 plus years
44:10 and 60 plus years
44:11 one of the emails also specifically
44:15 expressed a concern about lighting and
44:17 the need for more lighting along that
44:19 route also on the cip
44:22 we received one email that was
44:24 questioning
44:25 and not supportive of the prioritization
44:29 of tr043 which is the newport way
44:32 sr 900 to 12th avenue northwest bicycle
44:36 and pedestrian improvement project which
44:37 is in the cip
44:40 and then we also received one email
44:44 referencing our regular business item on
44:46 our agenda this evening which is
44:48 ab-8165 amending city council rules of
44:51 procedure
44:52 regarding adding council new business
44:55 and
44:56 um this this community member thought
44:58 that the procedure that's outlined in
45:00 the a b
45:01 was burdensome burdensome and
45:04 proposed a revised method for adding new
45:06 business
45:08 and that concludes comments that we've
45:12 received by email on topics that we'll
45:14 be discussing
45:16 thank you council president thank you
45:18 for all your work this weekend as well
45:20 as a reminder written comments can be
45:21 submitted at any time to city council
45:23 at issaquah.gov and the next item of
45:27 business
45:28 on this evening's agenda is committee
45:29 regional reports and i'll start by
45:31 calling each council member by name
45:33 councilmember hall thank you mayor
45:36 paulie this is councilmember zach hall
45:38 i have two quick reports for this
45:40 evening first last wednesday may 28th
45:44 the cascade water alliance board of
45:45 directors met and moved forward
45:47 uh with adopting an official policy for
45:49 when the organization considers the
45:51 potential sale of cascade water rights
45:55 i did want to say the council
45:56 unfortunately i wasn't able to attend
45:57 and i haven't seen those meetings yet
45:59 or those minutes yet but i promise to
46:02 give the council a full report of that
46:03 meeting via email and then again
46:05 at the next regular council meeting
46:07 because i think this is something
46:08 that we'd all be interested in and again
46:10 it's just a policy for when we consider
46:13 the sale of water rights also at the
46:17 meeting the board
46:18 approved a resolution declaring this
46:21 week national
46:22 drinking water week so happy national
46:24 drinking water week
46:26 our next board meeting will be later
46:28 this month on wednesday may 26th
46:30 at 3 30 pm um
46:33 next i announced this at the last
46:34 meeting but the growth management
46:36 planning council's affordable housing
46:38 committee
46:39 will meet next week or will meet next in
46:41 a few weeks on wednesday
46:43 may 19th at 12 p.m
46:46 one of the things i know we'll discuss
46:48 at that meeting is our organization's
46:50 federal
46:51 legislative priorities when it comes to
46:52 housing investments
46:55 staff has put together a draft document
46:57 for our review
46:58 and we should be receiving that very
46:59 soon and as soon as i do i want to make
47:01 sure to get it out to all of you too
47:03 to see if you have any notes or
47:04 questions that you'd like me to share
47:06 with either the sound cities association
47:08 caucus or with the broader committee in
47:10 the coming weeks so stay tuned on that
47:12 and with those that concludes my report
47:17 thank you council member hall
47:18 councilmember j michelle
47:21 thank you mary and paul mayor paulie
47:22 this is councilmember d michelle
47:24 on april the 20th i attended the
47:27 the connect2 community advisory group
47:30 working on a regional
47:31 community information exchange which is
47:34 a virtual platform that is being created
47:37 for health and counseling service
47:38 providers
47:40 this meeting focused on how privacy can
47:42 be protected
47:43 while at the same time making
47:45 information exchanges easy predictable
47:48 and transparent and we have an excellent
47:50 two-hour
47:51 discussion of the topic very very
47:54 interesting
47:55 on april 22nd i attended the east side
47:58 human services forum legislative
48:00 committee
48:00 with a review of the forum's legislative
48:03 successes
48:04 and the formal reports on those
48:06 successes uh
48:07 are complete and will be shared with the
48:09 council
48:10 but the short summary is that most of
48:12 the forum's top priority positions and
48:14 budget aspirations
48:16 were enacted into law or were passed by
48:18 the legislature
48:20 and are awaiting the governor's
48:21 signature it was an exceptionally
48:24 exceptional legislative session for
48:26 human services
48:29 very thankful for for what was done and
48:32 finally i will attend the healthier
48:34 here governing board meeting uh this
48:35 coming thursday
48:37 and that concludes my report thank you
48:39 thank you councilmember d michelle
48:41 councilmember walsh
48:43 thank you this is councilmember walsh on
48:46 wednesday may 5th
48:47 i will attend the puget sound regional
48:49 council's economic development district
48:52 meeting where we will discuss the
48:54 greater seattle partners regional
48:56 recovery framework
48:57 and receive an update on the regional
49:00 economic
49:02 strategic and economic development work
49:04 program
49:05 update we'll also receive information on
49:08 the
49:09 regional broadband working session the
49:11 regional housing needs assessment
49:13 and information from the equity advisory
49:16 committee
49:17 the next issaquah chamber of commerce
49:20 board meeting is on may 21st and the
49:22 agenda for that has not yet been
49:24 released
49:25 and then the two ad hoc committees
49:29 just mentioning that tomorrow may 4th
49:32 the
49:32 council rules ad hoc committee meets for
49:35 the second time to continue our
49:36 conversation on the agenda bill
49:38 development process
49:39 and then the next title 18 ad hoc
49:41 committee meeting is next week on
49:43 thursday the
49:44 13th and that agenda has yet to be
49:46 released that concludes my report
49:48 thank you councilmember walsh
49:50 councilmember goodman uh thank you madam
49:52 mayor councilmember goodman here
49:54 the east side fire and rescue board of
49:56 directors next meets on may 13
49:59 at 4 pm and it's a virtual meeting as it
50:02 has been for more than a year
50:04 but the agenda has not yet been set and
50:07 that's
50:08 my full gigantic long report thank you
50:13 thank you councilmember goodman
50:14 councilmember marks thank you madam
50:16 mayor
50:17 the puget sound resource count regional
50:20 council
50:21 growth management planning board will be
50:23 meeting this thursday may 6th from
50:26 10 until noon virtually and
50:29 on the agenda the only action item is
50:31 approving the regional
50:33 transit oriented development advisory
50:35 committee
50:36 charter which is a charter for a
50:37 subcommittee reporting back to gmpb
50:40 there's a number of discussion items and
50:42 then the sound cities association public
50:45 issues committee
50:46 is actually taking the month of may off
50:48 it has been a very busy year
50:50 already and so uh the pick and i believe
50:53 the board
50:54 uh in the later in the meeting later in
50:56 the month are both taking a
50:58 well-deserved uh early year break
51:02 this concludes my report thank you
51:05 council member mark
51:06 you're right about the executive board
51:07 as well deputy council president ready
51:09 for a report
51:11 uh thank you mayor paulie this is chris
51:13 wray and i have no report this evening
51:17 jordan's report of the night council
51:19 president hunt
51:21 thank you this is council president hunt
51:23 i also just have one brief report the
51:26 title 18 ad hoc committee met on april
51:28 29th last week
51:29 on thursday and we had two agenda items
51:32 we reviewed our current concurrency
51:34 methodology we received a presentation
51:36 on that
51:37 and we reviewed a draft schedule of the
51:40 title 18 public
51:41 process and council process and
51:43 commissions engagement process
51:46 the main timeline points have not have
51:48 not shifted it's a
51:50 timeline that has more information on
51:52 the planning
51:54 for those different groups of engagement
51:57 and um
51:57 councilmember walsh already announced
51:59 the next meeting for the title 18 ad hoc
52:01 that concludes my report
52:04 thank you council president the next
52:06 item on the agenda this evening is the
52:08 mayor's report
52:10 there will be an executive session this
52:12 evening to discuss
52:13 pending and potential litigation for rcw
52:16 42.30 0.110 paren one parent i
52:21 and the item is expected to last 60
52:23 minutes no action is anticipated in open
52:26 session
52:27 as we were teasing our deputy city clerk
52:30 a little earlier in the
52:31 meeting this is municipal uh clerks week
52:34 it's a time for us to recognize the good
52:36 work that the clerks do
52:38 for all levels of government i have a
52:40 proclamation to read
52:42 where is the office of the professional
52:44 municipal clerk a time honored and vital
52:46 part of local government
52:48 exists throughout the world and whereas
52:51 the office of the professional municipal
52:52 clerk
52:53 is the oldest among public servants and
52:55 whereas the office of the professional
52:57 municipal clerk provides the
52:59 professional link between the citizens
53:01 the local governing bodies and agencies
53:03 of government at other levels
53:05 and whereas professional municipal
53:07 clerks have pledged to be ever mindful
53:09 of the neutrality
53:10 and impartiality rendering equal service
53:14 all and whereas the professional
53:16 municipal clerk
53:17 serves as the information center on
53:19 functions of local government
53:20 and community and whereas professional
53:23 municipal clerks
53:24 continually strive to improve the
53:26 administration of the affairs
53:28 of the profession through participation
53:30 in education programs
53:32 seminars workshops and the annual
53:34 meetings of
53:35 their state provincial county and
53:38 international professional
53:40 organizations and whereas it is most
53:43 appropriate that we recognize the
53:44 accomplishments of the office of the
53:46 professional municipal clerk
53:48 i and the city of issaquah recognize the
53:50 week of may 2nd through may 8
53:52 2021 as professional municipal clerks
53:55 week
53:56 and further extended appreciation to our
53:58 professional municipal clerk
53:59 municipal clerks tina eggers and tisha
54:02 gieser for the vital services they
54:04 perform
54:05 and their exemplary dedication to the
54:07 communities they represent
54:09 tisha tina thank you very much and thank
54:12 you for turning your cameras on so that
54:13 everybody can see you
54:14 that is great my next update will be the
54:18 issaquah community vaccine partnership
54:20 it is now in its fourth week of
54:22 operation it is the snoqualmie tribe
54:25 vaccine partnership site at lake smamish
54:27 state park and it has provided more than
54:29 3 500 vaccines to our community members
54:32 a majority of whom live or work in
54:34 eastern king county
54:36 the good news is that we currently have
54:37 more than 1300 appointments available
54:40 scheduling an appointment now takes only
54:43 minutes online
54:44 vaccines are free and no insurance is
54:46 required
54:47 or billed a special thanks to our
54:50 partners the snoqualmie tribe
54:52 eastside fire and rescue and the city of
54:53 samamish for turning this local site
54:55 into a reality
54:57 as a sovereign nation the snoqualmie
54:58 tribe is providing the vaccine necessary
55:01 to provide this valuable service to our
55:03 community
55:04 in addition our hard-working volunteers
55:06 have spent more than 900 hours on site
55:09 as breeders screeners and timekeepers i
55:12 want to thank all of them for their
55:13 service
55:14 about 70 of residents 16 and over have
55:18 received at least
55:18 one dose of the vaccine in issaquah's
55:21 zip codes
55:22 our partnership is now brainstorming how
55:24 to reach that last 30 percent
55:26 by a pop-up clinic's targeted outreach
55:30 and partnerships you can learn more
55:32 about this
55:33 at iswah.gov last covenant
55:37 and that concludes the mayor's report
55:41 next item of business is the consent
55:43 calendar which was distributed to
55:45 council in advance
55:46 and if authorized the items on the
55:48 consent calendar will be considered
55:50 together
55:50 and approved by one motion have the
55:53 payables and payrolls been reviewed
55:56 they have
55:59 yes they have sorry thank you very much
56:02 does any council member desire to remove
56:03 any item from the consent calendar
56:05 and consider it under regular business
56:12 is there a motion on the table council
56:16 president hunt
56:18 thank you i moved to approve the consent
56:19 calendar as it appears in this evening's
56:21 agenda
56:23 deputy council president ray
56:26 second and i'm going to get the city
56:29 clerk
56:30 to do the roll call vote
56:34 starting with council member goodman aye
56:38 councilmember hall aye
56:41 council president hunt aye council
56:44 member martz
56:46 aye deputy council president ray
56:49 aye council member walsh
56:52 aye council member d michelle
56:55 aye got seven eyes bureau nays
56:59 thank you city clerk that passes
57:01 unanimously
57:02 we'll now move into the public hearing
57:04 this is on ab-8123
57:08 the 2022-2027
57:11 capital improvement plan including the
57:13 transportation improvement program
57:15 this evening we will conduct the public
57:18 hearing and council will
57:19 continue with its deliberations there
57:22 are a few parts to this agenda item
57:24 tonight
57:25 first i'll give some introductory
57:27 introductory remarks
57:28 and staff will provide a brief overview
57:31 presentation
57:32 then i will open the public hearing
57:34 after public comments have been heard
57:36 council is requested to continue the
57:37 public hearing to the may 17th council
57:40 meeting following the motion staff will
57:42 provide a second presentation on the
57:44 utility projects
57:45 in the capital improvement program and
57:47 council will then have an opportunity to
57:49 ask questions
57:50 and deliberate
57:53 so as i mentioned i do have some
57:55 introductory remarks tonight prior to
57:56 opening the public hearing
57:58 and moving into the continuation of
58:00 council deliberations on the draft 2022
58:02 2027 capital improvement plan capital
58:06 improvement plans or cips as they are
58:08 sometimes referred to
58:09 are required by the state of
58:10 washington's growth management act
58:12 our draft cip includes a number of high
58:14 priority projects
58:15 including northwest samamish road
58:17 initial work on a new i-90 crossing
58:20 newport way street improvements and
58:22 pavement management
58:23 plan also advances a number of parks and
58:26 trail projects
58:27 in the first draft of the cip submitted
58:29 to council in early april
58:31 we focused on some key themes take care
58:33 of what we have
58:35 the draft plan makes significant
58:36 investment in existing older issaquah
58:39 parks
58:39 it makes investments on rural rights of
58:41 way that were annexed into the city
58:43 and have long been deferred and unfunded
58:46 such as newport way
58:47 northwest samamish road etc we need to
58:50 get these projects shovel ready
58:52 as we address the funding shortages for
58:54 the construction phases
58:57 this initial draft also ramped up our
58:59 deferred road maintenance in our
59:00 pavement management program
59:02 one of the other themes in the initial
59:04 draft was planning for the future
59:06 the draft plan starts community
59:08 engagement on the next i-90 over under
59:10 crossing
59:11 so we can coordinate with sound transit
59:13 on station location
59:14 and ease crosstalk cross-town congestion
59:16 for all modes
59:18 the draft submitted this year looked
59:19 very different from the cip of two years
59:22 ago
59:23 two years ago the cip was proposed with
59:25 an assumption that the city would pursue
59:27 the transportation
59:28 benefit district sales tax in 2020 as
59:32 the means of supporting
59:33 high priority transportation projects
59:35 beginning in 2021
59:37 the dramatic effect of not using the tbd
59:40 sales tax tool
59:41 and collecting a new revenue for
59:43 transportation projects
59:44 is painfully obvious in this draft
59:47 without the tbd sales tax
59:49 we don't have enough resources to
59:51 support the full array of high priority
59:53 transportation investments outlined in
59:55 the last cip
59:56 as was the case when the last cip was
59:59 adopted
1:00:00 with no tpd tbd transportation benefit
1:00:03 district sales tax revenue
1:00:05 we don't have enough resources to
1:00:07 support those projects
1:00:08 that said i chose to show those high
1:00:10 priority transportation projects as
1:00:12 unfunded in the cip
1:00:14 for transparency and to set the stage
1:00:16 for a community outreach effort on a new
1:00:18 revenue stream
1:00:19 and to plan for adding it to the ballot
1:00:21 next year
1:00:23 we are planning to propose funding for
1:00:24 both these activities in the 22
1:00:26 2022 proposed budget this fall and begin
1:00:30 work next year with council
1:00:31 if the council does not proceed with the
1:00:33 use of the tbd tool and associate valid
1:00:36 measure for 2022
1:00:37 there is not much chance of moving the
1:00:39 needle on any of these legacy
1:00:40 transportation projects
1:00:42 based on your comments from last week's
1:00:44 study session
1:00:45 the administration has revised my
1:00:47 original draft cip
1:00:49 and presented a version two and the way
1:00:52 the version that you're looking at
1:00:53 tonight is different is that it
1:00:55 increases funding for the payment
1:00:57 management program in 2022
1:00:59 beyond the original proposal it shifts
1:01:02 funding for facilities investments from
1:01:04 the lakeside development agreement
1:01:06 revenues
1:01:07 to the real estate excise tax to
1:01:09 preserve the lakeside development
1:01:11 agreement revenues for later use
1:01:13 it adds seven hundred thousand dollars
1:01:15 in 2023
1:01:17 to allow the city to complete the design
1:01:19 phase of the northwest samamish road
1:01:21 non-motorized project and to pay for
1:01:24 these changes
1:01:25 the revised proposal slows down some
1:01:27 investments on larger community parks
1:01:29 as well as the wayfinding project so
1:01:31 with your packet tonight
1:01:33 we've also included this new draft as
1:01:36 well as the materials that council
1:01:37 requested
1:01:38 in the council study session there is a
1:01:40 high level variance sub
1:01:42 summary by program not project there are
1:01:45 answers to questions from your last work
1:01:47 session
1:01:48 and there is a spreadsheet of projects
1:01:50 and revenue sources
1:01:52 i will now ask suzy mancell our senior
1:01:54 budget analyst to provide her initial
1:01:56 presentation
1:02:00 thank you mayor paulie if you'll allow
1:02:02 me just one
1:02:03 moment to pull up my presentation
1:02:10 oh right um did that come up all right
1:02:18 great um so oh thank you
1:02:21 um so i have what i promise is a very
1:02:24 very brief presentation to lead into the
1:02:28 public hearing um
1:02:31 so uh rcw3 35.77.010 requires cities
1:02:37 uh to hold a public hearing for the
1:02:40 proposed transportation improvement
1:02:42 program or the tip
1:02:44 and the tip is the transportation
1:02:46 element of the capital improvement plan
1:02:49 so we while we are required to hold a
1:02:52 publication for the
1:02:54 transportation element we also
1:02:55 appreciate all feedback from the
1:02:57 community on the other elements of the
1:02:58 proposed cip
1:03:00 as well and as the mayor mentioned we'll
1:03:02 be opening the public hearing tonight
1:03:05 but it's anticipated to continue the
1:03:08 public hearing
1:03:08 um to the next regular meeting on may
1:03:13 um so this is where we are in the
1:03:15 overall cip
1:03:16 process uh we started on april 19th by
1:03:19 transmitting
1:03:20 to the council and providing a brief
1:03:23 over not so brief overview presentation
1:03:26 um we then returned last week for a
1:03:30 city council study session for the
1:03:32 beginning of the deliberations focusing
1:03:34 on those non-utility capital projects
1:03:37 we're returning this week to begin the
1:03:39 public hearing
1:03:40 as well as continue deliberations on
1:03:42 those utility projects
1:03:44 as well as follow up on some of the
1:03:45 feedback that we heard last week
1:03:48 and we'll be back next week for
1:03:50 continued city council deliberations
1:03:53 with the continued public hearing on may
1:03:56 17th as well as the projected
1:03:58 adoption of the cip
1:04:01 and to give a very brief overview of the
1:04:03 cip in general just to provide a little
1:04:05 context ahead of the public hearing
1:04:08 the cip is a six-year plan which we
1:04:10 fully update
1:04:11 every other year it is an element of the
1:04:13 city's comprehensive plan
1:04:15 it informs the annual transportation
1:04:17 improvement plan or tip as i mentioned
1:04:20 and essentially the transportation
1:04:22 portion of the cip
1:04:23 serves as the tip which is then
1:04:26 submitted to the state department of
1:04:27 transportation
1:04:29 the cip is also the mechanism that
1:04:31 allows projects to utilize certain
1:04:32 restricted revenue sources
1:04:34 such as real estate excise taxes
1:04:36 mitigation and impact fees as well as
1:04:38 some grants
1:04:40 it's also important to note that the cip
1:04:42 is always subject to change as new
1:04:43 information becomes available
1:04:45 and we'll have a bit more on this in the
1:04:47 presentation after the public hearing as
1:04:50 and finally what the cip is not it's not
1:04:52 a budget commitment
1:04:54 as i said the cip is simply a plan it
1:04:56 allows the city to
1:04:57 plan out the use of limited revenues
1:05:01 this six year period and by planning
1:05:03 ahead like this
1:05:04 we can ensure that funds can be
1:05:05 available for prioritized projects that
1:05:07 aren't
1:05:08 just in that next budget year as part of
1:05:09 the annual budget process
1:05:13 projects are divided into eight asset
1:05:15 categories
1:05:16 capital equipment municipal facilities
1:05:18 parks and trails technology and systems
1:05:21 transportation and then the water sewer
1:05:23 and storm water utilities
1:05:26 and this table is now a familiar table
1:05:29 from prior cip presentations
1:05:31 over the last couple of weeks that
1:05:32 summarizes the
1:05:35 what's included in this proposed cip for
1:05:37 each aspect category
1:05:38 um and i should also note that these
1:05:41 numbers uh
1:05:42 reflect what was in the originally
1:05:43 proposed cip and there
1:05:45 as the mayor mentioned there are a few
1:05:46 adjustments that we'll be discussing
1:05:48 later this evening as well and
1:05:52 with that as i promised it was brief i
1:05:55 can turn it back to you mayor paulie to
1:05:57 open the public hearing
1:05:59 thank you susie for the presentation and
1:06:01 before i do that i'm going to keep an
1:06:03 eye on the chat box
1:06:04 and see if there are any council
1:06:06 questions before we go into the
1:06:08 public hearing so if you want to enter
1:06:10 anything in the chat if you have a
1:06:11 question
1:06:12 we'll take a few seconds to see if there
1:06:13 are any
1:06:21 hey i'm not seeing any at this time
1:06:26 so i will go over some guidelines for
1:06:28 citizen comments they
1:06:30 also apply to the public hearing so i'm
1:06:33 going to open the public hearing at 806
1:06:36 and for anyone who has joined us tonight
1:06:37 and would like to make comments but
1:06:39 didn't sign up in advance can you raise
1:06:40 your virtual hand
1:06:42 and to do that if you're on the phone
1:06:44 you may need to press star 3
1:06:46 if you had joined by computer or
1:06:48 smartphone look for a hand icon
1:06:50 this varies by device one option may be
1:06:53 to go
1:06:53 to the participant panel and choose the
1:06:55 raise hand icon in the lower right hand
1:06:57 corner
1:06:58 so to be clear has anyone signed up to
1:07:00 speak or indicated a desire to speak
1:07:01 this evening
1:07:04 yes we have two individuals who've
1:07:06 indicated they'd like to make comments
1:07:08 the first is mariah batisse mariah i'm
1:07:11 going to make you a panelist in just a
1:07:13 moment
1:07:14 you should then have the option to turn
1:07:16 on your
1:07:17 to unmute yourself and may also choose
1:07:19 to turn your video on
1:07:23 welcome back mariah
1:07:34 all right i'm going to go ahead and oh
1:07:37 there you go
1:07:50 can you hear me now okay
1:07:53 good hello everyone um
1:07:57 hello to madame mayor and all of city
1:07:59 council it is so great to see
1:08:01 all of your faces um i wanted to start
1:08:05 uh tonight just by thanking all of you
1:08:08 for your service and um
1:08:10 while i'm uh uh not always
1:08:13 uh present in front of you i'm always
1:08:15 listening and watching and want to thank
1:08:18 the mayor and city council for all that
1:08:19 you do and
1:08:21 with a special thank you to tisha and
1:08:25 for all that they do uh as we're
1:08:27 celebrating
1:08:28 municipal clerks um this month
1:08:31 uh so i just wanted to speak briefly
1:08:34 about
1:08:34 uh increasing the funding for
1:08:38 the northwest sammamish road design
1:08:42 it sounds like there have already been a
1:08:45 lot of letters that have come in
1:08:47 to city council and we heard
1:08:50 a little bit about that earlier um i
1:08:53 have heard
1:08:54 a lot about this project from a lot of
1:08:57 our residents
1:08:58 and you may remember me uh talking about
1:09:00 this back when i was on council
1:09:03 um and probably talked about this six
1:09:06 years ago
1:09:06 uh as we were trying to really focus in
1:09:10 um on an area that that really needs
1:09:14 that uh that road designed to
1:09:18 give added safety to all of the
1:09:20 communities that run
1:09:22 um parallel to that road
1:09:25 and we've made such great strides in
1:09:28 terms of all the work that was done
1:09:30 with the sound wall with um
1:09:34 so sorry i should have turned my phone
1:09:38 with expanding all of that and
1:09:41 uh now we have the opportunity to focus
1:09:44 on some of the design
1:09:46 and realize that we don't have
1:09:48 everything mapped out in terms of future
1:09:50 construction
1:09:52 but i would um love for everyone just to
1:09:54 take a look at that as they're
1:09:55 considering
1:09:56 all actually all of the incredibly
1:09:58 important elements
1:10:00 of the cip and obviously um
1:10:03 with uh the budget and and uh a lot of
1:10:06 those
1:10:07 uh lacking um lacking the funds
1:10:10 um it's it's a lot of tough decisions
1:10:13 but i did want to
1:10:14 speak to that tonight so thank you for
1:10:16 your time and thank you for listening
1:10:18 and take good care
1:10:20 thank you former council member batista
1:10:22 nice to see you this evening
1:10:24 city clerk who else we have signed up to
1:10:28 see connie marsh would also like to make
1:10:31 comments
1:10:32 connie in just a moment i will make you
1:10:36 a panelist
1:10:37 you should then see an option to unmute
1:10:39 and may also choose to turn your camera
1:10:51 hi of course i'm connie marsh and uh
1:10:55 we got the email response
1:10:59 that was quite thorough because i sent
1:11:01 in an email and then
1:11:03 then john mortensen wrote a response
1:11:06 which made corey eat an entire quart
1:11:10 of chocolate ice cream so now he is
1:11:12 buzzing around the living room
1:11:15 in pure anxiety so joy i love that
1:11:18 i'm hiding in the back bedroom uh
1:11:22 so i will tell you uh
1:11:25 the aha moment that i had once again
1:11:28 because i've had this aha moment many
1:11:30 times
1:11:32 but um
1:11:35 we seem to plan for the future because
1:11:38 we can get
1:11:38 money for it yet
1:11:41 that leaves the rest of us who have been
1:11:45 here for a long time
1:11:46 south cove squawk mountain even longer
1:11:50 uh with unprioritized projects
1:11:54 for years and years and years
1:11:57 because we're hunting the dollar and
1:12:00 it's i mean these are just examples
1:12:03 right and it's
1:12:04 sort of the way the state has laid out
1:12:08 it's like you can only get money if you
1:12:09 build more
1:12:11 but then we never we always have to pay
1:12:14 for building more
1:12:15 and so then we never have money to
1:12:17 backfill our deficit
1:12:19 and so the the existing residents lose
1:12:23 as we keep looking toward the future and
1:12:26 you know the crossing of i-90 that's
1:12:28 another one of those we're looking
1:12:30 so far to the future it's a huge bundle
1:12:32 of money
1:12:33 the ariane newport way that nobody's
1:12:36 going to use
1:12:38 for quite some time i mean you just
1:12:41 it just won't be used is
1:12:44 using everyone else's dollars when we
1:12:47 don't
1:12:48 even need to that project at this point
1:12:50 in time
1:12:51 so i think we need to examine some of
1:12:54 these criteria
1:12:56 and add to them the balance between
1:12:59 new and old right so it's not just where
1:13:02 can we get the money
1:13:03 so where can we get the biggest bang for
1:13:05 the buck it is
1:13:07 how do we balance the future and the
1:13:11 in the newly existing to make it a
1:13:13 benefit for all people because
1:13:15 you guys are going to want money from us
1:13:17 and if we never get anything
1:13:19 we're never going to let you give us to
1:13:21 give you money because why would we what
1:13:23 do we get
1:13:23 we don't get anything we can't even walk
1:13:26 on squawk mountain
1:13:28 safely and we haven't been able to
1:13:30 forever and there's no intent to give us
1:13:33 that into the future
1:13:34 now let me give you a clue most of the
1:13:37 time the people who have been here a
1:13:39 long time
1:13:40 this whole concept of having a planting
1:13:42 strip in a bicycle
1:13:44 lane and a sidewalk that is like blows
1:13:47 our mind right
1:13:48 it's like there's not space give us a
1:13:50 sidewalk that's all we need is we just
1:13:53 need a sidewalk
1:13:54 so it's way cheaper takes up less space
1:13:58 so maybe we could have a different
1:14:00 street standard for different
1:14:01 areas that match with the existing
1:14:04 standard
1:14:05 on that street because what would we do
1:14:07 with that much
1:14:08 on squawk mountain i have no idea i mean
1:14:11 we can go visit the esqua highlands
1:14:12 because they have it built in
1:14:14 so um i guess those would be the things
1:14:18 that i would ask
1:14:19 in this very tip i'm not even getting to
1:14:23 the cip
1:14:24 is that you ask that
1:14:27 the transportation department go back
1:14:31 and tell you what the balance is between
1:14:33 old and new
1:14:34 and decide what the proper standard
1:14:37 would be
1:14:38 going into the future so then we would
1:14:41 all feel like we were bonusing and then
1:14:43 all might open up our little tidy
1:14:46 wallets
1:14:46 that you know we don't like to give our
1:14:48 money away and
1:14:50 vote to taxes more um but
1:14:53 but uh i think i've said this like 85
1:14:57 times before
1:14:58 it just feels like an aha moment and now
1:15:01 i'm gonna go
1:15:01 play with corey flying around the
1:15:03 ceiling it will be very exciting
1:15:05 so thank you very much for listening
1:15:08 thank you for sharing
1:15:10 have fun bye uh city clerk is there
1:15:13 anyone else that's signed up this
1:15:14 evening
1:15:17 no one else has signed up to make
1:15:19 comments so just one
1:15:21 more call if there's anyone in the
1:15:24 meeting or on the phone
1:15:25 who would like to make comments please
1:15:28 find your virtual hand
1:15:29 it's the small hand icon for anyone on
1:15:33 the phone
1:15:34 you can press star 3 and just quickly
1:15:37 monitoring
1:15:38 our attendee list here see if there's
1:15:41 anyone else
1:15:45 and i don't see that there's anyone else
1:15:48 wishing to make comments at this time
1:15:50 thank you very much um
1:15:53 so that is the end of our
1:15:57 public hearing uh but i do need to have
1:16:00 a motion who's prepared to make a motion
1:16:03 or it's the end of our public testimony
1:16:05 sorry
1:16:14 council president hunt yes this counts
1:16:18 president hunt i do have a
1:16:20 question um so we have a motion
1:16:24 um to continue the hearing would it be
1:16:25 appropriate to make that motion before
1:16:28 we deliberate on the vip and hear the
1:16:30 rest of the presentation
1:16:32 yes it would thank you
1:16:39 okay in that case i'm ready to make a
1:16:41 motion i
1:16:42 moved to continue the public hearing to
1:16:44 may 17 2021
1:16:46 council meeting to allow for additional
1:16:48 public testimony
1:16:49 thank you and deputy council president
1:16:51 ray second
1:16:53 thanks it's been moved and seconded um
1:16:56 is there any discussion
1:17:00 i'll look in the chat to see
1:17:05 okay if there is no discussion it's been
1:17:08 moved and seconded to continue the
1:17:09 public hearing to the may 17 2021
1:17:11 council meeting
1:17:12 to allow for additional public testimony
1:17:14 i'll have the clerk
1:17:16 do the roll call vote starting with
1:17:19 council member hall
1:17:21 aye council president hunt
1:17:24 aye council member martz hi
1:17:28 deputy council president ray aye
1:17:32 council member walsh aye
1:17:35 council member d michelle aye
1:17:38 council member goodman aye at seven
1:17:42 eyes zero nays
1:17:53 mayor paulie you're muted
1:18:00 that passes unanimously and now i'm
1:18:02 going to ask susie menthol to come up
1:18:04 and give us a second presentation of the
1:18:06 evening thanks susie
1:18:08 thank you mayor paulie um i will need
1:18:11 just one
1:18:12 second to get this second presentation
1:18:18 um all right
1:18:22 um all right so
1:18:25 the second presentation tonight is
1:18:27 focused on continued council
1:18:29 deliberations
1:18:30 um the purpose of this presentation
1:18:33 tonight is
1:18:34 to provide an overview and discussion of
1:18:37 the utility projects proposed in the cip
1:18:40 and requesting feedback from the council
1:18:42 similar to how we did for the
1:18:43 non-utility projects at last week's
1:18:45 study session
1:18:47 but we'd also like to spend some time
1:18:48 following up on the feedback that we did
1:18:50 receive at last week's study session
1:18:53 right so looking at the agenda for this
1:18:56 presentation
1:18:57 after briefly touching on the schedule
1:18:58 i'll turn it over to finance director
1:19:00 goldberg to give an overview of
1:19:02 why cip projects change from one cip to
1:19:05 another
1:19:06 i will then run through the utility
1:19:08 project highlights again much in the
1:19:10 same way that we did at last week's
1:19:11 study session
1:19:12 um fielding any questions and with the
1:19:14 help of
1:19:16 the public work staff on the call with
1:19:17 us this evening
1:19:19 and then we'll circle back to follow up
1:19:21 on some of the some of the feedback
1:19:23 items that we heard at last week's study
1:19:24 session
1:19:25 including discussing some of the
1:19:27 adjustments to the proposed cip that the
1:19:29 mayor mentioned in her introductory
1:19:31 remarks
1:19:33 i already briefly touched on this in the
1:19:36 presentation leading into the public
1:19:37 hearing
1:19:38 so i i won't go through it again here
1:19:42 i'll just reiterate that we're
1:19:43 continuing deliberations this evening
1:19:45 after the public hearing but we'll be
1:19:46 back again next week
1:19:48 for further deliberations
1:19:51 and at this point i'd like to turn it
1:19:53 over to finance director beth goldberg
1:19:55 to discuss why cip projects change
1:20:00 thank you susie good evening council
1:20:03 members
1:20:04 i wanted to take a moment and walk
1:20:07 through and provide some context for
1:20:10 why the mix and costs of city projects
1:20:14 may change since the last cip was
1:20:17 adopted
1:20:18 we heard at the april 27th city council
1:20:21 deliberations a number of questions and
1:20:23 we thought
1:20:24 it would be helpful to provide some
1:20:26 additional context
1:20:27 as to why this is a common occurrence in
1:20:30 processes susie if you can move to the
1:20:33 next slide
1:20:37 so there are three main reasons why
1:20:40 the cip project mix and costs can change
1:20:44 the first relates to the project
1:20:46 development cycle
1:20:48 in the public sector this is a little
1:20:49 bit different than the way it works in
1:20:51 the private sector so i wanted to spend
1:20:53 a moment talking about that
1:20:55 the second is related to the variability
1:20:58 of funding sources
1:20:59 and the third relates to
1:21:02 timing and how that can fluctuate as we
1:21:06 move through the process
1:21:07 susie if you can move to the next slide
1:21:09 please
1:21:11 so to understand why cip projects and
1:21:15 costs
1:21:15 change over time it's important to
1:21:17 understand the project development cycle
1:21:20 in the public sector
1:21:21 unlike the private sector when a project
1:21:24 does not become a project until a
1:21:26 project plan is developed
1:21:28 in the public sector authorization to
1:21:30 proceed with a project plan must be
1:21:32 granted by the legislative body
1:21:35 this means that a project gets included
1:21:37 in the cip
1:21:38 at the conceptual phase before project
1:21:41 design
1:21:42 or a project plan are developed and
1:21:44 that's depicted
1:21:45 in the payless green box on the slide
1:21:48 and the pale green
1:21:50 is is meant to depict or symbolize
1:21:53 how there's a lack of of crystal clarity
1:21:58 project costs funding sources timeline
1:22:01 scope and
1:22:02 are all speculative at this stage and
1:22:04 are subject to change as we move
1:22:06 through later phases of the development
1:22:09 cycle
1:22:11 during the design phase the middle box
1:22:14 on this slide
1:22:15 the city firms up project scope and
1:22:18 costs
1:22:19 but even after the design phase the
1:22:21 project timeline is subject to change
1:22:23 based on available funding sources if
1:22:26 funding sources are
1:22:27 firmed up the project can proceed to the
1:22:30 implementation phase
1:22:31 but there are numerous instances where a
1:22:33 project makes it through the design
1:22:35 phase without a
1:22:36 set funding for implementation and
1:22:39 depending on the amount of time it takes
1:22:41 to secure that funding
1:22:43 uh implementation the timeline and even
1:22:46 frankly
1:22:47 if there's there's significant delays
1:22:49 even costs can change
1:22:53 as projects move through the phases
1:22:55 there's more certainty
1:22:57 but in the early phases of a project's
1:23:00 the scope cost timeline are all subject
1:23:02 to change this is one reason why the cip
1:23:05 is updated every two years
1:23:07 it allows for assumptions to be updated
1:23:10 as the project development cycle
1:23:12 progresses
1:23:14 susie if you can move to the next slide
1:23:16 please
1:23:19 the availability of funding strongly
1:23:21 influences
1:23:22 project timeline and is subject to
1:23:25 change for a variety of reasons
1:23:27 a good example of this is the
1:23:29 transportation benefit district sales
1:23:32 that the mayor spoke about earlier this
1:23:34 evening
1:23:35 as she mentioned uh this sales tax
1:23:37 formed the basis of the last cip
1:23:40 the tbd sales tax revenues were
1:23:43 essential
1:23:44 for supporting a number of high priority
1:23:46 projects put forth in the last cip
1:23:49 the city council decided not to put to
1:23:51 go forward with putting that on the
1:23:53 ballot in 2020 as
1:23:55 was contemplated in that cip and absent
1:23:58 these revenues
1:23:59 a number of high priority projects
1:24:00 slated for tbd
1:24:02 sales tax funding and the last cip
1:24:05 don't currently have complete funding
1:24:08 and one example of this is the northwest
1:24:11 sammamish road non-motorized improvement
1:24:14 project
1:24:16 changes in revenue forecasts can also
1:24:19 influence which projects get funded and
1:24:22 a cip as the city council knows covers a
1:24:25 six-year planning horizon
1:24:27 this is a long period of time when
1:24:29 revenues can change
1:24:31 significantly so depending on revenue
1:24:33 performance
1:24:34 projects in the cip can change if
1:24:37 revenues perform better we have more
1:24:39 flexibility
1:24:40 if revenues don't perform as anticipated
1:24:43 then we might have to scale back
1:24:45 again this is another reason why the cip
1:24:47 is updated every two years
1:24:50 finally as has also been mentioned this
1:24:53 evening
1:24:54 the availability of grants can change
1:24:57 project timeline
1:24:58 and prioritization as grants become
1:25:00 available
1:25:01 a project that may have been a lower
1:25:03 priority
1:25:04 might accelerate conversely if a grant
1:25:08 was anticipated but doesn't materialize
1:25:12 then project implementation may slow
1:25:15 it's also important to note that for
1:25:18 many grants
1:25:19 a project must be included in the cip to
1:25:22 be eligible for grant funding
1:25:24 this means that it's not uncommon for
1:25:27 unfunded projects to be included in a
1:25:30 and that as more information becomes
1:25:32 available on grants
1:25:33 a project plan could change a good
1:25:36 example of this
1:25:37 is the newport projects these
1:25:40 projects started with some federal grant
1:25:42 dollars
1:25:44 and then in the last cip we had
1:25:46 contemplated moving them
1:25:48 forward to the next phase with tbd sales
1:25:51 tax revenue
1:25:52 while the tbd sales tax revenue did not
1:25:55 materialize
1:25:56 grant funding is now expected which
1:25:58 means
1:25:59 portions of these projects will move
1:26:01 forward in the cip that we are
1:26:04 proposing this year susie if you can
1:26:08 to the next slide
1:26:11 so there are also a number of variables
1:26:13 that can influence
1:26:14 project timeline and project scope for
1:26:18 example community priorities can change
1:26:21 or we learn more about community
1:26:23 priorities
1:26:24 the last cip included the wayfinding
1:26:27 project
1:26:27 in at the conceptual phase this is the
1:26:29 earliest phase
1:26:31 of the development cycle since that cip
1:26:34 was adopted
1:26:34 the city has engaged with the community
1:26:37 to flesh out the scope of the project
1:26:40 this cip reflects the results of that
1:26:43 work and the priorities heard
1:26:45 during that planning process and that
1:26:48 scope is broader than what we
1:26:50 anticipated
1:26:51 in the last cip um also circumstances
1:26:55 can change
1:26:55 um you the city council might recall
1:26:59 during covid last year when we were
1:27:01 concerned about the performance of reit
1:27:03 revenues
1:27:04 we scaled back the pmp investments
1:27:10 to be to match what we were assuming at
1:27:13 the time
1:27:14 and then when revenues performed better
1:27:16 than expected we
1:27:17 ramped up that funding in the 2021
1:27:20 adopted budget so that's an example of
1:27:23 how circumstances could change
1:27:25 how cip projects move forward
1:27:29 and then as i mentioned earlier grant
1:27:31 availability can
1:27:33 accelerate or decelerate a project as
1:27:36 money becomes available so for all of
1:27:40 these reasons it's common for
1:27:42 project mix project costs timelines to
1:27:44 change from one cip
1:27:46 to another and the reason why we list
1:27:50 all of the projects is so that we can
1:27:54 a discussion about how how those
1:27:56 assumptions change
1:27:57 over time and with that
1:28:00 i will pause and see if there are any
1:28:02 questions and if not
1:28:04 turn it back over to susie to continue
1:28:07 with the rest of the presentation
1:28:10 thank you beth for that presentation and
1:28:12 keep my chat
1:28:14 and see there were quite a few questions
1:28:16 last week so we'll see if anybody has
1:28:18 any follow-up questions
1:28:19 tonight
1:28:25 okay let's head over to susie and if
1:28:27 something does pop up in the chat
1:28:28 we'll go to that question excuse me
1:28:31 great thank you mayor paulie
1:28:33 um so turning to the utility project
1:28:36 highlight
1:28:38 uh as i mentioned in the leading to the
1:28:40 public hearing
1:28:41 the cip is divided into eight asset
1:28:43 categories uh
1:28:44 at last week's study session we
1:28:46 discussed those first
1:28:47 five shown here but tonight in this
1:28:51 portion of the presentation we'd like to
1:28:52 focus on the three utility asset
1:28:54 categories the water sewer and storm
1:28:56 water utilities
1:28:58 uh this table summarizes in the uh
1:29:01 the what's included in the proposed eip
1:29:03 for the three asset categories we're
1:29:05 highlighting in this section
1:29:07 and since i already touched on what
1:29:09 these columns
1:29:10 represent in prior presentations i'll
1:29:13 spare everyone here
1:29:14 that tonight but generally there are 34
1:29:16 active projects proposed in the cip
1:29:18 across the
1:29:19 three utilities and 22 future year
1:29:22 projects so beyond 2027.
1:29:25 the total estimated cost of these
1:29:27 utility projects
1:29:28 over the course of 2022 to 2027 is about
1:29:31 40 million
1:29:33 and this is also a good place to mention
1:29:35 that while we'll be discussing
1:29:37 the three utilities together this
1:29:39 evening the individual utility revenues
1:29:42 can't be used interchangeably um in
1:29:44 other words water utility revenues
1:29:46 can fund activities that support the
1:29:48 city's water infrastructure and can't be
1:29:50 used to support sewer or stormwater
1:29:51 infrastructure
1:29:53 and the same is true for sewer and
1:29:54 stormwater utility revenues
1:29:57 i also want to reiterate that something
1:29:59 that we said in the first presentation
1:30:02 on april 19th that the utility projects
1:30:05 that are proposed in this cip through
1:30:08 are supported by the current rate
1:30:10 structure that was adopted last year
1:30:13 but a new utility rate structure new
1:30:15 utility rate study
1:30:16 will be conducted in 2025 covering
1:30:19 projects anticipated for 2026
1:30:21 and beyond
1:30:26 so going into the project starting first
1:30:28 with the water utility
1:30:30 the first project we'd like to highlight
1:30:32 is the spa booster pump station or wt013
1:30:36 and as a note like last week's
1:30:37 presentation we've got the project
1:30:39 uh or the book page number down in the
1:30:41 bottom right hand corner here so this
1:30:43 project is on page
1:30:44 122 of the proposed document
1:30:48 this project will construct a 3 000
1:30:50 gallon per minute booster pump station
1:30:52 and transmission piping to increase
1:30:54 overall reliability and provide
1:30:55 redundancy within the city's water
1:30:57 system
1:30:58 and as you can see from the table here
1:31:00 the project will be funded by water
1:31:02 backed debt it's also important to note
1:31:04 that for this project
1:31:06 there is significant budget authority
1:31:08 already this year in 2021
1:31:10 so the amount reflected here for 2022 is
1:31:13 the anticipated need beyond what's
1:31:15 already authorized for 2021.
1:31:18 um and i may pause there if there are
1:31:21 any questions on this project
1:31:23 at this point i'm not seeing any susie
1:31:26 but i'll back up if i see somebody
1:31:28 put something in the chat thanks great
1:31:31 thank you mayor
1:31:33 the next water project we'd like to
1:31:34 highlight here is the water main
1:31:36 replacement program or wt015
1:31:39 this is an annual maintenance program to
1:31:41 replace 2 000 lineal feet of water main
1:31:44 each year as identified in the city's
1:31:45 water system update
1:31:47 and as you can see from the table here
1:31:49 the project is anticipated to be funded
1:31:51 by water utility revenues
1:31:55 i will keep going the final water
1:31:58 project that we'd like to highlight here
1:31:59 is the water system improvements or
1:32:02 wt015
1:32:03 and the this project includes a number
1:32:06 of upgrades
1:32:06 including to the resident and gilman
1:32:08 wells installing a new master meter and
1:32:11 pressure reduced valve station
1:32:12 at newport way and sr 900 and this work
1:32:16 is necessary as part of the alternative
1:32:18 to installing a water treatment plant
1:32:19 within the city which was moved to a
1:32:21 future year project
1:32:23 and this is uh it
1:32:26 it might be helpful to note too that
1:32:28 this is essentially a continuation of a
1:32:30 project in the 2021 budget
1:32:32 called upgrades to purchase cascade
1:32:34 water or wt044
1:32:37 um so as you can see from the table
1:32:39 these improvements will be funded by
1:32:41 water utility revenues
1:32:46 and moving to sewer utility projects
1:32:50 the first project that we'd like to
1:32:52 highlight here is the sewer
1:32:53 rehabilitation
1:32:54 program or fw004
1:32:57 this is a sewer infrastructure
1:32:59 maintenance project that identifies
1:33:01 repairs and restores aging sewer
1:33:03 infrastructure including leaky manholes
1:33:05 deteriorating
1:33:06 underground sewer mains minor lift
1:33:08 station repairs and there
1:33:10 and replacement sections of existing
1:33:12 infrastructure where needed
1:33:14 and as you can see from the table here
1:33:17 the project will be funded by
1:33:18 sewer utility revenue
1:33:24 the next fewer projects that we'd like
1:33:25 to highlight tonight is the highland
1:33:27 sewer main capacity and
1:33:29 redundancy project or sw010
1:33:33 this project will design and construct a
1:33:35 redundant sewer main from the highlands
1:33:36 community to the i-90 under crossing to
1:33:39 provide
1:33:39 a redundant and larger capacity
1:33:41 conveyance system
1:33:42 and again as you can see from the table
1:33:45 this project will be funded by
1:33:46 sewer utility revenues
1:33:50 and the final sewer project that we'd
1:33:52 like to highlight tonight is the front
1:33:54 street lift station improvements or
1:33:56 sw-011
1:33:58 this project will evaluate and upgrade
1:34:00 the front street lift stations
1:34:01 due to increased increased pump usage
1:34:04 during high storm events
1:34:06 and again as you can see from the table
1:34:08 here the project will be funded by
1:34:09 sewer utility revenues
1:34:14 churning to storm water the first
1:34:17 project that we'd like to highlight
1:34:18 tonight is the lower issaquah creek
1:34:20 stream and riparian enhancement or st006
1:34:24 and this project will extend and
1:34:26 integrate existing habitat restoration
1:34:28 and improvement areas along
1:34:30 the issaquah creek between i-90 and
1:34:32 northwest vanish road
1:34:34 and as you can see from the table here
1:34:37 this project is anticipated to be funded
1:34:39 primarily by grants but also by some
1:34:42 storm water utility revenue
1:34:46 uh the next storm water project is the
1:34:48 squawk valley park
1:34:50 south creek restoration or st009
1:34:54 this project is intended to enhance
1:34:56 famine habitat
1:34:57 through restoration work in the upper
1:35:00 issaquah creek
1:35:01 and again as you can see from the table
1:35:03 here this work is anticipated to be
1:35:05 primarily funded by
1:35:06 grants and some stormwater utility
1:35:08 revenues as well
1:35:11 suzy i think we have a couple of
1:35:13 questions or just one it looks like
1:35:15 deputy council president ray
1:35:17 thank you mayor paulie i i'm curious and
1:35:19 i know that we
1:35:20 feel very comfortable with the grants
1:35:22 what is the contingency in the event
1:35:24 that the grants
1:35:25 don't come through at the amount
1:35:26 projected or
1:35:28 don't come through at all sure
1:35:32 thank you deputy council president ray
1:35:34 for the question on these particular
1:35:36 stormwater projects
1:35:37 i would like to defer that question to
1:35:40 our utility's
1:35:41 engineering manager gary schimac if he
1:35:44 is able to
1:35:47 answer that question
1:35:56 hello everybody glad to meet you
1:35:59 uh gary schmick the new three months
1:36:03 here uh at disaqua utility manager so
1:36:06 it's a great question
1:36:07 um our contingency plan in any of the
1:36:09 cases for grants
1:36:11 uh there's a couple couple pathways we
1:36:13 could take
1:36:14 uh one we could just delay the project
1:36:17 and go after grants and subsequent years
1:36:19 so to so in other words to stay tight to
1:36:23 our commitment to
1:36:24 have them grant grant funded uh the
1:36:26 second
1:36:27 and it kind of riffs off of beth
1:36:30 goldberg's talk here
1:36:32 we could decide to reprioritize our
1:36:34 projects and use
1:36:36 utility funding instead of those grants
1:36:39 so those are decisions those are really
1:36:41 the two major decisions that we have i
1:36:43 guess the third is just not to do the
1:36:44 project right we could just say this is
1:36:46 this is not this time but we'll try
1:36:47 again
1:36:48 so those are the the three three
1:36:50 pathways that that we have
1:36:53 if we do not receive the grants that we
1:36:55 are planning for
1:36:57 thank you gary deputy councilman ray do
1:36:59 you have a follow-up nope i'm good thank
1:37:01 okay thanks let's keep going susie
1:37:04 great thank you uh the
1:37:07 next stormwater utility project that
1:37:09 we're highlighting tonight is the storm
1:37:11 and surface water master plan
1:37:12 implementation or sp043
1:37:15 and this project will address flood
1:37:17 reduction habitat and water quality
1:37:19 projects for design and construction
1:37:22 as will be identified and prioritized as
1:37:24 part of the storm and surface water
1:37:26 master plan
1:37:27 to be completed by early 2022
1:37:30 and this is a good example of the type
1:37:32 of project that is
1:37:34 in that conceptualization phase that
1:37:35 director goldberg was talking about
1:37:37 earlier
1:37:38 the um the storm and surface water
1:37:40 master plan will help to identify the
1:37:42 specific pieces to be addressed by
1:37:44 this project but we want to ensure that
1:37:47 we are anticipating the need
1:37:49 to reserve stormwater utility revenues
1:37:52 for this work
1:37:53 looking ahead
1:37:56 all right the next stormwater utility
1:37:59 project
1:38:00 to highlight tonight is the old town
1:38:02 storm water improvements or sp045
1:38:05 and this project is intended to improve
1:38:07 stormwater infrastructure throughout the
1:38:09 old town neighborhood
1:38:10 to replace the aging drainage system and
1:38:13 prevent localized flooding
1:38:15 and as you can see from the table again
1:38:17 this work will be funded
1:38:18 by stormwater utility revenues
1:38:22 and the final stormwater utility project
1:38:25 you'd like to highlight tonight is the
1:38:26 pickering ditch flood control or sto48
1:38:30 this project will evaluate options for
1:38:32 conveyance improvements in the pickering
1:38:34 ditch
1:38:34 and as you can see from the the table
1:38:36 here it is another
1:38:38 project to be that is anticipated to be
1:38:40 funded by a grant
1:38:44 and uh at this point um having run
1:38:48 through those projects
1:38:49 fairly quickly um we'd like to ask if
1:38:52 the council has any feedback on the
1:38:54 proposed utility project
1:38:55 in the cip or if there are any
1:38:57 additional utility project
1:38:58 questions um or requested information
1:39:03 sounds good suzy it looks like we're
1:39:04 going to be starting with questions and
1:39:06 then we'll move into feedback
1:39:08 so let's start with council member walsh
1:39:10 followed by council member hall
1:39:12 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
1:39:15 i'm wondering if you can go back to
1:39:16 the um storm and surface water master
1:39:21 implementation slide um
1:39:25 and so
1:39:28 i understand that because of the capital
1:39:30 improvement plot
1:39:31 uh plan this what we're funding here
1:39:34 isn't the plan itself so can somebody
1:39:38 talk through what the
1:39:39 implementation then here means is this a
1:39:43 set of individualized projects
1:39:46 how are they associated out through the
1:39:48 years
1:39:49 what does that look like yes
1:39:53 thank you councilmember walsh i think i
1:39:54 know just enough to be dangerous so i
1:39:56 would like to turn it over again
1:39:57 to utility manager gary schimack i'm
1:40:01 sure you do just fine susie
1:40:02 uh you're pretty smart in this for cards
1:40:06 uh great question so um we'll actually
1:40:08 be coming to you
1:40:10 uh council members next week uh to
1:40:12 provide an overview of this plan
1:40:15 and what we'll be talking about is uh
1:40:18 basically going from
1:40:19 policy directives which we're going to
1:40:21 be talking to you about
1:40:22 goals performance metrics and then
1:40:24 actions
1:40:25 right and actions can be projects
1:40:29 uh programs policy so what you see here
1:40:33 is a placeholders for the for the
1:40:35 project so the capital projects that
1:40:37 will be uh highly prioritized
1:40:41 um so from your feedback from the board
1:40:43 and commissions and from the public so
1:40:45 so that's really what we'll be playing
1:40:47 with when we
1:40:49 have our prioritized list at the end of
1:40:51 the plan
1:40:52 then we'll we'll turn to well here are
1:40:54 the dollars we have how do we fit those
1:40:56 together right
1:40:57 uh as an example if we have two projects
1:41:00 that are the highest priority but
1:41:01 they're both
1:41:03 three million dollars each oh we've got
1:41:04 a little problem right we can't do those
1:41:06 two so we'd have to
1:41:08 as as beth said before it's a portfolio
1:41:10 we so we try to match
1:41:12 the money with the priority
1:41:16 thank you gary council member walsh does
1:41:18 that answer your question
1:41:20 yes and it makes me look forward to the
1:41:22 presentation to come
1:41:26 and council member hall
1:41:29 uh thank you mayor paulie this is
1:41:30 council zack hall i actually just had a
1:41:32 should i ask this earlier but i have a
1:41:34 question about the spar booster pump
1:41:36 station
1:41:37 um from the very beginning of the
1:41:38 presentation um
1:41:40 we the council in the city received a
1:41:43 very nice letter from a former council
1:41:45 member
1:41:46 supporting this much-needed city
1:41:48 facility
1:41:50 but also advocating that
1:41:54 the rest of the space and the land in
1:41:56 the area
1:41:58 you know there's a lot of invasive
1:41:59 plants that need to be removed potential
1:42:02 um trail improvements in the area and
1:42:04 the potential for leveraging
1:42:05 uh community volunteer support for all
1:42:07 that i was just wondering if the
1:42:09 administration has any
1:42:10 concerns down the line with um
1:42:14 kind of that vision or if the spar
1:42:17 booster pump station would take up
1:42:19 pretty much the whole space or make or
1:42:21 be debilitating at all to any future
1:42:23 uh trail or invasive plant work thank
1:42:26 you councilmember
1:42:28 do we have uh susie do we have our parks
1:42:30 director here this evening
1:42:31 i believe we do and i was just trying to
1:42:34 find a way to go back to that slide
1:42:36 that where i wouldn't keep taking
1:42:37 everyone on a long journey there we go
1:42:44 um so uh what's your suggestion susie
1:42:47 should we start
1:42:48 with utilities potentially talking about
1:42:50 the area that they need
1:42:52 or start with the parks director about
1:42:54 whether or not he can fit
1:42:56 these um other activities that the
1:42:58 council members referring to
1:43:00 sure um well i see uh director walling
1:43:02 is ready to go
1:43:04 so maybe if you can turn to him first
1:43:07 whatever your pleasure is mayor i'll
1:43:09 take a first crack at it
1:43:11 great question this is jeff watling
1:43:12 parks and community services director
1:43:15 um we have had a number of conversations
1:43:17 with public works
1:43:18 um already in general we we would agree
1:43:21 with this acquisition obviously
1:43:24 the the primary purpose and need of the
1:43:26 spar project takes priority but
1:43:28 we would agree that there are some real
1:43:31 great opportunities for
1:43:32 for multiple benefits multiple public
1:43:35 benefits to
1:43:35 to occur with this acquisition um
1:43:38 interestingly enough both within the
1:43:39 park strategic plan
1:43:41 and within the park cip as a future
1:43:43 years project you'll see a project
1:43:46 identified for a west highlands
1:43:47 neighborhood park
1:43:49 within that project we talk about the
1:43:52 community interest for connectivity from
1:43:54 west highlands now that that's
1:43:56 prominently going to be predominantly
1:43:57 going to be a residential area as
1:43:59 opposed to planned commercial
1:44:00 but having that connectivity down to the
1:44:02 valley floor so
1:44:05 yes we see tremendous opportunity um
1:44:07 certainly as we've talked with public
1:44:09 works the
1:44:10 the spar project and it's its importance
1:44:12 and priority as as the
1:44:14 the key acquisition or a key reason for
1:44:16 the acquisition that that project takes
1:44:18 priority and needs to
1:44:19 to take uh precedent but uh we are ready
1:44:23 begin working with uh issaquah alps
1:44:25 trails club and others
1:44:26 on um beginning to brainstorm uh what
1:44:30 uh trail connectivity could look like
1:44:32 i'd also point out that um
1:44:34 public works director bob york and also
1:44:36 engineering manager gary schimeck
1:44:38 as we've talked with them cleanup is
1:44:40 already going to begin um
1:44:41 as part of of preparing for that site
1:44:44 the cleanup
1:44:45 um in particular some of the biohazard
1:44:48 issues on the entire site
1:44:50 will be again to be addressed
1:44:52 immediately so
1:44:54 tremendous opportunity for multiple
1:44:55 benefits yes
1:45:00 thank you director wildling council
1:45:01 member hall does that answer your
1:45:03 question
1:45:03 it certainly does that was a wonderful
1:45:05 answer i appreciate it thank you very
1:45:07 so before my headset dies um i'm just
1:45:10 going to take
1:45:26 and this is just to test whether or not
1:45:27 you can hear me
1:45:30 okay great so i am not seeing additional
1:45:33 questions um i think the
1:45:36 administration is looking for council
1:45:39 feedback on any of the proposed utility
1:45:41 projects in the cip and any additional
1:45:43 utility
1:45:44 project questions or requested
1:45:45 information so
1:45:47 we've had a couple of questions is there
1:45:49 anything else
1:45:50 or are there any comments that council
1:45:52 members would like to make on this
1:45:53 portion of the cip
1:45:59 oh sorry councilmember walsh has comment
1:46:03 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
1:46:05 i just want to say as much as
1:46:07 utility projects are not sexy or big
1:46:10 things like
1:46:10 building new roads or anything like that
1:46:13 it's an essential part of being a local
1:46:15 government
1:46:16 and taking care of our responsibilities
1:46:18 and so i'm pleased with the
1:46:20 mix of projects here with the proposed
1:46:23 funding sources
1:46:24 and the allocation and i look forward to
1:46:27 them coming up when we have budget
1:46:30 season as well
1:46:31 to discuss um some of the nuances there
1:46:35 um all of that money it's a lot of
1:46:38 spending but it's a lot of good for the
1:46:39 community
1:46:40 so thank you thank you council member
1:46:43 uh walsh and i'm going to go back to
1:46:45 deputy council president ray he has a
1:46:47 question before a comment
1:46:49 um thank you mr paulie this is chris ray
1:46:52 i'm curious were there assumptions made
1:46:56 in developing the revenues generated
1:46:59 from the utilities on
1:47:00 on what rates would be doing i mean are
1:47:03 we looking at
1:47:04 uh any kind of a rate increase are they
1:47:07 kind of flatter rate increases so what
1:47:08 would i'm just curious about the
1:47:10 assumptions
1:47:10 that were made around rates um that's a
1:47:13 great question
1:47:14 to develop the funding model thanks um
1:47:17 susie who do you want to throw that
1:47:19 softball at uh thank you mayor i may uh
1:47:24 tee it up for director york um as he
1:47:27 turns the camera on
1:47:28 but uh there were uh as part of the
1:47:32 adopted rate study
1:47:33 from last year that covered rates from
1:47:37 21 to 2025
1:47:40 and uh there there are anticipated rate
1:47:43 increases
1:47:43 not um within 2021 but beginning in 2022
1:47:48 for each of the three utilities
1:47:50 but i will give director york the
1:47:52 opportunity if he wants to
1:47:54 go into further detail as i apologize i
1:47:56 don't have those those numbers off the
1:47:58 top of my head
1:48:02 director york here thank you susie and
1:48:04 thank you
1:48:05 council member ray and all council
1:48:07 members for the opportunity to speak
1:48:08 tonight
1:48:10 um and thank you to gary schimmeck for
1:48:12 helping me
1:48:13 with the utility-related questions as a
1:48:16 new engineering manager for utilities um
1:48:19 we did adopt the rate study in mid-2020
1:48:24 and we were active actively involved in
1:48:28 preparing that looking economizing and
1:48:31 keeping
1:48:33 20 21 rates flat from the previous year
1:48:37 and there are fairly gradual increases
1:48:42 in the coming years that are still
1:48:44 holding true and
1:48:46 are uh we're still looking closely at
1:48:48 all our rep
1:48:49 all our costs and uh it still looks like
1:48:53 despite you know with this cip that we
1:48:56 maintain proper fund balances and we
1:48:59 even found
1:49:00 a a very lucrative
1:49:03 funding source for the spar project that
1:49:05 involves
1:49:07 loans from the they're actually federal
1:49:11 funded loans through the state
1:49:13 department of health that offer a
1:49:15 20-year rate of 1.25 percent only for
1:49:18 the money we actually borrow so
1:49:20 and then near term you'll see a
1:49:23 council ask for going ahead and
1:49:27 uh and agreeing to the terms of that
1:49:30 loan i look forward to telling you about
1:49:33 that that is actually a savings from
1:49:35 with what we
1:49:35 found in the utility rate study so
1:49:39 again we're carefully assessing our
1:49:42 our budgets trying to stay within the
1:49:45 parameters that were
1:49:46 adopted in that five-year rate study
1:49:48 thank you
1:49:50 maybe council has a great deal sorry
1:49:52 susie
1:49:53 i'm sorry mayor um i was just going to
1:49:55 also add that i'm we're also happy to
1:49:57 follow up with what those
1:49:58 exact increases are anticipated were as
1:50:01 they were adopted
1:50:02 um after this meeting as well that's
1:50:05 great thank you that's what i was going
1:50:06 to ask the
1:50:07 council member if you needed more
1:50:08 information no i'm i'm great and i
1:50:10 remember adopting the the rate study and
1:50:12 i just wanted to thank uh
1:50:14 you know our public works team for
1:50:15 coming up with a creative solution to
1:50:17 our our at least midterm water needs
1:50:20 that wasn't um particularly onerous on
1:50:23 the the rate payers
1:50:25 thank you deputy council president we'll
1:50:27 go to council member hall for a comment
1:50:29 and then i'll look to see if there are
1:50:30 any remaining council members who'd like
1:50:31 to make some comments this evening
1:50:33 council member hall
1:50:35 uh thank you uh this is councilmember
1:50:37 zack hall i just wanted to briefly say
1:50:40 i'm pleased with the
1:50:43 mix of projects included in the
1:50:45 utilities section
1:50:46 all three of them i think they make wise
1:50:49 investments and i appreciate all the
1:50:51 work that went into that
1:50:52 i also want to highlight in particular
1:50:55 well the spar pump station is an
1:50:58 important one the water main replacement
1:51:00 program one
1:51:00 i see continued ongoing investments in
1:51:03 that program which is so important
1:51:04 especially in our aging neighborhoods
1:51:06 and i wanted to
1:51:08 complement our public works department
1:51:11 in particular
1:51:12 the community facing public works
1:51:15 employees who work with neighborhoods
1:51:17 as their water main are replaced
1:51:20 right now a lot of the south cove area
1:51:24 water mains
1:51:25 are being replaced my parents tree a lot
1:51:27 of friends
1:51:29 that i know in the area and they have
1:51:31 nothing but great things to say about
1:51:33 those community-facing employees so
1:51:35 just wanted to be sure to stay on camera
1:51:37 thank you very much to the public works
1:51:39 department for having such great
1:51:41 employees and
1:51:43 for this great proposal thank you
1:51:46 thank you council member how we'll make
1:51:48 sure that director york passes those
1:51:50 nice words on tomorrow
1:51:51 i am not seeing that any other council
1:51:53 members have comments this evening but i
1:51:55 will keep an eye on the chat for a few
1:51:57 more seconds
1:51:58 and see any other comments on the
1:52:00 utility portion cip
1:52:07 okay uh there is
1:52:10 no action of the council being requested
1:52:13 tonight and the next steps will be
1:52:14 continuing of these deliberations is an
1:52:18 interesting word i would say this is
1:52:19 more of an information exchange and
1:52:21 council providing feedback than it is
1:52:23 actual
1:52:23 deliberations between council but we
1:52:25 thank you very much for your
1:52:27 feedback um so we will continue in the
1:52:29 may 11 study session
1:52:31 and we'll also continue the public
1:52:32 hearing uh and adoption on the may 17th
1:52:35 council meeting
1:52:37 so with that make sure i didn't miss
1:52:39 anything in the chat
1:52:41 um we will move to our next item under
1:52:44 our next item which is regular business
1:52:46 and the first item is ab-8165
1:52:49 amending city council rules of procedure
1:52:52 adding council new business the action
1:52:54 before the council
1:52:55 madam mayor yes sorry i'm sorry to
1:52:59 interrupt uh
1:53:00 we weren't done uh we would still we we
1:53:03 had some additional information to
1:53:04 follow up from the meeting last week
1:53:07 uh we'd like to get the council's
1:53:08 feedback on so oh i apologize
1:53:10 i jumped again thank you if you would
1:53:13 allow us to continue
1:53:14 uh susie has a little bit more and we'd
1:53:15 like to also get additional
1:53:17 comments and questions i think the
1:53:19 council and the public would love to see
1:53:20 that and
1:53:21 hear the feedback i apologize susie go
1:53:24 ahead
1:53:25 no problem um i am going to share my
1:53:28 screen again um
1:53:31 as uh there we go all right um
1:53:35 so uh continuing
1:53:38 with uh shifting gears a little bit
1:53:42 the the last main part of this
1:53:44 presentation addresses some of the
1:53:45 feedback that we heard at last week's
1:53:47 study session
1:53:48 and as the mayor noted earlier this
1:53:50 evening we have revised
1:53:52 the original draft cip in a in a few
1:53:55 different ways
1:53:56 um so first the originally proposed cip
1:54:01 uh allocated about 2.3 million
1:54:04 in the lakeside development agreement
1:54:06 revenues to support the
1:54:08 the facility improvement projects that
1:54:10 are shown here
1:54:12 the proposed adjustment here would shift
1:54:14 the cost of these projects
1:54:17 onto reit one and preserve the lakeside
1:54:20 development agreement revenues for later
1:54:23 and because i'll be using the reit
1:54:24 acronym in
1:54:27 pretty much all of the remaining slides
1:54:29 as a reminder that reach stands for the
1:54:30 real estate excise tax
1:54:34 the uh second uh proposed adjustment
1:54:38 is to increase the funding for the
1:54:40 pavement management program
1:54:42 in 2022 by 800
1:54:45 000 bringing the total 2022 funding up
1:54:49 2.2 million dollars which is roughly on
1:54:53 with the amount allocated for 2023 which
1:54:56 smooths out the anticipated investments
1:54:59 in particular over those first two years
1:55:01 but really across the full six years of
1:55:03 the cip
1:55:07 the next proposed adjustment is to add
1:55:12 seven hundred thousand dollars in 2023
1:55:16 for the northwest of mammoth road
1:55:18 non-motorized improvement project
1:55:20 uh to complete the design phase uh this
1:55:24 would make the project shovel ready
1:55:25 by the end of 2023 but it's important to
1:55:28 note that for construction to then begin
1:55:31 in 2024 it will be contingent on
1:55:34 identifying a new revenue source for the
1:55:36 project
1:55:36 to cover those construction costs
1:55:42 and to free up the forecasted
1:55:45 revenues needed for the adjustments on
1:55:47 the previous slides
1:55:48 we reduced or shifted funding for other
1:55:51 reit 1 supported projects
1:55:53 and in some cases like the gateway park
1:55:56 improvements
1:55:56 the playground equipment replacement
1:55:58 place making the
1:56:00 pickering barn park and the crete
1:56:02 corridor project
1:56:03 we removed the rate one funding for the
1:56:06 outer years of the cip
1:56:08 so beyond 2023 essentially this means
1:56:11 that we leave the anticipated project
1:56:14 but in order to make those investments
1:56:17 they are currently planned we'll need to
1:56:20 identify another funding source or
1:56:24 as director goldberg mentioned earlier
1:56:26 potentially look at reevaluating some of
1:56:28 those priorities
1:56:31 for veterans memorial field depot park
1:56:34 pedestrian park
1:56:35 we propose bumping out the project one
1:56:37 year from what was originally proposed
1:56:39 in the cip
1:56:40 pushing work that was anticipated in
1:56:42 2022 and 2023
1:56:45 to 2023 and 2024
1:56:48 for tibbetts valley park we proposed
1:56:51 backing out the 100 000
1:56:53 that was planned for 2022 the
1:56:55 justification being that with restarting
1:56:57 the park master planning work in 2021
1:57:00 and continuing into 2022 the parks and
1:57:04 community services department can
1:57:05 collaborate with public works
1:57:07 as they further develop plans for
1:57:09 newport way
1:57:10 and revisit the tibbetts valley park
1:57:11 project once more is known about that
1:57:13 planning process
1:57:15 and for the the wayfinding and park
1:57:18 signage project we propose reducing the
1:57:20 project cost
1:57:21 to 200 000 per year and this will
1:57:24 roughly extend implementation from about
1:57:27 10 years
1:57:28 to about 15 years but again that's
1:57:31 a pretty rough estimate um and the the
1:57:33 final timeline and cost will be clearer
1:57:36 that design is completed and
1:57:39 finally for the public works operations
1:57:42 parking building expansion project
1:57:45 we proposed changing the portion of the
1:57:47 project that was to be funded by reit 1
1:57:50 to general government mitigation dollars
1:57:53 to further clarify when we say
1:57:56 general government mitigation we do in
1:57:58 this case we do not mean the lakeside
1:58:00 money we mean true
1:58:01 general government mitigation dollars
1:58:04 and i will pause there for any questions
1:58:07 thank you susie you do have a question
1:58:09 from council member hall
1:58:12 yeah thank you uh susie and mayor paulie
1:58:14 this is uh council member hall
1:58:16 um i just had a question i was hoping
1:58:19 someone could speak a little bit more to
1:58:21 the shift in
1:58:22 um project funding from the lakeside
1:58:24 agreement revenues to re
1:58:26 one revenues um and did that did that
1:58:29 shift occur
1:58:30 because of um i guess i'm curious why
1:58:33 that shift occurred
1:58:34 um did we learn more about you know any
1:58:36 restrictions that are placed on those
1:58:38 um how we can spend those i'm seeing i'm
1:58:41 seeing not so maybe that's it but if
1:58:42 someone could speak to that that would
1:58:43 be helpful thank you
1:58:45 um sure thank you councilmember hall uh
1:58:49 it was primarily in response to feedback
1:58:51 that we heard at last week's council
1:58:52 at the study session last week that the
1:58:56 while the lakeside development money is
1:58:58 not restricted
1:59:00 at least in the sense that it couldn't
1:59:01 be used for what we were proposing to
1:59:03 use it for
1:59:05 the we heard in the feedback that
1:59:09 there was a preference to preserve it
1:59:11 for uh
1:59:12 not necessarily ongoing maintenance
1:59:15 projects
1:59:16 but potentially for uh for other
1:59:19 investments down the road
1:59:23 council member hall did you need any
1:59:24 additional information
1:59:27 no thank you mayor paulie i appreciate
1:59:28 that reminder too
1:59:31 uh councilmember d michelle's question
1:59:33 thank you this is councilman rady
1:59:35 michelle
1:59:35 uh susie can we go back to project zero
1:59:38 two eight
1:59:42 there we go um so can we just talk a
1:59:45 little bit more
1:59:46 uh and go into more depth about what
1:59:48 shovel ready
1:59:49 actually means and i think you know a
1:59:52 week ago i asked the question
1:59:54 um if we get a project shovel ready is
1:59:57 it then
1:59:58 possible that we can apply for federal
2:00:00 grants that might be available and so
2:00:02 forth
2:00:03 so what does it mean when we say it's
2:00:05 going to be shovel ready and
2:00:07 what does that does that tee is up for
2:00:10 additional funding sources
2:00:13 sure uh thank you councilmember d
2:00:15 michelle and this is another example
2:00:17 where i think i know just enough to be
2:00:18 dangerous so i would like to
2:00:20 defer that question to transportation
2:00:22 manager john morton
2:00:31 hi councilmember d michelle a good
2:00:33 question about
2:00:34 what it does what it means to be
2:00:37 shovel ready for the northwest mamish
2:00:40 road non-motorized project
2:00:43 that would mean that we were ready if we
2:00:45 had a funding source to go out to bid
2:00:48 and actually do it as for but outside
2:00:50 funding opportunities
2:00:53 with the adjacent freaks
2:00:57 this is not a good jet project to
2:01:00 federalize
2:01:01 and accept federal funds for because to
2:01:03 get it shovel ready
2:01:06 to the point where we could accept
2:01:07 federal funds would take longer than
2:01:10 what the cip is showing because
2:01:14 there's been a change in how the
2:01:16 national marine fisheries service
2:01:19 reviews projects for the impacts to fish
2:01:22 if you guys remember
2:01:23 i think it's about in december there's a
2:01:25 news article about how
2:01:29 material from tires was responsible for
2:01:32 killing the salmon
2:01:33 and because of that shift the national
2:01:35 marine fisheries service
2:01:37 views existing roads as being deficient
2:01:42 and the standard to be able to get
2:01:45 their approval to do a federally funded
2:01:47 project
2:01:48 has increased substantially and
2:01:52 so i guess to answer the question we
2:01:54 could
2:01:55 go through the process to federalize
2:01:57 this project to be able to accept
2:02:00 federal potential federal monies for
2:02:02 this project
2:02:04 however it comes with a lot of risk
2:02:07 to the project because in order to get
2:02:10 through the permitting process
2:02:13 it could take a very long time
2:02:18 you john um councilmember dean michelle
2:02:22 wondering if that is enough of an answer
2:02:25 because there are
2:02:26 lots of different kinds of grants i
2:02:28 think one thing that our engineers are
2:02:30 telling us that some
2:02:31 are eligible some are more eligible for
2:02:34 grants and in other cases that
2:02:36 applying for those grants may cause more
2:02:38 hurdles than the benefit of the payment
2:02:40 but did you get everything that you need
2:02:42 yes thank you i appreciate the
2:02:44 thoroughness of the answer thank you
2:02:46 very much
2:02:47 thanks um deputy council president right
2:02:52 thank you mayor paulie since we're we're
2:02:54 talking about uh
2:02:55 northwest samamish road non-motorized
2:02:57 improvements my recollection
2:02:59 is that we um earmarked set aside
2:03:03 um some money um about three million
2:03:06 dollars in our last cip
2:03:08 to provide a cushion to uh washdot in
2:03:10 the event that they should have
2:03:12 overruns and so two questions one is
2:03:15 do we know when when would that money
2:03:17 become um
2:03:18 liberated if they don't need it and two
2:03:22 um how would we how would we
2:03:25 access it thank you that's the word i'm
2:03:28 struggling for how would he how would we
2:03:30 reprogram it that is a great question
2:03:33 um susie i think director goldberg would
2:03:35 like to start with this one thank you
2:03:40 absolutely
2:03:42 uh thanks for that question uh deputy
2:03:45 council president ray
2:03:46 um so you are correct that we had
2:03:49 earmarked three million dollars in the
2:03:51 event
2:03:51 that uh the wash dot work
2:03:55 required contingency funding and
2:03:58 while we're not completely out of the
2:04:00 woods yet for needing that money
2:04:03 all signals point to those funds not
2:04:06 being needed
2:04:08 the original plan had been if those
2:04:10 dollars were needed
2:04:12 to finance that with um general fund
2:04:16 debt service that existing debt service
2:04:18 capacity
2:04:20 but as we were planning for last
2:04:23 year's debt issuance the one related to
2:04:27 the signal at providence point the
2:04:29 original
2:04:31 and this is a good example of how things
2:04:32 evolve over time
2:04:34 the original plans that we did back in
2:04:37 2019 for the cip
2:04:39 contemplated uh 20-year debt um
2:04:42 but we were able to secure a bank loan
2:04:46 it was too difficult to go to the bond
2:04:47 market
2:04:49 for the the providence point debt um for
2:04:52 a variety of reasons that i won't go
2:04:54 into this evening although happy to
2:04:56 share offline
2:04:57 um we we secured a bank loan and that
2:05:00 was a
2:05:01 shorter duration which means that the
2:05:03 debt service costs are a little bit
2:05:04 higher than what we were anticipating
2:05:07 and then with covid basically that three
2:05:09 million
2:05:10 um we we've already assumed that we
2:05:13 wouldn't need that uh for budget
2:05:15 balancing purposes
2:05:17 so um that money and in essence is a lot
2:05:21 this is a long way of saying it's
2:05:23 is has been spoken for because of of
2:05:26 things that
2:05:26 uh had changed uh since 2019.
2:05:31 deputy council president ray do you need
2:05:33 some additional information
2:05:35 no that's great thanks thank you
2:05:38 susie you're up no more questions
2:05:42 right uh thank you mayor
2:05:45 um so to sum up the
2:05:48 the previous slides the table here shows
2:05:52 the updated root one cash flow following
2:05:54 these adjustments
2:05:56 so uh the the line really that i would
2:05:59 um draw your attention to is that um
2:06:03 i wish i had a pointer um is the the
2:06:06 revised estimated ending fund balance
2:06:08 um which is the second from the bottom
2:06:11 um which starts with the just about 2.5
2:06:13 million
2:06:15 so as you can see the adjustments will
2:06:17 slightly accelerate
2:06:18 when read one is anticipated to go into
2:06:21 the red
2:06:23 at least from what we are anticipating
2:06:26 in the proposed document
2:06:28 but like all revenues we will reevaluate
2:06:32 reit forecasts regularly outside of the
2:06:35 process so we will of course reevaluate
2:06:37 the available revenues and anticipated
2:06:40 expenditures each year
2:06:41 as part of that annual budget process to
2:06:44 ensure that we're not overdrawing on
2:06:46 available re-one funding
2:06:48 and we'll even before we hit potentially
2:06:52 2025 where it starts to dip below zero
2:06:56 there will of course be another cip that
2:06:59 we will um
2:07:00 bring back in in 2023.
2:07:04 uh so uh finally
2:07:08 uh we uh actually perhaps i'll just
2:07:11 pause there for
2:07:12 a fair question thank you susie yes
2:07:15 there is a question from council member
2:07:18 uh yeah thank you just a quick
2:07:20 clarifying question for susie this is
2:07:21 councilmember hall so
2:07:23 um reit
2:07:26 the reit ending fund balance is still
2:07:29 projected to be in the red earlier even
2:07:32 the the reductions in shifts in funding
2:07:35 for other reit 1 supported projects from
2:07:37 the previous slide
2:07:39 correct yes um yeah so
2:07:42 for the most part we ended up um adding
2:07:46 more in new rate one supported cost
2:07:49 um than we were able to find in in
2:07:51 additional reductions
2:07:54 susie could you also add a bit about um
2:07:58 the focus on the first two years and
2:08:00 less of a focus on the last few years
2:08:02 and that it's our expectation that we
2:08:04 will not be
2:08:05 in the red by the time we reach 2024
2:08:08 2025 because we'll have revised
2:08:09 projections
2:08:10 so it's not that we're expecting to draw
2:08:12 it down it's just that we have the most
2:08:14 certainty in 2022 and 2023.
2:08:17 absolutely yes thank you mayor for that
2:08:18 clarification um
2:08:20 that is the the precise reason as the
2:08:22 mayor mentioned why we make
2:08:24 a special effort to balance 2022 and
2:08:27 2023 or the first two years
2:08:29 of the cip because those are really the
2:08:31 years where we have more certainty
2:08:33 um in our forecasting um more certainty
2:08:37 of course being a relative term
2:08:39 um so when it comes to revenue
2:08:41 forecasting
2:08:42 and reit in particular is a fairly
2:08:44 volatile revenue source
2:08:46 um that can uh swing um year to year
2:08:51 so it is certainly our intent never to
2:08:54 uh spend more reach uh revenue than we
2:08:58 um so it really is part of the revenue
2:09:01 forecast that we'll perform each year
2:09:02 we'll make sure that we are
2:09:04 staying within the bounds of available
2:09:06 revenue
2:09:10 council member hall did you get what you
2:09:11 needed
2:09:13 yes i did thank you very much for the
2:09:14 answer and thank you for the follow-up
2:09:16 clarification too i think both were
2:09:18 helpful
2:09:19 great susie great
2:09:23 so finally we also included
2:09:26 various materials in tonight's council
2:09:28 packet
2:09:29 as was requested at last week's study
2:09:31 session and these include
2:09:34 the the summary of the the
2:09:37 adjustments that we just went through
2:09:38 the mayor's recommended revisions to the
2:09:41 proposed vip
2:09:42 we included a school zone safety fund
2:09:45 overview as well as a reach overview
2:09:49 we provided further information on the
2:09:52 anticipated grants
2:09:54 in the cip we provided an overview of
2:09:59 the the information that director
2:10:00 goldberg provided at the beginning of
2:10:02 this presentation around why project mix
2:10:05 project cost change we provided two
2:10:08 memos around
2:10:10 the newport way project and we also
2:10:13 provided a funding source
2:10:15 matrix but um then that piece was sent
2:10:17 directly over email
2:10:20 um so i i just wanted to take it an
2:10:23 opportunity here to see if there were
2:10:24 any questions or
2:10:25 additional feedback from these materials
2:10:28 we won't necessarily be going into
2:10:30 further detail on them here
2:10:33 thank you susie and thank you for doing
2:10:36 is very much mimics what we do with the
2:10:38 operating budget as well
2:10:40 the annual budget so thank you for doing
2:10:44 does anybody have additional questions
2:10:45 on the material that was presented and i
2:10:47 see councilmember martz has a question
2:10:51 thank you madam mayor so one of the
2:10:53 revisions
2:10:55 had to do with signage
2:10:59 and it reduced out year
2:11:04 expenditures but what is the new
2:11:07 uh what is the new total part of the cip
2:11:11 uh for that line for the wayfinding
2:11:14 section
2:11:16 great question back to susie or she's
2:11:19 going to
2:11:20 throw it out to somebody uh i may take a
2:11:24 brief stab at it and see if uh director
2:11:26 watling
2:11:27 wants to add any additional information
2:11:30 the adjustment to the wayfinding project
2:11:32 ultimately reduces
2:11:34 the project cost for each year to
2:11:37 hundred thousand so across the six year
2:11:40 uh i'm not great at math on my feet but
2:11:43 this should be simple enough to 1.2
2:11:45 million
2:11:48 okay um thank you uh i think
2:11:53 okay that i'm gonna limit myself to
2:11:55 questions right now
2:11:56 the second question that i have is
2:11:59 uh probably for direct goldberg and the
2:12:03 question is
2:12:04 uh does any of this involve councilmanic
2:12:08 bond uh use of consummatic bond
2:12:10 authority
2:12:10 and if not what is our current
2:12:12 councilmanic bond authority
2:12:16 uh thank you for that uh question
2:12:18 councilmember martz um
2:12:20 uh this package does not assume
2:12:23 any councilmanic uh debt um
2:12:27 uh i believe at the first presentation
2:12:30 um that i i don't think you were were
2:12:34 at we talked about this a little bit um
2:12:37 we have plenty of debt capacity so our
2:12:39 debt capacity
2:12:40 is set by rcw it's tied to
2:12:44 um our assessed property valuation
2:12:48 and most jurisdictions in the state of
2:12:50 washington have plenty of debt capacity
2:12:53 they don't have the revenues and the
2:12:57 resources to support that debt capacity
2:13:00 so similar to the response
2:13:04 to deputy council president ray and his
2:13:07 question about
2:13:08 the three million dollars and and the
2:13:11 debt for that
2:13:14 as things evolved since the last cip
2:13:17 was adopted the main reason that
2:13:20 debt capacity is not available is um
2:13:23 because the providence point project was
2:13:26 funded on a shorter time period than
2:13:31 then was originally contemplated when we
2:13:33 did the tbd sales tax package
2:13:36 and were contemplating debt over 20
2:13:38 years
2:13:39 so most of the debt capacity that was
2:13:42 assumed
2:13:43 back in 2019 is no longer available
2:13:47 unless the city council wanted to make a
2:13:49 decision
2:13:50 that it was willing to allocate
2:13:54 some of our existing budget budget to
2:13:58 supporting debt and and that would be
2:14:00 something that
2:14:02 would mean that general fund revenues
2:14:05 wouldn't be available for
2:14:06 other operating purposes within
2:14:09 the budget but for the purposes of the
2:14:13 that is before you tonight it assumes no
2:14:16 councilmanic
2:14:17 uh debt over the sixth period six year
2:14:20 period of this cip
2:14:22 that's my remarks okay and i i apologize
2:14:25 i always say complement and i always
2:14:27 realize it's councilmanic
2:14:29 which sounds weird uh but what what is
2:14:31 that capacity currently
2:14:34 uh understanding that nothing is free
2:14:36 and that it's like
2:14:37 you know the bank maybe the bank will
2:14:39 give you a loan loan on a very large
2:14:41 house it does not mean you should
2:14:42 purchase a very large house
2:14:44 what is our capacity currently i would
2:14:46 have to run
2:14:47 those numbers since we weren't utilizing
2:14:51 councilmanic debt in this package
2:14:54 i didn't run the numbers but i would be
2:14:56 happy to run those numbers
2:14:57 and provide that uh to the city council
2:15:02 as a follow-up to this meeting that's
2:15:04 great thank you
2:15:05 it just as a as a sidebar that was one
2:15:08 of the knobs when we had the
2:15:09 ad hoc finance committee in uh 2019 and
2:15:13 looked at various combinations of
2:15:16 complement bonding councilmanic bonding
2:15:19 and voter approved bonding
2:15:21 and ending fund expenditures etc it's
2:15:23 one of the
2:15:24 knobs you can turn thank you thank you
2:15:26 council member mertz
2:15:28 uh council president hunt has a question
2:15:31 thank you this is council president hunt
2:15:34 the transportation benefit district has
2:15:37 mentioned a couple of times tonight and
2:15:39 it's also in our
2:15:41 it's in our materials as well and i
2:15:44 wondered if someone might
2:15:45 please describe what that process would
2:15:49 look like at a very high level what the
2:15:51 year year time year time frame so big
2:15:54 picture time frame
2:15:56 might look like for um community
2:15:58 engagement and then
2:15:59 also what council's role in that
2:16:03 would look like very high level thanks
2:16:08 sure and i would actually love to ask
2:16:12 director goldberg to come back um for
2:16:14 that question
2:16:18 i actually think the mayor may have some
2:16:20 thoughts on this so i'm going to turn it
2:16:22 back over this
2:16:23 oh wow this is a volleyball or something
2:16:25 hang on
2:16:26 um actually i didn't um have any
2:16:29 thoughts beyond the fact that when we
2:16:31 had talked about tbd
2:16:33 as a revenue tool the council was shown
2:16:36 some slides about how they might use it
2:16:38 and i think maybe what we can do
2:16:40 if it's okay with council president is
2:16:42 find that information and send it back
2:16:44 because it did lay out if you went to
2:16:47 ballot
2:16:48 at this time it would your collect
2:16:50 revenue collection would start
2:16:52 out here and you would actually be able
2:16:53 to spend it out here so i think that
2:16:55 information is available we just don't
2:16:56 have it for you tonight
2:16:58 and and i'm sorry if i misunderstood the
2:17:01 question i thought it was more related
2:17:04 to like uh engagement process but in
2:17:07 terms of
2:17:08 of timeline um yes the mayor is correct
2:17:12 we do and all of a sudden my
2:17:13 i look like i'm sitting in the dark um
2:17:19 there is a there there are a couple of
2:17:22 of timelines
2:17:23 that um the city council would need to
2:17:25 use to put it on the ballot
2:17:27 um the most significant would be a
2:17:29 decision on timing
2:17:31 so there are two there are multiple
2:17:34 times a year when you could put it on
2:17:35 the ballot but the two most likely times
2:17:38 are the august ballot or the november
2:17:41 ballot and then depending on that you
2:17:44 walk it back um and there there are
2:17:47 rules on this i don't remember off the
2:17:49 top of my head but the the king county
2:17:51 um elections office sets a date by which
2:17:54 you have to have the
2:17:56 the the ballot language and council has
2:17:58 to decide
2:17:59 on when to approve it and then before
2:18:02 that is when you would engage
2:18:04 in public outreach
2:18:07 and um developing the package so it can
2:18:11 it can be quite lengthy and one other
2:18:14 thing to keep in mind
2:18:15 is that once the city council puts the
2:18:18 item on the ballot
2:18:21 the the city can't advocate for the
2:18:24 package
2:18:24 any longer so really the time to
2:18:28 engage and advocate for the package
2:18:31 is that is that uh preliminary work
2:18:34 before council decides to put it on the
2:18:36 ballot so that becomes a very important
2:18:38 period of time
2:18:43 thank you for that if i might just
2:18:44 clarify one thing
2:18:46 um council would then in that case
2:18:49 have a vote to a vote of the council to
2:18:53 put it on a ballot at a certain timing
2:18:55 is that correct
2:18:56 correct that is that's correct okay and
2:18:59 we have not yet
2:19:00 taken a vote for that in the past is
2:19:02 that also correct
2:19:03 that's correct thank you
2:19:10 sorry uh this is the mayor just uh one
2:19:12 more thing council president
2:19:14 is that the amount of time to do the
2:19:17 project discussion
2:19:19 and gather the information on which
2:19:20 projects to put in is
2:19:22 as the directors like quite a period of
2:19:25 we are proposing in the operating in the
2:19:27 budget that comes forward to you
2:19:29 this fall to include funding
2:19:32 for the process and to include funding
2:19:36 for the ballot measure itself
2:19:37 since there are costs associated with
2:19:39 running a ballot measure so
2:19:41 that will be likely be a proposal in the
2:19:44 budget that you will be seeing this
2:19:45 september the draft budget
2:19:49 thank you i'm not seeing any other
2:19:52 questions at this time susie
2:19:55 great thank you mayor um so
2:19:58 to close this out uh we're able to
2:20:02 shift one of our boxes here to that
2:20:04 light green
2:20:05 um so following tonight's meeting we
2:20:07 will be back
2:20:08 next week for continued deliberations
2:20:11 um and we are still anticipating to
2:20:14 continue the public hearing on the 17th
2:20:16 and the anticipated adoption that night
2:20:19 as well
2:20:20 so with that that is the end of my
2:20:24 formal presentation so i will stop
2:20:26 sharing my screen
2:20:29 thank you susie i am not sure that we
2:20:30 have given the um
2:20:32 counsel an opportunity for comments as
2:20:34 well so let's um
2:20:35 first go to see the administrator bob
2:20:37 quits who would like to make some
2:20:38 comments and then if there's any council
2:20:39 members that would like to provide some
2:20:41 because i know
2:20:42 uh councilman mertz indicated that he
2:20:43 might have some additional thoughts
2:20:46 yeah thank you man yes thank you madam
2:20:49 mayor members of the council
2:20:50 uh appreciate your patience with us this
2:20:54 evening as we have kind of
2:20:56 walked through a number of the questions
2:20:57 that were raised last week
2:20:59 we are concluded now with our our
2:21:01 presentation of information so
2:21:03 we would welcome any additional
2:21:05 questions or comments that you have
2:21:07 otherwise uh we will come back next week
2:21:10 just ready for additional questions and
2:21:12 comments from the council on any
2:21:13 or further deliberations but we do not
2:21:15 have any other
2:21:17 presentations planned i just wanted to
2:21:19 make that clear
2:21:20 as we look toward the next meeting thank
2:21:22 you madame
2:21:23 thank you so at this point in time i'll
2:21:25 open up to comments from many of the
2:21:26 council members
2:21:28 and i will wait for a bit and look in
2:21:30 the chat to see if there are any
2:21:31 general comments to share let's start
2:21:33 with council member d michelle
2:21:37 thank you this is councilman d michelle
2:21:40 i do want to express my appreciation to
2:21:42 the administration for
2:21:44 the responsiveness to our discussion and
2:21:48 i do appreciate that i will reiterate
2:21:50 what i said last week it's
2:21:51 very sobering to see how many
2:21:54 worthy projects are not funded
2:21:58 and i think that we do need to have a
2:22:01 robust discussion about
2:22:04 where we're going to find new revenues
2:22:06 and i'm looking forward to having that
2:22:08 discussion with the council
2:22:09 and the administration so thanks to the
2:22:12 administration for the work that's been
2:22:14 to date and i i do appreciate
2:22:17 the just the thoughtfulness and the
2:22:21 responsiveness that uh was demonstrated
2:22:24 thank you
2:22:25 thank you councilmember d michelle
2:22:27 anyone else wishing to make comments
2:22:28 before we move to
2:22:30 the last item on our agenda this evening
2:22:31 second website
2:22:33 council president hunt
2:22:36 thank you this is council president hunt
2:22:39 and i
2:22:40 too wanted to say thank you to the
2:22:42 administration for being responsive to
2:22:43 our conversation that we had at our last
2:22:46 study session
2:22:47 i appreciate that there is more funding
2:22:49 identified for
2:22:51 tr 28 which is the non-motorized
2:22:54 um connection along uh lake samamish
2:22:58 um this is one that we've received many
2:23:00 emails
2:23:01 about in the last few days and and over
2:23:04 all the years i've been on council
2:23:06 and i think that in my
2:23:10 estimation showing more of a commitment
2:23:13 to this project
2:23:15 is important for the cip i think it's
2:23:17 important that we do that
2:23:18 now i am concerned about the
2:23:20 transportation benefit district and
2:23:22 and hinging this project in particular
2:23:25 on that because it is a long process it
2:23:28 would ultimately be decided by the
2:23:29 voters and i think that in this case of
2:23:31 this project
2:23:32 we've heard clearly from the community
2:23:34 that it should be
2:23:35 prioritized and that it's a safety
2:23:37 concern
2:23:38 so that is my feedback on that i like
2:23:41 the direction of identifying funding for
2:23:43 that i think it should be
2:23:45 i i would like to see more funding
2:23:47 identified to cover more
2:23:49 contingencies and to reduce the
2:23:51 uncertainty
2:23:52 around the future of that project
2:23:55 on the lakeside agreement i
2:23:58 didn't recall a consensus about i i
2:24:01 definitely heard questions
2:24:02 at our last discussion about that and
2:24:05 what was available
2:24:06 uh what was appropriate for use of that
2:24:08 questions around that
2:24:09 um i do think that council should have a
2:24:12 discussion around
2:24:14 the recommendation i think it
2:24:17 personally i think it would be
2:24:19 appropriate to use that
2:24:22 for a community priority
2:24:26 and that i don't personally think that
2:24:31 if it's maintenance or not uh factors
2:24:34 into that
2:24:35 but i definitely think we should have a
2:24:36 conversation i don't remember a
2:24:38 consensus coming out of council
2:24:40 regarding the use of that fund so i
2:24:42 think we should have that discussion
2:24:44 um and then lastly i appreciate that the
2:24:48 park sign
2:24:49 um the changes were made to the park
2:24:52 signs and wayfinding i think that should
2:24:53 continue to be a conversation i know
2:24:55 there's a survey out right now so
2:24:57 the scope of that project i think should
2:24:59 continue to be a conversation
2:25:01 and again i would just stress that i
2:25:02 think the safety projects especially tr
2:25:05 28 i think those should be prioritized
2:25:08 thank you thank you council president
2:25:10 hunt deputy council president ray
2:25:12 thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
2:25:14 just a couple of thoughts on the cip
2:25:17 i think it has done a lot of its
2:25:20 intended
2:25:20 job which is to highlight the holes in
2:25:24 our funding model
2:25:26 so as we we move forward with this
2:25:29 and we look to the future which is what
2:25:32 it's intended for
2:25:33 we see that beyond 2023 we have
2:25:38 a a plethora of unfunded
2:25:42 or underfunded projects that we need to
2:25:44 figure out what we're going to do with
2:25:46 and um i would like to find a time to
2:25:50 get that discussion uh
2:25:52 started sooner rather than later and see
2:25:54 as councilmember marx has talked about a
2:25:56 couple times
2:25:57 what are the knobs and buttons and
2:25:59 switches we have at our disposal
2:26:01 that will help us to possibly fill
2:26:04 some of those those voids out there
2:26:07 because
2:26:08 it the plan really did highlight the
2:26:11 fact that we are
2:26:13 not really in a position to do much of
2:26:15 this work that we desire to do
2:26:18 thank you deputy council president ray
2:26:20 i'm keeping an eye on the chat to see if
2:26:22 there's anyone else who wants to add
2:26:23 some comments this evening
2:26:25 it's okay not to
2:26:30 okay if i miss somebody because i have
2:26:32 my script up just let me know
2:26:35 um so thank you for that i think uh
2:26:38 susie's last slide showed that the
2:26:40 continuing deliberations and discussions
2:26:42 will happen at the may 11th study
2:26:44 session
2:26:45 uh continued public hearing and adoption
2:26:48 for the may 17th council meeting so the
2:26:50 next item
2:26:51 of business for today is uh
2:26:55 unless susie has another presentation
2:26:57 that i missed ab-8165
2:26:59 amending city council rules of
2:27:01 procedures are we adding council new
2:27:03 business
2:27:04 the action before the council this
2:27:06 evening is to approve the resolution and
2:27:08 adopt the ordinance and i'd like to
2:27:10 invite city clerk tina eggers to
2:27:12 introduce this item
2:27:17 oh thank you there there is a comment
2:27:19 posed uh to you in
2:27:21 um chat on a potential break if that is
2:27:24 the desire
2:27:25 i think that is a great idea because we
2:27:28 do know that we also have an executive
2:27:30 session this evening and good of the
2:27:31 order left so
2:27:33 um let's go into a five minute break
2:27:36 and come back at around 9 30
2:27:41 to 9 30 see you then
2:28:02 and shannon if you're here
2:28:05 this is an opportunity to quickly test
2:28:08 your audio and video
2:28:09 so i'm going to quickly make you a
2:28:11 panelist
2:28:13 you want to take a minute to test
2:28:19 and you should have the option to unmute
2:28:21 and turn your video on now
2:28:25 okay um i'm on the wrong screen hold on
2:28:28 i've got a couple
2:28:29 okay but i can hear you and i can see
2:28:32 so that's great okay awesome
2:28:35 okay so we have another agenda item and
2:28:39 the exact session so i'll put you back
2:28:41 in what we refer to as the green room
2:28:43 until that time okay thank you
2:33:29 welcome back everyone i think where we
2:33:32 left off was the city clerk's about to
2:33:34 make a presentation
2:33:36 tina thank you madam mayor city council
2:33:41 going to shift here real quick to
2:33:43 display my
2:33:46 screen
2:33:55 one other setting all right thank you
2:33:57 again
2:33:58 i'll keep it brief uh let's see
2:34:02 at the march 29th study session uh you
2:34:04 expressed support for a mechanism
2:34:07 um that council members could bring
2:34:09 forward new work plan
2:34:10 items for consideration at that time we
2:34:13 heard a majority of council members were
2:34:15 one interested in a location on the
2:34:17 agenda for that purpose
2:34:19 two that there was a desire for a short
2:34:21 form with guiding
2:34:22 questions and three that there was a
2:34:24 majority vote
2:34:25 to move would be required to move a
2:34:28 proposal forward for
2:34:29 further consideration we prepared
2:34:33 some amendments for your consideration
2:34:35 those are included in the packet under
2:34:41 that process that's proposed is the
2:34:44 addition of a new section to the rules
2:34:46 it changes two existing sect uh sections
2:34:49 order of business and agenda prep
2:34:53 this slide here demonstrates the key
2:34:55 components of the new business
2:34:57 request process which is uh or would be
2:35:00 housed under council rules section
2:35:02 4.17 the steps are outlined here
2:35:06 step one would be an introduction of the
2:35:10 and then if council uh as a as a
2:35:13 majority wish to
2:35:15 move that on it would proceed and return
2:35:17 again
2:35:18 uh for further discussion and then again
2:35:21 if council wished to
2:35:25 approve that for adding it to the work
2:35:27 plan it would
2:35:28 move through the normal process whether
2:35:30 it be a study session
2:35:31 or returning as an agenda bill through
2:35:34 that process
2:35:37 we heard you on having a short form so
2:35:39 we created something this is a sample
2:35:42 of what the form might look like and for
2:35:44 convenience i envisioned this
2:35:46 actually becoming an e form and i said
2:35:49 i so i suspect it'll look a bit
2:35:51 different from what you see on the
2:35:52 screen regardless again we're trying to
2:35:54 keep it
2:35:55 minimum a title uh who's requesting it
2:35:59 this could be one council member or
2:36:01 three working together as a group
2:36:03 uh would include the date by which you
2:36:06 wanted to have it included in the packet
2:36:09 for consideration
2:36:10 and would also have an open text field
2:36:12 for the purpose of providing
2:36:14 the proposal we do ask
2:36:18 or propose that the deadline of
2:36:21 receiving that would
2:36:22 be one week in advance of producing the
2:36:24 packets so that we could
2:36:26 ensure that it's included for council
2:36:28 review
2:36:30 you have some choices some options this
2:36:32 evening you could certainly approve or
2:36:34 amend
2:36:35 you can refer this on to the council
2:36:37 rules ad hoc committee that's already in
2:36:39 place
2:36:40 or you can maintain status quo which
2:36:42 would be
2:36:44 picking no action i do have some other
2:36:46 information
2:36:48 that i can pull up such as the council
2:36:50 rules or any other information in the
2:36:51 packet if that's helpful to your
2:36:53 discussion
2:36:57 thank you tina thank you
2:37:00 um looking for counsel questions in the
2:37:11 and if there are no counsel questions is
2:37:14 somebody prepared to make a motion
2:37:21 excuse me mayor cawley there are some
2:37:23 questions in the chat
2:37:25 oh oh you're right sorry
2:37:28 not scrolled down uh let's start with
2:37:30 council member d michelle
2:37:32 oh nope that was a plus one let's start
2:37:34 with council member hall
2:37:36 and then it looks like we have a couple
2:37:37 other after that thank you very much
2:37:39 council president
2:37:41 uh thank you very much this is uh
2:37:43 councilmember hall um
2:37:44 just a quick question wondering if the
2:37:47 ad hoc
2:37:49 city council committee on our council
2:37:51 rules and procedures had any hand in
2:37:53 helping develop this policy or if this
2:37:55 was just directly from our feedback at
2:37:57 this study session
2:38:00 thank you councilmember hall clerk
2:38:02 you're speaking uh great question
2:38:04 uh this was built directly on the
2:38:06 feedback that we heard at the study
2:38:07 session
2:38:12 and uh let's go to council president
2:38:18 thank you this is council president hunt
2:38:21 my question is around um proclamations
2:38:24 or similar um similar items
2:38:29 and i'm wondering if there was a
2:38:31 proclamation which council sometimes
2:38:34 adopt um and if it were if there would
2:38:38 a simpler process that could be done
2:38:41 more time efficiently for prop
2:38:45 for things that would be relatively
2:38:48 less that would require relatively less
2:38:53 touches
2:38:54 both on the council side and less work
2:38:56 on the staff side
2:38:59 and my question is really because i
2:39:00 think that currently the way it's laid
2:39:02 out you would need a regular business
2:39:03 meeting
2:39:04 then it would need to return at a
2:39:05 regular business meeting and then it
2:39:07 would need to
2:39:08 come back a third time and for something
2:39:10 that's time sensitive i'm wondering if
2:39:12 there could be a different
2:39:13 simpler process thank you quickers may i
2:39:16 add a comment before you start with the
2:39:19 actual
2:39:20 robert's rules you guys are so good on
2:39:23 procedure
2:39:24 you know a lot of the proclamations we
2:39:26 do out of the mayor's office we're using
2:39:27 templates that are used in the region
2:39:30 and it's um added to the agenda and read
2:39:33 is i i think when council makes a
2:39:35 proclamation
2:39:36 one of the couple of things we've
2:39:38 stumbled over is that it's the seven of
2:39:41 and so um there'll be some sort of
2:39:44 process
2:39:45 needed because other
2:39:48 you'd all have to agree on the wording
2:39:50 so um
2:39:52 clear geckers
2:39:55 thank you madam mayor clerk taylor
2:39:57 speaking
2:39:58 uh we certainly don't want to
2:40:01 over process the ability
2:40:04 to bring items forward we want to
2:40:07 provide the opportunity for thoughtful
2:40:08 conversation and ensure that there's a
2:40:10 majority of council that wishes to
2:40:12 pursue the item it doesn't
2:40:15 stop the conversation from having items
2:40:18 come from the mayor
2:40:20 coming from a request through the
2:40:22 executive office
2:40:23 part of council leadership this is
2:40:27 a just a new mechanism that was
2:40:30 more formal currently it was housed
2:40:33 under good of the order
2:40:35 and this just brings it out into a
2:40:38 separate category for that
2:40:39 you could certainly add some additional
2:40:41 language that
2:40:43 might bypass time-sensitive items
2:40:47 to skip step two if that's important uh
2:40:50 so we look for
2:40:50 your feedback on what language that you
2:40:53 would like developed
2:40:55 thank you clark edgars uh council
2:40:57 president did you have a follow-up
2:40:59 question
2:41:00 no that way no that answered my question
2:41:02 thank you thank you i'll go to council
2:41:03 member mertz
2:41:06 thank you madam mayor and my my i had
2:41:09 two questions the first of which was
2:41:10 actually
2:41:11 um similar to the council presidents and
2:41:13 it really in my way of thinking it had
2:41:15 to do with things that might be
2:41:17 uh kind of making the rounds among
2:41:20 municipalities you could for instance
2:41:23 an ordinance having to do with straws
2:41:25 let's say there was an ordinance
2:41:27 sweeping the land
2:41:28 that was for banning straws one could
2:41:31 envision
2:41:32 a council member presenting that where
2:41:34 in fact the uniformity with other cities
2:41:36 is not merely uh
2:41:38 it's not merely a coincidence but a
2:41:40 central tenet or central importance
2:41:43 of it so that seems a place where having
2:41:46 that ability to move forward
2:41:48 directly might be
2:41:52 [Music]
2:41:54 something that a wise council might want
2:41:55 to do and that certainly has happened
2:41:57 with other cities we don't tend to
2:41:59 seem to get on those municipality
2:42:01 bandwagons very often but i could
2:42:02 envision a situation where it would
2:42:04 the other question that i had was uh
2:42:07 uh for clerk eggers and it was whether
2:42:11 some of this we have to be careful about
2:42:13 right there's rcw associated with how
2:42:15 strong mayor
2:42:16 cities work and a council can't
2:42:18 completely bind future councils on how
2:42:21 i mean right there's some language that
2:42:23 has to do with the role of city councils
2:42:25 that issaquah can only go so far
2:42:27 right it can't you can't overwrite rcw
2:42:30 that has to do with strong mayor systems
2:42:32 right
2:42:32 and we i i would assume this this
2:42:35 policy has already been looked at in
2:42:37 terms of that it doesn't step on
2:42:39 anything
2:42:39 rcw related when we talk about limiting
2:42:42 the ability of the council
2:42:43 or in what forms a council can bring
2:42:45 forward a bill i i would want to make
2:42:47 sure that it doesn't
2:42:48 translate with anything in rcw
2:42:52 thank you thank you clerk agars i can
2:42:56 speak to
2:42:57 the question that was directly to me
2:42:59 about the uh
2:43:00 um rcw's uh this is an alignment it's
2:43:04 um it's it's supposed to give
2:43:07 the council the ability to bring items
2:43:09 forward as an individual and for the
2:43:11 council as a whole to decide
2:43:12 um and at any time council can revisit
2:43:16 its work plan and decide if what it if
2:43:19 it decides to
2:43:19 make changes to that
2:43:23 councilmember martz no no further
2:43:27 questions
2:43:30 uh i am not seeing any other questions
2:43:32 uh councilmember g michelle has
2:43:34 uh are there any more questions because
2:43:36 if not then i'm
2:43:38 going to um i think comments would be
2:43:42 appropriate after a motion council
2:43:43 member demonshop that makes sense so let
2:43:45 me see if there's any more questions
2:43:50 there is a motion in the chat there's
2:43:53 somebody who care to make a motion
2:43:56 that's president hunt
2:44:00 this council president hunt i move to
2:44:02 approve resolution number
2:44:04 2021-08 amending the city council rules
2:44:07 or procedure to amend
2:44:08 section 4.05 and add a new section 4.17
2:44:12 adding new business as an order of
2:44:14 business to city council meetings
2:44:16 establishing a new business request
2:44:18 process and amending section 4.04
2:44:21 agenda preparation and adoption
2:44:24 ordinance number 2943 amending imc
2:44:28 2.06.110
2:44:30 adding a new business as an order of
2:44:32 business at city council meeting
2:44:36 and looking for a second
2:44:43 council member walsh thank you this is
2:44:45 councilmember walsh ii
2:44:47 thank you um so it's been moved and
2:44:52 seconded so let's open it up for
2:44:53 discussion
2:44:54 and i can let the motion maker start and
2:44:57 uh the second if so desires and then
2:44:59 i'll move to council member d michelle
2:45:03 thank you this is council president hunt
2:45:06 generally supportive of this i do
2:45:10 have the one concern which i um
2:45:15 which i asked about earlier which is
2:45:17 that i think there are certain
2:45:19 items that might be time sensitive for
2:45:21 example
2:45:22 um we've had in the past the
2:45:24 proclamation of issaquah as a hate-free
2:45:26 zone and i believe that was in response
2:45:28 to an incident and so
2:45:30 there might be times where we want to
2:45:32 have something that moves
2:45:33 faster through the process and so having
2:45:35 to it go through three meetings in that
2:45:38 and especially if it's something
2:45:41 that i wouldn't require those in-depth
2:45:43 policy discussions for example at a
2:45:45 study session i would like to
2:45:47 have the ability to be um
2:45:50 be more quickly responsive for those
2:45:52 items other than that
2:45:53 i am interested to hear what the rest of
2:45:55 council thinks but i think this is
2:45:57 a step in the right direction thank you
2:45:59 thank you councilmember walsh
2:46:01 thank you um i i appreciate this as an
2:46:04 additional option for us as a way to
2:46:07 bring new business to council i i think
2:46:11 this doesn't replace any of the existing
2:46:13 options
2:46:14 of leadership um discussing something
2:46:17 or coming directly from the mayor so i
2:46:20 think in the case of
2:46:21 timely factors that
2:46:25 in my opinion covers it um but i think
2:46:28 this gives us an
2:46:29 opportunity to really
2:46:33 be able to move some things forward and
2:46:35 i appreciate the
2:46:37 kind of swift response in this i
2:46:39 appreciate the
2:46:42 you know just very limited form as a way
2:46:45 to test this out see if it works for us
2:46:49 as a way to um bring some of that new
2:46:52 business so
2:46:52 thank you thank you councilmember walsh
2:46:55 now councilmember james
2:46:58 thank you mayor paulie um i
2:47:02 first of all i really appreciate the
2:47:03 work that went into this i really uh
2:47:06 do like for the most part i like the
2:47:10 that was created and
2:47:14 i i just want to express my appreciation
2:47:16 for that however i
2:47:18 am going to oppose this motion because i
2:47:22 i think that there have been a couple of
2:47:24 questions raised tonight
2:47:25 and others that i would like to see this
2:47:28 forwarded to the ad hoc committee so
2:47:30 that it can come back
2:47:32 as part of a package of recommendations
2:47:35 that are all united around the role of
2:47:38 the council
2:47:39 in uh controlling the or
2:47:42 exerting more control over the um
2:47:46 the agendas that uh are put before us
2:47:49 and so
2:47:49 i think the fact that we've had a couple
2:47:51 of questions raised about
2:47:53 about this and then secondly the fact
2:47:55 that we have an ad hoc group
2:47:57 working on a package of recommendations
2:48:00 i would rather have uh this referred to
2:48:03 the ad hoc committee
2:48:04 so i will be opposing it but not because
2:48:07 i oppose the form and not because i
2:48:09 oppose this particular part of it uh i
2:48:11 think the work was really
2:48:13 well done but simply because i think
2:48:15 there's a larger issues
2:48:17 uh that we that the ad hoc committee can
2:48:20 address and bring back with a series of
2:48:22 recommendations
2:48:23 so that's my take on it thank you
2:48:26 thank you councilmember d michelle so
2:48:28 i'm going to do a couple of things
2:48:30 one is allow for council members to
2:48:32 comment
2:48:33 on your comments and if there
2:48:37 is a sense that that you may want to
2:48:39 take this a different way i'll allow the
2:48:41 city clerk to weigh in and
2:48:43 advise you on the best way to do that so
2:48:46 i see we have comments from council
2:48:49 member hall
2:48:51 uh thank you yeah this is councilmember
2:48:53 zack hall
2:48:57 i agree that i think the you know uh
2:48:59 most appropriate next step would be to
2:49:01 refer this to the ad hoc committee that
2:49:03 we established to look into this in kind
2:49:05 of a comprehensive way
2:49:06 um but before i get into that kind of
2:49:08 want to take a step back
2:49:10 um in you know tell all of you
2:49:13 my colleagues kind of what in my mind
2:49:15 what i think we're doing
2:49:17 um because a lot of our last meeting you
2:49:19 know was spent you know
2:49:20 asking the question of you know like
2:49:21 what problem are we trying to solve and
2:49:23 stuff like that so
2:49:24 the way i'm looking at this is you know
2:49:26 governments
2:49:27 just like the private sector how they
2:49:29 innovate um
2:49:30 you know need to continually you know
2:49:33 update procedures and look to best
2:49:35 practices
2:49:36 in the region or for other governments
2:49:40 through community engagement you know
2:49:41 that help us do the people's work i
2:49:42 think more effectively more
2:49:43 appropriately in a more transparent way
2:49:46 so i feel that that's a foundational
2:49:49 fundamental
2:49:50 part of government is always finding
2:49:52 ways to improve yourselves and deliver
2:49:54 services better to the people
2:49:57 i think that there are some really
2:49:58 interesting and
2:50:00 cool things about this new system that
2:50:03 might make it more transparent make it
2:50:05 easier
2:50:06 um to bring up new things if you have an
2:50:11 in your one council member i think there
2:50:13 are also some interesting questions that
2:50:15 were brought up tonight
2:50:16 that are in need of further discussion
2:50:20 if we want to bring up things that are
2:50:22 time sensitive or if they're resolutions
2:50:24 or proclamations how do we do that
2:50:26 because one way i'm seeing that too is
2:50:28 you know there's an existing
2:50:29 pathway right now where us as council
2:50:32 members just call up the administration
2:50:33 right and say oh there's this really
2:50:35 important proclamation this really
2:50:37 important
2:50:37 um declaration for the national week of
2:50:40 drinking water that we need to make sure
2:50:41 to recognize
2:50:43 um so there's that pathway that exists
2:50:45 already too that i think that we should
2:50:46 talk about
2:50:48 um so anyways those were just all my
2:50:51 thoughts i do think it would be more
2:50:52 appropriate to refer back to the
2:50:55 uh ad hoc committee thanks so while i'm
2:50:58 waiting to see thank you council member
2:51:00 hall well i'm waiting to see if there's
2:51:01 anyone
2:51:02 else who oh there we go deputy council
2:51:03 president ray
2:51:05 thanks mayor quality this is chris wray
2:51:07 so when we formed
2:51:08 or we had the meeting to discuss um
2:51:12 a number of topics around how we do
2:51:14 business the first topic which was
2:51:16 really
2:51:17 around um adding a new
2:51:20 agenda item there was general consensus
2:51:23 and then there were a number of other
2:51:25 items that were a little squishier so we
2:51:27 decided that
2:51:28 we would create the ad hoc to deal with
2:51:33 less less well-formed concepts where we
2:51:36 were struggling to
2:51:38 come up with a path forward um and so
2:51:41 i'm excited that the ad hoc's in place
2:51:42 and we're working that
2:51:44 and then listening to council members d
2:51:46 michelle and
2:51:47 paul um i am also struck that that uh
2:51:51 you know there may be still some
2:51:52 questions and since we have an ad hoc
2:51:54 in place that it may make sense to let
2:51:58 um work through some of the rough edges
2:52:01 before we take action and i don't think
2:52:04 that we're
2:52:04 in a time-sensitive place so um
2:52:09 i think like councilmember d michelle
2:52:12 said i'm i
2:52:12 support this concept a lot i think it's
2:52:14 great but since we have a committee in
2:52:17 place who can
2:52:18 can take a uh some time with it and we
2:52:20 we have time
2:52:22 and um i i would be inclined to
2:52:25 uh move in that direction
2:52:28 thank you deputy council president this
2:52:30 time i'm going to go to the city clerk
2:52:32 and say
2:52:33 and i will come back for more comments
2:52:34 as well but could you just quickly lay
2:52:36 out the process
2:52:37 of if if the members decide that they
2:52:40 would like to move this to the ad hoc to
2:52:42 a date certain what does that look like
2:52:44 if somebody wanted to do that tonight
2:52:46 thank you madam mayor uh clerk aker
2:52:49 speaking
2:52:50 we have a alternative motion for you
2:52:52 it's in the council packet
2:52:53 and the clerk users can certainly copy
2:52:57 that and paste it in there it basically
2:52:59 says refer ab-8165
2:53:01 to the council rules ad hoc committee to
2:53:04 include in their review and
2:53:05 recommendation
2:53:06 returning to the full council on or
2:53:08 before july 6th
2:53:09 with the same time frame that their
2:53:11 other items were in front of them
2:53:13 we welcome the opportunity to continue
2:53:15 um the conversation with the committee
2:53:17 if that's
2:53:19 desired uh again there's there isn't a
2:53:22 um there isn't a time sensitive
2:53:26 time sensitivity for this item so we
2:53:29 welcome that
2:53:30 so one more process question before i go
2:53:32 back to the chat box and that
2:53:34 is would they have to vote on the
2:53:36 original motion or could they use this
2:53:37 as a substitute motion
2:53:39 uh someone would need to make the the
2:53:42 new motion and it basically supersedes
2:53:44 because it's a different direction so
2:53:46 we'll go back to the chat and i know
2:53:48 council member martz
2:53:49 has a comment and council president hunt
2:53:51 has a question councilmember marks
2:53:53 um just that i support generally uh
2:53:56 sending this back to committee you know
2:54:00 am struck i continue to be struck by
2:54:04 how collegial this body is
2:54:07 99.9 percent of the time we can look
2:54:10 around us
2:54:10 at the municipalities around us and
2:54:13 see glaring and uh depressing examples
2:54:16 of that not being the case and so i am
2:54:18 always always in the measure twice cut
2:54:22 mode and um because there have been some
2:54:24 questions this evening
2:54:26 uh i am i'm all for giving uh i'm
2:54:29 corking this wine a little longer giving
2:54:30 a little bit more air
2:54:31 thank you nice analogy uh
2:54:35 thank you councilmember martz is there
2:54:38 somebody prepared to make a motion
2:54:48 uh deputy council president ray
2:54:53 thank you mayor paulie and i just beat
2:54:55 council member martz by
2:54:57 oh the slimmest of margins
2:55:01 i propose to refer ab 8165 to the
2:55:05 council
2:55:06 council rules ad hoc committee to
2:55:09 include in their review and
2:55:10 recommendation
2:55:11 returning to the full council on or
2:55:13 before july 6
2:55:14 2021 thank you and i'm assuming council
2:55:18 member martz may want to meet second
2:55:20 councilman mertz uh i second the motion
2:55:23 thank you is there any discussion
2:55:30 not seeing anything else coming up in
2:55:31 the chat i'm going to turn this back
2:55:33 to city clerk for a roll call vote
2:55:40 on the question to refer starting with
2:55:42 council president hunt
2:55:45 i council member marx
2:55:49 aye deputy council president ray
2:55:52 aye council member walsh
2:55:55 aye council member d michelle
2:55:58 aye councilmember goodman aye
2:56:02 councilmember hall i
2:56:06 that's seven eyes zero nays thank you
2:56:09 city clerk that passes
2:56:11 the next item on our agenda this evening
2:56:14 is good of the order
2:56:15 and i will keep an eye on the chat to
2:56:16 see if anybody has anything to share
2:56:18 for good of the order while i'm doing
2:56:20 that i will make a quick announcement
2:56:22 about some upcoming meetings
2:56:24 there's a city council study session on
2:56:25 tuesday may 11th with
2:56:27 potential agenda items including
2:56:29 environmental stewardship updates
2:56:31 storm and surface water master plan the
2:56:35 22 to 2027 capital improvement plan
2:56:38 including transportation improvement
2:56:40 program the city council regular meeting
2:56:43 on the 17th
2:56:44 potential agenda items include
2:56:46 informational updates on the strategic
2:56:48 report to the community also on
2:56:50 community survey results
2:56:52 the 2022-2027 capital improvement plan
2:56:55 including the transportation plan
2:56:58 so i am not seeing anything in the chat
2:57:00 for good of the order
2:57:01 so i assume we will move on um at this
2:57:04 point in time i'm going to hand the
2:57:06 gavel
2:57:06 over to the council president to take
2:57:09 the group into the executive session
2:57:12 so council president
2:57:18 um thank you
2:57:22 i guess should i um madame or should i
2:57:25 also adjourn
2:57:26 this meeting then the regular meeting
2:57:29 boy i kind of
2:57:29 i kind of lobbed that at you really
2:57:31 quickly why don't i bring us into
2:57:33 executive session and i'll let you close
2:57:35 out the meeting since i happen to have
2:57:36 the words handy
2:57:38 okay thank you okay so as earlier
2:57:41 announced there will be an executive
2:57:43 session this evening to discuss
2:57:44 pending and potential potential
2:57:46 litigation for rcw
2:57:48 42.30.11 paren one for an
2:57:51 i the items are expected to take
2:57:53 approximately 60 minutes and may be
2:57:55 extended if needed
2:57:57 no action is anticipated to follow an
2:57:59 open session
2:58:00 and as a reminder executive assessments
2:58:02 are closed to the public
2:58:04 so we will now recess into executive
2:58:06 session
2:58:07 at 9 57 pm and i'll ask the city clerk
2:58:10 to move the city council into a separate
2:58:12 session within this meeting
2:58:14 anyone who's not part of the closed
2:58:15 session will remain in the main meeting
2:58:17 you are welcome to stay
2:58:18 in the meeting until it is reconvened
2:58:20 city clerk
2:58:23 all right give you just a moment here to
2:58:25 start our practice session

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (3)

Continue the public hearing to the May 17, 2021, Council meeting to allow for additional public testimony. . Susie Monsell, Senior Budget Analyst provided a second presentation on the utility projects in the proposed CIP and responses to questions raised at the April 27 Council Study Session. City 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
Approve Resolution No. 2021-08, amending the City Council Rules of Procedure to amend Section 4.05 and add a new Section 4.17 adding New Business as an Order of Business to City Council meetings; establishing a New Business Request process; and amending Section 4.04, Agenda Preparation; and, Adopt O…
Moved by HUNT · seconded by WALSH
Refer AB 8165 to the Council Rules Ad Hoc Committee to include in their review and recommendation, returning to the full Council on, or before, July 6, 2021. .
Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh