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start
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welcome everyone i'm calling the may 3rd
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city council meeting to order
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councilmember d michelle
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here thank you councilmember goodman
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councilmember marks
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the next item on our agenda will be the
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mute your microphones at this time
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this evening to address us
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clerk can you please identify the first
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person who signed up to speak this
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evening
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yes the first person signed up to speak
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is doreen russell however i don't see
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doreen
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on the call at the moment our next
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speaker who signed up is frank
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stillwagner
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frank in just a moment i am going to
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move you up as a panelist
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floor
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hi good evening my name is frank still
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wagner
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um i am a resident of visqua i live at
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15932 259th avenue southwest
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um i also uh work at village theater
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i've had the pleasure of
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meeting and talking with all of you in
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the past so thank you for taking the
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time today
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um i'm here to talk about uh
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streetery um and uh
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just to let you know that um
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excuse the buzzing of my inbox
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um i just uh you know village theater
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is really supportive of
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community projects and wanting to bring
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people downtown
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um what concerns us
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is shutting down front street every
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single weekend
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in the summer we have shows that will be
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happening with our youth ed program this
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summer
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uh we have classes and camps that are
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happening
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all summer long now where um and we're
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concerned about people coming
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back to the theater to begin with and
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in doing so and you know we were totally
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supportive of
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shutting down you know once twice a
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month
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but shutting down on our performance
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weekends is really gonna keep people
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away from the theater um it's
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you know um we've heard
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we've heard from both sides to be honest
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um and
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i know that letters have been sent in i
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do have some letters of support from
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some folks who on the street that aren't
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necessarily restaurants
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that are like their business is
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completely affected by it as a resident
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i live
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south of front street um on weekends one
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that's
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shut down i'm gonna go to renton it's
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easier
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than having to deal with the traffic
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when you shut down front street that's
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plain and simple as a resident um you
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know as an employee of village theater
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i want as many people on front street as
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can possibly happen but i think that
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there's more than just the restaurants
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that need to
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be taken into consideration and more
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than just front street
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um we feel strongly about supporting
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uh the businesses in gilman the other
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restaurants down in gilman village and
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along gilman um just uh
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other restaurants and businesses uh you
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know
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north of front street that are are
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affected
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when front street is shut down and um
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we just feel it's more detrimental to be
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every weekend
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than selecting then choosing select
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weekends
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so i really appreciate your time i thank
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you for listening to me
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i know that this is a big decision and
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discussion you all have to make
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and i appreciate you all
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giving the time uh and your talents to
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the city of israel
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thank you thank you for coming tonight
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i'm gonna
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add a few clarifying comments in here
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because i know we have many speakers
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tonight on this topic
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and it is unusual to provide some
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context but can do it anyway
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um thank you for giving your
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voice to this discussion there isn't a
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one side or another
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there is one community event and so
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what the city is waiting for is for a
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permit
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request that reflects the needs of the
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main street community and so that's not
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are you for against closing front street
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it's what do we all want and so we're
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hoping that
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our main street organization downtown
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this fantastical association will apply
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for that permit
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there won't be a decision that comes
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before the council to make they don't
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vote
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event permits up or down but they do
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appreciate having business owners and
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representatives come and tell them
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about what their hopes are for community
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events like this so we really appreciate
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you coming in tonight
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thank you frank i'm sorry to put it at
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one side or the other that
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oh no i think i think that's a key point
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that
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we got one side like i said what does
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this event look like
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yeah we're completely supportive we just
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hope it's not every single
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weekend so that is great thank you very
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much frank
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city clerk who's next
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the next speaker who's signed up is john
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houlihan
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john in just a moment here i will be
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moving you up as a panelist you'll then
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have the option
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to unmute and you may also choose to
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turn your video on
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you have the floor thank you
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hi good evening i'm john houlihan
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108 front street is our connection to
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issaquah
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my family owns the building most of you
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know it as the domino's
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building on front street and alder
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i did sign up to provide comment on
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the streetery or the front street
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alfresco this evening
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and ensure that the council is getting
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kind of a balanced view of
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other businesses and property owners
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on front street the streetery
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significantly and adversely impacted
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uh our tenant
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it's not a corporate store it's uh
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just sorry about that uh it's not a
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corporate store it's a family owned
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business
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uh and you know our tenants they
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run that business it's domino's has been
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on trent street for over 20 years
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um last year the streetery uh
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significantly impacted their ability of
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their drivers to get
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in and out and it was a last minute kind
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of event
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uh but it caused significant uh
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financial damage to them
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and when it was announced that this was
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now going to be
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you know basically a five month long uh
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closure
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every weekend they decided not to renew
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their lease and are leaving
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downtown um so we've lost a tenant a
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long tenured business
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there's going to be job displacement and
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literally tens of thousands of dollars
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of damage not only to that but to
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my family as we try to re-tenant the
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space
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we agree that you know in are supportive
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of downtown issaquah and the success of
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all the businesses
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uh we think that there are some
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alternatives that have not been explored
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and that is a more intensive use of uh
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sidewalk permits and and parklets
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without closing
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you know an arterial street and an
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arterial
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you know it's it's a blood supply it
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brings people in uh it's critical
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and then you cut it off things die uh
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and that's what's happened at our
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location uh we're losing a
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long tenant and a good business
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we think that there's an opportunity to
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have
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individual businesses apply for permits
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if they choose to do so
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keep front street open maintain ingress
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maintain
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access so that the you know people who
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need to get to the theater
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uh domino's drivers coming in and out
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people whose businesses really depend on
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that traffic count on front street can
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also survive
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um we you know at the end of the day
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um it seems to me that a blanket
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approach closing
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every single weekend one size fits all
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really burdens uh quite a few businesses
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benefits some but just know that
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there is not unanimity amongst the front
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street
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uh community as to what's the best use
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of
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front street in terms of access keeping
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it open
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and how it's closing um you know from my
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perspective
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uh and also i think from you know my my
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tenant's perspective domino's
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um we'd like to keep main front street
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open uh very similar how bellevue has
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done it
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uh with their uh restaurants and
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sidewalk and
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parking use i think it can be easily
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replicated and it's a good balance
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um i don't think that you know the the
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permit
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uh is is appropriate you know it creates
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you know significant
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impairment to vehicle flow and adversely
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affects businesses
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in and around front street and helps
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some and
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madam mayor my understanding is that a
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permit has in fact been submitted to the
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city
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and it is for 22 weeks
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you know almost 63 full days of closure
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so that's two months and we hope that
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the
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the city you know declines that permit
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and gives individual businesses
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the opportunity to apply for um you know
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a sidewalk use permit or
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a parklet permit if they deem it
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necessary
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rather than a one-size-fits-all approach
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thank you for your service for your time
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and for the opportunity to speak with
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you this evening
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thank you john city clerk who's next on
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our list this evening
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yes the next person who signed up is
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ashwin ashwin
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in just a moment i'll make you a
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panelist you should then have the option
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to unmute and may also choose to turn
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your video on
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you have the floor well thank you so
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much
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uh for uh letting me talk to the council
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and the mayor um appreciate your uh
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time and your service to listen to our
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businessmen here
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in issaquah uh first of all i serve
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in the isfa vitality commission as well
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and i am a local businessman as well
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i own the chevron which is at the front
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intersection of front and gilman
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i've come here before in front of you
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and i've spoken to you a few weeks ago
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and i explained to you the traffic for
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traffic flow and traffic pattern that
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helps
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my business survive and do business over
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there
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any street closures does not help my
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business
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as simple as that right let me be
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straight forward with you on that
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any street closures impacts my business
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it's very clear on that i'm very clear
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on that i am totally supportive of
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treated right there is no doubt about
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that i mean it helps
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it helps your businesses that's great
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make makes them survive makes them move
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forward that's great
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but it also impacts other businesses as
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well
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so the council the cd has to keep that
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in mind
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when they weigh their pen right so it's
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very very important that you keep that
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in mind
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there have been solutions out there
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which are being
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uh implemented and are very successful
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a great example is the old
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main uh uh in bellevue old main in
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bellevue
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has plenty of restaurants plenty of
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retails
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retail outlets and other service
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businesses as well
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and they all work together there are no
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street brochures
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absolutely no street closures let me be
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very clear on that
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absolutely no street closures not even a
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single street
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is closed for the operation of those
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businesses and they still
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operate well people are on the sidewalks
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people eat with their have their dinner
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in front of the restaurants on the
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sidewalks
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people still walk on the sidewalks i
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take a show
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on bellevue maine every day and i
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walk through that street every day and i
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know how it is so that's why i'm trying
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to share that information with you
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that there is no road closures there is
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no sidewalk closures
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people still have restrooms open people
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dying on the sidewalks and there's no
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issue
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right why do we need a street closure on
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front street
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i just can't understand that and i just
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can't
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uh get an answer for that i've tried
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reaching out to people
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but not a single person has come here in
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front of me or
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explained to me why do you need a street
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closure
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you can still connect business with no
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street closures right
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so please evaluate that option it hurts
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our business
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when you close the street as simple as
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that right
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so i'm hoping that this message gets out
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to you very clearly
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that there are businesses that are
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getting hurt by these
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actions and it does not help other
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businesses
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uh with that i would like to make sure
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that you understand
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my viewpoint and i hope you make the
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right decisions thank you
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thank you ashland city clerk who next is
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up
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yes next we have kristin carrera
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in just a moment here and kristen
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in just a moment here i'll move you up
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as a panelist you'll have the option to
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turn
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your audio on and also your video if you
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choose
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if i could also ask ashwin if you would
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mind lowering your virtual hand
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when possible
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kristen you have the floor
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kristin i'm going to go ahead and unmute
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you in case you're having issues on
17:39
kidding yourself
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okay here we go yeah sorry we can hear
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you now so sorry about that
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my name is kristen carrera and my
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husband and i
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recently bought a place in the downtown
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area we're about a five to ten minute
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walk away from front street near the
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community center
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and so i'd like to um i'd like to
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provide the
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perspective of a resident somebody who
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lives here in the community
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and i've volunteered with the dias since
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i since i moved here and i i really love
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it here i'm happy here
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last year during the pandemic especially
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when we had first moved here
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i can unequivocally say that the
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streetery got us through
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the pandemic and got us through that
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really difficult summer
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because it was really hard being in our
18:26
house and we didn't know anybody
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and being able to rely on something
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every weekend where we could go
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out be outside support local businesses
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and not take our food out on the
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sidewalk but enjoy the safety
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and security and camaraderie of being on
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a pedestrian-only street you really
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cannot replicate it
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and as far as i understand the vast
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majority of businesses
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benefited greatly monetarily
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and foot traffic in other ways and i
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don't think you can put a cost a
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monetary cost
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on the boost in morale that the street
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are you provided to the community
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and it looks like the pandemic is not
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going away i keep hearing that we're
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rolling back to stage two or whatever
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and so we are going to need this
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streetery more than ever we're going to
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need the street to be closed
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and we're going to be need to be as
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aggressive as we
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possibly can be with having it open and
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accessible to the community
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so that's all i had to say thank you so
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much for your time thank you very much
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kristen
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welcome to old town uh
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city clerk who do we have next on our
19:37
list
19:39
next we have art freyas
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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
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mayor and city council
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i'm the one of the owners my wife and i
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own art by
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fire in essequa we have been in issaquah
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as a comp as an as a company for 13
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years
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my wife and i are going on six years
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owning it
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i'm not here to ask the streetery to
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make me not hurt
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i'm not here to ask
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that this streetery help
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increase my business to to make me
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profitable
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i'm here to ask for the streetery to
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help me survive
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the only thing that got us through the
20:42
pandemic
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from the months of you know when we were
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you know unqua
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unlocked down until probably october
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was the streetery without it i'm not
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sure we would have survived
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and without it again i'm not sure we
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will survive
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i mean i'm not asking to not be impacted
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i'm asking to survive
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the streetery it provided a lifeline for
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us
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
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concerns
21:20
but i'm not sitting on millions of
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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
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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
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i don't know that it's going to be
22:08
economical for them to run their
22:10
kitchens
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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
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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
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we just want to survive
22:57
we're not looking for optimizing we're
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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
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that
23:56
rises all boats as much as possible
23:59
thank you arch city clerk
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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
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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
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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
31:27
so
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
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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
39:27
is
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
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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
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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
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thank you councilmember d michelle
48:41
councilmember walsh
48:43
thank you this is councilmember walsh on
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wednesday may 5th
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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
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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
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just mentioning that tomorrow may 4th
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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
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the puget sound resource count regional
50:20
council
50:21
growth management planning board will be
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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
53:13
to
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
1:03:10
17th
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
1:04:49
well
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
1:05:00
over
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
1:06:35
pm
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
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welcome back mariah
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all right i'm going to go ahead and oh
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there you go
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can you hear me now okay
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good hello everyone um
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hello to madame mayor and all of city
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council it is so great to see
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all of your faces um i wanted to start
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uh tonight just by thanking all of you
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for your service and um
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while i'm uh uh not always
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uh present in front of you i'm always
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listening and watching and want to thank
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um
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the mayor and city council for all that
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you do and
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with a special thank you to tisha and
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tina
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for all that they do uh as we're
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celebrating
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municipal clerks um this month
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uh so i just wanted to speak briefly
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about
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uh increasing the funding for
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the northwest sammamish road design
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it sounds like there have already been a
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lot of letters that have come in
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to city council and we heard
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a little bit about that earlier um i
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have heard
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a lot about this project from a lot of
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our residents
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and you may remember me uh talking about
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this back when i was on council
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um and probably talked about this six
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years ago
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uh as we were trying to really focus in
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on
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um on an area that that really needs
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that uh that road designed to
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give added safety to all of the
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communities that run
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um parallel to that road
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and we've made such great strides in
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terms of all the work that was done
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with the sound wall with um
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so sorry i should have turned my phone
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on
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with expanding all of that and
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uh now we have the opportunity to focus
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on some of the design
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and realize that we don't have
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everything mapped out in terms of future
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construction
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but i would um love for everyone just to
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take a look at that as they're
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considering
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all actually all of the incredibly
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important elements
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of the cip and obviously um
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with uh the budget and and uh a lot of
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those
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uh lacking um lacking the funds
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um it's it's a lot of tough decisions
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but i did want to
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speak to that tonight so thank you for
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your time and thank you for listening
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and take good care
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thank you former council member batista
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nice to see you this evening
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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
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you should then see an option to unmute
1:10:39
and may also choose to turn your camera
1:10:42
on
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hi of course i'm connie marsh and uh
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we got the email response
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that was quite thorough because i sent
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in an email and then
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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
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so i will tell you uh
1:11:25
the aha moment that i had once again
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because i've had this aha moment many
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times
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but um
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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
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gma
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it's like you can only get money if you
1:12:09
build more
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but then we never we always have to pay
1:12:14
for building more
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and so then we never have money to
1:12:17
backfill our deficit
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and so the the existing residents lose
1:12:23
as we keep looking toward the future and
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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
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of money
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the ariane newport way that nobody's
1:12:36
going to use
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for quite some time i mean you just
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it just won't be used is
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using everyone else's dollars when we
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don't
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even need to that project at this point
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in time
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so i think we need to examine some of
1:12:54
these criteria
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and add to them the balance between
1:12:59
new and old right so it's not just where
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can we get the money
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so where can we get the biggest bang for
1:13:05
the buck it is
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how do we balance the future and the
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past
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in the newly existing to make it a
1:13:13
benefit for all people because
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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
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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
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on squawk mountain
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safely and we haven't been able to
1:13:30
forever and there's no intent to give us
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that into the future
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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
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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
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so it's way cheaper takes up less space
1:13:58
so maybe we could have a different
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street standard for different
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areas that match with the existing
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standard
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on that street because what would we do
1:14:07
with that much
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on squawk mountain i have no idea i mean
1:14:11
we can go visit the esqua highlands
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because they have it built in
1:14:14
so um i guess those would be the things
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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
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we
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all might open up our little tidy
1:14:46
wallets
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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
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but uh i think i've said this like 85
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times before
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it just feels like an aha moment and now
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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
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have fun bye uh city clerk is there
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anyone else that's signed up this
1:15:14
evening
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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
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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
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thank you very much um
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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
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sorry
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council president hunt yes this counts
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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
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okay in that case i'm ready to make a
1:16:41
motion i
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moved to continue the public hearing to
1:16:44
may 17 2021
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council meeting to allow for additional
1:16:48
public testimony
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thank you and deputy council president
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ray second
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thanks it's been moved and seconded um
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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
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council member hall
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aye council president hunt
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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
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eyes zero nays
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mayor paulie you're muted
1:18:00
that passes unanimously and now i'm
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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
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just one
1:18:12
second to get this second presentation
1:18:14
up
1:18:18
um all right
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um all right so
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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
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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
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so i i won't go through it again here
1:19:41
but
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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
1:20:13
have
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
cip
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
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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
1:23:31
tax
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
when
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
1:25:29
cip
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
1:26:07
move
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
1:26:58
that
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
1:27:53
have
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
1:30:07
2025
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
1:36:38
um
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
1:37:00
you
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
1:38:29
and
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
1:39:20
plan
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
1:42:01
for
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
1:44:22
to
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
1:45:06
much
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
1:46:34
of
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
just
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
1:47:35
20
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
will
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
1:52:51
re
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
1:54:22
use
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
1:54:48
to
1:54:49
2.2 million dollars which is roughly on
1:54:52
par
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
1:56:13
cost
1:56:14
but in order to make those investments
1:56:17
as
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
1:57:35
once
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
1:57:52
and
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
1:58:55
uh
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
2:02:20
i'm
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
2:06:34
cip
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
2:07:17
hall
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
2:07:31
with
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
2:08:57
have
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
2:10:04
and
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
as
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
this
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
2:10:43
that
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
2:11:39
cip
2:11:40
uh i'm not great at math on my feet but
2:11:43
i
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
2:14:12
cip
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
2:15:36
been
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
out
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
2:17:03
to
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
2:17:16
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
be
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
2:19:24
time
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
2:21:39
um
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
done
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
um
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
2:24:30
um
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
2:26:47
uh
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
you
2:28:32
so that's great okay awesome
2:28:35
okay so we have another agenda item and
2:28:38
then
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
2:33:40
i'm
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
2:34:36
ab
2:34:37
8165
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
2:35:08
item
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
2:37:03
chat
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
2:38:15
hunt
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
2:38:33
does
2:38:34
adopt um and if it were if there would
2:38:37
be
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
as
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
2:39:40
you
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
2:41:22
have
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
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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
2:42:10
um
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
2:45:05
i am
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
2:45:37
case
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
2:47:08
form
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
2:49:39
or
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
2:50:09
idea
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
2:50:19
like
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
2:51:30
the
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
2:51:57
them
2:51:58
um work through some of the rough edges
2:52:00
here
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
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as a substitute motion
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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
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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
i
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
2:54:21
once
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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
over
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
2:56:34
2020
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
plan
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
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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
2:58:43
you