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okay
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good evening everyone i am going to call
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the
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may 17th city council meeting to order
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welcome everybody due to the governor's
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proclamation 2028 relating to the covet
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19 emergency and open public meetings
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this meeting will be held entirely
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remotely
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and at this point we'll take a moment to
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take a roll call of the council members
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in attendance so please stay here when i
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call your name
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councilmember d michelle here thank you
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councilmember goodman
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here thank you councilmember hall
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here thank you councilmember martz here
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thank you deputy council president ray
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here
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thank you and council member walsh here
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that's great thank you excuse me
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i think i think you may have missed
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council president hunt
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i'm here council president hunt my
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apologies
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thank you going a little too fast
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i was more concentrating on the fact
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that poor council member walsh always
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goes last
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i wonder if we could change the order
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sometimes thank you for catching that
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city clerk and my apologies
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the next thing on our agenda this
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evening is the pledge of allegiance and
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if you
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i would appreciate it if you could join
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me but please meet yourself
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thank you i pledge allegiance to the
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unite to the flag of the united states
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of america and to the republic for which
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it stands
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one nation under god indivisible with
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liberty and justice for all
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the next item on the agenda this evening
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is audience comments and for those of
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you who have submitted the online form
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to make your comments we will call your
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name shortly
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if you have joined us tonight and you
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would like to make comments but you did
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not sign up in advance
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please raise your virtual hand and to do
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that you can press star
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3 on your phone if you had joined by
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computer or smartphone
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look for a hand icon this can vary by
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device
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one option might be to go to the
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participant panel and choose the raised
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hand icon
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in the lower right hand corner there
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will be a public hearing tonight on
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ab-8123
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the 2022-2027 capital improvement plan
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including the transportation improvement
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program and if you would like to make
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comments on this topic you will have an
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opportunity to
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later in the meeting and city clerk has
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anyone signed up to speak for general
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audience comments or indicated a desire
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to speak this evening
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mayor no one has signed up in advance to
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make comments and i'm monitoring the
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attendee list now
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or raised hands
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and at this time i do not see that
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anyone has
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raised a hand to indicate a desire to
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speak thank you city clerk
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so as a reminder if you do want to
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provide written comments to the mayor
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and city council you can do that at any
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time by sending it to the city council
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at iscoawa.gov
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email address council president hunt i'm
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going to turn it over to you now that
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we've confirmed that you're here
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see if you have any email comments to
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sum right on that came in on any of
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tonight's agenda topics
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thank you mayor paulie this is council
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president hunt
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and we did receive several emails that
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specifically reference items that are on
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our agenda this evening
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and i will summarize comments that we've
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received by email on these topics
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between now and the last time that we've
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discussed topics for topics that we've
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discussed multiple times
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and this is something that we have been
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doing
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while we've been having virtual meetings
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the first email
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comment that we received on items that
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we're discussing this evening
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was regarding ab-8123 which is the 20 22
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to 20
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27 cip and here
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there was support for the newport
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projects
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er022 and tr023
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also support for the i-90
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under over crossing which is tr-003 and
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also support for tr
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28 which is the lake smamish parkway
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non-motorized improvement project then
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we received another email which
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touched on multiple topics that we are
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discussing this evening
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on id0860 which is the
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strategic plan update and next steps
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this person had some concerns
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and expressed that there should be an
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honest review of our progress on the
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plan and
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requested more public more and varied
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types of public comment opportunity
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on ab-8123 which is the spar booster
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pump station construction bid award
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i expressed concern that there was not a
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feedback
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that there was not feedback provided to
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the neighborhood meeting that
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met on this topic and then on ab7418
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which is amendment to imc 12.10 complete
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streets
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expressed concerns about the exemption
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process and then lastly
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ab-8123 which is the cip again um
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express concerns and multiple concerns
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one concern being that
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the cip seems heavily auto oriented
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and that concludes comments we received
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by email specifically on
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items on our agenda this meeting thank
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you very much council president the next
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item on the agenda will be committee and
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regional reports
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and we will start with council member
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hall
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uh thank you this is councilmember zach
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hall a couple reports for this evening
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first up is for cascade water alliance i
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wanted to quickly announce that the next
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cascade water alliance board meeting is
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next wednesday may 26
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at 3 30 pm um also at our
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last meeting i mentioned a policy that
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the board was considering regarding the
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potential sale of cascade water alliance
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water rights
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and just to close the loop with you all
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uh the board decided to
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defer any action on that until after a
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workshop that we're holding later next
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month
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where we'll be discussing the future of
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the alliance and more broadly
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in the lake taps reservoir project
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specifically and we'll be sure to keep
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the council in the loop on that workshop
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as it's going to be a very interesting
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one i think
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um so for now if you're interested i
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sent you all
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a pretty in the weeds email update
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earlier this evening
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and i'll be sure to bring it back up
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again later next month
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um now for the affordable housing
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committee
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the next affordable housing committee
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meeting is this wednesday in a couple
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days
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may 19th at noon we'll be discussing the
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committee's
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federal legislative priorities we'll get
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an update on state housing actions
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during the
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recent 2021 legislative session
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and we'll be getting an update on a
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number of different committee staff
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projects including
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our affordable housing dashboard and i
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mentioned this i think last year but the
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affordable housing dashboard
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is a project that's in the charter for
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the affordable housing committee
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and it essentially helps collect data
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across the region
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on how cities municipalities and
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counties are um
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stacking up when it comes to affordable
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housing in their cities so that'll be
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really interesting
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um to view and as soon as we have a
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public link i'll be sure to share with
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you all too
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um uh in the coming months
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um the committee will also be discussing
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how best
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we can support cities who recently
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passed their own affordable housing
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sales tax like we did here in issaquah
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and some of the questions that we'll
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consider we just had a really
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interesting
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sound cities association caucus meeting
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on this
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uh and some of the questions we'll
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consider are you know can the committee
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produce a set of guiding questions to
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help cities make decisions about those
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revenues
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should decision makers dedicate funding
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directly to local projects or pool
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funding regionally and like arch or skip
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and skip is the south king county
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version of arch
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those are good examples of regional
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pooling and then finally
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if cities don't have long-term plans for
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those revenues should they consider
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giving their authority back to the
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county who does have a plan
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so i think those are really interesting
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questions and i'll keep you all in the
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loop on that discussion as well
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and that concludes my reports
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thank you council member hall council
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member d michelle
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thank you mayor paulie this is
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councilmember d michelle
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um on may 5th i attended the east side
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human services forum legislative
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committee
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and we discussed the legislative session
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and heard a presentation on the best
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starts for kids renewal levy
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the committee voted to send the best
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starts for kids renewal to the forum
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board of directors so they can consider
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endorsing the measure
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and i will discuss this action further
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under good of the order this evening to
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get direction from the council on the
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vote
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on may 12 i attended the connect 2
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community advisory group
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we continued our discussion of privacy
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and disclosure issues related to the
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community
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information exchange and on may 14th i
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attended the east side transportation
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partnership
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janice sun bellevue city council member
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was elected vice chair of the group
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and the rest of the meeting was an
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interactive dialogue with state
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representatives
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davina dorr vandana slatter
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and bill ramos regarding the legislative
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session in a proposed
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transportation package and that
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concludes my report
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thank you councilmember d michelle
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councilmember walsh
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thank you this is councilmember walsh
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very short report um
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the chamber of commerce meeting for
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issaquah has been
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postponed by a week to allow for their
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salmon days uh
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golf tournament and so it will be on may
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28th
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and i don't yet have the agenda and that
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concludes my report
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thank you councilmember walsh
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councilmember goodman thank you
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councilmember goodman here
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i have no report this evening thanks
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quite brief thank you councilmember mark
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who's up next
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thank you madam mayor this is council
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member mark the puget sound regional
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council growth management policy board
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met on thursday may 6th
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and uh we had one action item which was
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approved the regional transit oriented
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development advisory
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committee charter it was not contentious
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uh we had a number of discussion items
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probably the one that
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generated the most discussion was
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regional housing strategy tools and
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actions
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and the feedback was i would say
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generally
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that we need multiple tracks we need to
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track for the let's say zero to 30
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folks that are homeless and in
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transition we need the
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30 to 70 which is folks that are
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substantially below uh that are that are
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housed but are there
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substantially below uh area median
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income
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and then you know 70 to 100 plus
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and then different parts of the county
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have different success so
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south county has a lot of 70 to 100 or
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70 to 120
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of ami uh housing not so much in
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issaquah
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so each of these market segments have
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different priorities
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different uh funding strategies or
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architectures and they
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in some cases compete with each other so
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it was a very uh
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it was a very thoughtful conversation
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that occurred with the input from 20
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probably 25 electives so uh it was good
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not sure where at all where
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the law wind up but um i think that the
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psrc folks
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uh appreciated the feedback and then
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sound cities association public issues
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community didn't meet this month
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this concludes my report thank you
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council member marks
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deputy council president ray thank you
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mayor paulie this is chris wray
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the east side fire and rescue board of
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directors met last thursday may 13th at
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four o'clock in a remote
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remote meeting format council members
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goodman hall and i attended the meeting
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the chief provided us an update on
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vaccinations which are slowing both
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locally and statewide
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eastside fire and rescue is targeting
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june 12th as the last day of operations
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at the vaccination site
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unless there is a change in community
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need
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in all we have delivered between 15 and
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20
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000 doses of the modern vaccination our
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vaccine
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to residents through that site uh
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eastside fine rescue continues to move
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forward with the pfas
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remediation work plan that is
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to complete by june of 2022
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um brush fires continued to be a
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significant concern
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uh the week of april 15th where we had
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temperatures in the 70s there were
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70s there were three brush fires that
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eastside fire and rescue responded to
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this may be indicative of the type of
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wireless wildland fire season we might
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expect this year
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um just as a note earlier this month the
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king county council passed a fireworks
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ban that goes into effect
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in 2022 the ban will prohibit the retail
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sale and discharge of fireworks
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in unincorporated portions of king
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county
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the chief provided a brief update on the
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gilman village fire at agonus and the
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nail salon
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and the investigation that fire is still
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ongoing
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the bulk of the meeting was a discussion
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around the east side fire and rescue
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funding formula
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historically east side fire and rescue
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partners have updated the funding model
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every seven to eight years
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it's not clear that we're going to be
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making a change to the formula this year
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but there were some interesting things
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discussed
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and i will be meeting uh later with the
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mayor and the city administrator
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and council members paul and goodman to
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talk about how we'd like to move that
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forward
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finally the king county growth
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management planning council is scheduled
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to meet
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on may 26th at 4 o'clock also in a
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remote meeting format
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the topic of this meeting will be a
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review of the public comments
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on the draft county-wide planning
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policies
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and to consider any amendments the
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detail agenda for this meeting has not
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yet been finalized
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i'd like to give a big thanks to
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community and planning
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community planning and development
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director dollywall for drafting
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issaquah's response to the draft county
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planning policies
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and that concludes my report this
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evening
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thank you deputy council president
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council president hunt
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thank you madam mayor i have a few
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reports this evening
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the title 18 ad hoc committee met on may
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13th
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this is the ad hoc committee consisting
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of myself and council members goodman
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and walsh
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and we are discussing land use code
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which is title 18
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and we at this meeting on may 13th we
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discussed the timeline that had been
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drafted by staff and
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the consultants working on this project
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for engagement with the planning policy
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committee and also joint committee
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meetings
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with other of our volunteer commissions
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and um the next meeting has not yet been
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set for this
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ad hoc committee the kcd advisor
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so king conservation district advisory
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committee has formed a subcommittee
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specific to
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election reform and this met on may 13th
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the issue here is that the king
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conservation district
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funds conservation work throughout king
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king county
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most of the county and they have an
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elected board
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but the elections take place um at a
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time where no other elections are
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occurring
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and they have uh in this last election
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despite sending out postcards and
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extensive outreach
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um they had still less than one percent
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of eligible voters participate
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it's all done online and it's also done
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at a unusual time of year because there
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aren't other elections occurring
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when this election occurs and so this
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committee will be working
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on how to best approach this issue and
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potentially working with the state
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legislature
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on how we might how we might have this
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election to have more
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participation so that there can be uh
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more people voting in this and um
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the important work that they do we'll
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have more
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more people voting to determine the
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future of this organization
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uh and then the wira eight famine
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recovery
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council will be meeting on may 20th
16:56
fibre eight is the technical
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name for our watershed and there are two
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decision
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items on the agenda one is a letter on
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proposed asphalt plants along sr 169 in
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the cedar river basin
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and so this would be a letter to the
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king
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county department of local services
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emphasizing considerations and avoidance
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of potential adverse
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impacts to salmon with that asphalt
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plants development
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and then also a grant round funding
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recommendations for
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cooperative watershed management grants
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in 2021
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and that concludes my report
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thank you council president uh next item
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on the agenda this evening is the
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mayor's report and everyone the
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executive section is on collective
17:42
bargaining for rcw 42.30
17:44
0.140 paren for print a the item is
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expected to last 30 minutes and no
17:49
action is anticipated in open session
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this week is emergency services week and
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i'm going to
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go through a proclamation whereas
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emergency medical services
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is a vital public service and whereas
18:02
the members of your site fire and rescue
18:04
stand ready to provide
18:05
life-saving care to those in need 24
18:08
hours a day
18:09
seven days a week and whereas access to
18:12
quality emergency care
18:14
dramatically improves the survival and
18:15
recovery rate of those who experience
18:17
sudden illness or injury
18:19
and whereas emergency medical services
18:22
has grown to fill a gap
18:23
by providing important out-of-hospital
18:25
care including preventative medicine
18:28
follow-up prayer and access to
18:29
telemedicine
18:31
and whereas the members of east site
18:32
fire and rescue where their career or
18:34
reserves
18:34
engage in thousands of hours of
18:36
specialized training and continuing
18:38
education to enhance their life-saving
18:40
skills
18:41
and whereas it is appropriate to
18:43
recognize the value and the
18:44
accomplishments of emergency medical
18:46
services
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services providers by designating
18:49
emergency medical services week
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please join me in the mayors of issaquah
18:53
north bend and sammamis to celebrate
18:56
this week with appropriate programs
18:57
ceremonies and activities
18:59
that honor and thank our local emergency
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services personnel
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i'm going to do a second proclamation
19:05
this evening as well this is
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asian pacific heritage month and whereas
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there are 8790 asian pacific american
19:13
residents
19:14
in the city of issaquah which represents
19:17
23.2 percent of our population
19:20
and whereas we acknowledge the
19:21
contributions of asian pacific and amer
19:24
americans to our local arts education
19:27
sciences and to our economic social and
19:30
democratic institutions
19:32
and whereas issaquah celebrates asian
19:34
pacific
19:35
americans embedded history to recognize
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and honor
19:38
individuals families and businesses and
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whereas we admit the past hardship and
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continued
19:44
inequality for asian and pacific
19:47
americans and strive to foster
19:49
inclusion to ensure all people have an
19:51
equal opportunity
19:53
and whereas we commit to embracing the
19:55
diversity by paying tribute to asian
19:57
american and pacific heritage
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through education acknowledgement and
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celebration within our community
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please join me in the observance of
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asian pacific heritage
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month month in the city of issaquah for
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the month of may
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2021. it's
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may is a is a pretty busy month it's
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also national public works week
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so this week i also issued a
20:19
proclamation for national public works
20:21
week may 16th to 22nd
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the year 2021 marks the 61st annual
20:27
national public works recognition week
20:29
the city's infrastructure facilities and
20:32
services could not be provided
20:34
without the dedicated efforts of our
20:35
public works professionals
20:37
they are engineers managers and
20:39
employees at all levels
20:40
and they are responsible for rebuilding
20:43
improving and protecting our city's
20:44
transportation
20:46
water supply water treatment and solid
20:49
waste systems
20:50
public buildings and other structures
20:51
and facilities essential for our
20:53
residents and community members
20:55
so please join me this week in giving
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extra thanks to our public
20:58
works personnel i will be going to their
21:00
6 30 a.m
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thursday to deliver the proclamation
21:06
a little bit of great news too about the
21:08
southeast 43rd wave signal
21:10
uh that project is now complete the new
21:13
intersection
21:14
is open at chelsea's 43rd way at the end
21:17
entrance to providence point the
21:20
providence point community held a
21:21
celebration last weekend which included
21:23
a ribbon cutting parade
21:24
a ribbon cutting and a parade in the
21:26
neighborhood that council member d
21:27
michelle and i both got to participate
21:29
in
21:30
this has been a long time coming and i'm
21:32
still thankful for the hard work of our
21:33
city council
21:34
staff and community to make this a
21:36
reality the new signal not only enhances
21:39
safety for drivers but also pedestrians
21:41
and cyclists
21:42
along with the new intersection the
21:44
project included relocating utilities
21:46
constructing detention and stormwater
21:48
treatment facilities and installing
21:50
these sidewalks
21:51
anyone who would like to learn more
21:52
about the project can go to
21:54
issaquahwa.gov
21:56
southeast 43rd i'm going to give an
21:58
update on the issue of community vaccine
22:00
partnership as well and
22:02
i'm going to have to sort of checked in
22:04
with deputy council president ray before
22:06
because my numbers are slightly
22:07
different but i think they have an
22:08
explanation for why
22:11
the information that i have from our
22:13
vaccination meeting is that the cova
22:14
vaccination site at lake samama state
22:16
park has administered more than 9 500
22:18
doses and anticipates doing
22:20
6 000 more in the coming months as
22:23
community members return for their
22:24
second dose
22:25
however eastside fire and rescue has
22:27
also been doing clinics
22:29
out at the tribal snokami tribal lands
22:32
as well as doing mobile services
22:33
so i'm going to go with deputy council
22:35
president ray's number which was higher
22:37
than mine
22:38
we do now have opening appointments for
22:41
anyone who only needs the second dose of
22:43
the
22:43
modern vaccine and uh data is showing us
22:47
that close to 80 percent of eligible
22:49
residents in our zip codes have started
22:51
their vaccine series so we are now
22:53
focusing yeah it's a good number we are
22:54
now focusing efforts
22:56
on reaching community members who may be
22:58
vaccine hesitant
23:00
so that we can share more resources if
23:02
anyone knows anyone who needs special
23:04
assistance please make sure to call us
23:06
at 425
23:12
we're here to help and anyone looking
23:14
for more information
23:15
on that can find it at issaquah.gov
23:19
vaccine on our website and that
23:22
concludes the
23:22
mayor's report for today now that i have
23:25
the
23:26
correct report open
23:29
okay um
23:31
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23:33
this will open one more script
23:40
all right for the delay
23:44
there we go okay
23:50
thanks for your patience fault
23:55
the next item on our agenda this evening
23:57
is an information
23:58
some informational updates we'll start
24:01
with the first one which is
24:02
id 0860 it's the strategic plan
24:06
update next steps and i'd like to invite
24:08
city administrator bob kowitz to present
24:10
this item
24:10
molly and mayor members of the council
24:14
good evening we're here to talk a little
24:16
bit about the next couple of months
24:18
and the next phase is sort of our annual
24:22
uh year of reflection and evaluation of
24:25
the work that we do
24:27
uh have a couple of slides i'll talk
24:29
about that so
24:30
quick user next slide please
24:34
the strategic plan was adopted two years
24:37
ago this month
24:38
in 2019 the plan includes an annual
24:42
schedule of review that unfortunately
24:44
uh because of the covid pandemic last
24:47
year we were not able to do for the
24:49
first time
24:50
so we are moving forward this year for
24:53
the first time since the plan
24:54
was adopted in 2019 with the full
24:57
completion of this annual schedule
25:01
just to kind of orient you to that
25:06
if you look at the very bottom on the
25:08
left hand side you have
25:10
the work plan implementation a piece of
25:13
the circle
25:14
uh that's basically where we're at now
25:16
once the budget is completed
25:17
uh we begin work and certainly here now
25:20
in the second quarter
25:21
of the year we're well in uh with the
25:24
work plan implementation
25:25
uh what i'm going to talk about this
25:26
evening are the next several
25:29
pieces of the of the circle for the very
25:32
next steps
25:33
that we would have as we get ready to
25:36
believe it or not begin for preparation
25:38
of the 2022
25:40
annual budget next slide quick user
25:46
so the next phase of this was the
25:48
community survey every two years
25:51
the city conducts a survey of our
25:53
residents
25:54
there was a typo in the staff report on
25:56
page six of your packet
25:58
where it referred to the uh survey being
26:00
done in april may 2020 of course that's
26:02
april
26:03
may 2021 this year we've had over 600
26:06
residents respond to the survey we have
26:10
the initial results
26:11
from that survey and plan to come back
26:13
to you
26:14
on june 15th to share with you other
26:17
results of that in the study session
26:20
on june 7th though we are going to start
26:22
the process by celebrating
26:24
the second year of the strategic plan we
26:27
have
26:27
a video that we are going to
26:31
premiere and we'll share with social
26:33
media we're also going to be doing
26:34
outreach to our residents
26:36
which will include not only social media
26:38
but also a postcard
26:40
that we will send to all of our
26:41
residents to remind them of the
26:44
strategic plan
26:45
of the goals of a place that they can go
26:47
online
26:48
to get more information and provide even
26:50
more additional feedback
26:52
beyond the community survey and let them
26:54
know about the study session
26:56
that would be coming up the following
26:57
week on june 15th
26:59
on june 15th we will share the results
27:02
of the survey
27:03
and also get any additional community
27:05
feedback
27:06
on those results and as the strategic
27:10
plan itself
27:11
delineates once we get those community
27:13
survey
27:14
results back we are then moving into a
27:17
strategic plan adjustment mode and this
27:19
is
27:20
a meeting that the council's never had
27:23
and that is a study session
27:24
to take a step back to look at the
27:27
strategic plan look at the results of
27:28
the community survey look at where we
27:30
are
27:30
with our work plan and make any
27:33
adjustments
27:34
that the council might think is
27:36
appropriate to move forward with the
27:38
strategic plan
27:39
uh we'll also be beginning the very
27:43
first topics regarding the budget of the
27:45
administration will come
27:47
to the council with some strategy and
27:49
budget planning issues
27:51
for the council to talk about in the
27:52
study session on july 13th
27:54
on july 19th at the council meeting we
27:57
will be submitting to you once again all
27:59
the quarterly reports except
28:01
the mid-year budget report we did that a
28:04
couple of months ago
28:06
by just putting those reports on the
28:08
agenda and having any questions
28:10
that seem to have been well received by
28:12
the council so on july 19th
28:14
we'll come back with a works plan report
28:16
the cip report
28:18
uh the mid-year of performance measure
28:20
report all that will be there on the
28:22
agenda for july 19th
28:24
on august 2nd we will come back to the
28:27
council
28:28
for a meeting you are familiar with and
28:29
that is our annual revenue forecast
28:32
so we'll have an opportunity during the
28:33
months of june and july
28:35
to talk about survey and the plan
28:37
adjustments
28:39
we'll start looking then at what we see
28:41
the revenue being
28:43
for the fiscal 22 on august 2nd and then
28:46
when we come back from the summer recess
28:48
in september
28:49
we'll start up with the budget season
28:51
we'll have
28:52
as we did last year two community
28:54
meetings we'll have one
28:56
just before the budget is submitted
28:58
either in late august or early september
29:01
then the budget will be submitted we'll
29:02
have another community meeting
29:04
and then of course the regular council
29:06
deliberations
29:07
uh for the budget so that just gives you
29:09
a preview madam mayor members of the
29:11
council of
29:12
of what we're planning to do to
29:14
implement the the strategic plan's uh
29:17
a vision of review of at the plan itself
29:20
and so would be happy
29:21
uh to answer any questions that the
29:23
council has otherwise
29:25
we'll start this process at your next
29:27
regular meeting on june 7.
29:30
thank you to the administrator i'm
29:31
keeping an eye on the chat just want to
29:32
remind
29:33
any of the council members who to adjust
29:36
the num the two line to all panelists so
29:38
that i'm able to see if you have a
29:39
question or a comment
29:41
and i'll give it a few seconds
29:50
uh council member goodman uh
29:54
oh i see this is from the city clerk
29:56
okay we do we no longer have video feed
29:58
from council member goodman so we're
29:59
assuming that she's having some
30:01
connection issues
30:03
is there anyone else who would like to
30:05
make a comment or have a question
30:08
otherwise i'll move on to the next
30:10
informational update
30:12
is that a hand like go ahead and move on
30:14
or i have a question
30:16
i thought i have a question
30:17
councilmember hall
30:19
uh thanks this is councilmember hall um
30:22
this is very exciting
30:23
uh thanks for giving us a quick update
30:25
um
30:26
i um like that we're celebrating i think
30:29
that we got a really interesting
30:31
and good idea from a community member
30:32
who emailed us though to also you know
30:34
acknowledge
30:35
kind of the shortcomings of where we are
30:37
in the plan you know acknowledge that
30:38
covid put a wrench in some of it
30:40
and you know what what we can be doing
30:42
better um
30:44
you know moving forward so i'm kind of
30:45
curious from an administration
30:47
perspective where that would fit in this
30:48
timeline
30:49
um i'm not sure if that would be in the
30:52
video or if that would just be more
30:54
par folded into our discussions at that
30:56
first study session where we take a step
30:58
back
31:00
thank you administrator bob quits
31:03
well um i guess first i would uh uh
31:06
challenge the premise of the
31:07
uh of the commenter i think we've
31:09
accomplished quite a bit
31:10
with the strategic plan and i think it's
31:12
important to remind the residents
31:14
of the community all that we have done
31:16
and i think the video
31:18
will do that and we want to really share
31:20
and celebrate i mean there has been so
31:22
much done even
31:23
with the pandemic uh to move issaquah
31:25
forward
31:26
uh the investment the projects just the
31:28
uh the the signal project that mayor
31:30
paulie mentioned earlier was really one
31:32
of uh
31:32
you know the top results of uh of the
31:35
strategic plan focusing on
31:37
infrastructure
31:38
so uh i think we're going to celebrate
31:40
that if there are members of the
31:41
community that feel there are
31:42
shortcomings
31:43
uh that's why we're sending a postcard
31:45
to every single resident
31:46
of the community we do that maybe once
31:49
or twice a year we feel it's such an
31:51
important topic
31:52
we really want to invite the community
31:55
to help evaluate that the other thing
31:57
that we did this year of course is the
31:58
community survey
32:00
600 residents kind of selected
32:04
somewhat at random to you know balanced
32:08
responses from all over the community
32:10
have
32:11
also let us know what they think so i
32:13
think as the strategic plan really
32:15
contemplates
32:16
we're trying to get input from lots of
32:17
different places so that when the
32:18
council does
32:19
take that step back it's informed so
32:21
council member hall i hope that answers
32:23
your question
32:24
i think really we we've got the
32:27
community survey
32:28
we're asking folks through a postcard to
32:31
let us know
32:32
participate in the discussions in the
32:33
month of june so hopefully if there are
32:35
shortcomings
32:36
uh that a few members of the community
32:38
are in the field that they'll step
32:39
forward and
32:40
be heard good answer
32:44
thank you councilmember hall i'm not
32:46
seeing any other questions or comments
32:48
at this time so i think what we will do
32:50
is move on to the next item if nobody
32:52
has anything else
32:54
which is the consent calendar so the
32:56
consent calendar was distributed to
32:58
council in advance and if it's
33:00
authorized the items on the content
33:01
calendar will be
33:02
considered together and approved by one
33:05
motion
33:06
the clerk's office today did circulate a
33:08
revised copy of the april 26
33:10
special counsel study session minutes
33:12
agenda item
33:13
c was modified to add
33:16
and support for investing in the arts
33:18
and the newly approved creative arts
33:20
district as a help
33:21
to economic recovery as one of the
33:24
suggestions
33:25
under the federal covid19 relief funding
33:27
conversation
33:28
this is the version that will be adopted
33:30
on approval of the consent calendar
33:33
have the payables and payrolls been
33:36
reviewed
33:38
they have sorry they have
33:41
thank you i could see you leaning in i
33:43
knew something was coming
33:46
does any council member desire to remove
33:48
any item from the consent calendar and
33:49
consider it under regular business
33:55
and if not if somebody cared to make a
33:57
motion
34:01
council president hunt thank you this is
34:03
council president hunt i move to adopt
34:05
the
34:06
consent calendar as it appears in this
34:08
evening's agenda as
34:09
amended and deputy council president
34:11
right i'll second
34:14
it has been moved and seconded and i
34:16
will let the city clerk do a roll call
34:18
vote
34:20
starting with council member martz
34:25
hi deputy council president ray
34:28
aye council member walsh
34:31
aye council member d michelle
34:35
aye council member goodman aye
34:39
council member hall aye
34:42
council president hunt aye that seven
34:46
eye zero nays thank you that passes
34:50
unanimously
34:54
the next item of this this evening is a
34:57
public hearing
34:59
ab-8123 the 2022-22
35:02
capital improvement plan including the
35:05
transportation
35:05
improvement program we will be
35:08
conducting the public hearing
35:09
and approving the resolution a public
35:11
hearing on this item was held at the may
35:13
3rd council meeting and was continued to
35:15
tonight's meeting
35:16
this item was last before council at the
35:18
may 11th council study session and i'd
35:20
like to
35:21
invite susie mansell senior budget
35:23
analyst to provide a brief
35:25
presentation before we open the hearing
35:28
thank you mayor paulie if you'll just
35:30
allow me one
35:31
moment to pull up my very brief
35:34
presentation
35:39
all right
35:43
all right uh good evening uh i am senior
35:46
budget analyst susie mansell and i am
35:48
here to
35:49
provide a brief intro to the continued
35:52
public hearing
35:53
on the 2022-2027 capital improvement
35:56
plan
35:59
rcw 3577010
36:03
requires cities to hold a public hearing
36:05
for the proposed transportation
36:06
improvement program or
36:08
tip and the that's the transportation
36:12
element of the capital improvement plan
36:14
or the cip
36:15
and we'll of course appreciate all
36:17
feedback from the community on the other
36:19
elements of the proposed cip just
36:20
besides the transportation element
36:23
and this public hearing was opened at
36:26
the may 3rd
36:27
city council meeting and will be
36:29
continuing tonight
36:32
as a reminder of where we are in this
36:34
year's cip schedule
36:36
the cip was transmitted to the council
36:38
and community on april 19th
36:40
and staff gave an overview presentation
36:43
that evening
36:44
the administration also held a community
36:46
meeting on april 20th
36:47
covering similar material as the 19th
36:50
the
36:51
council began deliberations on april
36:53
27th by considering the non-utility
36:55
projects
36:56
returning on may 3rd to discuss the
36:58
utility projects and receive some
37:00
follow-up information
37:01
from the april 27th deliberations
37:05
the council then further deliberated at
37:07
the may 11
37:08
study session last week and we are back
37:10
tonight to continue the public hearing
37:15
and since the the public hearing was
37:17
opened a couple of weeks ago the
37:19
administration has
37:20
updated the proposed cip to reflect some
37:23
of the feedback received during the
37:24
council deliberations
37:26
so before we continue the public hearing
37:28
i'd like to just briefly summarize those
37:30
adjustments here
37:32
so first we shifted
37:35
the projects that were originally funded
37:37
uh proposed to be funded by the lakeside
37:39
development agreement
37:40
to uh there should be a two in there
37:43
reach one
37:45
second the we increased funding for the
37:48
pavement management program or tr030
37:52
by 800 000 in 2022
37:55
uh funded by reit one uh and that
37:58
brings that project on par uh
38:01
with the other years in the cip
38:06
then the third where we add added funds
38:09
for northwest to mamish road
38:10
non-motorized improvements or tr028
38:13
to complete design by the end of 2023
38:16
and we also accelerated the construction
38:19
to begin in 2024 and commence in 2025
38:23
provided that the city identifies a
38:25
funding source for that construction
38:28
and finally we reduced or shifted
38:30
funding for other reit 1 supported
38:32
projects
38:33
to accommodate the the revisions that i
38:35
just ran through
38:38
and uh following these adjustments the
38:41
updated proposed cip is reflected in
38:43
this table
38:45
and all of the information in this table
38:46
is also in the the document that's
38:49
currently on the city's website
38:51
and is in tonight's council packet as
38:54
well
38:57
and with that i can turn it back to you
39:00
mayor paulie i can stop sharing there
39:04
you go
39:05
thank you
39:08
um before we go and open the pelvic
39:10
hearing i just want to give the council
39:12
an opportunity to indicate in the chat
39:14
box whether you have any questions on
39:15
the brief presentation that
39:17
choose to head tonight i'll give it a
39:20
few seconds
39:27
if there are none uh the guidelines for
39:30
citizens comments for this public
39:31
hearing
39:32
um apply that we i read earlier also
39:35
apply under this public hearing and i
39:37
will open the public hearing at 7
39:39
40 p.m this evening for those who have
39:42
joined us tonight and would like to
39:44
make comments that did not sign up in
39:45
advance you can raise your virtual hand
39:47
and city clerk do we have
39:49
anyone on the meeting tonight with us
39:54
yes mayor we do have a few members of
39:56
the public so a reminder
39:58
to you if you're interested in making
40:00
comments tonight as the mayor said
40:01
please press star 3 if you're on the
40:03
phone
40:04
or if you're uh have joined by computer
40:06
please find the hand
40:08
icon to raise your virtual hand you may
40:11
find that by opening up the participant
40:13
panel
40:15
you're also welcome to send me the host
40:17
a chat message
40:19
and mayor i'll just monitor the list for
40:21
a moment here
40:22
that sounds great and on the earlier
40:25
sign up list did we have anybody sign up
40:27
to speak this evening
40:28
no thank you
40:32
we'll give it a few seconds let me know
40:40
all right i'm not seeing anyone indicate
40:42
a desire to make comments under the
40:44
public hearing
40:46
uh as the for closing the public hearing
40:49
do i need a
40:50
motion from counsel or just announce
40:54
no you can just announce the closure if
40:57
um there was a desire to continue the
40:59
hearing there would need to be a motion
41:02
okay thank you so seeing that there is
41:04
no public wanting to
41:06
provide information tonight at the
41:09
public hearing public hearing is closed
41:11
at 7 42 p.m
41:13
and we will move on to the next step
41:16
which is there is a motion included in
41:19
the council's packet this evening to
41:20
approve the cip
41:22
after discussion with council president
41:24
hunt last week
41:26
there is also an alternate motion which
41:28
i'll ask city clerk to put both of those
41:30
into the chat box and would be looking
41:33
for someone to make
41:35
emotion on one of those so we can have a
41:37
discussion
41:46
and we're just waiting to get those in
41:47
the chat box
41:56
and
42:00
this first motion has been put in and
42:03
the second motion has been put in do i
42:05
council president hunt would you care to
42:06
make a motion
42:08
thank you madam mayor this is council
42:10
president hunt i moved to
42:12
postpone ab-8123
42:15
to 2027 capital improvement plan
42:17
including transportation improvement
42:19
program to the june 7
42:20
2021 council meeting and direct the
42:22
administration to prepare a letter on
42:24
behalf of the city council to accompany
42:26
the cip when it returns for
42:28
council consideration and is there a
42:31
second for motion
42:39
uh deputy council president ray i'm all
42:41
second
42:43
so it has been moved in second to
42:45
postpone the approval to the june 7th
42:47
meeting
42:47
and council president would you like to
42:48
speak to your motion
42:51
yes thank you this is council president
42:53
hunt
42:55
as the mayor just mentioned
42:58
she and i met at the end of last week
43:01
and one of the things that
43:04
i had been that i had mentioned earlier
43:06
was that i think
43:08
having more parallels between our
43:11
budgeting process
43:12
and the cip would be
43:15
useful and one of those things that we
43:18
could do
43:19
to make our processes more similar
43:21
across both the budget and
43:23
the cip would be to include a letter
43:26
from the council with the cip
43:29
um i think this could have a number of
43:32
positive benefits in terms of tracking
43:36
our conversations we only talk about the
43:38
cip every two years
43:40
and i think over that time there's some
43:43
continuity of the conversation is lost
43:46
things like
43:46
the intent or things like um
43:51
discussions that we have on policy that
43:53
don't get translated into
43:55
changes but are things that we would
43:57
like the next
43:58
um people that are considering the next
44:01
council that's considering the cip to
44:03
keep in mind so similar to the budget
44:05
process
44:06
which i think i i at least personally
44:08
found very helpful
44:09
um as the council president last year to
44:11
look at that previous budget letter from
44:13
the council
44:15
from the council president in the
44:16
previous year to carry over some of
44:18
those
44:18
those thoughts um i think it could help
44:21
us document our
44:22
process and i think we do have this
44:24
precedent with the budget letter
44:26
and um there were a number of
44:28
conversations that i think are really
44:29
valuable but also not
44:31
not completely finished we talked a lot
44:33
about wanting to
44:35
for example with the pavement management
44:37
program to proactively
44:39
steward our infrastructure and continue
44:41
to make changes towards that
44:43
there was also long-standing safety
44:47
concerns that were raised
44:48
from the community and also in the
44:51
various
44:53
missions that looked at the cip this
44:55
year that i think it would be helpful to
44:57
document
44:59
and to continue to explore how we might
45:04
uh develop those into a plan
45:07
or into a project that is in the cip
45:09
long-standing community concerns that
45:11
are not currently in the plan
45:13
um the one that for me comes to mind is
45:15
the squawk mountain uphill
45:17
bike lane this is identified as the
45:19
master mobility plan
45:20
as one of the highest priorities but
45:22
it's not currently in the cip
45:24
and so i think those sort of sidewalk
45:26
projects
45:28
mobility projects non-motorized
45:29
improvement projects that are
45:31
long-standing
45:32
concerns that we don't have an
45:33
identified funding source i think
45:35
there's been a lot of discussion around
45:36
that
45:37
this year and i think that conversation
45:39
isn't finished
45:40
so i think having a letter that
45:42
documents
45:44
that sort of conversation
45:47
would be beneficial um
45:53
and then lastly we did make
45:56
a number of improvements i think to the
45:57
cip process and
46:00
i think that having the the various
46:02
commissions look at the cip was
46:04
was a great addition based on their
46:06
feedback they
46:07
seemed to engage with the cip and give
46:10
us really good feedback and
46:11
i would like to see us continue that and
46:16
have more of a policy dialogue before we
46:18
get into the cip
46:20
because in the end none of the feedback
46:23
directly translated into changes for the
46:25
cip
46:26
and i think part of that was because of
46:28
the way that we had the conversations we
46:31
didn't
46:31
i think it might be better to have the
46:33
policy based conversations first
46:35
and the commissions can work on those
46:38
higher level
46:39
policies and give us that kind of
46:40
feedback which then could be
46:42
translated into more of the formation of
46:44
the cip
46:45
so i think documenting that would also
46:48
be
46:50
beneficial and then lastly i wanted to
46:53
make this motion to see what council
46:54
thinks about this
46:56
idea of having a letter to include these
46:58
sorts of
46:59
documentation um because we haven't done
47:01
them before so
47:02
also just really wanting to get your
47:04
thoughts on this
47:05
and um also making the motion for
47:09
to have that discussion thank you deputy
47:12
council president ray did you have
47:14
did you want to start with comments no
47:17
i'm going to wait if that's okay
47:20
for sure looking into the chat box to
47:23
see who would like to provide some
47:25
comments and response to the council
47:26
president's motion
47:34
okay let's start with council member
47:35
goodman
47:37
ah thank you councilmember goodman here
47:39
um i think it's
47:41
um i'm gonna comment not comment no
47:43
sorry um
47:44
i uh i think it's a good idea i um
47:48
not i would um not sure what the
47:51
substance would be
47:52
um but i think the the continuity
47:55
of it um is a good idea
47:59
thanks for bringing it up
48:03
thank you anybody else want to make
48:05
comments before i
48:07
circle back to councilmember hunt
48:10
anything else
48:13
again i'll just keep my eye on the chat
48:16
and look for some more almonds
48:18
there's a typo in the chat
48:23
council member hall uh yeah thanks this
48:26
is councilmember hall uh just quickly to
48:28
say
48:28
i i also think it's a good idea wherever
48:30
we can build up institutional memory
48:33
within the council within city
48:36
administration within city staff i think
48:38
there's a benefit there to the community
48:40
so i personally don't see any downsides
48:43
to this and i'd be interested in if any
48:44
other council members
48:46
feel that there is a downside thanks
48:50
thanks for your thoughts
48:54
councilmember marks has a question
48:57
thank you madam mayor just to question
48:59
whether the administration
49:01
has any concerns with this potential
49:04
alternate motion
49:05
in terms of timing or any impact on our
49:07
operations this year
49:09
that's a great question um this is the
49:12
mayor thank you
49:13
thinking that the deliberations have
49:14
moved to a place where
49:16
there's a lot of certainty now in what
49:18
is in and what is not in the plan
49:20
the change in the schedule is not an
49:21
issue um
49:23
think that the comments that the council
49:26
president made
49:27
were really good and that we should be
49:29
looking for ways
49:31
to to document the good work that came
49:34
out during deliberations and all the
49:35
different inputs that the council has
49:37
taken into consideration when they made
49:38
these changes so we're very supportive
49:40
of the motion
49:44
thank you i'm not seeing anything else
49:48
but i was going to
49:49
okay a question from council member hall
49:51
i was going to at some point circle back
49:52
to deputy council president ray as well
49:54
so council member hall for a question
49:56
first
49:58
oh and i see um councilmember goodman
50:00
had a comment before me too but uh if
50:02
it's okay my question's super quick
50:03
um and that is uh if we move forward
50:06
with this would
50:07
administer the city administration need
50:09
any additional
50:10
context or feedback from us about our
50:12
discussions tonight to help draft that
50:15
letter or would the goal be to
50:17
re-examine our dialogue from previous
50:19
discussions
50:20
to write the letter great question
50:23
um since we haven't done this before i
50:26
will check
50:27
you know we've done it with our
50:28
operating budget not a capital budget
50:30
um beth goldberg director goldberg is on
50:34
this evening and we'll see typically
50:36
she's been taking
50:37
notes during all of your deliberations
50:39
and so i believe she probably has enough
50:40
information
50:42
um or the administrator about who would
50:44
ever would like to take that question
50:50
i'm happy to take the question good
50:52
evening everyone uh this is beth
50:54
goldberg finance director
50:56
and i think uh from listening to the
50:59
dialogue
51:00
over the last uh month month and a half
51:04
we've got the basis to start graphing
51:06
the letter
51:07
and then what we typically do with the
51:09
operating letter is
51:10
we'll we'll take the first cut at it uh
51:13
share the draft with
51:14
uh council president hunt and then go
51:16
through the revision process
51:18
uh based on what we as
51:21
staff and the administration heard from
51:23
the discussion and
51:25
what council president uh hunt heard um
51:28
through through the dialogue and wants
51:30
to emphasize the letter
51:33
uh director goldberg just uh follow up
51:36
on that um i believe
51:37
that that comes with the the approval
51:41
and therefore a council member could
51:43
make a suggestion
51:44
for a change if the majority wanted to
51:47
include that change in the letter
51:48
after the council president's header
51:50
edits
51:52
correct so that would be it would be
51:53
included in the packet
51:55
that you receive for uh the june 7th
51:58
meeting
52:00
it would be in that packet and then it
52:03
would be part of the record
52:04
of what uh the council would adopt on
52:07
on june 7th so there would be an
52:10
opportunity
52:10
um certainly if um you know just needed
52:13
to be made
52:14
there would be an opportunity for that
52:16
um i don't in
52:18
in experience with the operating budget
52:21
i think by the time we get to that point
52:23
i think it's
52:24
i i haven't seen um a lot of changes
52:27
made to it but certainly if
52:28
um someone um had you know an objection
52:32
or wanted to suggest a change that i
52:34
think
52:34
could be part of the council's dialogue
52:36
that evening
52:38
okay thank you director goldberg um
52:42
customer goodman did have a comment but
52:45
uh she's fine and so uh deputy council
52:47
president ray just wanted to know if you
52:48
had anything to add
52:49
because if i might thank you mayor
52:52
paulie this is chris ray
52:54
um i think it's always good to provide
52:57
um
52:57
context for the next time something
53:00
comes around so this is a way to
53:02
to memorialize the conversations we've
53:04
had it's a way to provide continuity
53:07
it's a way to to talk to the rationale
53:09
that we went through and it's
53:11
good way for us to
53:14
document our thought processes which
53:16
will be helpful down the road so i think
53:18
i think this could be a a good new
53:22
way of doing business
53:25
great thank you for that i am not seeing
53:28
any additional comments or questions
53:30
so i will just re-read the motion that
53:32
is on the table right now which is to
53:34
postpone ab-8123
53:37
the 2022-2027 capital improvement plan
53:40
including transportation
53:42
improvement program to the june 7 2021
53:45
council meeting
53:46
and directing the administration to
53:47
prepare a letter on behalf of the city
53:49
council
53:50
to accompany the cip when it returns for
53:52
council consideration
53:53
and we it has been moved and seconded
53:55
and we'll go for a roll call vote
54:00
starting with deputy council president
54:02
ray aye
54:04
council member walsh aye councilmember d
54:08
michelle
54:09
aye councilmember goodman aye
54:13
councilmember hall aye council president
54:16
hunt
54:17
aye council member mark
54:21
aye that's seven i zero nays
54:24
thank you city clerk that passes
54:26
unanimously and the next item our
54:29
business is regular business but we have
54:31
no scheduled items under that this
54:32
evening i did want to circle back
54:34
uh we have good of the order next and i
54:36
think i heard from a couple council
54:38
members tonight that they might have
54:39
something so if you can indicate in the
54:41
chats
54:42
who would like to go first and let's
54:44
start with council member d michelle
54:48
thank you this is councilmember d
54:50
michelle
54:51
and i alluded to this item earlier
54:54
under committee reports and i had quite
54:57
a bit to present so i
54:58
did write out my remarks so just bear
55:00
with me for a second
55:02
so um so under good of the order the
55:06
king county council has authorized the
55:08
placement of the best starts for kids
55:10
renewal levy
55:11
on the august 3rd primary ballot
55:14
and at the same time the eastside human
55:16
services forum legislative committee
55:19
is recommending that the east side human
55:21
services board of directors endorse the
55:23
levy at their next meeting which is
55:25
june 20th as the council's
55:28
representative to the eastside human
55:29
services forum board i would like to
55:31
have direction from the council
55:32
regarding that vote
55:34
and i'm also wondering if the council
55:36
would like to consider endorsing the
55:37
renewal levy at a future
55:39
future council meeting i'm going to do a
55:42
very quick
55:43
background the current best start for
55:46
starts for kids levy raised
55:48
approximately 700 million dollars over
55:50
six years
55:51
it has served 377 000
55:54
at-risk children and families um
55:58
from newborn to age five and forty
56:00
thousand youth ages six
56:02
through twenty four uh the current
56:05
proposal will raise approximately eight
56:07
hundred
56:07
eleven million over six years the rate
56:10
is nineteen cents per one thousand of
56:12
assessed valuation which is about five
56:14
cents more than the previous levy
56:17
and this equals about a hundred and
56:19
fourteen dollars per year for a six
56:21
hundred thousand dollar home
56:24
i asked city administrator bakuts to
56:26
distribute a powerpoint that was
56:27
presented at sound cities association in
56:30
march
56:30
which provided much more information
56:32
about the programmatic initiatives for
56:34
best arts for kids which are
56:36
way too many to review tonight and i
56:39
also check with surrounding cities
56:41
uh to see what they're doing and with
56:43
regards to endorsing
56:45
the best starts for kids and i did get a
56:47
response from bellevue mayor lynn
56:49
robinson
56:50
she said that the entire bellevue city
56:52
council has individually signed a letter
56:54
of support
56:56
and they plan to consider endorsing the
56:58
measure as a council at a future meeting
57:01
um i heard from uh councilmember lynch
57:04
in
57:04
uh redmond and they are they have not
57:06
taken it up yet
57:08
and i did not hear back from the
57:10
kirkland representative on the east side
57:12
human services forum
57:14
so um that is what i'd like to get some
57:17
feedback on from the council
57:19
whether first of all um giving me
57:22
direction for how to vote on june 20th
57:24
and also would the council like to
57:27
consider
57:28
uh endorsing it as the council at a
57:31
future
57:31
council meeting thank you councilmember
57:34
d michelle
57:35
so um councilmember hall has a question
57:41
uh thank you this is councilmember zach
57:43
hall and uh thank you councilmember d
57:45
michelle for bringing this up at good of
57:46
the order
57:47
um i you know i want to say
57:51
yes is a long-standing program that does
57:52
a lot of good work especially
57:54
in the um p to five which is prenatal to
57:57
h5
57:58
age bracket i was just curious during
58:00
your presentation if
58:02
um because i didn't see it in here if
58:05
there was any
58:06
discussion about how you know
58:10
new state investments in early learning
58:12
i did you know the state just passed the
58:14
fair starts for kids act
58:16
which is a massive increase in spending
58:19
in
58:19
in early learning across the whole state
58:22
so i'm kind of interested in how those
58:24
two
58:24
interact and if king county has
58:27
um you know reviewed
58:30
how that's going to play out statewide
58:32
and adjusted
58:33
as needed our own levy so i was
58:36
wondering if any information was
58:38
was brought up about that or if not
58:39
maybe you could you could ask
58:43
yeah i'd be happy to ask uh it wasn't
58:45
part of the presentation
58:47
the powerpoint that i sent you was uh
58:50
sent out was uh presented to the sound
58:52
cities association in march
58:54
so a lot of a lot has changed since then
58:57
and
58:58
um we certainly could
59:01
uh if we do decide to consider it at a
59:04
future meaning
59:05
um garner additional information yes
59:11
great question councilmember hall it
59:13
looks like deputy council president ray
59:15
would also like to ask a
59:17
um thank you mayor police chris wray i
59:20
think this may be a
59:21
uh a question for those who have been
59:24
who have been around longer than me i
59:26
know we've kicked
59:27
kicked around the idea of
59:30
endorsing campaigns as a body before
59:34
and i i don't know if we've ever done it
59:36
or if we have
59:38
reached a consensus on when we should do
59:40
it and what the criteria is
59:42
i mean so i just have this
59:45
very foggy notion that we've we've we
59:48
dabbled around this before but i don't
59:49
remember
59:50
how we resolved that but i bet you
59:52
council member marks does
59:55
council member mertz thank you madam
59:59
we've endorsed a number of school
1:00:00
district related bonds and levies
1:00:02
just as as an example i don't remember
1:00:05
if we specifically endorsed best starts
1:00:07
for kids
1:00:08
last time maybe maybe councilman goodman
1:00:11
remembers
1:00:12
but we've we do do it upon occasion um
1:00:15
and uh uh that's all i can say about
1:00:19
that thank you
1:00:21
thank you councilmember goodman uh thank
1:00:24
you councilmember goodman here
1:00:25
um councilmember marx is right we have
1:00:29
um done it on several occasions
1:00:32
um i would say um
1:00:36
in the interest of being fair that not
1:00:38
all council members have
1:00:39
felt that that was appropriate um
1:00:43
and however
1:00:46
we have to my recollection
1:00:50
never endorse something without
1:00:54
a presentation directly from the
1:00:57
um proponent the so like king county
1:01:00
would
1:01:01
come out to us and make a presentation
1:01:03
um i do remember this one
1:01:05
and it was i don't know that
1:01:08
controversial is the right
1:01:10
word but it was not without controversy
1:01:12
i will say because
1:01:13
it was not um the the ideas on what they
1:01:16
were
1:01:17
the specifics on what the money was
1:01:18
going to be used for was not had not
1:01:21
been fully formed
1:01:22
um and so there were a lot of questions
1:01:24
um
1:01:26
so that would be that would be uh
1:01:30
my recollection
1:01:33
thank you both for that it does help to
1:01:35
have that institutional
1:01:36
knowledge um i appreciate council member
1:01:39
hall's question does anybody else if
1:01:41
council member d michelle is taking this
1:01:43
back have additional questions that they
1:01:45
would like her to take our comments and
1:01:46
let's go to council member
1:01:48
mark yeah i'll follow up what
1:01:51
councilmember
1:01:51
goodman said there had been questions
1:01:53
about how money would be spent there
1:01:55
were also
1:01:56
questions uh about what the governance
1:01:59
model was going to look like
1:02:00
uh for what was it was a hefty
1:02:04
uh levy and so i would also very much
1:02:08
like to see
1:02:09
king county or whomever uh come before
1:02:12
us
1:02:12
and present on it we did get a
1:02:14
presentation that
1:02:16
sca pic um the pick had feedback on that
1:02:19
presentation i would love to see
1:02:21
a further more recent adapted
1:02:24
presentation and i think for anybody who
1:02:26
is not familiar with
1:02:28
best start for kids it would be absolute
1:02:30
minimum requirement to consider
1:02:33
something like this thank you thank you
1:02:36
councilmember martha i also say that our
1:02:38
attorney would like to make some
1:02:39
comments jim
1:02:43
just a reminder that state law says that
1:02:46
before you can
1:02:47
endorse a ballot proposition that it
1:02:50
needs to be on your agenda
1:02:52
with the ballot title and you need to
1:02:54
take public comment from both proponents
1:02:57
and opponents before you can make an
1:02:59
endorsement
1:03:00
so just procedurally you need to do that
1:03:02
before you can
1:03:03
endorse this ballot measure if you want
1:03:05
to consider doing that
1:03:08
thank you for clarifying that i
1:03:11
am not seeing anybody who has
1:03:15
oh there we go council president hunt
1:03:16
with a comment thank you this is council
1:03:18
president hunt
1:03:19
um i am not as familiar with uh
1:03:22
with this and so i think it would be
1:03:24
very helpful to have
1:03:26
that presentation and i
1:03:31
think if it's possible to have it before
1:03:33
the june 20th
1:03:34
then i might be able to better give
1:03:36
feedback on what sort of questions
1:03:38
you might ask for that meeting but at
1:03:40
this time since i don't have as much
1:03:41
familiarity with it
1:03:43
i don't i don't have any specific
1:03:45
questions
1:03:46
um so i think up a presentation which
1:03:49
seems like
1:03:50
uh a number of council members have
1:03:53
mentioned i think that would be super
1:03:54
helpful for me
1:03:56
thank you and it looks like um i was
1:03:58
going to come back to councilman
1:04:00
michelle at the end but um we do you
1:04:02
want to comment now it looks like there
1:04:04
may not be anyone else
1:04:05
with the comments want to wrap us up
1:04:08
sure uh i think that having a
1:04:10
presentation is a
1:04:12
great idea and i understand that
1:04:15
we need to have both pro and con
1:04:19
presentations on the um
1:04:24
during the presentation or or in
1:04:26
conjunction with the presentation so i
1:04:28
think
1:04:28
i think it will be a very good dialogue
1:04:30
um i would suggest that we reach out to
1:04:32
sheila kappastani who's the
1:04:35
director of that program um either she
1:04:38
or one of her assistants can make that
1:04:40
presentation and i think
1:04:42
would be able to answer a lot of the
1:04:43
questions um
1:04:45
i remember that six years ago when that
1:04:47
was first out i
1:04:48
did work on it as a citizen uh getting
1:04:51
that
1:04:52
passed and there were a lot of questions
1:04:54
and i think a lot of those questions
1:04:56
have been answered over the last six
1:04:57
years
1:04:58
it's much more of a
1:05:02
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1:05:04
solid program in a solid solid venture
1:05:07
at this point after
1:05:08
the years of uh experience that they
1:05:12
have with it
1:05:13
but it would be good for all the people
1:05:14
that don't know about that and how it
1:05:16
works now to
1:05:18
have those questions answered yeah so i
1:05:21
i think i agree with all all of the
1:05:23
statements have been made by my council
1:05:25
members
1:05:25
fellow council members thank you so i
1:05:28
think
1:05:29
you have what you need and i hear
1:05:31
potentially a request that council
1:05:32
leadership and administration work on
1:05:34
scheduling
1:05:34
with the individual that you mentioned
1:05:36
okay thank you very much
1:05:37
i also thought that council member
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goodman before we go
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uh thank you um councilmember goodman
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here i just wanted to um
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emphasize my support for getting answers
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to the
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question the broad question that
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councilmember hall posed
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about in the uh you know the legislative
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session
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any monies and i think it's
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good to know um how the monies might be
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spent differently how the programs are
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similar
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i think that's important um the only
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other suggestion i would
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have is um
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uh i when is is this an
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august ballot okay
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so i'm not sure how critical it is
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to have it in time for
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um the pick meeting on june 20th um if
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we haven't had an opportunity
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to have all of our questions answered i
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think that's more important
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um than having that having been trying
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to be ready
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for that in advance for the pic vote
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because that
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will come up very quickly yeah
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anyway thank you thank you and
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councilmember d michelle you want to add
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a clarification
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right um the vote that we're talking
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about on june 20th is for the eastside
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human services forum
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um and that is a group made up of
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municipal municipal representatives and
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school districts and non-profits
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so that would be speaking specifically
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from the human services
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community thank you sorry for mixing it
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up
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i think my comment still stands i think
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it's more important that before we feed
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in
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to our comments to you about what your
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vote should be it's most important that
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we have all of our questions answered
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so we're fully informed about
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the comments we give to you thanks thank
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you and thank you for that clarification
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i'm not seeing any additional um entries
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of folks wanting to ask questions or
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talk on this one and i just want to
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leave it open for a second or two
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is there any additional good of the
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order items
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you can indicate it in the chat while i
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am going through
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what the next upcoming meeting schedule
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looks like
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so we have a city council study session
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on tuesday may 25th with potential
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agenda items including the sign code
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police accountability equity and human
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services action plan
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human services commission equity update
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and a discussion of
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equity framework city council regular
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meeting on june 7th has the following
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potential agenda items which include the
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end of the 2021 legislative session
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report
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the public benefit rating system
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application and the american
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rescue plan act funding
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not seeing that there are any other good
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of the order items we'll next be moving
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into
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executive sessions so as earlier
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announced there will be an executive
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session this evening
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to discuss collective bargaining per rcw
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42.30
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0.1 0.140 paren for parent a and this
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item is expected to take approximately
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30 minutes and may be extended if needed
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no action is anticipated to follow in
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open session
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and as a reminder executive sessions are
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closed to the public
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we will now recess into executive
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session at 8 10
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p.m and i asked the city clerk to move
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the city council into a
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separate session within this meeting
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anyone who is not part of the closed
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session will remain in the main meeting
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and you're welcome to stay in the
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meeting
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until it is recovered city clerk
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yes me just a moment here
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you