City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, June 7, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Walsh

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

End of 2021 Legislative Session Report ID 0880

packet pp.5–36

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Staff report:

The purpose of this informational update is to provide a review of the 2021 State Legislative Session and how the City’s priorities identified in the Legislative Agenda were incorporated into the State budgets.

Update on Capital Financing Community Task Force ID 0915

packet pp.37–38

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Staff report:

The purpose of this update is provide the City Council information on the Mayor’s appointment and convening of the Capital Financing Community Task Force.

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, May 17, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.61–65

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 26, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting · May 3, 2021

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 05-17-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting May 17, 2021 MINUTES

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Lower Reid Infiltration Gallery AB 7385

Carried 7-0

Accept Project · packet pp.67–68

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends acceptance of the Lower Reid Infiltration Gallery (LRIG) Mitigation project and release of the retainage to the contractor.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Puget Sound Energy Contract for SPAR Water Project AB 8092

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.69–77

Topics: ClimateWater

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Staff report:

On May 17, 2021, Council awarded the construction bid for the SPAR Water System Project (AB 8179). The City's contractor will install most of the system components, including the conduits and other infrastructure to facilitate power to be fed to the new pump station. However, as is typical in this type of project, PSE will actually install the wiring, transformer, and meters under a separate contract.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Non-Profit Relief Grant Funding AB 8139

Carried 7-0

Receive & File · packet pp.79–80

Topics: Budget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 15, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 5, 2021

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends postponing the non-profit relief funding

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Memorandum of Understanding with the Issaquah Police Officers' Association Ratify AB 8168

Carried 7-0

packet pp.81–87

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

Police officer recruitment has become increasingly challenging in recent years due to diminishing candidate pools, increasing causes of attrition, and broadening police responsibilities. The City has struggled to attract sufficient candidates to fill vacancies due to retirements, change in profession, and lateral career moves. Lateral police officers are particularly difficult to attract as candidates, as many incur moving expenses, loss of seniority, and other detriments when they consider an opportunity at a new jurisdiction.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Washington State Department of Agriculture COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Grant for Farmers Market AB 8182

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant · packet pp.89–91

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Staff report:

The coronavirus pandemic has affected small businesses and local food supply chains in different ways. The WSDA in partnership with the Washington State Department of Commerce is awarding grants that specifically aim to help farmers market organizations, agritourism farms, craft beverage producers, and shellfish growers. These sectors are important parts of the agriculture economy that experienced economic hardship due to the pandemic and faced limitations in accessing relief.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

2022-2027 Capital Improvement Plan, including Transportation Improvement Program AB 8123

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.119–336

Topics: TransportationBudget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 19, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting · May 17, 2021

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Staff report:

The CIP is a multi-year plan for the acquisition, expansion, or rehabilitation of land, buildings, and other major infrastructure over a six-year period, and beyond. The plan reflects expected start and completion dates, estimated costs, and proposed financing for the City's capital investment priorities. The plan is reviewed and updated biennially factoring in availability of resources, changes in City policy and community needs, unexpected emergencies and events, and changes in cost and financial strategies. The CIP incorporates City Council priorities, long-range community objectives, and projects that improve City operational efficiency. The plan represents the City's current estimates of needs, costs, potential funding sources, and timelines.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

10a

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:01 ↗ so welcome everyone i'm calling the june

0:03 ↗ 7 city council meeting to order and due

0:06 ↗ to the governor's proclamation 20-28

0:08 ↗ relating to the covet-19 emergency

0:11 ↗ and open public meetings this meeting

0:13 ↗ will be held entirely remotely at this

0:16 ↗ point we'll take a moment to take a roll

0:17 ↗ call of the council members in

0:18 ↗ attendance

0:19 ↗ we stay here when i call your name

0:21 ↗ councilmember d michelle

0:22 ↗ here thank you councilmember goodman

0:25 ↗ yeah

0:26 ↗ thank you councilmember hall here

0:30 ↗ council president hunt here thank you

0:34 ↗ council member marks

0:35 ↗ here thanks deputy council president ray

0:39 ↗ here thank you and council member walsh

0:42 ↗ here

0:43 ↗ that is all seven of our council members

0:45 ↗ in attendance

0:46 ↗ so the next item on the agenda this

0:48 ↗ evening is the pledge of allegiance and

0:49 ↗ please feel free to join me but i will

0:51 ↗ be asking everybody to

0:53 ↗ mute themselves right now as well

0:57 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

1:00 ↗ united states of america

1:01 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands

1:04 ↗ one nation

1:04 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

1:07 ↗ justice for all next item on our agenda

1:13 ↗ this evening is audience comments and if

1:15 ↗ you

1:16 ↗ have submitted the online form to make

1:18 ↗ comments we'll call your name

1:19 ↗ shortly and if you are have joined us

1:21 ↗ tonight and you would like to make

1:23 ↗ comments but did not sign up in advance

1:25 ↗ please raise your virtual hand so our

1:27 ↗ city clerk can see you

1:29 ↗ if you are on the phone that could be

1:31 ↗ pressing star 3

1:32 ↗ if you join by computer or smartphone

1:34 ↗ look for a hand icon

1:36 ↗ and this can vary by device one option

1:39 ↗ may be to go to the participant panel

1:41 ↗ and choose the raise hand icon in the

1:43 ↗ lower right hand corner

1:44 ↗ we are also going to have a public

1:46 ↗ hearing tonight on ab-8152

1:49 ↗ the public benefit rating system

1:51 ↗ application for 2.76 acres of open space

1:55 ↗ at 5805 229th avenue southeast

1:59 ↗ in the overdale homeowners association

2:03 ↗ area and if you would like to make

2:05 ↗ comments on this topic you'll have an

2:06 ↗ opportunity to do that later in this

2:08 ↗ meeting

2:09 ↗ um so city clerk has anyone signed up

2:11 ↗ for general audience comments or

2:12 ↗ indicated a desire to speak this evening

2:17 ↗ mayor no one has signed up to make

2:18 ↗ comments i do see we have

2:22 ↗ like one member of the public on the

2:24 ↗ line with us

2:28 ↗ i can just ask that if anyone is wishing

2:31 ↗ to make comments

2:32 ↗ that they raise their virtual hand

2:35 ↗ on the phone you can press star 3 as the

2:37 ↗ mayor noted

2:40 ↗ or you can visit the participant panel

2:43 ↗ and raise your virtual hand

2:47 ↗ just monitoring here for a moment

2:51 ↗ it doesn't appear anyone's wishing to

2:52 ↗ make comments this evening

2:54 ↗ thank you city clerk so just as a

2:56 ↗ reminder

2:57 ↗ written comments can always be submitted

2:59 ↗ to your city council at city council at

3:01 ↗ isquad.gov

3:02 ↗ and council president hunt do you have

3:04 ↗ any emails to summarize on tonight's

3:06 ↗ agenda topics

3:09 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

3:10 ↗ president hunt and while we're doing

3:12 ↗ virtual meetings we have been

3:14 ↗ summarizing emails that have come to

3:16 ↗ council

3:17 ↗ on topics that are on the agenda for

3:20 ↗ this evening and that

3:21 ↗ for items that we've discussed on

3:23 ↗ multiple evenings

3:25 ↗ has have come since the last time we've

3:28 ↗ discussed them

3:29 ↗ so we have received several emails on

3:31 ↗ topics

3:32 ↗ where tonight several emails came in are

3:34 ↗ about ab-8123 which is

3:37 ↗ the 2022-2027 capital improvement plan

3:40 ↗ including transportation

3:41 ↗ improvement program one

3:45 ↗ uh concern that the way we

3:48 ↗ uh the way that the

3:52 ↗ non-pip so the non-transportation

3:54 ↗ improvement

3:55 ↗ parts of things in the cip makes it seem

3:57 ↗ as though things are

3:59 ↗ many things are possible that are

4:02 ↗ separate from the funding of what's

4:04 ↗ possible

4:06 ↗ generally express concern that's the

4:08 ↗ plan is separate from

4:09 ↗ funding and things that

4:13 ↗ expressed that the planning should be

4:16 ↗ more

4:16 ↗ connected to what people would be or

4:19 ↗ community members would be willing to

4:20 ↗ pay for

4:21 ↗ and also express support for the

4:24 ↗ creekside restoration project which is

4:25 ↗ in the capital improvement

4:27 ↗ plan then we received a

4:31 ↗ email in support of memo

4:34 ↗ two there are two memos in our packet so

4:36 ↗ this one expressed support from

4:38 ↗ memo2 including that also uh stressed

4:42 ↗ the importance

4:43 ↗ due to the safety implications of

4:44 ↗ sidewalk completions on squawk mountain

4:47 ↗ and um expressed concern about the

4:51 ↗ feasibility of

4:52 ↗ walk and roll which is another plan that

4:54 ↗ we have for

4:56 ↗ transportation improvements we received

4:59 ↗ another email

5:01 ↗ that's supported including the draft

5:03 ↗ mmo2

5:05 ↗ and

5:08 ↗ and explains the reasoning for that and

5:10 ↗ then uh we received another email about

5:13 ↗ the ecological benefits of

5:15 ↗ beavers in king county and this um based

5:17 ↗ on prior correspondence with this

5:19 ↗ community member who

5:20 ↗ shared this article this relates to

5:23 ↗ project

5:24 ↗ uh st 048

5:28 ↗ i believe which is the pickering ditch

5:29 ↗ flood control project which does

5:31 ↗ in the project justification it does

5:33 ↗ refer to beaver dams

5:35 ↗ and that summarizes emails that we

5:37 ↗ received on

5:38 ↗ agenda items for this evening

5:49 ↗ mayor you're muted

5:52 ↗ that pizza jar is overflowing with

5:54 ↗ dollars from the mayor that's an

5:56 ↗ absolute for sure

5:58 ↗ um just one thank you council president

6:00 ↗ hunt for that

6:01 ↗ they're just a final reminder you can

6:03 ↗ write your counsel at any time

6:05 ↗ when you have comments you do not

6:06 ↗ necessarily need to come to a council

6:08 ↗ meeting

6:08 ↗ so the next item of business this

6:10 ↗ evening is committee and regional

6:11 ↗ reports and we'll call

6:12 ↗ i will call each council member by name

6:14 ↗ and we'll be starting with council

6:15 ↗ member hall this evening

6:17 ↗ what a surprise um thank you mayor

6:19 ↗ paulie this is councilmember hall

6:21 ↗ a couple quick updates first and

6:24 ↗ foremost the affordable housing

6:25 ↗ committee of the growth management

6:26 ↗ planning council

6:28 ↗ met last wednesday may 19th of

6:32 ↗ particular importance i wanted to

6:33 ↗ highlight that the committee rolled out

6:35 ↗ its regional affordable housing

6:37 ↗ dashboard

6:38 ↗ which is a new tool for decision makers

6:40 ↗ and community members alike

6:42 ↗ to study the data around affordable

6:44 ↗ housing in our region here in king

6:46 ↗ county

6:47 ↗ so i've already shared this new tool

6:48 ↗ with uh you all here on council with the

6:50 ↗ administration and with a

6:52 ↗ handful of uh community and non-profit

6:54 ↗ and business leaders within issaquah but

6:56 ↗ i did want to just make an announcement

6:57 ↗ this meeting tonight

6:58 ↗ that if there's anyone in the community

7:00 ↗ who's interested in seeing

7:02 ↗ the data i would highly recommend

7:04 ↗ googling

7:05 ↗ or binging or whatever search browser

7:08 ↗ you prefer

7:09 ↗ uh regional affordable housing dashboard

7:12 ↗ king county or you can email me and i'll

7:14 ↗ send you the link and i'd be happy to

7:15 ↗ chat with you about it too

7:17 ↗ we're trying to get this out as far and

7:19 ↗ wide as possible and then just a quick

7:20 ↗ clarification

7:22 ↗ at our last council meeting i had

7:24 ↗ referred to this committee just as the

7:25 ↗ affordable housing committee so i just

7:26 ↗ want to make the distinction that this

7:28 ↗ is not a city committee it's a regional

7:30 ↗ committee of

7:31 ↗ a lot of different representatives from

7:33 ↗ all across the region including builders

7:35 ↗ cities nonprofits and and the king

7:37 ↗ county council

7:38 ↗ so just a clarification there uh and

7:41 ↗ then finally

7:43 ↗ um i wanted to just give everyone on

7:45 ↗ council a heads up that

7:46 ↗ at the next meeting i'll probably have a

7:48 ↗ much longer report for cascade water

7:50 ↗ alliance and be asking for some feedback

7:53 ↗ at the

7:54 ↗ good of the order mayor paulie and i

7:55 ↗ will be so stay tuned for that we'll

7:57 ↗ probably have an email go out before the

7:59 ↗ next meeting

8:00 ↗ with that information and with that that

8:02 ↗ concludes my report

8:05 ↗ thank you councilmember hall next up we

8:08 ↗ have council member du michelle

8:12 ↗ you mayor paulie this is councilmember d

8:13 ↗ michelle uh first of all i

8:15 ↗ i want to say that i've tried that

8:17 ↗ affordable housing dashboard and it's

8:19 ↗ fabulous so

8:20 ↗ thank you for for distributing that

8:22 ↗ information

8:24 ↗ um last thursday june 2nd i attended the

8:26 ↗ healthier here governing board meeting

8:29 ↗ the first hour of the meeting was

8:30 ↗ focused on internal governance issues

8:32 ↗ including the election of a new co-chair

8:35 ↗ we received a report on a successful

8:37 ↗ public engagement

8:38 ↗ pilot program aimed at minority and

8:41 ↗ immigrant communities that was initiated

8:43 ↗ in response to copenhagen

8:45 ↗ and then finally we acknowledged the

8:47 ↗ many contributions of patty hayes

8:49 ↗ who has retired from her position as

8:51 ↗ director of seattle king county public

8:53 ↗ health

8:54 ↗ and we received a coven 19 update from

8:57 ↗ public health policy director

8:59 ↗ ingrid ulray and then on another note a

9:02 ↗ meeting of the east side transportation

9:04 ↗ partnership

9:05 ↗ is scheduled for this friday june 11th

9:07 ↗ and that concludes my report

9:11 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle next

9:14 ↗ we have council member walsh

9:16 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

9:17 ↗ member walsh

9:19 ↗ on tuesday i attended the

9:23 ↗ chamber israeli chamber of commerce

9:25 ↗ meeting and

9:26 ↗ briefed them on a few things going on in

9:28 ↗ the city including

9:29 ↗ the sign code update

9:33 ↗ that took a little turn um and asked

9:36 ↗ them for

9:37 ↗ any feedback that they might have at

9:39 ↗ this point um to still engage with us on

9:42 ↗ that

9:42 ↗ i briefed them on the title 18 and that

9:45 ↗ had come

9:46 ↗ to ppc the day before the planning

9:49 ↗ policy commission

9:50 ↗ um and just kind of this public

9:52 ↗ reopening of that concept and wanted to

9:54 ↗ make sure that they were aware

9:56 ↗ we also had a brief conversation about

9:59 ↗ school resource officers where that

10:02 ↗ community conversation is coming through

10:04 ↗ and that

10:06 ↗ the council is going to receive the

10:08 ↗ presentation of community feedback on

10:10 ↗ june 15th

10:11 ↗ and then we ended with a conversation

10:13 ↗ about the city facility reopening plan

10:16 ↗ and how we're also going to be briefed

10:19 ↗ on that on june 15th

10:21 ↗ um and so that was our conversation

10:24 ↗ um and that concludes my report thanks

10:27 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh

10:28 ↗ councilmember goodman

10:30 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor councilmember

10:32 ↗ goodman here i'm eastside fire at

10:34 ↗ um board of directors meets this

10:36 ↗ thursday june 10th at 4pm it's a

10:39 ↗ virtual meeting um and i just

10:42 ↗ see um sort of nothing unusual on the

10:45 ↗ agenda some typical outstanding items

10:47 ↗ um but there are uh recruits graduating

10:50 ↗ on june 17th

10:51 ↗ so if you're interested in attending

10:53 ↗ that virtually um then i would suggest

10:55 ↗ um connecting with east side fire and

10:58 ↗ either

10:59 ↗ on the other website or give them a call

11:01 ↗ and see if

11:02 ↗ um anybody here or the public would like

11:04 ↗ to attend that you can give a link to

11:06 ↗ attend that

11:07 ↗ that's my report thank you thank you

11:09 ↗ councilmember goodman

11:11 ↗ next up is councilmember martz

11:15 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

11:16 ↗ member marks the puget sound

11:18 ↗ regional council growth management

11:20 ↗ policy board met on thursday june

11:22 ↗ 3rd no actions were contemplated or

11:25 ↗ taken

11:26 ↗ the sound cities association public

11:28 ↗ issues committee

11:29 ↗ will meet wednesday june 9th at 7 pm

11:32 ↗ online and currently no action is being

11:34 ↗ contemplated this concludes my report

11:37 ↗ thank you councilmember mertz next up we

11:41 ↗ have deputy council president ray

11:43 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray

11:45 ↗ the king county growth management

11:46 ↗ planning council the gmpc met on may

11:48 ↗ 26th

11:50 ↗ in a virtual meeting the gmpc discussed

11:52 ↗ the county-wide planning policies

11:54 ↗ or cpps and reviewed comments on those

11:57 ↗ drafts

11:58 ↗ cpps have been received from the public

12:01 ↗ gmpc

12:02 ↗ also reviewed a draft of the urban

12:03 ↗ growth capacity report

12:06 ↗ gmpc took no action at this meeting the

12:09 ↗ gmpc

12:10 ↗ is scheduled to meet again on june 23rd

12:12 ↗ at that meeting final action will be

12:13 ↗ taken on the 2021

12:16 ↗ county-wide planning policy update

12:18 ↗ including growth targets and final

12:20 ↗ action will also be taken on the urban

12:22 ↗ growth

12:23 ↗ capacity report and that concludes my

12:25 ↗ report this evening

12:33 ↗ thank you deputy council president now

12:35 ↗ we have council president hunt up next

12:38 ↗ thank you madam mayors council president

12:39 ↗ hunt i have several reports

12:42 ↗ today the king conservation district

12:46 ↗ election reform committee which is a

12:48 ↗ subcommittee of the king conservation

12:50 ↗ district advisory committee met on

12:52 ↗ may 27th we are going to be recommending

12:55 ↗ to the advisory committee

12:57 ↗ that we are wanting to support

13:00 ↗ the boards the king conservation

13:02 ↗ district board statement regarding

13:05 ↗ getting the election for king

13:07 ↗ conservation district on a

13:08 ↗ regular ballot so there's a number of

13:10 ↗ issues to work through for that

13:12 ↗ but the the main

13:16 ↗ problem that we're working on here is

13:18 ↗ that the conservation districts

13:20 ↗ have elections that occur at a different

13:21 ↗ time from all the other elections

13:23 ↗ but they are elected positions and so

13:26 ↗ for those

13:27 ↗ board members that are elected despite

13:29 ↗ sending out postcards to all of the

13:31 ↗ residents this last year

13:32 ↗ still less than one percent of eligible

13:34 ↗ voters participated in that election

13:36 ↗ because it is a unique time and so we're

13:38 ↗ continuing to work on that issue and we

13:40 ↗ will

13:41 ↗ potentially also be working with our

13:42 ↗ state legislature on this

13:44 ↗ during the upcoming summer months um the

13:48 ↗ title 18 ad hoc committee met on may

13:50 ↗ 27th we primarily discussed the sign

13:52 ↗ code which

13:53 ↗ the council had discussed on may 25th

13:57 ↗ in our study session and we discussed

13:59 ↗ the feedback from that meeting and

14:01 ↗ the sign code with that feedback taken

14:04 ↗ into consideration a draft of that will

14:06 ↗ come back to

14:07 ↗ the ad hoc committee at our next meeting

14:12 ↗ we also discussed a

14:15 ↗ wireless communication facility's code

14:18 ↗ update

14:19 ↗ as a potential item for putting this

14:22 ↗ code update on a separate track from the

14:23 ↗ rest of title 18 the ad hoc committee at

14:25 ↗ this time

14:26 ↗ did not support putting recommending to

14:30 ↗ council that we put that on a separate

14:31 ↗ track from the rest of title 18 and

14:33 ↗ we can uh address any questions about

14:36 ↗ that go to the order if there aren't

14:38 ↗ are any questions but at this time we

14:40 ↗ didn't recommend taking that action

14:44 ↗ the salmon recovery council for wyra8

14:47 ↗ which is the technical name for our

14:48 ↗ watershed met

14:50 ↗ um on may 20th

14:54 ↗ uh we approved a letter so the action

14:56 ↗ taken was that we approved

14:58 ↗ a letter with strengthened language um

15:00 ↗ regarding a proposed asphalt plant along

15:03 ↗ sr169 in the cedar river basin

15:06 ↗ this proposed asphalt plants um there

15:08 ↗ are concerns about the impacts that that

15:10 ↗ could have on salmon habitat it's right

15:12 ↗ on the

15:13 ↗ river um and so this letter will go from

15:16 ↗ wyra8

15:17 ↗ salmon recovery council to the king

15:19 ↗ county department of local services and

15:21 ↗ emphasizes the importance

15:23 ↗ of avoiding adverse impacts to salmon

15:24 ↗ and salmon habitat in their review of

15:26 ↗ the permits for that

15:28 ↗ plant and it also talks about how

15:32 ↗ mitigation or compensation will not

15:35 ↗ protect the salmon and so we really need

15:37 ↗ to make sure that there aren't

15:39 ↗ adverse impacts from that plant on the

15:41 ↗ salmon

15:42 ↗ we also approved the 2021 cooperative

15:45 ↗ watershed management grant round funding

15:48 ↗ um and then lastly the salmon recovery

15:51 ↗ management

15:52 ↗ committee um which is a subcommittee of

15:55 ↗ the family recovery council

15:56 ↗ for wyrah8 today earlier today and we

16:00 ↗ will be recommending approval of the

16:02 ↗ budget

16:02 ↗ to the full council with a 2.5 increase

16:05 ↗ for

16:06 ↗ the cpiw or consumer price index and

16:09 ↗ this has been typical

16:10 ↗ in all years except for last year where

16:12 ↗ we made an exception due to

16:13 ↗ covet and budget uncertainty that

16:16 ↗ concludes my report

16:19 ↗ thank you council president hunt the

16:21 ↗ next item on this evening's agenda is

16:23 ↗ the mayor's report

16:26 ↗ start off there will be an executive

16:28 ↗ session held this evening

16:29 ↗ to discuss pending and potential

16:34 ↗ litigation for rcw 42.30.110 paren one

16:40 ↗ parent i

16:41 ↗ and performance of public employees for

16:43 ↗ rcw 42.30.110 for n1 prangie

16:47 ↗ and these items are expected to last 40

16:50 ↗ minutes

16:50 ↗ no action is anticipated in the open

16:53 ↗ session

16:55 ↗ last week i issued a proclamation for

16:57 ↗ june 4th 2021

16:59 ↗ to be gun violence awareness day in the

17:01 ↗ city of issaquah

17:02 ↗ i encourage all community members to

17:04 ↗ support efforts to prevent the tragic

17:06 ↗ effects of gun violence and to honor

17:08 ↗ and value human lives i'd also like to

17:12 ↗ do a pride month proclamation as part of

17:14 ↗ my report

17:16 ↗ whereas the month of june was designated

17:18 ↗ pride month to commemorate the stonewall

17:20 ↗ riots which occurred in june of 1969

17:23 ↗ and are generally recognized as the

17:25 ↗ catalyst of the lgbtqia plus

17:28 ↗ rights movement and whereas city council

17:31 ↗ and staff

17:32 ↗ committed to make issaquah an inclusive

17:34 ↗ and welcoming community for all

17:36 ↗ including the lgbtqia plus community

17:39 ↗ and whereas all members of the issaquah

17:42 ↗ community including those who are

17:43 ↗ lesbian gay bisexual transgender

17:46 ↗ queer or questioning intersex or asexual

17:48 ↗ have the right to feel

17:50 ↗ safe not to be discriminated against and

17:52 ↗ to live without the threat of violence

17:54 ↗ or harassment

17:56 ↗ and whereas supporting issaquah's

17:58 ↗ lgbtqia plus community

18:00 ↗ also aligns with the city's strategic

18:02 ↗ plan guiding principles

18:04 ↗ of both people and equity and whereas

18:07 ↗ the lgbtqia plus community has made

18:10 ↗ great strides

18:11 ↗ however work remains in order to achieve

18:13 ↗ full equality

18:14 ↗ inclusion and acceptance whereas

18:17 ↗ issaquah is strengthened by

18:19 ↗ and thrives upon the rich diversity of

18:20 ↗ ethnic cultural racial

18:22 ↗ gender and sexual identities of all its

18:24 ↗ residents

18:25 ↗ all of which contribute to the vibrant

18:27 ↗ character of our city

18:29 ↗ the month of june will be lbgtqia plus

18:33 ↗ pride month in the city of issaquah and

18:35 ↗ i encourage all residents to eliminate

18:37 ↗ prejudice

18:37 ↗ everywhere it exists respect the rights

18:39 ↗ of all people

18:41 ↗ recognize the contributions and

18:42 ↗ achievements of the lgbtqia plus

18:45 ↗ community

18:45 ↗ and to celebrate the great diversity of

18:47 ↗ our city

18:49 ↗ i'm also going to be making a juneteenth

18:51 ↗ proclamation this evening

18:53 ↗ whereas juneteenth recognizes and

18:55 ↗ commemorates the day of june 19

18:57 ↗ 1865 when enslaved african americans in

19:00 ↗ texas were informed

19:02 ↗ by major general gordon granger that

19:04 ↗ they were free

19:06 ↗ ending 246 years of chattel slavery and

19:10 ↗ whereas on june 19

19:12 ↗ 1866 one year after major granger's

19:15 ↗ announcement

19:16 ↗ the freed african-american men and women

19:18 ↗ in the states of texas

19:20 ↗ held the first june teen or

19:22 ↗ african-american

19:23 ↗ independence day celebration in june

19:26 ↗ juneteenth celebrations would later

19:28 ↗ spread to all corners of the country

19:30 ↗ and whereas we acknowledge the evils of

19:33 ↗ slavery and its aftermath

19:35 ↗ and whereas we acknowledge

19:36 ↗ african-american contributions and

19:38 ↗ achievements within this community

19:39 ↗ both past and present and whereas during

19:43 ↗ this student team's event we celebrate

19:45 ↗ our african-american community members

19:47 ↗ and whereas we commit to working

19:49 ↗ together towards equity for all

19:51 ↗ in expanding economic educational and

19:54 ↗ career opportunities

19:55 ↗ for everyone in our community june 19th

19:58 ↗ will be the juneteenth day in the city

20:00 ↗ of issaquah

20:01 ↗ and i encourage all residents to

20:02 ↗ eliminate prejudice everywhere and join

20:05 ↗ me in this celebration

20:07 ↗ i also want to give the council and the

20:08 ↗ community an update on the issaquah

20:11 ↗ community vaccine partnership

20:13 ↗ in conjunction with president biden's

20:14 ↗ goal to vaccinate 70 percent of

20:16 ↗ americans by the 4th of july

20:18 ↗ the u.s conference of mayors announced

20:20 ↗ last week a month of action

20:22 ↗ with the white house and department of

20:23 ↗ health and human services

20:25 ↗ to increase vaccinations in cities

20:27 ↗ across the country

20:29 ↗ mayors across the country are

20:30 ↗ participating in a mayor's challenge to

20:32 ↗ increase vaccination rates and ensure

20:34 ↗ equitable access to the vaccine

20:36 ↗ by mobilizing their communities to do

20:38 ↗ their part and get involved

20:39 ↗ i have signed on to that challenge and

20:41 ↗ commit to continuing outreach and

20:43 ↗ education on vaccine safety

20:45 ↗ and why it's important for issaquah

20:46 ↗ residents to do our part to help stop

20:48 ↗ the pandemic

20:49 ↗ meanwhile the snoqualmie tribe vaccine

20:51 ↗ partnership continues to administer

20:53 ↗ second dose vaccines at lake samamish

20:55 ↗ state park

20:56 ↗ as vaccines are now widely available in

20:58 ↗ our communities mass vaccination sites

21:01 ↗ like ours will begin to close once the

21:03 ↗ second doses are completed later this

21:05 ↗ month

21:05 ↗ i am so grateful for our team and

21:07 ↗ volunteers for this massive

21:08 ↗ undertaking to vaccinate 15 000 of our

21:12 ↗ community members

21:14 ↗ i have a short strategic plan update as

21:17 ↗ well

21:18 ↗ it's been two years since we adopted our

21:20 ↗ issaquah the city's first strategic plan

21:23 ↗ and as we mark this anniversary we're

21:25 ↗ looking back to celebrate what has been

21:26 ↗ accomplished and sharing our plans

21:28 ↗ moving forward

21:30 ↗ while we continue to pursue the goals

21:32 ↗ that our community prioritized two years

21:34 ↗ ago

21:34 ↗ unforeseen challenges have also emerged

21:36 ↗ including the pandemic

21:38 ↗ we have made meaningful strides toward

21:40 ↗ our desired outcomes but we know that

21:42 ↗ important work remains to be done

21:44 ↗ our plan is based on a plan due check

21:47 ↗ and adjust cycle to ensure that there is

21:50 ↗ a focus on continuous improvements and

21:52 ↗ that the actions

21:53 ↗ objectives and goals are in alignment

21:55 ↗ with the current conditions and

21:56 ↗ community priorities

21:58 ↗ starting this week we will be sharing

21:59 ↗ our accomplishment accomplishments from

22:01 ↗ the past two years

22:02 ↗ with the community via videos social

22:05 ↗ media and a postcard

22:06 ↗ and asking for their feedback as we look

22:08 ↗ ahead to 2022 and beyond

22:10 ↗ the city council will also review the

22:12 ↗ results of our recent

22:13 ↗ community survey during its june 15th

22:16 ↗ meeting and then hold a strategy and

22:18 ↗ budget planning workshop

22:19 ↗ on july 13th and you can learn more

22:23 ↗ at issaquah.gov our issaquah about our

22:27 ↗ strategic plan

22:28 ↗ and our process that concludes the

22:31 ↗ mayor's report and we're going to move

22:33 ↗ into the next item on our agenda this

22:34 ↗ evening which is

22:35 ↗ informational updates the first one we

22:38 ↗ have tonight

22:39 ↗ is id0880 and it's the end of 2021

22:43 ↗ legislative session report

22:45 ↗ and i'd like to invite brianna murray

22:48 ↗ she's the vice president and shelly

22:49 ↗ helder senior consultant of gordon

22:51 ↗ thomas honeywell governmental affairs

22:53 ↗ to present this item welcome ladies

22:57 ↗ good evening thank you mayor and council

22:59 ↗ i'm brianna murray with gordon thomas

23:01 ↗ honeywell government affairs

23:02 ↗ um shelly helder will be joining um

23:05 ↗ hopefully

23:06 ↗ before i conclude tonight's presentation

23:08 ↗ um

23:09 ↗ that she's just a little bit delayed

23:12 ↗ um i do have a powerpoint presentation

23:14 ↗ to walk through this evening

23:16 ↗ i think as most of you know um

23:18 ↗ throughout the legislative session

23:20 ↗ shelly helder was on maternity leave

23:22 ↗ and i was pinch-hitting doing my best to

23:25 ↗ fill her shoes

23:26 ↗ i'm very pleased to have her back and

23:28 ↗ again she'll be joining us later this

23:30 ↗ evening

23:30 ↗ i'm here to provide an update on what

23:33 ↗ occurred this past legislative session

23:35 ↗ and i'm going to move through a lot of

23:37 ↗ material very quickly

23:39 ↗ um in hopes that it will leave time for

23:41 ↗ you to ask any questions

23:44 ↗ so with that um we'll go to the first

23:46 ↗ slide

23:48 ↗ this evening i'm going to provide you

23:49 ↗ with a broad overview of what occurred

23:51 ↗ throughout the 2021 legislative session

23:54 ↗ and then hone in more specifically on

23:56 ↗ your adopted 2021

23:58 ↗ city of issaquah legislative priorities

24:01 ↗ we'll conclude the presentation by

24:03 ↗ talking about next steps

24:05 ↗ um advance to the next slide we'll start

24:08 ↗ with

24:09 ↗ the overview of the 2021 legislative

24:12 ↗ session

24:12 ↗ uh the legislature operates on a

24:15 ↗ two-year

24:16 ↗ cycle this was this legislative session

24:18 ↗ was the first year of that two-year

24:20 ↗ cycle

24:21 ↗ that two-year cycle does align with the

24:24 ↗ state's biennial budgets

24:27 ↗ as the first year of the two-year

24:29 ↗ legislative biennium

24:30 ↗ was scheduled to be a long legislative

24:32 ↗ session which means

24:33 ↗ it lasted 105 consecutive days including

24:37 ↗ holidays and sundays

24:39 ↗ uh we of course work all of those days

24:42 ↗ the unique this year the legislative

24:45 ↗ session was conducted

24:46 ↗ almost entirely in a virtual format um

24:49 ↗ there were a handful of senators able to

24:52 ↗ be on the senate floor any given time

24:54 ↗ but all public hearings were conducted

24:56 ↗ virtually

24:57 ↗ this allowed people to participate in

25:00 ↗ the public hearing process with greater

25:02 ↗ ease

25:02 ↗ and i'm very pleased to share that for

25:05 ↗ the city of isaqah it meant that you all

25:07 ↗ participated in the legislative

25:09 ↗ process with a greater zealousness that

25:11 ↗ i think was very effective

25:13 ↗ mayor and council um and and really

25:16 ↗ especially the mayor testified on

25:18 ↗ um over a dozen different occasions

25:20 ↗ whereas the tip in a typical format

25:23 ↗ um the number of times you all as

25:24 ↗ elected officials would be able to

25:26 ↗ testify

25:26 ↗ is more in the realm of three to five so

25:29 ↗ the virtual format did offer that

25:31 ↗ benefit

25:33 ↗ democrats held the majority in both the

25:34 ↗ house and the senate

25:36 ↗ this allowed them to establish the

25:38 ↗ agenda for the legislative session and

25:41 ↗ they focused on four different

25:42 ↗ items they focused on covert response

25:47 ↗ economic recovery uh

25:50 ↗ climate change and equity and all four

25:53 ↗ of those

25:54 ↗ items saw significant policy advancement

25:57 ↗ this session

25:58 ↗ because of the virtual format

26:00 ↗ legislators were encouraged to limit the

26:02 ↗ number of bills that they introduced

26:03 ↗ into the process

26:05 ↗ as a result a total of 1075 bills were

26:08 ↗ introduced

26:09 ↗ that is about half as many bills as we

26:11 ↗ would typically see

26:13 ↗ introduced into the legislative process

26:16 ↗ with that being said

26:17 ↗ 334 bills passed the legislature

26:20 ↗ and that is almost what we would see in

26:24 ↗ a typical year in a typical year we

26:26 ↗ usually see around 400

26:28 ↗ so while there were significantly fewer

26:30 ↗ bills introduced

26:32 ↗ roughly the same number ended up passing

26:34 ↗ into law

26:36 ↗ this legislative session was marked by

26:38 ↗ some very significant policy decisions

26:40 ↗ that many would describe as being

26:41 ↗ historic

26:42 ↗ the legislature chose to enact a capital

26:45 ↗ gains tax which will now be

26:47 ↗ challenged in the court system um that

26:50 ↗ capital gains tax is anticipated to

26:52 ↗ generate 415 million dollars of biennium

26:56 ↗ if it is upheld the legislature on the

26:59 ↗ environmental front

27:00 ↗ passed a low carbon fuel standard and a

27:03 ↗ cap and trade or cap and invest

27:04 ↗ system those will be implemented over

27:08 ↗ the next

27:09 ↗ two years they approved over a dozen

27:12 ↗ different police reform bills

27:14 ↗ and they tackled the blake supreme court

27:17 ↗ decision which came out in the middle of

27:19 ↗ the legislative

27:20 ↗ session finding the statute making the

27:22 ↗ possession of controlled substances of

27:24 ↗ felony

27:24 ↗ to be unconstitutional they passed

27:27 ↗ legislation making it a misdemeanor

27:30 ↗ rather than a felony

27:31 ↗ so so really significant policy

27:34 ↗ decisions

27:36 ↗ were made this session in addition to

27:39 ↗ a lot of policy work the legislature

27:42 ↗ also adopted biennial

27:43 ↗ operating capital and transportation

27:45 ↗ budgets

27:46 ↗ for the operating budget they were

27:48 ↗ anticipating a significant revenue

27:50 ↗ shortfall going into the legislative

27:52 ↗ session

27:53 ↗ however the march revenue forecast

27:56 ↗ indicated that

27:57 ↗ state revenue collections had returned

27:59 ↗ to pre-pandemic levels

28:01 ↗ that coupled with the federal government

28:04 ↗ approving the american rescue plan act

28:06 ↗ which provided the state with 4.25

28:08 ↗ billion dollars

28:10 ↗ and the um and enacting the capital

28:13 ↗ gains tax

28:14 ↗ meant that the operating budget at the

28:16 ↗ end of the legislative session was one

28:18 ↗ of the most robust

28:20 ↗ investment packages in in state history

28:24 ↗ similarly the capital budget was a 3.9

28:28 ↗ billion dollar budget

28:29 ↗ and utilized just over 500 million of

28:32 ↗ the federal arpa funds to make

28:34 ↗ significant investments

28:36 ↗ the most challenging of the three

28:38 ↗ budgets was the transportation budget

28:40 ↗ unlike the operating budget

28:42 ↗ transportation budget revenues

28:44 ↗ did not return and still have not

28:46 ↗ returned to pre-pandemic levels

28:48 ↗ uh this meant that in order for the

28:51 ↗ state to deliver the projects that had

28:53 ↗ already been

28:53 ↗ uh committed funding they had a fairly

28:56 ↗ significant revenue shortfall

28:58 ↗ they used 1 billion of that 4.25 billion

29:02 ↗ dollars in federal funds

29:04 ↗ to just balance the transportation

29:06 ↗ budget and continue to deliver projects

29:08 ↗ that had already

29:10 ↗ been committed funds and to

29:13 ↗ um fund state culverts

29:17 ↗ in response to a supreme court mandate

29:21 ↗ there because of the revenue shortfall

29:23 ↗ and the demand

29:24 ↗ for new investments in transportation

29:27 ↗ there was a lot of discussion

29:29 ↗ around a transportation revenue package

29:31 ↗ and if you read my weekly reports

29:33 ↗ throughout session you followed along as

29:36 ↗ that conversation

29:37 ↗ continued there was a lot of discussion

29:40 ↗ about a grand bargain which of it would

29:42 ↗ have included the passage of a low

29:44 ↗ carbon fuel standard

29:45 ↗ the cap and invest system and a

29:47 ↗ transportation revenue package

29:50 ↗ while an agreement was reached on the

29:51 ↗ first two of those three items

29:54 ↗ an agreement was not reached on a

29:56 ↗ revenue package

29:58 ↗ the legislature approved versions of the

30:00 ↗ low-carbon fuel standard and cap and

30:02 ↗ trade

30:02 ↗ that had language that would have made

30:05 ↗ them not effective

30:06 ↗ until the legislature adopted a five

30:08 ↗ cent gas tax package

30:10 ↗ however the governor vetoed that

30:12 ↗ language

30:13 ↗ which uh many would argue

30:16 ↗ took the pressure off the legislature to

30:18 ↗ adopt a transportation revenue package

30:21 ↗ here in the short term

30:22 ↗ with that being said i'm happy to report

30:25 ↗ to you all that

30:26 ↗ really the discussions around a

30:28 ↗ transportation revenue package

30:30 ↗ have continued in earnest since the

30:32 ↗ conclusion of the legislative session

30:34 ↗ there is an active dialogue around how

30:37 ↗ to reach an agreement on a package

30:39 ↗ perhaps prior to the 2022 legislative

30:42 ↗ session

30:43 ↗ and if an agreement were to be reached

30:45 ↗ they would be called into a special

30:46 ↗ session to

30:48 ↗ adopt that transportation revenue

30:49 ↗ package

30:51 ↗ um so um that is a a

30:54 ↗ lot of trying to cover a lot of material

30:58 ↗ that occurred in 105 action-packed days

31:00 ↗ in one slide

31:02 ↗ um and um i think with that we can move

31:05 ↗ on to

31:06 ↗ the next slide where we hone in a bit

31:08 ↗ more

31:09 ↗ specifically on your state legislative

31:12 ↗ priorities

31:13 ↗ um you had four main state legislative

31:16 ↗ priorities

31:17 ↗ to secure funding to widen state route

31:19 ↗ 18

31:20 ↗ secure funding for the i-90 under over

31:24 ↗ under over crossing secure capital

31:27 ↗ funding for the issaquah food and

31:29 ↗ clothing bank

31:30 ↗ and finally fiscal sustainability i'm

31:32 ↗ going to go over each of these

31:34 ↗ uh in a bit of detail so we'll we'll

31:37 ↗ start with the first one there

31:39 ↗ uh if you go to the next slide thank you

31:41 ↗ um

31:42 ↗ to widen state route 18. this is an item

31:45 ↗ that has been on the city's legislative

31:47 ↗ agenda now for several years

31:50 ↗ and the the this request builds on an

31:54 ↗ existing project

31:56 ↗ so the legislature has already funded a

31:59 ↗ project to replace the i-90 state route

32:01 ↗ 18

32:02 ↗ interchange however there is a section

32:05 ↗ of steroid 18 that needs to be widened

32:09 ↗ so that it is not a two-lane road

32:11 ↗ our previous efforts to secure that that

32:14 ↗ funding for this portion of the project

32:16 ↗ led to securing 26 million dollars which

32:18 ↗ is adequate funding to get the funding

32:20 ↗ to be

32:21 ↗ to get the project to be construction

32:23 ↗ ready or shovel ready

32:25 ↗ however there's no construction funding

32:28 ↗ identified for the project

32:30 ↗ prior to the beginning of the

32:32 ↗ legislative session

32:34 ↗ we'd requested an updated cost

32:36 ↗ construction cost estimate

32:38 ↗ from the washington state department of

32:40 ↗ transportation

32:42 ↗ the updated construction cost estimate

32:44 ↗ was

32:45 ↗ uh extremely high

32:48 ↗ and so we've been working with our

32:51 ↗ legislators particularly our fifth

32:53 ↗ district legislator

32:54 ↗ senator mullet and representative ramos

32:57 ↗ to see if we can get a reduced

32:59 ↗ cost estimate for the project

33:03 ↗ the the legislators did land

33:08 ↗ on allocating 500 million dollars

33:12 ↗ in any of the proposed package proposals

33:15 ↗ that came forward so we saw the senate

33:17 ↗ release a proposed transportation

33:19 ↗ revenue package and we saw the house

33:20 ↗ release

33:21 ↗ a proposed transportation revenue

33:23 ↗ package both of those package proposals

33:26 ↗ include 500 million dollars for the

33:29 ↗ project

33:30 ↗ um you all adopted a resolution in the

33:33 ↗ middle of the legislative session

33:34 ↗ in support of the legislature adopting a

33:37 ↗ revenue package

33:39 ↗ and if a revenue package were to be

33:41 ↗ adopted based on the house and senate

33:43 ↗ proposals

33:44 ↗ it's highly likely that 500 million

33:46 ↗ would be allocated to

33:48 ↗ this project but as i shared before

33:50 ↗ there's a lot of discussion

33:52 ↗ but no agreement yet on the revenue

33:54 ↗ package um so we'll need to keep

33:56 ↗ working ahead working on on this item

33:59 ↗ um i will also note that it's unclear

34:01 ↗ whether 500 million dollars would

34:03 ↗ actually construct

34:04 ↗ the entire project that may not be the

34:06 ↗ full amount of funding needed in order

34:09 ↗ to complete the project

34:11 ↗ but our legislators did feel like it was

34:13 ↗ a significant investment in moving the

34:14 ↗ project forward

34:17 ↗ the next item and moving on to the next

34:20 ↗ slide is the

34:21 ↗ i-90 under over crossing this is also a

34:23 ↗ transportation funding request

34:26 ↗ for 3.4 million dollars for pre-design

34:29 ↗ and environmental documentation for this

34:31 ↗ project

34:33 ↗ as i described earlier there's really no

34:35 ↗ funding available even for

34:37 ↗ a project in the early stages like this

34:39 ↗ and at a price tag of 3.4 million

34:42 ↗ within the transportation budget so we

34:44 ↗ focused our efforts on the revenue

34:46 ↗ package discussions

34:48 ↗ 3.4 million was included in the senate

34:51 ↗ proposed

34:52 ↗ package but no funding was included in

34:55 ↗ the house proposed package

34:57 ↗ we heard pretty early on feedback from

35:00 ↗ our legislative delegation that their

35:02 ↗ priority was

35:03 ↗ our previous item that we discussed to

35:05 ↗ the widening of state route 18.

35:08 ↗ and i think the emphasis on that project

35:11 ↗ is what has made it challenging to get

35:12 ↗ this 3.4 million

35:14 ↗ included in both the house and senate

35:16 ↗ proposals

35:18 ↗ brianna i'm just gonna sorry to

35:20 ↗ interrupt you um

35:21 ↗ city minister bob quits would like to

35:23 ↗ make a comment yes

35:24 ↗ uh thank you very many members of the

35:26 ↗ council briana we really appreciate

35:29 ↗ all these detailed uh overviews uh

35:32 ↗ if we could ask you perhaps

35:35 ↗ to speed it up just a little bit we have

35:38 ↗ a full agenda before us this evening

35:39 ↗ thank you

35:40 ↗ absolutely so um i think the message on

35:44 ↗ this one is that there's more work to do

35:46 ↗ we can move on to the next item which is

35:49 ↗ the

35:50 ↗ food and clothing bank request so for

35:53 ↗ this one we requested

35:54 ↗ um 1 million dollars in capital funding

35:58 ↗ with the food and clothing bank and

35:59 ↗ eastside fire and rescue

36:01 ↗ the capital budget was pretty

36:03 ↗ straightforward and the final capital

36:05 ↗ budget included

36:07 ↗ just over 1 million dollars for the

36:09 ↗ project the additional

36:10 ↗ 30 000 that was included there goes to

36:13 ↗ pay the department of commerce

36:15 ↗ admin fee so this item we were able to

36:18 ↗ fully accomplish and i encourage you all

36:20 ↗ to express

36:21 ↗ great thanks to the fifth district

36:24 ↗ legislators

36:26 ↗ can move on to the last of the

36:27 ↗ legislative agenda items and that is

36:29 ↗ fiscal sustainability

36:31 ↗ this is another item where we saw a

36:33 ↗ great deal of success

36:35 ↗ first state shared revenues were fully

36:37 ↗ funded and also

36:38 ↗ increased for the first time in many

36:40 ↗ years marijuana revenue sharing was

36:43 ↗ increased and additional funding was

36:45 ↗ provided to cities to implement

36:47 ↗ police reform bills we saw streamlined

36:49 ↗ sales tax

36:50 ↗ mitigation funding mitigation

36:54 ↗ payments fully funded um not just for

36:57 ↗ the future but also

36:58 ↗ in for the past year where we saw the

37:01 ↗ governor veto

37:03 ↗ the mitigation payments for the 2021

37:05 ↗ fiscal year

37:08 ↗ those payments will continue until 2026.

37:11 ↗ one item that's left undone is the one

37:13 ↗ percent property tax cap

37:16 ↗ being adjusted for inflation we saw

37:19 ↗ house bill 1362 get introduced

37:22 ↗ and have a very positive hearing in the

37:23 ↗ house finance committee

37:25 ↗ but it otherwise did not advance so

37:27 ↗ there's more work to do on that

37:28 ↗ item with that i think we can

37:32 ↗ advance to the next steps

37:35 ↗ slide um and um

37:39 ↗ don't see i i think shelley has been

37:42 ↗ able to join us

37:43 ↗ so i'm going to turn it over to her to

37:45 ↗ do this last slide

37:46 ↗ since with her back from maternity leave

37:48 ↗ i will be passing the baton back to her

37:51 ↗ great thanks brianna and thanks um

37:53 ↗ council

37:54 ↗ good to be with you this evening i know

37:56 ↗ we are running short on time so i'll

37:58 ↗ just keep this really brief

38:00 ↗ first off the legislative session is the

38:02 ↗ busy time of year but it is

38:05 ↗ um just one part of the overall process

38:07 ↗ lobbying really is a year-round effort

38:10 ↗ and so the first thing that i want to

38:11 ↗ encourage us to do as we head into the

38:13 ↗ interim is to thank our legislators

38:16 ↗ they had a really long session and

38:18 ↗ accomplished a lot

38:19 ↗ um so i think our first and foremost

38:21 ↗ priority of the city is to thank them

38:23 ↗ um both when you see them hopefully in

38:26 ↗ person

38:27 ↗ um but also through some type of formal

38:29 ↗ recognition

38:30 ↗ that we can work with city staff to

38:32 ↗ identify

38:33 ↗ and then as brianna mentioned there are

38:35 ↗ some items that are left undone

38:38 ↗ primarily the development of a

38:39 ↗ transportation revenue package which of

38:41 ↗ course we have two priorities for

38:43 ↗ inclusion in that

38:44 ↗ um uniquely to this interim there is a

38:47 ↗ redistricting commission meeting

38:49 ↗ or i guess redistricting commission that

38:51 ↗ is taking place

38:52 ↗ um and we are going to be tracking those

38:54 ↗ activities closely

38:56 ↗ and then before you know it uh this

38:58 ↗ legislative session for 2022 will be

39:01 ↗ here

39:01 ↗ it's scheduled to begin on january 10th

39:03 ↗ so we'll be updating the city's

39:05 ↗ legislative agenda and policy manual to

39:07 ↗ prepare for that

39:09 ↗ and i think with that we are happy to

39:12 ↗ answer any questions

39:15 ↗ thank you shelley thank you brianna

39:17 ↗ thank you for all the great work you did

39:19 ↗ down there

39:19 ↗ and for the summer you provided today

39:21 ↗ and to remind us to continue to say

39:24 ↗ thank you to our fifth district

39:25 ↗ representative

39:26 ↗ that was great i'm actually not seeing

39:28 ↗ any questions in the chat i'll give it a

39:30 ↗ second or two to see

39:32 ↗ um very thorough uh it was a good year

39:36 ↗ for issaquah

39:37 ↗ there's a lot of things that were in the

39:40 ↗ approved legislation that are direct

39:41 ↗ benefit for our communities so we're

39:42 ↗ very grateful

39:44 ↗ and i still don't see any comments so

39:46 ↗ just want to thank you for everything

39:48 ↗ that you do and welcome back

39:49 ↗ shelly we missed you so glad you're back

39:53 ↗ thank you brianna thank you shelly that

39:55 ↗ was great

39:58 ↗ the second informational update is id

40:01 ↗ 0915 and this is an update on capital

40:03 ↗ financing community

40:05 ↗ task force and i'd like to invite city

40:07 ↗ administrator wally bobquist to

40:08 ↗ introduce this item

40:10 ↗ yeah thank you man and mayor members of

40:11 ↗ the council good evening um you have in

40:14 ↗ your packet some information about

40:15 ↗ a task force that mayor paulie is moving

40:18 ↗ forward with

40:18 ↗ dealing with capital financing this was

40:21 ↗ something that was discussed a few weeks

40:23 ↗ ago at council

40:24 ↗ but just to present what the makeup of

40:27 ↗ that group will be

40:29 ↗ the mayor is asking the two council

40:30 ↗ members to serve on that and she will

40:32 ↗ work with council president hunt

40:34 ↗ on designating those two council members

40:36 ↗ and then

40:37 ↗ of the mayors asking various boards and

40:39 ↗ commissions

40:40 ↗ for a single representative from their

40:42 ↗ group to be served as a part of this

40:44 ↗ group

40:45 ↗ and that would include a representative

40:46 ↗ from the transportation advisory board

40:48 ↗ the parks board environment board the

40:51 ↗ economic vitality commission the human

40:53 ↗ services commission and the youth

40:54 ↗ advisory board

40:56 ↗ in addition we will go forward with a

40:58 ↗ community call

41:00 ↗ for at-large members and there are three

41:02 ↗ positions there

41:04 ↗ the mayor is asking this task force to

41:05 ↗ meet and look at options

41:07 ↗ uh for financing and to provide a report

41:10 ↗ back to her

41:10 ↗ and the city council in january so we'll

41:13 ↗ begin the process of that solicitation

41:15 ↗ of members

41:16 ↗ over the next uh several days a couple

41:18 ↗ of weeks and our hope would be by

41:20 ↗ the summer have everyone in place uh so

41:22 ↗ that we can begin meeting at the end of

41:23 ↗ august the first part of september

41:25 ↗ happy to answer any questions

41:28 ↗ thank you see mr bob crips i'm going to

41:31 ↗ give it a second or two in the chat to

41:32 ↗ see if there's any questions on this

41:34 ↗ item

41:35 ↗ oh no oh sorry

41:38 ↗ uh let's start with council member d

41:40 ↗ michelle and then we'll go to council

41:41 ↗ president hunt

41:44 ↗ yes i sent that to the host and not to

41:47 ↗ all panelists sorry about that um

41:50 ↗ on the at large positions are we going

41:52 ↗ to

41:54 ↗ are we hoping that we can use those

41:56 ↗ positions as well to balance

41:58 ↗ um racial and minority um representation

42:02 ↗ on the

42:03 ↗ on this task force absolutely

42:08 ↗ and and are those going to be solicited

42:10 ↗ then and you said it's

42:11 ↗ just a general outreach that we're

42:13 ↗ asking people to step forward

42:15 ↗ that's correct okay

42:18 ↗ thank you councilmember dear michelle

42:19 ↗ council president hunt

42:21 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

42:23 ↗ um as was

42:24 ↗ mentioned there's a line in the memo

42:27 ↗ about

42:28 ↗ that the council president has requested

42:29 ↗ to make appointments and so

42:31 ↗ um i

42:34 ↗ typically when we have the regional

42:37 ↗ committees we do an email survey and we

42:40 ↗ determine who

42:41 ↗ all is interested and so just wanted to

42:44 ↗ make sure that if you are interested in

42:46 ↗ those um to let me know so i can know

42:48 ↗ who's interested and able to or likely

42:50 ↗ to be able to

42:51 ↗ attend those um and you can either let

42:54 ↗ me know

42:54 ↗ um by email like we do with regional um

42:57 ↗ and and committee

42:59 ↗ um interest or uh you could also

43:02 ↗ let me know as good of the order if you

43:04 ↗ already know and

43:06 ↗ just wanted to let you all know that and

43:08 ↗ then i'll i'll um

43:09 ↗ hear from you thanks thank you council

43:12 ↗ president

43:13 ↗ the administrator those are the only two

43:15 ↗ comments that i saw in the chat

43:18 ↗ so with that thank you thank you

43:22 ↗ we will move to the consent calendar

43:23 ↗ which was distributed to council in

43:25 ↗ advance

43:26 ↗ and if it's authorized the items on the

43:27 ↗ consent calendar will be considered

43:29 ↗ together and approved by one motion

43:31 ↗ first i'd like to check if the payables

43:33 ↗ and payroll have been reviewed

43:36 ↗ this council member hall they have mr

43:39 ↗ president hunt they have

43:40 ↗ thank you does any council member desire

43:43 ↗ to remove any item from the consent

43:44 ↗ calendar and consider it under regular

43:46 ↗ business

43:50 ↗ and i'm not seeing any indication to do

43:52 ↗ that

43:54 ↗ so i would be looking for a motion to

43:56 ↗ approve the consent calendar

43:59 ↗ counsel president hunt thank you i moved

44:01 ↗ to approve the consent calendar as it

44:03 ↗ appears in this evening's agenda

44:05 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

44:07 ↗ second

44:08 ↗ thank you very much um we will get the

44:10 ↗ clerk to take the roll call vote

44:13 ↗ starting with council member walsh aye

44:17 ↗ council member d michelle aye council

44:20 ↗ member goodman

44:23 ↗ councilmember hall aye

44:26 ↗ council president hunt aye

44:30 ↗ councilmember martz aye deputy council

44:33 ↗ president ray

44:35 ↗ right that's seven eyes zero nays

44:43 ↗ mayor you're muted

44:47 ↗ oh my goodness okay thank you that

44:49 ↗ passes unanimously

44:51 ↗ and the next item of business on our

44:53 ↗ agenda this evening is

44:54 ↗ public hearing uh this is a public

44:56 ↗ benefit rating system application for

44:59 ↗ 2.76 acres of open space

45:01 ↗ at 5805 229th avenue south at

45:04 ↗ east this is in the overdale

45:06 ↗ neighborhood requested from the overdale

45:08 ↗ hoa

45:09 ↗ and this is the first time this item is

45:11 ↗ coming before the city council and i'd

45:13 ↗ like to ask

45:14 ↗ kristen leason our senior planner to

45:15 ↗ provide a brief brief

45:17 ↗ presentation before we have the public

45:19 ↗ hearing kristin

45:20 ↗ welcome thank you good evening madam

45:23 ↗ mayor and council members yes i'm

45:25 ↗ kristin leeson senior planner with the

45:26 ↗ community planning and development

45:28 ↗ department

45:29 ↗ i am going to share a screen with you

45:31 ↗ before i get started

45:39 ↗ okay so tonight i will present and

45:43 ↗ council will deliberate on a request by

45:46 ↗ the overdale homeowners association to

45:48 ↗ reassess

45:49 ↗ tax incentives on this four acre

45:51 ↗ property through king county's

45:53 ↗ public benefit rating system

45:56 ↗ washington state's open space taxation

45:59 ↗ act gives authority to counties to

46:01 ↗ provide tax incentives to

46:02 ↗ property owners who voluntarily preserve

46:05 ↗ open space

46:06 ↗ farmland and forest land on their

46:08 ↗ property the public benefit rating

46:10 ↗ system

46:11 ↗ oops sorry the public benefit rating

46:14 ↗ system

46:14 ↗ or pbrs is one of four taxation programs

46:18 ↗ offered by king county

46:21 ↗ i apologize

46:24 ↗ trying to move your faces there we go um

46:28 ↗ once enrolled in this program a property

46:30 ↗ is assessed at its current market value

46:33 ↗ rather than its highest and best value

46:35 ↗ so

46:36 ↗ say for example a property is zoned

46:38 ↗ multi-family

46:39 ↗ and it is not included in this program

46:42 ↗ then it is

46:42 ↗ but it may be used as open space it is

46:44 ↗ still taxed as a multi-family property

46:47 ↗ however if included in this program it's

46:49 ↗ not a multi-family but it's used as open

46:51 ↗ space it is then taxed as open space

46:54 ↗ so the tax reduction reductions are

46:55 ↗ based on a point system

46:57 ↗ points are awarded for each pbrs

46:59 ↗ category for which a property is

47:01 ↗ eligible

47:02 ↗ these could include protection of

47:04 ↗ buffers streamlin

47:05 ↗ streams wetlands maybe historic

47:07 ↗ landmarks which the city has done in the

47:09 ↗ past

47:10 ↗ total points could result anywhere from

47:12 ↗ fifty percent to ninety percent of a

47:14 ↗ reduction

47:15 ↗ in the assessed land value of the

47:17 ↗ portion of the property that is enrolled

47:20 ↗ so tonight as i mentioned we're looking

47:22 ↗ at this four 4.06

47:24 ↗ acre parcel however only 2.676 acres are

47:28 ↗ eligible for the tax incentives

47:30 ↗ so these 1.3 acres right here contain

47:33 ↗ two soccer fields picnic tables and a

47:35 ↗ bench

47:36 ↗ the other 2.76 acres contain a trail

47:40 ↗ and a bench and views and can

47:43 ↗ also deer birds and other wildlife can

47:45 ↗ often be spotted here

47:48 ↗ so in 2015 overdue park applied for ism

47:51 ↗ and was awarded

47:52 ↗ pbrs status it received 30 points for

47:56 ↗ five different categories

47:57 ↗ resulting in an 80 percent tax reduction

48:01 ↗ and a tax assessment of 20 percent of

48:03 ↗ its current use value

48:05 ↗ the property was also approved to

48:06 ↗ receive the resource

48:08 ↗ restoration category which would have

48:10 ↗ meant an additional five points

48:13 ↗ this category was dependent on submittal

48:15 ↗ of a restoration plan by the homeowners

48:17 ↗ association

48:18 ↗ and approval of the plan by king county

48:20 ↗ by december of 2015.

48:22 ↗ the additional five points would have

48:24 ↗ resulted in 35 total points

48:26 ↗ and a tax assessment of 10 percent of

48:28 ↗ its current use market value

48:31 ↗ however a restoration plan was never

48:32 ↗ submitted so the additional tax

48:34 ↗ incentive was not applied

48:36 ↗ and the property is still assessed at 20

48:38 ↗ rather than 10 percent of its current

48:40 ↗ value

48:42 ↗ in 2017 the property was re-zoned from

48:45 ↗ single-family suburban to conservancy

48:47 ↗ recreation

48:48 ↗ the purpose of the conservancy

48:50 ↗ recreation zoning district

48:52 ↗ is to protect environmentally critical

48:54 ↗ areas such as hillsides and wildlife

48:56 ↗ from impacts associated with more dense

48:58 ↗ development now recreational

49:00 ↗ opportunities can be included here

49:02 ↗ as long as the critical areas are

49:04 ↗ protected

49:06 ↗ so in december 2020 the hoa resubmitted

49:09 ↗ or reapplied for the resource

49:11 ↗ restoration category and then this past

49:14 ↗ june

49:15 ↗ representatives from king county the hoa

49:17 ↗ and the city

49:18 ↗ went out and visited the site and

49:20 ↗ determined that indeed

49:22 ↗ these 2.7 acres need improvements to

49:24 ↗ protect the health and diversity of this

49:26 ↗ forest

49:27 ↗ this includes the removal of invasive

49:29 ↗ species and restoration with native

49:31 ↗ plants and shrubs

49:33 ↗ again like last time the application of

49:37 ↗ the additional five points is dependent

49:39 ↗ on submittal of a restoration

49:41 ↗ plan by december 31st 2021

49:45 ↗ so talking numbers um the total tax

49:47 ↗ applied

49:48 ↗ to this property in 2021 based on the

49:50 ↗ eligible

49:51 ↗ 80 reduction that it currently has was

49:53 ↗ reported

49:54 ↗ at 621.48 cents this is distributed

49:59 ↗ among several entities including king

50:01 ↗ county the school district and the city

50:04 ↗ if the resource restoration category is

50:07 ↗ approved

50:07 ↗ and then applied the city would receive

50:09 ↗ about 8.86

50:11 ↗ less in annual tax revenue based on an

50:14 ↗ eligible 90

50:15 ↗ reduction the property tax tax reduction

50:18 ↗ would not start until the fiscal year

50:20 ↗ 2022.

50:22 ↗ so if the council chooses not to approve

50:24 ↗ the restoration

50:25 ↗ category king county will not approve it

50:27 ↗ either they both have to affirm the

50:28 ↗ application

50:30 ↗ however the other five categories would

50:32 ↗ still apply to the property

50:33 ↗ and the property would still be assessed

50:35 ↗ at twenty percent of its current use

50:36 ↗ value

50:38 ↗ king county is going to hold a public

50:40 ↗ hearing on june 23rd

50:42 ↗ to hear the same request and a decision

50:44 ↗ must be made by july 1st

50:47 ↗ so the administration recommends the

50:49 ↗ city council approve the resolution as

50:51 ↗ presented

50:52 ↗ related to overdale homeowners

50:54 ↗ association's request for the additional

50:56 ↗ resource restoration credit

50:58 ↗ pending submittal of a restoration plan

51:00 ↗ by november 1st

51:02 ↗ and king county approval by december

51:03 ↗ 31st of 2021

51:06 ↗ so that's the end of my presentation i

51:08 ↗ do have megan kim

51:09 ↗ and bill bernstein present from king

51:12 ↗ county to help answer questions

51:13 ↗ that i am unable to answer thank you

51:17 ↗ thank you kristen and thank you for

51:19 ↗ introducing your king county team

51:22 ↗ as well i'm not seeing right now that

51:24 ↗ there are any questions in the chat box

51:26 ↗ but i'll keep my eye on for a second

51:28 ↗ deputy council president ray thank you

51:31 ↗ mayor paulie this uh

51:32 ↗ i am intrigued by this and the

51:34 ↗ requirement for a restoration plan

51:37 ↗ by date certain what about restoration

51:39 ↗ activity

51:40 ↗ activities uh as outlined in the plan

51:43 ↗ what is the timeline

51:44 ↗ for doing that and what happens if it

51:46 ↗ doesn't occur

51:48 ↗ so those are monitored for about five

51:51 ↗ years the

51:52 ↗ uh over deal homeowners association

51:54 ↗ would require would be required to

51:56 ↗ submit reports along with photographs of

51:58 ↗ the property

51:59 ↗ if the property if no work is done

52:03 ↗ and the property stays as is they could

52:05 ↗ lose

52:06 ↗ the restoration status if the pop

52:10 ↗ if the property degrades below what it

52:12 ↗ is now there would be conversations

52:13 ↗ about removing the tax reduction

52:16 ↗ altogether

52:19 ↗ great thank you thank you i'm not saying

52:22 ↗ any other uh questions

52:24 ↗ kristen but i do know that uh we are

52:26 ↗ going to open the public hearing shortly

52:28 ↗ and we do have somebody that's coming to

52:30 ↗ uh talk today so

52:34 ↗ the guidelines for citizen comments for

52:36 ↗ the public hearing

52:38 ↗ also apply for or so sorry the

52:40 ↗ guidelines for citizen comments

52:42 ↗ also apply to those that are made under

52:44 ↗ the public hearing

52:45 ↗ i'm going to open the public hearing at

52:48 ↗ 7 53 p.m

52:49 ↗ and if you have joined us and would like

52:51 ↗ to make a comment but didn't sign up in

52:53 ↗ advance

52:54 ↗ please raise your virtual hand you can

52:56 ↗ do that by pressing star 3 on your phone

52:59 ↗ if you join by a computer or smart book

53:01 ↗ look for a hand icon

53:03 ↗ this can vary by device so one option

53:05 ↗ may be to go to the lower

53:06 ↗ go to the participant panel and choose

53:08 ↗ the raise your hand icon in the lower

53:10 ↗ right hand corner

53:11 ↗ um clerk i know we have at least one

53:14 ↗ person signed up to speak this evening

53:17 ↗ yes janet wall has signed up to speak

53:21 ↗ janet i'm going to make you a panelist

53:23 ↗ in just a moment you'll then see the

53:25 ↗ option

53:25 ↗ to unmute and you may also choose to

53:28 ↗ turn your video on

53:38 ↗ janet are you there yes

53:42 ↗ great you have the floor yes i'm

53:45 ↗ uh janet wall and

53:49 ↗ i live at 22740 southeast 56th street

53:53 ↗ and i'm also a member of the uh

53:58 ↗ a resident of overdale park

54:02 ↗ and i just wanted to let let you know

54:04 ↗ that

54:05 ↗ i am available to

54:08 ↗ answer questions uh regarding what

54:12 ↗ our plans are i had been working on

54:16 ↗ doing

54:16 ↗ restoration so a lot of the restoration

54:19 ↗ has been done uh but there's still more

54:24 ↗ that can be done and especially

54:29 ↗ remove adding some native plants which i

54:33 ↗ will supply

54:35 ↗ so um and also

54:39 ↗ a difficult part is is uh

54:42 ↗ there's a uh chain-link fence that the

54:46 ↗ adjacent

54:46 ↗ property owners belong to to overdale

54:50 ↗ and they

54:55 ↗ put in their own fence and

54:59 ↗ lay our fence down and blackberries grew

55:02 ↗ up through it

55:04 ↗ so i have to somehow cut off

55:07 ↗ pieces of the chain-link fence

55:10 ↗ and uh in order to be able to remove the

55:13 ↗ blackberries

55:15 ↗ but anyway that's one of the i will be

55:18 ↗ submitting the uh restoration plan

55:21 ↗ uh before no november first which will

55:24 ↗ uh outline what

55:25 ↗ we propose to do and and what i propose

55:28 ↗ to plant

55:31 ↗ and i'll i'll try to get members of the

55:34 ↗ overdale

55:35 ↗ park community involved in the

55:37 ↗ restoration so that they have a

55:42 ↗ stake in the in the process

55:48 ↗ dana thank you very much did you have

55:49 ↗ anything else to add

55:52 ↗ no that's it well thank you for all your

55:55 ↗ work

55:55 ↗ you're a familiar face to counsel and we

55:57 ↗ all know um

55:58 ↗ your passion about this topic and what

56:01 ↗ you've done on your own property as well

56:02 ↗ as supporting this project so thank you

56:04 ↗ for coming and speaking tonight

56:06 ↗ um i want to see if uh

56:10 ↗ council is ready to make a motion

56:13 ↗ mayor paulie uh yes you should close the

56:16 ↗ public hearing

56:17 ↗ and i can confirm with you that uh no

56:20 ↗ one else has indicated a desire to make

56:22 ↗ comments

56:23 ↗ night thank you city clerk so we are

56:25 ↗ closing the public hearing at 7

56:27 ↗ 56 p.m and would entertain a motion

56:32 ↗ i wonder city clerk if you're able to

56:34 ↗ plop that into the chat

56:46 ↗ i have the motion there we go council

56:49 ↗ president

56:50 ↗ okay i move to approve resolution number

56:53 ↗ 2021 dash

56:56 ↗ 08 approving the public benefit rating

56:59 ↗ system reclassification of the overdale

57:02 ↗ homeowners association property parcel

57:05 ↗ number

57:06 ↗ [Music]

57:08 ↗ 2224069057

57:10 ↗ to include the status of resource

57:12 ↗ restoration subject to the conditions

57:14 ↗ enumerated in the king county revised

57:16 ↗ staff report dated may 24

57:18 ↗ 2021 and authorizing filing of the

57:22 ↗ approval

57:23 ↗ with the king county council for the

57:25 ↗ county held public hearing

57:28 ↗ deputy council president right second

57:31 ↗ it has been moved and seconded is if you

57:33 ↗ have a council comments or questions can

57:36 ↗ you put them in the chat

57:43 ↗ at this point in time i'm not seeing any

57:45 ↗ in the chat

57:48 ↗ so if there is no discussion to the

57:50 ↗ clerk can you do the roll call vote

58:00 ↗ yes beginning with council member d

58:01 ↗ michelle

58:03 ↗ i council member goodman

58:07 ↗ council member hall aye

58:10 ↗ council president hunt aye

58:14 ↗ council member mart aye

58:17 ↗ deputy council president ray aye

58:20 ↗ council member walsh aye

58:23 ↗ that's seven eye zero nays great

58:27 ↗ thank you that passes unanimously um

58:29 ↗ kristen and team and

58:31 ↗ janet thank you all for coming tonight

58:33 ↗ for that item

58:35 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

58:37 ↗ is regular business

58:38 ↗ ab-8123 it is the 2022-2027 capital

58:43 ↗ improvement plan

58:44 ↗ or cip and it includes the

58:46 ↗ transportation

58:48 ↗ improvement plan a public hearing

58:51 ↗ oh the ask of the council this evening

58:53 ↗ is to approve the resolution

58:54 ↗ so a public hearing was held on this

58:56 ↗ item uh

58:58 ↗ on at the may 17th council meeting and

59:01 ↗ at that

59:02 ↗ meeting the council moved to postpone

59:04 ↗ the cip adoption to tonight's meeting

59:06 ↗ and directed the administration to

59:08 ↗ prepare a letter on behalf of the city

59:10 ↗ council

59:11 ↗ to accompany the cip there are two

59:13 ↗ letters provided in tonight's agenda

59:15 ↗ materials

59:16 ↗ the first was prepared by the city

59:17 ↗ administration based on city council

59:19 ↗ feedback

59:20 ↗ through the various cip discussions this

59:22 ↗ year and while it is new to include a

59:25 ↗ letter with our final document

59:27 ↗ we're starting out this year we used a

59:29 ↗ template from our operating budget

59:31 ↗ process

59:31 ↗ as a starting point and the second

59:34 ↗ letter is the final version and it

59:35 ↗ includes edits from the council

59:37 ↗ president

59:38 ↗ so the council has several options you

59:40 ↗ may review and discuss the memo or you

59:42 ↗ can

59:42 ↗ move just to have the memo signed and

59:44 ↗ included with the with the cip

59:46 ↗ and you may suggest edits if necessary

59:48 ↗ the intent with this new addition to our

59:50 ↗ process

59:51 ↗ is that the memo reflects the discussion

59:53 ↗ of the body and provides some context on

59:55 ↗ what has changed between the draft cip

59:58 ↗ and the final cip so there will be no

1:00:01 ↗ staff presentation this evening

1:00:03 ↗ and the action before you is for the

1:00:05 ↗ city council

1:00:07 ↗ to approve the 2022 through 2027 capital

1:00:10 ↗ improvement plan

1:00:11 ↗ and just to start before

1:00:14 ↗ um we look at council con is there any

1:00:17 ↗ questions

1:00:18 ↗ or comments that anyone would like to

1:00:20 ↗ make i'll keep my eye on the chat

1:00:25 ↗ otherwise i'll be looking for a motion

1:00:35 ↗ oh i missed that council president i'm

1:00:38 ↗ not seeing anything

1:00:39 ↗ in the chat as far as questions go but

1:00:41 ↗ council president hunt can make a motion

1:00:45 ↗ thank you i president hunt i move to

1:00:48 ↗ approve finalization and transmittal

1:00:51 ↗ oh sorry i moved to approve resolution

1:00:53 ↗ number 2021-09 adopting the capital

1:00:56 ↗ improvement plan for

1:00:59 ↗ 2022-2027 including the six-year

1:01:01 ↗ transportation improvement program

1:01:06 ↗ deputy council president ray

1:01:10 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded

1:01:14 ↗ is there discussion

1:01:19 ↗ i'll just check the chat to see

1:01:24 ↗ does not look like it um city clerk

1:01:26 ↗ could you do

1:01:27 ↗ the roll call vote

1:01:31 ↗ nope there's an emotion on the table

1:01:34 ↗ oh sorry

1:01:38 ↗ um so it's been moved and seconded

1:01:42 ↗ um so now i'm seeing an optional motion

1:01:44 ↗ in there as well

1:01:45 ↗ is that so you're gonna have to help me

1:01:48 ↗ navigate this tisha

1:01:53 ↗ uh the optional motion is is

1:01:56 ↗ optional um and so there is there is one

1:02:00 ↗ motion on the floor to approve the

1:02:01 ↗ resolution uh

1:02:03 ↗ if council wishes to approve a

1:02:05 ↗ transmittal memo which is reflected in

1:02:07 ↗ the optional

1:02:08 ↗ motion it may be preferable to

1:02:11 ↗ to do that in tandem with

1:02:14 ↗ this motion so potentially before so

1:02:19 ↗ the body could withdraw this motion and

1:02:22 ↗ address the memo first if they'd like

1:02:24 ↗ that's one path forward i think that

1:02:26 ↗ makes sense i'll go to council president

1:02:27 ↗ do we want to go to the optional motion

1:02:29 ↗ first council president

1:02:33 ↗ um this council president if that's the

1:02:34 ↗ preferred procedure i can

1:02:36 ↗ do that second degrees absolutely

1:02:40 ↗ thank you okay so uh council president

1:02:43 ↗ would you care to make the

1:02:44 ↗ optional motion yes thank you i moved to

1:02:48 ↗ approve finalization and trends middle

1:02:50 ↗ of memo number two regarding the

1:02:52 ↗ 2022-2027 capital improvement plan

1:02:56 ↗ if you cancel president ray second

1:02:59 ↗ okay it's been moved and seconded the

1:03:02 ↗ approved finalization

1:03:03 ↗ and transmittal of memo number two

1:03:05 ↗ regarding the 2022-2027 cip

1:03:07 ↗ do we have any comments any questions

1:03:10 ↗ any discussion

1:03:13 ↗ council president hunt thank you this

1:03:15 ↗ counts president hunt

1:03:17 ↗ um on the may 17th meeting i

1:03:20 ↗ talked about how my intent with

1:03:23 ↗ proposing that we postponed to this

1:03:26 ↗ meeting and

1:03:27 ↗ have a letter included with the cip

1:03:30 ↗ would be to document our ongoing

1:03:33 ↗ conversations that we have with the cip

1:03:36 ↗ the cip is something that we do every

1:03:38 ↗ two years

1:03:39 ↗ and we have a lot of conversations that

1:03:42 ↗ continue from one process

1:03:46 ↗ to the next and i think that documenting

1:03:49 ↗ our intent and documenting where we are

1:03:51 ↗ with some of these conversations

1:03:53 ↗ would be beneficial and we also have a

1:03:55 ↗ precedent with

1:03:56 ↗ the budget letter that accompanies the

1:03:59 ↗ budget and documenting our process there

1:04:01 ↗ and lessons learned there um one thing

1:04:04 ↗ that

1:04:05 ↗ that's occurred to me is that in this

1:04:08 ↗ case

1:04:08 ↗ because we um because the

1:04:12 ↗ consideration of whether to include a

1:04:14 ↗ letter occurred at the very end of our

1:04:15 ↗ process we didn't have

1:04:17 ↗ um we didn't flag things in our

1:04:20 ↗ deliberations as we went

1:04:22 ↗ that we would include in the letter so

1:04:24 ↗ in this case um

1:04:26 ↗ and if we continue with this process

1:04:28 ↗ which i uh

1:04:29 ↗ strongly support then in the next cip

1:04:32 ↗ process like we do with the budget

1:04:34 ↗ if council has um if there is a

1:04:37 ↗ point in time and deliberation where

1:04:39 ↗ there is a

1:04:40 ↗ discussion and a consensus and the

1:04:43 ↗ intent is important

1:04:45 ↗ and the conversation is important and

1:04:48 ↗ perhaps there isn't a change made in the

1:04:51 ↗ cip itself but still that

1:04:54 ↗ conversation is important then that

1:04:56 ↗ could be flagged by

1:04:57 ↗ council like we do with budget so i

1:05:00 ↗ think in the future that would be

1:05:02 ↗ the way that we would align our

1:05:05 ↗ cip letter memo writing with the way we

1:05:08 ↗ do the budget letter and i think that

1:05:10 ↗ would be

1:05:10 ↗ that would be really beneficial in this

1:05:14 ↗ case which we discussed on in the may

1:05:16 ↗ 17th meeting

1:05:17 ↗ director goldberg drafted a letter it

1:05:20 ↗ had a lot of the

1:05:21 ↗ changes that council had made and really

1:05:24 ↗ served as the backbone

1:05:26 ↗ for the letter that i drafted and i

1:05:29 ↗ included that information and then as i

1:05:33 ↗ had discussed at the may 17th meeting

1:05:37 ↗ i also felt that it was important to um

1:05:40 ↗ go back

1:05:40 ↗ and review the conversations that we've

1:05:44 ↗ had that didn't directly translate into

1:05:46 ↗ changes so the sorts of things that i

1:05:49 ↗ talked about in

1:05:51 ↗ that may 17th meeting we for example had

1:05:54 ↗ a lot of conversations about the need to

1:05:56 ↗ proactively steward our infrastructure

1:05:58 ↗ that is reflected in the pavement

1:06:00 ↗ management program changes

1:06:02 ↗ i think it's a broader issue that we

1:06:04 ↗ will need to continue to

1:06:06 ↗ discuss in the in the next cip um

1:06:09 ↗ also long-standing safety concerns from

1:06:11 ↗ the community and

1:06:13 ↗ um also echoed in the commission's

1:06:15 ↗ review of the cip

1:06:16 ↗ and how to explore how to

1:06:20 ↗ align those issues with our planning

1:06:23 ↗ process

1:06:24 ↗ there are some deviations between for

1:06:27 ↗ example the

1:06:28 ↗ master mobility plan that we have

1:06:30 ↗ adopted and

1:06:31 ↗ what's in the cip and so how to best

1:06:33 ↗ align those

1:06:34 ↗ the other thing that i thought was um

1:06:37 ↗ important is that

1:06:39 ↗ we had the commissions for the first

1:06:41 ↗ time give us feedback and that was

1:06:43 ↗ really beneficial and they gave us great

1:06:46 ↗ very

1:06:46 ↗ high quality feedback i think that

1:06:49 ↗ including them in the next

1:06:51 ↗ process would be excellent as well

1:06:54 ↗ i do think that including them earlier

1:06:56 ↗ in the process as council has discussed

1:06:58 ↗ previously would be beneficial if they

1:07:00 ↗ could be brought in at the policy level

1:07:02 ↗ so i sort of expanded

1:07:04 ↗ on that and discussed also some of the

1:07:07 ↗ feedback that we received from them

1:07:09 ↗ about how they would

1:07:11 ↗ they would benefit from better

1:07:13 ↗ understanding our prioritization process

1:07:15 ↗ and how their feedback could influence

1:07:16 ↗ that

1:07:17 ↗ so i reviewed not only our conversations

1:07:20 ↗ but also i reviewed the

1:07:22 ↗ the summaries that were from the

1:07:23 ↗ different commissions of which we had

1:07:25 ↗ several

1:07:26 ↗ review the cip this year which was great

1:07:30 ↗ um

1:07:35 ↗ and then lastly

1:07:38 ↗ in the 17th meeting we discussed how

1:07:40 ↗ this would come before council and

1:07:41 ↗ council could

1:07:42 ↗ discuss it and this would be the first

1:07:44 ↗ time that we've

1:07:46 ↗ had this particular sort of letter so

1:07:49 ↗ i did go back through our conversations

1:07:51 ↗ and tried to document what i thought

1:07:53 ↗ were the most

1:07:53 ↗ important things that are these ongoing

1:07:57 ↗ conversations from

1:07:58 ↗ my two eips that i've been on council

1:08:01 ↗ for

1:08:02 ↗ um and and then again use the

1:08:05 ↗ information that director goldberg

1:08:06 ↗ provided

1:08:09 ↗ which was very helpful in the drafting

1:08:11 ↗ of the letter

1:08:12 ↗ and so i believe that including the

1:08:15 ↗ letter will provide context for the next

1:08:16 ↗ council

1:08:17 ↗ and that um people taking up the cip

1:08:20 ↗ two years from now which won't be this

1:08:22 ↗ exact group but which will be a future

1:08:24 ↗ council that we will

1:08:26 ↗ benefit from starting in a place where

1:08:28 ↗ we've

1:08:29 ↗ where we can review that letter and then

1:08:32 ↗ take up those conversations again

1:08:34 ↗ so i think that would be beneficial to

1:08:36 ↗ the community

1:08:39 ↗ thank you council president hunt any

1:08:41 ↗ questions or

1:08:42 ↗ comments

1:08:46 ↗ councilmember goodman has a question uh

1:08:49 ↗ thank you madam mayor

1:08:51 ↗ so the um the memo

1:08:54 ↗ one that um director goldberg drafted

1:08:57 ↗ um and the memoir two um there are a

1:09:00 ↗ fair number of differences

1:09:03 ↗ and so um i wanted to know if the

1:09:06 ↗ administration

1:09:08 ↗ had any i don't know that concerns is

1:09:10 ↗ the right word but i want to know

1:09:12 ↗ the administration whether that would be

1:09:14 ↗ uh

1:09:16 ↗ um administrator vodka bob kowitz or

1:09:18 ↗ director goldberg has

1:09:20 ↗ any um

1:09:23 ↗ uh feedback or um suggestions for the

1:09:27 ↗ council about

1:09:29 ↗ what um

1:09:32 ↗ i don't really really what my question

1:09:33 ↗ is about like maybe what

1:09:36 ↗ potentially is maybe not a good idea for

1:09:39 ↗ a letter or not

1:09:40 ↗ appropriate in a letter um i'm just

1:09:43 ↗ curious what the

1:09:45 ↗ feedback might be on that looks like

1:09:47 ↗ city administrator bob kowitz wants to

1:09:49 ↗ start

1:09:51 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor members of the

1:09:52 ↗ council um

1:09:54 ↗ i'm still new here um i i don't know

1:09:57 ↗ that

1:09:57 ↗ anything is necessarily inappropriate um

1:09:59 ↗ i think

1:10:00 ↗ council president hunt gave a a fair uh

1:10:03 ↗ recitation of the process that she went

1:10:06 ↗ through as i understand it

1:10:07 ↗ um so i i think if the council is

1:10:09 ↗ comfortable with

1:10:11 ↗ what director or excuse me what the

1:10:12 ↗ council president hunt has prepared

1:10:15 ↗ that's appropriate i think mayor

1:10:16 ↗ paulie's point with this is that it is a

1:10:19 ↗ little bit of a departure

1:10:20 ↗ from how the letter has been prepared uh

1:10:23 ↗ in the past

1:10:24 ↗ and so i think her her concern was just

1:10:26 ↗ to make sure that that was noted

1:10:27 ↗ to the council

1:10:31 ↗ thank you city administrator thank you

1:10:34 ↗ for that

1:10:34 ↗ pretty echoey uh councilmember goodman

1:10:37 ↗ did that answer your question i can also

1:10:38 ↗ give director goldberg an opportunity as

1:10:40 ↗ well to weigh

1:10:41 ↗ in um i just if director goldberg has

1:10:44 ↗ any additional comments i'd

1:10:45 ↗ be happy to hear those things okay

1:10:48 ↗ uh director goldberg did you want to add

1:10:50 ↗ anything

1:10:55 ↗ uh no i don't have anything to add

1:11:00 ↗ i probably made you run from one room to

1:11:01 ↗ another sorry about that

1:11:04 ↗ okay thank you i'm not seeing i'm gonna

1:11:07 ↗ get

1:11:08 ↗ council member goodman didn't need her

1:11:10 ↗ microphone because i think that might be

1:11:11 ↗ the source of the

1:11:13 ↗ reverb there we go uh councilmember

1:11:16 ↗ walsh says comment

1:11:18 ↗ thank you this is councilmember wolf um

1:11:20 ↗ i

1:11:21 ↗ appreciate this i think the addition

1:11:24 ↗ of a letter from the council's

1:11:27 ↗ perspective

1:11:27 ↗ to bridge the gap between what will be

1:11:30 ↗ this council

1:11:31 ↗ and a future council to keep things top

1:11:34 ↗ of mind

1:11:35 ↗ is a great idea i'm so glad we're doing

1:11:38 ↗ it i love that we are

1:11:40 ↗ nimble and adjust as needed and so

1:11:43 ↗ i very much appreciate it i um

1:11:46 ↗ like what was written in the letter too

1:11:50 ↗ and i think it

1:11:51 ↗ gives our perspective not as a

1:11:54 ↗ administration council but just to say

1:11:56 ↗ hey here's what was on our mind while we

1:11:58 ↗ were discussing this and here's the

1:12:00 ↗ strings that were maybe left undone

1:12:04 ↗ that we need to make sure are top of

1:12:06 ↗ mind for the next

1:12:08 ↗ period and i i think that just makes

1:12:09 ↗ everybody's work easier

1:12:11 ↗ so very much approved thanks thank you

1:12:14 ↗ councilmember walsh and i do think

1:12:16 ↗ um as we work our way through new steps

1:12:18 ↗ like this i think council president had

1:12:19 ↗ some good suggestions about

1:12:21 ↗ how to be able to do this so that it can

1:12:23 ↗ be tracked all the way through

1:12:25 ↗ which is great i'm not seeing any other

1:12:28 ↗ comments

1:12:28 ↗ so i'm going oh councilmember goodman

1:12:32 ↗ sorry um i my one comment i'm glad that

1:12:35 ↗ council president

1:12:36 ↗ raised it is that um as i said

1:12:40 ↗ at the may 17th meeting i think it's a

1:12:41 ↗ good idea um

1:12:43 ↗ and the initial letter that uh was

1:12:46 ↗ drafted by director

1:12:47 ↗ goldberg goldberg i think was an

1:12:49 ↗ accurate portrayal of the council

1:12:50 ↗ conversation

1:12:51 ↗ um what i am not particularly

1:12:55 ↗ a fan of is the council

1:12:59 ↗ leadership not any particular leadership

1:13:03 ↗ figuring out what to put in that letter

1:13:06 ↗ and putting

1:13:07 ↗ pulling things from conversations i

1:13:09 ↗ liked that

1:13:10 ↗ council president had raised that um

1:13:13 ↗ idea

1:13:13 ↗ that these things that would go in a

1:13:16 ↗ letter

1:13:17 ↗ just like they are when we have our

1:13:18 ↗ budget deliberations should be flagged

1:13:20 ↗ at the time of deliberation

1:13:21 ↗ um and not just simply pull together in

1:13:23 ↗ that letter later i think we all should

1:13:25 ↗ know

1:13:26 ↗ when the letter is being drafted what's

1:13:29 ↗ going to go

1:13:30 ↗ in the letter um that's not a knock on

1:13:32 ↗ what ended up in

1:13:33 ↗ memo number two but i think we should if

1:13:35 ↗ we're trying to mimic what we do

1:13:37 ↗ during the um during budget um

1:13:40 ↗ then it should be we should know what's

1:13:44 ↗ going to go

1:13:44 ↗ into the letter before it's drafted i'm

1:13:46 ↗ hoping i'm making myself clear

1:13:48 ↗ um but i understand what council

1:13:51 ↗ president trump was trying to

1:13:52 ↗ do and we're starting a new process here

1:13:54 ↗ with uh cip

1:13:56 ↗ um so i'm supportive of it but i think

1:13:59 ↗ that

1:14:00 ↗ she is right and then the next year

1:14:01 ↗ those items are that

1:14:03 ↗ we're going to go in the letter should

1:14:04 ↗ be flagged first thank you

1:14:08 ↗ thank you council member goodman and

1:14:11 ↗ i am not seeing any additional comments

1:14:14 ↗ so i think we'll go to

1:14:16 ↗ the motion that has been approved and

1:14:18 ↗ seconded which is

1:14:19 ↗ a motion that has been made and seconded

1:14:21 ↗ which is to approve finalization and

1:14:23 ↗ transmittal of memo number two regarding

1:14:25 ↗ the 2022-2027

1:14:28 ↗ improvement plan and i'll turn it back

1:14:30 ↗ over to the city clerk for a roll call

1:14:31 ↗ vote

1:14:33 ↗ beginning with council member goodman hi

1:14:37 ↗ councilmember hall aye

1:14:41 ↗ council president hunt aye

1:14:44 ↗ council member martz aye deputy council

1:14:48 ↗ president ray

1:14:49 ↗ aye council member walsh

1:14:52 ↗ aye council member d michelle

1:14:55 ↗ hi that's seven eyes your own a's

1:14:59 ↗ thank you that passes unanimously and

1:15:02 ↗ now we will be looking at someone for

1:15:04 ↗ someone to make the main

1:15:05 ↗ another motion

1:15:11 ↗ council president if you have that

1:15:13 ↗ scrolled back up

1:15:16 ↗ go ahead um i moved to approve

1:15:20 ↗ resolution number 2021-09 adopting the

1:15:23 ↗ capital improvement plan for 2022 to

1:15:25 ↗ 2027 including the six-year

1:15:27 ↗ transportation improvement program

1:15:29 ↗ and deputy council president ray second

1:15:32 ↗ thank you it's been moved and seconded

1:15:34 ↗ and we'll get

1:15:35 ↗ is there any discussion on that motion

1:15:37 ↗ i'll give it a second or two to keep my

1:15:39 ↗ eye on the chat

1:15:43 ↗ does not look like it okay um city clerk

1:15:46 ↗ if you could do the roll call vote

1:15:48 ↗ sorry i have a comment from

1:15:50 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:15:52 ↗ uh yeah thank you i um i have a couple

1:15:54 ↗ comments one i want to thank the

1:15:56 ↗ administration

1:15:57 ↗ for all the work you did to pull

1:15:59 ↗ together comments from other boards and

1:16:00 ↗ commissions

1:16:01 ↗ i really appreciate i really appreciate

1:16:03 ↗ that a lot

1:16:04 ↗ and the other thing that i wanted to

1:16:06 ↗ point out is i

1:16:07 ↗ um through the process and this is my

1:16:11 ↗ own perception through the process it

1:16:13 ↗ felt to me as if um

1:16:17 ↗ the cip was either understood or

1:16:21 ↗ portrayed as or um

1:16:25 ↗ i don't know what the right word to use

1:16:26 ↗ as somehow different than before

1:16:29 ↗ and um that is not my experience um the

1:16:32 ↗ experience always is that we have more

1:16:33 ↗ projects than we have money for

1:16:35 ↗ we do the best that we can we use

1:16:37 ↗ opportunities during the year to

1:16:39 ↗ find money um and so to the extent that

1:16:43 ↗ um my my words

1:16:46 ↗ to the extent that there is some

1:16:48 ↗ understanding that this is different

1:16:50 ↗ um or something unusual about this cip

1:16:54 ↗ process other than gathering more input

1:16:56 ↗ from more than commissions than we ever

1:16:57 ↗ have before

1:16:59 ↗ that's not my understanding um we have

1:17:02 ↗ other difficulties uh facing us um

1:17:05 ↗ but i i do think that it was actually a

1:17:08 ↗ very good cmp process this year um so i

1:17:11 ↗ will be

1:17:12 ↗ supportive thanks thank you and uh we

1:17:16 ↗ have

1:17:17 ↗ council member marks with a comment

1:17:19 ↗ thank you madam mayor

1:17:20 ↗ um one thing about uh

1:17:24 ↗ where we're at as a body currently

1:17:28 ↗ um one of the things about having been

1:17:30 ↗ on council for a while

1:17:32 ↗ is back when we had committee structure

1:17:34 ↗ um

1:17:35 ↗ i wound up serving and chairing uh all

1:17:38 ↗ the different committees

1:17:39 ↗ at different times um i think

1:17:43 ↗ capital improvement plans received

1:17:46 ↗ a more thorough

1:17:49 ↗ it depends on what your definition of

1:17:51 ↗ thorough is i guess

1:17:53 ↗ any given issue three of seven council

1:17:56 ↗ members

1:17:57 ↗ wound up delving deeper into

1:18:01 ↗ any given facet of the capital

1:18:03 ↗ improvement plan

1:18:04 ↗ the other four didn't uh on on

1:18:08 ↗ particular facets and so you wound up

1:18:11 ↗ hearing more about the things that

1:18:13 ↗ the committees that you are on but i

1:18:16 ↗ i do think the community would be served

1:18:19 ↗ by getting more detail i found there

1:18:22 ↗ were a number of things

1:18:23 ↗ this year that i wanted more details on

1:18:26 ↗ um you know wayfinding as an example

1:18:30 ↗ uh is it is something that if we had

1:18:32 ↗ committees

1:18:33 ↗ i think we would have delved further

1:18:34 ↗ into to understand better

1:18:36 ↗ and so um you know uh this is

1:18:40 ↗ uh you know i'm happy with this capital

1:18:42 ↗ improvement plan

1:18:43 ↗ um i think the process was a very good

1:18:46 ↗ safe effort and i

1:18:47 ↗ applaud the broader engagement

1:18:50 ↗ um with some of the uh commissions and

1:18:53 ↗ boards

1:18:54 ↗ um that we saw here and and i this is a

1:18:56 ↗ good product

1:18:57 ↗ and uh i will be proud to support it

1:19:00 ↗ but i i think we should consider the

1:19:02 ↗ next time this comes around

1:19:05 ↗ um i think we should we can reopen

1:19:08 ↗ the committee structure i think that

1:19:11 ↗ it serves us better to get in the kind

1:19:14 ↗ of

1:19:15 ↗ nitty-gritty detail that committees

1:19:18 ↗ allow

1:19:19 ↗ i also think that committee structures

1:19:21 ↗ if well

1:19:23 ↗ uh if well put together

1:19:27 ↗ would also allow a certain kind of

1:19:28 ↗ transparency that

1:19:30 ↗ that we don't have right now when i

1:19:33 ↗ chaired

1:19:34 ↗ services and safety if somebody wanted

1:19:36 ↗ to come in and ask a question i

1:19:38 ↗ you know we ran questions through the

1:19:40 ↗ committee members but you know if

1:19:41 ↗ somebody in the public had a question

1:19:42 ↗ and they asked us the question

1:19:44 ↗ sometimes i said you know that's a great

1:19:46 ↗ question let's ask director so and so

1:19:49 ↗ the answer to that question and that's

1:19:51 ↗ something that doesn't really

1:19:52 ↗ uh lend itself to a full regular

1:19:56 ↗ council meeting you know three four plus

1:19:58 ↗ hour

1:19:59 ↗ uh meeting so uh i i i i don't intend to

1:20:04 ↗ uh hope i didn't ramble but

1:20:08 ↗ all this to say i do believe we should

1:20:10 ↗ consider

1:20:11 ↗ uh returning to a committee structure

1:20:13 ↗ and i think that

1:20:14 ↗ things like capital improvement plans

1:20:16 ↗ would be well served

1:20:18 ↗ to have that granular level of detail by

1:20:21 ↗ a subset of council members

1:20:23 ↗ each and every time we do it thank you

1:20:25 ↗ thank you councilmember meretz i'm

1:20:26 ↗ actually going to

1:20:28 ↗ get director goldberg to come on and

1:20:32 ↗ expand a little bit about what i'm going

1:20:34 ↗ to say next

1:20:36 ↗ i asked that question of the director to

1:20:38 ↗ see what past practice has been and

1:20:40 ↗ while projects were discussed in

1:20:42 ↗ different committees

1:20:43 ↗ the cip document didn't move through

1:20:45 ↗ those committees

1:20:46 ↗ and so yes you are right

1:20:49 ↗ that the projects could be discussed and

1:20:52 ↗ questions could be asked but the cip

1:20:54 ↗ was not chopped up and sent through to

1:20:57 ↗ different

1:20:58 ↗ city committees so i'll let her weigh in

1:21:00 ↗ on that having said that

1:21:01 ↗ i do believe that you could absolutely

1:21:04 ↗ establish

1:21:05 ↗ three council members to do the deep

1:21:07 ↗ dive into the cip

1:21:08 ↗ i'm not sure if it's possible to do it

1:21:11 ↗ this is just mechanics

1:21:12 ↗ um but anyway i'll just let director

1:21:14 ↗ goldberg

1:21:15 ↗ provide some more detail

1:21:19 ↗ so i hello good evening this is

1:21:22 ↗ beth goldberg i've only been through one

1:21:25 ↗ cip process here

1:21:27 ↗ at the city of issaquah so i'm not sure

1:21:29 ↗ i

1:21:31 ↗ am the best uh historical keeper but my

1:21:33 ↗ understanding is that

1:21:35 ↗ uh the cip did typically go

1:21:38 ↗ to the full council two years ago

1:21:42 ↗ we took a subset of the cip the

1:21:44 ↗ transportation subset

1:21:46 ↗ and that went to the ad hoc finance

1:21:48 ↗ committee um

1:21:49 ↗ but i i am not um

1:21:52 ↗ familiar with that process being used

1:21:56 ↗ um in other years i believe

1:21:59 ↗ uh in previous years the whole cip uh

1:22:02 ↗ went to the full the full council but um

1:22:05 ↗ there are others

1:22:06 ↗ um who have been uh involved with the

1:22:09 ↗ city much longer

1:22:10 ↗ than i am that may have um may have

1:22:12 ↗ other perspectives

1:22:14 ↗ and i i thank you and i think council

1:22:16 ↗ member mart's takeaway is that

1:22:18 ↗ there is discussion to be had amongst

1:22:20 ↗ the council again about committees

1:22:22 ↗ so whether or not it's a capital

1:22:24 ↗ planning

1:22:26 ↗ issue or item or not that there sounds

1:22:28 ↗ like there's some

1:22:29 ↗ retreat or workshop material in here for

1:22:32 ↗ sure

1:22:33 ↗ council member hall has a comment

1:22:36 ↗ uh hi this is councilmember hall just a

1:22:38 ↗ quick one um

1:22:40 ↗ i'm still a new councilmember this

1:22:42 ↗ having been my first

1:22:44 ↗ uh cip round i'm reasonably sure this is

1:22:46 ↗ the best cip process i've ever been a

1:22:48 ↗ part of

1:22:49 ↗ um but um all joking aside my uh tipped

1:22:52 ↗ my hat to the mayor

1:22:54 ↗ to the city council for great

1:22:55 ↗ conversations to the city administration

1:22:57 ↗ um for keeping it very orderly uh and

1:23:00 ↗ easy for us to digest

1:23:01 ↗ i want to particularly thank director

1:23:02 ↗ york and a few of his staff for kind of

1:23:04 ↗ diving deeper with me

1:23:06 ↗ on all the water sewer and stormwater

1:23:08 ↗ utility projects in particular just

1:23:09 ↗ because i

1:23:10 ↗ took an interest to those over the cip

1:23:12 ↗ so i want to thank him

1:23:14 ↗ i think it's a good mix of projects and

1:23:16 ↗ the magical thing i've come to learn

1:23:18 ↗ about this

1:23:18 ↗ is that two years from now we get to

1:23:20 ↗ review it again and some things might

1:23:22 ↗ have changed costs might have changed

1:23:24 ↗ community interests might have changed

1:23:25 ↗ so another thing for us to keep in mind

1:23:28 ↗ moving forward and just thank you all

1:23:29 ↗ very much

1:23:31 ↗ thank you councilmember hall and i think

1:23:33 ↗ you wrapped us up i'm going to re-read

1:23:35 ↗ the motion that is on the table and it

1:23:38 ↗ is

1:23:39 ↗ been moved and seconded to approve

1:23:40 ↗ resolution number 2021-09 adopting the

1:23:45 ↗ capital improvement plan

1:23:46 ↗ for 2022 through 2027

1:23:51 ↗ including the six-year transportation

1:23:53 ↗ improvement program

1:23:55 ↗ and city clerk let's do a roll call vote

1:24:00 ↗ starting with council member hall aye

1:24:04 ↗ council president hunt aye

1:24:07 ↗ council member mark aye deputy council

1:24:10 ↗ president ray

1:24:12 ↗ aye council member walsh

1:24:15 ↗ council member d michelle hi

1:24:19 ↗ councilmember goodman that's 7i

1:24:22 ↗ zero nays

1:24:27 ↗ thank you tisha that passes unanimously

1:24:30 ↗ 7-0 and the next item of business is

1:24:33 ↗ good of the order and does anyone have

1:24:35 ↗ anything for good of the order

1:24:38 ↗ put my eye on the chat

1:24:45 ↗ while you are thinking about it there

1:24:47 ↗ are a few meetings coming up the city

1:24:49 ↗ council study session on tuesday june

1:24:51 ↗ 15th

1:24:52 ↗ potential agenda items include the

1:24:54 ↗ community survey results

1:24:56 ↗ school resource officers police

1:24:59 ↗ operations

1:25:00 ↗ and 2021 legislative impacts there is a

1:25:04 ↗ city council regular meeting on june

1:25:05 ↗ 21st

1:25:06 ↗ the potential agenda items include the

1:25:08 ↗ american rescue plan act

1:25:10 ↗ funding allocation and non-profit relief

1:25:13 ↗ grant funding

1:25:14 ↗ and the water system improvement updates

1:25:17 ↗ and it looks like council president hunt

1:25:19 ↗ does have a quick comment for good of

1:25:21 ↗ the order

1:25:23 ↗ thank you madam mayor just a quick

1:25:25 ↗ reminder to counsel that if you are

1:25:27 ↗ interested in serving as one of the two

1:25:29 ↗ members on the finance

1:25:30 ↗ task force to let me know one way or

1:25:32 ↗ another however is convenient for you

1:25:34 ↗ thanks thank you

1:25:38 ↗ council member hall uh thank you mayor

1:25:40 ↗ paulie this is councilmember hall

1:25:42 ↗ um i just wanted to bring up um council

1:25:44 ↗ president hunt had brought up during

1:25:46 ↗ um her report uh for the ad hoc

1:25:50 ↗ title 18 committee that um you were you

1:25:53 ↗ were presented with an option to have

1:25:55 ↗ something split off and i think i missed

1:25:58 ↗ part of that i was wondering if you

1:25:59 ↗ could

1:26:00 ↗ repeat that part of your report

1:26:05 ↗ thank you for the question this is

1:26:06 ↗ council president hunt um

1:26:08 ↗ yes so we had a

1:26:11 ↗ we had a discussion about whether or not

1:26:14 ↗ to split off from the rest of the title

1:26:16 ↗ 18 process wireless communication

1:26:18 ↗ facilities code update

1:26:20 ↗ this is something that council did have

1:26:23 ↗ an

1:26:23 ↗ update um to this part of the code about

1:26:26 ↗ two years ago

1:26:27 ↗ so one of the things we discussed in

1:26:28 ↗ that was that we had

1:26:30 ↗ had that conversation two years ago and

1:26:32 ↗ we also

1:26:34 ↗ discussed the the uh

1:26:38 ↗ criteria for pulling something out of

1:26:40 ↗ title 18 and

1:26:41 ↗ um at this time didn't feel that this

1:26:44 ↗ needed to be

1:26:45 ↗ pulled out um and put on a separate

1:26:47 ↗ track

1:26:48 ↗ so we we got a lot of good information

1:26:51 ↗ about

1:26:52 ↗ um about the code update and what it

1:26:54 ↗ would be

1:26:55 ↗ and um and we ultimately decided that we

1:26:57 ↗ weren't recommending that it go on a

1:26:59 ↗ separate track

1:27:05 ↗ and i i'll say too if any of my fellow

1:27:07 ↗ um

1:27:09 ↗ uh ad hoc committee members wants to

1:27:12 ↗ chime in

1:27:12 ↗ i think for me the the thing was that we

1:27:15 ↗ we want to make sure that we're

1:27:19 ↗ that we are selective about what we put

1:27:21 ↗ on a separate track

1:27:23 ↗ um you know this has been title 18 is a

1:27:25 ↗ long complicated process and we

1:27:27 ↗ have a timeline that we are trying to

1:27:29 ↗ adhere to and it's a very

1:27:30 ↗ important process for the community and

1:27:33 ↗ um

1:27:34 ↗ so we went through the checklist and

1:27:35 ↗ didn't feel that this was

1:27:37 ↗ uh that this was that the urgency of

1:27:39 ↗ this made it

1:27:40 ↗ such that it couldn't be done in the

1:27:42 ↗ rest of the title 18 process at this

1:27:44 ↗ point

1:27:44 ↗ and then the other thing was there are

1:27:47 ↗ also some other cities that

1:27:48 ↗ are looking at updating this part of

1:27:49 ↗ their code and so we also thought we

1:27:51 ↗ could

1:27:51 ↗ stay tuned and see what those other

1:27:53 ↗ cities were doing

1:27:56 ↗ thank you council president that looks

1:27:58 ↗ like the last piece of good of the order

1:28:00 ↗ so i'll move down the agenda to the

1:28:01 ↗ executive session

1:28:02 ↗ as earlier announced there will be an

1:28:04 ↗ executive session held this evening to

1:28:06 ↗ discuss

1:28:07 ↗ pending potential litigation for rcw

1:28:10 ↗ 42.30

1:28:11 ↗ 0.110 for n1 for an i and performance

1:28:14 ↗ of public employees per rcw 42.30.110

1:28:19 ↗ brand one per ng and these items are

1:28:21 ↗ expected to last

1:28:22 ↗ 40 minutes no action is anticipated to

1:28:26 ↗ follow in open session as a reminder

1:28:28 ↗ executive sessions are closed to the

1:28:30 ↗ public and we will now recess into the

1:28:32 ↗ executive session

1:28:33 ↗ at 8 28 pm and i'll ask the city clerk

1:28:36 ↗ to move the city council into a separate

1:28:38 ↗ session within this meeting

1:28:42 ↗ anyone who is not part of the closed

1:28:44 ↗ session

1:28:45 ↗ will remain in the main meeting and you

1:28:46 ↗ are welcome to stay in the meeting

1:28:48 ↗ until it is reconvened

1:29:17 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (4)

Approve Resolution No. 2021-08, approving the Public Benefit Rating System Re-Classification of the Overdale Homeowners Association Property, Parcel #2224069057, to include the status of Resource Restoration, subject to the conditions enumerated in the King County revised staff report dated May 24, …

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

Approve finalization and transmittal of memo Version #2 regarding the 2022-2027 Capital Improvement Plan. .

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

Approve Resolution No. 2021-09, adopting the Capital Improvement Plan for 2022-2027, including the Six-Year Transportation Improvement Program. .

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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