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City Council Regular Meeting

Monday, June 21, 2021

7:00 PM
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First for Roll Call Vote: Council President Hunt
7. CONSENT CALENDAR
7b
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, June 7, 2021
Approve · packet pp.99–103
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 06-07-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting June 7, 2021 MINUTES
7c
Teamsters 117 Police Sergeants Collective Bargaining Agreement AB 8157
Approve · packet pp.105–135
Topics: Public Safety
Staff report:
The Police Sergeants unionized in 2020 and this agreement will be the City's first contract with this bargaining unit. The City and the Police Sergeants have been in negotiations for a first contract since December of 2020. The Agreement attached as an exhibit to this agenda bill represents the successful culmination of negotiations between the City and the Police Sergeants.
7d
Amend 2021 Salary Ordinance AB 8158
Adopt Ordinance; Authorize Additional · packet pp.137–157
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2928 on Nov. 16, 2020, which established 2021 salaries for all City staff. Throughout the year there can be changes to classifications or collective bargaining agreements which require adoption of a revised ordinance and salary schedules to place positions within the City's classification and compensation system.
7e
Maintenance Overlay Project AB 8185
Approve Resolution · packet pp.159–162
Staff report:
The MC21-2 Maintenance Overlay project will restore the top surface of certain existing roadways to a like-new condition, repair damaged concrete sidewalk and curb and gutter, and upgrade existing Pedestrian Access Ramps to current ADA regulations. The concrete repairs are necessary to comply to ADA regulations and ensure that the surface water drainage is getting to the appropriate stormwater facilities and not undermining the roadway. This work will be funded and performed by the Pavement Management Program (TR 030) and the Concrete Maintenance Program (TR 054).
7g
Confirmation of Mayor's Appointment of City Clerk AB 8192
Confirm · packet pp.173–174
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
Issaquah Municipal Code 2.08.010 establishes the City Clerk as an appointed position, subject to approval by the City Council.
8. REGULAR BUSINESS
8a
American Rescue Plan Act Funding and Non-Profit Relief Grant Funding AB 8193
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.175–213
Topics: Public SafetyBudget
Staff report:
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (aka ARPA) was passed by the United State Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021. ARPA includes funds to support State and local governments' recovery from the health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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. GOOD OF THE ORDER
9a
Capital Financing Community Task Force City Council Appointments
Topics: Boards & Commissions
9b
Upcoming Council Meetings
1:19 as i call the june 21st city council
1:22 meeting to order
1:23 due to the governor's proclamation 20-28
1:26 relating to the covet 19 emergency
1:28 and open public meetings this meeting
1:30 will be held entirely remotely
1:32 at this point in time we'll take a
1:34 moment to take roll call of the council
1:36 members in attendance
1:37 please stay here when i call your name
1:39 councilmember d michelle
1:41 here thank you councilmember goodman
1:44 here
1:44 thank you councilmember hall here thank
1:48 you council president hunt
1:50 here thank you councilmember marks here
1:53 thank you deputy council president ray
1:56 here thank you and council member walsh
1:59 here thank you that's all seven council
2:02 members in attendance
2:04 um i'd like to invite you to join me in
2:06 the pledge of allegiance but i'd ask you
2:07 to mute your microphone
2:12 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
2:15 united states of america
2:17 and to the republic for which it stands
2:19 one nation
2:20 under god indivisible with liberty and
2:23 justice for all
2:25 thank you the next item on our agenda
2:28 this evening is audience comments and
2:31 for those of you who have submitted our
2:32 online form to make comments your name
2:34 will be called shortly
2:36 for those who have joined us tonight and
2:38 would like to make comments but did not
2:39 sign up in advance
2:41 please raise your virtual hand if you
2:43 are on the phone
2:44 try pressing star 3 if you have joined
2:47 by computer or smartphone
2:49 look for a hand icon this can vary by
2:52 device
2:53 one option may be to go to the
2:54 participant panel and choose the raised
2:57 hand icon
2:58 in the lower right hand corner
3:03 there at tonight's council meeting an
3:05 informational presentation will be
3:07 provided
3:08 on an upcoming ballot item i'd like to
3:10 remind members of the public
3:12 that comments related to a ballot
3:13 measure or individual candidacy
3:16 candidacy are not allowed during public
3:19 comments if the council wishes to
3:20 consider formally supporting or opposing
3:23 a ballot measure
3:24 a public hearing will be scheduled and
3:26 the public would be provided with an
3:27 opportunity to comment in accordance
3:29 with state law
3:31 city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
3:33 this evening
3:35 yes thank you
3:40 so for those making comments please make
3:42 sure to direct your comments to the
3:44 whole council and not to individuals
3:46 and while this is not a question and
3:47 answer session we will contact you to
3:49 follow up if needed
3:51 when you are recognized please unmute
3:53 your microphone
3:54 state your name address and relationship
3:56 to the city
3:57 and speak clearly and pause frequently
4:00 please limit your comments to five
4:02 minutes and re-mute your microphone when
4:04 you're done
4:05 if you do not respond after your name or
4:08 phone number is called
4:09 or if your connection is lost
4:10 unexpectedly the meeting will need to
4:12 proceed
4:13 you are encouraged to rejoin the meeting
4:15 if you are able
4:16 personal attacks obscene language
4:18 derogatory remarks and disruptive
4:20 behavior will not be permitted
4:22 citizens comments written and verbal are
4:24 an important aspect of the public
4:26 process
4:27 the city takes these comments seriously
4:29 and we thank you for taking the time to
4:30 address us this evening
4:33 city clerk can you please identify the
4:35 first person who has signed up to speak
4:39 yes kathy mcquarrie kathy i'm going to
4:42 unmute you now
4:46 you have the floor thank you
4:50 good evening madam mayor and city
4:53 council
4:53 great to be here on this warm happy
4:56 monday
4:57 uh just a couple of quick items today
5:00 um first oh i'm sorry let me back up
5:03 kathy mccrory greater
5:05 issaquah chamber of commerce i'm the ceo
5:08 there and i have an exciting
5:10 announcement to make
5:12 this week we are launching
5:15 issaquahjobs.com
5:17 we have been in touch with the business
5:20 community
5:21 about all the hiring and the jobs that
5:23 are available
5:25 in ithaca right now and we have come up
5:27 with
5:28 a website that will allow businesses to
5:31 post their jobs
5:32 and residents whether they're looking
5:35 for um
5:37 uh returning to work a new career shift
5:40 a part-time job
5:42 they will have a site geared
5:43 specifically for issaquah jobs
5:46 so that they can go and find some
5:49 new exciting career path or job close to
5:52 where they live
5:55 and again we're excited to be launching
5:57 that this week
5:58 our other um is just a comment of
6:01 support
6:02 on one of the agenda items this evening
6:05 a b
6:05 8193 obviously we are we will be in
6:09 support of that and also
6:11 in support of allocating 45 000
6:14 for the recovery coordinator position
6:17 we realize that the 11 million dollars
6:20 is not much when it comes to the city's
6:22 overall budget
6:24 however it it can be quite substantial
6:28 to us and
6:29 in the deliberations moving forward as
6:35 opportunities identify themselves we ask
6:38 that the city continues to research
6:43 as they have already begun to do so and
6:45 let's not just
6:46 recover what was lost during the
6:48 pandemic but
6:49 let's truly imagine reimagine what we
6:52 need moving forward
6:54 to remain the best place
6:57 on the east side to live work and play
7:00 let's be innovative and together we can
7:03 rebuild
7:04 a better future with that one-time money
7:08 i'd like to thank you again for all the
7:09 work you do for
7:11 our business community and our residents
7:14 we all appreciate you very much thank
7:16 you
7:24 thank you kathy city clerk do we have
7:27 anyone else signed up to speak this
7:28 evening
7:29 no one else has indicated a desire to
7:31 speak well it was nice to hear from our
7:33 chamber
7:34 about the new job finder website that
7:37 they have up and also their support of
7:39 the arpa funding recommendations that
7:41 are on the council's agenda this evening
7:44 as a reminder you can also submit
7:46 written comments at any time to city
7:48 council at issaquah.gov
7:51 council president hunt do you have any
7:53 email comments that you would like to
7:54 summarize on tonight's
7:56 agenda topics thank you madam mayor
7:59 we did receive one email that
8:01 specifically referenced
8:03 items that are on our agenda this
8:04 evening and while we're doing virtual
8:06 meetings i have been summarizing emails
8:08 that we receive
8:09 specifically on agenda items and in this
8:12 email
8:13 um the community member asked regarding
8:17 ab8158 which is amend 2021 salary
8:20 ordinance ask
8:21 that council ask questions confirming
8:23 the need for
8:24 effectively funding a new position and
8:27 then regarding ab-8192
8:29 which is confirmation of mayor's
8:31 appointment of city clerk express
8:33 support and that concludes emailed
8:35 comments on tonight's agenda items
8:38 thank you council president hunt the
8:40 next item on our agenda this evening is
8:42 committee and regional reports
8:43 and i will be calling each council
8:45 member by name starting with council
8:47 member hall
8:48 uh thank you mayor paulie this is
8:50 councilmember hall i have two quick
8:51 reports for the council this evening
8:54 uh first for cascade water alliance
8:57 the next board meeting is virtually this
9:00 wednesday at 3 30 p.m
9:03 i'll note that i'll give you a more
9:06 in-depth update at tonight's good of the
9:08 order
9:09 mayor paulie and i would like to get
9:10 your feedback uh over the next couple
9:12 months regarding
9:14 uh the lake tabs reservoir project so
9:16 this will be fun
9:17 um so stay tuned for that later tonight
9:20 affordable housing committee the
9:21 affordable housing committee of the
9:22 growth management planning council is
9:24 meeting next
9:25 wednesday july 21st at noon and there's
9:28 no agenda there yet so stay tuned
9:30 and with that that concludes my report
9:35 thank you council member hall council
9:37 member d michelle
9:39 thank you mr pauline this is
9:40 councilmember d michelle
9:42 on june 9th i attended the connect ii
9:45 community advisory group which is
9:47 charged with
9:47 overseeing the development of a health
9:49 community information exchange network
9:52 for king county we continued our
9:54 dialogue on how to protect privacy at
9:56 the same time we make information more
9:58 available
9:59 and accessible to both patients and
10:01 practitioners
10:02 on june 10th i attended the east side
10:04 transportation park
10:06 partnership we met with congresswoman
10:08 del benny for a report on the biden
10:11 administration
10:12 infrastructure initiatives and then
10:15 finally a meeting of the east side human
10:16 services forum board of directors
10:18 is scheduled for this thursday june 24th
10:22 and that concludes my report
10:25 hey cue council member dean michelle
10:26 council member walsh
10:28 thank you this is councilmember walsh on
10:30 wednesday the 9th
10:32 the council rules ad hoc committee met
10:34 discuss the council new business action
10:37 and form along with several housekeeping
10:39 changes
10:40 those changes are set to come back to
10:43 the full council during our meeting on
10:44 july 6.
10:46 we also recognize that there was
10:49 potentially a future discussion about
10:51 the remote meeting participation
10:54 and since that covered council members
10:56 staff and the public
10:58 we decided that or recommended that the
11:01 conversation belonged
11:02 in a public meeting with the full
11:04 council and not the ad hoc committee
11:06 or council rules committee on
11:09 the 10th the title 18 ad hoc committee
11:12 met that's our group of three council
11:15 members
11:16 working on title 18 which is our land
11:18 use and
11:19 zoning code we discuss the next
11:21 iteration of the sign code
11:22 that iteration continues with our
11:25 feedback and is scheduled to return
11:27 to full council during the study session
11:30 on july 27th
11:32 we also discussed ppc the planning
11:34 policy commission's feedback from their
11:37 initial title 18 overview
11:39 and the need for an upcoming ppc
11:42 discussion on land use sustainability
11:44 and equity which i believe has now been
11:46 scheduled
11:47 and on friday the 18th i attended the
11:51 sap chamber of commerce board meeting
11:53 and reviewed with them
11:55 the school resource officer conversation
11:59 um the upcoming sign code uh
12:03 meeting with the the council and then
12:06 uh city administrator bob quits also um
12:10 provided information on the city hall
12:12 reopening plan
12:14 and the chamber asked questions about
12:15 the equity board
12:17 and what their focal area
12:18 responsibilities would be
12:20 and that concludes my report thanks
12:23 councilmember walsh uh the first ad hoc
12:25 reference back to july
12:26 6th is likely july 19th because the city
12:29 council meeting for this six
12:30 has been cancelled thanks for giving me
12:32 an opportunity to say that councilmember
12:34 goodman
12:35 uh thank you councilmember goodman here
12:36 no report
12:39 thank you councilmember marks thank you
12:42 madam mayor this is councilmember martz
12:44 the puget sound regional council growth
12:46 management policy board
12:47 will be meeting on thursday july 1st
12:50 from 10 a.m until noon
12:52 and the agenda has not been published
12:54 for that meeting yet
12:55 the sound cities association public
12:57 issues committee
12:58 met wednesday june 9th at 7 pm online
13:02 and no action was taken
13:03 this concludes my report thank you
13:05 councilmember martz
13:06 deputy council president ray now thank
13:08 you mayor paulie this is chris ray
13:11 the king county growth management
13:13 planning council will be meeting this
13:15 wednesday
13:15 june 23rd from 4 to 6 p.m in a virtual
13:19 format
13:20 there are two significant agenda items
13:23 on this meeting one is the draft urban
13:26 growth capacity report
13:28 which is proposed to be adopted and also
13:30 the proposed 2021
13:32 countywide planning policies that were
13:34 also planning to be adopted
13:36 at that time that concludes my report
13:38 this evening
13:40 thank you deputy council president ray
13:42 and council president hunt
13:44 thank you madam mayor this is council
13:45 president hunt i have one report this
13:47 evening
13:48 the king conservation district advisory
13:50 committee met
13:51 on june 8th we took one action at that
13:54 meeting which was
13:55 to approve a statement in support of
13:58 working towards
13:59 having the king county um the king
14:02 conservation district advisory
14:05 sorry king conservation district um
14:08 board of supervisors election be on a
14:11 regular ballot
14:12 and so we approved a statement to that
14:14 effect and we'll work with the state
14:16 legislature
14:17 on that over the summer and in the
14:19 coming months because that would require
14:20 a state action
14:22 and the next meeting for this advisory
14:26 committee has not yet been set
14:29 thank you council thank you council
14:31 president hunt
14:32 the next item on our agenda this evening
14:34 is the mayor's report
14:36 so earlier this evening we did have an
14:38 executive session with
14:40 it was held to discuss collective
14:42 bargaining for rcw
14:44 42.3.14 paran4 and pending potential
14:47 litigation per rcw
14:49 42.30 0.110 paren one for an
14:52 i i one of my newsy items is i'd like to
14:56 say thank you for the invitation to
14:58 attend last friday night's juneteenth
15:00 celebration in the issaquah highlands
15:02 highlands council member kimberly i'm
15:05 going to get this wrong maybe
15:06 councilmember walsh can help me
15:08 happenstein they get it okay kimberly
15:11 kappestein organized issaquah's first
15:14 ever community juneteenth remembrance in
15:16 highlands park near blakely hall
15:18 the event offered information on the
15:20 history of juneteenth
15:22 a local band and barbecue food truck
15:24 encouraging families to stay and picnic
15:26 as we honor and celebrate the
15:28 contributions of black americans to our
15:30 community
15:31 and our country i'm going to do a
15:34 proclamation this evening on immigration
15:36 reform
15:37 whereas the city of issaquah advocates
15:39 for a just inhumane immigration system
15:42 and calls on the united states congress
15:44 to enact and prioritize
15:45 updated immigration policies to reflect
15:48 current times and needs
15:50 and whereas covet 19 has magnified the
15:53 disproportionate inequities that exist
15:55 for refugees and immigrants who call
15:57 this country their home
15:59 and whereas it is a legislative
16:01 responsibility
16:03 to ensure that covet 19 relief and
16:05 recovery programs are available and
16:07 accessible to
16:08 all without discrimination or barriers
16:10 based on citizenship
16:12 english proficiency income religious
16:15 belief
16:16 race ethnicity gender and sexual
16:18 identity
16:19 and whereas one in four esqua residents
16:22 is foreign born
16:23 and our diversity will continue to grow
16:25 as issaquah is currently expanding
16:28 at a rate of 0.0.70
16:31 annually and its overall population has
16:34 increased by 31.6
16:36 in the last 10 years and whereas
16:39 issaquah thrives as a welcoming and
16:41 inclusive community
16:42 that is committed to foster a safe
16:45 vibrant
16:46 livable and hate-free environment and
16:48 therefore denounces hateful rhetoric
16:50 against
16:51 immigrant and refugee communities and
16:53 whereas the city of issaquah invites
16:55 business leaders
16:56 civic groups community institutions
16:59 legislators and residents to join in a
17:01 community-wide effort to adopt practices
17:03 and policies
17:04 that promote integration inclusion and
17:07 equity
17:08 we at the city of issaquah are committed
17:10 to supporting refugees and immigrant
17:11 communities
17:12 are zero tolerance towards hateful
17:15 rhetoric against immigrants
17:16 and i call on the united states congress
17:18 to prioritize
17:19 a comprehensive legislation on
17:22 immigration
17:23 that reflects current times and needs
17:26 i'd also like to give an update on the
17:29 city hall facilities reopening plan
17:32 since the third of the pandemic city
17:34 offices have been closed to the public
17:36 and we have been providing service over
17:38 email
17:39 the phone or other teleconferencing
17:41 platforms
17:42 with almost eighty percent of issaquah
17:44 residents fully vaccinated
17:46 it's the cause emerging from the
17:47 pandemic and i'm excited to announce
17:49 that starting july 6
17:51 city hall will be open for in-person
17:53 services
17:54 with some improvements to how we serve
17:56 the issua community
17:57 we are moving our permit center out of
17:59 city hall northwest to consolidate with
18:02 our downtown city hall
18:03 this should help reduce confusion and
18:06 travel for community members accessing
18:08 these services
18:09 our new hours for in-person services
18:11 starting on july 6
18:13 will be monday through thursday from 9am
18:15 to 1pm
18:17 we will continue to provide services
18:19 over email phone and teleconferencing
18:21 outside of those hours as part of our
18:23 normal operations
18:25 a few weeks ago we conducted a customer
18:27 survey
18:28 and heard from you the issue community
18:30 that this hybrid service model
18:32 offering in-person services as well as
18:35 virtual service
18:36 is what you want more choices for
18:38 accessing city services
18:40 we will re-evaluate our service model
18:42 and ours at the end of august
18:44 and may make changes to ensure we are
18:46 providing responsive
18:47 and quality services throughout the
18:49 pandemic some city services were put on
18:52 hold
18:52 so that we could focus on our pandemic
18:54 response and reducing the spread
18:56 i'm pleased to announce that starting
18:58 july 6 the following services
19:00 will once again be available in person
19:03 over-the-counter permitting services and
19:05 in-person meetings to discuss projects
19:07 and permits
19:08 utility billing concealed weapons permit
19:11 applications
19:12 public record requests and citizen
19:14 clearance letters
19:16 our parks and recreation programs in the
19:18 municipal court have already been
19:20 offering in-person services
19:21 and will continue to do so upgrades are
19:24 also underway in city buildings to allow
19:26 for the first time
19:27 in-person and virtual participation in
19:30 city council and city board and
19:32 commission meetings
19:33 pending public health guidelines we
19:35 anticipate meeting in person regularly
19:37 again in september
19:39 i would like to take this opportunity to
19:40 thank and recognize our employees who
19:42 have continued to serve the community
19:44 in person throughout the pandemic
19:46 navigating pandemic protocols and taking
19:48 on a greater risk to themselves and
19:50 their families
19:51 than those of us who were able to work
19:52 from home this includes our police
19:55 our public works staff parks any sites
19:58 fire and rescue staff
19:59 thank you very much and thank you to
20:02 issaquah for your patience
20:04 diligence and care for one another that
20:06 i have seen demonstrated time and time
20:08 again over the past year and a half
20:10 as we emerge from the pandemic i look
20:12 forward to seeing all of you in person
20:14 again
20:15 thank you and that concludes the mayor's
20:17 report
20:19 the next item on our agenda this evening
20:21 are informational updates and we'll be
20:23 starting with id
20:24 0929 best starts for kids levy
20:28 king county proposition 1. this is a
20:30 regular property tax levy for children
20:32 youth families and communities at the
20:35 may 17
20:36 2021 council meeting under good of the
20:38 order city council requested an
20:40 informational briefing
20:41 from king county regarding the upcoming
20:43 best starts for kids levee renewal
20:46 as a reminder in accordance with state
20:48 law council is limited to hearing only
20:50 factual information at this time
20:53 council's discussion is also limited to
20:55 general questions
20:56 not for making statements in support of
20:59 or opposition to the ballot item
21:01 if council wishes to take a formal
21:03 position on this item
21:04 direction can be provided to prepare a
21:06 resolution in support or
21:08 opposition and to schedule a related
21:11 public hearing for july 19th
21:13 this direction can be provided following
21:15 the presentation or
21:16 under good of the order this evening
21:18 otherwise this item
21:19 remains as informational only i'd like
21:22 to invite marcy miller seattle and king
21:24 county's public health policy manager
21:26 to present this item mercy
21:35 hi thank you so much for having me today
21:38 my name is
21:39 um for the record my name is marcy
21:40 miller i'm the
21:42 policy manager at seattle king county
21:44 public health um
21:45 and look forward to chatting with you
21:47 all tonight um
21:49 so we can go the next slide
21:54 so best starts for kids is our mission
21:57 is happy healthy safe and thriving we
22:00 want all we want to see all babies born
22:02 healthy kids thrive and young people
22:03 grow up to be happy healthy successful
22:05 adults
22:06 next slide
22:10 we do this um using four principle basic
22:13 principles around promotion
22:15 prevention early intervention and policy
22:17 and systems change
22:18 we really work to seek we really seek to
22:20 increase the good for our children and
22:22 families
22:23 decrease the bad intervene when we need
22:25 when there's extra support needed
22:27 and thinking about how do we change the
22:28 systems and policies that really affect
22:30 our children and youth today
22:32 next slide so our current levy was
22:36 passed by the voters in 2015
22:39 and expires on december 31st of 2020
22:42 um so we can go to the next slide
22:47 i wanted to show you what the current
22:50 levy
22:50 is doing um so it was 411 million
22:54 dollars
22:55 over um the life of the levy for the
22:57 past six years past and again in 2015
22:59 so really 2016 to now um
23:03 we have heard uh we've been providing
23:05 homelessness prevention support for 21
23:07 million dollars
23:09 and this has take um supported 900
23:12 9500 kids on the verge of homelessness
23:14 keeping out of homelessness
23:16 um through uh quality um
23:20 engagement and um car payments or
23:23 whatever it would take to
23:24 keep people out of the homelessness
23:26 system 50
23:28 of the money has been investing early
23:30 supporting
23:31 parents and families and children where
23:33 they're at in their homes
23:35 in community virtually now of course and
23:39 supporting early intervention when more
23:40 support is needed
23:42 35 percent has been to sustain the gain
23:45 from ages 5 to 24
23:46 so programming that ranges all the way
23:48 from out of school time
23:50 school-based health centers um thinking
23:53 about
23:54 um all middle schools were offered
23:57 support around esper which is a
23:59 screening and referral to training or
24:02 to referrals um looking at what do
24:05 middle school kids need and or
24:07 what do middle school kids need in order
24:09 to succeed communities matter
24:11 so thinking about specific place-based
24:14 focus on place-based learning in
24:17 communities getting together
24:18 and thinking about how do they support
24:21 um health inequities within their own
24:24 community
24:25 and data and evaluation so five percent
24:27 of the levy has gone to tell the story
24:29 next slide
24:32 so evaluation has been really important
24:36 to the work of best starts for kids
24:38 we are currently using a res we are
24:40 using a results-based accountability
24:41 approach
24:42 so for every program that's funded we
24:45 ask three key
24:46 questions how much do we do how well do
24:48 we do it and is anyone better off
24:50 and we use that data to tell um through
24:52 quantitative and qualitative data to
24:54 really think about
24:56 using it for quality improvement all of
24:59 our
25:00 um programs we partner with them and
25:03 they have um
25:04 they're pushing on headline indicators
25:06 which would be
25:08 reducing infant mortality that kind of
25:10 work
25:11 at a really high level secondary
25:14 indicators
25:15 how many screenings were happening
25:16 within your program
25:18 and then every program has performance
25:20 measures so we can tell within every
25:22 program
25:22 where they what success they have how
25:25 many kids they've been
25:26 serving and what do they need in order
25:28 to um and
25:29 what's been working well and what's been
25:31 not working well within that program
25:33 next slide
25:36 so i wanted to show you an overview of
25:38 by the numbers we've um
25:40 funded over 654 different kinds of
25:43 programming
25:44 um partnered with over 360
25:46 community-based partners
25:48 um in order for people to apply we
25:52 for the program and we had 7 000 hours
25:54 of technical assistance over five
25:56 hundred thousand youth and children have
25:58 benefited over this pro
26:00 through this work and over 24 000
26:03 um people who work with kids and
26:05 families have
26:06 received training to support their
26:09 equity lens
26:10 and to be thinking about trauma and
26:11 foreign work so next slide
26:18 so i want to tell you a little bit about
26:19 what i know about issaquah um
26:22 in 2020 just under a thousand children
26:24 youth and parents and
26:25 caregivers were funded by bus starts in
26:28 98027
26:29 and 98029 zip codes um examples of
26:32 programs were play and learn groups
26:34 um so families getting together um help
26:37 me grow
26:38 washington which is really thinking
26:39 about referrals we had youth development
26:41 programs for the youth
26:43 um and home visiting which would go into
26:45 the homes and support families
26:47 parents and caregivers um
26:50 and i want to just say this is likely an
26:52 under count i can explain more but we're
26:54 getting
26:55 better um as we move forward and there's
26:57 going to be more zip code reporting so
26:59 not all programs actually
27:00 engaged in zip code level reporting but
27:03 this is what we know today
27:05 next slide
27:11 so i want to show you we had over 39
27:13 partners on the east side
27:15 um all of them had to apply for funding
27:19 so the money we would put on an rfp and
27:22 people would apply
27:23 we'd provide that technical assistance
27:25 to help with writing we know that can be
27:26 cumbersome
27:27 and now not all organizations actually
27:29 have access to that
27:30 um what i do know is that on the east
27:33 side just to be transparent there were
27:35 less
27:35 applications than some of our other
27:38 areas but we are really committed to
27:40 partnering with community to understand
27:43 that better
27:44 and do better outreach moving forward
27:46 and thinking about some of our
27:47 partnerships
27:48 today we met with east side pathways we
27:50 met with nourishing networks here at
27:51 essa class so really trying to
27:53 understand
27:54 how to even do that better next slide
28:00 and just to give you an idea of some of
28:02 the strategies that were funded
28:03 um so this just gives you a wide range
28:05 so it's really
28:06 ranging from prenatal all the way up to
28:08 that age 24
28:10 um so all kinds of different programming
28:13 here to benefit
28:14 youth children and families next slide
28:19 so i want to share with you um on
28:23 the executive's proposal for because
28:25 best starts does expire
28:27 at the end of the um well in the end of
28:29 the year
28:30 we're um it will be on the ballot um and
28:32 this is what reflects what's on the
28:34 ballot that was put forth um based upon
28:36 community feedback that we received um
28:38 in order to move this forward
28:40 so we can go to the next slide
28:43 community really shared with us that we
28:45 need to maintain what we're doing
28:47 we have really good programming that's
28:48 happening um in our investing earlier
28:51 prenatal to five that five to 24
28:53 communities of opportunity and that
28:54 youth and family homelessness prevention
28:56 so we are going to maintain that work um
28:59 and it will be
29:01 all of it will have to be re-r feed um
29:03 if the levy were to pass
29:05 so um we can talk about that more
29:08 next slide
29:12 we want to build upon what we were doing
29:14 one thing that i think i heard you
29:16 mention a little bit here is just the
29:17 pandemic
29:19 really has highlighted lots of different
29:20 challenges and
29:22 we know that youth are really suffering
29:24 there's more suicide
29:25 ideation there's more need in our youth
29:28 um we heard overwhelmingly increasing
29:31 support for youth so we're
29:32 thinking about out of school time
29:34 programming for five to twelve-year-olds
29:36 increasing the opportunity for up to
29:38 four's new school-based health centers
29:39 across king county
29:41 and having more work in our transitions
29:44 adulthood so thinking about ages 14 to
29:47 and that post-secondary completion
29:51 employment training ged also um
29:55 youth internships which we heard have
29:56 been really important for our youth
29:58 specifically during the pandemic so um
30:01 that's we'll do we'll increase the levy
30:03 will
30:03 increase to support that next slide
30:08 and during the pandemic um actually the
30:11 first best starts for kids lovely we
30:12 heard loud and clear that child care was
30:14 challenge um it continues to remain a
30:16 challenge
30:17 has been a broken system for some time
30:19 and i would say the
30:21 pandemic just highlighted that for i
30:23 think a lot of different people
30:25 so we are going to be looking at
30:27 creating 3 000 new slots
30:29 for making child care more affordable
30:32 through subsidy program
30:33 we recognize that there has been a levy
30:35 that or a um
30:37 state just passed some exciting
30:39 legislation to have
30:41 subsidies for um child care in um
30:45 subsidies as well but we know that that
30:47 won't make it all the way through the
30:48 need for king county so this is going to
30:50 really complement that work and we're
30:52 committed to partnering with our state
30:53 partners to make sure that we
30:55 are not duplicating and making sure that
30:57 it's really fitting the needs of king
30:58 county
30:59 also looking at a wage increase project
31:01 pilot project
31:03 our child care workers um have are not
31:05 paid well and there's a lot of turnover
31:07 in our child care system
31:09 so i'm looking at that next slide
31:12 and and marcy this is city administrator
31:14 wally bobquest i just need to interrupt
31:16 for a second we're having a little bit
31:17 of a technical
31:18 difficulty for those who are watching
31:20 the meeting either on youtube or on
31:22 cable television
31:23 that we're not seeing the presentation
31:25 so i just wanted to
31:26 let the council know and let you know uh
31:28 that for those who are not
31:30 on the webex meeting that they're not
31:32 seeing presentation we're working to
31:34 to fix the technical glitch and uh just
31:37 wanted to make those who are watching at
31:38 home
31:39 we rep we know we've got a problem and
31:40 we're working to fix it thanks
31:42 thank you okay
31:46 so um when we transmitted this um over
31:49 to council
31:49 in um april of 2021 um the council um
31:53 supported some really great ads so i
31:55 want to share those with you as well so
31:56 you can go to the next slide
31:58 um when we when we
32:01 created our levy um proposal it was for
32:05 820 or i'm sorry 811 million dollars
32:08 based on an awful report
32:10 um or a housing tax report and that
32:14 um report um the net after we
32:16 transmitted there was more money the
32:18 projections were higher the next time
32:20 in march so what we are um i'm sorry in
32:23 august so what we ended up doing
32:25 um i'm sorry in july or or april so what
32:29 we ended up doing
32:30 is um the council puts
32:33 forth an ad for expansion of facilities
32:37 for new facilities for facilities that
32:39 are um to
32:40 support new construction and also
32:42 repairs we know that
32:43 people need places to gather for really
32:46 with a focus on housing
32:47 child care early learning and
32:49 recreational facilities
32:50 so um our base work would start be
32:53 available first and then there could be
32:55 up to 50 million dollars available for
32:57 capital investment
32:59 next slide please
33:03 um to get back to my point about zip
33:05 code we know that
33:06 one of the council ads will be reporting
33:08 by zip code currently we are only
33:10 um reporting by our council districts
33:14 and um some of our programs have been
33:16 reporting by zip code that's where i got
33:18 that thousand um
33:19 number for you but we know and are
33:22 committed to doing more of that so next
33:23 time all programs will be required
33:27 um but keeping in mind that safety issue
33:30 around domestic violence or citizenship
33:33 i'm making sure that we can
33:35 with those caveats next slide
33:40 so the proposed levy moving forward is a
33:42 in total um
33:44 872 million dollars like i said
33:47 200 million over the life of the levy
33:49 would go to child care
33:50 up to 50 million to capital projects
33:53 i didn't have a slide in this but 10
33:55 million dollars for capacity building
33:57 and this is to make sure that anyone
33:59 funded by best starts
34:00 or others can apply to get support to do
34:04 two things to stabilize their
34:06 organization through
34:07 getting support around data support
34:09 evaluation support
34:12 fiscal monitoring all the things you
34:14 need to do
34:15 board support to be a really good
34:16 organization and then also even to build
34:20 organization if you needed one in an
34:22 area we've heard there's some gaps
34:24 we're going to continue that
34:25 homelessness prevention and the rest all
34:27 of that comes off the top of the levy
34:29 and then next um
34:30 50 will go to early learning 35
34:33 or 37 percent with that increase to
34:36 sustain the gain
34:37 communities matter which is that
34:38 partnership between the seattle um
34:40 foundation
34:41 and uh and best starts
34:44 will remain the same dollar amount be
34:46 eight percent of the levy
34:47 and data and evaluation for five percent
34:50 next slide please
34:52 so it's a six year property tax um 19
34:55 cents on the thousand dollars assessed
34:57 value
34:58 um average home in king county is 600
35:02 000 um dollars so that would cost the
35:05 person
35:05 um owning that home 114 dollars per year
35:09 on their um property tax and of course
35:12 that varies depending on where you live
35:14 for me it varies on my street i'm sure
35:16 you've experienced the same
35:18 um that march awful report projected
35:20 revenue with 700
35:21 or 872 million up from the 811
35:25 original million when we submitted and
35:27 last slide
35:31 just as a timeline um we're in we
35:34 did a lot of um work for the levy
35:37 in february through april april um 21st
35:41 the ballot measure ordinance
35:42 was approved the 31st we are writing an
35:46 implementation plan now that it's a high
35:48 level
35:48 and we will continue to do ongoing
35:50 community engagement as i spoke about to
35:52 really understand
35:54 um what's new in each community before
35:56 an rfp is released
35:58 august 3rd is election day september
36:00 through november
36:01 king county council will deliberate on
36:03 the implementation plan if
36:04 the best start speaking or if the levy
36:06 award was approved by voters
36:09 and if not approved the department will
36:12 develop a sunset plan
36:14 in order to support the
36:17 support the levy if not approved so
36:20 new levy begins in january of 2022 and
36:23 most strategies will be
36:24 rfp again in 2022 and 2023
36:30 thank you marcie yeah i'm going to
36:33 great presentation i'm going to check
36:35 with the staff
36:36 our staff i'm going to check with the
36:37 council members to see if any of them
36:39 have questions
36:40 which they may enter in the chat i think
36:42 you did touch uh
36:44 yeah i knew councilmember eisen so you
36:45 touched a little bit on a christian
36:46 council member hall head
36:48 so here we go council member hall
36:51 uh thank you this is councilmember hall
36:53 and thank you very much for the
36:54 presentation appreciate you coming out
36:58 i appreciate uh to you mentioning kind
37:01 of the new state investments in
37:02 childcare and early learning
37:04 capital investments uh the subsidy rates
37:09 can you speak a little bit more about
37:12 how
37:12 that action fair start for kids and best
37:15 starts for kids meshed together
37:17 and kind of um because i assume the
37:20 process was all right the state has this
37:22 new investment
37:23 now what is the need in the county how
37:25 do we fill the rest of the need
37:27 um so can you walk through that kind of
37:28 process and how they fit together
37:30 no it's a great question um get it i
37:33 love that question this is so exciting
37:35 the fair start act of course
37:36 um is supporting subsidies it's
37:39 supporting
37:40 um head start early head start
37:43 programming
37:44 and home visiting lots of early learning
37:46 programming
37:47 what we know is that um with
37:50 specifically ourselves we
37:51 we were really um thoughtful about what
37:54 do we need to do with our
37:56 our work around child care um
37:57 specifically
37:59 and what we know as the ami um is higher
38:02 in king county than most areas across
38:04 the state
38:05 so we know that even if
38:09 the benefit program of fair start will
38:11 be great but we also know if
38:13 a perhaps a worker at a child care
38:16 center gets a dollar raised that
38:18 actually often puts them
38:19 off the benefit cliff so putting them at
38:21 a higher um that where they won't
38:23 qualify for subsidies and they really
38:25 still can't afford it so that's where
38:26 we're thinking about our work is that
38:28 that higher
38:29 it's not higher and that's probably the
38:31 in incorrect term
38:33 but that benefit cliff is not high
38:35 enough but really making sure that
38:37 people don't fall off the benefit cliff
38:39 because of the cost of living in king
38:41 county and we also have a child care
38:43 task force that's made up of 40 experts
38:45 within king county that's been making
38:48 recommendations and we will continue to
38:50 partner with them partner with the state
38:52 to ensure that those are all in sync and
38:54 working together so that we can have
38:56 some flexibility if we need to
38:58 pivot because we want but we also know
39:01 recognize there's not even the states
39:03 that
39:03 subsidy work will not cover king county
39:06 does that make sense
39:10 looks like council member hall is
39:11 nodding his head
39:13 at this point in time mercy i'm not
39:16 seeing any additional questions i'll
39:18 give the council members a second or two
39:20 253 other additional questions
39:26 with this presentation this evening
39:27 there is no action requested of counsel
39:30 uh but council may choose to provide
39:32 direction to schedule a public hearing
39:34 and prepare a resolution in support of
39:35 the opposition
39:36 so that conversation has yet to happen
39:40 um marcy no question oh here we go
39:42 councilmember mertz
39:43 kristen uh just wondering if we have
39:46 draft language that
39:48 would enable a conversation about uh
39:52 basically a draft agend a draft motion
39:55 that would uh language for draft motion
39:57 that would accomplish what you just said
39:59 should someone choose to make such a
40:01 motion
40:04 yeah it could have been ordered this
40:05 evening i think you can
40:07 um discuss whether or not you want to
40:09 have that and make it you're going to
40:11 have to have the public hearing as well
40:13 in order to take the vote so i think uh
40:15 that's a good thing
40:16 i'll just make a note that we're talking
40:18 about it go to the order
40:19 thank you thank you councilmember marks
40:22 well thank you marcy for coming and
40:24 thank you for the presentation council
40:25 has no additional questions this evening
40:27 appreciate your time wonderful thank you
40:31 really appreciate being here
40:33 now go enjoy yourself this evening
40:35 beautiful souls this evening okay the
40:38 next item
40:39 on the agenda this evening is the
40:40 consent calendar and it was distributed
40:42 to council in advance
40:43 if authorized the items on the consent
40:45 calendar will be considered together and
40:47 approved by one motion
40:49 have the payables and payroll been
40:51 reviewed
40:53 they have they have thank you
40:57 does any council member desire to remove
41:00 any item from the consent calendar and
41:02 consider it under regular business
41:03 i'll just look at the chat to see if
41:05 anybody enters anything
41:10 okay is there someone prepared to make a
41:12 motion this evening
41:17 council president hunt thank you this is
41:19 council president hunt i move to approve
41:21 the consent calendar as it appears in
41:22 this evening's agenda
41:24 thank you deputy council president ray
41:26 second
41:27 thank you very much it's been moved and
41:29 seconded and i'll get to city clerk to
41:30 take the roll call vote
41:33 beginning with council president hunt
41:36 aye
41:37 council member mart aye deputy
42:20 26 2021 council meeting
42:23 council study session and there is a
42:26 request this evening to
42:27 authorize i'd like to invite city
42:29 administrator wally bob kurds to present
42:31 this item
42:32 wally yeah thank you madam mayor members
42:35 of the council good evening again
42:36 uh we continue to have some difficulties
42:40 with
42:40 the presentation going out on our
42:42 various video feeds
42:44 um so we'll see i my understanding was
42:47 we were going to try
42:48 to see if the presentation looked any
42:50 different
42:51 and so we'll we'll we'll keep you posted
42:54 uh as
42:54 we're working through the technology as
42:56 the mayor mentioned uh i'm here with
42:58 lindsay misben our our senior accountant
43:01 to talk a little bit about the latest
43:03 with the american rescue plan act
43:04 next slide please
43:08 the purpose of the presentation this
43:10 evening is to update you on the funding
43:12 amount that we're receiving
43:14 uh through the state of washington uh to
43:16 summarize our best understanding
43:18 of the arpa spending guidelines as they
43:20 fit today
43:22 to authorize the mayor to accept the
43:24 fund
43:25 talk a little bit about our funding
43:27 strategy for arpa
43:29 and to allocate forty five thousand
43:31 dollars for a recovery coordinator
43:33 position
43:34 which i'll talk about a little bit
43:35 further in a moment and then also
43:37 finally to get
43:38 additional council feedback on next
43:40 steps in dealing with arpa next slide
43:49 next slide
43:52 uh we have talked a few times about the
43:56 recovery act funds uh and mayor paulie's
43:58 vision
43:59 really is a very simple one uh and that
44:01 is uh recover rebuild and reimagine
44:04 um the uh the point of the recovery act
44:08 really is just not to recover but
44:11 certainly we've i think been more
44:13 fortunate than many communities already
44:14 in issaquah as as restrictions for the
44:19 pandemic continue to change
44:22 we are beginning to recover but really
44:24 the point of the money
44:25 uh from the mayor's perspective is the
44:27 rebuild and reimagine what can we do
44:30 with these funds to move forward and
44:32 really be transformative in the monies
44:34 that we're receiving from the federal
44:35 government so
44:37 these three uh visions of the mayor
44:39 really remain
44:40 uh i think what has changed uh has been
44:43 the dollar amount and i think the timing
44:45 of how we proceed with all this next
44:46 slide
44:49 so we uh finally have received a final
44:52 dollar amount of through the state of
44:53 washington and that
44:54 dollar amount is eleven million twenty
44:56 eight thousand eight hundred and fifty
44:57 seven dollars
44:59 um the uh the number that we were
45:02 working with for some time was 8.6
45:04 million dollars best that we can tell uh
45:07 that there were formulas used for
45:09 communities 50 000
45:11 in population and greater uh and then
45:13 formulas that were used by the states
45:15 uh for passing through uh from funds for
45:18 those communities 50 000 unless we are
45:20 on the very high end of communities uh
45:23 in the state of washington i think
45:24 there's only two or three other
45:26 like communities larger than this squad
45:28 in that 50
45:29 000 and below so we are getting a lot of
45:32 a fairly large amount for among the
45:35 dollars that are being allocated through
45:36 the state of washington
45:37 uh as we understand from the state of
45:40 washington once they receive
45:42 the documents that we're asking
45:44 authority for the council this evening
45:45 for the mayor to sign
45:46 we will receive approximately five and a
45:48 half million dollars
45:50 in the next couple of weeks uh then the
45:52 remaining dollars
45:53 will come to the city in 2022 um
45:56 next slide
46:00 we have spent a lot of time uh trying to
46:03 better understand the spending
46:04 guidelines if you recall from previous
46:07 council discussions we have language
46:09 that was in the enabling legislation
46:11 which was passed by the u.s congress
46:13 uh since then the treasury department
46:15 has come up with lots of guidelines
46:17 and so at this point i'd like to
46:19 introduce lindsay misbin uh
46:21 you know lindsay from the outstanding
46:23 work that she does
46:24 with our audits every year but she's
46:27 also taken on an additional role
46:29 this year with being the point person in
46:32 our finance department to
46:34 try to understand where we stand with
46:36 the spending guidelines so lindsay
46:38 i'm going to turn over the next part of
46:40 the presentation to you good evening
46:42 great good evening thank you city
46:44 administrator bob kowitz and good
46:45 evening council members
46:47 um the us treasury established the
46:51 spending guidance
46:52 guidelines on the arpa funds on may 17th
46:56 and they are referred to as the interim
46:58 final rule these guidelines are
47:00 currently in draft form
47:02 and they will become final on july 17th
47:05 thereby allowing a 60-day open comment
47:08 period for treasury to hear from local
47:10 jurisdictions
47:12 um as needed based on feedback on the
47:15 guidance
47:16 these rules are complex and they
47:18 continue to be clarified as people are
47:20 reviewing and digesting all the material
47:23 included we are closely monitoring
47:26 this these clarities as they are
47:28 provided to us to ensure that we have
47:30 the most
47:30 updated and relevant information
47:34 the use of these funds by and large is
47:36 forward facing
47:38 which means they are to be used on
47:41 expenditures incurred between march
47:43 3rd 2021 and december 31st
47:46 2024 under these guidelines an expense
47:51 is considered incurred
47:52 when it is either contracted or
47:55 the goods are purchased or the services
47:59 are um purchased as well
48:03 in turn treasury then has allowed a
48:05 subsequent two-year period
48:07 for those obligated expenditures to
48:11 be spent and that really allows for the
48:14 time
48:14 necessary if infrastructure projects are
48:17 undertaken under these guidelines to set
48:20 the necessary contractual requirements
48:22 and then spend the funding
48:24 by december 31st 2026.
48:27 we must adhere to these strict legal
48:30 regulatory
48:31 and accounting guidelines that have been
48:33 set by treasury
48:34 but of note any funding that we provide
48:38 to individuals to run programs on our
48:40 behalf
48:42 they are referred to as sub-recipients
48:44 and they are also required
48:46 um to adhere to these strict guidelines
48:49 as well
48:50 this is not unusual in a federal award
48:53 um all federal awards have to abide by
48:56 this
48:57 but i think it's of importance to note
48:59 here just due to the complexity of these
49:01 rules
49:04 so what we can't use this funding on
49:08 are expenses incurred prior to that
49:10 march 3rd 2021 date in most instances
49:13 there is some flexibility in the
49:15 guidance
49:16 to expend prior to that date but by and
49:19 large
49:20 we're looking at that march 3rd 2021
49:22 date
49:23 we are not able to use the funding to
49:27 deposit amounts into pension funds which
49:31 not really applicable to us but it's
49:32 more applicable at the state level
49:34 nor are we allowed to use it for
49:36 non-federal matches for federal grant
49:38 programs
49:38 in principle or interest on debt service
49:41 or replenishing or rebuilding reserves
49:44 rainy day funds or contingency funds
49:48 what we are allowed to spend it on has
49:50 been organized by the u.s treasury
49:53 in four overarching categories
49:56 category one has to do with expenditures
49:59 related to responding to the coven 19
50:01 pandemic and the negative economic
50:03 impact related to the pandemic
50:05 the key thing there is that the expenses
50:08 need to be direct
50:09 and it is on their their recipient which
50:12 is us the city
50:13 to document and justify our analysis to
50:16 ensure that those expenditures
50:17 are eligible under these guidelines
50:21 category b uh it relates to premium pay
50:24 for eligible workers
50:26 under the guidelines uh the us treasury
50:29 does allow for
50:30 up to 13 dollars per hour
50:34 for eligible workers that are considered
50:37 essential during the pandemic
50:39 and those were folks that did not have
50:42 the ability to telework that were
50:44 on the front lines interacting with the
50:46 public continuously putting themselves
50:48 at greater risk
50:49 handling goods that other folks were
50:51 also handling
50:53 of interest there uh treasury
50:56 recommends or strongly recommends
50:59 retrospective premium pay
51:01 to go back to the onset of the pandemic
51:03 which is considered january 27
51:05 2020 however under washington state
51:09 guidelines
51:10 washington state does disallow
51:12 retrospective pay for work performed
51:15 so within our state any jurisdiction
51:18 would have to use these funds forward
51:20 facing if they want to expend them under
51:23 category b
51:24 which would also include some type of
51:26 policy development as well
51:28 category c which is the most flexible
51:32 and broadest category by design within
51:34 the guidance
51:36 u.s treasury provided a revenue loss
51:39 calculation
51:40 which entities can perform to determine
51:42 the amount of revenue loss due to the
51:44 pandemic
51:45 and then in turn we are allowed to spend
51:48 the funding
51:50 on governmental services up to that
51:52 amount of lost revenue and we'll touch
51:53 more on that in subsequent slides
51:55 because i think that's a really
51:56 important piece
51:57 of the guidelines category d is
52:00 investments in water
52:02 sore and broadband infrastructure i
52:04 think one of the most notable items
52:06 there
52:07 is that if a recipient chooses to pursue
52:10 broadband infrastructure
52:12 it must be designed so that way it
52:14 serves both the underserved or unserved
52:17 communities within a jurisdiction
52:19 and treasury has provided specific
52:21 download and upload speeds
52:23 that would define those underserved
52:27 populations
52:28 so before pursuing a project within that
52:30 realm
52:32 the recipient would have to perform some
52:34 type of analysis
52:35 or review to determine that those
52:37 populations were being served by this
52:39 project
52:42 so focusing a little bit more attention
52:44 on category
52:46 c the revenue loss category as i
52:49 hit on before this this category really
52:52 provides the greatest flexibility to
52:53 recipients
52:55 uh the revenue loss calculation that
52:58 treasury provided is very generous
53:00 and based on that calculation that we
53:03 performed in accordance with this
53:04 guidance
53:05 we can claim as much as a 12 million
53:07 dollar loss in revenue
53:09 through december 31st 2020. so
53:12 essentially
53:13 we could take the entire 11 million
53:16 dollars amount in our funding allocation
53:19 and spend it all through category c up
53:21 to the 12 million dollars
53:23 if that was so chosen um one of the
53:26 important points there as well
53:28 is that the revenue loss calculation is
53:30 entity wide it's not fund specific
53:33 so you're not um restricted from
53:37 spending in a certain fund
53:40 up to revenue loss by fund you can
53:42 really calculate it at the entity wide
53:44 level
53:44 and then choose to spend it on anything
53:47 identified as a government service
53:49 and government services are anything
53:52 that are direct services or aid to city
53:54 residents
53:55 pay as you go infrastructure so the
53:57 non-finance portion of an infrastructure
54:00 project
54:01 which also includes roads and
54:03 transportation
54:04 it's important to note here too that
54:06 this is really the only area of the
54:08 guidance that offers that broad
54:09 flexibility
54:11 to invest in roads and transportation
54:13 infrastructure
54:14 the guidelines also specifically
54:17 mentioned cyber security healthcare
54:19 education and public safety expenses
54:24 so within those four broad categories
54:27 that we just mentioned there are
54:29 numerous roles and eligibility
54:31 requirements that the city must still
54:32 adhere to
54:34 so this would likely mean that as the
54:36 city moves forward
54:38 in developing the arpa spending plan
54:41 there would need to be a careful review
54:43 to evaluate those spending plan
54:45 decisions against this guideline
54:47 these guidelines to ensure that we
54:50 are expending it in a way that makes it
54:53 eligible and compliant under the
54:55 guidelines
54:56 and we in finance are definitely
54:58 prepared to assist with that review as
55:00 well as coordinating with other subject
55:02 matter experts in the city
55:04 who might be administering the programs
55:06 or expending the funds
55:08 as well as the city attorney to make
55:10 sure we're adhering to any legal and
55:11 contractual requirements as well
55:14 and lastly i just want to conclude by
55:17 saying that uh
55:18 treasury did build in an accountability
55:21 element
55:21 to the use of these funds on an annual
55:24 basis
55:25 we must report to treasury um
55:28 how we've expended these funds and
55:31 the report is through expenses as of
55:34 september 30th of each year
55:35 due on october 31st of each year so the
55:38 first report will be coming up on
55:40 october 31st of 2021
55:43 and with that um that concludes my
55:45 portion of the presentation so i'll go
55:48 ahead and turn it back over to city
55:49 administrator boxwood
55:53 great thank you thank you very much
55:55 lindsay
55:56 so this next slide talks about some of
55:58 the feedback
55:59 that we had the last time we spoke about
56:02 the
56:03 the arpa funds and i just wanted to put
56:05 that up to
56:06 remind uh the council of your discussion
56:09 and also the
56:10 feedback that we got from the mayor's
56:12 recovery task force
56:14 first was the need to determine what
56:16 acute urgent needs of the community and
56:18 city partners are and we'll talk more
56:20 about that in a moment
56:21 um also the emphasis that there's time
56:24 to spend the money so that there's also
56:25 time to plan for use for
56:27 uh funds uh the council's input was
56:31 a portion where the push for non-urgent
56:33 needs should really go to the 2022
56:35 budget process and the administration
56:37 concurs with that um the support for
56:40 restoring lost city revenues as you
56:41 heard from ms nisben
56:43 you know there's much more flexibility
56:46 with that
56:47 than we initially thought and really
56:49 frees up
56:50 the entire amount of money uh to be put
56:52 under that category and then allow the
56:54 city council
56:55 uh to allocate those funds in a much
56:57 broader way than
56:58 what we previously anticipated um ideas
57:02 of working with funding partners
57:03 uh important to mod or possible delayed
57:06 impact of the pandemic
57:07 again i think we're very much in the
57:10 a reopening phase uh in all parts of the
57:13 country certainly here in this spa
57:15 king county uh but i think they're if
57:17 we're not out of the woods completely
57:19 and that's important to remember
57:20 and then uh there was some mention uh
57:22 from the council regarding uh
57:24 specific support for investing in the
57:26 arts uh and the newly approved creative
57:28 arts district is to help with the
57:30 economic recovery so that's just a quick
57:32 summary
57:33 of those discussion points for april
57:35 26th next flight
57:38 so with all that said uh the
57:40 administration is here this evening
57:42 uh to put forward a strategy
57:45 moving forward the first point uh is to
57:48 create a single point of contact for all
57:50 arca programs
57:51 uh to support the isquad residents
57:53 businesses and we'll talk a little bit
57:55 about more about that in a moment
57:58 with that position to evaluate current
58:01 immediate needs in the community
58:03 the council had talked a several weeks
58:05 ago about funding for nonprofits uh that
58:08 item was continued while we waited
58:10 uh to get a final dollar amount the
58:12 administration this evening is
58:13 recommending
58:14 uh that rather than come up with a
58:16 specific program for nonprofits that we
58:18 go through this evaluation
58:20 of community needs and report back to
58:22 you at the beginning of august
58:24 with that information uh third point
58:27 would be to continue to evaluate
58:29 lost revenue i i think just even in the
58:32 last several days we feel
58:33 uh very comfortable with the analysis
58:36 that misbend has given
58:37 there continues to be additional
58:39 guidance coming out from the treasury
58:41 department so we want to certainly keep
58:42 an eye on that
58:43 uh but uh it would look as if the lost
58:46 revenue that we have exceeds
58:48 uh the money that we've been allocated
58:50 from the federal government
58:52 uh next would be uh to come back to the
58:54 council
58:55 on august 6th with a review of what
58:58 immediate needs we've identified and
59:00 perhaps
59:00 move forward with some specific funding
59:02 recommendations but otherwise
59:04 the last point to develop a longer term
59:06 funding strategy
59:08 to be considered with the proposed fy
59:10 2022 budget
59:11 next slide
59:15 so in order to move this forward we're
59:18 recommending
59:19 uh that forty five thousand dollars of
59:21 the recovery act dollars be
59:23 allocated for a recovery coordinator
59:25 position and
59:26 we've asked uh benton kobolist our
59:28 economic development specialist to take
59:30 this
59:30 on so what this money represents is
59:34 basically the half a year of his salary
59:37 so that we would
59:38 reallocate his time as a recover as the
59:41 recovery coordinator
59:42 for the balance of the fiscal year his
59:45 job would be to connect with businesses
59:47 and non-profits
59:48 to connect with the federal resources
59:51 that are available
59:52 for recovery that are in addition to the
59:54 monies that the city has received
59:56 certainly
59:56 king county state of washington federal
59:59 agencies of all
1:00:00 stripe have received arpa money and we
1:00:03 want to make sure that we
1:00:04 get a sense of what's needed in the
1:00:07 community and how we can connect
1:00:08 community members
1:00:09 business owners uh with funds outside of
1:00:12 the allocation of the city of isquad
1:00:14 has received and again that we would
1:00:16 come back
1:00:17 in august with any immediate needs but
1:00:19 otherwise continue to focus on spending
1:00:22 uh with the 2022 budget and as
1:00:25 misbehaving indicated we believe very
1:00:27 comfortably that that forty five
1:00:28 thousand dollars would be allowable
1:00:30 under the category a requirements next
1:00:33 slide
1:00:36 so the next steps um we would with the
1:00:39 council's
1:00:40 approval of the actions before you this
1:00:42 evening uh
1:00:44 authorizing the mayor to submit the
1:00:46 appropriate documentation to the state
1:00:47 of washington to receive the funds
1:00:49 and to move forward with the 45 000
1:00:52 allocation we would come back on august
1:00:54 with an update from the recovery
1:00:56 coordinator with potential funding
1:00:58 recommendations and then otherwise
1:01:00 come back as part of the budget next
1:01:02 slide
1:01:04 let me once again uh reinforce mayor
1:01:07 paulie's vision
1:01:08 of the spending of these funds recover
1:01:10 rebuild and reimagine
1:01:12 i think we've learned a lot uh in the
1:01:14 few months since the congress
1:01:16 and or approved this package and was
1:01:18 signed by president biden
1:01:20 many of our neighbor communities are
1:01:22 still in the midst of
1:01:24 flirting through this and i think that
1:01:25 we have time
1:01:27 we want to make sure that any other
1:01:28 immediate needs are met of our residents
1:01:30 but really
1:01:32 the administration is proposing that we
1:01:33 take the time to be thoughtful
1:01:35 on those last two elements to rebuild
1:01:38 and reimagine that this is
1:01:39 a once in our professional lifetime
1:01:41 windfall
1:01:42 we will never see something of this
1:01:44 magnitude again i would imagine
1:01:46 certainly not from the federal
1:01:47 government
1:01:48 and so the opportunity to be thoughtful
1:01:50 and make sure that money
1:01:52 is being used to rebuild and especially
1:01:55 to reimagine to make sure that
1:01:57 we're leveraging these funds to make a
1:01:59 squad an even greater stronger place
1:02:01 than it already is
1:02:02 next slide
1:02:06 the recommendation is to authorize the
1:02:08 mayor to accept the arpa funds and to
1:02:10 allocate the 45 000
1:02:11 those are the two actions before you i
1:02:13 believe that is the last slide
1:02:16 lindsay if it is
1:02:21 and let's go ahead and take down the
1:02:23 presentation
1:02:25 um and madam mayor members of the
1:02:27 council mrs misman and i
1:02:29 are ready to answer any questions that
1:02:31 you may have
1:02:33 thank you for the administrator bob
1:02:34 coretz uh i see deputy council president
1:02:37 ray has a question
1:02:39 thank you mayor paul this is chris ray
1:02:40 uh two questions actually
1:02:42 and i i know you said this and i just
1:02:44 missed it when do we expect that the
1:02:46 money
1:02:46 the first tranche of money from the from
1:02:49 the uh
1:02:50 arpa would be arriving here at the city
1:02:54 uh deputy council president members of
1:02:57 the council
1:02:58 our understanding from the state of
1:02:59 washington is that they will be able to
1:03:02 process the money
1:03:03 uh within uh several days after
1:03:06 receiving the uh
1:03:07 documents from us so we we would expect
1:03:09 to see it
1:03:11 i'll pay the next week or two several
1:03:13 days seems awfully optimistic but
1:03:15 the next week or two so imminently okay
1:03:17 pretty pretty immediately
1:03:18 we're not talking into the or anything
1:03:20 like that that's correct great
1:03:21 and then um are there plans to backfill
1:03:24 our economic development specialist
1:03:27 yes that would be the reason for the the
1:03:29 allocation
1:03:30 so uh in talking with uh miss davis
1:03:33 hayes um we want to make sure she has
1:03:35 the flexibility it would likely be
1:03:37 contract work we
1:03:39 we've not we don't really know uh you
1:03:42 know how much
1:03:43 of betten's time this will take we're
1:03:45 assuming it's going to be 100
1:03:46 it may not be we just want to have that
1:03:48 flexibility we don't want to lose any
1:03:51 uh momentum with our other economic
1:03:53 development initiatives so this would
1:03:54 make sure that there's funds available
1:03:56 to keep those going right thank you
1:04:00 thank you deputy council president ray
1:04:02 i'm not seeing any other questions in
1:04:04 the chat but i will give
1:04:05 a few minutes or a minute for council to
1:04:09 decide if they have more questions and
1:04:11 if not
1:04:12 i would be looking for somebody to make
1:04:13 a motion
1:04:18 and let's see council president hunt
1:04:22 thank you this is council president hunt
1:04:24 i moved to authorize the mayor
1:04:26 to enter into and execute the necessary
1:04:28 documents authorizing
1:04:30 the washington state office of financial
1:04:32 management to transfer american rescue
1:04:35 act funds to the city of issaquah and
1:04:38 authorize the allocation of 45 000 of
1:04:41 american rescue plan act funds for the
1:04:44 recovery coordinator position
1:04:45 and direct the finance director to
1:04:48 include 45
1:04:49 000 for the recovery coordinator
1:04:51 position in a subsequent 2021 budget
1:04:53 amendment
1:04:54 thank you and deputy council president
1:04:56 ray second
1:04:58 thank you it's been moved and seconded
1:05:00 discussion
1:05:02 keeping my eye on the chat again
1:05:10 thank you this is council president hunt
1:05:12 i do support the actions that are before
1:05:15 us this evening
1:05:16 and on the broader discussion about
1:05:19 the use of the funds i wanted to only
1:05:23 add that we do have the strategic plan
1:05:25 and i think that having some of the
1:05:29 bigger conversations through the budget
1:05:30 process which we will also be discussing
1:05:33 the strategic plan
1:05:35 check-in of the of the strategic plan
1:05:38 during that budget process i think that
1:05:40 will allow us to
1:05:42 incorporate those actions but i think
1:05:44 that the use of the strategic plan
1:05:46 is really important for how we consider
1:05:48 the ways in which we
1:05:50 rebuild and recover going forward
1:05:53 thank you thank you council president
1:05:55 hunt would anybody else
1:05:57 have a comment or
1:06:00 discussion i'll give it a few seconds
1:06:05 sometimes we have a delay
1:06:08 okay i'm not seeing any other comments
1:06:11 at this time
1:06:12 so if there is no further discussion the
1:06:14 motion before counsel is to authorize
1:06:17 the mayor to enter
1:06:18 into and execute the necessary documents
1:06:20 authorizing the washington state office
1:06:22 of financial management to transfer
1:06:24 american rescue plan act funds to the
1:06:27 city of issaquah
1:06:28 and authorize the allocation of forty
1:06:30 five thousand dollars
1:06:31 of american rescue plan act funds for
1:06:34 the recovery coordinator position
1:06:36 and direct the finance director to
1:06:37 include forty five thousand dollars for
1:06:39 the recovery coordinator position in a
1:06:41 subsequent 2021 budget amendment
1:06:44 city clerk can you call the roll uh the
1:06:49 yes beginning with council member martz
1:06:53 deputy council president ray aye
1:06:56 council member walsh i
1:06:59 council member d michelle aye
1:07:02 councilmember goodman
1:07:03 aye councilmember hall aye
1:07:07 council president hunt aye
1:07:10 that's seven eyes zero nays
1:07:14 thank you city cleric that passes
1:07:16 unanimously
1:07:17 we are now moving into the good of the
1:07:19 order and i did hear
1:07:20 two different requests this evening in
1:07:23 um councilmember hall's
1:07:25 committee reports he talked about
1:07:27 providing a cascade update and
1:07:29 a potential future request for feedback
1:07:31 from the council
1:07:33 and councilmember mars indicated a
1:07:34 desire to discuss a potential
1:07:37 endorsement of the best starts for kids
1:07:40 levy so council member hall did you want
1:07:43 to start
1:07:47 uh sure thanks mayor paulie this is
1:07:48 councilmember hall i'm happy to start
1:07:50 tonight
1:07:50 um so uh just kind of an update on
1:07:55 what's been going on in the cascade
1:07:56 world
1:07:57 um because we're hoping to get your
1:07:58 feedback not just tonight but over the
1:08:00 next few months
1:08:01 uh and into the fall um so the board
1:08:05 is um kind of approaching an important
1:08:07 decision
1:08:08 about the future of the lake taps
1:08:11 reservoir project
1:08:13 and we wanted to keep you updated along
1:08:15 the process so if you have any questions
1:08:17 or comments we could
1:08:18 make sure to bring those up at future
1:08:19 board meetings and then come back
1:08:22 so by way of a brief background just in
1:08:24 case you don't already know back in 2009
1:08:26 cascade purchased the lake taps
1:08:28 reservoir project from puget sound
1:08:30 energy
1:08:31 uh it's intended to serve as municipal
1:08:33 drinking water supply for our future
1:08:35 um and it's about a uh
1:08:39 billion dollar capital utility project
1:08:42 a few other quick notes um that we've
1:08:45 learned
1:08:46 uh the model for some utility
1:08:49 jurisdictions
1:08:50 when it comes to capital financing is to
1:08:52 put away 20
1:08:53 in revenues to fund the project uh and
1:08:56 that's what cascade staff would like to
1:08:58 do and they've told the board that
1:08:59 um we need to start doing that soon so
1:09:03 we're beginning
1:09:03 um that discussion this week and it
1:09:06 should run through september i think
1:09:08 mayor paulie feel free to correct me if
1:09:09 that's wrong
1:09:10 um there are some concerns at the board
1:09:13 level we wanted to highlight with you
1:09:15 uh one regarding one water supply and
1:09:17 one regarding
1:09:18 rate payers so first um you know it's
1:09:21 possible our region may never need
1:09:23 um that water supply in lake taps or at
1:09:26 least not in our lifetimes
1:09:27 especially if seattle continues to have
1:09:29 an abundance
1:09:31 of clean affordable drinking water and
1:09:32 continues to sell directly to cascade
1:09:34 into the future
1:09:36 so that's one concern and the second
1:09:37 concern is you know there are concerns
1:09:39 around
1:09:40 collecting funds from ratepayers
1:09:43 now for a project that might not
1:09:45 necessarily be built
1:09:47 in the future so then the questions
1:09:49 would be
1:09:50 um you know what do we do with those
1:09:51 collected dollars if not
1:09:53 lake tabs reservoir project can
1:09:56 collected dollars
1:09:58 even be returned is there a way to put
1:10:00 restrictions around those dollars so
1:10:02 they don't fall back into
1:10:03 you know cascade fund balance or
1:10:04 something like that so anyways that's
1:10:06 where
1:10:07 we're just starting to get into that at
1:10:09 the board level
1:10:10 um so if you have any kind of questions
1:10:14 about any of that
1:10:14 any comments on the concerns that the
1:10:17 board has laid out so far
1:10:19 any additional comments you might have
1:10:20 thought of that we didn't think of yet
1:10:22 um we have about three months we'll be
1:10:25 discussing this so if you can't think of
1:10:27 anything right now that's fine
1:10:29 you can always email us to if a concern
1:10:32 or an idea strikes you in the middle of
1:10:34 the night
1:10:35 um mayor paulie was there anything else
1:10:38 you wanted
1:10:38 the middle of the night thing is no no
1:10:40 no people tell us that
1:10:43 will email or text us the next day just
1:10:45 kidding
1:10:46 um that was a really great summary i
1:10:48 think the reality is
1:10:50 that cascade has multiple choices
1:10:53 for our future water source including
1:10:56 connecting to different pipelines that
1:10:57 already exist
1:10:58 one in the north and one down in pierce
1:11:00 county and so there should there
1:11:02 would be construction of some form of
1:11:05 some capital asset
1:11:06 so the board is noodling around over the
1:11:09 possibility of having
1:11:11 the proposals reviewed or the fund the
1:11:15 balance reviewed every two years in
1:11:18 conjunction with the budget
1:11:19 so while this is not project approval
1:11:21 that we'd be coming back to you for but
1:11:23 more approval of this development fund
1:11:26 that would allow a touch point every two
1:11:28 years and then if the project changes
1:11:30 from lake cap
1:11:31 to the pierce county cross
1:11:34 county connection that would have a
1:11:36 lower price tag and the accumulation of
1:11:38 funds
1:11:39 could be slowed down so those are kind
1:11:41 of the
1:11:42 the swirling issues right now and it
1:11:44 looks like we do have
1:11:45 a question from deputy council president
1:11:50 thank you mayor paulie this is chris
1:11:51 wright uh council president hunt was in
1:11:53 front of me though
1:11:55 oh comment first from council president
1:11:58 hunt and then a question
1:12:00 come to uh president hunt thank you um
1:12:05 thank you councilmember hall for the
1:12:06 update on this
1:12:08 i formally served on the cascade water
1:12:11 alliance board as the
1:12:12 alternates to mayor paulie and i think
1:12:15 from my perspective that one of the
1:12:17 important components here is that
1:12:19 there were very different projections
1:12:22 the demands for water when the lake taps
1:12:26 reservoir project was first contemplated
1:12:29 then what the projections for
1:12:30 the demand for water look like now and
1:12:33 part of that is people are using less
1:12:35 water and part of that too is
1:12:37 people in multi-family buildings and
1:12:40 just a shift
1:12:40 of of how much water each person is
1:12:42 expected to be using in the future
1:12:44 and so um what i think would be useful
1:12:47 and you mentioned
1:12:48 this that that we expect that if we were
1:12:51 to need this it might not be for a long
1:12:52 time i think
1:12:53 to put a finer point on that what would
1:12:55 be useful is to have some
1:12:57 updated projections about with the
1:12:59 reduced demands
1:13:01 on water in our region including seattle
1:13:03 where we're
1:13:04 currently able to acquire
1:13:07 water at a good rate as you mentioned
1:13:10 what are the
1:13:11 what are the projections for the future
1:13:14 how many years out are we talking and
1:13:16 what do the current
1:13:18 demands profiles look like i think
1:13:21 that's an important part and i think
1:13:22 that's
1:13:23 that's something that we've we've talked
1:13:25 about and i think it would
1:13:26 help clarify some of these decision
1:13:29 making
1:13:31 council president hunt that's excellent
1:13:33 um uh
1:13:34 council member hall and i'll be going to
1:13:36 a cascade retreat where we talk about
1:13:38 and we have seen some updated um
1:13:41 projections and i think we can ask
1:13:43 cascade to come
1:13:45 and show those production projections as
1:13:48 so that would that would be helpful and
1:13:50 deputy council president ray
1:13:52 i am so glad that i deferred to council
1:13:55 president because that was
1:13:56 that was my question that she quite well
1:13:59 addressed so
1:14:00 um thank you very much that's great
1:14:03 councilmember goodman
1:14:06 uh thank you stacey goodman here i think
1:14:09 the mayor
1:14:10 um made a comment that was exactly the
1:14:13 same as my comment
1:14:14 um and that is um can cascade come here
1:14:17 and make the presentation about what the
1:14:18 projections are
1:14:20 and um along with that um
1:14:23 and maybe now is not exactly the time
1:14:25 since you're going to be talking about
1:14:26 it for three months
1:14:27 um so maybe not next i don't i don't
1:14:30 know but at a
1:14:31 before everything is formed i think
1:14:34 maybe they should take their
1:14:36 um pony show out to their members and
1:14:39 get some direct feedback thank you
1:14:42 councilmember goodman that's great
1:14:43 comment
1:14:44 um when this was circulating through the
1:14:46 board
1:14:47 the there was the intention of just
1:14:49 calling for the vote on the development
1:14:52 uh at the board and there were several
1:14:55 cities that said
1:14:56 no like of course the vote can be here
1:14:58 but you know we have to go home and talk
1:15:00 our team about a billion dollar project
1:15:03 you gotta you gotta have you gotta come
1:15:05 out and show them some stuff so
1:15:07 um council member hall do you have
1:15:09 everything you need
1:15:10 to comfortably relay back that there are
1:15:13 some additional concerns and a request
1:15:15 for some a presentation i think so mayor
1:15:18 paul this is councilmember hall so kind
1:15:19 of what i'm hearing is you know
1:15:21 trying to get more in depth on
1:15:22 projections for water demand given a lot
1:15:25 of different variables
1:15:26 and also having them come out sometime
1:15:29 when we're closer to
1:15:30 the end to give a presentation on that
1:15:32 and everything else
1:15:34 that's everything i am not seeing any
1:15:38 other comments in the chat
1:15:39 uh but i'll give it a second uh
1:15:43 councilmember goodman yeah i council
1:15:46 member hall mentioned something
1:15:47 i think you said closer to the end um i
1:15:50 don't know what that means
1:15:51 but it just means i think we need to
1:15:53 have it soon enough so before they start
1:15:55 getting set in their ways regarding
1:15:58 their what they would like to propose
1:15:59 that they're
1:16:00 hearing from all their members so maybe
1:16:02 tomorrow's not the right day but i'm not
1:16:03 sure that the end of three months is
1:16:05 right either so i'll leave that up to
1:16:06 you in the mayor to decide thanks
1:16:08 thank you any other comments or
1:16:11 questions on that other ways we'll move
1:16:13 to council member
1:16:14 martz's good of the order
1:16:18 you're on thank you madam mayor so
1:16:21 procedurally uh do i need to move
1:16:25 something before we discuss it or can we
1:16:26 discuss it before i
1:16:27 move something i think that right now
1:16:30 you can just
1:16:32 discuss it and the clerk or the city
1:16:34 manager can advise after the discussion
1:16:36 what type of action you might need she
1:16:39 actually was kind enough to already
1:16:41 said something should we be so inclined
1:16:44 so so i mean just a question from my
1:16:47 fellow council members whether we want
1:16:48 to hear
1:16:49 pros and cons of this um and consider
1:16:53 um we i believe supported the last one
1:16:57 four years ago um so
1:17:00 i'm interested in hearing from my fellow
1:17:03 council members i'm not
1:17:05 looking to take a pro or a con physician
1:17:08 uh this evening but
1:17:13 i'm interested in knowing if we if we
1:17:14 want to do that we've got a
1:17:16 potential motion before as if we want to
1:17:19 great i will go to council member d
1:17:21 michelle
1:17:24 thank you mayor paulie i would like to
1:17:27 have the council
1:17:28 consider this at a future meeting as
1:17:31 well and i know that there's uh
1:17:33 time sensitivity here but i believe that
1:17:37 this would fit in well with uh with the
1:17:40 um schedule that was put before us
1:17:43 tonight
1:17:44 so i would support the idea of uh
1:17:47 listening to our community and getting
1:17:48 both pro and con
1:17:50 comments before us and uh moving forward
1:17:53 with the resolution
1:17:54 thank you great so
1:17:58 i may have missed that council member
1:18:00 mart's but he's been the chat
1:18:02 the actual motion no she actually sent
1:18:05 it via
1:18:06 email okay great
1:18:10 okay is there anyone who would like to
1:18:12 make a motion
1:18:14 uh i'll make a motion uh i'd like to
1:18:17 move to direct administration to prepare
1:18:19 a resolution
1:18:20 in support of the best starts for kids
1:18:22 lefty for consideration
1:18:23 by the council at the july 19th council
1:18:26 meeting and schedule
1:18:27 a related public hearing for the july 19
1:18:30 2021 council meeting
1:18:32 uh thank you council member mertz and
1:18:34 council member g michelle
1:18:36 second it's been moved and seconded is
1:18:39 there any
1:18:40 additional discussion or comments on the
1:18:42 motion
1:18:47 council member goodman and councilmember
1:18:51 thank you councilmember goodman here so
1:18:54 this is just a
1:18:55 procedural question directing the
1:18:57 administration to prepare a resolution
1:18:58 in support of um before we hear the
1:19:04 before we have the hearing in the pros
1:19:05 and cons um that just sounds
1:19:09 i don't remember what we've done before
1:19:11 maybe that's what we've done before it
1:19:12 sounds like the cart before the horse
1:19:16 so maybe somebody can respond to that
1:19:18 sure i'll let um
1:19:20 the city clerk um explain why it's
1:19:23 written that way or
1:19:23 what might have been passed past
1:19:25 practice or administrator bob quits
1:19:28 either one of you can take the questions
1:19:29 i think there's a couple different ways
1:19:30 to do this
1:19:34 disha clark keyser wants to sign in
1:19:37 otherwise i will
1:19:39 sure council member goodman we are
1:19:41 limited in the amount of time
1:19:43 before the election so uh while a public
1:19:47 hearing is our
1:19:48 recommended course of action to ensure
1:19:50 we're hearing from both sides i think
1:19:52 um due to timing it would be beneficial
1:19:54 to have a resolution
1:19:56 prepared for council consideration and
1:19:58 potential amendment
1:20:00 at the same meeting on july 19th
1:20:05 so um to the clerk just to clarify this
1:20:07 motion could just be
1:20:08 amended uh to say to not support
1:20:12 or to do something different
1:20:15 well i i what i was saying is that uh we
1:20:19 would prepare
1:20:20 based on this motion that's before the
1:20:22 council now there'd be a resolution
1:20:23 prepared in support
1:20:25 but at that meeting following the public
1:20:27 hearing the council
1:20:29 would have that resolution before them
1:20:31 and could choose to
1:20:32 modify it at that time
1:20:37 councilmember goodman does that answer
1:20:38 your question or concern
1:20:42 um yes um i don't remember like i said i
1:20:46 don't remember what we've done in the
1:20:47 past but
1:20:48 and i understand the i think the
1:20:50 election is what the third or something
1:20:52 august 3rd
1:20:52 i understand the timing it just seems to
1:20:56 put it out in a packet says it almost
1:20:58 says we're going to support it anyway
1:21:00 that's that's all i'm saying um
1:21:04 i wish there was a different way we
1:21:05 could do it but
1:21:08 okay thank you uh councilmember hall
1:21:12 with a question
1:21:12 and council president hunt with a
1:21:14 question
1:21:15 uh thank you this is councilmember hall
1:21:17 just a quick um
1:21:19 process question um because i heard it
1:21:22 was like you know we would get
1:21:23 some pros and con speakers can someone
1:21:27 walk us through kind of what that
1:21:29 evening would look like
1:21:31 um from a presentation
1:21:34 perspective are we finding pro and con
1:21:36 speakers from out in the community how
1:21:38 are they
1:21:39 do they are they already selected are we
1:21:41 just relying on folks to
1:21:43 to join and then we have equal numbers
1:21:45 how does that work
1:21:47 madam mayor members of the council let
1:21:49 me maybe take a crack at this uh
1:21:51 uh what we would need to do is uh there
1:21:54 already a group organized that is the in
1:21:57 favor of the initiative we would offer
1:21:59 them an opportunity to speak
1:22:01 we would also look to see if there's
1:22:02 organized opposition if there's
1:22:04 organized opposition
1:22:05 we would we would have them speak i
1:22:08 think if we are unable to find
1:22:09 organized opposition we would just have
1:22:11 an opportunity
1:22:13 uh if someone were to use a step forward
1:22:15 as an individual
1:22:16 who wish to speak in opposition then
1:22:18 they would we would have that
1:22:19 opportunity but first we would look
1:22:20 for any organized opposition i don't
1:22:22 believe that there is any for this
1:22:24 initiative
1:22:24 but i think if the statute is
1:22:26 contemplated in many cases there is
1:22:29 um a vote no and about yes on any
1:22:32 particular initiative so
1:22:34 we'll do that well those presentations
1:22:35 will be made there'll be public comment
1:22:37 available under the public hearing and
1:22:40 then the council connect on the
1:22:41 resolution and if the council
1:22:43 is so persuaded by the arguments as
1:22:46 the city clerk indicated that resolution
1:22:48 could easily be
1:22:49 amended to change what the council is
1:22:53 considering but i i don't think that
1:22:55 it's an unusual thing
1:22:57 to ask for something uh to be prepared
1:23:00 in support or opposition uh prior to
1:23:04 public hearing i i don't think that
1:23:05 there's any transparency issues or
1:23:09 pre-supposition issues i i think that's
1:23:10 a fairly standard practice
1:23:14 thank you uh mr president
1:23:18 thank you this is council president hunt
1:23:20 quick question on timing
1:23:22 i i do believe that um while this is
1:23:25 before
1:23:25 the end of the election that that ballot
1:23:28 ballots will
1:23:29 have gone out already by the time of
1:23:31 this july 19 meeting and just wanted to
1:23:33 make sure that that
1:23:34 isn't a issue
1:23:38 is that a question of whether or not
1:23:40 it's an issue for issuing the resolution
1:23:42 or whether or not the council
1:23:45 has a concern with issuing it after
1:23:49 well i guess uh my question
1:23:52 was meant to be a question for the
1:23:56 probably city clerks or city
1:23:57 administration about if it's
1:24:00 um taking a position
1:24:03 after the ballots have been mailed out
1:24:04 is um okay
1:24:06 and then if there is an issue with
1:24:09 council but i was meaning it for the
1:24:10 administration
1:24:11 okay so we'll do um city clerk
1:24:15 or jim haney turned his camera on jim
1:24:19 i was just gonna say that there is
1:24:20 nothing um
1:24:22 that prevents you from taking a position
1:24:24 after the ballots are mailed out
1:24:27 there's nothing in the law that prevents
1:24:28 you from doing that
1:24:31 you're the mystery above quotes
1:24:34 you know thank you okay
1:24:37 uh i'm not saying anything else in the
1:24:41 so i will reread the motion
1:24:44 to direct the administration to prepare
1:24:45 a resolution in support of the best
1:24:47 starts for kids levy for consideration
1:24:49 by the council at the july 19 council
1:24:51 meeting
1:24:52 and schedule a related public hearing
1:24:54 for the july 19
1:24:55 2021 council meeting and
1:24:58 i will turn it over to the city clerk
1:25:00 for a roll call vote
1:25:02 starting with deputy council president
1:25:04 ray aye
1:25:06 council member walsh aye councilmember d
1:25:10 michelle
1:25:11 aye councilmember goodman aye
1:25:15 councilmember hall aye council president
1:25:20 aye councilmember martz aye
1:25:24 seven eyes zero nays thank you that
1:25:27 passes unanimously
1:25:28 um are there any other items for good of
1:25:31 the order before i asked the city
1:25:33 administrator to make a comment on penn
1:25:35 a which is a reference to the capital
1:25:37 finance community task force which
1:25:38 caused a little confusion today
1:25:40 any other items
1:25:43 okay student minister bob kurtz there
1:25:45 were some questions today about the item
1:25:47 under grid of the order
1:25:49 uh yes madam mayor members the council
1:25:51 the item was posted to the agenda
1:25:53 prematurely
1:25:54 so there are not appointments ready to
1:25:56 be made okay
1:25:57 thank you for clarifying that um there
1:26:00 are some upcoming council meetings city
1:26:02 council study session is on tuesday june
1:26:04 29th with potential agenda items
1:26:06 including a mobility overview
1:26:08 king county metro update squawk and
1:26:10 talus shuttle
1:26:12 intelligent transportation systems
1:26:13 program and the newport way
1:26:15 maple to sunset project on july 6th the
1:26:18 regular city council meeting has been
1:26:19 cancelled
1:26:20 people can go to concerts on the green
1:26:22 instead city council study session of
1:26:25 tuesday july 13th the potential agenda
1:26:27 items include the equity board
1:26:29 proposal and the equity lens discussion
1:26:32 there was an executive session held
1:26:34 prior to tonight's meeting
1:26:36 and there being no further business on
1:26:38 our agenda this evening
1:26:39 this uh june 21st solstice council
1:26:42 meeting is adjourned
1:26:44 at 6 21. go enjoy what's left of it have
1:26:47 a good night

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (2)

1) Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the necessary documents authorizing the Washington State Office of Financial Management to transfer American Rescue Plan Act funds to the City of Issaquah; and 2) Authorize the allocation of $45,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds for the Recovery C…
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Direct Administration to prepare a resolution in support of the Best Starts for Kids Levy for consideration by the Council at the July 19 Council meeting and schedule a related public hearing for the July 19, 2021 Council meeting. . Mayor Pauly: Upcoming Council Meetings - Announced anticipated agen…
Moved by MARTS · seconded by DE MICHELE
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh