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and due to the governor's proclamation
0:03
20-28 relating to the covet 19 emergency
0:06
and open public meetings this meeting
0:08
will be held entirely remotely this
0:10
evening
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so at this point i'd like to take a
0:13
moment and do a roll call of the council
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members that are in attendance so please
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stay here when i call your name
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councilmember martz and deputy council
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president ray have an excused absence
0:23
this evening
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councilmember d michelle cheer thank you
0:27
councilmember goodman yeah councilmember
0:30
hall
0:31
here council president hunt here
0:35
and council member walsh here thank you
0:38
we have five
0:39
of our council members here this evening
0:41
the next item on the agenda is the
0:43
pledge of allegiance and i would welcome
0:45
you to join me in it but i'm also going
0:47
to ask you to mute
0:49
i'll give you a second to do that
0:53
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
0:55
united states of america
0:57
and to the republic for which it stands
1:00
one nation
1:01
under god indivisible with liberty and
1:03
justice for all
1:07
thank you the next item on our agenda
1:09
this evening is audience comments
1:11
and for those of you who have submitted
1:13
the online form to make your comments
1:15
your name will be called shortly
1:17
for those who have joined us tonight and
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1:20
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1:21
you can raise your virtual hand if
1:23
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1:25
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1:29
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corner
1:40
there is also going to be a public
1:42
hearing tonight on ab8203
1:45
consideration to support best start for
1:48
kids levy
1:49
king county proposition number one
1:52
comments on this topic must be made
1:54
under the public hearing which is
1:56
occurring later in the meeting
1:58
and city clerk has anyone signed up to
1:59
speak for general audience comments or
2:02
indicated a desire to speak this evening
2:06
yes
2:11
so for those making remarks i want to
2:13
remind you to please
2:14
direct your comments to the whole
2:16
council and not to individuals
2:17
and while this is not a question and
2:19
answer session we will contact you to
2:22
follow up if needed
2:23
when you are recognized please unmute
2:25
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2:26
state your name and address and
2:28
relationship to the city
2:30
and speak clearly and pause frequently
2:32
please limit your comments to five
2:34
minutes and re-mute your microphone when
2:36
you're done
2:37
if you do not respond after your name or
2:39
phone number is called or if the
2:41
connection is lost
2:42
unexpectedly the meeting will still need
2:44
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2:45
you are encouraged to rejoin the meeting
2:47
if able personal attacks obscene
2:50
language derogatory remarks and
2:52
disruptive behavior will not be
2:53
permitted
2:54
citizen comments written and verbal are
2:57
an important aspect of the public
2:58
process
2:59
and the city takes these comments
3:00
seriously and we thank you for taking
3:02
the time to address us
3:04
declare can you please identify the
3:06
first person who has signed up to speak
3:08
tonight
3:11
yes the first person who has signed up
3:12
to speak is douglas evans
3:14
douglas in just a moment you should see
3:17
an option to
3:18
unmute and you may also choose to turn
3:19
your video on
3:26
you have the floor thank you
3:31
so i'll make this brief thank you mayor
3:33
paul and council members
3:35
i did prepare something in writing to
3:37
try and make this go quickly i know it's
3:39
a nice summer evening and no one wants
3:40
to be
3:41
sitting in front of their computers
3:42
doing this on a nice day like today so
3:45
i'll try and be brief so my issue
3:47
relates to the permit review process
3:49
and the cost and some of the absurd
3:51
requirements that are being made to do
3:53
to replace a boat lift on lake sammamish
3:57
uh i own a small home on lake simulation
3:59
the south cove area
4:00
there's a dock and a boat lift i've
4:02
owned it for about
4:04
uh nine years now it's a really small
4:06
house we use it more of a summer cottage
4:09
so it's not a big five million dollar
4:11
mansion
4:12
but last year during a wind storm uh we
4:15
have a canopy over the boat lift and it
4:18
got caught in the wind and it ended up
4:20
causing the
4:21
boat lift itself to be damaged the
4:23
canopy
4:24
now sits halfway in the water so it's
4:27
been an eyesore since then
4:29
back in march i went ahead and started
4:32
the process
4:33
trying to figure out whether i wanted to
4:34
replace it or whether i wanted to try
4:36
and fix it
4:37
because it's so old it's a water driven
4:40
boat lift as well and we've had issues
4:42
where the water was left on and
4:44
uh had some substantial bills to the
4:46
water department as a result we decided
4:48
to go ahead and replace it
4:50
and that's where things have gotten kind
4:52
of funny the
4:53
and i don't know if anybody's ever gone
4:54
through the permit process city
4:56
or any city before but it's not a very
4:58
fun process especially for someone who's
5:00
kind of a lay person like i am
5:03
um so far uh you know one of the main
5:05
things we had to do is get what they
5:06
call an
5:07
exemption to the shoreline substantial
5:08
development permit that's 525
5:11
i understand why they do that in order
5:14
to proceed with the washington
5:16
department of fish and wildlife or the
5:17
corps of engineers i need that permit
5:19
though
5:20
and so i submitted at the end of april
5:22
uh for that permit
5:24
i heard nothing i went online at the
5:26
about mid
5:29
june and found out that it had been
5:30
approved by several of the people that
5:32
had to do it but one particular planner
5:34
wasn't available to do it i found out
5:36
she'd been on vacation for a couple
5:38
weeks
5:39
uh after some prodding and finally
5:40
apparently when she got back from
5:42
vacation she
5:43
went ahead and did her work on the
5:45
permit
5:46
the problem is that there was 13
5:48
conditions assigned to it
5:51
a couple of those included getting a
5:52
building permit which is not a big deal
5:54
except that
5:55
all the building risks regard require a
5:57
topography
6:00
by a surveyor uh in checking i'm looking
6:03
at another 2500 to 3000 for that and
6:05
we're eight to ten weeks out to do that
6:07
i'm replacing a lift that is already
6:10
there
6:12
um i submitted a bunch of questions and
6:15
follow-up because they also wanted to
6:16
flood hazard permit
6:18
and i got over the next three weeks got
6:20
no responses
6:22
um finally and i will give a shout out
6:25
to your director minnie
6:27
uh dollywall because she has been great
6:30
she's talked to me a couple times today
6:32
but i copied her finally on some of the
6:34
um
6:35
on some of the correspondence and she's
6:37
been great trying to do some of the work
6:38
that i think her staff should have done
6:40
for me
6:41
uh she's promised to get back to you
6:42
tomorrow after she's done some more
6:44
homework on the issue
6:45
but i just wanted to kind of let let the
6:48
council and the mayor know that
6:49
this process you know for replacing a
6:51
boat lift has just gotten so cumbersome
6:53
and so expensive
6:55
that i understand now why my neighbors
6:56
were laughing at me
6:58
when i started the process because they
7:00
said that no one gets permits for it
7:02
even though it's required and i just i
7:04
think i don't know i know that the city
7:06
has limited control with some of the
7:08
other agencies that are involved in this
7:10
but i think you should know that this is
7:11
just terrible and it's just
7:13
and i and i and and i think most
7:15
homeowners don't follow the process
7:17
anymore so i'll stop with that i'll let
7:20
you go on to the
7:21
more important things in life but uh you
7:24
know i do
7:24
again thank you for your director for
7:26
getting involved and i'm hoping that
7:27
we'll have some resolution
7:29
in the next couple days thank you
7:31
douglas
7:32
um very important comments glad that you
7:35
came tonight and shared them with us
7:37
all right take care everyone thank you
7:39
thank you
7:40
city clerk do we have anyone else signed
7:42
to speak this evening
7:46
mayor we have an individual who signed
7:48
up to make comments under the public
7:50
hearing
7:50
so i'll just ask again if there's anyone
7:53
else
7:53
on the call who would like to make
7:55
comments at this time
7:57
under general audience comments as the
7:59
mayor said you can raise your virtual
8:00
hand if you're on the phone by pressing
8:02
star 3
8:03
or on a computer opening your
8:05
participant panel
8:07
and raising your virtual hand
8:14
all right and i don't see that anyone
8:16
else is indicating a
8:17
desire to speak
8:20
that is great thank you city clerk i
8:23
want to thank
8:24
douglas for coming in this evening it's
8:26
especially important to hear these kinds
8:28
of things when the council is actually
8:29
looking at title 18 and
8:31
other codes right now so um but that was
8:34
all we had for tonight
8:36
um just as a reminder if somebody does
8:38
want to send comments into the council
8:39
at any time they can submit them to city
8:41
council
8:42
at isapawa.gov i also wanted to go to
8:45
council president hunt and see if there
8:47
were any emails that the council
8:48
president had received related to
8:51
comments or comments on anything on
8:54
tonight's agenda topics
8:57
thank you madam mayor this is council
8:58
president hunt um while we've been
9:00
having virtual meetings i've been
9:02
summarizing
9:03
emails that we received that
9:04
specifically reference items on
9:07
our agendas and on tonight's agenda we
9:10
did receive one email that specifically
9:12
referenced
9:13
ab-8181 which is the second quarter
9:16
reports
9:16
city work plan capital projects and
9:18
performance measurements
9:21
and this is an item on consent in this
9:24
email the community member that wrote to
9:25
us
9:26
expressed that they disagreed with the
9:28
foregoing of a formal presentation of
9:30
the material
9:31
and they also provided comments on
9:32
multiple topics that were related to the
9:34
work plan and that concludes emailed
9:37
comments
9:37
specifically on tonight's agenda items
9:40
thank you council president hunt
9:42
the next item we'll be going to is
9:44
committee and regional reports and we'll
9:46
start tonight with councilmember hall
9:50
thank you this is councilmember hall uh
9:52
two quick reports tonight
9:54
um first for cascade water alliance
9:57
mayor paulie and i attended a cascade
9:59
board workshop
10:00
on wednesday june 30th we were actually
10:03
presented with a lot of the information
10:05
that you all asked for
10:07
including some of the updated water
10:09
demand projections
10:11
you know feedback that we that we asked
10:13
from you last month and
10:15
cascade staff has agreed to come present
10:18
at a future study session to be
10:20
determined so
10:21
stay tuned on that and the next board
10:24
meeting is next wednesday july 28th
10:26
at 3 30. um the next meeting of the
10:30
growth management planning council's
10:32
affordable housing committee is this
10:34
wednesday july 21st at noon
10:37
we're going to be getting a number of
10:38
briefings that day including an update
10:40
on the county-wide planning policies
10:42
that were just adopted by the growth
10:43
management planning council
10:45
an update on how partners are using
10:48
their new
10:49
affordable housing sales tax dollars and
10:51
an update on what we're calling
10:53
the community partners roundtable which
10:56
is essentially a forum
10:57
for the community to better engage in
11:00
the regional work that we're doing as a
11:01
committee
11:02
and with that that concludes my report
11:06
thank you next up is council member d
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michelle
11:10
thank you mayor paulie on july
11:14
9th i attended the east side
11:15
transportation partnership meeting
11:18
uh sound transit presented its
11:19
realignment plan for
11:21
comment and those commenting including
11:23
myself
11:24
urged sound transit not to delay the 405
11:27
north project which includes a
11:29
significant bus
11:30
rapid transit implementation we were
11:33
pointing out that a delay would
11:35
adversely impact transit recovery for
11:37
the entire east side
11:39
during the meeting we were joined by
11:40
king county council president and sound
11:42
transit board member claudia balducci
11:45
who supported our position and said she
11:47
is working hard to find ways to get the
11:49
project back on track
11:51
there will be important opportunities
11:53
for council members from east side
11:54
cities to comment on the sound transit
11:56
realignment
11:57
during the month of august and we will
11:59
keep you informed of those dates and
12:01
times
12:02
on friday july the 15th sound transit
12:05
received a revenue forecast with a 1.4
12:08
billion
12:09
decrease in the affordability gap with
12:11
the caution that there are still many
12:13
unknowns
12:14
and the current gap means that many
12:15
projects are still
12:17
unaffordable however the conversation at
12:19
the sound transit board indicated
12:21
support for moving the tier 2 projects
12:24
which includes the 405 north project one
12:27
year forward on the proposed schedule
12:29
so this was this is a
12:32
item that we will be watching really
12:34
closely also on july 7th and the 13th i
12:38
attended meetings of the eastside human
12:39
service forum
12:40
legislative committee and executive
12:42
search committee respectfully
12:44
respectively so thank you that ends my
12:48
report
12:50
thank you councilmember d michelle next
12:52
we have council member walsh
12:55
thank you this is councilmember walsh um
12:57
on july 7th
12:58
i attended the puget sound regional
13:01
council's economic development district
13:03
board
13:04
um there we continue the conversation
13:07
about regional workforce recovery
13:09
planning
13:10
um and talking about the outreach that's
13:14
going to happen
13:14
in that conversation especially with
13:18
um
13:21
people who are not involved in the
13:23
process as much
13:24
um and then we also received a
13:27
an update on the economic development
13:30
guide
13:30
which they are promoting which similar
13:33
to
13:34
the um k for c
13:37
tool kit which is meant to as something
13:40
that's
13:41
developed regionally to help
13:44
localities do their own planning this is
13:48
uh for the economic development element
13:51
of the
13:55
comprehensive plan and so it's kind of a
13:57
guide for
13:58
helping cities and localities create
14:01
their plan along with some metrics so
14:02
i'm really excited about
14:04
that coming out and i've already talked
14:06
to jen davis hayes about it
14:07
um but we'll see what it is we just got
14:10
a presentation that is coming so
14:13
that concludes my report thanks thank
14:16
you councilmember walsh
14:18
next up councilmember goodman thank you
14:20
madam mayor
14:21
um i apologize for my froggy throat um
14:26
last thursday i think that's july 15th
14:28
the east side fire rescue
14:30
board of directors held a special
14:32
meeting during that meeting the board
14:34
approved a contract to provide
14:36
fire and emergency services to
14:38
approximately 30 square miles
14:39
within the city of woodenville and areas
14:42
and incorporated unincorporated king
14:43
county
14:44
uh this is really big and exciting news
14:47
and it's a great
14:47
opportunity for eastern fire and rescue
14:50
and uh i'll provide some
14:51
details now the first thing is that this
14:54
is a contract for
14:55
services between eastside fire and
14:57
woodenville fire
14:58
there would be um there are no voting
15:00
rights or official participation
15:02
of woodenville fire at the east side
15:04
fire board level
15:05
this is a 10-year contract for service
15:07
with automatic 10-year renewals
15:10
terms that match the current partner
15:12
shop ship
15:13
in our local agreement eastside fire and
15:15
rescue essentially will operate
15:17
woodenville fire
15:18
using wooden build fires existing
15:20
personnel equipment and facilities
15:23
on october 1st eastside fire will begin
15:25
operating the three woodenville fire
15:27
stations
15:28
at woodenville's stated service level
15:31
and woodenville
15:32
and at woodenville's expense woodenville
15:34
will
15:35
experience cost savings and east side
15:37
fire will collect a 10 percent
15:39
administrative charge that will be
15:41
treated as
15:42
non-partner revenue non-partner revenue
15:45
will go toward reducing east side fire
15:47
expenses
15:48
before the remaining expenses are passed
15:50
on to the partner agencies
15:52
for year one the site fire will collect
15:56
1.179
15:57
million dollars in non-partner revenue
16:00
in addition
16:00
wooden build fire will be paying for all
16:02
personnel operations
16:04
equipment replacement and capital
16:06
facility charges
16:08
the addition of more than 1.1 million
16:10
dollars in non-partner revenue
16:12
will go a long way to covering personnel
16:14
related cost increases
16:16
that would otherwise need to be covered
16:18
by our existing partners
16:20
especially in light of the current spike
16:22
in inflation that we have been
16:23
experiencing
16:25
windville fire has expressed an interest
16:27
to chief clark in evaluating the
16:28
possibility
16:29
of becoming a partner with each side
16:32
fire in the future
16:33
but to do so there would be several
16:34
steps first woodenfield fire would need
16:36
to first
16:38
officially express its interest to the
16:40
eastside fire board
16:42
and then the board would need to direct
16:43
the chief to conduct a business analysis
16:45
and then at the end of that analysis at
16:48
the conclusion of it if the board makes
16:50
a
16:50
recommendation to just pursue adding
16:52
wooden bill fire
16:54
as a partner to east side fire then each
16:56
of the current partner elected bodies
16:58
would have to consider the request and
16:59
vote to approve the request for
17:01
partnership
17:02
and then if all five parties approve
17:05
then it would come back to the east side
17:06
fire
17:07
board for final approval this process
17:10
would take at least a year
17:11
from the time time woodenville fire
17:13
decides that it would like to be
17:15
considered um to be considered
17:19
for the process as a program and again
17:21
this is only a contract
17:23
and that there's been no um express
17:26
interest
17:27
or intention expressed just interest at
17:29
this time as just uh
17:30
it's just a contract for service however
17:33
um it is a new contract with woodenville
17:36
and it's a tremendous compliment whether
17:38
or not windville fire
17:39
actually ultimately joins eastside fire
17:42
as a partner
17:43
and it speaks volumes for the unique
17:45
government governance model that
17:46
eastside fire has created
17:48
and um i personally think that
17:50
congratulations congratulations are in
17:52
order for the
17:53
entire eastside fire administration
17:55
administrative
17:56
team that helped um put this contract
17:59
together
18:00
so that's my big exciting news for the
18:02
night um
18:03
eastside farm board will not meet in
18:06
august we have the month off
18:07
and we will meet i believe it will be
18:10
the first thursday
18:11
fourth or second thursday in september
18:13
and that's my report thanks so much
18:16
exciting news thank you councilmember
18:18
goodman
18:19
next up we have council president hunt
18:24
thank you madam mayor this is council
18:26
president hunt i have a few reports
18:27
this evening the kokanee ila interlocal
18:31
agreement
18:32
management committee met on june 28th
18:34
kokanee is a non-migrating type of
18:37
salmon and they're very important in our
18:38
region and the lake sammamish population
18:40
of kokanee
18:41
is near extinction so conserving
18:44
conserving this population is very
18:46
important
18:46
and this group works together to do that
18:49
i want to thank larry franks for serving
18:51
as my alternate at this
18:53
committee and he served in my place at
18:54
the meeting the committee
18:56
took several actions at the meeting they
18:58
approved the 2019-2020 ila biennial
19:02
report which documented their
19:03
deliverables over those two years
19:06
and they also approved the 2020 ila work
19:08
plan budget and cost share
19:11
the next meeting of this committee has
19:12
not yet been sent
19:14
then the yura 8 salmon recovery council
19:16
met on july 15th
19:19
this is a technical name for our
19:21
watershed
19:22
and the salmon recovery council had two
19:25
action items we approved the 2020
19:27
wyra 8 budget and work plan and we also
19:30
approved salmon recovery
19:32
funding board grant round funding
19:34
recommendations
19:36
and i'm happy to report that of those
19:38
funding recommendations the lower
19:40
issaquah creek
19:41
fame and riparian restoration project
19:43
which was
19:44
put forward by the city of issaquah was
19:46
recommended for
19:47
almost the complete amount that was
19:49
requested it was 450 000
19:52
requested for this restoration and of
19:54
that 435
19:57
235 was what was recommended um so i
20:00
wanted to thank the city of issaquah
20:02
team for putting together that
20:03
successful application for that project
20:07
uh the next meeting of the wire eight
20:08
salmon recovery council will be
20:10
september
20:10
16th and then lastly the title 18
20:14
ad hoc committee met on july 8th this is
20:17
an ad hoc committee meeting of council
20:19
members that meets to discuss
20:20
title 18 which is our land use code and
20:24
we discussed and reviewed the
20:25
draft sign code which council will be
20:28
reviewing
20:29
at our next study session on july 27th
20:32
the next ad hoc council the next title
20:35
18 ad hoc meeting is scheduled for
20:37
thursday
20:38
um july 22nd and that concludes my
20:40
report
20:42
thank you council president hunt next
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item on the agenda this evening is the
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mayor's report and because we have
20:48
included those quarterly
20:50
city reports in the consent calendar i'm
20:52
going to be highlighting a few of those
20:53
items
20:54
which will make my report a little bit
20:56
longer tonight so first up there will be
20:58
an executive session held this evening
21:00
to discuss
21:00
pending and potential litigation per rcw
21:03
42.30
21:05
0.110 paran1 for an i this item is
21:08
expected to last 20 minutes and no
21:10
action is anticipated at this time to
21:12
occur
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in the open session uh it is parks and
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community services month
21:18
every day our parks and community
21:19
services team works to maintain our
21:21
excellent quality of life here in
21:23
issaquah
21:24
and with great appreciation for the work
21:26
they do in serving our community i have
21:28
proclaimed july
21:29
parks and community services month thank
21:32
you to our parks and community services
21:34
team
21:34
for your essential service to our
21:36
community please join me this month in
21:38
celebrating
21:39
by taking a hike enrolling in a program
21:41
or just simply picnicking in a local
21:43
park
21:44
the second quarter reports are included
21:46
on the consented end of this evening
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this is the admin these reports provide
21:52
updates to council and to the community
21:54
on the work we are doing in 2021
21:57
as well as providing updates on some
21:58
performance metrics
22:00
associated with our city strategic plan
22:02
these reports which the city council
22:04
will formally receive through the
22:06
consent agenda
22:07
include the city-wide work plan the
22:10
capital projects list
22:12
the second report on the performance
22:13
measurement plan and while there will
22:15
not be a formal presentation on these
22:17
reports
22:18
i did want to provide a few highlights
22:21
for the citywide work plan
22:23
which is organized according to our
22:24
strategic plan here are the significant
22:27
updates since the last report in april
22:29
in general there was a sustained
22:31
progress or improvement for all of the
22:33
actions on the work plan
22:35
the improvement was primarily due to
22:36
four actions under the growth and
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development and environmental
22:40
stewardship goal areas
22:41
that are associated with the title 18
22:43
update these four actions shifted from
22:46
the major challenges classification to
22:49
on track
22:50
as that work now progresses other
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highlights from the environmental
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stewardship goal include
22:55
the parks and community services
22:57
department continues to develop the
22:58
greenest support partnership
23:00
this collaborative effort between the
23:02
city of issaquah fortera
23:04
and community groups trains volunteers
23:06
to help steward our forested parks and
23:08
open spaces
23:10
the 20-year implementation guide for the
23:12
program has been published and is
23:13
available on the city website
23:16
also work on the climate action plan
23:18
began earlier in the second quarter and
23:19
will create a roadmap for reducing
23:21
city-wide greenhouse gas emissions
23:23
and preparing for the impacts of climate
23:25
change
23:27
in the mobility goal area work has
23:28
resumed on two actions that were
23:30
previously on hold
23:32
the administration is working on the
23:33
squat callus community connections
23:35
partnership
23:36
and the regional employers transit group
23:39
which the council received an
23:40
update on at the june 29th city council
23:43
study session
23:45
in the social and economic vitality goal
23:47
area
23:48
the healthy community strategy that was
23:49
on hold has been restructured as a human
23:52
services strategic plan
23:54
this planning effort which will include
23:56
the healthy community
23:58
housing and homelessness policy
23:59
conversations began with a needs
24:02
assessment to inform future work
24:04
and finally the snoqualmie tribe vaccine
24:06
partnership at lake smamish state park
24:09
concluded in june
24:10
was very successful for the capital
24:13
projects update
24:14
in april 41 of 47 projects were
24:17
considered on
24:18
track since april nine of those projects
24:20
previously considered on track have been
24:22
reclassified
24:24
three projects are now complete these
24:26
include the southeast 43rd waste signal
24:28
improvements
24:29
and two water utility projects the
24:32
forest rim reservoirs and cougar ridge
24:34
isolation valve
24:35
one project the newport way landslide
24:38
repair has been
24:38
postponed construction from q3 2021
24:42
until 2022. five other projects are now
24:45
classified as minor challenges because
24:47
the project timelines have been delayed
24:49
by one quarter
24:50
these projects include the newport way
24:52
improvements from maple to sunset
24:54
the northwest sammamish road
24:56
non-motorized improvements
24:58
the southeast 43rd way and east lakes
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mamash parkway roundabout project
25:02
and the newport pedestrian bridge and
25:04
old town traffic calming
25:06
from the performance measurement report
25:08
the second quarter update contained
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in exhibit c presents the changes to
25:14
seven performance measures based on data
25:16
from the 2021 community survey
25:19
the report provides a summary of these
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high level outcome measures
25:22
along with graphics and a brief
25:24
discussion of trends
25:26
and performance against internal goals
25:28
and regional benchmarks
25:31
that is the summary of highlights for
25:33
the
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quarterly reports that were included on
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the consent calendar i also wanted to
25:38
talk about the 2021 arts
25:40
grant another item on tonight's consent
25:42
agenda is ab-8210
25:44
the arts grants recommendations and i'd
25:47
like to highlight the following
25:49
the round two arts funding will provide
25:51
forty four thousand one hundred and
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fifty dollars for nine projects that
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will reach broadly
25:55
across the community through visual
25:57
performing
25:58
and literary art experiences issaquah's
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art
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organizations are demonstrating
26:04
creativity and flexibility in how to
26:06
deliver arts opportunities for the
26:07
community during the pandemic
26:09
with an increased usage of technology
26:11
and virtual programming
26:13
trends that are likely to continue for a
26:15
while
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they are conducting multiple rounds of
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flexible arts funding
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requires less application lead time and
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is helping remove barriers
26:24
for smaller less formalized community
26:26
groups
26:27
more than 30 percent of the 2021 arts
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grants
26:30
applicants were new to the city's earth
26:32
funding process
26:33
that's the last item i'll be reporting
26:35
out on tonight in the mayor's report
26:38
and we will move on to the consent
26:39
calendar
26:41
the consent calendar was distributed to
26:43
council in advance
26:44
and if authorized the items on the
26:46
consent calendar will be considered
26:47
together and approved by one motion
26:50
council member d michelle there is a
26:53
comment or statement that i believe you
26:54
would like to make before we move into
26:56
our approval process so you have the
26:58
floor
27:00
uh thank you very much mayor paulie i do
27:03
have a statement
27:05
i would like to state for the record
27:07
that i am currently employed with an
27:08
entity that is included in the city's
27:11
payables
27:12
influence the choice i currently fill
27:14
the role of temporary
27:16
executive director of influence of
27:17
choice the city serves as a fiscal agent
27:20
for this agency
27:21
in the disbursement of a federal fund
27:24
grant funds are being disbursed under
27:26
this month's accounts payable
27:28
i have asked for advice from the city
27:30
attorney as to whether this warrants a
27:32
conflict of interest and have been
27:34
informed that i am not
27:35
legally required to be excused from
27:37
voting as the city is carrying out a
27:40
decision that was previously made by the
27:42
council
27:43
however for the sake of transparency i
27:46
would like to declare this employment
27:47
and have my statement
27:49
entered on the minutes thank you thank
27:52
you councilmember d michelle
27:54
have the payables and payroll been
27:56
reviewed
27:58
this is councilmember hall they have
28:01
thank you does any council member desire
28:04
to remove
28:04
any item from the consent calendar and
28:06
consider it under regular business
28:08
and i will turn on my chat which i have
28:10
not actually done yet
28:15
okay i'm not seeing any indication
28:19
um so is there a motion
28:22
to approve the consent calendar and it
28:24
looks like council president hunt you'd
28:26
like to make a motion
28:27
thank you this is council president hunt
28:29
i move to approve the consent calendar
28:31
as it appears in this evening's agenda
28:34
thank you and council member walsh i'll
28:36
second that
28:38
thank you so motion has been made and
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seconded to approve
28:42
the consent calendar and i'm going to
28:44
get the city clerk to do
28:46
a rule called vote
28:49
yeah starting with council member walsh
28:52
i council member d michelle
28:55
i council member goodman
29:00
councilmember hall aye
29:04
council president hunt aye
29:07
that's five i zero nays
29:10
thank you very much so that passes five
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to oh
29:14
the next item of business this evening
29:15
is the public hearing ab-8203
29:18
consideration to support best start for
29:21
kids levy
29:22
king county proposition one this is a
29:24
regular property tax levy for children
29:26
youth
29:27
families and communities there was an
29:30
informational
29:31
presentation provided on this topic at
29:33
the june 21st council meeting
29:35
this evening we will be conducting the
29:37
public hearing and council will be
29:39
asked to consider approval of a
29:40
resolution
29:43
at the meeting on the 21st the council
29:44
directed the administration to prepare a
29:46
resolution in support of the proposition
29:49
and to schedule a public hearing for
29:50
tonight's council meeting
29:52
at tonight's public hearing both
29:54
proponents and opponents of the
29:55
proposition will be provided an equal
29:57
opportunity to make comments
29:59
there is not going to be a staff
30:01
presentation on this item this evening
30:04
and before i open the hearing are there
30:06
any council member questions
30:08
you can add note in the chat if you
30:11
would like to be recognized
30:16
while i'm waiting to see if anybody has
30:18
any questions i also want to let
30:20
everybody know that marcy miller
30:22
seattle and king county's public health
30:24
policy manager will be on hand if the
30:26
council does have any questions
30:28
and it would be great if we would do any
30:30
questions that you have before we start
30:32
the public hearing
30:36
and i'm not seeing any
30:39
questions at this point in time so i
30:41
will
30:42
open the public hearing at 7 31
30:46
and i'm asking the city clerk to help
30:48
manage the time to ensure that we
30:49
provide an equal opportunity to hear
30:51
from both opponents
30:52
and proponents of the proposition again
30:55
for those of you who have joined us
30:56
tonight and would like to make comments
30:58
but did not sign up in advance
31:00
please raise your virtual hand if you're
31:02
on the phone that could be press star
31:03
three
31:04
and if you've joined by computer or
31:06
smartphone you can look for the hand
31:08
icon
31:09
and this does vary from device to device
31:12
one option maybe go to the participant
31:14
panel and choose the raise hand icon in
31:16
the lower right hand corner
31:17
city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
31:19
or indicated a desire to speak this
31:21
evening
31:24
yes kaylee jake has indicated a desire
31:26
to speak
31:27
kaylee in just a moment i'll move you up
31:29
as a panelist you should then have an
31:31
option to unmute and may also choose to
31:33
turn your video on
31:40
you have the floor okay
31:43
hi um everyone uh so my name is kaylee
31:46
jake
31:47
uh i live at 24706 southeast 30th street
31:50
smamish 98075 and i'm the executive
31:54
director of the garage at team cafe
31:57
and um i wanted to
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speak to you all tonight to encourage
32:03
you to
32:04
to approve and endorse the renewal of
32:07
the best starts for kids levy
32:10
um and i would imagine that you've
32:13
gotten a lot of
32:15
of the statistics and um and that kind
32:18
of information from
32:20
best starts for kids um and so i wanted
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to talk to you
32:23
in a in a more personal way um
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you know our kids are the
32:30
most vulnerable in my mind um in our
32:33
community
32:34
and they often find themselves in
32:36
situations that they have no control
32:38
over
32:38
whatsoever and a lot
32:42
of our um a lot of our community
32:45
is able to provide resources um
32:48
when they are experiencing challenges uh
32:51
but
32:51
but some can't and i feel it's a
32:54
community's responsibility
32:56
um when our when a parent or a guardian
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is unable to provide those resources for
33:02
whatever reason
33:04
and during covet we have lots of reasons
33:06
right now
33:08
um and so i feel it again it's our
33:11
community's responsibility to provide
33:13
those resources
33:14
and best arts for kids has done an
33:16
incredible job
33:18
of really building up our youth and
33:20
creating opportunities for them to
33:22
thrive
33:24
the national forum of early education
33:26
says that for every dollar you invest in
33:28
our youth
33:29
you yield up to nine dollars of return
33:32
so i want you to think about it this
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this renewal of the levy
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it's 872 million dollars
33:39
so we're talking upwards of seven
33:42
billion dollars that will be returned
33:46
in in our investment it's so worth it
33:49
and and our community knows that kids
33:52
are worth it
33:53
you all support them all the time in so
33:56
many ways
33:57
and this is just another way that we can
33:59
do that for them
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so um you know the garage has
34:04
increased our mental health counseling
34:06
and our tutoring
34:08
by hundreds of percentage points
34:12
as we have moved into coped and it's
34:15
just going to get worse
34:17
the need as all of our kids go back to
34:20
school in the fall
34:21
and navigating this new normal is really
34:24
difficult
34:25
and i think best starts for kids just
34:27
continues to provide opportunities
34:29
for organizations like the garage that
34:31
are working to ensure that our
34:33
our youth are thriving which is really
34:36
important to our community and keeps it
34:38
the amazing place that we all want it to
34:40
be so i
34:41
i strongly strongly encourage you to
34:43
endorse this
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thank you thank you kaylee
34:48
city clerk is there anyone else signed
34:49
up to speak this evening or indicating a
34:51
desire to speak
34:55
yes uh dela pereira would like to make
34:59
comments stephen just a moment i'll move
35:01
you up as a panelist you will then
35:03
have the option to unmute and can choose
35:05
to turn your video on
35:17
you have the floor
35:30
we're not able to hear you
35:36
you can hear me now
35:39
great um my name is dila pereira and i'm
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volunteering as the campaign co-chair
35:44
for the renewal of best arts for kids
35:47
and mayor paulie council president hunt
35:49
members of the council
35:50
thank you for the opportunity to speak
35:51
with you today and to seek your support
35:54
from the renewal of best arts for kids
35:56
i think kaylee spoke so eloquently about
35:59
the impact of the garage and the work
36:01
that they've been doing to promote
36:02
mental health and issaquah
36:04
and around issaquah and i really can't
36:06
um
36:07
i can't add any more to that and to say
36:10
that part of the reason i'm volunteering
36:11
in the role that i am
36:13
is that i'm the executive director of an
36:15
organization that promotes
36:16
maternal health and i can tell you just
36:19
how much of an impact best starts for
36:21
kids has had on us
36:22
and our ability to provide services to
36:25
pregnant and parenting families
36:26
throughout the east side and
36:28
including in king county communities
36:31
like issaquah
36:32
one of the things that i know that best
36:34
arts has done just in the last year in
36:36
2020
36:38
was that best arts for kids was able to
36:40
reach a thousand children and
36:41
youth living in the 98027 and 98029 zip
36:45
codes
36:47
so far nearly half a million children
36:49
and youth have benefited from esk
36:51
programs
36:52
over 24 000 health care providers and
36:55
other essential workers were supported
36:57
by bsk programs
36:59
and as kaylee mentioned i am certain
37:01
that the ability of our children and
37:02
youth
37:03
in our communities to whether the covin
37:06
19 pandemic is greater
37:08
because of the services and support that
37:09
best starts for kids
37:11
has been able to provide that's why it's
37:14
essential that best starts for kids is
37:16
renewed
37:17
on our ballots and that is why we're
37:19
seeking your support
37:21
one of the greatest things that best
37:23
arts for kids has done is to expand
37:24
mental health supports and school-based
37:26
health programs
37:27
which are going to be essential before
37:30
they were essential before the pandemic
37:32
they were essential during and they will
37:33
be essential after for years to come
37:36
as we recover from the trauma that our
37:38
children and
37:39
our communities have experienced renewal
37:42
continues outreach and partnerships for
37:44
these types of health care centers for
37:46
pregnant parenting families
37:48
and programs for use and one of the
37:50
things that i'm most excited about
37:52
is that the renewal will help to provide
37:55
3000 low-income families with access to
37:57
child care
37:58
and that is going to be critical for
38:00
economic recovery family stability
38:02
and gender equity especially for the
38:05
moms who had to leave the workforce
38:07
during the pandemic levee dollars have
38:10
already helped over 10 000 families to
38:12
avoid homelessness
38:14
and renewal will continue rental
38:16
assistance and prevention strategies
38:18
that eastside partners like hopelink
38:20
youth decide services friends of youth
38:22
and others are using to prevent
38:24
homelessness throughout the county as a
38:27
leader of a community based organization
38:29
i know firsthand that we
38:30
as community organizations rely on
38:33
strong government partnerships
38:34
to tackle multifaceted challenges like
38:37
homelessness
38:38
it has to be a county-wide effort that
38:40
will continue with strong examples
38:42
in communities like issaquah bellevue
38:45
and throughout the county
38:48
so now is the time to continue this
38:49
groundbreaking levy success
38:51
and to continue to transform the
38:54
transformative work that it started
38:56
and to bring services to even more
38:58
families in asia and around the county
39:00
we would be honored if the issaquah city
39:02
council joined executive
39:04
constantine along with every county
39:06
council member mayors and organizations
39:08
serving children and families across the
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county
39:10
to support the renewal of best arts for
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kids
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as the seattle times wrote in their
39:16
endorsement
39:18
best arts for kids has made a difference
39:20
in the lives of hundreds of thousands of
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children young adults and families
39:24
it deserves to be renewed thank you for
39:27
your time
39:29
thank you city clerk is there anyone
39:32
else indicating a desire to speak this
39:34
evening
39:37
mayor uh we took about seven minutes of
39:39
comments and support of the proposition
39:42
so now is an opportunity for anyone on
39:44
the call in opposition
39:46
or additionally in support to make
39:47
comments i see a few
39:49
members of the public if you'd like to
39:50
make comments please raise your virtual
39:52
hand by pressing star 3
39:55
or finding the small raised hand icon
39:59
in the participant panel or elsewhere
40:02
on your device and i'm just taking a
40:06
quick look here
40:11
and i'm not seeing anyone else indicated
40:13
desire to speak
40:15
thank you for that and checking to see
40:17
that we had fair access for both those
40:20
in favor and those opposed to the
40:21
measure
40:23
so if there is no objection to closing
40:28
the public hearing
40:31
so i'm checking in and if i don't hear
40:34
any
40:34
we'll move to close you can use the chat
40:37
if you're opposed
40:40
hearing none the public hearing is
40:42
closed at 7 41 pm
40:44
and is there a council member that would
40:47
like to make a motion
40:57
looking in the chat not able to see him
40:59
okay there we go council member
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uh council president hunt thank you this
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is council president hunt
41:06
i move to approve resolution number
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2021-11
41:13
supporting king county proposition
41:15
number one regular
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property tax levy for children youth
41:19
families and communities
41:20
best starts for kids initiative and
41:24
councilmember d michelle
41:26
i second the motion thank you is there
41:29
any council discussion
41:30
and i'll be looking in the chat to see
41:32
if anybody would like to make comments
41:43
give it another second council president
41:46
hunt
41:48
thank you this is council president hunt
41:50
i am
41:51
uh supportive i think that this
41:53
initiative has
41:54
supported many families and individuals
41:57
and
41:58
um should be allowed to continue the
42:00
good work that it's doing in our
42:02
communities
42:03
i'll keep it brief but supportive of
42:05
this
42:06
thank you very much is there any other
42:09
discussion
42:10
any other comments councilmember g
42:12
michelle
42:14
uh i too will be supporting this motion
42:17
and
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uh as has been stated very eloquently
42:21
this um this uh levy has
42:25
done enormous good for a great number of
42:27
young people in
42:29
our county who have needed that support
42:33
and as executive jake said
42:36
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42:38
the need is even greater at this point
42:40
because
42:41
of the past year and what that
42:44
impact has been on youth mental health
42:47
and
42:48
also joblessness among parents that is
42:52
impacting young people
42:53
significantly so many needs and
42:57
i think it's justified to renew it and
43:00
to renew it at a higher
43:01
higher rate so i will be supporting the
43:03
motion thank you
43:05
thank you councilmember d michelle
43:07
looking in the chat to see if there any
43:09
other council members who would like to
43:12
discuss or make a comment
43:16
and i will give it a few more seconds
43:24
so the motion on the floor is to move to
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approve resolution number 2021 dash
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oh sorry councilmember goodman that was
43:31
a little too quick
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oh sorry um so
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i wanted to just briefly explain um
43:43
while i was not why i'm not going to
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vote in support
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um i'm just um really not
43:49
comfortable as the ordinance is that
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um says to urge
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voters to vote in support um i think i'm
43:59
really feeling more comfortable
44:00
preferring that voter do their own
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reading and their own research
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and decide for themselves rather than
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relying on on us because that's
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a little bit what the effect of this is
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um we've seen we have seen and i have
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seen a lot of
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data points um a lot of numbers
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um not nearly as much in terms of
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outcomes
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and that's not to say that um it's not
44:29
been positive or helpful or
44:32
good but i would prefer to
44:35
let voters make up their own mind the
44:38
sales times has published a couple of
44:39
articles and also
44:41
an editorial so it's pretty easy for
44:44
voters to
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do a little bit of their own reading for
44:46
themselves
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for themselves so um so that's really
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the only reason that i'm not going to
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support it
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um because i really think that with
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something this large
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um and with uh um
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two or three hundred dollars it could
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cost um you know
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even a 900 000
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home in the area i really think that
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people should make their
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voters should make up their own minds so
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that's why i'm going to be supporting
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no thanks thank you councilmember
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goodman
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i'll give it another 30 seconds or so to
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see if there's any other council member
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who would like to
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participate in the discussion or make
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comments
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and i won't rush it this time
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okay not seeing any others the motion on
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the floor
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is to move to approve resolution number
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2021-11
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supporting king county proposition
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number one regular property tax levy for
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children
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youth families and communities best
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starts for kids initiative
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and city clerk do you want to do a roll
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call vote
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yes starting with council member d
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michelle
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hi councilmember goodman
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hello councilmember hall
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aye council president hunt
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i council member walsh
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aye aye that's four eyes
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one nay thank you
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uh the motion passes four to one and the
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next item
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of business this evening on the agenda
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under regular business is ab-8161
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council rules of procedure ad-hoc
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committee and the action before council
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this evening will be to adopt the
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ordinance prove the resolution
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and this topic was last before council
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at the april 5th
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council meeting and i'd like to invite
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city clerk tasha gizer to
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present this item
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thank you mayor give me just a moment to
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share my screen
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okay there we go
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okay so uh my name is tisha geezer city
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clerk i'm going to
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share a brief summary of the
47:48
recommendation of the council rules of
47:50
procedure ad hoc committee
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and expect that committee members may
47:54
choose to
47:55
elaborate on the presentation and
47:57
respond
47:58
to questions
48:04
so the ad hoc committee was established
48:06
by the city council
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at the april 5th council meeting this
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was in response to some
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items related to the city council rules
48:15
of procedure that were discussed
48:17
at the january 30th council retreat and
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the march 29 study session
48:21
which led to the council delegating a
48:24
recommendation on
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four items to the council rules ad hoc
48:30
committee
48:30
the committee was established of council
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members
48:34
d michelle goodman and walsh there was
48:37
not a chair
48:38
designated among the three as i
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mentioned four
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items were referred to the committee
48:43
initially with a fifth item
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the council business the city council
48:48
new business request process
48:51
being referred to the ad hoc committee
48:53
at the may 3rd council meeting
48:57
all five items were determined to be
49:00
reported back with a recommendation from
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the committee at the july 6 meeting
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because that meeting was cancelled the
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recommendation is being provided tonight
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here is a list of the five items that
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the committee provided
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a recommendation on there's a note here
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that
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as you'll hear in just a few moments
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there are also some
49:24
suggestions made regarding hybrid
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meetings and some
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miscellaneous cleanup items throughout
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the council rules
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at the recommendation of the clerk's
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office
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and now i'll provide a real brief
49:38
summary of the
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recommendation made on each of these
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items
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so one of the items referred was
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a potential for a council member agenda
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bill liaison role
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let me just stop here to say that on all
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of these items
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uh the ad hoc committee um
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reviewed the input that they had heard
50:00
from their
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colleagues on these topics and in some
50:03
cases looked to city staff to provide
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some
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additional information about city
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processes
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or best practices so with that
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regarding the agenda bill liaison role
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the committee
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at this time recommends that that not be
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added to the council rules uh
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again at this time
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the second item referred to the
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committee was regarding
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um creating more clarity around touch
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points for council study sessions
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and uh specifically also
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providing a requiring a process for
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summarizing
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council feedback and consensus provided
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at council study sessions
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in response the committee recommended uh
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the addition of a sentence to the study
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sessions section that
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states that the presiding officer of a
50:54
study session
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or a staff that they designate will
50:58
provide
50:59
a summary of the council consensus or
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feedback
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received at a study session and the
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committee also
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provided some suggestions to the
51:09
administration
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some guidelines regarding the study
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session process
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so there aren't any specific changes
51:17
proposed to the rules other than the
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minor change i mentioned
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but there was some feedback and and
51:22
direction provided
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um essentially to to stick with the
51:26
process
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of moving policy items through
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a council study session so starting them
51:33
as an id
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at a study session rather than as an
51:37
agenda bill
51:38
and there was a request that if the
51:40
administration needs to depart from that
51:42
process
51:42
which is often due to a time sensitive
51:45
issue
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that that needs to be clarified in the
51:48
written materials there was also a
51:50
request
51:51
to increase communication
51:54
on these processes i of the sense being
51:57
that at times
51:59
this information about exceptions might
52:01
be communicated to some council members
52:04
such as the council leadership but may
52:06
not be shared with
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all council members in advance those
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specific guidelines are included
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in the committee's recommendation which
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is attached to the agenda bill
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the third item was regarding guidance on
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boards and commissions and the city
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council's interaction
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with the advisory boards and commissions
52:28
the committee discussed this and felt
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that there wasn't necessarily a need for
52:32
any new
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process here but a better better
52:35
communication and documentation
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of the existing processes related to the
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city interacting with the boards and
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commissions and so you'll see a new
52:44
section 7 in the council rules that talk
52:46
a little bit about
52:47
the city council's role in the
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confirmation of appointments
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um methods of communicating or sort of
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monitoring the work plans of the boards
52:55
and commissions
52:56
and communicating with the respective
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staff liaisons on items of interest
53:01
and then also clarifying the ability of
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the council
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as a group at study sessions to
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potentially relay
53:08
questions for boards and commissions to
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consider
53:11
again the specific language is provided
53:14
in the
53:14
draft rules that are attached to the new
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section 7.
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the fourth item was to address the ands
53:22
and orrs throughout the council rule
53:25
there were five that the committee
53:27
removed and
53:28
just provided some alternative language
53:31
two instances were left as is and these
53:34
are the instances that refer to the
53:35
council president
53:36
and or mayor approving agenda items
53:40
and they are essentially quotes
53:43
of uh a provision in the issaquah
53:46
municipal code
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modifying them would require an
53:49
ordinance and
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the committee uh felt that it was a
53:54
a bit more of an uh considerable change
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than the other instances and so um
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propose
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leaving those two cases as is
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the fifth item that the committee
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provided a recommendation on
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is the council new business request
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process and because it's been a couple
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of months since the
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council received an uh summary on that
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process i just wanted to
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quickly provide a few slides from that
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may 3rd presentation
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which summarizes process which is
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essentially
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that a form is submitted by a council
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member
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there is some written material provided
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to be included in the agenda packet
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in that form and a verbal presentation
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is provided
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under a new new business
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section of the council agenda which
54:45
would fall before good of the order
54:47
at that time after the verbal
54:49
presentation the council would
54:51
would vote whether to approve proceeding
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to the next step
54:55
with that additional work plan item that
54:58
next step being step two the returning
55:00
proposal
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this would get the item on the next
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council agenda
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and would allow staff the opportunity to
55:08
provide a bit of a response
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to what the city is doing other
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considerations for this item
55:14
after that second touch point by the
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council there would be another
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opportunity to vote to approve moving
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the item forward
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if there was a majority of the council
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supporting that
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then the item would become an additional
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work plan item and be scheduled
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appropriately
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uh this slide shows a form a
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potential form used for the council new
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business request
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process at this time we have a form
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drafted on the city website that would
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be
55:44
specifically for city council members to
55:46
use the form would need to be submitted
55:48
seven days in advance of the next
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council meeting so
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to be included on that agenda
55:56
so the ad hoc committee
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reviewed this process and did make some
56:01
changes
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one of those changes and this was an
56:04
addition since your packet was produced
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was adding a policy question to the
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guidelines
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um to just prompt that to be one of the
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topics that's addressed by the
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requesting council members is what is
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the policy question
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other changes were to identify some
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other options the council has to add a
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new business item
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and these are these have always been
56:24
options amending the
56:26
council agenda or providing direction
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under
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a existing work plan item that's related
56:32
to a next step or
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an element of that item so those are now
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called out
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in the policy and the policy was also
56:41
the committee also recommended policy be
56:43
clear that this is a preferred process
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but it doesn't
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preempt any other ability of the council
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to
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add a an item to a meeting agenda or
56:56
otherwise
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and then um on to the two additional
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items these weren't directly referred to
57:03
the committee but given the timeliness
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of um uh just the kovid 19 pandemic and
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the
57:09
you know the shift to by some agencies
57:11
to in-person meetings
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um uh we suggested the committee um
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consider hybrid meetings and they
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asked that the discussion be brought
57:19
forward to the full council due to the
57:20
impacts not only to the council but to
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the public and so
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that is the next item on the council
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agenda this evening
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and lastly are some minor cleanup
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provisions and these are brought forward
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by the clerk's office um
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they are are very minor in nature and
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just are some cleanup provisions
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to document current practice and
57:43
really truly clean up provision so with
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that
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the recommendation tonight by the ad hoc
57:48
committee is to approve the proposed
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revised rules
57:52
and also adopt an ordinance which would
57:55
uh
57:55
makes the corresponding changes that are
57:57
needed to um
57:59
the order of business the city council's
58:02
regular meeting order of business is
58:03
established in the municipal code so
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this change would
58:06
add the new business section make some
58:07
other minor cleanup provisions
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and that concludes my presentation
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mayor and it may be that the other
58:16
committee members would like to add
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something additional
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that is great thank you city clerk i
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also want to thank you and chief of
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staff
58:24
tina eggers for actually getting this
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original document put together a few
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years ago we were really working in the
58:30
woods for a really long time
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so thank you for that thank you for the
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presentation um
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so ad hoc committee members would you
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like to add some comments
58:39
uh before we go to uh questions and
58:42
answers
58:44
if so if you want to indicate for me in
58:45
the chat that'd be great
58:53
and if not oh there we go council member
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d michelle
58:58
well i'll just add that it was a really
59:00
good process a lot of discussion
59:02
and thanks to tina and tisha and to
59:05
wally bobkowicz as well for supporting
59:08
us
59:08
uh through uh the process of discussing
59:12
these items one by one in really logical
59:14
order
59:15
and so i really appreciate all of the
59:17
support we got
59:19
thank you that was great any other
59:22
comments from ad hoc i am going to also
59:24
open it up to questions
59:26
for the non-ad hoc members as well
59:32
okay well let's do q and a before we get
59:34
to
59:35
the um motion so council member hall has
59:38
a question
59:40
thank you this is councilmember hall
59:42
just a quick clarifying question so this
59:44
new section 7 on
59:46
boards and commissions is this just
59:48
existing
59:49
practice but just we wanted to document
59:52
it
59:52
so that way it's written down
59:55
is that right and if not correct me but
59:58
that's why i thought i heard
1:00:04
misha
1:00:08
uh mayor i'll give a short answer and
1:00:10
then i see councilmember walsh has a
1:00:11
comment so she may want to add to my
1:00:13
response but
1:00:14
it it is essentially um some of the
1:00:18
practices
1:00:19
um the sort of bulleted points about how
1:00:21
a council member can
1:00:22
um monitor the work of aborted
1:00:25
commission
1:00:26
by reaching out directly to the staff
1:00:28
liaison um
1:00:29
or providing the uh direct
1:00:33
uh sort of ask of the boarding
1:00:34
commission at a study session those have
1:00:36
been things that have been communicated
1:00:38
and done
1:00:39
but just haven't been in a written
1:00:41
policy
1:00:43
and council member welsh thanks
1:00:46
councilmember walsh
1:00:47
um i i just wanted to say it kind of
1:00:50
also came out of a conversation of what
1:00:52
should be the process
1:00:54
of putting um an
1:00:57
idea through the board and commission
1:01:00
and council and kind of when should
1:01:04
council put its ideas out there and so
1:01:06
we wanted to be cautious about the idea
1:01:08
of
1:01:10
well the we want the council to be able
1:01:13
to
1:01:14
ask questions of board so that the
1:01:17
council
1:01:17
gets its questions asked and doesn't
1:01:20
have to punt it back to a board because
1:01:22
that's not
1:01:23
the ideal situation not respectful and
1:01:25
not great for time
1:01:26
we also didn't want to presuppose
1:01:30
you know what we were going to think
1:01:31
about it and so part of it was
1:01:34
just a a caution of if you're going to
1:01:37
ask questions
1:01:38
the goal isn't to
1:01:41
lead the conversation the goal is to
1:01:46
make sure that there are questions that
1:01:48
are considered um so that the council
1:01:50
can have answers
1:01:52
and so that was just part of the the
1:01:54
conversation about that particular point
1:01:57
thank you councilmember walsh it also um
1:01:59
helps avoid
1:02:01
having to redo a public hearing when the
1:02:02
public's primary
1:02:04
opportunity might be at a border
1:02:06
commission you're making sure that
1:02:07
questions that you know
1:02:09
are going to come to mind are getting
1:02:10
dealt with which is great
1:02:12
um i do not see any other comments i'll
1:02:15
give it a few more seconds i do see
1:02:17
council member goodman's ready to make a
1:02:18
motion
1:02:22
no additional questions or comments
1:02:25
councilmember goodman
1:02:28
thank you madam councilmember goodman
1:02:29
here i would
1:02:31
move to approve resolution number
1:02:35
2021-12 amending the city council rules
1:02:38
of procedure
1:02:39
to amend various sections as recommended
1:02:41
by the council rules
1:02:42
of procedure ad hoc committee including
1:02:45
adding a new section 4.17
1:02:48
new business request and section 7
1:02:50
boards and commissions
1:02:51
and adopt ordinance number 2945 amending
1:02:54
imc
1:02:57
2.06.110 adding new business as an order
1:02:59
of business at city council meetings
1:03:01
and identifying certain orders of
1:03:03
business as only being used as immediate
1:03:06
thank you and councilmember walsh
1:03:09
second great it has been moved and
1:03:12
seconded
1:03:13
is there any further discussion
1:03:19
again i'll be looking at the chats
1:03:24
councilmember goodman okay i'll put in
1:03:28
the chat
1:03:32
right here um i just wanted to reiterate
1:03:34
what councilmember d michelle said
1:03:36
um this was just a it was just a great
1:03:39
um committee process and experience
1:03:43
in my opinion we talked a lot
1:03:46
we talked thoroughly we talked in detail
1:03:48
we had some
1:03:50
i don't know that i would call them
1:03:51
difficult conversations but i think we
1:03:54
talked things out very well
1:03:58
and listen to each other and um
1:04:01
and we just had great um
1:04:06
leader guidance i would say in from the
1:04:08
clerk's office and from
1:04:10
um city administrator so i'm
1:04:13
i do enthusiastically support this and i
1:04:16
do
1:04:17
um support all of the specific
1:04:21
changes that are being made thank you
1:04:23
very much
1:04:24
the only reason i make you use the chat
1:04:26
is because my script covers
1:04:28
all of your faces i can't see you
1:04:31
council president hunt thank you this is
1:04:34
council president hunt i wanted to
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thank the members of the ad hoc
1:04:38
committee that worked on this
1:04:40
i think a lot of thought went into the
1:04:43
work that you did
1:04:44
and that really shows i'm looking
1:04:46
forward to seeing especially how the new
1:04:49
the clarifications about how to have a
1:04:51
new business
1:04:52
item how that works out i think it makes
1:04:56
clarifications that will be really
1:04:57
useful to us going forward
1:05:00
we could previously have there were ways
1:05:03
that council could advance
1:05:04
a new business item previously but it
1:05:06
wasn't as clear
1:05:08
from our rules of procedure how one
1:05:10
would go about doing that and so i think
1:05:12
these clarifications are
1:05:14
going to be really useful to us and i
1:05:16
will be supporting this
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thank you any other comments
1:05:26
i'm going to reread the motions
1:05:31
make sure i haven't missed anybody
1:05:34
so it's been moved and seconded to
1:05:35
approve resolution number 2021-12
1:05:38
amending the city council rules or
1:05:40
procedure to amend various sections as
1:05:42
recommended by the council rules or
1:05:44
procedure ad hoc committee
1:05:45
including adding a new section 4.17 new
1:05:48
business request
1:05:49
and section 7 boards and commissions and
1:05:52
adopting ordinance number 2495
1:05:55
mending imc 2.0 6.110 adding new
1:05:58
business
1:05:59
as an order of business at city council
1:06:01
meetings and identifying certain orders
1:06:03
of business
1:06:04
is only being used as needed and i'm
1:06:06
going to ask the city clerk to do the
1:06:08
roll call vote
1:06:11
yes starting with councilmember goodman
1:06:14
hi
1:06:16
councilmember hall aye
1:06:20
council president hunt aye
1:06:25
council member walsh aye
1:06:28
and council member d michelle aye
1:06:32
that's five i zero days thank you that
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passes unanimously 5-0
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we're going to move on to the next item
1:06:39
of business which is ab-8204
1:06:41
city council hybrid meetings plan and uh
1:06:45
we're looking for
1:06:46
some direction for the administration
1:06:48
and this is the first time that this
1:06:49
item is coming before council
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i'd like to invite our city clerk back
1:06:53
to present this item
1:06:58
tasha
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yes this is a tisha geezer city clerk
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again
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um tonight i'm going to talk a little
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bit about um the city
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city's proposed hybrid beatings plan and
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its
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impacts to our city council meetings
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so uh we have been doing these remote
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meetings for a while
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as you recall the proven 19
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state of emergency was declared at the
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very end of february 2020
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and the following month the governor
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issued proclamation 20-28 which
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prohibited any in-person meeting
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of an entity that falls under the open
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public meetings act which includes the
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city council and our boards and
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commissions
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initially if you recall the city council
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was restricted
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on what sort of issues it could consider
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at its uh remote meetings and and then
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it expanded to be
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become our norm uh
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this past legislative session the
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legislature
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uh formally ratified this proclamation
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20-28 which means it's currently in
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effect
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until rescinded by the legislature or
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until the state of emergency
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is ended the proclamation has been
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modified
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numerous times throughout kovid and
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eventually the proclamation did allow
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for
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in-person an in-person component at
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two meetings depending on the
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phase of the governor's uh safe start
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uh plan however there were numerous
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restrictions
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around uh the safety requirements around
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that in-person component
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throughout kovid and today there is a
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required
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remote meeting component to all meetings
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of
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entities that fall under the opma
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but as of june 30th a number of those
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in-person meeting component restrictions
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have been
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uh reduced and so currently in this
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slide is intended to sort of show
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this point in time summary currently
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there is not
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a social distancing requirement for an
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in-person component of a meeting
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nor is there an occupancy requirement
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given this um the city is interested in
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pursuing
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uh transitioning to hybrid virtual
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in-person meetings
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a couple of the other boxes shown on
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this slide
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um show the sort of mask status as of
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today
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for these meetings the
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city staff including city council
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members
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must meet the labor and industry math
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standards which mean
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that any of us who have shown proof of
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vaccination can be unmasked
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at these meetings for the public
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um i should say so for staff and council
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members who don't share that status they
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would be wearing a mask
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and for members of the public who are
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unvaccinated they would also be required
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to wear a mask
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however the city is not required to view
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proof of their vaccination status it
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would essentially be an honor system
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under our proposed hybrid meeting plan
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and we would have some signage at the
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entrance to the meeting rooms that we
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would be using for these meetings
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providing this information and free math
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we also are not required but are
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encouraged to provide a sort of a sign
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up sheet
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that the members of the public would
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fill out in the event that contract
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tracing was needed
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and then again as i mentioned earlier
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there would not be any capacity
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or social distancing requirements
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so our current um proposal is to
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transition to this hybrid
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virtual in-person meeting um beginning
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with the
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count city council study session on july
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30th and
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at all uh city council meetings from
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then on
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and you'll be hearing more about our
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proposed plans for the city's boards and
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commissions
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at the july 27th council study session
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but i will mention that we are working
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to
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retrofit two facilities currently for
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either city council or board and
1:11:15
commission use and that is the city
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council chambers
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and tibbetts creek manor
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so what does this meeting type look like
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uh the city council chambers do look a
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little differently um the municipal
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court has
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uh been uh operating throughout covid
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and have
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uh initiated a number of virtual
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protocols and so there is some different
1:11:38
equipment in the room but by and large
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the room looks very similar to how it
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did pre-covered and the city council
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members and attending a
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regular council meeting would as usual
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be seated up at the diocese with staff
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and members of the public down on the
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floor and to the side
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uh for this virtual meeting uh the
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room being used would essentially be one
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member
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of the webex event so we would schedule
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a webex event just like we do now and
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the council chambers would be one of the
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attendees
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the in-room video would be controlled by
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ictv staff just as it was pre-covered
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which means sometimes there'd be a wide
1:12:16
shot of the room and all council members
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or there would be a close-up on the
1:12:20
council member speaking or the staff or
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member of the public speaking
1:12:24
the ictv staff would also be handling
1:12:27
the in-room audio
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so this means that city council members
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would not need to even bring a laptop
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necessarily and certainly would not need
1:12:34
to join the webex event
1:12:38
the city clerk's office and ictv staff
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would be managing the virtual aspect of
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the meeting
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for those who are attending virtually
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such as members of the public
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city staff and potentially uh council
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members
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they would show up as an entity in a
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virtual meeting just like they do today
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and they would be viewable in the
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council chambers or the
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tibbetts creek manor either from the
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screen that's behind the council members
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of the diocese or from the small
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and from the small screens in front of
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each council member
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any presentations would also be viewable
1:13:11
there as well so what this means is it
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would be a return to some of our
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in-meeting protocols
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so we wouldn't be using chat to indicate
1:13:20
a desire to speak but rather a return to
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the
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lifting of the microphones similarly we
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could return
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to voice votes it may be that if there's
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some remote participation particularly
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by council members that we would have
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some modified
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protocols for the
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webex events portion i think i just
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hopefully i described that
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fairly well the idea would be to sort of
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focus on the council chambers as much as
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possible assuming that most of the
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council attendees are in person
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and as i mentioned city staff would be
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managing
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the virtual meeting components
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i want to talk about a little bit about
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the proposed plans meeting attendance
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um the council if you recall you amended
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your rules of procedure back in
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september of 2020
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and so now they state that uh council
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members may attend meetings remotely
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while the city has is in a state of
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emergency so it's tied to the city's
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emergency declaration um of course as i
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mentioned earlier currently
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everyone is able to attend meetings
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remotely
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while a proclamation 20-28 is in place
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uh as a reminder the council rules say
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if you're attending remotely you'll
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provide advance notice
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ideally five days and then there's some
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specifics around how you'll participate
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in the meeting
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we are proposing both now and moving
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forward that city staffing consultants
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or other outside presenters could attend
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remotely or in person to present to the
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council
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and certainly the public could have the
1:14:57
option to attend in person
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or uh virtually and
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their virtual participation would very
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closely resemble how it is today
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uh in addition to us looking for your um
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endorsement of our proposed hybrid
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meetings plan uh we also
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just wanted to sort of share the
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perspective that we feel that the public
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participation
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remotely is beneficial to the community
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we feel that
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there has been strong consistent if not
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strong participation by the public
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in this virtual meeting format we've
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also made investments in technology
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equipment staff training and feel that
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it
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it would be fairly easy to continue this
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remote meeting aspect
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not just now but even into the future
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so again our our basic ask tonight is
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endorsement of this plan to move to the
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hybrid meeting format on july 30th but
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there are some additional options here
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um you could let us know that you would
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prefer to stay remote
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um while you can for the foreseeable
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future
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uh while the state of emergency is in
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place uh you could also direct us
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to um pursue sort of increasing the
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city council's ability to participate
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remotely beyond
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the state of emergency similarly
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with the public we could sort of you
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could provide direction
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for us to formalize that remote
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participation by the public
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in the city council rules of procedure
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or we can uh you can choose to let us
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know that you would
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like to have those conversations um but
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maybe
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once we sort of have an end of sight at
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this point in time we have not been able
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to get any indication
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of when of the when the state of
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emergency will be terminated
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and here again is our proposed
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recommendation tonight
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and with that i'm happy to answer any
1:16:58
questions
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thank you city clerk uh it looks like a
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council member hall has a question
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uh thank you councilmember hall here
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just a quick one and uh
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first thank you very much for all the
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hard work that went into
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putting together this proposal really
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appreciate it um and it does seem like
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the direction a lot of other
1:17:19
jurisdictions are going but my question
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is just
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with um a lot of you know you've got
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it laid out here and i just want to
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confirm that we would have the staff
1:17:29
capacity whether i see tv
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or city staff to manage a hybrid
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work plan
1:17:38
thank you council member hall um yes you
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know at
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this as i mentioned this has become our
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our norm and we've made
1:17:46
numerous investments um to make this
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happen so certainly
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in the near term and as i mentioned it
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looks like city administrator bob quits
1:17:53
might have a comment here we
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we do feel like we could manage this for
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the city council
1:17:58
on an ongoing basis see the
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administrator did you want to add
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uh yes uh madam mayor members of the
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council good evening uh
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thanks to the the city clerk uh and our
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rit staff they're doing a tremendous job
1:18:12
i guess i just want to add the caveat
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that you know this is a lot of work um
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and this is certainly
1:18:18
a dimension that we didn't have 15
1:18:21
months ago
1:18:23
through our talents and staff they have
1:18:25
made it
1:18:26
as easy as possible i am concerned that
1:18:29
once we're back in the room there's
1:18:30
going to be a lot of things to juggle
1:18:32
and so i guess i would just put the
1:18:34
caveat there that we want
1:18:35
the experience to be as similar to the
1:18:39
previous experience
1:18:40
before march 2020 as possible but
1:18:43
there's a lot more components and so
1:18:44
we'll do our best i think we
1:18:46
we're leveraging technology uh to the
1:18:48
greatest extent possible but they're
1:18:50
still as human beings that are needed
1:18:52
to make all this run and so we'll keep
1:18:54
the council posted
1:18:55
uh i think the timing of this will give
1:18:57
us uh a nice dry run
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um uh at a regular meeting on like a
1:19:02
second that'll give us a few weeks to
1:19:05
work on any issues that arise so as we
1:19:07
go into the september
1:19:08
lots of meetings budget uh some land use
1:19:11
things coming up toward the end of the
1:19:12
year
1:19:13
uh we're going to need to be as nimble
1:19:14
as possible so
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i just added that caveat but the work
1:19:18
that uh
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the city clerk has done the work that
1:19:21
rit staff our
1:19:22
our tv staff have done has been
1:19:24
outstanding
1:19:28
thank you city administrator i'm not
1:19:29
seeing any other
1:19:31
questions in the chat i'll give it a few
1:19:34
seconds and if somebody is
1:19:39
intending to make a motion please let me
1:19:41
know that in the chat as well council
1:19:50
member
1:19:50
walsh with a comment in a question
1:19:56
i guess i'm trying to decide if i want
1:19:57
to i guess i can wait until after the
1:20:00
motion because it's kind of a discussion
1:20:02
point so oh wait
1:20:04
uh relevant to the motion or something
1:20:06
else something different
1:20:08
um well relevant to the
1:20:11
conversation but not necessarily it's
1:20:13
not an amendment to the motion or
1:20:15
anything like that
1:20:17
okay uh let's go to council president
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hunt
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thank you this is council president hunt
1:20:25
i move to direct
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the administration to proceed with the
1:20:28
proposed hybrid in-person virtual
1:20:30
meeting plan as presented and returned
1:20:32
to the city council with minor
1:20:34
modifications
1:20:35
the city council rules a procedure to
1:20:37
reflect the ability of the public to
1:20:38
make
1:20:39
comments virtually on an ongoing basis
1:20:43
and council member hall second that
1:20:46
motion
1:20:47
that's great um councilmember walsh
1:20:49
would you want to
1:20:51
start this conversation then or do you
1:20:52
want me to go to the motion maker
1:20:55
start with the motion maker okay council
1:20:58
president
1:20:58
uh hunt did you have any comments
1:21:01
um thank you this is council president
1:21:03
hunt i do think that
1:21:05
having the public be able to make
1:21:08
virtual
1:21:10
comments and to attend meetings
1:21:12
virtually
1:21:13
will allow more people that aren't able
1:21:17
to
1:21:17
imper to come in person to to
1:21:19
participate
1:21:20
in the process and so i think that um is
1:21:23
a
1:21:23
is a benefit i also thank all the staff
1:21:26
that i know it will be extra work
1:21:28
um as the administrator bob quits
1:21:30
mentions it's it's a lot of work to make
1:21:32
that
1:21:33
um happen so i appreciate that and um
1:21:36
i i do think it's beneficial for people
1:21:38
that
1:21:39
have to work in you know at their job
1:21:42
site in close proximity to the time of
1:21:43
the meeting for example they can't
1:21:45
physically get here they would still be
1:21:46
able to comment and
1:21:47
there are many sorts of circumstances
1:21:49
like that so i think
1:21:51
i think this would benefit those folks
1:21:53
while still allowing
1:21:54
people that can come to comment in
1:21:55
person to come in person
1:21:58
um so i think those would be my comments
1:22:01
on the in-person
1:22:02
public participation point i also think
1:22:05
that
1:22:06
there may be times where council members
1:22:10
due to unforeseen circumstances and sort
1:22:13
of rare but reasonable
1:22:16
exceptions to the rule might be
1:22:18
considered to
1:22:20
attend virtually so i'd be interested to
1:22:23
hear what my fellow council members
1:22:24
think about that
1:22:25
i understand that in person um is is
1:22:28
much easier to facilitate
1:22:29
a good conversation in person and i i
1:22:31
understand that
1:22:32
um i also think there might be
1:22:33
exceptions to that that we could
1:22:35
consider
1:22:36
and i'm looking forward to hearing what
1:22:38
uh all of my fellow council members
1:22:40
think on this including council member
1:22:42
walsh who i know has a comment
1:22:44
thanks okay i'm going to give council
1:22:46
member hal
1:22:47
seconder a chance to comment if he wants
1:22:49
to and then i'll go to councilman walsh
1:22:54
uh sure this is councilmember hall and
1:22:56
just real quick um
1:22:57
uh all of your cameras have turned off
1:22:59
on my screen i seem to be experiencing
1:23:01
some internet difficulties at the moment
1:23:03
so i'm just gonna assume you're all
1:23:04
still there um
1:23:06
i heard the council president hunt's
1:23:08
comments though
1:23:09
and i agree i think this is an excellent
1:23:11
opportunity
1:23:12
for us to bring in some best practices
1:23:16
from the pandemic in terms of how are we
1:23:19
breaking down barriers for people to
1:23:20
participate in the public process
1:23:23
um so um very encouraged
1:23:27
to see that as part of this proposal and
1:23:29
then also i mean the same goes for
1:23:32
city staff's ability to not return home
1:23:34
past midnight
1:23:36
so um i see that also as a net benefit
1:23:38
too
1:23:39
um i will be supporting the motion this
1:23:44
evening
1:23:44
thanks thank you councilmember
1:23:46
councilmember walsh
1:23:48
thank you um so much
1:23:52
like uh council president pent and
1:23:54
council member hall
1:23:55
i appreciate the um
1:23:59
the increase in potential increase in
1:24:01
engagement
1:24:02
um for public being able to attend
1:24:05
virtually whether that's
1:24:07
parents who have to care for children or
1:24:09
people who have to
1:24:10
work i also think this is a great
1:24:13
opportunity
1:24:14
to support our staff um in not having to
1:24:17
stay
1:24:18
late not only after their working hours
1:24:21
but
1:24:22
into the night for meetings for the most
1:24:24
part
1:24:25
um i guess the the area that i'm looking
1:24:29
to have a discussion on is
1:24:33
um council members and kind of that
1:24:36
virtual attendance because i think we've
1:24:39
seen
1:24:40
in certain cities around the region that
1:24:45
you know they've run into some problems
1:24:47
with this
1:24:48
um whether it was you know people moving
1:24:51
out of the area or going on extended
1:24:53
vacations and things like that
1:24:56
um and so i'm wondering what
1:25:00
we're looking at as a way to
1:25:05
kind of free handle some of those
1:25:08
situations whether it would be a limited
1:25:11
number of
1:25:13
virtual meetings or only by
1:25:17
you know late notice or something like
1:25:19
that
1:25:20
i think in general we've certainly
1:25:24
handled virtual quite well
1:25:27
um from staff and council member um
1:25:30
experience but i wonder how that would
1:25:32
work if it's just
1:25:34
one council member um off to the side
1:25:37
and so i wonder
1:25:39
what um what other council members
1:25:43
think because i'm not i think it's
1:25:46
it could be a good opportunity but i see
1:25:48
some potential pitfalls that i want to
1:25:50
make sure we're
1:25:52
considering thank you councilmember
1:25:55
walsh
1:25:55
i'm going to look to council member d
1:25:58
michelle or goodman
1:25:59
to see if they want to comment before we
1:26:01
circle back around
1:26:03
uh councilmember d michelle and then
1:26:04
councilmember goodman
1:26:08
uh thank you mayor paulie uh just just
1:26:11
some
1:26:11
uh general comments um i've
1:26:14
personally been experiencing hybrid
1:26:16
meetings for about four weeks now with
1:26:18
the kiwanis
1:26:20
club of this aqua has been doing it and
1:26:23
uh city administrator bob schwitz is
1:26:26
absolutely right it takes a lot more
1:26:28
time setting up the technology and
1:26:30
making sure
1:26:31
the technology is working well and
1:26:33
everybody can hear each other
1:26:35
but that said the meetings have gone
1:26:38
surprisingly well
1:26:39
we have between 25 and 35
1:26:43
people who attend those meetings and
1:26:44
we've been able to hold conversations
1:26:46
and discussions and
1:26:49
small group get-togethers and we've done
1:26:52
many things
1:26:53
through the hybrid method and they've
1:26:55
worked well
1:26:56
and we've had ability for all of us to
1:26:59
talk to each other so
1:27:01
i think this is going to go better than
1:27:03
we think it might
1:27:05
and i also think it's a learning
1:27:06
experience just like when we first got
1:27:08
on virtual meetings we're going to be
1:27:11
learning for
1:27:12
the first few meetings um that we're
1:27:14
doing hybrids
1:27:15
so um i do think that if there's
1:27:19
anything good that came out of the kovit
1:27:22
19 experience for us it was the fact
1:27:25
that more and more people have been able
1:27:27
to
1:27:27
participate in government and i'm
1:27:30
i understand my understanding is that
1:27:33
the state legislature
1:27:34
has definitely pledged that they will be
1:27:36
doing hybrid meetings well into the
1:27:38
future so that
1:27:40
people across the state can participate
1:27:42
uh
1:27:43
in the deliberations in olympia and i
1:27:45
think
1:27:46
uh there are many many options for
1:27:49
allowing more people to participate in
1:27:51
our meetings so i
1:27:52
i really support this um in terms of
1:27:55
um councilmember
1:27:59
uh council members uh coming in remotely
1:28:02
in the future
1:28:03
uh i think uh councilman walsh raises a
1:28:05
lot of good questions
1:28:07
i think there are certain i think we
1:28:08
should just carefully define
1:28:10
the circumstances under which
1:28:13
we can have that option but i think
1:28:15
there are some
1:28:17
cases where it would be very appropriate
1:28:20
and again
1:28:21
allow for more participation uh even
1:28:24
among council members
1:28:26
in meetings that they might not be able
1:28:28
to attend otherwise
1:28:30
um so i think that if we could proceed
1:28:32
forward with defining
1:28:34
what uh what those uh circumstances are
1:28:37
that we think are appropriate
1:28:39
for remote attendance i think it would
1:28:41
be a good thing for us to explore
1:28:44
um so i would support uh doing that in
1:28:47
the future as well
1:28:48
so i support the motion and and i
1:28:51
i think we're we're venturing into brand
1:28:55
new territory here we go again
1:28:59
thank you councilmember d michelle
1:29:00
councilmember goodman
1:29:02
thank you councilmember goodman here um
1:29:05
i support
1:29:06
the definitely support um
1:29:09
the allowing the public to um
1:29:12
participate um in these
1:29:16
remote ways i think that's been great
1:29:17
and i would hope that we would continue
1:29:19
that
1:29:20
um it's you know also people
1:29:23
don't sometimes can't leave their house
1:29:26
can't get down to council chambers
1:29:28
so it's not just um whether they have to
1:29:30
take care of the kids or they're
1:29:32
working late or something some people
1:29:34
just can't leave and if you don't have
1:29:36
the remote option then they can't
1:29:37
participate
1:29:38
in terms of council members
1:29:43
my thought is that it's not set in stone
1:29:46
but
1:29:47
my i kind of feel like council members
1:29:50
should attend in person
1:29:52
um when they're in town
1:29:55
and i think if we're on vacation
1:29:58
generally we're on vacation um i'm not
1:30:02
at this point super supportive of
1:30:05
providing
1:30:06
a whole lot of flexibility to council
1:30:07
members that so said
1:30:09
um you know there's a lot in the news
1:30:11
about um
1:30:12
states that are having a mask up again
1:30:14
and then delta variant and so
1:30:16
we don't know that this is going to be
1:30:17
where we're going to be in another eight
1:30:18
weeks or three months or whatever it is
1:30:21
it's just very hard to predict so um
1:30:24
as we move forward towards
1:30:27
the idea of hopefully getting back to
1:30:30
normal
1:30:31
um those would be my thoughts once we're
1:30:34
back
1:30:34
to normal um um
1:30:38
you already know that i can't attend
1:30:40
that retreat on the 30th
1:30:42
um because i had something else on my
1:30:43
calendar um
1:30:45
so i would appreciate being able to
1:30:47
monitor that remotely
1:30:49
um but we're not quite to september yet
1:30:51
so hopefully
1:30:52
um you'll allow me to do that but i
1:30:54
think when we're all done and out of the
1:30:56
emergency
1:30:57
state and we are comfortable being back
1:31:00
to normal
1:31:01
and being in person i do think that
1:31:03
council members
1:31:04
when they're in town should go to the
1:31:05
meetings and i think that would probably
1:31:07
eliminate
1:31:08
most of the concerns about moving away
1:31:11
and
1:31:12
extended vacations and things like that
1:31:14
anyway those are just my thoughts for
1:31:15
now thank you
1:31:17
thank you councilman goodman city clerk
1:31:19
i have a question for you
1:31:21
and that is um there was several changes
1:31:24
recommended
1:31:25
and then a discussion about um
1:31:29
council member in person attendance what
1:31:32
do you need from the council this
1:31:33
evening on
1:31:33
council member in person attendance
1:31:37
thank you mayor um i've been making
1:31:39
notes of your comments and i think
1:31:41
what we would propose is returning at a
1:31:43
at a future meeting
1:31:45
potentially potentially a study session
1:31:48
or council meeting to put together a
1:31:51
proposal
1:31:52
on the council remote attendance so i
1:31:54
don't
1:31:55
think there needs to be a modified
1:31:56
motion at this time i've noted the
1:31:58
feedback
1:31:59
that's great thank you very much um
1:32:02
council member hall i see that you are
1:32:03
not going to be making a comment right
1:32:05
now
1:32:05
and i'm just looking to see if there are
1:32:08
any more comments or questions before
1:32:10
someone would like to make a motion
1:32:13
if you could put that in the chat that
1:32:14
would be great
1:32:23
and mayor this is pisa clarify that the
1:32:26
motion is on the floor
1:32:29
oh sorry lost my way no more comments or
1:32:32
questions before we vote on the motion
1:32:35
okay looking for comments or questions
1:32:37
otherwise i'll reread the motion for
1:32:38
everybody
1:32:40
not seeing any more so the motion that
1:32:43
it's been moved and seconded is to
1:32:44
direct the administration to proceed
1:32:46
with the proposed hybrid in-person slash
1:32:49
virtual meeting plan as presented
1:32:51
and returned to the city council with
1:32:52
minor modifications to the city council
1:32:54
rules of procedure
1:32:56
to reflect the ability of the public to
1:32:58
make comments virtually on an ongoing
1:32:59
basis and i'll turn it back over to the
1:33:01
city clerk for a roll call vote
1:33:06
beginning with council member hall
1:33:09
aye council president hunt
1:33:13
i council member walsh
1:33:17
i council member d michelle
1:33:20
i council member goodman
1:33:26
that's five eyes zero nays thank you
1:33:30
that passes unanimously
1:33:32
the next item on our agenda this evening
1:33:34
is good of the order
1:33:35
and if you have something for good of
1:33:37
the order please indicate in the chat
1:33:39
and while i'm waiting to see if there's
1:33:41
anything i'll go over a couple of
1:33:42
upcoming council meetings
1:33:44
so there will be a city council study
1:33:46
session tuesday july 27th with potential
1:33:49
agenda items including the sign code
1:33:51
city leadership and services update
1:33:54
munis reimplementation
1:33:56
and the boards and commission's future
1:33:58
meetings format
1:34:00
there is a city council special study
1:34:02
session
1:34:03
on strategy and budget planning a
1:34:06
strategy and budget planning workshop
1:34:08
on friday july 30th dinner will be
1:34:11
provided for council members at 5 30 pm
1:34:13
and the meeting will begin at 6 pm city
1:34:16
clerk can i confirm that that
1:34:18
one is likely to be at tibbetts creek
1:34:20
manor or is it council chambers
1:34:23
if it's creek manor thank you
1:34:26
and on august 2nd the regular city
1:34:29
council meeting
1:34:30
willing potential agenda items including
1:34:32
the revenue forecast
1:34:34
the recovery coordinator update on the
1:34:37
american rescue plan act funding
1:34:40
snoqualmie tribe ancestral land lands
1:34:43
movement update
1:34:44
and the establishment of the equity
1:34:46
board
1:34:47
and i'm not seeing anything else for
1:34:49
good of the order in the chat
1:34:51
so we will move on to our next item
1:34:53
which is an executive session
1:34:55
and as earlier mentioned there will be
1:34:57
an executive session held this evening
1:34:59
to discuss
1:35:00
pending or potential litigation for rcw
1:35:03
42.30
1:35:05
0.110 paren one for an
1:35:08
i and the item is expected to last 20
1:35:10
minutes no
1:35:11
action is anticipated to follow an open
1:35:14
session
1:35:15
as a reminder executive sessions are
1:35:17
closed to the public and we will now
1:35:18
recess
1:35:19
into the executive session at 8 35 pm
1:35:22
and i'd ask the city clerk to move the
1:35:24
city council
1:35:25
into a separate session within this
1:35:27
meeting anyone who's not part of the
1:35:29
closed session will remain in the main
1:35:31
can may remain in the main meeting
1:35:33
you're welcome to stay in the meeting
1:35:35
until it is reconvened
1:35:37
uh so city clerk are we um
1:35:42
removing attendees from the meeting
1:35:46
yes give me just one more moment thank
1:35:54
you
1:36:03
you