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Monday, October 4, 2021

7:00 PM · 1h 28m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Transit Oriented Development Opportunity Center Housing Cooperation Agreement Make Recommendation ID 1878 1/2
King County Senior Center Grant AB 8923 1/2
Hauling and Street Waste Disposal Contract AB 8736 1/3
Solid Waste Contract AB 8220 1/4
Washington State Dept. of Commerce Housing Action Plan and Implementation (HAPI) Grant AB 8262 1/2
Proposed 2022 Budget & Salary Ordinance AB 8198 2/3
City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 28, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 4, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 15, 2021
Proposed 2022 Budget: Levy & Revenue Sources AB 8199 1/2
Proposed 2022 Budget: Revenue Sources - Utility Tax for Sammamish Plateau Water District Customers AB 8247 1/2
Proposed 2022 Budget: Revenue Sources - Amending Community Planning and Development Fees AB 8231 1/2
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First for Roll Call Vote: Hall
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3a
King County Issaquah Recovery Center Update ID 0965
packet pp.7
Staff report:
Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov
7. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
7a
Solid Waste Contract Update ID 0945
packet pp.9–22
Staff report:
Public Works staff is providing an informational update to City Council on the competitive process for the new Solid Waste Hauling and Processing Contract that will begin on July 1, 2023.
8. CONSENT CALENDAR
8c
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, July 30, 2021
Approve · packet pp.61–64
Staff report:
The purpose of this special meeting was for the City Council to conduct a strategy and budget planning workshop. Please note, this agenda also serves as the special meeting notice pursuant to RCW 42.30.080.
8d
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 7, 2021
Approve · packet pp.65
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR d) 09-07-21 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting September 7, 2021 MINUTES
8e
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 7, 2021
Approve · packet pp.67–70
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR e) 09-07-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting September 7, 2021 MINUTES
8f
2021 Water Main Replacement Project AB 8174
Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.71–73
8i
Memorandum of Agreement with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ratify AB 8257
packet pp.89–94
Staff report:
Amid rising COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations, and deaths, on August 9, 2021, the State of Washington, King County, and the City of Seattle announced that they would require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-October. Following this announcement on August 10, 2021, the City of Issaquah announced a similar mandatory vaccination requirement for non-represented staff and began negotiating the mandatory vaccination requirement with represented staff. On August 20, 2021, the City Administrator and Mayor formally issued the mandatory vaccination requirement in an updated COVID-19 Administrative Order. The updated Administrative Order recognized the continued obligation to bargain with represented groups regarding mandatory vaccinations.
8j
Washington State Dept. of Commerce Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Grant AB 8259
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.95–96
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
The Administration recommends authorizing submittal of the Washington State Department of Commerce Transit- Oriented Development Implementation grant application.
8k
National Council on Aging Grant AB 8260
Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.97–108
Staff report:
Appropriately managing chronic pain experienced by older adults is an important goal for health care providers and anyone working with older adults in community-based settings. Balancing the need for effective pain management while preventing medication misuse, abuse, and addiction must be an integral component of achieving this goal.
8l
Aging and Disability Services Grant AB 8261
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.109–111
Staff report:
The Aging Mastery Program (AMP) is an evidence-informed enrichment program developed by National Council on Aging (NCOA) that encourages adults to take steps to support happiness and longevity. AMP includes 10 topics, covered over a number of weekly sessions, that pairs information on physical health, financial health and life enrichment with action steps and activities.
9. PUBLIC HEARING
9a
Proposed 2022 Budget & Salary Ordinance AB 8198
Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.115–331
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
The Administration recommends the City Council conduct the public hearings and adopt the budget and salary ordinances.
9b
Proposed 2022 Budget: Levy & Revenue Sources AB 8199
Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.333–350
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The City's authority to impose a property tax is derived from the Washington State Constitution and described in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapters 84.52 and 84.55. The revenues from property tax are considered general government revenues. That means that this money is placed in the General Fund and can be used for any basic governmental service or goods such as public safety, planning, parks, or administration.
10. REGULAR BUSINESS
10a
Proposed 2022 Budget: Revenue Sources - Amending Community Planning and Development Fees AB 8231
Carried 7-0
Introduce; Forward to Nov. 1, 2021 Council · packet pp.351–366
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Permitting fees are adopted in the Issaquah Municipal Code (IMC) 3.64 and 16.04. IMC 3.64 establishes land use and site work permit fees and the fees for building/plumbing/mechanical permits and inspections are in the Construction Administrative Code in IMC 16.04.
Roll call:
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
10b
Proposed 2022 Budget: Revenue Sources - Utility Tax for Sammamish Plateau Water District Customers AB 8247
Carried 7-0
Introduce; Forward to Nov. 1 Council · packet pp.367–372
Topics: WaterBudget
Staff report:
The State empowers cities and towns to levy utility taxes through the same general authority that allows the collection of the business and occupation (B&O) tax. It is important to distinguish the difference between utility rates and utility tax rates. While utility rates support the utilities themselves, utility tax revenues accrue to the General Fund and can be used for general government purposes. Utility taxes are levied upon the gross operating revenues of both public and private utilities and are typically passed directly onto the rate payers by the utilities themselves.
Roll call:
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
10c
Boards & Commissions Stipend Policy AB 8230
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.373–377
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
As part of the Human Services Commission’s review and
11. GOOD OF THE ORDER
11a
Budget Deliberation Schedule
Topics: Budget
11b
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:00 everyone i'm going to call the october
0:02 4th city of issaquah council meeting to
0:04 order
0:06 and due to the governor's proclamation
0:08 20-28 relating to the covet-19 emergency
0:11 and open public meetings
0:13 this meeting is being held entirely
0:15 remotely this evening
0:17 at this point we'll take a moment to
0:19 take a roll call of the council members
0:20 in attendance so please stay here when i
0:22 call your name
0:23 councilmember d michelle
0:25 here
0:27 thank you councilmember goodman here
0:29 thank you councilmember hall here
0:32 thanks council president hunt
0:35 here
0:36 thank you
0:38 uh council member marks
0:39 here
0:40 thank you deputy council president ray
0:43 yeah
0:44 great and council member walsh
0:46 here
0:47 thank you all seven of our council
0:49 members are in attendance this evening
0:51 the next item on our agenda is the
0:53 pledge of allegiance and i welcome you
0:55 to join me in the pledge of allegiance
0:56 but can you please keep your microphones
0:58 needed thank you
1:01 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
1:03 united states of america and to the
1:06 republic for which it stands one nation
1:09 under god indivisible with liberty and
1:12 justice for all
1:15 the next item on our agenda this evening
1:18 is a special business item it's id 0965
1:22 and it's the king county issaquah
1:24 recovery center update and i'd like to
1:27 invite king county department of
1:28 community and human services director
1:30 leo flor to provide a brief overview on
1:33 the use of the former issaquah holiday
1:36 inn
1:37 leo
1:41 uh good evening madam mayor and members
1:43 of the council again my name is leo
1:46 floor and i have the privilege of
1:47 directing king county's department of
1:48 community and human services
1:50 and i'm here tonight uh briefly to say
1:53 thank you
1:54 uh thank you to the city of issaquah uh
1:57 thank you uh to you madam mayor and to
2:00 this council
2:01 uh one of the
2:03 uh privileges i've had over the last uh
2:06 18 or 19 months now
2:08 is overseeing with our public health
2:10 partners
2:11 uh the administration of our county's
2:13 isolation and quarantine system for
2:16 persons who don't have the ability to or
2:18 a home of their own in which to isolate
2:19 our quarantine
2:21 uh this has been a really successful
2:24 part of our county-wide response which
2:27 has been
2:28 also really successful um i think the
2:31 stats are out there but they make me
2:32 proud every time i say them that as a
2:34 county and as a region
2:36 we've had the lowest rate of both
2:38 coveted illness and coveted death of any
2:40 major metropolitan area on the
2:42 continental united states
2:44 and i don't attribute that all to our
2:46 isolation quarantine system but
2:48 particularly
2:49 for folks who don't have access to a
2:51 home of their own this was a key part of
2:54 so on behalf of king county executive
2:57 doug constantine on behalf of our public
3:00 health seattle king county
3:02 director dennis worsham and certainly on
3:03 behalf
3:04 of my own department i wanted to say
3:07 thank you and share a couple quick stats
3:09 just in case folks wanted to know just
3:11 how much of an impact
3:12 the hotel in issaquah had
3:16 to date we've provided isolation and
3:18 quarantine for 2
3:20 900 folks who have not had the ability
3:23 to to do that in a home of their own
3:25 uh and of and that's across the entire
3:28 system there were at the peak of the
3:29 system five different facilities that
3:32 were operating um but none has done more
3:34 than the issaquah facility uh in the
3:37 city of visakha we had 2057 total guests
3:40 over the course of 17 months so more
3:42 than two-thirds
3:44 of all folks who isolated or quarantined
3:47 in a facility run by king county
3:49 um did it in issaquah
3:52 uh of the folks who stayed certainly
3:54 there were a high number of folks who
3:57 were unsheltered so 73 percent of uh
4:00 persons who received isolation and
4:01 quarantine uh were homeless but uh 37
4:04 had homes
4:06 um and in many cases in either case uh
4:08 it was the fact that they didn't have a
4:10 place where they could be
4:12 by themselves and not put other people
4:14 at risk or they might not have even had
4:16 a home
4:17 that really made this important
4:19 uh the average stay was about 7.8 days
4:22 and it was at the issaquah facility
4:24 where we really learned how to to work
4:26 better uh with our guests uh so that
4:29 they would be able to stay all the way
4:30 to the end of their medically
4:33 required period of isolation in
4:34 quarantine and we saw the highest rate
4:36 of success of that at the issaquah hotel
4:38 uh we also like to joke that we even had
4:40 a bobcat show up at one point
4:42 hotel we found it under a bush and it
4:45 was next to an empty can of red bull
4:47 although i'm not ready to say that it
4:49 consumed the red bull itself
4:51 um and so uh there were a lot of neat
4:54 stories and statistics this is intended
4:57 to be brief and so
4:59 uh what i really and we have now
5:01 concluded our use of the hotel um and we
5:03 have ended the lease i believe it is
5:06 back with its owners for whatever future
5:07 use they will have
5:09 and i just wanted to mayor paulia there
5:12 were a couple occasions where i had to
5:14 give you a phone call and ask a question
5:16 or give you an update
5:18 but at every turn our staff and
5:20 certainly it was my experience that the
5:22 city of issaquah was a welcoming place
5:25 it helped us help thousands of people in
5:28 a once in a generation pandemic
5:30 and it is my pleasure on behalf of all
5:33 of king county uh to thank you for
5:35 playing host to this facility that could
5:38 not have been more important we're still
5:40 doing this work but the numbers are much
5:42 lower now and i'm grateful for the
5:44 chance to come here and express king
5:46 county's gratitude to the city of
5:48 issaquah
5:50 well thank you leo um
5:52 i just appreciate again you taking the
5:55 time to come and share the information
5:58 the statistics and the sort of the scope
6:00 and scale of what
6:05 accomplished here
6:06 uh we were excited to work with king
6:08 county um you were amazingly responsive
6:11 uh you
6:12 felt very free to call me whenever you
6:14 wanted evening
6:15 early morning and that was great because
6:17 you kept me in the loop and it really
6:19 felt like a strong partnership i also
6:20 want to thank you step fire and rescue
6:22 and our police department as well for
6:23 just rounding out all of the folks and
6:25 teams that were involved so thank you
6:27 very much
6:28 for coming tonight and sharing this with
6:30 the council in our community it was
6:31 great
6:33 have a great night
6:37 the next item of business this evening
6:39 is audience comments and for those of
6:41 you who have submitted the online form
6:42 to make comments your name will be
6:44 called shortly
6:45 for those who have joined us tonight and
6:47 would like to make comments but did not
6:48 sign up in advance please raise your
6:50 virtual hand
6:52 if you're on the phone press star 3 if
6:54 you have joined by
6:56 computer or star phone look for a hand
6:58 icon and this can vary by device one
7:01 option may go to be to go to the
7:03 participant panel and choose the raise
7:05 hand icon in the lower right hand corner
7:08 we're also going to have two public
7:10 hearings tonight on ab-8198
7:13 the proposed 22
7:14 2022 budget and salary ordinance and
7:18 ab-8199 the proposed 2022 budget levy
7:22 and revenue sources
7:24 comments on these topics must be made
7:27 under the public hearings that will be
7:28 occurring later in the meeting
7:30 to be clear has anyone signed up to
7:32 speak for general audience comments or
7:34 indicated a desire to speak this evening
7:37 yes
7:39 that is great so for those making
7:40 comments please make sure to direct your
7:42 comments to the whole council and not to
7:44 individuals
7:45 and while this is not a question and
7:47 answer session we will contact you to
7:48 follow up if needed when you are
7:50 recognized please unmute your microphone
7:53 state your name address and relationship
7:55 to the city and speak clearly and pause
7:58 frequently
7:59 limit your comments to five minutes and
8:02 re-mute your microphone when you're done
8:04 if you do not respond after your name or
8:06 phone number is called or if your
8:08 connection is lost unexpectedly the
8:10 meeting will need to proceed you are
8:12 encouraged to rejoin the meeting of abel
8:15 personal attacks obscene language
8:17 derogatory remarks and disruptive
8:19 behavior will not be permitted
8:21 citizen comments written and verbal are
8:23 an important aspect of the public
8:25 process and the city takes these
8:26 comments very seriously
8:28 we thank you for taking the time to come
8:30 and address us tonight
8:32 city clerk could you
8:35 please identify the first person who
8:36 signed up to speak tonight
8:39 yes certainly the first person is shane
8:41 nicholson
8:42 shane i see that you've called in by
8:44 phone tonight so in just a moment here i
8:46 will go ahead and unmute you and you
8:48 will have the floor
8:52 okay your mic is live
8:59 shane
9:01 can you hear me
9:03 yes we can thank you kane
9:05 hi yeah my name is shane nicholson and
9:08 i'm actually
9:10 an employee with the city of issaquah
9:12 and i just kind of wanted to you know
9:15 give a little input on the new
9:19 um kovid 19 the vaccination mandates and
9:23 uh you know just a little
9:25 thought from the people that actually
9:27 this is you know really affecting
9:31 you know
9:32 the city issaquah they pride themselves
9:34 on equity and you know treating people
9:36 the same and
9:38 all that but
9:40 you know this mandate
9:42 and my position uh
9:44 at this point it almost feels like
9:46 profiling um
9:49 you know putting me in a group of people
9:51 that
9:52 you know might not align with the same
9:54 views as others and then basically
9:57 discarding them
10:00 without any feeling you know i mean at
10:03 this point the city esqua seems to have
10:05 no regards for
10:07 the feelings of those that you know want
10:13 take their medical freedom and make a
10:15 decision to do something that you know
10:18 could or could not never know could be a
10:21 lifelong impact and uh
10:24 you know i just
10:27 you know i used to
10:28 go to work with pry and you know
10:31 and do my job and um
10:34 you know i loved it i loved the city of
10:36 but
10:38 now with all this mandate stuff and i'm
10:41 i'm not the only one and i'm seeing it
10:42 all over the place but um
10:45 you know
10:46 that kind of uh pressure and force is
10:49 really driving the uh
10:53 you know the morale and the
10:57 the ethic of work and all that around
10:59 the city and um i'm just kind of curious
11:02 like
11:04 what the you know position of the city
11:06 is in regards to
11:08 losing that many employees and
11:11 what's going to happen to the the
11:14 service you know you guys are saying
11:16 that you
11:17 want to help and protect the public but
11:20 at the time of you know snow and flood
11:22 season when you're down
11:24 a majority of your employees and
11:27 not only just the people that aren't
11:29 getting vaccinated but those that are
11:30 vaccinated and the ones that are looking
11:32 for new jobs because they're
11:36 you know
11:36 they don't like the way
11:38 things are going and
11:41 you know what are you guys gonna do in
11:43 the in the winter time or in the flood
11:45 season or anything like that and i feel
11:48 like um
11:49 you know
11:50 on that aspect you guys aren't
11:52 protecting the public
11:53 you're you know that's to hurt a lot of
11:56 people or potentially it could so
12:00 yeah i just really wanted to
12:03 kind of give my two cents and how i feel
12:06 and you know it's almost the whole thing
12:09 for employees that
12:11 aren't getting vaccinated um
12:14 it just this feels like pure pressure
12:16 and uh
12:18 you know i've never succumbed to peer
12:20 pressure
12:21 when it was come you know what
12:23 in school age drugs and alcohol you know
12:27 never succumb to peer pressure and if
12:29 it's something that goes against how i
12:31 feel at the time
12:33 i'm not gonna do it and
12:35 that's my right and that's everybody
12:37 else is right
12:39 and
12:40 for
12:41 you know my employer to make a
12:44 a decision about my body
12:47 this should never happen i mean
12:50 it's it's gone way too far
12:53 and and another thing it's like
12:56 you know i've already had covet and
12:59 day by day there's more studies more
13:02 research about those that have had you
13:04 know have have the antibodies and are
13:07 naturally immune it's just
13:09 it's the same as
13:11 the polio and the um
13:15 the measles vaccine
13:17 they say
13:18 if you've already had it
13:20 don't get the vaccine so i just don't
13:23 quite understand
13:25 the position and the difference
13:28 you know
13:31 it's all happening way too fast and it's
13:34 not getting those people that you know
13:37 take a little longer to make decisions
13:40 and uh
13:42 you know i i don't impulse buy anything
13:45 this feels to me like an impulse buy and
13:48 it's something that i don't want to do
13:50 and i shouldn't be forced to
13:53 to either do something against my will
13:55 or feed my family
13:59 so i mean those are all things that i
14:02 feel like should be taking in to
14:03 consider taking into consideration
14:06 just on a human rights standpoint and uh
14:09 you know an equity standpoint if that's
14:11 really what the city of issaquah
14:13 believes
14:15 but i mean
14:17 from what i can see equity is not
14:20 a thing it's
14:22 you're told what to do and if you don't
14:23 align then you're
14:26 discarded without any care so that's all
14:30 i have
14:32 thank you shane
14:34 city clerk is there anyone else signed
14:35 up to speak this evening
14:37 yes tonight next person signed up is
14:40 mike bevins mike i see you're also on
14:42 the phone so in just a moment here i'll
14:45 unmute you
14:50 all right your mic should be open
14:59 mike can you hear us
15:07 mike uh you may also need to unmute your
15:11 cell phone if you had muted that as well
15:25 options for unmuting the cell phone star
15:27 3 or star 6
15:29 well i've i've unmuted mike in webex so
15:33 the only thing he may need to do is
15:36 unmute his actual phone if he had sort
15:39 of a double mute
15:43 and let me just try something real quick
15:45 here
15:47 um also i guess while we're waiting for
15:49 mike um if there's anyone else on the
15:51 line who'd like to make comments tonight
15:54 please raise your virtual hand on the
15:56 phone press star 3
16:00 if you're here in webex on a computer
16:02 please press the small hand icon
16:05 and while i'm monitoring that mike i'm
16:08 going to try unmuting you one more time
16:13 and your mic is open
16:22 all right um still no response from mike
16:25 and i'm monitoring
16:28 the
16:28 folks we have on the line with us
16:30 tonight and i'm not seeing anyone else
16:32 indicate a desire to speak
16:35 at this time
16:39 let's give mike a few more seconds
16:54 so mike i'm sorry it's we're unable to
16:57 get the technology to work tonight but
16:59 if you want to work with clerk geezer
17:01 between now and our next council meeting
17:03 or next study session she may be able to
17:05 provide you with some more tips uh
17:07 because she's way better at this stuff
17:09 than i am
17:11 city clear cry there's still no other
17:12 hands raised at this point in time
17:16 that's correct
17:19 thank you very much
17:21 uh so thank you for the comments this
17:23 evening we had a city employee come and
17:26 talk about
17:27 issues with the city of issaquah covid19
17:31 vaccine mandates
17:33 and we did not have any other speakers
17:35 tonight but i do want to remind folks
17:37 that written comments can be submitted
17:38 at any time
17:39 the city council
17:41 is gov
17:43 i'd like to turn over now to council
17:44 president hunt to see if she has any
17:46 email comments to summarize on any of
17:49 tonight's agenda topics
17:52 thank you madam mayor we did receive an
17:54 email that referenced multiple items on
17:57 our agenda and i also
17:59 wanted to mention that
18:01 we receive emails on a variety of topics
18:03 and i will only be summarizing um emails
18:06 that we received
18:07 that specifically reference and
18:09 specifically are related to items that
18:11 are on tonight's agenda per my past
18:14 practice
18:17 we did receive an email from a community
18:18 member which had comments on multiple
18:20 items
18:23 ab-8230 which is boards and commission
18:25 stipends policy comments included asking
18:28 that we consider a lower amount
18:31 per
18:31 lower dollar amount per meeting and that
18:33 this might have benefits
18:36 also comments on
18:37 ab-8198 which is proposed 2022 budget
18:40 and salary ordinance had multiple
18:43 questions about
18:44 where there were increased costs in the
18:47 budget and
18:49 also commented on items that
18:51 this community member thought were myths
18:55 were attributed to environmental
18:56 stewardship but did not think that they
18:59 were correctly attributed to that
19:02 then on ab 8199 proposed 2022 budget
19:06 levy and revenue sources
19:09 as well as
19:11 other
19:12 agenda bills that we have on our agenda
19:14 this evening regarding budget and
19:16 revenue sources
19:17 provided comments and also
19:20 provided that this community member felt
19:22 they were reasonable and that concludes
19:24 emails that specifically referenced
19:26 items on tonight's agenda
19:29 thank you council president hunt the
19:30 next item of business is committee and
19:32 regional reports and we'll be starting
19:34 tonight with council member hall
19:37 uh thank you mayor paulie this is
19:38 councilmember hall i have no report this
19:40 evening
19:41 nice and brief council member dear
19:43 michelle
19:45 uh thank you mayor paulie um the east
19:48 side human services forum met this
19:50 morning and we acknowledge the
19:52 onboarding of caitlyn patrello the
19:54 forum's new executive director who is
19:56 off to a really impressive start
19:59 we had committee reports and we also had
20:02 a presentation
20:04 from the king county regional
20:05 homelessness authority by alexis
20:08 mercedes rink
20:09 um our next meeting will be in december
20:12 and then um i'm also on the healthier
20:15 here governing board and they will be
20:17 meeting this thursday afternoon and that
20:19 concludes my report
20:21 thank you councilmember d michelle
20:23 councilmember walsh
20:25 thank you this is councilmember walsh
20:27 very short report um i have not attended
20:29 a meeting since the last
20:32 time we did reports but i do have an
20:36 economic development district board
20:37 meeting on wednesday and i will report
20:41 back after and then i just wanted to
20:43 take a moment to thank the chamber for a
20:46 successful salmon days um really nice
20:49 getting back
20:50 to seeing people in public despite the
20:53 rain
20:54 um and so i wanted to just
20:56 thank thank the chamber for all of their
20:58 efforts for that event
21:00 that concludes my report
21:04 council member welsh council member
21:05 goodman
21:06 uh thank you councilmember goodman here
21:08 the lodging tax advisory committee met
21:11 on september 29th
21:12 and uh
21:14 we had one item on our agenda which was
21:15 a request from visit issaquah for
21:17 funding next year
21:19 and um the committee
21:21 voted unanimously to recommend approval
21:23 of visit issaquah as a request for 180
21:26 000 in funding for next year
21:29 and i'm assuming that this is still the
21:31 schedule um that on october 18th uh the
21:34 city council will be considering the
21:36 2022 proposed contract for visit
21:38 issaquah
21:40 eastside fire
21:42 and rescue board of directors will meet
21:44 um at 4 pm on october 14th but i do not
21:47 have the agenda yet and that's my report
21:49 thanks
21:50 thank you councilmember goodman
21:51 councilmember mertz
21:53 thank you madam mayor this is
21:54 councilmember mark the beach and sound
21:56 regional council growth management
21:58 policy board will be meeting this
21:59 thursday october 7th from central 12.
22:02 unfortunately i will be out of town and
22:04 unable to attend
22:06 the sound cities association public
22:08 issues committee will be meeting next
22:10 wednesday october 13th from
22:12 7 to 9 00 pm uh some agenda highlights
22:15 include potential action on a metro plan
22:17 updates and revised fca guiding
22:20 principles a discussion of the board of
22:22 health bicycle helmet regulation and an
22:25 update on the king county clean water
22:27 plan this concludes my report
22:30 thank you very much council member marks
22:31 deputy council president ray
22:33 thank you mayor paul this is chris wray
22:35 i have no report this evening
22:37 thank you very much council president
22:39 hunt
22:40 thank you madam mayor this is council
22:42 president hunt i have two reports
22:45 september 30th
22:47 uh last thursday
22:49 mayor polly director watling human
22:51 services manager negrilla and city
22:54 administrator bob quits and myself met
22:56 with the ceo and leadership of the newly
22:58 formed king county regional homelessness
23:02 authority
23:03 and
23:04 [Music]
23:05 some information about the king county
23:07 regional homelessness authority
23:09 from their website is that the regional
23:12 homelessness authority is meant to unify
23:14 and coordinate what was previously a
23:15 fragmented approach
23:17 we heard from people with personal
23:19 experience that the old systems services
23:21 were geographical and administratively
23:22 disconnected data collection was duplic
23:25 duplicative or incement or not useful
23:27 and people were faced with dead ends
23:29 rather than meaningful support so the
23:31 mission of this
23:32 agency is to
23:34 correct those things and provide people
23:36 experiencing homelessness with
23:38 meaningful support
23:39 it was a very productive meeting it was
23:42 a good meeting and
23:44 it was an introduction
23:47 in which we provided information about
23:48 the demographics
23:50 of people experiencing homelessness in
23:52 issaquah and they are interested in
23:55 tailoring their approach to the specific
23:57 needs of each community so one thing
24:00 from that meeting was that the
24:02 recently
24:03 approved positions
24:06 such as the homelessness outreach
24:08 coordinator position those positions
24:10 have allowed us to have a lot more
24:12 information that we are able to share
24:15 about the specific needs that we have in
24:17 our community
24:18 and um
24:19 [Music]
24:21 we we also discussed about how our
24:23 topography and um that people many
24:26 people experiencing homelessness in
24:27 issaquah are living in the open spaces
24:30 and other
24:32 specific uh concerns that that are
24:36 specific to
24:37 people experiencing homelessness in
24:38 issaquah
24:39 um so
24:41 we also
24:44 so currently they are mostly meeting
24:45 with electives and groups all over the
24:46 county they will have their funding
24:49 um in about three months from now and
24:51 they'll be beginning um so right now
24:54 they're sort of an introductory
24:56 phase
24:57 and our main messages were that we're
24:59 interested in working with them on
25:00 advocacy efforts for state and federal
25:02 support and that we are interested in
25:04 staying contact staying in contact with
25:06 them as they begin to implement
25:08 housing solutions as well as wraparound
25:10 service solutions
25:13 that concludes that
25:15 meeting report out and then i also have
25:17 one other quick report on
25:19 september also on september 30th
25:21 i had a title 18 ad hoc meeting this is
25:24 the ad hoc
25:25 meeting of
25:27 council members that discusses title 18
25:29 which is our municipal land use code
25:31 and
25:32 we discussed the zoning and land use
25:34 memo that will shortly be going to our
25:36 volunteer commission the planning policy
25:38 commission for their review and so we
25:40 provided some guidance and um scoping
25:44 type advice on the sort of questions and
25:46 the framing that the staff
25:48 was putting into that memo and the next
25:50 meeting of the title 18 ad hoc committee
25:52 will be two weeks from
25:54 the 30th because we meet every two weeks
25:56 that concludes my report
25:58 that's great thank you council president
26:00 the next item on the agenda this evening
26:02 is the mayor's report
26:04 there will not be an executive session
26:06 this evening
26:07 but i would like to talk about three
26:09 proclamations that i recently issued
26:12 in honor of the isque salmon days
26:14 festival this past weekend which council
26:16 members have already alluded to
26:18 i proclaimed our salmon-friendly city as
26:21 fishaqua i congratulate the greater
26:23 issaquah chamber of commerce for all
26:25 their efforts in navigating a smaller
26:27 venue
26:28 in implementing many safety protocols
26:30 that help make this a successful event
26:32 the second proclamation declares october
26:35 as arts and humanities month the arts
26:38 have helped collectively lead us through
26:40 the pandemic lifting our spirits
26:42 unifying communities and jump starting
26:44 the economy despite covet's devastating
26:47 impact on america's arts sector
26:49 issaquah is home to a vibrant community
26:51 of arts culture and humanities
26:53 organizations creative businesses
26:56 artists makers and creative workers that
26:58 positive positively impact our city in
27:01 immeasurable ways
27:03 the final proclamation proclaims october
27:05 as substance abuse prevention month
27:08 substance abuse prevention is an
27:10 extremely cost effective model in
27:12 comparison to later high utilization
27:15 interventions and by stopping the drug
27:17 use before it starts we can prevent the
27:20 disease of addiction and create stronger
27:22 neighborhoods in our community
27:24 i welcome influence the choices
27:26 representative noah knows to join us on
27:29 camera and noah thank you for sharing a
27:32 few words with us regarding the
27:34 importance of this campaign you're up
27:40 and you need to take yourself off mute
27:43 i apologize
27:45 i would like to thank you on behalf of
27:47 teens encouraging community health and
27:49 influence to choice
27:50 for recognizing our group's efforts in
27:53 this area and as you guys know substance
27:56 abuse and our community is a huge issue
27:58 and it's extremely important that we
28:00 start for uh
28:02 start preventing it before it happens um
28:04 and on that same front like uh some
28:07 studies have shown that like a dollar
28:08 prevention is worth 34 dollars of
28:10 intervention so thank
28:14 you thank you noah i look forward to
28:17 seeing you this thursday at 9 30 in the
28:19 morning on the steps of city hall and
28:21 presenting you with the sign
28:22 proclamation and i want to again thank
28:24 you and influence the choice for all
28:26 that you're doing in this important
28:28 issue in our community
28:29 thanks noah
28:33 king county executive dow constantine
28:36 resistantly recognized the smokawami
28:38 tribe vaccine partnership for its
28:40 superior performance in responding to
28:42 the region during the covet 19 viral
28:44 pandemic the snokami tribe vaccine
28:46 partnership included the snokami tribe
28:49 eastside fire and rescue the cities of
28:51 sammamish and disappoint washington
28:53 state parks and with support of king
28:56 county emergency management and public
28:58 health seattle and king county and
29:01 hundreds of volunteers our community
29:03 resilience is evident from this award so
29:06 proud of the partnership that we all
29:07 pulled together
29:09 and that concludes the mayor's report
29:11 for this evening
29:15 the next item of business tonight is
29:18 informational updates
29:20 id0945 solid waste contract update and
29:24 i'd like to invite gary simek our
29:26 utilities man engineering manager and
29:29 jeff brown with epicenter consulting to
29:31 present this item gary
29:35 thank you mayor thank you city council
29:38 i'm going to share my screen here and
29:39 jump right into the informational update
29:48 okay
29:50 suck it here
29:54 there we go
29:56 uh so again thank you um solid waste
29:59 hauling and processing contract tonight
30:03 uh giving you an informational update
30:04 and as mayor mentioned jeff brown
30:07 a super consultant uh he is uh you may
30:10 know him from our last contract if you
30:12 were around at that time i'm very
30:14 pleased to have him on board with us and
30:16 he's on the phone in case any detailed
30:18 questions come up
30:20 to the next slide here
30:24 again informational
30:26 briefing on our competitive process uh
30:29 and this will be for a new contract that
30:31 starts in july 1st 2023 that is not a
30:35 typo 2023 the reason we are so far ahead
30:38 of the game which i you may have read in
30:40 the staff report
30:42 is the time that's needed for the
30:44 contractor to
30:46 purchase and obtain new equipment
30:49 including fleet
30:50 and while in any year that's going to be
30:52 challenging with a supply chain as it is
30:55 up it may take a little longer so i just
30:57 wanted to give you a heads up that's why
30:59 it may seem like we're coming to you
31:00 early on this
31:04 existing contract is with ecology back
31:06 in the day when uh in 2011 when we hired
31:09 them through a very competitive process
31:11 uh they were clean scapes
31:13 and uh because of that competitive
31:15 nature in the field uh the rates were
31:18 rather low with a high level of service
31:21 uh so we've seen some changes in the
31:23 reason and we will likely be expecting
31:25 higher rates for this new contract
31:26 because of that
31:28 but again this contract with ecology
31:29 ends in
31:30 2023 on june 30th
31:35 high level explanation of our process so
31:38 we're here in october and what i'm going
31:40 to be just highlighting today is our
31:43 information in our draft request for
31:45 proposal and contract that is going to
31:47 go on what's called an industry review
31:50 we're hoping to actually send that out
31:51 tomorrow or later this week and this
31:53 will give contractors that are that are
31:56 likely to bid on this a few weeks to let
31:58 us know what they think of this draft
32:01 uh so we're going to get that
32:02 information back
32:04 we're also going to meet with our city
32:05 attorney mr haney during the next few
32:07 weeks talk over things with him
32:09 and then we'll be issuing the final
32:11 request for proposal
32:13 in november
32:14 to all interested parties
32:16 uh in the first quarter after we receive
32:19 the proposals back
32:21 hopefully we'll have good competition
32:23 we will be conducting a qualitative and
32:25 quantitative review of all of the
32:27 proposals
32:28 and
32:29 finalizing the contract with the highest
32:31 scoring proponent
32:33 and then our work begins with with you
32:35 again uh in study sessions where we will
32:38 go over the uh what's called the base
32:40 contract and alternatives that are part
32:42 of that submission so i expect that
32:44 there will be at least two potentially
32:46 three uh study sessions to get from the
32:49 original to the final uh contract
32:55 and then our focus areas just want to
32:56 highlight five here and just let you
32:58 know uh these are ones that are likely
33:00 to come back in detail discussion uh
33:03 during those study sessions in 2022 but
33:05 just wanted to touch on each one very
33:07 briefly here to let you know the
33:09 direction we're headed
33:11 so the first here is fleet
33:13 uh so possible options we looked at were
33:15 electric fleet uh renewable gas fleet as
33:18 we have now and then a phased approach
33:21 where we're heading is a slightly
33:23 extending the contract period to 12
33:26 years rather than typical 10 years and
33:30 allow
33:31 a contractor to use their old vehicles
33:33 for two years
33:38 to electric vehicles the reason we're
33:40 we're thinking in that term
33:42 on the cusp of electric vehicles
33:44 becoming a real option for fleets now we
33:47 may hear back over the next couple weeks
33:49 that contractors are ready to go after a
33:51 complete electrical electric fleet and
33:54 we'll we'll take that into consideration
33:55 when we when we hear that now while that
33:58 will be our base um contract we will
34:00 also be
34:01 having a alternative being bid on which
34:03 would be that that alternative electric
34:06 electric um fleet and then also a
34:09 natural gas fleet so you'll be able to
34:12 have much more discussion on this when
34:13 we receive our proposals and come back
34:15 to you in the study sessions
34:17 now the next topic is frequency of
34:19 residential collections so right now the
34:22 status quo we have weekly collection of
34:25 all streams from our residential um of
34:28 households and another option that's
34:31 available is going to every other week
34:33 which some other cities and areas have
34:35 done
34:37 that would be a very sustainable option
34:40 especially in the reduction of fuel for
34:43 the fleet
34:44 what we are going to propose is
34:47 keeping the weekly service for now and
34:50 as an alternative package asking for
34:52 what the rate reduction would be for
34:54 going to
34:55 every other week so we'll be able to
34:57 bring you back that and have a
34:58 discussion on those two
35:00 options
35:02 range of recyclables collected this is
35:04 an important issue in terms to
35:07 of our contamination of streams that we
35:09 have been seeing in the recycling and
35:11 composting realms
35:13 so our base proposal will be for people
35:15 to bid on is a reduction of the
35:19 recyclables that will be collected to
35:21 those that we really know can be used in
35:24 the market right now
35:26 and be not including those that that
35:29 most likely aren't getting
35:31 uh recycled and are potentially
35:32 contaminating other streams but we will
35:35 have an alternative approach of of the
35:38 contractor adding in
35:40 a few additional items to our base list
35:43 so again that's a good discussion we'll
35:44 be able to come back back and have with
35:48 uh the fourth out of five here is
35:50 outreach and education structure what we
35:52 are going to be proposing is having the
35:55 contractor include the basic or bare
35:58 minimum outreach education in their uh
36:01 proposal to us
36:02 and anything above and beyond that for
36:05 waste reduction or sustainability
36:07 we would cover either through city staff
36:09 or through staff managing a consulting
36:12 contract and the logic being that we
36:14 really the haulers are really you know
36:16 they do their best job on the hauling
36:17 and processing and we need their support
36:20 and education outreach but we'd like to
36:22 to just have them focus more on the
36:24 hauling and processing aspect
36:26 and then finally carbon footprint now
36:28 one of the things one of the items we
36:30 just talked about that have a big effect
36:32 on the carbon footprint is if we if we
36:34 go to
36:36 every other wheat collection that would
36:37 really drop our our use of
36:39 fuel
36:40 but being that as it may what we have
36:43 decided to do for this contract for now
36:45 is really emphasize sustainability um at
36:49 a global level at many elements of the
36:51 contract so it's it's baked into the
36:54 contract and that's rather than
36:57 asking for the contractor to to propose
37:00 any carbon offsets at this time so we're
37:02 really
37:03 viewing this as a very sustainable
37:05 environmental contract for everybody to
37:07 bid on
37:09 so again those are the five focus areas
37:11 there's going to be again a base bid for
37:13 all those with alternatives and then
37:16 again in 2022 we'll be back back with
37:19 you
37:20 to discuss these in general and just to
37:22 end up here we'll just a little bit of
37:24 the next steps
37:26 uh so again number one preparing this
37:28 industry review and contract which is
37:30 about ready to go and we'll be releasing
37:32 that and again uh looping back with mr
37:35 haney uh on those drafts just to make
37:37 sure everything are all our
37:40 eyes are dotted and t's are crossed
37:42 we're gonna get that feedback from the
37:44 industry and incorporate that into the
37:47 rfp
37:48 and then release that in november
37:51 of this year
37:53 and then we'll be off to the races in
37:54 early 2022 uh doing our internal review
37:57 and coming back to all of you to have a
38:00 lively discussion next year
38:03 so thank you very much and just uh just
38:05 wanted to ask if there's any questions
38:06 on this briefing now
38:09 gary that is great thanks i'm keeping my
38:11 eye on the chat to see if there's any
38:13 questions but
38:15 as you and i talked earlier today you
38:17 did a great job on capturing all the
38:19 points in a really short amount of time
38:22 nicely done gold star
38:24 okay let's
38:27 let's start with a comment from
38:29 councilmember goodman followed by a
38:31 question from council member marx
38:37 well i don't have a question
38:38 but i just wanted to say
38:40 that
38:41 i wanted to
38:43 commend you on just a very very well
38:46 done
38:47 memo to the council it was incredibly
38:49 well organized
38:51 straightforward had all the information
38:53 that certainly that i needed and uh
38:57 i just wanted to say thank you for that
39:00 thank you i really appreciate that in a
39:01 big again a big shout out to mr uh jeff
39:05 brown he is herculian in his effort here
39:07 and i just again very happy we have him
39:09 on our team
39:11 thanks and apologies councilmember
39:13 goodman i didn't see the second part of
39:15 when there were no questions so i
39:17 apologize councilmember martz for a
39:19 question
39:21 thank you madam mayor um i'm i'm looking
39:24 i'm interested in a little bit more
39:25 information on
39:27 the the brief bit you talked about our
39:30 carbon footprint
39:32 it says the city's current waste hauling
39:34 services are carbon neutral
39:38 and then
39:40 incorporating sustainability against the
39:42 rfp contract design is a global value i
39:45 don't really know what that means
39:48 i'm gonna um ask tisha to allow jeff to
39:51 come on in here and uh and address that
39:54 if he is able
39:56 he's on the phone with us uh
40:00 i'm unmuting jeff now
40:03 okay i'm here am i here
40:06 yeah you're gonna hear me okay good um
40:10 yes i can answer that um
40:12 so right now the contract uh sets goals
40:15 but it doesn't actually have
40:16 requirements for carbon offsets uh and
40:21 uh one of the things i thought about was
40:24 continuing the goal statement and the
40:26 new contract so that wouldn't
40:27 necessarily change
40:29 but by global
40:31 actually looking at the contract from
40:32 global view it means looking at the
40:34 different elements of the contract that
40:37 are perhaps not necessary but that drive
40:39 fuel use and uh roadware use and traffic
40:43 impacts
40:44 and another example you you heard the
40:46 one obvious uh example of collection
40:49 frequency
40:50 but another more obscure one is right
40:52 now under the current contract if
40:53 somebody calls by five o'clock or so i
40:56 think it is
40:57 um the contractor will actually put a
40:59 truck out to go pick it up anytime
41:01 before eight so they can provide a
41:03 same-day miss collection
41:05 um and what that means is the drivers
41:07 would go to the transfer station or the
41:09 recycling facility the composting
41:10 facility they'd dump their trucks out
41:12 they'd go back to the truck base and
41:14 then a call would come in for a relief
41:16 driver somebody else to drive the same
41:17 truck right back from the truck base
41:19 which could be in downtown seattle or i
41:20 mean south uh south of seattle drive it
41:23 back out to isquad to pick up a miss
41:25 um that's the kind of thing that uh is
41:28 cadillac service but it actually comes
41:30 with a pretty severe energy use impact
41:34 and so i think when we're looking at the
41:35 contract
41:36 terms
41:38 almost every element in there has a
41:40 decision point on is this necessary does
41:43 this contribute to the service the
41:44 ratepayers are receiving and is the fuel
41:47 usage uh reasonable for the benefit gain
41:52 so the the first part of my question was
41:54 the statement that the city's current
41:56 waste hauling services are carbon
41:57 neutral if they're carbon neutrons and
42:00 the frequent
42:02 i'm sorry
42:03 oh they're not so there's a
42:05 it it kind of got uh
42:07 praise that as a
42:09 as uh i guess a handy way to describe a
42:11 contract term but the contract term when
42:13 i read it unless i'm mistaken is
42:15 basically to subscribe to certain goals
42:18 and to put good faith effort in but
42:20 there's not actually
42:21 uh meat that is a specific requirement
42:24 for them to buy offsets or to do
42:26 anything else under the current contract
42:30 okay i'm referring to the specific
42:32 sentence on page 15 of the packet as a
42:35 reminder the city's current waste
42:37 hauling services are carbon neutral
42:41 that's incorrect
42:43 i'm sorry
42:45 i see
42:47 okay
42:49 i you know
42:52 can i will continue to want to see
42:55 uh i mean
42:56 carbon emissions are the centerpiece of
43:01 the
43:02 challenges the environmental challenges
43:05 that we have right now so i would like
43:06 to continue to see
43:08 ways for the city
43:09 uh to up its game we just had a
43:11 conversation about this a couple weeks
43:13 ago and about making meaningful changes
43:16 um i would hope there would be
43:17 meaningful changes we could do other
43:19 than things that just cut service
43:22 to our constituents i mean it may well
43:24 be that that that's an important um part
43:28 uh where we're going as a as a community
43:31 but it it seems that
43:34 you know uh i think that
43:37 i i would hope there would be other ways
43:38 that we could look at improving our
43:41 carbon footprint on our waste
43:44 other than the
43:47 i would argue perhaps a little bit
43:49 dubious
43:51 method of just reducing service
43:53 so thanks
43:56 thank you councilmember marks it looks
43:58 like uh councilmember walsh has a
44:00 question
44:02 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
44:05 gary i know that our multi-family
44:08 housing has great rates of recycling um
44:13 currently and we're always looking for
44:15 ways to improve that is there anything
44:17 in the contract that would look
44:20 toward
44:21 those ideas or is that more on the
44:24 outreach and education portion or
44:27 working
44:28 from a city standpoint with individual
44:31 properties
44:35 gary is muted
44:39 that's a member your first part of the
44:41 question broke up for me i didn't quite
44:43 uh i heard that we were you're asking
44:46 about
44:47 what is in the contract for uh
44:49 multi-family but i didn't hear what the
44:52 the original part the very first part
44:54 was yeah yeah thanks for asking for the
44:56 clarification um i'm talking about
44:58 multi-family
45:00 housing and their recycling rates
45:03 so often a multi-family
45:06 unit has a lower recycling rate than a
45:09 single-family housing and we're always
45:11 looking for ways to improve that but i
45:14 don't know whether there's anything in
45:16 the contract or the rfp process that
45:18 speaks toward that idea or if it's more
45:22 um an education and outreach standpoint
45:25 yeah i'll take a first crack at that and
45:27 just ask jeff if you have something in
45:29 addition but uh you know though it's
45:32 it's mainly the latter where it's about
45:35 the effort and energy that you know we
45:38 want to put in to driving those
45:40 decisions for let's just use an example
45:42 of um
45:44 a rent for the most difficult one a
45:46 retrofit where there is a
45:48 multi-family that doesn't have a lot of
45:50 room for recycling
45:52 or composting working with them and the
45:54 owner of that building to try to make
45:56 room for that so that people can
45:58 participate that really is something we
46:00 need to do on our end uh you know
46:02 working with them or in our code or
46:04 policy
46:05 um but in terms of the contract
46:09 they will have certainly the opportunity
46:11 to have uh there's a bare minimum that
46:13 will be required
46:15 for multi-family
46:17 uh for them to partake so really is it's
46:19 us to encourage uh more of the use of
46:22 that jeff would you agree or would you
46:23 add a little bit different there
46:26 uh yeah i would think that that is
46:29 pretty much right on the contract is
46:31 focused towards um the contractor
46:34 providing the basic informational
46:35 materials and whether you know inclement
46:38 weather schedules and all the service
46:40 related information and when you get
46:42 into problem solving at a particular
46:45 site you know let's say for example you
46:46 have an older multi-family unit that has
46:49 a prescribed number of parking spaces
46:51 and perhaps one of those parking spaces
46:52 might need to be given up
46:54 to have a more expansive um waste
46:56 diversion system that's definitely
46:58 something where you'd have uh uh some
47:00 problem solving that would be uh perhaps
47:03 a contractor uh consultant or it would
47:05 be a staff person that would be working
47:07 through that process to help the
47:10 multi-family unit
47:12 work through how to actually get
47:14 more containers available for their
47:16 residents
47:19 great thank you
47:20 you're welcome
47:21 i am looking at the chat to look for
47:23 additional questions or comments but
47:25 gary i just wanted to confirm a couple
47:27 of things with you one on what council
47:29 member martz had said and that was about
47:32 carbon neutral and i believe you know a
47:35 decade between contracts is a long time
47:38 and so aspirational wanting to be carbon
47:41 neutral and encouraging them to be
47:43 carbon neutral is one thing
47:45 actually being carbon neutral is
47:48 something entirely different and i think
47:50 what we're trying to do with this new
47:52 contract
47:53 is to get to carbon neutral
47:55 if that's true okay and then the second
47:58 thing maybe along the lines of what
48:00 council member walsh said is diversion
48:02 has always been a focus but it seems
48:05 that in your comments tonight both of
48:07 you it's diversion and quality of what
48:10 is being diversion diverted that is
48:12 important so that we are doing the full
48:14 cycle of
48:15 whatever goes in the blue box and the
48:17 green box comes out as a useful product
48:20 at the other end and that hauling things
48:22 off to the landfill because we didn't do
48:24 it right is going to be a focus this
48:27 time
48:28 not so much the diversion number but the
48:29 quality of the product are we producing
48:32 are we collecting things that can
48:33 actually be recycled are we creating
48:35 great compost to bring back to the
48:37 community that would be a value you've
48:38 also incorporated in this round that we
48:41 really didn't have 10 years ago
48:43 yes
48:44 okay thank you for that
48:46 i am not seeing any other comments or
48:48 questions so i would like to thank the
48:50 both of you for coming in today this is
48:53 exciting considering all the
48:55 conversations we've been having about
48:57 environmental focus and climate action
49:00 plan and this is going to be a very
49:02 interesting
49:04 next nine months so thank you very much
49:05 for both coming in
49:08 thank you everybody appreciate it
49:11 so there is no action requested this
49:13 evening the solid waste contract will be
49:15 coming back to council for feedback and
49:17 action in 2022
49:19 and we'll move to the next item on the
49:21 agenda this evening which is the consent
49:22 calendar
49:23 the consent calendar was distributed to
49:26 council in advance and if authorized the
49:28 comments on the consent calendar will be
49:30 considered together
49:32 and approved by one motion
49:34 at this point in time i'd like to turn
49:36 the uh speaker over speaker's chair over
49:38 to councilmember d michelle who would
49:40 like to make a statement before we go
49:42 through the rest of the
49:44 description
49:45 councilmember
49:48 thank you mayor paulie
49:49 i would like to state for the record
49:51 that i am that i am currently employed
49:53 with an entity that is included in the
49:55 city's payables
49:56 influence the choice i currently fill
49:59 the role of temporary executive director
50:01 of influence of choice the city serves
50:04 as a fiscal agent for this agency in the
50:06 disbursement of a federal grant
50:08 grant funds are being disbursed under
50:10 this month's accounts payable
50:13 i have asked for advice from the city
50:14 attorney as to whether this warrants a
50:16 conflict of interest and have been
50:18 informed that i am not legally required
50:20 to be excused from voting as the city is
50:23 carrying on a decision that was
50:25 previously made by the council
50:27 however for the sake of transparency i
50:30 would like to declare this employment
50:31 and have my statement entered in the
50:33 minutes thank you
50:35 thank you councilmember michelle
50:37 have the payables and payroll been
50:39 reviewed
50:42 this is councilmember hall they have
50:44 this is councilmember walsh they have
50:46 thank you both
50:47 does any council member desire to remove
50:49 any item from the consent calendar and
50:51 consider it under regular business and i
50:53 will keep my eye on the chats
51:03 and is there a motion to approve the
51:06 consent calendar council president hunt
51:09 thank you i move to approve the consent
51:10 calendar as it appears in this evening's
51:12 agenda
51:13 thank you deputy council
51:15 president right second
51:18 okay it has been moved and seconded and
51:21 i will ask the city clerk to call the
51:22 rule
51:24 starting with council member hall
51:26 aye
51:28 council president hunt
51:30 aye
51:31 council member martz
51:34 deputy council president ray all right
51:37 council member walsh
51:39 aye
51:40 council member d michelle
51:42 aye
51:43 council member goodman aye
51:46 that's seven eyes zero nays
51:48 thank you city clerk that passes
51:50 unanimously
51:52 the next item of business this evening
51:54 a public hearing ab 8198 the proposed
51:58 2022
52:00 budget and salary ordinance and we will
52:02 be conducting the public hearing this
52:04 evening this item was last before
52:06 council at the september 28
52:08 2021 council study session
52:11 and i'd like to invite interim finance
52:13 director autumn monahan to present the
52:15 site and welcome autumn
52:17 thank you mayor paulie members of the
52:18 city council and i share my screen
52:42 so thank you um and good evening tonight
52:44 is our public hearing night for the 2022
52:47 proposed budget there are two public
52:49 hearings tonight the budget and salary
52:50 ordinance as well as uh levy and revenue
52:53 sources so first up is the budget and
52:55 salary ordinance
52:57 rcw 35 a .33 requires cities to hold two
53:01 publications prior to adopting the
53:03 budget so the preliminary public hearing
53:05 is tonight and the final public hearing
53:07 is scheduled for november 15th
53:10 here is an overview of our budget
53:11 schedule this is a reminder following
53:13 tonight we'll begin budget deliberations
53:15 on october 12th as well as the 26th and
53:18 as we move along on the budget calendar
53:20 our goal is for adoption on november
53:22 15th
53:25 here's a quick budget overview the 2022
53:27 proposed budget totals
53:29 145.6 million dollars with our largest
53:32 fund of the general fund at 61.4 million
53:38 uh this chart shows once again how the
53:40 2022 proposed budget aligns with our
53:42 strategic plan goals of note for next
53:45 year there is a slight increase to both
53:47 mobility and environmental stewardship
53:49 over this year but largely these areas
53:51 are remaining fairly steady
53:56 here's an overview of the general fund
53:58 which is the city's most flexible fund
54:00 and where the city accounts for most of
54:02 its traditional day-to-day government
54:04 services including public safety and
54:07 parks and community services and as i
54:09 mentioned the 2022 budget general fund
54:12 totals 61.4 million
54:16 the as far as personnel overview the
54:18 proposed budget adds 18.5 ftes and
54:21 reclassifies others the 2021 adopted
54:24 budget had us at about 250 ftes right
54:27 around our post-recession minimum of 250
54:30 back in 2016. the 2022 proposed budget
54:34 brings us back up to
54:36 269 ftes though that is still below our
54:39 pre-pandemic maximum of 285 and below
54:42 the pre-recession maximum
54:44 of 278 back in 2009.
54:50 um we are keeping a close eye on our
54:51 undesignated fund balance and as our
54:53 financial management policy aims for uh
54:56 15 to 20
54:58 and as a reminder the proposed 2022
55:00 budget reflects an undesignated fund
55:01 balance of 19
55:05 and that concludes my very brief uh
55:07 presentation on the budget i'm here to
55:09 answer questions before the public
55:11 hearing
55:13 thank you autumn i am looking in the
55:16 chat to see if there's any council
55:18 questions before we open the public
55:20 hearing
55:21 just give me a few seconds
55:31 okay at this point in time i'm not
55:32 seeing any so i will open the public
55:34 hearing at 7 55 pm
55:37 and just remind folks for those who have
55:39 joined us tonight and would like to make
55:41 comments but did not sign up in advance
55:43 please raise your virtual hand
55:45 if you're on the phone press star 3 if
55:47 you have joined by computer or
55:49 smartphone look for a hand icon this
55:51 varies by device and one option may be
55:54 to go to the participant panel and
55:56 choose the raise hand icon in the lower
55:58 right hand corner
55:59 city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
56:01 or indicated a desire to speak this
56:03 evening
56:06 mayor no one signed up in advance to
56:08 speak on the public hearing so i'm just
56:10 taking a moment here to
56:12 monitor the attendees and see if there
56:16 are any raised hands
56:19 or any comments in the chat
56:32 uh i do see a raised hand um from mike
56:36 bevins who was one of the individuals
56:38 who'd signed up to make comments under
56:40 audience comments tonight
56:45 mike uh
56:47 it sounds like you may have figured out
56:49 how it would be that you could provide
56:51 comments tonight now that we're into the
56:52 public hearing portion your comments
56:54 would have to be germane
56:56 to the budget let me look at my topic
56:58 again
57:01 the 2022 budget and salary ordinance
57:04 so if that's what you would like to
57:06 speak to
57:07 tonight that's great please turn on your
57:09 mic and speak
57:11 if it's related to any other item
57:13 unfortunately it will have to wait till
57:16 the public comments at the next council
57:19 meeting which is october 18th or you can
57:22 write the city council at city council
57:24 at isco wow.gov and submit comments at
57:27 any time
57:31 and mayor i see that mike has lowered
57:33 his raised hand
57:36 okay thanks
57:38 at this time i'm not seeing anyone else
57:41 indicating a desire to speak
57:44 oh thanks for that apologies mike this
57:46 technology has been
57:48 bumpy for all of us and the first time
57:50 someone comes to a meeting
57:52 it's kind of tricky so please feel free
57:54 to write the city council
57:57 [Music]
57:59 so if there is there any objection to
58:01 closing the public hearing
58:06 hearing none the public hearing is
58:08 closed at 7 58 p.m and there is no
58:11 action being requested on this item
58:13 tonight
58:14 the second public hearing on the budget
58:15 will be held on november 15 2021 after
58:19 which the council is anticipated to
58:21 adopt the budget
58:22 the next item of business is a b 8199
58:26 proposed 2022 budget levy and revenue
58:29 sources in a game we'll be conducting
58:31 the public hearing
58:32 the presentation on this item will also
58:35 encompass the next two regular business
58:37 items related to the city's 2022 revenue
58:40 sources
58:41 ab-8231
58:43 and ab-8247
58:45 after the joint presentation i will open
58:48 the public hearing no action is being
58:50 requested on the property tax levy
58:52 agenda bill this evening the council is
58:55 requested to make a motion to forward
58:57 the two regular business items to the
58:59 november 1st council meeting and i'd
59:01 like to invite interim finance director
59:03 autumn monahan who is probably still
59:05 here to present on this item
59:08 i'm back
59:09 there you go
59:10 sharing my next presentation
59:18 all right so next up is property tax and
59:20 other revenue sources in the public
59:22 hearing
59:25 so rcw 84.55 requires jurisdictions
59:28 levying property tax to hold a public
59:30 hearing prior to adopting property tax
59:32 levy rates
59:33 we will be back on november 1st with an
59:35 ordinance for city council's vote and
59:37 i'll also review other proposed revenues
59:39 including those returning for council
59:40 action on november 1st
59:44 so first up a property tax overview
59:46 property tax represents 17 of the
59:48 general fund represented by the blue
59:51 area here on this chart
59:55 state law allows jurisdictions to
59:57 increase the property tax annually by up
1:00:00 to one percent or the implicit price
1:00:02 deflator or ipd
1:00:04 uh which is a measure of inflation uh
1:00:06 whichever is lower plus the value of new
1:00:08 construction for 2022 the ipd is 3.86 so
1:00:13 our limit is one percent for next year
1:00:15 the value of this one percent increase
1:00:17 is about ninety eight thousand dollars
1:00:19 which is included in the mayor's
1:00:20 proposed budget
1:00:24 a significant driver for increases or
1:00:26 decreases to your property tax bill is
1:00:28 based on your property's assessed value
1:00:31 and while assessed values actually
1:00:33 decreased slightly from 2020 to 2021 a
1:00:36 17 increase is projected for next year
1:00:39 which means the median residence this
1:00:41 year assessed that 825 000
1:00:44 would go up to about 965 000
1:00:48 to equate how much is paid to the city
1:00:51 if we use the example of a property
1:00:53 owner with an assessed value of 965 000
1:00:57 the amount paid to the city would be 713
1:01:01 next year or a 48 increase from this
1:01:04 current year
1:01:05 and just to quickly note historically
1:01:07 the city levy is about 10 of a
1:01:10 homeowner's overall total property tax
1:01:12 bill we've received questions on that
1:01:14 before
1:01:15 and the amount paid to the city has
1:01:17 grown an average of 3.6
1:01:19 a year during the last decade
1:01:24 i wanted to take some time tonight to
1:01:25 review other revenue proposals in the
1:01:27 proposed budget uh we are proposing
1:01:29 administratively lowering the trigger
1:01:31 speed on our school zone cameras from 27
1:01:34 to 26 miles per hour to match many of
1:01:37 our neighboring jurisdictions this
1:01:39 additional revenue would help offset
1:01:40 poor costs to enforce the infractions
1:01:43 and is estimated to generate about 120
1:01:47 the proposed budget also includes
1:01:48 increases to recreation fees that
1:01:50 reflect inflation uh these increases can
1:01:53 be made administratively per the imc or
1:01:56 our code and we plan to provide more
1:01:58 details to the council in your october
1:02:00 12 study session packet
1:02:04 now there are two agenda bills on your
1:02:06 agenda tonight that would require
1:02:08 council approval and are slated for a
1:02:10 vote on november 1st uh the first is
1:02:12 agenda bill 8231 which would also
1:02:15 increase cpd fees by 5 to reflect
1:02:18 inflation um these changes can also be
1:02:20 made administratively but council action
1:02:23 is needed to formally update the fee
1:02:25 tables listed in the isoqua municipal
1:02:27 code so
1:02:28 taking this action will help avoid any
1:02:30 confusion for permit applicants um as
1:02:33 the codified fees would reflect the
1:02:34 administrative adjustments
1:02:36 uh the increase to these fees enables
1:02:39 permit revenues to track with our
1:02:41 increasing labor costs and would
1:02:43 generate about 147 000
1:02:45 in revenue
1:02:49 and finally utility tax
1:02:51 the city charges utility taxes on
1:02:54 several utilities
1:02:56 include electricity natural gas
1:02:58 telephone and many others for use for
1:03:01 our city infrastructure like our
1:03:03 right-of-way and these taxes are then
1:03:05 usually passed on to customers in 2019
1:03:08 city council adopted a three percent tax
1:03:11 for water and sewer which we then pass
1:03:14 on to our utility customers and this
1:03:15 helps support the general fund
1:03:17 there are some residents in issaquah
1:03:19 however who are not our water and sewer
1:03:22 customers but are instead served by our
1:03:24 neighbor the samanish plateau water
1:03:26 district
1:03:27 in 2020 a state supreme court ruling
1:03:29 confirmed that cities can impose taxes
1:03:32 on water and sewer districts
1:03:36 so agenda bill 8247 proposes that we
1:03:38 impose the same three percent utility
1:03:41 tax for water and sewer on smammish
1:03:43 plateau water district the district has
1:03:46 a little more than 1100 water customers
1:03:48 and city limits with about 800 also
1:03:51 receiving sewer services
1:03:53 in 2020 the district collected about 5.6
1:03:56 million in revenues from these customers
1:03:59 so if the proposed utility tax started
1:04:01 on january 1st of 2022 the estimated new
1:04:04 ongoing revenues for the general fund
1:04:06 would be about 167 thousand dollars
1:04:10 this action would also ensure that we're
1:04:11 treating the two utilities the city and
1:04:14 the district which offer the same
1:04:15 services equally and since the district
1:04:18 would likely pass this cost on to its
1:04:20 customers it ensures that we're treating
1:04:22 all issaquah residents fairly
1:04:27 uh and with that i'm happy to answer any
1:04:29 questions before the public hearing
1:04:33 thank you autumn it looks like we have a
1:04:36 question from council member marks
1:04:38 thank you madam mayor this is
1:04:39 councilmember martz um can you go back
1:04:42 to you had a slide that was value of
1:04:44 median residents
1:04:45 um i i think this can be confusing to
1:04:48 people can you explain how
1:04:51 given we say that taxes can only
1:04:54 increase by one percent um you see the
1:04:56 average growth of 3.6 per year over the
1:04:59 last decade can you explain that
1:05:01 discrepancy for folks
1:05:11 all right
1:05:16 so back to the slide right council
1:05:18 member marks
1:05:19 yes thank you yes so the so the one
1:05:22 percent that we're asking council
1:05:23 members uh to approve is a one percent
1:05:26 increase in the total amount that we're
1:05:27 levying in property taxes that is not
1:05:30 the amount you would see on your
1:05:31 property tax bill so once we know the
1:05:33 amount we would be levying then it's
1:05:35 dispersed among all of our property
1:05:38 owners based on their assessed value
1:05:40 and so um it can vary by year and you
1:05:43 know we've had requests or or inquiries
1:05:46 from community members of why are my
1:05:48 property taxes going up so much and um
1:05:51 it's it's based very much on your
1:05:53 assessed value and also um your property
1:05:56 tax as i mentioned is only about 10 of
1:05:59 the total property tax bill that you
1:06:00 receive that's that comes to the city uh
1:06:03 the rest is by other levied by other
1:06:05 agencies
1:06:07 and i think councilmember martz you were
1:06:09 looking also for some information about
1:06:12 the states and the state's one percent
1:06:14 cap and why that is not
1:06:16 one percent of the total property value
1:06:18 but one percent of what the city
1:06:20 collected last year
1:06:22 is that what your question was meant to
1:06:25 well i i think it's just people hear a
1:06:27 one percent
1:06:29 growth right and then they see 3.6
1:06:32 percent
1:06:35 i i'll just say i it still confuses me
1:06:38 and i've been doing this for 12 years
1:06:41 so can you can you remind is it because
1:06:43 property values declined for a while and
1:06:46 we collected the same
1:06:48 amount over uh smaller fraction
1:06:52 i mean i i guess i'm
1:06:54 still confused right if it's it's not
1:06:57 one percent it's 3.6 percent if we made
1:06:59 it zero would it not be zero would it be
1:07:01 two point six percent
1:07:04 i may pull up
1:07:07 something that could be a helpful as a
1:07:08 visual
1:07:30 because it's one percent of existing
1:07:33 property
1:07:34 and then new property
1:07:36 gets treated differently
1:07:38 right
1:07:40 i'm just going to clarify that council
1:07:41 remembers it's one percent it was what
1:07:43 was collected on existing property it's
1:07:46 not one percent of the value of the
1:07:49 existing property right right
1:07:53 so council member marks this was in the
1:07:55 um in our agenda bill and this is a
1:07:57 breakdown of what the median resident
1:08:00 value was
1:08:01 in issaquah each year
1:08:03 what our levy rate is which is the which
1:08:05 is determined by the one percent or not
1:08:07 based on the
1:08:09 previous year
1:08:10 and then the amount that was actually
1:08:12 due to the city as an example and so you
1:08:14 can see if you would go back a decade
1:08:16 the amount that you actually obtained to
1:08:18 the city has gone up by 3.6
1:08:22 over the past decade as far as an
1:08:24 average
1:08:25 um but the amount that you may have paid
1:08:27 could very very much find not only the
1:08:29 levy rate which you see is going down
1:08:31 but then the increase in
1:08:33 um your assessed value
1:08:37 i'm afraid i'm even more confused than
1:08:40 before what number what number only
1:08:42 grows by one percent per year if we
1:08:44 allow it or zero percent if we don't
1:08:46 allow it it's not any of the numbers
1:08:48 that's on this page
1:08:49 the one percent is based off of
1:08:54 our base levy
1:08:55 and then we can go up by one percent so
1:08:57 it's 98 000
1:08:59 so the total amount that we can levy
1:09:02 is the 10 million
1:09:04 i really don't understand how if we can
1:09:06 only increase one percent on the total
1:09:08 levy how people can see three point six
1:09:11 percent increases
1:09:15 i think council member merits we may not
1:09:18 have a graphic of your table that is
1:09:20 really getting to the nut of what you
1:09:23 so we will ensure that we come back with
1:09:25 additional information that demonstrates
1:09:28 it uh
1:09:30 because it it i want to make sure we
1:09:32 answer your question yes we can do that
1:09:34 here paulie
1:09:36 okay thanks and actually probably what
1:09:37 i'd like to do autumn is have you follow
1:09:39 up with councilmember martz
1:09:41 and make sure that we're actually
1:09:43 answering the question that he's asking
1:09:44 that would be great because we should be
1:09:46 able to show this graphically and then
1:09:48 the last thing i'll add is that one of
1:09:51 the reasons we talk about structural
1:09:52 deficit is because our costs do go up by
1:09:56 more than one percent a year
1:09:58 but the mill rates have been going down
1:10:00 since the state enacted their
1:10:01 legislation and capped it at you can
1:10:04 collect one percent of what you
1:10:05 collected the previous year not one not
1:10:08 one percent more on these assessed value
1:10:11 it's a tricky story to tell and it
1:10:12 sounds like we need to work on our
1:10:14 narrative
1:10:17 thank you
1:10:18 no problem i am not seeing any other
1:10:21 questions at this point in time
1:10:24 so i will be opening the public hearing
1:10:27 at 8 10 pm
1:10:29 and again for those of you who've joined
1:10:31 us tonight and would like to make
1:10:32 comments but didn't sign up in advance
1:10:34 you can raise your virtual hands
1:10:36 uh just in case somebody new has come on
1:10:39 if you're on the phone prestar three if
1:10:41 you've joined by a computer or
1:10:42 smartphone look for a hand icon could
1:10:45 vary by device and one option may be to
1:10:47 go to the participant panel and choose
1:10:49 the raise hand icon in the lower right
1:10:51 hand corner
1:10:52 city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
1:10:54 or indicate a desire to speak this
1:10:56 evening
1:10:59 mayor no one has signed up in advance to
1:11:01 speak
1:11:02 and at this time i'm not seeing anyone
1:11:04 indicate a desire to speak either
1:11:08 thank you so is there any objection to
1:11:10 closing the public hearing
1:11:15 hearing none the public hearing is
1:11:17 closed at 8 11 pm
1:11:20 there is no action being requested
1:11:22 tonight and the council is anticipated
1:11:24 to take action on this item at the
1:11:26 november 1st 2021 council meeting
1:11:30 but the next two items were presented
1:11:34 autumn as part jointly as part of your
1:11:36 public hearing on the levy and revenue
1:11:38 sources
1:11:39 i'm not sure if we have additional
1:11:40 questions on those two
1:11:43 but i'll wait a few minutes in the chat
1:11:44 to see if so before asking to see if
1:11:47 anybody would care to make a motion
1:11:55 not seeing questions or comments is
1:11:57 there someone prepared to make a motion
1:12:03 council president hunt
1:12:06 thank you i'm
1:12:07 moved to forward
1:12:09 ab82231 to the november first 2021
1:12:12 council meeting for deliberation and
1:12:14 action
1:12:16 deputy council president ray bracken
1:12:20 it's been moved and seconded is there
1:12:22 any council discussion if so please put
1:12:24 a comment in the chat for me
1:12:34 i am not seeing any so the motion before
1:12:37 council is to forward a b 8231 to the
1:12:39 november 1st 2021.
1:12:42 helpful meeting for deliberation and
1:12:43 action and city clerk can you please
1:12:45 call the roll vote
1:12:47 starting with council president hunt
1:12:52 council member martz
1:12:55 deputy council president ray aye
1:12:58 council member walsh
1:13:02 council member d michelle aye
1:13:05 council member goodman aye
1:13:08 councilmember hall
1:13:10 that's seven eye zero nays
1:13:13 thank you city clerk that passes
1:13:14 unanimously
1:13:16 i believe and i'll give you a second
1:13:18 chance for questions on uh revenue
1:13:21 sources utility tax for samantha's
1:13:23 plateau water district customers
1:13:25 i'll look to see if there are any
1:13:26 questions in the chat
1:13:28 before asking someone to make a motion
1:13:37 i'm not seeing anybody would somebody
1:13:38 care to make a motion
1:13:43 uh council president hunt
1:13:45 thank you i moved to forward ab-8247
1:13:49 to the november 1st 2021 council meeting
1:13:51 for deliberation in action
1:13:54 uh deputy council president ray second
1:13:57 thank you very
1:13:58 much is there any discussion
1:14:02 keeping my eye on the chat
1:14:08 if there is no discussion the motion
1:14:10 before councils to forward ab-8247 to
1:14:13 the november 1st 2021 council meeting
1:14:16 for deliberation in action and city
1:14:18 clerk can you please call the roll
1:14:21 yes starting with council member martz
1:14:24 deputy council president ray hi council
1:14:28 member walsh
1:14:31 council member d michelle
1:14:34 council member goodman aye
1:14:37 council member hall
1:14:40 and council president hunt
1:14:43 that's seven i zero nays
1:14:45 thank you city clerk that passes
1:14:48 unanimously
1:14:49 the next item of business is
1:14:52 ab-8230 boards and commission stipend
1:14:54 policy and the request before council
1:14:56 tonight is to adopt the ordinance and
1:14:59 i'd like to invite chief of staff tina
1:15:00 eggers to present this item tina
1:15:05 thank you yes uh chief of staff you know
1:15:08 you're speaking it's a pleasure to be
1:15:10 back in front of you regarding the
1:15:12 proposed stipend program
1:15:15 for the city's boards and commissions
1:15:16 i'll keep my comments brief
1:15:18 this was last in front of you at our
1:15:20 study session last month
1:15:22 you express support for the program as
1:15:24 presented
1:15:25 there were two key elements being
1:15:27 50 per meeting stipend and eligibility
1:15:30 for those that are at or below 100 of
1:15:33 the ami
1:15:35 as such an ordinance has been prepared
1:15:37 this closely models the city of
1:15:40 olympia's ordinance and if adopted would
1:15:42 become effective november 1. this aligns
1:15:45 nicely with the startup of the equity
1:15:47 board uh the program would would be open
1:15:50 to all our boards of commissions and
1:15:52 this timing complements our annual
1:15:55 recruitment scheduled in the new year
1:15:57 if adopted we look forward to monitoring
1:16:00 participation building upon our
1:16:02 demographic information data
1:16:04 and sharing information next year that
1:16:06 will certainly help shape the program
1:16:08 further
1:16:09 thank you
1:16:11 thank you tina i am looking in the chat
1:16:13 for some questions and i have one from
1:16:15 council member d michelle a
1:16:17 clarification for mr
1:16:22 thank you
1:16:24 i want to make sure i was unmuted
1:16:28 mr haney if he's available
1:16:32 okay um i am looking at page 375 of our
1:16:39 packet and the second whereas it
1:16:46 whereas the city of issaquah wishes to
1:16:48 remove economic barriers to community
1:16:51 members who may wish to serve upon the
1:16:53 city's boards and commissions
1:16:55 but may need assistance with costs
1:16:57 relating to transportation
1:16:59 meals or for child care expenses
1:17:02 so that word wording is there in the
1:17:04 whereas but is not included in the
1:17:07 ordinance and my question is
1:17:10 does that statement in the whereas
1:17:12 restrict us
1:17:14 to just those three areas of expenses or
1:17:17 are those given as examples
1:17:20 of uh possible uh requests for or
1:17:24 reasons for reimbursement
1:17:28 um i would say that they are examples
1:17:30 the ordinance does not require that a
1:17:32 person submit reimbursable
1:17:36 receipts and so forth it simply requires
1:17:38 that a person show
1:17:39 that they uh attest that they have these
1:17:42 kinds of expenses and that they are
1:17:45 at a certain income level and therefore
1:17:47 they would be paid a flat stipend
1:17:50 relating to those it isn't related
1:17:52 specifically to receipts so i see this
1:17:54 as just a recital of the reason why
1:17:57 you're doing this as opposed to a
1:17:59 requirement
1:18:00 all right thank you very much that that
1:18:02 that affirms my reading as well so i
1:18:05 appreciate that thanks
1:18:08 thank you for the question councilmember
1:18:10 d michelle if there are no other
1:18:11 questions
1:18:13 is somebody willing to make a motion
1:18:22 council president hunt
1:18:25 thank you council president hunt i move
1:18:27 to adopt ordinance number
1:18:29 2955 establishing a stipend program in
1:18:32 chapter 2.96
1:18:35 administration of the issaquah municipal
1:18:37 code with an effective date of november
1:18:39 1st 2021
1:18:42 thank you deputy council president ray
1:18:44 second
1:18:46 it's been moved and seconded is there
1:18:48 any council discussion and i will keep
1:18:50 my eye on the chat
1:18:55 and so let's start with council
1:18:57 president hunt followed by council
1:18:59 member hall
1:19:01 thanks
1:19:02 i wanted to
1:19:05 thank the human services commission who
1:19:07 worked
1:19:09 over the course of the last
1:19:10 approximately year and made a number of
1:19:13 recommendations uh regarding the
1:19:15 formation of the equity board and and
1:19:17 from their work
1:19:20 stipends program um recommendation came
1:19:23 about so i wanted to thank them for
1:19:25 bringing this initially forward and and
1:19:28 to our attention i think our
1:19:31 council's comments and um suggestions
1:19:34 have been incorporated in the ordinance
1:19:36 that is in front of us so i wanted to
1:19:38 thank the staff for that
1:19:40 as this is rolled out since it is
1:19:43 new to the city
1:19:44 and our boards and commissions are so
1:19:46 valuable to us i just want to
1:19:49 keep track of making sure that this does
1:19:52 reduce the barriers that we are hoping
1:19:54 it will and also that it's a easy to
1:19:57 easy to participate as i mentioned
1:19:59 in our last study session i think it's
1:20:02 important that this doesn't
1:20:04 become a burden on people's time because
1:20:07 one of the reasons why people
1:20:09 why some people aren't able to
1:20:11 volunteer
1:20:12 on our boards and commissions is because
1:20:14 of the amount of time that it takes so
1:20:16 just want to keep an eye on that and
1:20:17 make sure that this is implemented and
1:20:20 um as
1:20:22 as effectively um and efficiently as
1:20:24 possible um but i appreciate all the
1:20:27 work that's gone into it and i look
1:20:29 forward to
1:20:30 hearing about the
1:20:32 program
1:20:33 metrics when this comes back
1:20:37 with that information about how the
1:20:39 program is going and i also think that
1:20:41 other cities may be interested in
1:20:42 hearing about that
1:20:44 once we have more data about about how
1:20:46 it's working for us
1:20:47 so thanks and i will be in support
1:20:50 thank you council president hunt council
1:20:51 member hall followed by council member
1:20:53 walsh
1:20:54 uh thank you mayor paulie this is
1:20:55 councilmember zach hall i also wanted to
1:20:57 share my support of this agenda bill
1:20:59 this evening
1:21:01 for a lot of the same reasons that
1:21:03 council president hunt mentioned
1:21:05 i do think that
1:21:07 this is where many many cities and
1:21:10 jurisdictions in the in the region will
1:21:12 be heading in the future as we look to
1:21:14 try to put a value on the
1:21:18 service that these members contribute to
1:21:19 cities and in particular how we attract
1:21:23 diverse voices to the public policy
1:21:26 making process and ensure that we're
1:21:28 putting equity front and center by by
1:21:30 hearing more voices simply put
1:21:33 just real quick i wanted to make sure
1:21:36 to share some thoughts that i have on
1:21:38 this for the record that you know this
1:21:39 is a financial a tool to provide
1:21:41 financial support and a service
1:21:43 incentive for individuals volunteering
1:21:45 their time their time with city boards
1:21:47 and commissions
1:21:48 when it comes to intent i really see
1:21:50 this as
1:21:51 support for transportation child care
1:21:53 other related costs that would
1:21:55 ordinarily prevent these individuals
1:21:58 from participating from government in
1:22:00 this way in the first place so this is a
1:22:02 really special program i'm looking
1:22:03 forward to seeing
1:22:05 how it works i'm looking forward to
1:22:07 monitoring the program metrics and
1:22:09 demographics data
1:22:10 that was presented to us as well to
1:22:12 ensure that it lines up with our
1:22:14 desired outcomes i will be voting thank
1:22:18 thank you councilmember hall
1:22:19 councilmember walsh
1:22:21 thank you this is councilmember walsh
1:22:22 walsh
1:22:24 echoing much of what i've heard in
1:22:26 support of this want to thank the
1:22:29 human services board for review of this
1:22:31 and all of the staff time that has gone
1:22:33 into it um i am in support of this but i
1:22:37 will say
1:22:38 that i will consider this a failure if
1:22:41 it does not get used
1:22:43 this is not
1:22:44 us trying to sit here and virtue signal
1:22:48 um about we want diversity
1:22:51 if this doesn't get used by community
1:22:55 members who are either currently serving
1:22:57 on boards and have a financial need or
1:23:00 doesn't help to bring in new voices who
1:23:03 need the financial commitment then we
1:23:06 need to revisit this policy because
1:23:08 either we haven't provided enough of a
1:23:10 financial incentive or we haven't rolled
1:23:13 it out and done outreach to the
1:23:15 community members
1:23:17 so um
1:23:18 i'm putting it out there that i am
1:23:20 absolutely looking at this in the future
1:23:23 not just on did we do a good thing and
1:23:26 put a new policy out there but did it
1:23:28 make an impact are we going to see
1:23:31 different voices and support the voices
1:23:33 that are there
1:23:35 that we want to keep um involved in the
1:23:37 conversation so i look forward to seeing
1:23:41 the information on how this program gets
1:23:43 used and absolutely willing to revisit
1:23:47 if it doesn't get used because that just
1:23:49 means we didn't do it right thank you
1:23:52 thank you councilmember walsh
1:23:55 um i'm not seeing anybody else in the
1:23:57 comments list so if there's no further
1:23:59 discussion the motion before council is
1:24:01 to adopt ordinance number 2955
1:24:04 establishing a stipend program in
1:24:06 chapter 2.96 administration of the islam
1:24:09 municipal code with an effective date of
1:24:12 november 1st 2021 and clerk can you
1:24:14 please call the roll
1:24:17 yes starting with deputy council
1:24:19 president ray aye
1:24:21 council member walsh
1:24:25 council member d michelle
1:24:28 councilmember goodman aye
1:24:31 councilmember hall
1:24:34 council president hunt
1:24:37 councilmember martz
1:24:40 that's seven eyes zero nays
1:24:43 thanks that passes unanimously
1:24:45 i want to thank you all for working on
1:24:47 this i think it's a great step i want to
1:24:49 make sure council member walsh isn't
1:24:51 being too hard on herself there's a
1:24:53 famous saying out there what you do for
1:24:55 me without me you do to me this is a
1:24:58 great idea
1:24:59 if it's not used it may not be that it's
1:25:01 not advertised and it may not be
1:25:04 whatever we actually have to do a better
1:25:07 job going out to those that we're hoping
1:25:09 to attract and asking them to provide
1:25:10 solutions so i hope when we do this we
1:25:13 go back and think more broadly about
1:25:15 interviewing and speaking with with
1:25:17 groups that were hoping to sit at the
1:25:19 table and say we thought of this but
1:25:21 what else would you like us to do
1:25:23 because we need to make sure they're
1:25:24 telling us how to get them to the table
1:25:26 and i don't want you to feel like you
1:25:28 failed if it's not well used i think
1:25:30 that just means we need some bigger
1:25:32 broader conversations so don't be too
1:25:33 hard on yourself
1:25:36 um the next item of business this
1:25:38 evening i believe i have to scroll down
1:25:40 here a bit is good of the order
1:25:42 and i will keep an eye on the chat
1:25:45 to see if someone has something for good
1:25:47 of the order
1:25:48 and while i'm doing that i will do a
1:25:51 budget deliberation schedule and i'm
1:25:53 going to give council president hunt the
1:25:56 floor and just keep my eye to see if
1:25:57 anybody else has anything to add for
1:25:59 good of the order
1:26:08 um i don't i'm not seeing anything for a
1:26:10 bit of the order apparently
1:26:15 oh i may i wonder if i'm working off an
1:26:18 older script if you do not have an
1:26:20 update on the deliberation schedule i
1:26:22 have some upcoming meeting notes that i
1:26:24 can share
1:26:28 thank you i think
1:26:31 i think this may have related to an
1:26:33 earlier meeting but i will mention that
1:26:37 there will be an email with
1:26:39 topics
1:26:40 around the budget discussion that will
1:26:42 go out from the administration and
1:26:45 one council member has provided
1:26:47 additional and overlapping topics but if
1:26:49 there are topics that you
1:26:51 sort of those broad policy topics about
1:26:54 the budget that you do not see
1:26:56 represented in that list
1:26:59 per our usual practice we're going to be
1:27:02 building that list
1:27:03 and using that to guide some of the
1:27:05 upcoming conversations so keep an eye
1:27:07 out for that email which i don't think
1:27:08 has gone out yet
1:27:10 that is great council president hunt
1:27:12 thank you very much we did have a
1:27:13 discussion today about questions that
1:27:16 for clarifying purposes and then also
1:27:18 questions that could be great policy
1:27:20 questions to be structured within the
1:27:22 meetings themselves so thanks for
1:27:25 pulling that out when i put you on the
1:27:28 okay upcoming council meetings um
1:27:31 actually i'm going to see uh city
1:27:33 administrator bob quits i saw you turn
1:27:35 camera on for a second is there some
1:27:37 information you want to add to go to the
1:27:38 order
1:27:40 uh no uh council president covered as
1:27:42 far as the upcoming
1:27:43 questions thank you that's great so
1:27:46 there is a city council study session on
1:27:48 tuesday october 12th and the potential
1:27:50 agenda items include performance
1:27:52 measurements update and the 2022 budget
1:27:55 deliberations
1:27:57 october 18th there is a regular council
1:27:59 meeting potential agenda items include
1:28:02 the american rescue plan act funding
1:28:04 allocation ari the small business flex
1:28:08 lodging tax funding
1:28:10 green issaquah funding opportunity it's
1:28:12 a forest carbon credit program
1:28:23 later there's no executives to this
1:28:25 evening
1:28:26 and there being no further business
1:28:27 tonight the meeting is adjourned at 8 28
1:28:29 pm have a great night

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (3)

Forward AB 8231 to the November 1, 2021 Council meeting for deliberation and action. . b)
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Forward AB 8247 to the November 1, 2021 Council meeting for deliberation and action. . c)
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Adopt Ordinance No. 2955, establishing a stipend program in Chapter 2.96, Administration, of the Issaquah Municipal Code, with an effective date of Nov. 1, 2021. .
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh