City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, October 4, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Hall

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

King County Issaquah Recovery Center Update ID 0965

packet pp.7

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Staff report:

Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov

7. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Solid Waste Contract Update ID 0945

packet pp.9–22

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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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, July 30, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.61–64

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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.

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 7, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.65

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 13, 2021

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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

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

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 7, 2021

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.67–70

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 13, 2021

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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

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

2021 Water Main Replacement Project AB 8174

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.71–73

Topics: Water

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Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Memorandum of Agreement with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ratify AB 8257

Carried 7-0

packet pp.89–94

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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.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

Washington State Dept. of Commerce Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Grant AB 8259

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.95–96

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends authorizing submittal of the Washington State Department of Commerce Transit- Oriented Development Implementation grant application.

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

National Council on Aging Grant AB 8260

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.97–108

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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.

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

Aging and Disability Services Grant AB 8261

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.109–111

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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.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

9. PUBLIC HEARING

Proposed 2022 Budget & Salary Ordinance AB 8198

Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.115–331

Topics: Land UseBudget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 28, 2021

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends the City Council conduct the public hearings and adopt the budget and salary ordinances.

Proposed 2022 Budget: Levy & Revenue Sources AB 8199

Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.333–350

Topics: Budget

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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

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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

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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

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.373–377

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

As part of the Human Services Commission’s review and

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

11. GOOD OF THE ORDER

11a

Budget Deliberation Schedule

Topics: Budget

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11b

Upcoming Council Meetings

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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

2:53 ↗ it

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

3:15 ↗ so

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

9:30 ↗ um

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

9:58 ↗ um

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

10:10 ↗ to

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

11:35 ↗ um

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

11:59 ↗ um

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

13:27 ↗ um

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 ↗ um

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

15:41 ↗ um

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

18:16 ↗ on

18:17 ↗ we did receive an email from a community

18:18 ↗ member which had comments on multiple

18:20 ↗ items

18:21 ↗ on

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

21:28 ↗ um

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

22:44 ↗ on

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

23:45 ↗ of

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

24:42 ↗ uh

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

27:44 ↗ um

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

36:35 ↗ a

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

38:36 ↗ um

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

38:56 ↗ i

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

42:40 ↗ so

42:41 ↗ that's incorrect

42:43 ↗ i'm sorry

42:45 ↗ i see

42:47 ↗ okay

42:48 ↗ um

42:49 ↗ i you know

42:51 ↗ i

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

43:27 ↗ of

43:28 ↗ uh where we're going as a as a community

43:31 ↗ but it it seems that

43:33 ↗ um

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

45:21 ↗ on

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

51:53 ↗ is

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

56:42 ↗ um

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 ↗ so

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

1:01:45 ↗ 000

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

1:04:50 ↗ um

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

1:05:03 ↗ sure

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

1:06:33 ↗ and

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

1:09:22 ↗ want

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

1:12:51 ↗ aye

1:12:52 ↗ council member martz

1:12:55 ↗ deputy council president ray aye

1:12:58 ↗ council member walsh

1:13:00 ↗ i

1:13:02 ↗ council member d michelle aye

1:13:05 ↗ council member goodman aye

1:13:08 ↗ councilmember hall

1:13:09 ↗ aye

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

1:14:23 ↗ aye

1:14:24 ↗ deputy council president ray hi council

1:14:28 ↗ member walsh

1:14:29 ↗ aye

1:14:31 ↗ council member d michelle

1:14:33 ↗ aye

1:14:34 ↗ council member goodman aye

1:14:37 ↗ council member hall

1:14:39 ↗ i

1:14:40 ↗ and council president hunt

1:14:42 ↗ aye

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

1:16:23 ↗ um

1:16:24 ↗ i want to make sure i was unmuted

1:16:26 ↗ um

1:16:28 ↗ mr haney if he's available

1:16:31 ↗ i am

1:16:32 ↗ okay um i am looking at page 375 of our

1:16:39 ↗ packet and the second whereas it

1:16:43 ↗ says

1:16:44 ↗ um

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

1:17:09 ↗ um

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

1:17:35 ↗ ex

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

1:19:19 ↗ this

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

1:20:19 ↗ as

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

1:21:32 ↗ um

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

1:22:17 ↗ you

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

1:23:46 ↗ it

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

1:24:23 ↗ i

1:24:25 ↗ council member d michelle

1:24:27 ↗ aye

1:24:28 ↗ councilmember goodman aye

1:24:31 ↗ councilmember hall

1:24:33 ↗ aye

1:24:34 ↗ council president hunt

1:24:36 ↗ aye

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

1:26:27 ↗ um

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

1:27:15 ↗ are

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

1:27:27 ↗ spot

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 ↗ your

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

1:28:07 ↗ fund

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

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (4)

Forward AB 8231 to the November 1, 2021 Council meeting for deliberation and action.

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.

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

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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