City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, April 18, 2022 · City Council Digest

6. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of April 18, 2022, $3,581,417.91 ID 0995

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.5–33

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Minutes: Special City Council Meeting, March 15, 2022

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.35–36

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 03-15-22 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 7:30 PM Council Chambers March 15, 2022 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Informational Update: Emergency Management ID 1084

Carried 7-0

Receive Report · packet pp.37–61

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

The purpose of this informational update is to provide City Council with a status report on current Emergency Management activities and accomplishments, as well as future work plan items.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Boards & Commissions Annual Appointments AB 8333

Carried 7-0

Confirm · packet pp.63–69

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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Staff report:

regarding dissolution of the Cable TV Commission or consolidation of the Cemetery Board will be scheduled for Council committee review and

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Biennial Budget Ordinance AB 8340

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.71–74

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

Chapter 35A.34 RCW permits code cities to adopt a biennial budget in lieu of the annual budget that is otherwise provided for under state law. The goal of the biennial budget is to further multi-year budget and planning best practices and to reduce the amount of staff and council time required to prepare and implement the annual budget each fiscal year.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts Interpreter Reimbursement Program AB 8343

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.75–109

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Staff report:

The Interpreter Reimbursement Program governed by AOC was available to a limited number of participating courts that enrolled into the program in 2008 and 2009. Issaquah did not participate in the early implementation of the program. In 2020-2021 the program expanded to rural courts for which Issaquah did not qualify based on population. In August of 2021, AOC extended an invitation to all courts in the state to participate and Issaquah Municipal Court accepted the invitation.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

East Lake Sammamish Parkway and SE 43rd Way Roundabout Revisions Project AB 8346

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.111–116

Topics: Parks

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Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) Complete Streets Grant AB 8356

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.145–154

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

On May 17, 2021, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2943, amending Chapter 12.10, Complete Streets, of Issaquah Municipal Code (AB 7418). On July 20, 2021, the Transportation Improvement Board had an open call for nominations for their Complete Streets Program. Cities and counties are nominated for awards by four non-profit organizations and seven State agencies. The Administration reached out to nominating agencies and organizations and was nominated for a Complete Streets Award. The updated Complete Streets Ordinance was important for this grant because it demonstrated the City's ethic of building streets for all users. After the City was nominated, the Transportation Improvement Board asked the City to prepare three Complete Streets workplans, one for an award of $300,000, one for an award of $400,000, and one for an award of $500,000. At the Transportation Improvement Board's…

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Water Leak Repair Project AB 8359

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.155–159

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

C. Excerpt from 2022 Budget Amendment (Ord. 2970)

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Interagency Agreement with the City of Black Diamond for Jail Services AB 8368

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.183–193

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Staff report:

The Issaquah Jail serves the City of Black Diamond with jail confinement needs.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

Memorandum of Understanding for Opioid Settlement Allocation AB 8371

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.195–232

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

Multiple states, counties, and cities throughout the nation have brought lawsuits over the last few years against various entities within the pharmaceutical supply chain who manufacture, distribute, and dispense prescription opioids (the “Pharmaceutical Defendants”). The Pharmaceutical Defendants have been unwilling to enter into settlement negotiations with local governments in various states until there is an allocation agreement in place that will cover settlement with all of the litigating parties, as well as a significant majority of those cities and counties who have not brought claims, such as the City of Issaquah. Washington is one of the few states currently without such an allocation agreement. Thus, the parties are pursuing this “One Washington MOU” to attempt to settle all local government claims against the Pharmaceutical Defendants related to opioid issues in Washington…

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

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

7. REGULAR BUSINESS

Council Rules of Procedure Ad Hoc Committee AB 8347

Adopt Ordinance; Approve Resolution · packet pp.233–311

Topics: Land UseBoards & Commissions

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 1, 2022 Council Rules Ad Hoc Committee · Apr 6, 2022

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Staff report:

At the Feb. 15 and March 1 Council Study Sessions, the City Council provided direction to make the following adjustments to the City Council structure: • Shift informational updates to primarily written updates to be provided under the Consent Calendar • Begin holding quarterly community listening sessions. Two or more annually will be held at other locations in the City and will include an area-specific agenda topic and informal social aspect • Shift to a committee structure composed of the 3 committees, as follows: o Mobility & Infrastructure Committee o Planning, Development & Environment Committee o A committee encompassing: Public Safety, Human Services, Parks, Economic Vitality & City Services

8. NEW BUSINESS

New Business Request: Independent Salary Commission - Council Compensation Introduction by Councilmember de Michele ID 1137

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packet pp.313–314

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Staff report:

NEW BUSINESS a) Print City Council New Business Request - Submission #24749 Date Submitted: 4/7/2022

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by HALL

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

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Standing Committee Appointments

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:05 ↗ the first item on the agenda this

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1:07 ↗ meeting city clerk has anyone signed up

1:09 ↗ to speak this evening

1:12 ↗ yes nicoletta mwan

1:17 ↗ who is in the room with us hi nicoletta

1:20 ↗ hi good evening

1:22 ↗ my name is nicoleta mokano

1:24 ↗ i will be

1:25 ↗ joining hopefully the evc commission

1:29 ↗ as an alternate member for the next two

1:31 ↗ years i'm a software engineer

1:34 ↗ and a mom of a 14 year old daughter and

1:39 ↗ one and a half years cat

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1:45 ↗ for having me tonight

1:47 ↗ and i hope i'll do

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1:51 ↗ years thank you

1:52 ↗ thank you nicola thank you for coming

1:54 ↗ introducing yourself to the council

1:57 ↗ city clerk is there anyone else signed

1:58 ↗ up to speak this evening no one else has

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2:02 ↗ of the public on the virtual meeting

2:04 ↗ tonight

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2:08 ↗ speak to me

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2:13 ↗ well again nicoletta thank you it's

2:15 ↗ always nice to put a face to the name

2:18 ↗ so we're going to move on

2:21 ↗ to committee and regional reports and

2:23 ↗ we'll be starting with council member

2:24 ↗ joe

2:25 ↗ no report thank you thank you

2:27 ↗ councilmember d michelle

2:29 ↗ thank you mayor paulie

2:31 ↗ uh first at the april 7th healthier here

2:33 ↗ governing board meaning we received a

2:35 ↗ first report on equity metrics for

2:37 ↗ medicaid transformation in king county

2:40 ↗ the results were mixed but it was very

2:43 ↗ difficult to know how to take into

2:45 ↗ account the amount of disruption caused

2:46 ↗ by the pandemic on the outcomes but at

2:49 ↗ least we have a floor level now and

2:52 ↗ we'll be looking forward to the next

2:53 ↗ report to see if we can discern uh

2:56 ↗ trends better than uh the ones that we

2:58 ↗ received this time so

3:00 ↗ at the april 8th eastside transportation

3:02 ↗ partnership we received a report from

3:04 ↗ metro on the new orca card which will

3:06 ↗ begin to be rolled out in may and a

3:08 ↗ report from sound transit on the i-405

3:11 ↗ stride bus rapid transit plans and then

3:14 ↗ i also attended the east side human

3:16 ↗ services forum board meeting on april

3:17 ↗ 14th which included a time for sharing

3:20 ↗ human services news with other east side

3:22 ↗ cities school districts and social

3:24 ↗ service agencies and that concludes my

3:26 ↗ report thank you council member d

3:28 ↗ michelle

3:30 ↗ next is council member hunt thank you

3:32 ↗ madam mayor the regional water quality

3:34 ↗ committee met on april 6th we spent most

3:38 ↗ of the meeting discussing the wastewater

3:40 ↗ treatments division's

3:41 ↗ percent rate increase proposal for 2023

3:45 ↗ the percent that is proposed is

3:48 ↗ 5.75 percent um so this would be for the

3:51 ↗ sewer and wastewater

3:53 ↗ king county portion of that

3:56 ↗ fee and

3:57 ↗ we discussed that this was larger than

3:59 ↗ the 2023

4:01 ↗ rate that was forecasted just eight

4:03 ↗ months ago by this division which was

4:05 ↗ four percent and we're also as a

4:07 ↗ committee expressed a lot of concern

4:09 ↗ about the 10-year plan which actually

4:11 ↗ has a doubling of the regional monthly

4:13 ↗ rate by 2023.

4:16 ↗ sorry it has a doubling of the regional

4:18 ↗ monthly rates over 10 years

4:20 ↗ um so

4:22 ↗ there's a lot of assumptions that we're

4:23 ↗ working on understanding this committee

4:25 ↗ will continue to work on that 10-year

4:27 ↗ plan and really understand and dig into

4:29 ↗ where there could be potential cost

4:30 ↗ savings what the drivers of those cost

4:33 ↗ increases are expected to be and if

4:34 ↗ there's alternatives so i will continue

4:38 ↗ to update this group on those

4:39 ↗ conversations

4:41 ↗ in the near term the

4:43 ↗ one-year rate increase is going to be

4:47 ↗ transmitted in mid-april um to the

4:50 ↗ executive and then it's ultimately voted

4:52 ↗ on by the county and it needs to go into

4:54 ↗ effect by

4:56 ↗ july 1st

4:58 ↗ the next meeting of this committee is

5:00 ↗ may 4th

5:02 ↗ and then the king conservation district

5:03 ↗ advisory committee met on april 12th and

5:05 ↗ a subset of us also met today

5:08 ↗ to discuss member jurisdiction grants

5:10 ↗ the main thing that this committee is

5:12 ↗ working on right now is revisions to the

5:14 ↗ member jurisdiction grant process for

5:16 ↗ the king conservation district advisory

5:18 ↗ committee and the main points that we

5:20 ↗ are working on specifically are how to

5:23 ↗ best include considerations of equity

5:25 ↗ into this grant process

5:28 ↗ we are

5:29 ↗ potentially proposing doing something

5:31 ↗ similar to what seattle does which is

5:33 ↗ they open up their grants for community

5:35 ↗ and non-profit organizations to apply to

5:37 ↗ those grants so it gives more different

5:39 ↗ community groups an opportunity to do

5:41 ↗ this conservation work and

5:43 ↗ use the funding from the conservation

5:45 ↗ district

5:46 ↗ in that way so this would potentially be

5:49 ↗ an option for cities and if we finalize

5:51 ↗ results to that effect it would be a big

5:53 ↗ change for cities that do use these

5:55 ↗ grants so we would bring it forward to

5:56 ↗ pick at a subsequent meeting for

5:59 ↗ more input from more cities and the next

6:01 ↗ meeting of the king conservation

6:02 ↗ district is the next meaning of the king

6:04 ↗ conservation

6:06 ↗ king conservation district advisory

6:07 ↗ committee is june 14th and that

6:09 ↗ concludes my report

6:11 ↗ thank you

6:12 ↗ councilmember ray

6:14 ↗ thank you mayor paulie um two reports

6:16 ↗ today first one the east side fire and

6:18 ↗ rescue board of directors met

6:20 ↗ on

6:22 ↗ april 14th at

6:24 ↗ east side fire and rescue headquarters

6:25 ↗ on newport way

6:27 ↗ quite a bit of discussion around pfos

6:30 ↗ eastside fire and rescue has received a

6:31 ↗ 350 thousand dollar grant from the

6:34 ↗ department of ecology to work on pfos

6:37 ↗ testing

6:38 ↗ and this is in addition to the four

6:40 ↗ hundred thousand dollars in pfas funding

6:42 ↗ that was secured by the city of acqua

6:44 ↗ way to go issaquah

6:46 ↗ um

6:47 ↗ um also pfos is going to be designated

6:49 ↗ as a model toxic

6:51 ↗ control act substance which is going to

6:53 ↗ make it a little more

6:56 ↗ difficult to get

6:58 ↗ easy grant funding but

6:59 ↗ the east side fire rescue is pursuing

7:02 ↗ a grant for 2.4 million

7:07 ↗ that will require a 50 match so that

7:10 ↗ will be in our 2023-2024 budget

7:13 ↗ and also this was just interesting um

7:16 ↗ sam plus some mamas plateau water has

7:18 ↗ received a 1.5 million dollar federal

7:20 ↗ funding towards treatment of pfas

7:23 ↗ thank you representative kim schreier

7:25 ↗ for making that happen

7:28 ↗ also

7:29 ↗ for regular business

7:31 ↗ fire and rescue board directors approved

7:34 ↗ uh expanding of ems levy fund

7:36 ↗ funds to implement and continue funding

7:39 ↗ of the mobile integrated health care uh

7:41 ↗ plan which is the providing of social

7:44 ↗ workers to

7:47 ↗ augment the service provided by our

7:48 ↗ first responders

7:50 ↗ and also

7:51 ↗ eastside is working with

7:54 ↗ woodenville fire right now to put

7:57 ↗ together a training facility

7:59 ↗ out in woodenville that will augment our

8:01 ↗ training capability so that's very

8:02 ↗ exciting then i'm just going to mention

8:04 ↗ because it's been in the news but

8:08 ↗ eastside fire and rescue had a

8:10 ↗ vaccine mandate and that went into

8:12 ↗ effect uh six months ago

8:14 ↗ when the vaccines became available

8:16 ↗ there was a fair amount of public

8:18 ↗ comment related to the

8:20 ↗ vaccine mandate and there were

8:22 ↗ six east side fire and rescue employees

8:24 ↗ who who opted not to be vaccinated whose

8:27 ↗ six-month leave of absence ended today

8:29 ↗ and

8:30 ↗ consequently were terminated it was a it

8:32 ↗ was a difficult and sad meeting for all

8:34 ↗ of us

8:36 ↗ um

8:36 ↗ on to a happier topic um the isquad city

8:40 ↗ council ad hoc committee on rules met on

8:43 ↗ march 30th and again on april 6 to

8:48 ↗ develop the revised rules of procedure

8:51 ↗ to implement council committees and we

8:54 ↗ will be talking about that later today

8:56 ↗ and i will give more detail at that time

8:58 ↗ thank you and that concludes my report

9:00 ↗ thank you councilmember ray

9:01 ↗ councilmember martz

9:03 ↗ sorry that's loud uh thank you madam

9:05 ↗ mayor uh the puget sound regional

9:08 ↗ council growth management policy board

9:10 ↗ more lovingly known as the psrc gmpb met

9:14 ↗ on thursday april 7th from 10 till noon

9:16 ↗ many things were discussed but we

9:18 ↗ recommended it approval of the

9:21 ↗ bothell canyon park regional growth

9:23 ↗ center sub area plan as well as the

9:26 ↗ snohomish county

9:28 ↗ county-wide planning policies none of

9:29 ↗ which directly involve the city of

9:30 ↗ issaquah but we're fun topics

9:32 ↗ nonetheless sound cities association

9:34 ↗ public issues committee met on wednesday

9:37 ↗ april 13th from 7 to 9 pm

9:40 ↗ there was a discussion of affordable

9:43 ↗ housing county-wide policies

9:46 ↗ there was a discussion on hazardous

9:48 ↗ waste management

9:51 ↗ coordination

9:53 ↗ several

9:54 ↗ conversations on local actions on

9:56 ↗ climate change where you know issaquah

9:58 ↗ has got a number of initiatives

10:01 ↗ both in collaboration with other

10:03 ↗ cities on the east side as well as some

10:05 ↗ of the things that we're doing ourselves

10:06 ↗ that were very exciting

10:08 ↗ to share

10:10 ↗ and but no no specific actions came out

10:13 ↗ of either those meetings that

10:16 ↗ need direct review by us so that

10:18 ↗ concludes my report

10:20 ↗ thank you very much deputy council

10:21 ↗ president hall no report this evening

10:24 ↗ thank you council president walsh thank

10:26 ↗ you the king county affordable housing

10:28 ↗ committee met on april 8th where we

10:31 ↗ focused on providing guidance on the

10:32 ↗ accountability framework for those

10:35 ↗ countywide planning policies

10:38 ↗ and so basically

10:40 ↗ as the cities come together and have to

10:42 ↗ do our comprehensive plans there are

10:44 ↗ several elements in there you know

10:46 ↗ there's a transportation element and the

10:48 ↗ housing element and all of that and

10:51 ↗ this is looking at

10:54 ↗ whether we want to strengthen the

10:56 ↗ housing element or rather the psrc um

11:01 ↗ gmpb said hey we want to strengthen that

11:04 ↗ affordable housing committee figure out

11:06 ↗ how we're going to strengthen it and so

11:09 ↗ the two things that we looked at and

11:11 ↗ were

11:12 ↗ planning to or we're giving feedback on

11:15 ↗ was first whether to

11:17 ↗ have a requirement that

11:20 ↗ cities comprehensive plan housing

11:22 ↗ element gets certified before it can be

11:25 ↗ accepted

11:26 ↗ there are other areas that do get

11:28 ↗ certified such as the transportation

11:31 ↗ element because there's a lot of funding

11:33 ↗ that is associated with that

11:35 ↗ the sca caucus wasn't in favor of having

11:39 ↗ a certification requirement this cycle

11:42 ↗ because we feel like it's coming up

11:43 ↗ really fast and we needed more

11:45 ↗ clarification on what the

11:48 ↗ um

11:49 ↗ the metrics would be that it we would be

11:51 ↗ looking at

11:53 ↗ but we were in favor of a mid-cycle

11:56 ↗ review point of the 10-year

11:58 ↗ comprehensive plan so coming in at a

12:00 ↗ five-year point that would require

12:02 ↗ cities to make adjustments if they're

12:05 ↗ not actually delivering

12:07 ↗ on the goals the number of housing units

12:11 ↗ that they said they would be able to and

12:13 ↗ so that's a departure from what

12:16 ↗ any of this was before this was feedback

12:19 ↗ given to staff which will then generate

12:21 ↗ a proposal which we'll continue to work

12:24 ↗ on which will end up going to psrc gmpb

12:28 ↗ for approval and that concludes my

12:30 ↗ report

12:31 ↗ thank you council president next item on

12:33 ↗ the agenda this evening is the mayor's

12:35 ↗ report there will be an executive

12:37 ↗ session this evening to discuss pending

12:39 ↗ or potential litigation

12:41 ↗ for rcw

12:42 ↗ 42.30 0.110 paren one paren i and the i

12:46 ↗ these items are expected to take

12:48 ↗ approximately 15 minutes and no action

12:50 ↗ is anticipated to follow an open session

12:53 ↗ the city of issaquah celebrates and

12:55 ↗ protects its natural environment

12:57 ↗ especially the trees and forests that

12:59 ↗ make our city so beautiful this year the

13:01 ↗ city of issaquah earned recognition as a

13:03 ↗ 2021 tree city usa the 29th year we've

13:06 ↗ received this distinction

13:08 ↗ in recognition i have signed a

13:09 ↗ proclamation declaring sunday april 24th

13:12 ↗ arbor day

13:13 ↗ the city is holding a joint earth day

13:16 ↗ arbor day event on april 24th from 9 to

13:18 ↗ 12 p.m at harvey manning park

13:20 ↗ to plant native species and remove weeds

13:23 ↗ and you can learn more about this and

13:24 ↗ register through the city's website

13:27 ↗ the city of issaquah has been selected

13:29 ↗ as one of 15 cities that will commence

13:31 ↗ certification in a national cohort

13:33 ↗ supported by the lead for city's local

13:35 ↗ government leadership program

13:37 ↗ this program will allow issaquah to

13:38 ↗ track performance and identify gaps in

13:41 ↗ sustainability and equity in order to

13:43 ↗ achieve a lead for city certification

13:46 ↗ this effort will require

13:47 ↗ cross-departmental coordination u.s

13:50 ↗ green building council will provide

13:51 ↗ dedicated staff and an equity fellow to

13:54 ↗ support the city through the six to nine

13:55 ↗ month process

13:58 ↗ a youth advisory board recruitment is

14:00 ↗ going on we are calling all of our

14:02 ↗ future leaders to come join the city of

14:04 ↗ issaquah is now accepting applications

14:05 ↗ for the youth advisory board for the

14:08 ↗ 2022-2023 school year

14:10 ↗ youths grade 5 to 11 who live or attend

14:13 ↗ school within the esco school district

14:14 ↗ are encouraged to apply

14:16 ↗ applications and reference forms are due

14:18 ↗ by email on may 13th and more

14:20 ↗ information can be found on the city's

14:21 ↗ website

14:23 ↗ we have some upcoming community events

14:25 ↗ keep issaqua beautiful day join us on

14:27 ↗ saturday april 23rd

14:29 ↗ as we work to keep our favorite town

14:31 ↗ clean and beautiful rain or shine

14:33 ↗ volunteers will help pick up trash

14:35 ↗ maintain vegetation and plant flowers

14:37 ↗ afterwards participate participants can

14:40 ↗ enjoy live music and pizza at the

14:42 ↗ historic shell station

14:44 ↗ learn more on the downtown isque

14:46 ↗ association's website

14:47 ↗ there's also a farm fresh market the

14:50 ↗ downtown esco association is hosting a

14:52 ↗ market with seasonal flowers and foods

14:53 ↗ at the historic shell station the event

14:56 ↗ will run

14:57 ↗ saturdays from april 30th

14:59 ↗ through april 30th from 9am to 2pm

15:03 ↗ and eastside fire and rescue is having

15:05 ↗ an open house as they are continuing

15:07 ↗ with their strategic planning process

15:09 ↗ they're hosting in-person meetings to

15:11 ↗ facilitate conversations and engagement

15:13 ↗ with the fire department the open house

15:14 ↗ will be april 27th from 6 to 7 30 pm at

15:18 ↗ east side fire and rescue station 78

15:20 ↗ more engagement opportunities are

15:22 ↗ available online

15:24 ↗ chamber regional business summit

15:26 ↗ eastside chamber of commerce is hosting

15:28 ↗ the fourth annual regional business

15:30 ↗ summit at the club at snoqualmie ridge

15:32 ↗ this one day event is open to all

15:33 ↗ business professionals the event

15:35 ↗ explores how the challenges disruptions

15:37 ↗ and opportunities accelerated by the

15:39 ↗ pandemic are creating a new economic era

15:42 ↗ for east side businesses tickets are

15:43 ↗ available for purchase through the

15:45 ↗ chambers website

15:46 ↗ and just a final note city hall is

15:48 ↗ currently open to the public monday

15:50 ↗ through friday 9 a.m to 4 p.m and that

15:52 ↗ concludes the mayor's report

15:55 ↗ next item is the consent calendar which

15:58 ↗ was distributed to council in advance

16:00 ↗ and if authorized the items on the

16:01 ↗ consent calendar will be considered

16:03 ↗ together and approved by one motion have

16:05 ↗ the payables and payroll been reviewed

16:08 ↗ yes yes thank you does any council

16:11 ↗ member desire to remove any item from

16:13 ↗ the consent counter and consider it

16:14 ↗ under regular business

16:19 ↗ seeing none is there someone prepared to

16:21 ↗ make a motion

16:22 ↗ council president i move we approve the

16:24 ↗ consent calendar as written

16:27 ↗ uh deputy council president second

16:30 ↗ it's been moved and seconded to approve

16:31 ↗ the consent calendar as presented is

16:34 ↗ there any council discussion

16:38 ↗ hearing none the motion before council

16:40 ↗ approve the consent calendar is

16:41 ↗ presented all those in favor signify by

16:43 ↗ saying aye

17:09 ↗ thank you mayor paulie

17:11 ↗ as i mentioned during the committee

17:12 ↗ reports the ad hoc committee on council

17:15 ↗ rules met on march 30th and again on

17:17 ↗ april 6th

17:18 ↗ we walk through a series of

17:23 ↗ opportunities to amend the

17:26 ↗ rules of procedure to re-implement

17:30 ↗ the legacy or the legacy idea of council

17:32 ↗ committees we also took advantage of

17:35 ↗ this time to

17:36 ↗ look for opportunities to improve the

17:39 ↗ ways committees

17:40 ↗ function and to streamline the timeline

17:43 ↗ and we also um identified

17:47 ↗ some areas where we could align the

17:49 ↗ committees to the strategic plan and

17:52 ↗ then just because we could

17:54 ↗ we

17:54 ↗ eliminated some clunky language that was

17:56 ↗ currently clunky is a technical term

17:58 ↗ that was in the um

18:01 ↗ the existing rules of procedure uh

18:03 ↗ council members marx and hunt and i made

18:06 ↗ up the committee

18:08 ↗ i have nothing but

18:10 ↗ praise and thanks to the the city clerk

18:13 ↗ and the city clerk's office for the way

18:14 ↗ they organized the discussion and

18:17 ↗ enabled us to move through this material

18:19 ↗ very very quickly and

18:21 ↗ i

18:22 ↗ i think we have

18:24 ↗ a

18:25 ↗ a good body of work to put before you

18:28 ↗ this evening

18:29 ↗ so

18:30 ↗ i'm going to turn it over to the city

18:31 ↗ clerk to walk through the changes but

18:33 ↗ before i do that i was going to

18:35 ↗ see if council member hunt or mart's had

18:36 ↗ anything that they would like to add

18:39 ↗ nope nope

18:41 ↗ okay um

18:43 ↗ i'm going to turn it over to the city

18:44 ↗ clerk

18:53 ↗ good evening council thank you chair ray

18:56 ↗ let me get this going here

19:01 ↗ all right so i'm just going to provide a

19:03 ↗ brief overview of the committee's

19:06 ↗ recommendation expanding on a few

19:09 ↗ points that chair ray mentioned

19:12 ↗ so

19:13 ↗ obviously our

19:14 ↗ purpose tonight is to summarize the

19:16 ↗ council rules ad hoc committee's

19:18 ↗ recommendation and just to note that

19:19 ↗ upon conclusion of my presentation

19:21 ↗ tonight the committee will have

19:23 ↗ finalized its work and so it will be

19:26 ↗ dissolved or discharged

19:28 ↗ after the presentation tonight

19:31 ↗ so the committee recommended the

19:33 ↗ revisions to the rules of procedure

19:35 ↗ they're shown in track changes and

19:37 ↗ attached to a resolution that would

19:40 ↗ adopt them there's also an ordinance

19:43 ↗ which just makes some conforming

19:44 ↗ amendments to the issaquah municipal

19:46 ↗ code there's just a high level of

19:48 ↗ information about the council's

19:50 ↗ legislative structure in the imc

19:53 ↗ so as some background the council has

19:55 ↗ been discussing its legislative

19:57 ↗ structure um really since the start of

19:59 ↗ 2022 so there was

20:01 ↗ some robust discussion at the january

20:03 ↗ 25th council retreat and then at the

20:05 ↗ february 15th and march for study

20:07 ↗ sessions the council really laid out

20:09 ↗ some some concrete changes

20:11 ↗ and then on march 7th the rule council

20:13 ↗ rules ad hoc was established to sort of

20:15 ↗ determine some of the function and form

20:18 ↗ of the standing committee structure and

20:20 ↗ committee of the whole

20:23 ↗ so this slide is just an overview of the

20:26 ↗ direction that was provided at the two

20:28 ↗ study sessions and so this is what

20:30 ↗ guided the ad hoc committee's work so

20:34 ↗ the transition to written informational

20:36 ↗ updates on the consent calendar the

20:39 ↗ quarterly community listening sessions

20:41 ↗ there's

20:41 ↗ a minimal section in the council rules

20:44 ↗ to address both of those the one of the

20:46 ↗ biggest ones was the shift to standing

20:48 ↗ committees we'll talk a little bit more

20:49 ↗ about that

20:50 ↗ and then as as well establishing a new

20:52 ↗ section on committee of the whole

20:54 ↗ council

20:55 ↗ and lastly providing some changes to the

20:58 ↗ ad the section on ad hoc committees so

21:00 ↗ the direction was continue to allow them

21:02 ↗ to be created but provide some more

21:04 ↗ structure

21:05 ↗ and expanded format options

21:09 ↗ so with this in mind as chair ray

21:11 ↗ mentioned the committee met twice once

21:14 ↗ to go through about 13 questions that

21:17 ↗ provided specific direction

21:19 ↗ on different provisions of the

21:21 ↗ committees and committee of the whole

21:23 ↗ and a few other changes and then at

21:25 ↗ april 6 they reviewed the draft rules

21:26 ↗ before each night and made some edits

21:31 ↗ this

21:32 ↗ slide should be familiar to you this

21:34 ↗ was the

21:36 ↗ committee structure that the the full

21:38 ↗ council landed on at the study sessions

21:40 ↗ something the ad hoc committee

21:42 ↗ solidified was the name for that third

21:44 ↗ committee

21:45 ↗ services safety and parks

21:48 ↗ but otherwise this this should look

21:50 ↗ familiar to you and you will see this

21:52 ↗ table reflected in the draft council

21:54 ↗ rules

21:58 ↗ uh

21:59 ↗ the ad hoc committee did weigh in on the

22:01 ↗ schedule for these standing committee

22:03 ↗ meetings settling on the first second

22:06 ↗ and third tuesday of the month at 6 30

22:09 ↗ pm these committee meetings will be held

22:12 ↗ in the council chambers and committee

22:14 ↗ members would be seated at the dyess

22:18 ↗ i wanted to mention that because

22:19 ↗ occasionally holidays move these regular

22:22 ↗ council meetings to tuesdays

22:24 ↗ occasionally these committee meetings

22:25 ↗ will occur on a wednesday

22:28 ↗ that will be the default date but a

22:30 ↗ different date can be determined by the

22:32 ↗ committee if needed

22:38 ↗ i wanted to make note of uh sort of

22:41 ↗ an addendum to the motion in your packet

22:44 ↗ tonight i discovered in preparing for

22:46 ↗ tonight's meeting that i had a typo that

22:48 ↗ misconstrued the regular meeting date of

22:51 ↗ the committee so

22:52 ↗ council member ray will be including

22:54 ↗ that in his motion to correct it with

22:56 ↗ all the other communication you've

22:57 ↗ received about the proposed schedule

23:01 ↗ all right so i'm going to provide an

23:02 ↗ overview of some of the specific

23:03 ↗ recommendations on the standing

23:05 ↗ committees so the ad hoc committee um

23:07 ↗ recommended that public comment be taken

23:09 ↗ and that it be taken at the beginning of

23:11 ↗ the committee meeting and after each

23:12 ↗ agenda item similar to how public

23:14 ↗ comment was taken during uh study

23:16 ↗ sessions um as a side note this does

23:19 ↗ trigger the open public meetings act so

23:20 ↗ that will apply to meetings of the

23:22 ↗ committee

23:24 ↗ the committees will as you know consist

23:26 ↗ of three council members so quorum would

23:28 ↗ be two council members there will not be

23:31 ↗ substitutes or alternates allowed

23:34 ↗ the other council members are encouraged

23:36 ↗ if you have interest in the committee's

23:38 ↗ proceedings to watch the the video of

23:40 ↗ the meetings or to pose questions to the

23:42 ↗ chair other committee members at an open

23:44 ↗ public meeting and certainly um the

23:47 ↗ committee members are encouraged to

23:49 ↗ avoid dialoguing on items coming to the

23:51 ↗ committee or

23:52 ↗ it to come to the committee in the

23:54 ↗ future

23:55 ↗ to just ensure you're complying with the

23:56 ↗ open public meetings act

23:58 ↗ so the other thing the ad hoc committee

24:00 ↗ touched on

24:01 ↗ or made a recommendation on work

24:03 ↗ committee appointments you are all

24:04 ↗ familiar with some of those

24:06 ↗ recommendations as you were surveyed a

24:07 ↗ few weeks ago

24:09 ↗ so those included council leadership

24:10 ↗ would not serve as a chair

24:12 ↗ chairs of the committee would not serve

24:14 ↗ on more than one committee

24:16 ↗ the ad hoc committee also came up with a

24:18 ↗ process for unclear referrals as you

24:20 ↗ recall the uh work cities work plan

24:22 ↗ items will come directly to a standing

24:24 ↗ committee or committee of the whole

24:26 ↗ based on the subject if a council member

24:28 ↗ feels that one of those referrals is um

24:32 ↗ not appropriate they can pose that to

24:35 ↗ the council president who will serve to

24:37 ↗ i guess review

24:39 ↗ the rationale for the referral and can

24:42 ↗ choose to make a different decision so

24:44 ↗ there's some language to address that in

24:46 ↗ the draft rules there's also some

24:47 ↗ language about reporting as when

24:50 ↗ committees existed previously with the

24:52 ↗ council the council chairs sort of the

24:54 ↗ default report out er

24:56 ↗ and they would make the report

24:58 ↗ summarizing the committee's

24:59 ↗ recommendations under committee reports

25:01 ↗ if there's a regular business item that

25:03 ↗ the committee weighed in on they would

25:05 ↗ hold that recommendation just like

25:06 ↗ councilmember raided tonight and they

25:08 ↗ would address the council immediately

25:10 ↗ after the staff presentation to provide

25:12 ↗ the committee's recommendation verbally

25:15 ↗ prior to council deliberation

25:18 ↗ the ad hoc committee also recommended

25:20 ↗ allowances to discharge

25:23 ↗ items from committee or refer items back

25:26 ↗ to committee so discharging um that

25:29 ↗ would allow

25:30 ↗ the rationale there is that the full

25:31 ↗ council should be able to pull an item

25:34 ↗ out of committee maybe it's languishing

25:35 ↗ there maybe it's had four committee

25:37 ↗ meetings so there's some language in the

25:39 ↗ draft rules that allow some mechanisms

25:42 ↗ for doing that and certainly if you have

25:44 ↗ any questions about those

25:46 ↗ essentially the ad hoc committee settled

25:48 ↗ on providing advance notice at a private

25:50 ↗ prior meeting

25:51 ↗ of intention to make such a

25:54 ↗ motion uh i'd also like to quickly touch

25:57 ↗ on board and commission involvement so

26:00 ↗ the council had

26:01 ↗ had discussed at the study sessions and

26:04 ↗ interest in um tying the committees to

26:07 ↗ their respective boarding commissions

26:09 ↗ and you'll see that in the chart

26:11 ↗ the table that i showed previously the

26:13 ↗ ad hoc committee talked about this and

26:15 ↗ committee members may want to add

26:17 ↗ further and felt that it was important

26:19 ↗ to hear from the board and commissions

26:21 ↗ on items coming before the committees

26:23 ↗ for action and as has been occurring at

26:25 ↗ some of the regular council meetings and

26:27 ↗ study sessions

26:28 ↗ the recommendation was to uh

26:32 ↗ ask the direct the administration to

26:35 ↗ um strongly urge that a representative

26:37 ↗ of the board commission

26:39 ↗ come to the committee meeting and

26:40 ↗ summarize the board and commission's

26:42 ↗ recommendation

26:44 ↗ there the committee felt that

26:46 ↗ with the acknowledgement of the

26:48 ↗ administration who was attending the ad

26:50 ↗ hoc committee meetings that that that

26:52 ↗ direction

26:53 ↗ was was clear and received and and could

26:55 ↗ proceed administratively and so there

26:57 ↗ isn't language in the council rules as

26:59 ↗ written to address this dynamic uh also

27:02 ↗ the ad hoc committee felt it was

27:03 ↗ important to revisit this once the

27:04 ↗ standing committees were functioning for

27:06 ↗ a while

27:08 ↗ potentially at the beginning of 2023

27:13 ↗ i'd like to provide a brief overview of

27:15 ↗ the decisions related to the committee

27:17 ↗ of the whole council so the ad hoc

27:18 ↗ committee recommended the council

27:20 ↗ president chair those meetings that the

27:21 ↗ public uh provide comment at the

27:23 ↗ beginning of the meetings and after each

27:25 ↗ agenda item and in the case of the

27:27 ↗ standing committee and the committee of

27:29 ↗ the whole that the public be able to um

27:31 ↗ make comments virtually or in person and

27:34 ↗ they also recommended having a standing

27:36 ↗ good of the order at the end of the

27:38 ↗ agenda similar to

27:39 ↗ how study sessions functioned previously

27:44 ↗ there are a few other recommendations

27:46 ↗ one of them was regarding the weekly

27:48 ↗ leadership meetings so the council

27:49 ↗ retreat there was some discussion around

27:51 ↗ the rotating third council member that

27:53 ↗ currently uh is invited to attend the

27:56 ↗ weekly um leadership meetings there

27:59 ↗ wasn't a um

28:01 ↗ ultimate recommendation that came from

28:03 ↗ that and so that question was posed to

28:05 ↗ the ad hoc committee which recommended

28:06 ↗ removing

28:07 ↗ that third rotating third council member

28:10 ↗ and then the committee also

28:12 ↗ reviewed some changes to the ad hoc

28:14 ↗ committee provisions that as i mentioned

28:16 ↗ before

28:17 ↗ provided um sort of require more

28:20 ↗ specificity when they're established and

28:23 ↗ some

28:24 ↗ identifying time line check-ins as well

28:27 ↗ as um identifying a format so just

28:29 ↗ provided some more guidance when those

28:31 ↗ are formed in the future

28:33 ↗ then you'll notice a variety of

28:35 ↗ amendments to conform to the changes i

28:36 ↗ just referenced throughout the rules

28:39 ↗ there are a few other amendments the

28:40 ↗ clerk's office keeps a list of minor

28:43 ↗ things that need to be

28:44 ↗ updated in the rules and so

28:47 ↗ there were a few minor changes in the

28:49 ↗ sections identified on the screen here

28:53 ↗ so timing and next steps tonight

28:56 ↗ we and the committee are looking for

28:59 ↗ your approval of the draft rules or

29:02 ↗ potential changes and the shift to

29:05 ↗ standing committees and committee of the

29:07 ↗ whole council would begin in may

29:11 ↗ so here is the recommendation i'm happy

29:13 ↗ to help answer any questions

29:16 ↗ thank you

29:23 ↗ thank you city clerk

29:24 ↗ are there any questions

29:29 ↗ uh deputy council president hall

29:31 ↗ uh really quickly and again thank you

29:33 ↗ very much for all the work that you put

29:34 ↗ into this it's clear to me that you

29:36 ↗ spent a lot of time and passion in this

29:39 ↗ did you say

29:40 ↗ so

29:41 ↗ going back to something you said kind of

29:42 ↗ at the beginning you know i was thinking

29:44 ↗ wanting to follow along the committees

29:46 ↗ the committees that i'm not serving on

29:48 ↗ um would it be appropriate to go to

29:51 ↗ those in person or are you advising that

29:53 ↗ council members just watch this

29:55 ↗ virtually

29:59 ↗ i would i would recommend that you view

30:01 ↗ via committee meetings and

30:03 ↗ certainly if rachel has anything to add

30:06 ↗ the the committee meetings are noticed

30:08 ↗ open meetings but they're open meetings

30:10 ↗ of the committee and so

30:11 ↗ you bring in four council members it

30:14 ↗ becomes

30:15 ↗ under the opma could you have a quorum

30:17 ↗ of the city council so the

30:18 ↗ recommendation would be to passively

30:19 ↗ view

30:24 ↗ did you want uh rachel to comment on

30:26 ↗ that

30:27 ↗ no that's fine that makes perfect sense

30:28 ↗ i wasn't sure if they were noticed

30:30 ↗ differently in some way so that answered

30:31 ↗ my question perfectly um there were two

30:33 ↗ other questions that i had sent in

30:34 ↗ advance that um council member ray

30:37 ↗ answered via email thank you very much

30:38 ↗ for doing that and

30:39 ↗ one of them was um

30:42 ↗ what happens if a chair can't attend a

30:44 ↗ committee meeting so could you speak to

30:45 ↗ that

30:46 ↗ absolutely so

30:48 ↗ robert's rules says that if there's not

30:50 ↗ a vice chair which there is not with the

30:52 ↗ committees that it would just be up to

30:54 ↗ the the committee to elect a chair which

30:56 ↗ is a little funny because if you're

30:58 ↗ missing your chariot there's two of you

31:01 ↗ so

31:02 ↗ i guess you have to agree and i was

31:05 ↗ thinking about your question it's

31:06 ↗ something if it becomes problematic it's

31:08 ↗ certainly something that could be

31:10 ↗ outlined in the rules some kind of

31:12 ↗ process but really just be agreement

31:15 ↗ among the two remaining members how to

31:17 ↗ handle that and on that topic

31:19 ↗ you will have noticed that there

31:22 ↗ the section on remote attendance so

31:24 ↗ during of emergency council members can

31:27 ↗ attend meetings remotely including

31:29 ↗ committee meetings but the remote

31:31 ↗ attendance section was amended to

31:33 ↗ specify that if the chair's virtual the

31:35 ↗ chairing of the meeting would fall to an

31:38 ↗ in-person committee member

31:40 ↗ so

31:41 ↗ just um

31:43 ↗ mentioning that as well for awareness

31:45 ↗ great any other questions i have one

31:47 ↗ more if that's okay um just so that way

31:49 ↗ the public has all the questions that i

31:51 ↗ attended in advance uh the other one was

31:54 ↗ my last question was that one of the

31:55 ↗ recommendations for chair

31:56 ↗ responsibilities was reviewing and

31:58 ↗ approving committee agendas could you

32:00 ↗ speak to what um that means in

32:01 ↗ particular

32:03 ↗ sure so we plan to track items going to

32:05 ↗ committee similar to agenda bills now so

32:08 ↗ you'll receive the council will receive

32:10 ↗ the weekly planning calendar so that you

32:12 ↗ everyone can see what's anticipated to

32:14 ↗ be scheduled for upcoming committee

32:16 ↗ meetings so that agenda review will um

32:19 ↗ be similar to what council leadership

32:21 ↗ does with in the past study session

32:23 ↗ agendas where the clerk's office will

32:25 ↗ prepare the draft agenda and the

32:26 ↗ committee send it to the committee chair

32:28 ↗ they would review it primarily for

32:30 ↗ timing and order moving items maybe

32:34 ↗ saying that

32:35 ↗ they think it's a bit of a robust agenda

32:37 ↗ or the timing isn't realistic those

32:39 ↗ types of things so that that is what

32:42 ↗ what is intended by approval of the

32:44 ↗ agenda and then it would proceed to be

32:46 ↗ published um following their review and

32:48 ↗ approval

32:50 ↗ thank you very much

32:52 ↗ any other questions

32:54 ↗ uh councilmember joe thank you for this

32:56 ↗ presentation i appreciate

32:58 ↗ putting it in concise terms that are

33:00 ↗ easy to understand um i wanted to go to

33:04 ↗ um

33:05 ↗ the page in your presentation meeting

33:06 ↗ schedules and locations i think it's

33:08 ↗ page five or six

33:11 ↗ in there it has that the first tuesday

33:13 ↗ of the month replying development and

33:14 ↗ environment committee

33:16 ↗ but then on page 45 of the

33:20 ↗ statute itself

33:21 ↗ that's at the

33:23 ↗ beginning of the presentation that the

33:24 ↗ dates are

33:26 ↗ transposed or a little bit different

33:35 ↗ page 45 under meetings it's got mobility

33:38 ↗ and infrastructure is the first tuesday

33:39 ↗ of the month

33:40 ↗ plan development environment on the

33:42 ↗ second tuesday of the month did we

33:44 ↗ i made a mistake

33:47 ↗ and i i caught my mistake today and i

33:50 ↗ provided uh council member ray a

33:52 ↗ slightly revised motion to make uh

33:55 ↗ tonight

33:56 ↗ to to correct that so no thank thank you

33:59 ↗ i didn't see the recommendations so i i

34:02 ↗ apologize thank you no you you are not

34:04 ↗ provided that information

34:06 ↗ thank you for your close reading and

34:08 ↗ that that will be uh hopefully corrected

34:11 ↗ as part of the motion tonight okay that

34:13 ↗ was great i appreciate that thank you

34:14 ↗ always helps to have a second set of

34:16 ↗ eyes

34:18 ↗ any other questions i do have one

34:20 ↗ follow-up question based on something

34:22 ↗ deputy council president said

34:24 ↗ um under opma if a council member who's

34:27 ↗ not on committee gets a call from a

34:28 ↗ resident there there's nothing in opa

34:30 ↗ that bars them from talking to a

34:32 ↗ resident it only borrows them from

34:34 ↗ talking to the three on the committee

34:36 ↗ and if a council member is and the city

34:38 ↗ clerk is if you're not here nodding your

34:40 ↗ head

34:42 ↗ and the second piece to that was that if

34:44 ↗ a council member is has read a packet

34:47 ↗ and has passively watched and would like

34:50 ↗ to reach out to a staff member that's

34:52 ↗ permitted under opma they just cannot

34:54 ↗ reach out to each other okay just to

34:56 ↗ make sure that's clear because we have a

34:58 ↗ lot of council members who are actively

35:00 ↗ interested in committee work that they

35:02 ↗ may not be participating in okay that's

35:04 ↗ great

35:06 ↗ deputy council president

35:08 ↗ thank you very much then clair

35:10 ↗ clarification on that so

35:12 ↗ is it

35:13 ↗ does it count as a communication with a

35:15 ↗ council member if ahead of a committee

35:16 ↗ meeting a non-committee member had

35:18 ↗ questions about an agenda item

35:21 ↗ on that agenda would it be inappropriate

35:23 ↗ to send those questions to the chair

35:26 ↗ to address at the meeting or would that

35:27 ↗ be better served by emailing staff

35:30 ↗ directly

35:32 ↗ or should we not do anything

35:34 ↗ i might phone a friend here my my

35:36 ↗ feeling is if it was before the meeting

35:37 ↗ and if it was providing questions for

35:39 ↗ them to possibly consider that it that

35:42 ↗ the chair would then be bringing up at

35:44 ↗ the meeting that that would probably be

35:46 ↗ appropriate um after the fact you

35:49 ↗ wouldn't want to phone them up and say

35:51 ↗ so how'd it really go

35:53 ↗ you'd want to wait until you were up

35:54 ↗ here and and say so how did it go um

35:58 ↗ so

35:59 ↗ yeah

36:01 ↗ and just an administrative side note on

36:03 ↗ that as well in order for staff to be

36:04 ↗ able to help at the meeting it'd be good

36:06 ↗ to have the staff liaison copied as well

36:08 ↗ so both chair and staff would know that

36:10 ↗ would be great and that's not opma

36:12 ↗ that's just help and staff

36:14 ↗ that is great well thank you very much

36:17 ↗ um is there any additional questions are

36:19 ↗ we ready for a motion

36:21 ↗ councilmember actually i do have a

36:22 ↗ question and i actually know the answer

36:24 ↗ but i'm gonna

36:25 ↗ ask it for everyone else

36:27 ↗ since you brought up staff liaison who

36:28 ↗ are going to be the committee staff

36:29 ↗ liaisons

36:31 ↗ i'm going to call friend

36:33 ↗ administrator

36:38 ↗ mayor members of the council good

36:39 ↗ evening um i will staff the

36:42 ↗ safety services parks group and the land

36:45 ↗ use and environment and the deputy city

36:47 ↗ administrator schneider will staff the

36:49 ↗ infrastructure and transportation group

36:53 ↗ thank you any other questions

36:56 ↗ here to make a motion

36:57 ↗ um i'd i'd like to move to approve

36:59 ↗ resolution number

37:05 ↗ 2022-08

37:07 ↗ amending the city council rules and

37:09 ↗ procedure to amend various sections is

37:11 ↗ recommended by the city or the council

37:14 ↗ rules of procedure ad hoc committee

37:19 ↗ including removing study sessions adding

37:21 ↗ new sections on committees of the whole

37:23 ↗ and standing committees and including an

37:26 ↗ amendment to section

37:27 ↗ 6.01

37:29 ↗ open paren c closed parent to reflect

37:32 ↗ that mobility and infrastructure

37:33 ↗ committee will meet on the second

37:34 ↗ tuesday of each month

37:36 ↗ and that the planning development

37:37 ↗ environment committee will meet on the

37:39 ↗ first tuesday of each month and adopting

37:42 ↗ ordinance number 2972

37:45 ↗ amending chapter 2.06 of the isquad

37:48 ↗ municipal code council meetings to

37:50 ↗ reflect the termination of study

37:52 ↗ sessions and the establishment of

37:54 ↗ council committees of the whole and

37:56 ↗ standing committees

37:58 ↗ it's your second second

38:00 ↗ it's been moved and seconded uh

38:02 ↗ discussion

38:05 ↗ uh council member dean michelle and then

38:07 ↗ did i see another one go up oh uh

38:10 ↗ councilman pat councilmember d michelle

38:11 ↗ followed by councilmember hunt thank you

38:13 ↗ um i have two amendments i'd like to

38:15 ↗ offer and i'll start with the with the

38:18 ↗ short one first

38:20 ↗ i would like to

38:22 ↗ move that excuse me i'm going to grab my

38:26 ↗ first of all let me thank chief geezer

38:28 ↗ for all of her help it was immense today

38:31 ↗ so

38:32 ↗ um i would like to

38:35 ↗ move that the uh we amend subsection

38:38 ↗ 6.01 b

38:40 ↗ of the council rules a procedure to

38:42 ↗ strike

38:43 ↗ quote or

38:44 ↗ refer unquote

38:51 ↗ and i think i might have an email is

38:53 ↗ there a second

38:55 ↗ i'll second for the purpose of

38:57 ↗ discussion great it's been moved and

38:59 ↗ seconded and councilmember michelle can

39:00 ↗ i get you to read that one more time

39:01 ↗ please

39:02 ↗ did i say that wrong because i'm getting

39:04 ↗ looks from the other no i just want to

39:06 ↗ i'm just going to make sure it's clear

39:08 ↗ they know what they're talking about

39:10 ↗ okay

39:13 ↗ okay uh i moved to amend subsection 6.01

39:17 ↗ b

39:18 ↗ of the council rules the procedure to

39:20 ↗ strike quote or

39:22 ↗ re-refer unquote

39:26 ↗ uh would you like to speak to the motion

39:28 ↗ uh yes

39:29 ↗ uh first of all thanks to the ad hoc

39:32 ↗ committee for all of the hard work and

39:34 ↗ and really good work and i appreciate

39:36 ↗ that um and i i totally agree that the

39:39 ↗ city council may choose to refer items

39:42 ↗ to the standing committees by a majority

39:44 ↗ vote um i have no problem with that

39:46 ↗ wording but um the

39:49 ↗ section there the o or we refer kind of

39:52 ↗ left out at me

39:54 ↗ when we discussed

39:57 ↗ how we wanted to

39:59 ↗ return to

40:00 ↗ council standing committees

40:02 ↗ but we wanted to be sure that we didn't

40:04 ↗ repeat some of the mistakes of the past

40:07 ↗ we talked about avoiding council i think

40:10 ↗ it was called council ping pong

40:12 ↗ which is

40:14 ↗ uh when you send something to committee

40:16 ↗ and then it comes back to the council

40:17 ↗ and then it goes back to the committee

40:20 ↗ and i think

40:21 ↗ there was a fairly clear agreement that

40:25 ↗ that kind of action is

40:28 ↗ leaves the public

40:30 ↗ unclear about how there is a path to a

40:32 ↗ decision

40:34 ↗ and

40:37 ↗ it it just uh i think is a uh

40:40 ↗ a way of um

40:44 ↗ uh obfuscating uh the purpose of

40:47 ↗ whatever items under discussion so

40:50 ↗ i would rather that we not allow re

40:53 ↗ referrals uh that we uh if in fact we

40:57 ↗ feel like a council committee has

41:00 ↗ um

41:01 ↗ not answered all the questions or the

41:03 ↗ response or the the results are

41:05 ↗ unsatisfactory or they're unclear

41:08 ↗ that we hash it out as the council of

41:10 ↗ the whole

41:12 ↗ and uh we put up a guardrail about a

41:16 ↗ future

41:17 ↗ council pig pong

41:18 ↗ so that is the reason i would like to

41:20 ↗ strike the phrase quote or re-refer

41:24 ↗ unquote thank you thank you

41:26 ↗ councilmember d michelle um councilman

41:29 ↗ um deputy council president council

41:30 ↗ member ray's indicated desire to speak

41:32 ↗ you would second it for discussion but

41:34 ↗ i'm going to hand it over to him

41:36 ↗ councilman ray ah thank you mayor paulie

41:39 ↗ um great point great argument we had the

41:41 ↗ same discussion the the the sticking

41:44 ↗ point was to send a uh

41:47 ↗ item

41:48 ↗ to the committee of the whole is

41:49 ↗ actually a committee re-referral so if

41:52 ↗ something was in committee

41:54 ↗ came back from committee

41:56 ↗ and it wasn't satisfactory it would be a

41:58 ↗ re-referral of that item to go to the

42:01 ↗ cow or the committee of the hole and i'm

42:04 ↗ going to look to

42:05 ↗ the city clerk to make sure that that is

42:08 ↗ correct

42:13 ↗ because that's my recollection of the

42:14 ↗ discussion we had

42:17 ↗ and this uh the section that

42:20 ↗ councilmember d michelle is proposing to

42:22 ↗ amend is in the section on standing

42:25 ↗ committees

42:28 ↗ so i'm not sure that would have bearing

42:30 ↗ in this location on

42:33 ↗ the committee of the whole so let me

42:35 ↗ take a look and see if there's another

42:36 ↗ provision related to the committee of

42:38 ↗ the whole

42:46 ↗ and while the city clerk is doing that

42:49 ↗ if anyone else has questions let's get

42:50 ↗ them on the table and also

42:54 ↗ thoughts on hashing it out at a regular

42:57 ↗ business meeting versus hashing it out

42:58 ↗ at committee of the whole

43:00 ↗ any thoughts

43:04 ↗ council member hunt

43:07 ↗ i i think that um

43:09 ↗ with even with it with the or re-refer

43:12 ↗ removed it still says the city council

43:14 ↗ may choose to refer any items to the

43:16 ↗ standing committees by a majority vote i

43:19 ↗ think procedurally we would still be

43:20 ↗ able to refer an item to committee even

43:23 ↗ if it had already been at that committee

43:25 ↗ however i take the point that we

43:27 ↗ shouldn't just make that a usual thing

43:29 ↗ that we do and that is definitely um we

43:32 ↗ do definitely want to avoid the ping

43:34 ↗ pong issue but um i think you know if

43:37 ↗ there were extraordinary circumstances

43:39 ↗ we could still refer an item to a

43:40 ↗ committee we just

43:42 ↗ generally need to be conscious of

43:46 ↗ of making sure that items get decided on

43:48 ↗ ultimately by the whole council because

43:49 ↗ that's where the ultimate decision gets

43:52 ↗ made

43:53 ↗ other comments or discussion

43:56 ↗ councilmember ray

43:58 ↗ um

43:59 ↗ i just wanted to also say one thing that

44:01 ↗ we did talk about and

44:03 ↗ rejected was the referral to another

44:04 ↗ committee so i mean so there's no

44:07 ↗ kind of

44:08 ↗ shopping for committee i think was what

44:10 ↗ council member march referred to it as

44:11 ↗ so we did look at that idea and rejected

44:14 ↗ that and i'm going to

44:15 ↗ yield to the clerk who i think has a

44:18 ↗ answer thank you to the clerk

44:21 ↗ yes so

44:22 ↗ there's a similar statement under

44:25 ↗ section five which pertains to committee

44:27 ↗ of the whole

44:29 ↗ which

44:30 ↗ says that

44:32 ↗ the same language the city council may

44:34 ↗ choose to refer re-refer any items to

44:36 ↗ the committee of the hole by a majority

44:37 ↗ vote at a regular or special counsel

44:39 ↗ meeting so amen this specific amendment

44:41 ↗ would address the standing committee

44:43 ↗ re-referral um but not the

44:47 ↗ committee of the whole

44:50 ↗ and i i do um

44:53 ↗ i do think the language

44:56 ↗ so the committee the city council isn't

44:58 ↗ technically referring

45:00 ↗ the items to the committees initially

45:03 ↗ because they're sort of this automated

45:05 ↗ process

45:06 ↗ so i do think if the intention is to not

45:08 ↗ refer at all it might

45:12 ↗ the amendment may need to be expounded

45:14 ↗ on

45:17 ↗ more discussion or questions

45:24 ↗ well just to be clear i i do think the

45:26 ↗ city council could choose to refer

45:29 ↗ it's the re-referrer that is bothering

45:32 ↗ me

45:32 ↗ just because it seems to imply that

45:35 ↗ situation where

45:37 ↗ it goes to a standing committee back to

45:40 ↗ the council then back to the standing

45:42 ↗ committee and i don't think

45:44 ↗ i don't

45:45 ↗ see that anything is gained from that

45:47 ↗ kind of a process so thank you i think

45:50 ↗ the city clerk is saying that even with

45:52 ↗ the language proposed the council could

45:54 ↗ still send it to a committee again so it

45:57 ↗ could go to the committee through

45:58 ↗ the new process that you created and

46:01 ↗ then the council could still send it

46:02 ↗ even back with this change so i'm not

46:04 ↗ sure that it solves the problem

46:10 ↗ any other discussion

46:11 ↗ councilmember

46:13 ↗ um one more quick thing so one of the

46:15 ↗ things that we discussed in the ad hoc

46:17 ↗ was that

46:18 ↗ probably a lot of these um rules we have

46:21 ↗ to work with them for a while and then

46:23 ↗ we may need to make adjustments which we

46:25 ↗ as the council can make at any time so

46:27 ↗ um one of the

46:29 ↗ one of the core

46:30 ↗ recommendations that we had outside of

46:33 ↗ the things that actually changed in the

46:34 ↗ roles was that council revisit the rules

46:36 ↗ um i think we said around when the new

46:39 ↗ um when people are appointed again

46:42 ↗ uh at the new year so um i think for

46:46 ↗ some things like this um i think

46:49 ↗ i think we may need to see if it's

46:51 ↗ actually an issue if it is then i think

46:53 ↗ we need to address it but um

46:56 ↗ i think

46:57 ↗ i'm i'm supportive of the change but i

46:59 ↗ generally think there may be some little

47:01 ↗ words here there that we may want to

47:03 ↗ clarify and once we've worked with the

47:05 ↗ code for a while or worked with the

47:06 ↗ rules rather for a while

47:09 ↗ any additional discussion

47:13 ↗ okay um i'll call for the vote

47:16 ↗ all those in favor of the amended

47:18 ↗ language that this uh

47:20 ↗ in section 6.01 b of the council rules

47:23 ↗ of procedure strike

47:25 ↗ in quotations or re-refer so the amended

47:28 ↗ language would read the city council may

47:30 ↗ choose to refer any items to the

47:32 ↗ standing committees by a majority vote

47:34 ↗ at a regular or special council meeting

47:36 ↗ all those in fact all those in favor say

47:38 ↗ aye aye aye aye aye aye

47:46 ↗ that passes unanimously

47:48 ↗ uh

47:49 ↗ council member d michelle did you you

47:51 ↗ want to go through the second amendment

47:53 ↗ the second amendment is lengthy and so

47:56 ↗ um

47:57 ↗ clerk geezer i believe is going to put

47:59 ↗ the wording up so that you can all see

48:01 ↗ it

48:02 ↗ i will move to amend subsection 6.0

48:06 ↗ h

48:07 ↗ and section 8.04

48:10 ↗ formerly section 7.04 of the council

48:13 ↗ rules the procedure to incorporate

48:15 ↗ provisions related to boards and

48:17 ↗ commission recommendations as shown

48:21 ↗ and that wording should be

48:23 ↗ on

48:24 ↗ up it is up on the

48:26 ↗ up on the board

48:34 ↗ uh it's been moved is there a second

48:37 ↗ second

48:37 ↗ council president

48:39 ↗ uh it's been moved and seconded um

48:41 ↗ councilmember d michelle do you want to

48:42 ↗ speak to the motion or the amendment

48:45 ↗ thank you and i did read that the

48:48 ↗ ad hoc committee recommended that this

48:50 ↗ be reviewed again in january 2023

48:53 ↗ um

48:54 ↗ i just felt very strongly that we need

48:57 ↗ to get these committees off on the right

48:59 ↗ feet on the right feet right flipping

49:01 ↗ [Laughter]

49:03 ↗ and

49:05 ↗ that

49:06 ↗ i know that we all you know

49:09 ↗ respect our boards and commissions and

49:11 ↗ all the work that they do

49:13 ↗ we also have talked about having a clear

49:16 ↗ commitment to not duplicating the work

49:18 ↗ of our boards and commissions

49:21 ↗ and so i would

49:23 ↗ think that we would want to set the

49:24 ↗ parameters now and not wait until

49:27 ↗ january 2023 and have some clear

49:30 ↗ understandings about how we are going to

49:32 ↗ interact with

49:34 ↗ our boards and commissions i like the

49:36 ↗ wording which did not end up in the

49:39 ↗ in the council rules

49:41 ↗ about inviting a representative from

49:44 ↗ aborts or commission to

49:46 ↗ a standing committee to

49:48 ↗ interact with the standing committee on

49:50 ↗ the items under discussion i thought

49:53 ↗ that was really important to be in

49:56 ↗ our

49:56 ↗ rules of procedure now and not wait

49:58 ↗ until january 2023

50:01 ↗ i also thought that it was very

50:03 ↗ important to include the wording a

50:05 ↗ border commission recommendation shall

50:07 ↗ carry substantial weight

50:09 ↗ during standing committee deliberations

50:11 ↗ as provided for in section 8.04 again

50:14 ↗ thanks clerk geezer for the exact right

50:16 ↗ wording

50:18 ↗ because um

50:20 ↗ again we recognize the work in the

50:22 ↗ amount of time by immense amount of time

50:25 ↗ in some cases that goes into the

50:27 ↗ recommendations that come to us from

50:29 ↗ boards

50:30 ↗ and commissions and i think that

50:32 ↗ as a body we want to recognize that by

50:35 ↗ giving substantial

50:37 ↗ consideration or substantial weight to

50:40 ↗ the recommendations that come before us

50:42 ↗ that doesn't mean that we never disagree

50:44 ↗ with the border commission but it does

50:46 ↗ mean that we take it very very seriously

50:49 ↗ and

50:51 ↗ and then finally

50:52 ↗ if there is a conflict

50:54 ↗ with

50:56 ↗ a recommendation from a border

50:57 ↗ commission

50:58 ↗ um i just wanted to be sure that that

51:00 ↗ matter is not referred to consent agenda

51:04 ↗ but instead again comes to either a

51:06 ↗ committee of the whole or goes under

51:07 ↗ regular business

51:09 ↗ so those are the things that i would

51:11 ↗ like to see done now and not wait until

51:14 ↗ january 2023 to have inserted so that

51:18 ↗ as we move forward we have some agreed

51:22 ↗ upon parameters that all three of the

51:24 ↗ standing committees understand and we're

51:27 ↗ all operating the same way

51:29 ↗ consistently with our boards and

51:30 ↗ commissions

51:32 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember d

51:34 ↗ michelle i'm going to go to council

51:36 ↗ president who seconded first i have a

51:37 ↗ couple other speakers council member

51:39 ↗ marks followed by council member hunt

51:44 ↗ i have i have concerns about the

51:47 ↗ language on

51:50 ↗ specifying whether something is going to

51:52 ↗ go on consent or regular business and

51:54 ↗ the reason that i do is that um these

51:56 ↗ things are not typically an issue where

51:59 ↗ we have choice a or choice b and we're

52:01 ↗ coming out of committee

52:02 ↗ or the you know a

52:04 ↗ a commission

52:06 ↗ um has said let's choose path a and the

52:10 ↗ committee chooses path b typically the

52:13 ↗ the way that a lot of these things work

52:15 ↗ is you know there'll be a half dozen

52:17 ↗ facets to it and we'll agree with

52:20 ↗ four or five uh of the facets but not

52:23 ↗ agree on one or two of them and uh

52:26 ↗ i don't want to prescribe whether

52:30 ↗ something is regular business or consent

52:32 ↗ agenda in a situation like that where

52:35 ↗ we've adopted substantially what's been

52:37 ↗ recommended but we're out at the

52:39 ↗ outliers so that's my concern in that

52:41 ↗ language thank you

52:43 ↗ councilmember

52:44 ↗ hen

52:46 ↗ thank you i had a similar concern and i

52:49 ↗ think um councilmember martz stated it

52:52 ↗ very well so specifically i had a

52:54 ↗ concern about

52:55 ↗ the

52:56 ↗ phrasing with the conflicts

52:58 ↗ and so it says if a standing committee

53:00 ↗ makes a recommendation that conflicts

53:01 ↗ with the recommendation of a border

53:03 ↗ commission so one thing i was thinking

53:04 ↗ about with this is not only are

53:06 ↗ sometimes the recommendations of the

53:08 ↗ commission's covering a lot of ground

53:10 ↗ and and we doing our work may may

53:13 ↗ recommend some

53:14 ↗ changes you know what then constitutes a

53:17 ↗ conflict could be

53:18 ↗ hard to hard to say i also don't think

53:21 ↗ it i think the framing of it as a

53:23 ↗ conflict is also problematic to me

53:26 ↗ because we could be building on their

53:28 ↗ recommendation and it might be a change

53:29 ↗ but it's not necessarily a conflict in

53:31 ↗ my mind um and then

53:33 ↗ the

53:35 ↗ the last thing is we actually now have

53:36 ↗ multiple boards and commissions that may

53:38 ↗ look at different or maybe even the same

53:40 ↗ elements of a

53:42 ↗ item that comes before a committee we've

53:45 ↗ had this happen

53:46 ↗ recently with things that have been

53:48 ↗ looked at by both the planning policy

53:49 ↗ commission and the environmental board

53:51 ↗ so in that case it may in fact be

53:53 ↗ impossible to

53:54 ↗ go with all of the recommendations from

53:56 ↗ all of our committees in which case

53:58 ↗ you know i think our role as a council

54:01 ↗ these are the roles that we have for

54:03 ↗ ourselves in part so that we know you

54:05 ↗ know how to do our work at the committee

54:08 ↗ level and

54:09 ↗ i think this

54:10 ↗ i for me i think we need to take the

54:13 ↗ recommendations we we do i believe apply

54:16 ↗ that substantial weight we consider them

54:18 ↗ we

54:19 ↗ potentially build on them and we have

54:22 ↗ the opportunity to watch the meetings of

54:23 ↗ the committees in many cases so we use

54:26 ↗ those recommendations to build our own

54:28 ↗ recommendation at the committee level

54:31 ↗ but i think this the framing about

54:33 ↗ whether or not it's a conflict for me is

54:36 ↗ problematic so i don't support that part

54:38 ↗ of the amendment the other

54:42 ↗ the other issue that i wanted to raise

54:45 ↗ that i have a concern about is that

54:47 ↗ the wording administration should relay

54:49 ↗ an expectation that a member of the body

54:52 ↗ meaning the volunteer border commission

54:54 ↗ be designated to provide a

54:56 ↗ representation at the appropriate city

54:58 ↗ council meeting

55:00 ↗ so my concern with this one and actually

55:03 ↗ um

55:04 ↗ councilmember d michelle in your

55:05 ↗ explanation you said an invitation which

55:07 ↗ would be a different with different

55:09 ↗ wording so my concern with the

55:10 ↗ expectation is that um these are our

55:12 ↗ rules and this is an expectation that a

55:15 ↗ commit that we would then have on a

55:17 ↗ volunteer committee member it wouldn't

55:19 ↗ be in their ordinance that establishes

55:21 ↗ that committee and their

55:22 ↗ responsibilities so when they sign up

55:24 ↗ they wouldn't know that they would

55:25 ↗ sometimes be designated to provide

55:26 ↗ representation of the city council

55:28 ↗ meeting

55:29 ↗ um and also i i think it's great when

55:32 ↗ we've had

55:34 ↗ volunteer commissioners come to our

55:36 ↗ meetings and one of the things we

55:38 ↗ discussed in our ad hoc committee is

55:40 ↗ that we're seeing that more and more we

55:42 ↗ feel like it's going the right direction

55:43 ↗ and that

55:44 ↗ the administration and the staff are

55:46 ↗ encouraging you know when there is an

55:48 ↗ issue that we feel it would be valuable

55:50 ↗ to hear from a

55:51 ↗ from a commissioner um commissioners

55:54 ↗ have come to speak to us on those issues

55:56 ↗ so recently we've heard from members of

55:57 ↗ the equity board for example

56:00 ↗ um and the capital finance task force um

56:04 ↗ and um several committees are

56:07 ↗ commissions and boards actually so

56:09 ↗ that's been really great but i i do

56:11 ↗ think that these are our rules and

56:13 ↗ that's something that we that the staff

56:15 ↗ is encouraging um they they verbally

56:18 ↗ confirmed that they will continue to

56:20 ↗ encourage and invite those

56:22 ↗ um individuals from the committees when

56:24 ↗ appropriate so um i think maybe

56:26 ↗ having that clearer

56:29 ↗ on the record would be

56:30 ↗ would be

56:32 ↗ that would be adequate for me but i

56:33 ↗ don't support putting it in our roles

56:36 ↗ and i and um like i said i don't think

56:39 ↗ it is i don't think it's an expectation

56:41 ↗ because the volunteer commissioners are

56:43 ↗ like already giving up a lot of their

56:44 ↗ time

56:45 ↗ i served on a volunteer commission

56:47 ↗ before i was on council and it's a big

56:49 ↗ commitment so um

56:51 ↗ you you sign up for yeah

56:54 ↗ you sign up for for a big commitment and

56:57 ↗ it's a lot of work and

56:58 ↗ it's great if if a member of a committee

57:01 ↗ wants to come and speak to us on an

57:03 ↗ issue but i don't want to make it an

57:04 ↗ expectation

57:06 ↗ are there any other commenters

57:09 ↗ any additional discussion

57:12 ↗ okay i will

57:15 ↗ call for the vote the amendment is up on

57:18 ↗ the board for those who would like to

57:20 ↗ read it it is to amend subsection 6.01

57:24 ↗ parenh and section 8.04

57:27 ↗ formally section 7.04 of the council

57:30 ↗ rules and procedure to incorporate

57:31 ↗ provisions related to boards and

57:33 ↗ commission recommendations as shown on

57:35 ↗ the screen

57:36 ↗ all those in favor of the amendment

57:38 ↗ please say aye

57:40 ↗ aye all those opposed

57:47 ↗ i keep getting cut off when you guys are

57:49 ↗ voting

57:50 ↗ the amendment uh fails

57:53 ↗ one in favor and six opposed

57:56 ↗ we are back to the main motion is there

57:58 ↗ additional discussion on the main motion

58:02 ↗ council president

58:04 ↗ thank you

58:05 ↗ i just wanted to take a moment in

58:07 ↗ addition to

58:08 ↗ the members of the ad hoc to thank the

58:11 ↗ clerk i've been on some of the rules of

58:13 ↗ procedure um meetings before and you

58:16 ↗ always come fantastically well prepared

58:18 ↗ and i can see that in the documentation

58:20 ↗ of

58:21 ↗ this ad hoc

58:23 ↗ i think you've done a great job it's

58:26 ↗ lovely to have heard that many of the

58:28 ↗ items that came up as questions or

58:32 ↗ concerns were things that you had

58:34 ↗ thought through

58:36 ↗ so in general i think this is

58:38 ↗ fantastic i look forward to

58:41 ↗ making these adjustments and i wanted to

58:44 ↗ thank you all for your service and i

58:47 ↗ will be supporting this tonight

58:49 ↗ councilmember martz

58:51 ↗ thank you madam mayor um i actually want

58:53 ↗ to make a comment uh to the public which

58:55 ↗ is you know one of the things that

58:58 ↗ holds promise uh with this and we'll see

59:01 ↗ how it works um is getting um

59:04 ↗ you know on the best days the old

59:06 ↗ committee structures had

59:08 ↗ a more

59:09 ↗ uh roll up our sleeves type

59:11 ↗ conversations with uh with the public so

59:13 ↗ i'm hoping

59:14 ↗ that this will encourage the public as

59:17 ↗ issues come to the

59:19 ↗ committees that the public will be

59:21 ↗ involved and that the public will see

59:23 ↗ that there can be a little bit more of a

59:24 ↗ give or take than there is in a in a

59:26 ↗ full seven person uh council meeting and

59:29 ↗ so i think it really holds promise for

59:31 ↗ even more engagement with the community

59:33 ↗ which is of course something that all of

59:34 ↗ us

59:36 ↗ think is really important particularly

59:37 ↗ coming out of covid and re-engaging with

59:39 ↗ the public

59:40 ↗ uh on all these vital issues so that's

59:42 ↗ part of why i'm excited today and why

59:44 ↗ i'm so enthusiastic to support this

59:47 ↗ this motion thank you

59:49 ↗ thank you councilmember martz any other

59:51 ↗ speakers before i call for the vote and

59:53 ↗ i will re-read the motion

59:56 ↗ it has been moved and seconded to

59:58 ↗ approve resolution number 2022-08

1:00:01 ↗ amending the city council rules or

1:00:03 ↗ procedure to amend various sections as

1:00:05 ↗ recommended by the council rules and

1:00:06 ↗ procedures ad hoc committee

1:00:09 ↗ including removing study sessions and

1:00:10 ↗ adding new sections on committee of the

1:00:12 ↗ whole

1:00:13 ↗ committee of the whole council and

1:00:15 ↗ standing committees and including an

1:00:17 ↗ amendment to section 6.01 c to reflect

1:00:19 ↗ that the mobility

1:00:21 ↗ and infrastructure committee will meet

1:00:22 ↗ on the second tuesday of each month and

1:00:24 ↗ the planning development and environment

1:00:26 ↗ committee will meet on the first tuesday

1:00:28 ↗ of each month

1:00:31 ↗ and to adopt ordinance number 2972

1:00:34 ↗ amending

1:00:35 ↗ chapter 2.06 of the islam municipal code

1:00:38 ↗ council meeting to reflect the

1:00:40 ↗ termination of study sessions in the

1:00:41 ↗ establishment of council committee of

1:00:43 ↗ the whole and standing committees

1:00:45 ↗ all those in favor please say aye aye

1:00:51 ↗ all those opposed

1:00:53 ↗ that carries unanimously 7-0 a real

1:00:56 ↗ compliment to all of you for working on

1:00:58 ↗ this many cities have rules of procedure

1:01:01 ↗ that they don't follow that they don't

1:01:02 ↗ use and you've spent a lot of time

1:01:05 ↗ trying to solve problems that can get in

1:01:07 ↗ the way of great engagement and great

1:01:09 ↗ work in committees so thank you for that

1:01:11 ↗ that is great

1:01:12 ↗ the next item on our calendar this

1:01:15 ↗ evening

1:01:16 ↗ under new business

1:01:17 ↗ is id 1137 new business request

1:01:21 ↗ independent salary commission and

1:01:23 ↗ council compensation

1:01:25 ↗ and um

1:01:27 ↗ we will have council member dean

1:01:28 ↗ michelle introducing this one so this is

1:01:31 ↗ the first time we've had a new business

1:01:32 ↗ request using the city council's new

1:01:35 ↗ process and i'd like to provide a quick

1:01:36 ↗ overview as provided for in the council

1:01:39 ↗ rules council members may request that a

1:01:41 ↗ new work plan item be considered by the

1:01:42 ↗ council

1:01:44 ↗ the first step is for the council member

1:01:45 ↗ to submit an electronic form introduced

1:01:47 ↗ in their proposal that form is included

1:01:49 ↗ in the agenda materials the council

1:01:51 ↗ member then introduces the proposal

1:01:53 ↗ verbally at a council meeting

1:01:54 ↗ this is the phase we are in for

1:01:56 ↗ tonight's item

1:01:58 ↗ after the introduction phase the council

1:01:59 ↗ may choose to forward the item to the

1:02:01 ↗ second phase by a majority vote

1:02:03 ↗ an item that moves to the second phase

1:02:05 ↗ will be scheduled for the next council

1:02:06 ↗ meeting at the second meeting staff will

1:02:08 ↗ provide a preliminary response and the

1:02:10 ↗ council will have the opportunity to

1:02:11 ↗ formally add the item to the work plan

1:02:14 ↗ the second step can be waived for time

1:02:16 ↗ sensitive items if approved by a

1:02:17 ↗ majority of the city council

1:02:19 ↗ councilmember dean michelle if you'd

1:02:20 ↗ like to introduce your item

1:02:23 ↗ thank you mayor paulie um

1:02:24 ↗ [Music]

1:02:26 ↗ and i'm going to hold off on the motion

1:02:28 ↗ until i've

1:02:30 ↗ introduced it if that's all right with

1:02:31 ↗ you

1:02:32 ↗ first and uh please uh

1:02:35 ↗ uh forgive me but i've written out my

1:02:37 ↗ remarks tonight because i have a lot to

1:02:38 ↗ say and i wanted to make sure i covered

1:02:40 ↗ it all so first i want to acknowledge

1:02:42 ↗ that this might be the most unpopular

1:02:45 ↗ thing that i do during my time as a

1:02:47 ↗ council member

1:02:48 ↗ so i embark on this quest understanding

1:02:50 ↗ that the community does not generally

1:02:52 ↗ view council salaries as an important

1:02:54 ↗ issue however tonight's discussion is

1:02:57 ↗ limited to the question of whether or

1:02:58 ↗ not we place my proposal on a future

1:03:00 ↗ agenda for deliberation and vote

1:03:03 ↗ second i want to acknowledge as mayor

1:03:05 ↗ paulie said that this is the first test

1:03:07 ↗ run of our council new business

1:03:08 ↗ procedure and so i'd like to have some

1:03:11 ↗ time after we've had discussion and vote

1:03:14 ↗ tonight to offer a few suggestions on

1:03:17 ↗ improvements to the process

1:03:19 ↗ and third there are some corrections

1:03:21 ↗ that were kindly

1:03:23 ↗ given to me by uh

1:03:25 ↗ tina agers and clerk geezer and so i

1:03:27 ↗ would like to make those corrections

1:03:29 ↗ before we begin the first one in is that

1:03:32 ↗ the citation that is in uh the proposal

1:03:36 ↗ is incorrect uh i can this is my numeric

1:03:39 ↗ dyslexia it is rcw 35.2

1:03:47 ↗ and it is important because our isaw

1:03:50 ↗ municipal code is built almost entirely

1:03:52 ↗ from the wording and in that

1:03:54 ↗ rcw

1:03:56 ↗ secondly i stated that the independent

1:03:58 ↗ salary commission would be looking at uh

1:04:01 ↗ mayor and council salaries and that is

1:04:03 ↗ not correct it would be just looking at

1:04:05 ↗ council salaries

1:04:06 ↗ and then thirdly i increa incorrectly

1:04:09 ↗ stated that the salary issue is directly

1:04:11 ↗ tied to the budget adoption process

1:04:14 ↗ it is not and it can occur at any time

1:04:17 ↗ although personally

1:04:19 ↗ i think starting the process now so it

1:04:21 ↗ can be included in budget deliberations

1:04:23 ↗ would be the best course forward

1:04:27 ↗ so i am asking the council to agree to

1:04:30 ↗ place an ordinance directing the mayor

1:04:31 ↗ to appoint an independent salary

1:04:33 ↗ commission on a future council agenda

1:04:35 ↗ for deliberation and a vote

1:04:37 ↗ when i filled out the new business form

1:04:40 ↗ i was not aware that the issue of

1:04:41 ↗ elected official salaries was bubbling

1:04:43 ↗ up as a national issue

1:04:45 ↗ i shared with you articles posted uh to

1:04:48 ↗ the seattle times and the issaquah

1:04:50 ↗ summa's patch

1:04:51 ↗ both from just in the past week about

1:04:53 ↗ salary issues at the washington state

1:04:56 ↗ legislature and legislatures in

1:04:58 ↗ connecticut arizona and elsewhere

1:05:01 ↗ although those articles dealt with

1:05:02 ↗ legislative salaries the concerns raised

1:05:05 ↗ in those articles are the same ones i

1:05:06 ↗ bring to you tonight

1:05:08 ↗ when the council participated in equity

1:05:10 ↗ training with benita horn

1:05:13 ↗ in august of 2020 she requested that we

1:05:15 ↗ look at everything we do and ask the

1:05:18 ↗ question who does this benefit and who

1:05:20 ↗ does this harm it's a very simple but i

1:05:23 ↗ think extremely useful equity lens

1:05:26 ↗ in the case of council salaries which

1:05:28 ↗ are currently about 1 200 to 1 500 per

1:05:32 ↗ month it is clear that they benefit

1:05:34 ↗ those who are well off or independently

1:05:36 ↗ wealthy or like myself retired with a

1:05:39 ↗ retirement income and that means elected

1:05:41 ↗ officials tend to skew older and

1:05:43 ↗ predominantly white

1:05:45 ↗ lower salaries harm those who are young

1:05:47 ↗ working in lower paying jobs and who are

1:05:50 ↗ predominantly people of color

1:05:52 ↗ i'm happy that our council has good

1:05:54 ↗ representation from both male and female

1:05:56 ↗ members of the community but often low

1:05:59 ↗ salaries for elected officials work

1:06:01 ↗ against women and particularly women of

1:06:03 ↗ color

1:06:04 ↗ i'm personally saddened by the departure

1:06:06 ↗ of senator monadas from the state

1:06:09 ↗ legislature

1:06:10 ↗ an accomplished woman of color who says

1:06:13 ↗ that she cannot afford to continue in

1:06:14 ↗ her position due to low salaries

1:06:16 ↗ provided to state elected officials

1:06:19 ↗ none of us can foresee the results of an

1:06:22 ↗ independent salary commission

1:06:24 ↗ that's why it's called independent

1:06:27 ↗ so the commission could very well come

1:06:29 ↗ back and say we're earning too much we

1:06:31 ↗ have no idea however i would like the

1:06:34 ↗ commission to grapple with this issue

1:06:36 ↗ through the equity lens provided by

1:06:38 ↗ bonita horn as we look to the future of

1:06:40 ↗ our community as our community becomes

1:06:43 ↗ more and more diverse will the council

1:06:45 ↗ reflect the community and will it be

1:06:47 ↗ inclusive of people from a variety of

1:06:50 ↗ socio-economic backgrounds

1:06:52 ↗ and how do cancel salaries relate or not

1:06:55 ↗ relate

1:06:56 ↗ to those questions one of the articles i

1:06:58 ↗ sent you actually made the case that

1:07:01 ↗ they don't relate and so it's a question

1:07:03 ↗ that needs to be looked at

1:07:05 ↗ so that concludes my thoughts on this

1:07:07 ↗ issue

1:07:08 ↗ so i

1:07:09 ↗ i would like to ask if we have enough

1:07:12 ↗ interest

1:07:13 ↗ in this issue to place an ordinance on

1:07:15 ↗ the may 2nd council meeting

1:07:19 ↗ that would appoint an independent salary

1:07:22 ↗ commission on a future

1:07:24 ↗ agenda for consideration

1:07:26 ↗ and so now i'll make the motion to

1:07:28 ↗ forward the independent salary

1:07:29 ↗ commission

1:07:30 ↗ council compensation new business item

1:07:34 ↗ to the may 2nd council meeting for

1:07:36 ↗ preliminary staff response

1:07:38 ↗ is there a second

1:07:41 ↗ uh deputy council president i'll suck at

1:07:43 ↗ that motion it's been moved and seconded

1:07:45 ↗ um and thank you for the prepared

1:07:47 ↗ comments um i'll go back to see if you

1:07:49 ↗ want to add anything or just let the

1:07:50 ↗ council ask questions or have discussion

1:07:53 ↗ yeah okay

1:07:55 ↗ discussion

1:07:57 ↗ uh council member ray i'm not i'm not

1:07:59 ↗ sure if this is appropriate now or is

1:08:02 ↗ this something

1:08:03 ↗ for down the road and i'm not i'm

1:08:05 ↗ actually very supportive of the idea of

1:08:07 ↗ bringing this forward i'm just struck

1:08:09 ↗ with the 27th amendment to the u.s

1:08:11 ↗ constitution that basically says you

1:08:12 ↗ don't make any compensation changes

1:08:15 ↗ until after the next election cycle and

1:08:17 ↗ that's that's i i like this idea but i

1:08:19 ↗ think i would like it even more if it

1:08:21 ↗ was

1:08:22 ↗ something we were doing after the next

1:08:24 ↗ election cycle and and to speak to your

1:08:26 ↗ equity i think because i thought long

1:08:27 ↗ and hard about that um that actually

1:08:30 ↗ opens up some doors to people who might

1:08:32 ↗ be interested in it in the next cycle

1:08:35 ↗ and not the current cycle so i don't

1:08:36 ↗ know if that's a discussion for tonight

1:08:37 ↗ or to you know the next time we bring it

1:08:39 ↗ forward i like the idea i just um i just

1:08:41 ↗ have that that one caveat to it okay

1:08:44 ↗ councilmember marks

1:08:46 ↗ thank you two things first i i think by

1:08:48 ↗ having an independent salary commission

1:08:51 ↗ um it's you don't run afoul of that

1:08:53 ↗ issue i believe the last time we did an

1:08:55 ↗ independent salary commission

1:08:57 ↗ uh it did not have to wait until after

1:08:59 ↗ the next election too

1:09:02 ↗ this the second thing is i i have a

1:09:04 ↗ question and it has to do with um

1:09:08 ↗ an independent commission

1:09:12 ↗ i guess i guess that's a question for

1:09:13 ↗ the administration or it's a question

1:09:15 ↗ philosophically

1:09:18 ↗ do we believe that a commission

1:09:21 ↗ will

1:09:22 ↗ the last time we had one of these the

1:09:24 ↗ commission looked at things that were

1:09:29 ↗ generally under the category of

1:09:31 ↗ objective how many hours spent on

1:09:34 ↗ activities

1:09:36 ↗ and how did that compare with other

1:09:37 ↗ municipalities

1:09:39 ↗ if we are to do this right and if we are

1:09:42 ↗ to address the equity issues that you

1:09:44 ↗ bring up

1:09:45 ↗ i'm just wondering if that can is within

1:09:48 ↗ the purview potentially of a salary

1:09:51 ↗ commission and if so

1:09:53 ↗ how that salary commission might be

1:09:55 ↗ constituted just because it's a little

1:09:57 ↗ bit different it sounds like it would be

1:09:58 ↗ a little bit different of a charge than

1:10:01 ↗ the charge of the last time we had a

1:10:02 ↗ salary commission so i guess i'm asking

1:10:03 ↗ you madam mayor

1:10:04 ↗ [Laughter]

1:10:06 ↗ um because it really there's some

1:10:07 ↗ questions there that are a little bit

1:10:09 ↗ more

1:10:10 ↗ subjective rather than objects how does

1:10:12 ↗ the charge get made

1:10:13 ↗ uh

1:10:14 ↗ i'm uh watching the city administrator

1:10:17 ↗ and our legal counsel

1:10:20 ↗ together talking about this are you able

1:10:23 ↗ to talk about the charge to a salary

1:10:25 ↗ commission

1:10:37 ↗ if we get the microphone working

1:10:39 ↗ um

1:10:41 ↗ we're not prepared to speak to all the

1:10:43 ↗ issues and i think quite honestly it's

1:10:45 ↗ not germaine to the motion right we

1:10:47 ↗ should really for further consideration

1:10:49 ↗ we'll come back

1:10:50 ↗ yep the ability to answer

1:10:53 ↗ sounds great okay

1:10:55 ↗ i guess i guess then my statement would

1:10:57 ↗ be if this comes back

1:10:59 ↗ if the council moves forward with this

1:11:01 ↗ there will need to be a discussion of

1:11:03 ↗ how these subjective issues uh get

1:11:05 ↗ addressed given that it's something new

1:11:07 ↗ this is just a motion to look at it an

1:11:09 ↗ emotion to adopt it may answer a lot of

1:11:12 ↗ your questions and you may choose not to

1:11:13 ↗ move forward

1:11:14 ↗ so more information required thank you

1:11:17 ↗ any other comments or discussion before

1:11:19 ↗ we vote on the motion

1:11:21 ↗ council member hall council member hunt

1:11:24 ↗ thank you i i just wanted to clarify

1:11:27 ↗ since this is the first time we're doing

1:11:28 ↗ the process uh this motion doesn't

1:11:30 ↗ actually

1:11:32 ↗ establish a um

1:11:34 ↗ it doesn't it it only indicates that we

1:11:37 ↗ would like more information basically to

1:11:39 ↗ consider it and that staff will come

1:11:40 ↗ back with more information so i just

1:11:43 ↗ wanted to clarify that for um the public

1:11:45 ↗ or anyone watching you know we're today

1:11:47 ↗ this is a first step that says we have

1:11:49 ↗ questions like those that were raised

1:11:51 ↗ and staff will come back with more

1:11:53 ↗ information if this motion were to pass

1:11:55 ↗ but it doesn't actually take the action

1:11:57 ↗ of establishing a commission thanks for

1:11:59 ↗ that clarification any other comments

1:12:01 ↗ before i call for the vote

1:12:05 ↗ seeing none

1:12:06 ↗ it's been moved and secreted to forward

1:12:08 ↗ the independent salary commission

1:12:10 ↗ council compensation new business item

1:12:12 ↗ to the may 2nd

1:12:13 ↗ council meeting for a preliminary staff

1:12:15 ↗ response all those in favor signify by

1:12:17 ↗ saying aye

1:12:23 ↗ all those opposed

1:12:26 ↗ that passes unanimously 7-0

1:12:28 ↗ um councilmember michelle you said had

1:12:30 ↗ you wanted to make some comments after

1:12:32 ↗ the vote

1:12:35 ↗ i did the same thing sorry um

1:12:38 ↗ just two two items as i was going

1:12:40 ↗ through the process and filling out the

1:12:41 ↗ form

1:12:42 ↗ um first of all very very much

1:12:44 ↗ appreciated the input from uh chief of

1:12:47 ↗ staff and

1:12:48 ↗ and our uh city clerk

1:12:50 ↗ um but i'm wondering if we could add a

1:12:52 ↗ little time to the process so that the

1:12:54 ↗ proposal when it comes to the council is

1:12:56 ↗ factually correct because there were

1:12:58 ↗ errors in that and so i would think that

1:13:01 ↗ we would want to have the most factually

1:13:04 ↗ correct item brought before the council

1:13:06 ↗ so just a time in there

1:13:08 ↗ uh to be able to edit that and uh

1:13:11 ↗ correct any errors of of presentation

1:13:15 ↗ and then finally and this is just the

1:13:16 ↗ english teacher in me but i i just want

1:13:19 ↗ you to know that when i put it into the

1:13:21 ↗ forum it was very nice little paragraphs

1:13:24 ↗ and it was really formatted very nicely

1:13:26 ↗ and then i was a little chagrined to see

1:13:28 ↗ the way it looked

1:13:30 ↗ so anyway if we can extract the

1:13:33 ↗ presentation from that forum and put it

1:13:35 ↗ in to nice professional looking

1:13:37 ↗ presentation i i think that would be an

1:13:39 ↗ improvement so those are my two comments

1:13:41 ↗ on the process and otherwise the format

1:13:44 ↗ was really very nice and i thought the

1:13:46 ↗ questions really got to the heart of the

1:13:48 ↗ matter and it was easy to fill out and

1:13:50 ↗ easy to submit so

1:13:52 ↗ for a first time through it worked

1:13:54 ↗ really well so thanks thanks

1:13:57 ↗ so the next item uh business tonight is

1:14:00 ↗ good of the order does anybody have

1:14:02 ↗ something oh uh council president

1:14:05 ↗ thank you madam mayor um so for good of

1:14:09 ↗ the order i just wanted to take a moment

1:14:11 ↗ and like i had emailed everyone earlier

1:14:14 ↗ to announce the committee membership and

1:14:17 ↗ shares

1:14:18 ↗ since we adopted the

1:14:21 ↗ ad hoc's recommendations

1:14:23 ↗ of changes to our council rules of

1:14:25 ↗ procedure now we have standing

1:14:27 ↗ committees and now we need committee

1:14:30 ↗ members and chairs to go along with that

1:14:33 ↗ so for our three committees we've got

1:14:36 ↗ the planning development and environment

1:14:38 ↗ committee which we are calling pde

1:14:41 ↗ which will be chaired by council member

1:14:43 ↗ hunt

1:14:44 ↗ with members of council member ray and

1:14:46 ↗ myself

1:14:48 ↗ for the mobility and infrastructure

1:14:50 ↗ committee which we are calling mick

1:14:53 ↗ it will be chaired by council member joe

1:14:55 ↗ with members council member

1:14:58 ↗ d michelle and deputy council president

1:15:00 ↗ hall

1:15:01 ↗ and then services safety and parks

1:15:05 ↗ which is sip or ssp

1:15:08 ↗ is chaired by council member martz with

1:15:11 ↗ members council member ray and council

1:15:14 ↗ member d michelle

1:15:15 ↗ and as was noted in the earlier agenda

1:15:18 ↗ mill the committee schedules will be

1:15:21 ↗ pde will meet on the first tuesday of

1:15:24 ↗ the month at 6 30 pm

1:15:27 ↗ with the first meeting on may 3rd and

1:15:29 ↗ the next on june 7th

1:15:32 ↗ mick will um be on the second tuesday of

1:15:35 ↗ the month at 6 30 p.m with the first

1:15:37 ↗ meeting on may 10th and next on june

1:15:40 ↗ 14th and then sip

1:15:42 ↗ will be on the third tuesday of the

1:15:44 ↗ month at 6 30 p.m with the first meeting

1:15:46 ↗ on may 17th and the next on june 22nd

1:15:51 ↗ that was my announcement

1:15:52 ↗ hey thank you

1:15:53 ↗ uh councilmember joe

1:15:55 ↗ um i i would ask that we reconsider

1:15:59 ↗ naming the committee mick

1:16:01 ↗ it's a derogatory word for irish people

1:16:04 ↗ in the past and uh

1:16:06 ↗ i don't think that's the kind of

1:16:07 ↗ impression we want to

1:16:09 ↗ pass on to the public so i'll just leave

1:16:12 ↗ that leave it to council leadership to

1:16:13 ↗ decide on a more appropriate name

1:16:15 ↗ perhaps

1:16:17 ↗ thank you councilmember joe any other

1:16:19 ↗ comments

1:16:20 ↗ or good of the order comments

1:16:24 ↗ okay i will go over a few dates for some

1:16:26 ↗ upcoming meetings april 26 council study

1:16:29 ↗ session is anticipated to include on the

1:16:32 ↗ agenda the solid waste contract human

1:16:35 ↗ services grants and first quarter

1:16:36 ↗ reports

1:16:38 ↗ and may 2nd council meeting currently

1:16:40 ↗ there are no regular business items for

1:16:42 ↗ that meeting planned as of today

1:16:45 ↗ so the next item of business tonight is

1:16:47 ↗ our executive session and as earlier

1:16:49 ↗ announced there will be an executive

1:16:50 ↗ session held this evening to discuss

1:16:52 ↗ pending and potential litigation

1:16:54 ↗ for rcw 42.30

1:16:57 ↗ 0.220 pared1 paren i the item is

1:17:01 ↗ expected to take approximately 15

1:17:03 ↗ minutes and no action is anticipated to

1:17:05 ↗ follow in open session

1:17:07 ↗ so as a reminder executive sessions are

1:17:09 ↗ closed to the public and we will now

1:17:11 ↗ recess into the executive session at 8

1:17:13 ↗ 17 p.m

1:17:14 ↗ for those participating virtually and

1:17:16 ↗ anyone who's not part of the closed

1:17:17 ↗ session

1:17:19 ↗ uh we'll remain in the main meeting and

1:17:22 ↗ you are welcome to stay in the main

1:17:24 ↗ meeting until it is reconvened

1:17:26 ↗ and city clerk are we ready to proceed

1:17:28 ↗ into executive session

1:17:31 ↗ yes and first i'm going to ask our

1:17:33 ↗ guests if they would mind

1:17:35 ↗ walking out with me

1:17:41 ↗ nice to meet you nicoletta nice to see

1:17:43 ↗ you julian

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (6)

Approve Resolution No. 2022-08, amending the City Council Rules of Procedure to amend various sections as recommended by the Council Rules of Procedure Ad Hoc Committee, including removing study sessions and adding new sections on committee of the whole council and standing committees and including …

Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS

Amend Subsection 6.01(B) of the Council Rules of Procedure to: Strike “or re-refer” .

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by HALL

Carried 7-0

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

Amend Subsection 6.01(H) and Section 8.04 (formerly Section 7.04) of the Council Rules of Procedure to incorporate provisions related to board and commission recommendations as follows: Section 6.01(H) amendment: H. [Standing Committee] Recommendation. The Committee shall make recommendations on all…

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by WALSH

Failed 1-6

In favor: de Michele

Opposed: Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Forward the Independent Salary Commission - Council Compensation New Business item to the May 2 Council meeting for a preliminary staff response. .

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by HALL

Carried 7-0

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

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0995 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of April 18, 2022, $3,581,417.91; Approved. b) Minutes: Special City Council Meeting, March 15, 2022; Approved. c) ID 1084 - Informational Update: Emergency Management; Received Report. d) AB 8333 - Boards & Commiss…

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

Carried 7-0

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

Main motion as amended: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0995 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of April 18, 2022, $3,581,417.91; Approved. b) Minutes: Special City Council Meeting, March 15, 2022; Approved. c) ID 1084 - Informational Update: Emergency Management; Received Report. d) AB…

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 7-0

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