City Council Regular Meeting Auto captions

Monday, November 7, 2022

7:00 PM · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA

Topics tracked across meetings:

Newport Way Maple to Sunset Improvements Project (TR 023) Design Agreement Supplement AB 9091 ›››› 2/5

Development Commission · Jul 6, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → Development Commission · Feb 15, 2023 → City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 2, 2026 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 2, 2026

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2023-24 Mid-Biennium Budget Adjustment AB 8662 ››› 1/4

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → City Council Committee of the Whole · Oct 30, 2023 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 20, 2023 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2023

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Community Investment Strategy Project - Confluence Park, (D,A) AB 8487 ››››› 5/6

City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 5, 2022 → Park Board · Aug 22, 2022 → Park Board · Sep 29, 2022 → City Council Committee of the Whole · Oct 10, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → Park Board · May 22, 2023

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2022 Budget Reauthorizations AB 8549 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 20, 2023

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First 2023-24 Budget Amendment AB 8586 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 20, 2023

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2022 Maintenance Overlay Project AB 8468 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 5, 2022

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ARCH Recommendations re: Late Fees & Move-In Fees Do Not Proceed AB 8497 ››› 4/4

City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 19, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 3, 2022 → Services, Safety & Parks Committee · Oct 18, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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2023-24 Budget Ordinance AB 8402 ›› 3/3

City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 3, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 17, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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2023-24 State Legislative Agenda, Priorities and Policy Manual AB 8439 ›› 3/3

City Council Regular Meeting · May 2, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 17, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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Recognition of Fire Chief Jeff Clark 5 ID 1301 - Hindu American Heritage Month b) Proclamation 7 ID 1174 - World Town Planning Day c) Proclamation ID 1274 › 2/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 7, 2016 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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2023 Salary Ordinance AB 8478 › 2/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 3, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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2023 Levy & Revenue Sources AB 8403 › 2/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 3, 2022 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 7, 2022

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3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Recognition of Fire Chief Jeff Clark 5 ID 1301 - Hindu American Heritage Month b) Proclamation 7 ID 1174 - World Town Planning Day c) Proclamation ID 1274

5 min · packet pp.9

Topics: Public SafetyArts & Culture

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Staff report:

CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office WASHINGTON 130 E. Sunset Way I P.O. Box 1307 lssaquah,WA 98027 (425) 837-3020 issaquahwa.gov

Accounting Day Proclamation ID 1175

5 min · packet pp.11

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Staff report:

CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office

America Recycles Day Proclamation ID 1176

5 min · packet pp.13–41

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Staff report:

This agenda item was originally scheduled as ID 1278 for the October 10, 2022 City Council Committee of the Whole meeting. The item was postponed to the October 17, 2022 City Council meeting after the October 10 budget presentation and deliberations took more time than anticipated. For details on this item, please refer to the attached October 10 staff report (Exhibit A).

Community Investment Strategy: Community Mobility Survey Projects AB 8487

Direct Administration · 45 min

Topics: Transportation

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7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Nov. 7, 2022, $5,382,968.48 ID 1206

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.43–96

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

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

Highlands Signal Pole Painting Project (First Phase) AB 8467

Approve · packet pp.147–149

Topics: Transportation

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ARCH Recommendations re: Late Fees & Move-In Fees Do Not Proceed AB 8497

packet pp.181–186

Topics: HousingBudget

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Staff report:

On April 20, 2022, the ARCH Board of Directors sent ARCH member mayors and councils a letter (Exhibit A) and a resolution (Exhibit B) with recommendations to adopt tenant protections aimed at mitigating the impacts of rent increase. The ARCH Executive Board approved a set of recommended policies aimed at addressing the economic impacts of rent increases and was encouraging mayors and councils to consider the following recommendations:

Position Reclassification AB 8498

Approve · packet pp.187–188

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Staff report:

The Human Services Manager classification was established in 2021 as part of the City's Police Accountability, Equity and Human Services Action Plan. The salary range for this position was established using a market analysis for similar positions in our surrounding labor market at the time.

2023 Salary Ordinance AB 8478

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.189–210

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends that the City Council adopt the 2023 Salary Ordinance.

8. PUBLIC HEARING

2023-24 Budget Ordinance AB 8402

Carried 7-0

Conduct Public Hearing [Action to occur · 20 min · packet pp.211–361

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends the City Council conduct the public hearing and adopt the budget ordinance at the Nov. 7, 2022 City Council meeting.

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

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

2023-24 State Legislative Agenda, Priorities and Policy Manual AB 8439

Carried 6-1

Approve · 15 min · packet pp.363–381

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · May 2, 2022

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Staff report:

The legislative agenda is a tool that communicates priorities and policy positions externally to the State Legislature and the Governor, as well as internally to the Administration and City lobbyists. This document is also shared with several partner agencies, e.g. SCA, AWC, MRSC, chamber, school district and neighboring jurisdictions.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by REH

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

Opposed: Hunt

2023 Levy & Revenue Sources AB 8403

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · 15 min · packet pp.383–404

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

The City's authority to impose a property tax is derived from the Washington State Constitution and described in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapters 84.52 and 84.55. The revenues from property tax are considered general government revenues. That means that this money is placed in the General Fund and can be used for any basic governmental service or goods such as public safety, planning, parks, or administration.

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

2023-24 Budget Ordinance AB 8402

Adopt Ordinance · 25 min

Topics: Land UseBudget

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10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

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Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:07 ↗ good evening and welcome everyone I call

0:09 ↗ the November 7th city council meeting to

0:12 ↗ order

0:12 ↗ and as a reminder we are continuing to

0:15 ↗ have a remote aspect to our meetings

0:17 ↗ staff and members of the public may be

0:19 ↗ participating in tonight's meeting

0:21 ↗ remotely via WebEx and the first item on

0:24 ↗ the agenda this evening is the Pledge of

0:25 ↗ Allegiance and I encourage you all to

0:28 ↗ join the council and I

0:38 ↗ Nation

0:49 ↗ thank you we have a lot of people in

0:52 ↗ attendance tonight and so if Council

0:54 ↗ meetings can be fun these are the fun

0:56 ↗ ones we have some special business and

0:59 ↗ some proclamations for tonight I'm going

1:01 ↗ to move over to the podium

1:11 ↗ so first under special business I would

1:13 ↗ like to invite fire chief Jeff Clark to

1:16 ↗ come up and join me

1:23 ↗ right here right here so for those of

1:28 ↗ you in attendance this evening and those

1:29 ↗ of you at home we are sad and excited

1:33 ↗ that fire chief Clark will be retiring

1:35 ↗ this month

1:37 ↗ um it has been an absolute pleasure and

1:39 ↗ honor to serve with him these last seven

1:41 ↗ years so I wanted to take a few moments

1:44 ↗ to talk about Chief Clark and uh all of

1:47 ↗ the great things we've been able to do

1:49 ↗ we have a couple of sitting council

1:51 ↗ members right now who serve on the East

1:53 ↗ Side Fire and Rescue board and at the

1:55 ↗ time that our fire agency was looking to

1:58 ↗ select a new leader we did a nationwide

2:00 ↗ search and I was on the board at that

2:02 ↗ time and got to participate and

2:04 ↗ interviewed some really fantastic

2:05 ↗ candidates but we had done a lot of

2:08 ↗ homework about what we thought the next

2:10 ↗ steps were and where we needed to go and

2:13 ↗ we went through the interview process it

2:16 ↗ was very unanimous that we had one

2:19 ↗ candidate who was going to get us to

2:21 ↗ that next level we had one candidate who

2:24 ↗ knew how to develop a team for Success

2:28 ↗ plan for succession planning focus on

2:31 ↗ regionalization and really importantly

2:34 ↗ look at the service we're providing and

2:36 ↗ the people we're providing it for and

2:39 ↗ talk about what else we can do to do a

2:41 ↗ better job I went down to Chandler

2:44 ↗ Arizona where the chief was working at

2:46 ↗ the time with fellow board commissioner

2:48 ↗ Chris deleen from District 38. Chris

2:53 ↗ works for the Seattle Fire Department I

2:55 ↗ worked for a local government we thought

2:57 ↗ we're just going to pull this guy apart

2:59 ↗ we're gonna go talk to people we're

3:01 ↗ going to get the Intel we're going to

3:03 ↗ watch him in action we were down for

3:05 ↗ about a day and a half and we verified

3:08 ↗ everything that we had hoped he would

3:10 ↗ bring to the table he was an amazing

3:13 ↗ development of leaders we watched his

3:15 ↗ team in action as they went through

3:18 ↗ conversations on policy and

3:20 ↗ presentations unable to tell who was a

3:23 ↗ staff member or a line worker and who

3:26 ↗ was in the leadership ranks the team was

3:30 ↗ it was amazing to watch and we really

3:32 ↗ wanted that here in Issaquah the other

3:35 ↗ thing that really captured me being an

3:37 ↗ engineer is that work that the chief had

3:40 ↗ done in the Arizona State Legislature to

3:43 ↗ really talk about how we should be

3:45 ↗ providing these services to people in

3:47 ↗ need and especially those populations

3:49 ↗ that we call familiar faces or who are

3:51 ↗ folks who are constantly in need of

3:54 ↗ attention or assistance but not because

3:56 ↗ of an accident or acute medical industry

3:59 ↗ for other underlying conditions and he

4:01 ↗ won me over because he had all these

4:03 ↗ charts and all this data that showed me

4:06 ↗ that this was possible and this could be

4:08 ↗ done I remember getting a ride back to

4:11 ↗ the airport from the chief because I had

4:13 ↗ a later fight I hadn't arranged it we

4:15 ↗ talked in the car I got out of the car

4:17 ↗ and I called the board chair and I said

4:19 ↗ Alan do not mess this up this is the

4:22 ↗ person Eastside fire and rescue needs

4:25 ↗ this is the kind of transformation the

4:28 ↗ inspirational leadership that we need so

4:31 ↗ I felt I had to tell you all of that

4:33 ↗ because it also makes me really sad I

4:36 ↗ came into my leadership role in the same

4:38 ↗ time and Jeff has been not only a

4:41 ↗ fantastic colleague but a mentor and a

4:43 ↗ friend he's someone I could call 24

4:45 ↗ hours a day which sometimes was

4:47 ↗ necessary during covid just to walk me

4:50 ↗ back and help me understand that we were

4:52 ↗ going to make it through it that the

4:54 ↗ community was resilient that we had a

4:56 ↗ path board that we had a plan

4:59 ↗ so I'm really going to miss him and I

5:01 ↗ want to present him tonight this

5:03 ↗ recognition plaque from our city and our

5:05 ↗ Council and our community just how

5:08 ↗ grateful we are to have had the amazing

5:10 ↗ Chief clerk for seven years so

5:12 ↗ congratulations on your time

5:18 ↗ thank you

5:25 ↗ [Applause]

5:30 ↗ all right she asked me to say a few

5:31 ↗ words so when my few words go you know

5:34 ↗ where it came from

5:35 ↗ first of all that was very nice uh mayor

5:38 ↗ um very generous but the truth is is

5:41 ↗ that when

5:42 ↗ um

5:43 ↗ when I transitioned here to east side it

5:47 ↗ was a match not as much that she just

5:50 ↗ described happened in Chandler happened

5:51 ↗ for me when I came to visit the

5:53 ↗ communities here it was a match and

5:55 ↗ that's what made this work and I am very

5:58 ↗ very proud of what we've accomplished

6:00 ↗ over the last seven years it's not what

6:02 ↗ I've accomplished it's what all of us

6:03 ↗ have accomplished what the elected

6:05 ↗ bodies with the leadership of the mayor

6:08 ↗ and Alan got Hill from from North Bend

6:11 ↗ specifically in the first three years

6:12 ↗ the way that the elected bodies came

6:15 ↗ together under what we call the unified

6:17 ↗ commitment

6:18 ↗ uh to East Side Fire and Rescue is only

6:21 ↗ demonstrated today when you sit through

6:24 ↗ an e for board meeting and you see how

6:25 ↗ all five partners are working together

6:27 ↗ in the same direction so that's what all

6:30 ↗ of you should be proud of uh is what the

6:33 ↗ leadership that you've allowed and I

6:35 ↗ have to thank each and every one of the

6:36 ↗ elected officials that I've worked for

6:37 ↗ over the last seven years

6:39 ↗ to say that I was talking with Ben Lane

6:42 ↗ who is going to be a wonderful fire

6:43 ↗ chief starting this Thursday I know she

6:46 ↗ said I'm retiring this month it's

6:47 ↗ Wednesday that I'm retiring

6:50 ↗ but Ben is going to be a wonderful fire

6:52 ↗ chief but I was talking to him today and

6:54 ↗ he said well what are you going to say

6:55 ↗ tonight and what are you going to say

6:56 ↗ Wednesday when I talk to my elected

6:58 ↗ board and I said I wanted to say one

6:59 ↗ thing for sure and I wanted to say

7:01 ↗ thanks for never saying no

7:03 ↗ it is so easy in this world to say no to

7:06 ↗ people who are working for you or with

7:09 ↗ you the easy path is no uh in seven

7:12 ↗ years the truth is my elected board

7:14 ↗ never said no they never said no to the

7:17 ↗ initiatives that East Side Fire and

7:19 ↗ Rescue brought forward to you

7:20 ↗ there's reasons for that there's a lot

7:23 ↗ of reasons for it but the biggest reason

7:25 ↗ is true leaders

7:28 ↗ Empower and say yes and get out of the

7:31 ↗ way and let things happen and I have

7:34 ↗ been blessed over the last seven years

7:35 ↗ to have that kind of support from our

7:37 ↗ elected officials you challenged

7:39 ↗ appropriately you challenged question

7:40 ↗ you asked me challenging questions you

7:42 ↗ ask my staff challenging questions in

7:44 ↗ the end we got to yes on everything and

7:47 ↗ I hope that continues because that is

7:49 ↗ how you build a system in a fire

7:51 ↗ department that's going to work

7:52 ↗ regionally for everybody is to help

7:55 ↗ everyone get to yes so mayor I'm living

7:58 ↗ in Issaquah still I'm not going anywhere

7:59 ↗ you can still call me I may not pick up

8:02 ↗ 24 hours a day because that's I am so

8:04 ↗ looking forward to not checking emails

8:06 ↗ in the phone and leaving it on 24 hours

8:07 ↗ a day but I'll be available all right

8:10 ↗ thank you very much

8:13 ↗ thank you

8:20 ↗ so we have several proclamations this

8:22 ↗ month but the one I'm starting with

8:23 ↗ first is id1301 the hindu-american

8:26 ↗ heritage month month Proclamation and we

8:29 ↗ have a lot of guests that are going to

8:31 ↗ come up here and join me anywhere up

8:33 ↗ here so that you can be seen on camera

8:34 ↗ so please come and join me while I go

8:36 ↗ through the proclamation I'm very

8:38 ↗ excited to have you all here

8:44 ↗ uh and Dr shalinda shalendru

8:48 ↗ will be speaking after writer so come on

8:50 ↗ come on up over here let's try and get

8:52 ↗ you all on camera one way or another

8:54 ↗ this is the biggest crowd we've ever had

8:56 ↗ but it's also really exciting super

8:59 ↗ exciting

9:05 ↗ so Hindu heritage month is celebrated

9:07 ↗ every October which coincides with major

9:09 ↗ Hindu holidays such as Diwali

9:12 ↗ whereas Hindu Americans in Issaquah

9:14 ↗ represent a variety of ethnic

9:16 ↗ backgrounds including individuals of

9:19 ↗ Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Malaysian

9:22 ↗ Indonesian Afghani Nepali bhutanese Sri

9:27 ↗ Lankan Fijian Caribbean and European

9:30 ↗ descent and whereas we commit to

9:32 ↗ embracing diversity and inclusion by

9:35 ↗ paying tribute to Hindu Hindu Heritage

9:37 ↗ through education acknowledgment and

9:40 ↗ celebration within our community and the

9:42 ↗ City of Issaquah is proud to recognize

9:44 ↗ the positive influence of Hindu

9:46 ↗ Americans on issaquah's economic

9:48 ↗ Vitality growth and well-being now

9:52 ↗ therefore I Mary Lou Paulie mayor of the

9:54 ↗ City of Issaquah do hereby Proclaim

9:57 ↗ October 2022 to be Hindu American

10:00 ↗ Heritage Month in the City of Issaquah

10:02 ↗ and I urge the community to join in

10:05 ↗ special observance and celebration of

10:07 ↗ Hindu Heritage I'm now going to turn it

10:09 ↗ over to Dr shailendru

10:15 ↗ if you would like to say a few words

10:19 ↗ [Applause]

10:29 ↗ Namaste and good evening

10:31 ↗ on behalf of Hindu American Community we

10:33 ↗ accept and thank you mayor Lou Paulie

10:36 ↗ City councilors and City staff are

10:38 ↗ processing and awarding the proclamation

10:40 ↗ during this festive season of navratri

10:42 ↗ and Diwali

10:44 ↗ this Proclamation sends an impactful and

10:47 ↗ meaningful message to the Hindu American

10:48 ↗ community in Greater Seattle area and

10:51 ↗ help educate all Americans about our

10:53 ↗ incredible traditions

10:55 ↗ over the last few years there have been

10:57 ↗ significant growth of Hindu Americans in

10:59 ↗ region and we have been contributing to

11:01 ↗ all aspects of public life to our

11:03 ↗ vibrant and diverse social fabric

11:07 ↗ it would bring the resident immense

11:09 ↗ pride and gratitude to know that the

11:11 ↗ city recognized the contribution of

11:13 ↗ Hindu American fear

11:15 ↗ on April 23rd and June 21st we organized

11:18 ↗ darshana a poster exhibition on Hindu

11:20 ↗ civilization in isaka Senior Center

11:23 ↗ this exhibition is to generate awareness

11:26 ↗ about Hindu Dharma Traditions Heritage

11:28 ↗ culture

11:29 ↗ and contribution to the world

11:32 ↗ we appreciate that Siri council member

11:34 ↗ Barbara Michelle

11:36 ↗ joined the darshana event and interacted

11:39 ↗ with the community

11:41 ↗ I am happy to share that the Hindu

11:42 ↗ American community in collaboration with

11:44 ↗ various Community organizations like HSS

11:46 ↗ Seva USA baps Wata TTA many Hindu

11:52 ↗ temples in the region is engaged in

11:54 ↗ driving a service initiative called Seva

11:57 ↗ Diwali a Food donation campaign during

12:00 ↗ this festive season and contribute back

12:01 ↗ to the local food banks and the

12:03 ↗ underserved in our neighborhoods

12:06 ↗ thank you again for Proclamation and we

12:08 ↗ look forward to continuing engagement

12:09 ↗ with City Council on various community

12:11 ↗ service initiative

12:13 ↗ [Applause]

12:19 ↗ yes

12:25 ↗ thank you so much for coming this is

12:28 ↗ fantastic

12:31 ↗ okay let's move this way

12:35 ↗ would you like to join us

13:13 ↗ but he yelled me

13:16 ↗ there's fire code

13:19 ↗ call me on Thursday thank you so much

13:32 ↗ [Music]

13:34 ↗ [Applause]

13:39 ↗ thanks for coming

13:43 ↗ but

13:46 ↗ oh that's fantastic

13:51 ↗ in our lobby we

13:55 ↗ earlier we have an area

14:15 ↗ foreign

14:52 ↗ so it is a busy night and I have a few

14:55 ↗ more proclamations for this evening

14:58 ↗ id1174 is World town planning day

15:02 ↗ Proclamation and I'd like to invite the

15:04 ↗ community Planning and Development staff

15:06 ↗ to the podium

15:09 ↗ Minnie

15:11 ↗ Minnie's here welcome Minnie World town

15:14 ↗ planning day was founded in 1949 to

15:17 ↗ advance public and professional interest

15:19 ↗ in planning it creates a special day to

15:22 ↗ recognize and promote the role of

15:23 ↗ planning in creating livable communities

15:26 ↗ whereas urban planners play a critical

15:30 ↗ role in creating livable sustainable

15:32 ↗ communities and we celebrate the

15:34 ↗ valuable contributions sound planning

15:37 ↗ can make to the quality of our local

15:39 ↗ communities and all levels of government

15:42 ↗ and whereas the City of Issaquah wishes

15:45 ↗ to show appreciation for the many

15:46 ↗ valuable contributions made by dedicated

15:48 ↗ planning Professionals in the City of

15:50 ↗ Issaquah and extend our heartfelt thanks

15:53 ↗ for the continued commitment to public

15:55 ↗ service by these professionals now

15:58 ↗ therefore I Mary Lou Paulie mayor of the

16:00 ↗ City of Issaquah do recognize November 8

16:03 ↗ 2022 to be the world town planning day

16:06 ↗ in the City of Issaquah I invite the

16:08 ↗ community to join me in thanking

16:10 ↗ issaquah's Community Planning and

16:11 ↗ Development Department for their

16:13 ↗ services and their outstanding

16:15 ↗ contributions many would you like to say

16:17 ↗ a few words

16:20 ↗ good evening community members and

16:22 ↗ members of the council I accept this

16:26 ↗ Proclamation on behalf of our wonderful

16:28 ↗ planning and policy commission our

16:31 ↗ development commission members of the

16:32 ↗ community that participate in all the

16:35 ↗ all that planning that does from our

16:37 ↗ city leadership to our council members

16:39 ↗ you know the value of planning so we're

16:42 ↗ fortunate to to be participants in this

16:45 ↗ whole planning process so thank you

16:46 ↗ thank you and for your team

16:54 ↗ foreign

16:55 ↗ [Applause]

17:03 ↗ s go on

17:06 ↗ id1175 our accounting day Proclamation

17:09 ↗ so I'd like to invite the finance staff

17:11 ↗ to the podium

17:15 ↗ yes even if you're presenting

17:21 ↗ welcome ladies

17:27 ↗ why not I'd like to invite Deputy

17:30 ↗ Finance director Jennifer rain senior

17:33 ↗ accountant Lindsey Ms been and all the

17:35 ↗ other Finance staff to come up and

17:37 ↗ accept this Proclamation

17:38 ↗ National accounting day is celebrated on

17:41 ↗ the 10th day of every November to

17:43 ↗ recognize the accounting experts that

17:45 ↗ ensure our financial health and

17:46 ↗ stability

17:47 ↗ whereas accountability transparency and

17:49 ↗ organization are tantamount in municipal

17:52 ↗ government stewardship of taxpayer

17:54 ↗ resources accountants in the city of

17:57 ↗ issaquah's Finance team provide

17:58 ↗ responsive diligent and accurate service

18:01 ↗ to the City of Issaquah and its

18:02 ↗ residents I see Rogers Roberts on the

18:05 ↗ screen now

18:07 ↗ whereas the City of Issaquah wishes to

18:09 ↗ show appreciation for its finance

18:11 ↗ department professionals now therefore I

18:13 ↗ Mary depali mayor of the City of

18:15 ↗ Issaquah do you recognize November 10

18:17 ↗ 2022 to be accounting day in the City of

18:20 ↗ Issaquah

18:21 ↗ and I invite Community to join me in

18:23 ↗ thanking issaquest finance department

18:25 ↗ for their service and outstanding

18:26 ↗ contributions so welcome to Robert who's

18:29 ↗ joining us virtually and I'm going to

18:30 ↗ hand it over to Lindsay to see if she

18:32 ↗ likes to say a few words

18:36 ↗ um thank you finance is a great team

18:39 ↗ everyone is really dedicated to serving

18:43 ↗ the needs of the community and other

18:44 ↗ City departments and we really

18:46 ↗ appreciate the recognition

18:49 ↗ thank you would you ladies mind if I got

18:51 ↗ my picture with you for sure okay

18:55 ↗ [Applause]

19:06 ↗ such an accounting show here you go

19:09 ↗ ladies thank you

19:14 ↗ yes of course Gatsby

19:20 ↗ and last but not least

19:22 ↗ ab8487 uh oh sorry flipped over too fast

19:26 ↗ ID 1176 America recycles day

19:29 ↗ Proclamation and I'd like to invite

19:31 ↗ public work staff to the podium oh we do

19:33 ↗ have somebody hi Matt

19:36 ↗ Matt Alice from utility at our UT our

19:39 ↗ new congratulations utility engineering

19:42 ↗ manager and solid waste coordinator is

19:44 ↗ here to accept this Proclamation

19:46 ↗ November 15th recognizes the 25th Annual

19:49 ↗ America recycles day a nationally

19:51 ↗ recognized day for businesses government

19:53 ↗ agencies and individuals to consider the

19:56 ↗ importance of recycling and to commit to

19:58 ↗ reducing waste whereas the City of

20:00 ↗ Issaquah strives to reduce waste

20:02 ↗ conserve natural resources prevent

20:04 ↗ pollution and save energy these goals

20:07 ↗ are Advanced through a robust compost

20:09 ↗ and recycling program and whereas

20:11 ↗ Issaquah is a leader in demonstrating

20:13 ↗ the next generation of sustainability in

20:15 ↗ the Pacific Northwest and serves as a

20:17 ↗ model for Innovation collaboration and

20:20 ↗ Effectiveness in large part due to the

20:22 ↗ issquest sustainability Department Solid

20:25 ↗ Waste coordination and environmental and

20:27 ↗ Regulatory program

20:29 ↗ and now therefore I Mary Lou Paulie

20:31 ↗ mayor of the City of Issaquah do

20:33 ↗ recognize November 15 2022 to be

20:37 ↗ Issaquah recycles day in the City of

20:39 ↗ Issaquah and to invite the community to

20:41 ↗ join me in thanking issaquah's

20:43 ↗ sustainability and environmental

20:45 ↗ department for their service and

20:47 ↗ outstanding contributions

20:48 ↗ thanks to the work of one of our City's

20:51 ↗ Consultants friends of Lake Sammamish

20:53 ↗ State Park and Recology we should have

20:55 ↗ recycling in Lake Sammamish State Park

20:57 ↗ for the first time today on Issaquah

21:00 ↗ recycles day Matt would you like to say

21:02 ↗ a few words sure

21:04 ↗ thank you

21:06 ↗ thank you Mary Polly and Council and

21:08 ↗ community members and yeah we have a

21:10 ↗ dedicated staff that are really

21:12 ↗ committed to providing Recycling and

21:14 ↗ composting and other ways to reduce

21:16 ↗ waste in the city so we're very excited

21:18 ↗ to keep this going and within the city

21:21 ↗ thank you

21:30 ↗ thank you to everyone who joined us

21:33 ↗ tonight for a proclamation and that was

21:35 ↗ the fun part of the meeting so do not

21:37 ↗ feel like have to stay for the rest of

21:39 ↗ the meeting we'll be moving over to

21:41 ↗ regular business next but I also did

21:43 ↗ want to tell the council that I really

21:45 ↗ appreciate doing the proclamations we've

21:47 ↗ had so many new city staff and this is

21:50 ↗ just such a wonderful way to say thank

21:52 ↗ you and put a name to the face and so I

21:54 ↗ appreciate the time to be able to do

21:56 ↗ these kinds of proclamations so thank

21:58 ↗ you all for coming

22:12 ↗ oh thanks yeah I need that

22:19 ↗ welcome back to the business portion of

22:21 ↗ the business meeting

22:24 ↗ ab8487 the community investment strategy

22:27 ↗ Community Mobility survey projects the

22:30 ↗ ask of the council this evening will be

22:32 ↗ to direct the administration this item

22:35 ↗ was originally scheduled for the October

22:37 ↗ 17th regular city council meeting but

22:40 ↗ due to time constraints the item was

22:41 ↗ moved to special business on tonight's

22:43 ↗ agenda actually that's right we're not

22:45 ↗ under regular business yet we're special

22:48 ↗ still I would like to invite management

22:50 ↗ analyst Gene Paul to present this item

22:55 ↗ thank you madam mayor and good evening

22:57 ↗ council members my name is Gene Paul and

22:59 ↗ I'm the management analyst in the

23:00 ↗ executive office I'll be presenting

23:02 ↗ tonight on the mobility projects that

23:03 ↗ were part of the recent Community survey

23:08 ↗ the purpose of tonight's presentation is

23:10 ↗ to provide the administration's funding

23:11 ↗ recommendation for the mobility projects

23:14 ↗ and receive the city council's Direction

23:15 ↗ on that proposal

23:18 ↗ the primary question from the

23:21 ↗ administration is does the council agree

23:23 ↗ with the recommendation to fund the top

23:25 ↗ three projects from the survey those

23:27 ↗ projects are the bundle of

23:28 ↗ Transportation safety projects The Front

23:30 ↗ Street streetscape and Alder Festival

23:32 ↗ street with a combined cost of 1.59

23:35 ↗ million dollars

23:38 ↗ as brief background the administration

23:41 ↗ first presented the community and

23:42 ↗ investment strategy at the June 27th and

23:45 ↗ July 5th Council meetings this strategy

23:47 ↗ was developed to implement the

23:48 ↗ recommendations from the Capital Finance

23:50 ↗ Community task force

23:52 ↗ one component of the strategy was the

23:54 ↗ allocation of two million dollars of

23:56 ↗ American Rescue plan act or arpa funding

23:58 ↗ for a community engagement process on

24:01 ↗ smaller Mobility capital projects

24:04 ↗ at the July 12 mobility and

24:06 ↗ infrastructure committee meeting the

24:07 ↗ administration presented the plan for

24:09 ↗ the community engagement and received

24:11 ↗ the committee's direction on a number of

24:12 ↗ its aspects

24:14 ↗ the committee agreed with the approach

24:15 ↗ of utilizing digital public engagement

24:18 ↗ with a short survey to prioritize a list

24:20 ↗ of pre-selected Mobility projects

24:23 ↗ the committee also endorsed the

24:24 ↗ recommendation to include Trail projects

24:26 ↗ in the survey that provide connections

24:28 ↗ to Parks or neighborhoods

24:30 ↗ finally the committee directed that the

24:32 ↗ survey results should be considered a

24:34 ↗ recommendation and presented to the full

24:36 ↗ Council

24:38 ↗ the administration utilized the

24:40 ↗ following list of criteria in compiling

24:42 ↗ the list of capital projects this list

24:44 ↗ which was also previously presented at

24:46 ↗ the June July Council meetings included

24:49 ↗ eligibility for arpa funding and the

24:51 ↗ ability to be completed by 2024.

24:53 ↗ projects that address quality of life

24:55 ↗ and safety that focus on transportation

24:58 ↗ and trails projects that are already

25:00 ↗ vetted in the capital Improvement plan

25:02 ↗ that address pain points across the city

25:04 ↗ and finally have a high impact relative

25:07 ↗ to their cost

25:10 ↗ using those criteria the administration

25:12 ↗ identified five projects for the survey

25:14 ↗ those projects included a bundle of six

25:17 ↗ small safety projects like crosswalks

25:20 ↗ Road improvements and a temporary Bridge

25:22 ↗ constructing the next phase of the Front

25:24 ↗ Street streetscape that includes

25:27 ↗ sidewalk improvements and Landscaping

25:28 ↗ along the west side of Front Street

25:30 ↗ designing the next phase of the Alder

25:32 ↗ Festival Street project including

25:34 ↗ sidewalk furniture and Landscape

25:36 ↗ improvements creating bicycle Lanes at

25:38 ↗ 220th Avenue Southeast and finally

25:41 ↗ completing a trail around Hillside Park

25:43 ↗ on squawk Mountain to connect the

25:45 ↗ neighborhoods and the park

25:48 ↗ with the list of projects identified the

25:50 ↗ administration prepared a brief four

25:52 ↗ question survey we asked people to rank

25:54 ↗ the projects from most important to

25:55 ↗ receive funding to least to identify the

25:58 ↗ main reason why they are ranked projects

26:00 ↗ the way they did what neighborhood they

26:02 ↗ live or work in and finally to provide

26:05 ↗ additional feedback in an optional open

26:07 ↗ response

26:10 ↗ overall we had really good participation

26:12 ↗ with 402 people choosing to complete the

26:14 ↗ survey

26:15 ↗ from the responses there was a clear

26:17 ↗ favorite project as 50 ranked the safety

26:20 ↗ bundle as the most important to receive

26:22 ↗ funding

26:23 ↗ for the graphic on the screen the

26:24 ↗ ranking of one through five occurs from

26:26 ↗ left to right across the bottom and both

26:28 ↗ the percentage and number of votes are

26:30 ↗ on top of the bar craft

26:34 ↗ the next two projects were also clearly

26:36 ↗ ranked as you can see most of the votes

26:38 ↗ for the Front Street streetscape

26:40 ↗ clustered around the number two ranking

26:42 ↗ and the votes for the Alder Festival

26:43 ↗ Street project clustered around the

26:45 ↗ number three ranking

26:50 ↗ for the remaining two projects the

26:52 ↗ results were failure silver with most of

26:54 ↗ the votes indicating that respondents

26:55 ↗ considered the bike lanes and Hillside

26:57 ↗ Park loop trail as least important to

27:00 ↗ fund based on these rankings the

27:02 ↗ administration did not include either of

27:04 ↗ these projects in the final funding

27:06 ↗ recommendation

27:09 ↗ for the question asking why people rank

27:11 ↗ the projects the way they did 42 percent

27:14 ↗ indicated that safety improvements were

27:16 ↗ their primary reason

27:17 ↗ another 37 indicated that liking the

27:20 ↗ features of the projects was their

27:22 ↗ primary reason only 11 percent

27:24 ↗ considered completing the most projects

27:26 ↗ possible with the funding their most

27:27 ↗ important reason and just six percent

27:29 ↗ highlighted the environmental

27:30 ↗ sustainability as their chief reason

27:32 ↗ finally the remaining four percent

27:34 ↗ comprised of just 14 respondents

27:36 ↗ indicated that they had other reasons

27:41 ↗ the third question asked people to

27:42 ↗ identify the neighborhood where they

27:44 ↗ live or work the highlands represented

27:46 ↗ the most responses with 27 percent

27:49 ↗ old town and squawk were second and

27:51 ↗ third with roughly 15 percent each and

27:54 ↗ the table on the slide shows the

27:55 ↗ neighborhood breakdown for all the

27:56 ↗ remaining responses

28:02 ↗ the final question asked if there was

28:03 ↗ anything else that people would like to

28:05 ↗ tell us about their selections this was

28:07 ↗ the optional open response question that

28:09 ↗ 123 people or 31 percent of respondents

28:12 ↗ chose to answer

28:14 ↗ all of the responses were provided the

28:15 ↗ city council last month but I did

28:17 ↗ attempt to identify some themes

28:19 ↗ as you can see from the slide there was

28:21 ↗ a wide variety of responses

28:23 ↗ unsurprisingly some continued the theme

28:26 ↗ of support for safety improvements there

28:28 ↗ were comments both for and against

28:29 ↗ bicycle improvements other responses

28:32 ↗ included observations around the

28:34 ↗ importance of gathering spaces downtown

28:36 ↗ and people also use this as an

28:38 ↗ opportunity to comment on projects that

28:40 ↗ were not part of the survey these

28:42 ↗ comments included advocating for

28:43 ↗ improvements like crosswalks and

28:45 ↗ sidewalks that were not on the project

28:46 ↗ list or advocating for different ways to

28:49 ↗ address traffic congestion

28:53 ↗ the three projects originally totaled

28:55 ↗ 1.48 million dollars out of the possible

28:58 ↗ 2 million in light of Lessons Learned

29:00 ↗ From recent construction work completed

29:02 ↗ in Old Town the administration examined

29:04 ↗ and updated the cost estimate for the

29:06 ↗ Alder Festival Street project

29:08 ↗ the new estimate was increased by just

29:10 ↗ over a hundred and six thousand dollars

29:12 ↗ to a new total of three hundred twenty

29:14 ↗ two thousand five hundred dollars

29:16 ↗ this update reflects both the design

29:18 ↗ contingency amount and an increase for

29:20 ↗ higher inflation

29:21 ↗ overall the administration expects the

29:24 ↗ continued price uncertainty and costs

29:26 ↗ Rising faster than inflation due to

29:28 ↗ global supply chain problems we'll

29:29 ↗ continue to make it difficult to

29:31 ↗ estimate construction costs

29:35 ↗ for the funding recommendation the

29:37 ↗ administration recommends allocating

29:38 ↗ arpa funds in the 2023-2024 budget for

29:42 ↗ the top three projects and the amounts

29:44 ↗ shown on the slide

29:48 ↗ because of the difficulty in estimating

29:49 ↗ pricing and Supply costs over the next

29:51 ↗ biennium the administration is also

29:54 ↗ recommending that the remaining arpa

29:55 ↗ funds be reserved until after the

29:57 ↗ projects have completed their bid

29:58 ↗ process

29:59 ↗ once that process is complete the

30:01 ↗ administration recommends allocating any

30:03 ↗ remaining funds to the arpa-funded

30:05 ↗ Community Park project through a budget

30:07 ↗ amendment

30:10 ↗ generally there are three options for

30:11 ↗ the city council the first is to accept

30:13 ↗ the recommendation the second is to

30:15 ↗ include a different Transportation

30:17 ↗ project in the allocation and finally

30:19 ↗ the council could allocate the remaining

30:20 ↗ arba funding to a different project

30:24 ↗ in terms of timing and next steps with

30:26 ↗ the adoption of the budget scheduled for

30:28 ↗ later this evening the administration is

30:30 ↗ requesting the council's direction

30:31 ↗ tonight on what allocation to include in

30:33 ↗ the budget

30:36 ↗ thank you James this is the final flight

30:37 ↗ for the presentation it just shows the

30:39 ↗ proposed motion and I'm happy to answer

30:41 ↗ any questions

30:43 ↗ jumped in there a little quick okay

30:44 ↗ thank you for putting the proposed

30:46 ↗ motion up uh questions from Council

30:52 ↗ if there's no questions would someone be

30:54 ↗ prepared to make a motion

30:56 ↗ councilmember Joe

30:57 ↗ thank you madam mayor I moved to direct

31:00 ↗ the administration to incorporate arpa

31:02 ↗ funding for the

31:03 ↗ 2023-2024 budget for the following

31:06 ↗ project Center amounts 880 000 for the

31:09 ↗ Transportation safety bundle

31:11 ↗ 388 500 for the Front Street Street

31:15 ↗ escapes

31:16 ↗ 322 500 for the Alder Festival Street

31:23 ↗ Deputy council president

31:24 ↗ second

31:28 ↗ would you like to address the motion I

31:30 ↗ would thank you first I want to thank

31:33 ↗ the administration and staff Gene Paul

31:35 ↗ for putting this together

31:37 ↗ um 400 responses is is pretty impressive

31:40 ↗ for one of our surveys and so we we did

31:43 ↗ get a real feel for what the community

31:46 ↗ was was looking for and what they

31:48 ↗ prioritized uh during this uh process so

31:53 ↗ um

31:54 ↗ I'm in support of the motion and I think

31:57 ↗ that the items are pretty important for

32:01 ↗ safety in the sense that the

32:03 ↗ Transportation safety bundle in

32:05 ↗ particular kind of struck me because

32:09 ↗ um my kids are starting to

32:11 ↗ walk to and from school and leave the

32:13 ↗ house and go places like

32:16 ↗ it's kind of scary my son just said hey

32:18 ↗ I'm going to go out and clean gutters on

32:20 ↗ squawk Mountain I said okay we'll go

32:22 ↗ ahead and do that the point is that the

32:24 ↗ the kids that are in our community and

32:25 ↗ the people that are walking about need

32:27 ↗ to be safe on the streets and Front

32:29 ↗ Street South by the food bank is a

32:33 ↗ little bit dangerous when you have that

32:35 ↗ safety area I'd like to see that

32:37 ↗ improved and I think there's a

32:40 ↗ thoughtful consideration for the items

32:42 ↗ that are in here and I'm in full support

32:43 ↗ thank you council member Joe Deputy

32:46 ↗ council president would you like to make

32:47 ↗ a comment

32:49 ↗ uh sure thank you very much

32:51 ↗ um councilmember Joe well said City

32:54 ↗ staff well done all around I'm in

32:56 ↗ complete agreement

32:58 ↗ um that I'll be supporting this motion

32:59 ↗ tonight my only comment is that if the

33:04 ↗ funding that we put aside this remaining

33:05 ↗ 409 thousand dollars

33:08 ↗ isn't used as the bidding process kind

33:12 ↗ of informs what the true cost is

33:13 ↗ actually going to be I think it should

33:16 ↗ continue to be used in Mobility projects

33:18 ↗ as opposed to reallocating it for Parks

33:21 ↗ we had a long discussion back in June

33:24 ↗ about

33:25 ↗ um

33:26 ↗ where these dollars should go and the

33:28 ↗ administration came back and proposed

33:30 ↗ two million dollars for Mobility

33:32 ↗ projects which the council at that point

33:34 ↗ felt better aligned with the

33:35 ↗ recommendations in the intent of the

33:37 ↗ Capital Finance Community task force so

33:40 ↗ um I think that um I'd like to see that

33:43 ↗ remaining balance used in the way that

33:45 ↗ we had talked about but otherwise well

33:46 ↗ done in complete sport thanks thank you

33:48 ↗ council president

33:50 ↗ thank you

33:52 ↗ um I think I much of what I was going to

33:54 ↗ say is what Deputy council president

33:57 ↗ Hull said

33:58 ↗ I appreciate leaving an amount at the

34:02 ↗ end of this considering the economic

34:04 ↗ times that we are in but I think the

34:07 ↗ feedback that we heard throughout the

34:10 ↗ process was very clear that the money if

34:14 ↗ possible should be going to Mobility

34:16 ↗ projects and I think the community's

34:19 ↗ feedback was very clear that these

34:23 ↗ smaller safety projects are really

34:25 ↗ important and I read over

34:28 ↗ all of the comments there were quite a

34:29 ↗ few that mentioned

34:32 ↗ um adding a crosswalk on Sunset at six

34:36 ↗ that the trailhead and I think there are

34:38 ↗ quite a lot of opportunities like that

34:41 ↗ that assuming we can get them done in

34:45 ↗ the time period would absolutely be my

34:47 ↗ preference over having the funding

34:50 ↗ default to a park situation thank you

34:54 ↗ thank you councilman show

34:57 ↗ so I just wanted to take an opportunity

34:59 ↗ to thank the people who structured the

35:02 ↗ questionnaire at the mobility and

35:05 ↗ infrastructure committee when it came

35:07 ↗ before us I expressed some concern that

35:10 ↗ this might turn out to be a popularity

35:12 ↗ contest uh people voting for the

35:15 ↗ projects nearest to them and that did

35:18 ↗ not happen and I think that it was

35:19 ↗ structured very well I did take it

35:21 ↗ myself just because I was interested in

35:24 ↗ how it was going to be presented to the

35:27 ↗ public and I really appreciated the

35:30 ↗ clear description of each project I I

35:34 ↗ really appreciated the way that the

35:36 ↗ question was asked why are you voting

35:38 ↗ the way that you're voting I think it

35:40 ↗ was structured in a way that helped

35:42 ↗ people to be thoughtful respondents and

35:45 ↗ uh and therefore we got a lot of very

35:46 ↗ useful information as council president

35:49 ↗ Walsh said we got a lot of very useful

35:51 ↗ information out of the survey

35:53 ↗ so I will be in support of this as well

35:56 ↗ I think um I hope we do this again again

35:59 ↗ sometime if we have a bundle of money uh

36:03 ↗ I think this would be uh this is a good

36:07 ↗ start at really listening to our

36:08 ↗ community and I agree with councilman

36:11 ↗ member Joe the number of participants is

36:13 ↗ very oppressive as well so I do support

36:16 ↗ the motion and uh command everybody that

36:19 ↗ was involved in the process thanks

36:22 ↗ thank you

36:24 ↗ um council member D Michelle any other

36:26 ↗ comments uh sorry council member

36:29 ↗ thank you

36:30 ↗ um I agree I will also be supporting

36:33 ↗ this motion I also agree that the survey

36:36 ↗ was well done provided us with all the

36:38 ↗ information we needed to support this

36:40 ↗ and to know that the community supported

36:41 ↗ these projects I also wanted to voice my

36:44 ↗ support for using the 409 000 that has

36:48 ↗ been put aside for Mobility projects not

36:50 ↗ for the Community Park project as is

36:53 ↗ suggested in our presentation this

36:56 ↗ evening because I think from this survey

36:59 ↗ it was really clear that people want

37:00 ↗ more of these trans more of these

37:02 ↗ Transportation safety oriented projects

37:05 ↗ that was the overwhelming

37:07 ↗ um

37:08 ↗ message from the survey at least for me

37:10 ↗ that's why most people voted the way

37:12 ↗ they voted in the survey and why they

37:14 ↗ put that bundle of safety projects at

37:17 ↗ the top of their list so I think we

37:19 ↗ should put money towards those sorts of

37:20 ↗ projects and I think there's no shortage

37:22 ↗ of options for how we could do that

37:24 ↗ thank you thank you any other comments

37:28 ↗ okay I'll go ahead and reread the motion

37:30 ↗ direct the administration to incorporate

37:32 ↗ arpa funding in the

37:34 ↗ 2023-2024 budget for the following

37:37 ↗ projects that amounts 888 thousand

37:40 ↗ dollars for the Transportation safety

37:41 ↗ bundle

37:42 ↗ 388 500 for the Front Street streetscape

37:46 ↗ 322 500 for the Alder Festival Street

37:49 ↗ all those in favor signify by saying aye

37:53 ↗ aye

37:54 ↗ those opposed

37:57 ↗ that passes unanimously

38:00 ↗ next item uh under on our agenda this

38:02 ↗ evening is audience comments and this is

38:04 ↗ the time when members of the public can

38:06 ↗ address counsel in person or virtually

38:10 ↗ those who signed up in advance to make

38:12 ↗ comments will be called on First and if

38:14 ↗ you are joining us virtually and would

38:15 ↗ like to make comments please rate your

38:17 ↗ virtual hand if you're on the phone

38:19 ↗ please press star 3 and if you have

38:21 ↗ joined by computer or smartphone look

38:23 ↗ for a hand icon this can vary by device

38:25 ↗ but one option may be to go to the

38:27 ↗ participant panel and choose the raise

38:29 ↗ hand icon in the lower right hand corner

38:31 ↗ if you're in the room I'm not seeing any

38:35 ↗ purchase public in the room this evening

38:37 ↗ I will ask for speakers before closing

38:40 ↗ this portion of the meeting there's also

38:42 ↗ a public hearing tonight on ab8402 which

38:45 ↗ is the

38:46 ↗ 2023-24 budget ordinance and comments on

38:49 ↗ this item must be made under the public

38:51 ↗ hearing that's occurring later in the

38:53 ↗ meeting city clerk has anyone signed up

38:55 ↗ to speak this evening for General

38:56 ↗ audience comments yes

38:59 ↗ uh so for those making comments tonight

39:01 ↗ please direct your comments to the whole

39:02 ↗ Council and not individuals and while

39:04 ↗ it's not a question and answer session

39:05 ↗ we will contact you to follow up if

39:08 ↗ needed when you are recognized please

39:11 ↗ unmute your microphone for virtual

39:12 ↗ attendees or step to the lectern if

39:14 ↗ you're here in person state your name

39:16 ↗ address relationship to the city

39:19 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently and

39:21 ↗ please limit your comments to five

39:23 ↗ minutes if you're attending virtually

39:24 ↗ and do not respond after your name or

39:26 ↗ phone number is called or if your

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39:32 ↗ encouraged to rejoin the meeting of Abel

39:33 ↗ personal attack subsidian language

39:35 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

39:37 ↗ behavior will not be permitted

39:39 ↗ citizen comments written and verbal are

39:41 ↗ an important aspect of the public

39:43 ↗ process and the city takes comments

39:45 ↗ seriously we thank everyone for taking

39:47 ↗ their time to address us this evening

39:49 ↗ city clerk can you please identify the

39:51 ↗ first person who signed up to speak yes

39:53 ↗ the first commenter is Christy triple

39:55 ↗ Christie I'm making you a panelist now

39:57 ↗ and also I'll be sharing my screen to

40:00 ↗ show some material Christie provided in

40:02 ↗ advance of the meeting

40:05 ↗ hi welcome everyone

40:07 ↗ a greetings council members Madam mayor

40:10 ↗ and Community I'm Christy triple with

40:12 ↗ rally properties and my address is 1595

40:15 ↗ Northwest Gilman Boulevard Suite One

40:19 ↗ first of all I want to say

40:21 ↗ um thank you to Chief Clark for your

40:24 ↗ incredible service I wish you the very

40:25 ↗ best in retirement and I love all the

40:29 ↗ proclamations tonight it's so fun and a

40:31 ↗ strong reminder of how we're all

40:33 ↗ connected so tonight I wanted to share a

40:36 ↗ few Inspirations from a recent

40:37 ↗ sustainable infrastructure policy tour I

40:40 ↗ went on to Denmark with 33 people which

40:43 ↗ was a mix of elected staff developers

40:45 ↗ Engineers utility leaders from here on

40:48 ↗ the greater East Side grateful for the

40:50 ↗ invitation from mayor Robinson of

40:52 ↗ Bellevue given I I participate on

40:55 ↗ Bellevue Chambers policy group and

40:57 ↗ because our plans for Hilo Crossing and

41:00 ↗ Raleigh Center and the development

41:01 ↗ agreement we're really Forward Thinking

41:03 ↗ at the time introduced and our Council

41:07 ↗ in particular council members Martz and

41:10 ↗ Joe helped create that Vision so thank

41:12 ↗ you

41:14 ↗ um so as you know a lot of the issues

41:16 ↗ the U.S grapples with is towns built

41:18 ↗ based on the car not ones obviously

41:23 ↗ faced by Europe European countries but

41:26 ↗ the fascinating thing was everyone in

41:28 ↗ Copenhagen was on the same page with

41:30 ↗ respect to climate change in 2011 and

41:33 ↗ again the following year they were faced

41:36 ↗ with a severe Cloud burst that created a

41:39 ↗ Thousand-Year storm event and flooded

41:41 ↗ many residential areas from that time

41:43 ↗ there's been a significant investment in

41:46 ↗ stormwater retrofits energy utilization

41:49 ↗ and sustainability initiatives

41:52 ↗ public-private Partnerships are

41:54 ↗ Paramount as competitions begin as are

41:57 ↗ competitions to design new buildings and

42:00 ↗ infrastructure that pushes the limit

42:01 ↗ everything has a dual purpose or more

42:04 ↗ next please

42:10 ↗ and this is an image of copenhill the

42:13 ↗ plume is actually Steam not smoke next

42:16 ↗ please

42:18 ↗ this is copenhill which is a garbage

42:21 ↗ incinerator it serves five cities it

42:24 ↗ Heats 90 000 homes the ski hill a

42:27 ↗ climbing wall and a reminder to all to

42:30 ↗ reduce waste next please

42:34 ↗ public Plaza storm water infiltration

42:37 ↗ and infrastructure or places where

42:39 ↗ people want to be the images on the left

42:42 ↗ and the right are light rail line with

42:44 ↗ generous open green open space

42:47 ↗ pollinator Gardens a beautiful Plaza

42:50 ↗ that people can gather and wait as they

42:53 ↗ um

42:54 ↗ get ready to use the line the center

42:57 ↗ picture is where one of the residential

43:00 ↗ areas was flooded they removed a parking

43:03 ↗ lot replaced it with an educational

43:05 ↗ storm Park Community Gathering Place to

43:10 ↗ play and there's even a World War II

43:12 ↗ bunker that was retrofit to serve as

43:15 ↗ music lessons and Community Gathering

43:18 ↗ spaces that maybe after hours were loud

43:21 ↗ next please

43:24 ↗ Light Rail bus bikes pads and Water Taxi

43:27 ↗ are all connected streets are designed

43:29 ↗ with bikes pads and cards separated

43:32 ↗ there's a bike Network that connects 26

43:35 ↗ municipalities just about everybody can

43:37 ↗ use by bike all year long cargo bikes

43:40 ↗ are full of kids dogs and groceries it's

43:43 ↗ a common sight the transportation system

43:45 ↗ is integrated with Metro and trains it's

43:48 ↗ quick and easy to get around and they've

43:50 ↗ implemented electric water taxis that

43:53 ↗ can run seven minutes between stops and

43:55 ↗ then they need to be charged this will

43:57 ↗ be fully baked and operational by 2025

44:00 ↗ with the entire system Electric

44:03 ↗ next please

44:06 ↗ this is a parking garage many of their

44:09 ↗ parking garages play provide space for

44:12 ↗ play and exercise this was an amazing

44:15 ↗ Community Gathering space and park at

44:18 ↗ the top of the garage the green wall to

44:20 ↗ the left with the open space for play

44:23 ↗ and Gardens

44:25 ↗ um

44:26 ↗ the green wall provides the stairs to

44:29 ↗ alternately access the top of the

44:31 ↗ parking garage and the cool thing is

44:33 ↗ it's a place for exercise you can push

44:36 ↗ the button on the bottom of the stairs

44:37 ↗ run to the top and see how fast you made

44:40 ↗ it so we saw lots of people utilizing

44:42 ↗ that feature while we were there next

44:45 ↗ please

44:47 ↗ buildings are really and multi-purposed

44:49 ↗ old ones are re-skinned to serve a new

44:52 ↗ purpose the top left is a former grain

44:54 ↗ silo that was converted to multi-family

44:57 ↗ housing everybody's got a view there new

45:00 ↗ buildings are oriented to provide wind

45:02 ↗ protection solar panels wrap buildings

45:05 ↗ to produce energy as you see on the blue

45:07 ↗ building below it was modeled after a

45:10 ↗ shipping container boat given its

45:12 ↗ proximity to the harbor

45:14 ↗ the old and the new is integrated and

45:17 ↗ buildings are and space are designed for

45:19 ↗ people first cars last next please

45:25 ↗ so um one thing they haven't figured out

45:28 ↗ yet is Wastewater and Reclamation

45:31 ↗ together they too are Christy I'm just

45:33 ↗ gonna I'm not sure how many more slides

45:35 ↗ of our but uh could you summarize for us

45:38 ↗ you bet thank you absolutely sorry

45:42 ↗ um so takeaways what we do shapes and

45:45 ↗ impacts future Generations don't let the

45:47 ↗ perfect the enemy of good pilot projects

45:49 ↗ are necessary as is collaboration and

45:51 ↗ Innovation let's be different and

45:53 ↗ Inspire curiosity design spaces that

45:56 ↗ build community and we have so many

45:57 ↗ opportunities as a community

46:00 ↗ so thank you for the time tonight and

46:02 ↗ Tisha thank you for your help

46:05 ↗ thank you very much Christy fascinating

46:07 ↗ thank you for sharing that with us

46:09 ↗ um city clerk are there any other

46:10 ↗ speakers this evening thank you yes yes

46:12 ↗ yes yes yes yes

46:18 ↗ am I trying

46:20 ↗ yes we do um someone who has named

46:25 ↗ themselves executive director I'll be

46:27 ↗ making you a panelist now

46:38 ↗ hello can you hear me

46:41 ↗ yes hi welcome

46:45 ↗ hi hello city council uh City staff

46:48 ↗ community and Madame mayor a third

46:50 ↗ quarter was a very busy time for the

46:52 ↗ Downtown issachar Association my name is

46:55 ↗ Mark Clemens I'm the executive director

46:57 ↗ of The Downtown issachar Association or

47:00 ↗ DF for short uh we're at 232 Front

47:04 ↗ Street North Issaquah

47:06 ↗ 98027 dear welcome new stores to the

47:10 ↗ downtown uh chicks shoes uh pineco

47:13 ↗ flooring and Cabinetry espresso stuff

47:16 ↗ and out of the box Eco store both

47:19 ↗ performing in visual arts for front and

47:21 ↗ center is Dia hosted a gas station Blues

47:24 ↗ Confluence music festival and three

47:26 ↗ artwork and music shows Dale worked with

47:29 ↗ 10 businesses to host the Summer Wine

47:31 ↗ Walk and combined these events brought

47:33 ↗ over 6 000 visitors to the downtown and

47:36 ↗ showcased over 75 local and Regional

47:38 ↗ artists the historically hip AutoZone

47:41 ↗ Market continues to be a huge draw for

47:43 ↗ local and handmade gifts August or

47:45 ↗ partnership with the Washington State

47:47 ↗ geocaching Association where we brought

47:50 ↗ 165 volunteers from 15 different

47:53 ↗ countries and 14 States for a summer

47:55 ↗ cleanup uh dear volunteers actually

47:58 ↗ logged

48:00 ↗ 3279 hours during the quarter Dia

48:04 ↗ continues to Foster good working

48:05 ↗ relationships with the businesses

48:07 ↗ including weekly and monthly monthly

48:09 ↗ interactions during welcoming week Dia

48:12 ↗ worked with the Issaquah library and 18

48:14 ↗ other businesses on a story strong uh

48:17 ↗ Cat Stevens Peace Train was placed in

48:19 ↗ business Windows enjoyed by over 100

48:22 ↗ families as they stroll downtown Dia

48:25 ↗ continues to support and educate

48:26 ↗ businesses on topics such as safety

48:28 ↗ retail loss prevention Staffing grant

48:32 ↗ opportunities and Public Works projects

48:34 ↗ over the last three months dear has

48:36 ↗ promoted or supported over a hundred

48:38 ↗ downtown businesses and organized

48:39 ↗ Nations dear managed apocalypse pilot

48:42 ↗ outdoor dining program at Front Street

48:45 ↗ restaurants Japan Ginger and crowbar

48:47 ↗ that saw over 700 customers and I also

48:50 ↗ placed over a hundred flower baskets on

48:52 ↗ some front and sunset

48:54 ↗ in partnership with this squad rotary

48:57 ↗ Dia produced a 2023 calendar

49:02 ↗ that features locally submitted

49:04 ↗ photography 16 local businesses

49:07 ↗ supported the project and the calendar

49:09 ↗ is currently available for twenty

49:11 ↗ dollars and is available at deer and

49:14 ↗ rotary events

49:16 ↗ dear worked with visit Issaquah to

49:18 ↗ deliver Regional promotion using ltch

49:20 ↗ grant money and during salmon day's lead

49:24 ↗ up worked with local businesses in the

49:26 ↗ Chamber of Commerce to deliver parking

49:28 ↗ passes and Communications between the

49:31 ↗ business owners downtown and finally Dia

49:34 ↗ proudly supported and sponsored other

49:36 ↗ service organizations including Lake

49:38 ↗ Sammamish State Parks parkadilly and the

49:41 ↗ hatcheries salmon on Sunset I have five

49:44 ↗ upcoming programming events to share

49:46 ↗ there's a downtown cleanup this Saturday

49:49 ↗ November 12th 9-12 to his historic shell

49:53 ↗ holiday shop opens November 25th with

49:57 ↗ shop local Saturday November 26th and

49:59 ↗ August Sunday November 27th and the Farm

50:02 ↗ Fresh Market is on Saturdays from 9 to

50:04 ↗ 12 at historic Shell station caroling at

50:07 ↗ the Depot also returns four to six

50:09 ↗ December 8th thank you for your time

50:12 ↗ thank you for the update mark

50:14 ↗ is there anyone else signed up to be

50:16 ↗ Clerk or indicating a desire to speak

50:18 ↗ mayor we do have a few other members of

50:20 ↗ the public who are attending virtually

50:22 ↗ but I don't see that any are indicating

50:24 ↗ a desire to speak right now

50:26 ↗ well I would like to thank our speakers

50:28 ↗ this evening we heard some very

50:30 ↗ interesting information on Innovative

50:32 ↗ urban planning ideas from Denmark and

50:34 ↗ received the DIA quarterly update as

50:36 ↗ well as a list of upcoming events so

50:38 ↗ thank you both for sharing that as a

50:40 ↗ reminder written comments can be

50:42 ↗ submitted at any time to city council at

50:44 ↗ issaquah.gov and I'm going to turn it

50:46 ↗ over to council president Walsh to see

50:48 ↗ if she has any email comments to

50:49 ↗ summarize on tonight's agenda topics

50:52 ↗ thank you madam air

50:54 ↗ um we have received a bunch of females

50:57 ↗ over the budget season but I'll just go

50:59 ↗ ahead and summarize those that we

51:00 ↗ received in the last week since we have

51:03 ↗ the budget ordinance on our agenda

51:05 ↗ tonight as ab8402

51:08 ↗ over the last week we've received

51:10 ↗ several comments about the Confluence

51:13 ↗ Park EC house project that was

51:15 ↗ recommended as part of arpa funding in

51:17 ↗ this budget the emails expressed concern

51:19 ↗ whether the project allows for

51:21 ↗ historical

51:22 ↗ preservation of the eckhouse and I would

51:25 ↗ note while this step that we're

51:28 ↗ considering is just a budget allocation

51:30 ↗ there will be plenty of community

51:31 ↗ feedback opportunities in the next year

51:33 ↗ during the design permitting phase of

51:35 ↗ this project but some of the comments

51:37 ↗ did Express disagreement with um

51:42 ↗ voting on the budget without that

51:46 ↗ clarification at this time

51:48 ↗ and that concludes the comments no I'm

51:52 ↗ done Tisha I'm done you are cut off I'll

51:56 ↗ take it

51:58 ↗ we're having some fun tonight uh the

52:01 ↗ next item of business on this evening's

52:03 ↗ agenda is committee and Regional reports

52:05 ↗ and we'll be starting with council

52:07 ↗ member Joe thank you madam mayor

52:09 ↗ on uh November 8th the mobility and

52:13 ↗ infrastructure committee will be meeting

52:14 ↗ to discuss ID 1299 we'll be looking at

52:18 ↗ the intelligent Transportation Systems

52:20 ↗ plan

52:21 ↗ also on November 8th the Cascade water

52:24 ↗ Alliance finance committee will be

52:26 ↗ meeting

52:27 ↗ and if you'd like to

52:29 ↗ join that meeting you can go to the

52:32 ↗ website and log on to the zoom call

52:34 ↗ uh

52:36 ↗ November 15th the lodging tax advisory

52:38 ↗ committee is meeting and that meeting is

52:41 ↗ tentative however right now as we may

52:43 ↗ not be able to get a quorum so please

52:46 ↗ consult the calendar before trying to

52:49 ↗ find that meeting

52:50 ↗ and then the day after 11 16 the Cascade

52:53 ↗ water Alliance board is meeting and I've

52:57 ↗ been asked to attend that meeting as an

52:59 ↗ alternate as the mayor will be unable to

53:02 ↗ attend that concludes my report thank

53:03 ↗ you

53:05 ↗ thank you councilmember D Michelle

53:07 ↗ thank you mayor Paulie on October the

53:10 ↗ 19th I attended the King County Regional

53:12 ↗ Transit Committee of note Metro's daily

53:15 ↗ ridership in September averaged 234 000

53:19 ↗ Riders up from 218 000 in July so

53:23 ↗ there's just been this strong and steady

53:25 ↗ Return of ridership the ROTC voted

53:28 ↗ unanimously to continue the one dollar

53:30 ↗ lift fare for low-income Riders Through

53:33 ↗ 2023. the Fair was reduced from a dollar

53:37 ↗ fifty to one dollar at the beginning of

53:40 ↗ the pandemic

53:41 ↗ uh on October the 28th I participated in

53:44 ↗ a listening session with Eastside City

53:46 ↗ Human Services staff members it was

53:49 ↗ hosted by the Eastside Human Services

53:50 ↗ forum and and as regarding the

53:52 ↗ conversations that we're having with the

53:54 ↗ alliance of Eastside agencies

53:57 ↗ uh East Side Human Services forum and

54:00 ↗ aea leaders are meeting again on

54:02 ↗ November the 22nd to continue that

54:04 ↗ dialogue

54:05 ↗ also on October the 28th I participated

54:08 ↗ in an Eastside Transportation

54:10 ↗ partnership meeting on 2023 legislative

54:13 ↗ priorities with mayor herbig and council

54:16 ↗ members Zan kritzer and Howe and I will

54:20 ↗ share draft priorities with the council

54:22 ↗ after our next ETP meeting which is

54:24 ↗ scheduled for November the 18th

54:27 ↗ and then finally on November 3rd I

54:29 ↗ attended the healthier here governing

54:31 ↗ board meeting discussion centered on the

54:34 ↗ 2023 budget getting ready for adoption

54:36 ↗ at the December meeting which is

54:38 ↗ scheduled for December the 1st and then

54:41 ↗ just a a small note on Friday I attended

54:45 ↗ the Eastside baby Corner fundraiser at

54:48 ↗ which they announced their new name

54:49 ↗ which is kid Vantage

54:51 ↗ so this is really a success story for a

54:55 ↗ business that started and was grown

54:58 ↗ right here in Issaquah it now serves

55:01 ↗ almost all of the Puget Sound region and

55:04 ↗ because of that they no longer want to

55:06 ↗ be called Eastside baby corner and

55:08 ↗ change their name to kid Vantage so I

55:11 ↗ thought I would share that information

55:12 ↗ because I think it's wonderful news so

55:14 ↗ thank you thank you councilman do you Mr

55:17 ↗ councilmember Hunt

55:20 ↗ thank you

55:21 ↗ um the city council Planning Development

55:23 ↗ and environment committee met on

55:24 ↗ November 1st and we had two items the

55:27 ↗ first one was

55:29 ↗ id1282 East Side City's interlocal

55:31 ↗ agreement for climate programs

55:34 ↗ um this is a proposed interlocal

55:36 ↗ agreement between the cities of Bellevue

55:37 ↗ Issaquah Kirkland Mercer islands and

55:40 ↗ Redmond to formally establish a

55:41 ↗ partnership to advance progress on our

55:44 ↗ climate action plans and climate change

55:46 ↗ and energy goals this would supplement

55:48 ↗ but not replace the k4c the king

55:51 ↗ County's climate collaborative

55:53 ↗ and it would not preclude parties from

55:56 ↗ pursuing their own programs it's really

55:58 ↗ just to help us save money and get more

56:02 ↗ things done we did have a discussion on

56:04 ↗ how costs would be allocated there are

56:06 ↗ no fees or costs associated with

56:08 ↗ entering into the agreement and then

56:09 ↗ participation in joint programs or

56:12 ↗ undertakings would result in costs and

56:13 ↗ those would be split among the

56:15 ↗ participating parties and after that

56:18 ↗ discussion the committee unanimously

56:20 ↗ recommended approval of this and we felt

56:23 ↗ that it could be on consent and this is

56:25 ↗ expected to return to Council in

56:28 ↗ December or January after the details

56:30 ↗ have been worked out with the other

56:31 ↗ partners but we were enthusiastic and

56:33 ↗ thought it sounded a like a great

56:34 ↗ program the other item on our agenda was

56:37 ↗ id1237 this was the comprehensive plan

56:39 ↗ amendments and the committee did agree

56:42 ↗ with the staff recommendation on the

56:44 ↗ items but I I thought that I would save

56:47 ↗ us from hearing me explain our

56:50 ↗ conversation twice because this is

56:52 ↗ expected to return to full Council on

56:54 ↗ November 21st so I'll save our detailed

56:57 ↗ conversation summary until then although

57:01 ↗ I did actually write it out and so if

57:03 ↗ you have any questions about what we did

57:04 ↗ I could take those potentially at go to

57:06 ↗ the order if there's questions

57:07 ↗ the next meeting of the Planning

57:09 ↗ Development and environment committee

57:11 ↗ will be on December 6th and we have one

57:13 ↗ item on the agenda and that is Title 18

57:15 ↗ and land use code Consolidated draft so

57:17 ↗ the end is insight for Title 18 which is

57:21 ↗ our very long standing very important

57:23 ↗ project to um

57:25 ↗ update our land use code

57:28 ↗ and then I have one other upcoming

57:30 ↗ meeting there's upcoming meeting of the

57:31 ↗ salmon Recovery Council for wyra 8 which

57:33 ↗ is our Watershed on November 17th at 2PM

57:36 ↗ that concludes my report

57:38 ↗ thank you councilmember hunt council

57:40 ↗ member Ray

57:41 ↗ thank you mayor Paulie the East Side

57:44 ↗ Fire and Rescue board of directors is

57:46 ↗ meeting this Wednesday notice a

57:47 ↗ Wednesday not a Thursday at four o'clock

57:49 ↗ at uh East Side Fire and Rescue

57:52 ↗ headquarters on Newport Way two uh items

57:56 ↗ of regular business one is a final

57:57 ↗ discussion on the East Side Fire and

57:59 ↗ Rescue strategic plan and the second is

58:02 ↗ a discussion around the 2023 legislative

58:05 ↗ agenda

58:06 ↗ additionally we'll be setting the annual

58:09 ↗ planning calendar for the board for the

58:12 ↗ coming year two additional items of node

58:15 ↗ one is Eastside and Fire and Rescue is

58:18 ↗ going to be recognizing and sending

58:21 ↗ Chief Clark off to his next adventure

58:25 ↗ um so that should be interesting so the

58:27 ↗ board meeting itself starts at four but

58:30 ↗ the chief recognition and farewell is

58:34 ↗ going to be at three o'clock

58:35 ↗ and then finally and I think most

58:37 ↗ interesting is we will be issuing the

58:39 ↗ oath of office to incoming fire chief

58:42 ↗ Ben Lane

58:43 ↗ so that should be great anyway that

58:45 ↗ concludes my report this evening

58:47 ↗ thank you council member Ray councilman

58:49 ↗ Mertz thank you madam mayor the psrc

58:52 ↗ gmpb met on Thursday November 3rd at 10

58:56 ↗ A.M no action was taken SCA pick will be

58:59 ↗ meeting Wednesday November 9th at 7 pm

59:02 ↗ uh online meeting only no action is

59:05 ↗ currently planned and on Tuesday

59:07 ↗ November 15th the services safety at

59:10 ↗ parks committee will be meeting at I

59:13 ↗ believe 6 30 I think 6 30 and the agenda

59:17 ↗ has not been finalized so that concludes

59:18 ↗ my report

59:19 ↗ thank you Deputy council president home

59:22 ↗ no report this evening thank you council

59:24 ↗ president Walsh

59:29 ↗ fantastic thank you

59:31 ↗ um last week I attended the King County

59:32 ↗ affordable housing committee where we

59:35 ↗ adopted their legislative agenda and

59:38 ↗ then kind of came to a little bit of a

59:41 ↗ conclusion on some of our work on the

59:46 ↗ jurisdictional by income housing need

59:50 ↗ by agreeing to recommend option three

59:53 ↗ which is kind of a weighted version so

59:57 ↗ options one and two was really do we

1:00:00 ↗ want everybody to grow at the same rate

1:00:05 ↗ across all of the needs every city or do

1:00:08 ↗ we want everybody to achieve the

1:00:11 ↗ Equitable end so people who don't have

1:00:13 ↗ as much affordable housing have to play

1:00:15 ↗ catch-up while areas in South King

1:00:18 ↗ County

1:00:19 ↗ don't have to produce or focus on

1:00:22 ↗ producing as much affordable housing and

1:00:26 ↗ so we ended up with option three which

1:00:28 ↗ is a weighted version on a weighted

1:00:32 ↗ version of the plan that focuses on

1:00:34 ↗ achieving those Equitable ends and so

1:00:38 ↗ we're recommending that to the growth

1:00:40 ↗ management planning Council because

1:00:43 ↗ we're a recommendation body to a

1:00:44 ↗ recommendation body so we don't actually

1:00:46 ↗ do any voting

1:00:47 ↗ for our next meeting we're going to be

1:00:50 ↗ discussing further recommendations on

1:00:52 ↗ the CPP amendments particularly focusing

1:00:55 ↗ on how a city cities can be held

1:00:58 ↗ accountable for actually achieving the

1:01:02 ↗ growth that they say they're planning on

1:01:04 ↗ and whether that accountability should

1:01:06 ↗ be more focused on did you implement the

1:01:10 ↗ plans that you said you were going to or

1:01:11 ↗ did you achieve the growth that you said

1:01:13 ↗ you were targeting and so that's a big

1:01:16 ↗ debate on the city Side

1:01:18 ↗ that concludes my report

1:01:20 ↗ thank you Council thank you council

1:01:22 ↗ president uh the next item on the agenda

1:01:24 ↗ this evening is the mayor's report so

1:01:26 ↗ there will be an executive session

1:01:28 ↗ scheduled this evening to discuss the

1:01:30 ↗ lease sale of property per RCW

1:01:33 ↗ 42.30.110 paren one parent C and pending

1:01:37 ↗ potential litigation per RCW

1:01:40 ↗ 42.30.110 parent 1 parent I and these

1:01:43 ↗ items are expected to take a total of

1:01:45 ↗ around an hour no action is anticipated

1:01:48 ↗ in Open Session

1:01:50 ↗ tonight city council is anticipated to

1:01:52 ↗ vote on issaquah's first ever biennial

1:01:54 ↗ budget a biennial budget process

1:01:56 ↗ provides numerous improvements to our

1:01:59 ↗ previous annual process allowing the

1:02:01 ↗ city to be more efficient with our

1:02:03 ↗ resources and to plan for our financial

1:02:05 ↗ stability further into the future in the

1:02:08 ↗ off years or odd numbered years the city

1:02:10 ↗ will not go through such a large

1:02:12 ↗ budgetary process but will still have

1:02:14 ↗ the opportunity to make smaller

1:02:16 ↗ adjustments along the way including a

1:02:18 ↗ mid biennium budget update next fall it

1:02:21 ↗ will also allow time for a more robust

1:02:23 ↗ Capital planning process in the odd

1:02:25 ↗ years aligning with the city's every

1:02:27 ↗ other year Capital Improvement plan

1:02:29 ↗ development

1:02:30 ↗ transitioning to a biennial budget

1:02:32 ↗ process has been a long-standing goal of

1:02:34 ↗ the city and I'm very excited that

1:02:36 ↗ tonight we will make it a reality

1:02:38 ↗ I want to give an update on the water

1:02:40 ↗ main break and an emergency purchase

1:02:42 ↗ that had to require for that that was

1:02:45 ↗ required for that early last week there

1:02:47 ↗ was a second large water main break near

1:02:49 ↗ 1745 Northwest Mall Street in the

1:02:51 ↗ vicinity of the Issaquah Honda Kubota

1:02:53 ↗ west of state route 900. the broken

1:02:56 ↗ section of the main has been isolated

1:02:58 ↗ but localized repair proved more

1:03:00 ↗ difficult than is typical Honda Kubota

1:03:02 ↗ and a few vacant commercial buildings

1:03:04 ↗ were without reliable water or fire

1:03:06 ↗ service

1:03:07 ↗ per the city's financial management

1:03:09 ↗ policy the city administrator authorized

1:03:11 ↗ an emergency purchase to fully replace

1:03:13 ↗ the water main in lieu of making another

1:03:16 ↗ localized repair the estimated project

1:03:18 ↗ cost is 120 000 to 150 000 and I want to

1:03:22 ↗ give a big thank you to the public works

1:03:24 ↗ team for such a quick response

1:03:26 ↗ and quick and dedicated response to this

1:03:29 ↗ emergency

1:03:31 ↗ on the consent calendar tonight is

1:03:33 ↗ ab8492 it's regarding the Human Services

1:03:36 ↗ Grant recommendations for the

1:03:39 ↗ 2023-2024 cycle

1:03:41 ↗ this bill seeks authorization from

1:03:43 ↗ Council to approve these Grant

1:03:45 ↗ allocations which have been included in

1:03:47 ↗ the 23-24 Citywide budget

1:03:50 ↗ the Human Services Commission reviewed

1:03:52 ↗ 81 applications the commission used the

1:03:54 ↗ recently adopted Human Services

1:03:56 ↗ strategic plan to guide the review and

1:03:59 ↗ recommendation process and is

1:04:00 ↗ recommending funding of 42 programs

1:04:03 ↗ whose Focus areas include physical and

1:04:06 ↗ behavioral health housing Continuum

1:04:09 ↗ cultural culture and language access and

1:04:12 ↗ Community Resources

1:04:14 ↗ I would like to thank the Human Services

1:04:15 ↗ Commissioners for their hard work and

1:04:17 ↗ dedication in providing these

1:04:19 ↗ recommendations

1:04:20 ↗ the City of Issaquah is currently

1:04:22 ↗ conducting a climate vulnerability

1:04:24 ↗ assessment to better understand address

1:04:26 ↗ and communicate on the specific threats

1:04:28 ↗ that climate change poses to the

1:04:30 ↗ Issaquah community

1:04:31 ↗ to shape the assessment we need to hear

1:04:33 ↗ from residents businesses people who

1:04:36 ↗ work or go to school in Issaquah and

1:04:38 ↗ Community organizations please be sure

1:04:40 ↗ to give us your feedback but by November

1:04:43 ↗ 18th online

1:04:45 ↗ and there was a council listening

1:04:47 ↗ session I want to thank the council

1:04:48 ↗ members for participating in the city

1:04:50 ↗ council Community listening session in

1:04:52 ↗ Dallas

1:04:54 ↗ it was productive and interesting

1:04:56 ↗ meeting and this meeting was one action

1:04:58 ↗ toward our goal of making issquare's

1:05:00 ↗ government more responsive and

1:05:02 ↗ accessible to our community

1:05:04 ↗ there are a few upcoming community

1:05:06 ↗ events there is an open house for

1:05:08 ↗ Northwest Sammamish Road improvements

1:05:10 ↗ the city is adding bicycle and

1:05:12 ↗ pedestrian improvements on the Northwest

1:05:13 ↗ Sammamish Road between 193rd Place

1:05:17 ↗ Southeast and the Lake Sammamish State

1:05:19 ↗ Park entrance this is the South Lake

1:05:22 ↗ Sammamish Community neighborhood

1:05:24 ↗ come learn about the project and share

1:05:26 ↗ your thoughts the open houses on

1:05:27 ↗ November 9th from 5 30 to 7 30 p.m Greek

1:05:31 ↗ Manor there is an East Side virtual job

1:05:33 ↗ fair are you looking for a job on the

1:05:35 ↗ east side are you looking for a career

1:05:37 ↗ change speak directly to over 45

1:05:40 ↗ businesses with thousands of positions

1:05:42 ↗ at the East Side virtual job fair being

1:05:45 ↗ held November 10th from 10 a.m to 1 pm

1:05:47 ↗ visit issaquah.gov job fair to register

1:05:51 ↗ or access job boards if you can't attend

1:05:54 ↗ this event

1:05:56 ↗ light up the night is coming please join

1:05:58 ↗ the City of Issaquah and special guests

1:06:00 ↗ for a celebratory tree lighting to

1:06:01 ↗ welcome in winter

1:06:03 ↗ this gather whole family will feature a

1:06:06 ↗ live reindeer special treats diesel

1:06:08 ↗ cross singers and a ceremonial tree

1:06:10 ↗ lighting all are welcome to attend this

1:06:13 ↗ free event on November 19th from 5 to 6

1:06:15 ↗ p.m at Rainier Boulevard North between

1:06:18 ↗ Northwest Dogwood Street and Confluence

1:06:20 ↗ Park

1:06:21 ↗ and coffee with the mayor is coming back

1:06:24 ↗ after a long pandemic pause coffee with

1:06:26 ↗ the mayor is back I will be available

1:06:28 ↗ for Community Dialogue on November 22nd

1:06:30 ↗ from 3 30 to 5 at 55 Sunset coffee and I

1:06:34 ↗ look forward to engaging with the

1:06:36 ↗ community and my last update City Hall

1:06:38 ↗ will be closed on Friday November

1:06:40 ↗ entrance day there will be a memorial

1:06:43 ↗ ceremony for Veterans Day being held at

1:06:45 ↗ 11 A.M on Friday at the senior center

1:06:48 ↗ and that concludes the marriage report

1:06:51 ↗ the next item of business is the consent

1:06:53 ↗ calendar and it was distributed to

1:06:55 ↗ Council in advance if authorized the

1:06:57 ↗ items on the consent calendar will be

1:06:59 ↗ considered together and approved by one

1:07:01 ↗ motion have the payables and payroll

1:07:04 ↗ been reviewed yeah they have thank you

1:07:06 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

1:07:08 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

1:07:10 ↗ consider it under regular business

1:07:12 ↗ council member hunt

1:07:14 ↗ yes I'd like to consider ab8497 Arts

1:07:17 ↗ recommendations relate fees and move-in

1:07:19 ↗ fees under regular business

1:07:21 ↗ a city clerk should we discuss that

1:07:24 ↗ after the vote as to where to put it on

1:07:27 ↗ the agenda

1:07:28 ↗ uh or or I I think you could do that now

1:07:31 ↗ as well if you'd like

1:07:34 ↗ um so for the city council we have our

1:07:36 ↗ public hearing next

1:07:38 ↗ um we can place it on the agenda

1:07:42 ↗ under regular business prior to the

1:07:45 ↗ State Legislative agenda or we can hear

1:07:48 ↗ it at the end what's your preference

1:07:51 ↗ if you have a preference

1:07:53 ↗ otherwise I'm just going to suggest the

1:07:55 ↗ beginning of regular business is that

1:07:57 ↗ okay

1:07:58 ↗ beginning a regular business

1:07:59 ↗ okay so there has been a request to move

1:08:01 ↗ that remove that item

1:08:04 ↗ are there any other requests to move

1:08:06 ↗ items from the consent calendar

1:08:09 ↗ okay with that one item being removed

1:08:11 ↗ could somebody make a motion

1:08:14 ↗ thank you I would move to approve the

1:08:19 ↗ consent calendar amendage that can send

1:08:22 ↗ calendar

1:08:23 ↗ um yeah

1:08:25 ↗ second

1:08:27 ↗ it's been moved and seconded to

1:08:31 ↗ um

1:08:32 ↗ approve the consent count

1:08:33 ↗ all in favor say aye

1:08:36 ↗ aye

1:08:40 ↗ all opposed that carries unanimously

1:08:43 ↗ uh so we will put that item at the

1:08:45 ↗ beginning of regular business

1:08:47 ↗ so moving on to the public hearing

1:08:49 ↗ ab8402 the 2023-24 budget ordinance we

1:08:53 ↗ will be conducting a public hearing this

1:08:55 ↗ evening under our regular business and

1:08:57 ↗ I'd like to invite budget manager Susie

1:08:59 ↗ Mansell to present this item I'm Susie

1:09:02 ↗ thank you madam mayor so in the interest

1:09:06 ↗ of a full agenda tonight and the fact

1:09:08 ↗ that this is far from the first time

1:09:09 ↗ this item has come to the council we're

1:09:12 ↗ going to forego the presentation that

1:09:13 ↗ was included in the packet tonight I do

1:09:16 ↗ want to note however that the final

1:09:17 ↗ proposed budget that's before the

1:09:19 ↗ council this evening includes just a

1:09:22 ↗ couple small adjustments from what was

1:09:23 ↗ presented on the 17th

1:09:25 ↗ and these are primarily just shifting

1:09:27 ↗ the arpa funds to the appropriate parks

1:09:29 ↗ and Mobility projects that were

1:09:30 ↗ discussed at the last meeting and

1:09:32 ↗ tonight there were no adjustments to any

1:09:35 ↗ other fund besides these in the capital

1:09:36 ↗ fund

1:09:37 ↗ so with that I'm happy to take any

1:09:40 ↗ questions from the council before

1:09:41 ↗ opening the public hearing any questions

1:09:43 ↗ from Council

1:09:47 ↗ I am not seeing any

1:09:49 ↗ so we will now be opening the public

1:09:51 ↗ hearing at 8 11 pm and again for those

1:09:54 ↗ of you who have joined us tonight and

1:09:55 ↗ would like to make comments but did not

1:09:57 ↗ sign up in advance please raise your

1:09:59 ↗ virtual hand and if you're on the phone

1:10:01 ↗ press star 3 or if you've joined by

1:10:03 ↗ commute computer or smartphone look for

1:10:05 ↗ the hand icon one option may be to go to

1:10:08 ↗ the participant panel and choose the

1:10:09 ↗ raised hand icon there in the lower

1:10:11 ↗ right hand corner city clerk has anyone

1:10:14 ↗ signed up to speak or indicated to

1:10:16 ↗ desired to speak

1:10:17 ↗ mayor no one has signed up in advance to

1:10:19 ↗ make comments I see one hand raised from

1:10:23 ↗ Christy triple but I believe that is a

1:10:26 ↗ holdover from the earlier public comment

1:10:29 ↗ um Christy I'm going to unmute you

1:10:30 ↗ briefly to just clarify that were you

1:10:33 ↗ wanting to make comments under the

1:10:34 ↗ public hearing as well

1:10:36 ↗ no that was a hold on from earlier thank

1:10:39 ↗ you mm-hmm

1:10:41 ↗ okay so I'm just monitoring here

1:10:46 ↗ because we do have a few members of the

1:10:48 ↗ public giving them just a minute

1:10:54 ↗ no one's indicating a desire to speak

1:10:57 ↗ thank you city clerk is there any

1:11:00 ↗ objection to closing the public hearing

1:11:03 ↗ hearing none the public hearing is

1:11:06 ↗ closed at 8 12 p.m the city council will

1:11:09 ↗ have the opportunity to liberate and

1:11:10 ↗ approve the 2023-24 budget later on

1:11:14 ↗ tonight's agenda

1:11:16 ↗ so we will be moving to regular business

1:11:19 ↗ and I apologize city clerk what is the

1:11:22 ↗ ab that was moving down to regular

1:11:24 ↗ business AB

1:11:26 ↗ 8497 Arch recommendations regarding late

1:11:29 ↗ fees and move-in fees

1:11:33 ↗ um and can you let the council know what

1:11:36 ↗ the process would be

1:11:38 ↗ um for this is it uh now that it is down

1:11:42 ↗ here

1:11:43 ↗ um

1:11:45 ↗ do we need somebody to make a motion

1:11:48 ↗ okay we need someone to make a motion

1:11:51 ↗ do I have anyone ready to make a motion

1:12:00 ↗ it's confusing

1:12:02 ↗ there there isn't a staff presentation

1:12:05 ↗ planned for this item

1:12:07 ↗ no

1:12:10 ↗ um would it be appropriate for members

1:12:13 ↗ of the committee to start us off

1:12:18 ↗ certainly

1:12:25 ↗ um I can make a motion I just need to

1:12:27 ↗ look it up if you'll give me a moment

1:12:31 ↗ let's see

1:12:39 ↗ so the motion in the packet is moved to

1:12:42 ↗ take no further action on the arch

1:12:44 ↗ original Coalition for housing

1:12:46 ↗ recommended tenant protection actions

1:12:48 ↗ regarding late fees and move-in fees as

1:12:51 ↗ recommended by the services safety and

1:12:52 ↗ perks committee is there a second

1:12:55 ↗ second it's been seconded by council

1:12:57 ↗ member Ray

1:12:58 ↗ um thank you with the motion maker like

1:13:01 ↗ to start the conversation or would you

1:13:05 ↗ like someone from the committee to start

1:13:06 ↗ the conversation well I'm happy to just

1:13:08 ↗ provide a little bit of background for

1:13:10 ↗ any community members um just that the

1:13:14 ↗ this was an item that was presented to

1:13:17 ↗ us originally in the last year by

1:13:19 ↗ original Coalition for housing arch with

1:13:23 ↗ some possible ways to take a regional

1:13:26 ↗ approach to tenant

1:13:29 ↗ fees and late fees and such we agreed to

1:13:35 ↗ move forward on one area of that and did

1:13:39 ↗ not move forward on the other two which

1:13:41 ↗ was the late fees and the move-in fees

1:13:42 ↗ however after that original conversation

1:13:46 ↗ happened we

1:13:49 ↗ heard from other cities who are also

1:13:51 ↗ kind of in this process and asked that

1:13:55 ↗ um that the item be taken up again by

1:13:58 ↗ the services safety and Parks committee

1:13:59 ↗ they did so and I'll let them comment on

1:14:03 ↗ what that meeting was but at this point

1:14:06 ↗ I think just taking it off rather than

1:14:09 ↗ agreeing to

1:14:11 ↗ in a blanket take no further action

1:14:14 ↗ along with the consent calendar I think

1:14:17 ↗ that it is appropriate to have this

1:14:19 ↗ conversation thanks

1:14:22 ↗ um chair would you like to have some

1:14:24 ↗ comments to start the conversation and

1:14:26 ↗ then I see we have two microphones also

1:14:28 ↗ raised

1:14:29 ↗ sure uh so it did come back before

1:14:31 ↗ committee uh one of the differences

1:14:34 ↗ between the first time uh that it came

1:14:37 ↗ back to uh that it came from the city

1:14:39 ↗ and or the first time we came to

1:14:41 ↗ committee and the second time was there

1:14:43 ↗ was a recommendation not to go forward

1:14:45 ↗ from the administration

1:14:47 ↗ um we had uh heard a lot from the

1:14:50 ↗ community and uh

1:14:54 ↗ you know really didn't feel that much

1:14:55 ↗ had changed um it's you know some other

1:14:58 ↗ cities had taken the actions that they

1:15:00 ↗ wanted to take but I think that the

1:15:01 ↗ committee you know we discussed it both

1:15:03 ↗ times and uh felt that the two other

1:15:06 ↗ elements from the arch recommendation

1:15:07 ↗ really uh didn't do anything to advance

1:15:10 ↗ uh you know low in medium income housing

1:15:13 ↗ uh on the east side and so uh

1:15:17 ↗ you know combined with a lot of concern

1:15:20 ↗ from the community there was nothing uh

1:15:23 ↗ that we heard or that I heard that

1:15:26 ↗ really addressed that concern that

1:15:29 ↗ would have made me feel good about

1:15:31 ↗ moving forward with those other two

1:15:32 ↗ elements and so uh not having it be

1:15:35 ↗ anything that would help low in medium

1:15:37 ↗ income housing it really seemed my

1:15:39 ↗ personal view is it seemed like an issue

1:15:41 ↗ that was better suited for Olympia and

1:15:42 ↗ not for our city council so I was

1:15:45 ↗ comfortable proceeding again with a

1:15:47 ↗ recommendation not to proceed thank you

1:15:49 ↗ thank you chair uh council member hunt

1:15:51 ↗ followed by council member D Michelle

1:15:55 ↗ thank you

1:15:57 ↗ I was reflecting on Chief Clark's

1:16:00 ↗ comments about getting to yes and and

1:16:03 ↗ um

1:16:03 ↗ and not saying no because the reason I

1:16:06 ↗ pulled this down is to say no on this to

1:16:08 ↗ vote no on this but it's also a no on a

1:16:12 ↗ no-go agenda bill so I think it's a

1:16:15 ↗ little bit of an exception but the

1:16:16 ↗ reason I pulled this down is because I

1:16:18 ↗ am I'm going to vote no on this and the

1:16:21 ↗ only way I can do that is to pull it

1:16:22 ↗ down off the consent calendar I did

1:16:24 ↗ watch the committee meeting and I

1:16:27 ↗ appreciated that conversation I'm not

1:16:29 ↗ planning on making a different motion I

1:16:31 ↗ plan on respecting the recommendation of

1:16:33 ↗ the committee I just came to a different

1:16:35 ↗ conclusion personally my I have two

1:16:37 ↗ reasons the first reason is I I find

1:16:40 ↗ these Arch recommendations to be modest

1:16:42 ↗ protections that would help some people

1:16:44 ↗ soften the blow of economic displacement

1:16:46 ↗ it would help some people avoid economic

1:16:49 ↗ displacement I I do believe that the

1:16:51 ↗ reasons given by arch for why they

1:16:53 ↗ propose these in the first place are

1:16:54 ↗ compelling as well as the reasons that

1:16:56 ↗ were given in the letter that we

1:16:57 ↗ received from Eastside for all for why

1:16:59 ↗ we should support these

1:17:01 ↗ um

1:17:02 ↗ I will mention that a Seattle met

1:17:04 ↗ article came out on November 3rd

1:17:05 ↗ Issaquah is still the highest rent for

1:17:09 ↗ media and two bedroom on east side I

1:17:10 ↗ believe that we are not immune to the

1:17:12 ↗ challenges that art spoke about

1:17:14 ↗ um and I I think this is modest

1:17:15 ↗ protections that would make a difference

1:17:17 ↗ for some people it doesn't solve

1:17:18 ↗ everything but it could make a

1:17:20 ↗ difference for some people so the second

1:17:22 ↗ reason why I thought

1:17:24 ↗ my colleagues might consider voting no

1:17:26 ↗ is because

1:17:28 ↗ um I also think that this a b made sense

1:17:31 ↗ coming out of as a recommendation from

1:17:32 ↗ the committee but

1:17:35 ↗ um if the whole Council votes on it I

1:17:37 ↗ thought maybe we could do something

1:17:38 ↗ different like talk to Arch about this

1:17:40 ↗ because or a number of us could talk to

1:17:42 ↗ Arch about how this has gone

1:17:45 ↗ it seemed that

1:17:48 ↗ from the council's committee meeting as

1:17:50 ↗ well as our previous conversations

1:17:51 ↗ there's a number of views on Arch's role

1:17:54 ↗ and how Arch rolled this out and um

1:17:58 ↗ and

1:17:59 ↗ um

1:18:00 ↗ I think

1:18:02 ↗ it noted um in the a B for example that

1:18:06 ↗ the committee also noted the role and

1:18:07 ↗ mission of arch as being to preserve and

1:18:09 ↗ increase the supply of housing for low

1:18:10 ↗ and moderate income households in King

1:18:12 ↗ County so I think if we want to talk to

1:18:15 ↗ Arch about this it would be great if we

1:18:17 ↗ did that and I wanted to take this

1:18:20 ↗ opportunity to suggest I will volunteer

1:18:23 ↗ to reach out to the executive director

1:18:25 ↗ of arch Lindsey Masters and maybe we

1:18:28 ↗ could have a conversation because I also

1:18:29 ↗ thought it was interesting that we've

1:18:31 ↗ had this diversity of opinions within

1:18:33 ↗ this Council and then that diversity of

1:18:35 ↗ opinions has also played out across

1:18:38 ↗ arches service area there have been

1:18:40 ↗ cities that have adopted all of the

1:18:42 ↗ recommendations there of cities our city

1:18:44 ↗ adopted one part of the recommendation

1:18:47 ↗ and then there are some cities that have

1:18:49 ↗ not considered them and their cities

1:18:51 ↗ that have decided that those

1:18:52 ↗ recommendations do not work for them I

1:18:54 ↗ think it's especially important to talk

1:18:56 ↗ to Arch about our process working

1:18:59 ↗ through this as well because

1:19:01 ↗ Arch specifically called out that one of

1:19:05 ↗ their goals for making these

1:19:07 ↗ recommendations was to create as much

1:19:08 ↗ consistency as possible and I spoke

1:19:11 ↗ about when we when I sent this back when

1:19:14 ↗ I made the motion to send this back to

1:19:15 ↗ committee as well I I spoke about that I

1:19:19 ↗ thought the consistency was really

1:19:20 ↗ important

1:19:22 ↗ um the consistency seems it will not

1:19:25 ↗ happen because we have had different

1:19:28 ↗ cities in the area do different things

1:19:30 ↗ and in March when Arch first wrote to

1:19:34 ↗ cities about these recommendations they

1:19:37 ↗ said that the goal was creating as much

1:19:39 ↗ consistency and requirements across

1:19:41 ↗ jurisdictions as possible and advancing

1:19:43 ↗ our shared mission of keeping people's

1:19:45 ↗ stably housed and then again on April

1:19:47 ↗ 20th when they sent out the regulations

1:19:50 ↗ they again emphasized consistency in

1:19:52 ↗ local regulations

1:19:53 ↗ so I think it would be better to talk to

1:19:56 ↗ Arch I think we could make that a more

1:19:57 ↗ positive or more

1:20:00 ↗ um we could have a learning experience

1:20:02 ↗ from this and make it a more um

1:20:05 ↗ a positive outcome if we were able to

1:20:06 ↗ collaborate with them and work

1:20:10 ↗ Better Together on these sorts of things

1:20:12 ↗ and so I would like to suggest because

1:20:15 ↗ these were recommendations that go to

1:20:17 ↗ city council that some of us on the city

1:20:19 ↗ council could talk to Arch and

1:20:22 ↗ um I would volunteer to to reach out

1:20:24 ↗ first and I thought it would be great to

1:20:25 ↗ have some council members who have

1:20:26 ↗ different opinions than me on these um

1:20:30 ↗ talk with them as well so that's some

1:20:32 ↗ food for thought and thank you to my

1:20:35 ↗ fellow council members for considering

1:20:37 ↗ thank you councilmember duchel

1:20:40 ↗ uh thank you I just a couple of things I

1:20:43 ↗ wanted to point out in that is we had a

1:20:47 ↗ recommendation from the administration

1:20:49 ↗ uh both times that the subcommittee

1:20:52 ↗ looked at it not to adopt the

1:20:55 ↗ recommendations from Arch and the sub

1:20:58 ↗ and our

1:20:59 ↗ and our committee actually by adopting

1:21:03 ↗ the first proposal actually went against

1:21:05 ↗ the administration's recommendation so

1:21:09 ↗ the second time that it came back the

1:21:11 ↗ other uh the other thing that I wanted

1:21:13 ↗ to talk about is

1:21:16 ↗ when it was sent back to committee we

1:21:19 ↗ were asked to consider how it was being

1:21:22 ↗ implemented in other jurisdictions and

1:21:24 ↗ we really didn't have time to receive

1:21:27 ↗ any data on how it's working and so we

1:21:31 ↗ felt that we don't have enough

1:21:33 ↗ information do these proposals actually

1:21:36 ↗ help people we had no data whatsoever to

1:21:40 ↗ show to show that case

1:21:43 ↗ um and finally one of the

1:21:44 ↗ recommendations that I would have to go

1:21:46 ↗ back and look I forgive me for this but

1:21:48 ↗ I would have to go back and look one of

1:21:50 ↗ the recommendations I did additional

1:21:52 ↗ research before we came into the meeting

1:21:53 ↗ one of the recommendations actually

1:21:56 ↗ actually less rigorous than the

1:21:58 ↗ Statewide standards that are already in

1:22:00 ↗ place and so for those reasons we just

1:22:04 ↗ felt that what we were being asked to do

1:22:07 ↗ was not a proven solution to reducing

1:22:12 ↗ rents and in fact we had heard from

1:22:15 ↗ landlords who said if if this has passed

1:22:19 ↗ I'll simply raise rents in order to

1:22:22 ↗ recoup the costs that you're taking away

1:22:24 ↗ from me or recoup the revenue you're

1:22:26 ↗ taking away from me so for all those

1:22:29 ↗ reasons we could not see that the

1:22:32 ↗ recommendations as presented by Arch

1:22:34 ↗ actually made a difference

1:22:37 ↗ and the other constriction I think is

1:22:39 ↗ that when it was returned to the

1:22:41 ↗ subcommittee we were told to just

1:22:43 ↗ consider the recommendations I I wanted

1:22:45 ↗ to talk about other things that we could

1:22:47 ↗ do but that wasn't the directive from

1:22:49 ↗ the council our the council said

1:22:51 ↗ consider

1:22:53 ↗ um go back and reconsider just the the

1:22:56 ↗ proposals from Arch so if we wanted to

1:22:59 ↗ have a more wide-ranging discussion

1:23:02 ↗ um that could have been the directive

1:23:03 ↗ from the council so those are the

1:23:06 ↗ reasons I think that when we were

1:23:07 ↗ discussing it we we came to a unanimous

1:23:10 ↗ conclusion that this was not the time we

1:23:13 ↗ weren't ready and there wasn't the data

1:23:15 ↗ to help us move forward on the

1:23:17 ↗ suggestions that were before us so I

1:23:19 ↗ hope that helps a little bit with the

1:23:21 ↗ discussion I think we could have I I'd

1:23:24 ↗ like to know what we could do to help

1:23:25 ↗ people because obviously as the highest

1:23:29 ↗ highest city in the Puget Sound region

1:23:33 ↗ for rental we need to be thinking about

1:23:35 ↗ what we could do but the proposals that

1:23:37 ↗ came to us from Arch we did not feel

1:23:39 ↗ would would help at all it might even

1:23:42 ↗ might even have a backlash

1:23:44 ↗ that would hurt the renters in our area

1:23:47 ↗ thank you thank you councilman

1:23:50 ↗ thank you mayor Paulie I just want to

1:23:52 ↗ kind of build on some of council member

1:23:54 ↗ D Michelle's comments and and the first

1:23:56 ↗ is to say this recommendation isn't to

1:23:58 ↗ say not never this is just to say not

1:24:02 ↗ now and we can always talk to Arch and

1:24:03 ↗ so regardless of the action we take

1:24:05 ↗ tonight having a discussion with them on

1:24:07 ↗ how to address

1:24:09 ↗ um

1:24:10 ↗ making renting a more predictable and a

1:24:14 ↗ less scary process is is something we

1:24:16 ↗ should certainly do and we probably

1:24:18 ↗ should have the discussion with other

1:24:20 ↗ entities other than Arch given arches

1:24:22 ↗ that's not really necessarily their core

1:24:24 ↗ Mission but I think it's something we

1:24:26 ↗ should look at

1:24:27 ↗ um and then I think the other thing and

1:24:28 ↗ council member D Michelle hit on this

1:24:30 ↗ the changes that were being recommended

1:24:32 ↗ were very minor compared to what is

1:24:34 ↗ already covered in state law and we just

1:24:36 ↗ didn't know what the unintended or

1:24:38 ↗ unanticipated Consequences of these

1:24:40 ↗ actions would be and so we had a a

1:24:43 ↗ fairly brief discussion the second time

1:24:45 ↗ around and it was

1:24:47 ↗ um we think this is this is the right

1:24:49 ↗ decision right now it doesn't mean it's

1:24:51 ↗ the right decision down the road and I

1:24:54 ↗ think it's something we should take up

1:24:55 ↗ in our work plan for 2023. thank you any

1:24:59 ↗ other comments uh

1:25:02 ↗ are we going to see council member Hall

1:25:03 ↗ council member Joey if not I'm going to

1:25:05 ↗ go back to councilmember hunt

1:25:06 ↗ good councilman

1:25:08 ↗ I just have a quick

1:25:10 ↗ question I think it's a legal question

1:25:12 ↗ if it's possible

1:25:14 ↗ um so I I did watch the committee

1:25:17 ↗ meeting

1:25:17 ↗ um there was a discussion I believe it

1:25:19 ↗ was about the

1:25:21 ↗ um the deposits of the monthly rent and

1:25:24 ↗ then the comparing the state law and my

1:25:27 ↗ understanding from that conversation was

1:25:29 ↗ that it wasn't a complete subset of that

1:25:33 ↗ this was covering a slightly different

1:25:35 ↗ subset it was that there is also state

1:25:37 ↗ law regulating elements of this but it

1:25:40 ↗ wasn't exactly that everything in this

1:25:42 ↗ would be naturally falling from the

1:25:45 ↗ state law so I just wanted to clarify

1:25:46 ↗ that because I think there there was a

1:25:48 ↗ Nuance there I and

1:25:50 ↗ I understand that state law already does

1:25:53 ↗ have protections I just think it wasn't

1:25:54 ↗ exactly the same thing

1:25:56 ↗ you are correct the state law is not

1:25:58 ↗ it's not as protective the state law

1:26:02 ↗ caps move-in fees it does not have the

1:26:05 ↗ same cap on the other types of deposit

1:26:07 ↗ although both state law and the arch

1:26:10 ↗ proposal include payment and

1:26:13 ↗ installments so

1:26:16 ↗ similarities but they're not they're not

1:26:18 ↗ exactly the same you required

1:26:20 ↗ thank you any other comments before we

1:26:23 ↗ move to the vote and I will reread the

1:26:25 ↗ motion

1:26:26 ↗ okay

1:26:28 ↗ the motion on the floor is to take no

1:26:30 ↗ further action on the Arches a regional

1:26:31 ↗ Coalition for housing recommended tenant

1:26:33 ↗ protection actions regarding late fees

1:26:35 ↗ and move-in fees as recommended by the

1:26:36 ↗ services safety and Parks committee all

1:26:38 ↗ those

1:26:41 ↗ opposed Nate that passes six to win

1:26:45 ↗ um I appreciate the conversation very

1:26:47 ↗ much I think it was good to allow

1:26:50 ↗ everybody to express

1:26:52 ↗ why they where they're at at this point

1:26:55 ↗ in time I do just want to add a few

1:26:58 ↗ suggestions on the table

1:27:00 ↗ staff does attend Arch meetings staff

1:27:02 ↗ does have a relationship with the

1:27:04 ↗ executive director and I think it would

1:27:06 ↗ be appropriate if there are council

1:27:07 ↗ members who would like to do that please

1:27:09 ↗ so that we are having a single voice

1:27:12 ↗ that is talking with them you know uh

1:27:14 ↗ City Mr Bob quits you're the one

1:27:17 ↗ so I think it would be appropriate to

1:27:19 ↗ talk about

1:27:21 ↗ um

1:27:22 ↗ comments frustrations suggestions or

1:27:25 ↗ whatever you have but let's do it

1:27:26 ↗ together and second I think one of the

1:27:29 ↗ things I hope when you have your housing

1:27:31 ↗ conversation is that you look at the

1:27:33 ↗ uniqueness of Issaquah and the amount of

1:27:34 ↗ new stock that we have compared to other

1:27:36 ↗ cities new stock is very expensive it

1:27:39 ↗ rents out at a really high rate have we

1:27:41 ↗ built more per percentage than other

1:27:43 ↗ cities so I really think we have to

1:27:46 ↗ understand our own landscape if we're

1:27:47 ↗ going to talk about doing protections

1:27:49 ↗ the people most at risk in town are the

1:27:51 ↗ ones in the older units so if you want

1:27:54 ↗ to focus on helping those in need it's

1:27:56 ↗ probably not helping somebody who is

1:27:58 ↗ necessarily in a four thousand dollar a

1:28:00 ↗ month apartment it's going to be more

1:28:02 ↗ focused and so I I hope as we get into

1:28:05 ↗ the study phase we take some time to

1:28:07 ↗ collect the data and understand the

1:28:09 ↗ uniqueness to Issaquah because I've been

1:28:12 ↗ talking with other Mayors about this and

1:28:14 ↗ the amount of new stock we have and it

1:28:16 ↗ rents out at a very exorbitant rate

1:28:19 ↗ um but thank you for having that

1:28:21 ↗ conversation

1:28:22 ↗ we will move on to the next item under

1:28:25 ↗ regular business which is ab8439 the

1:28:28 ↗ 2023-24 State Legislative agenda

1:28:31 ↗ priorities and policy manual and the

1:28:33 ↗ action before you this evening is for

1:28:35 ↗ approval and I'd like to invite Chief of

1:28:38 ↗ Staff Tina Eggers to introduce the same

1:28:42 ↗ good evening thank you madam mayor city

1:28:44 ↗ council members uh keep the comments

1:28:46 ↗ free regarding the revised legislative

1:28:48 ↗ agenda we took your feedback from the

1:28:51 ↗ October 17th council meeting we updated

1:28:53 ↗ the legislative agenda materials exhibit

1:28:56 ↗ a and your package shows the legislative

1:28:58 ↗ excuse me the Senior Center Plaza

1:29:01 ↗ funding requests of 700

1:29:04 ↗ 000 added to the priorities lists this

1:29:06 ↗ is part of a larger project the Veterans

1:29:09 ↗ Memorial Consolidated Park and in your

1:29:12 ↗ packet is exhibit D you'll find

1:29:14 ↗ illustrations project description and uh

1:29:18 ↗ but this isn't intended to help

1:29:19 ↗ articulate the ask with legislators

1:29:23 ↗ exhibit e provides minor edits to the

1:29:26 ↗ policy manual throughout as well as a

1:29:29 ↗ late edition under Economic Development

1:29:32 ↗ we recommend continuing to support local

1:29:35 ↗ businesses allowing outdoor alcohol

1:29:38 ↗ service on public property this

1:29:40 ↗ otherwise expires in July

1:29:43 ↗ also at your last meeting you asked

1:29:46 ↗ about the East Side Fire and rescues and

1:29:49 ↗ the school district's legislative

1:29:51 ↗ agendas

1:29:52 ↗ their documents have yet to be adopted

1:29:55 ↗ however ifer's legislative agenda is

1:29:58 ↗ beginning to take shape and as council

1:30:01 ↗ member Ray reported this is on your

1:30:03 ↗ agenda this Wednesday lastly a reminder

1:30:07 ↗ of next steps and important dates once

1:30:09 ↗ approved we'll share the legislative

1:30:11 ↗ agenda locally and regionally with our

1:30:14 ↗ partners and others there's the

1:30:16 ↗ legislative committee days that will be

1:30:19 ↗ held November 30th through December 2nd

1:30:21 ↗ your legislative breakfast is scheduled

1:30:24 ↗ for December 7th now at Tibbetts Manor

1:30:26 ↗ and the 2023 legislative session begins

1:30:31 ↗ January 9th and to finish I think Shelly

1:30:34 ↗ our lobbyist for her great work and

1:30:36 ↗ guidance on the legislative agenda and

1:30:39 ↗ thank you for juggling uh your other

1:30:41 ↗ meeting this evening I know that we

1:30:43 ↗ probably only have a few more minutes

1:30:44 ↗ with you but uh thank you Council if you

1:30:48 ↗ have any questions or may or I turn it

1:30:50 ↗ back to you

1:30:51 ↗ thank you Tina any questions for Tina or

1:30:54 ↗ Shelley

1:30:57 ↗ wow great job there are no questions uh

1:31:01 ↗ is anybody prepared to make a motion

1:31:03 ↗ this evening

1:31:05 ↗ council president

1:31:09 ↗ thank you let's see I moved to approve

1:31:11 ↗ the

1:31:12 ↗ 2023-2024 legislative agenda as

1:31:15 ↗ presented

1:31:16 ↗ any accounts oh sorry second yeah you

1:31:19 ↗ did that second thank you Deputy council

1:31:21 ↗ president is there any Council

1:31:22 ↗ discussion

1:31:25 ↗ uh that was pretty close council

1:31:27 ↗ president followed by Deputy council

1:31:28 ↗ president thank you I just wanted to

1:31:30 ↗ take a moment to say thank you

1:31:32 ↗ um I love seeing something Turn Around

1:31:35 ↗ from our comments and being able to see

1:31:39 ↗ every single one of those changes

1:31:40 ↗ requested in it I think this presents a

1:31:44 ↗ good opportunity for us to talk to our

1:31:47 ↗ legislators both at the breakfast and

1:31:50 ↗ throughout the cycle to present the

1:31:53 ↗ priorities that we as a city have are

1:31:56 ↗ advocating for so thank you thank you

1:31:58 ↗ debut council president

1:32:00 ↗ uh thank you uh ditto that Shelly is the

1:32:03 ↗ best in the biz

1:32:04 ↗ um when it comes to lobbyists and

1:32:06 ↗ Olympia so I appreciate all your hard

1:32:08 ↗ work on this uh only thing I wanted to

1:32:09 ↗ add was just moving into the 2024

1:32:13 ↗ legislative session since I had some

1:32:15 ↗ comments last time this was here

1:32:17 ↗ um that we think about well what are the

1:32:18 ↗ kind of small targeted pilot projects

1:32:20 ↗ that we can ask for is operating budget

1:32:22 ↗ provisos

1:32:23 ↗ um that we that the fifth legislative

1:32:25 ↗ district in particular has been so

1:32:26 ↗ successful in securing so over the next

1:32:28 ↗ year I just asked that the

1:32:30 ↗ administration consider how can we think

1:32:32 ↗ about that strategically going into the

1:32:33 ↗ supplemental session thanks

1:32:35 ↗ great suggestion

1:32:37 ↗ any other comments or discussion okay uh

1:32:43 ↗ the motion before the council is to

1:32:44 ↗ approve the 2023-2024 legislative agenda

1:32:47 ↗ as presented all those in favor signify

1:32:49 ↗ by saying aye aye

1:32:52 ↗ those opposed

1:32:54 ↗ that carries unanimously 7-0

1:32:57 ↗ we'll move on to our next regular

1:32:59 ↗ business item which is ab84 oh well

1:33:02 ↗ thank you Tina and thank you Shelly very

1:33:04 ↗ much for staying with us uh and I I

1:33:08 ↗ completely echoed the comments that you

1:33:10 ↗ heard a great team great job thank you

1:33:13 ↗ for being so responsive

1:33:15 ↗ ab8403 the 2023 Levy and revenue sources

1:33:19 ↗ the request before Council this evening

1:33:20 ↗ is to adopt the ordinance and this was

1:33:22 ↗ last before the city council on October

1:33:25 ↗ 3rd 2022

1:33:27 ↗ the city council conducted at which at

1:33:31 ↗ which time the city council conducted

1:33:32 ↗ the public hearing so I'd like to invite

1:33:35 ↗ budget manager Susie Mansell to

1:33:36 ↗ introduce this item Susie

1:33:38 ↗ Lou

1:33:40 ↗ um so again in the interest of time we

1:33:42 ↗ are going to forego tonight's

1:33:44 ↗ presentation that was included in the

1:33:45 ↗ packet

1:33:46 ↗ um but I'm again happy to take any

1:33:48 ↗ questions

1:33:51 ↗ council members do you have any

1:33:52 ↗ questions on the information that was

1:33:53 ↗ included in the packet

1:33:57 ↗ I am not seeing any questions Susie

1:34:00 ↗ uh council president

1:34:03 ↗ I moved to adopt ordinance number

1:34:08 ↗ 2993

1:34:10 ↗ levying property taxes for the City of

1:34:12 ↗ Issaquah for the fiscal year commencing

1:34:14 ↗ January 1 2023 on all property both real

1:34:18 ↗ and personal in said city which is

1:34:20 ↗ subject to tax taxation for the purpose

1:34:22 ↗ of paying sufficient Revenue to carry on

1:34:24 ↗ the services of said City for the

1:34:27 ↗ ensuing year as required by law

1:34:30 ↗ W council president second it's been

1:34:32 ↗ moved and seconded is there any

1:34:34 ↗ discussion

1:34:38 ↗ Deputy council president

1:34:42 ↗ um oh wait I'm sorry this is for the

1:34:43 ↗ levy and revenue sources yeah uh fully

1:34:45 ↗ in support thank you very much

1:34:47 ↗ is there any other comments or questions

1:34:53 ↗ I do not believe it this time I have to

1:34:55 ↗ reread it since that was a very short

1:34:56 ↗ comment so I'm just going to call for

1:34:58 ↗ the vote all those in favor signify by

1:35:00 ↗ saying aye

1:35:03 ↗ opposed

1:35:04 ↗ that carries unanimously 7-0 thank you

1:35:07 ↗ very much the next item of business on

1:35:10 ↗ our regular agenda this evening is

1:35:11 ↗ ab8402 the 2023-24 budget ordinance the

1:35:15 ↗ request before council is to adopt the

1:35:17 ↗ ordinance

1:35:18 ↗ uh and Susie your same thing no

1:35:24 ↗ presentation no presentation uh any

1:35:27 ↗ questions

1:35:30 ↗ emotion

1:35:32 ↗ I moved to adopt ordinance number

1:35:36 ↗ 2994 adopting the

1:35:39 ↗ 2023-2024 budget setting forth the

1:35:42 ↗ estimated revenues and Appropriations

1:35:44 ↗ for each separate fund and estimated

1:35:46 ↗ impact on ending fund balances for all

1:35:49 ↗ such funds combined of the city for the

1:35:52 ↗ 2023-2024 fiscal biennium

1:35:55 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded is

1:35:58 ↗ there any further discussion uh

1:35:59 ↗ councilmember Mertz and council

1:36:01 ↗ president

1:36:03 ↗ you know I don't uh I I don't often uh

1:36:07 ↗ invoke the you know this is my four now

1:36:10 ↗ 13th year on Council which means 14th

1:36:11 ↗ budget that I've been associated with

1:36:13 ↗ but I just have to say how utterly

1:36:16 ↗ bizarre it is

1:36:18 ↗ um that uh we've got through this as

1:36:21 ↗ quickly as we did it's really quite

1:36:23 ↗ singular uh especially given that it's a

1:36:25 ↗ two-year budget but it really uh

1:36:27 ↗ reflects I think

1:36:30 ↗ um the culmination of you know having a

1:36:33 ↗ city strategic plan and revisiting that

1:36:36 ↗ strategic plan at the beginning of the

1:36:38 ↗ year and building a budget uh you all

1:36:41 ↗ built a budget based on what you heard

1:36:42 ↗ from us at the beginning of the year and

1:36:44 ↗ so I just you know this is so much the

1:36:47 ↗ easiest uh budget of the 14 that I've

1:36:49 ↗ been associated with and so I just want

1:36:51 ↗ to thank the administration and Council

1:36:54 ↗ leadership uh for you know basically

1:36:58 ↗ to use a mathematical term you know sort

1:37:01 ↗ of integrating everything over time that

1:37:03 ↗ they heard from us uh and from the

1:37:06 ↗ community uh to make this so easy to

1:37:08 ↗ move forward with I several years ago

1:37:10 ↗ would not and a million years had have

1:37:12 ↗ guessed that a by a bi-annual our first

1:37:14 ↗ biannual budget would be so easy to get

1:37:16 ↗ through so thank you

1:37:18 ↗ thank you councilmember council

1:37:20 ↗ president

1:37:20 ↗ thank you so I did want to call out that

1:37:23 ↗ the council president budget letter was

1:37:25 ↗ included in the agenda tonight it was

1:37:27 ↗ buried way underneath the budget you

1:37:29 ↗ know Halfway Around page you know 300

1:37:32 ↗ something like that

1:37:34 ↗ um but reflecting those ideas I wanted

1:37:37 ↗ to also thank all of the staff

1:37:39 ↗ Administration and council members for

1:37:41 ↗ the participation in this first biennial

1:37:44 ↗ budget in particular I think we should

1:37:47 ↗ all get a pat on the back for the good

1:37:50 ↗ work that we did in preparing early with

1:37:52 ↗ our budget priority retreat in July I

1:37:55 ↗ think we can all agree that that is

1:37:57 ↗ something that we want to carry forward

1:37:59 ↗ to Future budget season so put a stamp

1:38:03 ↗ in the books that'll be there coming

1:38:06 ↗ forward

1:38:06 ↗ um

1:38:07 ↗ it was really easy to see how that

1:38:09 ↗ priority setting

1:38:11 ↗ that was adopted by the administration

1:38:13 ↗ and really taken into account enabled a

1:38:17 ↗ particularly smooth budget season but I

1:38:20 ↗ also wanted to call out just several

1:38:22 ↗ items that was listed in the letter for

1:38:24 ↗ consideration during the coming year or

1:38:26 ↗ with the mid-year review that included

1:38:28 ↗ we called out the sustainability fund so

1:38:31 ↗ in this budget Council chose to keep the

1:38:34 ↗ solid waste Administration fees at six

1:38:36 ↗ percent for 2023 but we mentioned that

1:38:39 ↗ we're open to discussing a reinstatement

1:38:41 ↗ of the nine percent fee in 2024 to fund

1:38:44 ↗ additional implementation of the climate

1:38:46 ↗ action plan we also called out capital

1:38:48 ↗ projects several projects one example

1:38:51 ↗ was

1:38:53 ↗ tr068 the squawk Mountain multimodal

1:38:55 ↗ improvements show a Dash mark in place

1:38:58 ↗ of the 2024 funding amounts indicating

1:39:00 ↗ that the projected cost is unknown but

1:39:03 ↗ not zero and so Council recognized that

1:39:06 ↗ those were future costs anticipated with

1:39:08 ↗ the adoption of this budget we also

1:39:10 ↗ called out the municipal Arts fund

1:39:13 ↗ noting that lower than historical

1:39:16 ↗ admission taxes are anticipated to

1:39:18 ↗ continue which require a one-time

1:39:20 ↗ infusion from the general fund and

1:39:22 ↗ Council discussed revisiting the funding

1:39:24 ↗ model in 2023 with potential adjustments

1:39:26 ↗ in the mid-year budget adjustment

1:39:28 ↗ we called out the capital Improvement

1:39:30 ↗ plan and expressing an interest in

1:39:32 ↗ rethinking our project allocations and

1:39:34 ↗ prioritization framework

1:39:36 ↗ and then finally the affordable housing

1:39:39 ↗ sales tax so the budget includes the

1:39:42 ↗ pilot program for the Emergency

1:39:43 ↗ temporary housing and at a new

1:39:46 ↗ affordable housing planner position both

1:39:48 ↗ of which were funded from the 0.1

1:39:50 ↗ percent affordable housing sales tax

1:39:52 ↗ adopted in 2021 but I noted that the

1:39:55 ↗ council looked forward to a full

1:39:57 ↗ conversation on how we can really

1:39:58 ↗ prioritize that strategic fund as it

1:40:01 ↗ grows over the coming years so with all

1:40:04 ↗ of that I just want to thank everybody

1:40:05 ↗ for really great work I am absolutely in

1:40:08 ↗ support of this and look forward to

1:40:11 ↗ moving on with other policy

1:40:13 ↗ considerations thanks thank you debut

1:40:15 ↗ council president

1:40:17 ↗ um thank you um I just want to Echo a

1:40:19 ↗ lot of what's been said this process has

1:40:21 ↗ been absolutely superb and I want to

1:40:23 ↗ share some thank yous as well first and

1:40:25 ↗ foremost to the administration and in

1:40:27 ↗ particular the finance staff for all

1:40:29 ↗ your hard work on this

1:40:31 ↗ um I hope I hope you guys know how much

1:40:33 ↗ we truly valuable all the incredible

1:40:35 ↗ work that you do so thank you very much

1:40:36 ↗ for everything

1:40:38 ↗ um and you know like it's already been

1:40:40 ↗ said we had a wonderful budget Retreat

1:40:41 ↗ that helped shape this budget I won't

1:40:45 ↗ say everything that I had here because I

1:40:47 ↗ completely agree with councilmember

1:40:48 ↗ Walsh this is a great model for future

1:40:50 ↗ budget development Cycles too but I also

1:40:52 ↗ did want to touch on two other things

1:40:54 ↗ first and foremost to thank

1:40:57 ↗ uh Congress and I guess the president

1:40:59 ↗ for the arpa funding for this you know

1:41:03 ↗ great ability for us to invest pretty

1:41:05 ↗ majorly in our transportation of parks

1:41:06 ↗ infrastructure so thanks to that and

1:41:08 ↗ then you know this budget process we say

1:41:10 ↗ we started with the retreat and it

1:41:11 ↗ really did but

1:41:12 ↗ in other ways it started before that

1:41:15 ↗ with the Capital Finance Community task

1:41:17 ↗ force too so I want to make sure to call

1:41:18 ↗ out and thank all the members of that

1:41:20 ↗ task force thank Deputy City

1:41:21 ↗ administrator Snyder for shepherding us

1:41:24 ↗ all along through that process I think

1:41:26 ↗ the community should be very proud of

1:41:27 ↗ this body of work and I'll be supporting

1:41:29 ↗ the motion tonight

1:41:31 ↗ okay are there any other comments before

1:41:33 ↗ I move to the vote

1:41:36 ↗ okay seeing none

1:41:38 ↗ uh the motion before council is to adopt

1:41:40 ↗ ordinance number two 994 adopting the

1:41:43 ↗ 23-24 budget setting forth the estimated

1:41:46 ↗ revenues appropriation for each separate

1:41:48 ↗ fund and estimate impact on fund

1:41:50 ↗ balances for all such funds combined

1:41:53 ↗ City for the 20.4 fiscal biennium all

1:41:57 ↗ those in favor signify by saying aye

1:42:00 ↗ aye

1:42:02 ↗ those opposed

1:42:04 ↗ that carries unanimously seven and O

1:42:07 ↗ uh and again

1:42:10 ↗ um big big here two are amazing Finance

1:42:14 ↗ staff our Chief Financial Officer Robert

1:42:16 ↗ hamoud our budget manager Susie monsell

1:42:19 ↗ and our management analyst Dale Markey

1:42:23 ↗ crimp you are a fantastic team

1:42:26 ↗ um also council member Mertz thank you

1:42:28 ↗ for your comments you are our longest

1:42:31 ↗ serving council member have been

1:42:33 ↗ experienced many iterations of this

1:42:35 ↗ process but I can think of several

1:42:38 ↗ council members I would like to thank

1:42:40 ↗ who no longer serve who started us out

1:42:43 ↗ on this journey of finding our way to a

1:42:46 ↗ more strategic more focused more data

1:42:49 ↗ Centric approach to budgeting and also

1:42:52 ↗ this council's desire to add in to

1:42:57 ↗ Retreats and to focus on those Community

1:42:59 ↗ priorities

1:43:01 ↗ it's it's amazing it's really truly

1:43:05 ↗ amazing so thank you for all that you've

1:43:06 ↗ done

1:43:07 ↗ um the next item of business today is

1:43:09 ↗ good of the order does anybody have any

1:43:12 ↗ items for the order council member Joe

1:43:15 ↗ we'll start with you

1:43:16 ↗ thank you madam mayor most of you

1:43:19 ↗ received an invitation to a human

1:43:21 ↗ services reception on November 21st

1:43:24 ↗ we passed the Human Services funding

1:43:26 ↗ tonight and it gives us an opportunity

1:43:28 ↗ to thank the Human Services Commission

1:43:31 ↗ in person

1:43:32 ↗ hope you can all attend SCA is having

1:43:35 ↗ their dinner in Renton on November 30th

1:43:37 ↗ at 5 30 PM if you're interested in

1:43:39 ↗ carpooling I will be attending that

1:43:41 ↗ event related to ab8439 legislative

1:43:44 ↗ agenda item January 4th you might want

1:43:49 ↗ to get this on your calendar but east

1:43:51 ↗ King County legislative Coalition I

1:43:54 ↗ always get that East King County

1:43:56 ↗ Chambers Coalition legislative kickoff

1:43:58 ↗ breakfast is January 4th at 7 30 a.m at

1:44:02 ↗ the Hyatt Regency Bellevue if you're

1:44:04 ↗ interested in attending that it's really

1:44:07 ↗ a good event to go to there are many

1:44:09 ↗ electives from around our East Side that

1:44:11 ↗ show up along with our legislators when

1:44:15 ↗ we get a chance to ask them questions

1:44:17 ↗ and give a wish list of things that we'd

1:44:20 ↗ like to see in the legislative session

1:44:21 ↗ so please put that on your calendar

1:44:23 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember Joe

1:44:25 ↗ council president Walsh

1:44:28 ↗ thank you I just wanted to build on a

1:44:31 ↗ council member's hunt earlier report on

1:44:33 ↗ the Planning Development environment

1:44:35 ↗ committee and just call out hey we've

1:44:38 ↗ got a comprehensive plan Amendment vote

1:44:40 ↗ coming up to Maine Council on November

1:44:43 ↗ 21st I found it particularly helpful to

1:44:46 ↗ watch the PPC meeting and then I

1:44:49 ↗ obviously attended the Planning

1:44:51 ↗ Development environment meeting but both

1:44:53 ↗ of those provide some really good

1:44:55 ↗ Insight on a year-long process that I

1:44:59 ↗ would encourage you to watch and of

1:45:01 ↗ course do so on two times speed because

1:45:04 ↗ what's what's more fun than hearing

1:45:06 ↗ somebody in chipmunk voice

1:45:09 ↗ thank you Deputy council president Hall

1:45:11 ↗ always watching two-time speed I agree

1:45:14 ↗ uh three things I wanted to bring up

1:45:16 ↗ first and foremost since um

1:45:18 ↗ mayor Paula you brought up this senior

1:45:20 ↗ Center's

1:45:21 ↗ um Veterans Day celebration I wanted to

1:45:23 ↗ mention that is Highlands is having one

1:45:24 ↗ as well

1:45:26 ↗ um it's up at Blakely Hall and Village

1:45:28 ↗ Green uh this Friday at 9 30.

1:45:32 ↗ um so they don't conflict which is good

1:45:34 ↗ um I also

1:45:36 ↗ um

1:45:37 ↗ wanted to quickly summarize the Taos

1:45:40 ↗ Community listening session so I wanted

1:45:41 ↗ to

1:45:42 ↗ a quick thank you and shout out to the

1:45:45 ↗ Taos Community all of us council members

1:45:47 ↗ and City staff

1:45:48 ↗ particularly the city staff thank you

1:45:51 ↗ very much who participated in last

1:45:53 ↗ Thursday's Community listening session

1:45:55 ↗ um oh also a big thanks to this class

1:45:57 ↗ school district for letting us use that

1:45:59 ↗ wonderful new space I hadn't been in

1:46:00 ↗ that new Middle School that was amazing

1:46:02 ↗ this was our second Community listening

1:46:04 ↗ session of the Year our first using the

1:46:06 ↗ new open house format

1:46:09 ↗ um so real quick what do we hear would

1:46:10 ↗ we observe

1:46:11 ↗ um there were great interactions between

1:46:13 ↗ community members City staff and council

1:46:14 ↗ members at our open topic tables

1:46:17 ↗ um it seemed like we were able to

1:46:18 ↗ connect very deeply with the community

1:46:19 ↗ during the open house and in fact

1:46:21 ↗ answered most if not all questions

1:46:22 ↗ during the open house we only had a few

1:46:26 ↗ lingering questions during the official

1:46:28 ↗ q a including concerns around

1:46:30 ↗ neighborhood access for convenience and

1:46:32 ↗ Emergency Management

1:46:34 ↗ concerns around commercial or commercial

1:46:36 ↗ looking Vehicles parked in the

1:46:37 ↗ neighborhood and concerns around traffic

1:46:39 ↗ along State Route 900 and because so

1:46:42 ↗ many Community questions and concerns

1:46:44 ↗ were addressed during that open house

1:46:46 ↗ City staff we're going to be working

1:46:48 ↗ together to generate kind of the list of

1:46:50 ↗ topics that came up at each table so

1:46:52 ↗ we're all informed about what came up at

1:46:54 ↗ tables that we weren't necessarily at

1:46:55 ↗ for the whole event so take note of

1:46:57 ↗ anything that came up in any

1:46:59 ↗ conversations that you had as we put

1:47:02 ↗ those lists together and then just quick

1:47:04 ↗ moving forward council president Walsh

1:47:06 ↗ and I want to have a conversation about

1:47:08 ↗ what next year's listening sessions

1:47:10 ↗ should look like particularly around how

1:47:12 ↗ many we should have so keep that in mind

1:47:14 ↗ during our city council meeting on

1:47:16 ↗ December 5th I think when we're

1:47:19 ↗ scheduled to talk about the 2023 city

1:47:21 ↗ council calendar and that's it thank you

1:47:24 ↗ anything else for good of the order I

1:47:26 ↗ have a couple of events and that's it

1:47:28 ↗ okay and the November 14th Committee of

1:47:31 ↗ the whole council meeting has been

1:47:33 ↗ canceled the November 21st regular city

1:47:36 ↗ council meeting the anticipated agenda

1:47:38 ↗ items include the 2022 comprehensive

1:47:40 ↗ plan and zoning map amendments and prior

1:47:43 ↗ to the meeting at 6 30 PM a reception

1:47:45 ↗ will be held in the council chambers

1:47:47 ↗ Lobby to show appreciation for our

1:47:49 ↗ amazing Human Services Commission

1:47:52 ↗ so the next item of business this

1:47:54 ↗ evening is an executive session and as

1:47:56 ↗ earlier announced the executive session

1:47:59 ↗ is scheduled this evening to discuss the

1:48:01 ↗ lease sale of property per RCW 42.30

1:48:05 ↗ 0.110 paren one parenthesis impending

1:48:08 ↗ potential litigation per our CW 42.30

1:48:11 ↗ 0.110 per n one print I these items are

1:48:15 ↗ expected to take a total of one hour and

1:48:17 ↗ no action is anticipated in Open Session

1:48:19 ↗ as a reminder executive sessions are

1:48:22 ↗ closed to the public so we will now

1:48:24 ↗ enter into executive session at 8 49 PM

1:48:27 ↗ for those who are participating

1:48:29 ↗ virtually anyone who is not part of the

1:48:31 ↗ closed session will remain in the main

1:48:33 ↗ meeting and you're welcome to stay in

1:48:34 ↗ that meeting until it's reconvened so

1:48:36 ↗ city clerk let us know when we're ready

1:48:38 ↗ to go in

1:48:40 ↗ my five minute break

Approved minutes

Extracted from the next meeting's packet, where this meeting's minutes were approved as a consent-calendar attachment.

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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 (5)

Direct the Administration to incorporate ARPA funding in the 2023-2024 budget for the following projects and amounts: • $880,000 for the Transportation Safety Bundle • $388,500 for the Front Street Streetscape • $322,500 for the Alder Festival Street . AUDIENCE COMMENTS The following public comment …

Moved by JOE · seconded by HALL

Carried 7-0

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

Take no further action on the ARCH’s (A Regional Coalition for Housing) recommended tenant protection actions regarding late fees and move-in fees as recommended by the Services, Safety and Parks Committee. ( b) AB 8439 - 2023-24 State Legislative Agenda, Priorities and Policy Manual

Moved by WALSH · seconded by REH

Carried 6-1

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

Opposed: Hunt

Approve the 2023-24 Legislative Agenda as presented. . c) AB 8403 - 2023 Levy & Revenue Sources

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

Adopt Ordinance No. 2993, levying property taxes for the City of Issaquah for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2023, on all property, both real and personal, in said City which is subject to taxation for the purpose of paying sufficient revenue to carry on the services of said City for the ensu…

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

Adopt Ordinance No. 2994, adopting the 2023-2024 budget; setting forth the estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund, and estimated impact on ending fund balances for all such funds combined of the City for the 2023-24 fiscal biennium. .

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