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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

7:00 PM · 1h 12m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
Informational Update: Asset Management System Update Hear Presentation ID 1930 2/3
SE 43rd Way Pavement Preservation AB 8682 2/3
East Lake Sammamish Pkwy SE Pavement Preservation AB 8591 1/2
Franchise Agreement Renewal for City Facilities in WSDOT Right-of-Way AB 8593 1/2
Amending Impact and Mitigation Fees AB 8507 2/2
Amending IMC 2.06, Council Meetings and City Council Rules of Procedure re: Order of Business AB 8565 2/2
Section
Topic
6. CONSENT CALENDAR
6a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Feb. 21, 2023, $ 9,507,011.29 ID 1331
Approve · packet pp.5–34
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
6b
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Nov. 21, 2022
Approve · packet pp.35–39
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 11-21-22 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers November 21, 2022 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way
6c
Firs at Talus Access Easement Modifications AB 8503
Authorize · packet pp.41–55
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
Firs at Talus Preliminary Plat (PP21-00001), a proposal to subdivide a 5.73-acre parcel (APN # 292406-9052) to construct 19 townhomes, is currently being reviewed by the Community, Planning and Development Department. During the review stages it was discovered that the current access easement, located on recently obtained, City owned parcel to the south (APN # 856273-0190), intrudes into a wetland buffer as well as within a steep slope area. In preparation to make the project proposal more feasible and environmentally sound, the applicant has requested an adjustment to the location of the access easement.
6d
Amending Impact and Mitigation Fees AB 8507
Authorize · packet pp.57–81
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The IMC Title 3 establishes development related fees which are used to partially fund public facilities that accommodate growth or to mitigate growth impacts.
6f
National Highway System (NHS) Asset Management Program Grant Supplement with WSDOT (SE 43rd Way Pavement Preservation) AB 8539
Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.91–97
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
At the Regular City Council Meeting on January 19, 2021, the City Council authorized the Administration to apply for pavement preservation grants along East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, SE 43rd Way, and NW Sammamish Road/ SE 56th Street. The City was awarded National Highway System (NHS) Asset Management Program grant funds for two projects: (1) SE 43rd Way Pavement Preservation and (2) East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE Pavement Preservation. The City Council accepted the grants at the Regular Council Meeting on October 18, 2021 (AB 8097) and authorized the Mayor to enter into and execute a Local Agency Agreement with WSDOT for the design phase of the project. The grants are 100 percent federally funded and do not require a match. A portion of the right of way along SE 43rd belongs to the City of Sammamish.
6i
Appointment to Cascade Water Alliance Board Alternate Position AB 8563
Approve Resolution · packet pp.141–143
Topics: WaterBoards & Commissions
Staff report:
Approve the resolution as presented.
6j
AT&T Affidavit of Agent Authority for Modifications to Cell Tower AB 8567
Authorize · packet pp.145–185
Staff report:
The City entered a lease agreement with New Cingular Wireless PCS/AT&T on May 21, 2010 for constructing, operating, repairing, replacing and maintaining telecommunications facilities at 1901 NE Park Drive. This lease agreement has been extended several times and will terminate on May 21, 2030. The existing lease agreement is attached as Exhibit C.
7. REGULAR BUSINESS
7c
Amending IMC 2.06, Council Meetings and City Council Rules of Procedure re: Order of Business AB 8565
Authorize the Mayor to enter into and · 20 min · packet pp.257–314
Topics: Land UseBoards & Commissions
Staff report:
At the January 17, 2023 City Council meeting, Deputy City Council President Hall introduced a New Business item proposing changes to the City Council's Order of Business for regular meetings (see ID 1325). The proposal was to move the business items that are actionable before the more passive informational agenda items. Following the introduction, the City Council unanimously agreed to move this item forward to the second step of the New Business process, the preliminary staff response.
8. GOOD OF THE ORDER
8a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:04 welcome everyone I call the February
0:07 21st city council meeting to order
0:10 as a reminder we continue to have a
0:13 remote aspect to our meetings mayor
0:15 Paulie will be arriving a little late to
0:17 tonight's meeting so I council president
0:18 Walsh will serve as mayor Pro tem until
0:21 her arrival both staff and members of
0:24 the public may be participating in
0:25 tonight's meeting remotely via WebEx and
0:28 council member Hunt is also attending
0:30 tonight's meeting remotely
0:33 the first item on the agenda is the
0:36 Pledge of Allegiance I welcome you to
0:37 join me in the Pledge of Allegiance
0:44 to the flag of the United States of
0:47 America and to the Republic for which it
0:50 stands one nation under God indivisible
0:53 with liberty and justice for all
1:00 thank you
1:02 next item on our agenda is audience
1:04 comments members of the public May
1:06 address council at this time either in
1:08 person or virtually those who signed up
1:11 in advance to make comments will be
1:13 called on first if you're joining us
1:16 virtually and would like to make
1:18 comments please raise your virtual hand
1:20 or send the host a chat message if
1:23 you're on the phone you're going to
1:24 press star 3 if you've joined by
1:26 computer or smartphone look for a hand
1:28 icon we don't have anyone else in the
1:32 room so clerk has anyone signed up to
1:34 speak for General audience comments or
1:36 indicate a desire to speak this evening
1:39 we have no members of the public online
1:42 at this time okay as a reminder written
1:45 comments can be submitted at any time to
1:47 city council at issaquah.gov and part of
1:52 this section I usually summarize email
1:54 comments on tonight's agenda item we did
1:58 have one comment from the Master
2:02 Builders Association uh
2:06 disagreeing with or asking for delays on
2:09 the impact fee
2:12 ab8507 amending the impact and
2:14 mitigation fees which is on tonight's
2:16 consent agenda and we had one member of
2:19 the community
2:21 disagree with the
2:24 change presented in
2:26 ab8565 amending the council meetings
2:29 rules of procedure regarding the order
2:32 of business and that concludes the items
2:36 we received from the public on those
2:40 the
2:42 next item on our agenda is I believe
2:47 committee and Regional reports it is we
2:51 will start with council member Joe
2:54 thank you
2:56 today uh we had the Cascade water
3:00 Alliance
3:01 finance committee meeting and we had a
3:04 number of topics the one that is
3:06 probably most pertinent to Issaquah was
3:09 a discussion of the
3:11 Fist passage the construction they'll be
3:14 necessary by wasstott and we had a good
3:18 conversation about what it might look
3:20 like in the future and potential costs
3:22 that could accrue to all the members of
3:25 cascade water Alliance depending on how
3:27 the project turns out
3:29 it was put out for future discussion and
3:32 I'll keep updating the council as we go
3:34 forward as this involves a big project
3:37 in town for us on February 22nd the
3:40 Cascade water Alliance board meeting
3:42 will be held council member Ray has
3:45 gracely graciously agreed to attend as I
3:49 will be out of town that day and that
3:52 concludes my report thank you
3:54 thank you next up councilmember D
3:56 Michelle thank you
3:58 um on February 10th and I attended the
4:01 Eastside Transportation partnership and
4:03 on February 15th the regional transit
4:05 committee and at both the ETP and the
4:08 RTC we received a report on Metro
4:11 transit's recovery from the pandemic
4:14 there is somewhat good news over the
4:17 past year there has been a steady
4:18 increase in ridership they are now
4:20 serving between two hundred and ten
4:22 thousand and two hundred and thirty
4:23 thousand passengers each day which is 34
4:26 percent higher than it was a year ago
4:28 but it's still far less than the 280 000
4:32 that they were serving in February of
4:34 2020. the system is continuing to
4:38 struggle with Service delivery as we
4:40 discussed last week a year ago 94
4:43 percent of scheduled buses were showing
4:45 up in other words six percent did not
4:48 show up when they were supposed to uh
4:51 this year 97 of the scheduled buses are
4:54 showing up so there has been a slight
4:56 Improvement but the general manager
4:58 acknowledged that even three percent
5:00 missing buses imposes an unacceptable
5:02 burden on Riders and as members of RTC
5:05 we are able to read letters from
5:08 passengers who have been stuck in the
5:11 snow and rain and cold waiting for buses
5:14 that simply don't show up and and you
5:16 begin to understand the human impact on
5:19 them the main cause is Metro's inability
5:22 to recruit and retain enough drivers and
5:25 Metro has been working with its several
5:27 unions to streamline recruiting training
5:29 safety and job satisfaction
5:31 for its drivers and other employees in
5:34 addition to driver retention the
5:36 steering mechanism in over 600 buses
5:39 were found to be defective and had to be
5:41 replaced and that process took longer
5:44 than expected due to supply chain issues
5:46 so when it rains it pours apparently so
5:49 they have really been struggling on the
5:53 sustainability front Metro has reduced
5:55 their fossil fuels by usage by 26
5:58 percent over the last five years they
6:01 replaced all electric lights with LED
6:04 lights and they are now saving over four
6:06 million dollars annually on energy costs
6:09 over the next five years they are going
6:11 to replace all their HVAC systems with
6:14 energy efficient units and so that in
6:18 that area they feel like they're making
6:19 good progress
6:21 in addition to the general manager's
6:23 report we also received a report on the
6:26 funding gap for Metro connects which is
6:29 Metro's long-range strategic planning
6:32 document very very broadly Metro
6:35 connects envisions a doubling of service
6:37 by the year 2050. that vision is
6:41 currently underfunded to the tune of 18
6:43 billion dollars for Capital and 725
6:46 million dollars annual operating costs
6:49 so plans for Bridging the Gap were
6:51 suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic
6:54 there was a lot of discussion that
6:57 unfortunately ended up not going much of
6:59 anywhere
7:00 so we had quite a vigorous discussion at
7:04 RTC about putting that topic back on the
7:07 agenda restarting the discussions and
7:09 starting to look at how Metro can close
7:13 that funding Gap in 2050 will be here
7:16 before we know it seems like a long way
7:20 away but Metro needs to start working on
7:23 this problem now so
7:25 that is the end of my report thank you
7:29 thank you and next we are going to go
7:31 virtually to council member hunt for
7:34 your Regional report
7:36 thank you council president the Planning
7:38 Development and environment committee
7:40 met on February 7th we had a discussion
7:44 about Title 18 which is our ongoing
7:47 process of updating our land use code
7:50 for the City of Issaquah and we focused
7:54 in two areas one was we discussed the um
7:58 planning policy commissions
8:01 recommendation on a number of items that
8:04 are volunteer planning policy commission
8:06 has done a lot of work reviewing this
8:09 code and they had recommendations on a
8:11 number of items for us to consider
8:13 um these included things such as in
8:18 uh looking at the code around
8:21 non-conforming
8:22 um buildings and Wetland buffers the
8:25 zero lot line buildings and questions
8:27 around uh deviations of um or variances
8:31 in the code and so we are continuing to
8:34 have conversations about these topics
8:36 for the next meeting of the Planning
8:38 Development and environment committee
8:39 and um from that meeting we will have
8:42 recommendations to this Council on a
8:44 number of topics that I just mentioned
8:46 but also other topics so I will come
8:49 back to you shortly with those
8:50 recommendations once they're finalized I
8:54 also wanted to flag for Council that as
8:58 we are nearing the ends of the Planning
9:00 Development environment committee's
9:02 review and the planning policy
9:04 commissions review and all of our other
9:07 board and commission review processes we
9:11 are approaching the time when this item
9:13 will come back to the full Council for
9:15 both Council review and
9:19 um the committee will be discussing
9:21 sorry about the background music
9:23 committee will be discussing a number of
9:24 items so I go to the order I will raise
9:26 those uh our next meeting is February
9:28 28th thanks
9:31 thank you and uh next is council member
9:35 Ray uh thank you uh the mobility
9:37 infrastructure and infrastructure
9:39 committee will be meeting in a special
9:41 meeting on a special day on Monday
9:43 February 27th and the agenda has not
9:46 been set and that concludes my report
9:50 thank you next up council member marks
9:53 thank you council president Walsh the
9:55 sound cities Association public issues
9:57 committee melta met on Wednesday
9:59 February 8th uh there was discussion of
10:02 solid waste rate restructuring as well
10:05 as a discussion on affordable housing
10:07 county-wide planning policies however no
10:09 actions uh were taken or scheduled for
10:12 the next meeting uh Council services
10:15 safety and Parks committee will be
10:17 meeting tomorrow a special time and date
10:20 6 30 to 9 here or 6 30 till whenever
10:24 really here in council chambers we will
10:27 we have two items on the agenda ID 1354
10:30 uh around the topic of City Hall and
10:33 Issaquah Police Department access
10:35 control project and ID 1388 emergency
10:39 financial assistance housing assistance
10:43 I believe this concludes my report
10:45 thank you Deputy council president Hall
10:49 thank you very much quick one so the
10:51 Eastside fire and rescue board of
10:52 directors last met on Thursday February
10:55 9th at 4 pm at our headquarters on
10:57 Newport Way Northwest
10:58 during the meeting we elected board
11:01 leadership so North Bend councilmember
11:02 Alan Gothic right I can never pronounce
11:05 his last name correctly was re-elected
11:07 chair and I was re-elected Vice chair of
11:10 the board we also approved new members
11:12 to the finance and administration
11:13 committee so I will serve as this cause
11:15 representative there we also had a
11:18 really interesting discussion about
11:19 effer's emergency response model and
11:21 ambulance rates and how Insurance fits
11:24 and all that so so much so actually that
11:25 we're going to be getting a briefing as
11:27 a board to press a couple presentations
11:28 on the topic so if you're interested in
11:30 kind of be included and learning more
11:32 about that um just get in touch with me
11:34 and I'm happy to share what we're going
11:35 through
11:36 uh finally just a reminder that
11:39 um the annual Awards in recognition
11:42 banquet is Friday March 3rd at 6 pm at
11:45 the Snoqualmie Casino I believe everyone
11:48 should have received an invite from the
11:50 ephra's board secretary but if you're
11:53 interested in going please let me know
11:54 so I can keep our city clerk apprised of
11:57 how many council members are going to be
11:58 there I'm also happy to share the invite
12:00 out again so feel free to just reach out
12:01 to me if you would like that link
12:03 because RSVPs are due this Thursday and
12:05 that concludes my report
12:07 great and the next report is mine the
12:11 King County affordable housing committee
12:13 meets in person in person this Thursday
12:16 for a joint meeting with the growth
12:18 management planning council at Kirkland
12:20 City Hall this is going to be kind of
12:22 the handoff from the affordable housing
12:24 committee to the growth management
12:27 committee to discuss the county-wide
12:31 planning policies that are scheduled for
12:34 adoption in the next few months
12:37 and then separately the next meeting of
12:40 the growth management policy board is
12:42 set for next week on Thursday the agenda
12:45 has not yet been released
12:47 and then as a final report Deputy
12:49 council president Hall myself and City
12:52 administrator Bob quits went down to
12:54 Olympia last week for City action days
12:57 we had a great time this is an event
13:00 hosted by the Association of Washington
13:02 cities to meet with our legislators hear
13:06 about some of the big topics that are
13:08 happening at the legislative session
13:11 this year so the first day we met with
13:15 some of the AWC lobbyists some of the
13:18 state department heads we also heard
13:20 from Governor Inslee about his budget
13:22 proposal and then the second day we met
13:27 with our lobbyist and then had great
13:30 meetings with all six of our legislators
13:32 from the fifth and the 41st districts
13:35 and we were really focused in we had
13:37 like 15 to 20 minute sessions with each
13:40 set of them so we focused on our top
13:43 three priorities which was the funding
13:46 for the park project which seems
13:48 positive
13:49 we'll see if that makes it into the
13:51 budget
13:51 affordable housing there's a lot of
13:54 things going on right now we also heard
13:56 from representative Bateman who's kind
13:58 of driving that HB 1110 earlier and just
14:02 kind of discuss some of the things that
14:03 were specific to our city and then we
14:06 really encouraged the highway 18 has
14:09 been broken up into kind of three
14:10 projects You've Got The Interchange and
14:13 then the first portion the second
14:14 portion the governor's budget shifted so
14:18 that the interchange would be complete
14:21 the first portion would be complete and
14:23 then there would be a gap in years
14:25 between the second portion and so we
14:28 really encourage that to just continue
14:30 keep that Workforce working
14:32 as one of our priorities so those were
14:35 kind of the things we discussed again
14:37 great meetings I think they really
14:39 appreciated hearing from the City of
14:41 Issaquah
14:43 so that concludes our committee and
14:47 Regional reports the next section is the
14:50 mayor's report and since she is not yet
14:53 here I am going to go ahead and read off
14:55 the mayor's report
14:59 um first there will not be an executive
15:01 session this evening
15:03 second board commission annual
15:05 recruitment Issaquah is continuing to
15:08 accept applications for All City boards
15:10 and commissions our boards and
15:11 commissions cover a broad range of
15:13 topics Arts Economic Development
15:15 environmental issues growth and even
15:18 International diplomacy we value a
15:20 variety of perspectives and life
15:22 experiences and encourage people of all
15:25 backgrounds to apply members serve
15:27 without compensation but may be eligible
15:29 to participate in the city stipend
15:31 program please help us spread the word
15:33 about our various board and commission
15:36 opportunities to learn more about boards
15:38 and commissions and to apply go to
15:41 issaquah.gov apply
15:45 um nominations for the Ruth Keys Award
15:48 for sustainable environment our
15:49 community's highest honor for
15:51 environmental Advocates and the
15:53 community environmental award are now
15:55 open Keys's namesake award honors the
15:58 legacy of a Grassroots activist who for
16:01 more than four decades advocated for the
16:03 preservation of landmarks and natural
16:05 areas sustainable development recycling
16:08 programs and the protection of the
16:10 escrow Valley aquifer in Tiger Mountain
16:12 to learn more and submit a nomination
16:14 please see the city's website
16:16 issaquah.gov the nomination deadline is
16:19 5 pm on March 13 2023.
16:23 and upcoming community events there is
16:26 an open house with the Newport
16:28 neighborhood the city invites you to
16:30 attend an open house on Thursday March
16:33 9th 2023 as we talk about upcoming
16:36 projects within the Newport neighborhood
16:37 join your neighbors to learn more about
16:39 timelines impacts and changes that are
16:42 being planned over the next several
16:43 years staff will be present to help talk
16:46 through projects and answer questions
16:48 Refreshments will be provided and that
16:51 concludes the mayor's report
16:54 so looking through the next item on our
16:59 agenda is the consent calendar the
17:00 consent calendar was distributed to
17:02 Council in advance if authorized the
17:05 items on the consent calendar will be
17:07 considered together and approved by one
17:09 motion have the payables and payroll
17:11 been reviewed
17:13 yes
17:15 okay and I see another from
17:18 councilmember hunt thank you does any
17:20 council member desire to remove any
17:22 items from the consent calendar and
17:24 consider it under regular business
17:27 I'm not seeing any and
17:31 do we have anyone who could make a
17:34 motion
17:38 um thank you I moved to approve the
17:40 consent calendar as presented
17:42 in tonight's packet
17:44 and do do we have a second second thank
17:48 you the motion to approve the consent
17:51 calendar as presented has been moved and
17:53 seconded is there any Council discussion
17:57 hearing none the motion before council
18:00 is to prove the consent calendar as
18:02 presented all those in favor signify by
18:04 saying aye
18:05 aye
18:08 those opposed
18:11 okay that passes unanimously
18:15 and the next item of business is on
18:18 regular business so we have two items
18:20 ab8511 and
18:23 ab8569 which will be presented together
18:27 um these both discuss information on the
18:30 12th Avenue Northwest and State Route
18:33 900 17th Avenue project
18:36 I'd like to invite traffic signal
18:39 operations engineer Isabel Diaz and
18:41 Public Works director Emily moon to
18:43 present these items I see you guys
18:46 getting set up over there thank you very
18:48 much for joining us this evening
18:53 thank you city council I'm going to
18:56 share video here
19:03 and we'll get started
19:19 all right I am Emily Moon Public Works
19:22 director happy to be here tonight to
19:24 talk about a significant project the
19:27 last of the Costco development agreement
19:30 projects
19:32 and as a council president mentioned
19:35 there are two agenda bills before you
19:37 one deals with approving the
19:40 construction management contract and the
19:44 second Awards the actual Construction
19:47 contract
19:55 there were three projects that were
19:57 included in the master transportation
20:00 funding agreement which was a portion of
20:03 the overall development agreement
20:05 and that Transportation agreement
20:09 included the way in which the city and
20:12 Costco share in the cost of the projects
20:14 those three projects were East Lake Sam
20:17 Parkway
20:19 Southeast 62nd Street extension and
20:22 tonight we're talking mainly about 12th
20:25 Avenue sr900 intersection improvements
20:29 and when these projects were first
20:33 scoped and identified as the projects
20:36 that Costco would contribute to in order
20:39 to meet their traffic concurrency needs
20:42 and also assist in the city building our
20:46 transportation infrastructure that we
20:48 had in our plans they were forecast to
20:51 cost between 51 and 57 million dollars
20:55 huge investment by the city
20:58 so that first project was East Lake
21:00 Sammamish Parkway I have two images here
21:03 before and after for you we completed
21:05 that project in 2016 made it a
21:08 multimodal facility adding a southbound
21:11 lane sidewalk bike lane landscape curbs
21:14 and gutter
21:17 second project was Southeast 67 62nd
21:21 Street Extension this included a bridge
21:25 and a new multimodal facilities
21:28 including a new underpass for the
21:31 Regional Trail
21:33 this was the city's largest Capital
21:36 Improvement
21:38 and it was completed in very early 2019.
21:44 I wanted to give you an overview of how
21:47 we have cost shared on these projects as
21:49 we move into considering funding for the
21:52 final project
21:54 so I have a few Graphics to show you the
21:56 first here
21:58 shows how we split the cost by tier so
22:02 the first tier was significant it was
22:04 the first 51 million plus in Investments
22:08 that both the city and Costco were to
22:10 make shared 52-48 split and then the
22:15 next two tiers
22:16 moved between City to Costco both at 2.5
22:21 million dollars the final tier was to be
22:24 for anything over 56 and a half roughly
22:28 million dollars and that was to be cost
22:32 borne by the city and again this is
22:34 eligible cost there have been costs
22:37 associated with all of these projects
22:39 that weren't eligible under that
22:41 Transportation agreement
22:43 sometimes we take on improvements to
22:46 infrastructure that's not related to
22:48 Traffic improvements for example
22:54 this next graphic just shows you the
22:58 cost sharing at the tier level and it
23:00 shows you what we accomplished in that
23:03 first tier we were able to get East Lake
23:06 Sammamish Parkway and the Southeast 62nd
23:09 extension fully completed and we were
23:11 able to have some funds to put toward
23:13 the final project 12th Avenue and sr900
23:17 intersection
23:19 we're estimating based on the costs to
23:23 date and the bid that we have received
23:25 for construction that we will utilize
23:27 all of tier two which is the city's
23:29 responsibility and we will use most of
23:32 Costco's share of that third tier to
23:37 accomplish all of the eligible for cost
23:40 sharing costs for this project
23:44 and then lastly I just wanted to show
23:46 you those eligible costs you will see
23:49 we've spent about eight and a half
23:51 million dollars on East Lake samanis
23:53 Parkway
23:55 38.4 roughly for Southeast 62nd and the
23:59 eligible cost for 12th Ave are listed as
24:04 just over 9.1 million dollars
24:08 foreign
24:10 so at this point I'm going to turn the
24:13 microphone over to Isabelle and she is
24:15 going to share some more detail about
24:18 the scope for this last project
24:23 thank you Emily good evening
24:27 as Emily mentioned this project is the
24:31 project number three and the last
24:33 project to be built under the Costco
24:36 development agreement on 12th Avenue and
24:39 sr900 intersection
24:42 part of the improvements included for
24:44 this project will include up two left
24:47 turning Lanes from 12th Avenue to 17th
24:51 Avenue on the south we currently have
24:54 one left turn lane and adding that extra
24:58 capacity for left turn Lanes with at the
25:01 additional left turning lane
25:03 in addition to that left turning lane we
25:06 are adding a right turning main on along
25:09 this area from 17th Avenue to 12th
25:12 Avenue Northeast also adding more
25:15 capacity to the intersection this time
25:18 with the right turn turning movements
25:21 and also we will be rebuilding the 12 uh
25:26 the cross-section Railway cross section
25:28 for 12th Avenue Northwest all the way
25:31 from the intersection of 17th Avenue to
25:35 Lake Drive and the cross section for uh
25:39 for that segment between 17th and bake
25:43 Drive will include protected bike Lanes
25:46 sidewalks on both sides and also
25:49 planning
25:51 planning strips and this project is
25:54 anticipated to be completed at the
25:56 fourth quarter of this year
26:04 earlier this month we advertised this
26:07 project for construction and once we
26:09 received the Beats we had a better
26:12 understanding of the overall project
26:16 costs and also over time up about the
26:19 scope of the work to be completed
26:23 back in 2014 with the Costco development
26:26 agreement was executed this project was
26:30 estimated for about three million
26:33 dollars
26:35 over time once we work with
26:39 CIP project CIP process development
26:42 because of the overall project was
26:45 refined and the latest EIP
26:49 project of CIP update that we had
26:51 included but the budget this project
26:54 we estimated an overall project cost of
26:58 6.6 million dollars
27:01 and now that we have advertised a
27:03 project and have a better understanding
27:05 of the project scope
27:07 and we have
27:09 sorry about that and we had
27:13 um a lower beater identified
27:16 the most updated overall project cost is
27:21 around
27:22 9.8 million dollars
27:25 and these areas that we have here
27:27 highlighted in yellow are those parts of
27:31 the overall project costs that have
27:35 increased significantly in value
27:38 and for that we have identified the
27:41 right-of-way construction and
27:44 construction management and on the next
27:46 slide I will explain a little bit
27:49 more on the reasons why these three are
27:52 three areas have increased significantly
27:54 but uh before that I would like to know
27:58 that for construction management or
28:00 reminder that construction management
28:02 for that we include inspection services
28:06 and also material testing that are
28:09 required during the completion of the
28:11 project
28:15 there are a few complexities with this
28:19 project that have in have have
28:22 contributed in part with the with the
28:26 increase on these three areas of
28:28 right-of-way construction and
28:30 construction management
28:31 for right-of-way we as we may be aware
28:36 we have we are negotiating with three
28:40 different parcels and owners of three of
28:43 those three parcels and also the latest
28:46 sales that have occurred within that
28:49 area have contributed significantly with
28:52 the increase of the cost of the land
28:54 that we are acquiring on that area
28:59 for the construction we are in addition
29:03 to the project the the improvements that
29:06 I have explained earlier we are also
29:09 adding uh the replacement of the water
29:12 main line and this is something that we
29:15 typically try to do with CIP projects
29:18 look at underground utilities that need
29:21 replacement so when we do CIP projects
29:24 we try uh to look for opportunities to
29:27 do to include those utility relocations
29:31 with the CIP project
29:35 the other item is a damage signal pole
29:39 that was not part of the initial scope
29:42 of the project because that signal pole
29:44 was in good shape there was not a need
29:47 to relocate that signal pole however it
29:51 was impacted by a traffic collision last
29:55 year unfortunately and we have a
29:59 structural engineer look at the signal
30:02 pole and recommended that we replace
30:04 that signal pole and it made sense to us
30:07 to since we are
30:11 um improving this intersection at this
30:13 time to relocate that signal pole at the
30:17 same time instead of having to go to
30:20 that signal impacts twice on different
30:23 times
30:25 lastly the inflation
30:28 that we have seen some ups and downs
30:31 with specific items from construction
30:34 but overall we have seen increases over
30:38 time with the project overall project
30:41 costs
30:44 for the construction management
30:48 one of the items that is contributing
30:50 significantly or that we consider a
30:53 complexity that may contribute
30:55 significantly to the project cause is
30:57 that these 12 and sr900 is a very busy
31:01 signal in and it's actually the second
31:03 BCS signal that we own and operate and
31:07 because of that we when we are impacting
31:10 the traffic signal we prefer City
31:13 standards that we do that during the
31:16 night so there is some night work that
31:18 will be expected with this project
31:20 we will also be doing some work within
31:24 wash dots right of way this is
31:26 additional coordination that we need to
31:29 include for the project and also
31:32 go through watch the standards with the
31:36 construction and coordination for
31:39 working on their right-of-way
31:42 the other item is the monitoring of
31:45 cultural resources
31:47 so this is something that we don't
31:50 typically see on our CIP projects but
31:53 since we were required to complete a
31:56 permit with the US Army Corps of
31:59 Engineers
32:00 this is a requirement it was part of the
32:04 requirement of this permit that we do
32:08 complete a
32:10 cultural resources monitoring and
32:13 develop a plan to what to do what are
32:16 the next steps in case that we find an
32:20 archaeological find
32:24 and in terms of construction management
32:27 we have in the past successfully use
32:30 construct Consultants to the
32:33 construction management like for example
32:35 even Southeast 62nd
32:38 Street inner
32:41 extension project for that project we
32:44 have successfully used Consultants to do
32:46 construction management they those are
32:51 expertise that we can use through the
32:54 construction of the project and they
32:57 would help the city Administration to
33:01 provide that level of professionalism
33:04 that we we Costco will be expecting from
33:08 us and help us to have all the
33:11 administrative papers have everything in
33:14 in place for getting these
33:18 reimbursements from Costco when we go
33:21 through the development agreement
33:23 process and also one other thing I
33:28 wanted to mention on that for the
33:30 construction management they also
33:32 provide expertise
33:35 coordinating with the contractor and
33:39 also help the city saving money through
33:42 the process
33:43 reducing the likelihood of getting
33:46 change orders with other expertise that
33:49 they provide that we with the city staff
33:54 might not be able to have but they are
33:58 more of an expansion of our
34:04 services
34:06 and with that I will turn it over to
34:10 Emily so she can talk about the
34:12 proposable German
34:16 okay as we request council's approval
34:19 tonight to award the construction bid
34:21 we're also sharing the adopted and
34:24 proposed funding sources for this
34:26 project
34:27 the city has been successful on this
34:30 project just like it had on the other
34:32 projects for the Costco D.A to get
34:35 outside funding sources including grants
34:37 and as is the case with multi-year
34:40 capital projects with a variety of
34:42 funding sources and post bid we have
34:46 information now that we can plug into
34:47 the budget scenario
34:51 this budget will this project will
34:53 require a budget amendment to roll
34:55 forward funds previously received but
34:57 not yet spent and we will require a
35:01 tuning up of the Project's costs so that
35:04 we can obligate Costco for their share
35:07 and as you see we have a gap still after
35:11 all of that that Gap is roughly
35:15 670 thousand dollars and we're showing
35:18 that in yellow here on on this table and
35:22 I'm going to talk to that in just a
35:23 minute
35:24 the 2324 adopted budget included four
35:29 hundred thousand dollars for the water
35:30 main replacement
35:32 and anticipated the reauthorization of
35:36 those unspent 2022 funds of roughly four
35:39 and a half million dollars that gave us
35:41 the total budget in your adopted budget
35:44 of 4.9 million dollars
35:48 and the budget amendment will be needed
35:50 to add in all of those remaining
35:54 expenditures that we have talked to at
35:56 the previous slides so that is roughly
35:59 2.7 million dollars
36:04 also I wanted to uh remind you as it
36:08 says on the slide most of those budget
36:10 increases that will be reflected in the
36:13 budget amendment have been covered by
36:16 these funding sources shown here again
36:18 the Gap is 670
36:21 000
36:21 and we intend to continue to make sure
36:26 that we're getting all that was
36:28 earmarked for this project from various
36:30 funding sources and we have continued to
36:33 speak with Costco about their cost
36:35 obligation
36:37 So based on the current expenditure
36:39 estimates staff recalculated that
36:42 portion to be funded by the Costco
36:44 agreement and we have had some
36:49 conversations about how to fund that
36:51 project budget Gap Administration
36:55 proposes making up this Difference by
36:57 shifting over the 2023 budgeted traffic
37:01 impact fees from another Capital project
37:04 that has been significantly delayed and
37:07 will not be spent in 2023 that's the
37:10 Newport Way Maple to Sunset improvements
37:13 or tr23
37:16 that project is expected to be delayed
37:18 later this spring which is when we would
37:21 have started the next phase of work for
37:25 possibly multiple years
37:27 while we wait for the biological
37:29 assessment to be reviewed by the
37:31 national marine fisheries service
37:34 the city's code allows for 12th Avenue
37:38 to receive the traffic impact fees it's
37:41 an eligible project for those fees
37:43 so the administration proposes
37:45 reauthorizing the expenditures and
37:47 starting fresh with the revenue
37:49 adjustments that we've shown
37:51 this will help us have a clean start on
37:54 the project and will help us to increase
37:56 the transparency about how the project
37:58 is funded and help us to do the cost
38:01 accounting that we need to do with the
38:02 funders
38:06 so we're asking for your approval on
38:08 those two agenda bills this evening that
38:10 will enable us to commence with the
38:13 construction and add the capacity that
38:15 was envisioned in this intersection
38:19 delaying the project at this point in
38:22 time May mean that we have some cost
38:24 implications it likely means Costco is
38:28 not getting the Improvement that they
38:31 had
38:32 believed they would be getting in a
38:34 timely fashion and in sequence with
38:37 their construction and occupancy of
38:39 their buildings
38:41 and would also likely mean that we would
38:44 have to go back and renegotiate those
38:46 temporary construction easements
38:48 those are time Limited
38:51 so these are the two motions that we
38:53 have for you in the a b a
38:56 b8511 authorize the mayor to enter into
38:59 and execute amendment number five with
39:01 HDR Incorporated for the 12th Avenue
39:03 Northwest and Sr 900 17th Avenue
39:06 Northeast Improvement project TR4 and
39:09 the amount of one million forty nine
39:11 thousand seven hundred and fourteen with
39:13 a term ending in February of 24.
39:17 and the second is to award the
39:20 Construction contract for that same
39:22 project in the amount of 4 596
39:28 469.49 including sales tax to Fury site
39:32 Works Incorporated and direct the Chief
39:35 Financial Officer to allocate an
39:36 additional 2 696 304 dollars of
39:40 expenditures and eight million one
39:43 hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred
39:45 and eighty five of revenue for this
39:47 project in a future 2023 budget
39:50 amendment
39:51 and we would be happy to answer any
39:53 questions that you have
39:56 okay great let's start with questions I
39:59 see Deputy council president hunt
40:00 followed by councilmember marks
40:08 um thank you so a lot of complexities
40:11 that you summarized there that clearly
40:13 are impacting timing and cost and all
40:15 that so I just wanted to ask kind of
40:17 zoom out and think big picture to
40:20 um are we I mean would you describe this
40:22 as kind of um
40:24 unique to these partic to this
40:27 particular project all these
40:28 complexities and the level of
40:29 complexities or should counsel think of
40:32 this as indicative of a merging problem
40:35 that we're seeing with all of our
40:36 capital projects that there are layers
40:38 of complexities that are contributing to
40:40 cost
40:41 sure well every project is different
40:44 indeed this project has more than its
40:47 fair share I think of complexities given
40:49 its location first and foremost I think
40:53 the other Factor here is that this
40:55 project was originally envisioned nearly
40:57 well 10 years ago
41:00 um so a lot has changed since that point
41:02 in time
41:03 as to what it means for other projects
41:07 I'd have to over generalize certainly we
41:10 we find that there are complexities with
41:13 every project and every project needs
41:15 some truing up typically before you go
41:18 to bed after it's lived in the CIP for a
41:21 little bit and and after you go to bed
41:23 when you know the numbers are real
41:28 council member marks
41:31 thank you uh I have a question when when
41:35 was the most recent time we did a
41:37 traffic model with levels of service and
41:39 do we know how this how these I'm
41:41 excited about this I think it will
41:43 improve
41:44 um traffic but I'd love to know that we
41:46 know what that's going to do to levels
41:48 of service sure sure I we're taking
41:51 traffic counts right about now as we
41:54 update our concurrency model and
41:57 ultimately concurrency policy so we're
42:00 Gathering that data right now as to the
42:03 last time we got data on this
42:05 intersection see if Isabelle knows
42:09 is to answer a little bit to the add-on
42:13 a little bit to that so these six this
42:16 intersection has been identified as
42:19 playing the latest uh model that we have
42:23 done in 2017 has been identified of one
42:26 of the intersections that we needed to
42:28 improve capacity on and we are currently
42:32 working on updating our traffic signal
42:35 model and and these improvements will be
42:38 considered as part of the new base model
42:42 for this year I'm not sure
42:45 I answered your question
42:47 uh yes and
42:50 um and answered kind of the question
42:51 behind the question which is uh we have
42:54 not updated our uh our model since 2017.
42:57 is that what you said yeah seems timely
43:00 seems like six years is a little long
43:03 and I know there's this whole covid
43:05 thing in the in between but still seems
43:07 timely and yes you accurate and you are
43:11 correct again that covet had
43:14 a huge reason why we have waited for
43:19 this time and and and and we are still
43:22 in compliance with our requirement of uh
43:25 just with because of covet
43:28 um traffic we just we're just waiting to
43:31 have like what we call the new normal
43:35 and now that traffic has coming back to
43:39 uh where we are that's where we decided
43:42 to update the model or through the
43:44 counts for to all day tomorrow it would
43:46 be so wonderful to be able to tell folks
43:48 well we're spending this money but
43:49 here's what it's doing to traffic uh to
43:51 make traffic better in the city because
43:53 a few people uh are interested in that
43:55 subject thank you
44:00 any other questions from the council
44:04 okay I think those are our questions so
44:09 at this point I'm gonna see if we have a
44:12 motion and I'll note that if the motion
44:16 maker wants to put those two motions
44:19 together we can or we can do them
44:21 separately either way so is there a
44:24 motion
44:26 Deputy council president Hall
44:28 I'll do it all right so I moved to
44:32 authorize the mayor to enter into and
44:35 execute amendment number five with HDR
44:37 Incorporated for the 12th Avenue
44:38 Northwest and Sr 900 17th Avenue
44:41 Northeast Improvement project
44:44 tr004 in the amount of 1 million 49 714
44:48 dollars with a lot with a term ending in
44:51 February 2024 and to award the
44:54 Construction contract for the 12th
44:56 Avenue Northwest in Sr 900 17th Avenue
44:59 Northeast Improvement project
45:02 tr004 in the amount of four million 596
45:08 469.49 including sales tax to Fury site
45:13 Works Incorporated and direct the T
45:15 Financial Officer to allocate an
45:17 additional
45:18 two million 696 304 dollars of
45:23 expenditures and eight million one
45:25 hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred
45:26 and eighty five dollars of revenue for
45:28 this project you have future twenty
45:29 twenty three budget amendment
45:32 second
45:35 thank you both the uh joint motion has
45:39 been made and seconded uh is there any
45:43 discussion
45:47 seeing none sounds like a presentation
45:50 was done quite well so
45:55 the emotion before us is
46:01 authorize the mayor to enter into an
46:02 execute amendment number five with HDR
46:04 Incorporated for the 12th Avenue
46:06 Northwest and State Route 900 17th
46:08 Avenue Northeast Improvement project
46:10 tr004 in the amount of 1 million forty
46:13 nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen
46:14 dollars with the term ending in February
46:16 2024 and
46:19 award the Construction contract for the
46:22 12th Avenue Northwest and Sr 900 17th
46:25 Avenue Northeast Improvement project
46:27 tr04 and the amount of 4596
46:32 469.49 including sales tax to Fury site
46:35 Works Incorporated and direct the Chief
46:38 Financial Officer to allocate an
46:39 additional two million six hundred and
46:41 ninety six thousand three hundred and
46:42 four dollars of expenditures and eight
46:45 million 160
46:46 885 dollars of revenue for this project
46:49 in a future 2023 budget amendment all
46:52 those in favor please indicate by saying
46:55 aye
46:56 aye
46:58 all those opposed
47:01 that passes unanimously thank you for
47:05 the presentation appreciate the
47:06 information uh the next item of business
47:11 ab8565 amending the Ithaca Municipal
47:14 Code 2.06 Council meetings and city
47:17 council rules of procedure regarding the
47:19 order of business and we're inviting
47:22 city clerk Tisha Geezer to introduce
47:24 this item
47:28 good evening Council this is Tisha
47:30 Geezer city clerk I don't have a
47:32 presentation plan tonight but I'll
47:34 briefly introduce this item
47:36 so as you recall this agenda bill is an
47:39 outcome of the new business request that
47:41 was submitted by Deputy council
47:42 president Hall and presented at the
47:44 January 17th council meeting
47:46 the staff provided a brief response to
47:49 the February 6 council meeting and at
47:52 that meeting the council approved
47:54 directed the administration to go ahead
47:57 and implement the changes that were
47:59 contemplated in the new business request
48:01 so there are two pieces of legislation
48:04 in your agenda packet tonight the first
48:06 is a proposed ordinance that amends the
48:09 city council's order of business for
48:11 regular Council meetings to move those
48:13 action items being the consent calendar
48:15 public hearings regular business and new
48:18 business up in the order of business to
48:20 come immediately after audience comments
48:22 the second piece of legislation is a
48:25 resolution which would amend the council
48:27 rules it would mimic the order of
48:29 business in the is a common municipal
48:31 code and it has includes a few
48:33 additional Provisions specifically
48:36 making space for a committee chair to
48:39 provide some comments before the consent
48:40 calendar if that chair didn't have an
48:43 opportunity to provide a verbal report
48:45 on an item recommended by the committee
48:48 that's on the consent calendar
48:50 the proposed rules also make space for
48:53 the mayor to make similar comments of an
48:56 informational nature pertaining to a
48:58 consent calendar item before the motion
49:01 to approve the consent calendar and the
49:03 proposed amendments also reiterate the
49:06 council's practice which is if there's a
49:08 desire to discuss or to have a separate
49:11 vote on an item that that council member
49:12 pull an item down from the consent
49:14 calendar
49:16 so with that I'm available if there are
49:17 any questions
49:20 excellent and checking in with council
49:22 members I don't think I see any
49:25 questions
49:27 so at this point I am wondering if there
49:31 is a motion
49:33 I can make if nobody else does
49:37 yeah okay uh I move to adopt ordinance
49:42 number
49:44 3006. amending IMC
49:49 2.06.100 City Council meetings order of
49:52 business and approve resolution number
49:55 2023-4
49:59 okay amending the city council rules of
50:01 procedure section 4 Council meetings and
50:04 section 6 standing committees
50:07 is there a second
50:12 okay this has been moved and seconded is
50:16 there any Council discussion
50:19 yes council member Ray I would defer to
50:23 the motion maker if you wanted to go
50:24 first
50:26 no go ahead okay um
50:29 really in favor of trying new things and
50:32 trying them evaluating them and seeing
50:34 how well they how well they work and the
50:37 impact on how we do our business so the
50:39 last couple Council meetings I have
50:40 spent an in an inordinate amount of
50:43 attention listening to committee
50:45 Regional and the mayor's reports and
50:48 what I noticed in those reports is an
50:50 awful lot of that information isn't
50:51 directed to the council it's directed at
50:54 the public and so I mean tonight I mean
50:57 Council D Michelle gave a beautiful
50:59 report on all the things that are
51:01 happening around Transit which I think
51:02 is also very important to the public and
51:05 then the mayor's report
51:07 had a request for people who are
51:10 interested in boards and commissions and
51:13 those are things also aimed very much at
51:14 the public
51:17 The Limited public feedback we did here
51:19 said
51:21 um that this was important to the public
51:23 that we covered this early in the
51:24 meeting that this wasn't something to be
51:25 moved to the back of the meeting that
51:27 this provides value to the public and so
51:29 he was limited it was it was uh
51:31 significant
51:32 um and though I do agree that there um
51:34 that the reports uh provide useful
51:37 information for good of the order
51:39 I I think it would make more sense to me
51:41 really to say if you are um committee
51:46 reports should be those things that are
51:47 really necessary to inform consent and
51:50 inform the public and if there's things
51:51 that are going to be related to the good
51:53 of the order save them for good of the
51:54 order instead of reworking our uh orders
51:58 of business let's just rework the way we
52:01 do committee reports so
52:03 I I think the intent is great I want to
52:06 get behind it
52:07 um but I don't think it's the best thing
52:08 for us to do really quite honest so
52:11 um I I think what we have works and I
52:13 think if we use committee reports
52:15 differently instead of rearranging them
52:17 we can achieve the same thing without
52:19 having to jump through some of the Hoops
52:21 that we're proposing to jump through
52:22 thanks
52:24 thank you and Deputy council president
52:26 Hull
52:28 sure thanks
52:30 um oh interesting definitely interesting
52:32 questions to mull on
52:34 um you know um I'm happy to support the
52:37 proposal
52:38 as is
52:40 um I but I am still interested in you
52:43 know when I submitted the new business
52:44 request I was hoping we kind of have
52:46 that broader discussion of some
52:49 questions that I've been thinking about
52:50 in my brain
52:52 including
52:54 you know what our other cities in the
52:57 region doing that are creative and kind
52:58 of interesting that we might want to add
53:00 to our order of business
53:02 I've also been thinking about
53:03 accessibility is our use of language in
53:05 our order of business accessible to the
53:07 public that reads our agendas is there
53:09 any any way that we could be considering
53:11 a change in language that way also
53:14 um and I think this was inspired by
53:16 comments made either by council member
53:18 March or councilmember Ray when it first
53:21 came to us you know it's starting to
53:23 think about what does success look like
53:25 what does a successful agenda look like
53:27 and how do we measure or whether or not
53:29 that's it's successfully meeting the
53:30 outcomes that we want for for a meeting
53:32 agenda so anyways I just threw out this
53:36 kind of restructured order of business
53:38 as a jumping off point but my intent was
53:42 really to have this larger discussion
53:44 sorry about that Ding again happy to
53:46 support the current structure as
53:49 proposed in this I think there's value
53:51 to testing it out and I do think that
53:55 based on community survey data just data
54:00 from our eyes looking out into the
54:01 audience and on YouTube every night
54:03 there aren't very many people in the
54:05 community that come to Council meetings
54:07 or watch Council meetings for
54:09 information there are other avenues that
54:11 they're looking for so I do think that
54:13 that doing this restructure is in the
54:15 best interest of us as a council but I'd
54:18 also like to
54:21 live with it and then talk about it a
54:23 little bit more and still have that
54:24 broader discussion so I'd like to I will
54:27 be proposing an amendment that includes
54:29 another Council touch at a committee of
54:32 the whole meeting uh in the third
54:34 quarter
54:35 um to get us all into this which would
54:37 do two things one it gets us some time
54:39 to kind of test out the new structure as
54:41 presented tonight and two it gives us an
54:43 opportunity then consider those broader
54:45 questions that we might have after we've
54:47 had a chance to live with them for a
54:49 little bit
54:50 um so I won't make that motion right now
54:52 just in case there are other council
54:54 members that want to speak but it is my
54:57 intent to amend the motion to have it
55:01 come back to us again later in the year
55:02 and have some of those questions
55:03 answered by us thanks
55:07 great do we have any other comments
55:10 councilmember Joe thank you I'll speak
55:13 in favor of the main motion I I think
55:16 that
55:17 one of the things we need to think about
55:19 is a lot a number we don't have a large
55:21 audience watching our meetings but if a
55:24 person wants to find out what's going on
55:26 on YouTube it's always nice to have that
55:29 at the beginning of the meeting rather
55:30 than having to scroll all the way
55:32 through and and try to find it at the
55:34 back end so
55:36 um just for that kind of piece in terms
55:39 of easily giving the ability of the
55:41 public to find that information that
55:42 they're searching for it they know it's
55:44 at the beginning I think this is a good
55:46 motion to support this time I'd be
55:49 interested to hear the the imagine most
55:50 as well
55:53 everyone any other comments
55:57 I will just go ahead and make mine I'm
56:01 strongly in favor of this I I think we
56:04 have definitely shown through surveys
56:08 and talking with the community that they
56:10 don't watch Council meetings in order to
56:12 get their information so I think this
56:15 allows us to restructure to allow staff
56:18 to complete their work earlier to allow
56:22 people who want to engage on the items
56:24 that are part of our regular business
56:26 meeting to not have to sit through other
56:29 things that they don't have to I would
56:31 note that on the YouTube channel when
56:34 someone goes to watch that there are
56:37 time stamps for all of the items and so
56:39 that allows them to navigate to the
56:41 items quickly whether it's the beginning
56:44 or the end this just respects the time
56:47 of people who choose to watch this or
56:50 attend in
56:53 in person and so I am strongly in favor
56:56 of this
56:57 um as originally motioned
57:00 so I will check to see if we have uh
57:03 council member D Michelle yeah and I'll
57:06 be uh hopefully brief I support the
57:10 motion uh but I also I think uh council
57:13 member uh called me some good points
57:15 about
57:17 um let's let's revisit and let's see how
57:20 this works let's and then let's revisit
57:22 and I think the comments about I think
57:25 it's important for the community to know
57:27 that I all of us are on Regional and uh
57:31 you know larger interest committees and
57:35 that we serve that purpose for them and
57:37 that we're representing their interest
57:38 on a broader level than just the city
57:40 council how do we do that effectively
57:42 and I think this is Raising that
57:44 question I don't have an answer tonight
57:46 but I think it's a really really good
57:48 question to ask
57:49 and perhaps through this experiment we
57:53 can come up with a better way to
57:55 communicate our involvement at that
57:58 level and what the communities can out
58:01 of that thank you
58:05 okay council members
58:07 thank you
58:09 um I I think I'm opposed to this this
58:11 evening and here's why
58:13 um I don't like doing experiments with
58:15 how we run counsel uh I love that we are
58:21 an effective body that focuses on
58:24 getting stuff done and I think we're a
58:27 more effective body than historically
58:29 over the 14 years that I've been on
58:31 Council than other councils in the area
58:34 and uh I think if it ain't don't fix it
58:36 so I'm sort of small C conservative
58:39 about our process and this hasn't nobody
58:43 has convinced me that we need to do this
58:45 so if the if the body chooses to do it
58:48 fine but I I guess my vote is uh don't
58:51 monkey around with things if we don't
58:53 need to because uh you know getting
58:57 um the collaborative Ambiance Ambiance
59:00 if that's the right word to use
59:02 um you know the collaboration that we
59:03 have with the administration and the
59:06 consistency of it is is a rare very
59:08 beautiful thing and so I'm just I'm
59:10 nervous whenever anybody when we go to
59:12 move any of the levers on on the subject
59:14 thank you
59:18 Deputy council president Hall uh thanks
59:21 so I'm going to move my Amendment
59:23 um so I moved to amend the motion to
59:25 include the following at the end and to
59:28 return to a committee of the whole
59:29 meeting in quarter three to evaluate
59:31 success to consider additional questions
59:33 related to our order of business
59:37 until we have a second
59:41 second thank you
59:45 okay do we have any
59:48 um conversation on the motion or on the
59:51 amendment excuse me
59:56 councilmember or Ray whoever I am uh uh
1:00:00 thanks
1:00:01 um no I think it's a great idea I think
1:00:03 uh we should always whenever we're uh
1:00:06 um changing things particularly if we're
1:00:08 not 100 sure the outcome that we make
1:00:11 ourselves accountable to ourselves and
1:00:13 to the public that we will come back and
1:00:15 evaluate so I think it's a it's a very
1:00:18 um intelligent smart way to go
1:00:24 okay and just a question for the clerk
1:00:28 this amendment do we have a sense of
1:00:32 which of the ordinances
1:00:35 or whether it would be the ordinance or
1:00:37 the resolution that would be amended you
1:00:41 know technically it's not amending
1:00:43 either it's sort of just addressing the
1:00:45 work plan items so it's providing
1:00:48 Direction
1:00:49 so I I guess in in Brackets
1:00:52 um we might add and direct the
1:00:55 administration to return to a committee
1:00:56 of the whole
1:00:57 meeting
1:01:00 but it's germane to the item I think
1:01:01 it's appropriate to offer it as an
1:01:03 amendment okay fantastic I just wanted
1:01:07 to make sure I was reading it all
1:01:08 correctly
1:01:10 um as we go so does the maker have any
1:01:14 additional comments
1:01:18 um well just to say that yeah I think
1:01:19 this is then now an opportunity for us
1:01:21 to live with it for a little bit and
1:01:22 then come back and evaluate is this
1:01:24 working is it creating more problems
1:01:27 than it is my senses it's not that it's
1:01:29 it's going to work just fine it's going
1:01:31 to create more opportunities for us to
1:01:32 have conversations that tie in Regional
1:01:35 reports and go to the order to kind of
1:01:38 have conversations about well how do we
1:01:40 measure success maybe we send out a
1:01:43 survey at the end of the year to the
1:01:44 council to say did you like this update
1:01:46 like is it meeting your needs better or
1:01:48 are you indifferent I know some other
1:01:51 councils do written Regional reports
1:01:54 that get included in the packet which is
1:01:57 a potential solution to the issue that
1:01:59 councilmember D shell brought up I don't
1:02:01 know if that's something we want to do
1:02:02 or not but all these things I think are
1:02:04 worthy of discussion up here on the
1:02:06 diocese so um the reason why I bring up
1:02:08 this amendment thanks
1:02:12 okay so at this point we've got an
1:02:15 amendment on the table which is to amend
1:02:18 the motion to add and to direct the
1:02:22 administration to return to a committee
1:02:24 of the whole meeting in quarter three to
1:02:26 evaluate success and consider additional
1:02:29 questions related to our order of
1:02:31 business
1:02:32 so all those in favor of the amendment
1:02:34 please signify by saying aye
1:02:39 all those opposed
1:02:41 okay the amendment passes unanimously
1:02:44 and so at this point I think we're back
1:02:47 to the main motion amended so the motion
1:02:50 before the council is to adopt ordinance
1:02:53 number 3006 amending IMC
1:02:58 2.06.100 City Council meetings order of
1:03:01 business and approve resolution number
1:03:04 2023-04 amending the city council rules
1:03:07 of procedure section 4 Council meetings
1:03:10 and section 6 standing committees and to
1:03:14 direct the administration to return to a
1:03:16 committee of the whole meeting in
1:03:17 quarter three to evaluate success and
1:03:19 consider additional questions related to
1:03:21 the order of business
1:03:23 all those in favor please signify by
1:03:26 saying aye aye
1:03:28 all those opposed no
1:03:31 that passes five to two
1:03:35 and council president yes I'm sorry for
1:03:38 being so loud
1:03:40 um I I did not hear council member hunt
1:03:42 so if she could clarify how she voted on
1:03:46 I voted I thank you thank you appreciate
1:03:49 that so uh that passes five to two and
1:03:53 the next item of business is good of the
1:03:56 order and I know councilmember hunt you
1:04:00 had an item on that
1:04:05 um I will give that to you first as I
1:04:08 look to see if there's anybody else who
1:04:09 has an item for good of the order
1:04:14 all right thank you council president
1:04:16 Walsh
1:04:18 um so the Planning Development and
1:04:19 environment committee meeting at our
1:04:21 February 7th meeting we started to
1:04:23 discuss what materials we thought should
1:04:25 be shared with Council when the title 18
1:04:30 changes to our land use code comes back
1:04:32 to the full Council for review and we
1:04:36 had a beginning of that conversation but
1:04:38 we will continue that conversation at
1:04:40 our next meeting which is February 28th
1:04:42 and at that time it'll be id1385 Title
1:04:46 18 land use code planning policy
1:04:48 commission recommendation
1:04:50 um and so I wanted to raise to my fellow
1:04:54 council members
1:04:56 um if there are things that you think
1:04:58 would be especially helpful pieces of
1:05:01 information
1:05:02 um that would be especially helpful this
1:05:05 would be a good time to
1:05:07 um to raise those so the administration
1:05:09 will know to include those in the
1:05:12 materials that come back to full Council
1:05:13 so the items that we discussed initially
1:05:17 would be the goals and outcomes chart
1:05:19 which was something that the ad hoc
1:05:22 Committee of this Council produced
1:05:24 towards the beginning of the title 18
1:05:26 process and it outlines at a very high
1:05:29 level what we were setting out to do
1:05:31 with this code update and how we thought
1:05:34 it could be done and now after now as
1:05:38 we're at the end of the process it has
1:05:40 information about which specific code
1:05:42 changes address which of the goals and
1:05:44 outcomes
1:05:45 there's also executive summary that has
1:05:47 been prepared that we thought would be
1:05:49 helpful this has information about what
1:05:51 sections have been added as well as what
1:05:54 areas have the most changes and and why
1:05:56 and what are those changes it is a lot
1:05:59 of code it is a lot of text and so we
1:06:02 thought that this would help narrow down
1:06:04 the areas that are
1:06:06 um the areas that would be new which
1:06:09 could be potentially important for a
1:06:11 council to review and also the areas
1:06:13 with the most changes so it helps it
1:06:15 helps narrow that
1:06:18 that um review a little bit and then
1:06:22 um we also thought it would be helpful
1:06:23 to have a description of the code
1:06:25 testing that was done the staff did
1:06:28 Outreach with a number of individuals as
1:06:31 well as internal testing of the code and
1:06:35 to make sure it was usable and met all
1:06:36 of our our goals in terms of improved
1:06:40 predictability Etc and so we thought
1:06:42 providing information about that process
1:06:44 would be helpful as well as a
1:06:46 description of the public engagement and
1:06:48 the work of our many very dedicated
1:06:50 volunteer commissions there has been a
1:06:53 lot of public engagement a lot of public
1:06:54 comments and a lot of tracking of those
1:06:56 comments by our development staff and so
1:07:01 we thought that a summary of that would
1:07:03 be helpful to give a full sense of how
1:07:06 how much work has gone into this
1:07:09 um and then lastly the Whiteboard items
1:07:12 are items that uh have been
1:07:15 identified as meeting additional
1:07:18 consideration additional work after this
1:07:21 Title 18 update some of those items have
1:07:23 also been funded through the budget
1:07:26 process by Council and some of them are
1:07:29 whiteboard items in the sense that we
1:07:31 know we need to do additional work but
1:07:32 it has not yet been the work plan is not
1:07:35 yet been fully worked out so having an
1:07:38 idea of what items are on that
1:07:40 whiteboard would also be helpful
1:07:42 so that was the list that uh the
1:07:44 preliminary list that the committee
1:07:47 talked about
1:07:49 um my fellow committee members can
1:07:50 please add anything if I missed anything
1:07:54 um but really just wanted to raise that
1:07:56 as as information for the council
1:07:59 um also to to let you know that this is
1:08:02 coming to council soon and so um if you
1:08:04 do have things questions
1:08:07 um things that you think would be
1:08:09 helpful to you
1:08:10 um as we start to review this as a whole
1:08:12 Council I wanted to give an opportunity
1:08:15 for that
1:08:17 thank you
1:08:20 so I will just chime in as another
1:08:22 Committee Member here that this is kind
1:08:25 of like asking you to figure out what
1:08:27 questions you're going to want when you
1:08:28 haven't seen anything yet but the
1:08:31 information that councilmember hunt uh
1:08:34 detailed here are going to be very
1:08:36 useful and I think there's also a sense
1:08:39 that we may want to include some links
1:08:43 to some of the particularly important
1:08:46 YouTube
1:08:48 meetings that we had that really if
1:08:52 you're a somebody who'd rather watch it
1:08:54 rather than read it those would be
1:08:56 useful there's also been an offer from
1:08:59 staff the city administrator and
1:09:01 Community Planning Development director
1:09:03 to have individual meetings to help you
1:09:06 through this process
1:09:09 and then the other thing I was thinking
1:09:11 council member Hunt is that it might be
1:09:14 useful to include the letters from PPC
1:09:17 and the environmental board that we
1:09:19 received even though a lot of those
1:09:22 items will have been addressed and
1:09:23 probably would be listed in the
1:09:25 description of the commission work I
1:09:27 think it's important since those letters
1:09:29 were addressed to the entire Council for
1:09:31 the council members to receive that as
1:09:34 part of that review
1:09:36 but I am sure looking forward to this
1:09:40 councilmember Joe no council member Ray
1:09:45 one is
1:09:47 kudos to the ad hoc and to pde for
1:09:51 um just logging through this this was a
1:09:53 huge amount of effort and lift and it
1:09:56 was done in a very
1:09:59 business-like way so I just wanted to
1:10:02 recognize that the the where I keep
1:10:04 going to is the very last bullet which
1:10:06 is the Whiteboard items because that's
1:10:07 the big ambiguity about what is that so
1:10:09 if there's some additional information
1:10:11 that we can provide for each of the
1:10:12 items that are on the Whiteboard that
1:10:14 are you know in this parking lot that we
1:10:16 know we need to work on it but we
1:10:17 haven't gotten to it yet about what it
1:10:19 is when we think we'll get to it why
1:10:21 it's important I think that would be
1:10:23 um really helpful because it provides
1:10:25 that wrapper around all the rest of the
1:10:27 work and says we didn't try to boil the
1:10:29 ocean we just tried to boil the Lake
1:10:31 Washington so um
1:10:34 so um anyway super amount of work done
1:10:37 in here but um just just a little more
1:10:40 or and I don't even know what you're
1:10:41 going to provide on the Whiteboard but
1:10:43 to me the Whiteboard provides a huge
1:10:44 amount of important context thanks
1:10:51 um councilmember hunt did you need
1:10:52 anything else from us
1:10:56 um no I just wanted to add one
1:10:58 additional thing which is I also
1:11:00 recently learned that at our February
1:11:02 28th meeting of the Planning Development
1:11:04 environment committee we will also have
1:11:06 an executive session so we have one item
1:11:08 id 1385 title 1890s code and then we
1:11:11 also have that
1:11:13 thanks
1:11:14 okay great and do we have any other good
1:11:18 of the order items coming up from any
1:11:21 other council members
1:11:24 no it looks like we do not there is
1:11:28 um I have a few upcoming Council
1:11:29 meetings to announce on Tuesday March
1:11:32 7th the regular city council meeting
1:11:34 there are currently no regular business
1:11:36 items on that one so we'll see what
1:11:38 comes up with that and then Monday March
1:11:41 13th the committee of the whole
1:11:44 anticipated agenda items include the
1:11:46 title 18 land use code Consolidated
1:11:49 draft
1:11:50 and City Hall planning space needs
1:11:52 assessment results both very exciting
1:11:55 items we do not have an executive
1:11:58 session tonight so there being no
1:12:00 further business the meeting is
1:12:02 adjourned at 8 12 pm thank you everyone

Attendance

Council / Members (7)
Barbara de Michele
Zach Hall
Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually)
Russell Joe
Tola Marts
Chris Reh
Lindsey Walsh, Mayor pro tem

Motions and votes (3)

Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute Amendment #5 with HDR, Inc. for the 12th Avenue NW & SR 900/17th Ave NE Improvement Project (TR 004) in the amount of $1,049,714, with a term ending in February 2024; and Award the construction contract for the 12th Avenue NW & SR 900/17th Ave NE Improve…
Moved by HALL · seconded by JOE
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Mayor pro tem
Adopt Ordinance No. 3006, amending IMC 2.06.100, City Council meetings order of business; and Approve Resolution No. 2023-04, amending the City Council Rules of Procedure Section 4, Council Meetings; and Section 6, Standing Committees.
Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE
Amend the motion to add, "and to [direct the Administration to] return to a Committee of the Whole meeting in Quarter 3 to evaluate success and consider additional questions related to the order of business." . MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED, 5-2 (
Moved by HALL · seconded by DE MICHELE
Carried 7-0
Opposed: Marts, Reh