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City Council Regular Meeting Auto captions

Monday, November 6, 2023

7:00 PM · 2h 16m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
Intelligent Transportation System Plan Update COM 0167 3/4
Natural Environment Checklist Annual Update (D) AB 8703 4/6
Public Records Policy & Fee Schedule AB 8553 2/5
Section
Topic
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3a
World Town Planning Day Proclamation ID 1373
5 min · packet pp.5
Staff report:
CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office
3b
Accounting Day Proclamation ID 1374
5 min · packet pp.7
Staff report:
CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office
3c
Issaquah Recycles Day Proclamation ID 1375
5 min · packet pp.9
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
5. CONSENT CALENDAR
5a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Nov. 6, 2023, $3,209,140.23 ID 1482
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.11–36
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
Roll call:
Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
5b
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, July 10, 2023
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.37
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 07-10-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 5:30 PM Blackberry Park July 10, 2023 MINUTES 4214 191st Ave. SE
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
5c
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, July 10, 2023
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.39–42
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR c) 07-10-23 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
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
5d
Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network (PSERN) Service Level Agreement AB 8698
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.43–97
Topics: Public Safety
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
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
5e
Increasing the Amount of Petty Cash Funds AB 8702
Carried 7-0
Approve Resolution · packet pp.99–101
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Petty cash funds are used to create a more efficient and cost effective manner in which to operate immaterial city finances, where a procurement card or other forms of payment are not feasible.
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
5f
Amending IMC 2.36, Environment Board re: Natural Environment Checklist AB 8703
Carried 7-0
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.103–109
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
In 2023, the City Council adopted a revised IMC Title 18, Land Use Code. Revisions included updating out-of-date information, revising language to comply with State regulations, and consolidation of several regulating documents to create a more enforceable and intuitive Land Use Code. The Title 18 update also included moving language from Title 18 to Title 2, Administration and Personnel regarding decision making roles of boards and commissions that impacted the Environmental Board. Subsequently, the following error was noted, which this agenda bill seeks to correct.
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
5g
Amending IMC 3.16, Regarding Electronic Funds Transfers AB 8715
Carried 7-0
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.111–115
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
Electronic funds transfers (EFT) are an efficient and cost effective payment method to pay vendors. Offering electronic funds transfer as a vendor payment method will benefit the City by reducing costs related to staff time and supplies for issuing physical checks, reissuing checks that are lost in the mail, and fees assessed due to mail delivery interruption. Vendors will benefit by receiving payment within one business day after check run processing.
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
5h
Third Amendment to the Interagency Agreement with Ecology for PFAS Groundwater Modeling for the Lower Issaquah Valley Aquifer AB 8717
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.117–134
Topics: WaterCritical Areas
Staff report:
Among many actions taken after PFOS (one of the PFASs) was detected in the City water supply in 2015, the City entered into an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) with Eastside Fire and Rescue (EFR), in partnership with Ecology, to complete a Phase 1 investigation of the nature and extent of PFAS in the Issaquah Valley Area in 2018. In December 2019, another ILA with EFR and an Interagency Agreement (IAA) with Ecology were approved formalizing the Partnership and establishing an Executive Committee and Scope of Phase 2 of the investigation. These phases of work are now complete and have been almost completely funded through various state agencies. Phase 3 work, led by EFR, which involved a field scale pilot remediation trial, is near completion. Part of this work included developing an Agency Remedial Investigation Report for the Eastside Fire and Rescue Headquarters Site.
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
5i
Amendment to Port of Seattle Economic Development Partnership Program Grant AB 8720
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.135–149
Topics: Economic Development
Staff report:
The Port of Seattle has partnered with King County cities via its Economic Development Partnership Program since 1996 to provide non-competitive economic development grants. The City of Issaquah has received up to $40,640 annually, based on a $1 per capita allocation. This grant requires a 50% match.
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
5j
Mid-Term Board & Commission Youth Appointments AB 8726
Carried 7-0
Confirm · packet pp.151–152
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
The City conducted the annual board and commission recruitment process earlier this year, and determined additional recruitment was needed for two youth vacancies.
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
6. PUBLIC HEARING
6a
Public Records Policy & Fee Schedule AB 8553
Conduct Public Hearing · 30 min · packet pp.153–246
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Under state law, local government agencies are required to provide public records upon request. In 2022, the City worked on 1,576 public records requests. Of these,  75% were for police records  15% were for land use records  10% were for other departmental records
7. REGULAR BUSINESS
7a
Intelligent Transportation Systems Plan AB 8551
Carried 7-0
Approve · 30 min · packet pp.247–335
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
The purpose of the ITS Program is to improve traffic flow, reduce traffic delays, and increase safety throughout the City’s transportation network with the use of data and technology. The program includes policies, practices, projects, equipment, software, and staffing. The ITS Plan is a component of the overall program, serving as a collection of actions the City could use to implement the program’s priorities.
Roll call:
Moved by REH · seconded by HALL
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
10. GOOD OF THE ORDER
10a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:03 evening everyone I welcome you to the
0:06 I'm called the November 6 city council
0:08 meeting to order as a reminder we
0:10 continue to have a remote aspect to our
0:12 meetings and both staff and members of
0:14 the public may be participating in
0:16 tonight's meeting uh remotely or here
0:19 with us the first item of the agenda
0:22 this evening is the Pledge of Allegiance
0:23 and I invite you all to
0:28 join I pledge Al to the flag United
0:32 States of America to
0:38 the
0:40 indivisible andice for
0:45 all we have a couple of items under
0:47 special business this evening uh we're
0:49 going to start with ID
0:52 1373 World town planning day
0:54 Proclamation and I invite council member
0:56 hunt to come to the podium and invite up
0:59 the recipients
1:15 I can invite up Community planning and
1:16 development director Minnie Dolly wall
1:18 planning manager Christen Christian GS
1:21 and longrange planning manager Steven
1:28 Padua
1:32 um thank you for joining us this evening
1:35 my name is uh council member Victoria
1:37 hunt and I wanted to start by thanking
1:39 you for everything you do for the city
1:41 before I was a council member I also
1:42 volunteered on our City's planning
1:45 policy commission and currently chair of
1:46 the Planning Development and environment
1:48 committee and I know you work hard to um
1:51 do so much for our community and also
1:53 wanted to thank you so much for all of
1:54 your leadership in our land use code
1:57 overhaul which we recently completed
1:59 also known as Title 18 and so with that
2:03 I will read the
2:05 proclamation whereas the international
2:07 organization of world town planning day
2:11 wtpd was founded in 1949 to advance
2:14 public and professional interest in
2:16 planning both locally and abroad and to
2:18 create a special day to recognize and
2:20 promote the role of planning and
2:22 creating livable communities and whereas
2:25 celebration of
2:26 wtpd is promoted each year by the
2:28 American planning Association and its
2:30 professional Institute the American
2:32 Institute of certified planners aicp and
2:36 whereas urban planners play a critical
2:38 role in creating livable sustainable
2:41 communities and we celebrate the
2:43 valuable contributions sound planning
2:45 makes to the quality of life in our
2:47 local communities and all levels of
2:49 government and whereas planning provides
2:51 an opportunity for all community members
2:53 to be meaningfully involved in making
2:55 better choices that determine the future
2:57 of their community and where as the
3:00 celebration of wtpd gives us the
3:02 opportunity to publicly recognize the
3:05 participation and dedication of the
3:07 members of the planning policy
3:08 commission and community members who
3:10 have contributed their time and
3:12 expertise to the Improvement of the city
3:14 of issaqua Washington and whereas the
3:16 city of isqua wishes to show our
3:18 appreciation for the many valuable
3:20 contributions made by dedicated planning
3:23 Professionals in the city of isqua and
3:25 extends our heartfelt thanks to for the
3:27 continued commitment to public service
3:29 by these professionals now therefore I
3:32 on behalf of mayor Mary L paie city of
3:34 isquad you recognize November 8th 2023
3:37 to be World town planning day and
3:41 present you with this and um if you
3:43 would like to make some comments thank
3:45 you very
3:58 much thank you council members members
4:01 of the community um and uh council
4:03 member hunt for saying such good things
4:07 uh we all know planning is important and
4:09 you don't it's invisible you don't see
4:11 the immediate impact you you know
4:13 there's no ribbon cutting that happens
4:15 with planning but it happens down the
4:17 road so uh but we've been really
4:19 fortunate with leadership here may
4:21 Paul's leadership Wally's leadership of
4:24 really keeping the community planning uh
4:26 in the Forefront front and center of all
4:29 that we do in the city so thank you all
4:31 for your
4:34 support think we get a picture there
4:38 thank you Wally and thank you
4:40 [Applause]
4:51 guys thank you for presenting that
4:53 council member hunt I know planning is
4:56 really near and dear to your heart and
4:58 we have been doing a lot of it over the
4:59 last couple of years uh the next one ID
5:02 1374 accounting day Proclamation I would
5:05 like to invite Deputy Council council
5:07 president Hall to
5:10 present uh thank you mayor Paulie I am
5:12 Deputy council president Hall and uh if
5:15 there are here Deputy Finance director
5:16 Jennifer rain accountant Nicole Pond and
5:19 Senior financial analyst Britney Hinsley
5:21 come on
5:28 up much for being
5:32 here all right accounting day
5:35 Proclamation whereas National accounting
5:38 days is celebrated on the 10th day of
5:40 every November to recognize the
5:42 accounting experts that ensure our
5:44 financial health and stability and
5:46 whereas accountability transparency and
5:49 organization are tantamount in municipal
5:51 government stewardship of taxpayer
5:53 resources accountants in the city of
5:55 isqua Finance team provide responsive
5:58 diligent and accurate service to the
6:00 city of isqua and its community members
6:03 and whereas the finance department
6:05 supports isqua's Services through the
6:07 development of the budget accurate
6:09 financial reporting audit preparation
6:11 monitoring business tax administration
6:14 and collection procurement and accounts
6:16 payable utility billing and payroll wow
6:20 and whereas the city of isqua wishes to
6:22 show its appreciation for its finance
6:24 department professionals now therefore
6:27 Mary Lali the mayor of isqua does
6:29 recognize November 10th to be accounting
6:31 day in the city of isqua and we invite
6:33 the entire Community to join us in
6:35 thanking the isqua's finance department
6:37 for their service and outstanding
6:38 contributions let's give them a round of
6:40 applause thank you very
6:44 much anyone
6:46 like suppose I will um well thank you
6:49 all for this uh Proclamation on behalf
6:52 of the finance department we have a
6:54 great group of accounting professionals
6:56 and finance professionals that um you
6:59 know thrive on your support and
7:01 Leadership and we continue to do that
7:04 each day so thank
7:17 you thank you all thank you Deputy
7:19 council president um I'll come down to
7:22 there we
7:23 [Applause]
7:25 go I will come down for the last item
7:28 under special business which is ID
7:31 1375 uh isqu recycle state
7:41 Proclamation Public Works director Emily
7:43 moon to come up to receive it welcome
7:47 Emily November 15th recognizes the 26th
7:50 annual America recycles day a nationally
7:53 recognized day for businesses government
7:55 agencies and individuals to consider the
7:57 importance of recycling and to commit to
8:00 reducing waste and the City of isqua
8:02 seeks to effectively Steward our natural
8:04 environment to ensure a sustainable Le
8:07 Legacy for future generations and
8:09 whereas the city of isqua strives to
8:11 reduce waste conserve natural resources
8:14 prevent pollution and save energy these
8:16 goals are Advanced through a robust
8:18 compost and recycling program and
8:20 whereas isqua is a leader in
8:22 demonstrating the next generation of
8:23 sustainability in the Pacific Northwest
8:25 and serves as a model for Innovation
8:28 collaboration and Effectiveness in large
8:30 part due to isqua sustainability
8:32 Department an environmental and
8:34 Regulatory program and whereas the city
8:37 of isqua wishes to show appreciation for
8:39 its sustainability environmental and
8:41 Regulatory program professionals now
8:44 therefore I mayor Mary Le poly of city
8:46 of isqua do recognize November 15 2023
8:49 to be isqua recycle days in the city of
8:52 isqua and invite the community to join
8:54 me in thanking isa's sustainability and
8:56 environmental department for their
8:58 service and outstanding
8:59 contributions Dr Moon would you like to
9:01 say a few words thank you very much for
9:04 the proclamation I'll just encourage
9:07 everyone to help us out with our
9:09 diversion rate we've been doing better
9:12 over the last couple months we look
9:13 forward to giving you a full report on
9:16 that sometime soon but go isqua keep
9:20 putting stuff in the recycle
9:23 bin I just want to thank uh director Mo
9:26 and the whole team over there because
9:28 even going through that lead uh
9:29 certification for cities we know this is
9:31 an area that we can improve so we are
9:33 doing very well but we can do better and
9:36 that's good to know thank you
9:58 director
10:00 we are going to move into the audience
10:02 comment portion of the meeting tonight
10:05 members of the public May address the
10:06 council at this time in person or
10:08 virtually and those who signed up in
10:10 advance to make comments will be called
10:12 on first if you are joining us virtually
10:14 and would like to make comments please
10:16 raise your virtual hand or send the host
10:17 a chat message if you're on a phone you
10:20 can press star three if you have joined
10:21 by computer or smartphone look for the
10:23 hand icon and if you're in the room and
10:25 did not sign up I will ask for other
10:27 speakers before we close this portion of
10:29 the meeting there's also going to be a
10:31 public hearing tonight on AB
10:33 8553 public records policy and fee
10:36 schedule so comments on this item should
10:39 be made under the public hearing
10:40 occurring later in the meeting city
10:42 clerk who's signed up to speak this
10:44 evening uh we have at least one person
10:46 signed up to speak
10:51 right um so um please direct your
10:54 comments to the whole city council and
10:56 not individuals and while this is not a
10:58 question and answer session we will
11:00 contact you to follow up if needed when
11:02 recognized unmute your microphone for
11:04 virtual attendees or step up to the
11:06 Lector in the center of the room if
11:07 you're here with us state your name
11:09 address and relationship to the city
11:11 speak clearly and pause frequently and
11:13 please limit your comments to 5 minutes
11:15 if you are attending virtually and do
11:17 not respond after your name or phone
11:18 number or your connection is lost
11:20 unexpectedly the meeting will still need
11:21 to proceed personal attacks obscene
11:24 language derogatory remarks and
11:26 disruptive behavior will not be
11:27 permitted and public comments written in
11:29 verbal are an important aspect of the
11:31 public process the city takes comments
11:33 seriously and we thank all those that
11:35 will be giving us some comments this
11:37 evening um who who is it that has signed
11:39 up city clerk Paul winterstein great
11:42 welcome
11:48 Paul I just turned on the
11:51 speaker hey I'm here I'm here uh my name
11:55 is Paul winterstein I'm the director of
11:56 the isqua history museums and and did
11:59 you know that we have over 40,000 items
12:01 in our collection that ranges from like
12:04 one of the original handdrawn fire uh
12:07 carts from the original uh volunteer
12:10 fire department here in isqua we have
12:12 the Articles of Incorporation for the
12:14 initial um Municipal Water System that
12:17 was built here by uh in the late 1800s
12:20 even and we have lots of big long saws
12:22 if anybody needs a saw just let me know
12:25 but actually and I'm going to give you
12:26 an opportunity to learn more about the
12:27 collection in a moment because I'm going
12:29 to invite you to uh a open house that
12:32 we're going to have but before I get to
12:33 that details of that of that invitation
12:36 I did want to share just a few words
12:38 about um all of the interactions in the
12:41 way that um the city your staff and
12:44 Leadership has been working and
12:45 interacting with my organization since I
12:47 started uh just back in April starting
12:50 with you know we have a member of your
12:51 staff Juliana de Cruz who's on our who's
12:53 on our board Juliana is an excellent I
12:55 think um uh Ambassador for the city and
12:59 a real value ad to our organization so
13:01 I'm really pleased with her
13:04 participation um you know Gilman town
13:06 hall and the depot have gotten fresh
13:07 coats of paint over the summer and we
13:09 had some new signs that were remade and
13:11 the Gilman toown Hall has a new roof all
13:13 excellent and I've been working and
13:15 coordinating with people from the
13:16 facilities department and you know
13:18 that's gone really smoothly I really um
13:20 um appreciate the way that everybody
13:22 have been able to work with people from
13:23 that
13:24 organization um I also um been really uh
13:27 happy with as you know we're going to
13:30 talk a little bit later on about we're
13:31 doing an assessment of uh potentially
13:34 restarting the trolley as a program and
13:37 uh there's been a lot of interaction
13:38 with the city in that regard you know
13:40 and you we got a very early draft of a
13:43 potential track agreement that was
13:45 really good to get in hand early um we
13:48 um I entered I went online and entered a
13:53 c click fix and boy that everybody was
13:56 all over that like white on rice and and
13:59 the issue had to do with there's a
14:00 trestle over the East Fork of the isqua
14:04 creek near Dairy gold that had a lot of
14:06 vegetation going over it we're going to
14:08 be doing an inspection of that bridge
14:09 and so some of that needed to be cleared
14:12 and so not only members of parks but
14:14 even someone uh uh from the planning
14:17 department was involved to help us with
14:18 that so I'm I'm pretty pleased with um
14:21 the really good collaboration that we've
14:23 had back and forth and that's That's
14:25 essential especially for that uh trolley
14:27 feasibility so can learn more about that
14:29 feasibility study about that collection
14:32 also what our plans are for gilon Hall
14:34 and a lot of other information at an
14:35 open house that we're going to have at
14:37 the Depot get out your calendars it's a
14:40 Thursday November 16th yes it does
14:43 coincide with the Oldtown meeting that's
14:45 going to be at the community center our
14:47 open house runs from 7:00 to 8:30 and I
14:50 believe in the last half hour of that um
14:52 we might have a little bit of um special
14:54 programming for a member of our
14:57 community more on that information a
14:59 little bit later but um we're going to
15:01 have a lot of information stations there
15:04 about the um the status uh of like I
15:07 said our collection but also about what
15:10 about our long-term plans for storage
15:11 with the autof freight building what
15:13 about the Caboose that sits out there
15:14 and the Army car uh and of course the
15:17 trolley program itself so uh we're
15:19 inviting uh all members of the community
15:22 uh and um I really hope that as uh the
15:26 city has a lot invested in uh is history
15:28 museums and I'd be very happy if U if
15:32 members of from this group here and also
15:34 members of staff are all invited to come
15:37 and uh learn more about it meet our meet
15:39 our staff meet our board members and I'd
15:42 love to get your inputs and reactions of
15:44 the things that we're doing so thank you
15:46 very much thanks for the
15:48 update is there anyone um online city
15:52 clerk that has not that has signed up or
15:54 raised a hand we have a few members of
15:57 the public with us virtually
15:59 but I'm not seeing any indication that
16:00 they'd like to speak at this time I'll
16:02 come back to the room is there anyone in
16:04 the room that would like to speak during
16:06 U public
16:09 comments see no hands
16:12 here um well I thank you Paul for coming
16:15 we Council and mayor appreciate those
16:17 updates on the uh activities and
16:19 programs and early notification of open
16:22 house that is a good idea um as a
16:24 reminder for those that may be listening
16:26 written comments can be submitted
16:28 anytime to city council at is
16:30 w.gov and uh the next item on business
16:33 this our calendar this evening is the
16:35 consent calendar so I do not have any
16:37 remarks on tonight's consent calendar
16:39 and I just want to know if there's any
16:41 committee chairs or chair design who
16:43 would like to report on any of the
16:45 consent calendar items not seeing any
16:47 nods okay the consent calendar was
16:50 distributed to Council in advance and if
16:52 authorize the items on the consent
16:53 calendar will be considered together and
16:55 approved by one motion have the payables
16:57 and payroll been reviewed they have yes
17:00 thank you does any council member desire
17:03 to remove any item from the consent
17:04 calendar and consider it under regular
17:07 business not seeing any uh can we have a
17:11 motion council president I move to
17:13 approve the consent calendar as
17:15 presented second it's been moved and
17:18 seconded to approve as presented is
17:20 there any Council
17:23 discussion seeing none uh I'll call for
17:26 the vote all those in favor signify by
17:28 saying I
17:31 I those opposed that passes 7 to0 um we
17:36 are now going to move into our next item
17:37 of business which is a public hearing AB
17:40 8553 public records policy and fee
17:45 schedule so I'd like to invite public
17:47 records analyst Tammy Mueller to make a
17:49 presentation welcome
17:54 Tammy thank
17:56 you me see if I can figure out how to
18:14 represent
18:15 okay thank you Mayer thank you Council
18:18 uh tonight it's my pleasure to speak to
18:19 you about the public records policy and
18:21 proposed fee
18:23 schedule and if you have any questions
18:25 feel free to interrupt or wait until the
18:27 end um so the purpose of this uh is to
18:29 conduct a public
18:32 hearing no the screen and screen view I
18:36 apologize wanted to make sure it wasn't
18:38 presenting uh sorry um so the purpose of
18:42 uh tonight's uh presentation is to have
18:44 a public hearing on the proposed Fe
18:46 schedule and a policy for public records
18:50 um at the next meeting uh in on November
18:52 20th uh we will be presenting a
18:55 resolution uh to adopt the public
18:57 records policy and and the public
18:58 records fee schedule as well as an
19:00 ordinance to uh repeal what will become
19:03 conflicting and redundant sections in
19:04 the isqua municipal
19:06 code uh so for a little background on
19:09 the public records request policy uh
19:11 this policy will adopt the best
19:13 practices of the public records act as
19:15 recommended by the Washington
19:16 Administrative Code it will also
19:18 document the city's most current
19:20 practices and um make just as a
19:23 formality certain information that we
19:25 have to include and make public uh it
19:27 will include all that information and
19:29 then we'll replace uh the esam municipal
19:32 code um uh title one chapter
19:35 28 regarding uh background of the the
19:38 public records fee schedule uh we don't
19:40 have one and we haven't for a while um
19:43 reasoning for that is that in 2017 it
19:46 became a requirement to formally adopt a
19:48 fee schedule and um also to either adopt
19:52 the uh the very nominal fees that uh are
19:56 in the rcws OR to
19:58 do your own background uh your own cost
20:01 analysis um and at the time nobody had
20:04 really done it uh and uh the RCW fees
20:07 were very small and um it just didn't
20:11 make sense to ask people to mail in a
20:13 check or come in with cash for that and
20:15 there was no ability at that time to
20:16 accept credit card payments um that has
20:19 changed now uh the finance department
20:21 and it have been working very hard on
20:23 getting an electronic payment solution
20:25 in order and we expect that will uh at
20:27 least for for our end if if approved we
20:30 would be able to accept credit card
20:31 payments uh starting next year um for
20:34 for any records fees um as well as the
20:38 uh the police are getting ready to start
20:39 their body warn
20:40 camera program and um as part of that uh
20:44 there is um an allowable cost recovery
20:47 for the reduction of that body War
20:49 camera footage for those parties that
20:51 are not involved in the incident uh so
20:53 like members of the media or next door
20:55 neighbors or whoever else might be
20:57 curious about the those videos and want
20:59 them uh we can do a cost recovery method
21:01 for the the large amount of time that it
21:03 will take to redact those
21:06 videos so um I think I've already
21:09 covered this but uh the the two options
21:12 for uh adopting a fee schedule are those
21:14 default fees which I will note uh do not
21:17 include the any of the police specific
21:19 fees like the body War camera redaction
21:21 um you do have to do some sort of a
21:23 calculation for actual cost for those
21:25 which we have done with our cost
21:26 analysis um um but the default fees just
21:29 cover um some of the costs of Records uh
21:33 providing copies of Records um or you
21:35 can do what we've done which is the uh a
21:38 study to determine what the actual costs
21:41 are uh so in terms of what we are
21:43 allowed to charge for uh we can charge
21:46 for hard copies so like your paper
21:48 copies uh electronic copies body worn
21:51 video uh redaction and criminal records
21:54 sorry criminal history records
21:56 information which is like a copy of a
21:57 police report and then traffic or
22:00 Collision accident
22:01 reports we cannot charge and this is in
22:04 in the public records act we are not
22:05 allowed to charge for the staff time
22:07 that it takes to actually locate records
22:09 and process the request so this is just
22:12 uh cost recovery for the reproduction of
22:14 records and in the case of the body warn
22:16 uh uh camera video footage the the
22:19 redaction of that
22:21 footage so to give you a bit of an idea
22:23 of what it uh what sort of resources go
22:26 into processing public records request
22:28 uh we pull together some of the data
22:30 from 2022 for you um for instance 75% of
22:35 the city's public records requests are
22:37 for police records another 15% is for
22:40 permits and land use records and then
22:41 the remaining 10% is for everything else
22:45 uh anything from Utility Billing to the
22:47 Public Works records other Finance
22:49 records Parks records it's just the the
22:52 miscellaneous gamut of things but
22:53 primarily uh the city's uh Records
22:56 request are for police records
22:59 in terms of who is making these requests
23:02 um it's primarily individuals by small
23:05 margin over
23:07 organizations uh which includes you know
23:09 just businesses and any any sort of
23:12 organization that wants and these are
23:13 self identified so there's like a drop-
23:15 down menu and users select their own uh
23:18 their own category that they fall into
23:21 um the next biggest group after that was
23:22 law firms and then just smattering of of
23:26 others including Anonymous and
23:28 insurers and just all sorts of others uh
23:31 categories um that didn't really amount
23:33 to anything on their own um one Trend
23:36 that it's not reflected here in this
23:38 chart but one Trend that we have been
23:39 noticing over the past five years that
23:41 we've been looking at these uh at this
23:42 data is that the num the percentage of
23:45 individuals requesting records is going
23:47 down and the percentage of organizations
23:49 is going up for whatever reason
23:52 uh however I we the one piece of
23:56 information that we are lacking is what
23:58 percentage of those are isquad residents
24:00 or isquad businesses um we we don't have
24:03 that information
24:06 unfortunately um in terms of estimating
24:09 uh how much staff hours and staff cost
24:13 goes into processing requests again this
24:14 is processing this isn't necessarily
24:16 copies uh it's uh we estimated 5,160
24:20 hours collectively throughout the city
24:22 to process all the requests last year it
24:24 averages out to 3 hours per request um
24:27 and the average cost is $158 and again
24:30 that's an average so some requests take
24:33 15 minutes and they probably cost a
24:34 minimal amount of money some take 80
24:36 hours or more and cost substantially
24:38 more um in terms of our public records
24:41 request system that we use to uh accept
24:43 requests online to track all of our
24:45 requests and then provide those records
24:46 through a a secure portal uh online so
24:49 where customer can log in and access and
24:51 download their records um that cost last
24:54 year was $
24:56 17,46 and it is a cost that continues to
24:58 grow each
25:01 year so the approach that we took with
25:04 the fee schedule was obviously to
25:06 calculate out uh as as as as close as we
25:09 could to the actual cost um which excuse
25:13 me um attached was the uh the statement
25:16 of costs which um I I hope was specific
25:19 enough I think I may have overdone it um
25:22 but
25:23 um we did make some adjustments to that
25:26 um for instance we used an average staff
25:28 wage so that we had some mechanism to
25:30 charge flat fees or at least like an
25:32 expected cost um as opposed to charging
25:36 uh the the per minute wage of the
25:38 employee who's actually doing the work
25:40 um because at that point you're think
25:42 you know it's like okay well if I do the
25:44 copies it's going to be this much but if
25:45 I'm gone on the day that you know we we
25:48 have the copies ready to make like to
25:50 make them then it's my boss who makes
25:51 them that day and then your costs go up
25:53 you know it's um I don't think it
25:56 provides a very good customer experience
25:58 um when you have that variability um so
26:01 um we looked at it and we looked at what
26:04 our peers were doing and um so we
26:06 decided that an average wage uh would be
26:09 the most beneficial for us calculating
26:11 estimating fees and then just for
26:12 transparency reasons um so that worked
26:15 out to 83 cents per minute um for the
26:20 shared records copying so like hard
26:22 copies and scanning and whatnot but for
26:25 the ipd specific records um for those
26:28 fees uh we only used ipd staff and
26:30 calculate an average which was 80 cents
26:32 per minute um where possible we rounded
26:35 down and we Consolidated fees um for
26:38 instance we'll see on the next
26:39 slide that um regardless of the size of
26:43 paper up to an executive size which is
26:45 an 11 by 17 size paper regardless of if
26:48 its color or black and white will be
26:50 charging 30 cents per page or it's per
26:52 side of paper so a double-sided piece of
26:55 paper would be 60 cents um and that is
26:58 uh comparable if not cheaper to um
27:02 commercial uh businesses in the area
27:04 which we are required to compare to uh
27:06 as part of the as part of this analysis
27:09 um and for it's very rarely requested
27:14 but for the large format um uh printing
27:18 so like for if if somebody wanted us to
27:19 print off the the the as builts for for
27:22 their house um we could do that um the
27:24 bulk of that work went into the the
27:28 first page it's setting up the printer
27:29 it's formatting uh the document to
27:31 actually print correctly and to scale on
27:33 the printer and whatnot and then after
27:35 that you're just babysitting the printer
27:37 so we broke those apart um just to try
27:39 to make it more fair um and so we
27:41 calculated out the square foot price uh
27:44 per page for that um digitizing and
27:47 scanning work we don't expect to do a
27:49 lot more in the future because we've
27:50 been proactively scanning as many of our
27:52 records as we can get our hands on um
27:54 but if if by chance there is something
27:56 we need to scan um because the
27:58 variability of the scanning projects you
28:00 just don't know what you're going to get
28:01 into until it's requested it could be a
28:02 bound book it could be stapled it could
28:05 be very old and you got to tape it up
28:07 before you run it through a scanner
28:08 there's so much variability that um we
28:10 decided to just charge that 83 cents
28:12 average wage per minute uh up to two
28:15 hours because at that point it just
28:16 becomes really expensive uh to have
28:20 staff do it and um it would be more
28:22 cost- effective to Outsource that work
28:24 um and then the the customer would
28:25 probably get that faster so at that
28:27 point they be paying the uh the price um
28:30 of the uh you know obviously with their
28:32 permission if they wanted to move
28:33 forward with it um of the
28:36 vendor uh there are some options where
28:40 uh there's no charge associated with it
28:42 um under the public records act we
28:44 cannot charge for the inspection of
28:46 Records so that's not receiving a copy
28:48 that's coming in and actually viewing it
28:50 typically this was with paper records
28:52 but um we can absolutely have somebody
28:54 come in and sit at uh you know at a
28:56 computer that's not connect ConEd to our
28:57 networks we can load the records that
28:59 they want to see on there and they can
29:01 come in and they can view that and get
29:02 staff support with that as needed but
29:04 that would need to be at a at a city
29:06 facility um we already have a an uh a
29:10 scheduler online um and we have been
29:12 using this
29:13 for about two years now um and uh
29:18 members of the public can schedule
29:20 appointments um for as little as 30
29:22 minutes and up to two hours and we're
29:23 able to facilitate
29:25 that um also we have there is something
29:28 posted on our website like uh you know
29:30 like the the minutes from this meeting
29:32 um if we need to disclose that we can
29:34 just send them a uh a hyper link and
29:35 there's no charge for
29:38 that uh with in terms of electronic
29:43 records copies that's where it gets
29:46 complicated and so we've tried to break
29:48 it down a bit um and consolidate where
29:51 possible um we're proposing an
29:53 electronic record system transmission
29:55 fee which is a portion of the cost of
29:57 the gov QA electronic record system so
30:01 each request uh that is fulfilled
30:03 through the gov QA system to receive
30:05 copies of electronic records would be $9
30:08 per request so it's a onetime fee uh and
30:11 then we're proposing that the first 10
30:12 records that they uh that are responsive
30:15 to the request which honestly covers
30:16 most requests it's it's usually 10 or
30:18 fewer records uh there would be no
30:20 charge for that any additional records
30:23 beyond the 10th we worked out and then
30:25 rounded down to 25 cents per record
30:27 and then if the total file size of those
30:30 records goes above 1 gigabyte for every
30:33 gigabyte uh because we do have to pay
30:34 for storage uh there's a fee of 10 cents
30:37 per
30:39 gigabyte so to help put it in
30:41 perspective I thought an example might
30:43 help um if if a new esqua Resident this
30:46 is a fairly common type of request a new
30:48 esqua Resident they've just moved in
30:50 they want the um the blueprints for
30:52 their their house uh those are usually
30:54 very large files uh and so we'll just in
30:57 this example say it's over 1 Gigabyte so
31:00 if they wanted their request electron if
31:02 they wanted the copies of those records
31:04 electronically uh they would pay $9 for
31:07 um receiving that through our gova
31:09 portal uh there'd be no cost for the
31:11 electronic records copies because it's
31:13 under 10 they would pay 10 cents because
31:15 it's over a gigabyte and so their total
31:16 fees would be
31:20 $910 now all of those costs would uh or
31:23 all those proposed fees would cover
31:24 police and any other type of record
31:27 request but the next uh set of uh fees
31:31 would only cover police records so we've
31:34 already uh talked briefly about the
31:35 police body warn camera footage uh for
31:39 parties not directly involved with the
31:41 incident that they're requesting the
31:42 video for it would be 80 cents per
31:44 minute spent redacting which works out
31:46 to $48 per
31:49 hour and then for uh we we um decided to
31:52 take the same approach with police and
31:54 collision reports so we would not charge
31:57 the parties who were directly involved
31:58 in the incidents to get copies of those
32:00 records uh but for parties who are
32:03 requesting copies of those records that
32:04 were not involved in the incident
32:05 they're not representing anybody
32:07 involved in the incident it would be $8
32:09 per report um and then uh separate
32:11 matter is a clearance letter um which
32:15 it least can explain it better than I
32:17 can but this is a letter that you
32:18 request uh from the police department
32:20 and they they do their due diligence
32:22 they do a background check they write up
32:23 a letter they review it they notorized
32:25 it um it's a pretty formal process and
32:28 so um that worked out to it was actually
32:31 I think like over around $16 but we
32:33 rounded down to 15 so $15 per letter is
32:36 what the the cost of somebody would pay
32:38 for that
32:40 service so with regard to a police
32:44 request um and there the the first
32:47 version of this example would be like a
32:49 reporter from the news media as
32:50 requesting all records related to um a
32:54 specific police case uh if there were 30
32:57 records in that case File um you know
32:59 one of them is going to be a police
33:01 report let's say there's two bodyw warn
33:02 cameras it's over a gigabyte of uh files
33:06 total I think it's on the conservative
33:08 side but let's say that those two body
33:09 warn camera videos took five hours to
33:11 redact it probably be way more but um
33:14 the more and more I learn about it it's
33:15 pretty involved um so under this example
33:19 with everything calculated out the
33:21 storage the cost for the police report
33:23 the cost for the redaction that reporter
33:26 would owe 2
33:28 $620 however if this was uh uh somebody
33:32 who was involved in that incident they
33:33 would only pay the top three charges
33:35 which works out to
33:39 $14.10 there were a few other charges on
33:41 the fee schedule um that are here and uh
33:45 don't know if it's really worth going
33:46 into but we would propose charging the
33:48 actual cost for them because we don't
33:50 know what they're going to be
33:52 until we actually move forward with with
33:55 providing that service like mailing
33:57 records like how many records do we need
33:59 a box do we need an envelope what do we
34:00 need to mail it you know all those all
34:03 those things that you just don't know um
34:04 until you have it
34:07 already um regarding
34:10 um requests where we estimate it will
34:13 cost $50 or more we are uh recommending
34:16 that we charge the uh 10 a 10% deposit
34:19 UPF front before we start the work once
34:22 received we'll start the work we'll get
34:23 the records ready um and then when we
34:25 have them ready to provide again these
34:27 are the records copies if they want to
34:28 come and inspect it's a different matter
34:30 but assuming they want copies they would
34:31 pay the um the additional um cost uh at
34:35 the time the records are ready and once
34:37 the full sum is paid uh for the the fees
34:40 they would receive the records copies um
34:43 we are also proposing to pass on the
34:45 cost of using a credit card uh to the
34:48 customer we're still working with
34:49 Finance on the details of that um but uh
34:53 because the costs are so small um we we
34:56 weren't sure if it made sense to to
34:58 absorb that fee or not um and and so
35:01 we're we're still working on that and
35:03 I'm I know that the the council is is
35:06 considering looking into this matter
35:07 further and looking into a policy
35:09 regarding this
35:12 subject okay um I wanted to bring you
35:16 back to those examples and uh take a
35:18 look at how they compare with the the
35:21 state default fees only um so in the
35:23 example with the blueprints um the total
35:26 cost under the proposed fee schedule was
35:28 $910 under the state default fees only
35:31 it would only be 10 um and that's only
35:35 for the uh the fact that it was over a
35:38 gigabyte in storage so the state
35:40 allowable charge for over a gigabyte of
35:42 storage is 10 cents the in the case of
35:46 the police file um because there is no
35:49 default fee for uh redaction or for um
35:54 uh case reports uh it would just be 45
35:57 cents which is for the five cents for
35:59 every uh for every four files and uh
36:03 over a gigabyte 10 cents for that
36:04 gigabyte um and the same thing if it was
36:06 a victim it would be the same cost
36:08 regardless um assuming that there's no
36:12 um that the actual cost for the police
36:14 uh body War camera redaction footage and
36:16 um uh dissemination of criminal history
36:18 information isn't um
36:22 approved okay regarding what our peers
36:25 are doing throughout this whole process
36:27 I've been checking with our peers
36:28 because we we found out we are not in
36:30 this old and everybody's trying to
36:32 figure this out right now especially
36:33 with body cam um body cams going live
36:36 everywhere um so what we found out is
36:39 cities of Seattle Shoreline and Kenwick
36:41 have had uh cost study models adopted
36:44 previously and they're continuing with
36:45 that approach and they've had good luck
36:47 with it um city of bellw is in the same
36:50 boat as us they are uh doing a cost
36:52 study and they're looking into it and
36:54 figuring out you know what was be worth
36:56 it is
36:57 you know is there support for it um and
37:00 uh that was the the update the last time
37:01 I spoke with them um and regarding uh
37:05 Kirkland and Redmond um regarding the
37:09 records portion of a fee scheduled they
37:11 have adopted the state default fees and
37:13 they've had those for probably since
37:16 2017 um and at this point they don't
37:19 plan to change that but with their um
37:22 their body cam policy they are looking
37:25 into um their own fee studies for that
37:28 and what what to charge for that
37:29 especially Redmond who's had them for a
37:31 while and has not been charging they
37:33 have like the biggest backlog out of
37:35 anybody it's it's really bad
37:37 um I think there's some other reasons
37:39 for that but yeah they're definitely
37:42 looking at at at a cost study now for
37:45 their body War camera uh program um so
37:48 the Alternatives uh to adopting the
37:51 proposed fee schedule uh we could adopt
37:53 the state default fees uh which are you
37:56 know uh more restrictive um in terms of
37:59 of what they've already pre-calculated
38:00 for us they're actually based Loosely
38:02 off of a 2015 city of Seattle cost study
38:06 uh I found out through a lot of lot of
38:08 research that's a hidden fact
38:11 um uh we would recommend that we still
38:14 adopt the actual costs for police
38:16 records um whichever direction we go um
38:19 we could also modify the proposed V
38:22 schedule combine more things so we could
38:24 eliminate things um
38:27 just based off of the feedback that we
38:28 hear
38:29 tonight so I think with that I will open
38:33 up the floor to you there's any feedback
38:35 any
38:36 questions thanks Tammy um so for Council
38:40 the next part of the process is I'll go
38:43 for questions but you will not be voting
38:45 on this until November 20th so just to
38:47 make sure that's clear uh
38:49 questions council member o Michelle and
38:52 then council member hunt
38:55 thanks there we
38:57 go uh Tammy you touched on this a little
39:01 bit uh but uh and uh thank you for the
39:04 really extensive information you
39:06 provided for me today but can you just
39:09 give us a a overview of what all is
39:12 involved in redacting a body camera
39:15 video and um some of the the factors
39:20 that have to be taken into account
39:22 through that process sure um I think uh
39:27 unless Chief Swan wants to jump in um to
39:30 my understanding based off of what I
39:32 understand oh y I will turn the floor
39:34 over to Chief
39:35 Schwan you
39:38 Tammy thank you Barbara de
39:40 Michelle so um a lot that goes into the
39:43 body warn cameras we do have to when
39:45 someone puts in a request we have to
39:48 give them that footage now when we give
39:51 them that footage doesn't mean all the
39:54 information or all the video that's on
39:56 there there's certain things that go
39:57 into whether there's juveniles in the
40:00 video themselves if there's protected
40:03 parties in those video themselves in the
40:05 event that there is it the video is
40:08 taken into a secure facility like a jail
40:11 or like into a medical facility those
40:13 different C certain types of places also
40:16 have to have redaction um also to
40:18 consider that it's not just one camera
40:20 that's being looked at when there's
40:21 usually an incident there's multiple
40:23 cameras so we have lots of time effort
40:26 and energy that's spent on our staff now
40:28 part of our um the price that we paid
40:31 for the system that we've got does do a
40:35 high level of that reduction um
40:37 sometimes like I said depending on the
40:39 location we still provide the footage
40:41 showing that there is but the faces may
40:43 be blurred out it may be that the
40:46 location of the actual place or we can't
40:49 show the video at all because there's
40:51 multiple juveniles in the video um so
40:55 all of that has to be taken into
40:56 consideration um it could be that a
40:58 certain part of the video like if a body
41:00 cam footage of one of our computer
41:03 systems happens to be in the video that
41:05 has information that's a violation to
41:07 our access um which is to the company
41:11 that um does our secure system in our
41:13 computer process so all of those
41:15 different things have to be taken in
41:17 consideration and are things that are
41:22 redacted want to follow up on that yes
41:24 thank you uh and I really appreciate the
41:28 uh long long I think it was five-page
41:30 long list of uh exemptions that are
41:33 actually um set by the the state
41:38 legislature there is an actual law
41:40 behind each one of them so uh it's my
41:43 understanding that those would have to
41:44 be reviewed every time we do a a video
41:47 redaction to make sure that we're in
41:49 compliant with the law on every one of
41:51 those exemptions is that
41:53 correct yes that is correct um so there
41:56 it's not just one person that we're you
41:57 know entrusting there is checks and
41:59 balances um and our Department Records
42:02 Division also works with Tammy very
42:03 greatly on on making sure that we are
42:06 following all those rules and guidelines
42:07 for every every single redution that
42:09 does take place before it's even
42:13 released thank you council member
42:17 hunt thank you thank you for the
42:18 presentation um my first question is you
42:21 mentioned I believe that the um that we
42:23 aren't collecting information about if
42:25 it's isqua residents or isquad
42:27 businesses would that be possible in the
42:29 new system to um collect that
42:31 information from people voluntarily we
42:33 under a voluntary uh basis we could but
42:37 um yeah so under the public records act
42:39 we are not allowed to discriminate
42:40 between requesters so as long as we're
42:42 not creating that sort of appearance
42:44 that's fine if it's just another metric
42:45 I think it would be good to collect that
42:46 information okay yeah I think I mean
42:48 it's it's helpful to see the breakdown
42:50 of individuals and businesses it would
42:51 be helpful to know um if there isqua
42:54 businesses and individuals if people are
42:57 uh voluntarily providing that
43:00 um my next question is for the uh the
43:04 redaction footage it would be the same
43:07 cost based on the estimate for time for
43:09 the video for each person that if if
43:12 multiple people request the same video
43:15 it would be the same cost each time is
43:17 that
43:20 correct potentially so um with regards
43:24 to the redaction depending on who's
43:27 requesting it depends on what's get what
43:29 gets redacted so if the video has
43:32 already been redacted once and and um
43:36 let's say uh a news media reporter
43:39 requests the video they we we go through
43:41 the trouble of or the process sorry of
43:43 redacting it um once we have a copy of
43:46 that redacted video if another news
43:48 media um reporter asks for it we can
43:52 provide that video it's already been
43:53 redacted for the media um and they would
43:56 get it at at no charge this is a um a
44:00 bit of a possible loophole in the system
44:02 but because we already have the record
44:03 prepared we we could release it at no
44:06 cost to the next person because we we've
44:08 already done the work however there is a
44:10 difference between who requested and C
44:12 so the media uh would be one thing but
44:14 if somebody involved in the incident is
44:16 requesting it there's certain things
44:17 that we might uh not be able to redact
44:21 um uh for instance um like the the
44:24 interior of someone's home like if if
44:26 the police are coming into my home and
44:28 I'm requesting that video after the fact
44:30 like they don't need to redact my home I
44:31 know what my home looks like you know
44:32 but if the media were to request that
44:34 same video that that would be protected
44:36 potentially or certain things in the
44:38 home or like you know my my kids or
44:40 something so um but yeah so
44:45 that's I'm not I'm not sure how often
44:48 we'll run into that but it is a
44:50 possibility um but typically you need to
44:52 redact the video different ways for
44:54 every single person who's requested
44:57 it okay I think um for when this comes
45:00 back it' be helpful to know how other
45:02 cities are doing dealing with that
45:03 especially for these news requests it
45:05 seems like you know how to make it fair
45:07 to the second news uh agency that calls
45:12 it is yeah that was actually sorry that
45:14 was from uh I I only know that because I
45:16 went to a training uh among peers where
45:19 this was discussed and there isn't yet a
45:22 good solution to it yet but this is It's
45:24 Worth continuing to explore okay okay um
45:28 yeah good it would be maybe good then to
45:30 just have that best practices
45:31 information about how other agencies are
45:34 dealing with it um and then um I'm I'm
45:39 wondering if we can let people know an
45:41 estimate of the cost associated with
45:43 this ahead of time um especially for the
45:46 uh body warn camera footage um because I
45:49 think that's that's the highest cost of
45:51 the things and you know the example you
45:53 gave was $262 I'm wondering if if if
45:55 people know they can't pay that for
45:57 example if they might um they might uh
46:01 not request it in that event um so and I
46:04 see that there's a hand
46:07 raise
46:09 Chief thanks yes I think the tough part
46:12 in giving approximation of what that
46:14 would cost uh we can give a base kind of
46:17 like the example that's been given the
46:19 problem in in giving that information is
46:21 it depends on how many officers are
46:22 going to be on site because that means
46:24 how many cameras that are going to have
46:25 to be redacted and all the hours of
46:27 video that are going to have to be gone
46:28 through based on that number of
46:30 responding officers and how long each
46:32 video was if one responds and gets there
46:35 two to five minutes after somebody else
46:37 so um I do agree that it's it's
46:40 important information but it is very
46:42 difficult to give it exact or an
46:43 approximation and so it's just something
46:45 we'll have to be careful of as
46:48 well okay thank you those were my
46:50 questions great uh wow that was a race
46:53 uh council member Ray followed by
46:55 council member
46:56 I think he beat me but that's okay uh a
46:59 couple of um questions on the um he
47:02 schedule for police records I noticed
47:04 that there's an asterisk at the end of
47:07 in each of the boxes it says body warn
47:09 camera redaction party directly involved
47:11 asterisk and then the next one down Body
47:13 Warren camera redaction part is not
47:14 directly involved asteris what's the
47:16 asteris for I don't see a footnote
47:18 anywhere is it not okay um I apologize
47:21 for that uh that is um relating to well
47:24 for the police body warn camera
47:27 believe it's RCW 4256 240 section 14
47:32 eii
47:34 um I've just looked at this one a lot
47:37 especially today um that specifies the
47:40 the the individuals or groups that are
47:42 exempt from us uh from from being
47:44 charged fees for the reaction of body
47:45 War camera footage um so in Loosely it's
47:50 it's uh it's the individual who
47:52 individuals who were directly involved
47:54 in it or their uh legal repres
47:55 Representatives um there's um
47:59 representatives of uh minority groups if
48:01 if they want to raise a case and say
48:03 there was discrimination involved or
48:04 whatnot um they they would have a a
48:07 legal right to the video without um uh
48:10 without having to pay the fee um and
48:13 then for the um uh Collision report and
48:16 police report we uh decided to adopt the
48:20 uh effectively the same uh strategy so
48:23 that there's no confusion so that
48:25 anybody involved in the incident
48:26 wouldn't have to pay for the case report
48:27 or the Collision report and so that
48:30 asteris was really just kind of saying
48:32 these there are people who are exempt
48:34 from this and and does not apply and we
48:36 can add the footnote for next time that
48:37 would be super cool yes um second
48:39 question I'm a little confused by the
48:40 need to recover um for transmission of
48:43 electric electronic records since we
48:45 already have those records and we're
48:47 going to pay for gub QA anyway and so it
48:50 just feels to me like the cost recovery
48:52 seems a little bit um unnecessary and
48:55 redundant um and since I think it's good
48:58 to probably encourage people to want
49:00 have transparent government I'm just
49:01 kind of curious what the the thinking
49:03 the rationale was around that sure no
49:06 that's a valid question um we were just
49:08 looking at all of the allowable fees
49:10 that we are allowed to charge for and we
49:12 just wanted to propose them um to see to
49:16 just to really get feedback um that was
49:19 one
49:20 that uh not many agencies have uh
49:24 adopted um so we we welcome any feedback
49:27 that you have on that okay and I have a
49:28 couple of folks jumping in um I think
49:30 Chief had her hand up and then I'll go
49:32 to City
49:36 administrator thank you I think the
49:37 other piece to we do already have the
49:39 electronic files but it's the Manpower
49:42 and people to have to bring them in um
49:44 and to get and collect all that data and
49:47 and before providing it I think would be
49:49 the other piece that would add to that
49:51 yeah it seems to me though if I was um
49:53 listening to Tammy's presentation those
49:55 are exempt I mean we can't charge for
49:57 that those are that's a sunk cost we
49:59 have to eat the the prep time to finding
50:02 the record
50:04 so I want to get clear on that
50:07 one and I'll just add that gub QA is not
50:11 something everybody has I mean it is a a
50:14 platform that allows us to be very
50:16 transparent there is a an actual cost to
50:18 that and I would imagine Tammy I don't
50:21 know if you can answer this question
50:22 that that even at $9 given the
50:26 the volume that we do it's still only a
50:27 small part of that cost so there are
50:30 many communities in Washington state
50:32 that still have spreadsheets and uh that
50:35 is how they manage this and uh we're
50:37 fortunate gqa has been
50:39 around close 10 years now um and uh it's
50:43 a great tool glad we're using it but
50:46 it's not something everybody uses
50:47 because they don't want to spend the the
50:50 money is money's still
50:53 money you want follow up uh no I think
50:56 I'm good I um I understand that it costs
50:58 money but we also budget the money so we
51:01 have the service so we can do the thing
51:03 and now we're going to charge again so
51:04 that I'm I'm not a big fan of it I'll
51:06 just say that fair enough any other
51:09 questions uh council member Joe thank
51:12 you uh really appreciate the detail that
51:16 this presentation went into um you have
51:20 a passion for what you do and it
51:22 certainly is reflected in the report
51:23 that you gave tonight um I wanted to go
51:27 back to your slide about who is making
51:28 requests we don't need to pull it up
51:30 necessarily but it said that 8% were law
51:32 firms um in in our conversations tonight
51:36 just so we can get our arms around what
51:38 we're talking about are we talking about
51:40 only civil requests or are we talking
51:43 about criminal requests for Discovery as
51:45 well it would include both okay yeah 8%
51:48 of the requests received uh and
51:50 processed by the city for last year and
51:52 that Trend holds pretty steady somewhere
51:54 between like 7 and 10 10% uh for the the
51:57 5 years that we've been tracking um this
52:00 information okay and one of the reasons
52:02 we don't charge for criminal defendants
52:05 or their criminal defense attorneys when
52:06 they're requesting the items is because
52:08 they were directly involved in that
52:10 event and they do that Discovery as part
52:12 of the uh criminal defense kind of uh
52:15 process is that correct for body warn
52:18 camera footage and for um police reports
52:21 or Collision reports yes but they would
52:23 still be responsible for any other
52:24 applicable
52:25 fees um however if this is a discovery
52:28 like if the city is being sued um that
52:31 would be a public records request uh
52:33 that would be it would be a different
52:35 process and we wouldn't charge them fees
52:36 for that but these are um you know uh as
52:38 you said for if somebody is representing
52:40 somebody they want to get records in the
52:42 city's possession um they would go
52:45 through a public records request or
52:46 sometimes somebody uh a firm who who
52:49 might be looking to um see if there is a
52:52 case involved they might go hunting
52:54 through the public records request
52:56 process to just see what records there
52:58 are and if they even have a case so it
53:00 kind of uh comes before uh they they
53:05 decide whether or not they they will
53:06 move forward with um with a lawsuit sure
53:09 it's part of the prediscovery process to
53:12 decide the uh merits of a case if you're
53:16 in if you're doing a um a personal
53:18 injury
53:19 work so then just so I'm clear the the
53:24 when a criminal defense attorney
53:25 requests the records through the
53:27 prosecutor's office um and it does
53:30 involve a camera body warn camera um
53:34 could you just clarify that we don't
53:37 charge for that and um just briefly
53:39 outline the couple of steps that it
53:41 takes to get that record to the
53:44 prosecutor's office and to the
53:46 defendant Chief do you want to chime
53:51 in sure can you break that down again
53:54 council member Joe
53:56 yeah and if the question is um just
53:59 needs to be deferred I'm completely
54:01 happy to do that I just want to make
54:02 sure that member Joe yeah I don't mean
54:04 to interrupt but Rachel Turpin the City
54:06 attorney is online and why don't we give
54:08 her a first crack at answering that oh I
54:10 see that
54:12 Rachel hi I can answer that Rachel
54:14 turban City attorney um council member
54:16 Joe this won't affect the discovery
54:18 process at all so those individuals
54:20 should be able to get copies of the body
54:23 warn camera that the prose has through
54:26 Discovery without any cost this would
54:28 just be if they were seeking it on their
54:30 own or if their attorney was seeking it
54:33 um prior to the Discovery process very
54:37 good thank you I like that clarification
54:39 so that we understand the two processes
54:41 are different thank you very much you're
54:43 welcome thank any other questions
54:46 council member D Michelle uh before I
54:48 come back to you has anybody not asked a
54:50 question want to jump in D Michelle
54:53 thanks um so
54:55 so we of course have individuals in our
54:58 community who even a small charge would
55:01 be uh difficult for their budget and I'm
55:04 just uh wondering if there's been
55:06 conversation about uh possibly waving
55:09 fees for and I'm just going to pull one
55:12 out of the hat but the 30% Ami uh those
55:16 people who are are really struggling in
55:18 our community um what what discussion
55:21 have you had around that and have we
55:23 explored what the impacts of that might
55:26 be that's a very good question thank you
55:29 um we haven't explored that exact issue
55:31 yet we did start to go down the road of
55:34 looking to see if we could wave fees for
55:37 isqua residents um but because the
55:40 public records act states that you
55:41 cannot discriminate again between
55:43 requesters and treat them differently um
55:45 we we realized we we could not if we
55:48 charge fees we have to charge everybody
55:50 equally um however um I feel like this
55:52 is possibly a different type of question
55:55 we haven't explored yet um if Rachel is
55:58 uh able to weigh in it that would be
55:59 great but otherwise I think we need to
56:01 um have some more conversations um and
56:03 report back uh on the
56:08 20th Rachel I'm happy to weigh in I
56:12 think that given the language in the
56:15 public records act regarding treating
56:17 requestors the same it would be
56:19 problematic to wave these entirely but
56:22 that's why there's the um inperson
56:24 inspection option for
56:27 free we can look look into it further as
56:33 well there's a door opening and closing
56:35 behind you it's getting a lot of
56:36 attention um and do you want to follow
56:39 up on that
56:40 barb any other questions from any other
56:43 council members okay so it does sound
56:45 like there's some additional information
56:47 that would be coming back on the 20th
56:49 based on the questions we
56:50 heard um so I'm now going to open the
56:52 public hearing at 7:57 p.m.
56:55 and if you are online joining us
56:57 virtually and would like to make
56:58 comments please raise your virtual hand
57:00 so our clerk can see it or send a chat
57:03 message um if you're in the room and did
57:06 not sign up to speak I'll still ask for
57:08 other speakers after we go through the
57:10 list and city clerk has anyone signed up
57:12 to speak no one has signed up and I
57:15 don't see interest from the two virtual
57:18 attendees hone do you want to come up
57:20 and
57:22 talk everyone else in the room is staff
57:29 well H Marsh I live on Spock and I say
57:32 nice to see you in person because I do
57:35 request public records and I have been
57:38 doing this for 25 26 years now and in
57:43 the past I rarely had to request public
57:46 records because public
57:48 records but we're talking about Normal
57:52 public records were just available
57:55 on the city website online you could go
57:58 through years and years and years and
58:00 find the history of isqua and then we
58:03 got a new website and they took away
58:06 three qus of the records pre 2012 and
58:11 they have disappeared off the
58:14 planet and so in order to get anything
58:19 pre 2012 I have to do a public records
58:23 request through not particular fault of
58:25 my own except for the city decided it
58:27 was going to get rid of the public
58:30 records and not make them available
58:34 so I think the public records now the
58:37 police redaction thing I don't know
58:40 about that so I'm not I'm not talking
58:42 about that um I think it is a core
58:46 responsibility of all government to
58:49 ensure transparent easy and fair access
58:53 to the
58:56 government pieces because the community
59:00 the people have a responsibility in
59:03 upholding our democratic government it
59:06 is not just the government it is not
59:09 just the Judiciary it is also the people
59:11 that the people have to
59:13 see and the public records request is
59:18 harder than it used to be it's also more
59:22 confusing because the time I am told by
59:28 staff on fairly current events that no
59:30 you have to make a public records
59:32 request I can't get you that information
59:34 because I have been told I can't give
59:36 that to you because we need to track how
59:38 long it's taking so things that are very
59:41 current I have to do a public records
59:44 request for even though not really that
59:48 consistent and so then when I do a
59:52 public records request sometimes it's
59:54 because there's something
59:56 missing from the record from 2012 to now
1:00:00 and I can't find it even though it's
1:00:01 supposed to be there and it goes on and
1:00:03 on and on now I don't do all that many
1:00:07 but when I do them I tend to do them in
1:00:09 a concentrated cluster on a topic
1:00:13 and for me I think that is my duty and
1:00:17 responsibility as a citizen to try
1:00:22 to make the government as best as it can
1:00:25 be and I don't think I should be charged
1:00:28 every time I try to do that and so I am
1:00:31 highly resistant to this idea that that
1:00:36 uh people should have to pay for simple
1:00:38 records requests or even complex records
1:00:40 requests and I don't think that
1:00:42 newspapers should be having because we
1:00:44 have so few like one should be having to
1:00:47 pay fairly large amounts for things that
1:00:51 are of the public interest and it's one
1:00:53 of the very few daylight things that the
1:00:55 community has so um I would I would ask
1:01:00 that you look at this core value of
1:01:02 government and compare it to some of the
1:01:05 quantity of money compare it to some of
1:01:07 the other things that we have been
1:01:09 spending tremendous amounts of money
1:01:11 millions and millions of dollars on that
1:01:15 optional and you look at the quantity of
1:01:18 money I don't it's tiny it is Tiny so
1:01:23 please consider the uh
1:01:27 transparency and the people oh that was
1:01:30 so awkward but anyway there you go
1:01:33 that's what I
1:01:38 got thanks Connie um so there are a
1:01:42 couple of things in the comments as well
1:01:44 uh for Council to to think about um city
1:01:48 clerk is that it for speakers this
1:01:49 evening yes though mayor we should um
1:01:52 close the hearing if there's no
1:01:53 objection
1:01:55 um does council have any objection to
1:01:57 closing the public
1:01:59 hearing not seeing any so the item the
1:02:02 hearing uh hearing none I will close the
1:02:04 public hearing at
1:02:06 8:02 and this item will return on the
1:02:08 November 20th city council agenda for
1:02:11 Action uh I'm assuming based on the
1:02:14 questions this evening and some comments
1:02:17 received that this would go under
1:02:18 regular business so that you have some
1:02:20 additional time okay thank you for that
1:02:23 M mayor yeah
1:02:25 um the public speaker made some
1:02:28 inaccurate comments and I'm not sure
1:02:30 given the nature of the public hearing
1:02:32 if it's appropriate to correct the
1:02:34 record at this point or would you rather
1:02:35 have the staff uh come back at when the
1:02:38 item is on regular business to correct
1:02:40 the record I leave that up to council if
1:02:43 there was some inaccuracies in the
1:02:45 comments tonight would could that just
1:02:47 be addressed during the presentation at
1:02:49 the 20th or did you want some answers
1:02:53 evening coun president yeah I I would
1:02:55 like it uh relevant to this time so I
1:02:59 would prefer it closer to the comments
1:03:02 to today today okay yeah
1:03:05 sure so and I'm just looking because I
1:03:08 need to make it's an unusual request and
1:03:10 I I I I hesitate even to raise it but I
1:03:13 think the significance of the
1:03:14 misstatements I wouldn't want the
1:03:16 council or anyone watching the meeting
1:03:17 this evening uh to Come Away with an an
1:03:20 an accurate understanding of what we
1:03:21 actually
1:03:22 provide I lots of head nods so I Council
1:03:26 Merz I I would just ask that we double
1:03:28 check with our legal council that it's
1:03:30 that it's within the the that's the way
1:03:33 uh public uh hearings she just left hold
1:03:37 on of course let me see if I oh there
1:03:39 she is there she is Rachel yeah that you
1:03:43 you can uh address them tonight that
1:03:45 would be fine thank you Council so I did
1:03:48 see generally more heads nodding than
1:03:50 not and so let's follow up on Council
1:03:52 president's request and can you um
1:03:54 provide some
1:03:56 information Council this is Tisha gizer
1:03:58 city clerk um I'll make the comment that
1:04:01 we did have a change in website a number
1:04:03 of years ago but we do have a very
1:04:05 robust records archive that we are uh
1:04:08 working to expand um this is accessible
1:04:11 through the city website it has all of
1:04:13 the city's ordinances since 1892 it has
1:04:16 all of the city council minut minutes
1:04:18 since 1892 it has all of the city's
1:04:20 resolution back into the 9s it has all
1:04:23 of the city council agend genda packets
1:04:25 from 2000 on and we're actively working
1:04:27 to backfill that another 20 years as
1:04:30 well as as Miss Marsh mentioned um a
1:04:33 number of board and commission records
1:04:35 which largely began in 2012 and with uh
1:04:37 some of the work we're doing at City
1:04:39 Hall Northwest we'll be able to backfill
1:04:40 some of those as well so there was a
1:04:43 change I'm unaware of the specifics um
1:04:46 but did want to highlight the fact that
1:04:47 we do have a robust searchable archive
1:04:50 uh I will tell you it's not fullprof and
1:04:53 sometimes things are missing exhibits
1:04:56 and uh a meeting uh an aspect of a
1:04:58 meeting and when those instances arise
1:05:01 uh we work to see what we can locate um
1:05:03 it's a it's an iter iterative process um
1:05:07 and as Tammy also um mentioned the
1:05:09 city's been embarking on digitizing many
1:05:12 of our paper records which just
1:05:14 continues to kind of fill out uh our
1:05:16 collection uh lastly I'll mention that
1:05:19 we also work closely with the state
1:05:21 archives and recently with the history
1:05:23 museums um to to share uh Records that
1:05:26 we no longer are required to hold on to
1:05:29 and just to be clear Madam city clerk
1:05:31 those are all records that are available
1:05:33 today free of
1:05:35 charge yes and typically if a request is
1:05:38 provided for anything that um is on our
1:05:41 website or should be and might be
1:05:44 something that someone is unable to
1:05:46 locate um we will provide them the link
1:05:48 or work to attempt to locate the record
1:05:51 and again how far back did you say that
1:05:53 the city if someone was looking for a
1:05:55 city council minutes or materials how
1:05:58 far back do we currently have on the
1:06:00 website yeah those are text searchable
1:06:02 and we have those back to the city's
1:06:04 Inception in 1892 thanks to the hard
1:06:07 work of some of our previous clerks so
1:06:08 from 1892 to 2023 is available online
1:06:12 free of charge yes and are you aware of
1:06:13 any other community that goes back to
1:06:16 1892 that has their records online
1:06:18 available free of charge uh I don't know
1:06:21 okay thank
1:06:24 so there was a
1:06:26 clarification um if uh there is anything
1:06:30 the public hearing is over but you do
1:06:32 have the opportunity to reach out to the
1:06:34 city administrator the city clerk before
1:06:36 November 20th with any additional
1:06:38 questions that can be addressed at the
1:06:39 November 20th meeting as best as
1:06:41 possible so keep that in
1:06:44 mind the really the regular business uh
1:06:49 we're moving into that portion of the
1:06:50 meeting right now and it's AB
1:06:53 8551 intelligent Transportation Systems
1:06:56 plan and the request before Council this
1:06:57 evening is to approve it I'd like to
1:07:00 invite Public Works director Emily moon
1:07:02 to the lect for the presentation welcome
1:07:22 Emily
1:07:27 good evening Emily Moon Public Works
1:07:32 director start by saying I know some of
1:07:34 you have heard much of what I will say
1:07:38 tonight so I will try to be as
1:07:41 expeditious as I
1:07:43 can most important to being here tonight
1:07:47 to talk about the intelligent
1:07:49 Transportation Systems plan in my mind
1:07:53 is to introduce uce you to Mr Nick green
1:07:56 Nick is uh switching hats in our
1:08:00 department he is now our new traffic
1:08:03 signal operations engineer responsible
1:08:06 for a whole lot but definitely the
1:08:09 steward of our its plan as we go forward
1:08:12 so I wanted to make sure Nick is
1:08:15 introduced to you this
1:08:22 evening
1:08:25 there we
1:08:27 go so tonight we're going to just give a
1:08:30 quick overview of the plan I'm going to
1:08:33 summarize the uh main components of it
1:08:36 and then we hope at the end uh you will
1:08:38 be ready to uh approve uh the its
1:08:46 plan want to define the term first
1:08:49 because I'm going to say it over and
1:08:50 over its is our intelligent
1:08:53 transportation
1:08:54 system and this is a plan that is really
1:08:58 very focused on our technology both the
1:09:01 hardware and the software that is used
1:09:04 to manage the data to collect the data
1:09:07 that we get from the technology and our
1:09:10 transportation system and all the
1:09:12 resources and practices that we use to
1:09:15 also manage that
1:09:21 system when we began this project of
1:09:24 looking at updating our its plan the
1:09:27 last one was done over 20 years ago uh
1:09:30 we knew we needed to write it in a way
1:09:33 that acknowledged that there are many
1:09:36 many different possibilities in this
1:09:38 technology universe and that those are
1:09:41 going to continue to change over time
1:09:44 it's a big and dynamic
1:09:46 landscape constantly changing and there
1:09:49 are lots of choices we can make
1:09:51 depending on the values that we place on
1:09:54 those different
1:09:56 options so there's
1:10:00 predetermined no precise way to get at
1:10:03 solving all Transportation or traffic
1:10:07 issues in town there are many different
1:10:10 possible solutions uh that we can deploy
1:10:14 to uh help make sure that transportation
1:10:18 in our community is running smoothly and
1:10:21 safely and functioning for people in all
1:10:24 different modes of
1:10:27 travel so we take that big universe of
1:10:30 possibilities and we have tried to
1:10:32 distill it down into the its plan that
1:10:35 plan has refined those uh that list of
1:10:38 options to a collection of actions
1:10:42 projects policies practices that we
1:10:44 think we could choose among to collect
1:10:47 and use the data to further our
1:10:48 transportation system
1:10:51 goals then we take that big plan and we
1:10:54 boil it down further and we put a set of
1:10:58 projects in the next six years in our
1:11:01 CIP document and we apply that first
1:11:04 layer of implementation and resource
1:11:07 planning at the CIP level that really
1:11:10 describes what we think we can get done
1:11:13 over the next six years what funding
1:11:15 resources we may need and it takes into
1:11:18 consideration sequencing of those
1:11:21 projects then as you know we take the
1:11:23 CIP and we get even more specific and we
1:11:26 talk about what can be accomplished in
1:11:27 the biannual budget the next two years
1:11:30 and that establishes the resource plan
1:11:32 for implementation and it sets our
1:11:35 biannual work
1:11:37 plan lastly you see a little arrow at
1:11:39 the Top shooting in like a comment here
1:11:42 and that's our concurrency policy and
1:11:45 we're working on that update right now
1:11:47 that'll be before you soon we will
1:11:51 include our thoughts with the its plan
1:11:54 and try to gather your input during your
1:11:57 discussion on the concurrency policy to
1:12:00 help us make further decisions that uh
1:12:02 are left open in this plan that will
1:12:06 influence the hierarchy of our policies
1:12:09 and the projects over
1:12:14 time we know performance measurement is
1:12:16 very very important this is a data plan
1:12:19 data driven plan so collecting
1:12:21 performance measurement will be really
1:12:23 important important to us as we
1:12:24 Implement and with so many options
1:12:27 available to us in that its
1:12:30 universe and that constantly changing
1:12:33 environment over a pretty long
1:12:35 implementation period measuring our
1:12:38 performance and the ROI that we get on
1:12:41 these different projects is going to be
1:12:43 really important for future decision
1:12:45 making I've said on this slide that
1:12:47 we're going to measure largely at the
1:12:49 project level we'll be measuring at the
1:12:52 program level as well but every
1:12:54 individual project is different every
1:12:56 every project will be aligned to a
1:12:57 certain set of objectives maybe one
1:13:00 project will differ from another in
1:13:02 terms of which uh outcomes it is
1:13:05 targeting and therefore we want to make
1:13:08 sure that we're measuring the specific
1:13:10 targeted objectives for each
1:13:12 project some examples of performance
1:13:15 measures that we will be attending to
1:13:17 this is not an exhaustive list just
1:13:19 meant to give you a flavor are uh
1:13:22 measuring the efficient use of our
1:13:25 infrastructure in particular we're very
1:13:27 concerned with multimodal performance
1:13:30 safety measures such as number of
1:13:33 collisions red light running near
1:13:36 misses also the ratio of investment to
1:13:39 impact or
1:13:41 Roi travel times and efficiency of
1:13:44 travel stopping and
1:13:47 Emissions mode splits reductions in
1:13:51 problematic areas in town
1:13:54 such as dilemma zones in
1:13:57 intersections and our system
1:13:59 reliability so the percentage of
1:14:01 equipment that we have to replace on a
1:14:03 recommended schedule for
1:14:06 example another way that we're going to
1:14:08 measure performance or uh attend to
1:14:12 Performance in our its system is to do
1:14:15 some pilot projects and you'll see some
1:14:18 of those in the list of projects at the
1:14:20 end of the
1:14:21 report we have a approximately four a
1:14:24 video analytics project an Adaptive
1:14:27 signal control project traffic signal
1:14:29 performance measures pilot and the
1:14:33 transit signal priority
1:14:39 pilot just want to refresh your memories
1:14:42 on a few key moments in time on this
1:14:45 Project's
1:14:46 development the second rectangle here
1:14:51 speaks to the level of involvement we
1:14:53 had with both the mobility and
1:14:55 infrastructure committee and the
1:14:56 transportation Advisory Board and those
1:14:59 two groups really helped us to uh Define
1:15:03 the goals objectives Whittle the
1:15:05 objectives to the top objectives and our
1:15:09 proposed approach to the implementation
1:15:11 in addition to weighing in on what
1:15:13 should be our priority
1:15:16 projects I wanted to briefly just talk
1:15:19 about the main components of the plan we
1:15:23 have a mission statement that is guiding
1:15:25 us as we begin implementation there was
1:15:29 a slight change to this at the
1:15:31 suggestion of the mobility and
1:15:33 infrastructure Committee just switching
1:15:35 the order of uh words in that first
1:15:38 sentence where now people is at the
1:15:44 end also another component of our plan
1:15:48 is uh the are the goals and so we have
1:15:51 six goals the first is improve the
1:15:53 safety of the transportation system the
1:15:55 second is improve the efficiency and
1:15:58 sustainability of the system third is to
1:16:01 provide traveler information to help
1:16:03 inform route and mode Choice fourth was
1:16:06 plan and deploy cost efficient and
1:16:08 effective its
1:16:10 technology goal five is integrate City
1:16:13 its efforts with those of our regional
1:16:16 partners and goal six is Monitor
1:16:18 Transportation performance measures and
1:16:20 utilize this information to improve
1:16:22 safety and efficiency of the
1:16:24 transportation
1:16:27 system next I just wanted to show you a
1:16:30 few images that are in the report to
1:16:32 highlight the good work that the
1:16:35 consultants and our staff did of getting
1:16:39 a clear assessment of our inventory and
1:16:42 adding that inventory where it was not
1:16:45 not yet in our GIS system into our GIS
1:16:48 system so here's one example where we
1:16:51 have mapped the uh very critical
1:16:54 Communications Network in the its
1:16:59 plan cameras which we know are good
1:17:03 tools both for the public and uh Public
1:17:06 Safety and Public Works uh departments
1:17:10 and here's an example of where we have
1:17:12 our cameras in town and our Dynamic
1:17:15 message signs these are the over the
1:17:17 road more permanent
1:17:21 signs we o use tables throughout the
1:17:24 document to depict our inventory and to
1:17:28 show how we're going to begin tracking
1:17:31 life cycles a little bit more uh making
1:17:35 better informed recommendations on
1:17:38 Replacements and rep repairs and now
1:17:42 because of the work on GIS we have a
1:17:44 better way of seeing our inventory as a
1:17:49 whole the plan also includes a an
1:17:53 assessment of our current Staffing level
1:17:55 that is supporting its and make some
1:17:58 recommendations for possible uh future
1:18:01 staffing needs as we begin to implement
1:18:03 the recommendations in the
1:18:06 plan the recommendations include
1:18:09 possibly adding 2.5 FTE over the next
1:18:14 several years and Performing two
1:18:16 reclassifications to better address what
1:18:20 uh those individuals in those positions
1:18:22 are currently doing will be doing in the
1:18:25 future these recommendations would come
1:18:27 back before you during the biannual
1:18:30 budget deliberations and after we've
1:18:33 vetted them with the city
1:18:35 administrator's
1:18:40 office the plan also speaks
1:18:42 to our our big ambitious goal which is
1:18:46 to move from the left side of this slide
1:18:48 to the right where right now we are in
1:18:52 what we call a performance nor state
1:18:53 where we are very focused on operations
1:18:56 and maintenance we are doing things on
1:18:59 an ad hoc basis in a fairly reactive
1:19:03 manner as we move we're hoping we're
1:19:06 getting closer to the Middle where we
1:19:08 can monitor the system we can act
1:19:10 earlier can identify issues and test
1:19:14 Solutions and have plans and strategic
1:19:18 processes ultimately as we get that
1:19:21 technology in place we hope to be more
1:19:24 datadriven proactively manage and
1:19:26 leverage and partner all that we can to
1:19:29 be in the optimized
1:19:33 state so we've talked about our
1:19:36 implementation approach with committies
1:19:39 and with
1:19:40 tab excuse me and uh we believe we have
1:19:45 consensus on that
1:19:47 approach and that is to build our
1:19:50 Readiness in order to Implement our
1:19:53 future its projects and in order to do
1:19:57 that we need to make a substantive
1:19:59 effort toward the repair and replacement
1:20:02 of current infrastructure and to perform
1:20:05 upgrades that will take multiple years
1:20:08 but that's the foundational work we need
1:20:10 to do otherwise we cannot build uh more
1:20:17 better one of the biggest near-term
1:20:20 efforts that I'll highlight for you here
1:20:22 is a second bullet under near-term
1:20:25 efforts and that's to develop our
1:20:28 Communications Network plan it is
1:20:30 working on that now that designs the
1:20:33 network that we need to have as the
1:20:35 backbone architecture and all the veins
1:20:38 going through town that are going to
1:20:40 enable us to uh do more Progressive work
1:20:44 in this
1:20:49 Arena a little word about the its
1:20:51 projects that are list listed in the
1:20:53 plan there are 26 projects over the next
1:20:56 6 years totaling about $10
1:20:58 million and I wanted to say those its
1:21:01 project numbers are not synonymous with
1:21:03 the CIP project numbers that you see
1:21:07 we've tried to crosswalk that in the
1:21:09 plan so you can see how things line up
1:21:11 it was just a product of building two
1:21:13 things at different
1:21:15 times
1:21:16 uh we have from that list of uh
1:21:21 26 some some you will find in the CIP
1:21:25 but not all and that's because of course
1:21:28 the CIP is only the next 6 years and
1:21:31 because we are focused at least in the
1:21:33 next few years on those fi foundational
1:21:35 efforts which are a lot of repairs
1:21:37 Replacements and
1:21:40 upgrades and a lot of the projects are
1:21:43 found elsewhere they're found in either
1:21:45 the current or future operating budgets
1:21:48 because of the nature of their size of
1:21:50 the budget or the type of project
1:21:52 project that's involved or because uh
1:21:55 they were dependent on earlier projects
1:21:59 that may be in the CIP but are out in
1:22:02 future years some projects may not be in
1:22:05 the CIP because they hinge on those
1:22:07 policy discussions that uh we will have
1:22:10 during concurrency
1:22:12 update and some may be Consolidated into
1:22:16 comprehensive CIP projects so they could
1:22:18 have been
1:22:21 merged
1:22:23 these are the 12 its projects that are
1:22:26 in the current
1:22:28 CIP there are 12 with a little asteris
1:22:31 and that's for the
1:22:33 rrfb replacement program that's the
1:22:36 rectangular rapid flashing beacons that
1:22:38 are used by pedestrians to activate a
1:22:41 light so they can hopefully cross safely
1:22:44 that is technically not an its
1:22:47 technology because ours aren't yet smart
1:22:51 but at some point point they may become
1:22:53 smart so that's why they're not counted
1:22:56 in the
1:23:01 12 in addition the plan spells out areas
1:23:06 where we need to do some policy work
1:23:08 develop other plans or engage in some
1:23:12 efforts to create memorandums of
1:23:15 understanding with other
1:23:16 entities and the
1:23:18 oneou that we have focused on in the it
1:23:22 plan is of course the one with wash do
1:23:25 to help coordinate signal operations and
1:23:28 to delineate roles and
1:23:35 responsibilities the plan
1:23:37 also depicts a little bit of our annual
1:23:42 operating budget commitment to its I
1:23:45 wanted to make sure that we had shared
1:23:47 that information with you our operating
1:23:50 budget in 2023 in the public works
1:23:54 department uh that is going towards
1:23:57 supporting our intelligent
1:23:59 transportation system is roughly
1:24:02 $1.25 million and that's allinclusive
1:24:05 labor
1:24:07 equipment and currently its in the
1:24:10 operating budget is supported by uh
1:24:13 largely general fund funding sources but
1:24:17 also uh in the CIP the its projects
1:24:20 receive not only general fund uh support
1:24:24 but are funded through grants uh they
1:24:27 may be listed as undetermined and that's
1:24:30 just because they're in the outer years
1:24:32 and we haven't attached a source yet you
1:24:35 know that we focus uh on the first two
1:24:38 years typically in the CIP to make sure
1:24:40 that we have funding sources identified
1:24:42 for the banal budget and then lastly we
1:24:44 have included the TBD sales tax as a
1:24:48 possible funding source for its projects
1:24:51 in the future
1:24:56 I wanted to share what we've heard from
1:24:59 the tab and from Mobility infrastructure
1:25:03 and from residents who have uh weighed
1:25:06 in on this
1:25:08 plan largely the feedback has been very
1:25:11 supportive in particular we've been glad
1:25:13 to have the support for our foundational
1:25:16 efforts that we need to put our time and
1:25:18 energy into and acknowledgement that we
1:25:21 have to do that
1:25:24 first we've also heard that the projects
1:25:28 were aligned with the goals and
1:25:29 objectives that were set forth at the
1:25:31 beginning of developing the its
1:25:34 plan and that there's a lot of support
1:25:37 for us to move on that Continuum toward
1:25:39 that optimized
1:25:40 State last we we heard from Tab and from
1:25:44 the council committee that there is an
1:25:46 interest to continue to be engaged on
1:25:48 those policy questions and to weigh in
1:25:51 on projects and future investment
1:25:54 priorities we commit to doing
1:25:57 that I also want to acknowledge that we
1:26:01 had some questions at the mobility and
1:26:03 infrastructure committee meeting
1:26:05 regarding our system security and I
1:26:09 wanted to give a few highlights of what
1:26:12 we have done in the last couple of years
1:26:14 and what we're planning to do in the
1:26:15 near future on that
1:26:18 front we have completed in
1:26:21 2023 that a project to make sure that
1:26:24 all its devices are now in a firewalled
1:26:27 network separate from all the other City
1:26:31 networks also this year we made sure
1:26:34 that remote access to all its devices
1:26:39 restricted this year we also improved
1:26:42 the communication between the uh various
1:26:46 departments and the traffic devices that
1:26:48 are out in the field and we are logging
1:26:50 those interactions
1:26:53 toward the end of this year we are
1:26:55 working on enforcing farall rules to
1:26:59 make sure that we limit what the city
1:27:01 and the um what city devices and traffic
1:27:04 devices can talk to each other make sure
1:27:07 that uh those are
1:27:11 secure we're also upgrading Network
1:27:14 switches by the end of this year and
1:27:16 then as we move into next year we're
1:27:18 making sure that there are additional
1:27:20 enforcement protocols for network access
1:27:23 for unknown devices that may attempt to
1:27:25 plug in and we are reviewing our full
1:27:29 Suite of its related applications and
1:27:32 further hardening those and then on an
1:27:36 ongoing basis we are of course always
1:27:38 doing that same sort of assessment where
1:27:40 we're looking at how what do we need to
1:27:41 upgrade and stay current and make sure
1:27:43 that we're replacing software and
1:27:45 Hardware so that it has the best
1:27:48 possible performance but also the latest
1:27:50 security technology
1:27:55 and with that I would be happy to answer
1:27:58 any questions you might
1:28:00 have thank you director Moon I'm G to go
1:28:02 to council member oh
1:28:05 Mars thanks um I I have a few questions
1:28:09 uh first is um is is there a there's not
1:28:15 a financial ask today is there this is a
1:28:18 plan and then the elements are future
1:28:21 asks that's correct okay
1:28:24 um you in your list of goals you had
1:28:28 number two was efficiency and something
1:28:31 else um what does efficiency mean in
1:28:34 this context and how are you defining
1:28:37 it yep it's a good question let me pull
1:28:41 out the goal and the plan real
1:28:51 quick
1:29:09 I think safety was number one but then
1:29:11 efficiency something was number two yeah
1:29:14 sustainability of the transportation
1:29:16 system is the other
1:29:19 part so I think that's there's a lot of
1:29:21 pieces to that I think efficiency is uh
1:29:26 we have goals in comp plan we have goals
1:29:30 and the mobility master plan we have
1:29:32 goals as well um in the sustainability
1:29:37 um the cap plan and uh I think we have
1:29:43 goals depending on type of mode of
1:29:46 travel um we need to still work on those
1:29:50 and we we need to have a broader
1:29:51 conversation about the waiting between
1:29:54 which modes are most important and which
1:29:56 circumstances and how are we going to
1:29:58 try to um achieve those
1:30:00 goals I think the hope is
1:30:04 that those those two pieces of
1:30:06 efficiency and sustainability are in
1:30:09 that goal together and I think we have
1:30:11 to look at how we can make sure we're
1:30:14 moving people throughout town in a way
1:30:20 that also
1:30:23 doesn't isn't to the detriment of the
1:30:26 sustainability goals so I think we're
1:30:28 trying to balance within that goal it's
1:30:33 multifaceted and I think we we still
1:30:35 have some work to do to
1:30:37 establish more
1:30:39 fineo uh definitions of efficiency in
1:30:43 two okay um if if I'm if I'm going to
1:30:46 step forward 10 years from now we've got
1:30:49 we've done all the all the things are
1:30:51 important that we want to do um like
1:30:55 what are some of the levers that we're
1:30:56 going to have I'm I'm struggling there's
1:30:58 lots of data here there's lots of
1:30:59 getting data and analyzing data and
1:31:02 coming to conclusions from data but like
1:31:04 how's how's it going to be different on
1:31:05 the ground for either for the city or
1:31:08 for somebody traveling in the city like
1:31:10 what are going to be the some of the
1:31:11 things that we're going to have that we
1:31:13 don't have today when this plan is
1:31:15 done sure well first I think we're going
1:31:19 to have a better sense of uh how we want
1:31:22 to prioritize different modes and what
1:31:25 technology we want to deploy in order to
1:31:28 uh ensure that those modes get around we
1:31:30 have some conflicts in this plan that we
1:31:32 have to work out uh for example we do
1:31:36 leading pedestrian interval uh to help
1:31:39 pedestrians get across first uh that may
1:31:43 be uh to the detriment of another goal
1:31:46 on Transportation s or Transit signal
1:31:50 prioritization so those are big topics
1:31:53 that we we have to figure out it's hard
1:31:54 to answer your question about where we
1:31:56 ultimately arrive because we have big
1:31:58 policy questions that we have not
1:32:00 debated yet ultimately where I hope we
1:32:05 arrive we arrive at a place where we
1:32:07 have safe mobility around town for all
1:32:11 modes that uh we have enhanced our
1:32:15 ability to reach our sustainability
1:32:17 goals because we don't have unnecessary
1:32:22 it's another possible outcome of this
1:32:25 plan I think we have
1:32:29 uh signals that are coordinated so that
1:32:32 we can move people through town with
1:32:35 ease and onto state roads and off estate
1:32:39 roads with
1:32:40 ease those are just some of the the
1:32:43 outcomes that I hope that we get to by
1:32:45 implementing this plan okay and my last
1:32:48 question is really around one of those
1:32:50 specifically which is coordinating with
1:32:53 uh uh for instance with wash dot you
1:32:55 mention in there uh anou so it's it is
1:32:59 is there is one of these elements of
1:33:01 this plan get our stop lights
1:33:03 coordinated with the wash dot stop
1:33:05 lights because I I didn't see that
1:33:06 written anywhere and I'm concerned that
1:33:09 if you tell me that we need anou and
1:33:11 that's going to take five years and then
1:33:13 we're going to start coordinating and
1:33:14 then it's going to be you know I I I was
1:33:18 hoping to see specifically in this plan
1:33:19 it seems obvious to me that an obvious
1:33:22 benefit that has no detriments other
1:33:23 than costing money is coordinating our
1:33:25 stop lights with the stop lights that we
1:33:27 have no control
1:33:29 over the mou is that mechanism we have
1:33:34 to have that agreement was doot has to
1:33:36 give up some control has to be willing
1:33:39 to participate with us that's step one
1:33:43 step two is trying to make it actually
1:33:46 work so that we have access to uh the
1:33:50 technology in the intersect section it's
1:33:52 linked with our network but it's it's
1:33:55 our commitment to sit down with wash do
1:33:58 and hopefully compel them to uh
1:34:02 participate with us and allow some some
1:34:05 way of us to coordinate signals yeah
1:34:08 it's not it's not clear to me that they
1:34:10 would have to give up any control they
1:34:11 would just have to tell us they would
1:34:13 have to inform us right they could be
1:34:15 the they could be the the you know the
1:34:18 the input and then we'd be the output
1:34:20 right and we would just do our signals
1:34:22 based on whatever whatever they do right
1:34:24 it's not obvious that they would have to
1:34:25 change anything that they do they would
1:34:27 just have to make that information
1:34:28 available to us in some mechanism or
1:34:30 another but is there is there an element
1:34:33 of this plan that is the doing the
1:34:35 things that you just said that's why
1:34:37 let's get a clarification on that um for
1:34:39 the city of bellw does the city of bellw
1:34:41 control those wash doot intersections or
1:34:43 does wash do control them it depends on
1:34:46 which which intersections we're talking
1:34:48 sometimes it is cities actually
1:34:49 controlling the intersection corre
1:34:51 correct and it's a hodgepodge in in most
1:34:54 cities uh most cities don't have their
1:34:57 own control of State intersections but
1:35:00 bellw is a good example of having it in
1:35:02 at least a few places uh there are
1:35:06 considerations we they could tell us
1:35:09 what the timing is on their signals
1:35:10 which we know and we could coordinate
1:35:13 our signals to fit with theirs that's
1:35:15 one way to go but there are other things
1:35:18 that we would like to have the ability
1:35:20 to coordinate for example if there is an
1:35:23 issue on I90 or on uh 18 and we know
1:35:30 it's going to have an impact in town and
1:35:32 we want to make a change on sr900 for
1:35:35 example to help alleviate that uh we
1:35:39 don't have that ability right now and
1:35:42 it's possible through an agreement with
1:35:45 the state that we
1:35:47 could so so is that is that effort one
1:35:50 of these elements of the effort yes
1:35:56 okay thank you sure thank you council
1:35:59 member marz I I have the order I have is
1:36:02 council member hunt council president
1:36:04 Walsh if I missed somebody let me
1:36:10 know okay um the first question I had on
1:36:13 the um to council member Mart's question
1:36:17 about efficiency and sustainability did
1:36:20 um are you thinking of those as needing
1:36:23 I think you mentioned needing to balance
1:36:26 but um are you thinking of those as
1:36:29 opposing within that goal no not
1:36:32 opposing not opposing uh I just think
1:36:35 there's choices in efficiency efficiency
1:36:37 for whom for what mode and that has
1:36:40 implications potentially okay um just
1:36:44 wanted to clarify that uh the second
1:36:46 question one is um I have heard from a
1:36:49 lot of community members about wanting
1:36:51 to to have the uh speed feedback signs
1:36:54 those movable ones in their
1:36:56 neighborhoods and so I wondered if you
1:36:57 could explain the process for which
1:37:00 those get um allocated to different
1:37:03 problem areas or different areas where
1:37:05 they get deployed the speed trailers are
1:37:10 the police department's equipment um so
1:37:13 I don't I don't know exactly what their
1:37:15 protocol is for uh those we in our
1:37:18 department we uh help uh manage the
1:37:24 school zone cameras uh not on the
1:37:28 revenue side but just making sure the
1:37:31 contract for the maintenance is upkept
1:37:34 um we do not operate Place take the um
1:37:39 request I believe for the speed trailers
1:37:42 City administrator can get you an answer
1:37:44 on that from police I don't know if
1:37:47 tonight and I think the answer is that
1:37:48 it's uh on an as needed basis um we have
1:37:51 only so many and so many resources to
1:37:54 actually uh manage them I think if
1:37:56 that's an issue for the council uh for
1:37:58 future operating issues we can certainly
1:38:01 look at costs associated with additional
1:38:03 trailers and additional Staffing I think
1:38:06 basically it's not part of its it's part
1:38:08 of police response to complaints
1:38:11 about okay um thank you and then um my
1:38:16 last question is about the transit uh
1:38:19 signal Pro pilot um so that is currently
1:38:23 in 2028 I believe in the timeline we
1:38:27 currently have a Metroflex program and
1:38:29 it also mentions that this would be in
1:38:31 partnership with Metro and um depending
1:38:34 on the that partnership so um is that
1:38:39 and this is also based on a Community
1:38:41 member question advocate for Transit if
1:38:44 there were opportunities for more
1:38:46 Transit earlier would that be a
1:38:48 conversation that we would have then in
1:38:50 the context of like the CIP if we wanted
1:38:52 to implement that part earlier or if
1:38:55 Metro advocated Metro you know was
1:38:58 improving bus service since there was a
1:39:00 need for that
1:39:02 earlier sure there are a couple couple
1:39:05 things we want to make sure that we do
1:39:07 ahead of uh just deciding to go and
1:39:10 implement the transit signal
1:39:11 prioritization so one is make sure that
1:39:15 our technology within the intersections
1:39:17 have the capacity to actually provide
1:39:20 that fun ality so that's that's a piece
1:39:23 that we're um not yet able to do in all
1:39:25 places where we might want to have
1:39:28 tsp so that's the first one uh the
1:39:30 second is uh we really want to make sure
1:39:34 that we have that concurrency policy
1:39:36 discussion uh as it relates to which
1:39:39 modes get I'll say preferential
1:39:42 treatment in the intersection so because
1:39:45 that may have implications for the level
1:39:48 of service in uh intersections or the
1:39:52 efficiency of travel in town so we want
1:39:55 to have the policy conversation first
1:39:57 same time we're building out the
1:39:59 capacity from the technology side in the
1:40:02 intersections and then lastly we
1:40:04 certainly would want to work out the
1:40:06 details with Metro um but if we could
1:40:09 get those pieces done earlier I believe
1:40:11 those are the the biggest uh stumbling
1:40:15 blocks um and if we can remove those we
1:40:17 could probably speed that
1:40:19 up thank you M president
1:40:23 Walsh okay I think a lot of my questions
1:40:25 are related to some of those areas so
1:40:29 let me just see if I understand you were
1:40:31 saying then the policy decisions about
1:40:34 mode preferences is that all happening
1:40:37 within a concurrency
1:40:40 conversation we expect that should be
1:40:42 part of the discussion for a
1:40:44 concurrency okay and when do you know
1:40:47 when we our concurrency conversation is
1:40:50 set to happen I think we're still
1:40:51 working on adjusting that schedule we've
1:40:53 had some delay in getting we first do
1:40:55 the data collection and data analysis
1:40:58 and we've just uh started to get the
1:41:00 report back from the consultant on that
1:41:02 so I think we're still few months out um
1:41:05 but it's a
1:41:07 20204 return to council to have uh an
1:41:10 update on the con currency data itself
1:41:13 tell you how the intersections are
1:41:14 performing now and to identify if there
1:41:17 are needs on particularly the capital
1:41:20 side but maybe also the policy side uh
1:41:23 that we need to discuss with all of you
1:41:25 in order to make our concurrency system
1:41:27 work and then an opportunity to step
1:41:31 back and and look at it not just from
1:41:33 the data standpoint but goals and
1:41:37 objectives okay and so obviously getting
1:41:40 the data for
1:41:42 concurrency and making those policy
1:41:45 decisions are going to be first
1:41:47 requirements
1:41:49 before sets of things can get done um
1:41:53 but by if we adopt this plan and don't
1:41:56 yet have that data is there's still
1:41:58 other things that can make
1:42:01 progress in before that information is
1:42:05 available on the its plan itself yes
1:42:08 absolutely so we've we've put together a
1:42:11 long list of near-term projects which
1:42:13 are the 0o to twoyear implementation
1:42:16 plan and a lot of that as I said are are
1:42:20 those necess
1:42:21 foundational pieces for upgrades and
1:42:23 Replacements and building out the comm's
1:42:27 network okay thanks uh going back out
1:42:31 for more
1:42:33 questions I'm going to go to chair Ray
1:42:36 and see if you have anything from the
1:42:37 committee process that you wanted to
1:42:39 share oh so much to
1:42:42 share
1:42:43 um yes so the the uh Mobility
1:42:46 infrastructure committee did spend a
1:42:48 fair amount of time with the um its plan
1:42:52 I think um generally across the board we
1:42:55 were very supportive of it um and and I
1:42:58 think one of the things that director
1:43:00 Moon shared with us tonight which I
1:43:01 think is really key there were two
1:43:03 things I think are really key that we
1:43:05 talked about one was that this plan is
1:43:09 sort of The Guiding document that then
1:43:10 informs the CIP that then informs the
1:43:12 budget so this is almost the strategy of
1:43:15 its that then will get implemented over
1:43:17 cips and and over multiple budgets so um
1:43:21 you know to council member Mart's
1:43:23 comment about is this a funding
1:43:25 discussion we asked that we talked about
1:43:27 that too now this is a directional
1:43:29 question the second thing I think is um
1:43:32 came out of the committee meetings that
1:43:33 I think is super important to um for me
1:43:36 at least was um as much as I hated the
1:43:39 investment in um getting us up to Snuff
1:43:42 in terms of um our current
1:43:45 infrastructure it's it is a necessary
1:43:48 condition and it also will will position
1:43:51 us I hope I believe um so that we can
1:43:55 also take advantage of new technologies
1:43:58 because this is a very Dynamic area so
1:44:00 we want to be able to take care uh take
1:44:02 advantage of those new technologies so
1:44:03 we're going to invest now so we're
1:44:05 positioned for the future and then the
1:44:08 last thing that well two last things
1:44:10 guys there two they just like I feel
1:44:11 like Noah everything comes in twos um
1:44:14 one of the things that we talked about
1:44:16 was the need for metrics and I'm glad to
1:44:18 see that that that's come through and
1:44:20 then the final thing was this moving
1:44:22 from perform to manage to optimize from
1:44:25 a maturity level of the of the program
1:44:28 so um across the board couple of
1:44:31 questions couple of things to add to it
1:44:33 I think it's been reflected in the plan
1:44:35 I'm pretty excited about I'm getting
1:44:37 going on
1:44:40 this um um strategy strategy thank
1:44:45 you it was your word you said it first
1:44:49 okay thank you uh um a
1:44:52 r um necessary to make a motion do I
1:44:56 have somebody making a motion I will go
1:44:58 back to council member R uh I move to
1:45:01 approve the intelligent transportation
1:45:03 system its
1:45:07 second yes moved and second thanks um is
1:45:11 there any Council
1:45:13 discussion IET council president um
1:45:18 Michelle okay almost everybody just go
1:45:20 down the road okay council president
1:45:23 thank
1:45:24 you um I am very excited by its I read
1:45:30 over this plan and I see a lot of dollar
1:45:34 signs in there and that scares me but
1:45:38 much like I think other plans that we've
1:45:41 adopted lately such as the so called
1:45:43 climate action plan I really appreciate
1:45:47 that there was an implementation section
1:45:51 it's not just a plan it's a plan that we
1:45:53 take action on and so I appreciate
1:45:56 seeing that there was a shortterm
1:45:58 near-term and long-term set of
1:46:01 recommendations when I'm evaluating this
1:46:04 plan though as how am I going to be able
1:46:07 to use this when it comes to the
1:46:10 CIP um I do see some things missing and
1:46:15 one of them is that major policy
1:46:18 conversation around how do we prioritize
1:46:22 between different mode shares um the
1:46:26 other thing which again you know I'll go
1:46:30 back to the IAP the esa climate action
1:46:32 plan as kind of the Holy Grail of I look
1:46:35 at that and I know when I'm supposed to
1:46:37 do something whether it's affordable
1:46:40 what's related so what I don't see in
1:46:45 this plan is a sense
1:46:48 of if I'm looking at the that for CIP
1:46:52 planning I don't have a sense of what
1:46:54 the relative impact of making choosing
1:46:57 one project over another is um and I
1:47:00 know those relative impacts change based
1:47:02 on that mode preference so I understand
1:47:06 why it isn't in there but it still to me
1:47:08 is a deficiency in its usefulness um the
1:47:14 other thing I don't see is targets the
1:47:17 metrics are great but if I don't know
1:47:21 what this is supposed to accomplish and
1:47:23 what the targets are again I think a lot
1:47:27 of that comes back to that concurrency
1:47:29 and mod share but to me is still a
1:47:34 difficulty in using this plan as a
1:47:35 working
1:47:36 document um and then the other piece is
1:47:40 feasibility or
1:47:41 affordability um again just trying to
1:47:45 make this as usable as usable as
1:47:48 possible so I would be interested to
1:47:54 whether there is a way to update this
1:47:57 after the
1:47:58 concurrency conversation or whether
1:48:00 there is a way that you see
1:48:03 us being able to dig into those things
1:48:07 when it comes to the CIP project because
1:48:09 I see a lot of things in the near term
1:48:15 Midterm and I don't know we're going to
1:48:17 have the budget for all of those things
1:48:19 so how how can I utilize this
1:48:21 information to make decisions between
1:48:27 those
1:48:30 yes I I think you're absolutely right I
1:48:33 think there are a lot of unknowns still
1:48:36 and this is a broad plan meant to be
1:48:43 updated over time as those techn
1:48:46 Technologies change as our capacities
1:48:49 change as we get more certainty about
1:48:51 goals and objectives and
1:48:53 targets and then at that point we can
1:48:56 decide what exact technology do we want
1:48:59 how much does it cost how much will it
1:49:01 cost to implement it where it needs to
1:49:04 be a lot of unknown still uh but this at
1:49:07 least gives us a framework to start
1:49:09 having those conversations and start
1:49:11 making those
1:49:15 calculations um thank you director that
1:49:18 was a great comment I think one thing
1:49:20 that I haven't heard tonight um but I
1:49:22 think is really important is that there
1:49:24 are things in here for all different
1:49:25 modes and they all compete against each
1:49:27 other making one mode a little more um
1:49:32 friendly is going to make another one
1:49:34 less and we are still a very car Centric
1:49:37 under Metro Community so we are in the
1:49:41 paino here of how are you going to pick
1:49:43 projects to get us to the better more
1:49:46 urban um types of modes when most people
1:49:50 are still in cars and still prefer to be
1:49:52 in cars because of weather for one thing
1:49:55 um but also some lack of infrastructure
1:49:57 so you will have difficult conversations
1:49:59 so I think you phrased that very well
1:50:02 for doing that let's just go down the
1:50:03 road because I did see like almost every
1:50:05 microphone go up oh skip um Council Merz
1:50:10 thank you madam mayor um I wish this had
1:50:12 a little bit more punch around getting
1:50:14 people through town faster um I I wish
1:50:17 it more explicitly said that that's why
1:50:19 I asked about efficiency and
1:50:20 sustainability I think there's really
1:50:22 only three goals I I see six here but 3
1:50:25 four five and six are all derivatives of
1:50:27 one and two it's safety it's getting
1:50:29 people through town faster and it's
1:50:31 sustainability done in in a way that's
1:50:33 environmentally uh effective there's a
1:50:35 cost piece of that too I don't I don't
1:50:37 know how how one says it but that's what
1:50:39 people want they want to get through
1:50:41 town faster um I think the mayor's right
1:50:44 I think because of things that are
1:50:45 beyond our control I would love tomorrow
1:50:48 if we had Light Rail I would love if if
1:50:50 I had more options to get into town I
1:50:52 would love if you know they're not
1:50:53 eventually going to take the 554 away
1:50:55 from me so I wouldn't have to eventually
1:50:57 go through biew you know there's there's
1:50:59 there's such a hunger for multimode but
1:51:02 for the better part of the next 20 years
1:51:05 uh we are going to be dealing with cars
1:51:07 and so I I just I I wish this were a
1:51:09 little punchier and I don't know exactly
1:51:12 how to define punchier but I I I know
1:51:15 that what people want is to get through
1:51:16 town faster and so you know and I know
1:51:19 that that's not building eight Lane
1:51:20 freeways you know we're smarter than
1:51:22 that but I do wish the goal explicitly
1:51:25 called that out more I think efficiency
1:51:27 is is not a strong enough word for what
1:51:29 I know the public feels about uh traffic
1:51:32 in this thank I'd like to go back to
1:51:34 director moon for a comment on that
1:51:38 um is that a goal to move more people
1:51:43 through faster in
1:51:46 cars is that a goal it's one of the
1:51:49 goals yes we we we've heard that from
1:51:50 Council we've heard that from residents
1:51:52 we've also heard other goals other
1:51:54 definitions of um efficiency that faster
1:51:59 on what faster on a bike faster on foot
1:52:02 faster on a bus and I think that's the
1:52:05 narrative that is fuzzy here is I don't
1:52:07 think it's faster in car I'm not sure
1:52:10 that I heard that we could all of a
1:52:13 sudden cut your commute time down to 25%
1:52:15 of what it
1:52:16 was that's not what I'm saying but we
1:52:19 have seen a reduction in bus coverage in
1:52:22 this town in the 14 years that I have
1:52:24 lived here and I don't see anything at
1:52:26 the county level that makes me feel like
1:52:29 they're going to be providing a lot more
1:52:30 buses so I'm totally open to other ideas
1:52:33 I did not say getting people through
1:52:34 town faster in cars if there are other
1:52:36 ways to do it we have joked around about
1:52:38 gondolas and and tunnels and all sorts
1:52:42 of ideas I am totally open to other
1:52:44 ideas but but get people and also we're
1:52:47 going to have people coming through 50%
1:52:49 of our traffic is people who neither
1:52:51 begin nor end here get them through
1:52:53 faster in some way shape or form maybe
1:52:55 the faster for them is to because
1:52:57 they're going to go on a different route
1:52:58 but call that out somehow in this people
1:53:01 want what they want from efficiency and
1:53:03 you can have sustainability in there you
1:53:05 can have of course safety should be the
1:53:06 first one but call out specifically
1:53:08 people want to get through Faster by
1:53:10 hook or by crook or by Gondola or by hot
1:53:13 air balloon want to get through faster
1:53:15 thank you thanks Council Ray uh thanks I
1:53:19 I said most of my piece but I'm going to
1:53:21 I want to kind of hop on this one a
1:53:23 little bit because I've been championing
1:53:26 championing its for a long long time and
1:53:30 when I first saw it in Belle what
1:53:32 impressed me wasn't um the underlying
1:53:35 technology it was by applying technology
1:53:39 and data we were able to better utilize
1:53:42 roadway and that's I think that's the
1:53:46 the Crux of this um we will be able B to
1:53:50 more utilization better utilization out
1:53:54 of our existing Transportation
1:53:56 infrastructure through an IT system with
1:53:59 a big old caveat that says it gets even
1:54:01 better if we can partner with those
1:54:02 external entities that we have to
1:54:04 connect with but that's what what
1:54:06 Belleview did and they were really
1:54:08 successful at it and so the council
1:54:10 member marks it should be able to hit
1:54:12 people through town um faster because
1:54:14 we'll be able to use the roadways better
1:54:16 it should be able to move buses better
1:54:18 through town because we can use the
1:54:19 roadway better it should be safer for
1:54:22 pedestrians and bicycles because we know
1:54:24 what's coming down the road so that's
1:54:26 what excites me is data helps us do get
1:54:31 more out of what we have because we all
1:54:33 know we can't add any more so that's the
1:54:37 for me that's the goal of its it's to
1:54:39 get more out of what we got by using
1:54:41 technology and data and if we can do
1:54:43 that and I think we can um then we're
1:54:46 going to actually do something really
1:54:48 really significant for this community
1:54:51 so I'm super excited about the plan
1:54:53 council member
1:54:55 hunt thank you I'm supportive of the
1:54:58 plan too um in terms of the goals we do
1:55:01 have Mobility goals from our um
1:55:04 strategic plan that we did with lots of
1:55:06 input from the community and so I think
1:55:08 we could look to some of those and how
1:55:11 we um how we intended to evaluate our
1:55:15 success with Mobility because I think
1:55:17 the its plan is a key part of achieving
1:55:19 Mobility goals overall um so you know
1:55:22 for example we had Community
1:55:24 satisfaction rating of overall ease of
1:55:26 getting to all the places you usually
1:55:28 have to visit in isqua which is I
1:55:30 believe something that we look at on the
1:55:32 um Community survey um and there are
1:55:34 some other system connectivity goals and
1:55:36 things that we could uh that we could
1:55:38 evaluate but I I agree with my
1:55:40 colleagues that I think it would be good
1:55:42 to have some clearer um clearer uh
1:55:47 definition of like what are what's the
1:55:49 target you know how do we know when
1:55:51 we've when we're moving in that
1:55:53 direction and what what does um success
1:55:56 look like um I
1:55:59 also uh was thinking about when we get
1:56:03 to the CIP that's when I believe the
1:56:05 projects go through this uh Matrix um so
1:56:08 to council president Walsh's questions
1:56:11 about how do we evaluate um previously
1:56:14 there was I looked in our last CIP and
1:56:16 it had the its plan projects in there
1:56:20 already they might I think they've
1:56:22 probably changed with this this
1:56:24 completion of the plan um but then
1:56:26 they're all ranked and they have equity
1:56:28 for example which uh is not referenced
1:56:30 in this plan but which would be
1:56:33 evaluated as part of how we prioritize
1:56:35 the projects in the CIP um so I think
1:56:39 there's that is uh is not in this plan
1:56:43 but it would be a part of our overall
1:56:45 process once we actually evaluate and
1:56:46 prioritize the projects um so that
1:56:49 helped me kind of think through our
1:56:51 process there and then the last thing is
1:56:54 um I I like that efficiency and
1:56:56 sustainability are together I think that
1:56:58 in the IAP which was referenced it it
1:57:01 also has commute trip reduction for
1:57:03 example that that improves
1:57:04 sustainability and system efficiency you
1:57:07 know it's it's they can go hand inand
1:57:09 also reducing idling which I think far
1:57:12 as idling is both inefficient um I think
1:57:15 everybody would agree and also bad for
1:57:18 the environment so a sustainability and
1:57:20 efficiency perspective if we can reduce
1:57:22 idling that would be great um so I think
1:57:24 looking for those uh together in ways
1:57:27 that we can achieve both of those goals
1:57:29 together um is both how I read the plan
1:57:32 and I think is meets our community
1:57:35 objectives there um so last thing I'll
1:57:38 say is I I know that traffic safety and
1:57:40 Transportation safety is extremely
1:57:42 important to this community and so I
1:57:44 think having that be our overarching
1:57:46 goal is correct and I um look to uh I
1:57:51 hope and look to see how this plan
1:57:53 improves our Transportation safety of
1:57:55 our system overall so I will be
1:57:58 supported council member de
1:58:03 Michelle thank you so much Emily and
1:58:05 thanks to the staff for for uh all the
1:58:08 work that went into this and uh so as a
1:58:11 member of the mobility and
1:58:12 infrastructure committee this is the
1:58:14 third time that that we've gotten to see
1:58:17 the the plan and I actually spent the
1:58:21 weekend reading
1:58:22 it and the um the thing that I would
1:58:26 commend to um people in our community
1:58:29 who want to learn more about it is to
1:58:31 actually look at the inventory that you
1:58:34 put together which was really extensive
1:58:36 and deep and reminded me that we have
1:58:40 already
1:58:41 invested a lot in this system um and
1:58:46 accompanying the inventory were a number
1:58:48 of graphs showing the uh life expectancy
1:58:52 and then the actual age of the various
1:58:55 elements of our
1:58:57 inventory um and um we're clearly
1:59:02 digging our way out of a hole here we
1:59:05 have a lot of equipment that needs
1:59:08 replacement uh is going to be expensive
1:59:10 to replace and uh you said earlier and I
1:59:14 agree that uh this is foundational work
1:59:17 for the near future we have this big
1:59:20 aspirational goal to become proactive
1:59:23 which I think is wonderful but right now
1:59:25 we're still stuck in reactive and we're
1:59:27 going to be there for a while because uh
1:59:29 what we're going to do is bring this
1:59:32 system up to uh the current um uh
1:59:37 qualities that we wanted to have and
1:59:39 then we can start excuse me and then we
1:59:41 can start looking at where we want to go
1:59:44 aspirationally toward a more proactive
1:59:47 approach to the its system so so a lot
1:59:50 of the questions that have been brought
1:59:52 up here I agree with you they are policy
1:59:54 questions especially around you know
1:59:56 Transit priority and those kinds of
1:59:58 things um and how we're going to mild
2:00:01 this with the level of service and our
2:00:02 concurrency policy and all of that um
2:00:05 you also provided some
2:00:08 uh um rough estimates of the cost of
2:00:11 various items and we all know how
2:00:15 volatile the technology is and so those
2:00:19 things are going to change dramatically
2:00:21 between now and when we get to the CIP
2:00:23 and then when we get to the budget so so
2:00:26 uh I feel like this is a plan that
2:00:29 provides us with a good direction
2:00:32 there's been a lot of community
2:00:33 engagement involved as well as as
2:00:36 Planning by the staff and um and we just
2:00:40 have to be I guess patient because um
2:00:44 while we're laying this Foundation it's
2:00:47 not going to be you know know real sexy
2:00:50 as you know we say when it comes to
2:00:53 infrastructure infrastructure is often
2:00:55 especially foundational infrastructure
2:00:57 is not sexy it isn't you know that thing
2:01:01 that grabs you but when we lay that
2:01:03 Foundation then down the road we're
2:01:05 going to be able to do some fantastic
2:01:07 leaks because we will have brought the
2:01:09 system up to speed and right now if you
2:01:13 look at those graphs we as I said we're
2:01:16 digging our way out of a big hole and we
2:01:19 have to do that foundational work first
2:01:21 so uh obviously very supportive of this
2:01:25 I think the staff did a very thoughtful
2:01:27 job and I I agree that we have a lot of
2:01:29 decisions to make down the road to make
2:01:32 sure that this plan is implemented fully
2:01:34 and meets the goals that have that we've
2:01:36 talked about tonight um I just would
2:01:39 commend uh the community to think about
2:01:41 the the investment um that we're going
2:01:44 to have to make in this
2:01:46 foundational uh piece before we can
2:01:49 start to fly so thank you again thank
2:01:53 you Council mayor D Michelle council
2:01:55 member Joe did you have any comments you
2:01:56 wanted to
2:01:57 share
2:01:59 thank uh is there any additional
2:02:01 discussion before we call for a
2:02:04 vote checking if anybody wants to check
2:02:07 back in um the motion is to approve the
2:02:10 intelligent transportation system plan
2:02:13 and um if there is no further discussion
2:02:16 all those in favor signify by saying I
2:02:20 I those opposed that carries s and0 um
2:02:25 thank you director moon for all your
2:02:26 work on this and your committee touches
2:02:28 a great job and staff
2:02:32 thanks uh the next item is committee and
2:02:34 Regional reports and let's start with
2:02:36 council member Joe thank you very much
2:02:40 uh first off
2:02:41 the uh Cascade water Alliance board will
2:02:45 meeting on will be meeting on November
2:02:47 15th um I would encourage uh my fellow
2:02:51 council members to watch not necessarily
2:02:53 this meeting directly but the U
2:02:55 discussion that's going on with the
2:02:57 purchasing of the future water from
2:03:00 either the city of Tacoma or Seattle um
2:03:04 I'm sure Public Works and and the
2:03:05 members your representatives will be
2:03:07 giving you some briefings on those uh
2:03:09 issues going forward the November 1st
2:03:12 public affairs committee for Cascade
2:03:13 water Alliance was cancelled uh we do
2:03:17 have a lodging tax advis committee
2:03:19 meeting at 3 p.m. this Wednesday at
2:03:22 Spring Hill Suite on Maple Street uh
2:03:26 we'll get a budget update but the more
2:03:27 important topic certainly is discussing
2:03:30 the funding initiative uh we're going to
2:03:32 be working on the the uh application for
2:03:36 that as many of you know it's a $10,000
2:03:38 funding opportunity um applications are
2:03:41 due January 31st
2:03:44 2024 um they're kind of three categories
2:03:47 we want to have uh support op operations
2:03:49 nonprofits um uh that are supporting
2:03:53 tour tourism related activities and
2:03:56 facilities in town um marketing and
2:03:58 operations of special events and
2:04:00 festivals designed to attract tourists
2:04:03 and the most important one is marketing
2:04:05 to visitors from outside the area by an
2:04:07 isquad business or not for-profit
2:04:09 organization to encourage safe and
2:04:11 virtual travel to isqua from visitors
2:04:14 greater than 50 Mi away so elac is
2:04:17 lodging tax advisory committee we want
2:04:19 to encourage heads and beds through uh
2:04:22 this uh project so if you know any
2:04:25 nonprofits or other organizations that
2:04:27 are encouraging tourism please let them
2:04:30 know that application will be coming out
2:04:31 soon and is due January 31st that
2:04:34 concludes my report thank you Council m
2:04:37 d sh thank you mayor Paulie I have no
2:04:40 report tonight thank
2:04:42 you uh council member hunt thank you on
2:04:46 Wednesday of this week which is November
2:04:48 8th there will be a meeting of the
2:04:51 Planning Development and environment
2:04:52 committee and we have two topics we have
2:04:55 ID 1494 which is diversity of housing
2:04:57 type policy um regulation and ID 1541
2:05:03 comprehensive Plan update draft
2:05:05 environmental stewardship and climate
2:05:07 resilience element um and that concludes
2:05:10 my report thank you Council M Ray uh
2:05:13 thank you mayor Paulie on November 14th
2:05:15 at 6:30 p.m. here in council chambers
2:05:18 the mobility and infrastructure
2:05:19 committee will meet and the agenda has
2:05:21 not yet been set and that concludes my
2:05:24 report you council member marks thank
2:05:27 you madam mayor um s cities Association
2:05:29 public issues committee will be meeting
2:05:31 this Wednesday November
2:05:33 8th at 7M it's an online meeting uh
2:05:36 we're going to be discussing 2024
2:05:38 legislative priorities Metro reduced
2:05:41 Fair public engagement King County
2:05:43 climate crisis fund proposal uh and
2:05:46 getting an election Roundup which is
2:05:48 always is uh both exciting and a little
2:05:51 sad because there's invariably I would
2:05:53 say 5 or 10% of the members of SCA pick
2:05:55 that thought they were going to get
2:05:56 reelected that don't get reelected um
2:05:59 but then they can commiserate uh with
2:06:01 their friends and uh but you know I will
2:06:05 I have to say and I'm I'm going to be
2:06:07 talking to SCA leadership about this yet
2:06:09 again no actions right so discussion but
2:06:13 historically SCA has a role or Pi has a
2:06:15 role of uh providing recommendations to
2:06:18 the board and uh that hasn't been
2:06:20 happening lately so I'm going to um get
2:06:22 together with David and understand that
2:06:25 a little bit better Council services
2:06:27 safety and Parks committee uh will not
2:06:30 be meeting this month uh we have uh one
2:06:33 potential item that will get moved to
2:06:34 December or January this concludes my
2:06:36 report thank you Deputy council
2:06:38 president thank you the next meeting of
2:06:41 the East Side Fire and Rescue board of
2:06:42 directors is this Wednesday November 4th
2:06:44 at 400 p.m. uh right before Planning
2:06:47 Development environment ment committee
2:06:49 it's usually on Thursdays um but I think
2:06:51 because of Veterans Day it's Wednesday
2:06:54 uh the agenda includes a review of the
2:06:56 agency's legislative agenda so we'll be
2:06:58 bringing that back for Council review in
2:07:00 feedback before we adopt uh in at the
2:07:03 December board meeting that concludes my
2:07:05 report thank you council
2:07:06 president thank you the petown Regional
2:07:09 Council growth management policy board
2:07:11 met last
2:07:13 Thursday and we received a uh reports on
2:07:18 three
2:07:19 topics the housing monitoring report
2:07:21 which was really interesting talked a
2:07:23 lot about how housing is so much less
2:07:26 affordable than it was just a few years
2:07:28 ago primarily because of uh mortgage
2:07:32 rates and just how that impacts who can
2:07:35 afford uh to purchase housing um the
2:07:38 second thing was the Industrial lands
2:07:40 analysis and then also the regional
2:07:42 centers monitoring which we will
2:07:44 continue to look at over the next year
2:07:47 very important to us having one of the
2:07:49 newest uh Regional centers and the
2:07:52 December meeting was canceled so the
2:07:54 next meeting will be held in
2:07:56 2024 the King County affordable housing
2:07:59 committee has our next meeting on
2:08:01 November 16th No Agenda has been
2:08:03 released at this time that concludes my
2:08:05 report thank you council president the
2:08:07 next item on the agenda is the mayor's
2:08:10 report um there is no executive session
2:08:13 planned for this evening um some
2:08:15 upcoming community events it's been
2:08:17 mentioned a couple times but 2023
2:08:20 general election is
2:08:22 tomorrow uh want to make sure everybody
2:08:24 is creating a plan to vote um and help
2:08:27 make sure that you can get your ballot
2:08:29 back on time our dropboxes here at City
2:08:31 Hall close at 8:00 pm sharp you can also
2:08:34 um ballots um could be postmarked by
2:08:37 today as well so I want to make sure
2:08:39 that people know that they need to
2:08:40 register to vote by 8:00 pm at the King
2:08:42 County elections office and if you have
2:08:44 any questions please reach out the King
2:08:47 County election ctions has a a phone
2:08:50 number 206 296 vote just for your
2:08:53 questions Newport neighborhood Council
2:08:55 listing session is coming up hoping the
2:08:58 Newport neighbors can join us at the
2:08:59 King County Library service center from
2:09:01 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. this Thursday to
2:09:05 hear what's happening in the
2:09:06 neighborhood staff and council members
2:09:08 will present to help answer questions at
2:09:10 this community lising session and the
2:09:11 topics will include transportation and
2:09:14 traffic emergency preparedness police
2:09:17 and safety and sales tax for
2:09:19 transportation there will also be a Q&A
2:09:22 session Veterans Day Services I invite
2:09:25 you all to join the BFW Post Number 3436
2:09:28 for vet a Veterans Day service this
2:09:31 Friday from 11: to 12 at the isqua
2:09:33 senior center the service will in
2:09:36 include a performance of Liberty High
2:09:38 School's Junior ro2c a flag presentation
2:09:41 be recognizing veterans in attendance
2:09:43 and guest speaker Dave Wagner will share
2:09:45 about the women's Air Force service
2:09:47 pilot
2:09:48 second Lieutenant Elizabeth Jane Ericson
2:09:51 an isqua high school and University of
2:09:53 was Washington graduate who is killed in
2:09:56 training during World War II uh
2:09:58 following this service please swing by
2:10:00 Blakeley hall for an openhouse reception
2:10:02 all veterans and their families and
2:10:04 members of the community are invited to
2:10:06 come and
2:10:07 join uh we will have King County
2:10:10 Metroflex donating some free
2:10:11 transportation between the two Services
2:10:14 the Veterans Day service at senior
2:10:16 center and the Veterans Day reception in
2:10:17 the Highland the rides will leave the
2:10:19 service event at 12:00 p.m. and return
2:10:21 trips back to the senior center will
2:10:23 leave the reception event at 1:30 you
2:10:25 can learn more at isqua's Metroflex site
2:10:29 isqua history museum is having an open
2:10:31 house you heard about that tonight uh at
2:10:33 the Depot Thursday November 16th at 7
2:10:37 pm. uh you can learn all about the
2:10:39 latest programs and plans for the ISA
2:10:41 history mum their collection Gilman Town
2:10:44 Hall the trolley the auto Freight
2:10:46 building the Army car guided t Etc this
2:10:49 event is open to the public but an RSVP
2:10:51 would be appreciated there's also an
2:10:53 Oldtown neighborhood meeting coming up
2:10:55 with City staff Thursday November 16th
2:10:58 in the r room at the isqua community
2:11:00 center again to talk about upcoming
2:11:02 projects and topics of Interest the
2:11:04 Oldtown neighborhood staff will deliver
2:11:06 a short presentation before inviting the
2:11:08 public to continue the discussion at
2:11:10 topic tables please feel free to join us
2:11:13 and bring questions and chat with City
2:11:15 staff projects and topics include second
2:11:18 push Crossing evaluation traffic calming
2:11:21 storm water planning and related
2:11:22 projects pedestrian Park and the Senior
2:11:24 Center Plaza update neighborhood dog
2:11:27 park the data update related to Public
2:11:30 Safety Trends and traffic enforcement
2:11:32 the reineer room is accessible through
2:11:33 the main Community s entrance or a
2:11:35 separate exterior entrance along First
2:11:37 Avenue and last Light Up The Night want
2:11:39 to make sure everybody joins the city of
2:11:41 isqua at 6: p.m. with some special
2:11:43 guests next Saturday November 18th in
2:11:46 Oldtown from 5:00 p.m. to actually
2:11:49 that's two no two Saturdays away in
2:11:53 Oldtown from 500 p.m. to 6 p.m. for a
2:11:55 celebratory tree lighting to welcome in
2:11:57 Winter all are welcome at this free
2:11:59 event additional details will be coming
2:12:01 out on our website shortly going to move
2:12:03 into good of the order and see if
2:12:05 anybody has any items to share for good
2:12:06 of the order I see council member Joe
2:12:10 does thank you Madame mayor um just to
2:12:12 make the council aware of an event
2:12:14 coming up um the is excuse me the BBY
2:12:19 Chamber of Commerce uh holds a regular
2:12:21 holiday elected leaders party um this
2:12:24 year it'll be on December 12th uh at the
2:12:28 exfinity store in Bell Square uh from
2:12:31 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. it's a great
2:12:33 opportunity to meet and talk to our
2:12:35 fellow council members from bie Redmond
2:12:37 Kirkland and other surrounding
2:12:39 communities I would encourage you to
2:12:41 consider attending this free event I
2:12:43 think you RSVP through the uh bie
2:12:46 Chamber of Commerce if you're it thank
2:12:49 you that's great thank you uh council
2:12:54 president thank you uh Deputy council
2:12:57 president reminded me that I have to
2:12:59 take an opportunity to Crow for a moment
2:13:02 um and talk about our pumpkin Derby
2:13:06 which as everyone will remember uh the
2:13:10 one goal that I had established for our
2:13:13 Council Derby cart uh this year was that
2:13:16 our pumpkin stayed on the cart and
2:13:20 continued down um together and so I
2:13:25 would like to say that in our fourth
2:13:27 Derby cart we have uh finally
2:13:30 accomplished
2:13:32 that two out of the three races that we
2:13:37 did we made it all the way down uh the
2:13:41 other one we got stopped up and
2:13:42 everything but I fixed the wheels um on
2:13:45 that day um but I would like to to say
2:13:48 we even won one of our
2:13:51 races um I will mention that the
2:13:54 executive team did beat us twice so you
2:13:58 know there there's a little bit of a
2:14:00 challenge there for next year um but I
2:14:03 would like to thank everyone for uh
2:14:06 helping us achieve that goal which was
2:14:09 uh very near and dear to all of our
2:14:10 hearts um it was also just a wonderful
2:14:13 time seeing all of the employees out uh
2:14:16 celebrating and doing all of that so
2:14:19 just wanted to update everyone thank you
2:14:21 it was a good event um I have a couple
2:14:23 more I'm just going to add in really
2:14:24 quickly one is there are a couple of us
2:14:26 going on Wednesday out to this Noami
2:14:28 Casino as part of a group of elected
2:14:30 representatives thanking um House and
2:14:33 Senate representes of the state for
2:14:35 their continued funding and commitment
2:14:37 to completing the highway 18 project so
2:14:39 very excited about that and our sister
2:14:42 cities commission is working with staff
2:14:45 and community members on three projects
2:14:47 from Rock and relief for the earthquake
2:14:50 um December 2nd there will be an event
2:14:52 at the Pickering barn and you will all
2:14:54 receive an invitation to it it is a
2:14:55 winter clothing Drive um that we are
2:14:58 coordinating with the mayor of our
2:14:59 sister city in Shi Shia Morocco there's
2:15:03 also going to be um a shipment of some
2:15:05 fresh fruit and also computers so there
2:15:07 are three different projects coming out
2:15:09 over the next couple of months but it'
2:15:10 be great to see everybody at the
2:15:11 December second event any other good of
2:15:14 order
2:15:16 items
2:15:18 uh some upcoming Council uh meetings uh
2:15:21 November 9th there's a special city
2:15:22 council meeting which we already talked
2:15:24 about the community lising session for
2:15:25 Newport neighborhood and this will be at
2:15:27 the King County Library service center
2:15:29 on Newport Way um we also talked oh no
2:15:33 this is the next Monday there November
2:15:35 13th a special city council meeting
2:15:36 followed by a committee of the whole
2:15:38 meeting uh this is a public hearing at
2:15:40 6:30 about the High Street collection
2:15:42 development agreement following the
2:15:44 special meeting a committee of the whole
2:15:45 will be held in the anticipated agenda
2:15:47 items include Transportation benefit
2:15:49 District Council manic sales tax uh and
2:15:52 the public Outreach outcomes and uh
2:15:55 another potential item is amending
2:15:57 financial management policies at the
2:15:59 November 20th regular city council
2:16:01 meeting the anticipated agenda items
2:16:03 include a public hearing on the 2023-24
2:16:06 mid banian budget adjustment and the
2:16:09 2024 property tax levy a public hearing
2:16:12 on the transportation benefit District
2:16:14 Council manic sales tax 2023 24 State
2:16:18 Legislative agenda priorities and policy
2:16:20 manual update and new business request
2:16:23 which was credit card processing fees
2:16:27 recovery uh next item on the agenda is
2:16:29 the executive session but as I stated
2:16:30 earlier we won't be having one this
2:16:32 evening so we are adjourned at 9117
2:16:36 thank you

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (2)

Approve the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Plan. .
Moved by REH · seconded by HALL
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 1482 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Nov. 6, 2023, $3,209,140.23; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, July 10, 2023; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, July 10, 2023; Approved. d) AB 8698 - Puget Sound Emergency Radi…
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