City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, March 4, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Recognition of Freddie Rabadan ID 1674

5 min

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5. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of March 4, 2024, $8,877,914.44 ID 1633

Approve · packet pp.7–70

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Oct. 23, 2023

Approve · packet pp.71

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 17, 2023

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 10-23-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 6:00 PM Outdoors, Council Chambers October 23, 2023 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Oct. 23, 2023

Approve · packet pp.73–76

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 17, 2023

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 10-23-23 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers October 23, 2023 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way

Vacation of a Portion of 2nd Avenue SE AB 8687

Carried 6-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.77–99

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 5, 2024

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Staff report:

Following an extensive public engagement process, an off-leash dog park was identified as a priority project in the City's 2018 Parks Strategic Plan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City made several budget reductions in 2020, which impacted many parks projects, including the dog park. A two-year Pop-Up Dog Park Tour was successful in serving resident needs for an off-leash dog facility while the City explored options. The site by the Issaquah Community Center along the Rainier Trail proved to be extremely popular. In the 2023-2024 budget, the City Council authorized funding to make a permanent dog park at the site by the Issaquah Community Center while continuing to pursue a permanent option at Tibbetts Valley Park during future re-visioning of the park. A portion of the proposed dog park by the Community Center is located within right of way for 2nd Avenue SE.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh

Department of Ecology Local Solid Waste Financial Assistance Grant AB 8611

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.101–123

Topics: Critical Areas

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Staff report:

Historically, the City has applied for and received LSWFA grant funds for implementation of curbside recycling, multifamily education, sustainable building, commercial recycling, compost education, and other similar types of waste reduction and recycling activities. The City did not accept grant funding in the 2021-23 period due to internal staffing levels making it difficult to manage the grant.

Easement with Puget Sound Energy for Power Connection to SPAR Booster Pump Station AB 8718

Authorize · packet pp.125–131

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

The City is in the process of completing the SPAR Booster Pump Station, a 3,000 gallon-per-minute booster pump station (BPS) and transmission piping to increase overall reliability and provide redundancy within the City's water system. An agenda bill to accept this work will be presented to the City Council later this spring. As part of this project, power was extended within the Issaquah-Preston trail and through City parcels 5279100850 and 2724069126 to the SPAR Booster Pump Station site, to provide power to the booster pump station.

Amendments to IMC 9.10 Regarding Firearm Regulation AB 8719

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.133–139

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

Pursuant to RCW 9.41.290, the state of Washington fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearm regulation (RCW 9.41.290). This means that cities may not enact ordinances that are inconsistent with, more restrictive than, or exceed the requirements of state law. Further, while the state has adopted comprehensive regulations on the sale, purchase, and possession of firearms in Chapter 9.41 RCW, many of those provisions must be formally adopted by a city in order to be enforced by local law enforcement. In other words, while these state laws apply regardless of whether adopted by a city, a city cannot actually take action to enforce those laws unless they've been formally adopted by reference by the city's legislative body.

Tibbetts Crossing (Silverado) Development Agreement Affordable Housing Amendment AB 8733

Approve Resolution · packet pp.141–157

Topics: Housing

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Staff report:

In April 2016, an application for a development agreement (Application DA16-00002) was submitted requesting to develop a clustered subdivision of a 21.94-acre parcel located at 7932 Renton-Issaquah RD SE into 20 single-family lots. The Issaquah Municipal Code cluster housing provisions require parcels of land totaling five or more acres to obtain a development agreement, which is approved by the City Council. On December 19, 2016, the City Council approved the Silverado Development Agreement (Resolution No. 2016-20), which entered the City into an agreement with the owner(s) of the parcel.

2023 ARCH Housing Trust Fund AB 8759

Approve Resolution · packet pp.159–186

Topics: HousingBudget

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Staff report:

ARCH is a partnership of King County and 14 East King County Cities who have joined together to assist with preserving and increasing the supply of housing for affordable households in the region. Each year, ARCH's partner jurisdictions contribute funds toward the ARCH Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to aid in the development and preservation of affordable housing within the ARCH area of influence.

2024 Lodging Tax Advisory Committee Funding Recommendations AB 8766

Approve · packet pp.187–328

Topics: BudgetTourism

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Staff report:

In the midst of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the City recognizes that tourism and tourism-related industries have been greatly impacted. These businesses and not-for-profit organizations are integral to the local economy and community.

2024 Water Main Replacement Project (WT 015) AB 8776

Award Bid · packet pp.329–332

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

City Attorney Review City Attorney Review Date:

Newport Way NW Landslide Stabilization Local Agency Agreement Supplement #1 AB 8784

Authorize · packet pp.333–343

Topics: Transportation

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 20, 2023

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Staff report:

On February 6 and 7, 2020, a large rainfall event occurred in the region, mobilizing a small landslide on King County Parks property adjacent to Newport Way NW. The slide spilled onto the roadway and resulted in the shutdown of a section of Newport Way NW for roughly one week. City, County, and Puget Sound Energy (PSE) crews responded to temporarily stabilize the slide for the short-term.

Appointment to Cascade Water Alliance Board Position AB 8794

Approve Resolution · packet pp.345–347

Topics: WaterBoards & Commissions

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Staff report:

Approve the resolution as presented.

Department of Health Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program AB 8795

Authorize · packet pp.349–359

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Staff report:

The Issaquah Farmers Market participates in the Washington State's Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program (FVIP) that provides point of sale incentives to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) clients. This program provides support to low income families by supplementing their grocery budget allowing them to afford nutritious food essential to health and well-being.

12th Ave NW and SR 900 Project Contract Extension AB 8809

Authorize · packet pp.361–365

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Staff report:

City Attorney Review Rachel Bender Turpin City Attorney Review Date: February 28, 2024

Amendment to South Correctional Entity (SCORE) Interlocal Agreement re: Rates AB 8811

Authorize · packet pp.367–388

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Staff report:

SCORE is a regionally owned jail in Des Moines, Washington serving the confinement needs of six member cities and a number of contract agencies with a total capacity of 802 inmates. The City contracts with SCORE to house inmates with acute mental illness or medical needs that generally require around the clock medical care. The City first entered into an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) with SCORE in 2011.

Local Government Investment Pool Authorization AB 8812

Approve Resolution · packet pp.389–395

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Staff report:

The City outlines investment activities in the Financial Management Policy. One investment account, commonly referred to as the Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP) with Office of the State Treasurer holds investments for the city. Previous Resolution No. 2018-17 designated three positions that could amend, change or alter documentation related to the account that are no longer active or filled by staff, 1) Finance Director, 2) Financial Operations Manager - Revenue, 3) Financial Operations Manager - Accounting, therefore, management is unable to amend, change, or alter the LGIP Transaction Authorization Forms or any other documentation, including designation of other individuals to make contributions and withdrawals on behalf of the city.

Sycamore and East Fork Drainage Study (ST052) Contract Agreement AB 8814

Authorize · packet pp.397–421

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

Issaquah Creek and its tributaries have a history of flooding and drainage issues due to urbanization within the watershed. Conditions are worsening with higher intensity storm events. The floodplains of mainstem Issaquah Creek and East Fork Issaquah Creek include dense residential development, situated in close proximity to the creek. During large precipitation events, flooding becomes problematic in urban areas of the City, causing road closures and impacting community members and properties.

King County Human Services Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy Grant Amendment 2 (Senior Center) AB 8818

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.423–430

Topics: BudgetEquity

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Staff report:

In 2019, the City Council approved entering into an agreement with King County to receive funding annually from 2019- 2023 through the Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy (VSHSL) grant for enhancing senior services and transforming senior centers into senior hubs, providing additional programming and services for seniors.

6. REGULAR BUSINESS

Multi-Family Housing Tax Exemption Ordinance AB 8787

Adopt Ordinance · 20 min · packet pp.431–469

Topics: HousingLand UseBudget

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Staff report:

In 2017, the City adopted a MFTE program pursuant to Chapter 84.14 RCW, allowing for special valuation of eligible improvements associated with multifamily housing in areas designated by the City Council as "residential targeted areas," for the purpose of increasing residential opportunities for affordable housing. The program is codified at Chapter 3.09 IMC. Currently, the City has established one residential targeted area, the Tibbetts Valley Transit-Oriented Development Targeted Area.

2021 Building & Fire Code AB 8774

Carried 6-0

Adopt Ordinances · 30 min · packet pp.471–660

Topics: Land UsePublic Safety

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jan 19, 2021

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Staff report:

Every three years the International Code Council (ICC) amends and updates the building codes. The State of Washington through the State Building Code Council (SBCC), in turn, reviews and adopts the state-amended versions of these codes. State law requires adoption of these codes with some limited additions or changes. The last building and fire code update was the 2018 code update adopted by the City Council on January 19, 2021.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh

9. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Informational Update: Solid Waste Implementation ID 1616

Receive Report · 30 min · packet pp.661–687

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Staff report:

The City’s solid waste provider, Recology, will provide City Council with an update on the solid waste collection contract implementation, diversion statistics, and other relevant information during the March 4th City Council Regular Meeting.

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

10a

Upcoming Council Meetings

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11. EXECUTIVE SESSION

11a

Executive Session Pending/Potential Litigation ID 1659

30 min

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11b

Executive Session - Property Acquisition per RCW 42.30.110(1)(b) ID 1688

15 min

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12. OPEN SESSION

12a

Motion Regarding Executive Session Item

5 min

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0:08 ↗ good evening everyone and welcome to the

0:11 ↗ March 4th city council meeting I'm

0:13 ↗ calling it to order uh council member

0:16 ↗ Hunt is joining us virtually today thank

0:18 ↗ you council member and council member Ry

0:20 ↗ has an excused absence this evening as a

0:23 ↗ reminder we still continue to have our a

0:25 ↗ remote aspect to our meetings and so

0:27 ↗ both staff and members of the public may

0:29 ↗ be participating in tonight's meeting

0:31 ↗ remotely via webx the first item on our

0:33 ↗ agenda this evening is the Pledge of

0:35 ↗ Allegiance and I invite you to

0:39 ↗ join I pledge allegiance to the flag of

0:43 ↗ the United States of America and to the

0:46 ↗ Republic for which it stands one nation

0:50 ↗ God indivisible liberty and justice for

0:57 ↗ all on our original agenda we had a

1:00 ↗ special business item id

1:03 ↗ 1674 uh recognition of uh Freddy rabadan

1:06 ↗ from Target however he is not unable to

1:09 ↗ make it to tonight's meeting and so

1:10 ↗ we're going to push this item out a few

1:12 ↗ weeks and have Freddy join us at a later

1:14 ↗ time the next item on our agenda this

1:17 ↗ evening is public comment and this is

1:19 ↗ where members of the public can address

1:20 ↗ the council in person or virtually those

1:23 ↗ who signed up in advance will be um

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1:47 ↗ other speakers before I close this

1:48 ↗ portion of the meeting city clerk has

1:51 ↗ anyone signed up to speak for General

1:53 ↗ audience comments or indicated desire to

1:55 ↗ speak this evening yes thanks I'll read

1:57 ↗ a few guidelines before we get to public

1:59 ↗ comment you're invited to address the

2:02 ↗ council regarding matters that are

2:03 ↗ directly related to isqua programs

2:06 ↗ projects services or events please

2:09 ↗ direct your comments to the whole of

2:10 ↗ council and not individuals and while

2:13 ↗ this is not a question and answer

2:14 ↗ session we will follow up with you if

2:18 ↗ needed when you have been recognized

2:20 ↗ unmute uh your microphone if you are

2:23 ↗ attending virtually or step up to the

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2:26 ↗ if you're here with us in the room

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2:34 ↗ your comments to 5 minutes if you are

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2:51 ↗ and disruptive behavior will not be

2:53 ↗ permitted public comments written and

2:55 ↗ verbal are an important aspect of the

2:57 ↗ public process and the city takes these

2:59 ↗ comments seriously we thank everyone who

3:01 ↗ is taking the time out tonight to

3:03 ↗ address us um city clerk can you um

3:06 ↗ please identify the first person who

3:08 ↗ signed up to speak yes Paul

3:10 ↗ Quinn welcome

3:16 ↗ Paul I'm going to get you to push the

3:19 ↗ button uh in the bottom of the there you

3:22 ↗ go red light you're on the red okay good

3:25 ↗ okay good evening mayor and council

3:26 ↗ members my name is Paul Quinn and I live

3:28 ↗ in samamish I'm speaking you as an

3:30 ↗ individual that cares about Recycling

3:32 ↗ and composting and reducing what we send

3:34 ↗ to the landfill thanks to Tammy by the

3:37 ↗ way in your city clerk's office for her

3:39 ↗ responsiveness requests let's start with

3:42 ↗ a reminder from a King County survey of

3:44 ↗ trash sent to the landfill which showed

3:46 ↗ that 2third of what is sent to the

3:47 ↗ landfill can be either recycled or

3:50 ↗ composted so two-thirds of our trash is

3:53 ↗ actually not

3:55 ↗ trash the first handout that Tish Tisha

3:58 ↗ emailed you this

4:00 ↗ one now reflects from difference from

4:04 ↗ before the full year 2023 diversion

4:06 ↗ numbers for

4:08 ↗ isqua as you can see in table three our

4:10 ↗ diversion rate is essentially flat

4:12 ↗ versus

4:14 ↗ 2022 city of isqua has had a climate

4:17 ↗ action plan in place since

4:19 ↗ 2021 and this plan shows the city cares

4:22 ↗ about Recycling and composting and yet

4:26 ↗ did not make progress in the diversion

4:28 ↗ rate in 2023 versus

4:31 ↗ 2022 in fact isqua climate action plan

4:35 ↗ dashboard shows the city's diversion

4:36 ↗ rate has only gotten worse since

4:39 ↗ 2017 we have good plans to do

4:42 ↗ better we've done worse

4:46 ↗ why one reason I think is we need

4:48 ↗ actions that are

4:50 ↗ Citywide for example tonight's consent

4:52 ↗ calendar and the presentation from

4:54 ↗ mology show Niche efforts which are not

4:57 ↗ bad but they're insufficient

5:00 ↗ we need actions that cover all single

5:03 ↗ family

5:04 ↗ residents all businesses all multi

5:07 ↗ family

5:08 ↗ locations in this meeting I'm going to

5:10 ↗ walk through some of the recommendations

5:12 ↗ noted in the second of the three

5:14 ↗ handouts in your

5:15 ↗ email this

5:18 ↗ one the city should initiate a program

5:21 ↗ to provide a kit to each household and

5:23 ↗ business which would contain a free

5:25 ↗ indoor recycling container and a free

5:27 ↗ countertop kitchen scraps container the

5:30 ↗ kit sends a strong message that this

5:31 ↗ city council feels so strongly about

5:33 ↗ recycling composting it is providing a

5:36 ↗ free kit to all

5:38 ↗ Resident this is Citywide effort with

5:41 ↗ impact the city has made efforts to

5:44 ↗ invite folks to have recycling

5:45 ↗ composting containers at their sites as

5:48 ↗ our declining rates of diversion clearly

5:50 ↗ show asking folks has been insufficient

5:53 ↗ to drive

5:54 ↗ change therefore I suggest the City Pass

5:57 ↗ ordinances to require all all

6:00 ↗ 1,582 remaining single family homes

6:03 ↗ utilize a food scrap yard waste

6:06 ↗ barrel all businesses serving the public

6:08 ↗ to make available a recycled container

6:11 ↗ all businesses serving food to the

6:13 ↗ public to make available a food scraps

6:16 ↗ container pass the city ordinance to

6:18 ↗ require all 143 remaining multif family

6:21 ↗ locations make available food scrap yard

6:24 ↗ waste container for the people that want

6:26 ↗ to use food

6:28 ↗ scrap containers can be available to

6:31 ↗ them let's make recycling composting

6:34 ↗ simpler when a resident is working with

6:36 ↗ an isquad business by requiring each

6:38 ↗ business to work with the disposal

6:40 ↗ company to assure all public facing

6:42 ↗ disposal containers match the colors we

6:44 ↗ all know that as

6:46 ↗ residents these matters have urgency as

6:49 ↗ each month isqua sends to the landfill

6:51 ↗ another thousand

6:52 ↗ tons people in the city of isaquel want

6:55 ↗ to live sustainably they need the tools

6:58 ↗ and the leadership of the Council to

6:59 ↗ help them increase the rate of recycling

7:01 ↗ and composting we can do better thank

7:05 ↗ you thank you

7:07 ↗ Paul and we have some new attendees

7:10 ↗ tonight um part of our rules for

7:12 ↗ audience comments is we try to not

7:16 ↗ encourage uh clapping or booing or

7:19 ↗ anything that might discourage uh

7:21 ↗ another speaker from coming up but we're

7:23 ↗ so glad you're here like we're so

7:25 ↗ excited so I hope that didn't sound too

7:27 ↗ awful um who's next on our list city

7:30 ↗ clerk next we have Zoe Dearing Sienna

7:33 ↗ gold Matthew Fischer and Andrew

7:35 ↗ Kim

7:46 ↗ welcome thank you so much for this

7:48 ↗ opportunity to speak to you all today my

7:50 ↗ name is Sienna G and I am a junior at

7:53 ↗ Gibson High School with me tonight is

7:56 ↗ Zoe Dearing also a student at Gibson

7:59 ↗ Plus representatives from isqua high

8:01 ↗ school Matthew Fischer and Andrew Kim

8:04 ↗ together we make up the isqua

8:06 ↗ sustainability ambassadors team a

8:08 ↗ youth-led nonprofit organization with a

8:11 ↗ vision to rapidly Advance a sustainable

8:13 ↗ future tonight we would like to speak on

8:16 ↗ our current work and future plans to

8:18 ↗ help the issaqua school district

8:20 ↗ Implement a districtwide sustainability

8:23 ↗ policy similar to what Belleview School

8:25 ↗ District did almost a year

8:28 ↗ ago

8:31 ↗ I would like to thank you all for your

8:33 ↗ support and time taken to create and

8:36 ↗ implement the isqua climate action plan

8:39 ↗ this is such an important step in

8:40 ↗ creating a more

8:43 ↗ sustainable and environmentally stable

8:45 ↗ world for us all to today in many years

8:49 ↗ to come the iso School District spands

8:52 ↗ over a number of cities including isqua

8:55 ↗ Newcastle and parts of Ron and samamish

8:59 ↗ with over 19,000 students Theo school

9:02 ↗ district has a very large impact on not

9:06 ↗ only our youth's education but also

9:08 ↗ Community environmental impacts because

9:10 ↗ of this we would like to ask for your

9:14 ↗ support in our initiative to help the

9:16 ↗ school board create a sustainability

9:19 ↗ policy which reflects on these goals

9:21 ↗ stated in the esqua climate action

9:26 ↗ plan as a student in the ES School

9:29 ↗ District I've seen firsthand the impact

9:32 ↗ that sustainability initiatives have had

9:34 ↗ leading a water bottle refill uh station

9:37 ↗ installation at Esa high school as well

9:39 ↗ as a distri distribution of 500 plus

9:41 ↗ refillable water bottles in partnership

9:43 ↗ with Cascade water lines as well as a

9:46 ↗ composting program that we launched just

9:48 ↗ last week help sorting in the

9:51 ↗ cafeteria just like that um and I know

9:55 ↗ that these models can be expanded

9:56 ↗ districtwide and that is why we're

9:58 ↗ trying to have a sustainable policy that

10:00 ↗ helps the school district work collabora

10:03 ↗ collaboratively with the city to advance

10:06 ↗ our city climate action

10:09 ↗ plan so in conclusion we ask that the

10:11 ↗ council board construct a letter of

10:13 ↗ recommendation to the ISA School

10:14 ↗ District to collaborative work towards

10:16 ↗ meeting isqua climate action plan by

10:19 ↗ creating a linkage between the isqua

10:20 ↗ school district and the city through

10:22 ↗ sustainable policy Not only would

10:24 ↗ campaigns be more efficient but they'll

10:25 ↗ be much more effective and help give a

10:27 ↗ higher chance in achieving sustainable

10:29 ↗ goals set in the climate action plan I

10:31 ↗ applaud Isa as being the first and only

10:33 ↗ lead gold certified City in the state of

10:35 ↗ Washington and I believe we should not

10:37 ↗ stop there and instead continue to try

10:39 ↗ and make the world a better place your

10:42 ↗ help would be much appreciated and we

10:43 ↗ all thank you for your time thank you

10:46 ↗ thank you all very much very

10:48 ↗ inspiring city clerk is there anyone

10:50 ↗ else that has signed up to speak this

10:52 ↗ evening yes Victor

10:54 ↗ Bellow welcome

10:58 ↗ Victor

11:00 ↗ good evening um council members mayor um

11:04 ↗ I um I come to you um because I'm I'm

11:08 ↗ passionate about our city and making the

11:11 ↗ the dream of living in isqua um

11:15 ↗ attainable right I get I got involved in

11:18 ↗ in in in the local government in this

11:22 ↗ because I fell in love with the city

11:25 ↗ and the the the most impact you can have

11:28 ↗ is that the at the local level right so

11:30 ↗ I started seeing what you guys were

11:32 ↗ doing and um again I I got really

11:35 ↗ involved and I was reading today's note

11:38 ↗ and then how can you not be passionate

11:39 ↗ when you have this example from by young

11:42 ↗ people coming here and and driving their

11:46 ↗ their things right um and as I was

11:49 ↗ reading today's agenda I found um the

11:53 ↗ the the tibit crossing development

11:55 ↗ agreement and I was reading through it

11:57 ↗ and then I saw that um it it sets the

12:01 ↗ 80% AI Ami as the um affordable

12:06 ↗ threshold um which I was speaking to

12:09 ↗ somebody from the administration and

12:11 ↗ explained to me that these were deals

12:12 ↗ that were set up much in a b uh before

12:16 ↗ we're just basically putting it in uh in

12:19 ↗ the agreement itself but I mean 80% Ami

12:24 ↗ sets the entry point for affordable

12:27 ↗ housing at $117,000 a year a family of

12:32 ↗ four with two working parents making not

12:35 ↗ even minimum like more than minimum wage

12:38 ↗ wouldn't get even halfway through to

12:41 ↗ that amount just trying to get

12:43 ↗ 30% of um of their income to pay your

12:48 ↗ for services and rent

12:51 ↗ so I what are we calling affordable like

12:55 ↗ what are we making what statement are we

12:58 ↗ we making when we say that we believe

13:01 ↗ that only people that make this amount

13:04 ↗ should be able to live in isqua when

13:06 ↗ we're calling this project uh affordable

13:09 ↗ housing um I don't think it's I I don't

13:13 ↗ think it speaks to what we really want

13:14 ↗ to build an inclusive and inviting

13:17 ↗ Community to provide you know a a lower

13:20 ↗ entry point to really wonderful people

13:23 ↗ that deserve to also live in the you

13:25 ↗ know little Paradise that we built here

13:28 ↗ um and and and we love right and then to

13:33 ↗ a second point in the same affordable

13:35 ↗ housing comes like the

13:39 ↗ the the current state of uh so so many

13:44 ↗ um developments and the the the the adus

13:49 ↗ um uh around the city where there's a

13:52 ↗ lot of you know short-term rentals

13:54 ↗ available and there's a lot of sometimes

13:56 ↗ rental uh houses

13:59 ↗ available that upon inspection belong to

14:03 ↗ either corporations or to people that

14:05 ↗ don't live in the city and are not

14:06 ↗ invested as we are into making this a

14:09 ↗ great Community could we maybe introduce

14:12 ↗ legislation as it's been done in many

14:14 ↗ parts of the country to limit the amount

14:18 ↗ of people that are looking at us and the

14:21 ↗ great City that we're building as an

14:23 ↗ investment opportunity to make a quick

14:25 ↗ buck and not like making people invest

14:31 ↗ themselves and their lives into this

14:33 ↗ community what drove me here was I was a

14:35 ↗ renter for years before I found the

14:38 ↗ little house I have here that I'm fixing

14:40 ↗ up myself in Oldtown and um I fell in

14:44 ↗ love with the city and I I invested on

14:46 ↗ it thankfully I was able to but it's

14:49 ↗ difficult

14:50 ↗ so if we curb some of this issues maybe

14:54 ↗ we can start lowering the entry point

14:56 ↗ for others and build a more inclusive

14:59 ↗ and diverse Community as we really want

15:02 ↗ thank you for your time thank you Victor

15:05 ↗ city clerk has anyone else signed up to

15:07 ↗ speak this

15:09 ↗ evening mayor no one else has signed up

15:12 ↗ and just checking here but it looks like

15:14 ↗ at this time we don't have any members

15:15 ↗ of the public online with us thank you I

15:18 ↗ want to thank everybody who took the

15:20 ↗ time tonight to come in and talk to the

15:22 ↗ council um we heard about Solid Waste

15:26 ↗ diversion and how isqua could reduce

15:28 ↗ produce its material that it's sending

15:30 ↗ to the landfill we heard from some

15:32 ↗ students about requesting Council

15:35 ↗ support for the sustainability plans

15:37 ↗ that they are trying to work into their

15:39 ↗ schools which I think is great uh we

15:42 ↗ also heard about isqua's affordable

15:44 ↗ housing and the desire for affordable

15:47 ↗ housing for all including thinking about

15:49 ↗ the entry point level for that and also

15:51 ↗ about corporate owners of local housing

15:53 ↗ stock and how that could impact so thank

15:55 ↗ you all very much for sharing that we

15:57 ↗ appreciate that you took the time to

15:58 ↗ join us tonight um and as a reminder you

16:01 ↗ can always send comments in to city

16:04 ↗ council at any time at the city council

16:06 ↗ at isqua wa.gov email the next item of

16:10 ↗ business on the agenda this evening is

16:14 ↗ going to be the city clerk speaking to

16:16 ↗ us city

16:19 ↗ clerk mayor I had a a correction to make

16:21 ↗ to the consent calendar which is the

16:23 ↗ next item of business um a correction

16:26 ↗ was provided by council member Hall

16:28 ↗ today regarding agenda

16:30 ↗ Item B the special meeting minutes of

16:33 ↗ October 23rd he was not in attendance at

16:36 ↗ that special meeting and so if the

16:38 ↗ consent calendar is approved tonight it

16:40 ↗ will include the correction to Omit him

16:41 ↗ from the list of attendees

16:45 ↗ yeah thank you for that okay now we will

16:49 ↗ move on to the consent calendar and uh

16:51 ↗ as mayor I do not have any remarks on

16:53 ↗ tonight's consent calendar and I'm going

16:55 ↗ to look and see if any of the committee

16:56 ↗ chairs or chair designat

16:59 ↗ would like to report on any of the

17:00 ↗ consent calendar aims um councilman Merz

17:03 ↗ thank you Madame mayor um the council

17:06 ↗ services safety and Parks committee met

17:09 ↗ in regards to what was at the time

17:10 ↗ called ID 1662 lodging tax advisory

17:13 ↗ committee Grant recommendations we

17:15 ↗ agreed with staff recommendations for

17:16 ↗ the grant funding breakdown uh and asked

17:19 ↗ it to be brought back to the full

17:20 ↗ Council on the consent agenda which it

17:22 ↗ is here tonight as AB

17:24 ↗ 8766 but it was a thoughtful process

17:27 ↗ that uh the uh appreciated the

17:29 ↗ methodology that was used thank you any

17:33 ↗ other committee chairs that want to

17:34 ↗ provide any comments on any consent

17:36 ↗ calendar

17:37 ↗ items not seeing any indication can I

17:40 ↗ get a

17:42 ↗ motion I move to approve the consent

17:44 ↗ calendar

17:45 ↗ as

17:48 ↗ adjusted

17:50 ↗ okay second oh thank you very much I did

17:54 ↗ forget to read the part that says the

17:55 ↗ consent calendar was distributed to

17:57 ↗ Council in advance

17:58 ↗ and if authorized you will be approving

18:00 ↗ all of these items with just a single

18:02 ↗ vote um have the payables and payroll

18:04 ↗ been

18:07 ↗ reviewed have thank

18:10 ↗ you uh and does any council member I

18:13 ↗ don't believe I asked you this does any

18:14 ↗ council member desire to remove any item

18:16 ↗ from the consent calendar not seeing it

18:19 ↗ and it has been moved and seconded to

18:20 ↗ approve it um all those in favor please

18:24 ↗ say I I I opposed

18:29 ↗ that carries unanimously 6 and0 the next

18:32 ↗ item of business this evening is going

18:34 ↗ to be under regular business and it's AB

18:37 ↗ 8787 the multif family housing tax

18:40 ↗ exemption ordinance and the request

18:42 ↗ before Council this evening is to adopt

18:43 ↗ the ordinance the item was before the

18:45 ↗ city council for a staff presentation

18:47 ↗ and public hearing at the February 5th

18:49 ↗ 2024 city council meeting and I'd like

18:52 ↗ to have uh Community planning and

18:54 ↗ development director Minnie dwell to

18:55 ↗ briefly introduce this item welcome

18:57 ↗ Minnie

19:02 ↗ good evening members of the council any

19:04 ↗ community members online and um and in

19:08 ↗ the room uh and M um so like you said it

19:12 ↗ was this item was in front of council as

19:15 ↗ a public hearing on February 5th and I

19:17 ↗ had a presentation which is included in

19:19 ↗ your packet uh so tonight it's come back

19:22 ↗ uh to council for discussion um and uh

19:26 ↗ then have possible action if that's what

19:29 ↗ council wants to do we're here to answer

19:32 ↗ any questions Council might have uh also

19:34 ↗ online virtually we have Michael from

19:37 ↗ Arch uh he's online as well who helped

19:39 ↗ us with some of the financial

19:41 ↗ analysis that's all I don't really don't

19:43 ↗ have any formal presentation but I'm

19:45 ↗ happy to

19:46 ↗ answer thank you

19:48 ↗ Minnie um and thank you Michael for

19:51 ↗ coming that's super helpful does council

19:53 ↗ have any

19:56 ↗ questions oh sorry council member

20:01 ↗ hunt thank you mayor

20:03 ↗ Paulie um when we last uh heard about

20:07 ↗ this item it was mentioned that there

20:09 ↗ would be a conversation with the school

20:11 ↗ district leadership um about the

20:15 ↗ implications that this uh act potential

20:18 ↗ action would have on them and I wondered

20:20 ↗ if that could be summarized that

20:22 ↗ discussion um and and also how we will

20:24 ↗ follow up with them um following our

20:28 ↗ decision

20:32 ↗ tonight um I'm council president would

20:34 ↗ like to provide some comments thank you

20:37 ↗ and I know you were at the meeting as

20:39 ↗ well so if you'd like to add in yeah I

20:42 ↗ was not at the meeting um but I think um

20:44 ↗ Wally was so yes so I can go ahead and

20:47 ↗ summarize that then um for the council

20:50 ↗ so Council leadership met with the isqua

20:54 ↗ school board leadership and

20:57 ↗ superintendent

20:58 ↗ and presented the information on the

21:02 ↗ mfts and showed the impact um it would

21:05 ↗ have you know all of this is estimates

21:08 ↗ at that point they didn't have their

21:11 ↗ staff didn't have time to review it and

21:14 ↗ thus bring it um back with you know kind

21:17 ↗ of findings of how that would really

21:19 ↗ impact their overall budget what they

21:22 ↗ did say is they were pleased to know

21:24 ↗ that they would still have the impact

21:27 ↗ fees

21:28 ↗ um and then they also talked about the

21:30 ↗ fact that their budget situation and

21:33 ↗ revenue generation is very much

21:35 ↗ different from ours and much of their

21:38 ↗ budget comes from student headcount and

21:41 ↗ a lot of that is subsidized by the state

21:44 ↗ so they had questions about how the

21:48 ↗ affordable housing in any mft program

21:51 ↗ because we were really talking about the

21:52 ↗ fact that there may be more of these how

21:55 ↗ that would impact student generation

21:58 ↗ rates and we also didn't have an answer

22:01 ↗ for that so I think it's a continued

22:04 ↗ conversation we welcome them to have um

22:07 ↗ further input on it particularly as we

22:09 ↗ talk about a larger potential mft

22:13 ↗ program um but they didn't have any real

22:16 ↗ way to have a full conversation on it so

22:20 ↗ I would say it was presented start of a

22:23 ↗ conversation was

22:25 ↗ had thank you council president

22:28 ↗ uh any other

22:34 ↗ questions sorry can I get on the second

22:37 ↗ part of the question how are we planning

22:38 ↗ on following up with the school

22:40 ↗ district thank

22:43 ↗ you I don't know if it was clarified on

22:46 ↗ any particular date or time um we

22:49 ↗ presented the information to them and

22:51 ↗ welcome them to provide a response as

22:55 ↗ they were able to do so because it was

22:58 ↗ obviously going to require some staff um

23:00 ↗ so I will make sure that we follow up we

23:04 ↗ have quarterly meetings with them and I

23:06 ↗ think um once we understand what the mft

23:09 ↗ timeline is um we'll be better able to

23:13 ↗ figure out you know we can't demand that

23:15 ↗ they uh provide a a response within a

23:19 ↗ certain period of time um so it's really

23:23 ↗ pushed onto them to say if you have a

23:25 ↗ response please um bring it back as we

23:28 ↗ figure things

23:30 ↗ out um council member hunt if I could

23:33 ↗ just clarify something is this uh just

23:36 ↗ based on your line of questioning is

23:37 ↗ this something that you feel like you

23:39 ↗ need to know before you would be able to

23:41 ↗ move the item forward is that um is it a

23:46 ↗ concern um I want I was asking the

23:50 ↗ questions because it does have an impact

23:52 ↗ on them and so I wanted to know what our

23:55 ↗ plan was for making sure that we're good

23:57 ↗ partners

23:58 ↗ okay thank you any other questions uh

24:01 ↗ Andrea sorry Deputy City

24:04 ↗ administrator thank you mayor poly just

24:06 ↗ want to remind Council that there's a

24:08 ↗ joint meeting with isqua school board on

24:12 ↗ um uh in

24:16 ↗ April thank you um council member Hall

24:20 ↗ thank you um in director doell thank you

24:22 ↗ very much for replying quickly to my

24:24 ↗ questions earlier today over email um

24:27 ↗ and I didn't ask this one so I I guess

24:30 ↗ to the best of your knowledge are you

24:32 ↗ aware is it common for mfte programs to

24:35 ↗ be structured where if there are

24:37 ↗ affordability requirements they exist

24:39 ↗ only over the term of the mfte or or

24:42 ↗ because the only other experience that I

24:44 ↗ have with mfte is is our Pioneer project

24:46 ↗ right and that's lifetime affordable so

24:48 ↗ I'm just

24:49 ↗ curious what you think about mft across

24:52 ↗ the region the affordability requirement

24:55 ↗ yeah yeah you know Michael can speak to

24:57 ↗ that because because I think he does

24:58 ↗ mfte um contracts with all the cities so

25:03 ↗ I'll PT it to

25:05 ↗ Michael okay thank you um good evening

25:08 ↗ council members and mayor um we know of

25:13 ↗ cities even within the arch membership

25:15 ↗ that uh do mft both ways that is uh well

25:19 ↗ primarily Belleview has a limit of uh

25:23 ↗ affordability that corresponds to the

25:25 ↗ 12year tax exemption our other

25:28 ↗ cities um have uh affordability for the

25:32 ↗ life of the

25:33 ↗ project um that is as long as the uh

25:37 ↗ property is in residential use so it's

25:40 ↗ done both

25:43 ↗ ways yeah I can add a little bit in in

25:46 ↗ terms of the state law uh there's a

25:48 ↗ 8-year mfte provision which doesn't have

25:51 ↗ any affordability component to it so a

25:53 ↗ lot of cities that are trying to achieve

25:55 ↗ their policy objectives of Pi starting a

25:58 ↗ project somewhere or whatever their

26:00 ↗ objective might be they go down the path

26:02 ↗ of 8year multif family tax exemption

26:05 ↗ that doesn't come under the state law

26:06 ↗ with the affordability component with it

26:09 ↗ now of course uh with the current status

26:12 ↗ uh you know things have changed in terms

26:14 ↗ of the policy objectives uh for

26:16 ↗ affordable housing for the cities but in

26:19 ↗ the past they people used to use the

26:21 ↗ 8-year mfte just without the

26:23 ↗ affordability component um to meet other

26:26 ↗ policy objectives that and

26:33 ↗ affordable any other

26:38 ↗ questions not oh council member

26:43 ↗ hunt thank you mayor paully on this

26:46 ↗ would be a change to our code um so I

26:49 ↗ wondered if uh director Dolly wall um if

26:52 ↗ you could speak to how we enforce this

26:56 ↗ over the lifetime of the

26:58 ↗ um the lifetime of these regulations or

27:01 ↗ over the duration of these regulations

27:03 ↗ rather yeah so uh there are certain

27:06 ↗ specific Provisions for this development

27:09 ↗ agreement you know that they could

27:10 ↗ choose and move the units around but

27:13 ↗ there's an annual reporting requirement

27:15 ↗ which uh comes under the state so they

27:18 ↗ would still be providing an annual

27:20 ↗ report of how many are affordable but

27:22 ↗ this is a little bit um you know unique

27:26 ↗ circumstance with this particular

27:27 ↗ development where uh the Covenant uh is

27:31 ↗ not for this specific unit that they

27:33 ↗ could move the the units around based on

27:35 ↗ the development agreement terms uh but

27:38 ↗ there is an annual reporting requirement

27:40 ↗ which they would be subject

27:42 ↗ to I don't know Michael do you want to

27:44 ↗ add anything more to that

27:47 ↗ question well the contract will specify

27:50 ↗ how the monitoring and compliance is

27:53 ↗ done uh I expect the the way that we do

27:56 ↗ it with uh other cities where we

27:58 ↗ administer mfte programs so we will um

28:02 ↗ make sure that uh they're complying with

28:04 ↗ the affordability requirements that

28:09 ↗ way thank you any other

28:15 ↗ questions

28:17 ↗ president I think you can okay exent me

28:21 ↗ get that right piece up okay I move to

28:26 ↗ adopt ordinance number

28:29 ↗ 3049 amending sections 3.09

28:35 ↗ 03050

28:38 ↗ 06011 and12 of the isqua municipal code

28:42 ↗ regarding the city's multif family

28:44 ↗ housing property tax exemption

28:49 ↗ program second it's been moved and

28:52 ↗ seconded is there a council

28:54 ↗ discussion council president followed by

28:57 ↗ Council counc member Joe council member

28:58 ↗ H thank you and I see a council

29:02 ↗ member um I'm supporting this tonight

29:06 ↗ not only because this moves forward a

29:09 ↗ project that has gone through many legal

29:13 ↗ scenarios and I feel like this is uh an

29:16 ↗ important recognition of this project in

29:19 ↗ particular is being different from other

29:22 ↗ projects I look forward to a further

29:24 ↗ conversation on the benefits drawbacks

29:27 ↗ of a full mfte program um that we will

29:31 ↗ discuss at a later point but I think um

29:34 ↗ I very much appreciate the staff doing

29:37 ↗ the um calculations on what the

29:41 ↗ potential not costs but offset um non

29:45 ↗ collected Revenue would be for us that

29:48 ↗ for me makes me recognize this is super

29:51 ↗ cheap we couldn't buy this type of

29:55 ↗ housing um at that cost cost I recognize

29:58 ↗ that there are costs to other taxing

30:01 ↗ districts and other localities and

30:04 ↗ things like that that's a larger

30:06 ↗ conversation but I think in the aspect

30:09 ↗ of this um the cost per unit is such

30:14 ↗ that I do not have a problem um

30:17 ↗ approving this I look forward to seeing

30:21 ↗ it developed and seeing the benefits for

30:23 ↗ our community thank you thank you

30:25 ↗ council member Joe

30:27 ↗ thank you I'll um build on the comments

30:30 ↗ from Council president Walsh um the uh

30:35 ↗ mfte tax implications to Property Owners

30:39 ↗ certainly is something that we're all

30:41 ↗ cognizant of and want to take a look at

30:43 ↗ um I looked up a Washington State

30:45 ↗ Department of Commerce report on this

30:48 ↗ it's was put together in

30:50 ↗ 2021 by the growth management housing

30:53 ↗ team uh on the multif family tax

30:56 ↗ exemption and um the city of snom used

30:59 ↗ this report to kind of do a calculation

31:00 ↗ as to how large the impact would be on

31:03 ↗ each individual property owner and so

31:06 ↗ the figures aren't exactly fit to isqua

31:09 ↗ but I'll read them and we can kind of

31:11 ↗ take a look at what the uh level of the

31:13 ↗ impact is or the magnitude of the impact

31:15 ↗ is and as we make our decision council

31:18 ↗ president Walsh is very correct in

31:20 ↗ saying that this is a fairly inexpensive

31:23 ↗ option for our city so um

31:28 ↗ what they found is they they gave um in

31:31 ↗ 2021 total exemptions ranging from

31:34 ↗ 13,000 to 2.6 million per city with the

31:38 ↗ average exemption being $830 $823,000

31:43 ↗ um the sish county assessor's office

31:46 ↗ took a look at all the property values

31:48 ↗ and the city staff for sish calculated

31:50 ↗ that for every $1 million of exemption

31:53 ↗ approved the average valued home in s

31:56 ↗ homish of 46 $68,700 uh would see an

32:00 ↗ estimated increase of 50 per year on the

32:03 ↗ property tax bill so our house values

32:07 ↗ certainly are higher perhaps they're

32:09 ↗ double that amount um so that for every

32:12 ↗ 1 million of exemptions approved at a

32:16 ↗ value of

32:17 ↗ 920 930 I hate doing math in public

32:21 ↗ sorry about that $935,000 um would see

32:24 ↗ an estimated increase of perhaps $1 per

32:28 ↗ year on the property tax bill um that is

32:32 ↗ just to say that this is a type of tax

32:34 ↗ that um you know we um complain about

32:38 ↗ traffic and then when we try to put in

32:40 ↗ roads all of our city people have to pay

32:43 ↗ that tax but the people that use the

32:45 ↗ roads back and forth are not paying that

32:47 ↗ tax right um in this case the whole

32:50 ↗ entire city all the property owners

32:52 ↗ together are taking a piece of that tax

32:55 ↗ and paying a piece of that tax because

32:57 ↗ because we believe as a council in the

32:59 ↗ city that having housing at all

33:02 ↗ different income levels and economic

33:04 ↗ levels is important as was stated in um

33:08 ↗ comments during public comment um and so

33:10 ↗ this is one tool that can be used in

33:12 ↗ this one specific development to help us

33:15 ↗ with the affordable housing challenge

33:17 ↗ that we have and I would um be voting in

33:20 ↗ favor of of it tonight thank

33:22 ↗ you thank you council member Joe council

33:25 ↗ member Hall thank you you know I I

33:28 ↗ really thought I was going to too and

33:29 ↗ I'm actually not quite sure where I land

33:31 ↗ on this but I'm struggling with it um

33:33 ↗ because I actually think it seems kind

33:35 ↗ of expensive um and I guess the question

33:39 ↗ is for us to consider is whether 24

33:43 ↗ years 12 plus the addition of another 12

33:46 ↗ so 24 years of that

33:48 ↗ mfte of that lost Revenue to the city

33:52 ↗ and of the shifting property tax burden

33:54 ↗ across residents is worth

33:57 ↗ just 24 years of some 80% Ami housing I

34:02 ↗ think it's roughly 200 depending on how

34:05 ↗ they would do it and I don't know

34:08 ↗ necessarily if I could go to a property

34:10 ↗ tax payer resident and

34:13 ↗ say that the increase in property taxes

34:15 ↗ that you'll be paying or the loss

34:17 ↗ Revenue essentially the cost that the

34:18 ↗ city is bearing and that the other

34:20 ↗ jurisdictions are bearing is worth that

34:22 ↗ 24e period of of 80%

34:25 ↗ Ami know I'm I'm struggling with that

34:28 ↗ one and I'm curious if anyone else has

34:30 ↗ kind of thought through it that way um

34:32 ↗ you know

34:34 ↗ mfte is also interesting too because we

34:37 ↗ are the ultimate decision maker for all

34:39 ↗ of these different jurisdictions right

34:40 ↗ they don't necessarily have a voice in

34:42 ↗ this process which is very interesting

34:45 ↗ policy conundrum but so we also need to

34:48 ↗ be able to say to all the jurisdictions

34:50 ↗ not the school district right not just

34:51 ↗ the school district right that that we

34:54 ↗ think the loss revenue from this and

34:58 ↗ um your residents whose property taxes

35:00 ↗ will be shifted a little bit because of

35:02 ↗ this will all benefit

35:05 ↗ from 200ish units of of 80% Ami housing

35:09 ↗ and I'm not necessarily convinced on

35:12 ↗ that um it's also difficult too because

35:15 ↗ we can't necessarily ask for more

35:16 ↗ information this is like the best we

35:18 ↗ were able to negotiate and I'll

35:20 ↗ acknowledge that like this is way better

35:22 ↗ than not having anything um across the

35:25 ↗ city but I don't know if it's

35:27 ↗ necessarily worth it to go go down this

35:30 ↗ as opposed to the market rate housing

35:31 ↗ that will essentially exist in 24 years

35:34 ↗ anyways when these resources could be

35:36 ↗ dedicated in other ways to promote

35:38 ↗ affordable housing or affordable living

35:40 ↗ in so

35:43 ↗ um yes my mind isn't made up yet so I'd

35:47 ↗ like to hear from some more

35:50 ↗ as um if it's okay council member um

35:54 ↗ mini there was some information shared

35:57 ↗ by council member Joe um about you know

36:00 ↗ impacts on property taxes um and then

36:04 ↗ there are tables within the council's

36:06 ↗ material that talks about shifting tax

36:09 ↗ burdens um do we have specific numbers

36:12 ↗ similar to what council member Joe

36:15 ↗ mentioned for snom county is it really a

36:18 ↗ dollar you know I'm not familiar with

36:20 ↗ the uh the report uh that the council

36:23 ↗ member Joe was uh discussing um it does

36:27 ↗ get spread out to all the taxpayers with

36:29 ↗ that Levy code um so um how much it is

36:34 ↗ per person we didn't do that calculation

36:36 ↗ but um the the concept behind this

36:40 ↗ foregone revenue and the shifting is

36:43 ↗ that the city can still do their 1% Levy

36:47 ↗ um you know the property tax increase

36:49 ↗ but so if if the project is half built

36:52 ↗ in that year and the assessor taxes it

36:55 ↗ so that $400,000 or whatever the you

36:58 ↗ know for an example if half a million um

37:01 ↗ in property taxes is received by the

37:03 ↗ city for that year uh your 1% will start

37:05 ↗ from that uh so you won't have to go and

37:09 ↗ you know so that so that it's not a

37:11 ↗ cumulative decrease over a number of

37:13 ↗ period of years so there's there's that

37:16 ↗ but how much of it gets spread out to a

37:20 ↗ per tax paare we didn't do that math um

37:23 ↗ okay just curious um so I've got council

37:27 ↗ member hunt and then I think it was D

37:30 ↗ Michelle and then council president and

37:32 ↗ then Mark

37:33 ↗ okay

37:37 ↗ hun thank you um well firstly I

37:42 ↗ appreciate the the thoughtful remarks of

37:44 ↗ my colleagues on the council I um I

37:47 ↗ think this is a complicated policy tool

37:50 ↗ that we're considering using um we have

37:53 ↗ been presented with other information

37:55 ↗ about how other cities have used this

37:58 ↗ tool and so one of the things that I was

38:00 ↗ thinking about when I was reviewing the

38:02 ↗ materials is the the earlier reports

38:05 ↗ that we've seen about the amount of

38:07 ↗ usage of this tool in our neighboring

38:09 ↗ cities and the amount of affordable

38:10 ↗ housing that it has generated um lack of

38:13 ↗ affordable housing is one of the major

38:15 ↗ challenges facing our community and

38:18 ↗ there is a real need for this housing

38:20 ↗ for Workforce housing um for housing

38:22 ↗ across the income levels there are I

38:26 ↗ believe huge societal benefits and U

38:28 ↗ public benefits of moving the needle in

38:31 ↗ this uh direction that we're

38:34 ↗ contemplating this evening um I I do

38:37 ↗ wish this was affordable for the

38:38 ↗ lifetime of the building um as as it may

38:42 ↗ be for other times when we as a city use

38:45 ↗ this tool I would very much hope that

38:47 ↗ this is um that it's possible in other

38:50 ↗ instances in this case I don't believe

38:52 ↗ it is um and I also believe that this

38:55 ↗ rate is is typical in our M or this uh

38:59 ↗ time period is typical in our materials

39:02 ↗ it had the RCW described as the value of

39:05 ↗ eligible housing improvements is

39:06 ↗ Exempted from property taxes typically

39:08 ↗ for 8 to 12 years so I it seems that

39:11 ↗ this is typical for this um usage of the

39:14 ↗ tool for the time period that said it

39:16 ↗ would be excellent of course in future

39:19 ↗ consideration of using mfte if we can

39:21 ↗ have affordability for the lifetime of

39:23 ↗ the

39:24 ↗ building um I am also sympathetic to the

39:28 ↗ the comments that were made earlier by

39:30 ↗ the um Community member regarding that

39:33 ↗ 117,000 per year as the the 80% area

39:37 ↗ Medan income for a family of four that

39:40 ↗ uh that seems high for a lot of families

39:43 ↗ but at the same time we know that many

39:45 ↗ families at that or um even around there

39:49 ↗ even maybe higher are cost burdens and

39:51 ↗ are are um are facing hardship because

39:55 ↗ their cost burdens uh to live in this

39:57 ↗ community so between that and between

40:00 ↗ all of the um community members that

40:02 ↗ I've spoken to that are very concerned

40:03 ↗ about if their if their uh children are

40:07 ↗ going to be able to return to the

40:08 ↗ community and find housing that is

40:10 ↗ Affordable after they come back from

40:11 ↗ college for instance or seniors looking

40:13 ↗ to downsize um or or seniors looking to

40:17 ↗ join their families in this community um

40:19 ↗ to help raise grandchildren I've Heard

40:21 ↗ lots of community stories about all of

40:23 ↗ these uh challenges finding housing that

40:25 ↗ meets those needs

40:26 ↗ um so I do I do very much believe

40:29 ↗ there's a big need I think this moves Us

40:32 ↗ in the right direction um I want very

40:36 ↗ much to work with our partner

40:37 ↗ organizations the school district I

40:39 ↗ mentioned earlier but uh to council

40:41 ↗ member Hall's point there are many other

40:43 ↗ organizations that are also impacted

40:45 ↗ when we consider using mfte so want to

40:48 ↗ make sure that we continue to be uh

40:50 ↗ communicative with them about what we're

40:54 ↗ what we're contemplating what we're

40:55 ↗ doing and how that will will um impact

40:57 ↗ them by our

40:59 ↗ estimations and then um so so lastly I

41:03 ↗ do I do appreciate the thoughtful

41:04 ↗ comments from Council I I uh spent a lot

41:09 ↗ of time looking through the materials on

41:11 ↗ this this evening I think it moves the

41:13 ↗ needle in the right direction it's

41:15 ↗ definitely not sufficient we definitely

41:17 ↗ will continue to have challenges

41:19 ↗ addressing our communities uh need for

41:22 ↗ housing um but I think in In This Moment

41:26 ↗ in this particular instance this is the

41:28 ↗ right thing to do thank you um counc

41:32 ↗ member D

41:35 ↗ Michelle um thanks um uh council member

41:38 ↗ hunt said a lot of the things that I

41:39 ↗ wanted to say but I did want to point

41:41 ↗ out uh first of all I also appreciated

41:44 ↗ uh the remarks from Mr Bellow and um and

41:48 ↗ I think that uh as a city we need to

41:51 ↗ employ various uh strategies to um find

41:56 ↗ housing for that 30% and 60% Ami um but

42:01 ↗ uh I did want to point out that the 80%

42:03 ↗ Ami is really aimed at Workforce housing

42:06 ↗ and so um our fellow organizations such

42:09 ↗ as the school district um have uh

42:13 ↗ struggle with uh recruiting teachers um

42:16 ↗ the hospital Swedish Hospital struggles

42:18 ↗ with recruiting technicians and others

42:21 ↗ who are making uh making incomes in that

42:24 ↗ in that area um East Side Fire and

42:27 ↗ Rescue struggles to get firefighters who

42:30 ↗ uh don't have to make long commutes into

42:32 ↗ our area and so forth so so this uh 80%

42:37 ↗ Ami um in this particular development um

42:41 ↗ does meet the need and we have many many

42:43 ↗ needs for affordable housing on many

42:46 ↗ different uh income levels but this

42:48 ↗ particular one is aimed at Workforce

42:50 ↗ housing and um even though those other

42:54 ↗ organizations are giving up uh tax in

42:57 ↗ Revenue just as we are um the benefit to

43:01 ↗ our community is uh opening up um a fair

43:05 ↗ amount uh certainly u a welcome amount

43:08 ↗ of affordable housing that at least the

43:11 ↗ workforce uh level uh will be able to uh

43:14 ↗ be able to access and so um I just

43:18 ↗ wanted to make that additional point

43:19 ↗ there is a benefit um in this project um

43:24 ↗ other than the the tax revenue that

43:27 ↗ we're we're giving up so thank you thank

43:30 ↗ you council member Merz thank you Madame

43:33 ↗ mayor um uh I'm really excited to be

43:36 ↗ supporting this this evening 200 units

43:38 ↗ is a lot um we've had much smaller

43:41 ↗ numbers in the past that were also Tim

43:44 ↗ restricted uh that we did because

43:46 ↗ Workforce housing is Workforce housing

43:48 ↗ adding Workforce housing is something

43:50 ↗ that's been important to me since the

43:53 ↗ day that I got on councel and so a

43:55 ↗ couple hundred units that's a lot um

43:57 ↗ that's that's like a a sizable fraction

44:00 ↗ of a uh transitor development site so um

44:04 ↗ you know this housing is going to go in

44:06 ↗ and the ability to make some of it work

44:08 ↗ for us uh I think council member D

44:10 ↗ Michelle's Deputy council president D

44:12 ↗ Michelle's point about uh you know this

44:15 ↗ can benefit the school district and

44:17 ↗ benefit other you know benefit the

44:19 ↗ hospital and the other healthc care

44:21 ↗ providers around here by pering by

44:23 ↗ providing housing uh for a Workforce

44:25 ↗ that might otherwise have to travel

44:27 ↗ longer distances which is the

44:28 ↗ environmentally responsible thing to do

44:30 ↗ so for all these Reasons I'm excited to

44:32 ↗ see thank you thank you going to come

44:35 ↗ back to council president thanks I want

44:38 ↗ to take this opportunity to do math in

44:40 ↗ public because I'm just calling you out

44:43 ↗ over there so I know the number of

44:46 ↗ 32 almost one million over a 24 year

44:50 ↗ period which is the foregone um tax

44:52 ↗ revenue for all of the different

44:55 ↗ jurisdiction s that that seems like a

44:58 ↗ lot of money but I want to take it back

45:01 ↗ to this kind of per year basis so all of

45:05 ↗ the jurisdictions would forego $ 1.337

45:09 ↗ million if we divide that by the $2

45:12 ↗ units that's

45:16 ↗ $668 would you be willing even as a city

45:20 ↗ to pay

45:23 ↗ $668 for a family

45:26 ↗ to be able to live in a stable housing

45:30 ↗ unit that has um something where they're

45:34 ↗ not cost burent I would say that's

45:37 ↗ pretty darn cheap and that's not the

45:39 ↗ foregone revenue for our jurisdiction so

45:43 ↗ we're at 11

45:46 ↗ 18,39 if you divide that by the 200

45:50 ↗ units that's less than

45:53 ↗ $600 per unit so it's those types of

45:57 ↗ numbers that make me recognize gosh we

45:59 ↗ spend way more than that in

46:02 ↗ supporting uh families well technically

46:05 ↗ nonprofits who support families who are

46:09 ↗ struggling um with their housing and are

46:11 ↗ about to be evicted and this is in many

46:14 ↗ ways just another way to prevent some of

46:18 ↗ those evictions um and keep the kids in

46:21 ↗ the isqua school district so they don't

46:23 ↗ have to be evicted mid year and move and

46:26 ↗ we know all of those benefits but just

46:28 ↗ looking at the

46:30 ↗ math this on a per unit basis is pretty

46:34 ↗ darn cheap and not something we could

46:36 ↗ build ourselves in say a to project for

46:39 ↗ example thank you thank you council

46:42 ↗ president uh council member

46:44 ↗ Hall um I appreciate all the comments I

46:47 ↗ think this helps me a little bit I'm

46:49 ↗ still concerned I think I might I think

46:52 ↗ I might be at a place though where I'm

46:54 ↗ willing to support it but I I have some

46:56 ↗ concerns maybe that I'll just share as

46:58 ↗ we move forward especially as we're

47:00 ↗ developing the next mfte program for a

47:02 ↗ Pioneer project and if we consider using

47:04 ↗ the tool elsewhere but I think for the

47:07 ↗ first part don't get me wrong 80% Ami is

47:10 ↗ still there's still a need for that in

47:12 ↗ this community so so don't get me wrong

47:14 ↗ there um but the Ben I mean the concern

47:16 ↗ is just the benefit for the community is

47:18 ↗ only 24 years so and I think breaking it

47:21 ↗ down by person or by unit might be

47:23 ↗ missing the point because it's about the

47:25 ↗ total sum budgeting is always about

47:28 ↗ total sums over a long period of time

47:29 ↗ and committing it particular priorities

47:31 ↗ right so it's about this total sum of

47:33 ↗ $32 million and we are the decision

47:36 ↗ maker for all these jurisdictions so I'm

47:38 ↗ just kind of thinking of it as that's

47:40 ↗ all of our lost Revenue that that we

47:42 ↗ could have committed to like priorities

47:45 ↗ um that are our organization's

47:47 ↗ priorities

47:50 ↗ um that for 24 years of affordable

47:54 ↗ housing

47:58 ↗ been a little bit and this is my fault

48:00 ↗ too I wish I would have asked questions

48:01 ↗ about this a little bit earlier and kind

48:03 ↗ of gotten a little deeper and I

48:04 ↗ recognize too again there's really

48:06 ↗ nothing we can do to adjust this so um I

48:10 ↗ think it'll be important as we move

48:12 ↗ forward to continue to

48:15 ↗ um understand um the value of kind of

48:19 ↗ these term limited mfte programs and if

48:22 ↗ that's something that we want to

48:23 ↗ continue to do even if other cities are

48:25 ↗ doing or if if kind of Lifetime

48:27 ↗ affordability requirements is is a

48:30 ↗ requirement a policy requirement that we

48:32 ↗ want to set when we start looking

48:33 ↗ forward to um our Citywide policies and

48:37 ↗ all that

48:39 ↗ um I think I'm comfortable supporting

48:42 ↗ this but I I I

48:46 ↗ just it's a lot of money for only 24

48:49 ↗ years of affordable

48:51 ↗ housing and I struggle

48:54 ↗ with thank you anybody else like to have

48:57 ↗ a second round of comments let's go

48:59 ↗ council member hunt and then council

49:01 ↗ member

49:03 ↗ Merz thank you Madame mayor one

49:06 ↗ additional comment uh that is something

49:09 ↗ that I appreciate in the way this um is

49:12 ↗ developed for this use case is that the

49:15 ↗ units are distributed in um buildings so

49:18 ↗ they're integrated into buildings with

49:20 ↗ market rate units which I think is is

49:21 ↗ really important and they're also

49:24 ↗ required to be a Ally similar so there's

49:27 ↗ specific wording about that um so we are

49:30 ↗ uh having housing in this case that is

49:33 ↗ in many um is integrated in with market

49:36 ↗ rate housing um which I think is is

49:38 ↗ important and is something that I will

49:40 ↗ also continue to look for as we consider

49:43 ↗ uh other ways to get affordable housing

49:45 ↗ in the future as

49:46 ↗ well thank you council member

49:50 ↗ Merz uh thank you so I mean I think

49:53 ↗ there's another way to look at this 24

49:55 ↗ year which is it does not bind the

49:59 ↗ residents of the city Beyond 24 years to

50:02 ↗ this policy right if if we were doing

50:04 ↗ this in

50:05 ↗ perpetuity you could see an argument

50:07 ↗ that somebody says well what if what if

50:09 ↗ the housing market looks different in 25

50:11 ↗ years and what if you know the subsidy

50:14 ↗ is no longer needed um and and so you

50:18 ↗ know there's an argument that says it's

50:19 ↗ a positive and that uh so I I just want

50:24 ↗ to I just want to point that out out

50:25 ↗ around the issue of the the timing and

50:28 ↗ whether 24 years is good or not um it's

50:31 ↗ really you know we're we're not

50:33 ↗ committing our residents Beyond 24 years

50:35 ↗ to supporting this

50:38 ↗ program and Council mayor Joe I think

50:40 ↗ you had yours episod thank you um to add

50:44 ↗ to the conversation I'll just look at

50:46 ↗ the report that came from Arch and their

50:50 ↗ conclusions um that might help the

50:52 ↗ conversation a little bit um they point

50:56 ↗ out that uh the the taxes are spread out

51:01 ↗ across or shifted to other

51:04 ↗ taxpayers well jurisdictions do not lose

51:08 ↗ revenue from mft programs in the sense

51:10 ↗ of actual reduction from previous years

51:14 ↗ through this process as well so you know

51:16 ↗ it's a we always try to plan and have a

51:19 ↗ way to um you know make these programs

51:22 ↗ possible and this is one way I think

51:25 ↗ that we can achieve that just a comment

51:28 ↗ on uh Council uh Deputy president

51:32 ↗ council member Barb D Michelle um let's

51:37 ↗ uh let's take a look at who uh the

51:41 ↗ affordable housing is four and I'm here

51:43 ↗ I'm quoting from some figures that were

51:46 ↗ done um in Everett for a Planning

51:49 ↗ Commission meeting in August of

51:52 ↗ 2023 and a preschool teacher on average

51:55 ↗ here in state of Washington earns

51:59 ↗ $45,900 and using the calculation that

52:02 ↗ they were using there they they can

52:04 ↗ afford a payment of

52:20 ↗ $962,000 a year can afford

52:23 ↗ $968 a month

52:25 ↗ school bus driver

52:27 ↗ $63,750 can afford

52:32 ↗ $1,482 a month commercial airline P

52:36 ↗ pilot my last one

52:38 ↗ $127,900 can afford

52:41 ↗ $1,752 per month so we're talking about

52:45 ↗ people that we want to have in our

52:46 ↗ community that have good jobs that add

52:49 ↗ to the the moral fiber and the the

52:51 ↗ general uh great things that we do here

52:53 ↗ in the city all those

52:56 ↗ uh wages and and and occupations that I

52:58 ↗ pointed out are people I'd love to see

53:00 ↗ in our community and I think that uh

53:02 ↗ having this exemption uh is one tool

53:05 ↗ that we can use uh to have more housing

53:07 ↗ at all income levels and I'm again

53:10 ↗ supportive of this one uh tonight thank

53:12 ↗ you thank you council member Joe and I

53:14 ↗ think we have kind of worked around uh

53:16 ↗ the room twice would anybody else like

53:18 ↗ to have a final comment or we going to

53:20 ↗ move to the vote council member Hall

53:22 ↗ bring us home yeah just to say I think I

53:25 ↗ think I'm I think I'm comfortable with

53:27 ↗ where we've landed I but and I just want

53:28 ↗ to reiterate I think there is a need for

53:30 ↗ kind of a more rigorous cost benefit

53:33 ↗ analysis moving forward as we look at

53:34 ↗ other other projects so I just wanted to

53:36 ↗ say that um going forward and thank you

53:39 ↗ very much to the council for for talking

53:41 ↗ this one uh through with me

53:44 ↗ appr thank you council member Hall I

53:46 ↗ think uh there's a couple of things that

53:48 ↗ our director probably pulled out tonight

53:50 ↗ uh queries that maybe we could have a

53:52 ↗ little more information about when we

53:54 ↗ start to to talk about mfte and a more

53:57 ↗ Citywide basis so thank you for bringing

53:58 ↗ up those concerns because it gives us

54:01 ↗ some homework to do so if there is no

54:04 ↗ further discussion the motion before the

54:06 ↗ council is to adopt ordinance number

54:08 ↗ 3049 amending sections 3.09

54:12 ↗ .030 .050

54:16 ↗ 06011 and12 of the isqua municipal code

54:20 ↗ regarding the city's multif family

54:22 ↗ housing property tax exemption program

54:24 ↗ all those in favor signify by saying I I

54:28 ↗ I all those opposed that carries

54:31 ↗ unanimously 6 and0 um thank you very

54:34 ↗ much director that was great the next

54:37 ↗ item that we have on our agenda this

54:39 ↗ evening under regular business is AB

54:42 ↗ 774 this is the 2021 building and fire

54:46 ↗ code adoption and amendments to IMC

54:48 ↗ title 16 buildings and construction and

54:51 ↗ the request before Council this evening

54:52 ↗ is to adopt the ordinances and I'd like

54:55 ↗ to invite building official James Gray

54:57 ↗ to present the item welcome James thank

54:59 ↗ you mayor uh thank you council members

55:02 ↗ uh council president Walsh um so first

55:05 ↗ of all I want to say I'm I am excited to

55:06 ↗ be here I I three years ago I was here

55:10 ↗ before you with building codes believe

55:12 ↗ it or not and it seemed like yesterday

55:15 ↗ uh I know it's a boring topic to

55:16 ↗ everybody I did bring some props so I

55:19 ↗ brought my stack of code books over

55:21 ↗ there and and the reason I brought that

55:22 ↗ is the the documents that are before you

55:24 ↗ are the amendment documents which amend

55:27 ↗ the the the nationally uh adopted code

55:31 ↗ books that are amended by the state and

55:34 ↗ then further amended by the the the

55:36 ↗ local jurisdiction here um through

55:39 ↗ through quite a process but all of that

55:42 ↗ is on top of the books that we operate

55:45 ↗ off on a on a regular basis building

55:47 ↗ codes to me are fascinating partly

55:50 ↗ because they're they're really all

55:51 ↗ around us it's like nature it's the roof

55:53 ↗ that's above you the wall walls that are

55:55 ↗ insulated behind you it's energy it's

55:57 ↗ structural it's Mechanical plumbing it's

56:00 ↗ every bit of the infrastructure that

56:02 ↗ that we live in um this year I realized

56:05 ↗ that I have been doing this business for

56:07 ↗ 30 years in 1994 I got employed with the

56:10 ↗ Municipality of Anchorage and my first

56:12 ↗ job as a assistant plans examiner so I'm

56:15 ↗ excited to be doing this at my 30th year

56:18 ↗ here with the city of isqua so with that

56:21 ↗ um I will I will get started uh what

56:24 ↗ what we're here before you tonight is

56:25 ↗ adoption of the 2021 code series and as

56:28 ↗ you know every 3 years these codes are

56:31 ↗ nationally republished through a

56:33 ↗ vigorous process which involves uh

56:36 ↗ Architects Engineers contractors code

56:39 ↗ officials fire code officials at a

56:42 ↗ national level Who present options and

56:45 ↗ say gosh I think that door should be

56:47 ↗ three feet instead of 3 feet it should

56:49 ↗ be 3 feet and 3 in and they get their

56:51 ↗ opportunity to go up and have their day

56:54 ↗ and make their reason why it fits a

56:56 ↗ wheelchair better it it doesn't um all

56:59 ↗ all those different reasons and and and

57:01 ↗ they get debated on vigorously before

57:04 ↗ that document is actually produced and

57:07 ↗ published so so then we have extensive

57:11 ↗ work in technical committees um that

57:14 ↗ that I discussed but that also happens

57:15 ↗ at the state level so next the State

57:18 ↗ Building Code Council goes through that

57:19 ↗ entire process looks at all of that and

57:22 ↗ says hey how does this fit for the state

57:24 ↗ of Washington how does it fit into our

57:26 ↗ energy uh into our energy goals and uh

57:29 ↗ agenda how does it fit into our climate

57:32 ↗ in different parts of the State uh

57:34 ↗ earthquakes wind all of those things we

57:37 ↗ use a um couple of different

57:39 ↗ professional code Consultants to help us

57:41 ↗ in the code adoption process it's not a

57:44 ↗ oneperson deal it's certainly not

57:46 ↗ something I could do by myself and the

57:49 ↗ timeline at the bottom of the screen

57:50 ↗ that you see is kind of where we're at

57:52 ↗ this started in mid 2022 and it's

57:54 ↗ bringing us up to tonight and it uh got

57:58 ↗ delayed a little bit because of a uh

58:00 ↗ lawsuit that was occurring at the state

58:04 ↗ level so our local code adoption and

58:08 ↗ again apologies for folks who heard this

58:09 ↗ three years ago we it's it's broken into

58:11 ↗ two pieces we have the construction

58:13 ↗ administrative code and we have the

58:15 ↗ construction codes uh we also have the

58:17 ↗ fire code tonight which I'm pin shating

58:20 ↗ for the fire marshal who uh uh brought

58:23 ↗ that piece forward the construction

58:25 ↗ administrative code is what gives us the

58:27 ↗ ability to administer the codes charge

58:30 ↗ permit fees put stop work orders on

58:32 ↗ dangerous buildings um issue permits do

58:36 ↗ inspections all of the pieces that we do

58:38 ↗ are in the construction administrative

58:40 ↗ code and then the construction codes

58:43 ↗ itself is where we say take all of those

58:46 ↗ books that are over there that you see

58:48 ↗ on the table will'll adopt those with

58:50 ↗ the changes that we're proposing to

58:52 ↗ council tonight

58:57 ↗ so just just a brief summary of where

58:59 ↗ we're at we're not proposing any changes

59:01 ↗ to permit fees Council approved those

59:04 ↗ last year uh in the last quarter of the

59:06 ↗ year uh the fire code has pretty minimal

59:09 ↗ changes mostly renumbering and

59:12 ↗ reformatting nothing super exciting

59:14 ↗ there there was a staff report that was

59:17 ↗ produced for PDC in May of 2023 with a

59:20 ↗ detailed summary of changes being

59:23 ↗ proposed and uh committee recommended

59:25 ↗ approval that was a slightly different

59:27 ↗ process then because that was before the

59:30 ↗ lawsuit was was

59:37 ↗ happened so in the summary of changes um

59:41 ↗ the Washington State energy code is

59:43 ↗ consistently getting more efficient and

59:46 ↗ I think that's something that we all

59:47 ↗ aspire to uh the r values in the walls

59:50 ↗ are higher which is the amount of

59:51 ↗ insulation that you need the r values in

59:54 ↗ and the roofs are higher the envelope

59:56 ↗ requirements are tighter so uh buildings

59:59 ↗ are uh buildings are much more energy

1:00:02 ↗ efficient less air flow in and out um

1:00:05 ↗ better recycling of

1:00:07 ↗ air um the city of Belleview amendments

1:00:10 ↗ IBC chapter 9 is where you're going to

1:00:12 ↗ see most of the red ink in the document

1:00:15 ↗ that you've got uh last time we adopted

1:00:19 ↗ Belle's um let me back up for a moment

1:00:21 ↗ we we adopt Belle's emergency response

1:00:25 ↗ amendments because they provide Mutual

1:00:26 ↗ aid for us so they if we have uh forbid

1:00:30 ↗ we have a high-rise fire we need bellw

1:00:32 ↗ to come and assist us with that and so

1:00:34 ↗ we adopt all of their amendments to

1:00:36 ↗ chapter nine in the building and fire

1:00:38 ↗ code which is the sprinkler fire alarm

1:00:40 ↗ stuff without getting too much in in the

1:00:43 ↗ weeds um this time we are proposing to

1:00:46 ↗ adopt the Wildland Urban interface code

1:00:48 ↗ portions of it we are required by state

1:00:52 ↗ to adopt there's mandatory portions and

1:00:54 ↗ non-mat at atory portions and we are

1:00:56 ↗ proposing to adopt the same portions of

1:00:58 ↗ the Wildland Urban interface code that

1:01:01 ↗ the State Building Code Council has um

1:01:04 ↗ has has laid

1:01:05 ↗ out uh OV Alliance numerous edits and

1:01:09 ↗ then some minor revisions to the

1:01:11 ↗ construction Administrative

1:01:14 ↗ Code so the topic that's been most

1:01:17 ↗ exciting uh with the sort of the

1:01:20 ↗ lawsuits and the HBL at the state level

1:01:22 ↗ is the Wildland Urban interface code now

1:01:24 ↗ the Wildland Urban interface code the

1:01:26 ↗ purpose of this document for folks that

1:01:29 ↗ don't know is to try to mitigate the

1:01:33 ↗ effects of Wildland fires which are

1:01:37 ↗ becoming more and more of a threat in

1:01:38 ↗ our community as we are seeing climate

1:01:42 ↗ change as one piece of it and so there's

1:01:46 ↗ a there's a national Wildland Urban

1:01:48 ↗ interface code that is tailored that is

1:01:51 ↗ tailored more that has been tailored

1:01:53 ↗ more specific specifically for areas

1:01:56 ↗ that have been hit by Wildland fires

1:01:58 ↗ like communities in California and the

1:02:00 ↗ deserts um more like Eastern Washington

1:02:03 ↗ side and we're seeing it come into

1:02:05 ↗ Western Washington uh with it with our

1:02:07 ↗ changing climate so we have recommended

1:02:10 ↗ our our staff is recommending the same

1:02:13 ↗ Provisions that the State Building Code

1:02:15 ↗ Council has adopted and these have to do

1:02:18 ↗ with something called structural

1:02:20 ↗ hardening which gets to which gets to

1:02:24 ↗ will your structure be affected by a

1:02:26 ↗ Wildland fire blowing Embers those kind

1:02:28 ↗ of things that come up underneath decks

1:02:31 ↗ get into Eve vents uh and and mostly get

1:02:35 ↗ on the roofs where the where the roofs

1:02:37 ↗ are of combustible construction so this

1:02:40 ↗ this code requires a class a roof which

1:02:42 ↗ is a higher standard of of construction

1:02:45 ↗ shingle and uh roof assembly and it

1:02:48 ↗ limits the amount of EV vent openings

1:02:52 ↗ also requires a

1:02:53 ↗ non-combustible exterior siding on

1:02:55 ↗ structures this is for new structures

1:02:57 ↗ and for uh additions to structures and

1:03:00 ↗ most re roofs as well and some

1:03:02 ↗ turnaround requirements for long

1:03:04 ↗ driveways so that uh fire rigs can uh

1:03:07 ↗ have a have a turnaround if they're over

1:03:09 ↗ 300 foot in

1:03:14 ↗ length so for options um this always

1:03:18 ↗ feels a little funny because um the the

1:03:20 ↗ the state adopts these codes and we're

1:03:22 ↗ required to adopt the codes of State

1:03:24 ↗ adopts we have some ability I say we you

1:03:28 ↗ the council have some ability to to uh

1:03:31 ↗ make some changes to those codes uh and

1:03:35 ↗ and those primarily have to do with some

1:03:37 ↗ appendices but at this point we have

1:03:40 ↗ mostly adopted every appendix that we

1:03:42 ↗ can adopt with the exception of one that

1:03:45 ↗ we have our own code for which has to do

1:03:47 ↗ with um recycling because we have our

1:03:50 ↗ own recycling section in in title 16 and

1:03:54 ↗ it's actually more um it's it's more

1:03:58 ↗ effective frankly than what is in the

1:04:00 ↗ appendix to the residential code so you

1:04:02 ↗ can suggest modifications to specific

1:04:05 ↗ provisions of the

1:04:06 ↗ code as long as they're at least as

1:04:08 ↗ restrictive as the states that's Tak

1:04:12 ↗ some analysis it's a little bit

1:04:13 ↗ difficult and and it keeps you out of

1:04:15 ↗ the residential code and that's also by

1:04:18 ↗ RCW and you can choose to not approve

1:04:20 ↗ the

1:04:21 ↗ proposal that's a tough one because if

1:04:23 ↗ you do that then we're just punted back

1:04:25 ↗ to what the state has adopted and we

1:04:27 ↗ don't get our construction

1:04:28 ↗ Administrative Code which means it

1:04:31 ↗ throws our per ability to do permitting

1:04:33 ↗ and all those things in um into into uh

1:04:38 ↗ disarray so staff's recommendation is to

1:04:42 ↗ adopt the building codes as we have

1:04:45 ↗ proposed it in the ordinance and I am

1:04:47 ↗ more than happy to answer questions at

1:04:49 ↗ any level of gross detail about any B of

1:04:52 ↗ this pile that's over here that uh

1:04:54 ↗ Council would like to would like to ask

1:04:57 ↗ for our timing and next steps of course

1:04:58 ↗ we're here at March 4th if you approve

1:05:01 ↗ this tonight um March 15th will be the

1:05:03 ↗ effective date which is the date the

1:05:05 ↗ state requires that all jurisdictions in

1:05:07 ↗ the state adopt them by and the reason

1:05:10 ↗ why this is such short notice is because

1:05:12 ↗ of the lawsuit that happened and all of

1:05:16 ↗ the jurisdictions are scrambling all the

1:05:18 ↗ building officials and fire officials

1:05:19 ↗ are screaming like how do we get this

1:05:21 ↗ through our legislative process in time

1:05:23 ↗ uh and and part of how we uh gotten

1:05:27 ↗ there is by being able to get on the

1:05:29 ↗ agenda tonight um I would like to uh go

1:05:33 ↗ to the uh PDC on April 2nd to talk about

1:05:36 ↗ the Wildland code again and that is uh

1:05:40 ↗ hopefully will give us a little more

1:05:42 ↗ time to have this process Wind Through

1:05:44 ↗ the legislative process at the state

1:05:46 ↗ level State uh we'll be done with their

1:05:49 ↗ deliberations by then and we're hoping

1:05:52 ↗ that anything that's going to happen has

1:05:54 ↗ has happened at that point but we think

1:05:56 ↗ that the proposal that we've got our

1:05:58 ↗ Municipal attorney has given us advice

1:06:00 ↗ that it is the closest thing to meeting

1:06:02 ↗ the mandatory requirements of the state

1:06:04 ↗ that that we can

1:06:06 ↗ meet thank you James um I'm going to go

1:06:09 ↗ to committee chair before um questions

1:06:12 ↗ but thank you for indicating questions

1:06:13 ↗ that's great um council member hunt

1:06:16 ↗ chair of the Planning Development

1:06:17 ↗ environment committee would you like to

1:06:18 ↗ summarize the committee's recommendation

1:06:20 ↗ on this

1:06:21 ↗ item um yes well so this was something

1:06:25 ↗ that we saw uh many months back um

1:06:29 ↗ because of the changes in the law suits

1:06:32 ↗ at the state level um so I think it has

1:06:35 ↗ changed but I also think that there's

1:06:36 ↗ been a good summary of the kinds of

1:06:37 ↗ changes which were to comply with the

1:06:40 ↗ law um and so I I think that um there

1:06:44 ↗ was not too much specific uh concern

1:06:47 ↗ about the code AS presented then but I

1:06:50 ↗ also just wanted to acknowledge that

1:06:51 ↗ there has been time that has elapsed

1:06:53 ↗ since we saw

1:06:55 ↗ thank you very much so let's start with

1:06:57 ↗ council president followed by council

1:06:58 ↗ member

1:07:00 ↗ Hall thank you James I would be happy to

1:07:02 ↗ geek out over this with you I'm not

1:07:05 ↗ going to go in too many details um but I

1:07:08 ↗ know one of the things that certain

1:07:10 ↗ community members were concerned with

1:07:13 ↗ any um changes to building code was that

1:07:17 ↗ they would keep them it would ban gas

1:07:20 ↗ appliances in houses um as I read this

1:07:26 ↗ gas is still allowed there is no

1:07:28 ↗ requirement to move to Electric but

1:07:32 ↗ there is um Energy Efficiency

1:07:35 ↗ requirements to do heat pumps for both

1:07:37 ↗ water and space heating am I reading

1:07:40 ↗ that correctly and is there any other

1:07:43 ↗ requirements on um gas conversion to

1:07:47 ↗ Electric uh council president excellent

1:07:50 ↗ question so we uh the the state energy

1:07:54 ↗ code Council has not recommended Banning

1:07:56 ↗ gas they did in Seattle there I

1:07:59 ↗ understand there was some legislation at

1:08:00 ↗ the state level what happens though is

1:08:03 ↗ you you you're right you get efficiency

1:08:06 ↗ credits for what you choose and if you

1:08:09 ↗ choose a high efficiency furnace as an

1:08:12 ↗ example you get these efficiency credits

1:08:14 ↗ but if it's natural gas you don't get

1:08:15 ↗ those credits at all so you're it's

1:08:19 ↗ really pushing you to the heat pump and

1:08:21 ↗ the heat pump prices have come down so

1:08:23 ↗ much if efficiency's come up so much

1:08:25 ↗ better that I think that you're going to

1:08:27 ↗ see that less and less so you're correct

1:08:29 ↗ that the code does not ban natural gas

1:08:32 ↗ uh but in a new structure you'd be

1:08:34 ↗ pretty hard pressed to put in a natural

1:08:36 ↗ gas furnace it just wouldn't make a lot

1:08:38 ↗ of

1:08:42 ↗ sense that's member Hall good

1:08:45 ↗ clarification task thank you um it

1:08:48 ↗ really does um feel like yesterday when

1:08:50 ↗ you came to present at the Planning

1:08:53 ↗ Development environment committee I

1:08:54 ↗ thought that was a fun meeting we we had

1:08:56 ↗ a good time with you um but it was

1:08:58 ↗ stunned to learn that it was May of last

1:09:00 ↗ year that

1:09:02 ↗ was um but anyway some of the things

1:09:04 ↗ that had come up in our discussion and

1:09:06 ↗ questions one of them was around

1:09:08 ↗ notifying impacted um people in the city

1:09:11 ↗ of isal so I'm just curious if you've

1:09:12 ↗ had an opportunity to think about we

1:09:14 ↗ were talking about it might be best you

1:09:16 ↗ know when permits are walking out the

1:09:18 ↗ door but what are some of the ways that

1:09:20 ↗ you know you thought about how we

1:09:22 ↗ communicate these changes with the

1:09:25 ↗ public may now sure council member

1:09:29 ↗ through the chair that um it seems to

1:09:32 ↗ come up continually how are we

1:09:33 ↗ communicating the changes and we have

1:09:36 ↗ our we have our website which we put

1:09:39 ↗ this information on um not everybody uh

1:09:42 ↗ utilizes that to the greatest extent

1:09:44 ↗ that they can um at the state level

1:09:47 ↗ they're doing that um we have through

1:09:49 ↗ the mybuildingpermit.com portal which is

1:09:53 ↗ we have 15 cities that uh use that

1:09:55 ↗ portal to get permits there's a whole

1:09:59 ↗ set of handouts and details that have

1:10:02 ↗ how to build a deck how to do all of

1:10:04 ↗ these pieces and we we the global Wii

1:10:08 ↗ are rebuilding those handouts right now

1:10:09 ↗ to match the wild line code as an

1:10:12 ↗ example um the construction on decks is

1:10:14 ↗ going to change so we've got a deck

1:10:16 ↗ handout it th those are the types of

1:10:19 ↗ things that we're doing for for public

1:10:22 ↗ education um

1:10:24 ↗ and and we have quite a few

1:10:26 ↗ informational bulletins on our on our

1:10:28 ↗ website as well um and I'm I'm always

1:10:31 ↗ willing to go out and do those sort of

1:10:33 ↗ uh do those sort of dog and pony shows

1:10:35 ↗ on the on the codes um and and my staff

1:10:37 ↗ are as well but we also have through

1:10:40 ↗ through the website we have chat with a

1:10:41 ↗ building official chat with an engineer

1:10:43 ↗ chat with a planner and folks can

1:10:45 ↗ schedule time to do that on a one-on-one

1:10:49 ↗ basis anytime through the week and

1:10:52 ↗ that's that's utilized pretty

1:10:55 ↗ heavily thank you yeah and then um can I

1:10:58 ↗ ask a follow up okay the other thing

1:11:00 ↗ that we talked about in committee to was

1:11:02 ↗ so the state they set the mandatory

1:11:05 ↗ minimum right we have to at least be

1:11:06 ↗ restrictive as the state but we also

1:11:08 ↗ were

1:11:09 ↗ curious um for you to keep an eye out as

1:11:12 ↗ other jurisdictions are adopting and I

1:11:13 ↗ know it's been kind of in morph since

1:11:15 ↗ the lawsuit now everyone's freaking out

1:11:16 ↗ to to adopt it but where are other

1:11:19 ↗ jurisdictions going above and beyond and

1:11:22 ↗ um so I'm curious if

1:11:24 ↗ you've been aware of any kind of

1:11:27 ↗ discussions about jurisdiction going

1:11:28 ↗ above and beyond or if that's something

1:11:30 ↗ that will now have to more since people

1:11:31 ↗ are

1:11:33 ↗ now and and I'm just hearing the

1:11:36 ↗ anecdotal blowback from other building

1:11:38 ↗ officials and fire officials um a lot of

1:11:40 ↗ folks are this this wild line code has

1:11:43 ↗ hit them out out of left field because

1:11:45 ↗ they weren't expecting to have pieces

1:11:48 ↗ that were

1:11:49 ↗ mandatory U but it it is all it is all

1:11:52 ↗ over the map

1:11:54 ↗ and unfortunately some jurisdictions are

1:11:57 ↗ not completely clear on what it means uh

1:12:00 ↗ for instance in the Wildland code some

1:12:02 ↗ these Provisions are um they're

1:12:05 ↗ retroactive and so uh they I don't think

1:12:08 ↗ some of the jurisdictions were clear

1:12:10 ↗ that retroactive means that where the

1:12:14 ↗ where these um

1:12:16 ↗ uh where this uh vegetation is on on

1:12:19 ↗ your structures like it's retroactive

1:12:22 ↗ it's supposed to not be there M um so

1:12:24 ↗ that's part of the reason why the State

1:12:25 ↗ Building Code Council did not recommend

1:12:28 ↗ adopting those

1:12:30 ↗ Provisions um so to to answer your

1:12:32 ↗ question directly where's everybody is

1:12:35 ↗ it's it's all over the map I'm I'm

1:12:37 ↗ hearing we we adopted the whole thing we

1:12:40 ↗ some of them didn't adopt it at all some

1:12:42 ↗ of them are proposing to not adopt it at

1:12:44 ↗ all and I think biew might be at council

1:12:46 ↗ tonight as well on their adoption so I'm

1:12:49 ↗ not sure where they're going to

1:12:52 ↗ land thank you any more questions

1:12:56 ↗ council member

1:12:58 ↗ hunt thank you um so we have a number of

1:13:02 ↗ homeowner associations uh in our city

1:13:05 ↗ and some of them do regulate things like

1:13:07 ↗ I know uh some do regulate building uh

1:13:11 ↗ roofing materials um and so I'm

1:13:14 ↗ wondering especially for any changes

1:13:16 ↗ that would

1:13:17 ↗ impact um any mandatory changes that

1:13:20 ↗ might be in Conflict um and I'm also

1:13:22 ↗ thinking about this in terms of the uh

1:13:24 ↗ Urban Wildland interface code um how do

1:13:28 ↗ we communicate and make sure that the

1:13:30 ↗ homeowners associations are um

1:13:33 ↗ regulating in compliance or in best

1:13:35 ↗ practice with these

1:13:38 ↗ regulations another good question uh

1:13:40 ↗ council member through the chair we feel

1:13:42 ↗ like we don't have substantial conflicts

1:13:45 ↗ right now if we adopted the entire

1:13:48 ↗ Wildland code we would have a

1:13:50 ↗ substantial conflict and and that that's

1:13:53 ↗ part of what we want to talk to PDC

1:13:55 ↗ about in a month uh we're we just

1:13:58 ↗ weren't prepared to dump that on council

1:14:00 ↗ tonight um so we think where we're at

1:14:03 ↗ meets the mandatory requirements and

1:14:06 ↗ doesn't put our doesn't put us in

1:14:07 ↗ conflict with certainly with Title 18

1:14:10 ↗ after that significant rewrite um so we

1:14:14 ↗ think we're in a pretty good

1:14:15 ↗ place James if I may um add to that in

1:14:19 ↗ terms of um you know Outreach to the

1:14:21 ↗ homeowner association and um you know

1:14:24 ↗ once the code is adopted we can

1:14:26 ↗ certainly share some information related

1:14:28 ↗ to roofing material so so we can work

1:14:30 ↗ with our Communications Department I

1:14:32 ↗ think they maintain a list of HOA

1:14:34 ↗ contacts uh to get the word

1:14:39 ↗ out thank you council member hunt are

1:14:41 ↗ there any other

1:14:45 ↗ questions okay um can I get a

1:14:51 ↗ motion I have it

1:14:57 ↗ um I move to adopt ordinance number

1:15:01 ↗ 350 amending chapter 16.04 of the isqua

1:15:06 ↗ municipal code construction codes to

1:15:09 ↗ adopt by reference the 2021 edition of

1:15:12 ↗ the State Building Code including

1:15:13 ↗ portions of the 2021 International

1:15:16 ↗ Wildland Urban interface code and making

1:15:19 ↗ other related amendments to chapter

1:15:22 ↗ 16.04

1:15:24 ↗ IMC and adopt ordinance

1:15:28 ↗ number

1:15:29 ↗ 3051 amending chapter 16.06 of the isqua

1:15:34 ↗ municipal code fire code to adopt by

1:15:37 ↗ reference the 2021 edition of the State

1:15:39 ↗ Building and fire code and make other

1:15:41 ↗ related

1:15:43 ↗ amendments second it's been moved and

1:15:46 ↗ seconded Is there further

1:15:48 ↗ discussion council member MZ yeah I you

1:15:52 ↗ know I see the section on um and we've

1:15:54 ↗ discussed the the pieces of the Wildland

1:15:57 ↗ Urban interface code that we would be

1:15:59 ↗ adopting today and discussion of or the

1:16:01 ↗ comment Administration will discuss the

1:16:03 ↗ optional

1:16:04 ↗ Provisions um and come back to city

1:16:06 ↗ council for Action if needed to adopt as

1:16:09 ↗ a as a former King County Emergency

1:16:12 ↗ Management advisory council member and

1:16:14 ↗ former Washington Emergency Management

1:16:16 ↗ council member and squawk Mountain

1:16:18 ↗ homeowner um I would very much like us

1:16:20 ↗ to have that conversation I understand

1:16:22 ↗ that retro active codes um could be

1:16:26 ↗ expensive or impossible right if

1:16:28 ↗ somebody said build a 100 foot fire

1:16:30 ↗ break around your property most of my

1:16:32 ↗ property is critical slope and it would

1:16:33 ↗ be a bad idea to cut down all the trees

1:16:35 ↗ but I do think that um it would I think

1:16:39 ↗ we owe it to ourselves to at least look

1:16:41 ↗ at those and see if there are some in

1:16:44 ↗ there that we want to adopt um you know

1:16:46 ↗ isqua has been very lucky in the you

1:16:50 ↗ know my house has been there for 50

1:16:51 ↗ years but it's adjacent to the open

1:16:53 ↗ space and I think um you know I would

1:16:56 ↗ hope that we will consider uh looking at

1:16:59 ↗ those codes at a subsequent after today

1:17:01 ↗ uh and see if there are anything would

1:17:02 ↗ be appropriate for isqua thank you thank

1:17:05 ↗ you council member Ms council member

1:17:08 ↗ hun thank you um I appreciate the future

1:17:13 ↗ opportunity to look at the Wildland

1:17:15 ↗ Urban interface code um as well in the

1:17:18 ↗ Planning Development environment

1:17:19 ↗ committee um I think that we currently

1:17:23 ↗ have it it we have many communities uh

1:17:26 ↗ in the city that are at that Wildland

1:17:29 ↗ Urban interface and so this is

1:17:31 ↗ especially important that we um get it

1:17:33 ↗ right for the lives and safety of our

1:17:35 ↗ community uh and so I look forward to

1:17:37 ↗ that conversation I do think that the

1:17:39 ↗ piece about um communicating with our

1:17:41 ↗ homeowners associations especially if

1:17:43 ↗ we're making things mandatory that are

1:17:45 ↗ in Conflict um which they may be as we

1:17:48 ↗ look at what we can do on the Wildland

1:17:50 ↗ Urban interface code um I think we need

1:17:52 ↗ to make make sure that we're in uh

1:17:54 ↗ communication with those homeowners

1:17:56 ↗ associations um so they they know what's

1:17:59 ↗ coming um but I think it's it's really

1:18:01 ↗ important for us because of where we're

1:18:03 ↗ located next to our beautiful

1:18:05 ↗ forests and I look forward to that I I

1:18:08 ↗ also you know as council member Hall

1:18:10 ↗ mentioned when PDC did look uh pde did

1:18:13 ↗ look at this last time we were thinking

1:18:16 ↗ about where we should go above and

1:18:18 ↗ beyond um or or what opportunities there

1:18:21 ↗ would be and so I think think this uh

1:18:23 ↗ Urban wedland interface because of our

1:18:26 ↗ geography that's that's probably one

1:18:27 ↗ where we should consider that as council

1:18:29 ↗ member Mars also said Thank you thank

1:18:32 ↗ you council member hun council president

1:18:34 ↗ thank you um I just want to take a

1:18:36 ↗ moment to recognize that this checks

1:18:39 ↗ another box on the isqua climate action

1:18:42 ↗ plan um so policy be 1.3 asks us to

1:18:47 ↗ strengthen energy efficient building

1:18:49 ↗ codes and when we look at you know how

1:18:52 ↗ in the implementation section it lists

1:18:55 ↗ things as low medium and high

1:18:57 ↗ affordability and low medium and high

1:18:59 ↗ impact this is highest affordability

1:19:03 ↗ highest impact and so yes I would love

1:19:07 ↗ to look at what future things that we

1:19:11 ↗ can do to strengthen that even further

1:19:13 ↗ but this is a big step forward and it's

1:19:16 ↗ something that I know our community has

1:19:18 ↗ been calling for and looking for ways

1:19:21 ↗ and wanting to say hey what can we do to

1:19:24 ↗ strengthen title 16 well this is uh

1:19:27 ↗ first of hopefully many steps so thank

1:19:30 ↗ you thank you council president any more

1:19:34 ↗ comments not seeing any I'll call for

1:19:37 ↗ the vote um the motion before council is

1:19:40 ↗ to adopt ordinance number

1:19:42 ↗ 3050 amending chapter

1:19:45 ↗ 16.04 of the isqua municipal code

1:19:48 ↗ construction codes and to adopt by

1:19:50 ↗ reference the 2021 addition of the state

1:19:52 ↗ bill building code including portions of

1:19:54 ↗ the 2021 International Wildland Urban

1:19:57 ↗ interface code and making other related

1:20:00 ↗ amendments to chapter 16.04 isqu

1:20:03 ↗ municipal code and adopt ordinance

1:20:05 ↗ number 3051 amending chapter 16.06 of

1:20:09 ↗ the is Municipal Code fire code to adopt

1:20:13 ↗ by reference to 2021 edition of the

1:20:15 ↗ State Building and fire code and make

1:20:17 ↗ any other related amendments all those

1:20:20 ↗ in favor please signify by saying I

1:20:24 ↗ hi uh those opposed that carries

1:20:27 ↗ unanimously six and0 thank you all thank

1:20:30 ↗ you James nice to see you in

1:20:33 ↗ Chambers uh thank you Minnie so the next

1:20:36 ↗ that moves us out of regular business

1:20:39 ↗ and into committee and Regional reports

1:20:41 ↗ and we'll start with council member Joe

1:20:43 ↗ thank you um Cascade water Alliance will

1:20:47 ↗ have their next board meeting on March

1:20:49 ↗ 27th the public affairs committee will

1:20:51 ↗ meet on March 6th

1:20:53 ↗ the finance committee that uh the mayor

1:20:55 ↗ is on uh will be meeting on the 19th of

1:20:59 ↗ March and uh congratulations to the

1:21:02 ↗ mayor for being elected the treasurer

1:21:03 ↗ and Secretary of cascade water Alliance

1:21:06 ↗ um moving up in the world as we go uh

1:21:09 ↗ that concludes my report thank you thank

1:21:11 ↗ you council member Joe uh council member

1:21:13 ↗ Hall thank you yeah I saw that in the

1:21:16 ↗ consent calendar I was like oh another

1:21:17 ↗ thing anyways um e fire and rescue our

1:21:21 ↗ next board meeting is next next Thursday

1:21:24 ↗ um is that March 14th at 4 pm at our

1:21:27 ↗ headquarters on Newport Way Northwest um

1:21:30 ↗ we're meeting tomorrow morning to

1:21:31 ↗ finalize the agenda but I'm pretty sure

1:21:34 ↗ it's new member orientation or just

1:21:36 ↗ orientation for board members in general

1:21:38 ↗ and then electing chair and vice chair

1:21:40 ↗ in the finance and administrative

1:21:41 ↗ committee members that concludes my

1:21:43 ↗ report thanks I'm going to go to council

1:21:46 ↗ member hunt if that's okay council

1:21:47 ↗ member

1:21:48 ↗ hunt thank you Madame mayor there will

1:21:51 ↗ be no March uh meeting of the Planning

1:21:53 ↗ Development and environment committee

1:21:56 ↗ and there will be a meeting of the

1:21:58 ↗ salmon Recovery Council of WIA 8 our

1:22:01 ↗ Watershed on Thursday March 21st and

1:22:04 ↗ that concludes my report thank you and

1:22:06 ↗ council member Ray is excused uh has an

1:22:08 ↗ excused absence this evening council

1:22:10 ↗ member Mars thank you Madame mayor the

1:22:12 ↗ sound cities Association public issues

1:22:14 ↗ committee will be meeting on Wednesday

1:22:16 ↗ March 13th at 7 p.m. I believe the

1:22:18 ↗ meeting will be online uh and the agenda

1:22:21 ↗ is still TBD the council services safety

1:22:24 ↗ and Parks committee uh as I mentioned

1:22:26 ↗ briefly did meet at 6:30 p.m on Tuesday

1:22:29 ↗ February

1:22:31 ↗ 27th uh topics uh additional topics that

1:22:34 ↗ were covered included and I had it open

1:22:38 ↗ ago uh ID

1:22:41 ↗ 1552 Human Services element

1:22:43 ↗ comprehensive and strategic plan updates

1:22:46 ↗ the net net on that is the Committee

1:22:47 ↗ Member saw no need to make changes to

1:22:49 ↗ the Strategic or comp plan elements um

1:22:53 ↗ and the ID 1558 city arts program

1:22:58 ↗ update community members were in

1:23:00 ↗ agreement that Arts can unify a

1:23:02 ↗ community and is valuable beyond the

1:23:03 ↗ money spent on funding uh ID 1584

1:23:07 ↗ comprehensive Plan update on draft arts

1:23:09 ↗ and culture element policies uh after

1:23:12 ↗ the staff presentation Comm members uh

1:23:15 ↗ ask staff to explore more ways to

1:23:17 ↗ include more artists of color as a

1:23:19 ↗ feedback on that item and that concludes

1:23:22 ↗ my report on Services thank you council

1:23:25 ↗ member Merz Deputy council president D

1:23:27 ↗ Michelle thank you mayor Paulie and the

1:23:31 ↗ East Side Human Services Forum held its

1:23:33 ↗ regular meeting on February 8th and held

1:23:36 ↗ a discussion around plans for three

1:23:38 ↗ spring and summer forums for members and

1:23:41 ↗ our next meeting is uh week from

1:23:44 ↗ Thursday um and Brad F good from uh King

1:23:47 ↗ County Public Health will be addressing

1:23:49 ↗ the board regarding uh the fenel in opo

1:23:53 ↗ crisis um Eide Transportation

1:23:55 ↗ partnership held its regular meeting on

1:23:57 ↗ February 9th and we heard the exciting

1:24:00 ↗ news about the East link which is now

1:24:02 ↗ being called to line uh activation which

1:24:06 ↗ is scheduled for April 27th with a

1:24:08 ↗ kickoff in downtown BW and I sent the

1:24:10 ↗ council information about that plus a

1:24:12 ↗ news article uh about the uh about the

1:24:17 ↗ kickoff um we also heard a legislative

1:24:19 ↗ update on et's legislative priorities

1:24:22 ↗ and then our next meeting is this Friday

1:24:25 ↗ in person in Redmond the first time

1:24:27 ↗ we've met in person since the pandemic

1:24:30 ↗ and then finally Regional Transit

1:24:33 ↗ committee held its first meeting of 2024

1:24:35 ↗ on February 21st our newly elected

1:24:39 ↗ council member Teresa moscada is now the

1:24:41 ↗ chair of RTC and Covington council

1:24:44 ↗ member Joe samoo is leading the Suburban

1:24:47 ↗ City's caucus we reviewed the RTC work

1:24:50 ↗ plan for 2024 and I suggested additional

1:24:54 ↗ and we suggested additional items for

1:24:56 ↗ discussion I requested that we have an

1:24:58 ↗ annual report on the on Metro Safe

1:25:01 ↗ program and I believe that one was

1:25:04 ↗ adopted and I also want to thank Thomas

1:25:06 ↗ valre for strongly supporting this

1:25:08 ↗ appointment he's doing a great job of of

1:25:11 ↗ helping me with uh this uh

1:25:14 ↗ representation so um that ends my report

1:25:17 ↗ thank you Deputy council president

1:25:19 ↗ council president thank you the King

1:25:21 ↗ County affordable housing committee

1:25:23 ↗ meets this Thursday from 2: to 3:30 p.m.

1:25:26 ↗ online the

1:25:28 ↗ agenda uh the agenda includes a proposed

1:25:31 ↗ comparative standard for

1:25:34 ↗ jurisdictions um on their progress

1:25:36 ↗ toward affordable housing policy

1:25:39 ↗ implementation no we're not ranking

1:25:42 ↗ whether or not people cities actually

1:25:44 ↗ build housing because cities don't build

1:25:46 ↗ housing um but are we doing what we need

1:25:50 ↗ to do for um a policy standpoint um to

1:25:54 ↗ adopt things into code we're also

1:25:57 ↗ receiving updates on the comprehensive

1:25:58 ↗ plan review status as it is I believe 38

1:26:03 ↗ remaining cities in King County have not

1:26:05 ↗ submitted their uh comp plan housing

1:26:08 ↗ elements to uh the affordable housing

1:26:12 ↗ committee for review so it's going to be

1:26:14 ↗ a busy year yeah no we haven't either no

1:26:17 ↗ no no we

1:26:18 ↗ haven't um and then the Puget Sound

1:26:21 ↗ Regional Council growth management

1:26:22 ↗ policy board meets this Thursday from

1:26:25 ↗ 10:00 a.m. to noon online the agenda

1:26:27 ↗ includes discussion items on the pet

1:26:29 ↗ sound recovery and um also a

1:26:33 ↗ presentation on Zoning for early

1:26:35 ↗ childhood education which I am

1:26:37 ↗ interested to hear about and that

1:26:38 ↗ concludes my

1:26:40 ↗ report thank you um the mayor's report

1:26:43 ↗ this evening is a little lengthy so bear

1:26:46 ↗ with me there will be an executive

1:26:47 ↗ session this evening to discuss pending

1:26:49 ↗ or potential potential litigation for RC

1:26:52 ↗ w 42.3

1:26:54 ↗ 0.110 per1 peren i and property

1:26:57 ↗ acquisition per RCW

1:26:59 ↗ 42301 one0 per N1 pen B the items are

1:27:03 ↗ expected to take approximately um 30 to

1:27:05 ↗ 45 minutes an action is anticipated to

1:27:08 ↗ follow in the open session I want to

1:27:10 ↗ provide you an update on our sister city

1:27:12 ↗ uh fundraising efforts for Moroccan

1:27:15 ↗ earthquake relief uh our fundraiser

1:27:17 ↗ efforts in December were a huge success

1:27:20 ↗ the sister City's commission helped

1:27:21 ↗ raise the approximately

1:27:23 ↗ $65,000 the first shipping container is

1:27:25 ↗ on its way to Morocco which contains

1:27:27 ↗ 15,000 new items those are 10,000

1:27:31 ↗ blankets and 5,000 jackets the second

1:27:34 ↗ container will depart soon and includes

1:27:36 ↗ 200 computers and monitors as well as 65

1:27:39 ↗ boxes of donated items from our local

1:27:41 ↗ community containing approximately 565

1:27:44 ↗ jackets 175 blankets and 1,400 assorted

1:27:48 ↗ hats and other clothing clothing this is

1:27:50 ↗ really a big lift that the sister City's

1:27:53 ↗ commission team is doing very proud of

1:27:55 ↗ them um I'm looking forward to helping

1:27:57 ↗ distribute these items to villages in

1:27:59 ↗ Morocco um who were most impacted by the

1:28:02 ↗ earthquakes some of the upcoming events

1:28:04 ↗ uh we are now looking for Hall of Fame

1:28:06 ↗ nominations the nominations are open a

1:28:09 ↗ top this is a top honor for making a

1:28:11 ↗ lasing contribution to our community

1:28:13 ↗ this award shall go to someone who has

1:28:15 ↗ made a significant impact on the isqua

1:28:17 ↗ community over the course of their

1:28:19 ↗ career each year the mayor and council

1:28:21 ↗ president select a person to induct into

1:28:23 ↗ the isqua Hall of Fame for their

1:28:25 ↗ exemplary record of inspiration

1:28:28 ↗ leadership and service the award will be

1:28:30 ↗ presented at the Chamber of commerce's

1:28:32 ↗ annual isqua community Awards event on

1:28:34 ↗ May 21st and you can submit nominations

1:28:37 ↗ at isqua

1:28:39 ↗ w.gov nominate the deadlines for

1:28:42 ↗ nominations this year is 5:00 pm on

1:28:44 ↗ April

1:28:45 ↗ 21st I'd like to invite everybody to

1:28:47 ↗ join uh show an interest in joining an

1:28:50 ↗ isqua border commission we are currently

1:28:52 ↗ ly recruiting for all of our isqua

1:28:54 ↗ boards and commissions We Believe

1:28:56 ↗ diversity and inclusion amongst our

1:28:58 ↗ board members and commission members is

1:28:59 ↗ critical to the success of our city

1:29:02 ↗ applications can be submitted at ISA

1:29:05 ↗ wa.gov apply and the deadline for

1:29:07 ↗ applications is 5:00 pm March

1:29:11 ↗ 7th um we're putting out a call for

1:29:14 ↗ youth artists authors and composers the

1:29:17 ↗ Young art artists and authors showcase

1:29:20 ↗ YZ is an annual art contest that

1:29:22 ↗ encourages youth worldwide to express

1:29:24 ↗ the mission of sister cities

1:29:26 ↗ International through original artwork

1:29:28 ↗ literature poetry photography and music

1:29:32 ↗ this year's theme is climate Escape

1:29:35 ↗ resilient cities for tomorrow's climate

1:29:38 ↗ this is open to isqua Area Middle School

1:29:39 ↗ and High School students within the age

1:29:41 ↗ range of 13 to 18 as of May 1st 2024 the

1:29:46 ↗ sister cities Commission in partnership

1:29:48 ↗ with the Arts commission evaluates

1:29:50 ↗ artist submissions based on Crea

1:29:52 ↗ activity composition and theme

1:29:54 ↗ interpretation select nominees are

1:29:57 ↗ celebrated locally and then advance to

1:29:59 ↗ compete in the sister City's

1:30:00 ↗ International showcase the deadline for

1:30:02 ↗ nominations is 11:59 p.m. April 2nd and

1:30:06 ↗ for more information please visit isqu

1:30:09 ↗ w.gov youth showcase and the last item I

1:30:12 ↗ have to share is on light rail planning

1:30:15 ↗ hoping that our community will want to

1:30:17 ↗ share your thoughts on one of the

1:30:19 ↗ biggest changes that will be coming to

1:30:20 ↗ esqua one of isqua's top priorities this

1:30:24 ↗ year is to proactively plan for Future

1:30:25 ↗ Sound Transit Light Rail Ser system

1:30:28 ↗ service expansion the city of isqua

1:30:31 ↗ anticipates that sound transit will

1:30:33 ↗ begin their initial project planning

1:30:34 ↗ phase around

1:30:36 ↗ 2027 in advance of sound transits

1:30:38 ↗ planning efforts the city will engage

1:30:40 ↗ diverse community and business members

1:30:42 ↗ to develop a shared vision statement

1:30:45 ↗ that encapsulates our community's ideal

1:30:47 ↗ goals for the future Central isqua Light

1:30:49 ↗ Rail station area the city is seeking

1:30:52 ↗ volunteers for several limited term

1:30:56 ↗ um focus groups volunteer focus groups

1:30:59 ↗ which will meet two to three times each

1:31:00 ↗ between April and May if you're

1:31:02 ↗ interested in volunteering please

1:31:04 ↗ contact senior Transportation planner

1:31:06 ↗ Thomas fdre by Friday March 22nd and

1:31:09 ↗ that concludes the mayor's

1:31:11 ↗ report the next item for the last few

1:31:14 ↗ people in our room this evening is an

1:31:16 ↗ informational update id1

1:31:19 ↗ 1616 uh it's on Solid Waste it's for

1:31:21 ↗ Ecology Service delivery and contract

1:31:24 ↗ implementation the request before

1:31:26 ↗ Council this evening is to receive the

1:31:28 ↗ report and I can see she's already up

1:31:31 ↗ there public works director Emily Moon

1:31:33 ↗ and environmental and Regulatory program

1:31:35 ↗ manager Evan brenfield are going to

1:31:37 ↗ introduce the item welcome Emily welcome

1:31:39 ↗ Evan good evening city council

1:31:45 ↗ and share

1:31:50 ↗ screen

1:31:58 ↗ great we're happy to be here tonight

1:31:59 ↗ along with our partners from rology to

1:32:02 ↗ give you an status update on the

1:32:05 ↗ contract implementation and on Service

1:32:07 ↗ delivery I am just here briefly to

1:32:11 ↗ introduce Evan brunfield who has a new

1:32:14 ↗ title Evan was recently promoted as our

1:32:18 ↗ environmental uh what is your ttle

1:32:20 ↗ Environmental

1:32:22 ↗ uh and Regulatory program manager it's a

1:32:25 ↗ really long title Evan is uh providing

1:32:29 ↗ leadership to our environmental science

1:32:31 ↗ group and we have nested the solid waste

1:32:34 ↗ function with the new FTE position that

1:32:37 ↗ you all authorized that Solid Waste

1:32:39 ↗ analyst position under Evans leadership

1:32:42 ↗ and part of Evans Group um so with that

1:32:45 ↗ I'm going to turn it over to Evan and he

1:32:46 ↗ has some news on that position as

1:32:50 ↗ well wel welcome and congratulations

1:32:52 ↗ Evan yeah thank you very much um

1:32:56 ↗ so let's

1:33:05 ↗ see okay first test um yeah thank you um

1:33:10 ↗ so yeah thanks Emily um my name is m

1:33:12 ↗ Brumfield uh worked at the city about 15

1:33:15 ↗ years uh mainly storm water flood plane

1:33:18 ↗ I've come to you guys talk to you about

1:33:20 ↗ a lot of stuff like that um over Co I

1:33:23 ↗ started getting more involved with solid

1:33:24 ↗ waste and so uh have learned a lot in a

1:33:26 ↗ kind of relatively short amount of time

1:33:30 ↗ uh my yeah my update is uh we have hired

1:33:35 ↗ a solid waste program analyst uh with

1:33:37 ↗ the start date of March 18th uh we're

1:33:41 ↗ very much looking forward to her

1:33:42 ↗ starting her name her name's Sam uh and

1:33:46 ↗ uh currently has as our Solid Waste uh

1:33:49 ↗ function is in the city is it spread out

1:33:51 ↗ over over multiple uh departments and

1:33:54 ↗ several employees and so we're really

1:33:56 ↗ much looking forward to getting back to

1:33:58 ↗ a centralized employee that we were

1:34:00 ↗ operating under pre-co um to really

1:34:02 ↗ handle a lot of um well to provide that

1:34:06 ↗ better service that we we think that

1:34:08 ↗ this position will provide um both for

1:34:10 ↗ internal and external um customers so

1:34:12 ↗ very much looking forward to that um so

1:34:15 ↗ what are we here tonight for it's to

1:34:17 ↗ provide an update on the Recology solid

1:34:19 ↗ waste collection uh contract

1:34:22 ↗ including level of service challenges

1:34:24 ↗ program implementation and verion

1:34:31 ↗ statistics that work all right so uh

1:34:34 ↗ joining us tonight we have uh some

1:34:36 ↗ members of Recology staff we have uh

1:34:38 ↗ Anthony and Alysa uh Anthony is the

1:34:40 ↗ general manager um and Alyssa Campbell

1:34:43 ↗ is the way zero manager so I'm G to hand

1:34:45 ↗ it over to

1:34:48 ↗ them and feel free to use the the same

1:34:52 ↗ Podium that Evan was

1:34:59 ↗ using all right well uh mayor Paulie and

1:35:02 ↗ council members thank you so much for

1:35:04 ↗ the privilege to come speak tonight and

1:35:06 ↗ present um looking forward to talking

1:35:08 ↗ about some of the new items in the

1:35:09 ↗ contract which commenced in July of this

1:35:12 ↗ year and also talk about some

1:35:13 ↗ opportunities that we're that we're

1:35:15 ↗ working on and um going forward

1:35:17 ↗ especially as we get closer to to the

1:35:18 ↗ spring and summer months here in isqua

1:35:21 ↗ um to highlight oops sorry to highlight

1:35:24 ↗ some of the new items in the contract

1:35:26 ↗ one that really sticks out is we've got

1:35:27 ↗ a full-time waste zero specialist which

1:35:29 ↗ did start actually previous to July

1:35:31 ↗ which Alyssa will elaborate elaborate a

1:35:33 ↗ little bit on in her function um out

1:35:35 ↗ with supporting diversion in the

1:35:37 ↗ community but also um some of the items

1:35:40 ↗ that pop as unlimited Recycling and

1:35:42 ↗ Commercial and multifam um and then also

1:35:45 ↗ new labor disruption um section on there

1:35:48 ↗ and that provides credits should there

1:35:49 ↗ be any labor disruption we've got a

1:35:51 ↗ great fantastic relationship with our

1:35:52 ↗ with our unions um but wanted to call

1:35:55 ↗ that

1:35:58 ↗ out so as we came out of the summer um

1:36:01 ↗ and started going into the winter months

1:36:03 ↗ on November 2nd one think it's important

1:36:05 ↗ to call out is our company Recology

1:36:08 ↗ overall was hit with the cyber security

1:36:10 ↗ event um this was uh very disruptive to

1:36:14 ↗ our operations and from a customer

1:36:16 ↗ standpoint um very noticeable and and

1:36:19 ↗ quite frankly I'm I'm very frustrating

1:36:22 ↗ um so to to touch on that I I included a

1:36:24 ↗ graph here this actually came out in the

1:36:26 ↗ economist mid December of 2023 to kind

1:36:29 ↗ of highlight um across the country

1:36:31 ↗ municipalities and businesses and how

1:36:33 ↗ this is really uh been a record setting

1:36:36 ↗ year for cyber security events um across

1:36:39 ↗ really the country and and westernized

1:36:41 ↗ world so that was important to note that

1:36:44 ↗ um but what happened was once our um

1:36:46 ↗ security team noticed um what appeared

1:36:49 ↗ to be an attack they immediately shut

1:36:51 ↗ down all of our servers and systems

1:36:53 ↗ until they could really understand what

1:36:54 ↗ the heck was going on so we actually

1:36:56 ↗ brought in a third party cyber security

1:36:58 ↗ team to scan all of our systems um to be

1:37:01 ↗ frank we do have a backup and redundancy

1:37:02 ↗ systems but based on the nature of this

1:37:04 ↗ type of uh cyber security event there

1:37:07 ↗ wasn't a whole lot of 100% insurance

1:37:10 ↗ that that once we turned the systems

1:37:11 ↗ back on that there couldn't be further

1:37:13 ↗ damage or or um or Corruption of data so

1:37:17 ↗ we actually started restoring all of our

1:37:19 ↗ systems from our backup tapes which um

1:37:21 ↗ at the time we didn't realize but but

1:37:23 ↗ took quite a while so what did that mean

1:37:25 ↗ to customers that Recology Services

1:37:27 ↗ specifically in the city of isqua well

1:37:29 ↗ what that meant was someone would call

1:37:31 ↗ in to customer service our customer

1:37:33 ↗ service team was completely blind to

1:37:35 ↗ their account or what their service

1:37:37 ↗ levels was that made very challenging

1:37:38 ↗ our onboard truck technology which

1:37:40 ↗ provides routing and service

1:37:42 ↗ verification was completely disabled um

1:37:45 ↗ very challenging for our drivers and I

1:37:47 ↗ got to say that our drivers are really

1:37:48 ↗ the heroes in all of this just with

1:37:50 ↗ their know knowledge of routes but with

1:37:52 ↗ that um very frustrating for customers

1:37:54 ↗ to call in and report a Miss because a

1:37:57 ↗ neighborhood or a pocket of the route

1:37:58 ↗ was missed especially when we talk about

1:38:01 ↗ um drivers that go on vacation or things

1:38:03 ↗ like that and to be able to kind of

1:38:04 ↗ track down and really rebuild our routes

1:38:07 ↗ um frankly from some of our driers

1:38:09 ↗ memories but also rebuild from the

1:38:11 ↗ existing data that we had that we could

1:38:12 ↗ we could plug back in on Old School

1:38:14 ↗ paper paper route sheets um which really

1:38:17 ↗ put us back probably o over a decade in

1:38:19 ↗ terms of operating

1:38:21 ↗ um but from that um pleased to say that

1:38:25 ↗ um in terms of personal identification

1:38:26 ↗ information from customers that's not

1:38:28 ↗ housed in our internal system that's

1:38:30 ↗ housed with our U payment Partners um so

1:38:33 ↗ that was a relief that that information

1:38:35 ↗ was not

1:38:36 ↗ compromised um in addition um after a

1:38:39 ↗ couple of months working through this we

1:38:41 ↗ really had to rebuild and that was the

1:38:42 ↗ benefit of having a local call center

1:38:44 ↗ was um having that close connectivity

1:38:46 ↗ with our operations and to be able to

1:38:48 ↗ dispatch out when we get reports of

1:38:49 ↗ Misses or um any service challenges um

1:38:53 ↗ to be able to react as quickly as

1:38:54 ↗ possible and get our teams out there to

1:38:57 ↗ assess um since this event happened

1:38:59 ↗ November 2nd we have brought back online

1:39:01 ↗ all of our internal um customer

1:39:04 ↗ information systems our um tablets or

1:39:06 ↗ onb routing systems were all restored

1:39:08 ↗ with um this this past month in February

1:39:11 ↗ uh mid Monon and from a customer

1:39:13 ↗ standpoint we've we restored all those

1:39:14 ↗ systems that generally re relate in in

1:39:17 ↗ customer feedback and and service um

1:39:20 ↗ which I can tell you our drivers were

1:39:21 ↗ were very relieved as well going through

1:39:25 ↗ that um so moving forward in terms of

1:39:28 ↗ trucks uh one of the benefits and

1:39:30 ↗ exciting aspects of this contract is um

1:39:32 ↗ a new truck uh Fleet that was ordered um

1:39:35 ↗ we're on track this summer to take

1:39:36 ↗ delivery about 11 new renewable natural

1:39:39 ↗ gas trucks um but also we've been uh

1:39:42 ↗ piloting um a couple different

1:39:44 ↗ manufactures of two electric um side

1:39:47 ↗ loader collection trucks which are

1:39:49 ↗ slated per the contract and and what

1:39:51 ↗ we've um what we've agreed upon is is at

1:39:53 ↗ the end of

1:39:54 ↗ 2025 um so some exciting aspects of

1:39:57 ↗ testing that in terms of the the the

1:39:59 ↗ battery life um technology is is um

1:40:02 ↗ Advanced significantly just over the

1:40:04 ↗ past year and a half and then also um

1:40:06 ↗ electric support Vehicles we've received

1:40:09 ↗ um electric um truck that our supervisor

1:40:11 ↗ uses for the city of squa so she is now

1:40:13 ↗ uh that that's operational and in use

1:40:16 ↗ and then we um this spring and summer

1:40:17 ↗ we'll be receiving a electric deliveries

1:40:20 ↗ van for delivering carts and and

1:40:21 ↗ containers um to Residents so we're

1:40:23 ↗ excited to implement that and have that

1:40:25 ↗ on

1:40:27 ↗ board um one of the things I'd like to

1:40:29 ↗ uh highlight is as we were coming out of

1:40:32 ↗ this past summer um one of our

1:40:34 ↗ challenges I'll get into a little bit

1:40:35 ↗ more with with maintenance but we

1:40:36 ↗ actually were working with a uh rental

1:40:39 ↗ truck company for garbage trucks so we

1:40:40 ↗ brought in a handful of frontloading

1:40:43 ↗ rental trucks that are essentially brand

1:40:45 ↗ new but that helped basically be a stop

1:40:47 ↗ Gap as we're taking on these new trucks

1:40:50 ↗ estimated for delivery this summer which

1:40:51 ↗ was very helpful especially with multif

1:40:53 ↗ family and Commercial customers where we

1:40:55 ↗ had some challenges this past

1:40:58 ↗ summer um new Staffing additions over

1:41:01 ↗ the past year which have uh been huge

1:41:02 ↗ contributors to our team from a from a

1:41:04 ↗ service standpoint we've got uh Britney

1:41:06 ↗ remert she's our customer service

1:41:07 ↗ manager um she really grew up uh and

1:41:11 ↗ career-wise on the call center front so

1:41:13 ↗ very analytical looking at data looking

1:41:15 ↗ at ways to uh better serve our our

1:41:17 ↗ customers and um and really got her

1:41:20 ↗ start in Seattle Public Utilities call

1:41:22 ↗ centers so very well versed in the types

1:41:25 ↗ and the in the in the I guess jargon or

1:41:27 ↗ lingo of our industry but also what the

1:41:29 ↗ data means as as it's coming in from a

1:41:31 ↗ call center standpoint uh Lauren Herber

1:41:33 ↗ she's our waste zero specialist

1:41:35 ↗ dedicated to the C city of isqua many of

1:41:37 ↗ you may may have seen her out and about

1:41:39 ↗ doing waste aits at commercial

1:41:40 ↗ properties and multif family properties

1:41:42 ↗ and Alysa will'll speak to that a little

1:41:44 ↗ bit and then Alyssa Campbell our our

1:41:46 ↗ waste zero manager she's been with

1:41:48 ↗ rology for for a few years but took over

1:41:51 ↗ as our waste zero education Outreach

1:41:53 ↗ manager just this past

1:41:57 ↗ summer um from a monthly meeting with

1:41:59 ↗ the staff um standpoint to kind of

1:42:01 ↗ highlight that huge thanks to isqua City

1:42:03 ↗ staff uh incredibly helpful especially

1:42:06 ↗ during um some of the challenging events

1:42:08 ↗ we had in November and December in terms

1:42:10 ↗ of sharing feedback from the community

1:42:12 ↗ but also um we meet monthly and it's an

1:42:15 ↗ opportunity to go over a lot of the rich

1:42:17 ↗ data and the reporting that comes out to

1:42:20 ↗ to Really um talk about what you know

1:42:22 ↗ what what that means in terms of our

1:42:23 ↗ engagement with with the city but then

1:42:25 ↗ also um from a diversion standpoint

1:42:27 ↗ talking about um init initiatives that

1:42:29 ↗ we're implementing um and then speak to

1:42:32 ↗ frankly um any service lapses or

1:42:34 ↗ challenges and that could be from a from

1:42:36 ↗ a localized um um residential side or a

1:42:41 ↗ commercial or multif family side and

1:42:42 ↗ really speaking to the root cause and

1:42:44 ↗ and what we're doing to address

1:42:47 ↗ that um one of the pieces of data we

1:42:49 ↗ share in our monthly report s um out of

1:42:51 ↗ the many items and and I like to

1:42:53 ↗ highlight this here is our misses per

1:42:55 ↗ thousand this is kind of a barometer we

1:42:57 ↗ check in terms of collections customers

1:42:59 ↗ report a miss and our followup on there

1:43:01 ↗ and you can see kind of trailing

1:43:02 ↗ year-over-year or 12-month trailing I

1:43:05 ↗ should say year-over-year going back

1:43:06 ↗ three years um we had a huge Focus this

1:43:09 ↗ last summer I say we we still have a lot

1:43:11 ↗ of opportunity to improve those numbers

1:43:13 ↗ but you can see when November hit that

1:43:15 ↗ uh kind of aligned that Spike there with

1:43:17 ↗ the cyber security event where

1:43:18 ↗ essentially our our our we were flying

1:43:20 ↗ blind out there which generated a lot of

1:43:23 ↗ calls and a lot of feedback from

1:43:28 ↗ customers there's one more

1:43:34 ↗ thing um the next piece of data that's

1:43:36 ↗ that's really helpful in terms of from a

1:43:38 ↗ customer standpoint is our call center

1:43:40 ↗ data so here you see calls um we measure

1:43:43 ↗ in in answering uh seconds to answer so

1:43:46 ↗ you can see here a lot of effort over

1:43:48 ↗ this past year you see the blue line is

1:43:50 ↗ trailing 12 months for 2023 so if you

1:43:52 ↗ look compared to the last couple of

1:43:54 ↗ years going back to 2021 a huge

1:43:56 ↗ Improvement in terms of the

1:43:57 ↗ responsiveness of calling um but we've

1:44:00 ↗ been working really aggressively to take

1:44:01 ↗ it a step further and that's

1:44:02 ↗ implementing a customer satisfaction

1:44:05 ↗ survey at the end of the call and this

1:44:06 ↗ helps training one of the benefits of

1:44:08 ↗ having a local call center is uh

1:44:10 ↗ immediate responsiveness to operations

1:44:12 ↗ and as folks call in we can relay any

1:44:15 ↗ feedback that we're hearing but then

1:44:16 ↗ also from a year-over-year standpoint

1:44:18 ↗ we've increased our headcount by 50%

1:44:21 ↗ one of the things we learned in November

1:44:23 ↗ that that's not enough God forbid that

1:44:25 ↗ we have to address any um outside event

1:44:28 ↗ uh you know natural disaster or

1:44:30 ↗ something like that but what we learned

1:44:31 ↗ was we we need to have more of a buffer

1:44:33 ↗ for headcounts so just in the last two

1:44:35 ↗ months we we've brought on new five new

1:44:38 ↗ csrs customer service reps and a handful

1:44:41 ↗ of attempts to kind of help with with

1:44:42 ↗ some of the backlog as we've been

1:44:43 ↗ working out um getting our systems back

1:44:46 ↗ online um but you can see here again

1:44:48 ↗ that that call that seconds to answer

1:44:51 ↗ um really spiked starting in November

1:44:54 ↗ and we're just now tapering that back

1:44:56 ↗ down as we've increased headcount to

1:44:58 ↗ support

1:45:01 ↗ there so improving customer service all

1:45:04 ↗ around so that's more than just our call

1:45:06 ↗ center and taking calls but service in

1:45:07 ↗ the field um from an immediate

1:45:09 ↗ standpoint some of the things we've

1:45:10 ↗ implemented is just taking a look how

1:45:12 ↗ our supervisors engage in the community

1:45:14 ↗ and work with our drivers in the field

1:45:16 ↗ so doing more on-site um on-site we call

1:45:19 ↗ them route man manager visits and

1:45:21 ↗ working with properties but really

1:45:22 ↗ figure out the root cause and a huge win

1:45:25 ↗ with having our waste zero education

1:45:27 ↗ Outreach team working with our

1:45:28 ↗ operations team is to help continuous

1:45:31 ↗ followup so it could be right sizing

1:45:33 ↗ service level so maybe they need um less

1:45:35 ↗ trash service and more recycling um or

1:45:38 ↗ addressing their compost or Organics um

1:45:41 ↗ service there so that that's been a huge

1:45:43 ↗ help and that's something we we've just

1:45:44 ↗ started to implement immediately over

1:45:46 ↗ the past few months we've seen a lot of

1:45:48 ↗ um Improvement there especially on

1:45:49 ↗ Commercial multif family

1:45:51 ↗ properties but going forward there's

1:45:53 ↗ really kind of three pillars that we

1:45:55 ↗ started in September and are

1:45:56 ↗ aggressively moving forward on and

1:45:57 ↗ that's driver Recruitment and

1:45:58 ↗ development and a new yard that we're

1:46:01 ↗ building out on the North End that will

1:46:02 ↗ help uh will have a cascading effect in

1:46:04 ↗ terms of um service so I'll go into a

1:46:07 ↗ little more detail on that so from a um

1:46:10 ↗ driver recruitment standpoint um really

1:46:12 ↗ back in September we took a look at how

1:46:14 ↗ we're recruiting drivers in that whole

1:46:15 ↗ process and it was taking nearly 90 days

1:46:17 ↗ to hire a driver and get them route

1:46:19 ↗ ready to start start driving so we've

1:46:21 ↗ cut that down by over 30 days and a big

1:46:24 ↗ piece of that is developing our own

1:46:25 ↗ internal trading program um and it's

1:46:28 ↗ we've got two dedicated trainers as we

1:46:30 ↗ bring drivers in and basically and I and

1:46:33 ↗ make no mistake these are these are

1:46:35 ↗ industrial athletes and what we've

1:46:36 ↗ learned is just because someone has a

1:46:37 ↗ CDL doesn't mean that they can put up

1:46:40 ↗ with the physicality out there so we've

1:46:41 ↗ kind of developed with our corporate

1:46:43 ↗ team a testing process as folks come in

1:46:46 ↗ um which will help which will help make

1:46:48 ↗ sure that the folks are are ready for

1:46:50 ↗ this type of work but then also just in

1:46:52 ↗ the background and bringing them in

1:46:53 ↗ through our um our overall recruiting

1:46:56 ↗ process we've been able to to speed that

1:46:57 ↗ up not to mention we've added additional

1:46:59 ↗ recruiters to help so um since the

1:47:02 ↗ beginning of November we've actually

1:47:03 ↗ started 25 new drivers and that's going

1:47:06 ↗ to be a huge help in terms of expanding

1:47:07 ↗ that relief bench as we go into spring

1:47:09 ↗ and

1:47:11 ↗ summer um we've also um got a state

1:47:14 ↗ approved um CDL training program where

1:47:17 ↗ we are allowed to basically administer

1:47:19 ↗ training and Grant a CDL um so this

1:47:22 ↗ provides a tremendous amount of equity

1:47:24 ↗ and opportunity for our internal

1:47:25 ↗ employees starting as a sorter at the

1:47:27 ↗ murf they have an opportunity to work

1:47:28 ↗ their way up and become um a driver

1:47:31 ↗ which is frankly like life-changing in

1:47:33 ↗ terms of the the earning opportunity for

1:47:34 ↗ them and their families but also to help

1:47:37 ↗ us be a little bit more control of our

1:47:38 ↗ own Des Destiny in terms of as we're

1:47:40 ↗ recruiting folks and bringing them in

1:47:41 ↗ what this also allows us to do is hire

1:47:44 ↗ someone that maybe only has a couple of

1:47:45 ↗ months of CDL experience where typically

1:47:48 ↗ we we asked for or demanded six to one

1:47:51 ↗ year 6 months to one year experience now

1:47:54 ↗ we can bring in someone that's maybe

1:47:55 ↗ only got a month or two that went out

1:47:57 ↗ and got their CDL and we've got a

1:47:59 ↗ regimented uh training program to get

1:48:01 ↗ them up up to speed and make sure

1:48:03 ↗ they're prepared to to take on this

1:48:08 ↗ role um I mentioned our new yard um that

1:48:11 ↗ we're building out that's going to come

1:48:13 ↗ online this spring while we'll still

1:48:15 ↗ continue to um service the city of isqua

1:48:17 ↗ out of our Seattle yard having this

1:48:19 ↗ North yard we're going to displace about

1:48:21 ↗ 40 trucks up there and it's just right

1:48:23 ↗ outside the town of Maltby um we'll be

1:48:25 ↗ servicing Shoreline and Bothel and North

1:48:27 ↗ Bend out of this yard but what this

1:48:29 ↗ allows to do is the ratio of mechanics

1:48:31 ↗ to trucks starts to improve once we suck

1:48:33 ↗ 40 trucks out of our Seattle yard um it

1:48:36 ↗ also allows more more space in terms of

1:48:38 ↗ working on trucks in our maintenance

1:48:40 ↗ Baye we'll have a full Maintenance Shop

1:48:41 ↗ up at this at this North yard but again

1:48:44 ↗ um the city of isqua will see the

1:48:46 ↗ benefits of that as we add have more

1:48:48 ↗ resources dedicated to uh to trucks and

1:48:51 ↗ service the city as we've we're getting

1:48:52 ↗ more space

1:48:56 ↗ there um one of the things you may be

1:48:58 ↗ aware of is the one change as of January

1:49:01 ↗ 1st was the fixed annual charge um so

1:49:04 ↗ this has created a little bit more St

1:49:05 ↗ stability as King County has reassessed

1:49:07 ↗ how they're um passing through disposal

1:49:09 ↗ rates again this is a pass through on

1:49:11 ↗ rology side there's there's not a markup

1:49:13 ↗ there we don't realize if there's a plus

1:49:15 ↗ or minus in the disposal fees but what

1:49:17 ↗ this does is help stabilize the rates

1:49:19 ↗ from what we seen over the past couple

1:49:21 ↗ of years the other piece huge thanks to

1:49:23 ↗ the staff um isqu staff is is um adding

1:49:26 ↗ in the um low income and Senior

1:49:28 ↗ low-income rate discounts into this

1:49:30 ↗ contract which we're we're starting to

1:49:31 ↗ see come through and that gets passed

1:49:33 ↗ directly to our couny department to be

1:49:34 ↗ assessed on the

1:49:36 ↗ billing um so with that I will turn it

1:49:38 ↗ over to Alyssa Campbell our weo

1:49:43 ↗ manager thank you

1:49:44 ↗ [Music]

1:49:45 ↗ Anthony yeah thank you Anthony and hello

1:49:48 ↗ good evening council members

1:49:52 ↗ so um Anthony had mentioned we have

1:49:54 ↗ Lauren Herber out in the city working

1:49:56 ↗ with properties um she's done quite a

1:49:59 ↗ bit of work in the city of isqua um past

1:50:03 ↗ just this past July but even before that

1:50:05 ↗ um some of the numbers you see here

1:50:07 ↗ speak to that she's had 16 recycle

1:50:10 ↗ starts and increases with commercial and

1:50:13 ↗ multif Family Properties um she's also

1:50:15 ↗ had 14 compost starts and increases and

1:50:18 ↗ she's also reduced garbage service for

1:50:20 ↗ seven properties and a number that's not

1:50:22 ↗ on here is the hundreds and hundreds of

1:50:25 ↗ site visits she's doing to these with

1:50:27 ↗ these businesses and multif Family

1:50:29 ↗ Properties um it takes a little bit of

1:50:32 ↗ encouragement to get folks to sign on to

1:50:34 ↗ new service and to walk with them

1:50:36 ↗ through how that service will look at

1:50:38 ↗ their sites so she does a lot of that

1:50:40 ↗ work um and she even follows up on the

1:50:42 ↗ garbage levels that they have so some

1:50:45 ↗ people it's not enough to tell them that

1:50:46 ↗ they're going to save money on their

1:50:48 ↗ bill by adding recycling adding compost

1:50:50 ↗ service um there is that followup that's

1:50:53 ↗ needed so Lauren does that as

1:50:56 ↗ well and in addition to that work in

1:50:59 ↗ working to reduce um um the amount of

1:51:03 ↗ trash service that folks have and kind

1:51:05 ↗ of increasing diversion rates in the

1:51:08 ↗ city of isqua um she's also been

1:51:11 ↗ reducing contamination so we have a

1:51:13 ↗ program in isqua that we started this

1:51:16 ↗ past summer uh to reduce contamination

1:51:18 ↗ she's going to every single uh

1:51:20 ↗ multif family and commercial property to

1:51:23 ↗ basically look in the bin as you see

1:51:25 ↗ that's actually a picture of Lauren

1:51:26 ↗ opening a dumpster um and then she'll

1:51:30 ↗ take photos she'll build a report based

1:51:31 ↗ on that and if the if the property is

1:51:35 ↗ past a certain threshold of

1:51:36 ↗ contamination She'll follow up with them

1:51:38 ↗ on site she'll give them phone calls

1:51:40 ↗ she'll send them a letter she'll give

1:51:42 ↗ them more phone calls and more on-site

1:51:43 ↗ visits so that they're recycling

1:51:45 ↗ correctly um and she part of that

1:51:48 ↗ follow-up is providing the the free

1:51:50 ↗ resources that we offer to isqua multif

1:51:52 ↗ family and Commercial customers so uh in

1:51:55 ↗ that second picture again of Lauren uh

1:51:57 ↗ you see a reusable recycle bag so that's

1:52:01 ↗ to reduce plastic bags in the recycle

1:52:03 ↗ bin she's also providing um door hangers

1:52:06 ↗ which provide us kind of a reminder of

1:52:08 ↗ what's recyclable and what's the best

1:52:09 ↗ practices for multif family tenants in

1:52:12 ↗ um reducing their waste and throwing

1:52:15 ↗ their waste out

1:52:18 ↗ properly uh another up we want to

1:52:20 ↗ provide you with is in regards to the

1:52:22 ↗ isqua store so um over in Gilman Village

1:52:25 ↗ as you know the isqua store is providing

1:52:27 ↗ a great resource for folks in isqua to

1:52:30 ↗ drop off their hard to recycle items um

1:52:32 ↗ I will say the isqua store has got some

1:52:34 ↗ pretty incredible statistics um leading

1:52:37 ↗ the charge is

1:52:38 ↗ 483 gallons of Styrofoam which is pretty

1:52:42 ↗ awesome um after that we've got 853

1:52:45 ↗ gallons of textiles recycled and then

1:52:48 ↗ 205

1:52:50 ↗ um fluorescent bulbs and you can see on

1:52:52 ↗ the chart there there's quite a

1:52:54 ↗ diversity of items that are being

1:52:55 ↗ dropped off at the store and that's

1:52:57 ↗ really just in the month of January so

1:52:59 ↗ um isqua does a really great job of

1:53:01 ↗ using this resource another thing that

1:53:03 ↗ we provide at the isqua store for uh

1:53:06 ↗ multif family and for single family

1:53:08 ↗ tenants to come and use is a free

1:53:11 ↗ compost pil so folks can stop by get a

1:53:14 ↗ free kitchen top uh compost pil and some

1:53:18 ↗ um compostable bags to utilize for their

1:53:21 ↗ compost service we've had a couple dozen

1:53:24 ↗ of folks come by and pick that resource

1:53:26 ↗ up as well so

1:53:29 ↗ far um in addition to working on site

1:53:32 ↗ with commercial and multif Family

1:53:34 ↗ Properties we're also in a lot of isqua

1:53:36 ↗ events that they've got that you've all

1:53:38 ↗ got during the year um it's very engaged

1:53:41 ↗ community so we love going out and

1:53:42 ↗ tbling um we've done quite a few touch

1:53:45 ↗ of trucks you see um there's a chicken

1:53:47 ↗ in the cab that was at our our The

1:53:50 ↗ Farmhouse School Touch a Truck that was

1:53:52 ↗ a fun one um we've also in the in the

1:53:55 ↗ year of 2023 attended six community

1:53:57 ↗ events so including Farmers Market um

1:54:00 ↗ salmon days of course and at salmon days

1:54:03 ↗ we've been a proud partner of for many

1:54:05 ↗ years we provided uh more than $1,000

1:54:08 ↗ worth of pro bono services at that event

1:54:11 ↗ and then uh We've also uh partnered with

1:54:14 ↗ the city on their sustainability fair so

1:54:17 ↗ um we're actually looking forward to

1:54:20 ↗ partnering with the city at the

1:54:21 ↗ sustainability Fair again this year uh

1:54:23 ↗ we'll be working with Bike Works to

1:54:25 ↗ accept bikes uh bike donations so that

1:54:28 ↗ we can provide that isqua residents can

1:54:30 ↗ provide that resource back to Bike Works

1:54:33 ↗ a local nonprofit

1:54:36 ↗ um and the last piece is looking ahead

1:54:39 ↗ so as Anthony mentioned we've got some

1:54:42 ↗ technological advances we're working

1:54:43 ↗ towards um and then in response to the

1:54:47 ↗ Cyber event that happened we've got our

1:54:49 ↗ routwar and our trucks back up so that's

1:54:51 ↗ basically those online systems that

1:54:52 ↗ provide real-time feedback of what's

1:54:55 ↗ happening out in the field um we've also

1:54:57 ↗ got service verification cameras and

1:54:59 ↗ trucks so that's just another layer of

1:55:01 ↗ being able to provide us with that

1:55:03 ↗ information and feedback of what's

1:55:05 ↗ happening in the field um as Anthony

1:55:09 ↗ mentioned we've got electric trucks

1:55:10 ↗ coming which we're really excited about

1:55:12 ↗ we had the pilot um experience just

1:55:15 ↗ looking at those trucks in the city of

1:55:16 ↗ isqua already so we're looking forward

1:55:18 ↗ to getting those in the city um we're

1:55:21 ↗ also looking forward to enhancing our

1:55:23 ↗ material recovery facility so you see

1:55:25 ↗ that's listed as the murf our recycling

1:55:28 ↗ facility um we we've been piloting

1:55:31 ↗ artificial intelligent robotic

1:55:33 ↗ technology and we we'll be looking

1:55:34 ↗ forward to implement that soon as well

1:55:37 ↗ uh we offer Public tours every quarter

1:55:39 ↗ and we also just offer them whoever

1:55:41 ↗ wants to come out so if you're

1:55:42 ↗ interested we're very happy to host you

1:55:46 ↗ um past that we've got a lot going on in

1:55:49 ↗ the waste zero diversion Outreach um

1:55:53 ↗ side of things as well so we'll continue

1:55:55 ↗ Outreach to multif family commercial

1:55:58 ↗ properties and that's based on customer

1:56:00 ↗ data um that's also in compliance with

1:56:04 ↗ uh local legislator that's um going to

1:56:07 ↗ kind of impact those businesses uh

1:56:10 ↗ pretty soon here um we'll also be

1:56:13 ↗ utilizing the contamination program as a

1:56:15 ↗ method of working with uh properties

1:56:17 ↗ Hands-On and getting them resources to

1:56:20 ↗ recycle and compost correctly we'll also

1:56:23 ↗ be at many events this year in isqua so

1:56:27 ↗ we plan to come to all of the ones we

1:56:29 ↗ are were at previously but also um a few

1:56:32 ↗ additional ones including coexisting

1:56:34 ↗ with carnivores on April 3rd and then um

1:56:37 ↗ many school events one of them including

1:56:39 ↗ Grand Ridge Elementary's science night

1:56:41 ↗ on March 13th um and then I'll just say

1:56:45 ↗ in addition we're uh very happy and um

1:56:48 ↗ thrilled to partner with the city of

1:56:50 ↗ isqua on your sustainability goals um

1:56:53 ↗ I'll just publicly uh praise you guys

1:56:56 ↗ for your lead C gold certification that

1:56:59 ↗ you achieved this past year it's pretty

1:57:00 ↗ incredible um and we're just happy to be

1:57:03 ↗ a partner in the work that contributes

1:57:05 ↗ to um that certification and uh the

1:57:07 ↗ other goals that you have as a

1:57:09 ↗ city so with that I just want to say

1:57:12 ↗ thank you again for your time and if you

1:57:13 ↗ have any questions Anthony and I will be

1:57:15 ↗ here to answer them in addition to our

1:57:18 ↗ other City staff here thanks thank you

1:57:20 ↗ Alyssa Council questions let's start

1:57:23 ↗ with council member

1:57:25 ↗ Joe thank you so much for that report in

1:57:28 ↗ coming tonight um when we received the

1:57:31 ↗ lead gold

1:57:32 ↗ certification um we had the uh the

1:57:35 ↗ charts up and Little posters that that

1:57:38 ↗ indicated how we were doing in the

1:57:39 ↗ different areas and the the one area

1:57:42 ↗ that that we had a big challenge in was

1:57:44 ↗ our diversion rate um and we've been

1:57:46 ↗ dedicated I know the administration's

1:57:48 ↗ been doing everything they can to work

1:57:50 ↗ on that diversion rate um what message

1:57:53 ↗ would you like to send to our citizens

1:57:56 ↗ out there and I'm probably one of the

1:57:58 ↗ culprits because I live in a multif

1:57:59 ↗ family uh apartment complex but what

1:58:03 ↗ message would you like to send to our

1:58:04 ↗ our our citizens uh in terms of how they

1:58:06 ↗ can help improve the recycling rate and

1:58:09 ↗ thus drive down the diversion rate if

1:58:11 ↗ you would for staff or whoever wants to

1:58:15 ↗ gather the question would like to step

1:58:17 ↗ up Alissa

1:58:21 ↗ thank you for the comment um we as part

1:58:24 ↗ of the contract renewal have provided

1:58:26 ↗ quite a bit of messaging towards uh

1:58:28 ↗ encouraging folks encouraging property

1:58:30 ↗ managers specifically to um adopt more

1:58:34 ↗ programs to increase diversion at their

1:58:36 ↗ properties so um Not only was that in

1:58:38 ↗ the new contract mailer that went out

1:58:40 ↗ but also the service guide that we

1:58:42 ↗ provided um I will say personally Lauren

1:58:46 ↗ has dug into the data that's uh um you

1:58:50 ↗ know related to the multif family and

1:58:52 ↗ Commercial diversion levels um and it's

1:58:55 ↗ a goal of ours for anybody any property

1:58:57 ↗ that's not currently set up with

1:59:00 ↗ recycling currently set up with compost

1:59:02 ↗ doing cold calls and cold visits and

1:59:05 ↗ basically encouraging property managers

1:59:07 ↗ to get signed on with those Services um

1:59:10 ↗ especially since compost is embedded in

1:59:12 ↗ the cost of trash so we're really

1:59:14 ↗ motivated to get that message out there

1:59:17 ↗ um and in addition to that we you know

1:59:20 ↗ at these community events we're at we

1:59:22 ↗ hear tenants we ask them to give us

1:59:24 ↗ their property managers information so

1:59:26 ↗ that we can follow up and say hey you've

1:59:28 ↗ got people who really want this program

1:59:30 ↗ to begin where can we where can we help

1:59:32 ↗ you get this started um so multiple

1:59:35 ↗ angles in which we're trying to pursue

1:59:37 ↗ that and I think Lauren's um diversion

1:59:40 ↗ efforts and the compost starts and

1:59:42 ↗ recycling starts that you've seen in

1:59:44 ↗ this last year it's a massive jump from

1:59:46 ↗ even the past 5 years in isqua so we're

1:59:48 ↗ really excited to see that continue to

1:59:50 ↗ grow um and continue to kind of respond

1:59:53 ↗ to that feedback like you've shared

1:59:55 ↗ Lissa thank you that's very helpful like

1:59:58 ↗ to next talk about plastic bags um I

2:00:02 ↗ watch videos online for murfs because

2:00:05 ↗ I'm bored um and I've seen the the the

2:00:08 ↗ way the plastic bags really get caught

2:00:09 ↗ into the Machinery uh to a point where

2:00:12 ↗ you have to shut them down um could you

2:00:15 ↗ just be very clear to our audience that

2:00:17 ↗ that uh plastic bags are not recyclable

2:00:20 ↗ and how we should try to make efforts to

2:00:23 ↗ cut down on plastic bag

2:00:25 ↗ use I'm so glad that you called that out

2:00:28 ↗ yes um so yeah any kind of plastic bag

2:00:31 ↗ or film or wrap kind of material we

2:00:33 ↗ really don't want that in the recycle

2:00:35 ↗ bin um exactly for the reason that you

2:00:38 ↗ stated there's a particular part in our

2:00:40 ↗ murf it's called um the paper screen uh

2:00:44 ↗ and so that's where those spindles are

2:00:46 ↗ moving really fast I wish I had a

2:00:48 ↗ picture cuz I got a million of them uh

2:00:50 ↗ to put on the screen here but basically

2:00:53 ↗ uh if that ends up in the Machinery or

2:00:54 ↗ exactly right we have to stop it and it

2:00:56 ↗ has to basically everything has to be

2:00:58 ↗ cut loose and it's a massive um

2:01:01 ↗ operational kind of setback so a really

2:01:04 ↗ great way to reduce your plastic bag use

2:01:06 ↗ um technically the state of Washington

2:01:08 ↗ has a plastic bag band so we're not

2:01:10 ↗ supposed to really see those as much but

2:01:12 ↗ they of course end up in places and you

2:01:14 ↗ know we end up with them so a a really

2:01:16 ↗ great option is to use a re usable bag

2:01:19 ↗ when you go to the grocery store um to

2:01:22 ↗ invest in um items that kind of

2:01:25 ↗ substitute for plastic bag so if you use

2:01:28 ↗ Ziplock bags instead using like a

2:01:30 ↗ silicone bag the echology store actually

2:01:32 ↗ just to um remind everybody the Recology

2:01:35 ↗ store has got a not only can you divert

2:01:37 ↗ items there but you can also go there to

2:01:39 ↗ buy items which will help you reduce

2:01:41 ↗ waste or at least get ideas for ways in

2:01:44 ↗ which you can reduce waste um to name a

2:01:47 ↗ few um

2:01:50 ↗ so yeah again plastic bags we don't want

2:01:52 ↗ them in the recycling bin um and avoid

2:01:55 ↗ them if you can yeah thank you

2:01:58 ↗ appreciate appreciate that just a last

2:02:00 ↗ question for followup I don't

2:02:02 ↗ necessarily need the answer tonight but

2:02:04 ↗ I I did see that we have uh Wildlife

2:02:06 ↗ resistant containers uh there's an extra

2:02:09 ↗ fee for those but um if you could just

2:02:11 ↗ get back to us with the pickup how many

2:02:15 ↗ people in the city use those um on

2:02:18 ↗ squawk Mountain it's a weekly event when

2:02:21 ↗ uh the Bears come by or the raccoons

2:02:23 ↗ come by and leave garbage all over the

2:02:24 ↗ place we heard a comment in one of our

2:02:26 ↗ emails about the fact that it doesn't

2:02:28 ↗ necessarily get picked up all the time

2:02:30 ↗ by the resident and we need to work on

2:02:32 ↗ that for our neighborhood beautification

2:02:35 ↗ but if I could just get the number for

2:02:36 ↗ the number of uh Wildlife resistant

2:02:39 ↗ containers that are being used in the

2:02:40 ↗ city I'd really appreciate it thank you

2:02:42 ↗ thank you council member Joe council

2:02:45 ↗ president are we looking for questions

2:02:48 ↗ or feed feedback or um I think let's do

2:02:51 ↗ questions and then if you want to have a

2:02:54 ↗ comment period and provide some feedback

2:02:56 ↗ that would be great great

2:03:00 ↗ um at least in my scenario um the missed

2:03:06 ↗ pickups seem to be more on compost and

2:03:11 ↗ Recycling and I got a comment of that um

2:03:14 ↗ from a resident today actually um do we

2:03:18 ↗ have data on whether the missed pickups

2:03:21 ↗ are trash compost recycling whether

2:03:25 ↗ they're happening more often on multif

2:03:27 ↗ family versus single family or

2:03:36 ↗ commercial so typically yes we can pull

2:03:39 ↗ the data to kind of discern um any

2:03:41 ↗ misses that are called in what type of

2:03:43 ↗ commodity they are to kind of look at

2:03:45 ↗ where maybe there's like hotpots for

2:03:46 ↗ that um I can say when

2:03:49 ↗ with our tablets down that I think was

2:03:50 ↗ one of the more frustrating things is we

2:03:53 ↗ may have a relief driver or sub driver

2:03:54 ↗ using a paper map and then we'd find

2:03:56 ↗ through his pockets being missed we'd

2:03:58 ↗ have to go back and a lot of times it

2:03:59 ↗ took unfortunately a resident calling in

2:04:01 ↗ saying Hey My My Street or my chunk of

2:04:03 ↗ my street got missed for recycling um so

2:04:06 ↗ that's something we we've seen the last

2:04:07 ↗ few months um that that now is finally

2:04:10 ↗ starting to taper down with some of

2:04:12 ↗ those onboard Technologies come back and

2:04:13 ↗ be able to get those resources in the

2:04:15 ↗ hands of our drivers but um to answer

2:04:17 ↗ your question we we can go back and look

2:04:19 ↗ as folks report in misses um we able to

2:04:22 ↗ track those by

2:04:24 ↗ commodity few more questions on that you

2:04:27 ↗ might as well just stay there

2:04:31 ↗ um do we you've reported on the cyber

2:04:36 ↗ security event but um obviously weather

2:04:40 ↗ plays a factor into misses um do we have

2:04:44 ↗ data on why the misses are happening

2:04:48 ↗ whether they're weather cyber security

2:04:51 ↗ whether whole areas are being missed or

2:04:54 ↗ single units are being missed um

2:04:57 ↗ anything like that yeah so whether

2:05:00 ↗ typically um at least in this past year

2:05:02 ↗ if it's not a Bonafide snow event where

2:05:05 ↗ there's large swaths of the city

2:05:08 ↗ unreachable um you could have icy areas

2:05:10 ↗ in the highlands you might have icy

2:05:11 ↗ neighborhoods typically what we try to

2:05:13 ↗ do is go back in the afternoon if it can

2:05:15 ↗ melt off and but if it looks like we're

2:05:17 ↗ not able to do that um we will we will

2:05:19 ↗ section those off in the Pro how the

2:05:21 ↗ process should work is um that chunk of

2:05:24 ↗ the route is isolated and then we do an

2:05:26 ↗ automated call out to the to the

2:05:29 ↗ resident saying you leave your can out

2:05:30 ↗ we'll go back for you in the morning so

2:05:32 ↗ those those types of

2:05:34 ↗ situations um we do track and and can go

2:05:37 ↗ back and look and see what what

2:05:39 ↗ neighborhoods or what route on which

2:05:41 ↗ days were impacted by by inclement

2:05:43 ↗ weather okay I'd like to see more data

2:05:46 ↗ on that and better understand whether

2:05:49 ↗ weather misses that are something that

2:05:52 ↗ you notice and proactively um or

2:05:57 ↗ reactively um announc to customers

2:05:59 ↗ whether those are really considered in

2:06:01 ↗ this Miss

2:06:03 ↗ statistic um or not and kind of how we

2:06:06 ↗ break down the understanding of why

2:06:10 ↗ those

2:06:11 ↗ are why the increase um in

2:06:15 ↗ misses um let's see any

2:06:19 ↗ I think the rest are all comments not

2:06:21 ↗ questions so in looking at the graphics

2:06:23 ↗ they presented tonight you just want

2:06:25 ↗ more granularities so break down those

2:06:27 ↗ numbers so you have a better

2:06:28 ↗ understanding

2:06:30 ↗ okay um any more questions about the

2:06:33 ↗ information presented and then I know

2:06:36 ↗ that um there are some council members

2:06:37 ↗ who want to make comments council member

2:06:38 ↗ Hall yeah I was actually just to payg

2:06:41 ↗ you back off that I was interested in in

2:06:43 ↗ intentionally seeing some of the same

2:06:44 ↗ data because the memo talks about all

2:06:46 ↗ the different reasons why Mrs might be

2:06:49 ↗ happening like um Staffing vacancies

2:06:52 ↗ difficult labor market substitute

2:06:54 ↗ drivers and all that weather that was

2:06:56 ↗ brought up and then of course the cyber

2:06:58 ↗ security thing that you brought up with

2:06:59 ↗ us too so be great to kind of get a

2:07:01 ↗ sense of proportionality there yeah for

2:07:04 ↗ the misses understood yeah thank you

2:07:06 ↗ sorry that very data driven Council

2:07:09 ↗ wants to see more granularity in the

2:07:11 ↗ data not

2:07:13 ↗ surprising okay another question okay

2:07:16 ↗ actually I'm curious about the CDL thing

2:07:18 ↗ too so where do individuals typically

2:07:20 ↗ get and I'm assuming that's commercial

2:07:22 ↗ drivers yeah so typically there's

2:07:24 ↗ there's a variety of um commercial

2:07:26 ↗ driving schools um usually on average

2:07:28 ↗ we've seen can be five to seven Grand

2:07:32 ↗ that the the person has to to put up and

2:07:33 ↗ it's usually a school that could be you

2:07:36 ↗ know uh 10 to 12 weeks um sometimes you

2:07:39 ↗ could do it on nights or over the

2:07:41 ↗ weekends but typically uh most of them

2:07:43 ↗ are during the day so it's very tough

2:07:45 ↗ for someone that's working a full-time

2:07:47 ↗ job supporting a family to take a pause

2:07:49 ↗ and go get their CDL usually they have

2:07:51 ↗ to to pause work um so that's another

2:07:53 ↗ benefit of this is that um they're

2:07:56 ↗ basically as they achieve their CDL and

2:07:59 ↗ getting experience they immediately move

2:08:00 ↗ into driver Union driver wages as

2:08:03 ↗ they're building up their hours once

2:08:04 ↗ they're award the CDL so we provide the

2:08:07 ↗ content and the training um from the

2:08:09 ↗ from the book side of it um so again

2:08:12 ↗ it's uh certainly something we were

2:08:14 ↗ really proud of to achieve because it's

2:08:15 ↗ so difficult for a lot of these folks to

2:08:17 ↗ get away if they don't have a c L to get

2:08:20 ↗ that thank you uh more questions sorry

2:08:24 ↗ just on the CDL thing so are you

2:08:27 ↗ noticing that

2:08:29 ↗ um individuals that you're able to give

2:08:31 ↗ CDLs do are you noticing that they stay

2:08:34 ↗ with Recology as a driver or they are

2:08:36 ↗ you noticing that instances of that

2:08:39 ↗ being a transferable skill that that

2:08:41 ↗ they can now use into other labor market

2:08:44 ↗ yeah so the the program is new enough to

2:08:46 ↗ we really haven't seen um any any one

2:08:48 ↗ switch switch out but we have seen is

2:08:51 ↗ folks that have said hey I went and got

2:08:52 ↗ my CDL but everywhere I'm applying to

2:08:54 ↗ says I need a year of experience and so

2:08:57 ↗ having this what we call our

2:08:58 ↗ Apprenticeship Training Program which

2:09:00 ↗ basically mirrors our CDL training they

2:09:03 ↗ can we can bring them into that program

2:09:05 ↗ and then we're basically not just

2:09:06 ↗ throwing them out there into a truck

2:09:08 ↗ they're they're building those skills on

2:09:10 ↗ on our type of equipment to go out there

2:09:12 ↗ and and and do the

2:09:15 ↗ work

2:09:17 ↗ questions

2:09:19 ↗ looking at council member hunt um so I'm

2:09:22 ↗ going to allow the council wants to also

2:09:25 ↗ make some comments during contract

2:09:26 ↗ transition as you can imagine there was

2:09:28 ↗ a lot of excitement about rology coming

2:09:30 ↗ on but the person to my right is the one

2:09:32 ↗ who's had to answer most of the

2:09:34 ↗ questions about Miss deliveries um

2:09:37 ↗ getting some of the narrative that you

2:09:39 ↗ gave tonight on why and then potentially

2:09:43 ↗ providing the council with some more

2:09:45 ↗ Grant uh data broken down a little bit

2:09:47 ↗ more can help but it has caused concern

2:09:50 ↗ in the community so I'm going to open it

2:09:52 ↗ up for comments and we'll start with

2:09:54 ↗ council

2:09:55 ↗ president yeah I've answered a lot of

2:09:58 ↗ emails a lot of emails about people as

2:10:01 ↗ I'm sure you guys have too but I I think

2:10:04 ↗ it is very important to convey the level

2:10:09 ↗ of frustration that our community is

2:10:12 ↗ experiencing and they the situation and

2:10:17 ↗ I'm sure most of us I think have also

2:10:20 ↗ experienced some misses I certainly have

2:10:23 ↗ up in the highlands um so it's also

2:10:27 ↗ personal on that

2:10:29 ↗ standpoint

2:10:31 ↗ um the one of the problems of this is

2:10:34 ↗ the Optics of it which is that the

2:10:38 ↗ misses started increasing right around

2:10:41 ↗ the time that the contract

2:10:43 ↗ increased and people noticed that um

2:10:47 ↗ when we're looking back on this though

2:10:51 ↗ as much as the November cyber security

2:10:53 ↗ event is fresh and everything in your

2:10:57 ↗ mind and that was a big

2:11:00 ↗ increase when we're looking back at that

2:11:03 ↗ chart it's really important to recognize

2:11:06 ↗ the difference between January

2:11:08 ↗ February and like May and that's a 40%

2:11:13 ↗ increase even though it looks small

2:11:15 ↗ because November is so high what we're

2:11:18 ↗ experiencing is a 40% increase in missed

2:11:22 ↗ pickups and that's for the reported ones

2:11:25 ↗ I'm not even sure everybody's reporting

2:11:27 ↗ because I know I'm not reporting every

2:11:29 ↗ time this is happening so I I think it's

2:11:33 ↗ important just to convey that um a few

2:11:38 ↗ things I will also convey to staff um I

2:11:41 ↗ would like more details on what types of

2:11:45 ↗ fines um we're putting forth how those

2:11:49 ↗ are having an impact um I would like to

2:11:52 ↗ know I know rology per contract does not

2:11:57 ↗ charge for rec um Recycling and compost

2:12:01 ↗ and that's fantastic that helps move

2:12:03 ↗ people toward the adoption of those

2:12:06 ↗ things but I'm wondering whether we

2:12:07 ↗ still have the ability to find um four

2:12:10 ↗ misses on those so I'd like to better

2:12:13 ↗ understand that um also got a complaint

2:12:16 ↗ from a resident today

2:12:18 ↗ saying hey here's the problem what's

2:12:20 ↗ happening most for me is my compost or

2:12:23 ↗ my recycling isn't getting picked up my

2:12:25 ↗ trash certainly gets picked up and then

2:12:27 ↗ when I call in and I say hey I had a

2:12:29 ↗ problem with this there's no

2:12:32 ↗ refund because it's not he's not getting

2:12:35 ↗ charged for those services and so that's

2:12:39 ↗ that's a Miss for us and that's a that's

2:12:43 ↗ frankly a very frustrating situation for

2:12:46 ↗ a consumer to be in to have what is a

2:12:51 ↗ free service and not be able to have a

2:12:54 ↗ refund um for those

2:12:58 ↗ misses

2:13:00 ↗ um and then further on that again most

2:13:05 ↗ of my misses have been on Recycling and

2:13:07 ↗ compost when that happens it discourages

2:13:10 ↗ people from using that service and so I

2:13:15 ↗ I really do want to understand what the

2:13:17 ↗ difference is in Miss rates between

2:13:19 ↗ those and make sure that we're not

2:13:23 ↗ seeing more misses happening on those

2:13:27 ↗ areas that you guys aren't charging

2:13:29 ↗ on just to put it

2:13:32 ↗ frankly

2:13:34 ↗ um and then I'd like to bet get a better

2:13:37 ↗ understanding from staff what what

2:13:41 ↗ percentage of people do we think are

2:13:43 ↗ actually

2:13:44 ↗ reporting um because again I don't think

2:13:47 ↗ everybody's reporting and um if there

2:13:51 ↗ are stats or kind of some best practices

2:13:54 ↗ out there on what actual percentage

2:13:57 ↗ we're maybe seeing misses happen versus

2:14:00 ↗ just reporting I'd like to know that as

2:14:03 ↗ um a better understanding of

2:14:05 ↗ it and then I'd like to know what the

2:14:08 ↗ performance looks like for single family

2:14:11 ↗ versus

2:14:12 ↗ multifam um versus commercial are we

2:14:15 ↗ seeing misses happening more often on

2:14:18 ↗ versus another also generally heard that

2:14:21 ↗ we're and we've seen a lot more reports

2:14:24 ↗ of those multif family housing units

2:14:26 ↗ having very overfilled dumpsters things

2:14:30 ↗ like that and better understanding

2:14:33 ↗ whether there's a change in user

2:14:36 ↗ behavior um versus a change in pickup um

2:14:40 ↗ and what that looks

2:14:42 ↗ like so I I will just put it out there

2:14:46 ↗ this is a really frustrating situation

2:14:48 ↗ for our community and we would really

2:14:51 ↗ like to work toward a good

2:14:54 ↗ resolution that Mak sure that the very

2:14:58 ↗ valuable contract that we signed um is

2:15:01 ↗ getting the services that the users were

2:15:06 ↗ promised thanks council president uh

2:15:08 ↗ Deputy council

2:15:10 ↗ president thank you uh I just want to

2:15:13 ↗ Echo a couple of things from uh council

2:15:15 ↗ president Walsh and also uh council

2:15:18 ↗ member Joe

2:15:19 ↗ um uh I had a long conversation today at

2:15:23 ↗ lunch with a friend and we were talking

2:15:24 ↗ what's on the ccil agenda tonight and I

2:15:27 ↗ said well we'll be talking to Recology

2:15:30 ↗ and so she shared with me as well that

2:15:33 ↗ um she and her husband uh wanted to

2:15:36 ↗ compost did compost put out their little

2:15:38 ↗ compost bin and and and the pickup was

2:15:42 ↗ so uh erratic was the word she used that

2:15:44 ↗ they finally just gave up composting so

2:15:47 ↗ I'll just share that story with you um

2:15:51 ↗ again we want to you know that's the

2:15:53 ↗ kind of thing that we want to encourage

2:15:56 ↗ people to do that behavior and um uh and

2:16:02 ↗ then and so uh it's difficult when they

2:16:04 ↗ get so frustrated that they they just

2:16:07 ↗ don't want to continue so um the other

2:16:09 ↗ thing I I wanted to plus one council

2:16:12 ↗ member Joe's comments I too I'm a

2:16:14 ↗ multifamily uh resident and um I would

2:16:18 ↗ love to have a composting program and I

2:16:20 ↗ know it's difficult it's hard to uh

2:16:23 ↗ explain to a group of people how to do

2:16:27 ↗ things and uh especially when different

2:16:30 ↗ work hours different you know it it's

2:16:33 ↗ difficult to do the communications but

2:16:35 ↗ um uh I would just encourage what

2:16:38 ↗ whatever we can do and and I can talk to

2:16:40 ↗ you offline about you know where I live

2:16:42 ↗ and and uh who to get a hold of but um

2:16:46 ↗ we would love to have a composting

2:16:48 ↗ system uh at my

2:16:50 ↗ condominium um uh one of my concerns

2:16:52 ↗ when I first came on the council was the

2:16:54 ↗ lack of of signage in the uh collection

2:16:58 ↗ bins and I will say that that has vastly

2:17:00 ↗ improved and on top of our recycling bin

2:17:03 ↗ now we have a big sign that says no

2:17:06 ↗ plastic

2:17:07 ↗ bags and so I hope that's helped I hope

2:17:10 ↗ that's helped but I thought this is

2:17:12 ↗ great um and whatever we could do to

2:17:15 ↗ communicate in multif family

2:17:18 ↗ environment it's so different than a

2:17:19 ↗ single family because you've got so many

2:17:21 ↗ different people with so many different

2:17:23 ↗ backgrounds and work you know and some

2:17:26 ↗ of them are gone for three months out of

2:17:28 ↗ the year and all of those kinds of

2:17:29 ↗ things so um Communications is really

2:17:33 ↗ really important in terms of how do you

2:17:35 ↗ recycle what do you recycle but I do

2:17:38 ↗ commend you for the better signage that

2:17:40 ↗ I'm seeing at least at my place so thank

2:17:45 ↗ you any other comments comments from

2:17:49 ↗ Council I'm just going to summarize a

2:17:52 ↗ little I think I think what you're

2:17:53 ↗ hearing is that Council would like to

2:17:56 ↗ have a deeper understanding of the data

2:17:58 ↗ and um probably along with that if it's

2:18:01 ↗ broken down by category the steps you're

2:18:03 ↗ taking in each category to address it

2:18:06 ↗ whether it's driver shortage weather Etc

2:18:10 ↗ um and uh that would be super helpful um

2:18:14 ↗ also an appreciation for the um elements

2:18:18 ↗ of the contract that are going to get us

2:18:19 ↗ to help us meet some of our goals where

2:18:22 ↗ we realize as a community we are not

2:18:24 ↗ where we need to be thank you for

2:18:26 ↗ presenting that I think that is really

2:18:27 ↗ good but you're hearing a really strong

2:18:29 ↗ desire from Council like let's get there

2:18:31 ↗ so again some reporting back on that and

2:18:34 ↗ then for the um Administration there was

2:18:36 ↗ some requested information on fines and

2:18:40 ↗ how all of that works and how that can

2:18:42 ↗ help us get to these performance metrics

2:18:45 ↗ that we we expected that the community

2:18:47 ↗ expect so did I miss anything or did

2:18:49 ↗ that cover uh Deputy City administrator

2:18:54 ↗ yeah thank you mayor Polly I did hear a

2:18:55 ↗ lot of requests for more information so

2:18:58 ↗ um recognizing the the time tonight um

2:19:01 ↗ we can provide that information um in

2:19:04 ↗ another format uh there's a lot of

2:19:06 ↗ questions we want to make sure we answer

2:19:07 ↗ them thoroughly and we can do that um in

2:19:10 ↗ the near

2:19:12 ↗ future miss anything or are we done okay

2:19:18 ↗ thank you very much for coming it was

2:19:19 ↗ nice to meet both of you look forward to

2:19:21 ↗ seeing the additional information much

2:19:23 ↗ appreciated and thank you staff thank

2:19:25 ↗ you for the

2:19:28 ↗ opportunity uh are there any items for

2:19:31 ↗ good of the order we do have an

2:19:32 ↗ executive session so I'm going to go

2:19:33 ↗ through a few things before we enter

2:19:35 ↗ good of the order um Deputy council

2:19:38 ↗ president oh I you know I just wanted to

2:19:40 ↗ follow up on the um comment that we

2:19:43 ↗ heard from the students and uh just

2:19:45 ↗ asked the question I thought that that

2:19:48 ↗ was pretty reasonable request that we

2:19:50 ↗ write that letter so I guess my question

2:19:53 ↗ is uh how do we

2:19:55 ↗ proceed if the coun I I know the council

2:19:57 ↗ needs to weigh in as a whole but uh how

2:20:00 ↗ would we proceed if we want to WR down

2:20:02 ↗ as well so um I'm assuming the deputy

2:20:05 ↗ City administrator will take this back

2:20:06 ↗ to our sustainability team who can draft

2:20:09 ↗ up a letter for Council to

2:20:11 ↗ review yeah it was a great

2:20:14 ↗ request

2:20:16 ↗ um okay any other good of the order

2:20:20 ↗ items okay thanks uh so we have some

2:20:23 ↗ upcoming meetings the March 11th

2:20:25 ↗ Committee of the whole meeting has been

2:20:26 ↗ cancelled the March 18th regular city

2:20:28 ↗ council meeting has some anticipated

2:20:30 ↗ agenda items which include the

2:20:33 ↗ transportation Advisory Board 2024 work

2:20:36 ↗ plan the central isqua Pioneer program

2:20:39 ↗ and Title 18 amendments and Light Rail

2:20:42 ↗ plan so small stuff you know all the

2:20:44 ↗ little stuff sounds great and the last

2:20:47 ↗ item on our agenda this evening is the

2:20:49 ↗ executive session and this executive

2:20:52 ↗ session this evening is to discuss

2:20:54 ↗ pending or potential litigation for RCW

2:20:58 ↗ 42301 pn1 Pern and property acquisition

2:21:02 ↗ per RCW 42.3

2:21:05 ↗ 0.110 1.11 per1 penb we're going to

2:21:10 ↗ estimate approximately 30 minutes for

2:21:12 ↗ these uh items and we will extend the

2:21:15 ↗ executive session as needed

2:21:18 ↗ action is anticipated to follow in the

2:21:20 ↗ open session so please note that

2:21:23 ↗ executive sessions are closed to the

2:21:24 ↗ public and we will be recessing into an

2:21:27 ↗ executive session at 9:22 p.m. I'm

2:21:30 ↗ asking that

2:21:32 ↗ the oh yeah definitely I ask the city

2:21:34 ↗ clerk to move the city council and any

2:21:36 ↗ relevant staff into a separate session

2:21:38 ↗ within this meeting and anyone who is

2:21:40 ↗ not part of the closed session will

2:21:41 ↗ remain in the main meeting you're

2:21:43 ↗ welcome to stay in the meeting until it

2:21:45 ↗ is reconvened um so city clerk let us

2:21:48 ↗ know when we're going to go in but we're

2:21:49 ↗ going to give uh the city council a 5

2:21:51 ↗ minute break at this

2:22:02 ↗ point we are back in Open session at

2:22:06 ↗ 9:52 and do I have a motion council

2:22:10 ↗ president I mve to authorize payment to

2:22:13 ↗ isqua hospitality LLC in the amount of

2:22:16 ↗ 12

2:22:19 ↗ $2,677

2:22:20 ↗ 51 as reimbursement for Paving costs and

2:22:23 ↗ $

2:22:24 ↗ 758,00

2:22:26 ↗ as just compensation for acquisition by

2:22:30 ↗ the city of portions of King County tax

2:22:32 ↗ parcel number

2:22:36 ↗ 20246

2:22:38 ↗ 9097 that are necessary to complete the

2:22:41 ↗ city's 12th Avenue Northwest

2:22:45 ↗ sr900 17th Avenue Northwest project and

2:22:49 ↗ authorizing the mayor to execute a

2:22:50 ↗ settlement agreement and any other

2:22:53 ↗ necessary any other documents necessary

2:22:56 ↗ to effectuate the

2:23:01 ↗ transfer

2:23:03 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded is

2:23:05 ↗ there any uh Council

2:23:10 ↗ discussion I am not seeing any so I will

2:23:13 ↗ call for the vote all those in favor

2:23:15 ↗ please say I

2:23:17 ↗ I all those opposed

2:23:20 ↗ nay that carries unanimously 6 and0 and

2:23:23 ↗ there being no further business the

2:23:26 ↗ meeting is adjourned at

2:23:29 ↗ 9:53

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Attendance

Council / Members (6)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually)

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Lindsey Walsh

Excused

Chris Reh

Motions and votes (3)

Adopt Ordinance No. 3049, amending Sections 3.09.030, .050, .060, .110, and .120 of the Issaquah Municipal Code, regarding the City’s Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption Program. . b) AB 8774 - 2021 Building & Fire Code Adoption and Amendments to IMC Title 16, Buildings and Construction

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

Carried 6-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh

Adopt Ordinance No. 3050, amending Chapter 16.04, of the Issaquah Municipal Code (IMC), Construction Codes, to adopt by reference the 2021 edition of the state building code, including portions of the 2021 international wildland-urban interface code; and making other related amendments to Chapter 16…

Moved by WALSH · seconded by HALL

Carried 6-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh

Authorize payment to Issaquah Hospitality, LLC in the amount of $12,677.51 as reimbursement for paving costs and $758,100.00 as just compensation for acquisition by the City of portions of King County Tax Parcel No. 202406-9097 that are necessary to complete the City’s 12th Avenue NW/SR 900/17th Ave…

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

Carried 6-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt (Attended Virtually), Russell Joe, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh