City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, May 20, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Recognition of Greg Keith, Water Manager ID 1728

5 min · packet pp.7

Topics: Water

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

Public Works Week Proclamation ID 1605

5 min · packet pp.9

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SPECIAL BUSINESS c) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office

Travel and Tourism Week Proclamation ID 1601

5 min · packet pp.11

Topics: TourismEconomic Development

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SPECIAL BUSINESS d) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office

Emergency Medical Services Week Proclamation ID 1604

5 min · packet pp.13

Topics: Public Safety

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CITY OF ISSAQUAH Mayor's Office

National Safe Boating Week Proclamation ID 1606

5 min

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5. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of May 20, 2024, $7,943,362.15 ID 1638

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.15–46

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

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

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Minutes: City Council Committee of the Whole, Jan. 28, 2023

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.47–50

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Staff report:

The items identified in the “What’s Missing” activity are provided as an

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, March 30, 2023

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.51

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 03-30-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting – State of the City Address 7:30 AM Hilton Garden Inn March 30, 2023 MINUTES 1800 NW Gilman Blvd.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, LEED Recognition, July 24, 2023

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.53

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CONSENT CALENDAR d) 07-24-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting – LEED Gold Certification Celebration 11:30 AM Pickering Barn July 24, 2023 MINUTES 1730 10th Ave NW

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Hall of Fame Reception, July 24, 2023

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.55

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR e) 07-24-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting – Hall of Fame Reception 5:30 PM Issaquah Train Depot July 24, 2023 MINUTES 71 1st Ave NE

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Dec. 12, 2023

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.57–58

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CONSENT CALENDAR f) 12-12-23 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting – Legislative Breakfast 8:00 AM Tibbetts Manor December 12, 2023 MINUTES 750 17th Ave. NW

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Informational Update: PFAS Update ID 1724

Carried 7-0

Receive Report · packet pp.59–67

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

The purpose of this informational update is to provide the City Council with a

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Informational Update: Housing Report Card Update ID 1725

Carried 7-0

Receive Report · packet pp.69–82

Topics: Housing

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Staff report:

This informational report is to provide an overview of housing growth, evolving housing market, housing affordability, and vulnerable residents in 2023.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Amending IMC 3.70, Purchasing and Small Works Roster Procedures AB 8727

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.83–92

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

State law requires cities to use a formal competitive bidding process for public works projects that exceed certain monetary thresholds, which are set by the state in RCW 35.23.352. As of July 1, 2024, these thresholds will be set at $75,500 for a project utilizing a single craft and $150,000 for a project involving multiple crafts. State law does not require a competitive bidding process for public works projects that do not exceed these thresholds, however, cities may establish their own formal bidding thresholds requirements that are more stringent than state law.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Washington Recreation and Conservation Office Grant (Laughing Jacobs Creek Barrier Removal) AB 8838

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.93–118

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

City Attorney Review Rachel Turpin City Attorney Review Date: May 8, 2024

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Hearing Examiner Contract AB 8844

Carried 7-0

Confirm · packet pp.119–134

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Staff report:

The Hearing Examiner is an independent office of the City that conducts hearings on land use actions required by ordinance, including preliminary plats, final plats, variances and appeals. Cities can either hire or contract for these services.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Amendment to Agreement with Healthcare Delivery Services for Jail Inmate Medical Services AB 8846

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.135–157

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Staff report:

Jail medical services are critical to ensure proper medical screening prior to an inmate’s entry into the facility and to provide inmates with onsite routine and urgent medical attention, diagnoses, treatment, and medication distribution.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

PSE Community Solar Lease and Easement Agreement AB 8850

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.159–217

Topics: HousingClimate

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Staff report:

The Climate Action Plan (ICAP) was passed by Council on December 6, 2021, with bold targets for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction. The ICAP includes actions for advancing renewable energy for municipal buildings and residential homes. A specific action includes:

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Washington State Dept. of Transportation Grant (Newport Way SW Pavement Preservation) AB 8851

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.219–229

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Washington State Dept. of Transportation Grant (NW Sammamish Road/ SE 56th Street Pavement Preservation) AB 8852

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.231–243

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

The Administration submitted grant applications for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) National Highway Performance Program's grant competition. This is a program that provides federal funding for pavement preservation along local streets that are National Highway System routes. WSDOT recently informed the City that NW Sammamish Rd/ SE 56th Street from 11th Avenue NW to East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE was selected for funding. Included in this comprehensive project are two smaller scope projects: TR 078 NW Sammamish Rd at 11th Ave NW Bus Stop Improvements and TR 079 SE 56th St at 221st Pl SE Bus Stop Improvements. These bus stop improvement projects were identified in the transit study and the 2024-2029 Capital Improvement Plan. These two transit projects will be designed and constructed as part of the grant to preserve pavement along NW Sammamish Road and SE…

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

Costco Reciprocal Parking Lot Agreement for Pickering Barn AB 8854

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.245–249

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

The City of Issaquah entered into a Reciprocal Parking Agreement in 2007 with Costco for the use of Costco's parking during the Issaquah Farmers Market. Each year this document is reviewed and amendments are made. This year is the 17th year of the agreement between the City and Costco. The 17th Amendment allows the Pickering Barn to continue using the Costco parking garage for customer and vendor parking.

Roll call:

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

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

6. REGULAR BUSINESS

Wildfire/Wildland Urban Interface: Code Update and Mitigation Efforts AB 8834

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · 45 min · packet pp.251–293

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

On March 4, 2024, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 3050, amending Chapter 16.04 of the Issaquah Municipal Code (IMC), Construction Codes. This ordinance adopted by reference the 2021 edition of the state building code, including portions of the 2021 International Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Code. Only the portions of the WUI Code identified in RCW 19.27.031(4) and RCW 19.27.560(1) as being mandatory were adopted. These provisions included requirements for fire-resistant materials for roofing, exterior walls, decks and porches, and guidelines for driveways and turnarounds that are accessible to emergency vehicles.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by DE MICHELE

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

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:00 ↗ okay welcome everyone I council

0:02 ↗ president Walsh called the May 20th city

0:04 ↗ council meeting to order mayor Paulie

0:07 ↗ has an excused absence tonight so I will

0:09 ↗ be serving as mayor proem and council

0:12 ↗ member Hunt is attending remotely as a

0:15 ↗ reminder we continue to have a remote

0:17 ↗ aspect of our meetings so uh both staff

0:21 ↗ members of the public and council

0:22 ↗ members may be participating in

0:24 ↗ tonight's meeting remotely via WebEx but

0:27 ↗ we have a lovely group of people in the

0:29 ↗ room so that's always nice it feels less

0:31 ↗ lonely up here that you guys are here uh

0:35 ↗ the first item on our agenda is the

0:37 ↗ Pledge of Allegiance and I welcome

0:38 ↗ everyone to join me in the

0:41 ↗ pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag

0:45 ↗ of the United States of America and to

0:48 ↗ the Republic for it stands one nation

0:51 ↗ under God indivisible liberty and

0:57 ↗ justice okay and we are starting off

1:00 ↗ tonight to celebrate many of the people

1:02 ↗ that are in the audience uh with a few

1:04 ↗ proclamations for the first one I will

1:07 ↗ invite Greg Keith water operations

1:10 ↗ manager to the

1:26 ↗ podium excellent so it's not often that

1:30 ↗ we get to celebrate one of our employees

1:33 ↗ um but in this case we've got Greg

1:36 ↗ retiring after almost 35 years of

1:39 ↗ service to the city so it's a really

1:41 ↗ important time to say thank you um for

1:45 ↗ all of your work so Greg Keith or gpk as

1:49 ↗ he is known around Public Works uh

1:52 ↗ started in the city as a par part-time

1:56 ↗ Parks maintenance Aid in June 19

2:01 ↗ 1985 he made you remember how much he

2:04 ↗ made per

2:05 ↗ hour yeah 650 is what we have down there

2:08 ↗ so uh it's grown a little bit since then

2:11 ↗ I hope um he returned the next year to

2:13 ↗ the same role but then had a three-year

2:15 ↗ Hiatus from the city when he managed the

2:18 ↗ convenience store at the G gas station

2:20 ↗ at sunset at front at the time and in

2:24 ↗ 1989 he returned to the city as a

2:28 ↗ part-time uh parks maintenance worker

2:31 ↗ and 6 months later joined the public

2:33 ↗ works department as a utility

2:35 ↗ maintenance worker he's had just a few

2:38 ↗ title changes in between their

2:40 ↗ promotions over the decade um and

2:42 ↗ ultimately became our water operations

2:45 ↗ manager on

2:47 ↗ 111 very auspicious

2:50 ↗ date uh Greg has been a uh he's

2:54 ↗ therefore served as our drinking water

2:56 ↗ manager as he likes to say because there

2:58 ↗ are lots of other water that we manage

3:00 ↗ in the city um so for over 23 years he's

3:04 ↗ been the drinking water manager and has

3:06 ↗ served the city for nearly 35 years he's

3:10 ↗ been a devoted caretaker of isqua's

3:13 ↗ vital water ensuring its ample and

3:16 ↗ reliable Supply and its quality as isqua

3:19 ↗ has grown and as regulations have

3:22 ↗ changed as new issues have emerged

3:24 ↗ somebody want to say p

3:26 ↗ maybe okay not on not today okay

3:30 ↗ uh Greg was always focused on doing

3:32 ↗ whatever needed to be done to deliver

3:34 ↗ safe and clean drinking water to our

3:36 ↗ customers um within the public works

3:39 ↗ department Greg has been a champion for

3:42 ↗ and a mentor to the employees and an

3:45 ↗ invaluable member of the management team

3:47 ↗ so we are very grateful for your almost

3:50 ↗ 35 years of service and we want to wish

3:53 ↗ you a wonderful retirement full of great

3:56 ↗ concerts and successful Seahawks seasons

4:00 ↗ so yeah um we've got a plaque for you

4:04 ↗ but do you want to say a few

4:06 ↗ words okay step right up

4:11 ↗ um thank you uh it's been it's been a

4:14 ↗ great opportunity a great career I

4:18 ↗ couldn't have done it without uh support

4:20 ↗ of um the people I work with and um and

4:24 ↗ the backing of the leadership all all of

4:27 ↗ you so thank you very much

4:30 ↗ it's been a good

4:34 ↗ ride so we will do the plaque and then

4:37 ↗ while he going to take a picture so if

4:39 ↗ you want to step out a little bit

4:54 ↗ [Applause]

5:03 ↗ okay and we will follow up with our next

5:07 ↗ Proclamation um presenting to Public

5:10 ↗ Works director Emily moon for Public

5:12 ↗ Works week

5:14 ↗ Proclamation so whereas this year marks

5:17 ↗ the 64th annual National Public Works

5:19 ↗ week and whereas the 2024 National theme

5:24 ↗ advancing quality of life for all honors

5:26 ↗ the Public Works professionals and

5:28 ↗ Public Works is the thread that connects

5:30 ↗ us all no matter where we live in the

5:33 ↗ world and whereas our Public Works

5:35 ↗ professionals focus on infrastructure

5:37 ↗ facilities and services that are of

5:40 ↗ vital importance to sustainable and

5:42 ↗ resilient communities and to the public

5:44 ↗ health high quality of life and

5:46 ↗ well-being of the city of

5:48 ↗ isqua and whereas these infrastructure

5:51 ↗ facilities and services could not be

5:54 ↗ provided without the dedicated efforts

5:56 ↗ of Public Works professionals Engineers

5:59 ↗ managers and employees at all levels of

6:01 ↗ government and in the private sector who

6:03 ↗ are responsible for rebuilding improving

6:06 ↗ and protecting our

6:07 ↗ transportation water supply water

6:10 ↗ treatment and Solid Waste Systems public

6:13 ↗ buildings and other structures and

6:15 ↗ Facilities essential for our community

6:18 ↗ and whereas we pay tribute to the

6:20 ↗ substantial contributions these

6:22 ↗ individuals make to protecting our

6:24 ↗ health safety and quality life now

6:27 ↗ therefore I on behalf of Mary L poly

6:29 ↗ mayor of the city of isqua do hereby

6:31 ↗ Proclaim May 19th to 25th to be Public

6:35 ↗ Works week in the city of isqua and

6:37 ↗ invite the community to join me in

6:39 ↗ thanking the public works department for

6:41 ↗ their service and outstanding

6:43 ↗ contributions and I know you want to get

6:45 ↗ these guys up here do you want to make a

6:47 ↗ few words

6:48 ↗ or fantastic come on over thank you very

6:52 ↗ much um very happy to be joined by quite

6:55 ↗ a few of my team members tonight mostly

6:59 ↗ to honor Greg so thank you for that

7:01 ↗ recognition of him and my Shameless plug

7:04 ↗ is Wednesday evening from 4: to 6:30

7:08 ↗ come to Public Works we're having an

7:09 ↗ open house a tour all sorts of family

7:12 ↗ fun it's going to be a great

7:14 ↗ time thank

7:17 ↗ you I'm not sure you pluged that enough

7:19 ↗ there's like Touch a Truck and you get

7:21 ↗ to know all of the things that are going

7:23 ↗ on I'm really excited about this idea

7:26 ↗ fantastic you guys want to come up and

7:29 ↗ we can take a picture

7:58 ↗ yep e

8:40 ↗ so we've got another Proclamation coming

8:43 ↗ up um and this one is presented by

8:47 ↗ council member Joe for travel and

8:49 ↗ tourism

8:51 ↗ week yeah yeah if I could have John prac

8:54 ↗ come forward he's the board chair for

8:57 ↗ visit

8:58 ↗ isqua I also have the pleasure of

9:00 ↗ serving with John on the ltac committee

9:02 ↗ and really appreciate the work that our

9:04 ↗ hot tellers our hot tellers give to help

9:07 ↗ make isqua strong in the tourism

9:10 ↗ Department whereas this year marks the

9:12 ↗ 40th anniversary of national travel and

9:15 ↗ tourism week and whereas the travel

9:17 ↗ industry fuels every industry and will

9:19 ↗ continue to be an essential part of

9:21 ↗ isqua's economy development and

9:23 ↗ Workforce and whereas travel is an

9:26 ↗ economic Powerhouse for every state and

9:28 ↗ destination across the country

9:30 ↗ with an economic output of 2.6 trillion

9:32 ↗ in 2022 supporting 14.5 million American

9:38 ↗ jobs and whereas travel spending

9:40 ↗ supports vibrant life and safe

9:42 ↗ communities in isqua and across the

9:45 ↗ United States by generating 84 billion

9:48 ↗ billion with a B in state and local tax

9:51 ↗ revenue in 2022 to support essential

9:54 ↗ services such as education emergency

9:57 ↗ response Public Safety and more more and

10:00 ↗ whereas travel enables success for all

10:02 ↗ Industries including

10:04 ↗ manufacturing agriculture defense

10:07 ↗ healthare and more by driving sales

10:09 ↗ growth Innovation education and

10:11 ↗ operations that move our economy our

10:14 ↗ nation and isqua forward and whereas the

10:17 ↗ travel industry cannot recover without

10:19 ↗ the full return of leisure business and

10:22 ↗ international inbound Travelers

10:24 ↗ increasing travel to and within the

10:25 ↗ United States drives America forward to

10:28 ↗ a more prosperous future and whereas the

10:31 ↗ travel industry's success will grow

10:33 ↗ isqua's economy and Workforce since

10:36 ↗ prior to the pandemic small businesses

10:38 ↗ accounted for 60% of leisure and

10:41 ↗ Hospitality employment and whereas

10:43 ↗ travel is an essential industry and we

10:45 ↗ must continue to communicate that

10:47 ↗ growing travel leads to economic growth

10:50 ↗ benefits businesses and fosters Mutual

10:53 ↗ understanding now therefore on behalf of

10:55 ↗ mayor Mary L paully mayor of the city of

10:58 ↗ isqua we you hereby proclaim the week of

11:00 ↗ May 19th to the 25th to be travel and

11:03 ↗ tourism week in the city of isqua and

11:05 ↗ your citizens of isqua to join us in

11:08 ↗ recognizing the critical role this

11:10 ↗ industry plays in isqua in witness where

11:13 ↗ whereof I have here on to set my hand

11:16 ↗ and seal of the city of isqua this 20th

11:19 ↗ day of May 2024 Mary L poly

11:27 ↗ mayor um thank you to everyone

11:29 ↗ that works at the city all of our

11:31 ↗ partners and everyone that lives in the

11:34 ↗ city um one of the biggest things about

11:36 ↗ being in the tourist industry is it's

11:38 ↗ not just us in the hotel or the

11:39 ↗ restaurants that make a good place this

11:41 ↗ day it's everyone working as a team all

11:44 ↗ of our wonderful Partners uh and the

11:46 ↗ opportunity to go through a wonderful

11:48 ↗ travel program to learn more to make our

11:51 ↗ city just an even better place to stay

11:53 ↗ and being conscious with all the changes

11:56 ↗ that happen so thank you

11:59 ↗ [Applause]

12:15 ↗ AR

12:52 ↗ thank you and next up we've got council

12:55 ↗ member Bray presenting a proclamation

12:58 ↗ for Emergency Medical Services week and

13:02 ↗ so we'd like to invite Deputy uh Chief

13:06 ↗ AO and the crew of station 73

13:21 ↗ up um so I just wanted to start by

13:24 ↗ saying um I spent I think six years on

13:28 ↗ the board for Eide fire and rescue and

13:29 ↗ was one of the great um privileges of

13:32 ↗ being a member of the city council here

13:34 ↗ was to be also able to work with these

13:36 ↗ fine people and as a um unfortunate but

13:40 ↗ grateful uh recipient of Emergency

13:43 ↗ Medical Services I ever in your debt so

13:47 ↗ um whereas in

13:49 ↗ 1974 uh President Gerald Ford announced

13:51 ↗ the and authorized the First National

13:53 ↗ Emergency Medical Services week and

13:55 ↗ whereas medical services are vital

13:57 ↗ Public Services and whereas members of

14:01 ↗ East Side Fire and Rescue stand ready to

14:03 ↗ provide life-saving care to those in

14:05 ↗ need 24 hours a day 7 days a week and

14:08 ↗ whereas access to Quality Emergency Care

14:11 ↗ dramatically improves the survival and

14:13 ↗ recovery rate of those who experience

14:15 ↗ sudden illness or injury and whereas

14:17 ↗ Emergency Medical Services have grown to

14:19 ↗ fill a gap by providing important out of

14:22 ↗ hospital care including preventative

14:24 ↗ medicine followup care and access to

14:27 ↗ Tele medicine and whereas members of the

14:30 ↗ East Side Fire and Rescue whether career

14:32 ↗ or Reserve engage in thousands of iows

14:34 ↗ of specialized training and continuing

14:37 ↗ education to enhance their life- saving

14:39 ↗ skills and whereas it is appropriate to

14:42 ↗ recognize and value the accomplishments

14:44 ↗ of emergency medical service providers

14:46 ↗ by designating Emergency Medical

14:48 ↗ Services week therefore it is hereby

14:51 ↗ proclaimed the week of May 19th to 25th

14:53 ↗ to be Emergency Medical Services week in

14:56 ↗ the city of isqua and I invite the

14:58 ↗ community to join me

14:59 ↗ in thanking East Side Fire and Rescue

15:01 ↗ for their service and outstanding

15:03 ↗ contributions be would you like to say a

15:05 ↗ few things

15:07 ↗ pleas yeah on behalf of uh the men and

15:09 ↗ women of East Side Fire and Rescue I

15:11 ↗ really thank you so much for

15:13 ↗ acknowledging the fine work that uh

15:15 ↗ these folks are doing out there over 70%

15:18 ↗ of our call volume is medical and it is

15:21 ↗ so important to us that we have a

15:23 ↗ healthy Community which is why we spend

15:25 ↗ so much time training and preparing and

15:27 ↗ equipping all of our folks so thank you

15:29 ↗ very much for the

15:34 ↗ honor right as much as you'd like to get

15:37 ↗ out of it you've got to do the photo

15:55 ↗ [Applause]

16:03 ↗ we've just been enjoying all the

16:05 ↗ Privileges of being able to celebrate

16:08 ↗ everybody in our community we've got uh

16:10 ↗ one more tonight uh council member

16:13 ↗ Marts

16:15 ↗ what yes uh council member Mart who you

16:19 ↗ can see up there is an avid Boer is

16:21 ↗ presenting National safe boting week and

16:25 ↗ uh we are welcomed by the US Coast Guard

16:28 ↗ auxiliary member you can join him yeah

16:30 ↗ please please do join I believe Dale

16:32 ↗ Voda with US Coast Guard auxiliary and

16:35 ↗ uh yeah I thought I would use a picture

16:37 ↗ this was from about 48 hours ago on at

16:39 ↗ Eagle Harbor so with h PFD nice to see

16:42 ↗ you sir S I didn't bring one for you

16:44 ↗ that's quite all right quite all right

16:46 ↗ my wife and I are we wear ours always

16:49 ↗ when we're on Deck uh whereas the

16:52 ↗ national safe boating week is

16:53 ↗ coordinated each year by the national

16:55 ↗ safe boating Council and its boating

16:57 ↗ safety Partners across the US and Canada

17:00 ↗ and for nearly 100 million Americans

17:03 ↗ boating continues to be a popular

17:04 ↗ recreational activity and from coast to

17:06 ↗ coast and everywhere in between people

17:08 ↗ are taking to the water and enjoying

17:10 ↗ time to gather boating sailing paddling

17:13 ↗ and fishing and on average 650 people

17:16 ↗ die each year in boating related

17:18 ↗ accidents in the United States with the

17:21 ↗ vast majority of those accidents caused

17:23 ↗ by human error and poor judgment and

17:26 ↗ whereas this campaign serves to remind

17:28 ↗ us to keep safety front and center all

17:31 ↗ season long and whereas a significant

17:33 ↗ number of Voters who lose their lives by

17:35 ↗ Drowning each year would be alive today

17:38 ↗ had they worn their life jackets and

17:41 ↗ whereas the city of isqua is adjacent to

17:43 ↗ Lake samamish it encompasses numerous

17:45 ↗ other waters now therefore the city of

17:48 ↗ isqua does hereby proclaim the week of

17:50 ↗ May 19th to the 25th to be National safe

17:53 ↗ boating and paddling week in the city of

17:55 ↗ isqua and I encourage all community

17:57 ↗ members to make responsible possible

17:59 ↗ decisions when taking to the water for

18:01 ↗ boating sailing paddling and fishing

18:03 ↗ activities and to wear a life jacket in

18:06 ↗ witness thereof the mayor uh put her

18:10 ↗ hand unto her hand and seal of the city

18:12 ↗ on the 20th of May

18:14 ↗ 202 you care to make a comment or two

18:18 ↗ I'd like to thank the city of isqua for

18:20 ↗ issuing a proclamation uh for those that

18:23 ↗ are not aware the Coast Guard auxiliary

18:25 ↗ is the civilian volunteer branch of the

18:27 ↗ Coast Guard so um and U we have uh I'm

18:33 ↗ the member of the local floella for the

18:35 ↗ east side I'm also the current elected

18:38 ↗ officer for the division which is

18:40 ↗ greater King County basically so uh yes

18:44 ↗ we would like to uh draw your attention

18:47 ↗ that uh paddling is the

18:52 ↗ uh paddling is what we're going for this

18:54 ↗ year because uh during the pandemic

18:57 ↗ there was a great uh surge of people

19:00 ↗ looking for uh socially distance

19:03 ↗ activities and paddling was discovered

19:06 ↗ and we went from uh in the state of

19:09 ↗ Washington we went from in the like 15th

19:13 ↗ in the nation in deaths and injuries to

19:16 ↗ over seventh in in in in

19:19 ↗ 2022 so this year fortunately we we're

19:21 ↗ coming back down on that but uh just

19:23 ↗ make sure that everybody wears a life

19:25 ↗ jacket when you get in your car you wear

19:28 ↗ a like a seat belt when you go on a

19:30 ↗ bicycle you wear a helmet You Will Go On

19:32 ↗ A Boat you wear a life

19:34 ↗ Jack uh so thank you very much

19:38 ↗ [Applause]

19:56 ↗ [Applause]

20:07 ↗ and now we get to get into the just

20:09 ↗ nitty-gritty business not celebrating

20:11 ↗ people but getting into the rest of our

20:14 ↗ business um the next item of business is

20:17 ↗ audience comments and members of the

20:20 ↗ public May address council at this time

20:21 ↗ in person or virtually those who signed

20:24 ↗ up in advance to make comments will be

20:25 ↗ called on first if you're joining us

20:28 ↗ virtually and would like to make virtual

20:30 ↗ comments um you can raise your virtual

20:33 ↗ hand or send the host a chat message if

20:35 ↗ you're on a phone you can press star

20:39 ↗ three if you're on a computer or

20:41 ↗ smartphone you're going to look for that

20:42 ↗ hand icon or you can send the CH host a

20:45 ↗ chat message if you're in the room and

20:48 ↗ did not sign up for speak uh did not

20:51 ↗ sign up I will ask for other speakers

20:53 ↗ before closing this portion of the

20:55 ↗ meeting so I notice there are no members

20:58 ↗ of the public in uh in the chambers

21:00 ↗ anymore they've all left uh but clerk do

21:04 ↗ we have anyone online uh making a

21:07 ↗ interest to

21:09 ↗ speak council president we have one

21:12 ↗ attendee online but they have not

21:14 ↗ indicated a desire to speak at this time

21:18 ↗ okay well as a

21:21 ↗ reminder you can always email US Written

21:24 ↗ comments can be submitted at any time

21:27 ↗ city council at isqua

21:29 ↗ wa.gov and we'll reply because we like

21:32 ↗ hearing from

21:33 ↗ you so let's see next item of business

21:39 ↗ is the consent

21:42 ↗ calendar

21:44 ↗ and

21:46 ↗ see do I start out with the uh mayor's

21:49 ↗ remarks Okay so we've got a few items on

21:51 ↗ the consent calendar but the mayor has a

21:54 ↗ few remarks that she wanted to convey on

21:57 ↗ those um the first is AB

22:00 ↗ 8850 the psse community solar lease and

22:03 ↗ easement agreement the city of esqua is

22:06 ↗ enthusiastic to partner with Puget Sound

22:08 ↗ Energy to construct the fourth Community

22:11 ↗ solar project west of the

22:13 ↗ Cascades this solar installation on the

22:17 ↗ community center roof will offer no cost

22:19 ↗ subscriptions for up to 82 isqua

22:21 ↗ households with low income and help to

22:24 ↗ reduce their electricity bills by $10 to

22:26 ↗ $20 per month the 193 kilowatt solar

22:30 ↗ array installation is expected to reduce

22:32 ↗ our community emissions by over 117,000

22:35 ↗ lbs of CO2 per year that's equivalent to

22:38 ↗ consuming 7,000 gallons of

22:41 ↗ gasoline and it supports implementation

22:44 ↗ of the city's climate action plan there

22:46 ↗ are about 3 megawatts of community solar

22:48 ↗ in Washington hosted by other Utilities

22:51 ↗ in addition to psc's 16 megaw of

22:54 ↗ installed capacity the office of

22:57 ↗ sustainability is lead for the project

22:59 ↗ and working in close coordination with

23:01 ↗ facilities and parks and community

23:03 ↗ services and we look forward to

23:05 ↗ celebrating the installation early in

23:07 ↗ the fall pretty exciting uh the next one

23:11 ↗ is ID 1724 informational update on

23:16 ↗ posos um in the packet tonight there's

23:18 ↗ an informational update on per and poly

23:21 ↗ floral alkalol substances or posos from

23:25 ↗ the public works director Moon uh larger

23:27 ↗ discussion on POS will take place on the

23:29 ↗ July 8th meeting in the meantime ecology

23:33 ↗ is accepting public comments now until

23:36 ↗ June 6 on documents for two cleanup

23:38 ↗ sites in isqua where posos were found

23:41 ↗ for more information you can visit the

23:43 ↗ city's website at isqua

23:46 ↗ w.gov

23:49 ↗ pfas okay um are there any committee

23:52 ↗ chairs or chair designes who would like

23:54 ↗ to report on any of the consent calendar

23:56 ↗ items tonight

23:59 ↗ not seeing any okay the consent calendar

24:03 ↗ was distributed to Council in advance if

24:05 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

24:07 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

24:09 ↗ approved by one motion have the payables

24:12 ↗ and payroll been reviewed they have and

24:15 ↗ they have I'm I'm number two on that

24:18 ↗ one a little bit awkward but that's fine

24:21 ↗ um does any council member desire to

24:22 ↗ remove any items from the consent

24:24 ↗ calendar and consider it under regular

24:26 ↗ business NOP

24:29 ↗ okay and is there a

24:33 ↗ motion Deputy council president D

24:35 ↗ Michelle thank you I move that we accept

24:38 ↗ the consent agenda as

24:41 ↗ presented second

24:44 ↗ okay the motion to approve the consent

24:47 ↗ calendar as presented has been moved and

24:49 ↗ seconded is there any Council

24:53 ↗ discussion not seeing any so the motion

24:56 ↗ before council is to approve the consent

24:58 ↗ calendar as presented all those in favor

25:00 ↗ signify by saying I

25:04 ↗ I those

25:07 ↗ opposed okay that passes

25:10 ↗ unanimously the next item of business is

25:13 ↗ regular business we get a presentation

25:16 ↗ on AB 8834 the wildfire and Wildland

25:21 ↗ Urban interface code update and

25:22 ↗ mitigation efforts if I do not hear the

25:26 ↗ acronym wooi at least a few times

25:28 ↗ tonight I'm going to be sorely

25:30 ↗ disappointed I will just preface right

25:32 ↗ now woy is the Wildland Urban interface

25:37 ↗ um because I'm sure it will come up so

25:39 ↗ I'd like to invite building official

25:41 ↗ James Gray and emergency manager Jer

25:44 ↗ Jared Snyder to the podium thank you

26:25 ↗ thank you so much council president um

26:27 ↗ we are here tonight to talk about the

26:29 ↗ Wildland Urban interface code our wooi

26:32 ↗ and also Wildland Urban interface um

26:35 ↗ mitigation efforts that the the city is

26:37 ↗ working on I'm co-presenting with Jared

26:41 ↗ Schneider tonight so first of all our

26:44 ↗ recommendations we recommend we

26:47 ↗ recommend to wait to adopt the mandatory

26:49 ↗ provisions of the Wildland Urban

26:51 ↗ interface code we'll get into a little

26:53 ↗ bit later what the mandatory Provisions

26:57 ↗ from the State Building Code Council

26:58 ↗ were about uh that we we had some

27:02 ↗ mandatory Provisions that were

27:04 ↗ recommended and we decided to hold on

27:07 ↗ those th those were adopted but then

27:09 ↗ they were recced um in addition to that

27:12 ↗ we are recommending that we amend the

27:14 ↗ building code to adopt the driveway

27:16 ↗ turnaround provision which is one of the

27:19 ↗ structural hardening Provisions that we

27:21 ↗ that we can that we can adopt there are

27:24 ↗ some updates to the barbecue section and

27:27 ↗ the fire code that came about as part of

27:29 ↗ another emergency um last minute

27:32 ↗ adoption and some discussion about the

27:35 ↗ state and King County efforts to develop

27:37 ↗ Regional maps that have to do with

27:39 ↗ Wildland risk a little bit of background

27:42 ↗ um ESB 6120 is the encumbered Senate

27:45 ↗ bill that wrapped up the Wildland Urban

27:48 ↗ interface code and the State Building

27:50 ↗ Code Council Provisions into a emergency

27:55 ↗ ordinance that pulled it that pulled it

27:57 ↗ back basically pull it back from from

27:59 ↗ the adoption that had already happened

28:01 ↗ so and that happened on March 15th but

28:04 ↗ and then that's after the council

28:06 ↗ adopted this Council adopted the codes

28:08 ↗ on March 4th which included those

28:11 ↗ Provisions in in addition there was the

28:13 ↗ emergency rule that we talked about at

28:15 ↗ the barbecues and I will give the Fire

28:18 ↗ Marshall a chance to talk about that if

28:20 ↗ there if we have some some questions

28:22 ↗ little bit of background about

28:23 ↗ encumbered Senate Bill

28:25 ↗ 6120 it required Department of Natural

28:27 ↗ res resources to develop some Wildland

28:30 ↗ Maps Hazard maps that cover the entire

28:33 ↗ state so Bas level Wildfire risk Maps

28:37 ↗ which we'll talk about in a moment and

28:39 ↗ it stipulated which portions of the

28:41 ↗ Wildland Urban interface code that had

28:43 ↗ to be

28:44 ↗ adopted soon as they did that they

28:46 ↗ withdrew it at the end of the section

28:48 ↗ session so that's that's what that's

28:50 ↗ what left us with this action today uh

28:52 ↗ but it did permit cities and counties to

28:56 ↗ adopt all of it or portions of it or of

28:59 ↗ it and again it neither this legislation

29:02 ↗ or the rule affected our ability to to

29:05 ↗ adopt any pieces of

29:07 ↗ that so just a quick review at April

29:11 ↗ April 2nd we presented for the Planning

29:14 ↗ Development economic commission and

29:16 ↗ committee pardon me and the committee

29:18 ↗ recommended accepting the staff's

29:20 ↗ proposal to not adopt the Amendments

29:22 ↗ from the State Building Code council's

29:24 ↗ first draft um we also recommended

29:27 ↗ looking at other provisions of the code

29:29 ↗ that we could adopt that might be less

29:32 ↗ painful at this point and might might

29:34 ↗ make more sense for our

29:38 ↗ community and before we jump into that I

29:40 ↗ want to Turf it off to Jared Schneider

29:42 ↗ the emergency manager and talk about our

29:45 ↗ Wildfire mitigation

29:47 ↗ efforts thank you James and uh good

29:50 ↗ evening Council it's a pleasure to be

29:51 ↗ here again I was just looking back at my

29:53 ↗ email and this is my work adversary so

29:56 ↗ it's spent about one year at the city of

29:58 ↗ isqua and it's been a a great year

30:00 ↗ indeed so it's a pleasure to be in front

30:02 ↗ of you again to talk about wildfire and

30:05 ↗ um not just in the context of wooi codes

30:07 ↗ because our Wildfire mitigation efforts

30:10 ↗ expand so much further um um than just

30:12 ↗ the wooi code elements so what I'm going

30:15 ↗ to do is set the stage a little bit and

30:17 ↗ talk about some of the challenges of why

30:19 ↗ the there's been this back and forth

30:21 ↗ going on um at the state level um and

30:24 ↗ kind of explain why this is such a

30:26 ↗ difficult topic to tackle as local

30:28 ↗ jurisdictions lawmakers and uh decision

30:31 ↗ makers so with that um there's really

30:34 ↗ two types of wildfires that we have here

30:37 ↗ on West Side of the Cascade communities

30:40 ↗ um we have our small brush fires that

30:42 ↗ you see on the left here um those are

30:44 ↗ typically fires that are around power

30:46 ↗ lines um Highway medians or even you

30:49 ↗ know localized around small uh

30:51 ↗ neighborhoods and then we have what we

30:54 ↗ call mega fires and that's what you see

30:55 ↗ on the right um this is the oult burn of

30:59 ↗ 1902 that red area is actually what

31:01 ↗ burned um it was about 328,000 um Acres

31:06 ↗ it claimed the lives of 38 individuals

31:09 ↗ this was back in 190 yeah 1902 and the

31:12 ↗ fire moved exceedingly quick it was um

31:14 ↗ about a mile an hour which is very fast

31:17 ↗ for Wildfire and what was really driving

31:19 ↗ it was these dry East Winds um the fire

31:23 ↗ was so um the winds were so high that

31:25 ↗ the Embers actually jumped the Columbia

31:27 ↗ River and started um fires over in

31:30 ↗ Oregon so those are kind of the two

31:32 ↗ types of wildfire scenarios that we're

31:34 ↗ planning for on the west side of the

31:36 ↗ Cascades now our friends on the east

31:38 ↗ side of the Cascades have a completely

31:40 ↗ different fire regime and that's really

31:42 ↗ what's been making it challenging for

31:43 ↗ for

31:45 ↗ lawmakers so this next slide you see um

31:48 ↗ this graphic here um on the left side of

31:50 ↗ the graphic you see um our own local

31:53 ↗ forests they're wet forests they're

31:55 ↗ highly productive um what see is 300 to

31:58 ↗ 400 years without fire suppression or

32:00 ↗ Wildfire below it you see 300 to 400

32:03 ↗ years with fire suppression um notice

32:05 ↗ how there's not really any difference

32:07 ↗ there uh on the right side we have our

32:10 ↗ Drive forests that are more

32:11 ↗ characteristic of the east side of the

32:13 ↗ mountains and what you see is much more

32:16 ↗ abundant and dense forests as a result

32:18 ↗ of wild of wildfire suppression efforts

32:22 ↗ now the reason that we're highlighting

32:23 ↗ this is just because um the vegetation

32:26 ↗ management element of the wooi co

32:28 ↗ has been particularly the element that's

32:30 ↗ there's been a lot of back and forth

32:32 ↗ around James is going to talk about that

32:33 ↗ a little bit more in detail about what

32:35 ↗ that would mean for our community but

32:37 ↗ just keep this in mind um that you know

32:39 ↗ our Force actually look the way that

32:41 ↗ they're supposed to look like um you

32:43 ↗ know we don't have that same issue as

32:45 ↗ the east side of the uh mountains where

32:47 ↗ Wildland firefighting has led to the

32:49 ↗ problem becoming you know worse in in

32:51 ↗ some of those communities um and then

32:53 ↗ the last thing I wanted to do on this

32:55 ↗ slide was just highlight a quote from

32:56 ↗ the King County Wildfire risk reduction

32:58 ↗ strategy which is a strategy that uh

33:00 ↗ prescribes 12 actions that we can take

33:03 ↗ to reduce Wildfire risk uh it reads

33:06 ↗ unfortunately no amount of property or

33:08 ↗ vegetation management can completely

33:10 ↗ eliminate Wildfire risk particularly in

33:12 ↗ the case of large wind driven Wildfire

33:14 ↗ events and I'm just highlighting that

33:16 ↗ again to keep in mind as we go through

33:18 ↗ these slides and talk about our efforts

33:20 ↗ to reduce risk that you know Wildfire is

33:22 ↗ a very challenging topic and um our

33:25 ↗ forests as we've discussed are very

33:27 ↗ abant under the right conditions dry hot

33:31 ↗ um low snow pack and those East Winds

33:34 ↗ you know we could likely have a large

33:37 ↗ Wildfire um before we turn it back to

33:40 ↗ James I just want to highlight some of

33:42 ↗ the things that we are already doing

33:44 ↗ right as I mentioned W code

33:45 ↗ implementation isn't the only way that

33:47 ↗ we're addressing Wildfire risk in the

33:49 ↗ city you know it's a small part of our

33:51 ↗ strategy or but an important part of our

33:53 ↗ strategy and how we deal with

33:55 ↗ Wildfire so I'm happy to announce

33:58 ↗ um that isqua is um undergoing a

34:01 ↗ wildfire evacuation study um this is

34:04 ↗ something that I'm personally very

34:05 ↗ excited about and I think it's going to

34:07 ↗ answer a lot of our community questions

34:09 ↗ and desires that we've been all

34:11 ↗ clamoring for you know when it comes to

34:12 ↗ Wildfire now evacuation is very

34:15 ↗ important because we have a lot of

34:17 ↗ neighborhoods that have one way in and

34:18 ↗ one way out right in many neighborhoods

34:21 ↗ there's also Service Roads and um

34:23 ↗ potential areas that we might want to

34:25 ↗ mitigate to um to create new roads and

34:27 ↗ and things like that this study will

34:30 ↗ give us a baseline time estimate on how

34:32 ↗ long it'll take a neighborhood to

34:34 ↗ evacuate and for the whole city to

34:36 ↗ evacuate what this study does is they

34:38 ↗ actually build your city piece by piece

34:40 ↗ within a virtual model down to even like

34:42 ↗ stop signs and other road signs um it's

34:45 ↗ a complete replica of your city then

34:48 ↗ once they complete that you know they

34:50 ↗ run a whole bunch of traffic simulations

34:51 ↗ and you get a time estimate out of it

34:53 ↗ but what makes it so exciting is the

34:55 ↗ fact that they can actually play with

34:56 ↗ the model so if we wanted to make a road

34:59 ↗ in Forest Rim we can actually see and

35:01 ↗ quantify the benefit that it would have

35:04 ↗ in terms of uh time reduction and

35:06 ↗ evacuation same is true for the service

35:09 ↗ roads so we can model you know if we

35:11 ↗ open up the service road 30 minutes

35:13 ↗ after the fire start it would help you

35:14 ↗ know with an hour you know in evacuation

35:17 ↗ times it also gives you best practices

35:19 ↗ um like where at which intersections to

35:22 ↗ position police officers and how and the

35:25 ↗ positive benefits that would have on

35:26 ↗ evacuation time

35:28 ↗ um so really I think it'll help us guide

35:31 ↗ our future decisions and guide our

35:33 ↗ future mitigation actions when it comes

35:34 ↗ to Wildfire in a really tangible way

35:37 ↗ right we'll have hard numbers that we'll

35:39 ↗ that we'll know for our evacuation times

35:41 ↗ and we can know what we can do to reduce

35:43 ↗ those times so frankly I'm very excited

35:45 ↗ about it because it gives us something

35:46 ↗ to work with right um so our current

35:49 ↗ timeline for that is we're hoping that

35:50 ↗ it'll be done by the end of the year um

35:52 ↗ if not it'll be you know very early next

35:55 ↗ year so this is um this is Full Steam

35:57 ↗ ahead and I'm going to be happy to share

35:59 ↗ the results with you all when they're

36:02 ↗ completed a similar effort um that we

36:05 ↗ are undergoing is something that is

36:07 ↗ called chipper days now we're not the

36:09 ↗ First Community to do a chipper days you

36:11 ↗ may have already heard about it

36:12 ↗ essentially what it is is um individual

36:14 ↗ homeowners pile their large Woody debris

36:17 ↗ up in on the street and someone comes by

36:20 ↗ with a wood chipper in this case it

36:22 ↗ would be our parks department comes and

36:23 ↗ chips that Woody debris um and then you

36:26 ↗ know our parks department will use those

36:28 ↗ wit chips later but you what it does is

36:30 ↗ it reduces the risk around you know

36:32 ↗ Wildfire but it also gives us a really

36:34 ↗ good chance to talk to community members

36:36 ↗ about Wildfire risk right so East Side

36:39 ↗ Fire and Rescue has a wildfire

36:40 ↗ mitigation specialist it's uh their

36:42 ↗ whole job uh they go around they look at

36:45 ↗ homes and they give recommendations

36:47 ↗ she's hoping to come on out with us and

36:49 ↗ so as we're chipping people's you know

36:50 ↗ Woody debris we can also talk about

36:52 ↗ other tangible ways uh that Wildfire

36:54 ↗ risk can be reduced on their property so

36:57 ↗ we're really excited to Pilot this we're

36:59 ↗ going to Pilot it up in Forest rim on

37:01 ↗ Parcels that border city-owned property

37:04 ↗ so that's going to be our first initial

37:06 ↗ pilot program area we hope to expand it

37:08 ↗ later if it's if it's a success King

37:11 ↗ Conservation District um we've been

37:13 ↗ working with them closely they've been

37:14 ↗ doing these for quite some time and they

37:16 ↗ recommended that we start small first

37:18 ↗ because the logistics behind them are

37:19 ↗ actually surprisingly large so we don't

37:21 ↗ want to um have our Parks employees

37:23 ↗ chipping through the night or anything

37:25 ↗ like

37:26 ↗ that all right all right so those are

37:28 ↗ some of the mitigation efforts that

37:29 ↗ we're taking but we're also preparing

37:31 ↗ our operational side at the city so

37:33 ↗ we've had a couple exercises um that I

37:35 ↗ want to highlight this was a Timber

37:38 ↗ Ridge evacuation exercise that we did

37:40 ↗ about a month ago um Timber Ridge is a

37:43 ↗ independent living assisted living

37:44 ↗ community up in the Talis neighborhood

37:47 ↗ um we were able to simulate a wildfire

37:50 ↗ event up there and actually evacuated um

37:53 ↗ 30 of those residents brought them down

37:55 ↗ to isqua Senior Center which is our

37:57 ↗ resilience Hub check them in and uh had

38:00 ↗ them essentially go through you know

38:02 ↗ step by step what it would be like in an

38:04 ↗ evacuation now Beyond just the residents

38:07 ↗ getting that experience for us that is

38:09 ↗ really invaluable you know just thinking

38:11 ↗ through this challenge of evacuation and

38:14 ↗ providing for our community members in

38:16 ↗ those times um was something that I

38:19 ↗ think was very beneficial for all

38:20 ↗ involved our CT team helped out to which

38:23 ↗ I know some of you have taken part in um

38:25 ↗ and it was a very very good exercise one

38:27 ↗ that we don't have a slide for um only

38:29 ↗ happened a couple weeks ago but uh isqua

38:32 ↗ staff joined in isqua's emergency

38:34 ↗ Operation Center training and exercise

38:37 ↗ um and what an EOC is an emergency

38:39 ↗ Operation Center is essentially where we

38:40 ↗ coordinate our Disaster Response in the

38:43 ↗ event so we had a training for about 50

38:45 ↗ staff members um it was it was a good

38:47 ↗ training but was really valuable too at

38:49 ↗ the end is we had an exercise a

38:51 ↗ discussion based exercise and you can

38:53 ↗ probably guess what the hazard was it

38:55 ↗ was Wildfire so we talked about a

38:58 ↗ wildfire starting outside of the Talis

39:00 ↗ neighborhood and went step by step you

39:02 ↗ know through our actions and what we

39:03 ↗ would do even beyond the response but

39:05 ↗ even into recovery and you know we had a

39:08 ↗ lot of good takeaways from that and I

39:09 ↗ think we all learned um quite a bit but

39:12 ↗ I just want to highlight that you know

39:14 ↗ we're actively thinking through um our

39:16 ↗ response you know at the city level

39:18 ↗ right we are we're we're moving forward

39:20 ↗ to not get cut flat footed in any one of

39:22 ↗ these uh

39:24 ↗ incidents all right talking about public

39:25 ↗ education real quick um the public being

39:28 ↗ aware of this risk is very important

39:30 ↗ here's a picture of our Emergency

39:31 ↗ Management intern Lisa Sergeant at the

39:33 ↗ sustainability Fair spreading the word

39:36 ↗ about uh wildfire and all hazards within

39:38 ↗ the city here are a couple tweets that

39:41 ↗ we posted last summer with the help of

39:43 ↗ the communications team raising

39:44 ↗ awareness around Wildfire particularly

39:47 ↗ in those high-risk uh late summertime uh

39:50 ↗ days that we that are that our risk is

39:52 ↗ worse and then um I've been hitting a

39:55 ↗ lot of our neighborhoods in HOAs um

39:57 ↗ lately talking about Wildfire risk and

39:59 ↗ all hazards too so um just last week I

40:02 ↗ was up in the highlands at a community

40:04 ↗ presentation there um with C Robinson

40:06 ↗ East Side Fire and rescues Wildfire

40:07 ↗ mitigation specialist um just talking

40:10 ↗ about Wildfire so I've been to Talis um

40:13 ↗ Providence Point the highlands you know

40:16 ↗ really just missing squawk now so we're

40:18 ↗ making a concerted effort to get out

40:19 ↗ into the community you know to make sure

40:21 ↗ that they're aware um it's really

40:24 ↗ important that they are notified in in

40:26 ↗ an in an emergency particularly in a

40:29 ↗ wildfire so a few other initiatives um

40:32 ↗ we're expanding our emergency alert um

40:34 ↗ subscribers we're also encouraging our

40:37 ↗ partners and community- based

40:39 ↗ organization Partners to take part in

40:41 ↗ what we are also partnering in the

40:43 ↗ trusted partner Network that's a lot of

40:45 ↗ Partners but uh what this is It's a

40:47 ↗ volunteer group that helps push

40:49 ↗ emergency broadcasts to their community

40:51 ↗ in which they find themselves part of so

40:53 ↗ you know we may not always have inroads

40:55 ↗ with every Community right that uh of

40:57 ↗ individuals that live in isqua right but

41:00 ↗ someone likely does so if they can help

41:02 ↗ us rebroadcast our emergency alerts to

41:04 ↗ that Community you know they're getting

41:05 ↗ it from a source they trust and they're

41:07 ↗ getting it in a way that they would

41:08 ↗ expect so whether it be WhatsApp or

41:10 ↗ Discord or any of these other um

41:12 ↗ communication methods that we don't

41:13 ↗ typically use um these individuals will

41:16 ↗ rebroadcast that message for us so we're

41:18 ↗ really excited about trying to expand

41:20 ↗ that in this qua like I said

41:21 ↗ notification is essential uh in a

41:24 ↗ wildfire we're also developing our

41:26 ↗ community wildfire protection plan in

41:28 ↗ partnership with Eide fire and rescue so

41:30 ↗ um Cat Robinson again Wildfire

41:32 ↗ mitigation specialist is leading that

41:34 ↗ effort that will give us tangible

41:36 ↗ actions that we can take to reduce our

41:37 ↗ our risk uh lastly the resilience Hub

41:40 ↗ efforts which I've alluded to earlier um

41:42 ↗ we are expanding these resilience hubs

41:45 ↗ what they are if you're unfamiliar with

41:46 ↗ the concept is there a single location

41:50 ↗ that um will remain essentially

41:51 ↗ operational during an emergency where

41:54 ↗ the community can come to um they can

41:56 ↗ get help they can get connected with um

41:59 ↗ other services that may not be available

42:01 ↗ to them at that individual resilience

42:03 ↗ Hub and uh we're doing this project in

42:05 ↗ partnership with the sustainability

42:07 ↗ group and we're seeing great great

42:09 ↗ progress so far and we hope to really uh

42:11 ↗ make sure that this holds firm in isqua

42:13 ↗ we have many resilience hubs in our

42:16 ↗ community all right so with that we've

42:19 ↗ set the stage on what we're doing uh

42:21 ↗ with Wildfire risk um and a little bit

42:24 ↗ about our particular risk as James

42:26 ↗ alluded to

42:27 ↗ um there is Wildfire risk maps that are

42:29 ↗ being developed in association with the

42:31 ↗ new ruie codes now there's two maps

42:35 ↗ actually that isqua will get a chance to

42:37 ↗ partake in um the first one is dnrs Maps

42:40 ↗ so they'll be developed in about a year

42:42 ↗ and a half after their completion local

42:44 ↗ jurisdictions will have about six months

42:47 ↗ to adopt either that map or an

42:49 ↗ additional map or a different map that

42:51 ↗ they've made um jurisdictions will also

42:54 ↗ get a chance to provide feedback on

42:56 ↗ those state maps so we can you know have

42:58 ↗ a say into the mapping process um but

43:01 ↗ little more is known about that effort

43:04 ↗ so far it's still relatively new we

43:06 ↗ haven't heard much from the state about

43:07 ↗ what that's actually going to look like

43:09 ↗ or what our opportunities will look like

43:10 ↗ to really influence that mapping Pro uh

43:13 ↗ that mapping product but um we will stay

43:16 ↗ on top of that the second uh Wildfire

43:19 ↗ risk map that's being developed is

43:20 ↗ actually through King County they

43:22 ↗ received grant funding to develop a

43:23 ↗ community Wildfire protection plan and

43:26 ↗ part of that Grant is to um do a risk

43:28 ↗ map for their community and um I guess I

43:31 ↗ should take a step back too and

43:33 ↗ highlight that risk maps are different

43:35 ↗ than wooi Maps I think you've all seen

43:38 ↗ the wooi map that I think I've even

43:39 ↗ presented here before right risk maps

43:42 ↗ are not wooi maps uh risk Maps take in a

43:45 ↗ whole bunch of different other factors

43:47 ↗ that say not just where vegetation is

43:50 ↗ growing right next to development which

43:52 ↗ is wooi Maps risk Maps taken to effect

43:56 ↗ things like weather pattern

43:57 ↗ right fuels burn probability um

44:00 ↗ historical um occurrences of wildfire

44:04 ↗ that all makes up risk Maps so it's not

44:06 ↗ going to be another Wii map what what

44:08 ↗ it's going to look like is completely

44:10 ↗ different from what we're used to

44:12 ↗ seeing so with that we really have two

44:15 ↗ options we can either wait until the

44:17 ↗ development of uh Washington Department

44:19 ↗ of Natural Resources risk map and King

44:21 ↗ County's risk map that consider our own

44:23 ↗ local modifications or option two we can

44:26 ↗ procure our own city of visal wildfire

44:28 ↗ risk study now um a little bit later in

44:31 ↗ the presentation I'll be up to talk

44:33 ↗ about what that actually looks like at

44:35 ↗ the recommendation of PDC when James and

44:37 ↗ I were there U that was one of the

44:39 ↗ takeaways as they wanted us to do a

44:40 ↗ little fact finding Miss Mission so I'll

44:43 ↗ uh present on that

44:45 ↗ soon okay so let's take a look at what

44:49 ↗ risk Maps currently are saying about

44:51 ↗ isqua's uh situation so here is the

44:55 ↗ United State Forest Services Wild risk

44:57 ↗ mapping uh tool they show isqua is

44:59 ↗ having a low risk of wildfire lower than

45:02 ↗ most communities in the US I think it's

45:04 ↗ at

45:05 ↗ 78% um now what you see in this map

45:07 ↗ right is you have these top boxes that

45:09 ↗ say low right but then exposure part

45:12 ↗ that says high right down in the left

45:14 ↗ quadrant and that's really the wooi map

45:17 ↗ right that's that's the wooi you know

45:19 ↗ all of our neighborhoods have large

45:21 ↗ amounts of vegetation around them and so

45:23 ↗ while the exposure is high our risk is

45:25 ↗ still relatively low

45:27 ↗ uh the same is true for FEMA's National

45:30 ↗ Risk Index um this is essentially a tool

45:32 ↗ that all Hazard mitigation professionals

45:34 ↗ use to understand their exposure to a

45:37 ↗ natural Hazard for a community so what

45:39 ↗ it says about King County it doesn't get

45:41 ↗ down into the city level is that there's

45:43 ↗ relatively low risk um especially when

45:46 ↗ you compare it to somewhere like Chalan

45:48 ↗ you know you see it in the Risk Index

45:49 ↗ score of

45:51 ↗ 9917 right katas is 98.57%

45:57 ↗ counties Pearson to homish they have

45:58 ↗ kind of similar risk to us right but

46:01 ↗ again this is just to highlight right

46:02 ↗ what current risk products are saying

46:04 ↗ about isqua the last one I I want to

46:07 ↗ show you is actually what private

46:09 ↗ insurers look like oh sorry yeah can we

46:11 ↗ uh go back I think you got a question

46:13 ↗ from council member Mars yes

46:15 ↗ yeah pardon me does that does that

46:19 ↗ include an estimated probability of fuel

46:22 ↗ load yes yeah okay because most of the

46:26 ↗ year we're pretty wet except when we're

46:28 ↗ not exactly exactly and that's what

46:31 ↗ really contri that's what our risk is

46:33 ↗ right on those hot dry East Wind days

46:37 ↗ right that's what makes our extreme fire

46:39 ↗ hazard you know uh days right that's

46:41 ↗ when we get the red flag warnings which

46:43 ↗ are quite rare but yes these risk

46:45 ↗ mapping products account for that

46:47 ↗ account for that vegetation

46:50 ↗ load great all right so risk factor um

46:55 ↗ is what private insurance companies used

46:57 ↗ to understand risk for for hazards um

47:00 ↗ what they say about isquad this is

47:02 ↗ actually taken at the forest Rim uh

47:04 ↗ community so arguably our highest risk

47:06 ↗ Community for Wildfire risk they say

47:08 ↗ that we have a less than 0.1% chance of

47:10 ↗ a wildfire in uh 30 years so um still

47:15 ↗ relatively low right so the reason I'm

47:17 ↗ highlighting all of these right is to

47:20 ↗ say there's a good chance if we do

47:23 ↗ procure our own Wildfire risk study it's

47:26 ↗ going to read pretty similar right it's

47:27 ↗ going to it's it maybe may not um reveal

47:30 ↗ much more than what you know the models

47:33 ↗ are already showing uh these risk

47:35 ↗ modeling um services that these that

47:37 ↗ these companies do it's a standard

47:39 ↗ equation um the math is is set um you

47:43 ↗ just plug in a jurisdiction right and

47:45 ↗ and it spits out the the information

47:47 ↗ right so there's not too much variance

47:49 ↗ is what I'm trying to say right if we do

47:51 ↗ create if we do choose our own risk

47:53 ↗ mapping uh effort I'm afraid that it'll

47:56 ↗ look very similar to the states and the

47:58 ↗ counties um and it may not be the best

48:00 ↗ use of our funds but I'll talk about

48:02 ↗ that a little bit more too we have a

48:03 ↗ whole slide devoted to our to those risk

48:05 ↗ maps and I can give you some more

48:06 ↗ information

48:08 ↗ then okay so with that um I plan to

48:12 ↗ track and participate in the state

48:14 ↗ Wildfire risk mapping effort uh we're

48:16 ↗ provided the same is true for King

48:18 ↗ County's Wildfire risk mapping effort as

48:21 ↗ well um I'll be on the planning team and

48:23 ↗ I'll you know stay on top of it and then

48:25 ↗ whatever pream are maps that we get back

48:28 ↗ um I'll come before PDC and you all to

48:31 ↗ provide feedback on those maps and get a

48:33 ↗ chance to you know have your input and

48:35 ↗ sway in those in that mapping effort now

48:38 ↗ what that really looks like at the state

48:39 ↗ process you know yet we're still we're

48:41 ↗ still questioning ourselves we just

48:43 ↗ don't have those details um but again

48:45 ↗ this is a a very important element of

48:47 ↗ the wooi codes because this is really

48:50 ↗ what those wooi actions are filtered

48:52 ↗ through through these risk Maps so great

48:56 ↗ um now with that James is going to talk

48:58 ↗ about just how they are applied or could

49:00 ↗ be applied within our community so back

49:02 ↗ to James thank

49:06 ↗ you g thank you for that he's that's

49:09 ↗ much more exciting than what I've got to

49:10 ↗ talk about he's a hard act to follow so

49:13 ↗ much more interesting so the um wadland

49:15 ↗ Urban interface code one more time this

49:18 ↗ is so it's kind of a representation of

49:20 ↗ what we did with PDC on April 2nd just a

49:23 ↗ quick overview of the mandatory and

49:25 ↗ non-mandatory provision

49:27 ↗ so once the Statewide maps are completed

49:30 ↗ the structural hardening requirements

49:32 ↗ will be mandatory for those that don't

49:34 ↗ know structural hardening are elements

49:36 ↗ that have to do with how we protect the

49:39 ↗ structures from Wildfire but the

49:41 ↗ structures themselves roof and exterior

49:44 ↗ wall construction decks driveways and

49:45 ↗ ventilation

49:46 ↗ restrictions if the city wishes to

49:49 ↗ enforce the non-mandatory provisions

49:52 ↗ that are not in the RCW that's listed

49:54 ↗ such as defensible space we would would

49:56 ↗ need to adopt some or all of those

49:59 ↗ pursuant to this

50:02 ↗ RCW so defensible space this is the one

50:05 ↗ that's gotten the most attention it's

50:07 ↗ the most difficult and it is also

50:10 ↗ retroactive in the Wildland Urban

50:12 ↗ interface code defensible space has to

50:15 ↗ do with vegetation that is around a

50:17 ↗ structure and I've got a graphic here in

50:19 ↗ just a moment to show what this looks

50:21 ↗ like but for instance uh vegetation

50:23 ↗ within 30 ft of a structure has to be

50:25 ↗ removed there's exception for trees

50:28 ↗ you've got 10 foot tree crowns uh but

50:31 ↗ there are distances to the power lines

50:33 ↗ that have to be measured do we have have

50:35 ↗ a question yeah and um could you just

50:39 ↗ talk um as you're coming into this how

50:42 ↗ this code compared

50:45 ↗ like trying to frame it according to

50:48 ↗ what I heard from the pte meeting is

50:52 ↗ this something that you're proposing at

50:54 ↗ this time or is it a potential future

50:56 ↗ future

50:57 ↗ conversation it's a good qu uh question

51:00 ↗ council president we are proposing to

51:04 ↗ remove this stuff from what was adopted

51:07 ↗ previously okay and council member is

51:11 ↗ there an exception for critical

51:12 ↗ slope there currently is not so uh I'm

51:17 ↗ on the upper side of Idlewood and my

51:19 ↗ neighbor cleared some space around his

51:21 ↗ house very unwisely and he now has a

51:24 ↗ $400,000 retaining wall below his house

51:27 ↗ because he destabilized the hillside 30t

51:30 ↗ of critical slope creates

51:33 ↗ slides so what do we do about that and I

51:36 ↗ mean it it would be you you're trading a

51:41 ↗ wildfire risk for an extremely well

51:43 ↗ understood slide risk when you uh when

51:46 ↗ you do things like that on critical

51:47 ↗ slope I'm I'm stunned to hear there is

51:49 ↗ not an exemption for critical slope

51:50 ↗ thank you council member our

51:53 ↗ recommendation is to not adopt this

51:55 ↗ stuff we um we we got a mandate from the

51:59 ↗ state and then that mandate was

52:01 ↗ withdrawn and we tried to beat their

52:04 ↗ deadline and get it adopted which this

52:07 ↗ this body was uh did for us and then

52:11 ↗ they withdrew it so we are kind of

52:12 ↗ rolling back on that now um the the

52:16 ↗ maybe the the overarching summary of

52:18 ↗ this whole thing and the emergency

52:20 ↗ managers presentation is that isqua in

52:25 ↗ this area in Western Washington is

52:27 ↗ probably not ready for this code this

52:29 ↗ may be a code that is more applicable to

52:32 ↗ drier more desert area I was just down

52:35 ↗ in Southern California this weekend

52:37 ↗ actually and talking to some folks who

52:40 ↗ um live under this code in that area it

52:42 ↗ it looks very very different than our

52:45 ↗ community um probably our recommendation

52:47 ↗ is our community maybe mentally is not

52:49 ↗ ready for it and our forests aren't

52:51 ↗ ready for it that's why we're what we

52:54 ↗ want to present tonight um these

52:56 ↗ defensible space requirements also fly

52:58 ↗ in the face of our uh tree canopy goals

53:01 ↗ several other Provisions in Title

53:04 ↗ 18 so the policy question is should we

53:07 ↗ wait to adopt the Wildland Urban

53:09 ↗ interface code until the state does

53:11 ↗ their piece and the maps are completed

53:14 ↗ the committee recommended waiting for

53:15 ↗ the State uh on adoption of the Wildland

53:17 ↗ Urban interface code but look at what

53:20 ↗ portions of the defensible space we

53:22 ↗ could adopt that would help the

53:25 ↗ situation might not be quite as

53:28 ↗ painful and then the second question had

53:30 ↗ to do with it with adopting the maps and

53:32 ↗ creating our own maps and emergency

53:34 ↗ managers that a little

53:36 ↗ bit additional questions we had from PDC

53:40 ↗ is can we adopt just portions so we

53:42 ↗ consulted with our legal counsel yes we

53:44 ↗ can adopt portions and uh some comments

53:48 ↗ were made about driveway lengths which

53:50 ↗ would probably help this is for new

53:52 ↗ structures over 300 ft this would give

53:55 ↗ Emergency Management been an opportunity

53:57 ↗ to get up to a structure and be able to

53:59 ↗ Turner and get back out of the driveway

54:01 ↗ exceeded 300 ft and we are recommending

54:04 ↗ that keep that piece of structural

54:06 ↗ hardening

54:08 ↗ provision another question from PDC had

54:11 ↗ to do with the estimating the cost of

54:12 ↗ creating our own

54:15 ↗ maps about

54:17 ↗ that thank you James yes so um we

54:20 ↗ contacted multiple vendors to procure

54:22 ↗ quotes for doing just that to develop

54:24 ↗ our own Wildfire risk maps and what we

54:26 ↗ got back was a wide range between about

54:28 ↗ $10,000 to $880,000 to develop those

54:31 ↗ risk Maps um yeah kind of the reason for

54:34 ↗ the variance is what you would expect

54:36 ↗ the level of analysis in details on the

54:38 ↗ high end you know you could uh even

54:40 ↗ analyze certain win patterns and things

54:43 ↗ through certain topography and things

54:45 ↗ like that but time estimates for the

54:47 ↗ creation of the maps were about 6 months

54:49 ↗ to one year and so I think um James kind

54:52 ↗ of went through it right but the PDC

54:54 ↗ recommended that the committee uh the

54:56 ↗ committee recommended waiting to adopt

54:58 ↗ isqua Wildfire Hazard and risk Maps

55:00 ↗ until after DNR and King County finished

55:02 ↗ their Maps so that's what we found from

55:05 ↗ procuring those quotes about the risk

55:06 ↗ mapping efforts um I know council member

55:09 ↗ Hall you um looked like you had a

55:11 ↗ question about those risk Maps before

55:12 ↗ earlier um did that answer your

55:16 ↗ question okay um most of it yes I I

55:20 ↗ guess I'm I'm curious as to how two M

55:22 ↗ two maps might look different and why

55:24 ↗ they might come to that yeah and so I

55:27 ↗ think that's what I we're all asking um

55:31 ↗ I think likely they will not look

55:33 ↗ different because the inputs are pretty

55:36 ↗ well understood at this point for

55:38 ↗ Wildfire risk Maps um it's standard it's

55:42 ↗ kind of backed by the science so that's

55:44 ↗ my big fear is that we will spend money

55:46 ↗ to develop our own Wildfire risk map and

55:48 ↗ it'll look exactly like the states it'll

55:50 ↗ look exactly like King

55:54 ↗ counties any other question on the risk

55:56 ↗ Maps before I turn it back to James

56:01 ↗ okay and council member Mars a previous

56:03 ↗ meeting we had you asked about the steep

56:05 ↗ slopes and your your backyard uh so I

56:08 ↗ was at a I was at a a building officials

56:11 ↗ conference and I was talking to a couple

56:13 ↗ of my peers and one of them was from

56:14 ↗ Seattle and actually brought this this

56:16 ↗ thing up I said look we've got you we

56:18 ↗ have steep slopes like yeah we've got

56:19 ↗ steep slopes too so what some of them

56:22 ↗ are are talking about is ranking these

56:25 ↗ risks so there there's a risk of there's

56:28 ↗ a risk of uh slope erosion there's a

56:31 ↗ risk of Wildland and ranking which one

56:34 ↗ is is more important but we really need

56:36 ↗ to get to what the state is going to do

56:38 ↗ with that code before we even got to

56:40 ↗ that piece at this point we're just

56:42 ↗ thinking we probably this is probably

56:44 ↗ not something that we would

56:46 ↗ recommend so again looks like we've got

56:48 ↗ a question on that before you move on

56:51 ↗ along that note I'm just wondering if

56:52 ↗ the state has that kind of feedback

56:53 ↗ about thinking about slopes um this

56:56 ↗ context or or are they kind of chewing

56:58 ↗ on this in a different so another good

57:01 ↗ question I and I have not heard it and I

57:03 ↗ don't know if jar heard something like

57:05 ↗ that or

57:08 ↗ no essentially some of these concerns is

57:10 ↗ what caused you know the yeah the State

57:13 ↗ Building Code Council to to go back you

57:16 ↗ know on adoption it's not just steep

57:18 ↗ slopes too but it's also heat um heat

57:21 ↗ risk reduction as well trees do a Wonder

57:23 ↗ for heat so I think it was kind of all

57:25 ↗ these concerns wrapped together maybe

57:27 ↗ not just one that did kind of lead to

57:31 ↗ that so in back to our recommendations

57:34 ↗ we're we're recommending that we wait to

57:36 ↗ adopt the mandatory provisions of the wo

57:38 ↗ until the state's ready there's the

57:40 ↗ provision on barbecues which again is uh

57:43 ↗ going back to what was in the original

57:45 ↗ code and uh waiting to for the for the

57:49 ↗ state and King County's mapping efforts

57:52 ↗ so for our timing and next steps uh we

57:54 ↗ are here at the council code

57:56 ↗ modification adoption we're requesting

57:58 ↗ that this minor fire code modification

58:01 ↗ and we roll back these pieces of the

58:03 ↗ wooi and that would give us an effective

58:05 ↗ date for that code of July

58:10 ↗ 1 that we

58:12 ↗ will questions and before we go to

58:14 ↗ questions I'm actually going to turn to

58:16 ↗ PD chair hunt and see if she'd like to

58:20 ↗ kind of summarize the meeting that we

58:23 ↗ had over this topic if there's anything

58:25 ↗ to add

58:27 ↗ thank you thank you council president

58:30 ↗ Walsh um yes so the Planning Development

58:32 ↗ and environment committee met on April

58:35 ↗ 2nd to discuss this item and um some of

58:39 ↗ the things that we covered were that

58:41 ↗ Wildfire risks are increasing um due to

58:44 ↗ climate change and the impacts of

58:46 ↗ climate change and we want to make sure

58:48 ↗ that we're proactive in perfecting our

58:50 ↗ residents and giving our residents tools

58:52 ↗ to um protect their their homes um

58:56 ↗ members wanted to be uh to consider

59:00 ↗ other ways of um protecting residents

59:03 ↗ and giving residence tools other than

59:05 ↗ what the State Building Code Council had

59:08 ↗ um mandated and then rolled back because

59:11 ↗ the situation with that particular code

59:14 ↗ was so unclear um we adopted it after

59:17 ↗ they had mandated it then they they

59:19 ↗ rolled it back and so now we are also

59:21 ↗ rolling it back um the city uh wanted to

59:26 ↗ um uh let's see we wanted to make sure

59:29 ↗ that we are taking actions that uh we

59:31 ↗ know are going to be in the future code

59:33 ↗ to help the contractor and the building

59:36 ↗ Community um so I think for example the

59:39 ↗ driveway turnarounds that's something

59:41 ↗ that we expect to be in the code that's

59:43 ↗ something that will be um uh important

59:46 ↗ for contractors to know is going to be a

59:48 ↗ requirement and so we we were interested

59:51 ↗ in considering those sorts of parts of

59:53 ↗ the code um and so I appreciate that

59:56 ↗ that that was brought forward um today

59:58 ↗ in our

1:00:00 ↗ recommendation and uh we agreed with the

1:00:03 ↗ city um the city staff that we didn't

1:00:07 ↗ think it made sense for the city to make

1:00:08 ↗ its own fire hazard Maps firstly the

1:00:11 ↗ time that that would have taken was

1:00:13 ↗ about what it's expected to take from

1:00:16 ↗ the King County and the um state maps

1:00:21 ↗ that are upper ends of how long we think

1:00:23 ↗ it would take us to make our own maps

1:00:25 ↗ with a year and the lower ends of theirs

1:00:27 ↗ was about a year um additionally we as

1:00:30 ↗ was as was stated um by Jared we expect

1:00:33 ↗ that the results wouldn't be very

1:00:35 ↗ different and it would be an expense to

1:00:37 ↗ the city when we have other things that

1:00:39 ↗ we can do specific to isqua that will

1:00:41 ↗ benefit our community such as the

1:00:43 ↗ evacuation um study that is going

1:00:46 ↗ on and um we did we did think it was

1:00:50 ↗ important that the city remains involved

1:00:52 ↗ in the planning for the state maps and

1:00:55 ↗ in the state map

1:00:56 ↗ process we had a discussion about the

1:00:58 ↗ defensible space um we we too felt that

1:01:02 ↗ the critical slopes is really important

1:01:04 ↗ to be considered and the erosion uh

1:01:07 ↗ prevention importance of trees and that

1:01:11 ↗ wasn't um factored into the current code

1:01:14 ↗ so we didn't think that this code the

1:01:16 ↗ defensible space made sense and and as

1:01:19 ↗ was explained it also got rolled back

1:01:21 ↗ probably in part because it that part of

1:01:24 ↗ the code may not apply um across the

1:01:27 ↗ state including to our part of the

1:01:30 ↗ state and

1:01:33 ↗ um and then lastly we wanted to make

1:01:36 ↗ sure that there were discussions going

1:01:38 ↗ on with the homeowners associations

1:01:40 ↗ because some of our homeowners

1:01:42 ↗ associations in town have um have

1:01:46 ↗ requirements that prevent structural

1:01:48 ↗ hardening against fire for example so we

1:01:51 ↗ want to make sure that those homeowners

1:01:52 ↗ associations know that there is this

1:01:54 ↗ wooi code that is likely coming it will

1:01:57 ↗ likely um require some changes and so we

1:02:00 ↗ want to help them prepare and we also

1:02:02 ↗ want to make sure that they know what

1:02:04 ↗ the status of the Wildfire risk is so

1:02:06 ↗ that they can help their communities um

1:02:08 ↗ prevent forest

1:02:12 ↗ fires excellent well thank you very much

1:02:16 ↗ um for that as you can see it's been a

1:02:17 ↗ lot of back and forth and back and forth

1:02:20 ↗ um but I think we're we're settled maybe

1:02:23 ↗ for a little while uh so we're going to

1:02:25 ↗ two questions I see Deputy council

1:02:28 ↗ president D Michelle starting

1:02:31 ↗ out oops so there was a small um item in

1:02:35 ↗ the packet about uh barbecues and multif

1:02:38 ↗ family uh dwellings and I was very

1:02:40 ↗ interested in that I live in a multi

1:02:42 ↗ family dwelling and we did have a

1:02:44 ↗ barbecue incident at at at mine um and

1:02:48 ↗ so I got a good explanation was Jeremy

1:02:52 ↗ yes thank you so much that was a really

1:02:54 ↗ good so it sounds to me if if I cap you

1:02:57 ↗ know kind of capture what was said

1:02:59 ↗ somehow this item about barbecues got

1:03:03 ↗ adop what we're doing is resending that

1:03:06 ↗ adoption so there really there is no

1:03:09 ↗ impact to our multifam dwellings if we

1:03:12 ↗ follow the

1:03:13 ↗ recomend that correct and the second

1:03:16 ↗ part was uh

1:03:18 ↗ like hunt said uh concern about how you

1:03:21 ↗ communicate these changes to multifam

1:03:24 ↗ management company as well as

1:03:29 ↗ HOAs yeah thank you Council Jeremy Hicks

1:03:31 ↗ East Side Fire and Rescue Fire Marshall

1:03:33 ↗ South Division uh I think you hit the

1:03:36 ↗ nail on the head there um essentially

1:03:37 ↗ what happened is um this has not been

1:03:40 ↗ adopted by code by model code um to set

1:03:44 ↗ um to set the table we'll say this time

1:03:47 ↗ um on this there's a couple different

1:03:49 ↗ version of the code we have the

1:03:50 ↗ international code that then comes to

1:03:52 ↗ the state and through a uh lack of

1:03:55 ↗ better terms of legislative process the

1:03:57 ↗ state reviews it and then makes

1:03:59 ↗ recommendations amends the code and then

1:04:01 ↗ it goes to the city or the county level

1:04:03 ↗ to do it even

1:04:05 ↗ further the international code in this

1:04:08 ↗ case has a section that's adopted um by

1:04:14 ↗ um in in their code language it says

1:04:17 ↗ that you cannot use barbecues on

1:04:19 ↗ multifam decks and it has a couple

1:04:22 ↗ different exceptions on their

1:04:23 ↗ non-combustible constructions or

1:04:25 ↗ sprinkler

1:04:26 ↗ um and then the state chose not to adopt

1:04:29 ↗ that section it's been like that for

1:04:31 ↗ about the last two or three code

1:04:32 ↗ revisions saying this section not

1:04:34 ↗ adopted um through this legislative

1:04:38 ↗ process I was discussing at the state

1:04:41 ↗ that that got thrown out that they got

1:04:44 ↗ missed so we accidentally adopted the

1:04:47 ↗ code in in a revision that the state

1:04:50 ↗ said this isn't going to be adopted so

1:04:53 ↗ ironically the same day that they made

1:04:55 ↗ the code adoption they also made the

1:04:57 ↗ emergency rule saying we're not going to

1:04:58 ↗ adopt it almost identical to what they

1:05:01 ↗ did with the wooi code so

1:05:04 ↗ um planning ahead like we do uh we put

1:05:08 ↗ this into our code Amendment sections

1:05:11 ↗ saying hey we need to get this out there

1:05:12 ↗ get this aware get everybody known and

1:05:14 ↗ then the state decided not to adopt it

1:05:16 ↗ as you can imagine adopting a code

1:05:18 ↗ saying you can't have barbecues on your

1:05:20 ↗ deck that it could be a little bit of an

1:05:22 ↗ enforcement nightmare right on multif

1:05:24 ↗ family it it wasn't thrown out there the

1:05:28 ↗ communication so I think uh what we want

1:05:31 ↗ to do with the messaging which we've

1:05:33 ↗ been doing with the messaging is saying

1:05:35 ↗ hey here's the things you should have

1:05:37 ↗ follow your manufacturers

1:05:38 ↗ recommendations on how you use these

1:05:40 ↗ grills and and use them safely um and

1:05:44 ↗ that's the communication route we're

1:05:46 ↗ going with so what we're asking is just

1:05:49 ↗ to roll back that code to match the

1:05:50 ↗ state code yeah I really appreciated the

1:05:53 ↗ the explanation that you gave me and and

1:05:56 ↗ uh also uh the explanation of how you

1:05:58 ↗ communicate with multif family because

1:06:00 ↗ that's a little different than single

1:06:01 ↗ family homes um and it's harder in some

1:06:04 ↗ ways to communicate with all of the

1:06:06 ↗ people that are involved in a multif

1:06:08 ↗ family uh unit so I really appreciated

1:06:11 ↗ your response thank you so much no

1:06:12 ↗ problem

1:06:13 ↗ yeah okay I didn't see Mike speed uh

1:06:18 ↗ council member Hall followed by council

1:06:20 ↗ member Mars thank you I have a handful

1:06:23 ↗ um so I guess I'm a little confused on

1:06:24 ↗ on the barbecue because there is some

1:06:27 ↗ amended language in the code language in

1:06:31 ↗ here about barbecues that talks about

1:06:32 ↗ rooftops so is that what we're rolling

1:06:34 ↗ it back to is that right yeah so the

1:06:37 ↗ code that what you have in front of you

1:06:39 ↗ is what the code packets essentially the

1:06:41 ↗ amended code and nequa has been for the

1:06:43 ↗ last two code

1:06:46 ↗ Cycles um let's go back to setting the

1:06:48 ↗ table um and when we were doing uh the

1:06:52 ↗ table setting before we put the stuff

1:06:55 ↗ about barbecues under open burning

1:06:57 ↗ because it seemed like a logical place

1:06:59 ↗ in the code to put the

1:07:01 ↗ amendment when we saw that the barbecue

1:07:03 ↗ stuff was coming out it seemed like a

1:07:06 ↗ logical place to take the barbecue stuff

1:07:08 ↗ and put the barbecue stuff with the

1:07:09 ↗ barbecue stuff well now that the

1:07:12 ↗ barbecue stuff wasn't being amended

1:07:14 ↗ we're asking we still want to keep that

1:07:16 ↗ stuff about rooftop barbecues so we're

1:07:18 ↗ putting it back to where it was so again

1:07:21 ↗ it was it's one of those cases where

1:07:23 ↗ you're prepared and then it kind of they

1:07:26 ↗ get you like ah um shouldn't shouldn't

1:07:29 ↗ have been that prepared so we're just

1:07:30 ↗ putting it back to where it was uh

1:07:33 ↗ nothing's changing okay thank you that

1:07:35 ↗ that clears that up for me

1:07:38 ↗ um and then one question for James and

1:07:41 ↗ two for Jared and then my other two

1:07:42 ↗ questions were already answered by James

1:07:45 ↗ so thank you very much um so for the

1:07:48 ↗ driveway aspect of this I I just want to

1:07:51 ↗ clarify it's not clear to me in the code

1:07:53 ↗ language that this applies only to new

1:07:55 ↗ build so can you clarify is that right

1:07:57 ↗ it's just for new build driveways that's

1:07:59 ↗ correct that' be new new new

1:08:02 ↗ construction only okay cool I just

1:08:04 ↗ couldn't I couldn't find it in the in

1:08:06 ↗ the language so perhaps control fing

1:08:09 ↗ wrong been scoping as long as okay as

1:08:12 ↗ long as your confident there good thank

1:08:13 ↗ you um Jared um these are just questions

1:08:17 ↗ that came up during your presentation

1:08:19 ↗ because you're so passionate and I

1:08:20 ↗ appreciate the work that you do and also

1:08:22 ↗ thank you for the the talk you and Cat

1:08:25 ↗ just did up in the highlands I heard it

1:08:26 ↗ was well received so thank you um I'm

1:08:29 ↗ curious I've actually had a chance to

1:08:31 ↗ sit in on an EOC training Emergency

1:08:33 ↗ Operations training it was a water issue

1:08:37 ↗ the one that I sat in on but I'm just

1:08:38 ↗ curious as a city how often do we go

1:08:40 ↗ through EOC trainings do we have some

1:08:42 ↗ sort of policy around that yeah I don't

1:08:44 ↗ I don't think we have an official policy

1:08:45 ↗ but we're trying to figure adjust that

1:08:47 ↗ out actually probably a one-year Tempo

1:08:49 ↗ is what we're going for so y that sounds

1:08:53 ↗ good thank you and then um can you

1:08:55 ↗ remind us who the resiliency Hub

1:08:57 ↗ candidates are right now I know of the

1:08:59 ↗ senior center in Blakeley hall and then

1:09:02 ↗ what are the other ones that are kind of

1:09:03 ↗ in the mix that yeah um isqua Middle

1:09:06 ↗ School is one and then the food bank

1:09:09 ↗ we're doing some scoping for potentially

1:09:12 ↗ more of a partnership with them because

1:09:14 ↗ I know that they might be making some

1:09:15 ↗ changes to their facility uh potentially

1:09:17 ↗ how other discussions you know aside

1:09:20 ↗ from that go um and those are those are

1:09:23 ↗ the three currently yep

1:09:28 ↗ okay council member

1:09:29 ↗ Ms thank you um

1:09:33 ↗ so I have a lot of questions but

1:09:36 ↗ unfortunately they're not all directly

1:09:38 ↗ related to the bill that's in front of

1:09:40 ↗ us we have to have a plan um I remember

1:09:44 ↗ um State Fire Marshal Chuck Duffy told

1:09:46 ↗ me isqua is the poster child for

1:09:49 ↗ Wildland Urban interface fires and there

1:09:52 ↗ can be models that say well you know 360

1:09:56 ↗ days a year it's the fuel loads are

1:09:58 ↗ really low but you know then there's the

1:10:01 ↗ days that it's not right so we need to

1:10:05 ↗ have a plan and on some level we got to

1:10:09 ↗ do what Olympia tells us to do because

1:10:10 ↗ unfortunately that's the law but I don't

1:10:12 ↗ really care what I care about is that

1:10:14 ↗ down the road God forbid there's some

1:10:17 ↗ sort of uh fire my understanding is on

1:10:21 ↗ this side of the P it's about Crown

1:10:23 ↗ fires not about understory so there's a

1:10:25 ↗ house fire and it goes to the crown and

1:10:28 ↗ we lose a neighborhood right y God

1:10:30 ↗ forbid but we need to be able to say

1:10:34 ↗ that we did everything that we knew

1:10:37 ↗ science could tell us to reduce that

1:10:39 ↗ risk right and so we need to have that

1:10:42 ↗ plan and what we're talking about today

1:10:44 ↗ is part of that um there's other parts

1:10:47 ↗ of it right we need to on you know maybe

1:10:51 ↗ it's that on Red Flag Warning days we

1:10:53 ↗ need to have a different um threat

1:10:55 ↗ posture for house fires I don't know I'm

1:10:58 ↗ not this I leave to the the

1:11:00 ↗ professionals at epher um but you know

1:11:02 ↗ we need to have a plan such that if and

1:11:05 ↗ when again God forbid a bad day happens

1:11:08 ↗ we can look our residents in the eye and

1:11:10 ↗ say we did everything we could that was

1:11:13 ↗ reasonable to prepare for that and again

1:11:15 ↗ we have to do what we need to do for

1:11:17 ↗ Olympia and we should take our time

1:11:19 ↗ especially if it doesn't fit well for

1:11:21 ↗ isqua I appreciate that we want to do

1:11:23 ↗ that but we have been talking about this

1:11:27 ↗ for a while and as a homeowner who lives

1:11:29 ↗ adjacent to an open space you know every

1:11:32 ↗ time that the fuel loads go up you know

1:11:35 ↗ I just I go to bed at night thinking I

1:11:38 ↗ just hope there's not a you know

1:11:40 ↗ something bad that happen right and I

1:11:43 ↗ have a 270 foot long driveway that's 8

1:11:46 ↗ and 1 12 ft wide that doesn't have any

1:11:47 ↗ kind of a turnout and I'll be lucky to

1:11:50 ↗ get off the mountain if something bad

1:11:51 ↗ happens so that's my again my my

1:11:55 ↗ questions I mean topping versus

1:11:57 ↗ polarizing we need to have conversations

1:12:00 ↗ about if there's things we can do to

1:12:02 ↗ reduce canopy uh fuel load risk that

1:12:06 ↗ that makes sense ecologically and

1:12:09 ↗ environmentally we need to be having

1:12:11 ↗ these conversations Beyond just reacting

1:12:13 ↗ to what's going on in Olympia so I'm

1:12:15 ↗ hoping that we will get to a point in

1:12:17 ↗ the next you know tell me 6 to 12 months

1:12:21 ↗ that we'll have a a more comprehensive

1:12:24 ↗ plan about what we want to see done in

1:12:26 ↗ this community to reduce that's great I

1:12:29 ↗ completely agree yeah um you're

1:12:32 ↗ preaching to the choir in a lot of ways

1:12:33 ↗ I it's one of the things that I'm most

1:12:35 ↗ concerned at about too as the emergency

1:12:37 ↗ manager yeah we have many neighborhoods

1:12:40 ↗ right with such limited ESS that it is

1:12:43 ↗ it is a huge concern and you know we're

1:12:45 ↗ we're taking we're taking these steps

1:12:48 ↗ and yeah it's my commitment to see it

1:12:50 ↗ all the way through um honestly and and

1:12:53 ↗ you know even to your point in in July

1:12:55 ↗ we're going to be hosting um a group of

1:12:57 ↗ about 80 professionals around Wildfire

1:12:59 ↗ risk reduction at uh the Pickering Barn

1:13:02 ↗ to share best practices and as where

1:13:04 ↗ conversations you know like that will

1:13:06 ↗ will take place and so you know we're ha

1:13:08 ↗ we were happy to host it because this is

1:13:10 ↗ something you know we got to we got to

1:13:12 ↗ figure out um as the west side of the

1:13:14 ↗ the Cascades communities you know it's

1:13:16 ↗ we have a little bit more grace you know

1:13:18 ↗ but it's it's our days are heating up so

1:13:20 ↗ you're exactly right I agree council

1:13:21 ↗ member Mars thank you

1:13:26 ↗ okay wondering anybody else any other

1:13:30 ↗ questions thoughts

1:13:32 ↗ comments any of

1:13:35 ↗ that um we have a public comment period

1:13:39 ↗ on this I don't have it on my no okay

1:13:43 ↗ fantastic so um do we have anyone who

1:13:48 ↗ would like to make a motion on that uh

1:13:52 ↗ council member hunt

1:13:55 ↗ thank you um I move to adopt ordinance

1:13:58 ↗ number

1:14:00 ↗ 3058 repealing and replacing section

1:14:05 ↗ 16.04 one11 of the isqua municipal code

1:14:09 ↗ regarding adoption of the 2021

1:14:11 ↗ International Wildland Urban interface

1:14:13 ↗ code and adopt ordinance number

1:14:18 ↗ 3059 amending the city's fire code by

1:14:21 ↗ amending section

1:14:23 ↗ 16.06 point0 50 and repealing section

1:14:29 ↗ 16.06 51 of the isqua municipal code

1:14:33 ↗ regarding

1:14:34 ↗ barbecues

1:14:37 ↗ second okay the motion has been moved

1:14:39 ↗ and seconded is there any Council

1:14:43 ↗ discussion okay council member

1:14:46 ↗ hunt thank you council president Walsh

1:14:50 ↗ um I completely agree with council

1:14:53 ↗ member marz marz's ear earlier comments

1:14:55 ↗ on this and in our committee meeting we

1:15:00 ↗ mostly talked about things we could do

1:15:02 ↗ to make sure that our community was

1:15:04 ↗ protected against fire and had taken

1:15:06 ↗ those preventative steps um other than

1:15:09 ↗ what was in the code that was before us

1:15:12 ↗ and so I think that this uh conversation

1:15:14 ↗ this presentation today um um by Jared

1:15:18 ↗ and James that has been a continuation

1:15:20 ↗ of of that conversation trying to make

1:15:23 ↗ sure that we are taking actions to

1:15:25 ↗ prevent uh Wildland fires and you know

1:15:28 ↗ for example doing this evacuation study

1:15:31 ↗ making sure that we know what would be

1:15:33 ↗ the improvements that would uh decrease

1:15:36 ↗ our evacuation times in different

1:15:37 ↗ neighborhoods so those are those are

1:15:39 ↗ things that are responsive to the uh

1:15:42 ↗ need for that action um and uh I think

1:15:47 ↗ this is an

1:15:48 ↗ unusual uh unusual conversation of this

1:15:52 ↗ Council because of that we're not we're

1:15:54 ↗ not really talking that much about the

1:15:56 ↗ Wildland Urban interface code that was

1:15:59 ↗ mandated by the state and then repealed

1:16:01 ↗ but rather what else we can do and so I

1:16:03 ↗ I too hope that we can continue that

1:16:04 ↗ conversation I think there have been

1:16:05 ↗ some great things mentioned and great

1:16:08 ↗ resources for the community including um

1:16:10 ↗ our partners at epher have uh trainings

1:16:13 ↗ that they can help people um do

1:16:17 ↗ structural hardening of their homes

1:16:18 ↗ against fire and and create defensive

1:16:20 ↗ space around their homes um also the

1:16:23 ↗ evacuation study and then the king

1:16:24 ↗ Conservation District work um with the

1:16:26 ↗ chipper days so I think we will continue

1:16:29 ↗ to see those sorts of programs and

1:16:31 ↗ continue the conversations with multif

1:16:32 ↗ family homes and with our HOAs um but I

1:16:36 ↗ I completely agree that we need to do

1:16:37 ↗ more and I think today we're just taking

1:16:40 ↗ this first step of ping back the code

1:16:42 ↗ that um was problematic for all the

1:16:44 ↗ reasons that the state identified and

1:16:46 ↗ that our our staff have also

1:16:51 ↗ identified excellent um not seeing any

1:16:56 ↗ other comments so there's no further

1:16:59 ↗ discussion the motion before council is

1:17:01 ↗ to adopt ordinance number 3058 repealing

1:17:05 ↗ and replacing section

1:17:08 ↗ 16.04 1111 of the isqua municipal code

1:17:12 ↗ regarding adoption of the 2021

1:17:14 ↗ International Wildland Urban interface

1:17:17 ↗ code and adopt ordinance number 3059

1:17:21 ↗ amending the city's fire code by

1:17:22 ↗ amending section 16.06

1:17:26 ↗ .050 and repealing section 16.06 point0

1:17:30 ↗ 51 of the is municipal code regarding

1:17:33 ↗ barbecues all those in favor signify by

1:17:36 ↗ saying I I

1:17:39 ↗ I those

1:17:42 ↗ opposed that passes

1:17:45 ↗ unanimously okay

1:17:47 ↗ the yes yeah I heard her

1:17:51 ↗ eye um the next item of business

1:17:54 ↗ business is committee and Regional

1:17:57 ↗ reports so we are starting with council

1:18:00 ↗ member Joe thank you um May 22nd uh the

1:18:05 ↗ Cascade water Alliance board of

1:18:07 ↗ directors will be meeting and uh on June

1:18:09 ↗ 5th the public affairs committee for

1:18:11 ↗ Cascade water Alliance will be meeting

1:18:14 ↗ as well that concludes my report thank

1:18:17 ↗ you thank you um see I think we'll go

1:18:22 ↗ council member

1:18:23 ↗ hul thank you uh no

1:18:27 ↗ report okay and next council member

1:18:31 ↗ Ray thank you council president uh the

1:18:35 ↗ committee mobility and infrastructure

1:18:37 ↗ committee met

1:18:40 ↗ on you want to

1:18:45 ↗ rewind oh okay thank you I appreciate

1:18:47 ↗ that on on um May 14th here in uh

1:18:51 ↗ council chambers we had one agenda item

1:18:52 ↗ it was to look at five potential

1:18:54 ↗ additions to the transportation

1:18:56 ↗ Improvement plan um after reviewing

1:18:59 ↗ those five improvements the committee

1:19:01 ↗ recommended that they be included in the

1:19:03 ↗ tip for this year and then subsequently

1:19:06 ↗ in the capital Improvement plan um

1:19:10 ↗ the activity is scheduled to come back

1:19:13 ↗ to council for a public hearing on the

1:19:14 ↗ 13th and then adoption um by Council on

1:19:19 ↗ June uh 24th so that we can submit to

1:19:22 ↗ the state by our July first first uh

1:19:26 ↗ Target date and that concludes my

1:19:28 ↗ report excellent I think I need to go to

1:19:31 ↗ council member um

1:19:35 ↗ hunt thank you council president um on

1:19:38 ↗ May 16th there was a meeting of the

1:19:40 ↗ salmon Recovery Council of Ria 8 which

1:19:43 ↗ is the name of our Watershed and we had

1:19:45 ↗ one decision item which was the 2024 RI

1:19:49 ↗ 8 Grant round spending there were around

1:19:52 ↗ $2.5 Million worth of grants that were

1:19:55 ↗ distributed all across the Watershed

1:19:57 ↗ they do really great work for um habitat

1:19:59 ↗ recovery and

1:20:00 ↗ education about salmon recovery one

1:20:03 ↗ project of Interest was there's um

1:20:05 ↗ continued funding for the artificial

1:20:07 ↗ night at light so light pollution um

1:20:11 ↗ work that has been going on this

1:20:12 ↗ includes work on lake samamish and um is

1:20:15 ↗ looking at how we might reduce the

1:20:17 ↗ impacts of light pollution on our salmon

1:20:21 ↗ populations um there the next meeting of

1:20:24 ↗ the s Recovery Council will be July

1:20:27 ↗ 18th and uh there was a May 7th meeting

1:20:30 ↗ of the Planning Development and

1:20:31 ↗ environment committee we had one item

1:20:34 ↗ which was uh C uh Comm 0014 amendments

1:20:38 ↗ to Title 18 for Emergency Shelters and

1:20:40 ↗ Supportive

1:20:42 ↗ Housing this was response in response to

1:20:45 ↗ a um State House bill that was passed in

1:20:48 ↗ 2001 which mandated cities to take

1:20:51 ↗ action um to allow for the citing of

1:20:55 ↗ emergency uh shelters and Supportive

1:20:57 ↗ Housing for people experiencing

1:20:59 ↗ homelessness um or at risk of

1:21:01 ↗ experiencing

1:21:02 ↗ homelessness and uh we were uh asked to

1:21:07 ↗ deliberate on two specific questions um

1:21:10 ↗ in this with this Ordinance one was if

1:21:13 ↗ we agree with removing operational plans

1:21:15 ↗ as a requirement for day sensors and

1:21:18 ↗ night shelters um where people spend uh

1:21:21 ↗ one one day at a time and uh we did

1:21:25 ↗ agree with the recommendation of staff

1:21:27 ↗ that we could remove those operational

1:21:28 ↗ plans they didn't really provide any

1:21:31 ↗ additional tools for the city to um help

1:21:35 ↗ support or interact with these

1:21:36 ↗ facilities and it also could have been

1:21:39 ↗ seen as a action that

1:21:41 ↗ would um prevent the sighting of

1:21:44 ↗ facilities so it could be counter to the

1:21:46 ↗ intent of the law um if the plans were

1:21:50 ↗ more restrictive if the operational plan

1:21:52 ↗ requirement was more restrictive than

1:21:53 ↗ the funding a gency for

1:21:55 ↗ example and the second question we were

1:21:57 ↗ asked to discuss was if there was

1:21:59 ↗ additional changes to the um to the

1:22:04 ↗ recommendation the one thing that we

1:22:05 ↗ talked the most about was that the um

1:22:09 ↗ occupancy maximum of 50 people in a day

1:22:13 ↗ Center or night shelter we discussed as

1:22:16 ↗ a committee if that was the number that

1:22:18 ↗ um made the most sense we considered

1:22:20 ↗ other neighboring

1:22:22 ↗ communities um and also the uh occupancy

1:22:26 ↗ of the Motel 6 where we are currently

1:22:29 ↗ leasing rooms um where people that are

1:22:31 ↗ experiencing homelessness can stay for a

1:22:33 ↗ for a period of time um and so we did

1:22:36 ↗ agree ultimately that we thought 50

1:22:38 ↗ people as a maximum occupancy made sense

1:22:40 ↗ at this time but we also wanted to make

1:22:42 ↗ sure that the city um staff kept an eye

1:22:45 ↗ on this and made sure that that number

1:22:47 ↗ wasn't preventing the sighting of these

1:22:49 ↗ facilities and that number was in line

1:22:52 ↗ with what other neighboring similar Siz

1:22:54 ↗ communities are are doing um just to

1:22:57 ↗ make sure that that is

1:22:59 ↗ consistent we also the one other thing

1:23:01 ↗ that we discussed um other than sort of

1:23:05 ↗ standardizing of the definitions was the

1:23:09 ↗ zones where these facilities could be

1:23:12 ↗ cited and the state's requirement was

1:23:16 ↗ that these facilities be in places where

1:23:18 ↗ there are also they where hotels are

1:23:20 ↗ also allowed this is because some in

1:23:23 ↗ some cases hotels have been converted to

1:23:26 ↗ Emergency Shelters or day and um night

1:23:30 ↗ facilities and so um we thought that

1:23:33 ↗ this did make sense the zones that allow

1:23:36 ↗ hotels also um have other facilities and

1:23:39 ↗ transportation Transit oftentimes and so

1:23:41 ↗ we thought we ultimately thought that

1:23:43 ↗ that made sense but again we wanted to

1:23:45 ↗ make sure that um this is tracked over

1:23:47 ↗ time since this is a new a new uh law

1:23:51 ↗ and um and then last thing is we uh

1:23:55 ↗ there was a question about if this

1:23:56 ↗ impacted the ability of churches to have

1:23:59 ↗ um tent cities as as has been the case

1:24:02 ↗ in isqua previously and this does not

1:24:05 ↗ impact that because that is through a

1:24:07 ↗ different kind of a permit so that is

1:24:09 ↗ not impacted by these um

1:24:11 ↗ amendments uh and there is no so that

1:24:14 ↗ concludes that meeting report and there

1:24:16 ↗ is no meeting um in June of the Planning

1:24:20 ↗ Development and environment committee

1:24:21 ↗ that concludes my

1:24:22 ↗ report thank you thank you next go to

1:24:25 ↗ council member Ms thank you madam

1:24:27 ↗ council president the sound cities

1:24:29 ↗ Association public issues committee met

1:24:31 ↗ on Wednesday May 8th at 7M we talked

1:24:34 ↗ about a number of things but um the the

1:24:37 ↗ issue that was probably most informative

1:24:39 ↗ and that I want to share is uh asy and

1:24:42 ↗ Refugee crisis so one of the things

1:24:45 ↗ that's happening is um as folks are

1:24:48 ↗ coming into the country and uh applying

1:24:51 ↗ for Asylum and Refugee status um they

1:24:55 ↗ are winding up the distribution of those

1:24:57 ↗ folks is occurring uh really at the

1:25:00 ↗ moment without any coordinated um effort

1:25:03 ↗ or uh planning and so our our friends in

1:25:07 ↗ Tuck Willa all of a sudden have four to

1:25:09 ↗ 500 uh folks that are uh seeking Asylum

1:25:13 ↗ or Refugee status um and at present

1:25:16 ↗ don't have um any services or help from

1:25:19 ↗ the county or the state uh to help this

1:25:22 ↗ and so uh the conversation that occurred

1:25:24 ↗ is that uh we really need a regional

1:25:27 ↗ solution to this um other communities it

1:25:29 ↗ can you know um folks can start showing

1:25:32 ↗ up and it tends to be self-reinforcing

1:25:35 ↗ because if there are folks in the

1:25:36 ↗ community uh from a given ethnic group

1:25:39 ↗ then other folks want to go where

1:25:40 ↗ there's folks that they know and then

1:25:42 ↗ pretty soon uh you know it's just not

1:25:44 ↗ being coordinated in a way that's making

1:25:46 ↗ sure to get resources in so it's a it's

1:25:49 ↗ an emerging problem nobody has a really

1:25:51 ↗ good solution right now other than to

1:25:52 ↗ say that it's not just tuck is problem

1:25:55 ↗ um it uh we need to have at the very

1:25:57 ↗ least a countywide and possibly a

1:25:59 ↗ solution to this problem more to come

1:26:02 ↗ clearly the services safety and Parks

1:26:05 ↗ committee will be meeting on a special

1:26:06 ↗ date uh Tuesday May 28th we would

1:26:09 ↗ normally meet tomorrow uh here in

1:26:12 ↗ council chambers but there is the annual

1:26:14 ↗ awards ceremony so instead uh we are

1:26:17 ↗ going to meet like I said Tuesday May

1:26:19 ↗ 28th 6:30 p.m. here in council chambers

1:26:22 ↗ there are two items on the agenda

1:26:24 ↗ Comm

1:26:25 ↗ 0041 court and Criminal Justice Services

1:26:29 ↗ and the doozy Comm

1:26:31 ↗ 0042 Traffic Safety camera update both

1:26:35 ↗ of which promise to be mey uh exciting

1:26:39 ↗ topics that uh will generate a lot of

1:26:41 ↗ interest in the community this concludes

1:26:43 ↗ my thank you next up Deputy council

1:26:47 ↗ president D Michelle thank you so much

1:26:50 ↗ uh on May 10th I chaired the East Side

1:26:52 ↗ Transportation partnership and we had a

1:26:54 ↗ full agenda beginning with a report from

1:26:56 ↗ King County legal council regarding the

1:26:59 ↗ open public meetings act as it pertains

1:27:02 ↗ to ETP so going forward based on the

1:27:05 ↗ legal advice that we received um ETP

1:27:09 ↗ will start meeting uh in remotely twice

1:27:12 ↗ per quarter and then the third meeting

1:27:15 ↗ will be done in person and we will

1:27:17 ↗ adjust the public comment opportunities

1:27:20 ↗ accordingly so this new um hybrid it's

1:27:25 ↗ not exactly hybrid but this new remote

1:27:28 ↗ in-person schedule is uh going to

1:27:30 ↗ pertain to everyone of the king County's

1:27:33 ↗ Regional Transportation groups so it was

1:27:35 ↗ brought about with concern by legal

1:27:38 ↗ council around

1:27:39 ↗ opma uh after we received that report

1:27:42 ↗ and took that action uh we next had a

1:27:45 ↗ legislative wrap-up report from Robin

1:27:47 ↗ kosy of pug sound Regional Council and

1:27:49 ↗ our own representative Bill Ramos Vice

1:27:52 ↗ chair of the house Transportation

1:27:53 ↗ committee

1:27:54 ↗ uh and representative Ramos emphasized

1:27:56 ↗ in his remarks the need for a new

1:27:58 ↗ Revenue source to supplement or replace

1:28:01 ↗ the gasoline tax for transportation

1:28:03 ↗ improvements and he said that that he

1:28:05 ↗ thinks yes it's exciting uh he thinks

1:28:08 ↗ that that will be the a number one uh

1:28:11 ↗ issue that the transportation committee

1:28:13 ↗ will be working on in the next

1:28:14 ↗ legislative session and then finally the

1:28:17 ↗ group adopted a policy and procedure

1:28:19 ↗ related to Municipal requests for

1:28:21 ↗ letters of support for federal and state

1:28:24 ↗ funding for local projects so um we

1:28:28 ↗ adopted the policy procedure that means

1:28:31 ↗ that now local municipalities can come

1:28:33 ↗ to the Eastside Transportation

1:28:35 ↗ partnership and request letters of

1:28:37 ↗ support for uh Grant applications that

1:28:40 ↗ they are making and those will be done

1:28:43 ↗ according to a process of a review

1:28:46 ↗ process and uh procedure so it was uh it

1:28:50 ↗ was a good meeting um then the regional

1:28:53 ↗ transit committee met on May 15th under

1:28:56 ↗ the general manager Michelle Allison's

1:28:58 ↗ report we learned that Metro intends to

1:29:00 ↗ restore 18 Dart or dialer ride Transit

1:29:03 ↗ routes and the trail head direct routes

1:29:07 ↗ um the meeting focused uh on Metro's

1:29:09 ↗ pandemic recovery uh progress and as

1:29:12 ↗ soon as I receive the PowerPoint from

1:29:14 ↗ that presentation I'll be Distributing

1:29:16 ↗ it to you the bottom line is that

1:29:19 ↗ ridership uh has increased

1:29:21 ↗ year-over-year

1:29:22 ↗ 133% so

1:29:24 ↗ slow but sure progress we're still not

1:29:27 ↗ back to 100% Allison emphasized that the

1:29:31 ↗ goal of recovery efforts is not

1:29:33 ↗ returning to business as usual uh during

1:29:36 ↗ the pandemic and since Metro has

1:29:38 ↗ increased its focus on Equity they are

1:29:41 ↗ really U trying to uh emphasize their

1:29:44 ↗ jurisdictional Partnerships and starting

1:29:47 ↗ out with learning what community needs

1:29:49 ↗ and trying to meet those needs so he

1:29:52 ↗ said they're really not looking at at uh

1:29:55 ↗ success in

1:29:57 ↗ recovery uh with how much they could

1:29:59 ↗ duplicate what was happening in 2020 but

1:30:02 ↗ how can they go forward with these new

1:30:03 ↗ initiatives so the June RTC meeting will

1:30:06 ↗ be cancelled and replaced by a Metro

1:30:08 ↗ ride along with details to follow I'm

1:30:11 ↗ excited and then finally on May 16th the

1:30:14 ↗ Eastside Human Services Forum held a

1:30:15 ↗ webinar on data collection and sharing

1:30:17 ↗ for nonprofit Human Services agencies it

1:30:20 ↗ was excellent discussion and I will also

1:30:23 ↗ provide Prov you with the uh link to the

1:30:26 ↗ recorded uh webinar as soon as uh it is

1:30:29 ↗ up on the website so that concludes my

1:30:32 ↗ report great and I'll just head on into

1:30:36 ↗ mine uh Council leadership met last week

1:30:40 ↗ with the isqua school board leadership

1:30:42 ↗ continuing our quarterly meetings there

1:30:46 ↗ um and the agenda included just both of

1:30:48 ↗ us providing feedback on the recent

1:30:51 ↗ joint meeting of the whole of the groups

1:30:54 ↗ making sure that it met everybody's

1:30:56 ↗ needs we um did an update on the ISA

1:31:01 ↗ School District bond and potential

1:31:04 ↗ support mechanisms we talked about uh

1:31:08 ↗ discussion of school traffic issues and

1:31:10 ↗ how the school district might help by

1:31:13 ↗ encouraging bus usage um both to

1:31:16 ↗ mitigate traffic but also help with

1:31:19 ↗ sustainability um and then we uh the

1:31:23 ↗ school dist District asked about the

1:31:25 ↗ city's growth plans and specifically

1:31:27 ↗ about the Pioneer project wanted to know

1:31:29 ↗ more about that um and then also wanted

1:31:33 ↗ a better understanding of the council's

1:31:35 ↗ timeline for pool uh conversations about

1:31:38 ↗ pool expansion and we talked about how

1:31:40 ↗ that is a much longer term conversation

1:31:43 ↗ where we have to go back to the public

1:31:45 ↗ before Council will have a touch likely

1:31:48 ↗ even in the next year or so um so that

1:31:52 ↗ concludes my report

1:31:54 ↗ rep next item is the mayor's report um

1:31:58 ↗ there will not be an executive session

1:32:00 ↗ this evening uh the landmarks commission

1:32:03 ↗ vacancy so the city is Seeking a

1:32:06 ↗ volunteer to serve as a special member

1:32:08 ↗ of the King County landmarks commission

1:32:11 ↗ the king C King County landmarks

1:32:13 ↗ commission is composed of nine members

1:32:16 ↗ the isqua special member to the

1:32:18 ↗ commission serves the 10th member when

1:32:21 ↗ the commission acts on behalf of isqua

1:32:24 ↗ interested candidates must reside in

1:32:25 ↗ isqua and have a demonstrated interest

1:32:28 ↗ in historic preservation applications

1:32:31 ↗ will be accepted through June 5th and to

1:32:33 ↗ learn more you can visit isqua

1:32:36 ↗ wa.gov

1:32:38 ↗ apply Public Work Public Works week

1:32:42 ↗ festivities um the public works

1:32:44 ↗ department is hosting a public open

1:32:46 ↗ house and tour of the Public Works

1:32:48 ↗ campus on Wednesday May 22nd from 4: to

1:32:51 ↗ 6:30 p.m. we will have lot lots of fun

1:32:54 ↗ opportunities for our VI visitors

1:32:56 ↗ including and I really love this whoever

1:32:58 ↗ came up with this idea was brilliant a

1:33:01 ↗ petting zoo of bobcats deers scorpions

1:33:05 ↗ and

1:33:06 ↗ caterpillars thank you very much for the

1:33:09 ↗ dad joke on that one uh demonstrations

1:33:12 ↗ of the CCTV van that is used to inspect

1:33:15 ↗ storm water and sewer Ms and how a fire

1:33:18 ↗ hydrant Works Touch a Truck photo

1:33:22 ↗ opportunities informational booths

1:33:24 ↗ highlighting programs and services such

1:33:26 ↗ as adopt drain and snow routes tours of

1:33:30 ↗ the EOC the emergency Operation Center

1:33:33 ↗ um and a scavenger hunt and more so very

1:33:37 ↗ exciting Public Works hasn't hosted this

1:33:40 ↗ in several years so they're looking

1:33:42 ↗ forward to having the community back in

1:33:44 ↗ and going off all the cool things they

1:33:46 ↗ do uh the following day May 23rd will

1:33:49 ↗ conduct a public works Rodeo where our

1:33:51 ↗ equipment operators will perform fun

1:33:53 ↗ skill tests for bragging rights from

1:33:56 ↗ 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. we've invited City

1:33:58 ↗ staff to visit for tours to watch the

1:34:01 ↗ rodeo and to participate in a

1:34:03 ↗ collaborative skill with Public Works

1:34:05 ↗ Operator just in case anybody wanted to

1:34:07 ↗ go do any of those things together uh

1:34:10 ↗ for more information please contact

1:34:12 ↗ Public Works director Emily moon at

1:34:14 ↗ Emily M isqua

1:34:18 ↗ wa.gov um upcoming events trail head

1:34:21 ↗ direct service to isqua travel right

1:34:23 ↗ from Seattle or the isqua transit center

1:34:26 ↗ to isqua Trails trail head direct a

1:34:29 ↗ seasonal program that provides Transit

1:34:31 ↗ service to Trail heads along the

1:34:32 ↗ Interstate 90 Corridor returns May 25th

1:34:37 ↗ service to mount Sai and the ISA Alps it

1:34:40 ↗ will run from May 25th to September 15th

1:34:44 ↗ trail head direct was first launched in

1:34:46 ↗ 2017 as a pilot project sponsored by

1:34:49 ↗ King County Metro's Community

1:34:51 ↗ connections program and King County Park

1:34:54 ↗ to expand access to hiking trails and

1:34:56 ↗ reduce trail head congestion in the ISA

1:34:58 ↗ Alps where illegally parked Vehicles

1:35:01 ↗ created a traffic hazards and safety

1:35:03 ↗ concerns for more information please

1:35:05 ↗ visit isqua

1:35:08 ↗ wa.gov that concludes the mayor's report

1:35:11 ↗ next item I believe is good of the

1:35:14 ↗ order anybody have any good of the order

1:35:19 ↗ item I do let me just pull up the agenda

1:35:23 ↗ and make sure there was nothing else I'm

1:35:25 ↗ supposed to be touching on nope good of

1:35:28 ↗ the order okay with all of that this

1:35:31 ↗ meeting is adjourned at 8:35 p.m. thank

1:35:34 ↗ you everyone

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt (Attended remotely)

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

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Adopt Ordinance No. 3058, repealing and replacing Section 16.04.111 of the Issaquah Municipal Code, regarding adoption of the 2021 International Wildland-Urban Interface code; and Adopt Ordinance No. 3059, amending the City’s Fire Code by amending Section 16.06.050 and repealing Section 16.06.051 of…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by DE MICHELE

Carried 7-0

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

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 1638 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of May 20, 2024, $7,943,362.15; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Committee of the Whole, Jan. 28, 2023; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, March 30, 2023; Approved. d) Minutes: City Council Specia…

Moved by DE MICHELE · seconded by MARTS

Carried 7-0

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