City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, August 5, 2024 · City Council Digest

4. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Aug. 5, 2024, $4,758,350.77 ID 1734

Carried 5-0

Approve · packet pp.7–56

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 WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, April 25, 2024

Carried 5-0

Approve · packet pp.57–58

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Staff report:

A joint meeting between the Issaquah City Council and the Issaquah School Board to discuss items of mutual interest.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, May 6, 2024

Carried 5-0

Approve · packet pp.59–63

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 18, 2024

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 05-06-24 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Regular Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers May 6, 2024 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Minutes: City Council Committee of the Whole, May 13, 2024

Carried 5-0

Approve · packet pp.65–66

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR d) 05-13-24 City Council Committee of the Whole Page (0000) Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Committee-of-the-Whole 6:30 PM Council Chambers May 13, 2024 MINUTES 135 E. Sunset Way

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Secured Fencing for Public Safety Project AB 8657

Carried 5-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.67–72

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

City Attorney Review Laurie Halvorson City Attorney Review Date: July 31, 2024

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Project Acceptance, 2nd and Bush Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) Project (TR039), Phase 2 AB 8849

Carried 5-0

Accept Project · packet pp.73–74

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Staff report:

On March 18, 2024, the City Council awarded the contract for the 2nd and Bush Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) Project (TR039), Phase 2, to Axum General Construction in the amount of $194,994.53. The completed contract cost was $176,898.19 (including adjustments for commodity quantities).

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Washington Administrative Office of the Courts Therapeutic Courts Interagency Funding Agreement AB 8880

Carried 5-0

Accept Grant · packet pp.75–90

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced the availability of approximately $9.7 million in state funding to support new and existing therapeutic courts in courts of limited jurisdiction for SFY25 (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025). The state funding agreement allocated to Issaquah Municipal Court (Exhibit A) is attached. This funding request is not a grant, but rather an appropriation of state funds that is awarded annually. Courts currently receiving funding under previously allocated programs are prioritized after renewal documents and budget justifications are submitted representing program best practices under the previous year's contract.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

AtWork Sublease Consent Agreement with Inclusive Technology of Washington AB 8892

Carried 5-0

Authorize · packet pp.91–98

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Staff report:

The City and AtWork! are parties to a lease agreement dated January 1, 2003, which is to expire December 31, 2032, along with Addendum No. 1 (Exhibit A) dated September 26, 2023, concerning sublease of the premises located at 690 NW Juniper Street. Addendum No. 1 requires subsequent subleases to be approved by the City, to be consistent with Paragraph 2 of the original lease, that requires the property to be used as a work training facility for those with physical and mental disabilities, and that any revenue derived from subleases must be utilized for human services or community services that are consistent with the kinds provided by AtWork!.

Roll call:

Moved by WALSH · seconded by DE MICHELE

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

5. PUBLIC HEARING

Issaquah School District's 2024 Bond, Nov. 5, 2024 Ballot Item AB 8867

Conduct Public Hearing; Approve Resolution · 30 min · packet pp.99–135

Topics: SchoolsElections

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Staff report:

In January 2024, the Issaquah School District appointed a Bond Advisory Committee to consider developing a bond package. Upon the

9. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Informational Update: Central Issaquah Multimodal I-90 Crossing Project ID 1743

Receive Report · 30 min · packet pp.137–172

Topics: Land UseTransportation

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 5, 2022

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Staff report:

To provide the City Council with an update on the Central Issaquah Multimodal I-90 Crossing transportation project (TR003).

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0:10 ↗ good evening everyone welcome I'm going

0:12 ↗ to call the August 5th city council

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0:21 ↗ we continue to have a remote aspect to

0:23 ↗ our meetings and both staff and members

0:25 ↗ of the public may be participating in

0:26 ↗ tonight's meeting remotely via WebEx

0:30 ↗ first item on the agenda this evening is

0:31 ↗ the Pledge of Allegiance and I invite

0:33 ↗ everyone and anyone to join

0:37 ↗ us Al to flag United States

0:53 ↗ ofice thank you the next item on our

0:55 ↗ agenda this evening is audience comments

0:57 ↗ and it's a time when members of the

0:59 ↗ public May address counsel

1:01 ↗ directly uh but either in person or

1:04 ↗ virtually those who signed up in advance

1:06 ↗ to make comments will be called on First

1:08 ↗ and if you're joining us virtually and

1:10 ↗ you would like to make comments please

1:11 ↗ raise your virtual hand or send the host

1:13 ↗ a chat message you can do this on your

1:15 ↗ phone by pressing Stars three and if you

1:17 ↗ have a computer or smartphone you can

1:20 ↗ look for that hand

1:21 ↗ icon if you are in the room and did not

1:24 ↗ have a chance to sign up in advance I

1:25 ↗ will ask for other speakers before

1:27 ↗ closing this portion of the meeting

1:29 ↗ there's also a public hearing this this

1:31 ↗ evening we have our superintendent of

1:33 ↗ the isqua school district here with us

1:34 ↗ it's going to be AB

1:36 ↗ 8867 isqua School District's 2024 Bond

1:40 ↗ November 5th 2024 ballot item if you're

1:43 ↗ here to make comments on that item they

1:45 ↗ should be made during that public

1:47 ↗ hearing which will occur later in the

1:49 ↗ meeting uh city clerk has anyone signed

1:51 ↗ up to speak for General audience

1:53 ↗ comments or indicate a desire to speak

1:55 ↗ this evening mayor we have one person

1:57 ↗ signed up and we'll want to clarify with

1:59 ↗ her if her comments are related to the

2:00 ↗ hearing or the general portion of the

2:02 ↗ meeting is great thank you so if you are

2:05 ↗ making comments this evening you're

2:06 ↗ invited to address the council regarding

2:08 ↗ matters that are directly related to

2:10 ↗ isqua's programs projects services or

2:13 ↗ events comments related to political

2:15 ↗ campaigns are not permitted please

2:18 ↗ direct your comments to the whole

2:19 ↗ Council and not individuals and while

2:21 ↗ this is not a question and answer

2:22 ↗ session we can contact you and we

2:24 ↗ contact you to follow up if needed when

2:27 ↗ you are recognized if you are a virtual

2:29 ↗ and attendee please un mute your

2:32 ↗ microphone if you are here in the room

2:33 ↗ with us please come to that Center

2:35 ↗ Lecter the little button on the base the

2:38 ↗ red light will come on to tell you that

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2:41 ↗ air uh state your name address and

2:43 ↗ relationship to the city speak clearly

2:45 ↗ and pause frequently limit your comments

2:48 ↗ to 5 minutes if you are attending

2:50 ↗ virtually and do not respond after your

2:51 ↗ name or phone number is called or if

2:54 ↗ your connection is lost unexpectedly the

2:55 ↗ meeting will still need to proceed and

2:57 ↗ you're encouraged to rejoin the meeting

2:59 ↗ if you're able

3:00 ↗ personal texts obscene language and

3:02 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

3:04 ↗ behavior will not be permitted public

3:06 ↗ comments written in verbal are an

3:08 ↗ important aspect of the public process

3:09 ↗ and the city takes comments seriously we

3:12 ↗ thank you all for taking the time to

3:13 ↗ address this this evening city clerk do

3:16 ↗ you want to uh at first clarify with the

3:18 ↗ person online yes uh Janet Erie you are

3:23 ↗ the first person who signed up to speak

3:25 ↗ and uh we'd like to know if you'd like

3:26 ↗ to make some general comments now or if

3:28 ↗ your comments were related

3:30 ↗ to the public hearing on the school bond

3:32 ↗ measure so I've just made you a panelist

3:35 ↗ so you should be able to unmute your

3:37 ↗ microphone thank you I wasn't sure where

3:40 ↗ uh my comments would be most appropriate

3:42 ↗ I wanted to speak on behalf of the

3:44 ↗ issaqua Arts community and the ability

3:47 ↗ to use the school system uh spaces as

3:50 ↗ events uh spaces to uh support our

3:54 ↗ Artistic Endeavors and performances and

3:56 ↗ presentations of the communities I don't

3:58 ↗ know where that belongs Janet that

4:00 ↗ belongs in our first set of comments so

4:04 ↗ since you since you signed up clerk are

4:06 ↗ we ready to let Janet just continue with

4:08 ↗ your points yes Janet go ahead thank you

4:12 ↗ so much for this opportunity to speak on

4:14 ↗ behalf of the uh Arts Community and

4:16 ↗ Performing Arts Community um

4:18 ↗ professionally and um most importantly

4:21 ↗ for the amateur um uh performing

4:24 ↗ community in the Arts uh for Isa quap

4:27 ↗ I'm the president the new incoming

4:29 ↗ president of the issaqua philarmonic

4:32 ↗ orchestra and wanted to uh support the

4:35 ↗ notion of the ability for the orchestra

4:38 ↗ and other organizations like ours to be

4:41 ↗ able to use the isqua public schools uh

4:44 ↗ performance spaces for our community uh

4:47 ↗ performances yeah I think it it would be

4:50 ↗ a great way for the community and the

4:52 ↗ school system to support Community Arts

4:54 ↗ and of course presentation of our work

4:57 ↗ um to help enliven and contribute to the

5:01 ↗ culture and fabric of uh the Arts

5:03 ↗ culture in issaqua I don't have a big

5:06 ↗ oration that's what I wanted to say on

5:09 ↗ behalf of our Orchestra and the others

5:11 ↗ that we're associated with thank you so

5:13 ↗ much for this opportunity thank you very

5:15 ↗ much Janet city clerk do we have an

5:17 ↗ in-person sign up list not for General

5:21 ↗ comments okay you ra raised hand in the

5:26 ↗ back sorry I can't help you with that

5:28 ↗ Siri your that right there I just happen

5:31 ↗ to put this away bad Siri do you want to

5:34 ↗ do General comments come on up

5:42 ↗ Rachel hello um it's nice to see you all

5:45 ↗ again I'm Rachel Wright and I am

5:47 ↗ co-chair of the isqua Arts commission

5:49 ↗ and I'm also the co-founder and

5:50 ↗ president of the Arts nonprofit called

5:53 ↗ isqua arts and I'm here because I wanted

5:55 ↗ to follow up on the discussion about the

5:57 ↗ Performing Art Center at the isqua High

5:59 ↗ High School I last uh communicated with

6:02 ↗ the group via a brief that talked about

6:04 ↗ the history of the Performing Arts

6:06 ↗ Center and access for the public um I

6:09 ↗ was we talked about that back in April

6:11 ↗ and at that time there were 87 people

6:14 ↗ that signed in support of trying to

6:16 ↗ raise awareness about um the opportunity

6:19 ↗ to make more spaces available to um to

6:23 ↗ our performing arts groups including the

6:25 ↗ isqua philarmonic orchestra Master

6:27 ↗ chorus east side and isquad Dance

6:29 ↗ Theater which at the time that I wrote

6:31 ↗ that letter it was my first learning

6:33 ↗ that they produce The Nutcracker

6:35 ↗ annually but are actually produc or

6:37 ↗ performing it in Belleview and so I want

6:40 ↗ to thank you all for the discussion that

6:42 ↗ followed between yourselves and the

6:44 ↗ isqua school board it sounded to me like

6:47 ↗ it was a very productive meeting and

6:49 ↗ that there was an interest in in working

6:52 ↗ together on the opportunity to open

6:54 ↗ those doors so I thank you for both

6:57 ↗ seeing the opportunity and helping to to

7:00 ↗ create new ways for us to access space

7:03 ↗ I'd also like to thank um Amy dukes and

7:05 ↗ Jeff Watling I got an update from Amy

7:07 ↗ last week that they were able to meet

7:09 ↗ and had a good productive discussion and

7:11 ↗ it sounds like there's a second meeting

7:13 ↗ hopefully for August so I am uh I feel

7:17 ↗ uh I feel positive about it and I I I

7:21 ↗ have offered up that with whether the

7:22 ↗ Arts commission or isqua Arts can be of

7:25 ↗ help if there's questions about sound

7:27 ↗ systems or how we can seek out part

7:29 ↗ Partnerships there's a lot of people who

7:31 ↗ are very interested in working together

7:33 ↗ including uh the isqua philarmonic

7:35 ↗ orchestra who we've talked about the

7:37 ↗ idea of perhaps we could do a pilot to

7:40 ↗ work out the Kinks You know on with a

7:42 ↗ very trusted group um and a

7:44 ↗ long-standing group within our community

7:48 ↗ um so I just you know want to say thank

7:51 ↗ you and um if there's anything that I

7:53 ↗ can do to help please let me know and

7:55 ↗ appreciate your time thank you thank you

7:58 ↗ Rachel anyone else for General comments

8:00 ↗ this evening if so just raise your hand

8:03 ↗ come on up to the microphone otherwise

8:05 ↗ I'll assume all these faces in here are

8:07 ↗ for the specific hearing on the school

8:10 ↗ bond okay asking once asking twice

8:13 ↗ nobody else online pretty clear okay

8:16 ↗ thank you well that uh closes audience

8:19 ↗ comments and we did get to hear from two

8:20 ↗ members of the public about the use of

8:22 ↗ school facilities for the Performing

8:24 ↗ Arts

8:27 ↗ commission going to move on oh sorry

8:30 ↗ just wanted to say that um thanks to

8:32 ↗ those that came and made comments and as

8:34 ↗ a reminder you can also email your

8:37 ↗ council at any time at isqua

8:40 ↗ wa.gov and we will move on to the next

8:42 ↗ item of business which is the consent

8:44 ↗ calendar I do not have any remarks on

8:46 ↗ the consent calendar tonight but do any

8:48 ↗ of the committee chairs or chair

8:49 ↗ designates have something on consent

8:51 ↗ calendar that they think needs to be

8:53 ↗ addressed no seeing head shakes no the

8:57 ↗ consent calendar was distributed to

8:58 ↗ Council in advance advance and if

9:00 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

9:01 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

9:03 ↗ approved under one motion have the

9:06 ↗ payables and payroll been reviewed they

9:08 ↗ have yes thank you does any council

9:10 ↗ member desire to remove any item from

9:12 ↗ the consent calendar and consider it

9:14 ↗ under regular

9:15 ↗ business

9:17 ↗ headshakes um is there anybody ready to

9:20 ↗ make a motion council president um I

9:23 ↗ move we approve the consent calendar as

9:25 ↗ presented

9:27 ↗ second it has been moved and seconded to

9:30 ↗ approve as presented is there any

9:31 ↗ Council

9:33 ↗ discussion all those in favor signify by

9:35 ↗ saying I I I all those

9:39 ↗ opposed that carries unanimously 5 and0

9:43 ↗ so we're going to move into the next

9:44 ↗ item which is the public hearing AB 8867

9:47 ↗ it is the isqua school district's 2024

9:50 ↗ Bond November 5th 2024 ballot item and

9:54 ↗ there will be a public hearing and the

9:57 ↗ request of the council this evening is

9:58 ↗ to consider approving the resolution

10:01 ↗ state law does allow the city council to

10:03 ↗ support or oppose a ballot measure at an

10:05 ↗ open public meeting one of the

10:07 ↗ requirements is that council members and

10:09 ↗ members of the public with opposing

10:11 ↗ viewpoints have the opportunity to be

10:13 ↗ heard for that reason we've scheduled a

10:15 ↗ public hearing tonight this will be the

10:17 ↗ Public's opportunity to express support

10:20 ↗ or opposition for the proposed

10:21 ↗ resolution supporting the isqua school

10:23 ↗ districts prop one following the public

10:26 ↗ hearing the city council will then

10:27 ↗ deliberate and i' like i' like to do I

10:30 ↗ have Harlen here I do I'd like to invite

10:32 ↗ schoolbd president Harlen gallinger to

10:34 ↗ the lecture lecturn welcome harlon you

10:37 ↗ can use this one yep and just press in

10:40 ↗ the center that'd be great um you have a

10:42 ↗ presentation okay please use that

10:45 ↗ [Laughter]

10:54 ↗ one

10:56 ↗ okay thank you tonight uh mayor Paulie

11:00 ↗ uh council president Walsh and uh

11:03 ↗ Council we are grateful to be able to

11:05 ↗ provide the opportunity to share our

11:07 ↗ information tonight I want to first by

11:09 ↗ saying thank you for this Council and

11:11 ↗ partnership that's been ongoing for uh a

11:14 ↗ long time in 2016 when we had our last

11:17 ↗ Bond uh your Council also approved a

11:20 ↗ resolution and support and we are

11:22 ↗ grateful for this partnership that's

11:23 ↗ what makes our community stronger and uh

11:26 ↗ our community is counting on us to do

11:29 ↗ everything we can to partner to uh

11:31 ↗ improve our community so I wanted to

11:33 ↗ present to you what our 2024 Bond uh is

11:37 ↗ and offer a time for opportunities for

11:39 ↗ questions so with that we will get

11:42 ↗ started uh it would be remiss for me not

11:45 ↗ to acknowledge the process and it was

11:48 ↗ eight meetings it was more than 60

11:49 ↗ volunteers across the district to

11:51 ↗ represent all of our school communities

11:54 ↗ uh including community members staff and

11:57 ↗ you can see in this map a highlight of

12:00 ↗ the pink dots are all the students in

12:03 ↗ our district and then the blue circles

12:05 ↗ are our buildings and then all the

12:07 ↗ projects embedded within the buildings

12:09 ↗ we want to just give a sense on where

12:11 ↗ the students live you see very clustered

12:13 ↗ strongly in St isqua and all the

12:16 ↗ projects uh that exists

12:20 ↗ therein in this package uh it's $642 m

12:25 ↗ 345,000

12:26 ↗ uh really focus on the priorities that

12:29 ↗ the committee uh developed which were

12:31 ↗ Safety and Security investing in keeping

12:34 ↗ our 26 buildings in the condition that

12:36 ↗ our community expects so we have

12:39 ↗ outstanding facilities and that comes at

12:41 ↗ a cost uh as you guys are well aware the

12:45 ↗ state has mandated certain uh building

12:49 ↗ and infrastructure uh updates and that's

12:52 ↗ included in this Bond as well it's

12:54 ↗ really important that we add high school

12:56 ↗ capacity and that we continue to support

12:59 ↗ Athletics and activities because more

13:02 ↗ than 50% of our students in our high

13:04 ↗ schools participate in sports and a much

13:06 ↗ larger number than that even participate

13:09 ↗ in activities we just heard from the

13:10 ↗ Arts Commission of how important

13:12 ↗ Performing Arts are uh this would be a

13:14 ↗ 13-year Bond uh to minimize a tax burden

13:18 ↗ uh uh to the smallest degree possible uh

13:21 ↗ and we've bucketed them in so it's

13:24 ↗ easier for you to see hard here wish I

13:26 ↗ had hard copies to hand you so you could

13:28 ↗ see and touch them

13:33 ↗ wanted to again highlight so for Safety

13:35 ↗ and Security it's 17.9 million and

13:38 ↗ wanted to know at the bottom and the

13:40 ↗ Bold we moved as a board $22 million of

13:45 ↗ what the District bond committee had

13:47 ↗ asked for up in our project list and we

13:50 ↗ moved money from the

13:52 ↗ 2022 Capital Levy uh because we think

13:55 ↗ that those security and safety measures

13:57 ↗ are so important that we want to get

13:58 ↗ started now

13:59 ↗ as you are all aware the the longer it

14:01 ↗ takes us for to get started on projects

14:03 ↗ the more they

14:05 ↗ cost uh the other one is is that the

14:08 ↗ high school is often uh been considered

14:11 ↗ a contentious topic uh in this room in

14:13 ↗ our room and wanted to remind everyone

14:16 ↗ that it's about a quarter of this Bond

14:18 ↗ so while it may be the overwhelming

14:21 ↗ topic tonight it is yet just a quarter

14:23 ↗ of the general and total population uh

14:27 ↗ impact and budget impact to this

14:32 ↗ Bond and so people will ask like well

14:35 ↗ but we've already voted to support this

14:37 ↗ Bond and this high school and the answer

14:40 ↗ is yes so in

14:41 ↗ 2016 uh that Bond dedicated $120 million

14:45 ↗ towards the high school and that was

14:47 ↗ what was projected in 2015 uh to build

14:50 ↗ that fourth high school as you all I'm

14:52 ↗ sure are aware and remember the there

14:56 ↗ were many delays for variety of reasons

14:58 ↗ for why the permitting didn't happen

15:00 ↗ until uh a little over a year

15:02 ↗ ago the 2022 Levy dedicated additional

15:06 ↗ funds for the high school uh but again

15:08 ↗ not sufficient enough to build the high

15:12 ↗ school so the projected cost uh for 2025

15:16 ↗ is

15:17 ↗ $292

15:19 ↗ million and uh it would not be prudent

15:22 ↗ for us to breakr on this unless we have

15:24 ↗ all the

15:25 ↗ funding wanted to highlight for you and

15:28 ↗ just uh visual form like what that looks

15:31 ↗ like and and where where the money uh

15:35 ↗ you want to follow it in more

15:40 ↗ detail and so then there's a question on

15:42 ↗ well do we really need to build this

15:44 ↗ high school and the answer is is yes so

15:47 ↗ both isqua and Skyline high schools are

15:49 ↗ continuing to be severely overcrowded

15:51 ↗ and frankly I think that impacts a lot

15:52 ↗ of reason why we have continuing rise in

15:55 ↗ students that are not they're choosing

15:56 ↗ to go to running Start programs because

15:59 ↗ because they can't even find a parking

16:00 ↗ spot in our high schools uh so the new

16:02 ↗ high school would accommodate 6800

16:04 ↗ students each from our two existing high

16:07 ↗ schools in in this part of our school

16:08 ↗ district and wanted to just uh set us in

16:13 ↗ historical uh parts of 1996 before

16:16 ↗ Skyline opened isqua was 1900 students

16:19 ↗ today it's uh for this past year it was

16:22 ↗ 2200 students and Skyline was 1967

16:26 ↗ students uh both high schools were

16:27 ↗ rejected to how was about 1,800 students

16:30 ↗ but that still includes uh use of

16:32 ↗ portable

16:38 ↗ classroom and uh wanted to again remind

16:42 ↗ that in 2016 when this Bond was passed

16:45 ↗ at

16:46 ↗ 72% we had 5254 high school students

16:50 ↗ this year we had

16:52 ↗ 5744 high school students and the

16:54 ↗ projections just get higher as you all

16:56 ↗ know because you have your central Isa

16:58 ↗ plan all the other building and growth

17:00 ↗ plans that are coming your building

17:02 ↗ those come with families and those come

17:04 ↗ with students and our projections are

17:07 ↗ that based on everything that we see

17:10 ↗ with our cities primarily the city of

17:11 ↗ isqua that we're going to have more than

17:13 ↗ 6,000 students really

17:15 ↗ soon and so you can imagine how long it

17:18 ↗ takes for us to build a high school that

17:20 ↗ we have to be ready not only to house

17:22 ↗ the students that we have today but it

17:25 ↗ would be a near impossible challenge for

17:28 ↗ us to deliver the education that we

17:29 ↗ deliver today uh if we're any more

17:31 ↗ overcrowded than we

17:36 ↗ are and so then it's spr brought up well

17:39 ↗ what about Alternatives can you just add

17:40 ↗ more space more permanent capacity to

17:42 ↗ our buildings and I think most of you if

17:45 ↗ not all of you have been to the isqua

17:47 ↗ campus and we can't even fit all of our

17:50 ↗ student body into the

17:52 ↗ stadium and so uh our parent Community

17:56 ↗ said well can you just expand and build

17:58 ↗ a bigger

17:59 ↗ stadium and this room says well you

18:02 ↗ would need to build bigger parking and

18:04 ↗ we're all like well where where would we

18:06 ↗ put that so where would we even add

18:07 ↗ another classroom Wing um so the cost

18:10 ↗ out a classroom Wing would require us to

18:11 ↗ build a parking garage and all sorts of

18:13 ↗ other things that just would make that

18:15 ↗ project really probably untenable uh and

18:18 ↗ very similar footprint challenges to

18:20 ↗ Skyline High School so the other big

18:24 ↗ thing is when we think about what's the

18:26 ↗ what's what's the perfect size for a

18:28 ↗ high school at the perfect size is to be

18:31 ↗ able to have a breth of academic

18:33 ↗ programming and elective opportunities

18:36 ↗ while small enough so student can be

18:39 ↗ known by their name strength and need

18:40 ↗ and have the opportunity to really

18:41 ↗ engage what the students in is class

18:43 ↗ school district really really find

18:46 ↗ valuable is the their extracurricular

18:49 ↗ participation and when you're a student

18:52 ↗ at a school of 2500 plus students trying

18:54 ↗ to compete for one of those 12

18:57 ↗ basketball spots

18:59 ↗ that's very different you were trying to

19:01 ↗ compete uh be on a robotics team of 150

19:04 ↗ kids like how much hands-on experience

19:07 ↗ are you getting how much leadership

19:08 ↗ opportunity you getting when you're in

19:09 ↗ an environment that that's that large

19:12 ↗ and so we want to create spaces and our

19:15 ↗ community expects us have spaces where

19:18 ↗ our students can

19:23 ↗ Thrive and then it's like wow that's an

19:25 ↗ eye poppy number and does it really cost

19:27 ↗ that and so just just want to highlight

19:29 ↗ so one of the most recent schools built

19:31 ↗ SE Public Schools uh is nearing the end

19:34 ↗ of their process of building a rebuild

19:36 ↗ of Rainer Beach High School uh $283

19:40 ↗ million uh Lake Washington has estimated

19:43 ↗ their next Comprehensive High School in

19:44 ↗ Redman is going to be $38

19:48 ↗ million uh so it's really rare to

19:52 ↗ actually build a a new building not a

19:54 ↗ rebuild but a new building the last time

19:55 ↗ a new high school was built in King

19:57 ↗ County was 2005 so I think part of the

19:59 ↗ challenges and part of why we've felt

20:01 ↗ behind in our projections is this isn't

20:03 ↗ something that happens that we have a

20:04 ↗ lot of uh projects we can say like oh

20:07 ↗ look what just happened here because it

20:09 ↗ doesn't happen to add on a a new

20:11 ↗ Comprehensive High School in King County

20:13 ↗ in large part because the costs are so

20:19 ↗ high uh so why it's important as I've

20:23 ↗ already alluded to is we currently have

20:25 ↗ 850 students in portable classrooms part

20:28 ↗ of what uh Rose to the top of this

20:30 ↗ community need through our school uh

20:32 ↗ Bond committee process was Safety and

20:35 ↗ Security and so we can do everything we

20:38 ↗ can to change how you enter isqua high

20:42 ↗ school but it doesn't change how you

20:44 ↗ enter any of the portable classrooms

20:46 ↗ some as far away as as you know at the

20:48 ↗ far end of the

20:50 ↗ stadium and so it's really critical that

20:53 ↗ these Safety and Security Investments

20:55 ↗ that we do can benefit every student and

20:57 ↗ that's why it's important that every

20:59 ↗ student has the ability to be able to be

21:01 ↗ in permanent space uh it's also

21:04 ↗ important one of the unique things about

21:06 ↗ this bond is it's not just about

21:07 ↗ building high school capacity for more

21:10 ↗ students it's about building Innovative

21:12 ↗ space and we have done a parallel

21:15 ↗ process in this Bond committee planning

21:18 ↗ uh for looking at what was it what would

21:20 ↗ it be like to remagine the high school

21:22 ↗ experience in this a class school

21:23 ↗ district and it's been a really neat

21:24 ↗ Journey this year uh and what where

21:27 ↗ we're coming to is we want every student

21:29 ↗ have the opportunity to have career-

21:31 ↗ connected learning opportunities when

21:33 ↗ they graduate through our system so not

21:36 ↗ just graduate with a diploma whether

21:38 ↗ you're four-year College Bound or you're

21:39 ↗ not we want every student to have chance

21:42 ↗ for Hands-On Real World Learning and

21:45 ↗ even in the is class school district 60%

21:48 ↗ of our students go directly under foure

21:50 ↗ college but means 40% don't and so we

21:53 ↗ have to really look closely at what are

21:55 ↗ we doing to make sure every student can

21:59 ↗ trve when they graduate high school and

22:01 ↗ choose the career that they are

22:04 ↗ passionate about and that's why that

22:06 ↗ that's critically important that we

22:08 ↗ create capacity within every one of our

22:10 ↗ high school campuses be able to retrofit

22:13 ↗ space to be able to offer these

22:15 ↗ Innovative options to our

22:20 ↗ students so here's the cost so uh it's

22:24 ↗ 29 cents per 100,000 uh test value tax

22:27 ↗ increase is the estimate

22:29 ↗ for a $1.5 million home in King County

22:31 ↗ that' be about aund a20 a day projected

22:35 ↗ tax rate of 342 is lower than our prior

22:39 ↗ 20-year average of 391 which what I

22:41 ↗ think the ne the next slide has a

22:43 ↗ picture what that looks like and then

22:45 ↗ the continued investment is really

22:47 ↗ necessary for us if we want to remain uh

22:49 ↗ one of the top school districts in our

22:51 ↗ state it requires investment we have

22:53 ↗ $1.3 billion dollar of assess value

22:55 ↗ buildings in our district so you can

22:57 ↗ imagine just

22:58 ↗ the the cost to maintain the roofs the

23:01 ↗ Energy Efficiency uh mandates that we

23:04 ↗ have to do all the monitorization for

23:06 ↗ fields and spaces it it there's a cost

23:08 ↗ to

23:11 ↗ it here's what it looks graphically

23:13 ↗ speaking so you can see the gray bar is

23:15 ↗ what the total uh historical costs have

23:19 ↗ been and the blue bar is what the new uh

23:22 ↗ 2024 proposed Bond would look like our

23:25 ↗ community has asked for uh able tax

23:29 ↗ rates and that's what this is trying to

23:33 ↗ deliver oh yeah sorry I I want to

23:36 ↗ highlight one thing uh in you'll see

23:39 ↗ there was a dip and you see the arrow

23:41 ↗ pointed on the Green Arrow where it says

23:42 ↗ typical timeline for Bond consideration

23:45 ↗ so our schedules are built such to

23:48 ↗ expect a bond at a certain time you'll

23:50 ↗ see in 2023 you're like oh look why did

23:52 ↗ it do that and then go back up the

23:54 ↗ reason why is because we should have

23:55 ↗ typically run a bond in that sixth year

23:58 ↗ our bond history is usually every four

23:59 ↗ to six years we run a bond but you may

24:02 ↗ recall in that time period that would

24:04 ↗ have been 2022 that we were planning for

24:05 ↗ it we were in the height of Co and we

24:07 ↗ were just hoping to get our schools back

24:09 ↗ open and that was the focus of our staff

24:11 ↗ to actually get kids back in school and

24:14 ↗ so this took us uh backseat to that and

24:18 ↗ it does change sort of what the

24:19 ↗ projections look like and feel like from

24:22 ↗ a a quote tax increase because of that

24:29 ↗ and then we just want to call out the

24:31 ↗ number gosh uh $642 million Bond seems

24:35 ↗ like a lot of money um want to give some

24:38 ↗ context so the $533 million Bond

24:40 ↗ approved in 2016 at greater than 72% uh

24:44 ↗ would be almost $900 million in today's

24:48 ↗ uh dollars you normally run a bond every

24:51 ↗ 46 years 2006 2012

24:54 ↗ 2016 um and so that makes it feel like a

24:57 ↗ bigger increase than would have been

24:59 ↗ because we're trying to pack one and a

25:02 ↗ half bonds worth of projects into one

25:04 ↗ Bond and then the need for the new high

25:06 ↗ school is only going to grow more acute

25:08 ↗ while it's only a quarter of our bond

25:11 ↗ projects in dollar amounts the impact to

25:14 ↗ all of our students in our community

25:15 ↗ because all of our students will go

25:16 ↗ through our high schools is really

25:18 ↗ important so as you see by 2040 we're

25:20 ↗ projected have an additional 1,200

25:22 ↗ students on top of our all already

25:23 ↗ overcrowded

25:26 ↗ State oh sorry well I didn't I do want

25:29 ↗ to call it the last one uh costs are

25:31 ↗ just going to continue to increase if we

25:33 ↗ delay it any further we estimate by 2030

25:36 ↗ if we don't pass this Bond and have to

25:38 ↗ keep going out it'd be $348 million to

25:40 ↗ build this school so costs don't ever

25:43 ↗ decrease for construction we wish they

25:48 ↗ did and then wanted to give you some

25:51 ↗ Regional context so what are other

25:52 ↗ districts doing and and like do we seem

25:54 ↗ out a step with that so first our

25:56 ↗ neighbor to the North like Washington

25:58 ↗ they are running a $ 676.53

26:02 ↗ cents tax increase so again uh we have

26:06 ↗ very similar property values ours is 29

26:08 ↗ cents just to remind you so for them

26:10 ↗ it's about a $570 tax increase for a

26:13 ↗ home with $ 1.5 million

26:15 ↗ assessment sumoner School District I

26:18 ↗ call this out because this is where I

26:19 ↗ know I from they're r a $740 million

26:22 ↗ Bond uh they're a school just about half

26:24 ↗ our size uh it's 21 years it's an 85 tax

26:29 ↗ increase and it's

26:31 ↗ $425 for their home and their home

26:33 ↗ average is $500,000 a sess value and

26:37 ↗ then you can compare

26:41 ↗ ours so then like well but yep what if I

26:45 ↗ vote no so of course your taxes don't

26:48 ↗ increase but here's what happens uh as

26:52 ↗ we have to invest more in buildings that

26:54 ↗ are aging that comes out of operational

26:56 ↗ dollars and operational dollars in in a

26:58 ↗ school district are out of our classroom

27:00 ↗ And So It ultimately impacts the

27:02 ↗ education that we deliver and that's

27:04 ↗ what's really important to us uh the

27:07 ↗ overcrowding of our schools will

27:09 ↗ continue to negatively impact the

27:10 ↗ student experience not just what they're

27:12 ↗ getting delivered in the classroom but

27:14 ↗ all the extracurriculars that our

27:16 ↗ students and families

27:18 ↗ expect and wanted to just remind people

27:21 ↗ that every uh item on the proposed bond

27:24 ↗ package is necessary to deliver the

27:26 ↗ student experience that our community uh

27:28 ↗ expects and values so uh we really

27:32 ↗ pushed hard against the district to say

27:34 ↗ like do these items really need do they

27:36 ↗ belong here even the ones for Energy

27:38 ↗ Efficiency and modernization like do

27:41 ↗ they have to be done now so all these

27:43 ↗ projects are the in the six-year window

27:46 ↗ or yes they need to be done in these

27:47 ↗ sixy year not like oh yeah we need we

27:50 ↗ can do this next

27:52 ↗ decade uh you'll recall because you guys

27:55 ↗ probably have lived here longer than I

27:56 ↗ have uh that there were Bond failures

27:59 ↗ here in the late 90s um ultimately those

28:04 ↗ projects still need to be done and they

28:06 ↗ were done and those Bonds were passed

28:09 ↗ but the cost to the taxpayers ultimately

28:12 ↗ was more and that's what would happen

28:13 ↗ today because none of the projects that

28:14 ↗ we're offering on this proposal are uh

28:18 ↗ optional or like well what if we just go

28:21 ↗ back to the drawing board and do

28:22 ↗ something differ Le because they're all

28:25 ↗ needed and so uh if it's not

28:28 ↗ 2024 even if it's 2025 we all know what

28:31 ↗ the costs are you're already projecting

28:32 ↗ doing your budgets for 2025 you already

28:34 ↗ know what the increase is so just do the

28:37 ↗ math on

28:38 ↗ $642 million and you'll you'll see where

28:41 ↗ we are as we project out so and

28:44 ↗ ultimately uh we've seen it we've seen

28:46 ↗ it happen in surounding districts in our

28:47 ↗ region with uh school districts that

28:50 ↗ don't pass bonds it impacts property

28:53 ↗ values and that ultimately drives uh

28:55 ↗ where people choose to live

29:00 ↗ and I understand I'm not taking

29:02 ↗ questions

29:05 ↗ now thank

29:08 ↗ you so uh thank you harlon uh Council we

29:12 ↗ will have question and answer after the

29:14 ↗ public hearing portion so I am going to

29:16 ↗ open the public hearing at 7:28 p.m.

29:20 ↗ again if you're joining us virtually uh

29:22 ↗ there may be some new folks um please

29:24 ↗ raise your hand or send the uh host h

29:28 ↗ chat message if you're on your phone

29:30 ↗ press star three if you join by computer

29:31 ↗ or smartphone look for the hand icon if

29:34 ↗ you're in the room and did not sign up I

29:36 ↗ will ask for other speakers before

29:37 ↗ closing this portion of the meeting um

29:40 ↗ city clerk has anyone signed up to speak

29:42 ↗ or indicate a desire to speak yes the

29:45 ↗ first person is William

29:47 ↗ osmer great come on up

29:54 ↗ William AKA Dave osmer is a

29:58 ↗ Washington I urge you to oppose this

30:02 ↗ outrageous Bond proposition but if you

30:04 ↗ won't do that at least please don't take

30:07 ↗ a position at

30:08 ↗ all furthermore I suggest you have a

30:11 ↗ clear conflict of interest because

30:13 ↗ there's 10 million dollar in this bond

30:16 ↗ that would be a gift to the city to help

30:19 ↗ refurbish Bing

30:21 ↗ pool the proposition also includes as

30:24 ↗ you just heard $182 million

30:28 ↗ uh for the new High School Number

30:30 ↗ Four I I you just heard them tell you

30:33 ↗ that they need this rle because the high

30:35 ↗ schools are

30:37 ↗ overcrowded and enrollment expect is

30:39 ↗ expected to increase despite the current

30:43 ↗ trends and in today's environment where

30:45 ↗ districts all around us are closing

30:47 ↗ schools not building new

30:49 ↗ ones what I what ISD doesn't tell you is

30:53 ↗ that their own

30:55 ↗ 2024 Capital project or Capital

30:58 ↗ facilities plan shows that they already

31:02 ↗ have existing

31:04 ↗ capacity for to accomodate their

31:06 ↗ projected High School enrollment for the

31:08 ↗ next 10

31:10 ↗ years granted that includes Portables

31:13 ↗ which is not ideal ideally I'd like a

31:17 ↗ fie but I can't afford it neither

31:21 ↗ can the uh excuse me

31:28 ↗ and neither can the residents of this

31:31 ↗ District afford the luxury of a $300

31:34 ↗ million High

31:35 ↗ School I urge you and ISD to take some

31:39 ↗ lessons from your

31:41 ↗ neighbors isd's neighbors in Lake

31:44 ↗ Washington just recently announced that

31:46 ↗ they were going to expand the capacity

31:49 ↗ of their existing schools instead of

31:51 ↗ building a new

31:54 ↗ one that because their plan for the new

31:57 ↗ one was quote 14 to5 million over budget

32:02 ↗ and almost a year behind

32:05 ↗ schedule High High School number fours

32:09 ↗ uh is

32:11 ↗ $180 million over budget from their

32:14 ↗ original

32:15 ↗ calculations and over five years behind

32:21 ↗ schedule I urge them to do the same as

32:25 ↗ Lake wa I urge them to do the same as

32:27 ↗ Lake Washington

32:28 ↗ and spend a whole lot less than 300

32:31 ↗ million expanding their existing

32:34 ↗ capacity The council's Neighbors in Sam

32:38 ↗ Amish recently declined to take a

32:41 ↗ position on this

32:42 ↗ issue and I urge you to do the same if

32:46 ↗ you won't vote actually to oppose it so

32:50 ↗ please do

32:51 ↗ not impose this incredible increase in

32:55 ↗ taxes on your uh constituents thank

33:01 ↗ you thank you Dave apologize for the

33:04 ↗ typo on the speaker list that's my fault

33:07 ↗ um city clerk who's up to speak next

33:10 ↗ Michelle Williams Michelle come on

33:21 ↗ up you got it I thank you very very nice

33:26 ↗ to be here

33:28 ↗ my name is Michelle Williams I'm an

33:30 ↗ isqua taxpayer a former Northshore

33:34 ↗ School administrator and a former

33:37 ↗ student teacher supervisor in the

33:39 ↗ issaqua school district in these

33:42 ↗ capacities I always supported Bond and

33:46 ↗ Levy

33:47 ↗ propositions now however I am concerned

33:50 ↗ about the issaqua school district's lack

33:53 ↗ of

33:54 ↗ transparency in how it is using the bond

33:57 ↗ and Lev funds that tax payer payers have

34:00 ↗ already

34:02 ↗ approved the past two propositions have

34:04 ↗ requested funds for a new high school

34:07 ↗ and the money has been used for many

34:09 ↗ other things many other projects

34:11 ↗ including a new administration building

34:15 ↗ how can they be trusted to not do the

34:17 ↗ same with the money from this

34:20 ↗ proposition the isqua school district

34:22 ↗ does not need a new high school future

34:25 ↗ enrollment projections show that student

34:28 ↗ numbers are

34:29 ↗ declining isqua's neighboring districts

34:32 ↗ are looking at alternate ways to assess

34:35 ↗ lower enrollment the bellw school

34:38 ↗ district has closed two elementary

34:41 ↗ schools and is considering closing two

34:44 ↗ middle schools not building new ones and

34:48 ↗ as Dave mentioned what Lake Washington

34:50 ↗ school district is uh taking the

34:53 ↗ approach of enhancing their existing

34:55 ↗ high

34:56 ↗ schools I am understand this Bond

34:59 ↗ includes funds to meet the state clean

35:01 ↗ buildings mandate for upgrading

35:04 ↗ buildings to improve their Energy

35:07 ↗ Efficiency why not look at upgrading the

35:11 ↗ existing high school buildings by

35:13 ↗ expanding them as well we do not need an

35:17 ↗ incredibly expensive new high school let

35:20 ↗ us look at alternate ways we can address

35:23 ↗ the current needs of students recognize

35:27 ↗ declin

35:28 ↗ enrollment and value taxpayers dollars

35:32 ↗ thank you so much for your

35:34 ↗ consideration thank you Michelle city

35:36 ↗ clerk who's up next Kina

35:46 ↗ dup good evening actually it's kle

35:50 ↗ dup uh I'm a resident of isqua I've

35:53 ↗ lived here for six years and I think you

35:56 ↗ were right five years ago when you

35:59 ↗ suggested a stem school would be a great

36:02 ↗ addition to this District I believe all

36:05 ↗ our children need to excel those with

36:08 ↗ learning challenges and those who are

36:12 ↗ gifted as a parent of both I Fought the

36:16 ↗ Battle for my children many years ago we

36:19 ↗ should be strong supporters of all of

36:21 ↗ our children wouldn't it be great to

36:25 ↗ offer our gifted students students the

36:28 ↗ opportunity in our

36:30 ↗ district um to have a stem school here

36:35 ↗ rather than sending them to private

36:36 ↗ schools in other

36:38 ↗ areas and having families who would want

36:42 ↗ to live here in this wonderful Community

36:46 ↗ is AA a great place to live my husband

36:50 ↗ was in the military we moved

36:53 ↗ frequently I always investigated the

36:56 ↗ local schools I wanted to find the

36:58 ↗ school where our children learning

37:01 ↗ challenged or gifted would Excel please

37:04 ↗ consider supporting a stem school for

37:08 ↗ our district rather than another cookie

37:10 ↗ cutter school thank you very much thank

37:14 ↗ you

37:15 ↗ kleina uh city clerk who signed up

37:18 ↗ next Caroline

37:21 ↗ tenis

37:25 ↗ welcome hello good evening thank thank

37:27 ↗ you for welcoming our our comments

37:29 ↗ tonight mayor nice to see you Tisha um

37:33 ↗ it's Tinus rhymes with Venus I know I'll

37:35 ↗ keep reminding you it's it's German it's

37:38 ↗ complicated um anyway thank you for this

37:41 ↗ opportunity to comment on this Bond um I

37:44 ↗ agree with my predecessors that it is

37:47 ↗ excessive at the amount that it is

37:49 ↗ currently standing I encourage the isqua

37:52 ↗ city council to stay neutral at this

37:54 ↗ point just as the samamish city council

37:57 ↗ is

37:57 ↗ and let us go back to the drawing board

38:00 ↗ vote this bond No vote it down in

38:03 ↗ November come back to the drawing board

38:06 ↗ I noted that there are 45,000 households

38:10 ↗ in the isqua school district but the

38:12 ↗ isqua school district said they only

38:14 ↗ include about 60 individuals when they

38:17 ↗ put this bond package together there is

38:20 ↗ so much in it I would really like them

38:22 ↗ to work with us to pull it apart look at

38:25 ↗ what's

38:26 ↗ essential um so that's basically it as

38:29 ↗ an accountant as a business person the

38:32 ↗ number of 642 million on top of what we

38:35 ↗ already are paying in debt is

38:37 ↗ extraordinary but we've also calculated

38:40 ↗ with interest it's closer to about 900

38:43 ↗ million we have a lot of small families

38:45 ↗ and single people that are moving out of

38:48 ↗ isqua because they simply can't afford

38:50 ↗ the property taxes and housing costs I

38:53 ↗ would like to encourage those people to

38:55 ↗ come back to our community because we're

38:57 ↗ not overcharging them thank you again

38:59 ↗ for this opportunity we appreciate it

39:02 ↗ thank you Carolyn uh city clerk do you

39:04 ↗ have more signed up on your list okay

39:06 ↗ great let's

39:08 ↗ go yes just one more and then we do have

39:10 ↗ a few virtual attendees though I don't

39:12 ↗ see any of them are wishing to speak at

39:14 ↗ this time so the last person in the room

39:17 ↗ signed up is

39:19 ↗ Mary I'm nervous to try the last name

39:23 ↗ most people mispronounce it uh thank you

39:26 ↗ for the opportunity to speak everyone my

39:29 ↗ name is Mary darus a resident of isqua I

39:32 ↗ formerly taught at the udub College of

39:34 ↗ Engineering and at Lake Washington

39:36 ↗ Technical College I'm concerned about

39:39 ↗ how sections of this Bond ignore our

39:41 ↗ community's environment as related to HS

39:44 ↗ number four the city of isqua's own

39:47 ↗ climate action plan aims to quote

39:52 ↗ increase Community green spaces and tree

39:55 ↗ canopy cover

39:57 ↗ if this Bond passes ISD will cut down

40:00 ↗ 77% of the trees on the hs4 site

40:05 ↗ including according to them and again

40:08 ↗ quote large stands of mature

40:13 ↗ trees at the 2020 uh a 2020 development

40:17 ↗ commission meeting a commissioner said

40:19 ↗ that the buildings quote look too

40:23 ↗ institutional too

40:25 ↗ industrial ISD 's own architect during

40:29 ↗ that meeting in response said that quote

40:33 ↗ there is bark likee texture on the

40:36 ↗ exterior of the buildings to mimic the

40:39 ↗ bark of a

40:41 ↗ tree another goal from the city's plan

40:44 ↗ is by 2030 we will achieve net zero

40:49 ↗ emissions in new

40:52 ↗ buildings ISD is not using Net Zero on

40:55 ↗ this project which is a standard in New

40:58 ↗ School construction across the country

41:00 ↗ and even

41:02 ↗ internationally because it often costs

41:05 ↗ less and more importantly School

41:08 ↗ operating costs are reduced 65 to 80%

41:12 ↗ that's according to the US Department of

41:13 ↗ energy saving future taxpayer dollars

41:17 ↗ over

41:18 ↗ decades isd's own architect even stated

41:22 ↗ that they are quote not seeking green

41:25 ↗ certification

41:27 ↗ uh related to that is when uh because as

41:31 ↗ you can tell this is an issue close to

41:32 ↗ my heart I asked about recycling water

41:35 ↗ on the

41:36 ↗ site the architect said that they

41:38 ↗ designed the roof too

41:41 ↗ big they will not be recycling

41:46 ↗ water uh as for the uh comments about

41:50 ↗ the parking spaces I want to say nobody

41:52 ↗ wants to live next to a bunch of parking

41:54 ↗ spaces in fact uh the design as it

41:57 ↗ stands now we'll have a 700 space

42:01 ↗ parking garage two stories in completely

42:04 ↗ residential

42:11 ↗ area it it's also surprising to me

42:14 ↗ that that the district hasn't considered

42:17 ↗ satellite parking uh the parking ride

42:21 ↗ just down the street from uh isqua High

42:24 ↗ School is completely empty in the

42:26 ↗ evenings um surely they would Implement

42:30 ↗ shuttle like Adobe and Microsoft and

42:34 ↗ even Costco uses uh so there's really no

42:37 ↗ need to build parking right next to a

42:40 ↗ high school um or if they expand isqua

42:43 ↗ high school or Liberty um it's just a

42:46 ↗ matter of actually implementing some

42:48 ↗ creative

42:52 ↗ thinking ISD has had more than enough

42:55 ↗ time to implement common sense

42:57 ↗ environmental building approaches from

43:00 ↗ the 2016 Bond and the 2022

43:03 ↗ Levy and they are sending I believe a

43:07 ↗ message to our children that their

43:09 ↗ future is that their future environment

43:12 ↗ is not as important as uh building a

43:16 ↗ cookie cutter School uh one of the

43:18 ↗ slides that we saw earlier said a I

43:22 ↗ believe it was a total High School

43:24 ↗ experience and then the line right below

43:26 ↗ that uh addressed Athletics a lot of

43:29 ↗ kids are not a into Athletics and uh

43:33 ↗ would would like stem programming and

43:36 ↗ certainly what I would

43:38 ↗ prefer uh so please follow the example

43:41 ↗ of the samamish city council and do not

43:43 ↗ support this Bond thank you very much

43:47 ↗ thank you Mary uh tisue is there anyone

43:49 ↗ online that has indicate it we we do

43:53 ↗ have a few folks online but none of them

43:55 ↗ have raised a hand or indicated it

43:57 ↗ desire to speak okay and looking around

43:59 ↗ the room I see a few people who also

44:01 ↗ haven't spoken could you raise your hand

44:02 ↗ if you'd also like to speak during the

44:04 ↗ public

44:05 ↗ hearing okay thank you um last chance

44:09 ↗ with the

44:10 ↗ online okay thank you city clerk hold on

44:14 ↗ there's a hand okay we got one all right

44:17 ↗ uh phone in caller with the number

44:23 ↗ 20630 make you a panelist now and I'm

44:25 ↗ going to go ahead and unmute you

44:29 ↗ so you have the floor

44:31 ↗ hi hi can you hear me okay yes we can

44:36 ↗ Steve this is St Pera living in old kind

44:39 ↗ gu for 16 years is um

44:45 ↗ so my initial thought is that I would

44:47 ↗ like to see the city council take no

44:49 ↗ position on this

44:51 ↗ issue uh I think this is an issue

44:53 ↗ between the governing body which is the

44:55 ↗ school district and the voters who will

44:57 ↗ be voting not school not the city

45:00 ↗ council so the city council members will

45:03 ↗ have that opportunity to speak in voice

45:05 ↗ and vote on that opinion I know it's not

45:09 ↗ so much I guess I want to be clear

45:11 ↗ transparency I was one of those who

45:13 ↗ oppose the current site for the high

45:17 ↗ school uh and preserving Providence

45:19 ↗ points so I just want to be transparent

45:21 ↗ with that I also have some concern with

45:25 ↗ the cost of $292 million for a high

45:27 ↗ school and I also don't think it's the

45:31 ↗ best site for a high school because it's

45:34 ↗ or because it's not within the proposed

45:38 ↗ growth boundaries for residents so we're

45:41 ↗ going to be transporting students from

45:44 ↗ far away to go

45:46 ↗ to a location that's not near their

45:49 ↗ location if that said all those things

45:52 ↗ the city council should not be taking

45:54 ↗ position for or against this the

45:56 ↗ position

45:57 ↗ between the residents who are being

45:59 ↗ asked to oppose or approve the measure

46:03 ↗ not to the city council to take a

46:05 ↗ position so again I would like to see

46:06 ↗ the city council stay neutral and I

46:09 ↗ guess abstain from

46:11 ↗ voting thank you thank you Steve city

46:16 ↗ clerk you want to take a last look and

46:17 ↗ see if any online attendees want to

46:21 ↗ speak no other hands city council do uh

46:25 ↗ you have any objection to me closing the

46:27 ↗ public hearing at this

46:29 ↗ time okay so I'm closing the public

46:31 ↗ hearing at

46:32 ↗ 7:45 and we're going to move into

46:34 ↗ Council questions so please raise your

46:37 ↗ microphone if you have any

46:40 ↗ questions council

46:42 ↗ president thank you I'm wondering based

46:45 ↗ on do we want Haron to come yeah har I

46:48 ↗ think these are for you oh go back

46:50 ↗ that's fine yep she may want to see a

46:52 ↗ slide based on um the projection uh

46:57 ↗ enrollment data and growth do we have a

47:00 ↗ sense of whether the high school within

47:03 ↗ this Bond um data would be would handle

47:10 ↗ the additional enrollment or would we

47:13 ↗ still be addressing that with Portables

47:16 ↗ at all of the high school sites with a

47:18 ↗ new

47:21 ↗ build well you uh are as good as

47:25 ↗ projecting growth as I am

47:27 ↗ but we would say at least for the next

47:29 ↗ let's say 15 to 20 years so depends what

47:33 ↗ it's hard to know what 2040 does and

47:35 ↗ what when you have that how how much the

47:37 ↗ transit oriented development is going to

47:39 ↗ impact our schools we we frankly don't

47:41 ↗ know that but our projections would say

47:43 ↗ through 2040 that that should be less

47:46 ↗ problematic for us uh so will we remove

47:49 ↗ and yank up all the Portables from the

47:51 ↗ buildings after we build you high school

47:53 ↗ no that would be un unwise economically

47:56 ↗ although there is many I would like to

47:58 ↗ remove and I already talked about but

48:00 ↗ yeah the answer is uh we believe that it

48:03 ↗ should for a long time so I think the

48:05 ↗ specific question I was trying to ask

48:09 ↗ is if this Bond passes and a new high

48:14 ↗ school is built and launched in the 2028

48:17 ↗ period when it is built with the

48:20 ↗ capacity

48:22 ↗ intended would that cover all of the

48:25 ↗ students plan to be enrolled at that

48:28 ↗ year not looking 15 years out yes answer

48:31 ↗ yes sorry I did not understand yes okay

48:34 ↗ thank

48:35 ↗ you uh Deputy council president D

48:39 ↗ Michelle uh thanks um you know we we all

48:43 ↗ know and I'm sure the school board is

48:46 ↗ very um aware of this that we have a

48:49 ↗ mental health crisis among our young

48:51 ↗ people in this country um and was

48:55 ↗ exacerbated by covid but uh it's you

48:59 ↗ know it's started even before covid so

49:03 ↗ can you speak to the or my question is

49:06 ↗ um what kind of relief will students

49:10 ↗ feel if they are able to be in smaller

49:14 ↗ populations um is the stress of being in

49:17 ↗ an overcrowded building uh a contributor

49:20 ↗ to kids uh mental health

49:23 ↗ concerns I think it absolutely is and I

49:26 ↗ think that that's why I mentioned

49:27 ↗ earlier I we want every student to be

49:29 ↗ known by name strength and need and I

49:31 ↗ think it's really hard to when you're as

49:33 ↗ a administrator probably just trying to

49:34 ↗ put out fires in a school of 2500 kids I

49:37 ↗ mean at Skyline there's 1100 students in

49:39 ↗ each

49:40 ↗ lunch and so it's it's really hard for

49:43 ↗ students to even build community in in a

49:46 ↗ place like that and so it's not just I

49:50 ↗ mental health has as you know is

49:52 ↗ multifactorial and part of it is that

49:54 ↗ connectedness in that community and

49:57 ↗ that's what we really want to seek to

49:59 ↗ make sure that we're building the right

50:00 ↗ space for that and so all students can

50:04 ↗ Thrive because we know not every student

50:06 ↗ is is going to do athletics not every

50:08 ↗ student is going to do robotics is going

50:10 ↗ to do sports medicine but we want to

50:13 ↗ have enough cases for students to plug

50:16 ↗ in and for the students who aren't

50:18 ↗ plugging in for our staff to be able to

50:20 ↗ come around and support when I said that

50:23 ↗ there's 600 plus students going to

50:24 ↗ running start if that's because that

50:27 ↗ what's works for that's their desire

50:29 ↗ that's what they're passionate about

50:30 ↗ that's what's works for their family and

50:32 ↗ they're running to running start and

50:34 ↗ that's great but looking at the

50:36 ↗ Historical averages versus where we are

50:38 ↗ today because our sever over carding I

50:40 ↗ believe that they're actually running

50:42 ↗ from our buildings not running to

50:44 ↗ running star and that's a very distinct

50:46 ↗ difference that I think highlights sort

50:48 ↗ of that mental health part where they

50:50 ↗ like the thought of them being in a

50:52 ↗ building that that's crowded is

50:54 ↗ overwhelming

50:57 ↗ any other questions from council members

51:00 ↗ uh council member

51:02 ↗ Joe thank

51:05 ↗ you I'm want to focus my question on the

51:08 ↗ the security measures that are going to

51:09 ↗ be part of this Bond

51:12 ↗ um my uh looks like 17.9 million it's a

51:18 ↗ relatively small number but it's an

51:19 ↗ important number as well um my eldest

51:24 ↗ went to isqua high school and and was

51:27 ↗ inap portable for two different classes

51:30 ↗ I want to

51:32 ↗ see she no longer goes there but but I

51:35 ↗ want to see what Safety and Security

51:37 ↗ measures would kind of broadly be put in

51:39 ↗ place you mentioned that the Portables

51:42 ↗ are often at the end of the campus uh

51:44 ↗ and far away from the security Personnel

51:47 ↗ or the other staff so could you

51:50 ↗ highlight a little bit about uh what

51:52 ↗ that would entail for the 17.9 million

51:55 ↗ sure I'll first with the 22 million that

51:57 ↗ you see at the bottom and that's where

51:59 ↗ we're want to have vesle entrances at

52:01 ↗ each one of our high schools in the way

52:03 ↗ that you you've been in is CL middle

52:04 ↗ school or any of our elementary schools

52:06 ↗ where you have double door sequencing to

52:08 ↗ get in that doesn't exist in our high

52:10 ↗ schools and you may recall back when

52:12 ↗ these high schools were built we were

52:13 ↗ buil to be opening to the community and

52:16 ↗ now we realize we have to balance that

52:18 ↗ so it's a two-step process the first

52:20 ↗ step is to to harden the access into our

52:22 ↗ buildings so that we know who's coming

52:24 ↗ into our buildings second part we the

52:27 ↗ 17.9 is a lot of it is a lot of uh

52:30 ↗ updated for camera access and so uh as

52:33 ↗ we have moved to having a security

52:35 ↗ officer in every one of our buildings

52:37 ↗ it's important for them to have the

52:39 ↗ technology they need to make sure that

52:40 ↗ they uh as one

52:42 ↗ person can be able to have eyes all over

52:45 ↗ the campus and I think that also gives

52:48 ↗ assurances uh after hours or in sporting

52:50 ↗ events you may recall there's been a lot

52:52 ↗ of uh challenges that happen in Big

52:54 ↗ Campus on second and

53:01 ↗ yeah any other questions from Council

53:04 ↗ Council M

53:06 ↗ hunt thank you um it it seems to me like

53:10 ↗ in the uh resolution there's a fair

53:12 ↗ amount of flexibility in terms of um for

53:15 ↗ some of the things that talks about

53:16 ↗ potentially there being replacement and

53:18 ↗ or remodel of gck um and so I wondered

53:23 ↗ um if this does pass what is the process

53:25 ↗ for deciding you know how much is

53:27 ↗ replacement how much is Remodel and and

53:30 ↗ what does that look like and how does

53:31 ↗ the community participate in that

53:34 ↗ process as well yeah that's a great

53:35 ↗ question I I don't think that the

53:37 ↗ intention is to provide a blanket

53:39 ↗ authority to do something it's really to

53:41 ↗ provide language to be able to support

53:43 ↗ project uh development and so for Gibson

53:45 ↗ act in particular it's to look at hey if

53:48 ↗ if we want to expand the space like we

53:50 ↗ are already at capacity at Gibson for

53:52 ↗ the number of students that are

53:53 ↗ attending there so uh you may recall

53:56 ↗ there is that that auxiliary gym space

53:58 ↗ that's sits between where Gibson e main

54:00 ↗ entrance is and where our uh Community

54:04 ↗ program is for our 18 to 21 year olds

54:06 ↗ and so if you look at that the question

54:09 ↗ may be is that going to be like torn

54:11 ↗ down and would it be replaced or would

54:12 ↗ it be repurposed and I think that's why

54:15 ↗ you need the flexibility of language uh

54:18 ↗ something was brought up earlier about

54:19 ↗ the money for the 2016 Bond was

54:21 ↗ repurposed and not talked about

54:24 ↗ um I don't believe that that is

54:28 ↗ something that happened and for the

54:30 ↗ school administration building uh that

54:33 ↗ was something that was not about the

54:35 ↗ high school dollars so if we could show

54:37 ↗ you $90 million are still remaining from

54:40 ↗ the 2016 bond which it was actually we

54:42 ↗ did show was included from the uh that

54:45 ↗ still exists in the account for the high

54:47 ↗ school uh we've already spent a lot on

54:50 ↗ the site development as you can imagine

54:51 ↗ we spent more than $20 million on the

54:53 ↗ site development

54:56 ↗ um okay so process-wise is it that that

55:00 ↗ the school board um considers the

55:02 ↗ different options and makes that

55:04 ↗ decision with input from the community

55:05 ↗ or what's the process for yeah good

55:08 ↗ question so I think that uh at every

55:10 ↗ project level it definitely comes before

55:12 ↗ us for approval uh I think that we would

55:16 ↗ not come in into a public hearing stand

55:19 ↗ unless we saw a significant deviation

55:21 ↗ from hey there was a project planned

55:23 ↗ let's say uh we planned to build high

55:26 ↗ school for and now something happened

55:28 ↗ catastrophic in our community we're no

55:30 ↗ longer going to build it we would have

55:32 ↗ conversation what what are we going to

55:33 ↗ do instead so that would be something or

55:36 ↗ we uh had planned on uh building a new

55:42 ↗ middle school and now we're no longer so

55:45 ↗ the thought about building and closing

55:46 ↗ schools would be something but as far as

55:49 ↗ the projects that listed for most of

55:51 ↗ them are are almost all modernization

55:53 ↗ that's where the big bulk of this is

55:55 ↗ that would be probably something we we

55:56 ↗ wouldn't uh take up unless there was

55:58 ↗ particular Community interest we would

56:00 ↗ have no problem having deep conversation

56:02 ↗ about that but the bulk of this bond is

56:05 ↗ investments in modernizing and keeping

56:07 ↗ the upkeep to the $1.3 billion of assets

56:11 ↗ that we have in our

56:13 ↗ district um okay thank you uh you

56:16 ↗ mentioned that the um there was a

56:19 ↗ community comments earlier about the

56:22 ↗ previous uh bonds and how those funds

56:25 ↗ were spent where would somebody go to

56:27 ↗ get more information about the breakdown

56:29 ↗ of of that on uh for for the 2016 Bond

56:34 ↗ uh well I one I hope our website uh

56:36 ↗ we've spent a lot of time through the

56:38 ↗ bond committee process so I think the

56:40 ↗ first couple meetings broke that down so

56:42 ↗ I think currently you could go to the

56:44 ↗ bond committee uh agenda meetings all of

56:48 ↗ that's in there with all the meeting

56:49 ↗ materials but as we build out our FAQs

56:52 ↗ on our bond 2024 our website that's

56:55 ↗ certainly something that we would want

56:56 ↗ to include because there's nothing about

56:58 ↗ this process uh why we've had it so open

57:01 ↗ with our community since early of 2024

57:04 ↗ is we want this to be a transparent

57:06 ↗ process we wanted this to be a Community

57:08 ↗ Driven process those values are what

57:10 ↗ brought forward the project list that

57:11 ↗ wasn't a project list driven by the

57:13 ↗ school

57:15 ↗ board okay um two more questions so one

57:18 ↗ is uh on the environmental um

57:22 ↗ environmental uh impacts here um could

57:26 ↗ you explain a little bit more about uh

57:29 ↗ how you are minimizing the impact to the

57:31 ↗ environment in the in this plan it was

57:33 ↗ mentioned that it's um it was mentioned

57:36 ↗ in community comments I'm concerned

57:37 ↗ about that we had a fair amount of

57:39 ↗ discussion before about the site and you

57:41 ↗ know runoff from the site and that sort

57:43 ↗ of thing so if you could speak to how

57:45 ↗ that impact is being minimized please

57:47 ↗ that would go far above my head and my

57:49 ↗ expertise so I would not be able to do

57:51 ↗ that uh I don't know if I have someone

57:53 ↗ here who would be able to I suspect that

57:55 ↗ they would

57:56 ↗ so uh and if you have other any other

57:59 ↗ question before that I could answer then

58:00 ↗ i' would happily hand it over to our

58:01 ↗ staff I have one other question but if

58:04 ↗ we can uh why don't you throw it out on

58:05 ↗ the table we see if it's one for Harland

58:07 ↗ or for staff okay um so my last question

58:09 ↗ is I've heard in the community and it

58:11 ↗ was also mentioned in our comments

58:14 ↗ around um AP courses or stem courses

58:17 ↗ specific uh courses more that um that

58:20 ↗ focus on the uh education that would be

58:23 ↗ provided in the buildings and so I

58:24 ↗ wondered if you could uh give overview

58:26 ↗ of what the bond committee um discussed

58:28 ↗ in terms of that uh versus the

58:31 ↗ facilities which is more more of what

58:33 ↗ you focused on in your presentation yeah

58:35 ↗ I I think I've heard a couple comments

58:36 ↗ tonight about cookie cutter facilities

58:38 ↗ and I think that I want to I want to

58:39 ↗ caution us um we have space that we're

58:43 ↗ building because from a cost and design

58:45 ↗ standpoint the less new design you have

58:47 ↗ the less costs there are so it's really

58:48 ↗ to be mindful of cost so if you have a

58:50 ↗ building that looks L prototypical like

58:53 ↗ Isa High School there's going to be less

58:54 ↗ cost in that and then more where we have

58:56 ↗ a a a firmer idea about what it's going

58:59 ↗ to cost to actually build that that

59:01 ↗ design our buildings what we're looking

59:03 ↗ for and what we've done in a parallel to

59:05 ↗ the bond committee process is to have a

59:09 ↗ group of people put together like what

59:10 ↗ is it that that we want our students to

59:12 ↗ walk out learning and the school board's

59:15 ↗ desire would be for every student to

59:17 ↗ graduate high school from any of our

59:19 ↗ high schools with the diploma as well as

59:21 ↗ a certificate so an example would be if

59:24 ↗ we created Focus programs at at each one

59:26 ↗ of our high schools which would require

59:28 ↗ a transportation plan but for instance

59:30 ↗ at Desa High School let's say it becomes

59:32 ↗ a health science focused high school

59:34 ↗ because right up the hill is Swedish we

59:37 ↗ would want students that are in that

59:39 ↗ cohort to graduate not only with the

59:41 ↗ diploma and they may be foure College

59:43 ↗ Bound they may not but also then

59:45 ↗ graduate with either their

59:47 ↗ CNA their ma or their EMT and whether

59:51 ↗ they use it or not in college either as

59:52 ↗ a part-time job the process of going

59:55 ↗ through the certification the learning

59:57 ↗ the applying for jobs applying for a

59:58 ↗ state license are all critical skills

1:00:01 ↗ that will serve them well whether they

1:00:03 ↗ go on to foury your college or not and

1:00:05 ↗ so that's the type of programming that

1:00:07 ↗ we want to have at every one of our high

1:00:09 ↗ schools in addition to having AP courses

1:00:13 ↗ so like stem is our courses uh in isqua

1:00:17 ↗ for middle and high school are student

1:00:19 ↗ driven so we are not where we build this

1:00:22 ↗ class schedule based on what teachers

1:00:24 ↗ can teach we say students what is it

1:00:26 ↗ that you want to be taking and that's

1:00:28 ↗ what drives our uh class offerings which

1:00:32 ↗ is a unique part of the school

1:00:36 ↗ dist um you want to come on up and may

1:00:41 ↗ come on over where harlon is introduce

1:00:43 ↗ yourself that'd be

1:00:47 ↗ great Tom Mullin director of capital

1:00:50 ↗ projects with the school

1:00:51 ↗ district now I'm not a storm water

1:00:54 ↗ engineer I'm not a civil engineer to the

1:00:57 ↗ design but as with a lot of you I sat

1:01:00 ↗ with this process and listened as far as

1:01:03 ↗ um

1:01:05 ↗ sustainability and looking towards

1:01:09 ↗ designing green and those type of things

1:01:11 ↗ we we City Bisal has very stringent

1:01:14 ↗ codes storm water codes all those type

1:01:16 ↗ of things we met all those and tried to

1:01:19 ↗ go above as best we could to meet all

1:01:22 ↗ that we met all the the requirements I'm

1:01:26 ↗ not sure um green the certifications

1:01:29 ↗ we're doing what they call lead

1:01:31 ↗ certification Leed which is a schools in

1:01:34 ↗ the state of Washington required to do

1:01:36 ↗ that it's an extensive checklist that

1:01:39 ↗ you have to meet to go through to do

1:01:42 ↗ that um I think that we've designed an

1:01:45 ↗ efficient school it's three stories it's

1:01:48 ↗ it meets the far requirements of the

1:01:51 ↗ city which are quite extensive um to do

1:01:54 ↗ we've kept as many trees on the site as

1:01:56 ↗ we possibly can every tree was counted

1:02:00 ↗ um we've met all of the codes and

1:02:04 ↗ requirements and it's in review right

1:02:05 ↗ now and I think we feel pretty good that

1:02:08 ↗ we've we've met what is required for

1:02:11 ↗ being a green building and Lead

1:02:14 ↗ certified and a properly designed

1:02:18 ↗ School hey followup

1:02:21 ↗ questions thank you thank you I'm just

1:02:23 ↗ going to go to council member R you're

1:02:25 ↗ the only one person is anybody want have

1:02:27 ↗ any additional questions that they would

1:02:28 ↗ like to

1:02:30 ↗ ask okay well thank you very much for

1:02:32 ↗ that

1:02:33 ↗ presentation uh we are through with the

1:02:35 ↗ question and answer portion so would

1:02:37 ↗ someone on Council like to make a

1:02:42 ↗ motion it's

1:02:44 ↗ here uh I move to approve resolution

1:02:47 ↗ number 2024 D 20 supporting the isqua

1:02:52 ↗ school district's proposition number one

1:02:54 ↗ General obligation bonds in the amount

1:02:56 ↗ of 642

1:02:58 ↗ m345 th000 scheduled to come before

1:03:02 ↗ voters at the November 5th 2024 general

1:03:06 ↗ election second it's been moved and

1:03:09 ↗ seconded is there any Council

1:03:12 ↗ discussion council

1:03:16 ↗ president um I will start these comments

1:03:20 ↗ as both a mom of two high schoolers in

1:03:23 ↗ the ISA School District um and as well

1:03:26 ↗ as the wife of one of the members of the

1:03:30 ↗ school bond committee who came in and

1:03:32 ↗ asked

1:03:33 ↗ extensive questions and really I think

1:03:37 ↗ pushed um the conversation on that and I

1:03:40 ↗ heard quite a bit every evening after

1:03:43 ↗ those Bond meetings about oh well we

1:03:46 ↗ could do this we could do that

1:03:50 ↗ um it is always difficult I think as an

1:03:54 ↗ elected official um to look at what

1:03:58 ↗ another organization is doing and not be

1:04:01 ↗ able to get your hands into it and say

1:04:04 ↗ I'm not sure I would do that or I'm I I

1:04:06 ↗ don't know I would probably do more of

1:04:08 ↗ that um but that isn't what we are here

1:04:12 ↗ for um

1:04:13 ↗ tonight I think our goal and our

1:04:17 ↗ recognition in this process is to

1:04:21 ↗ understand yes this has tax

1:04:24 ↗ impacts this also is something that our

1:04:28 ↗ voters have been asking for hugely is

1:04:33 ↗ the sense of can we get our kids out of

1:04:37 ↗ these overcrowded schools um I have two

1:04:40 ↗ kids at Gibson element uh high school

1:04:44 ↗ and part of that reason is because I had

1:04:47 ↗ a hard time looking at moving them to

1:04:50 ↗ isqua high school after going to Pacific

1:04:53 ↗ Cascade Middle School and recognizing

1:04:55 ↗ how difficult that was to get around

1:04:59 ↗ find your space have teachers who know

1:05:02 ↗ you um and so I I empathize with uh that

1:05:09 ↗ situation of a school district trying

1:05:14 ↗ to you know understand the needs of

1:05:17 ↗ students and parents and um trying to

1:05:21 ↗ build out capacity in a way that

1:05:26 ↗ many of the school districts around the

1:05:27 ↗ area haven't had to do um but as a

1:05:31 ↗ parent of someone who's been in the

1:05:32 ↗ overedit schools I I can just say that

1:05:35 ↗ is very very necessary um but I think

1:05:40 ↗ the recognition here is also the impact

1:05:43 ↗ to the city yes there is the $10 million

1:05:48 ↗ that is looking at in the Bond as an

1:05:51 ↗ investment in a city pool um

1:05:56 ↗ but my goodness that that would cost so

1:05:59 ↗ much more money than that and is

1:06:02 ↗ something that the school district is

1:06:05 ↗ one of the biggest heaviest users um so

1:06:10 ↗ I see that as a small portion of the

1:06:12 ↗ budget uh of the factor of is this a

1:06:16 ↗ benefit for the city of isqua and our

1:06:20 ↗ residents the bigger impact is

1:06:23 ↗ recognizing the impact it's going to

1:06:25 ↗ have on on students and um families and

1:06:29 ↗ their ability to have a school and a

1:06:33 ↗ school Community um that serves their

1:06:37 ↗ needs yes I would probably like more of

1:06:41 ↗ the Gibson model seeing in um the larger

1:06:45 ↗ school um in the bond and something like

1:06:49 ↗ that but I also recognize the intense

1:06:52 ↗ capacity issues that you dealing with

1:06:56 ↗ and are projected to deal with and

1:06:59 ↗ so I am in support of this um both as a

1:07:04 ↗ parent and as a city council member who

1:07:07 ↗ recognizes the impact on all of the

1:07:10 ↗ residents within the city thank you

1:07:12 ↗ council member

1:07:15 ↗ Ray uh thank you mayor Paulie first I

1:07:17 ↗ just wanted to say I appreciate everyone

1:07:20 ↗ coming down and talking with us this

1:07:21 ↗ evening it was really interesting to

1:07:23 ↗ hear the different points of view um I

1:07:25 ↗ think we're really lucky to be in the

1:07:26 ↗ isqua school district and I think our

1:07:28 ↗ schools have a positive impact on our

1:07:30 ↗ community and our property values and

1:07:33 ↗ also I just wanted to say that the

1:07:35 ↗ decision tonight is really not about

1:07:36 ↗ high school number four that's

1:07:38 ↗ completely separate there's so many

1:07:40 ↗ other things that are in this Bond and I

1:07:42 ↗ plan to vote for this bond that being

1:07:44 ↗ said I don't believe it's when there are

1:07:45 ↗ official perview to support or oppose a

1:07:47 ↗ ballot measure I've never been an

1:07:49 ↗ advocate for expressing a opinion on a

1:07:51 ↗ ballot measure be it a Statewide

1:07:52 ↗ initiative or a school bond we certainly

1:07:54 ↗ individually we are all free to support

1:07:56 ↗ the bond and promote it as we see fit

1:07:59 ↗ but I think the outcome of the of this

1:08:01 ↗ Bond uh belongs to the voters and it's

1:08:03 ↗ the rule role of the school district not

1:08:05 ↗ us to make the case for to the voters to

1:08:09 ↗ support the bond and so I don't think we

1:08:12 ↗ should take a position either in support

1:08:14 ↗ of or opposed to this Bond measure thank

1:08:17 ↗ you council member Ray council member

1:08:20 ↗ Joe thank you um in my questioning I I

1:08:23 ↗ referenced my eldest who was in a

1:08:26 ↗ portable for a number of different

1:08:28 ↗ classes and

1:08:32 ↗ um they were one that uh kind of ran to

1:08:36 ↗ running start and I I drove them to

1:08:40 ↗ class today and um it's been an

1:08:45 ↗ adventure with the school district

1:08:47 ↗ because they're trying very hard with

1:08:49 ↗ the limited facilities that they have

1:08:52 ↗ and the Personnel that they have um

1:08:54 ↗ students are falling through the cracks

1:08:56 ↗ from time to time so I'm speaking as a

1:08:59 ↗ father that has a child that kind of ran

1:09:02 ↗ to running start because of either

1:09:05 ↗ overcrowding or not getting the

1:09:07 ↗ individual attention that they might

1:09:09 ↗ have needed for uh some of the the

1:09:11 ↗ challenges that they were experiencing

1:09:12 ↗ and then I also have a a younger son who

1:09:17 ↗ um is supposed to be starting in the

1:09:18 ↗ High School uh this fall

1:09:21 ↗ um we're not sure if he's going to go to

1:09:25 ↗ high school

1:09:26 ↗ though because of some other challenges

1:09:28 ↗ that he's having and and um you know so

1:09:32 ↗ I I think that our schools

1:09:36 ↗ rank they do very well in terms of the

1:09:38 ↗ rankings and yes it's it's it's

1:09:41 ↗ sometimes the the programs that get the

1:09:44 ↗ accolades but there are facilities

1:09:48 ↗ personnel and and opportunities that are

1:09:52 ↗ lost when we're not investing in our

1:09:53 ↗ schools so um I'm going to be voting in

1:09:58 ↗ favor of the measure tonight um I think

1:10:02 ↗ that the city council for our point of

1:10:05 ↗ view uh needs to think from a

1:10:07 ↗ perspective of if we have a healthy

1:10:10 ↗ school district what are the other

1:10:12 ↗ implications or other things that occur

1:10:15 ↗ because we have a healthy City and a

1:10:17 ↗ high ranking School District working in

1:10:19 ↗ conjunction with the economy and the um

1:10:24 ↗ Highly Educated community that we have

1:10:26 ↗ here um it all works together and I know

1:10:29 ↗ it can be uh expensive I um certainly

1:10:36 ↗ understand that property taxes are going

1:10:37 ↗ up I think that investing in our schools

1:10:40 ↗ uh is a high priority I'll be supporting

1:10:44 ↗ the measure and we'll see what the

1:10:45 ↗ voters ultimately decide when they vote

1:10:49 ↗ in November we one voice in the whole

1:10:53 ↗ process uh but I would like us or I'll

1:10:56 ↗ be voting in favor of the measure

1:10:57 ↗ tonight thank you thank you coun Deputy

1:11:00 ↗ council president D

1:11:01 ↗ Michelle okay thank you um lots of

1:11:05 ↗ things to to say that was a really a

1:11:07 ↗ good presentation thank you director uh

1:11:10 ↗ gallinger um first of all I want to

1:11:13 ↗ commend the school district for its

1:11:14 ↗ emphasis on maintenance and repair and a

1:11:17 ↗ long uh and very good tradition in the

1:11:20 ↗ esqua school district has been to keep

1:11:22 ↗ schools in really good condition uh you

1:11:26 ↗ sometimes go to other places and see

1:11:27 ↗ schools that are in disrepair and and it

1:11:30 ↗ really has an impact on the student

1:11:32 ↗ experience so um and the fact that

1:11:35 ↗ you're very conscious about how much it

1:11:38 ↗ takes to keep schools in good repair I

1:11:40 ↗ really commend the school district for

1:11:42 ↗ including that part of it and the

1:11:44 ↗ committee that looked at the bond so

1:11:46 ↗ thank you um my emphasis is really on

1:11:50 ↗ the student experience um

1:11:54 ↗ I I to when I went to high school a long

1:11:57 ↗ time ago but it was an overcrowded

1:11:59 ↗ school was the baby boom and uh you know

1:12:02 ↗ you just know the uh uh experience is

1:12:06 ↗ not the best one uh in addition to the

1:12:08 ↗ mental health things that I talked about

1:12:10 ↗ earlier uh the chance to be on a school

1:12:13 ↗ football team or basketball team or all

1:12:16 ↗ of those things are curtailed the chance

1:12:18 ↗ to be in a uh in a a club or because uh

1:12:23 ↗ teachers get stretched and they can't be

1:12:24 ↗ advised for clubs all of those things

1:12:27 ↗ happen when you've got an overcrowded

1:12:28 ↗ School in addition to just the bumping

1:12:31 ↗ up against people all day long and uh

1:12:34 ↗ that could be very debilitating as well

1:12:36 ↗ you don't get as much attention from

1:12:38 ↗ Individual teachers because they've got

1:12:40 ↗ so many students to take care of uh it

1:12:42 ↗ just keeps Rippling out and out and so

1:12:45 ↗ um when you look at the numbers um and

1:12:48 ↗ you realize that those schools were

1:12:50 ↗ built for 1800 and we've got

1:12:52 ↗ 22 100 in in go high and almost at many

1:12:56 ↗ in Skyline um and you think about that

1:12:59 ↗ kind of experience um and I think that

1:13:02 ↗ there's just absolutely a demonstrated

1:13:04 ↗ need here for um this this Bond the

1:13:07 ↗ other thing I wanted to talk to there

1:13:09 ↗ was uh some questioning of whether or

1:13:11 ↗ not we will have a need in the

1:13:14 ↗ future and um you know the isqua school

1:13:18 ↗ district was growing every single year

1:13:20 ↗ up until covid and then like every other

1:13:24 ↗ District across Ross the country uh

1:13:26 ↗ started to lose or or we stabilized our

1:13:30 ↗ our population my belief is that we will

1:13:33 ↗ reach equilibrium after covid at some

1:13:35 ↗ point and we're going to start seeing

1:13:37 ↗ that growth again um the pesan Regional

1:13:41 ↗ Council has projected that we're going

1:13:42 ↗ to need

1:13:43 ↗ 250,000 units of housing over the next

1:13:46 ↗ 25 years so they are projecting growth

1:13:50 ↗ and so this this school will be needed

1:13:53 ↗ we may have this dip for for a while or

1:13:55 ↗ we may have this just Flatline for a

1:13:57 ↗ while but um growth is coming and every

1:14:00 ↗ organization that looks at uh the Puget

1:14:03 ↗ Sound uh region is saying that growth is

1:14:06 ↗ coming so um I think that uh we're

1:14:09 ↗ seeing the impact of a very um unusual

1:14:14 ↗ incident which was covid and that impact

1:14:17 ↗ I think will write itself eventually um

1:14:20 ↗ the last thing I want to I want to say

1:14:22 ↗ respectfully is this city council has um

1:14:27 ↗ always supported the school district in

1:14:29 ↗ its uh Bond elections because and I

1:14:32 ↗ think it's because our young people are

1:14:35 ↗ our our patrons as well even though they

1:14:37 ↗ don't vote they are part of our

1:14:40 ↗ community and uh having a good school

1:14:42 ↗ district that provides an excellent

1:14:45 ↗ program is um is a benefit to those

1:14:48 ↗ young people who are part of our

1:14:50 ↗ community and so yes I will be

1:14:53 ↗ supporting this the voters will make the

1:14:55 ↗ the final decision but I think as a city

1:14:58 ↗ council I want to be um uh very clear

1:15:02 ↗ that uh I support uh this uh proposal

1:15:07 ↗ and by the way we had Representatives on

1:15:09 ↗ the committee that made this proposal

1:15:12 ↗ and uh that representative came back

1:15:15 ↗ with very glowing remarks about the

1:15:17 ↗ process so I will be supporting this

1:15:20 ↗ thank

1:15:21 ↗ you council member hunt

1:15:25 ↗ thank you Madame mayor um as has been

1:15:28 ↗ pointed out the voters will ultimately

1:15:29 ↗ decide on this um I do think that there

1:15:33 ↗ are a number of

1:15:35 ↗ important important measures that are in

1:15:38 ↗ here including the safety and the Energy

1:15:40 ↗ Efficiency and the taking care of our

1:15:42 ↗ existing buildings and ensuring that

1:15:44 ↗ they are uh they they have the up

1:15:48 ↗ updates um that are necessary I will

1:15:52 ↗ mention as well I have always heard

1:15:54 ↗ about overcrowding from parents um uh on

1:15:58 ↗ all my years on the council um

1:15:59 ↗ overcrowding in the high schools I have

1:16:02 ↗ been there when the classes are let out

1:16:04 ↗ and kids are trying to get to their next

1:16:06 ↗ class um and we continue to be a growing

1:16:10 ↗ community so I do expect as Council

1:16:12 ↗ relle um mentioned uh we do expect to

1:16:16 ↗ continue to be a growing Community um I

1:16:18 ↗ also followed along with the bond

1:16:20 ↗ process we had a a council member who

1:16:23 ↗ was um involved in those meetings and I

1:16:25 ↗ had several other um people that I know

1:16:27 ↗ that uh reported back on the process and

1:16:32 ↗ um I think it there were many different

1:16:36 ↗ uh many different perspectives there I

1:16:37 ↗ would encourage the school district to

1:16:39 ↗ continue to make information transparent

1:16:42 ↗ and accessible easily available through

1:16:44 ↗ the website that was one of the reasons

1:16:46 ↗ for the questions that I asked because

1:16:48 ↗ ultimately the the voters will be um

1:16:51 ↗ making this decision and they will want

1:16:53 ↗ to know what what are the benefit and

1:16:55 ↗ where is this um large amount of money

1:16:57 ↗ going so I would encourage that uh

1:16:59 ↗ transparency accessibility of the

1:17:01 ↗ information accessibility of the process

1:17:03 ↗ and the process for for finalizing the

1:17:06 ↗ designs and finalizing the budgets um

1:17:09 ↗ Etc uh I do think that it is appropriate

1:17:12 ↗ for us to make a um to take action on

1:17:16 ↗ this tonight as as has been mentioned

1:17:19 ↗ our our Council has taken action in the

1:17:22 ↗ past um uh to on on similar resolutions

1:17:26 ↗ for bonds um and I think it's it's one

1:17:30 ↗ factor that voters can consider they

1:17:32 ↗ will ultimately be looking at the the

1:17:34 ↗ package that is presented to them and

1:17:36 ↗ the benefits of that along with the

1:17:38 ↗ price tag um

1:17:40 ↗ so one additional thing that I will

1:17:43 ↗ mention in closing is that um I've

1:17:45 ↗ spoken with students just over this last

1:17:47 ↗ weekend as well as parents talking about

1:17:49 ↗ the need for um more flexibility in

1:17:51 ↗ terms of a AP programming um more

1:17:54 ↗ specialized uh courses and um I My Hope

1:17:59 ↗ Is that with these upgrades but also

1:18:01 ↗ with this additional um uh funding for

1:18:05 ↗ facilities that we are able to address

1:18:06 ↗ more of those needs for this for our

1:18:08 ↗ students and for our community um so I

1:18:11 ↗ will be voting in support thank you

1:18:14 ↗ thank you council member hunt I believe

1:18:15 ↗ everybody has spoken once does anybody

1:18:17 ↗ have any additional comments they want

1:18:18 ↗ to

1:18:19 ↗ share

1:18:21 ↗ okay it has been moved and seconded to

1:18:24 ↗ approve resolution number

1:18:32 ↗ 2024-25

1:18:33 ↗ 2,3 642 mil 345,000 scheduled to come

1:18:39 ↗ before voters at the November 5th 2024

1:18:41 ↗ general election um all those in favor

1:18:45 ↗ please say I I

1:18:50 ↗ I all those opposed please say nay no

1:18:53 ↗ okay the motion thank you sorry about

1:18:54 ↗ that council member right the motion

1:18:56 ↗ carries 4 to

1:18:58 ↗ one um and again I want to thank

1:19:02 ↗ everyone who came in tonight and shared

1:19:04 ↗ information and shared comments and

1:19:05 ↗ concerns we appreciate that you took the

1:19:07 ↗ time to be with us in public or Steve to

1:19:09 ↗ be with us online so thank you very much

1:19:11 ↗ we're moving to our next item of

1:19:13 ↗ business which is regular business we do

1:19:15 ↗ not have regular business items today so

1:19:18 ↗ we will move to committee Regional

1:19:20 ↗ reports and we'll start with council

1:19:21 ↗ member

1:19:23 ↗ Joe thank you madam mayor

1:19:27 ↗ the Cascade water Alliance board will be

1:19:29 ↗ meeting on Wednesday the 29th of August

1:19:32 ↗ 3:30 in the afternoon uh there's a

1:19:34 ↗ hybrid option or you can go to the

1:19:37 ↗ Cascade water Alliance uh office if

1:19:40 ↗ you'd like to attend in person the

1:19:42 ↗ public affairs committee for Cascade

1:19:43 ↗ water Alliance will will be meeting on

1:19:45 ↗ August 7th and um lastly the eltac

1:19:51 ↗ committee Ling tax advisory committee

1:19:54 ↗ will be meeting on September

1:19:56 ↗ 26th far out in the future but just

1:19:58 ↗ wanted to let everyone know that date

1:20:00 ↗ thank you thank you um council member

1:20:03 ↗ Hall has been excused so we'll move to

1:20:04 ↗ council

1:20:08 ↗ member um there will be a meeting of the

1:20:11 ↗ wira 8 uh management committee this is

1:20:13 ↗ the um a subcommittee of the wira 8

1:20:17 ↗ salmon Recovery Council um and that will

1:20:20 ↗ be August 13th No Agenda has been set

1:20:25 ↗ thank you very much council member Ray

1:20:26 ↗ no report this evening thank you Council

1:20:28 ↗ Merz has been excused Deputy council

1:20:30 ↗ president D Michelle thank you on July

1:20:32 ↗ 25th I participated in a meeting of the

1:20:35 ↗ north Urban Human Services Alliance on

1:20:38 ↗ behalf of the Eastside Human Services

1:20:39 ↗ Forum the topic of discussion was Crisis

1:20:42 ↗ Care Centers specifically the new center

1:20:45 ↗ recently open in Kirkland uh and

1:20:48 ↗ proposed centers centers funded by King

1:20:51 ↗ County uh we received a presentation

1:20:53 ↗ from the King County Crisis care center

1:20:55 ↗ team and exchange perspectives on

1:20:57 ↗ services and potential locations

1:21:00 ↗ especially related to the single youth

1:21:03 ↗ Crisis Care Center allocated funding in

1:21:05 ↗ the King County Bond so it was a it was

1:21:08 ↗ a good a good learning experience uh for

1:21:12 ↗ August the Eastside Human Services Forum

1:21:14 ↗ the Eastside Transportation partnership

1:21:16 ↗ and the regional transil committee

1:21:17 ↗ meetings are all

1:21:19 ↗ canceled thank you uh council president

1:21:22 ↗ no report thank you thank you will move

1:21:24 ↗ to the mayor's report so there is no

1:21:26 ↗ executive session this evening I did

1:21:29 ↗ want to make a few introductory remarks

1:21:30 ↗ about our upcoming budget season so as

1:21:33 ↗ we begin crafting a proposed budget for

1:21:35 ↗ the 2025 2026 bym I wanted to share My

1:21:39 ↗ overall funding priorities as well as

1:21:40 ↗ potential changes that may lie ahead

1:21:43 ↗ while our current expenditures are

1:21:45 ↗ tracking largely as expected we are

1:21:47 ↗ projecting projecting future Revenue

1:21:50 ↗ shortfalls if these Trends continue it

1:21:52 ↗ is likely that we will face a challenge

1:21:54 ↗ budget cycle where not every program can

1:21:57 ↗ continue at current levels meanwhile

1:22:00 ↗ looking ahead to 2025 and Beyond costs

1:22:02 ↗ to continue providing essential Public

1:22:04 ↗ Safety Services such as police East Side

1:22:07 ↗ Fire and Rescue and Municipal Court are

1:22:10 ↗ expected to rise while we are exploring

1:22:13 ↗ potential new Revenue sources to help

1:22:15 ↗ offset these increases we will also need

1:22:17 ↗ to consider reductions and current

1:22:19 ↗ services to balance the upcoming budget

1:22:21 ↗ and properly fund Public Safety needs

1:22:24 ↗ thank you to our city council members

1:22:25 ↗ for a very productive and thoughtful

1:22:27 ↗ Retreat on July 27th where we started to

1:22:30 ↗ tackle these budgeting challenges our

1:22:32 ↗ work will continue over the next several

1:22:33 ↗ months I plan to present a proposed

1:22:36 ↗ budget to the city council in late

1:22:37 ↗ September the council will then

1:22:39 ↗ deliberate through October and November

1:22:41 ↗ with final adoption expected in December

1:22:44 ↗ meanwhile I encourage all of our

1:22:46 ↗ community to stay involved City Council

1:22:48 ↗ Members plan to attend numerous events

1:22:50 ↗ this summer including tomorrow's

1:22:52 ↗ National Night Out the isqua culture

1:22:55 ↗ Fest and the isqua farmers market

1:22:57 ↗ community members please stop by their

1:22:59 ↗ tables to learn more and provide your

1:23:02 ↗ feedback you can also sign up to comment

1:23:04 ↗ at our upcoming City Council meetings or

1:23:06 ↗ send an email to your city council at

1:23:08 ↗ City councila

1:23:10 ↗ w.gov together we're going to have to

1:23:12 ↗ find these solutions to present and

1:23:14 ↗ approve a balanced budget that ensures

1:23:16 ↗ quality public services that are most

1:23:18 ↗ valued by our community as I mentioned

1:23:22 ↗ earlier tomorrow Tuesday a August 6

1:23:24 ↗ 2024's National Night Out this is a

1:23:27 ↗ special evening dedicated to fostering

1:23:29 ↗ Community spirit and strengthening

1:23:31 ↗ Partnerships between our community and

1:23:33 ↗ our dedicated law enforcement this

1:23:36 ↗ annual event provides a wonderful

1:23:37 ↗ opportunity for Neighbors to come

1:23:39 ↗ together build relationships and promote

1:23:42 ↗ a safer more connected isqua whether you

1:23:45 ↗ are hosting a block party or attending a

1:23:47 ↗ neighborhood Gathering I encourage

1:23:49 ↗ everyone to join in the activities

1:23:50 ↗ planned across the city come down to the

1:23:53 ↗ esqua city hall and police station you

1:23:54 ↗ can meet our police officers local

1:23:56 ↗ firefighters and representatives from

1:23:58 ↗ the sheriff's department there will be

1:24:00 ↗ food tracks giveaways and a raffle to

1:24:03 ↗ learn more about this event visit city

1:24:04 ↗ of isqua's website at isqua w.gov just a

1:24:08 ↗ little note about the Olympics and a

1:24:10 ↗ connection back to isqua from the Julius

1:24:12 ↗ bone pool to the worldwide aquatic stage

1:24:15 ↗ proud isaan and Olympian H Hunter Gana

1:24:19 ↗ Hunter competed today at the 2024 Paris

1:24:22 ↗ Olympic in artistic swi swimming which

1:24:24 ↗ is formerly known as synchronized

1:24:26 ↗ swimming Han was raised attending esqua

1:24:29 ↗ schools with her afternoon spent at

1:24:31 ↗ esqua pool named after Olympic torch

1:24:34 ↗ Bearer Julius bone Gana and the team

1:24:37 ↗ performed today in the team technical

1:24:39 ↗ routine and spoiler alert they are

1:24:41 ↗ treading water in eighth place with two

1:24:43 ↗ more days of competition the USA swims

1:24:46 ↗ again tomorrow and I encourage you all

1:24:48 ↗ to tune in to the ongoing coverage and

1:24:50 ↗ do that for Kiana and all of our

1:24:52 ↗ athletes in Paris our team recently

1:24:54 ↗ interviewed Ki about her journey to the

1:24:56 ↗ Olympic stage so check out this

1:24:58 ↗ interview and more at about her at

1:24:59 ↗ isa.com and we lastly we have three

1:25:02 ↗ upcoming events arts and culture summer

1:25:05 ↗ is in full swing around town and the

1:25:07 ↗ month of August is packed with events

1:25:08 ↗ from tomorrow's evening abag graphs at

1:25:11 ↗ the Abba at the ab graphs is that the

1:25:14 ↗ name of the band okay abig graphs at

1:25:16 ↗ concerts on the green um to the

1:25:19 ↗ continued gas station Blues on Thursdays

1:25:21 ↗ and two Open Mic events at the train

1:25:23 ↗ depot on August 7th and 12th make sure

1:25:25 ↗ to check out this Full Slate of events

1:25:27 ↗ on our website and the Washington lumain

1:25:30 ↗ Festival will be on Saturday AUST 24th

1:25:33 ↗ at the Lake samam State Park this is the

1:25:35 ↗ second annual Washington lumain Festival

1:25:38 ↗ this annual event features life

1:25:40 ↗ performances vendors art and children's

1:25:42 ↗ activity this event is free and open to

1:25:45 ↗ the public through an annual or one-day

1:25:47 ↗ pass although an annual or one-day pass

1:25:49 ↗ is needed for vehicle access to the park

1:25:52 ↗ and then the Confluence Musical Festival

1:25:54 ↗ on Sunday August 25th the downtown ISO

1:25:56 ↗ Association will host the sixth annual

1:25:58 ↗ Confluence music festival in Confluence

1:26:00 ↗ Park teing local and internationally

1:26:03 ↗ renowned musicians this is event is free

1:26:05 ↗ to the public and you can also learn

1:26:07 ↗ more about it on isqua w.gov that

1:26:09 ↗ concludes the mayor's report so thank

1:26:12 ↗ you to our um public work staff for

1:26:15 ↗ staying late for the next item which is

1:26:17 ↗ an informational update this is ID

1:26:20 ↗ 1743 uh Central Esa multimodal I90

1:26:23 ↗ Crossing project

1:26:24 ↗ tr003 and I'd like to invite senior

1:26:26 ↗ engineer Greg Lucas to present this item

1:26:29 ↗ and Emily Moon the director of public

1:26:31 ↗ works thank you sorry about that

1:26:34 ↗ surprise good evening Emily Moon Public

1:26:36 ↗ Works director I just wanted to say a

1:26:38 ↗ few brief comments before I hand Podium

1:26:41 ↗ over to Greg um this is a big moment for

1:26:45 ↗ us but it is just the beginning of this

1:26:48 ↗ project um we have spent quite a bit of

1:26:50 ↗ time along with our Consultants

1:26:53 ↗ collecting data analyzing that data

1:26:56 ↗ vetting ideas and we're now at the

1:26:59 ↗ moment in time where we're ready to

1:27:01 ↗ start talking about those ideas with a

1:27:03 ↗ bigger broader audience and as we do

1:27:06 ↗ that we certainly wanted to make sure

1:27:08 ↗ that city

1:27:09 ↗ council had some background on what we

1:27:12 ↗ have been discussing and how we have

1:27:15 ↗ begun

1:27:16 ↗ whittling uh to some finite

1:27:21 ↗ possibilities so as I said this is

1:27:23 ↗ prelim

1:27:25 ↗ uh these findings these options that we

1:27:28 ↗ have uh before you tonight and that we

1:27:31 ↗ plan to take to uh business community

1:27:34 ↗ and property owners and also uh general

1:27:40 ↗ public this is a challenging

1:27:44 ↗ project uh this project has many goals

1:27:47 ↗ and a lot of evaluation criteria some of

1:27:51 ↗ those things compete with each other to

1:27:53 ↗ some degree

1:27:54 ↗ and um require us to weigh

1:27:57 ↗ priorities this is still early there's

1:28:01 ↗ plenty of time and many planned

1:28:03 ↗ opportunities to have conversations not

1:28:06 ↗ only with all of you and community

1:28:07 ↗ members and Property Owners but also

1:28:10 ↗ with wash Dot and Sound Transit which

1:28:13 ↗ are key Partners in this endeavor

1:28:17 ↗ there's a lot to coordinate with those

1:28:19 ↗ agencies and more so our Discovery phase

1:28:24 ↗ will continue um from this night on and

1:28:28 ↗ uh we will begin analyzing in depth the

1:28:31 ↗ constraints that make this project

1:28:34 ↗ challenging we have geotechnical we have

1:28:37 ↗ utility conflicts we have feasibility we

1:28:40 ↗ have integration in the future with

1:28:42 ↗ light rail you name it there's a lot to

1:28:45 ↗ consider and uh these constraints are

1:28:48 ↗ significant for this project and

1:28:50 ↗ therefore will require additional

1:28:53 ↗ analysis and many more conversations so

1:28:56 ↗ with that I'm going to turn it over to

1:28:58 ↗ Greg to talk about where we are at this

1:29:02 ↗ moment thank you welcome Greg

1:29:34 ↗ all right I think I got it all set up uh

1:29:36 ↗ good evening mayor Paulie members my

1:29:39 ↗ name is Greg Lucas I'm a transportation

1:29:42 ↗ engineer in the public works department

1:29:44 ↗ uh working on the study uh for the

1:29:46 ↗ central squa multimodal I90 Crossing

1:29:49 ↗ project

1:29:55 ↗ all right um the purpose of the

1:29:57 ↗ presentation is to provide the city

1:29:58 ↗ council with uh an update on the study

1:30:01 ↗ for of the central multimodal I90

1:30:04 ↗ Crossing Transportation

1:30:09 ↗ project allow me to share some

1:30:11 ↗ background information about this study

1:30:13 ↗ uh the project has been in the

1:30:14 ↗ transportation Improvement program uh

1:30:17 ↗ for quite some time that was previously

1:30:20 ↗ referred to as the 11th and 12th Avenue

1:30:23 ↗ Northwest over

1:30:25 ↗ crossing crossing is included in the

1:30:28 ↗ environmental impact statement for the

1:30:30 ↗ central Isa

1:30:32 ↗ plan this project serves as a

1:30:34 ↗ transportation mitigation measure to

1:30:37 ↗ address the increase in traffic volume

1:30:40 ↗ within the growth Center growth within

1:30:44 ↗ it um in July

1:30:47 ↗ 2022 the administration received

1:30:49 ↗ direction to include this project a

1:30:52 ↗ budget amendment

1:30:54 ↗ Last Summer the administration uh

1:30:56 ↗ selected a multi-disciplinary consultant

1:30:58 ↗ team led by a firm called Jacobs this

1:31:02 ↗ was a qualification based procurement

1:31:04 ↗ process and a contract was in place with

1:31:07 ↗ the Consulting team in the fall of last

1:31:10 ↗ year and which is that contract is fully

1:31:13 ↗ funded by the American

1:31:16 ↗ Rescue plan

1:31:21 ↗ act the project scope description

1:31:23 ↗ anticip iates a three-lane roadway

1:31:25 ↗ complete with uh bike lanes and

1:31:27 ↗ sidewalks on both sides according to the

1:31:31 ↗ adopted Street standards The Crossing is

1:31:33 ↗ classified as a four Street four streets

1:31:36 ↗ feature 8ot side wide sidewalks 5 foot

1:31:39 ↗ wide bike Lanes which are protected from

1:31:42 ↗ traffic via landscaping and public

1:31:45 ↗ amenities the V lanes are likely to

1:31:48 ↗ consist of one lane in each Direction

1:31:50 ↗ complemented by turn lanes were

1:31:52 ↗ necessary

1:31:55 ↗ intersec um and the study focuses on

1:31:58 ↗ evalu evaluation of potential locations

1:32:01 ↗ within the regional growth

1:32:03 ↗ Center uh in central esqua for this

1:32:06 ↗ multimodal

1:32:08 ↗ Crossing um and the administration is

1:32:11 ↗ and will continue to actively coordinate

1:32:13 ↗ this study with interested parties which

1:32:15 ↗ so far has included Washington State

1:32:17 ↗ Department of Transportation in County

1:32:19 ↗ Metro and fastbound Transit

1:32:27 ↗ uh so let's delve into the benefits of

1:32:29 ↗ the project in Greater

1:32:31 ↗ detail first is enhancing mobility and

1:32:35 ↗ connectivity the Project's overarching

1:32:37 ↗ goal is to enhance north north south

1:32:39 ↗ mobility within Central

1:32:41 ↗ isqua uh this benefits workers commuters

1:32:45 ↗ residents and visitors

1:32:46 ↗ alike I90 currently acts as a barrier

1:32:50 ↗ within Central

1:32:52 ↗ isqua the existing Crossings are

1:32:54 ↗ frequently at

1:32:57 ↗ capacity reserving local and Regional uh

1:33:01 ↗ traffic the add additional Crossing uh

1:33:04 ↗ would facilitate a more efficient

1:33:05 ↗ movement within

1:33:08 ↗ centralis next is supporting growth and

1:33:11 ↗ development uh the mobility plays a role

1:33:15 ↗ in supporting the anticipated growth and

1:33:17 ↗ development within this of Cl growth

1:33:19 ↗ Center as the urban center evolves

1:33:22 ↗ connectivity becomes increasingly more

1:33:26 ↗ important better L linking the northern

1:33:28 ↗ and southern halves of the regional

1:33:30 ↗ growth Center would create a more

1:33:32 ↗ cohesive environment that

1:33:34 ↗ encourages economic vitality and

1:33:37 ↗ supports additional housing

1:33:39 ↗ options this project also aligns with

1:33:42 ↗ the mobility master plan which

1:33:45 ↗ emphasizes the importance of a

1:33:46 ↗ comprehensive Street Grid in centralis

1:33:49 ↗ aqua when FIA realize the street grid

1:33:52 ↗ will enhance

1:33:53 ↗ accessibility

1:33:56 ↗ within as we uh evaluate Crossing

1:34:00 ↗ Alternatives the future Street grids

1:34:02 ↗ being considered in the background as

1:34:04 ↗ well how this would tie into

1:34:06 ↗ it and finally uh this project

1:34:10 ↗ supports the future light rail station

1:34:13 ↗ whether providing a nearby Crossing for

1:34:15 ↗ the station or integrating with

1:34:18 ↗ it this Crossing has potential to be a

1:34:20 ↗ vital of the Link light rail station

1:34:23 ↗ while sound sound transit has not begun

1:34:25 ↗ their planning process for the station

1:34:28 ↗ relocated isqua having the crossing

1:34:30 ↗ location identified allows for better

1:34:33 ↗ planning once the light rail planning

1:34:35 ↗ process begins for this Squall

1:34:41 ↗ connection um so an update on where we

1:34:45 ↗ are today what we've done to this point

1:34:49 ↗ first thing was establishment of a

1:34:50 ↗ working group uh the administration

1:34:54 ↗ developed a cross functional working

1:34:56 ↗ group made up of staff from various

1:34:58 ↗ departments uh ensuring diverse

1:35:00 ↗ perspectives and

1:35:02 ↗ expertise this group meets monthly with

1:35:04 ↗ the Consulting

1:35:07 ↗ team second uh was drafting the project

1:35:11 ↗ goals and evaluation

1:35:13 ↗ criteria uh the consulting firm and the

1:35:15 ↗ working group crafted an initial compreh

1:35:19 ↗ set of project goals and evaluation

1:35:22 ↗ criteria this draft is one of the

1:35:24 ↗ attachments to the informational

1:35:28 ↗ update tonight and uh these will be

1:35:31 ↗ refined Community input boards and the

1:35:35 ↗ public and ultimately will be used to

1:35:38 ↗ help uh select a preferred Crossing

1:35:43 ↗ alternative

1:35:45 ↗ um the

1:35:47 ↗ administration or I guess next was uh

1:35:50 ↗ developing existing conditions and

1:35:52 ↗ future projections that's

1:35:54 ↗ when staff helped support the Consulting

1:35:58 ↗ team uh and get started and develop a

1:36:01 ↗ foundation for this project by providing

1:36:04 ↗ all the as much existing information we

1:36:06 ↗ could with studies and mapping

1:36:11 ↗ tools and with that they're able to kind

1:36:13 ↗ of look at what central is to Clause

1:36:15 ↗ today and what what city and Visions in

1:36:17 ↗ the future for Central

1:36:20 ↗ isqua uh the draft reports uh explore

1:36:23 ↗ items such as traffic conditions Transit

1:36:25 ↗ service head and bike facilities

1:36:27 ↗ facilities environmental footprint

1:36:29 ↗ existing and future land use

1:36:32 ↗ geotechnical

1:36:35 ↗ challenges next we've developed uh

1:36:38 ↗ Alternatives uh for the crossing and

1:36:41 ↗ subsequent slides will provide

1:36:43 ↗ additional details on this uh but the

1:36:46 ↗ reports helped frame the issues and

1:36:49 ↗ challenges consultant started to develop

1:36:51 ↗ Crossing alternatives

1:36:53 ↗ and finally um initial Outreach efforts

1:36:56 ↗ uh the administration is now in a phase

1:36:59 ↗ for outreach of the

1:37:01 ↗ project you know effective Outreach is

1:37:04 ↗ crucial for building support and

1:37:05 ↗ ensuring transparency throughout

1:37:08 ↗ study in addition to tonight's meeting

1:37:11 ↗ staff has began introducing the project

1:37:14 ↗ to some of the property

1:37:16 ↗ owners within the study

1:37:18 ↗ area the project website has been

1:37:21 ↗ launched

1:37:23 ↗ for the project within the city's

1:37:25 ↗ website and later this summer um input

1:37:29 ↗ from the public will be sought after

1:37:32 ↗ first uh with an online questionnaire

1:37:34 ↗ that we're prepare

1:37:35 ↗ preparing then later with uh open

1:37:39 ↗ house we'll also be preparing um

1:37:43 ↗ presentations for boards commissions

1:37:46 ↗ such as Tab and economic

1:37:49 ↗ vitility once the crossing Alternatives

1:37:51 ↗ have been vetted more deeply the

1:37:53 ↗ administration will seek feedback from

1:37:55 ↗ the mobility and infrastructure

1:37:57 ↗ committee excuse me and city

1:38:04 ↗ council all right so this slide um shows

1:38:07 ↗ the central ofal uh growth regional

1:38:11 ↗ growth Center limits um and just kind of

1:38:14 ↗ magic marker lines on a piece of

1:38:16 ↗ paper there's not a lot of thought went

1:38:19 ↗ in initially it's just no idea was a bad

1:38:22 ↗ idea um from the point A to point B

1:38:26 ↗ looking at it from a two-dimensional

1:38:28 ↗ perspective um from there Matrix was

1:38:32 ↗ basically

1:38:33 ↗ developed all of these altern the

1:38:35 ↗ alternative A's through F that was all

1:38:37 ↗ nomenclature for us to to keep it Square

1:38:39 ↗ in our heads and then we were also both

1:38:42 ↗ looking over and under

1:38:45 ↗ I90 um and again this was just before we

1:38:48 ↗ even really start anything thinking at

1:38:50 ↗ all just what our options two

1:38:54 ↗ diens and then from there

1:38:58 ↗ um the Alternatives those high level

1:39:02 ↗ Alternatives were reviewed for initial

1:39:04 ↗ feasibility and

1:39:06 ↗ impacts um Alternatives that were not

1:39:08 ↗ constructible or had reduced benefits

1:39:10 ↗ relative to the others were identified

1:39:12 ↗ and ultimately recommended to be removed

1:39:15 ↗ from

1:39:16 ↗ consideration um some of the feasibility

1:39:19 ↗ review included consideration of the

1:39:21 ↗ high water table incent aqual and

1:39:24 ↗ geotechnical

1:39:25 ↗ challenges that remove most of the

1:39:27 ↗ undercrossing

1:39:29 ↗ options drainage is another challenge

1:39:31 ↗ particularly on the north side of

1:39:34 ↗ I90 CT crosses I90 and a drainage ditch

1:39:38 ↗ Goes West towards Lake

1:39:42 ↗ samamish another challenge is the

1:39:44 ↗ existing grades and

1:39:46 ↗ elevations um Gman Boulevard and

1:39:49 ↗ Pickering place are both at similar

1:39:51 ↗ elevations to I90 and and within close

1:39:54 ↗ proximity which limits the ability for a

1:39:56 ↗ Crossing to get enough elevation

1:39:58 ↗ difference with

1:40:00 ↗ I90 cross

1:40:02 ↗ it another consideration was existing

1:40:05 ↗ and future improvements and ultimately

1:40:07 ↗ minimizing the impact of

1:40:10 ↗ Crossing that the crossing have to the

1:40:14 ↗ improvements while maximizing the

1:40:16 ↗ benefits The Limited termination points

1:40:18 ↗ for a Crossing is another consideration

1:40:20 ↗ since Crossing to the existing

1:40:23 ↗ Transportation network uh to provide

1:40:25 ↗ benefits for vehicles pedestrians and

1:40:30 ↗ cyclists finally the central esquad

1:40:33 ↗ vision uh is in the minds of our of our

1:40:36 ↗ team um as alternatives are being

1:40:38 ↗ reviewed ideally the preferred

1:40:41 ↗ alternative is a functional

1:40:42 ↗ Transportation Crossing well not being

1:40:45 ↗ an isore and helps provide placem

1:40:48 ↗ for all the users of it and from there

1:40:52 ↗ five alternatives

1:40:54 ↗ uh recommended for additional refinement

1:40:56 ↗ and

1:40:57 ↗ feasibility which will be shown starting

1:41:01 ↗ in the westernmost alternative working

1:41:06 ↗ east um and I'm happy to answer

1:41:09 ↗ questions as we go through this or at

1:41:10 ↗ the end um I can provide feedback to the

1:41:14 ↗ working group or the Consulting team if

1:41:16 ↗ I'll keep an eye Greg to see if anybody

1:41:18 ↗ but so far they're not indicating

1:41:19 ↗ questions okay thanks appreciate that um

1:41:22 ↗ deputy Council um president de Michelle

1:41:25 ↗ I'll just jump in real quickly in the

1:41:27 ↗ packet it said that you kind of

1:41:29 ↗ eliminated the 12th Avenue because it

1:41:31 ↗ didn't meet the

1:41:33 ↗ mobility uh wouldn't have met the

1:41:36 ↗ mobility criteria um and I just was

1:41:40 ↗ wondering a little bit about that you

1:41:41 ↗ know do

1:41:42 ↗ we what were some of the things that you

1:41:45 ↗ studied were they looking at like

1:41:46 ↗ putting four lanes on 12th or where what

1:41:50 ↗ were some of the considerations there um

1:41:53 ↗ I'm that would be on the north side of

1:41:55 ↗ I90 on 12th and I think the thought

1:41:57 ↗ there was getting over I90 it's kind of

1:42:00 ↗ dumping you right on to 12th which dives

1:42:02 ↗ into um 17th and sr900 and ultimately it

1:42:07 ↗ doesn't provide benefit for

1:42:11 ↗ the you just created a traffic jam

1:42:14 ↗ exactly yeah okay thank you

1:42:20 ↗ yep yeah and I'll just Echo what family

1:42:23 ↗ mentioned we're still very early in

1:42:24 ↗ terms of the actual Concepts so we don't

1:42:27 ↗ have answers to we'll certainly be

1:42:29 ↗ taking notes and as you know ref find

1:42:32 ↗ these Concepts more be considering that

1:42:35 ↗ um so the first concept um is 11th avue

1:42:39 ↗ Northwest on the north side of I90 to

1:42:41 ↗ 12th Avenue Northwest on the south side

1:42:43 ↗ of

1:42:47 ↗ I90

1:42:48 ↗ um I'll just kind of go through these

1:42:52 ↗ relatively quickly like I said I'll stop

1:42:54 ↗ and pause for any questions or we can

1:42:56 ↗ come back later after um so this

1:42:59 ↗ Crossing option is an overcrossing of

1:43:02 ↗ I90 in order to obtain enough elevation

1:43:05 ↗ difference on the south end of I90 or

1:43:08 ↗ south of I90 Gilman Gilman Boulevard at

1:43:11 ↗ 12th Avenue would need to be raised 3 to

1:43:13 ↗ four

1:43:15 ↗ feet you can kind of see

1:43:18 ↗ the kind of graphic shows the impacts to

1:43:21 ↗ Gilman oh you know raise it 4 or 5% at

1:43:26 ↗ of the

1:43:27 ↗ intersection from there the alignment

1:43:29 ↗ curves a little bit West again that's to

1:43:32 ↗ increase the length a little bit just to

1:43:35 ↗ get as much distance as we

1:43:37 ↗ can before getting over I90 this

1:43:41 ↗ Crossing bands over I90 and the drainage

1:43:45 ↗ ditch north of

1:43:47 ↗ I90 or and curving back East towards

1:43:51 ↗ 11th and how it ties into 11th could be

1:43:55 ↗ different than

1:43:57 ↗ this

1:44:00 ↗ this go in between and lows

1:44:07 ↗ there that's one of the options uh

1:44:09 ↗ Deputy council president Michelle D

1:44:12 ↗ Michelle yes could you explain what the

1:44:15 ↗ thin yellow lines are indicating is that

1:44:18 ↗ buildings that would be taken out or

1:44:24 ↗ no and I apologize I'm M color blind

1:44:28 ↗ but the parcel LS we do we do have some

1:44:32 ↗ that show uh building impacts but I

1:44:34 ↗ don't see it on this one so uh I have I

1:44:37 ↗ heard in an ear that those are property

1:44:39 ↗ lines yeah oh okay all right uh thank

1:44:42 ↗ you I just you know um in the packet I

1:44:45 ↗ think it said something about there

1:44:46 ↗ would be impacts and so I was thinking

1:44:48 ↗ maybe these streets were going to be

1:44:50 ↗ cleared or something okay thank you yes

1:44:52 ↗ no and we are looking at what you know

1:44:54 ↗ existing buildings as weing these

1:44:57 ↗ together trying our best

1:44:59 ↗ to the

1:45:03 ↗ impact uh the second alternative is 11th

1:45:06 ↗ AV on the north side of I90 to Gilman

1:45:09 ↗ Boulevard on the South side at a

1:45:11 ↗ location that would be a future 11th of

1:45:14 ↗ Northwest Street

1:45:16 ↗ grid there's the graphic for that one

1:45:20 ↗ this Crossing is another overcrossing

1:45:26 ↗ looks pretty good in two-dimensional

1:45:28 ↗ space but it's a very

1:45:30 ↗ challenging to make you know pencil up

1:45:34 ↗ so in order to make it work we'd have to

1:45:35 ↗ lower

1:45:38 ↗ I90 the North End of I90 there would

1:45:41 ↗ have to be lower about 8 ft is about the

1:45:44 ↗ most we could or it we'd have to check

1:45:48 ↗ that against of the high water

1:45:50 ↗ requirements that wouldn't require there

1:45:54 ↗ it also requires raising

1:45:56 ↗ Gilman much as 18

1:45:59 ↗ feet would be a a big change for the

1:46:02 ↗ feel and use of Filman

1:46:05 ↗ um it looks pretty good in two

1:46:08 ↗ Dimensions it looks very good C Joe

1:46:13 ↗ thank you do that design is the the road

1:46:15 ↗ goes south it looks like it goes into R

1:46:18 ↗ Aid um is that going to be a future Road

1:46:21 ↗ or what's the concept there please uh

1:46:24 ↗ the way I envisioned this one would be

1:46:26 ↗ this project would be the Gilman and

1:46:28 ↗ north and a future developer which would

1:46:31 ↗ have Street grid requirements would

1:46:33 ↗ would tie into thata

1:46:37 ↗ intersection I I I think this concept in

1:46:40 ↗ general would have to be almost

1:46:42 ↗ developed somehow hand inand with the

1:46:44 ↗ development at that

1:46:48 ↗ site just to make it you know integrate

1:46:51 ↗ well into the community

1:46:53 ↗ great thanks for that clarification

1:46:54 ↗ appreciate it

1:46:59 ↗ yep all right the uh third conceptual

1:47:02 ↗ design is 11th AV Northwest to Newport

1:47:06 ↗ Way and Maple Street uh intersection on

1:47:09 ↗ the South

1:47:11 ↗ Side um similar alignment to the

1:47:14 ↗ previous one uh however instead of

1:47:16 ↗ lowering at 90 and raising Gilman pretty

1:47:19 ↗ long

1:47:21 ↗ structure bance over Filman

1:47:27 ↗ Boulevard again it's another

1:47:31 ↗ overcrossing regionally it has a lot of

1:47:34 ↗ benefit but in terms of the local use

1:47:37 ↗ it' be know it's it's a much longer span

1:47:41 ↗ I think you'd want to tie into

1:47:45 ↗ Gilman sort of pedestrian and bicycle

1:47:47 ↗ structures as

1:47:48 ↗ well so you're not trapped on that

1:47:51 ↗ structure

1:47:53 ↗ sure Council m Joe thank you and and the

1:47:57 ↗ building directly south of I90 that has

1:48:00 ↗ Taco Time and the bookstore is is that

1:48:04 ↗ building going to be eliminated or is

1:48:07 ↗ the road high enough that it goes over

1:48:10 ↗ those

1:48:14 ↗ buildings

1:48:19 ↗ sure I think it's too early to talk

1:48:22 ↗ about property impacts to this degree

1:48:25 ↗ it's definitely one of the variables

1:48:26 ↗ that we need to assess but we have not

1:48:29 ↗ gone beyond a conceptual uh sketch at

1:48:33 ↗ this time so um a lot of those factors

1:48:36 ↗ are unknown uh these are the kinds of

1:48:39 ↗ questions that we're going to be posing

1:48:41 ↗ with a architectural team and

1:48:43 ↗ engineering team and uh we also need to

1:48:47 ↗ have conversations with property owners

1:48:50 ↗ so with some of these designs we do uh

1:48:53 ↗ anticipate there would be some property

1:48:55 ↗ impacts and with others they're

1:48:56 ↗ minimized so again lots of different

1:48:59 ↗ tradeoffs between these possibilities

1:49:01 ↗ but for any in individual property it's

1:49:04 ↗ too early to say great thank you I was

1:49:06 ↗ looking at the elevation that was going

1:49:08 ↗ to be necessary for some of the um

1:49:11 ↗ overpasses and it just was unclear what

1:49:15 ↗ uh alternative would be chosen but I

1:49:16 ↗ appreciate the information at this early

1:49:18 ↗ stage

1:49:25 ↗ all right the uh fourth alternative is

1:49:28 ↗ from Lake Drive on the north side of I90

1:49:30 ↗ to Maple Street on the south side of my

1:49:34 ↗ 90 uh this Crossing option is the only

1:49:37 ↗ Thunder Crossing presentation um it is

1:49:41 ↗ east of the drainage ditch and PT under

1:49:44 ↗ I90 um however due to the geotechnical

1:49:47 ↗ challenges in the lake bed material um

1:49:50 ↗ and the proximity to I90 in order to

1:49:53 ↗ make this Crossing work this would

1:49:56 ↗ require raising

1:50:01 ↗ I90 this alternative does have the

1:50:04 ↗ smallest footprint um and initial

1:50:06 ↗ traffic modeling shows that this

1:50:08 ↗ alternative could move the most

1:50:16 ↗ traffic and the last conceptual design

1:50:20 ↗ is 11th a Northwest the north side of

1:50:23 ↗ my9 to Northwest Maple Street Gilman on

1:50:26 ↗ the South

1:50:30 ↗ Side um this alternative goes over

1:50:34 ↗ I90 into Maple Street at Gilman which

1:50:36 ↗ would be raised a little bit um again

1:50:40 ↗ this is another the longer Crossings so

1:50:43 ↗ we'd want to consider additional

1:50:45 ↗ connection points along Gilman and

1:50:48 ↗ Pickering we considered so doesn't feel

1:50:50 ↗ like such a long Crossing for heads and

1:50:52 ↗ bikes

1:50:58 ↗ sure that's Joe thank you um I was

1:51:03 ↗ wondering if there was any discussion

1:51:05 ↗ with the group whether or not a

1:51:07 ↗ combination of four and five would be

1:51:10 ↗ possible in the sense that um in five

1:51:13 ↗ you have the road that goes off to my

1:51:15 ↗ left as you're looking at it through the

1:51:17 ↗ parking lot where uh barn and Noble used

1:51:21 ↗ to be but if you go back to slide four

1:51:23 ↗ option

1:51:25 ↗ four the road um doesn't have as robust

1:51:30 ↗ or as wide of a a a opportunity to go

1:51:35 ↗ left or west and then through the

1:51:37 ↗ parking lot there was there any

1:51:39 ↗ discussion of of making that

1:51:43 ↗ westbound arm uh more of a regular Road

1:51:48 ↗ quote unquote so that it could handle a

1:51:50 ↗ little more capacity or is it not

1:51:52 ↗ possible given the fact that it's an an

1:51:55 ↗ underpass

1:51:58 ↗ there I don't if I fully so

1:52:02 ↗ the me repeat it okay so uh as you're

1:52:06 ↗ looking at alternative four there yeah

1:52:09 ↗ um and you go over you go under I90 and

1:52:13 ↗ then you're on the Costco side yeah if

1:52:15 ↗ you go left the road that goes left is

1:52:18 ↗ not as wide and and doesn't have the

1:52:21 ↗ same capacity

1:52:23 ↗ as a road in option I was just wondering

1:52:26 ↗ if there was a discussion of making the

1:52:29 ↗ road in option four more like option

1:52:31 ↗ five and have better capacity or was it

1:52:35 ↗ impossible to do because it's an

1:52:37 ↗ underpass or was there some other

1:52:38 ↗ limitation with that design we talking

1:52:41 ↗ on the North side basically this version

1:52:43 ↗ with

1:52:44 ↗ some enhancements North on the west side

1:52:47 ↗ of

1:52:48 ↗ it uh yeah I'm talking about option for

1:52:51 ↗ but having the road that goes Westbound

1:52:53 ↗ at the light through the parking lot

1:52:56 ↗ with uh Barnes & Noble being more of a

1:52:59 ↗ full Road like it is in five right

1:53:03 ↗ whether that was something that was

1:53:04 ↗ possible or were there some restrictions

1:53:06 ↗ that didn't make it possible because

1:53:08 ↗ it's an underpass or um does that give

1:53:11 ↗ us a little more capacity there is it

1:53:13 ↗ just not cost benefit you know um the

1:53:18 ↗ outcome there is not uh beneficial from

1:53:20 ↗ a cost benefit analysis or um you know

1:53:23 ↗ whether or not that was discussed at all

1:53:24 ↗ I'm just

1:53:26 ↗ curious I can bring that up to the team

1:53:28 ↗ I I don't think it was

1:53:34 ↗ considered oh John did you turn your

1:53:38 ↗ camera on because you would like to

1:53:39 ↗ throw some information on the table for

1:53:41 ↗ Council yes I would I wanted to point

1:53:44 ↗ out that the street standards actually

1:53:46 ↗ show that that leg of Southeast 62nd

1:53:50 ↗ heading to the West on the Costco side

1:53:54 ↗ will be a core Street as

1:53:57 ↗ well so

1:54:00 ↗ improve fantastic thank you I

1:54:02 ↗ appreciate yeah we've so far been

1:54:05 ↗ focused on the crossing itself and not

1:54:07 ↗ you know the

1:54:08 ↗ additional 602 we're just looking at

1:54:11 ↗ getting over under I so we can look into

1:54:15 ↗ that and how that ties into it

1:54:20 ↗ better um

1:54:23 ↗ and so the next steps for the study are

1:54:24 ↗ to continue Outreach efforts um and to

1:54:27 ↗ review and refine the Alternatives a

1:54:29 ↗ little further uh the team will continue

1:54:32 ↗ to meet with property owners near the

1:54:33 ↗ crossing survey will be launched this

1:54:36 ↗ summer um and the feedback will be used

1:54:38 ↗ to help with the goals and

1:54:41 ↗ criteria um once additional information

1:54:43 ↗ is

1:54:45 ↗ available an open house um or you know

1:54:48 ↗ once the additional refinement is done

1:54:50 ↗ we'll do an open house reach back out to

1:54:52 ↗ boards

1:54:54 ↗ commissions City

1:54:56 ↗ Council in the meantime we'll continue

1:54:59 ↗ to meet with interested parties such as

1:55:01 ↗ wash do and Sound Transit as the

1:55:03 ↗ concepts get refined a little bit

1:55:06 ↗ more and we'll be speaking input as we

1:55:09 ↗ start designing a little bit more all

1:55:12 ↗ the

1:55:13 ↗ feedback that we

1:55:16 ↗ receive PRI prior to the you know will

1:55:19 ↗ be used to help us select the

1:55:24 ↗ any more questions thank you Greg um any

1:55:27 ↗ more

1:55:30 ↗ questions thank you for ask oh go ahead

1:55:32 ↗ coun sorry do um the the goals um sheet

1:55:40 ↗ yep is that going to be used for these

1:55:45 ↗ uh designs or was that used to narrow

1:55:47 ↗ down to get to these

1:55:50 ↗ designs uh that'll be used to help

1:55:52 ↗ select it so what we'll do ultimately

1:55:56 ↗ is assign some sort of boring criteria

1:56:00 ↗ to the performance measures is what

1:56:02 ↗ we're working on next that'll will kind

1:56:05 ↗ of filter through

1:56:07 ↗ the Alternatives that are still being

1:56:09 ↗ considered help us select the final

1:56:13 ↗ one um okay uh and then this has not yet

1:56:17 ↗ gone by our boards and commissions for

1:56:21 ↗ is it is would it be possible POS for

1:56:22 ↗ this to maybe go by tab or one of these

1:56:25 ↗ Boards of commissions um for review yeah

1:56:29 ↗ okay um all right I have comments but

1:56:32 ↗ other questions thank you okay thanks

1:56:34 ↗ Deputy council president D

1:56:36 ↗ Michelle so I know I know we're really

1:56:38 ↗ really early in this process but uh the

1:56:41 ↗ question that kept coming to my mind as

1:56:43 ↗ I was reading through the materials is

1:56:45 ↗ is uh and I I see that you're you know

1:56:47 ↗ closely cooperating with uh wasad and

1:56:50 ↗ Metro and so forth

1:56:53 ↗ um how is when we select this the the

1:56:57 ↗ eventual design of this how is that

1:57:00 ↗ going to be integrated with the

1:57:01 ↗ placement of the Light Rail station um

1:57:05 ↗ and I know that we're not anywhere close

1:57:07 ↗ to specifics I'm just how what's the

1:57:10 ↗ dialogue and the discussion that's been

1:57:11 ↗ going on in terms of how that's going to

1:57:14 ↗ work that's a great question um I know

1:57:17 ↗ there's a a side initial planning effort

1:57:20 ↗ within the city some of the businesses

1:57:23 ↗ out there for the the Light Rail station

1:57:26 ↗ I know for our effort here for this

1:57:28 ↗ study we're kind of in the back of our

1:57:30 ↗ mind thinking of where stations and

1:57:33 ↗ parking rids could be located and this

1:57:35 ↗ could help facilitate some of the

1:57:39 ↗ possible locations for for those where

1:57:42 ↗ sound Tre that may place a station we've

1:57:45 ↗ looked regionally at

1:57:47 ↗ other stations and find parking rides

1:57:49 ↗ and where they may fit so we're trying

1:57:51 ↗ to compatible with

1:57:54 ↗ stations so that could potentially be

1:57:57 ↗ integrated with it without them starting

1:58:01 ↗ their project yet it's it's hard to get

1:58:05 ↗ too much productive conversations with

1:58:08 ↗ them but it beats the alternative where

1:58:11 ↗ they select a location and then we're

1:58:12 ↗ trying

1:58:14 ↗ to fit a Crossing into that so it's a

1:58:17 ↗ tough It's a good question and a tough

1:58:19 ↗ challenge but we're certainly thinking

1:58:21 ↗ about that as we're

1:58:22 ↗ we're putting these together and

1:58:24 ↗ crossing our fingers that couple years

1:58:27 ↗ time we're found something that

1:58:29 ↗ everybody's happy with both for crossing

1:58:32 ↗ and the light

1:58:34 ↗ station just following up on that Greg

1:58:37 ↗ this is kind of an iterative process it

1:58:38 ↗ sounds like that the work we do here

1:58:42 ↗ would be designed to complement a

1:58:45 ↗ potential in wash doot right away um

1:58:50 ↗ Transit Transit station or the we could

1:58:54 ↗ do this and they may pick a different

1:58:56 ↗ location for there

1:58:58 ↗ okay additional

1:59:02 ↗ questions okay so this is presented as

1:59:05 ↗ an information item today uh I think

1:59:07 ↗ we've heard it's early early

1:59:08 ↗ days um so there is no action requested

1:59:12 ↗ tonight um maybe um don't know if

1:59:15 ↗ director moon has thoughts on going to

1:59:18 ↗ boards and commissions with early phase

1:59:21 ↗ it's fine great that's

1:59:23 ↗ wonderful um but now it would be great

1:59:26 ↗ if you provide some feedback on what you

1:59:27 ↗ saw council president and then Council

1:59:30 ↗ hunt member hunt thank you

1:59:33 ↗ um gosh am I glad that we took arpa

1:59:37 ↗ money and invested it in this because

1:59:40 ↗ this gives us the ability to really

1:59:44 ↗ review and understand what the

1:59:46 ↗ challenges are

1:59:48 ↗ for something that seemed when we

1:59:52 ↗ proposed it like oh we'll find an easy

1:59:54 ↗ Crossing and then we'll decide where

1:59:56 ↗ this is going to be and we'll be able to

1:59:59 ↗ go to Sound Transit and deliver

2:00:01 ↗ something on a platter and be like look

2:00:03 ↗ look we've done all the work you can

2:00:05 ↗ just put it there and maybe you'll come

2:00:06 ↗ early I know I get in my head on all of

2:00:09 ↗ these things um so I I really appreciate

2:00:12 ↗ that we invested the money and that the

2:00:16 ↗ city is taking it seriously and moving

2:00:19 ↗ down this process that's fantastic what

2:00:22 ↗ I didn't expect to come out of this that

2:00:25 ↗ I am super pleased on is the project

2:00:28 ↗ goals and evaluation criteria because

2:00:30 ↗ man that to me is actionable and like

2:00:35 ↗ really interesting to look at it and

2:00:37 ↗ recognize we're not just looking at

2:00:40 ↗ what's on the ground and what could we

2:00:43 ↗ do but also why are we doing it which

2:00:47 ↗ one satisfies our needs and how do we

2:00:52 ↗ come up with evaluation criteria that

2:00:54 ↗ helps us make that decision which I'm

2:00:57 ↗ really excited for that and having that

2:01:01 ↗ go to the um boards and commissions in

2:01:04 ↗ particular because I think that is part

2:01:08 ↗ of the meat of what we can have input on

2:01:11 ↗ now because so many I mean I could

2:01:15 ↗ certainly tell you which one I like out

2:01:17 ↗ of those but I think it's really early

2:01:21 ↗ days to look at that and have a reaction

2:01:24 ↗ to it especially as you said looking at

2:01:27 ↗ the 2D there are some things that look

2:01:29 ↗ oh yeah that looks great and then you

2:01:31 ↗ talk about having to raise or lower I90

2:01:35 ↗ and I'm

2:01:37 ↗ like can that even happen are there even

2:01:40 ↗ costs that who would bear the cost so um

2:01:44 ↗ I really appreciate seeing the project

2:01:46 ↗ goals and the evaluation criteria

2:01:48 ↗ recognizing that some of them are about

2:01:51 ↗ how do you be compatible with the sound

2:01:53 ↗ transit Light Rail station how do you

2:01:56 ↗ create something that supports

2:01:58 ↗ multimodal traffic how do you first of

2:02:01 ↗ all create something that does any kind

2:02:04 ↗ of traffic Improvement um and eliminate

2:02:07 ↗ the ones that don't so um I feel a lot

2:02:09 ↗ more confident in this process knowing

2:02:13 ↗ that we started at

2:02:15 ↗ that that standpoint that we're going to

2:02:17 ↗ get the feedback on that and that we can

2:02:20 ↗ then do an valuation of those once we

2:02:23 ↗ have those metrics evaluated at this

2:02:27 ↗ point I feel like it's probably too

2:02:28 ↗ early to talk about any of the um P any

2:02:33 ↗ of the possible options other than to

2:02:35 ↗ say I appreciate the process and I can

2:02:38 ↗ see that going in the right direction

2:02:41 ↗ and whatever comes out of that and those

2:02:43 ↗ performance metrics is going to

2:02:46 ↗ ultimately give us um the information

2:02:48 ↗ that we need so thank you thank you um

2:02:51 ↗ um council member hunt thank you I think

2:02:55 ↗ that the um goals and evaluations

2:02:57 ↗ criteria could be a really uh useful way

2:03:00 ↗ to engage the community on what what

2:03:03 ↗ could otherwise be a really technical um

2:03:05 ↗ you know set of designs for these

2:03:07 ↗ different really large infrastructure

2:03:09 ↗ projects and um thinking back to when we

2:03:12 ↗ worked on the title 18 code we had a

2:03:15 ↗ goals and outcomes um and in that case

2:03:17 ↗ which is maybe something to consider we

2:03:19 ↗ had a goals and then we had a outcomes

2:03:21 ↗ like desired outcome um the performance

2:03:24 ↗ measure I like I like the concept of

2:03:27 ↗ having these goals and evaluation

2:03:29 ↗ criteria because I do think it will help

2:03:31 ↗ community members see what we're trying

2:03:33 ↗ to do and weigh in and you know value

2:03:36 ↗ you know potentially are we missing

2:03:38 ↗ something that you would like to see as

2:03:40 ↗ we're considering um so I think it's a

2:03:42 ↗ really useful tool for that where I

2:03:44 ↗ was uh thinking through how we would

2:03:46 ↗ implement it some of these performance

2:03:48 ↗ measures like there's a ease of use um

2:03:51 ↗ ease of use evaluation criteria which of

2:03:53 ↗ course I think is super important but

2:03:55 ↗ then the performance measure is profile

2:03:57 ↗ grades I wouldn't know you know what

2:03:59 ↗ we're trying to do with that so there

2:04:01 ↗ are some that I are really uh you know

2:04:04 ↗ really clear I think how we would get

2:04:06 ↗ the outcome but I think maybe framing it

2:04:08 ↗ more less as the metric but more as the

2:04:11 ↗ desired outcome could help um and make

2:04:12 ↗ it just that much more accessible to to

2:04:15 ↗ the

2:04:16 ↗ community um and then you know sort of

2:04:19 ↗ similarly there are some there's there's

2:04:22 ↗ one that I think maybe needs its

2:04:24 ↗ own um its own section which is

2:04:28 ↗ minimizing impact to existing businesses

2:04:30 ↗ and structures right now that's actually

2:04:32 ↗ in with uh in with the one in with the

2:04:36 ↗ goal about um having something that's

2:04:38 ↗ constructible and eligible for Target

2:04:40 ↗ funding but in in talking in our

2:04:42 ↗ conversation just now it came up several

2:04:44 ↗ times what are the businesses that are

2:04:45 ↗ going to be impacted and how do we how

2:04:47 ↗ do we make sure that we're are you know

2:04:49 ↗ reducing the impact to existing

2:04:51 ↗ businesses we're thinking about this

2:04:52 ↗ forward um you know forward-looking

2:04:54 ↗ project so um that one I think maybe

2:04:56 ↗ needs its own section and something that

2:04:59 ↗ the community could uh could weigh in on

2:05:02 ↗ um but yeah I do overall really really

2:05:04 ↗ like the design the the way that this is

2:05:07 ↗ headed um and I think maybe if we uh or

2:05:10 ↗ maybe if the commissions were able to

2:05:12 ↗ weigh in or if if you were able to weigh

2:05:15 ↗ in and um make it more outcome focused

2:05:17 ↗ that could be just that much more uh a

2:05:21 ↗ for the community to wrap their arms

2:05:23 ↗ around it and then um participate in the

2:05:25 ↗ process council member hun can I just

2:05:27 ↗ ask you a quick question so we've been

2:05:29 ↗ talking a lot about the businesses that

2:05:30 ↗ are there but many of the properties

2:05:33 ↗ that are um retail have future plans and

2:05:38 ↗ I think you were also trying to get at

2:05:39 ↗ the fact that it might not just be

2:05:42 ↗ looking at what is there today and

2:05:44 ↗ whether or not it's impacted but how

2:05:45 ↗ well it aligns with what that property

2:05:47 ↗ owner Future Vision was because they

2:05:49 ↗ they're going to change yeah

2:05:52 ↗ um so so right now there is this uh

2:05:57 ↗ evaluation criteria it's it's not a goal

2:06:00 ↗ um but there's an evaluation evaluation

2:06:02 ↗ criteria minimizes impacts to existing

2:06:04 ↗ businesses and structures and then the

2:06:06 ↗ performance metric was minimizes impact

2:06:08 ↗ on existing businesses and buildings

2:06:10 ↗ least number of buildings demolish

2:06:11 ↗ businesses relocated I think it's maybe

2:06:14 ↗ not that um maybe there's more to it

2:06:16 ↗ than that and maybe the community could

2:06:18 ↗ um or our our boards and commissions our

2:06:20 ↗ volunteer boards commissions could maybe

2:06:22 ↗ help us um ease that apart a little bit

2:06:25 ↗ more and I think there's a goal there's

2:06:27 ↗ potentially a goal around there too not

2:06:29 ↗ just

2:06:30 ↗ a thanks uh council member

2:06:33 ↗ Joe first I'd like to thank the

2:06:35 ↗ administration for um taking the $1

2:06:38 ↗ million arpa fund and uh putting it to

2:06:42 ↗ good use to try to solve some of our

2:06:44 ↗ transportation issues uh both locally

2:06:46 ↗ and and regionally um I I think that

2:06:50 ↗ looking at these Alternatives they they

2:06:51 ↗ all um open up the imagination a little

2:06:55 ↗ bit to what could be uh in isqua and how

2:06:59 ↗ we can improve uh the mobility and and

2:07:02 ↗ whether or not we're ranking uh walking

2:07:04 ↗ and biking or Regional traffic or um you

2:07:08 ↗ know local um circulation along the way

2:07:12 ↗ is going to be um something that will be

2:07:14 ↗ very interesting to to see I really

2:07:17 ↗ appreciated Greg you you commenting um

2:07:21 ↗ on some of the Alternatives saying this

2:07:23 ↗ one would really help Regional traffic

2:07:26 ↗ or this one would really be a design

2:07:27 ↗ that is more practical I appreciate that

2:07:30 ↗ that input along the way um I I think

2:07:34 ↗ one thing that that I would suggest as

2:07:36 ↗ we're going through this process is U we

2:07:39 ↗ have the the Heights in the um

2:07:42 ↗ materials and and I don't think people

2:07:45 ↗ have a solid concept of how big these

2:07:49 ↗ projects are going to be and you pointed

2:07:50 ↗ out we don't want to be an eyesore but

2:07:53 ↗ we also want to make sure that people

2:07:54 ↗ understand what is going to be going in

2:07:56 ↗ on those places so um you know if we

2:08:00 ↗ could make clear that here's the height

2:08:02 ↗ and here's a six- foot person or here's

2:08:05 ↗ you know your normal garbage truck

2:08:06 ↗ whatever you know might be a standard

2:08:08 ↗ and they can see how how much height is

2:08:10 ↗ going to be necessary and and the reason

2:08:13 ↗ why you have those long lengths to some

2:08:15 ↗ of those projects um so those impacts

2:08:18 ↗ can be evaluated along the way I think I

2:08:20 ↗ think that's important it's off to a

2:08:22 ↗ great start really appreciate the

2:08:23 ↗ Alternatives I think it's uh some good

2:08:25 ↗ work that's been done so far and I look

2:08:27 ↗ forward to uh watching this project go

2:08:29 ↗ forward thank

2:08:31 ↗ you any other

2:08:34 ↗ comments well Emily and Greg thank you

2:08:39 ↗ uh good information just uh wanting to

2:08:42 ↗ remind everybody how important this is

2:08:44 ↗ since the growth that we have zoned for

2:08:47 ↗ in the area relies on this and so if we

2:08:51 ↗ can't deliver this or it's delivered

2:08:54 ↗ differently then we have a duty to go

2:08:56 ↗ back and look at the Caps that we put on

2:09:00 ↗ the growth as well so it is hugely

2:09:03 ↗ hugely important also having lived here

2:09:06 ↗ while they did the post office under

2:09:08 ↗ Crossing and the Southeast 62nd cross uh

2:09:11 ↗ roundabout this is 10 times any of

2:09:14 ↗ those and those were big deals so this

2:09:17 ↗ is the

2:09:18 ↗ biggest infrastructure project that I

2:09:21 ↗ can remember so glad we're starting

2:09:23 ↗ early thank you for the presentation

2:09:25 ↗ great comments and questions from the

2:09:27 ↗ council uh let's

2:09:29 ↗ see the next item is good of the order

2:09:32 ↗ and I have a couple of meeting

2:09:34 ↗ announcements does any council member

2:09:35 ↗ have anything for the council

2:09:37 ↗ president thank you um I just wanted to

2:09:41 ↗ turn to the council for a moment and say

2:09:43 ↗ thank you for tending The Retreat and

2:09:47 ↗ all of the feedback uh I thought it was

2:09:50 ↗ really pretty productive and we had a

2:09:53 ↗ really engaged Council

2:09:56 ↗ which despite it being a difficult topic

2:10:00 ↗ of potential budget reductions um and

2:10:04 ↗ kind of what our financial situation

2:10:08 ↗ looks like um so I just I really

2:10:10 ↗ appreciated the

2:10:13 ↗ council's I wouldn't say enthusiasm in

2:10:15 ↗ that conversation but you know real

2:10:18 ↗ honest reflection um and the ability to

2:10:21 ↗ engage on that and so wanted to say

2:10:24 ↗ thank you on that and then just a

2:10:26 ↗ reminder that tomorrow is National Night

2:10:28 ↗ Out And so um tomorrow evening from 5:30

2:10:32 ↗ to 7 p.m. we will have council members

2:10:35 ↗ attending the um event at the isqua

2:10:38 ↗ police department and Talis location so

2:10:40 ↗ we look forward to that thank you thank

2:10:43 ↗ you any other announcements for good of

2:10:44 ↗ the

2:10:45 ↗ order that's Joe um just wanted to see

2:10:49 ↗ if if you were going to tell talk about

2:10:51 ↗ the middle housing community meeting in

2:10:53 ↗ your announcements or not um go ahead I

2:10:56 ↗ noticed that there's a middle housing

2:10:58 ↗ community meeting on Tuesday August 6th

2:11:01 ↗ tomorrow um as many of you know 11:10 HP

2:11:04 ↗ 1110 was passed which um is going to

2:11:07 ↗ impact how we think about housing in

2:11:10 ↗ town and Valerie Porter from our

2:11:12 ↗ planning department will be holding a

2:11:14 ↗ middle housing community meeting at otz

2:11:15 ↗ Creek Manor it's unfortunate at the same

2:11:18 ↗ time as the National Night Out at 6 p.m

2:11:21 ↗ but I would encourage citizens if

2:11:23 ↗ they're interested in the future of uh

2:11:25 ↗ den and infill in our city to attend and

2:11:28 ↗ and uh take part in that thank you thank

2:11:31 ↗ you council member Joe any other good of

2:11:33 ↗ the order okay the upcoming meetings our

2:11:36 ↗ city council typically takes a break

2:11:38 ↗ after the first council meeting in

2:11:40 ↗ August so the next regularly scheduled

2:11:42 ↗ city council meeting is Tuesday

2:11:43 ↗ September 3rd the anticipated agenda

2:11:46 ↗ items include the Lakeside transfer of

2:11:48 ↗ development rights and an information

2:11:50 ↗ update on on the solid waste

2:11:52 ↗ contract um also on September 3rd the

2:11:55 ↗ city council is invited to attend a

2:11:57 ↗ reception to recognize the 2024 Hall of

2:12:00 ↗ Fame recipient Todd Sergeant the

2:12:02 ↗ reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. at

2:12:04 ↗ the railroad Depot across the street

2:12:07 ↗ there's no executive session this

2:12:09 ↗ evening so there being no further

2:12:11 ↗ business the meeting is adjourned at

2:12:12 ↗ 9:11

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Barbara de Michele

Victoria Hunt

Russell Joe

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

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Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator

Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator

Rachel Bender Turpin, City Attorney

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

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APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 1734 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Aug. 5, 2024, $4,758,350.77; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, April 25, 2024; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, May 6, 2024; Approved. d) Minutes: City Council Committee of th…

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In favor: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Russell Joe, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh