City Council Special Meeting · Tuesday, September 6, 2016 · City Council Digest

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1:10 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:16 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:22 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:28 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:33 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:39 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:26 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:31 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:37 ↗ leadership

2:48 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:53 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:59 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

3:04 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

3:09 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

3:15 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

3:18 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

3:24 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

3:28 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

3:33 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

3:39 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

3:44 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

3:49 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

3:55 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

4:00 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

4:06 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

4:11 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

4:15 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

4:21 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

4:26 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

4:31 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

4:36 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

4:41 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

4:46 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

4:52 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

4:57 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

5:03 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

5:08 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

5:13 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

5:19 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

5:24 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

5:27 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

5:37 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

5:43 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

5:49 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

5:54 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

6:00 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

6:04 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

6:09 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

6:13 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

6:19 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

6:24 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

6:28 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

6:33 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

6:38 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

6:44 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

6:49 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

6:54 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

7:00 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

7:05 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

7:11 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

7:16 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

7:22 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

7:28 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

7:34 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

7:39 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

7:45 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

7:50 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

7:56 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

8:01 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

8:06 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

8:12 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

8:17 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

8:23 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

8:28 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

8:32 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

8:37 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

8:42 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

8:46 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

8:52 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

8:58 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

9:02 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

9:08 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

9:14 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

9:19 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

9:24 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

9:28 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

9:34 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

9:40 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

9:45 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

9:51 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

9:54 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

9:59 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

10:03 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

10:08 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

10:12 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

10:17 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

10:21 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

10:25 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

10:30 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

10:35 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

10:39 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

10:44 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

10:49 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

10:54 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

11:00 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

11:06 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

11:12 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

11:16 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

11:21 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

11:31 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

11:36 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

11:42 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

11:48 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

11:54 ↗ getting the slides up.

13:30 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

13:36 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

13:42 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

13:48 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

13:53 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

13:59 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

14:46 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

14:51 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

14:57 ↗ leadership

15:07 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

15:13 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

15:19 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

15:23 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

15:29 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

15:34 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

15:37 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

15:43 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

15:48 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

15:53 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

15:58 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

16:04 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

16:09 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

16:14 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

16:20 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

16:25 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

16:31 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

16:35 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

16:41 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

16:46 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

16:51 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

16:56 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

17:01 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

17:06 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

17:11 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

17:17 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

17:23 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

17:27 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

17:33 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

17:39 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

17:43 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

17:47 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

17:57 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

18:03 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

18:08 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

18:14 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

18:20 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

18:24 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

18:29 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

18:33 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

18:38 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

18:43 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

18:47 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

18:53 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

18:58 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

19:03 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

19:08 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

19:14 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

19:20 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

19:25 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

19:31 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

19:36 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

19:42 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

19:48 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

19:54 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

19:59 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

20:04 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

20:10 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

20:15 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

20:20 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

20:26 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

20:32 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

20:37 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

20:42 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

20:48 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

20:51 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

20:57 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

21:02 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

21:06 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

21:12 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

21:18 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

21:22 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

21:28 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

21:34 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

21:39 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

21:44 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

21:48 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

21:54 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

21:59 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

22:05 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

22:10 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

22:14 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

22:18 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

22:23 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

22:27 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

22:32 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

22:37 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

22:41 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

22:45 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

22:50 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

22:54 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

22:59 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

23:04 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

23:08 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

23:13 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

23:20 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

23:25 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

23:31 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

23:36 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

23:41 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

23:51 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

23:56 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

24:02 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

24:08 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

24:14 ↗ getting the slides up.

24:39 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

24:45 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

24:56 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

25:01 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

25:06 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

25:12 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

25:18 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

25:24 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

25:29 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

26:42 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

26:48 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

26:54 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

27:00 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

27:05 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

27:11 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

27:58 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

28:03 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

28:09 ↗ leadership

28:19 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

28:25 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

28:31 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

28:35 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

28:41 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

28:46 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

28:49 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

28:55 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

29:00 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

29:05 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

29:10 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

29:16 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

29:21 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

29:26 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

29:32 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

29:37 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

29:43 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

29:47 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

29:53 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

29:58 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

30:03 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

30:08 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

30:13 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

30:18 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

30:23 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

30:29 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

30:35 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

30:39 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

30:45 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

30:51 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

30:55 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

30:59 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

31:09 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

31:15 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

31:20 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

31:26 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

31:32 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

31:36 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

31:41 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South

31:45 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

31:50 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

31:55 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

31:59 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

32:05 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

32:10 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

32:15 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

32:20 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

32:26 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

32:32 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

32:37 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

32:43 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

32:48 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

32:54 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

33:00 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When

33:06 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond

33:11 ↗ in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

33:16 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

33:22 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

33:27 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

33:32 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

33:38 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

33:44 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

33:49 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

33:54 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

34:00 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

34:03 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

34:09 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

34:14 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

34:18 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

34:24 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

34:30 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

34:34 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

34:40 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

34:46 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

34:51 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

34:56 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

35:00 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

35:06 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

35:11 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

35:17 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

35:22 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

35:26 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

35:30 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

35:35 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

35:39 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

35:44 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

35:49 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

35:53 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

35:57 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

36:02 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

36:06 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

36:11 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

36:16 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

36:20 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

36:25 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

36:32 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

36:37 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

36:43 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

36:48 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

36:53 ↗ of the ballot measure.

37:02 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

37:08 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare

37:14 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.

37:20 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for

37:26 ↗ getting the slides up.

37:51 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

37:57 ↗ who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.

38:08 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

38:13 ↗ a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of

38:18 ↗ whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

38:24 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

38:30 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

38:36 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

38:41 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

39:54 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

40:00 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

40:06 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

40:12 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

40:17 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

40:23 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

41:10 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

41:15 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

41:21 ↗ leadership

41:31 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

41:37 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

41:43 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

41:47 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

41:53 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

41:58 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

42:01 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

42:07 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

42:12 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

42:17 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

42:22 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

42:28 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

42:33 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

42:38 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

42:44 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

42:49 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

42:55 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

42:59 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

43:05 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

43:10 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

43:15 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

43:20 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

43:25 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

43:30 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

43:35 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

43:41 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

43:47 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

43:51 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

43:57 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

44:03 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

44:07 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

44:11 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

44:21 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

44:27 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

44:32 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

44:38 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

44:44 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

44:48 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

44:53 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South

44:57 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

45:02 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

45:07 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

45:11 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

45:17 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

45:22 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

45:27 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

45:32 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

45:38 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

45:44 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

45:49 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

45:55 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

46:00 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

46:06 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

46:12 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When

46:18 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond

46:23 ↗ in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

46:28 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

46:34 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

46:39 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

46:44 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

46:50 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

46:56 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

47:01 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

47:06 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

47:12 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

47:15 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

47:21 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

47:26 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

47:30 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

47:36 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

47:42 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

47:46 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

47:52 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

47:58 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

48:03 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

48:08 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

48:12 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

48:18 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

48:23 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

48:29 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

48:34 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

48:38 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

48:42 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

48:47 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

48:51 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

48:56 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

49:01 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

49:05 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

49:09 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

49:14 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

49:18 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

49:23 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

49:28 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

49:32 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

49:37 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

49:44 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

49:49 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

49:55 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

50:00 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

50:05 ↗ of the ballot measure.

50:14 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

50:20 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare

50:26 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.

50:32 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for

50:38 ↗ getting the slides up.

51:03 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

51:09 ↗ who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.

51:20 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

51:25 ↗ a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of

51:30 ↗ whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

51:36 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

51:42 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

51:48 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

51:53 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

53:06 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

53:12 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

53:18 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

53:24 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

53:29 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

53:35 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

54:22 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

54:27 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

54:33 ↗ leadership

54:43 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

54:49 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

54:55 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

54:59 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

55:05 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

55:10 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

55:13 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

55:19 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

55:24 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

55:29 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

55:34 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

55:40 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

55:45 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

55:50 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

55:56 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

56:01 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

56:07 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

56:11 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

56:17 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

56:22 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

56:27 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

56:32 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

56:37 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

56:42 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

56:47 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

56:53 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

56:59 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

57:03 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

57:09 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

57:15 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

57:19 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

57:23 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

57:33 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

57:39 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

57:44 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

57:50 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

57:56 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

58:00 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

58:05 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

58:09 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

58:14 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

58:19 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

58:23 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

58:29 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

58:34 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

58:39 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

58:44 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

58:50 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

58:56 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

59:01 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

59:07 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

59:12 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

59:18 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

59:24 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

59:30 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

59:35 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

59:40 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

59:46 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

59:51 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

59:56 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

1:00:02 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

1:00:08 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

1:00:13 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

1:00:18 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

1:00:24 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

1:00:27 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

1:00:33 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

1:00:38 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

1:00:42 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

1:00:48 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

1:00:54 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

1:00:58 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

1:01:04 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

1:01:10 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

1:01:15 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

1:01:20 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

1:01:24 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

1:01:30 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

1:01:35 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

1:01:41 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

1:01:46 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

1:01:50 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

1:01:54 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

1:01:59 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

1:02:03 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

1:02:08 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

1:02:13 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

1:02:17 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

1:02:21 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

1:02:26 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

1:02:30 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

1:02:35 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

1:02:40 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

1:02:44 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

1:02:49 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

1:02:56 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

1:03:01 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

1:03:07 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

1:03:12 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

1:03:17 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

1:03:27 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

1:03:32 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

1:03:38 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

1:03:44 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

1:03:50 ↗ getting the slides up.

1:04:15 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

1:04:21 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

1:04:32 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

1:04:37 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

1:04:42 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

1:04:48 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

1:04:54 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

1:05:00 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

1:05:05 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

1:06:18 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:06:24 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:06:30 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:06:36 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:06:41 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:06:47 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

1:07:34 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

1:07:39 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

1:07:45 ↗ leadership

1:07:55 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

1:08:01 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

1:08:07 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

1:08:11 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

1:08:17 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

1:08:22 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

1:08:25 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

1:08:31 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

1:08:36 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

1:08:41 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

1:08:46 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

1:08:52 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

1:08:57 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

1:09:02 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

1:09:08 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

1:09:13 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

1:09:19 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

1:09:23 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

1:09:29 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

1:09:34 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

1:09:39 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

1:09:44 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

1:09:49 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

1:09:54 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

1:09:59 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

1:10:05 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

1:10:11 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

1:10:15 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

1:10:21 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

1:10:27 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

1:10:31 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

1:10:35 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

1:10:45 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

1:10:51 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

1:10:56 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

1:11:02 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

1:11:08 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

1:11:12 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

1:11:17 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South

1:11:21 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

1:11:26 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

1:11:31 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

1:11:35 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

1:11:41 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

1:11:46 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

1:11:51 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

1:11:56 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

1:12:02 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

1:12:08 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

1:12:13 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

1:12:19 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

1:12:24 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

1:12:30 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

1:12:36 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When

1:12:42 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond

1:12:47 ↗ in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

1:12:52 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

1:12:58 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

1:13:03 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

1:13:08 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

1:13:14 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

1:13:20 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

1:13:25 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

1:13:30 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

1:13:36 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

1:13:39 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

1:13:45 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

1:13:50 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

1:13:54 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

1:14:00 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

1:14:06 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

1:14:10 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

1:14:16 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

1:14:22 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

1:14:27 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

1:14:32 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

1:14:36 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

1:14:42 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

1:14:47 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

1:14:53 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

1:14:58 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

1:15:02 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

1:15:06 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

1:15:11 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

1:15:15 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

1:15:20 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

1:15:25 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

1:15:29 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

1:15:33 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

1:15:38 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

1:15:42 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

1:15:47 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

1:15:52 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

1:15:56 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

1:16:01 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

1:16:08 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

1:16:13 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

1:16:19 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

1:16:24 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

1:16:29 ↗ of the ballot measure.

1:16:38 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

1:16:44 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare

1:16:50 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.

1:16:56 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for

1:17:02 ↗ getting the slides up.

1:17:27 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

1:17:33 ↗ who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.

1:17:44 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

1:17:49 ↗ a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of

1:17:54 ↗ whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

1:18:00 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

1:18:06 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

1:18:12 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

1:18:17 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

1:19:30 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:19:36 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:19:42 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:19:48 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:19:53 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:19:59 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

1:20:46 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

1:20:51 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

1:20:57 ↗ leadership

1:21:07 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

1:21:13 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

1:21:19 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

1:21:23 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

1:21:29 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

1:21:34 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

1:21:37 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

1:21:43 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

1:21:48 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

1:21:53 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

1:21:58 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

1:22:04 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

1:22:09 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

1:22:14 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

1:22:20 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

1:22:25 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

1:22:31 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

1:22:35 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

1:22:41 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

1:22:46 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

1:22:51 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

1:22:56 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

1:23:01 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

1:23:06 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

1:23:11 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

1:23:17 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

1:23:23 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

1:23:27 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

1:23:33 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

1:23:39 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

1:23:43 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

1:23:47 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

1:23:57 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

1:24:03 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

1:24:08 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

1:24:14 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

1:24:20 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

1:24:24 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

1:24:29 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

1:24:33 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

1:24:38 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

1:24:43 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

1:24:47 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

1:24:53 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

1:24:58 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

1:25:03 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

1:25:08 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

1:25:14 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

1:25:20 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

1:25:25 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

1:25:31 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

1:25:36 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

1:25:42 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

1:25:48 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

1:25:54 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

1:25:59 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

1:26:04 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

1:26:10 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

1:26:15 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

1:26:20 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

1:26:26 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

1:26:32 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

1:26:37 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

1:26:42 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

1:26:48 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

1:26:51 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

1:26:57 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

1:27:02 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

1:27:06 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

1:27:12 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

1:27:18 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

1:27:22 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

1:27:28 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

1:27:34 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

1:27:39 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

1:27:44 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

1:27:48 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

1:27:54 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

1:27:59 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

1:28:05 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

1:28:10 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

1:28:14 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

1:28:18 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

1:28:23 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

1:28:27 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

1:28:32 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

1:28:37 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

1:28:41 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

1:28:45 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

1:28:50 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

1:28:54 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

1:28:59 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

1:29:04 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

1:29:08 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

1:29:13 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

1:29:20 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

1:29:25 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

1:29:31 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

1:29:36 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

1:29:41 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

1:29:51 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

1:29:56 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

1:30:02 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

1:30:08 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

1:30:14 ↗ getting the slides up.

1:30:39 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

1:30:45 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

1:30:56 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

1:31:01 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

1:31:06 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

1:31:12 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

1:31:18 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

1:31:24 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

1:31:29 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

1:32:42 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:32:48 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:32:54 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:33:00 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:33:05 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:33:11 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

1:33:58 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

1:34:03 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

1:34:09 ↗ leadership

1:34:19 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

1:34:25 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

1:34:31 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

1:34:35 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

1:34:41 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

1:34:46 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

1:34:49 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

1:34:55 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

1:35:00 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

1:35:05 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

1:35:10 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

1:35:16 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

1:35:21 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

1:35:26 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

1:35:32 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

1:35:37 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

1:35:43 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

1:35:47 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

1:35:53 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

1:35:58 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

1:36:03 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

1:36:08 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

1:36:13 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

1:36:18 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

1:36:23 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

1:36:29 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

1:36:35 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

1:36:39 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

1:36:45 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

1:36:51 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

1:36:55 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

1:36:59 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

1:37:09 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

1:37:15 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

1:37:20 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

1:37:26 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

1:37:32 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

1:37:36 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

1:37:41 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

1:37:45 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

1:37:50 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

1:37:55 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

1:37:59 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

1:38:05 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

1:38:10 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

1:38:15 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

1:38:20 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

1:38:26 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

1:38:32 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

1:38:37 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

1:38:43 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

1:38:48 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

1:38:54 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

1:39:00 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

1:39:06 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

1:39:11 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

1:39:16 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

1:39:22 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

1:39:27 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

1:39:32 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

1:39:38 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

1:39:44 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

1:39:49 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

1:39:54 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

1:40:00 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

1:40:03 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

1:40:09 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

1:40:14 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

1:40:18 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

1:40:24 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

1:40:30 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

1:40:34 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

1:40:40 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

1:40:46 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

1:40:51 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

1:40:56 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

1:41:00 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

1:41:06 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

1:41:11 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

1:41:17 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

1:41:22 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

1:41:26 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

1:41:30 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

1:41:35 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

1:41:39 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

1:41:44 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

1:41:49 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

1:41:53 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

1:41:57 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

1:42:02 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

1:42:06 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

1:42:11 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

1:42:16 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

1:42:20 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

1:42:25 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

1:42:32 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

1:42:37 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

1:42:43 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

1:42:48 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

1:42:53 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

1:43:03 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

1:43:08 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

1:43:14 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

1:43:20 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

1:43:26 ↗ getting the slides up.

1:43:51 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

1:43:57 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

1:44:08 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

1:44:13 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

1:44:18 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

1:44:24 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

1:44:30 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

1:44:36 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

1:44:41 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

1:45:54 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:46:00 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:46:06 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:46:12 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:46:17 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:46:23 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

1:47:10 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

1:47:15 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

1:47:21 ↗ leadership

1:47:31 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

1:47:37 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

1:47:43 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

1:47:47 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

1:47:53 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

1:47:58 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

1:48:01 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

1:48:07 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

1:48:12 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

1:48:17 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

1:48:22 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

1:48:28 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

1:48:33 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

1:48:38 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

1:48:44 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

1:48:49 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

1:48:55 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

1:48:59 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

1:49:05 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

1:49:10 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

1:49:15 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

1:49:20 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

1:49:25 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

1:49:30 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

1:49:35 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

1:49:41 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

1:49:47 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

1:49:51 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

1:49:57 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

1:50:03 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

1:50:07 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

1:50:11 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

1:50:21 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

1:50:27 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

1:50:32 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

1:50:38 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

1:50:44 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

1:50:48 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

1:50:53 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

1:50:57 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

1:51:02 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

1:51:07 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

1:51:11 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

1:51:17 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

1:51:22 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

1:51:27 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

1:51:32 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

1:51:38 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

1:51:44 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

1:51:49 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

1:51:55 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

1:52:00 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

1:52:06 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

1:52:12 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

1:52:18 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

1:52:23 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

1:52:28 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

1:52:34 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

1:52:39 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

1:52:44 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

1:52:50 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

1:52:56 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

1:53:01 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

1:53:06 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

1:53:12 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

1:53:15 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

1:53:21 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

1:53:26 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

1:53:30 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

1:53:36 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

1:53:42 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

1:53:46 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

1:53:52 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

1:53:58 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

1:54:03 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

1:54:08 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

1:54:12 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

1:54:18 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

1:54:23 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

1:54:29 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

1:54:34 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

1:54:38 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

1:54:42 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

1:54:47 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

1:54:51 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

1:54:56 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

1:55:01 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

1:55:05 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

1:55:09 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

1:55:14 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

1:55:18 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

1:55:23 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

1:55:28 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

1:55:32 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

1:55:37 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

1:55:44 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

1:55:49 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

1:55:55 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

1:56:00 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

1:56:05 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

1:56:15 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

1:56:20 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

1:56:26 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

1:56:32 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

1:56:38 ↗ getting the slides up.

1:57:03 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

1:57:09 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

1:57:20 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

1:57:25 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

1:57:30 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

1:57:36 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

1:57:42 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

1:57:48 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

1:57:53 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

1:59:06 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

1:59:12 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

1:59:18 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

1:59:24 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

1:59:29 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

1:59:35 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:00:22 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:00:27 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:00:33 ↗ leadership

2:00:43 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:00:49 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:00:55 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

2:00:59 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

2:01:05 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

2:01:10 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

2:01:13 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

2:01:19 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

2:01:24 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

2:01:29 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

2:01:34 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

2:01:40 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

2:01:45 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

2:01:50 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

2:01:56 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

2:02:01 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

2:02:07 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

2:02:11 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

2:02:17 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

2:02:22 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

2:02:27 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

2:02:32 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

2:02:37 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

2:02:42 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

2:02:47 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

2:02:53 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

2:02:59 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

2:03:03 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

2:03:09 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

2:03:15 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

2:03:19 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

2:03:23 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

2:03:33 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

2:03:39 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

2:03:44 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

2:03:50 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

2:03:56 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

2:04:00 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

2:04:05 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

2:04:09 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

2:04:14 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

2:04:19 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

2:04:23 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

2:04:29 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

2:04:34 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

2:04:39 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

2:04:44 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

2:04:50 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

2:04:56 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

2:05:01 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

2:05:07 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

2:05:12 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

2:05:18 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

2:05:24 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

2:05:30 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

2:05:35 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

2:05:40 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

2:05:46 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

2:05:51 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

2:05:56 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

2:06:02 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

2:06:08 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

2:06:13 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

2:06:18 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

2:06:24 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

2:06:27 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

2:06:33 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

2:06:38 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

2:06:42 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

2:06:48 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

2:06:54 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

2:06:58 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

2:07:04 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

2:07:10 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

2:07:15 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

2:07:20 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

2:07:24 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

2:07:30 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

2:07:35 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

2:07:41 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

2:07:46 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

2:07:50 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

2:07:54 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

2:07:59 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

2:08:03 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

2:08:08 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

2:08:13 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

2:08:17 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

2:08:21 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

2:08:26 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

2:08:30 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

2:08:35 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

2:08:40 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

2:08:44 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

2:08:49 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

2:08:56 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

2:09:01 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

2:09:07 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

2:09:12 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

2:09:17 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

2:09:27 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

2:09:32 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

2:09:38 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

2:09:44 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

2:09:50 ↗ getting the slides up.

2:10:15 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

2:10:21 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

2:10:32 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

2:10:37 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

2:10:42 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

2:10:48 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

2:10:54 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

2:11:00 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

2:11:05 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

2:12:18 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

2:12:24 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

2:12:30 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

2:12:36 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

2:12:41 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

2:12:47 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:13:34 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:13:39 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:13:45 ↗ leadership

2:13:55 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:14:01 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:14:07 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

2:14:11 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

2:14:17 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

2:14:22 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

2:14:25 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

2:14:31 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

2:14:36 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

2:14:41 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

2:14:46 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

2:14:52 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

2:14:57 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

2:15:02 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

2:15:08 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

2:15:13 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

2:15:19 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

2:15:23 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

2:15:29 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

2:15:34 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

2:15:39 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

2:15:44 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

2:15:49 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

2:15:54 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

2:15:59 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

2:16:05 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

2:16:11 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

2:16:15 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

2:16:21 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

2:16:27 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

2:16:31 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

2:16:35 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

2:16:45 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

2:16:51 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

2:16:56 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

2:17:02 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

2:17:08 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

2:17:12 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

2:17:17 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

2:17:21 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

2:17:26 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

2:17:31 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

2:17:35 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

2:17:41 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

2:17:46 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

2:17:51 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

2:17:56 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

2:18:02 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

2:18:08 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

2:18:13 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

2:18:19 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

2:18:24 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

2:18:30 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

2:18:36 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

2:18:42 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

2:18:47 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

2:18:52 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

2:18:58 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

2:19:03 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

2:19:08 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

2:19:14 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

2:19:20 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

2:19:25 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

2:19:30 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

2:19:36 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

2:19:39 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

2:19:45 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

2:19:50 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

2:19:54 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

2:20:00 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

2:20:06 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

2:20:10 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

2:20:16 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

2:20:22 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

2:20:27 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

2:20:32 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

2:20:36 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

2:20:42 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

2:20:47 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

2:20:53 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

2:20:58 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

2:21:02 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

2:21:06 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

2:21:11 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

2:21:15 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

2:21:20 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

2:21:25 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

2:21:29 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

2:21:33 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

2:21:38 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

2:21:42 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

2:21:47 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

2:21:52 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

2:21:56 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

2:22:01 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

2:22:08 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

2:22:13 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

2:22:19 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

2:22:24 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

2:22:29 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

2:22:39 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

2:22:44 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

2:22:50 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

2:22:56 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

2:23:02 ↗ getting the slides up.

2:23:27 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

2:23:33 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

2:23:44 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

2:23:49 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

2:23:54 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

2:24:00 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

2:24:06 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

2:24:12 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

2:24:17 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

2:25:30 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

2:25:36 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

2:25:42 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

2:25:48 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

2:25:53 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

2:25:59 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:26:46 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:26:51 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:26:57 ↗ leadership

2:27:07 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:27:13 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:27:19 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

2:27:23 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

2:27:29 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

2:27:34 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

2:27:37 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

2:27:43 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

2:27:48 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

2:27:53 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

2:27:58 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

2:28:04 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

2:28:09 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

2:28:14 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

2:28:20 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

2:28:25 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

2:28:31 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

2:28:35 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

2:28:41 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

2:28:46 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

2:28:51 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

2:28:56 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

2:29:01 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

2:29:06 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

2:29:11 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

2:29:17 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

2:29:23 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

2:29:27 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

2:29:33 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

2:29:39 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

2:29:43 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

2:29:47 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

2:29:57 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

2:30:03 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

2:30:08 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

2:30:14 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

2:30:20 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

2:30:24 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

2:30:29 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South

2:30:33 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

2:30:38 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

2:30:43 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

2:30:47 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

2:30:53 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

2:30:58 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

2:31:03 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

2:31:08 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

2:31:14 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

2:31:20 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

2:31:25 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

2:31:31 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

2:31:36 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

2:31:42 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

2:31:48 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When

2:31:54 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond

2:31:59 ↗ in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

2:32:04 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

2:32:10 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

2:32:15 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

2:32:20 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

2:32:26 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

2:32:32 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

2:32:37 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

2:32:42 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

2:32:48 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

2:32:51 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

2:32:57 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

2:33:02 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

2:33:06 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

2:33:12 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

2:33:18 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

2:33:22 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

2:33:28 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

2:33:34 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

2:33:39 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

2:33:44 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

2:33:48 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

2:33:54 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

2:33:59 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

2:34:05 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

2:34:10 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

2:34:14 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

2:34:18 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

2:34:23 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

2:34:27 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

2:34:32 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

2:34:37 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

2:34:41 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

2:34:45 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

2:34:50 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

2:34:54 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

2:34:59 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

2:35:04 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

2:35:08 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

2:35:13 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

2:35:20 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

2:35:25 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

2:35:31 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

2:35:36 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

2:35:41 ↗ of the ballot measure.

2:35:50 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

2:35:56 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare

2:36:02 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.

2:36:08 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for

2:36:14 ↗ getting the slides up.

2:36:39 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

2:36:45 ↗ who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.

2:36:56 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

2:37:01 ↗ a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of

2:37:06 ↗ whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

2:37:12 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

2:37:18 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

2:37:24 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

2:37:29 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

2:38:42 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

2:38:48 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

2:38:54 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

2:39:00 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

2:39:05 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

2:39:11 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:39:58 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:40:03 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:40:09 ↗ leadership

2:40:19 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:40:25 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:40:31 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

2:40:35 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

2:40:41 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

2:40:46 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

2:40:49 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

2:40:55 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

2:41:00 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

2:41:05 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

2:41:10 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

2:41:16 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

2:41:21 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

2:41:26 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

2:41:32 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

2:41:37 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

2:41:43 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

2:41:47 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

2:41:53 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

2:41:58 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

2:42:03 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

2:42:08 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

2:42:13 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

2:42:18 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

2:42:23 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

2:42:29 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

2:42:35 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

2:42:39 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

2:42:45 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

2:42:51 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

2:42:55 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

2:42:59 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

2:43:09 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

2:43:15 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

2:43:20 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

2:43:26 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

2:43:32 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

2:43:36 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

2:43:41 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

2:43:45 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

2:43:50 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

2:43:55 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

2:43:59 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

2:44:05 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

2:44:10 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

2:44:15 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

2:44:20 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

2:44:26 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

2:44:32 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

2:44:37 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

2:44:43 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

2:44:48 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

2:44:54 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

2:45:00 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

2:45:06 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

2:45:11 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

2:45:16 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

2:45:22 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

2:45:27 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

2:45:32 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

2:45:38 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

2:45:44 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

2:45:49 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

2:45:54 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

2:46:00 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

2:46:03 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

2:46:09 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

2:46:14 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

2:46:18 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

2:46:24 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

2:46:30 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

2:46:34 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

2:46:40 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

2:46:46 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

2:46:51 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

2:46:56 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

2:47:00 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

2:47:06 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

2:47:11 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

2:47:17 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

2:47:22 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

2:47:26 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

2:47:30 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

2:47:35 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

2:47:39 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

2:47:44 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

2:47:49 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

2:47:53 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

2:47:57 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

2:48:02 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

2:48:06 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

2:48:11 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

2:48:16 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

2:48:20 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

2:48:25 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

2:48:32 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

2:48:37 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

2:48:43 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

2:48:48 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

2:48:53 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

2:49:03 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

2:49:08 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

2:49:14 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

2:49:20 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

2:49:26 ↗ getting the slides up.

2:49:51 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

2:49:57 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

2:50:08 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

2:50:13 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

2:50:18 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

2:50:24 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

2:50:30 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

2:50:36 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

2:50:41 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

2:51:54 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

2:52:00 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

2:52:06 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

2:52:12 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

2:52:17 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

2:52:23 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

2:53:10 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

2:53:15 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

2:53:21 ↗ leadership

2:53:31 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

2:53:37 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

2:53:43 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

2:53:47 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

2:53:53 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

2:53:58 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

2:54:01 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

2:54:07 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

2:54:12 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

2:54:17 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

2:54:22 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

2:54:28 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

2:54:33 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

2:54:38 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

2:54:44 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

2:54:49 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

2:54:55 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

2:54:59 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

2:55:05 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

2:55:10 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

2:55:15 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

2:55:20 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

2:55:25 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

2:55:30 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

2:55:35 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

2:55:41 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

2:55:47 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

2:55:51 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

2:55:57 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

2:56:03 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

2:56:07 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

2:56:11 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

2:56:21 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

2:56:27 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

2:56:32 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

2:56:38 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

2:56:44 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

2:56:48 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

2:56:53 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

2:56:57 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

2:57:02 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

2:57:07 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

2:57:11 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

2:57:17 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

2:57:22 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

2:57:27 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

2:57:32 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

2:57:38 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

2:57:44 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

2:57:49 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

2:57:55 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

2:58:00 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

2:58:06 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

2:58:12 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

2:58:18 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

2:58:23 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

2:58:28 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

2:58:34 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

2:58:39 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

2:58:44 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

2:58:50 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

2:58:56 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

2:59:01 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

2:59:06 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

2:59:12 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

2:59:15 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

2:59:21 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

2:59:26 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

2:59:30 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

2:59:36 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

2:59:42 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

2:59:46 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

2:59:52 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

2:59:58 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

3:00:03 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

3:00:08 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

3:00:12 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

3:00:18 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

3:00:23 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

3:00:29 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

3:00:34 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

3:00:38 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

3:00:42 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

3:00:47 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

3:00:51 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

3:00:56 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

3:01:01 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

3:01:05 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

3:01:09 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

3:01:14 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

3:01:18 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

3:01:23 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

3:01:28 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

3:01:32 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

3:01:37 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

3:01:44 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

3:01:49 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

3:01:55 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

3:02:00 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

3:02:05 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

3:02:15 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

3:02:20 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

3:02:26 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

3:02:32 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

3:02:38 ↗ getting the slides up.

3:03:03 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

3:03:09 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

3:03:20 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

3:03:25 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

3:03:30 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

3:03:36 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

3:03:42 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

3:03:48 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

3:03:53 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

3:05:06 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

3:05:12 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

3:05:18 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

3:05:24 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

3:05:29 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

3:05:35 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

3:06:22 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

3:06:27 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

3:06:33 ↗ leadership

3:06:43 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

3:06:49 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

3:06:55 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

3:06:59 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

3:07:05 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

3:07:10 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

3:07:13 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

3:07:19 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

3:07:24 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

3:07:29 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

3:07:34 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

3:07:40 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

3:07:45 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

3:07:50 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

3:07:56 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

3:08:01 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

3:08:07 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

3:08:11 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

3:08:17 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

3:08:22 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

3:08:27 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

3:08:32 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

3:08:37 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

3:08:42 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

3:08:47 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

3:08:53 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

3:08:59 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

3:09:03 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

3:09:09 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

3:09:15 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

3:09:19 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

3:09:23 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

3:09:33 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

3:09:39 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

3:09:44 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

3:09:50 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

3:09:56 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

3:10:00 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

3:10:05 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

3:10:09 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

3:10:14 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

3:10:19 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

3:10:23 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

3:10:29 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

3:10:34 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

3:10:39 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

3:10:44 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

3:10:50 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

3:10:56 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

3:11:01 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

3:11:07 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

3:11:12 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

3:11:18 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

3:11:24 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

3:11:30 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

3:11:35 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

3:11:40 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

3:11:46 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

3:11:51 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

3:11:56 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

3:12:02 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

3:12:08 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

3:12:13 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

3:12:18 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

3:12:24 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

3:12:27 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

3:12:33 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

3:12:38 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

3:12:42 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

3:12:48 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

3:12:54 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

3:12:58 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

3:13:04 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

3:13:10 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

3:13:15 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

3:13:20 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

3:13:24 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

3:13:30 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

3:13:35 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

3:13:41 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

3:13:46 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

3:13:50 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

3:13:54 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

3:13:59 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

3:14:03 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

3:14:08 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

3:14:13 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

3:14:17 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

3:14:21 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

3:14:26 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

3:14:30 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

3:14:35 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

3:14:40 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

3:14:44 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

3:14:49 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

3:14:56 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

3:15:01 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

3:15:07 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

3:15:12 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

3:15:17 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

3:15:27 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

3:15:32 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

3:15:38 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

3:15:44 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

3:15:50 ↗ getting the slides up.

3:16:15 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

3:16:21 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

3:16:32 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

3:16:37 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

3:16:42 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

3:16:48 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

3:16:54 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

3:17:00 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

3:17:05 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

3:18:18 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

3:18:24 ↗ the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself

3:18:30 ↗ in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

3:18:36 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

3:18:41 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

3:18:47 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

3:19:34 ↗ But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come

3:19:39 ↗ in contact with him have been impressed with his

3:19:45 ↗ leadership

3:19:55 ↗ I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit

3:20:01 ↗ to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.

3:20:07 ↗ Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He

3:20:11 ↗ is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member

3:20:17 ↗ who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our

3:20:22 ↗ projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just

3:20:25 ↗ thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going

3:20:31 ↗ to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years

3:20:36 ↗ ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the

3:20:41 ↗ Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by

3:20:46 ↗ 2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.

3:20:52 ↗ It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already

3:20:57 ↗ have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of

3:21:02 ↗ the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can

3:21:08 ↗ tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal

3:21:13 ↗ Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also

3:21:19 ↗ I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound

3:21:23 ↗ region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the

3:21:29 ↗ country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,

3:21:34 ↗ basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be

3:21:39 ↗ widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega

3:21:44 ↗ regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with

3:21:49 ↗ that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and

3:21:54 ↗ build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3

3:21:59 ↗ plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region

3:22:05 ↗ to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a

3:22:11 ↗ big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over

3:22:15 ↗ 25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.

3:22:21 ↗ I am going to try and work this. Maybe

3:22:27 ↗ this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and

3:22:31 ↗ just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,

3:22:35 ↗ that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.

3:22:45 ↗ The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116

3:22:51 ↗ mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon

3:22:56 ↗ the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that

3:23:02 ↗ we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.

3:23:08 ↗ And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to

3:23:12 ↗ connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way

3:23:17 ↗ up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South

3:23:21 ↗ Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard

3:23:26 ↗ from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the

3:23:31 ↗ desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of

3:23:35 ↗ Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.

3:23:41 ↗ And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line

3:23:46 ↗ running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in

3:23:51 ↗ Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.

3:23:56 ↗ The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along

3:24:02 ↗ with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of

3:24:08 ↗ the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in

3:24:13 ↗ 23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to

3:24:19 ↗ a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as

3:24:24 ↗ an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend

3:24:30 ↗ Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from

3:24:36 ↗ the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When

3:24:42 ↗ that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond

3:24:47 ↗ in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.

3:24:52 ↗ With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid

3:24:58 ↗ transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood

3:25:03 ↗ to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on

3:25:08 ↗ State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10

3:25:14 ↗ minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit

3:25:20 ↗ would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders

3:25:25 ↗ from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station

3:25:30 ↗ and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations

3:25:36 ↗ just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of

3:25:39 ↗ connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the

3:25:45 ↗ Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas

3:25:50 ↗ from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained

3:25:54 ↗ earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in

3:26:00 ↗ the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What

3:26:06 ↗ this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get

3:26:10 ↗ control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just

3:26:16 ↗ the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us

3:26:22 ↗ as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more

3:26:27 ↗ than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern

3:26:32 ↗ that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the

3:26:36 ↗ country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow

3:26:42 ↗ another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the

3:26:47 ↗ region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population

3:26:53 ↗ causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to

3:26:58 ↗ see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get

3:27:02 ↗ on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home

3:27:06 ↗ and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting

3:27:11 ↗ chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so

3:27:15 ↗ punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.

3:27:20 ↗ That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So

3:27:25 ↗ again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's

3:27:29 ↗ leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one

3:27:33 ↗ of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to

3:27:38 ↗ consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best

3:27:42 ↗ practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.

3:27:47 ↗ To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound

3:27:52 ↗ Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So

3:27:56 ↗ with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are

3:28:01 ↗ there questions of Peter Rogoff?

3:28:08 ↗ Are, is there any discussion?

3:28:13 ↗ Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,

3:28:19 ↗ I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council

3:28:24 ↗ meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support

3:28:29 ↗ of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.

3:28:39 ↗ All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular

3:28:44 ↗ council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare

3:28:50 ↗ a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.

3:28:56 ↗ That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for

3:29:02 ↗ getting the slides up.

3:29:27 ↗ And I, I believe, I see someone

3:29:33 ↗ who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.

3:29:44 ↗ How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have

3:29:49 ↗ a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of

3:29:54 ↗ whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little

3:30:00 ↗ bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real

3:30:06 ↗ need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate

3:30:12 ↗ nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no

3:30:17 ↗ parent should have to send a child.

3:31:30 ↗ A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September

3:31:36 ↗ the 6th, 2016. And I ask those who would like to join the Council and

3:31:41 ↗ myself in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.

3:31:48 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

3:31:53 ↗ and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

3:31:59 ↗ indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.

3:32:08 ↗ With that, we will now move to special business. We

3:32:13 ↗ have three items under special business this evening. The first is Agenda Bill

3:32:19 ↗ 7222, Consideration to Support Sound

3:32:24 ↗ Transit 3 Plan, November the 8th, 2016,

3:32:30 ↗ Ballot Item. And with that, I would like to introduce

3:32:35 ↗ Sound Transit CEO, Peter Rogoff.

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Council / Members (7)

Eileen Barber (Unexcused Absence)

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Tola Marts

Mary Lou Pauly

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Staff (8)

Fred Butler, Mayor

Bob Harrison, City Administrator

Emily Moon, Deputy City Administrator

Autumn Monahan, Assistant to the City Administrator

Wayne Tanaka, City Attorney

Christine Eggers, City Clerk

Keith Niven, Economic and Development Services Director

Maia Knox, Management Analyst