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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Eileen Barber (Unexcused Absence)

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Tola Marts

Mary Lou Pauly

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Keith Niven, Economic and Development

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Maia Knox, Management Analyst