City Council Special Meeting · Tuesday, January 23, 2018 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Community Meet-and-Greet The purpose of this special meeting is to provide an opportunity for applicants to interact with the council, staff and members of the public. Council is anticipated to take final action regarding the vacancy at its meeting of Feb. 5, 2018 with the appointment of a qualified person. Applicants: withdrawn • Thomas Pucci Blumenzweig • Jamie Rosen Learn more about the applicants: Feedback welcome! Council invites the community to provide feedback regarding criteria, desired qualities or qualifications they should consider when filling the vacant seat. Please submit comments to City Council

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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0:19 ↗ good evening and welcome to the Tuesday

0:22 ↗ January January 23rd Committee of the

0:24 ↗ Whole meeting this is the meeting where

0:28 ↗ this acts basically as many of you have

0:32 ↗ been to some of our individual

0:33 ↗ committees infrastructure services land

0:35 ↗ in Shore this is basically a large

0:38 ↗ committee meeting so we don't make any

0:40 ↗ decisions here tonight but we get

0:42 ↗ information and one of the things that

0:44 ↗ I'm going to do here for 2018 is we will

0:47 ↗ take public comment a committee the

0:50 ↗ whole meetings but again because we're

0:51 ↗ not taking any action tonight as we get

0:54 ↗ done with individual issues you're

0:55 ↗ welcome if you have thoughts that you

0:57 ↗ want to share with us I'll offer people

0:58 ↗ three minutes but again if you're

1:00 ↗ looking to tell us to do something

1:01 ↗ tonight is not a night that we are doing

1:03 ↗ specific things tonight is the night

1:05 ↗ that we are listening by and large and

1:06 ↗ asking technical questions and with that

1:09 ↗ we're gonna start off with I do 187

1:15 ↗ Human Services presentation by Derek and

1:19 ↗ Vanessa from Human Services Commission

1:22 ↗ yes good evening so I'm Martha saseru

1:24 ↗ see Human Services and social

1:27 ↗ sustainability coordinator for the city

1:29 ↗ and so I just wanted to introduce our

1:31 ↗ Human Services Commission Chair Derek

1:32 ↗ Franklin and Vice Chair Vanessa allusive

1:34 ↗ asada will be presenting about the

1:37 ↗ Commission and some some of their

1:39 ↗ current and recent work yes

1:43 ↗ that would be helpful

1:51 ↗ great Thank You Martha members of the

1:54 ↗ council

1:55 ↗ good evening Derek Franklin serving his

1:57 ↗ chair for the city of Issaquah Human

1:59 ↗ Services Commission and tonight we will

2:04 ↗ just go through a few things

2:06 ↗ just a quick introductions we'll look at

2:08 ↗ our a grant review process again the

2:11 ↗ four grantees that asked the city for

2:14 ↗ funds to support the work the city's

2:17 ↗ prioritized we will talk a little bit

2:20 ↗ our about our process improvement

2:22 ↗ efforts over last funding cycle talk a

2:26 ↗ little bit about a grant vision

2:28 ↗ statement that we've been working on and

2:29 ↗ then again

2:31 ↗ familiarize council members with the

2:33 ↗ 2018 schedule for then the 2019 2020

2:36 ↗ funding recommendations and next steps

2:40 ↗ so there were a few new faces I think on

2:43 ↗ council on that on the Commission our

2:47 ↗ commission members and if I ask if they

2:49 ↗ wouldn't mind standing up if you were

2:51 ↗ here

2:52 ↗ senthil chandran myself Derek Franklin

2:56 ↗ Loretta Jenkins and a Jimenez in mom

3:02 ↗ who's not with us tonight

3:04 ↗ Elizabeth mal palm in in disguise hi

3:09 ↗ Elizabeth

3:09 ↗ Matthew mayor vanessa Mousavi's a day

3:16 ↗ thank you

3:18 ↗ Rebecca Smith there's Rebecca hello and

3:22 ↗ a Christine chris webber so these are

3:26 ↗ the folks and thank you for your service

3:28 ↗ that have volunteered with me on the

3:30 ↗ Commission the group represents a

3:34 ↗ diverse mix of residents from the city

3:36 ↗ different backgrounds folks from tech

3:38 ↗ folks from human services parents folks

3:41 ↗ familiar with senior issues and cross

3:43 ↗ the board and we're looking forward I'm

3:46 ↗ looking forward to working with them too

3:48 ↗ [Music]

3:49 ↗ give ultimately council recommendations

3:51 ↗ for Human Services funding a little bit

3:55 ↗ about the role of the Commission the

3:58 ↗ major role of the Commission has

3:59 ↗ developed funding recommendations to the

4:00 ↗ mayor and the council for Human Services

4:03 ↗ support for the residents of Issaquah we

4:06 ↗ developed an annual work plan to address

4:07 ↗ ongoing work and emerging issues Human

4:11 ↗ Services issues there are critical needs

4:14 ↗ out there we will be bringing those to

4:16 ↗ you as part of our work such things as

4:18 ↗ the crisis around homelessness critical

4:22 ↗ need for behavioral supports in the

4:24 ↗ community and the fact that many

4:26 ↗ services simply aren't available with

4:29 ↗ footprints in the city of Issaquah all

4:31 ↗ those and many other issues factored in

4:33 ↗ to their recommendations that will be

4:35 ↗ providing other examples of the work of

4:37 ↗ the Commission include the chair serving

4:39 ↗ on the advisory group for the community

4:40 ↗ needs assessment conducted in 2017 the

4:44 ↗ Joint Commission meetings we attend with

4:45 ↗ the planning and policy economic

4:47 ↗ vitality group to inform the housing

4:49 ↗ strategy for in 2016 and 17 the

4:52 ↗ commission also tracks and provides

4:53 ↗ input to staff on issues including

4:55 ↗ senior services the senior center

4:58 ↗ community health engagement locations

5:00 ↗ and a community concerns around safety

5:02 ↗ and inclusiveness Human Services grants

5:09 ↗ so a little bit about the the grants

5:12 ↗ there on a biannual cycle applications

5:14 ↗ are received and reviewed in even years

5:16 ↗ for funding for the subsequent two years

5:18 ↗ for example applications were last

5:20 ↗ received and reviewed in 2016 for

5:22 ↗ funding in 2017 and 18 this this work is

5:26 ↗ part of a 17 city collaboration 17

5:29 ↗ cities in King County collaborate to use

5:31 ↗ a shared application process which

5:34 ↗ allows the different cities and

5:35 ↗ commissions of those cities to have some

5:38 ↗ sense of working collaboratively when

5:40 ↗ that's appropriate it also allows the

5:42 ↗ different appellants that might apply to

5:47 ↗ multiple cities to use a common

5:48 ↗ application process simplifying things

5:51 ↗ on that and giving us on this and

5:53 ↗ probably better information that we can

5:55 ↗ relay and look between cities

5:58 ↗ funding levels and the number of

6:01 ↗ applications of the last two cycles in

6:03 ↗ 2016 the city receives 75 grant

6:06 ↗ applications requesting a total of

6:08 ↗ nearly $700,000 in funding the city has

6:14 ↗ a set of funding target of 370 $1500 for

6:18 ↗ annual Human Services funding the

6:21 ↗ Commission delivered previously a set of

6:22 ↗ funding recommendations then totaling

6:24 ↗ exactly 371 5,000 and those

6:26 ↗ recommendations were adopted as part of

6:28 ↗ the budget for 2017 and then later as

6:30 ↗ part of the budget for 2018 those are

6:33 ↗ organized the recommendations are in

6:34 ↗ goal areas the Commission uses five goal

6:37 ↗ areas to categorize programs akin to

6:40 ↗ buckets to organize the grants when they

6:42 ↗ come through the door

6:43 ↗ these goal areas or the former goal

6:46 ↗ areas established by the United Way of

6:48 ↗ King County and they're currently also

6:50 ↗ used by the cities of Bellevue Kirkland

6:53 ↗ and Redmond for their framework or

6:55 ↗ buckets to help organize the grants as

6:57 ↗ they come in those actually can't escape

7:02 ↗ the question yeah please are linking

7:05 ↗ right there

7:05 ↗ so in the there's two different human

7:09 ↗ services grant process one is the one

7:10 ↗ that runs through the Human Services

7:12 ↗ Commission the other is one that runs

7:14 ↗ through or me that's the same one that

7:17 ↗ runs through services and safety but has

7:21 ↗ ever called the amount requested in

7:23 ↗ previous years there I don't believe

7:25 ↗ there was such a large gap between the

7:27 ↗ amount requested and the amount that was

7:30 ↗ sort of in play for a budget is this is

7:33 ↗ this unusual to have such a difference

7:35 ↗ this time around because it seems like

7:37 ↗ in the past they've been a lot closer to

7:39 ↗ balance and matched well let me give you

7:41 ↗ my sort of year and a half perspective

7:43 ↗ on that and that's my day job is in

7:46 ↗ Human Services also I think there is

7:48 ↗ sort of a sense of that's this new

7:50 ↗ normal that's been happening for five

7:52 ↗ six seven years or more where the the

7:55 ↗ needs simply are outpacing the demand I

7:58 ↗ know this the last cycle saw more

8:01 ↗ applications in the cycle previously and

8:04 ↗ the amount varies with that I think part

8:07 ↗ of that probably is attributable to

8:10 ↗ the the coordination among the cities I

8:13 ↗ think there's probably better

8:13 ↗ information out there a better support

8:15 ↗ from your city staff and the other

8:17 ↗ staffs of the cities and the East Side

8:19 ↗ about supporting solid applications in

8:22 ↗ terms of the history I could perhaps ask

8:25 ↗ one of the staff to hop up really

8:26 ↗ quickly if you wanted to get a few more

8:27 ↗ numbers Martha may know that but at

8:30 ↗ otherwise I'm sure they've be able to

8:31 ↗ deliver kind of a history that's

8:34 ↗ specifically Martha you have two

8:35 ↗ thoughts on it yes I'd have to follow up

8:37 ↗ on the amount of the total funding

8:38 ↗ requests that we received in 2014 for 15

8:42 ↗ and 16 but the jump in in applicants

8:45 ↗ went from fifty-six fifty-seven

8:47 ↗ applicants up to 75 in the last cycle as

8:50 ↗ one measure thank you well thank you so

8:57 ↗ the the goal areas or buckets are food

9:00 ↗ to eat and roof overhead supportive

9:03 ↗ relationships within families

9:05 ↗ neighborhoods and communities a safe

9:07 ↗ haven from all forms of violence and

9:09 ↗ abuse health care to be physically and

9:12 ↗ mentally fit as possible and finally

9:15 ↗ education and job skills to lead an

9:16 ↗ independent life a few service

9:19 ↗ highlights from the the fundies or

9:22 ↗ grantees that from last year in 2017 and

9:27 ↗ in thanks the city funding 6040 for

9:31 ↗ meals were provided by katha community

9:33 ↗ services and sound generations 180

9:36 ↗ one-way trips for seniors were provided

9:38 ↗ for Eastside Friends of seniors 162

9:41 ↗ hours of advocacy arson support for

9:44 ↗ domestic violence survivors was provided

9:46 ↗ by life wire 62 rent utility and

9:50 ↗ security deposit payments were provided

9:52 ↗ through hope link Issaquah community

9:54 ↗ services and st. Vincent DePaul 27

9:57 ↗ medical care appointments were provided

9:59 ↗ it's a part residence that wouldn't

10:01 ↗ otherwise be able to have those by

10:03 ↗ health point those are just a few

10:04 ↗ examples of the services provided

10:06 ↗ through the grant process grants dollars

10:10 ↗ to the city a few a few grant process

10:15 ↗ improvement efforts that wanted we

10:18 ↗ wanted the council to be aware of and

10:20 ↗ again these are just a few visuals the

10:23 ↗ the one on the bottom isn't meant

10:25 ↗ necessarily to be read now but

10:26 ↗ represents some of the the process

10:28 ↗ improvement work that we've done one in

10:32 ↗ so first 2018 is an application year

10:35 ↗ will be receiving applications this this

10:38 ↗ spring and preparing funding

10:40 ↗ recommendations for the council by this

10:41 ↗ fall in anticipation of the application

10:44 ↗ process the Commission identified work

10:46 ↗ to improve the application review and

10:48 ↗ funding deliberation process that really

10:50 ↗ represents the majority of the work that

10:52 ↗ the Commission does when those grants

10:54 ↗ come in to go through a comprehensive

10:56 ↗ review process involving scoring online

10:58 ↗ scoring details looking at each grant

11:01 ↗ individually comparing grants putting

11:02 ↗ them in buckets depending on the city's

11:04 ↗ priorities about those buckets then

11:06 ↗ allocating funding based on the the

11:12 ↗ private the bucket priorities as well as

11:14 ↗ other things like a new upper-right

11:16 ↗ graphically represented is the community

11:20 ↗ needs assessment the city went through

11:21 ↗ that process in 2017 in creating the

11:25 ↗ community needs assessment for health

11:27 ↗ and well-being in Issaquah we're

11:29 ↗ currently using the CNA findings and

11:32 ↗ themes in our current discussions for

11:33 ↗ priorities and criteria this evening the

11:38 ↗ Commission actually has a meeting after

11:40 ↗ this this presentation will be providing

11:43 ↗ grant feedback on city specific

11:45 ↗ information that is provided as a

11:47 ↗ supplement to the shared application so

11:49 ↗ the city of Issaquah we're able to give

11:51 ↗ specific direction on the common

11:54 ↗ application that goes out to grantees

11:55 ↗ trying to best kind of hone their

11:57 ↗ responses to the kind of responses the

11:59 ↗ Commission's looking for based on

12:01 ↗ feedback we've got both from the

12:04 ↗ community needs assessment and from our

12:05 ↗ work in the city so this cycle the

12:08 ↗ Commission has several new resources

12:09 ↗ that are going to help with us I already

12:12 ↗ mentioned the community needs assessment

12:13 ↗ we've created a vision statement for the

12:16 ↗ Human Services Commission

12:18 ↗ colleague Vanessa will speak to that in

12:20 ↗ a moment but this the statements

12:23 ↗ specific to the Human Services grant

12:25 ↗ process and helps us provide some

12:27 ↗ clarity and direction the the diversity

12:29 ↗ and number of

12:30 ↗ over 70 that come in it takes some time

12:33 ↗ and some effort for us to help prot to

12:36 ↗ categorize those properly and creating

12:40 ↗ the vision that helps allow us to do

12:42 ↗ that has been I think a great step in

12:44 ↗ addition the the Commission will have

12:46 ↗ equity training the city of Issaquah

12:49 ↗ along the cities of Bellevue Kirkland

12:51 ↗ Redmond and Sammamish are working

12:53 ↗ together to bright and provide an equity

12:55 ↗ training to all human service

12:56 ↗ commissions in those respective Eastside

12:58 ↗ cities ahead of the application review

13:00 ↗ process this training will support the

13:03 ↗ Commission's effort to apply an equity

13:04 ↗ lens to its application review and

13:06 ↗ funding recommendations process we'll

13:10 ↗ have time for some questions I think

13:12 ↗ after the presentation for the second

13:14 ↗ part of this let me kick it over to

13:15 ↗ Vanessa thanks Derek as Derek shared

13:25 ↗ each funding cycle we try to improve the

13:28 ↗ process and outcomes in past cycles the

13:31 ↗ Commission has relied on the Human

13:33 ↗ Services element of the comprehensive

13:34 ↗ plan for some guidance in making its

13:37 ↗ recommendations the goals and policies

13:39 ↗ laid out in the element call out some

13:41 ↗ particular service areas and populations

13:44 ↗ but are otherwise fairly general in

13:46 ↗ their description of support feedback

13:48 ↗ from commission members after the last

13:50 ↗ cycle included a request for guidance

13:53 ↗ specific to the granting process so the

13:55 ↗ Commission decided to create a Human

13:57 ↗ Services grants vision statement the new

14:00 ↗ Human Services grants vision statement

14:02 ↗ supplements the overarching Human

14:04 ↗ Services element vision it reads the

14:06 ↗ Issaquah Human Services grants process

14:09 ↗ values equity and inclusion promotes

14:11 ↗ economic stability addresses underserved

14:14 ↗ needs and demonstrates impact in order

14:17 ↗ to better support a sustainable and

14:19 ↗ healthy community for all as we proceed

14:22 ↗ with our work to improve the funding

14:23 ↗ process the Human Services Commission

14:26 ↗ will use this vision statement as our

14:27 ↗ anchor additionally we hope that the

14:30 ↗ vision more clearly shares the intent

14:32 ↗ and importance of City supported funding

14:35 ↗ for Human Services in our community this

14:40 ↗ next slide is a look at milestones in

14:43 ↗ the

14:43 ↗ application process in March the

14:45 ↗ application will open and to funders

14:48 ↗ workshops will happen one in East King

14:50 ↗ County and one in the South the

14:52 ↗ application closes April tenth and then

14:54 ↗ staff will do an initially you of

14:56 ↗ applications and prepare materials for

14:59 ↗ Commission members the Commission

15:01 ↗ anticipates beginning its review and

15:03 ↗ deliberation of applications in May we

15:06 ↗ will meet five to eight times in total

15:08 ↗ to complete our review and

15:09 ↗ recommendation process our package of

15:11 ↗ funding recommendations should be

15:13 ↗ finalized at our September meeting and

15:15 ↗ go to Council via an agenda bill in

15:17 ↗ October or November contracts will go

15:20 ↗ into effect in January

15:21 ↗ also during past review processes there

15:24 ↗ have been opportunities to check in with

15:26 ↗ other Eastside Commission's to hear

15:28 ↗ updates on their funding deliberations

15:30 ↗ we hope to have a similar opportunity

15:32 ↗ this year before the application period

15:37 ↗ opens in early March staff will be going

15:40 ↗ before Council at the services and

15:42 ↗ Safety Committee meeting to set a

15:43 ↗ funding target for the 2019 and 2020

15:46 ↗ Human Services grants they went before

15:49 ↗ services in safety in 2016 ahead of the

15:52 ↗ last RFP as well application materials

15:55 ↗ will be finalized over the next five

15:56 ↗ years equity training will occur in

15:59 ↗ March the Commission will proceed with

16:01 ↗ its process improvement work through

16:03 ↗ April we now welcome any questions or

16:06 ↗ feedback that the council has for us

16:10 ↗ questions all thank you have a question

16:15 ↗ in your five goal areas which one would

16:18 ↗ would services for seniors fall within

16:29 ↗ so I'm just gonna jump into for some QA

16:32 ↗ with our chair and vice-chair so it

16:35 ↗ would depend on what program for a

16:37 ↗ senior so for example sound generations

16:39 ↗ meals-on-wheels falls into the roof

16:42 ↗ overhead category because it's providing

16:43 ↗ meals so it's it's based on the primary

16:47 ↗ services so if I remember correctly

16:50 ↗ didn't you said these are modeled after

16:53 ↗ the United Way categories but didn't

16:55 ↗ they D emphasized services for seniors a

16:59 ↗ couple years ago yes so United could you

17:01 ↗ update me on that the United Way of King

17:03 ↗ County no longer uses these goal areas

17:05 ↗ they came out with a new strategic plan

17:07 ↗ in 2015 with entirely new areas funded

17:14 ↗ funding areas so they no longer fund

17:19 ↗ senior programming as they have so we

17:22 ↗ have not just followed suit and so we

17:25 ↗ were staying with those older criteria

17:27 ↗ that's still we give consideration it's

17:30 ↗ not all targeted funding we give we use

17:32 ↗ our own criteria using these goal areas

17:34 ↗ we're not targeting as much as United

17:37 ↗ Way is no fkin county is correct so I

17:40 ↗ would advise that these goal areas be

17:42 ↗ considered as kind of categories and

17:45 ↗ framework so they just help us to as

17:46 ↗ Derek mentioned kind of bucket similar

17:48 ↗ programs and it's very much the intent

17:51 ↗ of the Commission to fund across

17:53 ↗ services across populations so taking

17:55 ↗ into consideration basic needs as well

17:57 ↗ as

17:59 ↗ areas of heightened need that we've

18:01 ↗ identified locally okay I do appreciate

18:07 ↗ that last comment because especially you

18:09 ↗ said across populations I was kind of

18:11 ↗ looking for that in the vision as well

18:13 ↗ so I'm just sharing that with from

18:16 ↗ everything I just received I was looking

18:18 ↗ for that and thanks for those words fill

18:21 ↗ it in for me thank you that's remember

18:23 ↗ right not even Crescent committee I

18:26 ↗ realize I should have said polishes it

18:28 ↗ comes from the winter snack but thank

18:30 ↗ you for pointing out my mistake doing my

18:32 ↗ job so so clearly there's a lot of unmet

18:37 ↗ need for human services in the community

18:39 ↗ given the disparity between the request

18:41 ↗ and the awarded so in 1718 cycle you

18:46 ↗ awarded 371 thousand dollars what was

18:50 ↗ your target for that biennial cycle for

18:53 ↗ funding so we had gone to services and

18:56 ↗ safety committee and council to set that

18:58 ↗ target amount well that that is the

19:01 ↗ target amount right on the on the nickel

19:02 ↗ yes so the Commission had that number to

19:06 ↗ work with as they were preparing their

19:07 ↗ recommendations okay and I'll mention

19:12 ↗ that's actually based on $10 per person

19:15 ↗ for the city's population plus there's

19:18 ↗ another lump sum that goes in addition

19:21 ↗ to that yes that had been set based on

19:26 ↗ kind of a per capita rate and then also

19:28 ↗ some targeted funding to better support

19:31 ↗ program serving folks experiencing

19:32 ↗ homelessness did you have a follow I'm

19:36 ↗ great thank you

19:37 ↗ that's my bootys Thank You Martha could

19:40 ↗ you just speak to generally the the goal

19:44 ↗ areas and the buckets are fairly new and

19:49 ↗ how that's helping and driving the grant

19:53 ↗ process sure and I also welcome

19:56 ↗ so Derek has gone through this process

19:59 ↗ before the funding application review

20:02 ↗ process and last cycle was the first

20:04 ↗ time we introduced the goal areas

20:06 ↗ because some of the feedback we had

20:08 ↗ heard from prior cycles is that

20:10 ↗ comparing at that time 56 applications

20:13 ↗ you know application a versus you know

20:16 ↗ application 26:45 rate and we wanted to

20:19 ↗ group like programs to better inform

20:23 ↗ funding decisions and so this framework

20:26 ↗ gave us a way to consider and you know

20:28 ↗ if there are two family shelter programs

20:31 ↗ the Commission can better kind of

20:33 ↗ compare outcomes and service levels

20:37 ↗ between those two programs and decide if

20:39 ↗ it would be best for example to fund

20:42 ↗ both or make a more significant

20:45 ↗ investment in one

20:47 ↗ and then just to follow up question it

20:50 ↗ what are the results that that you've

20:53 ↗ seen with that grouping does that mean

20:56 ↗ that for instance certain groups that

20:59 ↗ may have been funded in the past are are

21:03 ↗ not receiving funding because there are

21:05 ↗ so many within a category or are there

21:09 ↗ are there outcomes that you've that

21:12 ↗ you've talked about in your continuous

21:14 ↗ improvement process things that have

21:15 ↗ come out of using those goal areas no

21:19 ↗ defer to Derek just a moment here but I

21:22 ↗ would say that I'd I don't know that the

21:25 ↗ categorization necessarily led to you

21:34 ↗ know some programs not being funded

21:35 ↗ others being fun I think it was a way to

21:38 ↗ support making clearer comparisons

21:43 ↗ between like programs and also a way to

21:46 ↗ consider you know our you know relative

21:50 ↗ investment in one area like health care

21:54 ↗ versus another area like employment in

21:57 ↗ thinking about relative investment one

22:00 ↗ of the things we had also looked at

22:02 ↗ ahead of the last cycle was where we

22:05 ↗ were and investing those dollars Beit

22:07 ↗ within across the five goal areas and

22:09 ↗ found that there was a significantly

22:12 ↗ smaller portion of funds going towards

22:14 ↗ for example and employment and job

22:17 ↗ skills and so it helped us to identify

22:19 ↗ some areas where we potentially would

22:20 ↗ want to have more investment okay but

22:23 ↗ also understanding that there's a

22:24 ↗ funding cap and so not all applicants

22:28 ↗ would a receive funding or receive more

22:30 ↗ funding but Derek do you have anything

22:32 ↗ you'd like to add a few things thank you

22:36 ↗ I think the part of the work to had been

22:38 ↗ to you know identify as martha was

22:40 ↗ saying when we have multiple grants that

22:43 ↗ film to the same bucket or the same kind

22:45 ↗ of generally served the same folks it

22:47 ↗ would because we've got only so much

22:49 ↗ capacity meeting to meeting with so many

22:51 ↗ we would try to get through either one

22:52 ↗ or half of one or two at one meeting at

22:55 ↗ a time that would by putting them in

22:57 ↗ buckets it would allow us

22:59 ↗ than to for example say if we're dealing

23:01 ↗ with the issue of folks experiencing

23:03 ↗ homelessness and we have somebody who's

23:05 ↗ applying for funds from the city and we

23:08 ↗ would look at multiple categories sort

23:09 ↗ of next to one another for that for that

23:11 ↗ application so for example you know what

23:14 ↗ are the outcomes they're promising the

23:16 ↗ city based on the dollars and how many

23:18 ↗ of those outcomes which is maybe little

23:20 ↗ people served how many of those folks

23:23 ↗ live in Issaquah and and what is the

23:27 ↗ fiscal capacity of this grant applicant

23:30 ↗ versus the next grant applicant to be

23:33 ↗ able to provide these services and are

23:36 ↗ there any services being duplicated if

23:37 ↗ we have two qualities services and one

23:40 ↗ is saying they can serve more than that

23:42 ↗ so we kind of look at the the larger

23:44 ↗ picture that way and we also consider

23:47 ↗ the scope of what folks are asking for

23:50 ↗ if so if somebody is asking for say

23:53 ↗ $15,000 for a program that serves a

23:55 ↗ hundred people versus $2,500 for a

23:59 ↗ program that serves 10 people that may

24:02 ↗ be an equivalent however there's we need

24:05 ↗ to take an account also the

24:06 ↗ administrative cost and overhead of

24:07 ↗ going where do we do two grants for 1750

24:12 ↗ and pay double the administrative fee or

24:14 ↗ what if we can do one grant that would

24:17 ↗ better serve a larger number of people

24:19 ↗ and save that little bit of overhead so

24:21 ↗ having all those questions kind of lined

24:23 ↗ up next to each other makes it a little

24:25 ↗ bit easier I think when we're getting

24:26 ↗ sometimes very similar grant applicants

24:28 ↗ right thank you all right if you

24:33 ↗ continue and that wraps up the

24:38 ↗ presentation all right thank you very

24:45 ↗ much and then we will now I'm gonna

24:49 ↗ offer if there's anybody in the public

24:51 ↗ that wishes to speak to this measure

24:54 ↗ again we're not taking any action this

24:55 ↗ evening but I'm gonna offer an

24:57 ↗ opportunity to folks in the audience's

24:59 ↗ or anybody wishes to speak to this

25:00 ↗ before we move on I mean once going

25:04 ↗ twice

25:04 ↗ alright we will move on and next we have

25:09 ↗ ID

25:10 ↗ Oh one-seven-zero community

25:12 ↗ fun 2017 port and this is from Amy Dukes

25:15 ↗ our arts coordinator

25:50 ↗ hi I am Amy dukes I'm the arts

25:53 ↗ coordinator for the city and also

25:55 ↗ Development Officer and also part of the

25:57 ↗ staff team that supports the community

25:59 ↗ fun program so that just a refresher or

26:02 ↗ an intro the Community Fund program is a

26:05 ↗ program that supports capacity building

26:07 ↗ grants for our local nonprofits to help

26:10 ↗ them better meet their mission and

26:13 ↗ better serve our community and so in

26:15 ↗ 2017 we funded eight projects to capital

26:19 ↗ projects and six projects that were

26:22 ↗ primarily for things like staffing

26:24 ↗ support staff development technology and

26:27 ↗ that totaled one hundred and thirteen

26:29 ↗ thousand dollars so tonight each of

26:32 ↗ these groups is going to come to you and

26:33 ↗ give a really brief presentation all

26:35 ↗ right five minutes or less and let you

26:38 ↗ know how they used the funding what

26:40 ↗ impact it had and feel free to ask them

26:42 ↗ questions we're gonna start with the two

26:44 ↗ capital projects and then move on to the

26:46 ↗ others and we are gonna go in reverse

26:48 ↗ alphabetical order because we never do

26:52 ↗ so there was a curveball yeah the

26:57 ↗ village theater is up first just

27:04 ↗ couldn't get it cut down all right thank

27:07 ↗ you so much for your continued support

27:09 ↗ from the city I'm Frank still ignoring

27:11 ↗ the director of development at Village

27:13 ↗ Theatre in 2017 we were awarded 25,000

27:17 ↗ which was the first of we hope will be a

27:21 ↗ four year $100,000 total grant for this

27:24 ↗ project we've also received notice that

27:28 ↗ we that for 2018 of the same amount just

27:32 ↗ to start for those in the room that

27:34 ↗ village theater is currently the largest

27:36 ↗ fully producing theater in the Pacific

27:39 ↗ Northwest

27:39 ↗ with a current budget of over thirteen

27:42 ↗ point two million we have three

27:44 ↗ facilities in historic downtown Issaquah

27:47 ↗ at the Francis J garde theater at 303

27:50 ↗ Front Street

27:50 ↗ first stage theater which is where those

27:53 ↗ theater started on Front Street at

27:56 ↗ in the original 1913 building that we

27:59 ↗ rebuilt in its likeness seven years ago

28:01 ↗ and the Craig and Joan Watson production

28:04 ↗ studios the warehouse and artist

28:08 ↗ residence residency project will be

28:11 ↗ built adjacent to the tech studios we

28:14 ↗ currently own that land and are getting

28:18 ↗ ready to move forward with the project

28:19 ↗ and we thank the city for the support of

28:22 ↗ all of the projects they have since we

28:25 ↗ started building our Capitol and 1994

28:30 ↗ when we opened the French to stay go to

28:32 ↗ theater all of our buildings including

28:36 ↗ here in Issaquah house our three major

28:38 ↗ programs since in some way our main

28:40 ↗ stage that has currently over 20,000

28:43 ↗ season subscribers and serves in the

28:46 ↗ city of Issaquah over 120,000 people

28:48 ↗ annually first stage theater which is

28:51 ↗ dedicated to our new works and youth

28:55 ↗ education programs our new works

28:57 ↗ primarily our kids stage kids stage and

29:00 ↗ Pied Piper Pied Piper and kids stage

29:03 ↗ together serve over 57,000 youth and

29:05 ↗ their families annually and to date

29:07 ↗ we've created we have touched over 165

29:11 ↗ new works several have gone on to

29:13 ↗ Broadway and to of one Tony Awards next

29:16 ↗ to normal which was written by Esquire

29:19 ↗ resident and kid stage kid Bryan Yorkie

29:23 ↗ who also won Pulitzer Prize for that

29:27 ↗ musical and Million Dollar Quartet

29:29 ↗ probably the most famous of our shows

29:32 ↗ that come out of the city of this club

29:36 ↗ so since we last met and talked about

29:40 ↗ this project there was a huge change of

29:41 ↗ scope because we were also we've also

29:45 ↗ been looking simultaneously for a place

29:48 ↗ we house our artists often we currently

29:51 ↗ rent from the apartment building next to

29:54 ↗ the theater and we went back to the

29:57 ↗ architect and said what would this look

30:00 ↗ project look like if we were to add on

30:02 ↗ top of the warehouse six apartments with

30:06 ↗ a community space

30:08 ↗ for artist residency and would that even

30:10 ↗ be possible and how much would it

30:12 ↗ decrease the overall warehouse space the

30:14 ↗ decrease was not that much the actual

30:17 ↗ decrease has come because of the

30:19 ↗ easement that's had to come the 2040s

30:21 ↗ went between the two buildings that was

30:24 ↗ that is being required but we're going

30:26 ↗ to utilize that for parking so sort of

30:29 ↗ catch-22 but the the change of the scope

30:33 ↗ has also increased the overall cost of

30:36 ↗ the project obviously we originally

30:38 ↗ considered about a 1 million dollar

30:40 ↗ project it's added about a half a

30:42 ↗ million dollars to the overall project

30:43 ↗ for 1.5 we are still committed as an

30:46 ↗ organization because of the savings that

30:48 ↗ we will see from not having to rent

30:51 ↗ warehouse space not having to rent six

30:53 ↗ apartments will still have approximately

30:56 ↗ about a hundred and twenty thousand

30:58 ↗ dollars annually to put toward paying

31:01 ↗ off a mortgage that we will have on the

31:05 ↗ property as well and let's see currently

31:12 ↗ we're in the final design engineering

31:14 ↗ and cost of construction phase so we

31:16 ↗ don't anticipate it'll go much more than

31:18 ↗ 1.5 million for the project and our goal

31:21 ↗ is to move in to permitting here in

31:23 ↗ early 2018 with an anticipated

31:26 ↗ groundbreaking in the fall of 2018 and

31:30 ↗ the facility opening approximately six

31:33 ↗ to seven months after we break ground

31:34 ↗ and we're really pleased to announce

31:37 ↗ that we received a naming grant for in

31:41 ↗ 300 front in the tune excuse me $300,000

31:45 ↗ from the Anderson family so Danna Porsha

31:48 ↗ Anderson who are a longtime residents of

31:50 ↗ Issaquah and dan has been on our board

31:53 ↗ for over 30 years

31:55 ↗ and so this is their legacy dan has been

31:58 ↗ committed to these capital projects

32:00 ↗ since the beginning he heads up our

32:01 ↗ Facilities Committee on the board and we

32:05 ↗ got a early Christmas present we

32:07 ↗ actually received a call two days before

32:09 ↗ Christmas from his sons and the family

32:11 ↗ has come together and in their parents

32:13 ↗ honor and awarded this grant to us

32:18 ↗ any questions did you want to yeah you

32:22 ↗ want me to just advance it let's see so

32:26 ↗ this is what the current facility looks

32:28 ↗ like you can see it has nice windows

32:30 ↗ it'll overlook the city of viswas

32:33 ↗ facilities flat right now but we

32:35 ↗ understand that that won't always be

32:37 ↗ there but it's also comfortable very

32:39 ↗ close to confluence park there'll be a

32:42 ↗ private entrance on on the right as well

32:44 ↗ as outside entrance for the building and

32:50 ↗ warehouse space will allow for props

32:53 ↗ scenery and costume

32:55 ↗ storage down below and up above six

32:59 ↗ apartments are contracts with Actors

33:03 ↗ Equity require that each actor have

33:06 ↗ their own bathroom as well as a

33:09 ↗ kitchenette of some sort within their

33:11 ↗ place that they stay and so these allow

33:16 ↗ we've actually walked into areas that

33:20 ↗ are this big if you walk through IKEA

33:22 ↗ there are whole pod vents that are about

33:24 ↗ the size that have that will probably

33:26 ↗ end up looking very similar with a full

33:29 ↗ kitchen laundry facility with multiple

33:33 ↗ washers and dryers and a kitchen and

33:35 ↗ common area I think that's it

33:40 ↗ any questions from the dais all right

33:43 ↗ thank you very much thank you very much

33:45 ↗ [Music]

33:47 ↗ yep

33:52 ↗ good good evening council members I'm

33:57 ↗ Christy Gerard I'm the executive

33:58 ↗ director for Highlands Council and our

34:00 ↗ offices are at Blakely Hall and I'm here

34:02 ↗ tonight to thank you so much for the

34:04 ↗ $15,000 grant that we were awarded last

34:06 ↗ year to improve the acoustics inside

34:10 ↗ Blakely Hall we installed sound baffling

34:14 ↗ panels on the perimeter walls to improve

34:16 ↗ the overall acoustical experience and

34:18 ↗ protect the reputation of this beloved

34:20 ↗ community resource best told in pictures

34:24 ↗ I think at Blakely Hall we're busier

34:29 ↗ than we've ever been

34:30 ↗ we have 25 free clubs and groups that

34:33 ↗ are resident volunteer led in 2017 we

34:39 ↗ held six community-wide meetings many of

34:41 ↗ those were with partnership in the city

34:43 ↗ of us cloth we hosted five receptions

34:46 ↗ with art East as likely Hall serves as a

34:49 ↗ gallery space for this organization for

34:53 ↗ events by the Squa school district or as

34:55 ↗ cost Schools Foundation we had three

34:57 ↗ live music events and the photo that you

34:59 ↗ see here is from November

35:01 ↗ standing-room-only Veterans Day ceremony

35:03 ↗ which was really beautiful and so in

35:06 ↗ this photo you can see the panels near

35:08 ↗ the the ceiling of the room I think we

35:14 ↗ are well known as an organization as a

35:16 ↗ community for a very diverse population

35:18 ↗ and just in 2017 alone we hosted eight

35:22 ↗ different multicultural celebrations

35:24 ↗ that's these two photos while they're

35:27 ↗ not the best photos show the acoustical

35:30 ↗ panels at work and so the photo on the

35:34 ↗ left is from the Chinese Heritage's

35:36 ↗ clubs mooncake festival and on the right

35:40 ↗ is from October's Diwali celebration

35:46 ↗ and I would like to personally thank you

35:49 ↗ as the mentor for the Highlands youth

35:51 ↗ advisory board the this group of teen

35:54 ↗ leaders produce a events for their peers

35:58 ↗ at Blakely Hall and we did six events

36:01 ↗ last year and since the sound baffling

36:03 ↗ went in I go home with no headache

36:06 ↗ anymore so let's first just had to throw

36:09 ↗ that in there as a personal thank-you

36:10 ↗ and pictured here was the first of four

36:16 ↗ campaign forums that we hosted for last

36:20 ↗ summer and fall last Wednesday we had a

36:23 ↗ community-wide meeting in partnership

36:25 ↗ with the city of Issaquah to discuss

36:27 ↗ continue the discussions around traffic

36:29 ↗ and pedestrian safety and just in the

36:34 ↗ first quarter of 2018 is a list of the

36:37 ↗ events that we have on the schedule we

36:40 ↗ have a free father-daughter dance

36:41 ↗ Chinese New Year celebration a Bollywood

36:44 ↗ concert a seminar on Environment and

36:47 ↗ spirituality to gardening seminars a

36:50 ↗ Purim celebration Latino Club will

36:53 ↗ celebrate Children's Day and then a teen

36:56 ↗ flashlight egg hunt that takes you

36:58 ↗ through the end of March so we couldn't

37:03 ↗ we're able to host these events and make

37:07 ↗ it a really high-quality experience

37:08 ↗ because of the generosity of the city of

37:10 ↗ this quad I just want to say thank you

37:12 ↗ very much thank you any questions does

37:16 ↗ it look like there are anything thank

37:18 ↗ you yes all right

37:24 ↗ me next

37:30 ↗ I am Therese Farid zadeh and I am the

37:34 ↗ founder and executive director of the

37:36 ↗ tavern Learning Centre we provide a post

37:39 ↗ high school education solution with

37:41 ↗ people who have intellectual and

37:43 ↗ developmental disabilities and I want to

37:46 ↗ thank you so much for the ten thousand

37:47 ↗ dollar grant you gave us we used it for

37:50 ↗ business model development and staff

37:52 ↗ training it really helped us take our

37:54 ↗ program to the next level so with this

37:59 ↗ money we were able to complete our

38:00 ↗ business model as of October 1st which

38:05 ↗ was when we implemented it we had our

38:07 ↗ staff trained in task analysis positive

38:10 ↗ behavior support and functional

38:11 ↗ academics and as of the end of the year

38:15 ↗ 75 percent of our members had

38:19 ↗ pre-vocational goal this is just a

38:25 ↗ visual of our program model so we serve

38:28 ↗ adults with intellectual and

38:30 ↗ developmental disabilities over the age

38:32 ↗ of 18 years we have four programing

38:35 ↗ areas daily living functional academics

38:39 ↗ recreation and community connection we

38:43 ↗ have a very hands-on or experienced

38:46 ↗ shell based learning we use peer coaches

38:50 ↗ in order to implement our programs so

38:52 ↗ most of our staff are our young people

38:56 ↗ in their 25 to 30 s and I intentionally

38:59 ↗ hire people this age being a mother of a

39:01 ↗ young woman who's 34 and has a

39:03 ↗ disability she'd much rather hang out

39:05 ↗ with her peers and hang out with her

39:07 ↗ mother so you know they just have

39:09 ↗ different different interests on our

39:11 ↗ program it functions in four different

39:14 ↗ environments our outdoor garden so we

39:17 ↗ have six acres up on black nugget road

39:19 ↗ where our facility is that's our what we

39:22 ↗ call our home center we have our life

39:24 ↗ labs so we've rented another house right

39:27 ↗ on black nugget where we do our

39:28 ↗ functional academics program and then

39:31 ↗ we're out in the community on almost

39:33 ↗ every day our outcomes are independence

39:37 ↗ friendship community connection

39:40 ↗ confidence self-worth having fun the

39:44 ↗ caregivers get a break and parents have

39:46 ↗ a peace of mind that their son or

39:48 ↗ daughter is continuing to learn in a

39:49 ↗ safe environment the learning portion in

39:55 ↗ order to have this type of a program it

39:57 ↗ was important that we were able to

39:58 ↗ educate our staff so we worked with

40:02 ↗ Terry Johnson who's an expert in

40:03 ↗ systematic instruction which is

40:05 ↗ basically taking a task and breaking it

40:07 ↗ down into very small parts so anybody

40:10 ↗ can do a piece of that task we had Terry

40:14 ↗ follow up with her staff in February in

40:16 ↗ March and then we worked with candy

40:18 ↗ steyr who created the starfish Darrell

40:21 ↗ curriculum for functional academics this

40:23 ↗ is a curriculum that is in the

40:25 ↗ transition programs in many high schools

40:28 ↗ across the country so those are the 18

40:31 ↗ to 21 year old programs where where

40:33 ↗ people with disabilities can transition

40:36 ↗ into after high school we're the first

40:39 ↗ adult program that is using this this

40:43 ↗ curriculum so they're really excited to

40:45 ↗ see our outcomes with this and that's it

40:51 ↗ questions

40:54 ↗ thank you so much thank you

41:04 ↗ [Music]

41:07 ↗ hi I'm Erica Manny as I'm with the

41:09 ↗ Issaquah history museums and we received

41:12 ↗ a grant of three thousand dollars to

41:14 ↗ help support our individual fundraising

41:16 ↗ so a few years ago just to put this in

41:19 ↗ some context our organization did a lot

41:21 ↗ of strategic planning in order to try

41:26 ↗ and figure out how we were going to meet

41:27 ↗ the needs of its akua's today's

41:30 ↗ community the contemporary community

41:31 ↗ that's living here and from there we

41:34 ↗ went on to a facilities plan and the

41:37 ↗ city kindly helped pay for a feasibility

41:40 ↗ study to figure out the best place and

41:43 ↗ the best way to store our artifacts and

41:46 ↗ so the the emphasis on fundraising came

41:50 ↗ from the idea that we were soon going to

41:52 ↗ be launching a capital campaign so we

41:57 ↗ did a project with the u-dub the

41:59 ↗ fundraising certificate program and one

42:02 ↗ of the things that they recommended in

42:03 ↗ order to improve our fundraising and

42:05 ↗ development was to invest in a donor

42:08 ↗ database and to do some donor

42:10 ↗ strategizing so funds from the city

42:12 ↗ enabled us to to invest in donor search

42:16 ↗ was a which is a prospect database and

42:18 ↗ we were able to identify the people that

42:21 ↗ we currently have as prospects who we

42:23 ↗ should develop and come up with a

42:24 ↗ development plan for them it also helped

42:27 ↗ us identify about 2,500 other prospects

42:30 ↗ who we can reach out to and so in the

42:32 ↗ coming year we're planning on having a

42:34 ↗ couple different mailings to these

42:35 ↗ people to let them know about our

42:37 ↗ programs and our events and to try and

42:39 ↗ start building a relationship with a new

42:41 ↗ group of potential donors who we haven't

42:43 ↗ reached out to in the past it's a small

42:47 ↗ gift so it's sort of a small report but

42:50 ↗ it's made a huge impact and I'd be happy

42:52 ↗ to answer any questions you guys have

42:56 ↗ thank you so much ok thank you

43:12 ↗ the mouth hi my name is Jennifer doot

43:17 ↗ I'm the executive director of friends of

43:19 ↗ lakes Manor State Park and I want to

43:21 ↗ just thank the council for your ongoing

43:23 ↗ support our 2017 grant award was a 25

43:27 ↗ thousand dollar capacity building grant

43:29 ↗ for staffing thank you

43:46 ↗ and so you're a grant I'm going to jump

43:48 ↗ right into some of the things we've done

43:49 ↗ in 2017 we really we've done a lot of

43:54 ↗ enhancements to the park you can see we

43:55 ↗ installed and dedicated a native plant

43:57 ↗ trail in partnership with the Snoqualmie

43:59 ↗ tribe we part we've done numerous

44:03 ↗ restoration events in the park with

44:05 ↗ mounts to Sound Greenway our AmeriCorps

44:07 ↗ service member in the city of Issaquah

44:09 ↗ and we continue to do those restoration

44:12 ↗ events if not monthly every other month

44:15 ↗ we publicize not only our own we have

44:20 ↗ for signature felissa events but every

44:22 ↗ month we're publicizing three to four

44:24 ↗ events in the park because the park the

44:26 ↗ state parks don't really have the

44:27 ↗ bandwidth to do that so we've brought in

44:30 ↗ you can see we brought in almost more

44:32 ↗ than five thousand guests into the park

44:33 ↗ with our own events and promoting the

44:35 ↗ AVP beer garden special needs play days

44:38 ↗ and get outdoors Expo which is a big

44:41 ↗ event which promotes all kinds of

44:43 ↗ activities to get outdoors and then

44:47 ↗ there's a myriad of other events and you

44:49 ↗ can see that Park attendance has

44:50 ↗ increased 150 cents since the opening of

44:53 ↗ the all-access playground in 2016 and so

44:58 ↗ these are just some of the things that

44:59 ↗ we do we really advocate and just

45:01 ↗ support everything that's going on in

45:03 ↗ the park

45:08 ↗ and I know last time we had a big

45:10 ↗ discussion on our finances and how our

45:13 ↗ revenue was heavily grant-based and you

45:16 ↗ can see in the last couple years we've

45:18 ↗ made really strong strides the blue

45:20 ↗ portion is grants the orange is

45:23 ↗ fundraising and the remainder is

45:25 ↗ individual giving so you can see how the

45:27 ↗ percentage has really flipped from

45:29 ↗ relying on the grants from the city of

45:31 ↗ Sammamish in the city vista qua down to

45:33 ↗ in 2018 our conservative budget is that

45:36 ↗ your grants are less than half of our

45:38 ↗ entire budget so I think so what would

45:43 ↗ that if if I was looking at that in

45:45 ↗ absolute dollars rather than fractions

45:46 ↗ how would that look over time well our

45:48 ↗ budget in 2018 is about ninety six

45:50 ↗ thousand dollars and the grants make up

45:53 ↗ about thirty-five thousand dollars of

45:54 ↗ that and how would that compare let's

45:57 ↗ say to 2015 well 2015 the grants where

46:01 ↗ you could see we're almost the full

46:02 ↗ percentage of our budget which was maybe

46:04 ↗ forty fifty thousand dollars back then

46:06 ↗ so these grants have really enabled us

46:08 ↗ to grow capacity in terms of staffing in

46:11 ↗ terms of what we can accomplish as an

46:13 ↗ organization right thank you

46:15 ↗ other questions I think I have one more

46:17 ↗ slide here when we just we wanted to

46:23 ↗ refer to the importance of our group in

46:25 ↗ terms of tourism and as well we all know

46:27 ↗ that the park is amazing and that it's a

46:29 ↗ respite for humans and important to the

46:32 ↗ wildlife in our area but we also want to

46:34 ↗ make sure that we bring in in tourists

46:36 ↗ into this area and the park was

46:39 ↗ identified as one of the six most

46:40 ↗ important places and it's a quad that

46:42 ↗ tourists want to come to and so when you

46:45 ↗ support the Friends group you help us

46:47 ↗ advocate and support the park which is

46:50 ↗ really integral to bringing tourism

46:52 ↗ dollars into Issaquah and Sammamish

46:53 ↗ because when people come here obviously

46:56 ↗ they shop they eat in restaurants and so

46:59 ↗ we just wanted to and this was based on

47:01 ↗ a 2014 study that the city of us are

47:04 ↗ quite did on tourism

47:08 ↗ and so we just wanted to thank you for

47:09 ↗ your ongoing support

47:11 ↗ you're obviously integral to our success

47:13 ↗ this grant has enabled us to increase

47:16 ↗ executive director hours we're now at 25

47:19 ↗ hours a week and we've added an

47:21 ↗ Operations Manager and we have a social

47:24 ↗ media consultant so you've really am you

47:27 ↗ know enabled us to really do great

47:29 ↗ things in the park we want to thank you

47:30 ↗ for that it's like there are any other

47:34 ↗ questions thank you so much thank you

47:49 ↗ thank you good evening and thank you for

47:52 ↗ supporting Phish I'm Robin Kelly

47:54 ↗ executive director of Friends of the

47:55 ↗ Iroquois Salmon Hatchery for fish and

47:58 ↗ you awarded to us $10,000 this year

48:02 ↗ because mid year last year our executive

48:05 ↗ director gave her notice it had been a

48:08 ↗ part-time position but the board was

48:10 ↗ fully aware that it needed to be a

48:12 ↗ full-time position so when she left they

48:15 ↗ made it a full-time position but it was

48:17 ↗ mid budget so they hadn't budgeted for

48:19 ↗ that increased salary and so this really

48:22 ↗ bridged that gap so we appreciate it and

48:25 ↗ increasing that time allowed me as the

48:29 ↗ executive director to put much more time

48:31 ↗ into research and strategies into

48:34 ↗ funding organizations and funding

48:36 ↗ sources that we hadn't ever been able to

48:39 ↗ do before because there just wasn't time

48:41 ↗ so with that not only was I learning the

48:46 ↗ job it took a little bit longer for us

48:48 ↗ to use the hours for the fundraising

48:51 ↗ training because I was also learning the

48:53 ↗ job but that worked out well because it

48:56 ↗ integrated together with the training so

48:58 ↗ as I was learning it the job I was

49:00 ↗ learning how I could do it better and

49:02 ↗ more efficiently and so we we were able

49:05 ↗ to spend a lot more time on potential

49:08 ↗ funding organizations we still do that

49:10 ↗ what I've learned through a lot of my

49:12 ↗ training I'm able to keep implementing

49:15 ↗ also with the

49:18 ↗ additional staff time last year we were

49:20 ↗ able to submit and be awarded the

49:25 ↗ community environmental award from the

49:27 ↗ city of Issaquah and the Community

49:29 ↗ Citizen of the Year from the grange

49:31 ↗ organization in Issaquah and why that's

49:33 ↗ important is because often as new

49:36 ↗ applicants for grants you're not known

49:39 ↗ and so it helps add to our collateral

49:42 ↗ materials and credentials as we do apply

49:47 ↗ so with the professional training

49:49 ↗ there's a series the spark the fire

49:52 ↗ grant writing that covers a lot of the

49:54 ↗ different elements and even though I

49:56 ↗ come from an organization that did a lot

50:00 ↗ of sponsorships those are different than

50:02 ↗ grants and what they're looking for is

50:04 ↗ different so that really helped me

50:05 ↗ understand it I also was able to work

50:09 ↗ with two different mentors who looked at

50:11 ↗ the property that we have in the assets

50:14 ↗ that we have and talked about what kind

50:16 ↗ of organizations would be interested

50:19 ↗ that maybe we hadn't ever approached

50:21 ↗ before we talked about the stem

50:23 ↗ awareness now in our school district

50:26 ↗ because so much of what we do is

50:27 ↗ education with youth and so how we could

50:31 ↗ make sure that the story our our story

50:35 ↗ brought that to the forefront so that as

50:38 ↗ we were approaching foundations that had

50:40 ↗ more of a science base that this would

50:43 ↗ align more obviously for them and then

50:47 ↗ also we were able to subscribe to a

50:50 ↗ weekly grant publication that we'd not

50:52 ↗ had funding to do before that gave us

50:55 ↗ the ability an easier way to have access

50:58 ↗ to a lot of potential new grants with

51:04 ↗ the increase of time and the skills and

51:07 ↗ knowledge we increased one grant alone

51:10 ↗ by four times and I think that that's

51:12 ↗ significant just with one we were able

51:15 ↗ to take on the new project with the

51:17 ↗ additional time and work with the Arts

51:20 ↗ Commission to do a community project

51:22 ↗ where we worked with all different parts

51:24 ↗ of our community to have a mosaic

51:26 ↗ stained glass salmon wall at the

51:29 ↗ hatchery and

51:30 ↗ again part of why that significant is it

51:33 ↗ builds awareness of the organization it

51:35 ↗ empowers and incorporates more of the

51:38 ↗ community into the organization so when

51:41 ↗ we're talking to groups then the name of

51:44 ↗ friends and fish is known more readily

51:47 ↗ than it had been in the past and with

51:49 ↗ that it also gave us the chance for

51:51 ↗ media coverage that we wouldn't have had

51:54 ↗ without that project so there was a real

51:56 ↗ value to that attention as well the

51:59 ↗ other new project we were able to do was

52:01 ↗ work with an Eagle Scout candidate on

52:03 ↗ his Eagle Scout project which was the

52:06 ↗ commemorative bricks or pavers and that

52:10 ↗ generated over ten thousand dollars of

52:12 ↗ anticipated income for us which was

52:15 ↗ significant and it's ongoing because it

52:18 ↗ didn't have an end in sight that also

52:21 ↗ gave us the opportunity for much more

52:23 ↗ media attention and public outreach than

52:25 ↗ we'd had in the past

52:31 ↗ and just as some numbers we were able in

52:34 ↗ the previous year to submit grants to

52:36 ↗ about 12 funding organizations or do

52:39 ↗ significant work to know if it was

52:42 ↗ appropriate to send to those twelve and

52:45 ↗ in 2017 there were 27 organizations that

52:49 ↗ we identified as real potential funders

52:53 ↗ and depending on their funding cycles we

52:57 ↗ might have missed their funding cycle

52:58 ↗ but now we understand it and know it and

53:00 ↗ can move forward with that information

53:02 ↗ and with the mentors and this additional

53:06 ↗ outreach we also had 13 additional

53:08 ↗ sponsors and donors that were identified

53:11 ↗ that would align with the type of work

53:13 ↗ that we do we also have salmon talks

53:18 ↗ which are relevant topics to attract

53:21 ↗ corporate sponsors we're paying more

53:23 ↗ attention to those we presented one in

53:25 ↗ 2017 and we already have three planned

53:28 ↗ for 2018 and again relative to the

53:32 ↗ outreach and the contacts that will

53:35 ↗ align with our mission and initiatives

53:37 ↗ we're looking at another art project

53:40 ↗ because that was so successful and

53:42 ↗ brought so much

53:43 ↗ attention to the organization and also

53:45 ↗ built a lot of community in what we do

53:48 ↗ where it wasn't just the school kids

53:50 ↗ coming on the buses in the fall but it

53:52 ↗ was really people that were engaged in

53:54 ↗ our activity centers throughout the year

53:58 ↗ we're working on our summer camp

54:00 ↗ enrollment with this extra time and with

54:02 ↗ sponsors and corporate funding to make

54:04 ↗ sure that we can have it be attractive

54:07 ↗ and robust to attract other families and

54:10 ↗ donors and then also as I mentioned

54:12 ↗ before just the stem-based outreach

54:15 ↗ because it is science-based curriculum

54:17 ↗ the schools are changing how they're

54:19 ↗ looking at science fairs and those types

54:22 ↗ of activities with the school and the

54:23 ↗ students and so making sure that we

54:25 ↗ understand their new approach and

54:28 ↗ dialogue and that we align with it so

54:31 ↗ the students aren't hearing one thing at

54:32 ↗ school and then they get to the hatchery

54:34 ↗ and we're using some other vernacular

54:37 ↗ terminology where there's a disconnect

54:40 ↗ for them and their families and if there

54:45 ↗ are any questions I just want to say

54:48 ↗ that mosaic is gorgeous really it was

54:51 ↗ beautiful when it went in and saw that

54:54 ↗ the first weekend that was there and so

54:56 ↗ it's it's it's really added quite a bit

54:58 ↗ thank you I have to share literally

55:00 ↗ today we had someone come into our

55:02 ↗ office from Arizona who had done a

55:05 ↗ Google search of mosaics and it came up

55:07 ↗ and she was coming to find the mosaic

55:09 ↗ that was at the hatchery it's awesome

55:11 ↗ yeah whole new revenue stream for

55:14 ↗ tourism

55:16 ↗ thank you thank you

55:27 ↗ good evening everyone

55:30 ↗ thank you for your ongoing support of at

55:34 ↗ work and for the $20,000 capacity grant

55:37 ↗ and I'd also like to commend you because

55:39 ↗ not often do funders invest in

55:42 ↗ infrastructure and capacity it's really

55:44 ↗ hard to fight those kinds of resources

55:45 ↗ and as you can tell is making a

55:47 ↗ significant impact as it did for at work

55:49 ↗ over the last couple of years at work

55:52 ↗ has been working on a technology

55:53 ↗ improvement project and we have become

55:56 ↗ electronic ID we have no paper files for

55:59 ↗ the people we serve the staff that work

56:02 ↗ with people out the community they enter

56:04 ↗ all of their case notes and time they

56:06 ↗ spend through mobile apps and a

56:08 ↗ customized system that allows us to

56:11 ↗ really capture what we're doing and

56:13 ↗ track our outcomes and for at work our

56:16 ↗ name is our goal we help people with

56:18 ↗ intellectual and developmental

56:19 ↗ disabilities get good jobs because it

56:24 ↗ gives them full and meaningful life and

56:25 ↗ all of those intrinsic things that you

56:27 ↗ get from contributing and working and

56:29 ↗ they pay taxes and they contribute to

56:32 ↗ the bottom line of many businesses here

56:35 ↗ in Issaquah and throughout all of King

56:37 ↗ County and so that's our primary goal

56:39 ↗ plus the goal of this project then was

56:41 ↗ to increase our effectiveness through

56:43 ↗ technology improvements and these are

56:45 ↗ all folks who either live and/or work in

56:48 ↗ Issaquah at places like Microsoft the

56:50 ↗ glass lamp Bar and Grill and YMCA and

56:53 ↗ Costco so you helped us purchase some

56:59 ↗ new software you helped us hire IT

57:03 ↗ consultant and really drill down into

57:05 ↗ what we needed to take the next step in

57:07 ↗ that electronification so we needed

57:09 ↗ electronic timekeeping time and

57:11 ↗ attendance we needed a really good human

57:14 ↗ resource management system that could

57:16 ↗ help us not only track time so that we

57:18 ↗ could do better work and more efficient

57:20 ↗ work but to track the staff training

57:23 ↗ that's required for our staff to be

57:24 ↗ credentialed and work out in the field

57:26 ↗ and so we have a whole new system in

57:29 ↗ place that staff have been trained on

57:31 ↗ that has been functional for the last

57:33 ↗ several months and is giving us a lot

57:35 ↗ better data that managers can use to

57:37 ↗ serve people better and more effectively

57:39 ↗ then we'd went to the next step of

57:41 ↗ really looking at our financial software

57:43 ↗ systems because it all needs to tie in

57:46 ↗ with the time and attendance and the

57:48 ↗ record-keeping for the kinds of services

57:50 ↗ we deliver so we can calculate the cost

57:52 ↗ benefit and know that if we're spending

57:54 ↗ our time in a certain area well actually

57:56 ↗ getting the return on the investment

57:58 ↗ that we want and that we're not wasting

58:00 ↗ money on additional admin or things that

58:02 ↗ aren't getting us to that goal of a

58:04 ↗ really good job for someone so we really

58:06 ↗ did some in depth needs analysis and

58:09 ↗ didn't get to the place of actually

58:11 ↗ picking the final software we will do

58:15 ↗ that on Friday of this week we got

58:18 ↗ because we had another a couple of new

58:20 ↗ software introduced as this consultants

58:22 ↗ working with us really understood our

58:24 ↗ situation and we have a really big hairy

58:26 ↗ audacious goal to serve 1101 people by

58:30 ↗ 2021 and right now we're at about 350 I

58:33 ↗ think and this has allowed us to get a

58:35 ↗ lot closer to that so we really are

58:37 ↗ looking towards the future with those

58:38 ↗ decisions that we're making and so we

58:44 ↗ had some outcomes that we had put in the

58:46 ↗ grant and we exceeded them we said we

58:50 ↗ would start we would serve 50 new people

58:52 ↗ there's about 5,000 people in King

58:54 ↗ County that want employment services

58:56 ↗ that have an intellectual and

58:57 ↗ developmental disability we were able to

58:59 ↗ serve 80 which is twice the number of

59:02 ↗ people most people we've ever brought in

59:05 ↗ new in any previous year so and that's

59:07 ↗ not all the technology improvement

59:09 ↗ project but a lot of it is of managing

59:12 ↗ caseloads and geographies and time that

59:14 ↗ staff has been increasing billable time

59:17 ↗ being able to capture what a staff does

59:19 ↗ and if it's available being able to

59:21 ↗ build that to our government funders

59:22 ↗ that is a lot a result of this project

59:25 ↗ so a twenty thousand dollar investment

59:27 ↗ for her three hundred thousand dollar

59:29 ↗ return is pretty good and some of that's

59:32 ↗ from those new people coming in that are

59:34 ↗ bringing fees it's also from that

59:36 ↗ efficiency we gained it's huge

59:38 ↗ you know staff have gone from billable

59:39 ↗ time of a hundred hours a month to one

59:41 ↗ hundred and thirty and that means a lot

59:42 ↗ more people are getting served

59:45 ↗ and getting the dream jobs that they

59:48 ↗ want and it allowed us to hire more

59:51 ↗ staff and it also allowed us to increase

59:54 ↗ compensation for staff to be more

59:55 ↗ competitive in our area to reduce

59:58 ↗ retention

59:59 ↗ I mean reduce turnover and improve

1:00:00 ↗ retention which is really important we

1:00:03 ↗ had 75 job placements last year the most

1:00:06 ↗ ever in the first quarter of this year

1:00:08 ↗ we've already placed 25 we're going to

1:00:11 ↗ hit over a hundred this year we know for

1:00:13 ↗ sure nine new job placements in Issaquah

1:00:15 ↗ Malarkey's Safeway Papa Murphy's do on

1:00:18 ↗ at work's

1:00:18 ↗ owned landscaping business QFC the

1:00:21 ↗ corner bakery cafe and fred meyer we're

1:00:24 ↗ supporting right now 30 Issaquah

1:00:26 ↗ citizens with supported employment

1:00:28 ↗ whether that's job development training

1:00:30 ↗ or coaching and keeping them in their

1:00:31 ↗ job and this was a huge goal of ours we

1:00:35 ↗ were having to keep our front door shut

1:00:36 ↗ people were knocking help me serve me

1:00:38 ↗ help me find a job and we kept having to

1:00:40 ↗ shut it when we would get to capacity we

1:00:43 ↗ had a goal to keep the front door open

1:00:44 ↗ and guess what it is now so thank you

1:00:46 ↗ very much questions don't remember right

1:00:52 ↗ I have a quick question we'll also a

1:00:53 ↗ comment I mean I think it's amazing what

1:00:55 ↗ you've done with a little bit of seed

1:00:56 ↗ money to to really turn things around

1:00:58 ↗ how big is the organization organization

1:01:00 ↗ at work has grown in the last five years

1:01:03 ↗ from three and a half million to six and

1:01:05 ↗ has grown from serving about 200 people

1:01:07 ↗ to close to 400 next year and 70 staff

1:01:12 ↗ now we used to have five employment

1:01:13 ↗ consultants when we really started

1:01:15 ↗ focusing on community integrated

1:01:16 ↗ employment and now we have 35 awesome

1:01:20 ↗ thank you you're welcome

1:01:21 ↗ any other questions all right thanks

1:01:33 ↗ hello I'm Jennifer right I'm the

1:01:36 ↗ executive director at our East and I'm

1:01:38 ↗ the last presentation so it's kind of

1:01:40 ↗ exciting I wanted to talk about our

1:01:43 ↗ expanded education program and really

1:01:45 ↗ just thank you for being able to support

1:01:48 ↗ us on this we are an organization that

1:01:51 ↗ does education exhibitions we have a

1:01:54 ↗ juried gallery we support a lot of the

1:01:56 ↗ community events and we are really

1:01:59 ↗ focused on our volunteers we have a huge

1:02:02 ↗ base of volunteers and they're really

1:02:05 ↗ excited so in the past they've always

1:02:07 ↗ said if somebody wanted to do a class

1:02:09 ↗ they'd say hey that's great and they

1:02:10 ↗ just put a class together and so we kind

1:02:12 ↗ of had a schedule where it was a little

1:02:14 ↗ bit ad hoc and we couldn't really

1:02:15 ↗ predict what our results were or predict

1:02:17 ↗ finances for it so by having a single

1:02:19 ↗ point of contact for our education

1:02:21 ↗ program and have an education manager we

1:02:24 ↗ have really changed the way that we're

1:02:25 ↗ able to just represent the community and

1:02:30 ↗ be able to build programming for the

1:02:32 ↗ community so what we wanted to be able

1:02:34 ↗ to do was actually look at things from a

1:02:36 ↗ programming perspective which we are

1:02:37 ↗ we're looking at all of our constituents

1:02:39 ↗ of kids teens and adults and be able to

1:02:42 ↗ provide programming around that we have

1:02:45 ↗ been able to manage and market camps for

1:02:48 ↗ kids which has been really valuable we

1:02:50 ↗ hadn't done that in the past as much and

1:02:54 ↗ more importantly just be able to provide

1:02:56 ↗ a consistent calendar of always having

1:02:57 ↗ classes open I guess the next night

1:03:02 ↗ either arrow key and then there we go so

1:03:12 ↗ some of the things that we were able to

1:03:13 ↗ do with this funding was be able to flex

1:03:16 ↗ with our needs for the people we were

1:03:19 ↗ trying to reach and the things that we

1:03:20 ↗ knew were popular so we were able to

1:03:23 ↗ leverage some different marketing

1:03:24 ↗ outlets to be able to reach more kids

1:03:25 ↗ and be able to do more camps we will be

1:03:28 ↗ we were able to reprioritize the way

1:03:31 ↗ that we were communicating with people

1:03:32 ↗ we've had a website if you've been to

1:03:34 ↗ our website I'm sorry

1:03:35 ↗ we're changing it it's really hard to

1:03:38 ↗ register for classes and it really kind

1:03:40 ↗ of has

1:03:40 ↗ has stifled some of our growth in that

1:03:43 ↗ area so that's something that we're able

1:03:45 ↗ to focus on now because we've had a

1:03:46 ↗ single point of contact for the

1:03:47 ↗ education program and we were able to

1:03:50 ↗ remodel some of our underutilized spaces

1:03:53 ↗ like the annex we've been able to do

1:03:55 ↗ classes we saw that there was a need for

1:03:56 ↗ more glass classes we were able to take

1:03:58 ↗ one of our spaces and change that so we

1:04:00 ↗ can do more classes there and the

1:04:03 ↗ outcomes are just we've been able to

1:04:05 ↗ flex so if we have more kids that want

1:04:07 ↗ to do more summer camps we've been able

1:04:09 ↗ to change that where before we weren't

1:04:11 ↗ able to make those adjustments so

1:04:13 ↗ quickly because we weren't able to look

1:04:14 ↗ at something holistically we've been

1:04:17 ↗ able to get a lot more repeat students

1:04:18 ↗ especially with our teams we have six

1:04:21 ↗ and eight week classes and there's a lot

1:04:22 ↗ of people that are signing up for those

1:04:23 ↗ so that's exciting we have been able to

1:04:26 ↗ increase our class size each quarter and

1:04:29 ↗ in the summer camps up 60% from 2016 so

1:04:33 ↗ a lot of growth a lot of repeat people

1:04:35 ↗ in the community and we think that's

1:04:37 ↗ great

1:04:38 ↗ and again just make it making sure that

1:04:40 ↗ we've got a consistent schedule of the

1:04:42 ↗ things that we're doing and this is one

1:04:44 ↗ of the grants where you provided fifteen

1:04:47 ↗ thousand last year we've got ten

1:04:48 ↗ thousand for next year and that kind of

1:04:51 ↗ programming of being able to help us

1:04:53 ↗ figure this out and build a foundation

1:04:55 ↗ has been so helpful for us because now

1:04:58 ↗ that we've been able to see that we can

1:05:00 ↗ flex and see that we can provide this

1:05:01 ↗ kind of programming we've really

1:05:03 ↗ expanded for 2018 to say that across the

1:05:06 ↗ year we have four themes that we will

1:05:08 ↗ build to and on those themes we will

1:05:10 ↗ have studios free Studios from people to

1:05:13 ↗ come in and try new art classes that

1:05:15 ↗ follow that and then be able to work

1:05:17 ↗ with Dia to have big Saturday events

1:05:20 ↗ that all map to those themes so by

1:05:23 ↗ having a consistent resource in

1:05:25 ↗ education we wouldn't have been able to

1:05:27 ↗ do that without that so thank you did

1:05:31 ↗ you have any questions Oh looks like we

1:05:34 ↗ don't thank you very much

1:05:39 ↗ anything else Amy unless you have

1:05:42 ↗ questions for me it was a requirement of

1:05:45 ↗ the grants that they would come report

1:05:47 ↗ back to you on their outcomes and so

1:05:50 ↗ John twenty-eight our 2019 the 2018

1:05:53 ↗ group will come do the same kind of

1:05:55 ↗ presentation wonderful and with that

1:05:59 ↗ I'll ask if there anybody in the public

1:06:01 ↗ that wishes to speak to the Community

1:06:03 ↗ Grants No

1:06:04 ↗ all right Paul I just want to make

1:06:07 ↗ comment Amy I remember maybe two years

1:06:10 ↗ ago when you and others within the staff

1:06:12 ↗ proposed taking this program and

1:06:15 ↗ changing some of the criteria and

1:06:16 ↗ allowing for capacity building not just

1:06:19 ↗ capital but also in soft skills and

1:06:22 ↗ capabilities and this is a really great

1:06:24 ↗ demonstration thanks for everybody who

1:06:26 ↗ did show up just seeing these results

1:06:28 ↗ knowing that we can take our public

1:06:30 ↗ money and enable you to be more

1:06:33 ↗ effective and reach more of your clients

1:06:36 ↗ and have that broad of an effect on

1:06:39 ↗ members of this community is this

1:06:41 ↗ thrilling to see and the whole concept a

1:06:44 ↗ lot of that concept came from Amy and

1:06:46 ↗ others and the staff so thank you and

1:06:48 ↗ thank to thanks to all of you as well

1:06:49 ↗ yeah I think a few of our grantees

1:06:53 ↗ pointed out this is really difficult

1:06:54 ↗ money for them to receive I mean funders

1:06:57 ↗ really aren't lining up to fund you know

1:06:59 ↗ new payroll systems but it's something

1:07:01 ↗ that can truly make a difference and

1:07:02 ↗ really help them meet their mission so

1:07:04 ↗ we're really pleased with where it's

1:07:06 ↗ going excellent alright and with that

1:07:09 ↗ we're gonna move on to ID 0 180 3 which

1:07:12 ↗ is the i-90 interchange justification

1:07:15 ↗ report

1:07:20 ↗ and it's can be presented by Cathy

1:07:24 ↗ George with the Washington State

1:07:25 ↗ Department of Transportation lost your

1:07:31 ↗ quorum there

1:07:37 ↗ you're probably gonna have to show me

1:07:39 ↗ how to use this thing okay

1:07:52 ↗ you sure that's not if the count

1:08:04 ↗ which one's ours is this it yeah

1:08:18 ↗ yeah yeah we do these are the challenges

1:08:28 ↗ we have when we have one common

1:08:31 ↗ operating system and one common

1:08:33 ↗ presentation tool just think didn't how

1:08:37 ↗ much harder it would be hi I'm Cathy

1:08:42 ↗ George I'm with the Washington State

1:08:44 ↗ Department of Transportation

1:08:45 ↗ I am the engineering manager over a good

1:08:49 ↗ chunk of the connecting Washington

1:08:51 ↗ program in King I should be loud enough

1:08:56 ↗ I pick King in Snohomish County and we

1:09:01 ↗ thank you for inviting us today to talk

1:09:04 ↗ about the project so before I start I'm

1:09:08 ↗ here to talk about the i-90 Front Street

1:09:10 ↗ IJ our project that the legislature

1:09:13 ↗ funded as part of connecting Washington

1:09:15 ↗ but before I start like to introduce our

1:09:18 ↗ team my boss John White who is the

1:09:21 ↗ assistant Regional Administrator of King

1:09:23 ↗ and Snohomish counties is not here today

1:09:26 ↗ but Tim now is my assistant project

1:09:29 ↗ engineer Adam Emerson and my consultant

1:09:35 ↗ team working on the project Hilma

1:09:37 ↗ Jimenez and Dennis Sandstrom Hilma is

1:09:40 ↗ with a BAM and Dennis is with enviro

1:09:42 ↗ issues so couldn't do it without them so

1:09:47 ↗ why we're here so since you probably

1:09:50 ↗ don't know what an IJ are is I'm going

1:09:52 ↗ to give a very brief overview of the

1:09:55 ↗ interchange and just a justification

1:09:57 ↗ reports provide an introduction to the

1:10:01 ↗ i-90 Front Street project and then give

1:10:04 ↗ you some last minute updates on some of

1:10:07 ↗ the other big projects we're doing

1:10:09 ↗ through connecting Washington on the

1:10:11 ↗ i-90 corridor

1:10:17 ↗ what is an ijr and and how is it used

1:10:21 ↗ so interstate justification report which

1:10:24 ↗ is what ijr stands for is a report

1:10:27 ↗ required by the Federal Highway

1:10:29 ↗ Administration to make a break in

1:10:35 ↗ interstate access so revised and

1:10:38 ↗ existing access or add a new one and

1:10:43 ↗ what we do as part of that report is

1:10:46 ↗ look at traffic existing and future

1:10:48 ↗ traffic existing safety and project

1:10:52 ↗ safety in the future look at planning

1:10:54 ↗ and make sure that whatever is getting

1:10:56 ↗ looked at is consistent with whatever

1:10:58 ↗ you're planning growth is and the big

1:11:01 ↗ thing with the IJ R's and the feds is

1:11:03 ↗ that the big goal is to show no

1:11:08 ↗ degradation to the existing I'm sorry

1:11:10 ↗ not used to using these show no

1:11:13 ↗ degradation to the interstate due to its

1:11:17 ↗ its importance to the region not that

1:11:21 ↗ it's not just important to you but at

1:11:22 ↗ the same time they concede that you know

1:11:25 ↗ that's also the access point for all the

1:11:28 ↗ local communities and you know it has an

1:11:30 ↗ impact on your transportation system so

1:11:36 ↗ how we tie this together is to balance

1:11:39 ↗ the local the regional and federal

1:11:42 ↗ purpose of the interstate is that we

1:11:45 ↗ have to answer a question for them would

1:11:48 ↗ local improvements meet the purpose in

1:11:50 ↗ need of the project and if it's yes then

1:11:54 ↗ we don't do an IJ are we pursue other

1:11:56 ↗ options and they're balanced I'm going

1:11:59 ↗ to get into that with this and then if

1:12:01 ↗ not then we move forward with the

1:12:02 ↗ interstate justification report so

1:12:05 ↗ little history where this came from

1:12:11 ↗ in 2012 we put together a corridor study

1:12:16 ↗ out along i-90 it went from Bellevue out

1:12:20 ↗ to North Bend it was a commitment that

1:12:23 ↗ we made to the federal highways

1:12:26 ↗ following the sunset interchange project

1:12:29 ↗ they wanted to make sure that we had a

1:12:31 ↗ 30-year vision of what was priority out

1:12:34 ↗ there and and as a result of that we

1:12:39 ↗ identified 12 improvement projects three

1:12:43 ↗ of which were in the city of Issaquah so

1:12:46 ↗ those three projects or three projects

1:12:49 ↗ were the i-90 PQ shoulder project which

1:12:53 ↗ is under design at the moment and then

1:12:58 ↗ improvements at Front Street interchange

1:13:00 ↗ to options that they identified as a

1:13:03 ↗ starting point in the study were a tight

1:13:08 ↗ diamond interchange at Front Street

1:13:09 ↗ which is similar to a normal interchange

1:13:12 ↗ the ramps are just a bit closer and the

1:13:15 ↗ signals work are coordinated together to

1:13:17 ↗ work in unison and single-point urban

1:13:20 ↗ interchange which is top right corner

1:13:22 ↗ and that all the ramps go through one

1:13:26 ↗ signal it's a lot more efficient than

1:13:29 ↗ two signals but as you can see it takes

1:13:31 ↗ a lot more space right now we have these

1:13:35 ↗ there's one down near Safeco Field one

1:13:38 ↗ up in Everett at 41st so if you're if

1:13:41 ↗ you've ever driven those that's what

1:13:42 ↗ they look like

1:13:43 ↗ nationwide solution statewide solution

1:13:47 ↗ they're all over the state the other

1:13:49 ↗ thing that came out of that report was

1:13:51 ↗ identification of some new crossings in

1:13:54 ↗ central Issaquah so either something at

1:13:59 ↗ 11th or 12th to connect north/south a

1:14:02 ↗ multimodal option to get traffic across

1:14:07 ↗ the highway since existing I think am i

1:14:12 ↗ right that there are three ways to get

1:14:13 ↗ across right now if you don't count West

1:14:15 ↗ Lake Sammamish Parkway so you know that

1:14:18 ↗ would be front the new one which of

1:14:21 ↗ course fourth thank you fourth and then

1:14:24 ↗ 17th which is State Route 900 so anyways

1:14:29 ↗ as part of this ijr study all of this

1:14:34 ↗ gets encompassed in it's not just Front

1:14:36 ↗ Street it incorporates everything that

1:14:38 ↗ came out of those studies and we're also

1:14:40 ↗ showing the central Issaquah plan B

1:14:42 ↗ because that actually identified these

1:14:44 ↗ projects also so let's say scope so what

1:14:54 ↗ are we doing as part of this project

1:14:56 ↗ we're developing an interstate just

1:14:59 ↗ offical we're looking at developing a

1:15:02 ↗ preferred alternative for potential

1:15:04 ↗ improvements for Front Street

1:15:06 ↗ interchange area and as part of that

1:15:10 ↗ study we're looking way out to 18 all

1:15:13 ↗ the way to 405 quite a ways south which

1:15:16 ↗ I'll discuss further the study that

1:15:18 ↗ we're putting together is we're required

1:15:23 ↗ to complete it by June of 2019 but our

1:15:26 ↗ goal is to get it done by December and a

1:15:30 ↗ December so that the city or other

1:15:36 ↗ interested stakeholders can pursue

1:15:39 ↗ funding to move further with whatever

1:15:42 ↗ preferred alternative would be and our

1:15:45 ↗ budget for this project is about 2.3

1:15:47 ↗ million outcomes of the study are

1:15:51 ↗ identifying existing and future traffic

1:15:53 ↗ demands identifying impacts from

1:15:57 ↗ different potential improvements on the

1:16:00 ↗ regional road network we want to make

1:16:02 ↗ sure that whatever we pick it doesn't

1:16:05 ↗ screw it you know have unintended

1:16:06 ↗ consequences select a preferred

1:16:11 ↗ alternative and have a document so that

1:16:14 ↗ people can pursue further funding so

1:16:19 ↗ this is a overview of our study we had

1:16:23 ↗ noticed to proceed last quarter late

1:16:27 ↗ November I believe we are currently in

1:16:29 ↗ the process of collecting data and

1:16:32 ↗ getting stakeholder input which I'll

1:16:35 ↗ discuss a little bit further after we

1:16:36 ↗ get off of this be doing further travel

1:16:41 ↗ demand forecasting and and looking at is

1:16:47 ↗ there a local solution that doesn't have

1:16:49 ↗ to touch the freeway

1:16:51 ↗ that's always a possibility it doesn't

1:16:54 ↗ happen very often but and if there is

1:16:59 ↗ then we conclude the ijr study and have

1:17:02 ↗ to discuss next steps if no then we go

1:17:07 ↗ to well the next phase but actually

1:17:11 ↗ before you get there

1:17:13 ↗ local improvements if it so the next

1:17:16 ↗ step then would be identified

1:17:19 ↗ identifying and selecting a preferred

1:17:22 ↗ alternative to the solution it's not

1:17:25 ↗ necessarily an interchange but it's the

1:17:28 ↗ outcome of the of the ijr so it's

1:17:31 ↗ whatever's going to work best and then

1:17:33 ↗ put together the interchange

1:17:36 ↗ justification report and environmental

1:17:39 ↗ scan so it's a preliminary environmental

1:17:41 ↗ report until you really get funding for

1:17:44 ↗ design really doesn't make sense to

1:17:47 ↗ start a significant environmental

1:17:49 ↗ process because it expires and and that

1:17:54 ↗ would also involve some preliminary

1:17:56 ↗ engineering and a conceptual level cost

1:17:59 ↗ estimate so

1:18:09 ↗ let's see so as I mentioned we're doing

1:18:14 ↗ data collection right now this is how

1:18:17 ↗ big of an area we're looking at the

1:18:19 ↗ model we're using is the Puget Sound

1:18:21 ↗ Regional Council model and what's slight

1:18:25 ↗ am I on 11 I think so we're using the

1:18:31 ↗ Puget Sound Regional Council model and

1:18:35 ↗ updating that with data that we're

1:18:38 ↗ collecting in town and modeling starting

1:18:43 ↗ an initial model to make sure that that

1:18:47 ↗ what we're starting with is reflective

1:18:50 ↗ of what is actually happening in

1:18:51 ↗ Issaquah in the previous slide you

1:18:56 ↗ talked about a local solution that

1:18:58 ↗ didn't touch the freeway or something

1:19:00 ↗ like that could you give me an exam what

1:19:01 ↗ were you what's an example of that well

1:19:04 ↗ you know potentially a crossing would

1:19:07 ↗ not require an AI jr. so if I did

1:19:12 ↗ something over the freeway the feds

1:19:14 ↗ would want to be involved in that but I

1:19:15 ↗ might not have to do a full study local

1:19:20 ↗ roadway improvements it doesn't happen

1:19:23 ↗ very often and I don't anticipate it

1:19:25 ↗ here because you're kind of constrained

1:19:28 ↗ in the north end with you know parallel

1:19:30 ↗ streets but say up in Marysville they

1:19:33 ↗ didn't have a very complete local

1:19:35 ↗ network so some of the things they had

1:19:38 ↗ to show first is that all they connected

1:19:40 ↗ together their local network and that

1:19:42 ↗ they weren't relying on the freeway to

1:19:44 ↗ solve the city problems I don't see that

1:19:47 ↗ happening here you have a lake to the

1:19:49 ↗ north you have a lot of streets to the

1:19:51 ↗ South that are constrained right now

1:19:53 ↗ so the original corridor study I thought

1:19:57 ↗ you said earlier did identify the

1:20:03 ↗ intersection number gets

1:20:07 ↗ 17 at Front Street that that it had

1:20:12 ↗ there was a need for improvements there

1:20:15 ↗ so it autumn I mean just the scope of

1:20:17 ↗ that that report I thought it was what

1:20:21 ↗ justified the age our I mean we're

1:20:23 ↗ looking at the intersection we're

1:20:25 ↗ looking at that location but again we're

1:20:28 ↗ gonna look at a need and then make sure

1:20:30 ↗ that whatever the solution is addresses

1:20:33 ↗ that need that was kind of a very

1:20:39 ↗ cursory look as part of the corridor

1:20:41 ↗ study this actually looks specifically

1:20:43 ↗ at that location so there's some cry

1:20:48 ↗ tears some way of measuring the

1:20:50 ↗ performance of interchange let's say at

1:20:54 ↗ Front Street mix number 17 and this

1:20:58 ↗ study will look at that in more detail I

1:21:00 ↗ don't know what those parameters are and

1:21:02 ↗ and maybe determine that no improvements

1:21:07 ↗ are possible or not needed I'm still not

1:21:10 ↗ sure well it depends what our overall

1:21:14 ↗ need is if you're trying to get traffic

1:21:19 ↗ north and south and you've got a

1:21:22 ↗ two-lane facility going on Front Street

1:21:25 ↗ you know the question is is will the

1:21:29 ↗ interchange solve all the problems

1:21:31 ↗ you're looking to solve or are there

1:21:33 ↗ other options that might help with that

1:21:35 ↗ you're saying then we city of Issaquah

1:21:38 ↗ because the that particular project is

1:21:40 ↗ within kind of our boundary where the

1:21:43 ↗ key stakeholder that obviously there's

1:21:44 ↗ other stakeholders but we have some type

1:21:46 ↗ of performance outcome that we would

1:21:48 ↗ like to see and so that'll be your

1:21:50 ↗ primary project objective well I think

1:21:54 ↗ so if we go a little one of the things

1:21:57 ↗ we'll be doing with our stakeholder

1:21:58 ↗ group which is going to involve the city

1:22:00 ↗ and it also includes a lot of other

1:22:02 ↗ stakeholders is identify what need we're

1:22:05 ↗ trying to fix and make sure everybody's

1:22:07 ↗ on board then we collect data we we do

1:22:12 ↗ models to see how each alternative that

1:22:16 ↗ can possibly you know that I'm sure

1:22:18 ↗ they're more than two alternatives that

1:22:20 ↗ can solve it

1:22:21 ↗ a lot of times some of those just don't

1:22:24 ↗ work and some some do so I don't want to

1:22:28 ↗ say there are only two ways to fix it I

1:22:30 ↗ guess I'm still a little bit confused

1:22:32 ↗ because when you jump as far as earlier

1:22:34 ↗ you mentioned you know potentially a

1:22:36 ↗ tight diamond or something like that

1:22:38 ↗ when you go as far as identifying

1:22:39 ↗ potential solutions that tells me

1:22:41 ↗ somebody's pretty sure there's an issue

1:22:43 ↗ that needs to be resolved so now I'm

1:22:46 ↗ hearing well we don't really know what

1:22:50 ↗ the out Stan what the issues are well we

1:22:52 ↗ have congestion there but I need to make

1:22:55 ↗ sure everybody's on the same page as to

1:22:57 ↗ what issue we're trying to solve and you

1:23:00 ↗ know is it getting people on the freeway

1:23:03 ↗ is it getting people away from the

1:23:05 ↗ freeway the bottom line is you've got a

1:23:10 ↗ lot of traffic going down Front Street

1:23:12 ↗ right now mm-hmm

1:23:13 ↗ fixing the freeway might not solve that

1:23:17 ↗ problem if that's what the goal of the

1:23:20 ↗ study is okay so what so you had your

1:23:24 ↗ time did you have a time line up earlier

1:23:25 ↗ was that a time line or those are just

1:23:27 ↗ phases they're just phases but the time

1:23:29 ↗ line is we'll have in six months where

1:23:32 ↗ we're expecting that we will know is

1:23:35 ↗ there a local solution or is it a

1:23:38 ↗ freeway solution I'm not after after

1:23:44 ↗ after all the stakeholders agreed to

1:23:45 ↗ what problem is we're trying to solve or

1:23:48 ↗ exact performance level we're trying to

1:23:50 ↗ achieve which we don't have yet

1:23:52 ↗ and I can't build on what you're talking

1:23:54 ↗ about right so this is my understanding

1:23:57 ↗ from what you're saying we did the

1:24:01 ↗ corridor study and we said the French

1:24:03 ↗ Street interchange is not operating in

1:24:06 ↗ an optimal manner from that study I have

1:24:09 ↗ the same questions that councilmember

1:24:13 ↗ winter Stein has which is okay well but

1:24:15 ↗ what is the problem we're trying to

1:24:16 ↗ solve so what I'm kind of picking up

1:24:18 ↗ from you so you can tell me if I'm wrong

1:24:20 ↗ is that we will now go into a study

1:24:23 ↗ period to say okay what is the

1:24:25 ↗ underlying cause of the congestion we

1:24:28 ↗ see on

1:24:29 ↗ on exit 17 and therefore is there

1:24:33 ↗ interchange solution to it or is there

1:24:35 ↗ another solution to it or is there no

1:24:37 ↗ solution to it am I on base Rob I think

1:24:40 ↗ that's reasonable okay and remember it's

1:24:45 ↗ been five years an awful lot of traffic

1:24:48 ↗ growth since then do I do do I think

1:24:51 ↗ there's another solution I mean anything

1:24:54 ↗ we do when they did this corridor say

1:24:56 ↗ they did not do a big model that looked

1:24:59 ↗ at everything and we want to make sure

1:25:00 ↗ that whatever gets done out there it

1:25:02 ↗ doesn't have unintended consequences

1:25:04 ↗ elsewhere that people didn't anticipate

1:25:06 ↗ that takes a traffic model to confirm I

1:25:10 ↗ think the key point for me because I was

1:25:13 ↗ kind of struggling also trying to

1:25:15 ↗ understand what your goal was because

1:25:16 ↗ you were then talking about well then

1:25:19 ↗ we'll look at our goal so really we have

1:25:21 ↗ identified a problem and now our next

1:25:23 ↗ step is to really unravel that problem

1:25:25 ↗ to understand well you know what the

1:25:28 ↗ root cause is and what solution might be

1:25:30 ↗ that's correct

1:25:32 ↗ had I been organized well enough I would

1:25:35 ↗ have picked up as I you know that I

1:25:37 ↗ would have brought up the identify the

1:25:39 ↗ need and yes congestion is the need you

1:25:43 ↗ know getting rid of the congestion is

1:25:45 ↗ the need but you know we'll we'll put

1:25:47 ↗ together specific goals and we'll be

1:25:49 ↗ able to answer them with the modeling

1:25:50 ↗ that we do let me try to put wrap it all

1:25:54 ↗ together and put a bow around it the

1:25:56 ↗ study's supposed to be finalized in June

1:25:57 ↗ of 2019 it's a two point three million

1:26:00 ↗ dollar study part of this study it

1:26:02 ↗ sounds like is you're going to be coming

1:26:05 ↗ back and saying what your understanding

1:26:06 ↗ of the the problem is what you've heard

1:26:09 ↗ from the stakeholders and and what

1:26:12 ↗ potential solutions would do to address

1:26:16 ↗ the the problems that you've heard with

1:26:19 ↗ it with the interchange that's correct

1:26:20 ↗ okay great good good we should move on

1:26:24 ↗ please Thanks

1:26:27 ↗ all right start sorry for the confusion

1:26:28 ↗ that's why we're here get to answer

1:26:32 ↗ these questions so again as I said

1:26:40 ↗ we look at the model the other thing

1:26:42 ↗ that we're going to pull in is something

1:26:43 ↗ called a dynamic traffic assignment

1:26:44 ↗ model so what that does is for each

1:26:47 ↗ alternative we have it says what traffic

1:26:50 ↗ 'l where traffic will move around as we

1:26:53 ↗ all know there's something called google

1:26:55 ↗ maps if it's faster to go another way

1:26:57 ↗ people will go that way

1:26:59 ↗ that's can't stop them unless you make

1:27:01 ↗ it slower so there are improvements

1:27:04 ↗ going on projected to go along 18 that

1:27:10 ↗ i'll talk about a little bit later if we

1:27:15 ↗ make fixes does that bring more traffic

1:27:18 ↗ to you you know those are the things we

1:27:20 ↗ want to make sure more traffic to

1:27:23 ↗ something you know that we're fixing so

1:27:25 ↗ and what that does is it takes into

1:27:28 ↗ account congestion other drivers transit

1:27:31 ↗ signal timings it's it's more than we

1:27:34 ↗ usually do on these studies we're doing

1:27:37 ↗ this up in Lake Stevens as part of our

1:27:39 ↗ u.s. - we looked at it to see where

1:27:42 ↗ people are going and and what changes

1:27:45 ↗ would reflect that so so let's see you

1:27:54 ↗ can move on so what else we're doing is

1:27:59 ↗ collecting data from all these signal

1:28:01 ↗ locations in the city so make sure we

1:28:04 ↗ have a firm grasp of what's going on and

1:28:07 ↗ what will happen when we make

1:28:08 ↗ improvements each alternative how it how

1:28:11 ↗ it performs a question here yeah

1:28:14 ↗ Sheldon you may be able to help us as

1:28:16 ↗ well in the not-too-distant future there

1:28:21 ↗ will be new intersections in town in

1:28:24 ↗ proximity to this interchange that I'm

1:28:28 ↗ guessing would have little red circles

1:28:30 ↗ around them - if they were actually

1:28:32 ↗ operational today but they're gonna be

1:28:34 ↗ very soon so so with the chance so it's

1:28:37 ↗ a dynamic environment we have the 62nd

1:28:39 ↗ Street extension that's under

1:28:40 ↗ construction should be complete by the

1:28:42 ↗ end of this year

1:28:44 ↗ what's the impact of not including that

1:28:47 ↗ or how should we how should we view the

1:28:50 ↗ fact that this study won't account for

1:28:51 ↗ what what the impact of that project is

1:28:54 ↗ gonna have washed out is aware of that

1:28:56 ↗ project and its completion date and I

1:28:58 ↗ believe that will be included in the

1:29:00 ↗ model I just right now it's not possible

1:29:03 ↗ to collect data right on those

1:29:04 ↗ intersections because they don't exist

1:29:06 ↗ yet right and I think I heard him say I

1:29:08 ↗ think Cathy said earlier that you're in

1:29:10 ↗ data collection right now and so yeah

1:29:13 ↗ that's that's gonna so there's nobody

1:29:15 ↗ traveling and on 4th Avenue right now

1:29:17 ↗ that's the one that's closed she

1:29:18 ↗ mentioned the three and but that one

1:29:20 ↗ that it was opened back up I mean the

1:29:23 ↗ the patterns of circulation inside

1:29:25 ↗ Issaquah will change when 62nd Street is

1:29:28 ↗ done right one of the first things that

1:29:40 ↗ we'll be doing in our analysis is

1:29:42 ↗ identifying a list of projects that are

1:29:45 ↗ gonna be open in 20 years and open in 40

1:29:47 ↗ years or some area within that and our

1:29:50 ↗ model then includes then we use the data

1:29:53 ↗ from today to calibrate the model for

1:29:56 ↗ today and then we show these

1:29:58 ↗ intersections open in different years so

1:30:01 ↗ you will be able to see all the projects

1:30:03 ↗ that you have planned within the city

1:30:06 ↗ that are capital funding funded projects

1:30:09 ↗ those will also be included in our model

1:30:11 ↗ for what we call the year of opening

1:30:13 ↗ which is almost like a projection of

1:30:15 ↗ when the project would be completed

1:30:17 ↗ which right now we're thinking is 2025

1:30:19 ↗ and then we will be looking also at

1:30:21 ↗ projects that will be open in 2045 which

1:30:25 ↗ is probably gonna be our design year and

1:30:27 ↗ we're not only looking at your projects

1:30:29 ↗ but we're also looking at projects from

1:30:30 ↗ Sound Transit all the other King County

1:30:34 ↗ all washed-out projects everything

1:30:36 ↗ that's funded within the study area the

1:30:38 ↗ large study area that Kathy showed that

1:30:41 ↗ are projected to be open and are funded

1:30:42 ↗ right now okay so the sickest 62nd

1:30:45 ↗ Street extension though you're

1:30:47 ↗ collecting data now at those red circles

1:30:50 ↗ all we can do is model what's going to

1:30:53 ↗ happen on 62nd Street

1:30:55 ↗ and we will use that we will so we will

1:30:57 ↗ use the timing and the information we

1:31:00 ↗ have now to calibrate the models to make

1:31:02 ↗ sure that the models are telling the

1:31:04 ↗ truth or at least closest to the truth

1:31:06 ↗ based on what we know today and then we

1:31:08 ↗ use then those models at the new

1:31:10 ↗ intersections to them predict use some

1:31:13 ↗ of the DTA analysis the dynamic traffic

1:31:15 ↗ assignment analysis that Kathy just

1:31:16 ↗ mentioned to see how traffic will shift

1:31:19 ↗ once I open up a bottleneck in one area

1:31:22 ↗ does it move the traffic to this other

1:31:24 ↗ area and based on the capacity of the

1:31:26 ↗ new intersection you'll be able to tell

1:31:28 ↗ just about how many vehicles would show

1:31:30 ↗ up at that intersection though because

1:31:32 ↗ we don't have the information today yeah

1:31:35 ↗ then that's vitally important because

1:31:37 ↗ I'm pretty sure today there's a lot of

1:31:40 ↗ Issaquah residents and even

1:31:41 ↗ non-residents that are mingling with

1:31:44 ↗ your I 90 customers just to circulate

1:31:48 ↗ inside the city and when 4th Street

1:31:50 ↗ opens back up in the 62nd Street

1:31:52 ↗ extension oaks of those Issaquah

1:31:54 ↗ residents we're just trying to circulate

1:31:55 ↗ in town I won't be mingling as much at

1:31:58 ↗ exits number 15 and 17 that'll change

1:32:02 ↗ absolutely and one of the things that

1:32:04 ↗ what we're doing right now is that we've

1:32:06 ↗ done a pretty extensive big data

1:32:09 ↗ collection through self cell phone

1:32:12 ↗ tracking of origins and destinations so

1:32:17 ↗ right now we're quantifying this big

1:32:19 ↗ data to see how many vehicles are

1:32:21 ↗ actually just going through the

1:32:23 ↗ interchange that have no business in the

1:32:25 ↗ city of this across started someplace

1:32:27 ↗ and ended someplace else and or vehicles

1:32:30 ↗ that are coming in are stopping within

1:32:32 ↗ your city and what are the patterns that

1:32:34 ↗ they're taking we're using all of this

1:32:36 ↗ information to calibrate our models and

1:32:38 ↗ make better predictions so that what we

1:32:40 ↗ can solve them we're trying to identify

1:32:42 ↗ what that actual problem is as opposed

1:32:45 ↗ to what the perceived problem may be and

1:32:48 ↗ what you're using the data to tell us

1:32:49 ↗ what that is thank you thank you for

1:32:53 ↗ that explanation so I think the other

1:32:56 ↗ thing is also pulling some data from

1:32:59 ↗ before you closed forth because because

1:33:05 ↗ of that is Sheldon close fourth we

1:33:06 ↗ didn't close

1:33:10 ↗ well we didn't help things out with our

1:33:13 ↗ fish passage a little bit sooner than

1:33:14 ↗ that so let's see so as I said we're

1:33:21 ↗ working with with local stakeholders

1:33:23 ↗ we've identified these stakeholders that

1:33:26 ↗ we're going to be interviewing this is

1:33:28 ↗ not a total list this is what we're

1:33:31 ↗ starting with as other stakeholders

1:33:34 ↗ regional stakeholders on this list get

1:33:37 ↗ identified that that there's value that

1:33:40 ↗ that we're told that there's value in

1:33:42 ↗ interviewing they will be added to the

1:33:44 ↗ list and then some of these stakeholders

1:33:50 ↗ are invited to be on our support team so

1:33:52 ↗ as we put together the IGR

1:33:54 ↗ I'll get to that in a second they're

1:33:57 ↗ gonna be active in in the ijr helping us

1:34:01 ↗ but I'll get there in a second we're

1:34:04 ↗ also going out interviewing local

1:34:07 ↗ stakeholders to get their views on what

1:34:11 ↗ the issue is observations we found this

1:34:14 ↗ very valuable on our i-90 PQ shoulder

1:34:17 ↗ and on our project up on us to to go out

1:34:21 ↗ and talk to stakeholders before we

1:34:23 ↗ started not going in with pre assumed

1:34:25 ↗ assumptions because you guys are the

1:34:27 ↗ people who use it the the region you

1:34:31 ↗ know we're over in shoreline and don't

1:34:35 ↗ live out here so this gets us some of

1:34:37 ↗ that data

1:34:39 ↗ we're also if there enough of these

1:34:41 ↗ stakeholders interested and other

1:34:42 ↗ business groups that get identified we

1:34:46 ↗ will be looking at a study interest

1:34:48 ↗ group to brief them separate than the

1:34:52 ↗ technical the technical committee that's

1:34:55 ↗ just going to get a little bit too big

1:34:56 ↗ if we if we have both groups together

1:34:58 ↗ but to provide briefings to this and

1:35:01 ↗ then this is our support team so as

1:35:05 ↗ Hilma puts together the ijr and works

1:35:08 ↗ with her team of consultants she'll be

1:35:11 ↗ presenting this data to

1:35:14 ↗ this support team and and others if

1:35:17 ↗ others are identified who can question

1:35:22 ↗ question what we're coming up with ask

1:35:25 ↗ other questions make sure we're not

1:35:26 ↗ missing anything so stake holder but

1:35:31 ↗ what how many meetings in the next six

1:35:33 ↗ months

1:35:34 ↗ IG our support 7ij our support meetings

1:35:39 ↗ in the next six months six months we're

1:35:43 ↗ interviewing seven stakeholders between

1:35:46 ↗ the two back and and more if necessary

1:35:49 ↗ so we're hoping from this that you know

1:35:53 ↗ we can get stakeholder perspective in

1:35:56 ↗ addition to the data that we're

1:35:57 ↗ collecting as Helmut said to make sure

1:36:01 ↗ then that was a very good clarification

1:36:03 ↗ that the actual need is consistent with

1:36:06 ↗ the perceived so IJ our support team

1:36:12 ↗ their role will be to help develop the

1:36:16 ↗ purpose and need statement based on the

1:36:18 ↗ data provide guidance and support to our

1:36:21 ↗ I J our consultant do T team evaluate

1:36:26 ↗ data based on on what we're providing

1:36:29 ↗ identify help us identify alternatives

1:36:31 ↗ that can solve whatever problems issues

1:36:34 ↗ that we're seeing and review their

1:36:36 ↗ results and they'll help make the

1:36:38 ↗ recommended recommendation on the

1:36:41 ↗ preferred alternative so we are looking

1:36:46 ↗ forward to moving on with with this

1:36:49 ↗ project and can be back within the next

1:36:53 ↗ six months or when we get you know

1:36:55 ↗ recommendation from Sheldon that we have

1:36:57 ↗ enough information that you guys would

1:36:59 ↗ be interested in but definitely before

1:37:01 ↗ we move forward with a preferred

1:37:02 ↗ alternative so that's all I have to say

1:37:06 ↗ about i-90 okay Kathy on your regional

1:37:15 ↗ partners slide I understand the

1:37:17 ↗ proximity of the Snoqualmie tribe but

1:37:19 ↗ you also lists the Stillaguamish and the

1:37:21 ↗ mukil shoots what what is there what's

1:37:24 ↗ their stake in this

1:37:26 ↗ those are what native and accustomed

1:37:29 ↗ hunting fishing grounds

1:37:31 ↗ so we're required to include them in

1:37:33 ↗ there they're not as far as I know they

1:37:36 ↗ haven't shown interest but we're

1:37:37 ↗ required to contact and see if they have

1:37:41 ↗ an interest in participating so usually

1:37:45 ↗ I mean still why I actually I knew the

1:37:47 ↗ Yakama because we ran into that with the

1:37:50 ↗ PQ shoulder project but the

1:37:52 ↗ Stillaguamish kind of surprised me but

1:37:55 ↗ on the whole if it's not you know if

1:37:57 ↗ we're not impacting fish culverts

1:37:59 ↗ typically not a lot of interest in being

1:38:02 ↗ involved in the project I would expect

1:38:04 ↗ that the Snoqualmie and that when the

1:38:08 ↗ project moves to the next step

1:38:09 ↗ during the environmental phase those

1:38:11 ↗ tribes will probably have some interest

1:38:13 ↗ although I think it's no call only it'd

1:38:15 ↗ be the primary tribe interested okay and

1:38:19 ↗ on that slide there there's enough

1:38:20 ↗ there's a I con or whatever in the

1:38:23 ↗ bottom right I can't read it go back

1:38:26 ↗ keep them all right what's the bottom

1:38:28 ↗ right that's a little Amish I think

1:38:31 ↗ that's no Stillaguamish it's another one

1:38:34 ↗ of the tribes it's a tribe okay thank

1:38:37 ↗ you I just want to make sure that one of

1:38:41 ↗ the things that you said was coming back

1:38:43 ↗ to us when you and Sheldon agree that

1:38:47 ↗ you have enough information to to want

1:38:49 ↗ to talk to us and before moving forward

1:38:52 ↗ with a preferred alternative correct so

1:38:55 ↗ I I want to make sure you're saying cuz

1:38:56 ↗ I thought you don't move forward with a

1:38:58 ↗ preferred alternative until the study is

1:39:00 ↗ finalized in June of 2019 what am i

1:39:03 ↗ misunderstanding we don't move forward

1:39:05 ↗ or preparing an IJ are on the preferred

1:39:08 ↗ alternative so yeah we can't move

1:39:12 ↗ forward with the project until the ijr

1:39:14 ↗ is completed and in environmental

1:39:16 ↗ documents completed but the

1:39:17 ↗ environmental document isn't part of

1:39:19 ↗ this phase so so you're gonna detail as

1:39:22 ↗ part of the IJ are one of the

1:39:24 ↗ deliverables isn't just where the

1:39:26 ↗ problems are and what potential

1:39:29 ↗ solutions would do to address the

1:39:31 ↗ problems that are that it will be

1:39:33 ↗ identified but rather you are gonna

1:39:35 ↗ flesh out a particular solution

1:39:37 ↗ more so than other solutions that would

1:39:40 ↗ be correct and that will also be

1:39:41 ↗ delivered in June of 2019 that's correct

1:39:44 ↗ yes if I could put a little bit more

1:39:49 ↗ clarification to that excellent

1:39:51 ↗ questions councilmember marks the

1:39:55 ↗ process of the ijr is going to identify

1:39:57 ↗ some alternatives before a preferred

1:40:00 ↗ alternative is selected to be able to

1:40:02 ↗ move forward to the final portions of

1:40:04 ↗ finishing the ijr we're going to be back

1:40:06 ↗ in front of Council informing the

1:40:08 ↗ council of alternatives and being able

1:40:11 ↗ to have a conversation about it so that

1:40:14 ↗ we're all on the same page moving

1:40:15 ↗ forward with a preferred alternative so

1:40:17 ↗ there is going to be another point in

1:40:19 ↗ time during the study which the council

1:40:21 ↗ is going to get information when there

1:40:23 ↗ are alternatives not just here's the

1:40:26 ↗ preferred very helpful other questions

1:40:35 ↗ Keith thank you there were in our packet

1:40:40 ↗ there's one more slide at the end it

1:40:42 ↗ just talks about other i 90 corridor

1:40:44 ↗ project okay you're going to cover so if

1:40:46 ↗ there's anything else on Front Street I

1:40:48 ↗ figured I probably should have put the

1:40:50 ↗ question first so we have two other

1:40:53 ↗ major project improvement projects you

1:40:56 ↗ know there are some preservation panel

1:40:58 ↗ replacement projects which I don't have

1:41:00 ↗ information on with me but the i-90 East

1:41:04 ↗ Gate - sr 900 project we are looking at

1:41:08 ↗ construction scheduled for 2019 we are

1:41:12 ↗ putting together plans on that project

1:41:14 ↗ and what we're looking at at this point

1:41:18 ↗ is a project that goes from the Lake

1:41:23 ↗ Sammamish interchange with with an

1:41:28 ↗ auxilary Lane up to east gate in the

1:41:31 ↗ westbound direction same in the

1:41:32 ↗ eastbound direction in the westbound

1:41:34 ↗ direction will also be constructing an

1:41:37 ↗ extended off-ramp to get some of the

1:41:41 ↗ traffic off out of the congestion we had

1:41:44 ↗ originally proposed to go out all the

1:41:47 ↗ way or start the lane and as her 900

1:41:50 ↗ what we found with the increased traffic

1:41:53 ↗ growth is that if we started it at SR

1:41:58 ↗ 900 we were going to make everybody's

1:42:00 ↗ trip longer so this improves the trip

1:42:06 ↗ for Issaquah but one of the big things

1:42:10 ↗ that we're struggling with is that

1:42:12 ↗ there's not enough capacity at the 405

1:42:15 ↗ interchange a lot of people are heading

1:42:17 ↗ up to Bellevue and until that

1:42:22 ↗ interchange gets addressed you know

1:42:25 ↗ we're we have limitations on how much we

1:42:30 ↗ can address traffic but it does clear up

1:42:32 ↗ a lot of the congestion in Issaquah in

1:42:36 ↗ the morning so and contact for that and

1:42:42 ↗ you know we can e-mail this out if you

1:42:45 ↗ need it is Masuka Enda who actually

1:42:47 ↗ works for me in my office sr i 90 s are

1:42:52 ↗ 18 interchange a big hundred and fifty

1:42:55 ↗ million dollar project it includes a

1:42:58 ↗ rebuild of the interchange and

1:43:03 ↗ relocation of the weigh station that is

1:43:06 ↗ on the north side of the interchange and

1:43:07 ↗ also widening I 90 quite a distance

1:43:12 ↗ south so that project they are just in

1:43:22 ↗ the process they have selected a

1:43:24 ↗ consultant ch2m Hill and they are just

1:43:29 ↗ about I think they're just about ready

1:43:30 ↗ to start putting together scoping the

1:43:33 ↗ the contract to develop that work public

1:43:38 ↗ engagement design begins this summer and

1:43:41 ↗ constructions quite a number of years

1:43:43 ↗ out we've got to actually go through an

1:43:45 ↗ ijr at the moment they're talking about

1:43:47 ↗ a diverging diamond interchange which is

1:43:51 ↗ a new concept and I suggest if you're

1:43:54 ↗ interested in it to Google it it moves

1:43:57 ↗ it does some strange things but you know

1:44:00 ↗ when you come into an interchange it

1:44:02 ↗ actually

1:44:03 ↗ you you cross over to the the instead of

1:44:08 ↗ staying on the right you cross over to

1:44:09 ↗ the left I have a free turn onto the

1:44:12 ↗ onto the the ramps so less impact with

1:44:16 ↗ signals they've they're constructing one

1:44:20 ↗ down in lacy at the Hawks Prairie

1:44:22 ↗ interchange and they've got quite a

1:44:25 ↗ number of these around the country and

1:44:27 ↗ they are pretty effective with traffic

1:44:30 ↗ the other thing is as our 18 has an

1:44:33 ↗ awful lot of sensitive areas streams and

1:44:36 ↗ wetlands on both sides improvements

1:44:40 ↗ there are going to have impacts on the

1:44:44 ↗ environment and so they're going to have

1:44:46 ↗ a pretty significant environmental

1:44:48 ↗ process I don't know the exact

1:44:50 ↗ construction timeframe but my guess is

1:44:52 ↗ it's about four years out for start on

1:44:55 ↗ it can I ask what's the order of

1:44:59 ↗ magnitude of the budgets on those two

1:45:01 ↗ projects the i-90 east gate is about

1:45:07 ↗ sixty nine million dollars the i-90 SR

1:45:12 ↗ eighteen improvement project is one

1:45:13 ↗ hundred and fifty million and in front

1:45:18 ↗ streets just to study but my guess is

1:45:20 ↗ it's a it's a it's going to have a

1:45:22 ↗ pretty hefty front price tag depending

1:45:24 ↗ on what you do

1:45:25 ↗ spell and that project manager is is one

1:45:29 ↗ of my peers he's over portion of the

1:45:32 ↗ program that the legislature advanced

1:45:34 ↗ this past session so he's over this and

1:45:37 ↗ and another project up in Redmond on

1:45:41 ↗ their 520 what is that over lake over

1:45:45 ↗ Lake off-ramp out near the over lake

1:45:48 ↗ station and then something down in

1:45:51 ↗ Federal Way so and that is the end of

1:45:55 ↗ the presentation do you have more

1:45:57 ↗ questions right

1:45:58 ↗ do we have any other questions no all

1:46:01 ↗ right well thank you very much thank you

1:46:02 ↗ for joining us this evening and

1:46:04 ↗ answering all of our questions we really

1:46:05 ↗ appreciate it

1:46:07 ↗ do we have any public comment on this

1:46:09 ↗ item yes

1:46:11 ↗ if you'll come to the microphone you

1:46:14 ↗ have three minutes Lindsey Walsh

1:46:18 ↗ speaking as an individual here this

1:46:22 ↗ presentation left me with a lot of

1:46:23 ↗ questions here I'm I know that the

1:46:26 ↗ citizens of Issaquah really care about

1:46:28 ↗ this interchange so I'm just gonna list

1:46:30 ↗ my questions cuz I've got a ton what's

1:46:32 ↗ the next feedback touch point for the

1:46:34 ↗ council and what can we expect to see at

1:46:36 ↗ this point can we get a full timeline on

1:46:40 ↗ those various meetings the decision

1:46:42 ↗ points the things that we should be

1:46:43 ↗ aware of can we how can we have more

1:46:46 ↗ transparency on this process the this

1:46:50 ↗ presented some information but it was

1:46:54 ↗ very obscure with when are things

1:46:57 ↗ actually going to happen how can the

1:47:00 ↗ public get involved right now is there a

1:47:02 ↗ sign up for any of the stakeholder

1:47:04 ↗ groups is there an informational email

1:47:06 ↗ list is there an online survey something

1:47:08 ↗ where somebody can provide feedback from

1:47:12 ↗ the council's standpoint how can the

1:47:15 ↗ council and the city take the next steps

1:47:18 ↗ to kind of be prepared to meet any of

1:47:22 ↗ washe dots needs any of the information

1:47:24 ↗ they're going to request how can we look

1:47:27 ↗ at you know the the discussions they

1:47:30 ↗ were having for the IGR meeting where

1:47:32 ↗ the interchange problems some of the

1:47:35 ↗ potential solutions what a local

1:47:37 ↗ solution would be how can we anticipate

1:47:39 ↗ that get ahead of that problem start

1:47:41 ↗ thinking about it internally to make

1:47:43 ↗ sure that we're not holding up the

1:47:45 ↗ process do you have a council

1:47:48 ↗ representative on the IGR stakeholder

1:47:51 ↗ group or is it a city staff member and

1:47:54 ↗ how is that information then going to

1:47:55 ↗ come back to Council

1:47:58 ↗ Melissa T get the data that washed-out

1:48:00 ↗ is completing with their traffic studies

1:48:02 ↗ and how can we better use that for City

1:48:04 ↗ benefit so that we're using that as

1:48:06 ↗ we're looking at our overall traffic

1:48:08 ↗ problems and then how does this project

1:48:11 ↗ timeline work with the new

1:48:12 ↗ Transportation Commission that's coming

1:48:14 ↗ on this year are they going to be

1:48:16 ↗ involved at all in that process can they

1:48:18 ↗ be looped in as that becomes available

1:48:21 ↗ so thank you

1:48:23 ↗ thank you for your comments any other

1:48:24 ↗ public comment this evening

1:48:26 ↗ nope alright well thank you very much

1:48:29 ↗ now we are going to move to reports on

1:48:33 ↗ regional activities or issues so does

1:48:34 ↗ anyone wish to give a report this

1:48:36 ↗ evening

1:48:36 ↗ ooh all right well with that then we are

1:48:40 ↗ adjourned thank you very much

1:48:54 ↗ you

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Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Paul Winterstein

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Bill Ramos