City Council Special Meeting · Monday, May 4, 2020 · City Council Digest

2. CLOSED SESSION

The purpose of this special meeting is to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss pending/potential litigation per RCW take approximately 30 minutes. Please note, Executive Sessions are closed to the public. Action, if needed, would occur during the open session of a Regular Council meeting

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0:00 ↗ good evening everyone I'm opening the

0:03 ↗ Monday May 4th 2020 City Council regular

0:06 ↗ meeting and calling it to order welcome

0:10 ↗ everyone

0:10 ↗ so this again is a remote City Council

0:13 ↗ meeting I believe this is our fourth

0:16 ↗ that we have had before we move on to

0:19 ↗ tonight's agenda items I'd like to talk

0:22 ↗ about the remote meeting format so on

0:24 ↗ March 6

0:25 ↗ I issued an emergency proclamation

0:27 ↗ declaring a civil emergency in the city

0:28 ↗ due to the coab is 19 outbreak and on

0:32 ↗ March 24th the governor issued

0:33 ↗ proclamation 20 - 28 prohibiting

0:36 ↗ meetings that follow under the open

0:38 ↗ public meetings act such as our city

0:40 ↗ council meeting from being conducted in

0:42 ↗ person

0:43 ↗ tonight's meeting will be held entirely

0:45 ↗ remotely the meeting will be recorded

0:47 ↗ streamed live and available for later

0:50 ↗ listing on the city's YouTube channel

0:52 ↗ myself the council and certain city

0:54 ↗ staff are using our cameras however be

0:56 ↗ aware that our meeting platform cannot

0:58 ↗ show all our videos at one time rather

1:01 ↗ it will focus on the last four to five

1:03 ↗ individuals who spoke a callin number

1:06 ↗ was provided on the meeting agenda for

1:08 ↗ members of the public who wish to call

1:10 ↗ in by phone to listen live to the

1:12 ↗ meeting for our phoning callers drinks

1:15 ↗ back presentations that will make every

1:17 ↗ effort to specify which materials they

1:19 ↗ are referencing so that everyone can

1:21 ↗ follow along those who provided advance

1:23 ↗ notice are able to make comments under

1:25 ↗ the audience on that portion of the

1:27 ↗ meeting and we did also receive email

1:30 ↗ comments for this meeting as well from

1:32 ↗ the public at this point we'll take a

1:35 ↗ moment to take the roll call of the

1:36 ↗ council members in attendance and please

1:38 ↗ stay here when I call your name council

1:41 ↗ members me Michelle here councilmember

1:44 ↗ Goodman here hall here council president

1:50 ↗ hunt here councilmember marks here

1:54 ↗ deputy council president ray here and

1:58 ↗ councilmember Walsh here seven all here

2:01 ↗ and accounted for in addition we have

2:04 ↗ the following city staff participating

2:06 ↗ our city administrator volleyball Chris

2:08 ↗ our deputy City Administrator Andrew

2:10 ↗ Snyder

2:11 ↗ our city attorney Jim Haney our city

2:13 ↗ clerk Tina Eggers our deputy city clerk

2:16 ↗ tisha Goucher economic development

2:19 ↗ manager Jen Davis Hays and are there any

2:21 ↗ additional staff that I failed to

2:23 ↗ identify Megan grace is also on the line

2:30 ↗ Oh Megan thank you for those members of

2:35 ↗ the public on the call welcome

2:37 ↗ the quicker I will call on you to make

2:39 ↗ comments when we reach that portion of

2:41 ↗ the agenda so before we begin I'd like

2:44 ↗ to reiterate the meeting guidelines for

2:46 ↗ all meeting attendees please speak

2:48 ↗ clearly and POG frequently state your

2:52 ↗ name each time before speaking mute your

2:54 ↗ microphone we're not speaking and if you

2:57 ↗ are also streaming the live video feed

2:59 ↗ please turn the sound off as there is a

3:03 ↗ delay and for council members please

3:06 ↗ continue to use the Skype meeting

3:08 ↗ messenger to indicate when you wish to

3:09 ↗ speak and identify yourself before you

3:12 ↗ ask a question make a motion or second

3:15 ↗ emotion or participate in debate so the

3:18 ↗ first item on the agenda this evening is

3:20 ↗ the Pledge of Allegiance and if I could

3:22 ↗ get everyone to mute their microphones I

3:24 ↗ will start it and you can say it at home

3:27 ↗ along with me I pledge allegiance to the

3:32 ↗ flag of the United States of America and

3:34 ↗ to the Republic for which it stands one

3:37 ↗ nation under God indivisible with

3:41 ↗ liberty and justice for all the next

3:44 ↗ portion of our meeting is audience

3:46 ↗ comments and citizen comments are an

3:48 ↗ important part of our council public

3:49 ↗ process we take them seriously and

3:51 ↗ factor them into the decisions we make

3:53 ↗ when you are making comments please make

3:56 ↗ sure to direct them to the whole council

3:57 ↗ and the directions for tonight's meeting

4:00 ↗ when you are recognized please unmute

4:02 ↗ your microphone and if you're on a cell

4:06 ↗ phone it might be historic six star six

4:09 ↗ state your name address and

4:11 ↗ relationships to the city speak clearly

4:14 ↗ and Paws frequently and limit your

4:16 ↗ comments to 5-minutes

4:18 ↗ and then please remain mute your

4:20 ↗ microphone when you are done if you do

4:23 ↗ not respond after your name or phone

4:24 ↗ number

4:25 ↗ is called or your connection is lost

4:27 ↗ unexpectedly the meeting will still need

4:29 ↗ to proceed you're encouraged to rejoin

4:32 ↗ the meeting if you're able to personal

4:35 ↗ attacks obscene language derogatory

4:37 ↗ remarks and disruptive behavior will not

4:39 ↗ be permitted if a speaker is out of

4:41 ↗ order I will ask them to stop and mute

4:43 ↗ your microphone if a speaker does not

4:45 ↗ comply I made your ex asked to mute your

4:47 ↗ microphone if a disruption to the

4:49 ↗ meeting occurs an order cannot be

4:51 ↗ restored and may direct staff to remove

4:52 ↗ you from the call again citizen comments

4:55 ↗ written and verbal door important part

4:57 ↗ of our Council and our city's public

4:58 ↗ process the city takes these comments

5:01 ↗ seriously and we thank you for taking

5:02 ↗ your time tonight to come and address

5:04 ↗ our City Council city clerk yes Larry

5:09 ↗ Franks is signed up to speak Thank You

5:13 ↗ mr. Franks would you like to dress up oh

5:17 ↗ yes good evening thanks for the

5:19 ↗ opportunity I miss my fish yes mine I'm

5:24 ↗ very possessive of the salmon the return

5:27 ↗ to these requests salmon hatchery

5:29 ↗ unfortunately in continually declining

5:31 ↗ numbers

5:32 ↗ I missed the camaraderie with my many

5:34 ↗ friends who are also fascinated by these

5:37 ↗ miraculous animals but necessitated by

5:39 ↗ mitigating the risk of Cove in nineteen

5:41 ↗ infection he requests human hair tree is

5:45 ↗ appropriately closed to the public and

5:47 ↗ ongoing work is pretty much limited to

5:49 ↗ one individual at a time doing what they

5:51 ↗ need to do to nurture these fish and I'm

5:54 ↗ really going to miss the joy of sharing

5:57 ↗ my love of these fish with the many

5:59 ↗ visitors we've enjoyed in the past I led

6:02 ↗ over a thousand individuals on tours of

6:05 ↗ the hatchery last year most of them

6:07 ↗ third and fourth graders inspiring

6:09 ↗ leaders to be that they could also

6:12 ↗ easily be non symptomatic carriers I'm a

6:16 ↗ biologist okay a fisheries biologist not

6:19 ↗ a human bio specialist but the writing

6:22 ↗ is on the wall if we as a planet do not

6:25 ↗ have a highly effective vaccine and

6:27 ↗ tried-and-true treatment in place for

6:30 ↗ this illness it would be personally

6:32 ↗ dangerous to me and my family to lead

6:34 ↗ tours this fall as

6:36 ↗ is risky for the tour participants

6:37 ↗ themselves I know there's many

6:40 ↗ treatments and developments but as a

6:42 ↗ biologist I know the new normal of

6:45 ↗ social distancing needs to be maintained

6:48 ↗ for many months there's enormous

6:50 ↗ pressure to real open businesses

6:52 ↗ re-employ folks even planned for the

6:55 ↗ salmon Days Festival but I choose to err

6:58 ↗ on the side of caution employment and

7:01 ↗ festivals with a cost in lives are not

7:04 ↗ worth it thank you for listening and

7:07 ↗ acting accordingly thank you very much

7:12 ↗ oh well go ahead and put it in the

7:14 ↗ record right now that'd be great okay

7:17 ↗ I'm 48 years and at two four zero zero

7:21 ↗ one southeast one hundred and third

7:23 ↗ streets

7:23 ↗ I love it here in Issaquah Thank You

7:27 ↗ Larry has anyone else signed up to speak

7:30 ↗ this evening no one further has signed

7:32 ↗ up to speak thank you very much as a

7:37 ↗ reminder for any of those watching

7:39 ↗ tonight or later on a tape you can

7:42 ↗ always write comments and submit them at

7:43 ↗ any time to City Council at is Laoag of

7:46 ↗ in addition comments received by email

7:49 ↗ on tonight's agenda topics will be

7:51 ↗ acknowledged by the council president

7:53 ↗ under the relevant agenda item so the

7:56 ↗ next item of business for us this

7:57 ↗ evening is committee and regional

7:59 ↗ reports and we'll go around the so

8:01 ↗ called council chamber one by one let's

8:03 ↗ start with councilmember hall thank you

8:08 ↗ Mary Paulie this is councilmember Zack

8:09 ↗ hall

8:10 ↗ just one quick report just to say that

8:13 ↗ the next meeting of the regional

8:14 ↗ affordable housing committee has been

8:17 ↗ scheduled for next Friday May 15 from

8:20 ↗ 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

8:21 ↗ we're going to be using a video

8:22 ↗ conferencing system we're not really

8:24 ↗ sure which one yet but I've spoken quite

8:27 ↗ a few times before about the scope of

8:29 ↗ our work so I won't repeat that but if

8:32 ↗ any member of council or the community

8:34 ↗ has any questions about what the

8:35 ↗ regional affordable housing committee is

8:37 ↗ doing please feel free to reach out to

8:40 ↗ each other that concludes my report

8:42 ↗ Thank You councilmember Hall council

8:44 ↗ member to Michelle

8:46 ↗ yes I have no report this evening the

8:48 ↗ healthier here board will be meeting

8:50 ↗ this coming Thursday at one o'clock in

8:52 ↗ the afternoon it will be a virtual

8:54 ↗ meeting and as councilmember Hall said

8:58 ↗ if anyone is interested please let me

9:01 ↗ know that's in my report Thank You

9:05 ↗ councilmember Walsh thank you madam

9:08 ↗ mayor this is councilmember Walsh the

9:10 ↗ economic district Development Board you

9:14 ↗ DDB meeting for May was cancelled and so

9:18 ↗ I have no report Thank You councilmember

9:22 ↗ Goodman thank you madam mayor council

9:26 ↗ member Goodman here

9:27 ↗ East Side Fire and Rescue is Finance and

9:29 ↗ Administration Committee meeting will

9:32 ↗ meet on Wednesday May 6 there will be a

9:34 ↗ virtual meeting on the agenda is the

9:37 ↗ proposal to reform East High Fire and

9:40 ↗ Rescue into a nonprofit corporation and

9:43 ↗ if a recommendation is made to the full

9:46 ↗ board then each of the partners of the

9:49 ↗ entity also needs to be involved in and

9:51 ↗ approving that by approving a revised

9:54 ↗ interlocal agreement Articles of

9:56 ↗ Incorporation and bylaws so I will give

10:00 ↗ a report out of our next meeting of that

10:01 ↗ and then the East Side Fire and Rescue

10:03 ↗ Board will meet on May 14th now that

10:08 ↗ will be a virtual meeting as well I have

10:12 ↗ not seen the agenda but I do expect that

10:15 ↗ discussion will happen at the board

10:17 ↗ about a letter that Mayor Polly sent

10:20 ↗ requesting a reduction in in the the

10:25 ↗ amount that it pays that's all I

10:27 ↗ know about that agenda right now and I

10:30 ↗ believe the city also has received a

10:33 ↗ response from the Eastside Fire and

10:35 ↗ Rescue Board Chair North Bend

10:39 ↗ councilmember Allen Gulf and I would

10:43 ↗ request I don't think that I've seen

10:44 ↗ that response go out to the full council

10:46 ↗ so if that response could glad I would

10:49 ↗ appreciate it so in short I believe that

10:52 ↗ letter requests information financial

10:53 ↗ information from the city so the board

10:56 ↗ can have a the East Side Fire and Rescue

10:57 ↗ Force you have a

10:59 ↗ a fuller discussion that's my report

11:01 ↗ thank you

11:02 ↗ Thank You councilmember Goodman we'll

11:04 ↗ make sure that you get the response the

11:06 ↗ entire council gets a response letter

11:07 ↗ and also the additional information that

11:09 ↗ the city will be providing to the board

11:10 ↗ Thank You councilmember marks thank

11:17 ↗ thank you madam mayor so the king the

11:21 ↗ Puget Sound Regional Council growth

11:23 ↗ management policy board meeting for

11:25 ↗ Thursday May 7th has unfortunately been

11:27 ↗ cancelled however the sound cities

11:30 ↗ association public issues committee

11:32 ↗ after several months of non meeting will

11:35 ↗ be meeting virtually at 7:00 p.m. on

11:38 ↗ Wednesday May 13th at Redmond City Hall

11:41 ↗ and we do have one potential future

11:44 ↗ action item proposed related to the

11:47 ↗ proposed 2021 King County utility rates

11:50 ↗ I don't have the details yet but that's

11:53 ↗ one of those ones where we will have an

11:56 ↗ initial read and then I will come back

11:58 ↗ and talk to council about it and then

12:00 ↗ we'll come back sound cities will come

12:02 ↗ back into that there's other discussion

12:05 ↗ items will be discussing the legislative

12:08 ↗ session and Coe bid and regional

12:10 ↗ homeless Authority and Coe bid 19

12:14 ↗ impacts and response where we sort of

12:16 ↗ compare notes as municipalities but I'm

12:20 ↗ very glad that pick will be coming back

12:23 ↗ to meeting although you haven't lived

12:24 ↗ until you've done a roll call with 38

12:26 ↗ cities eight of us seem positively Swift

12:32 ↗ this concludes my report

12:34 ↗ Thank You deputy council president right

12:38 ↗ Thank You mayor Polly

12:39 ↗ the April 22nd meeting of the King

12:44 ↗ County growth management planning

12:45 ↗ council was cancelled and the next

12:48 ↗ meeting of the growth management

12:51 ↗ planning council is scheduled right now

12:52 ↗ for June 24th and that concludes my

12:54 ↗ report thank you council president hunt

12:59 ↗ thank you madam mayor I attended the

13:02 ↗ kokanee ila interlocal agreements

13:05 ↗ management committee meeting on April

13:08 ↗ 27th

13:09 ↗ and kokanee Lake Spanish kokanee are a

13:12 ↗ type of salmon that are very endangered

13:14 ↗ they're on the verge of extinction and

13:16 ↗ the purpose of this interlocal agreement

13:19 ↗ is to coordinate efforts of multiple

13:21 ↗ jurisdictions in the Lake Sammamish

13:23 ↗ watershed to help support recovery of

13:25 ↗ this population and bring it back from

13:27 ↗ the brink of extinction at the April

13:29 ↗ 27th meeting we appointed a chair which

13:32 ↗ will be me and we also worked on

13:36 ↗ reviewing the 2021 draft budget and

13:39 ↗ straps work plan for the year to

13:42 ↗ understand what work will be

13:44 ↗ accomplished under and and his plan to

13:46 ↗ be accomplished under the ila our next

13:49 ↗ meeting will be in July or August and in

13:52 ↗ this meeting the management items will

13:54 ↗ be the 2021 final budget and work plan

13:58 ↗ adoption and that concludes my report

14:02 ↗ thank you very much next item on the

14:06 ↗ agenda this evening is the mayor's

14:07 ↗ report and I have a few updates for

14:10 ↗ tonight

14:10 ↗ so the first update I'll deliver will be

14:12 ↗ on rental assistance program and then

14:15 ↗ I'll give a longer update on the cities

14:16 ↗ boards and commissions who have not been

14:19 ↗ meeting since the state emergency order

14:21 ↗ went into effect so in March 23rd 2020

14:25 ↗ the City Council authorized a hundred

14:27 ↗ thousand dollars towards rental

14:29 ↗ assistance for residents impacted by

14:31 ↗ Kovan 19 up to $500 a month for up to

14:34 ↗ three months is available to residents

14:36 ↗ needing help paying the rent the

14:39 ↗ statistic published last week and agenda

14:41 ↗ bills 7-9

14:42 ↗ on Friday which is on tonight's consent

14:45 ↗ agenda we're accurate at the time the

14:47 ↗ agenda was published however we've

14:48 ↗ updated them so I'm going to provide you

14:51 ↗ with some new numbers because things

14:53 ↗ have changed just since Friday as of May

14:56 ↗ 1st 2020 over three-quarters of the

14:58 ↗ allocated funds have been distributed of

15:00 ↗ seventy eight thousand dollars the

15:03 ↗ equivalent of a hundred and fifty-eight

15:04 ↗ households were able to benefit from the

15:07 ↗ program of those 129 received assistance

15:10 ↗ once and 29 received assistance for more

15:14 ↗ than one month and this represents a

15:17 ↗ total of 486 residents broken out as 408

15:22 ↗ residents receiving a single

15:23 ↗ Peyman and 78 residents receiving a

15:26 ↗ rental payment of more than one month of

15:29 ↗ assistance so this is the second month

15:31 ↗ of the program since council adoption

15:33 ↗ and some households have requested

15:35 ↗ assistance to the second time

15:37 ↗ ninety-four percent of the households

15:39 ↗ who received rental assistance

15:41 ↗ experience layoffs lost jobs or reduced

15:44 ↗ work hours the remaining seven percent

15:47 ↗ including those who had health related

15:49 ↗ problems or a lack of childcare

15:51 ↗ preventing them from working so we would

15:54 ↗ like to extend our appreciation to our

15:56 ↗ two partners

15:56 ↗ Ieyasu our Community Services and st.

15:59 ↗ Vincent DePaul st. Joseph's physical

16:01 ↗ conference these two volunteer based

16:03 ↗ organizations have helped distribute the

16:05 ↗ funds and ensure that the residents get

16:07 ↗ the help they need

16:08 ↗ next thing I'd like to talk about I have

16:10 ↗ three different items under board is

16:13 ↗ boards and commissions so the first is

16:15 ↗ that as reflected in agenda bill a B 797

16:20 ↗ that you'll see on the consent calendar

16:21 ↗ tonight due to the inability to conduct

16:24 ↗ interviews of applicants and in order to

16:26 ↗ limit further delays as the city's

16:28 ↗ boards and commissions do begin to

16:30 ↗ convene again I'm extending the terms of

16:33 ↗ the sitting board and Commission members

16:34 ↗ that would have otherwise expired on

16:36 ↗ April 30th 2024 a one-year period that's

16:40 ↗ not every person on every boarding

16:42 ↗ commission because we rotate the terms

16:45 ↗ so that we don't have that but some

16:47 ↗ would have been expiring on April that

16:49 ↗ would have expired on April 30th

16:50 ↗ stay home as stay at home restrictions

16:54 ↗ lifts there will be an extended phase

16:56 ↗ approach to the boards and commissions

16:58 ↗ returning to their work based on the

17:00 ↗ nature and timing of the work plan items

17:03 ↗ the next thing under boards and

17:05 ↗ commissions is the Sun setting of the

17:06 ↗ rivers and streams and creation of a new

17:08 ↗ environmental board the rivers and

17:11 ↗ streams board is sunsetting the

17:14 ↗ unfortunate fact is that the rivers and

17:16 ↗ stream board was functionally given a

17:18 ↗ very narrow purview as of late and they

17:21 ↗ met they met and that meant that they

17:24 ↗ rarely met in the last several years

17:26 ↗ that needs to change the boards and

17:29 ↗ commissions serve an important role in

17:30 ↗ local government and service community

17:32 ↗ voice on issues of importance to the

17:34 ↗ community I strongly feel and have

17:36 ↗ discussed

17:37 ↗ many times with the administration and

17:38 ↗ council members that we absolutely need

17:40 ↗ a board and Commission that regularly

17:41 ↗ advises us on environmental and climate

17:44 ↗ changes change issues broadly

17:47 ↗ environmental stewardship is an

17:49 ↗ important pillar of our city strategic

17:51 ↗ plan and we need a commission to help us

17:53 ↗ achieve our goals in this area so that

17:56 ↗ the river isn't students board is being

17:58 ↗ sunset it is not a reflection on the

18:00 ↗ importance of the work or a reflection

18:02 ↗ on the competence and dedication of

18:03 ↗ board members the board members

18:05 ↗ graciously graciously dedicated their

18:07 ↗ time and expertise to this board for

18:10 ↗ many years and I thank them for those

18:12 ↗ the administration is committed to

18:14 ↗ forming a new board commission that will

18:16 ↗ focus on the environment this year if

18:19 ↗ sorry focused on the environment in this

18:21 ↗ year 2020

18:23 ↗ this board or Commission will meet

18:25 ↗ regularly at least once per month based

18:27 ↗ on the council work plan items that are

18:29 ↗ referred the staff liaison for this

18:31 ↗ group will be our sustainability

18:33 ↗ coordinator Megan Curtis Murphy

18:35 ↗ community members that are interested in

18:38 ↗ environmental stewardship environmental

18:40 ↗ policy and planning and climate action

18:42 ↗ should reach out to Megan to be part of

18:44 ↗ discussions around the formation of this

18:46 ↗ new board or Commission Council will be

18:49 ↗ tasked with the approval of the

18:50 ↗ formation of the new Commission and any

18:52 ↗ code updates required to create it

18:54 ↗ during the transition we will assume

18:56 ↗ unless otherwise advised the current

18:58 ↗ members and applicants would applied for

19:00 ↗ the rivers and streams board in early

19:02 ↗ 2020 would likely be interested in

19:04 ↗ playing for the newly constituted board

19:06 ↗ of commission as well an advertisement

19:09 ↗ to the community at large will be

19:10 ↗ completed to ensure all regular and

19:12 ↗ alternate seats are occupied I look

19:15 ↗ forward to tracking progress on the

19:16 ↗ formation of this new board of

19:18 ↗ commission over the course of 2020 and

19:20 ↗ the last update on boards and

19:22 ↗ commissions is on the development of a

19:25 ↗ new recovery task force for Issaquah I'm

19:28 ↗ convening a mayor's recovery Task Force

19:30 ↗ which will revise the city on various

19:32 ↗ issues related to responding to the

19:34 ↗ pandemic and future reopening of city

19:36 ↗ services and programs the task force

19:39 ↗ will also advise city and other

19:40 ↗ community initiatives that are important

19:42 ↗ to us of our residents and businesses

19:44 ↗ over the next several months membership

19:47 ↗ of this new task force will primarily

19:49 ↗ consist of current members of

19:51 ↗ cities and boards commissions and the

19:53 ↗ following individuals have been invited

19:55 ↗ to participate on the task force Jason

19:58 ↗ and apologies for any mispronounced

20:01 ↗ name's Jason voice of planning policy

20:03 ↗ Marisol Visser of Transportation Mike

20:06 ↗ Brennan from the Development Commission

20:08 ↗ 9 and Milligan former city council

20:10 ↗ member and also on the transportation

20:12 ↗ advisory board

20:13 ↗ Pavel at Burkean from economic vitality

20:17 ↗ Randy Harrison from Planning Policy

20:19 ↗ second son from economic vitality

20:21 ↗ Trish blurr from arts Janine Sanders I

20:25 ↗ selected her as a community member at

20:27 ↗ large

20:28 ↗ grace Chen I selected her from the

20:31 ↗ community to represent youth and young

20:32 ↗ adults and Shashi Kulkarni who is a

20:36 ↗ retired community health professional we

20:40 ↗ have three alternate suits as well

20:42 ↗ Marlene Waxler from Parks Ron fall from

20:45 ↗ planning policy and Stephanie Solomon

20:47 ↗ from transportation on ongoing regular

20:50 ↗ meetings will be held from 4:00 to 5:30

20:52 ↗ the second and fourth Tuesday of each

20:54 ↗ month made your August and the task

20:56 ↗ force may be extended depending on the

20:59 ↗ progress of the pandemic response and

21:02 ↗ that concludes the mayor's report for

21:04 ↗ this evening the next item on our agenda

21:08 ↗ this evening is a couple of

21:09 ↗ informational updates and we will start

21:11 ↗ with ID 0 6 8 7 food delivery fees this

21:16 ↗ is an informational item for tonight no

21:19 ↗ council action has been requested for

21:21 ↗ this evening and I'd like to start by

21:23 ↗ asking Jenna Davis Hays Economic

21:25 ↗ Development Manager to make a

21:26 ↗ presentation come on up Jen good evening

21:32 ↗ can you hear me we can thank you good

21:37 ↗ evening council members I'm here to

21:38 ↗ update on request Ruiz rereceive

21:41 ↗ to explore a putting a cap on the

21:44 ↗ restaurant delivery app Commission's on

21:46 ↗ April 24th the City of Seattle

21:48 ↗ instituted an emergency order to instant

21:51 ↗ for a 15% cap on food delivery service

21:55 ↗ Commission's until restaurants are able

21:57 ↗ to dine offer dine in services after

22:00 ↗ that time thus our city was contacted by

22:03 ↗ several visit

22:04 ↗ inquiring if we plan to do the same

22:06 ↗ since then city staff have reached out

22:09 ↗ to 26 restaurants and we were able to

22:11 ↗ speak to 13 of them we sent emails to

22:14 ↗ the other 13 we did not get on the phone

22:15 ↗ and our partners also reached out to

22:18 ↗ businesses including the downtown is

22:20 ↗ across sociation Regency centers at

22:22 ↗ Grand Ridge Plaza and the chamber we

22:25 ↗ also reached out to other Eastside

22:28 ↗ cities to inquire if they have heard

22:30 ↗ from their restaurants as they plan to

22:32 ↗ do the same and we also spoke to our

22:36 ↗ economic development colleagues in King

22:38 ↗ County about if they were planning to do

22:40 ↗ it the Cape's as well they the cities

22:44 ↗ and King County mentioned that they were

22:46 ↗ not working on at the time and if King

22:50 ↗ County would proceed and do something

22:51 ↗ like this it would only be applied to

22:54 ↗ unincorporated areas of King County so

22:57 ↗ overall we learned that some restaurants

22:59 ↗ haven't didn't use these services before

23:01 ↗ but now can account up through 1/3 to

23:05 ↗ 1/2 of their sales other businesses have

23:08 ↗ avoided signing up for this services

23:10 ↗ because of the cost and have had

23:12 ↗ encouraged their customers she'd order

23:15 ↗ on and pick up curbside deliveries the

23:19 ↗ general feeling was that the fees were

23:21 ↗ to buy and there was overall consensus

23:24 ↗ expressed there was interest in the

23:26 ↗ city's pursuit to have these fees

23:27 ↗ reduced many felt they didn't have

23:30 ↗ another option one of the things we

23:32 ↗ learned was boo boo be asked well what

23:35 ↗ there are several apps that charge

23:38 ↗ different prices some as low as 13 to

23:41 ↗ 15% and some as high as 30% then we

23:44 ↗ asked well why don't you just use the

23:46 ↗ lower app fee and what restaurants have

23:52 ↗ informed us is that as a added these

23:55 ↗ services they have increased sales so

23:57 ↗ users you don't use the app to order

24:01 ↗ they look up there they want to order

24:03 ↗ Mexican food or Thai food they use that

24:05 ↗ app rather than going to the website of

24:07 ↗ that restaurants and then choosing which

24:09 ↗ service to get delivery from what we

24:15 ↗ also learned it about what's happening

24:17 ↗ in the market

24:18 ↗ last Monday so that was several days

24:20 ↗ after Seattle passed their cap some

24:23 ↗ delivery services were adding other fees

24:26 ↗ so not considered Restaurant delivery

24:30 ↗ commissions but other fees to make up

24:33 ↗ for what they felt they needed and door

24:36 ↗ - voluntarily reduce their commission

24:39 ↗ fees by 50%

24:40 ↗ until the Cova closures are done so they

24:43 ↗ are currently charging between 13 and 15

24:45 ↗ percent for these charges for delivery

24:47 ↗ fees I will await for any questions I

24:51 ↗ just wanted to clarify one thing - we've

24:54 ↗ also had at least one council member

24:56 ↗ who's received a call directly from a

24:57 ↗ business as well like I know they have

24:59 ↗ called into the chamber and they've come

25:01 ↗ in to you but council member marks has

25:04 ↗ also gotten calls directly questions um

25:09 ↗ maybe I can provide a little context -

25:12 ↗ here this is here this evening because

25:14 ↗ it was brought up as an item that the

25:16 ↗ council may wish to discuss and in the a

25:19 ↗ week we have collected as much

25:21 ↗ information as we've just presented to

25:23 ↗ you and so we can start here with

25:27 ↗ councilmember marks if you like it thank

25:33 ↗ you Matt emeritus councilmember marks

25:36 ↗ so yeah the understanding thank you for

25:41 ↗ the staff presenting that there's a

25:44 ↗ there's a number of questions here that

25:46 ↗ I don't know if we're going to answer

25:47 ↗ this evening but they they happen at the

25:50 ↗ intersection of public health and our

25:53 ↗ role in supporting our residents and our

25:58 ↗ businesses I don't know what the right

25:59 ↗ answer is but you know it was mentioned

26:02 ↗ this evening that one option is that

26:04 ↗ people can go pick up and in fact since

26:08 ↗ I since I found out how the services

26:11 ↗ work I've been doing that when when door

26:15 ↗ - isn't an option but I don't know if

26:17 ↗ that's the right solution either I don't

26:20 ↗ know I mean clearly I don't know it's

26:23 ↗ there's a question for a council whether

26:26 ↗ we want to take action in this area I

26:28 ↗ think there's a potentially a public

26:30 ↗ health reason to do

26:32 ↗ in trying to encourage people to if we

26:36 ↗ can if we can figure out a way to assure

26:38 ↗ that the services are not userís to our

26:42 ↗ businesses but would discourage people

26:45 ↗ from having to go out and and do this if

26:48 ↗ there's an urgency so I guess the

26:51 ↗ question is really for fellow council

26:54 ↗ members I guess I would have questions

26:58 ↗ the questions I have for staff is

27:00 ↗ understand how it was working for

27:02 ↗ Seattle I think that they're now a week

27:06 ↗ or we can have into it

27:08 ↗ Chicago I know has something like this

27:10 ↗ Evanston Illinois we have some staff

27:12 ↗ that are familiar with Evanston so my

27:15 ↗ question would be how it's working in

27:19 ↗ those locations and understanding that

27:21 ↗ whether we as a council would want to

27:23 ↗ take action both at or maybe for

27:28 ↗ different reasons potentially around our

27:30 ↗ businesses but also potentially around

27:32 ↗ trying to encourage our residents to

27:34 ↗ follow King County Public Health

27:35 ↗ guidance thank you

27:37 ↗ Thank You councillor Mars I asked him

27:39 ↗ something here I was supposed to go to

27:41 ↗ council president hunt and I apologize

27:43 ↗ for a summary of any email comments that

27:46 ↗ the compliment received on this topic

27:47 ↗ compliment thank you madam mayor we did

27:53 ↗ receive to the City Council we did

27:55 ↗ receive some correspondence on this

27:57 ↗ informational item so I will do my best

28:00 ↗ to summarize that correspondence now we

28:04 ↗ received an email from Kathy McCrory the

28:06 ↗ CEO of the Greater Issaquah Chamber of

28:08 ↗ Commerce and Kathy wrote that the

28:11 ↗ Chamber Board of Directors had not had a

28:13 ↗ chance to discuss this however would

28:16 ↗ like to make sure that all

28:17 ↗ considerations are given to local

28:18 ↗ restaurants she wrote with concern about

28:23 ↗ unintended consequences and she also

28:25 ↗ wrote that the chamber has created a

28:28 ↗ list of restaurants offering takeout and

28:30 ↗ have it on their website and this

28:32 ↗ contains links to each restaurants web

28:34 ↗ site anything they can do to support

28:36 ↗ drive up and any other preferred options

28:38 ↗ for restaurants they will pursue we also

28:41 ↗ received an email from community members

28:44 ↗ Steve prayer

28:44 ↗ and he wrote that his initial reaction

28:47 ↗ was he dislikes the proposal and to

28:50 ↗ summarize did not have enough

28:51 ↗ information about impacts of different

28:53 ↗ entities and then we also received

28:56 ↗ feedback on this informational item from

28:59 ↗ Connie Marsh and Connie Marsh wrote to

29:03 ↗ summarize your comments you wrote to try

29:05 ↗ applying the following questions to the

29:07 ↗ food delivery dilemma what is the

29:09 ↗ problem what is the solution and how did

29:10 ↗ we get here and that's that's the

29:13 ↗ summary of the correspondence we

29:14 ↗ received thank you and I think next up

29:16 ↗ for questions I had councilmember Rea

29:19 ↗ thank you this is Chris Rea Jen for you

29:23 ↗ you mentioned just as you were

29:25 ↗ presenting that there have been some

29:28 ↗ additional fees was that in Seattle in

29:30 ↗ response to their 15% or was that are we

29:34 ↗ seeing increase in fees across the board

29:36 ↗ from service providers what I understood

29:40 ↗ is that was from us in Seattle right

29:43 ↗ after the fees and they weren't getting

29:45 ↗ calling them to come to typical

29:47 ↗ commissions but I haven't done much

29:49 ↗ research beyond that do we know if since

29:53 ↗ the kovat 19 crisis started if rates

29:57 ↗ have increased or Z's are these the same

29:59 ↗ rates that were in place six months ago

30:01 ↗ do we know that I'm not sure about that

30:05 ↗ I'd like to know that if you as we dig

30:08 ↗ into this that would be really

30:09 ↗ fascinating to know and then do you have

30:12 ↗ any data on what the impact since most

30:16 ↗ of the delivery people are are

30:18 ↗ independent contractors here what the

30:21 ↗ impact on them will be if we were to

30:23 ↗ impose a cap on this any any any data or

30:28 ↗ antidotal de information no the the

30:32 ↗ Seattle emergency order also required

30:35 ↗ that all tips go to the drivers which

30:38 ↗ again was surprising that they already

30:40 ↗ didn't do that so yeah I think again

30:43 ↗ each of those services are very

30:44 ↗ different and for instance uber eats

30:48 ↗ very much our uber drivers that can do

30:50 ↗ either platform so they made bounce back

30:52 ↗ and forth between the apps but you're

30:54 ↗ right this is does impact our some of

30:57 ↗ our gig workers

30:58 ↗ live and work in our community thanks

31:01 ↗ Jen appreciate all the work you did and

31:04 ↗ I am not seeing additional questions but

31:06 ↗ gently I've heard a few requests at

31:09 ↗ least for additional information we will

31:10 ↗ have a recession suit how is it working

31:14 ↗ in Seattle and other cities have rates

31:17 ↗ increased and kovat night team came in

31:20 ↗ delivery rates and what potential

31:21 ↗ impacts might there be downstream on

31:23 ↗ delivery service folks are there any

31:25 ↗ other questions before I open it up for

31:27 ↗ general conversation there's a general

31:29 ↗ discussion I am not seeing any either oh

31:34 ↗ there we go council president go ahead

31:38 ↗ thank you

31:38 ↗ Thank You Jen I wondered if you could

31:42 ↗ give us a overview of if there are other

31:45 ↗ things that the restaurant and our city

31:48 ↗ are saying would be important for us to

31:50 ↗ consider I think that I think that as

31:54 ↗ was mentioned in the letter from Kathy

31:57 ↗ McCrory of the Chamber of Commerce we're

32:00 ↗ looking to support the restaurants and

32:02 ↗ make sure that there that we are doing

32:04 ↗ what we can and so I wondered if you

32:06 ↗ have insights from them yeah so I think

32:11 ↗ you know we are offering support to

32:13 ↗ businesses of all kinds as far as

32:15 ↗ restaurants they want to be open and be

32:18 ↗ able back to full blast I think as far

32:23 ↗ as increasing their sales we try we have

32:25 ↗ done some things with a restaurant map

32:27 ↗ about what's open so we have promoted

32:29 ↗ those restaurants and businesses are

32:31 ↗ open to encourage the takeout orders and

32:34 ↗ as businesses began to reopen on a

32:38 ↗ smaller scale we'll be supporting them

32:40 ↗ to look at how they can reopen an

32:43 ↗ infective way but nothing else directly

32:46 ↗ that was requested from the restaurant

32:49 ↗ so we spoke to additional questions or

32:55 ↗ comments

32:56 ↗ any other questions with Jen to next

32:59 ↗ steps just sorry it does look like a

33:03 ↗ custom overhaul it counseling overhauls

33:06 ↗ it you know washing sorry sorry I'm

33:09 ↗ missing some here we go thank you

33:11 ↗ you can't I have councilmember D

33:15 ↗ Michelle councilmember Walsh and

33:19 ↗ councilmember Hall let's start with

33:21 ↗ councilmember - Michelle Thank You mayor

33:24 ↗ poly when I saw that this was on the

33:28 ↗ agenda I decided to do so we're eating

33:31 ↗ about it and find out a little bit more

33:33 ↗ and it's come over March that they have

33:38 ↗ done as they put a cap in Chicago and

33:41 ↗ New York City and San Francisco and then

33:45 ↗ Seattle and so when I was reading that

33:48 ↗ for first of all it seemed to be a theme

33:51 ↗ that the issue of delivery fees that are

33:55 ↗ imposed on restaurants was a problem for

33:59 ↗ cope in nineteen that it's it's been

34:02 ↗ been exacerbated by the current

34:04 ↗ situation but that there was some form

34:07 ↗ of gouging or restaurants felt that the

34:09 ↗ fees were too high long before this

34:12 ↗ started so I think that in order to make

34:16 ↗ a decision as a councilmember I would

34:18 ↗ like to have a little bit more

34:19 ↗ information just about how the food

34:22 ↗ delivery model works and I also read for

34:30 ↗ example that none of the food delivery

34:33 ↗ apps that we have are making a profit at

34:35 ↗ this point and so I'd like to just know

34:39 ↗ how why do we have so many are they all

34:43 ↗ splitting up to business because there

34:45 ↗ are so many apps how is the bottle

34:47 ↗ working and then it seems as though it's

34:51 ↗ mostly been done in large cities as a

34:54 ↗ medium-sized city with Issaquah being

34:56 ↗ vulnerable to having food delivery apps

35:00 ↗ just pull out of our area if we decided

35:03 ↗ to impose that and what are the risk of

35:07 ↗ that and then finally I do with

35:11 ↗ councilmember ray I would be really

35:13 ↗ concerned because I noticed that I've

35:16 ↗ been ordering out quite a bit since and

35:19 ↗ sheltering in place that there are many

35:22 ↗ people delivering to me

35:25 ↗ and I would think that they are perhaps

35:28 ↗ this is a job that's taking a place of a

35:31 ↗ job that they've lost in the restaurant

35:32 ↗ business and so I was worried about the

35:35 ↗ unintended consequences if one of those

35:38 ↗ apps or all of them decided to withdraw

35:40 ↗ from delivering in Issaquah if we impose

35:44 ↗ the fees but but I also want to support

35:47 ↗ our restaurants I think it's apparently

35:49 ↗ from what I've read it has been an

35:51 ↗ ongoing problem that that these food

35:54 ↗ delivery apps are taking a pretty big

35:57 ↗ chunk out of restaurant profits so I

36:00 ↗ think we need to just know a little bit

36:03 ↗ more about the bigger context before I

36:05 ↗ can make a decision on this thank you

36:07 ↗ Thank You councilmember Dima Shaw

36:09 ↗ council member Rea there is a sad little

36:12 ↗ face there did I miss you or in the

36:15 ↗ comment box okay great councilmember

36:23 ↗ Walsh thank you madam councilmember

36:26 ↗ Walsh I too AM concerned about the

36:29 ↗ unintended consequences for the

36:31 ↗ restaurants and consumer access and gift

36:34 ↗ workers and the delivery apps we just

36:36 ↗ don't know enough about this as a small

36:39 ↗ city I feel like to make effective

36:43 ↗ decisions without having unintended

36:46 ↗ consequences that could be worse

36:49 ↗ and I feel like the best method for

36:51 ↗ moving forward here is to inform the

36:55 ↗ public about the fees and the impacts to

36:57 ↗ small businesses we have a lot of

36:59 ↗ attention from the public who really

37:02 ↗ want to support their local businesses

37:05 ↗ and if they have the information

37:08 ↗ available to know that the choices

37:11 ↗ they're making are actually hurting

37:13 ↗ those local businesses

37:15 ↗ they might make different decisions that

37:18 ↗ meet with their goals so I would really

37:20 ↗ encourage us as a city to use our

37:22 ↗ platform while people are paying

37:24 ↗ attention in order to help with that

37:27 ↗ information because ultimately that is

37:31 ↗ our goal in this and I feel like that is

37:34 ↗ probably a better way to solve that

37:36 ↗ problem they on to go forward

37:39 ↗ capping fees at this point thank you we

37:42 ↗ have a question from council president

37:44 ↗ hunt I already asked my question oh well

37:52 ↗ way out of order here Thank You

37:54 ↗ councilmember Hall quick question

37:57 ↗ thank you yeah counts remember a hall

37:59 ↗ here my questions have been answered so

38:02 ↗ I won't draw this out just to add that

38:03 ↗ I'm much more interested in the results

38:06 ↗ of this cap in Evanston than a city like

38:09 ↗ Seattle or Chicago that's bigger that

38:11 ↗ they might be able to have a cab and not

38:12 ↗ worry about these kind of food delivery

38:15 ↗ service providers leaving I concerned

38:19 ↗ that smaller and medium sized cities

38:20 ↗ would have so just kind of narrowing the

38:23 ↗ scope in that question of it I'm not

38:31 ↗ sure if you want to chime in or not but

38:33 ↗ while I'm waiting and watching

38:37 ↗ I have councilmember marks next followed

38:40 ↗ by councilmember Goodman thank you madam

38:43 ↗ mayor so it seems to me there are two

38:46 ↗ separate questions one is about a long

38:49 ↗ term whether it's a good business model

38:52 ↗ or badness this model to charge the

38:54 ↗ restaurants versus charging the

38:56 ↗ individuals who are purchasing goods but

38:59 ↗ to me either

39:00 ↗ the urgency and the reason why this is

39:02 ↗ potential emergency really gets at what

39:05 ↗ is the best way to safely support our

39:08 ↗ local restaurants and if it's really

39:13 ↗ important to me that there is one of the

39:15 ↗ services that's currently operating at

39:17 ↗ 13% because that tells me they can

39:19 ↗ afford to operate at 13% which means the

39:22 ↗ ones that are doing it at 30% like if

39:24 ↗ nobody was operating at 13% then maybe

39:28 ↗ people would go away if you capped it at

39:30 ↗ 15% but I I just don't have that concern

39:33 ↗ because these the problem is that

39:36 ↗ there's these different services that

39:37 ↗ are charging different amounts and the

39:40 ↗ public doesn't understand it and so what

39:45 ↗ I don't want to do is

39:47 ↗ like we're going to go we're going to

39:48 ↗ eat out we're gonna order food four

39:50 ↗ times a week because we've made a

39:52 ↗ commitment to doing that but the

39:53 ↗ question is do you what's the safest way

39:56 ↗ to go about doing that right is it for

39:57 ↗ me to go down and pick up food because I

39:59 ↗ don't know whether the services are

40:01 ↗ gouging the local restaurants I mean

40:04 ↗ it's it's incredible to me that if I

40:05 ↗ order a $10 item that three dollars out

40:09 ↗ of that ten dollars should go to the

40:11 ↗ service and then I'm charged a fee and

40:13 ↗ then I'm asked to give an amount to the

40:18 ↗ driver it just in during this emergency

40:20 ↗ well the reason that I'm doing this is

40:22 ↗ to avoid public contact and to meet King

40:26 ↗ County did a social distancing

40:30 ↗ regulations it seems wrong to have these

40:34 ↗ varying levels of cost and a penalty

40:37 ↗ imposed on our local restaurant so I

40:40 ↗ would very much like to know how Adams

40:42 ↗ didn't proceed and how it goes with

40:46 ↗ Seattle but I think we should think

40:47 ↗ about doing something I and it's coming

40:51 ↗ from restaurants it's not little old me

40:53 ↗ right it was us being contacted by a

40:56 ↗ number of restaurants feeling that this

40:57 ↗ wasn't fair so I hope we consider doing

41:00 ↗ it but really specifically around the

41:02 ↗ public health aspect we're gonna have

41:04 ↗ we're gonna be in this situation for at

41:06 ↗ least three more weeks

41:07 ↗ the latest ih any numbers that came out

41:10 ↗ today are very concerning they say that

41:12 ↗ you know it could be more than three

41:15 ↗ weeks based on on how those are moving

41:18 ↗ forward they're now recommending into

41:19 ↗ June before we move into Phase two so I

41:22 ↗ hope that we consider taking emergency

41:24 ↗ action on this based on what we find out

41:27 ↗ on how other cities are doing it and

41:29 ↗ perhaps understanding the business model

41:31 ↗ a little bit better for the express

41:33 ↗ purpose of trying to keep our community

41:35 ↗ safe thank you thank you so there are a

41:38 ↗ couple more people there comment but I

41:39 ↗ want to just chime in here for a minute

41:41 ↗ for any public that's watching you can

41:43 ↗ follow the King County Health and Safety

41:45 ↗ protocols and pick up your food at

41:46 ↗ takeout as well so it's not that there

41:49 ↗ is a preferred method one over the other

41:50 ↗ they there are protocols in place for

41:53 ↗ anybody who's only offering pick it up

41:55 ↗ at the door as well so I don't want

41:56 ↗ anybody to get concerned that they

41:57 ↗ couldn't do that

41:59 ↗ we have councilmember

42:01 ↗ Goodman councilmember Rey and then I'm

42:03 ↗ going to kind of get you guys uh circle

42:05 ↗ the horses and talk about this and I

42:08 ↗ have a few comments before you start so

42:10 ↗ let's go to councilmember Goodman thank

42:13 ↗ you madam mayor council member Goodman

42:14 ↗ here um I don't think I have any other

42:17 ↗ questions to add except that I I agree

42:20 ↗ with the council members who have made

42:24 ↗ comments about needing more information

42:26 ↗ before a decision is made and I'm not

42:29 ↗ even at the point where I would say I

42:32 ↗ would support or oppose I think we need

42:34 ↗ more information before we even decide

42:36 ↗ whether there's some proposal on the

42:38 ↗ table that we want to we want to

42:39 ↗ consider then maybe I misheard or didn't

42:42 ↗ hear everything but one of the questions

42:45 ↗ I have is what what choices restaurants

42:49 ↗ might be making that could help with the

42:53 ↗ fees I'm just not clear on all the

42:57 ↗ delivery platforms and what the choices

43:00 ↗ are and how restaurants sign up and if

43:03 ↗ there are any choices that they can make

43:05 ↗ to not be subject to that I just don't I

43:07 ↗ just don't know enough about it mostly

43:10 ↗ if it's probably mostly because we pick

43:12 ↗ up rather than order and half delivery

43:15 ↗ anyway those are my comments thank you

43:18 ↗ thank you and councilmember Rea kept you

43:21 ↗ council president ring hi this is Chris

43:24 ↗ Rea I'm gonna go

43:25 ↗ in a similar vein that councilmember

43:28 ↗ Goodman went and that's before we make a

43:31 ↗ decision I'd really like to understand

43:32 ↗ what the what the restaurants are

43:35 ↗ getting for the fees that they are

43:37 ↗ charged is the just delivery services or

43:39 ↗ there are there other value ads that are

43:43 ↗ associated with it and also what are the

43:47 ↗ options in terms of whether or not the

43:50 ↗ restaurant bears the delivery charge or

43:52 ↗ the recipient bears the delivery charge

43:55 ↗ because I'm of the mind that there are

43:59 ↗ both options and and so before we move

44:02 ↗ forward with limiting and I want to

44:04 ↗ really understand

44:06 ↗ what's all involved in making this

44:10 ↗ decision if I'm a restaurateur to use

44:12 ↗ this kind of service and what what I'm

44:15 ↗ buying for that 30% whatever it is that

44:19 ↗ I pay thank you for that councillor

44:22 ↗ Marais so before we get into sort of

44:25 ↗ getting some direction from Council I

44:29 ↗ wanted to give administrative Bob Chris

44:31 ↗ an opportunity to talk as well my

44:33 ↗ concern is that we have one person who

44:36 ↗ is doing economic development during

44:39 ↗ Kovach crisis which is a meeting you

44:42 ↗ know attending all kinds of meetings

44:44 ↗ about what the new business processes

44:45 ↗ are and all this sounds like a research

44:47 ↗ project I'm not sure that we have the

44:49 ↗ bandwidth to do it so I'm just going to

44:51 ↗ let the city administrator pitch in we

44:53 ↗ may be able to monitor other cities but

44:56 ↗ as far as unwinding this and telling you

44:59 ↗ exactly how this works in the community

45:02 ↗ I'm in the restaurant committee I just

45:05 ↗ don't know the city fiscal as the

45:06 ↗ resources to be the one to dig in and

45:08 ↗ define that model for you but I let the

45:10 ↗ city administrator babka which way in

45:12 ↗ yes thank you madam mayor members of the

45:15 ↗ council we certainly come to the table

45:17 ↗ with no prior expertise in this matter I

45:21 ↗ think if the council wishes to discuss

45:24 ↗ this further as part of a council

45:26 ↗ meeting the beauty of this format is

45:29 ↗ that we could likely phone a friend and

45:31 ↗ have someone join us at the council

45:35 ↗ meeting to make a presentation who knows

45:36 ↗ more about this and I think finding an

45:39 ↗ individual to do that it probably

45:41 ↗ wouldn't take a lot of staff time so I

45:42 ↗ think really the question for the

45:44 ↗ council is do you wish to pursue this to

45:46 ↗ get more information if not would you

45:49 ↗ prefer us to come up with a

45:50 ↗ communication strategy I think as a

45:52 ↗ number of you have mentioned many people

45:54 ↗ are unaware of the economics of delivery

45:57 ↗ and so we could certainly as soon as

45:59 ↗ this week put information out to this

46:01 ↗ community and let people be aware of

46:04 ↗ these practices and encourage them to be

46:07 ↗ knowledgeable users of these restaurants

46:10 ↗ here in this spot so I think really it

46:12 ↗ depends on where you're going but yes to

46:15 ↗ to spend a lot more staff time and

46:17 ↗ certainly the city attorney

46:19 ↗ I think at some point we'd like to wait

46:20 ↗ on this as well he has reviewed the

46:23 ↗ ordinance in our the the declaration in

46:27 ↗ Seattle and have some questions concerns

46:29 ↗ about that he's done some initial scans

46:33 ↗ of other communities I know the city of

46:35 ↗ Chicago has already had lawsuits

46:38 ↗ threatened against them by the delivery

46:41 ↗ companies so I think you'd also want to

46:44 ↗ hear the city attorney and if the

46:45 ↗ council knows the attorney in his office

46:48 ↗ as a full plate as well so I think we

46:50 ↗ can either have it as a discussion at a

46:52 ↗ future meeting and we could bring an

46:53 ↗ expert in to make presentations we could

46:55 ↗ do communications or if you would prefer

46:57 ↗ direct staff to do additional work and

47:00 ↗ then other things like me put aside

47:04 ↗ thank you for that so you're the options

47:09 ↗ in there we're bringing an expert direct

47:11 ↗ staff to do additional research and I

47:13 ↗ missed the last one and there was some

47:14 ↗ promotional item

47:17 ↗ permitting the best practice in the

47:19 ↗ community it would be great if the

47:22 ↗ councilmembers indicated who would like

47:24 ↗ to talk about those three suggestions I

47:26 ↗ see councilmember D Michels teed up

47:35 ↗ sorry I didn't I couldn't help myself in

47:40 ↗ regard to that phone a friend I'm

47:42 ↗ wondering if the Chamber of Commerce

47:44 ↗ downtown Association and so forth could

47:47 ↗ encourage I just like to hear for

47:49 ↗ restaurants and and then if door - and

47:54 ↗ ubereats have some local representatives

47:57 ↗ I'd be willing to listen to their point

48:00 ↗ of view as well so I'm just wondering if

48:02 ↗ our partners in the business community

48:05 ↗ could put out a call for them to send us

48:11 ↗ emails give us input I think that would

48:14 ↗ be really helpful and and would not take

48:17 ↗ staff time so just just a thought to to

48:21 ↗ consider

48:22 ↗ Thank You councilmember G Michelle

48:24 ↗ councilmember marks thank you madam

48:28 ↗ mayor I think we should consider taking

48:30 ↗ action I'm not here tonight to say we

48:33 ↗ definitely should take a particular

48:35 ↗ action but it really strikes me that

48:37 ↗ four of our let's say 26 restaurants

48:41 ↗ contacted us right if we had that kind

48:45 ↗ of engagement from private citizens in

48:48 ↗ the city on an issue we would take up

48:51 ↗ that issue we wouldn't necessarily go

48:54 ↗ with them because that's what they want

48:55 ↗ but we would take it up and we would not

48:57 ↗ say that we don't have the resources to

48:59 ↗ consider it it's clearly something that

49:01 ↗ a non-trivial number of our restaurants

49:03 ↗ are grappling with and and I think we

49:06 ↗ should consider it thank you any other

49:10 ↗ comment on the path forward that

49:13 ↗ councilmember Goodman thank you madam

49:16 ↗ mayor

49:17 ↗ councilmember Goodman here I thought

49:19 ↗ councilmember Dee Michelle had a really

49:20 ↗ good idea and I about asking our

49:25 ↗ partners and and some of the delivery

49:30 ↗ folks if they could help us at least

49:33 ↗ understand better I mean we're limited

49:35 ↗ with staff I understand that it's a

49:38 ↗ potential issue but I think we are in a

49:42 ↗ position right now where we don't we

49:44 ↗ don't understand enough in order for us

49:47 ↗ to probably even consider taking action

49:51 ↗ so anything we can do to leverage our

49:53 ↗ partners and friends out in the business

49:54 ↗ community to help us understand so that

49:56 ↗ we're not taking staff time to do it I

49:58 ↗ think is a great idea not that I'm

50:01 ↗ concerned about gen David Hayes just

50:06 ↗ taking this on as a project that could

50:09 ↗ take a quite a bit of time to research

50:11 ↗ thank you thank you and I'm seeing a

50:15 ↗ come from a deputy council president ray

50:18 ↗ so I think it's a - I would like to see

50:22 ↗ a two-pronged approach one is to promote

50:26 ↗ the use of our restaurants and to

50:29 ↗ promote people to do you know pickup as

50:31 ↗ opposed to

50:35 ↗ online services with delivery that way

50:38 ↗ it kind of takes the delivery out of the

50:41 ↗ equation and then I would like to just

50:44 ↗ have some more information as we maybe

50:46 ↗ monitor this situation going forward and

50:49 ↗ and see how it evolves but I agree with

50:52 ↗ councilmember Goodman I don't think we

50:54 ↗ have enough information right now to

50:55 ↗ make a good decision and I would like to

50:58 ↗ see what possibly what I think it was

51:01 ↗ councilman Hall said what Edison is

51:04 ↗ doing is which is the city about the

51:05 ↗ same size as we are you know what their

51:08 ↗ results have been and then finally as

51:11 ↗ City Administrator Bob quits mentioned

51:14 ↗ I'd like to hear from our attorney too

51:16 ↗ on what are the legal implications of

51:19 ↗ this and and then finally if we were to

51:22 ↗ move forward how would we do enforcement

51:23 ↗ is another thing that I'm kind of

51:25 ↗ grappling with I don't know that we have

51:28 ↗ the resources to do that so I think

51:30 ↗ there's just a lot of questions out

51:32 ↗ there for we can go forward in a

51:34 ↗ comprehensive manner

51:37 ↗ thank you I'm not seeing any more

51:39 ↗ councilmember questions or comments so

51:41 ↗ I'll go back to City Administrator Bob

51:42 ↗ coats ask if you have enough direction

51:45 ↗ and also whether or not it was your

51:48 ↗ expectation that our legal counsel would

51:51 ↗ provide some information tonight as well

51:52 ↗ I I don't believe that mr. Haney has

51:56 ↗ much more to add other than I think he

51:59 ↗ is it was keen to hear the discussion

52:02 ↗ tonight so we could better be prepared

52:04 ↗ for next steps

52:05 ↗ madam arawa members of the council what

52:07 ↗ I think I hear you saying is that you'd

52:09 ↗ like on a future agenda with more

52:12 ↗ information specifically as much

52:14 ↗ information as possible from local

52:16 ↗ Issaquah restaurants we can also do our

52:19 ↗ best to get some additional information

52:22 ↗ from other communities that have done

52:24 ↗ this to try to get some feedback so

52:26 ↗ you're next our regular meeting is on

52:29 ↗ the on the 18th of May we already know

52:33 ↗ that's going to be a pretty full agenda

52:34 ↗ but if you'd like to come back on the

52:37 ↗ 18th I think it'd be difficult for us to

52:40 ↗ do it any sooner so unless you'd like to

52:43 ↗ have a special meeting so I would

52:44 ↗ propose me to come back on 18

52:47 ↗ am i generally saying had not some

52:50 ↗ before that I can't okay council

52:55 ↗ president is typing so let me give her a

52:57 ↗ second

53:00 ↗ go ahead council president hunt I I

53:04 ↗ think this was this council president

53:07 ↗ hunt I think this was a good

53:09 ↗ conversation I generally agreed with the

53:13 ↗ summary that city that was that was just

53:17 ↗ given I do however want to also learn

53:24 ↗ more about what the chamber CEO is

53:28 ↗ wondering about which are the unintended

53:30 ↗ consequences because I think if we have

53:32 ↗ the chamber of commerce of our city

53:34 ↗ writing us to City Council with

53:36 ↗ wondering about the unintended

53:37 ↗ consequences of something we're doing we

53:39 ↗ should take very seriously so I would

53:42 ↗ like to really understand that and it's

53:45 ↗ not this is not a part of the economy

53:49 ↗ that I am familiar with how it works and

53:51 ↗ so I think there's just a lot of

53:52 ↗ unknowns there so I would need a lot

53:54 ↗ more information great anyone else wish

54:00 ↗ you to add on before we wrap this item

54:02 ↗ up okay thank you thank you for all that

54:09 ↗ feedback

54:09 ↗ the next informational item this evening

54:12 ↗ I see 0 6 8 9 updated 2020 2021 work

54:17 ↗ plan and I'd like to get to the

54:19 ↗ administrator buckets to make a

54:21 ↗ presentation yes thank you about a mayor

54:24 ↗ members of the council we're here this

54:26 ↗ evening to talk about the City Council's

54:29 ↗ 2020 2021 work plan before I get started

54:33 ↗ I want to give a little background in

54:35 ↗ context to the work plan and hopefully

54:39 ↗ provide the larger community a better

54:43 ↗ understanding of why there is a work

54:45 ↗ plan what it is as you all know of the

54:48 ↗ city of Issaquah completed a strategic

54:49 ↗ plan last year and at the conclusion of

54:52 ↗ the strategic plan City Council met on

54:55 ↗ June 7th 2019 to go through the various

54:59 ↗ aspects of

55:00 ↗ to plan and select priorities to begin

55:04 ↗ but the compilation of a work plan for

55:06 ↗ the current fiscal year that those

55:10 ↗ prioritizations were used as we put

55:12 ↗ together budget for fiscal 2020 but at

55:16 ↗ the conclusion of the budget process and

55:19 ↗ as we began the fiscal year in January

55:21 ↗ we really didn't have a work plan

55:23 ↗ document that would help guide our work

55:26 ↗ to not only implement the strategic plan

55:28 ↗ but also to identify those important

55:31 ↗ issues that came up during the course of

55:33 ↗ the budget process in addition to some

55:35 ↗ additional issues that I identified

55:37 ↗ based on my discussions with the Council

55:39 ↗ of I on board as your city administrator

55:41 ↗ so on February 1st 2020 the City Council

55:45 ↗ had a special meeting on a Saturday to

55:48 ↗ go through a proposed work plan that

55:50 ↗ included the items that were identified

55:52 ↗ during the City Council's June 729 teen

55:56 ↗ discussion identify items that were

55:59 ↗ listed during the budget process and

56:02 ↗ then additional items that identify that

56:05 ↗ was included in a document that the

56:06 ↗ council reviewed on February 1st and at

56:09 ↗ that time the council provided general

56:12 ↗ direction that the document reflected

56:14 ↗ the compilation of those issues since

56:18 ↗ February first as you all know we've

56:20 ↗ gone through a dramatic change through

56:24 ↗ the Cova 19 virus not only from a public

56:28 ↗ health perspective but also from a

56:29 ↗ financial perspective as we've talked

56:31 ↗ over the last few weeks here this

56:33 ↗ council we're anticipating at 20%

56:35 ↗ wherever to decrease in the current

56:38 ↗ fiscal year at your last meeting the

56:41 ↗ mayor reported a number of changes that

56:44 ↗ she had made in order to bring down in

56:46 ↗ expenses in a Phase one plan of a

56:49 ↗ multi-phase approach that the mayor

56:50 ↗ proposed but to deal with these budget

56:52 ↗ issues we'll be coming back to the

56:54 ↗ council to discuss page 2 on May 18th

56:57 ↗ and additional phases will be discussed

56:59 ↗ as we move forward but through the

57:01 ↗ balance of fiscal year but with these

57:03 ↗ cuts naturally comes the question what

57:07 ↗ do we do now what do we do moving

57:08 ↗ forward how do we take the priorities

57:11 ↗ that the council has identified

57:13 ↗ over the last several months and how do

57:15 ↗ we move forward with them so the purpose

57:18 ↗ of the presentation this evening is to

57:20 ↗ talk about those priorities and the

57:23 ↗ administration's recommendations for

57:25 ↗ next steps clearly given the the number

57:28 ↗ of layoffs that were implemented

57:31 ↗ beginning May 1 the furlough days the

57:35 ↗ existing vacant positions that were

57:37 ↗ already part of the adopted 2020 budget

57:39 ↗ we're looking at a fairly significant

57:42 ↗ decrease in staffing resources that are

57:45 ↗ available too so we want to make sure in

57:48 ↗ very specific terms that we discuss with

57:50 ↗ the council what those expectations are

57:52 ↗ get your feedback and then continue to

57:54 ↗ report to you as we go through the

57:56 ↗ document many of the projects and

57:59 ↗ initiatives we have designated at on

58:02 ↗ hold and really what on hold means is

58:05 ↗ we're not sure what the next steps are I

58:08 ↗ think as we have developed this revised

58:10 ↗ work plan for your review time has

58:14 ↗ passed varying a better idea of what

58:16 ↗ again the various nude normals that

58:19 ↗ we're experiencing and I think that

58:21 ↗ hopefully we're by the end of May will

58:24 ↗ be at a our next new normal where we'll

58:27 ↗ bill has the second phase of budget

58:29 ↗ reductions hopefully we'll have the

58:31 ↗ phase 2 of Governor Inslee

58:34 ↗ a recovery plan will be implemented at

58:36 ↗ the beginning of June and so we'll have

58:39 ↗ a little bit more flexibility to move

58:40 ↗ forward so when things are said to be on

58:43 ↗ hold you know it's really unclear when

58:46 ↗ we can move forward but we're committed

58:48 ↗ to you but to come back to you on a

58:49 ↗ regular basis and our next scheduled

58:51 ↗ time to meet with the council and talk

58:54 ↗ about the work plan and after tonight

58:55 ↗ would be on June 8th that would be what

58:58 ↗ we are proposing to be the first study

59:00 ↗ session for the council since we have

59:02 ↗ come back from the coab in nineteen

59:06 ↗ crisis and the changes to our work so

59:09 ↗ members council that's an overview of

59:12 ↗ the presentation what I'd like to do now

59:14 ↗ is to ask that deputy city clerk eager

59:16 ↗ to bring up the document that's in your

59:19 ↗ packet and what I'd like to do is walk

59:21 ↗ through that document page by page and

59:25 ↗ then stop the question

59:27 ↗ at the end of each section so madam

59:29 ↗ mayor if that's all right I as the

59:30 ↗ document comes up on the screen I'm

59:32 ↗ happy to answer any initial questions

59:34 ↗ but there might be from you or members

59:36 ↗ of the council that would be great thank

59:38 ↗ you all right seeing none man move

59:45 ↗ forward go ahead

59:47 ↗ all right next page please so as the

59:55 ↗ council is aware there are different

59:58 ↗ categories in the strategic plan that

1:00:00 ↗ the work plan addresses the first area

1:00:03 ↗ is the area of mobility we have a chart

1:00:07 ↗ at the beginning of each section to kind

1:00:09 ↗ of summarize the changes in status

1:00:11 ↗ you'll see on the bottom of the page

1:00:14 ↗ there's key color key that indicates

1:00:18 ↗ each project projects are either on

1:00:20 ↗ track which means that the projects are

1:00:23 ↗ moving forward at a pace that we

1:00:27 ↗ anticipate based on prior discussions we

1:00:31 ↗ have minor challenges which means the

1:00:34 ↗ projects are delayed by a quarter they

1:00:36 ↗ small scope change or budget variance of

1:00:38 ↗ 15 to 25% the area in red major

1:00:42 ↗ challenges projects that are delayed

1:00:44 ↗ more than a quarter significant change

1:00:46 ↗ the scope of budget variance over 25

1:00:49 ↗ percent then there are those projects

1:00:51 ↗ and hold the project's been temporarily

1:00:53 ↗ paused and timelines and narrative will

1:00:55 ↗ be updated and prior to zooms and then

1:00:57 ↗ there actually are one or two projects

1:00:59 ↗ at the beginning of 2020 that we've been

1:01:01 ↗ able to complete so with this chart for

1:01:03 ↗ mobility you'll see that under to teach

1:01:07 ↗ plan actions we felt that three are on

1:01:10 ↗ track and two were facing minor

1:01:13 ↗ challenges the other critical services

1:01:16 ↗ those are the items that neither came up

1:01:18 ↗ through the budget process this past

1:01:19 ↗ year or items that I identified six were

1:01:24 ↗ on track and one was at the major

1:01:26 ↗ challenges stage and now for the area of

1:01:29 ↗ mobility we have two that are facing

1:01:33 ↗ major challenges and three that are on

1:01:35 ↗ hole number critical services ones

1:01:37 ↗ they're facing major challenges and say

1:01:40 ↗ next page city administrator baccarat

1:01:44 ↗ councilmember de Michelle is the

1:01:45 ↗ question on mobility yes um I can wait

1:01:50 ↗ until we go to this next section and

1:01:54 ↗ then I then I would like to comment

1:01:56 ↗ thank you so active 1a is a plan for the

1:02:03 ↗ transportation system is in place and

1:02:05 ↗ funding is secured for major projects

1:02:07 ↗ the first section MO one day and mo 1b a

1:02:14 ↗ deal with that the first the mobility

1:02:17 ↗ master plan given that the mobility

1:02:20 ↗ master plan is being worked on by the

1:02:22 ↗ transportation Advisory Committee our

1:02:24 ↗ ports and commissions have not been

1:02:26 ↗ meeting at this point and so we are

1:02:29 ↗ saying that that work is on hold until

1:02:31 ↗ restrictions and public meetings have

1:02:33 ↗ been lifted in talking with Mayor Polly

1:02:36 ↗ the mission is working toward a plan to

1:02:40 ↗ once again have these meetings even if

1:02:43 ↗ they are done by video and so we would

1:02:45 ↗ look to reconvening the transportation

1:02:49 ↗ advisory board

1:02:50 ↗ perhaps as as soon as the first part of

1:02:52 ↗ June to begin further discussions with

1:02:55 ↗ that and then come back to the council

1:02:57 ↗ at some appropriate point if you recall

1:02:59 ↗ there was going to be a joint meeting

1:03:01 ↗ but the transportation Advisory Board in

1:03:03 ↗ March that was delayed because of the

1:03:07 ↗ Comba 19 crisis so while we see major

1:03:10 ↗ challenges on that work work will

1:03:12 ↗ continue on that project next is to

1:03:16 ↗ develop and execute a long term funding

1:03:18 ↗ approach for larger capital projects

1:03:20 ↗ again this is a project that is we're

1:03:24 ↗ proposing to be on hold for a number of

1:03:27 ↗ different regions certainly because of

1:03:29 ↗ the Cova 19 crisis you know many issues

1:03:32 ↗ remain up in the air that we're not that

1:03:35 ↗ not been able to address because of

1:03:38 ↗ these changes so we're suggesting at

1:03:41 ↗ this point that that project remain on

1:03:42 ↗ hold I would hope that after the 1st of

1:03:47 ↗ June we would be able to reevaluate next

1:03:49 ↗ steps with that project objective 3 the

1:03:54 ↗ prefer

1:03:54 ↗ location of vision for a light rails

1:03:56 ↗ integration has established certainly

1:03:58 ↗ anything to do with light rail the

1:04:00 ↗ extension of light rail to spa needs to

1:04:04 ↗ be out of hold at this point Sound

1:04:05 ↗ Transit as already announced its plans

1:04:08 ↗ to a place on hold all planning and

1:04:11 ↗ construction current projects our

1:04:13 ↗ project being several years down the

1:04:15 ↗ road so we think it at this point it's

1:04:17 ↗ prudent that that would be on hold so we

1:04:19 ↗ get a better stand under standing of

1:04:21 ↗ where Sound Transit is moving forward

1:04:22 ↗ with other light rail projects next page

1:04:25 ↗ please again at the top of this page mo

1:04:38 ↗ 3b again additional sound transit issues

1:04:42 ↗ mo 3c deals with partnership to

1:04:47 ↗ facilitate the integration of city

1:04:49 ↗ planners land use and Zoning for future

1:04:52 ↗ light rail again we're staying this is

1:04:56 ↗ major challenges would like to check in

1:04:58 ↗ with a sound transit staff as soon as

1:05:01 ↗ practical to get a better sense from

1:05:04 ↗ them where the future planning fits in

1:05:08 ↗ their and their plans I think at this

1:05:09 ↗ point is still too early to know that

1:05:11 ↗ but I would think that would be the

1:05:12 ↗ first conversation we would have with

1:05:14 ↗ sound transit in the near term about the

1:05:18 ↗ potential next steps in the areas of

1:05:21 ↗ other critical service items and timely

1:05:23 ↗ opportunities the King County Metro

1:05:25 ↗ squawk palace community connections

1:05:27 ↗ partnership regional employers transit

1:05:30 ↗ group traffic signal management police

1:05:33 ↗ traffic management traffic sergeant and

1:05:36 ↗ short-term mobility initiatives on hold

1:05:39 ↗ mostly again because until the world

1:05:43 ↗ settles a little bit I think it's going

1:05:45 ↗ to be difficult to reestablish these

1:05:48 ↗ discussions specifically looking at each

1:05:51 ↗ of them of the Spock talis comedia

1:05:55 ↗ connections partnership funding issues

1:05:57 ↗ with King County Transit were already a

1:05:59 ↗ challenge prior to Coba 19 we need I

1:06:02 ↗ think those to settle to get a better

1:06:03 ↗ sense of next steps their regional

1:06:06 ↗ employers transfer group again while the

1:06:08 ↗ folks are working at home I think we

1:06:11 ↗ need to put a pause on that traffic

1:06:13 ↗ signal management as we look at the

1:06:16 ↗ reorganization of our Public Works

1:06:17 ↗ Department and our plan is to come back

1:06:19 ↗ to the council on the 18th of May with

1:06:22 ↗ recommendations there once that is

1:06:25 ↗ established and we have made some

1:06:26 ↗ staffing build some vacancies and

1:06:29 ↗ staffing we'll be able to move forward

1:06:31 ↗ there police traffic management again

1:06:34 ↗ traffic is down significantly while we

1:06:37 ↗ look toward the importance of having a

1:06:39 ↗ traffic sergeant the planning for that

1:06:41 ↗ is unfold at this point

1:06:43 ↗ short-term mobility initiatives again

1:06:46 ↗ until things settle further we think

1:06:49 ↗ it's important to have those be on hold

1:06:51 ↗ the transportation demand management

1:06:53 ↗ there are a couple of grants pupule

1:06:56 ↗ grant for example is predicated on

1:06:58 ↗ providing programs in schools we're not

1:07:02 ↗ able to do that at this moment with the

1:07:03 ↗ schools being closed Sam and friendly

1:07:05 ↗ trips program we need to reevaluate

1:07:09 ↗ traffic calming program again until

1:07:12 ↗ we've made a better sense of what is

1:07:14 ↗ happening with people going back to work

1:07:17 ↗ I think it makes sense to to leave that

1:07:20 ↗ on hold as well that concludes the

1:07:24 ↗ mobility section again given the changes

1:07:29 ↗ with the closures of offices in the

1:07:32 ↗ region I think it makes mobility a

1:07:34 ↗ difficult one to look at and I think

1:07:37 ↗ that as time passes of a better sense of

1:07:40 ↗ what which of these projects will be

1:07:42 ↗ able to activate and certainly the

1:07:44 ↗ largest hear the sound transit project

1:07:47 ↗ or light rail existing projects existing

1:07:50 ↗ construction has been shut down by Sound

1:07:52 ↗ Transit so I think that will need some

1:07:54 ↗ additional time to get a sense of where

1:07:56 ↗ things are at there that America P to

1:07:59 ↗ answer any questions

1:08:10 ↗ should I go ahead

1:08:14 ↗ mayor Poli you're muted you probably see

1:08:23 ↗ the frustration on my face yeah City

1:08:25 ↗ Administrator Bob grits thank you for

1:08:27 ↗ that we have three questions lined up

1:08:29 ↗ starting with councilmember to yourself

1:08:31 ↗ followed by council president hunts

1:08:33 ↗ Thank You me or Poli I I have looking at

1:08:39 ↗ the mobility arena I want to put it in a

1:08:43 ↗ bigger context and thinking about what

1:08:46 ↗ has been demonstrated to us during the

1:08:50 ↗ last two months what's been demonstrated

1:08:52 ↗ is the impacts and the benefits of

1:08:57 ↗ reducing car travel and what we've seen

1:09:02 ↗ is an immense reduction in pollution we

1:09:05 ↗ see that we don't have just a growth

1:09:07 ↗ although that may not be a good thing

1:09:09 ↗ because it means that nobody's going to

1:09:11 ↗ work fuel prices dropping and I was

1:09:17 ↗ listening in on a meeting where Claudia

1:09:20 ↗ balance of the County Council was

1:09:23 ↗ commenting that we have a moment here

1:09:25 ↗ where the general public has seen a

1:09:28 ↗ demonstration that we never expected to

1:09:31 ↗ see in our lifetime and so I'm feeling

1:09:35 ↗ urgency about mobility actions and I

1:09:39 ↗ certainly agree with administrator about

1:09:43 ↗ which that we cannot do everything but I

1:09:46 ↗ would like to say that I would like us

1:09:51 ↗ to do what we can given the limited

1:09:55 ↗ amount of information we have about

1:09:57 ↗ what's going to happen I would like to

1:09:59 ↗ see us move forward with the National

1:10:01 ↗ ability plan and I was very heartened to

1:10:03 ↗ hear that there's plans to reconvene the

1:10:06 ↗ transportation Advisory Board because I

1:10:10 ↗ think that there is some thinking that

1:10:12 ↗ we can be doing and some planning that

1:10:15 ↗ we could be doing that will prepare us

1:10:17 ↗ for when things start to turn around and

1:10:22 ↗ I think that we just do not want to lose

1:10:24 ↗ this moment to explain to the public

1:10:27 ↗ here are here are things that we can do

1:10:30 ↗ to give you a alternative to you car

1:10:33 ↗ travel my second area of emphasis would

1:10:37 ↗ be I think that really we've got to look

1:10:39 ↗ at what does it is if I want from that

1:10:41 ↗ sound transit terminal and we could be

1:10:45 ↗ spending time formulating and

1:10:47 ↗ articulating that even though we are in

1:10:49 ↗ it's a tremendous reduction in the

1:10:54 ↗ ability of shall transit to look at that

1:10:57 ↗ issue and then finally the

1:10:59 ↗ transportation demand management again

1:11:01 ↗ that's the area where we put out

1:11:04 ↗ information to the public about

1:11:06 ↗ alternatives to car travel and we have

1:11:10 ↗ two grants there that we need to extend

1:11:13 ↗ the money and so those would be areas

1:11:16 ↗ where I would like to see us look again

1:11:21 ↗ and see if we can forward and again I

1:11:26 ↗ reiterate that is in the context of

1:11:28 ↗ knowing that we cannot do everything but

1:11:30 ↗ those would be my top three priorities

1:11:32 ↗ and mobility I'm just passionate about

1:11:36 ↗ this idea that we this is unprecedented

1:11:40 ↗ moment in our history and it could make

1:11:43 ↗ a huge difference in the way that we

1:11:45 ↗ transportation overall for decades to

1:11:49 ↗ come

1:11:49 ↗ so that that is the end of my comments

1:11:52 ↗ thank you

1:11:53 ↗ Thank You councilmember Jamie Shaw

1:11:55 ↗ council president hunt Thank You this is

1:11:59 ↗ council president hunt I had a question

1:12:03 ↗ about the status column of this table

1:12:07 ↗ and basically my question is can we

1:12:12 ↗ please maybe at our next meeting where

1:12:15 ↗ we discussed this can we please get

1:12:16 ↗ information about the criteria that were

1:12:19 ↗ used for the reasons the rationale for

1:12:23 ↗ the status having moved to one of these

1:12:26 ↗ categories I'm a little I don't think

1:12:29 ↗ right now we have enough information to

1:12:32 ↗ really understand

1:12:34 ↗ if things that are being put on hold if

1:12:36 ↗ it's possible for them to not be on hold

1:12:39 ↗ it seems like some things that are major

1:12:41 ↗ challenges for example the

1:12:44 ↗ transportation demand management because

1:12:46 ↗ that's dependent on the school pool and

1:12:48 ↗ schools are closed it seems that one

1:12:49 ↗ cannot be moved but that one is given as

1:12:52 ↗ major challenges where whereas many

1:12:54 ↗ other things are on hold and so I I

1:12:57 ↗ think it would be very helpful and then

1:12:59 ↗ I would request that we have information

1:13:01 ↗ about what criteria are being used to

1:13:04 ↗ group these by different statuses and

1:13:06 ↗ then also if it's possible or under

1:13:09 ↗ what's the timeline under which this

1:13:11 ↗ might change that's my question and it's

1:13:15 ↗ probably for for a future ask I'll just

1:13:19 ↗ check in with City Administrator Bob

1:13:21 ↗ Chris and see if there's anything you

1:13:22 ↗ wanted to add in at this point sure uh

1:13:27 ↗ you know I wish I could tell you that

1:13:30 ↗ there was a fine criteria of scoring

1:13:33 ↗ criteria for each of these but there

1:13:35 ↗ just isn't I think what we're trying to

1:13:37 ↗ do is we're trying to use our best

1:13:39 ↗ information that we have today about

1:13:43 ↗ where we are where our partners are

1:13:45 ↗ where we have staff and financial

1:13:47 ↗ resources and what you see is a

1:13:50 ↗ compilation of that we are committed to

1:13:53 ↗ come back to the council if the council

1:13:55 ↗ agrees to resume study sessions on to

1:13:58 ↗ the eight we will have a refresh of this

1:14:01 ↗ we will add additional narrative I think

1:14:04 ↗ I've heard from many of you over the

1:14:06 ↗ last few days looking for additional

1:14:09 ↗ narrative of the decision making process

1:14:12 ↗ but each one is different we've never

1:14:15 ↗ been through something like this and

1:14:17 ↗ we're trying to give the council and the

1:14:20 ↗ community our best estimate you know in

1:14:22 ↗ some respect perhaps we should have

1:14:23 ↗ waited a month or two before even

1:14:25 ↗ bringing this to you but we didn't think

1:14:27 ↗ that that was something that made sense

1:14:28 ↗ we wanted instead to make sure that the

1:14:31 ↗ council had the administration's

1:14:33 ↗ thinking right now of where we stood

1:14:35 ↗ with things so this is a work in

1:14:37 ↗ progress a document that will continue

1:14:39 ↗ to evolve and you have our commitment to

1:14:41 ↗ come back next month with a further

1:14:43 ↗ update

1:14:45 ↗ we also have a question from

1:14:47 ↗ councilmember Walsh and followed by

1:14:50 ↗ councilmember hop thank you madam mayor

1:14:53 ↗ this is councilmember Walsh my only

1:14:56 ↗ question in the area of mobility is is

1:14:59 ↗ there anything that we need to be doing

1:15:00 ↗ to take advantage of fewer cars being on

1:15:05 ↗ the road and also in preparation for

1:15:07 ↗ school coming back potentially in the

1:15:11 ↗ fall related to the traffic calming

1:15:14 ↗ program and some of the things that

1:15:16 ↗ we've heard for Old Town and the desire

1:15:20 ↗ for there to be an improvement to a

1:15:22 ↗ crosswalk there are those things that

1:15:24 ↗ are easier done during times when

1:15:28 ↗ society is shut down and that we should

1:15:31 ↗ potentially move up even if we have

1:15:33 ↗ limited resources

1:15:35 ↗ yeah I think councilmember Walsh members

1:15:38 ↗ of the council that there are a couple

1:15:40 ↗ components to that if you recall for

1:15:43 ↗ example with the old town traffic there

1:15:44 ↗ were some fixed of lighting some signage

1:15:48 ↗ that we can move forward with but there

1:15:51 ↗ were other parts as far as intersection

1:15:53 ↗ improvements that there was a desire by

1:15:55 ↗ the council yes do some mock-ups of some

1:15:59 ↗ temporary installations of what we

1:16:00 ↗ proposed as permanent changes I think

1:16:02 ↗ those are harder to do without some

1:16:05 ↗ semblance of regular traffic patterns so

1:16:08 ↗ our hope would be between now and June

1:16:10 ↗ to sort through that a little bit more

1:16:13 ↗ finely and have additional information

1:16:15 ↗ for either and councilmember Hall thank

1:16:24 ↗ you Mary Paulie this is councilmember

1:16:26 ↗ Hall

1:16:27 ↗ councilmember Walsh and I on the same

1:16:29 ↗ wavelength I was actually going to ask

1:16:30 ↗ the exact same question and

1:16:34 ↗ understanding that it might be difficult

1:16:36 ↗ to measure an experiment without traffic

1:16:39 ↗ actually there but identifying where if

1:16:43 ↗ there if administration sees any

1:16:46 ↗ potential opportunities for doing

1:16:50 ↗ planning work now so that way we can

1:16:52 ↗ execute quicker when the stay home order

1:16:56 ↗ is lifted in my mind that means more

1:16:58 ↗ residents and schools are safer so just

1:17:01 ↗ get out what customers want said thank

1:17:05 ↗ you did you have a second question or

1:17:06 ↗ just one nope same mystery about please

1:17:11 ↗ answer itself thank you

1:17:13 ↗ okay thanks not seeing any more

1:17:15 ↗ questions I think to the administrator

1:17:17 ↗ you can move to the next area yes thank

1:17:20 ↗ you madam air we could go to the next

1:17:23 ↗ slide this is the growth and development

1:17:26 ↗ council goal again this first page has a

1:17:31 ↗ summary of the change of where we see

1:17:34 ↗ projects again much like mobility of a

1:17:39 ↗ significant change from those that were

1:17:41 ↗ on track at the beginning of the first

1:17:43 ↗ quarter to those that are either major

1:17:47 ↗ challenges or on and delay next life

1:17:54 ↗ objective one deals with neighborhoods

1:17:58 ↗ retaining their charm and distinctive

1:17:59 ↗ character pattern and setting that

1:18:01 ↗ includes both built in natural

1:18:02 ↗ environments ge1 a deals with updating

1:18:07 ↗ codes and standards to retain and

1:18:08 ↗ protect essential characteristics in

1:18:10 ↗ established neighborhoods the Old Town

1:18:13 ↗ neighborhood process we've talked about

1:18:17 ↗ as the council will recall we've had

1:18:21 ↗ some discussions that regarding the Old

1:18:25 ↗ Town design work that we're done this

1:18:29 ↗ has been largely on hold because of the

1:18:31 ↗ community engagement piece that we'll

1:18:33 ↗ need to continue to require as I

1:18:35 ↗ mentioned earlier for several of these

1:18:37 ↗ that will require additional community

1:18:39 ↗ engagement Mayor Polly has a vast that

1:18:43 ↗ we move forward beginning June first to

1:18:46 ↗ begin reconvening

1:18:47 ↗ community discussions on various topics

1:18:50 ↗ assuming that there is no prohibition by

1:18:52 ↗ the Governor on that and so I would

1:18:54 ↗ suspect that we will be able to restart

1:18:57 ↗ on gt1 a the summer GD to a conduct

1:19:03 ↗ review of progress towards growth

1:19:05 ↗ targets this is also something that we

1:19:09 ↗ had been working on very diligently

1:19:12 ↗ prior to the the Koba 19 crisis we had

1:19:15 ↗ submitted additional initial information

1:19:18 ↗ to King County for their process to

1:19:21 ↗ review growth targets that products that

1:19:23 ↗ process has also been suspended at this

1:19:26 ↗ time I believe we've gotten some initial

1:19:28 ↗ information that it will be moving

1:19:29 ↗ forward again soon so we would hope to

1:19:32 ↗ be back to you with additional

1:19:34 ↗ information in June to proactively

1:19:38 ↗ influence the next round of regional

1:19:40 ↗ growth targets again this is a

1:19:42 ↗ complimentary 2gd to a you know we

1:19:47 ↗ continue to have information ready for

1:19:51 ↗ this

1:19:53 ↗ citizens major challenges because there

1:19:55 ↗ is still some additional work done in

1:19:58 ↗ anticipation of King County getting its

1:20:02 ↗ process but again not knowing when that

1:20:03 ↗ will occur what makes it a major

1:20:06 ↗ challenge objective 3 gd3 a create a

1:20:10 ↗ comprehensive infrastructure master plan

1:20:12 ↗ to address development areas plan for

1:20:14 ↗ growth this is also on hold for a

1:20:17 ↗ variety of reasons I think largely we

1:20:21 ↗ need to get a better sense of the impact

1:20:23 ↗ on development the Cova 19 crisis will

1:20:27 ↗ be bringing on we've also had some

1:20:29 ↗ changes in staffing in our Public Works

1:20:32 ↗ Department and as we look at maybe

1:20:34 ↗ organization of Public Works hopefully

1:20:37 ↗ effective June 1 that we'll have a

1:20:39 ↗ better ability to restart this process

1:20:43 ↗ so I would mention additional

1:20:45 ↗ information for the counseling next

1:20:47 ↗ slide

1:20:51 ↗ update impact and mitigation fees to

1:20:53 ↗ support growth rated investments this is

1:20:56 ↗ one of the few that we can say are

1:20:58 ↗ completed this was done by the council

1:21:00 ↗ earlier this year with park impact fees

1:21:03 ↗ objective for across the city there are

1:21:06 ↗ a variety of public amenities housing

1:21:08 ↗ types education and other services to

1:21:09 ↗ contribute to liveable community

1:21:11 ↗ identify and implement code changes and

1:21:14 ↗ activities to address neighborhood based

1:21:16 ↗ community wide gaps in amenities and

1:21:18 ↗ services again this was to be a pilot

1:21:23 ↗ effort to be conducted in its

1:21:25 ↗ a Highland neighborhood given the likova

1:21:30 ↗ 19 crisis we've not been able to have

1:21:33 ↗ any kind of community meetings and so

1:21:35 ↗ our hope would be is that in June we

1:21:37 ↗ would begin working with the SD staff to

1:21:40 ↗ identify ways to move that pilot project

1:21:42 ↗ forward g4b develop code amendments to

1:21:47 ↗ address missing middle and other housing

1:21:49 ↗ options again lots changing with housing

1:21:54 ↗ the missing middle piece is the key

1:21:58 ↗ element here it's our recommendation

1:22:00 ↗ that again we let a little bit more time

1:22:03 ↗ pass to get a sense of where things are

1:22:05 ↗ at with affordable housing to make sure

1:22:08 ↗ that the missing middle is the area that

1:22:11 ↗ we want to address in 2020 so I would

1:22:13 ↗ hope that we would have some additional

1:22:14 ↗ information as soon as June likely

1:22:18 ↗ probably later in the summer but again

1:22:21 ↗ would look for the council's

1:22:22 ↗ direction on this issue before a next

1:22:25 ↗ page these are other areas of concern

1:22:33 ↗ that we were looking at one is two

1:22:35 ↗ flowcharts explaining project approval

1:22:37 ↗ process again one of our commitments is

1:22:41 ↗ but do that with everything we do so

1:22:43 ↗ that additional projects move forward we

1:22:46 ↗ want to continue to include flowcharts

1:22:49 ↗ with that the title 18 work would also

1:22:53 ↗ be part of that we need to talk a little

1:22:56 ↗ bit more about title 18 and I would ask

1:22:59 ↗ madam mayor that perhaps a it sparked

1:23:02 ↗ questions

1:23:03 ↗ Andrea Schneider the deputy City

1:23:05 ↗ Administrator I can't speak specifically

1:23:08 ↗ to where we are with Title 18 a

1:23:10 ↗ contractor code of conduct again

1:23:12 ↗ something that has been suggested by a

1:23:15 ↗ deputy council president Ray which I

1:23:18 ↗ think something I heard in my initial

1:23:20 ↗ week City Administrator for many

1:23:22 ↗ community members again I think this has

1:23:25 ↗ just been a availability of staff and I

1:23:28 ↗ think once once the time passes a little

1:23:31 ↗ bit further we'll be able to get this

1:23:33 ↗ project back on track finish the

1:23:35 ↗ overhaul anticipable code title 18 again

1:23:37 ↗ adapt to Andrea

1:23:39 ↗ a Schneider to address this during the

1:23:42 ↗ question time period actually about a

1:23:45 ↗ mayor perhaps but makes sense if

1:23:47 ↗ Andrea's on the line we could just have

1:23:49 ↗ her chime in right now on title 18 since

1:23:52 ↗ that's a large portion of the growth and

1:23:54 ↗ development priority I think I would be

1:23:56 ↗ good and then we'll follow up if you're

1:23:58 ↗ done after Andrea I will follow up with

1:24:00 ↗ a question from councilmember Hall a

1:24:04 ↗ deputy City Administrator Snyder

1:24:08 ↗ good evening everyone

1:24:10 ↗ thank you for the opportunity to speak

1:24:12 ↗ so we have been working for the past

1:24:16 ↗ several months with the council ad hoc

1:24:18 ↗ committee on title 18 what we're putting

1:24:22 ↗ forward with this work plan revision is

1:24:24 ↗ that the work continued on title 18

1:24:27 ↗ that's related to the sign code overhaul

1:24:30 ↗ as many of you are aware there have been

1:24:34 ↗ recent court cases about the First

1:24:38 ↗ Amendment and how many cities Issaquah

1:24:41 ↗ among them our sign code it doesn't

1:24:45 ↗ necessarily meet the standards set

1:24:47 ↗ forward by the court case in order to

1:24:50 ↗ protect First Amendment rights and so we

1:24:52 ↗ need to update the sign code that is

1:24:56 ↗ that work has been underway by one of

1:25:00 ↗ our consultant teams actually Ogden

1:25:02 ↗ Murphy Wallace has been assisting us

1:25:04 ↗ with that and so we would like to

1:25:07 ↗ proceed with that work and really that

1:25:11 ↗ work alone while we put the rest of the

1:25:13 ↗ title 18 revisions on hold and knowing

1:25:19 ↗ that there are many policies in Title 18

1:25:22 ↗ that we had planned on addressing this

1:25:25 ↗ year that are of great import to the

1:25:29 ↗ community that they would want to weigh

1:25:31 ↗ in on and be engaged on these topics and

1:25:33 ↗ that's going to be difficult to do for

1:25:35 ↗ the next couple of markets so we wanted

1:25:38 ↗ to be able to put that off to allow us

1:25:40 ↗ to have community conversations and

1:25:43 ↗ engage the public as it makes sense the

1:25:46 ↗ rest of the project for Title 18 and

1:25:50 ↗ revising

1:25:52 ↗ the code and policies within we would

1:25:55 ↗ consider looking at revisiting again in

1:25:59 ↗ 2021 Thank You deputy administrator

1:26:04 ↗ councilmember Holly a question yeah

1:26:09 ↗ thanks for Polly oh this is

1:26:11 ↗ councilmember hall question for City

1:26:15 ↗ Administrator Bob quits under

1:26:20 ↗ sub-objective g d 4b which was the one

1:26:25 ↗ on missing middle housing and other

1:26:27 ↗ affordable housing options

1:26:28 ↗ you didn't mentioned something about

1:26:30 ↗ going to wait to study where things are

1:26:33 ↗ at regarding affordable housing I was

1:26:35 ↗ wondering if you could just kind explain

1:26:37 ↗ what you meant by that is it the market

1:26:40 ↗ we want to look at or what exactly would

1:26:44 ↗ be wanting me to live in it well III

1:26:47 ↗ think given where we are with the stay

1:26:49 ↗ at home order given where we are with

1:26:52 ↗ allowing existing structures to move

1:26:55 ↗ forward given where we are with many

1:26:58 ↗ people finding themselves out of work

1:27:00 ↗ there's a lot of issues floating around

1:27:03 ↗ and I and I would think that to get a

1:27:06 ↗ better sense of what our affordable

1:27:09 ↗ housing needs are we which we took

1:27:11 ↗ $100,000 and put it toward rental

1:27:14 ↗ assistance just in the last you know six

1:27:17 ↗ eight weeks so I don't see this being a

1:27:19 ↗ long time to look in review but I don't

1:27:22 ↗ know that we have enough time passing

1:27:26 ↗ with the crisis but we're still in the

1:27:28 ↗ midst of to give us a better sense of

1:27:30 ↗ where things aren't I'd like to come

1:27:32 ↗ back in June and see if we have a better

1:27:34 ↗ sense we may want to move forward with

1:27:38 ↗ this regardless and focus on the missing

1:27:41 ↗ middle piece knowing that there will be

1:27:43 ↗ other issues but I think as we sit here

1:27:45 ↗ at the beginning of May I don't know

1:27:48 ↗ that we know and off yet to say we

1:27:50 ↗ should we should be spending resources

1:27:52 ↗ to move forward with this

1:27:57 ↗ health remember Hall did you have a

1:27:59 ↗ follow-up question no thank you so it

1:28:02 ↗ seems like the bottom line really is

1:28:04 ↗ we're just not sure if this we don't

1:28:10 ↗ know enough it's a quote we don't know

1:28:12 ↗ enough to be able to justify spending

1:28:15 ↗ resources on this yet in this new

1:28:17 ↗ environment where am i hearing you right

1:28:18 ↗ yes sir okay thank you sorry about that

1:28:26 ↗ I dropped off the call can you still

1:28:28 ↗ hear me mm-hmm okay great we also have a

1:28:33 ↗ council president hunt I have two

1:28:41 ↗ questions

1:28:43 ↗ one of them is about the the last

1:28:46 ↗ statement that was made about

1:28:48 ↗ potentially revisiting some of our

1:28:50 ↗ policies around affordable housing and I

1:28:55 ↗ feel that if council is going to revisit

1:28:59 ↗ policies that we've adopted previously

1:29:02 ↗ that I think applies to potentially the

1:29:06 ↗ missing middle because I think it's in

1:29:07 ↗ our housing strategy work plan and as

1:29:11 ↗ well as the retention of affordable

1:29:13 ↗ housing which I know is in our housing

1:29:14 ↗ strategy work plan is adopted by council

1:29:16 ↗ I think if we're going to revisit those

1:29:18 ↗ that should be done in a very

1:29:21 ↗ transparent manner with an understanding

1:29:23 ↗ of what information there is to support

1:29:25 ↗ revisiting that and right now other than

1:29:28 ↗ what was just said by the city

1:29:30 ↗ administrator I don't have information

1:29:32 ↗ on you know how the market has changed

1:29:34 ↗ or why we might not consider pursuing

1:29:37 ↗ those previously adopted policies so I

1:29:39 ↗ think that's a pretty big step and I

1:29:42 ↗ think we should have a lot more

1:29:43 ↗ information before we would go that way

1:29:48 ↗ I also have a question so for for

1:29:52 ↗ Community Engagement a lot of things

1:29:54 ↗ went from being on track to being on

1:29:57 ↗ hold and I understand that's having to

1:29:59 ↗ do with the in-person meeting so the

1:30:02 ↗ timelines for having those feedback on

1:30:04 ↗ track would be when the in-person

1:30:05 ↗ meetings is listed but I also did one

1:30:07 ↗ if there are plans to have virtual

1:30:09 ↗ meetings or other kinds of community

1:30:12 ↗ meetings and other venues that we might

1:30:14 ↗ use during this time to maintain

1:30:16 ↗ momentum on some topics especially

1:30:19 ↗ because people might be interested in in

1:30:22 ↗ engaging on different topics at this

1:30:25 ↗ time yes madam mayor council president

1:30:29 ↗ hunt as I mentioned earlier in

1:30:32 ↗ conversations with mere apologist today

1:30:35 ↗ we both came to the same realization

1:30:37 ↗ that we can't wait for impressed meeting

1:30:41 ↗ named Walker I think over the last few

1:30:43 ↗ weeks we were trying to get a better

1:30:45 ↗ sense of what a time frame might even be

1:30:47 ↗ for virtual meetings video meetings

1:30:50 ↗ I think governor's a plan for phased

1:30:53 ↗ approaches it gives us some sense of

1:30:55 ↗ that and it was the mayor's decision

1:30:58 ↗ that we would try to move forward with

1:30:59 ↗ virtual community meetings beginning in

1:31:03 ↗ June so that that is what our plan will

1:31:06 ↗ be we'll kind of test it out with the

1:31:08 ↗ mayor's of recovery task force see how

1:31:11 ↗ that's going we're looking at a platform

1:31:14 ↗ other than Skype for business to use for

1:31:17 ↗ community meetings because many

1:31:18 ↗ community members just just looked a

1:31:22 ↗ couple who have tried to use it

1:31:23 ↗ depending on the computer you have it

1:31:25 ↗ may not work very well the council

1:31:27 ↗ members its you've all prepared to use

1:31:29 ↗ pronounced meetings we've had some

1:31:31 ↗ difficulty so you know mayor poly

1:31:34 ↗ decided today that unless the governor

1:31:38 ↗ makes other plans for us that we would

1:31:41 ↗ start John Jude first of the universe

1:31:44 ↗ and streams of convening that was

1:31:46 ↗ delayed we would like to move forward

1:31:48 ↗ with there's a few other things that we

1:31:50 ↗ would do as soon as possible after June

1:31:52 ↗ 1 does that answer your question Kevin

1:31:58 ↗ hunt

1:32:00 ↗ yes thank you

1:32:03 ↗ City Administrator about Chris do you

1:32:05 ↗ want to move to the next section sure

1:32:08 ↗ I'll just before I do that there were

1:32:10 ↗ just the last couple of items there

1:32:13 ↗ regarding lakes may have a State Park

1:32:15 ↗ and we'd already talked about old town

1:32:17 ↗ to squat I think I explained the Old

1:32:20 ↗ Town piece and

1:32:21 ↗ the Lake Sammamish park again I think

1:32:24 ↗ it's just been with with state office

1:32:26 ↗ working from home we would revisit this

1:32:31 ↗ soon and hopefully have an update for

1:32:32 ↗ you in June we're going on to the next

1:32:35 ↗ area is environmental stewardship an

1:32:40 ↗ important piece of what we're doing

1:32:44 ↗ moving forward again I think given the

1:32:47 ↗ current crisis we need to rethink some

1:32:51 ↗ of our time frames from that and so if

1:32:54 ↗ we look at the first objective natural

1:32:57 ↗ environment is protected and improved

1:32:59 ↗ and consistent responsible and

1:33:00 ↗ sustainable manner as we look to move

1:33:06 ↗ forward with Title 18 certainly we're

1:33:09 ↗ looking to make changes there some

1:33:13 ↗ additional actions would take a

1:33:14 ↗ comprehensive look across the city and

1:33:16 ↗ other relevant agency environmental

1:33:18 ↗ resource plans development agreements

1:33:20 ↗ codes programs policies to identify gaps

1:33:22 ↗ and vulnerabilities we hope that we

1:33:25 ↗ would be able to continue moving forward

1:33:28 ↗ with that as you know Megan will be

1:33:33 ↗ moving forward with the Office of

1:33:35 ↗ Sustainability that will convert from a

1:33:37 ↗ department to the administration Megan

1:33:40 ↗ port directly to me and so this is

1:33:42 ↗ something that she'll be able to work on

1:33:44 ↗ as you move forward the objective to who

1:33:46 ↗ community members are active partners in

1:33:48 ↗ the stewardship of this clause

1:33:49 ↗ environment again given the stay at home

1:33:53 ↗ order getting a volunteer initiatives

1:33:56 ↗ going is going to be difficult until

1:33:57 ↗ that lifts so we will keep an eye on the

1:34:02 ↗ time frame of Governor Inslee changes in

1:34:06 ↗ letting having people gather and will be

1:34:09 ↗ able to move forward with that that

1:34:11 ↗ point objective three the city's

1:34:14 ↗ requires you to do plans for Park trail

1:34:16 ↗ open space critical areas and for

1:34:17 ↗ resource protection to maximize

1:34:19 ↗ community benefits again this is largely

1:34:24 ↗ a staff resource issue as well as just

1:34:29 ↗ the time to engage the community in

1:34:32 ↗ these discussions so hopefully we'll

1:34:34 ↗ have better so

1:34:35 ↗ things come to looking at critical

1:34:38 ↗ service items and timely opportunity the

1:34:42 ↗ shoreline master plan again we believe

1:34:47 ↗ under the governor's current Open

1:34:49 ↗ Meeting Law changes that anything but

1:34:54 ↗ the most urgent matters can't come

1:34:56 ↗ before council until that is lifted

1:34:59 ↗ we're hoping to get additional guidance

1:35:01 ↗ from the state legislature today on that

1:35:04 ↗ and so we would bring that back for

1:35:09 ↗ further discussion at such time that

1:35:11 ↗ those requirements were lifted the

1:35:14 ↗ community climate action plan again an

1:35:17 ↗ important project for the year we have

1:35:20 ↗ we're planning an in-person convening we

1:35:24 ↗ are going to move forward and do a

1:35:26 ↗ virtual convening we are working with a

1:35:29 ↗ citizen group that has been working on

1:35:31 ↗ the convening they're continuing to meet

1:35:34 ↗ through the Cova crisis by telephone and

1:35:37 ↗ we would look to have a virtual climate

1:35:39 ↗ convening sometime I think we're looking

1:35:42 ↗ at the first part of July at this point

1:35:44 ↗ the community sustainability summit that

1:35:48 ↗ is again connected with the community

1:35:51 ↗ climate action planning that came

1:35:54 ↗ convening to move forward with the

1:35:58 ↗ climate action plan the sustainability

1:36:01 ↗ summit would be a portion of that again

1:36:03 ↗ planning is continuing with that looking

1:36:06 ↗ for a convening during the month of July

1:36:09 ↗ implementing sustainable building

1:36:11 ↗ strategies dressing City facilities and

1:36:13 ↗ new development this is what major

1:36:17 ↗ challenges given where we are with title

1:36:19 ↗ 18 there is work that also needs to be

1:36:22 ↗ done on title 16 you know my hope is

1:36:24 ↗ again at our June update we'll be able

1:36:27 ↗ to give the council a better status of

1:36:30 ↗ where we are with that Nexus the

1:36:33 ↗ sustainability living partnership these

1:36:36 ↗ are programs that we had planned

1:36:39 ↗ we were planning a very large Earth Day

1:36:41 ↗ celebration we are looking for other

1:36:44 ↗ programs and activities that we would be

1:36:46 ↗ able to implement in lieu of

1:36:49 ↗ the Earth Day celebration again as soon

1:36:51 ↗ as we're able to congregate folks are

1:36:54 ↗ also looking at ways that we can perhaps

1:36:57 ↗ later in the summer I continue to

1:36:59 ↗ connect people virtually not to these

1:37:01 ↗ issues

1:37:03 ↗ next is electrical vehicle

1:37:08 ↗ infrastructure we were looking at some

1:37:13 ↗ public-private partnerships there just

1:37:16 ↗ as recently as today mrs. Curtis Murphy

1:37:19 ↗ and I were talking about ways to begin

1:37:22 ↗ work on this project once again so

1:37:25 ↗ Google absolutely have plans for next

1:37:28 ↗ steps when we provide you the next

1:37:30 ↗ update in June so again with the budget

1:37:33 ↗ reductions we have made we have had

1:37:35 ↗ streamlined our approach to

1:37:37 ↗ environmental stewardship and

1:37:39 ↗ sustainability I'm very confident under

1:37:42 ↗ Megan Curtis Murphy's leadership that

1:37:45 ↗ we'll be able to achieve and engage with

1:37:47 ↗ the public these things going in a way

1:37:51 ↗ that I think is responsive to the

1:37:53 ↗ council and community needs they happy

1:37:55 ↗ to answer any questions

1:37:58 ↗ president hunt for the question thank

1:38:02 ↗ you I have a question about where parks

1:38:07 ↗ and recreation reopening with it into

1:38:10 ↗ this work plan it does not specifically

1:38:16 ↗ work into the work plan we are looking

1:38:20 ↗ very carefully each day as exchange and

1:38:25 ↗ we get closer through the governor's

1:38:28 ↗ based approach for reopening how uses of

1:38:32 ↗ our parks how or organize recreational

1:38:36 ↗ activity how larger gatherings would

1:38:38 ↗ take place we don't know enough at this

1:38:40 ↗ point to have a time in place

1:38:44 ↗ okay so I think that sort of along the

1:38:49 ↗ same lines is my context question before

1:38:52 ↗ I think that having some information

1:38:55 ↗ about a lot of things have changed

1:38:58 ↗ around the work plan and we now have a

1:39:02 ↗ different set of challenges than we had

1:39:04 ↗ when we initially adopted the work plan

1:39:06 ↗ you know what I think we need more

1:39:08 ↗ information about the things that we

1:39:11 ↗ will need to be working on and that the

1:39:13 ↗ administration knows and expect we will

1:39:15 ↗ be working on that we didn't foresee

1:39:19 ↗ before because that's also a piece of

1:39:21 ↗ the context that has changed this chance

1:39:23 ↗ to be missing and we've not talked about

1:39:28 ↗ a process for adding of things the

1:39:31 ↗ administration is at one area with

1:39:34 ↗ Public Safety and so madam mayor I would

1:39:37 ↗ look to your guidance and direction as

1:39:40 ↗ to a process for you know adding

1:39:43 ↗ additional items if you would like this

1:39:44 ↗ to Council to make suggestions and then

1:39:46 ↗ we will consider those suggestions or

1:39:49 ↗ have that at a future meeting madam

1:39:52 ↗ mayor I would look for whatever watching

1:39:55 ↗ out on that subject yeah thank you and

1:39:58 ↗ that's a that's a good question a good

1:40:00 ↗ point big council president there are a

1:40:01 ↗ lot of programs and things that we used

1:40:04 ↗ to have in place that were not on this

1:40:05 ↗ list of strategic plan items moving the

1:40:08 ↗ needle so and they've thought or they've

1:40:11 ↗ been paused or they may not even come

1:40:14 ↗ back this year so we will have to have

1:40:17 ↗ some additional conversations about that

1:40:19 ↗ there's also question from councilmember

1:40:21 ↗ Hall and madam mayor if I may just one

1:40:24 ↗ other comment on that before we get off

1:40:26 ↗ it I think that your recovery task force

1:40:29 ↗ will likely come up with its own list of

1:40:32 ↗ issues and so perhaps after a few

1:40:35 ↗ meetings of the recovery task force if

1:40:37 ↗ they have a list maybe there's some how

1:40:40 ↗ to incorporate whatever issues did

1:40:42 ↗ they've identified into this work plan

1:40:45 ↗ so you know perhaps by June there'll be

1:40:48 ↗ a few meetings of the task force under

1:40:50 ↗ our belt we report back on June 8th so

1:40:53 ↗ there may be information at that point

1:40:55 ↗ that's a great suggestion Thank You

1:40:57 ↗ councilmember Hall you had a question

1:41:00 ↗ yeah thanks mayor Poli this is Zack Hall

1:41:03 ↗ I had a question about objective 2 which

1:41:07 ↗ was community members are active

1:41:08 ↗ partners in the stewardship of this

1:41:10 ↗ croisé environment you know beyond

1:41:13 ↗ actually having volunteers out in

1:41:16 ↗ violating the governor's orders I mean

1:41:18 ↗ it seems like there is some gathering

1:41:23 ↗ work that we could be doing if there's

1:41:26 ↗ staff time I mean I know there's a link

1:41:28 ↗ on the website to apply to be a

1:41:30 ↗ volunteer but perhaps you know

1:41:33 ↗ communications could be getting that out

1:41:34 ↗ and I think the website also says one of

1:41:38 ↗ the objectives of this partnership is to

1:41:44 ↗ gather public input on the values

1:41:45 ↗ interests and priority surrounding

1:41:48 ↗ forests of parks and open spaces it

1:41:50 ↗ seems to me like some of that could be

1:41:52 ↗ done virtually I'd be interested in your

1:41:55 ↗ thoughts on that and really if it is

1:41:57 ↗ just a staff time issue and staff time

1:42:02 ↗ could be better spent elsewhere I'd be

1:42:06 ↗ interested in your thoughts on that too

1:42:09 ↗ if I may madam mayor I'm gonna phone a

1:42:12 ↗ friend and ask Megan Kurtz Murphy our

1:42:16 ↗ sustainability coordinator to chime I

1:42:20 ↗ know that she has been talking with

1:42:23 ↗ folks about the convening that we we

1:42:26 ↗ hope to have which will largely be both

1:42:28 ↗ a climate action but I know we'll do

1:42:30 ↗ address some larger issues as well that

1:42:33 ↗ you want to comment on sure yes I think

1:42:37 ↗ as you're saying we are trying to get a

1:42:39 ↗ little bit more going in the virtual

1:42:42 ↗ convening world so of course we won't be

1:42:44 ↗ able to you know get people together for

1:42:46 ↗ a while but we've been hearing that you

1:42:49 ↗ know volunteering is a priority in the

1:42:51 ↗ city and we're hoping to continue that

1:42:53 ↗ work moving forward as we get people

1:42:55 ↗ together and at the climate convening

1:42:58 ↗ that we talked about that will be

1:43:01 ↗ holding later in the summer we can talk

1:43:04 ↗ about some of that work as well and and

1:43:06 ↗ start to prioritize

1:43:07 ↗ I can can you talk a little bit about

1:43:10 ↗ the tube down with some of the our

1:43:12 ↗ stakeholder groups sure yeah so we've

1:43:18 ↗ been meeting with a couple of our local

1:43:20 ↗ groups to plan the climate convening and

1:43:24 ↗ then also we've been talking to some of

1:43:26 ↗ local nonprofit organizations just to

1:43:29 ↗ check in about how things are going in

1:43:32 ↗ this new coated world that we are living

1:43:34 ↗ in checking on you know how

1:43:37 ↗ organizations are dealing with events

1:43:39 ↗ that they may have been planning moving

1:43:41 ↗ that to virtual trying to help provide

1:43:43 ↗ resources or in mostly in the form of

1:43:46 ↗ information some of the same things

1:43:49 ↗ that's been going out to some of the

1:43:50 ↗ businesses is available for to

1:43:52 ↗ nonprofits as well so working closely

1:43:55 ↗ with all of those groups and making sure

1:43:57 ↗ we stay in coordination and

1:43:59 ↗ communication during this time so that

1:44:01 ↗ we can and bring the best programs to

1:44:04 ↗ Issaquah thank you thank you great thank

1:44:13 ↗ you very much I do not see any other

1:44:15 ↗ questions on that section to administer

1:44:17 ↗ about Chris so you may move on thank you

1:44:21 ↗ the next section is social and economic

1:44:26 ↗ tality probably among the Dziedzic plan

1:44:34 ↗ areas that have had the most impact the

1:44:37 ↗ code nineteen crisis has had the most

1:44:38 ↗ impact on as far as I think we're being

1:44:42 ↗ asked to pivot some of the work that

1:44:45 ↗ we're doing again the slide gives you

1:44:47 ↗ just a graphic overview of some of the

1:44:50 ↗ changes that we've had to make if you

1:44:53 ↗ look at objective one next page is

1:44:59 ↗ increase in new and existing businesses

1:45:00 ↗ that chose to locate and expand

1:45:03 ↗ especially those with wage levels enable

1:45:05 ↗ workers also to live in the community

1:45:08 ↗ this is something that as you know

1:45:12 ↗ council members Jen Davis has been

1:45:15 ↗ working daily since the crisis began to

1:45:19 ↗ work

1:45:20 ↗ with our employers businesses in intend

1:45:25 ↗ town one of the ways we have been using

1:45:29 ↗ dollars is through the Port of Seattle

1:45:30 ↗ grant funds that we have I think we are

1:45:33 ↗ waiting really for the dust to settle to

1:45:37 ↗ have a better sense of what we need to

1:45:40 ↗ do here and if we need to make

1:45:43 ↗ additional changes I think we are going

1:45:45 ↗ to need to focus more in the near term

1:45:48 ↗ on retention then we are business

1:45:51 ↗ recruitment and so we have worked with

1:45:53 ↗ the Port of Seattle to make sure that

1:45:55 ↗ there's flexibility in those grant funds

1:45:58 ↗ so if we need to reprogram them I will

1:46:01 ↗ be able to do that and begin when I hope

1:46:03 ↗ would be and you would have a better

1:46:05 ↗ opportunity to give you an update on you

1:46:07 ↗ might work program s v1c expands for

1:46:12 ↗ small businesses and startup training

1:46:14 ↗ and development this is a great example

1:46:16 ↗ of how we have pivoted with our startup

1:46:20 ↗ four to five initiative which is a

1:46:24 ↗ co-branded initiative with several of

1:46:26 ↗ these King County communities that's now

1:46:29 ↗ known as restart up four to five and so

1:46:32 ↗ the money that had been previously they

1:46:35 ↗ did there is going toward this

1:46:38 ↗ initiative and is being used again to

1:46:41 ↗ focus on providing business assistance

1:46:43 ↗ specifically for those businesses that

1:46:45 ↗ will be - art wants the stay-at-home

1:46:48 ↗ order there so we're lonely looking at

1:46:51 ↗ minor challenges on that problem

1:46:53 ↗ objective - housing affordability better

1:46:58 ↗ meets the needs of individuals and

1:46:59 ↗ families across the income spectrum to

1:47:00 ↗ live and work in the community this

1:47:05 ↗ deals again with our house strategies

1:47:10 ↗ and our healthy community strategy we

1:47:13 ↗ are again looking to let the dust settle

1:47:17 ↗ a little bit here before we are able to

1:47:20 ↗ move forward we've certainly had a

1:47:22 ↗ staffing issues but the staff that deal

1:47:26 ↗ with both Human Services and affordable

1:47:28 ↗ housing so our hope is that we would be

1:47:30 ↗ able to get the start restarted here

1:47:33 ↗ sure

1:47:34 ↗ early and have additional information to

1:47:37 ↗ you in G number se to see next page

1:47:44 ↗ determine of city property out to be

1:47:46 ↗ before housing related to a assessment

1:47:51 ↗ of city-owned properties the done last

1:47:53 ↗ year this was something that we were

1:47:55 ↗ working on the amiss by to pay back

1:47:57 ↗ council the spring but because of the

1:48:01 ↗ coab in nineteen crisis we decided on

1:48:04 ↗ hold i think this is a pape decision

1:48:07 ↗ really council to decide when you'd like

1:48:09 ↗ to bring this back I think there's also

1:48:11 ↗ a concern as to when we would want to

1:48:14 ↗ talk about the sale of City assets my

1:48:18 ↗ sense is that we're a little early in

1:48:20 ↗ the process to be looking to be looking

1:48:22 ↗ at the sale of the assets certainly

1:48:24 ↗ before any sale of assets one of them

1:48:27 ↗ talked about with the council is a

1:48:29 ↗ process and procedure for assessment of

1:48:31 ↗ when a property should be sold and what

1:48:34 ↗ are the key points that would be needed

1:48:36 ↗ in order to move forward with the sale

1:48:38 ↗ so this is on hold and perhaps in June

1:48:41 ↗ we could talk more about when the

1:48:43 ↗ property kinda need to bring that back

1:48:45 ↗ as the healthy community strategy again

1:48:51 ↗ something that we present to the council

1:48:53 ↗ a few months back we've really been

1:48:55 ↗ living this right now and trying to deal

1:48:58 ↗ with direct communities so while staff

1:49:01 ↗ is focused on that I think that

1:49:03 ↗ additional planning for the future

1:49:06 ↗ probably a little premature

1:49:08 ↗ and we'll bring that back for future

1:49:10 ↗ discussion and updates as we can

1:49:15 ↗ 3sec

1:49:17 ↗ facilitate nonprofit organizations to

1:49:19 ↗ locate or expand provide needed services

1:49:21 ↗ locally again we've been working day to

1:49:24 ↗ day with our nonprofits to support the

1:49:27 ↗ delivery services again not quite what

1:49:29 ↗ we thought of when we were looking at

1:49:32 ↗ this on the strategic plan but we'll

1:49:34 ↗ continue to work in this new environment

1:49:37 ↗ to the best of our abilities and perhaps

1:49:39 ↗ double back on some of these particular

1:49:41 ↗ points in the months ahead

1:49:44 ↗ transitory and development Tod OC

1:49:47 ↗ project

1:49:47 ↗ I think it would be appropriate once

1:49:50 ↗ again to call a friend deputy City

1:49:53 ↗ Administrator and Maria Schneider has

1:49:55 ↗ been working on this project and Andrea

1:49:57 ↗ if you wouldn't mind just providing a

1:49:59 ↗ brief update on where we stand good

1:50:07 ↗ evening again this is on the tod OSI

1:50:10 ↗ project is that correct that's correct

1:50:12 ↗ okay that's I thought I heard you say so

1:50:18 ↗ we are in continued conversations with

1:50:22 ↗ CenturyLink and our development partners

1:50:23 ↗ and including a phone call I think

1:50:28 ↗ they're having some internal meetings

1:50:30 ↗ this week tomorrow in fact so we do

1:50:34 ↗ anticipate hearing from them again by

1:50:36 ↗ the end of this week what we're trying

1:50:37 ↗ to assess from them is their support of

1:50:41 ↗ the drafted purchase and sale agreement

1:50:42 ↗ which would include the property swap

1:50:45 ↗ that would occur between CenturyLink the

1:50:48 ↗ city and our development partners and so

1:50:51 ↗ we have a draft of that we're trying to

1:50:54 ↗ see if CenturyLink what their comments

1:50:56 ↗ on that draft might be that's currently

1:50:59 ↗ underway so we anticipate or we are

1:51:03 ↗ still planning to have a signed

1:51:06 ↗ agreement between all three parties

1:51:08 ↗ certainly by the end of July as what's

1:51:12 ↗ needed for our time frame great thank

1:51:15 ↗ you very much Andrea and I'm just now

1:51:17 ↗ seeing comments about my my audio I'll

1:51:20 ↗ try to speak a little bit more directly

1:51:23 ↗ into the microphone the the next item

1:51:27 ↗ was senior discounts low-income outreach

1:51:30 ↗ programs again in the current situations

1:51:33 ↗ perhaps not exactly what we thought but

1:51:35 ↗ certainly we continue that outreach as

1:51:39 ↗ best as we can for those that are in

1:51:41 ↗ need issues of homelessness again I

1:51:45 ↗ think we may need to look at new

1:51:46 ↗ approaches for this and is we are still

1:51:50 ↗ in the midst of the crisis I think that

1:51:53 ↗ as time passes we'll have a better sense

1:51:55 ↗ of what we need to continue to do in the

1:51:58 ↗ area of homelessness community equity

1:52:00 ↗ and diversity and

1:52:01 ↗ - dibs a lot of the training that we

1:52:04 ↗ were providing both our staff and

1:52:08 ↗ individual staff members and groups of

1:52:10 ↗ staff members as either stopped

1:52:12 ↗ temporarily or required people to be in

1:52:15 ↗ group gatherings so we are going to have

1:52:18 ↗ to re-examine that as we move forward

1:52:21 ↗ but certainly remain committed to

1:52:23 ↗ providing that training both for our

1:52:26 ↗ employees would also work with members

1:52:29 ↗ to the community next page economic

1:52:34 ↗ development plan we had planned a

1:52:36 ↗ convening of this frame could I get you

1:52:41 ↗ to go back to actually let me just check

1:52:45 ↗ in with Councilman Jim Michelle um can

1:52:47 ↗ you comment your question wait til the

1:52:49 ↗ end of this section all right yes yeah I

1:52:52 ↗ just didn't want to get to get lost not

1:52:55 ↗ lost thank you very much for checking in

1:52:57 ↗ so continue to the administrator we have

1:52:59 ↗ a couple of questions for you at the end

1:53:01 ↗ great I this is the last page on social

1:53:04 ↗ Necronomicon t economic development plan

1:53:07 ↗ again

1:53:08 ↗ given all that's going on the ability to

1:53:10 ↗ get businesses to focus on this side I

1:53:12 ↗ think it's going to be delayed for some

1:53:15 ↗ time but we will look at the opportunity

1:53:17 ↗ to do in a virtual convening if we can

1:53:19 ↗ later in the summer economic development

1:53:21 ↗ community outreach again we continue to

1:53:24 ↗ do that the stakeholder groups continue

1:53:26 ↗ to meet I think we'll just need to look

1:53:30 ↗ what that looks like in the new

1:53:31 ↗ environment our sports medicine

1:53:33 ↗ innovation partnership zone project is

1:53:36 ↗ on hold but given the current crisis our

1:53:39 ↗ wayfinding entry signage project is

1:53:41 ↗ unfold $4.00 savings as well as staffing

1:53:45 ↗ resources and they were visiting of our

1:53:49 ↗ special events fourth of July salmon

1:53:51 ↗ days holiday lighting in Old Town at the

1:53:55 ↗ at the end of the year I think we just

1:53:57 ↗ need to wait and see and it's the we

1:54:00 ↗ reopen for business following the

1:54:01 ↗ governor's guidance what we're able to

1:54:03 ↗ do there and we'll keep the council

1:54:05 ↗ posted so I'm an American cludes the

1:54:07 ↗ Social Democratic vitality thank you

1:54:10 ↗ very much to the administration about

1:54:11 ↗ Chris councilmember day Michelle

1:54:13 ↗ followed by councilmember mark

1:54:18 ↗ there we go

1:54:20 ↗ very briefly fg1 see I very much support

1:54:27 ↗ looking at retention of our businesses

1:54:30 ↗ and how we can support our businesses

1:54:31 ↗ during this time and I think we've been

1:54:34 ↗ doing a good job on that I think the way

1:54:38 ↗ that we treat our businesses now in the

1:54:40 ↗ midst of a crisis will go a long way

1:54:43 ↗ when we start to recover for attracting

1:54:46 ↗ new businesses to our area so I commend

1:54:50 ↗ that on the sp3 C which is rethinking

1:54:56 ↗ and looking at our human services

1:55:00 ↗ providers and our funding model for

1:55:03 ↗ human services we've had a model for a

1:55:07 ↗ long time and it's a model that I have

1:55:09 ↗ ordered strongly of providing relatively

1:55:15 ↗ small amounts of money to our local

1:55:18 ↗ human services providers and then they

1:55:22 ↗ have been responsible for raising the

1:55:24 ↗ bulk of of their money and that model

1:55:27 ↗ has worked well for us for a long time

1:55:29 ↗ and it has many things to commend it the

1:55:34 ↗ co bid 19 crisis has revealed to us

1:55:37 ↗ however that at the moment when many

1:55:41 ↗ many people are needing services is the

1:55:43 ↗ time when our Human Services funding

1:55:46 ↗ model has pretty much collapsed and I'm

1:55:50 ↗ thinking of a fully baked and hopefully

1:55:52 ↗ and Friends of views have all stated in

1:55:57 ↗ public that they are in dire straits and

1:56:00 ↗ so I think looking at this model that

1:56:03 ↗ we've had for a long time and looking at

1:56:06 ↗ the benefits of that model and then

1:56:08 ↗ looking at what do we do in the at the

1:56:11 ↗ point of emergency what can we do to

1:56:16 ↗ perhaps have reserve funds for those

1:56:19 ↗ organizations you know this is something

1:56:23 ↗ that will need a lot of thought but I

1:56:26 ↗ certainly think that we need to look at

1:56:29 ↗ the funding model in light of the

1:56:32 ↗ emergency that we are going to at this

1:56:34 ↗ point and that that's my comment there

1:56:37 ↗ thank you

1:56:38 ↗ Thank You councilmember Jean Michelle

1:56:40 ↗ councilmember marks thank you madam

1:56:46 ↗ mayor I just get thrown it's a two-stage

1:56:48 ↗ process to get that video going up so

1:56:51 ↗ one of the things I wanted to comment

1:56:54 ↗ was you know there's talk about when we

1:56:57 ↗ can reassess some of these things and I

1:57:01 ↗ tend to be a little bit cautious about

1:57:05 ↗ setting expectations about when things

1:57:08 ↗ can get really a tit I mean June is four

1:57:11 ↗ weeks away and we will be very lucky

1:57:15 ↗ if we've moved to phase two based on the

1:57:19 ↗ state level dashboards and so one of the

1:57:23 ↗ things I think to think about in all

1:57:24 ↗ this is the recovery from coded 19 is

1:57:31 ↗ going to take a while and some of these

1:57:33 ↗ things may become evident you know soon

1:57:37 ↗ after businesses are able to restart and

1:57:39 ↗ others may take quite some time so I

1:57:42 ↗ think I would love to see sort of a same

1:57:47 ↗ way that we have a phased reopening of

1:57:51 ↗ you know removal of social distancing

1:57:54 ↗ perhaps a phased review of these because

1:57:57 ↗ I think some of these aren't going to be

1:57:58 ↗ anywhere near ready to go in kind of a

1:58:00 ↗ June timeframe we're just we're just

1:58:02 ↗ saying not going to know very much more

1:58:03 ↗ than we know now even if even if we're

1:58:05 ↗ very very lucky and we come out of phase

1:58:07 ↗ one yet on May 25th I don't think we're

1:58:11 ↗ really going to know the lay of the land

1:58:12 ↗ for some time like at least another

1:58:15 ↗ month so so I would just ask that we

1:58:18 ↗ think about I'm not I'm not requesting

1:58:20 ↗ anything formal but I just think we

1:58:22 ↗ should think about a phased review of

1:58:27 ↗ these holds as for when we really have

1:58:31 ↗ usable information I think doing it too

1:58:33 ↗ sir too soon wouldn't be a very much

1:58:37 ↗ value thank you

1:58:39 ↗ Thank You councilmember Mars

1:58:40 ↗ councilmember Goodman followed by

1:58:42 ↗ councilmember hall Thank You

1:58:44 ↗ councilmember Goodman here so I'm

1:58:48 ↗ looking at the very last the very last

1:58:55 ↗ item in the social and economic vitality

1:58:57 ↗ and that's the special events plan 4th

1:59:01 ↗ of July salmon days holiday lighting so

1:59:05 ↗ as I think about salmon days and the

1:59:10 ↗ chamber of commerce it's my

1:59:12 ↗ understanding that salmon days is the

1:59:15 ↗ major fundraiser for the chamber of

1:59:18 ↗ commerce significant financial

1:59:23 ↗ opportunity and you know maybe the most

1:59:27 ↗ important fundraiser or revenue producer

1:59:32 ↗ for the chamber and I don't have any

1:59:34 ↗ idea if any conversations are taking

1:59:35 ↗ place between the city and the chamber

1:59:37 ↗ and I don't need an answer my only

1:59:40 ↗ thought is that I'm guessing that salmon

1:59:45 ↗ days is on the mind of the chamber board

1:59:50 ↗ right now and that I would if we haven't

1:59:53 ↗ already

1:59:53 ↗ it might be worth reaching out to the

1:59:55 ↗ chamber to see if there's anything that

1:59:58 ↗ the city could be doing to help in that

2:00:04 ↗ effort or just learn what challenges

2:00:06 ↗ that the chamber might be facing that

2:00:09 ↗ the city might be able to assist with

2:00:11 ↗ Thanks thank you that's a good point and

2:00:15 ↗ actually I just want to add one thing in

2:00:17 ↗ for both you and councilmember Mertzes

2:00:19 ↗ comment that you made earlier it is a

2:00:21 ↗ phased reopening it's hard to say what

2:00:24 ↗ something's going to look like when you

2:00:26 ↗ don't have guidelines it's hard to say

2:00:28 ↗ if it's economical for the chamber to

2:00:30 ↗ run a affair where the booths have to be

2:00:33 ↗ 10 feet apart and only so many people

2:00:36 ↗ can be on a certain section of road and

2:00:38 ↗ so it will be a learning period over the

2:00:40 ↗ next three to four months as these

2:00:42 ↗ guidances get issued organizations are

2:00:44 ↗ going to have to make some tough

2:00:45 ↗ decisions on whether or not with

2:00:47 ↗ guidance didn't even make sense for them

2:00:49 ↗ to run the event that they would like to

2:00:51 ↗ run the way they would like to run it

2:00:52 ↗ so thank you both those are good

2:00:55 ↗ comments and it does sort of paint the

2:00:56 ↗ picture of what we're doing going

2:00:58 ↗ forward it's not turn on turn off it is

2:01:00 ↗ very much a dial so thank you for that

2:01:03 ↗ we have councilmember Hall as well

2:01:06 ↗ thank you Mary Polly this is Zach Hall

2:01:09 ↗ real quick just point of clarification

2:01:12 ↗ can someone just confirm regarding

2:01:15 ↗ homelessness can someone just confirm

2:01:17 ↗ that our new Human Services funding

2:01:20 ↗ model the pilot program that we voted on

2:01:22 ↗ earlier this year hasn't been impacted

2:01:23 ↗ you know especially recognizing that

2:01:26 ↗ homelessness might be a much more

2:01:28 ↗ profound issue post postcode admitting

2:01:34 ↗ that America councilmember Hall no

2:01:37 ↗ there's been no change to that pilot

2:01:39 ↗ program thank you any other questions on

2:01:44 ↗ this section or we will be moving on

2:01:46 ↗ looks like we are good to move on all

2:01:50 ↗ right our next section is city

2:01:52 ↗ leadership and services again will not

2:01:57 ↗ belabor the summary here again we'll

2:02:01 ↗ look at the first item cs1 a implement

2:02:06 ↗ new and enhanced public outreach

2:02:08 ↗ strategies building upon review

2:02:09 ↗ engagement efforts and updates city's

2:02:11 ↗ toolkit on public engagement this is

2:02:14 ↗ something that we also have planned to

2:02:17 ↗ talk about with the council a few times

2:02:20 ↗ since the beginning of the year and have

2:02:22 ↗ not been able to do that we're very

2:02:24 ↗ committed to moving forward with these

2:02:27 ↗ new initiatives with this engagement we

2:02:31 ↗ have an excellent communications team

2:02:33 ↗ led by assistant to the administrator

2:02:35 ↗ errata Monahan she will continue to lead

2:02:39 ↗ her team through these likely not going

2:02:42 ↗ to have a city council meeting in the

2:02:44 ↗ neighborhoods anytime soon

2:02:45 ↗ but we do want to continue to work more

2:02:48 ↗ closely with the neighborhood's

2:02:50 ↗ to have not just communication staff but

2:02:55 ↗ council members the mayor myself other

2:02:57 ↗ senior staff of the involves connected

2:02:59 ↗ with neighborhoods mayor Polly is

2:03:02 ↗ beginning a series of

2:03:05 ↗ video meetings with neighborhoods this

2:03:07 ↗ week which will continue moving forward

2:03:09 ↗ so we see some minor challenges here but

2:03:13 ↗ our commitment to community engagement

2:03:14 ↗ has never been stronger we have an

2:03:18 ↗ outstanding group of tools that we use

2:03:21 ↗ and we will continue to use them moving

2:03:23 ↗ forward next is working with the

2:03:26 ↗ community to identify and remove

2:03:27 ↗ barriers accessing city programs and

2:03:30 ↗ services again the ability to do that in

2:03:34 ↗ this environment I think is limited and

2:03:36 ↗ we are going to need to think have a

2:03:38 ↗ little bit more time before we know what

2:03:40 ↗ a time frame would be not to go back to

2:03:43 ↗ that the same with equity and cultural

2:03:46 ↗ competency for the city staff we talked

2:03:48 ↗ a little bit about this in the previous

2:03:49 ↗ goal with community the same issues are

2:03:53 ↗ with our city staff as far as the

2:03:55 ↗ ability availability of training during

2:03:58 ↗ this period and so once we have a better

2:04:01 ↗ a sense of meeting restrictions being

2:04:05 ↗ lifted in organizations and provided

2:04:07 ↗ this training all once again consuming

2:04:09 ↗ the training will be able to support

2:04:11 ↗ that area on next page please

2:04:19 ↗ improvements regarding employee

2:04:22 ↗ experience fostering development

2:04:24 ↗ organizational values and connections

2:04:27 ↗ this also has major challenges some of

2:04:30 ↗ this has an in-person meeting component

2:04:33 ↗ this has a component of us actually

2:04:35 ↗ being at work we've tried even in this

2:04:39 ↗ time of being separate of having using

2:04:43 ↗ the video meetings we've had a couple of

2:04:45 ↗ happy hours to try to connect staff but

2:04:48 ↗ I think really we're going to need to

2:04:49 ↗ spend some time in the future rethinking

2:04:53 ↗ how we can do this in what might be a

2:04:56 ↗ remote working environment for some time

2:04:58 ↗ to come next is to evaluate the

2:05:01 ↗ conditions and performance of current

2:05:02 ↗ city facilities and options for

2:05:04 ↗ performing appropriate service delivery

2:05:06 ↗ again this seems a little outmoded just

2:05:10 ↗ 60 days ago it didn't seem out most of

2:05:12 ↗ all up and I think we're going to need

2:05:14 ↗ to look at when we are able to reopen

2:05:18 ↗ the offices

2:05:19 ↗ be doing interim limited basis I think

2:05:22 ↗ this gives whole new look to planning I

2:05:25 ↗ know that we have money on account

2:05:28 ↗ through development fees for city

2:05:30 ↗ facilities so that will also have to be

2:05:32 ↗ taken into account at this point I think

2:05:35 ↗ we'll have more time these two paths

2:05:36 ↗ we're able to have a good sense of when

2:05:39 ↗ our facility needs to be in the future

2:05:41 ↗ customer service standards again a

2:05:45 ↗ difficult given the remote nature of our

2:05:49 ↗ work we are looking at a new customer

2:05:51 ↗ relation management system and that

2:05:54 ↗ remains on track and we hope to have

2:05:55 ↗ that implemented here in the next few

2:05:57 ↗ months that has been delayed because of

2:06:00 ↗ other matters financial information to

2:06:02 ↗ be accessible clear and available on a

2:06:04 ↗ regular basis this really is our munis

2:06:07 ↗ reset project there is a contract later

2:06:11 ↗ on the agenda this evening and I will be

2:06:14 ↗ happy to answer any questions but we'll

2:06:15 ↗ go through that in a few minutes when we

2:06:19 ↗ get to that I'd next page other critical

2:06:28 ↗ service items and timely opportunities

2:06:30 ↗ performance measurement our hope is to

2:06:33 ↗ re-engage with the Bloomberg foundation

2:06:35 ↗ and begin work on our performance

2:06:38 ↗ measurement program we have brought on a

2:06:42 ↗ new staff member who will be joining us

2:06:45 ↗ full time he's working part time as he

2:06:47 ↗ finishes up its master's degrees at the

2:06:49 ↗ University of Washington he'll be

2:06:51 ↗ joining us full-time soon he will be

2:06:53 ↗ working on that I think that the

2:06:56 ↗ opportunity is for performance

2:06:58 ↗ measurement in a time of limited

2:07:00 ↗ resources it's a really tremendous

2:07:03 ↗ opportunity for us to look very deeply

2:07:06 ↗ at the work that we do so excited that

2:07:08 ↗ we'll be able to forward strategic plan

2:07:11 ↗ implementation reporting it was our hope

2:07:14 ↗ to producing a report by June 30

2:07:16 ↗ now hopeful to do that by the end of the

2:07:19 ↗ summer and then the annual reports

2:07:21 ↗ cycles again this work plan review is a

2:07:25 ↗ quarterly report and we'll do that again

2:07:27 ↗ in June the city assessment of misses

2:07:32 ↗ for better or worse looking at our

2:07:34 ↗ budget

2:07:35 ↗ in the last few weeks it has made us

2:07:38 ↗ remove that process up we are looking at

2:07:43 ↗ a review of our poll of course

2:07:44 ↗ Department will be back to the council

2:07:46 ↗ with recommendations on the 18th of May

2:07:49 ↗ of Public Works we are looking now at

2:07:52 ↗ development services who reduction of

2:07:55 ↗ staff additional organizational

2:07:58 ↗ rearrangement there which will hopefully

2:08:00 ↗ report back to the council shortly there

2:08:03 ↗ remains great interest the Council on

2:08:05 ↗ issues regarding our jail how we best

2:08:11 ↗ deploy the Police Department and our

2:08:12 ↗ contracts from the support services and

2:08:15 ↗ as we detailed as part of the budget

2:08:17 ↗ discussions over the last few weeks

2:08:19 ↗ those evaluations continue there were

2:08:22 ↗ other items other assessments that were

2:08:25 ↗ identified most of which are going to

2:08:28 ↗ take additional time for us to look at

2:08:30 ↗ we are of course engaged with the site

2:08:33 ↗ Fire and Rescue regarding their current

2:08:35 ↗ unit cost so that will continue city

2:08:38 ↗ boards and commissions I think mayor

2:08:39 ↗ Polly at the beginning of the meeting

2:08:41 ↗ this evening highlighted where we stand

2:08:44 ↗ with boards and commissions there's some

2:08:47 ↗ additional work there that will continue

2:08:49 ↗ the more substantial work was it

2:08:53 ↗ indicated at the beginning of the year I

2:08:55 ↗ think will continue later in the year

2:08:57 ↗ our classification compensation study

2:08:59 ↗ again that has been accelerated where we

2:09:02 ↗ hope to Institute the changes for 21 our

2:09:06 ↗ hope is that we will be able to do that

2:09:08 ↗ it's part of a budget solution for 2020

2:09:11 ↗ the criminal justice contract services

2:09:14 ↗ we've talked about support for mayor

2:09:16 ↗ city council regional board service many

2:09:20 ↗ of these boards are on hiatus we have

2:09:23 ↗ staff assigned and will continue console

2:09:25 ↗ on these regional boards

2:09:27 ↗ city state regional County Relations

2:09:30 ↗ certainly we've had a much closer

2:09:32 ↗ relationship with County over the last

2:09:34 ↗ several weeks we hope to continue of

2:09:37 ↗ that close relationship moving forward

2:09:39 ↗ our use of our state legislative

2:09:42 ↗ advocate it's also been in play

2:09:45 ↗ during this crisis the council did

2:09:48 ↗ create or asked to redecorate a planning

2:09:51 ↗ committee with the school board that

2:09:53 ↗ committee met just before the Cova

2:09:56 ↗ crisis hit beginning March we hope to

2:09:59 ↗ get that group together again soon the

2:10:02 ↗ automated agenda process those issues

2:10:05 ↗ are continuing with the clerk there

2:10:08 ↗ evaluating the best next steps there we

2:10:11 ↗ should hopefully have an update for you

2:10:13 ↗ in June record retention

2:10:16 ↗ probably a little bit long timeline on

2:10:20 ↗ going back with next steps there public

2:10:22 ↗ records fee update again hope to do that

2:10:25 ↗ sometime during the course of 2024 the

2:10:28 ↗ 2021 office school your budget next page

2:10:32 ↗ please improvements to the website many

2:10:44 ↗ of those were done there are additional

2:10:46 ↗ thing exposed to the online utility

2:10:48 ↗ billing that we're going to see some

2:10:50 ↗ delays but otherwise you know we hope to

2:10:54 ↗ continue to before or over the next few

2:10:57 ↗ months with what those initiatives the

2:11:00 ↗ bond sale in support of the city's

2:11:02 ↗ capital program is on track and nearly

2:11:05 ↗ completely to plan for negotiate labor

2:11:09 ↗ agreements we continue to diligently on

2:11:12 ↗ all these agreements so those all remain

2:11:14 ↗ on track review and revise human

2:11:16 ↗ resource policy documents so that is

2:11:18 ↗ unfold largely given staff resources

2:11:22 ↗ implement new software to automate this

2:11:24 ↗ report that remains on track on the

2:11:27 ↗ solid waste the collection agreement the

2:11:28 ↗ council did make some decisions on that

2:11:31 ↗ to extend the agreement our next step

2:11:33 ↗ will be conducted container or weighing

2:11:36 ↗ speak and then we added a to city

2:11:39 ↗ leadership and services section on this

2:11:42 ↗ bop recovery board actually as far cover

2:11:45 ↗ task force and that group will begin

2:11:48 ↗ meeting this week so madam mayor members

2:11:51 ↗ of council that covers city leadership

2:11:53 ↗ and services at the dancer any questions

2:11:56 ↗ thank you I'll give it a few seconds I

2:11:58 ↗ don't see any questions queued up at

2:12:00 ↗ this point in time I might move out

2:12:03 ↗ there we go councilmember Walsh thank

2:12:08 ↗ you I know I asked this over email but

2:12:10 ↗ just putting it out there that I'd like

2:12:12 ↗ to get a sense as we know more about

2:12:14 ↗ many of these on hold or major challenge

2:12:17 ↗ items that actually have budgeted

2:12:21 ↗ dollars in the 2020 budget if we are not

2:12:24 ↗ going to spend them what that fund looks

2:12:27 ↗ like and what we might look to use it

2:12:29 ↗ for otherwise but again I recognize

2:12:33 ↗ staff time and we don't have all the

2:12:36 ↗ answers now it's just something to

2:12:37 ↗ consider as we go forward Thank You

2:12:40 ↗ councillor Ross let me I let the city

2:12:42 ↗ administrator talk about that because I

2:12:44 ↗ believe you may have seen some of these

2:12:45 ↗ savings already reflected in the first

2:12:47 ↗ phase one of our budget cuts

2:12:50 ↗ administered about it yes madam mayor

2:12:53 ↗ members of council and I'm sorry I don't

2:12:55 ↗ have any way to put up a spreadsheet

2:13:00 ↗ with this information but we do have a

2:13:03 ↗ table which I can't provide the council

2:13:04 ↗ later about so the items that have money

2:13:08 ↗ listed in them the fund and those

2:13:12 ↗ savings that are already captured so a

2:13:14 ↗ number of them have already be captured

2:13:17 ↗ as part of the phase 1 budget savings

2:13:21 ↗ and rather than go through them line by

2:13:23 ↗ line here ma'am

2:13:24 ↗ mayor I'll just go ahead and make myself

2:13:26 ↗ a little council thank you if I

2:13:30 ↗ understood your question correctly

2:13:31 ↗ councilmember Walsh you were assuming

2:13:33 ↗ that there would potentially be some

2:13:36 ↗ additional savings or funds that were

2:13:39 ↗ not allocated that what you were

2:13:42 ↗ thinking yeah and I guess just knowing

2:13:46 ↗ the whole picture as it relates to

2:13:48 ↗ either things that you've already

2:13:50 ↗ accounted for in the budget adjustment

2:13:52 ↗ versus things that we might have some

2:13:55 ↗ under spend that hasn't been accounted

2:13:58 ↗ for that we could address okay

2:14:01 ↗ thank you I'm not seeing any questions

2:14:05 ↗ at this time but I am going to ask

2:14:06 ↗ council president hunt to see if there

2:14:08 ↗ were any email comments received by

2:14:09 ↗ council

2:14:10 ↗ speak related to this item thank you

2:14:17 ↗ madam mayor this is council president

2:14:19 ↗ hunch we did receive emails on this

2:14:22 ↗ topic so I will summarize to the best of

2:14:26 ↗ my ability those emails in a few

2:14:28 ↗ sentences per email we received an email

2:14:31 ↗ from Connie Marsh and Connie wrote about

2:14:34 ↗ the need for better fax delivery

2:14:36 ↗ transparency in the decision-making

2:14:37 ↗ process and providing a clearer view of

2:14:40 ↗ what success is with this work plan

2:14:43 ↗ Steve Pereira wrote to us expecting

2:14:47 ↗ further details on each work plan on the

2:14:50 ↗ corresponding statement of work and

2:14:52 ↗ corresponding costs for each associated

2:14:54 ↗ item and she wrote that providing such

2:14:57 ↗ detail is necessary to help Issaquah

2:14:59 ↗ residents understand what they get and

2:15:02 ↗ will not get if such items do not

2:15:03 ↗ proceed also that there should be a

2:15:06 ↗ larger emphasis on environmental

2:15:07 ↗ stewardship Cory Christensen wrote that

2:15:11 ↗ the work plan chart was lacking in two

2:15:13 ↗ major topic areas Parks and Recreation

2:15:15 ↗ and reopening and also on environment he

2:15:20 ↗ expressed disappointment given how much

2:15:22 ↗ council prioritized environment to see

2:15:24 ↗ many of the work plan items related to

2:15:27 ↗ it to be put on hold

2:15:29 ↗ Mary Lynch wrote to us about the

2:15:31 ↗ importance a lot of background okay Mary

2:15:39 ↗ Lynch wrote to us about the importance

2:15:41 ↗ of utilizing all of the resources of

2:15:44 ↗ people that we have in our community to

2:15:45 ↗ help us move forward and this could be

2:15:49 ↗ paying jobs as well as volunteer labor

2:15:51 ↗ to help rebuild our economy and recover

2:15:53 ↗ back to our healthy sustainable

2:15:56 ↗ community and she also expressed concern

2:16:01 ↗ about a number of the work plan items

2:16:02 ↗ that are now on holds wanting to ensure

2:16:04 ↗ that the city can provide better service

2:16:07 ↗ to the public in light of the pandemic

2:16:09 ↗ and that concludes key correspondence

2:16:13 ↗ that we received directly on this item

2:16:14 ↗ from the public thank you are there any

2:16:19 ↗ other additional questions or comments

2:16:21 ↗ on this item

2:16:25 ↗ man their administrator they're still

2:16:30 ↗ too odd to section training there you go

2:16:34 ↗ go ahead and actually um take a pause it

2:16:39 ↗ looks like the council president hunch

2:16:42 ↗ has a comment um madam mayor I have

2:16:51 ↗ overall comments so I'll hold until the

2:16:53 ↗ end of the presentation thank you okay

2:16:55 ↗ thank you and the same as councilmember

2:16:57 ↗ D Michelle when city administrator said

2:17:00 ↗ go ahead city administrator thank you

2:17:03 ↗ and again I realized that she's taking a

2:17:05 ↗ long time I think in the name of

2:17:07 ↗ transparency for everyone I think it's

2:17:10 ↗ so important that people understand

2:17:12 ↗ exactly were ever had

2:17:14 ↗ I appreciate the council's indulgence as

2:17:16 ↗ we walk through this the infrastructure

2:17:18 ↗ goal again the summary sheet there the

2:17:22 ↗ next slide objective one plant that

2:17:26 ↗ operations and maintenance cost with no

2:17:28 ↗ all do capital city both city developed

2:17:30 ↗ a dedicated again I think just given the

2:17:35 ↗ current crisis it's not something we've

2:17:37 ↗ been able to focus on we're not planning

2:17:41 ↗ yet the capital improvement process for

2:17:43 ↗ 21 but we will be surely and we will be

2:17:46 ↗ able to look at that at this point other

2:17:48 ↗ critical services city properties for

2:17:50 ↗ potential surplus thing again we talked

2:17:53 ↗ a little bit about this earlier the 2020

2:17:55 ↗ capital improvement projects once we get

2:17:58 ↗ through the phase two budget reductions

2:18:00 ↗ will be able to come back with a more

2:18:02 ↗ comprehensive update on 2020 capital

2:18:04 ↗ projects so we hope to have that for you

2:18:07 ↗ in June of the water supply

2:18:08 ↗ infrastructure rates again a project

2:18:13 ↗ that we had hoped to give the council an

2:18:14 ↗ update on during the month of May we're

2:18:16 ↗ now looking I believe in a July date to

2:18:19 ↗ come back to the council for further

2:18:20 ↗ discussions there storm and surface

2:18:23 ↗ water master plan we've already talked a

2:18:26 ↗ little bit about that and we will be

2:18:28 ↗ looking at dates to bring that back to

2:18:30 ↗ the council when we're able to have

2:18:32 ↗ larger discussions City Hall facilities

2:18:34 ↗ short medium and long range planning I

2:18:36 ↗ think we've also talked

2:18:38 ↗ a little bit about that as well and so

2:18:40 ↗ that's a very quick overview of the

2:18:42 ↗ infrastructure items and Americans any

2:18:44 ↗ questions thank you City Administrator

2:18:47 ↗ and we do have a couple questions we'll

2:18:50 ↗ start with council president hunt

2:18:51 ↗ followed by councilmember do Michelle

2:18:57 ↗ let's count the president I have no

2:18:59 ↗ question I'm assuming then it's four so

2:19:07 ↗ we'll go to Oh

2:19:08 ↗ I'm madam mayor I see that it's

2:19:10 ↗ councilmember Hall yes

2:19:13 ↗ council member home thanks thank you

2:19:17 ↗ both this is Zach Hall you talked about

2:19:20 ↗ the CIP and so my mind went right to the

2:19:22 ↗ T IP and so I just had a quick question

2:19:26 ↗ about that his administration are we

2:19:32 ↗ worried about

2:19:32 ↗ I think it's due like isn't it July 31

2:19:35 ↗ or something like that it are we worried

2:19:38 ↗ about you know reassessing our needs and

2:19:39 ↗ modifying our needs with the TI p your

2:19:45 ↗ vodka council member or all members of

2:19:48 ↗ the council you know we're still looking

2:19:51 ↗ at that and I think we'll be able to get

2:19:52 ↗ you a better answer in a future date I

2:19:59 ↗ city administrator if you want to keep

2:20:02 ↗ going we do have two that are signed up

2:20:04 ↗ to make comments at the end so next

2:20:07 ↗ agree and and really just the last piece

2:20:10 ↗ the work plan did not have a section on

2:20:13 ↗ public safety and so the administration

2:20:15 ↗ is proposing that we add to the work

2:20:17 ↗ plan items regarding Public Safety given

2:20:20 ↗ the current crisis but given the

2:20:22 ↗ financial issues we're dealing with

2:20:23 ↗ operational issues we're dealing with

2:20:25 ↗ we'd like to keep this to the on on the

2:20:28 ↗ council's mind and the forefront of

2:20:30 ↗ issues so there's three items here one

2:20:33 ↗ is our 2020 contract issues with the

2:20:36 ↗ esight Fire & Rescue

2:20:37 ↗ they have our having a board meeting

2:20:39 ↗ next week to consider the letter that

2:20:42 ↗ Mayor Polly a sense I think it's

2:20:44 ↗ important that closed eye on those

2:20:47 ↗ discussions as well as discussions

2:20:50 ↗ or pistol 21 for ever and so we had that

2:20:54 ↗ of the police department again we've

2:20:58 ↗ been looking very carefully at police

2:20:59 ↗ department operations of during this

2:21:01 ↗ crisis and our need to continue to have

2:21:04 ↗ proper staffing I think it's important

2:21:06 ↗ to continue to look at staffing in the

2:21:08 ↗ classifications that we use in the

2:21:10 ↗ police department more so now than ever

2:21:12 ↗ and so that is something we'll continue

2:21:15 ↗ to be looking at what keep you posted as

2:21:17 ↗ we begin to review that and then finally

2:21:20 ↗ the jail and court review so this was

2:21:23 ↗ not part of the strategic plan it was

2:21:25 ↗ not part of the work plan I believe

2:21:27 ↗ mayor poly believes that given the

2:21:30 ↗ current financial crisis that certainly

2:21:33 ↗ we're facing

2:21:34 ↗ we have only identified what we think

2:21:36 ↗ are half of the reductions that we will

2:21:38 ↗ need to balance our budget and so to not

2:21:41 ↗ keep a careful eye on our public safety

2:21:44 ↗ which is about half of our general fund

2:21:46 ↗ budget we think it's appropriate and

2:21:48 ↗ prudent to add that so madam mayor let

2:21:50 ↗ me just say thank you again to the you

2:21:52 ↗ and the council for your patience as

2:21:54 ↗ we've gone through this our plan is to

2:21:57 ↗ ask the council to meet in a study

2:22:00 ↗ session the first study session since

2:22:02 ↗ the Koba crisis began on June 8 where we

2:22:07 ↗ will provide an opportunity to review

2:22:08 ↗ this plan as well as begin discussions

2:22:11 ↗ for our fiscal 2021 bunch of preparation

2:22:14 ↗ how could they answer any other

2:22:14 ↗ questions thank you city administrator

2:22:17 ↗ Bob quits we have a question from

2:22:19 ↗ councilmember Goodman and then we will

2:22:21 ↗ go to some comments because there are a

2:22:22 ↗ couple of council members of our general

2:22:24 ↗ comments so councilmember Goodman thank

2:22:27 ↗ you madam mayor council member Goodman

2:22:28 ↗ here and I I guess I put it down as a

2:22:30 ↗ question but maybe it's kind of a

2:22:32 ↗ question comment um the last edition of

2:22:35 ↗ Public Safety yeah we had a we had a

2:22:39 ↗ couple of questions from the public one

2:22:42 ↗ of them about why we don't have Parks

2:22:43 ↗ and Rec on here and I just think we have

2:22:48 ↗ to be cognizant if we're trying to have

2:22:50 ↗ this work plan be something that tracks

2:22:52 ↗ the strategic plan but yet we're going

2:22:55 ↗ to make an exception then I think we

2:22:58 ↗ need to figure out whether we're going

2:23:01 ↗ to start making exception

2:23:03 ↗ for other things as well that we

2:23:06 ↗ consider to be important so it's more of

2:23:10 ↗ a comment than anything thanks thank you

2:23:15 ↗ question from council president hunt

2:23:20 ↗ related to councilmember Goodman

2:23:23 ↗ question comments aye

2:23:25 ↗ I also wondered about the last items on

2:23:29 ↗ the public safety part of the work plan

2:23:32 ↗ that have been added because it seems to

2:23:34 ↗ me and maybe you can confirm that those

2:23:36 ↗ items were already on the work plan

2:23:39 ↗ especially the one about the assessment

2:23:42 ↗ of services and so it was on the work

2:23:44 ↗ plan but wasn't called out in its own

2:23:46 ↗ section so I'm wondering I guess my

2:23:50 ↗ question is is it substantially

2:23:51 ↗ different than what was part of the work

2:23:54 ↗ plan previously and was in the strategic

2:23:56 ↗ plan to the administrator Bob gross

2:24:04 ↗ clearly the issues with the a Fire

2:24:06 ↗ Rescue aren't on and so I think are very

2:24:09 ↗ important to look at you know I think

2:24:12 ↗ what this is what the civil emergency

2:24:14 ↗ has caused with the police department is

2:24:17 ↗ that our Police Department has been

2:24:18 ↗ asked to take on non-traditional roles

2:24:21 ↗ sending police officers out to parks to

2:24:25 ↗ enforce the governor's social distancing

2:24:28 ↗ I think if this is going to be part of

2:24:31 ↗ our longer-range role for the police

2:24:32 ↗ department do we need to look at

2:24:34 ↗ different kinds of classifications but

2:24:36 ↗ to do that so that was not previously

2:24:39 ↗ contemplated again Public Safety being

2:24:43 ↗ such a large part of our budget to not

2:24:46 ↗ have that as a focused area the work we

2:24:48 ↗ and I think is a missed opportunity you

2:24:52 ↗ know again we'll certainly follow

2:24:53 ↗ AmeriCorps mayor college lead but I

2:24:56 ↗ think we really we don't focus enough on

2:25:00 ↗ issues and costs associated with Public

2:25:02 ↗ Safety and I think given our budgetary

2:25:05 ↗ issues you really need to do that moving

2:25:07 ↗ forward

2:25:13 ↗ thank you

2:25:20 ↗ talking to myself again sorry about that

2:25:22 ↗ I have three council members lined up

2:25:25 ↗ for comments council president

2:25:26 ↗ councilmember Dee Michelle councilmember

2:25:28 ↗ marks so council president hunt Thank

2:25:33 ↗ You this is council president hunt I am

2:25:36 ↗ I wanted to be clear about what I was

2:25:41 ↗ talking about earlier with my ask for

2:25:44 ↗ the next time that this information

2:25:45 ↗ comes forward and I am NOT looking for a

2:25:49 ↗ reevaluation of the status of different

2:25:52 ↗ items that has been changed

2:25:54 ↗ I think the status likely in as was

2:25:59 ↗ pointed out it's only a few weeks away

2:26:00 ↗ that we'll be looking at these items

2:26:03 ↗ again according to our schedule that we

2:26:05 ↗ have now so I don't expect the status

2:26:07 ↗ will necessarily change or that we'll

2:26:09 ↗ have that much more information but what

2:26:11 ↗ a lot of information was provided

2:26:13 ↗ verbally to us about why items are given

2:26:17 ↗ the status that they are and that's

2:26:19 ↗ really what I'm looking for because I

2:26:22 ↗ think it's an important piece of it's an

2:26:24 ↗ important piece of the decision making

2:26:26 ↗ process and so while that information

2:26:28 ↗ was given to us verbally it wasn't

2:26:29 ↗ documented and it wasn't for all of the

2:26:32 ↗ items so I would like to see that I

2:26:34 ↗ think it's especially important because

2:26:36 ↗ for some of the items it was they were

2:26:39 ↗ put on holes because we might consider

2:26:41 ↗ as a council changing our policy such as

2:26:44 ↗ the affordable housing ones or for some

2:26:47 ↗ of these it was put on hold because

2:26:49 ↗ there's an external an external

2:26:54 ↗ circumstance that makes it such that we

2:26:56 ↗ cannot proceed or that there's a budget

2:26:59 ↗ issue and so those are those are other

2:27:01 ↗ factors but for especially for council

2:27:04 ↗ to know when we're going to be

2:27:05 ↗ considering changing something that

2:27:07 ↗ that's why it's on hold I think that's

2:27:09 ↗ really important to document and then I

2:27:14 ↗ also think I also think that based on

2:27:17 ↗ the emails that we received from the

2:27:19 ↗ public changing some items on the work

2:27:23 ↗ plan adding some items to the work plan

2:27:25 ↗ it

2:27:26 ↗ it does beg the question of why other

2:27:29 ↗ things are not on the work plan such as

2:27:32 ↗ the reopening of parks which will be

2:27:33 ↗ very important so I think we I think we

2:27:36 ↗ should consider if we're opening up the

2:27:38 ↗ work plan I think we should consider

2:27:39 ↗ making sure that we document all of

2:27:41 ↗ those important things and all those

2:27:45 ↗ things for recovery and that will

2:27:48 ↗ probably be another bigger conversation

2:27:50 ↗ but it definitely is important if we're

2:27:53 ↗ if we're making changes and we should

2:27:55 ↗ document document that thoroughly across

2:27:59 ↗ all of the goal areas I think Thank You

2:28:03 ↗ councilmember G Michele thank you

2:28:07 ↗ general comment first of all thanks to

2:28:11 ↗ the staff for what is evidently a lot of

2:28:14 ↗ hard work secondly ironically while you

2:28:18 ↗ were having the discussion about looking

2:28:20 ↗ at virtual meetings and other new

2:28:25 ↗ efforts my wife I cut out and I was out

2:28:28 ↗ of the meeting for a couple of minutes

2:28:30 ↗ while I was getting it reestablished so

2:28:32 ↗ anyway I didn't get to hear the whole

2:28:35 ↗ conversation but I do commend you for

2:28:37 ↗ looking at how we can expand our virtual

2:28:42 ↗ outreach because I think under the

2:28:46 ↗ best-case scenario we're going to need

2:28:52 ↗ to use virtual meetings for quite some

2:28:54 ↗ time the second one is I want to commend

2:28:59 ↗ err poly for the evident diversity that

2:29:04 ↗ is in the recovery board selections and

2:29:08 ↗ I was very pleased to see that it really

2:29:11 ↗ is a picture of it's Klaus population

2:29:15 ↗ and interest so thank you for that and

2:29:18 ↗ then finally I would like to know and

2:29:23 ↗ and I don't need a long report on this

2:29:26 ↗ but from the communications group how

2:29:28 ↗ well we are doing in terms of outreach

2:29:31 ↗ to non-english speaking populations and

2:29:35 ↗ diverse populations in Issaquah during

2:29:37 ↗ this crisis and

2:29:39 ↗ I just like to hear how that is going

2:29:43 ↗ and it's actually part of our human

2:29:45 ↗ services perspective so those are my

2:29:49 ↗ three comments thank you Thank You

2:29:52 ↗ councilmember G Michelle

2:29:53 ↗ councilmember marks thank you madam

2:29:57 ↗ mayor I'm not sure I understand the

2:30:00 ↗ comments earlier about Public Safety and

2:30:02 ↗ any perception that it's in a special

2:30:05 ↗ category as I look at these items there

2:30:09 ↗ none of them are enhancements none of

2:30:11 ↗ them are expansions of Public Safety

2:30:14 ↗ we're all just cost containment there

2:30:16 ↗ are how to make do with less so I think

2:30:19 ↗ those are all entirely in keeping with

2:30:21 ↗ where we're at and don't reflect any

2:30:23 ↗ sort of special treatment Public Safety

2:30:27 ↗ they're just wise and prudent ways to

2:30:29 ↗ make do with less money thank you

2:30:31 ↗ Thank You councilmember Mertz

2:30:33 ↗ councilmember Goodman thank you a

2:30:37 ↗ councilmember Goodman here thanks not

2:30:38 ↗ America um so I was just gonna ask how

2:30:42 ↗ to member mark marks of his was it it

2:30:44 ↗ was your comment or in response to my

2:30:47 ↗ comments councilmember marks not sure if

2:30:55 ↗ we lost him oh I'm here I don't really

2:31:02 ↗ want to get into it into a squabble over

2:31:05 ↗ it no it wasn't a squabble I was I was

2:31:08 ↗ gonna in the case that I wasn't clear I

2:31:10 ↗ was just gonna clarify that's all might

2:31:15 ↗ yeah see what it was I thought I thought

2:31:17 ↗ you were saying that this reflected that

2:31:19 ↗ and sometimes Public Safety was being

2:31:21 ↗ treated differently than other

2:31:22 ↗ departments no my comment was that the

2:31:26 ↗ work plan that were that where we just

2:31:28 ↗ went over tonight appears to me as that

2:31:32 ↗ it tracks the strategic plan that was my

2:31:35 ↗ and if I miss understanding that I would

2:31:38 ↗ like administrator vodka wits to

2:31:39 ↗ straighten me out but if if if the point

2:31:43 ↗ of the work plan was to track the

2:31:46 ↗ strategic plan then if we add Public

2:31:51 ↗ Safety to that

2:31:53 ↗ um just the report that that doesn't

2:31:58 ↗ track the strategic plan and so then

2:31:59 ↗ that opens it up to well what else

2:32:01 ↗ should we add here and I wasn't

2:32:03 ↗ necessarily opposed to it it just was an

2:32:09 ↗ outlier in a sense that it's not in the

2:32:12 ↗ strategic plan so that was all I wasn't

2:32:14 ↗ being critical that it's in there it's

2:32:16 ↗ just not a topic that's in the strategic

2:32:18 ↗ plan that's all but don't but aren't

2:32:21 ↗ there other things on this list that

2:32:23 ↗ weren't in the plan that are the result

2:32:25 ↗ of trying to mitigate the revenue are

2:32:30 ↗ the cost reductions in what we were

2:32:36 ↗ looking at tonight my understanding was

2:32:38 ↗ that it was this is the distracts the

2:32:41 ↗ strategic plan they're letting us know

2:32:43 ↗ what the status is of the items they

2:32:46 ↗ were working on in the strategic plan so

2:32:49 ↗ that's that that was my understanding

2:32:52 ↗ that's all okay thank you but yeah hey

2:32:57 ↗ thank you this is the mayor I think you

2:32:59 ↗ both have come across a point of

2:33:01 ↗ confusion that I think we can better

2:33:03 ↗ clarify for you yes this is a work plan

2:33:05 ↗ associated with a strategic plan it has

2:33:07 ↗ been impacted by Kovac in a couple of

2:33:10 ↗ different ways one is the financial

2:33:12 ↗ impact and now there is a redeployment

2:33:15 ↗ of resources to address kovat issues

2:33:18 ↗ that we had not planned for in the

2:33:19 ↗ original budget and the original

2:33:20 ↗ resourcing plan so we've kind of added

2:33:24 ↗ one thing but a council president hunted

2:33:28 ↗ made a good point that one of the

2:33:29 ↗ biggest changes has been what's happened

2:33:32 ↗ in parks and recreation and we haven't

2:33:34 ↗ necessarily created that so I'd like to

2:33:36 ↗ work with the city administrator in

2:33:39 ↗ maintaining a strategic plan work plan

2:33:42 ↗ but also having a piece of a work plan

2:33:46 ↗ called a covet work plan where we will

2:33:48 ↗ tell you what we shut down and how we

2:33:50 ↗ would reopen it and where we may have

2:33:52 ↗ gone to look for extra savings because

2:33:54 ↗ of the financial hardship and so we may

2:33:57 ↗ package it a little different we'll see

2:33:59 ↗ when we come back but I and I think I

2:34:01 ↗ understand the sense of the confusion

2:34:03 ↗ and

2:34:04 ↗ we have a couple of comments as well

2:34:08 ↗ we have councilmember Hall followed by a

2:34:10 ↗ council president hunt

2:34:13 ↗ thanks for policies that call I guess

2:34:16 ↗ this isn't super totally relevant but I

2:34:18 ↗ feel like earlier this year we were

2:34:21 ↗ talking a little bit about adding this

2:34:22 ↗ public safety bucket with regard to our

2:34:26 ↗ conversation on priority-based budgeting

2:34:28 ↗ and how that kind of made sense in our

2:34:31 ↗ minds there so I just wanted to have

2:34:33 ↗ that I thought this makes sense here

2:34:37 ↗ thank you and I also do think that it's

2:34:41 ↗ a portion of what we're doing under our

2:34:44 ↗ services assessment was we were going to

2:34:47 ↗ look at all services the order that we

2:34:49 ↗ look at those services may not have

2:34:51 ↗ changed data Copeman so anyway

2:34:54 ↗ good point a council member or council

2:34:57 ↗ president hunt thank you madam mayor

2:35:00 ↗ this is council president hunt for me

2:35:04 ↗ one of the big pieces of confusion here

2:35:08 ↗ is that some of these changes to reflect

2:35:13 ↗ changes in policy that are clearly in my

2:35:16 ↗ mind anyway purview of council and some

2:35:19 ↗ are things that the administration is

2:35:21 ↗ doing that are more operational that are

2:35:26 ↗ being done and can be done without the

2:35:29 ↗ policy guidance of council and this is

2:35:33 ↗ the administration's work plan but when

2:35:35 ↗ I hear something about how council might

2:35:38 ↗ consider not going forward with our

2:35:41 ↗ missing middle strategy because there

2:35:42 ↗ might be more information that really

2:35:44 ↗ sounds to me like a policy decision that

2:35:47 ↗ we need to have a policy based

2:35:49 ↗ conversation on so that that I think is

2:35:53 ↗ part of the confusion too I think there

2:35:55 ↗ are recovery you know the administration

2:35:57 ↗ can set up a recovery task that is a new

2:35:59 ↗ thing that was added to the work plan

2:36:02 ↗ and it's to address the strategic plan

2:36:05 ↗ but then there's also policy based

2:36:08 ↗ things that the council might consider

2:36:10 ↗ and the role of Council in making those

2:36:14 ↗ decisions is not very

2:36:17 ↗ transparent in the way this document is

2:36:19 ↗ being laid out now because it's all

2:36:21 ↗ together so that I think that would

2:36:23 ↗ really help I think that would also

2:36:24 ↗ really help community members understand

2:36:27 ↗ how they can let us know their opinion

2:36:30 ↗ on these different topics for the policy

2:36:32 ↗ based underlying the policy that

2:36:35 ↗ underlies some of these decisions thank

2:36:39 ↗ you and city administrator Bob grunts

2:36:43 ↗ you'd like to make the comment yes I

2:36:46 ↗ think there's an important point here

2:36:49 ↗ that I don't want to be lost that is

2:36:51 ↗ that there are a number of issues that

2:36:52 ↗ are on hold because as we just don't

2:36:55 ↗ know and well we don't know is what we

2:36:58 ↗ don't know and I think on the issues of

2:37:00 ↗ affordable housing there could be

2:37:03 ↗ seismic shifts in the needs of this

2:37:06 ↗ community and I think the administration

2:37:07 ↗ has a responsibility to use the City

2:37:09 ↗ Council as policy makers to raise the

2:37:12 ↗ black and so that's all that we're

2:37:14 ↗ trying to do here just raise a flag and

2:37:16 ↗ there may be a need for an additional

2:37:18 ↗ policy discussion and when that time

2:37:21 ↗ comes the council will be fully engaged

2:37:23 ↗ and the council will make the decision

2:37:24 ↗ but I think it's our responsibility to

2:37:27 ↗ say that in our best professional

2:37:29 ↗ judgment there are certain circumstances

2:37:31 ↗ that this community is facing that it

2:37:33 ↗ has never seen before and it's happening

2:37:35 ↗ at a speed unlike anything we've ever

2:37:38 ↗ seen before

2:37:38 ↗ so the issue of affordable housing the

2:37:41 ↗ issue of missing middle of course are

2:37:42 ↗ extraordinarily important they were

2:37:44 ↗ extraordinary important 60 days ago will

2:37:47 ↗ they be at the same important 60 days

2:37:48 ↗ from now I'm not sure but I think it's

2:37:51 ↗ my professional obligation say they may

2:37:53 ↗ not be and that the council needs to be

2:37:56 ↗ prepared perhaps to reopen this if those

2:37:59 ↗ circumstances change if they don't we

2:38:01 ↗ won't but you know there are there are

2:38:04 ↗ factors and forces at play here which we

2:38:07 ↗ have never seen and I think it's come

2:38:10 ↗ but upon the corporation of the city of

2:38:12 ↗ this law to be prepared to make those

2:38:15 ↗ changes and to bring those issues before

2:38:16 ↗ the council for an appropriate policy

2:38:19 ↗ discussion

2:38:20 ↗ thank you I'm seeing a little bit of

2:38:23 ↗ activity and I'm just waiting to see yes

2:38:26 ↗ council president hunt thank you and

2:38:29 ↗ thank you too Thank You Wally for that

2:38:32 ↗ explanation I I understand that there

2:38:36 ↗ are unknowns and so what I think would

2:38:38 ↗ be very helpful though is just to

2:38:40 ↗ clarify where the administration has

2:38:44 ↗ made the decisions about what too has

2:38:49 ↗ made decisions about what council might

2:38:52 ↗ need to flag for further discussion

2:38:54 ↗ because the policy the context around an

2:38:56 ↗ existing policy may have changed because

2:38:59 ↗ that's different that's different then

2:39:01 ↗ we don't have resources to do this

2:39:02 ↗ anymore

2:39:03 ↗ or that's different then we can't have

2:39:05 ↗ community meetings right now so we can't

2:39:07 ↗ do this that's that's my point but I

2:39:09 ↗ take your point that there's a lot of

2:39:11 ↗ unknown thank you I think you've made

2:39:14 ↗ your point very clear council president

2:39:17 ↗ thank you for doing that I am not seeing

2:39:19 ↗ anybody else in the conversation blocks

2:39:21 ↗ right now and so if that is the case we

2:39:25 ↗ will move on to the next item on the

2:39:27 ↗ calendar which is the consent calendar

2:39:31 ↗ and the consent calendar was distributed

2:39:34 ↗ to Council in advance and if authorized

2:39:36 ↗ the items on the consent calendar will

2:39:38 ↗ be approved

2:39:39 ↗ thank you tisha will be approved by one

2:39:43 ↗ motion the deputy city clerk is advising

2:39:48 ↗ me that there is a minor modification to

2:39:50 ↗ the consent calendar and tisha I wonder

2:39:54 ↗ if you could explain it to that I'm not

2:39:55 ↗ saying it in my talking points yes I'm

2:39:58 ↗ just wanting to speak to a very very

2:40:02 ↗ minor clarification I'd like to read

2:40:05 ↗ into the record that the motion for

2:40:07 ↗ agenda bill 7 9 6 8 20 20 docket of

2:40:11 ↗ comprehensive plan amendments should

2:40:13 ↗ read approve amendments number 1 through

2:40:16 ↗ 4 on the docket of proposed 2020

2:40:18 ↗ comprehensive plan amendments as

2:40:20 ↗ presented in Exhibit A it was slightly

2:40:23 ↗ reworded in the published agenda packet

2:40:27 ↗ and I wanted to make that correction

2:40:29 ↗ thank you very much have the payables

2:40:32 ↗ and payroll been reviewed this is

2:40:37 ↗ counselor present hunt they have justice

2:40:39 ↗ councilmember Hall they have thank you

2:40:41 ↗ about does any councilmember desire to

2:40:44 ↗ remove any item from the consent

2:40:45 ↗ calendar and consider it under regular

2:40:47 ↗ business before we move to the motion

2:40:54 ↗ council president hunt did you receive

2:40:56 ↗ for the council receive an email

2:40:57 ↗ communicated email comments to share on

2:41:00 ↗ the continue of the consent calendar

2:41:01 ↗ items thank you madam mayor this is

2:41:04 ↗ council president hunts we did receive

2:41:06 ↗ some comments from one community member

2:41:09 ↗ on the items on consent so I will do my

2:41:14 ↗ best to summarize those comments now we

2:41:17 ↗ received the email from Steve prayer on

2:41:19 ↗ the items on consent he said regarding

2:41:24 ↗ ad seven nine three seven which is board

2:41:27 ↗ commission term extensions confirmation

2:41:30 ↗ he wants and needs the City Council to

2:41:33 ↗ take these positions and appointments

2:41:35 ↗ very seriously in how and who they

2:41:38 ↗ select for such roles is my audio okay

2:41:41 ↗ it sounds okay to me and I'm not seeing

2:41:44 ↗ any notes on the comments section so it

2:41:46 ↗ sounds good okay

2:41:47 ↗ I have feedback so thank you guys for

2:41:49 ↗ confirming that and then he was also

2:41:54 ↗ concerned on this item about the

2:41:56 ↗ one-year extension not being extended to

2:41:57 ↗ the rivers and streams board then on 87

2:42:01 ↗ nine six one as the Issaquah emergency

2:42:03 ↗ rental assistance program reallocation

2:42:06 ↗ authorization he agreed with the areal

2:42:09 ↗ allocation of funds from hope link to

2:42:12 ↗ the other organizations that have been

2:42:14 ↗ previously in that allocation program

2:42:17 ↗ and he requested refocus of funds to

2:42:20 ↗ restrict funding from up to 80% ami to

2:42:23 ↗ 60% ami on ad seven nine six one the

2:42:28 ↗ emergency management performance grant

2:42:31 ↗ network infrastructure and Kovan 19 this

2:42:35 ↗ is to authorize the middle he supported

2:42:38 ↗ this existing grant proposal but also

2:42:41 ↗ cautioned against asking or expecting

2:42:43 ↗ additional

2:42:43 ↗ financial assistance 87 966 which is

2:42:48 ↗ position reclassifications he commented

2:42:52 ↗ he was unsure about unsure how the need

2:42:54 ↗ for these three classifications came

2:42:59 ↗ about in the context with other budget

2:43:01 ↗ changes and then 87 968 2020 docket of

2:43:06 ↗ comprehensive plan amendments several

2:43:10 ↗ comments on different items requested

2:43:13 ↗ that active links be included to

2:43:17 ↗ reference materials so that you could

2:43:19 ↗ better track the materials also do not

2:43:22 ↗ feel this was a comprehensive review of

2:43:24 ↗ the conference of the comprehensive

2:43:26 ↗ docket as is needed the comprehensive

2:43:28 ↗ plan docket as is needed and had many

2:43:32 ↗ concerns about specific items including

2:43:36 ↗ on the old town and sub area plan that

2:43:40 ↗ so far had not seen commercial building

2:43:42 ↗ standards that maintains the charm of

2:43:45 ↗ old town and that makes the area so

2:43:47 ↗ wonderful so that concludes the comments

2:43:49 ↗ that were specifically received on

2:43:51 ↗ consent items this evening thank you and

2:43:55 ↗ would any council member care to make a

2:43:56 ↗ motion the motion to be made if somebody

2:44:02 ↗ would make it is the to move to approve

2:44:05 ↗ the consent calendar as amended and I am

2:44:11 ↗ seeing council president hunt thank you

2:44:14 ↗ madam mayor this is council president

2:44:16 ↗ hunt I moved to approve the consent

2:44:18 ↗ calendar as amended this is Chris Wragge

2:44:23 ↗ I will second the motion

2:44:25 ↗ Thank You councilmember a deputy also

2:44:27 ↗ president Ray it's been moved and

2:44:28 ↗ seconded

2:44:29 ↗ can I get the clerk please to call the

2:44:31 ↗ roll councilmember Dee Michelle all

2:44:37 ↗ right councilmember Goodman aye

2:44:41 ↗ councilmember Hall aye

2:44:44 ↗ councilmember hunt aye

2:44:48 ↗ councilmember Mart's hey deputy council

2:44:52 ↗ president ray aye

2:44:55 ↗ councilmember Walsh

2:44:57 ↗ I that 7i 0 nays thank you very much

2:45:02 ↗ that passes unanimously

2:45:04 ↗ moving on to regular business for this

2:45:06 ↗ evening ad seven eight nine eight the

2:45:09 ↗ tiler technologies contract amendment

2:45:11 ↗ and I'd like to ask city administrator

2:45:14 ↗ lobkowitz to introduce this item yes

2:45:19 ↗ madam mayor members of council we're

2:45:21 ↗ here to this evening seeking the

2:45:22 ↗ Council's authorization for the mayor to

2:45:24 ↗ enter into an executed contract

2:45:26 ↗ amendment with tonic technologies for

2:45:28 ↗ the reimplementation services and

2:45:30 ↗ software fees for the munis enterprise

2:45:32 ↗ resource planning system during fiscal

2:45:35 ↗ year 2021 and 2022 the adopted budget

2:45:40 ↗ includes capital funds to allow the city

2:45:43 ↗ to re-implement the munis ERP to

2:45:45 ↗ financial management system originally

2:45:48 ↗ implemented in 2014 as discussed with

2:45:50 ↗ the council on April 1st and during the

2:45:52 ↗ budget deliver April 1st 2019 and during

2:45:55 ↗ budget deliberations the city's original

2:45:57 ↗ implementation of the tiler technologies

2:45:59 ↗ munis ERP had a number of shortcomings

2:46:01 ↗ that made it difficult for the city to

2:46:03 ↗ access financial information in an

2:46:05 ↗ efficient and timely manner these

2:46:07 ↗ shortcomings have resulted in cumbersome

2:46:09 ↗ and staff intensive processes

2:46:11 ↗ contributed to recent audit findings

2:46:14 ↗ beginning in 2019 the city contract with

2:46:17 ↗ the government finance Officers

2:46:18 ↗ Association of the United States and

2:46:21 ↗ Canada to help us with this since men

2:46:25 ↗ who GFO a city staff have been working

2:46:28 ↗ on a new scope of work and contract

2:46:32 ↗ amendment with technologies that will

2:46:34 ↗ serve as a guide for the real

2:46:35 ↗ implementation work over the remainder

2:46:36 ↗ 20 20 21 and 22 22 in your packet this

2:46:41 ↗ evening is details of of this various

2:46:46 ↗ process on page 88 of your packet talks

2:46:51 ↗ about the various phases phase 1a would

2:46:56 ↗ allow us to move forward starting in

2:46:58 ↗ June 2020 with a go live target date of

2:47:01 ↗ January 4 2021 for accounting general

2:47:04 ↗ ledger budgeting accounts payable

2:47:06 ↗ purchasing project and grants accounting

2:47:09 ↗ contract man

2:47:10 ↗ and accounts receivable general billing

2:47:12 ↗ as well as several support systems a

2:47:16 ↗ second phase or phase one B which would

2:47:21 ↗ deal with capital assets building module

2:47:26 ↗ for the comprehensive annual financial

2:47:27 ↗ report

2:47:28 ↗ accounts receivable a general billing

2:47:30 ↗ would be a start a target date to start

2:47:32 ↗ the project in February 21 and go live

2:47:35 ↗ in June 21 the human resources like

2:47:39 ↗ human capital management would be phase

2:47:41 ↗ 2 beginning in February 21 ending in

2:47:44 ↗ January 22 and a community self service

2:47:47 ↗ for business license and business

2:47:49 ↗ operation tax beginning in July 21 with

2:47:53 ↗ an implementation in June 22 as the

2:47:56 ↗ council knows this has been a long

2:47:58 ↗ discussion with Pilar Technologies I was

2:48:01 ↗ involved myself with a meeting a

2:48:04 ↗ conference call meeting but their senior

2:48:06 ↗ management to get their assurances that

2:48:08 ↗ they would be able to move forward with

2:48:10 ↗ this there's been a large amount of

2:48:13 ↗ travel I was originally anticipated here

2:48:15 ↗ they will be able to do this with a more

2:48:17 ↗ minimal amount of travel the adopted

2:48:20 ↗ budget for the instrumentation was 1

2:48:23 ↗ million forty two thousand five hundred

2:48:25 ↗ in addition the adopted 2020 through

2:48:28 ↗ 2025 capital improvement plan assumed

2:48:31 ↗ three hundred and forty seven thousand

2:48:32 ↗ five hundred dollars in additional costs

2:48:34 ↗ based on the negotiated scope would work

2:48:37 ↗ the overall cost other implementations

2:48:39 ↗ come down to what was budgeted the

2:48:42 ↗ capital cost is projected four hundred

2:48:44 ↗ twenty one thousand two thirty four less

2:48:47 ↗ than twenty 24 2004 and twenty one forty

2:48:51 ↗ three thousand more in 2022 resulting in

2:48:54 ↗ an overall net capital reduction of 335

2:48:57 ↗ thousand three sixty four over those

2:48:59 ↗ three fiscal years so madam mayor

2:49:01 ↗ members of the council this is an

2:49:02 ↗ important project we feel that we now

2:49:06 ↗ have a scope of work in place but with

2:49:08 ↗ Tyler technologies that will allow us to

2:49:10 ↗ move forward especially with the phase

2:49:13 ↗ one a which is the core financial system

2:49:15 ↗ and we would ask your approval for these

2:49:19 ↗ contracts

2:49:20 ↗ react with the answer any questions

2:49:22 ↗ thank you City Administrator Bob Chris

2:49:26 ↗ before we go to questions I would like

2:49:28 ↗ to check in with council president hunt

2:49:30 ↗ and see if there have been any public

2:49:32 ↗ comments to the temple this week on this

2:49:34 ↗ particular topic

2:49:36 ↗ hi Tam's president hunt yes thank you

2:49:41 ↗ thank you madam era the staff council

2:49:43 ↗ president hunt I did receive one comment

2:49:47 ↗ on this

2:49:49 ↗ we received a comments from caprera on

2:49:52 ↗ this item and his input can be

2:49:56 ↗ summarized that he has that he did not

2:49:58 ↗ see a strong case for why this cost

2:50:00 ↗ should be incurred that's the conclusion

2:50:03 ↗ of comments on that item thank you very

2:50:07 ↗ much okay councilmember Walsh I believe

2:50:12 ↗ you're not on mute right now or

2:50:14 ↗ councilmember Goodman not sure sorry

2:50:17 ↗ oh no worries councilmember Rey has a

2:50:20 ↗ question followed by council president

2:50:21 ↗ our debby council president ray has a

2:50:23 ↗ question followed by council president

2:50:25 ↗ punch mister a couple of observations

2:50:28 ↗ one is the payment terms has outlined in

2:50:32 ↗ the amendment or for $399,000 and and

2:50:35 ↗ the total value of the entire body of

2:50:40 ↗ work is seven hundred and seventy seven

2:50:42 ↗ hundred and seventy seven thousand

2:50:44 ↗ dollars so I'm just trying to figure out

2:50:46 ↗ are we just contracting for part of the

2:50:49 ↗ work at this point or why is there there

2:50:51 ↗ this discrepancy in the funds signature

2:50:55 ↗ about quotes I believe that it has to go

2:51:03 ↗ with the phasing of this I I may need to

2:51:07 ↗ literally phone a friend county council

2:51:10 ↗ president ray as I think you know we

2:51:12 ↗ gave director Beth Goldberg the night

2:51:16 ↗ off

2:51:16 ↗ told me that I could answer all the

2:51:18 ↗ questions at this late hour but I will I

2:51:21 ↗ will reach out to her and see if she can

2:51:24 ↗ get on the line with us she is standing

2:51:26 ↗ by but I'd be happy to try to answer

2:51:29 ↗ other questions at you okay so the

2:51:31 ↗ second one I have is

2:51:33 ↗ somewhat related and that there's the

2:51:34 ↗ amendment has no term to it I generally

2:51:37 ↗ when we do well generally what I've seen

2:51:40 ↗ contract amendments they have a you know

2:51:42 ↗ an end date to them and this one doesn't

2:51:44 ↗ have an end date and I noticed it

2:51:46 ↗ because I was trying to rationalize the

2:51:48 ↗ difference between the payment terms and

2:51:49 ↗ the total dollars so I just wondered if

2:51:52 ↗ there was a reason we didn't put an end

2:51:53 ↗ date to the amendment

2:51:57 ↗ there is no reason I think it based on

2:52:00 ↗ the phasing for this it takes us through

2:52:04 ↗ Exeter June of 22 so I would think that

2:52:07 ↗ you know normally then we would go to

2:52:09 ↗ the end of the fiscal year so would be

2:52:11 ↗ twelve thirty one twenty two and then we

2:52:14 ↗ could make and we can make that change

2:52:15 ↗ before it's executed cool that would be

2:52:18 ↗ great

2:52:18 ↗ and my final comment is is really that

2:52:21 ↗ we're putting this amendment together

2:52:23 ↗ with no no contingency so I I guess if

2:52:26 ↗ we run into problems will come back and

2:52:28 ↗ Andrea mend the the contract that the

2:52:31 ↗ thinking I think what what I actually

2:52:35 ↗ have the answer to that question yeah

2:52:37 ↗ the best plan was to go forward and

2:52:43 ↗ since we're shifting some dollars

2:52:44 ↗ between fiscal years there is going to

2:52:47 ↗ be some additional dollars available in

2:52:49 ↗ the twenty budget and that money would

2:52:52 ↗ be used as a contingency thank you

2:53:07 ↗ Madame mayor were there other questions

2:53:10 ↗ you're muted

2:53:12 ↗ of course I'm muted yeah I was wondering

2:53:16 ↗ why no one was talking to me

2:53:18 ↗ council president hunt followed by

2:53:20 ↗ councilmember marks thank you thank you

2:53:22 ↗ system counselor president hunt thank

2:53:26 ↗ you for the information

2:53:27 ↗ city administrator bow quits I this is a

2:53:31 ↗ large amount of money especially when

2:53:34 ↗ we're so conscious of our budget right

2:53:37 ↗ now and you talked about the improvement

2:53:40 ↗ in financial reporting and the

2:53:41 ↗ importance of that but I wondered if you

2:53:43 ↗ could tell us what additional what the

2:53:46 ↗ what the value is how often will be able

2:53:49 ↗ to access up-to-date financial

2:53:51 ↗ information just to the a summary of the

2:53:55 ↗ value of this month this

2:54:05 ↗ council president yeah nice thank you no

2:54:08 ↗ I was trying to reach my friend who's

2:54:10 ↗ not picking up you know with with any

2:54:14 ↗ online financial system the idea is that

2:54:18 ↗ at any moment in time you can get a

2:54:20 ↗ financial position we currently do not

2:54:22 ↗ have that what we have committed to now

2:54:26 ↗ through the Cobra crisis is to dedicate

2:54:28 ↗ staff to prepare that information on the

2:54:31 ↗ monthly basis which we were not even

2:54:33 ↗ able to previously so I would suspect

2:54:36 ↗ that you would see a comprehensive

2:54:37 ↗ financial report monthly from us and

2:54:42 ↗ then as we would need to provide

2:54:43 ↗ additional information to the council on

2:54:45 ↗ any particular subject or funding source

2:54:48 ↗ that that would be readily available or

2:54:50 ↗ now it is not council president hunt

2:54:57 ↗ does that answer your question yes thank

2:54:59 ↗ you

2:54:59 ↗ Thank You councilmember marks thank you

2:55:03 ↗ madam mayor I just it's an opportunity

2:55:06 ↗ to do a little math but I wanted to

2:55:08 ↗ respond to councilmember Rea just

2:55:11 ↗ looking at the quote there's three

2:55:13 ↗ buckets the first bucket at 71 six

2:55:16 ↗ that's the SaaS Tyler is 126 other

2:55:20 ↗ services is 579 six the second two

2:55:25 ↗ bucket two and bucket three add up to

2:55:27 ↗ the seven oh five five nine zero and

2:55:30 ↗ then 71 six that I mentioned before a

2:55:34 ↗ total the the grand total of seven seven

2:55:38 ↗ seven point two Thank You councilmember

2:55:45 ↗ Mertz I had a question for deputy

2:55:49 ↗ council president ray and that was

2:55:50 ↗ whether or not you have enough

2:55:51 ↗ information or would you like the

2:55:55 ↗ administrator populous to continue to

2:55:59 ↗ try and call his friend so I I just

2:56:02 ↗ wanted to respond a little bit to

2:56:04 ↗ councillor Martin I got the seven I got

2:56:07 ↗ the total dollars what I what I'm

2:56:09 ↗ concerned about I don't know quite

2:56:11 ↗ honestly how much this amendment is for

2:56:12 ↗ I don't know if it's for $399,000 if

2:56:15 ↗ it's for 770 $7,000

2:56:18 ↗ if it's for you know some other amount

2:56:22 ↗ because it doesn't clearly identify that

2:56:25 ↗ and I don't know if it's for the 77 plus

2:56:28 ↗ the 85 for travel it's not clear what

2:56:32 ↗ what what the dollar amount were

2:56:34 ↗ amending this contract for is so I I

2:56:37 ↗ really do I have some structural

2:56:40 ↗ problems right now quite honestly I

2:56:42 ↗ don't know how long the contract runs

2:56:45 ↗ for and I don't know what what were what

2:56:49 ↗ we are approving in terms of dollars

2:56:52 ↗ it's not clear to me

2:56:54 ↗ so clarity would make me happier to the

2:57:00 ↗ administrative of course madam mayor

2:57:08 ↗ councilmember Rey the finance director

2:57:11 ↗ who we wanted to give a night off to

2:57:13 ↗ promised me she would keep her phone

2:57:15 ↗ handy should there be a question is not

2:57:17 ↗ picking up

2:57:18 ↗ so we could we could leave this for the

2:57:21 ↗ meeting on Thursday if you'd like and

2:57:25 ↗ have that I don't know a few days will

2:57:28 ↗ make a difference i I think that my I

2:57:31 ↗ apologized for not being able to put my

2:57:34 ↗ finger on what is a very reasonable

2:57:36 ↗ question that councilman gray is

2:57:38 ↗ requesting so madam mayor perhaps we

2:57:42 ↗ could hold this item have a short public

2:57:46 ↗ session maybe at the beginning of the

2:57:48 ↗ Thursday meeting there's a afternoon

2:57:50 ↗ I'll be able to answer the question as

2:57:53 ↗ everyone has said this is too important

2:57:54 ↗ and I don't want their demanding

2:57:56 ↗ question on any councilmembers mind it

2:57:59 ↗ is 10:00 10:00 in the evening and again

2:58:02 ↗ I wanted very much the trying to ask

2:58:04 ↗ director so I apologize that I did do

2:58:06 ↗ enough due diligence with her to

2:58:08 ↗ anticipate all the questions I think

2:58:11 ↗ there's good as long as it still fits

2:58:14 ↗ within the time frame that sounds like

2:58:15 ↗ it does we also have a question from

2:58:17 ↗ councilmember Walsh thank you I was just

2:58:24 ↗ trying to read the recommended motion

2:58:29 ↗ which says

2:58:31 ↗ authorized the mayor to enter into and

2:58:33 ↗ execute a contract amendment which

2:58:36 ↗ doesn't necessarily say we're approving

2:58:38 ↗ that contract amendment or any specific

2:58:43 ↗ dollars so I was just trying to see if

2:58:45 ↗ there was a way around that but I think

2:58:47 ↗ knowing that we are potentially looking

2:58:50 ↗ at Thursday sounds like a better plan

2:58:53 ↗ than messing with a potential motion to

2:58:57 ↗ get around it so yeah there's a couple

2:59:01 ↗ of this system there's a couple things

2:59:02 ↗ in there so I'm still would be looking

2:59:05 ↗ for some sort of motion that moves this

2:59:09 ↗ forward to a date certain which would be

2:59:11 ↗ Thursday and we can always adjust the

2:59:14 ↗ approval motion to include the amount

2:59:16 ↗ that would help provide clarity Madame

2:59:25 ↗ mayor is the the amount that the

2:59:27 ↗ amendment is for three hundred ninety

2:59:28 ↗ nine thousand seven hundred twenty-five

2:59:30 ↗ dollars so that that is not a question I

2:59:33 ↗ think there are other questions that

2:59:35 ↗ have been asked by by councilmember Rey

2:59:38 ↗ would think need to have more specific

2:59:40 ↗ answers I think we need to include a an

2:59:42 ↗ end term or an end date and that is

2:59:45 ↗ easily done but the amidst for three

2:59:48 ↗ hundred and ninety nine thousand of

2:59:50 ↗ seven twenty five that is that is what

2:59:53 ↗ the document states so as far as it how

2:59:55 ↗ it impacts other other spending with

2:59:57 ↗ Tyler again we're happy to come back on

3:00:01 ↗ Thursday that information great so I

3:00:05 ↗ need to check with the clerk since we're

3:00:08 ↗ looking at an alternative motion the

3:00:10 ↗ language for that motion would be to

3:00:12 ↗ direct the administration to bring this

3:00:15 ↗ agenda bill back to a special meeting on

3:00:17 ↗ Thursday May 7th yes a motion to

3:00:25 ↗ postpone the item to the special meeting

3:00:27 ↗ on the 7th as well maybe to test them

3:00:31 ↗ and include the date I'm sorry the time

3:00:35 ↗ yep a be seven eight nine eight to the

3:00:40 ↗ special council meeting

3:00:43 ↗ may 7th and we said I believe that one's

3:00:46 ↗ starting at 6:00 p.m. and I'm going to

3:00:51 ↗ look to council president hunt for a

3:00:54 ↗ question

3:00:55 ↗ Oh hon I I'm prepared to make a motion

3:01:03 ↗ when they come when questions have been

3:01:05 ↗ answered yes I believe we're through the

3:01:08 ↗ questions that have been noted in the

3:01:10 ↗ message board so go ahead okay I would

3:01:17 ↗ move to postpone this agenda item to

3:01:23 ↗ bring it back to City Council at our

3:01:26 ↗ special meeting on May 7th at 6 p.m. is

3:01:30 ↗ there a second this is Chris Roy I'll

3:01:33 ↗ second that

3:01:34 ↗ Thank You deputy council president it's

3:01:37 ↗ been moved and second to move to

3:01:39 ↗ postpone a be seven eight nine eight to

3:01:41 ↗ the end to move it to the special

3:01:43 ↗ council meeting on May 7th at 6 p.m. all

3:01:49 ↗ those in favor say aye

3:01:51 ↗ sorry actually uh City Clerk's do a roll

3:01:54 ↗ call vote

3:01:54 ↗ sorry that's up thank you you're a real

3:01:58 ↗ caller yes council member D Michelle hi

3:02:03 ↗ councilmember Goodman aye

3:02:06 ↗ council member Hall all right council

3:02:10 ↗ president hunt aye

3:02:12 ↗ council member Mertz hi deputy council

3:02:16 ↗ president ray uh councilmember Walsh bye

3:02:21 ↗ 7i 0 nays thank you very much now we are

3:02:26 ↗ moving to the good of the order do any

3:02:28 ↗ council members of a day they would like

3:02:30 ↗ to share for good of the order

3:02:37 ↗ while I'm waiting to see if anybody else

3:02:40 ↗ wants to chime in I will share that

3:02:42 ↗ there are some upcoming council meetings

3:02:44 ↗ there's all council study sessions and

3:02:48 ↗ all board and Commission meetings except

3:02:51 ↗ for the civil service connect Commission

3:02:53 ↗ if they are needed our council through

3:02:55 ↗ May the recovery task force will begin

3:02:58 ↗ meeting virtually this month City

3:03:00 ↗ Council regular meetings will continue

3:03:02 ↗ to occur as scheduled using a remote

3:03:04 ↗ meeting platform and on the May 18

3:03:07 ↗ regular City Council meeting at 7 p.m.

3:03:09 ↗ potential agenda items are the 2020

3:03:12 ↗ budget amendment 2020 budget

3:03:15 ↗ reauthorization and an amendment to

3:03:17 ↗ personnel policies and as of this

3:03:19 ↗ evening there will be some action on

3:03:21 ↗ Thursday night special council meeting

3:03:23 ↗ for proposal to approve a be 1798 the

3:03:27 ↗ tyro Technologies contract amendment

3:03:30 ↗ just anyone else have anything for good

3:03:32 ↗ of the order seeing none the executive

3:03:38 ↗ session was held during the special

3:03:41 ↗ meeting earlier this evening so there's

3:03:43 ↗ no additional executive session and that

3:03:46 ↗ being said we are no further business

3:03:49 ↗ and the meeting is adjourned at 10:17

3:03:52 ↗ p.m. thank you all

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Council / Members (9)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Zach Lell, Attorney

Mike Walters, Attorney