City Council Special Meeting · Monday, October 26, 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 Council meeting

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0:00 ↗ good evening everyone and welcome i'm

0:02 ↗ going to call the october 26th

0:04 ↗ special city council meeting to order

0:06 ↗ and before we move on to tonight's

0:08 ↗ agenda items i'd like to

0:10 ↗ acknowledge our remote meeting format on

0:13 ↗ march 6

0:13 ↗ i issued an emergency proclamation

0:15 ↗ declaring a civil emergency in the city

0:18 ↗ due to the covet 19 outbreak on march

0:20 ↗ 24th the governor issued proclamation

0:23 ↗ 20-28

0:24 ↗ prohibiting meetings that fall under the

0:26 ↗ open public meetings act

0:27 ↗ such as our city council meetings from

0:30 ↗ being conducted in purpose

0:31 ↗ the prohibition has been extended

0:33 ↗ through november 9th

0:35 ↗ tonight's meeting will be held entirely

0:37 ↗ remotely the meeting will be recorded

0:39 ↗ streamed live and available for later

0:41 ↗ viewing on the city's youtube channel

0:44 ↗ a call and number was provided on the

0:46 ↗ meeting agenda for members of the public

0:48 ↗ who wish to call in by phone

0:50 ↗ to listen live to the meetings or to

0:52 ↗ make comments

0:53 ↗ so if anyone is on the call who did not

0:54 ↗ sign up to speak tonight but would like

0:56 ↗ to speak

0:57 ↗ please press star 3 on your phone and we

1:00 ↗ will add you to the speakers list

1:04 ↗ at this point we'll take a moment to

1:05 ↗ take roll call of the council members in

1:07 ↗ attendance

1:08 ↗ so please stay here when i call your

1:10 ↗ name councilmember

1:12 ↗ d michelle here thank you councilmember

1:15 ↗ goodman

1:16 ↗ here thank you councilmember hall

1:19 ↗ here thank you council president hunt

1:22 ↗ here thanks councilmember marks

1:27 ↗ all right here good to hear

1:30 ↗ uh deputy council president ray yeah

1:33 ↗ thank you and council member walsh here

1:37 ↗ thank you so we also have many of our

1:40 ↗ city staff here at the meeting this

1:43 ↗ evening as well we have city

1:44 ↗ administrator bob kwitz

1:45 ↗ we have sustainability coordinator megan

1:47 ↗ curtis murphy

1:48 ↗ and we have our deputy city clerk tisha

1:51 ↗ gieser

1:52 ↗ other city staff may also be in

1:54 ↗ attendance this evening

1:56 ↗ for those members of the public on the

1:57 ↗ call welcome the clerk or i will call on

2:00 ↗ you to make comments when we reach that

2:01 ↗ portion of our agenda

2:03 ↗ so i'm going to reiterate some general

2:05 ↗ meeting guidelines

2:07 ↗ for all meeting attendees please speak

2:09 ↗ clearly and pause frequently

2:12 ↗ state your name each time before

2:13 ↗ speaking

2:15 ↗ mute your microphone when not speaking

2:18 ↗ if you're also streaming the live video

2:20 ↗ feed please turn the sound off

2:22 ↗ as there's a delay and the next item on

2:24 ↗ the agenda this evening is public

2:26 ↗ comment and city clerk has anyone signed

2:28 ↗ up to speak or indicate

2:29 ↗ a desire to speak this evening yes we

2:32 ↗ have one person signed up to speak

2:35 ↗ that's great thank you i'll go through a

2:36 ↗ few guidelines first

2:39 ↗ please direct your city comments to the

2:40 ↗ whole city council and not to

2:42 ↗ individuals

2:43 ↗ and while this is not a question and

2:44 ↗ answer session we will contact you to

2:46 ↗ follow up if needed

2:48 ↗ when recognized unmute your microphone

2:52 ↗ state your name address and relationship

2:54 ↗ to the city

2:55 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently and

2:58 ↗ please limit your comments to five

2:59 ↗ minutes

3:00 ↗ please remove your microphone when done

3:03 ↗ if you do not respond after your name or

3:04 ↗ phone number is called or if your

3:06 ↗ connection is lost unexpectedly the

3:07 ↗ meeting will be able to proceed

3:09 ↗ you are encouraged to rejoin the meeting

3:11 ↗ if able personal attacks

3:13 ↗ obscene language derogatory remarks and

3:15 ↗ disruptive behavior will not be

3:16 ↗ permitted

3:18 ↗ i always like to state that citizen

3:20 ↗ comments

3:21 ↗ both written and verbal are an important

3:23 ↗ aspect of the public process

3:24 ↗ and city takes these comments very

3:27 ↗ seriously we thank you for taking the

3:29 ↗ time out of your busy evening to address

3:31 ↗ this tonight

3:32 ↗ city clerk can you please identify the

3:34 ↗ first person who signed up to speak

3:39 ↗ yes the first speaker is ann fletcher

3:42 ↗ and i'll request you unmute now you may

3:44 ↗ also need to

3:46 ↗ unmute your own phone

4:02 ↗ and and this is tisha you'll need to

4:04 ↗ press star six on your phone and then

4:06 ↗ you may also need to

4:08 ↗ unmute your phone itself

4:14 ↗ are you there anne

4:22 ↗ mayor i see she's unmuted if we can just

4:24 ↗ give her another minute here sounds good

4:28 ↗ thanks

4:35 ↗ and i see that you're unmuted on our end

4:38 ↗ so you may just have to unmute your

4:40 ↗ phone and you should be audible to us

4:50 ↗ can you hear me yes

4:53 ↗ yes and we can hear you oh go ahead

4:56 ↗ thank you okay this is ann fletcher

5:00 ↗ resident and member of people for

5:02 ↗ climate action

5:03 ↗ i'd like to comment on agenda bill 7941

5:09 ↗ the city council and the public want a

5:12 ↗ policy level board

5:14 ↗ to protect the environment they want to

5:17 ↗ do this

5:18 ↗ without losing the rivers and streams

5:20 ↗ board oversight

5:22 ↗ until new code can be put into place

5:25 ↗ the proposed ordinance does both

5:28 ↗ with two exceptions these are

5:31 ↗ highlighted in the chart

5:34 ↗ that i sent in with my written comments

5:37 ↗ and i think they can be fairly easily

5:39 ↗ addressed as i'll briefly explain

5:42 ↗ number one transportation projects that

5:45 ↗ require critical area studies

5:48 ↗ the neighborhood meeting was added

5:52 ↗ to the isquad municipal code as a way to

5:55 ↗ replace rivers and streams community

5:57 ↗ review of projects

5:59 ↗ that impact critical areas this works

6:03 ↗ well

6:04 ↗ with the essential exception of

6:06 ↗ transportation projects

6:08 ↗ that impact critical areas the

6:11 ↗ administration in appendix

6:13 ↗ g number six recommends

6:16 ↗ that transportation projects instead

6:20 ↗ of a neighborhood meeting should include

6:22 ↗ discussion of the environment

6:25 ↗ through already established processes of

6:27 ↗ public input

6:30 ↗ we'd like to ensure that this happens i

6:34 ↗ asked the city council

6:35 ↗ to give input on this to the

6:37 ↗ administration

6:39 ↗ and for the administration to please

6:41 ↗ consider

6:43 ↗ how environmental information from those

6:46 ↗ public input processes would be shared

6:50 ↗ with an environmental board

6:53 ↗ the second item is measurable

6:55 ↗ achievement

6:56 ↗ of environmental goals and objectives

7:00 ↗ in its annual report environmental board

7:02 ↗ duty number seven

7:05 ↗ the board needs a sufficient mechanism

7:09 ↗ to get targeted information so it can

7:12 ↗ report

7:13 ↗ on measurable progress toward overall

7:16 ↗ city environmental goals

7:19 ↗ the administration in appendix g number

7:22 ↗ eight

7:23 ↗ states that to gather information

7:26 ↗ to evaluate performance of city

7:29 ↗ regulations

7:30 ↗ may require a different prof a different

7:32 ↗ process

7:33 ↗ from the checklist we'd like to ensure

7:37 ↗ that such a process

7:39 ↗ happens in the future and with board

7:42 ↗ participation the council

7:44 ↗ could incorporate it into the ordinance

7:47 ↗ or duties

7:49 ↗ language for this is suggested in my

7:51 ↗ written comments

7:52 ↗ or they could request follow-up from the

7:55 ↗ administration

7:56 ↗ on a process involving the board for

7:59 ↗ environmental data gathering

8:03 ↗ either way this would give the board the

8:05 ↗ mechanism to complete its

8:06 ↗ annual progress report and give

8:09 ↗ effective advice

8:11 ↗ on plans policies and regulations

8:14 ↗ and with these two items addressed in a

8:18 ↗ continued strong relationship

8:20 ↗ among the council administration and the

8:23 ↗ community

8:24 ↗ we will have an excellent ordinance

8:28 ↗ thank you thank you anne

8:31 ↗ city clerk do we have anyone else signed

8:33 ↗ up this evening to speak

8:35 ↗ uh no one else has signed up if there's

8:37 ↗ anyone on the line who would like to

8:38 ↗ make comments please

8:40 ↗ press star 3 on your phone now let's

8:43 ↗ give it a little bit of time

8:51 ↗ so i hit star three

8:56 ↗ this is connie hi connie yes please

8:59 ↗ please go ahead

9:01 ↗ okay because sometimes it seems to take

9:04 ↗ a while for star three to get through

9:06 ↗ so this is connie marsh i live up on

9:08 ↗ squawk mountain as

9:09 ↗ as you all know and ann did great

9:13 ↗ so um

9:17 ↗ what what i want to add

9:20 ↗ to my agreement with ann is

9:23 ↗ maybe a little bit of back story

9:27 ↗ in transportation projects uh

9:30 ↗ transportation projects don't

9:34 ↗ go through the regular land use code

9:38 ↗ except for the cipa section and the fifa

9:41 ↗ section

9:42 ↗ is only noticed in the seattle times

9:46 ↗ so it's difficult for the community to

9:49 ↗ know what's going on with transportation

9:51 ↗ projects especially

9:53 ↗ as it relates to the environment and so

9:56 ↗ throughout the

9:56 ↗ last few years the city has put out a

10:00 ↗ variety

10:01 ↗ of neighborhood meetings and

10:05 ↗ we're never really quite sure what those

10:07 ↗ neighborhood

10:08 ↗ meetings are going to be and so what

10:11 ↗ this could do if the city council

10:15 ↗ decided that it wanted to

10:16 ↗ express an opinion is it

10:20 ↗ would add an environmental

10:24 ↗ component to any of those neighborhood

10:27 ↗ meetings so for example

10:29 ↗ if it was one of those meetings where

10:31 ↗ you walked from board to board to board

10:34 ↗ there would always be a section

10:37 ↗ on critical area impact than explaining

10:41 ↗ what those would be so that the

10:43 ↗ community would understand

10:46 ↗ now what what's necessary

10:49 ↗ for any board to get an idea of what's

10:53 ↗ happening

10:53 ↗ city-wide is to have those impacts

10:57 ↗ also be included in a

11:01 ↗ database probably the easiest thing to

11:03 ↗ think about would be

11:04 ↗ counting trees but somebody would have

11:07 ↗ to decide what they want to measure

11:09 ↗ because you

11:09 ↗ can't measure anything so this is just

11:11 ↗ an example

11:13 ↗ if a road was going to take down

11:17 ↗ all of the mature trees along newport

11:20 ↗ way

11:21 ↗ for example by tibbetts valley park

11:24 ↗ then that would be counted as tree

11:28 ↗ removal in a

11:31 ↗ in a database we removed 18

11:35 ↗ mature trees and then you would say oh

11:38 ↗ but we planted x number of trees

11:43 ↗ and then we decided that was sufficient

11:46 ↗ and the board could then look at that

11:49 ↗ and say wow

11:50 ↗ that's sufficient that's great can you

11:52 ↗ believe how awesome we are or they could

11:54 ↗ say you know what

11:56 ↗ that new code is not

11:59 ↗ working very well and we need to suggest

12:02 ↗ to the city council that it might need

12:04 ↗ to be adjusted

12:05 ↗ so if you only look at the

12:08 ↗ sort of private development projects you

12:11 ↗ would be missing a large

12:13 ↗ component in what

12:16 ↗ the city needs to understand for its

12:19 ↗ environmental impacts

12:20 ↗ and improvements and that is why i'm so

12:23 ↗ insistent

12:24 ↗ on getting the transportation projects

12:27 ↗ included

12:28 ↗ in this analysis the

12:31 ↗ administration has suggested

12:35 ↗ a checklist but this checklist

12:38 ↗ is is a checklist that is supposed to

12:42 ↗ inform what initial changes

12:46 ↗ are needed for title 18

12:49 ↗ and that does not continue

12:52 ↗ through the role of the environmental

12:56 ↗ board

12:57 ↗ and so that does not serve the function

13:00 ↗ and i don't want there to be confusion

13:02 ↗ in thinking that that actually serves

13:04 ↗ that purpose

13:06 ↗ one is sort of a short form what do we

13:08 ↗ need to do to change

13:11 ↗ title 18 initially and then this

13:14 ↗ other checklist or data gathering that

13:17 ↗ we're talking about

13:19 ↗ is over time how well is the new code

13:23 ↗ working

13:23 ↗ how well are all of our city regulations

13:26 ↗ working

13:27 ↗ that impact the environment are

13:29 ↗ improving the environment

13:31 ↗ so i i can't quite decide as i review my

13:35 ↗ words whether i

13:36 ↗ have confused you more or helped with

13:40 ↗ this story

13:41 ↗ hopefully this is helpful and you can

13:44 ↗ better understand

13:46 ↗ why these changes that and eloquently

13:49 ↗ presented are necessary thank you

13:53 ↗ thank you connie uh city clerk are there

13:56 ↗ any other folks signed up this evening

13:58 ↗ for

13:58 ↗ of a comment no there's no one further

14:01 ↗ from the public attending the meeting

14:03 ↗ tonight

14:05 ↗ well i thank both connie and anne for

14:06 ↗ coming in i know they've both been

14:08 ↗ tracking this issue

14:09 ↗ um for a very long time so the comments

14:12 ↗ we got tonight on the environmental

14:14 ↗ board came with some additional requests

14:16 ↗ clarifying about transportation

14:19 ↗ projects and other items and the council

14:22 ↗ will be

14:22 ↗ looking at these this evening so thank

14:24 ↗ you both

14:26 ↗ um as a reminder anyone who is watching

14:29 ↗ or watching later you can always send

14:30 ↗ written comments

14:31 ↗ into your city council at city council

14:34 ↗ at issaquah.gov

14:38 ↗ in addition comments received by email

14:41 ↗ on any of tonight's agenda topic will be

14:43 ↗ acknowledged by our council president

14:45 ↗ so the next item on the agenda this

14:47 ↗ evening is ab7941

14:49 ↗ establishing environmental board and

14:52 ↗ repealing imc 18.03

14:54 ↗ regarding the rivers and streams board

14:56 ↗ the action before council this evening

14:58 ↗ will be to adopt the ordinance and this

15:00 ↗ item has been before council before

15:02 ↗ at the october 5th council meeting and

15:07 ↗ postponed to for consideration at

15:10 ↗ tonight's meeting

15:11 ↗ so i'd like to invite sustainability

15:13 ↗ coordinator megan curtis murphy

15:14 ↗ for a brief presentation welcome megan

15:27 ↗ great thank you well good evening madam

15:30 ↗ mayor and council members

15:31 ↗ i'm megan curtis murphy with the office

15:33 ↗ of sustainability

15:35 ↗ i'm glad to be back this evening to

15:36 ↗ discuss some updates we've made to the

15:38 ↗ environmental board

15:39 ↗ and to ask for council's consideration

15:41 ↗ of the ordinance before you this evening

15:43 ↗ i'd like to thank several community

15:45 ↗ members a couple who are on the phone

15:46 ↗ tonight

15:47 ↗ uh ppc commissioners and council members

15:49 ↗ for all of their input over the last few

15:51 ↗ months

15:52 ↗ and for working together to make a

15:54 ↗ stronger proposal for our community

15:56 ↗ and for our environment

15:59 ↗ i'll start this evening with the purpose

16:01 ↗ and the timeline of the process

16:03 ↗ and then talk about the feedback we've

16:05 ↗ received and the changes to the

16:06 ↗ ordinance as a result of that

16:08 ↗ next i'll review some flow charts

16:10 ↗ showing how the board's work will be

16:12 ↗ incorporated into decision making

16:13 ↗ processes

16:14 ↗ and then share ppc's recommendations on

16:17 ↗ the ordinance this evening

16:19 ↗ i'll also briefly review the additional

16:21 ↗ information requested at the last

16:23 ↗ meeting

16:23 ↗ and which is summarized in a company

16:25 ↗ table we will end with next steps in the

16:28 ↗ process

16:29 ↗ for establishing the environmental board

16:32 ↗ the purpose of the presentation this

16:34 ↗ evening is to present the updated

16:36 ↗ proposal

16:37 ↗ and seek council authorization to adopt

16:39 ↗ the ordinance to sunset the river and

16:41 ↗ streams board

16:42 ↗ and establish a new environmental board

16:45 ↗ the environmental board as proposed will

16:47 ↗ address a broader scope of environmental

16:49 ↗ and sustainability issues in this in the

16:52 ↗ city

16:53 ↗ including climate change and will

16:54 ↗ contribute toward the protection of our

16:56 ↗ environment here in issaquah

17:00 ↗ residents in issaquah are passionate

17:02 ↗ about the environment so the city

17:04 ↗ decided to start with them

17:05 ↗ when developing the proposal for a

17:07 ↗ community environmental board

17:09 ↗ in june we had two community meetings

17:11 ↗ and distribute a survey to get ideas on

17:14 ↗ the proposal for the new board

17:16 ↗ in july we brought the proposal to city

17:18 ↗ council for a study session

17:20 ↗ and then an update in august with

17:21 ↗ changes based on the feedback we

17:23 ↗ received

17:24 ↗ we held a public hearing on the board at

17:26 ↗ ppc in august and got a lot of feedback

17:29 ↗ both from commissioners and the public

17:30 ↗ at that meeting

17:32 ↗ following the ppc public hearing we met

17:35 ↗ with a couple residents

17:36 ↗ and worked with our community planning

17:38 ↗ and development department

17:39 ↗ to make further changes to the ordinance

17:42 ↗ incorporating much of the feedback we

17:43 ↗ heard in those meetings

17:46 ↗ there is an additional ppc meeting in

17:47 ↗ september and now we're here before

17:49 ↗ council this evening

17:50 ↗ asking for consideration on this

17:52 ↗ ordinance

17:54 ↗ this table summarizes the comments that

17:56 ↗ we heard at the august 3rd

17:58 ↗ city council meeting an august 13th ppc

18:01 ↗ meeting

18:01 ↗ and the changes to the ordinance as a

18:03 ↗ result of that

18:04 ↗ a more detailed table was included in

18:06 ↗ the memo for your reference

18:08 ↗ we'll get into greater detail on these

18:10 ↗ in the coming slides but i want to point

18:12 ↗ out a few items here

18:14 ↗ we update the wording of the objective

18:16 ↗ and several of the duties and

18:17 ↗ responsibilities

18:18 ↗ we also worked with community planning

18:20 ↗ and development on a new neighborhood

18:22 ↗ meeting process

18:23 ↗ in response to the public's request for

18:25 ↗ community review of projects

18:28 ↗ and further we developed a natural

18:29 ↗ environment checklist to be used on

18:31 ↗ projects

18:32 ↗ and to help inform future policy changes

18:35 ↗ the last item here was from a discussion

18:37 ↗ at the last council meeting

18:39 ↗ about the role of youth on the board

18:42 ↗ there was a suggestion to include a

18:43 ↗ discussion or training on the value of

18:45 ↗ diverse opinions on all boards

18:47 ↗ this was a great idea that started with

18:49 ↗ the importance of including youth in the

18:51 ↗ conversation

18:52 ↗ and was brought in to be about the value

18:54 ↗ of hearing from people from all

18:55 ↗ different backgrounds

18:57 ↗ including different ages ethnicities or

18:59 ↗ income levels

19:01 ↗ we're working with the clerk's

19:02 ↗ department to include this in the board

19:03 ↗ and commission orientation process

19:05 ↗ so thank you for that

19:09 ↗ as referenced on the previous slide the

19:11 ↗ objective has been changed to align with

19:13 ↗ the comments we heard to make it about

19:14 ↗ protecting the environment and taking

19:16 ↗ action on climate

19:18 ↗ the new language is displayed in red it

19:20 ↗ also reads more closely to how the river

19:22 ↗ and stream's objective was originally

19:24 ↗ worded

19:26 ↗ this is a reminder on the membership

19:28 ↗ we'll have nine members and three

19:30 ↗ alternates with two positions reserved

19:32 ↗ for youth as requested by the community

19:34 ↗ and council the other membership

19:36 ↗ attributes have not

19:38 ↗ changed in that we're looking for a

19:39 ↗ majority of residents

19:41 ↗ and to have diversity on the board we're

19:43 ↗ seeking individuals with both

19:45 ↗ professional experience

19:47 ↗ as well as community members interested

19:49 ↗ in the environment

19:50 ↗ and as the board will be covering a

19:52 ↗ range of topics we want to see a balance

19:54 ↗ in these topics represented through the

19:56 ↗ backgrounds and interests of individuals

19:58 ↗ on the board

20:01 ↗ these next few slides will go into the

20:03 ↗ details about the duties and

20:05 ↗ responsibilities with major updates in

20:07 ↗ red

20:08 ↗ for the first item the city added

20:10 ↗ additional items to the code that the

20:12 ↗ board will reveal

20:14 ↗ both the shoreline management program

20:15 ↗ and storm and surface water master plan

20:18 ↗ are items that river and streams would

20:19 ↗ have reviewed

20:21 ↗ relevant portion of title 18 was

20:23 ↗ included and

20:24 ↗ as well as of portions of title 13 and

20:27 ↗ 16 have been added

20:29 ↗ the board will also have a chance to

20:30 ↗ review the list of city projects through

20:32 ↗ the capital improvement plan

20:34 ↗ and the transportation improvement

20:36 ↗ program the board will provide

20:38 ↗ input on environmental impact or other

20:40 ↗ sustainability considerations for these

20:42 ↗ projects

20:44 ↗ the next two have not changed this board

20:46 ↗ will issue board statements to track

20:48 ↗ their recommendations throughout the

20:50 ↗ approval processes

20:51 ↗ and these recommendations will be noted

20:53 ↗ to have substantial weight for the

20:54 ↗ decision maker

20:56 ↗ next is to review research and best

20:58 ↗ practices to advise on environmental

21:00 ↗ policies and ordinances in the city

21:03 ↗ and then the last one on this page

21:04 ↗ changed in response to feedback we

21:06 ↗ received

21:07 ↗ previously we proposed that the board

21:09 ↗ would develop and maintain an

21:10 ↗ environmental and sustainability

21:12 ↗ checklist to be used on projects

21:14 ↗ given the time it would take for the

21:15 ↗ board to get up and running we've worked

21:17 ↗ with community planning and development

21:19 ↗ to develop a checklist that was included

21:21 ↗ in the packet

21:23 ↗ the proposed natural environment

21:24 ↗ checklist would be used on projects with

21:26 ↗ critical areas

21:27 ↗ that are classified as level 2 and up in

21:30 ↗ the permitting process

21:31 ↗ as projects at this level are larger in

21:33 ↗ scale and could have a greater impact on

21:35 ↗ the environment

21:36 ↗ a link to the level of review matrix

21:38 ↗ with sample project types was included

21:40 ↗ in the memo for reference

21:43 ↗ in addition to the natural environment

21:44 ↗ checklist these same projects will all

21:47 ↗ receive a neighborhood meeting

21:48 ↗ as a form of community review to replace

21:51 ↗ the review that was previously done

21:53 ↗ by the river and streams board

21:56 ↗ i'm going to spend a few minutes talking

21:58 ↗ about how the neighborhood meeting and

22:00 ↗ checklist

22:02 ↗ this is the mayor uh council member mark

22:04 ↗ did you want to wait till after the

22:05 ↗ presentation or did you want us to go

22:07 ↗ back a slide

22:10 ↗ uh i guess if you want to collect

22:12 ↗ questions

22:14 ↗ i can note the slide great

22:17 ↗ thank you very much go ahead megan okay

22:21 ↗ um so i'm going to talk for a few

22:22 ↗ minutes about how the neighborhood

22:23 ↗ meeting and checklist will work as a

22:25 ↗ form of project review

22:27 ↗ looking at the flow chart here on the

22:29 ↗ left hand side

22:30 ↗ you'll see the split for projects with

22:32 ↗ critical areas and without critical

22:34 ↗ areas

22:34 ↗ and then a split for projects that are

22:36 ↗ level two and above

22:38 ↗ as you can see in blue in the middle

22:40 ↗ projects are level 0

22:42 ↗ and 1 will still have a city consultant

22:44 ↗ do a peer review of the critical area

22:46 ↗ study

22:47 ↗ to make sure it details any impacts to

22:49 ↗ the critical areas

22:50 ↗ and mitigation plans in compliance with

22:52 ↗ code

22:53 ↗ there would be no community review for

22:55 ↗ these levels of projects

22:56 ↗ but city staff would use the information

22:59 ↗ from the peer review

23:00 ↗ to help inform their decision making for

23:03 ↗ projects

23:03 ↗ are level 2 and up after the peer review

23:06 ↗ these projects will have a neighborhood

23:07 ↗ meeting

23:09 ↗ city staff will fill out the

23:10 ↗ neighborhood meeting handout which

23:12 ↗ includes details on the critical areas

23:14 ↗ shorelines tree retention requirements

23:17 ↗ and will include the technical area

23:18 ↗ experts in the meeting

23:20 ↗ the purpose of the meeting is to provide

23:22 ↗ the community an opportunity to

23:23 ↗ understand the proposal

23:25 ↗ and to provide the city with thoughts

23:27 ↗ and concerns before a decision is

23:28 ↗ rendered

23:30 ↗ following the neighborhood meeting city

23:32 ↗ staff will fill out the natural

23:33 ↗ environment checklist

23:35 ↗ which includes environmental information

23:37 ↗ about the project beyond the critical

23:38 ↗ areas piece

23:40 ↗ the neighborhood meeting information

23:42 ↗ including public comments received at

23:44 ↗ the meeting

23:45 ↗ will be attached to the checklist and

23:46 ↗ travel with the project to help inform

23:48 ↗ decision making

23:50 ↗ the information we get from the natural

23:52 ↗ environment checklist

23:53 ↗ along with the neighborhood meeting

23:55 ↗ handout will also help identify and

23:57 ↗ inform policy issues in the issaquah

23:59 ↗ municipal code

24:00 ↗ that the board may want to weigh in on

24:02 ↗ during the title 18 updates

24:05 ↗ i'm going to go back a slide quickly to

24:08 ↗ look at how this new process relates to

24:10 ↗ the environmental board

24:12 ↗ as seen in duty number four the role of

24:14 ↗ the environmental board

24:15 ↗ will be to advise on the implementation

24:17 ↗ of the checklist and process

24:19 ↗ as detailed in the ordinance the board

24:21 ↗ will have a chance to review the

24:23 ↗ checklist after five uses

24:24 ↗ and annually thereafter to provide

24:28 ↗ feedback to community planning and

24:29 ↗ development on its use

24:33 ↗ continuing on with the rest of the

24:35 ↗ duties the board will also advise on

24:37 ↗ planning and prioritization of actions

24:39 ↗ related to climate change and resiliency

24:42 ↗ the city is planning to do a climate

24:44 ↗ action plan next year so the board will

24:45 ↗ be key in helping to advise on that

24:47 ↗ planning effort

24:49 ↗ next is develop recommendations on

24:51 ↗ programs services

24:52 ↗ practices and priorities relating to

24:55 ↗ environmental sustainability and

24:56 ↗ protection

24:58 ↗ next we'll have the annual report which

25:00 ↗ has also changed as a result of feedback

25:03 ↗ the board will provide an annual report

25:05 ↗ to the mayor and city council

25:07 ↗ on work plan activities and measurable

25:10 ↗ achievement toward environmental goals

25:11 ↗ and objectives

25:12 ↗ it'll also include a self-analysis of

25:14 ↗ their work and effectiveness to be

25:16 ↗ presented to city council

25:19 ↗ this was suggested by a ppc commissioner

25:21 ↗ and will provide an opportunity for

25:22 ↗ discussion if there are any parts of the

25:24 ↗ ordinance

25:25 ↗ that need to be modified or updated in

25:27 ↗ the future

25:28 ↗ and finally the mayor can direct the

25:30 ↗ board to perform other duties as may be

25:32 ↗ prescribed in the ordinance

25:36 ↗ we put together three flowcharts showing

25:38 ↗ the flow of work for the board

25:40 ↗ and how their recommendations are

25:41 ↗ factored into the decision-making

25:43 ↗ process

25:44 ↗ the first is for items requiring council

25:46 ↗ review such as city plans policies and

25:48 ↗ regulations

25:50 ↗ first the city administration prepares

25:52 ↗ the items and then presents it to the

25:54 ↗ environmental board

25:55 ↗ the board provides input and

25:56 ↗ recommendations which are relayed

25:58 ↗ through the meeting minutes

26:00 ↗ city staff incorporates it into the work

26:02 ↗ product and

26:03 ↗ then presents it for council review

26:06 ↗ council is instructed to give

26:07 ↗ substantial weight to the

26:08 ↗ recommendations of the environmental

26:10 ↗ board

26:10 ↗ which is something that was incorporated

26:12 ↗ into the board as a response to the

26:14 ↗ community desire

26:15 ↗ for the board to have teeth in the

26:16 ↗ decision-making process

26:19 ↗ for items that require review by ppc the

26:22 ↗ process would be similar for the first

26:24 ↗ two steps

26:26 ↗ next ppc would review the item and give

26:28 ↗ substantial weight to the board's

26:30 ↗ recommendations

26:31 ↗ the city would incorporate any feedback

26:33 ↗ and then present to city council

26:36 ↗ the council would also be instructed to

26:37 ↗ give substantial weight to the

26:38 ↗ recommendations

26:39 ↗ of the environmental board in their

26:41 ↗ decision making

26:44 ↗ lastly the board will be asked to

26:45 ↗ provide their input on various program

26:47 ↗ developments and environmental practices

26:50 ↗ these are not items that require review

26:52 ↗ by external decision makers

26:54 ↗ but the recommendations of the board

26:55 ↗ would be considered and incorporated

26:57 ↗ into the city's work

27:01 ↗ the proposal before council this evening

27:03 ↗ was presented at the planning policy

27:04 ↗ commission meeting and had a public

27:06 ↗ hearing on september 24th

27:08 ↗ ppc recommended approval of the

27:10 ↗ ordinance but issued a letter with three

27:12 ↗ concerns for consideration by council

27:16 ↗ the first is about transparency in

27:18 ↗ decisions about critical

27:19 ↗ areas as the administration developed a

27:22 ↗ new process for projects with critical

27:24 ↗ areas to have a neighborhood meeting

27:26 ↗ the administration does not recommend

27:27 ↗ adding additional process for projects

27:29 ↗ without critical areas

27:32 ↗ the next was the environmental board

27:34 ↗ should be given flexibility to determine

27:35 ↗ topics it addresses

27:37 ↗ as proposed the ordinance provides the

27:39 ↗ mayor the authority delegate additional

27:41 ↗ duties to the board

27:42 ↗ and also includes a self-evaluation

27:45 ↗ process which the administration

27:46 ↗ believes is sufficient in providing this

27:48 ↗ flexibility

27:50 ↗ the last concern was wanting to have a

27:52 ↗ six-month review of the checklist

27:54 ↗ and progress report of the board rather

27:55 ↗ than annually

27:57 ↗ the administration proposed annually to

27:59 ↗ allow time for these processes to get

28:01 ↗ started plus the review of the checklist

28:03 ↗ after five uses

28:05 ↗ the administration has not made changes

28:06 ↗ to the ordinance since the september

28:08 ↗ 24th ppc meeting

28:11 ↗ along with the ppc comments there are

28:13 ↗ questions about a variety of other

28:15 ↗ topics

28:16 ↗ full responses were included in the

28:17 ↗ agenda packet and i'll provide a quick

28:19 ↗ overview of the topics here there are

28:22 ↗ questions about including transportation

28:24 ↗ projects and projects with submit

28:26 ↗ significant impact to trees in the

28:27 ↗ neighborhood meeting process

28:29 ↗ there are questions about the overall

28:31 ↗ purpose of the natural environment

28:32 ↗ checklist

28:33 ↗ which was designed to supplement the

28:34 ↗ neighborhood meeting information

28:36 ↗ and help in foreign updates to title 18.

28:39 ↗ there are suggestions to include

28:41 ↗ additional language and the ordinance

28:43 ↗ adding city council to direct duties to

28:45 ↗ the board and adding in the term

28:47 ↗ environmental security

28:48 ↗ which the administration believes is

28:49 ↗ already addressed through climate

28:51 ↗ resilience

28:52 ↗ and lastly there was a request for

28:54 ↗ comments from the neighborhood meetings

28:55 ↗ to be shared with the board

28:56 ↗ and those can be included in agenda

28:58 ↗ packets for the environmental board

29:02 ↗ there are two options before the council

29:04 ↗ this evening the first is to adopt the

29:06 ↗ ordinance as proposed

29:07 ↗ and the second is to modify the proposed

29:10 ↗ ordinance

29:12 ↗ administration recommends adopting the

29:13 ↗ ordinance as proposed

29:15 ↗ to sunset the river and streams board

29:17 ↗ and establish a new environmental board

29:19 ↗ which will address about a broader scope

29:21 ↗ of environmental and sustainability

29:23 ↗ issues in the city

29:26 ↗ if the ordinance is adopted this evening

29:28 ↗ we'll begin recruitment next week

29:29 ↗ and interview potential candidates we

29:32 ↗ anticipate that the mayor's appointments

29:33 ↗ will be brought to city council for

29:35 ↗ confirmation in december

29:36 ↗ we would have our first board meeting in

29:38 ↗ january

29:41 ↗ once again the recommendation from the

29:42 ↗ administration is to adopt the ordinance

29:44 ↗ before council this evening as proposed

29:47 ↗ that concludes my presentation i'm happy

29:49 ↗ to take any questions or comments

29:52 ↗ thank you very much megan we do have a

29:54 ↗ few questions before we go there though

29:56 ↗ i'm going to go to council president

29:57 ↗ hunt

29:58 ↗ and see if there's any public comments

30:00 ↗ received by council that need to be

30:02 ↗ summarized

30:04 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

30:06 ↗ president hunt and we did receive a

30:08 ↗ number of

30:08 ↗ email comments on this topic a lot of

30:12 ↗ them came

30:12 ↗ in the majority of these came in right

30:14 ↗ before the last time

30:16 ↗ this was on our council agenda which was

30:19 ↗ october

30:19 ↗ 5th and we also did receive email

30:22 ↗ comments from the individuals who

30:25 ↗ gave public comments at the beginning of

30:27 ↗ this meeting

30:29 ↗ so in addition to those comments we

30:33 ↗ received a letter from a community

30:35 ↗ member who wanted

30:37 ↗ us to strengthen the ordinance and would

30:39 ↗ also like

30:40 ↗ more ability of the board to review and

30:43 ↗ give

30:43 ↗ advice on project applications that do

30:46 ↗ not have critical areas but could have

30:48 ↗ significant impacts on greenhouse gas

30:51 ↗ emissions

30:53 ↗ we received an email stressing the

30:55 ↗ importance of taking action on climate

30:57 ↗ and wanted to ensure that the board has

31:00 ↗ the power to make a difference

31:03 ↗ we received a email comment um

31:06 ↗ regarding that the environmental board's

31:08 ↗ duties should review the

31:10 ↗ checklist and help develop that with

31:12 ↗ staff as well as that neighborhood

31:14 ↗ meeting should review projects with

31:15 ↗ critical

31:16 ↗ transportation projects with critical

31:18 ↗ areas and

31:20 ↗ that meetings the neighborhood meeting

31:22 ↗ should have a representative of the

31:23 ↗ environmental board attend those

31:24 ↗ meetings or there should be a summary

31:26 ↗ that would go

31:27 ↗ back from the neighborhood meeting to

31:29 ↗ the environmental board

31:31 ↗ and then lastly we received a email

31:34 ↗ comment which advised us that

31:39 ↗ they recommended we need a better way

31:40 ↗ better and more inclusive way to engage

31:42 ↗ the environmental board than proposed

31:45 ↗ was concerned with the 300-foot

31:49 ↗ that projects would be advertised or

31:52 ↗ neighborhood meetings would be

31:53 ↗ advertised to those within 300 feet of a

31:55 ↗ project and felt that that doesn't

31:56 ↗ necessarily fully encompass those that

31:59 ↗ would be impacted by the project

32:01 ↗ also with concerns that rivers and

32:03 ↗ streams had some functionality that

32:04 ↗ wasn't covered

32:06 ↗ by the new environmental board

32:08 ↗ especially regarding

32:09 ↗ quasi-judicial appeal and um and then

32:14 ↗ also envisioned a process where the

32:15 ↗ environmental board

32:17 ↗ had ability to have input and influence

32:20 ↗ on city staff

32:21 ↗ and basically making the city have a

32:24 ↗ higher

32:25 ↗ environmental aim more environmental

32:27 ↗ considerations than just

32:28 ↗ the minimum that would be possible in

32:30 ↗ code

32:32 ↗ and then lastly also this resident

32:36 ↗ spoke to wanting the city to propose

32:39 ↗ better environmental measures and

32:41 ↗ and ones that we can influence not just

32:43 ↗ things that we can track

32:44 ↗ so for example with cocaine or salmon

32:48 ↗ tracking their salmon returns but also

32:50 ↗ determining what issaquah can do

32:52 ↗ to positively influence those outcomes

32:56 ↗ and that concludes the summary of email

32:58 ↗ comments that we received from residents

33:00 ↗ and we have

33:01 ↗ received many over the many meetings

33:04 ↗ thanks thank you council president hunt

33:07 ↗ we have some questions lined up

33:08 ↗ council member marth and megan you're

33:11 ↗ probably going to have to share your

33:12 ↗ presentation because i believe

33:14 ↗ council members have questioned on one

33:15 ↗ of your slides

33:17 ↗ well i mean i thank you madam mayor this

33:19 ↗ is council member marx i can just ask my

33:21 ↗ question sort of thematically

33:23 ↗ when we were first talking about this or

33:25 ↗ at least one of the

33:26 ↗ early conversations around it i asked

33:29 ↗ about mapping out

33:30 ↗ uh what the rivers and streams board had

33:33 ↗ done and mapping that

33:35 ↗ to uh what the new environmental board

33:38 ↗ would do

33:39 ↗ and uh one of our residents was kind

33:41 ↗ enough to offer their own

33:43 ↗ uh assessment of that and so i want to i

33:46 ↗ kind of want to address the two

33:47 ↗ questions out of there and it sounds

33:49 ↗ like we heard about it as well from

33:51 ↗ members of the community and the first

33:53 ↗ is this question

33:54 ↗ around transportation projects with

33:57 ↗ critical areas i

33:59 ↗ i did read the response from the

34:00 ↗ administration but

34:03 ↗ i'm not 100 sure i completely

34:06 ↗ understood it so i was hoping that maybe

34:08 ↗ we could um get

34:10 ↗ given that it's uh given that it is a

34:12 ↗ difference

34:13 ↗ from the way rivers and streams worked

34:15 ↗ before and because we've heard about it

34:17 ↗ from the community whether

34:18 ↗ you could walk us through that one in a

34:20 ↗ little bit more detail

34:22 ↗ sounds good thank you megan

34:25 ↗ sure thank you this is megan curtis

34:27 ↗ murphy

34:29 ↗ so as we heard transportation projects

34:32 ↗ are not

34:32 ↗ currently included in the ordinance to

34:34 ↗ be going forward to

34:36 ↗ neighborhood meetings so as as you

34:39 ↗ mentioned in river street rivers and

34:40 ↗ streams they were reviewed

34:42 ↗ um the way that we set up the

34:44 ↗ neighborhood meetings

34:45 ↗ is to align with community planning and

34:48 ↗ development in the permit review process

34:50 ↗ so it includes

34:51 ↗ those projects that get those permit

34:54 ↗ levels

34:56 ↗ from talking with the public works

34:59 ↗ engineering department

35:01 ↗ they are interested in in talking about

35:03 ↗ the environment more

35:04 ↗ in in the public input processes that

35:07 ↗ they have established

35:09 ↗ so for most larger transportation

35:11 ↗ projects

35:12 ↗ they do have some sort of public input

35:14 ↗ profit process

35:16 ↗ usually an open house several kind of

35:18 ↗ more recent ones have had them

35:20 ↗ including newport way and

35:23 ↗ the 43rd signal and providence point

35:26 ↗ so they are planning to include a review

35:30 ↗ um of with projects of critical area

35:33 ↗ studies to include that as a

35:34 ↗ conversation at those meetings

35:36 ↗ um and there's an overall preference to

35:38 ↗ have that be kind of a comprehensive

35:40 ↗ look at

35:41 ↗ a transportation project rather than

35:42 ↗ having multiple meetings on the same

35:45 ↗ project

35:46 ↗ and different topics but a preference to

35:48 ↗ combine that into that one format

35:50 ↗ um for the the open house and to review

35:53 ↗ it there

35:55 ↗ councilman remarks so open house

35:59 ↗ so a level two plus project

36:02 ↗ um with trans uh transportation projects

36:05 ↗ of the critical area

36:06 ↗ the review the public review

36:11 ↗ or the non-council review would be that

36:14 ↗ open house is that the net

36:16 ↗ thumb of the public engagement

36:19 ↗ um correct yeah so that that's where the

36:22 ↗ majority of the public engagement on

36:24 ↗ that project occurs

36:26 ↗ i'm not sure all the topics that they

36:27 ↗ talk about at those

36:29 ↗ meetings but the environment would be

36:31 ↗ included as a new additional one

36:34 ↗ and recognizing that has not been

36:35 ↗ discussed at those meetings before but

36:37 ↗ would be

36:39 ↗ but would be included going forward okay

36:43 ↗ thank you very much the other question

36:44 ↗ that i had was around

36:46 ↗ annual report evaluating measurable

36:49 ↗ progress towards overall environmental

36:51 ↗ goals

36:53 ↗ yes so um this is included um i think it

36:56 ↗ was

36:56 ↗ added by the counselor a community

36:58 ↗ member um who wanted to see more

37:00 ↗ kind of metrics included with the annual

37:02 ↗ reporting

37:03 ↗ um which i think is a great idea um

37:05 ↗ something that we're working on

37:07 ↗ kind of city-wide right now is the

37:10 ↗ performance metric process

37:12 ↗ so through that we are establishing

37:15 ↗ several

37:17 ↗ metrics associated with environmental

37:18 ↗ stewardship they anticipate would be

37:21 ↗ included in that reporting process we'd

37:23 ↗ be able to provide some more

37:25 ↗ background maybe storytelling a little

37:27 ↗ bit in that

37:28 ↗ the more board specific version of that

37:30 ↗ i would also want to talk with the board

37:32 ↗ to make sure those are the metrics that

37:34 ↗ they see as being

37:35 ↗ important and being included

37:38 ↗ historically we've had some other

37:40 ↗ sustainability metrics that we've

37:42 ↗ included so

37:44 ↗ if there's a desire to be looking at

37:45 ↗ something else then i think we could

37:47 ↗ consider that through the board

37:48 ↗ process and include that in the annual

37:51 ↗ report as well

37:54 ↗ thank you very much that answers my

37:55 ↗ questions thank you councilmember martin

37:57 ↗ councilmember goodman

37:59 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here

38:03 ↗ thank you megan for all the work that

38:05 ↗ you

38:06 ↗ have done on this the whole time i think

38:08 ↗ you guys have um

38:09 ↗ really generally done a really excellent

38:11 ↗ job of

38:13 ↗ putting this new board together and

38:15 ↗ getting feedback from

38:17 ↗ the public and involving the public and

38:19 ↗ um and

38:20 ↗ ppc and also thanks to

38:24 ↗ um andrea for acknowledging to ppc

38:28 ↗ um at their last meeting that

38:31 ↗ she wishes that it wouldn't that it

38:32 ↗ hadn't been pushed through the way that

38:34 ↗ it was

38:35 ↗ so i appreciate that acknowledgement um

38:38 ↗ i wanted to follow up on councilmember

38:39 ↗ mart's questions number one on the

38:41 ↗ transportation projects um

38:43 ↗ i like everything i'm hearing the one

38:45 ↗ that i have two follow-up questions one

38:47 ↗ is um how can we get assurance

38:50 ↗ that the information that was

38:54 ↗ gathered at the open house regarding

38:56 ↗ critical areas

38:57 ↗ um goes back to the environmental board

39:00 ↗ um

39:01 ↗ and that's really one question

39:04 ↗ is it first of all is it going to go

39:06 ↗ back to the environmental board and if

39:07 ↗ it's not in the ordinance or in the code

39:09 ↗ how do we

39:10 ↗ um how do we get some kind of commitment

39:13 ↗ or maybe

39:14 ↗ you know maybe we should um

39:17 ↗ maybe we should add it but that's really

39:19 ↗ my question on the transportation

39:20 ↗ projects

39:22 ↗ thank you member goodman this is megan

39:24 ↗ curtis murphy

39:26 ↗ um we have been talking with both

39:28 ↗ community planning and development and

39:30 ↗ public works about how to get that

39:32 ↗ information back to the boards

39:33 ↗ um at both the neighborhood meetings um

39:36 ↗ so i'm including the

39:37 ↗ all the projects for the neighborhood

39:39 ↗ meetings as well because there's also a

39:40 ↗ desire to get that information

39:42 ↗ back to the board so for the

39:44 ↗ neighborhood meetings as well as the

39:46 ↗ open houses on transportation projects

39:49 ↗ they take notes during the meetings and

39:51 ↗ take summary notes of all the comments

39:53 ↗ that they receive

39:54 ↗ so we would plan to put that into

39:57 ↗ the agenda packets for the future

39:59 ↗ environmental board meetings

40:01 ↗ um so the next environmental board

40:03 ↗ following the meeting perhaps the one

40:05 ↗ after depending on timing

40:06 ↗ we would be able to get those comments

40:08 ↗ back to them

40:09 ↗ okay um and then

40:12 ↗ my second question is about the

40:15 ↗ measures um and i think i heard you said

40:18 ↗ that

40:18 ↗ say that you plan on including the board

40:22 ↗ in coming up with those measures is that

40:24 ↗ what i heard you say

40:26 ↗ yes um i think it would be a mix of the

40:29 ↗ performance metrics

40:30 ↗ um that is going through council process

40:33 ↗ now

40:34 ↗ but then if there is additional metrics

40:36 ↗ outside of that that the board thought

40:37 ↗ would be

40:38 ↗ important then we would have that

40:39 ↗ conversation before putting together

40:41 ↗ that first annual report

40:43 ↗ if additional metrics are needed okay

40:47 ↗ and then my third question is

40:50 ↗ um about i think it's number eight

40:54 ↗ it's about um i call it the catch-all

40:57 ↗ provision

40:58 ↗ and additional uh direction from the

41:01 ↗ mayor um and i had asked about including

41:06 ↗ city council and the answer was uh

41:10 ↗ no it's not recommended i think for two

41:12 ↗ reasons one

41:13 ↗ the city council can always change the

41:15 ↗ ordinance

41:18 ↗ and therefore change maybe the duties of

41:20 ↗ the environmental board

41:21 ↗ but also because leaving the language

41:23 ↗ the way it is

41:24 ↗ is in line with other boards and

41:26 ↗ commissions um

41:28 ↗ and so

41:32 ↗ my question i guess my question is i

41:34 ↗ went

41:35 ↗ which do you know which boards and

41:37 ↗ commissions

41:38 ↗ it's in line with because

41:41 ↗ i went through and i think it's actually

41:43 ↗ the opposite

41:45 ↗ that city council is usually included

41:48 ↗ not

41:50 ↗ not the other way around um

41:53 ↗ when i was reviewing the ones that stick

41:54 ↗ out in my mind is the this is megan

41:57 ↗ curtis murphy sorry

41:58 ↗ the economic development board or

42:01 ↗ economic vitality board

42:03 ↗ um transportation advisory board

42:07 ↗ um the other ones are slipping my mind

42:10 ↗ perhaps human services but i don't

42:12 ↗ fully remember off the top of my head

42:14 ↗ okay

42:15 ↗ thank you i'll just have comments later

42:17 ↗ yeah councilmember goodman i'm gonna

42:19 ↗ uh city administrator bob quits would

42:21 ↗ also like to provide some commentary on

42:22 ↗ that

42:24 ↗ yes uh thank you madam mayor members of

42:26 ↗ the council

42:27 ↗ certainly uh the administration has no

42:29 ↗ problem

42:30 ↗ amending that section of the code so

42:33 ↗ it's mayor and city council

42:36 ↗ again as megan has said as council

42:38 ↗ member goodman has said it varies by

42:40 ↗ group but there's certainly no objection

42:42 ↗ i've also uh conferred with the city

42:44 ↗ attorney on this this evening and this

42:46 ↗ small

42:47 ↗ change would not require this to go back

42:49 ↗ to the planning policy

42:50 ↗ so if there if a maker of a motion uh

42:53 ↗ would like to make that amendment

42:55 ↗ certainly that would be fined by the

42:56 ↗ administration

42:59 ↗ thank you administrator yep thank you no

43:01 ↗ more questions

43:03 ↗ looking for some additional questions

43:05 ↗ and i'll give

43:06 ↗ folks a chance oh sorry no i know

43:08 ↗ council president hunt has questions

43:10 ↗ council president hunt thank you this is

43:12 ↗ council president hunt

43:14 ↗ um on the checklist we've had a number

43:18 ↗ of questions

43:18 ↗ about the use of the checklist

43:22 ↗ from community members and in the

43:24 ↗ responses

43:26 ↗ in exhibit g of our packet it

43:29 ↗ speaks about that the checklist will

43:32 ↗ really be used

43:33 ↗ to for the title 18 update

43:39 ↗ and i guess my question is why why not

43:43 ↗ use that data compile it into a database

43:46 ↗ store it and then

43:47 ↗ use it track over time because and part

43:50 ↗ of my

43:51 ↗ reason for asking the question is

43:52 ↗ because we expect the title 18

43:54 ↗ update to be done um within the next

43:57 ↗ year and a half or so

43:58 ↗ and and then after that this data will

44:00 ↗ continue to be i think really

44:02 ↗ useful

44:06 ↗ this is megan curtis murphy um yeah so i

44:08 ↗ think the

44:10 ↗ overall the neighborhood meeting handout

44:12 ↗ and the checklist really go together

44:14 ↗ they have a lot of that

44:15 ↗ important information about the critical

44:17 ↗ areas

44:18 ↗ um plus tree retention and then other

44:21 ↗ environmental factors

44:23 ↗ so first and foremost i think that

44:25 ↗ neighborhood meeting is meant to

44:27 ↗ help inform attendees of the uh

44:30 ↗ of the neighborhood meeting who are

44:31 ↗ going to be coming about the conditions

44:33 ↗ of critical areas

44:34 ↗ and help inform those conversations

44:37 ↗ then that with the um

44:41 ↗ with the checklist will then help

44:43 ↗ provide information

44:45 ↗ um both to update code but i think it

44:48 ↗ also does provide

44:49 ↗ a lot of that information about um

44:52 ↗ what is going well with the code where

44:55 ↗ areas of

44:55 ↗ improvement could be so even once title

44:58 ↗ 18 is updated

45:00 ↗ i think it will help help evaluate how

45:03 ↗ that's gone

45:04 ↗ um be able to compare uh how what the

45:06 ↗ difference is from before and

45:08 ↗ after hand um i think there's also that

45:11 ↗ process to

45:12 ↗ review the checklist annually after the

45:15 ↗ five

45:16 ↗ once after five uses and then annually

45:18 ↗ thereafter um so if it's not serving

45:20 ↗ it's

45:21 ↗ its entire purpose if after title 18 is

45:23 ↗ updated and

45:24 ↗ and that information doesn't seem like

45:26 ↗ that's um as pertinent at the time

45:28 ↗ then the board could advise on

45:31 ↗ on additional measures or additional

45:33 ↗ implementation for it

45:35 ↗ so i think we have recognized that we

45:37 ↗ want kind of that that check

45:38 ↗ back on it to make sure it is being

45:40 ↗ useful for that process

45:45 ↗ so would we store that data over time

45:48 ↗ more than just

45:48 ↗ over the course of the one year in which

45:50 ↗ it would be reviewed annually

45:54 ↗ uh we would always have that data as far

45:56 ↗ as

45:57 ↗ entering it into a system or not um we

46:00 ↗ haven't planned to do that as of now

46:03 ↗ the process for when that would be

46:05 ↗ filled out now is

46:06 ↗ around the neighborhood meeting it's

46:08 ↗ possible that through

46:09 ↗ development commission or other projects

46:12 ↗ there might be changes

46:13 ↗ made along the way um so that would be

46:16 ↗ another thing to go back

46:17 ↗ and and make updates in the system to

46:20 ↗ change so it's right now it is that

46:23 ↗ kind of more standalone process around

46:25 ↗ the neighborhood meeting to have that

46:29 ↗ i think as well uh council president

46:31 ↗ council president hunt was asking that

46:32 ↗ question this is the mayor

46:34 ↗ um i think collecting the data to start

46:37 ↗ is great but i think we have to get back

46:38 ↗ to you on what kind of tool would be

46:40 ↗ used to track it and analyze it and

46:42 ↗ compare

46:43 ↗ i don't think we've gone that far or

46:45 ↗ figured out a tool

46:46 ↗ or any sort of cost associated with that

46:48 ↗ so we will capture the data

46:50 ↗ and we'll have to have a future

46:54 ↗ conversation

46:56 ↗ i am looking in the chat box to see if

46:59 ↗ there are any other council members this

47:00 ↗ evening who would like to ask

47:02 ↗ a question before we

47:05 ↗ consid the council considers a motion

47:08 ↗ council president hunt thank you um this

47:12 ↗ is council president hunt again

47:13 ↗ i had a question on um procedure

47:16 ↗ this this word will have members and i

47:19 ↗ will also have alternate members

47:20 ↗ and um i see that the alternate members

47:23 ↗ it says

47:24 ↗ will serve in the capacity of the

47:26 ↗ regular members in their absence

47:28 ↗ and um with a number of other boards we

47:30 ↗ also have alternates as well as regular

47:32 ↗ members

47:33 ↗ and so i wondered if we could clarify as

47:36 ↗ far as the

47:38 ↗ voting is concerned with the alternates

47:40 ↗ and why i ask is because

47:42 ↗ we want to have a lot of community

47:43 ↗ voices in these discussions and

47:46 ↗ my understanding is that the alternates

47:48 ↗ will vote if there

47:49 ↗ are absent members in that vote will be

47:52 ↗ recorded and

47:53 ↗ not just to meet a quorum and so i'd

47:56 ↗ like clarification and that might be a

47:57 ↗ question from

47:58 ↗ for the clerks

48:03 ↗ this is megan i might ask for some

48:05 ↗ support from the clerks

48:08 ↗ sure hi this is tisha so we

48:12 ↗ absolutely and we have worked with the

48:15 ↗ planning policy commissioner working

48:17 ↗ with commissions across the state

48:19 ↗ city to try and standardize their um

48:21 ↗ bylaws and rules of procedure and so as

48:23 ↗ we're working with megan with the

48:25 ↗ environmental board

48:26 ↗ we'll be recommending um some language

48:28 ↗ that

48:29 ↗ absolutely clarifies that we want the

48:31 ↗ maximum number of

48:33 ↗ voting members participating in the

48:35 ↗ meetings and voting

48:38 ↗ thank you for the question council

48:39 ↗ president it has been like a mayor's

48:42 ↗ initiative

48:42 ↗ to create a cleaner set

48:46 ↗ of expectations for all boards and

48:48 ↗ commissions and each

48:49 ↗ order commission so far was set up for a

48:52 ↗ purpose many many years ago

48:54 ↗ it's really important to me that um we

48:57 ↗ have as many voices as the city clerk

48:59 ↗ had said

49:00 ↗ but even if there's an alternate at the

49:02 ↗ meeting and the

49:03 ↗ um voting chairs are full we still want

49:06 ↗ their voices that's part of the

49:07 ↗ discussion so

49:08 ↗ they are encouraged to participate in

49:10 ↗ the discussion even if they don't have a

49:11 ↗ voting suit at the time very similar to

49:13 ↗ the sound cities association

49:16 ↗ model so we're we're working our way

49:18 ↗ towards that thank you for bringing that

49:20 ↗ up that's important

49:21 ↗ we have a question from councilmember

49:22 ↗ goodman

49:24 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here uh

49:26 ↗ this isn't

49:27 ↗ this is a question for this board um

49:30 ↗ that

49:30 ↗ will have youth members but for all

49:32 ↗ other boards too um one of the members

49:34 ↗ of ppc

49:35 ↗ asked a question um about making sure

49:38 ↗ that the youth

49:38 ↗ boards vote youth members count

49:42 ↗ um or the legality

49:46 ↗ or something and the question was

49:48 ↗ answered

49:49 ↗ um and accepted as an answer but i

49:51 ↗ didn't really understand the answer and

49:52 ↗ if i

49:53 ↗ think we have um jim haney who's here or

49:56 ↗ maybe

49:57 ↗ the city administrator could answer and

50:00 ↗ i think it was an interesting

50:02 ↗ question or at least as i interpreted

50:04 ↗ and that is if you have

50:05 ↗ youth who are not of legal voting age

50:08 ↗ how does their vote count um

50:12 ↗ and i think i know the answer but i

50:14 ↗ think it's also a really interesting

50:16 ↗ question and i wondered if somebody

50:17 ↗ could address how it is we could have

50:20 ↗ under 18 member under 18 year old

50:22 ↗ members of our boards and commissions

50:24 ↗ and then have their votes um count on

50:26 ↗ those boards and commissions

50:29 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman city

50:32 ↗ ministry bob quits i see you turned your

50:33 ↗ camera on did you want to provide some

50:35 ↗ info before we go to our attorney mr

50:37 ↗ haney

50:38 ↗ no let's let the the attorney answer the

50:40 ↗ question

50:41 ↗ okay mr haney

50:46 ↗ good evening um i i think the

50:50 ↗ idea of underage uh

50:54 ↗ or youth members being able to vote on a

50:57 ↗ board and commission is up to the city

50:58 ↗ council

50:59 ↗ the voting that you're talking about

51:02 ↗ voting age at 18

51:04 ↗ that's for purposes of casting a vote in

51:07 ↗ an election

51:08 ↗ i think you can empower youth members to

51:11 ↗ vote

51:12 ↗ uh whether they're 18 years of age or

51:15 ↗ not

51:15 ↗ that would be up to the council

51:19 ↗ council member government does that

51:20 ↗ answer your question it does thanks and

51:21 ↗ i also think it

51:23 ↗ um my mind went to it you know maybe it

51:26 ↗ also had something to do with these are

51:27 ↗ not

51:29 ↗ these are advisory votes usually and so

51:31 ↗ i think that's also one of the reasons

51:33 ↗ that that's what i thought anyway but

51:34 ↗ thank you i just thought it was an

51:35 ↗ interesting question

51:36 ↗ thanks thank you councilmember goodman

51:40 ↗ i'm looking and not seeing any

51:42 ↗ additional questions that somebody could

51:44 ↗ indicate in the chat box who would like

51:46 ↗ to

51:46 ↗ consider making a motion

51:56 ↗ thank you this is council president

51:58 ↗ hunts i move to adopt ordinance number

52:03 ↗ two nine two three thank you mayor

52:07 ↗ repealing sections eighteen point zero

52:09 ↗ three point four

52:10 ↗ zero zero dash point four three zero

52:14 ↗ of the issaquah municipal code related

52:16 ↗ to the river and streams board

52:18 ↗ dissolving the river and streams board

52:20 ↗ amending sections eighteen point one

52:22 ↗ zero point four one zero

52:24 ↗ eighteen point one nine b point two

52:26 ↗ seven zero and eighteen point one nine c

52:28 ↗ point two seven zero of the issaquah

52:30 ↗ municipal code to remove references to

52:33 ↗ the river and streams board and

52:34 ↗ establishing an environmental board in

52:36 ↗ chapter 18.03 administration

52:40 ↗ council member goodman second

52:44 ↗ so it's been moved and seconded let's go

52:46 ↗ to um

52:47 ↗ council discussion please indicate in

52:50 ↗ the chat

52:50 ↗ if you would like to make some comments

52:52 ↗ or if you have any additional questions

52:58 ↗ council president hunt thank you this is

53:01 ↗ council president hunt

53:02 ↗ i wanted to start off by thanking the

53:06 ↗ river and streams board for all of their

53:08 ↗ service one of the

53:09 ↗ actions that we're taking within this

53:12 ↗ motion would be to

53:13 ↗ formally dissolve the river and streams

53:15 ↗ forward and they served

53:16 ↗ the city in this capacity as a volunteer

53:19 ↗ commission for many years and provided a

53:21 ↗ very valuable service and so i wanted to

53:23 ↗ firstly recognize them for that and i

53:26 ↗ think we've built on

53:28 ↗ the work that they've done and um

53:30 ↗ introduced

53:31 ↗ things of concern to the community now

53:34 ↗ such as the climate action and

53:36 ↗ um built on on the work that they did

53:40 ↗ i am in support of this motion i think

53:44 ↗ it's been a long time

53:45 ↗ coming and i think that it's um i think

53:48 ↗ i do commend the staff for taking all of

53:51 ↗ the comments that we've received and

53:53 ↗ really making a lot of

53:54 ↗ positive changes to the ordinance and

53:56 ↗ strengthening it we heard a lot about

53:58 ↗ the need for it to have

53:59 ↗ peace in the beginning and i do think it

54:02 ↗ does have

54:03 ↗ teeth and i do think it will provide

54:04 ↗ really valuable

54:06 ↗ recommendations which will be taken very

54:08 ↗ seriously given very serious

54:10 ↗ weight by the city elected officials

54:13 ↗ going forward

54:14 ↗ uh one thing that i wanted to

54:18 ↗ mention is i didn't see a lot of

54:22 ↗ discussion around disturbance of sites

54:25 ↗ or invasive species

54:26 ↗ i think for the checklist going forward

54:28 ↗ that might be one

54:29 ↗ area where we should document that it's

54:32 ↗ a growing concern we do hear about that

54:34 ↗ from the community from time to time

54:35 ↗ about

54:36 ↗ development projects disturbing the

54:39 ↗ environments in this leading to

54:40 ↗ invasive species and i think that would

54:44 ↗ be good to track in a more rigorous way

54:46 ↗ with the checklist

54:47 ↗ i also would like to see the data

54:49 ↗ generally speaking from the checklist

54:51 ↗ being

54:52 ↗ tracked which is why i asked that

54:53 ↗ question i think it would be valuable to

54:56 ↗ compile that into a database and to keep

54:59 ↗ that data

55:00 ↗ over time so that we can see our

55:02 ↗ progress and it will be valuable

55:04 ↗ much beyond title 18 which will be done

55:08 ↗ that title 18 revision will be done in

55:11 ↗ about a year and a half and we'll

55:13 ↗ continue to need environmental

55:16 ↗ protections and improvements to our

55:17 ↗ environmental stewardship for much more

55:19 ↗ than that

55:20 ↗ so i would like to see that data

55:21 ↗ compiled and tracked in a

55:23 ↗ in a rigorous way and i think it will

55:25 ↗ help us i think it will also probably

55:27 ↗ help us

55:28 ↗ as we try to switch to a more

55:29 ↗ performance metric based

55:31 ↗ way of evaluating the services that we

55:34 ↗ provide and how we're doing it

55:35 ↗ as a city and meeting our city strategic

55:38 ↗ goals

55:43 ↗ so i think i think overall i think it's

55:45 ↗ a strong ordinance i appreciate the

55:47 ↗ changes that have been made and i really

55:48 ↗ appreciate

55:49 ↗ all of the community input all the

55:51 ↗ community enthusiasm

55:52 ↗ that has gotten us to where we are

55:55 ↗ thanks

55:56 ↗ thank you council president hunt council

55:58 ↗ member walsh up next

56:01 ↗ do we want to go to councilmember

56:02 ↗ goodman as the second

56:05 ↗ uh councilmember goodman do you want to

56:08 ↗ go next

56:09 ↗ um well as i alluded to earlier i was

56:12 ↗ going to

56:12 ↗ make an amendment to the motion so

56:16 ↗ um it's up to council member welsh

56:18 ↗ whether she wants to comment now on the

56:20 ↗ main

56:20 ↗ on the main motion or comment after i

56:23 ↗ make the amendment we make that decision

56:25 ↗ i'll comment now mine's pretty short

56:29 ↗ not to get off track into another area

56:31 ↗ of this um but i

56:32 ↗ just wanted to particularly commend um

56:36 ↗ megan curtis murphy on the presentation

56:40 ↗ and how the feedback has

56:43 ↗ so thoroughly been tracked through this

56:46 ↗ process

56:46 ↗ you've had a lot of feedback from the

56:48 ↗ administration from council

56:50 ↗ from the community members from ppc

56:53 ↗ and i have really very much appreciated

56:56 ↗ seeing

56:57 ↗ that information continue both in your

57:00 ↗ memo to us

57:01 ↗ and in presentations and i would

57:05 ↗ really hope that that methodology

57:08 ↗ continues particularly for the

57:10 ↗ environmental board where

57:12 ↗ there is supposed to be a weight on

57:14 ↗ their advice and their

57:16 ↗ feedback but also for any of our other

57:18 ↗ boards because

57:20 ↗ it creates transparency um

57:23 ↗ and i think that's something that we're

57:26 ↗ all

57:26 ↗ looking for it also makes all of the

57:28 ↗ community members

57:29 ↗ feel heard which is essential on

57:33 ↗ something where they are

57:34 ↗ volunteering their precious time um

57:37 ↗ and quite honestly they're more experts

57:39 ↗ at things than we necessarily are

57:42 ↗ so we want to hear it so thank you for

57:44 ↗ demonstrating that

57:45 ↗ um i'll save other comments for later

57:49 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh

57:50 ↗ councilmember goodman thank you

57:52 ↗ councilmember goodman here

57:54 ↗ um i would like to make a motion

57:58 ↗ to amend the ordinance or to admit to

58:03 ↗ amend the main motion

58:07 ↗ i hope i say this right such that

58:10 ↗ it would amend um

58:14 ↗ the section of duties and

58:18 ↗ responsibilities

58:19 ↗ under number eight um to add at the end

58:23 ↗ or city council

58:28 ↗ okay let me uh is there a second

58:31 ↗ okay council of president hence this is

58:34 ↗ council president hans ii

58:36 ↗ okay so i think if i captured it correct

58:39 ↗ and the city clerk will let me know the

58:41 ↗ motion on the table that's been moved

58:43 ↗ and seconded is to tend to

58:44 ↗ amend the main motion to

58:49 ↗ edit the section of duties and

58:51 ↗ responsibilities

58:52 ↗ under section 8 and to add the words at

58:55 ↗ the end

58:56 ↗ and or counsel city clerk

59:02 ↗ uh yes that aligns with what i heard

59:04 ↗ except i did hear or

59:05 ↗ city council uh rather than

59:08 ↗ and or oh is it just or city council

59:11 ↗ thank you

59:13 ↗ all right discussion on the motion the

59:16 ↗ amendment

59:18 ↗ uh council member goodman here just very

59:20 ↗ briefly

59:21 ↗ um as i mentioned earlier that a couple

59:25 ↗ of reasons that were

59:26 ↗ given about initially not to amend that

59:30 ↗ were that one the council can amend any

59:32 ↗ time

59:34 ↗ and while that's true in reality that

59:37 ↗ doesn't happen very often

59:39 ↗ so i kind of reject that as a decent

59:42 ↗ reason

59:44 ↗ and the second reason was because it is

59:47 ↗ more con

59:47 ↗ it's in it's consistent with language

59:49 ↗ regarding our other boards and

59:51 ↗ commissions um and um i think it's

59:54 ↗ actually the opposite as i said before

59:56 ↗ so the human services is

1:00:00 ↗ advised advisory directly to the city

1:00:02 ↗ council as well as

1:00:03 ↗ cable tv commission arts commission

1:00:06 ↗ development commission

1:00:07 ↗ planning policy and

1:00:10 ↗ three or four of those also have the

1:00:14 ↗ exact same

1:00:15 ↗ language um in the catch-all provision

1:00:18 ↗ of duties and responsibilities that i've

1:00:20 ↗ proposed as an amendment which is to add

1:00:22 ↗ city council

1:00:24 ↗ and i think it's a fair and good

1:00:27 ↗ addition to make it so that it's not

1:00:31 ↗ always in the hands if it falls slightly

1:00:34 ↗ outside the duties and responsibilities

1:00:36 ↗ that are expressly stated in the

1:00:38 ↗ ordinance

1:00:38 ↗ there is at least a catch-all provision

1:00:40 ↗ that allows the mayor

1:00:42 ↗ under the current ordinance to direct

1:00:46 ↗ the environmental board to do something

1:00:48 ↗ else but there's not the ability of the

1:00:50 ↗ city council

1:00:51 ↗ and so i think that's a it's a good

1:00:54 ↗ checks and balances for a government to

1:00:56 ↗ also

1:00:57 ↗ allow the legislators which would be us

1:01:00 ↗ an opportunity to have that board

1:01:02 ↗ do something a little different if the

1:01:04 ↗ community was asking us to so we didn't

1:01:05 ↗ have to necessarily rely

1:01:07 ↗ um on a mayor whoever that mayor might

1:01:09 ↗ be in the future so that would be my

1:01:11 ↗ reason

1:01:11 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember

1:01:13 ↗ goodman council president hunt

1:01:19 ↗ um thank you i i don't have too much to

1:01:22 ↗ say other than i think that reasoning is

1:01:24 ↗ sound and i'll be in support of the

1:01:25 ↗ moment

1:01:27 ↗ that's great thank you council president

1:01:29 ↗ hunt i'm looking at the chat box to see

1:01:31 ↗ if there is any other comments or

1:01:32 ↗ questions before we go to the vote and i

1:01:34 ↗ wonder if the

1:01:36 ↗ city clerk could put the amendment into

1:01:38 ↗ the chat box

1:01:46 ↗ thank you very much it has been moved

1:01:49 ↗ and seconded to amend the ordinance to

1:01:50 ↗ amend

1:01:51 ↗ the section on duties and

1:01:53 ↗ responsibilities

1:01:55 ↗ under number eight to add or city

1:01:58 ↗ council

1:01:59 ↗ and i will go to the city clerk for a

1:02:01 ↗ roll call vote

1:02:04 ↗ starting with council member goodman hi

1:02:09 ↗ councilmember hall aye

1:02:12 ↗ council president hunt aye councilmember

1:02:15 ↗ martz

1:02:16 ↗ aye deputy council president ray

1:02:20 ↗ aye council member walsh aye

1:02:24 ↗ council member d michelle aye

1:02:27 ↗ that's 7i zero nays thank you so the

1:02:30 ↗ amendment passes unanimously

1:02:32 ↗ i'll give a second or two to see if

1:02:34 ↗ anybody would like to make a comment

1:02:35 ↗ before the vote on the main motion

1:02:37 ↗ let's go to council member marks thank

1:02:40 ↗ you madam mayor this is councilmember

1:02:41 ↗ martz

1:02:42 ↗ i just want to thank the administration

1:02:45 ↗ and everyone in the community that's

1:02:47 ↗ been involved

1:02:48 ↗ in the creation of this for people who

1:02:51 ↗ don't realize this is a conversation

1:02:53 ↗ that's been occurring for quite

1:02:55 ↗ some time and this is one of those

1:02:58 ↗ hopefully measured measured twice and

1:03:02 ↗ more than twice and and get it right um

1:03:04 ↗ i know that there's been

1:03:06 ↗ a lot of folks that wanted to see uh

1:03:09 ↗ improvements in environmental

1:03:11 ↗ stewardship in the community

1:03:13 ↗ and i just i really appreciate the

1:03:16 ↗ deliberate deliberate

1:03:17 ↗ pace um through which this new body has

1:03:20 ↗ been put together and will be eager to

1:03:22 ↗ see

1:03:23 ↗ uh its uh its productivity and

1:03:27 ↗ impact uh assuming we uh

1:03:30 ↗ assuming we vote yes this evening as i

1:03:32 ↗ intend to do thank you

1:03:34 ↗ thank you councilmember mart's uh last

1:03:36 ↗ call looking in the chat to see if

1:03:38 ↗ anyone else would like to make a comment

1:03:39 ↗ and

1:03:40 ↗ i'm just gonna scroll up to the original

1:03:42 ↗ motion

1:03:45 ↗ councilmember g michelle

1:03:50 ↗ thank you this is councilmember d

1:03:52 ↗ michelle i will add

1:03:54 ↗ thanks that have already been extended

1:03:56 ↗ to megan and

1:03:58 ↗ um to the many many people that

1:04:01 ↗ participated i want to

1:04:03 ↗ especially call out ann fletcher and

1:04:05 ↗ connie marsh who have just stuck with us

1:04:08 ↗ through thick and thin and the people

1:04:11 ↗ for

1:04:11 ↗ climate action um and the momentum the

1:04:14 ↗ sustaining momentum

1:04:16 ↗ a lot of times we have uh an initiative

1:04:19 ↗ that gets started and then it peters out

1:04:20 ↗ and

1:04:21 ↗ this time there have been people that

1:04:23 ↗ stayed with us from very beginning to

1:04:25 ↗ the very end and i'm very appreciative

1:04:27 ↗ of that

1:04:28 ↗ i too will be supporting this and i am

1:04:30 ↗ really looking forward to getting this

1:04:32 ↗ going

1:04:33 ↗ and underway and i'm expecting that we

1:04:37 ↗ will have great things from this

1:04:39 ↗ new board so thank you to everybody that

1:04:41 ↗ was involved in

1:04:42 ↗ getting it done thanks thank you

1:04:45 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:04:47 ↗ councilmember hall thank you mayor

1:04:50 ↗ paulie this is councilman zach call just

1:04:51 ↗ real briefly i haven't heard anything

1:04:53 ↗ that i disagree with but

1:04:55 ↗ i thought i'd get on camera for a minute

1:04:56 ↗ and say that i support

1:04:58 ↗ this ordinance too i actually can't

1:05:00 ↗ remember which one of you it was but

1:05:01 ↗ when i first joined council

1:05:03 ↗ i asked one of you a question how do i

1:05:05 ↗ know when to vote yes on something when

1:05:07 ↗ something is good policy

1:05:09 ↗ and one of you says you know one of you

1:05:10 ↗ told me you know when you see it

1:05:12 ↗ and with this one i just just it's good

1:05:15 ↗ policy to me so i'll be voting in favor

1:05:16 ↗ tonight

1:05:18 ↗ thank you councilmember hall

1:05:22 ↗ i am going to wait a couple seconds to

1:05:24 ↗ see if there's any other comments

1:05:29 ↗ thank you all going back up

1:05:33 ↗ the motion that has been moved and

1:05:34 ↗ seconded is to adopt i don't have my

1:05:37 ↗ script that would help

1:05:38 ↗ ordinance number 2923

1:05:41 ↗ repealing section 18.03.400

1:05:46 ↗ through 0.430 at the escrow municipal

1:05:49 ↗ municipal code related to the rivers and

1:05:52 ↗ streams board

1:05:53 ↗ dissolving the rivers and streams board

1:05:56 ↗ amending section 18.10.410

1:06:01 ↗ 18.19 b 0.270

1:06:04 ↗ and 18.19 c 0.270 of the issaquah

1:06:07 ↗ municipal code

1:06:08 ↗ to remove references to the rivers and

1:06:11 ↗ streams board

1:06:12 ↗ and establishing an environmental board

1:06:14 ↗ in chapter 18.03

1:06:16 ↗ administration i will go to the city

1:06:19 ↗ clerk for a roll call vote

1:06:22 ↗ beginning with council member hall hi

1:06:26 ↗ council president hunt aye

1:06:29 ↗ council member marks aye

1:06:32 ↗ deputy council president ray all right

1:06:35 ↗ councilmember walsh aye

1:06:39 ↗ councilmember d michelle aye

1:06:42 ↗ councilmember goodman aye

1:06:45 ↗ zero nays thank you that passes

1:06:48 ↗ unanimously

1:06:49 ↗ um before we close out for the evening i

1:06:51 ↗ just want to acknowledge and that's

1:06:53 ↗ pretty good you guys 807. that's awesome

1:06:55 ↗ um i just wanted to acknowledge a couple

1:06:57 ↗ of items

1:06:59 ↗ one is that we this was all done during

1:07:01 ↗ covet so nobody brought that up

1:07:04 ↗ i can't think of a more difficult time

1:07:07 ↗ to try and engage the community

1:07:08 ↗ in a in a conversation about something

1:07:11 ↗ as huge

1:07:12 ↗ as a new environmental board so the fact

1:07:14 ↗ that that was done

1:07:16 ↗ and done well megan curtis murphy and

1:07:18 ↗ all your helpers thank you very much

1:07:20 ↗ that is a real point of pride for me i

1:07:22 ↗ have been interested in

1:07:24 ↗ getting this established and i'm so

1:07:27 ↗ happy we did it in 2020 with all the

1:07:29 ↗ other hurdles that 2020 threw at us

1:07:31 ↗ and the second thing is i appreciate

1:07:33 ↗ very much council president's comments

1:07:34 ↗ on thanking the rivers and stream boards

1:07:36 ↗ and

1:07:38 ↗ there are some things i get to do in the

1:07:39 ↗ mayor's office that may not be apparent

1:07:41 ↗ but i absolutely

1:07:42 ↗ will be writing a letter to those on the

1:07:44 ↗ board to thank them for their years of

1:07:46 ↗ service

1:07:46 ↗ and to let them know about the new board

1:07:49 ↗ because

1:07:50 ↗ people are giving up their family time

1:07:52 ↗ at night to come for free and

1:07:54 ↗ participate in a conversation with all

1:07:55 ↗ of us and with the rest of the community

1:07:57 ↗ that's invaluable so thank you for

1:07:59 ↗ bringing that up council president hunt

1:08:01 ↗ i appreciate it very much

1:08:03 ↗ uh there being no further business this

1:08:04 ↗ evening because this is a special

1:08:06 ↗ meeting

1:08:07 ↗ this meeting is adjourned at 808 pm have

1:08:10 ↗ a good night

Approved minutes

Extracted from the next meeting's packet, where this meeting's minutes were approved as a consent-calendar attachment.

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (3)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2923, repealing Sections 18.03.400-.430 of the Issaquah Municipal Code related to the River and Streams Board; dissolving the River and Streams Board; amending Sections 18.10.410, 18.19B.270 and 18.19C.270 of the Issaquah Municipal Code to remove references to the River and Strea…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by GOODMAN

Amend Subsection 18.03.540(A)(8) of Duties and responsibilities of the ordinance as follows: “8. Carry out other duties as may be prescribed by City ordinance, or as directed by the Mayor or City Council.” . MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED, 7-0.

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by HUNT

Carried 7-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Main motion as amended: Amend Subsection 18.03.540(A)(8) of Duties and responsibilities of the ordinance as follows: “8. Carry out other duties as may be prescribed by City ordinance, or as directed by the Mayor or City Council.” . MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED, 7-0.

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 7-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh