City Council Special Meeting · Tuesday, December 8, 2020 · City Council Digest

AGENDA

Welcome & Introductions Mayor Pauly

Opening Remarks: COVID-19 Impacts & Budget Mayor Pauly

packet pp.3–33

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Pending City Council approval 12/7/2020 Legislative Breakfast with Legislators from the 5th and 41st Districts c...

Presentation of Issaquah's 2021 Legislative Priorities & Policy Stances: Mayor Pauly Council President Hunt Deputy Council President Reh Capital Budget Request Councilmember de Michele Councilmember Marts Councilmember Goodman Councilmember Walsh

Topics: Budget

Hearing from You - Legislator's thoughts on the upcoming session and how the City can assist you

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0:00 ↗ representative

0:03 ↗ Callen morning good

0:07 ↗ morning Zoom may have the least security

0:10 ↗ but zoom. goov is the one the government

0:12 ↗ people use for oh there you go it's a

0:16 ↗ different it's a whole different

0:18 ↗ architecture oh the Senate chose teams I

0:21 ↗ don't know why the Senate chose teams

0:23 ↗ but I like

0:25 ↗ teams

0:27 ↗ yeah I my I granted I am technically

0:31 ↗ challenged so I will good morning

0:33 ↗ council member

0:36 ↗ Goodman am I miss morning

0:39 ↗ everyone I hate it when the faces keep

0:42 ↗ moving around because you lose track of

0:45 ↗ who's in here you got scan the whole

0:46 ↗ thing again I'm very grateful for the

0:49 ↗ tip that you can hide nonv video

0:51 ↗ participant it makes everybody else

0:54 ↗ bigger under view that's right that's a

0:57 ↗ Cisco tip

1:00 ↗ thank you Lindsay I forgot about that

1:02 ↗ well and you have to get the tips for

1:03 ↗ each of the different systems you know

1:06 ↗ so Lindsay your hair has no flare color

1:08 ↗ right now

1:09 ↗ oh yeah it's also gotten very very long

1:13 ↗ cuz I haven't cut it since all of this

1:19 ↗ started well maybe that's what we'll do

1:21 ↗ next legislative breakfast we'll all

1:23 ↗ have a bit of flare in our hair just to

1:25 ↗ change it up temporarily idea I like

1:28 ↗ temporary flare except Jeff has a

1:30 ↗ waiver great flare does that count no

1:33 ↗ great

1:36 ↗ flare that was

1:39 ↗ funny representative Ramos welcome and

1:43 ↗ welcome Brian I don't know if I caught

1:44 ↗ you but I see

1:55 ↗ you and we're pretty sure I think we got

1:58 ↗ positive RSV P from all the 41st so

2:01 ↗ let's give them a few more minutes as

2:04 ↗ well give the fifth district points for

2:07 ↗ getting

2:08 ↗ on representative Tha is here uh from

2:12 ↗ 21st are you calling in me Lynn or are

2:15 ↗ you on video I am um calling in my uh

2:19 ↗ laptop is not uh doing to do right now

2:23 ↗ no worries thank you so much for coming

2:26 ↗ and I'm gon to ask uh Jean Paul if he

2:28 ↗ can send you the slide deck now so that

2:30 ↗ you can watch it as we go if you're not

2:33 ↗ able to watch our video great thanks and

2:36 ↗ good

2:39 ↗ morning is there anyone else that has

2:41 ↗ called in because I've done the same

2:42 ↗ thing I just have the view of video is

2:45 ↗ there anybody

2:49 ↗ Elsey mayor I don't see any other

2:51 ↗ call-in users oh thank you Tisha

3:06 ↗ so we're g to start with the

3:08 ↗ introductions and if I can get you all

3:10 ↗ to mute then you don't have to hear my

3:11 ↗ horrible

3:12 ↗ Echo and uh as I call on you or as we

3:16 ↗ move around the room turn your

3:17 ↗ microphone on that would be great first

3:19 ↗ thing I wanted to do is thank you for

3:22 ↗ virtually joining us for our annual

3:24 ↗ legislative breakfast we really enjoy

3:27 ↗ the fact that you spend the time with us

3:29 ↗ face to face it makes a huge difference

3:31 ↗ we get to hear what you're working on

3:33 ↗ and find out how we can help you and we

3:35 ↗ get to talk to you about what is the

3:37 ↗ quest priorities are so it's very much

3:40 ↗ appreciated um I wanted to go around the

3:42 ↗ room and have everybody introduce

3:44 ↗ themselves and so uh when I introduce

3:48 ↗ myself I will then pick on somebody else

3:51 ↗ to introduce himself and please tell us

3:54 ↗ what your favorite thing about the

3:56 ↗ holidays is the holidays can be anywhere

3:59 ↗ from Thanksgiving to New Year you just

4:02 ↗ pick one thing and say what it is so my

4:05 ↗ name is Mary L poly uh welcome everybody

4:08 ↗ and my favorite things about the holiday

4:11 ↗ is food I really like

4:14 ↗ food and I'm going to call on H Senator

4:20 ↗ mullet I am Mark mullet from isqua my

4:23 ↗ favorite thing about holidays is sweet

4:26 ↗ potato casserole we only make it one

4:28 ↗ time of the year and if we made it out

4:29 ↗ outside of the holidays I think it would

4:30 ↗ lose its its

4:33 ↗ luster I will go to council member Zach

4:38 ↗ Hall hey everyone Zach Hall here um

4:42 ↗ favorite thing about the holiday is

4:43 ↗ probably pumpkin spice lattes and if I

4:46 ↗ have it more outside the holidays like

4:47 ↗ Mark said it gets bad so you got to save

4:50 ↗ it for this time of year and uh just a

4:52 ↗ heads up I won't be participating in the

4:53 ↗ presentation as you all know because I

4:55 ↗ work for the legislature so I won't I'll

4:57 ↗ just be sitting here and looking pretty

4:59 ↗ that's my job

5:02 ↗ today oh and I will call on um why not

5:06 ↗ representative

5:09 ↗ Callen good morning everyone Lisa Callen

5:12 ↗ um very happy to be here with you all

5:15 ↗ today uh my favorite item as the thing

5:18 ↗ of the holidays I think really is just

5:21 ↗ um it's an opportunity to uh pull you

5:24 ↗ know all my family together even

5:26 ↗ virtually uh we're clear across the

5:28 ↗ country all of my and pieces so we all

5:31 ↗ figure out a way to take time to to

5:32 ↗ connect um even outside of pandemic

5:35 ↗ times we figure that out and that

5:37 ↗ includes my 15-year-old who wants to

5:39 ↗ spend little time with his parents even

5:41 ↗ though he has to spend a lot of time in

5:43 ↗ the same house he figures out that way

5:45 ↗ so that's uh that's one of

5:49 ↗ my and you are passing it on

5:53 ↗ to we'll pass it on to council member

5:57 ↗ Martin oh thank thank you very much

5:59 ↗ representative Ken this is uh council

6:01 ↗ member TOA Mars uh I'm in my starting my

6:05 ↗ just about to start my 12th year on the

6:07 ↗ isqua city council uh my favorite thing

6:11 ↗ about the holidays is that both of my

6:13 ↗ kids have their birthdays uh during the

6:16 ↗ holiday season because February is in

6:18 ↗ March in Minnesota the winters are long

6:20 ↗ and

6:21 ↗ gloomy and I will pass things on to

6:25 ↗ council president

6:28 ↗ hunt thanks council member Mars um my

6:31 ↗ name is council president Victoria hunt

6:34 ↗ and I um have served on Council for

6:37 ↗ about three years my favorite thing

6:39 ↗ about the holidays is getting to see and

6:42 ↗ sharing the excitement with my kids I

6:44 ↗ have a six-year-old and a three-year-old

6:47 ↗ they're both very much looking forward

6:48 ↗ to Santa Claus and all of the holiday

6:51 ↗ magic so that's my favorite part um and

6:54 ↗ I will um call on next uh representative

6:58 ↗ Ramos

7:07 ↗ Bill you're gonna have to put a dollar

7:09 ↗ in the pizza jar because you're still on

7:17 ↗ mute I think he said in the chat he's

7:19 ↗ having trouble getting on oh dang it AUD

7:22 ↗ okay take that one back I'm on the phone

7:26 ↗ now can you hear me on the phone yes we

7:27 ↗ can thank you representative ronal

7:30 ↗ okay because it won't let me into audio

7:32 ↗ so um I just it just started hearing you

7:35 ↗ what's going on here

7:37 ↗ so um so um favorite thing about

7:40 ↗ holidays is just uh kids and family

7:43 ↗ lovely and who would you like to pass

7:45 ↗ the Bon to um uh council member Mark no

7:50 ↗ way he was already out I think he was

7:52 ↗ talking wasn't he I couldn't hear him uh

7:54 ↗ try uh wal

7:57 ↗ W thank you this is is uh Lindsay Walsh

8:01 ↗ and my favorite thing about the holidays

8:03 ↗ is usually going to the garden delights

8:06 ↗ in Belle but it is uh closed this year

8:09 ↗ so I'm just going to say taking an

8:11 ↗ extended period of time off of

8:13 ↗ work and so um tan then uh if you want

8:19 ↗ to go I don't know if you guys heard

8:21 ↗ what we're doing but basically just an

8:23 ↗ introduction and your favorite thing

8:24 ↗ about the holidays the holidays being

8:27 ↗ from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve

8:31 ↗ great uh good morning everybody um

8:34 ↗ thomis state representative from the

8:36 ↗ 41st good to be here my favorite part of

8:39 ↗ the holidays is probably just uh usually

8:43 ↗ more family time right now I think it's

8:45 ↗ just a continuation of a lot of family

8:49 ↗ time uh which I'm very blessed to have

8:53 ↗ and tana you get to pick the next

8:56 ↗ person sorry You' think i' was new at

8:58 ↗ this um um have we has council member D

9:02 ↗ Michelle gone yet she has not thanks

9:05 ↗ thank you uh this is Barb D Michelle and

9:09 ↗ uh my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving

9:11 ↗ by far and I love sitting around the

9:14 ↗ table with my close family we weren't

9:17 ↗ able to do that this year so we did a

9:18 ↗ food exchange instead and actually it

9:21 ↗ was actually pretty much fun so turned

9:25 ↗ out to be better than we all any of us

9:27 ↗ thought it was going to be so

9:30 ↗ um I will pass it on to council member

9:35 ↗ Ray uh thanks Barb uh Chris Ray um

9:39 ↗ couple things on the best part of the

9:41 ↗ holidays one is um you know historic

9:44 ↗ years it's been spending time with with

9:46 ↗ family and friends and uh enjoying all

9:49 ↗ of the decorations this year obviously

9:51 ↗ is a little bit different and then um

9:54 ↗ historically my wife and I uh try to

9:55 ↗ escape to Hawaii during the holiday

9:57 ↗ seasons every year so so we get our

10:00 ↗ little bit of vitamin D infusion so

10:03 ↗ anyway uh this year's just different U

10:05 ↗ and I think we all agree with that

10:06 ↗ though um last night I did see the

10:08 ↗ dumpster fire 2020 commemorative uh uh

10:11 ↗ tree ornaments so I'm thinking I might

10:14 ↗ have to get some of those uh and I will

10:16 ↗ pass it off to to Senator

10:24 ↗ Wiman okay yes I don't know why this was

10:28 ↗ so difficult sorry welcome Lisa thank

10:31 ↗ you so much um I really have I'm having

10:35 ↗ a hard time in this holiday season um I

10:37 ↗ feel very isolated and I'm longing to be

10:40 ↗ with people and I don't care about the

10:42 ↗ food in fact if I never see any more

10:44 ↗ food I have the 202020 I'm telling you

10:47 ↗ it's it's been disastrous I I I love I

10:51 ↗ love listening for the Christmas uh boat

10:54 ↗ that comes along around Mercer Island

10:57 ↗ and and plays Christmas tunes that's

10:59 ↗ that's something to look forward to but

11:01 ↗ I think this year I'm looking forward to

11:03 ↗ the holidays because it means the days

11:05 ↗ are going to start to get

11:06 ↗ longer thank you Senator and I'm gonna

11:09 ↗ help you because I know you came late

11:10 ↗ and move over to representative Tai

11:13 ↗ thank

11:15 ↗ you thank you mayor um so let's see so

11:19 ↗ my name is Milan Tha representative of

11:22 ↗ the 41st District and uh my favorite

11:26 ↗ things about the holidays is uh really

11:28 ↗ the coming home I have two kids who are

11:32 ↗ both now uh in college and even though

11:36 ↗ their college is all um online um they

11:41 ↗ missed the independent uh piece of being

11:44 ↗ um college students and um and we are

11:48 ↗ fortunate enough to uh to give them that

11:50 ↗ opportunity to experience that

11:53 ↗ so that is lovely and last but not least

11:58 ↗ council member Goodman

12:00 ↗ uh thank you uh I'm Stacy Goodman on the

12:03 ↗ city council uh since February 2011 so

12:06 ↗ we're coming upon 10 10 years pretty

12:09 ↗ soon and I agree with the the all of the

12:12 ↗ food and the family and the 202020 and

12:16 ↗ all of that but my still my favorite

12:18 ↗ part of all of the holidays this time of

12:20 ↗ year is I'm one of those crazy people

12:22 ↗ who likes to cook so it's all of the

12:24 ↗ marathon cooking even though we've been

12:26 ↗ all home a lot and that's still my

12:28 ↗ favorite thing and I've I plan it months

12:31 ↗ ahead and still do today even though

12:35 ↗ we're in these crazy times that's my

12:36 ↗ favorite thing to do is just cook cook

12:39 ↗ cook cook cook and I even like doing the

12:40 ↗ dishes anyway thanks everyone for coming

12:44 ↗ this is always a um a really fun morning

12:46 ↗ for me I really enjoy these meetings

12:48 ↗ thank you very much council member

12:50 ↗ Goodman I also would like uh to tell let

12:53 ↗ you know the staff that we have with us

12:55 ↗ today because we have several here that

12:57 ↗ are in here in support of their counsil

12:59 ↗ to provide answers to any of the

13:01 ↗ technical questions that you might have

13:03 ↗ we have Deputy City administrator Andrea

13:05 ↗ Snider we have our finance director Beth

13:08 ↗ Goldberg um we have H Gan Paul who is

13:11 ↗ our policy analyst Jeff Watling Parkson

13:14 ↗ Community Services Jeff Clark uh Fire

13:17 ↗ Chief and our city administrator Wally

13:19 ↗ Bob ktz we also have Shelley Helder and

13:23 ↗ Brianna Murray um our uh lobbyists in

13:26 ↗ Olympia and I see that Erica Boyd is

13:28 ↗ here welcome Erica um she works for

13:32 ↗ representative Ramos and I believe may

13:35 ↗ have just been appointed to a border

13:36 ↗ commission for the city so we'll be

13:38 ↗ getting to know her a little bit better

13:41 ↗ uh welcome all of you um so I'm going to

13:43 ↗ do a few reminders on the meeting

13:45 ↗ protocols the meeting is being recorded

13:47 ↗ members oh so I I guess I should have

13:49 ↗ told you that before I asked you to

13:50 ↗ answer a personal questions sorry uh

13:52 ↗ members of the public may be attending

13:54 ↗ by phone um please identify yourself

13:57 ↗ prior to speaking today and please mute

14:00 ↗ when you're not speaking I got to turn

14:02 ↗ the chat on because I haven't headed on

14:05 ↗ I use the chat if you have a question

14:09 ↗ and I'll keep my eye on that and before

14:12 ↗ we dive deep into today's City's

14:14 ↗ legislative agenda I did want to provide

14:16 ↗ a brief report out on the impacts of Co

14:19 ↗ the covid-19 pandemic on both the

14:22 ↗ community and on the city's budget um as

14:25 ↗ an organization and a community we are

14:28 ↗ very supportive of the Governor's

14:29 ↗ response plan to the pandemic I do want

14:31 ↗ to highlight a few groups however who

14:34 ↗ are feeling the consequences of the

14:35 ↗ restrictions to a much greater degree

14:37 ↗ than the community at large first I'll

14:40 ↗ talk about food security and I would

14:42 ↗ like to thank those Representatives on

14:44 ↗ the line here on the meeting here who

14:45 ↗ have actually joined our food

14:48 ↗ collaboration and heard some of these

14:49 ↗ things firsthand but we did start a food

14:52 ↗ security collaboration for those that

14:54 ↗ were already in need or have been pushed

14:56 ↗ into need by the pandemic I do have a

14:58 ↗ dash board that I can share with any of

15:00 ↗ our Representatives that shows the

15:02 ↗ resources and uh the need and it's

15:05 ↗ always helpful to see it in data because

15:07 ↗ then you can get the scope and scale of

15:08 ↗ the issue that we are trying to master

15:10 ↗ here um we don't have enough they don't

15:13 ↗ have enough resources and the need is

15:14 ↗ continuing to climb our nonprofit

15:17 ↗ providers are not in a sustainable place

15:19 ↗ right now and as you know most cities

15:20 ↗ use nonprofits to provide these types of

15:23 ↗ services uh the continuing last minute

15:26 ↗ extensions on the eviction moratorium is

15:28 ↗ causing extreme anxiety to those that

15:30 ↗ are not in stable housing situation we

15:33 ↗ need to come up with a more programmatic

15:35 ↗ approach to how we're going how to how

15:38 ↗ and through what means we are going to

15:40 ↗ be able to keep people hous through this

15:43 ↗ pandemic the pandemic is not over and we

15:45 ↗ cannot keep putting people through these

15:48 ↗ month by month or couple month by couple

15:50 ↗ month extensions it's excruciating our

15:53 ↗ business Community is really hurting

15:54 ↗ with revenues down for some of our

15:56 ↗ retailers and restaurants to 30% of

15:59 ↗ normal um they're the ones that feed the

16:01 ↗ economic engines of cities and towns and

16:03 ↗ as they decline or disappear cities will

16:05 ↗ dramatically feel that impact and lastly

16:08 ↗ cities have seen such significant drops

16:10 ↗ in Revenue we encourage with emphasis

16:14 ↗ that as you face the difficult task of

16:16 ↗ balancing the state budget that you do

16:18 ↗ not use local shared revenues to do so a

16:21 ↗ cut to the cities or an unfunded mandate

16:24 ↗ will have to be backfilled with reserves

16:25 ↗ which we the city of isqua significantly

16:28 ↗ reduce the this year in the council's

16:30 ↗ approved budget the council adopted the

16:33 ↗ 2021 budget for the city on November

16:35 ↗ 16th and it funds Key Community

16:37 ↗ priorities it demonstrates fiscal

16:40 ↗ restraint and it's mindful of the

16:41 ↗ current pandemic the 2021 budget

16:44 ↗ authorizes 128.3 million in expenditures

16:48 ↗ including 53.4 million for the general

16:50 ↗ fund and overall the budget is down 10%

16:53 ↗ from the 2020 adopted budget of 143.000

16:57 ↗ million the general fund portion however

16:59 ↗ is up 7% thanks to the one-time use of

17:02 ↗ fund balance to sustain critical

17:05 ↗ Services the adopted budget focuses on

17:07 ↗ creating a safe and Equitable Community

17:10 ↗ for all supporting Human Services

17:13 ↗ investing in our parks and open spaces

17:15 ↗ and making Transportation improvements

17:17 ↗ the budget compensates for reduced

17:19 ↗ revenues through the selective use of

17:21 ↗ fund balance and increasing some of our

17:24 ↗ fees for services provided to outside

17:26 ↗ and entities to better cover City costs

17:29 ↗ these measures as well as the city's

17:31 ↗ proactive steps to quickly de decrease

17:33 ↗ spending following the onset of covid-19

17:36 ↗ last spring and modest improvements to

17:39 ↗ the revenue forecast in the months that

17:40 ↗ followed allowed the city to direct its

17:43 ↗ resources towards the priority areas so

17:46 ↗ we're going to move into our slide

17:48 ↗ presentation right now I'll do a brief

17:50 ↗ introduction before I hand it over to

17:52 ↗ city

17:57 ↗ council thank you Tisha oh I think it's

17:59 ↗ actually Jean that's doing this today so

18:02 ↗ we recognize this 2021 session will have

18:05 ↗ unique challenges and the virtual nature

18:08 ↗ will limit the legislator's capacity and

18:10 ↗ at the same time we're hearing there are

18:12 ↗ a few policy areas you will be focusing

18:14 ↗ on to include police reform racial

18:17 ↗ Equity economic recovery and climate

18:20 ↗ resiliency these are important issues

18:22 ↗ and we are very supportive of these

18:24 ↗ efforts and want to be a resource to you

18:26 ↗ as you tackle these challenging topics

18:29 ↗ the purpose of this morning's meeting is

18:31 ↗ to review the city's top legislative

18:32 ↗ priorities for the coming session so you

18:35 ↗ are equipped to take advantage of

18:36 ↗ opportunities if they

18:38 ↗ arise as Transportation package comes

18:40 ↗ together we do have two projects that we

18:42 ↗ would like to see in that package the

18:44 ↗ two priorities for the city are the

18:46 ↗ widening of State Route 18 and an

18:49 ↗ additional Crossing within the city of

18:51 ↗ isqua for Interstate 90 we support the

18:55 ↗ isqua food and clothing bank's Capital

18:57 ↗ funding request that will allow them to

18:59 ↗ move to a larger facility and expand

19:02 ↗ their program and services for the

19:03 ↗ community and we are grateful for the

19:05 ↗ coordination we've had with East Side

19:07 ↗ Fire and Rescue on this project finally

19:10 ↗ we recognize the financial challenge

19:11 ↗ that the state is facing in light of the

19:14 ↗ pandemic however we are facing the same

19:16 ↗ challenge with fewer resources we look

19:19 ↗ forward to discussing how the

19:20 ↗ legislature can restore funding for

19:22 ↗ streamline sales tax mitigation payments

19:25 ↗ and provide other Revenue tools for Isa

19:28 ↗ to sustain basic services like Public

19:30 ↗ Safety and

19:32 ↗ transportation for a more detailed

19:34 ↗ description of our priorities I'd like

19:36 ↗ to now turn this over to the city

19:37 ↗ council and I'm going to start off uh

19:39 ↗ with our council president Victoria

19:43 ↗ hun thank you mayor paully um and thank

19:47 ↗ you all so much for being here this

19:49 ↗ morning um I am going to be talking

19:52 ↗ about the I9 Crossing which is one of

19:54 ↗ our top priorities for the legislative

19:56 ↗ session we are very grateful for the

19:58 ↗ legislature's funding for the Front

20:00 ↗ Street interchange justification report

20:03 ↗ that report was completed in 2019 and

20:06 ↗ identified improvements that include an

20:08 ↗ additional Crossing of I90 between sr900

20:11 ↗ and Front Street as options to relieve

20:14 ↗ the congestion issues at the Front

20:15 ↗ Street interchange and enhan the safety

20:18 ↗ and flow of I90 as you can see there are

20:22 ↗ only four existing Crossings in isqua

20:25 ↗ which is exactly half as many Crossings

20:28 ↗ as Merc island has for I90 and I imagine

20:31 ↗ that some of us have experienced the

20:32 ↗ congestion issues and the issues um with

20:35 ↗ this interchange

20:38 ↗ firsthand the city envisions an

20:40 ↗ additional Interstate Crossing tied into

20:43 ↗ the Future Sound Transit Light Rail stop

20:45 ↗ like the one that is shown here in this

20:47 ↗ artist

20:49 ↗ rendering and an undercrossing like the

20:51 ↗ one in the graphic could be created by

20:53 ↗ raising I90 at a 2% grade such a

20:56 ↗ Crossing supports the needs for the city

20:58 ↗ Urban growth Center and the expansion of

21:01 ↗ Costco's headquarters which is happening

21:03 ↗ right now the Front Street um

21:05 ↗ interchange report identified that and

21:08 ↗ that as an option like this um provides

21:11 ↗ improvements to the local and regional

21:12 ↗ transportation system and the igr

21:15 ↗ support team recommends further

21:16 ↗ discussion study and action for this

21:20 ↗ project finally this is the

21:22 ↗ representation of the ground view of the

21:24 ↗ crossing that depicts how all different

21:26 ↗ modes of transportation come together

21:28 ↗ with the future light rail station the

21:30 ↗ city is requesting that $3.4 million be

21:34 ↗ allocated in the 2023 to 2025 bym to

21:39 ↗ begin the pre-design and environmental

21:41 ↗ documentation process for this important

21:43 ↗ project and that concludes my part of

21:46 ↗ the presentation this morning and if

21:47 ↗ there are technical questions Deputy

21:49 ↗ City administrator Andrea Snider is also

21:51 ↗ available on this call to help answer

21:54 ↗ them I think we're going to take um

21:57 ↗ questions at each topic so if there are

22:00 ↗ any questions on this one that's great

22:03 ↗ thank you very much council president

22:04 ↗ hunt I'm not seeing any questions in the

22:06 ↗ chat box and because we are in

22:08 ↗ presentation mode I couldn't see if

22:09 ↗ anybody's raising their hand so um let's

22:13 ↗ continue and we can always come back to

22:15 ↗ any slides that we need if there are

22:16 ↗ some questions at the end thank you okay

22:19 ↗ thank you mayor H you have a question

22:22 ↗ now that I said that you have two

22:23 ↗ questions so let's start with

22:25 ↗ representative Ramos

22:37 ↗ okay I think Bill was just bill and I

22:40 ↗ both noticed it said 2325 did you mean

22:44 ↗ is that what you guys so you don't want

22:46 ↗ to redesign money in the upcoming by

22:48 ↗ anym it's the following

22:49 ↗ one and I think what we'll do is we'll

22:52 ↗ go to Deputy City administrator um

22:55 ↗ Snider for comments Andrea

23:04 ↗ thank you good morning everyone uh I'm

23:06 ↗ Andrea Snider and uh yes that's correct

23:10 ↗ um we are uh looking for money to help

23:13 ↗ um begin the design uh concepts for this

23:18 ↗ and to be able to work with Sound

23:20 ↗ Transit as

23:23 ↗ well and Senator mullet did you have a

23:26 ↗ second question oh is there and I know

23:29 ↗ it's early because we haven't you're

23:30 ↗ trying to get the predesigned money but

23:32 ↗ is there a rough sense of what the cost

23:34 ↗ I mean I think it's a good idea that R

23:36 ↗ gradual 2% grade increase I'm just

23:39 ↗ wondering do we have a back of the

23:41 ↗ envelope guess on this one or not

23:44 ↗ yet uh not yet I don't believe so

23:50 ↗ okay thank you Senator melet and thank

23:52 ↗ you for asking representative Ramos's

23:55 ↗ question as well thank you president

23:56 ↗ hunt I think next up is Deputy coun

23:58 ↗ council president

23:59 ↗ Ray thank you mayor Paulie this is uh

24:02 ↗ Chris Ray and I do have the pleasure to

24:05 ↗ serve as the deputy council president

24:06 ↗ this year and thank you all for joining

24:08 ↗ us this morning it awesome to have an

24:10 ↗ opportunity to chat with you um I'd like

24:13 ↗ to talk about the widening of uh State

24:15 ↗ Route 18 and we certainly have

24:19 ↗ appreciated all the work that the

24:20 ↗ legislature has done um and allocating

24:23 ↗ roughly $175 million to this widening

24:26 ↗ project um We join with the communities

24:28 ↗ and organizations to make up the

24:30 ↗ southeast area legislative

24:32 ↗ Transportation coalition to request that

24:35 ↗ the state fully fund the widening of of

24:37 ↗ State Route 18 from isqua Hobart to

24:41 ↗ I90 um as you can see this part of the

24:44 ↗ road portion of the roow is indicated by

24:45 ↗ the red arrow here on the slide and wash

24:48 ↗ do estimates that the final amount

24:50 ↗ needed to construct this is a roughly

24:52 ↗ $345

24:54 ↗ million um on the next slide G thank you

24:59 ↗ um most of you know this stretch of road

25:02 ↗ is currently has safety and capacity

25:04 ↗ issues and widening to a full four lanes

25:06 ↗ uh with the center media will not only

25:08 ↗ prevent dangerous head- on collisions

25:10 ↗ but also increase capacity um before the

25:12 ↗ pandemic eastbound traffic during the

25:14 ↗ morning Rush traveled at less than 45%

25:16 ↗ of the posted speed limit and westbound

25:19 ↗ traffic during the morning Rush um hours

25:22 ↗ traveled less than 25% of the posted

25:24 ↗ speed limit improving safety and

25:26 ↗ reliability of the route will Mak State

25:28 ↗ Route 18 more attractive route for

25:30 ↗ regional traffic and this will allow uh

25:32 ↗ communs from the south of the city of

25:35 ↗ isqua to travel around rather than uh

25:37 ↗ through isqua which will um have

25:40 ↗ significant benefits to the city so uh

25:43 ↗ we request your support on this and um

25:47 ↗ if you have any questions we'd be happy

25:49 ↗ to answer them and I have a phon a

25:51 ↗ friend also with Andre Snider uh to

25:54 ↗ answer any of the difficult questions

25:55 ↗ you

25:57 ↗ have uh I

25:59 ↗ can I can speak a little Jump Right In

26:02 ↗ Senator so so people are wondering why

26:05 ↗ one of the reasons the costs have gone

26:07 ↗ up on this project I think council

26:09 ↗ member Ray's estimate is in the right

26:12 ↗ ballpark is that washd did decide to add

26:15 ↗ an extra Lane on the uphill side for

26:17 ↗ trucks so basically the trucks go so

26:20 ↗ slow that they added a fifth Lane on the

26:23 ↗ uphill side in each Direction where the

26:25 ↗ trucks could pull off that definitely

26:27 ↗ added some C to it but I think

26:30 ↗ it's at this point I think if we get a

26:33 ↗ transportation project funded in the

26:36 ↗ upcoming session the extra cost of those

26:38 ↗ truck lanes is not going to be a

26:40 ↗ detriment I mean it's either it's a

26:42 ↗ binomial question now if we get a

26:44 ↗ transportation package Highway 18 will

26:46 ↗ be funded if we don't get a package it

26:47 ↗ will not and so I think we might as well

26:50 ↗ do it right with the truck lanes and so

26:52 ↗ I think it was actually a good change by

26:55 ↗ wash do to add them in and the one thing

26:58 ↗ people on this call should know is when

27:01 ↗ you look at the other Mega projects The

27:02 ↗ Trestle on Highway 2 and the Columbia

27:05 ↗ River Crossing in Vancouver they are not

27:06 ↗ shovel ready we have the only Mega

27:08 ↗ project that if the transportation

27:11 ↗ package were to be passed by the end of

27:13 ↗ session in April wasog would go out to

27:16 ↗ bid immediately that fall for the entire

27:20 ↗ $500 million project combining the

27:22 ↗ initial 150 plus the one we just

27:25 ↗ allocated and so they would I think have

27:29 ↗ one construction company do the entire

27:32 ↗ thing which could have some cost savings

27:34 ↗ as well and we would be the first mega

27:36 ↗ project to actually break ground and get

27:39 ↗ going if but this is all contingent on

27:42 ↗ us getting the transportation package to

27:44 ↗ the Finish Line next session which will

27:48 ↗ be kind of the political challenge of

27:49 ↗ the decade to figure out how to make

27:51 ↗ that

27:52 ↗ happen Senator mlet H we appreciate

27:55 ↗ everything that you guys are doing in

27:57 ↗ the fifth to help this Regional project

27:59 ↗ it has a huge impact not just on those

28:01 ↗ south of 18 but north of 18 as well and

28:05 ↗ so uh we're all there rooting and

28:06 ↗ cheering for you and please call us down

28:08 ↗ to Olympia when you need us because we

28:10 ↗ will be there um I'm not seeing any

28:13 ↗ other questions in the chat box I do

28:15 ↗ want to say that uh sen representative

28:18 ↗ Ramos is having trouble with his um

28:20 ↗ microphone but he is also on the lead

28:23 ↗ team for the transportation package so

28:25 ↗ that's just another another good thing

28:27 ↗ for all of us

28:29 ↗ this is representative son if I can just

28:31 ↗ jump in real

28:32 ↗ quick um just wanted to say as Senator

28:36 ↗ mullet was talking about the truck lanes

28:38 ↗ um the you know sure added costs but for

28:41 ↗ I mean this route I think the the safety

28:44 ↗ issues uh in addition to the

28:47 ↗ transportation issues the traffic issues

28:49 ↗ are just so apparent and uh and that

28:52 ↗ definitely I feel like the cost of this

28:54 ↗ is is kind of one of those values for

28:57 ↗ our state as well as for our region and

28:59 ↗ we are so lucky that Senator mullet and

29:01 ↗ representative Ramos are leading this

29:04 ↗ issue and I have to say that

29:07 ↗ uh I don't think this was on anybody's

29:09 ↗ radar until um at least in the house

29:12 ↗ until reparamos really just was such a

29:14 ↗ champion of this issue and so we we you

29:17 ↗ and all the people who use this route

29:19 ↗ are really lucky to have these two

29:20 ↗ Champions on this

29:22 ↗ issue thank you representative sen and I

29:24 ↗ think I'm just going to let our fire

29:25 ↗ chief um weigh in for a second because I

29:28 ↗ think the number one reason for

29:30 ↗ addressing this Corridor is safety and

29:32 ↗ we have a lot of other good reasons that

29:33 ↗ follow it but Priority One is safety and

29:36 ↗ um Chief Clark I know that this is a

29:38 ↗ service area for you um and if you had

29:40 ↗ some general thoughts you'd like to

29:41 ↗ share with everybody about

29:43 ↗ safety I I think uh what I've said in in

29:47 ↗ some Regional meetings about this is um

29:50 ↗ the most profound thing I can say is

29:51 ↗ what one of my uh lieutenants responding

29:54 ↗ lieutenants said and that's like uh he

29:57 ↗ came he called me up after a a death

30:00 ↗ last year and said Chief how many times

30:02 ↗ do I have to run on the same call this

30:04 ↗ is preventable why do we keep going on

30:06 ↗ calls where people are getting killed

30:08 ↗ because of the roadway and that uh while

30:11 ↗ we knew the dangers were there that that

30:13 ↗ statement from a from an individual

30:15 ↗ who's used to running these kinds of

30:17 ↗ calls

30:18 ↗ unfortunately uh but when when my

30:20 ↗ responders are reaching that point uh

30:23 ↗ it's it's certainly time to get

30:25 ↗ something done and I have appreciated

30:27 ↗ the collaboration on this for a couple

30:28 ↗ of years now we've talked about this

30:30 ↗ project I see things moving in the right

30:32 ↗ direction so I certainly appreciate what

30:33 ↗ everybody's doing on this but your First

30:36 ↗ Responders are um they're asking

30:38 ↗ questions when they're out there why are

30:40 ↗ we out here on another one like this

30:42 ↗ so thank you Chief clerk if there is I'm

30:47 ↗ looking checking in the chat and not

30:48 ↗ seeing anything else I'm going to move

30:50 ↗ on to council member T

30:53 ↗ Michelle thank you this is council

30:55 ↗ member D Michelle and I am honored to

30:57 ↗ talk about the isqua food and clothing

30:59 ↗ bank

31:00 ↗ request um the city of isqua and

31:03 ↗ Eastside fire and rescue support the

31:05 ↗ isqua food and clothing bank's Capital

31:07 ↗ funding request of $1 million to help

31:10 ↗ the food bank move into a larger

31:13 ↗ facility currently the food bank leases

31:16 ↗ roughly 5,000 square ft from the city

31:19 ↗ even before the pandemic demand was

31:21 ↗ growing 20% annually and the food bank

31:24 ↗ was only able to serve one in five who

31:27 ↗ needed services

31:28 ↗ when the building was at capacity in

31:31 ↗ just the 6 months from January to June

31:33 ↗ of this year enrollment and food

31:35 ↗ assistance programs increased by

31:38 ↗ 18% the food and clothing bake plans to

31:40 ↗ renovate and move into the ground floor

31:42 ↗ of the Eastside fire and rescue

31:44 ↗ headquarters building which is located

31:46 ↗ on Newport Way the future 22,000 ft

31:50 ↗ Community Hub will of course include the

31:53 ↗ food bank and clothing bank as well as

31:55 ↗ warehouse space classroom space a Comm

31:57 ↗ Community Kitchen and Office programs

32:01 ↗ and uh my phona friend is also Chief

32:04 ↗ Clark so if you have questions he's here

32:07 ↗ to help us answer those questions um and

32:10 ↗ so I we will entertain questions at this

32:14 ↗ point Thank You council member D

32:16 ↗ Michelle nothing in the chat and do any

32:19 ↗ of our representatives of senators have

32:21 ↗ questions on this one oh there we go

32:23 ↗ Senator Mela

32:28 ↗ sorry I didn't have money in the jar I

32:30 ↗ figured out my error uh the and it it

32:33 ↗ isn't even Zeke's Pizza that we're

32:34 ↗ buying it's Domino sorry about that what

32:38 ↗ uh what's the cost of I mean I know this

32:41 ↗ has been something Cory and in the city

32:43 ↗ and Jeff have been working on for a

32:44 ↗ while I just haven't heard the estimate

32:46 ↗ of the actual capital budget request in

32:48 ↗ terms of dollars what's the dollar

32:51 ↗ request we're asking for a million

32:54 ↗ dollars I believe chief chief Clark

32:59 ↗ yes that that's my understanding is that

33:01 ↗ the this Capital ask will be for a

33:03 ↗ million and the the total project is

33:07 ↗ going to land between five and seven is

33:09 ↗ what I

33:10 ↗ anticipate okay that's helpful thank you

33:12 ↗ very much Chief clerk part of the um Isa

33:16 ↗ food and clothing bank has already

33:18 ↗ relocated has it not to headquarters yes

33:21 ↗ at least temporarily there's two things

33:24 ↗ uh they their clothing bank because of

33:25 ↗ the covid-19 spacing restriction

33:28 ↗ they couldn't operate their clothing

33:29 ↗ bank and then once the weather turned uh

33:32 ↗ they are now um in a couple of Warehouse

33:34 ↗ Bays that we have in the back uh just on

33:37 ↗ at least through this season in order to

33:39 ↗ distribute their clothing and then we

33:41 ↗ partner with them on a mobile integrated

33:42 ↗ healthc CARE program as well where we

33:44 ↗ team up a firefighter from our outfit

33:47 ↗ and they team up a social worker uh to

33:49 ↗ serve the community from there so

33:50 ↗ there's two Ventures that we're working

33:52 ↗ on right now great and thank you very

33:55 ↗ much and repr representative sen had a

33:57 ↗ question as well about potential

33:59 ↗ coordination with you side baby corner

34:01 ↗ and um that is a great question

34:04 ↗ representative um the way they provide

34:06 ↗ services is slightly different and both

34:09 ↗ are um squeezed for storage space so

34:12 ↗ East Side baby Corner fills orders that

34:14 ↗ are picked up by nonprofits for delivery

34:18 ↗ and the clothing bank is something that

34:20 ↗ those that are getting assistance with

34:22 ↗ either food or clothing are able to

34:24 ↗ wander through and select items um so

34:27 ↗ they provide a sort of different service

34:28 ↗ model but all of our nonprofits I mean

34:32 ↗ all of our nonprofits do not have enough

34:34 ↗ space so this is something as a growing

34:36 ↗ Community we're going to have to figure

34:38 ↗ out um there's a question from Senator

34:41 ↗ mullet as

34:43 ↗ well yeah Chief Clark you guys know

34:46 ↗ where eper like what's your guys's plans

34:49 ↗ on for you guys in terms of where you

34:51 ↗ think you'll end up going and and how

34:53 ↗ does it collocate in the in so if you'd

34:57 ↗ ask me this question preo uh we we were

35:00 ↗ actually out um with some Consultants

35:02 ↗ looking for space for headquarters but

35:05 ↗ now with the new remote uh what we've

35:07 ↗ learned from the remote style of being

35:09 ↗ able to do our work we're actually going

35:11 ↗ to be located in the same building with

35:12 ↗ the food and clothing bank uh we'll have

35:14 ↗ the second floor expanding it a little

35:16 ↗ bit um with a much heavier footprint on

35:18 ↗ remote work uh which is proving to to be

35:21 ↗ very effective and will in the long run

35:23 ↗ keep our overhead costs way down because

35:25 ↗ we won't have to uh lease or own a large

35:28 ↗ building and I see R Callen has a

35:31 ↗ question for you as

35:34 ↗ well thank you that was partly what I

35:36 ↗ wanted to do is just understand the

35:37 ↗ relationship with you know East Side

35:39 ↗ Fire rescuees move and what did that

35:41 ↗ look like

35:42 ↗ and timing of it we understand what

35:45 ↗ phase of the buying budget look like

35:48 ↗ yeah and I um we will in working with

35:51 ↗ Corey obviously coordinating it will be

35:54 ↗ will be an issue that we have to work

35:56 ↗ through but uh where we're at right now

35:58 ↗ is um the project will be rolled into

36:00 ↗ one uh as far as remodeling the building

36:03 ↗ that we're in um we would hope to start

36:06 ↗ that um as towards the end of um have

36:09 ↗ the planning done towards the end of 21

36:12 ↗ uh and then hopefully Construction in 22

36:14 ↗ would probably be the earliest it could

36:15 ↗ happen but it would certainly be done

36:18 ↗ here in the next uh two to three

36:21 ↗ years thank you Chief and just to make

36:23 ↗ it a little easier on our

36:25 ↗ representatives and our Senators all you

36:27 ↗ do need to uh type in the chat box is

36:29 ↗ the word question or the word comment

36:31 ↗ and so because I'm going to make you

36:33 ↗ repeat it anyway so that's that is great

36:37 ↗ I am not seeing anything else in the

36:39 ↗ chat box so let's move on to council

36:41 ↗ member toam Mars thank you Madame mayor

36:44 ↗ uh this is council member Marts and

36:45 ↗ because I led a wicked uh previous life

36:49 ↗ I get to do fiscal

36:51 ↗ sustainability uh

36:53 ↗ as as mayor Paulie indicated at the

36:55 ↗ beginning of the meeting uh we adopted

36:57 ↗ our 2021 Budget on November 16th uh the

37:01 ↗ budget is down 10% from the 2020 adopted

37:04 ↗ budget of 143

37:07 ↗ million next slide please while the

37:09 ↗ overall budget is down the general fund

37:12 ↗ portion of that budget is up 7% uh due

37:15 ↗ to onetime use of fund balance to

37:17 ↗ sustain critical services this use of

37:20 ↗ fund balance is clearly not sustainable

37:23 ↗ over time is exactly what we try not to

37:26 ↗ do even though the covid-19 pandemic is

37:29 ↗ impacting revenues the previously

37:31 ↗ existing limits on Revenue tools such as

37:34 ↗ the 1% cap on property tax create

37:36 ↗ structural problems each year for

37:38 ↗ balancing the city's

37:42 ↗ budgets at the same time as dealing with

37:44 ↗ these structural challenges the city is

37:46 ↗ expecting a 40% decline in shared

37:48 ↗ revenues from the state next year we

37:51 ↗ greatly appreciate the legislator's

37:53 ↗ efforts last session to continue the

37:54 ↗ Streamline sales tax mitigation program

37:57 ↗ unfortunately Governor enle veto of your

38:00 ↗ efforts magnifies the negative impacts

38:02 ↗ of the state's tax structure during this

38:05 ↗ difficult economic time we are asking

38:07 ↗ you to restore funding for this program

38:09 ↗ in both the current and next biannual

38:12 ↗ budgets my uh Finance director Goldberg

38:14 ↗ is here if there are any questions about

38:16 ↗ this

38:19 ↗ topic dang it now I have to put a dollar

38:22 ↗ in the jar thank you very much council

38:25 ↗ member mullet and I'm going to call on

38:27 ↗ re representative Ken for question a

38:33 ↗ comment thank you I just wanted to tell

38:35 ↗ you that I've been working closely with

38:37 ↗ uh representative

38:38 ↗ Sullivan on SST mitigation and I know

38:41 ↗ that we're really hoping to at least um

38:44 ↗ kind of

38:45 ↗ recover the unintended consequences the

38:47 ↗ way the legislation was written and then

38:49 ↗ vetoed so that you can at least remain

38:51 ↗ whole from what you had because that's

38:53 ↗ that's a bigger issue even in in my mind

38:56 ↗ too right I mean if you're going to veto

38:58 ↗ something let's not do harm for what was

38:59 ↗ actually already in in the budget so TR

39:02 ↗ of understand and work with that so um I

39:04 ↗ know that the governor's office has

39:06 ↗ received your letter all of our

39:07 ↗ Communications around that they're

39:09 ↗ considering that so we'll see what lands

39:10 ↗ in the governor's budget but just know

39:12 ↗ that we're working least um you know

39:15 ↗ having representative Su Sullivan um

39:18 ↗ championing this is is a key uh strategy

39:21 ↗ I'm hoping that that will

39:25 ↗ take thank you very much representative

39:28 ↗ Ken uh Senator

39:32 ↗ mullet I and I will say I think I don't

39:35 ↗ know in the governor's offense I think

39:36 ↗ it was almost like an accidental there

39:38 ↗ was so much confusion in the rush on the

39:40 ↗ vetos this was not an intentional veto

39:43 ↗ because there was an agreed upon deal

39:45 ↗ between the Senate the house and the

39:46 ↗ governor's office on streamline sales

39:48 ↗ tax mitigation and I think this just

39:50 ↗ ended up being something where it ended

39:53 ↗ up unfortunately being accidentally

39:54 ↗ vetoed and since there was no special

39:56 ↗ session our first time to address it

39:58 ↗ will be this upcoming session but

40:01 ↗ because it wasn't intentional I am

40:02 ↗ optimistic that it'll go back to the and

40:06 ↗ I know the phase out that was passed and

40:08 ↗ put in place by the legislature wasn't

40:09 ↗ necessarily the preferred route for the

40:11 ↗ city of isqua but it's much better than

40:14 ↗ the zero and so we'll see I I am

40:17 ↗ optimistic this will get

40:18 ↗ fix absolutely Senator mullet I heard

40:21 ↗ the same thing that it appeared to be a

40:23 ↗ new program and that's why it was vetoed

40:26 ↗ but um it was was a misunderstanding

40:28 ↗ Thank you thank you for your efforts on

40:30 ↗ that I'm not seeing um any more

40:33 ↗ questions uh so we will move on to

40:37 ↗ council member Stacy

40:39 ↗ Goodman uh thank you Madame mayor um

40:42 ↗ council member Stacy Goodman here again

40:45 ↗ so even though P um and don't ask me to

40:50 ↗ pronounce the actual long word even

40:52 ↗ though p uh work is not one of our

40:55 ↗ legislative priorities this year we

40:56 ↗ still want want to provide you all with

40:58 ↗ an update on the design of the pilot

41:00 ↗ Cleanup in the isqua valley

41:03 ↗ aquiver after posos um which is one of

41:06 ↗ the P fases was detected in the city

41:09 ↗ water supply in 2015 the city responded

41:12 ↗ in multiple ways including installing a

41:15 ↗ treatment system in 2016 which has

41:17 ↗ consistently produced water with

41:19 ↗ non-detectable levels of past in 2018

41:23 ↗ the city entered into an interlocal

41:25 ↗ agreement with Eastside Fire and Rescue

41:27 ↗ in partnership with uh Washington State

41:29 ↗ Department of ecology to complete a fe a

41:32 ↗ phase one investigation of the nature

41:34 ↗ and extent of pasas in the issaqua

41:37 ↗ Valley area in December 2019 the city

41:41 ↗ Eastside fire and ecology formalized the

41:43 ↗ partnership established an executive

41:45 ↗ committee and began phase two of the

41:48 ↗ investigation both phases of work have

41:50 ↗ been almost completely funded through

41:51 ↗ various state agencies and we are very

41:54 ↗ thankful for your work in securing this

41:56 ↗ funding

41:58 ↗ phase two work has included additional

42:02 ↗ Wells to monitor water and soil samples

42:04 ↗ over a one-ear period additional

42:07 ↗ characterization of the Eastside fire

42:09 ↗ headquarters site and development of a

42:11 ↗ remediation plan phase two is largely

42:15 ↗ largely complete with a final report

42:17 ↗ expected in mid

42:21 ↗ 2021 the um Department of ecology has

42:24 ↗ requested $750,000

42:27 ↗ in their 2021 2023 capital budget to

42:31 ↗ continue the work phase three will

42:33 ↗ include initial remediation work and

42:35 ↗ continued efforts to fill data gaps

42:37 ↗ after new state regulations are released

42:40 ↗ expected during

42:42 ↗ 2021 the project will continue to help

42:44 ↗ inform how communities across the state

42:47 ↗ respond to this important issue and we

42:50 ↗ have with us today our Public Works

42:52 ↗ director Bob York in case there are any

42:54 ↗ questions

42:58 ↗ thank you very much council member

43:00 ↗ Goodman I'm not seeing any questions at

43:02 ↗ this point in time but I would just like

43:04 ↗ to extend a thank you to our

43:06 ↗ representatives and Senators for all the

43:08 ↗ work that you have done in securing

43:10 ↗ funding for this pilot project and the

43:12 ↗ information that we will learn from it

43:14 ↗ will not only help the city of isqua the

43:18 ↗ the aqua for our understanding of the

43:20 ↗ aqua for itself but it'll help others in

43:22 ↗ other jurisdictions and feed into

43:24 ↗ potential cleanup levels in the future

43:26 ↗ so it's amazing that isqua can be part

43:28 ↗ of a partnership with Department of

43:30 ↗ ecology e Side Fire and Rescue like this

43:32 ↗ it's a very very unique

43:34 ↗ situation still not seeing any questions

43:37 ↗ so I'll just let you shout them out if

43:38 ↗ you got them are there any

43:44 ↗ questions then we will move on to our

43:47 ↗ next speaker today which will be council

43:50 ↗ member

43:51 ↗ Walsh thanks and I'm talking about the

43:54 ↗ uh bergsma acquisitions I appreciate you

43:57 ↗ all getting a chance to learn a little

44:00 ↗ bit about this so um even though many of

44:04 ↗ you may know about the B bergsma

44:06 ↗ acquisition I just want to give a kind

44:08 ↗ of quick overview so the bergsma family

44:11 ↗ had owned 46 acres of land on Cougar

44:14 ↗ Mountain since the

44:16 ↗ 1940s and on multiple different

44:18 ↗ occasions over the years the property

44:20 ↗ had been proposed for development so in

44:22 ↗ 2017 the property was considered for a

44:25 ↗ 57 lot resident subdivision and

44:28 ↗ community members Express concerns over

44:31 ↗ deforestation and the impacts on the

44:33 ↗ surrounding land and ultimately in

44:36 ↗ December 2018 after months of

44:39 ↗ negotiation Project work city council

44:41 ↗ authorized staff to purchase 335 Acres

44:45 ↗ of the bergsma property for $10.6

44:49 ↗ million in February 2019 in partnership

44:54 ↗ with the trust for public land the City

44:57 ↗ acquired that 33.5 acres and King County

45:01 ↗ acquired another 122 Acres from the

45:03 ↗ bergsma family and in late 2019 the city

45:08 ↗ was awarded a King County Conservation

45:10 ↗ Futures Grant in the amount of $53

45:13 ↗ million toward the

45:15 ↗ acquisition besides the successful King

45:18 ↗ County Grant the city also has a current

45:20 ↗ Grant application for 2.66 million

45:23 ↗ through the Washington wildlife and

45:25 ↗ Recreation programs Urban wildlife

45:28 ↗ habitat category and the application was

45:31 ↗ ranked third out of 11 projects so we're

45:34 ↗ confident that if the wwrp is fully

45:37 ↗ funded then the city will receive the

45:41 ↗ funding and so I've got uh Jeff Watling

45:44 ↗ our parks and Community Services

45:46 ↗ director with us if there are any

45:47 ↗ questions about that uh funding

45:52 ↗ request thank you very much council

45:54 ↗ member Walsh and no you're not allowed

45:56 ↗ to ask I'm not in that particular photo

45:59 ↗ so let's go to Senator

46:02 ↗ mullet oh I think it's it's great news

46:05 ↗ where it's ranked in the wwrp and I will

46:08 ↗ say in my time of doing the capital

46:10 ↗ budget I've never we've gotten to the

46:13 ↗ the little red line if you fund the wwrp

46:17 ↗ money and the 80 to100 million zip code

46:19 ↗ that project will definitely be included

46:22 ↗ as as a funded project so I think you

46:24 ↗ guys are in a really good spot to to win

46:28 ↗ in that one I I don't it's hard for me

46:29 ↗ to Envision a scenario where Poney for

46:31 ↗ wwrp would be low enough to that project

46:33 ↗ not to clear the hurdle

46:37 ↗ awesome thank you very much Senator

46:40 ↗ mullet I mean isqua one of the things

46:42 ↗ that is the most incredible thing here

46:44 ↗ is that we are the interface between

46:47 ↗ urban and uh natural Wildland and it is

46:51 ↗ a wonderful place to be I think this is

46:53 ↗ one of the highlights of our city and

46:56 ↗ our Council action in decades that this

46:59 ↗ land has been preserved I am not seeing

47:02 ↗ any other comments on this topic or

47:05 ↗ questions if anyone has something please

47:07 ↗ jump

47:09 ↗ in

47:12 ↗ otherwise

47:14 ↗ um I'm going to go into some closing

47:18 ↗ remarks but we we have 12 minutes left

47:21 ↗ and so rather than me go to closing

47:22 ↗ remarks I would love to take the

47:24 ↗ slideshow down and go around room

47:27 ↗ starting with the 41st and Senator

47:29 ↗ Wellman and moving through um what

47:31 ↗ you're working on and what you think we

47:33 ↗ can help you with this year so let's

47:35 ↗ start with Senator

47:42 ↗ wman I I think that um you what we're

47:45 ↗ working on is really uh the issues

47:49 ↗ around and from the inequities uh

47:53 ↗ brought about by varying levels of

47:56 ↗ connec ity at a time when education is

47:59 ↗ online um but also to focus on the

48:03 ↗ stability of our school districts uh

48:06 ↗ they are have stepped up to do so much

48:08 ↗ more in so many ways than they um are

48:11 ↗ usually budgeted to do and even though

48:14 ↗ we have enrollment down a little bit um

48:17 ↗ we have them stepping up to handle

48:19 ↗ education in many other ways including

48:22 ↗ including child care including working

48:25 ↗ with Community Based organ ganizations

48:28 ↗ um including making sure that food goes

48:30 ↗ out on bus routes um across the

48:33 ↗ state so that whole area is gotten to be

48:37 ↗ you know a major a major uh Focus uh you

48:40 ↗ know for me um I we think the Broadband

48:43 ↗ issue is um is one we haven't gotten as

48:47 ↗ much feedback as we would like to have

48:49 ↗ from districts across the state in terms

48:51 ↗ of what the level of their Broadband is

48:54 ↗ but um I think you know looking

48:57 ↗ my focus because uh I had education my

49:00 ↗ focus is always on 1.5 million children

49:03 ↗ rather than just on um our our

49:05 ↗ individual communities um I will ask you

49:09 ↗ a question about where and when do I

49:11 ↗ bring the food um I I have left a couple

49:14 ↗ of messages i' I've been on the calls

49:16 ↗ with the food bank um it is incredibly

49:19 ↗ powerful to listen not just to the the

49:22 ↗ downside which is the need which is so

49:25 ↗ extraordinary now but also to the

49:27 ↗ response uh from all the community

49:30 ↗ members who are involved um that has

49:32 ↗ been just a actually a highlight uh to

49:35 ↗ see the city responding that way but I

49:36 ↗ have a car full of food and I I need to

49:38 ↗ know where to take it you text me that

49:40 ↗ later on

49:42 ↗ absolutely I appreciate appreciate your

49:45 ↗ generosity I also appreciate you showing

49:47 ↗ up at our food collaboration and

49:48 ↗ mentioning the district the district has

49:50 ↗ been a huge partner in getting food out

49:53 ↗ to families and children in need they've

49:56 ↗ been amazing

49:57 ↗ yeah and and you know I think that's

49:59 ↗ really been a major Focus from that

50:02 ↗ perspective there's so many issues that

50:04 ↗ we're looking at in terms of um equity

50:07 ↗ and and uh how that is being uh shown

50:11 ↗ and changed and and will be you know

50:13 ↗ will be a high point of what the Senate

50:16 ↗ does in terms of you know our Focus um

50:19 ↗ so there there's a lot of tweaks that

50:22 ↗ will be we had you know we had a lot to

50:25 ↗ keep the schools going we have a lot to

50:27 ↗ keep the kids going through the schools

50:29 ↗ um and and a lot of the programs but we

50:31 ↗ are also in the process of you know

50:34 ↗ transforming our education system uh so

50:37 ↗ that it's what a Mastery based system

50:39 ↗ and we've seen that really almost happen

50:41 ↗ across the State Overnight um from a

50:44 ↗ recovery perspective I'm also looking

50:47 ↗ community colleges and our reskilling of

50:49 ↗ of people uh that's going to be really

50:52 ↗ incredibly important making sure first

50:54 ↗ of all that kids coming through through

50:56 ↗ our school system have the level of

50:58 ↗ digital literacy that will really be

51:00 ↗ needed to move them into jobs in this

51:03 ↗ economy and and the 21st century economy

51:05 ↗ in general but also to to Really offer

51:09 ↗ opportunities for reskilling and

51:11 ↗ placement for people who will totally be

51:13 ↗ displaced where businesses will not be

51:15 ↗ coming back and of course with isqua one

51:18 ↗ of the things I always think of when I

51:19 ↗ think of isqua and not you think of but

51:21 ↗ but I always think of it is such a

51:24 ↗ creative Community um with the theater

51:26 ↗ Etc and and creting a community let's

51:29 ↗ just make a note of has really been

51:31 ↗ decimated with the closure of so many

51:33 ↗ venues and between the venues closing

51:36 ↗ and the hospitality industry which is

51:38 ↗ always a backup for so many people in in

51:41 ↗ that area um it it has been

51:44 ↗ significantly um challenged and so we're

51:47 ↗ doing a lot of work in the in this area

51:49 ↗ as well looking at how to support our

51:51 ↗ creative community members and and keep

51:54 ↗ that thriving for our state

51:57 ↗ um and I think that you'll see some

51:59 ↗ activity in that area so those are some

52:01 ↗ of the highlights of what I'm working on

52:03 ↗ Senator wman that's excellent um I did

52:06 ↗ not mention earlier that Oldtown has

52:08 ↗ been designated as an AR Cultural

52:10 ↗ District and we are very very very proud

52:12 ↗ of that let's go to representative

52:17 ↗ sen thank you so much everybody um I'm

52:20 ↗ GNA pop off after I uh after I speak as

52:23 ↗ well sorry about that I have another

52:24 ↗ meeting I have to run to um so so I'm

52:27 ↗ pretty laser focused this session on

52:29 ↗ expanding access to child care uh we for

52:32 ↗ economic recovery for racial equity for

52:35 ↗ Child Development uh we for women

52:38 ↗ frankly we need to make sure that we

52:40 ↗ finally uh that we recovered the child

52:43 ↗ care that we need and that we expand it

52:45 ↗ so I'll be looking at Progressive

52:46 ↗ Revenue options for that um so stay

52:49 ↗ tuned and again that will really be uh

52:53 ↗ focused on making sure that we don't cut

52:55 ↗ child care if we have budget needs to do

52:58 ↗ that and then to continue to expand it

53:00 ↗ over the following year so that uh are

53:04 ↗ that's really my my main focus this year

53:07 ↗ excellent and thank you for sharing that

53:08 ↗ before you leave have a great day

53:10 ↗ representative uh

53:14 ↗ Ty yes thank you so uh pardon me my I

53:21 ↗ have three different Focus um

53:24 ↗ unfortunately uh there's so much work to

53:26 ↗ be done

53:27 ↗ um but uh the top one certainly is to

53:30 ↗ look into our health care

53:32 ↗ System um and um you know learned from

53:37 ↗ what we have learned and um really

53:40 ↗ taking in what we have known for years

53:43 ↗ the disparity in healthcare services and

53:46 ↗ really uh the effort of making sure that

53:49 ↗ our Public Health um in our state

53:52 ↗ continue to be supported and um uh and

53:56 ↗ funded and expand so that the first one

54:00 ↗ the second piece is around uh police

54:03 ↗ accountability reform uh I have the

54:06 ↗ opportunity to uh be tapped in and

54:09 ↗ served with representative rmos on the

54:11 ↗ house uh police accountability policies

54:15 ↗ leadership and um one of the P um that

54:18 ↗ for me to serve in Civil Right Judiciary

54:22 ↗ uh many of those uh topics going to go

54:24 ↗ to either Public Safety Committee um and

54:28 ↗ uh civil right judiciaries and so that

54:30 ↗ uh certainly is going to be uh in

54:32 ↗ aligned with um our house um uh majority

54:36 ↗ caucus uh

54:38 ↗ priority and uh really the next piece is

54:41 ↗ about um economic recovery and the piece

54:45 ↗ that I'm committed to make sure that

54:47 ↗ it's working is um uh finally fund

54:50 ↗ working family tax credit um through the

54:53 ↗ pandemic we have seen that um with cash

54:57 ↗ being in people's hand with the Working

54:59 ↗ Families and individuals who are

55:01 ↗ essential um not only advancing our um

55:05 ↗ economic uh recovery but really um

55:08 ↗ sustaining our uh our current um economy

55:12 ↗ uh across the board and so um within the

55:17 ↗ working family um we hoping that is how

55:22 ↗ we uh support the workforce that sustain

55:25 ↗ the small business you have um uh spoken

55:28 ↗ of earlier and um I think that is an

55:32 ↗ attempt to rebuild and and and and

55:35 ↗ support the thriving uh economy in our

55:38 ↗ state so those are the three areas that

55:40 ↗ I'm working on Healthcare um uh civil

55:43 ↗ right judiciaries and um certainly uh

55:46 ↗ making sure that the most vulnerable uh

55:49 ↗ people in our state are being supported

55:51 ↗ thanks thank you representative Tai

55:53 ↗ that's a very big plate load of work

55:57 ↗ um uh I have we have a few minutes left

55:59 ↗ and I just want to know um if there's

56:01 ↗ any time constraints in any our fifth

56:04 ↗ district resps to go first otherwise

56:06 ↗ I'll start with Senator

56:07 ↗ mullet I do have to hop off at nine okay

56:11 ↗ Senator let's go you're on I think that

56:14 ↗ Transportation getting figuring out how

56:16 ↗ to get this thing to the Finish Line is

56:18 ↗ going to be number one goal of the

56:21 ↗ session I think it will be tricky

56:22 ↗ because Transportation packages need to

56:24 ↗ be bipartisan and the things the

56:27 ↗ Republicans want are completely

56:28 ↗ different than the things the Democrats

56:29 ↗ want in the transportation package so I

56:31 ↗ think it'll be everyone will have to I

56:33 ↗ think have some flexibility as we go

56:34 ↗ through that process the next few months

56:37 ↗ uh in terms of on the housing

56:40 ↗ affordability stuff I I do think that be

56:43 ↗ nice to have a bill to figure out how to

56:45 ↗ get more private residential dollars to

56:46 ↗ flow into our state I I think one of the

56:49 ↗ things I've learned from my state

56:50 ↗ investment board role is like we have

56:52 ↗ a$2 billion portfolio of real estate

56:54 ↗ estate investment board but we only fund

56:55 ↗ projects if return 5 to 7% and I think

56:58 ↗ one of the challenges we have in the P

57:00 ↗ sound region is a lot of our real estate

57:03 ↗ opportunities don't provide that return

57:04 ↗ in the affordable housing space and so I

57:07 ↗ think one of the ideas is could the

57:09 ↗ state pay for sepa around Transit hubs

57:12 ↗ so you know and could the state

57:14 ↗ subsidize planning departments and

57:16 ↗ permitting departments at the local

57:18 ↗ level just try to speed up some of those

57:20 ↗ timelines to encourage more private

57:22 ↗ residential development uh so I think

57:25 ↗ it's trying to find how the State could

57:26 ↗ partner with local municipalities

57:28 ↗ especially local municipalities that

57:30 ↗ have Transit hubs this squad would have

57:32 ↗ two I think the highlands and the

57:34 ↗ transit center in the valley would both

57:35 ↗ qualify and I think the question is what

57:38 ↗ role can the state play to make it as

57:40 ↗ easy as possible for some of the private

57:42 ↗ projects to clear development hurdles

57:44 ↗ there and in terms of Education I I mean

57:47 ↗ my personal goal is I would love to get

57:49 ↗ elementary kids back in January and

57:50 ↗ February middle school kids and March

57:52 ↗ and I am not giving up on the hope of

57:55 ↗ letting High School kids after spring

57:57 ↗ break hopefully be able to have some

57:58 ↗ in-person time between April and June

58:01 ↗ and and I think that's a goal I don't

58:04 ↗ know I I just feel like that it's hard

58:05 ↗ to think about anything else in

58:07 ↗ education when you don't have kids in

58:08 ↗ school it's really challenging so I

58:10 ↗ think hopefully we can make some

58:12 ↗ progress in that

58:13 ↗ front and and I really appreciate the

58:16 ↗ time this was super helpful I I love

58:19 ↗ love the isqu fu Bank project uh I love

58:22 ↗ the 3.4 million to get started on the

58:24 ↗ undercrossing idea these are all great

58:26 ↗ projects you guys have laid out and so

58:30 ↗ Senator Mal before you drop off my

58:32 ↗ answer to your second priority about

58:33 ↗ paying for sepa is yes please do and as

58:36 ↗ you've heard me say before in order to

58:38 ↗ make affordable housing projects um

58:41 ↗ pencil out because they're mostly built

58:44 ↗ uh larger ones by the private some

58:45 ↗ private investment please also consider

58:47 ↗ backfilling any other fees waivers land

58:50 ↗ donations that cities might make because

58:52 ↗ you'll find more cities will do it if

58:54 ↗ they know that they I mean especially a

58:57 ↗ time like this asking the city to put a

58:59 ↗ million dollars into a project is really

59:01 ↗ really difficult but State can do that

59:04 ↗ wow we're here we'll take advantage of

59:06 ↗ it and thank you for your time today and

59:08 ↗ I'm hoping I can still get to our two

59:09 ↗ reps because we are at 9 o' thanks Mark

59:12 ↗ um let's go to uh representative Ramos I

59:15 ↗ believe the city clerk says she may have

59:17 ↗ a way of getting helping you get your

59:19 ↗ audio work but she wants to say it on

59:21 ↗ camera so let's give that a try can you

59:23 ↗ hear me now ah yes we can

59:27 ↗ all right thank you Tisha um so yeah I

59:30 ↗ put it in the chat already just really

59:31 ↗ quickly like I say I'm lead on the

59:33 ↗ transportation package we're putting

59:35 ↗ together for this on the the house side

59:37 ↗ in particular and uh it is going to be

59:40 ↗ difficult but I got a lot of hope that

59:42 ↗ we can get to that because if we don't

59:43 ↗ the alternative is not really good um so

59:46 ↗ that that's definitely a focus spend a

59:48 ↗ lot of time there uh I mentioned also uh

59:51 ↗ as uh rep Tai mentioned her and I are on

59:53 ↗ the uh you know with the member of color

59:56 ↗ we're working on police reform and

59:58 ↗ social justice issues so we'll have a

1:00:00 ↗ whole package of things coming out right

1:00:03 ↗ out of the gate uh first day probably

1:00:05 ↗ we'll have some things and continue to

1:00:07 ↗ come out through um uh session on police

1:00:10 ↗ reform and so forth and just you know

1:00:12 ↗ like I even you know called up uh our

1:00:15 ↗ chief uhh bbom and just had a chat with

1:00:18 ↗ him on some of these things just passing

1:00:20 ↗ things local level know how they they

1:00:22 ↗ work right and that's a great ability I

1:00:25 ↗ have to do reach out to folks that to

1:00:27 ↗ you know still working there in the city

1:00:29 ↗ and daily life and so forth and have

1:00:30 ↗ those things work so that was a great

1:00:32 ↗ input uh for me having been able to do

1:00:35 ↗ that um and then also on climate change

1:00:38 ↗ uh my my focus here on is healthy Forest

1:00:41 ↗ so working with apartment natural

1:00:42 ↗ resources and other fol and how we can

1:00:44 ↗ really improve our our resiliency of our

1:00:47 ↗ forest keeping them healthy uh a little

1:00:49 ↗ less fire a little more fire resistant

1:00:52 ↗ there's no such thing as a firepro

1:00:53 ↗ forest but we can in we they in a State

1:00:56 ↗ and things definitely uh much more

1:00:59 ↗ manageable from the firefighting

1:01:00 ↗ standpoint and the climate change uh

1:01:03 ↗ protection of having all that stuff

1:01:04 ↗ going into the air right so um that on

1:01:07 ↗ the climate change side work on a couple

1:01:08 ↗ things that healthy for us is the one

1:01:10 ↗ thing definitely I'm focused on if you

1:01:12 ↗ know my background that just it just

1:01:14 ↗ comes natural to me so working with all

1:01:16 ↗ our land managers on that St too so I

1:01:19 ↗ know we're late so that I think good

1:01:21 ↗ enough for me glad I could finally

1:01:22 ↗ actually get on here and you guys yeah

1:01:24 ↗ so are we thank you you representative

1:01:26 ↗ Ramos and former council member Ramos we

1:01:28 ↗ are also working with our fire chief on

1:01:30 ↗ fire wise we are also working on Forest

1:01:33 ↗ Health through green esqua and a

1:01:35 ↗ partnership we have with the broader um

1:01:38 ↗ environmental community and looking at

1:01:40 ↗ stewardship program including hiring a

1:01:43 ↗ Parks manager so we are right in line

1:01:45 ↗ with what you're hoping to accomplish at

1:01:47 ↗ the state that's great and last but not

1:01:49 ↗ least representative

1:01:51 ↗ Callum thank you very much I greatly

1:01:53 ↗ appreciate your agenda that you got

1:01:55 ↗ forward today there's a lot of great

1:01:56 ↗ things there giving us lots to work with

1:01:58 ↗ and I appreciate that I also appreciate

1:02:01 ↗ your um the budget that you passed and

1:02:04 ↗ the work that you're doing around Health

1:02:05 ↗ and Human Service that was included in

1:02:07 ↗ that and making sure that that wasn't um

1:02:09 ↗ cut as we know that that demand and and

1:02:11 ↗ need is become so

1:02:14 ↗ um also impacted by the pandemic you

1:02:17 ↗ know and so a lot of my legislative

1:02:19 ↗ agenda is well I I know I've been

1:02:21 ↗ talking with you all a lot during the

1:02:23 ↗ interim about trying to figure out ways

1:02:25 ↗ to make local government whole and what

1:02:27 ↗ do we do around that around your local

1:02:29 ↗ budgets and just having a firing order

1:02:30 ↗ of funding and policy that we could try

1:02:32 ↗ to make and move and making sure that

1:02:34 ↗ you know the the voices of isqua and all

1:02:38 ↗ of the cities in the fifth because they

1:02:39 ↗ range in size and scope are really being

1:02:42 ↗ reflected well in policy that might be

1:02:43 ↗ coming forward so that's that stays

1:02:45 ↗ foremost I know on my capital investment

1:02:48 ↗ making sure that we're really driving

1:02:49 ↗ through an economic stimulus package

1:02:51 ↗ that's an Avenue that we get to do that

1:02:52 ↗ work um to try to help turn around um

1:02:56 ↗ the economy both locally um as well as

1:02:59 ↗ at the state so that's uh looking at at

1:03:01 ↗ those Investments and trying to further

1:03:03 ↗ that uh specifically the needs in the

1:03:05 ↗ fifth and for isqua as well certainly

1:03:08 ↗ partnering with Senator Wellman and uh

1:03:10 ↗ representative sin on education and uh

1:03:14 ↗ our um child care and our Human Services

1:03:17 ↗ aspect work that we're doing I wanted to

1:03:20 ↗ also talk about from Capital perspective

1:03:22 ↗ making sure that you know Main Street

1:03:26 ↗ funding comes through the capital budget

1:03:27 ↗ so I had a conversation just yesterday

1:03:30 ↗ with that program and making sure to see

1:03:31 ↗ if we can figure out ways to um add in

1:03:34 ↗ some some dollars and figure out

1:03:37 ↗ Pathways that allow us to kind of

1:03:39 ↗ recover some of the capital costs that

1:03:41 ↗ businesses had to to take on in our main

1:03:44 ↗ streets that are just you know that

1:03:45 ↗ whole Coston experience and even the

1:03:47 ↗ consultation to our main streets Anda

1:03:50 ↗ and the Downtown isqua Association are

1:03:52 ↗ just huge in that an Oldtown um plays

1:03:54 ↗ deeply in that space we want to make

1:03:56 ↗ sure that we're we're trying to keep you

1:03:57 ↗ whole in that regard um and then of

1:04:01 ↗ course my uh some of my deep interim

1:04:03 ↗ work was around children youth

1:04:04 ↗ Behavioral Health and trying to bring

1:04:06 ↗ forward a full package that's going to

1:04:08 ↗ support that work that's going to be a

1:04:10 ↗ bridge between our K12 system and our

1:04:13 ↗ healthare system and what does that look

1:04:15 ↗ like in mean and uh then trying to um

1:04:20 ↗ besides I know Senator mullet talked

1:04:22 ↗ about reopening our schools Senator

1:04:24 ↗ Wellman also has this um as chair of the

1:04:27 ↗ uh education committee and the Senate

1:04:29 ↗ side is working this heavily but we're

1:04:30 ↗ deeply and for me deeply engaged in

1:04:33 ↗ conversations about not only reopening

1:04:35 ↗ which is absolutely necessary and the

1:04:37 ↗ sooner we can do it the better but also

1:04:40 ↗ the recovery it's going to be a

1:04:41 ↗ multi-year recovery for our youth um and

1:04:44 ↗ our families and our higher ed and it's

1:04:46 ↗ not as simple as just trying to put a

1:04:49 ↗ few more dollars in to try to work

1:04:50 ↗ through summer school everybody's

1:04:52 ↗ including our teachers and we have to

1:04:54 ↗ figure out how to P that and what does

1:04:56 ↗ that look like mean how do we measure

1:04:58 ↗ what we need to recover and it's both

1:05:00 ↗ academic and social emotional and then

1:05:02 ↗ of course we need to try to put a lot of

1:05:03 ↗ stuff in place our

1:05:05 ↗ seniors and our Juniors that are right

1:05:07 ↗ on the Crux of trying to make that

1:05:09 ↗ transition and partnering with higher

1:05:11 ↗ EDS so there's just um you know same

1:05:14 ↗ amount of uh tons of work that you all

1:05:16 ↗ have been doing every day and trying to

1:05:18 ↗ make a difference and making sure that

1:05:19 ↗ everybody has their basic needs met and

1:05:22 ↗ as well as including food and housing

1:05:24 ↗ right and um

1:05:26 ↗ access to Tele medicine Access to Health

1:05:28 ↗ Care access to broadband access to all

1:05:30 ↗ of these things that are really basic

1:05:31 ↗ needs and then how do we transition that

1:05:33 ↗ to make sure that we can recover and

1:05:35 ↗ whole so thanks for all of your energy

1:05:38 ↗ and efforts that you put in every day

1:05:40 ↗ thank you representative K so I'm going

1:05:42 ↗ to close this out uh just a couple of

1:05:45 ↗ final comments thank you for staying a

1:05:47 ↗ little late we're at 906 right now we're

1:05:49 ↗ trying to get you back to work at 9: um

1:05:52 ↗ but I think what Co has showed us in our

1:05:54 ↗ response to the pandemic is the areas

1:05:56 ↗ that we really need to work on the most

1:05:58 ↗ it's really put a um a spotlight on some

1:06:02 ↗ of the things that we were already

1:06:03 ↗ working on but showed us how important

1:06:04 ↗ they are we have some things that we

1:06:06 ↗ need to fix within the social Fabric and

1:06:08 ↗ I'm so appreciative of all the work

1:06:09 ↗ you're doing down in Olympia on those

1:06:11 ↗ important issues please during the

1:06:14 ↗ session uh we are here for you uh reach

1:06:16 ↗ out we have a fantastic team with um um

1:06:20 ↗ Brianna and Shelly and U would love to

1:06:24 ↗ coordinate any sort of help you need in

1:06:26 ↗ terms of testimony or support or um as

1:06:28 ↗ representative Ramos did if you need to

1:06:30 ↗ talk to the police chief please let's do

1:06:33 ↗ that the more we talk the the better it

1:06:35 ↗ gets so I want to thank you all for your

1:06:37 ↗ time today uh next year hopefully we

1:06:40 ↗ will be in 3D with real food to eat

1:06:44 ↗ which would be fun I want to thank the

1:06:46 ↗ council today um City bqu fortunate to

1:06:49 ↗ have a council that's very engaged not

1:06:51 ↗ only in City issues but also in Regional

1:06:53 ↗ issues they have a very large Regional

1:06:54 ↗ footprint and very active in tracking

1:06:57 ↗ all of the issues at the state level too

1:06:59 ↗ so thank you all have a great day uh

1:07:03 ↗ stay well and enjoy your favorite thing

1:07:05 ↗ about the holidays that you shared

1:07:07 ↗ earlier that was awesome see you later

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Council / Members (12)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Director

Tisha Gieser, Deputy City Clerk

Gene Paul, Management Analyst

Shelly Helder, Lobbyist

Briahna Murray, Lobbyist