City Council Special Meeting · Friday, July 30, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. AGENDA

Introduction Priorities Accomplishments Results: Areas of Emphasis Led by: Mayor Pauly

packet pp.3–50

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Staff report:

Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov

Public Comment

Adjustments to Strategic Plan Objectives Led by: Council President Hunt & Deputy Council President Reh

Adjustments to Strategic Plan Potential Actions (i.e. Citywide Workplan) actions Led by: Council President Hunt & Deputy Council President Reh

Next Steps Led by: Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator

Adjournment Supplemental Materials AGENDA a) Executive Office Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

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0:00 ↗ when we're looking at the strategic plan

0:02 ↗ a lot of it is about

0:04 ↗ the work plan and the things that the

0:06 ↗ city focuses on

0:08 ↗ but then we're also trying to prepare

0:10 ↗ for budget obviously there's a lot of

0:12 ↗ interplay between the two of those

0:14 ↗ but are you looking for our

0:18 ↗ adjustments to strategic plan are you

0:21 ↗ looking for our work plan priorities or

0:23 ↗ are you looking for

0:24 ↗ budget properties that's a great

0:27 ↗ question because they are all

0:28 ↗ interrelated

0:29 ↗ i think what we're hoping to do is the

0:31 ↗ main focus of this

0:32 ↗ is to really be the look at the

0:35 ↗ strategic plan

0:36 ↗ and its first ever update review

0:39 ↗ so i'm not sure that we will get through

0:42 ↗ everything that might show up in the

0:43 ↗ budget in the fall

0:44 ↗ but we definitely want to get through

0:46 ↗ the council's thoughts on the priorities

0:48 ↗ that are listed in the plan

0:50 ↗ and where you want to see emphasis where

0:52 ↗ you want to see more movement

0:54 ↗ so we're not going to be talking about

0:56 ↗ swimming programs today

0:58 ↗ or vehicle replacement programs or

1:01 ↗ anything like that

1:02 ↗ um we will probably use the similar

1:05 ↗ philosophy we had in the last few years

1:06 ↗ presenting the rest of the items but

1:08 ↗ today is really focused on this

1:09 ↗ contingent plan

1:10 ↗ right

1:19 ↗ um so thank you for that but one of the

1:22 ↗ things

1:23 ↗ when we put this plan together that was

1:24 ↗ really important to me is one

1:26 ↗ that the strategic plan drove budget

1:28 ↗ priorities and then

1:29 ↗ two recognize that as good of a job as

1:33 ↗ we did two years ago and put this

1:34 ↗ together the world changes pretty

1:36 ↗ fast and dramatically and so it needs to

1:38 ↗ be

1:39 ↗ table so i'm very excited that we're

1:41 ↗ doing this periodic refresh because

1:43 ↗ one of the things you want to know is

1:44 ↗ are there things that are on here that

1:45 ↗ are obsolete they've been overtaken by

1:47 ↗ events that we

1:48 ↗ probably shouldn't be focusing on more

1:50 ↗ or as importantly are there things

1:52 ↗ on in our plan that are things that are

1:55 ↗ not in our plan

1:56 ↗ that we need to put in a plan because

1:59 ↗ the world has changed

2:00 ↗ actually fairly dramatically in the last

2:03 ↗ two years

2:03 ↗ and then finally um and i think this is

2:06 ↗ the big time

2:16 ↗ and provide guidance to the

2:18 ↗ administration as they

2:20 ↗ come forward with the 2022 budget

2:21 ↗ replacement

2:23 ↗ that's good any other comments or

2:27 ↗ questions before we

2:28 ↗ sort of get into some individual

2:31 ↗ conversations

2:33 ↗ sure i have a question one of the things

2:35 ↗ i well i see the word metrics

2:38 ↗ up there behind me sorry unknown sorry

2:41 ↗ there's another slide

2:42 ↗ the term metrics is used once

2:45 ↗ but um or did we not for

2:48 ↗ every element of the strategic plan

2:52 ↗ we came up with a metric where is that

2:57 ↗ question so last year

3:00 ↗ good evening last year

3:03 ↗ we went through a series of performance

3:06 ↗ council i think had two or three

3:08 ↗ work sessions talking about that the

3:10 ↗ strategic plan had suggestions

3:12 ↗ it did not have a forward measures so we

3:15 ↗ went through an exercise last

3:17 ↗ fall kind of squared through that so we

3:20 ↗ have a document there's a link in the

3:21 ↗ packet

3:22 ↗ but this needs to be updated through

3:24 ↗ that document

3:25 ↗ and putting together the agenda

3:26 ↗ concealing if there are

3:28 ↗ issues that you wish to talk about as

3:30 ↗ far as those matters or additional

3:32 ↗ measures

3:33 ↗ things are identified it's at the end

3:36 ↗ for a reason

3:37 ↗ there's not time to see there's all the

3:39 ↗ opportunities

3:42 ↗ but i think we would like to have a

3:43 ↗ discussion

3:55 ↗ of the metrics right and you're saying

3:57 ↗ now is the publishing of the

4:00 ↗ results uh we've we've been doing that

4:02 ↗ we've given the council two separate

4:03 ↗ updates

4:04 ↗ since january so as we're looking now at

4:08 ↗ 22

4:09 ↗ are there changes you'd like to make if

4:11 ↗ there's time to see when you talk about

4:13 ↗ that great if not

4:14 ↗ we'll make time

4:18 ↗ any other comments or questions yeah

4:20 ↗ they're just another clarifying question

4:21 ↗ so is this now an opportunity

4:23 ↗ for us to kind of get high level remarks

4:28 ↗ about how we think implementation has

4:30 ↗ been strategic

4:31 ↗ and how the survey

4:34 ↗ informs updates or successes

4:37 ↗ in the strategic plan because i also

4:39 ↗ have thoughts on objectives and

4:41 ↗ potential actions but i see the agenda

4:43 ↗ i i think i think what council president

4:46 ↗ and i'm

4:46 ↗ reporting is that it's all of us so your

4:49 ↗ high level thoughts

4:51 ↗ and if you want to get into the

4:52 ↗ nitty-gritty and go through the rest of

4:54 ↗ yourself that's fine

4:55 ↗ what i want to make sure is that we are

4:59 ↗ doing an update we are providing

5:02 ↗ emphasis as deputy council president ray

5:05 ↗ said some things may have changed

5:07 ↗ but we don't have the public here

5:08 ↗ tonight so i just want to make sure that

5:10 ↗ what we're doing is staying within the

5:12 ↗ sense

5:12 ↗ of fan that we have and if we're to look

5:14 ↗ for something significant

5:16 ↗ uh and that could be at some point we

5:18 ↗ really need to have a different public

5:20 ↗ process

5:20 ↗ but for tonight this is everything that

5:22 ↗ you just said so you have

5:24 ↗ freedom to say thirty thousand thousand

5:27 ↗ all the way down to

5:28 ↗ there's a couple of particular

5:29 ↗ objectives and actually if you want

5:32 ↗ you can't just say which ones they are

5:34 ↗ that you wanna work on are reaction

5:35 ↗ steps and be more uh

5:38 ↗ explain it more when council president

5:40 ↗ deputy council president actually get to

5:41 ↗ those sections

5:44 ↗ that's up to you would you like to start

5:48 ↗ i'm happy to start yeah um so i have um

5:52 ↗ some general comments just on

5:53 ↗ implementation and then

5:55 ↗ um this actually works out perfectly

5:57 ↗ because the way that i've structured how

5:58 ↗ i looked at different objectives

6:00 ↗ potential action items that have either

6:02 ↗ come up while reviewing the community

6:04 ↗ survey

6:05 ↗ or kind of understanding the barriers

6:07 ↗ that um

6:08 ↗ to city services that happen during the

6:10 ↗ pandemic

6:12 ↗ avenues for us to explore with regards

6:15 ↗ to policy

6:17 ↗ i've kind of written down them with

6:19 ↗ regard to

6:20 ↗ questions they're more should we

6:21 ↗ consider these kinds of questions so i

6:23 ↗ think maybe what i'll do is just put

6:24 ↗ that all

6:25 ↗ out and throw it all up and make sure

6:27 ↗ it's recorded and then you can use that

6:30 ↗ thank you and thank you councilmember

6:32 ↗ inviting me

6:33 ↗ wally's trying to take it in

6:36 ↗ and keep track of stuff so that if there

6:38 ↗ are some questions embedded in places

6:40 ↗ we'll be able to

6:40 ↗ confess them okay perfect

6:43 ↗ so the first thought that i wanted to

6:45 ↗ share was just generally i think uh

6:48 ↗ outside of the pandemic i think that

6:51 ↗ implementation has gone quite well and

6:52 ↗ there are a number of successes

6:54 ↗ in the strategic plan to be really happy

6:56 ↗ about and we talked about that at a

6:58 ↗ previous city council meeting

7:00 ↗ um there are some lessons learned from

7:02 ↗ the 2021 community survey that i just

7:04 ↗ wanted to make sure are highlighted

7:06 ↗ um first and foremost i think we can all

7:09 ↗ agree that

7:10 ↗ one of the outcomes from the survey was

7:12 ↗ that we need to continue

7:14 ↗ how to continue focus on mobility um you

7:17 ↗ know we've already

7:18 ↗ been moving a lot in that space they see

7:19 ↗ you know one success we adopted the

7:21 ↗ mobility matching plan

7:23 ↗ one success we've done a very good job

7:27 ↗ advocating in the legislature for

7:29 ↗ improvements

7:31 ↗ um another success is i think a

7:33 ↗ continued investment in the payment

7:34 ↗ management plan which will certainly

7:36 ↗ have

7:36 ↗ a lot of benefits in years to come i

7:39 ↗ also see

7:40 ↗ some opportunities a couple that are

7:43 ↗ upcoming i mean the capital finance and

7:44 ↗ community task force is going to be a

7:46 ↗ huge one

7:46 ↗ and it is i believe outlined that's one

7:49 ↗ of the potential actions

7:50 ↗ um actually implementing the mobility

7:53 ↗ master plan

7:54 ↗ and then considering whether or not we

7:56 ↗ want to

7:58 ↗ put our time into advocacy

8:02 ↗ with regard to improvements to this

8:03 ↗ problem

8:06 ↗ the second takeaway that i have from the

8:08 ↗ feed survey that i wanted to share was

8:10 ↗ that well i'll just read it right from

8:14 ↗ it

8:14 ↗ you know israel residents would like to

8:16 ↗ see city leaders focus on the

8:17 ↗ preservation of natural areas such as

8:19 ↗ open space supplies

8:22 ↗ um i see an opportunity in this space to

8:24 ↗ potentially

8:26 ↗ um put a potential action in our plan

8:29 ↗ that focuses

8:30 ↗ less on just acquiring strategic

8:33 ↗ acquisition

8:34 ↗ of plans but also how we maintain those

8:36 ↗ plans and what is our goal 100 years

8:38 ↗ from now for how those

8:40 ↗ forested lands should look like so i see

8:42 ↗ potentially an

8:43 ↗ opportunity to work with dnr which now

8:46 ↗ has that new community and urban

8:47 ↗ forestry program to essentially allow

8:50 ↗ for

8:50 ↗ more technical support in urban forestry

8:54 ↗ best practices so that's just something

8:55 ↗ i'd like us to consider in the future

8:58 ↗ um and then i brought this up last time

9:00 ↗ too but

9:01 ↗ you know in the surveys that nearly 78

9:04 ↗ of survey respondents said they would

9:06 ↗ continue to work from home at least once

9:09 ↗ even after parenthood and of those

9:11 ↗ respondents

9:12 ↗ high-speed internet was listed as the

9:13 ↗ most critical amenity too

9:16 ↗ so i'll get a little bit more into that

9:17 ↗ i have a

9:19 ↗ suggestion that i would like to hear

9:20 ↗ some thoughts um certainly

9:22 ↗ not advocating that we do it right away

9:24 ↗ but something we might consider adding

9:26 ↗ to the brand or

9:27 ↗ future work done in the future so

9:30 ↗ i'll just quickly go through um

9:33 ↗ some thoughts on objectives based on the

9:36 ↗ pandemic the community survey

9:39 ↗ um and then also our equity work that

9:42 ↗ we've been doing deeply

9:43 ↗ in the last week so the first

9:47 ↗ for objectives i think about mobility

9:50 ↗ i think now that we've adopted the mass

9:52 ↗ mobility master plan

9:54 ↗ and committed ourselves to expanding you

9:56 ↗ know multi-mobile transportation

9:58 ↗ opportunities here in support should we

10:00 ↗ consider

10:02 ↗ adding a new objective a new broader

10:04 ↗ objective to focus

10:05 ↗ on those efforts that have to do with

10:07 ↗ multi-mobile transportation here

10:11 ↗ um second has to do with environmental

10:13 ↗ stewardship

10:15 ↗ and as the city begins its work on

10:17 ↗ developing a climate action plan

10:20 ↗ should we consider aligning an objective

10:22 ↗ with those clinicals are we satisfied

10:24 ↗ with how climate

10:25 ↗ currently sits in institutions um

10:29 ↗ we've got the potential actions um

10:32 ↗ the first one i already said is

10:33 ↗ providing mobility i think now that

10:35 ↗ we've adopted the

10:36 ↗ ability master plan that's great but now

10:38 ↗ we need to start thinking about what is

10:39 ↗ implementation gonna look like how long

10:41 ↗ is that gonna be

10:42 ↗ and um

10:48 ↗ environmental stewardship talked about

10:51 ↗ this already but you know

10:52 ↗ we have that objective to acquire

10:54 ↗ strategic lands so

10:55 ↗ how are we really ensuring that we're

10:58 ↗ preserving lands

11:00 ↗ with best practices or proven forestry

11:02 ↗ um

11:03 ↗ and thinking really really really long

11:04 ↗ term

11:07 ↗ um another one in environmental

11:09 ↗ stewardship um

11:11 ↗ was just i listened to a podcast a few

11:15 ↗ months ago

11:16 ↗ and read up on a few articles about it

11:18 ↗ and i'll admit i know very little about

11:19 ↗ it still but

11:21 ↗ um one of the things um that's part of

11:24 ↗ our climate goals

11:24 ↗ is how do we address our current carbon

11:27 ↗ footprint

11:28 ↗ so one question that i wanted to just

11:30 ↗ throw out there is should we start

11:32 ↗ considering

11:33 ↗ um as a city potentially purchasing

11:36 ↗ carbon offsets

11:37 ↗ in the market and how is that different

11:39 ↗ or how does that complement our

11:40 ↗ carbon

11:46 ↗ uh with regard to city leadership and

11:48 ↗ services

11:50 ↗ um should we consider adding the

11:52 ↗ adoption of

11:53 ↗ an equity framework for lens um as a

11:56 ↗ potential action and how else can we

11:58 ↗ align our current equity work in the

12:00 ↗ strategic plan

12:02 ↗ um and then the last one i swear um

12:06 ↗ when it came to internet you know one

12:08 ↗ thing i was thinking is you know during

12:09 ↗ the pandemic we've heard from a lot of

12:11 ↗ community members struggling

12:13 ↗ uh with a reliable internet connectivity

12:15 ↗ um

12:16 ↗ so should we consider potentially

12:19 ↗ a potential action uh to consolidate the

12:22 ↗ data that we have now from neighborhoods

12:24 ↗ that have said we have

12:25 ↗ important internet quality and it's

12:28 ↗ really difficult to work from home here

12:30 ↗ and in addition to that um develop a

12:33 ↗ neighborhood

12:34 ↗ internet connectivity survey to help

12:37 ↗ better understand which neighborhoods

12:39 ↗ are having trouble with regard to

12:40 ↗ internet connectivity

12:41 ↗ um to have a more fruitful conversation

12:44 ↗ with internet providers in the future i

12:45 ↗ see that as one potential path

12:48 ↗ um for accommodating those

12:51 ↗ nearly 78 percent of people who are

12:53 ↗ going to continue

12:57 ↗ those were my initial thoughts

13:00 ↗ uh would you like to go would you like

13:03 ↗ me to

13:03 ↗ pick a volunteer

13:08 ↗ um so i think

13:12 ↗ broadly the community survey

13:16 ↗ said that people do feel this is a great

13:19 ↗ place to live

13:20 ↗ and i think that's an assessment to the

13:22 ↗ fact that we are

13:23 ↗ making progress in the strategic plan um

13:26 ↗ despite all the challenges of the

13:27 ↗ endeavor because everything was done

13:29 ↗ during a pandemic

13:31 ↗ i thought affect the overall results but

13:35 ↗ it seems that despite that people

13:37 ↗ um still overall thought it's a great

13:40 ↗ place to live and i agree with that so i

13:42 ↗ think overall we're

13:43 ↗ providing services that people

13:47 ↗ in terms of how we're providing services

13:48 ↗ i think we're doing

13:50 ↗ doing well i think we also pivoted very

13:53 ↗ quickly during the pandemic to provide

13:55 ↗ services in ways that are um valued

13:58 ↗ so i think that um

14:08 ↗ okay um

14:12 ↗ so one thing that i

14:29 ↗ about while um the strategy plan is that

14:31 ↗ it's really

14:32 ↗ forward-looking in a lot of places for

14:35 ↗ example in mobility it talks a lot about

14:37 ↗ planning for light rail

14:39 ↗ and working on getting new transit and i

14:42 ↗ think we

14:42 ↗ may want to adjust to make sure we're

14:45 ↗ also looking at

14:46 ↗ recovery of transit because we're

14:48 ↗ actually losing

14:49 ↗ uh you know likely losing we're

14:52 ↗ potentially using

14:53 ↗ more of our transit options in the near

14:55 ↗ term and

14:56 ↗ um and there's a big concern around that

14:58 ↗ so i think

14:59 ↗ the emphasis at that point because since

15:02 ↗ then we've been overtaken by

15:03 ↗ events

15:08 ↗ i think we've taken a step backwards

15:11 ↗ unexpectedly in some of these areas so i

15:13 ↗ think just

15:14 ↗ making sure that we have the emphasis on

15:16 ↗ recovery

15:17 ↗ would be good so i have some adjustments

15:20 ↗ for that

15:22 ↗ similarly i think that

15:26 ↗ there has been over the last uh over the

15:29 ↗ pandemic there's been

15:31 ↗ a lot more um

15:34 ↗ clarity around what sort of services

15:37 ↗ people need in

15:38 ↗ emergency and there isn't actually a lot

15:41 ↗ of

15:43 ↗ there isn't a lot of that in the

15:45 ↗ strategic plan but since we

15:47 ↗ were able to put in pandemic and since

15:50 ↗ we

15:51 ↗ have since then had very high heat for

15:54 ↗ example i thought we might want to have

15:58 ↗ an area of the plan where we addressed

16:01 ↗ that

16:02 ↗ as well and

16:05 ↗ then two other areas where i thought we

16:06 ↗ could add

16:08 ↗ emphasis or on um

16:13 ↗ i i similar to council member hall uh

16:16 ↗ i think they're from the community

16:18 ↗ survey and just from living here people

16:20 ↗ are very enthusiastic about our open

16:21 ↗ spaces it is in the strategic plan

16:23 ↗ already

16:24 ↗ but it isn't really um first of all we

16:28 ↗ haven't made

16:28 ↗ as much progress in that area as as

16:32 ↗ i think we all probably would have liked

16:35 ↗ and again it has to do with pandemic and

16:37 ↗ lots of other things happening but

16:38 ↗ i think prioritizing that for the second

16:41 ↗ half of the strategic plan we might

16:42 ↗ actually

16:43 ↗ make that progress and then i think um

16:46 ↗ including climate change in that section

16:49 ↗ and so i have some

16:50 ↗ specific proposals for how we might do

16:51 ↗ that but over the last couple years and

16:53 ↗ also in the community survey

16:55 ↗ there's a growing awareness of climate

16:58 ↗ change and the fact that it's

16:59 ↗ actually affecting um

17:03 ↗ affecting the community already

17:04 ↗ including in the heatwaves that we've

17:06 ↗ seen

17:06 ↗ which wouldn't have happened without

17:08 ↗ climate change so

17:10 ↗ i think uh including that in the

17:12 ↗ environmental section is another area

17:13 ↗ that would

17:14 ↗ consider as a council and then

17:16 ↗ prioritizing that

17:18 ↗ area and

17:22 ↗ um lastly

17:28 ↗ lastly under city leadership and

17:30 ↗ services over the last

17:32 ↗ year plus we've done a lot of work on um

17:35 ↗ making sure that people feel safe and

17:38 ↗ disappointed a lot of conversations

17:39 ↗ about what that means how that might be

17:41 ↗ different for different populations

17:43 ↗ and how different groups might

17:46 ↗ see that differently so i think um

17:48 ↗ adding some

17:49 ↗ of that uh emphasis as well

17:52 ↗ including um i have some specific

17:54 ↗ actions but things like expanding

17:56 ↗ support services

17:57 ↗ such as the homelessness average

17:58 ↗ coordinator

18:00 ↗ that we have now so that's those are my

18:04 ↗ areas of

18:06 ↗ where i think we could prioritize

18:08 ↗ differently and make

18:10 ↗ progress i did want to mention that on

18:11 ↗ the website there's a really nice

18:13 ↗ graphic of

18:14 ↗ the action accomplishments that i really

18:17 ↗ liked um and so i think we animate a lot

18:19 ↗ of progress and favorite

18:21 ↗ emphasis for this um in terms of things

18:24 ↗ so that you know it's kind of a lot of

18:26 ↗ things to add essentially in terms of

18:28 ↗ things to

18:29 ↗ reduce emphasis on from the survey

18:32 ↗ people

18:33 ↗ get their information from the website

18:35 ↗ so emphasizing

18:36 ↗ getting information to people where they

18:38 ↗ are on the website social media

18:41 ↗ and reducing the emphasis on cable where

18:44 ↗ very few people are getting information

18:47 ↗ from and likely will continue

18:49 ↗ some source of information those are my

18:52 ↗ areas of

18:53 ↗ emphasis and overall perspective

19:01 ↗ because i know your schedule is whatever

19:03 ↗ it is but feel free

19:06 ↗ to jump in just let me know i'm looking

19:08 ↗ around the room

19:09 ↗ uh let's go with councilman council

19:12 ↗ president

19:14 ↗ thank you um well i think that one of

19:17 ↗ the things

19:17 ↗ that if not today we should do and i

19:21 ↗ think that somebody else suggested this

19:23 ↗ earlier is i think we need to foursquare

19:25 ↗ this

19:25 ↗ on importance to the community and

19:28 ↗ satisfaction level

19:29 ↗ we need to target the things prior to

19:32 ↗ of course the highest is things that are

19:34 ↗ important that people are dissatisfied

19:36 ↗ with

19:37 ↗ and then it's perhaps things that are

19:39 ↗ less important but also dissatisfied

19:41 ↗ than the things that people are think

19:44 ↗ are important and satisfied

19:46 ↗ or well after the third and fourth but

19:49 ↗ uh you know i'm gonna attempt to talk a

19:52 ↗ little bit

19:52 ↗ to that um from what i see in the

19:55 ↗ metrics

19:56 ↗ that we have and what we've heard in the

19:58 ↗ community survey

20:00 ↗ uh we all know traffic um

20:03 ↗ i'm confident that many people speak to

20:05 ↗ it um

20:06 ↗ the some of the things that were perhaps

20:08 ↗ a little surprising

20:10 ↗ um our housing supply actually dropped

20:13 ↗ uh which is wild um i don't think

20:17 ↗ anybody anticipated that

20:19 ↗ um the economic environment was really

20:22 ↗ interesting because the rating of

20:24 ↗ economic

20:25 ↗ development uh environment

20:28 ↗ has been down consistently multi-year as

20:31 ↗ has economic and social vitality

20:33 ↗ satisfaction

20:35 ↗ which is which i think is really

20:37 ↗ interesting it points to a need

20:39 ↗ for some emphasis perhaps more

20:42 ↗ than we have had in previous years the

20:45 ↗ one that the one that's kind of funky is

20:47 ↗ public

20:48 ↗ safety because as i looked at the data i

20:50 ↗ tried to not just say

20:52 ↗ well this last year is hard to you know

20:54 ↗ it's an outlier

20:55 ↗ year right but i think there's also a

20:57 ↗ perception that public safety

20:59 ↗ may have changed in the last year and a

21:02 ↗ half as well that

21:03 ↗ a change in numerical story isn't just a

21:05 ↗ function

21:06 ↗ of uh the unprecedented year that we've

21:09 ↗ had but but really

21:10 ↗ it indicated some longer-term trends so

21:14 ↗ um i don't know what to do with those

21:16 ↗ four pieces but

21:17 ↗ i i think they're the ones that if we

21:19 ↗ did if we had our four square up i think

21:20 ↗ we would see housing traffic

21:22 ↗ economic environment and public safety

21:25 ↗ is the poor that need

21:26 ↗ additional attention i think um i i

21:30 ↗ hear a lot about the environment and of

21:31 ↗ course the environment is very important

21:33 ↗ but the data says both

21:36 ↗ uh quantitatively and qualitatively that

21:38 ↗ we're doing a pretty good job

21:40 ↗ which is good because we invest a lot of

21:42 ↗ money so

21:44 ↗ i don't know what to do about those

21:45 ↗ other those those four areas but i

21:47 ↗ i do want to call it out as i think we

21:49 ↗ can say that um

21:51 ↗ both from what we've heard from the

21:53 ↗ community community and

21:55 ↗ equally important the actual empirical

21:57 ↗ evidence these are areas that need

21:58 ↗ attention

21:59 ↗ um in the coming couple of years and i'd

22:01 ↗ like us to talk more about them as we

22:04 ↗ as we build towards the budget this year

22:06 ↗ so councilman remarks thank you for that

22:08 ↗ because we are collecting everybody's

22:10 ↗ ideas right

22:12 ↗ goes through our prior prioritization

22:15 ↗ and we may only have four things to talk

22:17 ↗ about tonight unless you're willing to

22:19 ↗ stay through the night

22:22 ↗ so everybody get everything out on the

22:24 ↗ table and then we'd like to pull it all

22:25 ↗ back together and present you

22:27 ↗ back what we've heard and have you

22:28 ↗ picked what you can talk about in a

22:31 ↗ reasonable amount of time

22:33 ↗ did you have anything else there that's

22:35 ↗ it okay deputy council president ray

22:38 ↗ we are paulie

22:45 ↗ um there is so much good information

22:49 ↗ in the community survey and this is not

22:51 ↗ the first one i've been part of this is

22:53 ↗ the best one i've seen so

22:55 ↗ that was just a treasure trove of

22:57 ↗ information to help inform

22:59 ↗ this conversation and i thought that it

23:01 ↗ really provided an excellent perspective

23:03 ↗ on

23:04 ↗ the community's point of view the

23:05 ↗ ability to slice and dice it by the very

23:07 ↗ second

23:08 ↗ um socioeconomic and demographic

23:11 ↗ factors was was really interesting and

23:14 ↗ you can bury yourself

23:15 ↗ there were two things that clearly

23:17 ↗ leaked off the page

23:19 ↗ in terms of what the community wants us

23:21 ↗ to focus on that's mobility

23:22 ↗ i read that as interested in mobility

23:24 ↗ how do i get around town

23:26 ↗ i read that as interested in transit we

23:29 ↗ there's a huge area of emphasis and then

23:32 ↗ into regional transit is this is where

23:35 ↗ we're not where we were

23:36 ↗ two years ago we've lost ground in that

23:39 ↗ area for sure

23:40 ↗ the second area that i think we need to

23:43 ↗ talk about

23:44 ↗ and figure out how to deliver on is

23:46 ↗ driving

23:47 ↗ driving is probably the wrong word since

23:49 ↗ i just talked about mobility um

23:50 ↗ achieving our city's

23:52 ↗ uh vision of what we look like and how

23:54 ↗ we build out and where we go about and

23:56 ↗ what the built

23:57 ↗ community is going to look like and how

23:59 ↗ do we steer i'm really into mobility

24:01 ↗ are we not um i don't know how many

24:05 ↗ excuses how do we steer clear of our

24:06 ↗ wood bill sites because

24:07 ↗ what i got thinking about as i looked at

24:09 ↗ our five uh strategic rules is they

24:11 ↗ really do overlap a lot in a number of

24:13 ↗ areas so

24:14 ↗ you know our built environment and uh uh

24:17 ↗ environmental stewardship are just two

24:19 ↗ sides at the same point so how do we

24:21 ↗ we look at that and build smartly

24:24 ↗ supporting both

24:25 ↗ investment and building smartly and our

24:27 ↗ mobility is around investing in our

24:29 ↗ infrastructure

24:30 ↗ and so it's how do we support our

24:33 ↗ mobility initiatives

24:34 ↗ but also i'm just going to rip on

24:36 ↗ council member paul

24:38 ↗ and how do we start to provide or look

24:40 ↗ for ways that we can provide

24:42 ↗ better access to broadband

24:44 ↗ communications because that is the

24:45 ↗ economic issue of the future

24:47 ↗ i think we proved that in the last year

24:50 ↗ um customer remarks that public safety

24:53 ↗ is

24:54 ↗ a huge issue being a safe community

24:57 ↗ i feel like people are not feeling as

25:00 ↗ safe as they did a year ago

25:03 ↗ to the council president hunt i mean we

25:05 ↗ think we need to rethink what community

25:06 ↗ engagement looks like um

25:08 ↗ as much as we think everybody is tuned

25:10 ↗ into channel 21 the ratings aren't what

25:12 ↗ they used to do

25:13 ↗ and so um we need to meet people where

25:16 ↗ they are not where we are

25:17 ↗ and especially there's some interesting

25:19 ↗ opportunities there and then this is

25:21 ↗ more of an aspirational thing or a

25:22 ↗ challenge thing is how do we bounce

25:24 ↗ forward from the pandemic how do we come

25:26 ↗ back stronger than we went in

25:28 ↗ what did we learn and then from the city

25:30 ↗ how do we apply the lessons we learned

25:31 ↗ from this dynamic

25:32 ↗ so that we we grow and we become a more

25:36 ↗ vibrant organization

25:39 ↗ thank you i'm just going to check back

25:42 ↗ in with council member goodman would you

25:44 ↗ like to chime in now or i'll be maybe to

25:47 ↗ catch a member

25:50 ↗ um i i only have one

25:55 ↗ observation about it that i want to make

25:57 ↗ about the community survey and

26:00 ↗ i think that my fellow council members

26:02 ↗ have made some comments about

26:04 ↗ um some things that have changed a

26:07 ↗ little bit in

26:09 ↗ focus for people such as um

26:12 ↗ you know access to the internet but i

26:14 ↗ think one of the things that surprised

26:15 ↗ me in the community survey

26:17 ↗ is that in all the years i've been on

26:19 ↗ the ground level

26:20 ↗ and it's been 25 i did not see

26:25 ↗ although i think that some of us

26:27 ↗ expected it

26:28 ↗ i did not see any dramatic changes

26:32 ↗ in the priorities and the top priorities

26:36 ↗ by the members of our community who can

26:38 ↗ who contribute to that survey

26:40 ↗ um so that's just one piece that i

26:42 ↗ wanted to

26:44 ↗ add thanks thank you councilmember

26:47 ↗ goodman

26:48 ↗ council member

27:10 ↗ my top priority absolutely is strength

27:12 ↗ and recovery and it's the exact same

27:15 ↗ thing

27:16 ↗ and that is a response to both what's

27:20 ↗ happened

27:20 ↗ this last year with the loss we had in

27:23 ↗ transit

27:24 ↗ um but also again the survey results

27:27 ↗ that showed that uh

27:28 ↗ our community is really concerned about

27:30 ↗ getting that can better

27:32 ↗ so uh in in addition to transit recovery

27:37 ↗ uh i would really like to see us expand

27:40 ↗ the um initiative we have with

27:43 ↗ squat fountain and palace shuttles and i

27:47 ↗ would like to see that

27:48 ↗ folded into uh we already have a

27:53 ↗ strategy of developing a city-wide

27:56 ↗ transit

27:57 ↗ plan um i think that should include

28:00 ↗ a first mile last mile type of analysis

28:03 ↗ and seeing where we can go with that

28:06 ↗ i think there are a lot of other things

28:08 ↗ i was in the climate change

28:10 ↗ to reading last night and we were able

28:12 ↗ to talk about transit for an hour and a

28:14 ↗ half

28:15 ↗ so there are a lot of things that we can

28:18 ↗ do like mobility is definitely

28:20 ↗ the top priority and i think there are a

28:22 ↗ number of things that we could be

28:24 ↗ undertaking

28:27 ↗ my second area and this is very specific

28:30 ↗ but

28:31 ↗ just general i really want to see us

28:34 ↗ get that transit oriented development

28:37 ↗ opportunity center project across the

28:40 ↗ line

28:40 ↗ and honestly um construction

28:44 ↗ so that fits in with the affordable

28:45 ↗ housing part of our

28:47 ↗ uh strategic plan and uh i i

28:51 ↗ you know i just want that to happen

28:55 ↗ uh in the area of human services my

28:58 ↗ secretary of priority is

29:00 ↗ uh first of all commend everyone

29:04 ↗ here for the unprecedented

29:07 ↗ expansion of our human services foreign

29:11 ↗ really wonderful work in response to the

29:13 ↗ pandemics

29:14 ↗ so my area focus for student services

29:18 ↗ is i'd like to see how we can further

29:21 ↗ stabilize

29:22 ↗ our human services funding um uh

29:25 ↗ historically human services has been a

29:29 ↗ uh up and down and in response to

29:32 ↗ recessions

29:33 ↗ and response to crises like we had last

29:35 ↗ year

29:36 ↗ at the same time that a crisis is

29:38 ↗ occurring that's when

29:40 ↗ funding for social services goes down

29:44 ↗ and so i have some ideas about how we

29:47 ↗ can stabilize that funding and

29:50 ↗ stabilize the response that we have

29:53 ↗ during crisis for our human services

29:55 ↗ and i think that would be a huge step

29:58 ↗ forward for

29:59 ↗ uh what is what i think has been

30:02 ↗ an amazing response um that we completed

30:05 ↗ this past year

30:07 ↗ and then finally in the area of

30:08 ↗ community engagement um

30:11 ↗ just want to throw out the community

30:14 ↗ engagement

30:15 ↗ equity i would say been a

30:18 ↗ subsidies association meeting this past

30:21 ↗ week

30:22 ↗ where they were talking about different

30:24 ↗ civic education

30:26 ↗ projects that have been undertaken in by

30:28 ↗ city development most notably

30:31 ↗ and i would like to just put that in the

30:34 ↗ mix

30:35 ↗ as something else that we can do um

30:38 ↗ buildings use it as an equity issue

30:40 ↗ because we are training a lot of people

30:43 ↗ ready

30:48 ↗ um

30:54 ↗ we've got a good strategic plan that

30:57 ↗ should be tweaked

30:58 ↗ and i think we'll just be right on

31:01 ↗ america

31:03 ↗ thank you councilmember to yourself i

31:06 ↗ will bring

31:06 ↗ us in for the clues

31:10 ↗ so i think the the good news from my

31:13 ↗ perspective

31:14 ↗ is that the strategic plan holds up it's

31:17 ↗ a multi-year

31:18 ↗ plan and despite going through a

31:21 ↗ chaotic and unprecedented to use that

31:24 ↗ lovely word

31:25 ↗ so much here uh i think

31:29 ↗ many of the things on it are still our

31:31 ↗ community priorities

31:33 ↗ and we certainly saw through the survey

31:36 ↗ that flow of traffic and congestion

31:39 ↗ management on historic streets and land

31:41 ↗ use planning and zoning were

31:44 ↗ number one and number two priorities as

31:46 ↗ far as opportunities for improvement

31:48 ↗ where we use

31:48 ↗ higher emphasis because there's lower

31:51 ↗ satisfaction

31:52 ↗ i think those are key areas within

31:55 ↗ um our strategic plan and so continuing

31:58 ↗ on those paths

32:00 ↗ and prioritizing them is essential

32:03 ↗ toward that idea title 18

32:06 ↗ title 18 title 18 because title 18

32:10 ↗ crosses the boundaries between

32:14 ↗ mobility um land use

32:17 ↗ planning growth and development

32:20 ↗ infrastructure

32:21 ↗ environmental stewardship all of it

32:24 ↗ and so i want to make sure that's

32:28 ↗ huge and important in our work plan

32:31 ↗ but i think it's already represented in

32:34 ↗ the strategic plan so i don't think

32:35 ↗ there needs to be tweets there

32:38 ↗ um i think the

32:41 ↗ the two areas if i was going to make

32:44 ↗ tweaks to the strategic plan would be

32:47 ↗ an additional emphasis on public safety

32:50 ↗ what that means for our community ways

32:53 ↗ that

32:54 ↗ we can push that forward um

32:58 ↗ and use what we have learned as a

33:00 ↗ society

33:02 ↗ and to

33:05 ↗ move that part to make changes that

33:08 ↗ our community supports so maybe

33:12 ↗ adding an emphasis is there and then

33:14 ↗ human services is certainly

33:16 ↗ in the plan but i think we've certainly

33:20 ↗ seen

33:20 ↗ over the last few years how essential

33:22 ↗ and important that is

33:24 ↗ and i'm not sure i see

33:28 ↗ as much of an emphasis

33:31 ↗ as i'd like to on both

33:34 ↗ services and political outreach um

33:38 ↗ so i think if i was going to make tweaks

33:40 ↗ to the plan those would be the two areas

33:42 ↗ that i would want

33:44 ↗ to either adjust objectives or actions

33:48 ↗ um to support that but generally i think

33:50 ↗ the strategic plan

33:52 ↗ holds up and using the information from

33:56 ↗ the community survey we can absolutely

33:58 ↗ prioritize within that plan and the

34:02 ↗ things that we're going to be able to

34:03 ↗ accomplish this next year that was great

34:06 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh but thank

34:08 ↗ you everyone that's a really great list

34:09 ↗ to be working from and it's nice to have

34:11 ↗ such a wide range of opinions from

34:14 ↗ everybody

34:15 ↗ um the next part unless anybody would

34:18 ↗ like

34:18 ↗ to ask questions of each other if you've

34:21 ↗ heard something that somebody said if

34:23 ↗ you weren't quite sure what it meant

34:24 ↗ feel free to just ask before i move on i

34:28 ↗ want to make sure

34:29 ↗ there's no unfinished conversation

34:32 ↗ i

34:44 ↗ uh yeah sure

34:50 ↗ um well i see it this way one of our

34:53 ↗ one of the tools that we have in our

34:55 ↗ toolkit with regard to alleviating

34:57 ↗ downtown traffic has always been

35:00 ↗ advocating for improvements to

35:01 ↗ stakeholder teams so people are going

35:03 ↗ down

35:03 ↗ there instead they feel safe going

35:05 ↗ definitely

35:08 ↗ um that's one of the tools in the

35:11 ↗ toolkit another one i see

35:12 ↗ is baseball hard road is

35:16 ↗ a county road and it's a very difficult

35:19 ↗ road to be on when there's a lot of

35:21 ↗ traffic

35:21 ↗ there's one lane there's not a lot of

35:24 ↗ creative creativity when it comes to

35:26 ↗ roundabouts or anything like that there

35:27 ↗ are any best practices when it comes to

35:30 ↗ you know 21st century transportation by

35:32 ↗ car um so i think

35:34 ↗ maybe it might be worth uh engagement

35:36 ↗ with our

35:37 ↗ county council members with county

35:39 ↗ council about how are we approaching

35:40 ↗ that road and where is it on your

35:42 ↗ priority list and how can we get it to

35:44 ↗ be

35:44 ↗ higher okay

35:48 ↗ how about anything else that anybody

35:50 ↗ heard from where the council members

35:52 ↗ were you might feel like you'd like a

35:53 ↗ little more information because we will

35:54 ↗ get a chance when we get into

35:57 ↗ council presidential president's section

35:59 ↗ to really give you more but anything

36:01 ↗ right now

36:04 ↗ that's not forgiving anything

36:09 ↗ no thanks it's so funny looking at that

36:12 ↗ owl and talking to yourself

36:15 ↗ okay so i think we will move into the

36:18 ↗ next part of it

36:19 ↗ tonight which is um mayor's

36:24 ↗ budget

36:27 ↗ so i have been spending a lot of time

36:29 ↗ this year

36:30 ↗ and we could finally breathe after the

36:32 ↗ covered response was trying to settle

36:34 ↗ down

36:34 ↗ um even before the community survey came

36:36 ↗ out thinking about

36:39 ↗ priorities that i hope that we can

36:40 ↗ incorporate because they're supported by

36:43 ↗ the community serving

36:44 ↗ in our next budget cycle so i

36:48 ↗ started with transit transportation

36:50 ↗ mobility issues

36:58 ↗ i am concerned that while we have a

37:01 ↗ central issaquah plan

37:03 ↗ we haven't really figured out what

37:05 ↗ success looks like

37:06 ↗ how are we going to do it and it really

37:08 ↗ is the place where we're going to house

37:10 ↗ the majority of our work and our new

37:11 ↗ housing types and so

37:13 ↗ i want to make sure that we are doing

37:15 ↗ things that move me along making sure

37:18 ↗ that that is the part of town that is

37:20 ↗ transforming and it transformed in a way

37:22 ↗ that

37:23 ↗ council president reyes said before

37:25 ↗ meaning that it has all the amenities

37:26 ↗ that the town should have

37:27 ↗ not just all houses but all the

37:29 ↗ amenities and services that the town

37:31 ↗ needs to have

37:32 ↗ um i'm really excited i feel

37:35 ↗ this group and administration have done

37:38 ↗ a lot of work to glue to a better focus

37:41 ↗ on environmental planning

37:43 ↗ have reported the environmental board uh

37:46 ↗ we are going to be

37:47 ↗ filling out one of our physicians that's

37:48 ↗ going to continue to be vacant to

37:50 ↗ work in a climate action plan and i

37:52 ↗ really think that's super important in

37:53 ↗ that whole land use component

37:55 ↗ housing thank you councilman richie

37:57 ↗ michelle today

37:59 ↗ for me that's going to be a let's pop

38:01 ↗ the champagne park tonight and

38:02 ↗ go is done seven years in the work

38:05 ↗ but we also have to talk about other

38:08 ↗ housing

38:09 ↗ strategies that we want to use for

38:11 ↗ preservation

38:12 ↗ and that we want to use that our new

38:14 ↗ styles of housing that that support

38:16 ↗ doesn't have right

38:20 ↗ and see what they've been doing because

38:22 ↗ we're not going to be building single

38:24 ↗ family problems

38:25 ↗ and code revisions i cannot echo enough

38:27 ↗ council members

38:28 ↗ i'm 18 i might take that has got to get

38:33 ↗ done

38:34 ↗ and get done not just as an exercise

38:37 ↗ but with the view to accomplishing the

38:39 ↗ goals that we have in this plan

38:41 ↗ super important meeting neighborhood

38:43 ↗ engagement

38:44 ↗ we have been experimenting and

38:46 ↗ highlighting a bunch of things but we

38:48 ↗ still

38:48 ↗ haven't got the golden rule yet of how

38:50 ↗ we're going to do all this but i am very

38:52 ↗ open into

38:53 ↗ ideas about how we can get more

38:56 ↗ engagement within the community

38:57 ↗ things such as potentially council

38:59 ↗ council meetings

39:01 ↗ elsewhere not necessarily in a castle

39:03 ↗ chamber but in a public place where

39:05 ↗ people

39:05 ↗ can where the people are and who can be

39:08 ↗ so

39:09 ↗ um i think that's just an ongoing

39:10 ↗ evolution there um

39:17 ↗ so i have another four on my list and

39:19 ↗ obviously police and human services

39:22 ↗ may have been not talked about very much

39:24 ↗ three years ago but

39:25 ↗ the seven council president ray said

39:27 ↗ it's a different world

39:28 ↗ and so i'm very proud of all the work

39:30 ↗ that the administration the council has

39:32 ↗ done

39:33 ↗ on the police accountability and equity

39:34 ↗ and human services

39:36 ↗ but i'm thinking that as we move forward

39:38 ↗ um

39:39 ↗ i'm just going to say this on the record

39:42 ↗ my plan

39:43 ↗ ability has caused a lot of concern

39:46 ↗ with community members and with police

39:49 ↗ in general

39:49 ↗ and i'm looking to make to maybe

39:53 ↗ choose new words because i believe our

39:55 ↗ goal here is transparency in policing

39:58 ↗ that we need to tell you what we're

40:01 ↗ doing we need to inform you we need to

40:03 ↗ provide you with information we need to

40:05 ↗ we need to do all of that and so i'm

40:07 ↗ thinking in my head i might be proposing

40:09 ↗ some changes

40:10 ↗ and then also working on the equity and

40:13 ↗ human services piece

40:14 ↗ but um that is something that the faults

40:16 ↗ in the system were clearly outlined

40:18 ↗ during coven and the social unrest and

40:21 ↗ everything that followed

40:22 ↗ so definitely something new definitely

40:25 ↗ something very high up on the list

40:27 ↗ uh quality of life um we get good marks

40:30 ↗ for this

40:31 ↗ um on the survey for sure but i

40:35 ↗ am really proud that we have put some

40:37 ↗ more investments into our

40:39 ↗ parks and our open spaces and i just

40:41 ↗ want to make sure we maintain that this

40:42 ↗ is a great place to live

40:44 ↗ and i want to be able to afford

40:46 ↗ everything that

40:47 ↗ we have built or developers have built

40:50 ↗ and given to us

40:51 ↗ i want to make sure we maintain that

40:52 ↗ standard within the community

40:54 ↗ diversity equity inclusion so much work

40:57 ↗ this year

40:58 ↗ both at the administration level the

40:59 ↗ council level and the community level

41:02 ↗ our conversations good conversations

41:05 ↗ i think in the last three or four years

41:08 ↗ we've had to take

41:09 ↗ part in the mirror and most people are

41:11 ↗ not very happy with what they see

41:13 ↗ we have a lot of work to do but that's

41:15 ↗ where uh

41:16 ↗ i'm glad we started but we have a lot

41:18 ↗ more to do definitely on our priorities

41:20 ↗ and then data it's always been important

41:22 ↗ to me with the plan and just in general

41:25 ↗ and governing that we'd be able to

41:26 ↗ measure if we're getting the outcomes

41:28 ↗ that we're planning for

41:29 ↗ so um i'm glad we have some performance

41:31 ↗ measures

41:33 ↗ um and then we're building those into

41:36 ↗ our budget but i feel like there are

41:38 ↗ even you know some more metrics of data

41:40 ↗ that we might want to talk about

41:42 ↗ i mean i get the best um response

41:45 ↗ out in the community when i can talk

41:47 ↗ numbers when i can talk

41:49 ↗ you know hours trees all about

41:53 ↗ and so we really like to talk to data

41:55 ↗ but i'm talking to a lot of

41:57 ↗ analysts and engineers all around us but

42:00 ↗ being able to show our good work for

42:02 ↗ sure

42:04 ↗ so those were the seven priority areas

42:06 ↗ that i had outlined for this year

42:09 ↗ any questions and council remember

42:12 ↗ goodman any questions

42:15 ↗ no

42:18 ↗ anyone else any questions or

42:20 ↗ clarifications before we move on to the

42:22 ↗ next section

42:23 ↗ then we can put back the slide if you

42:25 ↗ want to see

42:26 ↗ but i have seven priority areas

42:40 ↗ so i if you go back to the slide one

42:44 ↗ um what i put on slide one is

42:47 ↗ really where i think my focus is based

42:49 ↗ on the community survey but again

42:51 ↗ we're a full-service city and i believe

42:54 ↗ that

42:55 ↗ those are my top three priorities but

42:57 ↗ there are other areas of priority that i

42:59 ↗ saw

43:02 ↗ so yes they are not necessarily one two

43:04 ↗ three

43:05 ↗ they are good they would be

43:08 ↗ you want to flip it to the second side

43:18 ↗ okay the next part

43:21 ↗ of our agenda this evening i'm actually

43:23 ↗ going to pass over to the city

43:25 ↗ administrator

43:26 ↗ it's going to be an overview of

43:28 ↗ strategic plan accomplishments

43:30 ↗ and an overview of the community survey

43:33 ↗ themselves

43:35 ↗ thank you very much many of you have

43:38 ↗ covered this

43:39 ↗ so i think it's just the interest of

43:40 ↗ fine i just want to briefly go through

43:42 ↗ this if there's any questions

43:44 ↗ um you're all familiar

43:48 ↗ with the goal areas mobility growth

43:50 ↗ development environment stewardship

43:52 ↗ social and economic facilities here with

43:54 ↗ city leadership and services

43:55 ↗ and infrastructure science going through

43:59 ↗ each of those

44:01 ↗ mobility party advice talked about

44:03 ↗ exciting

44:06 ↗ covers a lot of those issues already

44:09 ↗ next slide broker development

44:12 ↗ next slide

44:16 ↗ all of that the housing strategy work

44:18 ↗ plan is embedded in the action plan

44:21 ↗ for that we've talked about we obviously

44:23 ↗ are working on podoc

44:32 ↗ stewardship um pretty much i think we've

44:36 ↗ talked about

44:37 ↗ uh all the things the final action plan

44:39 ↗ there's obviously

44:40 ↗ work going on this summer on that so

44:46 ↗ social economicality

44:50 ↗ human services strategic plan again as

44:53 ↗ many of you have mentioned we were kind

44:54 ↗ of going down a path with human services

44:57 ↗ and everything's changed so

45:01 ↗ proud to the leadership that basically

45:03 ↗ said let's not continue the planning

45:04 ↗ process that didn't make sense

45:06 ↗ given the changes that we had so we've

45:09 ↗ been

45:09 ↗ trying to pivot a little bit more and

45:11 ↗ with the addition of

45:12 ↗ some key staff members this year um

45:29 ↗ good infrastructure

45:34 ↗ leadership and services

45:40 ↗ we talked about all those things

45:58 ↗ um and somehow we're surviving so

46:01 ↗ we need to as we move forward over the

46:03 ↗ next year

46:04 ↗ evaluate where we're at with the changes

46:12 ↗ everything seems to be working pretty

46:13 ↗ well with this hybrid

46:15 ↗ model of people working the pumpkins and

46:17 ↗ coming into the office

46:19 ↗ that really is going to guide of what we

46:21 ↗ need to do as far as

46:27 ↗ the next area again a lot we're going to

46:28 ↗ talk about is the

46:30 ↗ areas of emphasis um leadership has to

46:33 ↗ be put in

46:34 ↗ for the presentation so the next several

46:36 ↗ slides

46:37 ↗ are from the

46:52 ↗ we've covered a bunch of these let's

46:54 ↗ just quickly put

47:23 ↗ needs sheltered food services that

47:25 ↗ promote cultural awareness diversity

47:27 ↗ inclusion

47:28 ↗ possibly within your spot

47:32 ↗ leadership services diverse communities

47:36 ↗ value received

47:49 ↗ is tree maintenance um that means that

47:53 ↗ some of the issues have similar

47:54 ↗ neighborhoods are not flights but the

47:57 ↗ trees

47:57 ↗ and so you know conditions apply water

48:02 ↗ but more money this year our plans are

48:04 ↗ more interesting

48:12 ↗ also the issues of crack sealing

48:16 ↗ versus slurry versus repaving

48:46 ↗ that does cover all the topics we had

48:48 ↗ under introduction and so

48:49 ↗ um i am going to be adding this part

48:52 ↗ over to

48:53 ↗ uh deputy master president perfect what

48:55 ↗ we do

48:56 ↗ questions and comments

49:00 ↗ so i'm i'm a huge fan of strategic

49:02 ↗ planning

49:08 ↗ and i usually i'll um leave um

49:11 ↗ council member mars to have the 50

49:13 ↗ quotes but i'm going to steal

49:27 ↗ that actually helps to orient the mind

49:29 ↗ to think about these things

49:31 ↗ and so my question to the administrator

49:34 ↗ is

49:35 ↗ do you think that having gone through

49:38 ↗ this plenty of exercise

49:39 ↗ with the city staff and all this input

49:42 ↗ do you feel like it's something that's

49:45 ↗ top of mind that we're making

49:47 ↗ operational decisions as we're we're

49:49 ↗ looking at day-to-day

49:51 ↗ managing the business of the city that

49:53 ↗ the strategic plan

49:54 ↗ uh permeates that or is it something

49:56 ↗ that's more

49:58 ↗ aspirational on the horizon well i think

50:01 ↗ it does create that

50:02 ↗ one because the mayor told what she

50:04 ↗ wanted so

50:05 ↗ that was the first thing you know we

50:07 ↗ have we have staff groups that meet

50:09 ↗ regularly

50:10 ↗ on each of

50:15 ↗ and we go through the action plan so we

50:17 ↗ talk about that

50:19 ↗ with all the various it's not just

50:20 ↗ department directors it's everyone who

50:22 ↗ touches

50:23 ↗ other various pieces so i think that it

50:25 ↗ actually does permission

50:26 ↗ and many of you have heard my uh

50:29 ↗ my thoughts on this is that the

50:31 ↗ strategic plan was aspirational

50:33 ↗ but it was not operational so one of the

50:36 ↗ things the mayor has asked me to do

50:38 ↗ is make it more operational i think that

50:41 ↗ you know what you're seeing

50:42 ↗ the conversations you're having on the

50:44 ↗ action plan the action plan

50:46 ↗ was not contemplated specifically by the

50:49 ↗ future planner

50:50 ↗ but the action plan is something we use

50:52 ↗ we rarely refer we share updates with

50:54 ↗ you in the community

50:55 ↗ so i think it is very very operational

50:59 ↗ there are some bridges we need to build

51:00 ↗ as you mentioned for example

51:02 ↗ it's not part of this it's very much a

51:05 ↗ part of what we do operationally

51:07 ↗ but it wasn't completely or was it an

51:10 ↗ aspirational need in 2018 2019

51:15 ↗ yes absolutely this is very much

51:18 ↗ and i actually take the credit

51:22 ↗ because the mayor wanted to do it i

51:24 ↗ think the amount of time that staff put

51:26 ↗ into the strategic planning process

51:28 ↗ with us is a huge benefit it's not

51:31 ↗ something that we develop as a council

51:33 ↗ and a body of electives

51:35 ↗ they participated in this huge buy-in on

51:38 ↗ it because they

51:39 ↗ contributed to the many many different

51:41 ↗ phases of it so it really really is a

51:43 ↗ vegan document

51:44 ↗ it has a lot of support as well and i

51:48 ↗ forgot that's

52:12 ↗ please let me know in the chat or

52:16 ↗ um raise your virtual hand

52:19 ↗ and uh julian would you like to make

52:21 ↗ some comments if you do i'm probably

52:22 ↗ going to try to find a way to get you

52:24 ↗ closer to microphones to it

52:28 ↗ why don't you come sit here yeah take

52:30 ↗ the city administrator's chair

52:36 ↗ thanks julie

52:41 ↗ so i want to make good comments

53:00 ↗ especially the strategic plan

53:03 ↗ there has to be a new emphasis on the

53:06 ↗ recovery

53:07 ↗ of transit services throughout the city

53:10 ↗ and even

53:11 ↗ the city

53:27 ↗ be a new um on meeting these engagements

53:32 ↗ i i love this idea

53:36 ↗ have more uh apple community being part

53:39 ↗ of

53:39 ↗ the creation culture

53:50 ↗ great thank you very much julian thank

53:52 ↗ you for coming tonight

53:58 ↗ okay um it doesn't sound like it i

54:02 ↗ am we are appearing that there

54:05 ↗ could be some audio issues um

54:14 ↗ um so i would encourage everyone to

54:17 ↗ try your best to project and we'll do um

54:20 ↗ some additional troubleshooting

54:23 ↗ it doesn't appear to anyone else let me

54:36 ↗ just

54:50 ↗ i'm

54:55 ↗ so this next section adjustments to

54:56 ↗ strategic planet objectives

54:58 ↗ is going to be led by council president

55:01 ↗ deputy president ray

55:03 ↗ we are about five minutes past my my

55:06 ↗ logic time

55:07 ↗ so um this is scheduled through

55:10 ↗ uh about five to eight maybe eight

55:13 ↗ o'clock

55:14 ↗ and then we'll be taking a terrific

55:16 ↗ council president

55:18 ↗ thank as we talked about at the top

55:21 ↗ of the meeting we wanted to spend some

55:23 ↗ time and look at

55:26 ↗ the objectives that we set out for each

55:28 ↗ of our strategic

55:29 ↗ areas and i want to ask three questions

55:32 ↗ with you

55:32 ↗ all

55:44 ↗ so this is just to make sure that we're

55:46 ↗ we're pruning the truth

55:47 ↗ you know there's some things that are no

55:50 ↗ longer

55:52 ↗ emphasis areas for whatever reason you

55:53 ↗ should just talk about the second is

55:55 ↗ are there some new objectives that we

55:57 ↗ need to add some things that we're not

55:58 ↗ as

55:59 ↗ uh today's administrator bob said we're

56:01 ↗ not part of our aspirational set

56:04 ↗ when we did the plan a couple years ago

56:06 ↗ that we should consider adding

56:08 ↗ into the plan and then the third

56:11 ↗ question which i think is maybe the most

56:13 ↗ interesting question are there some

56:14 ↗ objectives that we want to emphasize

56:17 ↗ in the coming year to the 2022

56:20 ↗ budget discussion and you know some

56:22 ↗ areas that we want to really dig into

56:24 ↗ so those are the three questions that i

56:25 ↗ like to to explore and i

56:28 ↗ see that we have some excellent slides

56:31 ↗ that

56:31 ↗ present all of the objectives so i don't

56:33 ↗ have to read them and they're

56:35 ↗ tedious about them so we could just

56:36 ↗ start maybe with the next slide which i

56:38 ↗ believe is mobility

56:39 ↗ and we have the three mobility

56:41 ↗ objectives one is a plan for

56:43 ↗ transportation systems in place and

56:45 ↗ funding is secure for major projects

56:48 ↗ near-term connections and efficiencies

56:51 ↗ um and the mobility system are complete

56:54 ↗ and the preferred location um

56:58 ↗ and vision for light rail integration is

57:00 ↗ established so

57:02 ↗ um question for you all you know we'll

57:05 ↗ start with the first one

57:06 ↗ is there anything there that you think

57:08 ↗ is no longer

57:10 ↗ a valid objective

57:15 ↗ looking around to see if they've been

57:16 ↗ coming out

57:20 ↗ so i'm going to say no to that um

57:24 ↗ are there anything that you'd like to

57:25 ↗ add to this in terms of new objectives

57:27 ↗ around mobility

57:33 ↗ right so there's a difference between

57:36 ↗ objectives and actions correct back

57:39 ↗ to that okay so i was going to say

57:40 ↗ there's some actions in here that we've

57:43 ↗ accomplished so that we need to cross

57:46 ↗ them off

57:51 ↗ okay we're sticking to

58:04 ↗ but i think that because it's about

58:07 ↗ prioritizing and operationalizing the

58:09 ↗ actions i think if there's an action

58:11 ↗ that we've accomplished then great like

58:13 ↗ we can skip

58:13 ↗ past that but i don't think we need to

58:15 ↗ go through that process it's more

58:17 ↗ are there actions that we don't need to

58:19 ↗ do because

58:20 ↗ they've been overthinking by events or

58:22 ↗ because we no longer

58:24 ↗ see the community need or whatever

58:26 ↗ reason there is or are there changes in

58:28 ↗ action so once we get to the actions

58:30 ↗ that's going to be more of the

58:30 ↗ conversation that

58:31 ↗ i'm looking for so let's focus

58:46 ↗ vision and timeline because

58:51 ↗ [Music]

59:00 ↗ but really clearly the timeline

59:04 ↗ is being performed like that

59:09 ↗ i think that that's rememberable

59:14 ↗ i was just going to say

59:18 ↗ well i was going to ask if in these

59:20 ↗ three objectives do we

59:21 ↗ see where our new emphasis

59:25 ↗ on multimodal transportation will fit

59:28 ↗ because i don't necessarily the first

59:30 ↗ one may be because you know we had

59:33 ↗ life retirement successful adoption

59:35 ↗ master mobility master plan so

59:37 ↗ that could easily just say successful

59:39 ↗ implementation later and that

59:40 ↗ conversation comes later

59:42 ↗ but is there a value instead of having

59:45 ↗ an objective

59:46 ↗ where people can easily get around

59:50 ↗ getting around town is easier for people

59:52 ↗ who live or complete here

59:53 ↗ by bike or by walking

59:57 ↗ or whatever is that accomplished in one

1:00:00 ↗ of these objectives or

1:00:02 ↗ is there a need for it

1:00:07 ↗ any thoughts on um

1:00:14 ↗ rewind a little bit to the question

1:00:16 ↗ about do we want to

1:00:18 ↗ modify the third objective and include

1:00:20 ↗ any language in there about

1:00:22 ↗ timing is something that we want to

1:00:26 ↗ discover so i when i was reading the

1:00:29 ↗ plan

1:00:30 ↗ and i was reading you know we have a

1:00:31 ↗ bunch of actions under this one it's

1:00:33 ↗ actually mentioned in other parts of the

1:00:34 ↗ plan

1:00:35 ↗ as well about the link um

1:00:39 ↗ and um at this point given where we are

1:00:41 ↗ with the potential timeline changes and

1:00:43 ↗ everything

1:00:44 ↗ i think we felt a lot more like um

1:00:48 ↗ it's still super important but now it's

1:00:50 ↗ much more

1:00:51 ↗ um sensitive and

1:00:55 ↗ i think we need to maybe add a different

1:00:58 ↗ kind of emphasis

1:00:59 ↗ and the timeline is definitely part of

1:01:01 ↗ it and also

1:01:02 ↗ they did a community survey

1:01:06 ↗ about light rail and which stations are

1:01:08 ↗ most

1:01:13 ↗ so i think that advocacy work about just

1:01:15 ↗ that that it is super crisp so

1:01:17 ↗ the location is vision okay but then

1:01:19 ↗ also like the timeline and getting it

1:01:21 ↗ on the timeline so i would be

1:01:37 ↗ the city dated our own letter saying

1:01:38 ↗ that we're in support of council member

1:01:40 ↗ baltimore city's

1:01:41 ↗ um plan which has to be scheduled

1:01:44 ↗ so i think that really goes through what

1:01:46 ↗ we're hearing

1:01:48 ↗ and uh second piece of information

1:01:56 ↗ so i think what i heard in some of our

1:01:59 ↗ earlier conversations

1:02:00 ↗ was a lot about transit recovery

1:02:05 ↗ and things around that area so when i'm

1:02:07 ↗ looking

1:02:08 ↗ at our mobility objectives

1:02:11 ↗ here and seeing this i almost feel like

1:02:16 ↗ the information about light rail and the

1:02:19 ↗ station location

1:02:20 ↗ and the vision for it is almost like a

1:02:23 ↗ subset

1:02:24 ↗ of transit and so i wonder

1:02:28 ↗ whether before we were very much focused

1:02:32 ↗ on light rail

1:02:34 ↗ but do we need to change the objective

1:02:37 ↗ to be about transit

1:02:42 ↗ and yeah broaden it and then have

1:02:44 ↗ actions under it

1:02:45 ↗ related to the light rail station and

1:02:48 ↗ other actions

1:02:49 ↗ related to transit recovery

1:02:52 ↗ and other ways that we can advocate for

1:02:54 ↗ our community i don't think

1:02:56 ↗ i certainly didn't see anything in the

1:02:59 ↗ community survey or anything like that

1:03:01 ↗ that said

1:03:02 ↗ please advocate for lightroom it says

1:03:04 ↗ please advocate for transit

1:03:07 ↗ and i'm not sure if that does it for our

1:03:14 ↗ community

1:03:27 ↗ you know light rail is really important

1:03:30 ↗ and

1:03:30 ↗ it's important for the long term so i

1:03:32 ↗ have no recommendations don't question

1:03:34 ↗ that

1:03:34 ↗ there's any message we send that off

1:03:38 ↗ that's not important because outside

1:03:42 ↗ yep if there's concern about about

1:03:46 ↗ current transit issues

1:03:52 ↗ and efficiency mobility

1:03:56 ↗ that's my only caution on all these

1:03:58 ↗ objectives

1:04:00 ↗ while they flashing on all these

1:04:01 ↗ objectives

1:04:03 ↗ is that um

1:04:07 ↗ unless you really think there's a

1:04:09 ↗ problem or there's an

1:04:10 ↗ urgent issue that has really changed i

1:04:13 ↗ would just talk about that question

1:04:18 ↗ um additional thoughts on this one

1:04:22 ↗ and then i want to also kind of segue

1:04:24 ↗ into a council member paul's question

1:04:26 ↗ about multi-modal

1:04:28 ↗ transportation and where that goes

1:04:32 ↗ and is it covered by one of our existing

1:04:35 ↗ objectives

1:04:36 ↗ and then council member walsh if i could

1:04:38 ↗ suggest even that

1:04:40 ↗ um those two costs could be merged the

1:04:42 ↗ transit and multimodal

1:04:44 ↗ might be the fourth objective here which

1:04:46 ↗ is alternative transportation methods

1:04:48 ↗ are

1:04:49 ↗ explored and developed or something like

1:04:51 ↗ that you know which

1:05:13 ↗ so i don't want this to sound

1:05:14 ↗ curmudgeonly but i'm a little concerned

1:05:16 ↗ in this

1:05:17 ↗ exercise because i feel like nobody's

1:05:20 ↗ going to want to say oh that item

1:05:22 ↗ yeah right no longer important and i

1:05:26 ↗ think

1:05:26 ↗ all we're going to want to say oh i have

1:05:29 ↗ a concern that we will wind up

1:05:31 ↗ saying everything that we think is

1:05:33 ↗ important is important

1:05:35 ↗ and we have the thing i'm struggling

1:05:38 ↗ with right now is a finance staff

1:05:40 ↗ and a finite amount of time and one of

1:05:43 ↗ the things that i'd like to

1:05:45 ↗ previous uh retreats

1:05:48 ↗ is a finite number of dots right you

1:05:51 ↗ know we can put our dots and i'm reading

1:05:53 ↗ this exercise right now

1:05:54 ↗ that because we don't have dots we're

1:05:56 ↗ going to love everything we emphasize

1:05:58 ↗ everything

1:05:58 ↗ from nothing so how do we how do we

1:06:01 ↗ prioritize

1:06:02 ↗ we did this

1:06:12 ↗ so i agree with you and that was why i

1:06:15 ↗ was kind of looking at

1:06:16 ↗ mo3 as an adjustment

1:06:20 ↗ but i also hear a city administrator but

1:06:23 ↗ with an

1:06:24 ↗ option on making a change like that so

1:06:26 ↗ actually was looking back in

1:06:28 ↗ and under the near-term connections

1:06:31 ↗ efficiencies in the mobility system

1:06:32 ↗ are completed the second action is

1:06:35 ↗ established partnerships with transit

1:06:38 ↗ agencies etc so we could also look at it

1:06:41 ↗ as

1:06:43 ↗ we've covered this with an action

1:06:46 ↗ and maybe we need to add an action about

1:06:51 ↗ recovery rather than adding at the

1:06:55 ↗ objective level

1:07:01 ↗ uh yeah i'll guess i was just gonna say

1:07:02 ↗ that i just agree a little bit i think i

1:07:04 ↗ see

1:07:05 ↗ this document more about what are all of

1:07:07 ↗ our

1:07:08 ↗ strategic objectives and what are all of

1:07:10 ↗ our strategic potential action items

1:07:12 ↗ and then we sit down for budget season

1:07:14 ↗ that's really the time when we have the

1:07:15 ↗ dots

1:07:16 ↗ because then we have a pop of money

1:07:18 ↗ right and we're putting dots

1:07:19 ↗ on things that we can accomplish in

1:07:21 ↗ specific timeline

1:07:22 ↗ things that have a specific community

1:07:24 ↗ priority because not all of these are

1:07:26 ↗ going to be a competing

1:07:27 ↗ community priority at one specific time

1:07:30 ↗ um so i was just going to say that

1:07:32 ↗ well for the sake of time i think you're

1:07:34 ↗ right that we probably shouldn't

1:07:36 ↗ pick everything i think that we should

1:07:38 ↗ feel safe and okay to

1:07:40 ↗ um you know go babe when it comes to

1:07:43 ↗ this plan because the budget season

1:07:45 ↗ almost feels like it's designed to skim

1:07:47 ↗ this down strategically

1:07:55 ↗ um well uh in response to the thoughts i

1:07:58 ↗ was just thinking i think a lot of us

1:08:00 ↗ are verbally putting thoughts on transit

1:08:03 ↗ so

1:08:03 ↗ um you know there's transit in there and

1:08:06 ↗ i think a bunch of us

1:08:07 ↗ could have thought

1:08:22 ↗ a while ago i just want to interrupt you

1:08:24 ↗ guys are having a good time um

1:08:25 ↗ the other piece of information and

1:08:27 ↗ council member michelle is great for

1:08:29 ↗ learning with us

1:08:30 ↗ is that as we talk about recovery of

1:08:32 ↗ transit through copenhagen

1:08:34 ↗ we're also doing uh working with an

1:08:36 ↗ agency that will now be using

1:08:38 ↗ a mobility framework which is focused on

1:08:41 ↗ equity guns

1:08:42 ↗ to recover

1:08:45 ↗ and redistribute and to

1:08:49 ↗ increase and so we

1:08:52 ↗ whatever the council decides they would

1:08:55 ↗ like to tweak her at end

1:08:57 ↗ a lot of where that service is going is

1:09:00 ↗ we have we have two voices at the table

1:09:04 ↗ but we have some very large regional

1:09:07 ↗ objectives that are going in a different

1:09:09 ↗ direction most eastside cities are

1:09:11 ↗ expecting not

1:09:12 ↗ to get their service back so i just want

1:09:14 ↗ to be clear that whatever

1:09:16 ↗ council sites put in here that we put

1:09:18 ↗ something we can move the needle

1:09:20 ↗ on

1:09:25 ↗ thank you so the other question i guess

1:09:27 ↗ this is where i think the verbal body

1:09:29 ↗ will come in

1:09:31 ↗ is of those three objectives

1:09:46 ↗ it says it's about uh the vision for

1:09:49 ↗ librarian but it also has a larger

1:09:50 ↗ transit

1:09:52 ↗ uh subtext is getting a lot of verbal

1:09:55 ↗ thoughts

1:09:56 ↗ i love that

1:10:00 ↗ any any thoughts on um

1:10:03 ↗ emphasis areas around mobility things

1:10:05 ↗ that we mean

1:10:08 ↗ couldn't agree more about the verbal

1:10:09 ↗ dots

1:10:11 ↗ our our uh central isabel plan is

1:10:24 ↗ so got to get it or we need to rethink

1:10:33 ↗ um and i think uh i totally agree and i

1:10:36 ↗ think light rail fits

1:10:37 ↗ nicely to um when we're thinking more

1:10:39 ↗ broadly about multiple transportation so

1:10:41 ↗ that would be

1:10:43 ↗ the reason i keep bringing that up too

1:10:44 ↗ is because we just put a lot of time and

1:10:46 ↗ effort into a hundredths

1:10:48 ↗ page document called the mobility master

1:10:50 ↗ plan i just want to make sure that that

1:10:52 ↗ is always

1:10:53 ↗ at the forefront of our mind and we have

1:10:55 ↗ walkability and we have writability

1:10:58 ↗ because it seems like cutting edge

1:11:00 ↗ leading cities are really investing in

1:11:02 ↗ people's ability to turn around

1:11:04 ↗ and that includes lighting for sure um

1:11:06 ↗ so that's definitely an emphasis when it

1:11:08 ↗ comes to situations and i think another

1:11:10 ↗ one that we need to focus on is public

1:11:12 ↗ we have this long-term company and we

1:11:14 ↗ have this you know happy

1:11:16 ↗ capital financing community task force

1:11:18 ↗ that we will

1:11:19 ↗ have to start with for sure

1:11:22 ↗ so that's number one

1:11:46 ↗ so the community survey response

1:11:50 ↗ that was great flashing red lights was

1:11:54 ↗ on

1:11:55 ↗ traffic flow and so

1:11:58 ↗ yes i think transit is super important

1:12:01 ↗ but it's not the only thing

1:12:05 ↗ that we need to be emphasizing for

1:12:07 ↗ traffic flow

1:12:09 ↗ and so i'm not quite sure

1:12:12 ↗ where in all of this traffic flow

1:12:18 ↗ is handled how do i put a dot on one of

1:12:20 ↗ those three and have it

1:12:22 ↗ improve traffic flow because as we've

1:12:25 ↗ talked about traffic flow

1:12:27 ↗ is as much getting around town as it is

1:12:30 ↗ improving regional uh you know pass

1:12:34 ↗ through

1:12:35 ↗ all of that i'm just not sure

1:12:38 ↗ where to put a pin in so i heard

1:12:40 ↗ fascinating listening to this

1:12:42 ↗ discussion and then my quote earlier

1:12:45 ↗ that planning is more important than the

1:12:47 ↗ plan what i

1:12:49 ↗ find that we are doing is we're using

1:12:51 ↗ these objectives as a scaffolding in

1:12:52 ↗ which to have a discussion about what

1:12:54 ↗ our problems

1:12:54 ↗ really are and so it may not be

1:12:57 ↗ necessary that we

1:12:59 ↗ complete the plan what is important is

1:13:01 ↗ that we have a scaffolding to have a

1:13:03 ↗ discussion about

1:13:04 ↗ priorities and then we can communicate

1:13:06 ↗ that to

1:13:07 ↗ the city administrator mayor and staff

1:13:10 ↗ so as they go

1:13:10 ↗ to the budget and they got some insights

1:13:12 ↗ on what

1:13:15 ↗ you're not sold on that council i will

1:13:16 ↗ push

1:13:19 ↗ i hate adjusting plans so i will agree

1:13:22 ↗ with that but i also

1:13:24 ↗ one of the things i found super valuable

1:13:26 ↗ in the last year

1:13:28 ↗ is going back to the letters that we've

1:13:30 ↗ written ourselves

1:13:32 ↗ so before this i went back to council

1:13:34 ↗ president hunt's

1:13:36 ↗ letter about the budget that's like oh

1:13:38 ↗ my gosh

1:13:39 ↗ yes those were the five things so

1:13:43 ↗ i want to make sure that we document

1:13:47 ↗ and so even if we don't adjust the

1:13:50 ↗ objectives

1:13:51 ↗ i still think it's important to put in

1:13:54 ↗ actions

1:13:55 ↗ that document the emphasis

1:13:58 ↗ okay

1:14:13 ↗ to know um really

1:14:16 ↗ really um so first of all

1:14:20 ↗ um you know mobility i think the first

1:14:23 ↗ point if you look at the actions

1:14:24 ↗ underneath it

1:14:25 ↗ provides a kind of place

1:14:33 ↗ the system is in place a plan is in

1:14:35 ↗ place it has to do with the funding it

1:14:38 ↗ has to do with repairing annual mobility

1:14:40 ↗ report

1:14:42 ↗ you know our data and so forth so i

1:14:46 ↗ think that

1:14:46 ↗ that takes care of that um my second

1:14:49 ↗ comment

1:14:50 ↗ is to go back to the third objective

1:14:54 ↗ uh them in uh referring to

1:14:57 ↗ uh the comment about sending a message

1:15:01 ↗ i i guess i'm gonna plug again for

1:15:03 ↗ getting more timeline in there

1:15:05 ↗ because uh i think that people are

1:15:07 ↗ watching what we're doing here

1:15:09 ↗ and uh how aggressive this is going to

1:15:12 ↗ be

1:15:13 ↗ and to secure this uh

1:15:16 ↗ display rail station i think that we

1:15:18 ↗ need to send a message that we're going

1:15:20 ↗ to be very aggressive

1:15:21 ↗ and so i'm going to kind of pump again

1:15:23 ↗ for that adding the term timeline

1:15:25 ↗ into that third objective

1:15:29 ↗ administrator

1:15:34 ↗ i have bigger processing yeah 7.25

1:15:41 ↗ one is you may have to only talk

1:15:45 ↗ about two of your top hill areas because

1:15:47 ↗ we're at

1:15:48 ↗ seven thirteen second is in relation to

1:15:51 ↗ something

1:15:52 ↗ and council member walsh said um

1:15:55 ↗ working on traffic flow

1:15:58 ↗ um i i'm not sure how to do that in an

1:16:02 ↗ objective or an action item without

1:16:04 ↗ first council deciding which floor were

1:16:06 ↗ you worried about

1:16:08 ↗ i think you mentioned improving regional

1:16:10 ↗ flow i don't know that we can do that

1:16:12 ↗ anymore

1:16:13 ↗ so there has to be there could be some

1:16:15 ↗ idea that you have around in there that

1:16:17 ↗ is focused

1:16:18 ↗ on improving a certain kind of flow so

1:16:22 ↗ i think i think that might be hard to

1:16:24 ↗ figure out in such a short period of

1:16:25 ↗ time but

1:16:26 ↗ we we don't get to have it at all we

1:16:28 ↗ don't get to have the regional shoppers

1:16:29 ↗ to pass the traffic the long drive in

1:16:31 ↗ the school

1:16:32 ↗ the you know the council is going to

1:16:34 ↗ have to narrow

1:16:35 ↗ in on these are the ones we're focusing

1:16:37 ↗ on these ones are not good

1:16:40 ↗ that's the piece of information and yes

1:16:42 ↗ time management

1:16:43 ↗ 727 i didn't remember what you

1:16:48 ↗ [Laughter]

1:16:48 ↗ [Applause]

1:17:00 ↗ am i hearing your review of your

1:17:02 ↗ concerns

1:17:04 ↗ there really are two areas that i think

1:17:05 ↗ you should look after

1:17:07 ↗ one is public safety services um

1:17:10 ↗ i would encourage you to perhaps look at

1:17:12 ↗ the other objectives like

1:17:14 ↗ honestly think your mobility objectives

1:17:16 ↗ are inclined your action steps

1:17:18 ↗ that you want to look at but i think

1:17:20 ↗ those were the two areas i heard

1:17:21 ↗ from you that you might want to actually

1:17:23 ↗ talk about changing objectives

1:17:25 ↗ and use the rest of your time working in

1:17:27 ↗ the action plan

1:17:28 ↗ and

1:17:43 ↗ so let me just pull the group

1:17:46 ↗ to be as direct as the administrator

1:17:50 ↗ we heard a lot of things when we're

1:17:51 ↗ doing our initial emphasis i mean

1:17:53 ↗ are there things is there agreement that

1:18:04 ↗ um i think economic development i think

1:18:07 ↗ if you look at

1:18:08 ↗ satisfaction i don't know if it shows up

1:18:10 ↗ in the survey as much

1:18:12 ↗ but it shows up in the polling

1:18:15 ↗ that's in the metrics of the public on

1:18:18 ↗ the

1:18:19 ↗ economic development environment

1:18:22 ↗ that satisfaction has been going down

1:18:24 ↗ for some time and

1:18:26 ↗ so i i think that's an area that

1:18:28 ↗ potentially

1:18:30 ↗ requires a larger emphasis

1:18:42 ↗ do you think that needs a change at the

1:18:45 ↗ objective level

1:18:46 ↗ or potential changes in the action level

1:18:50 ↗ i'm just keying off of what i heard from

1:18:52 ↗ the city administrator because i think

1:18:53 ↗ the other two public safety

1:18:55 ↗ and human services

1:18:58 ↗ yes um i can see that we want to

1:19:02 ↗ do some more emphasis on that and i just

1:19:04 ↗ i don't think

1:19:05 ↗ when when we were talking earlier about

1:19:07 ↗ priorities

1:19:08 ↗ i don't think i've heard jobs as much as

1:19:11 ↗ i think we're seeing from the metric

1:19:13 ↗ data

1:19:20 ↗ well so uh i had two

1:19:24 ↗ objectives that i thought we couldn't

1:19:26 ↗ consider modifying so

1:19:28 ↗ um that aren't the ones that city

1:19:30 ↗ minister you're about to point out so

1:19:31 ↗ i'll just

1:19:32 ↗ put those out there one is that um and i

1:19:34 ↗ think this is

1:19:36 ↗ a little bit different but it is similar

1:19:38 ↗ to

1:19:39 ↗ cultural reports concern and the

1:19:42 ↗ objectives under

1:19:43 ↗ social and economic economic vitality

1:19:45 ↗ it's not about recovery because

1:19:47 ↗ at the time we didn't we weren't

1:19:50 ↗ so i think i think because we're going

1:19:53 ↗ to be emphasizing

1:19:54 ↗ recovery um we could just add that into

1:19:58 ↗ one of the objectives it's like a

1:19:59 ↗ two-word pad but it would add an

1:20:01 ↗ emphasis on it

1:20:02 ↗ on

1:20:12 ↗ um and then the other thing that i

1:20:15 ↗ didn't see

1:20:16 ↗ anywhere in the objectives and it's

1:20:17 ↗ actually in the it's in the memo on

1:20:20 ↗ environmental stupid

1:20:21 ↗ you know the narrative on environmental

1:20:23 ↗ stewardship but that it isn't anywhere

1:20:26 ↗ in environmental stewardship is um

1:20:29 ↗ climate so i i have a suggestion to

1:20:32 ↗ modify one objective in climate

1:20:34 ↗ to add that emphasis which we've seen

1:20:37 ↗ grow in awareness of the community for

1:20:39 ↗ the last two years

1:20:40 ↗ and that's under the community members

1:20:42 ↗ are active partners

1:20:44 ↗ which is one of the objectives so just

1:20:46 ↗ bringing them in on stewardship

1:20:47 ↗ including the

1:20:48 ↗ climate which i think we're already

1:20:50 ↗ emphasizing is just reflecting it

1:20:52 ↗ strategy so those are two uh

1:20:56 ↗ objective suggestions that i would throw

1:20:57 ↗ out on people that are not in the series

1:21:12 ↗ can you uh

1:21:22 ↗ so the first one is under social and

1:21:24 ↗ economic vitality

1:21:25 ↗ sp1 um it reads there is an increase

1:21:29 ↗ in new and existing businesses that

1:21:33 ↗ choose to locate an expanded issaquah

1:21:34 ↗ especially those with

1:21:35 ↗ wage levels that enable workers to also

1:21:38 ↗ live in the community

1:21:39 ↗ so i would propose adding um two words

1:21:42 ↗ which so that reads there is an increase

1:21:44 ↗ in new and recovery of

1:21:46 ↗ existing businesses that are choose to

1:21:49 ↗ locate and expand it as a product

1:21:53 ↗ any objections

1:22:04 ↗ the other one is under environmental

1:22:05 ↗ stewardship under es2

1:22:08 ↗ which is um uh community members are

1:22:11 ↗ active partners in the stewardship of

1:22:13 ↗ issaquah environments

1:22:14 ↗ and i would add another responsible

1:22:17 ↗ climate changes

1:22:20 ↗ and it is response to climate change and

1:22:22 ↗ those i

1:22:30 ↗ [Laughter]

1:23:05 ↗ and if you could share that with us with

1:23:08 ↗ the revised language i will do the same

1:23:10 ↗ thing with that

1:23:11 ↗ okay um

1:23:25 ↗ established any objections making that

1:23:28 ↗ objective change i just have a question

1:23:32 ↗ um administrators had mentioned be

1:23:35 ↗ careful with changing

1:23:36 ↗ or careful with changing but at the time

1:23:38 ↗ i think we were contemplating a bigger

1:23:40 ↗ change so

1:23:41 ↗ i think that this i would say to me this

1:23:43 ↗ still sends

1:23:44 ↗ the message that this is a strong

1:23:46 ↗ emphasis

1:23:47 ↗ and it doesn't change our commitment

1:23:49 ↗ it's just commitments

1:23:50 ↗ and now we have an additional

1:23:52 ↗ consideration to the timeline but i just

1:23:54 ↗ wanted to check in that that would be

1:23:55 ↗ received that way

1:23:56 ↗ yes i agree okay

1:23:59 ↗ without objection let's let's uh add

1:24:01 ↗ that to

1:24:03 ↗ that objective to add some further

1:24:05 ↗ urgency to it

1:24:07 ↗ thank you very much okay um

1:24:10 ↗ i'm gonna what i'm doing is i'm going

1:24:12 ↗ through the proverbial low hanging fruit

1:24:14 ↗ here

1:24:15 ↗ councilmember mark you talked about

1:24:16 ↗ economic and

1:24:18 ↗ job creation um is there something

1:24:21 ↗ specific you would like to propose as a

1:24:23 ↗ new objective

1:24:24 ↗ or a modification to an existing

1:24:28 ↗ objective

1:24:29 ↗ no okay because i don't know

1:24:32 ↗ how to do it uh we need i mean it's

1:24:35 ↗ rating of economic development

1:24:37 ↗ environment

1:24:38 ↗ it's been trending down for some time so

1:24:42 ↗ what that means is we're not going to

1:24:45 ↗ solve today

1:24:47 ↗ um but i but i i believe that we need to

1:24:52 ↗ figure out how to emphasize it uh

1:24:56 ↗ emphasize it on our point

1:25:09 ↗ and just an additional information

1:25:10 ↗ councilman hearts has been talking to us

1:25:12 ↗ for years

1:25:13 ↗ that he believes we really really need a

1:25:15 ↗ stronger plan to attract

1:25:18 ↗ retain and um help those with their

1:25:21 ↗ recovery

1:25:22 ↗ and it's got to be a stronger plan than

1:25:24 ↗ we've had

1:25:28 ↗ so what i am hearing now is that there

1:25:30 ↗ is consensus that

1:25:31 ↗ we may have two voids in our existing

1:25:34 ↗ set of objectives one

1:25:36 ↗ specifically related to public safety

1:25:38 ↗ another

1:25:44 ↗ got it all right so let us start

1:25:49 ↗ let's go alphabetically we'll start with

1:25:51 ↗ human services

1:25:52 ↗ any thoughts on what an objective that

1:25:55 ↗ we could include

1:25:56 ↗ in human services and where would we put

1:25:58 ↗ that in the plan would that

1:26:01 ↗ most logically fall within

1:26:04 ↗ city services or within

1:26:17 ↗ yes so goal se3

1:26:20 ↗ says services and resources reduce

1:26:23 ↗ inequities

1:26:24 ↗ in health and well-being in the

1:26:26 ↗ community i feel like we could

1:26:28 ↗ modify that one probably to achieve our

1:26:31 ↗ goals

1:26:32 ↗ i'm not sure how but i think that

1:26:35 ↗ is aware

1:26:39 ↗ i i think that that's an important place

1:26:41 ↗ to start the discussion any thoughts on

1:26:43 ↗ how we might modify an existing

1:26:45 ↗ objective potentially as inquiry

1:26:47 ↗ services the resources confusion

1:26:49 ↗ equities

1:26:50 ↗ and health well-being communities to put

1:26:53 ↗ a finer point on our need to develop our

1:26:55 ↗ union services capabilities

1:26:57 ↗ this year

1:27:02 ↗ all right next

1:27:15 ↗ to start this conversation um

1:27:18 ↗ you know when this was written there

1:27:21 ↗ weren't a whole lot of

1:27:23 ↗ human services delivered by the city

1:27:27 ↗ you know it was more really leveraging

1:27:29 ↗ services resources that would regional

1:27:31 ↗ so what if we were more specific about

1:27:33 ↗ regional services and resources

1:27:35 ↗ and local actions where possible

1:27:39 ↗ reducing equity i don't know if that's

1:27:43 ↗ the right wording or not but maybe

1:27:44 ↗ that's the right track to go down

1:27:46 ↗ is you know there are kind of two things

1:27:47 ↗ here we have some services that we're

1:27:49 ↗ providing but

1:27:50 ↗ others would recognize others doing

1:27:52 ↗ better and so our services really

1:27:54 ↗ connect to people with those services

1:27:56 ↗ does that need to be called out

1:28:01 ↗ i i have a reaction which is maybe

1:28:05 ↗ this is an objective thing this is the

1:28:07 ↗ action thing

1:28:08 ↗ and then that se3 may be an adequate

1:28:12 ↗ objective for us around the school of

1:28:15 ↗ human services

1:28:16 ↗ but we need to be more targeted

1:28:19 ↗ and put more emphasis on the direct

1:28:22 ↗ server

1:28:22 ↗ services in our in our actions

1:28:29 ↗ for your reaction to that

1:28:35 ↗ hot time councilmember d michelle

1:28:38 ↗ so uh so reads right now services and

1:28:42 ↗ resources reduce inequities

1:28:44 ↗ health and well-being and it doesn't

1:28:47 ↗ speak to the relationship between the

1:28:49 ↗ city and our social service providers

1:28:52 ↗ and it also is

1:28:56 ↗ it's more than reducing equities it's

1:28:58 ↗ providing

1:29:01 ↗ support so people can thrive

1:29:04 ↗ i think there's a more positive way of

1:29:05 ↗ putting it

1:29:09 ↗ and coming back from the social service

1:29:12 ↗ background

1:29:13 ↗ we always say social services are for

1:29:15 ↗ everybody it's not

1:29:16 ↗ just to do singing everybody someone in

1:29:19 ↗ their lifetime

1:29:20 ↗ needs social services whether it's when

1:29:22 ↗ they're young or middle-aged or

1:29:25 ↗ when they're seniors um it

1:29:28 ↗ actually doesn't even have to be so if

1:29:31 ↗ we could

1:29:31 ↗ reframe this in a more proactive

1:29:35 ↗ way

1:29:40 ↗ but i'm thinking that the objective

1:29:43 ↗ needs to be more robust in terms of

1:29:46 ↗ what we're trying to achieve but the

1:29:48 ↗ product struggling with is our

1:29:50 ↗ relationship with social service we

1:29:52 ↗ don't

1:29:53 ↗ we don't directly provide social

1:29:54 ↗ services as a city

1:29:56 ↗ that's their model for a long time and

1:29:58 ↗ we want to be sure

1:30:00 ↗ that we don't put up a uh

1:30:04 ↗ objective here that that implies that

1:30:06 ↗ we're going to start getting into the

1:30:08 ↗ direct service business so

1:30:10 ↗ does all that make sense to buy workouts

1:30:13 ↗ here for a little bit

1:30:14 ↗ okay hey just some information not an

1:30:17 ↗ opinion

1:30:18 ↗ i believe when we were doing the plan

1:30:22 ↗ some of this language might have come

1:30:24 ↗ right out of the

1:30:26 ↗ healthy community strategy and so i

1:30:29 ↗ think you have some flexibility here if

1:30:30 ↗ this doesn't reflect your desired

1:30:32 ↗ outcome

1:30:33 ↗ to change it and i think councilmember d

1:30:35 ↗ michelle has captured it really well

1:30:38 ↗ i took some of her words and left them

1:30:40 ↗ in there and it's still not pretty

1:30:42 ↗ um but we have increased our

1:30:45 ↗ human uh services

1:30:48 ↗ muscle in that we have tried to

1:30:51 ↗ improve the connective tissue between

1:30:54 ↗ the city

1:30:55 ↗ and those that provide service by

1:30:57 ↗ investing in that

1:30:59 ↗ portion significantly very important in

1:31:01 ↗ the last two years

1:31:03 ↗ so i i i think that was a little worse

1:31:05 ↗ than that

1:31:08 ↗ and if you do read through these

1:31:10 ↗ objectives they they talk about a

1:31:12 ↗ desired outcome that's really the frame

1:31:14 ↗ of

1:31:29 ↗ it's something we are that connected

1:31:31 ↗ tissue that's what we strive

1:31:43 ↗ folks listening together are still some

1:31:44 ↗ ongoing issues here with you

1:31:46 ↗ and that's pretty critical to us being

1:31:48 ↗ able to uh

1:31:49 ↗ be meeting in person today so i just

1:31:51 ↗ want to re-emphasize

1:31:53 ↗ um really trying to project encountering

1:31:56 ↗ michelle we

1:32:03 ↗ [Applause]

1:32:23 ↗ let us move on to

1:32:30 ↗ um so i did have a potential

1:32:33 ↗ maybe starting point um for this

1:32:36 ↗ objective

1:32:37 ↗ because i know that we've been talking

1:32:39 ↗ about this as

1:32:41 ↗ something that we are working on and

1:32:44 ↗ that isn't on volume

1:32:47 ↗ okay we're good you're good um so

1:32:51 ↗ the subject suggested objective that i

1:32:54 ↗ thought about

1:32:54 ↗ was that people feel safe in issaquah

1:32:57 ↗ and have public safety resources that

1:32:59 ↗ meet their

1:33:00 ↗ needs so that's what i

1:33:03 ↗ thought it's open-ended but i feel like

1:33:05 ↗ there was a

1:33:06 ↗ gap there in the plan and that this is

1:33:10 ↗ what for me that's what

1:33:14 ↗ what we've been working to achieve and

1:33:15 ↗ like i said before i think the other

1:33:17 ↗ thing about

1:33:18 ↗ the way this is worded is that different

1:33:20 ↗ people

1:33:21 ↗ have different um requirements for

1:33:24 ↗ failing safe and so we've been working

1:33:26 ↗ through that

1:33:27 ↗ uh with the equity lens and with our

1:33:29 ↗ other um

1:33:30 ↗ our other work and so i think that i

1:33:32 ↗ think that this kind of captures

1:33:34 ↗ that and also

1:33:42 ↗ could you repeat the proposed objective

1:33:45 ↗ and then also

1:33:53 ↗ uh i thought it fits under city

1:33:56 ↗ leadership and services

1:34:15 ↗ are you suggesting a new objective or

1:34:17 ↗ adding to a

1:34:19 ↗ cs1 it's a new objective under city

1:34:22 ↗ leaderships and services okay

1:34:24 ↗ i i didn't i looked and i didn't think

1:34:27 ↗ that

1:34:28 ↗ i think it's it's uh

1:34:39 ↗ [Laughter]

1:34:57 ↗ a philosophical question i trust

1:35:01 ↗ everyone can hear me fine

1:35:03 ↗ good the benefits would be of doing

1:35:06 ↗ theater in high school

1:35:08 ↗ uh feel safe

1:35:12 ↗ so i was thinking about i was reading

1:35:14 ↗ the umpteen

1:35:15 ↗ person who had had a bicycle store which

1:35:17 ↗ happens in the valley

1:35:18 ↗ all the time i i have one friend who you

1:35:21 ↗ know that we used to work with

1:35:23 ↗ who's had like three bicycles so that's

1:35:26 ↗ not a i don't know if that's a feel

1:35:28 ↗ safe um but that's uh it's a

1:35:31 ↗ it's a crime related

1:35:34 ↗ i just i'm just triggering a little bit

1:35:36 ↗ off feel safe and wanting to make sure

1:35:38 ↗ that it covers

1:35:40 ↗ um i have a i have a sense that most

1:35:42 ↗ people

1:35:43 ↗ feel safe in issaquah but they worry

1:35:45 ↗ about and i speak to someone who's

1:35:47 ↗ almost burglarized

1:35:48 ↗ by having their home burglar right and

1:35:51 ↗ property crime and the uh

1:35:55 ↗ association between uh

1:35:58 ↗ human service needs and poverty

1:36:02 ↗ and uh chemical abuse

1:36:05 ↗ and uh property

1:36:09 ↗ that um that isn't really necessarily

1:36:12 ↗ like i said i never

1:36:13 ↗ don't feel safe in isaac but i worry

1:36:15 ↗ about my house getting burglarized

1:36:18 ↗ right so i don't know i just want to

1:36:20 ↗ make sure

1:36:21 ↗ as we talk about this didn't cover the

1:36:23 ↗ things that people are actually most

1:36:25 ↗ concerned about

1:36:27 ↗ so is there a definition of safety

1:36:31 ↗ it's just i'm just i'm just the words

1:36:33 ↗ feel safe

1:36:34 ↗ um again i don't think most people ever

1:36:38 ↗ don't feel safe in this before they're

1:36:40 ↗ just worried about

1:36:41 ↗ primarily

1:36:44 ↗ and drug abuse and people needles and

1:36:47 ↗ all that kind of stuff

1:36:49 ↗ um no i think that's good feedback i'm

1:36:52 ↗ not sure how to

1:36:53 ↗ change it um but i i think one

1:36:57 ↗ reason why i picked this wording too is

1:36:59 ↗ that i remember in the

1:37:00 ↗ community survey one of the things is

1:37:02 ↗ visibility of police officers

1:37:05 ↗ and um and so that seems to me that

1:37:08 ↗ that's

1:37:08 ↗ something that for some people they

1:37:10 ↗ think

1:37:12 ↗ that that they feel safe with the

1:37:15 ↗ visibility of police officers and so

1:37:16 ↗ that was one of the reasons why

1:37:18 ↗ it's there but then again different

1:37:20 ↗ people have different

1:37:21 ↗ needs for feeling safe so i don't know

1:37:24 ↗ if there's maybe something

1:37:26 ↗ yeah if somebody wants to propose a

1:37:27 ↗ change to address

1:37:29 ↗ concerns about uh

1:37:32 ↗ expanding it to cover non-safety

1:37:35 ↗ but could you just take the word

1:37:38 ↗ safehead and have people have

1:37:40 ↗ access to public safety resources that

1:37:43 ↗ meet their needs

1:37:46 ↗ whether it's stuff

1:38:00 ↗ gonna i was just gonna suggest dancing

1:38:08 ↗ yesterday administrator reaction to that

1:38:11 ↗ before

1:38:12 ↗ i was thinking the same thing they were

1:38:14 ↗ okay

1:38:28 ↗ councilman

1:38:38 ↗ um it's hard to hear all the

1:38:40 ↗ conversations

1:38:42 ↗ um truly so i'm re

1:38:45 ↗ i've been trying to restrain myself from

1:38:48 ↗ sending stuff in the chat every few

1:38:49 ↗ minutes it says

1:38:50 ↗ it would be nice to hear you know it's

1:38:52 ↗ not ideal

1:38:53 ↗ um but in terms of i just think people

1:38:58 ↗ feel one i think one of the things that

1:39:00 ↗ a lot of parts of our strategic plan

1:39:02 ↗ suffer from is it's very broad

1:39:04 ↗ and to me that's just very

1:39:07 ↗ broad i don't know i mean we

1:39:11 ↗ i don't know what we're trying to solve

1:39:14 ↗ but

1:39:15 ↗ it's anyway that's my comment it's hard

1:39:18 ↗ for me to have that kind of conversation

1:39:19 ↗ because i'm not there

1:39:20 ↗ having a conversation with you but

1:39:21 ↗ that's my that's my reaction

1:39:36 ↗ uh i think it is very broad and i

1:39:40 ↗ i recognize that and i think it's a very

1:39:42 ↗ broad thing that was missing

1:39:52 ↗ from

1:40:06 ↗ somewhere and it's it's my belief that

1:40:11 ↗ you're going from the very very very

1:40:14 ↗ directional

1:40:15 ↗ goals to something intermediate

1:40:17 ↗ objectives to something actionable

1:40:19 ↗ actions and so you know

1:40:32 ↗ um any objection to the people feel safe

1:40:35 ↗ and secure

1:40:36 ↗ and just want to have public safety

1:40:37 ↗ resources to meet their needs

1:40:39 ↗ as a new objective under city services

1:40:44 ↗ right sorry sorry i couldn't get my hand

1:40:47 ↗ raised up in time this is stacey can i

1:40:49 ↗ make another

1:40:50 ↗ comment or council member goodman as we

1:40:54 ↗ sometimes call you

1:40:56 ↗ my name is stacy that's fine um

1:41:00 ↗ just food for thought um

1:41:04 ↗ what about and it's not so much a

1:41:07 ↗ proposal

1:41:08 ↗ just to think about what about uh public

1:41:11 ↗ safety resources

1:41:12 ↗ meet our meet that community's needs

1:41:15 ↗ rather than people feel safe and secure

1:41:19 ↗ i think that's probably really what

1:41:21 ↗ everybody wants we want to make sure

1:41:23 ↗ that we have public safety resources

1:41:24 ↗ that meet

1:41:25 ↗ our needs mom i think as i further think

1:41:28 ↗ about people feel safe

1:41:30 ↗ it suggests that people don't feel safe

1:41:32 ↗ and i

1:41:33 ↗ am um concerned about

1:41:37 ↗ what uh what our police department

1:41:40 ↗ thinks about us adding something like

1:41:42 ↗ that to our strategic plan

1:41:48 ↗ councilman walsh i i can absolutely

1:41:50 ↗ appreciate

1:41:51 ↗ that adjustment and recognizing that

1:41:56 ↗ yes most people feel safe we do want to

1:41:59 ↗ address

1:42:00 ↗ the i want to call it edge cases but

1:42:04 ↗ certainly the

1:42:05 ↗ experiences of different people

1:42:08 ↗ experiencing safety

1:42:10 ↗ differently but leaving with

1:42:13 ↗ it may be read in

1:42:16 ↗ a certain way that i'm not sure we

1:42:18 ↗ intended

1:42:20 ↗ so i would i would support that concept

1:42:22 ↗ could do you think you could type that

1:42:24 ↗ up um rearrange as a secondary auction

1:42:28 ↗ administrator public safety resources

1:42:31 ↗ meet our community's need

1:42:33 ↗ just a question for council member walsh

1:42:36 ↗ we talked about the edges and i think

1:42:38 ↗ we need those places where we are not um

1:42:42 ↗ public safety resources meet our diverse

1:42:45 ↗ community

1:42:45 ↗ needs so that we are recognizing that

1:42:49 ↗ it means different things to different

1:42:51 ↗ groups who may be doing well for many

1:43:03 ↗ thoughts reactions

1:43:07 ↗ i've seen some thumbs up

1:43:17 ↗ i think the important thing is that

1:43:19 ↗ we've got something

1:43:21 ↗ where we again it's the scaffolding

1:43:23 ↗ which is going to be my word of the day

1:43:24 ↗ we have some staff we understand

1:43:27 ↗ and to build a discussion so

1:43:30 ↗ all right we've got that so we'll add

1:43:33 ↗ that one under

1:43:34 ↗ services as a new objective um i have

1:43:38 ↗ exactly one minute left

1:43:41 ↗ oh yeah wow i took five years and you

1:43:44 ↗ really have to six minutes

1:43:48 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

1:43:50 ↗ that was awesome

1:43:52 ↗ um this is the point in time when we

1:43:54 ↗ were thinking of taking a five minute

1:43:55 ↗ break i believe

1:43:57 ↗ in this first question so we'll be going

1:43:59 ↗ offline for five minutes

1:44:18 ↗ facilitate connections with

1:44:21 ↗ community organizations

1:44:27 ↗ total services and resources

1:44:34 ↗ i'm sorry uh the city facilities

1:44:37 ↗ connections

1:44:38 ↗ to community organizations so

1:44:43 ↗ so they can provide services and

1:44:47 ↗ resources to help people thrive

1:44:54 ↗ facilitate connections to community

1:44:56 ↗ resources organizations so they

1:44:59 ↗ so they can provide

1:45:02 ↗ services services and resources

1:45:05 ↗ to help people try

1:45:14 ↗ and

1:45:27 ↗ uh question i i think

1:45:31 ↗ part of the part of this for me is that

1:45:33 ↗ there's also emphasis on

1:45:35 ↗ for example the homelessness out of each

1:45:37 ↗ person that will be

1:45:38 ↗ potentially um but it's

1:45:41 ↗ currently i think a city split position

1:45:44 ↗ that could potentially be a

1:45:45 ↗ city position or additional services of

1:45:48 ↗ that kind so that would not be

1:45:51 ↗ um as a direct service and so this is

1:45:54 ↗ facilitating connections to other

1:45:57 ↗ organizations

1:45:58 ↗ um so i wonder i guess i wonder if we

1:46:01 ↗ could make it

1:46:03 ↗ also include that that's another way and

1:46:06 ↗ that's kind of a shift in emphasis over

1:46:10 ↗ here so um but i think it's

1:46:13 ↗ that i think you want to continue

1:46:15 ↗ personally yeah comfortable

1:46:16 ↗ i think it's covered in there with the

1:46:18 ↗ wording the way you have it now

1:46:19 ↗ because the this is a this greatest

1:46:22 ↗ connective tissue it's a person who goes

1:46:24 ↗ out and connects somebody with an

1:46:26 ↗ organization provides housing

1:46:28 ↗ connects somebody with the media program

1:46:30 ↗ connects them with somebody who can do

1:46:31 ↗ their benefits so

1:46:33 ↗ i wouldn't say this language fear in any

1:46:35 ↗ way

1:46:36 ↗ would discount costs having that

1:46:38 ↗ decision

1:46:55 ↗ [Music]

1:47:01 ↗ thoughts on that one

1:47:10 ↗ i have my hand raised

1:47:14 ↗ i can't see your hand

1:47:17 ↗ um i i agree with

1:47:20 ↗ uh dwelling on removing the sew but the

1:47:23 ↗ city facilitates connections to

1:47:26 ↗ community organizations

1:47:28 ↗ between from from who

1:47:32 ↗ facilitates connections

1:47:36 ↗ whom to whom i i don't really understand

1:47:39 ↗ i'm not i'm i'm not saying i'm proposed

1:47:41 ↗ i just don't i'm

1:47:42 ↗ i guess i'm not post because i don't

1:47:43 ↗ know what it means it means what what

1:47:45 ↗ are we trying to do

1:47:46 ↗ what and maybe it's because um

1:47:48 ↗ councilman dean michelle is really hard

1:47:50 ↗ for me to hear

1:47:51 ↗ um so i probably haven't heard but a

1:47:53 ↗ quarter of what she said

1:47:55 ↗ the night during the night but to me i

1:47:57 ↗ don't understand what this means

1:47:58 ↗ who are we facilitating connections

1:48:02 ↗ from to community organizations

1:48:10 ↗ resident connections

1:48:18 ↗ don't we have programs where we're doing

1:48:19 ↗ that already

1:48:24 ↗ yeah we have programs that do a lot of

1:48:26 ↗ things that are in our objectives

1:48:28 ↗ a lot of our objectives are things that

1:48:29 ↗ we are already

1:48:32 ↗ sure so what are we trying to do i'm

1:48:34 ↗ just trying to find out what we're

1:48:34 ↗ trying to do so that i can figure out if

1:48:36 ↗ i understand it

1:48:37 ↗ and if i have any comments on how to

1:48:39 ↗ make it so i understand it that's all

1:48:41 ↗ if if you guys are all fine with it then

1:48:52 ↗ i think the piece that may be missing

1:48:54 ↗ here is

1:48:56 ↗ mentioning what we mean by

1:49:00 ↗ helping people thrive because the

1:49:02 ↗ previous

1:49:03 ↗ objective mentioned inequities and

1:49:07 ↗ health and well-being

1:49:09 ↗ i think what we're trying to adjust and

1:49:12 ↗ add in here

1:49:13 ↗ is a mention of human

1:49:16 ↗ services and so

1:49:20 ↗ perhaps perhaps it would be clarified by

1:49:23 ↗ the actions underneath it

1:49:24 ↗ but it's still this concept of

1:49:28 ↗ who are we talking about and what does

1:49:30 ↗ it mean to

1:49:31 ↗ thrive maybe

1:49:45 ↗ well let's talk about that for a second

1:49:48 ↗ we've covered a lot of material tonight

1:49:50 ↗ we've done some some hard thinking

1:49:52 ↗ what if we and councilmember and i'll

1:49:55 ↗ ask you this question why don't we move

1:49:56 ↗ forward this is a working

1:49:59 ↗ objective at this time as we go into

1:50:00 ↗ actions it may help us

1:50:02 ↗ as we start to dig into more of the real

1:50:05 ↗ and

1:50:05 ↗ specific it may be clear to us what we

1:50:07 ↗ want this to say

1:50:08 ↗ any reaction

1:50:13 ↗ no it's fine i just think when we end up

1:50:14 ↗ with final language

1:50:16 ↗ we need to make sure that we know what

1:50:17 ↗ we're trying to say

1:50:19 ↗ it may mean that we're just missing

1:50:20 ↗ words between let's say connect

1:50:22 ↗ connections you know between

1:50:25 ↗ you know between and among individuals

1:50:27 ↗ and community organizations or something

1:50:28 ↗ like we want to be the

1:50:30 ↗ you know we want to facilitate

1:50:32 ↗ connections between

1:50:34 ↗ people and community organizations or

1:50:36 ↗ something like that i don't know

1:50:38 ↗ but anyway that's all i just

1:50:41 ↗ it's just feedback thank you council

1:50:44 ↗ president

1:50:46 ↗ i have a suggestion um so well first

1:50:50 ↗ i'll

1:50:50 ↗ close the question this is human

1:50:52 ↗ services

1:50:54 ↗ focused right okay so what if we say

1:50:57 ↗ city facilitates connections to human

1:50:59 ↗ service

1:51:00 ↗ organization human services

1:51:02 ↗ organizations to help the community

1:51:05 ↗ right um and it's not and in the

1:51:07 ↗ original it talks about health and

1:51:08 ↗ well-being of the community but reducing

1:51:10 ↗ equities which we felt was

1:51:12 ↗ kind of not the end goal just reducing

1:51:15 ↗ equities is more to help people drive so

1:51:17 ↗ this is

1:51:33 ↗ some something what are we connecting to

1:51:36 ↗ from

1:51:36 ↗ too anyway

1:51:39 ↗ okay i think it's from residents to

1:51:42 ↗ human services organizations right

1:51:46 ↗ to help those presidents thrive to help

1:51:49 ↗ the community

1:51:50 ↗ i don't know connections between

1:51:52 ↗ residents and human services

1:51:53 ↗ organizations

1:51:55 ↗ actually between residents

1:51:59 ↗ and human services organizations what

1:52:01 ↗ did they then facilitate

1:52:03 ↗ connecting residents to human services

1:52:05 ↗ situations

1:52:06 ↗ sure yep

1:52:25 ↗ molly has hit steve

1:52:34 ↗ [Music]

1:52:43 ↗ and i think that we will always find

1:52:44 ↗ that as we start to think and we will

1:52:47 ↗ better understand what we're trying to

1:52:48 ↗ accomplish

1:52:50 ↗ all right so now i've gone over my five

1:52:52 ↗ minutes

1:52:54 ↗ so now i have not succeeded so i take

1:52:56 ↗ back the congratulations

1:53:10 ↗ thanks

2:01:51 ↗ tim if you can let us know if we're

2:01:52 ↗ ready to go again

2:01:55 ↗ social media

2:02:08 ↗ tim i'm going to assume that you can

2:02:11 ↗ hear me so i'll start in 10 seconds

2:02:24 ↗ and welcome back from the break uh

2:02:26 ↗ council president county is going to

2:02:27 ↗ take us through

2:02:28 ↗ the next section of tonight's special

2:02:30 ↗ council meeting and i'd just like to

2:02:31 ↗ check

2:02:32 ↗ in with councilmember goodman and find

2:02:34 ↗ out if the audio is any better

2:02:38 ↗ yes thank you okay we shuffled the

2:02:42 ↗ tables

2:02:43 ↗ good hopefully that works

2:02:46 ↗ i saw you were all busy while i just sat

2:02:47 ↗ here and watched

2:02:50 ↗ and also i'd like to remind people if

2:02:52 ↗ your laptop's directly in front of you

2:02:53 ↗ between you and the l

2:02:54 ↗ move it to the side when you talk just

2:02:56 ↗ so we make sure that um

2:02:58 ↗ our words are paired and then council

2:02:59 ↗ president

2:03:01 ↗ all right um so this next section is

2:03:03 ↗ going to be

2:03:04 ↗ focusing on actions and the idea is

2:03:07 ↗ really that we

2:03:08 ↗ prioritize actions add emphasis to

2:03:11 ↗ actions and also if there are

2:03:13 ↗ missing actions that we need to put in

2:03:16 ↗ the plan that we add those

2:03:17 ↗ and i understand that it would also be

2:03:19 ↗ helpful if there are actions that have

2:03:22 ↗ been overtaken by events or that are no

2:03:25 ↗ longer

2:03:26 ↗ actions that we think are strategic then

2:03:28 ↗ we can also

2:03:29 ↗ let the administration know that those

2:03:32 ↗ should be theonsized so i think that's

2:03:33 ↗ the second tier

2:03:35 ↗ but at first we'd like to go through the

2:03:38 ↗ actions under the different sections

2:03:40 ↗ and start prioritizing adding

2:03:43 ↗ actual dots i think um and

2:03:46 ↗ going through and adding any that we

2:03:48 ↗ need to add in

2:03:49 ↗ under either the new objectives or if

2:03:51 ↗ they're under other objectives

2:03:53 ↗ um so i would propose that we go through

2:03:57 ↗ the different goal areas and the

2:04:00 ↗ strategic plan

2:04:01 ↗ starting with mobility um

2:04:04 ↗ so who would like to kick it off for

2:04:06 ↗ mobility that's number walsh and i

2:04:08 ↗ actually ask a

2:04:10 ↗ question before we start on that yeah it

2:04:13 ↗ would be very easy to

2:04:14 ↗ sit there and try and go through

2:04:16 ↗ everything

2:04:17 ↗ um does it make sense to start on the

2:04:21 ↗ new

2:04:21 ↗ objectives that we have created

2:04:25 ↗ i think we should start with whatever we

2:04:27 ↗ think is most important

2:04:28 ↗ so if we think having having new actions

2:04:32 ↗ under the

2:04:32 ↗ objective that we think are the most

2:04:34 ↗ important then we should do that if we

2:04:36 ↗ think

2:04:37 ↗ calling out something that's existing

2:04:38 ↗ for emphasis is important then we can do

2:04:40 ↗ that

2:04:41 ↗ so either way i'm going to write it down

2:04:43 ↗ in the end and then we can

2:04:45 ↗ add our votes

2:04:52 ↗ and i'll i'll put it out here too if

2:04:54 ↗ council would like to

2:04:56 ↗ go through the process of adding things

2:04:58 ↗ that are for the new objectives first we

2:05:00 ↗ can definitely do that but

2:05:01 ↗ my suggestion would be we go kind of

2:05:04 ↗ important

2:05:11 ↗ okay does anybody want to kick us off

2:05:15 ↗ on mobility actions that are that we

2:05:18 ↗ need

2:05:26 ↗ that's alright uh thank you i guess just

2:05:29 ↗ starting from the beginning the very

2:05:31 ↗ first potential action that we have with

2:05:32 ↗ regard to mobility

2:05:34 ↗ is the adoption of the mobility master

2:05:36 ↗ plan and since that's been completed

2:05:39 ↗ um i think there are one or two options

2:05:41 ↗ we can either

2:05:42 ↗ update it to focus on implementation of

2:05:45 ↗ the action plan

2:05:46 ↗ or just strike it

2:05:54 ↗ yeah so a process suggestion is if

2:05:58 ↗ things are already completed

2:05:59 ↗ we'll administratively take them off so

2:06:02 ↗ if you want to adjust it so

2:06:04 ↗ that there is a work plan separate for

2:06:06 ↗ the mobility master plan for example

2:06:09 ↗ or whatever else an implementation focus

2:06:11 ↗ there

2:06:12 ↗ and not worry about it it's completely

2:06:14 ↗ mistaken okay

2:06:17 ↗ council deputy president right under um

2:06:21 ↗ the preferred location timing division

2:06:24 ↗ for the

2:06:25 ↗ light rail the first one is develop

2:06:28 ↗ action is develop a city-wide transit

2:06:31 ↗ plan that was lessons learned

2:06:33 ↗ i'd like to expand that to

2:06:36 ↗ build a citywide transit plan that

2:06:39 ↗ includes

2:06:40 ↗ light rail interim

2:06:43 ↗ city transit and other

2:06:47 ↗ and non-motorized trend

2:06:51 ↗ transportation so

2:06:54 ↗ it's not so different than councilmember

2:06:56 ↗ falls implementing the

2:06:59 ↗ master mobility blender it has a couple

2:07:00 ↗ of

2:07:03 ↗ textures in it okay so the suggestion is

2:07:06 ↗ light rail to add um under that one to

2:07:09 ↗ add

2:07:10 ↗ to expand to um transit and

2:07:14 ↗ other non-motorized transit other

2:07:16 ↗ non-motorized

2:07:18 ↗ mobility maybe yeah

2:07:22 ↗ okay um that's good

2:07:27 ↗ okay

2:07:32 ↗ there's a question on that one yeah uh

2:07:35 ↗ on that one in particular deputy house

2:07:37 ↗ president right so

2:07:38 ↗ um would

2:07:42 ↗ including you know the other types of

2:07:44 ↗ non-car

2:07:46 ↗ transportation in the transit plan be

2:07:48 ↗ focused on

2:07:50 ↗ station area planning like the city-wide

2:07:52 ↗ transit plan would be

2:07:54 ↗ or because i'm just trying to think

2:07:56 ↗ about like okay well how would that be

2:07:57 ↗ different

2:07:58 ↗ how to be different than the mobility

2:07:59 ↗ master plan when it comes to

2:08:01 ↗ multi-modal transportation and just

2:08:03 ↗ making sure we're not

2:08:04 ↗ duplicating things yeah it may will be

2:08:08 ↗ you know this i should know that's right

2:08:10 ↗ the master mobility

2:08:11 ↗ mobility master plan doesn't include uh

2:08:14 ↗ light rail and

2:08:16 ↗ the transit options yes and then you can

2:08:20 ↗ strike them

2:08:28 ↗ um advocate for

2:08:31 ↗ [Music]

2:08:32 ↗ transit recovery

2:08:39 ↗ and i believe that belongs over under

2:08:43 ↗ mm2 the near term connections and

2:08:46 ↗ efficiencies in the mobility system are

2:08:48 ↗ leaving do you want to add in postcode

2:08:52 ↗ transit recovery in case a couple years

2:08:54 ↗ from now we're reading this and

2:08:56 ↗ don't know which slash it was yeah yeah

2:08:58 ↗ that was

2:08:59 ↗ that was not a word smithing that was

2:09:01 ↗ just topic

2:09:05 ↗ councilmember goodman is stepping away

2:09:07 ↗ for a few minutes

2:09:24 ↗ ml3 i would use the word advocate

2:09:27 ↗ again and

2:09:31 ↗ you have let's see it says uh

2:09:34 ↗ sorry you can't see with the bathtub

2:09:37 ↗ um it says engage with the community

2:09:41 ↗ washed out and sound transit to

2:09:43 ↗ determine the preferred location and

2:09:44 ↗ border for light rail

2:09:46 ↗ i would change that to engage with the

2:09:48 ↗ region

2:09:50 ↗ or excuse me advocate with region

2:09:53 ↗ community watchdog and south transit to

2:09:56 ↗ determine the preferred location

2:09:57 ↗ important for librarian

2:10:00 ↗ and the timeline and finally and china

2:10:06 ↗ hey um is

2:10:09 ↗ that what we're seeing on the screen the

2:10:11 ↗ same thing no no i'm looking at it and

2:10:14 ↗ it's flipped

2:10:15 ↗ so it's just because that's already our

2:10:17 ↗ video feed

2:10:18 ↗ so but i was gonna say is it full screen

2:10:21 ↗ on

2:10:22 ↗ the is that that's for the user okay i

2:10:25 ↗ can do that here i thought that might be

2:10:27 ↗ yeah no that's fine i just wanted to

2:10:28 ↗ make sure people were going to be able

2:10:30 ↗ to see

2:10:30 ↗ that so yes it's legible yes

2:10:34 ↗ yeah i can i can verbally say it also so

2:10:36 ↗ everybody

2:10:37 ↗ if you're hearing us you can also hear

2:10:39 ↗ it um so this one is going to be to add

2:10:41 ↗ advocate engage with the region

2:10:43 ↗ on the light rail and then adding the

2:10:46 ↗ timeline considerations to the light

2:10:47 ↗ rail

2:10:49 ↗ advocacy action

2:10:53 ↗ okay anyone have any other ones

2:10:58 ↗ under mobility you had mentioned

2:11:01 ↗ congestion relief

2:11:02 ↗ yeah yeah so congestion relief whether

2:11:06 ↗ that is

2:11:06 ↗ a traffic czar

2:11:10 ↗ whether that's uh having a separate

2:11:14 ↗ focus on in

2:11:17 ↗ community getting around town versus

2:11:22 ↗ regional

2:11:25 ↗ i don't know which whether to put

2:11:28 ↗ both because i think both are important

2:11:33 ↗ but i don't know how much control we

2:11:35 ↗ have on

2:11:36 ↗ certain areas again process suggestion

2:11:40 ↗ brought up apparently advertised yep

2:11:43 ↗ right

2:11:46 ↗ i agree with you councilmember walsh

2:11:47 ↗ it's a little bit undefined but it's

2:11:49 ↗ added to the list

2:11:50 ↗ okay um congestion relief for what was

2:11:54 ↗ the wording you would use

2:11:56 ↗ yeah yeah let's put congestion relief

2:12:01 ↗ okay um so

2:12:05 ↗ does anyone have any other suggestions

2:12:08 ↗ actions uh i had one

2:12:12 ↗ that is i thought i was thinking about

2:12:15 ↗ what can we actually do

2:12:17 ↗ for transit for mobility and one of the

2:12:20 ↗ things is

2:12:21 ↗ when there were a lot less cars on their

2:12:22 ↗ own uh traffic was a lot better and that

2:12:25 ↗ was a product of a lot of people

2:12:27 ↗ being able to work from home so i

2:12:29 ↗ actually put um

2:12:31 ↗ i had action to assessment number and

2:12:33 ↗ reduction of barriers from working from

2:12:35 ↗ home for example improving

2:12:36 ↗ an internet reliability under under

2:12:39 ↗ mobility

2:12:40 ↗ but i know it could go other places but

2:12:42 ↗ um that seems like

2:12:43 ↗ something if we can support people

2:12:45 ↗ continuing to work from home

2:12:48 ↗ that would be something that could

2:12:49 ↗ actually make a difference

2:12:51 ↗ um why not just throw the word broadband

2:12:54 ↗ up there for now and then after all of

2:12:55 ↗ those buckets are full you can decide

2:12:57 ↗ which bucket belongs but it has multiple

2:12:59 ↗ benefits

2:13:00 ↗ yeah sorry i have a question what's the

2:13:03 ↗ advocate for you what do we have to

2:13:05 ↗ change the light rail

2:13:06 ↗ i love three the light rail threes

2:13:09 ↗ is the light rail one okay right

2:13:25 ↗ yes so this one i'm actually going into

2:13:28 ↗ the

2:13:28 ↗ work plan which is there but

2:13:31 ↗ broaden that squad campass

2:13:35 ↗ shuttle plan into a inner

2:13:38 ↗ city sorry

2:13:42 ↗ brought in this spock mountain talus

2:13:45 ↗ shuttle plan into an inter city

2:13:49 ↗ um transit plan

2:13:52 ↗ and i know it's in the work plan it's

2:13:55 ↗ been the work plan already so

2:13:58 ↗ perhaps it doesn't go here but

2:14:02 ↗ perhaps it does

2:14:07 ↗ okay anything else that anybody wants to

2:14:09 ↗ put up here

2:14:13 ↗ yeah okay

2:14:16 ↗ um so we have one two three four

2:14:19 ↗ five six um

2:14:24 ↗ and it'd be helpful if we prioritize so

2:14:27 ↗ process for prioritization we could have

2:14:30 ↗ everybody

2:14:32 ↗ um give your top one we can mark that or

2:14:35 ↗ how do we want to do this that

2:14:38 ↗ works

2:14:41 ↗ sure okay okay so um

2:14:47 ↗ i think vicky if you wanted to you could

2:14:50 ↗ just give everybody three opportunities

2:14:52 ↗ to put their thumb up

2:14:52 ↗ just count and shut down the numbers

2:14:55 ↗ then we don't have to pick one

2:14:56 ↗ all right so you get three three votes

2:15:00 ↗ first one is mobility and master plan

2:15:02 ↗ implementation

2:15:07 ↗ councilmember goodman

2:15:10 ↗ okay i mean one nice thing is we can

2:15:14 ↗ check in with her

2:15:16 ↗ um okay broadening squawk talus general

2:15:20 ↗ program

2:15:29 ↗ congestion release

2:15:37 ↗ i work from home

2:15:45 ↗ advocate with region on the light rail

2:15:53 ↗ transit recovery was focused

2:16:03 ↗ okay everybody vote on three things

2:16:07 ↗ you put your four next to advocate yep

2:16:09 ↗ drop it down and pull it

2:16:11 ↗ there we go

2:16:18 ↗ okay all right any other comments on

2:16:22 ↗ mobility i think that i'm

2:16:25 ↗ relatively speaking yeah 826.

2:16:30 ↗ that was probably one of the bigger yep

2:16:32 ↗ doing great

2:16:33 ↗ thank you doing great okay um we're

2:16:36 ↗ gonna go

2:16:37 ↗ to growth and development unless anybody

2:16:38 ↗ has any closing thoughts on

2:16:40 ↗ mobility growth and development

2:16:45 ↗ actions to add change and that will help

2:16:48 ↗ you group that emphasis

2:16:51 ↗ and if you if even if you don't want to

2:16:52 ↗ add or change it and you want it to be

2:16:54 ↗ the emphasis then

2:16:55 ↗ let me know

2:17:02 ↗ i think this is where the economic

2:17:04 ↗ development one

2:17:06 ↗ from councilman remarks really belongs

2:17:09 ↗ will you help me with

2:17:10 ↗ these words what are the actions

2:17:23 ↗ if you look under gg2 some of it's under

2:17:25 ↗ gd2

2:17:26 ↗ oh yeah the amenities but then the

2:17:30 ↗ the one that has the recovery of

2:17:32 ↗ businesses is under social and economic

2:17:34 ↗ i thought

2:17:36 ↗ maybe it belongs better

2:17:39 ↗ title 18.

2:17:42 ↗ sorry just stole my thunder

2:18:03 ↗ yeah i don't really know how to put it

2:18:05 ↗ but the

2:18:07 ↗ the community is very concerned with the

2:18:10 ↗ concept of

2:18:10 ↗ infrastructure and space future growth

2:18:12 ↗ which is in

2:18:14 ↗ gd3 which is basically what gd3 is

2:18:18 ↗ but i don't know how to translate that

2:18:20 ↗ well

2:18:21 ↗ to an action because i don't know

2:18:25 ↗ whether

2:18:25 ↗ the actions under that accomplish

2:18:29 ↗ that objective

2:18:33 ↗ can i provide some information so the

2:18:36 ↗ infrastructure master plan i think was

2:18:38 ↗ what i was trying to capture when i

2:18:40 ↗ said i really think we should be

2:18:42 ↗ focusing on the central isabel plan and

2:18:44 ↗ how to execute it

2:18:45 ↗ and so that to me is an actual

2:18:47 ↗ deliverable element under there

2:18:50 ↗ that really finds ways to incentivize

2:18:52 ↗ developers to come

2:18:53 ↗ because we've got a stormwater system

2:18:56 ↗ that they buy into

2:18:57 ↗ and all that so that ties a little bit

2:18:59 ↗ into how we're going to get development

2:19:01 ↗ to go

2:19:02 ↗ where we want development to go because

2:19:04 ↗ we haven't gone through that exercise

2:19:06 ↗ yet i'm not sure my concern

2:19:09 ↗ is that development goes where we want

2:19:11 ↗ it to go

2:19:12 ↗ so much as we know development's going

2:19:16 ↗ to happen because we're a desirable

2:19:18 ↗ community

2:19:19 ↗ how do we have the infrastructure to

2:19:21 ↗ support it so we're not constantly

2:19:23 ↗ behind

2:19:24 ↗ and so that's as much

2:19:29 ↗ simulations that say if development

2:19:32 ↗ comes you must do this

2:19:34 ↗ as it is working with the school

2:19:36 ↗ district

2:19:37 ↗ and the county and other things

2:19:42 ↗ so i'm i'm not sure the infrastructure

2:19:45 ↗ master plan as you've described it

2:19:50 ↗ accomplishes what i'm trying to explain

2:19:54 ↗ so the administration feels that we need

2:19:57 ↗ to have a better staff

2:19:58 ↗ resources for advanced planning

2:20:02 ↗ we eliminated the advanced planning

2:20:03 ↗ manager which is kobe cuts and we think

2:20:06 ↗ the time has come

2:20:07 ↗ to re-establish that it's not exact

2:20:10 ↗ closer so you have dedicated

2:20:12 ↗ professional staff that is working on

2:20:14 ↗ those issues all the time

2:20:20 ↗ trying to determine if having staff

2:20:24 ↗ is the same as developing an

2:20:27 ↗ action

2:20:30 ↗ well yes but the question of do i want

2:20:34 ↗ to just hire staff or do i want to

2:20:37 ↗ have something that i want to accomplish

2:20:39 ↗ and decide if staff is the right way to

2:20:41 ↗ do it i think the latter

2:20:49 ↗ maybe this is just me i'll let other

2:20:52 ↗ council members

2:20:56 ↗ ask i i want to ask a question we've got

2:20:58 ↗ title 18 undergrowth development

2:21:01 ↗ um but the thing that i was talking

2:21:04 ↗ about earlier

2:21:05 ↗ is really best encapsulated in se1

2:21:09 ↗ and the thing that is the title 18 is an

2:21:13 ↗ se1

2:21:14 ↗ also double reviews city permitted

2:21:18 ↗ to provide consistency and

2:21:19 ↗ predictability for businesses

2:21:22 ↗ and so title 18 is in multiple

2:21:26 ↗ locations yes i mean we're going to

2:21:29 ↗ double dipping

2:21:30 ↗ on the subject because what it really

2:21:32 ↗ comes down to

2:21:34 ↗ my concerns i guess are really se1

2:21:37 ↗ encapsulates

2:21:39 ↗ a lot of what i care about it's just

2:21:41 ↗ that it has four potential actions

2:21:43 ↗ apparently t is only one of them we

2:21:45 ↗ haven't done anything on everything

2:21:48 ↗ so it isn't that we need new goals it's

2:21:50 ↗ just that

2:21:51 ↗ we've got some stuff here that we

2:21:52 ↗ haven't had a chance to do

2:21:54 ↗ that and where you may want to put your

2:21:56 ↗ interests

2:22:02 ↗ i don't know exactly the words i want to

2:22:04 ↗ use but that seems to be your

2:22:05 ↗ recurring theme but um i want to promote

2:22:09 ↗ the development of

2:22:12 ↗ essentially youth so

2:22:15 ↗ what's what's the global term for you

2:22:17 ↗ know building more you that that's right

2:22:28 ↗ this exercise is coming up with new

2:22:30 ↗ things right

2:22:31 ↗ it isn't trying to also prioritizing the

2:22:33 ↗ existing

2:22:34 ↗ right so what do we do if our interest

2:22:36 ↗ isn't existing

2:22:39 ↗ it's mostly in existing items i think

2:22:41 ↗ what deputy council president ray was

2:22:43 ↗ trying to do at the outset

2:22:44 ↗ and say we may have some gaps because

2:22:46 ↗ think times have changed um

2:22:49 ↗ you know our all the stuff we went

2:22:51 ↗ through the last 18 months

2:22:53 ↗ but i think more importantly for wally

2:22:55 ↗ and i it's that

2:22:56 ↗ we have action items in here some that

2:22:58 ↗ have been budgeted some that have been

2:23:00 ↗ started

2:23:01 ↗ of the list that's here what are your

2:23:03 ↗ priorities so you don't have to create

2:23:05 ↗ new you can just say look i don't even

2:23:07 ↗ need to talk about title 18

2:23:08 ↗ under economic vitality or whatever that

2:23:11 ↗ what it's called

2:23:12 ↗ because i know you're doing it because

2:23:13 ↗ you've got four other reasons to do it

2:23:15 ↗ and you put it in further places

2:23:17 ↗ but i'm looking at the three the lowest

2:23:19 ↗ and for me if we don't get moving on

2:23:21 ↗ this third bullet we're just not going

2:23:22 ↗ to get anywhere so it's about emphasis

2:23:26 ↗ all

2:23:30 ↗ uh deputy right president ray i believe

2:23:33 ↗ the part about evus is helpful

2:23:35 ↗ codes and standards is that exactly

2:23:38 ↗ where you are going to be able to

2:23:39 ↗ affect change in housing styles yes and

2:23:42 ↗ no i can't predict

2:23:44 ↗ standards i want to do the um the push

2:23:48 ↗ how do we make it easier yeah so

2:23:52 ↗ that's in title 18 and title 16 as well

2:23:56 ↗ that's why it's title 18 in 2016. that's

2:23:58 ↗ our fan for two years

2:24:00 ↗ that was the thing um

2:24:04 ↗ so am i playing i think you can just

2:24:07 ↗ leave it there but i i think

2:24:09 ↗ that will get accomplished under the

2:24:11 ↗ cheating

2:24:12 ↗ monster i think maybe it's a little

2:24:13 ↗ different okay so let's leave it yeah so

2:24:16 ↗ title 18 says you can where you can what

2:24:18 ↗ i'm trying to do is say

2:24:20 ↗ how do we promote or saying you can do

2:24:23 ↗ it

2:24:23 ↗ how do we make it yeah

2:24:26 ↗ incentivize it such as bellevue just or

2:24:30 ↗ you know said here are plans that you

2:24:32 ↗ could do without permit

2:24:33 ↗ yeah yeah counter permit plans

2:24:38 ↗ my thought is it's not just adus it's

2:24:41 ↗ are missing middle

2:24:42 ↗ yeah i was gonna there is one for

2:24:44 ↗ missing middle so if

2:24:46 ↗ if it's if i can lump them together i

2:24:50 ↗ can lift them together but

2:24:50 ↗ i'm not sure hold them together

2:24:54 ↗ well i think there's i think there's

2:24:55 ↗ micro apartments i think there's missing

2:24:57 ↗ metal i think there's lots of things we

2:24:59 ↗ don't build

2:24:59 ↗ a lot of here that we get that's all

2:25:02 ↗ kinds of things

2:25:03 ↗ okay so that one does now it aligns with

2:25:07 ↗ one of the items

2:25:10 ↗ okay um so i there's one there's one on

2:25:12 ↗ central issaquah which was mentioned

2:25:14 ↗ earlier so i put down after advanced

2:25:16 ↗ planning from the administration

2:25:18 ↗ um the other ones are oh and then

2:25:21 ↗ there's a there's a communication to

2:25:22 ↗ community that's in there

2:25:23 ↗ now so i put that up there too

2:25:27 ↗ in case anybody wants to vote for that

2:25:28 ↗ one anything else

2:25:32 ↗ missing anything that you would want to

2:25:36 ↗ vote for

2:25:40 ↗ us maybe neighborhood-based or can you

2:25:43 ↗ neighborhood-based gaps and services and

2:25:50 ↗ amenities

2:26:06 ↗ would you put that as a potential action

2:26:08 ↗ item under gd1 then is that what you're

2:26:09 ↗ thinking

2:26:10 ↗ a new one um well actually i think it's

2:26:12 ↗ already under gd4 such as emphasizing

2:26:15 ↗ okay that's a point for you for

2:26:18 ↗ emphasize

2:26:23 ↗ thank you okay ready to

2:26:26 ↗ go let's go all right question yes

2:26:31 ↗ do we feel like infrastructure

2:26:34 ↗ anticipates future growth

2:26:36 ↗ is the same as advanced

2:26:39 ↗ planning

2:26:42 ↗ i don't okay

2:26:46 ↗ there's there's the operational piece of

2:26:48 ↗ this and then there's the

2:26:50 ↗ policy so we're going to have to marry

2:26:53 ↗ them

2:26:53 ↗ with all of these

2:26:58 ↗ how many bills

2:27:03 ↗ [Laughter]

2:27:13 ↗ yeah let's do that you can only vote

2:27:15 ↗ because then we have

2:27:16 ↗ we have not many council members that

2:27:17 ↗ are putting emphasis on it yeah but we

2:27:19 ↗ can put it at this part

2:27:22 ↗ and ask by one of the votes yeah okay so

2:27:24 ↗ title 18.

2:27:42 ↗ okay

2:27:44 ↗ okay infrastructure anticipates future

2:27:47 ↗ growth

2:27:54 ↗ central island planning

2:28:01 ↗ advanced planning

2:28:07 ↗ communications who community

2:28:11 ↗ uh ads promote missing middle options

2:28:24 ↗ okay and then neighborhood gaps and

2:28:25 ↗ amenities

2:28:34 ↗ great

2:28:43 ↗ okay um now we're going on to

2:28:45 ↗ environmental

2:28:52 ↗ stewardship do you want to start

2:28:55 ↗ did you want to start with es2 where you

2:28:57 ↗ modified the objective

2:28:59 ↗ and look at the action against there

2:29:01 ↗ first

2:29:07 ↗ i don't remember what it was it's not

2:29:09 ↗ gonna happen yeah

2:29:10 ↗ um so that one is the yeah community

2:29:13 ↗ members are active partners in the

2:29:15 ↗ stewardship of this department's

2:29:16 ↗ environment and in issaquah's responsive

2:29:18 ↗ climate change

2:29:20 ↗ so we added climate change and we don't

2:29:22 ↗ have action

2:29:23 ↗ and i yeah so i have a potential action

2:29:26 ↗ i'll put it on the board and that's

2:29:27 ↗ implementation of the

2:29:28 ↗ climate action plan

2:29:35 ↗ you'll be adoption candidate

2:29:48 ↗ okay

2:29:53 ↗ um funding for land acquisition

2:30:09 ↗ i would do funding and maintenance of

2:30:14 ↗ open space

2:30:20 ↗ are those all emphasis ones for noon

2:30:25 ↗ um that one would be new maintenance

2:30:28 ↗ would be a new one

2:30:30 ↗ can i say question about

2:30:33 ↗ so my old neighbor margaret cloud her

2:30:36 ↗ job was to go find

2:30:38 ↗ grants for land acquisitions

2:30:41 ↗ right we don't have somebody like that

2:30:56 ↗ that's a good question and also there's

2:30:58 ↗ establish a dedicated funding source for

2:30:59 ↗ priority land acquisitions it's already

2:31:01 ↗ under es3 so that's why i was just

2:31:03 ↗ curious if this is something new or is

2:31:05 ↗ this just saying

2:31:06 ↗ that's an emphasis on that that's enough

2:31:08 ↗ that's

2:31:09 ↗ exactly what i was reading okay great

2:31:14 ↗ we have a request to announce the number

2:31:19 ↗ of audiences

2:31:26 ↗ okay

2:31:37 ↗ anybody want to add anything else up

2:31:40 ↗ here

2:31:43 ↗ um so under es1

2:31:47 ↗ it says develop a content performance

2:31:50 ↗ review protocol to assess

2:31:51 ↗ projects following completion to

2:31:54 ↗ evaluate and improve consistency of

2:31:56 ↗ outcomes with

2:31:57 ↗ policy intentions which is very long

2:32:01 ↗ but i think the point i would make there

2:32:04 ↗ is it feels sometimes it feels like we

2:32:07 ↗ create

2:32:08 ↗ plans or even code

2:32:11 ↗ and don't get the outcome we intended

2:32:14 ↗ especially when it comes to

2:32:15 ↗ environment and so i'm not sure if

2:32:17 ↗ there's a way to tie this in

2:32:20 ↗ to title 18 or whether

2:32:23 ↗ it is this specific idea of a

2:32:26 ↗ project performance review protocol

2:32:29 ↗ but some sense of

2:32:33 ↗ project assessment or looking backward

2:32:36 ↗ in order to

2:32:37 ↗ plan better for the future

2:32:41 ↗ is your policy worth getting you the

2:32:43 ↗ outcomes that you prefer

2:32:45 ↗ yes how do you do that how do you know

2:32:47 ↗ yeah so i hate

2:32:48 ↗ using the word moratorium or anything

2:32:51 ↗ like that but that concept of

2:32:53 ↗ hey take a step look back are you

2:32:56 ↗ achieving what you're trying to

2:32:58 ↗ and is there a way to adjust going

2:33:02 ↗ forward

2:33:04 ↗ and by no means by suggesting a

2:33:07 ↗ moratorium

2:33:08 ↗ just the concepts of moving backward

2:33:14 ↗ so i wrote project assessment

2:33:17 ↗ are we is that accurate

2:33:22 ↗ you have to add something to it i don't

2:33:25 ↗ try to decide it's

2:33:26 ↗ like consistency outcomes but

2:33:41 ↗ yeah that's a tough one to put like

2:33:43 ↗ themes

2:33:44 ↗ which is why there's so many words

2:33:50 ↗ because it may have been put in there to

2:33:52 ↗ solve a specific problem that nobody can

2:33:54 ↗ remember anymore

2:33:55 ↗ so why don't we just say this is odd and

2:33:59 ↗ revisited at some point because i don't

2:34:01 ↗ even remember why

2:34:02 ↗ i don't even really know just a heads up

2:34:05 ↗ we got a note from councilmember goodman

2:34:07 ↗ that she had to sign off for the night

2:34:09 ↗ okay thanks

2:34:12 ↗ i might also add the meaningful

2:34:14 ↗ volunteer opportunities since we have

2:34:16 ↗ such a

2:34:16 ↗ large face of folks that like to help

2:34:18 ↗ out in this space

2:34:35 ↗ um so councilmember walsh do we want to

2:34:39 ↗ have a project assessment

2:34:41 ↗ for emphasis because it apparently

2:34:44 ↗ sort of isn't actually an action we

2:34:47 ↗ don't know

2:34:47 ↗ exactly what that um

2:34:51 ↗ is covering so yeah i'm fine but then

2:34:55 ↗ let's turn around what did we mean with

2:34:57 ↗ that and

2:34:58 ↗ how would we adjust okay

2:35:06 ↗ and then i had said earlier

2:35:09 ↗ funding for land acquisition but it's

2:35:11 ↗ kind of a separate topic i also want to

2:35:14 ↗ know if we have a

2:35:15 ↗ strategy for a plan

2:35:18 ↗ so yeah

2:35:21 ↗ yeah we do

2:35:25 ↗ well okay shall we

2:35:28 ↗ i mean maybe it's yeah i mean

2:35:32 ↗ we have a major plan oh that's right the

2:35:36 ↗ corridor yeah i think a ton of it is

2:35:40 ↗ contained within the park strategic plan

2:35:42 ↗ where we identify

2:35:43 ↗ gaps and properties that would continue

2:35:45 ↗ trails um and i think it goes a lot to

2:35:47 ↗ that third bullet point

2:35:49 ↗ um under es3 priorities have practically

2:35:52 ↗ pursue strategic acquisitions that had

2:35:54 ↗ inventory to fill missing links for park

2:35:56 ↗ trail open space and critical areas and

2:35:58 ↗ natural resource protection

2:36:01 ↗ is that really colorful it's got the big

2:36:03 ↗ river very colorful

2:36:05 ↗ yeah it's very colorful good discussion

2:36:09 ↗ i would cross that out unless somebody

2:36:10 ↗ else wants to keep it on

2:36:12 ↗ no it's not surprising that we're not

2:36:13 ↗ just bumping them off here this is one

2:36:15 ↗ area

2:36:16 ↗ if you look at this community survey

2:36:18 ↗ that we are really really

2:36:20 ↗ very very well

2:36:24 ↗ you know me personally environmental

2:36:26 ↗ stewardship is an area of sustaining

2:36:28 ↗ non-emphasizing i mean because we're

2:36:30 ↗ really rocking it so

2:36:31 ↗ you know keep doing what we're doing but

2:36:34 ↗ i think they're

2:36:35 ↗ you know quite honestly there's a whole

2:36:36 ↗ lot of higher priorities than right now

2:36:38 ↗ that you know uh well i would

2:36:42 ↗ maybe have a different perspective i

2:36:44 ↗ think we have not

2:36:46 ↗ we don't have this dedicated funding for

2:36:50 ↗ land acquisition and we have a strategy

2:36:52 ↗ that has a lot of pieces

2:36:54 ↗ in it but i think prioritizing and

2:36:57 ↗ emphasizing that

2:36:58 ↗ more than it is currently is an option

2:37:00 ↗ so i think we can still do the emphasis

2:37:03 ↗ exercise on this area um

2:37:06 ↗ i i certainly think certain things are

2:37:08 ↗ more could be more emphasized than

2:37:09 ↗ others here

2:37:10 ↗ and just from an emphasis point of view

2:37:13 ↗ that

2:37:13 ↗ councilman marks mentioned this earlier

2:37:16 ↗ we can emphasize the heck

2:37:18 ↗ out of this list we've got 220 stuff

2:37:21 ↗ at x dollars to do it and so not

2:37:23 ↗ everything that

2:37:24 ↗ gets above that emphasis line is really

2:37:27 ↗ going to all happen

2:37:28 ↗ in your 2023 2022 budget

2:37:36 ↗ [Laughter]

2:37:43 ↗ unless anybody has anything to add

2:37:46 ↗ all right uh climate action plan

2:37:51 ↗ is it three votes again three votes

2:37:56 ↗ five campuses

2:38:12 ↗ acquisition

2:38:18 ↗ four

2:38:23 ↗ funding maintenance of land

2:38:28 ↗ four

2:38:32 ↗ project assessments and consistency of

2:38:34 ↗ outcomes

2:38:35 ↗ i thought we were going to put that yeah

2:38:40 ↗ okay uh and then meaning hold on to your

2:38:43 ↗ opportunities

2:38:46 ↗ three

2:38:53 ↗ time check

2:39:08 ↗ yes

2:39:19 ↗ my remarks if somebody added a change

2:39:21 ↗ into the objective we wanted to start

2:39:24 ↗ with that

2:39:25 ↗ oh we had a recovery recovery of

2:39:27 ↗ existing right

2:39:29 ↗ there's an increase in new and the

2:39:30 ↗ recovery of existing businesses

2:39:32 ↗ and there are four action items under

2:39:34 ↗ there

2:39:36 ↗ so i would like to emphasize the

2:39:39 ↗ employer recruitment plan

2:39:47 ↗ just something to be discussing as the

2:39:48 ↗ mayor mentioned for some time

2:39:52 ↗ okay

2:40:02 ↗ anything else for the list

2:40:12 ↗ i think hand-in-hand with uh abu's

2:40:15 ↗ promoting

2:40:16 ↗ middle options could be implementing and

2:40:19 ↗ enhancing the housing strategy

2:40:40 ↗ okay um

2:40:45 ↗ hi yeah yeah that's not really

2:40:52 ↗ for our human services

2:40:55 ↗ uh

2:41:00 ↗ i'd like to do something uh maybe help

2:41:02 ↗ me out here

2:41:05 ↗ that talks about stability but also

2:41:07 ↗ coherence

2:41:08 ↗ um we've had discussions about

2:41:11 ↗ the duplication of human services in our

2:41:14 ↗ area

2:41:15 ↗ and if we could use that connection to

2:41:17 ↗ facilitate conversations

2:41:20 ↗ i know that's really that sorry

2:41:24 ↗ but i think you know where i'm going yes

2:41:25 ↗ uh facilitating

2:41:29 ↗ use use or leverage our our ability at

2:41:32 ↗ the same to facilitate conversations

2:41:35 ↗ about human services stability and human

2:41:37 ↗ services

2:41:39 ↗ um validation

2:41:42 ↗ our efficiency of service delivery i

2:41:45 ↗ talked a lot about

2:41:47 ↗ if you mapped out all the organizations

2:41:48 ↗ and each one only does

2:41:50 ↗ one thing how do we turn it into a

2:41:52 ↗ spider web instead of

2:41:53 ↗ individual cycles of service yes so that

2:41:56 ↗ the individual gets

2:41:57 ↗ all of the services they needed through

2:41:59 ↗ this connective tissue that the city

2:42:01 ↗ provides

2:42:02 ↗ exactly no duplication of certification

2:42:05 ↗ yes and

2:42:05 ↗ easier facilitation for the clients to

2:42:08 ↗ access

2:42:09 ↗ yeah so okay so i yeah

2:42:14 ↗ a lot of words

2:42:17 ↗ yeah timeless outreach yeah

2:42:29 ↗ yeah and and uh councilman d michelle i

2:42:31 ↗ do think in that third bullet

2:42:33 ↗ that's what you just said you said

2:42:35 ↗ better than what the third bullet said

2:42:37 ↗ okay um because facilitate nonprofit

2:42:40 ↗ organizations to locate or expand to

2:42:41 ↗ provide

2:42:42 ↗ needed services locally i do believe

2:42:44 ↗ we're talking about that spider web of

2:42:45 ↗ services and how it's connected and that

2:42:47 ↗ we're not having duplicative services

2:42:49 ↗ and we have enough services and we have

2:42:51 ↗ a way to connect people to any service

2:42:53 ↗ that they yes

2:42:58 ↗ i think it might be worth adding

2:42:59 ↗ reevaluating to healthy community

2:43:01 ↗ strategy because i think that was

2:43:04 ↗ adopted in 2014

2:43:08 ↗ well i think we're doing the human

2:43:11 ↗ services strategic sciences

2:43:13 ↗ plan now oh yeah so

2:43:17 ↗ yeah yeah you just throw that like yeah

2:43:19 ↗ oh it's already there

2:43:20 ↗ okay so yeah scratch it re-revive it

2:43:28 ↗ oh oops yeah i see how's it trying to

2:43:29 ↗ work from yeah can you put up human

2:43:34 ↗ services

2:43:36 ↗ thank you good catch

2:43:43 ↗ eating services support

2:43:46 ↗ plan what's it special

2:43:58 ↗ which we haven't made much progress on

2:44:00 ↗ is the city assessment of affordable

2:44:03 ↗ uh city assessment of properties for

2:44:05 ↗ potential affordable use so i put that

2:44:07 ↗ up there in case anybody wants to vote

2:44:08 ↗ for it

2:44:10 ↗ uh anybody else have anything

2:44:15 ↗ um okay so then we have employer

2:44:18 ↗ recruitment plan

2:44:23 ↗ three okay

2:44:27 ↗ all right housing strategy works dan

2:44:42 ↗ assessment of properties for affordable

2:44:44 ↗ housing

2:44:46 ↗ two

2:44:52 ↗ leverage the human services efficiency

2:44:55 ↗ consistency of services spiderweb

2:44:58 ↗ spiderman

2:45:05 ↗ homelessness outreach

2:45:10 ↗ reevaluate human services worker plan

2:45:19 ↗ okay okay city leadership

2:45:23 ↗ and services that's the president they

2:45:25 ↗ have the moment

2:45:27 ↗ i have to leave i apologize i have a

2:45:30 ↗ family member in town for a birthday

2:45:32 ↗ and i beg them to wait till nine o'clock

2:45:35 ↗ and there they have agreed to do so so i

2:45:38 ↗ will miss the last two categories

2:45:40 ↗ uh city administrator bob quits is going

2:45:42 ↗ to do the next steps

2:45:43 ↗ after but i just a couple quick comments

2:45:45 ↗ before

2:45:47 ↗ uh i think uh this has been very

2:45:49 ↗ enlightening for me

2:45:50 ↗ thank you very very much i appreciate

2:45:52 ↗ everybody's opening comments the thought

2:45:54 ↗ you put in ahead of time the notes that

2:45:56 ↗ you brought

2:45:57 ↗ the back and forth exchange the asking

2:45:59 ↗ questions and other people's ideas

2:46:01 ↗ great job it's been very very enjoyable

2:46:03 ↗ tonight

2:46:04 ↗ so i hope you're not here till midnight

2:46:06 ↗ but i don't think you are you guys are

2:46:08 ↗ moving through this really well

2:46:09 ↗ thanks

2:46:13 ↗ thank you mayor colley thank you

2:46:15 ↗ president yeah

2:46:16 ↗ thank you

2:46:21 ↗ okay um city leadership and services

2:46:28 ↗ i'd like to see a police

2:46:33 ↗ catch retention plan

2:46:50 ↗ i'd like to see our equity framework

2:47:16 ↗ uh public outreach strategies community

2:47:20 ↗ engagement services

2:47:35 ↗ not sure how to put it but um

2:47:38 ↗ exploring other avenues

2:47:42 ↗ for public safety they undergo law

2:47:45 ↗ enforcement

2:47:46 ↗ and that is a way to take away but

2:47:48 ↗ there's a way to

2:47:50 ↗ evolve broadens the idea of what public

2:47:53 ↗ safety means

2:47:55 ↗ and so just the exploration of that and

2:47:58 ↗ i don't know whether that

2:48:00 ↗ comes through the human services work

2:48:03 ↗ uh strategy plan but

2:48:07 ↗ well we added an objective under city

2:48:10 ↗ leadership and services for them

2:48:13 ↗ yes so i think it would go into this

2:48:19 ↗ public safety unless you yeah

2:48:24 ↗ just don't know how to clean up

2:48:43 ↗ speak up sorry could be

2:48:48 ↗ alternative responses for

2:48:51 ↗ public safety

2:49:00 ↗ okay or maybe also complementary

2:49:04 ↗ responses yeah yeah

2:49:12 ↗ okay um

2:49:16 ↗ anyone else i have a question for the

2:49:18 ↗ city administrator

2:49:21 ↗ do we have or have we considered

2:49:24 ↗ any efforts um or are there any

2:49:28 ↗ other communities that would give us

2:49:30 ↗ ideas on it i'm worried that as isap

2:49:32 ↗ gets more expensive it's harder to get

2:49:35 ↗ city employees and are there

2:49:38 ↗ any mechanisms out there i mean

2:49:43 ↗ i don't know how to finish that yeah

2:49:46 ↗ right some sort of housing incentive

2:49:52 ↗ effort i guess it's just

2:49:55 ↗ it's just cash i mean there are

2:49:57 ↗ communities

2:49:58 ↗ that provide first-time home buyer

2:50:01 ↗ assistance down payments rental

2:50:03 ↗ assistance

2:50:05 ↗ all those things are doable over there

2:50:07 ↗ too

2:50:09 ↗ are we seeing it become a barrier to

2:50:13 ↗ getting employees

2:50:16 ↗ entertaining that is an evolving

2:50:19 ↗ question

2:50:20 ↗ we are among the most liberal cities for

2:50:23 ↗ work at home right now and that and that

2:50:26 ↗ is going to overtake those other issues

2:50:28 ↗ or

2:50:29 ↗ will really put them in a different

2:50:31 ↗ different place

2:50:32 ↗ police officers can't work from home

2:50:35 ↗ public works employees mostly can

2:50:36 ↗ network

2:50:37 ↗ so it's a mixed bag but if the council

2:50:40 ↗ wanted to put additional

2:50:42 ↗ financial resources if that is priority

2:50:44 ↗ we develop

2:50:45 ↗ options for consideration

2:50:49 ↗ let's put it down do we have

2:50:52 ↗ fans uh incentives for

2:50:56 ↗ housing uh city employee health

2:51:02 ↗ incentives

2:51:06 ↗ i think in some ways that presupposes

2:51:09 ↗ the solution

2:51:12 ↗ without necessarily having the data to

2:51:15 ↗ say

2:51:16 ↗ that the best way

2:51:19 ↗ to solve it or the barrier because i

2:51:21 ↗ think we we just said

2:51:23 ↗ in some cases there's a housing issue

2:51:26 ↗ in some cases it might be a

2:51:28 ↗ transportation issue in some cases it

2:51:30 ↗ might be

2:51:30 ↗ letting people perform from home

2:51:34 ↗ i wonder if similar to the idea of

2:51:37 ↗ police recruitment

2:51:38 ↗ and retention strategy there is a larger

2:51:41 ↗ city employee recruitment and retention

2:51:44 ↗ strategy

2:51:45 ↗ i'm trying to address the fact that my

2:51:47 ↗ wholeness approved forty percent in

2:51:48 ↗ value in the last few

2:51:50 ↗ months

2:51:53 ↗ so that's that has to be impacting our

2:51:55 ↗ ability to get it for us

2:51:57 ↗ like there's no way that could work

2:52:02 ↗ i i think it's controversial it's a

2:52:05 ↗ recruitment and retention there are

2:52:06 ↗ multiple pieces

2:52:08 ↗ housing there's peace reflectability is

2:52:10 ↗ a piece transportation is a piece

2:52:12 ↗ so i don't know if it's one or the other

2:52:15 ↗ it's all

2:52:18 ↗ you put up that one too oh

2:52:22 ↗ i'm going to put them together unless

2:52:24 ↗ you think they're separate and i can

2:52:25 ↗ separate them

2:52:26 ↗ do you think you're separate i i

2:52:30 ↗ hear how the room is going so fine put

2:52:32 ↗ them together i think i think it's a

2:52:33 ↗ very

2:52:34 ↗ well segmented

2:52:39 ↗ okay well as the maker of the suggestion

2:52:41 ↗ yeah that's fine yes

2:52:42 ↗ yes it works i can see where it's going

2:52:44 ↗ okay um

2:52:45 ↗ i had one which is uh update plans for

2:52:49 ↗ emergency

2:52:50 ↗ response given all of our given our heat

2:52:53 ↗ wave

2:52:53 ↗ response and

2:53:07 ↗ survey results that are low where it

2:53:09 ↗ says um

2:53:10 ↗ value received for your local tax

2:53:12 ↗ dollars and fees

2:53:13 ↗ where we scored fairly low when it's an

2:53:16 ↗ emphasis area

2:53:17 ↗ so i think there's something about how

2:53:19 ↗ do we increase

2:53:20 ↗ the effectiveness and efficiency of city

2:53:25 ↗ programs okay

2:53:30 ↗ so the action is maybe

2:53:36 ↗ increased efficiency in fact it visits

2:53:38 ↗ new programs

2:53:50 ↗ okay

2:53:54 ↗ anyone have anything else for the list

2:54:01 ↗ no okay um

2:54:13 ↗ okay everybody ready to vote

2:54:16 ↗ okay please recruitment and retention

2:54:18 ↗ strategy

2:54:22 ↗ or equity framework

2:54:32 ↗ free

2:54:34 ↗ community engagement strategies

2:54:43 ↗ two no put one more

2:54:48 ↗ public safety alternative and

2:54:50 ↗ complementary response

2:54:54 ↗ three same way housing incentives

2:54:59 ↗ recruitment and retention

2:55:02 ↗ one after all that

2:55:07 ↗ uh bang the goal

2:55:11 ↗ emergency plan i tried only got three

2:55:14 ↗ goals

2:55:17 ↗ increased effectiveness of city programs

2:55:21 ↗ okay

2:55:26 ↗ last one infrastructure i put a

2:55:29 ↗ broadband because we all talked about

2:55:30 ↗ rubbing

2:55:31 ↗ for me

2:55:36 ↗ it's just so unclear because i i realize

2:55:39 ↗ it's a big one coming out of today

2:55:41 ↗ it's a survey that's the thing

2:55:44 ↗ for needs assessment that's the main

2:55:46 ↗ focus for pushing

2:55:48 ↗ right for dropping yeah that's what i

2:55:51 ↗ had suggested like a community

2:55:53 ↗ um survey neighborhood survey on

2:55:55 ↗ internet connectivity

2:55:57 ↗ seems like a pretty logical next step

2:56:00 ↗ but if anyone else has anything else

2:56:01 ↗ very broken

2:56:06 ↗ that's it this is not good for not doing

2:56:08 ↗ it but i want to emphasize versus

2:56:09 ↗ payment management

2:56:18 ↗ did that also include the concrete

2:56:21 ↗ management so different management

2:56:23 ↗ concrete finishing i would pair them

2:56:24 ↗ together yes but we do

2:56:26 ↗ yes hundreds

2:56:30 ↗ but andrea schneider's still on the call

2:56:32 ↗ you can thank her because this is your

2:56:33 ↗ thing

2:56:36 ↗ water system yeah

2:56:48 ↗ sidewalks and street lighting

2:56:53 ↗ lighting for sidewalks and streets

2:56:56 ↗ is it on lighting or is it cyber uh i'd

2:56:59 ↗ pair them

2:56:59 ↗ together but well there's

2:57:03 ↗ there's stuff on sidewalks in the plan

2:57:05 ↗ there's not i think there's not stuff on

2:57:07 ↗ writing so laying would be interesting

2:57:11 ↗ yeah i'm just responding to the

2:57:13 ↗ community survey those were

2:57:14 ↗ two things that were called out if you

2:57:16 ↗ want to put on a separate that's fine

2:57:21 ↗ well i'm just i'm going to clarify for

2:57:24 ↗ more sidewalks and more lighting yes

2:57:26 ↗ okay

2:57:27 ↗ more silence and more lighting yes

2:57:30 ↗ okay so new

2:57:37 ↗ okay

2:57:42 ↗ okay

2:57:46 ↗ um i think that there's also the

2:57:48 ↗ development of an

2:57:49 ↗ infrastructure plan it's in there

2:57:52 ↗ already

2:57:53 ↗ the asset management policy yeah

2:57:56 ↗ that's underway yeah

2:58:02 ↗ okay

2:58:04 ↗ that's we only have four in this section

2:58:06 ↗ but there's

2:58:10 ↗ anybody have any other things to add to

2:58:13 ↗ this one

2:58:16 ↗ i mean i would add the asset management

2:58:24 ↗ would the capital financing community

2:58:26 ↗ task force be more here or more mobility

2:58:31 ↗ i think it's a dollar structure

2:58:35 ↗ oh good catch

2:58:40 ↗ and this is the work of having that task

2:58:43 ↗ force or is it the

2:58:45 ↗ implementing that recommendation so i

2:58:47 ↗ said task force which is not good

2:58:52 ↗ can't implement their findings until

2:58:56 ↗ they have findings so i'm just trying to

2:58:58 ↗ figure out what the

2:59:12 ↗ okay

2:59:16 ↗ okay is that a good list

2:59:20 ↗ ready to vote how many do we have them

2:59:24 ↗ three oh how many times one

2:59:32 ↗ yes um

2:59:37 ↗ okay so broadband survey pavement

2:59:40 ↗ management

2:59:40 ↗ pavement and concrete management water

2:59:43 ↗ system improvement

2:59:44 ↗ more sidewalks and more lighting

2:59:48 ↗ asset management program and then

2:59:50 ↗ capital finance

2:59:52 ↗ task force

3:00:00 ↗ okay are you ready okay broadband survey

3:00:08 ↗ thanks

3:00:10 ↗ uh pavement management and concrete

3:00:12 ↗ management

3:00:15 ↗ three water system improvement

3:00:21 ↗ one more sidewalks and more lighting

3:00:25 ↗ three asset management

3:00:30 ↗ one federal finance task force

3:00:34 ↗ four

3:01:04 ↗ president members of the council but two

3:01:07 ↗ last things

3:01:08 ↗ one is aligning metrics for successive

3:01:10 ↗ priority

3:01:11 ↗ prioritization actions it's late um

3:01:15 ↗ are you prepared to have a general

3:01:17 ↗ discussion about this would you like us

3:01:19 ↗ to come back

3:01:20 ↗ in a future study session talk about

3:01:23 ↗ this

3:01:25 ↗ go ahead um well so when we had this on

3:01:29 ↗ the agenda i was imagining that we could

3:01:32 ↗ probably have a better discussion with

3:01:34 ↗ with some response from the

3:01:35 ↗ administration on metrics because we

3:01:37 ↗ don't know what all data

3:01:38 ↗ is available and also probably don't

3:01:40 ↗ have all the metrics

3:01:42 ↗ memorized that we already have so i i

3:01:45 ↗ think we might have

3:01:45 ↗ a better conversation at a later date um

3:01:49 ↗ once this information has been processed

3:01:51 ↗ and

3:01:51 ↗ that would be my suggestion

3:01:55 ↗ i agree but the only one that i found

3:01:58 ↗ for looking through it that i really

3:01:59 ↗ wanted to emphasize

3:02:00 ↗ was the deferral rate of our maintenance

3:02:04 ↗ because that was specifically pulled out

3:02:08 ↗ in the plan as a performance

3:02:12 ↗ a success measure was the asset

3:02:14 ↗ maintenance deferral rate and

3:02:15 ↗ when i was looking through the um

3:02:18 ↗ dashboard i didn't find anything that

3:02:22 ↗ told me

3:02:23 ↗ the size of the hole that we're in just

3:02:26 ↗ the small number of pebbles that we were

3:02:28 ↗ throwing into it

3:02:31 ↗ okay so why don't we come back

3:02:35 ↗ at a future meeting um dale's on the

3:02:38 ↗ line watching

3:02:39 ↗ tonight so she's the staffer responsible

3:02:41 ↗ for this so

3:02:42 ↗ we will figure out some time here

3:02:43 ↗ september in october is very busy

3:02:46 ↗ not surprising so we will sort out an

3:02:49 ↗ evening

3:02:53 ↗ um then next steps um let me go back to

3:02:56 ↗ the powerpoint

3:03:08 ↗ so monday night's council meeting we

3:03:10 ↗ have a revenue forecast

3:03:11 ↗ for those of you who haven't opened the

3:03:12 ↗ packet yet we have

3:03:14 ↗ a very robust year financially we are

3:03:17 ↗ seeing

3:03:18 ↗ record sales tax revenue a record

3:03:21 ↗ a real estate transfer tax um

3:03:25 ↗ in sales tax we're estimating to be five

3:03:27 ↗ million dollars

3:03:28 ↗ over benching so we are seeing

3:03:31 ↗ significant

3:03:32 ↗ significant revenue so sales tax is at

3:03:35 ↗ all time

3:03:36 ↗ community highs we've never seen sales

3:03:38 ↗ tax at this level so

3:03:40 ↗ we are going to talk about that on a

3:03:42 ↗ monday evening

3:03:44 ↗ we are also going to tell you what i'll

3:03:46 ↗ tell you right now that we are going to

3:03:48 ↗ come back to the council of

3:03:49 ↗ administration in september

3:03:50 ↗ with mid-year budget adjustments to

3:03:53 ↗ start spending some of that one-time

3:03:54 ↗ money

3:03:55 ↗ for a year and likely bring forward a

3:03:58 ↗ few staff positions to begin hiring now

3:04:01 ↗ that would otherwise just be in the

3:04:02 ↗ budget but if we can start the process

3:04:04 ↗ now we can actually have the advice

3:04:06 ↗ pretty close to january so um that'll

3:04:09 ↗ come out

3:04:10 ↗ on monday evening it's in the packet for

3:04:13 ↗ you all to read

3:04:14 ↗ on the wednesday evening the fourth

3:04:16 ↗ we're going to have a community meeting

3:04:17 ↗ a

3:04:18 ↗ virtual meeting which will redo the

3:04:22 ↗ revenue discussion and get me to be back

3:04:25 ↗ so uh this is sort of that will then

3:04:28 ↗ sort of mark the

3:04:29 ↗ end of the budget preparation community

3:04:32 ↗ city council um input process

3:04:35 ↗ we're already working on this internally

3:04:38 ↗ um

3:04:38 ↗ i will tell you the most of what we're

3:04:40 ↗ doing with lines very nicely with your

3:04:41 ↗ discussion this evening so

3:04:43 ↗ um like really i i think the budget you

3:04:46 ↗ will see

3:04:47 ↗ um on september 20th we'll be

3:04:50 ↗ all aligned to this discussion very

3:04:52 ↗ nicely tonight so

3:04:54 ↗ i think one of the big challenges we

3:04:55 ↗ face though is one-time money

3:04:58 ↗ what do we do with fund balance we

3:05:00 ↗ haven't even really seriously

3:05:01 ↗ started talking about the american

3:05:02 ↗ recovery act funds

3:05:04 ↗ one of the reasons we haven't done that

3:05:06 ↗ um is we're still trying to assess

3:05:08 ↗ community need and there's information

3:05:10 ↗ in the

3:05:11 ↗ back of this presentation monday night

3:05:13 ↗ about that but we're also continuing to

3:05:15 ↗ get some very mixed messages from the

3:05:16 ↗ federal government state government

3:05:18 ↗ announcement so that's still

3:05:22 ↗ 11 million dollars that we don't have

3:05:25 ↗ earmarked yet so there's lots of

3:05:27 ↗ one-time money the administration will

3:05:29 ↗ come forward with proposals to spend

3:05:30 ↗ some of to occur here

3:05:32 ↗ we heard the council very clearly the

3:05:34 ↗ last budget cycle

3:05:35 ↗ that fund balance should be what the

3:05:37 ↗ policy is and not

3:05:39 ↗ much more than that so we are

3:05:41 ↗ interacting with the budget

3:05:45 ↗ so on september 20th the mayor will

3:05:47 ↗ present the budget we'll have another

3:05:49 ↗ community meeting to talk about the

3:05:50 ↗ budget on september 21st

3:05:52 ↗ we have several budget meetings

3:05:54 ↗ scheduled through october november

3:05:57 ↗ for for regular i think from tonight

3:05:59 ↗ though we will need to schedule

3:06:01 ↗ one at least one study session and then

3:06:03 ↗ be a special study session to talk about

3:06:05 ↗ performance measures

3:06:07 ↗ it's like three last year so um they can

3:06:10 ↗ do it well nothing great

3:06:12 ↗ uh then scheduled budget adoption on

3:06:14 ↗ november 15th

3:06:16 ↗ so those are the next steps um i guess

3:06:19 ↗ i'm just curious to feedback was this

3:06:20 ↗ helpful tonight was this what the

3:06:22 ↗ visions made

3:06:24 ↗ that this is the one piece of that

3:06:26 ↗ circle we've never done

3:06:28 ↗ so this was the best efforts based on

3:06:30 ↗ the mayor and house leadership

3:06:32 ↗ to kind of suss out one sentence so i'm

3:06:35 ↗ just curious

3:06:36 ↗ for some feedback

3:06:40 ↗ i feel like it was super helpful to

3:06:43 ↗ go through the process of adding and

3:06:45 ↗ modifying some of the

3:06:47 ↗ objectives i think

3:06:50 ↗ naming out the

3:06:53 ↗ actions that we wanted to focus on is

3:06:56 ↗ useful but

3:06:57 ↗ going back to what deputy council

3:06:59 ↗ president ray said at the beginning

3:07:01 ↗ about

3:07:02 ↗ planning versus having had planned

3:07:05 ↗ whatever that was um i'm not quite sure

3:07:08 ↗ how we would use the

3:07:11 ↗ tick marks

3:07:15 ↗ because that's still within a goal

3:07:18 ↗ area and not overall and you know we

3:07:21 ↗ only have

3:07:24 ↗ four to ten things that we can do how do

3:07:27 ↗ we really stuff

3:07:28 ↗ that out so i think that's the the part

3:07:31 ↗ that sits with me and goes okay how do

3:07:35 ↗ we make

3:07:35 ↗ that actionable because

3:07:39 ↗ looking at that i mean i think i would

3:07:41 ↗ say

3:07:42 ↗ hey there's a lot of things in

3:07:44 ↗ environmental stewardship that

3:07:46 ↗ we all agree on doing but that may just

3:07:49 ↗ be

3:07:49 ↗ because there were fewer items in that

3:07:53 ↗ and so i guess i will

3:07:56 ↗ be interested to see how the

3:07:58 ↗ administration

3:07:59 ↗ takes some of those things to create a

3:08:03 ↗ work plan

3:08:03 ↗ for next year um

3:08:07 ↗ that's the only part that i'm not quite

3:08:09 ↗ sure how to

3:08:11 ↗ make it actionable though i do think the

3:08:13 ↗ process was useful

3:08:16 ↗ oh there's lots of good information you

3:08:18 ↗ will absolutely see a documentary

3:08:21 ↗ i mean the biggest challenge is

3:08:24 ↗ resources you know the police

3:08:27 ↗ departments

3:08:28 ↗ ask for resources sales everything on

3:08:31 ↗ that board

3:08:33 ↗ so the challenge for the administration

3:08:35 ↗ is how to balance that

3:08:36 ↗ and i still have money left to do other

3:08:38 ↗ things so

3:08:39 ↗ but this is a good first step absolutely

3:08:42 ↗ we'll figure it out

3:08:45 ↗ so it is planning is

3:08:48 ↗ uh plans are worthless planning is

3:08:50 ↗ indispensable

3:08:51 ↗ but what i like about this exercise and

3:08:55 ↗ i said it a couple times during the

3:08:56 ↗ evening and why i think the plan

3:08:58 ↗ is important it gives you a framework in

3:09:02 ↗ which to have the discussion

3:09:04 ↗ and if you don't have the framework then

3:09:05 ↗ you just meander in the woods

3:09:07 ↗ and so this just gives us you know um

3:09:11 ↗ a scaffolding on which to have and hang

3:09:13 ↗ our discussion so i thought it was

3:09:14 ↗ really good

3:09:15 ↗ um i think next year's gonna be even

3:09:16 ↗ better and and the year after that's

3:09:18 ↗ gonna be better still

3:09:20 ↗ um but for our first time you know first

3:09:22 ↗ bite of this apple

3:09:24 ↗ you know that's about

3:09:28 ↗ oh i think you were first so uh

3:09:31 ↗ i would have uh so we did about what

3:09:34 ↗ four hours

3:09:34 ↗ um i would have done this on saturday

3:09:37 ↗ and

3:09:38 ↗ i would have i think we yes we've seen

3:09:41 ↗ the survey data before yes we've seen

3:09:43 ↗ the metric data before

3:09:45 ↗ but i would have done uh the council

3:09:48 ↗ president's

3:09:49 ↗ exercise with survey and metric data

3:09:52 ↗ with the four quadrant with satisfaction

3:09:56 ↗ and importance up there which i think

3:09:58 ↗ would have helped us prioritize

3:09:59 ↗ so like i said we've done it on a

3:10:01 ↗ saturday probably that would take

3:10:03 ↗ another couple hours

3:10:04 ↗ so it probably would have been a six

3:10:05 ↗ hour exercise instead of the four hour

3:10:07 ↗ but i think having that data fresh

3:10:10 ↗ i think the particularly the metric data

3:10:12 ↗ and the trend lines

3:10:14 ↗ tell a story that i i would like to have

3:10:16 ↗ this in the future

3:10:18 ↗ have that up as we're as we're

3:10:19 ↗ discussing all the importance

3:10:24 ↗ i just wanted to ask a question you know

3:10:26 ↗ we have all these next steps for budget

3:10:28 ↗ but what's the next step in terms of

3:10:30 ↗ um the strategic plan coming back to

3:10:32 ↗ council with

3:10:33 ↗ kind of a summary of what's happening

3:10:35 ↗ here

3:10:36 ↗ um i guess that's kind of up to all of

3:10:39 ↗ you

3:10:40 ↗ the easiest thing will probably be just

3:10:41 ↗ to bundle up with the budget

3:10:43 ↗ if you want to deal with it separately i

3:10:46 ↗ mean you've made a lot of

3:10:47 ↗ progress tonight so i don't know that

3:10:48 ↗ there's a lot we'll have a draft

3:10:51 ↗ work plan that will come with the budget

3:10:53 ↗ so that i think it's the biggest

3:10:54 ↗ piece of this um if jack we could try to

3:10:57 ↗ find another

3:10:59 ↗ study section mate let's talk about it

3:11:02 ↗ probably just bubbles

3:11:06 ↗ um so i i had a similar question i

3:11:09 ↗ wonder also

3:11:10 ↗ if um councilmember walsh's earlier

3:11:13 ↗ moment it would be good to have a memo

3:11:15 ↗ that

3:11:15 ↗ lives with the strategic plan that says

3:11:17 ↗ we did this exercise on these for some

3:11:19 ↗ of the main takeaways

3:11:22 ↗ so then you don't have to go through

3:11:24 ↗ each page but you would have a

3:11:26 ↗ summary of the meeting and i think

3:11:28 ↗ that's ultimately what the council would

3:11:29 ↗ approve

3:11:30 ↗ i i haven't thought that far this

3:11:33 ↗ probably has to be more than a memo

3:11:34 ↗ i mean that's just my initial thought um

3:11:37 ↗ to accompany the

3:11:39 ↗ pretty document that exists so

3:11:42 ↗ you'll have something tangible that

3:11:44 ↗ yellow enough

3:11:46 ↗ i don't know what it looks like sitting

3:11:47 ↗ here this evening

3:11:49 ↗ yeah and my point is that i think it

3:11:51 ↗ should not live with our

3:11:53 ↗ budget i mean it can go with the budget

3:11:55 ↗ but i think it needs to live with the

3:11:57 ↗ strategic

3:11:58 ↗ absolutely absolutely and then in terms

3:12:00 ↗ of

3:12:01 ↗ just tonight i just thought it was great

3:12:03 ↗ uh

3:12:04 ↗ being in person so yeah and i think the

3:12:07 ↗ conversation was a lot

3:12:08 ↗ better because um we were able to meet

3:12:10 ↗ in person so i appreciate

3:12:12 ↗ all the comments that were all of your

3:12:16 ↗ participation

3:12:18 ↗ and the only thing i'll add is uh as a

3:12:20 ↗ pre-budget

3:12:21 ↗ discussion this was really

3:12:25 ↗ really valuable for me and uh and

3:12:28 ↗ i agree i think it was more free-flowing

3:12:30 ↗ because we weren't

3:12:31 ↗ all up on the screen and we were able to

3:12:35 ↗ talk back and forth and get things clear

3:12:38 ↗ what we're talking about and i

3:12:40 ↗ appreciated it

3:12:42 ↗ so yeah i think it was a good session

3:12:44 ↗ very good session

3:12:47 ↗ i'll also say we often do an exercise

3:12:49 ↗ like this

3:12:50 ↗ in the january february timeframe and

3:12:53 ↗ boy it feels like it makes a lot more

3:12:54 ↗ sense

3:12:55 ↗ in the budget season

3:12:59 ↗ and i think the council has to think

3:13:00 ↗ about obviously what we did

3:13:03 ↗ this january was not great because it's

3:13:06 ↗ virtual but

3:13:07 ↗ i mean i think then the question is is

3:13:09 ↗ it valuable to do something at the

3:13:10 ↗ beginning either slightly different

3:13:13 ↗ is it more team building

3:13:16 ↗ we have a new council this is january so

3:13:19 ↗ that's something

3:13:25 ↗ i think in january we have the

3:13:26 ↗ legislative

3:13:29 ↗ breakfast that we did and that was

3:13:32 ↗ i think the first thing i know it was it

3:13:35 ↗ was december

3:13:36 ↗ yeah i think it was one of the first

3:13:38 ↗ things that i attended a

3:13:40 ↗ council member that's an option for

3:13:43 ↗ people getting to know each other too

3:13:48 ↗ that's all the administration asking

3:13:52 ↗ i think that's the last item um

3:14:02 ↗ so then they're being up for their

3:14:03 ↗ business we are joined at 9 24.

3:14:06 ↗ yeah thank you everyone

3:14:17 ↗ don't forget your

3:14:33 ↗ you

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman (Attended remotely)

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Staff (3)

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk