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