City Council Special Meeting · Tuesday, September 7, 2021 · City Council Digest

2. CLOSED SESSION

The purpose of this special meeting is to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss collective bargaining per RCW 42.30.140(4). The item is expected to take approximately 30 minutes. Please note, Executive Sessions are closed to the public. Action, if needed, would occur during the open session of a Regular Council meeting

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1:55 ↗ welcome everyone i'm going to call to

1:57 ↗ order

1:58 ↗ the city council meeting of september

2:01 ↗ 7th

2:02 ↗ we've just come from our executive

2:05 ↗ session

2:06 ↗ we're having a remote meeting this

2:09 ↗ evening and our last city council

2:11 ↗ meeting was held both in person and

2:13 ↗ remotely however due to heightened covet

2:16 ↗ 19 numbers the city council has shifted

2:18 ↗ back to remote meetings for the month of

2:21 ↗ september

2:22 ↗ at this point we will take a moment to

2:25 ↗ do a roll call of the council members in

2:27 ↗ attendance

2:30 ↗ please say here when i call your name

2:32 ↗ councilmember hall has an excused

2:34 ↗ absence this evening councilmember d

2:37 ↗ michelle

2:38 ↗ here

2:39 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here

2:42 ↗ thank you council president hunt

2:44 ↗ here

2:46 ↗ thank you councilmember martz

2:48 ↗ here

2:49 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

2:51 ↗ yeah

2:52 ↗ and council member walsh

2:54 ↗ here

2:55 ↗ that is six of our seven council members

2:57 ↗ this evening

2:58 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

3:00 ↗ is the pledge of allegiance and i invite

3:02 ↗ you to join along with me but could you

3:04 ↗ please mute your microphones

3:07 ↗ as we start

3:09 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

3:12 ↗ united states of america and to the

3:14 ↗ republic for which it stands one nation

3:18 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

3:20 ↗ justice for all

3:24 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

3:25 ↗ is audience comments and for those of

3:28 ↗ you who had submitted the online form to

3:30 ↗ make comments your name will be called

3:31 ↗ shortly

3:33 ↗ uh for those of you who have joined us

3:35 ↗ tonight and would like to make comments

3:37 ↗ but did not sign up in advance please

3:39 ↗ raise your virtual hand and you can do

3:41 ↗ this by pressing star 3 on your phone

3:45 ↗ if you have joined by a computer or

3:46 ↗ smartphone

3:47 ↗ look for a hand icon and this can vary

3:50 ↗ by device

3:51 ↗ one option may be to go to the

3:53 ↗ participant panel and choose the raise

3:55 ↗ hand icon in the lower right hand corner

3:58 ↗ there is also a public hearing tonight

4:01 ↗ on ab-8140

4:03 ↗ amendments to the sign code and comments

4:05 ↗ on this topic must be made under the

4:07 ↗ public hearing occurring later in the

4:09 ↗ meeting

4:10 ↗ and city clerk has anyone signed up to

4:12 ↗ speak for general audience comments or

4:14 ↗ indicate a desire to speak this evening

4:18 ↗ mayor no one signed up in advance to

4:20 ↗ make comments tonight and i'm just

4:21 ↗ quickly scanning our participant list to

4:24 ↗ see if

4:26 ↗ there are any raised hands

4:28 ↗ so just one more reminder if you'd like

4:31 ↗ to comment under this general comment

4:32 ↗ portion of the meeting

4:35 ↗ to raise your virtual hand by pressing

4:36 ↗ star 3 or sending me the host a

4:40 ↗ message going to monitor this for a

4:43 ↗ moment

4:48 ↗ and i don't see that anyone's indicating

4:50 ↗ a desire to speak

4:53 ↗ thank you tisha

4:54 ↗ as a reminder if anyone is watching this

4:57 ↗ evening you can still write comments and

5:00 ↗ submit them to your city council at any

5:01 ↗ time using the city council edison

5:04 ↗ law.gov email address

5:06 ↗ at council president hunt did you have

5:08 ↗ any email comments that you want to

5:11 ↗ summarize on any of tonight's agenda

5:13 ↗ topics

5:14 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is council

5:16 ↗ president hunt we did receive

5:19 ↗ one email that specifically referenced

5:21 ↗ items that are on tonight's agenda and

5:23 ↗ while we've been having meetings in the

5:25 ↗ virtual format i've been summarizing

5:27 ↗ comments we've received

5:29 ↗ that specifically reference items on the

5:31 ↗ agenda of the evening

5:33 ↗ we received

5:34 ↗ a email from a community member that

5:36 ↗ referenced multiple items on our agenda

5:38 ↗ including feedback on

5:41 ↗ id0948 cascade water alliance update

5:44 ↗ ab-8140 amendments to the sign code

5:46 ↗ which is the public hearing later this

5:48 ↗ evening as well as

5:49 ↗ ab-8227 the second budget amendment

5:52 ↗ and that concludes the emails that we've

5:54 ↗ received specifically on tonight's items

6:07 ↗ you're muted you knew that had to happen

6:11 ↗ thank you council president hunt we'll

6:13 ↗ be moving on now to committee and

6:15 ↗ regional reports and tonight we'll be

6:17 ↗ starting with council member d michelle

6:22 ↗ thank you mayor paulie

6:25 ↗ since august 2nd i've attended several

6:28 ↗ eastside human services legislative

6:30 ↗ committee meetings as we met with staff

6:32 ↗ from senator murray's and senator

6:34 ↗ cantwell's office

6:35 ↗ as well as as well as with congresswoman

6:38 ↗ schreier herself to discuss federal

6:40 ↗ affordable housing and digital access

6:43 ↗ bills and initiatives i have also been

6:45 ↗ working with an ad hoc committee

6:47 ↗ preparing for the onboarding of eastside

6:49 ↗ human services forum's first executive

6:51 ↗ director

6:53 ↗ the healthier here governing board held

6:54 ↗ meetings on august 2nd and september 2nd

6:57 ↗ which i attended and i am also working

7:00 ↗ with a regional youth board preparing

7:01 ↗ for an october discussion of the covet

7:04 ↗ 19 healthcare impacts on youth

7:07 ↗ and then finally i participated with an

7:09 ↗ eastside transportation partnership

7:11 ↗ subcommittee to prepare etp's draft

7:14 ↗ legislative priorities for the 2022 set

7:17 ↗ legislative session and we will be

7:20 ↗ holding a meeting this friday

7:22 ↗ that completes my report

7:25 ↗ thank you very much councilmember d

7:27 ↗ michelle next up councilmember walsh

7:33 ↗ okay i forgot that zach wasn't here

7:37 ↗ thank you um i have two short updates uh

7:40 ↗ on august 20th i met with the squad

7:43 ↗ chamber of commerce

7:44 ↗ it was a fairly short conversation um

7:47 ↗ happened to come right after we had

7:49 ↗ received our latest budget numbers and

7:51 ↗ so a lot of the conversation was about

7:54 ↗ the budget forecasts um what the sales

7:56 ↗ tax was looking like obviously the

7:58 ↗ chamber is very interested in what that

8:00 ↗ is and we were able to brief them on

8:02 ↗ some of our industry differences um

8:04 ↗ since they know we're looking at all of

8:06 ↗ those data's we also

8:08 ↗ discussed the title 18 which is our land

8:10 ↗ use code update and um how the chamber

8:13 ↗ might get involved in that conversation

8:15 ↗ um also on that day i met with the

8:18 ↗ economic development district board um

8:20 ↗ to

8:21 ↗ talk about a regional economic strategy

8:24 ↗ and have a conversation about priorities

8:26 ↗ that's an ongoing conversation about how

8:29 ↗ we might approach um the regional

8:31 ↗ differences in our economy and how to

8:34 ↗ allocate both funds and projects and

8:37 ↗ things like that and that concludes my

8:39 ↗ report

8:40 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh

8:41 ↗ councilmember goodman

8:43 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor um eastside

8:46 ↗ fire and rescue board of directors will

8:48 ↗ meet this thursday september 9th at 4

8:50 ↗ p.m

8:51 ↗ we have not resumed in-person meeting so

8:53 ↗ we will be meeting virtually

8:56 ↗ on the agenda our regular fire chief

8:58 ↗ briefings regarding kobit 19 pfos and

9:02 ↗ one new item is labor industries pilot

9:05 ↗ program on the right regular business um

9:09 ↗ agenda

9:11 ↗ is a snoqualmie tribe ancestral lands

9:13 ↗ movement proclamation

9:15 ↗ um uh 21 to 20 to 2021 to 22 biennial

9:21 ↗ operating budget amendment and

9:24 ↗ a proposed revised board policy

9:26 ↗ regarding rules and responsibilities

9:29 ↗ and i think that's it for that meeting

9:32 ↗ also the lodging tax advisory committee

9:35 ↗ will be meeting

9:37 ↗ the 13th i believe it's at

9:40 ↗ 11 a.m that's also a virtual meeting i

9:43 ↗ do not have the agenda in front of me

9:44 ↗ however and that concludes my report

9:47 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman

9:49 ↗ councilmember mertz

9:51 ↗ thank you madam mayor the puget sound

9:53 ↗ regional council growth management

9:54 ↗ policy board did meet on thursday

9:57 ↗ september 2nd

9:58 ↗ unfortunately i was unable to attend as

10:00 ↗ alternate

10:02 ↗ the sound cities association public

10:04 ↗ issues committee will be meeting

10:06 ↗ uh september 8th at 7 00 pm uh remotely

10:10 ↗ there is one potential

10:13 ↗ action item metro plan updates and sca

10:17 ↗ guiding principles

10:19 ↗ they're

10:19 ↗ [Music]

10:21 ↗ it's the first stage of the two-stage

10:24 ↗ potential action process so if there's

10:26 ↗ information that comes out of that

10:29 ↗ that

10:30 ↗ looks like potential

10:32 ↗ uh feedback from the

10:34 ↗ from our council then i will bring it

10:36 ↗ forward in a future uh for good of the

10:38 ↗ order this concludes my report

10:40 ↗ thank you councilmember martz deputy

10:41 ↗ council president ray

10:43 ↗ thank you mayor paulie um this is chris

10:45 ↗ ray

10:46 ↗ no report this evening but i did just

10:48 ↗ want to noted note that the king county

10:51 ↗ growth management planning council is on

10:54 ↗ hiatus until december of this year so

10:56 ↗ we're having a

10:58 ↗ we had a very very full and busy first

11:00 ↗ half of the year and we're having a very

11:02 ↗ slow and empty second half of the year

11:04 ↗ thank you deputy council president

11:06 ↗ council president hunt

11:08 ↗ thank you madam mayor i have two book

11:10 ↗ reports this evening the king

11:11 ↗ conservation district advisory committee

11:14 ↗ met on august 10th we had a number of

11:16 ↗ updates including a financials update an

11:19 ↗ update and a update on the substantial

11:22 ↗ reorganization that they're doing within

11:24 ↗ king conservation district we also

11:26 ↗ received word

11:28 ↗ earlier in august august 2nd that they

11:32 ↗ the board of the king conservation

11:34 ↗ district had

11:35 ↗ made a decision about the next executive

11:37 ↗ director of king conservation district

11:39 ↗ and they

11:40 ↗ and the new director will start shortly

11:42 ↗ her name is rosa mendez and that's very

11:44 ↗ exciting for the district um several of

11:47 ↗ us on the advisory committee

11:48 ↗ participated in the process of

11:51 ↗ searching for and interviewing for the

11:53 ↗ new the next executive director of king

11:55 ↗ conservation district

11:57 ↗ and the next meeting will be on october

11:59 ↗ 12th at 10 to 12 p.m

12:02 ↗ and then um 10 to noon and then we also

12:06 ↗ had a meeting of the title 18 ad hoc

12:08 ↗ committee on september 2nd this is a ad

12:11 ↗ hoc uh meet adahoc committee of council

12:14 ↗ members um two of us were present for

12:16 ↗ this meeting that was council member

12:17 ↗ walsh and myself and we met with

12:19 ↗ director dollywall

12:21 ↗ we reviewed feedback from the

12:23 ↗ commissions that have begun work on

12:25 ↗ title 18 which is our land use code and

12:27 ↗ our ethical municipal code our overview

12:30 ↗ of that or overhaul of that

12:32 ↗ and

12:33 ↗ we also reviewed the public

12:34 ↗ participation plan taking into account

12:36 ↗ feedback that we had received from the

12:38 ↗ commissions that have begun

12:40 ↗ uh reviewing different parts of title

12:42 ↗ 18.

12:44 ↗ um

12:45 ↗ this there will be a discussion that

12:48 ↗ includes title 18 at our study session

12:50 ↗ on september 14th and so we expect as

12:53 ↗ ad-hoc committee to receive a dropped

12:55 ↗ email between then and now and to be

12:57 ↗ able to provide feedback

12:59 ↗ potentially by email

13:02 ↗ to

13:03 ↗ the

13:04 ↗ city staff that are working on this

13:05 ↗ before that

13:07 ↗ study session of the whole council

13:09 ↗ and that concludes my part

13:12 ↗ thank you council president hunt next

13:14 ↗ item on the agenda this evening is the

13:16 ↗ mayor's report

13:18 ↗ there was an executive session held

13:20 ↗ earlier this evening and another

13:21 ↗ executive session will be held as part

13:23 ↗ of tonight's meeting agenda following

13:25 ↗ our regular business the item relates to

13:28 ↗ collective bargaining and is expected to

13:30 ↗ last 30 minutes no action is anticipated

13:34 ↗ to follow an open session

13:36 ↗ this month i have issued three

13:38 ↗ proclamations the first recognizes

13:41 ↗ september as childhood cancer awareness

13:43 ↗ month and i encourage all citizens to

13:45 ↗ join in activities that will increase

13:47 ↗ awareness and prevention of childhood

13:49 ↗ cancer

13:50 ↗ the second recognizes september as

13:52 ↗ recovery month to promote access to

13:55 ↗ recovery to celebrate those

13:57 ↗ participating in services and to reduce

14:00 ↗ barriers barriers of stigma and

14:02 ↗ discrimination

14:04 ↗ the third proclamation proclaimed

14:06 ↗ september 10-19 2021 is eastside

14:09 ↗ welcoming week and it is signed by the

14:11 ↗ mayors of bellevue issaquah kirkland

14:13 ↗ redmond and smamish

14:15 ↗ we invite the community to engage in

14:17 ↗ opportunities during eastside welcoming

14:19 ↗ week and beyond to learn connect across

14:22 ↗ differences and take joint action to

14:24 ↗ achieve a welcoming equitable and

14:26 ↗ inclusive community to learn more about

14:29 ↗ issaquah's activities visit

14:31 ↗ issaquah.gov

14:33 ↗ welcomingweek

14:35 ↗ we are continuing to accept applications

14:37 ↗ from community members interested in

14:38 ↗ serving on the city's new equity board

14:41 ↗ the application period closes on

14:42 ↗ september 12th and following the

14:44 ↗ application review and interview process

14:46 ↗ appointments will be made by the mayor

14:48 ↗ and confirmed by the city council in

14:50 ↗ october

14:52 ↗ in august issaquah's municipal court

14:55 ↗ began holding a community court calendar

14:58 ↗ the purpose is to provide an alternative

15:00 ↗ response to lower level crimes

15:03 ↗ qualified participants are required to

15:04 ↗ perform community service and engage in

15:07 ↗ social service programs the major goal

15:09 ↗ of the community court is to remove the

15:11 ↗ barriers many of their participants face

15:13 ↗ in obtaining services and ultimately to

15:16 ↗ restore them to self-sufficiency and to

15:18 ↗ reduce recidivism

15:20 ↗ to do this the community court calendar

15:22 ↗ utilizes a resource room to bring people

15:24 ↗ together with community service partners

15:27 ↗ specializing in housing services

15:29 ↗ education employment chemical dependency

15:33 ↗ health care licensing mental health

15:35 ↗ services and veteran services currently

15:38 ↗ the resource room is virtual and takes

15:40 ↗ place on thursdays from 12 30 to 1 30.

15:43 ↗ in the first three weeks issaquah's

15:45 ↗ participants have already noted how much

15:47 ↗ they enjoy the relaxed feeling in the

15:48 ↗ courtroom and the fact that the judge

15:51 ↗ the defense attorneys and prosecutor are

15:53 ↗ getting to know them on a personal level

15:55 ↗ it is anticipated that the resources

15:57 ↗ will be made available to others in the

15:59 ↗ issaquah community who need services and

16:01 ↗ not just those served by the court

16:04 ↗ more information on the community court

16:06 ↗ calendar and the resources available can

16:07 ↗ be found on the court's webpage on our

16:09 ↗ website

16:11 ↗ over the last year king county worked to

16:13 ↗ provide a variety of temporary housing

16:16 ↗ options for people exposed to

16:18 ↗ at risk of exposure or becoming elwood

16:21 ↗ cove at 19.

16:22 ↗ as part of that effort king county

16:24 ↗ entered into a lease of the holiday inn

16:26 ↗ in issaquah this was the issaquah

16:28 ↗ recovery center

16:29 ↗ in the 17 months that the facility was

16:32 ↗ open

16:33 ↗ 2057 guests were served from this

16:35 ↗ location

16:36 ↗ of the four site locations across king

16:38 ↗ county the issaquah location served 72

16:41 ↗ percent of all people in king county

16:43 ↗ that had not had a home to safely

16:45 ↗ isolate or quarantine in

16:48 ↗ all of all the guests the majority were

16:50 ↗ coveted positive

16:52 ↗ 37 are housed 73 are experiencing

16:56 ↗ homelessness and the average length of

16:58 ↗ stay was up from 5 to 10 days

17:00 ↗ i also wanted to note a few of the

17:02 ↗ upcoming community events al fresco on

17:04 ↗ front street still continues through

17:06 ↗ september 12th

17:08 ↗ and our city farmers market continues

17:10 ↗ through september 25th

17:12 ↗ and finally the city of issaquah isquad

17:14 ↗ police department and eastside fire and

17:16 ↗ rescue will honor the 20th anniversary

17:18 ↗ of 9 11 with a memorial on the steps of

17:21 ↗ city hall this weekend please join us in

17:24 ↗ remembrance

17:26 ↗ that concludes the mayor's report

17:28 ↗ and the next item of business is an

17:30 ↗ informational update

17:32 ↗ this is id 0948 cascade water alliance

17:36 ↗ and at the june 21st city council

17:37 ↗ meeting council members requested a

17:39 ↗ presentation be provided by the cascade

17:42 ↗ water alliance on the potential water

17:43 ↗ supply development fund being considered

17:45 ↗ by the cascade water alliance board of

17:48 ↗ directors

17:49 ↗ i'd like to invite gary schimek from

17:51 ↗ utilities engineering manner manager to

17:54 ↗ introduce this item gary

17:57 ↗ thank you good evening madam mayor city

17:59 ↗ council

18:00 ↗ and our administration

18:04 ↗ before i go any further i am going to

18:06 ↗ share my screen

18:15 ↗ okay can i get a confirmation that you

18:17 ↗ are seeing a powerpoint presentation

18:22 ↗ thank you

18:24 ↗ so um as air noted um we're here tonight

18:28 ↗ to talk about the future of cascades

18:30 ↗ water supply

18:31 ↗ and i am joined by uh two uh executives

18:35 ↗ from cascade water alliance

18:38 ↗ ray hoffman

18:39 ↗ the ceo and ed sebrun the

18:43 ↗ chief

18:44 ↗ economist and treasurer

18:47 ↗ go to our next slide and give you a

18:49 ↗ preview of tonight

18:52 ↗ ed will be leading this presentation of

18:55 ↗ course ray and i will be available for

18:57 ↗ questions as needed

18:59 ↗ and we'll touch on three major items

19:02 ↗ burst cascades existing water supply

19:06 ↗ and then the core issue

19:07 ↗ future water supply scenarios and

19:10 ↗ recommendations

19:12 ↗ and finally

19:13 ↗ we're going to ask council for your

19:15 ↗ feedback

19:17 ↗ on issaquah's vote at october

19:21 ↗ at the october cascade board meeting

19:23 ↗ to approve creation and implementation

19:25 ↗ of the water supply development fund

19:27 ↗ that ed is going to describe and of

19:30 ↗ course the mayor and delegate uh council

19:32 ↗ member

19:33 ↗ [Music]

19:35 ↗ hall will be attending that meeting so

19:38 ↗ i'm going to go to the next slide and

19:40 ↗ hand it over to my colleague ed seabrook

19:43 ↗ thank you gary and thank you for having

19:45 ↗ us

19:46 ↗ um we as gary said we've got a few

19:48 ↗ points to go through

19:50 ↗ first is a bit of background on cascade

19:52 ↗ and our current water supply

19:54 ↗ we have a contract with seattle it's a

19:57 ↗ block

19:58 ↗ contract for a fixed amount of water and

20:01 ↗ it extends through 2039.

20:03 ↗ following that it declines year by year

20:06 ↗ to 2063

20:08 ↗ when the contract ends

20:10 ↗ at present that water is projected to be

20:13 ↗ sufficient to meet our needs till 2039

20:16 ↗ but as soon as it starts declining would

20:19 ↗ no longer meet the projected demands of

20:22 ↗ our customers

20:24 ↗ we own lake tapps reservoir as our

20:26 ↗ future water supply and we own a water

20:28 ↗ right for municipal use

20:30 ↗ the water right right now has conditions

20:32 ↗ which require construction to start by

20:35 ↗ 2040

20:36 ↗ and

20:38 ↗ substantive completion and full use of

20:40 ↗ the water right by 2060.

20:44 ↗ our current schedule

20:46 ↗ given the step down in the seattle

20:47 ↗ contract calls for lake taps to be

20:49 ↗ operational by 2042

20:53 ↗ the

20:54 ↗ model we've been operating under however

20:56 ↗ is one that we've already successfully

20:58 ↗ used once in an extension with seattle

21:00 ↗ that we secured back in 2013 and that is

21:03 ↗ to use available regional supplies to

21:05 ↗ bridge

21:06 ↗ and meet our demands until lake taps is

21:09 ↗ operational

21:11 ↗ our demand forecast continues to remain

21:14 ↗ flat despite significant growth in our

21:16 ↗ member agencies and significant growth

21:19 ↗ in our

21:20 ↗ installed customer base

21:22 ↗ and when we look regionally the same

21:23 ↗ holds true

21:26 ↗ so so our strategy going forward is to

21:29 ↗ continue to use contract resources as it

21:32 ↗ makes sense

21:33 ↗ and work to extend or secure new

21:36 ↗ contracts to

21:38 ↗ defer when lake taps needs to be

21:40 ↗ developed and the lake taps project is

21:43 ↗ significant in today's dollars it would

21:44 ↗ be over 800 million dollars

21:46 ↗ at the time

21:48 ↗ of estimated construction for a 2042 in

21:51 ↗ service date it would be roughly double

21:53 ↗ that with projected inflation

21:56 ↗ to

21:57 ↗ in order for those contracts to be

21:59 ↗ uh useful we also have to get an

22:01 ↗ extension of the water right which i had

22:03 ↗ mentioned there uh has a 2040 initiation

22:06 ↗ date and we're pursuing that

22:08 ↗ hey ed this is the mayor

22:10 ↗ hi

22:10 ↗ thank you for coming tonight um

22:13 ↗ what gary did that was really great was

22:15 ↗ he did provide all of the slides and

22:16 ↗ documentation to counsel ahead of time

22:20 ↗ so i was looking at the length of your

22:21 ↗ slide deck and i want to make sure we

22:23 ↗ have time for council to ask some

22:25 ↗ questions

22:26 ↗ um

22:27 ↗ you've only got three ones pick up the

22:29 ↗ piece

22:29 ↗ all right

22:30 ↗ i will pick up the page yeah thank you

22:34 ↗ all right so um

22:36 ↗ through last year's budget and on into a

22:38 ↗ board workshop in

22:40 ↗ june of this year we have focused on

22:42 ↗ future supply scenarios and costs how we

22:44 ↗ might proceed forward

22:46 ↗ central to that is the concept of what

22:48 ↗ we've termed the water supply

22:50 ↗ development fund which is essentially a

22:52 ↗ savings account to accumulate funds to

22:54 ↗ help pay for the project they'll by no

22:56 ↗ means pay for all of the project but

22:58 ↗ they can pay a significant down payment

23:00 ↗ that reduces debt impacts and rate

23:03 ↗ impacts of the project when it comes

23:04 ↗ online

23:06 ↗ based on

23:07 ↗ that review and discussion the board

23:09 ↗ directed us to pursue a contract

23:12 ↗ extension with seattle and in parallel

23:14 ↗ explore a new contract with tacoma as an

23:16 ↗ alternative and then to return in

23:18 ↗ october to implement the wsdf

23:22 ↗ i'll briefly give you some of the

23:24 ↗ scenarios that we've

23:25 ↗ been playing with so you can kind of see

23:27 ↗ the depth and breadth

23:29 ↗ the base scenario remains getting late

23:31 ↗ taps on when we need the water

23:34 ↗ that's in 2042 construction would start

23:36 ↗ just in about 12 years uh to meet that

23:39 ↗ timeline

23:41 ↗ the next scenario would be the simplest

23:44 ↗ in terms of near-term actions and that

23:46 ↗ is an extension of the seattle contract

23:48 ↗ um what we've been documenting is a

23:51 ↗ 15-year contract

23:53 ↗ we've looked at 10 years as a viable

23:56 ↗ option as well as 20 but 15 is

23:59 ↗ probably the sweet spot in terms of how

24:01 ↗ it meets our projected future demands

24:03 ↗ and does not

24:05 ↗ impede seattle's ability to meet all

24:07 ↗ their other needs

24:08 ↗ we've similarly looked at a tacoma

24:10 ↗ contract

24:12 ↗ and in that case given the amount of

24:13 ↗ supply that they have available

24:15 ↗ we've looked at

24:17 ↗ a 20-year agreement as a potential

24:20 ↗ bridge which would extend us out to

24:21 ↗ about 2060 and that would buy us time to

24:25 ↗ defer some portions of the lake taps

24:27 ↗ development until then but it would

24:29 ↗ require

24:30 ↗ two of the three segments of our

24:32 ↗ transmission system to be built in the

24:34 ↗ 2030s to deliver that water

24:37 ↗ a variation on that would be to secure

24:40 ↗ that supply contract with tacoma and

24:43 ↗ separately secure a wheeling contract

24:45 ↗ with seattle

24:46 ↗ we would deliver water to their lake

24:48 ↗ young's area and from there they would

24:50 ↗ deliver it via the existing transmission

24:52 ↗ network that already supplies this water

24:55 ↗ that has some advantages but

24:57 ↗ they're very comparable in style we also

25:00 ↗ looked at the possibility of everett who

25:02 ↗ have a surplus of supply uh frankly

25:06 ↗ it requires infrastructure that has no

25:09 ↗ future use in our long-term strategy and

25:11 ↗ and it was quickly set aside as as

25:14 ↗ something that's out there if we need it

25:15 ↗ but but not a preferred option

25:17 ↗ and then

25:18 ↗ the last scenario that we've also

25:20 ↗ contemplated and framed up

25:22 ↗ it was to consider

25:24 ↗ folding back into the flock as it were

25:26 ↗ of seattle pervert wholesale purveyors

25:30 ↗ and becoming contract customers and

25:32 ↗ abandoning independent pursuit of supply

25:37 ↗ getting back to the wsdf which has been

25:40 ↗ a focus of discussion uh with with our

25:43 ↗ board

25:44 ↗ the

25:45 ↗ supply development fund allows us to

25:48 ↗ accumulate by the time of construction

25:51 ↗ several hundred million dollars of debt

25:53 ↗ if we do it right and that reduces our

25:56 ↗ borrowing to roughly 1.1 billion dollars

25:59 ↗ instead of one and a half billion

26:00 ↗ dollars

26:03 ↗ it starts with very small steps

26:06 ↗ in fact in 2021 and 2022 there's

26:09 ↗ essentially no contributions but

26:11 ↗ beginning in 2023 there are small

26:13 ↗ contributions being made into the fund

26:16 ↗ and in 2024 those start stepping up

26:18 ↗ further

26:20 ↗ what we show here is issaquah's share of

26:23 ↗ that of those contributions based on the

26:26 ↗ allocation of member charges uh that

26:28 ↗ would be supporting it

26:30 ↗ the total there is is in comparison to

26:32 ↗ about two million dollars of annual

26:34 ↗ payments that you make right now um our

26:38 ↗ rate increases

26:40 ↗ even with funding the wsdf

26:42 ↗ remain below our projected inflation at

26:44 ↗ 2.2 percent versus an assumed inflation

26:47 ↗ rate of three so we have a scenario

26:49 ↗ where we're keeping rates below

26:51 ↗ inflation in real terms that means the

26:53 ↗ cost of water is declining obviously in

26:56 ↗ nominal terms there's still increases

26:58 ↗ there and you can see issaquaz increases

27:00 ↗ i'll note there are a few years there we

27:02 ↗ have higher increases that's being

27:04 ↗ caused primarily by the supplemental

27:06 ↗ block of water that you're using as part

27:08 ↗ of your management of your independent

27:10 ↗ supply

27:14 ↗ providing a

27:16 ↗ graph to summarize what the wsdf does

27:20 ↗ the gray line is

27:22 ↗ the

27:23 ↗ base scenario with the wsdf water is

27:26 ↗ made available by 2042 we have a

27:29 ↗ significant run-up of costs as you can

27:31 ↗ see and then that flattens out

27:34 ↗ this is all inflation adjusted so think

27:36 ↗ of a flat line as being cost going up

27:38 ↗ with inflation every year anything's

27:40 ↗ going up is

27:42 ↗ increases greater than inflation

27:44 ↗ anything below increases below inflation

27:48 ↗ in terms of that gray line or the green

27:50 ↗ line you can see in the early 10 years

27:53 ↗ we remain below inflation until we hit

27:56 ↗ that construction period

27:58 ↗ the green line portrays what would

27:59 ↗ happen with a with an extension from

28:02 ↗ seattle and we can continue that and

28:05 ↗ go out over 25 years before we'd be back

28:08 ↗ to the same level of cost that we see

28:10 ↗ today on an inflation-adjusted basis the

28:14 ↗ other point with that green line is that

28:15 ↗ that peak out there is much much lower

28:17 ↗ in real terms than the peak of

28:20 ↗ building this for 2042

28:22 ↗ a question was asked in a scenario run

28:24 ↗ what happens if we used take the 15-year

28:28 ↗ extension and then wait 15 years to

28:30 ↗ start the wsdf

28:31 ↗ that's the yellow line and what you can

28:34 ↗ see is it it does buy us a lower rate

28:37 ↗ profile for that period of time but then

28:39 ↗ an extremely steep increase in rates

28:41 ↗ we're talking five to ten dollars per

28:43 ↗ month per

28:44 ↗ residential customer just at the

28:47 ↗ wholesale level and the peak that we see

28:50 ↗ is almost identical to the one from the

28:52 ↗ base scenario it's just been delayed

29:00 ↗ so back to the wsdf we have

29:04 ↗ proposed this and have structured it to

29:06 ↗ ensure that it is transparent and

29:08 ↗ accountable and that's part of the

29:10 ↗ reason for setting it up as a separate

29:11 ↗ fund so that

29:13 ↗ every all the transactions are clear and

29:15 ↗ the board has oversight and we've set up

29:17 ↗ a

29:18 ↗ hefty oversight role for the board

29:21 ↗ throughout our budget and financial

29:23 ↗ planning processes

29:27 ↗ and then finally

29:29 ↗ that that concludes the presentation i

29:32 ↗ know i was trying trying to fit the time

29:34 ↗ slot so if there's any questions i'll be

29:36 ↗ glad to answer them

29:38 ↗ and i'll turn it back to gary

29:44 ↗ sorry

29:45 ↗ oh no worries share my screen here and

29:48 ↗ uh open it up for questions and of

29:49 ↗ course i can

29:51 ↗ fumble around and go back to any slides

29:53 ↗ if needed

29:54 ↗ thank you gary um and thank you ads and

29:58 ↗ we also do we have oh we do yeah um

30:02 ↗ so um

30:03 ↗ before we go to questions um you had

30:05 ↗ said at the beginning ed that you were

30:07 ↗ gonna cover two things and the slide

30:10 ↗ presentation that we just went through

30:12 ↗ with the public talked a lot about the

30:13 ↗ fund itself but not necessarily water

30:15 ↗ demand so you may end up getting some

30:17 ↗ questions from the council on on that as

30:19 ↗ well

30:20 ↗ and uh gary um we will start working our

30:24 ↗ way through it sounds like tola has a

30:26 ↗ question uh councilmember martz has a

30:27 ↗ question first thank you thank you madam

30:29 ↗ mayor i have a question back on the

30:31 ↗ slide real monthly costs for ceru 2020

30:34 ↗ to 2026 with seattle extension

30:42 ↗ um do we have the net present value for

30:45 ↗ each of those options because the

30:46 ↗ aggregate cost to the consumer is going

30:49 ↗ to be basically the integrand under the

30:51 ↗ curve yes

30:52 ↗ um we we did do net present value for

30:55 ↗ all of these

30:56 ↗ actually gary that slide you just had is

30:58 ↗ a good one for that okay

31:01 ↗ and

31:02 ↗ i don't have those numbers at my

31:03 ↗ fingertips but basically from right to

31:07 ↗ left is increasing net present value

31:10 ↗ tacoma with wheeling is the lowest net

31:12 ↗ present value cost

31:13 ↗ tacoma without wheeling is

31:17 ↗ a close second

31:18 ↗ the seattle extension is third and the

31:20 ↗ base scenario has the highest net

31:22 ↗ present value cost

31:24 ↗ i've run that cost

31:26 ↗ out far enough that we get through all

31:28 ↗ phases of lake tap's development so

31:30 ↗ typically it's out to 2080 or even 2100

31:33 ↗ to ensure that we have that we reflect

31:35 ↗ all of the costs in each of those

31:38 ↗ scenarios

31:41 ↗ so the lowest

31:43 ↗ sort of aggregate cost which is what

31:45 ↗ you'd get the net present value for the

31:47 ↗ for the life of this running out to 2060

31:50 ↗ would be the tacoma tpu no wheeling

31:54 ↗ tacoma tpu with wheeling would be the

31:56 ↗ lowest now that is contingent on an

31:58 ↗ assumption about what the wheeling cost

32:00 ↗ would be from seattle

32:02 ↗ and

32:03 ↗ if it were 10 higher than what i assumed

32:05 ↗ tacoma no wheeling would become the

32:07 ↗ lowest option so they're very very close

32:10 ↗ got it

32:11 ↗ all right thank you thank you

32:13 ↗ councilmember martz uh council president

32:16 ↗ hunt i believe is up next

32:19 ↗ thank you mayor this is council

32:20 ↗ president hunt i had a question around

32:23 ↗ demand my understanding is that um over

32:27 ↗ the last 20 years the projections for

32:30 ↗ demands

32:32 ↗ well the demand itself has gone down a

32:34 ↗ lot i think it has to do with both

32:36 ↗ individual behaviors but also the types

32:39 ↗ of developments that are being built and

32:41 ↗ using less water

32:43 ↗ so you mentioned that population growth

32:45 ↗ has has um there's been population

32:47 ↗ growth but flat demand and so i wondered

32:50 ↗ if there's been a consideration of a

32:52 ↗ scenario in which

32:54 ↗ out past

32:56 ↗ 2060

32:57 ↗ we continue to see that there is less

33:00 ↗ demands than we expect even at this

33:03 ↗ point and if so then

33:05 ↗ what

33:06 ↗ have

33:07 ↗ have you considered the potential value

33:09 ↗ in doing another assessment

33:12 ↗ later on to see the continuation of the

33:14 ↗ trend in demand

33:15 ↗ i yes um

33:18 ↗ and in your packet there would be a

33:20 ↗ graphic that kind of

33:22 ↗ shows the cumulative regional demands

33:24 ↗ and supply

33:25 ↗ and leaving cascade out by 2060 there's

33:29 ↗ still something like 150 million gallons

33:31 ↗ a day of

33:32 ↗ capacity estimated to be available in

33:35 ↗ excess of the demands of the big three

33:37 ↗ tacoma everett and seattle systems

33:40 ↗ our demands at that time are roughly

33:42 ↗ four less than 40 million gallons so

33:44 ↗ there's ample room for us to continue

33:46 ↗ this strategy

33:47 ↗ and all of the forecasts ultimately tend

33:50 ↗ to have an upward tail again

33:52 ↗ uh just because of the the growth that's

33:54 ↗ built into them

33:55 ↗ but for 30 years now we've really not

33:57 ↗ seen that materialized you can go back

33:59 ↗ to 1991 and we have lower demands now

34:02 ↗ than we did then despite 30 or 40

34:05 ↗ percent population growth

34:08 ↗ i think what we're after here

34:10 ↗ is a long enough contract to buy us time

34:13 ↗ not so long that it puts our water right

34:15 ↗ at risk but also not so long that it

34:17 ↗ scares the potential suppliers that they

34:19 ↗ might run out of water and have an

34:20 ↗ obligation to us that preempts their own

34:23 ↗ needs so i kind of see just as we did 10

34:26 ↗ years ago negotiate an extension and

34:29 ↗ then periodically check in and see about

34:31 ↗ extending it again

34:37 ↗ thank you

34:38 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle had a

34:40 ↗ question but it was the same one that

34:42 ↗ the council president had already asked

34:44 ↗ um while i'm waiting to see if there are

34:46 ↗ any other questions ed i know that

34:49 ↗ council member hall really wanted to be

34:50 ↗ here tonight he's been working very hard

34:52 ↗ on this issue on the board

34:54 ↗ and wanted to make sure that when he and

34:57 ↗ i come back in a future date to get

34:59 ↗ direction from the council on how they'd

35:01 ↗ like to vote that they were familiar

35:03 ↗ with both the demand side the future

35:05 ↗ projections but also the possible

35:07 ↗ scenarios that may play out and why we

35:10 ↗ would be asking them to vote on a

35:12 ↗ construction development fund so i think

35:14 ↗ the presentation tonight did a really

35:16 ↗ good job uh especially the materials in

35:18 ↗ the pocket for those who may be watching

35:20 ↗ at home

35:21 ↗ there is a significant

35:24 ↗ significant amount of additional

35:25 ↗ information in there that really paints

35:27 ↗ the story of the demand and also the

35:29 ↗ potential

35:31 ↗ pathways going forward so

35:33 ↗ not seeing any other questions tonight i

35:36 ↗ wanted to thank you for coming in and

35:37 ↗ doing this i think this is a very

35:38 ↗ important part of what

35:40 ↗ the cascade board needs to consider

35:42 ↗ going forward and i really appreciate

35:46 ↗ ray and gary and ed sending us all that

35:48 ↗ detailed information and doing the

35:49 ↗ presentation tonight thanks very much

35:51 ↗ thank you

35:53 ↗ thank you

35:55 ↗ there is no action on that item this

35:57 ↗ evening it will be coming back at a

35:58 ↗ future date

36:00 ↗ for a council recommendation

36:02 ↗ and direction the next item is another

36:04 ↗ informational item id 0955 a school

36:08 ↗ resource officer update and this item

36:10 ↗ was last before council at the june 15th

36:13 ↗ council study session and i'd like to

36:15 ↗ invite our police chief scott bierbaum

36:17 ↗ to present this item

36:20 ↗ thank you mayor uh good evening council

36:23 ↗ my name is scott bierbaum chief of

36:25 ↗ police for the city of visible police

36:26 ↗ department tonight i'm just going to

36:28 ↗ provide a brief overview of or an update

36:32 ↗ regarding the school resource officer

36:33 ↗ program

36:34 ↗ just to reorient to the program back in

36:37 ↗ may and or back in may and june of this

36:40 ↗ year we had community discussions about

36:43 ↗ the school resource officer physicians

36:45 ↗ and then we heard a report out on those

36:48 ↗ listening sessions uh in a council

36:50 ↗ meeting back on june 15th

36:52 ↗ over the summer no action was determined

36:56 ↗ at that time during the meeting um and

36:59 ↗ the

37:01 ↗ mou between the school district and the

37:04 ↗ uh city and ifs aqua

37:06 ↗ expired on june 30th of the summer as

37:09 ↗ well for the school resource officer

37:11 ↗ program

37:13 ↗ new updates on that on august 26th the

37:16 ↗ issaquah school district board

37:18 ↗ heard a presentation from the school

37:20 ↗ district regarding a plan to potentially

37:23 ↗ implement security personnel in all

37:25 ↗ middle schools and high schools during

37:27 ↗ that board meeting the school board

37:30 ↗ expressed interest in hearing more from

37:33 ↗ some of the other are

37:34 ↗ our cities that neighbor our city

37:38 ↗ sammamish and then also for

37:40 ↗ unincorporated king county that serves

37:42 ↗ liberty high school

37:44 ↗ there has been no decision made yet if

37:46 ↗ whether they are going to implement this

37:48 ↗ school security personnel program

37:50 ↗ throughout the school

37:52 ↗ or at least as of the time of this

37:54 ↗ update we had not received word on that

37:57 ↗ essentially the school security

37:58 ↗ personnel would be

38:00 ↗ school security personnel that are

38:02 ↗ trained under the new house bill 1214

38:04 ↗ that establishes requirements for

38:07 ↗ reporting and how

38:09 ↗ how incidents are responded to within

38:11 ↗ schools

38:13 ↗ and the school district has a presented

38:16 ↗ a plan to hire and train those staff

38:20 ↗ over the next six to seven months

38:23 ↗ as you know school started on august

38:25 ↗ 31st

38:26 ↗ and of course we have been coordinating

38:28 ↗ with school district personnel for any

38:30 ↗ sort of necessary police responses at

38:33 ↗ the schools

38:35 ↗ to date

38:38 ↗ as a reminder the issaquah high school

38:41 ↗ currently has a security

38:43 ↗ security personnel working within the

38:45 ↗ schools and has worked there for years

38:47 ↗ and he also responds to issaquah middle

38:50 ↗ school which is positioned right next to

38:52 ↗ iskwa high school

38:54 ↗ we are continuing to have discussions on

38:56 ↗ how we can continue to partner with

38:58 ↗ providing opportunities within the

39:00 ↗ schools either

39:01 ↗ working with youth advisory groups or to

39:04 ↗ work within

39:06 ↗ other opportunities to connect with the

39:07 ↗ school community

39:09 ↗ that's the basic overview i kind of ran

39:11 ↗ through it kind of quickly there is

39:12 ↗ additional written report that is

39:15 ↗ also associated with the packet for

39:17 ↗ tonight's council meeting so i'm

39:19 ↗ available for any questions

39:21 ↗ if the council has any

39:23 ↗ thank you chief and thank you for the

39:25 ↗ update in the packet

39:26 ↗ are there any uh questions from council

39:29 ↗ i'll keep my eye on the chant

39:33 ↗ council member d michelle

39:37 ↗ thank you mayor paulie uh

39:39 ↗ and uh chief beerbot thank you for the

39:41 ↗ update uh and i know you said that

39:43 ↗ there's continuing conversations going

39:45 ↗ on about how you're going to be working

39:47 ↗ together

39:48 ↗ um i'm just wondering uh

39:51 ↗ will the school safety uh officers will

39:54 ↗ they be

39:55 ↗ partaking at any time in some of the

39:58 ↗ training that's available to our

39:59 ↗ officers and

40:02 ↗ i guess what i'm looking for is they're

40:03 ↗ going to be a common language between

40:05 ↗ uh those that personnel and our officers

40:09 ↗ and

40:09 ↗ ways of cooperating so that they

40:12 ↗ understand each other's operations

40:16 ↗ councilmember you michelle that's a

40:17 ↗ great question uh we have been

40:19 ↗ discussing with the director of security

40:22 ↗ for uh the school district and he

40:25 ↗ actually is a former school resource

40:27 ↗ officer so we're we are very lucky to be

40:29 ↗ able to have that partner that former

40:30 ↗ partnership as well uh but yes we will

40:33 ↗ that will be a part of our conversation

40:35 ↗ of how we communicate how we uh report

40:38 ↗ how we will

40:40 ↗ respond to incidents so that is that is

40:42 ↗ all part of those conversations so yes i

40:44 ↗ do agree common language and

40:46 ↗ understanding of how we respond

40:48 ↗ and what the terminology is

40:51 ↗ will be very important and as we've said

40:53 ↗ we've been very fortunate to be working

40:54 ↗ with the current assigned security

40:56 ↗ officer at the isla high school for over

40:59 ↗ a decade

41:00 ↗ oh oh okay

41:02 ↗ thank you very much

41:03 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle i am

41:05 ↗ not seeing any other questions at this

41:08 ↗ time

41:10 ↗ so i'd like to thank you chief for all

41:12 ↗ the information and providing the update

41:14 ↗ this evening

41:16 ↗ thank you have a good evening

41:17 ↗ thanks the next item on our agenda this

41:19 ↗ evening is the consent calendar and it

41:22 ↗ was distributed to council in advance if

41:24 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

41:26 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

41:28 ↗ approved by one motion i'd like to now

41:30 ↗ turn it over to councilmember d michelle

41:32 ↗ who would like to make a statement

41:34 ↗ before we go through the approval

41:38 ↗ thank you very much mayor paulie just a

41:40 ↗ moment let me go to another screen

41:43 ↗ thank you

41:45 ↗ so um i would like to state for the

41:47 ↗ record that i am currently employed with

41:49 ↗ an entity that is included in the city's

41:51 ↗ payables influence of choice i currently

41:54 ↗ fill the role of temporary executive

41:56 ↗ director of influence of choice the city

41:58 ↗ serves as a fiscal agent for this agency

42:01 ↗ in the disbursement of a federal grant

42:03 ↗ grant funds are being disbursed under

42:05 ↗ this month's accounts payable

42:07 ↗ i have asked for advice from the city

42:10 ↗ attorney as to whether this warrants a

42:11 ↗ conflict of interest and have been

42:14 ↗ informed that i am not legally required

42:16 ↗ to be excused for voting as the city is

42:18 ↗ carrying out a decision that was

42:20 ↗ previously made by the council

42:22 ↗ however for the sake of transparency i

42:24 ↗ would like to declare this employment

42:26 ↗ and have my statement entered in the

42:29 ↗ minutes

42:30 ↗ thank you

42:31 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle

42:33 ↗ i have the pill payables and payroll

42:36 ↗ been reviewed

42:38 ↗ we have

42:39 ↗ yes

42:41 ↗ thank you

42:42 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

42:44 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

42:46 ↗ considered under regular business

42:52 ↗ and if not

42:54 ↗ can i get a

42:56 ↗ motion council president hunt

43:00 ↗ thank you i move to approve the consent

43:02 ↗ calendar as it appears in this evening's

43:03 ↗ agenda

43:05 ↗ second

43:06 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

43:08 ↗ a motion has been made to approve

43:11 ↗ it has been moved and seconded to

43:13 ↗ approve the consent calendar as

43:15 ↗ submitted and so i'll go to our city

43:17 ↗ clerk for a roll call vote

43:20 ↗ yes starting with council member martz

43:23 ↗ aye

43:25 ↗ council president ray aye

43:28 ↗ council member walsh

43:30 ↗ aye

43:31 ↗ council member d michelle

43:34 ↗ aye

43:35 ↗ councilmember goodman aye

43:38 ↗ council member hunt hi

43:41 ↗ that's six i zero nays

43:43 ↗ thank you that passes unanimously

43:46 ↗ the next item of business this evening

43:48 ↗ is the public hearing this is

43:50 ↗ ab-8140 it's amendments to the sign code

43:54 ↗ and we will be conducting the hearing

43:55 ↗ this evening the item was last before

43:57 ↗ city council at the july 27 2021

44:01 ↗ council study session and i'd like to

44:03 ↗ invite lucy sloman our planning manager

44:05 ↗ to present this item welcome lucy

44:09 ↗ thank you madam mayor

44:11 ↗ um

44:18 ↗ is my

44:20 ↗ presentation showing it is showing

44:23 ↗ excellent

44:24 ↗ um so i return to you tonight uh on the

44:28 ↗ sign code uh for a public hearing i'm

44:31 ↗ lucy sloman cpd uh land development or

44:35 ↗ planning manager these days

44:38 ↗ as you well remember

44:40 ↗ the sign code is

44:42 ↗ phase 1 of the title 18 update

44:45 ↗ we had a hearing with the planning

44:47 ↗ policy commission

44:50 ↗ and then two study sessions with council

44:53 ↗ due to the changes the extent of changes

44:56 ↗ made during the study sessions we are

44:58 ↗ returning tonight to council for another

45:00 ↗ public hearing

45:04 ↗ the background of the sign code is that

45:07 ↗ we have several goals

45:10 ↗ one is to consolidate two codes one

45:13 ↗ that's in the imc 1811 and one that is

45:17 ↗ in the central issaquah standards

45:19 ↗ chapter 9 as well as some signed

45:21 ↗ guidance that is in the old town design

45:24 ↗ standards

45:25 ↗ second we're

45:27 ↗ wanting to comply with the u.s supreme

45:29 ↗ court case of reed versus the town of

45:32 ↗ gilbert

45:33 ↗ arizona which

45:35 ↗ upended many uh temporary

45:38 ↗ signs especially non-commercial

45:41 ↗ temporary sign codes and so we want to

45:44 ↗ bring it into compliance with that

45:46 ↗ the council developed a

45:49 ↗ set of goals and outcomes associated

45:51 ↗ with title 18

45:53 ↗ including the umbrella goals and goal 12

45:56 ↗ which is specifically related to the

45:58 ↗ sign code

45:59 ↗ and we've focused a lot on usability and

46:02 ↗ streamlining in response to that

46:05 ↗ and finally we want to bring consistency

46:08 ↗ to the sign code there are provisions

46:10 ↗ and processes and all kinds of things

46:12 ↗ that vary um across our city and we want

46:17 ↗ to make them consistent except where

46:19 ↗ neighborhood distinctions are uh

46:21 ↗ important

46:26 ↗ um so what we've proposed to you

46:28 ↗ complies with the supreme court case

46:30 ↗ consolidates the codes

46:32 ↗ makes things consistent and

46:35 ↗ protects the mountains to sound corridor

46:37 ↗ that we have identified as being such an

46:40 ↗ important value in our community

46:46 ↗ one of the aspects

46:48 ↗ beyond the actual sign code are changes

46:51 ↗ to the fees associated with signs

46:54 ↗ this would have no fees for temporary

46:57 ↗ signs as proposed and no permits

47:01 ↗ although permanent signs are

47:04 ↗ 30 percent of the permits that are

47:06 ↗ issued they're 70 percent of the fees so

47:10 ↗ our proposal to make it easier

47:13 ↗ and more streamlined or temporary signs

47:16 ↗ is to not have permits or fees and rely

47:18 ↗ on those from the

47:20 ↗ permanent signs we would add a lower fee

47:24 ↗ for some additional signs that

47:26 ↗ applicants frequently say they won't

47:28 ↗ apply for because

47:30 ↗ the current sign

47:32 ↗ permits are

47:33 ↗ more expensive

47:35 ↗ by several factors than the actual signs

47:38 ↗ cost

47:39 ↗ we're proposing a two-tier

47:41 ↗ sign fee to

47:43 ↗ recognize that some signs require

47:46 ↗ more than one discipline to review them

47:50 ↗ we're eliminating the reinspection fee

47:52 ↗ and is

47:54 ↗ although it's not shown on this slide we

47:56 ↗ are proposing uh since the last study

47:59 ↗ session a change

48:00 ↗ to the front street banner fee

48:03 ↗ uh the reason for that is the council

48:05 ↗ has asked us to recover our costs

48:08 ↗ and

48:09 ↗ currently the front street banner fee uh

48:13 ↗ only recovers a portion of the cost of

48:16 ↗ putting up and taking down the banners

48:20 ↗ and there will also be additional staff

48:22 ↗ time associated with managing the

48:24 ↗ schedule that we haven't done in the

48:26 ↗ past

48:30 ↗ your options are to either remand the

48:33 ↗ sign code or to proceed to adoption

48:38 ↗ to decline to change or modify the

48:40 ↗ changes that are proposed for either the

48:42 ↗ fees

48:43 ↗ or

48:44 ↗ the minor change that we're proposing to

48:47 ↗ the sign requirements

48:49 ↗ we also

48:51 ↗ in the ordinance have given you the

48:53 ↗ language to implement a procedural

48:55 ↗ change that we've been talking about

48:58 ↗ which is removing the development

48:59 ↗ commission from the review of signs

49:02 ↗ we've talked about this previously but

49:04 ↗ had not presented the actual

49:07 ↗ code edits that would be necessary to

49:09 ↗ implement it and they are shown in the

49:12 ↗ ordinance now

49:16 ↗ our process so far has been seven

49:19 ↗ informal meetings

49:21 ↗ in early 2019 and

49:24 ↗ at the

49:25 ↗ turn of the year from 2020 to 2021

49:29 ↗ we began our formal process in march of

49:32 ↗ this year

49:33 ↗ with a discussion draft meeting with ppc

49:36 ↗ and ebc

49:38 ↗ and then the public hearing in april

49:40 ↗ that i previously mentioned

49:42 ↗ our two council study sessions were in

49:44 ↗ may and july

49:46 ↗ of this year

49:47 ↗ tonight

49:48 ↗ will be our public hearing

49:51 ↗ to give the public an opportunity to

49:53 ↗ comment on the changes that were made

49:55 ↗ since the ppc hearing and we have

49:58 ↗ tentatively scheduled

50:00 ↗ adoption for september 20th based on the

50:04 ↗ direction we receive from you tonight

50:09 ↗ our recommendation therefore is to

50:11 ↗ repeal and replace imc 1811

50:15 ↗ repeal central issaquah chapter 9

50:19 ↗ repeal most of the sign design section

50:21 ↗ in the old town design standards

50:24 ↗ revise signed fees revised the sidewalk

50:26 ↗ used district insurance

50:28 ↗ and revised the administration and

50:30 ↗ procedure chapters in imc 1803 and 18f4

50:36 ↗ and that concludes my presentation

50:40 ↗ you lucy um in case those that are

50:42 ↗ watching may not realize this is years

50:44 ↗ of work

50:46 ↗ they've got interrupted by covet and it

50:48 ↗ is a really huge lift having been a

50:50 ↗ development commissioner for 20 years

50:52 ↗ and working on science i can tell you

50:53 ↗ this is long long long overdue

50:56 ↗ so we will now go so thank you for all

50:58 ↗ you have done we'll now go to counsel

51:00 ↗ for any questions and i'm looking in the

51:02 ↗ chat right now and i don't see anybody

51:04 ↗ lined up but i'll give it a second or so

51:11 ↗ it does not appear that we have any

51:13 ↗ questions this evening that i can see so

51:15 ↗ thank you for the presentation

51:17 ↗ i will now be opening the public hearing

51:20 ↗ at 7 58 p.m

51:22 ↗ and again for those of you who have

51:24 ↗ joined us tonight and would like to make

51:25 ↗ comments but did not sign up in advance

51:28 ↗ please raise your virtual hand which you

51:29 ↗ can do on your phone by pressing star 3

51:32 ↗ or if you're on a commuter computer or

51:34 ↗ smartphone look for a hand icon and this

51:37 ↗ varies by device to device

51:39 ↗ one option may be to go to the

51:41 ↗ participant panel and choose the raise

51:43 ↗ hand icon in the lower right hand corner

51:46 ↗ uh tisha has anyone signed up to speak

51:48 ↗ or indicated a desire to speak this

51:50 ↗ evening

51:52 ↗ yes randy banneker has indicated a

51:55 ↗ desire to speak randy in just a moment

51:57 ↗ i'll move you up as a panelist you

51:59 ↗ should then see the option to unmute and

52:01 ↗ can also choose to turn your video on

52:16 ↗ randy you have the floor

52:18 ↗ thank you thank you madam mayor council

52:20 ↗ members is my my audio coming through

52:24 ↗ perfectly clear

52:26 ↗ uh appreciate the opportunity to comment

52:28 ↗ tonight randy banneker i'm here on

52:30 ↗ behalf of the seattle king county

52:31 ↗ realtors

52:32 ↗ we want to express our full support for

52:35 ↗ the revised sign code our members place

52:38 ↗ a high value on the ability to

52:40 ↗ to use real estate science in the city

52:42 ↗ of issaquah signs aid in a swift sale

52:45 ↗ and promote fair housing practices

52:48 ↗ we believe the draft code fully complies

52:50 ↗ with the united states supreme court

52:52 ↗ decision of reid versus the town of

52:54 ↗ gilbert arizona

52:56 ↗ further the reorganization of the code

52:59 ↗ including tables and images of sign

53:01 ↗ types we feel offers greater ease of

53:03 ↗ understanding which will boost

53:05 ↗ compliance with the code

53:07 ↗ we wish to thank

53:09 ↗ you for your work

53:10 ↗ through many study sessions on the code

53:13 ↗ and staff for their good work and their

53:15 ↗ responsiveness to our questions we

53:17 ↗ encourage your adoption thanks very much

53:20 ↗ thank you very much brandi

53:22 ↗ is there anyone else tisha that has

53:25 ↗ indicated a desire to speak this evening

53:28 ↗ mayor no one else has signed up in

53:30 ↗ advance and i'm just quickly looking

53:32 ↗ through our list of participants

53:34 ↗ i'm not seeing that anyone else

53:37 ↗ would like to make comments during the

53:38 ↗ public hearing

53:41 ↗ great thank you very much uh

53:44 ↗ is there any objection to closing the

53:46 ↗ public hearing and i'll give a few

53:48 ↗ seconds

53:51 ↗ hearing none the public hearing is

53:53 ↗ closed at 801 pm no action is being

53:57 ↗ requested on this item tonight the

53:59 ↗ council is anticipated to take action on

54:01 ↗ this item at the september 20th 2021

54:04 ↗ council meeting

54:06 ↗ thank you very much for the presentation

54:07 ↗ this evening lucy

54:09 ↗ thank you

54:10 ↗ the next item the next and good work

54:12 ↗ this is good work the next item of

54:14 ↗ business this evening is regular

54:16 ↗ business it's a b 8 2 2 7

54:19 ↗ the second 2021 budget amendment and the

54:22 ↗ action before the the request before the

54:24 ↗ council this evening is to adopt this

54:26 ↗ ordinance and this is the first time

54:29 ↗ this item is before the council

54:31 ↗ i'd like to invite acting finance

54:33 ↗ director autumn monaghan and acting

54:34 ↗ budget manager susie munsell to present

54:37 ↗ this item

54:39 ↗ thank you madame members of the council

54:41 ↗ i'll wait for susie to start sharing her

54:43 ↗ screen

54:48 ↗ and while we wait my name is otto

54:49 ↗ monaghan i'm serving as interim finance

54:51 ↗ director i'm here with susie monsell

54:53 ↗ tonight who is our acting budget manager

54:56 ↗ with a quick presentation on proposed

54:57 ↗ second round of amendments for

54:59 ↗ the budget for 2021

55:02 ↗ budget amendments are required when

55:04 ↗ expenditures in a fund are forecasted to

55:06 ↗ exceed what has been appropriated

55:09 ↗ this proposed set of amendments includes

55:11 ↗ adjustments to 10 city funds and

55:13 ↗ accounts for nearly 1.1 million in

55:15 ↗ adjusted revenues and about 2.7 million

55:18 ↗ in adjusted expenditures

55:22 ↗ this amendment includes 26 items divided

55:25 ↗ into three categories we typically use

55:27 ↗ to describe mid-year budget adjustments

55:30 ↗ the first is previously approved

55:31 ↗ requests there are five items that were

55:33 ↗ already approved in concept by the city

55:35 ↗ council via other agenda bills

55:37 ↗ there are also three items that are

55:39 ↗ technical corrections to the 2021 budget

55:41 ↗ that were identified after the council

55:42 ↗ adopted the budget and then we have 18

55:45 ↗ requests

55:46 ↗ for new or increased funding that have

55:48 ↗ not previously been considered by the

55:49 ↗ city council as budget adjustments

55:52 ↗ and now i'll hand it over to susie to

55:54 ↗ review the budget adjustments in more

55:56 ↗ detail and as you'll hear there are many

55:58 ↗ priorities that departments are ready to

56:00 ↗ begin now and utilize our increased

56:02 ↗ one-time capacity uh we also have

56:04 ↗ several department directors here

56:05 ↗ tonight to answer any specific questions

56:07 ↗ and with that susie

56:10 ↗ uh thank you autumn um so

56:13 ↗ given the number of budget adjustments

56:15 ↗ proposed in this amendment we wanted to

56:18 ↗ provide some background on the

56:20 ↗ methodology for why many of them are

56:22 ↗ included tonight

56:24 ↗ the 18 budget adjustments proposed in

56:26 ↗ this amendment primarily fall into three

56:28 ↗ buckets the first expanding expenditure

56:32 ↗ authority for funds that cannot absorb

56:34 ↗ unanticipated costs so these are funds

56:37 ↗ like the street operating fund the

56:39 ↗ sustainability fund or the cable tv fund

56:42 ↗ that adopts pretty narrow expenditure

56:44 ↗ authority each year

56:46 ↗ the second bucket is new positions that

56:49 ↗ are anticipated to be funded in the

56:51 ↗ proposed 22 budget coming later this

56:53 ↗ month

56:54 ↗ um and these positions are either time

56:56 ↗ sensitive or they may take longer to

56:58 ↗ fill

56:59 ↗ so we're looking for council

57:00 ↗ authorization to begin that process

57:02 ↗ ahead of the 2022 budget process

57:06 ↗ and the third bucket as autumn mentioned

57:09 ↗ is project or work that has been planned

57:12 ↗ though not yet proposed for this year

57:15 ↗ due to

57:16 ↗ in some cases lack of funding

57:18 ↗ availability and given the results of

57:20 ↗ the general fund financial forecast that

57:22 ↗ was presented last month

57:24 ↗ the city is anticipating fairly large uh

57:27 ↗ one-time funding capacity that can be

57:29 ↗ utilized in 2021 or 2022

57:32 ↗ and these items proposed in this

57:34 ↗ amendment um the that fall on into this

57:37 ↗ bucket are things that departments are

57:39 ↗ ready to begin now

57:41 ↗ and by including them in this amendment

57:43 ↗ it allows the administration it also

57:45 ↗ allows the administration to better

57:47 ↗ anticipate the beginning 2022 fund

57:49 ↗ balance um as we are preparing the 2022

57:53 ↗ proposed budget

57:57 ↗ i am now going to very briefly run

57:59 ↗ through each of the items proposed in

58:01 ↗ this amendment and since this

58:02 ↗ information is also provided in

58:04 ↗ tonight's council packet i will go

58:06 ↗ through these pretty quickly

58:08 ↗ but we also have various staff as ought

58:10 ↗ to mention on the call tonight to answer

58:11 ↗ any programmatic questions the council

58:13 ↗ may have on these items

58:16 ↗ and we would also like at the end of

58:17 ↗ this presentation to address some

58:19 ↗ questions that we received from council

58:21 ↗ president hunt

58:22 ↗ prior to the meeting

58:24 ↗ um that uh

58:26 ↗ we would like to address the end

58:28 ↗ so the first item starting with the

58:30 ↗ previously approved request

58:32 ↗ uh ab-8054 from march 15 of this year

58:36 ↗ authorized the acceptance of a uh almost

58:38 ↗ a 42 000

58:40 ↗ grant from the local hazardous waste

58:42 ↗ management program

58:44 ↗ and this grant revenue is intended to

58:45 ↗ support education and outreach to

58:47 ↗ residents on relevant topics like waste

58:49 ↗ reduction avoiding toxic chemicals and

58:51 ↗ waste disposal options

58:53 ↗ and while the 2021 adopted budget

58:55 ↗ anticipated receiving the grant it

58:56 ↗ underestimated the amount awarded

58:59 ↗ and this amendment increases the

59:01 ↗ revenues and associated expenditures in

59:03 ↗ the sustainability fund to match that

59:04 ↗ final grant award

59:07 ↗ second

59:08 ↗ ab-8120 from april 5th authorized the

59:11 ↗ purchase of two pieces of equipment to

59:14 ↗ allow the public works street division

59:15 ↗ field crew to supplement the contracted

59:18 ↗ efforts performed under the payment

59:19 ↗ management program which is the cip

59:22 ↗ project tr030

59:24 ↗ and this amendment transfers the funds

59:26 ↗ necessary to purchase the equipment from

59:27 ↗ the capital project fund

59:29 ↗ and specifically the payment management

59:31 ↗ program

59:32 ↗ to the fleet fund to purchase the

59:33 ↗ equipment

59:36 ↗ um third in the previously approved

59:38 ↗ request ab-8216 from august 2nd

59:41 ↗ authorized the acceptance of a 228

59:43 ↗ thousand dollar grant from the summer

59:44 ↗ enrichment and experiences for kids or

59:46 ↗ the sikh program

59:48 ↗ through the association of washington

59:50 ↗ cities or the purchase of a portable

59:52 ↗ stage to be used for a wide variety of

59:54 ↗ city programming for the community

59:56 ↗ and this amendment captures this grant

59:58 ↗ revenue and adds the associated

1:00:00 ↗ expenditures to the general fund

1:00:03 ↗ fourth

1:00:04 ↗ ab-8141 from march of this year

1:00:06 ↗ authorized the acceptance of a almost 39

1:00:09 ↗ thousand dollar grant

1:00:10 ↗ from the 2021 port of seattle economic

1:00:13 ↗ development partnership program

1:00:15 ↗ while the 2021 adopted budget

1:00:17 ↗ anticipated receiving this grant it

1:00:20 ↗ also underestimated the amount awarded

1:00:22 ↗ so this amendment

1:00:23 ↗ very small increases the revenues and

1:00:25 ↗ associated expenditures in the general

1:00:27 ↗ fund apologies

1:00:29 ↗ to match the final grant award

1:00:32 ↗ and finally on the previously approved

1:00:34 ↗ request

1:00:35 ↗ ab-8155 from may 3rd

1:00:38 ↗ approved the adoption

1:00:40 ↗ or the creation of an emergency manager

1:00:42 ↗ position

1:00:43 ↗ and so the city currently allocates some

1:00:45 ↗ emergency management cost each of the

1:00:47 ↗ three utilities

1:00:49 ↗ so this amendment adds the cost for this

1:00:51 ↗ position to the street operating fund

1:00:53 ↗ the water fund the sewer fund and the

1:00:55 ↗ stormwater fund

1:00:56 ↗ you really using the same methodology

1:00:58 ↗ other emergency management costs use

1:01:01 ↗ and it assumed a mid-august start date

1:01:03 ↗ which is when our new emergency manager

1:01:06 ↗ started

1:01:08 ↗ of the three budget correction items

1:01:11 ↗ uh first in february uh city council

1:01:14 ↗ approved the reauthorization of certain

1:01:16 ↗ funds previously budgeted in 2020 for

1:01:18 ↗ expenditure in 2021.

1:01:20 ↗ and uh the list of 2020 reauthorizations

1:01:23 ↗ improved in february did not however

1:01:25 ↗ include a needed carryover of funds for

1:01:27 ↗ work performed by the government finance

1:01:29 ↗ officers association or gfoa

1:01:32 ↗ to assist with the development of the

1:01:33 ↗ city's charter accounts

1:01:36 ↗ this amendment adds that 81 000

1:01:38 ↗ of unspent funds from 2020

1:01:42 ↗ out of the general fund to support the

1:01:44 ↗ completion of gfoa's work in 2021

1:01:48 ↗ second the 2021 adopted budget

1:01:50 ↗ mistakenly included mistakenly excluded

1:01:53 ↗ the costs associated with a domestic

1:01:55 ↗ violence advocate

1:01:57 ↗ and this amendment adds it's just ten

1:01:59 ↗ thousand dollars of general fund

1:02:00 ↗ expenditures to support this activity

1:02:03 ↗ and finally the 2021 adopted budget

1:02:06 ↗ anticipated receiving about 63 000 um

1:02:09 ↗ dollars from the waste reduction and

1:02:11 ↗ recycling program grant

1:02:13 ↗ but did not fully adopt the associated

1:02:14 ↗ expenditures um instead only budgeting

1:02:17 ↗ 30 000 for the activity associated with

1:02:19 ↗ this grant

1:02:20 ↗ so the this amendment increases the

1:02:22 ↗ expenditures

1:02:24 ↗ by the 33 000 ish to get it to the

1:02:28 ↗ amount awarded in the sustainability

1:02:30 ↗ fund

1:02:33 ↗ turning to the proposed budget

1:02:34 ↗ adjustments

1:02:35 ↗ um first at the june 29 2021 city

1:02:38 ↗ council study session staff requested

1:02:40 ↗ council feedback regarding the uh

1:02:43 ↗ reestablishment of a traffic signal

1:02:45 ↗ operations engineer position

1:02:47 ↗ in the public works at street

1:02:49 ↗ engineering division

1:02:50 ↗ and following a discussion at that study

1:02:53 ↗ session the council indicated a

1:02:55 ↗ preference to move forward with adding

1:02:56 ↗ this position

1:02:58 ↗ and so this amendment added adds the

1:03:00 ↗ needed funds in the street operating

1:03:02 ↗ fund to support the creation of this

1:03:03 ↗ position assuming a december higher date

1:03:06 ↗ and

1:03:07 ↗ this position will also be included in

1:03:10 ↗ the mayor's proposed 2022 budget

1:03:12 ↗ and it's important to note that this

1:03:14 ↗ position

1:03:16 ↗ that this adjustment will add one fte

1:03:18 ↗ over the current staffing levels adopted

1:03:20 ↗ for 2021.

1:03:23 ↗ similarly the um

1:03:26 ↗ and adding an fte over current staffing

1:03:28 ↗ levels the community planning and

1:03:29 ↗ development department has requested the

1:03:31 ↗ addition of a long-range planning

1:03:32 ↗ division manager

1:03:34 ↗ and this position would lead the

1:03:35 ↗ long-range planning division comprised

1:03:37 ↗ of one transportation planner to be

1:03:39 ↗ reallocated from the public works

1:03:41 ↗ department one part-time senior planner

1:03:43 ↗ and one associate planner

1:03:45 ↗ and this position would also lead and

1:03:47 ↗ manage the city's efforts in state

1:03:48 ↗ mandating mandated planning initiatives

1:03:50 ↗ and strategic community planning efforts

1:03:52 ↗ such as transit oriented planning

1:03:55 ↗ other sub-area neighborhood planning and

1:03:56 ↗ established partnerships at a regional

1:03:58 ↗ level to implement community goals

1:04:00 ↗ and so this amendment adds the needed

1:04:02 ↗ funds out of the general fund to support

1:04:04 ↗ the creation of this position also

1:04:06 ↗ assuming a december higher date

1:04:10 ↗ next in the hr department

1:04:13 ↗ since they have taken on risk management

1:04:15 ↗ function from the executive department

1:04:16 ↗ and other functions from the finance

1:04:18 ↗ department as part of the municipal

1:04:20 ↗ implementation project

1:04:22 ↗ the administration is reque requesting

1:04:24 ↗ the temporary reclassification of the

1:04:26 ↗ current hr coordinator to an hr analyst

1:04:29 ↗ to be proposed as a permanent

1:04:31 ↗ reclassification as part of the mayor's

1:04:32 ↗ proposed 22 budget

1:04:34 ↗ and the hiring of a new hr coordinator

1:04:37 ↗ and this action will allow the

1:04:39 ↗ department to support labor relations

1:04:40 ↗ staffing including a stronger focus on

1:04:42 ↗ staffing and retention in the police

1:04:44 ↗ department

1:04:45 ↗ munis project management covid staffing

1:04:48 ↗ impacts and more and this amendment adds

1:04:50 ↗ the needed funds to the general fund

1:04:53 ↗ in 2021 to support the addition of the

1:04:56 ↗ new hr coordinator and temporary

1:04:58 ↗ reclassification of the current hr

1:05:00 ↗ coordinator to an hr analyst

1:05:02 ↗ and like the two before this this

1:05:04 ↗ edition will also add one fte over

1:05:06 ↗ current staffing levels

1:05:10 ↗ next the police department has requested

1:05:12 ↗ the addition of a limited term

1:05:13 ↗ communications coordinator and this

1:05:16 ↗ position is intended to help with

1:05:17 ↗ communication and recruitment efforts to

1:05:19 ↗ attract candidates to the city of isla

1:05:21 ↗ police department for employment

1:05:23 ↗ the department anticipates hiring

1:05:24 ↗ several new employees in the coming year

1:05:26 ↗ and a specific focus on both recruitment

1:05:29 ↗ and retention is needed

1:05:31 ↗ so this amendment adds the needed funds

1:05:33 ↗ in the general fund

1:05:36 ↗ in 2021 to support the addition of

1:05:38 ↗ this new this would be a limited term

1:05:41 ↗ employee

1:05:43 ↗ and

1:05:44 ↗ so moving from the proposed positions

1:05:48 ↗ the next the city's intelligent traffic

1:05:50 ↗ system or ips has many components

1:05:52 ↗ that have reached the end of their

1:05:53 ↗ service life or failed and need to be

1:05:55 ↗ replaced these items include vehicle

1:05:58 ↗ detection systems signal heads and

1:06:00 ↗ signal cabinets

1:06:02 ↗ over the past few budget cycles these

1:06:03 ↗ items were selected

1:06:05 ↗ to be deferred while they were still

1:06:07 ↗ operational in order to meet necessary

1:06:09 ↗ budget reductions

1:06:11 ↗ so this amendment adds uh 250 000 of

1:06:14 ↗ street operating fund expenditures

1:06:16 ↗ supported by an interfund transfer from

1:06:18 ↗ the general fund to restore the previous

1:06:20 ↗ budget reductions and put ics back on an

1:06:22 ↗ appropriate maintenance cycle

1:06:27 ↗ next at the august 2nd 2021 city council

1:06:29 ↗ meeting

1:06:30 ↗ council received an updated 2021 general

1:06:33 ↗ fund forecast that anticipated a 1.2

1:06:36 ↗ million dollar increase to community

1:06:37 ↗ planning and development department

1:06:39 ↗ revenues over the 2021 adopted budget

1:06:42 ↗ and some of this increased revenue

1:06:44 ↗ however is offset by expenditures passed

1:06:46 ↗ through to consultants assisting in this

1:06:48 ↗ work

1:06:49 ↗ while these increased expenditures were

1:06:51 ↗ also anticipated as part of the 21

1:06:52 ↗ general fund forecast at that august 2nd

1:06:55 ↗ meeting

1:06:56 ↗ additional expenditure authority will be

1:06:57 ↗ needed to support these costs over what

1:07:00 ↗ was anticipated in the 21 budget

1:07:02 ↗ so this amendment adds 227 000

1:07:05 ↗ approximately of general fund

1:07:07 ↗ expenditures to formally increase that

1:07:09 ↗ expenditure authority to

1:07:11 ↗ support these costs

1:07:14 ↗ next due to the transition out of the

1:07:16 ↗ city hall northwest facility a large

1:07:18 ↗ number of paper records from the public

1:07:20 ↗ works human resources and community

1:07:21 ↗ planning and development departments

1:07:23 ↗ need to be reviewed processed and

1:07:25 ↗ digitized this project will improve the

1:07:27 ↗ security and access of these records as

1:07:29 ↗ well as reduce the future physical space

1:07:31 ↗ needed for records

1:07:32 ↗ so this amendment adds 50 000 of general

1:07:35 ↗ fund expenditures in 2021 to begin this

1:07:38 ↗ work with additional funding to be

1:07:40 ↗ included in the mayor's proposed 2022

1:07:42 ↗ budget to complete this project in 2022

1:07:46 ↗ next and similarly the municipal court

1:07:49 ↗ is currently digitizing open court files

1:07:51 ↗ into an electronic content management

1:07:52 ↗ solution utilizing sharepoint

1:07:55 ↗ equipment was funded for this project in

1:07:58 ↗ 2020 through the administrative office

1:08:00 ↗ of courts or cares act funding to

1:08:03 ↗ provide a virtual courtroom platform and

1:08:05 ↗ promote remote appearances

1:08:07 ↗ the court is requesting thousand dollars

1:08:09 ↗ in 2021 for overtime cost to convert

1:08:12 ↗ court files into an into that electronic

1:08:14 ↗ format

1:08:15 ↗ and this project will streamline court

1:08:17 ↗ processes increase efficiencies and

1:08:19 ↗ provide on-demand access to court

1:08:21 ↗ records

1:08:24 ↗ uh next we have a series of information

1:08:26 ↗ technology mid-year adjustments that

1:08:28 ↗ include enhancing physical security of

1:08:30 ↗ city buildings replacing failing

1:08:32 ↗ smartphones for the public works and

1:08:33 ↗ parks community services departments

1:08:35 ↗ and supporting a hybrid workforce with

1:08:37 ↗ video conferencing additional desktop

1:08:39 ↗ hardware

1:08:40 ↗ and cyber security improvements

1:08:42 ↗ this amendment adds 447 thousand dollars

1:08:45 ↗ approximately of i.t fund expenditures

1:08:48 ↗ as well as initiating the required

1:08:49 ↗ interfund transfers from the other city

1:08:51 ↗ funds to support this work in the it

1:08:53 ↗ fund consistent with how other city it

1:08:56 ↗ costs are budgeted

1:08:57 ↗ and given the total amount of these ads

1:08:59 ↗ and the number of smaller items that

1:09:01 ↗ make up that total i'm going to hand the

1:09:03 ↗ floor over to our i.t manager john

1:09:05 ↗ trager to provide a little more detail

1:09:08 ↗ on what's included in these ads

1:09:16 ↗ okay

1:09:17 ↗ hi this is john trager i'm the

1:09:19 ↗ technology manager for the city of

1:09:21 ↗ issaquah

1:09:22 ↗ and uh thank you

1:09:24 ↗ susie for that intro

1:09:26 ↗ so uh the

1:09:28 ↗ type of projects involved are

1:09:32 ↗ there's a lot of little ones and a few

1:09:33 ↗ bigger ones involved

1:09:36 ↗ so i think there was a detail sheet in

1:09:38 ↗ front of the slide

1:09:40 ↗ section that had a bunch of uh

1:09:42 ↗ items listed and so some of them were

1:09:45 ↗ some smaller projects have been

1:09:50 ↗ put off

1:09:51 ↗ due to budgetary changes some of them

1:09:54 ↗ are projects that were

1:09:56 ↗ happening because of

1:09:58 ↗ external factors such as the

1:10:01 ↗ change in the cyber security risk

1:10:04 ↗ conditions that were from when we did

1:10:07 ↗ the original budget in 21

1:10:09 ↗ things have really ramped up as far as

1:10:11 ↗ risk and attacks on our systems

1:10:14 ↗ and then some of it is related to

1:10:16 ↗ hybrid work from home

1:10:18 ↗ and return to office efforts

1:10:22 ↗ so um

1:10:24 ↗ in this new small excuse me new small

1:10:26 ↗ projects category

1:10:28 ↗ um

1:10:30 ↗ we have some security

1:10:32 ↗ access controls for example to its

1:10:35 ↗ manner is now

1:10:36 ↗ our ship will soon be or was once uh the

1:10:39 ↗ hybrid meeting facility

1:10:41 ↗ for uh boards and commissions and the

1:10:44 ↗ building doesn't really have any

1:10:46 ↗ adequate security for after hours

1:10:48 ↗ employees to be on site

1:10:50 ↗ so we have to upgrade it with

1:10:52 ↗ some security you know door controls and

1:10:56 ↗ camera systems for security

1:11:00 ↗ um

1:11:01 ↗ we have some costs that were associated

1:11:03 ↗ with

1:11:05 ↗ the

1:11:07 ↗ police dispatch migration we had to

1:11:09 ↗ integrate our spillman with the redmond

1:11:11 ↗ spillman

1:11:13 ↗ and set up the data connections we had

1:11:14 ↗ to use a third party vendor for that

1:11:19 ↗ we also have a new connection from our

1:11:21 ↗ neogauge hr system

1:11:24 ↗ to the munich payroll system which is

1:11:26 ↗ going live at the first of next year so

1:11:29 ↗ that connection has to be set up over

1:11:30 ↗ the years out

1:11:33 ↗ um

1:11:34 ↗ we have had some incidents

1:11:37 ↗ in the public works yard and so we're

1:11:39 ↗ adding security equipment to that yard

1:11:42 ↗ um

1:11:44 ↗ the court building and

1:11:47 ↗ uh has also doesn't have security system

1:11:49 ↗ at all uh the council chambers if you

1:11:51 ↗ will and so during the day muscle court

1:11:54 ↗ is

1:11:55 ↗ asked to get

1:11:57 ↗ better door control and security system

1:11:59 ↗ involved there

1:12:04 ↗ and there is a king county lot

1:12:07 ↗ that is adjacent to public works

1:12:10 ↗ operations facility that is used for

1:12:12 ↗ impounding vehicles

1:12:14 ↗ and we need to get a data connection to

1:12:16 ↗ that site

1:12:18 ↗ for security cameras because if we're in

1:12:20 ↗ pounding vehicles we have to make sure

1:12:21 ↗ they're safe secure

1:12:26 ↗ there's a restoration of the covet cuts

1:12:30 ↗ so one of them was the

1:12:32 ↗ hours of ptnr hours that would have

1:12:34 ↗ assisted us with return office efforts

1:12:36 ↗ another one was the hardware replacement

1:12:39 ↗ budget was cut almost in half we'd like

1:12:42 ↗ to restore that because we have

1:12:43 ↗ equipment that's wearing out and needs

1:12:45 ↗ replacement

1:12:49 ↗ most of that is mobile phones or

1:12:51 ↗ smartphones if you will and so those are

1:12:53 ↗ basically almost the cost of a computer

1:12:56 ↗ and they're used heavily in the field by

1:12:58 ↗ public works and facilities

1:13:00 ↗ and uh they're near the end of life

1:13:02 ↗ we're starting to have a failure system

1:13:04 ↗ failures on those

1:13:07 ↗ um

1:13:08 ↗ then around the hybrid workforce

1:13:10 ↗ initiatives there was

1:13:12 ↗ using webex and it expanded the

1:13:14 ↗ subscription service for that

1:13:16 ↗ um

1:13:18 ↗ there was additional equipment needed

1:13:20 ↗ that we'll need to support the

1:13:23 ↗ move of the

1:13:25 ↗ permit center

1:13:28 ↗ we're also implementing would like to

1:13:29 ↗ implement

1:13:31 ↗ remote desk phone apps so that

1:13:33 ↗ when folks are working either in the

1:13:35 ↗ field or working from home

1:13:36 ↗ they can use the softphone

1:13:39 ↗ to field calls from the public

1:13:41 ↗ when they're on the move

1:13:43 ↗ and make calls that would also appear to

1:13:45 ↗ come from their city

1:13:47 ↗ desk phone

1:13:49 ↗ and

1:13:52 ↗ there's additional meeting equipment for

1:13:54 ↗ uh virtual meeting spaces as hybrid

1:13:57 ↗ starts cramping up later this year

1:13:59 ↗ hopefully as people return to office

1:14:05 ↗ cyber security risk reduction there was

1:14:07 ↗ additional training for staff

1:14:10 ↗ some additional software

1:14:13 ↗ and uh there's also some additional

1:14:15 ↗ video

1:14:16 ↗ equipment secure physically secure cyber

1:14:19 ↗ security locations

1:14:22 ↗ uh for network uh rooms and that type of

1:14:24 ↗ place to remain compliant

1:14:27 ↗ with regulations for cyber security

1:14:33 ↗ and then there's a few pcs for new staff

1:14:36 ↗ as listed there for assuming that these

1:14:38 ↗ positions

1:14:39 ↗ mentioned earlier

1:14:41 ↗ actually gets filled this year they'll

1:14:42 ↗ need equipment

1:14:44 ↗ to do their jobs

1:14:47 ↗ and uh some other minor software so

1:14:49 ↗ that's kind of the list

1:14:51 ↗ i kind of droned on but that's

1:14:53 ↗ what we have proposed here

1:14:58 ↗ thank you john

1:15:02 ↗ um so i'm gonna keep rolling through

1:15:04 ↗ these remaining items uh pretty quick at

1:15:07 ↗ a pretty good clip um so the next budget

1:15:10 ↗ adjustment uh proposed tonight is the

1:15:12 ↗ purchase of an additional large mower

1:15:14 ↗ requested by the parks and community

1:15:16 ↗ services department

1:15:18 ↗ and this equipment would greatly

1:15:20 ↗ increase efficiency in the parks

1:15:21 ↗ operations division

1:15:23 ↗ accomplishing a variety of tests in

1:15:24 ↗ addition to mowing through the use of

1:15:26 ↗ various attachments

1:15:28 ↗ so this amendment transfers the 65 000

1:15:31 ↗ from the general fund to the fleet fund

1:15:34 ↗ as well as the associated expenditures

1:15:36 ↗ in the fleet fund to purchase that

1:15:37 ↗ equipment

1:15:39 ↗ next the replacement of treadmills and

1:15:41 ↗ other fitness equipment at this

1:15:42 ↗ community center was approved for the

1:15:44 ↗ 2020 budget but was eliminated as part

1:15:47 ↗ of the mid-year code reduction in 2020

1:15:51 ↗ with the community center reopened the

1:15:53 ↗ need for replacement remains

1:15:55 ↗ and this amendment adds the 55 000 of

1:15:58 ↗ general fund expenditures needed to

1:16:00 ↗ replace this equipment

1:16:02 ↗ as well as to install new rubberized

1:16:04 ↗ flooring for the fitness area

1:16:07 ↗ next the deck in embedded art on the

1:16:09 ↗ confluence park bridge needs to be

1:16:12 ↗ repaired

1:16:13 ↗ while a sustainable maintenance solution

1:16:14 ↗ will be part of that repair work the

1:16:17 ↗ currently adopted park operations budget

1:16:19 ↗ does not have sufficient funding to

1:16:20 ↗ complete this work

1:16:22 ↗ so this amendment adds the 20 000 out of

1:16:24 ↗ the general funds that will be needed to

1:16:26 ↗ complete these repairs

1:16:29 ↗ next the parks and community services

1:16:31 ↗ department has requested funding for

1:16:33 ↗ hickory and barn landscaping renovations

1:16:35 ↗ and improvements

1:16:36 ↗ this work would create a larger vision

1:16:38 ↗ and planting plan including partnering

1:16:40 ↗ with the local master gardeners

1:16:43 ↗ this project would also include bed work

1:16:44 ↗ plant material replacing aging arbors

1:16:47 ↗ and pathway fence repairs this amendment

1:16:49 ↗ would add the 25 000 of general fund

1:16:52 ↗ expenditures that will be needed to

1:16:54 ↗ complete this work in 2021

1:16:58 ↗ next the administration requests

1:16:59 ↗ additional funding for the climate

1:17:01 ↗ action plan work to support increased

1:17:03 ↗ community engagement

1:17:04 ↗ and this additional engagement will

1:17:06 ↗ allow for focus groups and consultant

1:17:08 ↗ support for facilitating meetings so

1:17:10 ↗ this amendment adds seven thousand

1:17:12 ↗ dollars of sustainability fund

1:17:14 ↗ expenditures that will be needed to

1:17:16 ↗ complete this work

1:17:18 ↗ we are nearing the end of this list

1:17:20 ↗ the administration requests additional

1:17:23 ↗ funding for supplies to support a hybrid

1:17:25 ↗ work environment including chairs

1:17:27 ↗ desktop lifts and other office equipment

1:17:30 ↗ and this amendment adds 25 000 of

1:17:32 ↗ general fund expenditures that will be

1:17:34 ↗ needed to complete these purchases

1:17:37 ↗ next the administration requests

1:17:38 ↗ additional funding to add new electric

1:17:41 ↗ bikes to the city fleet as well as bike

1:17:43 ↗ parking equipment for park staff at the

1:17:45 ↗ parks facilities building

1:17:47 ↗ and the purpose of those investments is

1:17:48 ↗ to employ more environmentally friendly

1:17:50 ↗ tools for staff to conduct basic

1:17:52 ↗ maintenance needs through the city and

1:17:54 ↗ provide efficient travel choices for

1:17:55 ↗ staff traveling between city buildings

1:17:58 ↗ and this amendment adds fifteen thousand

1:17:59 ↗ dollars of general fund expenditures

1:18:01 ↗ that will be needed to complete those

1:18:02 ↗ purchases

1:18:05 ↗ for the penultimate item in tonight's

1:18:07 ↗ amendment uh the city's existing solid

1:18:09 ↗ waste collection and processing contract

1:18:11 ↗ which provides collection and hauling of

1:18:13 ↗ all residential and commercial garbage

1:18:15 ↗ recycling and compost

1:18:17 ↗ will conclude in june of 2023

1:18:20 ↗ the administration plans to engage a

1:18:21 ↗ consultant to assist with the

1:18:23 ↗ with the request for proposals a rate

1:18:26 ↗ evaluation and contract finalization

1:18:29 ↗ the target date for the council approval

1:18:31 ↗ of the new contract is may of 2022

1:18:34 ↗ and this amendment adds 25 000 of

1:18:36 ↗ sustainability fund expenditures to

1:18:38 ↗ support the 2021 portion of consultant

1:18:41 ↗ renegotiation

1:18:42 ↗ and the second portion of this

1:18:44 ↗ consultant work is anticipated to be

1:18:46 ↗ included in the mayor's proposed 2022

1:18:48 ↗ budget

1:18:49 ↗ and finally the communications office

1:18:51 ↗ requests additional funding for

1:18:53 ↗ part-time non-regular hours to support

1:18:55 ↗ virtual and hybrid meeting coverage

1:18:57 ↗ along with professional services to

1:18:59 ↗ assist with citywide video production

1:19:00 ↗ and technology upgrades so this

1:19:02 ↗ amendment adds 28 000 cable tv fund

1:19:05 ↗ expenditures to support this work

1:19:10 ↗ all told

1:19:11 ↗ this table details the total revenue and

1:19:13 ↗ expenditure impacts by funds of the

1:19:15 ↗ items proposed proposed in tonight's

1:19:17 ↗ amendment

1:19:18 ↗ and the

1:19:20 ↗ in total the net impact across all funds

1:19:23 ↗ is a reduction of total fund balance

1:19:26 ↗ um of one million five hundred and

1:19:28 ↗ ninety thousand two hundred and eighty

1:19:30 ↗ dollars

1:19:33 ↗ and uh finally we wanted to take a

1:19:36 ↗ moment tonight to briefly discuss the

1:19:38 ↗ 400 000 that was designated in the 2021

1:19:42 ↗ adopted budget for the community

1:19:43 ↗ recovery fund of the city council

1:19:46 ↗ in the city council's final budget

1:19:48 ↗ deliberation uh for 2021 council

1:19:51 ↗ designated this one time 400 000 for

1:19:54 ↗ future allocation

1:19:56 ↗ given uh extraordinary circumstances at

1:19:58 ↗ the time of the 2021 budget liberation

1:20:01 ↗ and these circumstances include

1:20:03 ↗ the unique combination of

1:20:06 ↗ the anticipation of future community

1:20:07 ↗ needs arising from the ongoing coded

1:20:09 ↗ pandemic associated economic challenges

1:20:12 ↗ and possible reductions to availability

1:20:14 ↗ of services

1:20:16 ↗ as well as the unexpected relative

1:20:18 ↗ strengths of revenues as described in

1:20:20 ↗ the economic forecast in november of

1:20:22 ↗ last year

1:20:24 ↗ so council began preliminary discussion

1:20:26 ↗ on appropriate uses of the community

1:20:28 ↗ recovery funds which would include

1:20:31 ↗ include coveted recovery and covert

1:20:34 ↗ response expenses community recovery

1:20:36 ↗ expenses

1:20:37 ↗ and public safety expenses including

1:20:40 ↗ expenses related to police services

1:20:43 ↗ and given that we are now in september

1:20:45 ↗ the administration would like to propose

1:20:47 ↗ the use of this four hundred thousand

1:20:49 ↗ dollars to cover costs of items

1:20:52 ↗ previously approved by the council

1:20:53 ↗ earlier this year

1:20:54 ↗ including uh forty five thousand dollars

1:20:57 ↗ for emergency housing assistance two

1:20:59 ↗ hundred and fifty thousand dollars for

1:21:01 ↗ business assistance grants forty

1:21:03 ↗ thousand dollars for the parks fit and

1:21:04 ↗ fun initiative and fifty five thousand

1:21:07 ↗ dollars for a contribution to the

1:21:08 ↗ friends of the esco salmon hatchery

1:21:11 ↗ and for the first three items on this

1:21:13 ↗ list at the time they were introduced to

1:21:15 ↗ the council back in february

1:21:17 ↗ the administration hoped to be able to

1:21:19 ↗ utilize future federal relief funds uh

1:21:21 ↗ what ultimately became the american

1:21:23 ↗ rescue plan act or arpa

1:21:25 ↗ um given the complexity and evolving

1:21:27 ↗ direction on what arpa funds can

1:21:29 ↗ actually be spent on

1:21:31 ↗ the administration proposes using the

1:21:33 ↗ community recovery fund of the city

1:21:34 ↗ council for these items

1:21:36 ↗ rather than waiting for further clarity

1:21:38 ↗ on arpa eligibility

1:21:42 ↗ um so that's the end of my formal

1:21:44 ↗ presentation tonight so uh

1:21:46 ↗ i would uh before opening it up to

1:21:49 ↗ further questions

1:21:51 ↗ um i do want to take a moment um to

1:21:54 ↗ respond to a few questions that we

1:21:55 ↗ received prior to the meeting from

1:21:57 ↗ council president hunt

1:21:58 ↗ um so the first question was regarding

1:22:01 ↗ if the proposed position ads were new

1:22:04 ↗ positions versus a return to prior

1:22:06 ↗ staffing levels prior to coveted budget

1:22:08 ↗ reductions the traffic signal operations

1:22:11 ↗ engineer was unfunded with the 2020

1:22:13 ↗ adopted budget and was eliminated with

1:22:16 ↗ the 2021 adopted budget

1:22:18 ↗ the long-range planning manager and

1:22:20 ↗ human resources coordinator were both

1:22:22 ↗ positions that were eliminated as part

1:22:24 ↗ of those coveted budget reductions

1:22:26 ↗ and were subsequently not included in

1:22:28 ↗ the 2021 adopted budget

1:22:31 ↗ the police communications coordinator

1:22:33 ↗ lte

1:22:34 ↗ would be a new position

1:22:36 ↗ though is only anticipated to last

1:22:37 ↗ through 2022.

1:22:40 ↗ uh the second question was regarding the

1:22:42 ↗ i.t mid-year adjustments

1:22:44 ↗ and if these represent a likely ongoing

1:22:47 ↗ cost of business associated with

1:22:48 ↗ supporting a hybrid workforce and how

1:22:50 ↗ these adjustments relate to prior

1:22:52 ↗ budgeted i.t expenditures and i know rit

1:22:55 ↗ manager addressed much of this uh in

1:22:58 ↗ his overview of these ads um

1:23:01 ↗ but we're of course happy to circle back

1:23:02 ↗ to this question should further clarity

1:23:04 ↗ on that be needed

1:23:07 ↗ the third question was regarding the

1:23:09 ↗ community planning and development

1:23:10 ↗ consultant pass-through increase

1:23:13 ↗ which was item 14 on this list and if

1:23:15 ↗ these expenditures were already spent in

1:23:17 ↗ 2021

1:23:18 ↗ the question also asked why we're

1:23:20 ↗ anticipating

1:23:22 ↗ about 1.2 million in additional revenue

1:23:25 ↗ but that we're only including the

1:23:27 ↗ expenditure side of this amendment

1:23:30 ↗ generally we do not typically do budget

1:23:32 ↗ amendments for anticipated revenue

1:23:34 ↗ increases unless they're tied to

1:23:36 ↗ something firm like a grant acceptance

1:23:39 ↗ while the increased 1.2 million dollars

1:23:42 ↗ of revenue from the forecast is based on

1:23:44 ↗ the best information that we have at

1:23:45 ↗ this moment in time

1:23:47 ↗ it's not a firm number set in stone

1:23:50 ↗ since we can always bring in more

1:23:52 ↗ revenue than we budgeted but we can't

1:23:54 ↗ spend more expenditures

1:23:56 ↗ we want to make sure that we have

1:23:57 ↗ sufficient authority for the

1:23:59 ↗ expenditures associated with this

1:24:00 ↗ anticipated revenue increase

1:24:02 ↗ but it's typically best practice not to

1:24:04 ↗ adjust revenues via amendment um based

1:24:07 ↗ on our forecast

1:24:10 ↗ the fourth question was regarding the

1:24:12 ↗ number of items in this amendment that

1:24:14 ↗ fell below fifty 000

1:24:15 ↗ and if council approval was necessary to

1:24:17 ↗ move them forward i'm asking if they

1:24:20 ↗ were included in the amendment tonight

1:24:21 ↗ because in aggregate they were

1:24:23 ↗ considerably more than 50 000

1:24:25 ↗ that is correct uh the general fund

1:24:27 ↗ items in particular

1:24:29 ↗ even though many of these items are

1:24:30 ↗ below fifty thousand dollars in

1:24:32 ↗ aggregate the net impact is significant

1:24:35 ↗ um to require an adjustment to ensure

1:24:37 ↗ sufficient expenditure authority

1:24:39 ↗ um for non-general fund items below

1:24:42 ↗ fifty thousand dollars um these

1:24:43 ↗ primarily fall into that first bucket or

1:24:46 ↗ uh i believe the second no first bucket

1:24:49 ↗ um that we addressed at the top of this

1:24:50 ↗ presentation

1:24:51 ↗ and uh so these are the funds that have

1:24:53 ↗ narrow expenditure authority and

1:24:55 ↗ therefore can't absorb unanticipated

1:24:57 ↗ costs even if they do fall below fifty

1:24:59 ↗ thousand dollars

1:25:01 ↗ and the final question was where these

1:25:03 ↗ adjustments place us relative to the

1:25:04 ↗ targeted fifteen to twenty percent of

1:25:06 ↗ undesignated fund balance as a percent

1:25:09 ↗ uh of uh budgeted expenditures

1:25:13 ↗ and um

1:25:15 ↗ we

1:25:16 ↗ have not run the impact on a designated

1:25:18 ↗ fund balance as a percent of budgeted

1:25:20 ↗ expenditures for 2021 primarily because

1:25:23 ↗ it's still a bit of a moving target at

1:25:26 ↗ this point in 2021

1:25:28 ↗ um it is safe to say however that given

1:25:30 ↗ the optimistic revenue forecasted

1:25:32 ↗ presented last month uh word that when

1:25:35 ↗ that where we're likely to end 2021

1:25:39 ↗ that we're likely to end it with a

1:25:40 ↗ pretty comfortable fund balance well

1:25:42 ↗ above 15

1:25:44 ↗ um even following these amendments

1:25:47 ↗ um doing this amendment at this point

1:25:49 ↗ however gives us a better picture of

1:25:51 ↗ where we're forecasted to begin 2022

1:25:54 ↗ based on this best information at this

1:25:56 ↗ moment in time

1:25:57 ↗ and therefore what sort of expenditures

1:25:59 ↗ we should be considering um as part of

1:26:02 ↗ the 2022 proposed budget

1:26:04 ↗ to make sure that we end 2022 within

1:26:07 ↗ that 15 to 20 target

1:26:09 ↗ um so i hope that answers the the

1:26:11 ↗ questions um we received earlier but

1:26:14 ↗ we're of course happy to circle back if

1:26:15 ↗ more clarity is needed on any of these

1:26:17 ↗ items or any other items

1:26:19 ↗ um so i'm going to go ahead and take my

1:26:21 ↗ presentation down now

1:26:23 ↗ and turn it back to mayor paulie

1:26:26 ↗ thank you susie john and autumn for all

1:26:29 ↗ that information that was a lot

1:26:32 ↗ i'm going to keep my eye on the chat to

1:26:34 ↗ see if there are any additional counsel

1:26:36 ↗ questions but thank you very much for

1:26:40 ↗ repeating the questions and answers that

1:26:42 ↗ council president had submitted ahead of

1:26:44 ↗ time

1:26:45 ↗ and it looks like council president hunt

1:26:47 ↗ has a question

1:26:51 ↗ thank you and and thanks also for um

1:26:53 ↗ going over my questions um

1:26:57 ↗ i did have a couple

1:26:59 ↗ uh

1:27:00 ↗ clarifying questions maybe i just missed

1:27:02 ↗ it um the one was on this the community

1:27:06 ↗ planning and development expenses one

1:27:08 ↗ part of my question on that was it seems

1:27:11 ↗ like that money had already that expense

1:27:13 ↗ had already been

1:27:14 ↗ spent on consultants in 2021 is that

1:27:18 ↗ correct

1:27:20 ↗ uh it is uh some of it will have already

1:27:24 ↗ been expended some of it is anticipated

1:27:27 ↗ based on the revenue that we're still

1:27:29 ↗ expecting to collect by the end of this

1:27:31 ↗ year so

1:27:33 ↗ it is anticip some i

1:27:35 ↗ would say some of it is spent yes some

1:27:37 ↗ of it is not yet spent

1:27:42 ↗ okay um

1:27:45 ↗ if there is additional clarity on on

1:27:47 ↗ that that would be helpful it's one of

1:27:50 ↗ the bigger um

1:27:51 ↗ one of the bigger amendments that i

1:27:53 ↗ didn't quite understand

1:27:55 ↗ uh the other thing is um

1:27:59 ↗ i think at the end my understanding of

1:28:02 ↗ the answer to the question about fund

1:28:04 ↗ balance at the end of 2021 is that with

1:28:08 ↗ these amendments we expect

1:28:10 ↗ the ending fund balance to be

1:28:13 ↗ between 15 and 20 percent of

1:28:16 ↗ expenditures which is

1:28:17 ↗ what we strive for according to our

1:28:19 ↗ current financial

1:28:21 ↗ policy um i think that was what you said

1:28:24 ↗ at the end but i wasn't sure so i wanted

1:28:26 ↗ to confirm that

1:28:28 ↗ uh yes thank you for um for clarifying

1:28:31 ↗ that um based on the august forecast um

1:28:36 ↗ it is

1:28:37 ↗ uh say i believe it is safe to assume

1:28:40 ↗ that we will end 2021

1:28:43 ↗ above 20 percent

1:28:44 ↗ um

1:28:46 ↗ that

1:28:47 ↗ what we're hoping to do at this point is

1:28:50 ↗ use these uh amendments to better

1:28:53 ↗ understand where we will expect to end

1:28:55 ↗ 21

1:28:56 ↗ to give us an idea of where we expect to

1:28:58 ↗ begin 22

1:29:00 ↗ so that we can ensure that as we are

1:29:02 ↗ preparing the 2022 budget that as

1:29:06 ↗ we propose the ending

1:29:09 ↗ percentage of fund balance to

1:29:12 ↗ budgeted expenditures

1:29:14 ↗ that at the end of 22 we fall within

1:29:16 ↗ that 15 to 20 percent range

1:29:18 ↗ at this point in the year it is

1:29:20 ↗ difficult to

1:29:21 ↗ anticipate where

1:29:23 ↗ we will end the year we can run what

1:29:25 ↗ that percent is based on our best

1:29:27 ↗ knowledge at this moment in time and

1:29:29 ↗ provide that

1:29:30 ↗ to the council

1:29:32 ↗ but it is very likely subject to change

1:29:35 ↗ before the end of the year

1:29:44 ↗ council president hunt

1:29:46 ↗ did you have an additional question or a

1:29:47 ↗ follow-up question

1:29:51 ↗ i do have one more but i i think other

1:29:53 ↗ people may have questions so if you can

1:29:55 ↗ circle back to me sure i think the next

1:29:57 ↗ one we had uh was councilmember mart who

1:30:00 ↗ is now um

1:30:02 ↗ not going to be asking a question so uh

1:30:04 ↗ let's have uh some comments from see

1:30:07 ↗ administrator bob comitz and then we'll

1:30:08 ↗ come back to council president

1:30:11 ↗ yes uh thank you man members of the

1:30:13 ↗ council let me just put a finer point on

1:30:15 ↗ on susie's comments and answer to the

1:30:17 ↗ council president's question on the fund

1:30:19 ↗ balance mayor paulie's directed us to

1:30:21 ↗ come to the council with the budget for

1:30:23 ↗ 2021 that will make sure that the fund

1:30:25 ↗ balance is within that 15 to 20 percent

1:30:29 ↗ what we're looking at is for current

1:30:30 ↗ year there may be more money that we

1:30:32 ↗ would come back to the council and ask

1:30:34 ↗ to spend prior to the end of the year so

1:30:36 ↗ as we're working on the 22 budget we're

1:30:38 ↗ keeping an eye on that uh but the 22

1:30:41 ↗ budget that you will see

1:30:42 ↗ with all of these the spending will be

1:30:45 ↗ within that 15 to 20 range quite

1:30:47 ↗ honestly i think susie at this point

1:30:49 ↗ we're looking at a budget that would be

1:30:50 ↗ 19

1:30:52 ↗ uh one balance so that's what we're

1:30:54 ↗ shooting for

1:30:56 ↗ the council's made it very clear that

1:30:58 ↗ you would like the administration to be

1:31:00 ↗ more precise with fund balance and to

1:31:02 ↗ not have excess fund balance so one of

1:31:04 ↗ the reasons we're here this evening is

1:31:06 ↗ to invest those dollars today

1:31:08 ↗ in services for the community

1:31:11 ↗ thank you city administrative quits

1:31:14 ↗ that's well said uh not seeing any

1:31:16 ↗ additional questions i'm going to come

1:31:18 ↗ back to council president for follow up

1:31:23 ↗ um thank you

1:31:24 ↗ i i think i have the answer but um i

1:31:28 ↗ the the revenue although it's still

1:31:30 ↗ projection because the revenue is higher

1:31:33 ↗ than we predicted that has effectively

1:31:36 ↗ outpaced

1:31:37 ↗ even this round of expenditures so we

1:31:40 ↗ would expect that this round of expenses

1:31:42 ↗ expenditures in addition to the budget

1:31:44 ↗ plus potentially more expenditures would

1:31:47 ↗ get us into the

1:31:48 ↗ range that's in our financial policies

1:31:50 ↗ that did i

1:31:52 ↗ capture that correctly

1:31:54 ↗ seeing some head nods

1:31:56 ↗ yes madam mayor if i can just add we we

1:31:58 ↗ we're still looking at uh revenues for

1:32:01 ↗ current year we will do what we have in

1:32:03 ↗ past years our revised revenue forecast

1:32:05 ↗ once the proposed budget comes out you

1:32:07 ↗ know we at this point feel comfortable

1:32:10 ↗ that there will be additional dollars to

1:32:11 ↗ be spent uh quite honestly we have

1:32:13 ↗ already uh targeted a a a source or a

1:32:17 ↗ funding uh plan or a scenario that we

1:32:21 ↗ would like to address and that is our

1:32:22 ↗ plea fund uh so we are continuing to

1:32:25 ↗ work on that quite awesome we only have

1:32:26 ↗ so many hands uh working on the budget

1:32:29 ↗ at any one time so the direction has

1:32:31 ↗ been let's get the proposed budget out

1:32:33 ↗ over the next two weeks and then come

1:32:35 ↗ back to the council or to talk about

1:32:37 ↗ some additional spending for

1:32:39 ↗ 21 but we feel very confident with the

1:32:41 ↗ budget that mayor paul will be

1:32:43 ↗ presenting to you in a couple of weeks

1:32:44 ↗ that we are going to do what the council

1:32:46 ↗ has asked of us and that is to have that

1:32:48 ↗ fund balance be spent down

1:32:52 ↗ council president hunt

1:32:57 ↗ oh thank you um okay that that was my

1:33:00 ↗ biggest question i feel that i

1:33:03 ↗ understand it now um i do

1:33:05 ↗ i would like more information on the

1:33:08 ↗ consultants for

1:33:10 ↗ cpd and what that was spent on i still

1:33:14 ↗ don't feel that i

1:33:15 ↗ completely understand that one and if it

1:33:18 ↗ was anticipated

1:33:20 ↗ and madam mayor if i may call a friend

1:33:23 ↗ miss dollywall uh i believe she's on if

1:33:26 ↗ she would like to add some additional

1:33:28 ↗ information that'd be great

1:33:34 ↗ good evening council and madame mayor

1:33:36 ↗ and um so

1:33:38 ↗ the one thing i will add to that is uh

1:33:40 ↗ yes we can certainly give you the

1:33:42 ↗ consultant costs but they were mostly

1:33:44 ↗ for specialty

1:33:46 ↗ fields like gm the building

1:33:49 ↗ designed for

1:33:51 ↗ the

1:33:52 ↗ school district and

1:33:54 ↗ and also for the larger buildings like

1:33:56 ↗ costco uh that we don't have the

1:33:58 ↗ in-house uh expertise to do the building

1:34:00 ↗ review for so majority of them were for

1:34:03 ↗ these larger projects

1:34:05 ↗ one-time kind of cost that that got

1:34:08 ↗ factored in into the review for those

1:34:10 ↗ and partly it is for us understanding

1:34:13 ↗ how or we are capturing these consultant

1:34:16 ↗ costs um and there were some changes to

1:34:19 ↗ the uh to the accounting system

1:34:22 ↗ and that also you know we created one

1:34:25 ↗ account for where every consultant cost

1:34:27 ↗ was being um being captured in so it was

1:34:30 ↗ a transition from 2020 to 2021. so as as

1:34:34 ↗ uh 2022 i think it'll um some of those

1:34:37 ↗ permits that were applied under the old

1:34:39 ↗ system in our permitting syst software

1:34:42 ↗ uh were for the different um maybe i'm

1:34:45 ↗ confusing the matter more

1:34:47 ↗ for you but um

1:34:49 ↗ ultimately it is um the revenues are

1:34:52 ↗ more it's the larger projects that have

1:34:53 ↗ come in so typically these consultant

1:34:56 ↗ costs would uh would have been under

1:34:58 ↗ that line item but they are exceeding

1:35:01 ↗ what we anticipated

1:35:03 ↗ to be spent for the consultants but the

1:35:05 ↗ revenues are coming in more as well

1:35:10 ↗ did that help council president

1:35:15 ↗ yes i think that helps um and so this

1:35:18 ↗ this could have been this is due to the

1:35:20 ↗ magnitude and complexity of projects

1:35:22 ↗ this year it um wasn't specifically

1:35:26 ↗ um covet related or other and we

1:35:29 ↗ wouldn't also the other part of my

1:35:31 ↗ question and a bunch of the earlier

1:35:33 ↗ questions i asked you was around

1:35:35 ↗ whether we would anticipate that this is

1:35:37 ↗ truly one time or a new trend and it

1:35:40 ↗ seems that this is one time due to the

1:35:43 ↗ project so that did help

1:35:45 ↗ correct and we'll be bringing forth

1:35:47 ↗ a fee schedule that that will kind of

1:35:49 ↗ clarify uh which ones are passed through

1:35:52 ↗ costs and which ones um are covered by a

1:35:55 ↗ building permit fees so majority of

1:35:57 ↗ these are related to building permits

1:35:59 ↗ not other consultant costs but but

1:36:01 ↗ mostly for the building

1:36:03 ↗ review expertise

1:36:08 ↗ thank you i'm not seeing any other

1:36:10 ↗ questions at this time uh is somebody

1:36:14 ↗ wanting to make a motion

1:36:24 ↗ council president hunt

1:36:27 ↗ thank you i moved to adopt ordinance

1:36:29 ↗ number

1:36:31 ↗ 2951 amending the 2021 budget of set

1:36:34 ↗ forth in ordinance number 2927 and

1:36:36 ↗ amended an ordinance number 2939

1:36:40 ↗ concerning revenues expenditures and

1:36:42 ↗ fund balance for various funds for the

1:36:44 ↗ year 2021.

1:36:46 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

1:36:48 ↗ zacken

1:36:50 ↗ it has been moved and seconded uh and

1:36:53 ↗ if

1:36:54 ↗ there is no further uh sorry it's been

1:36:57 ↗ moved in second is there any further

1:36:59 ↗ discussion

1:37:00 ↗ and let's go to council member marks

1:37:03 ↗ thank you madam mayor um i'm gonna

1:37:05 ↗ regretfully vote no on this um i think

1:37:08 ↗ of magnitude uh this large of a

1:37:12 ↗ uh byte out of the general fund i think

1:37:14 ↗ really requires an update of the

1:37:17 ↗ projected uh ending fund balance um

1:37:20 ↗ uh especially because uh

1:37:23 ↗ we've been in a time of

1:37:25 ↗ fast-moving change in our in our funds

1:37:27 ↗ and i just think that as as part of

1:37:29 ↗ fiscal hygiene um in the future when we

1:37:32 ↗ have seven digit changes we just really

1:37:34 ↗ need to

1:37:35 ↗ somebody stopped me on the street and

1:37:36 ↗ said are you sure that this is gonna be

1:37:38 ↗ okay i don't really have a good answer

1:37:40 ↗ so i'm gonna be unfortunately know this

1:37:42 ↗ evening thank you

1:37:43 ↗ thank you councilmember mertz

1:37:45 ↗ anyone else wanting to make comments or

1:37:47 ↗ discussion i'll keep my in the chat for

1:37:49 ↗ a few more seconds council president

1:37:51 ↗ hunt

1:37:52 ↗ with a question

1:37:53 ↗ um thank you madam mayor this is council

1:37:56 ↗ president hunt i actually had a question

1:37:57 ↗ for my fellow council member

1:37:59 ↗ councilmember martz um

1:38:01 ↗ because i had a similar question about

1:38:03 ↗ the ending fund balance i think

1:38:06 ↗ um i think the projection is at this

1:38:08 ↗ point that it would bring the fund

1:38:11 ↗ balance to the

1:38:13 ↗ target but i wondered if if we could

1:38:15 ↗ have that formalized if that would

1:38:18 ↗ um

1:38:18 ↗ if that would address your concern or if

1:38:20 ↗ your concern

1:38:22 ↗ would extend beyond getting that in a

1:38:24 ↗ formal

1:38:25 ↗ as formal information that's provided

1:38:32 ↗ i'm not sure

1:38:34 ↗ what you're i'm sorry i'm not sure what

1:38:36 ↗ you're suggesting

1:38:38 ↗ um so my question would be if we could

1:38:41 ↗ get

1:38:42 ↗ the updated revenue projection and the

1:38:45 ↗ updated ending fund balance as a

1:38:47 ↗ percentage of expenditure and it was

1:38:49 ↗ between

1:38:50 ↗ the um 15 to 20 percent if that would

1:38:54 ↗ address your concern or if if that would

1:38:57 ↗ not

1:38:58 ↗ yes but if you know five of you already

1:39:00 ↗ support this bill i'm happy to have my

1:39:03 ↗ vote just be a point of

1:39:05 ↗ you know clarification for future budget

1:39:07 ↗ conversations so um but yes if we had

1:39:10 ↗ that information today i would have

1:39:12 ↗ cheerfully supported this this amendment

1:39:14 ↗ thanks

1:39:16 ↗ see ministry of bob kritz you want to

1:39:18 ↗ provide a comment

1:39:19 ↗ yes thank you um

1:39:21 ↗ so we are two weeks from presenting

1:39:23 ↗ mayor paulie's proposed budget as i've

1:39:25 ↗ mentioned

1:39:26 ↗ that budget will contain uh a

1:39:29 ↗ i think fund balance projection for

1:39:31 ↗ december 31st 2022

1:39:34 ↗ of 19

1:39:36 ↗ we anticipate uh at this point uh

1:39:39 ↗ perhaps having as much of an as a

1:39:41 ↗ million dollars of additional fund

1:39:43 ↗ balance in the current year

1:39:45 ↗ which we're looking at we're not ready

1:39:47 ↗ to commit to that dollar amount but we

1:39:48 ↗ are looking uh to propose an expenditure

1:39:51 ↗ of that as part of the budget process

1:39:54 ↗ so we're feeling very comfortable

1:39:56 ↗ with these numbers we know how important

1:39:58 ↗ this is and quite honestly came up with

1:40:00 ↗ this

1:40:01 ↗ uh package

1:40:02 ↗ largely in response to the council's

1:40:04 ↗ concern that we were ending years with

1:40:06 ↗ too high of a fund balance that exceeded

1:40:09 ↗ uh the

1:40:10 ↗ the

1:40:12 ↗ requirement the policy that the city

1:40:13 ↗ council has so um

1:40:15 ↗ i will report that to you

1:40:18 ↗ and hope that that helps the council and

1:40:20 ↗ it's the fit for me

1:40:22 ↗ thank you city administrator about quits

1:40:24 ↗ and i i'll just add on too because i

1:40:26 ↗ want to make sure it's

1:40:27 ↗ it's clear um i directed this

1:40:30 ↗ administration to make sure that during

1:40:32 ↗ this year as we were going back

1:40:35 ↗ through a more typical revenue and

1:40:37 ↗ expenditure year that we were responsive

1:40:39 ↗ to making sure that in 2021

1:40:42 ↗ we were coming back with opportunities

1:40:45 ↗ to make expenditures during the years so

1:40:47 ↗ that we would stay within policy they've

1:40:50 ↗ done a really good job doing that but it

1:40:52 ↗ also can be confusing when you're just

1:40:54 ↗ about to look at your new 2022 budget

1:40:57 ↗ and you will be receiving some new

1:40:59 ↗ revenue projections in that so it is

1:41:02 ↗ confusing that is for sure but um we

1:41:06 ↗ really do want to commit stay committed

1:41:08 ↗ to that um

1:41:10 ↗ process of making sure if there is

1:41:12 ↗ funded there are revenue

1:41:14 ↗ exceeding revenue expectations in the

1:41:16 ↗ year that the council is considering

1:41:18 ↗ spending those revenues in the year uh

1:41:20 ↗ councilmember walsh has a comment

1:41:24 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh

1:41:26 ↗ um

1:41:27 ↗ i don't have a concern

1:41:30 ↗ with the ending fund balance so much as

1:41:34 ↗ this seeming

1:41:37 ↗ i don't want to sound crass but

1:41:39 ↗ kind of like a slush fund that's just

1:41:42 ↗ getting

1:41:43 ↗ pushed out

1:41:44 ↗ at this point because i think if we're

1:41:47 ↗ in a budget cycle

1:41:50 ↗ we're

1:41:51 ↗ looking at this and i don't mean

1:41:53 ↗ anybody's using funds the wrong way i'm

1:41:56 ↗ just

1:41:56 ↗ i'm talking about how we choose what to

1:41:58 ↗ spend on and so if i was in the middle

1:42:02 ↗ of a budget cycle and i was looking at

1:42:06 ↗ 250 000

1:42:08 ↗ of street operating funds for the

1:42:10 ↗ intelligent traffic system related

1:42:12 ↗ maintenance i would be able to evaluate

1:42:15 ↗ that against other projects that were in

1:42:19 ↗ that scope or i would be given other

1:42:21 ↗ options

1:42:22 ↗ at this point this is really much more

1:42:25 ↗ of a

1:42:26 ↗ up or down vote on something that as

1:42:30 ↗ council member marx mentioned is seven

1:42:32 ↗ figures

1:42:33 ↗ and

1:42:35 ↗ while i might look at this and go okay

1:42:38 ↗ in a budget cycle

1:42:39 ↗ i might say hey i have questions about

1:42:42 ↗ this position or i have concerns about

1:42:46 ↗ why we're spending money on

1:42:49 ↗ you know record keeping instead of x y

1:42:52 ↗ and z

1:42:54 ↗ when this comes in this type of a

1:42:56 ↗ package

1:42:57 ↗ i feel like that's harder to do i don't

1:43:00 ↗ know why these projects were sourced i

1:43:02 ↗ don't know what other things were

1:43:05 ↗ considered

1:43:06 ↗ and so at this point as much as

1:43:09 ↗ i do like many of these projects

1:43:13 ↗ um

1:43:14 ↗ i don't like the feel that this gives to

1:43:17 ↗ spending

1:43:19 ↗ a seven figure situation so i'm i'm on

1:43:22 ↗ the fence i'm leaning toward

1:43:24 ↗ voting no on this um

1:43:27 ↗ just because of that that situational

1:43:30 ↗ um peace

1:43:33 ↗ thanks

1:43:34 ↗ um city uh council member g michelle has

1:43:36 ↗ a comment

1:43:40 ↗ and then i'll go to city of ministry

1:43:41 ↗ above quits

1:43:42 ↗ thank you mayor paulie um i do tend to

1:43:46 ↗ um

1:43:47 ↗ i do intend to support this motion

1:43:51 ↗ however i

1:43:52 ↗ hear my fellow council members concerns

1:43:54 ↗ and shared many of them

1:43:56 ↗ i did go through each item

1:43:59 ↗ going through looking at it wondering

1:44:01 ↗ well i wonder how this was chosen or

1:44:03 ↗ that one was chosen i have to say that

1:44:05 ↗ as i went through

1:44:06 ↗ i could find a rationale for each one

1:44:09 ↗ and for several of them a rationale for

1:44:11 ↗ the money needed to be spent now

1:44:14 ↗ rather than next year or as part of a

1:44:16 ↗ budget process and so

1:44:19 ↗ uh but i think it would have been

1:44:21 ↗ helpful to um

1:44:23 ↗ to our decision-making process to

1:44:26 ↗ have seen uh just an overall

1:44:29 ↗ table showing us the impact to the

1:44:32 ↗ overall uh you know uh reserve funds and

1:44:36 ↗ um

1:44:38 ↗ and and perhaps more information about

1:44:40 ↗ the process about how each one was

1:44:42 ↗ chosen

1:44:43 ↗ uh i don't think that that was uh

1:44:46 ↗ elucidated as clearly as it could have

1:44:48 ↗ been

1:44:49 ↗ uh that said there's lots to like in

1:44:52 ↗ this motion there's some that i not only

1:44:55 ↗ like that i love and um i i

1:44:59 ↗ want

1:44:59 ↗ more human services i want uh the people

1:45:03 ↗ the positions that are being talked

1:45:05 ↗ about and i like the expenditures on

1:45:07 ↗ transportation and so forth so i will

1:45:10 ↗ support this but i do think for future

1:45:12 ↗ reference that we should be provided

1:45:15 ↗ with more context

1:45:17 ↗ so that we do have a better

1:45:18 ↗ understanding of why some things came to

1:45:21 ↗ the top and other things did not so

1:45:25 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember d

1:45:27 ↗ michelle see mr bob quits i was going to

1:45:29 ↗ go to council member goodman i could

1:45:31 ↗ circle back to you later if that's okay

1:45:33 ↗ councilman goodman

1:45:36 ↗ uh

1:45:37 ↗ if administrator bob quits has something

1:45:39 ↗ that he wants to add that's fine before

1:45:42 ↗ me thank you see administrator bob quits

1:45:46 ↗ uh thank you madam mayor uh this is a

1:45:48 ↗ pretty unusual circumstance um you know

1:45:51 ↗ most years you don't have uh money to

1:45:54 ↗ reinvest in the organization uh you know

1:45:58 ↗ really the impetus for this was your um

1:46:01 ↗ session that you had in person at the

1:46:04 ↗ tibbetts creek manor several weeks ago

1:46:06 ↗ um i think the mayor and i left that

1:46:09 ↗ meeting

1:46:10 ↗ saying there's a lot of things the city

1:46:11 ↗ council wants to get done

1:46:13 ↗ and we've not been able to do that

1:46:14 ↗ because of pandemic and there's an

1:46:17 ↗ opportunity with money

1:46:19 ↗ to jumpstart some of the very things you

1:46:21 ↗ prioritized during the course of that

1:46:23 ↗ meeting so i think if you were to go

1:46:25 ↗ back and

1:46:27 ↗ in our apologies perhaps we should have

1:46:29 ↗ done a crosswalk from that discussion to

1:46:31 ↗ some of these investments because nearly

1:46:33 ↗ all of them i think were informed by

1:46:36 ↗ that discussion

1:46:37 ↗ i've been doing this as a manager

1:46:39 ↗ administrator 20 plus years i've never

1:46:41 ↗ gone to a council and said hey let's

1:46:43 ↗ hire some positions now because i know

1:46:45 ↗ you're going to approve them anyway

1:46:47 ↗ because those were the very positions

1:46:48 ↗ that came out of your meeting and so

1:46:51 ↗ rather than go through a process know

1:46:53 ↗ that you're going to fund it get the

1:46:54 ↗ money adopted in january start

1:46:57 ↗ recruiting get people in in march and

1:46:59 ↗ april um

1:47:01 ↗ we thought well let's just do it now

1:47:03 ↗ we've got some money up the dollars and

1:47:05 ↗ cents of those positions really are very

1:47:07 ↗ small

1:47:08 ↗ but we wanted to do that we've already

1:47:10 ↗ made those i.t investments we wanted to

1:47:12 ↗ to show that

1:47:13 ↗ and most of the other larger ticket

1:47:15 ↗ items were things that the council has

1:47:18 ↗ said are important transportation

1:47:20 ↗ planning um you know moving forward with

1:47:23 ↗ city hall northwest the reality is we

1:47:25 ↗ cannot do anything with that building

1:47:27 ↗ until all the paper is out of it and we

1:47:29 ↗ need to do something with all that paper

1:47:32 ↗ so really what you see tonight came from

1:47:34 ↗ you all

1:47:35 ↗ it's not something that really was

1:47:37 ↗ driven by staff it was driven by you all

1:47:40 ↗ the one thing i will say

1:47:41 ↗ is that we have a lot of staff members

1:47:43 ↗ who are tired who are

1:47:45 ↗ are just done with this pandemic and

1:47:47 ↗ quite honestly if we can give our field

1:47:49 ↗ staff a new mower

1:47:51 ↗ that's going to do an awful lot to help

1:47:53 ↗ them

1:47:54 ↗ continue to come to work every single

1:47:55 ↗ day in the midst of a pandemic

1:47:58 ↗ so i think while that probably didn't

1:47:59 ↗ come up specifically in your discussions

1:48:01 ↗ in new mower

1:48:03 ↗ when i went to the departments and asked

1:48:05 ↗ what can we do

1:48:06 ↗ to you know help our employees and say

1:48:09 ↗ we hear them we care about them we

1:48:11 ↗ understand

1:48:12 ↗ the cuts that were made you know as we

1:48:14 ↗ look back many of our neighbor

1:48:15 ↗ jurisdictions didn't make the cuts that

1:48:17 ↗ we did they they took a chance that

1:48:19 ↗ everything was going to be okay and

1:48:21 ↗ we didn't do that we we took some cuts

1:48:24 ↗ so you know this what you're seeing

1:48:25 ↗ tonight is really unusual i don't

1:48:27 ↗ suspect we'll do it again anytime soon

1:48:29 ↗ but it's really meant to move forward

1:48:32 ↗ the goals and the priorities of this

1:48:34 ↗ city council and a little bit has meant

1:48:36 ↗ to say to our employees thank you here's

1:48:38 ↗ some better tools to get work done

1:48:40 ↗ here's some things that will finally get

1:48:41 ↗ us out of city hall northwest once and

1:48:43 ↗ for all and we can move forward and look

1:48:45 ↗ at what those facilities are so again

1:48:47 ↗ madam mayor my apologies if we didn't

1:48:49 ↗ connect those dots uh work more

1:48:51 ↗ carefully at the top of this

1:48:52 ↗ presentation but that that's the the

1:48:55 ↗ impetus behind all this

1:48:57 ↗ thank you to the administrator i just

1:48:58 ↗ i'm going to add a few comments we do

1:49:00 ↗ have some more council members that do

1:49:01 ↗ want to make comments as well um

1:49:04 ↗ thanks for what you said wally i agree

1:49:07 ↗ um i kind of have a foot in both camps

1:49:10 ↗ and in that i think what councilmember d

1:49:12 ↗ michelle said about process is a good

1:49:14 ↗ point i think what you had said about

1:49:17 ↗ this being unusual circumstances is also

1:49:20 ↗ a good point and the fact that our city

1:49:22 ↗ did

1:49:24 ↗ take a lot of cuts to be ready in case

1:49:27 ↗ the pandemic had a longer economic

1:49:29 ↗ effect than we were worried about

1:49:31 ↗ however there is an opportunity for

1:49:33 ↗ future council president or future

1:49:35 ↗ council leadership or this council

1:49:37 ↗ leadership to brainstorm about if we're

1:49:39 ↗ going to do this again what do we want

1:49:40 ↗ to look like and that's where i think

1:49:41 ↗ some of the suggestions that council

1:49:43 ↗ member d michelle could fit in

1:49:45 ↗ so um

1:49:46 ↗ this is the process we have this year

1:49:48 ↗ and again it's unusual

1:49:50 ↗ could we do better

1:49:52 ↗ likely we can and i heard some good

1:49:54 ↗ suggestions tonight on how we could

1:49:55 ↗ better connect the dots and do some

1:49:57 ↗ better storytelling as well

1:49:59 ↗ let's go to councilmember goodman

1:50:00 ↗ followed by deputy council president ray

1:50:04 ↗ um thank you councilmember goodman here

1:50:06 ↗ i

1:50:07 ↗ do intend to support this i'm looking at

1:50:10 ↗ this as something that is out of the

1:50:12 ↗ ordinary um typically i don't think that

1:50:14 ↗ it is a good idea for us to do a

1:50:18 ↗ something this uh large

1:50:20 ↗ of a change particularly this close to

1:50:24 ↗ upcoming budget

1:50:26 ↗ season the i do have a couple of

1:50:30 ↗ questions concerns

1:50:32 ↗ the number 14 the community planning and

1:50:35 ↗ development department

1:50:37 ↗ adjustment

1:50:38 ↗ we continually miss the mark

1:50:41 ↗ we've been talking about this

1:50:43 ↗ um

1:50:44 ↗ ever since i've started on council ever

1:50:46 ↗ since i was

1:50:48 ↗ on land and shore and we had this sort

1:50:50 ↗ of you know annual discussion about it

1:50:52 ↗ and then also a budget

1:50:55 ↗ i would suggest that it's time to renew

1:50:57 ↗ the conversation

1:50:59 ↗ about the option of

1:51:04 ↗ billing for services rather than trying

1:51:06 ↗ to guess what it's going to cost us we

1:51:08 ↗ just consistently miss the mark i don't

1:51:11 ↗ understand why

1:51:12 ↗ um i'm sure there are a lot of good

1:51:14 ↗ reasons but

1:51:16 ↗ it is a source of constant frustration

1:51:19 ↗ for everyone the other one that i have

1:51:22 ↗ a question about is digitization of city

1:51:24 ↗ hall northwest records

1:51:26 ↗ i know we have a ton of these anybody

1:51:28 ↗ who's seen the storage facility knows

1:51:31 ↗ that we have a ton of records that need

1:51:33 ↗ needs to be put that need to be put into

1:51:35 ↗ digital form format um

1:51:38 ↗ in 2014

1:51:40 ↗ the council adopted a technology

1:51:44 ↗ fee

1:51:44 ↗ um i believe it was november 17 2014

1:51:49 ↗ and we have

1:51:50 ↗ a code for that

1:51:52 ↗ um

1:51:53 ↗ the

1:51:55 ↗ the agenda bill for that meeting talks

1:51:57 ↗ about how that fee would be spent

1:52:00 ↗ and one of the items was to and i quote

1:52:02 ↗ from that attendable fund backlogged and

1:52:05 ↗ future technology projects

1:52:08 ↗ um

1:52:09 ↗ and the agenda build says that that item

1:52:11 ↗ was discussed at several budget meetings

1:52:13 ↗ and um i

1:52:15 ↗ vaguely recall

1:52:16 ↗ um

1:52:17 ↗ the many times we talked about that

1:52:20 ↗ i don't have dates and i don't have

1:52:21 ↗ materials for that maybe councilmember

1:52:23 ↗ martz will recall um

1:52:26 ↗ differently than my recollection but i

1:52:29 ↗ do recall discussions about

1:52:32 ↗ that fee either

1:52:34 ↗ being available for

1:52:37 ↗ possibly

1:52:38 ↗ using

1:52:39 ↗ part of that fee to

1:52:41 ↗ digitalize digitize whatever how however

1:52:45 ↗ you pronounce that word um

1:52:47 ↗ those um hard copy documents i don't

1:52:50 ↗ know um

1:52:52 ↗ if my recollection is

1:52:55 ↗ correct that

1:52:57 ↗ we were told that we could i do recall

1:53:00 ↗ having a discussion about it whether we

1:53:02 ↗ could or we could could not i don't

1:53:04 ↗ remember that but um

1:53:07 ↗ that raises a question for me

1:53:10 ↗ for the upcoming budget discussions

1:53:13 ↗ which

1:53:14 ↗ um i have questions about how much we

1:53:16 ↗ have collected for that technology fee

1:53:19 ↗ and what we've spent it on so um i will

1:53:22 ↗ support this tonight but i also want to

1:53:24 ↗ know um

1:53:26 ↗ you know i fall short of calling it an

1:53:28 ↗ audit of that fee because i don't want

1:53:30 ↗ that but i want the council to have

1:53:31 ↗ information about what we've collected

1:53:33 ↗ and what we've used it for and um

1:53:36 ↗ i would appreciate

1:53:38 ↗ um if we can find information about what

1:53:42 ↗ we were told about that fee um

1:53:45 ↗ in terms of uh

1:53:47 ↗ digitizing those records

1:53:49 ↗ and then the agenda bill says tonight

1:53:53 ↗ the upcoming budget

1:53:55 ↗ proposal will be asking for

1:53:57 ↗ more money for that

1:53:58 ↗ i'd like to know what the estimated

1:54:00 ↗ total cost during the budget what the

1:54:02 ↗ estimated total cost would be to get

1:54:04 ↗ that project done so sorry i was

1:54:06 ↗ long-winded but those are my couple of

1:54:08 ↗ concerns my requests and i will be

1:54:10 ↗ supporting this tonight thanks

1:54:12 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman let's go

1:54:14 ↗ to deputy council president ray

1:54:16 ↗ thank you mayor police chris ray

1:54:19 ↗ a couple of thoughts the first is

1:54:21 ↗ to amplify what the city administrator

1:54:23 ↗ says we've been extremely financially

1:54:25 ↗ responsible through the pandemic and so

1:54:28 ↗ we're in a very strong financial

1:54:29 ↗ position that we wouldn't have if we had

1:54:31 ↗ not taken some of the steps we did

1:54:34 ↗ additionally the recent revenue

1:54:36 ↗ projections are

1:54:38 ↗ kind of mind-blowingly uh positive which

1:54:40 ↗ gives me a certain amount of confidence

1:54:43 ↗ that we are

1:54:44 ↗ going to be in a strong financial

1:54:46 ↗ position ending up this year

1:54:49 ↗ that being said an opportunity to jump

1:54:51 ↗ start some of the initiatives that we'd

1:54:52 ↗ like to push for 2022 which i saw a

1:54:56 ↗ number of them in this budget amendment

1:54:57 ↗ make sense

1:54:58 ↗ also given the labor market if we can

1:55:00 ↗ get a jump start on hiring for 2022 i

1:55:03 ↗ think that makes sense and this makes

1:55:05 ↗ that possible

1:55:06 ↗ now with that all being said given the

1:55:08 ↗ magnitude of this amendment

1:55:11 ↗ it would be nice i think this is

1:55:14 ↗ something that council member walsh was

1:55:16 ↗ alluding to or maybe hitting directly on

1:55:19 ↗ you know we could have had one more than

1:55:20 ↗ one touch on this we could have seen uh

1:55:22 ↗ draft amendments so that we could have

1:55:25 ↗ um

1:55:26 ↗ gone through this um ahead of time so

1:55:29 ↗ i know that time is is tight and i know

1:55:31 ↗ everyone's working really hard but um

1:55:33 ↗ so just kind of going forward

1:55:34 ↗ particularly if we're going to talk

1:55:36 ↗ to steal the phrase from councilmember

1:55:38 ↗ mark's seven-figure amendments um having

1:55:40 ↗ a more

1:55:42 ↗ structured more touches

1:55:44 ↗ process would probably make for more

1:55:46 ↗ comfort in the final results

1:55:48 ↗ thank you

1:55:49 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

1:55:51 ↗ are there any other council members that

1:55:53 ↗ would like to make a comment

1:56:01 ↗ keeping my eye on the chat to council

1:56:04 ↗ president hunt

1:56:07 ↗ thank you i um i appreciated hearing the

1:56:10 ↗ concerns from my fellow council members

1:56:12 ↗ and i hope that um in the future we can

1:56:15 ↗ have

1:56:16 ↗ um

1:56:17 ↗ touches on this kind of substantial

1:56:20 ↗ um information i think you know the

1:56:22 ↗ final version could um be presented i

1:56:25 ↗ think for me it's it's uh it is in

1:56:29 ↗ exceptional circumstances but at the

1:56:31 ↗ same time

1:56:32 ↗ um if we had had

1:56:34 ↗ more um or a study session for example i

1:56:37 ↗ think that would be more typical to our

1:56:38 ↗ process and and would have given us um a

1:56:41 ↗ better understanding i did feel like

1:56:45 ↗ i

1:56:45 ↗ had the

1:56:47 ↗ ability to ask my questions and have

1:56:49 ↗ them answered

1:56:51 ↗ at this meeting and so

1:56:53 ↗ i

1:56:54 ↗ am comfortable with those answers the um

1:56:58 ↗ the community planning and development

1:57:01 ↗ um

1:57:02 ↗ the difference in the expended expected

1:57:05 ↗ expenditure in that one as as

1:57:07 ↗ councilmember goodman said does

1:57:10 ↗ that has come up

1:57:12 ↗ before and so if we could try to account

1:57:15 ↗ for that um

1:57:18 ↗ differently going forward that would

1:57:19 ↗ that would i think help

1:57:21 ↗ um

1:57:22 ↗ but overall i i think for the most part

1:57:25 ↗ it seems that for example with the

1:57:27 ↗ positions we're recovering um we're

1:57:30 ↗ recovering

1:57:31 ↗ services and positions that we cut back

1:57:34 ↗ um during covid we're we're assisting

1:57:37 ↗ community recovery

1:57:39 ↗ after covenant after the associated

1:57:41 ↗ budget impacts that we had

1:57:43 ↗ associated with covid and i understand

1:57:45 ↗ that both that impact was hard to

1:57:47 ↗ predict and now the recovery will

1:57:48 ↗ continue to be hard to predict

1:57:50 ↗ so overall i think with the answers to

1:57:53 ↗ the questions um i am supportive i think

1:57:55 ↗ going forward having uh more opportunity

1:57:59 ↗ to discuss and and ask questions when it

1:58:01 ↗ is such a substantial

1:58:03 ↗ budget amendment would be useful for

1:58:05 ↗ council and i um i also lastly

1:58:10 ↗ think that the information about the

1:58:12 ↗ general fund

1:58:13 ↗ and compliance with our financial policy

1:58:16 ↗ that that's important to me and to a

1:58:18 ↗ number of us and so having that in the

1:58:21 ↗ packet would would also be useful and

1:58:23 ↗ and just help us connect

1:58:25 ↗ the dots about why this is um

1:58:28 ↗ why we're doing this amendment my

1:58:29 ↗ understanding is is in part because we

1:58:31 ↗ have emphasized that we want to be

1:58:33 ↗ within compliance which this will put us

1:58:35 ↗ at 19 rejected

1:58:38 ↗ um expenditure as a percentage of

1:58:40 ↗ revenue and so

1:58:43 ↗ i think that that that is important and

1:58:44 ↗ that is something that we've we've

1:58:46 ↗ strived for um so i i do support it i

1:58:49 ↗ also just wanted to

1:58:51 ↗ let my fellow council members know that

1:58:53 ↗ i think there were a lot of good points

1:58:54 ↗ raised and hopefully those will be taken

1:58:56 ↗ into account in future

1:58:57 ↗ um versions of this conversation

1:59:01 ↗ thank you council president hunt council

1:59:03 ↗ member martz

1:59:04 ↗ thank you madam mayor i just i just want

1:59:06 ↗ to clarify it's my understanding that

1:59:08 ↗ that 19 refers to the ending fund

1:59:11 ↗ balance at the end of 2022

1:59:15 ↗ if we had a similar number for the end

1:59:17 ↗ of 2021 which this uh

1:59:21 ↗ impacts then i

1:59:23 ↗ would be voting in favor not against the

1:59:25 ↗ amendment thanks

1:59:28 ↗ thank you councilmember mertz

1:59:30 ↗ are there any other comments uh oh sorry

1:59:33 ↗ i missed one councilmember walsh

1:59:35 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh

1:59:38 ↗ um i continue to be torn by this package

1:59:41 ↗ i'm

1:59:43 ↗ at this point

1:59:44 ↗ i mean i highly highly support these

1:59:48 ↗ positions and getting them hired

1:59:50 ↗ the the areas i struggle with are

1:59:55 ↗ some of the other areas where we're

1:59:58 ↗ spending money on projects or purchases

2:00:03 ↗ um where i'm having to evaluate them

2:00:05 ↗ without the other areas but

2:00:07 ↗ i think ultimately at this point because

2:00:10 ↗ i i think the positions are

2:00:14 ↗ essential and important to get hiring on

2:00:17 ↗ early um i will support this

2:00:21 ↗ so thank you

2:00:23 ↗ thank you councilmember walsh and have

2:00:26 ↗ i'm scrolling up and down to see if i

2:00:28 ↗ have forgotten or missed anybody else

2:00:32 ↗ uh

2:00:33 ↗ okay it looks like council president

2:00:34 ↗ hunt has a question

2:00:37 ↗ yes thank you

2:00:39 ↗ um

2:00:40 ↗ okay i i this is council president hunt

2:00:43 ↗ again and i

2:00:44 ↗ wanted clarity on the ending fund

2:00:47 ↗ balance so i thought i heard

2:00:50 ↗ um susie say that we expected the ending

2:00:53 ↗ fund balance for 2021

2:00:55 ↗ to be

2:00:57 ↗ between 15 and 20 with this amendment am

2:01:00 ↗ i did i misunderstand that

2:01:04 ↗ that 2022

2:01:08 ↗ i think we heard lots of numbers put out

2:01:10 ↗ there but we'll let susie clarify i

2:01:12 ↗ think her answer is a little more vague

2:01:14 ↗ than that but we'll see where she went

2:01:16 ↗ thank you mayor paulie uh yes

2:01:18 ↗ intentionally vague um

2:01:21 ↗ uh we it is

2:01:22 ↗ uh as city minister bob quit said we

2:01:25 ↗ anticipate ending with the proposed

2:01:27 ↗ budget coming later this month ending

2:01:30 ↗ 2022

2:01:31 ↗ at 19

2:01:34 ↗ given the general fund forecast that was

2:01:36 ↗ presented earlier this month

2:01:38 ↗ um it is likely that we will end 2021

2:01:42 ↗ above

2:01:43 ↗ 20

2:01:44 ↗ given

2:01:45 ↗ uh even with the uh amendments proposed

2:01:47 ↗ tonight um these are numbers that

2:01:50 ↗ we can run at this point and provide to

2:01:52 ↗ the council we just don't have it

2:01:54 ↗ prepared this evening

2:01:56 ↗ it would be a bit of a moving target as

2:01:59 ↗ city administrator bob quits mentioned

2:02:00 ↗ we will be

2:02:02 ↗ likely proposing additional amendments

2:02:04 ↗ prior to the end of the year that would

2:02:05 ↗ swing that number um but

2:02:08 ↗ uh generally at this point based on best

2:02:11 ↗ current information

2:02:13 ↗ it is likely we'll end 2021 above 20

2:02:16 ↗ percent

2:02:19 ↗ if i can add to that as well susie i i

2:02:21 ↗ think what uh city administrator was

2:02:23 ↗ trying to get across is that we have a

2:02:25 ↗ finance team and they have fixed tasks

2:02:27 ↗ to do and the one they have on their

2:02:28 ↗ plate right now is to get you a budget

2:02:30 ↗ in two weeks for 2022. so as part of

2:02:33 ↗ that process over your budget review we

2:02:36 ↗ will run re-run the revenue projections

2:02:39 ↗ but we don't have the staffing and

2:02:40 ↗ capacity to keep running them constantly

2:02:43 ↗ so

2:02:44 ↗ right now suzy and autumn's team are

2:02:46 ↗ focused on getting you the budget and

2:02:48 ↗ susie gave you a very vague answer which

2:02:50 ↗ is that it's probably over twenty

2:02:53 ↗ percent um but come november i can't

2:02:56 ↗ remember if it's november october but

2:02:57 ↗ autumn can weigh in here you are going

2:03:00 ↗ to get a new revenue updated production

2:03:02 ↗ and that will definitely give you a

2:03:03 ↗ better look at the end of this year and

2:03:05 ↗ it will probably come with potential

2:03:07 ↗ budget adjustment again if there are

2:03:09 ↗ some priorities that can spend that

2:03:11 ↗ money down before the end of 2021. so

2:03:14 ↗ autumn what did you want to add in there

2:03:17 ↗ i was gonna reiterate what susie said so

2:03:19 ↗ thank you susie for that we can follow

2:03:22 ↗ up with uh an estimate but yes we will

2:03:25 ↗ come back to you with more revenue

2:03:26 ↗ forecasts we had one in august and we

2:03:28 ↗ will come back to you in october after

2:03:30 ↗ the proposed budget is transmitted

2:03:36 ↗ council president does it answer your

2:03:37 ↗ question

2:03:42 ↗ um

2:03:43 ↗ i i think so i think in the future um i

2:03:46 ↗ i while i understand that there's a lot

2:03:48 ↗ of things going on in the future if

2:03:50 ↗ we're asked for a um

2:03:52 ↗ seven figure budget amendment it would

2:03:54 ↗ be good to get the

2:03:56 ↗ i get in writing preferably with the

2:03:58 ↗ packet so we can all digest it what the

2:04:01 ↗ impact is on that

2:04:03 ↗ target

2:04:04 ↗ noted thank you

2:04:07 ↗ have i missed anyone with a comment or a

2:04:09 ↗ question like looking in the chat again

2:04:11 ↗ it looks pretty good

2:04:14 ↗ okay now i'll check back in with the

2:04:16 ↗ city clerk i believe we have moved and

2:04:18 ↗ seconded and that it would be

2:04:19 ↗ appropriate for me to reread the motion

2:04:21 ↗ at this point

2:04:24 ↗ you tisha

2:04:25 ↗ so the motion before council

2:04:28 ↗ is to adopt ordinance number

2:04:32 ↗ scrolling 2951

2:04:34 ↗ 2951 amending the 2021 budget

2:04:38 ↗ as set forth in ordinance number 2927

2:04:41 ↗ and amended in ordinance number 2939

2:04:45 ↗ concerning revenues expenditures and

2:04:47 ↗ fund balance for various funds for the

2:04:49 ↗ year 2021 and i'll get our city clerk to

2:04:53 ↗ call the roll

2:04:56 ↗ starting with deputy council president

2:04:58 ↗ ray hi

2:05:00 ↗ council member walsh

2:05:01 ↗ i'm

2:05:02 ↗ councilmember d michelle

2:05:05 ↗ aye

2:05:06 ↗ councilmember goodman

2:05:08 ↗ aye

2:05:10 ↗ council president hunt

2:05:13 ↗ hi

2:05:14 ↗ councilmember martz

2:05:16 ↗ no nice

2:05:18 ↗ that's five eyes one nay

2:05:21 ↗ thank you that passes five to one

2:05:25 ↗ the next item of business this evening

2:05:27 ↗ is good of the order uh

2:05:29 ↗ i will oh we have a comment i believe

2:05:32 ↗ from city administrator bob quits

2:05:36 ↗ no you don't

2:05:37 ↗ no i don't okay

2:05:39 ↗ looking in the oh my god you know what i

2:05:41 ↗ get started gosh i was way up in the

2:05:44 ↗ comments um okay

2:05:46 ↗ looking in the chat box to see if

2:05:48 ↗ anybody has anything for good of the

2:05:49 ↗ order and i will go through a couple of

2:05:53 ↗ announcements oh let's start with

2:05:55 ↗ council president hunt she does have

2:05:57 ↗ something for good of the order

2:05:59 ↗ thank you mayor paulie as noted in the

2:06:02 ↗ packet i am going to

2:06:04 ↗ briefly

2:06:06 ↗ note the council president appointments

2:06:08 ↗ to the capital financing community task

2:06:10 ↗ force at this time

2:06:12 ↗ council members hall and martz will

2:06:13 ↗ serve on the capital finance task force

2:06:16 ↗ and

2:06:18 ↗ additionally council member goodman will

2:06:19 ↗ serve on the task force and will shift

2:06:21 ↗ to a mayor appointed at large position

2:06:23 ↗ at the end of her term on council

2:06:27 ↗ so looking forward to seeing the good

2:06:29 ↗ work come out of that task force and

2:06:33 ↗ wanted to make that

2:06:34 ↗ announcement thank you

2:06:36 ↗ thank you council president thank you

2:06:38 ↗ for your consideration i'm very excited

2:06:40 ↗ about the work that this capital finance

2:06:42 ↗ and community task force is undertaking

2:06:44 ↗ so thank you for your help with that

2:06:46 ↗ there are some upcoming council meetings

2:06:48 ↗ there's a city council study session

2:06:50 ↗ tuesday september 14th and the potential

2:06:53 ↗ agenda items include

2:06:55 ↗ julius boone pool improvements

2:06:57 ↗ boards and commission's proposed stipend

2:06:59 ↗ policy

2:07:01 ↗ and the title 18 land use code update on

2:07:04 ↗ september 20th there's a regular council

2:07:06 ↗ meeting with potential agenda items

2:07:08 ↗ including the

2:07:10 ↗ pfas update the use of affordable

2:07:13 ↗ housing funds and the proposed 2020

2:07:16 ↗ 2022 budget presentation

2:07:21 ↗ not seeing anything else for good of the

2:07:22 ↗ order the next item we have on our

2:07:25 ↗ agenda this evening is an executive

2:07:26 ↗ session and as earlier announced there

2:07:28 ↗ will be an executive session held this

2:07:30 ↗ evening to discuss collective bargaining

2:07:33 ↗ for rcw

2:07:35 ↗ 42.30.140 paren iv

2:07:38 ↗ this item is expected to last 30 minutes

2:07:41 ↗ no action is anticipated to follow in

2:07:43 ↗ open session

2:07:44 ↗ as a reminder executive sessions are

2:07:46 ↗ closed to the public

2:07:47 ↗ we will now recess into executive

2:07:50 ↗ session at 9 14 p.m however we will

2:07:54 ↗ start off that session with a little bit

2:07:55 ↗ of a break so

2:07:57 ↗ you can grab a glass of water or a cup

2:07:59 ↗ of tea or whatever it is that you need

2:08:01 ↗ so i asked the city clerk to move the

2:08:03 ↗ city council into a separate session

2:08:05 ↗ within this meeting and anyone who is

2:08:07 ↗ not part of the closed session will

2:08:08 ↗ remain in the main meeting you are

2:08:10 ↗ welcome to stay in the main meeting

2:08:12 ↗ until it is reconvened

2:08:14 ↗ city clerk are we ready to move

2:08:18 ↗ let me just confirm that we have the

2:08:20 ↗ right people here i'm going to go ahead

2:08:23 ↗ and move out is aquacity television

2:08:40 ↗ you

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Victoria Hunt (Served as presiding officer)

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Scott Behrbaum, Police Chief

Excused

Zach Hall