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Monday, December 6, 2021

6:00 PM · 2h 30m
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2. CLOSED SESSION
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The purpose of this special meeting is to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss pending/potential litigation per RCW take approximately 45 minutes. Please note, Executive Sessions are closed to the public. Action, if needed, would occur during the open session of a Regular Council meeting
0:16 welcome everyone i'm going to call to
0:19 order the monday december
0:22 6 2021 city council meeting
0:25 uh welcome everybody
0:27 due to the governor's proclamation 28-28
0:30 relating to the coveted 19 emergency and
0:33 open public meetings this meeting is
0:35 being held remotely
0:37 at this point we'll take a moment to
0:39 take roll call of the council members in
0:41 attendance so please stay here when i
0:43 call your name councilmember d michelle
0:46 here
0:47 thank you councilmember goodman here
0:50 thank you councilmember hall
0:52 here
0:53 thank you council president hunt
0:55 here
0:56 thank you council member mertz here
0:59 thank you
1:00 uh deputy council president ray has an
1:02 excused absence this evening council
1:04 member walsh
1:06 here
1:08 it's great thank you six in attendance
1:10 tonight
1:11 the next item on our agenda is the
1:13 pledge of allegiance so
1:15 i would like you to join me but can you
1:17 please keep your microphone muted
1:22 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
1:25 united states of america
1:27 and to the republic for which it stands
1:29 one nation under god indivisible with
1:33 liberty and justice for all
1:39 the next item on our meeting tonight
1:42 which is the last council meeting of the
1:44 year we think is a special business item
1:48 uh we're going to do some recognition of
1:50 our local electives
1:52 and council members and staff and city
1:54 attorney and so i'd like to start off
1:57 first tonight to emphasize councilman
1:59 lambert who is in
2:01 the hall please come and join me
2:07 welcome councilmember lambert welcome
2:11 councilmember lambert is the current
2:13 third district uh representative and
2:16 issaquah is in the king county third
2:17 district and i want to
2:19 thank her tonight kathy has served as
2:22 the king county council member for
2:24 district 3 for 20 years she has been
2:26 instrumental in facilitating many
2:28 projects in issaquah
2:30 in particular councilmember lambert has
2:32 been a huge supporter of the issaquah
2:34 senior center
2:35 recently she helped the city obtain a
2:37 second van for the senior center through
2:39 the casey metro surplus program
2:42 she also helped provide grant funding
2:44 that replaced agent equipment
2:46 aging kitchen equipment that is
2:49 essential to the success of the meals
2:51 program at the senior center
2:52 council member lambert also helped
2:54 procure and distribute masks for
2:56 essential workers
2:58 vulnerable populations and the business
3:00 community in issaquah during the height
3:02 of the pandemic
3:03 we are also very grateful for her
3:05 assistance in securing a 10 million
3:08 dollar grant for the proposed city of
3:10 issaquah transit oriented development
3:12 project near state route 900 and newport
3:15 way
3:15 this mixed-use housing project could
3:18 provide fifty percent of the units to
3:20 residents who make less than eighty
3:22 percent of the average mean income of
3:24 king county residents council member
3:26 lambert thank you for your work in the
3:28 third district and for your many
3:30 years of service to our region and would
3:32 you like to say a few words
3:34 thank you well thank you very much for
3:36 that introduction it has been a true
3:38 honor to represent all the people of
3:40 this district and during the 20 years
3:42 before the new redistricting in 2010
3:47 um you weren't in my district and so it
3:49 was a pleasure to get to know my new
3:51 members
3:52 during that time so i thank you so much
3:55 i think you've had a very successful
3:57 year
3:58 during a time that was very unusual in
4:01 history and i'd like to say that i think
4:03 that your leadership your mayor and your
4:05 council and your city employees have
4:08 done an incredible job of navigating and
4:11 during the pandemic when we had regular
4:13 meetings about vaccinations your entire
4:16 staff
4:17 did an amazing job
4:19 and it was just a pleasure to see how
4:21 well they coordinated and all the things
4:23 that they did together
4:25 the mayor went through many of the
4:27 partnerships that we have done with the
4:29 county and the city i am very pleased
4:32 that you're going to be in urban center
4:33 and i hope that the transit that you
4:35 need for that will be forthcoming so
4:38 that it makes it an easy transition for
4:40 you you are a wonderful city and very
4:43 glad that um you were in my district i
4:46 want to wish good um wishes to
4:49 councilmember goodman as she goes on
4:52 and
4:53 thank all the members of working so
4:55 closely and serving your constituents so
4:59 very well
5:00 um in the last comments i would like to
5:03 make are that there are some really
5:05 important decisions ahead in the next
5:07 year
5:08 and so i hope that the city of issaquah
5:10 will be a leader in some of those
5:11 decisions
5:13 and as we look at the staffing ratio of
5:16 the sheriff's department in this area
5:19 you have your own police department but
5:21 the sheriff backs you up and so i think
5:23 it's going to be really important for
5:24 your deputies to know that there's a
5:27 strong backup in the county and so
5:29 looking at that ratio is going to be
5:31 very important and lastly
5:33 the executive has now said that he will
5:36 open up a biosolid study
5:39 and i think that's going to be very
5:40 important and i hope tola your expertise
5:43 in science will be there to look at the
5:46 suppositions and i hope that all these
5:49 very important but some call nerdy
5:52 topics will be led
5:54 in great part by the wonderful
5:56 leadership of istanbul so thank you so
5:58 much
6:00 thank you councilmember and thank you
6:02 for your service and please stay join us
6:04 for the rest of the special
6:05 presentations i'd like to thank you so
6:07 much
6:11 the next special celebration
6:15 sorry this is tisha i'm not sure if
6:17 you're able to see the chat so i wanted
6:19 to share with you that council member
6:20 mart has interest in making comments
6:23 that would be great thank you i can now
6:25 but i did miss it thank you very much
6:27 city clerk that's my remarks
6:29 thank you madam mayor there's a council
6:31 member mark uh i just really want to
6:33 thank outgoing county councilmember
6:34 lambert for the many great years that
6:37 she and i spent together working on
6:39 important issues on gmpc and then on
6:41 gmtv
6:43 and i want to thank her particularly for
6:44 her leadership on waste management
6:47 technology i'm confident that in 20 or
6:50 30 years i'll be standing at a
6:52 groundbreaking ceremony for a king
6:54 county incinerator and i hope to see
6:56 county council member there the county
6:58 council member lambert mayor thank you
7:01 thank you very much uh once the
7:04 executive said in a joke
7:06 that um he would name it after me the
7:10 lambert dump and i said well i'd rather
7:12 be called the energy center because i
7:14 have lots of energy but the subtitle
7:16 will be the most important and he said
7:18 what subtitle i said the one that says
7:20 when you're hot you're hot
7:23 thank you council member lambert thank
7:25 you councilmember martz i can now see
7:27 this hat as well i've got my notes moved
7:30 over to the side
7:32 uh the next uh special presentation i
7:34 would like to do tonight is for outgoing
7:36 council member councilmember goodman and
7:38 i wish i could do this and see her face
7:41 at the same time as i'm talking so i'm
7:43 moving my notes again
7:46 councilmember goodman's involvement in
7:47 our city began in 1996 as an
7:50 award-winning reporter of the issofar
7:52 press she has practiced law at the
7:54 issoqua firm of carson knoll pllc since
7:57 2007.
7:59 councilmember goodman was appointed to
8:01 the city council in 2011.
8:04 she had two very tough challengers that
8:07 day future council members paul
8:09 winterstein and future council member
8:11 mary lou paulie were also
8:13 vying for that very same seat
8:16 maybe it was her experience in
8:18 journalism
8:19 or in her law practice or the fact that
8:21 she drew number one and got to go first
8:24 but it was pretty clear after she spoke
8:26 that day who was going to be appointed
8:28 to that seat
8:30 i have had the great pleasure of working
8:31 with councilmember gibbon for the last
8:33 eight years and i have learned
8:35 invaluable lessons about good policy
8:38 making
8:39 do your homework
8:41 come ready to share and explore
8:44 don't make up your mind until all the
8:46 questions have been asked and answered
8:48 and everybody has been heard
8:51 always invite the stranger to the table
8:54 meaning whoever may be impacted or
8:56 affected by this decision
8:59 make sure they're all voices are in the
9:01 conversation
9:03 make sure you explain your decision make
9:05 decision making on camera to the people
9:07 who have elected you to serve this
9:10 community
9:11 and meet the people where the people are
9:14 and that is not typically at our council
9:16 meetings
9:17 i am grateful for serving in council
9:19 leadership with stacy for two years and
9:21 in her commitment to responding to all
9:24 resident and community comments that
9:26 were sent to the council email address
9:28 so let them know
9:30 we hear you
9:32 and we will do what we can do to help
9:34 i am grateful that councilmember goodman
9:36 had the resolve to propose the very
9:38 difficult decision
9:39 to place a short-term moratorium on
9:41 central issaquah development until
9:43 emerging issues were addressed and all
9:46 of the hard work that followed in the
9:48 next year and a half to clarify
9:50 community expectations and outcomes
9:53 i appreciated her responsiveness to
9:55 resident concerns about excessive truck
9:57 traffic on east sunset way and her
10:00 willingness to propose revisiting the
10:02 truck route designations
10:04 also her proposal to restrict revenues
10:06 that we receive as a city
10:08 for school traffic speed camera
10:10 violations and allocate those strictly
10:13 for safety improvements versus just
10:15 placing them in the general fund
10:17 she is a creative and a responsive
10:20 problem solver
10:21 it has been an incredible learning
10:23 opportunity for me to work with council
10:26 member goodman and i appreciate all the
10:28 effort thoughtfulness and care for the
10:30 community that goes into great policy
10:33 making for that experience i am
10:35 eternally grateful
10:37 stacey i'd like to present you
10:39 with a couple of things
10:41 obviously virtually
10:43 but first off
10:45 i feel like i'm doing a little bit of a
10:47 vanna white but we have a plaque for you
10:49 thanking you for your years of service
10:52 2011 to 2021.
10:55 and in addition we started a few years
10:57 ago
10:58 where we take some of the beautiful
11:00 beautiful salmon days art that we've
11:02 received over the years
11:04 um there's they've always sent two
11:06 copies not really sure why and this will
11:08 be able to go home with you and
11:09 hopefully remind you of all the
11:12 wonderful benefit and the amazing amount
11:14 of work that you did to make this
11:16 community an amazing place
11:18 i just want to thank you so much for
11:20 your service
11:22 thank you stacy
11:26 and i'm just uh again moving my script
11:29 around to make sure i am not missing
11:30 anything
11:33 okay oh councilmember goodman did i miss
11:35 you wanting to make a comment earlier if
11:37 so i apologize
11:41 yeah that's okay i just want to thank
11:43 kathy lambert for um the things we've
11:46 worked on together and one of the things
11:47 that we worked on together is the um
11:50 the king county's adoption day um
11:53 every fall and uh she and i were there
11:56 have been there together at the
11:57 courthouse on that very very special
11:59 occasion and um her leadership and her
12:02 compassion
12:03 um are just unmatched in that arena i
12:06 just wanted to thank her for all that
12:07 she's done
12:09 in that area too
12:10 kathy and i are still here together so
12:12 thank you for sharing that that's
12:13 fantastic
12:17 oh councilmember martz would like to
12:18 make a comment
12:20 thank you madam mayor um so
12:22 councilmember griffin knows that i like
12:24 numbers more than just about anything
12:27 um she's been on council
12:30 3927 days that would be 10 years eight
12:33 months and 29 days and i realized when i
12:37 coming up with that number i've actually
12:39 worked with stacy longer than i've
12:41 worked with anyone else ever in my
12:43 career i worked eight and a half years
12:45 at blue origin in seven and a half years
12:47 at iv
12:48 so 39 27 days 39 27 issues probably 39
12:54 27 opportunities for collaboration
12:57 i didn't always avail myself of that
12:59 collaboration which is unfortunate
13:01 because councilmember goodman was always
13:03 prepared always had a well-considered
13:05 and well-thought-out position and those
13:08 positions always considered community
13:10 concerns and aspirations
13:12 we didn't always agree but i always
13:14 wanted to know what councilmember
13:15 goodman thought before taking a vote i
13:17 want to thank her for that
13:19 thank you councilmember mertz
13:21 finally oops sorry
13:23 go ahead
13:25 councilmember goodman was appointed on
13:27 march 7th 2011 to replace council member
13:29 and former council president marine
13:31 mccarry i was lucky enough to be good
13:33 friends with maureen
13:35 and i knew how excited she was about
13:38 councilmember goodman's appointment
13:40 former council member mccary passed away
13:42 in 2013 but i'm confident she would be
13:45 pleased and proud of the decades of
13:46 leadership that council member goodman
13:48 has provided to the city and to this
13:50 body thank you
13:52 that's lovely thank you councilmember
13:53 mertz councilmember d michelle
13:57 thank you i i too would like to praise
14:00 councilmember goodman
14:02 uh we've known each other for a long
14:04 time uh
14:05 uh probably i'm guessing around 25 years
14:09 i was on the school board and stacy was
14:11 a reporter and
14:13 all of the wonderful uh items that
14:16 council member marks mentioned were very
14:18 evident when she was a reporter for the
14:20 issaquah press the fairness and the
14:22 accuracy and the preparedness
14:25 that we knew then and then over the
14:27 years i've known her because she's been
14:29 very active in so many
14:31 so many
14:33 uh activities that support our community
14:36 but stacy what i'm going to take forward
14:39 i'm sorry councilmember goodman what i'm
14:41 going to take forward is
14:43 uh you're wonderful i i hear it in my
14:46 head all the time now what problem are
14:48 we trying to solve
14:51 and i promise that i will take that
14:53 forward in the work that we continue to
14:56 um i think that's it's going to be one
14:59 of your many many legacies to this group
15:01 and uh just uh best wishes uh on your
15:05 journey forward
15:07 thank you councilmember d michelle
15:09 councilmember goodman you're our
15:10 treasurer
15:12 so thank you all that was very nice
15:14 councilmember goodman would you like to
15:16 address us now that i've thoroughly
15:18 embarrassed you when i told you i
15:20 wouldn't do that
15:24 no probably not because i'll just start
15:26 crying okay
15:28 you know people
15:30 um ask me are you excited are you
15:32 excited to have all this time
15:34 no i'm not excited um this has been
15:38 um just the most incredible experience
15:46 and i just want to
15:51 thank the
15:52 community so
15:56 thanks the community for letting me
15:58 serve them
16:03 on behalf of the community thank
16:06 you oh hope we got all the clears out
16:09 with that one wow that was tough
16:11 okay next up um i'd also like to do some
16:14 special recognition for one of our
16:17 employees
16:18 who has also served as a council member
16:21 who has also volunteered on boards and
16:23 commissions
16:24 and he's probably the only other person
16:26 in the city that can challenge me for
16:28 almost 30 years of service to the city
16:32 so john trager
16:34 john has been our i.t manager and he is
16:38 retiring at the end of the year he has
16:40 served our community in so many
16:42 capacities including city council member
16:44 from 2008 to 2011 he was the vice chair
16:48 of the economic vitality commission from
16:50 2012 to 2015 and most recently as
16:54 issaquah's i.t manager since 2015
16:58 john has implemented and supported new
17:00 technologies to help the city become
17:02 more efficient
17:03 and high performing as an organization
17:06 john has built and mentored an excellent
17:09 i.t team committed to customer service
17:12 security and serving issaquah
17:14 john i have a couple of gifts for you as
17:17 well
17:18 first off
17:21 again another service plaque and this is
17:24 pretty good in recognition of nearly 30
17:26 years of dedicated service to the city
17:28 of issaquah
17:29 very few of these i'm sure
17:33 so thank you for all your service in all
17:35 varying capacities and because we
17:37 started this tradition before you left
17:39 as council member we've also picked a
17:42 selection of cinnamon day's art that we
17:44 hope that you and annette enjoy in your
17:46 house as well
17:48 and john um congratulations it's
17:51 retirement this is fantastic we thank
17:53 you for all your service in so many ways
17:56 and
17:57 would you like to say anything to the
17:59 council in the audience
18:02 sure um well i think everybody here on
18:05 the council is relatively familiar with
18:07 uh i do remember when stacy
18:10 first showed up in 96 and was covering
18:13 the development commission
18:16 and then tried to convince her that she
18:18 could definitely do counsel and then
18:19 sure enough
18:21 she was one of the best so it was pretty
18:23 awesome
18:26 yeah and it's been a real honor to serve
18:28 the city in the last six years
18:30 um you know the great efforts of both
18:32 the i.t team and the city staff and all
18:35 departments
18:36 uh really managed to transform the city
18:38 from what was a really paper bound green
18:40 screen non-secure 1990s
18:44 state of technology
18:46 and that i found when i got here in 2015
18:49 to modern efficient and secure
18:51 technology platform that puts the stay
18:53 in a position for a really good future
18:56 you know as a technology leader in a
18:58 city you inevitably end up playing a
19:00 role in just about every department and
19:02 every function
19:03 and
19:04 doing that i met all kinds of great
19:06 staff in the city
19:08 and have seen you know new staff learn
19:11 and grow and become leaders themselves
19:13 just under six years
19:15 and i'm continually impressed by in our
19:17 dedication to service that comes from
19:19 everybody that works in the city
19:22 and so we've come a long ways in the
19:24 last six years there's been a lot of
19:25 change not just technology
19:27 and i'm grateful for any small part that
19:30 i had and have been making that happen
19:33 and so i think the future of the city
19:35 looks really good
19:36 and i'm excited about it and i'm not
19:38 going anywhere i am retiring from trying
19:41 to make a buck
19:43 and uh just going to enjoy having fun
19:45 and stay in issaquah it's a great place
19:47 to live
19:48 that's fantastic thank you john
19:51 um a city ministry of bad quits like to
19:53 add comment
19:54 yes thank you madam mayor um you know
19:56 john's very modest um i've been in local
19:59 government working in various
20:00 communities in various states through
20:02 the better part of 30 years and i have
20:04 never met a more tenacious
20:06 i.t manager
20:08 john does not accept no for an answer
20:11 and he doesn't normally have to because
20:13 he's usually right
20:15 and that's only with my two years being
20:17 here you know he he set us up
20:20 for
20:21 the horrors of a pandemic
20:23 and we hardly broke a sweat where it
20:26 took months and months of our neighbor
20:28 communities some of them very very large
20:31 to sort out how to operate
20:33 you know john and his team
20:36 you know they had it all figured out
20:37 very quickly either with technology we
20:39 were using and could use better uh with
20:41 things that were on a shelf ready to go
20:44 with laptops for nearly all employees
20:47 before we before the pandemic started uh
20:49 you know john we owe you a tremendous
20:51 debt of gratitude for all of your years
20:53 of service but especially these last two
20:56 that you and your team really allowed us
20:58 to continue to serve the residents of
21:00 this squad uh in some really
21:03 truly unheard of unexpected situations
21:06 uh the tech that we had ready to go
21:08 really made a difference so again on
21:10 behalf of all of us who've had the
21:11 opportunity to work with you over the
21:13 years uh thank you very much and best
21:15 wishes
21:16 thank you city that's great at bob quits
21:19 john i just want to do one more thank
21:21 you personally friend to friend
21:23 john and i met very very early on in the
21:26 90s
21:27 when just after my family had moved here
21:29 and was really interested in learning
21:31 about the outdoors
21:32 and our families have been skiing
21:34 together for almost three decades so
21:37 boys going off with fathers to different
21:39 ski vacations
21:41 john probably going with me on the first
21:43 day i tried back country skiing yeah it
21:45 was hard um so just really glad that you
21:48 and annette are staying in town thank
21:50 you for the wonderful work you did here
21:52 thank you for your volunteerism in the
21:53 community and just re really wishing you
21:56 the best for your retirement
21:58 yeah thank you you know public service
22:00 just uh happens you know you get asked
22:03 and you just answer
22:05 and it started that way with the
22:06 development commission i called up to
22:08 complain about something they asked me
22:10 if i could read a blueprint next thing
22:12 you know i want to develop a commission
22:14 and then later i get cornered by some
22:15 council members and say i think you
22:17 should run for council
22:18 and then later after i left the council
22:21 i was an i.t consultant and i got
22:23 approached
22:24 by a city administrator said help
22:27 we need help
22:28 we need to change how we use technology
22:30 and so i decided
22:31 take the plunge back into government so
22:33 it's been interesting and fun and never
22:34 a dull moment for sure
22:36 no there hasn't thank you and thank you
22:38 for helping us for the last two years
22:39 it's been really hard and your team has
22:41 just been outstanding
22:43 thank you john i have one more special
22:46 presentation this evening monday if jim
22:49 haney could turn on his camera for us
22:55 hi jim
22:59 ogden murphy wallace has provided legal
23:01 services to the city since 1983 and
23:04 prior to jim haney's service as city
23:06 attorney he served in many roles he
23:08 began his service to the city of
23:10 issaquah as a prosecuting attorney for
23:13 many years he worked on land use issues
23:15 for the city he is well practiced on all
23:17 facets of municipal representation and
23:20 has represented washington cities and
23:22 special purpose districts for more than
23:24 50 years
23:26 jim i'm not sure about that number i
23:27 don't think
23:28 it's
23:29 here okay there you go typo we gave you
23:31 10 more years it didn't seem right
23:34 jim has served as issaquah city attorney
23:36 since 2016 and will continue to work on
23:39 select projects into 2022 as noted by
23:43 ab-8298 which was on which is on
23:46 tonight's consent agenda jim
23:49 we also have a plaque for you i do not
23:51 have it with me tonight but we'll make
23:53 sure to get it to you and i just wanted
23:56 to thank you for your dedication to the
23:58 city of issaquah over such a long long
24:01 long period of time thank you very much
24:05 thank you mayor and if i could i'd just
24:07 like to say that
24:09 i want to say thanks to all members of
24:11 the council and to you for your support
24:13 over the last
24:14 six years or so that i've been five or
24:16 six years that i've been the city
24:18 attorney
24:19 and
24:21 succeeding wayne tanaka in that role
24:24 i'd also like to thank you on behalf of
24:26 the firm for the 38 years
24:29 that
24:30 you've contracted with us for your city
24:32 attorney services and as the mayor said
24:35 uh i started with the city of issaquah
24:38 where i started with ogden murphy
24:40 wallace on march 1 1983
24:43 and one of my first assignments was to
24:45 be the city prosecutor so i've had a
24:48 long history with the city and have
24:49 enjoyed every minute of it
24:52 it's been my honor and privilege to
24:54 serve as your city attorney i've
24:56 thoroughly enjoyed working with all of
24:58 you and with your excellent staff
25:02 and i look forward to the changing role
25:05 that we'll have and to continuing to
25:07 work with you on some issues so i wish
25:10 you all the best as you move into 2022
25:12 and beyond thank you very much
25:15 thank you jim
25:16 if you had 50 years of service you'd
25:18 just have started with us when you were
25:20 a baby so that number really didn't look
25:22 quite right to me
25:24 it feels like 15 years sometimes but
25:27 okay that makes sense uh city
25:29 administrator bob comitz
25:31 yes thank you madam mayor i just want to
25:32 add on behalf of the staff the city of
25:35 isquad our thanks to jim and abdu murphy
25:37 wallace for their uh representation uh
25:40 you know the role of the contract city
25:42 attorney uh is sometimes either phishing
25:44 or foul they're not a city employee but
25:46 certainly uh have the responsibilities
25:50 protect and uh
25:51 you know keep us in good stead and jim
25:54 again on behalf of all of us here
25:56 you've worked with the city over your
25:58 six years as city attorney i want to
26:00 thank you
26:01 for your representation and wish you all
26:02 the best in the future
26:06 very nice thank you city administrator
26:08 bob kuitz
26:09 i'd like to ask the council's permission
26:11 for a two-minute recess so i can
26:13 reposition myself into a different
26:15 office again
26:16 okay it is 7 41 and we'll be back on
26:20 screen
26:21 uh let's say at 7 45.
31:06 thank you very much travis
31:08 um welcome back it is 7 46 we're
31:11 returning from our break and our
31:12 christmas photo opportunity i really
31:15 enjoyed that last part of the meeting
31:17 getting to provide recognition to those
31:20 that have served so long in so many
31:21 different capacities to the benefit of
31:23 our community
31:24 we're moving on now into audience
31:26 comments and for those of you who
31:28 submitted the online form to make
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31:55 city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
31:57 for general audience comments are
31:59 indicated a desire to speak this evening
32:02 yes
32:04 thank you
32:05 for those making comments i have a few
32:07 guidelines
32:08 please make sure to direct your comments
32:09 at the whole city council and not
32:11 individuals
32:12 and while this is not a question and
32:14 answer session we will contact you to
32:16 follow up if needed
32:18 when recognized please unmute your
32:21 microphone state your name and address
32:23 and relationship to the city
32:25 speak clearly and pause frequently
32:28 please limit your comments to five
32:30 minutes and re-mute your microphone when
32:33 done
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32:36 phone number is called or if your
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32:40 meeting will still need to proceed and
32:42 you are encouraged to rejoin the meeting
32:44 if able
32:45 personal attacks obscene language
32:47 derogatory remarks and disruptive
32:49 behavior will not be permitted
32:52 citizen comments written and verbal are
32:54 an important aspect of the public
32:55 process and the city takes comments
32:58 seriously we thank you for taking the
33:00 time to address us this evening
33:02 city clerk can you please identify the
33:04 first person who has signed up to speak
33:07 yes larry franks larry in just a minute
33:09 here i'll make you a panelist you should
33:11 then have the option to unmute and can
33:13 also turn your video on if you'd like
33:21 i'll stick to the just the verbal part
33:24 my name is larry franks i've been a
33:26 resident of the city of issaquah for 49
33:29 years at 24001
33:32 southeast 103rd street
33:34 my message is brief
33:36 thank you thank you for passing the
33:38 climate action plan in front of you the
33:41 city of israel is leading the way thank
33:43 you i'm done
33:46 thank you very much larry
33:48 uh the next
33:50 person to make comments
33:55 yes next we have mega mishra
33:59 mega in just a moment i'll move you up
34:01 as a panelist you then should see the
34:02 option to unmute and can choose to turn
34:04 your video on
34:20 good evening my name is megamischer and
34:22 i'm a resident of sammamish i also am a
34:25 student at gibson neck here in issaquah
34:27 as well as a member of sustainability
34:28 ambassadors a professional development
34:31 program for student leaders teacher
34:32 leaders and community leaders committed
34:34 to rapidly advancing a sustainable
34:36 future
34:37 at sustainability ambassadors we design
34:39 and implement projects at the individual
34:41 community and city level all of these
34:43 projects align with the goals and
34:45 actions of king county city's climate
34:47 collaboration we plan to create a more
34:50 specific alignment table for the city of
34:52 issaquah once the climate action plan is
34:55 passed this is what i came to speak with
34:57 you about the imperative for this
34:59 council to adopt the strongest possible
35:01 climate action plan for our city in our
35:03 current world it is becoming
35:05 increasingly urgent to take climate
35:07 action if we do nothing our future
35:09 generations will be left with a world
35:10 that is unlivable we must take
35:12 accountability for our past actions and
35:14 ownership of our future actions
35:17 issaquah's climate action plan sets the
35:19 guidelines for establishing a better
35:20 world starting with one city our climate
35:23 action plan will not only provide for
35:25 future generations but set an example
35:27 for surrounding cities we at
35:29 sustainability ambassadors are
35:30 incredibly passionate about taking steps
35:33 large and small to reach regional
35:34 sustainability goals by approving
35:37 issaquah's climate action plan we can
35:38 turn around the damage that has been
35:40 caused by our past short-sighted
35:42 decisions we appreciate your time
35:45 dedication to your city and willingness
35:47 to learn thank you
35:48 thank you megan
35:50 hey declare
35:51 next person signed up to speak
35:54 next we have paul winterstein
35:57 paul in just a moment here you'll be
35:59 moved up as a panelist you'll have the
36:01 option to unmute and can choose to turn
36:03 your video on
36:14 hello can you hear me
36:16 yes we can
36:17 great thank you
36:20 hello mayor paulie members of the
36:22 council my name is paul winterstein i
36:23 live on mount logan drive on squawk
36:25 mountain here in issaquah
36:27 i came here tonight to express my
36:28 gratitude to councilmember lambert for
36:30 her hard work and leadership and 20
36:32 years of determined service to her
36:34 constituents and the people of king
36:36 county as a whole i thank you council
36:38 member lambert i may you enjoy life and
36:40 the love of family as never before
36:43 i also want to thank the good public
36:44 servants jim haney and john trager
36:47 you're both professionals and it was
36:49 clear to me when i was on council that
36:50 you always gave your best
36:52 you both made a positive impact on those
36:55 that you assisted
36:57 finally i want to give a plus one to
36:59 mayor paulie's and council members
37:00 marx's and andy michelle's earlier
37:02 comments about councilmember goodman but
37:04 i want to express my own deepest
37:07 gratitude to councilmember goodman you
37:09 know one of the best things that ever
37:11 happened to me
37:12 was to lose the appointment to the open
37:14 council seat to her in 2011
37:17 that gave me the opportunity to sit in
37:19 the audience during council committee
37:21 meetings and watch and frankly marvel at
37:24 her hard work determination and tenacity
37:27 as she led the council to the
37:28 establishment of the rally development
37:30 agreement a piece of legislation that
37:32 became the foundation for the later
37:34 central issaquah plan and then as
37:36 already mentioned then years later and
37:38 from a seat on the council i watched and
37:40 admired as council member goodman in
37:42 response to the central issaquah plan
37:44 that wasn't living up to exp
37:46 expectations she took the initiative
37:49 rallied the whole council and led us
37:50 through a moratorium that in the end
37:53 vastly improved the plan's outcomes for
37:55 the greater long-term benefit of our
37:57 city
37:58 that was the sausage making of good
38:00 governance it's not always pretty but it
38:02 has to get done even though years later
38:05 almost no one will remember or know that
38:07 it took someone with courage and grit to
38:09 do the right thing
38:11 as noted earlier those are just a
38:13 fraction of the notable achievements and
38:15 council members time in service to the
38:17 people of issaquah i will wrap up with a
38:19 few other thoughts about her impact
38:22 stacy takes the fight to the injustice
38:24 wherever she sees it never giving ground
38:26 always standing for what is right she
38:28 opens eyes and minds and is a role model
38:31 and inspiration
38:32 some people just assume that opportunity
38:35 is their privilege theirs for the taking
38:37 council member can see that mirage in
38:39 the minds of others and sets out to
38:41 smash it to pieces and in doing so
38:43 knocks the shingles from our eyes
38:45 inspires and becomes a role model that
38:47 we need
38:48 this doesn't have to do with
38:50 infrastructure transportation planning
38:52 parks public safety or budgets or
38:54 moratoriums
38:56 it's about service to others about
38:58 service that transcends
39:00 it's about service that transforms
39:03 and that's how i will remember council
39:04 member goodman's service to me
39:06 personally and to the people of issaquah
39:09 thank you
39:10 thank you paul that was lovely
39:13 um city clerk who's next signed up to
39:15 speak tonight
39:18 next we have anne newcomb
39:20 and in just a moment here you'll be
39:22 moved up as a panelist you can unmute
39:24 and may choose to turn your video on
39:37 hello
39:39 i am
39:40 good to see everyone my name is anne
39:42 newcomb
39:43 i am sorry i'm
39:46 getting rid of some stuff on my screen
39:48 i live at 16650 246 place southeast
39:51 issaquah washington
39:53 it's on the south end of town
39:57 so as you vote tonight on the issaquah
40:00 climate action plan
40:02 please remember that the climate crisis
40:05 is urgent and we need
40:07 to take meaningful action now
40:10 some voices are calling for delay and
40:13 additional research
40:14 but those voices are part of an old
40:17 narrative which has played a big part in
40:19 getting us
40:20 into this sad mess
40:23 as our climate heats up due to increased
40:25 greenhouse gas emissions we are seeing
40:28 the following disasters unfold
40:30 more droughts
40:32 extreme forests grass and bushfires
40:35 leading to death to dislike placement
40:38 and respiratory disease as well as the
40:41 accumulation of black soot on glaciers
40:43 creating faster melt
40:46 and of course carbon is released in the
40:48 atmosphere as trees vegetation burn
40:52 other disasters more disasters floods
40:55 and landslides
40:57 extreme heat leading to heat related
41:00 deaths
41:01 reduced snowpack leading to less water
41:04 in streams and aquifers
41:06 crop failures sea level rise leading to
41:09 displaced
41:11 communities
41:13 earth's history tells us the safe level
41:16 of atmospheric co2 is 350 parts per
41:19 million
41:20 but we passed that safe mark years ago
41:22 and are currently at 420 parts per
41:25 million
41:26 earth has not had co2 levels this high
41:29 in millions of years
41:32 issaquah has been talking about reducing
41:34 greenhouse gas emissions for years
41:37 now we need strong and swift action to
41:39 make it happen
41:42 issaquah has put
41:44 a lot of thoughtful and expert time
41:46 into the icap
41:49 and the thoroughness is reflected
41:52 to meet our important k-4c goals of
41:56 reduced sources of greenhouse gas
41:58 emissions compared to 2007 baseline by
42:03 by 20 by 2020 50
42:06 by 2030 and 80 by 2050 we will need
42:09 meaningful action
42:11 as you know we did not reach the first
42:14 goal of 2025 reduction
42:18 25 reduction by 2020 so reaching our
42:22 second goal in 2030 is even
42:24 more of a challenge
42:26 but we can do it and the icap is an
42:28 excellent guide to the following
42:31 to to follow to get us there
42:35 and by the way i'm so proud of you all
42:38 and your amazing leaders and
42:41 i know you will vote to pass the
42:44 issaquah climate action plan tonight
42:46 and
42:48 i'm just really proud to live in
42:49 issaquah because you're all such amazing
42:52 leaders and people and so
42:54 really
42:55 have grasped all of this environmental
42:57 stuff so thank you
43:00 thank you for your comments anne
43:02 city clerk do we have anyone else signed
43:03 up to speak this evening
43:05 we do christy gerard christie i will
43:08 make you a panelist now
43:18 good evening my name is christy gerard i
43:20 am the executive director for issaquah
43:23 highlands council and a proud resident
43:26 of the issaquah highlands urban village
43:28 and just wanted to take a brief moment
43:30 on behalf of the issaquah highlands
43:32 community to thank stacy goodman and
43:34 kathy lambert for your many years of
43:36 service and leadership
43:39 stacy is an issaquah highlands neighbor
43:41 we look so forward to working with you
43:43 in the new year and in the years to come
43:47 and kathy we are grateful for your
43:48 support of the squad highlands over the
43:50 years and wish you the best in this next
43:53 live chapter
43:54 thank you
43:56 christy thank you for the time to coming
43:57 to for coming tonight city clerk we have
44:00 anyone else signed up for comments
44:03 we do we have two more people signed up
44:04 for comments and if there's anyone else
44:06 on the call who'd like to make comments
44:08 please send me the host a chat message
44:10 or raise your virtual hand
44:12 by finding the small hand icon in the
44:15 participant panel the next person who
44:17 signed up to speak is ann fletcher
44:21 and i will make you a panelist now
44:33 greetings everyone
44:35 my name is ann fletcher
44:37 i'm a long time resident of issaquah
44:40 and a people for climate action leader
44:45 i already sent
44:47 you a petition
44:49 of 60 area residents who urge you to
44:52 approve this climate action plan
44:56 and a number of residents are also
44:59 attending the meeting
45:01 in support of this plan
45:04 i want to reiterate
45:06 my thanks to all the members of the
45:08 community
45:10 and the boards and the commissions
45:13 the mayor administration and staff
45:17 they have worked jointly to create a
45:20 high quality plan
45:23 and this plan is a living document i
45:27 love that about it its implementation
45:29 guide will allow it to be further
45:31 developed as we learn more and try
45:34 things out a real scientific approach
45:39 and then we will truly be able to meet
45:42 and achieve these crucial goals
45:47 i do want to point out one potential gap
45:52 and i haven't succeeded in getting it
45:54 across yet
45:56 i'd like you to consider it
46:00 the transition to clean
46:02 renewable energy in existing
46:05 buildings
46:07 is not listed as a measurable target
46:12 it seems we would want to measure how we
46:16 are doing on existing buildings
46:18 which are a large contributor to
46:20 greenhouse gas
46:22 emissions
46:24 and to ensure we reach that overarching
46:27 goal that ann newcomb
46:30 mentioned
46:32 the building and energy goal and the
46:34 strategies and actions include existing
46:37 buildings
46:40 but
46:41 a target and metric
46:43 are missing
46:46 i believe this should be added and rep
46:48 and repeated if needed in the comp plan
46:52 if you can't do that then just measure
46:55 it anyway it's really important and i
46:57 don't think we should wait until 2024
47:01 to reconsider i think that's too late
47:04 but whatever you decide tonight on that
47:08 don't delay approving the plan
47:12 as we meet tonight shoreline city
47:15 council is voting on their building
47:18 electrification ordinance for commercial
47:20 and large multi-family homes
47:24 are so excited
47:26 for them
47:27 and we hope for positive outcomes
47:30 as so many cities
47:32 are starting to
47:36 plan and work towards these goals
47:40 and
47:40 we hope the same for
47:42 issaquah's climate action plan
47:44 so it's now up to you
47:47 to show leadership
47:48 on this crucial issue thank you thank
47:52 you anne
47:53 city clerk is there anyone else signed
47:55 up to speak this evening or having
47:57 indicated that they would like to speak
48:00 yes the last person who's indicated a
48:02 desire to speak is dave kepler
48:04 dave i will make you a panelist now
48:25 you have the floor dave
48:30 okay hopefully i'm now properly hooked
48:33 up here
48:34 um i'd like to thank stacy for her
48:37 service not just on the
48:39 on the city council but her work as a
48:41 reporter and then as an editor at the
48:44 issaquah press was really important and
48:47 the ability to get
48:48 attention just very important topics in
48:51 front of the city
48:52 was something she was really
48:55 accurately and thoroughly
48:58 accomplished and i much appreciate that
49:00 from
49:00 pre-council service
49:03 um i do also with kathy lambert do hope
49:06 that finally um we're going to get a
49:08 serious look at waste energy out at
49:12 the
49:13 huge landfill we have south of town
49:18 in terms of climate two words salmon and
49:21 wildfire
49:23 talk about salmon we talk about floods
49:25 we talk about droughts we talk about
49:27 water quality huge issues to issaquah
49:31 uh bellevue likes to advertise that
49:33 they're a city in a park
49:35 we are a city in a park slash forest in
49:38 some cases more forests than
49:40 than anything and i really think um it's
49:44 an issue that um wildfire is something
49:46 that um
49:48 is really needs to be strongly addressed
49:50 um this last summer of the family we did
49:53 a lot of walking up on squawk
49:55 and uh so a lot of those houses used to
49:57 have views now they got huge big trees
50:00 and there's a lot of them up there and
50:03 we i just hope the city is really
50:06 working with our our fire people and our
50:09 everybody else code enforcement and the
50:11 rest to uh to deal with the threat we
50:13 face um with fire
50:16 thank you for your hard work on climate
50:18 action thank you
50:21 thank you david
50:22 city clerk is there anyone else who
50:24 would like to speak this evening
50:26 i don't see that there is
50:28 that's great thank you well i'd like to
50:30 thank everybody who chose to speak to
50:31 council tonight
50:33 we had many speakers uh speak about the
50:36 one of the votes that's on for tonight
50:38 which is the ethical climate action plan
50:40 a plan that had fantastic outreach
50:42 during
50:43 coven and we were still able to come up
50:46 with a fabulous document
50:49 um the
50:50 many of our other speakers also echoed
50:52 some of the earlier appreciation for
50:54 council member lambert and councilmember
50:56 goodman as they leave public service so
50:59 again that was fantastic to hear from
51:01 people tonight
51:06 i'm going to
51:08 uh remind everybody that if you do want
51:11 to submit comments to your counsel you
51:13 can always write them at any time at
51:15 city council that is kuawa.gov
51:18 and council president hunt i'd like to
51:21 pass it over to you to see if there were
51:22 any email comments to summaries
51:25 summarize on tonight's agenda topics
51:28 thank you madam mayor um
51:30 we have received several comments on
51:33 tonight's agenda items and while we've
51:35 been doing virtual meetings i have been
51:37 summarizing emails comments that we
51:39 receive
51:40 that are specific to comments on the
51:43 agenda this evening so
51:45 for
51:46 abh-256 which is the climate action plan
51:49 we received
51:51 multiple emails in support those
51:53 individuals also spoke to us today
51:56 at public comments earlier and one of
51:58 them
51:59 one of those emails also had an
52:01 attachment with this petition that was
52:03 mentioned in public comments with the 60
52:06 with the 60
52:09 signees that were in support of the
52:11 climate action plan
52:13 so both of those emails were in support
52:14 and urging us to adopt that plan we also
52:17 received a email um from a
52:20 representative on behalf of puget sound
52:21 energy it had it was a very detailed
52:25 letter it recognized that climate change
52:27 wasn't actually an existential threat
52:29 and they um it ended with looking
52:31 forward to working with us on
52:33 implementing the plan
52:35 and also stress the need to keep energy
52:38 both affordable and reliable
52:40 and then on ab-8303
52:43 we receive which is the separate track
52:46 for central issaquah setback standards
52:48 in title 18. we received a email opposed
52:52 to um to this and uh expressing concerns
52:56 about making code changes
52:58 um for one development was the concern
53:01 expressed by the
53:02 person who wrote that to us and that
53:04 concludes emails comments specific to
53:06 tonight's agenda items
53:08 thank you council member council
53:10 president hunt
53:11 the next item on our
53:13 business this evening is committee and
53:15 regional reports and i will call each
53:18 council member by name starting with
53:19 council member hall
53:22 uh thank you this is councilmember hall
53:24 here just a couple quick reports um
53:26 first uh for cascade water alliance um
53:30 at our last city council meeting i
53:31 notified you all of this evolving
53:33 discussion about
53:34 member concerns with the water supply
53:36 development fund proposal and i just
53:38 wanted to close the loop with you
53:40 as of now those concerns have been
53:41 resolved in the water supply development
53:43 proposals moving forward
53:46 there were some issaquah
53:48 initiated and supported elements that
53:50 were included in the proposal including
53:53 a bi-annual every other year review of
53:55 the water supply alternatives out there
53:57 and then also the ability for the board
53:59 to update our water supply development
54:01 fund vision uh should alternatives
54:03 become more feasible so that's the last
54:05 you'll hear from us about the water
54:06 supply development fund for a while
54:09 thank you for your engagement on that
54:11 issue
54:12 um and then for the growth management
54:14 planning council's affordable housing
54:15 committee
54:16 i wanted to circle back with you all
54:18 briefly uh so on wednesday november 17th
54:21 i attended
54:23 um the affordable housing committee
54:25 meeting uh councilmember walsh was there
54:27 in attendance too in the audience
54:28 listening in so it's nice to see her
54:30 um but we did i did want to circle back
54:33 with you about a discussion that we had
54:35 at the last council meeting and that is
54:37 that the committee was considering
54:38 drafting a challenge letter to
54:40 jurisdictions regarding the 2024 com
54:43 comprehensive plan update cycle and the
54:45 opportunity it presents localities to
54:47 scale up their response to the
54:49 affordable housing crisis in the region
54:50 so um the sound cities association
54:53 caucus met on this before the committee
54:56 meeting and um
54:58 it was our um
55:01 kind of deliberation that
55:03 there were a number of concerns that
55:05 cities would
55:07 that would bring up with the challenge
55:08 letter it was um pretty focused on
55:11 one-size-fits-all approach to affordable
55:12 housing in the region and we weren't
55:14 convinced that it would be effective so
55:16 i just wanted to let you all know that
55:17 staff for the affordable housing
55:19 committee are going to go back
55:20 to try to take more city engagement into
55:23 that process um moving forward and you
55:26 will likely see the challenge letter
55:28 we'll likely see the child twitter come
55:29 through to issaquah and other king
55:31 county cities in the new year
55:33 unfortunately i won't be able to track
55:34 that as closely anymore because i'll be
55:36 rolling off the affordable housing
55:38 committee uh next year i've really
55:40 enjoyed um my time over the last two
55:42 years working on regional affordable
55:44 housing issues but i'm hoping another
55:46 issaquah council member will be able to
55:48 fill my spot so stay tuned on all that
55:51 and that concludes my report
55:53 thank you councilmember hall
55:54 councilmember d michelle
55:57 uh thank you mr paulie
56:00 pulling up my screen here um
56:03 first the connect to community advisory
56:05 group met on november 16th with a
56:07 presentation from the san diego
56:10 community information exchange
56:12 about how they are incorporating equity
56:14 into their virtual health information
56:16 exchange platform
56:18 second the healthier here governing
56:20 board met on december 2nd with a year in
56:23 wrap-up and progress report
56:25 healthier here committed over five
56:27 million dollars to co-wood prevention
56:29 and vaccination activities over the past
56:31 two years and at the same time earned a
56:34 full federal bonus for excellent
56:36 performance in meeting all of its goals
56:39 attendees also received a monthly
56:41 coveted 19 report with king county
56:43 markers much improved but everyone
56:46 holding their breath waiting to see the
56:47 impact of the omicron variant king
56:50 county has vaccinated 89 percent of all
56:53 eligible adults and teens by far the
56:55 highest percentage for a county in the
56:57 united states the focus right now of
57:00 course is on vaccinating 5 to 11 year
57:02 olds
57:04 and then finally the east side
57:05 transportation partnership will meet
57:08 this friday december the 10th and that
57:10 ends my report thank you councilmember
57:12 dave michelle councilmember walsh
57:16 thank you madam mayor this is
57:17 councilmember walsh
57:18 um on november 19th i attended along
57:21 with city administrator wally bob quits
57:23 the escort chamber of commerce board
57:25 meeting
57:26 we discussed the city employment related
57:28 to the vaccine mandate recent crime
57:31 businesses our city budget and answered
57:34 other questions that the chamber members
57:36 had
57:37 i also attended the puget sound regional
57:40 center
57:42 regional council's economic development
57:44 district board
57:45 man those
57:47 psrca ddp
57:50 acronyms um
57:52 so i attended the meeting on december
57:53 1st
57:54 there we adopted the 2022 to 2027
57:58 regional economic strategy as well as
58:01 the 2022 economic development focus
58:04 areas
58:05 and that concludes my report
58:07 thank you councilmember walsh
58:08 councilmember goodman
58:10 uh thank you um i have a brief report um
58:13 eastside fire and rescues board of
58:14 directors will meet this thursday the
58:16 9th
58:17 at 4 pm we're still meeting virtually um
58:20 i don't see anything uh remarkable on
58:22 the agenda but we will be
58:26 reviewing and adopting our 2022
58:27 legislative agenda
58:29 and then um
58:31 next week i don't remember which day of
58:34 the week it is i will be hoping staff
58:35 interview applicants for
58:37 next year's
58:39 lodging tax advisory committee members
58:44 and
58:45 that concludes my
58:47 last report for the council
58:50 thank you councilmember goodman
58:52 councilmember marks
58:53 thank you madam mayor this is councilman
58:55 remarks
58:56 the puget sound regional council growth
58:58 management policy board did not meet in
59:01 december
59:02 however the sound cities association
59:04 public issues committee will be meeting
59:06 uh this wednesday uh from seven to nine
59:09 pm online
59:11 and there's three
59:13 eight actions or potential actions the
59:15 regional board and committee
59:17 appointments
59:18 will be voted upon
59:20 everyone should have received the draft
59:22 report coming from the nominating
59:24 committee
59:26 if it's accepted if the slate is
59:29 accepted
59:30 council members hall's wish to have
59:32 someone from issaquah on the affordable
59:34 housing commission will get granted
59:38 if the slate is adopted
59:40 i'll get to move up in gmpb from
59:42 alternate to voting member
59:45 which would be swell
59:47 please take a look if there's anything
59:49 that looks out of whack and if you want
59:51 me to nominate you from the floor for a
59:53 position
59:55 we can talk about that but hopefully
59:57 people will view the nine uh
59:59 recommendations in there for our city is
1:00:02 a pretty good swing for a city of our
1:00:05 and uh there will also be an election of
1:00:08 a 2022 pick chair and vice chair and
1:00:11 then there will be first touch on a 2022
1:00:14 fca state legislative agenda i will take
1:00:17 a look and if anything on it looks
1:00:20 crosswise to what we're trying to do i
1:00:22 will bring it up at a future for good of
1:00:24 the order that concludes my report
1:00:27 thank you councilmember martz uh council
1:00:29 president hunt
1:00:31 thank you madam mayor i have um one
1:00:34 report this evening
1:00:35 the wyra eight salmon recovery council
1:00:38 met on november 18th the yra 8 is the
1:00:41 technical name for our watershed
1:00:43 we had one
1:00:45 decision topic and we decided to draft
1:00:49 we decided to send a letter to
1:00:50 washington fish and wildlife regarding
1:00:53 encouraging them to approve a non-native
1:00:55 game fish policy that prioritizes
1:00:57 protection of native salmon populations
1:00:59 um also as a discussion topic but very
1:01:02 likely an upcoming decision we
1:01:05 discussed adding the city of everett to
1:01:08 our local agreement which would be great
1:01:12 and then we also had a discussion on the
1:01:14 tribal treaty rights and cultural value
1:01:16 of salmon and this was really
1:01:18 interesting and
1:01:21 i certainly learned a lot one of the
1:01:23 presenters on this topic was warren king
1:01:25 george a historian for the muckleshoot
1:01:27 indian tribe preservation department
1:01:31 warren king george collects and records
1:01:32 oral history from tribal and community
1:01:34 members and works with government
1:01:35 agencies museums colleges and private
1:01:38 parties to ensure tribal treaty rights
1:01:40 and tribal cultural resources are
1:01:42 protected and preserved and he presented
1:01:45 perspective on protecting and
1:01:47 integrating tribal cultural legacy
1:01:49 traditional knowledge and cultural
1:01:51 resources into famine recovery
1:01:54 and it was it was a very informative
1:01:57 presentation and also
1:01:59 drove home the importance of salmon from
1:02:02 a cultural perspective that i hadn't
1:02:03 known as much about so i really
1:02:05 appreciated that
1:02:06 and uh the next meeting of the wire
1:02:09 eight salmon recovery council will be
1:02:10 january 20th um
1:02:13 at two o'clock and it will be a virtual
1:02:15 meeting and then i have one other
1:02:17 upcoming meeting which will be next week
1:02:18 and that is for the king conservation
1:02:20 district advisory
1:02:23 committee meeting and that will be on
1:02:25 december 14th at 10 am that concludes my
1:02:27 report
1:02:28 thank you council president hunt
1:02:31 the next item on the agenda is the
1:02:33 mayor's report and because this is our
1:02:36 last council meeting of the year it's a
1:02:38 little bit long
1:02:40 so bear with me
1:02:42 um to start off there was an executive
1:02:44 session held earlier this evening to
1:02:46 discuss attending potential litigation
1:02:48 for rcw
1:02:51 42.30.110 for n1 for ni
1:02:55 i wanted to mention some personnel
1:02:57 policies around juneteenth i am
1:03:00 proposing adding juneteenth as a city
1:03:02 observed holiday in 2022
1:03:05 this item is in the personnel policy
1:03:07 updates and the consent agenda this
1:03:09 evening under eb8209
1:03:12 juneteenth is the oldest nationally
1:03:14 celebrated commemoration of the ending
1:03:18 of slavery in the united states
1:03:20 in the 2021 legislative session the
1:03:23 washington legislature made june's best
1:03:25 state holiday
1:03:26 during june we recognized the history of
1:03:29 african americans in the us and we
1:03:31 celebrate the inclusion of all races
1:03:33 ethnicities and nationalities
1:03:36 juneteenth is celebrated each year on
1:03:38 june 19th for 2022 this will fall on a
1:03:42 sunday so it will be observed as a city
1:03:44 closure day on monday june 20th 2022.
1:03:50 capital finance community task force
1:03:52 last met on november 16th to discuss
1:03:55 infrastructure priorities across
1:03:56 issaquah's needs in transportation
1:03:59 parks and trails and facilities
1:04:02 the task force will continue to develop
1:04:04 its recommendations and rule out its
1:04:06 framework for prioritizing projects at
1:04:09 the next meeting tomorrow december 7th
1:04:11 at 6 pm
1:04:13 last wednesday the city of issaquah held
1:04:16 a meeting with issaquah's legislators to
1:04:18 discuss the city's priorities for the
1:04:20 2022 legislative session
1:04:22 transportation was a high priority for
1:04:24 the meeting and we specifically
1:04:26 discussed widening state route 18
1:04:29 and increasing interest rate under over
1:04:31 crossings
1:04:32 other priorities discussed included
1:04:34 public safety the growth management act
1:04:37 climate change and state marijuana
1:04:40 revenues to read the full text of
1:04:42 issaquah's legislative priorities please
1:04:44 visit issaquah.gov
1:04:48 legislative agenda
1:04:51 there are some new holiday lights on
1:04:53 front street in an effort to create a
1:04:55 festive holiday environment and
1:04:57 encourage small business shopping the
1:05:00 issaquah creative district expanded this
1:05:02 year's downtown holiday lighting display
1:05:04 to include the illumination of several
1:05:06 business storefronts to support
1:05:08 businesses with the cost of the lights
1:05:11 and installation the creative district
1:05:13 advisory board recruited sponsorships
1:05:15 from puget sound energy
1:05:16 and virginia mason franciscan health we
1:05:19 want to thank these generous sponsors
1:05:21 and we hope that you all will enjoy the
1:05:23 beauty of the lights in this squad this
1:05:27 last month i had the pleasure of
1:05:28 observing a community court session an
1:05:31 issaquah community court session
1:05:33 community court is a non-traditional
1:05:35 therapeutic approach
1:05:37 that works to provide practical
1:05:39 targeted solutions rather than
1:05:41 traditional punishment in cases
1:05:43 involving low-level offenses
1:05:45 it supplies leading the region with this
1:05:47 innovative approach to reduce recidivism
1:05:50 and provide restorative services to
1:05:52 low-level offenders i encourage all of
1:05:55 my colleagues to visit these sessions
1:05:57 online on thursday afternoons for those
1:05:59 interested please contact my office so
1:06:02 that we can help you schedule a viewing
1:06:04 issue has further expanded community
1:06:06 court services because issaquah has been
1:06:08 awarded the washington court's
1:06:10 therapeutic courts grant this item is in
1:06:13 the consent agenda tonight under ab-8289
1:06:18 and as you heard earlier tonight the
1:06:20 proposed action before council is to
1:06:21 adopt issaquah's climate action plan i'm
1:06:24 pleased that the council is considering
1:06:26 approving the climate action plan
1:06:27 tonight this plan is critical and i want
1:06:30 to thank especially megan curtis murphy
1:06:32 for her instrumental work to create the
1:06:35 strategic plan for our city's future
1:06:37 megan is no longer with the city of
1:06:39 issaquah but she stayed on as a
1:06:41 consultant to complete the plan
1:06:43 megan began at the city in 2014 and we
1:06:46 wish her well in her new role as
1:06:49 sustainability manager for northeastern
1:06:51 university
1:06:53 i'd also like to introduce issaquah's
1:06:55 newest sustainability manager please
1:06:57 join me tonight in welcoming stacy vin
1:07:00 mckinstry issaquah's new sustainability
1:07:03 manager
1:07:04 cece grew up on the east side and
1:07:05 currently lives in issaquah since 2012.
1:07:09 stacy has worked for state agencies on
1:07:12 puget sound salmon and streamflow
1:07:14 restoration and we're excited to have
1:07:17 her join the team
1:07:18 cool shout out here to see administrator
1:07:20 bob coetz um do we have uh stacy with us
1:07:24 tonight
1:07:27 uh we do madame air and she can put on
1:07:29 her camera
1:07:31 and perhaps she could say a word or two
1:07:38 great thank you not sure if you're able
1:07:40 to see me or hear me you're a little bit
1:07:43 blurry but we can hear it perfectly
1:07:45 great thank you yeah i'm really excited
1:07:48 to start this position today was my
1:07:49 first day so um starting off big here
1:07:53 with the hopeful adoption of the climate
1:07:55 action plan
1:07:56 just really grateful for all the work
1:07:58 that megan's done i told her i feel like
1:08:00 i have very big shoes to fill
1:08:03 just for the amazing work she's been
1:08:04 doing at the city over the last few
1:08:06 years but really excited to be starting
1:08:08 this position and working with all of
1:08:11 as we move forward on implementation
1:08:14 welcome stacy we're so glad to have you
1:08:16 on the team
1:08:20 i also want to introduce tonight another
1:08:23 new person to issaquah is supposed to
1:08:25 chief financial officer please join me
1:08:28 in welcoming robert hammoud issaquah's
1:08:30 new chief financial officer robert has
1:08:33 worked in the public sector for over 17
1:08:35 years and most recently as the finance
1:08:37 director for the city of tsukumi we're
1:08:40 excited to have him welcome robert and
1:08:42 again do we have oh we do have i see
1:08:44 robert hi robert do you want to say a
1:08:47 few words
1:08:48 yes thank you mayor probably i
1:08:50 appreciate it um
1:08:53 look forward to working with all of you
1:08:55 i look forward to hopefully more
1:08:57 positive times coming out of
1:08:59 the events of 2020 and 21
1:09:02 and um
1:09:03 came from next door did come from
1:09:05 snoqualmie so it came down 990 a little
1:09:07 bit but really excited about the
1:09:08 opportunity this is a great community
1:09:11 um very you know innovative ideas like
1:09:13 the climate action plan
1:09:15 and just a lot of you know
1:09:17 smart ideas in the city very good people
1:09:19 and i'm really looking forward to this
1:09:21 position i have a great team uh with me
1:09:23 in the finance department and um
1:09:25 look forward to many years with you
1:09:26 thank you
1:09:27 welcome robert we're really glad to have
1:09:29 you on the team
1:09:32 hang on i have two more items and then
1:09:34 i'm finally done i wanted to talk about
1:09:36 a few upcoming events
1:09:39 uh swedish
1:09:42 um swedish in the issaquah highlands is
1:09:44 holding a job fair on december 9th from
1:09:47 10 a.m to 4 30 p.m and they're hiring
1:09:50 for multiple positions you can learn
1:09:52 more on swedish's website and as i
1:09:55 learned today you can also look at the
1:09:57 amazing
1:09:59 trees that they have decorated in their
1:10:00 lobby for a
1:10:03 employee contest that will just light up
1:10:06 your heart when you see it it's quite
1:10:07 fantastic
1:10:08 on thursday december 9th the issaquah
1:10:10 depot museum will host caroling at the
1:10:13 depot from 6 to 7 30
1:10:15 hot chocolate and candy canes will be
1:10:17 provided masks are required and
1:10:19 admittance will be restricted but an
1:10:22 outdoor option is available
1:10:24 the holiday shop at the historic shell
1:10:26 station is open now through december
1:10:28 31st from 12 to 6 pm
1:10:31 and the isobar reindeer festival is
1:10:33 happening now through december 30th at
1:10:35 cougar mountain zoo attendance is
1:10:37 limited and pre-purchased admission is
1:10:39 required for entry don't forget to visit
1:10:41 cougar mountain city's website for more
1:10:43 information
1:10:44 finally
1:10:46 uh city hall closures the city offices
1:10:49 will be closed for the holidays on
1:10:50 december 23rd
1:10:54 and 34th 31st
1:10:56 34th and this concludes the final
1:10:59 mayor's report for 2021.
1:11:04 the next item on our agenda this evening
1:11:06 is the consent calendar and it was
1:11:07 distributed to council in advance
1:11:11 if authorized the items on the consent
1:11:13 calendar will be considered together and
1:11:15 approved in one motion and i'd like to
1:11:18 turn it over to uh council member d
1:11:20 michelle who would like to make a
1:11:21 statement before we go through our
1:11:23 approval process that's merging thank
1:11:26 you mayor paulie
1:11:31 sorry there we go
1:11:33 i would like to state for the record
1:11:35 that i was employed with an entity that
1:11:37 is included in the city's payables
1:11:39 influence the choice
1:11:41 i filled the role of temporary executive
1:11:44 director of influence of choice the city
1:11:46 serves as a fiscal agent for this agency
1:11:49 in the disbursement of a federal grant
1:11:51 grant funds are being dispersed under
1:11:53 this month's accounts payable i have
1:11:56 asked for advice from the city attorney
1:11:58 as to whether this warrants a conflict
1:11:59 of interest and have been informed that
1:12:02 i am not legally required to be excused
1:12:04 from voting as the city is carrying on a
1:12:07 decision that was previously made by the
1:12:09 council
1:12:10 however for the sake of transparency i
1:12:13 would like to declare this employment
1:12:14 and have my statement entered in the
1:12:16 minutes thank you
1:12:18 thank you councilmember dean michelle
1:12:20 have the p payables and payroll been
1:12:22 reviewed
1:12:27 they have
1:12:29 thank you
1:12:30 does any council member desire to remove
1:12:32 any item from the consent calendar and
1:12:34 consider it under regular business and i
1:12:37 will look for an indication in the chat
1:12:39 if you would like to do that
1:12:45 i'm not seeing any uh comments would
1:12:48 somebody care to make a motion
1:12:51 because president
1:12:53 thank you i moved to approve the consent
1:12:55 calendar as it appears on this evening's
1:12:57 agenda
1:12:58 that's remember welsh
1:13:00 second
1:13:02 it's been moved and seconded i'm going
1:13:03 to ask the city clerk to call the roll
1:13:05 call vote
1:13:08 starting with council member walsh
1:13:11 council member d michelle
1:13:14 council member goodman
1:13:17 councilmember hall
1:13:20 council president hunt
1:13:24 councilmember martz aye
1:13:26 that's six eyes zero nays
1:13:29 thank you uh that passes unanimously
1:13:32 the next item our first item under
1:13:34 regular business is ab-8256
1:13:37 issaquah's climate action plan and the
1:13:39 request before council this evening is
1:13:41 to approve the resolution
1:13:43 this item was last before council at the
1:13:45 september 28 2021 council study session
1:13:50 oh that's so funny is megan really doing
1:13:53 the presentation tonight
1:13:55 just checking in okay there she is wow
1:13:58 megan so many your ears must have been
1:14:00 burning today there was a lot of talk
1:14:02 about all the good work you have done
1:14:04 so uh megan curtis murphy our current
1:14:06 consultant is here to present the item
1:14:08 welcome back
1:14:10 thank you
1:14:13 go ahead and share my screen here
1:14:26 right
1:14:27 well good evening
1:14:28 city council members i'm megan curtis
1:14:30 murphy and i'm here to present the final
1:14:32 climate action plan
1:14:34 it's been a great experience working
1:14:36 with the community to develop the plan
1:14:38 and i'm excited for all the work the
1:14:39 city will do to implement it and reduce
1:14:42 our community's emissions
1:14:48 as you know we've received a lot of
1:14:49 input on the plan to date and the
1:14:51 purpose of the meeting tonight is to
1:14:53 present the final plan for adoption so
1:14:55 we can begin implementation right away
1:14:57 in 2022
1:15:00 we started this process back in the
1:15:01 spring with a baseline analysis of where
1:15:04 we were with existing plans identifying
1:15:06 other regional efforts and conducting
1:15:08 our ghg inventory
1:15:10 we use this information to develop the
1:15:12 framework of the plan including the
1:15:14 overall emissions reduction targets we
1:15:16 want to reach and the strategies that
1:15:18 we'll use to get there
1:15:20 from there we incorporate this framework
1:15:22 into the final plan that we're
1:15:23 discussing tonight
1:15:25 throughout the entire process we've been
1:15:27 engaging both city staff and community
1:15:30 members through meetings and workshops a
1:15:33 survey that had nearly 300 responses
1:15:36 targeted focus groups and other
1:15:37 engagement efforts
1:15:39 the goal of these engagements was to
1:15:41 ensure that we developed a plan that
1:15:43 fits issaquah specifically and aligns
1:15:45 with our community's priorities
1:15:49 this is a visual of the engagement
1:15:50 efforts for the climate action plan
1:15:53 as you can see it was a pretty busy
1:15:55 summer as well as a pretty active fall
1:15:58 we visited numerous boards and
1:15:59 commissions and hosted two community
1:16:01 convenings on climate
1:16:04 a community engagement summary was
1:16:05 included in the materials for the plan
1:16:07 that captures the input received at each
1:16:09 of these meetings
1:16:11 the plan itself outlines some of the
1:16:13 high level input and shows how it was
1:16:15 integrated throughout the plan
1:16:17 i'll review some of the updates we made
1:16:18 based on this input in a moment
1:16:23 the environmental board served as the
1:16:24 main advisory group on the plan
1:16:26 providing input at each stage of the
1:16:28 process
1:16:29 they reviewed the goals targets and
1:16:31 strategies they suggested specific
1:16:33 actions and they helped inform the
1:16:35 details of the implementation plan
1:16:38 the board reviewed the final plan at the
1:16:40 at their november meeting and
1:16:42 recommended it for adoption with four
1:16:44 recommendations for changes
1:16:47 the first was to have the plan reviewed
1:16:49 in 2024 and then every five years after
1:16:52 the icap was designed to be a five-year
1:16:55 plan however there will be opportunities
1:16:57 annually for the board to review and
1:16:59 provide input on the implementation plan
1:17:01 as it will be a living document
1:17:03 however the board thought it would be
1:17:05 important for city council to have a
1:17:06 formal review of the plan before the
1:17:08 five years is up
1:17:10 so with this we added a mid-year plan
1:17:13 review for city council by june 30 2024
1:17:16 in response to this recommendation
1:17:19 the board was also interested in having
1:17:21 a website dedicated to the climate
1:17:23 action plan on the city's website it
1:17:25 would help the public access information
1:17:27 on the plan and how they can get
1:17:28 involved as well as provide recommended
1:17:31 resources and status updates on the
1:17:33 plan's progress
1:17:34 so we've added this as a year one action
1:17:36 in the icap as well
1:17:38 similar requests from city council in
1:17:41 september there was a specific request
1:17:43 to strengthen the wording on an action
1:17:45 about the city's energy efficiency codes
1:17:47 and we've made that change to the plan
1:17:50 and last there was a request to add a
1:17:52 specific partner to a couple of the
1:17:53 actions so we've also made that update
1:17:59 these next two slides provide an
1:18:00 overview of the biggest updates to the
1:18:02 icap since the last city council meeting
1:18:04 in september
1:18:06 the changes are based on input from the
1:18:07 meeting as well as feedback from the
1:18:09 environmental board and the community
1:18:11 convening that we had in october
1:18:14 the first is a new icap vision page as
1:18:17 well as new graphics and restructuring
1:18:18 of the plan which enhance the
1:18:20 connections and improve the overall
1:18:22 readability
1:18:24 along these lines we added an executive
1:18:26 summary at the request of the community
1:18:28 which will allow people at all levels to
1:18:30 engage in the plan and a message from
1:18:32 the mayor as a welcoming introduction
1:18:35 we also heard a desire from the
1:18:37 community to understand how they can
1:18:39 help so we added resident driven actions
1:18:42 in each focus area and highlighted the
1:18:44 actions where community members can get
1:18:46 involved in the implementation
1:18:49 we made some simple yet meaningful word
1:18:51 changes such as changing the first focus
1:18:53 area from cross cutting to overarching
1:18:57 we updated action language including one
1:18:59 on supporting climate and sustainability
1:19:01 education in schools and strengthening
1:19:04 the wording on another
1:19:06 and last we update the resiliency target
1:19:08 to better define its purpose
1:19:12 the other major update to the plan was
1:19:14 the addition of the implementation plan
1:19:17 this section provides a detailed roadmap
1:19:19 that will help city staff the
1:19:20 environmental board and city council
1:19:23 ensure the plan is successfully
1:19:24 implemented
1:19:26 it includes sections on oversight and a
1:19:28 robust monitoring and evaluation plan
1:19:32 and then at the last city council
1:19:33 meeting there was some discussion about
1:19:35 the use of incentives
1:19:37 so in response we add a new section on
1:19:39 incentives which outlines the key
1:19:41 considerations that we'll use for
1:19:43 including incentives in action
1:19:46 so this includes promoting partner
1:19:47 incentives first and factoring in equity
1:19:50 to ensure that incentives are targeted
1:19:52 to reach those who need them most
1:19:55 and last the appendix includes an
1:19:58 action-specific matrix with
1:19:59 implementation considerations
1:20:01 including timing of the action cost
1:20:04 considerations
1:20:05 key partners and mitigation of
1:20:07 unintended consequences
1:20:12 so illustrate some of the new components
1:20:14 of the plan here's a general overview of
1:20:16 its structure and how the pieces all
1:20:19 work together so first we have the
1:20:21 executive summary that includes the icap
1:20:23 vision
1:20:24 we have some background on the plan and
1:20:26 information specific to issaquah's
1:20:28 climate impacts and ghg emissions then
1:20:32 it shows how the various components of
1:20:33 the plan work together to reach our
1:20:35 overarching emissions reduction target
1:20:38 and then the last section is the
1:20:40 implementation plan which we just
1:20:42 discussed
1:20:45 here's just a quick slide of the overall
1:20:47 new vision document or graphic that was
1:20:50 embedded within the executive summary
1:20:53 it pulls the targets directly from the
1:20:54 plan and it's meant to visually depict
1:20:56 where we're headed and the type of
1:20:58 community that we want to live in
1:21:00 it's also a good example of some of the
1:21:02 graphic enhancements made to the plan
1:21:04 since the last meeting
1:21:08 with that i'd like to review the options
1:21:10 before council this evening
1:21:12 the first is to adopt the climate action
1:21:14 plan as presented
1:21:16 the second is not adopt the plan and
1:21:18 then the last is to adopt the plan with
1:21:21 changes
1:21:24 the recommendation from the
1:21:26 administration is to approve the
1:21:27 resolution and adopt the issaquah
1:21:29 climate action plan
1:21:34 as we know stacy is now on board and
1:21:36 well-equipped to start implementing the
1:21:38 plan following adoption
1:21:40 she'll be busy meeting both staff in the
1:21:42 city as well as the partners that will
1:21:44 help in implementing several of these
1:21:45 actions
1:21:47 and here are just a few of the sample
1:21:49 actions that we'll be able to begin work
1:21:51 on in 2022 including the community
1:21:54 climate challenge an electric heat pump
1:21:56 campaign
1:21:57 developing the climate action webpage
1:21:59 and starting on the city operations ghg
1:22:02 inventory as well as staying involved in
1:22:04 the title 18 updates
1:22:07 and it sounds like a lot and it is but
1:22:09 we do have budget allocated for several
1:22:12 of these actions
1:22:13 and we also have law partners in
1:22:15 neighboring jurisdictions that are
1:22:17 already working on some and are ready to
1:22:19 partner with issaquah as we start to
1:22:21 implement
1:22:25 so again the recommendation this evening
1:22:27 is to adopt the plan so we can move into
1:22:30 action
1:22:31 and i'd also just like to say thank you
1:22:33 to the city council it's been great
1:22:35 working with you all on the development
1:22:37 of this plan and really appreciate all
1:22:39 the support you've provided to it um and
1:22:42 that concludes my presentation this
1:22:43 evening
1:22:46 thank you megan i know we're probably
1:22:48 keeping you up late it's about 11 40
1:22:50 where you are right now
1:22:52 uh okay i'm gonna look at the chat uh
1:22:55 for questions and comments and it looks
1:22:57 like council president hunt would like
1:22:58 to start us off
1:23:00 thank you and thank you megan
1:23:02 um so i had a question regarding
1:23:07 one of the things that was raised in
1:23:08 public comments and it also came to us
1:23:11 as a question via email with the
1:23:13 petition from 60 people and that is
1:23:15 regarding the um
1:23:18 the target for existing buildings and so
1:23:21 i wanted to know if you could give us
1:23:23 some information about
1:23:25 um if that was a deliberate um omission
1:23:28 or or not or what the
1:23:30 context of that ask is and then also
1:23:34 if council were to consider adding a
1:23:36 target in that area
1:23:38 what what would be
1:23:40 reasonable thanks
1:23:44 sure thank you
1:23:45 this is megan
1:23:47 i don't think it was a deliberate
1:23:48 mission i think what we have in the plan
1:23:51 is we have an overall target to
1:23:55 to reduce energy use in both new and
1:23:58 existing buildings
1:24:00 so overall energy use is both
1:24:02 electricity and natural gas so we have
1:24:04 that current target um but i think the
1:24:07 one that the public comment was
1:24:09 referring to was looking to make sure
1:24:11 that all
1:24:13 all energy use in
1:24:15 in existing buildings could be renewable
1:24:19 with that as as we know we have the
1:24:22 clean electricity act in
1:24:25 washington state so our electricity grid
1:24:27 will be cleaned by 2030. 2030
1:24:30 so we're working to reduce overall
1:24:32 energy use but still natural gas will
1:24:35 still
1:24:36 be fossil
1:24:37 fossil fuel
1:24:39 energy past 2030. so i think that ask
1:24:42 was looking at is there a way to
1:24:44 specifically measure
1:24:46 that use in existing buildings
1:24:49 so i looked at a couple other plans and
1:24:52 king county does have a target related
1:24:54 to this
1:24:56 so they have one to reduce natural gas
1:24:58 and other fossil fuel use in existing
1:25:01 buildings by at least 20 by 2030 and 80
1:25:05 by 2050
1:25:07 which is compared to 2017 levels which
1:25:10 is uh the same baseline as our as our
1:25:12 other pieces
1:25:13 um this this target comes from the um
1:25:17 king county joint climate commitments uh
1:25:19 which is aqua signed on to and a few of
1:25:22 the other targets that we have
1:25:23 uh are also aligned with that so i think
1:25:26 if council is interested in adding a
1:25:28 target that might be a good one to
1:25:30 reference
1:25:34 looking at the chat to see if there's
1:25:36 any more questions
1:25:41 if not would somebody care to make a
1:25:43 motion
1:25:51 let's go to council president hunt
1:25:56 i move to approve resolution number
1:25:58 2021-18
1:26:00 adopting the issaquah climate action
1:26:03 and council member d michelle
1:26:06 i second
1:26:08 it has been moved and seconded is there
1:26:10 any additional council discussion and if
1:26:12 so please indicate in the chat
1:26:15 actually i'll go to council president
1:26:17 hunt you move the motion would you like
1:26:18 to start
1:26:20 yes thank you madam mayor well i wanted
1:26:22 to appreciate all of the
1:26:25 evident hard work that went into this uh
1:26:28 plan it's very thoughtful very detailed
1:26:31 um and also i think very actionable
1:26:34 that's been one of the things that i've
1:26:37 brought up repeatedly is that
1:26:41 it's very important for me that this
1:26:43 plan b feasible actionable implementable
1:26:46 so when we start actually getting to you
1:26:49 know how do we achieve these targets and
1:26:51 goals how do we how do we do it so i
1:26:53 appreciate that a lot and i think that
1:26:55 the community
1:26:57 business community
1:26:58 uh energy community as well as
1:27:01 groups like the people for climate
1:27:02 action and the community at large has
1:27:05 all been brought into the process and
1:27:07 that's also very evident from the way
1:27:09 that this was presented in our packet
1:27:11 this evening i really appreciated
1:27:13 that there was um the specific
1:27:17 way that feedback had been addressed in
1:27:20 the current plan that we're looking at
1:27:22 so there was a table where you know you
1:27:24 had received this feedback and you had
1:27:25 taken into account and made the
1:27:27 following changes
1:27:28 so i think that was that was really
1:27:30 excellent and
1:27:32 sets us up for
1:27:34 potential success when we when we come
1:27:36 back to implement this plan and to
1:27:37 understand why
1:27:38 actions are in the sequence that they
1:27:41 um and and how to go about achieving
1:27:43 these targets
1:27:44 uh i i am
1:27:47 also uh
1:27:49 you know i think we're at a really
1:27:51 important
1:27:53 we have an important position to
1:27:56 both um turn around uh
1:28:00 make some meaningful change but you know
1:28:02 we also recognize that we're we're
1:28:04 behind and this is um a really important
1:28:07 to both the community and also
1:28:09 important just in general that we
1:28:11 address climate change and take action
1:28:14 on this uh i think we've
1:28:16 been increasingly that it impacts
1:28:18 people's lives directly at this point
1:28:20 including with the recent heat dome or
1:28:22 heat waves and
1:28:24 we are also at the border of forests and
1:28:28 wildfire risk is certainly exacerbated
1:28:30 by climate change as well so
1:28:32 there's huge potential here but i i
1:28:34 recognize also that there's
1:28:36 huge pressure to make positive
1:28:40 change in this area so i think this plan
1:28:41 sets us up for that and then we have to
1:28:43 go and implement it
1:28:45 i would ask that the community hold us
1:28:47 accountable in that and we will also
1:28:50 i think have
1:28:51 a lot of work to do with
1:28:53 other levels of government because this
1:28:55 is not something that one city can do
1:28:57 alone we need to work with our
1:28:58 representatives at
1:29:00 the state level the county level
1:29:03 and make sure that we have our voice
1:29:06 heard and that we can work with them on
1:29:07 solutions
1:29:10 at other levels of government as well
1:29:11 it's going to take
1:29:12 a lot of actions at a lot of levels so
1:29:15 i'm in strong support i i am interested
1:29:18 in making this one
1:29:20 um addition for a target because it
1:29:23 feels like if we don't have a metric
1:29:26 in that area and a target it would be
1:29:28 useful to have it is
1:29:29 existing buildings are
1:29:31 an important part of our current
1:29:35 inventory of emissions and so i would be
1:29:38 interested in moving that but i wanted
1:29:40 to start off by just saying that
1:29:41 this is a really good start i'm really
1:29:44 interested in the years ahead when we
1:29:47 put this into action
1:29:49 thank you council president
1:29:50 councilmember d michelle
1:29:53 thank you mayor paulie um
1:29:56 first of all this is a
1:29:58 a really beautiful and really impressive
1:30:04 everybody who worked on it should be
1:30:07 feel very very proud of the product that
1:30:10 uh has emerged from a very
1:30:13 long but very thorough process
1:30:16 i know we've heard from some people who
1:30:17 would like us to delay
1:30:21 because there might be unintended
1:30:23 consequences
1:30:25 i think that the plan puts in place a
1:30:27 monitoring system that as it's described
1:30:30 in the plan it's very robust
1:30:33 and in addition we will have staff uh
1:30:36 i'm sure on a daily basis
1:30:38 uh watching for those unintended uh
1:30:40 consequences so i think that we will be
1:30:43 able to identify and correct any
1:30:45 unintended
1:30:46 consequences but my worry is not so much
1:30:49 with adverse impacts instead i worry
1:30:52 that we
1:30:53 have delayed taking action for too long
1:30:56 approving the issaquah climate action
1:30:58 plan tonight is a giant step
1:31:01 but it will be meaningless if we don't
1:31:03 transform our words into action
1:31:06 just today i visited my doctor over at
1:31:08 the issaquah medical center and while i
1:31:11 was driving into the medical center i
1:31:14 happened to notice that there were two
1:31:15 cherry trees along the driveway
1:31:18 that are in full bloom on december the
1:31:23 trees that we usually would expect to
1:31:25 bloom in march or april are on full
1:31:27 bloom today
1:31:29 so these
1:31:30 we can see all around us that climate
1:31:32 change is here
1:31:34 and we've already seen the impacts with
1:31:36 hundred year floods and the summer heat
1:31:38 and the perpetual threat of wildfires
1:31:41 destroying this beautiful city
1:31:43 so for the sake of the planet and future
1:31:45 generations we have to reduce greenhouse
1:31:47 gas emissions protect our forests and
1:31:50 learn how to live in concert with nature
1:31:53 so again i want to give thanks to all
1:31:55 the people who came forward hundreds of
1:31:57 people were involved in putting this
1:31:59 plan together and giving us really
1:32:02 really good solid input and of course
1:32:05 many many thanks to megan for your
1:32:07 leadership just superb
1:32:09 um this will make an impact in issaquah
1:32:12 for decades to come
1:32:14 um i too will proudly vote this is again
1:32:18 i said when we adopted the equity board
1:32:21 that that was probably one of the most
1:32:23 significant votes that we would take
1:32:25 this is certainly right up there
1:32:28 in terms of significance and i will
1:32:30 proudly vote to adopt the issaquah
1:32:32 climate action plan thank you
1:32:35 thank you councilmember d michelle
1:32:37 councilmember
1:32:38 walsh
1:32:40 thank you madam mayor this is
1:32:41 councilmember walsh um first i'd like to
1:32:44 join my colleagues in thanking the
1:32:46 community for first pushing forward this
1:32:49 issue the environmental board for so
1:32:52 very much hard work that's evidence in
1:32:54 this plan
1:32:55 and megan curtis murphy for just
1:32:58 such diligent focus on this issue over
1:33:00 the years
1:33:03 that being said i have to say that i
1:33:05 kind of hate plans i mean hate may be
1:33:09 too strong of a word but as a policy
1:33:11 maker
1:33:12 i dislike the act of creating and
1:33:15 improving a plan
1:33:16 because it often comes apart it comes
1:33:20 across as a win or a finish line
1:33:24 plans are just the start and so i would
1:33:28 really ask that we not congratulate
1:33:30 ourselves too much for reading this
1:33:32 particular starting line
1:33:36 we really need to use that energy toward
1:33:38 the actual actions that will make a
1:33:41 difference so toward that idea here's
1:33:43 what i will be looking for as we
1:33:46 implement this plan
1:33:48 so first additions to the cip some of
1:33:51 the examples from the plan included
1:33:54 fleet electrification solar and other
1:33:57 renewable electricity for municipal
1:33:59 buildings
1:34:00 the title 18 land use and zoning changes
1:34:03 around parking missing middle housing
1:34:06 low income impact development and more
1:34:09 upcoming action on overhauling our
1:34:12 business building codes
1:34:14 budget updates many budget updates for
1:34:18 outreach incentives and policy items
1:34:21 that are listed in the short-term
1:34:23 timeline
1:34:24 our waste management contract addressing
1:34:26 the items listed in the icap
1:34:29 and then
1:34:30 every year the annual environmental
1:34:32 board report on the actions taken each
1:34:35 year i want to know what's worked and
1:34:36 what hasn't
1:34:38 and i expect the environmental board and
1:34:41 the community to hold us accountable to
1:34:43 actually taking the actions to implement
1:34:46 this plan
1:34:48 so that we don't continue standing on a
1:34:50 starting line
1:34:51 where
1:34:52 we're already behind
1:34:54 so yes i support
1:34:57 you know voting for this plan but
1:35:00 i'm not going to count it as a success
1:35:02 unless
1:35:04 we take the steps forward on that so
1:35:06 thank you
1:35:08 councilmember walsh councilmember hall
1:35:11 uh thank you councilmember hall here
1:35:13 i've got a few comments that i wanted to
1:35:14 say about the ischool climate action
1:35:16 plan some of which are duplicative so
1:35:19 apologies in advance
1:35:22 but first and foremost i want to thank
1:35:24 staff for doing such a great job
1:35:26 incorporating our earlier feedback the
1:35:28 feedback of the environmental board and
1:35:29 planning policy commission
1:35:31 and the feedback of the community during
1:35:33 our community convenings on climate and
1:35:34 i want to join
1:35:36 uh others uh in thanking megan curtis
1:35:38 murphy in particular for her commitment
1:35:40 to the issues of environmental
1:35:42 sustainability climate change and also
1:35:44 her commitment to
1:35:45 the participation and the vision of the
1:35:48 escort community along the way so thank
1:35:49 you very much
1:35:52 some things i like about this plan um
1:35:54 you know this plan is our response to
1:35:56 the challenge of climate change here in
1:35:58 isoqua it's focused on
1:36:00 vision
1:36:02 multi-benefit actions equity and
1:36:04 education
1:36:05 it's a living document ready to be
1:36:07 regularly reviewed by the council by the
1:36:10 environmental board into the future
1:36:12 i like that it's interactive and it's
1:36:14 very accessible to the community and
1:36:17 like we've heard earlier too it's an
1:36:18 active leadership in the greater region
1:36:20 i'm very happy with where the plans act
1:36:23 and i'll be voting in favor of its
1:36:24 adoption tonight i'd also be
1:36:27 supportive if there's a motion amending
1:36:28 the plan to add an additional metric
1:36:30 around renewable energy usage in
1:36:32 existing buildings if it's aligned with
1:36:34 county city's climate action plan
1:36:37 um our clean climate
1:36:39 king county city's climate partnership
1:36:42 collaboration yes collaboration thank
1:36:44 you um and i you know what i um
1:36:48 love where councilmember walsh's head's
1:36:50 at that we need to be thinking about the
1:36:51 future too but i would like us all to
1:36:53 take a moment to celebrate
1:36:55 um i'll take a note out of councilmember
1:36:57 mark's books and quote a leader i think
1:36:59 it was benjamin franklin you said by
1:37:01 failing to prepare you're preparing to
1:37:02 fail so i think maybe we're
1:37:05 one percent of the way there maybe let's
1:37:07 celebrate this one percent
1:37:09 and then look forward to the 99 that
1:37:11 come afterwards
1:37:12 um those are my comments and i'll be
1:37:14 voting a favor thanks
1:37:16 thank you councilmember hall
1:37:17 i am not seeing any comments megan i
1:37:19 wonder if you could clarify you had made
1:37:21 some comments um
1:37:23 earlier about
1:37:25 the metric and whether or not our plan
1:37:28 was in compliance with kc4 so could you
1:37:31 um maybe expand on that a little bit are
1:37:34 we in compliance with kc4 and is this
1:37:37 metric above and beyond kc4 and is it
1:37:39 something that we would be able to add
1:37:41 tonight or something that we would need
1:37:43 to research
1:37:45 this is megan um this is the the target
1:37:48 that i mentioned about um natural gas is
1:37:52 in the 2019 joint climate commitments
1:37:55 that we signed on to um early 2020.
1:37:59 a few of the other targets also come
1:38:01 from that as well so i think it would be
1:38:02 in line with uh with those and and
1:38:06 adopting it
1:38:08 that's so clear so
1:38:12 believe we have
1:38:14 matched casey for or you believe that we
1:38:16 need to have a proposed amendment to add
1:38:19 a metric that matches kc4
1:38:23 we do not have this
1:38:25 exact target that
1:38:27 k4c has
1:38:29 we do not have that in our plan we have
1:38:32 similar ones but we don't have this
1:38:34 specific one we do have other ones on
1:38:36 existing building energy usage but not
1:38:39 specifically on natural gas reduction
1:38:42 okay and so you as staff are in favor of
1:38:45 adding this one
1:38:48 thanks
1:38:49 uh council president hunt would like to
1:38:51 make motion
1:38:53 thank you um i moved to
1:38:57 amend the plan to add the following
1:38:59 targets which is
1:39:02 reduce natural gas and other fossil fuel
1:39:04 use in existing buildings by at least 20
1:39:07 percent by 2030 and
1:39:09 80 percent by 2050 compared to his 2017
1:39:12 baseline
1:39:13 and i will put that in the chat
1:39:18 is there a second
1:39:21 that's a member hall
1:39:23 oh thank you councilmember hall i'll
1:39:24 second that motion
1:39:28 so it has been moved and seconded to
1:39:29 reduce natural gas and other fossil fuel
1:39:31 use in existing buildings by at least 20
1:39:33 percent by 2030 and 80 by 2050 compared
1:39:37 to a 27 baseline uh comments and
1:39:41 questions and actually i'm first going
1:39:42 to ask megan a question
1:39:44 this is um private buildings
1:39:49 um yes well this would be looking at our
1:39:51 full community wide so it would be
1:39:55 not necessarily separating out public
1:39:57 and private it would just be the full
1:39:58 community wide
1:40:01 thanks councilmember goodman
1:40:03 thank you councilmember goodman here um
1:40:05 i would like to ask
1:40:06 megan is this
1:40:09 the motion is this something that was
1:40:12 vetted as part of the plan was this out
1:40:13 in the community when the plan was being
1:40:16 commented on
1:40:18 this specific
1:40:19 we did not talk about this specific
1:40:21 target now
1:40:23 so we talked a lot about wanting to
1:40:25 include existing buildings so we
1:40:26 included them in
1:40:28 a different target but it's a little bit
1:40:31 different from this one
1:40:32 so i think this one is coming because
1:40:35 we are looking at our our fuel use we
1:40:38 have both electricity and natural gas
1:40:41 electricity will be clean natural gas
1:40:43 does not have that um adopted law to be
1:40:46 clean so this is kind of hammering in a
1:40:48 little bit more on the details from what
1:40:50 we've been hearing from the community
1:40:53 in wanting to have
1:40:55 wanting to reduce our emissions and
1:40:56 working towards electrification
1:40:59 we also have a few actions that speak to
1:41:02 this target so we do have um
1:41:06 a strategy that's looking at
1:41:07 electrification and then actions to have
1:41:09 a heat pump campaign
1:41:12 which would be targeting its existing
1:41:14 buildings so we do have actions speaking
1:41:16 to that that we're definitely
1:41:18 well supported by the community we just
1:41:20 didn't have this specific target in
1:41:22 there
1:41:23 okay thanks
1:41:25 uh councilmember hall
1:41:28 uh thank you this councilmember hall um
1:41:31 question for megan so can you clarify
1:41:33 again so this is a
1:41:37 part of what we signed as a as a member
1:41:40 city of the k4c
1:41:42 um is this also part of
1:41:45 the state's
1:41:46 recent response to climate change
1:41:49 with the state electrification plan or
1:41:53 are they monitoring this metric at all
1:41:54 do you know
1:41:57 this is megan
1:41:58 i'm not sure exactly if the state has
1:42:00 this as a metric or not um king county
1:42:03 does have it in there in their climate
1:42:05 action plan
1:42:07 um i was
1:42:08 quickly looking over a few of our other
1:42:10 neighboring jurisdiction plans this
1:42:12 evening as well i believe redmond has a
1:42:14 similar one
1:42:16 but i'm not sure if the state has it
1:42:18 specifically in an adopted language
1:42:24 any other questions on the amendment i
1:42:27 was going to
1:42:28 just ask the process question uh
1:42:41 mayor foreign is to show your audio uh
1:42:44 cut out a little bit at your last
1:42:46 comment
1:42:48 okay thank you i have uh just got a
1:42:49 process question and want to know if
1:42:51 city administrator bob quits is
1:42:52 available to maybe provide an opinion
1:42:57 yes ma'am what would you like
1:42:59 um just want to make sure that with all
1:43:02 of the good work that megan and the
1:43:03 staff did in community outreach that
1:43:06 doing
1:43:07 a revision at the last minute like this
1:43:09 adding a metric really is um
1:43:14 i don't want to say appropriate or
1:43:16 inappropriate um but there have been
1:43:18 many touches on this before and so just
1:43:21 want to make sure that this makes sense
1:43:25 i i think i think it does make sense i
1:43:27 think the you know the plan is much
1:43:29 broader
1:43:30 i think the metrics are really to make
1:43:32 this accountable and so
1:43:34 one additional metric just makes us that
1:43:36 much more accountable it's uh it's
1:43:38 something that we've already signed on
1:43:40 to for k4c it's already been described
1:43:42 um as many members of the council
1:43:44 tonight have said uh this is just the
1:43:46 beginning and so as we move forward with
1:43:49 this quite honestly the more metrics
1:43:50 that we have to make us accountable the
1:43:52 better um so i don't think there's any
1:43:54 problem that's a great answer thank you
1:43:57 are there any other members i'm just
1:43:58 going to check the chat again uh i had
1:44:01 council member hall covered
1:44:04 okay um if there's no more comments or
1:44:07 questions i'm going to get the city
1:44:08 clerk to vote on the amendment
1:44:11 call the roll call vote on the amendment
1:44:15 yes starting with council member d
1:44:17 michelle
1:44:21 councilmember goodman
1:44:24 councilmember hall
1:44:27 council president hunt
1:44:31 council member martz
1:44:35 councilmember walsh
1:44:38 that's five eyes one nay
1:44:41 thank you that passes five to one
1:44:43 is there any more comments or questions
1:44:45 or amendments proposed and i'll keep my
1:44:48 eye on the chat for a second
1:44:52 that's remember goodman
1:44:54 thank you councilmember goodman here i
1:44:56 do want to thank megan for all the work
1:44:58 obviously there's been a lot of work
1:45:01 and all the community members who have
1:45:03 participated i'm the only reason i
1:45:05 didn't support the amendment is um
1:45:08 probably what the mayor alluded to and
1:45:10 that is it makes me a little bit
1:45:12 concerned to vote on something
1:45:13 substantive at the last amendment it's
1:45:15 something that we could amend
1:45:17 um the plan later if we wanted to
1:45:20 but that doesn't distract from my
1:45:22 support of the plan and i am excited to
1:45:24 vote yes thanks
1:45:26 thank you council member goodman any
1:45:28 more comments any more questions
1:45:30 keep my eye on the chat
1:45:39 if there are no more comments or
1:45:40 questions um the most should be for
1:45:42 council that has been moved and seconded
1:45:44 is to adopt resolution number 2021-18
1:45:48 adopting the issue of climate accident
1:45:50 plan and city kirk can you take call
1:45:55 yes starting with council member goodman
1:45:59 councilmember hall
1:46:02 council president hunt
1:46:05 council member martz
1:46:08 councilmember walsh
1:46:11 council aye
1:46:11 d michelle
1:46:15 that's six eyes zero nays
1:46:17 thank you that passes unanimously so
1:46:19 again i just wanted to recognize megan
1:46:21 curtis murphy megan thank you for
1:46:23 stewarding the climate action plan and
1:46:25 for all your excellent work on green
1:46:27 building and environment and climate
1:46:28 policy
1:46:30 we wish you all the best in your new
1:46:32 thanks for coming tonight thank you
1:46:36 the next item of business this evening
1:46:38 is ab-8292
1:46:40 front-line worker incentive pay
1:46:42 ordinance this is for non-representative
1:46:44 staff and memorandums of understanding
1:46:48 afsme
1:46:50 ipoa ipssa
1:46:52 teamsters117 police sergeants and
1:46:54 teamsters 117 and police commanders and
1:46:57 teamsters 763 the action before the
1:47:00 council this evening is to adopt the
1:47:02 ordinance and ratify i'd like to invite
1:47:04 human resources director stephanie
1:47:06 johnson to present this item stephanie
1:47:09 and actually madam mayor you're going to
1:47:10 get me tonight stephanie's available for
1:47:12 questions but
1:47:14 i'm going to go ahead and take the lead
1:47:16 madam mayor members of the council
1:47:18 this is this is quite something
1:47:21 we uh we put this together over the last
1:47:24 uh uh few months and i see stephanie's
1:47:27 on camera now i want to thank her for
1:47:29 her diligence with this
1:47:31 we want to recognize our employees for
1:47:33 their excellent work during the pandemic
1:47:36 there are very strict laws in the state
1:47:37 of washington over gifts of public funds
1:47:40 and so what we needed to do is to come
1:47:41 up with a program
1:47:43 that made sense
1:47:45 that would be lawful but also make sure
1:47:47 that we recognize our employees so what
1:47:49 you have before you is that in order to
1:47:52 operationalize it there are uh
1:47:55 mous with our representative employees
1:47:58 and then the ordinance before you uh
1:48:00 also in acts the ability for us to do
1:48:02 this or for our non-representative
1:48:04 employees
1:48:06 you know simply stated what we're
1:48:08 offering is payments up to two thousand
1:48:10 dollars for employees who have provided
1:48:12 in-person services during the pandemic
1:48:15 and will continue to perform insert
1:48:17 person services
1:48:18 through february 28 2022
1:48:22 for those employees that
1:48:24 could do their jobs
1:48:26 not in person there is a separate
1:48:27 increment available for that the program
1:48:31 in your packet goes through the
1:48:33 particulars and i won't read through
1:48:34 every single one of them but this will
1:48:36 be money that will be paid
1:48:38 into next year
1:48:39 um we have also some adjustments to two
1:48:43 of the mousse for additional items one
1:48:46 is for the isquad police officers
1:48:48 association uh to increase callback from
1:48:50 one and a half times of the employee's
1:48:52 hourly rate to two and a half times the
1:48:54 employees hourly rate of pay through
1:48:56 april 30th 2022
1:48:59 we are concerned continue to be
1:49:00 concerned with staffing levels uh this
1:49:02 incentive which is used by other
1:49:04 jurisdictions
1:49:05 hopefully will keep us from forcing
1:49:07 anyone to come to work especially with
1:49:09 the holidays with vacations uh we wanted
1:49:12 to make sure that that was was the case
1:49:15 and then with the teamster 763
1:49:18 we are increasing the standby pay from
1:49:20 three dollars an hour
1:49:21 to six dollars an hour through april
1:49:23 30th again uh similarly concerned about
1:49:26 the holiday period also with the coming
1:49:29 inclement weather we want people to be
1:49:32 willing to be available for us we have
1:49:34 had some staffing reductions in our
1:49:36 public works operations
1:49:38 staff largely because of the kova 19
1:49:41 vaccine mandate and so as we work
1:49:44 through the first quarter to restaff
1:49:46 some of those positions we think that
1:49:48 will make sense um we are also
1:49:50 increasing what is known as disaster pay
1:49:53 in the mou from 350 an hour to seven
1:49:56 dollars an hour
1:49:57 and so certainly if we were to get a
1:49:59 heavy snowfall that pay is already in
1:50:01 existence but through the mlu this will
1:50:03 be increasing the pay again we want to
1:50:05 make sure
1:50:06 to incentivize
1:50:08 people coming to work when we need them
1:50:10 especially when we are short-handed uh
1:50:12 going into the first quarter so we will
1:50:14 be very diligent in moving forward with
1:50:16 uh re-staffing the positions that have
1:50:19 been vacated uh because of the vaccine
1:50:21 mandate uh but we hope and believe that
1:50:23 these changes will help with that uh so
1:50:26 madam mayor members of the council uh
1:50:28 really happy to answer any additional
1:50:30 questions you may have um this is
1:50:32 frontline worker pay
1:50:35 a plan
1:50:36 we think is the broadest available uh in
1:50:39 the state of washington there have been
1:50:40 other jurisdictions um that have done it
1:50:43 perhaps for one or two bargaining units
1:50:45 but we are reaching out really to a
1:50:48 large number of our employees
1:50:50 who really stepped up during the
1:50:51 pandemic uh graded it based on those
1:50:54 that you know came in every day uh had
1:50:57 no choice to get their work done and
1:50:59 then also those who came in but also had
1:51:01 the opportunity to work with them
1:51:04 again stephanie's here and i want to
1:51:05 thank her for all her excellent work on
1:51:07 this we're both able to answer any
1:51:08 questions
1:51:11 thank you city administrator um so the
1:51:13 motion has been put into the chat
1:51:15 i'm uh keeping my eye on it to see if
1:51:17 there's any questions or comments
1:51:20 and if not if somebody would care to
1:51:21 make a motion
1:51:25 councilmember goodman
1:51:28 ah thank you
1:51:30 i would make a motion to
1:51:32 adopt ordinance number 2966 regarding
1:51:35 frontline worker incentive pay for
1:51:37 non-represented employees and ratify and
1:51:39 authorize the mayor to enter into and
1:51:41 execute the memorandums of understanding
1:51:44 the american federation of state county
1:51:46 and municipal employees issaquah police
1:51:48 officers association the issaquah police
1:51:51 support staff association teamsters 117
1:51:54 representing police commanders teamsters
1:51:56 117 representing police sergeants and
1:51:59 teamsters
1:52:00 763. councilmember walsh
1:52:04 second
1:52:06 it's been moved and seconded uh council
1:52:09 member goodman would you like to speak
1:52:11 to this first
1:52:13 um well i just i think it's a fine move
1:52:18 um show our appreciation for
1:52:21 um all of the
1:52:23 during um
1:52:25 certainly
1:52:26 one of the
1:52:28 maybe two most uncertain times in my
1:52:31 lifetime um
1:52:33 and uh
1:52:34 to all the folks who
1:52:39 did what they needed to do
1:52:43 thank you very much councilmember walsh
1:52:45 did you have a comment
1:52:47 yes thank you um yeah i not only support
1:52:50 this concept as far as
1:52:54 you know really rewarding and showing
1:52:57 appreciation for all of our frontline
1:52:59 workers that
1:53:00 did come in and continue to come in
1:53:03 but i also want to just take a moment to
1:53:05 thank the
1:53:07 administration and the hr team and
1:53:10 stephanie johnson just for the hard work
1:53:15 navigating all of these issues that
1:53:18 nobody anticipated would be coming our
1:53:21 um and to have done so
1:53:24 such a great way um i know it has not
1:53:27 been easy and i just also want to add in
1:53:30 a little bit of thank you there on that
1:53:32 as well thanks
1:53:34 thank you councilmember walsh it has not
1:53:36 been easy
1:53:38 i am not seeing any other um
1:53:41 folks indicating in the chat that they
1:53:43 would like to comment
1:53:45 uh i can read the motion again it is
1:53:50 to adopt earnings number two 966
1:53:52 regarding frontline worker incentive pay
1:53:54 for non-represented employees and ratify
1:53:56 an authorized mayor to enter into and
1:53:58 execute the memorandums of understanding
1:54:01 with the american federation of state
1:54:02 county and municipal employees this club
1:54:04 police officers association music club
1:54:07 police support staff association
1:54:09 teamsters 117 representing police
1:54:11 commanders and teamsters 117
1:54:13 representing police sergeants and
1:54:15 teamster 763.
1:54:17 um go to the clerk for a
1:54:19 roll call vote
1:54:21 with council member hall
1:54:25 council president hunt
1:54:28 council member martz
1:54:31 council member walsh
1:54:34 council member d michelle hi
1:54:37 councilmember goodman hi
1:54:40 that's six eyes zero nays
1:54:42 thank you that passes unanimously
1:54:45 um i just want to do a check in with
1:54:46 council i know we have captured your
1:54:48 attention since 6 pm this evening and
1:54:50 you did have one short break would you
1:54:52 like a five minute break at this point
1:54:54 before we get on to the last item or
1:54:56 would you like to just keep moving
1:54:57 forward
1:54:58 thumbs up or down it for me it's fine
1:55:06 looks like we're
1:55:07 going through okay the next item on the
1:55:09 agenda this evening and the last under
1:55:11 regular business
1:55:13 is ab-8303
1:55:15 it's separate track for central isaf
1:55:17 step back standards in title 18 and the
1:55:20 request before council tonight is to
1:55:21 approve it and i'd like to invite
1:55:23 management analyst gene paul to present
1:55:25 this item gene
1:55:34 thank you madam mayor and good evening
1:55:35 members of the council i'm gene paul the
1:55:38 management analyst in the executive
1:55:39 office and tonight we'll be presenting
1:55:40 on the separate track for step back
1:55:42 standards in title 18.
1:55:50 the purpose of this evening's
1:55:51 presentation is to seek the city
1:55:53 council's approval to place the step
1:55:55 back standards found in the central
1:55:57 issaquad development and design
1:55:58 standards on a separate track from the
1:56:01 title 18 land use code update project
1:56:04 although i'll provide some descriptions
1:56:06 of the current code and what the
1:56:07 administration invis envisions as a
1:56:10 possible amendment we are not asking for
1:56:12 approval of any code changes this
1:56:14 evening we are simply asking you to
1:56:16 consider placing this item on a separate
1:56:18 and more advanced track than the rest of
1:56:20 title 18.
1:56:24 as background the transit oriented
1:56:26 development or tod project would be the
1:56:28 first mixed use project developed since
1:56:31 the adoption of the central isquad
1:56:33 development and design standards or sids
1:56:36 the tod project concept was also
1:56:39 developed prior to the sids so the
1:56:41 project development team has identified
1:56:43 a number of challenges with the project
1:56:45 concept and those standards
1:56:48 the administration has evaluated all of
1:56:50 the developer requests and is only
1:56:52 proposing to consider one code change
1:56:54 since that change may better fit the
1:56:56 intent of the code
1:57:02 the change the administration is
1:57:03 proposing to consider relates to the
1:57:05 step back standards
1:57:07 step back is an architectural design
1:57:08 element that is typically applied to the
1:57:10 upper story of a development
1:57:13 step back requires that any portion of a
1:57:15 building above a certain height is
1:57:17 pushed in towards the center of the
1:57:18 property
1:57:20 although there will be a picture on the
1:57:21 next slide you can think of step back as
1:57:23 similar to the tiers on a wedding cake
1:57:26 there are two current standards that
1:57:27 apply to the tod project
1:57:29 the first requires that northwest
1:57:31 contemporary style buildings if taller
1:57:33 than five floors step back above the
1:57:36 fifth floor the second standard for the
1:57:39 natural contact zone requires a step
1:57:41 back of 10 to 20 feet for all floors
1:57:44 above the fourth floor that face the
1:57:46 natural area
1:57:50 this slide contains the visualization
1:57:52 for the tod project concept
1:57:54 the developers currently envision a
1:57:56 concept with a step back beginning after
1:57:58 25 feet or the first three floors
1:58:01 a five foot step back is depicted on the
1:58:04 right hand side of the drawing
1:58:06 to help understand the tod project
1:58:08 concept and how step back affects it
1:58:10 modern mixed-use developments above four
1:58:13 stories will commonly have a concrete
1:58:15 podium for the first one or two stories
1:58:17 and then wooden construction above in
1:58:20 the tod concept that concrete podium is
1:58:22 the first three floors before
1:58:24 transitioning with a step back to wooden
1:58:27 frame construction for the rest of the
1:58:28 building
1:58:30 the most cost effective construction
1:58:32 would be to stack the residential units
1:58:34 and maintain uniform walls throughout
1:58:36 the upper building
1:58:38 accommodating another step back at a
1:58:39 different level than the third would
1:58:41 decrease the size and the number of both
1:58:44 affordable and market rate residential
1:58:46 units and increase construction costs
1:58:50 the step back at a higher floor
1:58:52 decreases the size of the floor plate
1:58:54 which would also likely mean that
1:58:56 planned family size units would be
1:58:58 converted to one bedroom or studio
1:59:00 apartments
1:59:04 the administration believes a step back
1:59:05 at the third floor would better achieve
1:59:07 the code's objective of using
1:59:09 articulation to reduce the perceived
1:59:11 building massing and enhance the
1:59:13 pedestrian experience
1:59:15 therefore the administration intends to
1:59:17 propose a code amendment similar to the
1:59:19 city of redmond's overlake village zone
1:59:21 standards
1:59:23 in redmond for buildings over six
1:59:24 stories the step back shall begin by
1:59:27 floor seven and may begin as low as
1:59:30 floor 2.
1:59:31 applying this flexibility to step backs
1:59:33 in the sids would allow step backs to
1:59:35 begin at the fourth or fifth floor but
1:59:37 also at the third
1:59:39 during the process of the code revision
1:59:41 the administration will also explore
1:59:43 whether the community goals of reduced
1:59:45 perceived building mask could still be
1:59:47 achieved by a 5 foot step back instead
1:59:50 of the current 10 feet
1:59:55 at the march 15 council meeting the
1:59:57 council adopted resolution
1:59:59 2021-06 which established criteria and a
2:00:03 procedure for considering changes to
2:00:05 title 18 outside of the update project
2:00:08 this procedure was a three-step process
2:00:11 that included the administration
2:00:13 providing information to the ad hoc
2:00:14 committee based on the established
2:00:16 criteria
2:00:18 the ad hoc committee making a
2:00:19 recommendation based on those criteria
2:00:21 and finally the city council ultimately
2:00:23 approving denying or approving the
2:00:25 recommendation with modifications
2:00:30 the administration presented this item
2:00:32 to the title 18 ad hoc committee on
2:00:34 november 10th
2:00:35 to briefly summarize the criteria and
2:00:37 the information presented starting with
2:00:39 urgency or time sensitivity the current
2:00:41 tod project timeline expects the
2:00:43 purchase and sale agreement or psa to
2:00:46 close in the january or february time
2:00:48 frame
2:00:49 following the psa the developers will
2:00:51 update designs before applying for
2:00:53 permits in the june to july time frame
2:00:56 therefore there is time sensitivity as
2:00:58 the developers need clarity around the
2:01:00 design standards in the first quarter of
2:01:03 construction financing timelines
2:01:05 generally do not allow for a six month
2:01:07 or more delay in the design phase
2:01:10 for the second and third criteria the
2:01:12 work will be accomplished with existing
2:01:14 staff and the administration believes
2:01:15 there will be minimal impact to plan to
2:01:17 work on the rest of the title 18 update
2:01:20 for the fourth bullet on public benefits
2:01:23 other future projects and the community
2:01:25 could also benefit from the code that
2:01:26 preserves the pedestrian experience and
2:01:29 views that the original code intended
2:01:32 while also providing increased
2:01:33 flexibility to developers in central
2:01:35 issaquah
2:01:37 in terms of what could be lost by not
2:01:39 pulling the topic out the tod project
2:01:41 would likely face increased construction
2:01:43 costs as well as decreased size and
2:01:45 number for both affordable and market
2:01:47 rate residential units
2:01:50 for the fifth bullet no other trade-offs
2:01:52 for potential conflicts with other parts
2:01:53 of title 18 had been identified
2:01:56 based on the information provided the ad
2:01:58 hoc committee unanimously recommended
2:02:00 the separate track for step back
2:02:02 revisions
2:02:05 this evening the administration is
2:02:07 proposing that the council approved the
2:02:09 ad hoc's recommendation and placed the
2:02:11 step back standards on a separate track
2:02:13 from the title 18 update
2:02:18 in terms of timing and next steps if the
2:02:20 council approves this item for a
2:02:21 separate track it would go to ppc in
2:02:24 january and pending the outcome of ppc
2:02:26 could return for adoption later in the
2:02:28 first quarter of next year
2:02:33 finally the administration is
2:02:34 recommending that the council approve
2:02:36 the placement of the step back standards
2:02:38 found in the sids on a separate track
2:02:40 from the title 18 update
2:02:42 that concludes my presentation and with
2:02:43 that i'm happy to answer any questions
2:02:47 thank you jane
2:02:50 are there any questions on the
2:02:52 presentation keep my own chat
2:02:59 and if there are none would somebody
2:03:01 care to make a motion
2:03:06 that's president
2:03:09 i moved to approve the placement of the
2:03:12 step back standards found in the central
2:03:14 issaquad development and design
2:03:16 standards on a separate track from the
2:03:18 title 18 land use code update project
2:03:22 thank you and council member walsh
2:03:25 second
2:03:27 it's been moved and seconded to approve
2:03:28 the placement of the step back standards
2:03:30 found in central school development
2:03:32 science standards on a separate track
2:03:33 from thailand manages code update
2:03:35 project council president hunt would you
2:03:37 like to speak to the motion
2:03:41 thank you um well i i do support this
2:03:45 and i just wanted to make it clear that
2:03:47 um we aren't
2:03:49 because there was some information
2:03:50 presented about what the code
2:03:53 um is doing i just wanted to make it
2:03:55 clear that here we are
2:03:58 considering putting
2:04:00 considering
2:04:01 making this code change
2:04:03 separate from another larger process to
2:04:08 overhaul
2:04:09 title 18 which is our land use code um
2:04:12 and so we aren't actually with this vote
2:04:14 we aren't actually considering or
2:04:16 approving the changes that were
2:04:18 discussed as far as the um
2:04:20 those impacts with the step backs so i
2:04:23 just wanted to make that clear thank you
2:04:25 thank you for the clarification
2:04:27 councilmember walsh did you want to
2:04:28 speak to this
2:04:29 thank you yes as much as i do
2:04:32 also approve of the
2:04:35 adjustments i would highlight that yes
2:04:38 we are just looking to answer the
2:04:40 questions um that was posed by the title
2:04:44 um ad hoc group that you know is there
2:04:47 an urgent change is there um a sense of
2:04:52 you know is this going to cause problems
2:04:53 conflicts with other things in title 18
2:04:56 and it was the view of the ad hoc
2:05:00 committee that there weren't any
2:05:02 problems in
2:05:04 considering this on a separate track so
2:05:07 thanks
2:05:08 that's mr goodman
2:05:11 uh thank you councilmember goodman here
2:05:14 so uh i too want to reiterate um because
2:05:18 agenda bill was confusing and at one
2:05:20 point it said um
2:05:23 the language was about approving the
2:05:26 uh change
2:05:28 so i think we need to be sensitive uh
2:05:31 to the public and respectful to ppc that
2:05:34 this is a procedural
2:05:38 sort of a procedural vote this is not a
2:05:40 substantive vote in terms of what the
2:05:42 change would be
2:05:44 how what change would be proposed
2:05:46 although as council president hunt said
2:05:48 we did get information on tonight which
2:05:50 only makes sense that you would
2:05:52 need to know
2:05:53 kind of
2:05:54 what we're talking about before you take
2:05:56 a vote um one of my concerns is that
2:05:58 this would go to
2:06:00 ppc um
2:06:03 just from here just kind of pop up on an
2:06:05 agenda
2:06:07 and i'm not sure that technically
2:06:10 it is wrong that something can just pop
2:06:13 up on a ppc agenda
2:06:16 but i would like to make a
2:06:18 friendly amendment if i could to the
2:06:19 motion
2:06:21 and i would move to add
2:06:23 that this that the administration is
2:06:25 directed to
2:06:27 add this item
2:06:32 the uh
2:06:34 what do we call it sorry after all these
2:06:36 years i've forgotten to the consent
2:06:38 calendar at the first meeting in january
2:06:40 um for referral to ppc i think that
2:06:43 would
2:06:44 give it well somebody can second if they
2:06:46 want and then i will say why
2:06:50 uh so the motion is to add it to the
2:06:54 consent calendar calendar in january
2:06:57 to move it into ppc
2:07:00 and it looks like it has a second
2:07:02 council member mark so councilmember
2:07:04 goodman do you want to tell us why you
2:07:05 want to do that
2:07:07 yes thank you i think that
2:07:09 gives as much transparency as we could
2:07:12 possibly give
2:07:15 so that it would pop up at a meeting in
2:07:16 january on the consent calendar the
2:07:19 public has an opportunity to know that
2:07:21 this is going to be considered at a ppc
2:07:23 meeting later in january and then when
2:07:25 the ppc meeting agenda comes out it's
2:07:28 not the first time it's
2:07:31 come out
2:07:34 thank you for that
2:07:38 was were you looking for the terms it's
2:07:41 not on the docket so people wouldn't
2:07:43 know it's coming because you do approve
2:07:44 the docket of changes that are going
2:07:46 through planning policy and this one
2:07:48 would not be on it this is a way of
2:07:49 giving it some visibility is that the
2:07:51 point
2:07:55 yes do we have a docket that we're going
2:07:56 to approve is the council going to
2:07:58 approve a docket in
2:07:59 early january that would have this on
2:08:02 there
2:08:03 for ppc
2:08:05 out of my wheelhouse city administrator
2:08:08 at what point in time in the year is the
2:08:10 planning policy looking at their draft
2:08:12 docket
2:08:15 i'm going to ask for
2:08:17 friends to help so many of you could get
2:08:19 on while i
2:08:20 begin the answer to this question um you
2:08:23 know the the com plan daca for 22 is
2:08:26 still always away um i think the
2:08:29 referral and the transparency that
2:08:31 council member goodman is looking at is
2:08:33 something a little different uh just to
2:08:35 make sure that uh uh the community is
2:08:38 well aware of what we're doing that
2:08:40 there is no action being taken that this
2:08:42 is a procedural vote and uh um you know
2:08:46 the action of placing it on the consent
2:08:47 calendar on january 3
2:08:49 would be that and
2:08:51 miss dollywall asked if i
2:08:55 said that correctly or there's anything
2:08:56 else you'd like to add
2:09:00 and you're on mute minnie
2:09:06 still and you're still unmuted
2:09:13 how about thumbs up or thumbs down
2:09:17 thank you
2:09:20 so much mayor we have no objection i i i
2:09:23 speaking with councilmember goodman
2:09:24 earlier um
2:09:26 i i think this is a transparency
2:09:28 question a good government question and
2:09:30 we're happy the administration should be
2:09:32 happy to
2:09:33 agree with the friendliness
2:09:35 thank you and we do have some comments
2:09:37 and questions i just want to verify with
2:09:39 councilmember goodman if i look at the
2:09:41 original motion i would be adding at the
2:09:43 end and to add to the consent count to a
2:09:46 consent calendar
2:09:47 in january for referral to the ppc for
2:09:50 review and recommendation
2:09:52 yeah and um i see quizzical faces and
2:09:54 i'm going to
2:09:56 assume that maybe i wasn't clear not the
2:10:00 referral to ppc would be the substantive
2:10:03 step back proposal not referring to ppc
2:10:07 whether or not we should do this on a
2:10:09 separate track
2:10:12 so the council with this motion if
2:10:15 everybody if we got a unanimous or sorry
2:10:17 if we got a majority vote it would
2:10:19 approve it for a second track
2:10:21 and it would direct the administration
2:10:23 to put the proposed
2:10:25 um the topic of the proposed change
2:10:28 on the consent calendar in january
2:10:31 for referral to ppc later in january
2:10:36 okay i'm still working on the words but
2:10:38 thank you for the clarification we'll go
2:10:40 and take some questions let's start with
2:10:42 council president hunt
2:10:45 thank you and thank you for the
2:10:46 clarification that did help my question
2:10:49 is if this affects the timing um because
2:10:52 one of the reasons why we're considering
2:10:54 putting this on a separate track is
2:10:57 um because of the urgency so i wondered
2:11:00 um if this affects timing
2:11:04 uh and mad mayor mr wall do you have
2:11:07 your microphone back
2:11:08 can you guys hear me yes we can
2:11:11 sorry about that
2:11:14 so i'm not sure you know i fully
2:11:16 understand what's going what the action
2:11:19 for council is er in early part of
2:11:21 january
2:11:23 when you talk about the docket you may
2:11:25 you know there's a requirement to put
2:11:27 stuff on the docket for comprehensive
2:11:29 plan amendments
2:11:30 this is a code amendment not necessarily
2:11:33 a comprehensive plan amendment
2:11:35 so so there is no requirement to have it
2:11:38 on the docket for it to if in general so
2:11:42 so i'm you know it's not needed per se
2:11:45 but i don't know procedurally if council
2:11:47 at the beginning of the year
2:11:49 does something in terms of sending it
2:11:51 over to
2:11:53 uh to planning a policy commission
2:11:56 that's a great clarification thank you
2:11:58 director um no i think i think what has
2:12:01 been proposed by the council member
2:12:02 makes sense
2:12:03 um so let me go back in uh
2:12:07 let's see
2:12:08 is it council member mertz that is up
2:12:11 thank you madam mayor this is council
2:12:13 member marks um you know i think that uh
2:12:16 i'm so i'm i seconded this and support
2:12:19 this because i think that we continue to
2:12:22 be in an extraordinary time when it's
2:12:24 more challenging for our community to to
2:12:27 be engaged with what we're doing we see
2:12:29 lower
2:12:30 uh engagement from the community than we
2:12:32 did in pre-coveted times and so
2:12:35 taking a little bit more time to inform
2:12:37 them of
2:12:38 uh the routing of
2:12:40 uh decisions that affect the public
2:12:42 seems like a reasonable move thank you
2:12:45 sounds great and i'm going to go to
2:12:49 councilmember walsh
2:12:52 thank you um
2:12:54 i don't think i support this because
2:12:58 i don't see how putting something on the
2:13:01 consent agenda
2:13:03 where
2:13:04 it is not read out at a meeting
2:13:06 it's just in a list of various budget
2:13:09 and grant items
2:13:12 i don't see how that is more transparent
2:13:15 having a conversation
2:13:17 on camera
2:13:19 having an agenda
2:13:24 in regular business that members of the
2:13:27 public can
2:13:28 track
2:13:29 so i'm not sure
2:13:32 i'm getting the same sense that
2:13:36 making this change would be more
2:13:37 transparent than not
2:13:42 thank you for that council president
2:13:47 thank you i i may have missed the answer
2:13:49 to my question and i apologize would
2:13:52 would this
2:13:54 uh amendment
2:13:55 change the timing for example chain like
2:13:58 postpone that this would be going to a
2:14:00 later meeting of the ppc if we approve
2:14:03 this amendment or would it be going to
2:14:04 the same meeting of the ppc anyway
2:14:09 and madame maybe if i can jump in and
2:14:12 ask mr wall a question uh has there been
2:14:15 a has there been a contemplation of when
2:14:17 this item would be before ppc
2:14:20 yes so we have three meetings in january
2:14:23 with ppc and development commission
2:14:25 combined meetings all three of them and
2:14:28 the topic that we're discussing with
2:14:29 them are building and design standards
2:14:32 um so this fits in uh you know we can
2:14:35 fit in on any three of those meetings so
2:14:38 each any action that the council wants
2:14:40 to take uh earlier in january should not
2:14:43 impact that schedule
2:14:46 and i think that's a more precise answer
2:14:49 president is that correct
2:14:50 do you have your answer council
2:14:51 president
2:14:53 yes i understand that it wouldn't affect
2:14:56 the timing going to ppc
2:15:01 uh so
2:15:03 looking at the amendment to the original
2:15:05 motion the original motion um is the
2:15:08 council providing direction to do a
2:15:10 separate track the amendment that has
2:15:12 been made and seconded it's more
2:15:14 specific oh sorry did i miss you barb
2:15:18 i'm sorry uh councilman michelle
2:15:22 goodman also has a comment following him
2:15:26 so um uh i think i'm in an agreement
2:15:29 with uh councilman walsh and i i
2:15:31 appreciate the
2:15:33 intent of this motion but i don't see
2:15:36 that it's going to make any difference
2:15:41 agree that putting it on the consent
2:15:43 agenda is a good way to bury it for most
2:15:45 of the public and we are we're talking
2:15:48 about it right now and we received an
2:15:50 email
2:15:51 uh questioning um
2:15:54 this item already so there is public
2:15:57 awareness of what's happening uh i i
2:16:00 personally don't see any reason why we
2:16:02 can't just take a vote tonight and get
2:16:03 it moving on so
2:16:05 that's my comment thank you i just want
2:16:07 to provide a clarification um
2:16:09 councilmember d michelle it's not an
2:16:11 alternate motion you are moving it on
2:16:14 the amendment just provides specificity
2:16:16 for any member of the public to know
2:16:18 when it will be going to planning policy
2:16:20 so it's not changing the original motion
2:16:22 of moving it on it's moving it on
2:16:26 next is council member goodman
2:16:30 thank you councilmember goodman here
2:16:31 yeah the email with that we received
2:16:33 from somebody um it's is from connie and
2:16:37 she follows everything we do um so she's
2:16:39 gonna know but for most of the folks
2:16:41 they won't um over the years and council
2:16:44 member marks can weigh in on this um
2:16:48 and maybe this is a good thing that it's
2:16:50 coming up during my last meeting you
2:16:52 know we've talked a lot over the years
2:16:54 about council touches and how many
2:16:56 council touches something should have
2:16:58 before
2:16:59 it gets voted on so this is in keeping
2:17:02 with what i would call our historic
2:17:04 notion that something should have
2:17:10 not as many touches that's not that's
2:17:12 not what i want to say that you know we
2:17:14 should strive to have touches so the
2:17:16 public can have an opportunity to see
2:17:18 something it's about transparency and so
2:17:21 while i um while i agree that if you
2:17:27 aren't usually in touch with the council
2:17:29 you're probably not going to run to the
2:17:31 consent
2:17:33 um the list of consent items and find
2:17:35 something there that's meaty and
2:17:36 interesting to you
2:17:38 um but it
2:17:39 does more for transparency to have it on
2:17:42 there then it doesn't all it does is
2:17:44 notify the public in a technical way
2:17:48 that something
2:17:49 new is going to ppc that's the only goal
2:17:52 it doesn't delay anything
2:17:53 it just
2:17:54 and keeps with our historic tradition of
2:17:57 trying to have things have council
2:17:59 touches
2:18:00 um that's all it's intended to do
2:18:02 so it still moves it forward it doesn't
2:18:04 delay anything um it just has it beyond
2:18:06 the consent calendar so that in early
2:18:09 january the first meeting in january
2:18:12 so it just gets an extra council touch
2:18:14 that's it
2:18:15 thank you council president hunt
2:18:20 um thank you i i wanted to just explain
2:18:23 why i'm not going to support it and i
2:18:26 and it's partly because one of the
2:18:28 reasons why we have this process which
2:18:31 involves which
2:18:32 previously involved going to the ad hoc
2:18:34 ad hoc made a recommendation
2:18:35 recommendation came to council council
2:18:37 discusses at a meeting like this um
2:18:39 putting something on a different track
2:18:40 one of those reasons is urgency and i
2:18:42 would not want to um
2:18:45 i if it's urgent then i think we
2:18:48 and i think we have fulfilled the
2:18:50 transparency brief as far as having this
2:18:52 conversation
2:18:53 and then all of the materials would be
2:18:55 public going to
2:18:56 ppc so i think that adding an extra step
2:19:00 especially if the reason is around
2:19:01 urgency
2:19:03 in this case i don't think it affects
2:19:04 timing but i wouldn't i think it could
2:19:06 affect timing in other cases and um
2:19:10 i think there are there are definitely i
2:19:12 appreciate the sentiment about making
2:19:14 sure the community understands what's
2:19:16 being presented and we do have a web
2:19:17 page so i would i would say that i think
2:19:21 you know the web page about title 18
2:19:23 explaining more and adding to that is
2:19:26 probably a good place for people to get
2:19:27 information um like council members
2:19:30 walsh and gay michelle i i don't know
2:19:33 that i think we have other options
2:19:35 um for people to let them know about
2:19:37 what's uh these sorts of things and i
2:19:39 think we are also already covered in
2:19:41 this council meeting so thank you
2:19:44 thank you and just just a little point
2:19:48 about practice
2:19:49 committees and study sessions um
2:19:52 this is the tool
2:19:54 again don't worry about that not sure i
2:19:56 keep checking out this is the tool that
2:19:59 the council uses with
2:20:01 email
2:20:02 to do
2:20:03 immediately
2:20:04 is that you tell the public that this is
2:20:06 what you're sending
2:20:08 still
2:20:09 oh my goodness
2:20:12 that's that i think you're covering your
2:20:14 mic somehow with a piece of paper or
2:20:16 something yeah
2:20:18 there's it's just the computer
2:20:21 can you guys hear me now
2:20:25 just want to make sure that it's clear
2:20:26 with council because i know many council
2:20:28 members have only worked under the study
2:20:30 session model but this is the practice
2:20:32 that we use with committees this is the
2:20:35 way that you provided transparency is
2:20:37 assignments that went down to committees
2:20:40 came through on your council consent
2:20:42 calendar do not add it to the consent
2:20:44 calendar would actually not be following
2:20:46 your past practice and the fact that
2:20:48 it's not actually creating a delay
2:20:53 vote to just have it go directly would
2:20:56 a little
2:20:57 different than pro past council practice
2:21:01 um but anyway it looks like everybody
2:21:03 has made their comments so we'll call
2:21:05 for the vote
2:21:06 the amendment uh was to a friendly
2:21:09 amendment that the administration agreed
2:21:11 with was to direct the administration to
2:21:13 add the topic of the proposed change on
2:21:15 the consent calendar at the first
2:21:16 meeting in january for referral to the
2:21:20 and uh clerk if you could call the roll
2:21:22 call oh sorry zach did i miss you
2:21:24 council member hall if that's okay mayor
2:21:26 paulie uh this council member hall i
2:21:27 just wanted to make a quick comment um
2:21:29 so the other council members know where
2:21:30 my head's at but i guess i'm just not
2:21:32 tracking
2:21:33 with the people who've spoken against
2:21:36 the amendment why
2:21:39 why you're against the amendment i guess
2:21:40 i'm just not following why we wouldn't
2:21:42 do this so um
2:21:44 i wanted to give council members who are
2:21:46 in opposition to the amendment to an
2:21:48 opportunity to clarify if they want to
2:21:50 um and now you know where my head is
2:21:54 i'll keep my eye on that
2:22:00 council president hunt thank you um
2:22:03 well i am not in strong
2:22:06 opposition by any means i just um
2:22:10 i think probably this is something that
2:22:11 we should clarify when we go to our
2:22:14 discussion which we've talked about
2:22:15 before when we talk about you know how
2:22:16 we work and
2:22:18 what we do with committees and um
2:22:23 think that um
2:22:26 like i said so i think this is kind of a
2:22:29 well for me anyway because we are in the
2:22:30 study session and have been in for the
2:22:32 last two years i think this current is
2:22:35 current thing is a bit of a procedural
2:22:38 gray area um i think we could discuss it
2:22:41 uh i think we should evidently discuss
2:22:43 it um when we have the bigger discussion
2:22:45 about how we work and you know just
2:22:46 depending on what we do as far as
2:22:48 committees and and such and sending
2:22:51 things back but one of the things that
2:22:52 um was actually an issue with the
2:22:54 committees was
2:22:56 that we would send things to a
2:22:59 consent calendar and that created a
2:23:01 delay sometimes and so i think that's
2:23:03 something we should discuss but um it
2:23:06 uh there was that i recall that being
2:23:08 one of the concerns that was with
2:23:10 regards to the study session versus uh
2:23:13 committees versus study session so in
2:23:15 any event i'm not strongly opposed i
2:23:17 just think that it's a little bit of a
2:23:19 procedural gray area i think we should
2:23:20 have a discussion about it once we know
2:23:22 whether we're going to committees or not
2:23:23 but i wouldn't want to create a delay
2:23:25 especially when we are
2:23:27 bringing things forward in this case
2:23:29 because of urgency so that's all you see
2:23:32 the state of clerk has turned your
2:23:33 camera on is that for um the vote city
2:23:36 clerk or is there a clarification you
2:23:37 wanted to add
2:23:39 just for the vote mayor oh thank you
2:23:41 very much uh council member dean
2:23:43 michelle our council member wald did you
2:23:45 have any comments for councilmember hall
2:23:50 okay city clerk could you call the rule
2:23:52 caller
2:23:55 yes starting with council president hunt
2:24:04 council member walsh
2:24:07 council member d michelle
2:24:11 councilmember goodman
2:24:14 council member hall
2:24:18 that's three eyes three nays
2:24:21 the amendment fails
2:24:23 thank you so uh unless there's further
2:24:25 comments or questions i can read the
2:24:27 main motion again
2:24:31 uh oh council member marks point of
2:24:33 order
2:24:34 madam mayor uh do you have the option of
2:24:38 exercising a tie-breaking vote in this
2:24:40 situation
2:24:44 city clerk
2:24:47 there are very few circumstances where i
2:24:49 can vote but the city clerk absolutely
2:24:50 knows every one of them oh and i well i
2:24:53 might have to confirm with jim i this
2:24:55 doesn't involve the the payment of of
2:24:58 monies um so i know you're clear on that
2:25:00 count
2:25:03 jim can you help me out here
2:25:04 is the mayor clear in this case
2:25:08 sure um yes the mayor is clear to break
2:25:11 the tie-breaking or to cast the
2:25:13 tie-breaking vote the mayor can't vote
2:25:15 on any ordinance
2:25:17 any resolution for the payment of money
2:25:19 in any grant or revocation of any
2:25:21 franchise it's none of those things so
2:25:23 the mayor should be able to vote under
2:25:25 the circumstances
2:25:27 council member martz
2:25:29 funny funny point of order good for you
2:25:31 um didn't even cross my mind
2:25:34 um i'm very much in favor of having
2:25:37 things go through the consent calendar i
2:25:39 know as a person who participated in
2:25:41 council and prior to council i read the
2:25:43 consent calendar and i know that we have
2:25:45 advocates out in the business community
2:25:47 who read the consent calendar so i don't
2:25:49 believe we're hiding things when we put
2:25:51 it on consent i believe it's just a way
2:25:53 of notifying people of the timeliness of
2:25:55 what we're doing and so i would vote in
2:25:57 favor of the amendment
2:26:00 with the amendment carrying city clerk
2:26:03 do i have a revised motion to read
2:26:11 yes mayor if you don't mind i can read
2:26:13 it for you
2:26:14 that would be great thank you city clerk
2:26:17 so the motion on the floor is to approve
2:26:19 the placement of the step-back standards
2:26:21 found in the central isoqua development
2:26:24 and design standards on a separate track
2:26:26 from the title 18 land use code update
2:26:29 project
2:26:30 and direct the administration to add the
2:26:32 topic of the proposed change on the
2:26:34 consent calendar at the first meeting in
2:26:36 january for referral to the ppc
2:26:40 thank you so that is the new motion on
2:26:42 the table just checking the chat one
2:26:45 last time
2:26:49 and city clerk can you do a roll call
2:26:54 yes starting with council member marks
2:26:58 council member walsh
2:27:02 councilmember d michelle
2:27:06 councilmember goodman aye
2:27:09 councilmember hall
2:27:12 council president hunt
2:27:14 that's six i zero nays thank you city
2:27:17 clerk that passes unanimously
2:27:20 the next item and the last item of
2:27:22 business on our agenda this evening for
2:27:26 is good of the order and i know council
2:27:28 president hunt had some comments you'd
2:27:30 like to make
2:27:33 thank you madam mayor
2:27:35 well i wanted to take a moment to
2:27:38 express my gratitude to council for your
2:27:40 work over the last year there's been a
2:27:42 lot of thanks um and gratitude expressed
2:27:45 during this meeting because it's the
2:27:46 last meeting of our of the year um but i
2:27:50 i wanted to take a minute just to thank
2:27:52 council it's been uh these last two
2:27:54 years um and continuing to this year has
2:27:56 been very uncertain unprecedented times
2:27:59 we've had
2:28:00 a lot of challenges and a lot of our
2:28:03 community has experienced a lot of
2:28:04 challenges as well and i think it's
2:28:06 really a testament to
2:28:08 your dedication and your hard work which
2:28:11 i have so appreciated that we um have
2:28:13 been able to make progress on the
2:28:15 strategic plan and that we've been able
2:28:17 to make progress even this evening on
2:28:19 things like the climate action plan as
2:28:21 well as the frontline workers
2:28:23 pay so i i think we have
2:28:26 been able to
2:28:28 persevere
2:28:29 and get things done this year i wanted
2:28:32 to thank you all for that and for your
2:28:34 dedication and for serving the community
2:28:36 with such thoughtful dedication as you
2:28:40 thank you very much council president
2:28:42 hunt um everybody sitting up here knows
2:28:44 what these last years have been like and
2:28:47 it has been astounding
2:28:49 um i'm going to see if there's anything
2:28:51 else for good of the order otherwise i
2:28:53 have some upcoming council meeting notes
2:28:55 to make
2:28:57 okay i'll start reading uh the remaining
2:28:59 regular council meeting and both uh
2:29:02 council study sessions in december are
2:29:04 cancelled so on december 14th
2:29:20 but that's fine maybe it's hovering over
2:29:22 the space bar
2:29:25 starting from the beginning upcoming
2:29:27 council meetings
2:29:29 the remaining regular council meeting
2:29:31 and both council study sessions in
2:29:32 december are cancelled this is our last
2:29:35 regularly scheduled meeting
2:29:37 on december 14 the city council will
2:29:39 meet socially to share a meal at the
2:29:41 local restaurant big fish grill in the
2:29:43 highlands this is being noticed as a
2:29:46 special city council meeting the city
2:29:48 council will have its first regular
2:29:50 meeting of 2022
2:29:52 on january 3rd
2:29:54 there was an executive session held
2:29:56 earlier this evening and none other is
2:29:58 planned and there being no further
2:30:00 business in
2:30:03 this meeting is adjourned at 9 45
2:30:06 happy holidays everyone

Attendance

Council / Members (6)
Barbara de Michele
Stacy Goodman
Zach Hall
Victoria Hunt
Tola Marts
Lindsey Walsh
Excused
Chris Reh

Motions and votes (8)

Adopt Resolution No. 2021-18, adopting the Issaquah Climate Action Plan.
Moved by HUNT · seconded by DE MICHELE
Amend the plan to add the following target: Target: Reduce natural gas and other fossil fuel use in existing buildings by at least 20% by 2030 and 80% by 2050, compared to a 2017 baseline. MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED, 6-0. ( 12-06-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 8673 b)
Moved by HUNT · seconded by HALL
Carried 5-1
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh
Opposed: Goodman
Adopt Ordinance No. 2966, regarding Frontline Worker Incentive Pay for non-represented employees; and Ratify and authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Memorandums of Understanding with: the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Issaquah Police Officers' Associ…
Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WALSH
Carried 6-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh
Approve the placement of the step back standards found in the Central Issaquah Development & Design Standards on a separate track from the Title 18 land use code update project.
Moved by HUNT · seconded by WALSH
Amend the motion to add: Direct the Administration to add the topic of the proposed change on the Consent Calendar at the first meeting in January for referral to the PPC [Planning Policy Commission]. TIE VOTE ON AMENDMENT, 3-3 ( Councilmember Marts rose to a point of order, questioning whether the …
Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by MARTS
Carried 4-3
In favor: Goodman, Hall, Marts
Opposed: Barbara de Michele, Victoria Hunt, Lindsey Walsh
APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0896 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Dec. 6, 2021, $6,415,498.26; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Sept. 28, 2021; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Oct. 12, 2021; Approved. d) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, …
Moved by HUNT · seconded by WALSH
Carried 6-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh
Main motion as amended: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0896 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Dec. 6, 2021, $6,415,498.26; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Sept. 28, 2021; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Oct. 12, 2021; Approved. d) Minutes: City C…
Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by
Carried 5-1
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh
Opposed: Goodman
Main motion as amended: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0896 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Dec. 6, 2021, $6,415,498.26; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Sept. 28, 2021; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Study Session, Oct. 12, 2021; Approved. d) Minutes: City C…
Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by
Carried 6-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh