City Council Special Meeting · Tuesday, January 11, 2022 · City Council Digest

2. CLOSED SESSION

The purpose of this special meeting is to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss pending/potential litigation per RCW take approximately 60 minutes. Please note, Executive Sessions are closed to the public. Action, if needed, would occur during the open session of a Regular Council meeting

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0:33 ↗ welcome everyone i council president

0:35 ↗ walsh called the january 11th council

0:38 ↗ study session to order

0:40 ↗ due to the governor's proclamation 2028

0:43 ↗ relating to the copenhagen emergency and

0:45 ↗ open public meetings this meeting will

0:47 ↗ be held entirely remotely there are

0:49 ↗ multiple public comment opportunities at

0:51 ↗ tonight's meeting you can make comments

0:54 ↗ after the presentation and counsel

0:56 ↗ question and answer period

0:59 ↗ let's say at the beginning of the

1:00 ↗ meeting or you can make comments after

1:02 ↗ the presentation counsel question and

1:03 ↗ answer period on tonight's agenda items

1:06 ↗ um i'll also share a summary of any

1:08 ↗ comments that have been emailed

1:10 ↗ regarding any of the tonight's agenda

1:11 ↗ items

1:12 ↗ so i will now take a roll call of

1:15 ↗ council members in attendance please

1:17 ↗ stay here when i call your name council

1:19 ↗ member d michelle

1:20 ↗ here

1:22 ↗ deputy council president hall

1:24 ↗ here

1:25 ↗ councilmember hunt

1:26 ↗ here

1:28 ↗ council member joe

1:30 ↗ here

1:31 ↗ councilmember martz

1:33 ↗ here

1:34 ↗ council member ray

1:35 ↗ here

1:37 ↗ great

1:38 ↗ the first item on the agenda is public

1:40 ↗ comment so if there's anyone on the call

1:43 ↗ now who would like to make public

1:44 ↗ comments but didn't sign up to speak go

1:46 ↗ ahead and raise your virtual hand if

1:48 ↗ you're on the phone you can press star

1:50 ↗ three if you've joined by computer or

1:52 ↗ smartphone look for the hand icon it

1:55 ↗ varies where it is by device one option

1:58 ↗ may be to go into the participant panel

2:00 ↗ and choose the raised hand icon in the

2:02 ↗ lower right hand corner

2:04 ↗ so i will wait for a moment and see if

2:06 ↗ anyone wishes to raise their hand

2:14 ↗ and so clerk has anyone signed up to

2:17 ↗ speak or indicated a desire to speak

2:19 ↗ this evening

2:21 ↗ yes council president uh resident lisa

2:23 ↗ haynes has signed up to speak and i see

2:26 ↗ her in our list of attendees

2:28 ↗ um but for some reason uh i am unable to

2:32 ↗ make her a panelist

2:35 ↗ um looks like there's some audio

2:37 ↗ connection issues there

2:39 ↗ um lisa just disconnected so hopefully

2:43 ↗ she'll get a chance to reconnect

2:46 ↗ should we have anybody else in the

2:47 ↗ meantime

2:54 ↗ i do not see any other hands raised

2:56 ↗ council president

2:59 ↗ ms haynes has come back on but again

3:01 ↗ she is not able to be made a panelist

3:05 ↗ chris this is tisha are you able to

3:07 ↗ unmute lisa or is that also not an

3:09 ↗ option that is not an option

3:18 ↗ so

3:20 ↗ i was gonna say lisa you know if you can

3:22 ↗ hear us um i'm not sure if i think

3:25 ↗ you're interested in commenting on the

3:27 ↗ human services strategic plan update um

3:30 ↗ so

3:31 ↗ you can either call in and we'll see if

3:33 ↗ we can grab you now or if you're able to

3:36 ↗ call in and want to make a comment after

3:38 ↗ that uh specific item we'd be happy to

3:40 ↗ have the comment as well

3:43 ↗ tisha did you have any other

3:44 ↗ recommendations

3:47 ↗ my

3:47 ↗ oh it looks like her audio may have just

3:49 ↗ come online oh there we go

3:52 ↗ good

3:52 ↗ then it's not an issue at all

3:58 ↗ so we'll work to get you promoted and

4:01 ↗ see if we can get a comment from me lisa

4:04 ↗ ms haines i am unable to uh move you up

4:07 ↗ to panelist but uh i have unmuted you so

4:11 ↗ you should be able to speak

4:14 ↗ okay can you hear me okay

4:17 ↗ yes okay excellent thank you very much

4:19 ↗ thank you very much for giving me this

4:21 ↗ opportunity to speak at this meeting and

4:23 ↗ my name is lisa haynes i'm an issaquah

4:26 ↗ resident i live up on squat mountain

4:29 ↗ and i'm here to support the human

4:32 ↗ services strategic plan

4:34 ↗ i'm particularly excited about the where

4:37 ↗ are we going section and especially on

4:40 ↗ goal

4:41 ↗ and number 3b which focuses on

4:43 ↗ homelessness and particularly youth

4:46 ↗ homelessness in our community

4:49 ↗ so um i would like to draw your

4:51 ↗ attention to goal 3.7 which says

4:55 ↗ provide technical assistance

4:57 ↗ um at minimum quarterly to programs and

5:00 ↗ local providers actively working on

5:03 ↗ housing options for homeless youth and

5:05 ↗ or adults for example the garage ateen

5:08 ↗ cafe

5:10 ↗ and and so this is the bit that i'm

5:12 ↗ particularly excited about because um

5:15 ↗ did you know that in 2020 2021 school

5:19 ↗ year 140 teens in the greater issaquah

5:22 ↗ and

5:23 ↗ valley area were reported as homeless

5:27 ↗ this was before kovid before the

5:29 ↗ eviction protection order was changed

5:32 ↗ and this is only the number of students

5:35 ↗ and families that reported themselves as

5:38 ↗ homeless to to their schools

5:40 ↗ and i suspect that this number is

5:42 ↗ greater

5:44 ↗ so with the stigma around homelessness

5:46 ↗ their fear of law enforcement and cps

5:49 ↗ this number at best is an estimate

5:52 ↗ so i don't know if you know where the

5:54 ↗ nearest support is for our homeless

5:56 ↗ youth and but it's in kirkland

5:59 ↗ and

6:00 ↗ i don't want our young people to have to

6:02 ↗ leave our community their friends their

6:05 ↗ schools and their families in order to

6:07 ↗ get help

6:08 ↗ i would like them to be nurtured by this

6:10 ↗ amazing community

6:12 ↗ and supported by us

6:14 ↗ thank you all for the hard work and

6:16 ↗ consideration that has gone into this

6:18 ↗ plan i mean it's enormous and it has

6:21 ↗ some amazing own plans in it and

6:24 ↗ thank you for letting me have time to

6:27 ↗ speak

6:28 ↗ thank you

6:30 ↗ thank you lisa and chris has anybody

6:33 ↗ else signed up to speak or indicated a

6:36 ↗ desire to speak

6:38 ↗ no council president walsh they have not

6:40 ↗ okay fantastic

6:43 ↗ um i did miss reading the guidelines so

6:47 ↗ i'm going to go ahead and read that just

6:48 ↗ in case people are looking to comment at

6:51 ↗ the end of any of the agenda items so

6:54 ↗ citizen comments are an important part

6:56 ↗ of the public process and we do take

6:58 ↗ them very seriously and factor them into

7:00 ↗ the decisions we make please direct

7:02 ↗ comments to the whole council and not

7:04 ↗ individuals while this isn't a question

7:06 ↗ and answer session we'll contact you to

7:08 ↗ follow up if needed so when recognized

7:11 ↗ by the clerk unmute your microphone

7:13 ↗ state your name address and relationship

7:16 ↗ to city the city

7:17 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently limit

7:20 ↗ comments to five minutes and then remove

7:22 ↗ your microphone when done

7:25 ↗ as we experienced in this case if you

7:27 ↗ don't respond after your name or phone

7:28 ↗ number is called or if your connection

7:30 ↗ is lost unexpectedly the meeting will

7:32 ↗ need to proceed and we encourage you to

7:35 ↗ rejoin the meeting if able

7:37 ↗ personal attacks obscene language

7:39 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

7:41 ↗ behavior will not be permitted

7:44 ↗ so we'll keep that in mind in case

7:46 ↗ anybody wants to make any comments after

7:48 ↗ any of the agenda items but also as a

7:50 ↗ reminder at any point written comments

7:53 ↗ can be submitted to

7:55 ↗ the email city council at issaquah.gov

8:00 ↗ so

8:01 ↗ at this point we're going to go on to

8:03 ↗ the next item on our agenda which is id

8:07 ↗ 0 9 2 0

8:09 ↗ the human services strategic plan update

8:11 ↗ presented by monica negrilla our human

8:14 ↗ services manager so we'll give it over

8:16 ↗ to you monica

8:19 ↗ good evening and thank you so much

8:20 ↗ council president walsh

8:22 ↗ um allow me a moment to start

8:25 ↗ sharing my presentation

8:27 ↗ and

8:28 ↗ yet at the same time while i do that

8:30 ↗ i would like to introduce you to one of

8:32 ↗ our guests tonight

8:34 ↗ alexis mercedes-rink sub-regional

8:37 ↗ planning manager with the king county

8:39 ↗ regional homelessness authority uh

8:41 ↗ joined us tonight and she's here uh you

8:44 ↗ may remember her from her previous role

8:46 ↗ at the sound cities association

8:48 ↗ but alexis is here just to listen in

8:50 ↗ tonight as we've been working together

8:53 ↗ and collaborating

8:54 ↗ over the last few months

8:57 ↗ and coordinating with the regional

8:59 ↗ homelessness authority as you have seen

9:02 ↗ perhaps in the draft strategic plan that

9:04 ↗ we have in front of you tonight

9:07 ↗ component of that is response to

9:09 ↗ homelessness and so

9:11 ↗ we recognize that we cannot do it alone

9:13 ↗ and we would love to we coordinated

9:16 ↗ already and we would love to

9:18 ↗ continue to collaborate with um the

9:20 ↗ original authority

9:23 ↗ you may remember most recently about a

9:26 ↗ month ago we came to city council and we

9:28 ↗ sought city council's approval on the

9:31 ↗ emergency housing vouchers that the city

9:33 ↗ received

9:34 ↗ so that endeavor was through

9:36 ↗ coordination and collaboration with the

9:38 ↗ regional homelessness authority and with

9:40 ↗ alexis and her team so

9:42 ↗ um again alexis is here with us tonight

9:44 ↗ um she is available for uh in case

9:47 ↗ council has any questions um but we are

9:50 ↗ not going to put her on the spot and we

9:51 ↗ will not assign her any

9:53 ↗ uh

9:56 ↗ or necessarily um yeah report thing

9:59 ↗ duties tonight

10:01 ↗ okay so with that allow me i'm going to

10:03 ↗ share my screen and start the

10:05 ↗ presentation

10:11 ↗ while i do that again also in attendance

10:14 ↗ tonight you may see a few human services

10:17 ↗ commissioners or equity board members

10:20 ↗ and also some of the human services

10:22 ↗ staff

10:23 ↗ and of course you've seen already um my

10:25 ↗ direct supervisor and

10:27 ↗ jeff watling director of parks and

10:29 ↗ community services

10:30 ↗ we are all here if you have questions at

10:32 ↗ the end

10:35 ↗ okay

10:37 ↗ let's get started then

10:40 ↗ uh tonight council members uh humbly we

10:43 ↗ bring to you in draft format

10:45 ↗ is a class first human services

10:47 ↗ strategic plan

10:49 ↗ um the document in your agenda packet is

10:51 ↗ the result of our team's work um for the

10:54 ↗ past um six months

10:57 ↗ um and so our goal tonight is to provide

11:00 ↗ you with an update of the progress that

11:02 ↗ we made so far

11:03 ↗ and to seek input on the draft document

11:08 ↗ specifically the direction that we seek

11:11 ↗ and therefore the questions we post to

11:13 ↗ you tonight

11:14 ↗ are the following

11:16 ↗ one are the content areas in the draft

11:19 ↗ plan comprehensive and clear

11:22 ↗ are we heading in the right direction

11:25 ↗ two are the proposed goals are

11:27 ↗ reflective of the community needs

11:29 ↗ is there anything missing

11:31 ↗ and three does our approach reflect the

11:34 ↗ city's commitment to equity

11:39 ↗ i'm going to start off with providing a

11:41 ↗ brief background of this work

11:43 ↗ then i'm gonna move to talk a little bit

11:45 ↗ about our purpose

11:48 ↗ then i'm gonna provide a brief overview

11:50 ↗ of the development process

11:52 ↗ our approach to equity i'm gonna cover

11:54 ↗ and summarize a little bit the community

11:56 ↗ engagement we conducted and then i'm

11:59 ↗ gonna move um into a few details um on

12:02 ↗ the content area

12:04 ↗ um

12:05 ↗ but coming back and uh saying a little

12:07 ↗ bit about the background

12:10 ↗ one of the action items in the social

12:12 ↗ and economic vitality goal area of the

12:16 ↗ citywide strategic plan

12:18 ↗ is the adoption of a healthy community

12:20 ↗ strategy

12:22 ↗ work on the healthy community strategy

12:24 ↗ began in 2019

12:27 ↗ um however the project was paused and

12:29 ↗ then re-evaluated during the transition

12:32 ↗ of the human services functions

12:34 ↗ to the parks and community services

12:36 ↗ department

12:38 ↗ then um though the project was further

12:41 ↗ paused during the kobe 19 pandemic

12:44 ↗ and so we restarted this work in 2021

12:47 ↗ and then streamlined the scope into what

12:50 ↗ we call tonight a human services

12:52 ↗ strategic plan

12:55 ↗ this plan builds

12:57 ↗ upon

12:58 ↗ applicable information

13:00 ↗ from work conducted prior

13:02 ↗ on the healthy community strategy

13:05 ↗ as well as previous work conducted on a

13:07 ↗ community needs assessment that was

13:09 ↗ completed in 2017.

13:14 ↗ um

13:15 ↗ next a few

13:17 ↗ words about

13:18 ↗ what is the purpose

13:20 ↗ and what's the objective of our plan

13:25 ↗ really simply put

13:27 ↗ we hope that this plan will help us

13:29 ↗ inform the priorities in human services

13:32 ↗ for the next five years

13:34 ↗ we also hope that the plan will guide

13:36 ↗ the city's investments and allocations

13:38 ↗ of funds in human services

13:41 ↗ that it will provide us a roadmap for

13:43 ↗ policy decisions

13:45 ↗ and

13:46 ↗ inform advocacy and technical assistance

13:48 ↗ needs

13:52 ↗ um

13:53 ↗ as far as the development process i

13:56 ↗ would like to

13:57 ↗ touch a little bit on

13:59 ↗ the process we use to complete the work

14:02 ↗ this i want to just mention that this

14:04 ↗ was an internal process led by city

14:06 ↗ staff

14:07 ↗ we did not use a consultant

14:09 ↗ um

14:10 ↗ and so

14:12 ↗ we used the the skills and knowledge

14:14 ↗ that we have

14:15 ↗ about the community

14:17 ↗ we use the connections with our

14:19 ↗ community partners

14:21 ↗ to conduct the work in-house

14:23 ↗ so to speak

14:25 ↗ and so specifically

14:27 ↗ we conducted research of similar work

14:29 ↗ conducted in other jurisdictions

14:32 ↗ we analyzed any information historical

14:35 ↗ information um available internally at

14:37 ↗ the city

14:39 ↗ we conducted interviews with our

14:41 ↗ non-profit partners with local

14:43 ↗ businesses

14:45 ↗ and with other community partners

14:48 ↗ we had an online survey and an in-person

14:50 ↗ survey available for the community

14:53 ↗ and then we also analyzed and conducted

14:55 ↗ research on available external reports

14:59 ↗ and quantitative data such as the census

15:02 ↗ bureau or other data available at the

15:04 ↗ county or state level

15:09 ↗ our approach to equity

15:12 ↗ so in human services our work always

15:15 ↗ focuses on supporting those who are most

15:17 ↗ vulnerable and need support

15:20 ↗ um therefore our focus um already

15:24 ↗ is on the populations most impacted by

15:26 ↗ human services needs

15:28 ↗ um in this case um in issaquah about

15:31 ↗ 7.8

15:33 ↗ of the population lives in poverty

15:36 ↗ um

15:37 ↗ and then next um we

15:40 ↗ did additional research in trying to

15:42 ↗ identify the disproportionate

15:44 ↗ representation of the communities living

15:46 ↗ in poverty

15:47 ↗ and we discovered that 77 of those who

15:51 ↗ live in poverty in issaquah are

15:53 ↗ non-white

15:55 ↗ most of the communities are hispanic

15:57 ↗ latino and those who identify as other

15:59 ↗ race

16:01 ↗ and so

16:02 ↗ with this focus and knowledge then we

16:05 ↗ focused on proposing goals and

16:06 ↗ interventions that that help address the

16:09 ↗ inequities

16:14 ↗ moving on um

16:16 ↗ a few words about the community

16:18 ↗ engagement

16:20 ↗ that we conducted for the plan

16:22 ↗ um as i mentioned a few minutes ago we

16:25 ↗ had an online survey

16:26 ↗ um

16:28 ↗ actually for the first time we conducted

16:30 ↗ a service in english in uh chinese and

16:32 ↗ in spanish

16:34 ↗ and we had um nearly 250 um respondents

16:39 ↗ uh we conducted over 50 interviews with

16:42 ↗ our community non-profit providers

16:44 ↗ businesses um faith-based communities

16:47 ↗ um

16:48 ↗ and other community partners

16:50 ↗ we conducted seven focus groups with

16:53 ↗ different populations and age groups

16:56 ↗ and

16:56 ↗ six community workshops

17:02 ↗ so moving on to the content areas

17:06 ↗ of the strategic plan

17:09 ↗ um

17:12 ↗ as you see um

17:14 ↗ on the screen and also in the draft plan

17:17 ↗ um

17:19 ↗ we started with

17:21 ↗ a brief summary of who we are

17:24 ↗ um

17:25 ↗ reviewed the city of issaquah's

17:27 ↗ characteristics and demographics

17:30 ↗ we touched on our commitment to equity

17:33 ↗ um

17:34 ↗ we developed on the human services roles

17:36 ↗ and functions

17:38 ↗ um here i'm just gonna pause to

17:40 ↗ highlight uh we then identified uh five

17:43 ↗ different roles for the human services

17:46 ↗ so we identify as being policy framers

17:50 ↗ we are a funder

17:51 ↗ we are connector

17:53 ↗ we are an advocate and we are supporter

17:57 ↗ we support and advocate and connect our

17:59 ↗ residents and our nonprofit partners

18:03 ↗ we also provide funding in human

18:05 ↗ services and then um we are also policy

18:08 ↗ framers as we bring different policy

18:11 ↗ initiatives um to you uh city council

18:16 ↗ next in the draft plan um we moved on to

18:19 ↗ talk and provide a brief overview just

18:21 ↗ as i did a few minutes ago

18:23 ↗ um in more details we talked about the

18:27 ↗ plan development

18:29 ↗ about the guiding principles for human

18:31 ↗ services

18:33 ↗ we had a pretty good summary of the

18:35 ↗ community engagement we conducted

18:37 ↗ um and then next we moved to um on to

18:41 ↗ what we learned and

18:43 ↗ we described the information that we

18:46 ↗ learned during the community engagement

18:47 ↗ process

18:49 ↗ here we focused on on two different

18:50 ↗ areas

18:52 ↗ on one end we highlighted the

18:54 ↗ community resources

18:56 ↗ that exist and the services that exist

18:58 ↗ in our community

19:00 ↗ and then we moved on to highlight the

19:02 ↗ gaps or the barriers the needs and that

19:05 ↗ the community

19:07 ↗ experiences and i'm going to talk about

19:08 ↗ that in just a few moments

19:12 ↗ um

19:13 ↗ following um the

19:16 ↗ information on what we learned and the

19:17 ↗ resources and needs in our community we

19:20 ↗ used the the gaps that we identified to

19:23 ↗ to create the goals and the strategic

19:25 ↗ actions

19:27 ↗ um

19:28 ↗ so um when we talk about where we are

19:31 ↗ going um we started with the human

19:33 ↗ services division uh we focused on

19:39 ↗ identifying the focus areas the goals

19:41 ↗ strategic approaches and the actions

19:44 ↗ we talked a little bit about the funding

19:46 ↗ process i'm going to touch on that in

19:47 ↗ just a few minutes

19:50 ↗ and we talked about partnerships and

19:51 ↗ connections

19:53 ↗ uh needed to accomplish these goals

19:55 ↗ um and last but not least uh we talked

19:57 ↗ about how are we gonna measure

19:59 ↗ uh and um we identified next steps i'm

20:03 ↗ gonna talk in a few more details just in

20:05 ↗ a minute here

20:08 ↗ so

20:09 ↗ diving deeper into the content areas as

20:12 ↗ i mentioned uh

20:14 ↗ in the section on what we learned from

20:16 ↗ our community

20:17 ↗ we focused on both highlighting the

20:19 ↗ existing resources and services but also

20:23 ↗ summarizing the community needs

20:25 ↗ identified during the community

20:26 ↗ engagement process

20:28 ↗ these service needs were grouped within

20:32 ↗ four different themes

20:34 ↗ um

20:35 ↗ that later then became identified

20:38 ↗ priorities or focus areas in developing

20:40 ↗ the strategic plan

20:43 ↗ the criteria that we use for

20:44 ↗ prioritizing the community needs

20:46 ↗ included

20:48 ↗ a community impact

20:50 ↗ meaning the degree to which a barrier

20:53 ↗ impacts the community at large

20:55 ↗ and specific populations in particular

20:59 ↗ we also considered service availability

21:01 ↗ and then we also did a swot analysis

21:04 ↗ focusing on strength weaknesses

21:06 ↗ opportunities threats

21:08 ↗ um so as you might have seen already

21:12 ↗ most of the information it's not new

21:14 ↗ information or earth shattering

21:17 ↗ in the sense of us discovering a need

21:19 ↗ that we did not know about

21:21 ↗ it rather confirmed some of the previous

21:23 ↗ findings um or some of the information

21:26 ↗ available regionally and nationally

21:29 ↗ especially after almost two years of a

21:31 ↗ worldwide pandemic

21:34 ↗ so uh we did focus on including however

21:37 ↗ information that was based on

21:39 ↗ understanding um

21:42 ↗ and the long term impacts um

21:46 ↗ uh that will not be resolved just in the

21:47 ↗ next couple of months so in other words

21:49 ↗ we will really try to focus on things

21:51 ↗ that are lasting and have a long-term

21:53 ↗ impact

21:55 ↗ and so with that the the four themes

21:57 ↗ that we identified

21:58 ↗ and grouped

22:01 ↗ based on the trends

22:02 ↗ um that we noticed in in people's

22:05 ↗ feedback and comments

22:07 ↗ were physical and behavioral halt um

22:10 ↗ housing continuum

22:11 ↗ here included are affordable housing

22:16 ↗ or housing affordability

22:18 ↗ and homelessness

22:20 ↗ community resources and language access

22:22 ↗ and culture specific services

22:25 ↗ i'm gonna dive in just for a few minutes

22:27 ↗ um i'm gonna say a little bit more about

22:30 ↗ all of these themes um i'm not gonna

22:33 ↗ dive into there's a lot of detail as you

22:36 ↗ um i have seen in the in the draft plan

22:38 ↗ and we are available to answer questions

22:40 ↗ but

22:41 ↗ i'm just going to provide a high level

22:43 ↗ overview

22:44 ↗ so for the physical and behavioral

22:46 ↗ health section

22:48 ↗ um

22:48 ↗ um i don't think that this is unique to

22:50 ↗ issaquah or even is a unique to the

22:54 ↗ region

22:55 ↗ however there are a few details that are

22:57 ↗ unique to issaquah um so um the trend

23:01 ↗ that we identified was that there's a

23:03 ↗ high prevalence of mental health

23:04 ↗ distress among all groups

23:06 ↗ um so it did not matter what age group

23:09 ↗ what socioeconomic status there's a high

23:12 ↗ prevalence of

23:13 ↗ mental health distress among everyone

23:17 ↗ there's a

23:19 ↗ very significant shortage of in mental

23:22 ↗ health workforce

23:24 ↗ um there are limited or no public

23:26 ↗ behavioral health services in issaquah

23:28 ↗ so this is unique to issaquah um

23:31 ↗ there are just no behavioral health

23:33 ↗ providers both mental health and

23:34 ↗ substance use

23:36 ↗ these are their providers in issaquah

23:38 ↗ who take public

23:43 ↗ funding or

23:44 ↗ public health insurance

23:47 ↗ there's also a lack of culturally

23:48 ↗ specific behavioral health services in

23:50 ↗ issaquah

23:52 ↗ we also heard that

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23:57 ↗ our community members have difficulties

23:59 ↗ navigating the medical systems in place

24:01 ↗ in particular

24:03 ↗ is just overwhelming and when they have

24:06 ↗ additional barriers then it just makes

24:09 ↗ it extra challenging

24:11 ↗ there's a limited use of preventative

24:13 ↗ care

24:14 ↗ an increase in urgent care use and high

24:16 ↗ medical bills

24:20 ↗ here we've been collaborating with our

24:21 ↗ partners at swedish um and as you might

24:24 ↗ have seen in

24:25 ↗ in in the plan we we do intend to

24:28 ↗ coordinate and collaborate with them

24:31 ↗ and also um there's a community crisis

24:34 ↗ response system change

24:36 ↗ um again this is not unique to issaquah

24:38 ↗ but it does impact issaquah

24:41 ↗ um

24:43 ↗ and so um i think these are the the main

24:46 ↗ trends for the physical and behavioral

24:48 ↗ health section

24:49 ↗ uh moving on to the housing continuum

24:51 ↗ specifically housing affordability and

24:53 ↗ homelessness

24:54 ↗ uh we noticed uh

24:56 ↗ and we heard um again no news

24:59 ↗ limited affordable and supportive

25:01 ↗ housing services available in issaquah

25:04 ↗ we also heard that high rent

25:07 ↗ increase forces renters to move out of

25:09 ↗ the area

25:10 ↗ just as anecdotal information as i was

25:13 ↗ mentioning just earlier about the

25:15 ↗ um

25:16 ↗ emergency housing vouchers um our staff

25:19 ↗ amir

25:20 ↗ is currently working with um

25:22 ↗ five community members

25:24 ↗ who received so far

25:26 ↗ approval for the emergency housing

25:28 ↗ vouchers and unfortunately we just

25:30 ↗ cannot find anything in issaquah

25:33 ↗ that they can afford um

25:36 ↗ everything it's at least a couple of

25:38 ↗ hundred dollars over

25:40 ↗ and the limit that the vouchers pay

25:42 ↗ um so that's just anecdotal and then yes

25:44 ↗ of course we will continue to look in

25:46 ↗ other areas as well um it's just

25:48 ↗ it's it's hard it's very very

25:51 ↗ um

25:53 ↗ expensive

25:55 ↗ we also heard about limited resources

25:56 ↗ for aging in place we addressed that a

25:59 ↗ little bit um lack of services and of

26:02 ↗ course um um last but not least for sure

26:05 ↗ lack of service resources for

26:06 ↗ individuals who are homeless in issaquah

26:08 ↗ um here i would like

26:12 ↗ well i'm gonna move forward and then i'm

26:14 ↗ gonna pause because i was asked to

26:15 ↗ provide additional information and i'm

26:17 ↗ gonna pause just a little bit to do that

26:18 ↗ but allow me just to say a few more

26:20 ↗ words about

26:21 ↗ um

26:22 ↗ the other two themes uh community

26:25 ↗ resources um as um

26:28 ↗ um

26:29 ↗ you had heard in the other section as

26:31 ↗ well uh there are limited cultural

26:33 ↗ services and language access services

26:36 ↗ there's a lack of providers that are

26:38 ↗ indigenous to culture and language

26:40 ↗ um

26:41 ↗ there are community members who feel

26:42 ↗ stigmatized not welcomed and not safe

26:46 ↗ um

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26:48 ↗ uh they're

26:49 ↗ just limited job readiness and workforce

26:51 ↗ development services

26:53 ↗ um

26:54 ↗ lack of awareness of the existing

26:56 ↗ resources in

26:57 ↗ available

26:59 ↗ and then also we heard about the lack of

27:01 ↗ community resource center in issaquah

27:03 ↗ and definitely last but not least um

27:06 ↗ culture access and um

27:08 ↗ language access

27:10 ↗ um

27:11 ↗ again we heard this in

27:12 ↗ all the sections about limited language

27:14 ↗ access and culture specific services

27:17 ↗ lack of providers that are indigenous to

27:18 ↗ culture and language again and the same

27:21 ↗ feeling of stigmatization

27:24 ↗ um

27:25 ↗ and so here i'm gonna pause before

27:26 ↗ moving to the next slide since we talked

27:28 ↗ a little bit about homelessness and

27:30 ↗ deputy council president hall reached

27:32 ↗ out earlier to ask for a brief update

27:35 ↗ on our most recent um

27:38 ↗ homelessness response during the severe

27:41 ↗ weather emergency and so with your

27:43 ↗ permission i would just like to provide

27:45 ↗ like a one minute update on that on

27:47 ↗ lessons learned

27:49 ↗ so as you may recall um

27:52 ↗ during the severe weather event between

27:54 ↗ december 23rd and january 5th

27:57 ↗ we worked with community members who are

27:58 ↗ homeless and we sheltered 20

28:01 ↗ individuals that not hall 6

28:04 ↗ and so while that was

28:06 ↗ because we were able to plan in advance

28:08 ↗ and

28:09 ↗ we were able to coordinate not only with

28:12 ↗ our regional partners at the regional

28:13 ↗ homelessness authority but also

28:15 ↗ internally with our emergency management

28:18 ↗ um

28:19 ↗ team um we were able to get in accurate

28:23 ↗ information regarding temperatures and

28:24 ↗ whether we were able to plan in advance

28:27 ↗ and therefore

28:28 ↗ before the severe weather hit and the

28:30 ↗ heavy snow and low temperatures hit we

28:33 ↗ were able to already um have um people

28:36 ↗ um in a safe place sheltered

28:39 ↗ um however there were also a few other

28:41 ↗ lessons that we learned

28:43 ↗ in particular

28:45 ↗ that often when we work with individuals

28:48 ↗ who are chronically homeless

28:49 ↗ the level of need

28:51 ↗ goes beyond sheltering

28:53 ↗ and so for example

28:55 ↗ of the 20

28:57 ↗ people who were demotal

29:00 ↗ two required hospitalizations for

29:02 ↗ serious medical conditions one of them

29:04 ↗ actually

29:06 ↗ had undergone surgery

29:08 ↗ so um we helped coordinate that

29:11 ↗ um 16 of the folks depended on metro for

29:14 ↗ transportation so they really um during

29:17 ↗ the snow

29:19 ↗ transmission transportation is limited

29:20 ↗ so they were really isolated to the room

29:23 ↗ um which then also made it more

29:25 ↗ difficult to try to

29:27 ↗ go out to um

29:29 ↗ look for food and so um

29:33 ↗ four of them were unable to access food

29:34 ↗ outside of the meals um just because of

29:37 ↗ also not just transportation but also no

29:40 ↗ financial resources whatsoever

29:44 ↗ and also um four of them um also had

29:47 ↗ needs for drug or alcohol treatment

29:49 ↗ which was not available during that time

29:51 ↗ um so i'm very very thankful um for our

29:54 ↗ team uh it was a team effort uh amir did

29:57 ↗ a fantastic job coordinating he checked

29:59 ↗ in with um everyone on a daily basis he

30:02 ↗ coordinated with the meals program we

30:04 ↗ are very very grateful for the meals

30:05 ↗ program for transporting food to the

30:08 ↗ hotel when when members could not go to

30:11 ↗ the meals

30:13 ↗ for those with no cell phones we are

30:15 ↗ grateful for the time that we are able

30:17 ↗ to coordinate with them

30:19 ↗ and then actually really work on

30:21 ↗ long-term planning

30:23 ↗ um and so that was also very very

30:25 ↗ helpful

30:26 ↗ um

30:27 ↗ having knowledge of where the

30:28 ↗ encampments were in advance helped us

30:30 ↗ again uh plan plan in advance and make

30:33 ↗ sure that everyone was safety because

30:35 ↗ then we know where to find folks

30:37 ↗ um and also as i mentioned very very

30:40 ↗ grateful emir did an excellent job um

30:42 ↗ and it was also a team effort um when

30:45 ↗ amir was on vacation uh hannah helped

30:47 ↗ coordinate

30:48 ↗ um the checkout process um our parks

30:51 ↗ ranger peter healthy transportation

30:54 ↗ folks from from the motel during

30:55 ↗ checkout process

30:57 ↗ uh i helped cover when staff were on

30:59 ↗ vacations weekends whatever we could it

31:01 ↗ was a team effort and i'm very very

31:03 ↗ grateful for that

31:04 ↗ and thank you for that opportunity to

31:06 ↗ pause and provide that um input

31:11 ↗ with that i realize i'm talking a lot um

31:13 ↗ but i promise i have just it's a

31:15 ↗ long project

31:17 ↗ i have just a little bit more and then

31:18 ↗ i'm available for questions but at the

31:20 ↗ same time i can always pause if there

31:22 ↗ are questions in the middle

31:23 ↗ um if they're non none though i will

31:26 ↗ just um continue so i can get through

31:29 ↗ the presentation and then

31:30 ↗ we can take questions after

31:33 ↗ so moving on based on the community

31:36 ↗ um

31:38 ↗ engagement process and the information

31:40 ↗ that we learned we took that information

31:42 ↗ as i mentioned earlier

31:44 ↗ we prioritized already during the

31:46 ↗ community needs the the focus areas and

31:49 ↗ then we just turned those into

31:52 ↗ our priority areas right so we started

31:54 ↗ always with the vision and our hope for

31:56 ↗ issaquah and that's at the foundation um

32:00 ↗ of the goals moving forward

32:02 ↗ um the only change that you might have

32:04 ↗ seen compared to the community that i

32:06 ↗ just covered um you might have seen that

32:08 ↗ we had four

32:10 ↗ areas we had physical and behavioral

32:11 ↗ health housing continuum language access

32:14 ↗ and community resources moving forward

32:17 ↗ when we identify goals we added a fifth

32:20 ↗ focus area we added overarching

32:22 ↗ community needs and that is mainly

32:24 ↗ because we um

32:27 ↗ noticed that um there were a few trends

32:30 ↗ that would come up

32:32 ↗ the same information would come up in in

32:34 ↗ each of the other sections so instead of

32:36 ↗ just repeating a goal or a strategic

32:38 ↗ action multiple times we just created

32:40 ↗ this overarching community needs and i'm

32:43 ↗ gonna

32:44 ↗ give you an example in just a minute

32:46 ↗ um

32:48 ↗ but following these focus areas we then

32:50 ↗ identify the goals right what do we hope

32:52 ↗ to accomplish in each of these focus

32:54 ↗ areas so that's kind of like describing

32:56 ↗ the what and

32:58 ↗ we identify

33:00 ↗ identified five overarching goals

33:04 ↗ um

33:05 ↗ and those are the high level goals

33:07 ↗ after that uh we went and dove deeper

33:10 ↗ into identifying the strategic approach

33:13 ↗ um basically this is the how right

33:16 ↗ what's the method that we will use to

33:18 ↗ reach those goals and we identified

33:21 ↗ specific measurable goals for each of

33:23 ↗ the action items

33:25 ↗ we used the smart model

33:28 ↗ you may be familiar

33:29 ↗ it stands for specific measurable

33:31 ↗ achievable realistic and time limited

33:35 ↗ so just going through in in the draft

33:38 ↗ strategic plan there are quite a few uh

33:40 ↗ of them i'm just going to cover one as

33:42 ↗ an example

33:43 ↗ um on kind of like how we went about

33:45 ↗ this

33:46 ↗ um so for example in uh what i was just

33:49 ↗ mentioning in the overarching community

33:51 ↗ needs uh we start that's the focus area

33:54 ↗ we start by defining and identifying

33:57 ↗ what that is

33:58 ↗ um then we move into um the goal

34:02 ↗ um

34:03 ↗ and then next we identify the strategic

34:05 ↗ approach for that goal we describe it

34:08 ↗ and then we go um into identifying a

34:11 ↗ specific action i want to note that they

34:14 ↗ might their mind for one goal there

34:16 ↗ might be multiple strategic actions

34:18 ↗ um and so in this case for example the

34:21 ↗ first strategic action is to create

34:23 ↗ opportunities for regional service

34:25 ↗ providers to expand programs to issaquah

34:28 ↗ prioritizing behavioral health providers

34:30 ↗ services that help address homelessness

34:33 ↗ and culture and language

34:35 ↗ specific organizations and then we dive

34:37 ↗ even deeper

34:39 ↗ noting that

34:40 ↗ we want to support the creation of a

34:41 ↗ physical resource center a multi-service

34:44 ↗ center

34:45 ↗ or identify rent subsidies that will

34:48 ↗ facilitate a new service locations in

34:50 ↗ issaquah

34:52 ↗ um with the same focus that i just

34:54 ↗ mentioned

34:55 ↗ um then we also again dive very

34:57 ↗ specifically into noting that

35:00 ↗ we will actively engage at least two new

35:02 ↗ service providers per quarter to

35:04 ↗ facilitate communication and encourage

35:06 ↗ expansion plans to issaquah

35:08 ↗ uh we identify a start date and then a

35:11 ↗ revision and target date

35:13 ↗ uh you might have seen on

35:14 ↗ in the entire draft we do

35:17 ↗ uh note a revision and target date that

35:19 ↗ is before the five year plan

35:21 ↗ um we just found that it's gonna be too

35:24 ↗ long of a plan without having a point

35:28 ↗ where we do a check and see how is this

35:30 ↗ going are we making progre progress do

35:33 ↗ we need to edit evaluate or evaluate or

35:35 ↗ refocus

35:36 ↗ um so that's the reason why we

35:38 ↗ identified for each of them a target

35:40 ↗ date

35:41 ↗ that is different than just five years

35:44 ↗ so and with that that was just one of

35:46 ↗ the

35:47 ↗ examples for the strategic actions that

35:50 ↗ we identified in the plan but to

35:51 ↗ summarize really um on the strategic

35:55 ↗ actions and goals in in our

35:58 ↗ first draft

36:00 ↗ can be summarized as follows

36:03 ↗ we want to support expansion of new

36:05 ↗ services to issaquah

36:07 ↗ we want to sustain existing services in

36:10 ↗ issaquah

36:11 ↗ we want to facilitate community access

36:13 ↗ to existing and new services

36:16 ↗ and with that we want to prioritize

36:18 ↗ equity culture and language access

36:23 ↗ onto a few words about the financial

36:26 ↗ impact of the plan um we identify

36:31 ↗ three

36:34 ↗ categories

36:36 ↗ for

36:36 ↗ all of the strategic actions we believe

36:39 ↗ that they can be implemented either

36:41 ↗ through

36:41 ↗ one initiatives that can be addressed

36:44 ↗ with existing and forthcoming human

36:46 ↗ services staffing resources

36:48 ↗ as you may recall um a year ago human

36:51 ↗ services functions were still the one

36:54 ↗ full-time staff however since then we

36:56 ↗ created a division and we have

36:58 ↗ additional staffing resources and so

37:00 ↗ there are several community events

37:02 ↗ coordination advocacy um technical

37:06 ↗ assistance

37:07 ↗ needs in the community and help with

37:09 ↗ access to resources that we believe we

37:11 ↗ can address with the existing staffing

37:13 ↗ resources

37:14 ↗ um

37:15 ↗ second bucket we believe that there are

37:17 ↗ initiatives that can be funded through

37:19 ↗ the human services biennial grants

37:22 ↗ we are getting ready for the application

37:25 ↗ process for the 2023-2024

37:28 ↗ grand cycle

37:30 ↗ and so we hope that the strategic plan

37:32 ↗ will inform

37:35 ↗ those priorities for for the grant

37:37 ↗ funding process

37:38 ↗ and third but not least also um we

37:41 ↗ believe that there are initiatives

37:42 ↗ especially um

37:44 ↗ just like the one that i um provided as

37:47 ↗ an example uh that are um require

37:50 ↗ identification of additional one-time

37:52 ↗ funds or ongoing funding sources either

37:56 ↗ through city budget through federal

37:57 ↗ relief funds through county state or

38:00 ↗ other funds

38:02 ↗ grants perhaps private donations

38:05 ↗ um

38:06 ↗ and so forth

38:09 ↗ um

38:11 ↗ and

38:12 ↗ with that

38:13 ↗ um just a few words about timing and

38:16 ↗ next steps well we are here

38:20 ↗ we are at the council study session

38:22 ↗ tonight um and we are very very grateful

38:24 ↗ for your time and your input tonight

38:27 ↗ um following the study session our hope

38:29 ↗ is to go back to the human services

38:31 ↗ commission

38:32 ↗ and

38:33 ↗ have a

38:34 ↗ additional conversations

38:36 ↗ with with the commission on the draft

38:39 ↗ we also hope to um

38:41 ↗ make the draft strategic plan

38:44 ↗ more public and provide opportunities

38:47 ↗ for community engagement for about a

38:50 ↗ month

38:51 ↗ at the end starting

38:53 ↗ this week

38:54 ↗ to provide opportunities for the

38:56 ↗ community to provide additional input

38:58 ↗ next we hope to come back to

39:01 ↗ the human services commission in case

39:02 ↗ they have any additional and final

39:04 ↗ thoughts

39:05 ↗ and um our hope is ready to come back to

39:08 ↗ city council on february 22nd

39:11 ↗ uh with um a hope to adopt the final

39:14 ↗ human services strategic plan

39:17 ↗ um

39:18 ↗ we are hoping to have the plan adopted

39:20 ↗ in time for the human for the 2023-2024

39:25 ↗ human services grand cycle that opens

39:28 ↗ this year um in march

39:31 ↗ and so

39:32 ↗ it is a pretty tight timeline

39:35 ↗ and we look forward to hearing your

39:36 ↗ input and your thoughts tonight

39:39 ↗ with that just um a brief repeat of

39:42 ↗ our direction thought before we

39:45 ↗ go into

39:47 ↗ questions and other public comments

39:49 ↗ so the questions in front of you tonight

39:51 ↗ council members are

39:53 ↗ the following are the content areas in

39:55 ↗ the draft

39:57 ↗ plan comprehensive and clear

39:59 ↗ are we headed in the right direction

40:02 ↗ are the proposed goals reflective of the

40:04 ↗ community needs is there anything

40:06 ↗ missing

40:07 ↗ and does our approach reflect the city's

40:09 ↗ commitment to equity

40:12 ↗ and with that we are almost ready for

40:14 ↗ questions and answers i just also just

40:16 ↗ want to highlight that um really the

40:18 ↗ plan um we believe it is just the

40:21 ↗ beginning and not

40:23 ↗ a final end

40:24 ↗ um

40:25 ↗ we do hope that the plan is um

40:28 ↗ dynamic we also want to

40:30 ↗ make a note that it is we believe it is

40:32 ↗ scalable

40:34 ↗ um additional uh budget items we hope to

40:37 ↗ address during the budget process

40:40 ↗ um but certainly we are available for

40:42 ↗ questions and before

40:44 ↗ i'm gonna

40:46 ↗ stop talking because this is an internal

40:48 ↗ process i would like to

40:51 ↗ um thank a few folks i just need to stop

40:54 ↗ sharing here for a moment

40:56 ↗ um

40:57 ↗ we have a few internal staff that really

41:00 ↗ were um

41:02 ↗ um

41:04 ↗ life saving i to say in helping us

41:06 ↗ complete the draft uh plan um

41:09 ↗ hannah roberts she's our human services

41:12 ↗ coordinator she could not be here

41:13 ↗ tonight she's on a well-deserved

41:15 ↗ vacation i'm so so glad that she is on

41:17 ↗ vacation uh but she hopefully she will

41:20 ↗ be back here at the next meeting uh she

41:22 ↗ completed um the

41:24 ↗ [Music]

41:26 ↗ community engagement process um

41:28 ↗ um she took the lead on it and mostly it

41:31 ↗ was her um project um amir and marisol

41:35 ↗ did also a tremendous job in in helping

41:37 ↗ with engaging um homeless folks in isa

41:41 ↗ in helping engage those who don't speak

41:43 ↗ english so very very grateful for my

41:46 ↗ team

41:47 ↗ and also very very grateful for two

41:50 ↗ other staff at the city thomas rush our

41:53 ↗ communications coordinator he helped

41:55 ↗ with the visual um anything if you like

41:58 ↗ anything that's visual it's pretty it's

42:02 ↗ our

42:02 ↗ uh

42:03 ↗ thomas our communications coordinator

42:06 ↗ and we also um

42:08 ↗ worked and coordinated with

42:10 ↗ dale markey cramp

42:12 ↗ if you remember she's our management

42:15 ↗ panelist and also the one who um

42:18 ↗ coordinates the

42:20 ↗ uh citywide um

42:23 ↗ measure

42:23 ↗ outcome measures and so we checked in

42:25 ↗ with her when we created the outcome

42:27 ↗ measures and so very very grateful for

42:30 ↗ all of them and of course last but not

42:32 ↗ least uh jeff who i would like to ask if

42:35 ↗ he has anything to add jeff did i miss

42:37 ↗ something jeff is my direct supervisor

42:39 ↗ and the director of parks and community

42:41 ↗ services so

42:43 ↗ jeff uh boy monica did you miss anything

42:46 ↗ no other than terrific work um

42:50 ↗ just thank you council good evening um

42:53 ↗ again this i think this this

42:55 ↗ presentation certainly represents the

42:57 ↗ work that went into this effort

42:59 ↗ again i would echo hannah roberts and

43:01 ↗ monica just did such a great job of this

43:04 ↗ i'd also just quickly want to highlight

43:06 ↗ i think the journey that

43:08 ↗ we've been on since january of 2020 as

43:12 ↗ human services made this reorganization

43:14 ↗ transition into parks and community

43:16 ↗ services

43:17 ↗ um

43:18 ↗ i would just highlight and emphasize

43:19 ↗ what monica said that in many ways in

43:22 ↗ fact monica i think it was our probably

43:23 ↗ first second and third conversations in

43:26 ↗ that that we were hey what do we want to

43:27 ↗ do about the healthy community strategy

43:29 ↗ and how do we

43:30 ↗ bring some framework around that and how

43:32 ↗ do we help that really shape human

43:34 ↗ services conversations and i think

43:36 ↗ hearing from you council and from

43:38 ↗ administration and from the community

43:40 ↗ there was a real

43:41 ↗ desire to start to put some strategy

43:43 ↗ around

43:45 ↗ human services and how we deliver human

43:47 ↗ services

43:48 ↗ programs

43:49 ↗ along comes a pandemic

43:52 ↗ that did not create our human services

43:53 ↗ need

43:54 ↗ their human services needs before the

43:56 ↗ pandemic certainly daring and will

43:58 ↗ continue to be after and so

44:00 ↗ just great work by staff

44:03 ↗ in this effort

44:05 ↗ like our other strategic plans as monica

44:08 ↗ highlighted this is not a budget mandate

44:11 ↗ this is intended to be actionable it's

44:13 ↗ intended to be scalable

44:16 ↗ recognizing there will be future funding

44:18 ↗ conversations

44:20 ↗ really through every operating budget

44:21 ↗ and how we want to invest what we want

44:23 ↗ to invest in human services this plan is

44:26 ↗ really intended to whatever decision we

44:28 ↗ make as a community as a council

44:30 ↗ the investments we want to make we're

44:32 ↗ doing it strategically and we're doing

44:34 ↗ it within some priorities so

44:36 ↗ great work monica thanks a lot

44:38 ↗ that's it

44:43 ↗ well excellent so at this point we have

44:46 ↗ heard from monica we've gotten the

44:49 ↗ presentation there

44:51 ↗ the next point is council question and

44:54 ↗ answers uh followed by public comment

44:56 ↗ and then ultimately council deliberation

44:59 ↗ and well direction

45:01 ↗ so do we

45:03 ↗ i see we've got a few things of

45:04 ↗ questions here so we'll start with

45:06 ↗ council member marks

45:09 ↗ thank you council president um

45:12 ↗ i want to zero in on

45:14 ↗ the finances around this

45:16 ↗ on page nine of the packet

45:19 ↗ it talks about these three buckets right

45:22 ↗ and you you mentioned them monica um you

45:24 ↗ know things we can do with existing

45:26 ↗ staff things we can do through biennial

45:28 ↗ grants and things we need uh

45:32 ↗ one time and ongoing revenue sources for

45:35 ↗ so

45:36 ↗ i

45:37 ↗ i guess i have two questions

45:39 ↗ one is

45:42 ↗ those three buckets are those referenced

45:45 ↗ elsewhere in the document

45:49 ↗ when you when you have your various

45:51 ↗ goals do you

45:53 ↗ specify out what's in buckets one two

45:56 ↗ and three

45:57 ↗ that's the first question and the second

45:59 ↗ is really

46:02 ↗ what is likely to be the overall price

46:04 ↗ tag um on this in an annual basis

46:09 ↗ for

46:10 ↗ uh ending fund balance when you know

46:12 ↗ when we when we go to implement this i

46:14 ↗ don't see a lot of dollars in this plan

46:16 ↗ so that's the

46:18 ↗ those are my two questions thank you

46:22 ↗ thank you so much uh council um member

46:24 ↗ mart um yes i think we intentionally did

46:27 ↗ not put a dollar price tag we rather

46:30 ↗ focused on identifying the needs and

46:32 ↗ then identifying the goals

46:34 ↗ um

46:35 ↗ our intent is to

46:38 ↗ move the budget conversations into the

46:40 ↗ budget process um but also answering

46:44 ↗ your so i'm starting with answering your

46:45 ↗ second question the first question um

46:50 ↗ is

46:50 ↗ we didn't so we did reference later in

46:52 ↗ the plan the three buckets um however we

46:56 ↗ did not

46:58 ↗ tie each of the strategic actions to one

47:01 ↗ of the buckets that is something that we

47:03 ↗ can certainly do for the final plan

47:05 ↗ um as we were working on identifying

47:07 ↗ what other visuals we can bring that's

47:10 ↗ definitely one of the areas that we can

47:12 ↗ we can certainly do

47:13 ↗ um

47:14 ↗ so we just talked at high level we did

47:16 ↗ not go into identifying okay this will

47:18 ↗ be done with staff resources but we can

47:20 ↗ certainly that's doable for for the

47:22 ↗ final plan and then with that i'm not

47:25 ↗ sure if if i answered your question

47:28 ↗ regarding the budget too

47:30 ↗ or if there's also anything else that

47:32 ↗ jeff would like to add to that

47:36 ↗ uh

47:36 ↗ you've answered my questions thank you

47:39 ↗ thank you

47:42 ↗ okay and then next we've got council

47:45 ↗ member d michelle

47:47 ↗ uh thank you council president walsh um

47:50 ↗ first of all tremendous amount of really

47:52 ↗ good work so congratulations

47:55 ↗ and i'll have further remarks uh later

47:58 ↗ on

47:59 ↗ but um

48:00 ↗ i am focused like uh council member

48:02 ↗ marks on those three buckets and my

48:05 ↗ concern is specifically to the grants

48:08 ↗ um

48:09 ↗ area

48:10 ↗ i sent you questions earlier and i will

48:12 ↗ ask those again so everybody can get the

48:14 ↗ same answers

48:16 ↗ uh how much is allocated currently for

48:19 ↗ the grants

48:21 ↗ the human services grants when was the

48:23 ↗ last time we increased that amount

48:26 ↗ and then can you just go through the

48:29 ↗ grant cycle because

48:31 ↗ as you pointed out the grant cycle

48:32 ↗ starts in march

48:34 ↗ um applications are due in april

48:37 ↗ uh we are in the thick of it already and

48:41 ↗ uh

48:41 ↗ and so i'm concerned about the timing

48:45 ↗ of

48:46 ↗ um

48:47 ↗ working out the budget implications and

48:49 ↗ the grant cycle going forward so so can

48:52 ↗ we start with

48:53 ↗ uh

48:54 ↗ how much money is allocated and when was

48:57 ↗ the last time we increased it

49:01 ↗ thank you so much council member

49:02 ↗ michelle so currently the human services

49:06 ↗ grants uh bucket has uh 500 000

49:10 ↗ um and the last time uh this was

49:13 ↗ increased was in the 2017 2008

49:16 ↗ funding cycle

49:19 ↗ prior to that the the bucket for human

49:21 ↗ services was around 370 some thousand

49:25 ↗ dollars

49:26 ↗ um

49:28 ↗ and in terms of timeline um what we did

49:31 ↗ in 2020

49:32 ↗ um for the

49:35 ↗ 2021-2022 funding cycle

49:37 ↗ as you mentioned

49:39 ↗ and that's why we are now in january in

49:41 ↗ march the grant process opens where

49:44 ↗ applicants can submit

49:48 ↗ applications i was trying to find

49:50 ↗ another word applicant's applications

49:53 ↗ so the grant process opens in march

49:56 ↗ and typically it ends in april um

49:58 ↗ sometimes and we are considering now a

50:00 ↗ little bit of flexibility and closing it

50:02 ↗ in may

50:03 ↗ um to to allow more time

50:06 ↗ and then between may or june

50:09 ↗ and august may and between may and

50:11 ↗ august typically the human services

50:12 ↗ commission works with staff in reviewing

50:15 ↗ the applications and making

50:16 ↗ recommendations and also in 2020 um the

50:20 ↗ human services commission made their

50:22 ↗ final recommendation to the mayor and

50:24 ↗ city council in august

50:26 ↗ mayor paulie included those grant

50:29 ↗ recommendations in her budget proposal

50:31 ↗ to council in september

50:33 ↗ followed by then council deliberations

50:36 ↗ in november city council

50:38 ↗ adopted the budget and then we

50:41 ↗ went into um entering into contract

50:44 ↗ agreements in december and january

50:46 ↗ with the applicants so kind of like

50:48 ↗ that's the process that we used last

50:50 ↗ time

50:51 ↗ um and i think that was our intent to

50:53 ↗ use it the same now

50:56 ↗ and so my follow-up question if that's

50:59 ↗ all right with the council president

51:01 ↗ um

51:03 ↗ so

51:04 ↗ basically

51:07 ↗ we could not award more money

51:11 ↗ in the grant bucket unless we took some

51:14 ↗ kind of

51:15 ↗ steps to increase it before

51:18 ↗ awards are made is that correct

51:24 ↗ um i think it depends and i see jeff has

51:26 ↗ his hand up but i can on wally also turn

51:28 ↗ his key around so i'm probably gonna

51:31 ↗ so they can

51:34 ↗ i light up to why i light up the

51:37 ↗ screens here

51:40 ↗ yeah councilmember d michelle i'll take

51:41 ↗ a first crack it's a great question and

51:44 ↗ i would say um

51:46 ↗ counsel

51:48 ↗ the grants are not awarded until the

51:50 ↗ budget's adopted

51:53 ↗ so so you're right the sequence of of

51:56 ↗ recommending of having a human services

51:58 ↗ accepting applications to prepare for

52:00 ↗ 2023 grants

52:02 ↗ we make recommendations we work with the

52:04 ↗ commission they start to prioritize that

52:07 ↗ investment and make a list

52:09 ↗ but the actual awards don't happen until

52:11 ↗ the budget is adopted and so

52:13 ↗ uh that does create opportunity for

52:17 ↗ council ultimately to decide uh funding

52:20 ↗ level for the that

52:22 ↗ operating grant in that future year as

52:24 ↗ opposed to

52:27 ↗ assuming

52:28 ↗ um making an assumption on the um on the

52:30 ↗ grant level prior to your budget

52:32 ↗ deliberations

52:39 ↗ did councilman or did city administrator

52:41 ↗ bob quits want to

52:43 ↗ uh

52:44 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle uh

52:46 ↗ council president walsh maybe if i can

52:47 ↗ have an opportunity to make a comment

52:49 ↗ after the questions i'd appreciate that

52:52 ↗ okay i will come back to you after the

52:55 ↗ questions then um councilmember d

52:58 ↗ michelle did you have anything else are

52:59 ↗ we

53:00 ↗ ready

53:02 ↗ i continue to have concerns but um those

53:04 ↗ aren't questions those are concerns so

53:07 ↗ i'll hold my remarks till later

53:09 ↗ thank you good thanks okay uh next

53:12 ↗ question from council member hall

53:16 ↗ uh thank you councilmember hall here um

53:18 ↗ just two uh quick questions and uh

53:21 ↗ first um to monica thanks for presenting

53:24 ↗ that recap in our lessons learned from

53:26 ↗ the cold weather emergency um

53:29 ↗ just find myself really

53:31 ↗ physically

53:33 ↗ emotional and hearing all the work that

53:34 ↗ you guys did and i can't begin to thank

53:37 ↗ you and amir and all the human services

53:39 ↗ staff enough i just hope you know

53:41 ↗ how truly

53:42 ↗ valued and treasured you are by this

53:44 ↗ city council

53:45 ↗ really so thank you very much for all

53:48 ↗ your efforts recently

53:49 ↗ um

53:50 ↗ a quick question for monica and then

53:52 ↗ since alexis is here from the authority

53:54 ↗ i have a quick question for her as well

53:57 ↗ um so you're you're up next alexis but

53:59 ↗ um do we have

54:01 ↗ time to add another

54:03 ↗ study session touch after community

54:05 ↗ engagement before final adoption or

54:07 ↗ would that run into issues with the

54:09 ↗ upcoming human services grant cycle

54:12 ↗ if needed we can

54:14 ↗ certainly make something happen

54:16 ↗ especially since we have uh between our

54:20 ↗ initial february 22nd being our proposed

54:23 ↗ date and march 14th there is a little

54:25 ↗ bit of time so if we need to we can

54:27 ↗ certainly um add another council study

54:30 ↗ session

54:31 ↗ okay thank you i appreciate that i'm

54:32 ↗ also saying that without checking with a

54:35 ↗ city clerk i don't know how busy the

54:36 ↗ calendar is so i apologize for that i

54:39 ↗ did not consider that but i would think

54:41 ↗ that we should be able to

54:43 ↗ oh

54:46 ↗ thank you

54:48 ↗ um

54:48 ↗ thank you and then the next question

54:50 ↗ then is um so you know community

54:53 ↗ specific needs that were identified

54:55 ↗ we've got these four

54:56 ↗ uh physical and behavioral health

54:58 ↗ housing continuum community resources

55:00 ↗ and language access and culture specific

55:02 ↗ services um

55:03 ↗ alexis thanks so much for being with us

55:05 ↗ today i'm just curious if

55:07 ↗ those are the kinds of community needs

55:09 ↗ that the authority is seeing pop up in

55:12 ↗ uh on the east side in east king county

55:14 ↗ is that consistent with what you're

55:15 ↗ seeing

55:17 ↗ i would say i would share i believe that

55:19 ↗ that is consistent but i would also

55:20 ↗ share like especially since we're

55:22 ↗ focused specifically on homelessness

55:23 ↗ response we get a little bit more in

55:25 ↗ depth so really looking particularly at

55:27 ↗ for example those who are what we would

55:29 ↗ call high acuity so perhaps experiencing

55:31 ↗ behavioral health challenges substance

55:33 ↗ use disorder or physical health

55:34 ↗ challenges and a combination of those

55:36 ↗ things we've identified that as an

55:38 ↗ additional need area just region-wide

55:40 ↗ and so yes consistent but really we're

55:42 ↗ having an additional kind of targeted

55:44 ↗ focus on our own house community

55:47 ↗ thank you very much

55:50 ↗ okay any other follow-up questions

55:52 ↗ deputy president

55:54 ↗ hull no okay fantastic and we've got

55:57 ↗ council member ray for a question

56:00 ↗ uh thank you uh council president

56:03 ↗ uh walsh um

56:05 ↗ so this this question actually has i

56:07 ↗ have a little bit of a preamble to it

56:08 ↗ first i love that in the plan that

56:10 ↗ you've got checkpoints that you know

56:13 ↗ built into the plan to make sure that

56:14 ↗ we're staying on track um

56:17 ↗ but my my question

56:18 ↗ and this isn't for the current uh

56:20 ↗ iteration of the plan sorry about that

56:22 ↗ um iteration of the plan but more more

56:25 ↗ about it going forward is

56:27 ↗ the 2017 community needs assessment is

56:31 ↗ is hard to believe but it's five years

56:33 ↗ old now and the community has changed a

56:35 ↗ lot in those five years and particularly

56:38 ↗ the last two and i just wondered if

56:39 ↗ there was any plans to

56:42 ↗ revisit the community needs assessment

56:44 ↗ and if so then how could we

56:46 ↗ fold

56:47 ↗ the results of that into updates to the

56:50 ↗ human services strategy going forward

56:56 ↗ thank you um councilman

56:59 ↗ ray um

57:01 ↗ i i

57:02 ↗ i apologize i paused because i'm still

57:04 ↗ getting used to

57:05 ↗ titles yeah i i had the same problem

57:08 ↗ with the with the council president so i

57:10 ↗ get it

57:11 ↗ okay so apologies for that that was my

57:13 ↗ part

57:14 ↗ um

57:15 ↗ definitely so um

57:18 ↗ what we did this year was really

57:20 ↗ through our community engagement was to

57:23 ↗ really

57:24 ↗ refresh the community needs assessment

57:26 ↗ right um just looking is our are is the

57:28 ↗ information still valid what's any new

57:30 ↗ information and i think with the pause

57:33 ↗ that we create in two three years i

57:35 ↗ think that's probably also going to be a

57:37 ↗ touch point for us to again go back to

57:39 ↗ the community

57:40 ↗ and make sure that the information and

57:42 ↗ the data that we have is still valid so

57:45 ↗ while we might not do a very expensive

57:46 ↗ one i think we we ought to do community

57:49 ↗ engagement uh in 2023 2024 as we

57:54 ↗ pause for the first time to see um

57:56 ↗ what's still applicable and what not

57:59 ↗ um

58:01 ↗ great thanks monica

58:03 ↗ thank you

58:05 ↗ okay and council member joe question

58:10 ↗ thank you council president walsh

58:12 ↗ first uh thank you for the great work on

58:15 ↗ this plan

58:16 ↗ um i think it's an outstanding

58:18 ↗ uh piece of work that was uh well

58:21 ↗ thought out and uh

58:23 ↗ appreciate

58:24 ↗ the vision that you've set out for for

58:26 ↗ assaq the question i had monica was

58:29 ↗ related to

58:30 ↗ the advocacy

58:31 ↗ element of the plan

58:33 ↗ and i wanted to see if you could put a

58:35 ↗ little more

58:36 ↗ meat on the bones so to speak in terms

58:38 ↗ of what

58:39 ↗ we will be doing as a city to help

58:41 ↗ advocate for are we advocating for more

58:43 ↗ funding are we advocating for uh an

58:46 ↗ adoption of the programs and the forward

58:47 ↗ goals that we're setting out what

58:49 ↗ exactly are we advocating for and uh

58:52 ↗ what parties or or who will be doing

58:54 ↗ that that work

58:58 ↗ thank you very much great question and

59:00 ↗ so very nice meeting you council member

59:02 ↗ joe welcome

59:03 ↗ um

59:04 ↗ uh so yes great question uh one example

59:07 ↗ that comes to mind is uh something that

59:09 ↗ we worked for example and uh during 2020

59:13 ↗ during the pandemic response and why i

59:15 ↗ recognize that that might not be the

59:17 ↗ long-term need but because there are so

59:20 ↗ many needs that popped up in the

59:21 ↗ community

59:23 ↗ we worked with our nonprofit partners

59:24 ↗ and tried to put letters of support for

59:27 ↗ them whether they were looking for grant

59:29 ↗ funding or whether they were looking for

59:31 ↗ additional support so we really

59:33 ↗ advocated on their behalf and most of

59:35 ↗ the time it was for additional funding

59:37 ↗ but often was also for uh volunteers or

59:40 ↗ additional staff support so um anything

59:43 ↗ that we could do in the community to

59:44 ↗ support those needs i think that that's

59:46 ↗ something that we discovered during the

59:48 ↗ pandemic but it should not stop when the

59:50 ↗ pandemic ends hopefully and so i think

59:52 ↗ that's

59:53 ↗ the role that we saw that we could play

59:55 ↗ that role um does that uh

59:57 ↗ help answer your question it does and

1:00:02 ↗ kind of a related question going back to

1:00:04 ↗ council member d michelle's

1:00:06 ↗ uh point on the financial impact and the

1:00:09 ↗ biennial grants are we also advocating

1:00:13 ↗ in the

1:00:15 ↗ community

1:00:16 ↗ or with our non-profit partners to

1:00:18 ↗ get them to start programs that fit our

1:00:21 ↗ four categories

1:00:22 ↗ uh so that they can apply for grants how

1:00:25 ↗ are we matching up our needs with the

1:00:28 ↗ the programs that the non-profits might

1:00:31 ↗ need to create or might you know want to

1:00:33 ↗ modify along the way how are we

1:00:35 ↗ communicating that to to the greater

1:00:37 ↗ community

1:00:38 ↗ another great question thank you so much

1:00:40 ↗ for that so absolutely yes we do want to

1:00:42 ↗ go back not only to the existing

1:00:44 ↗ community partners we do have a

1:00:47 ↗ a wide a broad

1:00:49 ↗ um network of pro regional providers

1:00:52 ↗ that we work with so our intent is

1:00:53 ↗ definitely to go back to them and meet

1:00:56 ↗ with them and tell them about our needs

1:00:58 ↗ and invite them to be part of this right

1:01:01 ↗ but also and we did this during the last

1:01:03 ↗ grants funding cycle too we also want to

1:01:06 ↗ identify and try to do community

1:01:08 ↗ outreach to those smaller organizations

1:01:10 ↗ or other organizations that perhaps we

1:01:12 ↗ don't know about yet and for that we are

1:01:15 ↗ working with our regional partners and

1:01:17 ↗ other jurisdictions on the east side to

1:01:19 ↗ identify those um but also we do work

1:01:21 ↗ with those smaller community grassroots

1:01:24 ↗ um community members who um are

1:01:28 ↗ connected with the smaller organizations

1:01:30 ↗ so we do intend to do that and that's

1:01:32 ↗ kind of like part of our community

1:01:34 ↗ engagement process in the next month um

1:01:36 ↗ it is to really engage with those

1:01:38 ↗ communities and let them know okay this

1:01:41 ↗ is what we are doing this is a draft

1:01:42 ↗ process pro in draft

1:01:45 ↗ um

1:01:46 ↗ we want you to know about and kind of

1:01:48 ↗ like start those conversations early

1:01:50 ↗ now thank you that sounds like a very

1:01:53 ↗ ambitious plan i look forward to hearing

1:01:56 ↗ uh the the feedback and the results that

1:01:58 ↗ you come up with thank you

1:02:00 ↗ thank you so much

1:02:02 ↗ thank you so much um council members for

1:02:04 ↗ your very kind comments tonight and

1:02:06 ↗ support

1:02:08 ↗ oh we haven't even gotten to our

1:02:09 ↗ commentary so that we could all really

1:02:12 ↗ uh lay it on uh so i'm not seeing any

1:02:16 ↗ other questions at this point um so

1:02:20 ↗ uh yep city administrator bacowitz

1:02:23 ↗ comments

1:02:24 ↗ yes thank you council president members

1:02:26 ↗ of the council good evening uh just a

1:02:28 ↗ few words about this plan um and sort of

1:02:32 ↗ the context from a staff perspective as

1:02:33 ↗ we look at this

1:02:35 ↗ two years ago we were nowhere

1:02:37 ↗ we had a human services group we hired a

1:02:40 ↗ talented staffer named monica ngrilla to

1:02:44 ↗ help us manage grants and that was it

1:02:46 ↗ we were not really engaged uh regionally

1:02:49 ↗ we weren't engaged

1:02:51 ↗ extensively with a lot of our local uh

1:02:54 ↗ nonprofits we had no staff to

1:02:57 ↗ provide you know boots on the ground

1:02:59 ↗ service to our residents

1:03:00 ↗ and over the last two years that has

1:03:02 ↗ transformed itself so in many respects

1:03:04 ↗ this plan is sort of trying its part to

1:03:07 ↗ catch up with the reality that we've

1:03:09 ↗ already lived

1:03:10 ↗ i would encourage the council uh to look

1:03:13 ↗ at it that way they'll look at this as

1:03:14 ↗ very aspirational

1:03:16 ↗ um you know we we have grown these

1:03:18 ↗ services out of need and integrity uh do

1:03:21 ↗ you want to continue that growth

1:03:23 ↗ is this something you want us to

1:03:25 ↗ continue to spend resources on we're

1:03:27 ↗ spending significantly more resources

1:03:28 ↗ today not just the human services grants

1:03:31 ↗ but the staffing uh the the direct

1:03:33 ↗ grants we've provided through the

1:03:35 ↗ recovery act and the

1:03:37 ↗ the various pandemic recovery dollars so

1:03:40 ↗ really the question is

1:03:42 ↗ what more do you want to do

1:03:44 ↗ what what do you aspire the city's role

1:03:46 ↗ to be

1:03:47 ↗ we've heard loud and clear this evening

1:03:49 ↗ and in comments prior to tonight from

1:03:51 ↗ members of the council that the money

1:03:52 ↗ counts and costs count and so as we work

1:03:56 ↗ on this we will look at those buckets we

1:03:59 ↗ will try to attach dollars but again i

1:04:01 ↗ would really encourage you not get

1:04:03 ↗ bogged down so much in the particular

1:04:05 ↗ dollars and cents of this but really

1:04:06 ↗ think of what your aspirations are

1:04:08 ↗ look at the citywide strategic plan i

1:04:10 ↗ don't think there's one dollar amount in

1:04:12 ↗ that entire document um you know this is

1:04:15 ↗ about aspirations this is about where

1:04:16 ↗ you want to go

1:04:18 ↗ we have moved so far largely out of

1:04:19 ↗ necessity but also i think it just makes

1:04:22 ↗ good common sense so as as you think

1:04:24 ↗ about this

1:04:25 ↗ you know please just think what do you

1:04:27 ↗ want the city to be what do you want it

1:04:28 ↗ to look like

1:04:29 ↗ we'll continue as we have these

1:04:31 ↗ dialogues

1:04:32 ↗ to talk about money in dollars and cents

1:04:34 ↗ as it goes forward thank you

1:04:39 ↗ well thank you for that commentary

1:04:42 ↗ and so um at this point we are ready for

1:04:46 ↗ public comment um

1:04:49 ↗ and just real quickly before

1:04:52 ↗ i wanted to summarize some of the

1:04:54 ↗ comments that we had received over email

1:04:58 ↗ uh following along the same lines as our

1:05:00 ↗ previous council president did which i

1:05:02 ↗ thought was a very valuable way

1:05:04 ↗ we did receive one comment on

1:05:07 ↗ this

1:05:08 ↗ um

1:05:09 ↗ item agenda item uh talking about you

1:05:12 ↗ know

1:05:13 ↗ concern i think about some of the

1:05:15 ↗ funding levels um whether or not the

1:05:19 ↗ funding should be provided to just the

1:05:21 ↗ residents of issaquah versus the broader

1:05:24 ↗ issaquah school district um and then

1:05:27 ↗ also just

1:05:28 ↗ the sense of issaquah

1:05:30 ↗ as a place within the region and what

1:05:33 ↗ things do we take on versus others how

1:05:36 ↗ do we measure success so great comments

1:05:40 ↗ to receive over email and then um

1:05:43 ↗ chris i will go not chris ray but uh

1:05:47 ↗ yeah

1:05:48 ↗ clerk chris uh could you let me know if

1:05:51 ↗ there are any uh

1:05:54 ↗ people who have signed up for comments

1:05:56 ↗ on this and then i will also ask the

1:05:58 ↗ public

1:05:58 ↗ if there is anybody on

1:06:00 ↗ the

1:06:02 ↗ line here that is interested in making a

1:06:05 ↗ comment if you can either

1:06:07 ↗ press star 3 or raise your hand if you

1:06:10 ↗ are on

1:06:11 ↗ a web or an app interface so do we have

1:06:14 ↗ anybody who has indicated a desire to

1:06:17 ↗ speak at this time

1:06:20 ↗ that's president walsh we do not have

1:06:22 ↗ anybody signed up and i'm looking at the

1:06:24 ↗ attendee list for any raised hands and i

1:06:27 ↗ am not seeing any currently

1:06:30 ↗ okay i see a few members from

1:06:32 ↗ the commission there so i'll just give

1:06:35 ↗ it a second see if anybody

1:06:38 ↗ is listening or wants to make any

1:06:40 ↗ comments

1:06:43 ↗ i'm not seeing any at this time

1:06:48 ↗ so um

1:06:49 ↗ council president uh uh alexis rink

1:06:52 ↗ would uh like to uh make a quick comment

1:06:55 ↗ if you would allow

1:06:56 ↗ we would love it fantastic thanks alexis

1:06:59 ↗ go ahead wonderful thank you so much and

1:07:01 ↗ again just so such a pleasure being here

1:07:03 ↗ tonight and i just wanted to take a

1:07:04 ↗ quick minute to express

1:07:06 ↗ how encouraging it is to see this

1:07:08 ↗ castle's interest in a human services

1:07:09 ↗ plan but also how this city has just

1:07:11 ↗ been showing up as a partner and in the

1:07:13 ↗ wake of severe weather only exacerbated

1:07:16 ↗ by really the omicron wave that we're

1:07:18 ↗ seeing right now our homelessness

1:07:20 ↗ response system is really facing

1:07:21 ↗ tremendous challenges and we're in need

1:07:23 ↗ of strong regional partnership to get

1:07:25 ↗ folks inside and provide supports for

1:07:27 ↗ their stabilization and healing so in

1:07:29 ↗ service of that i just wanted to to um

1:07:32 ↗ express that i deeply appreciate any

1:07:33 ↗ future opportunities to present and

1:07:35 ↗ engage council and work with the kcrha

1:07:37 ↗ and just extend a huge thank you for

1:07:39 ↗ inviting me tonight and thank you to you

1:07:41 ↗ to staff and all of you for the work

1:07:43 ↗ that you're doing

1:07:46 ↗ thanks we appreciate the

1:07:49 ↗ regional collaboration and approach and

1:07:51 ↗ any attention that we can get to tell

1:07:53 ↗ you what we're doing and about our needs

1:07:55 ↗ is fantastic so appreciate the

1:07:58 ↗ attendance

1:07:59 ↗ um okay so at this point council what

1:08:02 ↗ we're really looking at is what kind of

1:08:05 ↗ feedback can we give to the

1:08:07 ↗ administration so again i would just

1:08:11 ↗ comment there were

1:08:12 ↗ three uh main things that

1:08:16 ↗ monica's memo had asked for which was

1:08:19 ↗ are the content areas in the draft plan

1:08:21 ↗ comprehensive and clear are we going in

1:08:23 ↗ the right direction the second are the

1:08:25 ↗ proposed goals reflective of the

1:08:27 ↗ community needs is there anything

1:08:29 ↗ missing and then the third does our

1:08:31 ↗ approach reflect the city's commitment

1:08:33 ↗ to equity so those are the main

1:08:35 ↗ questions

1:08:36 ↗ as i had said in an email i will also

1:08:40 ↗ ask after we have done deliberate or

1:08:43 ↗ done discussion

1:08:45 ↗ and um summarized our feedback whether

1:08:48 ↗ we feel that this is

1:08:51 ↗ ready to

1:08:53 ↗ move ahead with the plan

1:08:55 ↗ the timeline that was presented

1:08:58 ↗ for an anticipated city council adoption

1:09:00 ↗ on february 22nd or if we want to

1:09:03 ↗ provide feedback and direct the

1:09:05 ↗ administration to consider either a

1:09:07 ↗ different direction or a different

1:09:09 ↗ timeline or coming back to a study

1:09:11 ↗ session

1:09:12 ↗ again in the future which obviously

1:09:14 ↗ could have impacts so i think it would

1:09:16 ↗ be good to

1:09:18 ↗ talk about that at that point if there

1:09:20 ↗ are any comments there

1:09:21 ↗ so

1:09:22 ↗ i will look to see

1:09:24 ↗ who wants to raise their hand first on

1:09:27 ↗ making some comments here

1:09:30 ↗ let's see in

1:09:32 ↗ donald

1:09:34 ↗ okay council member marks we'll start

1:09:36 ↗ with you

1:09:37 ↗ yeah i'll i'll make a comment just to

1:09:39 ↗ sort of get the

1:09:41 ↗ conversation going um one of the things

1:09:43 ↗ that i think is interesting about this

1:09:46 ↗ that i'm not sure about

1:09:49 ↗ is the extent to which

1:09:51 ↗ um

1:09:52 ↗ we focus specifically around the

1:09:56 ↗ homeless

1:09:57 ↗ as opposed to for instance working poor

1:09:59 ↗ and i think

1:10:01 ↗ i say this specifically around one of

1:10:04 ↗ the comments early in the report is

1:10:07 ↗ summarizing the report on supporting

1:10:09 ↗ expansion of new services to issaquah

1:10:11 ↗ privating the prioritizing behavioral

1:10:13 ↗ health

1:10:14 ↗ services for individuals who are

1:10:16 ↗ homeless

1:10:17 ↗ and i think that

1:10:20 ↗ that is a pretty narrow definition of

1:10:24 ↗ the folks that need behavioral health

1:10:27 ↗ and services in our community and

1:10:30 ↗ you know the last thing i want to do is

1:10:32 ↗ hit one part of our community against

1:10:34 ↗ another part of our community but you

1:10:35 ↗ know we have a a bunch of folks that um

1:10:40 ↗ at the risk of i hope it doesn't sound

1:10:41 ↗ incentive but working poor right we have

1:10:43 ↗ we have a bunch of folks who are uh

1:10:46 ↗ housed

1:10:47 ↗ but are still

1:10:48 ↗ lacking basic services and i want to

1:10:50 ↗ make sure that our plans

1:10:53 ↗ uh include them

1:10:55 ↗ uh and and don't focus

1:10:57 ↗ only on homelessness so i i think that i

1:11:00 ↗ guess that'll be a question to tease out

1:11:02 ↗ going forward is to make sure

1:11:05 ↗ you know as we look at people from

1:11:08 ↗ you know 80 to 60 to 40 to zero percent

1:11:12 ↗ of ami

1:11:15 ↗ there's a lot of need throughout that

1:11:17 ↗ range and our plan should incorporate

1:11:20 ↗ all those folks

1:11:24 ↗ thanks okay thank you for your comments

1:11:28 ↗ there next we've got council member d

1:11:30 ↗ michelle

1:11:32 ↗ thank you uh council president walsh

1:11:35 ↗ excuse me

1:11:36 ↗ um well first let's start off with the

1:11:39 ↗ uh laying on of of praise

1:11:44 ↗ i really think it is a just a tremendous

1:11:46 ↗ piece of work and especially when you

1:11:48 ↗ realize it was done in-house

1:11:51 ↗ and without any outside consultant help

1:11:54 ↗ during two years that have been just

1:11:57 ↗ incredibly stressful

1:11:58 ↗ so i i can't thank uh monica and the

1:12:01 ↗ staff uh enough

1:12:03 ↗ i'm especially grateful that the report

1:12:05 ↗ calls out the need to focus on human

1:12:07 ↗ services workforce issues

1:12:10 ↗ which i think i said at the last

1:12:13 ↗ uh

1:12:14 ↗ regular meeting uh was the top issue of

1:12:17 ↗ the east side human services forum

1:12:19 ↗ listening to agencies across the east

1:12:21 ↗ side

1:12:23 ↗ we have a tremendous

1:12:25 ↗ crisis

1:12:27 ↗ in

1:12:28 ↗ available

1:12:29 ↗ human services workers and of all levels

1:12:33 ↗ and so i'm really glad that the plan

1:12:35 ↗ addresses that

1:12:37 ↗ um also that the need for more services

1:12:40 ↗ to be offered locally

1:12:42 ↗ so our residents are not burdened by

1:12:44 ↗ having to travel take time off work

1:12:46 ↗ make multiple appointments

1:12:48 ↗ or as i think in many cases forego

1:12:51 ↗ treatment or help altogether because of

1:12:53 ↗ the lack of local services

1:12:56 ↗ uh and then uh very grateful as lisa

1:12:58 ↗ haynes stated for the focus on keeping

1:13:00 ↗ our youth home

1:13:02 ↗ uh close to our house close to home

1:13:05 ↗ um answering the three questions um

1:13:09 ↗ number one are the content areas of the

1:13:11 ↗ draft plan comprehensive and clear yes

1:13:14 ↗ uh are we going the right direction i in

1:13:16 ↗ my opinion very much so

1:13:19 ↗ are the proposed goals reflective of the

1:13:21 ↗ community needs

1:13:22 ↗ um is there anything missing uh the only

1:13:25 ↗ slight area um the plan does address

1:13:29 ↗ senior citizens uh i think it just needs

1:13:32 ↗ to be

1:13:34 ↗ illustrated a little bit better in the

1:13:36 ↗ introductory materials to make sure that

1:13:39 ↗ seniors are included

1:13:42 ↗ and

1:13:43 ↗ then does our approach reflect the

1:13:45 ↗ city's commitment to equity

1:13:47 ↗ yes but that also has to do with the

1:13:50 ↗ concerns i have about the funding

1:13:53 ↗ and

1:13:55 ↗ city administrator bob kowitz's comments

1:13:58 ↗ are well taken i do understand that this

1:14:01 ↗ is a comprehensive plan

1:14:04 ↗ but

1:14:05 ↗ we've got a

1:14:06 ↗ timing issue with the grants

1:14:10 ↗ being

1:14:11 ↗ applied for

1:14:12 ↗ soon and awarded in the fall

1:14:17 ↗ because uh and then using the same

1:14:20 ↗ amounts that we've used for the last

1:14:21 ↗ five years

1:14:23 ↗ i have been through the process myself

1:14:25 ↗ of applying for those grants

1:14:28 ↗ and

1:14:30 ↗ someone who's applying for those grants

1:14:32 ↗ is looking to see

1:14:33 ↗ how much each city has allocated they're

1:14:36 ↗ looking at that now

1:14:38 ↗ and they're making decisions based on

1:14:41 ↗ the amount of money that's available

1:14:44 ↗ we have to recognize i think that our

1:14:46 ↗ social service agencies have had a

1:14:49 ↗ terrifically hard two years

1:14:51 ↗ and this plan is very ambitious and it's

1:14:54 ↗ asking them to stretch again

1:14:56 ↗ um and perhaps change a little bit of

1:14:58 ↗ their direction uh to put emphasis in

1:15:01 ↗ other places

1:15:02 ↗ um to take on perhaps some new staffing

1:15:05 ↗ or new um new ways of approaching things

1:15:09 ↗ and

1:15:10 ↗ i'm very worried that

1:15:14 ↗ agencies that might consider

1:15:16 ↗ growing and offering services in

1:15:18 ↗ issaquah will decide not to based on the

1:15:21 ↗ amount of funding that's available

1:15:24 ↗ in

1:15:25 ↗ that grant bucket so

1:15:27 ↗ i was very interested in council deputy

1:15:30 ↗ council president

1:15:32 ↗ hall's suggestion

1:15:34 ↗ that we have another study session to

1:15:36 ↗ look at

1:15:37 ↗ funding issues for this plan

1:15:40 ↗ and i would particularly be interested

1:15:42 ↗ to see if we could find a way to

1:15:45 ↗ advertise a larger amount of money

1:15:48 ↗ during the grant application cycle so

1:15:52 ↗ i'm just playing my cards on the table

1:15:54 ↗ there

1:15:55 ↗ so thank you very much and uh appreciate

1:15:57 ↗ the chance to give extended remarks

1:16:00 ↗ thank you

1:16:02 ↗ thank you councilmember g michelle and

1:16:04 ↗ next up we've got councilmember hunt

1:16:07 ↗ thank you well i generally agree with

1:16:10 ↗ the comments that have been made

1:16:12 ↗ that i think we're headed in the right

1:16:15 ↗ direction i appreciate that we've

1:16:18 ↗ come a long way and really strengthened

1:16:19 ↗ our ability to provide human services

1:16:21 ↗ over the last two years so in that

1:16:24 ↗ broader context really appreciate the

1:16:26 ↗ plan and the improvements that it

1:16:29 ↗ already represents in the way that we're

1:16:31 ↗ providing

1:16:32 ↗ human services as a city

1:16:34 ↗ and i think um

1:16:36 ↗ i think it's been an especially hard

1:16:39 ↗ obviously an especially hard two years

1:16:40 ↗ for a lot of folks it really has been

1:16:42 ↗ needed

1:16:43 ↗ i i

1:16:45 ↗ like councilmember martz's question

1:16:48 ↗ i would really like

1:16:50 ↗ to have a better sense of what's in the

1:16:52 ↗ buckets of what's funded through our

1:16:55 ↗ current as of these last two years

1:16:58 ↗ budget versus

1:17:00 ↗ what

1:17:01 ↗ what items are in the

1:17:04 ↗ third category which is the additional

1:17:06 ↗ funding

1:17:08 ↗ either from grants or from the city i

1:17:11 ↗ i don't need an exact number i

1:17:13 ↗ understand that this is aspirational i

1:17:14 ↗ think it would really help us so with

1:17:17 ↗ these questions with the questions like

1:17:18 ↗ with um what

1:17:20 ↗ uh council member d michelle was talking

1:17:22 ↗ about too understanding what we can do

1:17:24 ↗ with our existing resources versus

1:17:26 ↗ what's

1:17:28 ↗ what would be necessary versus grant

1:17:30 ↗ funding i think

1:17:31 ↗ that would

1:17:32 ↗ having more information

1:17:34 ↗ um would help us better have that

1:17:36 ↗ conversation it would also better help

1:17:38 ↗ with understanding the advocacy needs

1:17:40 ↗ uh so just a lot of comments that

1:17:42 ↗ council members have made

1:17:44 ↗ even this evening i think i think having

1:17:46 ↗ that information would help

1:17:49 ↗ would help us better use the plan makes

1:17:51 ↗ the plan more usable and

1:17:54 ↗ ends and then we can

1:17:56 ↗ implement policy decisions better using

1:17:59 ↗ the plan going forward

1:18:02 ↗ there there are some strategic plans

1:18:04 ↗ that we have also if there is a

1:18:05 ↗ precedent for that like in the parks

1:18:07 ↗ strategic plan it has

1:18:09 ↗ estimates i don't think it needs to be

1:18:10 ↗ as detailed as that but i i do think

1:18:12 ↗ having some

1:18:13 ↗ dollars associated would really help us

1:18:16 ↗ would help us take the next steps as far

1:18:18 ↗ as thinking through

1:18:20 ↗ the

1:18:21 ↗ grants versus

1:18:22 ↗ budget

1:18:24 ↗ i

1:18:25 ↗ also think if there needs to be another

1:18:27 ↗ touch with this at council i

1:18:29 ↗ i would be on board with that um because

1:18:31 ↗ i think it's important

1:18:34 ↗ uh one other comment so on the questions

1:18:36 ↗ i generally think the right goal area is

1:18:38 ↗ one one thing that

1:18:40 ↗ i noticed is that we have metrics from

1:18:43 ↗ the performance metrics um for the city

1:18:45 ↗ overall that we adopted um and i know

1:18:49 ↗ you said you you worked with dale um

1:18:51 ↗ marky crimp on that's the ones that are

1:18:54 ↗ in

1:18:55 ↗ this

1:18:56 ↗ plan

1:18:57 ↗ but

1:18:58 ↗ the ones that are in

1:18:59 ↗ our overall i think

1:19:02 ↗ the ones that are for the overall city

1:19:04 ↗ performance measures i think those are

1:19:06 ↗ really good and i think having a few

1:19:09 ↗ like guiding

1:19:10 ↗ performance measures is really useful um

1:19:13 ↗ so the ones for

1:19:15 ↗ and and they're they aren't the same so

1:19:18 ↗ the ones that are in the overall city

1:19:20 ↗ performance measures are a number of

1:19:22 ↗ human service program beneficiaries

1:19:24 ↗ supported through city funding

1:19:26 ↗ percentage of human services partners

1:19:27 ↗ achieving one or more contracted goals

1:19:29 ↗ and number of isquad residents receiving

1:19:31 ↗ support from the issue food bank so i

1:19:33 ↗ think

1:19:34 ↗ it would be

1:19:35 ↗ great to have um those as the main ones

1:19:38 ↗ since those are the the ones that we're

1:19:41 ↗ tracking overall for the city um and i

1:19:44 ↗ think a lot of the other ones if if

1:19:46 ↗ they're

1:19:47 ↗ if you're recording them anyway then

1:19:48 ↗ it's great information to have but

1:19:50 ↗ really focusing on those top ones

1:19:54 ↗ especially i think

1:19:55 ↗ human service program beneficiaries i

1:19:58 ↗ think that's a really important one

1:20:00 ↗ so

1:20:01 ↗ i would encourage that that gets

1:20:05 ↗ that those get highlighted and sort of

1:20:08 ↗ separated out in the plan

1:20:10 ↗ um

1:20:12 ↗ those are my comments and again

1:20:15 ↗ thank you for

1:20:16 ↗ this report

1:20:20 ↗ i'm writing down notes trying to do it

1:20:23 ↗ all uh thank you council member hunt and

1:20:26 ↗ uh we've got a comment from council

1:20:28 ↗ member ray

1:20:30 ↗ thank you council president uh walsh

1:20:33 ↗ um first i'll just jump in um it's it's

1:20:35 ↗ a really well

1:20:38 ↗ constructed plan i i appreciate the

1:20:40 ↗ thought that went into it um

1:20:42 ↗ i think to answer your questions i'll

1:20:44 ↗ just kind of lump them all together i

1:20:46 ↗ think we're heading in the right

1:20:46 ↗ direction and it seems like a

1:20:49 ↗ a reasonable approach given the

1:20:50 ↗ information that we have

1:20:52 ↗ i'm going to push back a little bit on

1:20:56 ↗ city administrator bob quits i don't

1:20:58 ↗ think this is an aspirational plan i

1:20:59 ↗ think it's a directional plan it's it's

1:21:01 ↗ it's not our aspirations it's our

1:21:03 ↗ directions it's like outlining where we

1:21:05 ↗ want to go and what our priorities

1:21:06 ↗ should be so and i'm supportive of that

1:21:09 ↗ i concur with some of the earlier

1:21:10 ↗ comments around um trying to better

1:21:13 ↗ understand the bucket of funding

1:21:15 ↗ particularly where we think we're going

1:21:16 ↗ to need additional funding to make some

1:21:17 ↗ of the

1:21:19 ↗ initiatives happen

1:21:21 ↗ and i think we have to

1:21:24 ↗ i would like to have another discussion

1:21:27 ↗ study session after we get feedback from

1:21:29 ↗ the human services commission and from

1:21:31 ↗ the public over the next

1:21:33 ↗ month so we can factor that in and see

1:21:35 ↗ if there's any information there that

1:21:37 ↗ would be

1:21:40 ↗ illuminating and then finally i think

1:21:42 ↗ that the question that's been raised

1:21:44 ↗ about the human services grant funding

1:21:46 ↗ cycle is really spot on and i can see

1:21:49 ↗ the the challenges that creates i think

1:21:52 ↗ that that's a separate discussion and i

1:21:53 ↗ think that's a discussion we should have

1:21:55 ↗ but i don't know that i would uh ball it

1:21:58 ↗ up

1:21:59 ↗ wrong word

1:22:01 ↗ it doesn't need to be part of the

1:22:03 ↗ strategic plan discussion i think we

1:22:04 ↗ need to run both of these to ground but

1:22:06 ↗ i think we can do them independently

1:22:09 ↗ so anyway thank you uh nice job everyone

1:22:11 ↗ it was uh

1:22:13 ↗ well well thought out plan

1:22:17 ↗ okay and then just adding my own

1:22:20 ↗ comments on this um you know i'm gonna

1:22:22 ↗ second much of what i've heard about you

1:22:25 ↗ know concerns about whether the funding

1:22:27 ↗ of all of these is feasible i think

1:22:30 ↗ my interest in looking at

1:22:34 ↗ the

1:22:35 ↗ identification of the bucket for the

1:22:38 ↗ different funding sources by the

1:22:40 ↗ strategic actions aren't so much to get

1:22:42 ↗ a dollar amount but to just know you

1:22:45 ↗ know are you looking at getting this

1:22:48 ↗ from

1:22:49 ↗ you know the

1:22:51 ↗ city's budget and do you think this

1:22:53 ↗ would be best covered by grants i think

1:22:55 ↗ that gives us a direction and a better

1:22:58 ↗ sense of what we're looking at from each

1:23:01 ↗ of the various sources of funding and

1:23:04 ↗ how we're able to approach that over

1:23:06 ↗ this cycle so i think that would be

1:23:08 ↗ really useful um i'll step back and just

1:23:11 ↗ say this is fantastic work i think it

1:23:14 ↗ was really super powerful to

1:23:17 ↗ do it internally and really have those

1:23:21 ↗ interview cycles done

1:23:23 ↗ by our staff and really have the deep

1:23:26 ↗ knowledge there

1:23:27 ↗ i think that's really powerful and then

1:23:29 ↗ i really wanted to appreciate the

1:23:31 ↗ rigorous work of the human services

1:23:33 ↗ commission on

1:23:34 ↗ this plan this was a big lift and

1:23:38 ↗ god there were some great conversations

1:23:41 ↗ um in that commission so really wanted

1:23:43 ↗ to thank them for that

1:23:45 ↗ i really liked with the plan the

1:23:48 ↗ approach of identifying

1:23:50 ↗ the

1:23:51 ↗ four areas of service gaps really not

1:23:54 ↗ just understanding of who we are

1:23:56 ↗ what we need but

1:23:59 ↗ where

1:23:59 ↗ where are the services falling short i

1:24:02 ↗ liked that

1:24:04 ↗ and then

1:24:05 ↗ um

1:24:06 ↗ i wanted to send a second some of what i

1:24:08 ↗ heard about the

1:24:10 ↗ performance measures and looking at the

1:24:12 ↗ ones on the city strategic plan making

1:24:15 ↗ sure that was included but similarly you

1:24:17 ↗ know as i'm looking through the

1:24:19 ↗ individual strategic actions i think

1:24:22 ↗ some of

1:24:23 ↗ the kind of performance measures or

1:24:26 ↗ details on those we're really following

1:24:28 ↗ that smart idea some of them i didn't

1:24:31 ↗ feel like were as technically

1:24:34 ↗ measurable um so i might take another

1:24:37 ↗ look at that just to make sure they are

1:24:39 ↗ all absolutely

1:24:41 ↗ actionable and we know when we're

1:24:42 ↗ achieving them what success looks like

1:24:46 ↗ and then i think my final comment is as

1:24:48 ↗ i was reading over it i

1:24:51 ↗ was kind of surprised that

1:24:53 ↗ basic food and clothing wasn't

1:24:57 ↗ as much featured here um as i would have

1:25:01 ↗ expected i mean certainly the esco food

1:25:03 ↗ and clothing bank was

1:25:05 ↗ included in the list of providers and

1:25:07 ↗ kind of summarized on one of the major

1:25:09 ↗ things that they do but

1:25:12 ↗ i i guess much like councilmember d

1:25:15 ↗ michelle was mentioning hey seniors were

1:25:17 ↗ mentioned but i'm not sure was the focus

1:25:19 ↗ i felt the same way um about basic food

1:25:22 ↗ and clothing needs as well so those are

1:25:26 ↗ my thoughts so

1:25:28 ↗ then taking a step back

1:25:31 ↗ uh monica do you want to summarize what

1:25:34 ↗ you've heard i've certainly taken some

1:25:35 ↗ notes and i think there was a lot of

1:25:37 ↗ overlap

1:25:38 ↗ so i'm happy to summarize or have you

1:25:43 ↗ take a run at it

1:25:45 ↗ i can yeah i try to take some notes and

1:25:47 ↗ so

1:25:48 ↗ i can try to summarize for sure

1:25:52 ↗ so from council

1:25:53 ↗ martz um um and um again thank you

1:25:56 ↗ everyone for all your feedback i'm gonna

1:25:59 ↗ focus on on the action items that

1:26:01 ↗ perhaps we should consider between now

1:26:03 ↗ and next meeting so from council member

1:26:05 ↗ mart um

1:26:06 ↗ we've heard that perhaps in as an

1:26:09 ↗ example in the behavioral health section

1:26:11 ↗ uh we should not focus only on folks who

1:26:14 ↗ are homeless but perhaps also make sure

1:26:17 ↗ that we um highlight those who are

1:26:19 ↗ working poor or those with low incomes

1:26:21 ↗ who are working also incorporate all

1:26:24 ↗ ages

1:26:25 ↗ um from counselor member michelle

1:26:28 ↗ um we heard that

1:26:30 ↗ we should

1:26:32 ↗ look into making sure that seniors are

1:26:35 ↗ addressed throughout the plan and

1:26:37 ↗ and so just uh going over the plan a

1:26:40 ↗ little bit on that

1:26:41 ↗ um also council member dimitra expressed

1:26:43 ↗ concerns about the funding level um and

1:26:46 ↗ in particular the human services um

1:26:49 ↗ grants and welcomed perhaps having a

1:26:52 ↗ council study session um to discuss

1:26:55 ↗ particularly the funding

1:26:57 ↗ uh for the plan implementation for the

1:26:59 ↗ implementation of the plan

1:27:01 ↗ um apologies um and then from council

1:27:04 ↗ member hunt

1:27:06 ↗ um we heard

1:27:08 ↗ or i heard um

1:27:11 ↗ that it would be helpful to um kind of

1:27:14 ↗ like tie each of the focus areas with

1:27:16 ↗ the bucket so kind of like identify what

1:27:18 ↗ is in the each of those funding buckets

1:27:21 ↗ um

1:27:22 ↗ and what can be addressed with existing

1:27:24 ↗ resources and

1:27:26 ↗ for what we would need other resources i

1:27:29 ↗ have dollar amounts associated even if

1:27:31 ↗ it's just a large broader level

1:27:33 ↗ we could use the

1:27:35 ↗ park's strategic plan or other similar

1:27:37 ↗ plans to as an example

1:27:40 ↗ um also to you to include the existing

1:27:44 ↗ city

1:27:45 ↗ wide performance metrics

1:27:47 ↗ and to include those in the strategic

1:27:50 ↗ plan and highlight those as the main

1:27:52 ↗ goals or the main

1:27:53 ↗ performance metrics

1:27:56 ↗ next from council member ray

1:27:59 ↗ um i heard a similar about the bucket

1:28:02 ↗ the funding buckets and

1:28:04 ↗ again similar interest in perhaps

1:28:06 ↗ returning to a study session to talk

1:28:08 ↗ about those budget items

1:28:10 ↗ and also similarly

1:28:12 ↗ about the human services grants but this

1:28:14 ↗ could also be a separate discussion

1:28:16 ↗ independently of the budget for the

1:28:18 ↗ strategic plan

1:28:20 ↗ and council president walsh um

1:28:24 ↗ definitely um

1:28:26 ↗ similar around funding is the funding

1:28:29 ↗ feasible

1:28:31 ↗ in addition to the concerns about

1:28:34 ↗ funding

1:28:35 ↗ great input on the performance metrics

1:28:38 ↗ and just do a review of those to make

1:28:41 ↗ sure that all of them do meet the smart

1:28:43 ↗ uh model and that they are

1:28:45 ↗ all measurable

1:28:47 ↗ um and then you also mentioned about um

1:28:50 ↗ adding or um just highlighting the basic

1:28:53 ↗ food and clothing

1:28:54 ↗ uh bank or on that section uh was

1:28:57 ↗ perhaps not as highlighted um

1:29:00 ↗ and so

1:29:01 ↗ does that did i summarize did i miss it

1:29:04 ↗ that looks a lot like what i heard i

1:29:07 ↗ think there are some uh additional

1:29:09 ↗ conversation for us to have about the

1:29:12 ↗ interest in an additional study session

1:29:15 ↗ um but before we get into that concept

1:29:18 ↗ kind of does

1:29:21 ↗ did everybody hear their areas of input

1:29:24 ↗ did monica's summary feel like it was

1:29:27 ↗ meeting your needs

1:29:29 ↗ okay

1:29:30 ↗ right i'm at least not seeing any thumbs

1:29:33 ↗ down or pouts or you know anything like

1:29:35 ↗ that

1:29:36 ↗ um okay so

1:29:39 ↗ then let's go into this conversation

1:29:41 ↗ about

1:29:42 ↗ oh

1:29:45 ↗ oh comment on the comment summary

1:29:47 ↗ councilmember mert fantastic go for it

1:29:51 ↗ thank you council president yeah i just

1:29:53 ↗ want to be maybe a little bit more clear

1:29:56 ↗ i just want to understand

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1:30:02 ↗ where

1:30:03 ↗ our plan

1:30:05 ↗ sort of

1:30:06 ↗ where the plan

1:30:08 ↗ implementation

1:30:09 ↗ goals i should say

1:30:12 ↗ address low-income members of the

1:30:14 ↗ community specifically

1:30:17 ↗ i

1:30:18 ↗ have a concern that one of the

1:30:21 ↗ challenges and this is not

1:30:23 ↗ addressed to this specific report but

1:30:25 ↗ nationally we tend to conflate

1:30:28 ↗ um

1:30:30 ↗ problems of poverty with

1:30:32 ↗ uh

1:30:33 ↗ or

1:30:35 ↗ sort of mean tested level with working

1:30:37 ↗ poor and i think that your data in here

1:30:40 ↗ shows we've got working families

1:30:42 ↗ that are not nowhere near median income

1:30:46 ↗ and i just want to make sure that i

1:30:47 ↗ understand what we're doing for those

1:30:50 ↗ folks so it doesn't necessarily involve

1:30:52 ↗ changing anything but i need to

1:30:53 ↗ understand from that lens

1:30:55 ↗ um what we're doing for those folks

1:30:57 ↗ because i think we rightly have a lot of

1:30:59 ↗ concern for the growing homeless

1:31:01 ↗ population in king county and we've got

1:31:03 ↗ a lot that we want to do for them but i

1:31:04 ↗ also want to see what we want to do for

1:31:06 ↗ working for thanks

1:31:10 ↗ okay thanks for that additional

1:31:14 ↗ piece on that so

1:31:18 ↗ let's talk about this kind of timing

1:31:20 ↗ issue

1:31:21 ↗ so

1:31:22 ↗ the the proposal from the administration

1:31:26 ↗ is basically we provide feedback

1:31:29 ↗ on the human

1:31:30 ↗ services strategic plan and it follows

1:31:34 ↗ through its process of going back to the

1:31:37 ↗ human services commission talking to the

1:31:38 ↗ public about it

1:31:40 ↗ with a goal of anticipated city council

1:31:43 ↗ adoption on february 22nd

1:31:45 ↗ uh i heard a little bit of conversation

1:31:48 ↗ about an additional study session i'm

1:31:51 ↗ wondering

1:31:53 ↗ whether you know can i hear

1:31:55 ↗ does that mean we want to

1:31:57 ↗ hold off on this and we don't think

1:31:59 ↗ we're moving toward a february 22nd

1:32:02 ↗ potential adoption or is the study

1:32:06 ↗ session kind of saying we can continue

1:32:08 ↗ moving forward on

1:32:10 ↗ the potential plan adoption but we have

1:32:13 ↗ some other things maybe related to the

1:32:16 ↗ grant cycle

1:32:17 ↗ and the funding elements

1:32:20 ↗ how are we feeling about that anybody

1:32:31 ↗ okay so starting out with uh council

1:32:34 ↗ member ray with the question

1:32:36 ↗ um thank you uh council president walsh

1:32:39 ↗ um what's the impact of not um

1:32:44 ↗ adopting on the i think it was the 27th

1:32:46 ↗ of february was the target date

1:32:48 ↗ um what's what's

1:32:50 ↗ before i can say yes or no or it's

1:32:51 ↗ greater it's not great what's the impact

1:32:53 ↗ of not doing that

1:32:57 ↗ um thank you councilmember martz our

1:33:00 ↗ intent was to have a document adopted

1:33:03 ↗ before the grains are released so then

1:33:06 ↗ we can use it in the grant application

1:33:09 ↗ for and provided in a little bit in

1:33:11 ↗ advance to the nonprofit organizations

1:33:14 ↗ so

1:33:15 ↗ um

1:33:16 ↗ it's kind of it's they're gonna know

1:33:17 ↗ that it's gonna guide uh and this can

1:33:20 ↗ also help the human services that it's

1:33:21 ↗ going to guide the funding process

1:33:24 ↗ um

1:33:26 ↗ but

1:33:27 ↗ ultimately

1:33:30 ↗ yeah so so that's the that's the impact

1:33:33 ↗ if if it's not going to be adopted in

1:33:35 ↗ time for the grant applications to open

1:33:39 ↗ then we would just need to provide other

1:33:40 ↗ information on

1:33:42 ↗ what are our our focus area so typically

1:33:45 ↗ just to step back a little bit when the

1:33:48 ↗ grant application process opens each

1:33:51 ↗ city presents its focus areas and um

1:33:54 ↗ kind of like what are

1:33:56 ↗ these different cities looking for in

1:34:00 ↗ the grants

1:34:02 ↗ so let me uh let me let me summarize

1:34:04 ↗ what i think i heard

1:34:05 ↗ um because

1:34:06 ↗ um

1:34:08 ↗ so it would be optimal if we have an

1:34:10 ↗ adopted strategic plan that we can then

1:34:13 ↗ attach to the grant uh when we go out to

1:34:15 ↗ make the grand applications available so

1:34:18 ↗ that the respondents have a

1:34:20 ↗ a really good sense of what it is we're

1:34:23 ↗ looking for and what our priorities are

1:34:25 ↗ okay thank you

1:34:27 ↗ thank you

1:34:28 ↗ council president can i amplify on that

1:34:30 ↗ a little bit

1:34:33 ↗ go for it

1:34:34 ↗ um

1:34:35 ↗ we're talking about a couple weeks here

1:34:38 ↗ i think certainly if the council would

1:34:39 ↗ like another touch in a study session we

1:34:41 ↗ can

1:34:42 ↗ we can fit that in

1:34:44 ↗ as i think you all know february and

1:34:46 ↗ march are funny funny weeks month

1:34:49 ↗ and so we we've got to think a little

1:34:50 ↗ bit of flexibility here but we could

1:34:52 ↗ have another study session get it back

1:34:54 ↗ to you probably the following week for

1:34:56 ↗ final action if that's the case that one

1:34:58 ↗ might take the process out by a couple

1:35:00 ↗ of weeks i mean we want to be respectful

1:35:02 ↗ to the human services commission we want

1:35:03 ↗ to be respectful to the agencies um but

1:35:07 ↗ this is too important um i think we can

1:35:10 ↗ i think everyone will understand if it's

1:35:12 ↗ two weeks later than the optimal

1:35:14 ↗ schedule in order to make sure that

1:35:16 ↗ we're getting the word out of what our

1:35:18 ↗ needs and priorities are so

1:35:21 ↗ if the council would like that we can

1:35:22 ↗ make it work and i don't think it will

1:35:24 ↗ have a real material impact on the

1:35:25 ↗ process

1:35:28 ↗ okay thank you for that let's go to

1:35:30 ↗ deputy council president hall

1:35:34 ↗ uh thank you council president walsh um

1:35:37 ↗ yeah i guess no no really for the

1:35:39 ↗ comments then i would really like to

1:35:40 ↗ have another study session touch i think

1:35:42 ↗ that there are potentially a number of

1:35:45 ↗ changes um and i think it's easier as a

1:35:47 ↗ council to have a discussion in this

1:35:48 ↗ format than

1:35:49 ↗ to be suggesting amendments up on the

1:35:52 ↗ diocese

1:35:53 ↗ at a regular city council meeting so

1:35:55 ↗ that's where my head's at

1:36:00 ↗ okay

1:36:01 ↗ and

1:36:02 ↗ i see councilmember d michelle if you

1:36:05 ↗ end up having a comment just put another

1:36:07 ↗ comment in the box uh council member ray

1:36:11 ↗ uh thank you council president walsh

1:36:14 ↗ um

1:36:15 ↗ yay

1:36:16 ↗ deputy council president hall i think it

1:36:18 ↗ is so much easier for us to

1:36:20 ↗ suggest modifications in a study session

1:36:22 ↗ than um in a um

1:36:25 ↗ active

1:36:26 ↗ agenda bill deliberation

1:36:28 ↗ and then for me personally i want to

1:36:30 ↗ hear what the public and the human

1:36:32 ↗ services commission have to say

1:36:35 ↗ between now and

1:36:37 ↗ adoption and i

1:36:38 ↗ and

1:36:39 ↗ going back to the the brilliance of

1:36:41 ↗ deputy council president hall then we

1:36:43 ↗ can um we can have a more robust

1:36:45 ↗ discussion because it's really hard to

1:36:47 ↗ make modifications through motions

1:36:49 ↗ so that would be my preference

1:36:55 ↗ okay so i've heard two people who have

1:36:58 ↗ said hey we have a preference for

1:37:01 ↗ having another study session on this

1:37:05 ↗ before moving it forward toward

1:37:08 ↗ anticipated adoption

1:37:10 ↗ only hearing from two but i'm not

1:37:13 ↗ hearing anybody saying no okay a few

1:37:15 ↗ more thumbs up fantastic okay so we've

1:37:18 ↗ got a good sense uh then that the

1:37:21 ↗ direction of the council is

1:37:23 ↗ we've got some feedback we want to

1:37:25 ↗ direct the administration to

1:37:27 ↗ add

1:37:28 ↗ another

1:37:29 ↗ study session on this topic see if we

1:37:32 ↗ can hear back from the human services

1:37:35 ↗ commission

1:37:36 ↗ and or the public

1:37:37 ↗ about some of these comments that we've

1:37:39 ↗ had here and see if we can have a robust

1:37:41 ↗ conversation on that

1:37:44 ↗ okay

1:37:45 ↗ sounds good well thank you monica and

1:37:48 ↗ jeff and

1:37:49 ↗ alexis and everybody who's

1:37:52 ↗ contributed to the conversation tonight

1:37:55 ↗ um

1:37:57 ↗ guys looking at the

1:37:58 ↗ schedule on the timeline for tonight uh

1:38:01 ↗ this important element took a little bit

1:38:04 ↗ longer than anticipated so i'm wondering

1:38:09 ↗ you know whether we're

1:38:11 ↗ interested to push id

1:38:14 ↗ 0993 the recreation scholarship program

1:38:18 ↗ to a future

1:38:20 ↗ night

1:38:21 ↗ um

1:38:22 ↗ whether there are any concerns about

1:38:24 ↗ that we could do it next week at the

1:38:26 ↗ regular council

1:38:28 ↗ session

1:38:29 ↗ um and maybe just take a moment to hear

1:38:32 ↗ from jeff or

1:38:34 ↗ city administrator bob quits whether

1:38:36 ↗ there any concerns on timeline of uh

1:38:39 ↗ pushing that as

1:38:43 ↗ council needed members of the council we

1:38:45 ↗ just want to make sure that uh

1:38:47 ↗ if the council would like to make a

1:38:48 ↗ change that that's available for

1:38:50 ↗ residents to take advantage of with

1:38:51 ↗ spring and summer classes uh if the

1:38:54 ↗ council will indulge us next week at the

1:38:56 ↗ council meeting we can have this as an

1:38:57 ↗ informational item there's only one item

1:39:00 ↗ currently of regular business

1:39:02 ↗ so uh

1:39:03 ↗ i think from a time management

1:39:04 ↗ perspective we can make that work next

1:39:06 ↗ week

1:39:09 ↗ okay am i seeing

1:39:11 ↗ i'm seeing some questioning ideas i see

1:39:14 ↗ four thumbs up but any

1:39:18 ↗ comments questions concerns

1:39:22 ↗ comment from councilmember hunt

1:39:26 ↗ thank you this might actually be a

1:39:28 ↗ question

1:39:29 ↗ so um as was

1:39:31 ↗ just mentioned it is easier to make to

1:39:34 ↗ propose changes in this study session

1:39:37 ↗ format and so i'm wondering if it would

1:39:38 ↗ be appropriate to

1:39:40 ↗ to raise that now so that um if i have a

1:39:44 ↗ proposed thing for us to consider

1:39:47 ↗ um or what we should do with if if

1:39:50 ↗ anyone else also has

1:39:52 ↗ something that they wanted to raise for

1:39:53 ↗ consideration on the item that were

1:39:56 ↗ sounds like we're pushing to a regular

1:39:57 ↗ meeting

1:40:01 ↗ so that's a good question um you know i

1:40:05 ↗ do

1:40:05 ↗ i will put in my two cents i do have

1:40:08 ↗ some comments about it and i think there

1:40:10 ↗ were a few areas that were in flux um as

1:40:12 ↗ this was coming to us so it might need

1:40:15 ↗ more of a working session it's more of a

1:40:18 ↗ question of then

1:40:20 ↗ well not more of a question it is a

1:40:22 ↗ question of timeline versus

1:40:26 ↗ work on it versus when it's needed in

1:40:28 ↗ place um

1:40:30 ↗ director watling any

1:40:32 ↗ commentary on that

1:40:36 ↗ great discussion uh yes the intention of

1:40:39 ↗ of this conversation was um

1:40:42 ↗ um

1:40:44 ↗ it's not a refined document it's not a

1:40:46 ↗ finished product we really do have some

1:40:48 ↗ policy questions we want to get feedback

1:40:50 ↗ on and and and frame that up if that's

1:40:52 ↗ something that can be done as an

1:40:53 ↗ informational item at a regular meeting

1:40:56 ↗ we're not ready to bring it forward to

1:40:58 ↗ you as an action item

1:41:00 ↗ um

1:41:01 ↗ but if there's an ability to to have

1:41:03 ↗ that discussion get feedback next

1:41:05 ↗ next tuesday the 18th that would

1:41:07 ↗ certainly work for us

1:41:09 ↗ the intention then based on the feedback

1:41:11 ↗ and follow-up we get from you we would

1:41:13 ↗ then prepare it to come back to you as a

1:41:16 ↗ agenda bill item and a regular business

1:41:18 ↗ item um

1:41:20 ↗ so

1:41:20 ↗ we can make next tuesday work if that

1:41:23 ↗ um

1:41:24 ↗ if that format works for for you in

1:41:26 ↗ terms of making it a working session

1:41:28 ↗ even though it's an informational item

1:41:29 ↗ at a regular meeting

1:41:33 ↗ got it that sounds very responsive let's

1:41:35 ↗ hear from council member hunt

1:41:39 ↗ um i think from my perspective that

1:41:41 ↗ would be fine i just wanted to avoid

1:41:44 ↗ basically making changes and then

1:41:46 ↗ adopting it um because it seems like you

1:41:48 ↗ said it's um

1:41:51 ↗ we might have changes on it basically so

1:41:54 ↗ thanks

1:41:56 ↗ fantastic very reasonable uh

1:41:58 ↗ councilmember joe comment

1:42:00 ↗ thank you i would just like a little

1:42:01 ↗ clarification on whether there's a

1:42:04 ↗ timing issue with

1:42:05 ↗ uh sign ups for either the summer camps

1:42:08 ↗ or one of the seasons that the

1:42:10 ↗ scholarship issue might have an impact

1:42:12 ↗ on and if so if if it

1:42:15 ↗ you know leads us to want to discuss a

1:42:17 ↗ little bit earlier than then put it off

1:42:19 ↗ a week and if i could hear from jeff i'd

1:42:21 ↗ appreciate it

1:42:25 ↗ councilmember joe thanks for that

1:42:26 ↗ question nice to meet you uh virtually

1:42:29 ↗ um yeah to do this on tuesday the 18th

1:42:34 ↗ um the goal is in the council packet and

1:42:37 ↗ the council calendar is to bring this

1:42:38 ↗ back to you for potential adoption and

1:42:41 ↗ action on the 7th of february

1:42:44 ↗ depending on feedback i think we could

1:42:46 ↗ still meet that um and as

1:42:48 ↗ city administrator bopkowitz said yeah

1:42:50 ↗ adopting it on the 7th would really

1:42:52 ↗ allow us to frame up the program be

1:42:54 ↗ ready for that big spring summer

1:42:57 ↗ registration

1:43:02 ↗ okay so are we still holding on with the

1:43:05 ↗ thumbs up to having a council discussion

1:43:08 ↗ on an id item for

1:43:11 ↗ next week and then having it come back

1:43:13 ↗ according to that

1:43:14 ↗ schedule

1:43:16 ↗ okay that gives us the opportunity to

1:43:18 ↗ move on to the next item and then also

1:43:20 ↗ we have an executive session after

1:43:23 ↗ as well so thank you jeff

1:43:28 ↗ so let's see the next um item on our

1:43:31 ↗ agenda is id

1:43:33 ↗ 1007 the city council retreat planning

1:43:36 ↗ presented by myself and deputy council

1:43:39 ↗ president hall

1:43:41 ↗ and so this one's more of an informal

1:43:44 ↗ hey let's make sure we're all on

1:43:46 ↗ the same

1:43:48 ↗ uh the same path forward

1:43:50 ↗ because

1:43:51 ↗ we're still in virtual territory we are

1:43:56 ↗ not yet back in person and

1:43:58 ↗ uh that has impacts on things so the the

1:44:01 ↗ basic concept is

1:44:04 ↗ we're looking at the things that we want

1:44:06 ↗ to accomplish as a council group and um

1:44:11 ↗ let's see council member hall did you

1:44:13 ↗ want to start off on that you were going

1:44:15 ↗ to talk about the two different sessions

1:44:18 ↗ uh sure thank you uh council president

1:44:21 ↗ walsh this is um council member hall um

1:44:24 ↗ yeah so there were kind of four main

1:44:26 ↗ topics that we wanted to discuss with

1:44:27 ↗ you tonight while uh emphasizing that

1:44:30 ↗ we're really talking about structure of

1:44:32 ↗ the agenda here and does this sound good

1:44:34 ↗ to you and not necessarily getting into

1:44:36 ↗ the weeds we can save that for the

1:44:37 ↗ retreat um so um the what counts

1:44:42 ↗ president walsh just referenced uh first

1:44:43 ↗ thing we want to talk about was kind of

1:44:45 ↗ the retreat framework so instead of a

1:44:48 ↗ more traditional framework of having an

1:44:50 ↗ all day retreat on a saturday we thought

1:44:54 ↗ using some open study session time at

1:44:56 ↗ the end of january and early february

1:44:58 ↗ could work especially because some of

1:45:00 ↗ the topics that we've put together kind

1:45:02 ↗ of grouped nicely into categories so

1:45:04 ↗ that would start with the january 25th

1:45:06 ↗ study session um with a focus on

1:45:08 ↗ internal city council

1:45:11 ↗ operation up

1:45:13 ↗ operations and our structure which is

1:45:15 ↗ like our conversation that we've all

1:45:17 ↗ been talking about for a while now about

1:45:18 ↗ committees and study sessions and all

1:45:20 ↗ that

1:45:20 ↗ and then follow that up with a february

1:45:23 ↗ first study session um with a focus on

1:45:26 ↗ more traditional focus on the 20 on the

1:45:29 ↗ 2022 2023 work plan proposal by the

1:45:32 ↗ administration and then also inviting

1:45:34 ↗ rachel our new city attorney to come in

1:45:36 ↗ and give us um a refresher on opma since

1:45:39 ↗ we have a new council member and it's a

1:45:40 ↗ new year so why not

1:45:42 ↗ um

1:45:43 ↗ so

1:45:44 ↗ that's kind of the first topic that we

1:45:46 ↗ wanted to run by you is does this seem

1:45:48 ↗ appropriate um

1:45:50 ↗ and um council president walsh i'm happy

1:45:53 ↗ to move on to the second topic or we can

1:45:55 ↗ stop now and see if there are any

1:45:57 ↗ questions or comments

1:45:59 ↗ i'm not seeing any comments in the chat

1:46:01 ↗ so you know

1:46:04 ↗ i would go ahead and move on and then if

1:46:06 ↗ anybody has any comments just add it in

1:46:08 ↗ there and we'll make sure to call on

1:46:10 ↗ okay wonderful um so topic number two is

1:46:14 ↗ um

1:46:15 ↗ uh how we all work together and this

1:46:17 ↗ would be a conversation uh at the

1:46:19 ↗ january 25th study session where we

1:46:21 ↗ focus on internal procedures

1:46:24 ↗ um so council president walsh and i have

1:46:26 ↗ had discussions and we'd like to lead a

1:46:27 ↗ conversation about um

1:46:30 ↗ our guiding principles as a city council

1:46:32 ↗ uh what our expectations of one another

1:46:35 ↗ are what our expectations of leadership

1:46:37 ↗ are um i think we've taken a lot of

1:46:40 ↗ inspiration from the sound cities

1:46:41 ↗ association they have a list of guiding

1:46:43 ↗ principles um that they reiterate every

1:46:46 ↗ year some of those are

1:46:47 ↗ no surprises have each other's backs

1:46:50 ↗ think about who's not at the table

1:46:52 ↗ um respect differing views

1:46:54 ↗ explain your thinking acknowledge

1:46:56 ↗ disagreement so some of these things

1:46:58 ↗ we'd like to have a conversation about

1:46:59 ↗ well

1:47:00 ↗ what are the

1:47:01 ↗ group priorities in terms of guiding

1:47:03 ↗ principles that we all want to come to

1:47:05 ↗ agreement on for the asexual city

1:47:07 ↗ council so

1:47:08 ↗ those are the first two topics and um

1:47:11 ↗ council president walsh i'll pass it

1:47:13 ↗ back to you

1:47:16 ↗ shuffling all of my different

1:47:20 ↗ items up here let me find the one that i

1:47:23 ↗ was looking at yeah so um the next part

1:47:28 ↗ of

1:47:29 ↗ kind of our conversation

1:47:31 ↗ is about the weekly leadership meeting

1:47:34 ↗ so i know i sent out an email earlier

1:47:36 ↗ but just the the concept of

1:47:39 ↗ do for those weekly

1:47:43 ↗ weekly leadership meetings um

1:47:47 ↗ we

1:47:48 ↗ kind of have the thought process of

1:47:49 ↗ continuing on

1:47:51 ↗ this concept of really focusing on

1:47:54 ↗ the schedule

1:47:56 ↗ um and

1:47:57 ↗ what we need to get done in the agenda

1:47:59 ↗ and things like that not on policy but

1:48:02 ↗ that that in itself is a policy so we

1:48:05 ↗ want to make sure that we're having that

1:48:06 ↗ conversation with you that um that is

1:48:09 ↗ the will of the council and then on that

1:48:12 ↗ con

1:48:13 ↗ concept you know council deputy council

1:48:16 ↗ president paul and i

1:48:18 ↗ have the intention of

1:48:20 ↗ really wanting to be able to reach out

1:48:23 ↗ to council members on a regular basis

1:48:26 ↗ and ask those questions what's working

1:48:28 ↗ what isn't working what information do

1:48:30 ↗ you need and be able to have listening

1:48:33 ↗ sessions with you but in order to do so

1:48:37 ↗ we also want to make sure that we're

1:48:38 ↗ following uh

1:48:40 ↗ the love opma

1:48:42 ↗ and making sure that we're not creating

1:48:45 ↗ any

1:48:47 ↗ you know

1:48:48 ↗ running meetings because of multiple

1:48:51 ↗ members so part of that conversation is

1:48:53 ↗ going to be whether we need the third

1:48:56 ↗ council member

1:48:57 ↗ uh participating in the leadership

1:48:59 ↗ meetings and so we'll be looking for

1:49:01 ↗ your feedback on that

1:49:03 ↗ so councilmember mart comment on what

1:49:07 ↗ were included

1:49:09 ↗ sure uh so i think it was a mistake to

1:49:12 ↗ move away from talking about policy at

1:49:14 ↗ the wednesday morning leadership

1:49:16 ↗ meetings it was an opportunity for

1:49:18 ↗ council members who are only in every

1:49:21 ↗ fifth meeting to bring up policy issues

1:49:24 ↗ and talk about where those might fit in

1:49:27 ↗ to the council

1:49:29 ↗ and where it might fit into the city and

1:49:31 ↗ and how how that might work uh we never

1:49:34 ↗ we never came to any

1:49:37 ↗ majority decisions as a result of those

1:49:40 ↗ leadership meetings it was never

1:49:41 ↗ cross-tabbed with people who were

1:49:43 ↗ outside the room so there were no in my

1:49:45 ↗ view no opma issues and it's been a loss

1:49:49 ↗ to not have that

1:49:51 ↗ and i certainly think the third person

1:49:53 ↗ is superfluous if there's not going to

1:49:55 ↗ be any talk of policy

1:49:58 ↗ i for a long time didn't come to the

1:49:59 ↗ wednesday morning meetings and you know

1:50:02 ↗ i'm happy to come to the wednesday

1:50:03 ↗ morning meetings because i like all of

1:50:04 ↗ you

1:50:05 ↗ but i don't add a lot to that meeting

1:50:09 ↗ and uh and i i miss the old days and i

1:50:12 ↗ think that we got material out in a

1:50:14 ↗ healthier way

1:50:15 ↗ rather than a council member going to

1:50:18 ↗ try to pull one or two but not three of

1:50:20 ↗ their fellow council members bringing it

1:50:22 ↗ to leadership and talking about it there

1:50:24 ↗ and how it might get addressed

1:50:27 ↗ led to better outcomes thanks

1:50:30 ↗ thanks and so we'll be discussing all of

1:50:33 ↗ this at the leadership retreat so

1:50:37 ↗ you know really i guess part of the

1:50:39 ↗ question there is is

1:50:42 ↗ is that the right conversation to have

1:50:45 ↗ at the leadership or at the

1:50:47 ↗ council retreat um and are there any

1:50:50 ↗ concerns with that

1:50:52 ↗ um conversation happening but it sounds

1:50:54 ↗ like you definitely want to have that

1:50:56 ↗ conversation

1:50:57 ↗ if you could take my comments to me yes

1:50:59 ↗ i would like to have that conversation

1:51:02 ↗ fantastic great

1:51:04 ↗ um and then you know the other

1:51:06 ↗ piece uh of the retreat is you know

1:51:10 ↗ talking about our

1:51:11 ↗ meeting structure so

1:51:13 ↗ that's this big

1:51:15 ↗ question mark that we have up in the air

1:51:17 ↗ of study sessions versus committee

1:51:19 ↗ meetings and then also how we handle our

1:51:23 ↗ ad hoc committees whether we need them

1:51:25 ↗ if we go to committee you know um all of

1:51:28 ↗ those concepts so

1:51:30 ↗ we

1:51:31 ↗ uh

1:51:31 ↗ zach and i plan to send out an email

1:51:34 ↗ ahead of

1:51:35 ↗ the

1:51:37 ↗ retreat

1:51:39 ↗ with the agenda of those items and also

1:51:42 ↗ just a list of questions for you guys to

1:51:44 ↗ consider

1:51:45 ↗ we're you know there's a lot to talk

1:51:47 ↗ about and i know we could probably have

1:51:49 ↗ three different four different meetings

1:51:51 ↗ on

1:51:52 ↗ study session versus committees so we're

1:51:54 ↗ really hoping that by asking the

1:51:56 ↗ questions ahead of time

1:51:58 ↗ you guys can really think it over and we

1:51:59 ↗ can have a good conversation during that

1:52:02 ↗ meeting

1:52:03 ↗ and then

1:52:04 ↗ just to highlight at this point we're

1:52:07 ↗ still planning for this to be virtual

1:52:10 ↗ um and so the questions really at this

1:52:13 ↗ point are

1:52:15 ↗ have we missed anything is there

1:52:16 ↗ anything else that should come up in

1:52:17 ↗ this retreat that we haven't included

1:52:20 ↗ is there anything else you think that

1:52:22 ↗ the council should discuss

1:52:24 ↗ and then

1:52:25 ↗ do we have any feedback on using the two

1:52:28 ↗ currently open study sessions versus

1:52:31 ↗ coming in on a longer weekend well i say

1:52:34 ↗ coming in it's not actually in person so

1:52:36 ↗ it's not coming in at all it's sitting

1:52:38 ↗ in front of your computer on a saturday

1:52:40 ↗ um do we have any thoughts on any of

1:52:42 ↗ that

1:52:45 ↗ shaking heads

1:52:49 ↗ okay

1:52:51 ↗ i'm not seeing any comments or thoughts

1:52:53 ↗ i'm gonna say we're probably fine doing

1:52:55 ↗ it as it is i know we're all in deep

1:52:58 ↗ anticipation talking about our process

1:53:00 ↗ and meeting structure

1:53:02 ↗ uh

1:53:03 ↗ it's important for

1:53:04 ↗ how we do business um but at that point

1:53:08 ↗ anything else to add deputy council

1:53:11 ↗ president

1:53:14 ↗ nope

1:53:15 ↗ okay

1:53:16 ↗ so then that is the last item i believe

1:53:20 ↗ on our

1:53:22 ↗ uh we also have a good of the order and

1:53:27 ↗ then i know

1:53:28 ↗ uh chris you're coming on to say hey

1:53:30 ↗ wait

1:53:31 ↗ we've also got the executive session yep

1:53:35 ↗ um

1:53:37 ↗ that is correct council president but

1:53:39 ↗ please continue

1:53:40 ↗ yup okay um just all call out good of

1:53:44 ↗ the order does anybody have anything for

1:53:46 ↗ good of the order that

1:53:48 ↗ wants to be included at this point

1:53:51 ↗ i hadn't heard about anything ahead of

1:53:53 ↗ time i'm not hearing anything now

1:53:56 ↗ so

1:53:57 ↗ um at that point again we've got an

1:54:00 ↗ executive session it's its own event so

1:54:02 ↗ you'll need to go back to your calendar

1:54:04 ↗ and click on that link

1:54:07 ↗ to join that because the study session

1:54:10 ↗ will end so at this point at 8 24 i

1:54:14 ↗ would oh go to the order

1:54:16 ↗ deputy council president hall

1:54:19 ↗ uh thank you sorry i thought i might

1:54:21 ↗ have been too late i just really well

1:54:22 ↗ really quickly this council member hall

1:54:24 ↗ i just really quickly wanted to

1:54:25 ↗ acknowledge

1:54:26 ↗ um

1:54:27 ↗ this is really one of the first working

1:54:30 ↗ meetings that um

1:54:31 ↗ our very newest council member

1:54:33 ↗ councilmember joe um has been a part of

1:54:35 ↗ and i just want to say

1:54:37 ↗ that we're all really grateful you're

1:54:38 ↗ here and we're excited to be having

1:54:40 ↗ these conversations with you and

1:54:42 ↗ here's to a great year

1:54:47 ↗ council president walsh i wonder if we'd

1:54:49 ↗ be okay with you if i read the opening

1:54:51 ↗ for the executive session on camera so

1:54:53 ↗ people hear which rcw we are actually

1:54:56 ↗ using for our meeting

1:54:57 ↗ fantastic go ahead mayor paulie

1:55:00 ↗ thank you

1:55:03 ↗ uh this is mayor paulie and um we will

1:55:06 ↗ be going into an executive session at 8

1:55:09 ↗ 25 p.m this evening and the purpose of

1:55:12 ↗ this special meeting

1:55:13 ↗ is to allow the city council to recess

1:55:15 ↗ into executive session to discuss

1:55:17 ↗ pending potential litigation

1:55:19 ↗ for rcw

1:55:21 ↗ 42.30 0.110 per n1 for ni

1:55:25 ↗ the item is expected to take

1:55:26 ↗ approximately 60 minutes please note

1:55:29 ↗ that executive sessions are closed to

1:55:30 ↗ the public and action if needed would

1:55:32 ↗ occur during the open session of a

1:55:35 ↗ regular council meeting we will now

1:55:37 ↗ recess into executive session at 8 25 pm

1:55:40 ↗ i will ask the clerk to move the city

1:55:42 ↗ council into a separate session within

1:55:44 ↗ this meeting

1:55:45 ↗ and anyone who is not

1:55:47 ↗ part of the closed session will

1:55:49 ↗ who is not part of the closed session

1:55:51 ↗ will remain in the main meeting you are

1:55:52 ↗ welcome to stay in the meeting until it

1:55:54 ↗ is reconfirmed um

1:55:57 ↗ deputy clerk are we ready to move into

1:56:00 ↗ our second meeting

1:56:01 ↗ uh yes madam mayor uh the way this has

1:56:04 ↗ been structured is that you will sign

1:56:06 ↗ you will log out of this and log into

1:56:09 ↗ the executive session which is already

1:56:11 ↗ begun with uh city clerk geezer

1:56:15 ↗ thank you very much deputy city clerk

1:56:17 ↗ see you all in there

1:56:19 ↗ bye

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Staff (9)

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator

Rachel Bender Turpin, City Attorney

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

Minnie Dhaliwal, Community Planning & Development Director

Emily Appleton, CPD Engineering Manager

James Johnson, Consultant

David Linehan, Attorney

Terry Scanlan, Attorney