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 (10)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

James Johnson, Consultant

David Linehan, Attorney

Terry Scanlan, Attorney