City Council Special Meeting · Monday, July 18, 2022 · City Council Digest

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0:07 ↗ good evening everyone i'm going to call

0:08 ↗ to order the

0:10 ↗ monday july 18th

0:12 ↗ city council regular city council

0:14 ↗ meeting

0:15 ↗ welcome everybody

0:17 ↗ as a reminder for those who are with us

0:19 ↗ or at home we do have a remote aspect to

0:22 ↗ our meetings and both staff and members

0:24 ↗ of the public

0:25 ↗ may be participating in tonight's

0:27 ↗ meeting remotely via webex

0:29 ↗ so the first item on the agenda this

0:31 ↗ evening is the pledge of allegiance and

0:32 ↗ i invite you to join the council and

0:36 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag

0:39 ↗ of the united states of

0:43 ↗ for america it stands

0:45 ↗ one nation under god and indivisible

0:48 ↗ with liberty and justice for all

0:54 ↗ thank you so we have a couple of fun

0:57 ↗ special business items tonight that

0:59 ↗ we're going to start off with and the

1:01 ↗ first is

1:02 ↗ id1150

1:04 ↗ park and community services month

1:06 ↗ proclamation and i'd like to ask

1:08 ↗ director jeff watling

1:10 ↗ and his team some of his team that's

1:12 ↗ here tonight to come to the podium

1:23 ↗ hi jeff hey

1:28 ↗ tuck it in

1:29 ↗ let's make a little picture

1:32 ↗ awesome

1:33 ↗ jeff has done a great job of assembling

1:35 ↗ a diverse section of his personnel staff

1:39 ↗ because parks and recreation

1:41 ↗ does a lot of different things

1:43 ↗ whereas parks recreation and community

1:46 ↗ services are an integral part of our

1:48 ↗ community

1:49 ↗ and whereas parks and recreation promote

1:52 ↗ health and wellness

1:53 ↗ improving the physical and mental

1:55 ↗ wellbeing of people who live near or

1:57 ↗ recreate in parks

1:59 ↗ and whereas parks and community services

2:01 ↗ strengthens issaquah's identity by

2:03 ↗ providing exceptional parks trails green

2:06 ↗ spaces and recreation facilities that

2:08 ↗ reflect and celebrate community

2:10 ↗ character history culture aesthetics and

2:14 ↗ landscape

2:15 ↗ and whereas issaquah parks and community

2:17 ↗ services fosters social cohesiveness and

2:20 ↗ creates memorable experiences through

2:22 ↗ recreational arts and human services

2:25 ↗ program that provide opportunities to

2:27 ↗ come together promote social equity

2:30 ↗ connect social networks and ensure all

2:32 ↗ residents have access to these program

2:35 ↗ benefits and whereas issaquah parks and

2:37 ↗ community services department provides

2:39 ↗ value to the local economy

2:41 ↗ through increased tourism attraction and

2:44 ↗ retention of businesses and residents

2:47 ↗ meanwhile the department strives to

2:48 ↗ provide equitable human services to add

2:50 ↗ value for all issaquah residents

2:53 ↗ and whereas issaquah parks and community

2:55 ↗ services helps to sustain and steward

2:58 ↗ our natural resources by protecting open

3:00 ↗ space and habitat connecting people to

3:02 ↗ nature promoting the vital ecological

3:05 ↗ function of our city-owned public land

3:07 ↗ and increasing our resilience in the

3:09 ↗ fates of natural disaster threats and

3:12 ↗ climate change

3:13 ↗ now therefore i mary lou pawley mayor of

3:16 ↗ the city of issaquah do hereby proclaim

3:18 ↗ july 2022 to be parks and community

3:21 ↗ services month in the city of issaquah

3:23 ↗ and invite the community to join me in

3:25 ↗ thanking the staff within the parks and

3:27 ↗ community services department for their

3:29 ↗ service and outstanding contributions

3:32 ↗ you hear jeff

3:34 ↗ [Applause]

3:38 ↗ mayor thank you so much thank you city

3:41 ↗ council um

3:42 ↗ wow that's that's a lot um

3:47 ↗ you know

3:49 ↗ the benefits that this proclamation

3:51 ↗ speaks to is not

3:53 ↗ at all possible being able to deliver

3:54 ↗ those

3:55 ↗ without the hard work

3:58 ↗ the compassion

3:59 ↗ um the competency

4:01 ↗ of an amazing staff and um

4:05 ↗ i'm proud to say i'm honored to work

4:07 ↗ with a team that is amazingly

4:09 ↗ professional

4:11 ↗ amazingly compassionate and amazingly

4:13 ↗ competent in in what they do

4:16 ↗ the department is really comprised of a

4:17 ↗ very diverse set of professionals

4:21 ↗ we're not going to

4:22 ↗ bring everybody here tonight but

4:24 ↗ certainly

4:25 ↗ this this team of all-stars certainly

4:27 ↗ reflects and represents uh the the

4:30 ↗ department uh monica ngrilla with the

4:33 ↗ human services team brian bernstein with

4:35 ↗ the recreation team um amy dukes and

4:37 ↗ arts uh rick still and danny silver

4:40 ↗ representing the the park operations

4:42 ↗ team um again just reflect uh the the

4:46 ↗ work and commitment uh that this

4:47 ↗ department has for

4:49 ↗ um

4:50 ↗ uh supporting you um and and your

4:52 ↗ policies and uh serving the amazing

4:55 ↗ community

4:56 ↗ and residents of issaquah so

4:59 ↗ with that and with a big thanks to to

5:01 ↗ tim smith rather than me yammering on

5:03 ↗ about what we do

5:05 ↗ we thought we'd uh

5:07 ↗ have a chance to

5:08 ↗ get take a video tour

5:11 ↗ a quick two and a half snap two and a

5:13 ↗ half minute synopsis of of what we do

5:16 ↗ and how the community interacts with

5:18 ↗ parks and community services so i say

5:20 ↗ thank you thank you mayor for the

5:22 ↗ proclamation and enjoy the quick video

5:32 ↗ [Music]

5:51 ↗ [Music]

5:58 ↗ do

6:00 ↗ [Music]

6:06 ↗ [Music]

6:15 ↗ [Music]

6:36 ↗ [Music]

6:53 ↗ [Music]

7:01 ↗ [Music]

7:30 ↗ [Music]

8:13 ↗ director watling and the whole team

8:15 ↗ thank you if a picture speaks the

8:17 ↗ thousand words the video is just ten

8:20 ↗ times better that was so great to see

8:23 ↗ you and your team in action thank you so

8:25 ↗ much

8:26 ↗ very nice

8:31 ↗ the next fun item this evening is id

8:34 ↗ 1036 it's hall of fame recognition i'm

8:37 ↗ going to invite council president walsh

8:40 ↗ and our two 2022 recipients to join me

8:42 ↗ at the podium

9:00 ↗ welcome eric now get closer

9:03 ↗ welcome erica and welcome stacy goodman

9:06 ↗ and we're so glad that you could come

9:07 ↗ out earlier tonight and socialize with

9:09 ↗ us a bit and a few of the other hall of

9:11 ↗ famers in town and really just want to

9:14 ↗ embarrass you now by saying kind things

9:15 ↗ about you again so about your amazing

9:17 ↗ contributions

9:19 ↗ so earlier this year we added two

9:21 ↗ community members to the issaquah hall

9:23 ↗ of fame

9:24 ↗ this award is based on values of service

9:27 ↗ leadership and civic mindedness it is

9:30 ↗ our community's top honor

9:32 ↗ in to the 2021

9:36 ↗ it says 22 hall of fame award winners

9:39 ↗ are erica magnus and stacy goodman so

9:42 ↗ this evening i'll talk a little bit

9:44 ↗ about stacy goodman's contributions and

9:46 ↗ why she was an easy pick for the hall of

9:48 ↗ fame and then i'm going to turn it over

9:49 ↗ to council president to present erica

9:53 ↗ with her award since we were able to do

9:54 ↗ that earlier and talk a little bit about

9:56 ↗ erica

9:58 ↗ miss goodman welcome

10:00 ↗ stacy has been contributing in issaquah

10:03 ↗ for a really long time she started off

10:06 ↗ as a reporter and editor for the

10:08 ↗ issaquah press

10:10 ↗ 1996-2004 and we're still still mourning

10:12 ↗ the loss of that paper

10:15 ↗ she currently works for the law firm

10:17 ↗ carson and knoll since 2007 and she ran

10:20 ↗ for city council in 2010 and served us

10:23 ↗ from 2011 to 2021.

10:26 ↗ in that first

10:27 ↗ attempt to become a council member there

10:30 ↗ were many qualified people in the pool

10:32 ↗ with her

10:34 ↗ including myself that did not get picked

10:36 ↗ when she got picked it was really

10:38 ↗ apparent the night we were listening to

10:40 ↗ candidates talk about why they wanted to

10:42 ↗ do this

10:43 ↗ she blew it out of the water and it was

10:45 ↗ so great to have her for 11 years

10:47 ↗ demonstrating over and over again with

10:49 ↗ her decisions and her conversations and

10:51 ↗ her questions her commitment and passion

10:54 ↗ to this community

10:56 ↗ she was on council when we did our first

10:58 ↗ ever city strategic plan

11:00 ↗ our first ever comprehensive capital

11:02 ↗ financing strategy she helped to create

11:05 ↗ dedicated funding mechanisms to support

11:07 ↗ multimodal safety improvements

11:09 ↗ she was here incorporating lake samama

11:11 ↗ state park into the city's boundaries

11:13 ↗ which is a really exciting day for us

11:17 ↗ she has also

11:18 ↗ lived in issaquah since 1989 and been a

11:21 ↗ part of so many conversations it was

11:24 ↗ really hard to see her retire last year

11:26 ↗ but she certainly certainly did an

11:28 ↗ amazing amount of stuff in her time

11:30 ↗ uh

11:31 ↗ working on our council working for the

11:33 ↗ local newspaper and now with her

11:35 ↗ professional career also located in this

11:37 ↗ sequel so stacy so proud of you very

11:40 ↗ very deserving

11:43 ↗ [Applause]

11:50 ↗ well and the theme of our hall of fame

11:53 ↗ recipients and many times is just long

11:56 ↗ long service to the community and that

11:58 ↗ is no different with erica

12:01 ↗ she spent 22 years at the issaquah

12:04 ↗ history museum started in 1999 she was

12:08 ↗ in fact the history museum's first

12:10 ↗ employee and grew it from an

12:13 ↗ all-volunteer to five staff members

12:17 ↗ um during her time there digitized the

12:19 ↗ entire issaquah press

12:22 ↗ all the way back to 1900.

12:25 ↗ real service to the community and

12:27 ↗ something that i think we don't think

12:29 ↗ about often when we think about our town

12:32 ↗ and our history is how important some of

12:34 ↗ that is to be able to continue on

12:37 ↗ in the future

12:38 ↗ one of the things erica is known for is

12:40 ↗ the downtown history hikes the cemetery

12:43 ↗ walks the kids tours the public crawls

12:46 ↗ all of those were

12:48 ↗ something that countless issaquah

12:50 ↗ members were able to participate in and

12:53 ↗ really get a sense of the history of our

12:56 ↗ town not just from an abstract idea but

12:59 ↗ really being able to participate in that

13:02 ↗ and so i think

13:04 ↗ we lost a good one in moving on to for

13:07 ↗ culture in king county um but really

13:11 ↗ wanted to take this moment to thank you

13:13 ↗ for your

13:14 ↗ service to the community and welcome you

13:16 ↗ as

13:17 ↗ one of our newest hall of fame members

13:19 ↗ and you didn't get a chance to get

13:21 ↗ i know it's so pretty

13:24 ↗ and would you like to take a moment to

13:26 ↗ wait

13:28 ↗ it it occurs to me this is one of the

13:30 ↗ few times i've appeared before council

13:31 ↗ and not

13:32 ↗ asked for money and also thank you for

13:34 ↗ money

13:35 ↗ so of course it goes without saying that

13:37 ↗ i've appreciated your support through

13:39 ↗ the many years that you did support the

13:41 ↗ his equestrian museums um i was telling

13:44 ↗ somebody earlier this evening i feel

13:45 ↗ very fortunate that i've been able to

13:48 ↗ have a home away from my hometown i grew

13:51 ↗ up in a small town in maryland called

13:53 ↗ jefferson and when i first came to

13:54 ↗ issaquah it reminded me a lot of my

13:56 ↗ hometown

13:58 ↗ and so i just want to thank the

13:59 ↗ community so much for this award and for

14:02 ↗ embracing me as kind of an honorary

14:05 ↗ community member

14:07 ↗ and i

14:08 ↗ i'm proud to be an honorary issaquahn

14:12 ↗ and thank you so much

14:20 ↗ two amazing recipients for our hall of

14:23 ↗ fame award um we're gonna have a short

14:25 ↗ picture break and take a five minute

14:28 ↗ break so that they'll be able to talk

14:30 ↗ with council members and others that are

14:31 ↗ here if they didn't have a chance to

14:32 ↗ before so city clerk if we could take a

14:35 ↗ five minute recess

14:40 ↗ you gotta take

18:42 ↗ welcome back everyone we do have one

18:45 ↗ more fun thing before the council has to

18:47 ↗ get to work tonight because this is a

18:48 ↗ working meeting

18:50 ↗ id 1209 is a special recognition of ryan

18:53 ↗ remy and it was a association of

18:56 ↗ washington city's scholarship that he

18:58 ↗ won this year and i'd like to invite

18:59 ↗ council member dee michelle to come and

19:01 ↗ join me at the microphone she was

19:02 ↗ present during the ceremony and ryan why

19:04 ↗ don't you come up as well

19:07 ↗ so the city of issaquah

19:09 ↗ recently nominated ryan remy for the

19:11 ↗ 2022

19:12 ↗ awc center for quality community

19:15 ↗ scholarship

19:17 ↗ we are delighted to hear that ryan was

19:19 ↗ selected as a scholarship winner

19:21 ↗ congratulations ryan

19:23 ↗ ryan is a member for the youth advisory

19:25 ↗ board and joins us today and first i'd

19:27 ↗ like to have council member dean

19:29 ↗ michelle who actually did attend the

19:30 ↗ awards ceremony a chance to say a few a

19:32 ↗ few comments before we hand it over to

19:34 ↗ ryan

19:38 ↗ thank you mary paulie well it was my

19:41 ↗ honor to be able to introduce uh

19:45 ↗ ryan at the awc conference

19:47 ↗ uh to a whole ballroom of about 2 000

19:50 ↗ people

19:51 ↗ there were

19:52 ↗ five other students six other students

19:54 ↗ who were honored so this is the entire

19:56 ↗ state of washington and one of those six

19:59 ↗ was ryan from issaquah

20:01 ↗ and

20:02 ↗ all the students had to make speeches

20:04 ↗ and i want you to know that ryan hit it

20:06 ↗ right out of the ballpark he i had

20:08 ↗ people coming up to me

20:10 ↗ for the rest of the day saying your

20:13 ↗ student did such a great job and you did

20:16 ↗ it was fantastic and he was urging

20:18 ↗ people uh the city council members from

20:20 ↗ across the state to do more to bring

20:23 ↗ young people into their uh activities

20:25 ↗ and events and deliberations so

20:28 ↗ um i'm going to repeat what i said that

20:30 ↗ night or that afternoon ryan and that is

20:33 ↗ your community is so proud of you

20:35 ↗ it was well deserved and we know that

20:37 ↗ you're going to go on to have great

20:38 ↗ success so i'll turn it over to you

20:42 ↗ thank you

20:43 ↗ thank you so much council member d

20:44 ↗ michelle mayor paulie i just wanted to

20:46 ↗ share a few quick words while i'm here

20:48 ↗ um

20:49 ↗ first of all thank you so much for

20:50 ↗ giving me the opportunity to speak

20:52 ↗ tonight i'm so excited to meet all of

20:54 ↗ you after meeting a bunch of city

20:55 ↗ council members from across the state at

20:56 ↗ the conference and i definitely want to

20:58 ↗ send my gratitude to mayor polly and her

21:00 ↗ team for nominating me for the award

21:02 ↗ since i know there were several

21:03 ↗ applicants from miss across it was

21:05 ↗ really truly an honor to be issaquah's

21:07 ↗ nominee for this scholarship

21:09 ↗ um it was an absolute pleasure to attend

21:11 ↗ the conference at awc conference with

21:14 ↗ council members michelle and joe it was

21:15 ↗ so much fun um and i really enjoyed the

21:18 ↗ opportunity i had there to speak to

21:20 ↗ elected officials across our state about

21:22 ↗ the importance of civic engagement

21:24 ↗ among youth populations and i truly

21:26 ↗ credit most of my own passion for civic

21:28 ↗ engagement and my my service oriented

21:30 ↗ mindset to all the opportunities i've

21:33 ↗ had as a community member in a sequoia

21:35 ↗ whether through the advisory board

21:37 ↗ or as a youth representative on the

21:38 ↗ parks board i've had so much fun doing

21:40 ↗ everything from planning harry potter

21:42 ↗ nights to triathlons to volunteering at

21:45 ↗ the issaquah food and clothing bank um i

21:47 ↗ i truly wouldn't be the person i am

21:49 ↗ today or where i am today without all

21:51 ↗ the opportunities assaq has given me and

21:52 ↗ i'm so so so thankful

21:54 ↗ for the open arms the community has

21:56 ↗ welcomed me with um

21:58 ↗ i truly hope that promoting civic

22:00 ↗ engagement among youth and ensuring that

22:02 ↗ youth voices are not only heard but

22:03 ↗ amplified within our government remains

22:05 ↗ a core focus here in issaquah i think

22:07 ↗ the structure that we have for

22:10 ↗ youth involvement in the community is

22:11 ↗ really a model for city across our state

22:13 ↗ um i've actually been working with kathy

22:15 ↗ jones over the community center um to

22:16 ↗ sort of set something up similar in the

22:18 ↗ city of bellingham which has been really

22:20 ↗ exciting just to know that we're serving

22:21 ↗ as a model for such a large city in our

22:23 ↗ state

22:24 ↗ and i think we're doing a really great

22:25 ↗ job here of making sure that youth are

22:26 ↗ involved in their communities

22:28 ↗ um as i look towards my own future i did

22:30 ↗ make a bit of a switch in my plans since

22:32 ↗ speaking at the conference and that i

22:34 ↗ will now be attending georgetown

22:36 ↗ university over in washington dc

22:38 ↗ um i'll be studying international

22:40 ↗ political economy in the school of

22:41 ↗ foreign service which i'm super excited

22:44 ↗ about on whether it be interning in

22:46 ↗ congress or advocating for important

22:48 ↗ societal reforms continuing to engage in

22:50 ↗ service in my community i'm truly

22:52 ↗ looking forward to all the opportunities

22:54 ↗ that await for me in washington dc

22:56 ↗ um after i finish my undergraduate

22:58 ↗ degree i'm hoping to move on to a

23:00 ↗ master's program and international

23:01 ↗ affairs or a law degree and hopefully

23:03 ↗ pursue some public service related

23:05 ↗ career in either national security law

23:07 ↗ or international development um and with

23:10 ↗ that i just want to close with saying

23:12 ↗ i'm so thankful to have been a part of

23:14 ↗ this community even though i live in

23:15 ↗ renton i really consider it's a quan my

23:16 ↗ home

23:18 ↗ i it's issaquah is where i learned to

23:20 ↗ ride a bike for the first time it's

23:21 ↗ where i played soccer and basketball

23:23 ↗ through rec programs it's the only place

23:24 ↗ i've ever been able to hold down a job

23:27 ↗ and it will really always hold a special

23:29 ↗ place in my heart and i can confidently

23:31 ↗ say that i'm never going to forget any

23:33 ↗ of the memories that i've made here

23:35 ↗ and thank you all again so much for

23:36 ↗ having me here tonight

23:39 ↗ [Applause]

23:44 ↗ and just to repeat what councilmember d

23:46 ↗ michelle said your community is so

23:48 ↗ enormously proud of you congratulations

24:01 ↗ now it's

24:03 ↗ it's a work night

24:06 ↗ the next item we have is audience

24:08 ↗ comments and this is the opportunity for

24:10 ↗ members of the public to address counsel

24:12 ↗ at this time whether in person or

24:14 ↗ virtually those who have signed up in

24:16 ↗ advance to make comments we'll be called

24:18 ↗ on first and if you are joining us

24:20 ↗ virtually and would like to make

24:21 ↗ comments please raise your virtual hand

24:23 ↗ if you're on the phone that could be by

24:25 ↗ pressing star 3 and if you have joined

24:27 ↗ by computer or smartphone look for a

24:29 ↗ hand icon this varies by device one

24:32 ↗ option may be to go to the participant

24:34 ↗ panel and choose the raise hand icon in

24:36 ↗ the lower right hand corner

24:38 ↗ if you are in the room and did not sign

24:40 ↗ up to speak i will ask for other

24:41 ↗ speakers before closing this portion of

24:43 ↗ the meeting

24:44 ↗ city clerk has anyone signed up to speak

24:46 ↗ tonight

24:48 ↗ mayor paulie no one has signed up to

24:50 ↗ speak uh we do not have any members of

24:53 ↗ the public on virtually tonight

24:56 ↗ we do have a few folks here in the room

24:58 ↗ yeah i'm just looking i'm not seeing any

25:00 ↗ raised hands from the audience that's

25:02 ↗ here this evening as well

25:04 ↗ as a reminder you can always contact

25:07 ↗ your city council with written comments

25:09 ↗ by emailing them at city council at

25:11 ↗ issaquah.gov and now i'm going to turn

25:13 ↗ this over to council president walsh and

25:15 ↗ see if you've had any emails or comments

25:18 ↗ that you want to summarize on any of

25:19 ↗ tonight's agenda topics

25:21 ↗ thank you mayor we do not have any

25:23 ↗ comments on our short agenda tonight

25:26 ↗ thank you

25:28 ↗ so the next item of business tonight

25:29 ↗ will be committee and regional reports

25:31 ↗ and we'll start with council member joe

25:34 ↗ thank you madam mayor

25:37 ↗ the

25:38 ↗ cascade water alliance

25:40 ↗ finance committee meets tomorrow

25:43 ↗ and the cascade water alliance board

25:45 ↗ meets on the 27th

25:48 ↗ i'm not sure what the agenda items are

25:50 ↗ but i will be attending the finance

25:52 ↗ committee

25:53 ↗ at the very

25:54 ↗ least

25:56 ↗ the

25:57 ↗ mobility

25:59 ↗ infrastructure

26:00 ↗ committee met

26:02 ↗ last week and discussed id1211

26:05 ↗ which is the digital engagement

26:08 ↗ um

26:10 ↗ process for the community mobility fund

26:12 ↗ and we discussed whether to include the

26:14 ↗ trail projects which we recommended they

26:17 ↗ should be included and talked about how

26:19 ↗ the public engagement will be structured

26:22 ↗ the item will come back to the committee

26:25 ↗ of the whole

26:26 ↗ sometime in september or october

26:29 ↗ as they work that through

26:31 ↗ the most important announcement however

26:33 ↗ is that the mayor

26:34 ↗ will be giving the state of the state

26:36 ↗ address at the chamber of commerce

26:38 ↗ meeting

26:39 ↗ this thursday july 21st

26:42 ↗ if you're interested in attending you

26:43 ↗ should check the chamber of commerce

26:44 ↗ website

26:46 ↗ that can lose my report thank you thank

26:48 ↗ you council member joe councilmember d

26:49 ↗ michelle

26:50 ↗ thank you mayor paulie i have no report

26:52 ↗ tonight thank you councilmember hunt

26:55 ↗ thank you madam mayor

26:57 ↗ um on our agenda this evening there are

26:59 ↗ two items that are related to

27:01 ↗ items that were discussed by the

27:02 ↗ planning development and environment

27:04 ↗ committee at our june 28th meeting so i

27:07 ↗ wanted to highlight those for council

27:09 ↗ on consent we have ab-8370

27:12 ↗ heat pump program for low-income

27:13 ↗ residents and ab-837

27:16 ↗ oh and there's also an additional one

27:18 ↗ that's related with that which which is

27:20 ↗ the heat pump distributor agreement the

27:22 ↗ committee was unanimously supportive and

27:24 ↗ enthusiastic about this program when it

27:26 ↗ came before our committee on june 28th

27:29 ↗ um and recommended approval which is uh

27:31 ↗ why it is on consent this evening

27:34 ↗ there is also another item on regular

27:37 ↗ business tonight which is

27:38 ↗ ab-8404 which is the issaquah clean

27:40 ↗ buildings initiative and when this one

27:43 ↗ comes

27:44 ↗ before us on regular business i will

27:46 ↗ give it a give a summary of council

27:48 ↗ comrade a summary for council's

27:50 ↗ consideration um from our committee

27:53 ↗ meeting

27:54 ↗ at our last july 7th planning

27:57 ↗ development and environment meeting we

27:58 ↗ discussed title 18 our municipal land

28:00 ↗ use code and specifically discussed id

28:02 ↗ 1155 land use code update building and

28:05 ↗ site design

28:08 ↗ we also had a number of other

28:11 ↗ informational items in our packet so we

28:14 ↗ had the administration presenting us

28:16 ↗ with new information about the icap

28:18 ↗ which is the squad climate action

28:21 ↗ program implementation within title 18

28:23 ↗ or as it related to title 18

28:25 ↗ and we also had a

28:28 ↗ informational item on the

28:30 ↗ whiteboard list which is the list of

28:32 ↗ items that

28:34 ↗ are being

28:36 ↗ compiled for future consideration by the

28:39 ↗ council that are related to title 18 but

28:41 ↗ not going to be completed within the

28:44 ↗ scope of this current update

28:47 ↗ the committee asked for more information

28:49 ↗ to be added to both of these items and

28:51 ↗ that they be linked from the main land

28:53 ↗ use code update page on the website

28:55 ↗ and for the icap where the climate

28:57 ↗ action plan table the committee asked

28:59 ↗ that information be

29:01 ↗ be added related to

29:03 ↗ title 16 the building code updates that

29:05 ↗ address icap actions and then on the

29:07 ↗ whiteboard item we ask for information

29:09 ↗ about a timeline for items and we asked

29:12 ↗ about a number of items that we felt

29:15 ↗ conflicted with the goals and outcomes

29:16 ↗ chart so we will expect to hear back

29:18 ↗ from the administration on those

29:20 ↗ then on the buildings and site design

29:24 ↗ part of title 18 we discussed a number

29:27 ↗ of components of that one of the ones

29:29 ↗ that we discussed was the building step

29:30 ↗ back requirement

29:32 ↗ and in the draft that we had um there

29:35 ↗ was a number of there was a number of

29:37 ↗ comments about

29:39 ↗ this that

29:40 ↗ this particular change in the setback

29:42 ↗ that would allow you to do a step back

29:45 ↗ after the first or second floor but not

29:46 ↗ higher than the sixth floor so the

29:48 ↗ committee really

29:49 ↗ had a good robust discussion on this but

29:52 ↗ ultimately wanted more visuals more

29:54 ↗ information about how this could affect

29:55 ↗ the streetscape how this could

29:58 ↗ look from the view of somebody on the

30:01 ↗ street for example to make sure that

30:03 ↗ there weren't any

30:04 ↗ unintended consequences of that of that

30:07 ↗ change

30:09 ↗ and then

30:10 ↗ we also

30:12 ↗ generally felt that there were a number

30:13 ↗ of comments that were going to be

30:15 ↗ addressed in a subsequent update and so

30:17 ↗ we wanted to

30:19 ↗ see that

30:21 ↗ see those changes

30:23 ↗ in another committee meeting

30:25 ↗ so there was a list of 17 comments and

30:26 ↗ some of them were quite big like address

30:29 ↗ climate action goals

30:30 ↗ and building design and so we we felt

30:33 ↗ that the committee would benefit from

30:35 ↗ another touch for those items so that

30:37 ↗ was ultimately where we

30:39 ↗ left it with our recommendation to

30:41 ↗ return to

30:42 ↗ our committee once those items had been

30:44 ↗ worked out

30:46 ↗ the next meeting of the planning

30:47 ↗ development and environment committee is

30:49 ↗ august 2nd and then i have two other

30:51 ↗ upcoming meetings i have a kokanee which

30:53 ↗ is a very endangered kind of local

30:56 ↗ salmon inter-local agreement

30:59 ↗ management committee meeting on july

31:00 ↗ 20th and then i also have a

31:02 ↗ salmon recovery meeting of wyra8 which

31:04 ↗ is the technical name of our watershed

31:06 ↗ on july 22nd and that concludes my

31:09 ↗ report

31:10 ↗ thank you councilmember hunt

31:11 ↗ councilmember ray

31:13 ↗ thank you mayor paulie the king county

31:15 ↗ growth management planning council is

31:16 ↗ going to meet next week on july 27th the

31:20 ↗ agenda has not been set and that

31:22 ↗ concludes my report this evening thank

31:24 ↗ you councilmember martz thank you madam

31:26 ↗ mayor i have a big old list of things to

31:28 ↗ go through so if you're watching from

31:30 ↗ home go get a bowl of popcorn and you

31:32 ↗ know a tab or a fresca

31:34 ↗ dig in so i have uh part of it is i did

31:38 ↗ not

31:40 ↗ have a report prepared for the services

31:42 ↗ safety and parks committee

31:44 ↗ last month some want to talk about what

31:46 ↗ we covered last month we had three ids

31:49 ↗ the first was on board and commission

31:51 ↗ consolidation and we had some public

31:53 ↗ comment we had one

31:56 ↗ member of the public who said don't get

31:57 ↗ rid of the cable commission because it

31:59 ↗ will lead to losing the cable channel

32:01 ↗ although

32:03 ↗ any help that was feedback but uh the

32:05 ↗ net net of of our

32:07 ↗ uh sorry that was that was citizen input

32:10 ↗ the net net of our feedback was uh

32:12 ↗ regarding sunsetting the cable tv board

32:15 ↗ there was unanimous agreement the

32:16 ↗ committee concurred with staff on having

32:18 ↗ a cemetery board look at having their

32:20 ↗ duties taken up by the park advisory

32:22 ↗ board so it wouldn't need to be a

32:23 ↗ separate board uh there may also be a

32:25 ↗ need to ask for citizen input on this

32:27 ↗ topic was suggested

32:29 ↗ and then finally on this one the

32:30 ↗ committee felt that another uh that

32:32 ↗ another board that it might be possible

32:33 ↗ to sunset would be the sister cities

32:35 ↗ commission so we asked the

32:36 ↗ administration to to look into that

32:39 ↗ possibility the second idea was human

32:41 ↗ services strategic plan

32:43 ↗ which had two parts a grants program and

32:45 ↗ emergency housing options on the grant

32:47 ↗ program uh after looking at all the

32:50 ↗ options we recommended a baseline of

32:52 ↗ five hundred thousand dollars per year

32:54 ↗ plus a population growth per capita

32:58 ↗ factor so as the population goes up the

33:00 ↗ amount increases plus a cpi uh

33:05 ↗ factor as well which of course is

33:07 ↗ becoming more and more important this

33:08 ↗ year

33:09 ↗ and then the second piece was this pilot

33:11 ↗ program is very exciting so uh their the

33:14 ↗ administration is looking to do a

33:17 ↗ uh pilot program for

33:20 ↗ emergency housing and basically motel 6

33:23 ↗ would have a dozen

33:25 ↗ units become available at the motel 6

33:28 ↗ here in issaquah that would be 16 to 18

33:31 ↗ beds

33:32 ↗ and that would be

33:34 ↗ two ftes of staff total estimated cost

33:37 ↗ per year 550 to 700 thousand dollars

33:40 ↗ which is believe it or not competitive

33:42 ↗ to other emergency housing options in

33:45 ↗ king county

33:46 ↗ there was a question raised about

33:48 ↗ ensuring that there's no duplication of

33:49 ↗ services between ourselves and king

33:51 ↗ county regional homelessness authority

33:53 ↗ there's an ask to ensure that data is

33:55 ↗ tracked and the program closely

33:58 ↗ tracks outcomes

34:00 ↗ the committee felt that the proposal was

34:02 ↗ a good fit for the use of the 0.1 sales

34:04 ↗ tax

34:05 ↗ that we've been collecting for some time

34:07 ↗ that is it's pretty much right on the

34:09 ↗ nose for how to use that money um this

34:12 ↗ is clearly a local resource for an

34:13 ↗ identified need

34:16 ↗ it's a comprehensive response that

34:17 ↗ aligns with the other human services

34:19 ↗ programs

34:20 ↗ and so uh i agreed to we agreed to

34:24 ↗ bring this back to the full council

34:26 ↗ and recommended that this project be

34:28 ↗ included in the city's

34:30 ↗ 2023-2024 biennial budget proposal

34:34 ↗ the third bill was a tenant and landlord

34:36 ↗ protections options conversation in

34:40 ↗ regards to the

34:42 ↗ arch

34:43 ↗ suite

34:44 ↗ raft of

34:46 ↗ proposed suggestions public comment was

34:48 ↗ really mixed on this one um there were

34:51 ↗ people who who thought we should do all

34:53 ↗ of these things there are people who

34:54 ↗ thought we should do none of these

34:56 ↗ things

34:58 ↗ but the committee felt that the city

35:01 ↗ shouldn't go it alone

35:03 ↗ that these were all things that

35:05 ↗ if the city of issaquah did them in

35:07 ↗ isolation from other municipalities it

35:10 ↗ would just leave

35:12 ↗ our

35:13 ↗ you know potential landlords and

35:18 ↗ rental options uh

35:20 ↗ you know

35:20 ↗ people would just go elsewhere basically

35:23 ↗ it all we also had a concern that the

35:25 ↗ current proposal didn't really match

35:26 ↗ arch's goals in terms of

35:28 ↗ being focused on providing more uh low

35:31 ↗ and

35:32 ↗ medium

35:32 ↗ income housing

35:34 ↗ so

35:35 ↗ uh we also thought the more information

35:37 ↗ would be needed for how enforcement

35:39 ↗ would work

35:41 ↗ there was

35:43 ↗ some interest

35:44 ↗ in

35:46 ↗ advanced notice of

35:50 ↗ eviction so the idea that

35:52 ↗ in this tough market when it is very

35:54 ↗ hard to find

35:56 ↗ where it may be hard to find housing

35:58 ↗ that people may need extra time uh if

36:01 ↗ an eviction is going to be happening and

36:03 ↗ so we had asked the administration

36:06 ↗ uh council member michelle

36:08 ↗ uh it was not an eviction situation

36:11 ↗ there was a uh

36:12 ↗ increase in rent i'm sorry thank you for

36:14 ↗ correcting me yes sorry sorry increase

36:16 ↗ yes increase in rent so that if someone

36:18 ↗ uh was going to be priced out of their

36:20 ↗ situation thank you thank you uh

36:23 ↗ yeah so we asked the administration to

36:25 ↗ consider that

36:27 ↗ so that concludes for that committee

36:30 ↗ that committee will be meeting again

36:32 ↗ this month's meeting is tomorrow at 6 30

36:34 ↗ pm here in council chambers we will be

36:37 ↗ covering

36:38 ↗ an id on city facilities assessment and

36:40 ↗ surplus property policy beginning of a

36:44 ↗ uh

36:45 ↗ uh conversation that we talked a little

36:46 ↗ bit about in the retreat this weekend um

36:48 ↗ so this is this is the beginning of what

36:50 ↗ will be a um involved in potentially uh

36:54 ↗ impactful conversation about our

36:56 ↗ property and wrapped around that is what

36:59 ↗ kind of services do we want to have and

37:00 ↗ what things do we want to provide and um

37:02 ↗ so looking forward to that there will be

37:04 ↗ an idea on uh

37:07 ↗ changes to our religious and cultural

37:09 ↗ calendar

37:10 ↗ and then we have uh coming back as i

37:12 ↗ mentioned this tenant and landlord

37:14 ↗ protection options that i mentioned from

37:16 ↗ last month's report so

37:18 ↗ that concludes for

37:20 ↗ uh services and safety and parks

37:23 ↗ the puget sound regional council growth

37:25 ↗ management policy board uh gmpb

37:28 ↗ held a meeting on thursday july 7th

37:32 ↗ um

37:33 ↗ there were no uh well sorry

37:36 ↗ we approved a deadline extension for the

37:38 ↗ greater downtown kirkland regional

37:40 ↗ growth center to february of 2023

37:43 ↗ uh there will be no august gmp meeting

37:45 ↗ because all the cool kids take august

37:47 ↗ off sound cities association pick had a

37:50 ↗ virtual meeting

37:52 ↗ on

37:53 ↗ wednesday

37:54 ↗ july 8th

37:56 ↗ brian perry is acting as interim sca

37:59 ↗ executive director during the permanent

38:00 ↗ executive director's search

38:03 ↗ there was a completely uncontentious and

38:06 ↗ quick conversation about the clean water

38:08 ↗ plan guiding principles where it was

38:10 ↗ universally beloved and recommended that

38:12 ↗ the board adopt it uh and then finally

38:14 ↗ they will also not be meeting in august

38:16 ↗ because the kind of cool kids take

38:17 ↗ august off this concludes my report

38:20 ↗ thank you councilmember mart's deputy

38:21 ↗ council president hall

38:24 ↗ thank you very much quick one just that

38:25 ↗ the eastside fire and rescue board of

38:27 ↗ directors met last thursday june 14th

38:30 ↗ we had a number of business items on our

38:32 ↗ agenda including appointing a new vice

38:33 ↗ chair so following the retirement of

38:36 ↗ spammish council member karen moran um

38:38 ↗ i've taken over as vice chair of

38:39 ↗ eastside fire and rescue again thank you

38:41 ↗ to the board for their support um i

38:44 ↗ guess we follow a line of issaquah cast

38:47 ↗ members serving as vice chair mayor paul

38:49 ↗ i believe you were i know councilmember

38:51 ↗ ray you haven't former councilmember

38:52 ↗ goodman was as well i believe um so we

38:55 ↗ did that we got a project progress

38:56 ↗ update on our new strategic plan which i

38:58 ↗ think you'll all be really eager to see

39:00 ↗ so when that's in kind of more of a

39:01 ↗ document format we'll be sure to share

39:02 ↗ that out with you

39:04 ↗ and then we gave the board chair

39:05 ↗ permission to sign a new fire chief

39:07 ↗ employment agreement with current deputy

39:09 ↗ chief ben lane who as you know will be

39:10 ↗ taking over for jeff clark later this

39:12 ↗ fall

39:15 ↗ i will be attending the next finance and

39:17 ↗ administration committee meeting next

39:18 ↗ wednesday july 27th at noon at our

39:21 ↗ headquarters on newport way northwest

39:23 ↗ we'll be talking about biennial budget

39:24 ↗ development so stay tuned on that and as

39:27 ↗ uh councilmember martz said the cool

39:29 ↗ kids cancel their august meetings we

39:31 ↗ cancelled our august board meeting as

39:33 ↗ well and we'll be

39:34 ↗ meeting next on thursday september 8th

39:36 ↗ at 4 pm and that concludes my report

39:39 ↗ thank you deputy council president

39:41 ↗ council president walsh

39:42 ↗ thank you i have a very short report in

39:45 ↗ that the king county affordable housing

39:47 ↗ committee will be meeting next wednesday

39:49 ↗ at 1 pm which i will have to miss

39:52 ↗ because i'm going on vacation and that

39:53 ↗ concludes my report

39:55 ↗ thank you council president the next

39:57 ↗ item on our agenda this evening is the

39:58 ↗ mayor's report um so first up there is

40:01 ↗ no executive

40:03 ↗ session scheduled for this evening

40:06 ↗ uh naco familiar faces initiative

40:09 ↗ leadership network so that is a mouthful

40:11 ↗ um the city of issaquah has been

40:13 ↗ recently selected by the national

40:15 ↗ association of counties or naco to

40:18 ↗ participate in the first cohort of the

40:20 ↗ familiar faces initiative leadership

40:23 ↗ network

40:24 ↗ this is a group of county and city

40:26 ↗ leaders committed to improving outcomes

40:28 ↗ for individuals with complex behavioral

40:31 ↗ health needs who frequently cycle

40:33 ↗ through jails homeless shelters

40:35 ↗ emergency departments and other local

40:37 ↗ crisis services

40:38 ↗ issaquah joins 12 other county

40:41 ↗ jurisdictions across the nation and is

40:43 ↗ the only municipality that has been

40:44 ↗ selected to participate in this cohort

40:47 ↗ the goal of the familiar faces

40:49 ↗ initiative leadership network is to

40:51 ↗ strengthen the capacity of county and

40:53 ↗ city leaders to collect and share data

40:56 ↗ across local departments and providers

40:58 ↗ so that jurisdictions can identify their

41:00 ↗ familiar faces and align these systems

41:03 ↗ to improve outcomes for our highest

41:05 ↗ needs residents

41:07 ↗ over the course of the one-year program

41:09 ↗ issaquah will participate in quarterly

41:10 ↗ meetings with other jurisdictions and

41:12 ↗ will receive one-on-one technical

41:14 ↗ assistance to help strengthen and expand

41:16 ↗ our data tracking capacity

41:19 ↗ we're excited to join this initiative

41:21 ↗ and we look forward to looking for ways

41:23 ↗ to better serve our community with a

41:25 ↗ people-first

41:27 ↗ outcome-based approach

41:30 ↗ we have a little report out on

41:33 ↗ july 4th and the report from our police

41:36 ↗ department is about fireworks that were

41:38 ↗ confiscated as most people know

41:40 ↗ fireworks are illegal in the city of

41:42 ↗ issaquah and over the fourth of july

41:44 ↗ weekend issaquah police confiscated two

41:47 ↗ full garbage cans of fireworks so thank

41:49 ↗ you to issaquah police department for

41:51 ↗ working hard that night and keeping our

41:53 ↗ community safe

41:55 ↗ the summer employee recognition event is

41:57 ↗ scheduled for july 28th from 11 a.m to 3

42:00 ↗ p.m it is on the flintoff's property on

42:03 ↗ lake sammamish and please join us for a

42:06 ↗ celebration of staff and their

42:08 ↗ dedication to issaquah community the

42:10 ↗ food services for that event ends at 2

42:12 ↗ p.m on that day

42:14 ↗ and now a couple of items on council and

42:17 ↗ participation at community events the

42:18 ↗ squad city council will be joining

42:20 ↗ several upcoming community events to

42:22 ↗ engage with the community you can join

42:24 ↗ your local government officials at the

42:26 ↗ following festivities

42:28 ↗ the farmers market council members will

42:30 ↗ join the isoquest farmer market on july

42:32 ↗ 23rd from 9 a.m to 2 p.m

42:35 ↗ join us for

42:36 ↗ shopping for your weekly produce

42:38 ↗ conversation treats and art at the

42:40 ↗ market this is our 130th year are sorry

42:44 ↗ our 130th year time capsule will also be

42:47 ↗ on display

42:48 ↗ and in the concerts on the green series

42:50 ↗ council members will join the july 26

42:52 ↗ concert on the green featuring the kenny

42:54 ↗ dales join us on the community center

42:56 ↗ lawn from 7 to 8 30 pm for music and

42:59 ↗ dancing

43:00 ↗ you'll also have an opportunity to view

43:01 ↗ the issaquah 130th year time capsule at

43:05 ↗ that event as well council members will

43:07 ↗ be present from 5 30 pm through to the

43:09 ↗ start of the show

43:11 ↗ some other fun upcoming events in the

43:13 ↗ community there is a chart

43:15 ↗ art festival

43:16 ↗ it will be in celebration of issaquah's

43:18 ↗ 130th birthday we invite chalk artists

43:21 ↗ to respond to this year's chark artist

43:23 ↗ shark

43:24 ↗ chalk art festival theme

43:27 ↗ happy birthday issaquah looking great at

43:30 ↗ 130. all participating chalk artists

43:33 ↗ will receive free sidewalk chalk and a

43:35 ↗ ticket for ice cream from the issaquah

43:37 ↗ ice cream trike so please join us on

43:39 ↗ july 26 from 12 to 4 p.m at the issaquah

43:41 ↗ community center

43:43 ↗ and we are having a resource fair

43:45 ↗ alongside the chalk festival the city of

43:47 ↗ issaquah's human services division is

43:49 ↗ hosting an in-person resource fair at

43:51 ↗ the issaquah community center this is an

43:53 ↗ opportunity for residents to meet our

43:55 ↗ amazing non-profit partners and learn

43:57 ↗ more about their services and

43:58 ↗ opportunities to volunteer

44:00 ↗ these resources are geared toward

44:02 ↗ families and this event will occur july

44:04 ↗ 26 from 12 to 4 pm

44:07 ↗ and last is shakespeare in the park

44:10 ↗ a wooden o performance group will

44:11 ↗ perform civil line at confluence park on

44:14 ↗ july 28th

44:16 ↗ 7 to 9 00 pm this performance is free to

44:18 ↗ attend and is the story of a modern

44:21 ↗ queer forward shakespeare folk tale more

44:24 ↗ information is available on the city's

44:25 ↗ website and that concludes the mayor's

44:27 ↗ report

44:28 ↗ the next item on the agenda this evening

44:30 ↗ is the consent calendar and it was

44:32 ↗ distributed to council in advance if

44:35 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

44:36 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

44:38 ↗ approved by one motion

44:41 ↗ the city clerk has made one correction

44:43 ↗ to has made a correction to one of the

44:46 ↗ consent calendar items and city clerk

44:48 ↗ can you let us know what that is

44:51 ↗ yes a few corrections were noted to

44:54 ↗ consent calendar item b the special city

44:56 ↗ council minutes of june 15th um

44:59 ↗ correcting the attendee list and

45:01 ↗ correctly attributing comments made a

45:04 ↗ corrected version of the minutes was

45:05 ↗ distributed to the council by email and

45:07 ↗ is also on your desks

45:09 ↗ thank you city clerk have the payables

45:11 ↗ and payroll been reviewed they have

45:14 ↗ they have

45:15 ↗ thank you

45:16 ↗ before i ask if any council member does

45:18 ↗ desire to remove any item councilmember

45:20 ↗ michelle did you have a comment you

45:21 ↗ wanted to make

45:22 ↗ thank you mayor paulie

45:24 ↗ on tonight's consent agenda there is a

45:26 ↗ gibson hall lease extension given to the

45:28 ↗ kiwanis club of issaquah by the city i

45:31 ↗ signed at least as elise extension as

45:34 ↗ president of the kiwanis club we have

45:36 ↗ checked with legal counsel and we've

45:38 ↗ been told that this does not constitute

45:40 ↗ a conflict of interest and so i don't

45:43 ↗ have to recuse myself from voting on the

45:45 ↗ consent agenda however in the interest

45:48 ↗ of transparency i'm informing the

45:50 ↗ council and the public thank you thank

45:52 ↗ you very much councilmember d michelle

45:53 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

45:55 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

45:57 ↗ consider it under regular business

46:00 ↗ and if not is someone prepared to make a

46:02 ↗ motion

46:03 ↗ council president yes like to approve

46:06 ↗ the consent calendar as

46:09 ↗ would you say adjusted with the yes

46:15 ↗ second

46:17 ↗ is there any council discussion it has

46:19 ↗ been moved and seconded to approve the

46:20 ↗ consent calendar as amended

46:25 ↗ seeing no discussion

46:27 ↗ or no indication of anybody wanting to

46:29 ↗ have a discussion um the motion before

46:31 ↗ the council has approved the consent

46:33 ↗ calendar as amended all those in favor

46:35 ↗ signify by saying aye

46:39 ↗ those opposed

46:41 ↗ that carries unanimously

46:43 ↗ now we're going to move into our regular

46:45 ↗ business portion and the next item of

46:46 ↗ business is

46:48 ↗ ab-8404 the issaquah clean buildings

46:51 ↗ initiative and the request before

46:53 ↗ council this evening is to authorize the

46:55 ↗ funding and i'd like to invite

46:56 ↗ sustainability manager stacey vin

46:58 ↗ mckinstry and economic development

47:00 ↗ manager jen davis hayes to make a brief

47:02 ↗ presentation welcome stacey welcome jen

47:19 ↗ great thank you

47:24 ↗ and members of the council my name is

47:26 ↗ stacey van mckinstry i'm the

47:27 ↗ sustainability manager for the city

47:30 ↗ tonight i'm here to speak with you about

47:31 ↗ a new program that we are proposing for

47:34 ↗ the city of issaquah to reduce energy

47:36 ↗ use in existing buildings and put us on

47:38 ↗ a pathway to meet our greenhouse gas

47:40 ↗ emission reduction targets

47:42 ↗ i'm joined by jen davis hayes our

47:45 ↗ economic development manager as well as

47:47 ↗ perry england from mcdonald miller

47:53 ↗ yes

48:02 ↗ mcdonald miller is working with the city

48:04 ↗ of bellevue on their clean building

48:05 ↗ incentive program and they're here to

48:07 ↗ help speak to the success of that

48:09 ↗ program as well as the state's clean

48:10 ↗ building standards

48:18 ↗ buildings are the most rapidly growing

48:20 ↗ source of greenhouse gas emissions in

48:22 ↗ washington state buildings and homes

48:25 ↗ account for the majority of issaquah's

48:27 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions

48:29 ↗ investing in energy efficiency is a

48:31 ↗ cost-effective way that we can reduce

48:33 ↗ our greenhouse gas emissions

48:35 ↗ finding opportunities to work with

48:37 ↗ buildings though

48:38 ↗ in order to support energy efficiency

48:40 ↗ and emissions reduction can be

48:42 ↗ challenging

48:43 ↗ we are seeking 100 000 from the

48:45 ↗ sustainable sustainability fund to

48:48 ↗ support a clean buildings initiative

48:51 ↗ this investment would advance our

48:52 ↗ progress towards the icap targets and

48:55 ↗ reduce energy use in existing buildings

48:58 ↗ we currently do not have other programs

49:00 ↗ in place that support energy efficiency

49:02 ↗ and greenhouse gas emission reduction in

49:04 ↗ existing buildings in the city

49:08 ↗ emission emissions from buildings are

49:10 ↗ from the generation of electricity and

49:13 ↗ combustion of natural gas the city of

49:15 ↗ issaquah receives its electricity and

49:17 ↗ natural gas from puget sound energy

49:20 ↗ and

49:21 ↗ there are in the city of issaquah

49:23 ↗ electricity and natural gas are

49:25 ↗ responsible for about 212

49:28 ↗ 000 metric tons of co2

49:30 ↗ in based on our 2017 greenhouse gas

49:33 ↗ emissions inventory

49:34 ↗ this makes up over 60 percent of our

49:36 ↗ communities greenhouse gas emissions

49:41 ↗ the solution to cutting

49:43 ↗ building emissions lies in energy

49:44 ↗ efficiency energy efficiency is one of

49:47 ↗ the fastest and inexpensive ways to cut

49:49 ↗ carbon emissions and other harmful

49:51 ↗ pollutions

49:52 ↗ the state passed the clean building

49:54 ↗ standard in 2019 in order to address

49:57 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions in buildings

49:59 ↗ it includes energy efficiency

50:01 ↗ requirements from which the state termed

50:04 ↗ covered commercial buildings that are 50

50:06 ↗ 000 square feet or greater

50:08 ↗ and in addition to private buildings

50:10 ↗ this also includes municipal and public

50:12 ↗ buildings non-profits and places of

50:14 ↗ worship

50:16 ↗ the current standards do not cover

50:17 ↗ buildings that are under 50 000 square

50:20 ↗ feet that are multi-family housing

50:23 ↗ hotels or other places of residency

50:26 ↗ the timelines for compliance under the

50:28 ↗ state standards vary by the building

50:30 ↗ size

50:31 ↗ those that already are in compliance

50:33 ↗ do need to complete certain reporting

50:35 ↗ requirements and submit information to

50:37 ↗ the state regularly

50:39 ↗ penalties do exist for either not

50:41 ↗ meeting compliance or not reporting

50:45 ↗ if there is interest perry is here to

50:47 ↗ share more information on the types and

50:49 ↗ costs of upgrades that are being

50:50 ↗ implemented in buildings as well as

50:53 ↗ those greenhouse gas emission savings

50:55 ↗ that we're seeing

50:57 ↗ in the 2022 legislative session

51:00 ↗ amendment was passed to include

51:01 ↗ buildings that are twenty thousand

51:03 ↗ square feet or greater as well as

51:05 ↗ multi-family buildings

51:07 ↗ rulemaking is still underway

51:09 ↗ for these standards and rule making

51:11 ↗ should be completed at the end of

51:13 ↗ december 2023

51:15 ↗ having a clean building standard in

51:17 ↗ place is a key step but it's not enough

51:19 ↗ to help our city city meet our

51:21 ↗ greenhouse gas emission targets

51:24 ↗ many of the buildings

51:25 ↗ don't know about the requirements and

51:27 ↗ they don't have the capacity to work

51:29 ↗ through the complex process

51:32 ↗ there's not funding or support to help

51:34 ↗ buildings through this process

51:36 ↗ there are penalties set but for many

51:39 ↗ buildings the penalties are less than

51:41 ↗ what the energy efficiency upgrades

51:42 ↗ would cost

51:44 ↗ and as i mentioned buildings that are

51:45 ↗ under 50 000 square feet or multi-family

51:48 ↗ buildings currently don't have any

51:50 ↗ requirements

51:52 ↗ there are other benefits too that can

51:54 ↗ that need to be acknowledged about these

51:56 ↗ types of energy efficiency upgrades such

51:58 ↗ as making healthier buildings by

52:00 ↗ improving indoor air quality as well as

52:02 ↗ comfort

52:06 ↗ along with the passage of the clean

52:08 ↗ building standard the state authorized

52:09 ↗ 75 million dollars for incentives for

52:12 ↗ what they termed early adopters of the

52:14 ↗ clean building standards

52:16 ↗ these funds are available for those that

52:17 ↗ need to comply with the clean building

52:19 ↗ standard but they're also available for

52:21 ↗ those that don't need to meet state

52:23 ↗ compliance requirements such as for

52:25 ↗ multi-family buildings

52:27 ↗ funds are available statewide on a

52:29 ↗ first-come first-served basis until they

52:30 ↗ are gone some cities are already

52:33 ↗ starting programs to take advantage of

52:35 ↗ these incentive opportunities

52:37 ↗ there are other incentive and loan

52:39 ↗ programs available for large building

52:41 ↗ energy efficiency and greenhouse gas

52:43 ↗ emission reduction

52:45 ↗ pse has business incentives king county

52:47 ↗ has what they call the c-pacer program a

52:50 ↗ long-term loan program

52:54 ↗ so we are requesting funding to

52:56 ↗ implement a clean building initiative in

52:58 ↗ issaquah

52:59 ↗ this would be for an 18-month initial

53:01 ↗ program with the possibility of

53:03 ↗ expansion

53:04 ↗ in order to support our buildings in

53:06 ↗ energy efficiency upgrades and take

53:08 ↗ advantage of available incentives the

53:10 ↗ city is proposing a program that's

53:12 ↗ modeled similar to the city of

53:14 ↗ bellevue's successful

53:16 ↗ clean building incentive program with

53:18 ↗ that they're running with mcdonald

53:19 ↗ miller

53:21 ↗ the city would partner with a service

53:22 ↗ provider to work with buildings that

53:24 ↗ both must comply with the clean building

53:26 ↗ standard as well as with those that are

53:28 ↗ ready to implement energy efficiency

53:30 ↗ upgrades on their own

53:32 ↗ we would work through the following

53:34 ↗ steps with interested building

53:36 ↗ buildings we would do targeted outreach

53:39 ↗ and marketing of the program starting

53:40 ↗ with priority buildings that i'll talk

53:42 ↗ about in a moment

53:43 ↗ we would benchmark where the building's

53:45 ↗ current energy use is

53:48 ↗ for buildings that need to comply with

53:50 ↗ the state law we would assess

53:52 ↗ where they are now and where they need

53:55 ↗ to get to meet those energy targets

53:58 ↗ excuse me

54:00 ↗ we would complete a scoping assessment

54:01 ↗ to identify the improvements that are

54:03 ↗ needed

54:05 ↗ and we would work directly with building

54:07 ↗ owners to help secure incentives and

54:09 ↗ loan opportunities

54:11 ↗ we would implement the energy efficiency

54:13 ↗ upgrades

54:14 ↗ and then for buildings that are required

54:16 ↗ to comply with the law we would support

54:18 ↗ them in reporting

54:20 ↗ based on the information that we've

54:22 ↗ obtained with department of commerce as

54:24 ↗ well as some work that jen and her team

54:26 ↗ have been doing we anticipate about 50

54:28 ↗ to 80 buildings in issaquah that need to

54:31 ↗ meet

54:32 ↗ reporting to the state and that there

54:34 ↗ may be up to

54:35 ↗ 80 additional buildings that are

54:38 ↗ eligible for energy efficiency upgrade

54:41 ↗ incentives and loans

54:42 ↗ we're continuing to evaluate that number

54:44 ↗ but expect around 150 or more buildings

54:47 ↗ that we'd be working with

54:50 ↗ we anticipate that this program could

54:52 ↗ support all interested buildings however

54:55 ↗ based on feedback from the council

54:58 ↗ planning development and environmental

55:00 ↗ committee we've identified a way to

55:02 ↗ prioritize the program on who we would

55:04 ↗ start our work with first

55:07 ↗ we would begin with targeted outreach

55:09 ↗ and marketing towards public and

55:11 ↗ non-profit buildings and particularly

55:13 ↗ looking at those that would

55:15 ↗ qualify for those early and doctor

55:17 ↗ incentives so we could take advantage of

55:18 ↗ those dollars while they're available

55:21 ↗ we would work with buildings that may be

55:23 ↗ facing a hardship in terms of meeting

55:25 ↗ state compliance that could be a

55:27 ↗ financial or capacity hardship

55:30 ↗ we would

55:31 ↗ then work with buildings that are ready

55:33 ↗ to do energy efficiency upgrades but

55:36 ↗ possibly aren't required to under the

55:38 ↗ state law

55:40 ↗ and then offer these services to all

55:42 ↗ buildings both that need to meet state

55:44 ↗ compliance requirements um

55:49 ↗ so this is an attempt to capture some

55:51 ↗ input that we receive from the committee

55:52 ↗ but we're very open to refinement and

55:54 ↗ suggestions on how we prioritize this

55:56 ↗ list

55:58 ↗ we've also tried to structure in a way

56:00 ↗ that we believe hit some of the the

56:03 ↗ challenges that the bellevue program has

56:04 ↗ faced in terms of connecting with

56:06 ↗ non-profits or with building owners that

56:08 ↗ might be facing hardship in terms of

56:11 ↗ meeting the state requirements

56:15 ↗ so why are we interested in expanding

56:17 ↗ this yes

56:19 ↗ oh i wasn't quite sure if council member

56:21 ↗ hunt wanted it to wait but it sounds

56:23 ↗ like you'd like to ask your question now

56:24 ↗ it's uh it's on this slide so if i could

56:26 ↗ this one okay perfect thank you um so

56:30 ↗ on this slide on the second one

56:32 ↗ buildings facing a hardship to meet

56:34 ↗ state compliance requirements this

56:35 ↗ prioritization refers to the outreach

56:38 ↗ and so i'm wondering

56:39 ↗ how in practice you are going to

56:42 ↗ determine which buildings face a

56:44 ↗ hardship and also

56:45 ↗ [Music]

56:47 ↗ how who's going to make that decision

56:49 ↗ and how that's going to work in practice

56:53 ↗ yeah i think

56:54 ↗ that would be through conversations that

56:57 ↗ our staff or our service provider are

56:59 ↗ having we would be doing direct outreach

57:01 ↗ to

57:02 ↗ all building owners within issaquah and

57:05 ↗ having those conversations about where

57:07 ↗ their knowledge is regarding the

57:09 ↗ requirements of the state law as well as

57:11 ↗ their ability to move through those

57:12 ↗ requirements

57:14 ↗ but and and so taking that input

57:17 ↗ in order to structure kind of our

57:19 ↗ priority in terms of who we're working

57:20 ↗ with first

57:22 ↗ my understanding though with the

57:23 ↗ bellevue program

57:25 ↗ who i believe they have over 400

57:27 ↗ buildings that actually have to come

57:29 ↗ into compliance in the city of bellevue

57:31 ↗ and they have not been challenged in

57:33 ↗ terms of

57:35 ↗ capacity to serve all of those buildings

57:37 ↗ and help them through the steps so we

57:39 ↗ don't expect

57:41 ↗ not being able to help all the building

57:43 ↗ owners in issaquah but we would at least

57:45 ↗ do some of that initial outreach

57:48 ↗ and and work with the buildings first

57:50 ↗ that are sharing the challenge that they

57:52 ↗ face in terms of meeting those

57:54 ↗ requirements

57:56 ↗ councilman d michelle same same subject

57:58 ↗ yes just a quick question when we talk

58:00 ↗ about non-profits uh are churches

58:03 ↗ included in that

58:04 ↗ yes they could be yeah thank you

58:08 ↗ let's keep going okay great

58:12 ↗ so moving on to the benefits

58:14 ↗ um so this program we see really is one

58:17 ↗ pathway to help us meet our energy

58:19 ↗ efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction

58:21 ↗ goals for existing buildings we

58:23 ↗ anticipate just during this initial

58:25 ↗ period of implementation that we could

58:27 ↗ reduce our energy and greenhouse gas

58:30 ↗ emissions in existing buildings by five

58:32 ↗ to ten percent

58:33 ↗ that's taking into account kind of the

58:34 ↗ slow startup that initial outreach and

58:37 ↗ marketing and then hopefully we'd be

58:39 ↗ able to ramp up from there in the

58:40 ↗ following years

58:43 ↗ we also see this as an opportunity to

58:45 ↗ work with our own municipal buildings

58:47 ↗ our public nonprofit partners that need

58:49 ↗ to comply with the law but lack the

58:51 ↗ resources to do so

58:54 ↗ this program would also help buildings

58:56 ↗ exceed compliance requirements it's an

58:59 ↗ opportunity to work directly with those

59:01 ↗ building owners to help them go above

59:03 ↗ and beyond what might be required under

59:05 ↗ state law maybe look at

59:07 ↗ other clean energy strategies

59:09 ↗ decarbonization strategies that they may

59:11 ↗ not consider if they were just to go it

59:13 ↗ alone and work through this process on

59:15 ↗ their own

59:17 ↗ we also want to help our community take

59:19 ↗ advantage of the limited incentive and

59:21 ↗ loan programs

59:22 ↗ in order for making energy efficiency

59:24 ↗ upgrades in their buildings

59:26 ↗ and then finally we want to demonstrate

59:28 ↗ that the city is a partner with both

59:30 ↗ public and private entities in meeting

59:32 ↗ our climate action targets we want to

59:34 ↗ show the business community that we are

59:37 ↗ partnering with them to reach our goal

59:39 ↗ our bold greenhouse gas emission

59:41 ↗ reduction targets

59:43 ↗ we were able to meet with the

59:45 ↗ environmental board

59:46 ↗ vision partners and the economic

59:48 ↗ vitality commission earlier this spring

59:51 ↗ the groups expressed support for this

59:53 ↗ program the environmental board had some

59:55 ↗ specific feedback in terms of whether we

59:58 ↗ should have additional requirements

1:00:00 ↗ above the state law for those buildings

1:00:02 ↗ that are required to be in compliance

1:00:05 ↗ overall the board did not feel that was

1:00:07 ↗ necessary they felt like this was an

1:00:09 ↗ opportunity to really show that

1:00:11 ↗ partnership with our building owners

1:00:13 ↗ they wanted to reduce barriers to

1:00:15 ↗ participation

1:00:17 ↗ and they

1:00:18 ↗ saw that some of the demonstrated

1:00:19 ↗ results in other cities is that building

1:00:22 ↗ owners were already exceeding the

1:00:24 ↗ compliance requirements

1:00:28 ↗ so the options we have before you

1:00:30 ↗ tonight are to approve the funding

1:00:32 ↗ request

1:00:33 ↗ approve the funding request at a lower

1:00:35 ↗ amount for our initial pilot period

1:00:38 ↗ or to not approve the funding request

1:00:42 ↗ if approved we'll move directly into

1:00:46 ↗ scoping out our work and into a contract

1:00:48 ↗ with a service provider

1:00:50 ↗ this fall we would begin that

1:00:52 ↗ initial outreach and initial work on the

1:00:55 ↗ program and we'd be continuing to

1:00:57 ↗ evaluate and report back to council on

1:00:59 ↗ our progress any challenges or barriers

1:01:01 ↗ that we're facing so that we can

1:01:03 ↗ evaluate whether or not to continue this

1:01:05 ↗ program but beyond the 18-month pilot

1:01:07 ↗ period

1:01:10 ↗ the recommendation before you is the

1:01:13 ↗ approval of the additional appropriation

1:01:15 ↗ of twenty thousand dollars from the

1:01:17 ↗ sustainability fund for the clean

1:01:18 ↗ building initiative in 2022 an

1:01:21 ↗ additional budget allocation of eighty

1:01:23 ↗ thousand dollars in twenty twenty three

1:01:31 ↗ that concludes the presentation thank

1:01:32 ↗ you very much stacy um i'm going to ask

1:01:36 ↗ if a chair hunt chair of the planning

1:01:39 ↗ development environment committee would

1:01:40 ↗ like to make some comments before we

1:01:43 ↗ move into discussion

1:01:45 ↗ yes i would thank you um so the planning

1:01:48 ↗ development and environment committee

1:01:49 ↗ discussed this on at our june 28th

1:01:52 ↗ meeting

1:01:53 ↗ and we

1:01:54 ↗ recommended that this come back to

1:01:57 ↗ council for this discussion this evening

1:02:00 ↗ but at the time

1:02:01 ↗ we also had a number of unanswered

1:02:03 ↗ questions and so there's additional

1:02:05 ↗ information in the packet that we did

1:02:06 ↗ not

1:02:08 ↗ have when we discussed this item which

1:02:10 ↗ are which were added as a result of

1:02:12 ↗ those questions from the committee

1:02:14 ↗ so

1:02:18 ↗ the committee also recommended as was

1:02:20 ↗ explained um earlier that

1:02:22 ↗ there were some changes to that there be

1:02:24 ↗ some changes to prioritization

1:02:27 ↗ um and so those have been addressed

1:02:30 ↗ to at least in my opinion they have been

1:02:31 ↗ addressed in this current prioritization

1:02:34 ↗ so the question that we that we grappled

1:02:36 ↗ with most at the committee meeting was

1:02:38 ↗ about

1:02:39 ↗ how we could know how

1:02:41 ↗ effective this program would be

1:02:43 ↗ and we felt that this was important too

1:02:45 ↗ because the

1:02:46 ↗ icap the squad climate action plan

1:02:48 ↗ especially in its early phase relies a

1:02:50 ↗ lot on on incentive programs and

1:02:53 ↗ voluntary

1:02:54 ↗ programs and so this is one of those

1:02:56 ↗ programs it will be ultimately up to the

1:02:59 ↗ building owners to

1:03:01 ↗ continue the process past the evaluation

1:03:04 ↗ and actually do the energy efficiency

1:03:06 ↗ upgrades and so that will be completely

1:03:07 ↗ voluntary

1:03:09 ↗ so we felt like that was important

1:03:11 ↗ because there's potentially a big range

1:03:13 ↗ of outcomes including an outcome in

1:03:15 ↗ which the building owner goes above and

1:03:16 ↗ beyond the state requirements and um

1:03:20 ↗ gets early adoption funding and there's

1:03:21 ↗ also on the other end of the spectrum an

1:03:23 ↗ outcome in which the building

1:03:25 ↗ owner does not complete those energy

1:03:28 ↗ efficiency requirements so that entire

1:03:29 ↗ spectrum is possible for each building

1:03:31 ↗ that goes through this program

1:03:34 ↗ so because of that and because this is

1:03:36 ↗ this sort of incentive and voluntary

1:03:38 ↗ program is an important part of our

1:03:40 ↗ climate action plan especially in the

1:03:41 ↗ beginning phases we thought it was

1:03:43 ↗ really important to get comparables to

1:03:45 ↗ other jurisdictions about how this has

1:03:47 ↗ worked in other cities specifically very

1:03:49 ↗ similar program in bellevue and we have

1:03:52 ↗ representatives from the company

1:03:54 ↗ mcdonnell miller here

1:03:55 ↗ um so we felt that there should be more

1:03:57 ↗ that would be helpful to have more

1:03:58 ↗ information about that about the

1:04:00 ↗ outcomes and about the

1:04:02 ↗ number or the percentage of buildings

1:04:05 ↗ that actually continue through the

1:04:06 ↗ process go through the permitting and

1:04:08 ↗ actually make those upgrades

1:04:10 ↗ um

1:04:15 ↗ one other thing was that uh we felt so

1:04:18 ↗ we considered having this come back to

1:04:20 ↗ the committee for another touch before

1:04:22 ↗ sending it to the council but um these

1:04:25 ↗ early adopter incentives that are

1:04:27 ↗ available for that additional funding to

1:04:29 ↗ do the um renovations that's potentially

1:04:34 ↗ time sensitive and so lots of other

1:04:38 ↗ jurisdictions lots of other buildings in

1:04:40 ↗ other jurisdictions will also be

1:04:41 ↗ competing for those dollars so we wanted

1:04:43 ↗ to make sure that this was

1:04:46 ↗ uh handled in a time sensitive um

1:04:49 ↗ or you know

1:04:51 ↗ quickly so that

1:04:53 ↗ buildings could take advantage of

1:04:54 ↗ advantage of that funding to the fullest

1:04:56 ↗ extent possible if we were to approve

1:04:58 ↗ this program tonight

1:05:00 ↗ um the last thing that i wanted to say

1:05:02 ↗ is this is a pilot

1:05:05 ↗ and so it's it's a hundred thousand

1:05:07 ↗ dollars

1:05:08 ↗ um and i think especially because of the

1:05:10 ↗ this scope of um or this whole range of

1:05:13 ↗ outcomes that i was referring to earlier

1:05:15 ↗ i think it would be very important to

1:05:17 ↗ uh get that information back for council

1:05:19 ↗ to consider um

1:05:21 ↗ a possible continuation if we are to

1:05:23 ↗ approve this this evening

1:05:25 ↗ um

1:05:26 ↗ but that's the summary of our comments

1:05:28 ↗ so we were we were asking for more

1:05:30 ↗ information but also wanted to make sure

1:05:32 ↗ that the council could consider it as

1:05:34 ↗ soon as possible

1:05:36 ↗ thank you councilmember hunt um stacy

1:05:38 ↗ would you like to invite our guests from

1:05:40 ↗ bellevue to come up and talk

1:05:42 ↗ is that a desire of the council to

1:05:45 ↗ have them make a presentation so you can

1:05:48 ↗ listen or did you just want to do it

1:05:49 ↗ through question and answer

1:05:52 ↗ um i would be fine asking a question of

1:05:55 ↗ them i don't know how my fellow

1:05:56 ↗ counselors so why don't we invite them

1:05:58 ↗ up to the microphone and start with some

1:06:00 ↗ questions

1:06:02 ↗ and also any questions on stacy's

1:06:04 ↗ presentation as well

1:06:06 ↗ hi there so we'll start with uh council

1:06:08 ↗ member hunt and then go to council

1:06:09 ↗ president walsh okay i have two

1:06:11 ↗ questions and um these may be for you

1:06:14 ↗ they may also be for stacey um whoever

1:06:18 ↗ whoever is best positioned to answer

1:06:20 ↗ this

1:06:21 ↗ would be great um so

1:06:22 ↗ one of my questions was about um

1:06:26 ↗ the the rate of success or the rate at

1:06:29 ↗ which buildings are actually entering

1:06:32 ↗ into early

1:06:34 ↗ compliance with the state law as a

1:06:36 ↗ result of the program in bellevue or in

1:06:38 ↗ any comparable jurisdictions that you've

1:06:41 ↗ had this program or had experience with

1:06:43 ↗ sure i'm sure i can speak to that um i

1:06:46 ↗ can speak to bellevue i'm sorry going to

1:06:48 ↗ get you to introduce yourself oh i'm

1:06:50 ↗ sorry yes thank you thank you mayor uh

1:06:52 ↗ perry england macdonald miller facility

1:06:54 ↗ solutions

1:06:59 ↗ so i can start i can address your

1:07:01 ↗ question first with bellevue and then

1:07:03 ↗ maybe expand it and other areas across

1:07:06 ↗ the state um if you if you if you desire

1:07:11 ↗ in bellevue we officially launched the

1:07:14 ↗ program at the beginning of this year so

1:07:15 ↗ in january we had a soft launch

1:07:18 ↗ late la in december just to kind of get

1:07:20 ↗ the word out

1:07:22 ↗ sneak preview and then we did a full

1:07:24 ↗ launch in january so

1:07:26 ↗ within the first uh 90 days our goal was

1:07:29 ↗ to get 60 80 participants enrolled in

1:07:32 ↗ the program we overachieved that so the

1:07:35 ↗ interest was high

1:07:37 ↗ um we currently

1:07:39 ↗ have processed over 146 buildings

1:07:43 ↗ through the benchmarking which is the

1:07:46 ↗ initial process of disestablishing

1:07:48 ↗ using energy star portfolio manager for

1:07:50 ↗ those that are aware of it which is part

1:07:52 ↗ of the state legislation as a way of

1:07:55 ↗ measuring where your current performance

1:07:57 ↗ is at so we've we've gone through we've

1:07:59 ↗ processed over 146 buildings through

1:08:01 ↗ that initial step

1:08:05 ↗ furthermore we've already moved uh seven

1:08:08 ↗ those properties into

1:08:10 ↗ applications for early adopter incentive

1:08:12 ↗ so that's the 75 million dollar fund

1:08:15 ↗ that's available

1:08:17 ↗ which is which is great success and

1:08:19 ↗ those are the worst performers

1:08:21 ↗ as measured as 15 points or greater

1:08:24 ↗ above your energy use target

1:08:27 ↗ and then out of the buildings that we've

1:08:30 ↗ worked with we've got two under contract

1:08:33 ↗ right now in a formal energy services

1:08:35 ↗ engagement to make the improvements

1:08:38 ↗ some of those properties are in that mid

1:08:40 ↗ to larger size properties mostly in the

1:08:42 ↗ mid-size properties that compliance

1:08:45 ↗ state is out in 2027.

1:08:49 ↗ but they understand that the the

1:08:51 ↗ magnitude of investment is significant

1:08:53 ↗ enough that they need to get started now

1:08:55 ↗ in order to meet those obligations

1:08:58 ↗ and then overall

1:09:01 ↗ we've got the rest

1:09:04 ↗ we

1:09:05 ↗ have another

1:09:07 ↗ 40 or so buildings that we're currently

1:09:09 ↗ working on through the benchmarking

1:09:10 ↗ process and success so far we've had

1:09:13 ↗ zero attrition

1:09:15 ↗ so from that standpoint people are in

1:09:17 ↗ staying engaged building owners are

1:09:19 ↗ staying engaged and we're moving

1:09:21 ↗ systematically through

1:09:23 ↗ the process that we've designed to try

1:09:25 ↗ to make this as fun and easy as possible

1:09:26 ↗ for for property owners and managers

1:09:29 ↗ is that addressed

1:09:31 ↗ sufficiently

1:09:33 ↗ yes that does i guess one

1:09:35 ↗ clarification is there are two of the

1:09:37 ↗ 140 something that are in that next

1:09:40 ↗ phase but that's likely

1:09:42 ↗ due to

1:09:43 ↗ the current time right because they

1:09:45 ↗ haven't yet gone through the whole

1:09:47 ↗ process so you wouldn't expect that that

1:09:49 ↗ be the percentage that actually go

1:09:51 ↗ through

1:09:52 ↗ we expect all those buildings that

1:09:55 ↗ because the

1:09:56 ↗ there's

1:09:57 ↗ two ways of becoming there's two

1:09:59 ↗ outcomes of the benchmarking process

1:10:01 ↗ those buildings that are above their

1:10:04 ↗ legislative target and those require

1:10:07 ↗ some type of improvement some type of

1:10:08 ↗ investment in their property in order to

1:10:10 ↗ achieve the legislative target and then

1:10:13 ↗ there's those buildings that are below

1:10:15 ↗ their legislative target that still have

1:10:17 ↗ compliance documentation that they have

1:10:19 ↗ to go through which is a fairly

1:10:21 ↗ significant lift in itself because it's

1:10:23 ↗ really focusing on business processes

1:10:25 ↗ for energy

1:10:26 ↗ sustainability operations and

1:10:28 ↗ maintenance type practices that have to

1:10:30 ↗ be

1:10:31 ↗ in place and and validated

1:10:33 ↗ for at least 12 periods 12 months period

1:10:36 ↗ of time prior to the compliance states

1:10:38 ↗ so all the buildings all 181 buildings

1:10:41 ↗ that we've currently got in our pipeline

1:10:44 ↗ we'll need to move through one of those

1:10:46 ↗ two

1:10:48 ↗ pipelines in order to achieve compliance

1:10:51 ↗ so

1:10:52 ↗ ultimately at the end of the day we'll

1:10:53 ↗ have 181 buildings

1:10:56 ↗ in compliance in bellevue is our

1:10:58 ↗ objective

1:10:59 ↗ and that's just currently at today's

1:11:02 ↗ today's numbers

1:11:04 ↗ okay thank you i have one more good

1:11:06 ↗ that's okay all right um so my other

1:11:09 ↗ question is about the scope of emission

1:11:12 ↗ savings and so the question is and this

1:11:15 ↗ is one that i had emailed about what is

1:11:16 ↗ the scope of emissions savings the city

1:11:18 ↗ would expect from the program

1:11:20 ↗ i understand that there's a range but

1:11:22 ↗ just to give us a ballpark and then i

1:11:24 ↗ also thought it was helpful to put that

1:11:26 ↗ in

1:11:26 ↗ terms of a percentage of city emissions

1:11:29 ↗ if you could do that thanks

1:11:31 ↗ yeah thank you um

1:11:34 ↗ uh

1:11:34 ↗ i think we estimated

1:11:36 ↗ this is a ballpark

1:11:38 ↗ estimate as we don't know where our

1:11:40 ↗ buildings sit right now in terms of

1:11:42 ↗ where they are with their emissions and

1:11:44 ↗ what improvements can be made we were

1:11:46 ↗ estimating uh over this pilot period

1:11:49 ↗ about a five to ten percent reduction in

1:11:51 ↗ greenhouse gas emissions which i believe

1:11:53 ↗ was about ten thousand to twenty

1:11:55 ↗ thousand uh metric tons of co2 um and

1:11:59 ↗ that's that percentage is based on our

1:12:01 ↗ 2017 greenhouse gas emissions uh where

1:12:04 ↗ we had about uh 212 thousand metric tons

1:12:07 ↗ of co2 from buildings and homes

1:12:10 ↗ that number will be updated later this

1:12:11 ↗ summer

1:12:13 ↗ thank you and thank you for the answers

1:12:15 ↗ i believe it's council president

1:12:16 ↗ followed by deputy council president

1:12:19 ↗ thank you i have a few questions as well

1:12:22 ↗ um

1:12:23 ↗ stacy the

1:12:25 ↗ packet

1:12:26 ↗ and the agenda bill

1:12:27 ↗ mentions or the id it mentions municipal

1:12:30 ↗ buildings and public buildings several

1:12:33 ↗ times but i believe

1:12:34 ↗ the planning development environment

1:12:37 ↗ committee when

1:12:38 ↗ that was discussed it was mentioned that

1:12:42 ↗ municipal buildings would be covered by

1:12:45 ↗ department of commerce so can you better

1:12:47 ↗ explain

1:12:49 ↗ whether municipal buildings are covered

1:12:51 ↗ in this um

1:12:53 ↗ yes i'll start and then perry can

1:12:54 ↗ correct me

1:12:56 ↗ so yes public and municipal buildings

1:12:58 ↗ are required to come into compliance

1:12:59 ↗ with the law if they're 50 000 square

1:13:02 ↗ feet and above we would of course work

1:13:03 ↗ with our other buildings if there was

1:13:05 ↗ interest

1:13:06 ↗ my understanding is that the cost

1:13:09 ↗ for the scoping assessment is the

1:13:11 ↗ funding that would actually be covered

1:13:13 ↗ and that the city wouldn't have to pay

1:13:15 ↗ for that or it wouldn't come out of the

1:13:16 ↗ contract with the service provider the

1:13:18 ↗ city would still need for the larger

1:13:21 ↗ buildings or any public buildings would

1:13:23 ↗ still have to go through all of the

1:13:25 ↗ steps to come into compliance and the

1:13:27 ↗ reporting if we already are in

1:13:29 ↗ compliance just that cost for the

1:13:32 ↗ scoping assessment um

1:13:34 ↗ there there wouldn't be a cost for the

1:13:35 ↗ scoping assessment i will have peri

1:13:37 ↗ clarified though but that is correct yes

1:13:40 ↗ um the scoping assessment is that uh is

1:13:42 ↗ that our risk

1:13:44 ↗ for public buildings

1:13:48 ↗ so

1:13:51 ↗ if this doesn't pass as an incentive

1:13:55 ↗ we still have our scoping

1:13:58 ↗ covered

1:13:59 ↗ is my understanding

1:14:01 ↗ that's yeah i believe that's correct

1:14:02 ↗ under well if we have a agreement with

1:14:06 ↗ um firms that are covered under the

1:14:08 ↗ department of uh commerce's program that

1:14:11 ↗ works with municipal buildings so we

1:14:14 ↗ would need to be in partnership with a

1:14:16 ↗ firm that would do that work

1:14:18 ↗ is my understanding

1:14:20 ↗ okay i'm really having a hard time

1:14:22 ↗ understanding then how

1:14:23 ↗ this

1:14:25 ↗ has any help for municipal buildings

1:14:27 ↗ because it's not making any changes to

1:14:29 ↗ the municipal buildings it's not

1:14:32 ↗ covering any of these scoping or audits

1:14:36 ↗ stacy are we under contract with anybody

1:14:38 ↗ right now um not to my knowledge so i

1:14:41 ↗ think what you're hearing is you're

1:14:42 ↗ hearing from what bellevue is

1:14:43 ↗ experiencing right now but you raise a

1:14:45 ↗ good point about what happens with the

1:14:47 ↗ two different sets so

1:14:49 ↗ stacy may be divided out into what our

1:14:51 ↗ next steps might look like

1:14:53 ↗ for both the municipal and the private

1:14:55 ↗ boat yeah so municipal municipal is

1:14:58 ↗ complicated and there's a program at

1:14:59 ↗ department of commerce i don't fully

1:15:01 ↗ understand but it works with municipal

1:15:03 ↗ programs on energy efficiency upgrades

1:15:05 ↗ and there are a list of preferred

1:15:07 ↗ providers for that that cities

1:15:09 ↗ can partner with and as perry mentioned

1:15:11 ↗ it's at risk to those providers to work

1:15:14 ↗ with the cities to guarantee some

1:15:15 ↗ upgrades so there are two

1:15:18 ↗ different programs that are kind of

1:15:19 ↗ colliding under this

1:15:21 ↗ program when you look at municipalities

1:15:24 ↗ if that makes sense

1:15:26 ↗ maybe not but

1:15:28 ↗ and so for this program we would

1:15:31 ↗ still in order to demonstrate our

1:15:33 ↗ compliance where we have buildings

1:15:36 ↗ of the larger size we would still be

1:15:38 ↗ needing to go through the steps to

1:15:40 ↗ benchmark our buildings do the scoping

1:15:43 ↗ if we're not in compliance with the

1:15:44 ↗ targets and do the reporting

1:15:47 ↗ so we would need to go through that

1:15:48 ↗ process anyway

1:15:50 ↗ the advantage if this program is

1:15:52 ↗ underway we would already have that

1:15:54 ↗ contract available to work with someone

1:15:56 ↗ through that process see administrator

1:15:59 ↗ you wanted to add something

1:16:01 ↗ i i think at the very end stacy got it

1:16:04 ↗ that absent this program we're still a

1:16:07 ↗ property owner and so we would need to

1:16:09 ↗ go through a process but we would have

1:16:10 ↗ to select a vendor if we've selected

1:16:13 ↗ this vendor to help us with the larger

1:16:15 ↗ community we won't have to we can use

1:16:16 ↗ this vendor for our own municipal

1:16:18 ↗ buildings correct

1:16:21 ↗ okay i believe you had mentioned in the

1:16:24 ↗ pde meeting that that was something

1:16:26 ↗ covered by department of commerce so i

1:16:28 ↗ was associated with it the costs

1:16:31 ↗ associated are covered the cost of the

1:16:33 ↗ assessment not the cost of the

1:16:34 ↗ improvement yes

1:16:36 ↗ but that only

1:16:38 ↗ counts if we have a relationship then

1:16:40 ↗ well what what the department of

1:16:42 ↗ commerce has is a list of vendors

1:16:44 ↗ so we would have to go to those to one

1:16:47 ↗ of those vendors those vendors are part

1:16:49 ↗ of the department of commerce program

1:16:50 ↗ please correct me if i'm wrong um with

1:16:53 ↗ the understanding that they may get the

1:16:55 ↗ business from the municipality once

1:16:57 ↗ they've done the assessment

1:17:00 ↗ okay so

1:17:02 ↗ i

1:17:03 ↗ may just not be getting this but

1:17:06 ↗ if

1:17:07 ↗ if we didn't pursue this correct

1:17:10 ↗ then we would have to go through

1:17:12 ↗ department of commerce create a

1:17:14 ↗ relationship with

1:17:16 ↗ a provider and have that covered without

1:17:19 ↗ having to pay this hundred thousand

1:17:20 ↗ dollars for multiple infrastructure just

1:17:22 ↗ for municipal buildings

1:17:24 ↗ so the city as the property owner

1:17:26 ↗ under this department of commerce

1:17:28 ↗ program we could go to a number of

1:17:30 ↗ vendors who are listed they would do at

1:17:32 ↗ no cost to us an assessment

1:17:36 ↗ so that's what the department of

1:17:38 ↗ commerce program gets municipalities

1:17:40 ↗ is the

1:17:41 ↗ access to a no-cost assessment

1:17:45 ↗ this is other than municipal rights

1:17:50 ↗ i get that and

1:17:51 ↗ what i had tried to get to in the pde

1:17:54 ↗ meeting and here is

1:17:58 ↗ how does this

1:18:00 ↗ help our municipal buildings

1:18:03 ↗ it saves us a step in essence because

1:18:06 ↗ we'll already be under contract with

1:18:08 ↗ this company and they will do that

1:18:09 ↗ assessment for us at no cost

1:18:13 ↗ okay um

1:18:15 ↗ okay

1:18:17 ↗ so if we were not doing this program if

1:18:19 ↗ we were not going to be helping the

1:18:20 ↗ businesses of issaquah with their

1:18:22 ↗ buildings and we were just city of a

1:18:23 ↗ squad property owner we would have the

1:18:26 ↗ ability to go to this list of firms

1:18:28 ↗ which mcdonald miller is on and they

1:18:31 ↗ would provide the assessment at no cost

1:18:33 ↗ to us what the hundred thousand dollars

1:18:34 ↗ is providing is it's paying for the

1:18:36 ↗ businesses to have that assessment the

1:18:38 ↗ state of washington though has this

1:18:40 ↗ program specifically for municipalities

1:18:42 ↗ that says municipalities you get this

1:18:44 ↗ for free because these

1:18:47 ↗ vendors i mean the reality is is there's

1:18:49 ↗ money to be made here for these

1:18:51 ↗ third-party vendors to actually do the

1:18:53 ↗ improvements does that make sense yes

1:18:55 ↗ and that gets to the point i was trying

1:18:58 ↗ to get at is

1:18:59 ↗ municipal buildings are mentioned in

1:19:01 ↗ this

1:19:02 ↗ several times as beneficiaries and

1:19:06 ↗ what you've just said is

1:19:08 ↗ that we have this whole other path that

1:19:10 ↗ we could go through that would also

1:19:13 ↗ pay for that through department of

1:19:14 ↗ commerce and and perhaps our error as

1:19:17 ↗ staff is that we were we're making too

1:19:19 ↗ much of the ability to have access to

1:19:21 ↗ the one company that's all that's the

1:19:23 ↗ only advantage okay so we're saving some

1:19:25 ↗ staff time uh if we were not doing the

1:19:28 ↗ private business piece of this we're

1:19:29 ↗ saving some staff time of the city staff

1:19:31 ↗ having to then identify a company to

1:19:33 ↗ work with so i apologize if we've

1:19:36 ↗ oversold that in some way shape or form

1:19:38 ↗ but that may be the point of contention

1:19:41 ↗ here okay

1:19:42 ↗ um i have two other questions so

1:19:44 ↗ how would prioritization work in

1:19:47 ↗ practice

1:19:49 ↗ so if a building owner who is later in

1:19:54 ↗ the kind of preferential list contacts

1:19:56 ↗ you

1:19:57 ↗ would

1:19:58 ↗ they get serviced

1:20:00 ↗ alternatively could we earmark certain

1:20:03 ↗ funds toward

1:20:05 ↗ what we've considered a preferred

1:20:07 ↗ category such as multi-family or

1:20:09 ↗ non-profits

1:20:10 ↗ versus making the

1:20:12 ↗ whole amount

1:20:14 ↗ available to all of these categories

1:20:17 ↗ with a preference

1:20:22 ↗ yeah i might see if perry can help in

1:20:24 ↗ terms of capacity wise but

1:20:27 ↗ i anticipate that

1:20:29 ↗ if

1:20:30 ↗ i think our real focus would be on that

1:20:32 ↗ outreach marketing at the beginning

1:20:34 ↗ towards these certain

1:20:35 ↗ building types that we've identified as

1:20:37 ↗ priority and trying to get them in early

1:20:39 ↗ i think if someone were to come in late

1:20:43 ↗ that we would still have the capacity to

1:20:46 ↗ be able to support them and we'll make

1:20:47 ↗ sure that that's a priority for our

1:20:49 ↗ service provider so they know to move

1:20:51 ↗ those folks

1:20:53 ↗ up early if that's the desire of counsel

1:20:56 ↗ in terms of earmarking i think that's

1:20:59 ↗ that's also a potential open to those

1:21:01 ↗ suggestions that's not something

1:21:03 ↗ that i had considered or recommended in

1:21:05 ↗ the packet but completely open to that

1:21:07 ↗ as well

1:21:10 ↗ okay and then last question there

1:21:12 ↗ could a building in nissan if we didn't

1:21:15 ↗ pass something like this contact

1:21:18 ↗ mcdonald miller or a similar provider to

1:21:21 ↗ get an audit and pursue energy

1:21:23 ↗ efficiency efficiency upgrades without

1:21:26 ↗ these incentives

1:21:28 ↗ without this type of program or yes they

1:21:31 ↗ could and they're required to for those

1:21:33 ↗ that are required under state law to go

1:21:36 ↗ through this process i think the concern

1:21:38 ↗ is that many

1:21:40 ↗ don't know about the law and the

1:21:42 ↗ requirements they don't know how to

1:21:43 ↗ navigate the process or how to access

1:21:45 ↗ incentives before they're gone i think

1:21:48 ↗ the other value of this program that we

1:21:50 ↗ talked about with committee is we'd be

1:21:51 ↗ reaching out to those buildings that

1:21:53 ↗ aren't required to come into compliance

1:21:56 ↗ and so it really expanding our scope to

1:21:58 ↗ support buildings and helping us meet

1:22:00 ↗ our reduction targets

1:22:04 ↗ deputy council president

1:22:07 ↗ oh thank you was the program in bellevue

1:22:09 ↗ did it start out as a pilot as well or

1:22:11 ↗ was it just a

1:22:13 ↗ full program

1:22:14 ↗ um the

1:22:16 ↗ it was it was approved by city council

1:22:19 ↗ um and the case of bellevue they

1:22:21 ↗ allocated 250 thousand 000

1:22:24 ↗ and it was official program so we were

1:22:27 ↗ selected as the consultant for the city

1:22:29 ↗ of bellevue to perform these services on

1:22:31 ↗ behalf of the city

1:22:33 ↗ um

1:22:34 ↗ one of the things i'll just kind of

1:22:36 ↗ embellish a little bit if i may

1:22:38 ↗ um

1:22:39 ↗ is

1:22:40 ↗ there is

1:22:41 ↗ there exists today a serious void and

1:22:44 ↗ under for building owners to understand

1:22:46 ↗ what their obligations are

1:22:48 ↗ and what we found

1:22:50 ↗ and that's kind of consistently

1:22:51 ↗ consistent across the state um and we're

1:22:54 ↗ still even seeing voids in bellevue

1:22:56 ↗ after six months worth of intense effort

1:22:59 ↗ at getting the word out

1:23:01 ↗ what we have seen though as evident by

1:23:04 ↗ by the numbers i shared with you

1:23:06 ↗ previously

1:23:07 ↗ is the fact that because it's a endorsed

1:23:09 ↗ program by the city of bellevue that is

1:23:12 ↗ out there trying to do the outreach and

1:23:14 ↗ education and also provide services at

1:23:17 ↗ the building owner's discretion

1:23:20 ↗ um is to that it's

1:23:22 ↗ having an effect on the number of people

1:23:24 ↗ that we're able to reach

1:23:26 ↗ and communicate their obligations with

1:23:28 ↗ the with the legislation so that's why i

1:23:31 ↗ was such a great

1:23:33 ↗ i was so happy to see that the city of

1:23:35 ↗ issaquah is endeavoring into a similar

1:23:37 ↗ type of initiative and there's other

1:23:39 ↗ cities we're working with doing the same

1:23:41 ↗ thing because with that kind of outreach

1:23:43 ↗ we're able to just enable the service

1:23:45 ↗ providers such as mcdonald miller and

1:23:47 ↗ the community

1:23:48 ↗ to engage with these building owners in

1:23:50 ↗ a more meaningful way

1:23:53 ↗ the department of commerce and another

1:23:54 ↗ kind of a correction for the record if

1:23:56 ↗ you don't mind the department of

1:23:58 ↗ commerce is the jurisdiction responsible

1:24:00 ↗ for enforcement and compliance with the

1:24:02 ↗ clean building standard legislation

1:24:05 ↗ the other entity

1:24:07 ↗ state entity is department of enterprise

1:24:09 ↗ services which is man which manages the

1:24:12 ↗ energy services performance contracting

1:24:14 ↗ program for the state

1:24:16 ↗ so department of enterprise services

1:24:18 ↗ would be the entity that public entities

1:24:20 ↗ in the state can contract with through

1:24:22 ↗ an interagency agreement to select an

1:24:26 ↗ energy services provider from the

1:24:28 ↗ qualified list so two different

1:24:31 ↗ agencies at the state level managing two

1:24:33 ↗ different programs

1:24:35 ↗ thank you for that clarification um

1:24:37 ↗ deputy council president followed by

1:24:39 ↗ councilmember d michelle uh thanks and

1:24:41 ↗ my second question was can you stacy can

1:24:43 ↗ you walk us back through

1:24:45 ↗ um

1:24:46 ↗ so the slide that you had on

1:24:49 ↗ the proposal the details of the proposal

1:24:50 ↗ can you walk us back through what the

1:24:52 ↗ city's role

1:24:54 ↗ is and what what the city's actions will

1:24:56 ↗ be in terms of what city staff will be

1:24:57 ↗ accomplishing as opposed to our

1:24:58 ↗ contractor yeah i think the real focus

1:25:01 ↗ for

1:25:02 ↗ city staff would be

1:25:05 ↗ in that first step the marketing and

1:25:07 ↗ outreach

1:25:08 ↗ where city funds would also come into

1:25:11 ↗ play

1:25:12 ↗ although probably not significant staff

1:25:14 ↗ time

1:25:15 ↗ is in the scoping assessments that's

1:25:18 ↗ where for the

1:25:20 ↗ priority buildings

1:25:23 ↗ the nonprofit buildings we would cover

1:25:25 ↗ the cost of those scoping assessments

1:25:27 ↗ and i think they range three thousand to

1:25:30 ↗ five thousand

1:25:31 ↗ approximately depending on the building

1:25:33 ↗ size

1:25:34 ↗ yeah

1:25:37 ↗ councilmember dave shaw

1:25:40 ↗ thanks this is for either one of you um

1:25:43 ↗ you alluded stacy to

1:25:45 ↗ that the proposal in front of us

1:25:47 ↗ has

1:25:48 ↗ improved

1:25:50 ↗ somewhat on the bellevue pilot or

1:25:53 ↗ program and you said something about uh

1:25:56 ↗ including non-profits

1:25:58 ↗ so would you just go a little deeper

1:26:00 ↗ with that and explain

1:26:02 ↗ some of the issues that were raised in

1:26:03 ↗ bellevue and then how this proposal is

1:26:06 ↗ uh different or at least grapples with

1:26:08 ↗ those issues yeah and i absolutely don't

1:26:10 ↗ want to discount the bellevue program it

1:26:12 ↗ is a great program they have a lot of

1:26:14 ↗ buildings they are

1:26:16 ↗ working with that have to come into

1:26:18 ↗ compliance i think the opportunity here

1:26:20 ↗ is we don't have quite as

1:26:23 ↗ large a scope of buildings that have to

1:26:24 ↗ come into compliance so we have an

1:26:26 ↗ opportunity for that more targeted

1:26:28 ↗ outreach based on the the feedback from

1:26:30 ↗ the committee to work with

1:26:32 ↗ the buildings that might have more of a

1:26:34 ↗ challenge coming into compliance or

1:26:36 ↗ going through the process

1:26:38 ↗ so i think that's one opportunity is

1:26:40 ↗ that more targeted outreach and then the

1:26:42 ↗ other is to go beyond the buildings that

1:26:45 ↗ have to come into compliance and that we

1:26:47 ↗ can really offer up this program to any

1:26:49 ↗ building owner that's ready

1:26:52 ↗ to make energy efficiency upgrades and

1:26:53 ↗ actually target messaging to encourage

1:26:55 ↗ them to do so so i think that's where

1:26:57 ↗ there's the opportunity just with our

1:26:59 ↗ smaller size that we can have that real

1:27:02 ↗ targeted approach and brought a little

1:27:03 ↗ bit broader scope

1:27:06 ↗ and i did want to just know

1:27:08 ↗ referring to this as a pilot as we

1:27:09 ↗ anticipate

1:27:12 ↗ as the rule making is completed for the

1:27:15 ↗ buildings that are in the twenty

1:27:16 ↗ thousand to fifty thousand range that

1:27:18 ↗ the need for this program would likely

1:27:20 ↗ only increase um and that's why we'd

1:27:22 ↗ wanna take this first year or so to

1:27:25 ↗ really assess um the success and

1:27:28 ↗ failures and see where we can make

1:27:30 ↗ improvements as we expand that scope to

1:27:32 ↗ smaller buildings as well as

1:27:35 ↗ multi-family requirements

1:27:38 ↗ thank you

1:27:39 ↗ that's my ray

1:27:42 ↗ thank you i'm going to build a little

1:27:44 ↗ bit on where deputy council president

1:27:46 ↗ hall was was going i think

1:27:49 ↗ so

1:27:50 ↗ at a very this is my understanding of

1:27:52 ↗ what the city is going to do so

1:27:54 ↗ tell me where i go with a stray here so

1:27:56 ↗ we've got an outreach

1:27:58 ↗ component and we can target that

1:28:00 ↗ outreach to

1:28:02 ↗ our high priority

1:28:04 ↗ building owners

1:28:06 ↗ so that we're focused more there is that

1:28:09 ↗ is that the thinking around how we would

1:28:10 ↗ do outreach and how the prioritization

1:28:12 ↗ would come into that

1:28:13 ↗ yeah i think real targeted outreach

1:28:15 ↗ through

1:28:16 ↗ cold calls direct mailings through

1:28:19 ↗ workshops offering up yeah marketing and

1:28:22 ↗ then the other thing that we as the city

1:28:24 ↗ might do is provide assistance

1:28:26 ↗ in accessing the early adopter incentive

1:28:29 ↗ program and the application is that is

1:28:31 ↗ that also what you think we would fit

1:28:33 ↗ into this puzzle yes i mean the the the

1:28:36 ↗ program itself would be sponsored by the

1:28:38 ↗ city um in partnership with the service

1:28:41 ↗ provider so the the actual city staff

1:28:44 ↗ time would really focus on that

1:28:46 ↗ marketing

1:28:48 ↗ and then

1:28:49 ↗ funding beyond staff time would focus on

1:28:51 ↗ paying for some of those

1:28:53 ↗ energy

1:28:55 ↗ scoping studies

1:28:57 ↗ but really this program overall would be

1:28:59 ↗ packaged as a partnership with the

1:29:01 ↗ service provider

1:29:03 ↗ to really show the city support for

1:29:06 ↗ helping go through these

1:29:08 ↗ steps

1:29:08 ↗ so just to build on that we would be

1:29:10 ↗ probably

1:29:11 ↗ paying the service provider to do some

1:29:14 ↗ of these tasks

1:29:16 ↗ for

1:29:16 ↗ our building owners

1:29:18 ↗ yes with the um empiric can correct me

1:29:21 ↗ the bellevue program the city dollars

1:29:24 ↗ are contributing a small amount towards

1:29:25 ↗ the marketing and then there's some city

1:29:27 ↗ staff time and then the city dollars are

1:29:29 ↗ paying for those scoping studies the

1:29:31 ↗ service provider mcdonald miller in the

1:29:33 ↗ case of bellevue is actually covering

1:29:35 ↗ the cost of the other aspects of the

1:29:37 ↗ program okay

1:29:38 ↗ um beyond the scoping study correct got

1:29:41 ↗ it um so we could target our our dollars

1:29:43 ↗ for scoping studies based on our

1:29:45 ↗ priorities too right yes i think that

1:29:47 ↗ goes to the question that came up around

1:29:48 ↗ you know kind of earmarks or set-asides

1:29:50 ↗ or something like that okay um

1:29:53 ↗ got it and that that was my actually my

1:29:54 ↗ last question you just answered before i

1:29:56 ↗ got to it um and then um kind of

1:29:59 ↗ building on that then the service

1:30:01 ↗ provider whoever that might be

1:30:04 ↗ would be doing some additional work um

1:30:06 ↗ at risk with the potential of um some

1:30:09 ↗ follow-on business around actually doing

1:30:11 ↗ the uh improvements and enhancements and

1:30:13 ↗ remediations yes that that's the that's

1:30:16 ↗ the business model what it looks like

1:30:18 ↗ yes and i'll looked up here i don't want

1:30:19 ↗ to speak uh differently

1:30:21 ↗ from that's correct

1:30:22 ↗ okay so the big things then are outrage

1:30:25 ↗ uh scoping and uh assistance with the

1:30:28 ↗ application that where we would fund a

1:30:31 ↗ service provider to help make some of

1:30:32 ↗ that happen yes yes okay yes

1:30:36 ↗ i do thank you perry i'm going to let

1:30:38 ↗ you sit down and we'll see if it comes

1:30:40 ↗ up for any more questions but i'm just

1:30:41 ↗ going to chime in right now and i want

1:30:43 ↗ to say that what mcdonald miller is

1:30:45 ↗ doing in this field is really fantastic

1:30:48 ↗ i mean it's i think we've heard that

1:30:50 ↗ these are lost leaders in some cases but

1:30:52 ↗ the benefits of some of these bigger

1:30:54 ↗ buildings are retrofitted sooner rather

1:30:56 ↗ than later is an amazing gift in

1:30:58 ↗ reducing greenhouse gases so

1:31:00 ↗ very excited about the work you're doing

1:31:03 ↗ and and

1:31:04 ↗ recognizing it's a lost leader in some

1:31:06 ↗ cases for you appreciate that mayor

1:31:08 ↗ and if we still need perry or um anyone

1:31:11 ↗ else to come back up we will are there

1:31:12 ↗ additional

1:31:14 ↗ questions i'm going to look to the chair

1:31:17 ↗ to see if there's motion

1:31:23 ↗ yes i move

1:31:27 ↗ to

1:31:28 ↗ approve the additional appropriation of

1:31:29 ↗ twenty thousand dollars from the

1:31:30 ↗ sustainability funds for the clean

1:31:32 ↗ building initiative in 2022 and an

1:31:34 ↗ additional budget allocation of eighty

1:31:36 ↗ thousand dollars in 2023.

1:31:39 ↗ second so second i have a question for

1:31:41 ↗ the city clerk that's different than the

1:31:42 ↗ motion i have i was reading the motion

1:31:44 ↗ off the thing i can retract my motion

1:31:46 ↗ and pull up the other motion okay do you

1:31:48 ↗ want to hand that turn just do that

1:31:54 ↗ it's going everywhere sorry about that i

1:31:56 ↗ got it all right do i need to formally

1:31:59 ↗ do okay thank you i moved to direct the

1:32:03 ↗ finance chief financial officer to

1:32:06 ↗ include an appropriation of twenty

1:32:07 ↗ thousand dollars from the sustainability

1:32:08 ↗ funds for the clean building initiative

1:32:10 ↗ in a subsequent 2022 budget amendment

1:32:12 ↗ and directs the administration to

1:32:14 ↗ include eighty thousand dollars for the

1:32:16 ↗ clean building initiative in the

1:32:17 ↗ proposed 2023 budget for a total

1:32:19 ↗ commitment of a hundred thousand dollars

1:32:21 ↗ for the clean building initiative to be

1:32:23 ↗ expended in 2022 and 2023

1:32:29 ↗ okay it's been moved in seconded is

1:32:31 ↗ there council discussion

1:32:39 ↗ oh sure let's start with the motion

1:32:41 ↗ maker

1:32:42 ↗ thank you madam mayor

1:32:44 ↗ i appreciate the changes that have been

1:32:46 ↗ made to this um

1:32:48 ↗ especially in the prioritization area

1:32:50 ↗ since this was seen by the planning

1:32:52 ↗ development environment committee

1:32:54 ↗ i think that from our conversation we

1:32:56 ↗ did

1:32:57 ↗ we did

1:32:58 ↗ recommend a number of changes to that

1:33:00 ↗ prioritization and in my opinion they

1:33:02 ↗ are reflected in the changes that were

1:33:05 ↗ made the reason for those changes is

1:33:07 ↗ really to try

1:33:09 ↗ to um

1:33:11 ↗ target

1:33:12 ↗ those buildings those building owners

1:33:14 ↗ that are going to go above and beyond

1:33:16 ↗ and

1:33:17 ↗ you know looking at those buildings that

1:33:18 ↗ don't have to come into a compliance by

1:33:20 ↗ entering into this program at all

1:33:21 ↗ they're going above and beyond so we

1:33:23 ↗ wanted to make sure that we were

1:33:24 ↗ supporting those

1:33:26 ↗ those buildings those building owners

1:33:28 ↗ and that the prioritization reflected

1:33:30 ↗ that as an emphasis

1:33:32 ↗ we also wanted to

1:33:34 ↗ um as a in terms of

1:33:37 ↗ thinking through our role as

1:33:39 ↗ government um i think it was also

1:33:41 ↗ important to

1:33:42 ↗ support those buildings that that

1:33:45 ↗ especially needed to have this um and

1:33:47 ↗ because there are other options for them

1:33:50 ↗ to come into compliance and they will be

1:33:52 ↗ required to come into compliance with

1:33:54 ↗ the state law so i think the financial

1:33:56 ↗ hardship i i am interested to see how

1:33:58 ↗ that

1:33:59 ↗ works because i think it will be a bit

1:34:01 ↗ of an administrative challenge to

1:34:03 ↗ identify those but i do think that that

1:34:05 ↗ reflects what the committee was was

1:34:07 ↗ hoping to

1:34:09 ↗ go for in terms of prioritizing the

1:34:10 ↗ outreach

1:34:12 ↗ i think um

1:34:14 ↗ there will be some real challenges

1:34:16 ↗ assessing this program because we won't

1:34:18 ↗ know

1:34:19 ↗ what would have happened had we not had

1:34:21 ↗ the program at the end of the day that

1:34:22 ↗ said um

1:34:24 ↗ five to

1:34:25 ↗ five to

1:34:26 ↗ ten percent of issaquah's

1:34:30 ↗ emissions

1:34:31 ↗ for a hundred thousand dollars is a big

1:34:33 ↗ impact and so it would be

1:34:36 ↗ it would potentially be a really

1:34:39 ↗ big emission saving and that benefits

1:34:40 ↗ the entire community and this is a pilot

1:34:43 ↗ we will see how it does it's a hundred

1:34:45 ↗ thousand dollars i'm interested to see

1:34:46 ↗ how it does it does

1:34:48 ↗ have big potential and i also look

1:34:50 ↗ forward to hearing how this builds

1:34:52 ↗ relationships with the business

1:34:54 ↗ community because i think the success of

1:34:56 ↗ the climate action plan the success of

1:34:58 ↗ our efforts in climate action really do

1:35:00 ↗ rely on building relationships with the

1:35:02 ↗ business community and i would love for

1:35:03 ↗ this program to be a way to build those

1:35:06 ↗ bridges so for those reasons i am

1:35:09 ↗ supportive

1:35:10 ↗ i

1:35:12 ↗ i understand and relate to the concerns

1:35:14 ↗ of council president walsh in terms of

1:35:16 ↗ the municipal buildings i think that's

1:35:18 ↗ for me

1:35:19 ↗ um

1:35:21 ↗ that's that's not why i would support

1:35:22 ↗ the pilot it is um this potential for

1:35:25 ↗ building these bridges with the business

1:35:27 ↗ community and then um using those

1:35:29 ↗ bridges as we continue to do climate

1:35:31 ↗ action in the future and implement the

1:35:33 ↗ climate action plan in the future

1:35:35 ↗ so for those reasons i will be

1:35:36 ↗ supporting this and again appreciate all

1:35:38 ↗ the work that went into this by this

1:35:40 ↗ staff thank you

1:35:42 ↗ uh council member ray is the second did

1:35:44 ↗ you want to have comments because we

1:35:45 ↗ have a couple more that want to speak

1:35:47 ↗ well that's great thank you for letting

1:35:48 ↗ me jump the line without getting my

1:35:50 ↗ microphone raised um i have just three

1:35:53 ↗ points i wanted to make one is i think

1:35:54 ↗ this is an opportunity to improve energy

1:35:56 ↗ efficiency and reduce our carbon

1:35:58 ↗ emissions in our city by three to five

1:36:00 ↗ years depending upon the size of the

1:36:01 ↗ building so i think there's a there's an

1:36:03 ↗ inherent benefit to um pushing forward

1:36:06 ↗ with this and getting people to start

1:36:08 ↗ our building or start making changes now

1:36:10 ↗ prior to when they have to because of

1:36:11 ↗ state law i also think it's

1:36:14 ↗ good for us to be able to assist

1:36:16 ↗ building owners particularly in the

1:36:17 ↗ not-for-profit sector or ones that are

1:36:20 ↗ struggling

1:36:21 ↗ to to access the early adopter funds so

1:36:24 ↗ that they will be able to make those

1:36:25 ↗ changes and then my my final point is i

1:36:28 ↗ think we still have to solve without a

1:36:30 ↗ doubt for the municipal buildings but i

1:36:32 ↗ think that's big a part going to be part

1:36:33 ↗ of a actually a lot larger and bigger

1:36:36 ↗ and bolder discussion so i i'm i'm

1:36:39 ↗ thinking this is great and i

1:36:40 ↗ to echo

1:36:41 ↗ council member hunt i think the

1:36:44 ↗ administration did a nice job of hearing

1:36:45 ↗ what was said in committee and bringing

1:36:47 ↗ it back here so thank you

1:36:49 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle and

1:36:51 ↗ then council president walsh

1:36:53 ↗ uh thank you so much um i will be

1:36:56 ↗ supporting this as well

1:36:57 ↗ uh we were in retreat on saturday and i

1:37:00 ↗ think we heard really clearly that we

1:37:02 ↗ are feeling like

1:37:04 ↗ it's very urgent and uh appropriate for

1:37:07 ↗ us to

1:37:08 ↗ be

1:37:08 ↗ accelerating our um

1:37:10 ↗ it's a climate action plan and i think

1:37:13 ↗ that this does that very very nicely it

1:37:16 ↗ was really nice to see this on the

1:37:18 ↗ agenda

1:37:19 ↗ in in connection with that discussion as

1:37:22 ↗ well so so first of all the urgency i

1:37:24 ↗ think is is manifest and this helps us

1:37:27 ↗ move forward

1:37:29 ↗ it was alluded to and i agree with my

1:37:31 ↗ fellow council members that

1:37:33 ↗ i think if there's any sector in

1:37:35 ↗ issaquah that's been skeptical of the

1:37:37 ↗ climate action plan it's been the

1:37:38 ↗ business community

1:37:40 ↗ and i think this

1:37:42 ↗ practically

1:37:43 ↗ helps businesses understand but also

1:37:46 ↗ sends a message to our business

1:37:47 ↗ community that we want to be partners on

1:37:50 ↗ this and that

1:37:52 ↗ everyone in issaquah has a role in

1:37:55 ↗ implementing the

1:37:56 ↗ climate action plan

1:37:58 ↗ and we want to be

1:38:00 ↗ partners with the with everybody in our

1:38:02 ↗ community so i think i'll be good on

1:38:04 ↗ many different levels in terms of our

1:38:06 ↗ relationship with the business sector

1:38:09 ↗ um i was very interested in the

1:38:12 ↗ non-profits and that especially the

1:38:13 ↗ churches uh our churches have these

1:38:15 ↗ great big spaces that are

1:38:17 ↗ really difficult to heat and probably

1:38:20 ↗ emit a lot of carbon into the

1:38:23 ↗ environment so i'm really glad that

1:38:24 ↗ they're going to be involved and they

1:38:26 ↗ are also probably some of the

1:38:28 ↗ organizations that will have the hardest

1:38:30 ↗ time

1:38:30 ↗ affording an assessment and affording

1:38:33 ↗ the conversions but

1:38:36 ↗ to include them i think is a really

1:38:38 ↗ really good thing and

1:38:39 ↗ including them in the outreach will be

1:38:41 ↗ excellent so overall i just think this

1:38:43 ↗ is a great proposal and i will also be

1:38:46 ↗ supporting it thank you

1:38:48 ↗ council president

1:38:51 ↗ thank you

1:38:52 ↗ um i come to this with a little bit of

1:38:55 ↗ frustration and skepticism

1:38:59 ↗ this came on the same night that we were

1:39:01 ↗ also considering the

1:39:03 ↗ heat pump incentives for low-income

1:39:06 ↗ households

1:39:07 ↗ and

1:39:08 ↗ that one checked everything on my list

1:39:11 ↗ that one said okay we're

1:39:14 ↗ helping

1:39:15 ↗ low-income households who can't afford

1:39:18 ↗ this whereas this is

1:39:20 ↗ targeting business owners

1:39:22 ↗ um and building owners um similarly in

1:39:27 ↗ that situation we're

1:39:30 ↗ guaranteeing that a change is being made

1:39:33 ↗ because we're paying to do the

1:39:35 ↗ installation of these heat pumps and

1:39:38 ↗ we're going at it knowing that

1:39:39 ↗ [Music]

1:39:41 ↗ those

1:39:43 ↗ those buildings are underperforming and

1:39:46 ↗ we are making a contribution that

1:39:47 ↗ directly impacts

1:39:52 ↗ the amount of greenhouse gas that they

1:39:54 ↗ produce whereas in this case we don't

1:39:56 ↗ have that guarantee it's really nice to

1:39:58 ↗ hear that most of the buildings are

1:40:00 ↗ pushing through because one of my early

1:40:02 ↗ concerns was we're going to pay for

1:40:04 ↗ audits and assessments and then not

1:40:07 ↗ necessarily get anything out of it

1:40:11 ↗ my

1:40:13 ↗ third difference between these ones in

1:40:16 ↗ those low income housing situations they

1:40:20 ↗ have

1:40:20 ↗ very little reason and no compliance

1:40:23 ↗ deadline that they have to go to and in

1:40:26 ↗ these cases there is a state requirement

1:40:28 ↗ additionally there are no other

1:40:31 ↗ incentives out there because the pse

1:40:34 ↗ conversion or

1:40:36 ↗ incentive only

1:40:37 ↗ happens on

1:40:39 ↗ moving from i think electric to electric

1:40:42 ↗ not gas to electric which is our

1:40:44 ↗ situation whereas here there's an early

1:40:46 ↗ adopter incentive of 75 million dollars

1:40:49 ↗ which goes way above and beyond what our

1:40:51 ↗ hundred thousand dollars here um goes

1:40:54 ↗ into so i i

1:40:57 ↗ don't like

1:41:00 ↗ some of the things about this program

1:41:04 ↗ i would much rather put money into

1:41:07 ↗ making improvements on our own municipal

1:41:09 ↗ buildings or doing other low-income

1:41:12 ↗ multi-family heat pump incentives

1:41:15 ↗ so i would encourage the administration

1:41:17 ↗ to move toward that that being said i

1:41:19 ↗ think you have provided some good

1:41:22 ↗ reasons why

1:41:24 ↗ this as a pilot program can provide us

1:41:28 ↗ with

1:41:29 ↗ some good benefits it's a low dollar

1:41:32 ↗ amount in the scheme of things and so i

1:41:35 ↗ will ultimately support it with the

1:41:38 ↗ hope that

1:41:40 ↗ we can

1:41:41 ↗ take opportunities to look at other

1:41:43 ↗ areas we where we have more direct

1:41:46 ↗ impact either in making changes of our

1:41:48 ↗ own or helping those who

1:41:51 ↗ really truly can't afford it and don't

1:41:54 ↗ have a requirement to do so in the near

1:41:55 ↗ future thank you

1:41:58 ↗ any other comments

1:42:01 ↗ okay i will re-read the motion uh direct

1:42:04 ↗ the chief financial officer to include

1:42:05 ↗ an appropriation of twenty thousand

1:42:07 ↗ dollars from the sustainability fund for

1:42:10 ↗ the clean building initiative in a

1:42:11 ↗ subsequent 2022 budget amendment and

1:42:15 ↗ direct the administration to include

1:42:16 ↗ eighty thousand dollars for the clean

1:42:18 ↗ building initiative in the proposed 2023

1:42:20 ↗ budget for a total commitment of a

1:42:22 ↗ hundred thousand dollars for the clean

1:42:24 ↗ building initiative to be expended in

1:42:25 ↗ 2022 and 2023

1:42:28 ↗ all those in favor signify by saying aye

1:42:30 ↗ aye

1:42:33 ↗ those opposed

1:42:35 ↗ that passes unanimously thank you stacy

1:42:38 ↗ and thank you very much gentlemen for

1:42:40 ↗ coming in tonight and explaining some of

1:42:41 ↗ the practical aspects of the work you're

1:42:43 ↗ doing in our sister city next door

1:42:45 ↗ bellevue thank you

1:42:47 ↗ the next item of business is good of the

1:42:50 ↗ order

1:42:51 ↗ there are a couple of upcoming council

1:42:52 ↗ meetings august 1st the regular city

1:42:55 ↗ council meeting has some anticipated

1:42:57 ↗ agenda items

1:42:58 ↗ the amendments to title 16 with respect

1:43:00 ↗ to stormwater manual and floodplain code

1:43:03 ↗ august 8th committee of the whole

1:43:05 ↗ council meeting anticipated agenda items

1:43:08 ↗ include the

1:43:09 ↗ 2023-24 budget the revenue forecast and

1:43:13 ↗ mid-year update and there is anticipated

1:43:15 ↗ to be an executive session

1:43:18 ↗ any other items

1:43:20 ↗ council president followed by council

1:43:21 ↗ member

1:43:23 ↗ joe

1:43:24 ↗ thank you

1:43:26 ↗ i just wanted to take a moment uh as the

1:43:29 ↗ host of or co-host of our

1:43:32 ↗ budget retreat on saturday to just thank

1:43:35 ↗ the council for some great participation

1:43:37 ↗ i think we had a

1:43:38 ↗ really good meeting i'm looking forward

1:43:41 ↗ to

1:43:42 ↗ what comes from the administration and

1:43:45 ↗ gosh all the feedback that we got from

1:43:46 ↗ the administration as well during

1:43:49 ↗ that budget

1:43:51 ↗ retreat so i just wanted to thank

1:43:52 ↗ everyone for coming prepared for um

1:43:55 ↗ being open to conversations and for um

1:43:58 ↗ the outputs that we received off of that

1:44:00 ↗ so thank you

1:44:03 ↗ councilmember joe followed by deputy

1:44:05 ↗ council president

1:44:06 ↗ thank you madam mayor just a quick

1:44:08 ↗ announcement that the sound cities

1:44:09 ↗ association

1:44:11 ↗ social is on 7 27 27th of july 6 to 8 pm

1:44:16 ↗ in maple valley if you

1:44:19 ↗ would like to

1:44:20 ↗ join us for that that'd be great i think

1:44:22 ↗ i'm going if you'd like to carpool

1:44:25 ↗ good offer good green offer there uh

1:44:28 ↗ deputy council president

1:44:30 ↗ uh thanks very much um i just wanted to

1:44:32 ↗ bring up um welcoming back our returning

1:44:36 ↗ board and commission meetings in person

1:44:37 ↗ i want to thank everyone who has replied

1:44:39 ↗ to

1:44:40 ↗ our emails about joining those meetings

1:44:43 ↗ we we do have people now going to all

1:44:45 ↗ the july in person boarding commission

1:44:47 ↗ meetings we have one on august 10th that

1:44:48 ↗ we're looking for a volunteer for that's

1:44:50 ↗ the environmental board

1:44:51 ↗ but other than that the remaining

1:44:53 ↗ meetings are in september so we've got

1:44:54 ↗ some time to figure out if anyone else

1:44:56 ↗ would like to go and help us

1:44:58 ↗ welcome back back boarding commissions

1:45:00 ↗ um i sent out an update to that email uh

1:45:03 ↗ today if you have any interest in

1:45:05 ↗ participating in that or if you'd like

1:45:06 ↗ to see um what is still available and

1:45:09 ↗ for those of you who have signed up

1:45:10 ↗ already i sent out calendar invitations

1:45:13 ↗ with the location and all that earlier

1:45:15 ↗ today so that should be on your calendar

1:45:16 ↗ now thank you very much for volunteering

1:45:18 ↗ and if you have any questions feel free

1:45:19 ↗ to let us know thanks

1:45:22 ↗ are there any additional comments for

1:45:24 ↗ good of the order

1:45:26 ↗ okay

1:45:27 ↗ the next item on our agenda is executive

1:45:30 ↗ session but we will not be holding one

1:45:32 ↗ this evening and so we are adjourned at

1:45:34 ↗ 8 46.

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