Environmental Board · Wednesday, June 9, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Board Membership

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Staff report:

ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD Staff Liaison Megan Curtis-Murphy, Senior About Sustainability Coordinator Created in 2020, the objective of the Email Environmental Board is to protect, preserve and enhance the natural environment and take Regular Members action on climate change to reduce its impacts 2022 - Dani Madan* by advising the Mayor, City Council and City 2022 - Don McQuilliams departments on the City’s plans, policies, 2023 - Rishi Hazra* regulations and programs related to 2023 - Cameron Fisher environmental stewardship. 2023 - Lara Lebeiko 2024 - Nancy Davidson 2024 - Dan Hintz Membership 2024 - Anne Newcomb The Environmental Board is comprised of nine 2025 - Jamie Finch regular members, and up to three alternates. All members are appointed by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council. Alternate Members Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For 2022 - Tom Anderson…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of May 12, 2021

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-12-21 Environmental Board Minutes Page [1] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting May 12, 2021 MINUTES

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Recycling & Composting: Business Outreach and Assistance Report, (I)

30 min · Brian Husmillo, Environmental & Regulatory Program Specialist David Stitzhal, President at Full Circle Environmental, Inc. · packet pp.7–13

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Staff report:

The goal of this grant-funded program was to establish norms in the City of Issaquah regarding waste reduction, highlight the importance of recycling and composting, and provide businesses with technical assistance.

Environmental Regulatory Compliance Program Overview, (I)

30 min · Evan Brumfield, Environmental & Regulatory Program Administrator Julie Wartes, Environmental & Regulatory Program Administrator Brian Husmillo, Environmental & Regulatory Program Specialist · packet pp.15–30

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Staff report:

Public Works Engineering 1775 – 12th Ave NW | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3400 issaquahwa.gov

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

2021 Environmental Board Tentative Schedule

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Staff report:

OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS a) 2021 Environmental Board Schedule (tentative) All meetings are at 6:30 unless noted otherwise. (updated 6/2/21)

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0:00 ↗ spiel which is uh due to the virtual

0:03 ↗ format of today's meeting i'd like to

0:04 ↗ start by providing some guidelines we

0:06 ↗ have participants attending by computer

0:08 ↗ and others who may be attending by phone

0:10 ↗ for all meeting attendees please speak

0:12 ↗ clearly and pause frequently

0:15 ↗ state your name each time before

0:16 ↗ speaking mute your microphone when not

0:19 ↗ speaking

0:20 ↗ if having technical issues try joining

0:22 ↗ the meeting using a different device

0:24 ↗ smartphone or tablet or use the call and

0:26 ↗ information in the meeting invite to

0:27 ↗ call into the meeting

0:29 ↗ um as megan noted uh we don't have

0:32 ↗ nancy has an excused absence and then

0:36 ↗ i don't know oh tom looks to have joined

0:40 ↗ um as well as ann so i think tom

0:44 ↗ are you able to uh fill in as a regular

0:47 ↗ member

0:47 ↗ this evening

0:51 ↗ oh yes that would be fine great

0:54 ↗ um so now we'll be taking a roll call

0:58 ↗ vote of or not real call vote uh now

1:01 ↗ we'll be uh taking attendance which i

1:03 ↗ think

1:03 ↗ megan will be able to help us out with

1:07 ↗ yes go ahead and just uh please say here

1:09 ↗ when i call your name

1:11 ↗ tom anderson yeah

1:14 ↗ saria bola pragata here

1:19 ↗ jamie finch here

1:22 ↗ cameron fisher yeah rishi hazra

1:29 ↗ here dan hintz

1:32 ↗ here laura labico

1:36 ↗ here danny madden

1:39 ↗ here don mcwilliams

1:43 ↗ and newcomb

1:49 ↗ okay and i do not see

1:52 ↗ janet wahl present

1:57 ↗ this evening

2:01 ↗ great thanks man next up on the agenda

2:04 ↗ we have the approval of minutes from

2:06 ↗ last

2:07 ↗ last meeting does anyone have any

2:09 ↗ comments or question

2:10 ↗ questions on the meeting notes from that

2:14 ↗ last meeting

2:17 ↗ hearing none checking the chat

2:22 ↗ um those minutes are unanimously

2:24 ↗ approved

2:26 ↗ um the next item on our agenda are

2:28 ↗ public comments megan do we have anyone

2:30 ↗ that has signed up

2:32 ↗ for public comment

2:36 ↗ we do not have anyone that is signed up

2:38 ↗ um but if we have a couple attendees so

2:41 ↗ if anyone would like to

2:43 ↗ make public comment this evening they

2:45 ↗ can raise their hand

2:49 ↗ yeah and just some guidelines for that

2:50 ↗ if you're on the phone you'll press star

2:52 ↗ three

2:53 ↗ if you're joining by computer smartphone

2:55 ↗ look for the hand icon

2:56 ↗ this varies by device um and once you've

2:59 ↗ raised your hand

3:01 ↗ megan will be able to promote you to a

3:03 ↗ panelist

3:04 ↗ great um and we have one person that is

3:07 ↗ indicated

3:08 ↗ connie marsh so i'm gonna go ahead and

3:10 ↗ move you to

3:11 ↗ be a panelist and you'll be able to

3:13 ↗ unmute yourself

3:14 ↗ and use video to make your comments

3:25 ↗ ah there we go hi i'm connie marsh

3:29 ↗ and so i read your agenda

3:33 ↗ and i read the presentations and

3:36 ↗ um what came to mind

3:40 ↗ for me is

3:43 ↗ how hard it is to understand who's in

3:46 ↗ charge of the environment in the city of

3:48 ↗ issaquah

3:49 ↗ it's parceled out into all

3:53 ↗ kinds of pieces and so you all are

3:56 ↗ getting

3:57 ↗ bits and pieces of different departments

4:00 ↗ without any sort of sense of the overall

4:03 ↗ organization and how all the puzzle

4:05 ↗ pieces

4:06 ↗ fit together so one of the things i

4:08 ↗ would like to see to make it easier

4:10 ↗ i mean you got to remember i've been

4:12 ↗ doing this for like 25 years so i have a

4:14 ↗ map in my head

4:15 ↗ of all these component parts and some of

4:17 ↗ them are still blurry to me

4:19 ↗ so it's confusing um it's it's

4:22 ↗ a lot to understand and one of our

4:24 ↗ problems in the city is there's no

4:26 ↗ single person in charge

4:28 ↗ of the environment there isn't even a

4:29 ↗ department in charge of the environment

4:32 ↗ it is in theory the entire city

4:36 ↗ somehow working together to get us what

4:38 ↗ we want in the environment

4:40 ↗ and it is sometimes successful and

4:42 ↗ sometimes sort of a failure

4:45 ↗ so for today uh the the little group

4:49 ↗ that's in public work

4:50 ↗ engineering is is presenting themselves

4:54 ↗ and they have always been very difficult

4:56 ↗ to understand

4:57 ↗ what they do they rarely come out into

5:00 ↗ the

5:00 ↗ open and give presentations to city

5:03 ↗ council for example

5:05 ↗ so i'm going to give you my own

5:07 ↗ perspective

5:08 ↗ which they can correct because they

5:09 ↗ actually know exactly what they do in

5:11 ↗ theory

5:12 ↗ then um that is maybe more of a layman's

5:16 ↗ terms from the outside of what they do

5:19 ↗ so they take

5:21 ↗ things that have been

5:25 ↗ created because other people have the

5:28 ↗ responsibilities for

5:30 ↗ for setting up how things are supposed

5:33 ↗ to be created

5:34 ↗ and they look at those things and they

5:36 ↗ say hey

5:38 ↗ is it right is that created thing

5:40 ↗ working

5:42 ↗ and if it's not working can we do some

5:44 ↗ adjustments to it

5:46 ↗ and somehow it all loosely

5:49 ↗ is around water and water quality

5:53 ↗ which then would includes garbage-y

5:55 ↗ things

5:56 ↗ so i yeah

6:00 ↗ it it's it's sort of hard to get a grip

6:03 ↗ on them because they don't really create

6:06 ↗ a product

6:07 ↗ that you see you don't get metrics for

6:10 ↗ how well

6:11 ↗ they're doing because often they're

6:13 ↗ judging how well

6:14 ↗ other people are doing and we never hear

6:17 ↗ the results of that

6:19 ↗ and so of all of the environmental

6:21 ↗ heroes that we have in our town

6:24 ↗ this is the hardest to define and what i

6:27 ↗ would

6:27 ↗ ask is are they looking at the right

6:31 ↗ things

6:32 ↗ are they bringing the information out to

6:34 ↗ the world

6:35 ↗ and hey that we know that they are being

6:37 ↗ helpful

6:39 ↗ what could they do better um what's a

6:42 ↗ waste of time

6:43 ↗ right and i don't think anybody has ever

6:46 ↗ looked at this grouping outside of

6:49 ↗ themselves

6:50 ↗ and public works engineering and said

6:52 ↗ are they doing the right things

6:54 ↗ is this what we want do we want more um

6:57 ↗ this is law enough and so

7:00 ↗ as you listen to their presentations it

7:03 ↗ would be

7:04 ↗ interesting to to like put a layer of

7:08 ↗ wow is this good is this the right thing

7:10 ↗ could it be better

7:11 ↗ do i even understand it and um so that

7:14 ↗ would be my ask for you

7:16 ↗ today because these guys are like the

7:18 ↗ gray fog group

7:20 ↗ all right so happy days thank you

7:28 ↗ bye

7:30 ↗ thank you connie any uh any other

7:33 ↗ attendees looking to

7:34 ↗ make comment megan

7:38 ↗ i do not believe so um just give me one

7:41 ↗ moment

7:42 ↗ here

7:46 ↗ if anyone else is wanting to raise their

7:49 ↗ hand to make comment

7:50 ↗ feel free to do so i see that we've had

7:52 ↗ a couple people join us since

8:00 ↗ does not look like it i we can go ahead

8:02 ↗ and

8:03 ↗ move on to the next uh item so i see

8:06 ↗ that don posted comment in the chat

8:09 ↗ and i comment on connie's

8:15 ↗ connie's there yeah dan

8:18 ↗ i i think that's probably fine don

8:23 ↗ yeah i think we don't typically respond

8:24 ↗ directly to them but if you would to the

8:26 ↗ public comments but if you if you had

8:28 ↗ something quick you wanted to share

8:29 ↗ this it's more for the environmental

8:31 ↗ board funny thank you for that i

8:33 ↗ appreciate that

8:34 ↗ government is is very

8:37 ↗ big um it's hard to understand i work in

8:41 ↗ government i appreciate your comments

8:43 ↗ and i just encourage the environmental

8:45 ↗ board to ask a lot of questions

8:47 ↗ as we hear what we hear today and so you

8:49 ↗ fully understand it

8:54 ↗ thank you tom um megan is that uh it

8:57 ↗ sounds like we

8:58 ↗ we don't have anyone else that's looking

9:00 ↗ to make comments so i think we can

9:01 ↗ probably move into our agenda items

9:03 ↗ um before we joined we were talking with

9:07 ↗ all the presenters and i believe

9:09 ↗ the ideal format for questions is if

9:12 ↗ there's any burning questions

9:13 ↗ please do uh indicate that in the chat

9:16 ↗ we do want to make sure that there's no

9:17 ↗ substantive comments in the chat

9:19 ↗ but please do indicate if there if you

9:21 ↗ have a question or a comment

9:22 ↗ during the uh of course of the

9:25 ↗ presentations but the ideal

9:26 ↗ uh timing for for any other questions

9:29 ↗ that are not

9:30 ↗ really time sensitive would be at the

9:31 ↗ end of their presentation

9:34 ↗ and then i think megan are you i think

9:36 ↗ you'll probably coordinate with

9:37 ↗ them on uh bringing in the right

9:38 ↗ presenters correct

9:45 ↗ sure so yes we can this is megan curtis

9:48 ↗ murphy we can go ahead and have the the

9:50 ↗ first presenters brian hussmillow and

9:52 ↗ david stitzel

9:53 ↗ come forward

9:58 ↗ i believe brian's going to go and get us

10:00 ↗ started

10:02 ↗ hi good evening everyone uh can you all

10:05 ↗ hear me

10:06 ↗ good uh good evening my name is brian

10:09 ↗ espelle

10:09 ↗ i'm with the city of esqua i've had the

10:12 ↗ pleasure of working with david and his

10:14 ↗ staff at full circle environmental

10:16 ↗ along with megan curtis murphy with

10:18 ↗ office of sustainability

10:20 ↗ uh with this most recent grant cycle for

10:22 ↗ the local solid waste financial

10:24 ↗ assistance grant

10:25 ↗ i'll let david speak to this in his

10:27 ↗ presentation more

10:29 ↗ uh high but however high level overview

10:32 ↗ the goal of the city was for solid waste

10:36 ↗ diversion to landfills and to increase

10:39 ↗ recycling and composting in the

10:40 ↗ commercial sector

10:43 ↗ uh previous year's performance metrics

10:44 ↗ from ecology clean scapes which is one

10:46 ↗ of the city's commercial

10:48 ↗ uh solid waste haulers uh have shown a

10:51 ↗ range of 39 to 42 percent

10:53 ↗ materials diverted from the landfill

10:56 ↗ spanning across residential

10:58 ↗ multi-family and the commercial sector

11:01 ↗ our goal was to increase this number

11:03 ↗ and is in line with king county's

11:04 ↗ regional goals which are to

11:06 ↗ be considered in the city's climate

11:08 ↗ action plan process

11:10 ↗ uh and this is uh 70 percent diversion

11:13 ↗ of materials by 2030

11:15 ↗ and at zero waste resources

11:18 ↗ a little bit about david uh having

11:21 ↗ started at full circle environmental inc

11:23 ↗ over 20 years ago david has developed

11:26 ↗ strategic contacts in government

11:28 ↗ the business community nonprofits

11:31 ↗ academic institutions

11:32 ↗ and environmental agencies david is

11:35 ↗ regularly

11:36 ↗ called upon by governments to provide

11:38 ↗ assistance to both residential and

11:40 ↗ business communities

11:42 ↗ he has worked directly with fortune 500

11:44 ↗ companies as well as mom and pop shops

11:46 ↗ to identify and implement realistic

11:48 ↗ resource conservation opportunities

11:51 ↗ including the design and implement

11:53 ↗ implementation of product stewardship

11:55 ↗ programs

11:56 ↗ for such diverse materials like paint

11:59 ↗ pharmaceuticals

12:00 ↗ electronics lighting carpet

12:03 ↗ and packaging david has a master's

12:06 ↗ degree in city and regional and planning

12:08 ↗ from cornell university

12:10 ↗ and a double bachelor's degree from

12:11 ↗ swarthmore swarthmore

12:13 ↗ college is widely widely published and

12:16 ↗ speaks regularly

12:18 ↗ to national audiences he can often be

12:21 ↗ found wrestling with his 90 pound dog

12:23 ↗ and david

12:25 ↗ feel free to take it away all right

12:28 ↗ thanks so much and megan i'll let you

12:29 ↗ start the slides

12:31 ↗ and just want to uh thank everybody on

12:34 ↗ the board uh for giving me this

12:35 ↗ opportunity

12:36 ↗ as well as to megan and brian for the

12:38 ↗ opportunity to uh provide full circle

12:40 ↗ support

12:41 ↗ uh to the city's programs we've worked

12:43 ↗ for the city in the past and it's always

12:45 ↗ a pleasure to

12:46 ↗ work with the city of issaquah and i

12:48 ↗ want to give you a brief overview here

12:51 ↗ run through a few slides of the

12:52 ↗ recycling and composting

12:54 ↗ business outreach and assistance program

12:56 ↗ that we ran over the last months

12:58 ↗ and i think you'll find that the uh

13:01 ↗ outreach results

13:03 ↗ really suitably roll up into

13:06 ↗ a lot of the goals of the city whether

13:08 ↗ that's climate goals or

13:10 ↗ solid waste goals directly um and uh i'm

13:13 ↗ certainly happy to answer any questions

13:14 ↗ about that

13:15 ↗ and in the spirit of connie's comments i

13:17 ↗ will try to keep this as clear as

13:19 ↗ possible

13:20 ↗ but really encourage you to ask me any

13:21 ↗ questions at the end

13:23 ↗ that allow me to clarify further so why

13:26 ↗ don't we go ahead

13:28 ↗ to the next slide and uh what i want to

13:30 ↗ cover here or just to give you an

13:32 ↗ overview of the goals brian did

13:34 ↗ touch on this uh we really wanted to uh

13:36 ↗ not just establish norms but continue

13:38 ↗ the norms

13:40 ↗ of uh waste reduction in the city of

13:42 ↗ issaquah

13:43 ↗ you guys have done a great job over the

13:44 ↗ years of focusing on recycling waste

13:46 ↗ management waste prevention

13:48 ↗ and this program wanted to be in that

13:50 ↗ spirit and continue that

13:52 ↗ norm setting but we also wanted to

13:55 ↗ highlight for businesses

13:56 ↗ the importance of recycling and of

13:59 ↗ composting so that it would be elevated

14:00 ↗ in their mind as an important component

14:03 ↗ of doing business in issaquah

14:05 ↗ and of course we wanted to provide

14:07 ↗ technical assistance to the businesses

14:09 ↗ that wanted our help and that we felt

14:12 ↗ could use some improvement or a tune-up

14:14 ↗ on their recycling and composting

14:17 ↗ a little bit more context we did focus

14:20 ↗ on contamination issues so when we would

14:22 ↗ see garbage in the recycling or in the

14:24 ↗ compost

14:25 ↗ that was certainly a red flag for us and

14:27 ↗ we also focused on diversion

14:29 ↗ can we get even more recycling and

14:31 ↗ composting going

14:33 ↗ we initiated our outreach virtually due

14:35 ↗ to covet of course

14:37 ↗ and as things got safer and lifted a bit

14:40 ↗ we did expand into some in-person

14:42 ↗ outreach uh which is really

14:44 ↗ our more typical mode over the last 25

14:46 ↗ years of doing this

14:47 ↗ um we're used to being hands on and

14:50 ↗ uh in terms of recruitment and finding

14:53 ↗ the businesses that we wanted to work

14:55 ↗ with

14:56 ↗ we published as you can see in the inset

14:58 ↗ there a little blurb in the issaquah

15:00 ↗ insider uh we also canvassed a little

15:02 ↗ bit kind of dropping in on our business

15:04 ↗ and saying hi

15:05 ↗ i'm here to help and we followed up on

15:08 ↗ past leads

15:09 ↗ uh because as i mentioned we've done a

15:10 ↗ lot of outreach in issaquah over the

15:12 ↗ years

15:12 ↗ and we're aware of some businesses that

15:14 ↗ we thought might be worth

15:16 ↗ circling back to so next slide please

15:23 ↗ so here uh you don't need to read all

15:25 ↗ the fine print but it will be there for

15:27 ↗ you to review later i just wanted to

15:29 ↗ spotlight a couple of quick things give

15:31 ↗ you a sense of the scale of the outreach

15:33 ↗ we were able to accomplish in the few

15:35 ↗ months of the program

15:37 ↗ um we did reach out to a lot of

15:38 ↗ businesses many

15:40 ↗ you know had were not available or were

15:42 ↗ not interested

15:43 ↗ or had gone out of business often due to

15:45 ↗ covin but we were able to

15:47 ↗ call 40 some businesses we visited

15:50 ↗ many businesses there's overlap between

15:53 ↗ those two data

15:54 ↗ point sets on just so you know we

15:57 ↗ reached a number of different types of

15:59 ↗ businesses and they each have their own

16:00 ↗ unique problems

16:01 ↗ a large business is going to be

16:03 ↗ different than a small one

16:05 ↗ a chain like mcdonald's is going to be

16:07 ↗ different than an independent mom and

16:09 ↗ shop

16:10 ↗ uh strip mall is going to look a little

16:11 ↗ bit different from a property management

16:13 ↗ standpoint

16:14 ↗ than is a freestanding building or even

16:17 ↗ a high-rise

16:18 ↗ not that there are many of those in

16:20 ↗ issaquah uh

16:22 ↗ we really focused on contamination to

16:24 ↗ some extent

16:25 ↗ uh we wanted to help folks understand

16:28 ↗ that it's

16:29 ↗ as important to keep the wrong thing out

16:31 ↗ of your bin

16:32 ↗ as it is to get even more of the right

16:34 ↗ thing in your bin

16:36 ↗ and we identified a number of businesses

16:38 ↗ where we felt that

16:39 ↗ the contamination message was

16:41 ↗ particularly appropriate

16:42 ↗ and where we felt like those businesses

16:44 ↗ would be particularly receptive to our

16:46 ↗ outreach

16:48 ↗ and you can see in the bottom segment

16:49 ↗ here uh some of the outreach materials

16:52 ↗ that we provided just to give a scale to

16:54 ↗ that

16:55 ↗ component of our work on the next slide

16:58 ↗ please

17:00 ↗ so you'll see a number of businesses

17:02 ↗ wanted the bins that the city was giving

17:04 ↗ away they're really handsome bins

17:06 ↗ and i gotta say there's there's nothing

17:08 ↗ like a

17:09 ↗ an appreciated resource to really get a

17:12 ↗ business to participate

17:14 ↗ i think they really uh liked getting the

17:16 ↗ bin and felt therefore obligated to

17:18 ↗ recycle more

17:19 ↗ so tools like that uh can be a useful

17:22 ↗ piece of outreach

17:24 ↗ and technical assistance and driving

17:26 ↗ behavior change

17:28 ↗ um we did add new compost service if the

17:30 ↗ businesses you see listed there

17:33 ↗ and that adds a lot of volume and it

17:35 ↗ keeps a lot of stuff

17:36 ↗ out of the landfill as i'm sure many of

17:39 ↗ you know you don't want food in the

17:40 ↗ landfill because it does rot there

17:42 ↗ it can contribute to a greenhouse gas

17:45 ↗ emissions

17:46 ↗ and the more food waste we can keep out

17:49 ↗ of the landfill and toward composting

17:51 ↗ the better

17:52 ↗ obviously food waste prevention is even

17:54 ↗ better but that was outside the scope of

17:57 ↗ this particular project found a number

18:00 ↗ of businesses

18:00 ↗ interested in future follow-up with

18:03 ↗ regard to compost

18:04 ↗ as well as with contamination and

18:06 ↗ recycling and just to give you the kind

18:08 ↗ of big roll-up picture

18:09 ↗ there in the last two frames we did

18:12 ↗ increase recycling by our conservative

18:14 ↗ estimate

18:15 ↗ um 63 cubic yards and uh there is a typo

18:19 ↗ there in the bottom that's not pounds

18:21 ↗ that's tons

18:22 ↗ um we looked at 18.3 tons

18:25 ↗ of increased uh diversion and these are

18:28 ↗ both annualized

18:29 ↗ so um they we wanted to give a kind of

18:32 ↗ baseline

18:33 ↗ annual figure so that's how we converted

18:35 ↗ those estimated figures

18:37 ↗ uh next slide please what i want to do

18:40 ↗ now is just give you a few

18:42 ↗ spotlights so you can really get a sense

18:44 ↗ of what it's like on the ground

18:46 ↗ what challenges businesses face and um

18:49 ↗ and what we were able to do with them so

18:51 ↗ i'll give a few businesses and then

18:53 ↗ we'll move into the final few slides on

18:56 ↗ observations and recommendations uh

18:58 ↗ dickey's barbecue pit

19:00 ↗ was a business i personally visited uh

19:03 ↗ dropped in uh it was the canvas style

19:06 ↗ visit they weren't expecting us

19:08 ↗ we met with staff to discuss uh

19:10 ↗ recycling and composting

19:12 ↗ and discovered through conversation that

19:14 ↗ they were not

19:15 ↗ recycling their number 10 tin cans um in

19:18 ↗ the business uh that's the the

19:20 ↗ number 10 tin cans are those big ones i

19:23 ↗ don't know if you can see my video

19:24 ↗ screen but they're about this big

19:26 ↗ um and uh they hold you know a lot of

19:29 ↗ pickles a lot of tomato sauce a lot of

19:32 ↗ whatever in a big tin can

19:33 ↗ and they're kind of a standard for the

19:35 ↗ food service industry

19:36 ↗ and he was throwing them out he just

19:38 ↗ didn't realize they were recyclable

19:40 ↗ so we chatted about what is and isn't

19:42 ↗ recyclable we gave him that nice

19:43 ↗ laminated poster he's holding there

19:45 ↗ and then his eyes really lit up when i

19:47 ↗ said hey i can give you a free bin

19:49 ↗ uh to help organize your recycling back

19:51 ↗ there

19:52 ↗ and we just talked about do's and don'ts

19:54 ↗ provided the container

19:56 ↗ and um and hopefully he is often running

19:58 ↗ now with increased recycling

20:00 ↗ next slide please

20:04 ↗ heritage square that is the property

20:06 ↗ where a dickey's bbq is located

20:08 ↗ uh they've got a number of different

20:11 ↗ locations

20:12 ↗ for uh dumpsters some of them are behind

20:15 ↗ the property kind of a budding a green

20:17 ↗ belt and others are right there in the

20:19 ↗ middle of the parking lot

20:21 ↗ in a kind of enclosure that's what

20:22 ↗ you're looking at right there

20:24 ↗ there were some dumpsters in there that

20:27 ↗ belonged to cafe rio

20:29 ↗ but cafe rio had closed due to covet and

20:32 ↗ lo and behold upon our inspection

20:34 ↗ it was full of trash looking at that

20:37 ↗ trash it was pretty clear it was coming

20:39 ↗ from

20:39 ↗ i'm sorry not cafe rio corner bakery is

20:42 ↗ the one that was closed

20:44 ↗ uh and looking in their dumpster we saw

20:46 ↗ trash

20:47 ↗ inspecting that trash we saw it came

20:49 ↗ from uh cafe rio

20:51 ↗ cafe rio has their own dumpsters they

20:53 ↗ shouldn't be filling somebody else's

20:54 ↗ dumpsters

20:55 ↗ and so we looked into that a bit and um

20:58 ↗ i talked to cafe rio

20:59 ↗ i think we got that squared away but on

21:02 ↗ a subsequent visit

21:03 ↗ when i was there to also speak to cafe

21:05 ↗ rio we're gonna

21:06 ↗ uh they were another business that we

21:08 ↗ helped i found this illegal dumping

21:11 ↗ i think it's highly unlikely that these

21:13 ↗ mattresses were put there by one of the

21:15 ↗ local businesses

21:16 ↗ um in the plaza i think uh you know

21:19 ↗ obviously somebody

21:20 ↗ thought they were doing the right thing

21:21 ↗ by not just leaving them in a gully

21:24 ↗ but this isn't so great either for the

21:25 ↗ property manager so i coordinated with

21:28 ↗ brian

21:28 ↗ and we talked a bit about how to handle

21:30 ↗ the property and the situation

21:32 ↗ thought it was a good idea to bring in

21:34 ↗ the property manager and um we're still

21:36 ↗ trying to reel them in uh property

21:38 ↗ managers are very busy these days

21:40 ↗ and um have we have not managed to get a

21:43 ↗ hold of them yet but i think that will

21:44 ↗ be a good next step

21:46 ↗ uh next slide please

21:49 ↗ uh this is synergy learning academy uh

21:52 ↗ they're a school

21:53 ↗ in issaquah who um i believe they

21:56 ↗ contacted us if i remember correctly

21:59 ↗ and they wanted some guidance on how to

22:01 ↗ recycle and by us i mean the city of

22:03 ↗ isbah

22:04 ↗ and they wanted some guidance on how to

22:06 ↗ recycle some unusual items that they

22:09 ↗ were really

22:09 ↗ interested in keeping out of the

22:11 ↗ landfill they've got a strong

22:13 ↗ environmental commitment

22:15 ↗ and they wanted to know what to do with

22:17 ↗ ink cartridges

22:18 ↗ with their fluorescent light tubes with

22:19 ↗ their batteries

22:21 ↗ and upon visiting and talking to them a

22:23 ↗ bit about resources and what exactly to

22:25 ↗ do

22:26 ↗ with all those strange recyclables uh

22:28 ↗ identified that they're also having an

22:30 ↗ illegal dumping problem

22:32 ↗ so we created this little custom poster

22:35 ↗ for them that we thought would fit in

22:36 ↗ with the theme of the school

22:38 ↗ and maybe be motivating to the folks who

22:41 ↗ are doing the illegal dumping

22:43 ↗ i'm sorry to say that upon a subsequent

22:45 ↗ visit even with that lovely sign there

22:47 ↗ uh we found some inflatable uh swimming

22:51 ↗ like um uh toys thrown over the

22:55 ↗ enclosure

22:55 ↗ and illegally dumped in their uh trash

22:58 ↗ enclosure too

22:59 ↗ so you know sometimes it's hard to

23:00 ↗ tackle some of these problems

23:02 ↗ but uh we did conduct a training with

23:05 ↗ the staff at synergy learning academy

23:07 ↗ about some of the new

23:08 ↗ recycling initiatives and uh contacted

23:11 ↗ recology as well

23:12 ↗ to repair a wheel on their compost cart

23:15 ↗ because it was uh

23:16 ↗ inordinately hard to move that compost

23:18 ↗ cart without a strong

23:20 ↗ functioning wheel and uh we

23:23 ↗ connected recology uh to the school

23:26 ↗ to provide some future education around

23:29 ↗ uh their composting of paper towels

23:31 ↗ which are allowed in their food waste

23:33 ↗ composting cart

23:35 ↗ in the bottom right there you see a

23:37 ↗ seriously and dangerously damaged

23:39 ↗ dumpster

23:40 ↗ uh that we identified at mcdonald's um

23:42 ↗ you don't want anybody snagging

23:43 ↗ themselves on that it makes it less safe

23:45 ↗ to service

23:46 ↗ and we were in touch with ecology and

23:49 ↗ i've got that gumster replaced

23:52 ↗ let's move ahead so hopefully that gives

23:56 ↗ you some spotlights of what it's like

23:57 ↗ on the ground and i just wanted to share

23:59 ↗ a few slides beginning with this one

24:01 ↗ focusing on contamination and quality

24:04 ↗ on some of our observations and

24:06 ↗ recommendations and themes

24:08 ↗ obviously we looked at cross-bin

24:09 ↗ contamination you don't want your

24:11 ↗ compostables in your trash or your

24:13 ↗ recycling you don't want your recycling

24:15 ↗ in your trash or your compostables etc

24:18 ↗ and so we did education around that and

24:20 ↗ tried to provide technical assistance

24:22 ↗ one of the themes we ran into and

24:24 ↗ issaquah's not alone in this

24:26 ↗ is open dumpster lids sometimes those

24:29 ↗ are left open by a business

24:30 ↗ who simply doesn't want to be troubled

24:32 ↗ to uh with closing them

24:34 ↗ um after uh in between each time they go

24:36 ↗ out to throw stuff

24:37 ↗ out uh sometimes it's just darn hard to

24:40 ↗ lift that dumpster lid while you're

24:42 ↗ throwing trash into it so you just leave

24:44 ↗ it open

24:45 ↗ sometimes it's the haulers issue where

24:47 ↗ they left the lid open

24:49 ↗ and didn't close it after servicing it

24:51 ↗ and sometimes those lids get

24:53 ↗ trapped against the enclosure when that

24:56 ↗ dumpster is pushed back into place with

24:58 ↗ the lid open and when lids are open

25:01 ↗ rain water goes in uh at best

25:05 ↗ it makes everything super soggy and

25:07 ↗ heavy but it doesn't leak out of the

25:09 ↗ dumpster

25:10 ↗ but still when the truck comes they're

25:12 ↗ lifting that load into their

25:14 ↗ either recycled truck or their garbage

25:16 ↗ truck it results in a lot of liquid

25:19 ↗ leaking out of that truck as it drives

25:20 ↗ down the road it's a heavier truck so it

25:23 ↗ uses more fuel

25:25 ↗ worst case scenario you've got a leaky

25:27 ↗ dumpster and so the rainwater is

25:28 ↗ percolating through your recyclables

25:30 ↗ making them

25:32 ↗ not recyclable really or it's

25:33 ↗ percolating through your garbage

25:35 ↗ and in either case it can become a storm

25:37 ↗ water issue because it's now dripping

25:39 ↗ across the parking lot to the storm

25:41 ↗ drain having percolated through

25:42 ↗ everything in the dumpster

25:44 ↗ um illegal dumping is often encouraged

25:46 ↗ by dumpster lids that are left open it

25:48 ↗ just makes it all that more inviting

25:51 ↗ and so we really encourage the city as

25:53 ↗ you

25:54 ↗ likely already have done uh to make sure

25:56 ↗ you understand your contract language

25:58 ↗ that governs

25:59 ↗ dumpster service with recology and that

26:02 ↗ you look at your city code so that you

26:04 ↗ know what

26:04 ↗ uh what tools you have in your toolbox

26:07 ↗ with regard to managing either lid

26:11 ↗ closure

26:12 ↗ or illicit discharge from leaky

26:13 ↗ dumpsters

26:15 ↗ moving on to the next theme we have

26:18 ↗ cardboard needs to be flattened you can

26:20 ↗ imagine that if you put

26:22 ↗ unflattened cardboard boxes in your

26:24 ↗ dumpster it fills it up

26:25 ↗ really quickly and then you've got

26:28 ↗ people putting their garbage

26:30 ↗ either mostly on the side of the

26:32 ↗ dumpster on the ground because they

26:33 ↗ can't fit it in the dumpster

26:34 ↗ uh in the recycling dumpster uh and so

26:37 ↗ that

26:38 ↗ can be an issue sometimes the uh

26:40 ↗ unfolded boxes just

26:42 ↗ prop the lids open so now you have rain

26:44 ↗ water going in the lid that isn't closed

26:46 ↗ so one idea is to consider using again i

26:49 ↗ don't know if you can see my screen i'll

26:51 ↗ hold it up this is called an

26:52 ↗ easy box opener it's kind of this cool

26:55 ↗ plastic blade it's got a lot of features

26:57 ↗ on it that i won't bother going through

26:59 ↗ but you give these to a business and

27:01 ↗ they're kind of psyched about tethering

27:03 ↗ it to the dumpster or to their work room

27:05 ↗ and it makes it really easy to just zip

27:07 ↗ open that box get it flattened

27:09 ↗ and that can be part of your close the

27:11 ↗ lid campaign

27:13 ↗ and i know issaquah is involved with a

27:15 ↗ closure dumpster lid campaign

27:17 ↗ that's happening region-wide full circle

27:19 ↗ supporting four other cities

27:21 ↗ and deploying that and uh it might be

27:23 ↗ the case that you guys want to

27:25 ↗ coordinate between um the uh the

27:28 ↗ dumpster lid project that's more on the

27:29 ↗ water side

27:30 ↗ and the solid waste outreach side

27:33 ↗ next slide next theme is coordinating

27:37 ↗ with the

27:38 ↗ nptes permit i know the city is required

27:40 ↗ like all cities

27:42 ↗ to meet your permit for a pollution

27:44 ↗ discharge

27:45 ↗ so what are quality issues from open

27:48 ↗ dumpster lids certainly play into that

27:50 ↗ so open lid policies sometimes it's uh

27:53 ↗ worthwhile to coordinate with other

27:55 ↗ folks and field staff that you have out

27:57 ↗ there

27:58 ↗ whether it's public health or your fire

28:00 ↗ inspectors maybe your restaurant

28:01 ↗ inspectors

28:02 ↗ and uh the more eyes on the ground the

28:04 ↗ better and the more they can coordinate

28:06 ↗ and cross inform each other the better

28:09 ↗ so that might be something to consider

28:11 ↗ as well

28:12 ↗ and then to reiterate here in this

28:14 ↗ context

28:15 ↗ knowing what your hauler language is so

28:17 ↗ that you can uh hold them to task for

28:19 ↗ that

28:19 ↗ and then knowing what your city code

28:21 ↗ language is around illicit discharge and

28:23 ↗ dumpsters

28:24 ↗ and lids is worth knowing as well

28:28 ↗ uh next slide uh compost cart weight

28:32 ↗ it's interesting

28:32 ↗ this uh tale of woe comes from the uh

28:36 ↗ cafe rio that i mentioned we got them

28:38 ↗ started on compost they were super

28:40 ↗ excited

28:41 ↗ uh they had their compost card out back

28:43 ↗ they exuberantly filled it

28:45 ↗ and the next thing you know it got so

28:48 ↗ full with such

28:49 ↗ heavy meat that they were throwing out

28:51 ↗ that it was just

28:53 ↗ too heavy for the recycling truck to

28:55 ↗ service it simply couldn't be lifted

28:57 ↗ by the equipment so recology put what's

29:00 ↗ called an

29:00 ↗ oops tag on it basically saying oops too

29:03 ↗ heavy

29:04 ↗ um we're not picking this up and there

29:07 ↗ was a lot of confusion over why it

29:08 ↗ wasn't being picked up

29:10 ↗ and so um we intervened uh

29:13 ↗ when we were checking in with how their

29:14 ↗ compost was going they said our compost

29:16 ↗ card got left here

29:18 ↗ and it took a little bit of unraveling

29:19 ↗ but ultimately we figured out what was

29:21 ↗ going on

29:22 ↗ and um you can imagine uh it's not so

29:25 ↗ fun to empty that cart to make it

29:27 ↗ liftable by

29:28 ↗ scooping in with your bare hands to

29:29 ↗ remove all of that uh sloppy messy food

29:32 ↗ waste

29:33 ↗ so i think it's uh probably good in

29:36 ↗ future outreach

29:37 ↗ to make sure that when we talk to

29:39 ↗ restaurants we're really underscoring

29:41 ↗ that there are weight constraints

29:42 ↗ and we might even want to put fill lines

29:45 ↗ on the

29:46 ↗ uh compost cart so that there's a sense

29:48 ↗ of

29:49 ↗ how full it can get in a given

29:51 ↗ restaurant depending on the density of

29:53 ↗ what types of food waste they're putting

29:55 ↗ in there

29:56 ↗ similarly there are services that

29:58 ↗ provide organics collection

30:00 ↗ other than recology and they support

30:03 ↗ larger service levels so you can

30:05 ↗ actually have a dumpster delivered

30:07 ↗ that you can put food waste into and it

30:09 ↗ has much heavier and bigger capacity

30:11 ↗ so that can be a recommendation to

30:14 ↗ appropriate businesses as well

30:16 ↗ beyond the cart collection okay moving

30:19 ↗ on

30:21 ↗ i think we're near the end here

30:25 ↗ so ideas for future targets when the

30:28 ↗ city does want to continue outreach if

30:30 ↗ you do

30:31 ↗ uh there are great observations made by

30:35 ↗ your hauler

30:36 ↗ they're out there in the field they

30:38 ↗ empty every single cart out there they

30:40 ↗ uh often track contamination lists and

30:43 ↗ that's a really good list of businesses

30:46 ↗ that are worth reaching out to sometimes

30:48 ↗ you may have an interest in focusing on

30:50 ↗ a type of material

30:52 ↗ hey this year let's go after unflattened

30:54 ↗ cardboard or maybe plastic film is

30:56 ↗ contaminating the compost a lot

30:58 ↗ so let's focus on businesses that might

31:00 ↗ have plastic film

31:02 ↗ alternatively you might say you know

31:04 ↗ this year we really want to focus on a

31:06 ↗ location

31:07 ↗ we're going to focus on grand ridge or

31:09 ↗ maybe uh we're really going to get

31:11 ↗ gilman village um some support this year

31:14 ↗ or the downtown core

31:16 ↗ or maybe we're gonna go through new

31:18 ↗ buildings that just

31:19 ↗ uh got a building permits and we're

31:22 ↗ gonna track them to see when they open

31:24 ↗ and help them with garbage service

31:26 ↗ sometimes it's good to focus by the type

31:28 ↗ of business as i mentioned earlier

31:30 ↗ a property managed facility is very

31:32 ↗ different than a

31:34 ↗ a business that's freestanding and owned

31:36 ↗ by its occupant

31:38 ↗ business types also differ quite a bit

31:40 ↗ as you can imagine dealing with the

31:42 ↗ manufacturer and seeing what they

31:44 ↗ want to uh recycle can be quite

31:46 ↗ different than a health care setting

31:48 ↗ or say a big box store or a food

31:51 ↗ generating business

31:52 ↗ like a restaurant or a grocery store

31:56 ↗ and there are a lot of partners out

31:57 ↗ there so i encourage you to think

31:58 ↗ creatively

31:59 ↗ market creatively the isoqua downtown

32:02 ↗ association is just one

32:03 ↗ but there are other trade associations

32:05 ↗ business associations and partners

32:07 ↗ uh that you can uh work with as well

32:10 ↗ just for efficiency's sake

32:12 ↗ i think there might be one more slide

32:16 ↗ and recognition who doesn't like

32:18 ↗ recognition

32:19 ↗ um it really helps build the culture and

32:21 ↗ build the norming of behavior change

32:24 ↗ uh into your program so coordinating

32:27 ↗ with existing partners whether that's

32:28 ↗ you know issaquad downtown association

32:31 ↗ or maybe a champion business who's

32:33 ↗ really excited about the

32:35 ↗ environmental strides that they made you

32:37 ↗ might want to partner with them to reach

32:38 ↗ out to their friends

32:40 ↗ on um city council or wherever and

32:43 ↗ move forward with existing partners the

32:46 ↗ washington state recycling association

32:49 ↗ has an annual recycler of the year award

32:52 ↗ and i often like to encourage businesses

32:55 ↗ that we work with

32:56 ↗ to go for that award and they love it

33:00 ↗ uh then you can kind of champion that

33:02 ↗ throughout the city to show

33:03 ↗ hey one of our member businesses won

33:06 ↗ this statewide award

33:08 ↗ and it gets the business great

33:09 ↗ recognition the city looks great

33:11 ↗ and it again serves to kind of norm the

33:14 ↗ behavior change that you want

33:16 ↗ and in a similar vein i know in the past

33:18 ↗ the city had your

33:19 ↗ uh gold and dumpster award so you could

33:21 ↗ consider reviving

33:23 ↗ something like that as a way to motivate

33:25 ↗ uh business

33:26 ↗ behavior change and i think that's the

33:28 ↗ last slide

33:30 ↗ so thanks for uh bearing with my fast

33:32 ↗ talking summary

33:33 ↗ and uh want to say thanks again for the

33:35 ↗ opportunity to support your guys work

33:38 ↗ and uh would love to respond to any

33:40 ↗ comments or questions

33:44 ↗ thank you david as always uh please put

33:46 ↗ your uh

33:47 ↗ questions or comments or not the actual

33:51 ↗ question themselves but uh uh a note

33:53 ↗ there i do see

33:55 ↗ a question from laura do you want to

33:58 ↗ start us off

34:01 ↗ sure um thank you for

34:04 ↗ sending all of that information context

34:06 ↗ that was helpful

34:07 ↗ um for a little more context you said

34:09 ↗ that um

34:11 ↗ 39 to 40 of waste is diverted to be

34:14 ↗ recycled or composted could you tell us

34:16 ↗ how many tons

34:17 ↗ just i'm curious um and also how many

34:20 ↗ businesses in esque there are in general

34:22 ↗ 41 seems um a little hard to understand

34:25 ↗ and grasp

34:26 ↗ otherwise yeah and i'm gonna

34:29 ↗ uh defer that to either megan or brian

34:32 ↗ because my role wasn't really to track

34:33 ↗ the city's big picture at that level

34:36 ↗ i do know that 39 to 40 percent

34:38 ↗ diversion across

34:39 ↗ all sectors uh multi-family commercial

34:41 ↗ and and uh residential

34:43 ↗ isn't it all unusual um you know when

34:46 ↗ you parse out those three sectors some

34:47 ↗ of them have much higher recycling

34:49 ↗ um so that's not an atypical rate

34:53 ↗ but in terms of the total number of

34:55 ↗ businesses

34:56 ↗ and the uh tonnage conversion for that

34:58 ↗ 42 percent diversion

35:00 ↗ i would just have to make an educated

35:02 ↗ guess i don't track that data

35:05 ↗ this is megan um i can respond to one of

35:08 ↗ those um we do get all of the

35:10 ↗ the data broken out by sector and how

35:13 ↗ many times that is what the diversion is

35:15 ↗ and all that

35:16 ↗ so we do have that in the report so i'd

35:19 ↗ be happy to forward that information to

35:21 ↗ the board

35:21 ↗ i don't have it on on hand in my head

35:25 ↗ and brian you might be able to help with

35:27 ↗ the number of businesses

35:31 ↗ yeah um i don't recall the exact number

35:34 ↗ of businesses that we

35:35 ↗ have um in esqua um

35:39 ↗ you know it really does span across you

35:41 ↗ know uh brick and mortar stores as well

35:43 ↗ as

35:44 ↗ um in-home businesses so the exact

35:47 ↗ number

35:48 ↗ um i i would need to uh get back to you

35:51 ↗ on

35:53 ↗ oh i think i should respond oh sorry

35:55 ↗ megan go ahead

35:57 ↗ i was just going to say um and that so

35:59 ↗ this was one

36:00 ↗ kind of outreach effort that we had

36:02 ↗ through a grant contract so we're able

36:04 ↗ to reach a certain number

36:05 ↗ um of businesses but we also um we'll do

36:09 ↗ some outreach through

36:10 ↗ recology or hauler or we may use other

36:13 ↗ grants to do commercial outreach but

36:14 ↗ this was just a limited time

36:17 ↗ from january through through may that we

36:19 ↗ were working with fill circle

36:21 ↗ so they were reaching out to the

36:22 ↗ businesses at that time

36:24 ↗ exactly and just to add a little bit

36:26 ↗ more context to that

36:28 ↗ it was the balance between how many

36:30 ↗ could we reach and what level of support

36:32 ↗ did they need

36:33 ↗ um you know we didn't want to put all of

36:34 ↗ our eggs in one basket and help one tiny

36:37 ↗ business a whole lot with a single

36:38 ↗ complicated problem

36:40 ↗ but we didn't want to go to the other

36:41 ↗ end of the spectrum as well so this was

36:43 ↗ kind of a balance

36:44 ↗ of how many businesses we could help at

36:46 ↗ what level during the limited

36:48 ↗ project period and budget

36:51 ↗ thank you david um don i think you're

36:53 ↗ next up you had a couple of questions

36:56 ↗ so you kind of answered it answering

36:58 ↗ laura's question my first question is do

37:00 ↗ you have any hard metrics on this

37:02 ↗ program

37:03 ↗ as far as goals and what success looks

37:05 ↗ like

37:06 ↗ and then my second question and and

37:08 ↗ maybe more of a comment

37:09 ↗ is are you guys aware of the dumpster

37:12 ↗ summit that's going on with

37:13 ↗ um a bunch of the east side cities and

37:16 ↗ are you participating in that

37:21 ↗ um megan would you like me to begin

37:23 ↗ responding and then let you jump in

37:25 ↗ okay um well let's begin with the hard

37:28 ↗ metrics question

37:29 ↗ um certainly we had goals um i'm bill i

37:32 ↗ believe it was

37:33 ↗ 19 tons of diversion and um

37:36 ↗ we actually remarkably met that goal

37:39 ↗ almost spot on i was

37:40 ↗ a little surprised uh that it was so

37:42 ↗ close but

37:43 ↗ uh you know that was kind of our

37:44 ↗ educated guess of okay we've got this

37:46 ↗ budget

37:47 ↗ we don't know how many businesses during

37:49 ↗ covid are even gonna want our help

37:51 ↗ or what they'll be willing to do when we

37:53 ↗ make some suggestions

37:54 ↗ but it was our best educated guess at um

37:58 ↗ what type of improvements we could make

38:00 ↗ and uh

38:01 ↗ and so we did meet that target uh as i

38:04 ↗ mentioned it's a conservative estimate

38:06 ↗ so just to give you an example you know

38:08 ↗ we work with the business

38:10 ↗ um that one uh uh barbecue joint

38:13 ↗ you know we kind of estimated okay he's

38:15 ↗ now gonna start recycling

38:17 ↗ these cans and let's estimate how

38:20 ↗ much uh recycling that's going to be on

38:22 ↗ a weekly basis

38:24 ↗ let's do that conservatively so we don't

38:26 ↗ accidentally inflate the numbers

38:28 ↗ that's going to scale up to this many um

38:31 ↗ cubic yards a week that would weigh

38:34 ↗ about this much if we use epa's

38:36 ↗ conversion factor to weight

38:38 ↗ and then we uh kind of scale that up by

38:41 ↗ 52 to multiply by the year

38:43 ↗ i usually use 50 because i figure it's

38:45 ↗ more conservative and some businesses

38:47 ↗ are closed for a week or two over

38:49 ↗ holidays whatever and then we have our

38:51 ↗ metric and we can kind of use that

38:53 ↗ it's um full circle provides support to

38:56 ↗ many east side cities and we use a

38:57 ↗ similar metric for many of them so

38:59 ↗ issaquah's

39:00 ↗ you know right in there with that

39:01 ↗ methodology and um

39:03 ↗ and we did meet the narrow goals that we

39:05 ↗ set for this project

39:07 ↗ in a second i'll let megan speak to any

39:09 ↗ bigger goals that this project fits into

39:12 ↗ certainly it's easy to convert a lot of

39:14 ↗ our success into climate um

39:16 ↗ goals uh there are so many excellent

39:18 ↗ calculators out there

39:20 ↗ for converting what we did into suitable

39:23 ↗ uh ghd

39:25 ↗ uh avoidance uh numbers and so a lot of

39:28 ↗ what we did

39:29 ↗ on the material side can factor into uh

39:32 ↗ climate goals as well

39:34 ↗ and now on the dumpster summit yeah it's

39:36 ↗ an amazing summit

39:37 ↗ it's coordinating i think 40 different

39:39 ↗ jurisdictions

39:40 ↗ uh full circle is providing support

39:42 ↗ consultant support to four of them we've

39:44 ↗ been involved from very early on

39:46 ↗ helping to do some of the early focus

39:48 ↗ groups around those

39:49 ↗ as well as doing the inspections of

39:51 ↗ those to see

39:53 ↗ which businesses are making behavior

39:55 ↗ change as we kind of look at them over

39:57 ↗ time to see

39:58 ↗ if they made change based on the

40:00 ↗ interventions that various cities have

40:02 ↗ done

40:03 ↗ and um i will let brian and megan speak

40:05 ↗ to any specific details about your guys

40:08 ↗ involvement in the dumpster summit but

40:09 ↗ it's uh

40:10 ↗ i i know you are involved so thanks

40:16 ↗ brian do you have anything to add there

40:22 ↗ oh no go ahead megan i can i can speak

40:24 ↗ out

40:27 ↗ all right uh this is megan just uh

40:28 ↗ overall with our goals i think i think

40:30 ↗ david summarized that pretty well

40:32 ↗ um but uh brian also mentioned at the

40:34 ↗ beginning that we do have the

40:36 ↗ um 70 diversion goal for the city so

40:39 ↗ we'll be looking at

40:40 ↗ um that through our climate action plan

40:43 ↗ and you know

40:44 ↗ acting on these sorts of outreach

40:47 ↗ efforts and

40:47 ↗ education are the type of things that

40:49 ↗ we'll be looking at in that plan

40:51 ↗ specifically in how they relate to

40:54 ↗ climate so

40:55 ↗ for example food waste reduction has the

40:58 ↗ potential for more greenhouse gas

41:00 ↗ emissions

41:00 ↗ that might be something that we look at

41:02 ↗ through that plan as well

41:07 ↗ thank you appreciate it

41:11 ↗ all right tom

41:16 ↗ hey am i unmuted okay a couple questions

41:20 ↗ uh one on uh take back requirements does

41:23 ↗ the city invoke

41:24 ↗ any sort of a requirement on retail

41:27 ↗ sellers

41:27 ↗ that they take back the same kind of

41:29 ↗ stuff they sell

41:31 ↗ for example uh lowe's will take back cfl

41:34 ↗ um light bulbs they will not take back

41:37 ↗ fluorescent tubes

41:39 ↗ and they self-residue so they won't take

41:41 ↗ them back

41:42 ↗ so what to do what to do why are they

41:44 ↗ making it so difficult

41:46 ↗ it's my opinion the city should require

41:48 ↗ uh retailers if they sell something like

41:50 ↗ that that should be recycled

41:52 ↗ but they provide a means to recycle them

41:55 ↗ that's my feeling on that do you want to

41:57 ↗ respond

41:59 ↗ to what the city's position is on take

42:01 ↗ back uh requirements

42:04 ↗ uh sure this is megan um in in general

42:07 ↗ we

42:08 ↗ have him most of that is handled at the

42:10 ↗ state line

42:11 ↗ level through product stewardship bills

42:13 ↗ um so for example

42:15 ↗ was recently a paint stewardship bill

42:17 ↗ that passed

42:18 ↗ um statewide so that people can return

42:21 ↗ uh their paint to certain locations

42:23 ↗ uh in the city the more uh the policies

42:26 ↗ that

42:27 ↗ that we've looked at have been more

42:28 ↗ about about

42:30 ↗ specific materials so for example the

42:32 ↗ city has a ban on styrofoam in the city

42:35 ↗ so rather than having a take back

42:36 ↗ program for that we just don't allow

42:38 ↗ styrofoam we also require that all

42:42 ↗ food service packaging be compostable or

42:44 ↗ recyclable

42:45 ↗ um so again overall the the product

42:47 ↗ stewardship most

42:49 ↗ often happens at the state level but the

42:51 ↗ city does have some

42:52 ↗ actions that we've taken along those

42:54 ↗ lines

42:56 ↗ well i mean i can go to best buy and buy

42:59 ↗ a tv

43:00 ↗ and inside that box will be a tv uh

43:04 ↗ protected with styrofoam and that's a

43:07 ↗ problem

43:07 ↗ getting rid of it so when you say the

43:09 ↗ city doesn't allow styrofoam you're

43:11 ↗ talking about just food

43:12 ↗ food related styrofoam correct just food

43:17 ↗ all right well you should require best

43:19 ↗ buy to

43:20 ↗ take my styrofoam back

43:23 ↗ but part of the packaging of their their

43:25 ↗ product items

43:27 ↗ so that's my this is this is a you know

43:29 ↗ i'm just

43:31 ↗ bothering on here preaching but i think

43:33 ↗ that this is a general principle that we

43:35 ↗ should strive

43:35 ↗ towards that okay if you sell something

43:38 ↗ and it has some

43:39 ↗ stuff in it that can't be put in the

43:41 ↗ regular waste stream

43:42 ↗ then you uh you shall provide a means to

43:46 ↗ to take it back from the customer uh and

43:48 ↗ take care of it so this is

43:50 ↗ something i'd like to see us move

43:52 ↗ towards boards anyway

43:54 ↗ uh and other things i mean like low

43:56 ↗ cells uh electric uh

43:58 ↗ things uh like uh electric uh

44:02 ↗ hedge trimmer well when i go there to

44:04 ↗ buy a new one

44:05 ↗ well why can't i bring my old one back

44:07 ↗ and have

44:08 ↗ cycle that they should be required to do

44:10 ↗ that uh there is there is a

44:13 ↗ a facility that does this sort of thing

44:16 ↗ one green planet in brenton

44:20 ↗ is where i take stuff like that uh well

44:22 ↗ i happen to go through rent

44:23 ↗ now and then so that's uh that i plan

44:26 ↗ accordingly but uh that's kind of

44:27 ↗ awkward

44:28 ↗ if you don't go through written make a

44:31 ↗ special trip just kind of

44:32 ↗ makes it um well our goal should be to

44:35 ↗ make recycling

44:36 ↗ easy not hard that should be the goal

44:40 ↗ this is megan i just i have a comment to

44:42 ↗ that um just that one of the things that

44:43 ↗ we did work on with our

44:45 ↗ solid waste contract um was to have the

44:47 ↗ ecology store in town

44:49 ↗ specifically to take those hard to

44:52 ↗ recycle type of items

44:54 ↗ so you are able to bring styrofoam to

44:56 ↗ the store

44:57 ↗ um next appliances

45:00 ↗ those sorts of things so we did want to

45:02 ↗ make recycling those

45:03 ↗ as easy as possible in the city i know

45:05 ↗ that's not the same thing as bringing it

45:06 ↗ back to the store and having the

45:08 ↗ responsibility for it

45:09 ↗ um but we do try to make those recycling

45:12 ↗ efforts easy

45:13 ↗ um and i i believe um you know the store

45:16 ↗ has reopened for some of taking

45:18 ↗ those items back it was closed for a

45:20 ↗ while during covent

45:22 ↗ a long while i didn't say it

45:25 ↗ uh so then that has been good i have

45:27 ↗ taken advantage of their services for

45:29 ↗ that uh pre-coveted

45:31 ↗ i have had some little disappointments

45:34 ↗ so for example last time i brought

45:36 ↗ something i brought a

45:37 ↗ cd player you know those things used to

45:40 ↗ be a cd player and the cd

45:43 ↗ deck for my car both of which i wanted

45:46 ↗ to recycle

45:46 ↗ they accepted the cd player they would

45:48 ↗ not accept the cd deck from the car

45:50 ↗ because that

45:53 ↗ god that violates the rules oh well i

45:55 ↗ thought the goal was to

45:57 ↗ encourage recycling not so anyway that

46:00 ↗ that was a little crazy in my opinion

46:03 ↗ crazy little nuance to the rules

46:05 ↗ uh that you know where did they come up

46:07 ↗ with that uh rule anyway i hope that's

46:09 ↗ not coming from the city that doesn't

46:11 ↗ make any sense just because

46:13 ↗ well one goes in a car one goes in a

46:14 ↗ house uh i'm not gonna

46:16 ↗ take one but not the other um anyway

46:19 ↗ it it is helpful though to have that uh

46:22 ↗ service but if we uh can provide them

46:24 ↗ any guidance in that

46:26 ↗ area i'd recommend we uh uh

46:30 ↗ have them be a little more legal some

46:32 ↗ rules like that

46:34 ↗ thanks tommy sir are there any other

46:35 ↗ topics that you'd like to cover

46:37 ↗ with the group here or is that kind of

46:39 ↗ your main main issue that you were

46:41 ↗ hoping to bring up with the

46:42 ↗ staff i did have one other question i

46:46 ↗ wanted to bring up that

46:47 ↗ may be too far afield i don't know but i

46:50 ↗ i'll just put it out there and then you

46:51 ↗ can decide what to do with it here that

46:53 ↗ has to do with the

46:54 ↗ expansion of the cedar hills landfills i

46:57 ↗ understand that

46:58 ↗ that has been approved and so that'll

47:00 ↗ that'll go forward does the city have a

47:02 ↗ policy

47:03 ↗ uh regarding uh the landfill and future

47:07 ↗ expansions beyond this next one what uh

47:09 ↗ what are we going to do

47:10 ↗ when it comes time to expand it uh yet

47:14 ↗ again

47:15 ↗ um there

47:19 ↗ we give our ways to king county to deal

47:22 ↗ with so this is an issue that we

47:24 ↗ we are a part of and the problem that we

47:26 ↗ are part of

47:28 ↗ and coming up with a strategy for how we

47:30 ↗ are going to

47:31 ↗ manage our waste going into the future

47:34 ↗ is

47:36 ↗ i think um requisite artists

47:40 ↗ that's all sure i can i can have a

47:43 ↗ comment about that this is megan

47:45 ↗ um we did participate in the process of

47:48 ↗ coming up with the king county

47:49 ↗ um solid waste master plan all the

47:52 ↗ jurisdictions were able to participate

47:54 ↗ in that

47:55 ↗ and in the city um we try to work on you

47:58 ↗ know waste reduction

47:59 ↗ making sure we're trying to reach our

48:01 ↗ diversion goals

48:02 ↗ to um get as much out of the landfill as

48:05 ↗ possible

48:06 ↗ so that's where we've been focusing our

48:08 ↗ efforts here through

48:10 ↗ through some of the grant work such as

48:12 ↗ this work with full circle

48:14 ↗ again through some of the work that we

48:15 ↗ do with recology and the outreach and

48:17 ↗ education

48:18 ↗ that we've done in multi-family

48:20 ↗ residential and commercial so really

48:22 ↗ trying to

48:23 ↗ kind of reduce that amount of waste

48:24 ↗ first and then divert as much from the

48:27 ↗ landfill as possible

48:32 ↗ hey thank you megan uh cameron you had a

48:34 ↗ question

48:36 ↗ yeah thank you uh cameron fischer here

48:38 ↗ uh david firstly thank you for your

48:39 ↗ presentation and

48:40 ↗ time this evening um really appreciated

48:44 ↗ the

48:44 ↗ the discussion um

48:48 ↗ as a small business owner and as a car

48:50 ↗ i'm very interested to hear

48:51 ↗ how um after seeing the cafe rio

48:55 ↗ dumpster and the shed the toys that they

48:58 ↗ had

48:58 ↗ how the city works if you could link the

49:01 ↗ connection between how the city worked

49:02 ↗ with the hauler mythology

49:04 ↗ uh maybe the the owner of the property

49:06 ↗ someone like raleigh properties

49:08 ↗ and and the local businesses to address

49:11 ↗ overfilling dumpsters or all those kind

49:14 ↗ of issues

49:18 ↗ yeah i i can jump in from my quick

49:20 ↗ perspective and then um

49:21 ↗ let uh brian and megan fill in there um

49:24 ↗ basically we uh hear about an issue or

49:29 ↗ we discover an issue

49:30 ↗ and then our job is to iron out the

49:32 ↗ wrinkles

49:33 ↗ and so that involves communicating

49:36 ↗ and communicating and communicating with

49:38 ↗ every party involved

49:40 ↗ and that's often the property manager as

49:42 ↗ you outlined

49:43 ↗ and then even within the given business

49:45 ↗ there might be line staff there might be

49:47 ↗ floor staff there might be a manager

49:49 ↗ there might be a district manager

49:51 ↗ there might be a corporate owner in

49:52 ↗ cincinnati that dictates you know what

49:55 ↗ happens with that franchise

49:56 ↗ and so every situation's a little bit

49:58 ↗ different but really i think it's mostly

50:00 ↗ about communication it's about signage

50:02 ↗ training

50:03 ↗ and that's what we try to provide is um

50:06 ↗ the connecting the dots of all of those

50:08 ↗ players so

50:09 ↗ i know that's a forty thousand foot view

50:11 ↗ but that's kind of what it looks like

50:13 ↗ from our perspective

50:14 ↗ in terms of operationally what the city

50:16 ↗ does on an ongoing basis

50:18 ↗ i defer to megan and brian

50:26 ↗ i can go ahead this is megan um so in

50:29 ↗ the city

50:30 ↗ when we have the contract going with

50:32 ↗ full circle that was great because they

50:34 ↗ were able to provide that uh

50:35 ↗ assistance to go and help do some of

50:37 ↗ that coordination

50:38 ↗ uh when we don't have those efforts

50:40 ↗ going the city has been able to step

50:42 ↗ in sometimes and help coordinate those

50:44 ↗ efforts through

50:45 ↗ uh vr ecology and property owners often

50:48 ↗ businesses will talk with property

50:50 ↗ owners directly first if there are

50:52 ↗ further issues that need to be addressed

50:54 ↗ you're welcome to reach out to um to our

50:57 ↗ team

50:58 ↗ and and we can talk through some

51:01 ↗ solutions you guys thank you

51:06 ↗ this is brian and i i will say um we

51:09 ↗ have been

51:10 ↗ trying to be more proactive in our

51:12 ↗ outreach uh campaign

51:14 ↗ we worked uh a lot recently with the

51:17 ↗ it's quad downtown association um

51:20 ↗ in regards to any solid waste issues and

51:22 ↗ a lot of it can

51:24 ↗ you know boil down to the correct sizing

51:26 ↗ and scale of the actual dumpsters so

51:28 ↗ we have that option um with uh with our

51:31 ↗ waste haulers to

51:33 ↗ have them come on site and do a correct

51:36 ↗ assessment

51:37 ↗ um and basically like what david said

51:40 ↗ you know

51:40 ↗ really iron out the details to see

51:43 ↗ what's going on in their process and if

51:45 ↗ need be

51:46 ↗ um upsize or downsize uh their

51:49 ↗ waist um receptacles

51:53 ↗ thank you very much

51:56 ↗ and laura we do we are running a little

51:58 ↗ bit behind schedule but uh

52:01 ↗ a couple of questions in common

52:05 ↗ um this one we can the question i can

52:08 ↗ skip

52:08 ↗ which is just um to ask more about

52:10 ↗ illegal dumping

52:12 ↗ um what that's defined as um not urgent

52:15 ↗ so we can skip it and then for the

52:16 ↗ comment

52:16 ↗ um i think what this is highlighting for

52:18 ↗ me is um

52:21 ↗ an aside i googled it and according to

52:23 ↗ the census there are about 3 500

52:24 ↗ businesses in this club

52:26 ↗ so you reach like a little over one

52:28 ↗ percent of them which is interesting um

52:31 ↗ if i did my math right which i'm not

52:32 ↗ really trying to do anyway um

52:35 ↗ i think it's it to me it seems like

52:37 ↗ there's such a disconnect

52:38 ↗ like it's easiest to operate um without

52:42 ↗ visibility and to be

52:46 ↗ committed to things that are urgent so

52:48 ↗ um

52:49 ↗ i i was thinking like it sounds like we

52:51 ↗ need like an ambassador to be going can

52:53 ↗ you hear me

52:54 ↗ my computer is glitching um an

52:56 ↗ ambassador even to be

52:58 ↗ that person who reaches out oh god my

53:01 ↗ whole screen is fading and also to um

53:05 ↗ to do something like the grading where

53:06 ↗ you do a food grade but instead of a

53:08 ↗ food grade it'll be an

53:09 ↗ environmental compliance grade where the

53:11 ↗ amount that they're recycling gets them

53:13 ↗ a certain score so that there's a lot

53:14 ↗ more visibility for each business

53:16 ↗ to participate and what that means to

53:18 ↗ everyone locally so that i can actually

53:20 ↗ go to

53:21 ↗ a business commercial or retail and see

53:24 ↗ what they're doing for me and my

53:26 ↗ community

53:30 ↗ thank you laura i should have uh i did

53:32 ↗ have one this is jamie thanks for

53:33 ↗ speaking out i did have one question and

53:35 ↗ this is

53:35 ↗ close for david as well as staff um

53:39 ↗ david within the work that you were

53:41 ↗ doing what were the most effective

53:43 ↗ outreach methods you mentioned there was

53:44 ↗ a couple there's multiple different ways

53:46 ↗ that you would

53:47 ↗ engage with businesses what was the most

53:48 ↗ effective and i think there's probably

53:50 ↗ on one side the the benefits of a

53:53 ↗ business

53:54 ↗ taking on new services versus correcting

53:56 ↗ issues those might be different outreach

53:57 ↗ methods can you talk a little bit about

53:59 ↗ that

54:01 ↗ yeah oh well i'm not sure whether you're

54:03 ↗ asking what's the best way to work with

54:04 ↗ the business or what were the most

54:06 ↗ effective fixes once we were working

54:08 ↗ with them

54:09 ↗ it was the initial engagement what was

54:11 ↗ the the

54:12 ↗ method that was the most effective for

54:14 ↗ okay great well there's nothing better

54:17 ↗ than

54:17 ↗ getting a call from the business that's

54:19 ↗ already having a problem i'm sorry they

54:21 ↗ were having the problem

54:22 ↗ but when they come to you with a thorn

54:24 ↗ in their paw

54:26 ↗ you know you really want to pull it out

54:27 ↗ and you work hard to pull it out

54:29 ↗ and they're grateful and then their

54:31 ↗ behavior kind of improves their on

54:33 ↗ out so even though maybe they were

54:34 ↗ beginning with um

54:36 ↗ contamination in their recycling that

54:38 ↗ the hauler noticed

54:40 ↗ and you show up and say as gently as you

54:42 ↗ can i heard there were some problems

54:44 ↗ here

54:45 ↗ um you know that really opens the door

54:47 ↗ to a conversation

54:48 ↗ and i feel like that that's very

54:50 ↗ effective when you don't have that and

54:52 ↗ you're simply showing up in a business

54:54 ↗ because you chose that geographic area

54:56 ↗ and you're canvassing that

54:58 ↗ plaza that day or something then it's

55:00 ↗ all about relationship building

55:02 ↗ and it's really about asking them

55:05 ↗ questions as opposed to pontificating

55:08 ↗ it's

55:08 ↗ what's your biggest garbage headache

55:10 ↗ what's causing your staff the most time

55:13 ↗ you kind of get at it from the business

55:14 ↗ angle because for them

55:16 ↗ it's about time and it's about money and

55:18 ↗ yes sometimes it's about the environment

55:20 ↗ but you really want to think about it

55:22 ↗ from their perspective so you're not

55:23 ↗ just there saying

55:24 ↗ boy are you messing up your recycling

55:26 ↗ and i'm here to help you know that

55:28 ↗ that's not the right approach

55:29 ↗ but if you understand and ask questions

55:32 ↗ to understand

55:33 ↗ what's going on for them maybe you can

55:36 ↗ as brian said

55:37 ↗ uh decree increase their recycling

55:40 ↗ dumpster

55:41 ↗ and now they can decrease their garbage

55:43 ↗ dumpster and you've just saved them some

55:45 ↗ money every month

55:46 ↗ so those types of uh kind of business by

55:49 ↗ business

55:50 ↗ tailored support i think i love the

55:52 ↗ ambassador notion that lara mentioned

55:54 ↗ you know that can really be um helpful

55:57 ↗ oh obviously it's labor intensive

55:59 ↗ um so that's a concern but uh that that

56:02 ↗ can really be an effective driver i

56:04 ↗ think

56:05 ↗ and one very quick comment just because

56:07 ↗ i have the floor

56:08 ↗ is in in response to tom's comments

56:11 ↗ there are

56:12 ↗ um a newly launched paint program that

56:15 ↗ megan mentioned and one for

56:17 ↗ pharmaceuticals

56:18 ↗ where retailers are taking back

56:20 ↗ pharmaceuticals

56:21 ↗ and paint and i really encourage the

56:24 ↗ city

56:24 ↗ to make sure that you have as many

56:26 ↗ retailers as possible participating in

56:28 ↗ that program because then you take the

56:30 ↗ burden off of you

56:32 ↗ and the burden is on the retailers who

56:34 ↗ are taking stuff back from the public

56:36 ↗ and you're not relying on tax dollars

56:38 ↗ anymore

56:39 ↗ it's part of the state law requiring

56:41 ↗ manufacturers to do

56:42 ↗ take back so there there is some

56:44 ↗ progress being made and i think

56:46 ↗ issaquah could um foster and facilitate

56:49 ↗ its business community to participate in

56:51 ↗ that

56:52 ↗ so thanks for that editorializing and

56:54 ↗ megan did you have a comment about

56:56 ↗ outreach techniques i i think you pretty

57:00 ↗ much covered it

57:00 ↗ um yeah we do the full gamut of outreach

57:03 ↗ it depends on kind of the

57:04 ↗ um what the outreach effort that we're

57:07 ↗ doing

57:07 ↗ is hey thank you

57:11 ↗ one more question um as you see

57:15 ↗ the situation today where we're trying

57:16 ↗ to get from i think it was 40 to 70

57:19 ↗ is the the biggest are the biggest

57:21 ↗ opportunities in

57:23 ↗ enforcing the existing expectations for

57:26 ↗ businesses or

57:28 ↗ new expectations for businesses where do

57:29 ↗ we see the biggest opportunity looking

57:31 ↗ ahead

57:32 ↗ and this could either be first city

57:33 ↗ staff or david depending on their

57:35 ↗ perspective

57:38 ↗ i can start briefly and see if david has

57:40 ↗ anything to add

57:41 ↗ um i think that uh i think it's a mix of

57:45 ↗ both

57:45 ↗ um i think it's a mix of there's a lot

57:48 ↗ there's still a lot of food that's going

57:50 ↗ in

57:50 ↗ the garbage there's still a lot of paper

57:53 ↗ that's going in the garbage so there's a

57:54 ↗ lot of

57:56 ↗ there's a lot more education that can be

57:58 ↗ done and there's a lot of

58:02 ↗ i think more audiences and businesses

58:04 ↗ that

58:05 ↗ could be doing more however there

58:08 ↗ definitely are some

58:09 ↗ materials that don't have as much of a

58:11 ↗ market um to be recycled either

58:13 ↗ you know the market is fading or there

58:17 ↗ was never a market developed for that so

58:18 ↗ that's something that

58:20 ↗ we work with the county on regionally

58:22 ↗ some as well through those conversations

58:24 ↗ um at that kind of the county municipal

58:27 ↗ level to try to find new markets for

58:29 ↗ items

58:30 ↗ um you know clothes comes to mind

58:32 ↗ there's a

58:33 ↗ program called the red cycle where

58:35 ↗ people um can recycle

58:36 ↗ you know torn or any kind of conditioned

58:39 ↗ clothes as long as it's not

58:41 ↗ wet and moldy um so there are those new

58:43 ↗ markets being made but

58:44 ↗ you know some people are still throwing

58:46 ↗ uh clothes in the trash so there's kind

58:48 ↗ of both of those

58:49 ↗ levers i don't know if david have

58:51 ↗ anything to add on that

58:53 ↗ yeah i'll just i mean it's such a great

58:55 ↗ question and i'll just add that

58:57 ↗ uh well it's a big discussion to be had

59:00 ↗ from more of a strategic standpoint

59:02 ↗ the one spotlight i will shine is on

59:05 ↗ food

59:05 ↗ uh food is such a big contributor to the

59:08 ↗ landfill

59:09 ↗ and it's a huge climate uh issue not

59:12 ↗ only in terms of

59:13 ↗ the food waste going to our local

59:15 ↗ landfill but in terms of wasted food

59:18 ↗ and all of the water it took to grow

59:20 ↗ that apple and all the fuel it took to

59:22 ↗ drive that apple to us

59:24 ↗ and then it just gets thrown out and and

59:26 ↗ that didn't provide any food value

59:28 ↗ so whether you're looking at waste

59:30 ↗ prevention kind of upstream

59:32 ↗ so that you're not having as much go

59:34 ↗ moldy or you're looking at

59:36 ↗ and that's kind of typically wasted food

59:39 ↗ where you're not getting it into the

59:40 ↗ mouths of people who might actually need

59:43 ↗ it and food diversion toward

59:44 ↗ food insecure people but there's also

59:47 ↗ food waste

59:48 ↗ and that's the stuff we all have in the

59:49 ↗ back of our fridge that we forgot about

59:51 ↗ and

59:52 ↗ rotted and now might go to the landfill

59:54 ↗ if we don't compost it and be a problem

59:57 ↗ so you can uh the statistics on the

1:00:00 ↗ impacts of wasted food and food waste

1:00:02 ↗ and how much of it is out there are

1:00:03 ↗ staggering

1:00:04 ↗ and i think if a municipality were to

1:00:06 ↗ focus on that

1:00:08 ↗ they would uh go a long way toward

1:00:10 ↗ moving

1:00:11 ↗ toward both climate goals and materials

1:00:13 ↗ management goals so that's that's a

1:00:15 ↗ great place

1:00:16 ↗ the the other thing that comes to mind

1:00:17 ↗ is construction demolition debris

1:00:20 ↗ and that uh the way the state counts

1:00:22 ↗ things may not be included in issaquah's

1:00:24 ↗ numbers

1:00:25 ↗ for a commercial residential and

1:00:26 ↗ multi-family but

1:00:28 ↗ it is a big tonnage and it's a little

1:00:31 ↗ bit easier to find sometimes because you

1:00:33 ↗ know where it's being generated

1:00:35 ↗ and you kind of know the markets it can

1:00:37 ↗ move into so

1:00:38 ↗ c and d waste as it's called

1:00:40 ↗ construction and demolition waste

1:00:42 ↗ can be another good um uh area to

1:00:44 ↗ spotlight

1:00:47 ↗ okay thank you david and thank you megan

1:00:50 ↗ and i think

1:00:52 ↗ i'm not seeing any more questions or

1:00:54 ↗ comments so i think

1:00:55 ↗ thank you david and brian for your time

1:00:58 ↗ and

1:00:58 ↗ uh we'll be moving on to our next agenda

1:01:01 ↗ item

1:01:01 ↗ uh environmental regulatory compliance

1:01:04 ↗ program overview

1:01:06 ↗ um so evan julie and brian

1:01:09 ↗ thank you different thank the floor

1:01:13 ↗ yeah thank you and while i'm uh waiting

1:01:15 ↗ to get uh

1:01:16 ↗ presenter um villages just want to touch

1:01:19 ↗ on the last

1:01:20 ↗ um one of the one of the items we were

1:01:22 ↗ talking about in the last presentation

1:01:23 ↗ on

1:01:24 ↗ the ecology store and it is not open yet

1:01:28 ↗ um they're they're having trouble

1:01:29 ↗ staffing it as we all know there's kind

1:01:31 ↗ of a staffing issue

1:01:33 ↗ kind of nationwide right now because of

1:01:36 ↗ all

1:01:36 ↗ kind of covet stuff and so the the

1:01:39 ↗ alternative that you have right now

1:01:40 ↗ is to um you can actually schedule a

1:01:43 ↗ pickup

1:01:44 ↗ of all those different items that you

1:01:45 ↗ would recycle at the ecology store

1:01:47 ↗ you can schedule that pick up from your

1:01:49 ↗ house and they will come and pick it up

1:01:50 ↗ right from your curb

1:01:51 ↗ so if you guys want that resource i can

1:01:54 ↗ send that out to you

1:01:56 ↗ after this you know following up for

1:02:04 ↗ sure

1:02:08 ↗ uh can you see everything can you see

1:02:10 ↗ the presentation

1:02:12 ↗ okay all right uh

1:02:15 ↗ uh thank you for letting us come here

1:02:17 ↗ tonight and present to you

1:02:19 ↗ to you on our public works environmental

1:02:20 ↗ regulatory programs

1:02:22 ↗ the public works department is broken up

1:02:24 ↗ into two separate branches

1:02:25 ↗ or divisions of the same tree

1:02:28 ↗ one being our operations division which

1:02:30 ↗ installs and maintains our public

1:02:32 ↗ infrastructure of drinking water

1:02:34 ↗ roads sewers and storm water systems

1:02:37 ↗ the other being our engineering division

1:02:39 ↗ which plans designs and constructs

1:02:41 ↗ our public infrastructure the

1:02:44 ↗ presentation

1:02:45 ↗ will be on the environmental regulatory

1:02:48 ↗ programs

1:02:48 ↗ housed in the engineering division of

1:02:50 ↗ public works

1:02:52 ↗ regulatory programs are simply programs

1:02:55 ↗ that are

1:02:56 ↗ required the requirement is either

1:02:58 ↗ internal through our city code

1:03:00 ↗ or external through various agencies

1:03:02 ↗ like the department of ecology or fema

1:03:09 ↗ so who are we we're a small team

1:03:12 ↗ that's housed in the public works

1:03:15 ↗ engineering division

1:03:16 ↗ my name is evan brumfield i'm an

1:03:18 ↗ environmental and regulatory program

1:03:20 ↗ administrator here for the city

1:03:22 ↗ i've worked at the city for almost 13

1:03:24 ↗ years half of that

1:03:26 ↗ my first half i was in operations in the

1:03:28 ↗ storm and sewer division

1:03:30 ↗ department and the last half i've been

1:03:32 ↗ over in engineering

1:03:34 ↗ some of my duties include mpds permit

1:03:36 ↗ coordination

1:03:38 ↗ solid waste contract administration

1:03:40 ↗ spill

1:03:41 ↗ and idd our fema community rating system

1:03:45 ↗ coordination which is our floodplain

1:03:48 ↗ and pollution prevention technical

1:03:49 ↗ assistance at our local businesses

1:03:52 ↗ stewie hello my name is julie ortiz i've

1:03:55 ↗ been with the city of issaquah for over

1:03:57 ↗ four years and my title is also

1:03:58 ↗ environmental and regulatory program

1:04:00 ↗ administrator

1:04:01 ↗ but what that actually means is that i

1:04:02 ↗ help oversee our pollution prevention

1:04:04 ↗ business inspection program

1:04:06 ↗ as well as our mitigation monitoring

1:04:07 ↗ sites i support npds implementation and

1:04:10 ↗ several waste reduction programs and i

1:04:12 ↗ coordinate our car protection efforts

1:04:14 ↗ in addition to providing spill response

1:04:16 ↗ and technical support for other

1:04:17 ↗ departments

1:04:18 ↗ right good evening again uh my name is

1:04:22 ↗ brian bismillow i've been with the city

1:04:24 ↗ of it's fall for a little over two years

1:04:25 ↗ now

1:04:26 ↗ i previously worked for king county

1:04:28 ↗ industrial wastewater

1:04:30 ↗ my main duties include pollution

1:04:32 ↗ prevention assistance

1:04:34 ↗ npds implementation spill response

1:04:38 ↗ management and monitoring of the city's

1:04:39 ↗ decant facility and solid waste contract

1:04:42 ↗ management

1:04:46 ↗ so what do we do in the public works

1:04:49 ↗ engineering division

1:04:50 ↗ we have both regulatory and

1:04:52 ↗ non-regulatory environmental programs

1:04:54 ↗ an example of one of our non-regulatory

1:04:57 ↗ programs is our stream sampling program

1:04:59 ↗ that we do here in the city

1:05:01 ↗ in nine different locations along our

1:05:04 ↗ creeks

1:05:04 ↗ and streams we sample two times a

1:05:07 ↗ quarter for

1:05:08 ↗ eight times a year that data is

1:05:11 ↗ currently being used in our storm and

1:05:12 ↗ surface water master plan which was

1:05:14 ↗ presented to you in march

1:05:15 ↗ to help prioritize our planning efforts

1:05:18 ↗ in our watersheds

1:05:21 ↗ following slides we're going to be going

1:05:22 ↗ over a high level summary of each of our

1:05:24 ↗ 10

1:05:25 ↗ of these 10 regulatory programs

1:05:28 ↗ even though these programs are

1:05:29 ↗ regulatory our environmental team is

1:05:32 ↗ progressive in our enforcement

1:05:33 ↗ as much as we can be when i say

1:05:35 ↗ progressive

1:05:37 ↗ uh we really try to educate and provide

1:05:40 ↗ our technical assistance

1:05:41 ↗ uh rather than just going right to

1:05:44 ↗ enforcement

1:05:45 ↗ but then we will bring in code

1:05:46 ↗ enforcement if our education and

1:05:48 ↗ technical assistance

1:05:49 ↗ isn't getting the results

1:05:53 ↗ so as you can see on this picture right

1:05:54 ↗ here this is brian

1:05:56 ↗ doing our water quality sampling on

1:05:58 ↗ esqua creek

1:06:04 ↗ number one uh the national pollution

1:06:05 ↗ discharge elimination system or the

1:06:07 ↗ mpds permit um this slide may look

1:06:10 ↗ somewhat familiar to you

1:06:11 ↗ as i presented this to you all in march

1:06:14 ↗ um going over our

1:06:16 ↗ stormwater management plan the mpds

1:06:18 ↗ permit or the

1:06:20 ↗ national pollution discharge elimination

1:06:22 ↗ system permit is an ecology issued

1:06:24 ↗ permit to cities

1:06:26 ↗ the mpds permit allows this quad to

1:06:28 ↗ discharge our storm water

1:06:30 ↗ to waters of the state which are our

1:06:33 ↗ creeks

1:06:34 ↗ groundwater and lakes and as long as we

1:06:37 ↗ meet

1:06:37 ↗ and implement the processes and programs

1:06:40 ↗ identified

1:06:40 ↗ in the permit to protect water quality

1:06:42 ↗ we can continue to

1:06:44 ↗ discharge our stormwater so some

1:06:48 ↗ examples of

1:06:50 ↗ environmental programs deriving from the

1:06:51 ↗ permit is our pollution prevention

1:06:53 ↗ program

1:06:54 ↗ with local businesses our stormwater

1:06:56 ↗ infrastructure maintenance inspections

1:06:59 ↗ and our idd spill response

1:07:02 ↗ each of these will be going over in

1:07:05 ↗ future slides here in this presentation

1:07:11 ↗ so spills illicit discharges detection

1:07:13 ↗ and elimination or idd

1:07:16 ↗ illicit discharges that are essentially

1:07:19 ↗ pollutants that enter our stormwater

1:07:21 ↗ system

1:07:22 ↗ that shouldn't no pollutant should

1:07:24 ↗ really be in our stormwater system

1:07:26 ↗ but uh mpds requires us to respond and

1:07:29 ↗ investigate

1:07:30 ↗ these illicit discharges and eliminate

1:07:34 ↗ some common examples of illicit

1:07:35 ↗ discharges include vehicular accidents

1:07:38 ↗ pet waste residential car washing and

1:07:42 ↗ sediment from construction sites

1:07:45 ↗ staff are notified of these illicit

1:07:47 ↗ discharges through

1:07:48 ↗ field observations uh either from

1:07:51 ↗ internal staff

1:07:52 ↗ or from residents and we have our city

1:07:56 ↗ spill hotline which is here at the

1:07:57 ↗ bottom of

1:07:58 ↗ uh this slide which we um this is

1:08:02 ↗ what we try to get people to call first

1:08:04 ↗ because that

1:08:05 ↗ actually gets someone that you can talk

1:08:07 ↗ to and then we have our submit a request

1:08:09 ↗ feature on our city website home page

1:08:12 ↗ so what happens when we find uh

1:08:15 ↗ a contamination or something in our

1:08:18 ↗ environment that

1:08:19 ↗ shouldn't be there or in our stormwater

1:08:21 ↗ system

1:08:22 ↗ well we have our staff that are trained

1:08:25 ↗ to use field observations

1:08:27 ↗ and these field observations include uh

1:08:29 ↗ i mean using our senses

1:08:31 ↗ so if we are looking in like this storm

1:08:33 ↗ drain here

1:08:34 ↗ um if you could see it over on this left

1:08:37 ↗ side with this kind of muddy water

1:08:39 ↗ running into it

1:08:40 ↗ if we're looking in there and you know

1:08:42 ↗ we see

1:08:44 ↗ a color or something that just doesn't

1:08:45 ↗ belong or maybe some biological activity

1:08:47 ↗ in the stormwater system

1:08:49 ↗ um you know that can maybe kind of get

1:08:52 ↗ that spidey sense tingling a little bit

1:08:53 ↗ and like maybe we need to do a little

1:08:55 ↗ more

1:08:55 ↗ uh further investigation on on what's

1:08:57 ↗ happening there

1:08:58 ↗ we also can use our sense of smell so

1:09:01 ↗ again if we're looking in a storm water

1:09:02 ↗ system

1:09:03 ↗ and we have a strong odor of sewer well

1:09:07 ↗ definitely sewer shouldn't be in our

1:09:08 ↗ storm system either so we would want to

1:09:10 ↗ investigate that a little further

1:09:12 ↗ and then auditory as well so if we have

1:09:15 ↗ you know we're in a drought like we've

1:09:16 ↗ been experiencing

1:09:18 ↗ these last couple years and we're

1:09:19 ↗ looking again in the storm water system

1:09:21 ↗ and all of a sudden

1:09:22 ↗ we're hearing some rushing water sounds

1:09:24 ↗ or something like that that would again

1:09:25 ↗ trigger us to

1:09:26 ↗ uh pursue uh investigate a little bit

1:09:29 ↗ more figuring out what that is

1:09:31 ↗ we also do water quality sampling in

1:09:33 ↗ addition to our field observations

1:09:35 ↗ um to help identify the sources

1:09:39 ↗ so if we do find an illicit discharge we

1:09:42 ↗ coordinate with our operations division

1:09:44 ↗ and contact department of ecology if

1:09:46 ↗ necessary and we work to mitigate

1:09:48 ↗ impacts through either clean up measures

1:09:50 ↗ or containment

1:09:54 ↗ so on the left here you can see this

1:09:56 ↗ kind of muddy water running in this was

1:09:58 ↗ a

1:09:59 ↗ this was actually an internal

1:10:01 ↗ notification one of our staff

1:10:02 ↗ drove by saw this and called our city

1:10:05 ↗ spill hotline

1:10:06 ↗ and what happened was we had

1:10:09 ↗ a contractor who was asphalt cutting in

1:10:12 ↗ this parking lot and they did not

1:10:15 ↗ suction or use a factor to

1:10:18 ↗ get rid of their asphalt slurry

1:10:22 ↗ and so we were able to this is a private

1:10:23 ↗ property so we were able to work with

1:10:25 ↗ the property owner to

1:10:26 ↗ clean it up make sure investigate their

1:10:29 ↗ storm system make sure there is no

1:10:31 ↗ further impacts to

1:10:32 ↗ our storm water system or any of our

1:10:36 ↗ creeks or lakes in the middle here is

1:10:39 ↗ our

1:10:40 ↗ this was a dump truck accident loss

1:10:43 ↗ breaks going down southeast 43rd and

1:10:45 ↗ like

1:10:45 ↗ barreled through the the roundabout

1:10:47 ↗ there at the bottom of the hill

1:10:49 ↗ uh punctured their diesel tanks leaking

1:10:51 ↗ diesel all over the ground and into our

1:10:53 ↗ garden bed right here

1:10:55 ↗ we have our vactor truck on site to

1:10:58 ↗ factor up the the diesel as well as the

1:11:01 ↗ contaminated soil

1:11:02 ↗ we had to do further environmental

1:11:03 ↗ sampling with this coordinating with

1:11:05 ↗ ecology to ensure that

1:11:07 ↗ we had removed all the contamination to

1:11:08 ↗ have a stabilized site

1:11:11 ↗ and then on the right here was just

1:11:13 ↗ someone walking into work in the morning

1:11:15 ↗ and they saw

1:11:16 ↗ this kind of sheen and wet spot and we

1:11:18 ↗ had a one of our

1:11:19 ↗ city vehicles had a gas tank that was

1:11:22 ↗ punctured

1:11:23 ↗ uh with someone trying to siphon the gas

1:11:25 ↗ and so we were able to

1:11:26 ↗ respond clean isolate it before it

1:11:29 ↗ became a bigger issue

1:11:34 ↗ so next is our fema our community rating

1:11:38 ↗ system or crs

1:11:40 ↗ so isco has a long history with flooding

1:11:42 ↗ and floodplain management

1:11:44 ↗ when we were talking about floodplain we

1:11:46 ↗ are usually referring to our 100 year

1:11:48 ↗ floodplain

1:11:49 ↗ and a hundred year floodplain is the

1:11:51 ↗ area of land predicted to flood during a

1:11:53 ↗ hundred year storm

1:11:55 ↗ which can also be explained as the area

1:11:57 ↗ of land

1:11:58 ↗ that has a one percent chance of a flood

1:12:01 ↗ to happen in any given year

1:12:04 ↗ since this wise floodplain and we want

1:12:06 ↗ our residents to be eligible for federal

1:12:08 ↗ flood insurance

1:12:09 ↗ isco is a member of the national flood

1:12:11 ↗ insurance program or nfip

1:12:14 ↗ required under fema this allows our

1:12:16 ↗ citizens to be eligible

1:12:18 ↗ for flood insurance and the city be

1:12:20 ↗ eligible for flood mitigation

1:12:22 ↗ grants which a lot of times get paired

1:12:24 ↗ up with

1:12:25 ↗ salmon enhancement but we also use them

1:12:27 ↗ for elevating our homes out of the

1:12:29 ↗ floodplain as well

1:12:32 ↗ further our floodplain management isquad

1:12:35 ↗ is also a part

1:12:36 ↗ of the community rating system or the

1:12:37 ↗ crs program

1:12:39 ↗ the crs is a voluntary incentive program

1:12:43 ↗ that recognizes and encourages community

1:12:46 ↗ floodplain management practices

1:12:48 ↗ that exceed the minimum requirements of

1:12:50 ↗ the nfip

1:12:52 ↗ is caused floodplain programs and

1:12:54 ↗ standards put us at a crs rating of

1:12:56 ↗ class

1:12:56 ↗ five uh which gives our residents a 25

1:13:00 ↗ percent discount on our flood insurance

1:13:02 ↗ rates

1:13:03 ↗ the crs scale goes through 10 to 1

1:13:07 ↗ 10 being the uh i guess one being the

1:13:10 ↗ best and getting the most discount

1:13:11 ↗ there's no other

1:13:13 ↗ city in king county with a higher crs

1:13:15 ↗ rating than us

1:13:17 ↗ there are others that are class five as

1:13:18 ↗ well

1:13:20 ↗ and as you can see here um on these

1:13:23 ↗ pictures

1:13:24 ↗ we have our uh this is pretty the atlas

1:13:27 ↗ apartments when we had our big old

1:13:28 ↗ bathtub that was right there this is the

1:13:30 ↗ safe safeway

1:13:32 ↗ um and uh the bank um so yeah

1:13:35 ↗ flooding is is an issue on the right

1:13:36 ↗ here we have a kind of an overview map

1:13:39 ↗ of the floodplain in the city we have

1:13:41 ↗ um iscock creek kind of running up

1:13:43 ↗ middle and then we have our tibbetts

1:13:44 ↗ creek over there on the left the blue

1:13:46 ↗ shaded area is our 100 year floodplain

1:13:52 ↗ so we also have our on-site sewage

1:13:54 ↗ system or oss program

1:13:57 ↗ the majority of our city residences and

1:13:59 ↗ businesses are connected

1:14:01 ↗ to sewer main and pipes but the

1:14:03 ↗ remaining

1:14:04 ↗ of these city residences and businesses

1:14:06 ↗ have

1:14:07 ↗ an on-site sewage system or what's also

1:14:10 ↗ called a septic system

1:14:12 ↗ so if you have a septic system we're not

1:14:14 ↗ connected to our city sewer

1:14:17 ↗ mains or pipes an on-site sewage system

1:14:20 ↗ is basically an underground treatment

1:14:21 ↗ system

1:14:22 ↗ for your wastewater in your home and

1:14:24 ↗ that system is typically located all on

1:14:26 ↗ your property

1:14:27 ↗ hence the term on-site

1:14:30 ↗ wastewater is water that goes down the

1:14:32 ↗ drains and pipes in your home

1:14:34 ↗ from your bathrooms kitchens or kitchen

1:14:38 ↗ some people maybe have two kitchens and

1:14:39 ↗ laundry areas um

1:14:42 ↗ so you can see in this kind of graphic

1:14:43 ↗ down here at the bottom from seattle

1:14:45 ↗ king county public health this has a

1:14:46 ↗ really good kind of overview of what a

1:14:48 ↗ septic system looks like you have your

1:14:49 ↗ house

1:14:50 ↗ drains that come down into a septic tank

1:14:53 ↗ and once it hits that septic tank

1:14:55 ↗ there's kind of a solid acetylene that

1:14:57 ↗ happens

1:14:58 ↗ and after those solids settle the water

1:15:01 ↗ then goes into a distribution box

1:15:04 ↗ which then gets dispersed into your

1:15:05 ↗ drain field which then allows

1:15:08 ↗ the the water to um percolate and

1:15:11 ↗ absorb into the soil around your um your

1:15:14 ↗ drain field

1:15:16 ↗ so in isco we have a septic inspection

1:15:18 ↗ program for properties

1:15:20 ↗ with septic systems that are located

1:15:21 ↗ within 200 feet of our city sewer mains

1:15:23 ↗ and pipes

1:15:26 ↗ much like all infrastructure that's

1:15:28 ↗ built that's like pipes

1:15:30 ↗ roads bridges they're built to last a

1:15:33 ↗ certain time

1:15:33 ↗ frame before they fail so our septic

1:15:36 ↗ inspection program makes sure

1:15:38 ↗ that when the septic systems fail the

1:15:40 ↗ property can connect to our city sewer

1:15:42 ↗ system to maintain seattle

1:15:44 ↗ king county public health regulations

1:15:46 ↗ and to protect water quality

1:15:51 ↗ and julie all right so

1:15:54 ↗ sometimes city improvement projects like

1:15:56 ↗ road expansions or bridge construction

1:15:58 ↗ can damage or harm critical areas

1:16:00 ↗ like wetlands which triggers the need

1:16:02 ↗ for environmental mitigation

1:16:04 ↗ this is most often done through wetland

1:16:06 ↗ enhancement restoration projects which

1:16:08 ↗ are governed by permits issued by the

1:16:09 ↗ department of ecology or army corps of

1:16:11 ↗ engineers

1:16:13 ↗ these permits have specific time frames

1:16:15 ↗ and performance standards that we must

1:16:17 ↗ achieve

1:16:18 ↗ and issaquah works with specialized

1:16:20 ↗ contractors like mountains of sound

1:16:21 ↗ greenway tress so shout out to dan he

1:16:23 ↗ works there

1:16:24 ↗ we work with him closely and earthcore

1:16:26 ↗ who

1:16:28 ↗ successfully performs site monitoring

1:16:31 ↗ which looks at things like plant

1:16:32 ↗ diversity plant coverage invasive

1:16:34 ↗ species

1:16:35 ↗ they also perform site maintenance which

1:16:37 ↗ is seasonal removal of invasive species

1:16:39 ↗ or infill planting and sometimes

1:16:41 ↗ irrigation and they help us to support

1:16:43 ↗ our

1:16:44 ↗ to submit our annual reports which are

1:16:46 ↗ basically a status check to the

1:16:47 ↗ regulator

1:16:48 ↗ throughout the 5 or 10-year permit cycle

1:16:51 ↗ at the completion of the permit cycle or

1:16:53 ↗ when the site meets the performance

1:16:55 ↗ standards

1:16:56 ↗ sometimes we have to extend that if

1:16:57 ↗ we're not meeting performance standards

1:16:59 ↗ the site should be well established and

1:17:01 ↗ mature enough to thrive relatively

1:17:03 ↗ unmanaged

1:17:04 ↗ so for example vegetation should be

1:17:06 ↗ provided enough shade to inhibit

1:17:07 ↗ invasive species growth

1:17:09 ↗ and native plants would no longer be

1:17:10 ↗ dependent on irrigation

1:17:12 ↗ if these sites are on property that's

1:17:14 ↗ owned by the city then they transition

1:17:16 ↗ into the parks department and are

1:17:17 ↗ managed within the open space program

1:17:19 ↗ upon permit completion

1:17:21 ↗ and so in this photo you'll see a

1:17:23 ↗ transect which is

1:17:25 ↗ a string that's attached to a fixed

1:17:27 ↗ permanent location on either end

1:17:28 ↗ and by documenting the progression of

1:17:30 ↗ vegetation that intersects that line

1:17:32 ↗ over time we can collect data on how

1:17:34 ↗ well the site is or isn't doing

1:17:37 ↗ next slide

1:17:44 ↗ so the city also has a robust pollution

1:17:47 ↗ prevention

1:17:47 ↗ program which includes participation in

1:17:50 ↗ the department of ecology regional

1:17:51 ↗ program

1:17:52 ↗ to conduct business inspections where we

1:17:54 ↗ offer education outreach and technical

1:17:56 ↗ assistance at no

1:17:57 ↗ charge these visits are unannounced so

1:17:59 ↗ we get to see the business in real time

1:18:02 ↗ real action everyday kind of stuff and

1:18:05 ↗ we walk

1:18:05 ↗ through the inside and outside so we can

1:18:07 ↗ understand how they manage their waste

1:18:09 ↗ through other pollution generating

1:18:10 ↗ activities and this often includes

1:18:12 ↗ looking at

1:18:13 ↗ chemical storage so do they have

1:18:14 ↗ secondary containment

1:18:16 ↗ we're going to look at spill prevention

1:18:18 ↗ do they have a spill cut on site do they

1:18:20 ↗ even know where it's at

1:18:21 ↗ does the staff know how to use it we're

1:18:23 ↗ going to talk to them about waste

1:18:24 ↗ disposal records and find out if they

1:18:26 ↗ can show

1:18:27 ↗ proper documentation for chemical

1:18:29 ↗ disposal

1:18:30 ↗ we're going to have a conversation with

1:18:31 ↗ them about any wash water disposal

1:18:34 ↗ if they're mopping the floors is that

1:18:36 ↗ water being dumped out the back door

1:18:38 ↗ or down a drain that goes to sewer and

1:18:41 ↗ do they have floor drains in their

1:18:42 ↗ business

1:18:43 ↗ and if so where does it flow are they

1:18:44 ↗ putting anything down it hopefully not

1:18:47 ↗ um or anything else that raises

1:18:49 ↗ questions as we learn a little bit more

1:18:50 ↗ about their business activities

1:18:52 ↗ these visits are conducted every two to

1:18:54 ↗ four years and it just depends on the

1:18:56 ↗ type of business the volume of chemicals

1:18:57 ↗ they may have

1:18:58 ↗ or any prior issues that we worked with

1:19:01 ↗ them on

1:19:02 ↗ we conducted about 90 visits per year

1:19:05 ↗ half of our visits require

1:19:06 ↗ ongoing follow-up or continued education

1:19:09 ↗ to ensure corrective action

1:19:10 ↗ has been taken and achieved and to date

1:19:13 ↗ we have conducted over 480 visits to

1:19:15 ↗ unique businesses within the city

1:19:18 ↗ and in this picture on the left you'll

1:19:20 ↗ see staff who was working with a local

1:19:21 ↗ dry cleaner

1:19:22 ↗ within arcara to receive a combined

1:19:25 ↗ forty thousand dollars from the

1:19:26 ↗ department of ecology in king county

1:19:28 ↗ which allowed them to replace a perk dry

1:19:30 ↗ cleaning machine with a professional wet

1:19:32 ↗ cleaning system

1:19:33 ↗ and you probably have all heard of perks

1:19:35 ↗ so you know it's bad so that was a big

1:19:37 ↗ win for the city especially in arkara

1:19:40 ↗ and then the picture on the right is of

1:19:41 ↗ an open dumpster we talked a little bit

1:19:43 ↗ in the previous presentation about how

1:19:45 ↗ that's problematic

1:19:47 ↗ but it allows rainwater to collect in

1:19:49 ↗ the dumpster and it can flow out is

1:19:50 ↗ what's called dumpster juice

1:19:52 ↗ commonly um and that can be

1:19:55 ↗ transported or can transport pollution

1:19:58 ↗ into nearby storm drains and surface

1:20:00 ↗ water and we really find that education

1:20:02 ↗ is the key

1:20:03 ↗ people want to do the right thing they

1:20:05 ↗ just don't always know what that is or

1:20:06 ↗ take the time to necessarily do it so

1:20:09 ↗ we just try to work through a lot of

1:20:11 ↗ that with these businesses

1:20:13 ↗ and quite often we're successful next

1:20:16 ↗ slide

1:20:20 ↗ all right all right so groundwater

1:20:22 ↗ within issaquah provides over 50

1:20:24 ↗ of our drinking water in 2020 this

1:20:26 ↗ equated to over 590 million gallons

1:20:30 ↗ so we recognize that groundwater is an

1:20:31 ↗ essential resource to protect and

1:20:33 ↗ preserve

1:20:33 ↗ so let's talk this through a little bit

1:20:35 ↗ more

1:20:37 ↗ the cara is an area where rain surface

1:20:39 ↗ or storm water infiltrates

1:20:41 ↗ into the ground in order to recharge or

1:20:43 ↗ replenish groundwater

1:20:44 ↗ as it flows through our valley floor

1:20:46 ↗ think of this like filling a bathtub

1:20:49 ↗ this is where cpd and their long range

1:20:51 ↗ planning goals come into play as

1:20:52 ↗ development

1:20:53 ↗ impervious surfaces or storm water

1:20:55 ↗ management can impede

1:20:56 ↗ or enhance recharge cara classifications

1:21:00 ↗ are determined based on how long it

1:21:02 ↗ takes groundwater to reach a drinking

1:21:04 ↗ water well which is also known as the

1:21:06 ↗ travel time

1:21:07 ↗ we have upcoming title 18 revisions

1:21:09 ↗ which will incorporate updated cara and

1:21:11 ↗ wellhead maps based on the results of

1:21:13 ↗ some new modeling

1:21:14 ↗ and improved understanding of subsurface

1:21:16 ↗ groundwater behavior

1:21:17 ↗ you guys can keep track of that in the

1:21:19 ↗ future

1:21:21 ↗ wellhead protection relates to the area

1:21:23 ↗ around a drinking water well

1:21:24 ↗ where the well draws water so think of

1:21:26 ↗ this like sucking water up through a

1:21:28 ↗ straw

1:21:28 ↗ this is where proactive pollution

1:21:31 ↗ prevention activities and oversight

1:21:32 ↗ really matters

1:21:34 ↗ our city code defines cara as a critical

1:21:37 ↗ area

1:21:38 ↗ which allows us to be more prescriptive

1:21:40 ↗ and therefore proactive

1:21:42 ↗ than county state or federal regulations

1:21:43 ↗ alone

1:21:45 ↗ essentially businesses within the class

1:21:47 ↗ 1 and 2 car a boundary

1:21:48 ↗ who are likely to have chemicals or may

1:21:51 ↗ be of a higher environmental risk

1:21:53 ↗ based on the nature or type of business

1:21:55 ↗ they're doing

1:21:56 ↗ they receive more stringent business

1:21:58 ↗ inspections and are subject to

1:21:59 ↗ additional spill response and storage

1:22:01 ↗ requirements for large quantities and

1:22:03 ↗ types of chemicals

1:22:05 ↗ and in fact issaquah's car protection

1:22:07 ↗ programs and requirements were recently

1:22:09 ↗ featured in the department

1:22:10 ↗ of ecology's updated cara protection

1:22:12 ↗ guidance

1:22:13 ↗ as an example for other jurisdictions to

1:22:15 ↗ model

1:22:16 ↗ and in this picture on the left here

1:22:18 ↗ you'll see some large totes containing

1:22:20 ↗ chemicals which are stacked on top of

1:22:21 ↗ each other over secondary containment

1:22:23 ↗ they're labeled with the contents and

1:22:25 ↗ any

1:22:26 ↗ health or environmental risks there's a

1:22:28 ↗ yellow drum over pack on the right it's

1:22:30 ↗ kind of obscured by someone's jacket

1:22:34 ↗ which will help them respond to any sort

1:22:37 ↗ sorry it has school supplies in it which

1:22:38 ↗ allows them to respond to any spills

1:22:42 ↗ and that's it for me brian

1:22:46 ↗ thank you julie i'll be covering uh our

1:22:50 ↗ videos that practice from our

1:22:51 ↗ infrastructure program

1:22:53 ↗ um so what is stormwater infrastructure

1:22:55 ↗ and why is it important

1:22:57 ↗ stormwater infrastructure is made up of

1:22:58 ↗ drains pipes

1:23:00 ↗ bonds vaults and ditches that convey

1:23:04 ↗ until limited extent treats storm water

1:23:06 ↗ runoff before it reaches

1:23:08 ↗ the local receiving waters so that's uh

1:23:11 ↗ creeks streams lakes these systems are

1:23:14 ↗ designed to primarily trap

1:23:15 ↗ sediment but if properly maintained and

1:23:17 ↗ functionally operational

1:23:19 ↗ they can help trap and reduce the amount

1:23:21 ↗ of contaminants release into the

1:23:22 ↗ environment

1:23:24 ↗ currently the city of israel has

1:23:25 ↗ approximately 270 sites in our

1:23:27 ↗ inspection program

1:23:29 ↗ these sites are inspected every three

1:23:30 ↗ years but may require

1:23:33 ↗ additional attention on behalf of the

1:23:34 ↗ city if there have been compliance

1:23:36 ↗ issues in the past

1:23:39 ↗ under the most recent npdm npds permit

1:23:41 ↗ with the public

1:23:42 ↗ department of ecology this program will

1:23:45 ↗ soon be

1:23:46 ↗ transitioning to becoming our local

1:23:48 ↗ source control program

1:23:49 ↗ in 2023 uh some of the most

1:23:53 ↗ common issues that we see are resolved

1:23:56 ↗ as a result

1:23:56 ↗ of our inspection program and these

1:23:58 ↗ include sediment removal

1:24:01 ↗ repairs to flow control structures line

1:24:03 ↗ jetting

1:24:04 ↗ and water quality cartridge uh

1:24:06 ↗ replacement

1:24:07 ↗ uh any if you can see here in the slide

1:24:11 ↗ this is an outfall that was actually

1:24:14 ↗ damaged

1:24:14 ↗ due to some beaver uh

1:24:18 ↗ activity and on the right is just a

1:24:21 ↗ photo of us

1:24:22 ↗ uh completing a stormwater bolt

1:24:25 ↗ inspection next please

1:24:31 ↗ uh in addition we also have a fats oils

1:24:34 ↗ and grease program or

1:24:36 ↗ fog what fog is is a pollutant that

1:24:39 ↗ enters the city's

1:24:41 ↗ sanitary sewer system and can cause

1:24:43 ↗ downstream impacts to our lines and

1:24:45 ↗ system

1:24:46 ↗ uh instances of negative impacts include

1:24:49 ↗ build up of pipes when it solidifies

1:24:51 ↗ and or hardens causing overflow and

1:24:54 ↗ extensive building damage

1:24:57 ↗ the two types of fog are petroleum and

1:24:59 ↗ vegetable based

1:25:00 ↗ the ones that we're concerned with in

1:25:02 ↗ our city's inspection program

1:25:05 ↗ um are uh focused on vegetable and

1:25:08 ↗ animal based

1:25:09 ↗ fog so essentially restaurants include

1:25:12 ↗ our

1:25:14 ↗ grease generating facilities

1:25:17 ↗ under israel municipal code 1638

1:25:20 ↗ uh restaurants in iskar were required to

1:25:23 ↗ install and maintain

1:25:24 ↗ grease interceptors or if you've heard

1:25:26 ↗ of them as grease traps

1:25:29 ↗ these structures capture grease and

1:25:30 ↗ allow the proper disposal

1:25:32 ↗ by a certified waste hauler

1:25:36 ↗ not all the used grease by restaurants

1:25:38 ↗ go directly into the grease interceptors

1:25:42 ↗ as the first line of defense from fog

1:25:43 ↗ entering the system

1:25:45 ↗ the grease generating facilities collect

1:25:47 ↗ and store uh fats wells in grease and

1:25:49 ↗ grease receptacles

1:25:50 ↗ such as covered drums which are then

1:25:52 ↗ hauled away by a licensed food hauler

1:25:55 ↗ to an approved waste facility additional

1:25:58 ↗ bmps or best management practices

1:26:00 ↗ include

1:26:01 ↗ that food waste are properly disposed of

1:26:03 ↗ in a garbage or composting collection

1:26:05 ↗ bins

1:26:06 ↗ proper maintenance of kitchen exhaust

1:26:08 ↗ filters and oils and grease spill

1:26:10 ↗ response plan and most importantly and

1:26:13 ↗ the most effective

1:26:14 ↗ is employee training uh restaurants

1:26:17 ↗ unwilling to maintain their grease

1:26:19 ↗ interceptors can have their water shut

1:26:21 ↗ off

1:26:21 ↗ and therefore closed down by seattle

1:26:23 ↗ king county public health

1:26:25 ↗ until all maintenance and repairs have

1:26:27 ↗ been completed

1:26:29 ↗ uh in this slide you can see um

1:26:32 ↗ an example of us needing of the city

1:26:35 ↗ needing to

1:26:37 ↗ shut off the water due to um

1:26:40 ↗ as you can see solidifying grease in the

1:26:42 ↗ lines

1:26:44 ↗ and on the far right um the improper

1:26:47 ↗ maintenance and scheduling of their

1:26:49 ↗ grease interceptor

1:26:50 ↗ uh this was uh located within uh i

1:26:53 ↗ believe 50 feet of iskwa creek

1:26:56 ↗ and so as you can see um this uh did

1:26:58 ↗ have downstream

1:27:00 ↗ uh impacts next please

1:27:06 ↗ and lastly uh the city

1:27:09 ↗ um has a industrial waste

1:27:14 ↗ program in which we're uh deli

1:27:17 ↗ or we have a uh excuse me a

1:27:21 ↗ discharge authorization with king county

1:27:23 ↗ industrial waste

1:27:25 ↗ king county is a delegated authority

1:27:26 ↗ which governs

1:27:28 ↗ the rules and regulations that

1:27:29 ↗ industrial users can discharge to king

1:27:31 ↗ county's

1:27:32 ↗ wastewater treatment plants dischargers

1:27:35 ↗ of industrial waste

1:27:36 ↗ in the city's case contaminated storm

1:27:38 ↗ water

1:27:39 ↗ are required to meet king county's local

1:27:41 ↗ discharge limits for all contaminants

1:27:43 ↗ including but not limited to

1:27:47 ↗ heavy metals settable solids oil and

1:27:49 ↗ grease

1:27:50 ↗ and ph as i mentioned before

1:27:53 ↗ the city has a major discharge

1:27:55 ↗ authorization with king county

1:27:56 ↗ industrial waste

1:27:57 ↗ and is required to sample for and report

1:28:00 ↗ out on quarterly

1:28:01 ↗ to maintain compliance um

1:28:04 ↗ in the slide here you can see on the top

1:28:07 ↗ left

1:28:07 ↗ uh the city's uh vector truck we have

1:28:10 ↗ two of those

1:28:12 ↗ in which they essentially suck up uh

1:28:14 ↗ sediment

1:28:15 ↗ and contaminants and stormwater drains

1:28:18 ↗ the right upper right is the city's

1:28:21 ↗ decant facility

1:28:22 ↗ which uh the backer truck will um

1:28:25 ↗ essentially empty the contents where

1:28:28 ↗ solids are allowed to settle out and

1:28:31 ↗ then that is then pumped to

1:28:33 ↗ sanitary sewer uh all flows

1:28:36 ↗ uh flow to a cell treatment plant in

1:28:39 ↗ renton

1:28:40 ↗ and that is a photo of uh

1:28:43 ↗ waste the wastewater treatment plant in

1:28:45 ↗ written

1:28:47 ↗ next and that concludes our

1:28:51 ↗ presentations if anyone has any

1:28:53 ↗ questions for myself or uh evan and

1:28:56 ↗ julie

1:28:56 ↗ thank you

1:29:01 ↗ jamie speaking thank you to you three

1:29:03 ↗ for uh for the presentation

1:29:05 ↗ um and i know megan uh left a comment

1:29:09 ↗ in the chat around uh us going a little

1:29:11 ↗ bit over it

1:29:12 ↗ uh just wanted to make sure there

1:29:13 ↗ weren't any uh people that had any

1:29:15 ↗ concerns with us

1:29:16 ↗ uh getting some questions or any

1:29:18 ↗ comments uh before

1:29:20 ↗ we uh finish the meeting so any any

1:29:22 ↗ concerns with that

1:29:25 ↗ great um so see looking in the chat

1:29:27 ↗ looks like

1:29:28 ↗ ann you have a question

1:29:32 ↗ yes thank you this is anne newcomb and

1:29:35 ↗ um thank you so much for your

1:29:37 ↗ presentation and all the important work

1:29:38 ↗ that you do

1:29:40 ↗ um i'm curious i think maybe larry

1:29:43 ↗ franks brought this

1:29:44 ↗ up last time he's from fish do you

1:29:48 ↗ when you're testing do you test for the

1:29:51 ↗ six ppd

1:29:52 ↗ which is the um the tire contaminant

1:29:55 ↗ that's

1:29:56 ↗ killing the salmon and if so are you

1:29:58 ↗ finding it in the squad creek

1:30:01 ↗ i was right i can uh speak to that um

1:30:04 ↗ we have gotten a lot of uh interest from

1:30:08 ↗ the community

1:30:08 ↗ uh surrounding 6ppdq um

1:30:12 ↗ the city is a subcommittee uh

1:30:16 ↗ from the stormwater work group that is

1:30:18 ↗ specifically looking at

1:30:20 ↗ 6pbdq uh the city is being very

1:30:24 ↗ proactive and we have actually partnered

1:30:26 ↗ with uw tacoma

1:30:28 ↗ um in regards to the effectiveness of

1:30:30 ↗ stormwater treatment facilities that the

1:30:32 ↗ city owns

1:30:34 ↗ and we are currently looking at two

1:30:36 ↗ sites

1:30:37 ↗ one is a cartridge filter vault and a

1:30:41 ↗ modular wetland

1:30:43 ↗ we had just conducted our first round of

1:30:46 ↗ sampling and testing

1:30:48 ↗ a couple of weeks ago and so we're

1:30:50 ↗ waiting uh

1:30:51 ↗ to hear back about the analytical

1:30:54 ↗ results

1:30:56 ↗ there is a caveat though there is still

1:30:59 ↗ a standard method uh which needs to be

1:31:02 ↗ uh determined and approved on and so

1:31:06 ↗ that is kind of the um limiting factor

1:31:10 ↗ in what we're wanting to do but yes to

1:31:13 ↗ answer your question

1:31:14 ↗ the city is aware and very um you know

1:31:18 ↗ proactive in in our approach

1:31:21 ↗ thank you i appreciate that um is there

1:31:24 ↗ a way that we could

1:31:25 ↗ uh when you find out um if we could stay

1:31:28 ↗ in the loop

1:31:32 ↗ yeah um i can uh talk with megan um

1:31:35 ↗ about uh you know getting that

1:31:36 ↗ information out to you

1:31:38 ↗ um but yes we we we're trying to be as

1:31:41 ↗ transparent as possible

1:31:43 ↗ especially considering that we know that

1:31:45 ↗ this is a

1:31:46 ↗ big concern to to the community

1:31:50 ↗ awesome thank you so much

1:31:55 ↗ jamie speaking it looks like that might

1:31:58 ↗ be

1:31:58 ↗ the questions that we have so thank you

1:32:00 ↗ evan julian brian

1:32:02 ↗ uh for your time um we'll then

1:32:05 ↗ now move on to the next agenda item

1:32:07 ↗ which is

1:32:08 ↗ any reports megan do we have any reports

1:32:15 ↗ um my quick report this is megan

1:32:19 ↗ is that just on upcoming meetings so

1:32:22 ↗ for the meeting on july 14th we'll be

1:32:25 ↗ diving into

1:32:26 ↗ the climate action plan um we'll we're

1:32:29 ↗ working right now

1:32:30 ↗ um to kind of start developing the uh

1:32:33 ↗ the goals the targets

1:32:35 ↗ the strategy and so we'll be bringing

1:32:37 ↗ some information to the board to get

1:32:38 ↗ your initial input

1:32:39 ↗ we're working kind of internally with

1:32:41 ↗ our staff teams right now to start to

1:32:43 ↗ develop that content so we'll be able to

1:32:45 ↗ to share it with you at the next meeting

1:32:47 ↗ on the 14th and

1:32:48 ↗ um and looking forward to hearing input

1:32:51 ↗ on that

1:32:53 ↗ we are going to have a second meeting in

1:32:56 ↗ july

1:32:57 ↗ so july 22nd we've been

1:33:00 ↗ invited to the planning policy

1:33:02 ↗ commission's meeting

1:33:03 ↗ so we can have a joint meeting on title

1:33:06 ↗ 18

1:33:07 ↗ to have a bit of a an educational

1:33:09 ↗ session on

1:33:10 ↗ um on the environmental sections are

1:33:13 ↗ going to be coming before the board for

1:33:15 ↗ your input on the

1:33:16 ↗ land use code update so that will

1:33:18 ↗ include the critical areas the tree

1:33:20 ↗ codes

1:33:21 ↗ various other environmental components

1:33:23 ↗ so that'll be an opportunity to

1:33:25 ↗ to hear kind of the overall process um

1:33:28 ↗ start to hear about uh those topics and

1:33:31 ↗ ask some questions

1:33:33 ↗ so we won't be looking at specific code

1:33:34 ↗ update to get in that meeting but it'll

1:33:36 ↗ be kind of an

1:33:37 ↗ intro to some of that topics um and

1:33:40 ↗ that's all i have

1:33:41 ↗ um from me but i see that uh dan has a

1:33:44 ↗ question about future meetings

1:33:48 ↗ yeah i was just just kind of following

1:33:49 ↗ up on the the presentations from

1:33:51 ↗ um brian julian evan i was just trying

1:33:53 ↗ to kind of remember back to to

1:33:55 ↗ march and i know when gary presented

1:33:57 ↗ there was talk about getting some prop

1:33:59 ↗ set out because i know that discussion

1:34:00 ↗ was really

1:34:01 ↗ i think felt cut a little bit short and

1:34:03 ↗ i'm hoping i didn't totally miss that

1:34:05 ↗ but i i feel like there are some

1:34:06 ↗ conversations around

1:34:08 ↗ um uh soliciting some feedback on

1:34:11 ↗ process schedule prioritization metrics

1:34:14 ↗ geographic scope and you know stuff that

1:34:15 ↗ i think relates definitely to the

1:34:16 ↗ presentation we just had here and just

1:34:18 ↗ was curious if that's

1:34:20 ↗ on a future agenda what where kind of

1:34:22 ↗ that process is that

1:34:25 ↗ yes uh this is megan the storm and

1:34:27 ↗ service of our master plan it's um gone

1:34:29 ↗ around to

1:34:30 ↗ council and a couple boards for input

1:34:32 ↗ and is going to be coming back to the

1:34:33 ↗ environmental board

1:34:35 ↗ i don't have the the meeting date set

1:34:37 ↗ for that yet

1:34:38 ↗ um but i i will get that probably in the

1:34:42 ↗ next coming weeks and we'll be able to

1:34:43 ↗ add that to the schedule

1:34:45 ↗ um i believe you are correct i was i was

1:34:47 ↗ going to be sending out

1:34:48 ↗ kind of um one of those

1:34:51 ↗ uh presentations to view for the board

1:34:54 ↗ um and

1:34:55 ↗ i will go ahead and make sure i send

1:34:56 ↗ that um

1:34:58 ↗ shortly after that meeting after this

1:35:00 ↗ meeting we had

1:35:01 ↗ those mostly going around in may so we

1:35:03 ↗ should have those up

1:35:04 ↗ to be recorded now

1:35:13 ↗ jamie great thank you megan is did that

1:35:15 ↗ cover also the

1:35:16 ↗ other business and announcements

1:35:17 ↗ discussing the schedule or was there

1:35:20 ↗ another item there that you wanted to

1:35:21 ↗ cover um this is megan there was

1:35:24 ↗ actually one more thing really quick

1:35:25 ↗ um the cip um that the council

1:35:29 ↗ that the environmental board provide

1:35:31 ↗ input on um that was adopted at the

1:35:33 ↗ council meeting

1:35:34 ↗ on monday uh so uh again thank you for

1:35:37 ↗ your input for that

1:35:38 ↗ um it was a the first year we were doing

1:35:40 ↗ this process but i think it was really

1:35:41 ↗ great

1:35:42 ↗ to have the the boards look at it and

1:35:45 ↗ i think thank you for both the input on

1:35:47 ↗ the process itself

1:35:49 ↗ as well as the cip so we'll be looking

1:35:51 ↗ at that um to shape the process for next

1:35:54 ↗ year as well

1:35:57 ↗ i'm not sure if any other board members

1:35:59 ↗ have had any um

1:36:00 ↗ report outs that they want to do

1:36:09 ↗ this is jamie seeing none i think uh

1:36:12 ↗ i think we can adjourn oh megan i see

1:36:14 ↗ you raising your hand

1:36:16 ↗ i saw janet raising her hand

1:36:20 ↗ janet i think you might be muted janet

1:36:24 ↗ yes yes um um

1:36:28 ↗ first year this will be

1:36:31 ↗ my seventh seventh year i've been making

1:36:35 ↗ a concerted effort to remove

1:36:37 ↗ tansy redwood which is a uh class b

1:36:41 ↗ noxious weed from the issaquah area

1:36:45 ↗ and it's

1:36:48 ↗ a real problem because it's it's our

1:36:50 ↗ main

1:36:52 ↗ class b noxious weed which sits

1:36:56 ↗ which means it's required to be removed

1:37:00 ↗ tansy regular it's a particular problem

1:37:02 ↗ because it

1:37:03 ↗ can cause liver damage in grazing

1:37:07 ↗ animals

1:37:08 ↗ especially horses but also various other

1:37:11 ↗ animals and we

1:37:12 ↗ really know whether it causes problems

1:37:15 ↗ with

1:37:16 ↗ deer or other wildlife

1:37:21 ↗ so and it also produces a single plant

1:37:24 ↗ can produce

1:37:25 ↗ a 150 000 seeds which are like little

1:37:29 ↗ tiny dandelion seeds and they blow with

1:37:32 ↗ the wind

1:37:34 ↗ so last year i counted up in last year i

1:37:37 ↗ had 75

1:37:38 ↗ sites that i was trying to remove tansy

1:37:40 ↗ ragwort from

1:37:42 ↗ so i could really use help because

1:37:44 ↗ sometimes i had to just give up because

1:37:46 ↗ it was just too much

1:37:50 ↗ one of the areas that i wanted to touch

1:37:52 ↗ bases with

1:37:53 ↗ uh was the iskwa high school

1:37:58 ↗ i've been trying to get the ground staff

1:38:00 ↗ to to work on

1:38:02 ↗ removing the tansy

1:38:05 ↗ which has gotten out of control and it's

1:38:07 ↗ it's spread to

1:38:10 ↗ a neighboring church and across the

1:38:12 ↗ street

1:38:13 ↗ and causing a real problem

1:38:17 ↗ uh but i did what i could but

1:38:21 ↗ i i couldn't get all of it and it

1:38:24 ↗ went to seed so i'm especially looking

1:38:27 ↗ for thinking that maybe the

1:38:29 ↗ green team with the issue high school

1:38:32 ↗ would be interested

1:38:33 ↗ in uh helping me remove uh the tansy

1:38:37 ↗ ragwort on the grounds

1:38:40 ↗ but there's also lots of other trade

1:38:43 ↗ other trails

1:38:44 ↗ that uh i don't have time to

1:38:48 ↗ monitor all of them and

1:38:52 ↗ so that's an opportunity if you'd like

1:38:54 ↗ to join me

1:38:57 ↗ i can give out my phone number and uh

1:38:59 ↗ you can give me a call

1:39:01 ↗ and uh we could discuss what what you

1:39:04 ↗ might

1:39:05 ↗ be interested in doing i could describe

1:39:08 ↗ a little bit more about uh

1:39:11 ↗ how i do it so anyway my phone number is

1:39:16 ↗ this is jamie thank you janet um megan

1:39:19 ↗ any other hands up or

1:39:22 ↗ anything else great well uh thank you

1:39:25 ↗ everyone

1:39:26 ↗ have a great night and that meeting is

1:39:28 ↗ adjourned

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