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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

6:30 PM · 1h 51m
Section
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of May 11, 2022
packet pp.3–5
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-11-22 Environmental Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting May 11, 2022 MINUTES
2b
Minutes of June 8, 2022
packet pp.7–9
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES b) 06-08-22 Environmental Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting June 8, 2022 MINUTES
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Stormwater and Wastewater Master Plans (D)
Allen Quynn, Senior Engineer, Public Works Engineering · packet pp.11–35
Topics: Water
Staff report:
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the Environmental Board an update on the Storm and Surface Water Master Plan (Plan). This presentation is for
5. REPORTS
5a
Environmental Board Schedule
packet pp.37–38
Staff report:
2022 Environmental Board Schedule (tentative) All meetings are at 6:30 unless noted otherwise. (updated 6/19/22)
0:00 vacation so i'm going to be doing our
0:03 first one in person and welcome it's
0:05 nice to see everybody's face
0:07 so finally
0:08 i'm glad to have you here
0:10 so welcome to our july 13th meeting of
0:13 the squad environmental board so due to
0:16 our hybrid format of tonight's meeting
0:18 i'm going to provide a few guidelines
0:20 and stacey's going to correct me when i
0:21 make mistakes
0:23 so we're going to have participants
0:24 attending in person and then also some
0:27 online
0:29 via the our remote system here
0:32 um so we need to speak clearly pause
0:34 frequently and state your name each time
0:36 before you speak
0:38 you don't have microphones nothing to
0:39 mute but the folks on the other side
0:41 need to mute their microphones if
0:43 they're not speaking please
0:45 for those of you on the remote side if
0:47 you're if you're having technical issues
0:49 try joining the meeting using a
0:51 different device smartphone or tablet or
0:53 use the call-in information in the
0:55 meeting invite to call into the meeting
0:59 um commissioners when you have the
1:00 desire to speak make a question or
1:02 comment um rather than type it in like
1:04 we have we've decided just to tip our
1:06 little sign up like that and then
1:09 i'll call on you as we go around the
1:11 room there
1:13 [Applause]
1:15 uh at the end of each topic we'll we'll
1:17 summarize the agreement uh around
1:19 recommendations
1:21 um tonight we have four excused absences
1:24 jamie being one they see our others
1:30 and laura
1:31 and do we need any alternates to be
1:33 serving as regular men yes
1:39 um i don't believe we're going to be
1:40 voting on anything tonight
1:42 and um
1:44 stacey do you want to do orientation to
1:46 the ford real quick great yeah just epic
1:48 orientation to the room since it's new
1:50 to all of us um bathrooms are in the
1:52 back uh kitchen if you need a water
1:55 refill it is over
1:57 to my left
1:58 emergency exit or out these two back
2:00 doors um and then if anyone is joining
2:04 on their computer just let me know so we
2:06 can make sure to disconnect your audio
2:07 so we don't get an audio feed
2:09 noted that no public internet that's
2:12 something maybe we can look into it so
2:14 if you do have other comments about the
2:16 room the setup um anything else that you
2:19 have a needs for journey just let me
2:21 know and we'll make a note to
2:23 accommodate that at the next meeting
2:28 do we need to do attendance
2:32 sure for the record let's do it
2:36 yeah that'd be great uh tommy anderson
2:38 here
2:40 uh nancy davidson here
2:42 cameron fisher yeah
2:45 dan hintz here
2:47 uh ashman hannah
2:59 do we have any public comments at this
3:01 time
3:02 i did not see any or i did not receive
3:05 any comments in writing ahead of the
3:07 meeting
3:08 i do not see any members of the public
3:11 online and we have no members of the
3:13 public in the brain
3:16 somebody steps in either online online
3:19 please let me know and then we'll go
3:20 through that process
3:23 otherwise next up is approval of our
3:24 minutes so we're approving the minutes
3:26 from the may 11th and the june 8th
3:31 are there any meetings on the minutes
3:32 that would like to be noted
3:39 it's 89
3:40 minutes are approved
3:45 say no public comments tonight we'll
3:47 move right in
3:48 i'm only on one topic tonight and it's
3:50 probably good because we're in a new
3:52 format so
3:53 plenty of time
3:54 so allen and gary are here to talk to us
3:56 tonight about the storm water and
3:58 wastewater master
4:10 i'm sorry you should have the presenter
4:12 control back
4:13 oh okay
4:16 okay
4:54 okay okay
4:57 all right good evening everybody my name
4:59 is alan quinn i'm a senior from one
5:00 engineer for the
5:02 city of the supply and i'll be
5:04 presenting the storm research water
5:06 master plan
5:08 final adoption
5:11 and i have gary schimmick he'll be here
5:14 as needed his support moral support uh
5:17 he's until his engineering manager and
5:19 then i have to i have the otak team
5:21 consultant firm that we hired to help us
5:24 develop a plan and and the team consists
5:27 of trista
5:28 bluskey
5:29 and
5:30 shayla jane and justice really
5:33 she
5:34 did a great job really doing recording
5:37 it's spearheading his whole effort she
5:39 late really needed
5:41 her grunt work she's an engineer and did
5:43 all the um analysis and all the
5:46 technical work so
5:47 welcome those two and i guess i just
5:49 want to start off by saying that i think
5:50 we met last time we met here was about a
5:53 year ago last spring
5:56 and that was the first meeting i think
5:57 that was a very inaugural environmental
5:59 board meeting um
6:01 and so
6:02 here we are again
6:03 thank you alex can i pause you for a
6:05 second sure would you like questions
6:06 comments as we go or wait till that
6:08 means wherever you prefer i can see
6:10 nancy's got a question so the agenda
6:13 topic is storm water and wastewater
6:15 master plans are you going to present
6:16 waste water as well no this is just the
6:18 storm surface water master plan so will
6:20 the wastewater plan be coming back in a
6:22 different time
6:23 i'm not sure yes they'll be coming back
6:25 at the
6:26 third quarter or fourth quarter yes okay
6:29 thank you
6:30 sorry for the confusion
6:32 sure
6:33 okay
6:34 so moving on here all right so the
6:36 purpose of me for this presentation is
6:38 really did this
6:40 explain where we're at it's really a
6:41 summary of all the work that's been done
6:43 quick summary and status and what we
6:46 need to complete this plan and get a
6:49 final adoption at the end of the year
6:51 we also want to present the final sort
6:53 of the product of all the effort that we
6:56 the culmination of all the work over the
6:58 last several years we initiate this
7:00 whole process back in
7:02 2000
7:03 late 2019 really and then covered it and
7:06 so that sort of delayed things a bit but
7:09 but here we are so it's and that's going
7:11 to really consist of the final smos or
7:13 stillwater management options which is
7:15 another term that we use
7:17 would be projects actual cip projects
7:19 that we can implement including our cip
7:22 program
7:23 and then
7:25 within within like a 20-year time
7:27 horizon so
7:30 and the quick agenda summary so i'm
7:32 going to discuss what's going to be in
7:34 the final draft plan um schedule
7:37 the s map requirement
7:39 we'll get that a little bit later
7:41 prioritization process recap and smo
7:44 screening
7:46 for final cip so how we actually
7:48 got to these final 10
7:50 projects
7:52 the smo metrics we used to prioritize
7:54 these projects and the final list of 10
7:57 projects and then any questions
8:01 yes or when you have acronyms can we
8:03 divide before yes i will do that exactly
8:05 thank you
8:07 here's so basically what we need to do
8:09 so this plan um we're going to submit
8:12 well there's two different courses of
8:13 action one is it satisfies the
8:15 requirement in our nvds which is our
8:17 national pollution discharge elimination
8:19 system phase two permit
8:21 and that's the permit that allows us to
8:22 basically get it's a discharge permit so
8:24 we can actually discharge from water to
8:27 water to the us
8:28 part of that current requires that we
8:30 develop an s map or storm water
8:32 management action plan
8:34 and that is and so this is going to
8:36 satisfy part of that requirement but
8:38 it's also to help assist with developing
8:40 our cip list just as part of our
8:42 stormwater management
8:44 plan that we
8:45 currently have when i sort of update
8:47 that plan with these new projects
8:49 um so it really is going to consist of
8:51 in this well this plan was completed
8:53 it's in the draft form now will be
8:55 submitted to ecology for the review
8:57 they've been reviewing different parts
8:58 of this plan all along the last couple
9:00 years and then they're going to get the
9:01 final plan to review
9:03 and and then all concurrently we're
9:04 going to be
9:05 getting it reviewed through internal
9:07 staff
9:08 and then a debt that they get adopted by
9:10 the council in your november time frame
9:13 the plan consists of existing conditions
9:15 assessment which is we've already i
9:16 think we've discussed that at the last
9:18 meeting we went through with that but
9:19 all was that entailed that's a huge
9:21 amount of work to really
9:23 look at what the existing bases are like
9:25 in terms of water quality habitat
9:28 and flooding issues
9:30 they have a lot of stakeholder input for
9:34 issues basins of the city
9:35 in identifying
9:37 and so that really is all packaged in
9:39 that in that section the smo or water
9:42 management options list and metrics that
9:44 will be in there
9:45 that would be all the problems are all
9:47 the identified problems and then the
9:49 solutions to solve those problems
9:51 stable engagement there's a section on
9:53 how we got to this point in terms of
9:55 having everyone involved in the process
9:57 so that includes the public
9:59 agencies
10:00 internal staff
10:03 various committees boards and
10:06 city council so that's been huge over
10:08 the last couple years
10:10 um and the college needs to have that in
10:13 there as well so they can see that we've
10:14 actually followed the public process to
10:17 come up with you know
10:18 these projects
10:20 the final priority sml list um the
10:22 schedule and then button budget needs
10:26 adaptive management and then and then
10:28 based on prioritization and s map
10:32 keep moving along here
10:34 so i guess so once again s map that's
10:37 just another it's just this
10:39 thought process that we have to go
10:40 through and it's something that is part
10:42 of the nps permit that ecology requires
10:45 all cities to develop
10:47 within a certain time frame so
10:50 uh plan
10:52 completion schedule so as you can see
10:54 there i have there's really four touch
10:56 points with various committees and
10:58 boards
10:59 first one is of course the environment
11:00 board today tonight
11:02 then we're going to quickly turn around
11:04 and
11:05 present to the parks board and the end
11:07 of the month
11:08 in the early august
11:10 planning development and environmental
11:11 committee
11:13 and then in november will be the city
11:16 council adoption so
11:18 i also have a timeline for the this will
11:21 involve civa because we are looking at
11:23 you know this could have potential
11:24 changes to
11:26 yeah that you know land use all kinds of
11:29 things could evolve from this so we do
11:31 have to go through a secret review
11:33 process so we'll initiate that sometime
11:35 in august once we have the final draft
11:37 plan completed and then out for review
11:40 then it would be ecology
11:42 that's their review schedule
11:45 in there give them time to look at the
11:46 final product and provide any comments
11:49 and then internal city staff so i we've
11:52 been already working with the various
11:53 departments parks department has been
11:55 involved in this
11:57 operations
12:01 so you know we involved several
12:03 departments already
12:04 and
12:05 planning development they're really
12:07 looking at it
12:09 and
12:10 we're gonna try to get all those
12:11 comments incorporated and then
12:13 finalize it adjust all the comments
12:15 finalize and get it for the city council
12:18 november
12:21 smo and cfp crisis prioritization
12:24 process i'm going to let um otak and
12:27 just to take over this one
12:33 thanks alan can everyone hear me okay
12:36 yes wonderful okay i'm trista koblewski
12:40 from otak thanks for that nice
12:41 introduction earlier alan
12:43 we've been uh really pleased to be
12:45 working on this for the past i think we
12:47 actually started in 2018 so we've been
12:50 working on this for quite a while and
12:52 it's been it's a pretty ambitious plan
12:54 um and we're happy that it's coming to
12:56 the finish line so we wanted to just run
12:59 through a little bit about how we took
13:02 over 300 issues that we collected during
13:05 that initial phase when we were doing
13:08 the baseline assessments of all each
13:10 basin
13:11 and winnowed it down
13:13 step by step until we have reached a
13:15 capital improvement program of
13:18 10 projects and i'm just gonna go over
13:21 this
13:22 pretty quickly and um
13:25 as far as i'm concerned if you have
13:26 questions during this slide it's fine um
13:29 i don't know that i'll be able to see
13:31 you so someone else will have to prompt
13:33 but we collected more than 300 issues
13:37 water quality issues
13:39 flooding issues erosion and
13:41 sedimentation and streams and
13:43 maintenance issues and we collected them
13:45 from a variety of sources a lot came
13:47 from city staff
13:49 some came from the public when we
13:51 went to the public and asked them to
13:54 put dots on a map and tell us where they
13:56 had concerns
13:58 other public reports of issues that came
14:01 in independently of that and other
14:03 agencies your neighbors and other
14:06 agencies stakeholders all contributed to
14:08 that list
14:10 and then the city
14:11 itself initiated a process with
14:14 its internal stakeholders and a few
14:16 invited stakeholders to select the top
14:19 issues from that quite large set
14:23 and they came up with uh 41
14:27 shoots
14:29 and those were spread throughout the
14:31 city in fact it was um
14:34 important that we had issues represented
14:38 in all of the basins
14:40 and it was also important that there
14:41 were issues representing all the
14:43 different types of issues that we had
14:45 collected
14:46 i also i neglected to mention i'm sorry
14:49 that habitat issues most of which are
14:52 culvert or fish passage barriers were
14:54 also included in that initial
14:57 so once we had the
15:00 top 41 issues representing again a
15:02 variety of issue types and spread
15:04 throughout the city
15:06 from that we selected
15:11 to develop conceptual solutions for
15:15 real high-level solutions at that point
15:17 and we are calling those stormwater
15:19 management options smos as alan
15:21 mentioned before
15:24 this terminology comes from
15:26 the ecology grant that is funding part
15:29 of this work but not all of it
15:32 uh we selected
15:34 those 23
15:36 we had some similar criteria we wanted
15:38 to make sure there was a solution for
15:42 in that representative set for at least
15:45 partly
15:47 one in at least every basin at least one
15:49 in every basin
15:51 and again we wanted the set of solutions
15:53 to represent a variety
15:56 problems or issues
15:58 and we
15:59 importantly wanted to focus on what are
16:02 known as retrofits
16:04 and that is providing new water quality
16:07 or new flow control service to an area
16:10 that doesn't have water quality or
16:12 doesn't have flow control
16:15 because it was developed prior to
16:17 regulations requiring that
16:20 and one reason we wanted to focus on
16:22 that is that that is the
16:24 key
16:25 requirement of that s-map requirement in
16:29 your permit
16:30 and is also a key requirement of the
16:33 ecology grant that's funding part of
16:34 this work so it was really important
16:36 that we
16:38 ensure that there was a a number of
16:40 those retrofits in that set
16:43 after that set of 23 we applied
16:47 some metrics to them
16:49 and these metrics had been approved by
16:51 ecology under the grant and we can
16:53 actually look at what the metrics were
16:54 in the next slide i actually think gary
16:57 um and alan talked to you about them
17:00 before
17:02 when we were developing the list of
17:03 metrics
17:04 they reviewed what we were going to use
17:07 i can just go over that list again
17:09 we did
17:10 end up using essentially the same things
17:12 we talked about or you talked about with
17:14 gary and alan at that time
17:17 and the purpose of the metrics was to
17:19 create a ranking
17:20 of those solutions
17:23 and then from that ranked list
17:27 we chose 10 to develop a little further
17:30 into the capital improvement program
17:32 um and just to
17:34 set your mind at ease all the known
17:36 issues
17:38 of the entire set of smos whether or not
17:40 they floated to the top or not are all
17:43 going to be represented in the plan so
17:45 there'll be lists of everything in the
17:47 plan and the capital improvement
17:49 projects the 10 that floated to the top
17:52 will just be developed
17:55 further than the rest and will have
17:56 better cost information and more of an
17:59 idea of when those solutions will be
18:01 implemented but your plan
18:04 has developed so much information that
18:06 there will be a backlog of things that
18:07 you can work on for years to come
18:10 um with the information that we
18:12 developed in this plan so none of even
18:15 though 10 floated to the top nothing's
18:17 really been lost and and there's a
18:19 wealth of information that you can use
18:21 to continue solving problems over the
18:23 next several years
18:25 that was a really long so sorry i was
18:27 pretty verbose there i'll stop now
18:31 no that's great
18:32 thank you yeah i think it's important to
18:34 know that really this plan although it
18:35 will be adopted
18:38 by council it's a living document and it
18:40 can you know it will evolve and you know
18:42 every two years we go through a budget
18:45 process of developing civs and when we
18:47 develop that capital improvement program
18:49 we'll pull projects from
18:52 from the 10
18:53 and
18:54 incorporate it into the cip but it
18:56 doesn't mean that you know as things
18:57 change and other issues come up um
19:00 uh we could we could
19:01 adopt adjust it and it might be a
19:03 process where we you know
19:06 revise it at some point in the future so
19:08 i think it's important to know that we
19:10 want to keep all those all those
19:11 solutions in there
19:12 um but that we you know recognize we
19:15 have to really narrow down to the
19:17 select few that we can really drill down
19:19 and come up with detailed cost estimates
19:20 and
19:21 implementation of schedules for them so
19:25 all right moving on here so just go
19:27 through these again these sms from order
19:29 match option
19:30 metrics and prioritization so once again
19:33 here and i the last time we met a year
19:35 ago plus
19:37 we went through these um i think they
19:39 did we didn't ask for feedback and i
19:41 think you know generally speaking
19:42 everyone was okay with these
19:44 with these metrics in terms of how to
19:47 assign numerical value for each of these
19:49 and
19:51 it is a way to really
19:53 prioritize projects and so just real
19:56 quickly we looked at you know how well
19:57 does it actually solve the problem
19:59 um in terms of water quality and
20:01 flooding and habitat and how and a
20:03 direct benefit displacement we thought
20:05 that was important yeah almost on that
20:07 one just to remember i think that that
20:09 was actually added after a conversation
20:11 the benefit of this management that's
20:13 one that uh
20:15 from this discussion
20:16 uh ended up having to correct
20:26 [Music]
20:32 how much work will that involve to get
20:34 that
20:36 you know purchase that property due to a
20:37 project that's always something to
20:38 consider constructability
20:42 uh yeah so that's like obviously is it
20:46 special construction techniques or
20:48 things that are you know good at come to
20:50 cost
20:52 also involve you know utility conflicts
20:55 you know we have a huge duck bank you
20:57 know so that's another thing to consider
20:59 permitting is always important you know
21:01 how difficult will be the permanent
21:03 different agencies fish and wildlife
21:05 court of engineers and that really
21:07 drives like the timing
21:08 and so that's important costs and
21:10 funding opportunities so this is really
21:12 leveraging
21:13 grant funds which we've done a pretty
21:14 good job in the city is a quad course
21:18 you know our restoration projects street
21:19 habitat restoration projects so it's
21:21 really trying to you know leverage those
21:24 grant opportunities and the timing of
21:26 those grants so it's important
21:28 and timing plays into the grant
21:31 opportunities
21:33 and coordination partnership with others
21:36 you know whether we work with washington
21:37 state department transportation and when
21:39 they're doing projects so obviously the
21:40 culver replacement projects in i-90 that
21:43 are moving forward here in the next
21:44 couple years that's our opportunity time
21:46 to work with them to do projects in
21:48 conjunction with those projects so
21:50 that's a savings there
21:52 um and we'll talk about that later here
21:54 in the media
21:56 presentation of regulatory requirements
22:00 re-satisfying any kind of
22:02 mbds requirement obviously
22:05 environmental and social justice so we
22:07 looked at that a little bit and that's a
22:09 little tricky but
22:10 there there's a metrics that we applied
22:12 for that
22:13 that we can use
22:14 um trying to make sure we're
22:16 doing projects that are fairly
22:18 representative of the communities
22:20 and then finally the public input so
22:25 any questions on any of those
22:27 metrics
22:32 what um
22:34 what what are your metrics for
22:36 environment environment and equity
22:39 um you know trista maybe you can i think
22:41 shifter really develops those and that's
22:44 one thing we did within this law and
22:45 this presentation is sort of the
22:47 numerical values of these things i don't
22:49 think we could do that but maybe speak
22:51 to the
22:52 to that i couldn't hear i know that it
22:55 was about the social justice but i
22:57 couldn't hear the question
22:59 what are some of the things we
23:00 considered when we looked at the social
23:02 justice environmental i i think it was i
23:04 think
23:06 okay
23:07 yeah um
23:10 we did a pretty simple
23:14 analysis for that
23:16 and
23:17 let me
23:18 pull it up
23:19 we we looked by census tract
23:22 and we used the
23:24 environmental protection agency's
23:29 environmental justice screening tool
23:32 and
23:33 [Music]
23:34 they have an index value uh
23:38 that goes by census tract that uh
23:41 attempts to measure
23:42 numerous factors and uh
23:45 about um
23:47 social equity basically and uh condense
23:50 it all into a
23:52 single index value and we use the
23:54 demographic index value and what we
23:57 ended up doing was uh looking to see
23:59 where kind of the breaking points were
24:01 when we
24:02 mapped it in the city limits itself
24:06 and we ended up
24:08 trying to
24:10 give more points if there were
24:14 more inequality
24:16 issaquah doesn't have high levels of
24:18 inequality the index value is is
24:20 actually
24:23 compared across the entire united states
24:26 so there
24:27 there weren't uh
24:28 and when you
24:30 take it by an entire census tract it's
24:33 it's not um
24:34 very granular but we took um
24:37 census tracts that had above the 85th
24:39 percentile
24:40 of that index value and the higher index
24:44 value
24:45 indicates greater inequality
24:48 uh we gave those point are those
24:50 projects
24:52 an extra three points
24:55 we gave two points if the
24:57 index value is between the 70th and 85th
25:00 percentile
25:02 one point if it was between the 55th and
25:05 70th percentile and no points if it was
25:07 below that
25:11 great thank you
25:12 thank you
25:16 okay cip status
25:18 so once again we selected ncip's as
25:23 explained a little bit about that
25:24 earlier
25:25 and currently working on developing the
25:28 concept designs and the cost estimates
25:30 so that's where the next phase is just
25:32 to start working we're working on those
25:34 now we're really going to get that
25:35 wrapped up in the next several couple
25:37 weeks to find out positive or second
25:39 health chance yes question
25:41 hi alan um so why ten cip projects
25:45 i have two questions that are kind of
25:46 tied together and why is there one in
25:49 each basin are we leaving something up
25:51 is there like if we did two in one basin
25:52 we'd get a better bang for a buck
26:04 and i think i think the ones we chose
26:06 are really good ones not like we
26:08 chose one where there's one really good
26:10 one that we decide well i mean it's like
26:12 it's gonna fall out because we have to
26:14 pick one for whatever basin and it
26:16 doesn't have one
26:18 it was low so i think all of them that
26:20 we chose were you know they made the top
26:22 23 right everything was in this top 23
26:26 projects
26:27 um and so i think it's important to
26:29 remember that those 23 are still there
26:31 and we can still go back into those
26:34 projects at any time
26:36 and but i think we need to recognize
26:38 that we had to really narrow it down to
26:39 10 just because that was a manageable
26:41 number that we could implement within a
26:43 reasonable amount of time given our
26:44 budget you know our funding and so forth
26:47 so that seemed like a good number to
26:49 shoot for
26:55 can i follow up on that so if you looked
26:58 at the 11th project that didn't make the
27:00 cut that was in maybe let's say the old
27:02 town neighborhood would you get a better
27:04 bang for your buck if you would have put
27:06 that project on the list instead of
27:07 something somewhere else and i just used
27:09 old town as a
27:11 as just one of the neighborhoods so i
27:13 guess i'm trying to understand
27:15 i still don't understand why we had to
27:17 have one in every base and one if you
27:19 look at it from a cost benefit what's
27:21 giving us the best
27:22 water quality and environmental benefits
27:25 what projects are doing the best for the
27:27 city
27:28 well i think well first of all
27:31 yeah i know you're saying by the way old
27:33 town is
27:34 is actually this is our part is quite a
27:36 highest priority of all of our of our
27:39 issues and the solutions so that's
27:41 that's number one
27:44 you know i i think it was just we just
27:46 felt it was important to to have one in
27:48 each basin i don't know
27:52 that was our criteria that we
27:53 established so you didn't hear that from
27:54 the community or the council didn't say
27:56 they wanted one in each basin was that
27:58 where you did you get any push that way
28:00 correct no no so that was just an
28:03 internal decision with me okay thank you
28:07 yeah i know trista if you wish to add on
28:08 that or i i think
28:12 no i think you covered it it was
28:14 it was a value from the beginning of
28:16 this
28:17 plan
28:18 um that it would be city-wide and
28:21 broadly cover the geographic area of the
28:24 city yeah i mean just try to represent
28:27 represent the city's best food
28:31 [Music]
28:32 that's one thing on the following
28:34 presentations and then to the
28:36 subcommittee
28:37 that uh presentation to the
28:40 committee council committee that we
28:42 could show is that this is the
28:43 recommended recommended um
28:45 how should i say it uh distributed um
28:49 top ten
28:50 but if we were to go directly to the uh
28:55 straight numerically this is what it
28:57 would look like so basically it just
28:59 kind of shows those bookends of the
29:00 straight cut and this
29:02 and what the what the pros and cons
29:05 would be i think that would be an easy
29:06 way to do it with the distributed model
29:08 being
29:10 what we were talking about trying to
29:12 touch touch everything and there's some
29:14 there's you know you can explain that
29:16 very easily the pros and cons of cuts
29:18 that and then flip to exactly what
29:20 you're saying like oh okay
29:22 here's the projects exactly right and
29:24 that's kind of what i'm trying to
29:25 understand what did you leave out to get
29:28 it in every basin or what
29:30 i i know we're not seeing the top ten
29:31 projects
29:32 okay
29:33 so and that's kind of what i'm pushing
29:35 back on what's the top ten projects in
29:37 the city
29:39 yeah and we can look at that with that's
29:40 a good point we can look at that
29:41 comparison look if we just bring them by
29:43 score absolutely then we compare that to
29:46 you know okay what do we miss and i
29:48 think that's a great thing to present to
29:49 council because i think that same
29:51 question will come up
29:52 and maybe it's only one project wow you
29:54 guys did a great job you know that's you
29:56 know that really will come out really
29:57 well
29:58 i agree appreciate your comment thank
29:59 you
30:02 take those crystals
30:06 all right um final cip list in nap i
30:09 don't know tristan you want to
30:10 definitely not to say this one this is
30:12 just a give you an idea
30:14 of decisions in the city
30:16 so kind of geography of what we're
30:18 talking about the scale of the bay
30:21 size of both sizes of the basins
30:24 and
30:25 projects are um
30:28 sure you can go over this really quickly
30:33 so there are two three different types
30:36 of cip in this map
30:38 most of them are points and you can see
30:40 those as the
30:41 uh orange dots we have one that we are
30:45 calling a linear cip we uh in the
30:48 tibbetts basin right near its confluence
30:50 with like sammamish and then there is
30:52 one that's actually a study
30:55 oh i'm using my mouse i realize you
30:57 can't see my mouse um i'm gonna ask alan
31:00 i'm gonna request to control the screen
31:03 and then i think people will be able to
31:04 see my mouse
31:07 can you see my mouse moving around
31:10 yeah yeah
31:13 okay so this um polygon right here this
31:16 orange polygon um you see that i'm
31:19 tracing with my mouse is a cip study of
31:22 the old time uh old town area oh nope
31:26 you can't see my mouse now you might be
31:27 able to see my mouse
31:29 um this is the cip study of the old town
31:32 area
31:37 as you can see
31:39 there are four cips in the issaquah
31:42 creek basin
31:44 and the other basin that has multiples
31:53 pivots
31:55 i apologize actually it's schneider
31:58 and then um each of the others
32:01 or in laughing jacobs
32:02 has two depending on how you categorize
32:05 sp13 uh this could probably will be
32:07 treating runoff uh that goes both to
32:10 laughing jacobs and into park hill
32:13 so this is a
32:15 potentially a particularly effective cip
32:17 treating water water running off into
32:19 two different water bodies
32:23 and
32:24 yeah there's a table here at the bottom
32:27 allowing you to
32:28 coordinate or look up the number and see
32:31 what the project name is
32:33 and then on the next slide there is
32:35 actually a little more detailed list
32:38 which uh then you could change to the
32:40 next slide alan all right
32:42 do i have to do that because i have
32:43 control sorry i'm new at webex so i'm
32:46 not sure
32:48 i think so
32:49 i think you're still i don't know how
32:51 though
32:53 don't know how to move the slides
32:56 there we go
32:57 okay thanks
33:00 um so this is a slightly more detailed
33:02 list um
33:04 this is in order first by basin and then
33:07 by rank within the basin
33:11 and
33:12 what we had planned to do at this
33:14 meeting was take a kind of a quick look
33:17 a slightly more detailed look at each
33:19 one of these
33:20 cips
33:22 so the next few slides the next 10
33:24 slides really are
33:26 a map of each each one's location
33:29 and
33:30 gives us a chance to talk about what's
33:33 going on in that location and what we
33:35 think the solution is
33:40 i'm actually going to release control
33:42 if i can figure out how to do that
33:55 i just have one quick question so
33:58 about a year ago we were getting
34:00 feedback
34:01 so i don't have access to my internet
34:03 right now so i can't about the impact of
34:07 brake
34:07 linings and um
34:10 tires on
34:11 salmon and coconin
34:15 projects potentially look at what we can
34:17 do to improve things like that
34:20 well yeah
34:21 we'll get into that but really the
34:22 retrofit projects that we're going to
34:24 show you later here
34:26 they're addressing that so there's water
34:27 quality treatments
34:29 they're standard they're using
34:31 technology that's been around a while
34:33 and in fact city discipline we have a
34:35 doing a study with
34:37 tacoma to look at the 6bdq
34:41 treatment this is our existing facility
34:43 so we're actually sampling doing
34:44 sampling of
34:46 what's pond and a cartridge system and a
34:49 bio retention
34:50 system
34:51 three different types of water quality
34:53 technologies that they've been around
34:54 for you know 15 20 years
34:57 and testing the influence fluid
34:59 measurement measurements and looking at
35:00 the removal efficiencies of those types
35:02 of systems with the 6bd queue
35:05 specifically looking at that it looks
35:07 pretty promising i can't really go to
35:09 the data but it's looking pretty good
35:11 so at least for now it looks like that
35:14 those existing technologies are going to
35:16 work and treat that in addition to the
35:19 metals that they're designed to treat
35:22 and so um so yes we have several
35:24 projects that will be retrofit projects
35:26 where they're going to be treating
35:28 roadways and previous pollution
35:30 generating services that currently have
35:31 no treatment and that's so that's the
35:34 aim but that's really the big part of
35:35 what what ecology wants to see in these
35:39 guest map type
35:42 or smos is projects that really trigger
35:45 or target um retrofit projects
35:49 thanks for explaining that it's just
35:50 hard to see that when you read through
35:52 this so thank you sure could i have one
35:54 thing on that as well too just very
35:56 quickly
35:57 there was a council request i think last
35:58 year that we're working on to develop a
36:00 gis layer that shows all of our existing
36:04 treatment
36:05 and what's going to be really important
36:08 with that as we go through that is that
36:10 it's really an asset management set to
36:12 look at what what are the facilities we
36:14 have
36:15 when were they installed what what
36:16 technology they have
36:18 because we
36:19 you know alan and i were talking about
36:20 this it's very important to treat areas
36:22 that don't have
36:24 anything that's great but what about an
36:26 area that has a lot of traffic and was
36:29 you know developed in 1990 and has
36:31 really inferior technology
36:34 you know again we're a little ways away
36:36 from that but i think that's what you're
36:37 gonna you know see in the future's
36:39 comparison
36:40 of that that we want to you know um push
36:42 back a little bit on ecology if
36:44 necessary and say hey we understand this
36:46 basis doesn't have anything but when you
36:48 look over here we think we should maybe
36:50 skip this one for now and come back to
36:52 that but that's
36:58 when that work is all done we're gonna
36:59 have this gis mapping that's gonna show
37:01 where we have existing treatment what
37:03 area how much acreage is it treating
37:05 throughout the city what type of
37:06 treatment system is it and then look at
37:08 okay prioritizing retrofitting you know
37:11 maybe areas that have older
37:13 intention
37:14 or wet ponds which is lower you know
37:16 older technology maybe we can upgrade
37:18 those
37:19 to a more of a height
37:21 they call hands treatment to deal with
37:23 the heavy metals so
37:25 that's going to be a great tool to get
37:27 that going so so when you complete this
37:29 study on the 6ppdq
37:31 i'd be interested to hear the findings
37:33 of that and then if you're willing to
37:35 share that i think the the regional
37:38 subgroup would be very interesting yes
37:40 sure absolutely
37:42 yeah i you know at the various riot
37:45 meetings that i do attend the technical
37:47 committee meetings and
37:48 i've brought this up they've been
37:50 interested in that because because that
37:51 group is is looking at that as well and
37:54 so they wish to know that
37:56 this claw and either tacoma are
37:58 collaborating on this so
38:02 fantastic okay
38:06 um all right so this is okay so we're
38:08 gonna start with our
38:10 ten projects this is the first one
38:12 and it actually i'm not sure they're in
38:14 order of priority but they this one
38:16 happens to be the
38:19 top of
38:20 projects and this is very complicated
38:22 complex issues here
38:24 and uh it's really going to involve us
38:26 uh we're looking at a study we i mean
38:28 initially otac looked at
38:30 they
38:31 looked at sort of specific prop
38:34 or projects that could work but it
38:36 became pretty obvious pretty quickly
38:38 that this is a really complex solution
38:39 because you have
38:41 so much happening in the space in the
38:42 interview this yeah this area old town
38:44 you have the internet you have the squat
38:46 creek which has its own you know creates
38:49 its own problems with the floodplain
38:51 and then you have um
38:53 shallow groundwater you have
38:56 some high-intensity land use areas um
39:00 inferior poor infrastructure stormwater
39:02 old systole storm systems and so this
39:05 really is a
39:07 more complex problem that we could
39:08 really otec could have dealt with in
39:10 terms of coming up with solution and we
39:12 felt it was really
39:13 suited for a more detailed analysis um
39:17 and so i don't and i interested you're
39:18 going to maybe or i'm sorry she
39:21 was going to maybe hit on a few things
39:23 about this project
39:25 for civ
39:27 thanks one
39:27 can you hear me
39:30 yes
39:30 okay
39:31 yeah so i think just like alan mentioned
39:33 um this this area what you see um on the
39:36 map here um the orange polyline is
39:39 basically 370 370 acres it's old town
39:43 and the blue dots represent all these
39:45 issues that we know that are flooding
39:46 related issues that there's a lot of
39:48 flooding happening here
39:50 um on the left side that blue line that
39:52 you see is issaquah creek
39:54 and that sort of bluish polygon there
39:57 shows the floodplain so part of the
39:59 problem is that the isoqua creek itself
40:01 floods over its banks
40:03 and um if you actually zoom into the map
40:06 which i know we can't do here you'll see
40:08 you see that there's a lot of
40:09 development within the flood plain so
40:10 there's a lot of structures that get
40:12 affected by that flooding
40:15 the other
40:16 thing to note on this map so all those
40:18 hatches and yellow and green
40:20 there's an old old town sub-area plan so
40:23 the city is also planning to
40:25 develop these and so basically encourage
40:27 development in these areas
40:29 and you know there was consideration of
40:31 um allowing additional impervious on
40:34 some of these parcels
40:36 and so um there's there's also a thought
40:39 of because this area just like gary and
40:41 alan were both mentioning where there's
40:43 you know there may be some facilities
40:44 but they were designed to really old
40:46 standards they're not as effective
40:47 anymore
40:48 um and so as this development occurs um
40:51 the
40:52 the question was whether you know
40:54 regional facilities can be built um that
40:56 will provide flow control and water
40:58 quality
40:59 for all of this um newer or this
41:01 redevelopment happening in this area so
41:03 that was the other consideration
41:05 um the other third piece that alan
41:07 mentioned you know just because
41:08 stormwater infrastructure is old there
41:10 are pieces that just don't have any
41:12 pipes at all or catch basin they don't
41:14 have convenience infrastructure
41:16 and so that is also part of the reason
41:18 why it's really flat and there's just
41:20 like
41:20 local bonding that happens on streets
41:23 um and so because there's all of these
41:25 problems happening in this area and and
41:27 there is future development planned uh
41:29 the idea would be that this study would
41:31 look at you know look at modeling the
41:33 hydraulics of the stream um and also
41:36 modeling and you know seeing how the
41:38 stormwater infrastructure would interact
41:39 with the stream so it would be a
41:41 combination of both of those things
41:43 and then also seeing whether regional
41:44 facilities could be cited if they could
41:46 be considerations like alan which was
41:48 mentioning groundwater um
41:51 is is another one um but there'd just be
41:53 a lot of pieces to study um to be able
41:56 to come up with and it wouldn't be one
41:58 solution it would probably just to come
42:00 up with something comprehensive it would
42:01 need to be multiple smaller solutions in
42:03 this area
42:04 and so the study would basically look at
42:06 that um
42:08 and i think um it this study the thought
42:10 was that it would get coordinated with
42:12 king counties
42:13 they're studying issaquah creek and the
42:15 floodplain associated with the creek so
42:18 it would get coordinated with that
42:20 effort
42:21 and the effort that they're doing for
42:23 their channel migration study and i
42:25 think cis
42:27 allen you probably know what cis stands
42:29 for um but maybe you could talk to that
42:33 so i think that that's a great setup
42:34 yeah i just wanna so thank you for that
42:36 overview of this and i think i i'm
42:39 excited about this uh and i'll get it to
42:41 see us in a second but the
42:43 partnership which again we showed as a
42:44 metric this is huge right because cis is
42:48 a capital investment strategy
42:50 uh which i believe uh the king county uh
42:54 flood control district has about 800 000
42:57 set aside for issaquah
43:01 five and six i i will come back to you
43:03 and next to give you that access at that
43:05 date right that's that's kind of conduct
43:06 there actually um
43:09 studies to come up with potential
43:10 projects
43:11 currently this year they are doing a
43:13 flood uh plate study and next year
43:16 channel migration study so all of this
43:18 on there
43:19 within the flood control district
43:21 funding so really this this project that
43:23 we're highlighting here we're going to
43:26 propose with dallas in our cip to
43:28 partner with that so this really would
43:30 be a
43:33 county city partnership over the next
43:36 few years to look at you know very um
43:40 start with regional solutions that can
43:42 really get at reducing deep flows from
43:44 hearing these larger events
43:46 that is really the serious issue as all
43:48 of you know with the flooding and we and
43:51 the county is on board at least at this
43:52 point to looking at potentially site you
43:55 know looking at identifying and citing
43:57 the project in the county so we can pull
44:00 our resources there of course it could
44:01 be in the city as well but i think we're
44:04 both on the same page with the county
44:06 and the city is
44:07 let's let's where can we get you know
44:10 nancy used the biggest bank card here
44:12 where can we reduce peak flows as a
44:15 coordinate as coordinated agencies first
44:17 let's let's forget about it about the
44:19 jurisdictional boundary what makes most
44:22 sense and can we do that in a way that
44:24 also benefits habitat could it be an
44:26 off-stream type of story so so that's
44:28 where we're kind of headed with this and
44:30 it will be a multi-multi-year project
44:32 but a week at least
44:33 get started over the next couple years
44:35 working in concert with them i think
44:37 that's great working with the other
44:38 agencies and you had a question
44:40 yeah um i think that's one of my
44:42 questions gary do you give a definition
44:44 of what does cis actually say what's
44:45 your capital investment strategy
44:47 strategy and that were some of the
44:48 examples you're giving at the end you
44:50 know i guess i'm a little curious what
44:52 feasibility of region are sorry regional
44:54 facilities for development are i guess i
44:56 don't know what that means i'm curious
44:58 to give examples or explain that a
44:59 little bit more sure i can just think
45:01 about you know a couple just off-handed
45:03 allen can probably think of a few but
45:05 there's you know gray of course gray and
45:07 green in infrastructure right so i was
45:09 thinking of the the classic one would be
45:11 some type of um we've done this a little
45:14 bit
45:15 like that right
45:17 off channel storage right where you have
45:19 off channel storage and potentially
45:20 restoration you know
45:22 that you're going to have to peek flows
45:24 um during adventure for two months
45:27 so there would be some type of
45:29 something like that could be grey
45:31 infrastructure it could be some type of
45:33 uh i mean redmond has done this
45:36 quite a bit with their infiltration
45:39 galleries where collectors repeat flows
45:41 and then infiltrate so so it that that's
45:43 kind of what this would
45:45 get at is what are those possibilities
45:47 so the locations and then the type but
45:49 we're we're open to any tools okay any
45:52 tools and i'm sure chile has ideas of
45:55 this but i think something we looked at
45:56 is utilizing some existing park lands
45:59 and and where we could
46:01 use energies with parks and stormwater
46:04 doing joint facilities
46:06 where it could be in fact as a function
46:07 of the park but also function as office
46:09 channel storage
46:11 in fact we're looking at that with parks
46:12 master plan at the tip it's tip
46:15 apart the trivets
46:18 here
46:18 and because they're going to be looking
46:20 at redoing this whole master plan for
46:22 the park and we're working with
46:24 stormwater and this master plan to see
46:27 um you know what how we can
46:29 you know
46:30 site off channel type facilities that
46:33 would attenuate flows and so forth so
46:35 that's the idea it might involve land
46:37 purchases so that's part of this is
46:39 identifying parcels to purchase uh to do
46:43 these joints it could be a joint park
46:45 storm water you know flow control as
46:47 well as habitat i mean
46:49 so many things you can we can do here so
46:52 so yes and the other important thing to
46:54 note
46:55 you know this is
46:56 the modeling effort's huge right so the
46:58 county is going to really pay for that
47:00 effort to do all the hydraulic modeling
47:03 hydrologic update hydraulic hydrology
47:05 we're going to look at climate change
47:07 scoped in there with their consultant to
47:10 look at climate change precipitation
47:13 future float you know future persistence
47:15 precipitation how that will affect
47:17 you know the flip the model flows so
47:19 it's a huge effort and the counties you
47:21 know it's great that
47:22 the timing could be better for the
47:24 county obviously and the other thing the
47:26 final note is that the county does own
47:28 several
47:30 stable bank stabilization facilities in
47:33 issaquah and that in these facilities
47:36 that were put in years and years ago to
47:38 stabilize the bank mostly rock is what
47:40 it really consists of so they they want
47:42 to look at those facilities as part of
47:43 this effort and see where they you know
47:45 where they need to maybe modify them and
47:47 change them and put in more fish
47:49 friendly facilities
47:52 yeah there's a lot a lot there that i've
47:53 had
47:56 the answer is your question is yeah yes
47:58 sir
47:59 and do you have a question
48:00 yeah
48:01 um you mentioned
48:03 that collecting the water and then
48:05 releasing it later
48:07 could you could they be
48:09 could be collected into cisterns so you
48:11 could release it like later in the
48:13 summer when things need to be watered
48:18 um yeah so uh yeah i can speak from
48:21 experience on uh a basin in seattle
48:24 thornton creek a very large basement we
48:26 did this is updating myself a little bit
48:29 about 10 years ago
48:30 did look at that but that is that is
48:32 challenging to do to kind of to get the
48:34 the right of the the volume needed for
48:36 individual cisterns is it's it's it's
48:38 fairly large for a significant peak flow
48:41 like this so that that's something you
48:42 could look at this but it just
48:44 you have that what i would call an
48:46 operational issue with that to make sure
48:48 that that all the individual cisterns
48:51 no matter how large they are being
48:53 operated in the correct way like you're
48:54 saying so that
48:56 in the winter it's right they have to be
48:57 able to hold that back so that's
48:58 definitely a classic distributed system
49:01 but it's it's typically harder to make
49:04 that actually happen
49:05 when the rate's that heavy
49:07 and can ponds be used for that um
49:11 without worrying about mosquitoes
49:15 well we have we have ponds now yeah and
49:18 it is that's always an issue with
49:21 what they call like ponds which are
49:22 ponds that are designed to drain all the
49:24 way out they have
49:25 water sitting in all the time that's how
49:27 they work um in terms of water quality
49:29 and the water quality function of the
49:31 pond
49:32 yeah mosquitoes are always an issue but
49:35 the good news and i can speak to to that
49:37 because i when i worked with city renton
49:39 i was a west nile bio virus coordinator
49:41 and so part of what we did was to go out
49:44 and and treat our stormwater ponds
49:46 with waterside but the good news is it's
49:49 not an issue in this part of the country
49:50 in the northwest we don't really have
49:52 west nile virus we don't have it it
49:54 doesn't for some reason doesn't like
49:55 this area
49:56 the
49:57 mosquitoes that we have don't it's not
49:59 an issue here fortunately but there are
50:01 ways to treat the ponds if you think i
50:04 don't get all the details but yes it's
50:05 something to be aware of but
50:08 it's generally not an issue for here so
50:17 you know i'm not positive but i think
50:19 that the highlight of the super
50:20 highlands there are pond there's ponds
50:22 up there which the city maintains but i
50:24 think there's an agreement with the
50:25 homework associations up at the
50:27 highlands to use those costs
50:30 that's great
50:32 um thanks to my hopes just to speak up
50:34 to make sure that folks that are joining
50:35 remotely can hear and these are our
50:37 microphones so
50:42 well i guess it's kind of a question and
50:44 a comment so i would encourage you to
50:46 look at up for storage and recovery as
50:49 you're looking at these off-site storage
50:51 things the reason i'd say that is um
50:54 there's funding at ecology right now for
50:55 much of that work
50:57 and if you take that and you take your
50:59 wintertime water and you can inject it
51:01 back into where we're getting our
51:04 potable drinking water or in those areas
51:06 so we're still maintaining stream flows
51:08 there's opportunity to get greater water
51:10 rights for your drinking water system so
51:12 you have two utilities that are
51:14 benefiting this from the city so if
51:16 you're really looking at that kind of
51:18 system i'd really encourage you to think
51:20 outside the box and go into
51:22 looking at that i know two jurisdictions
51:24 right now that are getting funding from
51:26 apology to do that type of work so i
51:28 just encourage you to try and think
51:31 about uh if you're doing off-site
51:32 storage or something like that seeing if
51:34 you can potentially get into some kind
51:35 of piloting of injecting it and getting
51:39 greater water out for groundwater
51:41 right i think actually stacey could
51:42 maybe speak to this
51:44 psychology but
51:46 and the city was had to participate in
51:48 what they called in-stream flow
51:49 psychology's requirement where these
51:51 beaters accept their
51:53 wells the things that wells not in the
51:55 rural areas
51:57 but basically ecology was encouraging
52:01 to maintain history flows you know that
52:04 you come up with projects that will do
52:06 exactly what you're saying
52:07 and you're right there are there are
52:09 grants out there to um for those type of
52:11 projects
52:12 and so that's something we did look at
52:14 when that that whole that requirement
52:16 sort of well complicated but it went by
52:19 it basically never got completed and
52:21 ecology's not taking over
52:23 that whole process
52:25 but um so that's we can look at that and
52:27 i think some of these off-channel
52:28 projects that where you can have off
52:31 channel storage and allow the water to
52:33 infiltrate and recharge the groundwater
52:36 is beneficial for in-stream flows like
52:39 you said but the problem is is that
52:41 we're so far downstream in the system
52:43 that it's not
52:44 it's not as
52:46 is effective and unless
52:48 as opposed to being further up in the
52:49 watershed um that makes sense i would
52:52 push back on that comment on you just as
52:54 a comment and i would say that you if
52:56 you look at it
52:58 you know our well fields you're pretty
52:59 much down in the valley the city's
53:00 drinking water well fields so if you're
53:03 trying to put more water in there so you
53:05 can pump it out later it's not just for
53:07 in-stream clothes but also so you can
53:10 um continue to take water because your
53:12 groundwater walls you're growing down
53:13 your groundwater systems i i just think
53:16 there's an opportunity here that's
53:17 bigger than what you're talking about
53:19 here that's just my comment
53:20 okay we'll definitely put it as if we'll
53:22 consider that i think what ellen and i
53:24 can commit to again this this one i
53:26 think is i would dare say that the
53:28 largest project that we have here
53:31 on this list is that we would be coming
53:33 back to you
53:35 at a very early concept stage with uh
53:38 probably with the county as well so this
53:40 is something and so i think you know
53:42 particularly in this year but uh have
53:45 your your kind of solutions about you
53:47 know ponds cisterns i think you know
53:49 that's something we
53:50 we will kind of commit to saying we're
53:52 going to look at a full toolbox here and
53:54 we have to right we have to look at a
53:56 full toolbox here
53:57 um in coordination with the county and
53:59 kind of come back and we'll be back
54:00 early to the board on that with this
54:02 what this goes through because this will
54:03 be you know just a multi-year uh uh
54:07 this
54:09 this is a huge multi-year effort
54:10 multi-coordination so
54:12 committing to start off early having a
54:14 wide
54:15 right scope and then coming back coming
54:17 back again
54:20 so thank you guys
54:21 good comments very good thank you
54:25 all right moving on number two sp 28 29
54:30 avenue
54:31 southeast water volume improvement
54:33 project so this one is located in the
54:35 esquad basin so over by
54:40 so the i-90
54:42 interchange there
54:43 just north on
54:47 the east lake it's a match parkway so
54:48 this is the
54:50 gravel pit gravel plant
54:53 that road
54:54 um and so this area is probably
54:56 problematic where there's a growl area
54:59 that
55:00 when in heavy rains it mobilizes
55:02 sediment and it um
55:06 the heavy flows you know the velocities
55:08 erode the gravel and the sand and it
55:11 ends up into
55:12 entering the north fork of the sequat
55:14 creek
55:15 so you can just plume the sediment that
55:17 comes in the creek during
55:19 you know various storm events i'm not
55:21 sure what storm event but you know
55:23 fairly frequently
55:25 and so this really is a project that we
55:27 decided that we needed you know
55:29 high visibility in some ways and we
55:30 wanted to
55:32 try to reduce that sediment load into
55:34 the north fork
55:37 and also there's other issues with you
55:39 know the
55:41 travel
55:42 kit itself um this has been violations
55:45 of the industrial permit um similar to
55:48 our nvds industrial permit but they have
55:51 to manage their their runoff and there's
55:53 some violations there and so
55:56 we thought this would be a good project
55:57 to really try to do some treatment
56:00 because the north fork does you know
56:02 enter is a tributary to the creek
56:05 and it's important to treat that runoff
56:08 so it goes to the top and one of the
56:10 higher
56:11 uh prioritized projects so you're not
56:14 tristan if you want to add anything
56:16 on this
56:18 alan no i i think you covered it pretty
56:20 well it's it's a water quality
56:22 improvement project and a drainage
56:24 improvement project for uh 229th avenue
56:28 southeast
56:30 yeah just quickly add that watchdog
56:33 several years back now was in 2016 i
56:35 think did a culvert project
56:38 they actually realigned part of the
56:40 north fork
56:42 and put it to the culverts there to
56:44 across e6 parkway so
56:48 anyhow that maybe they've made a fish
56:50 passable they'll beat the ability
56:52 yeah
56:54 that gravel area you refer to that's
56:56 basically property
57:10 effort
57:20 more about that
57:22 we would need to investigate
57:24 whether a facility could be sighted
57:27 in or near that gravel but even if we
57:30 just um provide better drainage down
57:33 229th avenue
57:35 southeast which is very steep street
57:37 uh it doesn't have drainage
57:39 infrastructure on that side of the road
57:41 and
57:42 runoff sheet flows onto that gravel area
57:45 so even if we just provide a collection
57:47 and conveyance system we'll have less
57:50 a muddy runoff onto
57:53 6th 66th i'm sorry
57:56 because there won't be any run on into
57:58 the gravel so we'll have less run off
58:01 onto the
58:02 street likely
58:04 but we'll investigate also a water
58:07 quality facility
58:09 interesting
58:10 are you going to say something shaylee
58:12 oh i was just going to say is that this
58:13 also talks to i think um uh
58:16 when we were talking about 6ppd quinoa
58:19 like when we look at water quality that
58:20 this is like a street that has a lot of
58:22 trucks so
58:24 we would look at you know um trying to
58:26 use the bmps that might address that so
58:29 that that is something that we would you
58:31 know try to put in
58:32 so that um you know because of the dire
58:35 um runoff as well as metals from the
58:38 trucks and oil and grease so we'd be
58:39 looking at all of those pollutants um of
58:42 concern um in order to figure out which
58:44 facility or what type should put in
58:54 [Music]
58:59 dealership there
59:00 [Music]
59:01 obviously they've been abandoned i'm
59:03 assuming since we've still got the
59:06 um old there
59:08 right right right you know i don't have
59:10 the update on that it's it's really the
59:13 permitting department you know where
59:14 that stands
59:16 it wasn't you know there had there was a
59:18 flood plain we had a flip plane map
59:20 update there that was never done and so
59:22 that was recently completed um to
59:26 a letter map revision basically
59:29 which which should have been done by
59:30 washdot you know post project you should
59:33 do a map right mapping post project it's
59:36 called willmar
59:38 and they did not do that so we ended up
59:40 doing that um
59:42 but yeah i don't know the status of the
59:44 dealership
59:57 i mean they're doing their own treatment
59:58 on site of course for their impervious
1:00:00 parking and so forth but
1:00:02 um but this does i think that's a i
1:00:04 think it's a good comment because some
1:00:05 of the other comments that all three of
1:00:07 you made this is definitely one of those
1:00:09 partnership
1:00:10 projects where we will need to talk to
1:00:12 the stakeholders whether they're
1:00:14 whether they're part of the solution
1:00:19 [Applause]
1:00:23 i don't think it's a good point because
1:00:24 i'm not sure what
1:00:26 the plan is for southeast 60
1:00:30 66 if there's if they're going to prove
1:00:32 that roadway they're required to do
1:00:33 their improvements along there
1:00:36 if they are then that would be obviously
1:00:38 yeah we would want to coordinate with
1:00:46 and we have a question from dan as well
1:00:48 i i think it's most of an answer that's
1:00:50 why i just want to clarify something
1:00:51 like there's multiple owners of that
1:00:53 gravel op
1:01:02 you know but
1:01:03 um and it turned out that it was a
1:01:05 little more complicated than i thought
1:01:07 um in terms of it's not so much whether
1:01:09 land ownership but really there's some
1:01:10 utilities okay if we wanted to sort of
1:01:13 put in some conveys piping to take it to
1:01:15 the other
1:01:17 the other direction because right now it
1:01:19 goes into the north fork because of our
1:01:20 crew right and we were thinking of
1:01:21 taking it to the other
1:01:23 other
1:01:24 direction but then the problem with that
1:01:26 is you're separating the bases you're
1:01:27 taking water that was in one base
1:01:29 without the basin and that violates
1:01:32 you know depending how far they
1:01:33 recombine again that's not that's not a
1:01:35 good thing so i was just curious if
1:01:37 there's feasibility of you you mentioned
1:01:38 resurfacing this is the
1:01:40 slide here of actually paving it i don't
1:01:42 go by there much but i feel like when i
1:01:44 do you don't see
1:01:45 that parking lot i'm just curious if
1:01:46 there's you know for me that would make
1:01:48 even more sense you know i don't know if
1:01:49 that would be more cost efficient or
1:01:51 long-term benefits yeah you know the
1:01:53 conveyance system but i'm just curious
1:01:55 if that would be something
1:01:56 to explore um
1:01:58 in terms of actually just be paving that
1:02:00 section there but
1:02:01 right
1:02:03 thank you no i think dan i think that's
1:02:05 a great point too of you know these are
1:02:07 early you know the the concept phases i
1:02:10 think
1:02:12 looking at
1:02:14 you know yes we're looking kind of we're
1:02:17 talking about capital solutions but can
1:02:19 also be as we're going through these
1:02:20 things about well is there something
1:02:22 operationally or or repair or rehab-wise
1:02:25 that we could do that instead of a
1:02:26 capital project so i think that's right
1:02:28 you're going to see that with all these
1:02:29 projects as well too this is
1:02:31 you know from the
1:02:33 preliminary ranking these look like the
1:02:35 the best ones for a capital project but
1:02:37 there may be offshoots because of what
1:02:38 we find out right well i think you know
1:02:40 my bias is very habitat so you know
1:02:43 that's the actual buffer of the north
1:02:44 forward right there in that parking lot
1:02:46 so i can see some multi benefits there
1:02:48 great thank you thank you
1:02:50 put it back to work
1:02:53 that's my
1:02:55 solution for a lot of things
1:02:57 yeah yeah
1:02:58 all right next project
1:03:06 so this really came out of some of the
1:03:08 comments or issues that our maintenance
1:03:10 department
1:03:11 operations had identified
1:03:14 and this really is uh
1:03:15 um i think it's a good project because
1:03:17 it really is a lot of
1:03:19 targets a lot of different benefits
1:03:21 essentially what happens is water high
1:03:22 velocity closed during storm events come
1:03:24 down my hill creek which is this
1:03:27 creek right here
1:03:30 right before it there's a covert that
1:03:33 crosses a wildwood boulevard
1:03:36 um so right before that culvert and
1:03:38 inlet side of the cover there's a big
1:03:40 trash rack
1:03:42 and it kind of create like a
1:03:43 segmentation
1:03:45 uh basin of sorts where the water comes
1:03:47 down and it it
1:03:49 moves gravel which is a natural process
1:03:51 from the hillsides it's mass wasting
1:03:53 moves it down which you know you do want
1:03:55 gravel recruiting that's how you get
1:03:57 gravel into the streams that help
1:03:58 percentage fish responding
1:04:02 and so but the problem is that gravel
1:04:03 piles up there
1:04:05 and then it if it's not maintaining a
1:04:06 regular basis
1:04:08 you know bigger storms it just will
1:04:10 flood basically flood the roadway while
1:04:12 with boulevard southwest
1:04:15 and so a couple so by doing the project
1:04:17 we're proposing is really looking at
1:04:18 putting in a
1:04:20 bigger covert more likely a uh
1:04:23 a box cover if just passable and this is
1:04:26 also i believe just to identify it as a
1:04:28 fish passage
1:04:29 issue is that right
1:04:32 yes it is
1:04:33 okay so so yeah so in terms of the
1:04:36 issues we looked at also the the
1:04:37 database from wfw that has all the
1:04:40 identified fish passes you know issues
1:04:43 within the city of support and this is
1:04:44 one of them
1:04:46 um so basically put in a box culvert
1:04:48 that would make the fish passable and
1:04:50 then daylight everything else downstream
1:04:52 of there down to essop creek the stretch
1:04:54 that's in the park behind the park so
1:04:56 that could be maybe daylighted and so
1:04:58 that will provide some fish
1:05:01 habitat shin habitat
1:05:03 a fish passable fox culvert
1:05:06 um they allow the gravels to move
1:05:08 through um naturally and then of course
1:05:10 eliminate a maintenance headache
1:05:13 and save some money because because like
1:05:15 i said the city makes sense about their
1:05:17 periodic things and with that gravel so
1:05:30 next project sp 172
1:05:32 over capacity increase in front street
1:05:34 crossing the lewis lane temperature
1:05:39 so this project uh i don't trust it you
1:05:42 want to take this one on i think i'll
1:05:44 just kind of go over it but essentially
1:05:46 this is one that came up pretty
1:05:48 frequently there are a lot of hits on
1:05:50 issues here
1:05:51 that we identified for the
1:05:52 disappointment assessment that we've
1:05:54 done and all the output outreach and the
1:05:57 public comment where we had the map the
1:06:01 web map where people could
1:06:03 put pins and just discuss issues and
1:06:06 this this area really along um sixth
1:06:09 avenue southeast
1:06:11 there's a lot of
1:06:13 concerns of flooding along here
1:06:16 it's combination of some undersized
1:06:18 pipes there's also culvert crossing
1:06:21 or so this is lewis lane tributary up
1:06:24 here and then there's a trip to that
1:06:26 which is this one right here and it
1:06:27 crosses over across 36th avenue
1:06:29 southeast
1:06:31 and that culvert's undersized um
1:06:34 so the thought was here because it
1:06:36 seemed to be a
1:06:38 fair amount of public uh comment on this
1:06:41 that he would
1:06:42 look at investigating doing some type of
1:06:44 improvement along here whether it's
1:06:46 emphasizing the conveyance systems
1:06:49 putting into culver crossing here
1:06:53 to that effect so um
1:06:56 i don't know trista anyone else makes
1:07:04 i think you've mostly covered it ellen
1:07:06 there's there's a lot of flooding
1:07:08 complaints in the area and
1:07:11 um the the project is really
1:07:13 investigating the drainage system and
1:07:15 coming up with a solution to
1:07:18 manage or avoid
1:07:20 not local flooding
1:07:25 we need to do some investigation to to
1:07:27 figure out which um exact elements of
1:07:31 of the of the system
1:07:33 need to change but
1:07:35 that's really what it's intended to
1:07:36 solve
1:07:37 okay thank you so let me add one thing
1:07:39 here back to
1:07:40 something nancy said very early on is
1:07:42 that as we go through
1:07:44 these um
1:07:47 all these projects to the concept level
1:07:50 we'll be
1:07:52 better documenting
1:07:54 the cost of the project but also the
1:07:57 benefits as well right
1:07:59 so that is what you know this is why
1:08:01 it's great to have this playbook of of
1:08:04 all these projects that we
1:08:06 can't get to right away if we do find
1:08:08 that something
1:08:09 uh just is not looking right in terms of
1:08:12 cost benefit
1:08:13 uh you know that that's what we may have
1:08:15 it offering but we meet again i think
1:08:17 that's something we come back to you and
1:08:18 council
1:08:19 uh before before stopping it we would
1:08:22 say hey uh you know we're at 30 design
1:08:25 this is really really good
1:08:27 at the beginning now that we've dug into
1:08:29 it more
1:08:31 the cost benefit
1:08:32 even with the externalities of social
1:08:34 benefits of our developments might not
1:08:36 look good so i think uh you know that's
1:08:38 that's what we want to commit commit to
1:08:40 you as well is we're not just gonna
1:08:42 uh go go blind you know blinders out
1:08:45 with these projects we're gonna each
1:08:47 step we're gonna look at this and again
1:08:49 if something doesn't pan out we want to
1:08:51 come back to you and tell you why and
1:08:53 maybe we should put this on hold or you
1:08:56 or you know again something nancy said
1:08:58 to maybe maybe it's better for a later
1:08:59 time in combination with another project
1:09:04 that context
1:09:19 cove um
1:09:20 you have that
1:09:22 all right so
1:09:24 this project is over near the state park
1:09:26 um this is a portion of
1:09:30 snyder creek
1:09:32 the downs the portion downstream of i-90
1:09:35 uh so a couple things going on with this
1:09:37 project
1:09:38 um this was really i think one where we
1:09:41 felt we could
1:09:43 we could combine it or work with washed
1:09:45 on in terms of what they're doing
1:09:47 because they're they're
1:09:49 right now they have plans to
1:09:51 do several colder crossing replacements
1:09:54 replacement projects on i-90 to satisfy
1:09:56 the requirement to
1:09:58 you know meet the
1:10:00 mandate that they have to replace all
1:10:02 these culvers within a 10-year time
1:10:03 frame um
1:10:05 that are fish issues not they're not
1:10:08 fish possible
1:10:09 and so this is one of them uh
1:10:11 so basically the snyder creek is a
1:10:14 non-fish passable
1:10:16 culvert so they need to go in there and
1:10:17 replace this culvert
1:10:19 and we thought that well this would be a
1:10:21 good time to
1:10:22 look at doing some channel improvements
1:10:24 so this is really looking at so we try
1:10:26 to actually picking a mixed bag of water
1:10:28 quality projects flooding projects and
1:10:30 habitat projects
1:10:31 and this is one we thought would be a
1:10:33 good opportunity to do a stream
1:10:35 enhancement or habitat project
1:10:38 downstream by 90.
1:10:41 still in what we're doing now with
1:10:43 right now in construction there's the
1:10:44 city's doing this lower squad creek
1:10:46 restoration project it's a great project
1:10:48 there near costco where we're
1:10:51 restoring you know we're putting in side
1:10:53 channels back water channels and
1:10:55 putting in large wooded debris and that
1:10:57 would be completed at the end of this
1:10:59 year so i'll
1:11:00 be more about that just
1:11:02 going to go out and look at it but
1:11:03 anyhow this is the kind of thing worth
1:11:05 talking about here
1:11:06 um doing some improvements along this
1:11:08 portion of schneider creek
1:11:11 you know basically if if washout's going
1:11:13 to come in with a culvert to
1:11:15 upsize make it fish passable then it
1:11:16 only makes sense to then improve
1:11:18 downstream section
1:11:20 um for fish so
1:11:24 so coordination watchdog
1:11:26 opportunity there to share some new
1:11:29 design efforts um
1:11:31 yeah so any questions on that trista
1:11:35 anything jaylen
1:11:38 um there
1:11:40 there's been some uh wetland and
1:11:42 riparian
1:11:43 enhancements
1:11:45 just fyi
1:11:46 and the um city parks department
1:11:49 uh downstream in the vicinity of our
1:11:52 project area has been doing native plant
1:11:55 plantings for a while i believe they've
1:11:57 finished that effort
1:12:00 in-stream enhancement would be
1:12:03 designed to kind of coordinate or
1:12:05 complement the more riparian upland uh
1:12:09 plantings that parks has taken care of
1:12:11 so this is one where
1:12:13 we hope by coordinating with both
1:12:15 washdot and the park the city parks
1:12:17 efforts that we do really get a lot of
1:12:20 things for the buck on this type of
1:12:22 project
1:12:24 a little bit on there if i may i think
1:12:26 this one will also i think we've talked
1:12:28 about be highly competitive in grant uh
1:12:31 grant opportunities for for a couple of
1:12:34 reasons well
1:12:35 primarily well two two reasons one the
1:12:38 coordination with the watchdog project
1:12:40 but two other work that has already gone
1:12:42 on so i think those two
1:12:45 is the third that it's somewhat limited
1:12:48 scope and area so i think this is gonna
1:12:50 this is one that you know really ranked
1:12:52 high in that that
1:12:53 you know potential opportunities
1:12:55 for grants uh grant funding which again
1:12:58 we're pretty successful at uh here at
1:13:00 esquad uh but this is
1:13:09 what's on the upstream side of what's on
1:13:11 the other side of the freeway where is
1:13:13 that down at formula or is that
1:13:15 down through here is it
1:13:24 [Music]
1:13:36 that is all city is this a small part of
1:13:38 it on private property near the mouth of
1:13:39 schneider creek or is most of the
1:13:42 creek wealth and city
1:13:44 property there in the park it's hard to
1:13:46 tell this man um you know i'm not
1:13:48 entirely sure some of them might be like
1:13:50 the outlet there that they're like maybe
1:13:53 on private property so there might be
1:13:54 like a top of the neighborhood
1:13:57 yeah okay cool yeah good point good
1:14:01 point
1:14:02 um so okay
1:14:05 let's do one next one here
1:14:07 sp 65 uberridge or convenience
1:14:09 improvements so
1:14:11 yeah the problem is you don't really
1:14:13 have an idea
1:14:14 about where this is we had that map
1:14:16 earlier that showed it um all the
1:14:17 projects but
1:14:19 it's kind of hard to tell when you zoom
1:14:20 in with where it is but this is up on
1:14:22 cougar ridge so
1:14:24 um it's a snyder creek basin so just
1:14:25 upstream of the creek we're just looking
1:14:27 at upstream along the hillside cougar of
1:14:29 cougar mountain
1:14:31 off the newport way
1:14:33 does that give you a sense of what we're
1:14:34 talking about here
1:14:36 anyhow it's a
1:14:38 subdivision where there's a flooding not
1:14:40 only along uh what within 193rd place
1:14:43 but also southeast 56th street which has
1:14:46 occurred in the past
1:14:47 once again when we get these highest
1:14:49 velocity storm storms where the
1:14:52 there's erosion and scouring of you know
1:14:54 the hillside
1:14:55 and it deposits
1:14:59 gravel and sediment just upstream of the
1:15:01 where it connects so
1:15:03 the base of the stream connects into the
1:15:05 system here
1:15:07 storm system here and then
1:15:09 the gravel deposits there clogs it's not
1:15:12 maintained but sufficiently enough it
1:15:14 you know
1:15:15 because if we get big enough storm but
1:15:17 it just overwhelms
1:15:19 the storage behind that um structure the
1:15:22 inlet structure with the
1:15:25 trash rack on it
1:15:26 um that it will flood and so someone
1:15:29 another project we i talked about
1:15:30 earlier
1:15:32 this would
1:15:33 essentially
1:15:35 improve
1:15:36 that um
1:15:40 do something to prove that whether it's
1:15:41 putting in a the problem here is you
1:15:43 know it's a little bit different because
1:15:45 there's no cream there's no spark print
1:15:47 right next to it so
1:15:49 the problem is that the sediment would
1:15:50 go into the storm system the
1:15:52 local storm system which is
1:15:54 so that would have to involve some type
1:15:56 of uh
1:15:58 yeah i guess that's something we have to
1:15:59 think about how would we do there um
1:16:03 more likely of sizing made sizing the
1:16:05 pipes to the collection system
1:16:07 so that's a little bit tricky tricky one
1:16:09 i don't trust it do you want to add
1:16:11 anything to that
1:16:12 i think there's an issue about access
1:16:14 for maintenance as well so we'll be
1:16:16 looking at improving
1:16:18 maintenance access are ensuring that
1:16:19 it's easier to maintain
1:16:21 as well as requiring less frequent
1:16:23 maintenance um
1:16:25 this uh partly made it on the
1:16:27 the priority list because of the
1:16:30 amount of effort that
1:16:32 city operations is putting into
1:16:33 maintaining
1:16:34 that um
1:16:37 that structure
1:16:38 uh needing to
1:16:41 suck out the sediment so frequently
1:16:45 and um even not being able to keep up
1:16:47 with it so that uh at times the
1:16:49 neighborhood does flood a little bit
1:16:52 should
1:16:53 improve the situation for city
1:16:55 operations and we'll be considering
1:16:57 maintenance access
1:17:02 for clarification here this the
1:17:04 open channel is coming from the left in
1:17:06 the storm system at that first purple
1:17:08 square correct
1:17:11 yeah so likely it would involve maybe
1:17:13 like tristan said better access and some
1:17:16 type of a more formal
1:17:19 structure that you that's still going to
1:17:21 have to collect the sediment i mean
1:17:22 there's no getting around that we can't
1:17:24 pass it through
1:17:25 otherwise it would go into the it it's
1:17:27 not like we can pass it through to a
1:17:30 decree
1:17:33 so it's going to involve a
1:17:35 yeah you know it's just a
1:17:37 maintenance type facility that will have
1:17:39 to be made you know where they're going
1:17:40 to come in with trucks factor trucks to
1:17:42 clean it out
1:17:43 but just a more efficient system i guess
1:17:46 as opposed to how it is now which is
1:17:47 just it just fills up too frequently so
1:17:50 maybe it involves excavating more you
1:17:52 know to put in a large type of
1:17:53 segmentation basin or something like
1:17:56 um goodness can be blending in when we
1:17:58 get into looking at the upstream
1:18:00 resources right what are the sources
1:18:02 is there something you can use
1:18:05 the amount of segmentation that's
1:18:07 occurring or something
1:18:10 like i said it's a natural process
1:18:11 that's how our creeks get they're
1:18:13 replenishing their gravel and that's
1:18:15 we're sort of choking it out with these
1:18:17 when we built these storm systems but so
1:18:19 we got to figure out a way to
1:18:21 trap it and so it doesn't flood and
1:18:23 remove the material
1:18:25 more efficiently basically down to
1:18:30 any more comments questions
1:18:33 when the gravel gets removed then is it
1:18:36 put into the issaquah creek in an area
1:18:39 that might need some credible yeah
1:18:41 there's not there's no requirement for
1:18:42 that it's not like mitigating anything
1:18:44 it basically our crews just i think they
1:18:47 actually get a stockpile and dry it out
1:18:49 a bit and then they get set off i'm not
1:18:51 sure where they send it
1:18:53 exactly we have several of these
1:18:55 facilities actually one right here
1:18:57 uh this uh tibbetts banner cementation
1:19:01 basis which is just right off of this
1:19:02 creek or this creek right here and in
1:19:04 fact that's the one
1:19:06 where we're and it might as well bring
1:19:07 it up now even though it's on our top 10
1:19:09 it's maybe it's not our top 10 because
1:19:11 we're already addressing it so there's a
1:19:13 study out there
1:19:15 that we're going to begin that's going
1:19:17 to look at how we can
1:19:18 remove that cementation basin and allow
1:19:20 the gravel to
1:19:23 migrate through
1:19:24 and not cause flooding
1:19:27 we're plenty to gravel downstream
1:19:29 and we're of course limiting all the
1:19:31 maintenance costs because right now
1:19:32 we're spending like 40 000 a year i
1:19:34 think to maintain this segmentation
1:19:36 basis move gravel out of it
1:19:38 requires permitting you know our
1:19:40 operations permitted every couple of
1:19:42 years so
1:19:43 so i've worked with crowd unlimited we
1:19:45 got a grant from king county to study
1:19:48 this system correct study this system
1:19:50 all the way so so this is a good example
1:19:53 you know like leveraging grant money um
1:19:56 it's gonna solve the problems to save us
1:19:58 money in the long run it's gonna help
1:20:00 eliminate flooding
1:20:02 and help the fish um
1:20:05 but it's not in this list because we're
1:20:06 already addressing because these are
1:20:08 projects that are not you know we're
1:20:10 going to incorporate into our cip this
1:20:12 would already use in our city
1:20:14 in the future so that's great news thank
1:20:15 you so much for doing that well i
1:20:17 actually carry this uh experience a lot
1:20:19 of that effort to
1:20:21 get right now
1:20:25 all right uh sp 43 east lakes managed
1:20:27 parts of the water quality fit so here's
1:20:29 the first one that will be a register
1:20:31 that we're going to talk about part of
1:20:32 the retrofit project
1:20:34 um this is on the e6 match parkway
1:20:37 that we identified as an area that has
1:20:39 high adt
1:20:41 and of course we have this
1:20:44 that has a average daily uh
1:20:47 traffic so to count it how much
1:20:50 how many trips do you does the average
1:20:52 of the trips rather um and so as i
1:20:55 figure what the threshold is for high is
1:20:57 but it basically has a lot of traffic
1:20:59 yeah on a daily basis generating a lot
1:21:01 of pollution a lot of tire dust a lot of
1:21:02 oils and grease
1:21:04 so this would be a prime candidate to do
1:21:06 some type of retrofit um as gary
1:21:08 mentioned earlier with our this gis
1:21:10 layer we're trying to put together
1:21:12 you know this would
1:21:13 this gis layer
1:21:15 when it's fully built out would
1:21:17 basically identify areas like this that
1:21:19 hey you know there's no treatment here
1:21:21 this road is built in the whenever 70s
1:21:25 and so back then there's no treatment
1:21:28 and so um
1:21:29 and it has high adt so we should
1:21:31 definitely target this as a it's a
1:21:33 registered project
1:21:36 so that's what that's a good example of
1:21:38 what we're proposing to do
1:21:43 oh and uh
1:21:45 yeah and this was included yeah and so
1:21:48 this project was also so let me just
1:21:50 back one more thing i want to add in
1:21:52 addition to the effort we're doing here
1:21:53 with the stormwater master plan for
1:21:55 issaquah the city of amish is also
1:21:57 developing what's called the lapping
1:21:58 jacobs creek basin plan and the city
1:22:00 partnered with them to because
1:22:03 about
1:22:05 percent of the watershed at black and
1:22:08 jacob's creek is invisible even though
1:22:10 the majority of it is up in the spanish
1:22:13 plateau it you know the most
1:22:15 important part in terms of issues is
1:22:17 actually the support so latin gig of
1:22:20 creek is uh
1:22:21 very important for copenhagen
1:22:25 they use that system for spawning and so
1:22:28 it's a critical habitat for them
1:22:30 and so
1:22:31 um so it's part of lafayette jacob's
1:22:33 basin plan that samantha's developed
1:22:36 we basically are going to use their
1:22:38 information we took their plan that they
1:22:39 finally finalized and we pulled off peel
1:22:42 off some of the projects that they came
1:22:43 up with and so we didn't have to you
1:22:45 know basically be redundant in our
1:22:47 efforts and this is one of the one of
1:22:48 two that that we're going to use that
1:22:51 they recommended
1:22:53 so once again we could try to
1:22:54 collaborate as much as we could with
1:22:57 to develop this cip
1:23:01 any questions
1:23:04 sp230 yes
1:23:08 is the high school are the schools
1:23:10 they're being built gonna be um
1:23:13 a big issue for that
1:23:15 project uh well they're gonna i mean
1:23:17 that the high school and elementary
1:23:18 school but yeah well they're going to
1:23:20 have to do their own mitigation right
1:23:22 they're going to provide their own
1:23:23 treatment for their site in terms of
1:23:25 water quality detention so it's not
1:23:27 really so this is only so this is
1:23:29 actually this is on not even we're going
1:23:31 to get to that there's another project
1:23:32 closer to that to the school district
1:23:35 projects but this is zoe front and it's
1:23:36 on east valley or e6 match parkway so
1:23:39 it's not really going to be impacted by
1:23:41 the school
1:23:42 by the school
1:23:44 those two schools however
1:23:46 this project uh sb230 southeast 43rd way
1:23:50 road way historic treatment
1:23:53 water chamber pressure fit that is just
1:23:55 downstream of those two schools
1:23:58 but once again
1:24:00 even though the schools will discharge
1:24:02 into the system that does end up down
1:24:05 here they do have to do their own
1:24:06 treatment so this is strictly treating
1:24:09 the runoff from um
1:24:11 uh southeast 43rd
1:24:14 retrofitting to treat it and the city
1:24:16 upstream of that just upstream is a
1:24:18 section of southeast 43rd where
1:24:21 the city did a single signal project and
1:24:24 it's an
1:24:24 intersection improvement project maybe
1:24:26 two years ago
1:24:28 and that that project did put in two
1:24:30 water quality or two detention tanks and
1:24:33 a monitor wetland on your weapons to
1:24:36 treat that area
1:24:37 so this would just kind of help to
1:24:40 um continue that treatment all the way
1:24:50 32 westlakes managed parkway water
1:24:52 quality retrofit
1:24:55 so this is the lewis creek
1:24:56 basin um
1:24:59 i know so you want to take this one on
1:25:00 or or maybe uh i guess let me take it
1:25:03 off i think i'll do this one as well so
1:25:06 this project is another retrofit project
1:25:08 so once again a washcloth is going to be
1:25:11 in the process of designing and they're
1:25:13 going to replace the little street cover
1:25:16 with a
1:25:18 50 million dollar
1:25:20 covert a series of four box covers
1:25:22 across i-90
1:25:24 so this could be
1:25:25 working with them trying to coordinate
1:25:27 with them and part of that work is it
1:25:29 kind of involves actually modifying west
1:25:31 lake spanish parkway because
1:25:34 of the way that
1:25:35 the creek goes underneath it goes
1:25:37 underneath i-90 also goes underneath the
1:25:38 west six members parkway because of the
1:25:40 great issues in order to get a box cover
1:25:42 in there they have to raise grade of uh
1:25:45 west six mountain parkway so they're
1:25:46 gonna do some they're gonna modify that
1:25:48 roadway a bit and we thought well that's
1:25:51 a great time to once again go in there
1:25:53 and work with them
1:25:56 maybe
1:25:57 collaborate together a joint project at
1:25:59 the same time
1:26:00 do a meeting of tearing up the road
1:26:02 let's go ahead and put in some treatment
1:26:04 a system to treat them run off on that
1:26:05 roadway
1:26:16 yeah okay
1:26:17 and of course that would that would help
1:26:19 treat you know high pollutants that
1:26:21 enter lewis creek which once again says
1:26:23 very extreme
1:26:25 highly productive strain um so it has
1:26:28 those benefits as well so it seemed to
1:26:30 make a logical sense to
1:26:33 target this
1:26:34 for a retrofit so
1:26:36 the treatment area to this looks fairly
1:26:40 small
1:26:42 yeah i think i don't know we talked
1:26:44 about that um
1:26:46 how big that area would be
1:26:49 the although the dot is in one location
1:26:53 um we
1:26:54 we there might actually be several like
1:26:56 smaller facilities along
1:26:59 a longer extent
1:27:02 um uh west lake samamish
1:27:05 parkway there um so
1:27:09 we'd be treating um probably
1:27:12 more than that so as gary mentioned
1:27:15 washdot will have a requirement to
1:27:16 provide treatment for any pavement they
1:27:18 modify as part of their culvert
1:27:20 replacement project
1:27:22 and what we would be proposing to do
1:27:26 coordinate with them and at the same
1:27:27 time provide
1:27:29 either an upsized facility or additional
1:27:33 facilities that could be constructed and
1:27:35 roughly
1:27:37 roughly the same phasing to treat more
1:27:42 and we've got
1:27:44 we could go either direction um from the
1:27:47 the crossing
1:27:49 over lewis creek or both directions um
1:27:52 for facilities in the right-of-way
1:27:56 again this is
1:27:58 a road that has quite a lot of traffic
1:28:00 so that 6ppd equino
1:28:03 issue the tire wear particles and
1:28:06 its a
1:28:07 significant impact on fish
1:28:10 is something we'd be keeping in mind and
1:28:12 making sure that we select
1:28:16 sf are types of bmps that can treat 6ppd
1:28:20 equinome or remove it i should say from
1:28:23 runoff
1:28:40 so okay here's some great projects we're
1:28:43 going to work on but then there's this
1:28:44 huge backlog and uh the tools and
1:28:47 methods and our understanding of the
1:28:50 science behind all this is improving
1:28:52 that greatly
1:28:54 and uh
1:28:55 is there any hope
1:28:57 that our backlog would uh get smaller or
1:29:00 will the backlog
1:29:02 just keep getting bigger and bigger
1:29:06 i don't know
1:29:07 how would you measure the city of
1:29:09 issaquah's response to these problems
1:29:12 compared to other jurisdictions
1:29:15 kind of in line with the what is typical
1:29:20 the jurisdiction from this area or
1:29:23 city universe boy doing a bang-up job
1:29:26 above and beyond what others are doing
1:29:28 or how do we know
1:29:32 a few questions there one of the just
1:29:33 the backlogs of two things on the back
1:29:36 um when you look in the project we're
1:29:38 kind of proposing here at the backlog
1:29:40 that we have now
1:29:42 uh what we'll be
1:29:43 you know we're working on our 23-24
1:29:45 budget right now just be good to see
1:29:47 that you're going to see a few of these
1:29:48 projects on there but not a lot
1:29:50 the current rate study and uh ends of 25
1:29:54 so we'll probably 24 be starting a new
1:29:57 five to six year rate studying all these
1:29:59 this backlog will somehow be worked into
1:30:03 uh for these projects but for the larger
1:30:04 map backlogger one will stop
1:30:07 i think you're gonna you're just gonna
1:30:08 unfortunately in the stormwater world
1:30:10 we're gonna keep it be addressing issues
1:30:12 for quite a while so i think we're gonna
1:30:15 be addressing these and then there's
1:30:17 gonna be more
1:30:18 more coming up
1:30:20 just as i mean that just seems to be the
1:30:22 nature of stormwater whether it's
1:30:24 flooding due to you know climate change
1:30:26 or just more particular pollutants that
1:30:29 we didn't know are causing issues but
1:30:30 now we know they're causing issues so
1:30:32 the number first of all but i think you
1:30:34 know this is definitely
1:30:37 a good portion of the backlog but i
1:30:39 don't think there's this is going to end
1:30:40 it and then compared to where we are you
1:30:42 know frankly i think we're you know
1:30:45 again we can maybe show this
1:30:47 this could be a maybe another discussion
1:30:49 but i i'd say we are very high on the
1:30:52 high end of how we're approaching storm
1:30:54 water in this o'clock for the region um
1:30:58 redmond for our support it's another
1:30:59 good example
1:31:00 um but there
1:31:02 for the number of for the amount of
1:31:04 population that we have
1:31:06 uh for our cip
1:31:09 when you look at that it's pretty
1:31:10 impressive
1:31:11 uh the variety of products especially on
1:31:13 the restoration end
1:31:15 that alan talked about earlier one of
1:31:17 the things we really are trying to do
1:31:18 here is address flooding
1:31:21 water quality and habitat and i think
1:31:24 you know
1:31:24 we look at portfolios for other cities
1:31:27 counties in the area we're pretty high
1:31:29 up there and i think we have that
1:31:31 respect you know we talk to
1:31:34 others in our jurisdiction they're
1:31:36 pretty pretty impressed with what we do
1:31:37 here in that uh
1:31:39 not that we don't know work to do we do
1:31:42 yeah i mean yeah there's a and we have
1:31:44 this i mean i can
1:31:47 give it yeah
1:31:49 present it but there's a
1:31:51 there's a
1:31:52 map and a list of all the restoration
1:31:55 looking at restoration for example the
1:31:56 ball pressure recreation project this
1:31:57 supply has done over the last like 20
1:31:59 years and it's quite impressive this has
1:32:01 a map of every project we've done
1:32:05 how much it costs
1:32:06 when it was completed
1:32:08 and so we
1:32:10 we really i think from the restoration
1:32:11 standpoint we do a great job we follow
1:32:13 the riot 8 um sam recovery plan which is
1:32:16 this you know basically they look
1:32:18 through the simple process they rank
1:32:20 projects that would help
1:32:22 do the best job recovering salmon
1:32:24 and so we're following that list they're
1:32:27 going in that that plan and plugging the
1:32:29 projects that we're high priority in
1:32:31 there and putting them in and we're
1:32:32 completing one of those projects right
1:32:35 and in our security we have another
1:32:37 project that's from that list called the
1:32:39 squat
1:32:40 valley
1:32:41 south
1:32:42 restoration project so i think yes i
1:32:44 think this quest did a great job with
1:32:46 the restoration end of it you know makes
1:32:49 it a little infrastructure and it's it's
1:32:50 going to be a never-ending
1:32:53 you know job
1:32:54 to identify where we have failing
1:32:56 infrastructure and
1:32:57 and that's where asset management can
1:32:59 come in and so there's this yeah store
1:33:01 monitors there's a lot of
1:33:03 job security at stormwater
1:33:05 and with all the all the permitting
1:33:07 requirements
1:33:08 and i want to add that we do leverage a
1:33:10 lot of grant funding also from ecology
1:33:13 to do these retrofits so there's money
1:33:15 out there specifically targeting
1:33:16 retrofits
1:33:18 we've already got three three grants for
1:33:21 three different projects for the ecology
1:33:23 that would be based
1:33:25 on this list other areas that we
1:33:26 identified as high priority high use
1:33:29 high intensity high collision generating
1:33:31 areas that we're going to be treating
1:33:32 blends in old town
1:33:34 dogwood street there's gonna be one
1:33:36 there um actually 200 on the camera so
1:33:40 so that's
1:33:41 so we're still like i said this is only
1:33:43 what we've identified for this for this
1:33:46 process but there's you know there's so
1:33:47 many other projects that are on this on
1:33:50 list that aren't the top 10 and who
1:33:52 knows as time involved goes on we may
1:33:54 try to
1:33:55 save this other one because one of the
1:33:57 things is we look at frequency of issue
1:34:00 how does it occur
1:34:02 and so some of these problems have been
1:34:04 identified as problems but you know the
1:34:06 last couple years we haven't quite maybe
1:34:08 seen as much of an issue so but then
1:34:10 there could be another also another
1:34:12 problem that
1:34:13 comes up and so then i said this has to
1:34:15 be a fluid document where we can
1:34:18 modify as needed but this is our best
1:34:21 guess
1:34:22 not a guest we look really hard at all
1:34:24 the issues and try to come up with some
1:34:27 methodical way to narrow it down to
1:34:29 something we can manage in our budget
1:34:31 you know we have loads of funds and
1:34:36 trying to leverage other other sources
1:34:37 of funding as best we can so let's
1:34:41 yes it's it's liz is never going to go
1:34:58 are are we adding to the list because of
1:35:02 uh future development
1:35:04 mistakes or you know i'm i'm guessing
1:35:07 that we've raised the bar on them the
1:35:09 future uh development is not added as
1:35:13 much as we did with the past because we
1:35:15 didn't know that right now we do know
1:35:17 better and so there is hope i guess it's
1:35:20 my fever this is all lizard problems
1:35:23 around the wild i mean like he said that
1:35:28 our stormwater requirements new
1:35:30 development
1:35:31 has they have higher way high standards
1:35:33 now that so they're mitigating doing a
1:35:35 pretty good job of mitigating all their
1:35:37 taxes
1:35:40 here i think what we want to
1:35:43 do with alan turner asset mentioned i
1:35:45 think we want to be eliminating
1:35:47 surprises right
1:35:49 new issues so that we
1:35:50 better understand how infrastructure is
1:35:52 working
1:35:54 likely to fail we can then plan ahead
1:35:56 for it so that we can keep those stable
1:35:59 great rates profile so that we know how
1:36:01 much how much work we could take on and
1:36:04 not get a really surprised like oh my
1:36:06 goodness like this facility just failed
1:36:08 out of the blue
1:36:11 you're going to see going forward as we
1:36:13 better understand the system works by
1:36:15 taking this more of a asymmetry
1:36:20 fancy
1:36:21 question so last time you were here we
1:36:23 talked a little bit about doing
1:36:25 partnerships with private entities you
1:36:27 know maybe instead of always doing it
1:36:29 through title 18 like
1:36:31 doing a stormwater facility you know on
1:36:33 their property per se instead of just
1:36:35 buying into a regional facility along
1:36:38 the way you know thinking bigger of
1:36:40 getting something like a bigger bang for
1:36:41 our buck and it seems like the work
1:36:43 you're doing in the old town sub basin
1:36:45 is an opportunity or something like that
1:36:47 to happen uh are you still considering
1:36:51 absolutely
1:36:53 little projects here and there just get
1:36:55 a big one and you nailed it
1:36:56 and really brought that up so as
1:36:59 i think that's part of the tool kit so
1:37:01 we what we talked about earlier right
1:37:04 for old this is going to be probably a
1:37:06 number of solutions right but let's say
1:37:08 that a regional facility is part of the
1:37:11 part of the part of the solution
1:37:13 one of the then we talked about how to
1:37:15 finance it so one thing we could do it
1:37:17 could not just be uh yeah this is this
1:37:19 is really pushing the cutting edge again
1:37:21 other people's have done this but
1:37:22 instead of just being counting in city
1:37:24 this could be private developers could
1:37:26 pay into this
1:37:27 instead of doing something on their
1:37:29 property if we feel there's a bigger
1:37:31 benefit so absolutely
1:37:37 you mentioned title 18 title 16 is also
1:37:40 i think you've seen a touch on that as
1:37:42 before
1:37:43 uh with the floodplain management and
1:37:44 stormwater code we're allowed to do that
1:37:46 so so we actually it gives us um
1:37:49 the turtle current titles give us the
1:37:52 authority to do that if it makes sense
1:37:54 so we we actually have that opening to
1:37:56 do that so we just now have to look at
1:37:58 how um
1:38:13 um so yeah that would be something to
1:38:14 look at that's a big you know it's a lot
1:38:17 that's a great opportunity to get a
1:38:18 better yeah better banking
1:38:21 my second question
1:38:23 if i can add just one piece to that i
1:38:26 think when we're doing sophie and lou
1:38:28 the other interesting pieces you could
1:38:30 also look at low impact development plus
1:38:32 retrofit facilities so some of the
1:38:33 things you were talking about in terms
1:38:35 of you know you were talking about
1:38:36 cisterns there's just other ways the
1:38:38 whole idea behind low impact development
1:38:40 is you infiltrate as much as possible in
1:38:42 a more distributed fashion so the idea
1:38:44 would be you know if the developers
1:38:46 could do portion of low impact
1:38:47 development on their properties and then
1:38:49 also connect into a regional facility so
1:38:52 there would be various kinds of
1:38:53 combinations and it would incorporate a
1:38:55 lot of the things that you guys are
1:38:57 talking about so
1:38:58 that would be studied as part of the
1:39:00 study i guess just wanted to add that
1:39:05 then my second question for you is
1:39:09 relationship with parks and how because
1:39:11 they're a big part of it and i guess
1:39:13 what's triggering this is they recently
1:39:15 sold some carpet and credits over here
1:39:18 cooper mountain i think it wasn't
1:39:23 they had some land that they acquired um
1:39:26 they have and they're saving the trees
1:39:29 and someone bought the carton credits
1:39:32 and they brought that presentation to us
1:39:33 and i guess
1:39:35 the thing i'm thinking about is
1:39:37 how was your interaction with parks
1:39:39 because they have big parcels of land
1:39:41 that they manage
1:39:43 that are great opportunities and
1:39:44 locations that it seems like there
1:39:46 should be a great a big partnership with
1:39:48 modern parks
1:39:50 actually there is a very good
1:39:51 relationship so i work with denver bank
1:39:53 all the time
1:39:55 and in fact we collaborate on several
1:39:57 projects but in the past in fact the
1:39:59 project that i'm that i'm constructing
1:40:01 now lowers the car creek habitat
1:40:03 restoration project over by costco and
1:40:06 that was
1:40:07 uh as parks we work with car parks we
1:40:09 actually use stormwater funds
1:40:12 because they don't you know
1:40:13 to actually make the purchase to buy the
1:40:15 properties once they get identified for
1:40:17 purchase and then we can do a joint we
1:40:20 do a joint project here so that's the
1:40:22 joint project where we're putting in all
1:40:24 this salmon habitat we're also putting
1:40:26 in a trail through there
1:40:27 um and we've done it with other projects
1:40:30 all alongside our creek so yes
1:40:33 understand that jennifer
1:40:35 is off and if you mentioned her name
1:40:38 she's going to be part of the uh the
1:40:40 king county collaborative work so she's
1:40:43 we're we're actually uh announced part
1:40:45 of this as well
1:40:46 starting a monthly uh just meeting with
1:40:48 king count everybody everybody
1:40:50 floodplain king county anthony
1:40:52 we're getting included for that for the
1:40:54 next couple years just so we're
1:40:55 completely coordinated so uh and no
1:40:58 bringing their parks focuses on youtube
1:40:59 too but yeah just it feels like a really
1:41:01 good collaboration here uh
1:41:04 you know two examples issaquah creep of
1:41:07 course nintendo's we're
1:41:09 just really working together
1:41:10 collaboratively
1:41:11 thanks very very much
1:41:16 any other comments from the board
1:41:19 thank you for your presentation uh you
1:41:21 guys have clearly done your homework i
1:41:22 think the projects you're bringing is a
1:41:25 good subset um of the ones you looked at
1:41:28 i think it's a good distribution
1:41:30 across the city and a good combination
1:41:32 of different types of projects that
1:41:33 you're looking at
1:41:34 i would encourage you that as time goes
1:41:36 on you you both mentioned that it's an
1:41:38 ever-changing world in stormwater
1:41:40 be flexible don't commit to a certain
1:41:43 set of projects and get too far down the
1:41:45 road because we all know that
1:41:47 regulations change
1:41:49 and they can change drastically in the
1:41:51 next five years so i've taken approach
1:41:53 of looking at these every few years
1:41:55 and it's a quick ad in terms of you know
1:41:58 the types of whether we chose projects
1:42:00 so the flooding habitat restoration and
1:42:03 we did have that discussion with i know
1:42:05 with council we talked about and wanted
1:42:06 to get their feedback where they thought
1:42:08 the priority women wanted to be i think
1:42:10 they you know everyone you know flooding
1:42:12 is obviously a big concern but they said
1:42:14 don't forget about the habitat it's
1:42:16 quite santa central
1:42:18 you know the conversations with
1:42:20 council president hunt on medication and
1:42:22 she really you know
1:42:24 she really likes to be involved in all
1:42:25 the stand recovery efforts and sees that
1:42:28 those restoration practices are
1:42:29 important so we want to make sure we
1:42:31 include those in there
1:42:34 we are saying and i will tell you um i
1:42:37 work regionally in the starring water
1:42:39 world quite a bit
1:42:40 and tom to your point of uh is this
1:42:43 about being progressive with their cip
1:42:45 work i think in the world of stormwater
1:42:47 yeah they are that's what stacks up with
1:42:49 the other cities and all around here
1:42:53 thank you gentlemen
1:43:09 great job
1:43:10 thanks
1:43:15 bye bye
1:43:21 all right stacy let's flip this along do
1:43:23 we have any reports from the
1:43:24 environmental board um yeah i'll just
1:43:26 talk about the board schedule and then a
1:43:28 quick update on the icap implementation
1:43:31 um it's a board schedule no major
1:43:33 updates have been made to that since our
1:43:34 last meeting i do need to confirm with
1:43:38 uh cpd that they'll be here in august to
1:43:40 talk about the national environmental
1:43:42 checklist
1:43:43 um and if we're especially incorporating
1:43:45 the feedback that the board provided to
1:43:46 them in our spring meeting um you may
1:43:48 know lucy left the city so some of that
1:43:51 work i think they're still figuring out
1:43:52 how to hand off
1:43:54 um so just a possibility that we may
1:43:56 need to delay that topic but i'll work
1:43:58 with them this month um to try and team
1:44:00 that up
1:44:01 um the other topic for august i'm
1:44:03 excited about
1:44:04 is to talk about our update on the
1:44:07 climate vulnerability assessment um
1:44:09 we'll probably have some discussion
1:44:11 questions coming to the board and then
1:44:14 from um our staff will also be here to
1:44:16 give us an update on the emergency
1:44:18 management
1:44:19 [Applause]
1:44:21 in august
1:44:23 um and just to note nancy to you uh
1:44:26 mentioned the wastewater i apologize
1:44:28 that was a carryover from an old
1:44:30 schedule that ended up on our agenda for
1:44:32 tonight but as gary mentioned we will be
1:44:35 bringing you the wastewater plan um
1:44:38 quarter three
1:44:41 can i ask another special question
1:44:44 and i know parks had mitch that they
1:44:45 would like to come back and talk with us
1:44:47 again about what their parks master plan
1:44:49 and stuff is yeah i don't know what
1:44:51 they're thinking but i'm just telling
1:44:53 some time to share okay great i'll check
1:44:55 it out
1:45:01 any other questions feedback on board
1:45:03 schedule
1:45:06 all right
1:45:07 um just brief update on icap
1:45:09 implementation we are just launching our
1:45:12 heat pump campaign finally um
1:45:14 we're gonna have our first workshop for
1:45:16 residents at the end of this month we'll
1:45:18 be doing a lot of promotion about that
1:45:20 over the next few weeks um there'll be
1:45:22 workshops done happening about every
1:45:24 three two to three weeks after that
1:45:27 through september
1:45:29 i presented to the planning development
1:45:32 and environment committee of the council
1:45:35 last month to request the funding for
1:45:38 the low-income
1:45:39 component of that program they were very
1:45:41 supportive they wanted to see more
1:45:43 budget and
1:45:44 effort going to that component of the
1:45:46 program in the future
1:45:48 um i'll be putting that request to full
1:45:50 council on monday it's actually going to
1:45:53 on the consent agenda so we're hoping to
1:45:55 receive that support on monday
1:45:59 clean buildings program we presented
1:46:03 on that program to the council committee
1:46:05 back in june
1:46:07 there were some concerns recommendations
1:46:11 shifting our priorities with less of a
1:46:14 focus on um
1:46:16 companies
1:46:18 um our lights are blinking in here billy
1:46:23 he's telling us it's too late time to go
1:46:25 home um so we're we've
1:46:29 somewhat shifted
1:46:31 not necessarily shifted the focus
1:46:32 shifted um a component of that program
1:46:35 to look at energy efficiency in existing
1:46:38 buildings
1:46:39 not solely focused on the buildings i
1:46:41 have to comply with the clean building
1:46:43 standard
1:46:44 but also working with other buildings
1:46:46 that are
1:46:47 interested in doing energy efficiency
1:46:49 upgrades um so a bit of repackaging of
1:46:52 that program and that will also go to
1:46:54 council on monday
1:46:58 we did put out an rfp for support of
1:47:01 that work
1:47:03 back a month or so ago and we've
1:47:05 identified
1:47:06 a consultant that we'd be working with
1:47:09 um assuming that council approves that
1:47:10 budget request so we'll be ready to go
1:47:13 and negotiate that scope of work
1:47:15 after monday if it's approved
1:47:18 climate vulnerability assessment much
1:47:20 more will come to you in august on that
1:47:22 but work is underway we held our first
1:47:25 staff workshop at that end of june and
1:47:28 we're now scoping the community
1:47:29 engagement piece
1:47:33 heard positively from department of
1:47:35 commerce that um that we are successful
1:47:38 in a grant opportunity from them that
1:47:41 will allow us to greatly expand
1:47:43 our community engagement piece as well
1:47:45 as the
1:47:46 types of tools that come out of this
1:47:48 program that types of communication
1:47:50 tools that come out of the assessment
1:47:52 um so we'll have a lot more direct
1:47:54 interaction with communities that are
1:47:56 probably highly at risk for climate
1:47:58 impacts but we'll also be building in
1:48:00 some broader community engagement
1:48:02 opportunities
1:48:03 somewhat similar to what was done for
1:48:05 the icap development
1:48:07 um that commerce grant i'll talk more
1:48:10 about that in august but it will also
1:48:13 provide us resources to integrate
1:48:15 results of the climate vulnerability
1:48:16 assessment into the comprehensive plan
1:48:20 um there's a number of parallel
1:48:21 conversations happening with king county
1:48:23 on wildfire preparedness and heat events
1:48:27 they're launching a big heat planning
1:48:29 strategy
1:48:30 so we're working to really intersect
1:48:32 that effort with the vulnerability
1:48:33 assessment as well as with the emergency
1:48:35 management plan so a lot going on um
1:48:38 there
1:48:39 a couple more quick updates uh community
1:48:41 climate challenge we've been really
1:48:43 working on team leader recruitment i
1:48:46 think's really important and the issue
1:48:49 is trail club has gotten very involved
1:48:51 has been doing a big recruitment
1:48:56 the collaborative cities the four cities
1:48:58 that are partnering on this we're
1:48:59 bringing on an outreach coordinator that
1:49:01 will be working across the city starting
1:49:03 next week so hoping to get
1:49:06 a lot more publicity out engagement
1:49:08 they'll be going out and meeting with
1:49:10 different groups around the city to get
1:49:12 them involved there's interest from some
1:49:15 students about starting a climate
1:49:16 challenge cup they've been doing this in
1:49:18 spokane so
1:49:20 we're going to start talking with some
1:49:21 of the schools about
1:49:23 about that and getting these involved
1:49:26 performance dashboard we're continuing
1:49:28 to take the feedback we heard from the
1:49:30 board uh a couple meetings ago uh make
1:49:33 requirements to that we'll be coming
1:49:34 back to you
1:49:35 in a couple of months to
1:49:37 provide an update
1:49:39 um lead for cities billy
1:49:42 really has been taking the lead on
1:49:43 working on collecting data
1:49:45 for that certification program um not
1:49:49 many updates there except we're just
1:49:50 plugging away with collecting data
1:49:53 that we'll eventually submit to try and
1:49:55 get a certification fee
1:49:58 last i just wanted to mention um was our
1:50:00 budget process is underway
1:50:03 um i'm focusing really on look at the
1:50:06 next two years and what icap
1:50:07 implementation
1:50:09 it was anticipated through the
1:50:11 development of the icap um so putting in
1:50:14 budget requests around building and home
1:50:16 electrification energy efficiency and
1:50:19 senate incentives
1:50:21 looking at implementing the
1:50:22 vulnerability assessment
1:50:25 work for the municipal buildings on
1:50:27 renewable energy and decarbonization eb
1:50:30 charging a lot of potential budget items
1:50:33 we're still working on packaging that up
1:50:36 and then it will go to council for
1:50:38 discussion
1:50:39 um what won't be seen in there i think
1:50:42 is where a lot of our work might shift
1:50:44 in the next year or so to more policy
1:50:47 regulations um because we really
1:50:49 anticipate that's a lot of
1:50:51 the staff time um so that may not be
1:50:54 seen in the budget but that's really
1:50:56 where probably a lot of our efforts will
1:50:58 shift and
1:50:59 hopefully in collaboration with all of
1:51:00 you we'll be working through those
1:51:02 together
1:51:04 so that is all i have for updates um
1:51:06 happy to take questions on that and then
1:51:08 the other thing uh just wanted any
1:51:10 feedback on the room any other needs you
1:51:13 have i heard
1:51:14 making sure we can get some internet
1:51:15 access because folks probably want to
1:51:17 pull the materials up
1:51:19 on their computers but feel free if you
1:51:22 have other feedback just grab me after
1:51:26 any questions on icap
1:51:29 items
1:51:32 great job with all of that yeah
1:51:34 thank you any announcements from any of
1:51:37 the board members
1:51:43 well thank you stacey for pulling this
1:51:44 together and thank you everybody for
1:51:46 successful first in-person meeting again
1:51:49 it's nice to see you all
1:51:52 right thank you have a good night
1:51:54 thanks billy