Environmental Board · Thursday, March 16, 2023 · City Council Digest

3. AGENDA ITEMS

Flood Hazard Management Plan and Flood Hazard Mapping Studies (I)

Judi Radloff, Chrys Bertolotto and Tracy Winjum, King County · packet pp.3–30

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

Public Works 670 1st Avenue NE Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

Parks Programs Update

Information · Jeff Watling, Director of Parks and Community Services

Topics: Parks

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0:01 ↗ all right welcome to the March 16th

0:04 ↗ joint meeting at the environmental board

0:06 ↗ and the park board uh I'm Jamie Mitch

0:09 ↗ and I'll be chair of the environmental

0:12 ↗ board

0:12 ↗ um and I think

0:14 ↗ sort of Master of Ceremonies we're both

0:16 ↗ against today

0:19 ↗ um due to the hybrid nature of the

0:20 ↗ meeting we will have some members

0:22 ↗ attending uh in person than others by

0:24 ↗ computer or phone for all those

0:26 ↗ attending remotely

0:28 ↗ um please obviously state your name

0:30 ↗ before speaking and uh indicate your

0:33 ↗ desire to chat by raising your hand

0:34 ↗ we'll try to do our best between Stacy

0:38 ↗ and myself to to track those hand raises

0:43 ↗ um for those that are in person

0:45 ↗ um what we do in the environmental board

0:47 ↗ to indicate desire to speak is just to

0:49 ↗ put our name tags over like this so as

0:51 ↗ long as everyone's comfortable with that

0:53 ↗ that is the protocol we usually have

0:56 ↗ here so

0:57 ↗ um

0:59 ↗ I think uh otherwise

1:02 ↗ uh I think from there we can probably

1:04 ↗ get into attendance so Stacy if you want

1:06 ↗ to take us first great

1:09 ↗ um Tom Anderson

1:11 ↗ uh Nancy Davidson here

1:14 ↗ Jamie bench here

1:17 ↗ has an excused absence

1:22 ↗ Laura lebanco was going to join us

1:24 ↗ virtually because I was like she's on

1:26 ↗ yet because I'll keep the eye out

1:28 ↗ uh Ashwin manoharans

1:33 ↗ Don McWilliams here

1:35 ↗ and Nuka

1:37 ↗ here

1:39 ↗ and Janet water

1:41 ↗ yeah

1:44 ↗ and the stuff is going to call roll for

1:46 ↗ passport yeah so hi everyone

1:49 ↗ um Dr blizzby our chair has an excuse

1:51 ↗ Essence so I'm gonna do roll calling

1:53 ↗ instead

1:54 ↗ um so the accident is uh Marlene wacky

1:58 ↗ Chris kobach here

2:01 ↗ Andrew eloquin has an excused absence uh

2:04 ↗ David Lu also has an excuse

2:07 ↗ Nicholas Lee

2:09 ↗ maybe get a join virtual

2:12 ↗ um

2:13 ↗ Brenda Spears

2:18 ↗ Katie Bell here

2:20 ↗ Tim Motley

2:23 ↗ Danielle Gibbons here Brad book

2:27 ↗ I'm here

2:29 ↗ and Andrew Myers doesn't make a few

2:31 ↗ dozens

2:34 ↗ no pass it back to Jamie all right and

2:37 ↗ it's do you know if we have anyone

2:39 ↗ signed like any kind of Public Training

2:42 ↗ remotely I do not see any members of the

2:45 ↗ public directing technology we do have

2:47 ↗ two members of the group yes so there

2:50 ↗ are any members of public that would

2:52 ↗ like to make public comment we obviously

2:54 ↗ value input from the public and uh one

2:57 ↗ request is any comments please do try to

3:00 ↗ keep them to about five minutes

3:02 ↗ um I know

3:15 ↗ I'll get there

3:24 ↗ okay my name is Connie Marsh obviously I

3:27 ↗ live on squawk and I have spent the last

3:30 ↗ month looking at some Amish Cove Park so

3:33 ↗ I am going to talk about some Amish Cove

3:35 ↗ park today which you all almost never

3:38 ↗ talk about Spanish Cove Park but it is

3:41 ↗ in the map for your presentation today

3:43 ↗ so this is both part four and

3:46 ↗ environmental board because this is a

3:49 ↗ part that hits the shoreline of Lake

3:50 ↗ Sammamish and has just been delineated

3:54 ↗ is basically entirely Wetland and

3:57 ↗ Wetland buffer and uh same like

4:00 ↗ sammamishes filed an appeal for the

4:03 ↗ private project putting a pipe through

4:07 ↗ your uh Sammamish Cove park I think I've

4:11 ↗ sent you emails on this before uh that

4:14 ↗ you simply could not get any information

4:16 ↗ showing that that someone

4:20 ↗ studied

4:21 ↗ whether this pipe could be avoided and

4:25 ↗ so that's the first step right is you're

4:28 ↗ trying not to impact your hearts and

4:29 ↗ trying not to impact your wetlands and

4:33 ↗ the lake and so it's it's a must-do step

4:36 ↗ to try to make the city

4:39 ↗ know that it actually has to has to be

4:42 ↗ aware of these things now more

4:45 ↗ interesting than that though that is

4:46 ↗ fascinating then I watched a meeting

4:49 ↗ that showed the pinch Point West Lakes

4:51 ↗ Sammamish Parkway

4:53 ↗ which is the road that goes in front of

4:56 ↗ Sammamish Cove Park is showing an

5:00 ↗ alignment to with a variety of choices

5:02 ↗ to the public that don't try to avoid

5:05 ↗ the wetlands and the park

5:07 ↗ they just say minimize and you know that

5:12 ↗ isn't where you begin you begin with

5:14 ↗ avoiding and so they're presenting to

5:16 ↗ the public choices that will

5:18 ↗ automatically de facto impact the

5:21 ↗ weapons

5:22 ↗ and like as usual that just likes my

5:26 ↗ hair on fire nothing new

5:28 ↗ and so then we also have a deed

5:32 ↗ restriction of some sort and some

5:35 ↗ process that we don't know how that's

5:37 ↗ coming along but this alignment of the

5:41 ↗ road also goes actively into the park

5:44 ↗ itself even outside of the right-of-way

5:46 ↗ in some of its alignments

5:50 ↗ during the conversation at this meeting

5:53 ↗ it was well

5:54 ↗ people want to get from South Cove to

5:57 ↗ the state park so there was some

5:59 ↗ conversation of why can't we dip down

6:02 ↗ into the park and use the park as the

6:05 ↗ road is being redone or in the interim

6:07 ↗ to at least get us to the state park so

6:10 ↗ we don't feel like we're gonna die when

6:12 ↗ we're going by the side of the road

6:14 ↗ which is

6:17 ↗ if you guys don't discuss some Amish

6:19 ↗ Cove Park

6:21 ↗ because it's never really been planned

6:22 ↗ so I don't know good idea bad idea you

6:25 ↗ have some illegal trails in there right

6:27 ↗ now that the city itself built and I

6:29 ↗ don't know what to do with those now

6:30 ↗ even better this new road is combining

6:34 ↗ with a Schneider Creek project by the

6:37 ↗ Washington State Department of

6:38 ↗ Transportation which is planning a

6:41 ↗ Schneider Creek and another Creek to go

6:43 ↗ right through Sammamish Cove Park

6:47 ↗ so interestingly this is going to raise

6:51 ↗ the road

6:52 ↗ by six feet

6:54 ↗ making the interface with Sammamish Cove

6:57 ↗ Park

6:58 ↗ a very tall retaining wall

7:01 ↗ so they've decided to put The Pedestrian

7:03 ↗ pathway on the side where you'd have to

7:05 ↗ throw yourself over the edge of the

7:07 ↗ street to get away from the car as

7:09 ↗ compared to being impaled next to the

7:12 ↗ new wash dot retaining wall I don't know

7:14 ↗ if that's rational I can't decide I do

7:18 ↗ know that both the Parks Board and the

7:20 ↗ environmental board in the concept of

7:25 ↗ what processes should projects in

7:29 ↗ general go through this is the

7:30 ↗ Environmental board and how should they

7:33 ↗ be presented to the public to maintain

7:36 ↗ our Environmental Quality because you

7:38 ↗ guys aren't Project Specific this is

7:40 ↗ just an example now the park board this

7:43 ↗ is your friend park it hasn't been

7:45 ↗ designed no one's talking about it

7:48 ↗ somebody's got to say something

7:50 ↗ otherwise this park is just going to be

7:52 ↗ like

7:53 ↗ Death By A Thousand Cuts from every

7:56 ↗ which way

7:58 ↗ so I think you need to play in the park

8:00 ↗ and hopefully your director will have an

8:04 ↗ update on the deed restrictions today

8:07 ↗ that would that was awesome I'm probably

8:09 ↗ over five minutes but it's a long

8:12 ↗ involved story oh wait and it's in the

8:14 ↗ presentation tonight as a I know you

8:17 ↗ didn't know that today

8:19 ↗ as a channel migration Zone off of the

8:22 ↗ lake which I didn't know the lake would

8:25 ↗ get that so the other discussion would

8:27 ↗ be even in an unlimited water body like

8:31 ↗ like snamishes

8:32 ↗ wow are we really gonna anyway there you

8:36 ↗ go

8:46 ↗ hi David Kepler I guess you know I'm

8:49 ↗ bored as well Australia's Club

8:52 ↗ um we are an amazing City and that we

8:55 ↗ have a state park within our corporate

8:59 ↗ limits and we are joined in second state

9:01 ↗ park and I don't think there's many

9:03 ↗ cities in uh in the country that share

9:06 ↗ two state parks and we in the state park

9:10 ↗ like Sammamish State Park there's an

9:13 ↗ effort they've got a significant Grant

9:15 ↗ to do America with Disabilities Act

9:18 ↗ accessible trails uh in in the state

9:22 ↗ park it's pretty complicated with all

9:23 ↗ the wetlands and all fortunately the

9:26 ↗ grades not much of an issue the biggest

9:28 ↗ grades are getting from ground level up

9:31 ↗ onto a boardwalk but

9:34 ↗ um I'm not I'm hoping that there's a

9:37 ↗ little more interface between the city

9:39 ↗ and the state on this effort

9:42 ↗ if somebody is familiar with it we're

9:45 ↗ talking about a bridge over the creek

9:46 ↗ kind of between the lake and the Costco

9:49 ↗ basically in that area

9:52 ↗ um a significant Trails will have to be

9:55 ↗ in some Wetland areas for boardwalks I'm

9:58 ↗ really working hard trying to keep keep

10:00 ↗ on the wetlands as much as possible but

10:04 ↗ um because of the the accessibility of

10:07 ↗ this Trail requires it gets more

10:09 ↗ complicated on that

10:12 ↗ um you know just one more this city is

10:15 ↗ amazing we've got huge County Park

10:19 ↗ on Green Ridge the biggest County Park 3

10:23 ↗ 000 acres to join us on our West Side

10:27 ↗ um we've got State Park two state parks

10:29 ↗ and we have the State Department of

10:31 ↗ Natural Resources property that join

10:33 ↗ ours and then we also have a whole bunch

10:35 ↗ of King County

10:37 ↗ in other places that join join us so

10:41 ↗ we've got tremendous opportunities here

10:43 ↗ and we've taken advantage of them over

10:45 ↗ over the decades but we've got to keep

10:49 ↗ keep doing it and and this these two

10:53 ↗ boards are exactly the two groups that

10:56 ↗ can keep that going in the right

10:57 ↗ direction thank you

11:00 ↗ thank you

11:03 ↗ Nancy I just haven't followed since Jeff

11:06 ↗ happens to be here I appreciate that

11:08 ↗ Jeff if the state parks is doing Trail

11:12 ↗ work do they have to go through

11:14 ↗ permitting for the city

11:16 ↗ and I know you may not know the answer

11:18 ↗ is

11:19 ↗ the only thing to do yes we certainly do

11:22 ↗ so yeah so they will have to get permits

11:25 ↗ for any of this work and work with

11:27 ↗ through and depending upon their timing

11:29 ↗ may have to be subject to the new title

11:31 ↗ 18 depending upon when that's approved

11:33 ↗ 19 is for public projects and private

11:37 ↗ projects yeah so I just I just wanted

11:39 ↗ some clarification on that thank you

11:44 ↗ all right I think that closes out public

11:46 ↗ comments

11:48 ↗ um so thanks with that we will move into

11:50 ↗ our agenda items with the first one

11:52 ↗ being blood Hazard management plan and

11:55 ↗ flood Hazard mapping studies

11:58 ↗ I think Allen might be introducing the

12:01 ↗ King County team

12:05 ↗ yes hi

12:06 ↗ everyone uh

12:09 ↗ yeah good evening uh

12:11 ↗ board members my name is Alan Quinn a

12:13 ↗ senior engineer with City of Issaquah

12:15 ↗ and the city's been working with King

12:17 ↗ County Rivers is it Rivers Division I

12:20 ↗ hope I got that right uh for the last

12:22 ↗ what year and a year a year and a half

12:23 ↗ at least

12:25 ↗ um coordinating uh the map update of the

12:28 ↗ FEMA flood plan along Issaquah Creek so

12:30 ↗ it's a huge effort to update that

12:33 ↗ um that map it's a mini decades old

12:36 ↗ um which the county is going to go into

12:38 ↗ all that I'm sure in the presentation

12:40 ↗ but I just wanted to introduce the team

12:42 ↗ from the county and so we have Judy Judy

12:45 ↗ radloff

12:46 ↗ and Tracy Windham I wouldn't pronounce

12:49 ↗ those last names correctly and I don't

12:51 ↗ think Chris is here is that right I

12:53 ↗ don't see it uh oh

12:56 ↗ yeah Chris brummer I'm not sure if he's

12:58 ↗ there or not but anyhow those that's the

13:00 ↗ team he's been working with the last I

13:02 ↗ said at least a year if not longer so

13:05 ↗ I guess I'll let uh maybe take over from

13:08 ↗ here does that make sense or Tracy

13:09 ↗ whoever yeah

13:12 ↗ thanks Alan

13:14 ↗ so I'll get started um Chris bertolato I

13:18 ↗ work with the King County River

13:19 ↗ floodplain management team so I'm one of

13:21 ↗ apparently made Chris's in that section

13:23 ↗ happy to be here too day

13:26 ↗ um so I'm here mostly to talk about

13:28 ↗ entirely to talk about the King County

13:30 ↗ flood Hazard management plan

13:32 ↗ go to the next one next one and I got

13:34 ↗ some notes so I don't forget anything

13:35 ↗ I'm going to talk at a very high level

13:38 ↗ about flood risks and blood hazards in

13:40 ↗ King County I do want to talk to you

13:43 ↗ about why this update of a plan matters

13:46 ↗ to you to people in disappear and around

13:48 ↗ Issaquah I also want to talk about how

13:51 ↗ the plan really needs new opportunities

13:53 ↗ and what we see coming and and how we're

13:57 ↗ hoping to gather ideas from a community

14:00 ↗ and from different interested parties

14:04 ↗ so very these are photos from Issaquah

14:07 ↗ and this is these are from floods in

14:09 ↗ 2009 and 2020. clearly I'm going to be

14:13 ↗ talking about flooding and uh it's very

14:15 ↗ possible that many of you have lived

14:18 ↗ through experience flooding on your own

14:20 ↗ property you've dealt with damages on

14:21 ↗ your property so I'm just gonna talk at

14:24 ↗ this high level to make sure we all have

14:26 ↗ the same amount of information the space

14:28 ↗ Baseline of info and I'm also going to

14:32 ↗ probably mostly talk about the negative

14:34 ↗ impacts of flooding

14:36 ↗ um because that's when someone has water

14:37 ↗ approaching their home wherever it's

14:39 ↗ coming from that's really what you're

14:41 ↗ thinking about are the negative impacts

14:42 ↗ I want to do I do want to say that

14:44 ↗ flooding is a part of the natural part

14:46 ↗ of the landscape so this is a part of

14:48 ↗ how Water Works in in King County and

14:50 ↗ throughout Western Washington

14:52 ↗ um we don't expect flooding to really

14:54 ↗ ever go away we don't try and do that in

14:56 ↗ the flood plan

14:57 ↗ um and there are some positive impacts

14:59 ↗ one being that it's great for fish and

15:01 ↗ wildlife habitat it's also great to

15:04 ↗ bring new soils really rich soils into

15:07 ↗ Farmland throughout the King County kind

15:09 ↗ of farming valleys but I am not going to

15:12 ↗ focus on that I just wanted to kind of

15:13 ↗ give that background since so flooding

15:16 ↗ is King County's most common natural

15:18 ↗ Hazard since 1990 there have been 13

15:20 ↗ presidentially declared

15:23 ↗ um blood hazards or disasters in King

15:25 ↗ County and that's an average about one

15:27 ↗ every two and a half years that actually

15:29 ↗ raises Rises for that level so there are

15:32 ↗ dozens and dozens of floods that have

15:34 ↗ happened that have not risen to that

15:35 ↗ level

15:36 ↗ yes

15:38 ↗ I'm sorry to interrupt Jeff Watling just

15:41 ↗ really quick note on that last frame

15:43 ↗ that

15:44 ↗ um the reference to the flooding in 2009

15:48 ↗ I was actually a 2019 event this comp

15:51 ↗ the conference Park bridge wasn't there

15:53 ↗ okay in 2009 I'll make that correction

15:57 ↗ um yeah so I'm still kind of Gathering

15:59 ↗ images yes I appreciate that no Chris

16:01 ↗ how would you like to sit handle

16:03 ↗ questions throughout the presentation

16:06 ↗ um I don't have a lot of slides so how

16:08 ↗ about I go through them write down your

16:10 ↗ comments if you're remote like put them

16:12 ↗ in chat uh however you want to do it and

16:14 ↗ then maybe I'll take a few and then

16:16 ↗ there's a natural progression to Judy

16:18 ↗ and Tracy's uh presentation and so we're

16:20 ↗ hoping I should I didn't say this we're

16:22 ↗ hoping to mostly have time for

16:23 ↗ conversation we're going to present

16:25 ↗ maybe 15 minutes each 15 to 20 minutes

16:27 ↗ each at most and really allow the rest

16:30 ↗ of the time that we have for

16:31 ↗ conversation does that work for everyone

16:34 ↗ okay and if there's something that I'm

16:35 ↗ not being clear on though if I'm really

16:37 ↗ confusing you do Pastor clarification in

16:40 ↗ that moment I'm totally good with that

16:43 ↗ doesn't sound like a quick comment I

16:45 ↗ just wanted to make another comment on

16:46 ↗ that that slide that Jeff just pointed

16:48 ↗ out and that's confidence park it was

16:50 ↗ actually designed to do exactly what

16:52 ↗ it's doing there

16:54 ↗ um and so it's for people who might not

16:56 ↗ know about that that part was that part

16:59 ↗ of the park was designed to flood

17:00 ↗ intentionally to take some of the

17:02 ↗ pressure off other areas absolutely yeah

17:04 ↗ and that's and so we'll talk a bit about

17:06 ↗ like what like blood Hazard area is

17:09 ↗ where flooding is grown to happen and

17:11 ↗ how much different from actually flood

17:12 ↗ risk because maybe there's no risk to

17:14 ↗ the situation whatsoever so we can go to

17:17 ↗ the next one

17:19 ↗ um so let's see so I wanted to just

17:21 ↗ mention clearly people live in

17:23 ↗ flood-prone areas

17:25 ↗ um we have I think the statistics are

17:27 ↗ about 57 000 people in King County that

17:30 ↗ are in um high-risk flood-prone areas

17:33 ↗ that's probably a low number

17:35 ↗ um we also have billions of dollars of

17:38 ↗ income that are generated within these

17:40 ↗ areas as well as billions of dollars in

17:41 ↗ infrastructure

17:42 ↗ that allow people to get around they you

17:45 ↗ know move utilities sewage there's all

17:47 ↗ types of underground and above ground

17:49 ↗ items so what happens within when a

17:52 ↗ flood happens it's certainly very

17:54 ↗ personal and what someone is dealing

17:56 ↗ with in that moment but it also has

17:57 ↗ Regional implications

17:59 ↗ um

18:00 ↗ there are damages that can happen from

18:02 ↗ property and infrastructure as you can

18:04 ↗ see there and the impacts aren't just we

18:07 ↗ tend to think of homeowners and the

18:08 ↗ impacts to homeowners but it also

18:10 ↗ affects people who rent property people

18:12 ↗ who are unhoused business owners so it

18:15 ↗ doesn't really discriminate

18:17 ↗ um the bridge is so and bridges can be

18:19 ↗ washed out and I think probably many of

18:21 ↗ you have seen that and that actually

18:22 ↗ interrupts the ability for emergency

18:24 ↗ responders to get to where they need to

18:26 ↗ go in these times of disaster and once

18:29 ↗ the floods receive so there's like that

18:31 ↗ impact that's happening now but once the

18:33 ↗ floods received there's also the damage

18:35 ↗ that needs to be repaired including

18:36 ↗ damage to levees and repentance and

18:39 ↗ Facilities that help or reduce the risk

18:42 ↗ for future floods that's

18:45 ↗ foreign

18:46 ↗ so you know as I said this is pretty

18:48 ↗ high level and within two slides I kind

18:50 ↗ of gave you a very generic overview of

18:52 ↗ flooding but there's also this other

18:54 ↗ issue which is that the landscape

18:56 ↗ landscape simply changes naturally so

18:59 ↗ you have

19:00 ↗ um erosion that will happen along a

19:02 ↗ river I'm sure that you've seen that on

19:04 ↗ Tibbetts and Issaquah Creek and all the

19:06 ↗ channels that are not like totally

19:08 ↗ confined and we want to keep it exactly

19:10 ↗ the place that they're in this is a

19:12 ↗ picture of the coast River

19:14 ↗ um since I typically work up in the

19:15 ↗ Snoqualmie Valley and it just shows how

19:18 ↗ new new channels can form gradually they

19:20 ↗ can they can happen very quickly and I

19:24 ↗ know Judy's going to talk about that

19:25 ↗ quite a lot more there are also types of

19:27 ↗ different sources of um

19:30 ↗ flooding so we often in our section talk

19:33 ↗ about rivers however there are areas

19:35 ↗ areas that can flood because they're a

19:37 ↗ long marine or lake shorelines so and we

19:40 ↗ are seeing changes with sea level rise

19:42 ↗ we expect kind of more severe more

19:45 ↗ frequent flooding over time

19:47 ↗ and we also have places that are just

19:48 ↗ simply in low-lying areas so you heard a

19:50 ↗ little bit about Wetlands you know

19:51 ↗ there's a lot of

19:53 ↗ if you flip once more

19:55 ↗ so what changes are our uses so this is

19:58 ↗ where you get to the difference between

19:59 ↗ hazards and risks and so we've had more

20:02 ↗ people over you know 100 years come in

20:06 ↗ and live in places that are flood proud

20:08 ↗ and I think our regulations limit

20:10 ↗ development in those areas now but it's

20:12 ↗ not always been that case and so this is

20:14 ↗ where you get this fine dance of a

20:16 ↗ natural process

20:18 ↗ conflicting with a person's desire to

20:21 ↗ protect one property

20:23 ↗ so this is where the flood plan comes in

20:25 ↗ because it is that road map that will

20:28 ↗ help King County navigate how do we

20:30 ↗ manage this natural Hazard which we

20:31 ↗ think is going to get worse or more

20:33 ↗ severe over time and the fact that it

20:35 ↗ poses risks to personal property safety

20:39 ↗ infrastructure all these things that we

20:40 ↗ don't want to we want to try and

20:42 ↗ minimize as much as possible so the

20:44 ↗ floodplain itself identifies what

20:46 ↗ hazards and risks through a lot of

20:48 ↗ technical analysis and groundwork and

20:51 ↗ looking at types of all different types

20:52 ↗ of maps that it defines it describes

20:55 ↗ strategies projects and programs for

20:58 ↗ mitigating that risk and it defines King

21:01 ↗ County policies and it's specifically

21:03 ↗ for unincorporated areas some

21:05 ↗ municipalities do choose to adopt the

21:07 ↗ flood plan the King County Flood Control

21:09 ↗ District for the 2006 and 2013 plan to

21:13 ↗ adopt those plans as their guiding

21:14 ↗ documents so these um

21:17 ↗ while we the the plan is really oriented

21:20 ↗ towards unappropriate areas as we're we

21:23 ↗ think about it more regionally across

21:25 ↗ the county

21:27 ↗ um let's see so in in the plan there

21:29 ↗ might be a list of potential projects

21:31 ↗ that are identified as well the next

21:33 ↗ slide I want to just talk about what our

21:35 ↗ plans are right now so there was a plan

21:38 ↗ that was written in 2006 and 2013 it was

21:41 ↗ updated it wasn't a complete rewrite and

21:44 ↗ the goals for that plan I'm not going to

21:46 ↗ read them they're very focused on flood

21:48 ↗ risk reduction reducing the impacts of

21:50 ↗ doing that work reducing the cost of

21:53 ↗ doing that work and and this actually

21:55 ↗ created some this was there was some

21:58 ↗ real big innovations that happened in

22:00 ↗ these plans but it also created some

22:02 ↗ gaps that are pretty clear if you go to

22:05 ↗ the next slide

22:07 ↗ so this shows the current Focus areas

22:10 ↗ that's what says on the bottom where the

22:13 ↗ river and King County River and flip

22:14 ↗ flame management really focuses their

22:16 ↗ attention and um you know and they're

22:18 ↗ the large river systems the Snoqualmie

22:20 ↗ the whites the green Southward Sky

22:24 ↗ um the the cedar as well and I think for

22:26 ↗ some period of time Issaquah Creek

22:28 ↗ probably did not have a lot of County

22:29 ↗ attention and that's changed pretty

22:31 ↗ recently but you can you notice like

22:33 ↗ Sammamish River is not on here like

22:35 ↗ Spanish is not identified Vashon and

22:37 ↗ Murray island is completely not really

22:40 ↗ getting a lot of attention for flood

22:41 ↗ risk reduction through our flood plan

22:43 ↗ all of the coastal areas along King

22:45 ↗ County where there are small tributaries

22:47 ↗ that can kind of back up when there's

22:50 ↗ you know ping tides and Storm surges

22:52 ↗ happening at the same time I'm not going

22:54 ↗ to have real impacts on people so

22:56 ↗ there's some Geographic

22:58 ↗ gaps that are clear throughout that

23:01 ↗ we've seen over the last 20 years next

23:05 ↗ I'm not going to talk about all these

23:06 ↗ because you're going to see this slide

23:08 ↗ again I'm just going to talk about the

23:09 ↗ two that I think Tracy and Judy are not

23:11 ↗ going to talk about the the flip plan

23:13 ↗ gives us a toolbox and we can kind of

23:16 ↗ pull the right tools out based on the

23:18 ↗ situation and the two that I think

23:20 ↗ Judy's not talking about are the flood

23:22 ↗ warning services so we do manage the

23:25 ↗ blood warning center we have flood apps

23:27 ↗ we have all types of ways to communicate

23:29 ↗ an approaching floods so how many people

23:31 ↗ actually have a flood app or you know

23:33 ↗ have anything downloaded so there's all

23:36 ↗ these great ways to stay informed

23:39 ↗ um for those that know about them and I

23:41 ↗ think the other one that you're not

23:42 ↗ talking about is it it's that one

23:44 ↗ infrastructure we also work to protect

23:47 ↗ public infrastructure so we tend to

23:49 ↗ prioritize our work in areas where this

23:51 ↗ risk exists we're not going to go into

23:53 ↗ big national forests that are in King

23:56 ↗ County and try and manage how the rivers

23:58 ↗ or flooding happens because it's there's

24:01 ↗ no risk There's No One In Harm's Way

24:04 ↗ foreign

24:05 ↗ so what is the next blood plan intend to

24:08 ↗ do so staff have been talking about the

24:11 ↗ flood plan within King County for well

24:13 ↗ over a couple of years and we are very

24:15 ↗ eager to fill some of the gaps that

24:17 ↗ we've identified so we've identified a

24:19 ↗ few areas that I'll talk about and what

24:22 ↗ we're hearing from the community so far

24:23 ↗ Echoes that these are important and so

24:25 ↗ I'll share them but it's not an

24:27 ↗ inclusive list so the next one the first

24:30 ↗ one is this idea of multi-benefit that

24:32 ↗ first that plan that we have now very

24:34 ↗ focused on flood risk reduction so this

24:36 ↗ project and on the pipeline protection

24:39 ↗ project it shows that we can do

24:41 ↗ multi-benefit work because we're

24:43 ↗ protecting a public water pipeline to

24:45 ↗ Seattle we were dealing with farming

24:47 ↗ drainage issues there's fish and

24:50 ↗ wildlife habitat that was created blood

24:52 ↗ risk reduction but the flood plan as it

24:55 ↗ stands right now it makes it it is not

24:58 ↗ embedded that all of our work should

25:00 ↗ really think about multiple benefits

25:02 ↗ that the community can gain from what we

25:04 ↗ do and so we really want to align uh

25:06 ↗ with the foot control District's policy

25:08 ↗ and multi-benefit and the need to do

25:11 ↗ that work the other thing is that the

25:13 ↗ previous the current flood plan has no

25:15 ↗ no content around climate change really

25:17 ↗ and that's a huge gap we need to make

25:20 ↗ sure that we're thinking about climate

25:22 ↗ change planning for it and being trying

25:24 ↗ to be resilient in the face of whatever

25:26 ↗ those changes will be next

25:29 ↗ so um

25:32 ↗ there's been a lot of discussion um we

25:34 ↗ staff have really felt that um

25:37 ↗ King County has not done an adequate job

25:40 ↗ of engaging a fully diverse and

25:42 ↗ representative population from King

25:44 ↗ County and contributing to what this

25:46 ↗ these plans have looked like in the past

25:48 ↗ and so we really want to make sure that

25:51 ↗ we are gathering input from people that

25:55 ↗ we don't often talk to and that

25:57 ↗ typically our least resilient in the

26:00 ↗ face of flooding much more vulnerable

26:01 ↗ and so there's a strong Equity focus on

26:04 ↗ this and that's part of part of why I'm

26:07 ↗ here and doing a traveling kind of

26:09 ↗ Roadshow and reaching out in a lot of

26:10 ↗ different ways so um the other that next

26:14 ↗ one is that this is not inclusive and we

26:16 ↗ really need to hear from people about

26:18 ↗ the gaps that you're seeing for those

26:21 ↗ that you believe need to be addressed in

26:22 ↗ the next flood plan

26:24 ↗ um like I said these seem to align with

26:26 ↗ what we're hearing back from the

26:27 ↗ community but I'm sure there there's

26:29 ↗ local knowledge that you have that will

26:31 ↗ be impactful

26:34 ↗ all right so I just wanted to talk a

26:36 ↗ little bit about flood resilience so

26:37 ↗ this is the other part that's not really

26:39 ↗ reflected on the flood plan

26:41 ↗ hi just a quick question so the flood

26:44 ↗ plan is that something you're working on

26:46 ↗ now is that something you plan on taking

26:48 ↗ to the County Council in the next year

26:50 ↗ yeah so we are updating the blood plan

26:52 ↗ right now I have a schedule that I'll

26:54 ↗ show you but I'll just tell you right

26:55 ↗ now the King County Council will be

26:58 ↗ receiving a draft of a plan that we're

27:00 ↗ hoping will be informed by lots of

27:01 ↗ community input uh towards the end of

27:04 ↗ this year and then they would be the

27:05 ↗ ones to decide whether or not it should

27:08 ↗ be adopted or changed

27:10 ↗ and it would be a product of King County

27:12 ↗ so um it's not a product of the flood

27:14 ↗ control district and we're hoping that

27:16 ↗ others like the district will adopt it

27:18 ↗ as a guiding document as well

27:20 ↗ so the other part of what we we are

27:23 ↗ working towards is this idea of not just

27:25 ↗ trying to reduce risk but increasing

27:27 ↗ resilience the ability of people to

27:29 ↗ recover fully quickly and completely

27:31 ↗ from whatever flood related impacts are

27:34 ↗ associated with them and what we find

27:36 ↗ you know throughout the world does that

27:38 ↗ pose folks who are the most vulnerable

27:41 ↗ really do not

27:43 ↗ um recover as say like other people so

27:46 ↗ it depends based on your kind of your

27:48 ↗ race your your income the resources you

27:51 ↗ have to bridge the difficulties and so

27:53 ↗ the idea of building resilience really

27:55 ↗ kind of changes could change the

27:57 ↗ character of a blood plant and again

27:59 ↗ this is still coming from staff

28:00 ↗ excellent I'm almost done

28:03 ↗ I'm not going to talk about these steps

28:05 ↗ it's not easy to figure out how do we

28:07 ↗ build blood resilience this is literally

28:09 ↗ new language for us but what is really

28:11 ↗ important is that we we need to hear

28:14 ↗ from people to make sure that the

28:16 ↗ perspectives of folks who live in a

28:18 ↗ variety of places who are impacted by

28:20 ↗ flooding are telling us what this plan

28:22 ↗ needs to include that's a key part of

28:25 ↗ resilience is making sure that we're not

28:27 ↗ creating this in a little box

28:29 ↗ thank you this is the schedule we've

28:32 ↗ done all of this kind of pre-planning

28:33 ↗ we're kind of in this phase right now

28:36 ↗ and I would say in our community

28:37 ↗ engagement phase we're still at the

28:38 ↗ point of trying to articulate the vision

28:41 ↗ and the goals and the scope of the flood

28:43 ↗ plan so there's a lot of room to

28:46 ↗ influence the outcomes and eventually it

28:48 ↗ will go to King County Council for them

28:50 ↗ to make decisions

28:53 ↗ so this is as I said we're in the shared

28:55 ↗ vision and goal strategy we're asking

28:57 ↗ people questions about their experiences

28:59 ↗ with flooding in terms of multi-benefits

29:01 ↗ what are the benefits what is it about

29:03 ↗ your community that you value what is

29:06 ↗ the thing what are the things that we

29:07 ↗ should be keeping in mind as we're

29:09 ↗ creating a risk reduction projects and

29:12 ↗ then uh what do you need to be prepared

29:14 ↗ and able to recover from play what are

29:16 ↗ your ideas about how it local government

29:17 ↗ can serve you best to create this kind

29:20 ↗ of shared vision

29:21 ↗ thank you Judy and then in July or so we

29:25 ↗ we expect that we'll see some emerging

29:27 ↗ strategies and priorities emerging and

29:29 ↗ we'll also be asking for questions about

29:31 ↗ those those more specific ideas

29:34 ↗ and then there'll be an opportunity to

29:36 ↗ provide comments on the draft plan and

29:37 ↗ we're also doing an Eis as a part of

29:39 ↗ this so there'll be a formal Eis when

29:42 ↗ the draft is um shared out

29:46 ↗ so this is my last slide I believe

29:49 ↗ um

29:50 ↗ my and so some of you I've known some of

29:53 ↗ you and I worked in community engagement

29:55 ↗ for a long time and this whole idea that

29:57 ↗ I come forward with is that there's not

29:59 ↗ just one way to provide input we do have

30:01 ↗ an online survey and would be super

30:03 ↗ convenient for us if everyone just put

30:04 ↗ all their comments into that survey but

30:06 ↗ we also realized we need to give you the

30:09 ↗ way that works best for you to to

30:11 ↗ comment and so we are going to be out

30:13 ↗ and about at local events

30:15 ↗ I'm really looking for some ideas about

30:17 ↗ how we can reach people and in and

30:19 ↗ around the Issaquah area

30:21 ↗ um we're working in Community

30:22 ↗ Partnerships and we're really trying to

30:24 ↗ Target those Community Partnerships with

30:26 ↗ groups that serve

30:29 ↗ audiences let's say an ethnic group that

30:32 ↗ we don't currently have the trust of or

30:34 ↗ familiarity with so we're trying to

30:36 ↗ engage with them to be Educators and

30:39 ↗ bring people into the fold that we

30:40 ↗ haven't talked to we will be doing some

30:42 ↗ County sponsored meetings so stay tuned

30:44 ↗ and we we have a survey which people can

30:47 ↗ certainly you know fill out and it will

30:50 ↗ change in July when we have those

30:51 ↗ emerging strategies and you can also

30:53 ↗ just call or email us and the next slide

30:55 ↗ has our contact info

30:58 ↗ so I do have some handouts that I can

31:00 ↗ share I put some business cards on the

31:02 ↗ table but that's all I want to share

31:04 ↗ Jason Wilkinson is the project manager

31:06 ↗ and I'm kind of on loaned to the group I

31:09 ↗ bet the policy team to help them with

31:10 ↗ the community engagement process

31:13 ↗ did I miss anything Judy

31:16 ↗ uh I don't think so Chris but all right

31:18 ↗ I have a different perspective so okay

31:20 ↗ yes we can take a cue and then go to a

31:23 ↗ few

31:26 ↗ are there any questions or comments

31:29 ↗ yeah I'll pass these around

31:32 ↗ please go ahead

31:34 ↗ yeah Heavy's over

31:36 ↗ um Can Dance with the environmental

31:38 ↗ board Chris thank you

31:39 ↗ um yeah I guess one suggestion I kind of

31:41 ↗ mentioned working with the Mountain Sun

31:42 ↗ Greenway trust uh you may have a decade

31:44 ↗ or so working with landowners along the

31:46 ↗ creek uh not we control and recovery and

31:48 ↗ restoration and you know one of the big

31:50 ↗ selling points you know obviously we're

31:52 ↗ trying to sell the salmon habitat

31:54 ↗ um for the work we're doing that's what

31:55 ↗ funds it but is you know concerned

31:56 ↗ around fake corrosion and erosion

31:58 ↗ control and talking about education how

32:00 ↗ that helps that so I'm just wondering if

32:02 ↗ there could be a natural opportunity for

32:04 ↗ whether it be the survey or some other

32:05 ↗ connection we're usually emailing 100

32:07 ↗ 150 landowners

32:10 ↗ uh usually in June or July kind of with

32:11 ↗ plans for the control work in the end of

32:13 ↗ the summer so in terms of people that

32:15 ↗ live directly down the streets

32:18 ↗ so that's my comment and you know I

32:21 ↗ guess this is a kind of a loaded

32:22 ↗ question but I think is something really

32:24 ↗ important in the community here is I was

32:26 ↗ looking at the the pipeline project

32:28 ↗ um how do we balance managing Beaver

32:31 ↗ habitat habitat here and some of the

32:32 ↗ flood concerns I know that's something

32:33 ↗ that's really tricky in this community

32:35 ↗ and I certainly don't seem to know like

32:38 ↗ what the straightforward answer is other

32:40 ↗ than you know relocation and removal

32:42 ↗ um so I think that's something that I

32:43 ↗ can speak for myself and probably some

32:45 ↗ other people here that they care a lot

32:47 ↗ about in terms of that's that's the

32:48 ↗ balance of of habitat for wildlife and

32:51 ↗ all the benefits that

32:54 ↗ and the convey water to the lake so

33:01 ↗ good I might be a little early with my

33:04 ↗ question so if I am just something that

33:06 ↗ you're going to discuss this here in a

33:08 ↗ bit but I see a lot of work done out in

33:10 ↗ Snoqualmie Valley where you're buying

33:12 ↗ back flood planes working counties

33:13 ↗ either at least land or you're buying

33:16 ↗ land out there to put the floodplains

33:18 ↗ back but we're talking about Issaquah

33:20 ↗ here today so how is King County going

33:23 ↗ to help identify

33:24 ↗ future floodplain areas in Issaquah and

33:27 ↗ is there going to be a financial

33:29 ↗ incentive per se for King County to help

33:32 ↗ offset the purchase of those lands I

33:34 ↗ think Judy and Tracy are going to talk

33:36 ↗ about the whole identifying blood thing

33:38 ↗ part but I know that King County River

33:40 ↗ inflicting management section does work

33:44 ↗ closely as a service provider to the

33:45 ↗ King County Flood Control District to

33:47 ↗ acquire properties we um It's All By

33:50 ↗ Word of Mouth we don't advertise that

33:52 ↗ and there are funds available in

33:54 ↗ different watersheds to do acquisition

33:57 ↗ and I working in the Snoqualmie Valley I

33:59 ↗ work closely with the cities of North

34:01 ↗ Bend and Snoqualmie so our Acquisitions

34:04 ↗ can happen in Incorporated areas and

34:06 ↗ that's not true for all King County

34:08 ↗ departments

34:11 ↗ and so I think in terms of acquisition

34:15 ↗ that's how I can answer the question in

34:16 ↗ terms of mapping I think that's a great

34:18 ↗ segue

34:19 ↗ um I'll just leave that for Judy's

34:21 ↗ presentation thank you

34:26 ↗ um

34:27 ↗ as far as Outreach

34:30 ↗ um for the community I think it's really

34:31 ↗ important to probably be talking also

34:34 ↗ not just with homeowners along the creek

34:36 ↗ but our downtown businesses along Front

34:39 ↗ Street

34:40 ↗ um because the last couple of words that

34:42 ↗ we've had anything have impacted those

34:45 ↗ businesses

34:47 ↗ um so the downtown Issaquah Association

34:48 ↗ will be where I would kind of start with

34:51 ↗ that if you happen to be reached out to

34:52 ↗ them

34:54 ↗ it was called the downtown Business

34:55 ↗ Association physical Association I think

34:57 ↗ I think that's probably the best place

34:59 ↗ to start thank you

35:06 ↗ I have a question Jamie Finch

35:09 ↗ environmental board

35:10 ↗ um

35:11 ↗ and it might be an impossible question

35:12 ↗ but I think one of the things that I

35:15 ↗ would love to get a kind of 40 000 Book

35:18 ↗ View is how you guys think about

35:19 ↗ priorities within a county-wide

35:22 ↗ floodplain

35:24 ↗ um or flood plan because I'm used to

35:26 ↗ thinking at the Disco level I think that

35:29 ↗ probably a lot of people are used to

35:30 ↗ thinking at the very local level and so

35:32 ↗ for me I would love to understand how

35:35 ↗ you guys think about applying a county

35:38 ↗ level plan to someone in Issaquah or

35:42 ↗ another Community but in specifically

35:43 ↗ here because I would just love to

35:45 ↗ understand it's a little bit like Don's

35:47 ↗ question but how you think that that

35:50 ↗ plan might impact

35:52 ↗ the city either it's quite pretty

35:54 ↗ anything else would be super helpful to

35:57 ↗ help understand just like the playing

35:58 ↗ field that we're that we're on I you

36:01 ↗ know I I know that there's another

36:02 ↗ project underway between King County and

36:06 ↗ the City of Issaquah that it's a capital

36:08 ↗ investment strategy so it's a corridor

36:10 ↗ plan and so on the Snoqualmie Valley

36:13 ↗ um we have three Corridor Corridor

36:16 ↗ planning processes that have been

36:17 ↗ completed when when you do them there's

36:19 ↗ a lot of community input into that a lot

36:22 ↗ of analysis of what the risks and

36:24 ↗ Hazards are and then what comes out of

36:26 ↗ it is a capital investment strategy that

36:29 ↗ helps to it's like a list of sequenced

36:31 ↗ and prioritized projects and I believe

36:34 ↗ that there's one going on within the

36:36 ↗ city within this area that I don't know

36:39 ↗ it was much about but I think it you

36:41 ↗ know as a from a community perspective I

36:43 ↗ think that would be the place to really

36:44 ↗ put a lot of attention into because that

36:48 ↗ is a guiding document that is used as

36:51 ↗ King County is working with other

36:53 ↗ and it also is that they are approved by

36:57 ↗ the King County Flood Control District

36:58 ↗ which is really the main funder for all

37:01 ↗ of our work

37:02 ↗ Okay so

37:04 ↗ that's probably one aspect of that is

37:06 ↗ there any other kind of major areas that

37:09 ↗ if I was just the average citizen in

37:11 ↗ Issaquah wanting to answer you and like

37:14 ↗ what are my priorities things that would

37:16 ↗ be relevant or the feedback that could

37:18 ↗ be really helpful through it and I know

37:21 ↗ maybe it's anything but I think what I'm

37:23 ↗ trying to understand is just where

37:26 ↗ you know like the plan might be informed

37:29 ↗ by something happening in Israel what

37:30 ↗ what type of things could could be

37:32 ↗ really helpful feedback

37:35 ↗ you're asking about the flood plan that

37:37 ↗ Chris was talking about yeah exactly and

37:39 ↗ it sounds like one aspect of it is yeah

37:42 ↗ or maybe a relative thing is the

37:44 ↗ investment plan you're working with this

37:45 ↗ squad but I think I'm yes

37:48 ↗ the overall flood plan and like how

37:51 ↗ someone in Issaquah might answer the

37:54 ↗ question of what would be a priority

37:56 ↗ like that what do I want to make sure

37:58 ↗ that King that King County has in that

38:00 ↗ blood plan and I think that's exactly

38:01 ↗ the question is what do you want to make

38:03 ↗ sure King County is aware of as we're

38:05 ↗ developing this plan what do you think

38:06 ↗ is a what do you think is important for

38:08 ↗ us to bring forward in terms of like

38:10 ↗ guiding strategies

38:12 ↗ um you know and we have like we have an

38:15 ↗ online survey that has really targeted

38:17 ↗ questions but we've also had people

38:19 ↗ email us with their issues of concern

38:21 ↗ one one was all about communication

38:24 ↗ being more simple and clearer and more

38:25 ↗ frequent you know so you you have an

38:28 ↗ opportunity to decide what is the

38:29 ↗ priority for this community to make sure

38:32 ↗ it's reflected to try and make sure it's

38:34 ↗ reflected in the blood plan that is

38:36 ↗ eventually adopted

38:37 ↗ thank you Chris thank you

38:40 ↗ yeah well thanks Jamie I just in terms

38:42 ↗ of public Outreach opportunities want to

38:44 ↗ Echo what Dan and Danielle said in terms

38:46 ↗ of both residential and businesses but

38:48 ↗ also if you're looking for specific

38:50 ↗ Outreach opportunities for broader

38:52 ↗ residents happy to brainstorm further

38:54 ↗ but um we've had a lot of success uh

38:57 ↗ piggybacking on our Farmers Market every

39:00 ↗ Saturday we get 3 000 people coming down

39:03 ↗ to the Pickering barn and we've done

39:04 ↗ some really effective Outreach with some

39:07 ↗ of our some of our projects so I'm happy

39:10 ↗ to happy to partner with you on any of

39:11 ↗ those events that we created we do as a

39:14 ↗ city and then just applaud seeing

39:16 ↗ multiple benefit as being a real goal in

39:20 ↗ this in this plan

39:22 ↗ um

39:23 ↗ I think specific to Issaquah and so you

39:25 ↗ know when we look at the goals of

39:27 ↗ Issaquah Creek both for obviously flood

39:30 ↗ protection but also habitat also

39:32 ↗ recreational use

39:35 ↗ having multiple benefit as a key goal is

39:38 ↗ really good to see I've had some

39:39 ↗ experience it's been 10 years in Kent we

39:42 ↗ worked with the flood control district

39:43 ↗ on some really big projects some that

39:45 ↗ are about to cut a ribbon on

39:47 ↗ um that multiple benefit was hard for

39:50 ↗ them to see for a while but they finally

39:52 ↗ got there so it's I applaud seeing the

39:55 ↗ value being placed on that super thank

39:57 ↗ you

39:59 ↗ yeah go to Nancy next and then Laura I

40:02 ↗ do see your hand up so we'll go to you

40:03 ↗ after Nancy hi I'm Nancy Davidson from

40:06 ↗ the environmental board and I guess

40:08 ↗ I mean this is a very limited group

40:10 ↗ you're speaking to here and many of us

40:13 ↗ don't live specifically on the creek but

40:15 ↗ when there is a flood we see the

40:18 ↗ consequences of it particularly in the

40:19 ↗ South Creek and as a former staff person

40:22 ↗ seeing it up and still call me I used to

40:23 ↗ work for Crystal Plumbing

40:25 ↗ um I could see very much what happens

40:27 ↗ with les they did a much better job of

40:29 ↗ communication so in my opinion you need

40:32 ↗ to reach broader audience than just

40:34 ↗ talking to us and I'd offer you a couple

40:37 ↗ of suggestions to try and do that I know

40:39 ↗ the Downtown Association would be a

40:41 ↗ great one but also the mayor puts out a

40:43 ↗ newsletter and you can put in a quick

40:45 ↗ blurb about it explain what you're

40:47 ↗ trying to do and then perhaps include

40:50 ↗ like the survey there's a city Insider

40:52 ↗ newsletter that goes out which is a

40:54 ↗ different newsletter that goes out to a

40:56 ↗ different group but I'm sure even Jeff

40:57 ↗ may have one for Parks I think I've seen

40:59 ↗ it once in a while but getting the

41:01 ↗ city's communication tools up so you

41:04 ↗ reach the broader audiences than what

41:07 ↗ you're seeing right here I think would

41:08 ↗ really help you that's just my

41:09 ↗ suggestion I'm sure there's some kind of

41:11 ↗ communications of the city

41:17 ↗ Nancy I think Laura

41:20 ↗ you're up next if you still have

41:21 ↗ something to say

41:23 ↗ um hi Laura can you guys hear me all

41:25 ↗ right my remote

41:28 ↗ um I thank you for the presentation this

41:30 ↗ is super cohesive like it feels really

41:33 ↗ thoughtful um to your question about

41:35 ↗ doing Outreach

41:36 ↗ um my family lives in that the close to

41:39 ↗ the creek and a lot of those communities

41:41 ↗ are HOA run so I think finding ways to

41:46 ↗ direct people to provide information to

41:50 ↗ their HOAs and back again is really

41:52 ↗ helpful because everyone's sort of bound

41:53 ↗ by

41:55 ↗ um you know the threat is also sort of

41:57 ↗ well I can't do anything because my HOA

41:59 ↗ has these regulations

42:01 ↗ um I would love to see something that

42:03 ↗ is a survey but also provides some

42:06 ↗ empowerment so if people want to take

42:08 ↗ action they can because there's such a

42:09 ↗ helplessness right what will my

42:10 ↗ government do to help me but

42:12 ↗ um we're it's a marsh land so

42:16 ↗ um you know providing ways that they

42:17 ↗ could introduce rain Gardens

42:19 ↗ collectively to their neighborhood and

42:21 ↗ also introduce more vegetation and

42:23 ↗ directly expressing that that would

42:24 ↗ reduce some risk to their neighborhood

42:26 ↗ be helpful but I think that it's not

42:28 ↗ quite clear how to use that for the HOA

42:31 ↗ so just providing some you know

42:32 ↗ bi-directional input would be great

42:37 ↗ thank you

42:39 ↗ thank you Laura and go ahead

42:44 ↗ I'd like to support what uh oh this is

42:46 ↗ Anne I'd like to support what Laura just

42:48 ↗ said and then also add

42:50 ↗ um if you could use any permaculture

42:53 ↗ um practices

42:55 ↗ and the Issaquah Alps Trails club would

42:57 ↗ also be happy to support and um

43:01 ↗ uh you know publicize

43:04 ↗ your survey

43:06 ↗ thank you yeah

43:14 ↗ all right any other I don't think we

43:17 ↗ have any other online so it seems like

43:21 ↗ that is all for questions for Chris I

43:25 ↗ think you can probably move on to the

43:26 ↗ next portion of the presentation

43:33 ↗ again yeah yeah

43:44 ↗ and bring the right Mouse

43:48 ↗ thank you

43:54 ↗ [Music]

44:22 ↗ thank you

44:28 ↗ it's showing up on the WebEx it's just I

44:31 ↗ want you to show on the screen

44:36 ↗ should I try a different shirt or why

44:39 ↗ don't you try one more

44:45 ↗ or something weird about this connection

44:50 ↗ understood her folks on the phone we

44:53 ↗ just can't see the presentation in the

44:54 ↗ room but it looks like you all can see

44:56 ↗ it from getting a couple knots

45:00 ↗ yeah we can see it all right

45:16 ↗ some of the sculpture and I'm gonna try

45:19 ↗ sharing

45:24 ↗ um

45:36 ↗ all right one moment this Park Board

45:38 ↗ knows we've certainly talked as a team

45:40 ↗ we pre-pandemic we're really good at all

45:42 ↗ in person during pandemic we got really

45:45 ↗ good at 100 virtual hybrid is the

45:48 ↗ hardest of all

45:51 ↗ okay

45:58 ↗ [Music]

46:17 ↗ and they might need to be aware of this

46:19 ↗ to make sure that what their changes

46:22 ↗ they're making that will incorporate the

46:25 ↗ line with what you're you're working on

46:28 ↗ and so and we are working with some

46:31 ↗ cities I mean some City staff are aware

46:32 ↗ of this um we talked with them back in

46:34 ↗ January and

46:37 ↗ um

46:38 ↗ I'm hoping that that kind of

46:39 ↗ communication network is happening

46:40 ↗ within the city staff

46:43 ↗ thank you yeah yeah Evan Brumfield who's

46:47 ↗ on the sees on the call we met with him

46:49 ↗ today he's in our group that we're we've

46:52 ↗ been meeting with with the city on about

46:54 ↗ a monthly basis for a balance at about a

46:57 ↗ year year and a half

46:58 ↗ so

47:00 ↗ we've been talking to him more about our

47:03 ↗ programs

47:04 ↗ that Tracy and I were talking about

47:05 ↗ rather than the blood plan but I think

47:07 ↗ he's

47:08 ↗ like he's on board now so we'll reach

47:11 ↗ out to him

47:13 ↗ and the flips land isn't actually uh it

47:16 ↗ doesn't cover Incorporated areas either

47:18 ↗ so cities can choose what what they want

47:21 ↗ to align with it's not a requirement

47:22 ↗ that cities adopt all elements of the

47:25 ↗ King County blood Hazard management

47:28 ↗ all right

47:30 ↗ all right we're gonna try one more thing

47:32 ↗ in just a moment okay

47:34 ↗ unless we can we can flip laptops around

47:36 ↗ so everyone can see this slide yeah

47:44 ↗ I can do a really long introduction

47:47 ↗ [Laughter]

47:55 ↗ as well no really not

48:01 ↗ well anyway my name is Judy radloff I'm

48:04 ↗ a geologist licensed engineering

48:06 ↗ engineering geologists in the state of

48:09 ↗ Washington have been working about

48:11 ↗ 25 or so years on geology in western

48:15 ↗ Washington and I've been with the river

48:17 ↗ and floodplain management section for

48:19 ↗ about the last five and a half years and

48:21 ↗ my partner today Tracy Windham

48:25 ↗ to Black Square in the lower middle

48:28 ↗ who is visible yeah probably if you have

48:31 ↗ a laptop

48:32 ↗ Tracy is also in we're in What's called

48:36 ↗ the technical services section

48:39 ↗ in River Company management we serve

48:41 ↗ county-wide and we focus on programs and

48:45 ↗ studies rather than capital projects is

48:49 ↗ uh that's our mission and when we get

48:52 ↗ slides up you'll see that it's it's one

48:54 ↗ part one of those tools in the toolbox

48:58 ↗ but

48:59 ↗ play management and flood hazard

49:01 ↗ [Music]

49:08 ↗ so Tracy and I today are going to be

49:10 ↗ talking about

49:12 ↗ uh flood Hazard method on Issaquah Creek

49:17 ↗ and it's actually two mapping efforts uh

49:19 ↗ that are that are underway Tracy is

49:21 ↗ doing one and I'm doing

49:23 ↗ a second one

49:28 ↗ second okay oh come on

49:35 ↗ almost right

49:40 ↗ we can turn

49:42 ↗ we get hot all around screens it is

49:46 ↗ showing up for those on the WebEx

49:49 ↗ foreign

49:53 ↗ [Music]

50:00 ↗ [Music]

50:10 ↗ [Applause]

50:13 ↗ [Music]

50:24 ↗ foreign

50:28 ↗ [Laughter]

50:49 ↗ engineer in the tech Services Group uh

50:56 ↗ a few slides here when we get to

50:59 ↗ portions about the flood map study

51:03 ↗ great thanks Tracy so just a super quick

51:06 ↗ agenda

51:07 ↗ um after this introduction

51:10 ↗ um I'm going to talk about two blood

51:12 ↗ Hazard mapping studies that we're doing

51:13 ↗ the first one that I'll be talking about

51:15 ↗ is the channel migration zone map

51:18 ↗ that's a type of flood Hazard and then

51:20 ↗ Tracy's going to talk about the flood

51:21 ↗ Map update and

51:24 ↗ um we should have plenty of tons of

51:26 ↗ questions

51:28 ↗ yes

51:29 ↗ so next slide please

51:35 ↗ you're gonna have to advance

51:36 ↗ [Laughter]

51:44 ↗ but let Chris do it if you want when she

51:47 ↗ gets back someone is uh flood um

51:49 ↗ integrated floodplain management

51:52 ↗ um as Chris mentioned integrated

51:53 ↗ floodplain management is an evolution of

51:57 ↗ just floodplain management that we did

51:59 ↗ before and fun Hazard mapping is the

52:01 ↗ first step in this uh in integrated

52:04 ↗ blood claim management

52:06 ↗ plan where we identify hazards and we

52:09 ↗ map them and so that people know where

52:11 ↗ they are

52:13 ↗ um blood plant integrated floodplain

52:14 ↗ management includes multi-benefit

52:16 ↗ approaches to Capital project planning

52:18 ↗ and Design

52:19 ↗ these approaches incorporate the King

52:21 ↗ County flood control District's

52:22 ↗ commitment to environmental stewardship

52:24 ↗ equity and social justice and

52:26 ↗ environmental justice

52:28 ↗ some examples of integrated floodplain

52:30 ↗ management elements that provide

52:32 ↗ environmental and Community benefits our

52:34 ↗ better quality fish habitat and Aquatic

52:37 ↗ habitat for a lot of a lot of creatures

52:41 ↗ parks with natural floodplain forests

52:44 ↗ open space that provides room for flood

52:46 ↗ waters and natural processes such as

52:48 ↗ your awesome conference car

52:51 ↗ so flood Hazard Maps provide identify

52:54 ↗ key locations or Hedges exist and

52:56 ↗ provide this important information to

52:58 ↗ Residence managers and regulators and

53:00 ↗ they help keep people in property safe

53:02 ↗ which is the next the next Circle

53:05 ↗ element of blood claim management

53:09 ↗ um

53:10 ↗ it helps direct your development away

53:12 ↗ from Hazard areas

53:14 ↗ and we're very happy to partner with

53:16 ↗ sending this class staff residents and

53:18 ↗ Community groups in our flood risk

53:20 ↗ reduction efforts which is the

53:22 ↗ collaboration piece of blood claim

53:24 ↗ management

53:26 ↗ excellent things

53:30 ↗ so flood Hazard mapping

53:33 ↗ this match shows in the green area where

53:35 ↗ the blood Mountain Hazard mapping is

53:37 ↗ occurring

53:38 ↗ for these two studies

53:41 ↗ the channel migration zone map as I said

53:44 ↗ is new

53:45 ↗ and it's only a portion of the green

53:47 ↗ area and the flood Map update is you'll

53:49 ↗ see is the entire green area

53:52 ↗ um and we'll talk a little bit more

53:53 ↗ about those when we get to the specific

53:55 ↗ slides on the flood hazards studies

53:58 ↗ these studies will help inform work

54:00 ↗ being done both by King County and the

54:02 ↗ City of Issaquah to manage blood risk

54:04 ↗ within the Issaquah Creek Watershed

54:07 ↗ next slide

54:10 ↗ so what are these studies needed

54:12 ↗ um

54:13 ↗ studies will provide important technical

54:15 ↗ information that are needed to evaluate

54:17 ↗ structural blood risk reduction measures

54:18 ↗ for issaqui because I said these are

54:20 ↗ studies that are programmatic so they

54:21 ↗ give information that then is used for

54:23 ↗ these structural measures to be

54:25 ↗ evaluated and prioritized

54:28 ↗ and uh it became it became very apparent

54:31 ↗ that they were needed uh when damaged to

54:33 ↗ public and private interest

54:34 ↗ infrastructure along this clock Creek

54:36 ↗ from the in 2020 when the flooding

54:39 ↗ prompted the King County Flood Control

54:40 ↗ District to direct King County water and

54:42 ↗ land to develop a capital investment

54:45 ↗ strategy which is a report on potential

54:47 ↗ options for comprehensive flood risk

54:50 ↗ and flood risk reduction facilities and

54:52 ↗ strategies on issaqua Creek so that was

54:54 ↗ the the more specific plan that Chris

54:57 ↗ was talking about

54:59 ↗ so child migration zones why is the

55:01 ↗ study needed it's type of blood hazard

55:03 ↗ the Washington State Administrative Code

55:05 ↗ that implements the shoreline management

55:07 ↗ Act requires communities to map Channel

55:10 ↗ migration zones and regulate them and

55:13 ↗ there hasn't been one map yet there is

55:14 ↗ concrete

55:16 ↗ so that'll be a new study

55:18 ↗ and then the existing flood maps as

55:20 ↗ you'll see very soon are outdated and

55:23 ↗ not accurately represent current

55:24 ↗ conditions so the next slide shows

55:27 ↗ illustrations of these

55:31 ↗ um so why because let's these studies

55:34 ↗ are needed so on the left

55:36 ↗ um photograph is an example of active

55:38 ↗ Channel migration uh that was observed

55:40 ↗ in 2020 and 2021

55:43 ↗ so Channel migration is a natural

55:44 ↗ process and as Chris said it's where

55:46 ↗ streams move across their floodplains

55:48 ↗ and sometimes they move grad um suddenly

55:51 ↗ jump the channel occupy a new place

55:53 ↗ entirely and it could be quite

55:54 ↗ surprising and that process is called an

55:57 ↗ evulsion but more commonly they just

56:00 ↗ move gradually across the floodplain and

56:02 ↗ that's kind of what's happening in this

56:04 ↗ photograph

56:05 ↗ so Channel migration zones are areas

56:09 ↗ that predict

56:10 ↗ where we expect the chance to move in

56:12 ↗ the future based on uh basically the

56:16 ↗ geologic and topographic conditions and

56:19 ↗ what we've observed about how the

56:20 ↗ channel has moved in the past so they're

56:22 ↗ not perfect at predicting but they are a

56:25 ↗ predictive tool

56:27 ↗ so uh Now Tracy is going to talk a

56:30 ↗ little bit about the photograph on the

56:32 ↗ right

56:34 ↗ thanks Judy

56:36 ↗ so as Judy mentioned it in the previous

56:39 ↗ Slide the the current flood maps are

56:42 ↗ outdated

56:43 ↗ um the flood maps are supposed to show

56:46 ↗ where flooding is expected during the

56:49 ↗ year or what we often call one percent

56:51 ↗ annual chance flood event and oftentimes

56:55 ↗ they also show uh even fringes flooding

56:59 ↗ might during a 500 year event

57:03 ↗ um in this image on the right the

57:06 ↗ floodplain in the lighter blue

57:08 ↗ uh for blue and inside of that is what

57:12 ↗ we call the way

57:14 ↗ uh

57:16 ↗ as mentioned the existing mappings

57:18 ↗ outdated uh it's over 20 years old

57:21 ↗ prepared modeling approach data that may

57:25 ↗ have changed over that time

57:27 ↗ and so this this is just one really

57:29 ↗ obvious example where the existing

57:32 ↗ mapping doesn't even line up with the

57:34 ↗ current location of the creek right

57:37 ↗ whether that's due to channel migration

57:39 ↗ over that 20 years or perhaps

57:42 ↗ development or a combination of those

57:44 ↗ things

57:45 ↗ yeah please

57:49 ↗ is where the mapping doesn't currently

57:52 ↗ like uh we're Illustrated in flooding in

57:56 ↗ 2020 and even perhaps uh in 2021 right

58:00 ↗ um

58:01 ↗ and so

58:03 ↗ you know there's been a lot of advances

58:05 ↗ in in data collection techniques both

58:07 ↗ aerial topographic data aerial imagery

58:13 ↗ to prepare much more detailed maps

58:17 ↗ to map on

58:19 ↗ uh additional 20 rainfall data

58:24 ↗ uh even show some higher Peak flows that

58:28 ↗ could lead changes in the predicted 100

58:30 ↗ Year flow from what was used in the

58:32 ↗ study past

58:35 ↗ obviously we all understand the advances

58:37 ↗ in modeling and computer power that

58:39 ↗ allow us this model much more detail

58:42 ↗ than we have in the past

58:45 ↗ it you know allows us basically much

58:49 ↗ more accurate and up to date

58:51 ↗ what information

58:53 ↗ which critical as Beauty pointed out for

58:57 ↗ Effective floodplain management

59:07 ↗ Tracy you were kind of breaking up did

59:09 ↗ every I'm going to pause for a moment

59:10 ↗ and see if anybody needs a clarification

59:11 ↗ I do have those notes and I might be

59:13 ↗ able to fill in

59:15 ↗ anything was missed

59:17 ↗ so is the Assumption on this map that

59:19 ↗ the blue line is the current path of the

59:22 ↗ creek and kind of Tracy is explaining

59:23 ↗ how the floodway is well off of where it

59:25 ↗ should be currently is that kind of what

59:28 ↗ we're seeing here the

59:30 ↗ the blue lines accurate to the location

59:32 ↗ of the creek with the floodplain

59:33 ↗ floodway are obviously not matching up

59:35 ↗ how it should in some of these spots

59:37 ↗ yeah so this is the 19 uh the 2021

59:40 ↗ aerial photograph and you can actually

59:42 ↗ set up on the lower right hand quadrant

59:45 ↗ of the photograph uh in the sort of

59:47 ↗ brown patchy area and you can see the

59:50 ↗ creek Channel

59:52 ↗ all the way to the left of the match

59:54 ↗ floodplain and flood way and then in the

59:56 ↗ upper

59:57 ↗ quadrant upper the Northwest Quadrant of

1:00:00 ↗ the photograph you can see the creek

1:00:02 ↗ channels of dark dark

1:00:05 ↗ um line

1:00:07 ↗ a little bit narrower than the floodway

1:00:09 ↗ that's mapped which is the dark blue and

1:00:12 ↗ you can see that that is completely

1:00:13 ↗ outside of where the floodway is which

1:00:15 ↗ is where the flood way usually will map

1:00:17 ↗ within the Crete Channel and the

1:00:20 ↗ adjacent areas so and there are a lot of

1:00:23 ↗ examples of places where this

1:00:26 ↗ this mapping does not line up

1:00:29 ↗ we're not quite sure why why

1:00:33 ↗ everywhere okay so hopefully we've

1:00:36 ↗ convinced you why these studies are

1:00:37 ↗ needed

1:00:39 ↗ now I'm going to talk a little bit more

1:00:40 ↗ in detail about the channel migration

1:00:42 ↗ zone now

1:00:43 ↗ next slide next slide thank you

1:00:46 ↗ so the channel integration design map is

1:00:48 ↗ going to cover uh 13 miles of the main

1:00:51 ↗ stem of vistaprockery from Lake

1:00:52 ↗ Sammamish to its Confluence of carrion

1:00:54 ↗ holder creeks

1:00:57 ↗ um so it's just a narrow area where we

1:00:59 ↗ look at the creek bed itself and then

1:01:01 ↗ the areas that it more reasonably occupy

1:01:05 ↗ or has occupied throughout the last 100

1:01:08 ↗ years or in the aerial photograph record

1:01:10 ↗ that we have

1:01:12 ↗ um Nancy just a quick question so you

1:01:14 ↗ said how far it's going is that just

1:01:17 ↗ North and Highway 18 is that where

1:01:19 ↗ you're talking is that what is that what

1:01:21 ↗ I see on this picture correct yeah and I

1:01:24 ↗ just want to reference it yes and that's

1:01:27 ↗ the Confluence area is so that's

1:01:29 ↗ directed by state law it's the size of

1:01:32 ↗ Greeks and right and streams that are

1:01:34 ↗ required to be have challenges I just

1:01:36 ↗ wanted to make sure I knew how far this

1:01:37 ↗ was okay in real life gotcha

1:01:41 ↗ so about 13 miles total including about

1:01:44 ↗ six miles within the city uh these uh

1:01:47 ↗ cellular Maps so the outcomes inside

1:01:48 ↗ outcomes are that the studies the maps

1:01:50 ↗ will help make residents safer and help

1:01:53 ↗ them make decisions uh by by showing

1:01:55 ↗ them where this expected Channel

1:01:57 ↗ migration is going to occur uh and also

1:02:00 ↗ help identify areas where public

1:02:03 ↗ infrastructure may need to be protected

1:02:05 ↗ when adopted by the King County public

1:02:07 ↗ rule so there's a process for that the

1:02:10 ↗ new mapping will support review of land

1:02:12 ↗ use proposals by King County in

1:02:14 ↗ unincorporated areas and then we're

1:02:16 ↗ going to hand that information over to

1:02:18 ↗ the City of Issaquah uh to do your own

1:02:21 ↗ to do what you will with it to uh

1:02:24 ↗ to to manage it as we see fit

1:02:28 ↗ um

1:02:29 ↗ and that is something that we worked

1:02:31 ↗ with Gary shimek early on to talk about

1:02:34 ↗ um you know did he do the did the city

1:02:37 ↗ want us to do the mapping within the

1:02:39 ↗ city limits it is your option to do it

1:02:41 ↗ yourself but

1:02:43 ↗ um since we were doing the whole Creek

1:02:44 ↗ Upstream

1:02:46 ↗ we talked we engaged early on with the

1:02:51 ↗ city and they agreed that that was what

1:02:52 ↗ they would like to do

1:02:54 ↗ so just a real quick um the timeline is

1:02:57 ↗ the technical work began in 2022

1:03:00 ↗ um I've been doing field work and

1:03:02 ↗ collecting historical data uh I got the

1:03:06 ↗ field work about half done and that's

1:03:08 ↗ basically accessing the creek from

1:03:11 ↗ Public public property because

1:03:14 ↗ where the creek is owned by private

1:03:16 ↗ people private parties we need

1:03:19 ↗ permission to access the actual Creek

1:03:21 ↗ bed the creek Banks to do the data

1:03:23 ↗ collection and field work that we need

1:03:25 ↗ to do for this analysis so that progress

1:03:30 ↗ um is about halfway done and we expect

1:03:33 ↗ to finish hopefully by the end of 2024

1:03:35 ↗ roughly our end of 2023 roughly we'll

1:03:39 ↗ have uh mostly analysis done and be able

1:03:41 ↗ to produce a report in early 2024.

1:03:45 ↗ so then the next slide is the is just a

1:03:50 ↗ map of where all the parks are zooming

1:03:52 ↗ in now to the City of Issaquah where

1:03:55 ↗ your parks are and

1:03:57 ↗ um I put this map in here to show how

1:04:00 ↗ Creekside parks are really helpful to

1:04:03 ↗ our efforts and they help us complete

1:04:05 ↗ our mapping because they provide access

1:04:07 ↗ to the creek oh I just have to call or

1:04:10 ↗ email Jennifer Fink and she she's happy

1:04:13 ↗ to hear you know what we're doing and

1:04:15 ↗ just be okay to to work on certain days

1:04:20 ↗ um so that's really really helpful to be

1:04:21 ↗ able to access Creek but then but more

1:04:24 ↗ importantly

1:04:26 ↗ um they provide the open space in

1:04:27 ↗ natural areas where the floodplain can

1:04:29 ↗ function and the river processes Creek

1:04:32 ↗ processes and they provide you know

1:04:34 ↗ healthy habitat for aquatic species

1:04:35 ↗ including salmon they're public

1:04:37 ↗ amenities of course and they provide

1:04:39 ↗ permanent blood risk reduction benefits

1:04:42 ↗ because they prevent residential and

1:04:44 ↗ Commercial development in these flood

1:04:46 ↗ Hazard areas that are right adjacent to

1:04:47 ↗ the creek

1:04:48 ↗ yeah

1:04:50 ↗ so that is

1:04:53 ↗ uh Channel migration Zone mapping well

1:04:56 ↗ Tracy hopefully uh your connection's a

1:04:59 ↗ little better and

1:05:00 ↗ I think yeah

1:05:02 ↗ I switched to my headset are you able to

1:05:05 ↗ hear me better now

1:05:07 ↗ okay maybe my mic on my laptop wasn't uh

1:05:11 ↗ picking me up so well

1:05:13 ↗ uh next if you would switch to the next

1:05:15 ↗ slide I'll

1:05:18 ↗ um I know it's hard for some of you to

1:05:20 ↗ see this but this is similar to the map

1:05:22 ↗ that we showed earlier so the this shows

1:05:24 ↗ the extents of the flood study or the

1:05:27 ↗ flood Map update that we're going to be

1:05:28 ↗ doing it's going to Encompass all of

1:05:31 ↗ isqua Creek from Lake Sammamish uh to

1:05:34 ↗ where it starts at the Confluence of

1:05:36 ↗ holder and carry creeks uh and then

1:05:39 ↗ small reaches of holder and carry Creeks

1:05:41 ↗ uh to state route 18.

1:05:44 ↗ uh there will be a small portion of the

1:05:46 ↗ North Fork of Issaquah Creek

1:05:48 ↗ that's part of the study

1:05:50 ↗ uh portion of the East Fork from uh

1:05:54 ↗ roughly the Preston area into the city

1:05:56 ↗ where it joins the main stem

1:05:59 ↗ uh McDonald Creek

1:06:01 ↗ and what is known or what's named

1:06:05 ↗ tributary0217 which is a creek that

1:06:09 ↗ flows in from the four lakes area

1:06:12 ↗ um and so

1:06:15 ↗ uh what are we looking for outcomes from

1:06:17 ↗ this flood study uh or the flood Map

1:06:19 ↗ update excuse me

1:06:21 ↗ um

1:06:22 ↗ the biggest you know the number one

1:06:24 ↗ outcome is is accurate updated flood

1:06:27 ↗ maps right we want these maps to truly

1:06:30 ↗ reflect

1:06:31 ↗ where flooding is expected to occur so

1:06:34 ↗ as we were trying to show on that other

1:06:36 ↗ picture there's numerous areas that have

1:06:39 ↗ uh changed over 20 years whether it's

1:06:42 ↗ Channel migration development or just

1:06:45 ↗ accuracy of the data that was used at

1:06:49 ↗ the time uh topography and things

1:06:52 ↗ where we can improve on our mapping and

1:06:55 ↗ so the updated Maps will help residents

1:06:57 ↗ make decisions that keep themselves

1:06:59 ↗ their families and properties safe right

1:07:01 ↗ so uh reducing flood risk is one of our

1:07:04 ↗ primary goals uh second the maps will

1:07:08 ↗ update and replace the FEMA flood

1:07:11 ↗ insurance rate maps for areas within the

1:07:13 ↗ flood plain uh

1:07:15 ↗ and so

1:07:17 ↗ as such the flood study is going to be

1:07:19 ↗ prepared to FEMA requirements uh when

1:07:22 ↗ the study is complete it will be

1:07:24 ↗ submitted to FEMA

1:07:26 ↗ uh for their review

1:07:28 ↗ uh at which point after the review is

1:07:31 ↗ complete and we've addressed any

1:07:33 ↗ comments they have FEMA will adopt the

1:07:35 ↗ new mapping and revise the flood

1:07:39 ↗ insurance rate Maps

1:07:40 ↗ uh and then uh third uh the maps will be

1:07:45 ↗ used by local governments King County

1:07:47 ↗ City of Issaquah for land use regulation

1:07:50 ↗ and as we mentioned uh earlier to

1:07:54 ↗ provide data on on Hazard areas to

1:07:57 ↗ support the future flood risk reduction

1:08:00 ↗ projects that might be identified in

1:08:02 ↗ that capital investment strategy

1:08:05 ↗ um we're working closely with the City

1:08:07 ↗ of Issaquah

1:08:09 ↗ as I mentioned the study is going to

1:08:11 ↗ provide foundational information for

1:08:14 ↗ Capital planning efforts by the city and

1:08:17 ↗ by King County moving forward

1:08:21 ↗ timeline of the study so similar to the

1:08:24 ↗ channel migration study the technical

1:08:26 ↗ work began this past year

1:08:29 ↗ uh early fall

1:08:32 ↗ we expect the updated mapping to be

1:08:36 ↗ ready to submit to FEMA in 2024

1:08:40 ↗ and that long time frame reflects both

1:08:43 ↗ the

1:08:45 ↗ the technical ongoing technical work

1:08:47 ↗ that's required to generate the mapping

1:08:49 ↗ and then also the time frame of uh

1:08:53 ↗ Community uh review Community comment

1:08:57 ↗ that's part of the FEMA process before

1:08:59 ↗ the maps are actually submitted for FEMA

1:09:02 ↗ review

1:09:04 ↗ uh and where's the study at right now

1:09:07 ↗ what's going on

1:09:09 ↗ um our consultant and surveyors have

1:09:11 ↗ been out doing field reconnaissance in

1:09:14 ↗ the basin uh they've started survey of

1:09:17 ↗ bridges and other Road Crossings

1:09:20 ↗ culverts and such to capture data for

1:09:24 ↗ the setting up the hydraulic model

1:09:26 ↗ uh they've been reviewing existing

1:09:30 ↗ topographic and aerial imagery

1:09:33 ↗ including a review of the hydrology so I

1:09:37 ↗ mentioned in that previous slide was

1:09:38 ↗ that we have you know 20 more years of

1:09:41 ↗ data since the last mapping or this

1:09:45 ↗ mapping was originally done so they're

1:09:47 ↗ looking at rainfall data changing land

1:09:50 ↗ use types and other factors and the

1:09:53 ↗ creek flow record to see if any changes

1:09:56 ↗ to the hydrology are warranted

1:09:59 ↗ uh and then they're just starting to

1:10:01 ↗ develop the the computer model

1:10:04 ↗ that'll be used to model the the

1:10:08 ↗ flows in the river and the resulting uh

1:10:12 ↗ flooding and so that motto will

1:10:14 ↗ incorporate this cross-section and

1:10:16 ↗ Bridge surveys that are going on right

1:10:18 ↗ now

1:10:19 ↗ uh covert information

1:10:21 ↗ uh aerial topography information and any

1:10:24 ↗ other relevant features on the landscape

1:10:27 ↗ that are critical to that mapping

1:10:31 ↗ uh that's it for this slide

1:10:35 ↗ thank you

1:10:37 ↗ okay so um

1:10:41 ↗ as with the blood plan we are doing

1:10:43 ↗ Outreach lots of it

1:10:46 ↗ um our early Outreach which is to

1:10:48 ↗ initiate this is that the initiation of

1:10:50 ↗ these studies

1:10:51 ↗ um began

1:10:53 ↗ um while we're beginning with our

1:10:54 ↗ planning

1:10:55 ↗ um but we're engaged in it right now

1:10:57 ↗ we're very close to sending out a

1:11:00 ↗ postcard to Residents who will are in

1:11:02 ↗ the study areas in the map the Big Green

1:11:05 ↗ area uh we've decided to send one

1:11:07 ↗ postcard so they don't get two postcards

1:11:09 ↗ for two different studies that are

1:11:11 ↗ really similar so we're sending one

1:11:13 ↗ postcard

1:11:14 ↗ um

1:11:15 ↗ and on those postcards will be uh QR

1:11:18 ↗ codes and URLs for the online engagement

1:11:22 ↗ Hub which is like a website but it's

1:11:24 ↗ actually a two-way street where we can

1:11:26 ↗ take in information from folks and on

1:11:29 ↗ the last slide there is a

1:11:31 ↗ those QR codes and URLs are are included

1:11:37 ↗ um including presentations like this one

1:11:38 ↗ and we'd be happy to do additional

1:11:40 ↗ presentations

1:11:42 ↗ um if you think people are interested in

1:11:43 ↗ just learning about the study in general

1:11:46 ↗ um we're coordinating with City staff

1:11:48 ↗ and then we are going to be reaching out

1:11:50 ↗ to specific Creekside landowners as I

1:11:52 ↗ said for rights of Entry to do work on

1:11:55 ↗ to just walk on their property just be

1:11:59 ↗ no invasive work at all to collect data

1:12:02 ↗ for the studies

1:12:04 ↗ um then the big Outreach comes at the

1:12:06 ↗ end when we have results a lot of times

1:12:08 ↗ it's hard to do early Outreach because

1:12:10 ↗ people want to know how am I going to be

1:12:11 ↗ affected it's like I don't know until I

1:12:13 ↗ get the data and get the analysis done

1:12:15 ↗ so expect late 23 24 is when the public

1:12:19 ↗ process will begin and both Studies have

1:12:21 ↗ a formal public process

1:12:23 ↗ they both require public meetings and

1:12:25 ↗ public comment periods and the CMZ maps

1:12:28 ↗ go through the CPA process because it is

1:12:30 ↗ a new regulation being added and the

1:12:33 ↗ FEMA process is also separate

1:12:37 ↗ um a separate public a separate review

1:12:40 ↗ process but there should be plenty of

1:12:42 ↗ time for people to review Maps bring new

1:12:44 ↗ data if they have it and

1:12:47 ↗ [Music]

1:12:47 ↗ um

1:12:48 ↗ so some of this initial Outreach is so

1:12:50 ↗ that we reach the right people at the

1:12:52 ↗ right times to get information to them

1:12:55 ↗ about the studies and also invite early

1:12:57 ↗ information because it's easier to

1:12:59 ↗ change you know to incorporate

1:13:00 ↗ information that people have about

1:13:02 ↗ flooding uh before we've made draft Maps

1:13:05 ↗ then you know changing the maps after

1:13:07 ↗ the fact that they're done so for

1:13:09 ↗ example uh people have photographs of

1:13:12 ↗ flooding we've actually already met with

1:13:13 ↗ one Creekside resident who had some

1:13:15 ↗ great photographs from I think

1:13:18 ↗ 2009 that were we could see the flood

1:13:21 ↗ levels on a distinctive feature in his

1:13:24 ↗ yard that we could we could tell you

1:13:27 ↗ know how high the water was and so we

1:13:29 ↗ could go back and Survey that and use

1:13:30 ↗ that information to calibrate the model

1:13:32 ↗ that Tracy is doing and then if we know

1:13:36 ↗ information about

1:13:37 ↗ where erosion has happened and how fast

1:13:40 ↗ it happened

1:13:42 ↗ um

1:13:43 ↗ we can if that's helpful for my

1:13:45 ↗ information to understand the character

1:13:48 ↗ of child migration the character how

1:13:50 ↗ quickly the Supreme tend to move through

1:13:52 ↗ different types of materials and

1:13:54 ↗ comprises Banks so this Outreach with

1:13:56 ↗ individuals is really helpful and

1:13:59 ↗ whatever I wrote down all the things

1:14:02 ↗ that you were offering to Chris about

1:14:04 ↗ groups to reach out to and so if you

1:14:05 ↗ have any more specific groups the HOA

1:14:07 ↗ recommendation is a good one you might

1:14:11 ↗ get any

1:14:12 ↗ uh names and numbers of HOAs that

1:14:15 ↗ anybody might have and then the

1:14:17 ↗ email list that you have that sounds

1:14:20 ↗ great too absolutely

1:14:22 ↗ so so that's pretty much it I had a I

1:14:25 ↗ had a video really cool video of

1:14:28 ↗ some Chinook salmon swimming up screen

1:14:30 ↗ that I saw in squawk Valley Park last

1:14:32 ↗ fall so they were God streaming the

1:14:34 ↗ Hatchery and they're up there doing

1:14:36 ↗ their natural thing

1:14:38 ↗ um hopefully they'll get some more

1:14:40 ↗ salmon and

1:14:42 ↗ I wanted to thank everyone from Park and

1:14:45 ↗ environmental boards that this is such a

1:14:47 ↗ great opportunity to get to know you a

1:14:49 ↗ little bit and to get your uh you know

1:14:52 ↗ input onto our studies so the last slide

1:14:54 ↗ has as I said it has our emails our URLs

1:14:57 ↗ and

1:14:59 ↗ um

1:14:59 ↗ and another thank you

1:15:02 ↗ so we can take questions any questions

1:15:04 ↗ you have now

1:15:05 ↗ thank you Judy we'll start with Danielle

1:15:07 ↗ and move over to Chris uh it's not a

1:15:09 ↗ question but just a couple more ideas

1:15:11 ↗ for outreach

1:15:12 ↗ um for you guys uh next door is pretty

1:15:15 ↗ popular in Issaquah and so that might be

1:15:19 ↗ a good place to try to get this survey

1:15:20 ↗ linked especially to the neighborhoods

1:15:23 ↗ that are along the creek

1:15:26 ↗ um

1:15:27 ↗ as far as like the schools or if if um

1:15:31 ↗ you know they all send you newsletters

1:15:33 ↗ out

1:15:34 ↗ um and it would be Issaquah Valley

1:15:36 ↗ Issaquah middle school and Issaquah High

1:15:38 ↗ School are the school side

1:15:39 ↗ are open feeders for those neighborhoods

1:15:43 ↗ and then we have a new Equity board in

1:15:46 ↗ the support I don't know if you've

1:15:47 ↗ reached out to them but they may have

1:15:50 ↗ ideas about how to

1:15:53 ↗ um reach out to communities that are not

1:15:56 ↗ otherwise you know typically represented

1:16:00 ↗ um

1:16:01 ↗ and then also the Parks when for our

1:16:04 ↗ last few

1:16:05 ↗ um art projects we've started to put up

1:16:08 ↗ um like information where it has a QR

1:16:10 ↗ code where someone who's walking near

1:16:13 ↗ that park or through the park and you

1:16:15 ↗ know pull up a survey and give input

1:16:17 ↗ right then and that might be a great

1:16:19 ↗ idea like especially around Confluence

1:16:21 ↗ bar for some of the parks that

1:16:23 ↗ um that neighbors walk to

1:16:26 ↗ um so anyway those are just some other

1:16:27 ↗ great thank you ideas yeah

1:16:31 ↗ um so our engagement hubs for both the

1:16:33 ↗ blood study and museums our study are

1:16:34 ↗ translated into Spanish and Chinese and

1:16:39 ↗ the food plan we have I think nine

1:16:41 ↗ languages and it's translated into

1:16:43 ↗ so for to get a little better access

1:16:46 ↗ hopefully to some of the people's first

1:16:48 ↗ language isn't English

1:16:51 ↗ um

1:16:52 ↗ and then yeah the next door isn't that

1:16:54 ↗ that's a um

1:16:55 ↗ that's an English book page it's not

1:16:58 ↗ Facebook so it's similar to social media

1:17:01 ↗ that neighbors use and

1:17:04 ↗ um

1:17:06 ↗ I don't know if the city can post to

1:17:08 ↗ that I think but again individual

1:17:11 ↗ individual's hands okay

1:17:18 ↗ a lot of people will

1:17:20 ↗ um see that

1:17:22 ↗ hey did you have something more frescoes

1:17:24 ↗ or um it was a comment from Brad oh okay

1:17:29 ↗ uh friends of like Spanish State Park if

1:17:32 ↗ you haven't already reach out to them

1:17:33 ↗ and they have a big email list

1:17:36 ↗ and then I apologize if you said this

1:17:38 ↗ and I missed it where will you be or

1:17:41 ↗ where how will you display the present

1:17:44 ↗ the mapping information you know will it

1:17:46 ↗ be like added to IMAP or is it going to

1:17:48 ↗ be a different

1:17:49 ↗ yeah eventually both will be on IMAP

1:17:52 ↗ okay and then will the FEMA mapping

1:17:55 ↗ their online map you will that get

1:17:57 ↗ updated with with your Maps or

1:18:00 ↗ Tracy you want to talk about people

1:18:02 ↗ process yeah yeah sure so

1:18:05 ↗ um the FEMA or the floodplain Maps

1:18:08 ↗ Flipline mapping will be put up on IMAP

1:18:12 ↗ so the way we usually do that or the way

1:18:15 ↗ we typically do that is once the draft

1:18:18 ↗ maps have gone through the public

1:18:19 ↗ meeting and comment period and we've

1:18:22 ↗ addressed all those comments and we

1:18:24 ↗ submit the maps to FEMA at that point uh

1:18:28 ↗ we put them up on on IMAP and we use

1:18:31 ↗ those as a regulatory

1:18:33 ↗ uh layer that we used and that way

1:18:38 ↗ because the FEMA process can take some

1:18:41 ↗ time before they're officially adopted

1:18:43 ↗ we once once that

1:18:46 ↗ um

1:18:47 ↗ info has been submitted to them we use

1:18:49 ↗ it as what we call the best available

1:18:50 ↗ right and so so at the time that'll be

1:18:54 ↗ on IMAP and I think as far as presenting

1:18:57 ↗ the maps so there'll be a public meeting

1:19:00 ↗ when the draft maps are ready uh and

1:19:04 ↗ that will be probably held

1:19:06 ↗ uh virtually

1:19:09 ↗ um because because we've had uh actually

1:19:12 ↗ much better turnout in that sense uh

1:19:15 ↗ we'll see we may do a hybrid format

1:19:19 ↗ um and the maps will also be physically

1:19:23 ↗ available at the Escuela library for

1:19:26 ↗ people to come in and see uh and that'll

1:19:29 ↗ be it's basically a I think it's a

1:19:31 ↗ 30-day comment period that starts uh

1:19:34 ↗ post meeting post public meeting which

1:19:37 ↗ time anybody can make comment or ask

1:19:41 ↗ questions we'll we'll take in all those

1:19:43 ↗ comments address any of that require you

1:19:47 ↗ know may require changes to the maps uh

1:19:50 ↗ and then they get submitted so they'll

1:19:51 ↗ be presented both physically

1:19:53 ↗ uh at the Disco library in their draft

1:19:56 ↗ form

1:19:57 ↗ in the public meeting

1:19:59 ↗ and then once submitted to FEMA they'll

1:20:02 ↗ be available in IMAP and at that time we

1:20:05 ↗ can they can be provided to the city as

1:20:07 ↗ well to use as best available

1:20:10 ↗ so

1:20:12 ↗ yeah

1:20:19 ↗ map as the regulatory floodplain so it

1:20:22 ↗ can be used for regulation the new the

1:20:25 ↗ new mapping the best available as you

1:20:27 ↗ said and the public meetings also of

1:20:29 ↗ another hybrid or virtual they can be

1:20:31 ↗ recorded so that's really handy because

1:20:33 ↗ then we had really great feedback from a

1:20:35 ↗ process we did Summer 2021 when

1:20:40 ↗ very interested folks just couldn't make

1:20:42 ↗ the meeting time that we had even though

1:20:44 ↗ it was virtual so it was recorded so

1:20:46 ↗ they could

1:20:47 ↗ watch it later so I'm really trying to

1:20:50 ↗ increase access that way and that those

1:20:52 ↗ recordings end up on these engagement

1:20:54 ↗ hubs that they've already set up

1:20:59 ↗ right and I think Laura I have a

1:21:01 ↗ question I saw a question in chat she

1:21:03 ↗ did yeah I had a question about

1:21:07 ↗ um I'm not sure how sea level rise is

1:21:10 ↗ planned for at the Ballard Locks but I

1:21:11 ↗ was wondering if you're expecting

1:21:13 ↗ groundwater to be expected at all

1:21:15 ↗ um I know like along the coast lens

1:21:17 ↗ there's concerns about groundwater being

1:21:19 ↗ an issue and um that was the question

1:21:22 ↗ for you and then also just a comment for

1:21:24 ↗ the the slide that you have with

1:21:25 ↗ Issaquah Creek I think

1:21:27 ↗ um showing those tributaries is helpful

1:21:29 ↗ because

1:21:30 ↗ just conceptually it's hard to um it's

1:21:33 ↗ on a flat area so those like when the

1:21:35 ↗ water comes along they stay more

1:21:37 ↗ affected um than like a traditional flat

1:21:39 ↗ area by a floodplain you can't get down

1:21:41 ↗ your Hill if there's your floodplains

1:21:43 ↗ are all an issue

1:21:46 ↗ so I can I guess the question of uh

1:21:49 ↗ groundwater

1:21:53 ↗ that comes into the hydrology aspect of

1:21:56 ↗ the modeling so

1:21:57 ↗ uh when when the when you're looking at

1:22:01 ↗ how much runoff is going to be generated

1:22:03 ↗ by this Hundred Year rain event in the

1:22:07 ↗ case of a flood

1:22:08 ↗ or what is the hundred year reign event

1:22:11 ↗ or what I'm sorry what is the 100 year

1:22:13 ↗ flood event what is that flow in the

1:22:15 ↗ river so the the inputs to that

1:22:18 ↗ uh groundwater is generally uh taken

1:22:22 ↗ into account in that

1:22:23 ↗ uh I don't know you know sea level rise

1:22:27 ↗ and and that

1:22:28 ↗ uh I don't think that given the controls

1:22:32 ↗ with you know the locks and all this the

1:22:34 ↗ distance up to the mouth of this Creek I

1:22:38 ↗ don't think that'll be factored in

1:22:40 ↗ um we are anticipating uh it's not part

1:22:45 ↗ of the looking at some climate change

1:22:48 ↗ adjusted flows to see you know what kind

1:22:52 ↗ of higher flows and resulting flooding

1:22:54 ↗ might

1:22:55 ↗ be expected in the future that's not an

1:22:59 ↗ official part of the FEMA process but

1:23:01 ↗ that's something that we're going to do

1:23:03 ↗ for ours and your knowledge uh and just

1:23:08 ↗ to help kind of see what what might be

1:23:11 ↗ the expectations in the future

1:23:20 ↗ I thought of when Chris was talking

1:23:22 ↗ about

1:23:24 ↗ flooding benefits groundwater recharge

1:23:26 ↗ is a benefit of flooding if the

1:23:28 ↗ groundwater can get out onto the

1:23:30 ↗ floodplains and soak in rather than

1:23:32 ↗ discharging directly to links mamish and

1:23:35 ↗ it recharges the local groundwater table

1:23:37 ↗ and then that water becomes more readily

1:23:40 ↗ available back to the creek in summer at

1:23:42 ↗ low flow time when it gets hot and it's

1:23:44 ↗ nice cold ground water and it's really

1:23:45 ↗ beneficial beneficial feature for

1:23:49 ↗ aquatic habitat

1:23:53 ↗ all right I think Nancy you're

1:23:57 ↗ so I had two questions

1:23:59 ↗ um

1:24:00 ↗ first one's probably pretty easy so

1:24:03 ↗ um if we're interested in seeing when

1:24:05 ↗ like the floodplain mats and stuff come

1:24:07 ↗ out is there a way we can get on an

1:24:09 ↗ email or a distribution list is it those

1:24:11 ↗ QR codes is that what we have to scan in

1:24:13 ↗ to say we want it we're interested and

1:24:15 ↗ give you more yeah the QR codes are the

1:24:17 ↗ URLs public input.com and right exactly

1:24:21 ↗ we have an email list we're trying to

1:24:23 ↗ generate a pair okay that was I figured

1:24:26 ↗ it was easy the second question I had is

1:24:28 ↗ well you guys are collecting a lot of

1:24:30 ↗ data along this app break

1:24:32 ↗ and um I think it will be highly

1:24:34 ↗ valuable to the city along the way

1:24:37 ↗ um the question I have for you is one of

1:24:39 ↗ the areas we were looking at that were

1:24:41 ↗ um when we were doing a land use code

1:24:43 ↗ update recently were bog areas and areas

1:24:46 ↗ with different kinds of soils are you

1:24:48 ↗ picking any of that kind of information

1:24:50 ↗ up when you're out in the field

1:24:52 ↗ I mean you're not specifically being

1:24:54 ↗ asked to do that but the question I have

1:24:56 ↗ is we have when we asked staff we said I

1:24:58 ↗ said well we really don't have a lot of

1:24:59 ↗ information on this the question I have

1:25:02 ↗ is there any way you're seeing any of

1:25:04 ↗ that because you're a geologist and I

1:25:06 ↗ know and a lot of it would be in that

1:25:08 ↗ area I would assume it's a lot of it

1:25:10 ↗ would have been in precarious

1:25:13 ↗ yeah good question so I definitely look

1:25:17 ↗ at the bank materials and the bad

1:25:19 ↗ materials right local in the creek and

1:25:22 ↗ then looking farther out on the

1:25:23 ↗ floodplain I look at the geologic

1:25:25 ↗ materials that are mass and the geologic

1:25:28 ↗ history in this club Basin is really

1:25:31 ↗ interesting

1:25:32 ↗ there the glaciers came in and they

1:25:36 ↗ blocked it and at one point I don't know

1:25:37 ↗ if you know this but it's this quad

1:25:39 ↗ Creek used to flow out to the South to

1:25:41 ↗ the Cedar River through two or three

1:25:44 ↗ channels hung down Bay Valley one down

1:25:47 ↗ Hobart they're really clear in the lidar

1:25:50 ↗ if you go to uh or even topography if

1:25:52 ↗ you look online if I I'm at

1:25:55 ↗ so

1:25:57 ↗ um so the glacial history having had

1:26:00 ↗ um glaciers sitting kind of in the

1:26:02 ↗ bottom the creek Valley bottom and it

1:26:04 ↗ made quite a wide you know Valley over

1:26:08 ↗ particularly the upper part of the creek

1:26:10 ↗ there's a pinch point right right before

1:26:12 ↗ squawk Mountain Upstream of the city

1:26:14 ↗ about River miles near miles seven

1:26:17 ↗ and I think you all probably know where

1:26:18 ↗ it is it's where squawk Mountain comes

1:26:20 ↗ down it's just before the landing pad

1:26:23 ↗ and it just it pinches right down

1:26:25 ↗ there's Bedrock right there and there's

1:26:27 ↗ Bedrock right on the so it's just this

1:26:28 ↗ really interesting kind of hourglass

1:26:30 ↗ shape to the plus plan so there's

1:26:33 ↗ definitely some interesting materials

1:26:34 ↗ underground that you know we're we're

1:26:37 ↗ going to look for information that's

1:26:39 ↗ readily available but we actually be

1:26:41 ↗ able to like do much digging but I

1:26:42 ↗ certainly have seen some what we call

1:26:45 ↗ like lower permeability sediments that

1:26:47 ↗ are compacted by the glaciers that do

1:26:49 ↗ hold make bogs and they hold water

1:26:52 ↗ they're slow to drain

1:26:53 ↗ but they're also tend to be slow slow to

1:26:58 ↗ erode so like if the creek is trying to

1:27:00 ↗ erode laterally up against some of this

1:27:03 ↗ this material this

1:27:05 ↗ silkier clear material it goes more

1:27:08 ↗ slowly so I am definitely looking at

1:27:10 ↗ that type of material are you noting it

1:27:13 ↗ anywhere it's so that if somebody was

1:27:15 ↗ looking for it they could find it yeah I

1:27:17 ↗ mean

1:27:18 ↗ um it's it's hard at the scale of

1:27:20 ↗ mapping to show it well on a map but you

1:27:23 ↗ know I'm going to be producing report

1:27:24 ↗ that'll have reach by reach descriptions

1:27:26 ↗ and I will note it in there so it might

1:27:28 ↗ be buried in some detail but if if

1:27:31 ↗ someone's interested I'd be happy to

1:27:32 ↗ always happy to talk to geology okay

1:27:34 ↗ great thank you

1:27:37 ↗ and go ahead yeah I think I just took a

1:27:40 ↗ quick comments um I think it's awesome

1:27:42 ↗ that the city has taken up uh the county

1:27:44 ↗ on the CMZ the channel migration Zone

1:27:47 ↗ studies within Incorporated Issaquah

1:27:49 ↗ that's great I think the next step is

1:27:50 ↗ making sure that that's being

1:27:51 ↗ Incorporated in some of the

1:27:53 ↗ considerations around uh you know both

1:27:56 ↗ current and existing infrastructure I

1:27:58 ↗ mean I could see this being something

1:27:59 ↗ that would be great to present to the

1:28:00 ↗ transportation board when that's

1:28:01 ↗ available

1:28:03 ↗ um and then in terms of new you know

1:28:04 ↗ Bridge Crossings or Crossings on Sugar

1:28:07 ↗ Creek things I know we've talked about

1:28:08 ↗ David a little bit about uh you know the

1:28:10 ↗ trail plan state park that you're

1:28:12 ↗ talking about and there's I think Judy

1:28:14 ↗ and Tracy know that the greenway trust

1:28:16 ↗ has been working with natural Waters and

1:28:18 ↗ NHC on a channel migration Zone in Lake

1:28:20 ↗ Savannah State Parks that exists but you

1:28:22 ↗ know I know Parks also has plans on you

1:28:24 ↗ know more Trail connections you know

1:28:25 ↗ across the creek and along the creek so

1:28:27 ↗ I think this is just really really

1:28:29 ↗ valuable data and I'm sure it'll be used

1:28:31 ↗ I think it would be great to be as

1:28:32 ↗ transparent as we can with the boards

1:28:34 ↗ with the community

1:28:36 ↗ exciting could be there to your point

1:28:38 ↗ answer a lot of data but we got to make

1:28:39 ↗ sure we're using it to the rest of our

1:28:42 ↗ ability so let's just comment

1:28:47 ↗ all right I think that may be all of our

1:28:50 ↗ questions and is that the final leg of

1:28:53 ↗ your questions presentation County yes

1:28:58 ↗ yes well appreciate um you're all

1:29:00 ↗ joining us

1:29:02 ↗ um sounds like there's plenty of ways to

1:29:03 ↗ follow up with additional questions and

1:29:05 ↗ comments

1:29:07 ↗ um anything else to leave us with or

1:29:10 ↗ we really appreciate all the feedback

1:29:13 ↗ tonight on groups Larry Johnson that's

1:29:14 ↗ great

1:29:17 ↗ and madly and thank you

1:29:20 ↗ thank you very much thank you thank you

1:29:22 ↗ yeah thank you

1:29:23 ↗ I will add that those engagement hubs

1:29:26 ↗ are really going to be uh a good place

1:29:29 ↗ to kind of I mean you'll be a little

1:29:31 ↗ more I think in the know being heavily

1:29:33 ↗ involved in in just the city and and

1:29:37 ↗ what's happening and what's going on but

1:29:39 ↗ the engagement hubs will be a great

1:29:40 ↗ place to kind of track the status uh of

1:29:44 ↗ the project at least the let's say

1:29:46 ↗ influence

1:29:47 ↗ Map update and channel migration study

1:29:49 ↗ as they move along we have we'll have a

1:29:51 ↗ timeline on there that indicates which

1:29:54 ↗ stages of the project are complete

1:29:56 ↗ uh and opportunities in there for

1:29:59 ↗ residents or anyone to to add feedback

1:30:02 ↗ uh upload flood pictures that they have

1:30:05 ↗ things like that so that they're meant

1:30:08 ↗ to be engagement hubs Are Meant To Be An

1:30:11 ↗ interactive uh forum for folks to to

1:30:15 ↗ engage with the study so

1:30:17 ↗ thanks for having us soon

1:30:20 ↗ thank you

1:30:21 ↗ um yeah thank you I think with that we

1:30:25 ↗ will uh with our next agenda item which

1:30:27 ↗ is the parks program programs update

1:30:31 ↗ you guys want to leave yeah you're

1:30:33 ↗ welcome

1:30:37 ↗ I will sign off then thanks

1:30:41 ↗ make me understand is there any of those

1:30:43 ↗ extra handouts that you don't want I'll

1:30:45 ↗ take them oh yeah

1:30:48 ↗ all right is that my cue Jamie yes go

1:30:52 ↗ ahead cool happy happy to

1:30:55 ↗ provide some updates uh Jeff Watling

1:30:57 ↗ again parks and Community Services

1:30:59 ↗ director

1:31:01 ↗ um 2023 is certainly uh represents

1:31:04 ↗ another really busy year for us as a

1:31:07 ↗ department both operationally and

1:31:09 ↗ capital project wise uh thank you I know

1:31:12 ↗ you've got

1:31:13 ↗ um some of your points of interest to

1:31:15 ↗ Stacy she was able to provide to me some

1:31:18 ↗ specific program updates you were

1:31:19 ↗ wanting I'll cover those first

1:31:22 ↗ um and then if we have time we should

1:31:25 ↗ have time I'll touch base on Sammamish

1:31:28 ↗ Cove and the Republic comment

1:31:31 ↗ and information I certainly know in that

1:31:34 ↗ regard first urban forestry program uh

1:31:39 ↗ you I think all know by now we through

1:31:42 ↗ the Council budget process for the 23-24

1:31:46 ↗ budget were

1:31:49 ↗ that full support from from Council on

1:31:54 ↗ getting a new position within our park

1:31:56 ↗ operations team an urban forestry

1:31:58 ↗ supervisor we had a very robust

1:32:02 ↗ recruitment process a lot of interest

1:32:05 ↗ not surprising a lot of really strong

1:32:08 ↗ candidates to to select from uh really

1:32:11 ↗ happy to to announce we have our Urban

1:32:14 ↗ Forest supervisor that will be starting

1:32:15 ↗ next week it's Dan Hintz congratulations

1:32:19 ↗ wow so

1:32:22 ↗ yeah we're absolutely thrilled Dan just

1:32:24 ↗ brings such a wealth of of both

1:32:27 ↗ education and experience but then also

1:32:29 ↗ very tangible local knowledge and

1:32:32 ↗ experience and just absolutely thrilled

1:32:35 ↗ um where this position will sort of fit

1:32:38 ↗ within our organization our as we've

1:32:40 ↗ been expanding our resources and really

1:32:44 ↗ knowledge base within our park

1:32:45 ↗ operations team we're we're in many ways

1:32:48 ↗ sort of creating a Natural Resources

1:32:50 ↗ Group within that team the urban Forest

1:32:53 ↗ supervisor Dan will sort of oversee that

1:32:56 ↗ group we'll work in concert with our

1:32:59 ↗ other our park operations supervisor

1:33:01 ↗ you're very I think all familiar with

1:33:02 ↗ Matt meckler

1:33:04 ↗ um so Matt and Dan form a great

1:33:06 ↗ supervisory team uh Rick still our Clark

1:33:09 ↗ ops manager will oversee those two staff

1:33:13 ↗ um our volunteer coordinator I'll give

1:33:15 ↗ you an update on that and so the green

1:33:16 ↗ Issaquah initiative and a lot of our

1:33:18 ↗ natural resource work will fall under

1:33:20 ↗ the urban Forest supervisor a lot of

1:33:23 ↗ great

1:33:24 ↗ um

1:33:25 ↗ sort of synergy with that group as well

1:33:28 ↗ our park ranger position Alex Anderson

1:33:32 ↗ will also be supervised by Dan and part

1:33:36 ↗ of that team so really just excited to

1:33:39 ↗ add Dan and that wealth of knowledge

1:33:41 ↗ quite frankly to the group in terms of

1:33:44 ↗ work plan for that position so be

1:33:46 ↗ congrats to Dan now here we go roll up

1:33:48 ↗ our sleeves and line it up there's some

1:33:50 ↗ there's some real interest in this

1:33:52 ↗ community as you all know and Dan

1:33:54 ↗ certainly knows himself and he still

1:33:56 ↗ said yes so we're excited but it's we do

1:34:00 ↗ have some funding this year in the

1:34:01 ↗ budget for an urban Forest management

1:34:03 ↗ plan the city's first sort of holistic

1:34:07 ↗ look at our Urban forest and and Dan

1:34:10 ↗ will be leading that effort so there'll

1:34:13 ↗ be a lot of community engagement around

1:34:15 ↗ that a lot of work with both the park

1:34:17 ↗ board and the environmental board on

1:34:19 ↗ that work we're also in the park boards

1:34:23 ↗ aware of this I'm going to be looking at

1:34:26 ↗ um a much needed review and likely

1:34:30 ↗ updating of our heritage tree program

1:34:33 ↗ has hasn't really been looked at in a

1:34:36 ↗ long long time so that too will be an

1:34:40 ↗ effort that Dan will be leading from the

1:34:43 ↗ park board side of things as we've

1:34:45 ↗ looked at our work plan uh there's a

1:34:48 ↗ we've already identified an ad hoc group

1:34:51 ↗ within the park board that will be

1:34:53 ↗ focusing on urban forestry and working

1:34:54 ↗ with Dan on on those specific efforts as

1:34:58 ↗ we sort of looked at the park board work

1:35:01 ↗ plan and how do we throw maximize and

1:35:04 ↗ diversify interest in and

1:35:09 ↗ um just yeah yeah feedback and

1:35:11 ↗ interaction with the board on on so many

1:35:13 ↗ projects that we've got going on so uh

1:35:16 ↗ that's urban forestry Dan anything you

1:35:19 ↗ want to sort of add yeah I know thank

1:35:21 ↗ you I'm really excited for this

1:35:22 ↗ transition I have been able to tell a

1:35:25 ↗ couple people about this on the last few

1:35:26 ↗ days but I'll be wrapping up my time

1:35:27 ↗ with the mountains on Greenway tomorrow

1:35:29 ↗ actually be my last day there

1:35:31 ↗ um after seven years it'll be starting

1:35:33 ↗ with the city probably on Monday so

1:35:36 ↗ um did talk to Stacy this does mean that

1:35:38 ↗ I will be stepping down from the

1:35:39 ↗ environmental boards so this will be my

1:35:41 ↗ last meeting but I'm really excited to

1:35:43 ↗ you know still obviously interact with

1:35:44 ↗ you all moving forward in this new

1:35:45 ↗ capacity part four and I haven't met all

1:35:48 ↗ you much before but really excited to to

1:35:51 ↗ be plugging into the school too and get

1:35:52 ↗ to know you all better as well so that's

1:35:54 ↗ actually kind of news to me there's

1:35:55 ↗ gonna be a kind of sub committee there

1:35:57 ↗ so that's great too to hear that that's

1:35:58 ↗ that's coming together and like I said

1:36:01 ↗ yeah really really passionate about this

1:36:02 ↗ community our our canopy our forest here

1:36:05 ↗ and how that ties to all the stuff we've

1:36:07 ↗ been talking about here and working on

1:36:08 ↗ the last couple years so it's been great

1:36:10 ↗ work with you all but I won't be a

1:36:12 ↗ stranger after this obviously so yeah I

1:36:14 ↗ just want to say it's going to be great

1:36:15 ↗ having someone coming to burn on the

1:36:17 ↗ board on your staff so that they can

1:36:18 ↗ kind of cool you into what we're

1:36:19 ↗ actually uh

1:36:25 ↗ if I could add to that point dad but

1:36:27 ↗ honestly I didn't it's not necessarily

1:36:29 ↗ the potential of a conflict of interest

1:36:31 ↗ because as Dan and I talk there really

1:36:33 ↗ isn't a conflict of interest in terms of

1:36:34 ↗ State I think it's more just the broader

1:36:37 ↗ principle of should should staff be on

1:36:41 ↗ um on boards and commissions in general

1:36:43 ↗ and so

1:36:45 ↗ um obviously these relationships are key

1:36:47 ↗ and

1:36:48 ↗ um again it's not a they don't see it as

1:36:51 ↗ any type of conflict of interest but

1:36:53 ↗ frankly it's it's very complementary

1:36:57 ↗ in terms of what our goals are as well

1:36:59 ↗ so um that's urban forestry uh green

1:37:01 ↗ Issaquah I mentioned that just briefly

1:37:03 ↗ we too have a volunteer coordinator uh

1:37:08 ↗ position that was approved in the budget

1:37:11 ↗ um

1:37:12 ↗ again very successful recruitment

1:37:14 ↗ process uh just finished second

1:37:16 ↗ interview who's earlier this week with

1:37:19 ↗ Rick and

1:37:20 ↗ um we should be having an offer if it's

1:37:23 ↗ not out already should be out super soon

1:37:26 ↗ so we hope to be having a announcing a

1:37:29 ↗ volunteer coordinator and bringing that

1:37:30 ↗ position award uh that position was

1:37:33 ↗ really necessitated by a number of

1:37:35 ↗ things you know we partnered with

1:37:36 ↗ forterra Janet knows so well I think in

1:37:40 ↗ my first year in 2016 talking to Jan

1:37:42 ↗ about we're going to hit or Cara we're

1:37:44 ↗ going to get a green Issaquah program

1:37:45 ↗ going for teres I think for a number of

1:37:48 ↗ reasons it's sort of backed away from

1:37:50 ↗ some of its green cities

1:37:53 ↗ program and its capacity to supporting

1:37:56 ↗ so the timing was right for us as a city

1:37:58 ↗ there's such value in the principles of

1:38:01 ↗ green Issaquah of creating volunteer

1:38:03 ↗ stewards of doing that work so

1:38:05 ↗ internalizing this coordinator and that

1:38:09 ↗ ability for us to really continue on in

1:38:12 ↗ that work work and really that's focused

1:38:14 ↗ work right that's so complementary to

1:38:16 ↗ this bigger urban forestry goal that you

1:38:19 ↗ know Green Issaquah is really how are we

1:38:22 ↗ looking at our city-owned lands our

1:38:25 ↗ city-owned public Forest Urban forest

1:38:27 ↗ and making sure where

1:38:28 ↗ uh we're leading by example we're we're

1:38:31 ↗ doing all we can to to promote and

1:38:34 ↗ Foster a healthy a healthy forest with

1:38:37 ↗ the public lands that we own so again

1:38:39 ↗ really complementary to have that work

1:38:41 ↗ uh falling within dance

1:38:44 ↗ dance supervision

1:38:47 ↗ So Much More Much More ahead there

1:38:50 ↗ um I think another program you're

1:38:52 ↗ interested in was the park strategic

1:38:53 ↗ Plan update

1:38:55 ↗ um in 2018

1:38:57 ↗ we the city had adopted its most recent

1:39:01 ↗ Park strategic plan this is my tattered

1:39:04 ↗ copy obviously it hasn't gathered dust

1:39:06 ↗ on the Shelf it's

1:39:07 ↗ pretty tattered and well used but

1:39:10 ↗ um 20 24 every six years rco estate

1:39:14 ↗ granting agency asks and requires that

1:39:17 ↗ cities update their part strategic plan

1:39:19 ↗ so by March April of next year we need

1:39:24 ↗ to have one adopted so we are going to

1:39:26 ↗ begin that Community engagement effort

1:39:29 ↗ in Earnest this year that too as Park

1:39:32 ↗ Board knows is a is an ad hoc group

1:39:34 ↗ opportunity that has been

1:39:36 ↗ identified to help with some of that

1:39:40 ↗ Focus shepherding group we

1:39:43 ↗ rely on some consultant support to help

1:39:46 ↗ in that effort as well

1:39:47 ↗ uh we put out a request for proposal

1:39:50 ↗ right at the beginning of the year as

1:39:52 ↗ the budget was adopted went through a

1:39:55 ↗ review process and interview process

1:39:58 ↗ um including a Community member Mr

1:40:00 ↗ Kepler I wasn't able to join us on the

1:40:02 ↗ day but thank you just for viewing those

1:40:05 ↗ proposals today then providing your

1:40:07 ↗ feedback I'm happy to say we have a

1:40:10 ↗ really good partner that we're

1:40:11 ↗ finalizing a contract with and it's a

1:40:14 ↗ order Partnership if you're familiar a

1:40:17 ↗ local landscape architect firm I've had

1:40:19 ↗ the privilege of working with them in

1:40:21 ↗ multiple cities

1:40:22 ↗ but really really good local team of

1:40:25 ↗ Landscape Architects that understand

1:40:29 ↗ Western Washington understand Issaquah

1:40:31 ↗ they've done statistical projects

1:40:32 ↗ they're partnering with a a broader

1:40:36 ↗ group called design Workshop design

1:40:38 ↗ Workshop is done

1:40:40 ↗ really good Park system plans of

1:40:44 ↗ strategic Park system trail system plans

1:40:46 ↗ for a number of cities throughout really

1:40:50 ↗ the the western region of the United

1:40:52 ↗ States including Boulder Colorado

1:40:55 ↗ um Salt Lake City Vancouver British

1:40:58 ↗ Columbia obviously some much bigger than

1:41:00 ↗ Issaquah but you know certainly seeing

1:41:02 ↗ they understand the Nexus of public

1:41:04 ↗ spaces and livability public spaces the

1:41:08 ↗ quality of life public spaces and the

1:41:10 ↗ natural habitat so

1:41:13 ↗ um as that as we finalize that contract

1:41:15 ↗ and really begin to map out and timeline

1:41:20 ↗ out of that work this year both the

1:41:22 ↗ engagement side and and drafting the

1:41:25 ↗ plan wise we'll make sure we would be

1:41:28 ↗ interested to know what touch points

1:41:30 ↗ with the environmental board you'd be

1:41:32 ↗ interested in in that in that process so

1:41:36 ↗ I'm excited that that work will be

1:41:37 ↗ getting underway

1:41:42 ↗ um

1:41:42 ↗ like those are the well one other one I

1:41:45 ↗ know there was interest in some of the

1:41:48 ↗ prior

1:41:49 ↗ um opportunities I've had to interact

1:41:51 ↗ with all of you about electrification uh

1:41:54 ↗ and you know how are we looking at our

1:41:58 ↗ park operations team and

1:42:00 ↗ um the array of gas powered equipment

1:42:03 ↗ that we use throughout just maintaining

1:42:05 ↗ and stewarding our system uh really

1:42:08 ↗ happy to say proud to say that the park

1:42:10 ↗ office team has been really hard at work

1:42:11 ↗ and that both the combination of work we

1:42:14 ↗ did last fall and then another sort of

1:42:17 ↗ tranche of of Acquisitions we did early

1:42:19 ↗ this year we're well on our way to fully

1:42:22 ↗ electrifying all of our handheld

1:42:24 ↗ equipment so all our blowers our mowers

1:42:27 ↗ our trimmers

1:42:28 ↗ um our handheld mowers I should say

1:42:31 ↗ a lot of of that equipment that we use

1:42:34 ↗ on a daily basis throughout the city is

1:42:37 ↗ going to be electrified we're going to

1:42:39 ↗ be probably about 80 percent of

1:42:41 ↗ electrified equipment

1:42:43 ↗ um as we roll out this spring and summer

1:42:45 ↗ so wow really really proud of the team

1:42:48 ↗ for making a such a quick jump on that

1:42:50 ↗ we're already working with Fleet the

1:42:53 ↗ fleet division some of our bigger

1:42:54 ↗ equipments I.E trucks

1:42:57 ↗ um our riding mowers

1:42:59 ↗ um the commercial industry is not quite

1:43:03 ↗ as as

1:43:06 ↗ advanced in in some of those but we are

1:43:08 ↗ ready when

1:43:10 ↗ um I think equipment gets to that point

1:43:13 ↗ those larger equipment that we're really

1:43:16 ↗ excited to look at electrifying that as

1:43:18 ↗ well so

1:43:19 ↗ some great work by the team in that

1:43:21 ↗ regard

1:43:22 ↗ another a couple updates just some

1:43:25 ↗ general projects you might have seen

1:43:26 ↗ we've got a pretty big capital

1:43:29 ↗ investment project going on in Old Town

1:43:32 ↗ um uh The Pedestrian Park Senior Center

1:43:34 ↗ project is what we're calling it in a

1:43:37 ↗ broader sense before the pandemic as a

1:43:39 ↗ result of the park strategic plan one of

1:43:42 ↗ the goals was let's take a look at the

1:43:45 ↗ compilation of parks that make up Old

1:43:48 ↗ Town or that went up within Old Town

1:43:50 ↗ Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Depot

1:43:52 ↗ Park pedestrian Park I might not be

1:43:55 ↗ getting all the names it's just sort of

1:43:56 ↗ a disjointed sense of public spaces

1:43:59 ↗ there was a lot of public Outreach we

1:44:02 ↗ did just before the pandemic to say as a

1:44:04 ↗ community how might you want to

1:44:05 ↗ re-envision that how could that those

1:44:08 ↗ public spaces better support Old Town

1:44:10 ↗ better support Front Street better

1:44:12 ↗ support the residential areas around

1:44:15 ↗ that connection with the Rainier Trail

1:44:18 ↗ Etc

1:44:19 ↗ through the budget process last year

1:44:22 ↗ Council identified a pretty good chunk

1:44:26 ↗ of the federal American Recovery Act

1:44:29 ↗ funding the arpa funding so we have been

1:44:33 ↗ hard at work

1:44:35 ↗ on a couple of Concepts that we have out

1:44:37 ↗ for a survey right now if any of you've

1:44:39 ↗ been downtown you may have seen the QR

1:44:41 ↗ code boards inviting residents to to

1:44:45 ↗ lend comment to those projects we have

1:44:47 ↗ two concepts

1:44:48 ↗ that we're seeking feedback on if you

1:44:51 ↗ haven't taken the survey please do it

1:44:53 ↗ closes March 19th I think we're up to

1:44:56 ↗ 500 survey responses now so a lot of a

1:45:01 ↗ lot of interest from the community a lot

1:45:04 ↗ of fun engaging responses in terms of

1:45:06 ↗ how those public spaces might better

1:45:11 ↗ better relate to one another and better

1:45:13 ↗ relate to the the private properties and

1:45:16 ↗ private uses around them

1:45:22 ↗ um any questions on any of those items

1:45:27 ↗ we'll keep going okay

1:45:32 ↗ uh Sammamish Cove

1:45:34 ↗ um

1:45:35 ↗ as Connie certainly mentioned in her

1:45:38 ↗ public comment semantics Cove Park if

1:45:41 ↗ you're not familiar is the park space

1:45:44 ↗ that sort of wedged between I-90 to

1:45:47 ↗ itself and Lake Sammamish State Park to

1:45:50 ↗ its North

1:45:52 ↗ um

1:45:53 ↗ if you were on I-90 it was directly

1:45:55 ↗ across from the new REI headquarters

1:46:01 ↗ um that Park is has been under a lot of

1:46:05 ↗ um

1:46:05 ↗ some historic pressure but more recently

1:46:09 ↗ um

1:46:11 ↗ some pressure of of different interests

1:46:14 ↗ um I'm going to sort of give a quick

1:46:16 ↗ origin story though in 1998 that

1:46:19 ↗ property was purchased by King County

1:46:21 ↗ uh when the county purchased that

1:46:23 ↗ property they utilized

1:46:26 ↗ um among I think a number of funding

1:46:28 ↗ sources to Grants two Grant sources that

1:46:33 ↗ most grants just like the grants that we

1:46:35 ↗ when we purchase public property have

1:46:36 ↗ covenants and and deed restrictions tied

1:46:39 ↗ to them

1:46:41 ↗ um fast forward to 2007 during the

1:46:44 ↗ annexation of that Sammamish South

1:46:46 ↗ Sammamish Cove area that Park that King

1:46:51 ↗ County Park was transferred to the City

1:46:52 ↗ of Issaquah in 2007 as part of that

1:46:55 ↗ transfer and I've been familiar or in my

1:46:59 ↗ career been part of a number of

1:47:01 ↗ transfers of the county there's an

1:47:02 ↗ interlocal agreement between accounting

1:47:04 ↗ the city that illegally makes that

1:47:07 ↗ transfer in that air local agreement one

1:47:10 ↗ of those grants was identified

1:47:13 ↗ um but not the second Grant wasn't

1:47:15 ↗ necessarily identified but the city was

1:47:17 ↗ not aware of of the two grants they were

1:47:19 ↗ just aware of the one Grant

1:47:21 ↗ um in 2011

1:47:24 ↗ uh there was a development agreement

1:47:26 ↗ that the city

1:47:28 ↗ um signed with Rowley uh for a

1:47:34 ↗ stormwater

1:47:36 ↗ facility to be installed as I came on

1:47:41 ↗ board in 2016 uh 2017 was informed of

1:47:45 ↗ the project we in Parks wanted to make

1:47:47 ↗ sure that King County was aware so the

1:47:50 ↗ deed restrictions uh the the county what

1:47:53 ↗ were you aware of at the interval little

1:47:55 ↗ agreement was the county used a 1989

1:47:58 ↗ open space bond funds so the Covenant

1:48:02 ↗ and the and the deed restriction that

1:48:03 ↗ went with that was hey is King County

1:48:05 ↗ invested this money in it we want to

1:48:07 ↗ make sure the uses are complementary and

1:48:10 ↗ we as the county want to preserve our

1:48:12 ↗ interests so we want to be able to be

1:48:14 ↗ notified and sort of review what is

1:48:17 ↗ being proposed so we within parks and

1:48:22 ↗ began that process with the county and

1:48:24 ↗ notifying them of this development

1:48:26 ↗ agreement that the city entered into and

1:48:28 ↗ getting their feedback on that

1:48:32 ↗ um

1:48:33 ↗ then the pandemic came

1:48:35 ↗ um in 20 let's say it's 2020 uh the

1:48:38 ↗ county

1:48:38 ↗ communicated back to the city that they

1:48:42 ↗ reviewed that proposed

1:48:46 ↗ development agreement that proposed

1:48:48 ↗ stormwater project and they

1:48:53 ↗ agreed that it it fell within the it was

1:48:57 ↗ not limiting to the deed restrictions or

1:48:59 ↗ the goals of the of the uh the site the

1:49:02 ↗ property since it's an underground

1:49:04 ↗ facility and that no conversions would

1:49:06 ↗ be needed

1:49:08 ↗ um

1:49:09 ↗ we became informed King County I should

1:49:12 ↗ say was informed through some work that

1:49:14 ↗ the state did in 2022 so last summer uh

1:49:18 ↗ they were reviewing all of their Grant

1:49:20 ↗ files and let the county know hey when

1:49:23 ↗ you transferred this semamishko park to

1:49:25 ↗ the City of Issaquah in 2007 you didn't

1:49:28 ↗ you didn't let them know and you didn't

1:49:29 ↗ transfer this state Grant

1:49:31 ↗ so as we become aware of that we are

1:49:35 ↗ going through the the same process where

1:49:37 ↗ we want to make sure

1:49:40 ↗ um because that those funds they were

1:49:42 ↗ aquatic land Olea there's a federal

1:49:45 ↗ federal funds that rco governs for for

1:49:48 ↗ the state we want to make sure that

1:49:50 ↗ those restrictions and those covenants

1:49:53 ↗ are also abided by and and with with

1:49:56 ↗ this again 2011 development agreement

1:49:59 ↗ that this the city entered into so

1:50:01 ↗ that's a process that will continue

1:50:05 ↗ that's sort of a double process in that

1:50:08 ↗ with that Grant the

1:50:10 ↗ the the grant itself still needs to be

1:50:13 ↗ transferred from the county to the city

1:50:15 ↗ if you follow what I say because that

1:50:16 ↗ didn't happen in 2007 and then as that

1:50:19 ↗ is transferred to the city who's now the

1:50:22 ↗ owner of that property we also want to

1:50:24 ↗ make sure rco reviews this proposal and

1:50:28 ↗ um gives their feedback on compliance

1:50:32 ↗ as was mentioned those aren't the only

1:50:35 ↗ this this

1:50:36 ↗ stormwater project is not the only

1:50:38 ↗ pressure being put on Sammamish Cove

1:50:40 ↗ Park

1:50:41 ↗ along with the Northwest Sammamish Road

1:50:44 ↗ uh pinch Point project being adjacent to

1:50:48 ↗ the the park there's certainly some

1:50:50 ↗ pending pressures and coordination that

1:50:52 ↗ needs to be done there as well uh

1:50:55 ↗ Washington D.O.T or wash dot uh state

1:50:58 ↗ DOT

1:51:00 ↗ um you may have heard

1:51:02 ↗ um they there was a a lawsuit

1:51:06 ↗ [Music]

1:51:06 ↗ um

1:51:09 ↗ by the local tribes not necessarily just

1:51:12 ↗ on well I think it was washed out but

1:51:14 ↗ they washed out is required to expand

1:51:18 ↗ improve culverts through all of their

1:51:20 ↗ interstates

1:51:22 ↗ throughout the state and so what that

1:51:24 ↗ means for I-90 there are five culverts

1:51:27 ↗ that washdot needs to upgrade improve

1:51:31 ↗ address from a fish passage standpoint

1:51:34 ↗ and so as that project begins

1:51:38 ↗ in Earnest it is it has come to our

1:51:42 ↗ attention that washdot has Keen

1:51:44 ↗ interests on Sammamish Cove Park and

1:51:47 ↗ being part of their solution there so

1:51:50 ↗ again as Connie outlined I would just I

1:51:53 ↗ would reinforce that there are some

1:51:56 ↗ historic as in 2011 but I think more

1:51:59 ↗ some more recent pending pressures that

1:52:02 ↗ are being put on on that park that's

1:52:06 ↗ we are working

1:52:09 ↗ with both the

1:52:13 ↗ the

1:52:14 ↗ local developer who has the development

1:52:17 ↗ agreement but namely a washdot as well

1:52:20 ↗ um

1:52:22 ↗ myself and the Public Works director

1:52:24 ↗ have been working diligently on making

1:52:28 ↗ washed out aware and having a better

1:52:30 ↗ understanding of not only public

1:52:33 ↗ properties that this fish passage

1:52:35 ↗ projects may be wanting access to and

1:52:39 ↗ changing the use of but also right away

1:52:42 ↗ city right away that may be impacted and

1:52:45 ↗ are working on

1:52:47 ↗ the best approach and the best method to

1:52:50 ↗ certainly communicate to city council

1:52:52 ↗ and also communicate to the community

1:52:54 ↗ what should and what is going to be

1:52:56 ↗ anticipated or understood by all these

1:53:00 ↗ fish passage projects so

1:53:03 ↗ a lot going on

1:53:05 ↗ um

1:53:06 ↗ certainly something we want to remain

1:53:08 ↗ very transparent with and

1:53:11 ↗ um

1:53:13 ↗ yeah not only to Sammamish pill Park as

1:53:17 ↗ as was mentioned tonight but but really

1:53:19 ↗ a number of areas that those projects

1:53:23 ↗ are are going to interface with the city

1:53:26 ↗ infrastructure the city property

1:53:31 ↗ so that's a lot but there's there's a

1:53:33 ↗ few few updates if you have questions or

1:53:36 ↗ if there's any other work plan items

1:53:38 ↗ Park Board please chime in as well as

1:53:41 ↗ well if I uh if I missed anything

1:53:44 ↗ hey Jeff said involved that Raleigh

1:53:46 ↗ wants to build is that going to be in

1:53:47 ↗ the in the Park area or they're going to

1:53:50 ↗ put it on the South Side I-90 so the

1:53:53 ↗ Vault itself would be on the south side

1:53:54 ↗ and then I my understanding is the the

1:53:58 ↗ the

1:53:59 ↗ pipe would be just part of the discharge

1:54:02 ↗ system

1:54:03 ↗ um

1:54:04 ↗ yeah but no no

1:54:06 ↗ the The Vault and the storage is not

1:54:08 ↗ happening within the park okay

1:54:13 ↗ as I understand it the yeah the goal of

1:54:15 ↗ that project is to not impact Tibbetts

1:54:18 ↗ Creek with

1:54:20 ↗ what's going on there

1:54:25 ↗ yeah

1:54:25 ↗ yeah is that like what a company that

1:54:29 ↗ wants to do that storm project is that

1:54:31 ↗ part of the is it like a private company

1:54:33 ↗ or I mean what what is the purpose of

1:54:35 ↗ that building that storm

1:54:39 ↗ project yeah yes yes private private

1:54:44 ↗ property owner landowner developer

1:54:48 ↗ um

1:54:48 ↗ a development agreement is an agreement

1:54:51 ↗ made between a you know private land

1:54:53 ↗ owners in the city in terms of how they

1:54:56 ↗ will proceed with

1:54:58 ↗ their project

1:55:01 ↗ so yeah

1:55:11 ↗ that's it for me

1:55:13 ↗ thank you

1:55:16 ↗ thank you chat

1:55:20 ↗ um I think then

1:55:21 ↗ um that concludes all of our main agenda

1:55:24 ↗ items

1:55:26 ↗ um

1:55:27 ↗ next Stacy do you have some reports

1:55:31 ↗ um just quickly to note for them are on

1:55:33 ↗ a board that we do have a special

1:55:34 ↗ meeting on her third that is going to be

1:55:37 ↗ to discuss voice reduction and also to

1:55:40 ↗ make the recommendation on the read Plus

1:55:42 ↗ so we'll be getting that packet out

1:55:45 ↗ about a week

1:55:46 ↗ about a war the meeting other thing I'll

1:55:49 ↗ just put in another plug City Associates

1:55:52 ↗ for sustainability Fair April 16th if

1:55:55 ↗ you have a favorite Community Gathering

1:55:57 ↗ Place that you go there's a few posters

1:55:59 ↗ out on the table and you could grab one

1:56:01 ↗ look those up but please continue to

1:56:04 ↗ spread the word

1:56:07 ↗ particularly

1:56:10 ↗ yeah

1:56:12 ↗ all right and then any other business or

1:56:15 ↗ announcements

1:56:22 ↗ one thank you Dan for your time on the

1:56:24 ↗ board you've been a great resource for

1:56:25 ↗ the board and we're sad to see you go

1:56:27 ↗ but you couldn't be going through a

1:56:28 ↗ better place so

1:56:30 ↗ um yeah we will uh we'll miss you but I

1:56:34 ↗ know you'll be back here I'm sure you'll

1:56:36 ↗ be back at some point so uh it's not

1:56:38 ↗ going far

1:56:40 ↗ um I think otherwise uh with that we we

1:56:43 ↗ are adjourned so thank you uh Park

1:56:45 ↗ forward thank you environmental board

1:56:46 ↗ have a good night

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