Environmental Board · Wednesday, April 12, 2023 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of March 8, 2023

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 03-08-23 Environmental Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. March 8, 2023 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

Minutes of March 16, 2023

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES b) 03-16-23 Environmental Board Minutes Page 1 CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental & Parks Boards Special Meeting 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. Mar 16, 2023 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Waste Reduction and Re+ Pledge

Action · Logan Harvey, Government Affairs, Recology Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager · packet pp.9–34

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Staff report:

Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

Comprehensive Plan Update

Discussion · Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager · packet pp.35–62

Topics: Land Use

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Community Planning and Development 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

5. REPORTS

2023 Environmental Awards

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Staff report:

Update the City Council on the winners of the Ruth and Dan Kees Award for a Sustainable Environment and Community Environmental Awards.

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Environmental Board Upcoming Topics

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0:01 ↗ yeah all right

0:03 ↗ all right well welcome to the

0:07 ↗ April 12th meeting of the Issaquah

0:10 ↗ environmental board my name is Jamie

0:12 ↗ Finch and I'll be your chair tonight uh

0:14 ↗ due to the hybrid nature of this meeting

0:16 ↗ we will have some members attending in

0:18 ↗ person and others that will be attending

0:20 ↗ a computer or phone for those attending

0:22 ↗ remotely please mute when you're not

0:25 ↗ speaking if you need to speak please

0:27 ↗ indicate in the chat and we'll do our

0:29 ↗ best to see that you've done so

0:33 ↗ um and then when you're done please make

0:34 ↗ sure that you do mute again for those in

0:37 ↗ person as we always do please tip your

0:40 ↗ name card up if you would like to speak

0:44 ↗ um we will summarize agreement around

0:46 ↗ topics and and recommendations

0:49 ↗ um and then we'll reach out to see if

0:51 ↗ there's any amendments or changes to

0:54 ↗ what uh how I've summarize so please let

0:56 ↗ me know if I've missed anything

0:59 ↗ um stay Speedy tickets through

1:01 ↗ attendance great uh Tom Anderson here

1:05 ↗ uh Nancy Davidson has an excused absence

1:08 ↗ Jamie Finch here

1:10 ↗ Israel here Laurel I think though

1:14 ↗ thank you

1:15 ↗ Ashwin manaharan John McWilliams here

1:19 ↗ and Newcomb bear and Janet wall here

1:24 ↗ thank you Stacy

1:26 ↗ um do we have any comments on the

1:27 ↗ minutes from March 8th or March 16th

1:34 ↗ hearing none they are approved as

1:38 ↗ presented

1:40 ↗ um Stacy do we have anyone joined from

1:42 ↗ the public

1:44 ↗ or that's any kid a desire to speak

1:47 ↗ we do have a member of the

1:55 ↗ Pope uh inside the chat if you're

1:57 ↗ interested in providing public comments

2:01 ↗ um

2:04 ↗ or if you want to raise your hand and

2:06 ↗ then Jamie can go through

2:07 ↗ the public comment rules

2:14 ↗ not seeing any interest go ahead and do

2:16 ↗ send me a chat

2:18 ↗ um

2:19 ↗ they said that they don't have anything

2:20 ↗ right at this time all right well I

2:23 ↗ think with that we can move into our

2:25 ↗ agenda items the first one being waste

2:28 ↗ reduction and the request pledge

2:34 ↗ all right well thank you

2:37 ↗ um

2:37 ↗ we hopefully uh our screen will work

2:41 ↗ tonight

2:49 ↗ I'm not transitioning for a moment

2:54 ↗ it's just this one

3:01 ↗ all right great well thank you

3:05 ↗ um so I'm gonna present a little bit of

3:07 ↗ a refresher on the read plus program

3:11 ↗ um then hand it over to Logan is going

3:13 ↗ to talk about uh Recology and waste

3:16 ↗ production efforts and then we'll come

3:17 ↗ back and re and consider the reflux

3:20 ↗ pledge

3:21 ↗ um

3:22 ↗ let's see so really this first part is

3:25 ↗ just a refresher on some information

3:27 ↗ that the read plus king County's request

3:29 ↗ program presented to us back in the fall

3:35 ↗ um and tonight we are providing this

3:36 ↗ background information so that the board

3:38 ↗ feels that they can make an important

3:40 ↗ decision regarding whether or not to

3:42 ↗ recommend the King County free plus

3:44 ↗ pledge for the mayor's signature

3:49 ↗ of almost 70 percent of what currently

3:52 ↗ goes into King County's land landfill

3:54 ↗ could have been recycled composted or

3:57 ↗ reused without intervention waste in its

4:00 ↗ Associated greenhouse gas emissions will

4:02 ↗ increase as the County's population

4:04 ↗ increases and our only active landfill

4:07 ↗ Cedar Hills will be pulled by 2040.

4:11 ↗ thank you

4:13 ↗ King County has defined that a

4:15 ↗ systematic shift is needed to transition

4:17 ↗ from a throwaway economy to one that

4:20 ↗ prevents waste and makes better use of

4:22 ↗ valuable materials King County Solid

4:24 ↗ Waste division has launched this new

4:26 ↗ program called request to address these

4:28 ↗ pressing issues

4:31 ↗ So within the memo we provide a little

4:34 ↗ bit of information around these

4:35 ↗ different actions I'll just go through

4:37 ↗ them very quickly these are the main

4:38 ↗ focus areas for the reblus program

4:41 ↗ there's the extended producer

4:43 ↗ responsibility for packaging and paper

4:45 ↗ products this is to secure commitments

4:49 ↗ from businesses to take responsibility

4:51 ↗ for product waste through fair and

4:53 ↗ appropriate policies

4:55 ↗ The Innovation platform and re-plus

4:57 ↗ circular economy grants

5:00 ↗ this is to stimulate a waste free

5:02 ↗ economy through inclusive and Equitable

5:04 ↗ Brands technical support and guidance

5:08 ↗ they also have launched the read plus

5:10 ↗ City Grants these are a competitive

5:12 ↗ grant program for King County cities to

5:15 ↗ implement Innovative zero waste and

5:17 ↗ recycling program

5:19 ↗ Statewide Organics policy legislation

5:22 ↗ this is where they're helping to advance

5:24 ↗ State and County legislation to send

5:26 ↗ food and yard waste to be recycled and

5:29 ↗ keep kept out of the landfill

5:31 ↗ single-family Organics collection is to

5:34 ↗ optimize collection Services for food

5:36 ↗ and yard waste from all single family

5:39 ↗ households in King County

5:41 ↗ non-residential food waste recycling is

5:44 ↗ to provide technical support to local

5:45 ↗ businesses to help them keep food waste

5:47 ↗ out of the landfill and manage it as a

5:50 ↗ resource

5:51 ↗ mixed waste process processing is the

5:54 ↗ last screen for capturing recyclables

5:56 ↗ out of the waste stream

5:58 ↗ and Community panel this is where

6:00 ↗ they're bringing together diverse

6:01 ↗ communities and voices to chart a path

6:03 ↗ towards a more Equitable waste for King

6:05 ↗ County

6:06 ↗ and then finally is the city and county

6:09 ↗ collaboration to increase that

6:11 ↗ collaboration between the county and the

6:13 ↗ cities within to reach the zero waste

6:15 ↗ schools

6:19 ↗ so as mentioned King County has

6:21 ↗ requested that jurisdictions sign on to

6:24 ↗ the read plus pledge and we'll talk

6:25 ↗ about that in a few minutes we do

6:28 ↗ believe that there's strong alignment

6:29 ↗ with the pledge and the climate action

6:32 ↗ plan the work that we're already doing

6:34 ↗ through existing grants Panama colleges

6:36 ↗ collection contract

6:38 ↗ we'll just walk through each of those

6:40 ↗ perfectly

6:41 ↗ so as you're aware the eye cap set

6:43 ↗ really bold targets for climate action

6:45 ↗ and this included an increase in waste

6:47 ↗ diversion from landfills we have actions

6:50 ↗ identified in the icap around reducing

6:53 ↗ certain waste streams Outreach and

6:55 ↗ education around waste reduction and

6:56 ↗ policy implementation such as enhancing

7:01 ↗ and strengthening our construction

7:03 ↗ demolition debris as well as sustainable

7:05 ↗ purchasing

7:08 ↗ um

7:09 ↗ is supplies 2023 2024 King County Waste

7:13 ↗ reduction recycling Grant helps to run a

7:17 ↗ number of programs around the city we do

7:19 ↗ recycling collection events for

7:21 ↗ residents to drop off hazardous

7:23 ↗ materials or items such as appliances

7:26 ↗ tires styrofoam and used oil we have a

7:30 ↗ event coming up this Saturday a few

7:31 ↗ information let me know and then we also

7:35 ↗ provide supplies and educational

7:36 ↗ materials to increase diversion

7:39 ↗ and decrease contamination for

7:41 ↗ recyclables and compostables we're

7:43 ↗ looking at exploring opportunities for a

7:46 ↗ tool lending library or a gear lending

7:49 ↗ library as well as repair events

7:52 ↗ and so far this year we have been

7:54 ↗ working with Lake Sammamish State Park

7:56 ↗ to relaunch the recycling program

7:59 ↗ also working with an elementary school

8:01 ↗ to restart their composting and

8:03 ↗ recycling program that stopped during

8:05 ↗ the pandemic and then as mentioned we're

8:07 ↗ also doing the recycling events and

8:09 ↗ those are in partnership with Sammamish

8:12 ↗ our consultant team is also supporting

8:14 ↗ businesses to provide wage production

8:16 ↗ education or help them initiate

8:18 ↗ recycling their own

8:21 ↗ Network and then our Public Works team

8:24 ↗ is helping to prevent Outreach or it's

8:26 ↗ helping provide Outreach to businesses

8:27 ↗ on pollution prevention and waste

8:30 ↗ reduction

8:32 ↗ so with that I'm going to hand it over

8:34 ↗ to Logan to talk about a number of

8:37 ↗ initiatives that Recology has

8:41 ↗ yeah thank you so much Stacy I

8:43 ↗ appreciate the opportunity to be here

8:44 ↗ with you apologize not in person uh but

8:47 ↗ back visiting family in Sonoma right now

8:49 ↗ so excited to be with you virtually it's

8:51 ↗ a great to have this option so yeah we

8:53 ↗ can go on to the next slide

8:55 ↗ um Recology is signed a 12-year

8:57 ↗ agreement with uh the City of Issaquah

9:00 ↗ we're really excited about it and

9:02 ↗ excited to get started this starts July

9:03 ↗ 1st of 2023 so it's a new 12-year

9:06 ↗ agreement

9:08 ↗ um in the agreement we have a number of

9:10 ↗ increased services for the City of

9:11 ↗ Issaquah that will help Drive diversion

9:14 ↗ and uh help the city achieve its its

9:17 ↗ zero waste goals

9:18 ↗ um and it's a Time admission goal so the

9:20 ↗ number one thing here is our full-time

9:22 ↗ wasters speculated weight zero

9:24 ↗ specialist who's dedicated to the City

9:26 ↗ of Issaquah so this individual is a

9:27 ↗ full-time employee who will work with

9:30 ↗ the city's

9:32 ↗ um multi-family and Commercial

9:34 ↗ businesses to help them understand how

9:36 ↗ their waste stream is working currently

9:38 ↗ and help them improve it so what we do

9:40 ↗ is we look at

9:42 ↗ um well I can get into this a little bit

9:44 ↗ later but we look at kind of uh

9:45 ↗ different businesses and how which ones

9:48 ↗ have the most garbage and at least

9:49 ↗ Recycling and compost we reach out to

9:51 ↗ them we provide the tools and

9:53 ↗ information they need to move in the

9:55 ↗ right direction and then we help them

9:57 ↗ right size their their containers

10:00 ↗ um so that's kind of that targeted

10:01 ↗ data-driven approach we're looking at

10:03 ↗ all of all of the folks that we have and

10:06 ↗ uh which ones are food waste producing

10:08 ↗ businesses like a restaurant or an acute

10:10 ↗ care center or a hospital a school

10:12 ↗ preschool things like that and then

10:14 ↗ we'll go into those businesses help

10:15 ↗ educate them on how to do it provide

10:17 ↗ indoor bins to help them with it provide

10:19 ↗ signage provide training and help them

10:22 ↗ reduce that material and this will also

10:24 ↗ help them save money in the new contract

10:26 ↗ with with Recology all customers get

10:29 ↗ unlimited recycling so as much as they

10:32 ↗ can possibly recycle they're allowed

10:34 ↗ that volume at no additional charge they

10:37 ↗ also get up to two uh compost carts for

10:40 ↗ free so uh just as part of their their

10:42 ↗ garbage service so this will help them

10:43 ↗ divert more material at no cost and then

10:46 ↗ as they reduce their bill they can

10:48 ↗ actually save monthly monthly uh on

10:51 ↗ their on their monthly garbage bill by

10:52 ↗ reducing the volume of garbage that they

10:54 ↗ have

10:55 ↗ um so I kind of all I've already covered

10:57 ↗ waste your Specialists we're going to do

10:59 ↗ a targeted approach to reducing waste

11:00 ↗ and then we'll do in-person training for

11:03 ↗ tenants and businesses beyond that to

11:05 ↗ reduce contamination we're going to be

11:06 ↗ doing an annual inspection of every

11:09 ↗ single multi-flame multi-family and

11:11 ↗ Commercial recycling bin to check for

11:14 ↗ contamination Nation when we find it we

11:17 ↗ will go ahead and follow up with that

11:20 ↗ business we'll provide them a tag and a

11:21 ↗ mailed letter of what we found that was

11:23 ↗ contaminating and then provide education

11:26 ↗ for multi-family tenants that's going to

11:28 ↗ look like us going around to every

11:31 ↗ single apartment uh door and hanging

11:35 ↗ hanging recycle right bags and a little

11:38 ↗ notice that they can they can put up of

11:41 ↗ what you need to recycle and what should

11:43 ↗ not be going in the recycling bin so if

11:45 ↗ you're the right things to recycle

11:46 ↗ here's how to do it and then here are

11:48 ↗ the materials that should not go in on

11:49 ↗ top of that we have the two electric

11:51 ↗ vehicles that we're going to be bringing

11:52 ↗ so we have two they're really kind of

11:54 ↗ among the first in a nation uh automated

11:58 ↗ side load Vehicles that'll be electric

12:00 ↗ they'll be here for the city in 2025

12:02 ↗ some of them we're really excited about

12:04 ↗ um and uh it is kind of the bleeding

12:06 ↗ edge of technology so we'll see it

12:08 ↗ should be interesting to see how that

12:09 ↗ works and then beyond that the Recology

12:11 ↗ store will remain in action here we do

12:13 ↗ waste zero education sell a lot of tools

12:16 ↗ that you need to kind of reduce the ways

12:18 ↗ that you produce and also allow people

12:21 ↗ to recycle hard to recycle items like

12:23 ↗ Styrofoam batteries fluorescent light

12:25 ↗ bulbs all those kinds of materials we

12:26 ↗ can go on to the next slide it's

12:27 ↗ probably stuff that I've already said

12:30 ↗ um so again the diversion program that's

12:31 ↗ really where we're trying to move people

12:33 ↗ from

12:34 ↗ a situation where they're throwing

12:36 ↗ everything away to helping them identify

12:38 ↗ what material they could be composting

12:40 ↗ what material they could be recycling

12:41 ↗ helping them reduce the size of that

12:43 ↗ garbage but this is something I

12:45 ↗ personally did working in uh we're at

12:48 ↗ Recology Cinema Marin in Sonoma County

12:50 ↗ working with restaurants I would help

12:52 ↗ them cut their their garbage volume in

12:54 ↗ half

12:55 ↗ um with a restaurant you can imagine

12:57 ↗ that's a lot of food waste material lots

13:00 ↗ of Pancakes that nobody finishes lots of

13:02 ↗ kind of food and then also the the food

13:04 ↗ waste from just prepping the outside of

13:07 ↗ an onion all that kind of stuff and

13:09 ↗ beyond that we really want to educate

13:10 ↗ residents that your accomplice is not

13:12 ↗ just for yard waste anymore this is

13:13 ↗ something you put meat cheese bones a

13:16 ↗ whole cacophony of material can be

13:18 ↗ starting to move into that risk that

13:19 ↗ that compost bin and we're about to send

13:21 ↗ a mailer to all residents multi-family

13:24 ↗ uh property managers and uh commercial

13:28 ↗ business owners encouraging them to

13:31 ↗ engage with this program and reduce

13:32 ↗ their waste and save money through that

13:33 ↗ process going to the next line

13:36 ↗ uh multi-family uh diversion education

13:39 ↗ so this is an example of the door hanger

13:41 ↗ that we we provide it's in English and

13:44 ↗ Spanish and we're working at a QR code

13:46 ↗ that will translate it into probably

13:48 ↗ about five other languages that will go

13:50 ↗ on every single door and that comes with

13:52 ↗ a reusable tote bag that also has

13:54 ↗ recycling information on it and that's a

13:56 ↗ bag that they can use to bring their

13:58 ↗ recyclables out to the um to the

14:01 ↗ recycling bin so this is actually who

14:03 ↗ will be issaquah's waste cereal

14:05 ↗ specialist is Lauren Herber uh she's a

14:07 ↗ awesome person she's already probably

14:09 ↗ door hung I don't know five or six

14:11 ↗ multi-families in um in City of Issaquah

14:15 ↗ I talked to uh

14:17 ↗ um Joe Russell and he said he's he's had

14:19 ↗ his apartment uh hit up twice with uh

14:22 ↗ with with our recycling information so

14:24 ↗ we're really happy about the progress

14:25 ↗ she's been making there and so we always

14:27 ↗ recheck once we start a building with

14:29 ↗ more recycling that becomes part of our

14:32 ↗ contamination monitoring program and we

14:34 ↗ try to recheck reframe and help out so

14:37 ↗ we're offering presentations to tenants

14:39 ↗ in this kind of door-to-door education

14:41 ↗ at the multi-family level going to the

14:42 ↗ next one

14:44 ↗ again with commercial this is kind of

14:46 ↗ the package that we're offering

14:47 ↗ commercial businesses so it's a indoor

14:49 ↗ tote um a package of recycling or

14:52 ↗ compostable bags and then composable

14:55 ↗ education so

14:56 ↗ we'll go in provide this material and

15:00 ↗ help them get started with that

15:01 ↗ composting

15:02 ↗ and so we really hope that this is going

15:05 ↗ to help people divert material

15:06 ↗ composting is kind of a new thing up in

15:09 ↗ Washington and so people really need a

15:10 ↗ lot of Education there's a new state law

15:14 ↗ um SB 1799 that that passed last year

15:17 ↗ and in 2026 or 2027 it's going to

15:20 ↗ require anybody who has any business

15:22 ↗ that has four yards of solid waste which

15:25 ↗ is garbage and recycling

15:27 ↗ to also uh procure accomplished uh

15:31 ↗ compost uh

15:35 ↗ uh volume two this is going to be a big

15:38 ↗ thing that's going to be coming out

15:40 ↗ um and we're gonna with this waste your

15:41 ↗ specialist in our programs I think we're

15:43 ↗ really going to be able to help with

15:44 ↗ that going to the next one

15:47 ↗ uh the Recology store again the the

15:49 ↗ contract we were the only uh hauler that

15:51 ↗ offers the Recology store in the region

15:53 ↗ or really probably anywhere it's quite a

15:54 ↗ unique offering

15:56 ↗ um and not only are these a lot of these

15:57 ↗ items collected curbside we can schedule

16:00 ↗ a pickup of EV waste battery waste

16:03 ↗ fluorescent light bulb Styrofoam in the

16:04 ↗ City of Issaquah but you can also take

16:06 ↗ them right into the Recology store to

16:07 ↗ drop them off for free so we're glad to

16:10 ↗ see that stay and it's a Well beloved uh

16:12 ↗ feature that we have as part of our

16:14 ↗ contract go on to the next

16:17 ↗ yeah and so this is the pre-contract

16:19 ↗ Outreach and so we've got a couple of

16:21 ↗ mailers that we're sending out for

16:23 ↗ residents uh commercial multi-family

16:25 ↗ tenants as I mentioned where the

16:27 ↗ residents were really pushing the

16:28 ↗ compost message encouraging people to

16:30 ↗ start composting food waste

16:33 ↗ um which is something that I think

16:34 ↗ people are hesitant to do right now

16:37 ↗ um and then educating them that you know

16:38 ↗ it is part of their contract part of

16:41 ↗ their garbage rate so it's already

16:42 ↗ included in their rate and if you reduce

16:44 ↗ the size of that garbage bid money on

16:48 ↗ the multi-family commercial side we're

16:49 ↗ really encouraging folks to reach out to

16:52 ↗ us get in touch with our waste cereal

16:54 ↗ Specialists have somebody come out and

16:55 ↗ work with them

16:56 ↗ get a free audit and get that education

16:59 ↗ for their uh tenants or their employees

17:02 ↗ on how to properly recycle and compost

17:04 ↗ so they can divert that material over

17:06 ↗ into the right stream

17:07 ↗ um so I will be presenting this uh this

17:10 ↗ mailer to council I've just got the

17:12 ↗ final draft coming tomorrow so that'll

17:13 ↗ be going to our um the the city's

17:17 ↗ contract attracted the city's uh

17:20 ↗ contractor employee who oversees our our

17:22 ↗ contract and probably reviewed by other

17:24 ↗ city employees and really the focus

17:26 ↗ there is you can reduce your bill by

17:28 ↗ composting and recycling it's the right

17:30 ↗ thing to do and there's a lot of a lot

17:33 ↗ of room to grow for the City of Issaquah

17:35 ↗ and the diversion uh diversion piece

17:37 ↗ next slide I don't know if there's

17:39 ↗ anything more there

17:41 ↗ do not pause here take questions for

17:44 ↗ Logan before we move into the plus

17:46 ↗ pledge

17:48 ↗ yeah that'll be great

17:55 ↗ I had those a couple of questions that I

17:58 ↗ sent I don't know oh yeah Logan the

18:01 ↗ questions from Jamie I don't know if

18:02 ↗ you're able to address those

18:04 ↗ yeah can we pull those up again

18:13 ↗ questions

18:17 ↗ um so right now

18:19 ↗ um there's nobody that other than

18:21 ↗ Seattle that penalizes folks so that the

18:24 ↗ first question was are there any

18:25 ↗ jurisdictions around us other than

18:27 ↗ Seattle that require accomplishing and

18:29 ↗ penalize those that include food waste

18:31 ↗ in their garbage

18:32 ↗ um there's no

18:33 ↗ um that I'm aware of right now there's a

18:35 ↗ couple cities that are considering

18:38 ↗ composting requirements

18:41 ↗ um I know the City of Burien uh has

18:44 ↗ passed one I believe uh the city of

18:46 ↗ SeaTac is looking at it the city of

18:47 ↗ Shoreline is looking at passing Compass

18:49 ↗ requirements and the state has passed it

18:51 ↗ as well but all of these don't have

18:53 ↗ significant fines or teeth uh with

18:56 ↗ regard to composting or that material

18:58 ↗ ending up in garbage so right now no

19:00 ↗ there is no requirement for many other

19:02 ↗ cities especially not with any um

19:05 ↗ penalties for including food waste in

19:07 ↗ their garbage Emmett frankly you know

19:10 ↗ with garbage it's very difficult to even

19:12 ↗ do a penalty on that typically it's

19:15 ↗ going to be an opaque bags and we're

19:17 ↗ unlikely to start sending people out to

19:20 ↗ open up those bags and check to see if

19:21 ↗ there's food waste but we know if you're

19:24 ↗ like a restaurant or a place that has

19:27 ↗ significant significant amounts of food

19:29 ↗ moving through it

19:31 ↗ um and you have no compost available to

19:33 ↗ you that's kind of a red flag for us

19:36 ↗ that says you're probably that garbage

19:37 ↗ has a significant amount of food waste

19:39 ↗ in it

19:40 ↗ um the Seattle's departments apply to

19:42 ↗ businesses absolutely we we run uh 50 of

19:45 ↗ Seattle and so that's one of the big

19:47 ↗ things we're doing right now is looking

19:49 ↗ at businesses that haven't already

19:51 ↗ gotten compass and kind of slipped under

19:52 ↗ the radar and really doing that Outreach

19:54 ↗ during code but we couldn't do as much

19:55 ↗ Outreach and so now we're kind of

19:57 ↗ ramping that back up

19:58 ↗ um so yeah absolutely businesses and

20:00 ↗ specifically restaurants is the main

20:01 ↗ focus for them

20:03 ↗ um our landlords required to provide

20:05 ↗ City Waste and Recycling services they

20:08 ↗ are required I believe to provide

20:10 ↗ um garbage but not recycling so

20:12 ↗ recycling is not required uh for tenants

20:16 ↗ to have um but certainly an option

20:19 ↗ um when I worked in California as kind

20:21 ↗ of a waste your specialist and doing

20:22 ↗ that kind of Outreach one of the things

20:24 ↗ we would do is if we had a

20:25 ↗ non-respondent uh property manager or

20:27 ↗ business owner we would eventually just

20:29 ↗ drop the bin and do the education I'd

20:31 ↗ provide the door hangers to everybody

20:34 ↗ um and the bid would arrive

20:36 ↗ um whether the property manager wanted

20:37 ↗ it or not but that's because we had a

20:39 ↗ state law that required it and then

20:41 ↗ we're also backed with

20:43 ↗ um

20:44 ↗ but it finds that we could we could levy

20:46 ↗ on a business

20:48 ↗ or a multi-family if they contaminated

20:49 ↗ the bin that's one of the things we're

20:51 ↗ really worried about is Squad doesn't

20:52 ↗ have that charge on contamination but we

20:55 ↗ do remove the bin after a number of

20:57 ↗ contaminations have occurred and we've

20:59 ↗ talked to the city and we cannot get

21:01 ↗ them to stop throwing the wrong material

21:03 ↗ under the recycling bin

21:05 ↗ thank you Logan yes

21:11 ↗ um a number of years it was I think

21:12 ↗ before the pandemic

21:15 ↗ I had

21:17 ↗ contacted the

21:19 ↗ oh David Fujimoto about having a tour of

21:25 ↗ the uh Cedar Hills recycling facility

21:29 ↗ and that was when it happened and then

21:33 ↗ left and

21:35 ↗ yeah but that might be something we

21:37 ↗ might consider yeah that's a great Point

21:41 ↗ actually interested Karen Dawson from

21:43 ↗ Cedar Grove just reached out to see if

21:45 ↗ there would be interest in a tour of

21:47 ↗ from City staff I think June 8th was the

21:50 ↗ NATO Valley tour so we could send that

21:53 ↗ along and if we need to call it a

21:55 ↗ special meeting if there's enough

21:57 ↗ interest we could do that so let me know

22:00 ↗ sometimes you wonder about exactly my

22:03 ↗ processing this enough to go in the

22:07 ↗ recycling rather than

22:09 ↗ you know which fine details on what

22:13 ↗ if I'm a city of issaquah's recycling

22:16 ↗ comes to the Recology Murph or materials

22:18 ↗ recovery facility which is located in

22:20 ↗ Georgetown and we'd be more even than

22:21 ↗ happy to host

22:23 ↗ um this group out there so yeah JC I'm

22:26 ↗ sure reach out to me and we'll figure

22:28 ↗ out a date great so we can do both both

22:31 ↗ the recycling facility and and the

22:33 ↗ composting

22:36 ↗ it's pretty fun

22:39 ↗ Shannon anything else no that's it you

22:43 ↗ know we'll go to Tom and Laura I know

22:45 ↗ you have a couple questions we'll go to

22:46 ↗ you after after Tom

22:48 ↗ okay Tom Anderson here I'm just uh

22:50 ↗ wondering about a timing of things so

22:53 ↗ we're just at the front end here of a

22:55 ↗ 12-year contract 12 years is a long time

22:58 ↗ we're going to learn how to do things

23:00 ↗ better over that interval uh how much

23:03 ↗ flexibility is there in the contract to

23:07 ↗ make improvements uh you know continuous

23:09 ↗ process Improvement is what we need here

23:11 ↗ and we're going to learn along the way

23:13 ↗ how will that be factored into that

23:17 ↗ Improvement of the process as we move

23:19 ↗ forward through that 12-year interval

23:22 ↗ yeah I know it's a great question I mean

23:24 ↗ I think we at Recology always seek to

23:26 ↗ improve we're signing a contract right

23:28 ↗ now to add

23:31 ↗ uh artificial intelligence enabled

23:34 ↗ robotics on a residual stream because we

23:37 ↗ noticed that there was a certain amount

23:38 ↗ of aluminum and Plastics that were

23:40 ↗ recyclable that were getting kind of

23:41 ↗ tossed out at the paper level so we're

23:44 ↗ already we're already kind of moving

23:45 ↗ into that that stage if there's

23:47 ↗ something that isn't covered in the

23:48 ↗ contract there is a piece of the

23:50 ↗ contract that allows for pilot programs

23:52 ↗ which are a partnership between the city

23:54 ↗ and Recology to

23:56 ↗ to try new things out and we've been uh

24:00 ↗ amenable to contract amendments as well

24:02 ↗ um so we really seek as a company to

24:05 ↗ partner closely with our cities and if

24:07 ↗ there's ideas and things like that that

24:09 ↗ we think are valuable we're always going

24:11 ↗ to work with you I mean I think over the

24:12 ↗ course of the contract our way sort of

24:15 ↗ specialist is going to pay a lot of

24:16 ↗ dividends

24:17 ↗ um issaquah's recycling or overall

24:20 ↗ diversion rate is less than 50 right now

24:23 ↗ so there's a significant amount of

24:24 ↗ growth that's possible I think there's

24:26 ↗ going to be a lot of success as we kind

24:28 ↗ of really focus in on that diversion

24:29 ↗ piece but we're always willing to kind

24:31 ↗ of continue to expand we're required in

24:33 ↗ the contract to sit down with the city

24:35 ↗ and I believe 2025 and discuss the

24:38 ↗ possibility of increasing an

24:40 ↗ electrification of vehicles

24:42 ↗ um but you know we are buying all new

24:45 ↗ trucks for the City of Issaquah

24:46 ↗ including those two EVS so yeah it's

24:48 ↗ something that we're always willing to

24:49 ↗ chat about and see where the city wants

24:52 ↗ to go

24:54 ↗ um but you know depending on the size of

24:56 ↗ it it may take you know contract

24:58 ↗ amendments or rate increases and things

25:00 ↗ like that so

25:02 ↗ well is there is there any uh like an

25:05 ↗ annual review built into the uh the

25:08 ↗ process for refinement or anything like

25:12 ↗ that we meet with the city on a on a

25:15 ↗ monthly basis to discuss just kind of

25:17 ↗ how things are going

25:19 ↗ um we report all the kind of recycling

25:21 ↗ rates and things like that we we submit

25:23 ↗ an annual report to the city as well

25:26 ↗ um and you know there is language of the

25:29 ↗ contract that could the city could

25:31 ↗ trigger a review process at any time

25:34 ↗ um but the city we we again we we

25:36 ↗ maintain very close ties with with City

25:39 ↗ staff

25:40 ↗ um and if there was a desire from

25:43 ↗ counselor of the environmental board to

25:45 ↗ pursue changes to the contract it's

25:48 ↗ something we would engage in in good

25:49 ↗ faith

25:51 ↗ okay thank you you're welcome

25:54 ↗ thanks Tom Laura go ahead

25:58 ↗ hey I had uh two questions

26:01 ↗ um

26:02 ↗ I mean in terms of the Pledge it sounds

26:04 ↗ great so um I feel like the discussion's

26:07 ↗ a little bit off topic but I'm not sure

26:09 ↗ um the one question was if we

26:12 ↗ um

26:13 ↗ if we know anything about I mean you

26:15 ↗ said less than 50 percent

26:18 ↗ um is recycler compost is seems really

26:20 ↗ sad as a result but do we know like

26:22 ↗ anything more about why people are not

26:25 ↗ Recycling and if that's coming like if

26:27 ↗ there's higher or lower like do you know

26:30 ↗ a breakdown of like businesses versus

26:32 ↗ single family versus multi-family

26:35 ↗ um

26:36 ↗ yeah residents uh the residences have

26:39 ↗ the highest diversion rate so single

26:42 ↗ family homes have the highest diversion

26:43 ↗ rate I mean believe the lowest is in the

26:45 ↗ commercial sector these are the

26:47 ↗ commercials you know approximately what

26:48 ↗ that is just for some context for us

26:50 ↗ um I can look it up and I'll just take

26:52 ↗ it I'll hold you to it just an estimate

26:54 ↗ yeah just estimate okay so I think uh so

26:57 ↗ like the ad the aggregate is below 50 I

26:59 ↗ think residential is like around 48 to

27:03 ↗ 52 and then I think

27:05 ↗ um businesses are somewhere in the like

27:08 ↗ 42 and multi-families around there

27:12 ↗ um so there's a lot of growth most

27:14 ↗ multi-families do not have composting at

27:16 ↗ all most businesses do not have

27:18 ↗ composting at all

27:20 ↗ um and a number of multi-family

27:21 ↗ businesses do not have recycling

27:23 ↗ services at this time but I think you

27:26 ↗ know part of that has been Issaquah has

27:28 ↗ had historically low garbage rates for a

27:30 ↗ long period of time like very very low

27:33 ↗ um and there is going to be a change to

27:35 ↗ that with the new contract um and I

27:37 ↗ think that'll encourage some people to

27:38 ↗ divert material to a certain degree

27:41 ↗ thank you

27:43 ↗ um yeah so it feels like there's so much

27:45 ↗ room for improvement and such a you know

27:47 ↗ we have one person that is really able

27:49 ↗ to go and Champion these things I'd be

27:51 ↗ curious to see more of you know if you

27:54 ↗ could experiment with

27:55 ↗ where's the big like what's the lowest

27:58 ↗ hanging fruit or the most implemental

27:59 ↗ like I assume that

28:01 ↗ um composting is is a

28:05 ↗ much higher with residential than it

28:07 ↗ would be with anyone else um in part

28:09 ↗ because business requires so much labor

28:10 ↗ for it that they're not set up for

28:13 ↗ um but seeing what ways like

28:15 ↗ what is the lowest hanging fruit and

28:17 ↗ where can we target it because it just

28:18 ↗ uh it seems a little

28:21 ↗ um sort of like Buckshot like there's so

28:23 ↗ many things to do so where do we start

28:25 ↗ um yeah to you go ahead yeah for sure I

28:29 ↗ mean so what we do is we look at garbage

28:32 ↗ volume so like what are the largest

28:34 ↗ volume producers of garbage and then we

28:36 ↗ compare that to how much recycling do

28:39 ↗ they have and so I think we'd start with

28:43 ↗ making sure everybody has recycling so

28:45 ↗ if you're a multi-family property that

28:47 ↗ doesn't have recycling we're coming for

28:49 ↗ you

28:50 ↗ um so we're going to make sure that you

28:51 ↗ get that recycling bin in we do the

28:53 ↗ education and that kind of stuff the

28:55 ↗ other little exciting fruit is really

28:57 ↗ Food Service businesses that don't have

29:00 ↗ composting that's going to be a lot of

29:02 ↗ weight and composting is the heaviest

29:03 ↗ one diversion is all based is weight

29:05 ↗ based uh just kind of how we measure it

29:07 ↗ and so looking at Food Service

29:09 ↗ businesses that don't have compost

29:11 ↗ that's going to be kind of the next

29:12 ↗ Target

29:13 ↗ our team has a number of their goal is a

29:18 ↗ certain number of compost charts per

29:19 ↗ month and so we're looking to see that

29:21 ↗ change over the over time and you know

29:23 ↗ with the state mandate coming in and all

29:26 ↗ those kinds of things I think there's

29:27 ↗ going to be a lot of education for it

29:28 ↗ and then additional the higher garbage

29:30 ↗ rates into the new contract will start

29:32 ↗ putting some Financial pressure for

29:33 ↗ people to move material in the direction

29:35 ↗ of that the literature we're sending

29:37 ↗ them really encourages that move as well

29:39 ↗ so

29:40 ↗ we expect to see it change uh but you're

29:42 ↗ right it's a it's a difficult process

29:44 ↗ and

29:45 ↗ um you know through a competitive bid

29:47 ↗ you know just just some knowledge on how

29:49 ↗ the kind of garbage rate works or

29:51 ↗ Garbage new garbage contracts work we we

29:54 ↗ bid Recology bid against other uh

29:57 ↗ haulers and

29:59 ↗ um the the the split is 60 price based

30:03 ↗ and 40 Services based and so that kind

30:06 ↗ of educator and things like that are

30:08 ↗ valued at 60 and then prices or 40 and

30:11 ↗ then price is valued at 60 so we kind of

30:13 ↗ organize our bid in that way

30:16 ↗ um and so you know I do think that

30:18 ↗ having the way cereal educator there is

30:19 ↗ going to be a huge benefit to the city

30:22 ↗ um no other Suburban cities that we have

30:24 ↗ a contract with except for the new

30:26 ↗ contract the city of tequila which was

30:28 ↗ after issaquah's have a dedicated way

30:31 ↗ cereal specialist

30:33 ↗ um so it's going to be a big help

30:35 ↗ um and they're going to be it and Lauren

30:37 ↗ Lauren personally he's a go-getter I

30:39 ↗ mean she's hard Chargers I think we're

30:41 ↗ going to see some good some good

30:43 ↗ turnaround over there and we'll be able

30:44 ↗ to report that on an annual basis

30:46 ↗ um

30:47 ↗ interest time because I believe you

30:49 ↗ worried about it happening I'm just uh

30:51 ↗ yeah

30:51 ↗ Better Community turning it around

30:54 ↗ um the other question I had was about

30:56 ↗ just about signage and related to

30:57 ↗ education I know that you were updating

30:59 ↗ your store so I haven't been in there

31:01 ↗ recently but

31:02 ↗ um it looks like some of your other

31:03 ↗ stores have more signage but it would be

31:05 ↗ great to see more window signage

31:08 ↗ implying that people can come in because

31:10 ↗ it kind of looks like a store and not

31:12 ↗ like a place I can go and drop off

31:14 ↗ Community Goods to divert so but I

31:17 ↗ wasn't sure if you updated that but also

31:19 ↗ I'll let you speak to that but in

31:21 ↗ addition

31:22 ↗ um it'd be great to see some of that

31:24 ↗ signage may be carried into the food

31:27 ↗ um Services areas

31:29 ↗ um so that you know and the information

31:30 ↗ so that they know you know so we're not

31:33 ↗ just like going in one way but asking if

31:35 ↗ you can drop off you know some of your

31:37 ↗ posters or whatever so that so that the

31:39 ↗ people who you're encouraging to recycle

31:41 ↗ and compost actually are you know

31:43 ↗ promoting your message as well

31:46 ↗ yeah no absolutely I mean yeah thank you

31:53 ↗ look I have a question so you mentioned

31:56 ↗ the state bill that just passed was it

31:59 ↗ 2026 and was that both

32:01 ↗ composting and recycling that would be

32:03 ↗ required in business businesses are

32:05 ↗ humoring me on the details of that yeah

32:07 ↗ so and and um don't fully quote me on

32:10 ↗ this because I don't have the exact

32:11 ↗ years memorized but it's uh Senate Bill

32:14 ↗ 1799 so 1799

32:18 ↗ um and that passed last year and our

32:20 ↗ 2021 so two years ago now is that two

32:22 ↗ years ago now sort of uh anyway so uh so

32:27 ↗ what it requires is only composting

32:31 ↗ and so it requires only composting and

32:34 ↗ only in commercial

32:35 ↗ uh facilities and it's a stair step so

32:39 ↗ it starts at

32:40 ↗ I think it's this year eight yards which

32:44 ↗ is a significant amount it's bigger than

32:46 ↗ our it's our biggest dumpster of food

32:49 ↗ waste per year you're required to per

32:53 ↗ week sorry eight yards of food waste per

32:55 ↗ week you're required posting Services

32:57 ↗ now that affects almost nobody in the

32:59 ↗ City of Issaquah

33:01 ↗ maybe a hospital but mostly like a a

33:05 ↗ food prison Factory that doesn't have

33:07 ↗ its own conversating Services then it

33:09 ↗ steps down to six yards

33:11 ↗ per week

33:13 ↗ convertible material then it goes to

33:16 ↗ four yards per week and then it goes

33:17 ↗ four yards of solid waste per week has

33:20 ↗ to arrange for composting Services

33:22 ↗ that's when it's really going to hit all

33:24 ↗ the businesses kind of all at once

33:26 ↗ um and it's modeled in a way off of

33:28 ↗ California state law ab1826

33:31 ↗ um but yeah so 1799 does not require

33:33 ↗ recycling

33:35 ↗ only requires composting as about 2026

33:38 ↗ 2027 that it's going to start hitting

33:40 ↗ your average rest

33:44 ↗ okay that's helpful

33:46 ↗ um so it sounds like to a certain extent

33:48 ↗ the commercial side will be taken care

33:50 ↗ of by that bill at least for composting

33:53 ↗ um but currently there's nothing that

33:54 ↗ affects residential either

33:57 ↗ multi-family or single-family homes but

34:00 ↗ in that way so like basically Seattle's

34:02 ↗ off on its own with the requirement and

34:05 ↗ as things stand

34:07 ↗ there's there's not really requirements

34:09 ↗ other than what the state of the group

34:10 ↗ okay yeah exactly and and you know it

34:13 ↗ will it will affect it will take care of

34:17 ↗ them but keep in mind it has no teeth

34:19 ↗ there's no fines in place for people who

34:21 ↗ don't do it the state is not going to

34:24 ↗ regulate it very strongly I think it's

34:27 ↗ unlikely

34:28 ↗ um so you know it'll be up to us and you

34:31 ↗ know Recology will be doing a forceful

34:34 ↗ job of getting this done so I'm glad we

34:36 ↗ have this kind of specialist here at the

34:37 ↗ City of Issaquah and the cities that we

34:39 ↗ Service uh have we have a team of

34:42 ↗ Outreach folks there's one that's

34:43 ↗ specific for Issaquah but um that'll

34:47 ↗ Implement that law but it isn't

34:50 ↗ California passed ab1826

34:52 ↗ and didn't see the diversion goals that

34:55 ↗ they wanted and then they passed 1383

34:57 ↗ which adds teeth fines for not only not

35:00 ↗ only businesses but also cities if they

35:02 ↗ don't understand so okay

35:08 ↗ really wanted to increase diversion

35:11 ↗ rates beyond what is going to be

35:12 ↗ mandated by the state

35:14 ↗ would those be the actions that as a

35:16 ↗ city we would we should be taking are

35:18 ↗ those the most effective or

35:20 ↗ most likely to have significant impact

35:22 ↗ actions that could be taken at the sea

35:25 ↗ levels or anything else that we should

35:26 ↗ be thinking about

35:27 ↗ yeah I think

35:29 ↗ I mean that's kind of up to the city to

35:31 ↗ determine what where they want to go

35:33 ↗ um speaking just as me personally I

35:36 ↗ think yeah I think mandates can help for

35:38 ↗ sure if it's required that people have

35:41 ↗ to do it

35:42 ↗ um but it's something that you know we'd

35:43 ↗ always want to be talking about because

35:45 ↗ it's a there's change in law parts of

35:46 ↗ our contract as well but yeah but I

35:49 ↗ think looking at multi-family mandates

35:50 ↗ and things like that makes sense and

35:52 ↗ especially our recycling too

35:55 ↗ thank you Logan

35:57 ↗ any other questions for Logan

36:07 ↗ all right thank you Logan I think Stacy

36:10 ↗ are you going to take us through the

36:11 ↗ final steps of this presentation program

36:13 ↗ yeah great thanks Logan

36:15 ↗ um lots to follow up with you on

36:18 ↗ um so we want to provide all of that

36:20 ↗ information as contacts for the read

36:23 ↗ plus pledge consideration

36:24 ↗ um the mayor's looking to the board on a

36:27 ↗ recommendation on whether or not to sign

36:28 ↗ the pledge

36:30 ↗ um just as a quick overview again

36:32 ↗ um at the staff level we do not feel

36:35 ↗ that the pledge uh requires anything

36:37 ↗ that we can't support we feel like it

36:39 ↗ really aligns well with our climate

36:41 ↗ action plan the current waste reduction

36:43 ↗ efforts we have as well as our work with

36:46 ↗ Recology we don't anticipate any

36:49 ↗ additional Staffing costs or in practice

36:51 ↗ City operations

36:53 ↗ um one advantage of the Pledge is it

36:55 ↗ will make the city if they choose to

36:57 ↗ pursue would become eligible for the new

37:00 ↗ King County plus City Grants

37:04 ↗ um then last thing I'll just mention is

37:06 ↗ that there are at least this was a

37:09 ↗ couple weeks ago there were eight

37:10 ↗ communities so far that had signed on a

37:12 ↗ couple of samples one bill Kirkland

37:14 ↗ Newcastle Shoreline so

37:18 ↗ 99. I can pull up the pledge if folks

37:22 ↗ want to look at it on the screen or we

37:25 ↗ can just move to make discussions

37:30 ↗ so again looking for a formal record

37:32 ↗ recommendation from the board on whether

37:34 ↗ or not the city should sign the punch

37:38 ↗ maybe do we want to start with

37:40 ↗ questions first on the pledge and then

37:43 ↗ we can move from there into

37:46 ↗ more formal part of the process

37:48 ↗ so maybe now if there's any questions

37:51 ↗ we've got to ask Logan all the questions

37:52 ↗ on their ecology side

37:55 ↗ um

37:55 ↗ now if there's any questions for Stacy

37:59 ↗ slash the city on the pledge

38:02 ↗ this will probably be the right time to

38:04 ↗ ask those questions

38:10 ↗ go ahead and is there anything that

38:12 ↗ staff sees that could improve

38:15 ↗ within the fudge yeah

38:17 ↗ um that is a great question we didn't

38:19 ↗ really look at it from that standpoint

38:21 ↗ more just if we had concerns since it is

38:24 ↗ something King County put together and

38:27 ↗ is going to hand it to the city so we

38:29 ↗ haven't reviewed it for

38:32 ↗ information

38:33 ↗ if there are suggestions or things that

38:36 ↗ you all say I could take that back to

38:38 ↗ King County

38:39 ↗ Fair updates

38:42 ↗ thank you

38:46 ↗ go ahead Tom

38:49 ↗ um well so just I'm wondering about this

38:52 ↗ issue that I've brought up before about

38:54 ↗ improved continuous Improvement to the

38:56 ↗ process and all that and we have a

38:59 ↗ contract that's somewhat rigid that

39:02 ↗ we're writing now and entering into that

39:04 ↗ and and I don't know I don't I don't

39:07 ↗ really see anything in the pledge here

39:09 ↗ about

39:10 ↗ um

39:11 ↗ continuous Improvement in that it's so

39:14 ↗ are we just shooting for this 70 percent

39:18 ↗ no that's that's a different number

39:22 ↗ I guess I guess there aren't objective

39:24 ↗ uh uh numbers about what we're trying to

39:28 ↗ achieve it's just a more of a spirit of

39:31 ↗ it is that right I think that is correct

39:34 ↗ um within the solid waste management

39:37 ↗ plan

39:38 ↗ trying to see if they reference here

39:40 ↗ they do there are some more specific

39:42 ↗ multiple even identified in that that

39:45 ↗ align with goals that are in our climate

39:47 ↗ action plan

39:48 ↗ so it's kind of it's representing those

39:51 ↗ the larger overarching plans

39:54 ↗ okay well I guess I have the fear that

39:57 ↗ we're going to get to the point where

39:58 ↗ okay yes we need to do better in the

40:00 ↗ following area and then to do that we're

40:02 ↗ going to have to have a little pilot

40:04 ↗ program to improve the recyclability in

40:08 ↗ a particular area and this is going to

40:11 ↗ require renegotiation of something or

40:13 ↗ other with

40:15 ↗ um or with Recology and will that be a

40:18 ↗ stumbling block those are kind of my

40:20 ↗ concerns but

40:22 ↗ um I will say that uh I I think this

40:25 ↗ idea of regional alignment is absolutely

40:29 ↗ something we should strive to so if

40:32 ↗ there isn't some long big obstacle that

40:35 ↗ yes we should definitely sign on to this

40:37 ↗ if we can just in terms of regional

40:40 ↗ Harmony and all working towards the same

40:42 ↗ goals here that should definitely be our

40:45 ↗ goal and I hope we can make it work

40:49 ↗ that's all

40:52 ↗ go ahead

40:53 ↗ I just was going to make some comments

40:56 ↗ that I really appreciate the Recology

40:58 ↗ store

40:59 ↗ it's a place I can I I some I try to

41:02 ↗ avoid buying things that have like

41:04 ↗ Styrofoam trades but that's a place that

41:07 ↗ I can take the this time of home

41:10 ↗ any that I have and also they provide a

41:14 ↗ lot of advice on uh what to do with

41:17 ↗ various items

41:20 ↗ I do take also any you know batteries

41:25 ↗ you know household batteries that

41:28 ↗ are defunct and I take those and then

41:32 ↗ bring those in

41:34 ↗ and they take those

41:37 ↗ um

41:38 ↗ it's also

41:39 ↗ um the reduction in

41:42 ↗ uh the amount of garbage that I have I

41:46 ↗ was able to uh years ago to change my

41:50 ↗ garbage collection to once a month so

41:53 ↗ that reduces the costs ready

41:57 ↗ and let's see what else oh yes I I've

42:01 ↗ been working on restoring our local park

42:05 ↗ and one of the problems that I've had or

42:08 ↗ having

42:09 ↗ is that uh the apartments that are that

42:13 ↗ are adjacent to the uh

42:16 ↗ this park

42:18 ↗ uh put up a new fence

42:20 ↗ and in so doing so they purposely I

42:24 ↗ think I mean you just can see the

42:26 ↗ evidence laid down

42:29 ↗ the fence that we had there uh our fence

42:33 ↗ just just cut it down and laid it on the

42:36 ↗ ground and the blackberries grew up

42:38 ↗ through it

42:39 ↗ and so I can't dig out the bad

42:42 ↗ blackberries until I get rid of the

42:44 ↗ fence and I went to the ecology store

42:47 ↗ and asked them whether there was some

42:49 ↗ place that would be able to recycle this

42:52 ↗ it's a metal wire fence

42:55 ↗ and they gave me two

42:58 ↗ um business cards of places that I could

43:01 ↗ check and ask them like you know how how

43:04 ↗ big

43:05 ↗ a section of the fences can

43:08 ↗ uh do they prefer and that sort of thing

43:11 ↗ Kepler's

43:13 ↗ Kepler's face takes all that stuff I'm

43:16 ↗ just trying to remember whether that was

43:17 ↗ one one was the the one Green Planet oh

43:20 ↗ and then there was another one that

43:22 ↗ basically took all medimans nice yeah so

43:26 ↗ yeah

43:29 ↗ yeah I I've decided I'm going to cut the

43:31 ↗ blackberries down to about a foot

43:33 ↗ because it's hard to get the best out

43:36 ↗ until you can deal with that at least

43:39 ↗ partially deal with the blackberries and

43:42 ↗ then once I can get sections of the

43:45 ↗ fence pulled out

43:46 ↗ after the blackberries are cut down so

43:48 ↗ it can at least know where they are

43:51 ↗ then I can dig out the black girls

43:55 ↗ that's like a good project

43:57 ↗ excuse me Janet any other questions we

44:01 ↗ will have the opportunity to make some

44:03 ↗ comments before we get into the process

44:04 ↗ as well so

44:06 ↗ there's any other questions and then

44:09 ↗ uh we'll move into any comments that

44:11 ↗ anyone wants to make on

44:13 ↗ this prior to going through the formal

44:16 ↗ process

44:21 ↗ I will make a comment

44:23 ↗ um so in my mind the repo spread pledge

44:26 ↗ is a no-brainer but I don't think it

44:28 ↗ does enough

44:29 ↗ um I would really like the city to be

44:31 ↗ looking at what opportunities there are

44:33 ↗ beyond the request pledge given that

44:36 ↗ we're already doing a lot of the things

44:37 ↗ in the city

44:39 ↗ um and given what Logan shared I think

44:42 ↗ that there's something that we should be

44:44 ↗ investigating around requirements for

44:47 ↗ both

44:48 ↗ residential multi-family and

44:53 ↗ um Commercial Business like for

44:54 ↗ businesses around the requirements

44:57 ↗ around uh Recycling and composting so

45:02 ↗ um yeah I think

45:03 ↗ just to summarize

45:05 ↗ totally in favor of the request pledge

45:06 ↗ myself I think the city needs to be

45:08 ↗ looking beyond that into what we can do

45:10 ↗ to be a leader

45:19 ↗ I just want to Second what you just said

45:22 ↗ I think it's like a nice gesture but

45:25 ↗ um

45:26 ↗ and it's great that we have a partner

45:28 ↗ who's so active but um I think we're all

45:30 ↗ sort of like okay let's do it so I agree

45:37 ↗ all right any other comments

45:45 ↗ uh go ahead so are we going to

45:48 ↗ [Music]

45:49 ↗ um

45:50 ↗ could that be a recommendation yeah so I

45:53 ↗ think the next step once we're done with

45:55 ↗ comments will be we'll be looking for a

45:58 ↗ motion on whether we want to recommend

46:00 ↗ as presented do not recommend or

46:02 ↗ recommend with changes

46:04 ↗ so like an example would be uh we wanted

46:07 ↗ to recommend the changes we could have

46:10 ↗ something along the lines that we would

46:11 ↗ like to be more aggressive and in fun

46:14 ↗ ways to go beyond local questions yeah

46:16 ↗ I'll go with like what Tom was saying is

46:18 ↗ room for improvement continues

46:22 ↗ yeah exactly so that'll be the next step

46:24 ↗ um so if there's any

46:26 ↗ topic that we we can have comments on on

46:29 ↗ uh on this generally and then uh Next

46:33 ↗ Step would be me asking for promotions

46:37 ↗ foreign

46:42 ↗ doesn't appear like we have any other

46:45 ↗ comments so now I will be looking for a

46:49 ↗ motion on uh vitamin hand which is

46:51 ↗ whether we should be recommending to the

46:54 ↗ mayor that uh

46:56 ↗ that we've signed the report she wrote

46:57 ↗ signs the re-plus pledge

47:00 ↗ so I'll make a motion to recommend with

47:02 ↗ changes to reflect both Tom and Jamie's

47:05 ↗ comments in there

47:07 ↗ um I would I'll throw it out there

47:09 ↗ biannual process Improvement review to

47:14 ↗ see if there's

47:15 ↗ ways that it can be improved every other

47:17 ↗ year and then just stay commitment by

47:19 ↗ the city to be looking into the future

47:22 ↗ and Beyond just the request of that

47:27 ↗ you don't know exactly

47:30 ↗ do we have a second a second

47:33 ↗ thank you man

47:34 ↗ so now we have discussion of the motion

47:37 ↗ at hand any questions or comments on on

47:42 ↗ the motion that Don presented Don if

47:45 ↗ you'd like to speak in addition to that

47:47 ↗ at the beginning we do that for us we

47:49 ↗ can move this over

47:51 ↗ there any questions or comments

48:02 ↗ all right well then I think we are

48:05 ↗ probably ready to vote on the motion

48:09 ↗ um Stacy we need to take us through a

48:10 ↗ football vote

48:12 ↗ will do and um Jana and Tom are sitting

48:15 ↗ in this regular numbers tonight

48:18 ↗ um Tom uh a

48:22 ↗ IR okay

48:27 ↗ all right all right

48:33 ↗ uh Jamie hi

48:36 ↗ uh Rishi all right

48:39 ↗ Lara

48:41 ↗ hi

48:43 ↗ hi

48:50 ↗ right the motion passes

48:55 ↗ thank you everyone that uh unless

48:58 ↗ there's anything else you need from us

48:59 ↗ Stacy on that topic

49:02 ↗ we can move to the comprehensive plan

49:04 ↗ updates

49:12 ↗ thank you everybody for having me thanks

49:15 ↗ um

49:16 ↗ I am going to

49:19 ↗ discuss the creation of a new

49:21 ↗ environmental element for the

49:22 ↗ comprehensive plan and I'll explain the

49:25 ↗ context of why but also what kind of

49:28 ↗ information

49:29 ↗ we're looking for from the board tonight

49:31 ↗ support kind of creation of this

49:33 ↗ development because it's new wish as

49:36 ↗ we're creating a new label create a new

49:38 ↗ section that the content is using a lot

49:42 ↗ of the same information that you all

49:44 ↗ helped put into the conference Plan

49:46 ↗ update when the podcast let's put

49:48 ↗ together

49:49 ↗ so the three questions I'll be asking

49:51 ↗ tonight is uh what should be included in

49:54 ↗ the decision because this is a new

49:55 ↗ element we need to create a new vision

49:57 ↗ statement to support it what's the

50:00 ↗ content of the environmental element as

50:02 ↗ well as what are potential gaps that

50:04 ↗ stuff can be looked into as we're

50:05 ↗ starting this process

50:09 ↗ foreign

50:12 ↗ so a little background information about

50:14 ↗ the conference plan back in 1990 the

50:17 ↗ state legislature adopted something

50:19 ↗ called the growth management Act

50:21 ↗ and what they intended with this Act was

50:26 ↗ to address population growth and to

50:29 ↗ force cities and counties to plan long

50:32 ↗ break these long-term plans to address

50:34 ↗ sprawl and quality of life for

50:36 ↗ communities because at the time some

50:38 ↗ cities some counties had long-term plans

50:40 ↗ for not everybody and they were all

50:42 ↗ doing it about it in a different way so

50:44 ↗ this GMA provides a framework

50:46 ↗ essentially for all of our comprehensive

50:49 ↗ plans to address the same Topics in a

50:52 ↗ certain level of waste that we are

50:55 ↗ effectively and efficiently looking at

50:58 ↗ how we're spending public funds and

50:59 ↗ investments into planning for long term

51:02 ↗ 20 years Act so part of the framework is

51:06 ↗ requiring Regional coordination for

51:08 ↗ cities and counties as well as adopting

51:11 ↗ County and Regional policies related to

51:14 ↗ how the growth is occurring throughout

51:17 ↗ the region

51:19 ↗ so for the comprehensive plan there's

51:21 ↗ two different types of updates to

51:23 ↗ consider the first is an annual which is

51:24 ↗ an optional update that the city

51:27 ↗ actually takes advantage of uh by

51:30 ↗ quite briefly and there's the periodic

51:33 ↗ update that occurs every years and

51:35 ↗ that's actually the required update for

51:37 ↗ all cities and counties this will be

51:40 ↗ changing to 10 years after this process

51:42 ↗ but it's been every eight years and so

51:45 ↗ our last periodic update was 20 2015.

51:52 ↗ so all I want to say you stay on the

51:53 ↗ screen is everything that's currently in

51:55 ↗ our comprehensive plan right and the two

51:58 ↗ elements that are highlighted are the

51:59 ↗ two that are actually not required by

52:01 ↗ the state and to have in the comments

52:03 ↗ so the city of this bar is actually

52:05 ↗ chosen to

52:07 ↗ um

52:08 ↗ add these elements into the conference

52:10 ↗ plan as we're

52:12 ↗ proposing to do with environmental

52:13 ↗ element

52:18 ↗ so

52:19 ↗ for this update the scope is looking at

52:22 ↗ three primary goals and the first is

52:25 ↗ compliance the coordination and then

52:28 ↗ design and access

52:29 ↗ for compliance it really is

52:31 ↗ what it states we're looking at state

52:34 ↗ regulations as it relates to

52:36 ↗ anything that's recently been adopted to

52:39 ↗ anything that's currently in our

52:41 ↗ legislative session that's about to be

52:42 ↗ adopted and seeing what we need to now

52:45 ↗ incorporate into our comprehensive plans

52:47 ↗ so that we are complying with the state

52:49 ↗ as well as any Regional or King County

52:52 ↗ changes in policies on what we should be

52:55 ↗ accommodating as we grow out as a safe

52:59 ↗ we're also looking at coordination

53:01 ↗ between now so one thing that I'll be

53:04 ↗ talking about a little bit is we've

53:05 ↗ adopted a lot of different strategic

53:07 ↗ action plans in the last several years

53:10 ↗ that I kept being one of them and one of

53:13 ↗ the things that we want to make sure

53:14 ↗ that is is working across the board of

53:16 ↗ the comprehensive plan is that all of

53:19 ↗ our policy and goals are working

53:20 ↗ together being coordinated in

53:22 ↗ agreement if they're not we need to be

53:23 ↗ able to address that during this

53:25 ↗ periodic update

53:28 ↗ so as I stated there's been a lot of

53:31 ↗ what's called functional plans that have

53:33 ↗ been updated or created recently the

53:36 ↗ icap the mobility master plan the Human

53:38 ↗ Services strategic plan was recently

53:40 ↗ adopted and so we are trying to work on

53:43 ↗ incorporating a lot of that work that if

53:46 ↗ it hasn't already been incorporated into

53:48 ↗ the comprehensive plan and doing that

53:49 ↗ coordination across the board

53:51 ↗ um a couple other system plans with our

53:55 ↗ Public Works departments you've worked

53:56 ↗ on utility updates and so we're working

53:58 ↗ with these funds that have not yet been

54:01 ↗ adopted and making sure they're also

54:03 ↗ coordinated into the conference event as

54:05 ↗ well

54:06 ↗ and then

54:08 ↗ separately Economic Development and

54:10 ↗ parks are going to be updating their

54:12 ↗ strategic plans which will also

54:15 ↗ include the update for their elements

54:18 ↗ the parks and the economic development

54:19 ↗ right economic Vitality elements of the

54:22 ↗ confidence

54:25 ↗ and the last major goal for this update

54:27 ↗ is design and access so one of the

54:30 ↗ biggest issues that staff have already

54:33 ↗ pointed out for corporate's plan is it's

54:34 ↗ fairly inaccessible how many of you have

54:37 ↗ actually tried to access the confidence

54:39 ↗ plan

54:42 ↗ so one of the biggest issues that we

54:45 ↗ have found is most people need a lot of

54:47 ↗ Direction on how to access the

54:49 ↗ competency plan it's not so intuitive to

54:51 ↗ go to the city website and just find it

54:53 ↗ you have to click through a lot of

54:55 ↗ different sub pages and web pages to

54:58 ↗ find where it is and then find the PDFs

55:01 ↗ that each of the elements are broken out

55:02 ↗ to they're not as accessible as we'd

55:05 ↗ like it they're not translated they're

55:07 ↗ not

55:08 ↗ um they're not known by staff and most

55:12 ↗ of the community members are what's in

55:13 ↗ the comprehensive plan so we want this

55:15 ↗ to be created to be a much more

55:19 ↗ user-friendly and useful tool in the

55:22 ↗ city and so that's part of this last

55:24 ↗ part or as part of this last goal for

55:27 ↗ this periodic update does it make it

55:29 ↗ make it much more easier to use

55:32 ↗ because ultimately what we want to do is

55:34 ↗ create this planning framework that

55:35 ↗ works seamlessly from division goals and

55:39 ↗ policies in the comprehensive plan down

55:41 ↗ to the performance metrics uh tracking a

55:43 ↗ lot of the operations and daily uh daily

55:49 ↗ work plans of each of the Departments

55:50 ↗ that are going on today and we want to

55:52 ↗ be able to say that everything that

55:54 ↗ we're doing is meeting the vision that's

55:56 ↗ identified at the conference of fun and

55:58 ↗ right now the relationships aren't as

56:00 ↗ clear as we'd like so we want to be able

56:02 ↗ to explain to the community members and

56:04 ↗ our city council exactly how we're

56:06 ↗ achieving the city's vision

56:12 ↗ so I mentioned the different kind of

56:15 ↗ scopes with different plans being

56:17 ↗ recently updated and some plans not so

56:20 ↗ be not so recently updated and that

56:24 ↗ comes to for the

56:27 ↗ icap is that we are doing more of a

56:31 ↗ partial update in that we're creating a

56:34 ↗ new element but we're using a lot of the

56:36 ↗ pre-existing goals and policies that you

56:38 ↗ all have put together with diet

56:40 ↗ development

56:43 ↗ so in creation of this new environment

56:46 ↗ element

56:46 ↗ we are adding something new and with

56:51 ↗ that comes the new vision statement so

56:54 ↗ in your materials I included the vision

56:56 ↗ statements from the land use element

56:59 ↗ which talks about some of what we're

57:01 ↗ trying to achieve with the natural

57:03 ↗ natural environment helmet but also

57:07 ↗ include some Concepts that will probably

57:09 ↗ leave with the land himself

57:11 ↗ I also included the icat vision

57:14 ↗ statements

57:16 ↗ um it's it's originally three but I

57:17 ↗ broke it up in the main Concepts because

57:19 ↗ they were a little too too wordy for the

57:22 ↗ presentation but for the main thing of

57:24 ↗ today's discussion I want to try to

57:26 ↗ pinpoint if there's things in the icab

57:29 ↗ vision statements that we want to carry

57:31 ↗ over or not carry over for this new

57:33 ↗ album

57:35 ↗ foreign

57:37 ↗ the content of the national environment

57:40 ↗ so I broke out the different topics that

57:43 ↗ are covered in the land use element and

57:46 ↗ just

57:47 ↗ initial recommendations we move over the

57:50 ↗ climate change in the natural

57:51 ↗ environment uh sections of the land use

57:54 ↗ element into this new into the

57:57 ↗ environment helmet

58:00 ↗ but we can discuss if any of these other

58:02 ↗ topics might be warranted to be moved to

58:05 ↗ the new element as well

58:08 ↗ and the last piece of this intervalent

58:11 ↗ is looking at uh what was an adopted

58:14 ↗ House Bill 1099 and what's pending

58:17 ↗ current pending list legislation in the

58:19 ↗ current legislative process House Bill

58:21 ↗ 1181 to see if that passes how we can

58:25 ↗ comply with but we also got direction

58:26 ↗ from the council committee to look at

58:29 ↗ what's being required from these bills

58:31 ↗ to potentially adopt them anyway whether

58:33 ↗ this bill passes or not

58:36 ↗ and and what's

58:37 ↗ what are those bills covering

58:40 ↗ they were requiring actually a new

58:42 ↗ environment helmet covering a lot of

58:44 ↗ what was is already been developed

58:46 ↗ through the icon okay so both of those

58:48 ↗ cover that topic yes

58:51 ↗ there there might be some slight

58:52 ↗ differences that I'll figure out with

58:54 ↗ Stacy but for the most part my

58:56 ↗ understanding is there is virtually the

58:58 ↗ same

59:03 ↗ so for the comprehensive plan

59:06 ↗ um the red is I made an edit because you

59:08 ↗ received a presentation that covered

59:10 ↗ um information I went to council for

59:13 ↗ these first couple months we're diving

59:16 ↗ into the comprehensive plan taking a

59:18 ↗ look at where we can do a review of

59:21 ↗ policies that need to be coordinated

59:24 ↗ across the different elements looking at

59:26 ↗ what the new requirements are from the

59:27 ↗ state and the county into the region and

59:30 ↗ coming up with proposals for discussion

59:32 ↗ with you all and so we'll be coming back

59:35 ↗ later probably summer time to have

59:37 ↗ another discussion around what potential

59:40 ↗ amendments might be going into the

59:42 ↗ national environment content or if we're

59:45 ↗ just caring for what was proposed to the

59:47 ↗ end cap

59:49 ↗ foreign

59:54 ↗ going back to the original questions

59:58 ↗ chair I'd leave it to you on how you

1:00:00 ↗ want to tackle these

1:00:02 ↗ so I think what I might suggest is that

1:00:06 ↗ we first go through general questions

1:00:07 ↗ and then maybe we cover

1:00:10 ↗ um these these responses to these

1:00:12 ↗ questions I know I have a couple

1:00:13 ↗ questions I think Laura might as well

1:00:16 ↗ um so now I think would be thank you

1:00:18 ↗ Stephen thank us for that if you have

1:00:20 ↗ any questions on Steven's presentation

1:00:24 ↗ um and then we will then move into

1:00:26 ↗ answering these questions after we've

1:00:28 ↗ gone through uh questions ourselves and

1:00:31 ↗ was that a question from Laura Lara go

1:00:33 ↗ ahead

1:00:34 ↗ yeah um I had a question about I was

1:00:38 ↗ could you give us context on how the

1:00:41 ↗ comprehensive plan

1:00:43 ↗ um was used in reactions are like the

1:00:46 ↗ dramatic shifts that kovid brought over

1:00:48 ↗ the past couple years was that something

1:00:50 ↗ that you drew on as a city that like did

1:00:52 ↗ we use it very much and if so if you

1:00:54 ↗ could give a couple examples

1:00:56 ↗ the conference plan since it contains

1:00:58 ↗ most of just goals and policies it

1:01:00 ↗ provides some guidance on operations but

1:01:03 ↗ for the major shifts of what the city

1:01:06 ↗ was doing it didn't really do much just

1:01:08 ↗ because it was untouched territory and

1:01:11 ↗ how to handle such uh a situation like

1:01:14 ↗ that

1:01:18 ↗ so it was more just having existing

1:01:20 ↗ infrastructure and planning set up for

1:01:22 ↗ projection projected future kind of

1:01:26 ↗ stuff okay thank you

1:01:30 ↗ Stephen could you take us through

1:01:32 ↗ um the land use content if you could

1:01:35 ↗ just like do a quick voice over on like

1:01:37 ↗ what those all mean it's like I think we

1:01:41 ↗ can Intuit it but like

1:01:42 ↗ my first reaction is sustainability

1:01:44 ↗ seems like it's related to the

1:01:46 ↗ environment but I don't know what that

1:01:48 ↗ actually covers so I'd love to hear just

1:01:49 ↗ like quickly through all those what sure

1:01:51 ↗ sure so I listed out the natural

1:01:54 ↗ environment just so you could see I went

1:01:56 ↗ through and just picked picked out all

1:01:58 ↗ the different topics so that's one's

1:02:00 ↗ listed uh in terms of the tree canopy

1:02:02 ↗ the goals around that the critical area

1:02:04 ↗ uh preservation of

1:02:08 ↗ uh Cara and The Creeks and streams as

1:02:11 ↗ well as storm water management those all

1:02:14 ↗ seemed relevant for the natural

1:02:15 ↗ environments seemed pretty clear that

1:02:17 ↗ that should probably get moved over the

1:02:19 ↗ climate change is all the climate change

1:02:21 ↗ goals and policies that were adopted

1:02:24 ↗ through the icap and so that one is

1:02:27 ↗ another one that seemed pretty feminine

1:02:29 ↗ to also move over the sustainability one

1:02:32 ↗ I actually assumed the same thing before

1:02:33 ↗ I read it and then as I was reading

1:02:35 ↗ through it it actually pertains to more

1:02:37 ↗ of

1:02:39 ↗ um

1:02:39 ↗ the sustainability practice for the

1:02:42 ↗ built environment versus the

1:02:44 ↗ preservation of the national environment

1:02:45 ↗ and so that was that's a discussion I

1:02:47 ↗ want to have with you if does that need

1:02:49 ↗ Decay over or do we need to maintain

1:02:51 ↗ that in the land use chapter which is

1:02:54 ↗ uh relevant to or related to a lot of

1:02:58 ↗ the other ones so development patterns

1:03:00 ↗ really specific to zoning and land use

1:03:02 ↗ Healthy Communities talking to how

1:03:07 ↗ um how the city is going to be

1:03:09 ↗ uh

1:03:12 ↗ preserving a lot of more open space and

1:03:14 ↗ building out more open space in close

1:03:17 ↗ proximity to a lot of the built

1:03:18 ↗ environment centers is specifically a

1:03:22 ↗ concentration of higher density and

1:03:24 ↗ specific areas of city rather than just

1:03:26 ↗ building all out and then the resource

1:03:29 ↗ lines another one is Preservation of

1:03:31 ↗ wetland or not that's the resource lands

1:03:34 ↗ within the city and then more what does

1:03:37 ↗ that mean the resource lands one yeah so

1:03:39 ↗ that one is specific to

1:03:41 ↗ um

1:03:43 ↗ if we first this was a little unique

1:03:46 ↗ that we have a mineral resource

1:03:48 ↗ industrial uses in the city and so that

1:03:51 ↗ those pools and policy are specific to

1:03:53 ↗ that

1:03:55 ↗ and then the last one Regional purchase

1:03:57 ↗ coordination annexation policies that's

1:03:59 ↗ actually in compliance with King County

1:04:01 ↗ and the state requirements for how we

1:04:03 ↗ are

1:04:04 ↗ maintaining the built environment within

1:04:07 ↗ our Urban growth area

1:04:09 ↗ okay

1:04:10 ↗ um that's helpful so it sounds like the

1:04:12 ↗ only thing that you even kind of

1:04:14 ↗ considered might also be include the

1:04:16 ↗ sustainability but after reading it

1:04:18 ↗ the first two seemed like the ones that

1:04:20 ↗ were actually more yeah and we can

1:04:22 ↗ discuss that if maybe it needs to be in

1:04:24 ↗ there because it talks about

1:04:26 ↗ supporting preservation of national

1:04:28 ↗ environment but it is they are more

1:04:29 ↗ focused on uh the practices for building

1:04:33 ↗ out uh the dope in there okay great

1:04:39 ↗ um we have any other questions

1:04:43 ↗ um oh actually I had another one so

1:04:45 ↗ um just to make sure that I understand

1:04:47 ↗ so you have land use Vision you have

1:04:49 ↗ icap Vision obviously some portions of

1:04:52 ↗ the land use vision would likely end up

1:04:54 ↗ still pertaining to the land use section

1:04:58 ↗ um and then some of that maybe would be

1:05:01 ↗ combined with icap and anything else

1:05:03 ↗ that would is that kind of how you're

1:05:04 ↗ thinking about like yeah yeah

1:05:06 ↗ some of it was potentially the it and

1:05:10 ↗ this could go either way with the

1:05:12 ↗ protection of force at hillsides that

1:05:13 ↗ being

1:05:14 ↗ um having policies around uh making sure

1:05:18 ↗ that you're protecting the force of

1:05:19 ↗ hillsides but also putting the guilt

1:05:21 ↗ environment so that you're not creating

1:05:23 ↗ hazards like it could kind of go either

1:05:26 ↗ way but for the enhancement of the tree

1:05:28 ↗ canopy that kind of goes with the

1:05:30 ↗ preservation of the national environment

1:05:32 ↗ the transition to the Natural areas

1:05:35 ↗ outside the UGA that kind of deals with

1:05:37 ↗ the natural environment so I kind of

1:05:38 ↗ foresee taking some of these things but

1:05:40 ↗ in the environment elements and then

1:05:43 ↗ maintaining some of these in the land

1:05:45 ↗ use because it seems like more of the

1:05:48 ↗ landing statement will go over to

1:05:50 ↗ environment and the land use might be

1:05:51 ↗ your bigger it is that's some of the

1:05:54 ↗ things that we're considering is how to

1:05:56 ↗ look at that but we're also

1:05:58 ↗ through this coordination across all the

1:06:00 ↗ elements we might be actually pulling in

1:06:02 ↗ some goals and policy of other elements

1:06:04 ↗ into the land use so that might help

1:06:06 ↗ with filling the void

1:06:09 ↗ okay

1:06:11 ↗ and go ahead

1:06:13 ↗ all right thanks Andrew come here and

1:06:16 ↗ first I want to say thank you

1:06:17 ↗ um I love your vision

1:06:19 ↗ it looks like you've got a really good

1:06:20 ↗ direction

1:06:22 ↗ um and I've got some specific questions

1:06:24 ↗ so for Lu policy A6 it says prioritize

1:06:28 ↗ acquisition of course at Hillside land

1:06:30 ↗ that enhances connections to public land

1:06:33 ↗ and supports the community

1:06:35 ↗ value of forested hillsides

1:06:38 ↗ um do you have a map a mapped out of

1:06:43 ↗ which Parcels you're thinking would be

1:06:45 ↗ good to acquire

1:06:48 ↗ we do have a map but I don't have it

1:06:50 ↗ with me that'll be part of our next set

1:06:52 ↗ of discussions as we're looking deeper

1:06:54 ↗ into each of the specific policies and

1:06:56 ↗ polls of course should go into this into

1:06:59 ↗ this element

1:07:01 ↗ cool yes you probably already know this

1:07:04 ↗ but it's been my experience with the

1:07:06 ↗ Isabella's Charles club that it's good

1:07:08 ↗ to be on top of it and um

1:07:11 ↗ get the land before it gets sold to the

1:07:13 ↗ developer

1:07:15 ↗ because then it just gets way out of

1:07:17 ↗ control or a lot better yeah through the

1:07:20 ↗ development of uh the updates to the

1:07:23 ↗ development regulations we were able to

1:07:25 ↗ map a lot of that out just because some

1:07:27 ↗ of the new policies in Title 18 impact

1:07:29 ↗ some of that so we do have that map that

1:07:32 ↗ I just don't have it for discussion

1:07:34 ↗ tonight

1:07:35 ↗ cool

1:07:36 ↗ and if you ever if there's any ever any

1:07:39 ↗ way that the issaquah's trails Club can

1:07:40 ↗ help on any of that we would love to be

1:07:42 ↗ there to help yeah we would love to talk

1:07:45 ↗ about that awesome okay maybe we'll set

1:07:48 ↗ something up okay

1:07:49 ↗ um so with the mouse and sound Greenway

1:07:54 ↗ um

1:07:55 ↗ let's see that was Lu 13. you said

1:08:00 ↗ support

1:08:03 ↗ a13 Leo a13 support the goals of the

1:08:06 ↗ mountains of sound Greenway project

1:08:09 ↗ is that one project or does that

1:08:11 ↗ supposed to be projects I think it's

1:08:13 ↗ supposed to be projects yeah

1:08:18 ↗ and then

1:08:19 ↗ um now that people are working

1:08:22 ↗ a lot more people are working from home

1:08:25 ↗ um and then there's this goal to have

1:08:28 ↗ more jobs in Issaquah is that even into

1:08:31 ↗ consideration that maybe we don't need

1:08:32 ↗ as many jobs in Isabel like because

1:08:35 ↗ people are working from home now

1:08:39 ↗ so the city is trying to think about

1:08:42 ↗ that and I know uh economic development

1:08:44 ↗ through the update for that economic

1:08:46 ↗ fatality

1:08:47 ↗ elements we'll be discussing that with

1:08:50 ↗ the economic fatality commission

1:08:53 ↗ um

1:08:53 ↗ I don't know what direction they might

1:08:55 ↗ go with that but that is kind of on

1:08:58 ↗ every City's mind of of the change in

1:09:01 ↗ travel patterns from people more people

1:09:03 ↗ working from home

1:09:04 ↗ um but also people shifting jobs during

1:09:07 ↗ the pandemic as well that's that's

1:09:09 ↗ actually one of the bigger shifts in our

1:09:11 ↗ region is people are traveling in

1:09:12 ↗ different directions more than uh

1:09:15 ↗ working from home but both are having a

1:09:17 ↗ huge impact on what the job demand is

1:09:20 ↗ yeah and then the people working from

1:09:22 ↗ home help us meet our goal of having

1:09:24 ↗ less traffic right our CTR goals have

1:09:27 ↗ been way exceeded independent but

1:09:30 ↗ um it's computer production so

1:09:33 ↗ encouraging people to drive less

1:09:36 ↗ but it had other unintended consequences

1:09:40 ↗ so that's part of the discussion with

1:09:42 ↗ economic travel

1:09:44 ↗ cool well thank you for answering my

1:09:46 ↗ questions of course

1:09:50 ↗ [Music]

1:09:54 ↗ I'm looking through it right now some

1:09:56 ↗ um

1:09:57 ↗ land use gold too around maintaining the

1:10:00 ↗ resource lands

1:10:02 ↗ just to take another look at this one

1:10:04 ↗ there's bits and pieces of it that you

1:10:06 ↗ might want to dissect and pull over

1:10:09 ↗ but I'm not gonna yeah we'll get to look

1:10:13 ↗ at it to your discretion

1:10:18 ↗ all right any other questions before we

1:10:21 ↗ go into responding to the three items

1:10:25 ↗ that's even had for us

1:10:29 ↗ um and maybe just

1:10:31 ↗ before we do that I would love there's

1:10:35 ↗ any extra context you want to add to any

1:10:37 ↗ of these questions like in particular

1:10:39 ↗ how

1:10:41 ↗ how we might be most helpful on the

1:10:43 ↗ first question

1:10:45 ↗ um

1:10:46 ↗ in is it like specific items within

1:10:49 ↗ those current slides or how are you

1:10:51 ↗ thinking about like what is it just

1:10:53 ↗ general feedback is there anything in

1:10:54 ↗ particular General feedback just because

1:10:56 ↗ this is a new element we didn't want to

1:10:58 ↗ make any assumptions of what should be

1:10:59 ↗ going into it and a lot of work has been

1:11:03 ↗ already gone into what's going to be

1:11:05 ↗ feeding into this element

1:11:07 ↗ so getting any general feedback from you

1:11:09 ↗ all if there's specific topics that you

1:11:10 ↗ think need to be covered

1:11:12 ↗ um just because this is more of a

1:11:14 ↗ Visionary document looking 20 years out

1:11:16 ↗ it does get into specifics of goals and

1:11:18 ↗ policies so if that helps us kind of

1:11:20 ↗ take a look at as we're moving things

1:11:22 ↗ around is there something else that we

1:11:24 ↗ need to add some more analysis to in

1:11:28 ↗ consideration of anything changing in

1:11:30 ↗ the work plan or anything that maybe the

1:11:32 ↗ city is not doing that

1:11:34 ↗ um we need to take a look at okay and

1:11:36 ↗ then I had a question on the third one

1:11:39 ↗ um

1:11:41 ↗ are there potential gaps is there

1:11:43 ↗ anything

1:11:45 ↗ I I know you I think in the memo I

1:11:48 ↗ mentioned that it's that your team will

1:11:49 ↗ be doing kind of a gaps analysis but is

1:11:51 ↗ there anything in general that you think

1:11:53 ↗ like an example that would help us kind

1:11:56 ↗ of

1:11:57 ↗ frame that question up just it's more of

1:12:01 ↗ um we have the icap we have the land use

1:12:03 ↗ element is there anything that we

1:12:05 ↗ anything else that we should be

1:12:07 ↗ considering in this kind of

1:12:08 ↗ consolidation

1:12:09 ↗ foreign

1:12:14 ↗ all right so if we can I think it'd be

1:12:18 ↗ nice to go through these one at a time

1:12:20 ↗ if we have it and we don't have that

1:12:24 ↗ many as might not be necessary but um

1:12:26 ↗ and maybe covering these questions in

1:12:29 ↗ order so if anyone has a responses to

1:12:31 ↗ the first question

1:12:34 ↗ um maybe we could cover that now and

1:12:35 ↗ then once we're through that we'll move

1:12:37 ↗ on to the next one

1:12:39 ↗ so um yeah if you have any comments on

1:12:42 ↗ the first question

1:12:44 ↗ um these uh indicate that now well

1:12:48 ↗ definitely

1:12:49 ↗ the icap and land use definitely what

1:12:51 ↗ you already have okay

1:12:58 ↗ it's probably elements of the utilities

1:13:00 ↗ plans the storm water plan my wage water

1:13:04 ↗ plan

1:13:06 ↗ so I actually want to ask about that

1:13:08 ↗ with the storm water management being

1:13:11 ↗ part of the utility plants

1:13:13 ↗ it does influence some of the land use

1:13:16 ↗ components so does that belong in the

1:13:19 ↗ natural environment or does that along

1:13:21 ↗ with land use which is I think maybe the

1:13:24 ↗ dividing line between the two is land

1:13:25 ↗ use focusing more on the built

1:13:27 ↗ environment the national environment the

1:13:29 ↗ environment and element focusing on more

1:13:31 ↗ natural preservation

1:13:33 ↗ yeah I mean there's a there'll be

1:13:36 ↗ someone that I really wanted yeah but I

1:13:38 ↗ just want to ask I think that's a good

1:13:39 ↗ way to kind of keep them separated

1:13:43 ↗ oh I had a question I was wondering so

1:13:46 ↗ you mentioned the two different house

1:13:47 ↗ bills and you said that the environment

1:13:49 ↗ section was going to be required that

1:13:51 ↗ they provide any additional guidance as

1:13:53 ↗ to what should be contained they do but

1:13:56 ↗ because it's still pending uh it's it's

1:13:59 ↗ still kind of a moving Target so I

1:14:00 ↗ didn't want to bring that to you when it

1:14:03 ↗ could change in the next couple weeks

1:14:04 ↗ well once that's adopted if it's it's

1:14:07 ↗ adopted then we'll be using that as as

1:14:10 ↗ guidance of what what first starting

1:14:13 ↗ what's been required and then going to

1:14:15 ↗ what else do we have that uh needs to

1:14:18 ↗ get carried overhead

1:14:21 ↗ and I just maybe build on that to say

1:14:24 ↗ that um we talked a bit about with the

1:14:26 ↗ climate vulnerability assessment that

1:14:28 ↗ Commerce has been developing already

1:14:30 ↗ model elements to prepare for this

1:14:32 ↗ legislation passing around the climate

1:14:34 ↗ aspect of it

1:14:36 ↗ um King County cities kind of

1:14:38 ↗ collaborative also has been working on

1:14:40 ↗ model policies and then we'll be talking

1:14:42 ↗ about those Planet vulnerability

1:14:45 ↗ policies as well that would hopefully

1:14:48 ↗ cover a lot of the portion of this build

1:14:50 ↗ that passes and get us ahead of the game

1:14:54 ↗ um so there's already a lot of work

1:14:56 ↗ underway that will

1:15:07 ↗ um

1:15:09 ↗ I I got a comment around uh

1:15:12 ↗ I think the environment

1:15:15 ↗ is unique in that if we look across a

1:15:18 ↗ lot of these other elements land use

1:15:20 ↗ housing Mobility Capital facilities

1:15:23 ↗ parks

1:15:24 ↗ and utilities I think that there's going

1:15:27 ↗ to be if we're truly doing an

1:15:29 ↗ environmental element there would be a

1:15:32 ↗ lot of influence on those other elements

1:15:34 ↗ that should be uh that should be

1:15:36 ↗ captured so I think that's going to be

1:15:37 ↗ one of your challenge Stephen is I don't

1:15:41 ↗ think you can just put like a couple

1:15:43 ↗ topics off in a corner and that's the

1:15:44 ↗ environmental element I think this is

1:15:46 ↗ Stacy's challenge as well just generally

1:15:48 ↗ with the city is like this is something

1:15:50 ↗ it is we had an equity element it would

1:15:52 ↗ be similar in that it needs to cut

1:15:54 ↗ across all decisions and so I think

1:15:57 ↗ that's something that if we were to just

1:15:58 ↗ pull things directly at icap but we were

1:16:00 ↗ just to pull things out of highlight

1:16:02 ↗ team

1:16:03 ↗ um we might miss what I think the core

1:16:06 ↗ of what I hope an environmental element

1:16:08 ↗ does which is how is all how are all

1:16:11 ↗ decisions in the city being you know

1:16:13 ↗ the employee environment and protecting

1:16:15 ↗ the two things that were have included

1:16:18 ↗ which is the natural environment and and

1:16:20 ↗ climate consideration so that's

1:16:23 ↗ something that I it's not going to be

1:16:25 ↗ easy thing but I would encourage us to

1:16:27 ↗ look at not just the topic areas and

1:16:29 ↗ what parts of the code we could identify

1:16:31 ↗ but how this element might influence

1:16:33 ↗ other elements yeah no I think that's a

1:16:36 ↗ that's a great point and that'll

1:16:37 ↗ definitely be part of our our

1:16:38 ↗ coordination review as we're reviewing

1:16:40 ↗ this so

1:16:41 ↗ um going through what's in the land of

1:16:43 ↗ settlement or what's coming from the

1:16:44 ↗ icap of identifying maybe that one

1:16:46 ↗ actually belongs in that economic

1:16:48 ↗ Vitality or maybe that one belongs in

1:16:50 ↗ the Parks element And discussing that

1:16:53 ↗ with the other departments as well and

1:16:54 ↗ we'll have that list for you of okay we

1:16:57 ↗ move these to these other elements and

1:16:59 ↗ we maintain this in the this new

1:17:02 ↗ environment element and kind of

1:17:04 ↗ discussing how best to uh how that best

1:17:08 ↗ coordinates what we're really trying to

1:17:09 ↗ achieve

1:17:10 ↗ yeah I guess I think I was making a

1:17:12 ↗ slightly different point which is that I

1:17:15 ↗ think a part of the environment element

1:17:16 ↗ it should be how other elements are

1:17:19 ↗ informed by the environment

1:17:22 ↗ um so I think there's there's certainly

1:17:23 ↗ going to be the topic areas that will be

1:17:25 ↗ distinct to the environmental element I

1:17:28 ↗ think

1:17:28 ↗ what I was saying was in addition to

1:17:30 ↗ that I think we should have how is the

1:17:32 ↗ Environmental element informing other

1:17:34 ↗ elements of the conference Supply yeah

1:17:40 ↗ hey Jamie I had a comment if I can jump

1:17:42 ↗ in yeah go ahead

1:17:45 ↗ um

1:17:46 ↗ I think what you just said sort of

1:17:48 ↗ triggered for me what I was struggling

1:17:49 ↗ with about this is it feels kind of

1:17:51 ↗ arbitrary

1:17:52 ↗ um I think we worked really hard on the

1:17:54 ↗ climate action plan and we're super

1:17:56 ↗ thorough with feedback and vision for

1:17:58 ↗ that

1:17:59 ↗ um and then having a separate

1:18:00 ↗ environment

1:18:02 ↗ feels like such an abstract topic that

1:18:04 ↗ it's almost

1:18:06 ↗ um

1:18:07 ↗ I don't know it just feels really

1:18:08 ↗ abstract

1:18:10 ↗ uh because yeah like what you're saying

1:18:12 ↗ just like with

1:18:13 ↗ um Equity it really is everything like

1:18:15 ↗ without the land what are we we're like

1:18:17 ↗ we can't do anything we can't plan for

1:18:19 ↗ anything without the water that comes

1:18:21 ↗ through the air that comes through the

1:18:23 ↗ animals that live here like um so I

1:18:25 ↗ almost feel like

1:18:27 ↗ um having an ecological plan or

1:18:28 ↗ something feels more appropriate because

1:18:30 ↗ it's more tangible we have stormwater

1:18:32 ↗ plans we have

1:18:34 ↗ um you know forestry plans existing

1:18:36 ↗ within Parks but what do we have for for

1:18:39 ↗ ecosystems we have some land use stuff

1:18:41 ↗ but um saying environment

1:18:44 ↗ I don't know it just it just feels like

1:18:46 ↗ Superfluous in some ways that it's just

1:18:49 ↗ going to comprehensive plan um so I'm

1:18:51 ↗ struggling with it but I think that you

1:18:53 ↗ know talking about like biodiversity and

1:18:56 ↗ um climate change and the need for

1:18:58 ↗ resiliency and for social services to be

1:19:00 ↗ part of resiliency is

1:19:02 ↗ um feels like more appropriate things to

1:19:04 ↗ plan for

1:19:10 ↗ thank you Laura any other comments on on

1:19:13 ↗ this first topic

1:19:16 ↗ okay I think now we can probably we've

1:19:19 ↗ already

1:19:20 ↗ covered I think the second one a little

1:19:22 ↗ bit but maybe if there's any other

1:19:23 ↗ comments on and I'm assuming you just

1:19:25 ↗ kind of looking forward

1:19:27 ↗ the in terms of like the specific topic

1:19:29 ↗ areas that we've yeah yes already talked

1:19:32 ↗ about okay so any comments on on uh

1:19:36 ↗ on that question

1:19:42 ↗ hey drama gabs no so I think it was like

1:19:45 ↗ an example was you had already provided

1:19:47 ↗ the feedback that like there's parts of

1:19:49 ↗ the utilities that we may want to look

1:19:51 ↗ at or the the resource lands

1:19:54 ↗ I think that's the topic

1:19:57 ↗ he's looking to feedback on and then it

1:19:59 ↗ was yeah going back to the slide the

1:20:01 ↗ anything at the higher bucket levels

1:20:04 ↗ from the current land use element

1:20:07 ↗ they said I don't know the city plans

1:20:09 ↗ well enough to be able to make that

1:20:10 ↗ comment

1:20:22 ↗ do you have a water chip plant

1:20:25 ↗ we have a water system plan that looks

1:20:27 ↗ at the water system plant yeah that's

1:20:29 ↗ for drinking water yeah

1:20:35 ↗ yeah I think you have to look at that

1:20:36 ↗ too I mean you got aquifers and I said

1:20:38 ↗ was some of your main drinking water

1:20:39 ↗ sources

1:20:46 ↗ all right well then I think unless we

1:20:48 ↗ have any other comments on this we can

1:20:49 ↗ move on to the final one which is just

1:20:51 ↗ around gaps

1:20:54 ↗ um WC today or the thing you might use

1:20:57 ↗ this my question would be do you see any

1:20:59 ↗ potential gaps

1:21:01 ↗ at the moment no

1:21:03 ↗ um but I wasn't around or I I wasn't

1:21:05 ↗ part of the bigger icap discussions and

1:21:07 ↗ so that's kind of where at least my gaps

1:21:10 ↗ are of what went into the development

1:21:13 ↗ react happen and if there's something

1:21:14 ↗ that might be missing from that or

1:21:17 ↗ looking through the materials of land

1:21:19 ↗ use kind of covered this I covered this

1:21:21 ↗ because they're other than like the

1:21:24 ↗ aquifers is there another topic that we

1:21:27 ↗ should be taking a look at and

1:21:28 ↗ incorporating as part of this

1:21:30 ↗ development

1:21:35 ↗ about the parks planning efforts how

1:21:38 ↗ does that plan

1:21:39 ↗ so uh through the coordination room we

1:21:42 ↗ will be working with the parks

1:21:43 ↗ department as they update their

1:21:44 ↗ strategic plan and the parks element and

1:21:46 ↗ just making sure that everything is

1:21:48 ↗ coordinating across that

1:21:52 ↗ hey against Dylan both Jamie and Laura

1:21:54 ↗ were talking about earlier there's a lot

1:21:56 ↗ of

1:21:57 ↗ crossovers here there is yeah

1:22:00 ↗ and and you're right it's it's going to

1:22:02 ↗ be one of the more difficult parts of

1:22:04 ↗ all this to kind of determine what goes

1:22:05 ↗ into this development versus what should

1:22:07 ↗ be going into the other elements

1:22:09 ↗ foreign

1:22:17 ↗ discussion we haven't even dived into

1:22:19 ↗ this so it's okay if there's no other

1:22:21 ↗ that's because we're going to be coming

1:22:22 ↗ back to you with a lot more information

1:22:24 ↗ and having kind of these deep

1:22:26 ↗ discussions around

1:22:28 ↗ um you know the gaps that we see by

1:22:30 ↗ looking at everything and if there's

1:22:31 ↗ something else that we we're not seeing

1:22:33 ↗ by looking at those uh other system

1:22:36 ↗ plans or the other elements

1:22:38 ↗ can you help us understand like say this

1:22:41 ↗ say we give you great feedback and it's

1:22:44 ↗ super helpful like what does that look

1:22:45 ↗ like in five years you're like oh this

1:22:47 ↗ is because we put this great plan

1:22:48 ↗ together

1:22:49 ↗ um again we're not holding you to it but

1:22:51 ↗ just I feel like I'm still missing that

1:22:53 ↗ context well so for the comprehensive

1:22:55 ↗ plan I mean it's looking 20 years out so

1:22:58 ↗ five years out

1:22:59 ↗ it you're probably going to see

1:23:03 ↗ some relationships between new programs

1:23:05 ↗ that the city takes on and and what

1:23:06 ↗ we're looking for for the comprehensive

1:23:09 ↗ plan but it's hard to it's hard to

1:23:12 ↗ really say this is what you'll really

1:23:13 ↗ see by adding the circumference plan

1:23:15 ↗ because most of the time you don't see

1:23:17 ↗ the actual results and so 2010 mostly 20

1:23:22 ↗ years out into the future because that's

1:23:24 ↗ really what this is focusing on what do

1:23:26 ↗ we want the city to look like 20 years

1:23:28 ↗ from now here's our goals for these

1:23:30 ↗ specific topics that'll get us to what

1:23:33 ↗ we're looking for for environment or

1:23:35 ↗ transportation and housing here's some

1:23:38 ↗ policies that will say this is how we

1:23:40 ↗ want to go about doing that but it's not

1:23:43 ↗ specific in saying here's our strategies

1:23:45 ↗ to go about it that's really what the

1:23:46 ↗ icap is for and so this is really taking

1:23:49 ↗ a look at the higher level of okay 20

1:23:51 ↗ years out this is how we want to get to

1:23:53 ↗ that vision

1:23:56 ↗ does that help a little better on the

1:23:58 ↗ context of all this

1:24:00 ↗ yeah very much thank you

1:24:04 ↗ yeah I won't spend much time on it but I

1:24:06 ↗ think

1:24:07 ↗ my response to the first one could also

1:24:09 ↗ be applied to this so that I do think a

1:24:12 ↗ potential Gap if we are just looking at

1:24:15 ↗ the parts of the code

1:24:16 ↗ that we think are within the

1:24:18 ↗ environmental element is that we miss

1:24:21 ↗ how how the environment should influence

1:24:24 ↗ the rest of our decision making so

1:24:27 ↗ um that I don't know if that is that

1:24:29 ↗ sort of logic exists in the

1:24:31 ↗ comprehensive plan today with other

1:24:32 ↗ elements

1:24:36 ↗ you know when we developed the mobility

1:24:38 ↗ master plan we established certain

1:24:39 ↗ values that we were using as kind of

1:24:42 ↗ priorities for the strategy behind

1:24:46 ↗ that's really built into the mobility

1:24:47 ↗ master plan not so much the conference

1:24:50 ↗ because it's it's trying to stay at that

1:24:52 ↗ higher level within the comprehensive

1:24:54 ↗ plan so

1:24:55 ↗ um do you have something like that

1:24:57 ↗ within the icap that helps with

1:24:59 ↗ determination of priorities

1:25:02 ↗ well I think I guess part of what I'm

1:25:04 ↗ struggling with a little bit is like a

1:25:05 ↗ lot of the things that are in the iPad

1:25:07 ↗ are in other elements

1:25:10 ↗ many

1:25:11 ↗ many of them I'm just trying to find

1:25:14 ↗ come back for that

1:25:16 ↗ um

1:25:20 ↗ so yeah like there's there's things

1:25:22 ↗ around Capitol facilities what is the

1:25:24 ↗ city doing to decarbonize buildings

1:25:26 ↗ that's going to be there parks canopy

1:25:29 ↗ cover

1:25:30 ↗ um land use heavily there's a bunch of

1:25:33 ↗ different elements that that are there

1:25:35 ↗ housing is another huge one

1:25:38 ↗ um

1:25:39 ↗ like that that's right this one has like

1:25:42 ↗ climate in particular like

1:25:45 ↗ how is it housing is one that I think

1:25:46 ↗ about like what we do around

1:25:49 ↗ um

1:25:49 ↗ not only decoratingizing the city's

1:25:51 ↗ buildings but like homes and Resident

1:25:53 ↗ residences and built and uh businesses

1:25:56 ↗ so that's what I

1:25:59 ↗ I'm just trying to figure out exactly

1:26:01 ↗ how those all because like if we take

1:26:04 ↗ icap edits like use all elements of icap

1:26:07 ↗ and you can use those other guide then I

1:26:10 ↗ think there's going to be the

1:26:11 ↗ environment touches a lot of these

1:26:13 ↗ things and I just don't know I'm not

1:26:15 ↗ sure and don't know the comprehensive

1:26:16 ↗ plan well enough or the what we're going

1:26:18 ↗ to do with this

1:26:19 ↗ um with this update but that's that's

1:26:21 ↗ kind of a question that I have is with

1:26:23 ↗ the addition of this

1:26:24 ↗ how the the parts of the the other

1:26:28 ↗ elements are are um that are very much

1:26:30 ↗ the environment

1:26:32 ↗ how are those are identified and how we

1:26:34 ↗ make sure we're making the right

1:26:35 ↗ decisions not only for those elements

1:26:37 ↗ not with just housing in mind but also

1:26:39 ↗ with the environment in mind for the for

1:26:40 ↗ this right uh those parts of

1:26:43 ↗ housing for example so

1:26:46 ↗ yeah I don't I don't know that there's a

1:26:48 ↗ gap a gap necessarily I just think that

1:26:52 ↗ I'm wondering if environment is is a bit

1:26:55 ↗ unique in that it is gonna I mean I

1:26:57 ↗ think there's some of that to an extent

1:26:58 ↗ with a lot of these but it feels like in

1:27:01 ↗ particular the environment is going to

1:27:02 ↗ cut across a lot of other elements

1:27:04 ↗ um and so yeah I would just hope that as

1:27:06 ↗ part of this coordination we're really

1:27:08 ↗ thinking with that funds and how

1:27:12 ↗ yeah we have certain things in the

1:27:13 ↗ element but are also our

1:27:15 ↗ encouraging

1:27:18 ↗ crossover like how how are these things

1:27:20 ↗ influencing each other would be right an

1:27:23 ↗ important consideration as well and a

1:27:25 ↗ big part of this is is also helping kind

1:27:28 ↗ of the usability of the comprehensive

1:27:29 ↗ plan right now because a lot of our if

1:27:32 ↗ it's not built into the other elements

1:27:34 ↗ the rest the remainder of the icap

1:27:37 ↗ policies and goals were just buried a

1:27:40 ↗ little bit into the land use element and

1:27:42 ↗ so it's a little bit hard to find those

1:27:43 ↗ unless you really know it's there and so

1:27:46 ↗ bringing it out as its own element also

1:27:48 ↗ helps with identifying that as as being

1:27:51 ↗ such an important issue for this

1:27:53 ↗ community and so beyond the usability

1:27:56 ↗ also being able to better coordinate it

1:27:59 ↗ across the other elements also helps

1:28:01 ↗ with that communication of what our

1:28:03 ↗ 20-year Vision looks like

1:28:04 ↗ okay

1:28:06 ↗ any other comments on this or anything

1:28:09 ↗ else for Steven

1:28:12 ↗ I'll I have uh one more thought

1:28:16 ↗ um

1:28:17 ↗ just in terms of gaps I I almost think

1:28:19 ↗ that going backwards and taking all the

1:28:22 ↗ other

1:28:23 ↗ major actions statements and and plans

1:28:26 ↗ from other groups and then putting them

1:28:28 ↗ through our lens and just having like

1:28:30 ↗ call outs would probably be helpful

1:28:32 ↗ again just for having a lens to be

1:28:34 ↗ looking through

1:28:35 ↗ um for everything that's

1:28:37 ↗ looking through for the future

1:28:39 ↗ um I also feel like the Gap is just

1:28:40 ↗ cultural that I've always had a major

1:28:43 ↗ deep issue with the phrase land use it's

1:28:45 ↗ so consumer focused of what do I use

1:28:48 ↗ this thing for and what does it do for

1:28:50 ↗ me

1:28:51 ↗ um that I would love to see in the

1:28:54 ↗ future that we don't say land use at all

1:28:56 ↗ that we have some other phrase that's

1:28:58 ↗ more helpful and longer term about the

1:29:00 ↗ longevity of of all the parts of um our

1:29:03 ↗ own ecosystem so again

1:29:06 ↗ um

1:29:07 ↗ you know talking about the future

1:29:08 ↗ generations and having

1:29:11 ↗ um multi-generations involved in the

1:29:13 ↗ decisions we're making including

1:29:15 ↗ non-human species so I'm leaning towards

1:29:17 ↗ ecology again um so I would say I would

1:29:19 ↗ talk to Dan hinz and see if he has any

1:29:21 ↗ interesting thoughts for what direction

1:29:24 ↗ you could go with this

1:29:25 ↗ um

1:29:26 ↗ but uh yeah and just food for thought

1:29:28 ↗ that land use is a weird word phrase

1:29:30 ↗ that's all no I definitely appreciate

1:29:33 ↗ that

1:29:35 ↗ I don't know that we could do anything

1:29:36 ↗ about removing the title of the land use

1:29:38 ↗ element because it's required by the

1:29:40 ↗ state but in terms of like how

1:29:43 ↗ yes I think that's a really good point

1:29:50 ↗ all right Stephen do you have anything

1:29:52 ↗ else for us no I think I I got a lot of

1:29:55 ↗ great feedback tonight

1:29:57 ↗ great well thank you for joining us um

1:29:59 ↗ and I think with that we'll

1:30:01 ↗ conclude our

1:30:02 ↗ agenda items and move on to reports I

1:30:06 ↗ also just wanted to say I did read in

1:30:08 ↗ there the non-humans were taken into

1:30:10 ↗ consideration like wildlife

1:30:14 ↗ different things so that was good to

1:30:16 ↗ read

1:30:21 ↗ all right um so there was one report in

1:30:24 ↗ the packet and then I have a number of

1:30:26 ↗ additional updates I'll walk through

1:30:28 ↗ um first one is on the Ruth and Dan keys

1:30:31 ↗ and the community environmental Awards

1:30:34 ↗ so as most of you are probably familiar

1:30:36 ↗ every two years the city recognizes

1:30:37 ↗ community members that have made it

1:30:39 ↗ considerable contribution to protecting

1:30:41 ↗ our natural environment

1:30:43 ↗ um this year we are recognizing three

1:30:46 ↗ recipients for the awards for the rupees

1:30:49 ↗ award we're recognizing Robert Kelly

1:30:51 ↗ many of you know as current director of

1:30:53 ↗ fish and is recognized for her Legacy

1:30:56 ↗ and leadership in San recovery education

1:30:58 ↗ Outreach and we have two winners for the

1:31:01 ↗ community Awards this year and income

1:31:03 ↗ I'm very pleased to say um

1:31:07 ↗ her work on climate advocacy is about

1:31:10 ↗ Alps Trail club for a stewardship

1:31:13 ↗ um many of you are familiar with the

1:31:15 ↗ look that she's been doing around the

1:31:16 ↗ community

1:31:17 ↗ um

1:31:18 ↗ first time we're recognizing for the

1:31:19 ↗ community award is John Smith who has

1:31:22 ↗ been leading the monthly litter cleanups

1:31:24 ↗ and is also initiating some work on

1:31:27 ↗ litter Outreach and education with

1:31:28 ↗ schools

1:31:29 ↗ so Monday April 17th we'll be having a

1:31:32 ↗ reception with city council at 6 30 at

1:31:35 ↗ council chambers

1:31:36 ↗ um if you're interested in attending let

1:31:38 ↗ me know and I can work with Tisha if we

1:31:41 ↗ have more than five that are planning to

1:31:42 ↗ attend uh there'll be cake and then a

1:31:45 ↗ short recognition and a distribution of

1:31:48 ↗ the awards at the beginning of the

1:31:49 ↗ council meeting which will start at

1:31:51 ↗ seven o'clock

1:31:54 ↗ and then moving on to other updates

1:31:59 ↗ um just wanted to recognize Rishi

1:32:02 ↗ um he was nominated by the city to the

1:32:04 ↗ association of Washington sitters cities

1:32:06 ↗ for the center for Quality communities

1:32:09 ↗ for outstanding youth that have

1:32:11 ↗ volunteered their time and Community

1:32:13 ↗ leadership projects Rishi was one of

1:32:15 ↗ only eight scholar recipients that were

1:32:18 ↗ selected from across the state

1:32:25 ↗ um about two weeks ago uh we launched

1:32:28 ↗ the Energy Smart boost program which is

1:32:30 ↗ a component of the heat pump program

1:32:32 ↗ this is a city and Grant funded aspect

1:32:35 ↗ of the program that's going to provide

1:32:36 ↗ 100 cost coverage for heat pump

1:32:38 ↗ installations for low-income households

1:32:41 ↗ these are households that make uh it's

1:32:44 ↗ classified as 80 or less of the area

1:32:46 ↗ median income around here that's roughly

1:32:49 ↗ 97 000 but is dependent on family size

1:32:53 ↗ we have opened up those applications and

1:32:56 ↗ next we'll be opening up applications

1:32:58 ↗ for the moderate income rebates this is

1:33:00 ↗ books that make between the 80 Ami up to

1:33:04 ↗ 150 percent

1:33:06 ↗ um and these rebates will include a

1:33:08 ↗ fifteen hundred dollar City rebate plus

1:33:10 ↗ 500

1:33:12 ↗ 1 gemsco depending on the model uh that

1:33:16 ↗ is purchased by the homeowner

1:33:19 ↗ um we also recently received an

1:33:21 ↗ additional grant that is going to help

1:33:23 ↗ us expand Outreach further provide more

1:33:26 ↗ rebates for both low-income moderate

1:33:28 ↗ income affordable housing and also

1:33:30 ↗ achieve some work on Workforce

1:33:32 ↗ Development

1:33:34 ↗ um so that program is moving forward

1:33:35 ↗ we're starting to see a lot more uptake

1:33:37 ↗ as the inflation reduction acts

1:33:40 ↗ um tax incentives this new year

1:33:43 ↗ Stacy two questions on that one

1:33:46 ↗ is the low income element or the lower

1:33:48 ↗ income element is that in addition to

1:33:51 ↗ the project that was originally because

1:33:53 ↗ I think there was like a specific joint

1:33:56 ↗ project with a certain developer is that

1:33:59 ↗ is this now an addition to that this is

1:34:02 ↗ a replacement of that the same program

1:34:06 ↗ um that we launched with the five the

1:34:08 ↗ five cities that are partnering and then

1:34:10 ↗ we had

1:34:11 ↗ city council approved a 125 000 for work

1:34:16 ↗ at imagine housing that is moving

1:34:19 ↗ forward it's not yet completed but

1:34:21 ↗ they're working on the weatherization

1:34:24 ↗ um and it looks like actually we won't

1:34:25 ↗ need to use very much of any of those

1:34:28 ↗ funds so we'll be using those funds to

1:34:30 ↗ also supplement uh other affordable

1:34:32 ↗ housing projects or low income

1:34:37 ↗ the other question I had was

1:34:39 ↗ so it sounds like there's now there was

1:34:42 ↗ previously some sort of discount that

1:34:44 ↗ the installer was going to provide and

1:34:45 ↗ there was an actual City incentive for

1:34:47 ↗ moderate income correct yeah so they

1:34:49 ↗ were providing the 500 uh jensco the

1:34:52 ↗ heat pump distributor was providing the

1:34:53 ↗ 500 discount they're going to continue

1:34:55 ↗ that they're looking at additional

1:34:57 ↗ discounts such as a senior discount

1:35:01 ↗ um and then the cities will be offering

1:35:04 ↗ additional rebate on top of that so

1:35:06 ↗ it'll be about 2 000 and then depending

1:35:09 ↗ on income folks will qualify for a

1:35:11 ↗ different level of federal tax incidents

1:35:13 ↗ as well so we're trying to stack

1:35:16 ↗ um those uh incentives and rebates as

1:35:19 ↗ much as possible to make the heat pumps

1:35:20 ↗ more affordable and is that like 80 to

1:35:22 ↗ 120 or what's the range for for the for

1:35:25 ↗ the percentage it's 80 to 150.50 yeah

1:35:28 ↗ following the federal that's great

1:35:34 ↗ um great uh next item is just an update

1:35:37 ↗ on board recruitment

1:35:39 ↗ uh we uh sorry Jamie Don and I completed

1:35:43 ↗ interviews with interested candidates a

1:35:45 ↗ couple weeks ago now and passed on those

1:35:47 ↗ recommendations to the mayor's office

1:35:49 ↗ they'll be going to council for approval

1:35:51 ↗ on Monday we still do have a few spots

1:35:56 ↗ that are vacant even after the

1:35:57 ↗ interviews we have a regular

1:36:01 ↗ position as well as one alternate so

1:36:03 ↗ we're starting to do some personal

1:36:04 ↗ Outreach if you have any individuals

1:36:07 ↗ that you know that might be interested

1:36:08 ↗ please let me know and we'll continue to

1:36:11 ↗ do that recruitment

1:36:13 ↗ um the new board members that are

1:36:15 ↗ appointed on Monday will start at our

1:36:17 ↗ main meeting

1:36:19 ↗ um

1:36:23 ↗ [Music]

1:36:37 ↗ his position that we were able to fill

1:36:39 ↗ the other one

1:36:42 ↗ um also in May we'll be doing the

1:36:44 ↗ elections for the chair and vice chair

1:36:45 ↗ Jamie and Don have both indicated a

1:36:48 ↗ willingness to continue but also

1:36:51 ↗ openness to handing over if there are

1:36:53 ↗ others that are interested

1:36:55 ↗ um so if you are interested in chair

1:36:57 ↗ Vice chair position let me know and

1:37:00 ↗ we'll do those nominations and elections

1:37:02 ↗ in May

1:37:04 ↗ um and then last for recruitment board

1:37:06 ↗ updates just wanted to hand it over to

1:37:08 ↗ Jamie to recognize the board members for

1:37:10 ↗ which this is their last meeting as well

1:37:13 ↗ as those that have left earlier this

1:37:16 ↗ year

1:37:17 ↗ yeah so maybe I'll start with the people

1:37:19 ↗ that aren't here

1:37:20 ↗ um so we had a couple of members that

1:37:23 ↗ left throughout this year or several of

1:37:25 ↗ them two of them being original kind of

1:37:28 ↗ founding members of the environmental

1:37:30 ↗ board with Cameron and Dan we also had

1:37:32 ↗ Matangi so wanted to recognize in

1:37:35 ↗ particular Cameron and Dan's

1:37:37 ↗ contributions exciting to have

1:37:40 ↗ a board member becomes City employee

1:37:44 ↗ um and I look forward to seeing uh see

1:37:47 ↗ what Dan does with the city we wanted to

1:37:49 ↗ thank those two in particular and then

1:37:51 ↗ the two that are here Lara and Rishi

1:37:54 ↗ um both on through exciting things and

1:37:57 ↗ uh really appreciate both of you as well

1:37:59 ↗ for now what two and a half three years

1:38:02 ↗ of contributions and

1:38:05 ↗ um yeah it'll be sad to see both of you

1:38:06 ↗ go but uh I know there will always be

1:38:08 ↗ here you'll always be able to come back

1:38:10 ↗ to our meeting meetings and join us as

1:38:12 ↗ as a as a public attendees so

1:38:15 ↗ so we don't expect you to do that but

1:38:18 ↗ every once in a while but uh but yeah I

1:38:21 ↗ really want to thank both of you for

1:38:22 ↗ your contributions

1:38:24 ↗ um and uh and uh we'll miss you on board

1:38:28 ↗ yeah

1:38:30 ↗ we'll definitely miss both of you

1:38:35 ↗ thanks it's been fun I'm going to be on

1:38:37 ↗ the sustainability committee at my firm

1:38:39 ↗ in Seattle so uh I'll be carrying the

1:38:42 ↗ fight on elsewhere

1:38:43 ↗ cool nice

1:38:45 ↗ there you go

1:38:48 ↗ maybe we can appreciate things

1:38:53 ↗ great

1:38:54 ↗ um just a couple last uh last few

1:38:56 ↗ updates um just at the Earth month

1:38:58 ↗ webpage is live there's a lot going on

1:39:01 ↗ in April around the city

1:39:04 ↗ um so several waste collection events

1:39:06 ↗ I've mentioned restoration projects

1:39:08 ↗ happening clean up days

1:39:10 ↗ um of course the fair on Sunday

1:39:13 ↗ um so definitely check out their month

1:39:14 ↗ webpage if you're interested in

1:39:16 ↗ registering or showing up for me of

1:39:18 ↗ those events

1:39:20 ↗ um and then I believe Tisha sent out an

1:39:22 ↗ email that you all should have received

1:39:23 ↗ today that we are going to be moving to

1:39:25 ↗ teams we are getting away from WebEx

1:39:27 ↗ because our systems are not set up for

1:39:29 ↗ WebEx hence a lot of the technical

1:39:31 ↗ difficulties so we'll be

1:39:34 ↗ um attempting that in May

1:39:36 ↗ um

1:39:36 ↗ might be one of the earlier groups

1:39:39 ↗ transitioning so we work out Kinks and

1:39:41 ↗ we'll have it available to help support

1:39:44 ↗ us but I'll send out you receive some

1:39:46 ↗ instructions from Tisha today I'll send

1:39:48 ↗ out some more information ahead of our

1:39:52 ↗ um and then just to note that

1:39:53 ↗ environmental board schedule

1:39:55 ↗ um of topics is continues to shift a bit

1:39:58 ↗ as topics are ready or not ready

1:40:00 ↗ um so just actively maintaining that

1:40:02 ↗ I'll make sure to continue including it

1:40:04 ↗ in the agendas so we all have the latest

1:40:07 ↗ schedule we've moved a couple Public

1:40:10 ↗ Works presentations so we'll see you

1:40:12 ↗ later this month to us then lastly just

1:40:15 ↗ hope to see you all Sunday at the

1:40:17 ↗ sustainability Fair uh 10 to 2 Victory

1:40:20 ↗ Farm

1:40:23 ↗ thank you stay safe and thank us with

1:40:25 ↗ any other

1:40:26 ↗ items on the board

1:40:29 ↗ they are adjourned thank you everyone

1:40:30 ↗ yeah

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Council / Members (8)

Jamie Finch

Don McQuilliams

Rishi Hazra

Ashwin Manoharan

Lara Lebeiko

Anne Newcomb

Janet Wall

Tom Anderson

Staff (4)

Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator

Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager

Logan Harvey, Government Affairs

Excused

Nancy Davidson

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The minutes were approved as presented by unanimous consent. a.) Minutes of March 8, 2023 b.) Minutes of March 16, 2023 PUBLIC COMMENTS AGENDA ITEMS
NEWCOMB seconded, and the motion was passed through unanimous consent.
The Board recommended that in creating the vision for an environmental section and for creating the section itself that CPD look at many other sections beyond just land use, including utilities.