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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