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Environmental Board

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

6:30 PM · 2h 5m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Draft Comprehensive Plan 4/7
Municipal Building Decarbonization Study Resolution ID 1505 1/2
Section
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of July 12, 2023
packet pp.3–6
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 07-12-23 Environmental Board Minutes Page [1] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. July 12, 2023 MINUTES NW, Issaquah
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4b
Comprehensive Plan Update
Discussion · [50 mins] Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager · packet pp.35–76
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
4c
Facilities Update/Municipal Decarbonization Resolution (A) [35 mins]
David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.77–99
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
6a
Updated Board Workplan
packet pp.101–104
Staff report:
additional offerings under the Community Energy Efficient Program grant;
0:18 started yeah I
0:22 was all right so we are
0:25 recording all right well welcome to the
0:28 August 9th Community BAS environmental
0:30 board I'm Jamie Finch and I'll be your
0:31 chair tonight uh due to the hybrid
0:33 nature of this meeting we will have some
0:35 members attending in person and others
0:37 by computer or phone for those attending
0:39 remotely please state your name before
0:42 speaking um mute your microphone when
0:44 you are not um and if you have a desire
0:48 to speak please raise your hand which I
0:50 think is the right teams function um and
0:54 we'll do our best if you're not getting
0:56 called on just unmute and interrupt us
0:59 because that can happen um everyone that
1:02 is in person as we always do please uh
1:04 flip your card to the name card to the
1:08 side if you would like to
1:10 speak um and then for any key topics
1:14 we'll try to summarize agreement and the
1:17 topic so I think from there Stacy if you
1:19 could take us through attendance that'd
1:20 be great uh Tommy Anderson here Nancy
1:24 Davidson here Jamie Finch
1:27 here got B
1:31 here Jo Lewis has an excused absence
1:35 Ashan
1:36 Canan
1:38 here Ashwin Mona
1:42 Haron Don mcams here and
1:47 nuk Janet wall here uh Dixie bear will
1:52 be late or she depending on her timing
1:55 uh may not show
1:57 tonight um and then Alex Lee tigner
2:01 here we
2:04 have right um next up we have the
2:07 approval of the minutes do we have any
2:10 comments from the board on on the
2:13 minutes in the
2:16 packet hearing none those are approved
2:19 as presented um next up we have public
2:23 comment do we have
2:25 anyone we do not have any members of the
2:28 public um and then we did receive
2:31 comments via email from Connie Marsh
2:33 about a week
2:35 ago well I think then um since we don't
2:38 have anyone attending from the public we
2:39 can move past public comments into our
2:42 agenda items with the first one being
2:45 Communications overview and public
2:47 engagement
2:49 toolkit
2:58 wonderful
3:02 introduce yourself
3:04 very well as Stacy pulls that up it's a
3:06 pleasure to being all of you my name is
3:08 Thomas rush I am the communications
3:09 manager for the city um Stacy asked me
3:13 to potentially show up for one of these
3:15 to let you know more about what the
3:16 communications team does highlight some
3:18 of the things that we've recently
3:20 accomplished and be sure to answer any
3:22 and all of your questions so happy to do
3:24 that questions as you go or questions at
3:27 theend whatever the group is more
3:28 comfortable with I'm happy to take them
3:29 on the fly if that's better for you
3:32 sounds good okay looks like we're ready
3:35 uh the two big things I was hoping to
3:37 cover today is just give you a broad
3:39 overview of what the communications team
3:41 entails kind of our responsibilities and
3:44 um highlight some of the tasks that
3:46 we're responsible for and then second is
3:49 we recently uh redid our public
3:52 engagement toolkit uh and I kind of want
3:54 to walk you through what that is used
3:56 for and um just hear if you have any
3:59 feedback for
4:01 us so number one all right so what do we
4:04 do ideally we create a very engaged
4:06 community and having people uh feel like
4:10 they understand what the city is
4:12 accomplishing and how they can stay
4:15 engaged on those topics is really what
4:17 drives our overall goals um the mission
4:20 is much longer but it basically boils
4:22 down to your customers residents
4:25 businesses everyone feels like what they
4:27 need to get from the city in terms
4:29 communication is done effectively by our
4:34 team uh it's a small team our team has
4:36 only three people uh we have a few other
4:39 um staff who assist on things but it's
4:40 really myself the communications manager
4:42 have a Communications coordinator who
4:44 helps with our websites and there task
4:46 outline and then we have a media
4:47 production specialist who helps with all
4:49 of our videography needs helps make sure
4:52 we meet all our goals in terms of
4:54 capturing video for boards commissions
4:56 to the councils those kind of things so
4:58 a mighty team of three
5:02 uh if you're curious how the
5:03 communications division kind of fits in
5:04 the overall City structure uh we report
5:08 to the administra of services department
5:09 director uh one of the mer many internal
5:12 Services that's how it's kind of viewed
5:14 along with facilities and
5:16 it um who am I forgetting right now mer
5:20 thank you f Fleet as well thank you
5:23 could have staff here to back me up so I
5:25 don't forget anyone and get in trouble
5:27 um some of our roles so we're wholly
5:29 responsible for the city's website or
5:31 manage every single page all the content
5:33 that's on it um we handle all the city's
5:35 social media channels so every single
5:37 one of our I think 10 different
5:39 platforms right now um neighborhood
5:42 engagement is also handled through our
5:43 things so anytime we want to set up any
5:45 meetings localized to um smaller areas
5:48 like neighborhoods or even you know
5:50 micro divisions within those
5:51 neighborhoods we set those kind of
5:52 things
5:53 up we sit on nearly every Capital
5:56 project to provide that perspective and
5:58 consult from uh public engagement
6:01 perspective to make sure project
6:03 managers feel like they have all the
6:04 tools they need to make sure residents
6:07 are aware of the upcoming work and how
6:09 best to how to manage that and finally
6:12 um as I alluded to the uh our video
6:15 specialist make sure all of our meetings
6:17 are
6:18 covered so when you talk about project
6:21 Outreach sorry I'm Nancy Davidson by the
6:23 way um are you talking about things like
6:26 I know we're doing a comp plan update we
6:29 did
6:30 Title 18 recently so were you involved
6:32 in all those Outreach with the community
6:34 as well absolutely so uh for Title 18
6:37 team is good example um all of the
6:40 structure done with that is um organized
6:43 through our public engagement toolkit
6:44 which is one of the tools we provide
6:46 project managers but that lets us talk
6:48 through what makes sense for when to
6:50 engage with the public to make sure we
6:51 get feedback at the right time from
6:53 residents and they feel like their
6:54 voices are heard um another project that
6:56 finished this year that had a lot of
6:58 easy to identify examples is BlackBerry
7:00 park over in South Lake samamish making
7:03 sure we set up the right meetings to um
7:05 get public input to set up surveys to
7:08 hear any feedback on the designs all of
7:10 that is kind of done with our um
7:12 Consulting on those projects I ask you
7:14 one more question so last meeting though
7:17 I was not here there was a presentation
7:19 about the sewer comprehensive plan and
7:21 in it there's a conversation about
7:24 dealing with septic tanks in the
7:25 community are you involved in that
7:27 because that seems to me like huge neor
7:29 neighorhood issue yeah I know that that
7:32 topic in particular has a few
7:33 neighborhoods that are uh very invested
7:36 in learning more about what's coming
7:37 from that um that topic has not come up
7:40 to me recently we talked about it in the
7:42 past a little bit I know it's upcoming
7:44 again um I'll be sure to reach out to
7:46 the project managers as they need to
7:47 start developing those strategies but
7:49 hasn't come to my desk recently thank
7:52 you any other questions yes uh Tom
7:56 Anderson here how about content for like
7:58 the the new newsletter is that all on
8:00 your shoulders or does that different
8:03 departments feed content to you for
8:05 simulation in the newsletter and also
8:08 Project Specific uh content how does all
8:11 that FL sure so we handle uh building
8:14 app the newsletters obviously the topics
8:16 within them we rely on the subject
8:17 matter experts around the city so if a
8:20 Project's coming up with a survey or
8:21 something like that that we need to make
8:23 sure we help with Outreach on make sure
8:25 the project managers are helping to kind
8:27 of build out that content but in terms
8:29 of building it all together and
8:30 aggregating it for the newsletters that
8:32 does land on Communications and
8:36 shoulders all righty uh I
8:41 think so I outlined the website um as I
8:44 alluded every single page on it is uh
8:48 managed by the communications team uh
8:50 last year alone we had two and a half
8:52 million page visit so it is quite a
8:55 comprehensive site well used by the
8:57 community um the Communications team
9:00 likes to think of it as the Nexus for
9:01 everything we do so social media helps
9:03 us you know start dialogues that inform
9:06 people but everything kind of brings
9:07 itself back to the website um as part of
9:11 that you get a sneak peek we're actually
9:13 looking to do a redesign somehow it's
9:15 been five years since we've updated this
9:17 website for me personally since I
9:18 handled the redesign last time it does
9:20 not feel like five years has passed but
9:23 uh that is coming up towards the end of
9:25 2023 early 2024 we'll look at
9:27 redesigning a little bit the sub matter
9:29 won't change too much but it'll have a
9:30 different looking feel to it so
9:32 something to look forward
9:35 to um are you thinking of moving to a
9:38 different platform to support it or
9:40 what's what's what's what are you using
9:42 right now and what are you thinking of
9:43 moving to sure we use a solution by a
9:46 company called Civic plus they are one
9:48 of the larger municipality uh companies
9:52 along with granicus who tend to house a
9:54 lot of the uh municipality websites um
9:58 we're pretty excited about what we can
10:00 do with that platform but it is always
10:02 good to kind of reinvigorate the the way
10:04 the website looks and feels to keep
10:07 people invested so we can test out some
10:08 other things they have new tools that
10:10 they've developed since the last time
10:11 we've redesigned and we kind of want to
10:13 take advantage of some of those new
10:15 elements to write a better and a product
10:17 for
10:23 residence I alluded to social media a
10:25 little bit um it's really one of our
10:27 best ways to engage with res
10:30 um in comparison to a lot of our
10:33 regional neighbors we have a highly
10:36 motivated and highly uh attached
10:38 audience which is it's a great thing
10:40 it's good to see that many of the
10:42 residents following our accounts it
10:43 helps us provide information and also
10:46 get feedback so we're really excited by
10:48 the fact that um it has been very useful
10:51 for creating mean meaningful discussion
10:53 with residents uh lets us also make sure
10:56 everyone stays aware of events and
10:57 things like that um um a great example
11:00 is our concerts in the green series we
11:01 try and get all those on the calendar
11:03 and um I think anyone who showed up last
11:05 Tuesday for um the abig graphs we'll see
11:09 it's it's a well-loved feature and we're
11:11 glad to see that people follow us enough
11:13 to use those elements to stay informed
11:15 on other things um social media can feel
11:19 like it's a one-way street but we really
11:21 want to make sure it feels like a
11:22 dialogue between the cityan community so
11:24 to that end we kind of tailor the
11:26 content across the different platforms
11:28 you see there
11:29 um YouTube obviously houses a lot of our
11:32 required videos um but between Facebook
11:35 Twitter and Instagram we all see
11:36 different audiences there and so we
11:38 tailor the content appropriately um next
11:41 door actually is the most unique uh I
11:43 think some of our communities around us
11:45 wish we had such an Engaged audience
11:47 it's something like 75% of households
11:49 have a next door presence in this AA so
11:51 uh super useful for pushing out
11:52 important information as well as
11:53 emergency information um yeah either way
11:56 I think social media use of the city
11:58 we're doing a great job with it but also
12:00 that's only possible because so much of
12:02 community is also invested and finding
12:03 out things from us that
12:06 way yeah uh Police Twitter why why have
12:10 they specifically decided Twitter is the
12:13 the Preferred channel for their Vital
12:17 Information what up of that yeah um they
12:21 chose Twitter based on the fact that uh
12:24 at the time we chose it which I think
12:26 there's a lot to say from the last eight
12:29 months with that platform uh it was the
12:31 easiest one to be able to identify
12:34 important time frames to get information
12:35 out and for the most people they view
12:38 information in a chronological fashion
12:40 other platforms like Facebook you don't
12:42 have that ability to easily get
12:43 information out and be sure it'll be
12:45 seen by your subscribers in the relevant
12:48 time frame sometimes it can be days
12:50 before you see a post depending on how
12:51 well it's um use so that was the idea
12:54 behind using Twitter for that platform
12:56 they also do now have a Facebook page
12:58 not using for emergency information but
13:01 uh for highlighting events like National
13:02 app that just happened you posting
13:04 photos of that and keeping you informed
13:06 on um other things like their their blot
13:08 usage that's kind of what they do uh
13:10 Facebook's platforms for but I think
13:13 we'll likely be looking at um how well
13:16 Twitter functions in that capacity uh I
13:18 think a lot of municipalities are trying
13:20 to keep up and make sure that stays best
13:23 source of being information in that
13:27 direction
13:31 all righty as Tom already alluded to
13:32 newsletters is another thing we do uh
13:35 there's a few of them now i' only
13:36 highlight two on here The isqua Insider
13:39 is our Weekly Newsletter usually goes
13:40 out on Fridays more usually
13:42 forward-looking highlighting events that
13:44 are coming up or um important
13:47 information for the community then we
13:48 have mayor Paulie's more periodic
13:50 newsletter where she um highlights
13:53 topics that she finds of Greater
13:54 importance to be sure to share with the
13:57 public we help organize that that and
13:59 then two not pictured here that are
14:01 relatively new is the park bench so
14:03 that's where our Parkson Community
14:04 Services Department goes as a my of
14:07 magude mostly around Parks information
14:09 so uh registration dates Camp
14:12 information those kind of things is the
14:14 type of topics covered there and I think
14:16 we're getting ready for issue number two
14:19 of green isquat so that is devoted
14:21 purely to um our Green isquat Team which
14:24 is our park rangers uh for supervisor um
14:28 information there usually tied to
14:31 Restoration events and things like that
14:33 but just another way to kind of build in
14:34 that content those two are very topic
14:41 specific next up um I mentioned all of
14:44 the various videos that we kind of have
14:46 to cover uh the city's YouTube channel
14:48 and tying into
14:49 ictv so this is another platform we has
14:53 a lot all the required elements like
14:55 boards commission stuff and city council
14:57 things but also any time the city does
14:59 any kind of work that is video related
15:01 it ends up on this platform too so
15:02 another great place for people
15:04 interested in keeping up what the city
15:05 is doing is subscribing to our YouTube
15:07 channel uh one of the elements to that
15:10 are the various podcasts that we do I'm
15:13 not sure if everyone's familiar with
15:14 them all uh the two big ones are Isa
15:17 Buzz which is done between um a couple
15:21 staff members really focuses on economic
15:23 development and kind of business rumors
15:25 we we heard years ago that uh people
15:28 really since the loss of the regional
15:30 paper it's hard to keep up on all the
15:32 kind of changing businesses in town and
15:34 this was a fun and unique way to
15:36 highlight rumors that are happening
15:38 around town and uh give people
15:39 perspective on things as well as invite
15:42 local guests on to kind of talk about
15:43 their businesses so we've highlighted a
15:45 number of local ones I think my favorite
15:47 one might have been the chocolate one we
15:48 did about three or four months ago with
15:50 um a fortunado just heing the back story
15:53 there so it's a great channel to hear
15:54 things the other one is uniquely isqua
15:57 that one is hosted by the mayor uh she
16:00 again likes to have a moment to
16:02 interview and talk with um either local
16:05 businesses or uh just residents who
16:08 either have a great story to tell or
16:11 things like that so both great channels
16:14 that kind of highlight unique content in
16:16 the
16:20 city next up is neighborhood engagement
16:22 so this uh platform has changed a little
16:25 bit over the years before the pandemic
16:27 we had a neighborhood engagement
16:28 coordinator
16:29 who was really focused on being that
16:31 conduit for all the neighborhoods to
16:32 really hear what they need to do uh we
16:34 had some different staff changes during
16:36 the pandemic and really now neighborhood
16:38 engagement falls on the communic team as
16:40 a whole uh how we look to handle that is
16:43 be that voice be that um Avenue for them
16:47 to hear any concerns they have but also
16:49 to open up more neighborhood type
16:51 meetings so uh between having Council
16:54 listening sessions that kind of revolve
16:56 around town to each neighborhood and to
16:58 uh attending HOA meetings those kind of
17:00 things uh we really want to make sure we
17:03 provide that opportunity for
17:05 neighborhoods to feel like they're heard
17:07 and understand what concerns they have
17:09 on a very localized level not
17:10 necessarily just a Citywide
17:12 perspective um that has been super
17:15 successful in the past but obviously
17:16 during the pandemic uh when they shifted
17:18 to mostly hybrid and fully remote
17:20 settings those a little tougher to keep
17:22 up and it's a goal of enging this team
17:23 to really revisit those in 2023 to bring
17:26 them back in person and and make sure
17:28 sure that that conduit is there
17:31 again yeah question do those include the
17:34 neighborhood meetings that like for a
17:36 given Pro like we we in our national or
17:40 our natural environment checklist those
17:42 will often be associated with a
17:43 neighborhood meeting associated with a
17:45 project is that the type of meeting here
17:47 that we they can have some overlap I
17:49 think uh for the most part when we look
17:51 at neighborhood engagement here we're
17:52 trying to find those points when you
17:54 know if we haven't heard from a
17:55 particular neighborhood on a topic in a
17:57 while and wanted see if there are any
17:59 concerns we'll set up one outside of
18:00 that but if there are other neighborhood
18:02 meetings that are required as part of
18:04 project um elements sometimes there's
18:05 some overlap that find them too so and
18:08 is it is it your your team though that
18:10 would coordinate those neighborhood
18:11 meetings that are required the required
18:13 ones are usually done to the project
18:14 manager so if there's an environmental
18:17 uh impact things like that that require
18:18 a neighborhood Meeting those are usually
18:20 through Comm Planning and Development we
18:22 can assist with making sure a location
18:24 is chosen that's really accessible for
18:25 everyone but they're the subject matter
18:27 experts on those isues I wouldn't want
18:28 to step on any toes saying something
18:30 about the environment uh you know
18:32 requirements for forting that I have no
18:34 idea about yeah the one thing I'd be
18:36 curious about is is there there all the
18:38 best practices that are being applied
18:40 for the engagement style neighborhood
18:42 meetings or like non-required ones are
18:44 those being transferred over into how
18:46 the Outreach for the required meetings
18:48 are being basically messaged to the
18:50 community yeah that's a great question I
18:52 I can definitely check with media
18:54 Planning Development to see if they've
18:56 uh if the format for those meetings is
19:00 is rigid in terms of what they have to
19:01 do or there some worries that we can
19:03 encourage just from our experience with
19:05 hosting the other style that may elicit
19:07 better conversation yeah and I mean less
19:09 the like format for the meetings itself
19:11 but more so the messaging and like
19:13 basically visibility to the community
19:16 like
19:16 basic how you get people in so what
19:20 happens at the meeting itself I hear
19:22 what you're saying yeah I think that's
19:23 another we can look at I know there are
19:25 requirements So within a certain of feet
19:27 those people are for sure get Outreach
19:28 done to them but that doesn't mean
19:30 that's the only people affected by any
19:31 of those decisions so we can talk to
19:33 them and see if there's um some
19:35 methodologies we can improve on for
19:37 hours no that's great thank you so if
19:40 you know a topic that really needs some
19:42 neighborhood engagement how do people
19:44 reach out to you sure great question um
19:48 we hope we're accessible by a lot of
19:50 different venues for people but that
19:51 doesn't necessarily mean they're always
19:52 tied in the same uh we can easily be
19:55 reached out to by social media by we
19:58 have group email addresses for
19:59 communications at is w.gov uh we try and
20:02 touch base with a lot of the HOAs in the
20:04 area too to be sure if they're hearing
20:06 anything we can get Word of Mouth back
20:08 to us to make sure um and obviously if
20:11 uh those issues want to be raised to
20:13 city council they would then direct them
20:15 to us to make sure to reach out to those
20:16 groups so uh I think there's a a lot of
20:19 ways can be done if there are other
20:20 methods that you potentially are
20:22 debating wondering if you're kind of
20:24 leading towards something well there
20:26 there's a strong neighborhood set right
20:28 now going on and that's why I'm asking
20:30 the question in my neighborhood sure
20:32 especially the school starting and the
20:33 traffic in old and forgive me which
20:36 neighborhood would that be Oldtown
20:37 Oldtown okay High School traffic again
20:40 it's all right that time yeah here it
20:42 comes and the whole my street gets
20:45 really upset about it so um we don't
20:48 feel I don't even so at some point it
20:51 would be nice to get people together
20:53 yeah a lot of new
20:55 people that's always a good time too if
20:57 there's change over over the
20:58 neighborhood and they don't have the
20:59 same information we make sure hear those
21:01 voices so yeah uh we'll uh look into
21:04 that and N I think we'll figure out a
21:06 good location for potentially talking
21:08 about that topic making sure we have the
21:10 right people in place right I it's one
21:11 thing to have myself uh there but if
21:14 we're talking traffic and and just
21:16 overall congestion it's good to have the
21:18 engineers from public works also there
21:20 to answer those
21:22 questions great
21:26 question all right uh this is the second
21:29 part of a thing is there anything else
21:31 anyone's curious about just from
21:32 Communications in general from the
21:35 city can you share a little bit about
21:38 the plan like you alluded to it a bit
21:41 but um not so much the changes that
21:44 happen as a result of Co but any of the
21:47 like what's how things are going to be
21:48 phased back in in terms of inperson
21:50 versus um remote and how you're thinking
21:53 about hybrid some of these events yeah
21:56 so the cre team feels that now in 2023
22:00 we want to make inperson meetings the
22:03 standard and there are topics or there
22:05 are groups that it makes sense to
22:07 consider more variables and make sure
22:09 that there's a lower barrier to entry
22:11 but I think for the most part we're
22:13 advocating when we meet with project
22:14 managers to host inperson meetings to
22:16 really make sure the community can see
22:18 people face to face to fail know kind of
22:21 formulate those questions as best as
22:23 possible um that is the standard we're
22:25 going with but obviously like I said
22:27 there's sometimes different groups that
22:28 make sense to make sure we apply that
22:30 hybrid setting so we can be sure to hear
22:32 from as many community members as
22:34 possible yeah have you thought of giving
22:36 the communities a choice in terms of
22:39 whether they meet in person or virtually
22:41 or have yeah so we do often reach out I
22:45 think it depends on the audience
22:47 sometimes we're talking uh physical in
22:50 terms of demographics like either it's a
22:51 neighborhood itself or we're trying to
22:53 reach out to a specific section of the
22:55 public uh I'm let's say uh I know we
22:58 have some meting to around 88 clients so
23:01 um Dale who's running that project has
23:03 reached out to that Community to really
23:04 be like okay here's the topic in
23:06 question here's a facility that we could
23:08 host it uh the topic of Mind lends
23:10 itself well to making sure it's a hybrid
23:12 setting so people don't feel like they
23:13 need to attend in person especially for
23:14 that topic so uh they do reach out on
23:17 occasion are you thinking more like are
23:18 you physically like neighborhoods and
23:20 things like that offering options and
23:22 then I guess my other question is do you
23:25 meet in the neighborhood or do you have
23:27 them come to you
23:28 it depends on again the topic I think it
23:30 were it's very localized to a a specific
23:34 setting black bar Park's a great example
23:36 um we had meetings in the park itself
23:38 because the neighborhood was really
23:39 focused on learning more about what the
23:42 the next project stages were going to be
23:44 um if the topic is likely to be quite
23:47 interesting to a larger percentage of
23:49 residents we want to make sure we choose
23:50 a location that can house everyone
23:52 comfortably so those tend to be uh City
23:54 locations but that's definitely
23:55 something to consider if if we're a
23:57 determining if this needs to be
23:58 something in the neighborhoods or if we
24:00 need to find a location that needs that
24:02 be housed by everyone and then when you
24:05 have these meetings are you usually
24:06 having them um after traffic iside down
24:11 ideally yes I would say the average
24:12 meetings usually start from five and
24:14 seven um again depending on what the
24:16 audiences are we do consider that part
24:18 of the toolkit is to really look at who
24:20 is your invested audience who's likely
24:23 to want to attend and um are things like
24:27 making sure
24:28 uh the meeting starts at a time that's
24:30 comfortable for those meeting in or
24:32 needing to find Child Care those kind of
24:33 things are considered for
24:35 sure so in tell me way again like that
24:38 you feel it's better um to meet in
24:41 person rather than hybrid or sure virtu
24:45 that's what they want to do yeah if if
24:47 we hear that that's a a preference from
24:50 the the audience who're trying to reach
24:51 out we'd obviously look at making
24:52 Corrections or adjustments to the format
24:56 uh what we heard from residents for most
24:58 of the last 18 months is the preference
25:01 for in-person meetings so that was the
25:03 the reason we we've advocated to bring
25:05 those back to a more standardized
25:09 format cool yeah so whatever is the
25:12 preference for people I guess what I'm
25:14 thinking about is traffic congestion and
25:17 greenhouse gas emissions and our goals
25:23 reduce 50% by 203 or 2035 yeah
25:28 yeah I mean that's that's definitely a
25:29 constraint right yeah and I think we
25:31 missed our 2020 goal so I'm hoping we
25:33 meet our 2030 or
25:35 2030 certainly that's that's definitely
25:37 a constraint I think what we found was
25:40 the the residents felt less heard when
25:43 they were sitting behind a computer
25:45 trying to talk to Residents um not that
25:48 that's you know concern for congestion
25:50 and overall gr gas shouldn't be consider
25:52 I think it's taken as a larger package
25:54 to try and determine it um if if we hear
25:58 otherwise from the community we're
26:00 always actively trying to make sure that
26:01 platform fits best that's kind of where
26:03 we're sitting right now yeah and maybe
26:05 they have a um maybe some of the
26:08 communities have a nice place to
26:10 meet yeah
26:12 think ideally something like that would
26:15 feel uh most approachable uh we had a
26:18 listening session at the atlas
26:19 Apartments really interest in a Lobby
26:21 right there which I think afforded
26:23 residents who perhaps wouldn't come to
26:25 an average city council meeting or come
26:28 all way down the city hall a chance to
26:30 experience uh being able to speak with
26:32 city council members in a different
26:33 atmosphere and um from those who showed
26:35 up they really enjoyed it so I think
26:37 that's something else again finding
26:38 those locations that are more
26:39 approachable to the residents you're
26:40 trying to reach um and lowering the
26:42 barrier as much as possible it's always
26:44 good yeah and I would think that if you
26:46 go to them that you might have a greater
26:48 turnout as well you know if you're right
26:50 in their neighborhood and they just have
26:51 to walk over hopefully it's super
26:53 convenient couple
26:55 blocks yeah exactly
26:58 any other questions before we switch
26:59 over to the to Kit sure uh yeah so I
27:03 I dug out an old this La Insider
27:07 newsletter a couple of years ago and
27:09 tried to follow the links to the content
27:12 and the links were
27:14 broken so disappointing know what um do
27:18 you have a solution for that problem
27:20 yeah I I think I remember this this
27:22 conversation um I brought this up
27:25 before no it's it's it's certainly one
27:28 that um from an archival perspective
27:31 isn't suited to the way we currently
27:33 handle the newsletter so topics within
27:36 our our website are relevant for certain
27:39 periods of time we feel uh we don't need
27:41 to keep every single news item that
27:43 comes out because that causes a lot of
27:45 bloat in terms of the size of the
27:46 website we have to maintain so if we
27:48 have a survey open for three or four
27:51 weeks we'll be sure to um have that news
27:53 item open that entire time frame and a
27:55 little bit beyond it so people can find
27:56 it still but uh
27:58 12 months or 18 months later that link
28:00 would no longer work um there's not
28:02 really an easy solution based off the
28:03 way we currently build out the
28:05 newsletters using the software we do to
28:07 kind of alleviate that but that's also
28:10 because the material you're looking for
28:12 doesn't really exist we we don't treat
28:14 the website as an archive for long-term
28:16 purposes um our city clerks do with
28:19 their their end to the website
28:20 everything required by um uh policies
28:25 and things like that are stored for long
28:26 term so you can find them time but uh
28:28 smaller news items and things like that
28:30 are are time sensitive so they kind of
28:32 disappear so we don't really have a way
28:33 to address that
28:35 unfortunately well um my opinion is that
28:38 just as you have a duty to communicate
28:41 and engage with the public as a and the
28:44 city is doing a commendable job doing
28:46 that there is also duty to capture the
28:48 history of what's going on in our Bela
28:51 little town and especially in the
28:53 context of the demise of local
28:56 journalism and squat press going away
28:59 Etc well what is capturing the history
29:02 of the Town um most newsletters now all
29:06 the nonprofits and the governmental
29:08 entities are following the same sort of
29:10 pattern there's an email with links to
29:12 content somewhere else which is
29:14 transient and so we're we're we're
29:17 reporting real time very well but we're
29:21 capturing nothing for history and U so I
29:26 I think I think the city should evaluate
29:29 that and put some effort into solving
29:32 that problem and and uh actually it may
29:35 be something to bring up with your
29:38 platform provider Civic Civic Plus or
29:42 what it was um because this is not a
29:45 problem just with this it is a problem
29:47 everywhere this is the common way
29:50 communication is occurring and uh many
29:54 entities governmental agencies and
29:56 otherwise have this problem of
29:58 generating newsletters which are lost
30:01 and wouldn't that be great if you could
30:03 push a button to fetch all that content
30:06 and generate it into a PDF that can be
30:08 then stuck somewhere and is an archival
30:12 thing which doesn't depend upon the ls
30:14 to places with that no longer exist yeah
30:18 so will you take that action item I will
30:20 absolutely take a back and look at it
30:22 and see if there's some solutions to
30:24 potentially Implement to kind of capture
30:25 that data I would like to just say that
30:29 Tom has done an excellent job capturing
30:32 the history of the S TRS Club um yeah so
30:37 because we all we had physical
30:39 newsletters and now we have digital
30:42 newsletters and um he's AR he archives
30:45 everything now so you just click on the
30:47 archive and you can go to whatever Mir
30:49 you want all the way back
30:51 to yeah well thank you an so yeah I have
30:56 solved that problem for is's Trails Club
30:59 but not without some pain it takes me
31:01 about an hour each time and I have some
31:04 two strips that I've built up to help
31:06 pull all those pieces together and grab
31:09 the HTML and then I merge it all into
31:11 word and fix things up and generate a
31:13 PDF done sometimes it only is a half an
31:16 hour but I mean you know it's work and
31:19 it's work that could be streamlined and
31:22 automated through more powerful
31:24 scripting uh tools and hey the the
31:29 website platform company Civic they
31:32 should they should solve this because
31:34 then many could benefit from such a
31:36 wonderful toour but I think it's it's
31:39 worth the effort to do something about
31:42 it even if it's not perfect it might be
31:45 good enough to capture something not a
31:49 form that would really be suitable for
31:51 publication but might be suitable for
31:54 archival purposes at least we captured
31:57 the content in a way that can be
31:59 referenced in the future and the city
32:02 recognizes uh the duty to maintain the
32:06 history of the of the community by
32:08 supporting Isco History
32:10 Museum and
32:13 they they don't have the resources to
32:16 solve this problem for all the
32:18 generators of content throughout the
32:20 city either but um that's that's kind of
32:24 ties in with the recognized
32:27 responsibility of City towards
32:29 maintaining the culture and history of
32:33 the
32:33 Town unod yeah we will definitely look
32:36 into it and see if there's some
32:37 solutions that we can either advocate
32:39 for or perhaps
32:41 Implement thank you absolutely love
32:45 it Al righty uh second part of today and
32:48 I know I'm already going along I
32:50 apologize Stacy uh is I will briefly
32:53 talk about the public engagement toolkit
32:55 review that we've recently updated
32:57 um this is feel free to advance the
33:00 slide uh the toolkit is an internal tool
33:02 so like I said we use it to work with
33:05 project managers as they uh start to
33:07 plan out what their projects look like
33:10 um it highlights tools and and previous
33:12 experiences that the communications team
33:15 has pulled together to highlight um ways
33:18 to get the project done most effectively
33:20 and making sure we capture public
33:22 Outreach when it's most pressing and
33:24 most important to both the project
33:26 managers and the community inv involved
33:29 so um at the highest level it's a guide
33:32 we uh be sure to um highlight the tools
33:35 that are possible but it's been refined
33:37 year over-ear to make sure what we see
33:39 that's successful is implemented as a
33:41 best practice moving
33:43 forward I believe there was a a version
33:45 of the toolkit in the attachment so feel
33:47 free to browse around um I pulled in a
33:50 couple example worksheets here that that
33:52 highlight what we're doing that's the
33:54 biggest change we had this time the
33:55 previous version read more more like a
33:57 resource document so project managers
33:59 could pull it off the shelf kind of
34:00 revisit it a little bit but what we did
34:02 now is turn it into worksheet so they
34:04 can take it off multiple times as they
34:06 get to different phases in their
34:07 projects fill it out as needed and then
34:10 work with Communications to devise a
34:12 strategy U as you can see on one of
34:14 these like here um there's lots of areas
34:16 to fill in lots of links to various
34:18 projects Communications team is planning
34:21 to actively keep this up to date for
34:23 project managers so as we hear and see
34:26 projects that are good representations
34:27 of different levels uh we can update
34:30 those areas as well Don question yeah
34:33 thank you Don CL um so this is a pretty
34:35 robust um toolkit here it's very well
34:38 done thank you is this mandatory on all
34:41 of all the big CIP projects is it is it
34:44 widely used is it accepted yes it is it
34:47 is absolutely required uh so it helps us
34:50 U make sure because every project would
34:52 come to Communications as I led to
34:53 earlier we help make sure the uh project
34:55 Outreach is done effectively
34:57 but to understand the parameters uh I'm
35:00 not an engineer so I need them to
35:02 provide me what's happening and this is
35:04 a great document for them to fill out as
35:06 they're looking through all the details
35:07 and bringing it to us to help us
35:09 understand what the constraints
35:13 are
35:15 um so I I uh enjoy the communication
35:19 from the city and the newsletter going
35:21 in Choosing My subscriptions and then
35:24 there's another page where you can say
35:26 I'm interested in the following things
35:28 news about particular neighborhood Etc
35:31 where I've been a little bit frustrated
35:32 is I might there might be a specific
35:34 project that I'm anticipate for example
35:37 the the uh Spar The Pump Station Spar
35:42 thing I I maybe I just didn't check the
35:44 right boxes or whatever uh so I I would
35:48 like to see a little more clarity to
35:51 Project Specific Communications and so
35:54 like on the page uh that as tools used
35:58 you know project status report delivered
36:01 to interested parties via email sort of
36:04 thing so uh I would like to be able to
36:07 say yeah I'm specifically interested in
36:09 in updates uh for specific
36:12 projects and and I don't know it's my
36:16 perception that U most projects don't
36:19 get regular updates and doesn't have the
36:23 resources to do this every day or every
36:25 week or something but um the East Lake
36:28 samamish uh Trail uh which is under the
36:32 jurisdiction of King County I I'll point
36:34 to that as an example they do a weekly
36:37 status report and I'm have subscribed to
36:40 that and I enjoy getting it and you know
36:42 it's a trail that I'm very interested in
36:44 as soon as it's ready I want to go take
36:46 a ride on it and all that so you know I
36:48 don't look at every one of them but I
36:49 enjoy getting it I I would be content
36:51 with monthly or something any I offer
36:54 that as an example of the kind of
36:55 Engagement that I
36:57 like to get for projects that I'm
36:59 interested in the city i' I say yes I do
37:02 want status reports regularly and I
37:04 wonder know what's going on with that
37:06 and be able to have Clarity that I have
37:08 selected that and then receive it by
37:12 email so that's just a suggestion I have
37:14 on that thank you that's a great one uh
37:17 it's not you're not the first person to
37:18 bring it up I think we've uh toyed with
37:20 the idea of building out lists per
37:22 project uh usually the problem stems
37:25 from what to do once the project
37:26 finishes this audience that they're
37:28 invested in um let's use a spar project
37:31 as a great example there might be other
37:32 things that they're uh actively
37:34 interested in but based off spam WS we
37:37 can't actually use that list anymore
37:39 once we've finished the project so it
37:41 wouldn't be able like to say we finished
37:43 a spar project if we had a different
37:46 Trail project that we think there'd be a
37:47 lot of overlap we couldn't then reach
37:49 out to that group uh with that same list
37:52 the compromise then was to try to build
37:54 them out by category so if you're really
37:55 interested in parks and Community
37:57 Services type things so that's what
37:59 trails would kind of fall under
38:00 everything in Parks we could then push
38:02 out to that list as well so there's kind
38:03 of a continuation on topics um but I
38:06 think it's a great idea I think it's not
38:08 not the first time we've heard it
38:09 something it's more Project Specific um
38:11 we can look into some options that might
38:13 be able to it wouldn't be a continuation
38:16 but at least you would feel like you
38:17 were informed on that project before it
38:19 ended great thank you some of the other
38:22 larger cities and you guys probably have
38:24 the resources but they'll develop web
38:25 page for every project then you can
38:27 click on it and add your name for that
38:30 project yeah that secondary feature once
38:32 it's already on the website uh it's one
38:34 of the other ones that we've looked at
38:35 again I think that we come back to the
38:37 idea that it's once the Project's over
38:39 how do we keep it informed with that
38:40 audience if we technically can't anymore
38:42 because of spam law but again it's
38:43 something we can look into see if
38:44 there's a way around that close the list
38:48 yeah all righty um so I didn't put all
38:52 the pages on here that was in the
38:54 attachment if you feel free to look
38:55 through if there's anything in
38:56 particular you have any feedback on or
38:59 interest in I'm happy to answer those
39:00 questions but these were the bigger ones
39:03 as I alluded to the usefulness has been
39:05 changed from a um more of a resource to
39:08 a guiding document the worksheets make
39:10 that a little bit easier we took the
39:12 toolkit to the equity board before it
39:15 was finalized to make sure they had a
39:17 chance to review the equity improvements
39:20 that we've made and and get feedback
39:22 from them and then uh the identification
39:25 of additional tools that were not in the
39:27 previous version of toolkit so we've
39:28 updated those as
39:32 well uh and we've had a robust con I'll
39:35 happily take any more questions should
39:36 that be
39:42 here so on on the last page I think it
39:47 was report and evaluate and there's a
39:49 box about what did I learn that will
39:52 inform something so that's that's I was
39:55 happy to see that box so it's kind of a
39:57 Lessons Learned step in the process well
39:59 what went right what went wrong how are
40:02 we going to address that moving forward
40:04 I guess I I wanted to suggest
40:08 maybe uh adding some more words there
40:11 about included in that would be looking
40:14 for systemic weaknesses in the process
40:18 what what things didn't work well in
40:20 terms of the pro oh the reason why we
40:22 didn't think about that is because
40:23 there's a there's a process failure over
40:26 here in this particular in public works
40:28 blah blah blah or whatever so I just
40:31 reminding the reviewer that okay let's
40:34 look for systemic process in our
40:36 internal
40:38 processes instead of weaknesses in our
40:40 internal processes a refinement
40:44 to sure yeah I think that's a great
40:47 idea any other
40:53 questions thank you for your time um sor
40:56 sorry Stacy for running so well
40:58 okay all right all right we are about 15
41:02 minutes over just not that we have to
41:05 rush through everything else but just
41:06 for everyone's awareness that's where we
41:07 are um I think that was because of our
41:10 questions not because of the
41:11 presentation so apologize lots of
41:14 questions are not a bad
41:16 thing yeah uh so next up we have
41:20 comprehensive Plan update um I think
41:23 Stephen probably be taken away from here
41:30 hi good evening everyone can you see my
41:32 screen yes we can okay perfect thank
41:38 you okay good evening um thank you again
41:42 my name is Ste I'm the long-range
41:43 planning manager with Community Planning
41:45 Development and tonight uh the purpose
41:47 of my presentation is to do initial
41:50 review with you of the goals draft goals
41:52 and policies for the new element that's
41:54 going to be going into the comprehensive
41:55 plan
41:57 for tonight we have uh three questions
42:00 for you for Simplicity I'll be asking
42:03 the first question as I'm going through
42:05 the slides with the draft goals and
42:07 policies just so um because I have a lot
42:10 of slides to go through with you tonight
42:12 and then at the very end uh Stacy and I
42:14 will discuss the last two questions with
42:16 you at the very
42:21 end so before I get started I want to
42:23 provide a just a brief reminder about
42:26 what this project
42:31 is as you know the comprehensive plan is
42:34 a required longrange planning document
42:36 uh required from the growth management
42:39 act um which is focusing on kind of that
42:42 20-year time frame for this update we
42:45 have to incorporate changes that comply
42:47 with the state Regional and County
42:49 requirements which address multiple
42:51 different topics and through the
42:53 different elements and then we'll cover
42:55 those as we talk through the different
43:02 elements um all the elements that are on
43:05 station these are
43:06 all we're working on you can see the two
43:10 that are highlighted are two that are
43:13 actually not required by the state that
43:15 we incorporate into a comprehensive plan
43:17 and we are building in a new environment
43:21 based or or specific element that we are
43:25 all discussing tonight
43:28 so the scope of the update for the new
43:30 element will incorporate several
43:32 different goals the first is uh first
43:35 finding compliance for House Bill 1181 I
43:38 think as I mentioned at the last meeting
43:40 we're actually not required to comply
43:43 with this new bill until
43:46 2029 but we actually have a lot of the
43:49 foundational Concepts that are listed on
43:51 the screen that is now required by this
43:54 bill to be incorporated into the
43:55 comprehensive plan plan so we're
43:57 actually looking at how best to
43:59 structure and how we how best we can
44:01 comply with um this bill sooner than
44:05 2029 I think the only thing that we're
44:08 still needing more formal guidance on is
44:11 um the language in the bill that looks
44:13 at multimodal level of service for
44:16 transportation but we are looking to uh
44:19 have discussions around concurrency in
44:21 the coming years which may be addressing
44:23 that uh new requirement from this bill
44:26 Ste we do have a
44:27 question here that's all right yeah
44:31 please just a quick question Nancy
44:33 Davidson um how frequently do you have
44:35 to update the comprehensive
44:37 plan so you the periodic update that's
44:41 required by the state act actually has
44:44 to be done every um it's going to be
44:47 every eight 10 years previously it was
44:50 required every eight years but the
44:51 legislature just changed
44:53 it the city is s actually goes through
44:57 um annual updates which are optional to
44:59 do frequent updates to the comprehensive
45:01 plan but we're we're looking to actually
45:03 do less of that so we can actually focus
45:05 more on the implementation of a lot of
45:07 this long range Vision rather than
45:09 constantly having to go back into the
45:10 conference plant to to update Park goals
45:13 and
45:15 policies are there any I can't see the
45:17 whole room are there any other questions
45:19 we are good okay thank
45:24 you another goal that we're trying to
45:27 achieve with this periodic update is is
45:29 trying to get the comprehensive plan to
45:31 the level that it's it was originally
45:33 intended which is that 20-year document
45:36 that contains the city's long range
45:38 goals and
45:39 policies in the last periodic update and
45:42 every every pre previous update prior to
45:44 it we didn't have as many Boards of
45:46 commissions as well as all the
45:48 functional plans that were created for
45:50 implementing the city's Vision in the
45:52 different topic areas and so now we we
45:55 have all these different implementation
45:58 strategic or action plans built in all
46:00 the different areas we don't need all
46:03 those actions or very specific topics
46:05 identified in the compens pl so we're
46:07 actually doing that review across all
46:09 the elements to take out any of those uh
46:13 very specific policies that are actually
46:15 actions in those implementation plans
46:18 and keeping the conference plan at that
46:19 level of goals and policies and I we had
46:22 a discussion at the uh previous meeting
46:24 talking about kind of that difference
46:26 between goals and policies and and what
46:28 should be in the comprehensive plan and
46:30 what should be going into the functional
46:33 plans or or for this group the um isqua
46:36 climate action plan that focuses more on
46:38 those strategies and actions and uh
46:41 little more uh specific information
46:42 around what should be prioritized for
46:44 those that topic
46:49 area so previously I I met with the
46:52 board on April 12th and at that meeting
46:54 I got feedback on the types of the
46:56 topics and U uh goals and policies that
46:59 need to be carried over into the the new
47:02 uh element that's going to be created
47:04 into the comprehensive plan and then in
47:07 July I met again with the board and got
47:09 more feedback on those topic areas as
47:11 well as with the title that we're going
47:12 to be using for this new element and so
47:15 today I'll be diving a little bit more
47:17 into those specific draft goals and
47:23 policies so now I'm going to start
47:24 diving into those goals and policies one
47:26 thing to note is um what's listed on
47:30 your screen is how the new element is
47:32 proposed to be uh organized so a lot of
47:36 this is carryover or at least influen
47:38 from some of the topic areas from the
47:41 climate action plan and so we thought it
47:43 made sense to actually use a lot of
47:45 those topic areas for the comprehensive
47:49 plan it's also important to note that a
47:51 lot of the draft goals and policies that
47:54 are being proposed tonight are our
47:55 existing goals in the comprehensive plan
47:57 and so most of what we're proposing is
47:59 moving into this new element as well as
48:02 minor updates to some of the older goals
48:04 and policies that weren't updated with
48:07 when the IAP was
48:08 adopted before I start jumping into the
48:12 draft goals and policies are there any
48:15 questions Sten I have one question um
48:19 one main or large element in prage I
48:22 just saw yours come up so we'll go to
48:23 you next um
48:26 uh built environment and kind
48:29 of greenhouse gas as it relates to that
48:32 is that something that we would expect
48:33 to find in the in this section or is
48:35 that going to be in land
48:37 use that's that's actually a great point
48:39 so one one of the other things of
48:42 feedback we got from the April meeting
48:43 was how to define what's going to be
48:45 going in the land use element where a
48:46 lot of this originally was contained and
48:49 what's going to be moved into the
48:50 environment element and one of the the
48:53 the guidance we kind of disc discussed
48:55 at the April meeting was we are going to
48:58 maintain a lot of the policies related
49:01 to the urban environment and buildings
49:04 in the land use element and everything
49:06 specific or at least leaning more
49:08 towards the natural environment and
49:10 greenhouse gases will be moved into the
49:13 new uh the new element and so that's
49:16 kind of the differing Factor so a lot of
49:18 what you may not be seeing tonight is
49:20 actually going to be in the land use
49:21 element uh specific to buildings and
49:24 that Urban environment
49:26 okay thank you and then praj please go
49:30 ahead um hi Stephen uh this is praj and
49:34 I have a question and I apologize if
49:36 this was discussed in the April 12th
49:39 meeting I wasn't there at that time um
49:41 so seems like this is a long-term
49:44 planning you know or long-term vision
49:47 and as you rightly mentioned before
49:50 there are new boards and new commissions
49:52 and you know so the more feedback you
49:54 get the more input you get it seems like
49:57 it's always kind of a moving Target
49:59 right because you will always have input
50:01 or implementations and all so my
50:03 question was how do you you know kind of
50:05 intersect the planning framework with
50:09 actual implementation do you have
50:11 short-term goals to implement that or
50:13 how do you kind of meesh it and you know
50:15 still get the input which is required
50:19 but at the same time keep moving on the
50:21 implementation part of it as
50:24 well
50:26 I'll I'll go it sounded like there was
50:29 two questions there so the First with
50:31 the implementation portion a lot of that
50:34 is going to be captured through the IAP
50:36 and a lot of the action items and what's
50:38 prioritized through the climate action
50:40 plan um and then the metrics portion
50:44 there's metrics defined in the climate
50:47 action plan that are are going to be
50:49 recognized in the comprehensive plan but
50:52 not so specifically that that you know
50:55 one thing you'll find with
50:56 implementation is when you have certain
50:58 metrics that don't really get you the
51:00 information you get you want to actually
51:02 change that and we don't want to provide
51:05 that level of detail in the
51:06 comprehensive plan so so that we're
51:08 constantly having to go back to the
51:09 comprehensive plan to update it but
51:11 maintain that level of detail actually
51:13 in the climate action plan or the
51:15 functional
51:16 plans okay and so this will be basically
51:20 implemented in all projects with the
51:23 city is it that's the final goal or is
51:26 it just for the city of isqua for their
51:30 own development
51:31 purposes it's mainly for the city this
51:35 for this conference plan it's mainly for
51:37 the city is squ but there is
51:38 coordination um Regional coordination
51:41 and local coordination with other
51:42 jurisdictions nearby where we're wanting
51:45 to coordinate on these projects and
51:46 maintain uh a lot of the
51:49 goals okay thank
51:53 you any other questions before I get
51:56 going
51:59 okay so for this new section for
52:02 trees um the first goal we provided some
52:07 minor edits mostly with simplifying what
52:10 the goal is focus on the trees but also
52:13 to remove what we found to be a
52:15 discrepancy because previously we had a
52:16 goal around identifying a 50% tree
52:20 canopy for the city that was actually an
52:22 older goal prior to the development of
52:24 the climate action plan and then with
52:26 the climate action plan we updated it to
52:28 increase it to 55% so we took out the
52:32 50% that was identifyed the goal and we
52:34 mve the 55% tree canopy to this new
52:39 section for the environmental element
52:42 and the
52:43 other policies for this area was uh
52:47 retention of existing trees we Tred to
52:49 simplify the language so it's a little
52:50 more specific of what we were trying to
52:53 get um for with the intent mention of
52:55 the policy and then the other two
52:56 policies were no changes for what's
52:59 being
53:01 proposed um I have one comment on this
53:05 area
53:07 um given that we're below 55 and all of
53:10 our policy in Title 18 for the most part
53:14 was about maintaining existing canopy
53:17 there seems not really a great mechanism
53:19 for us to increase it's it's more about
53:22 retaining to not lose the existing 1 or
53:25 52% that we currently have I think one
53:29 hole that that I I felt there was in
53:32 Title 18 as well as in this plan is a
53:35 clear path to us getting to 55% tree
53:38 canopy um because everything we focus on
53:41 is retaining existing trees and there's
53:44 uh not really clear I know there's some
53:45 like tree funds and there's not really a
53:47 clear mechanism for how we would
53:49 increase so I think this is probably not
53:51 so much feedback for you Stephen because
53:52 I know you're not the one putting
53:54 together our our tree policy but like
53:56 that to me is is a weakness this one
53:59 feels like an unattainable goal because
54:01 we don't have a clear mechanism to get
54:03 to increase canopy um only we have we
54:06 seem to only have policies to retain
54:09 existing
54:10 canopy you know from what I remember
54:12 from the title 18 conversation is yes
54:14 you're correct we we do have policies
54:17 about maintaining the existing canopy
54:20 but when it comes to a lot of the Urban
54:22 Development the development of of newer
54:23 buildings particularly in Central isqua
54:26 it's actually requiring a certain
54:28 percentage of canopy or or green
54:31 coverage um for Central on that new
54:33 development that will actually help
54:35 achieve get to this this goal of 55% but
54:39 uh you know I'll have to talk with our
54:41 environmental staff a little bit more
54:42 about how is there any other policies we
54:45 might be able to consider that might be
54:46 able to push towards this
54:48 goal yeah thank you yeah and just
54:50 thinking I think there's things St I
54:52 could look at incorporating in here like
54:54 the urban forestry
54:56 plan carbon sequestration the park
54:58 strategic plan so we might be able to
55:00 point towards some of the functional
55:02 plans and make sure they then tying back
55:04 to this goal
55:05 so I know with green is while we plant
55:09 tree and you're part of that yeah yeah
55:12 well most of that though is planting
55:13 trees in existing Green Space where you
55:16 are for the most part working on
55:18 retaining or enhancing the kind of cycle
55:21 of that Forest but and there are cases
55:23 you're actually expanding but think
55:25 that's which is great I think yeah agree
55:28 like love that part of the program I'm
55:30 just not sure that that is going to get
55:32 us to the point that we're actually
55:33 increasing the tree canopy by 3% of the
55:36 whole city of isqua like that feels like
55:38 on a very different scale as well but no
55:41 I think Stacy if there's if there's
55:43 things that other elements and Stephen
55:45 as well if there's other elements that
55:47 that I may be missing but that that just
55:49 has always felt like a hole in our in
55:52 our overall plan of how we how we would
55:54 get to
55:57 yeah we could think about some language
55:58 I think we also want to keep within the
56:01 bounds of the comp plan that is trying
56:03 to set these big goals and not identify
56:06 the specific strategies or actions but
56:08 we can point to where those will be
56:11 addressed help us
56:16 Achi any other questions about these
56:23 policies okay continue
56:27 on so for the next section is natural
56:29 system Water Resources um we overall are
56:33 are mostly not proposing to make any
56:36 changes to the goal and and at least the
56:39 last two policies with D4 and D5
56:42 policies we're actually proposing to
56:45 consolidate these into one primarily
56:47 because it it seemed repetitive uh in
56:49 order to keep uh uh D5 when they were
56:53 actually very similar it was very easy
56:55 to to just consolidate the two and
56:57 rather than have them two separate are
57:00 there any questions about these proposed
57:04 changes and I'll just know for folks
57:07 this is attachment a has the red line
57:09 version um of what's on the slide are
57:12 very
57:13 simplified thank you Stacy I forgot to
57:15 mention
57:23 that
57:30 okay not seeing any questions we can we
57:32 can also go come back to this if you do
57:34 see something as we're going through the
57:40 policies so the next section streams
57:42 Whitland
57:43 Wildlife we're overall not proposing
57:46 very many changes it um the biggest I
57:50 would say items that kind of point out
57:53 for this page is that uh the Shoreland
57:55 master program the purchase perks side
57:57 or Creekside Parcels both of those
57:59 policies are under review the Shoreland
58:02 master program is actually called out by
58:04 House Bill 1181 as actually potentially
58:07 adopting as its own element in the
58:08 conference plan so we're hoping to get
58:10 more guidance from the state on what
58:12 that actually means because it is
58:14 codified and
58:15 is also recognized in our comprehensive
58:18 plan so we're not sure if that actually
58:20 fits that compliance for what Bill House
58:23 Bill 1181 is asking for and then for the
58:26 purchase Creek Side Parcels this is
58:28 actually very similar language that's in
58:29 the Parks element so we we're trying to
58:31 see if if it's necessary to have
58:34 duplicative uh policy in this
58:38 element steephen I I did have one it's
58:41 probably more of a comment on this
58:43 section um one thing that's nice about
58:46 the tree canopy and is that it's
58:49 probably easy to measure at scale but
58:52 one piece of feedback on this part is
58:55 like similarly I think we would want to
58:57 maximize the number of wetlands that are
58:59 retained or like stream Corridor or
59:02 streams and and Wildlife corridors I
59:05 just wonder if there's any way that we
59:08 can measure that and and kind of report
59:11 on that at a higher level there may not
59:13 that that might be impossible um but I
59:16 think what's nice about some of these is
59:18 that we have clear kind of goals and and
59:22 overarching goals it's a little bit
59:24 harder on this one to know how we
59:26 measure success against like are we
59:29 doing well or are we not doing well and
59:31 need to for correct on on something like
59:33 this really important
59:36 element and and Stacy and and I can talk
59:40 with our medal staff because I know they
59:42 have certain targets that they look at
59:44 uh for their work but it's not
59:46 necessarily identified in detail in the
59:48 comprehensive
59:50 plan can I see a
59:53 couple hi Stephen and this is Nancy
59:56 Davidson and I'm looking specifically at
59:58 the more detailed one um and I'm looking
1:00:02 at policy E4 where you're talking about
1:00:04 enhancing the repairing borders on
1:00:07 Wetlands but I also think we need to
1:00:09 talk about enhancing the Wetland buffers
1:00:12 not just the wetlands themselves so
1:00:14 we're missing all of that area that we
1:00:16 set aside to protect those wetlands in
1:00:20 um Title 18 some of which is large some
1:00:23 of which is small and I'm hoping that we
1:00:26 can do more that with this to make sure
1:00:28 that we're enhancing and protecting
1:00:31 those buffers along the
1:00:35 way would it help if we address the
1:00:38 buffers in the policy itself yes please
1:00:44 okay that's kind of what my quest was
1:00:48 yeah no that's that sounds great thank
1:00:51 you Stephen Don mcams I'm also looking
1:00:54 at the details um policy
1:00:58 A14 speaks specifically to park
1:01:00 development why wouldn't it be all
1:01:02 development it's for natural drain
1:01:05 drainage
1:01:06 practices why wouldn't it read
1:01:08 incorporate natural drainage practices
1:01:10 into development why is it specific to
1:01:14 Parks you know I can't speak to the
1:01:17 origins of this policy being it was kind
1:01:19 of a an older policy in the land in the
1:01:22 land or yeah in the land use prior to
1:01:25 the adoption of the IAP but it from what
1:01:27 I remember in terms of what it was
1:01:29 intended for was to kind of U complement
1:01:32 some of the policies that are in the
1:01:33 Parks element or the parks open space
1:01:35 element that looked at
1:01:38 um using Park development for new uh
1:01:43 drainage resources for for the
1:01:47 community but you're right in terms of
1:01:49 trying to incorporate in in all
1:01:52 development is probably more
1:01:55 uh suitable for at least this section
1:01:58 something to look at okay thank it's as
1:02:02 goal great
1:02:09 go I think that's all the questions for
1:02:14 okay all right well we we started to
1:02:17 jump into the next page are there any
1:02:18 questions on on these other
1:02:23 policies
1:02:25 okay I'll keep
1:02:27 going so for the next section is
1:02:29 greenhouse gas emissions this is a lot
1:02:31 of this is from the climate action plan
1:02:33 so we're proposing no changes to these
1:02:35 goals and
1:02:41 policies are there any questions on
1:02:46 this I
1:02:50 guess yes I might have a question um
1:02:56 how have we figured out how we're
1:02:58 measuring our greenhouse gases yet and
1:03:03 um do we know where we're at in
1:03:06 comparison to like
1:03:10 2007 yeah so we're um we completed with
1:03:14 uh King County and a number of
1:03:16 surrounding regions the community
1:03:18 greenhouse gas emissions assessment this
1:03:20 last year and then David is in the
1:03:23 middle of our first Municipal operations
1:03:26 greenhouse gas
1:03:27 inventory um so we have the results from
1:03:30 the one that was done in partnership
1:03:32 with K County up on the dashboard and
1:03:35 that's something we'll also be digging
1:03:36 into deep next year when we do our bitp
1:03:38 Point 2024 check in on the IAP and the
1:03:43 the one that we're doing now is also
1:03:44 inclusive of community so it'll split
1:03:47 out between Municipal operations at
1:03:49 Community commissions yes for
1:03:52 2022 very cool
1:03:58 guess my other question might be later
1:04:01 I'll wait was there anything around the
1:04:03 reporting that you want to make sure
1:04:05 it's captured
1:04:10 think that in this long-term plan that
1:04:14 it well it's captured in the IAP so
1:04:18 maybe that's all that
1:04:22 matters we can and I there is a
1:04:24 reporting section we'll get to later so
1:04:27 if there's any gaps that we see there we
1:04:29 can think about it there' be something
1:04:31 appropriate specific to
1:04:34 IAP thank
1:04:37 you uh this is Nancy again Stephen and I
1:04:41 think this also goes to
1:04:43 Stacy um I am concerned that we're not
1:04:46 going to mute our goals by just doing
1:04:48 things with um leading by example and
1:04:52 Outreach we actually have to do do
1:04:54 action um at this point we're not
1:04:57 getting enough voluntary stuff I know
1:04:59 that you have actions Le by example by
1:05:02 implementing actions to reduce from
1:05:04 Municipal operations but we need to do
1:05:06 more to get the community behind this
1:05:08 because so I'm honestly feeling like we
1:05:11 need another policy Stephen and we need
1:05:14 to do something to get action from the
1:05:16 community itself and I don't have words
1:05:18 for it I'm going to ask the subject man
1:05:20 experts to do that but I think we need
1:05:23 to get more action in this from the
1:05:25 community as a whole and not just the
1:05:28 municipality these are goals these are
1:05:31 overarching goals and I think we should
1:05:33 have an overarching goal that says do
1:05:36 something about you know climate as a
1:05:40 community and not just by doing
1:05:42 Municipal
1:05:43 stuff so I'll let you guys brainstorm
1:05:47 that one but I would love to see another
1:05:49 action
1:05:50 oriented goal in here to try and get the
1:05:53 community to do
1:05:55 more yeah that's that's great feedback
1:05:58 that's part of the conversation we
1:05:59 wanted to have are where are the gaps
1:06:01 and then where do we want to take
1:06:03 leadership or Identify some new policies
1:06:05 and goals that would come here come in
1:06:08 into the comp year yeah just while we're
1:06:11 on that topic and this is part of the
1:06:13 reason I was asking the built
1:06:14 environment question earlier because I
1:06:16 do think a lot of what the actions that
1:06:20 that members of the community could take
1:06:22 or that we would want want them to take
1:06:24 have to do with homes and buildings so I
1:06:28 do hope we're not reviewing that part of
1:06:31 the comp plan but it should have
1:06:34 policies and I know there's things in
1:06:36 what's been proposed by Consultants
1:06:37 around some of our mitigation goals um
1:06:42 but yeah it might be worth Stacy if
1:06:44 we're able to get anything that's
1:06:46 related to this from the the land use on
1:06:50 the built environment how the city is
1:06:53 thinking about goals to encourage
1:06:56 homeowners business owners
1:06:59 Etc um to upgrade and retrofit their
1:07:03 their properties and and for new
1:07:06 construction as
1:07:10 well go ahead Ann and then prage we'll
1:07:12 we'll go Ann and then prage and now
1:07:14 looks like
1:07:15 Alex okay thanks guys um so and nuk
1:07:21 here um so the only from my perspective
1:07:24 the only way that we're going to meet
1:07:26 our goals is if our power company pet
1:07:29 San energy meets the goals that are
1:07:32 stated by the clean energy
1:07:33 transformation act and some other laws
1:07:38 so um are we continuing
1:07:41 to follow their progress and um pressure
1:07:47 them is that and I I did notice that
1:07:49 utilities I thought I noticed that
1:07:51 utilities was part of the house bill 81
1:07:54 but maybe I'm I'm wrong I wasn't sure if
1:07:56 that should be on here as well the
1:08:00 utilities because before we all
1:08:02 Electrify we need to get off of pole and
1:08:05 gas and is your
1:08:08 question wanting a status update or are
1:08:10 you wondering if there should be
1:08:12 something in this policy like policy
1:08:15 tracking yeah policy tracking um
1:08:19 our our util our electric company I
1:08:23 think we need to be track them because
1:08:25 if we're not we're not going to reach
1:08:27 goals yeah I can speak to that yeah
1:08:30 there is um within the IAP their
1:08:32 instuctions around that so yes we are
1:08:34 tracking we are working closely with
1:08:36 psse um we've been looking at our
1:08:40 neighboring cities and some proposed
1:08:42 goals and policies in their comp plans
1:08:44 that would speak to um grid resiliency
1:08:48 redundancy um deemphasizing natural gas
1:08:52 so I think it's that's an area that the
1:08:55 board is interested in seeing some
1:08:57 policies and goals that we'll talk about
1:08:59 um as we get into the resilience
1:09:01 component we can bring back some
1:09:04 examples for you all to look at sorry
1:09:07 for getting to detail no this is this is
1:09:09 exactly the conversation to
1:09:12 have go ahead
1:09:17 crage um hi so I just have one question
1:09:22 and one comment so I'll start with the
1:09:23 comment which is in regards to what
1:09:26 Nancy and Jamie mentioned you know about
1:09:29 involving the community so that you can
1:09:32 actually meet the goals uh so one of the
1:09:35 ways and some bigger companies have have
1:09:38 seen been doing this is one of the ways
1:09:40 you can do it or one of the options
1:09:42 would be for City to enforce their goals
1:09:47 or you know basically pass it on to
1:09:49 their contractors vendors anybody they
1:09:52 use any de developers in the city small
1:09:55 businesses try to provide them some
1:09:58 incentives as well as recognitions for
1:10:00 reaching these goals but you know try to
1:10:03 uh pass on your goals to the vendors or
1:10:06 everybody who is involved or working
1:10:08 with the city that is one suggestion I
1:10:10 have um and the question I have and this
1:10:12 may be going to Stacy than Steven is how
1:10:16 do you actually calculate you know the
1:10:18 greenhouse gas emissions because is it
1:10:20 certain calculating spreadsheets or
1:10:23 modul you use because I have used a
1:10:25 couple of them and based on actually how
1:10:29 they are used or what you use sometimes
1:10:31 you know the numbers can be deceptive
1:10:33 like sometimes it can be more of an art
1:10:36 and science than actual engineering even
1:10:38 though you're using a hardcore
1:10:40 calculation spreadsheet so I was just
1:10:42 curious how is that
1:10:45 calculated great I might defer to David
1:10:48 because he's been in the weeds in this
1:10:50 and looking more at the spreadsheet is
1:10:52 that something can talk to a little bit
1:10:54 about the um spreadsheets and
1:10:57 calculations that we're using for
1:11:01 the yeah so can you repeat the question
1:11:04 on the spreadsheets in particular I got
1:11:07 that first question right so David I was
1:11:10 just curious you know how are you
1:11:12 calculating the greenhouse gas emissions
1:11:15 current emissions or you know how you
1:11:18 what they were few years back versus
1:11:20 what they are right now are you using a
1:11:23 spreadsheet or a model or combination of
1:11:26 stuff for that great thanks can I ask
1:11:29 you a question would this be something
1:11:31 that we'd want to dive into more detail
1:11:32 on on a future meeting so we can get the
1:11:35 spreadsheets in front of us and have
1:11:37 David sure I I think that would be a
1:11:39 great idea
1:11:41 Don great yeah and we are planning to
1:11:43 bring the uh greenhouse gas emissions
1:11:46 inventory to the board but we could do
1:11:48 kind of a preview maybe earlier on to
1:11:51 get folks oriented to the uh tools and
1:11:54 and materials that we're using before we
1:11:56 bring the
1:11:57 results yeah it's a great question I
1:12:00 would also note on that the first part
1:12:01 of the question on thinking about kind
1:12:03 of contracts and who's working with the
1:12:05 city um I think that goes towards um the
1:12:10 sustainable purchasing policy that is
1:12:12 being worked on in the city um there
1:12:14 could be an opportunity to add a policy
1:12:17 around that into the comprehensive plan
1:12:20 um as well though so um thank you for
1:12:22 that yeah
1:12:25 thank you I do think just to to make
1:12:28 sure that um and Stacy and Stephen
1:12:32 please make sure that I'm on the right
1:12:34 track I think our goal today is we
1:12:36 obviously have the IAP we have a lot of
1:12:38 plans that go into a lot of detail on
1:12:41 how we're going to get to these goals
1:12:43 right now what I believe we're trying to
1:12:45 do is make sure that we focus in on what
1:12:46 are the big priorities and overall
1:12:49 policies that we think need to be called
1:12:51 out at at the highest level that would
1:12:53 then and trickle down into all of the
1:12:55 other actions and strategies that that
1:12:58 we're making so is that accurate for
1:13:02 like what the goal for today is yes I
1:13:05 would say that's that's accurate and you
1:13:07 know because we're creating a new
1:13:09 element that's really the only reason
1:13:11 we're actually bringing a lot of this to
1:13:12 your attention is a lot of this was only
1:13:14 just discussed just a few years ago and
1:13:17 we really haven't had a ton of time for
1:13:19 implementation but we just want to
1:13:21 because we are going through this
1:13:24 periodic update we want to ask the
1:13:25 question is there anything that we need
1:13:27 to change with these existing policies
1:13:31 goals right so I think just keep that in
1:13:33 mind as we're thinking about feedback
1:13:35 and obviously that doesn't mean we can't
1:13:36 have other feedback but I do think the
1:13:38 key Focus for us today is not to get
1:13:41 into all the detail of every policy or
1:13:44 every strategy that might go against uh
1:13:46 greenhouse gas emissions it's it's
1:13:48 trying to highlight those really high
1:13:50 potential policy level decisions and
1:13:53 goal level um decisions that that we
1:13:56 should have or not decisions but like
1:13:58 call outs that we should have in the
1:14:00 comp plan right um Alex please go
1:14:04 ahead yeah I'll just be really quick um
1:14:07 I just wanted to voice my agreement with
1:14:09 what folks have just said a lot about
1:14:11 just feeling like it'd be great to be
1:14:14 able to see some of these how these
1:14:16 other policies are getting incorporated
1:14:17 into other sections of the comprehensive
1:14:20 plan as far as with the built
1:14:21 environment and a storm water management
1:14:23 and all these things that are going to
1:14:25 impact the goals um that we have set so
1:14:28 I don't know I know the other boards are
1:14:30 reviewing those so I don't know if
1:14:31 there's an opportunity for those to come
1:14:33 at a later time in front of the
1:14:34 environmental board just to check that
1:14:37 that we see that everything is kind of
1:14:38 lining up with the IAP and um with those
1:14:41 other
1:14:45 opportunities yes I can I can uh
1:14:47 coordinate with Stacy about bringing
1:14:50 other topics back as it fits in your
1:14:53 calend whether it's anational update via
1:14:55 email or if we come back and actually
1:14:56 have a discussion on it in one of your
1:15:00 meetings Stacy I think you're already
1:15:02 going to do this but I think using like
1:15:06 you said Redmond as an example that
1:15:08 looking at other cities to see like and
1:15:10 and particularly the ones that maybe are
1:15:11 a bit further along in Seattle some of
1:15:13 the ones that have made progress or
1:15:16 maybe they haven't but like what have
1:15:18 been the
1:15:19 really impactful policies or areas that
1:15:22 with in the city that they've been able
1:15:24 decarbonize i' be curious what those
1:15:27 what what they already have listed as
1:15:30 the part of their comp plans so that
1:15:32 just might be something I know you're
1:15:33 already planning on doing that but I
1:15:35 think there' be a ton basically just
1:15:37 saying I think there' be a ton of value
1:15:38 in that would love to see what the
1:15:40 result of of your investigation on that
1:15:46 is okay are there any other comments or
1:15:49 questions on the
1:15:52 slide I keep
1:15:55 going so the next set of greenhouse gas
1:15:57 emissions um are primarily focused on
1:16:00 waste again this is coming from the
1:16:03 climate action plan so we're not
1:16:04 proposing any changes at this
1:16:08 time go ahead
1:16:10 Nancy hi Stephen it's Nancy and if I
1:16:13 look at these things they're really
1:16:14 focused on Autos which are automobiles
1:16:17 not on not there're not there yet sorry
1:16:22 yes read your head okay
1:16:28 sorry but thank you I like I like your
1:16:30 proactive
1:16:34 approach so if there's no no comments on
1:16:37 this slide I can move to the transation
1:16:39 the one comment I'm going to make on
1:16:41 this one is that we originally intended
1:16:43 actually to move this goal and policies
1:16:46 actually to the transation element in
1:16:47 the comprehensive plan but House Bill
1:16:49 1181 actually calls for keeping this
1:16:52 language in this new environment uh uh
1:16:56 specific element so right now at this
1:16:58 time we're proposing no changes and to
1:17:00 keep it in the Environ element but we're
1:17:02 hoping to get more guidance in the state
1:17:03 on what this is but and again these are
1:17:05 a lot of policies that are um from the
1:17:09 uh climate action plan
1:17:13 discussions and then Nancy we can go to
1:17:15 your your comment now sorry I read ahead
1:17:18 Stephen so I guess um you know I know
1:17:21 the city's been proactively working with
1:17:23 life Waste Management to get U more
1:17:25 green a couple of green trucks into the
1:17:28 community but I think we need to have
1:17:30 policies that are focused on more than
1:17:32 automobiles but also looking at um in
1:17:35 transportation you know the buses the
1:17:37 green buses green school buses GRE you
1:17:41 know trying to Mo work with others that
1:17:44 is not just focused on automobiles but
1:17:46 also heavy
1:17:48 equipment um you know delivery
1:17:51 trucks Amazon
1:17:53 post office you know all of these places
1:17:56 are opportunities for us to do something
1:17:58 in a transportation to help reduce
1:18:00 things and so I think we need to put
1:18:02 some kind of Transportation element in
1:18:04 it to work with others to try and go
1:18:10 direction I think that's
1:18:13 a yes and that feeds into what I was
1:18:15 going to talk about as well so I would
1:18:19 like us to and I know we discussed this
1:18:22 last time
1:18:23 but I think it should be in the
1:18:24 transportation part um telecommuting we
1:18:28 need I think we need to be promoting
1:18:30 telecommuting um
1:18:34 let um people know that we want it but
1:18:37 also businesses work with the businesses
1:18:39 to let them know hey we've got these
1:18:41 goals and for order in order for us to
1:18:43 reach our goals um and for the larger
1:18:47 businesses for us to help them Reach
1:18:50 their climate goals let's work together
1:18:51 on you know know not forcing people back
1:18:55 to the office you know if they want to
1:18:56 go back to the office that's one thing
1:19:00 um just reducing the more telecommunity
1:19:04 we can do the better um a lot of
1:19:08 businesses have started just having
1:19:10 people come back you know maybe they go
1:19:12 in like one day a week and U meet in
1:19:15 person one day a week more getting rid
1:19:18 of the offices so then we get rid of the
1:19:21 buildings and
1:19:23 um there's a lot saved if we can just do
1:19:26 more telecommunity and just meet face to
1:19:28 face every once in a
1:19:31 while okay yeah and we saw as you
1:19:35 pointed out we saw that really works um
1:19:38 during the pandemic we saw that it it
1:19:40 really helped us reach our
1:19:44 goals yeah so and our goals in the house
1:19:48 bill 18
1:19:53 I think we missed the 2021 which is um
1:19:56 to reduce per capita vehicle miles
1:19:59 travel by 18% by 2035 we're supposed to
1:20:02 be 30% and by 2050
1:20:05 50% so I think maybe um we might even
1:20:09 have more aggressive ones in our climate
1:20:11 action plan
1:20:13 yeah yeah
1:20:16 so and my from my perspective the only
1:20:18 way we're going to get there is by
1:20:19 telecommunity and then of course there's
1:20:21 the transportation but I I mean the
1:20:23 masse Transit but for a lot of us to get
1:20:27 to the masse Transit we have to drive
1:20:29 quite a
1:20:33 ways like me because I live in
1:20:35 unincorporated King
1:20:37 County thank
1:20:40 you I think those are great comments and
1:20:43 when it comes to you know telecommuting
1:20:44 a lot of those policies are are kind of
1:20:47 captured in our transportation element
1:20:48 now they're not broad so actually I know
1:20:51 um our senior transation planner uh
1:20:54 Thomas Fess is actually looking at
1:20:55 expanding some of those policies to kind
1:20:57 of get exactly at your point of we
1:20:59 really should be pushing a little bit
1:21:01 more because we we know it works um but
1:21:04 some of that is going to be either
1:21:05 incentive driven or it's going to be
1:21:07 Decisions by a lot of the Private
1:21:08 Industry to be able to really push that
1:21:11 uh for employees there's also the
1:21:13 balance with housing first jobs and
1:21:15 locations of all that to make a lot of
1:21:17 that possible in terms of um making
1:21:19 accessibility or making a telecommuting
1:21:21 work for people to too so there's kind
1:21:23 of that balce across all the elements
1:21:26 for a lot of those policies but thank
1:21:28 you for the comment any other comments
1:21:31 on on the transportation
1:21:33 El think about that is if we do reach
1:21:36 out to the
1:21:37 businesses
1:21:39 um some teams might not do as well they
1:21:43 might not be doing as well with uh
1:21:45 remote working and others are so letting
1:21:49 businesses know hey they they can start
1:21:52 the teams that doing well could start um
1:21:54 teaching the other teams how to do it
1:21:56 well just an
1:21:58 idea yeah I had a comment slash question
1:22:02 um the how this T couples in with the
1:22:06 compu commuter reduction act which all
1:22:10 employers over a certain level are
1:22:13 required to have a compter CP reduction
1:22:16 plan I think that's a state level thing
1:22:19 right and does the city of isqua at the
1:22:22 present time
1:22:23 have any isqua
1:22:26 specific thing about that or is it all
1:22:28 dependent upon the Statewide
1:22:32 plan just wondering whether that has any
1:22:36 uh bearing on this I mean could this
1:22:38 could the city as a practical matter put
1:22:41 their own flavor on that or would it be
1:22:44 a matter of lobbying at the state level
1:22:46 or King County level I don't know I'm
1:22:48 just I'm just wondering is there
1:22:50 anything in isqua specific about about
1:22:52 that right now I would say it's a little
1:22:55 bit of both so the state requires that
1:22:57 every jurisdiction reports out all their
1:22:59 beer employers that are 100 plus
1:23:02 employees um how they're complying with
1:23:04 a lot of that the CTI requirements the
1:23:07 commute trip reduction requirements and
1:23:10 um it's it's showing that they're
1:23:12 encouraging employees to use transit to
1:23:15 walk or bike or or take advantage of
1:23:17 ride share or trying to reduce a lot of
1:23:20 those trips in and um escl has a bit of
1:23:24 a uh I would say its own tailored
1:23:27 approach to it and how it's working with
1:23:28 the employers to achieve that and and
1:23:30 some of that it's kind of fluctuated
1:23:32 over the years in terms of the level of
1:23:33 effort we've been able to put into um
1:23:36 based on some of the funding from the
1:23:38 state and I know that funding is going
1:23:40 to be um changing so that may also be in
1:23:43 changing our approach in terms of being
1:23:45 able to provide more incentives for
1:23:47 employers to have employees use more of
1:23:50 those types of
1:23:51 options
1:23:53 thank you Stephen I have one last
1:23:55 comment this this does seem like another
1:23:57 section similar to the built environment
1:24:00 portion of land use that I don't know
1:24:03 the right way but there seems like
1:24:05 there's enough connection like that some
1:24:09 whether it's just Stacy or or some or
1:24:12 the board um it seems like there'd be
1:24:14 enough elements of the actual
1:24:15 Transportation El like portion that
1:24:18 would be relevant to IAP that um there's
1:24:23 some form of collaboration that we
1:24:25 should should have or visibility we
1:24:27 should have to to what's in that section
1:24:29 I know um I'm sure Stacy will be
1:24:32 involved but that might be just
1:24:34 something for you to to think about is
1:24:36 for the land use aspects and
1:24:38 transportation is there any any anything
1:24:41 that would come to this
1:24:43 board um or what's the right way to make
1:24:45 sure that we're capturing all of the
1:24:48 things that would go up into the
1:24:49 greenhouse gas emission targets and all
1:24:51 and in disperate
1:24:54 elements and I can work with Stacy on
1:24:56 how how best to capture that and bring
1:24:58 that back to the
1:25:00 board yeah I think we could probably
1:25:02 pull out those relevant climate and
1:25:03 sustainability goals and policies bring
1:25:06 that as a
1:25:08 package Alex go
1:25:10 ahead I just wanted to I mean even if we
1:25:12 could just see something similar to what
1:25:15 we're seeing in the detailed version of
1:25:16 this the crosswalk between the policies
1:25:18 and how they're getting incorporated
1:25:20 into the plan I think just being able to
1:25:22 see the document of it would be helpful
1:25:24 that we could provide written comment or
1:25:26 um glance over at a future
1:25:29 meeting I think the the really detailed
1:25:31 version of this the red line is is
1:25:33 really helpful to see how it's being
1:25:36 Incorporated yeah and and a lot of the
1:25:38 materials and and you know the
1:25:40 discussion tonight is really just kind
1:25:42 of that first step of getting to that
1:25:44 eventually we're going to keep evolving
1:25:46 what we're going to provide you and get
1:25:47 you more
1:25:51 specifics
1:25:53 any other questions on this I think
1:25:54 that's all of the questions okay thank
1:25:58 you the next section is resilience and
1:26:00 well-being and
1:26:03 um what you what you what you're
1:26:06 reviewing at least for this section is
1:26:07 in the existing element and coming from
1:26:09 the climate action plan but it's also
1:26:11 part of the discussion with Stacy that
1:26:13 you're going to have in a few minutes on
1:26:15 the vulnerability assessment and how
1:26:17 best to uh pursue different goals and
1:26:19 policies for this section so I'll I'll
1:26:22 kind of leave it at that and ask if
1:26:23 there's any
1:26:29 questions do you do you feel like this
1:26:31 section is more in draft form and like
1:26:33 is it yeah this is just four that are
1:26:36 being carried over from the existing
1:26:39 comp plan that came out of the IAP and
1:26:42 so what we want to talk with the board
1:26:45 tonight about is in June we brought you
1:26:49 a massive laundry list that Consultants
1:26:51 put together
1:26:52 we want to kind of start fresh and get
1:26:55 more guidance from the board on what are
1:26:57 we trying to achieve with the real
1:26:59 resiliency policies and goals here where
1:27:01 do we maybe want to be leaders and be
1:27:03 out little front ahead a little bit
1:27:05 ahead um so that David and I can then
1:27:08 bring back a revised package of um
1:27:11 proposed resiliency goals and policies
1:27:14 for your review
1:27:15 next so this is yeah just what's in
1:27:18 there already we expect to have another
1:27:21 set of of 20 maybe possibly um goals and
1:27:26 policies for your review next meeting so
1:27:28 and do you think it's best that we wait
1:27:30 see those that proposal and then respond
1:27:32 then or do you want comments now um I
1:27:37 think it's better uh yeah I think what
1:27:39 we want to hear from you tonight is I I
1:27:42 don't know if these
1:27:44 four will change or maybe we fine- tune
1:27:48 them a little bit based on the feedback
1:27:49 we get from the board tonight on what
1:27:51 they want to see
1:27:52 but really what we're looking for is
1:27:54 that input on what should this next set
1:27:56 of uh expanded
1:28:00 policies I think a lot of this sorry a
1:28:04 lot of this is a um there should be a
1:28:07 lot some more policy about education and
1:28:09 Outreach around this isqua is not going
1:28:12 to solve climate change on its own it's
1:28:14 just not happen they can make a small
1:28:16 teeny tiny dent in the world but
1:28:19 education Outreach goes a long ways
1:28:21 because it's
1:28:23 so I think you should have something in
1:28:32 spe Stephen do you want to go into the
1:28:35 discussion now about the new ones I know
1:28:37 there's a slide later promp in that
1:28:38 discussion or sure yeah if it if it
1:28:41 helps I I only have one other section
1:28:44 which is going to be the results and
1:28:45 accountabilities and I don't know if
1:28:47 Alex did we miss another hand
1:28:50 up Alex please go go ahead all right
1:28:54 this um I just had a question about the
1:28:55 emergency service was for 100%
1:28:58 population is I don't know how big of
1:29:00 like a difference there is on a data
1:29:02 basis between commuter is that just
1:29:04 residents of the population does that
1:29:06 include commuters and visitors that
1:29:08 would be in the city um I don't know
1:29:10 where the like is it beneficial to plan
1:29:14 110% um to include services for those
1:29:18 that aren't considered residents just a
1:29:21 it's a great question that came directly
1:29:23 from the IAP that just said eer it said
1:29:25 Emergency Services could serve 100% of
1:29:27 the population but it didn't say if that
1:29:29 was um the permanent population or if
1:29:33 that includes those coming in and out so
1:29:36 yeah that's that's something we could
1:29:37 work on fine
1:29:39 tuning is that under normal conditions
1:29:42 or during an emergency
1:29:46 right yeah and that and this is one
1:29:48 thing we need to think about too if we
1:29:51 refine that in the comp plan we'll want
1:29:54 to make sure the IAP if we do any kind
1:29:56 of update next year it's going to need
1:29:58 to be consistent because this was pulled
1:30:00 directly from the IAP so there's going
1:30:02 to be some crosswalking if we make
1:30:09 adjustments go ahead I love the way
1:30:13 you're thinking
1:30:14 Alex but it also made me wonder if
1:30:17 people are coming here to work if maybe
1:30:19 some people that live here would be
1:30:21 someplace Els during an emergency so
1:30:24 would it balance out just a
1:30:28 thought does this a quad track um
1:30:31 resident population versus daytime
1:30:33 population yeah we have that actually
1:30:35 from the leaf for cities program they
1:30:37 calculated that out for us
1:30:41 awesome I don't know those num off on
1:30:50 sty interesting
1:30:52 lot of good things to think
1:30:55 about any other comments or questions on
1:30:59 section this one's coming back St we'll
1:31:01 come back here in a minute if this where
1:31:04 we want to spend our Okay and like I
1:31:07 said um I just have this one other
1:31:09 section before getting to the uh other
1:31:14 question discussion so this this last
1:31:16 last section is is something that we're
1:31:18 actually be incorporating into all the
1:31:20 elements during the periodic update so
1:31:23 that we can clearly recognize how
1:31:26 accountability and and monitoring for a
1:31:28 lot of the different topic areas in the
1:31:29 comper plan are being tracked and we're
1:31:32 also recognizing also the functional
1:31:34 plans and that what's what's being used
1:31:36 for implementation for each of the
1:31:38 different topic
1:31:39 areas um and so this that'll be this
1:31:42 section um specifically speaking to the
1:31:45 IAP and we're we'll be working with uh
1:31:48 Stacy and David to better refine um
1:31:51 whether metric need to be recognized
1:31:52 here or what other types of policies
1:31:54 need to be recognized for this
1:31:57 section yeah and here's where I believe
1:32:00 it was Pro brought up earlier Greenhouse
1:32:03 guest reporting we can think about if
1:32:05 there's any additional
1:32:09 language yeah this kind of gets back to
1:32:12 a comment I had earlier about some of
1:32:15 our areas being easy to measure progress
1:32:19 others being challenging and some of
1:32:20 those are challenging because they're
1:32:22 challenging to measure but that would
1:32:24 just be something that think to think
1:32:27 about in in a lot of these schools is
1:32:29 how can we make them as meaningful and
1:32:32 and easy to evaluate or at least
1:32:35 something that we could look to
1:32:38 evaluate
1:32:40 n and I think this needs to address more
1:32:43 than just the IAP I mean if you look at
1:32:45 it every project that comes in is going
1:32:48 to say its impacts to a welln or to its
1:32:50 buers
1:32:52 and so we can easily track how we're
1:32:54 doing there everyone will have the same
1:32:57 kind of thing with it because of what we
1:32:59 did with Title 18 with related to steep
1:33:01 slopes or um Wildlife corridors so my
1:33:06 request is from a policy perspective and
1:33:10 a goal perspective we should be tracking
1:33:13 how we're doing with our Wetland buffers
1:33:16 if a developer comes in is and is
1:33:19 improving a wetland or it's buffer
1:33:22 we should have some way of tracking that
1:33:24 along the way I mean that's a great goal
1:33:26 and I would like to see that as a goal
1:33:28 for us to try and get dive deeper and
1:33:31 being able to report to our residents
1:33:33 how we're doing on that on trees on
1:33:36 other things that we have Higher Goals
1:33:38 yeah I think this directly relates to I
1:33:41 think the mechanism that we've been
1:33:42 asking for is the natural environment
1:33:44 checklist that we've been asking to get
1:33:45 it towards that for the last couple
1:33:47 years I think Nancy just articulated how
1:33:51 that tool could be
1:33:53 used impacts all these things in a way
1:33:55 that would help us evaluate whether
1:33:57 we're succeeding or not on on a lot of
1:34:00 these goals
1:34:03 so did you understand that Stephen
1:34:05 you're looking a little puzzled by no no
1:34:08 I'm I'm I'm taking it all in I'm I'm
1:34:10 gonna connect with Stacy and David and
1:34:12 then we'll we'll talk with our inand
1:34:13 staff of how best to do that of if
1:34:15 there's other uh City documents that we
1:34:18 need to recognize in this section that
1:34:20 defines those targets
1:34:22 already um then it then we should just
1:34:25 want to recognize those but I think
1:34:27 that's actually a great point of it's
1:34:28 it's more than just the IAP it's it's
1:34:30 also a lot of the other documents that
1:34:32 are implementing or helping us meet
1:34:33 these targets identified in this entire
1:34:37 element yeah and I'm just say we can
1:34:39 probably maybe calling it out General
1:34:42 with the idea of the natural environment
1:34:44 checklist um that may change its name
1:34:46 may change so we just want to be careful
1:34:48 about how specific in detail but yeah
1:34:50 I'd like that idea
1:34:55 okay if there's nothing else I can go
1:34:58 to the second question are there any new
1:35:02 goals or policies to consider for the
1:35:05 environmental I think we've kind of
1:35:06 talked about that as we've gone through
1:35:08 each of the different goal areas and and
1:35:10 policies but is there anything in
1:35:12 addition that you you would like to
1:35:20 discuss
1:35:23 one and I I don't know where we're at on
1:35:26 the the uh we talked a little bit about
1:35:29 the kind of a
1:35:31 carbon what's it called no not the
1:35:34 carbon footprint but our
1:35:38 like um not the catalog it's a similar
1:35:42 word anyways like basically measurement
1:35:44 of where all like where city of Isa is
1:35:47 on like where where missions are within
1:35:50 the city inventory the inventory that is
1:35:53 the word I was looking for um because
1:35:55 one of the things
1:35:56 that I think would be really helpful and
1:35:59 I don't think it's the right
1:36:01 conversation for us to have here but
1:36:03 would be really interesting to to know
1:36:05 is within that inventory where do we see
1:36:09 the really big big place like where can
1:36:12 we make a lot of movement where is the
1:36:13 areas that we think are The Highest
1:36:15 Potential because we haven't really had
1:36:17 like it's hard to have that conversation
1:36:19 without knowing the numbers of like this
1:36:20 is built environment this is
1:36:23 transportation this is so some of that
1:36:25 it might be helpful in a separate
1:36:26 conversation for us to talk like look at
1:36:28 the inventory talk through where we
1:36:31 actually think there's a lot of movement
1:36:32 that could be made um because that
1:36:35 ultimately it's a numbers game on on
1:36:38 greenhous gas
1:36:39 so it's not an answer but something that
1:36:42 could be helpful to help us evaluate if
1:36:45 there's any other goals that we should
1:36:46 be thinking about if there's a big
1:36:47 bucket of emissions that we're not
1:36:49 evaluating with the
1:36:51 are kind of addressing with the with
1:36:53 this SC Plan update then that might
1:36:55 indicate that we're uh we should be
1:36:58 thinking about that area well I think
1:37:00 that's a great filter we can apply when
1:37:02 we bring back the next set and maybe
1:37:04 that becomes a new mitigation goal our
1:37:07 policy but David I can definitely look
1:37:09 at that what's missing from here where
1:37:11 are those biggest impacts from our
1:37:15 inventory
1:37:19 policy and
1:37:23 guess I'm not seeing a category for
1:37:26 buildings
1:37:29 here everything for doing it yeah for a
1:37:34 lot of uh the goals and policies related
1:37:36 to buildings or the urban urban
1:37:38 environment are going to be captured in
1:37:40 the land use element and so we'll we
1:37:42 once we have discussions with the
1:37:43 planning policy Commission on that
1:37:45 element we'll be bringing a lot of that
1:37:47 uh to you to take a look
1:37:49 at so would land use cover
1:37:54 um the carbon footprint of a building
1:37:57 you know the
1:37:59 whole yeah okay Co
1:38:04 yes use I have one okay so this might be
1:38:08 in results and accountability but what
1:38:10 I'm what I see is missing is some of the
1:38:13 opportunities to advocate for some of
1:38:15 these things and here's my example to
1:38:17 you and I don't know how to write this
1:38:19 but Stephen could do we somehow try to
1:38:22 push to get the electric mail truck D
1:38:25 trucks into the city of
1:38:27 iso just we have to Advocate to try and
1:38:31 get that to happen because we know the
1:38:32 postal service is doing that couldn't we
1:38:35 try and be the leader and get them to
1:38:37 bring them here
1:38:39 first um Amazon is doing the same thing
1:38:42 can we try and push them to Advocate to
1:38:44 bring them here so I don't think we have
1:38:46 the leverage but we have to be thinking
1:38:49 about the opportunities and advocating
1:38:51 and partnering with these guys to say
1:38:54 Hey try us here first we and here's why
1:38:57 and that's that's my proposal I don't
1:38:59 know what to write there Stephen but I
1:39:01 think we need to provide that
1:39:04 opportunity for people that are trying
1:39:06 to do the right thing to have them do
1:39:08 the right thing in isqua before they go
1:39:10 somewhere else yeah
1:39:13 yeah and there's a lot of real estate
1:39:15 for solar on top of for example the post
1:39:18 office right and a lot of other
1:39:21 buildings as well so when they have
1:39:22 their Fleet their electric Fleet they
1:39:24 also have um solar
1:39:27 panels to to replenish
1:39:41 them okay any
1:39:47 other this isn't the the only only time
1:39:51 you all get
1:39:52 it well maybe moving in Just Around
1:39:55 specific to the resilience policies to
1:39:58 um provide some more direction for us on
1:40:01 what to bring next meeting I think
1:40:03 that's what we we're looking we brought
1:40:05 you a very long list of goals and
1:40:07 policies we're looking to bring um
1:40:09 something a little bit more streamlined
1:40:12 and so just looking for what you all
1:40:15 want to achieve with those climate
1:40:17 resiliency goals and policies are there
1:40:20 areas that we want to be uh maybe a step
1:40:23 ahead or or demonstrating leadership um
1:40:26 in our community with what we're stating
1:40:29 in the comp plan um there may be some
1:40:33 areas where we need to wait for State
1:40:34 guidance and it might be appropriate to
1:40:36 do so but just looking for a little bit
1:40:38 more feedback from the board so we can
1:40:41 bring um a stronger uh list to you all
1:40:45 at the next
1:40:46 meeting to ny's comment this might be a
1:40:49 good section to inpud a policy here
1:40:51 about you know promoting local
1:40:53 businesses to start using electric
1:40:58 vehicles and I think Hy this is drawing
1:41:01 from the list I think it's June 14 I'm
1:41:04 looking at the packet from June 14th
1:41:07 which has the report out from the
1:41:08 Consultants that also has some
1:41:11 mitigation policies yeah and I think but
1:41:15 you're looking specifically for like the
1:41:16 resilience part
1:41:17 of yeah and I think we also just looking
1:41:21 at that um question before and where
1:41:24 there might be some gaps we can uh use
1:41:27 that as a filter and go back through
1:41:28 that list from the consultants and see
1:41:30 if there are any additional goals or
1:41:32 policies that we want to build in that
1:41:36 wer one topic area that comes to mind um
1:41:39 that I think you'll probably bringing
1:41:41 back anyways but is given all our goals
1:41:44 around tree canopy and wanting to have
1:41:48 healthy Forest it seems like there's a
1:41:49 natural tie in between that and while
1:41:51 fire risk that more the city can do to
1:41:55 be a leader on ensuring that not only do
1:41:58 we have Force but it's healthy and fire
1:42:00 resistant and residents are informed on
1:42:03 how that can be supported and how they
1:42:05 can be a part of that
1:42:07 solution seems like a an area within
1:42:11 resilience that it would make sense for
1:42:13 us to be in a leading position
1:42:19 absolutely and I was reading in the
1:42:22 house bill 1181 about fire wise and uh
1:42:26 their wording was um separate human
1:42:29 development from fire prone areas reduce
1:42:33 residential development pressure in Wild
1:42:36 Wildland Urban interface
1:42:39 areas
1:42:43 so I don't know what our codes are in um
1:42:46 our areas that are more forested and we
1:42:50 have got we've got so many forested
1:42:54 areas
1:42:56 um just something to think
1:42:59 about
1:43:03 yeah and then I know that that the city
1:43:06 will want to start you know acquiring a
1:43:08 lot of those that are closer to the
1:43:12 um that have Trail connectivity but are
1:43:14 also closer maybe people have large
1:43:17 pieces of land and um I know get
1:43:21 expensive but maybe the city could start
1:43:23 thinking about purchasing those pieces
1:43:25 of land so they don't get developed and
1:43:27 we don't get
1:43:28 closer to the
1:43:33 forests if you do want to address
1:43:35 Wildfire resilience in here you might
1:43:37 want to look at Force practices and and
1:43:40 promote and educate on good Force
1:43:42 practices in your yard you don't want to
1:43:44 leave a lot of
1:43:45 debris or fuel underneath your tree
1:43:49 canopy you want to clean it up you want
1:43:50 to have health healthy plant under
1:43:52 there down on the
1:43:56 wrist could be something there I'm not
1:44:01 sure yeah so is it the fire wise is
1:44:04 probably already on the website
1:44:07 yeah on our website I'm not sure um if
1:44:11 it is but it may be through um you said
1:44:14 fire and rescue but I can talk about
1:44:15 emergency manager yeah I'm definitely
1:44:17 hearing show some leadership around
1:44:19 wildfires so we can uh in some of these
1:44:22 uh more specific actions so we can look
1:44:25 at developing schols and policies yeah
1:44:28 even more education at Trail heads and
1:44:30 things like that
1:44:36 yeah other filters or areas that we
1:44:39 should emphasize as we to bring you back
1:44:42 the next set of
1:44:49 resilience I mean I think everything
1:44:51 else seems like areas that you're going
1:44:53 to come back with anyways around like
1:44:55 flood management like I don't know if
1:44:57 there's anything well Al Alex why don't
1:44:59 you go ahead do you have
1:45:00 something feel like this could be a spot
1:45:03 and I don't know if it's being
1:45:04 Incorporated in other aspects of the
1:45:06 comprehensive action plan or the
1:45:08 comprehensive plan but to incorporate
1:45:09 equity and Justice and
1:45:11 accessibility um to Natural areas for
1:45:15 well-being and things like that I feel
1:45:17 like there's maybe another section
1:45:19 element in the plan that talks maybe
1:45:21 more about that um but this could be
1:45:26 kind of addressing some of that and I
1:45:27 don't I don't see Equity addressed
1:45:31 in in these areas I know in the
1:45:33 decarbonization plan that's proposed for
1:45:35 this agenda too it talks a lot more
1:45:37 about that but um if there's
1:45:40 opportunities to include language that
1:45:43 kind of talks about that in any of these
1:45:46 policies um or if we can just learn
1:45:49 where it is being included in the plan
1:45:51 that would be
1:45:52 helpful great yeah I think to the
1:45:55 specific um example you gave we can look
1:45:57 at the parks I don't I don't know all
1:46:00 the the parks um goals and strategies
1:46:04 but look or goals and policies we can
1:46:06 look to see where it's included there
1:46:07 and play that for that team um but yes I
1:46:10 think um environmental justice uh access
1:46:14 those are things that we definitely want
1:46:15 to incorporate into the resiliency
1:46:17 component and and there are some
1:46:19 requirements that the 81 around that so
1:46:23 we will use that as a filter the
1:46:29 next and this is a half form thought and
1:46:31 I don't know how this
1:46:33 would but we talk a lot about like human
1:46:36 resilience to climate change we talk a
1:46:38 lot about our ecosystem and like trees
1:46:41 and wetlands as kind of inanimate
1:46:44 objects what we don't specifically call
1:46:47 out is the impact of like animals that
1:46:49 are in those ecosystem systems and
1:46:51 so in some way it would be nice to
1:46:54 address like I mean salmon and fish seem
1:46:57 like over really obvious one there's
1:46:59 plenty of others that will likely have
1:47:00 see impacts and so that just seems like
1:47:02 a lens I don't know what the policy is
1:47:05 but um and and it's sort of indirectly
1:47:08 or directly impacted by improving the
1:47:11 ecosystem but I just do wonder if
1:47:13 there's other things that we should be
1:47:15 thinking about
1:47:18 um with them as it a stakeholder or
1:47:21 someone in mind
1:47:29 so go ahead I don't know who was first
1:47:33 so an and then Alex Alex go
1:47:37 ahead Alex you're up oh thank you um I
1:47:42 was wondering where water quality would
1:47:45 be addressed in either this section or
1:47:49 in another section
1:47:51 um of the comprehensive
1:47:56 plan there's a few policies in in this
1:48:00 new ele or in the new element but
1:48:02 there's uh more goals and policies
1:48:04 around water quality actually in the
1:48:06 land use element that we'll be bringing
1:48:08 back to you later all right thank
1:48:15 you so anduk here I know we have um
1:48:19 Heating and Co
1:48:22 centers um maybe just ways of letting
1:48:26 people like even homeless people know
1:48:28 did we talk about that already I think
1:48:30 we might have where the heating and
1:48:32 cooling centers are and when they're
1:48:49 available
1:48:51 yeah I think for um ahead of the next
1:48:54 meeting that's really great feedback
1:48:57 that we'll use to start bringing or to
1:49:00 start looking through the proposed
1:49:01 policies from the consultant um I think
1:49:03 I mentioned earlier Redmond's about a
1:49:06 month or two ahead of us and they just
1:49:07 released their draft um goals and
1:49:09 policies for this element so we're
1:49:12 looking to pull in those for consistency
1:49:15 and where it makes sense for our
1:49:17 community um so we'll bringing that
1:49:20 specifically the resilience policy at
1:49:21 the next next
1:49:24 meeting awesome and then Stephen I think
1:49:27 you have a a more General timeline
1:49:29 around the comp plan too I do so um
1:49:34 we're still kind of in the initial
1:49:35 stages of the comprehensive Plan update
1:49:38 we'll be starting some Council committee
1:49:40 review later this year and then working
1:49:42 towards docket and continued
1:49:45 conversations on a draft early next year
1:49:48 um the the ultimate
1:49:50 goal is to try to get adoption around Q3
1:49:59 2024 and that concludes my presentation
1:50:02 any other questions or
1:50:06 comments do look like it thank you
1:50:08 Stephen great work okay thank you
1:50:11 everybody thank
1:50:14 you all right I think with that we are
1:50:18 on to facilities update mpal
1:50:20 decarbonization resolution we may want
1:50:22 to talk about what our goal for that is
1:50:24 tonight um and Stacy and D I don't know
1:50:27 if you want to take that on just like do
1:50:31 we actually want to just review it at a
1:50:33 high level do we actually want to take
1:50:34 action what's the level that you think
1:50:36 is we would like to get to tonight great
1:50:38 yeah so um purpose of this presentation
1:50:41 uh there's a lot happening with our
1:50:43 facilities in parallel yet coordinated
1:50:46 so David was going to give a brief um
1:50:49 overview of the different studies and
1:50:50 analyses that are underway as part of
1:50:53 that we are proposing a assessment that
1:50:58 the city would do on its own buildings
1:50:59 to look at um steps to decarbonize them
1:51:02 and we have a resolution that we are
1:51:05 looking for the environmental board to
1:51:06 take action on um so that we could then
1:51:08 send it on to council um uh to to go on
1:51:15 their agenda and sign off on it
1:51:17 essentially um so our if the
1:51:21 comprehensive plan discussion went long
1:51:23 um our thought was we could at least
1:51:25 provide the overview presentation and
1:51:27 introduce the resolution and then we
1:51:29 could hold um action until the next
1:51:33 meeting um we're still we have about
1:51:35 eight minutes left in the meeting I am
1:51:38 happy to go through it fairly fast and
1:51:41 perhaps if there's at the end we could
1:51:44 if there's anything that folks want more
1:51:46 detail on or want to come back to we can
1:51:49 do that
1:51:50 at the September meting yeah that works
1:51:57 okay don't you get
1:52:00 started
1:52:03 sure um
1:52:07 so we were going to ask for for action
1:52:10 on the uh decarbonization resolution and
1:52:13 I thought that um given all of the work
1:52:17 that's being done on our facilities uh
1:52:19 it would be a disservice to not kind of
1:52:21 talk about it broadly and put it into
1:52:23 context
1:52:26 um starting off why buildings uh this
1:52:29 goes to to your point earlier Jamie on
1:52:31 kind of uh we know that buildings in
1:52:35 King County represent around
1:52:37 46% um on slide three um 46% of our
1:52:42 greenhouse gas emissions countywide
1:52:44 based on our 2019 Regional inventory uh
1:52:47 for isqua that looks like it's around
1:52:50 52% and so kind of addressing greenhouse
1:52:53 gas emissions from our building sector
1:52:55 is very critical if we want to uh reach
1:52:58 our emission reduction goals um most of
1:53:03 uh the emissions associated with
1:53:04 buildings do come from operations
1:53:06 although there is uh definitely
1:53:08 emissions associated with embodied
1:53:10 carbon as well so the the building
1:53:12 materials um Etc themselves like one
1:53:16 just quick note as we think about
1:53:19 looking at this looking at the big
1:53:21 numbers on the left and how much of that
1:53:24 is in sections that are not in the envir
1:53:28 like how important those other sections
1:53:30 are are just highlighted by that slide
1:53:33 there yes absolutely oh right buildings
1:53:37 is the most important and then
1:53:38 transportation is the next so two
1:53:40 sections that aren't we aren't
1:53:42 discussing in detail focus
1:53:45 on we will pull out
1:53:48 those like it as a great Point yeah um
1:53:52 and from the the there these are not
1:53:55 great colors I'm realizing but anyways
1:53:57 the way in my mind that I'm kind of
1:53:58 splitting out some of our building work
1:54:00 is right there's buildings that we own
1:54:03 and operate as a city um and then
1:54:05 buildings out in the community and then
1:54:08 within both of those two buckets there's
1:54:11 existing buildings and new buildings um
1:54:15 slide mainly today I was going to be
1:54:18 talking about our effs related to
1:54:21 existing municipal buildings um but
1:54:23 that's not to note that we don't have
1:54:25 efforts and uh policies and programs um
1:54:29 related to the other kind of buckets of
1:54:32 buildings um but right now there's a lot
1:54:34 of work going on on Municipal facilities
1:54:37 next slide so this I was actually quite
1:54:40 proud of this graph because I'm again
1:54:43 not very good at these but um this is to
1:54:45 kind of show the different levels of
1:54:48 Assessments and work that we're doing um
1:54:51 and the idea is that each one of these
1:54:53 is uh a fairly uh separate assessment on
1:54:57 that on its own would be valuable to the
1:54:59 city but kind of uh layering them
1:55:02 together will get us to the point where
1:55:04 we as a city can know when and where to
1:55:06 make the right investments in our
1:55:10 facilities uh so starting out kind of on
1:55:12 that benchmarking level go to the next
1:55:15 slide actually going through this very
1:55:17 fast um this is currently ongoing but
1:55:20 the idea with this is to look at our
1:55:23 energy use at our buildings and compare
1:55:26 that energy use uh to uh State targets
1:55:31 around what buildings of that type
1:55:34 should operate at right so you know um
1:55:39 police stations that operate 247 have
1:55:42 higher kind of targets for energy use
1:55:45 than say a building that is just an
1:55:47 office building used during the day
1:55:50 so this energy benchmarking is really
1:55:53 kind of very high level looking at our
1:55:55 utility data what is the energy use of a
1:55:57 building what's the intensity of that
1:56:00 energy used and how does it compare to
1:56:02 comparable
1:56:03 buildings so this is currently ongoing
1:56:06 and we're planning on doing it to almost
1:56:08 all City buildings I do have all here
1:56:10 but I think there are a few buildings we
1:56:12 are not going to look at um simply
1:56:15 because uh they are rental properties
1:56:18 that we do not have control over some of
1:56:21 uh their utility use and things like
1:56:23 that but we are looking at almost all
1:56:25 buildings so if you're looking at
1:56:27 buildings are you looking at pump
1:56:28 stations and fire stations and those are
1:56:33 all buildings though by City yes fire
1:56:36 stations yes the energy benchmarking and
1:56:40 uh efforts I do not believe incorporates
1:56:43 pump stations themselves um but I can
1:56:46 look into that it should should
1:56:50 yeah well that might be small structures
1:56:52 that generate a lot of power and there's
1:56:54 a lot of them y I think they're
1:56:58 definitely included in the facilities
1:57:00 condition assessment so kind of what is
1:57:01 the condition of those facilities but I
1:57:04 think energy benchmarking for your pump
1:57:07 stations is really important because
1:57:08 some of them may not be operating very
1:57:10 efficiently okay so um you can be
1:57:13 generate using a lot of energy and not
1:57:15 realize it great I will look into that
1:57:18 how many does a Supply
1:57:21 have um it's in the range I should have
1:57:24 the number but it's in the range
1:57:27 of 25 30 um and probably half of those
1:57:34 are operated by the city a little over
1:57:37 half of them are operated by the city
1:57:38 and the rest are
1:57:40 rented yeah good so we make money
1:57:45 on renting someone or is that are we
1:57:49 renting oh sorry no we are the landlord
1:57:52 and so yes we make some money some of
1:57:55 that Gibson Hall I think we make a
1:57:57 dollar a year
1:57:59 from it's rent to there's a restaurant
1:58:02 actually occupied restaurant so it
1:58:04 really varies we have single family home
1:58:09 interesting portfolio I
1:58:14 see um other questions on the
1:58:18 benchmarking
1:58:20 uh so the next uh assessment level that
1:58:23 just got kicked off yesterday is our
1:58:24 facilities condition assessment and this
1:58:27 is uh G to happen for the rest of this
1:58:30 year and is really looking at just what
1:58:32 is our equipment um and the condition of
1:58:36 our facilities so not necessarily
1:58:38 looking at what we should do with our
1:58:41 facilities Beyond kind
1:58:44 of at what point do we need to replace
1:58:47 the facility or the the equipment how
1:58:49 old is the equipment how well is it
1:58:51 operating so really just the
1:58:54 Baseline what do we have and how is it
1:58:58 uh how is it performing right now um to
1:59:01 help us understand when should we be
1:59:04 replacing equipment what are the pieces
1:59:06 of equipment that really need to be
1:59:08 replaced right now versus equipment that
1:59:11 needs can wait for you know a few years
1:59:14 before being replaced Etc and again that
1:59:18 will include pump stations right I
1:59:20 believe so I can look back at the scope
1:59:25 work um next level is energy Audits and
1:59:28 we're doing this in kind of a phased uh
1:59:31 effort that's looking at our biggest
1:59:33 buildings
1:59:34 first um and the energy audits are they
1:59:38 it builds on the the
1:59:40 benchmarking and the idea is to look for
1:59:43 energy projects in our facilities that
1:59:47 will help us uh improve Energy
1:59:51 Efficiency the criteria we use to define
1:59:55 kind of what improving Energy Efficiency
1:59:57 means uh is a conversation at at the
2:00:00 city and in conversation with
2:00:02 contractors Etc and we can kind of help
2:00:05 Define that and include greenhouse gas
2:00:07 reductions Etc into that conversation
2:00:11 but these energy audits will help us
2:00:13 understand say for any given building
2:00:16 what are uh the different projects that
2:00:19 will have the biggest bang for our buck
2:00:22 essentially on improving what the Energy
2:00:24 Efficiency of that building is going to
2:00:27 be will they be looking for energy
2:00:30 leaks and where they might be able to
2:00:32 put more insulation in yes yep so this
2:00:35 is kind of looking at equipment right so
2:00:38 do we need to replace uh our HVAC system
2:00:41 as well as things like weatherization
2:00:44 and other things in that line so why are
2:00:48 we starting with the biggest buildings
2:00:50 first instead of the most energy
2:00:52 intensive use
2:00:54 buildings great question um so I think
2:00:59 the we're the biggest buildings are our
2:01:01 most energy intensive buildings um in
2:01:04 terms of like the pool the community
2:01:06 center and the um police station and
2:01:09 those are going to be some of the ones
2:01:10 that have the biggest uh projects that
2:01:13 we can pursue right
2:01:17 now did want to do time check I do know
2:01:20 some of us I think Tom and I both came
2:01:23 on bikes and it's starting to get dark
2:01:28 um Tom I
2:01:30 think how is everyone feeling about
2:01:32 continuing or and how much longer do we
2:01:35 feel like we will need to kind of get to
2:01:38 a good stopping
2:01:39 point it' be okay with five or 10
2:01:42 minutes but I guess I don't want to go
2:01:43 beyond that you got about 15 minutes of
2:01:46 daylight like when we do five five
2:01:48 minutes yeah I can do even even shorter
2:01:50 than that so our the last kind of bucket
2:01:54 in this is the decarbonization
2:01:56 assessment and this kind of relates to
2:01:57 the resolution that we are asking uh
2:02:01 Council to pass um but the decarb
2:02:04 decarbonization assessment really looks
2:02:06 at how can we uh remove um fossil fuel
2:02:13 use in our facilities right so it goes
2:02:15 even Step Beyond the energy audits to
2:02:19 ways that we can uh decarbonize our
2:02:21 buildings and look at all of those
2:02:23 different projects that will achieve
2:02:26 that for our buildings this is also
2:02:29 looking at um All City buildings right
2:02:32 so uh with the same exceptions perhaps
2:02:35 as the the benchmarking but this will be
2:02:38 looking at all buildings so that we uh
2:02:41 with the result of all of these
2:02:42 assessments layered together we should
2:02:44 have an idea on what equipment needs to
2:02:47 be replaced when what equipment is going
2:02:50 to have um the best Energy Efficiency
2:02:53 improvements what equipment needs to be
2:02:55 replaced for um decarbonization goals
2:02:58 and greenhouse gas reduction goals and
2:03:01 kind of being able to layer them all
2:03:03 together so we know when and where to
2:03:05 invest our funds yes can we add uh which
2:03:10 buildings would good to be good to have
2:03:12 distributed energy on it like solar
2:03:14 panels that is included in the
2:03:16 decarbonization assessment yeah so the
2:03:19 scoping effort for that is kind of
2:03:21 undergoing right uh underway right now
2:03:23 but that's going to be looking including
2:03:25 information on renewable energy on uh
2:03:27 municipal buildings as well as things
2:03:30 like electric vehicle charging
2:03:32 infrastructure um and electrical
2:03:34 capacity existing electrical capacity of
2:03:36 buildings and things like that love it
2:03:40 exciting my only comment is
2:03:42 departmentation should include more than
2:03:44 just buildings and so while I looked at
2:03:47 the title to Res resolution that you
2:03:49 have proposed it needs to F it needs to
2:03:51 say that it's just buildings in the
2:03:53 resolution because the city has more to
2:03:55 do on decarbonization I think we've
2:03:57 talked about equipment we've talked
2:03:59 about vehicles and I think we should be
2:04:02 going further is my suggestion to you so
2:04:04 if you want to focus on a resolution to
2:04:07 take advantage of all the work on
2:04:08 buildings being done just call it
2:04:10 decarbonization of buildings okay and
2:04:12 then next bring forward the next piece
2:04:15 of this which is decarbonization of
2:04:17 other things in the city right
2:04:19 thank
2:04:21 you great work thank you so much for
2:04:23 doing this
2:04:26 sure all right I think with that we're
2:04:29 we'll come back to that that'll be
2:04:31 something we'll take action on at the
2:04:32 next meeting thank you David um any
2:04:35 other business or anything to cover
2:04:38 reports I'll just share um I'm gonna
2:04:40 start doing updates on Council meetings
2:04:44 what's just recently happened with
2:04:45 Council what's coming up I'll send out
2:04:47 an email with with those highlights um
2:04:50 tomorrow for you um and then just to
2:04:53 know what is coming up um next meeting
2:04:57 is uh continued conversations on the
2:04:59 comp plan we'll uh look to take action
2:05:02 on the decar building decarbonization
2:05:05 resolution and then we'll also um we're
2:05:09 going to do a a intro to the sustainable
2:05:12 purchasing strategy to prepare
2:05:14 for for getting some additional input
2:05:23 awesome thank you
2:05:25 I as long as we don't have any other
2:05:27 business I think we are adjourned thank
2:05:29 you everyone thank
2:05:31 you thank you as we doing this David are
2:05:35 are you also looking at um what
2:05:38 buildings you

Attendance

Council / Members (10)
Jamie Finch
Don McQuilliams
Nancy Davidson
Anne Newcomb
Prajakta Ghatpande
Tom Anderson
Alix Lee-Tigner
Ashwin Kannan
Janet Wall
Ashwin Manoharan* (unexcused absence)
Staff (4)
Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager
David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator
Thomas Rush, Communications Manager
Stephen Padua, Long Range Planner
Excused
Joy Lewis
Dixie Bair
Audience commenters (1)
VYNNE MCKINSTRY

Recommendations & actions (10)

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  • The minutes were approved as presented by unanimous consent.
  • PADUA walked through all the goals proposed to be in the new Environment element, section by section, and highlight any changes that might have been made if these goals were moved from other elements.
  • Board Member FINCH noted that for the Steams, Wetlands and Wildlife section could benefit for clearer targets that efforts could be directed at.
  • Board Member DAVIDSON recommended incorporating language around enhancing wetland buffers instead of just the wetlands themselves.
  • Board Member FINCH recommended that the Land Use element include policies and goals that could help encourage community members and businesses reduce their GHG emissions.
  • Board Member NEWCOMB recommended a policy based on tracking PSE to ensure an energy transition.
  • Board Member GHATPANDE recommended a policy that would pass along city sustainability goals to contractors and those working with the City of Issaquah.
  • Board Member DAVIDSON recommended policies that would leverage city advocacy to drive action and innovation in the city.
  • Board Members DAVIDSON and MCQUILLIAMS asked staff to include a review of pump stations in the assessments.
  • Board Member DAVIDSON additionally recommended that the name of the resolution brought before the board be updated to reflect that it solely addresses existing municipal buildings versus a city-wide decarbonization…