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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

6:30 PM
Topic tracked across meetings:
Natural Environment Checklist Annual Update (D) AB 8703 6/6
Section
Topic
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of August 14, 2024
packet pp.3–5
Staff report:
were removed from the memo. These were primarily focused on new policy proposals as well as proposals to strengthen policies. Staff felt more
2b
Minutes of September 19, 2024 (Special Meeting)
packet pp.7–8
Staff report:
Facilitated by: Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator City of Issaquah Board and Commission Staff Liaisons Present board members and commissioners split up into small groups by Strategic Plan goal area aligned with the policy area of expertise for their board or commission. They then discussed the clarity of the objectives and actions in the recommended update, as well as the alignment between actions and objectives. They discussed potential areas where clarity or better alignment are needed, and proposed potential edits and revisions to the draft update.
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Natural Environment Checklist Annual Update (D)
45 min · Doug Yormick, Environmental Planner, Community Planning and Development · packet pp.9–39
Staff report:
tab include the measurement of total impervious materials removed from the critical area and/or it’s buffer, and the total number of trees planted. These examples provide a couple of simple measurements that may assist in the evaluation of the policies, goals, and codes, once the dataset grows. The evaluation of such examples can provide quantitative data to staff and City Boards or Commissions, helping draw conclusions on the effectiveness of critical area codes.
4b
Riparian Assessment Report
Information · 30 min · Doug Yormick, Environmental Planner, Community Planning & Development · packet pp.41–57
Topics: Water
Staff report:
City of Issaquah: Riparian Assessment and Recommendations (Phase 2) Oct o b e r 2024
4c
Environmental Board Annual Report and Self Assessment (D)
20 min · Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager & Environmental Board Staff Liaison · packet pp.59–76
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5. REPORTS
5a
Sustainable Infrastructure Policy Update
packet pp.77–78
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5b
Solar Feasibility Study Update
packet pp.79–80
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5c
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Update
packet pp.81–82
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5d
PSE Community Solar and EV Pole Charging Project Updates
packet pp.83–84
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5e
Electrification Incentives Update
packet pp.85–86
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5f
Stormwater Permit Update
packet pp.87–89
Topics: Land UseWater
Staff report:
Public Works P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
5g
Environmental Board Workplan
packet pp.91–95
Staff report:
APPROVED: 3/13/2024 REVISED: 8/7/2024
5h
Youth Report
0:05 okay goe and get started welcome to the
0:07 October 9th meeting of the Esco
0:09 environmental board I'm Don mcams will
0:11 be chairing tonight's meeting um due to
0:13 our hybrid format of today's meeting I'd
0:15 like to start by providing some
0:16 guidelines we have participants in the
0:18 room as well as those attending
0:20 virtually for all meeting attending
0:22 please speak clearly pause frequently
0:24 state your name each time before
0:25 speaking for those in the room please
0:27 raise your name card to indicate you
0:29 have an interest speak for those virtual
0:32 u m microphones when you're not speaking
0:34 um and then just raise your hand
0:36 virtually and'll call on you there if
0:38 you're having technical issues try
0:40 joining the meeting from a different
0:41 device uh or you can use the call-in
0:44 information invite as
0:48 well as we go through the the topics
0:50 tonight we'll summarize as needed around
0:52 the recommendation of each
0:56 topic Stacy and do we have any public
0:59 comments to
1:00 no can I give one public comment yes do
1:03 you want me to roll call First yeah
1:07 okay uh Tomy
1:11 Anderson
1:12 here Nancy Davidson has an excused
1:15 absence Jamie Finch herea fondi here
1:20 Kiran pan here Mina June here Don
1:23 McWilliams Dixie
1:26 bear here Alex Lee tigner
1:31 here and new has an excused absence
1:34 Keith
1:36 Gonzalez
1:38 here John Smith here and John sitting as
1:41 a regular member tonight and
1:47 we John okay um speaking as a public for
1:51 public comment I just wanted to to let
1:53 people know that um I will be hosting an
1:56 a litter cleanup program on Saturday at
2:00 nine o'clock we meet at the post office
2:02 on Northwest Gilman we'll meet there
2:05 we've done this now every month for the
2:07 last three years so this will be our
2:09 36th event I think we might have missed
2:12 one for weather um but um the way it
2:15 works is you uh show up maybe bring some
2:19 gloves um and a trash bag or two um and
2:23 then we'll meet there uh talk for a bit
2:26 and then split up and move around town
2:28 and pick up later this will be a good
2:30 probably a good week for litter because
2:32 we had Sal and days last week and
2:34 there's probably a little bit here and
2:35 there so um again this is just not
2:38 affiliated with the city of isqua it's
2:41 more of a Grassroots Spate that I've
2:43 been doing so while that's it thank
2:48 you John I just had one question so is
2:51 it every Saturday you the first Saturday
2:53 of every month Saturday this is actually
2:55 the second Saturday we' moved it a week
2:58 because of s okay
3:06 okay next up I have approval of minutes
3:08 is there any comments um we have two
3:11 sets of minutes from previously so our
3:13 last meeting here and then the special
3:15 meeting for those that attended over at
3:24 U man I'll take a mes
3:31 all right Doug you're up Doug's going to
3:33 talk to us about the natural environment
3:34 checklist annual
3:40 update it's load in right
3:47 now all
3:51 right good evening everyone I'm Doug
3:53 Yori I'm environmental planner with
3:55 Community planning and developments um
3:58 and I'm here to discuss um critical
4:02 areas tracking and
4:08 monitoring um so the purpose is to
4:11 provide the environmental board with um
4:14 an annual review of all projects that
4:16 went through uh our community meeting
4:19 formerly preap community meeting um that
4:22 are level two permits or level two and
4:25 above permits that have critical areas
4:27 on site and that is requ ired by
4:32 code the agenda for this meeting we kind
4:36 of just go over the just a quick
4:39 overview of the checklist um provide an
4:42 update on Title 18 and what we did with
4:45 the community meeting code and then get
4:48 into um how the spreadsheet is organized
4:51 for tracking and monitoring of of these
4:53 projects over
4:56 time um so we are still utilizing the
4:59 natural environment checklist that the
5:01 environmental board worked with
5:03 Christian GES a former planning
5:05 manager um so as planning staff when we
5:09 hold these meetings we fill out all of
5:11 the information that's on this form and
5:15 then upload it to the project file and
5:17 then we can take that information and
5:19 start plugging it into the permit
5:22 tracking soft or
5:25 spreadsheet um this year we did some
5:29 housekeeping amendments to Title 18 and
5:31 one of them was we changed the preep
5:33 community meeting to just a community
5:35 meeting and now it can be submitted pre
5:39 or post permit submitt um if it's
5:42 provided before we'll hold the meeting
5:45 um if it's if they submit a permit and
5:50 we recognize that this meeting is needed
5:52 staff will just go ahead and schedule
5:54 that meeting within 60 days of permit
5:56 submitt and we'll hold the meeting at
5:58 that point um we didn't change any of
6:00 the requirements for the levels of
6:03 review so for all level two and above
6:05 land use permits that have critical
6:07 areas on site um these meetings are
6:11 still
6:12 required can I ask you what level can
6:15 you explain level yeah so there are for
6:18 for land use permits there are different
6:21 levels of review which just who's the
6:23 decision maker um for level two that's
6:26 administrative with public notice so
6:29 staff is the decision maker um but will
6:32 provide public notice whether that's
6:34 notice of application um posting a sign
6:37 on the property um and then we take
6:41 public comments level one is also staff
6:44 but there is no real public involvement
6:46 and those tend to be more on like
6:48 building
6:49 permits um and then as you get higher
6:52 levels levels three and four are Quasi
6:55 judicial whether it's he examiners the
6:57 final decision maker or development
6:59 commission and then level five is um
7:02 city council is a decision maker thank
7:11 y um for tracking and monitoring
7:16 um I did update this spreadsheet um from
7:20 the last time that you saw it when
7:22 Christian presented it last year um I
7:25 felt that I could capture um a project
7:29 throughout its entire phase going from
7:32 the preliminary information that we get
7:34 at one of these meetings or at initial
7:36 permit sub mitt through construction
7:38 permit and then ultimately to the
7:40 tracking portion which is once once the
7:43 project has been completed in the
7:45 mitigation measures have been installed
7:47 there's a period of time where we have
7:49 to monitor that so I think having a tab
7:52 and and kind of creating that and I'm
7:55 probably going to work on that a little
7:56 bit more to capture more of the
7:58 information that we get from these
8:00 monitoring reports and then also
8:03 probably provide Links of some kind so
8:05 then you can review these monitoring
8:06 reports as they come in as
8:10 well um so that's kind of how it's it's
8:13 separated now where we have the
8:15 preliminary information um approve
8:18 projects and that's once it goes through
8:21 land use approval it still might be in
8:23 the per like construction permit phase
8:25 but at least at that point the materials
8:27 have been reviewed mitigation plans have
8:30 been reviewed and City reports have been
8:32 peer
8:35 reviewed I kind of just went over this
8:38 um a little bit so um early stage in the
8:41 project um this is where we'll get input
8:44 from community members as well since the
8:46 community is invited to um attend these
8:50 meetings and a lot of the information is
8:54 subject to change based on you know peer
8:57 review um once we start analyzing the
9:00 code does building have to shrink does
9:02 access have to change to a different
9:04 location which may change the amount of
9:06 impacts to the critical areas so
9:10 um this this will
9:12 be um this will change over time or has
9:15 the potential to change over time um
9:19 once we go through land use approval and
9:21 all of those documents have been
9:23 reviewed um It's Kind it's mostly set in
9:27 stone at that point there isn't going to
9:29 be a lot of change um from that point
9:31 forward so we're we're comfortable with
9:34 saying that that's final we've
9:36 identified the mitigation measures we
9:38 know what the mitigation plans are and
9:40 the performance standards that will be
9:43 um reviewed um and then we can use this
9:46 as a comparison between the preliminary
9:49 information that we get and then the
9:50 approved once all of the documents have
9:53 been reviewed um and then in that
9:55 spreadsheet I tried to capture that so
9:58 you would you'll see what the number is
10:01 um for say impervious surface or or
10:05 floor area ratio and then I'll show the
10:07 difference between the preliminary and
10:10 the approved in
10:13 parentheses and then the final
10:17 um this is where we're going to add data
10:19 to track the project through its
10:21 maintenance and monitoring period um so
10:24 critical areas will require a minimum of
10:27 five years of Maintenance and monitoring
10:29 ing that's done by the developer after
10:31 the project has been
10:33 complete they provide us with reports
10:36 yearly um a colleague of mine and I go
10:39 out to the site to verify the findings
10:41 of of the report and see if it's
10:44 actually meeting performance standards
10:45 and then come up with strategies if it's
10:47 not meeting performance standards and
10:49 that's that's something that I would
10:51 like to eventually capture in this final
10:53 tab um so that next time I present this
10:55 to you you can see like some of these
10:58 sites you know
10:59 at year
11:01 three something happened something
11:03 changed on the ground we had significant
11:06 die off or maybe an impact that we
11:09 didn't recognize occurred and now we
11:11 have to kind of go back and and and
11:13 figure it out fix it and then get the
11:16 project back
11:18 again um so it's really Our Hope with
11:21 this is that we can really start
11:22 tracking all of these sites over time
11:25 throughout the maintenance and
11:27 monitoring period
11:29 so that goes to now the review um so we
11:35 had a total of five projects that went
11:38 through the community meeting that had
11:41 critical areas on site um we have
11:44 another one planned soon I believe that
11:46 meeting will be next week um so that
11:50 I'll include that in next year's update
11:53 um two of the projects that we had this
11:55 year were reasonable use exceptions so
11:58 those are a little a little bit
11:59 different because in in those there is
12:02 no reasonable reasonable use left of the
12:06 property so there are going to be at in
12:09 some cases significant impacts to the
12:11 critical areas one of them is going to
12:13 be a wetland fill for a single family
12:15 home not the entire Wetland but a good
12:17 portion of the Wetland and another
12:20 project that went through this was
12:22 constructing a home in a steep slope
12:25 critical steep slope critical
12:27 area um
12:31 how do you determine what becomes
12:33 reasonable
12:34 use that's for there's
12:38 um a list of criteria that's in the code
12:42 that the applicant provides responses to
12:45 ultimately it's a hearing examiner
12:47 decision so um so it's quasi quasi
12:50 judicial and um so what we did with I'll
12:55 take the one that actually went all the
12:56 way through and we had the hearing
12:59 couple of months ago um we analyzed the
13:02 square footage of all of the homes in
13:04 the neighborhood most of the homes were
13:06 constructed before we had critical area
13:09 regulations um so they didn't have to go
13:12 through something similar but their land
13:13 Topography is almost exactly the same so
13:16 what was the size of the home
13:18 constructed there amount of footprints
13:20 amount of impervious surface and we kind
13:22 of landed at the median so the applicant
13:26 Revis their plans to show that they're
13:28 imp kind of fell in the middle of what
13:31 was constructed in the immediate
13:34 surroundings um I think they looked at
13:36 20 something HS for
13:38 that um so that's how we did it with in
13:42 that project and we'll probably do
13:43 something similar in and the other
13:45 reasonable use exception that's a
13:47 wetland fill look at the surrounding
13:50 area what's the size of the home
13:53 and kind of find a a middle ground where
13:57 there's your minimizing but still
14:00 allowing for a single
14:07 family um so basically um so I had a
14:11 question associated with what Don asked
14:14 um so is is the National Environmental
14:17 checklist needed only for the critical
14:20 areas development or is it needed for
14:23 all construction or you know
14:25 Redevelopment projects we use it for uh
14:29 development projects that have critical
14:31 areas adjacent so um if there's critical
14:35 areas within 300 feet of that project
14:37 site that checklist would have to be
14:39 filled out whether or not there's going
14:41 to be impacts in those critical
14:47 areas Jonathan were there any um so
14:51 there's three projects that were
14:52 approved in 20124 were there any that
14:54 were not approved or you know shot down
14:58 no not
15:05 that um so going into that so three
15:10 previously reported projects that were
15:11 in the preliminary stages when Christian
15:14 presented last year are now under
15:17 construction um and that's Hillside Park
15:20 improvements Newport wave Landslide um
15:24 permits and the highla storm water pump
15:27 station those three have been approved
15:31 by by us and hila is still awaiting
15:35 outside jurisdiction approval before
15:37 we'll issue the permits um but all of
15:40 their impacts have been evaluated and
15:42 mitigated um so once those permits have
15:45 been issued you'll see the you know the
15:48 next year it will be the mitigation
15:50 plans that are coming in so that would
15:52 that that would move to the final
15:54 summary so we can start tracking the
15:57 progress of of the mitigation cycle
16:01 those three projects City projects or
16:03 private all three of those are City
16:09 projects and then that any
16:16 questions you walk through the
16:18 spreadsheet oh
16:21 yes no no
17:01 does not show up very well on a laptop
17:03 screen when you're
17:06 sharing zoom in maybe in the top section
17:09 to walk through the columns might be
17:11 helpful
17:12 yeah so I highlight the four projects
17:16 that went through um one of these
17:20 meetings for this year the Northwest
17:22 Perfection Colwood they want to do the
17:24 lower right hand there's the zoom bar oh
17:28 there it is
17:32 Tom I see your hand we'll get to you
17:34 here in just a
17:35 sec so the highlighted projects are this
17:39 year that were not presented last year's
17:42 I've kept the remaining or all of the
17:46 ones that were presented last year on
17:48 here as well and as they move
17:51 through the the whole permit process
17:54 they'll move to different tabs at that
17:57 point um so we're still a lot of these
18:01 are still under review and haven't
18:03 haven't gone through land use approv we
18:05 have but as they do they'll they'll
18:07 start to move um so we
18:12 capture all the critical area
18:15 information so the Cara flood Hazard
18:18 stream um and then staff will put in the
18:22 information that is known at that time
18:25 what the impacts are to those specific
18:28 critical are areas um and again this is
18:32 most of this information is preliminary
18:34 and it hasn't been reviewed and
18:37 then um so it will be subject to change
18:41 and you'll see that how it changes when
18:43 you get to the approved projects
18:48 Tab and then we're also capturing still
18:53 um any of the other impacts to wildlife
18:57 habitat mitigation Court
18:59 um light and glare Scenic resources and
19:04 we also capture um tree information
19:08 impervious surface and then building
19:10 information uh size of the building
19:12 number of units parking height
19:19 Etc Tom did you want to ask a
19:22 question uh yeah so refresh my memory on
19:27 uh what happens post project as the
19:30 years tick by and the project is
19:34 reviewed um I know we talked before
19:37 about process Improvement and let's see
19:40 as we review this project after it's
19:43 implemented let's look at what worked
19:45 well what didn't work well how can we
19:47 improve the process uh from what we've
19:49 learned from that how would that be
19:52 reflected in this is that is that like a
19:55 totally different tracking mechanism or
19:57 would you add CS to the spreadsheet to
20:00 talk about what worked well and what
20:03 didn't work well uh could you remind me
20:07 about on that yeah um so I wasn't
20:12 completely familiar with how Christian
20:14 was going to do it um so my thought and
20:18 that's what I was starting to do with
20:19 this spreadsheet I would like it to be
20:21 all in one place um so I would like this
20:24 spreadsheet to move with the project
20:27 throughout the its permit history at
20:30 land use at construction and then once
20:33 everything is is completed um so the
20:37 information that I think you're you're
20:40 asking about is what I want to put in
20:43 the final summary Tab and that's what
20:45 I'm going to start to capture and I'm
20:46 going to probably revise this final
20:50 summary tab keep all of the information
20:52 that's currently there but also add some
20:55 more information so that we can better
20:59 understand it especially when we have
21:00 discussions at um this meeting um
21:04 anything that we find throughout the
21:06 year with these monitoring reports where
21:09 can um have that located in one place so
21:13 we can all do it see what's working
21:15 what's not and you
21:18 know try to create solutions to um
21:24 whether that's code related
21:27 policy okay okay thank
21:34 you
21:36 Jamie thank you Doug you putting
21:38 together that one of the things I think
21:40 is a bit difficult is that you don't
21:42 have a lot of the history I think of the
21:43 feedback that we've given to Christian
21:45 in the past on on this document I mean I
21:48 think going into this year I I think we
21:52 all felt as a board I think we actually
21:54 said this and like we put together kind
21:56 of a plan or
21:59 overview of what we were hoping to
22:00 accomplish and one of them was
22:02 revisiting just how and what is in this
22:04 natural environment checklist because I
22:06 think in the years that we've had it
22:08 going it hasn't like it hasn't opened
22:11 the door to really big insights again
22:13 and some of what Christian was saying is
22:15 that it's going to take time to build up
22:17 the history but I do question whether
22:20 we're going to be able to get a whole
22:22 lot out of the document as it currently
22:26 is um and one thing that I
22:29 like I I think back to when we went
22:30 through Title 18 and I can't remember
22:32 the woman's name but we had someone from
22:34 the like permit someone that was
22:35 actually the plan
22:37 reviewer like we I think we learned more
22:40 during that meeting about how people are
22:43 actually using the code and like the
22:45 ways that people are kind of getting
22:47 around and the impacts that we're seeing
22:49 as a result so I'm just I'm not sure
22:53 that this is a tracking document seems
22:55 valuable but I'm not sure that this on
22:57 its own feels like we're going to be
22:59 able to get um a ton of insight out of
23:02 and get like the policy insights that we
23:04 might need to to like figure out oh
23:06 there's a problem with a Title 18 on
23:09 this in this area whatever so and Stacey
23:12 feel free to interject yeah and and I
23:15 think that's maybe kind of The Next Step
23:17 that needs to come out of the final
23:18 summary sheet um is what the board Jamie
23:22 was saying the board really appreciated
23:24 with that stack narrative um and so
23:27 having kind of data and place but then
23:30 the associated memo that would come with
23:32 that and I think that could come through
23:33 the next um at the next step of the
23:36 presentation of this but how are things
23:39 being applied on the ground what are the
23:40 potential changes staff see being needed
23:43 and that's been the
23:45 discussion yeah the other topic area I
23:48 was curious on was I know Urban Forest
23:50 management plan is
23:52 not confirmed yet but how is that going
23:56 to be incorporated into this and part of
23:57 the reason I asked that is understand
24:00 this checklist is just looking at where
24:01 there's impacts to critical areas now
24:03 pretty much any Redevelopment any
24:06 development project is going to impact
24:08 free canopy and so are we are we going
24:11 to try to find a way to track how
24:13 whatever both the the title 18 aspects
24:15 of power managing tree canopy and
24:17 whatever else comes out of her Forest
24:19 management plan is that going to be
24:20 something that gets tracked here and
24:22 yeah what is what is Dan are there are
24:25 columns on here that he's wanting to
24:26 track and does it need to on different
24:28 projects I'm just curious on your
24:30 thoughts on how we how we might like as
24:32 that get that plan gets finalized how we
24:34 incorporate that yeah we we are tracking
24:37 with with this spreadsheet um tree
24:42 canopy predevelopment
24:44 are they requesting any
24:47 reductions um I think that we could add
24:49 more information on here regarding tree
24:52 canopy um but it's only going to capture
24:56 at least for for this it's only going to
24:57 capture
24:59 what um the projects that
25:02 qualify to present so it's going to be
25:05 level two permits and above with critic
25:07 so that would that would have to be a
25:09 conversation that we'd have um to expand
25:13 looking at specific projects when it
25:16 comes to tree canopy as staff when we
25:19 when we review building permits um any
25:22 permit really like we are looking at
25:25 tree canopy for each individual sub area
25:28 they need to meet it if they can't
25:29 additional trees have to be planted so
25:32 we're looking at that but we aren't
25:33 tracking any of any of that outside of
25:37 once the permit is finaled inspectors go
25:40 out make sure that the trees are in the
25:41 ground you know yeah no I I think Nei
25:45 for Stacy or Doug like this seemed like
25:47 a conversation that should be had with
25:49 Dan
25:50 around how this is going to whether this
25:53 is in the National environment checklist
25:54 or not like I actually think this it
25:56 might be a good place to track like
25:57 maybe it's just the what how what's the
26:00 outcomes of like the the the canopy
26:03 related parts of like plans that are
26:05 level
26:06 one but some it seems like there's going
26:08 to need need to be some sort of tracking
26:10 for that for us to be effective and
26:12 evaluating what changes might need to be
26:14 made to to hit the goals that are going
26:16 to be in that plan so seems like it
26:18 might might be a different level it's
26:21 not obviously going to be all those
26:22 columns type plan just something to
26:25 think about as that plan together so
26:28 and the last thing that and this more of
26:31 a Stacy question like I do think one of
26:33 the questions like a natural environment
26:35 checklist kind of
26:38 implies like this is kind of building
26:40 plans and like like a natural
26:44 environment checklist might include
26:45 other things and so like I I don't know
26:47 if like impacts the while like tracking
26:50 things like what's happened to the Bears
26:53 with like are there any other things
26:55 that we should be thinking about I know
26:57 that's not the original intention of the
26:58 checklist
27:00 but that was just something I was
27:02 curious about is are there other things
27:03 that we feel like we should be checking
27:05 check trekking to like really feel like
27:07 this is a checklist on how the natural
27:10 environment has like how how is get
27:12 Squad done um and in relation to like I
27:16 think it's a the thing that comes to
27:18 mind which I think is just a huge shame
27:19 is like the people don't know that like
27:21 them leaving their trash cans out is
27:23 resulting in euthanizations of wild
27:25 animals are we tracking those types of
27:27 things and other impacts the wildlife
27:29 that uh that we might be able to to also
27:32 use this as something as a resource for
27:34 spreading awareness in the community
27:37 so just so something because I think
27:40 right now the data for this is permit
27:43 data where weing other things that might
27:46 those might be items we could report
27:48 through the Strategic plan through other
27:50 data um it might get we can talk more
27:54 about it might get a little bit
27:55 complicated for mixing dat I think thing
27:58 that we could think about is the other
28:00 topic we have this year it's like our
28:01 annual report are there elements outside
28:03 of this checklist that we want to be
28:06 making of it like that that's the report
28:09 uh part of the report is some things
28:11 that aren't being tracked
28:13 FKS yeah we
28:17 can any other questions comments
28:20 pressure so I just wanted to add
28:22 something to what Jimmy said because
28:24 when I looked at the spreadsheet also I
28:27 had the same question you know the
28:28 number of projects seem small like so my
28:32 question was is it over just the last
28:34 year or what time period are these
28:37 projects um so several of these projects
28:40 go back
28:41 to um
28:44 20121 um the ones that are highlighted
28:48 are just the ones that we had this year
28:50 we have more Community meetings than
28:53 what's shown on here it's just not
28:57 there's no critical areas on site so
29:00 we're not we're not tracking any of
29:03 the the mitigation measures because
29:06 there there aren't any there isn't
29:08 anything to to review um so we could I
29:13 mean because there there's things on
29:15 here that describe building size and and
29:18 that's all information that we know um
29:21 so this is just me being skeptic and
29:24 what I'm adding to what Jamie said was
29:26 and that is what I was thinking about to
29:28 that you know are there any Elements
29:31 which are not listed in the you know
29:34 criteria which is allowing some of the
29:36 projects to just pass through you know
29:39 and mean this is just a question I don't
29:41 know exactly how it's working out but
29:43 when I looked at this I thought H just
29:46 five so you know um so I'm just
29:49 questioning that if we want to uh take
29:53 again one more look at it to make sure
29:55 everything is considered as for as
29:58 critical areas of what needs to be man
30:00 monitored is being
30:03 Mon and as you build your summary tab
30:06 one of the early asks was um to have a
30:09 dashboard if you will a visual dashboard
30:11 that you could easily look at and kind
30:13 of say how we doing to date okay so
30:17 whether that's by year or grand total
30:19 you know number of trees gained versus
30:21 lost type of thing um land mitigated and
30:25 you have the tabs up there
30:28 um that would be very helpful for us to
30:31 look at a report to just see it in a in
30:33 a high level view rather than try to dig
30:35 through
30:37 spreadsheet just quick comment on what
30:40 uh what Don was saying what might also
30:42 be helpful is the commentary that that
30:44 Stacy was saying could be the next step
30:46 I actually think the staff if there's
30:49 like a executive summary of that
30:51 commentary that we can see over time
30:53 that might be even more valuable than
30:56 the we talked about this the last three
30:58 years why haven't we done anything that
31:01 like we've been seeing the same PE the
31:03 the same actions being taken uh that
31:05 aren't kind of in line with what we're
31:07 wanting to see should we Beal so I think
31:10 totally agree with Don I wouldn't stick
31:12 just to the dashboard kind of data
31:13 reporting I think it would be also
31:15 really valuable to have whatever we
31:17 decide to do on the kind of commentary
31:20 or staff over
31:25 overw other questions comments
31:30 overall thank you for the effort um this
31:32 is definitely a much more robust
31:34 spreadsheet than what we saw last time
31:36 so I like the the way it's going you
31:39 guys are seriously putting some thought
31:41 into this which is great yeah I'm I'm
31:42 Gonna Keep at it and and just try to
31:46 make it better especially that final
31:47 summary tab um it would be nice to be
31:51 able to capture you know just you were
31:53 saying add the visual dashboard add the
31:56 executive summary it but also just like
32:00 have because we'll we receive
32:02 information as these sites are being
32:04 monitored and it would be nice to have
32:07 like a a place for you click on it go to
32:11 it you can see what the report says how
32:14 the site is functioning is it meeting
32:16 performance standards then you would be
32:18 able to see that um and see what the
32:21 information that comes into
32:22 us so I I will keep working on that
32:26 final summary tab the information that's
32:28 contained within the spreadsheet that's
32:30 here now is going to remain there it's
32:33 just I'm going to add try to add things
32:37 to may get better thank you thank
32:42 you quick question for the board we've
32:45 um in the fast TR to schedule this
32:47 discussion annually for about August
32:51 does that seem right I'm thinking maybe
32:53 we could do a written update and report
32:56 back out on progress from the feedback
32:59 tonight and then do another presentation
33:01 in person in August or would the board
33:03 like to see this topic come
33:06 back I Look to Doug for that when's the
33:09 best time for us to see
33:12 this I mean I can come back with um with
33:17 the spreadsheet before August and kind
33:20 of show what I've done with the final
33:23 summary and see if it works for you and
33:26 if there's something else that you would
33:28 want to see in it too um you can tell me
33:31 at that point and then I can come back
33:32 with the version um and then do the
33:35 actual reporting in
33:42 August
33:45 okay all right Doug you get to stay on
33:48 stage for us and right into a reparan
33:56 assessment okay didn't know if Doug if
33:58 you want to introduce this project or if
34:00 you just want me to launch right into it
34:02 just launch right into it Don okay um hi
34:06 nice to meet everybody virtually um I'm
34:09 Don spillsbury poochie I work with
34:11 fathet and which used to be the
34:13 Watershed company when we first started
34:15 this project with you all um and I will
34:18 just pull up I can share my screen I'm
34:21 assuming that's so right with you
34:24 all um let me do screening here
34:35 and trying to get it to
34:44 switch there we go so are you all seeing
34:47 now the the right presentation yes okay
34:50 okay fantastic thanks for your patience
34:53 um so yeah the so the project that I'm
34:57 here to talk about um maybe get some
34:59 initial feedback um is about is called
35:03 the the city what we're calling the city
35:06 of isqua reping assessment and
35:09 recommendations and where this comes
35:12 from
35:14 is uh it's kind it's part two of the CAO
35:18 update that was uh kind of hidden
35:21 milestone in 2022 there was a best
35:24 available science review and gaps
35:26 analysis that was done some um uh
35:30 riparian buffer wids were adopted um
35:34 into code for the under the critical
35:36 area ordinance at the same time there
35:39 was some significant riparian ecosystem
35:41 guidance coming out from DFW and they
35:44 this is the name of their um document
35:46 and I don't know if it's has been a big
35:48 topic of of um uh conversation here in
35:53 isqua but it has been in other places
35:55 and it's uh revolves around their
35:57 guidance has said a few things um the
36:02 gist is that rather
36:04 than assigning buffer wids on a whether
36:09 a stream is fish um habitat or not it
36:13 says that they recommend that buffer
36:16 Woods be assigned based on the site
36:18 class based on um which is uh related to
36:21 the trees that grow on the riparian area
36:24 so how the r the buffer should be the
36:28 width of a 200y old tree in that area so
36:34 um that changes based on your soil
36:37 classes depends on what trees you grow
36:39 and how big they can get within that 200
36:41 years hence we have this variable buffer
36:43 that they recommend um and that is in
36:47 recognition that it's not just instream
36:49 habitat that they're trying to protect
36:50 we're trying to protect the other
36:51 riparian ecosystem elements so
36:54 amphibians and travel corridors and leaf
36:57 litter and you know it's not just the
36:59 instream shade and complexity so this is
37:03 a little bit of a shift um it's
37:05 considered best available science uh now
37:08 and so it kind of came out at the same
37:10 time that the 2022 CAO were adopted so I
37:14 believe and I wasn't here at the
37:15 beginning of this project but I believe
37:17 the idea was to take a look at what
37:20 those would look like what those what we
37:22 call the spth so site potential tree
37:25 height at 200 years spth um what spth
37:30 buffers would look like compared to what
37:33 the buffers the new regulatory with
37:36 buffers the 150 or the 75 to um 50 feet
37:40 depending on the stream type and then
37:43 recognizing that those areas might be
37:47 different um in those areas that where
37:51 the spth would be wider than regulatory
37:53 buffers is there some kind of voluntary
37:57 e logical lift that we could get um by
38:01 different strategies or different
38:02 actions and so also within the stream
38:07 itself so what kind of what kind of
38:10 things can we do can we tailor to the
38:12 stream in that particular part of the
38:14 streams um to get this ecological
38:19 lift so that's kind of the gist of this
38:23 report um the and I say report I'll
38:27 project probably because it's not just
38:29 we don't want to just give you a big 90
38:31 page document because those aren't very
38:33 very fun or useful um although some of
38:36 the pictures are great but um so this
38:40 project has a few different elements to
38:42 it so one is we looked at the comparison
38:45 and we mapped out the comparison between
38:47 what the regulatory
38:49 buff site potential treeh high at 200
38:52 years looks like so we have a GIS
38:54 comparison of that and I have a
38:55 screenshot to show you in a minute um
38:58 then what would those areas of set
39:01 potential tree height we called them
39:02 riparian benefit zones um trying to get
39:06 away from the word buffer because they
39:07 are not regulatory at this point uh so
39:10 what where where are those on the
39:12 landscape so what and what kind of land
39:14 use and elements and all that what does
39:16 it look like under that that kind of
39:19 overlay and then what are the limiting
39:22 factors uh in each of those reaches and
39:27 um what can we suggest or what can we do
39:30 that might result in a lift and so then
39:33 we also included a a large chunk of the
39:36 report are um we broke out some of the
39:38 strategies that popped up into grouping
39:41 we grouped them and gave some
39:43 descriptions and some photos and um some
39:47 examples from around the country and
39:49 some other places as well in Europe some
39:52 International ones uh to kind of give
39:53 some um
39:55 inspiration and then
39:57 also how what what could we be doing to
40:02 look at funding these so what are some
40:03 of the funding strategies that could be
40:04 incorporated or could be
40:08 utilized so uh actually before I go on
40:10 does anybody have any questions about
40:12 kind of the the parts of this or the
40:15 purpose or yeah we got a question for
40:18 you
40:18 Don hi Don um so if you can elaborate a
40:23 little bit on you know what really the
40:26 are why is is it important right why is
40:29 it saving the ridan um important and the
40:33 benefits the real benefits and also you
40:36 mentioned something about the 200 year
40:39 I'm guessing trees right so why is that
40:42 the magic number I mean this is just for
40:45 information I wish I could tell you that
40:49 um as to why that number was used um let
40:53 me go to the next slide and it explains
40:55 a little bit uh gives a little bit more
40:57 visual on that site potential tree
41:00 height
41:01 um so the fishing department of fishion
41:05 wallet there's a two huge two volume
41:09 um what's the word I'm looking for
41:11 compendium on this site potential tree
41:13 height concept and I don't I can't tell
41:18 you off the top of my head why where the
41:21 200 year comes from um I because Forest
41:26 DNR for practices uses a different site
41:28 potential tree height year value um so
41:32 I'm not really sure so I'd have to refer
41:34 you back to that document to why this
41:36 200 is uh is what it is the first volume
41:40 is all about that science and then how
41:42 did they establish what that height
41:45 actually is of a 200y old tree per um
41:49 per soil type polygon and um it's also
41:53 based on the slope of the land at that
41:57 time time as well and they vary these
41:59 buffer widths vary and so that's what
42:01 this blue column is here um on there we
42:07 go uh this blue column right here this
42:09 is the range of buffer wids um the that
42:15 are within isqua Creeks um and then the
42:19 yellow is what your buffer wids are
42:21 currently so the biggest Gap in
42:25 where the new this new best available
42:30 science um exceeds what you're already
42:33 what you're protecting at with your
42:34 regulatory buffers are mostly in the
42:36 type end streams up high luckily for you
42:40 all um those are usually up in your
42:43 protected areas or conserv your
42:45 conserved areas and your your Hills
42:47 where they aren't there aren't a lot of
42:49 devel there isn't a lot of development
42:51 so it don't I don't know about the
42:54 potent the actual impact of that we did
42:56 not look at the type ends terribly close
42:59 like past the past this this kind of
43:01 comparison um and I'll get to that in a
43:04 second which which ones are the focus
43:06 Creeks that we looked
43:07 at but uh and this is really typical
43:10 there's a lot of all the jurisdictions
43:12 that fa that or is working with right
43:14 now is comprehensive plans and critical
43:16 area ordinance updates are all
43:18 struggling with this and trying to
43:21 figure out how to meet the intention of
43:24 Bas while also not resulting in a whole
43:29 bunch of um uh variances necessary in
43:34 their you know um a non-compliant lots
43:37 and such and such forth
43:41 um the way that isqua is approaching it
43:43 the way you guys are approaching it it's
43:45 really unique and it's pretty pretty
43:47 darn cool if you ask me in that you are
43:49 looking for the
43:50 voluntary um reach Beyond uh where your
43:53 regulatory buffers are you're
43:55 recognizing the fact that the best
43:57 available Sciences out there that says
43:58 these areas are important and will be
44:01 important um like looking 200 years into
44:03 the future and which is extends past the
44:06 life of a lot of the structures that are
44:08 in these areas right now so are there
44:10 things that we can do now to kind of
44:12 gear up and get these areas fully
44:16 functioning sometime in the future if
44:18 not you know if not now how far in the
44:20 future so um I don't know if that
44:23 answers your question fully or if that
44:25 helps or if I just confuse things worse
44:28 that helps and so basically but the Rian
44:31 benefit zone is because of these areas
44:35 have certain types of biodiversity or
44:38 something right isn't that's why it's
44:40 important is that why yeah yeah sry save
44:44 or P of it yes exactly because they're
44:47 they're centered around they're centered
44:49 on the streams but it's recognition that
44:52 so historically we've operated Under
44:54 fish habitat so instream habitat we we
44:57 want to protect their complexity of
44:58 their habitat in the Stream their pools
45:00 and their hiding areas of refugia we
45:02 want to protect um the shade for the
45:05 temperature of the water uh and so we
45:07 looked at just how the impact
45:10 of the the area along the stream Banks
45:14 was in service to the water itself this
45:17 new Bas is saying well no let's we need
45:19 to take a broader view yes the fish and
45:21 the instream are important but there's a
45:23 whole lot of everything a whole lot of
45:25 other pieces to the system that make it
45:27 go and make it function so we need the
45:30 amphibian habitat and that's up on the
45:33 banks so how do we protect the banks so
45:35 that so that we're looking at that the
45:37 banks and these repairing areas as a
45:40 critical Habitat to be protected in and
45:43 of themselves rather than J them just
45:46 acting as the buffer for the habitat
45:48 that we care about in the Stream So it's
45:50 adding value recognizing that the value
45:52 of these up these bank and Upstream
45:55 areas Wildlife cord ERS um water
45:58 filtration uh for to to um filter out
46:03 any chemicals of Emergen concern or
46:05 chemicals in general CC's um the
46:08 sediment we knew about before the
46:10 sediment control but um the yeah so the
46:14 bird species the other things that use
46:16 these areas they're just as important as
46:18 the sand does the the fish the salmon
46:20 that live in this stream
46:22 so thank
46:24 you coule other questions for you yeah
46:28 Alex actually was I'm sorry
46:31 Alex thank you this is Alex Lee tigner
46:34 um I I'm really excited that isqua is
46:37 taking this approach and adopting these
46:40 buffers um but I also just wanted for
46:42 clarity stake can you define Type n type
46:44 f and type S streams yes absolutely try
46:48 to be brief on the slide and that that
46:50 comes with the need for me to explain
46:51 stuff so H thank you for pointing that
46:54 out I also want to point out that we're
46:56 not it's was not necessarily adopting um
47:00 these buffers not yet or that this is
47:02 just kind of a management concept at
47:04 this point so um there's no code
47:07 language or anything like that at this
47:08 time that's going along with this um so
47:12 and then typee so there's the the water
47:16 typing in the state of Washington right
47:18 now used to be types one two 3 four and
47:21 five with one being the big shorelines
47:24 and five being the little tiny um season
47:27 streams up top up um in the upper wed so
47:30 they've switched that they switched that
47:31 about I I think it was about 15 years
47:33 Force practices led the way through the
47:35 the forest and fish report way back in
47:38 2000 and they adopted this new system of
47:41 habitat of stream typing so Type S and
47:46 then Shoreline are the big Rivers um and
47:49 creeks and water bodies that are down
47:51 low they're connected to a marine
47:52 environment they're connected to um they
47:55 have to have uh they're they're connect
47:58 how is it um there's a there's a
48:01 designation and I'm sorry I'm blanking
48:03 on it a definition of what classifies
48:05 the type S water um know that they are
48:10 managed under the um Shoreline
48:13 management act under SMA not the
48:16 GMA um and in isqua the two your two
48:20 type S Creeks because their because of
48:22 their water volume that they carry are
48:24 the main stem isaka and the east forkus
48:28 so those your two type S they are
48:29 managed under the the the that's you
48:31 have an SNP Shoreline master program for
48:35 those streams um and they have their own
48:37 sets of buffers um there then there's
48:40 the type f for fish and those are the
48:45 the T the creeks and streams and water
48:48 bodies that have that potential for
48:50 having fish habitat so they don't
48:52 actually have to have fish present they
48:53 are just fish habitat streams So in
48:55 theory if you can
48:57 fix all of the the barriers that um
49:00 their fish would be there if we weren't
49:02 you know messing stuff up for them so
49:03 those are type f and then the type ns
49:06 are non-fish and then that can actually
49:09 be broken out into NP for non-fish
49:11 perennial and NS for non-fish seasonal
49:15 but for this we're just putting them as
49:18 Type n so those are the upper so they'll
49:21 be like above a a natural barrier or a
49:24 steep slope or a waterfall uh oh not all
49:27 the time because you can have resident
49:28 fish up in there I guess so type that
49:30 anyways non-fish
49:32 habitat um so and the for this project
49:39 we were asked and we were scoped to look
49:41 at the type f streams for the Strate be
49:45 um for the characterization and the um
49:48 looking for the net ecological lift in
49:49 the strategies we were looking at a type
49:51 f only not the type S or the type
49:54 n we did look at the type S
49:57 um just briefly to see if anything was
49:59 significantly different uh in their in
50:03 their status or their characteristics um
50:06 based in comparing them to the
50:07 parametrics report that was done in
50:10 2006 um but yeah so that's why we're
50:14 looking at the type f streams
50:17 only
50:20 um and let's see so the this shows this
50:25 diagram down here this graphic is from
50:28 our from the gis analysis and so this
50:30 just kind of shows you this is Lewis
50:33 Creek um and so this is
50:35 I90 below here and then this is the the
50:39 very uh western boundary of the city
50:42 limit so Le Lewis Creek so down and
50:45 lower in Lewis Creek the buffer down
50:48 here is 150 ft the regulatory buffer
50:51 which is the yellow polygon but the site
50:54 potential tree height down in here uh
50:56 for a 200y old tree is wider than 150
50:59 it's probably
51:01 205 or 220 or something and so the RBZ
51:06 is what we were what we're calling it
51:07 extends past where the yellow is
51:09 underneath it so this would be you know
51:12 a newer area um that isn't that's
51:15 considered by be best available science
51:17 is important for riparian function but
51:20 isn't right now regulatory
51:23 protected conversely if you go Upstream
51:26 a little bit it this is where the spth
51:29 is lower than the buffers um that your
51:33 regulatory buffers Nar are actually
51:34 protecting fully protecting this area
51:38 so um and that is the case wherever
51:42 there's a green line in this diagram
51:44 over here where there's a green line
51:47 that Creek is fully protected under your
51:49 current regulatory um uh standards so
51:54 which is really great actually and these
51:56 your big fish streams as well the big S
51:58 streams so that's kind of one of the
52:00 interesting things about the site
52:01 potential tree height work and is that
52:04 it resulted um because it's based on
52:07 soil class and trees um tree Heights
52:10 after 200 years you get the big tall
52:12 trees the Furs and The Cedars and the
52:14 upper slopes the lower areas the flood
52:17 Plains the channel migration zones with
52:19 the cottonwoods and the Alders they
52:21 don't tend to get as tall so those are
52:24 tend to be narrower down there a
52:26 according to the site potential tree
52:27 height so it's kind of Converse of what
52:29 we the way we've been managing them
52:31 before so um that's something to wrestle
52:34 with later in the when uh with the S&P
52:37 updates eventually down the road so
52:40 they'll straighten it out there's still
52:41 a lot of wrangling and interpretation
52:45 happening at the state level even
52:47 between agencies the state agencies
52:49 about how to implement and interpret and
52:52 utilize this information so
52:56 ecology wrangling with it a bit
52:59 obviously thank you Don we had one other
53:01 question for you from Jamie okay I have
53:05 actually two questions for you one um
53:08 it's is the expectation at some point
53:11 that jurisdictions will start because I
53:14 think there's a bunch of language in
53:15 Title 18 about applying best available
53:17 science to Cod so is is the reason we're
53:22 not doing that now because there's not
53:23 enough like consensus on how to use this
53:27 Insight in code or I'm just curious how
53:29 and like timelines on on whether there's
53:32 other jurisdictions that are starting to
53:34 actually implement this or if everyone's
53:36 in the kind of feeling it out phase can
53:39 answer a little bit of that before you
53:41 do it just at least from the local level
53:44 yeah um so the
53:47 riparian information from wdfw came out
53:50 kind of at like the 11th Hour when we
53:52 were going through Title 18 update um we
53:55 weren't able to analyze that at that
53:58 time um to see what the impacts were we
54:02 were at that point already had the draft
54:06 critical area code out there um it was
54:08 going to be adopted you know at least
54:11 start going through the public
54:13 process um so with this information now
54:18 this will be included with any future
54:21 code updates with best available science
54:24 to create um new code amendments in the
54:27 future um we have a SNP periodic update
54:33 2029 um so that may be the time we're
54:38 going to be looking at isqua Creek and
54:39 East Fork isqua Creek um where we're
54:43 going to have to start using this best
54:44 available science on on those um once
54:48 this report comes out that's going to be
54:50 a policy discussion for us is how how
54:54 what do we want to do with this
54:55 information right now now since we've
54:57 already gone through our critical area
54:59 update as part of Title
55:01 18 we don't we we aren't on the clock to
55:05 get that done again um until our next
55:08 round which I want to say is like early
55:11 2030s and I'm not saying that that's
55:14 where we're going to wait we're going to
55:15 sit on this until then but that's when
55:18 the requirement would be um but since we
55:21 have to open things up in 2029 well
55:24 start in 2027 um that that might be an
55:26 opportunity then could be sooner um
55:30 that's going to be a discussion like
55:32 once we have this information and
55:35 see what what the report says how we can
55:38 utilize it what what is what are our
55:40 streams like now what are what are the
55:42 conditions and um so it could be even
55:46 sooner so that's the timeline that we're
55:48 working with right now which isn't
55:50 really answer question on timeline and
55:52 just throw
55:53 like but we we are using this we will be
55:56 using this for best available science
55:58 and we'll probably have to seek more
56:00 information from facet 2 as we prepare
56:03 any future code
56:05 amendments yeah I was I was gonna answer
56:08 it Doug that um the the critical area
56:11 ordinance was approved in
56:13 2022 um and you're not required under
56:17 this to incorporate in the me in between
56:20 updates you're not required to
56:21 incorporate Bas so the fact that isqua
56:23 is looking at this now as a with AR
56:26 measures it's
56:28 fantastic so I think you're ahead of the
56:32 game um
56:34 and oh thank you I think that answers my
56:38 question I had another one okay the term
56:40 ecological lift has been used and like
56:45 just looking at what the words mean I
56:47 conceptually understand it but I would
56:48 love you to maybe give me as much
56:51 context on that term as as you can yeah
56:54 sure um so
56:57 as a practical example how about this
56:59 and this is kind of jumping ahead a
57:00 little bit but
57:05 if if there's a house that's in um if
57:10 there's a if there's a yard or a house
57:12 that now falls under this RBZ overlay
57:16 that wouldn't have been there before um
57:18 well even if it wasn't even if it's
57:20 within the regulatory buffer if they can
57:23 incorporate some kind of liid when they
57:25 come for like if they want to put on a
57:27 deck or if they want to put on a new
57:29 garage but they find that their property
57:31 is now within this either the regulatory
57:33 buffer or the
57:35 RBZ is there some way that they can
57:37 mitigate that can we ask that they um
57:42 put impervious pavers on their um on
57:46 their uh driveway can we encourage them
57:48 to replace their
57:51 ornamental um plantings with um native
57:55 trees that will then eventually grow up
57:57 and be Big Trees um so and can we do
58:02 some kind of education with them can we
58:03 do some kind of cool um invasive species
58:06 control within the community that
58:08 they're not required to do right now
58:10 we're improving the system we're
58:11 improving the ecology over the current
58:14 standard so it's like a net ecological
58:16 gain but that term comes with so much
58:18 baggage that we're trying to avoid it
58:20 because it's it kind of muddies the
58:22 water a little bit um there might be
58:24 ways that in you'll see this coming up
58:27 it's storm water is a big part of the
58:30 potential improvements for isqua so
58:33 where can we encourage different storm
58:35 water um mitigation strategies and it
58:39 might be with the city itself it might
58:41 be working with neighboring
58:43 jurisdictions it might be incorporating
58:45 or bringing businesses and into the fold
58:47 and having them Step Up um and do
58:50 something differently with their
58:52 properties so it's where can we tweak
58:56 things with a voluntary effort to better
59:00 the
59:01 ecology and better the functions and the
59:06 processes thank you you're
59:10 welcome okay if my mouse would
59:14 work um see if I can advance the slide
59:17 that way yes all right so what we did is
59:21 we looked reach we we broke all of the
59:23 type f Creeks we broke them into reaches
59:26 and then we looked at and those are
59:28 based on like a break in a um a break in
59:33 land cover or land use type or a major
59:38 Crossing so Lewis Creek as an example is
59:42 um One reach here breaks under the
59:44 highway that's reach two and then it as
59:48 Lewis Creek comes back in through the
59:50 city jurisdiction up here it's that's
59:52 reach three and then we did that for
59:56 uh Schneider and Tibbits and laughing
59:59 Jacobs and Park Hill and mirwood and
1:00:04 mini Springs and I think that's
1:00:07 everybody and North Fork North Fork
1:00:09 isqua um those are our Focus Creeks but
1:00:12 oh that's the next slide getting ahead
1:00:14 of myself each of the reaches we looked
1:00:16 at we defined the characteristics that
1:00:19 you're seeing in this table here and the
1:00:20 sources that we used are um the gis it
1:00:24 was B mostly a GIS analysis using uh
1:00:28 layers available to us we looked at what
1:00:30 is the percent of the um what's the land
1:00:34 cover by type how much what percent of
1:00:37 the RBZ in that reach is mixed use which
1:00:40 how much is commercial how much is
1:00:42 Conservatory
1:00:43 conserved conservation there we go um it
1:00:48 what is the percent that's in impervious
1:00:50 surfaces how many Wetlands how much or
1:00:53 the proportion of wetlands what does the
1:00:55 slope look like
1:00:56 how what's the average wi of width of
1:00:58 the buffer that is there now if there is
1:01:00 a buffer um and then we did a heavy um
1:01:06 cre cruise through the storman surface
1:01:09 water manual U the master plan that was
1:01:12 approved in 2022 which was a fantastic
1:01:14 document by the way um and so we looked
1:01:17 to see what they noted as as issues and
1:01:20 problems um and then we went and we
1:01:22 visited all of these and got some photos
1:01:24 um not great photos because it was
1:01:26 really dark and stormy but we got photos
1:01:29 and we were able to kind of look in
1:01:31 determine what the channel
1:01:32 characteristics were kind of like in the
1:01:34 invasive species so this was the field
1:01:36 visit light you know we weren't we
1:01:38 weren't um too aggressive with the field
1:01:40 visits and so then we made so each reach
1:01:44 um each stream in the report has a table
1:01:47 that documents these uh that's
1:01:48 summarized but then then the appendix
1:01:50 there it's all numbered out as well
1:01:52 there's an appendix with a big
1:01:53 spreadsheet that has all of this in it
1:01:57 so the focus Creeks that we looked at
1:02:00 again are these ones so and then these
1:02:04 are roughly the the reaches that are
1:02:06 broken out that you're looking at um
1:02:09 obviously tibet's had the most it's got
1:02:11 the most length it's just the longest
1:02:13 one the Park Hill in southeast 50th I
1:02:16 don't know that that's actually the name
1:02:17 of this Creek so I'll just point that
1:02:18 out um that's just what we called it for
1:02:22 report so it's the one that goes in a um
1:02:27 Park Hill up
1:02:31 here so an example of what that looks
1:02:34 like um and we're going to follow this
1:02:36 section of North Fork through the
1:02:39 next so this is the characterization so
1:02:43 North Fork isqu one and fi1 which is
1:02:46 this reach here north um and we're able
1:02:50 to we we summarized the issues noted
1:02:54 that we found um
1:02:56 and um what the water specific the
1:02:59 instream water conditions were um you
1:03:03 know kind of what the invasive species
1:03:05 situation was this is a this is a sample
1:03:07 of what the the chart looks like because
1:03:09 it's quite long um and
1:03:12 numbery um and then we brainstormed
1:03:15 after we did the characterization we
1:03:17 looked at uh there was some several of
1:03:20 us from across our um what's the word
1:03:23 I'm looking for discipl in facet we got
1:03:27 together and we went Creek by or reach
1:03:30 by reach so we had a landscape architect
1:03:32 with us we had a storm water um
1:03:35 management um student uh who's also a
1:03:38 landscape architect and an arborist she
1:03:40 was with us looking at it we had a city
1:03:42 a planner um looking and we had myself
1:03:45 as an ecologist and um another a colle
1:03:49 sis analyst and we all just sat down and
1:03:51 just brainstormed what we knew from our
1:03:53 different jur disciplines what might be
1:03:57 um and that'll we'll go into the
1:03:59 restoration side of things next
1:04:02 but um so that's kind of so for example
1:04:07 North Fork isquat 2 which is the stretch
1:04:09 that comes down through here um through
1:04:12 the big Wetland comple actually it's
1:04:14 just south of the Wetland complex um
1:04:17 that's up here by that major restoration
1:04:19 that was done just recently uh so we
1:04:23 noted that there um there's a flow
1:04:25 control
1:04:26 facility on it um it's listed as uh an
1:04:31 impaired water body for dissolved oxygen
1:04:34 temperature and bacteria it's got a lot
1:04:37 of blackberries read canary grass so a
1:04:39 lot of invasive species happening there
1:04:41 there's a devoid in the channel devoid
1:04:43 of um of
1:04:45 structure um it's got some oh down here
1:04:50 on this end though there the barriers
1:04:52 have been starting to be replaced the
1:04:54 work is being done on it the current
1:04:56 condition though it's mostly around um
1:04:59 the water quality side of things with
1:05:02 some invasive
1:05:03 species so um that's the
1:05:06 characterization and we did that for all
1:05:08 of their
1:05:10 reaches and
1:05:13 then um oh this is the other part of
1:05:15 that chart when I said it was long I
1:05:17 guess I I forgot that I stuck the other
1:05:20 part of it in here so again back to
1:05:22 North Fork
1:05:23 2 um so the land
1:05:26 cover is
1:05:28 um uh not not so bad
1:05:31 1.9% bare
1:05:33 soil um 21% grass 39% coverage anyway
1:05:39 you get the idea this is mixed use and
1:05:41 um CF is
1:05:45 commercial um forgive me I forgot the
1:05:48 acronyms off the top of my head I
1:05:49 haven't been in the land use designation
1:05:51 side of this project in about six months
1:05:53 uh 21% is of the RBZ is impervious cover
1:05:57 impervious surface um there's some
1:06:00 wetlands in there by type there's some
1:06:02 type two and type three Wetlands um and
1:06:05 the slope and the existing um width of
1:06:09 the riparian zone is that's just an
1:06:12 averaged guess based on the gis so it's
1:06:15 25 feet in you know on the side that
1:06:19 it's facing the roads and the buildings
1:06:22 but on the west side where it has a lot
1:06:24 of um
1:06:26 area to spread out towards the main stem
1:06:28 it's got quite a lot of buffer so it's
1:06:29 over 250 feet
1:06:31 there so that's we have about 10 minutes
1:06:35 left oh okay we're actually it's fine
1:06:37 we're just about done um so after we
1:06:41 looked at that the restoration let's
1:06:46 go trying to advance the slide
1:06:51 and ha there we go so this is back to
1:06:55 their restoration um ideas and it's not
1:06:59 just restoration there's some protection
1:07:01 and some different management things and
1:07:02 we grouped them into the reget uh
1:07:05 riparian vegetation group a water
1:07:07 quality water quantity group riparian
1:07:09 instream structure group some of them
1:07:12 are really easy some of the ideas we
1:07:13 came up with are really easy some of
1:07:15 them are big and wild and aspirational
1:07:18 just to kind of give a full range and
1:07:20 I'm sure that there there would be other
1:07:22 ideas that people could come up with as
1:07:25 well so this is just meant as a starting
1:07:27 point for
1:07:29 conversation so back to our North Fork
1:07:33 iscla um so the restoration what we
1:07:36 could be looking at there would be to um
1:07:40 the storm water management so working
1:07:43 with um the working with the commercial
1:07:47 areas there do we have storm water
1:07:49 retention already probably can we put
1:07:52 some treatment on it and can we think of
1:07:54 some charcoal sand filters and get rid
1:07:56 of you know to kind of filter out the
1:07:58 some of the six PPD
1:08:00 quone um that might be an issue
1:08:03 there um where else we're looking
1:08:06 invasive species removal can we um get
1:08:10 to that in some kind of established
1:08:12 management plan for it can we work with
1:08:14 some of the nonprofits and the volunteer
1:08:16 groups that are already doing that in
1:08:18 the area
1:08:21 um Native species planting get some make
1:08:25 some use of some of the funding that's
1:08:27 available the mitigation or inl funding
1:08:29 and get some plants in there um so some
1:08:33 crazy ideas uh some other crazier ideas
1:08:35 are could we look at well we'll go to
1:08:38 the actually I'll hold on to that for a
1:08:40 second
1:08:42 because um yeah just a summary of what
1:08:46 we were just talking about industrial
1:08:47 materials disposal flood plane
1:08:49 reconnection so invasive fees removal
1:08:53 fairly
1:08:54 doable um looking at flood plane
1:08:56 reconnection actually you guys are doing
1:08:58 a really great job in isqua um with that
1:09:00 kind of work
1:09:01 already so what kind of funding though
1:09:04 comes into it this is the part of the
1:09:06 report that I feel is the weakest part
1:09:09 right now um as I was digging into this
1:09:12 you isqua already does a great job with
1:09:16 a lot of um work and strategies and the
1:09:20 capital Improvement plan is great um and
1:09:22 points to a lot of these things that is
1:09:24 being done already so it was I I'll be
1:09:28 honest it was a little bit of a a
1:09:30 struggle to kind of think of something
1:09:32 that you all have been aren't already
1:09:33 doing I think to get to it I think
1:09:37 having a task force maybe like getting a
1:09:39 subgroup together maybe this is maybe
1:09:41 it's this group I don't know but um to
1:09:43 kind of look through these things and
1:09:46 somebody that knows isqua intimately and
1:09:50 um and the work that you're already
1:09:51 doing with your nonprofits and um figure
1:09:55 out what could be done with the
1:09:56 resources you already have there's a lot
1:09:58 of Grants out there right now as you're
1:10:00 all aware uh for funding this kind of
1:10:02 work infastructure grants and stuff so
1:10:04 having a grant writer on staff even if
1:10:06 it's a part part of their job maybe the
1:10:08 other part is managing these projects
1:10:10 something like that that would be really
1:10:12 helpful we found the communities that we
1:10:14 hear that they want a person to do this
1:10:16 they or the nonprofits need a person to
1:10:19 help them write grants and manage these
1:10:21 projects so something like that might be
1:10:23 an idea so the project the report does
1:10:25 have a bunch of um places to look for
1:10:28 for Grants a list of the current grants
1:10:30 but we wanted to kind of keep it a
1:10:31 little bit Timeless so it's grants shift
1:10:34 and change um the incentives there were
1:10:37 some kind of crazy ideas in there as
1:10:39 well and then the impact fees re you're
1:10:41 already collecting impact fees so maybe
1:10:43 using some of those steering them to
1:10:46 this work so here's some ideas that we
1:10:49 just kind of threw out there so back to
1:10:52 the north forcus AA example the storm
1:10:54 water management there's a grant out
1:10:56 there right now piloting solutions for
1:10:58 contam contaminants it's due quickly um
1:11:01 coming up maybe there's a project in
1:11:03 there that can be funded with that if
1:11:05 we'd had something that's off the shelf
1:11:07 maybe one of the Sip projects perhaps I
1:11:08 don't know um green roofs if we can
1:11:11 encourage some green roofs in some of
1:11:13 the buildings R along North Bor isqua
1:11:15 that'll help um invasive species removal
1:11:18 we talked a little bit about that uh you
1:11:21 helping with the inl and the mitigation
1:11:23 funds that are collected for planting
1:11:24 the natives um working with the auto
1:11:28 body and Marine and glass
1:11:31 um the this this area in here these
1:11:34 businesses in here because the creek
1:11:35 goes through here as you might as you
1:11:37 probably know um so working with these
1:11:40 businesses here to see if they have
1:11:42 industrial disposal facilities already
1:11:44 what are they doing and do they need
1:11:46 help um and maybe if they would commit
1:11:48 to something we can reduce um reduce
1:11:51 their storm water feeds or they get star
1:11:54 ratings like the food quality um you
1:11:57 know stars on the
1:11:59 restaurant um flood plane reconnection
1:12:01 there's some grants that are coming out
1:12:04 that would help with that um and I would
1:12:07 encourage whenever you're doing anything
1:12:08 fishy related staying in contact with
1:12:11 the the lead entity and the local
1:12:13 integrating organization they've got
1:12:15 their hands on a lot of coordination for
1:12:18 Grants
1:12:20 so that's just a real fast snippet of
1:12:24 some of the ideas that we were thinking
1:12:25 about and what this report can do
1:12:30 um sorry my mouse it's being grumpy
1:12:34 there we go so this is my last slide um
1:12:37 so where we are right now it's about 85%
1:12:40 complete the report there's some tidying
1:12:41 up of things to do if you have ideas or
1:12:44 missing any parts can identify any
1:12:47 missing parts or things you want us to
1:12:49 dig into we can add those I want to talk
1:12:52 to Dan hint as well um thank you Stacy
1:12:54 for that recommendation to kind of vet
1:12:57 this with him since he's got the Urban
1:12:59 Tree um handle so we need to I want to
1:13:03 talk with him about stuff about this
1:13:06 report um and then yeah kind of go
1:13:09 through this sip a little bit and figure
1:13:11 out what kind of fits really well right
1:13:13 now or early and maybe there's some lwh
1:13:15 hanging fruit as far as current grants
1:13:17 that are available and then I'd like to
1:13:19 put it with a web um interface some kind
1:13:21 of web map so that it's not just this 90
1:13:23 page document we're handing you all it's
1:13:26 got a web interface you can go and click
1:13:29 on the reach and it pulls up the
1:13:31 information we're telling you you know
1:13:32 that we're just talked about I don't
1:13:34 know about connecting it to Grants
1:13:36 because those shift and change and those
1:13:39 um so it would make it outdated but
1:13:42 somehow make it a little bit more user
1:13:44 friendly so we're not again not just
1:13:46 handing you a 90 page
1:13:48 document um and that's oh and the
1:13:51 timeline is I believe we have to have
1:13:53 this done by December
1:13:57 so um yeah those that's and that's what
1:14:00 I have to share with you tonight
1:14:04 so okay thank you Don we got a few
1:14:07 minutes for questions Jamie I saw you
1:14:08 had yours up and oh yeah just to take it
1:14:12 down okay sorry about um are we gonna
1:14:14 get to see this report when it's
1:14:18 complete can we good I will share it
1:14:21 with you y yeah and also we didn't have
1:14:24 this presentation if you could share it
1:14:26 I'll make sure the board has it either
1:14:27 attach it to this packet if I can
1:14:30 retroactively or make sure it's included
1:14:32 with our notes the next packet yeah
1:14:34 absolutely sorry yeah and I did the The
1:14:36 Briefing paper but I didn't send the um
1:14:40 the presentation on sorry about that
1:14:42 Stacy yeah um this is exciting um it's
1:14:47 it's great to see the isqu was taking a
1:14:49 leap and moving this forward when it's
1:14:51 not yet required but you know kind of
1:14:53 speaking to what was talked about
1:14:55 earlier I do see as regulations tighten
1:14:57 down this will probably be the future of
1:15:01 how to manage my bar
1:15:04 inter just a thought about these raran
1:15:07 areas um that's not covered here there's
1:15:10 probably certain areas that are much
1:15:13 more prone to pollution than others and
1:15:18 if if a report like this could if you're
1:15:20 doing a survey of an area if you could
1:15:23 highlight those area
1:15:25 and there could be Community efforts to
1:15:27 clean those areas up um you know certain
1:15:31 areas I've noticed through some of the
1:15:33 litter cleanup are are you know there's
1:15:36 places where the Creeks get looted and
1:15:40 uh you know if if the city knew where
1:15:43 those
1:15:44 were we could Target those areas for
1:15:48 cleaning just a
1:15:51 thought any other
1:15:53 questions all right I'm gonna move us
1:15:55 along then because we're right on time
1:15:57 here so thank you yeah thank you very
1:16:01 much I'll send out the presentation um
1:16:04 if folks have feedback looking back
1:16:06 through the presentation two pages that
1:16:08 it's attached please go ahead and send
1:16:10 it otherwise we'll plan to share
1:16:13 the yes so once I get it I'll I'll send
1:16:16 it to
1:16:23 you move right into your topic Stacy or
1:16:26 do you want to a break no good thanks so
1:16:45 Don I put together um couple brief
1:16:49 slides because it's not the most
1:16:50 exciting topic um so we're going to talk
1:16:53 next about our annual and self
1:16:56 analysis I'll give a little bit of
1:16:57 background around the requirements
1:16:59 especially for the new board members
1:17:01 refresher for the existing board members
1:17:04 um talk about I wanted to have a
1:17:06 conversation with you all about any
1:17:07 improvements that you want to make for
1:17:09 this next year um and I can pull up
1:17:13 those Word documents to capture any
1:17:15 notes um this is about a month earlier
1:17:19 than we normally talk about this topic
1:17:22 that was based on feedback from the
1:17:25 board retreat back in January um that we
1:17:28 wanted to touch on this a little bit
1:17:29 earlier so the board have chance to
1:17:31 shape and influence and what will be uh
1:17:35 reported back to
1:17:37 council um so just as a reminder um for
1:17:42 those uh especially new to the board we
1:17:46 are required to provide an annual report
1:17:48 to the mayor city council it's due by
1:17:50 the end of December within that report
1:17:54 we're also required to provide a self
1:17:56 analysis which we've typically done
1:17:58 through a
1:18:00 survey the report outline goes through
1:18:04 each of the steps in the isoa municipal
1:18:07 code that are called out as
1:18:08 responsibilities of the board template
1:18:11 was developed the first year the board
1:18:13 was formed we've basically that same
1:18:16 temp work since
1:18:18 then for consistency sake we'd like to
1:18:21 use at least the same um the major
1:18:24 components of that template as we
1:18:26 continue to report to council however um
1:18:30 especially after feedback from the board
1:18:32 retreat and just as board members um
1:18:35 turn on the board and new board members
1:18:37 come in we want to allow the opportunity
1:18:40 to add information or make um minor
1:18:43 revisions there's
1:18:47 interest and then for the self analysis
1:18:50 again this is a requirement that we
1:18:52 include to the um Council we've
1:18:55 typically included that within the board
1:18:57 report we provide a summary but then all
1:19:00 of the details um again we've been
1:19:02 working on a template that was developed
1:19:04 in 2021 um for the questions that we
1:19:07 asked the board to respond to um we've
1:19:10 made some minor refinements and
1:19:12 improvements to that over the years
1:19:15 again we recommend for the most part for
1:19:17 keeping that consistent that'll allow us
1:19:19 to look at changes over time in the
1:19:21 board and how we're making improvements
1:19:23 on things that may be um didn't score so
1:19:25 well in the in the past um but
1:19:28 definitely open to any revisions that
1:19:30 would just help improve uh the clarity
1:19:33 of the question or if there's any
1:19:35 questions that we want to ask this
1:19:38 year um so we'll go into a bit more
1:19:41 detail on those in a minute for feedback
1:19:43 but just in terms of our process looking
1:19:46 for input tonight or over the next
1:19:49 couple weeks in writing um or I should
1:19:52 say over the next week or so uh because
1:19:54 we are hoping to distribute the self
1:19:57 analysis within the next two weeks so we
1:20:00 can have those init those results to
1:20:03 report back on in November um also just
1:20:07 a reminder we're going to ask board
1:20:08 members please do take the self analysis
1:20:10 I think we had eight out of 12 took it
1:20:12 last year so really encourage you all to
1:20:14 take it it's pretty it will be pretty
1:20:17 quick but it's really important to
1:20:18 provide feedback to staff and also for
1:20:20 councel to understand how you all are
1:20:22 feeling about your role on the board one
1:20:25 question you you mean as a board right
1:20:30 accumul just making sure yeah we do have
1:20:34 presented usually present a summary of
1:20:36 the self analysis you all will get to
1:20:38 see um all the results it's done
1:20:41 anonymously
1:20:42 so PR report
1:20:51 just we try to roll up the result um so
1:20:55 that is going to come out earlier this
1:20:57 year at the request of the board back in
1:20:59 January so we can look at the results in
1:21:01 November and going to make any final um
1:21:04 have a conversation around it and a
1:21:06 little bit more time for review before
1:21:07 the reports distributed Council um we
1:21:10 are also planning to provide a full
1:21:12 draft report to the board at the
1:21:15 November meeting so we have a little bit
1:21:17 more time um to finalize that before
1:21:20 approval in December um we will then
1:21:22 transmit to the report to council
1:21:27 so tonight just wanted to talk a little
1:21:29 bit about the Ford report um and any
1:21:33 additional content you'd like one thing
1:21:36 that was flagged at the January Retreat
1:21:39 of the board was a bit more of an
1:21:40 Outlook of where we think we're going
1:21:43 and what we want to tackle going forward
1:21:46 um so I wanted to see if that's of
1:21:47 Interest still to include and then if
1:21:49 there's any additional sections that you
1:21:52 all want to include things that you feel
1:21:53 like the report doesn't currently
1:21:55 capture about art work um definitely
1:21:58 want that feedback and then similar for
1:22:00 the self-analysis any revisions we can
1:22:03 do to the questions make to the
1:22:05 questions in order to improve Clarity
1:22:08 are there any new questions that you all
1:22:10 want um to make sure that we can get
1:22:13 board feedback on and and reflect the
1:22:15 work that you're doing we have a
1:22:17 question from Tom yeah go ahead
1:22:21 Tom uh yes thank you I think the the
1:22:24 princip
1:22:26 360 review is good and valuable I'm I
1:22:30 guess I'm curious I'd like to hear what
1:22:32 the counil thinks about how the board is
1:22:35 doing and how our feedback is working or
1:22:38 not working for them uh is that possible
1:22:42 that we can get that kind of feedback uh
1:22:45 towards us yeah that's a great question
1:22:49 um last year we had the opportunity for
1:22:52 Jamie and Don presented to the counil on
1:22:55 the board um both on the work we've been
1:22:58 doing but then also a bit about um our
1:23:01 report and the self analysis I think
1:23:04 that was very um well taken from the
1:23:07 council and they express their
1:23:09 appreciation for all that the board has
1:23:11 done we have also been talking as the
1:23:13 staff Liaisons to have Council come uh
1:23:17 back out to the board um and speak to us
1:23:21 so have almost like a liaison to the
1:23:23 council and come and meet with us and
1:23:25 reflect back out so I can request either
1:23:28 yeah if there's any feedback Council
1:23:30 wants to provide to the board um and
1:23:33 also see if we might be able to have a
1:23:35 lead a member of council come out and
1:23:38 meet with us and and provide some of
1:23:41 that input um in
1:23:43 person that's appropriate okay another
1:23:47 format you would like feedback or any
1:23:49 other ideas
1:23:57 Jamie um yeah I think also going and
1:24:01 this is St you kind of alluded to this
1:24:04 but I know if Nancy was here she would
1:24:06 be suggesting that budget priorities and
1:24:09 things that we like the forward looking
1:24:11 that one we should be doing that and
1:24:14 that should be a core part of the report
1:24:17 and then figuring out ways to ensure
1:24:19 that I mean a couple things come to mind
1:24:21 are climate
1:24:22 Investments um it's not quite here yet
1:24:25 but there's going to be Investments
1:24:27 needed on Dan's Urban Forest management
1:24:29 plan so and I think Stacy one thing for
1:24:32 to hear from you on is just how can is
1:24:36 this the right place to to use our voice
1:24:39 to to help put some weight and make sure
1:24:41 that that Council I mean is hearing that
1:24:44 uh that we we care about those things
1:24:47 and what's the right way to do that
1:24:49 that's something I know we talked about
1:24:50 a lot earlier this year um during that
1:24:52 treat but uh think that's not currently
1:24:56 captured in in the the report as it is
1:25:00 um and then um what was the other thing
1:25:03 I was
1:25:07 thinking um yeah I don't I don't know
1:25:12 one of the things that I continue to
1:25:13 struggle with and I know this has come
1:25:15 up before is there is no single person
1:25:18 that owns environmental topics at the
1:25:20 city and so part of the reason that I
1:25:23 was talking about a scorecard and like
1:25:26 the fact that the natural environment's
1:25:28 checklist just isn't that it's something
1:25:30 it's a document tracking
1:25:32 planning I I just worry that like we
1:25:35 have a clear scorecard for climate
1:25:37 action that is the climate action plan
1:25:39 there's not really the same thing for
1:25:41 the natural environment and so is that I
1:25:44 think it's beyond the scope of what
1:25:45 we're likely to accomplish this year but
1:25:48 that was originally I think the intent
1:25:50 at the retreat was to talk through how
1:25:52 could we make either that checklist or
1:25:55 our annual report something that would
1:25:58 maybe be that organizing for so Dan and
1:26:01 Stacy and Doug all the different teams
1:26:03 that touch the environment are coming
1:26:05 together and helping us put together a
1:26:07 summary that that gives a view and not
1:26:10 just for us but hopefully for the public
1:26:11 as well and like how did the national
1:26:14 environment fair in is so that that's a
1:26:17 big thing but that was I I think along
1:26:20 the lines of what we were talking about
1:26:22 um and we both through the checklist and
1:26:24 through this report haven't quite
1:26:27 accomplished what um to put that into
1:26:30 kind of
1:26:31 a something that might be captured by
1:26:34 the report could we have almost like I
1:26:36 was wording it here is like a gaps or
1:26:38 concern section like here are things the
1:26:40 board has identified that they see as
1:26:42 major issues in the environmental Realm
1:26:44 of the city um and then we could speak I
1:26:47 might look to you all to help draft some
1:26:49 of that language but speak to some of
1:26:51 those specific things that have come up
1:26:52 this year m and you can also Ral
1:26:55 investments into gaps and concerns as
1:26:57 well I see did you have another comment
1:27:00 or is your hand just still up from
1:27:04 earlier sorry it was just dangling I
1:27:07 pulled it
1:27:08 down problem thank you um one thing that
1:27:12 I remember too from our meeting was
1:27:14 getting uh feedback from Council on
1:27:17 their priorities going for rather than
1:27:19 us developing on her
1:27:21 own plus one that was actually go
1:27:24 because there's an environmental
1:27:25 subcommittee right there there is a yes
1:27:28 it's not just
1:27:31 yeah great um yeah and that's does
1:27:34 number eight carry out other duties as
1:27:37 prescribed those haven't necessarily
1:27:39 been and and I think we've basically had
1:27:41 nothing to report the last couple years
1:27:43 there
1:27:50 but other than that I thought it was
1:27:51 Prett comprehensive great yeah for the
1:27:54 new folks um this is attached in the
1:27:57 packet it really follows kind of the CD
1:28:00 code that um developed the board and the
1:28:03 different things that it calls us as
1:28:05 responsible for and we've basically just
1:28:07 summarized within that um the other
1:28:10 thing we attach here is all of the
1:28:13 letters we've written especially this
1:28:14 year you all reviewed three massive
1:28:17 plans and so we'll speak quite a bit to
1:28:19 that and um attach those letters here um
1:28:24 one thing that just made me think
1:28:26 especially about earlier some email
1:28:28 exchange today was I'll make sure we
1:28:30 capture here something about the school
1:28:32 district
1:28:35 um and maybe that's part of the gaps
1:28:43 too anything if anyone had a chance to
1:28:46 flip through the draft and had other
1:28:47 people
1:28:49 back um so sty I had a couple of
1:28:51 suggestions I really like the idea what
1:28:54 Tom said you know get the feedback from
1:28:56 Council actually and either through you
1:28:59 or through them we actually know how the
1:29:02 you know our input affected yeah um I
1:29:05 was looking to see if we can get some
1:29:08 specifics I know recently I don't
1:29:10 remember which one but we talked about
1:29:12 some tax increase for isqua Citizens I
1:29:14 think some 6% or 10% and we went over
1:29:17 that back and forth and then we gave a
1:29:19 recommendation so I wanted to see you
1:29:22 know what happened to it or some real
1:29:24 life examples of making how our input
1:29:26 matters that would be good to know um
1:29:29 and I don't remember but I don't think
1:29:31 the self analysis had a comment section
1:29:34 you know just a comment section not a
1:29:36 question because sometimes it's not a
1:29:39 question but it's generally the tone or
1:29:41 you know there could be a means people
1:29:44 might have some comments on it General
1:29:46 comments on it it may not necessarily be
1:29:49 framed in a question so I would like to
1:29:51 see that okay on our self analysis yeah
1:29:55 yes open I'll make sure
1:29:58 there's I
1:30:03 can great do we want to move over the
1:30:05 self analysis or any you need on this I
1:30:08 had one yeah one more quick thing I do
1:30:11 think we the way we get Council feedback
1:30:14 is really important because if we say
1:30:15 hey Council send us something that tells
1:30:17 us how we're doing it's going to make oh
1:30:19 you guys are great like yeah yeah it's
1:30:21 all everything's great so I think and
1:30:24 formal setting that isn't like reported
1:30:27 basically like if we could have a way
1:30:28 that we're just kind of having
1:30:30 conversation with them versus it's like
1:30:31 at a meeting that to me feels much more
1:30:34 valuable and then one question for you
1:30:36 sty is are does council see our work
1:30:39 plan in advance of of the year not in
1:30:43 advance of the year we just discussed
1:30:45 that as staff and they will be receiving
1:30:47 a packet of work plans probably in the
1:30:50 March 8 so after we've approved it here
1:30:54 so if we know that going into next year
1:30:56 it might be nice to put it into our
1:30:58 Council reports briefly very briefly
1:31:01 just we go in front of them again great
1:31:04 and our thought is to bring that work
1:31:06 plan to you all um I think November
1:31:09 we'll have a preview of it in December
1:31:12 so we could work towards approving it in
1:31:15 December and included
1:31:17 the uh Alex had a comment
1:31:20 Alex yeah thank you um I'm kind of the
1:31:24 same realm of getting feedback from
1:31:26 everyone else is there an opportunity
1:31:27 for staff Stacy and David to give us
1:31:30 feedback as a board as well on this
1:31:33 process and how you think we're doing um
1:31:36 I think that would be helpful as well
1:31:37 since you're the ones that interact with
1:31:39 us the most as
1:31:42 well yeah we could think about what
1:31:45 format that looks like but yeah May if
1:31:49 we have an informal session with Council
1:31:54 even Beyond you and David you know all
1:31:56 over the folks that come talk with us
1:31:59 yeah I mean just quick response to that
1:32:02 I know the staff really appreciate
1:32:04 coming here and really take the comments
1:32:05 to heart and work to incorporate where
1:32:08 they can
1:32:11 so other thoughts around the report
1:32:15 anything that you all feel like is
1:32:17 missing you want to make sure it's
1:32:18 reported on to
1:32:21 council these are great additions
1:32:25 um so we'll we'll move over to the self
1:32:28 analysis but in terms of the report
1:32:31 we'll work on drafting that up over the
1:32:33 next month and plan to present you all
1:32:36 with a
1:32:38 draft at the November meeting and then
1:32:41 uh move to approve it in
1:32:46 December it probably will not
1:32:49 include a full analysis of the survey
1:32:52 we'll see how far we can get um
1:32:54 depending on responses um so wanted then
1:32:59 to just see if there's any proposed
1:33:01 revisions to language in the self
1:33:04 analysis and if there are any questions
1:33:07 you all want to make sure are added to
1:33:10 that um we'll make sure there's just an
1:33:13 open response at the end for any general
1:33:22 comments um maybe one question on the
1:33:25 the process of the meetings yeah okay in
1:33:28 here you know how how does everybody
1:33:29 feel the meetings are being run how they
1:33:31 you know just kind of the the tone are
1:33:33 we doing what we think we're doing are
1:33:35 we taking too long on things not
1:33:38 spending enough
1:33:47 time yeah I can walk through it real
1:33:50 quick for folks this is new to um can
1:33:52 just want some general readings on how
1:33:54 well you think we're doing what we were
1:33:56 assigned to do um overall
1:33:59 satisfaction we do look for some
1:34:01 feedback on priorities for the next year
1:34:04 of course those will be balanced by the
1:34:06 needs um of the city
1:34:09 Administration um staff support looking
1:34:12 for feedback there um do you all feel
1:34:15 like you're listened to and that your
1:34:17 feedbacks being taken into account and
1:34:19 that can be both at the the staff
1:34:21 department and Council level um and then
1:34:25 overall experience and any ideas for
1:34:29 improvement and then we'll add
1:34:33 in other
1:34:39 feedback great um if you all do think of
1:34:43 anything else you want included
1:34:44 definitely let me know in the next um
1:34:46 few days
1:34:48 Alex yeah sorry um when you send this
1:34:50 out can you send a review of what we
1:34:53 said in the board report last year and
1:34:56 then um the report from last year that
1:34:59 went to council as
1:35:02 well yes we'll do
1:35:05 that great um we are going to be working
1:35:09 to put the self analysis into a survey
1:35:12 format uh over the next week to 10 days
1:35:16 and then we'll get that out to the board
1:35:19 um if possible we're looking for
1:35:20 feedback by November 3rd um and that so
1:35:24 we can provide you with some of the
1:35:25 preliminary results at our November
1:35:27 meeting if we're still waiting for a lot
1:35:29 of comments um it might be very
1:35:31 preliminary data our goal is to get 100%
1:35:37 participation right thanks for the
1:35:39 feedback that's it on that
1:35:41 topic we have 15 reports for us
1:35:45 yep um so I was gonna go through um we
1:35:49 had a lot of written reports there's a
1:35:51 lot going on so I did want to just High
1:35:53 highlight briefly kind of give you the
1:35:56 the one to two sentence summary of each
1:35:59 um and then I'll look to um Karen and
1:36:02 minina if they have any updates um I
1:36:05 have a few other updates on strategic
1:36:07 plan some upcoming meetings um things
1:36:11 like that and then I know couple board
1:36:13 members have some other announcements
1:36:15 too so bear with us we'll still try and
1:36:18 wrap up a little early um so written
1:36:21 updates there is a Sustainable Building
1:36:23 infrastructure policy update this is
1:36:26 around a policy that would be internal
1:36:29 around city um Redevelopment or
1:36:32 development of buildings as well as
1:36:34 infrastructure so thinking about
1:36:36 Playgrounds or St Water Systems um the
1:36:40 document talks mostly about our process
1:36:43 we are working with a consultant and
1:36:45 right now we're still in the research
1:36:46 phase um they will be starting some
1:36:49 internal interviews in the next um month
1:36:52 or so and then putting to some some
1:36:55 recommendations together for us to
1:36:57 consider for policy
1:36:59 development um this is one piece of the
1:37:01 puzzle this is about internal projects
1:37:04 um we also have en Title 18 requirements
1:37:08 for buildings over 10,000 square feet to
1:37:10 be lead Platinum certified that's
1:37:13 another piece of the policy or of the
1:37:15 puzzle and then there's also State um
1:37:18 Energy Efficiency and building codes
1:37:20 which is a third piece um had some email
1:37:24 exchange with uh Jamie that it' be we
1:37:28 want you all to understand how all those
1:37:30 pieces work together and use that
1:37:34 information to think about how we might
1:37:36 make improvements to Title 18 in the
1:37:39 future it was always envisioned that
1:37:42 revisit the Sustainable Building
1:37:44 requirements in Title 18 um and we hope
1:37:48 that that could be informed by having a
1:37:50 better understanding of all pieces and
1:37:52 how they might work together um so we're
1:37:55 looking at possibly February where we
1:37:57 could talk about all three of those and
1:37:59 then think about um kind of future code
1:38:04 recommendations um so just wanted folks
1:38:06 to understand that kind of bigger
1:38:07 picture as they're looking at that memo
1:38:10 about
1:38:13 the um there is a report on um a
1:38:17 feasibility assessment that we just
1:38:19 completed with a consultant seison um we
1:38:23 had a grant for them to do solar
1:38:26 assessments across multiple uh Community
1:38:28 buildings including a couple of City
1:38:31 facilities um they've provided some
1:38:33 reports that puts us in a really great
1:38:35 position to apply for funding and in
1:38:37 fact we've used some of those designs to
1:38:39 apply for Grants um for our senior
1:38:41 center pick greine Barn um Blakeley Hall
1:38:44 is using the design to try and move
1:38:46 forward with funding um there and then
1:38:50 um we had a few other community
1:38:51 buildings that were assessed in that
1:38:53 project that people put them in a good
1:38:54 position to
1:38:57 gra um electric vehicle infrastructure
1:39:00 there's an update um that focuses on our
1:39:03 Fleet charging and all the different um
1:39:06 pieces in play there uh we have an
1:39:09 update on a couple of projects we're
1:39:11 working on in partnership with Puget
1:39:13 Sound Energy including the community
1:39:15 solar project at the community center
1:39:17 and our electric vehicle F charging
1:39:20 program um quick question about could
1:39:24 you explain what I think there's some
1:39:25 grant funding and it was resulting in
1:39:27 something happening could you quickly
1:39:29 explain the
1:39:30 like there was something about the rates
1:39:32 being low I I I didn't understand the
1:39:34 like that part of it Community for the
1:39:37 community solar Community solar so um
1:39:41 the community solar project um is not to
1:39:45 generate power for the community center
1:39:48 it is um project that will be or all the
1:39:51 energy generated will be subscribed to
1:39:53 by community members um typically those
1:39:56 are sold kind of at a premium um that's
1:39:58 what happened with the Pine Lake Middle
1:40:00 School Community solar project PSD
1:40:03 secured a grant that allows them to
1:40:06 offer all of those subscriptions to
1:40:08 households with low income at no cost
1:40:12 plus um those individuals will receive a
1:40:14 solar credit on their account so they'll
1:40:18 receive A10 to $20 savings each month um
1:40:21 so it will be opened up um first to isoa
1:40:25 Residents and then probably to a little
1:40:28 bit broader School District or something
1:40:29 like that residents that meet that
1:40:31 income
1:40:33 thres that help yeah thank you um two
1:40:39 more written reports um just an update
1:40:42 on a program new program that's in
1:40:44 development around electrification
1:40:46 incentives um as you all know we have
1:40:49 our Energy Smart East Side heat pump
1:40:51 program it's always been envisioned that
1:40:53 would go beyond heat pumps we have
1:40:56 funding from the state to both work on
1:40:58 program development and then to offer
1:41:00 incentives for electric appliances and
1:41:03 equipment we are in the process right
1:41:05 now of getting Community engagement in
1:41:08 terms of what that program should look
1:41:11 like what kinds of incentives are folks
1:41:13 interested in how do they want to
1:41:15 receive an incentive what kind of
1:41:17 appliances are they interested in um
1:41:20 we've done we have a survey out um we
1:41:23 have not seen it I can make sure you
1:41:24 receive it uh we'll be doing focus
1:41:26 groups in November and then starting to
1:41:29 work on actually developing the program
1:41:31 guidance our incentive funds have to be
1:41:33 spent by June so it will be a very quick
1:41:36 pilot um but we're hoping it will help
1:41:39 and form a more expansive Regional
1:41:42 electrification program that will be um
1:41:45 built into our Energy Smart East Side
1:41:47 partnership in the
1:41:49 future um and then our Public Works team
1:41:53 provided an update on our storm water
1:41:56 permit and the new permit that was
1:41:58 issued to this and I don't know much
1:42:01 about that so I'll leave it there
1:42:03 there's a memo if you have questions
1:42:04 definitely let me know I'll reach out to
1:42:05 Mike and the fell boards
1:42:07 team um all comment yeah questions yeah
1:42:11 comments on the reports or Don can
1:42:13 probably speak to read the read the memo
1:42:15 on this one there's a couple key things
1:42:17 that are going to cost the city a lot of
1:42:18 money in here so star modern management
1:42:20 for existing development a retrofit
1:42:22 Clause by ology it speaks to your
1:42:25 pollution prevention comment earlier
1:42:27 John of how do we retrofit our roadways
1:42:30 to provide treatment to get pollutants
1:42:32 from our roadways treated before they go
1:42:34 IND streams it's a good thing it is
1:42:36 going to be uh somewhat costly to cities
1:42:40 um and then there's just a couple of
1:42:41 lifts in there for staff time around
1:42:43 mapping and changing how they manage a
1:42:46 few program so please read
1:42:49 that any questions on the other reports
1:42:53 going to to read as you have
1:42:56 time um so understand the desire to
1:43:00 expand Beyond heat pumps with Energy
1:43:02 Smart east side has there been any
1:43:05 consideration
1:43:06 for what an expanded like the heat pump
1:43:09 campaign would look like expanded or the
1:43:12 main thing I'm thinking about is the
1:43:13 fact that it's only Mitsubishi dealers
1:43:15 that are able to do it like that cuts
1:43:17 out a huge portion of people that
1:43:19 install heat pumps and so um I would be
1:43:23 interested in whatever we're looking at
1:43:26 for the next stage in Energy Smart East
1:43:28 Side to do a what is the incentive to do
1:43:33 carbon reduction because I think it's
1:43:35 going to be I mean heat pump water
1:43:37 heaters that could be a really obvious
1:43:38 one that but I think almost nothing else
1:43:40 will beat heat pumps for that so I just
1:43:43 hope that that's factored into how we
1:43:45 decide to use the funds because I think
1:43:47 otherwise things are going to be really
1:43:49 struggled to get anywhere close to what
1:43:51 space Heating and water heating yeah
1:43:53 yeah great question um and very timely
1:43:56 the the reason we were set up with MIT
1:43:59 sheart was the the ability for us to
1:44:01 contract with the thanful distributor
1:44:03 and get some Gres we are now looking at
1:44:07 putting out a RFP request for proposals
1:44:09 to multiple um manufacturers of heat
1:44:12 pumps and also narrowing down our
1:44:15 installers list um because we still have
1:44:19 a lot of challenges with installer
1:44:21 education and incorrect information
1:44:24 being passed to homeowners but yes our
1:44:27 next big thing is to go beyond
1:44:28 Mitsubishi and make sure the programs
1:44:30 opened up to other um manufacturers so
1:44:34 um Sarah who I think came after the new
1:44:37 maybe it was April so right before some
1:44:39 of the new board members started she's
1:44:41 our program manager for energy smarty
1:44:43 side at the city of bellw she's um
1:44:46 preparing that art to so yeah it's been
1:44:49 a big barrier it's taken us a while to
1:44:52 get to this point um so if we is
1:44:55 something too that we'll consider very
1:44:56 strongly as we're looking at other
1:44:58 electrification PLS and make sure we're
1:45:01 partnering with um vendors or offering
1:45:03 rebates from multiple um
1:45:09 manufacturers great yeah any questions
1:45:12 on any reports please reach out um I
1:45:15 have a bunch of other updates before I
1:45:17 keep talking though do you want to see
1:45:19 if we have youth reports or other
1:45:20 updates and folks can take a bre for my
1:45:23 voice
1:45:24 from um I don't the only thing I know is
1:45:27 that the um sustainability policy that
1:45:29 they're bringing to the school board is
1:45:31 having a first reading tomorrow the
1:45:34 first um and so that's going to be
1:45:36 presented and they love public comment
1:45:40 support thank you all of that
1:45:42 information have been send it out to the
1:45:45 board make report
1:45:49 great should I keep going
1:45:53 um let's see great other school district
1:45:57 updates um there was a question about
1:45:59 the bond measures um or the School
1:46:03 District bond and just wanted to let
1:46:05 folks know that there are um costs for
1:46:09 clean buildings compliance included
1:46:11 within that Bond there was a public
1:46:14 hearing with the city council back in
1:46:16 August city council voted to um Express
1:46:19 their support for the bond initiative
1:46:22 the presentation does not speak much to
1:46:24 Energy Efficiency they really focus on
1:46:26 the new high school um but I did want to
1:46:30 pass that information along the email
1:46:33 exchange about that earlier
1:46:35 today um thank you for the update on the
1:46:38 students um I did see an initial draft
1:46:41 of the policy it is very high level um
1:46:45 and my understanding is the intent is it
1:46:47 will um request the superintendent to
1:46:50 assign staff to the different areas of
1:46:53 sustainability to develop action plans
1:46:55 and goals but it it does touch on um
1:46:59 every uh sustainability area so we'll
1:47:02 try and get some information about the
1:47:04 reading tomorrow and that out to the
1:47:06 board that's yeah a question for you on
1:47:09 that so this is a is this going to be
1:47:11 direction for the students only to work
1:47:14 on sustainability or is it going to be
1:47:16 for the students to work in cooperation
1:47:17 with the state yeah it's mostly for the
1:47:19 city of the school district actually
1:47:21 it's just developed by students for like
1:47:24 purposes of like student input and
1:47:26 things like that
1:47:30 but um have a little bit of updates
1:47:34 mixed with Council updates in here but
1:47:37 um just an update on the timeline of the
1:47:39 budget uh transmitt of the full budget
1:47:42 is going to councel on the 28th of
1:47:46 October um there will be several public
1:47:48 hearings over the next uh month and a
1:47:51 half with approval for the end of the
1:47:54 year um Council on Monday
1:47:59 voted to support um voted in favor of
1:48:04 opposing initiative uh
1:48:07 2117 if initiative 2117 is passed that
1:48:11 would repeal the climate climate
1:48:13 commitment act um there was a public
1:48:16 hearing on Monday happy to send that on
1:48:19 to anyone that's interested and new
1:48:21 spoke um as
1:48:23 Community member um at that public
1:48:26 hearing um the urban Forest management
1:48:29 plan Council review was pushed back a
1:48:31 bit um but that will go to council
1:48:34 committee later this month and then it
1:48:36 is um slated for Council approval before
1:48:39 the end of November um once I have dates
1:48:42 on that I can send that out to the
1:48:47 board uh let's see thises Alex may have
1:48:52 know more about this but did want to
1:48:53 flag October 17th at 4M there's a Cy fry
1:48:57 release celebration at Lake samamish
1:48:59 State
1:49:00 Park um and then I have a less exciting
1:49:04 update there is on the Strategic plan um
1:49:08 as youall know many of you thank you for
1:49:10 participating on September 19th in the
1:49:13 discussion on the Strategic plan it will
1:49:15 not be formally coming back to the board
1:49:17 for review um but I will receive an
1:49:20 updated version later this month I will
1:49:22 send out to you all if you have feedback
1:49:24 you can reach to out to me directly and
1:49:27 provide
1:49:28 that um and then just real quick on
1:49:31 upcoming topics for the end of the year
1:49:34 um bit of housekeeping kind of end of
1:49:37 year wrapup with the board report self
1:49:39 analysis we plan to bring you our 2025
1:49:43 um work plan or at least key topics
1:49:45 we'll be working on for the IAP we'll
1:49:47 bring to you all a proposed 2025
1:49:49 department on board work plan um Sam
1:49:52 tarban our Solid Waste analyst will come
1:49:54 and present um the work she is planning
1:49:57 to do in 2025 and then we'll report out
1:50:00 on any updates on the budget and impacts
1:50:05 our any question on those
1:50:08 items okay great I think Al maybe had
1:50:12 one announcement too yeah since you
1:50:15 mentioned that I'll speak to two things
1:50:17 the um Cy fry release is at 4:30 at the
1:50:21 lake s Mish State Park launch on October
1:50:24 17th um someone from city council will
1:50:27 be speaking I don't know exactly who it
1:50:29 is off the top of my head um but there
1:50:31 will be representatives from the um
1:50:34 throughout the lakes of mamish watershed
1:50:36 talking about the coky recovery efforts
1:50:39 and the tribe the snow caly tribe will
1:50:41 be there to do a blessing of the fish
1:50:43 before then launching their canoe and
1:50:45 taking the fish out into the middle of
1:50:46 the lake and releasing them um so this
1:50:49 is kind of a celebration for those that
1:50:50 are involved in Cy recovery efforts but
1:50:52 also it's a public event so there will
1:50:54 be tabling um and folks are welcome to
1:50:57 come out and and see the fish a little
1:50:59 bit and kind of get to experience that
1:51:01 and then Saturday October 19th is Green
1:51:04 isqua Day um and so I'm going to be
1:51:08 leading a volunteer event and I believe
1:51:10 Jamie is also leading a volunteer event
1:51:12 that day um I'll be at the Anthology
1:51:14 open space which is over by the
1:51:16 Anthology Apartments um leading our
1:51:19 first planting event at that site um in
1:51:21 partnership with green isqua and there's
1:51:23 also um an isqua Trail Club
1:51:32 yes yeah so there's three opportunities
1:51:34 to get out that day and volunteer for
1:51:36 green isqua um and get some plants in
1:51:38 the ground so folks should join us out
1:51:41 there I think Stacy might have some a
1:51:44 flyer that I sent over with a QR code
1:51:47 that you can use to sign
1:51:49 up yep those are by the door and I I'll
1:51:52 send out um a link to each of these um
1:51:56 events as well as John
1:51:58 inform thank
1:52:06 you than anybody else for the good of
1:52:10 theou question um you talked a bit about
1:52:13 the meeting Monday with City Council on
1:52:18 2117 um and stated the city's
1:52:24 to support opposing
1:52:27 that what would be the impact to your
1:52:30 organization that were
1:52:32 to the funding for say the
1:52:34 sustainability staff in isqua if that
1:52:38 were to fail fail um yeah to pass if
1:52:43 initiative to 117 passes um we nothing
1:52:48 particularly to to City staff um what
1:52:52 the CL commitment act does provide for
1:52:55 City benefit and Community benefit is a
1:52:59 number of Grant programs um so we have
1:53:02 over a million dollars in secured grants
1:53:04 that were funded through CCA and then um
1:53:08 we had about 3.5 million in pending
1:53:11 funding that's now we've heard back from
1:53:13 a couple of those grants that were
1:53:14 unsuccessful we have about 2.5 million
1:53:17 um pending and funding through climate
1:53:20 commitment act that may or may not go
1:53:22 through if that is repealed um there's
1:53:25 also a number of um Community benefit
1:53:28 programs such as some of the
1:53:29 electrification in there was a utility
1:53:33 rebate and then electrical electric
1:53:36 vehicle um uh additional electric
1:53:40 vehicle rebates that was partially
1:53:41 funded through CCA um so there's some uh
1:53:47 impacts in terms of our overall
1:53:49 initiatives a lot of the grant funding
1:53:52 we would would anticipate pursuing
1:53:53 through CCA or or large um projects like
1:53:58 solar installations major Energy
1:53:59 Efficiency projects that we probably
1:54:02 can't fund with our city budget
1:54:05 so that's the information um that we
1:54:10 share I read through that um Washington
1:54:13 State description a couple times and I
1:54:16 was trying to understand it and it was
1:54:18 pretty hard
1:54:20 confusing what is
1:54:23 how is that how does how is the average
1:54:26 citizen impacted by that how did they
1:54:30 how are they tax is it through a
1:54:31 gasoline tax
1:54:33 primarily and then is there a tax to say
1:54:36 on natural gas and things like that I
1:54:38 think there's a partial tax associated
1:54:40 with it as well but I think the main hit
1:54:43 that everybody sees day to day is the
1:54:46 ring gasoline even though they don't
1:54:49 come right out and state it okay that's
1:54:52 what it was but yeah it's the funding is
1:54:55 coming through C trade program so the
1:54:58 top delers um have to basically purchase
1:55:02 their um credits for polluting and
1:55:05 that's where a lot of the revenue for
1:55:07 the climate commit Act is generated it
1:55:09 established the C trade for the carbon
1:55:12 tax program um and it's
1:55:15 generated couple billion dollars I think
1:55:18 in just the first few
1:55:20 sales but it's um primarily attacks on
1:55:23 the biggest beliers state so and they're
1:55:26 in the process the college is in the
1:55:28 process of looking at connecting the
1:55:30 state program with um some of the other
1:55:32 C trade programs around the US and
1:55:35 Canada that they think would probably
1:55:37 bring down there's R making
1:55:46 process all right no other
1:55:49 questions thank you than much thank you
1:55:53 vir folks for joining in tonight thank
1:55:56 you good night