Environmental Board · Wednesday, March 12, 2025 · City Council Digest

2. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Joint meeting with Sister Cities Commission Potential Joint Project, (I)

20 min · Mayor Pauly Tina Eggers, Sister Cities Commission Staff Liaison Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Environmental Board Staff Liaison

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of February 12, 2025

packet pp.5–6

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 02-12-25 Environmental Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Environmental Board 6:30 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. February 12, 2025 MINUTES NW, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Stormwater Management Program

Discussion · 45 min · Evan Brumfield, Environmental and Regulatory Program Administrator Mike Vermeulen, Water Resources Program Specialist · packet pp.7–24

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

Public Works 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

6. REPORTS

2025 Workplan

packet pp.25–28

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Staff report:

APPROVED: 12/11/2024 REVISED: 3/5/2025

Update on Wildlife/Waste Letter to the Mayor and Council

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0:02 ↗ any

0:09 ↗ others so welcome to the 12 meeting of

0:13 ↗ the environmental board I'm Don M

0:14 ↗ Williams I'll be your chair tonight so

0:16 ↗ due to our hybrid nature of the meeting

0:18 ↗ tonight we have some people online and

0:20 ↗ some people in person for those online

0:22 ↗ state your name before speaking please

0:25 ↗ and if you're online could you please

0:26 ↗ make your mute your microphone when

0:30 ↗ you're not speaking and then

0:31 ↗ Commissioners in the room today um you'd

0:34 ↗ like to speak you can flip your sign up

0:36 ↗ and for those that don't have signs

0:37 ↗ today just give me

0:39 ↗ any um we'll summarize agreement around

0:41 ↗ recommendations the end each

0:43 ↗ topic and um we want to take a roll call

0:47 ↗ First Stacy this is a different meeting

0:49 ↗ tonight we have a joint meeting between

0:51 ↗ us and the sister city board we're gon

0:54 ↗ hear from May Paulie first then we'll

0:57 ↗ break in tomorrow so if you want to do

0:59 ↗ roll

1:03 ↗ both start with the environmental board

1:05 ↗ sure Tom Anderson here Nancy Davidson

1:09 ↗ here Jamie Finch has an excused absence

1:12 ↗ josi here Kieran pan here Nina June

1:17 ↗ Donna MC

1:18 ↗ Williams Dixie

1:21 ↗ bear here Alex Lee

1:25 ↗ tigner

1:26 ↗ here an

1:28 ↗ newom here

1:31 ↗ Keith

1:33 ↗ Gonzalez here and John Smith

1:38 ↗ here four sister cities um Stephie Anga

1:43 ↗ here Diana here Shar

1:47 ↗ here here R here here Victor Emily Roy

1:55 ↗ and John excuse

2:02 ↗ um mayor Paul it's all yours thanks for

2:05 ↗ joining well thanks for having me sorry

2:08 ↗ I can't be there in person with you um

2:10 ↗ this is exciting I would never have

2:11 ↗ guests in all the joint meetings we have

2:14 ↗ that there would be a sister city

2:16 ↗ environment board uh joint meeting so I

2:19 ↗ think this is really fun um I want to

2:21 ↗ first start off by thanking the sister

2:23 ↗ city commission for all the work they've

2:25 ↗ done over the last two or three years to

2:27 ↗ really dramatically invest in our

2:30 ↗ relationship with shasa and Morocco um

2:33 ↗ we did a sister city visit and out of

2:35 ↗ that came many many projects and some of

2:38 ↗ the projects had to do with um just

2:41 ↗ sharing of information and what's going

2:43 ↗ on in our cities um but also doing a

2:46 ↗ project after the earthquake um in

2:48 ↗ marash south of marash and doing a a

2:51 ↗ local community fundraiser that was

2:53 ↗ absolutely huge lift U very exciting to

2:56 ↗ see our community do it very much

2:58 ↗ appreciated by those in the

3:00 ↗ I'll eat in a second by those um in

3:03 ↗ Morocco and a second trip then to

3:05 ↗ deliver all of those to red crescent Red

3:07 ↗ Cross in

3:09 ↗ Morocco yes hun I'm not telling you okay

3:12 ↗ one sec I'm telling you they're

3:14 ↗ listening they're listening okay and so

3:17 ↗ then um another one of our work projects

3:20 ↗ that came out of that that I thought is

3:21 ↗ super exciting is we have a real partner

3:23 ↗ and environmental stewardship in the

3:25 ↗ mayor of

3:28 ↗ shaan uh he had has a huge presence um

3:31 ↗ not only in his community but in his

3:33 ↗ country in being a leader in moving his

3:36 ↗ City forward in terms of uh building uh

3:40 ↗ environmentally sustainable

3:42 ↗ infrastructure and energy reducing um

3:45 ↗ Investments and one of the things we

3:47 ↗ talked about was is there something in

3:50 ↗ their climate action plan and in our

3:52 ↗ climate action plan that could be a

3:54 ↗ demonstration project that we would be

3:56 ↗ able to do in our two communities to

3:58 ↗ demonstrate the the impacts of the

4:01 ↗ changing climate on a community that has

4:05 ↗ a significant amount of desert but is

4:07 ↗ also set in a a mountain Hillside and

4:10 ↗ one that is set in the Pacific Northwest

4:12 ↗ with an entirely different climate is

4:14 ↗ there an action that we could um work on

4:17 ↗ together demonstrate progress and then

4:19 ↗ the mayor of shi shaan is very connected

4:21 ↗ with the United Nations um groups and

4:24 ↗ teams working on climate action and

4:26 ↗ climate resiliency and so the purpose

4:28 ↗ was to bring you all together to see if

4:30 ↗ we could identify something and begin

4:32 ↗ that work uh as part of our work plan

4:35 ↗ this year so I am so excited that our um

4:38 ↗ environment board and sister city

4:40 ↗ commission are together this evening and

4:42 ↗ look forward to hearing the conversation

4:44 ↗ I have another meeting that starts in um

4:47 ↗ 20 minutes so if you see me deck off

4:49 ↗ it's not because the conversation isn't

4:51 ↗ super interesting and enthralling it's

4:53 ↗ that my presence is required somewhere

4:55 ↗ else simultaneous so thank you for chair

4:58 ↗ for allowing me time to talk

5:00 ↗ thank you you're

5:03 ↗ welcome did you you want to share to

5:05 ↗ start and I can talk a little bit about

5:08 ↗ potential projects yeah I'm going stand

5:10 ↗ up since I the way

5:12 ↗ back um sister cities U you know I I

5:17 ↗ tagged along with the mayor's trip to

5:19 ↗ Morocco so I can validate the

5:21 ↗ conversations that they had uh which

5:23 ↗ were amazing uh we also have um another

5:26 ↗ trip coming up to Norway so we might be

5:28 ↗ able to sprad this into that

5:30 ↗ conversation which would be really a

5:33 ↗ great opportunity uh when we were in

5:35 ↗ Morocco we also shared land movements um

5:40 ↗ and the importance of preservation and

5:42 ↗ they share a lot of those same values as

5:44 ↗ well so we have an opportunity to to

5:47 ↗ look Beyond these two boards and say

5:49 ↗ what other resources could we have so

5:52 ↗ I'm excited to hear the conversation um

5:54 ↗ I will only have an opportunity to um

5:58 ↗ introduce it with the commission and

6:00 ↗ then I'm departing the city so um after

6:03 ↗ July you'll have new on I just wanted to

6:06 ↗ say um you know all of these things are

6:09 ↗ really important

6:12 ↗ toide and I think tonight we wanted just

6:14 ↗ to hear Reflections and thoughts around

6:17 ↗ this potential project but we were going

6:19 ↗ to share one opportunity that we're

6:21 ↗ exploring um with kley uh which is a

6:26 ↗ local uh government sustainability

6:28 ↗ International Network um sha is very

6:32 ↗ involved in iiy at the international

6:33 ↗ level they have right now a cohort

6:37 ↗ between US cities and cities in Africa

6:40 ↗ to work on a resilience project together

6:43 ↗ and those projects are very focused on

6:45 ↗ integrating culture and Heritage Into

6:48 ↗ Climate resilience and the

6:50 ↗ adaptation um so we're starting

6:53 ↗ conversations about possibly

6:55 ↗ participating as sister cities in that

6:58 ↗ greater cohort with um other cities

7:01 ↗ across the US and um the African

7:04 ↗ continent um and so one exciting

7:06 ↗ opportunity with that project would be

7:08 ↗ probably integrating in um the snowy

7:11 ↗ tribe as well we have good relationship

7:15 ↗ with and starting to look at kind of uh

7:17 ↗ different ways that we're bringing in

7:19 ↗ those considerations into our climate

7:21 ↗ planning and

7:25 ↗ adaptation um hi teenagers staff on to

7:29 ↗ the city commission just wanted to chime

7:32 ↗ in on that connection we also talked

7:35 ↗ about student involvement it's um s

7:40 ↗ ambassadors uh in both countries to get

7:43 ↗ connected and I know that others the

7:45 ↗ gentleman here that uh founded the

7:49 ↗ Moroccan uh C City relationship with us

7:53 ↗ and he WR orated that communication to

7:57 ↗ that any you contion be really important

8:01 ↗ and would be appreciated um because they

8:04 ↗ have those same

8:06 ↗ values think another mention oh we're

8:10 ↗ also a partner or associated with the

8:12 ↗ international sister cities Association

8:15 ↗ so we we have some resources there um

8:18 ↗ think we need

8:23 ↗ that so know we did not provide many

8:26 ↗ materials um ahead of this meeting

8:29 ↗ around this topic but did just want to

8:31 ↗ introduce it and any thoughts

8:32 ↗ Reflections

8:34 ↗ ideas um this is brand new to the

8:36 ↗ environmental board this topic I think

8:39 ↗ it's exciting it's a cool opportunity um

8:41 ↗ it'd be really interesting to see get

8:44 ↗ your hands on one of their PL Stacy and

8:46 ↗ so we could look at it and kind of see

8:47 ↗ if there's a Nexus between what we're

8:50 ↗ doing out here and what they're doing

8:51 ↗ over there I bet there is I'm sure just

8:54 ↗ have to read it find

8:57 ↗ out question

9:00 ↗ yeah s i just curious how did it come

9:02 ↗ around like how did this get started

9:05 ↗ this is pretty interesting I just yeah

9:08 ↗ this is mostly that's a question for

9:10 ↗ Tina the mayor and the sister the

9:12 ↗ commission I think

9:15 ↗ top well you have two amazing Mays you

9:18 ↗ have one in isqu and one in Chef Shon

9:21 ↗ and they have a lot of similarities um a

9:26 ↗ lot of interest in um you know

9:29 ↗ challenging and changing climate and so

9:33 ↗ they hit it off well and you couldn't

9:36 ↗ get them to stop talking

9:38 ↗ about about this so there was the

9:41 ↗ enthusiasm and excitement that we

9:43 ↗ brought it home we delayed having a

9:46 ↗ conversation with the boards of

9:48 ↗ commission members because we were

9:50 ↗ working on the um earthquake relief

9:52 ↗ project because earthquake happens just

9:54 ↗ a couple days before

9:56 ↗ we um so there's is the

10:01 ↗ topic it's pretty

10:04 ↗ exciting did you have any specific

10:07 ↗ projects in mind that we could think

10:09 ↗ about um not none that we've had an

10:12 ↗ opportunity to talk with them about yet

10:14 ↗ but um we and we actually haven't I

10:17 ↗ haven't been able to find their plan

10:19 ↗ online but there's a lot of one pagers

10:21 ↗ and references to it um they are doing

10:23 ↗ some really amazing work as the mayor

10:25 ↗ was saying around green infrastructure

10:27 ↗ and engineering electric bikes youth

10:30 ↗ engagement they have um uh energy

10:34 ↗ centers to educate the community around

10:37 ↗ renewable energy they have a solar

10:40 ↗ swimming pool and so just some really

10:42 ↗ amazing things we can learn from but I

10:44 ↗ think we also need to get our hands on

10:46 ↗ their full climate plan um but I do

10:49 ↗ think there is a possibility working

10:51 ↗ with this greater cohort through iiy um

10:55 ↗ to really look how we are bringing in

10:58 ↗ culture and Heritage and to our planning

11:00 ↗ um also somewhat aligns with one of the

11:03 ↗ city's priorities for building community

11:06 ↗ and um a sense of belonging I think

11:09 ↗ could uh come into this initiative as

11:11 ↗ well

11:13 ↗ so um yeah in both like the development

11:16 ↗ of the project and also the final like

11:18 ↗ implementation what would be the level

11:20 ↗ of the broader Community

11:25 ↗ fa relatively

11:29 ↗ the mayor just took a bite do you have

11:37 ↗ any if you could put the question in the

11:40 ↗ chat it's a little the room does Echo so

11:42 ↗ it's a little bit hard to hear

11:45 ↗ thanks yeah I could sh while you're

11:47 ↗ doing that I could share that um it all

11:51 ↗ depends on what the vision is and what

11:54 ↗ the group decides to do so be small and

11:58 ↗ large uh it could grow over time but

12:01 ↗ right now it's just in

12:04 ↗ the idea building

12:08 ↗ phas um Stephanie angula sister City's

12:12 ↗ commission co-chair so I have a question

12:15 ↗ both for our city and for Chef shaan are

12:18 ↗ we aware of projects that have already

12:21 ↗ taken place at the last let's say three

12:24 ↗ even five years that

12:27 ↗ had a potential to expand into kind of a

12:32 ↗ Next Level so some things that have

12:34 ↗ maybe already been done that we could

12:35 ↗ build

12:38 ↗ upon I'm shamed to say I don't know what

12:41 ↗ they are for our local community yeah we

12:43 ↗ have a yeah a lot of ideas um one of the

12:48 ↗ kind of newer ones is around our

12:50 ↗ resilience Subs too which is um very

12:53 ↗ much Community facing where we're

12:55 ↗ working to develop a network of hubs

12:58 ↗ that the community feel safe in and can

13:01 ↗ visit before during and after an

13:03 ↗ emergency um I don't know to the extent

13:05 ↗ that they have developed that kind of

13:07 ↗ network um but that could be an

13:09 ↗ interesting learning opportunity um and

13:12 ↗ again possibly looking through this

13:14 ↗ ickly program of how you um integrate

13:17 ↗ culture and Heritage into the that

13:19 ↗ development um we have a number of

13:21 ↗ community facing programs around

13:23 ↗ electrification and solar that we could

13:26 ↗ do a lot of lessons learned on and then

13:28 ↗ even work with our own

13:30 ↗ infrastructure we I don't think that I

13:32 ↗ think there's one um solar pool in

13:35 ↗ California that we found would love to

13:37 ↗ hear how they developed theirs um

13:40 ↗ because that's something we would look

13:41 ↗ at with the new pool here so yeah I

13:43 ↗ think there's a definitely a lot of

13:45 ↗ little projects like that but there's

13:47 ↗ also ways we could look at this as kind

13:48 ↗ of overarching of how we um approach our

13:51 ↗ climate planning and adaptation

13:56 ↗ work see I can CH in a little bit to if

13:59 ↗ that's okay right now um I think

14:02 ↗ depending on the project I see the

14:03 ↗ question in the chat definitely um there

14:06 ↗ should it would be great if we could

14:08 ↗ have a broader Community involvement as

14:10 ↗ the project is going on I think because

14:12 ↗ we already both have climate action

14:14 ↗ plans and a record of taking actions

14:16 ↗ maybe a first step is for the um

14:19 ↗ environmental board and the sister city

14:21 ↗ commission to write a letter to our

14:23 ↗ partners in the shiff shaan

14:25 ↗ administration talking about four or

14:27 ↗ five things that we have started or in

14:29 ↗ mid progress on our environmental

14:32 ↗ actions um and letting them know that uh

14:36 ↗ we are hoping that as we review and they

14:38 ↗ review our plans we'll be able to come

14:41 ↗ up with either an expansion or phase two

14:43 ↗ of something we have both worked on or

14:46 ↗ looking for an item within our plans

14:47 ↗ that we may pilot together as a new

14:49 ↗ initiative um asking them for a response

14:52 ↗ letter to say um please share with us

14:55 ↗ the things that you have been working on

14:57 ↗ where you have your successes where your

14:59 ↗ priorities are and where you're going

15:00 ↗ next and then maybe we try to schedule a

15:03 ↗ smaller group meeting where we have two

15:05 ↗ or three from our group and two or three

15:07 ↗ from their group to get into a little

15:09 ↗ bit of a project technical discussion

15:11 ↗ and come back to both sides with lists

15:14 ↗ of possibilities that you can vet with

15:16 ↗ the community and and and figure

15:18 ↗ something out so that might be a and

15:19 ↗ Tina's better at than I am at

15:22 ↗ understanding about how to begin the

15:24 ↗ kind of conversation but I wonder if

15:26 ↗ that's a suggestion we might go with

15:38 ↗ hi I think that's a great idea how big

15:41 ↗ is a city is it comparable size

15:45 ↗ to yeah it's population wise um similar

15:49 ↗ it has a interesting geography it kind

15:52 ↗ of goes up the hillside um so

15:55 ↗ interesting terrain sister cities folks

15:58 ↗ that

15:59 ↗ are familiar and Tina may be able to

16:01 ↗ share with you a little bit more about

16:02 ↗ it water is an issue water quality um

16:07 ↗ drought is an issue for them sometimes

16:09 ↗ that's an issue for us energy and energy

16:12 ↗ Supply and green energy Supply so it's

16:16 ↗ uh they have also an interest in um

16:21 ↗ promoting uh the Mediterranean diet

16:23 ↗ healthy eating healthy lifestyle which

16:26 ↗ is great and there is some cultur

16:30 ↗ uh and Heritage things that are

16:32 ↗ celebrated there very similar to what um

16:35 ↗ Indian tribes in our area would tie into

16:38 ↗ best practices and sustainable practices

16:40 ↗ so I think strangely enough we have a

16:42 ↗ lot in common with the city in

16:48 ↗ Africa that's exciting I like the idea

16:51 ↗ of writing a joint

16:53 ↗ letter

16:57 ↗ sister that Tina maybe yeah we can

17:03 ↗ work yeah we could work with the chairs

17:07 ↗ if that works and vice

17:11 ↗ chairs great

17:14 ↗ did right anything else Tina no thank

17:19 ↗ you I'm enjoying this iners component

17:21 ↗ and um and and the virtual working out

17:25 ↗ really well we're going to move to the

17:27 ↗ side room so hopefully we be it and

17:30 ↗ we'll finish our

17:35 ↗ business thank

17:38 ↗ you board members on the line we'll just

17:40 ↗ take about a one minute

17:45 ↗ break thank you for your

17:56 ↗ everybody yeah yeah

18:01 ↗ something yeah I'll send out a few links

18:03 ↗ um they're also pursuing that was

18:09 ↗ research similar to like the herit world

18:12 ↗ heritage sites but it's like a

18:13 ↗ geological set park or something like

18:17 ↗ that get an

18:19 ↗ IDE this I was so I know

18:23 ↗ to research it

18:26 ↗ so nothing about this

18:31 ↗ a few links I think it would help all to

18:33 ↗ be a SM yeah absolutely

18:43 ↗ yeah I'm TR to Norway next month oh wow

18:47 ↗ maybe I can be an ambassador to our city

18:50 ↗ of Norway

18:57 ↗ [Music]

19:00 ↗ yeah I think that

19:04 ↗ may all right next approval of minutes

19:08 ↗ so minutes from the last meeting was

19:09 ↗ there any changes to

19:13 ↗ see those

19:15 ↗ approved and then we

19:17 ↗ have have anybody for public com I don't

19:20 ↗ see

19:23 ↗ anybody no we have no members of the

19:25 ↗ public

19:26 ↗ on um Connie made comments Online mail

19:32 ↗ the storm water

19:33 ↗ plan uh next up we're going to have uh

19:37 ↗ Evan and Mike are gonna join us and

19:39 ↗ they're gonna walk through the storm

19:40 ↗ water

19:47 ↗ man M go

19:49 ↗ ahead all right great um let's just

19:53 ↗ check that everything's working audio

19:55 ↗ good presentation showing not yet all

20:01 ↗ right your presentation's out perfect

20:05 ↗ all right so first off thank you all so

20:08 ↗ much for being here this evening really

20:11 ↗ appreciate the board's contributions um

20:14 ↗ something that's important to me I sit

20:16 ↗ on the environmental board for the city

20:18 ↗ I live in so um really value any

20:21 ↗ contributions you have or things you'd

20:22 ↗ like to share this evening um but yeah

20:25 ↗ my name is Mike fulan I'm our Water

20:27 ↗ Resources program specialist I'm the

20:30 ↗ primary uh coordinator for npds storm

20:33 ↗ water permit um also online is Evan

20:36 ↗ Brumfield Evan do you want to introduce

20:38 ↗ yourself real

20:41 ↗ quick uh my name is Evan Brumfield I'm

20:44 ↗ environmental regulatory program manager

20:47 ↗ uh former NPS coordinator uh assist Mike

20:52 ↗ now awesome thank you all right so um

20:56 ↗ yeah I expect to have a bit of extra

20:57 ↗ time on this present today I don't need

21:00 ↗ it to be formal so if it's all right

21:02 ↗ with everyone feel free to ask questions

21:04 ↗ as I move through it um there's a lot of

21:07 ↗ different topics within the storm water

21:09 ↗ permit so uh we could take our time and

21:13 ↗ uh you know disambiguate anything as we

21:16 ↗ move through it uh the goals for today's

21:19 ↗ presentation is just to get everyone

21:21 ↗ familiar with our storm water permit uh

21:24 ↗ then to give updates on our 2024 annual

21:27 ↗ report and the key metrics that are in

21:29 ↗ there that we like to share out annually

21:32 ↗ and then give the more major updates to

21:35 ↗ the 2025 storm water management program

21:37 ↗ plan uh that's also available online

21:40 ↗ right now for public comment so if

21:42 ↗ you're more like me and you like to have

21:44 ↗ a chance to read through things and

21:45 ↗ think about them you can also submit

21:47 ↗ comments via email on uh any of the the

21:51 ↗ content tonight um to the email address

21:53 ↗ there and um I believe that was emailed

21:57 ↗ out to you already but I'll also drop

21:59 ↗ this link in chat for

22:01 ↗ you all right that should be there for

22:05 ↗ you great all right and then we'll of

22:08 ↗ course have time for Q&A if we have any

22:10 ↗ remaining questions um but just to give

22:12 ↗ the really broad overview of what npdes

22:15 ↗ is um I'll be referring to it mostly As

22:17 ↗ the permit or the storm water permit

22:19 ↗ tonight um it is our Phase 2 National

22:24 ↗ pollution discharge elimination system

22:26 ↗ permit it is a mouthful which which is

22:28 ↗ why I call it the permit or the storm

22:30 ↗ water permit um this all originates from

22:34 ↗ the Clean Water Act uh the EPA delegates

22:37 ↗ authority to the Department of ecology

22:40 ↗ to administer the permit to different

22:42 ↗ municipalities in the state of

22:44 ↗ Washington so we've been given this

22:46 ↗ permit from the Department of ecology

22:48 ↗ and in it are outlined a bunch of

22:50 ↗ different terms conditions and programs

22:53 ↗ that we need to make sure that we're

22:54 ↗ meeting um throughout uh our permit

22:57 ↗ cycle which we just entered into a new

22:59 ↗ one

23:01 ↗ um

23:03 ↗ so I'll be going through those different

23:05 ↗ program components in a second but

23:07 ↗ really the whole purpose of this permit

23:09 ↗ is to make sure that the storm water

23:12 ↗ we're discharging as a city um is as

23:16 ↗ clean as possible uh is how I like to

23:19 ↗ think of it so really uh how they refer

23:21 ↗ to it is a regulates storm water

23:23 ↗ discharges to Waters of the state

23:30 ↗ all right um and to even take it back

23:33 ↗ another step storm water is just you

23:36 ↗ know runoff from rain and snow melt so

23:39 ↗ when it rains and is a qua that rain

23:41 ↗ hits our built environment right and it

23:43 ↗ gets transported through our storm water

23:45 ↗ infrastructure a lot of this is

23:48 ↗ underground um but some of it is above

23:50 ↗ ground as well so as that rainwater

23:52 ↗ travels it has the potential to pick up

23:54 ↗ pollutants and it is sometimes treated

23:57 ↗ and sometimes not treated depending on

23:59 ↗ where you are in the city before it

24:01 ↗ enters our surface waters and our

24:02 ↗ surface waters being things like our

24:04 ↗ Rivers streams Creeks Lakes um so it's

24:09 ↗ really important to make sure that that

24:10 ↗ water is as clean as we're able to have

24:13 ↗ it um and there is some language at the

24:18 ↗ top which is how it's I think of it just

24:21 ↗ permit talk but yeah it's saying to

24:22 ↗ reduce the discharge of pollutants from

24:24 ↗ the Ci's Municipal separate storm system

24:27 ↗ ms4 to the maximum an extent practicable

24:29 ↗ to protect water

24:31 ↗ quality um and through to do that the

24:34 ↗ nine major program components that we

24:36 ↗ have outlined in our permit uh this was

24:39 ↗ eight last year if you in this

24:40 ↗ presentation you might recognize that we

24:43 ↗ have one more in here uh so the

24:47 ↗ different nine are storm water planning

24:50 ↗ public education and Outreach public

24:52 ↗ involvement and

24:53 ↗ participation mapping and documentation

24:56 ↗ elicit discharge detection and

24:57 ↗ elimination

24:59 ↗ controlling runoff from new development

25:01 ↗ Redevelopment and construction sites

25:03 ↗ storm water management for existing

25:05 ↗ development Source control program for

25:07 ↗ existing development and then operations

25:09 ↗ and maintenance so um though

25:12 ↗ coordination is housed out of our public

25:15 ↗ works department in nikqua this is

25:17 ↗ really a very broad overarching permit

25:20 ↗ that uh you know folks from our parks

25:22 ↗ department are very involved in and our

25:24 ↗ permitting Department as well and it

25:26 ↗ goes to many different staff across the

25:28 ↗ City to make sure that we're keeping the

25:29 ↗ storm water

25:34 ↗ clean um like I said I'll be going over

25:37 ↗ those 2024 annual reporting uh

25:40 ↗ highlights and also same for 2025 storm

25:43 ↗ water management program plan I'm going

25:46 ↗ to pause here for a second before I jump

25:48 ↗ into those updates for each of those

25:50 ↗ different program components just to see

25:52 ↗ if anyone has a question about you know

25:55 ↗ what is what the heck is the storm water

25:57 ↗ permit

26:01 ↗ questions over here

26:05 ↗ wonderful all right so I'm just going to

26:07 ↗ go through those sequentially each

26:09 ↗ slide's going to look like this it's

26:10 ↗ just going to highlight you know what is

26:11 ↗ the main purpose of this section and

26:13 ↗ then you'll see the 2024 actions and the

26:16 ↗ 2025 plan so our storm water planning

26:19 ↗ program uh you know the goal is to

26:21 ↗ inform and assist City staff in the

26:24 ↗ development of policies and strategies

26:25 ↗ for water quality management tools in

26:28 ↗ 2024 we didn't have any uh new

26:33 ↗ requirements that we enacted we really

26:35 ↗ focused on continuing to implement our

26:37 ↗ storm and surface water plan and then

26:40 ↗ continuing to coordinate across

26:42 ↗ departments to make sure that we're

26:44 ↗ helping inform you know uh policy and

26:47 ↗ strategies across the city um that storm

26:50 ↗ and surface water plan uh I believe it

26:53 ↗ was adopted in 2023 and that really is

26:56 ↗ how we highlight you know uh how we want

26:59 ↗ to um protect water quality throughout

27:02 ↗ the city so that that is our guiding our

27:04 ↗ Guiding Light in many of the storm water

27:07 ↗ planning uh processes in the

27:09 ↗ city and then 2025 really we just want

27:12 ↗ to continue these current strategies

27:13 ↗ that aren't any immediate um upcoming

27:17 ↗ new deadlines for the permit so we just

27:19 ↗ really want to lean into especially uh

27:21 ↗ in my own work plan is that coordination

27:23 ↗ across departments and making sure that

27:24 ↗ we're bolstering that

27:29 ↗ all right education and Outreach this is

27:31 ↗ a big one it's the only one that has

27:33 ↗ more than one slide for it uh this is I

27:35 ↗ have an education background personally

27:38 ↗ uh working at an education center in

27:40 ↗ National Park so this one's near and

27:41 ↗ dear to my heart um but our education

27:43 ↗ outreach program is all focused on

27:45 ↗ providing education Outreach on

27:46 ↗ behaviors which contribute to a healthy

27:48 ↗ Watershed so a lot of this is focused on

27:53 ↗ um you know being in communication with

27:56 ↗ our isqua community

27:58 ↗ and uh helping reduce harmful actions to

28:02 ↗ our Watershed um 2024 education actions

28:06 ↗ to note are we participated in the

28:08 ↗ regional don't wait to inflate campaign

28:11 ↗ through uh pug sound starts here a lot

28:14 ↗ of the 2024 efforts there were focused

28:17 ↗ on digital ads and Community ethnic

28:19 ↗ media tour I think this is a really

28:21 ↗ exciting campaign because there is a

28:24 ↗ chemical called 6 PPD which some of you

28:26 ↗ may be familiar with which is um one of

28:29 ↗ the leading leading causes of mortality

28:32 ↗ to coho salmon in urban uh Water Systems

28:35 ↗ so this is really focused on reducing

28:38 ↗ tire wear particles uh from entering our

28:41 ↗ watersheds and those tire wear particles

28:44 ↗ like as your as you drive your car tire

28:46 ↗ wears down that gets into storm water

28:49 ↗ and that has the 6 PPD chemical or 6 PPD

28:52 ↗ Cube um we continue partnering with

28:55 ↗ Cascade water Alliance uh for education

28:58 ↗ opportunities espe uh and they

29:01 ↗ specifically focus on a lot of classroom

29:04 ↗ resources so we had a watershed field

29:06 ↗ trip which was a lot of fun earlier in

29:08 ↗ the year um and then we continue to try

29:11 ↗ to connect them with as many classrooms

29:12 ↗ as possible we also have business

29:14 ↗ Outreach programs uh so pollution

29:17 ↗ prevention assistant uh private storm

29:20 ↗ inspection programs and then on-site

29:22 ↗ septic fats oils increase as

29:26 ↗ well as far as stewardship sh actions uh

29:30 ↗ this is another one of the main

29:31 ↗ components of education and Outreach a

29:34 ↗ lot of this is conducted through our

29:35 ↗ greenis qua group in our parks

29:37 ↗ department so there were 83 restoration

29:39 ↗ events which planted uh about 1 and a

29:42 ↗ half thousand trees in shrubs in 2024

29:45 ↗ and they had 46 educational events with

29:48 ↗ 394

29:50 ↗ participants uh this was also our second

29:52 ↗ year of adopted drain in isqua uh we now

29:55 ↗ have in total 74 drains which have been

29:58 ↗ adopted um and this year they reported

30:01 ↗ 255 pounds of debris removed from uh on

30:06 ↗ top of storm drains so this is really

30:08 ↗ focused on removing those pollutants

30:10 ↗ before they get into the storm water

30:12 ↗ system and then also helping to reduce

30:14 ↗ localized flooding as well um that

30:17 ↗ program has been a lot of fun to work

30:19 ↗ with and help uh

30:23 ↗ Implement and

30:25 ↗ for oh yeah go ahead sorry I can't see

30:27 ↗ your hands so feel free to jop

30:29 ↗ in I'm I com um so couple of questions

30:33 ↗ here uh first I wanted to know what's

30:36 ↗ the scope of the ni's permit Does it

30:38 ↗ include private properties and private

30:41 ↗ construction projects or stuff in the

30:43 ↗ city or is it just City Properties or

30:46 ↗ City construction and other

30:48 ↗ projects so just to make sure I heard

30:51 ↗ that um you're asking what the scope of

30:54 ↗ the permit is is it just uh public

30:57 ↗ property in construction or is it public

30:59 ↗ and private that's CCT okay great yeah

31:03 ↗ it's public and private so different

31:04 ↗ permit uh sections have different

31:07 ↗ requirements so we have a entire I'll be

31:12 ↗ uh coming up to this in some number of

31:14 ↗ slides but uh for new new development in

31:17 ↗ the city um private development we have

31:21 ↗ we make sure that you know we have site

31:23 ↗ review for storm water and that we're

31:25 ↗ inspecting them for erosion and set

31:28 ↗ control uh before construction during

31:30 ↗ construction and post construction so it

31:32 ↗ spans a bit of both and we also have

31:34 ↗ inspection programs as well that are for

31:37 ↗ uh private

31:38 ↗ businesses so basically for the private

31:41 ↗ properties um the permits are first

31:45 ↗ submitted to the city and then it goes

31:48 ↗ through ecology it like so or do you get

31:51 ↗ the data from ecology to keep it current

31:53 ↗ like what the private properties um

31:56 ↗ requirements are

32:02 ↗ um for a better answer I might need to

32:05 ↗ lean on Evan or get back to you on this

32:06 ↗ but as we get uh development plans

32:09 ↗ submitted to the city our our permit

32:12 ↗ team reviews those to make sure that the

32:14 ↗ plans are as they need to be to go ahead

32:17 ↗ with

32:18 ↗ development okays your question sorry I

32:21 ↗ have one other quick question um I saw

32:24 ↗ on the previous slide one of the

32:26 ↗ previous slides there was some about

32:28 ↗ don't wait to inflate

32:31 ↗ campaign what that is yeah so that that

32:34 ↗ is the puug sound Starts Here campaign

32:36 ↗ that's focused on reducing tire wear

32:38 ↗ particles from Cars um from yeah yeah

32:43 ↗ yep so the whole the whole catch line

32:45 ↗ don't wait to inflates like make sure

32:46 ↗ you inflate your car tires before they

32:50 ↗ uh are losing too much air because a

32:52 ↗ more inflated Tire will lose less rubber

32:55 ↗ from it as they drive and also it'll you

32:57 ↗ know help you save money at the gas like

33:00 ↗ at the refuel station and then also be

33:02 ↗ safer to

33:03 ↗ drive okay thank you yep of course

33:07 ↗ question yeah yeah I was wondering how

33:11 ↗ the adopted drain um deis removal was

33:15 ↗ calculated is that just like an estimate

33:16 ↗ based on what you guys know or is there

33:18 ↗ some sort of reporting system that or

33:20 ↗ surveying that goes into that yeah so

33:23 ↗ it's a self-report system it's uh more

33:26 ↗ it's a community program and anyone in

33:28 ↗ isqua can sign up for it and when you

33:30 ↗ sign up and adopt a drain uh you know a

33:33 ↗ lot of folks are doing that like uh in

33:35 ↗ in their neighborhood that they live in

33:37 ↗ they're asked to go out uh about twice a

33:40 ↗ year every few months and clean off

33:42 ↗ their storm drain uh and then they

33:44 ↗ report what type of debris and how much

33:46 ↗ debris they were removing from on top of

33:48 ↗ the storm drain that they

33:52 ↗ adopted one more for you k um I was

33:56 ↗ wondering who was like the target

33:57 ↗ audience for these education average

33:59 ↗ programs is it just students or is there

34:01 ↗ more to that yeah

34:04 ↗ so all right sorry I keep losing my

34:08 ↗ cursor here so um a lot of these have

34:11 ↗ different uh Target audiences so for

34:14 ↗ instance don't wait to inflate is

34:16 ↗ general public um just anyone that's

34:19 ↗ driving a car we're trying to get to

34:22 ↗ learn more about this and um but with

34:26 ↗ the community ethnic media tour focusing

34:28 ↗ in on you know um a lot of different

34:32 ↗ languages throughout the puit sound

34:34 ↗ region as well so uh Bridge Latina is

34:37 ↗ the one who led that and the focus on

34:40 ↗ that was getting getting information out

34:42 ↗ into more communities uh that may not be

34:46 ↗ getting storm water education uh as like

34:50 ↗ uh focused storm water education like as

34:52 ↗ a target audience so like predominantly

34:54 ↗ I've seen that storm water education

34:56 ↗ going out to like um more fluent we

34:59 ↗ communities and they're trying to

35:01 ↗ diversify the communities there that's

35:03 ↗ been a really targeted audience or a

35:05 ↗ really targeted effort through the don't

35:07 ↗ wait to inflate campaign Cascade water

35:09 ↗ Alliance is focused on school students

35:12 ↗ predominantly and then our business and

35:14 ↗ Outreach is focused on you know the

35:16 ↗ business community in isqua um so we we

35:19 ↗ hit a bunch of uh different Target

35:21 ↗ audiences um and then we have an

35:24 ↗ upcoming requirement to have a uh um oh

35:29 ↗ my gosh the actual terminology is yeah

35:32 ↗ Behavior change program and that will be

35:35 ↗ focused towards uh likely businesses as

35:38 ↗ well

35:42 ↗ um one more question for you yeah so

35:46 ↗ you're talking a little bit about

35:47 ↗ Outreach to business and um to the

35:50 ↗ business Community but I know that in

35:53 ↗ other presentations we've received we've

35:55 ↗ talked about trying to get more Outreach

35:57 ↗ to businesses Rel related to Solid Waste

36:01 ↗ and Recycling type things is that

36:03 ↗ coordinated asau to them to maybe look

36:06 ↗ at you know how we can best be effective

36:09 ↗ with the business Community yeah so one

36:12 ↗ of so out of our environmental team we

36:15 ↗ also have our Solid Waste uh analyst as

36:18 ↗ well um and one of the big things we

36:21 ↗ talk about often is making sure that

36:23 ↗ we're getting our messaging across in

36:25 ↗ more of like a packaged way instead of

36:27 ↗ going to the business Community like 10

36:30 ↗ times in the same year with like a bunch

36:31 ↗ of small messages how can we have fewer

36:34 ↗ touches that are more comprehensive for

36:35 ↗ our different city programs uh and one

36:38 ↗ of the ways that we try to have that

36:40 ↗ more comprehensive approach is through

36:42 ↗ our source control program which I'll be

36:44 ↗ talking about in a little bit and then

36:45 ↗ also our pollution prevention assistance

36:47 ↗ program as well where we can talk more

36:50 ↗ about that um you know the solid waste

36:53 ↗ Nexus with uh water pollution as well

37:01 ↗ thank you question awesome all right um

37:06 ↗ and then I already mentioned it for our

37:08 ↗ 2025 storm water management program plan

37:11 ↗ um we really just want to lean into

37:13 ↗ continuing our you know Regional

37:15 ↗ participation and prioritizing existing

37:18 ↗ programs and also making sure that we

37:20 ↗ develop and Implement that behavior

37:22 ↗ change campaign that I mentioned uh with

37:24 ↗ the deadline for this summer um we have

37:28 ↗ a couple of different options there and

37:29 ↗ we're just trying to feel out which

37:31 ↗ one's best for us continuing our

37:33 ↗ dumpster Outreach campaign that we did

37:35 ↗ on the previous permit cycle or choosing

37:38 ↗ something

37:41 ↗ new all right our next permit section is

37:44 ↗ mapping and documentation which is

37:46 ↗ exactly what it says uh we have

37:48 ↗ requirement to create and maintain

37:50 ↗ digital mapping data in 2024 we

37:53 ↗ continued to maintain all of our

37:55 ↗ existing data and we also implemented

37:57 ↗ cardog and asset management software uh

37:59 ↗ this is really exciting for us it

38:01 ↗ doesn't it's not a specific requirement

38:03 ↗ of the permit but it will help us meet a

38:05 ↗ lot of our permit requirements and do it

38:07 ↗ more effectively and efficiently as well

38:09 ↗ so this is an online system where we can

38:12 ↗ like map out and show the condition of

38:15 ↗ all of our different assets assets being

38:17 ↗ things like storm drains uh you know

38:19 ↗ pipes underground uh above ground

38:21 ↗ treatment uh all those different types

38:23 ↗ of things so that's been an exciting

38:26 ↗ project and getting that implemented uh

38:28 ↗ that'll be also a big part of 2025 is

38:31 ↗ making that as robust as we can um and

38:35 ↗ then we're starting to scope a couple of

38:36 ↗ 2026 deadlines one of those being

38:39 ↗ providing uh ms4 outfall information to

38:43 ↗ ecology so that would be location size

38:46 ↗ and material of our outfalls what an

38:48 ↗ outfall is is basically like end of pipe

38:51 ↗ so where our storm water system

38:53 ↗ discharges into surface water um and and

38:57 ↗ then also in 2026 we will have the

39:00 ↗ requirement to have all of our tree

39:02 ↗ canopy on City owned or operated lands

39:04 ↗ mapped out um as a part of a larger

39:08 ↗ effort in the permit and you'll see more

39:10 ↗ of these in future years around our

39:12 ↗ planning category but to incorporate

39:15 ↗ canopy planning uh into also our storm

39:18 ↗ water program plan as well uh with the

39:21 ↗ idea there being that you know having a

39:24 ↗ more robust tree canopy slows down uh

39:27 ↗ rainfall makes it less of a flashy like

39:30 ↗ input of water into our storm water

39:32 ↗ system and also helps reduce

39:34 ↗ pollutant M good question for you um and

39:37 ↗ I'll let you know I'm incredibly

39:39 ↗ familiar with this

39:40 ↗ permit on the tree canopy mapping

39:43 ↗ requirement is isqua planning on using

39:46 ↗ the entirety of the tree canopy and

39:48 ↗ designating that as storm water tree

39:50 ↗ canopy or just going to use a portion

39:52 ↗ like your forested

39:54 ↗ Lan uh a portion like what sorry

39:58 ↗ as in your Open Spaces or are you going

39:59 ↗ to include all your trees your street

40:01 ↗ trees everything have you thought about

40:03 ↗ that yeah I've thought about that we

40:06 ↗ have um exist like our existing data we

40:10 ↗ have we we show tree canopy I believe

40:12 ↗ are able to show it throughout the

40:13 ↗ entire city um at this point in time um

40:18 ↗ and I some of the conversations that I

40:19 ↗ want to have is if there would be of

40:22 ↗ value to any of our different groups to

40:23 ↗ have it delineated between public and

40:25 ↗ private or not um

40:29 ↗ um one of the so yeah I guess more to

40:33 ↗ come on that that one specifically

40:37 ↗ but I don't know if that answered your

40:39 ↗ question yeah I'll

40:42 ↗ toer okay okay um yeah it's one of those

40:46 ↗ ones as I've asked staff they're like we

40:48 ↗ have we have this data existing right

40:50 ↗ now and well um we're we're scope I

40:55 ↗ think our tree Urban Tree canopy plan

41:00 ↗ will will give us a little bit more

41:01 ↗ information once we get into

41:02 ↗ implementing that more out of our Parks

41:04 ↗ group thank you y yep

41:11 ↗ yep all right uh next section elicit

41:15 ↗ discharge detection and elimination uh

41:17 ↗ much easier known as idde this is our

41:19 ↗ program which is designed to prevent

41:21 ↗ detect and eliminate illicit discharges

41:24 ↗ and Spills into the city's storm water

41:26 ↗ system

41:29 ↗ um uh just to give background like an

41:32 ↗ elicit connection would be let's say

41:33 ↗ something like if you had a sewer line

41:35 ↗ that was accidentally connected into the

41:37 ↗ storm water line bringing the sewage

41:39 ↗ into the storm water system um so in

41:42 ↗ 2024 we responded to 83 spills uh we had

41:47 ↗ 115 pollution prevention visits through

41:49 ↗ our PPA program which is more focused at

41:52 ↗ uh reducing that pollution before it

41:54 ↗ actually like becomes a spill issue

41:57 ↗ um and then we have the

42:01 ↗ recurring uh requirement to screen 12%

42:04 ↗ of the ms4 and we screen to 2024

42:07 ↗ 12.4% um 2025 we have no new permit

42:12 ↗ requirements so we are planning to

42:14 ↗ continue um you know meeting all of our

42:16 ↗ requirements hitting that 12% metric

42:18 ↗ that we need to and responding to all of

42:20 ↗ our spills and in a timely timely manner

42:23 ↗ there

42:28 ↗ all right and this is the uh permit

42:32 ↗ review section so controlling runoff

42:34 ↗ from Development and Construction sites

42:36 ↗ uh this is really focused on that

42:40 ↗ permanent plan review uh inspections

42:42 ↗ enforcement actions those types of

42:44 ↗ things in 2024 we had 185 permit and

42:47 ↗ plan reviews uh

42:49 ↗ 285 Tec inspections or construction

42:52 ↗ inspections focused on temporary erosion

42:54 ↗ and sediment control and one enforc

42:57 ↗ action um those erosion and sediment

43:00 ↗ control inspections as I mentioned

43:02 ↗ before are before construction during

43:04 ↗ construction post construction um so

43:07 ↗ we're making sure we have eyes on it

43:08 ↗ throughout the entire process and in

43:11 ↗ 2025 management plan um we're going to

43:15 ↗ continue our current

43:16 ↗ strategies um and we're starting to

43:20 ↗ scope out the 20127 deadline to adopt

43:24 ↗ the new storm water management manual

43:27 ↗ for Western Washington as well so um

43:29 ↗ that's one of the big things that we're

43:30 ↗ talking to our permit team about as

43:33 ↗ well have a question for you so I have a

43:36 ↗ couple of questions and I'm going to do

43:38 ↗ it both on this slide and the previous

43:39 ↗ slide when you talk about one

43:41 ↗ enforcement action um what's that mean

43:44 ↗ and what's scope of what happened yeah

43:48 ↗ so I'd have to familiarize myself with

43:51 ↗ this specific incident oftentimes

43:54 ↗ that'll be a stop work order uh and that

43:56 ↗ could be issued for something like uh

44:00 ↗ let's say pumping uh you sediment full

44:05 ↗ water directly into a surface water for

44:07 ↗ instance so uh when there when there's a

44:10 ↗ violation of um like the terms for

44:14 ↗ construction having healthy water that's

44:16 ↗ when you might have to escalate it to a

44:18 ↗ stop work order until it's resolved okay

44:21 ↗ well then I'm going to go back to your

44:23 ↗ ID the Ala discharge you have three

44:27 ↗ spills and I guess I don't know the

44:30 ↗ significance of the spills was that like

44:32 ↗ um Car Wash materials getting into a

44:34 ↗ storm grain was that an oil spill was

44:36 ↗ that a major spill in lak mamish I mean

44:40 ↗ they're different and and I guess and

44:42 ↗ the reason I'm asking that is 83 is a

44:45 ↗ lot in a year in my opinion for a town

44:48 ↗ this size and the other thing is is our

44:50 ↗ education program getting to the right

44:52 ↗ place if you categorize that maybe we're

44:54 ↗ missing something by not telling people

44:57 ↗ not to wash their car and have it go in

44:58 ↗ the Storm drink or they don't put their

45:01 ↗ oil in the Storm drink or you know I

45:03 ↗ mean I think it drives your education

45:06 ↗ program because if you see 83 this year

45:09 ↗ and you see an escalate or decrease next

45:11 ↗ year we've got a problem in what we're

45:13 ↗ trying to educate the public about

45:14 ↗ because we have these kind of um bad

45:17 ↗ things happening in the storm water yeah

45:20 ↗ very good point um I will say that a

45:22 ↗ whole lot of those spills are from auto

45:24 ↗ accidents um which are things that are

45:27 ↗ hard to approach with education you know

45:30 ↗ being a lot a lot of them Collision

45:32 ↗ driven and so a spill is any time or a

45:37 ↗ spill includes any time that like a

45:41 ↗ fluid touches the road

45:43 ↗ surface um so there's a lot of things

45:46 ↗ out of our control there uh there are of

45:48 ↗ course the occasional incidents of uh a

45:52 ↗ contractor like putting something

45:55 ↗ directly into the storm drain which then

45:57 ↗ we do try to have direct education

45:59 ↗ provided to that contractor if we're

46:01 ↗ able to identify them um but yeah a lot

46:05 ↗ of a lot of these are call-ins for like

46:09 ↗ a Sheen of oil on the road from an

46:11 ↗ unspecified Source things like that and

46:14 ↗ we do we do try to provide education as

46:16 ↗ often as we're able to to identify like

46:19 ↗ the actual source for those spills and

46:21 ↗ the spills to answer the other part of

46:23 ↗ that question range from uh you know a

46:27 ↗ single ounce of oil on the roadway from

46:31 ↗ an unspecified source to something

46:33 ↗ larger um and these all have to have a

46:36 ↗ Nexus or a direct connection to our

46:39 ↗ storm water system to be counted in here

46:41 ↗ so um something like uh Lake

46:45 ↗ samamish uh if there was a spill

46:47 ↗ directly into Lake samamish never

46:49 ↗ touched our storm water system so I

46:51 ↗ oftentimes wouldn't hear about that it

46:53 ↗ would go through a different you know

46:55 ↗ channel to get cleaned

46:57 ↗ up but is there any way that as this

47:00 ↗ comes back to us I mean I know we saw

47:02 ↗ this about a year ago and likely we'll

47:04 ↗ see it next year is there any way we can

47:07 ↗ categorize these into something so that

47:09 ↗ it means something 83 spills doesn't say

47:13 ↗ a lot to most of

47:15 ↗ us I understand your description but

47:18 ↗ there may have been some assd thrown

47:20 ↗ down the stor grin it doesn't even show

47:21 ↗ up here it's one occurrence but if it's

47:25 ↗ you know a little oil on the Road um

47:28 ↗ while that is bad it is not quite the

47:30 ↗ same level of so we're not really seeing

47:33 ↗ what how we're getting here yes so there

47:36 ↗ is

47:38 ↗ a

47:40 ↗ um so yes if there's there's a different

47:43 ↗ categorization for if we consider

47:45 ↗ something to be a threat to human health

47:48 ↗ welfare or the environment um and we had

47:52 ↗ I believe in

47:55 ↗ 2024 two or three of those spills that

47:58 ↗ we we classified as being a larger

48:00 ↗ threat type of spill um so we we collect

48:03 ↗ this data and we have information on

48:05 ↗ those things if that's something that

48:06 ↗ you'd be interested in seeing on a

48:08 ↗ year-to-year basis I could get more

48:10 ↗ granular in that data and and break

48:12 ↗ apart that information for you um but I

48:15 ↗ can say for those those incidences this

48:18 ↗ year uh that were considered to be

48:21 ↗ potential threats to human health

48:23 ↗ welfare the environment they were

48:26 ↗ anytime that a spill was more Mobile in

48:29 ↗ our system and likely to have moved past

48:32 ↗ the first um part of our storm water

48:35 ↗ system where it entered it so that might

48:37 ↗ be a spill that entered one catch Basin

48:40 ↗ and then traveled to a second catch

48:42 ↗ Basin um and yeah we we had two or three

48:46 ↗ of those this this last

48:49 ↗ year few more questions for you mik

48:53 ↗ yes yeah joh Anderson here uh I don't

48:56 ↗ know if the right section to talk about

48:58 ↗ this but I'm wondering about Mother

48:59 ↗ Nature's illness it discharges you know

49:02 ↗ little a landslide along the road that

49:06 ↗ causes dirty water to go into the storm

49:09 ↗ system for example those things happen

49:12 ↗ now and then is there any processes in

49:14 ↗ place for how they are mitigated or

49:17 ↗ dealt with or is that follow a

49:20 ↗ completely different

49:21 ↗ category that's a great question I

49:24 ↗ haven't seen that come up personally um

49:27 ↗ so I'd have to get back to you on that I

49:29 ↗ can I can ask some folks about it I mean

49:31 ↗ I know if that like a landslide were to

49:34 ↗ happen we'd clean it up and we check our

49:37 ↗ system to see if it was impacted and if

49:40 ↗ it was we Trace to see the extent of it

49:43 ↗ um but as far as reporting it I don't

49:46 ↗ think we would report that as a spill

49:48 ↗ necessarily but I I do know that our

49:50 ↗ staff um traces things like that through

49:54 ↗ the system to see the extent

49:56 ↗ well for example there was a little

49:58 ↗ Landslide on Newport Way a few years ago

50:02 ↗ and the city has taken measures to Shore

50:05 ↗ that up and respond through it there's

50:08 ↗ another example a little bit further a

50:10 ↗ field but the high point Creek there was

50:12 ↗ a major Landslide on the high point

50:14 ↗ Creek on Tiger Mountain uh like three or

50:17 ↗ four years ago and so the East East Fork

50:20 ↗ of es squat Creek would get very muddy

50:23 ↗ because High Point Creek clows it at the

50:25 ↗ East Fork and then the Eastport Clos

50:28 ↗ into the

50:29 ↗ main stream there in Confluence Park and

50:32 ↗ it was it's

50:34 ↗ quite remarkable when you see this

50:36 ↗ happen and it still happens when we have

50:39 ↗ rangor rainfall we get very muddy water

50:42 ↗ of the Eastport mixing with the

50:44 ↗ relatively Clear Water of the mainstream

50:48 ↗ uh still goes on and would you consider

50:51 ↗ that to be within your jurisdiction or

50:54 ↗ not I mean I wouldn't person personally

50:57 ↗ consider that to be a spill under our

50:59 ↗ storm water permit um I would read about

51:02 ↗ this if it came up and double check that

51:06 ↗ um but if that's something that you

51:07 ↗ you'd like a more concrete answer around

51:09 ↗ I could do I could do that research and

51:11 ↗ get back to you on

51:14 ↗ that well I guess I'm I'm more as a

51:17 ↗ practical matter I'm more interested in

51:19 ↗ the more localized land landslides that

51:23 ↗ would occur within the city limits I

51:25 ↗ know it's a bit of a stretch to talk

51:26 ↗ about this thing that happened on state

51:28 ↗ land on tiger Mount that ripples into

51:31 ↗ isqua but the landslide within the city

51:34 ↗ limits that's very that's a very real

51:37 ↗ thing that does happen from time to time

51:39 ↗ and having a process in place to deal

51:42 ↗ with such things

51:44 ↗ seems and we do have that process in

51:46 ↗ place to deal with it and trace it

51:48 ↗ throughout our system and see the extent

51:50 ↗ of it and clean it up I'm just uh I

51:53 ↗ guess on the reporting side of it that's

51:54 ↗ where I'm tripped up on if it would have

51:56 ↗ like a Nexus with our storm water permit

52:00 ↗ specifically but Evan I see you've come

52:02 ↗ off uh on the camera if you had

52:04 ↗ something you wanted to add no you just

52:07 ↗ you covered it yeah good okay okay thank

52:10 ↗ you of

52:16 ↗ course hi thank you and Nukem here um

52:19 ↗ great

52:21 ↗ presentation hey I'm curious are some

52:24 ↗ paints salmon safe

52:28 ↗ is it okay to put some so the reason I'm

52:29 ↗ asking is because I used to be a mail

52:31 ↗ carrier and when I was on the plateau um

52:34 ↗ delivering mail I used to see a lot of

52:37 ↗ um

52:39 ↗ contractors um basic you know cleaning

52:42 ↗ everything and there would be a lot of

52:44 ↗ uh paint going into the drain the drain

52:47 ↗ that had a little salmon on it they are

52:49 ↗ not no and that is something that we

52:51 ↗ respond to and try to try to stop as

52:55 ↗ often as we can so often it is something

52:57 ↗ that we get reported a day or two later

52:59 ↗ saying hey we saw someone dumping paint

53:02 ↗ or like dirty paint water got washed

53:04 ↗ into the storm water system um but yeah

53:07 ↗ no it's the the uh rule of thumb is only

53:11 ↗ rain down the drain um and our city code

53:15 ↗ is that non-storm water discharges are

53:19 ↗ prohibited okay cool that's kind of what

53:21 ↗ I thought and so that made me wonder um

53:25 ↗ how you're collaborating

53:27 ↗ with uh the city of samamish and also

53:30 ↗ King

53:31 ↗ County yeah so I'd say collaborating

53:35 ↗ with them on uh something to do with

53:39 ↗ like maybe contractors or paint would

53:40 ↗ come predominantly from some of our

53:43 ↗ because we're active in a lot of our

53:45 ↗ regional groups so for instance the

53:47 ↗ pollution prevention assistance program

53:49 ↗ I've mentioned a couple times is one of

53:51 ↗ those Regional groups that we have a

53:52 ↗ presence in we're talking with them um

53:55 ↗ and there's also just more

53:57 ↗ informal groups as well like a

54:00 ↗ collection of uh like spill response

54:04 ↗ staff that may notify each other of

54:06 ↗ repeated bad behavior from maybe like a

54:10 ↗ mobile business or something like that

54:11 ↗ so we try to stay tapped into those

54:13 ↗ different resources as much as possible

54:15 ↗ so um we're aware of them and able to

54:18 ↗ also inform other folks as they come up

54:20 ↗ in our source control programs another

54:22 ↗ way that we do that as

54:24 ↗ well cool do you know if

54:27 ↗ samamish um because you know their water

54:30 ↗ is going into the isua creek as as well

54:33 ↗ so do they have a robust um plan like

54:37 ↗ you do like we do yeah I I believe they

54:41 ↗ do from from everything I know and

54:43 ↗ they're they're active in those same

54:44 ↗ programs I

54:46 ↗ believe and they they've helped us

54:48 ↗ before when we've had questions around

54:49 ↗ spell response so I've reached out to

54:51 ↗ their coordinator uh one to one as well

54:54 ↗ just to ask them some questions and

54:55 ↗ stuff

54:57 ↗ oh yeah I know it's hard to get people

54:59 ↗ to do the right thing especially when

55:01 ↗ they're in a hurry and trying to make

55:03 ↗ money but uh thank you so much for

55:05 ↗ everything you do of course um yeah and

55:07 ↗ it is if we find something that goes

55:09 ↗ across City borders we always we always

55:11 ↗ reach out we don't we don't just say not

55:13 ↗ not our city not our problem it's our

55:15 ↗ Watershed and it's a collective resource

55:18 ↗ that makes sense yeah awesome thank you

55:22 ↗ course one more for you m before move on

55:25 ↗ perfect yes what are the pollutants of

55:28 ↗ most concern in storm water runoff and

55:31 ↗ what is the source of these pollutants

55:33 ↗ you mentioned one earlier today six PPD

55:37 ↗ from tires what are the next two big

55:41 ↗ plutons oh man yeah the most toxic

55:46 ↗ pollutants are like 6 PPD Q or 6p PDQ

55:50 ↗ known and then

55:53 ↗ um oh my goodness uh it's been a long

55:56 ↗ day apologies and I have an e

55:58 ↗ eight-month hold at home um but in your

56:02 ↗ old

56:04 ↗ cocking uh if this comes to this tip of

56:07 ↗ someone's tongue let me know old cocking

56:09 ↗ old paint EV pcbs pcbs thank you they

56:12 ↗ are one of the very most toxic as well

56:14 ↗ and they they're fairly mobile

56:16 ↗ throughout the environment and uh they

56:18 ↗ last they're they're like forever

56:20 ↗ chemical so they're they're very toxic

56:22 ↗ and of high concern but things like 6

56:25 ↗ PPD

56:26 ↗ and pcbs they're they're hard to trace

56:30 ↗ often or they are just um very much like

56:34 ↗ in the background of our water

56:37 ↗ so one of I think the biggest concerns

56:40 ↗ we have are more of those Point sources

56:42 ↗ of pollution things like a single large

56:46 ↗ spill from let's say um an accident or

56:49 ↗ something like that that we can mitigate

56:51 ↗ and directly remove from the system

56:52 ↗ before it ever reaches the actual uh

56:55 ↗ waterways right so um if there's like um

56:59 ↗ again I keep going to it but like a

57:00 ↗ large accident a lar lot of fluid comes

57:03 ↗ out of the vehicles and it gets into our

57:05 ↗ storm water system it's all about

57:06 ↗ stopping it in the system plugging it up

57:08 ↗ and removing it so that we can directly

57:11 ↗ remove it because we can we can address

57:13 ↗ that uh immediately a lot of the other

57:16 ↗ things like 6bpd are uh education that

57:20 ↗ we can provide to make it a shared

57:22 ↗ understanding in our community that it

57:23 ↗ is a problem uh but we don't have that

57:25 ↗ Direct

57:26 ↗ like immediate influence on

57:29 ↗ it okay thank you yeah I'll I'll also

57:32 ↗ add sorry um FAL coliform is a big issue

57:36 ↗ in in in isqua Mike's going to touch on

57:38 ↗ it later in the tmdl section but um both

57:42 ↗ isqua Creek and tibits Creek are

57:44 ↗ impacted by FAL Calli form and so we

57:46 ↗ have certain actions through the storm

57:48 ↗ water permit that we're supposed to

57:49 ↗ follow um and so yeah I'd say that's

57:52 ↗ that's another big one that we're always

57:54 ↗ trying to uh get ahead of

57:56 ↗ get get ahead on educate on um and yeah

58:00 ↗ with with our septic inspection program

58:02 ↗ and pet waste and and all that kind of

58:03 ↗ stuff so that's um I'd throw that one in

58:06 ↗ there too thanks for that Evan 100% um

58:09 ↗ we don't have a permit or a slide on

58:11 ↗ tmdl in this presentation but it is in

58:13 ↗ our storm water management program plan

58:15 ↗ if you'd like to read up on it there but

58:17 ↗ yeah um being having our water bodies on

58:20 ↗ that list of impaired uh water segments

58:23 ↗ for for FAL caulif for makes it

58:25 ↗ immediately a big

58:30 ↗ priority okay thank you yep one more

58:34 ↗ gentlem before move

58:36 ↗ on again so I have a question on ny's

58:41 ↗ input um I was wondering if you guys

58:45 ↗ have any data and if you have evaluated

58:47 ↗ data from previous years compared to

58:50 ↗ 2024 to see if the spill number of

58:54 ↗ spills you know the spill response or

58:56 ↗ basically the Outreach as well as the

58:58 ↗ spill response effectiv programs are

59:01 ↗ effective or not so basically and I

59:04 ↗ understand that won't be just a

59:05 ↗ quantitative evaluation it's not just

59:08 ↗ you know Apples to Apples how many

59:10 ↗ number of spills are there because as

59:12 ↗ you mentioned accidents can happen so it

59:15 ↗ will be a qualitative evaluation where

59:17 ↗ you actually look at the data of number

59:20 ↗ of spells you should be seeing a

59:22 ↗ downward tra at least in number of

59:24 ↗ spells incidents

59:26 ↗ plus you need to check if the severity

59:30 ↗ of the incidents for example you know

59:31 ↗ there could be um business violations

59:34 ↗ for secondary contentment chemical

59:37 ↗ handling these are clearly you know the

59:39 ↗ spill incidents which are related with

59:42 ↗ more you know um uh which need

59:45 ↗ Collective business practices right so

59:48 ↗ that means the Outreach education the

59:52 ↗ policies they are clearly being violated

59:54 ↗ so things like that have have you

59:56 ↗ evaluated that because I think that will

59:58 ↗ be important to know which in which

1:00:01 ↗ direction we are headed right and um so

1:00:04 ↗ that's what I was wondering yeah um

1:00:07 ↗ you've touched on one of the projects

1:00:09 ↗ that I really would like to dive more

1:00:11 ↗ deeply into uh I'm going to say it this

1:00:14 ↗ way when I do have time um but I have

1:00:17 ↗ looked at the quantitative data and uh

1:00:21 ↗ compared that for all the different

1:00:23 ↗ years that we've reported on spill

1:00:25 ↗ response I've only been here with the

1:00:27 ↗ city for 2 and a half years now so I

1:00:29 ↗ only have a uh that qualitative

1:00:33 ↗ background for a couple of years and

1:00:35 ↗ can't say just like off personal

1:00:36 ↗ experience where like what all these

1:00:39 ↗ spills have looked like but overall the

1:00:42 ↗ total number of spills we've had

1:00:44 ↗ throughout the years has stayed within

1:00:47 ↗ the same ballpark uh a lot of

1:00:50 ↗ our um Outreach and education isn't

1:00:54 ↗ directly tied to a lot of these spill

1:00:58 ↗ things some of it is some of it is but

1:01:00 ↗ um yeah it stayed it stayed about

1:01:03 ↗ consistent the number of spills we get

1:01:05 ↗ every year um but qualitatively I don't

1:01:08 ↗ know if the type of spills we've been

1:01:10 ↗ having have been

1:01:13 ↗ changing but it's a great suggestion I

1:01:16 ↗ think it would be very informative to

1:01:17 ↗ see

1:01:19 ↗ that think that's all you have on side

1:01:22 ↗ all

1:01:24 ↗ right so retrofit Pro program uh I like

1:01:27 ↗ to call it that as opposed to our storm

1:01:29 ↗ water management for existing

1:01:30 ↗ development program um the retrofit

1:01:33 ↗ program is really focused it's one of

1:01:35 ↗ two permit sections uh in areas with

1:01:37 ↗ that existing development uh it's our

1:01:39 ↗ first year having this in our permit um

1:01:44 ↗ is a qua has been assigned 6.6 Acres

1:01:48 ↗ that we need to treat in this uh permit

1:01:52 ↗ term so that is saying like a

1:01:56 ↗ an area needs to be treated by our storm

1:01:59 ↗ water infrastructure uh of 6.6 Acres uh

1:02:04 ↗ and

1:02:05 ↗ we've considered a a lot of the

1:02:08 ↗ different projects in our Capital

1:02:10 ↗ Improvement uh program and two of those

1:02:14 ↗ we are moving forward with in 2025 and

1:02:16 ↗ 2026 and planning to complete

1:02:18 ↗ Construction in this permit term for

1:02:20 ↗ both the Birch Place uh retrofit program

1:02:23 ↗ Dogwood Street retrofit uh sorry project

1:02:26 ↗ um and those will

1:02:27 ↗ treat together 35 and a half equivalent

1:02:31 ↗ Acres of area this the storm water

1:02:34 ↗ runoff from there um so it's really

1:02:37 ↗ exciting that we're going to be going

1:02:40 ↗ above and beyond the 6.6 required acres

1:02:44 ↗ for this um and also this is in tandem

1:02:48 ↗ with that storm and surface water uh

1:02:50 ↗ management plan as well because these

1:02:52 ↗ are both around the Oldtown area which

1:02:55 ↗ has our older infrastructure and less

1:02:57 ↗ existing treatment right now so this

1:02:59 ↗ will be adding treatment to one of those

1:03:01 ↗ high priority areas in our Watershed in

1:03:03 ↗ as a qua as well

1:03:06 ↗ um yep Mike do you know those are two uh

1:03:10 ↗ roadway construction projects do you

1:03:12 ↗ know what kind of treatment you're going

1:03:13 ↗ to be using is it green infrastructure

1:03:15 ↗ is it underground like Storm Filter BS

1:03:17 ↗ or combination of both underground

1:03:19 ↗ treatment faults treatment yep

1:03:27 ↗ of course so uh updates you'll be seeing

1:03:29 ↗ throughout the permit term on this is

1:03:31 ↗ progress around these two and if we have

1:03:33 ↗ any other projects that we've either

1:03:35 ↗ added to our list as being fully funded

1:03:38 ↗ and intending to move forward with or

1:03:40 ↗ other projects that we will be planning

1:03:42 ↗ on completing as

1:03:46 ↗ well um also for areas of existing

1:03:48 ↗ development we have that Source control

1:03:50 ↗ inspection program I mentioned earlier

1:03:52 ↗ uh which focuses on preventing and

1:03:54 ↗ reducing pollutants uh in areas with

1:03:57 ↗ existing development uh that have those

1:03:59 ↗ pollution generating

1:04:01 ↗ businesses so we have a inventory that

1:04:04 ↗ we update on a running basis every year

1:04:07 ↗ um and we are required through this

1:04:09 ↗ permit to complete inspections equal to

1:04:12 ↗ 20% of that inventory which in 2024 was

1:04:15 ↗ 41 inspections we completed 61

1:04:18 ↗ inspections uh targeting predominantly

1:04:20 ↗ Food Services and Automotive businesses

1:04:22 ↗ as well uh to two different businesses

1:04:26 ↗ that have a potential in isqua we see to

1:04:29 ↗ really be getting pollutants into our

1:04:31 ↗ storm water system be it through like

1:04:33 ↗ fat oils in Greece or from you know

1:04:36 ↗ Automotive

1:04:37 ↗ fluids um so we met our requirements

1:04:41 ↗ 2024 2025 planning to continue updating

1:04:45 ↗ that inventory and uh making sure that

1:04:48 ↗ we're inspecting 100% of all those sites

1:04:50 ↗ identified uh as like possible

1:04:53 ↗ complaints coming from them and then um

1:04:57 ↗ really leveraging the connections we

1:04:59 ↗ have in those areas as well we like to

1:05:01 ↗ try to have that be uh paired with our

1:05:04 ↗ pollution prevention assistance program

1:05:06 ↗ as well so that we're able to provide uh

1:05:09 ↗ resources to businesses instead of just

1:05:11 ↗ showing up and saying you have problems

1:05:12 ↗ you need to fix it's more of a hey we've

1:05:14 ↗ identified possible pollutant sources

1:05:16 ↗ and we'd like to work with you to come

1:05:18 ↗ up with like a spill prevention plan and

1:05:20 ↗ maybe help resource you if you need help

1:05:22 ↗ with

1:05:23 ↗ that for you on this one m

1:05:27 ↗ um yeah I had a question how are these

1:05:29 ↗ uh businesses that are visited and if

1:05:32 ↗ they do need changes do and even if they

1:05:34 ↗ don't do they get Revisited and then if

1:05:36 ↗ so how often is that and then also if

1:05:38 ↗ they are visited and there is something

1:05:40 ↗ wrong with the way that they are um

1:05:43 ↗ releasing pollutants into the storm

1:05:45 ↗ water um and then you visit them again

1:05:47 ↗ is there any penalty or is there um

1:05:50 ↗ added like restrictions or anything like

1:05:52 ↗ that that happens to the business for

1:05:54 ↗ sure yeah so

1:05:58 ↗ um we like to typically plan these

1:06:03 ↗ inspections in areas that might

1:06:05 ↗ complement other efforts that are going

1:06:06 ↗ on in the city in like a more targeted

1:06:08 ↗ way so like I said we like to try to

1:06:10 ↗ minimize the amount of times we go to

1:06:12 ↗ businesses so they're not getting overt

1:06:14 ↗ tax byy our staff showing up so that's

1:06:16 ↗ one of the ways we do it we also if we

1:06:18 ↗ know we have an area that might be

1:06:21 ↗ having ongoing problems where we haven't

1:06:23 ↗ been able to make it to their part of

1:06:25 ↗ the city uh you know we're trying to

1:06:27 ↗ prioritize those areas as well um if we

1:06:31 ↗ do find a problem we have an education

1:06:33 ↗ first approach so we like to work with

1:06:36 ↗ the businesses to get them in compliance

1:06:39 ↗ and not go straight to penalizing them

1:06:42 ↗ uh but if there are repeat bad behaviors

1:06:46 ↗ that you know folks are showing no

1:06:48 ↗ interest in changing we do have a

1:06:51 ↗ progressive enforcement um channel that

1:06:54 ↗ we can take where you know we could say

1:06:56 ↗ uh for instance like okay you've been

1:06:58 ↗ out of compliance you haven't made the

1:07:00 ↗ changes that we've asked you to now we

1:07:02 ↗ can you know start off with this level

1:07:04 ↗ of enforcement and if you still don't

1:07:06 ↗ get into compliance take it to the next

1:07:08 ↗ level often times that'll be through

1:07:10 ↗ through fees um this is a newer portion

1:07:14 ↗ of the permit and so far our education

1:07:17 ↗ first approach has been sufficient and

1:07:18 ↗ everyone's gotten into

1:07:23 ↗ compliance thank you

1:07:28 ↗ great and our last program component

1:07:31 ↗ I'll be going over today is our

1:07:32 ↗ operations and maintenance uh so this is

1:07:35 ↗ predominantly out of our Public Works

1:07:36 ↗ and Parks departments uh this is all

1:07:38 ↗ about maintenance activities and

1:07:40 ↗ providing maintenance standards for

1:07:42 ↗ different facilities um also it touches

1:07:45 ↗ the uh private side so if businesses

1:07:48 ↗ have storm water treatment facilities um

1:07:51 ↗ we go out and inspect those as

1:07:53 ↗ well um in 202 4 we inspected 123 storm

1:07:59 ↗ water facilities uh and private um in

1:08:04 ↗ private facilities so it was 90% 93% of

1:08:07 ↗ our inventory as far as City uh storm

1:08:11 ↗ water treatment flow control facilities

1:08:12 ↗ we inspected 423 of them which was 97%

1:08:17 ↗ of our inventory we inspected uh just

1:08:20 ↗ over one and a half thousand catch

1:08:23 ↗ basins and maintain GED uh

1:08:27 ↗ 206,000 ft of perious

1:08:30 ↗ surfaces um we've met all of the targets

1:08:35 ↗ that are outlined in the permit we

1:08:37 ↗ really just 2025 plan want to continue

1:08:39 ↗ Meeting those and focusing on uh

1:08:43 ↗ leveraging our asset management tool

1:08:45 ↗ that we started to implement this past

1:08:47 ↗ summer and making sure that it's helping

1:08:49 ↗ us really track these in a strategic way

1:08:53 ↗ and have us uh you know be able to start

1:08:55 ↗ targeting based on that as well um and

1:08:58 ↗ upcoming is a 2027 requirement

1:09:02 ↗ to um develop and Implement a street

1:09:04 ↗ sweeping program we're starting to scope

1:09:07 ↗ out the the needs for that and see what

1:09:09 ↗ that will look like our streets group is

1:09:12 ↗ aware of it and we've had conversation

1:09:13 ↗ but really wanting to start getting to

1:09:15 ↗ the uh strategic conversations of how

1:09:19 ↗ that will look um once

1:09:23 ↗ implemented is currently have a street

1:09:25 ↗ sweeping

1:09:27 ↗ permit uh we current a street sweeping

1:09:29 ↗ permit did you say do you run any

1:09:32 ↗ sweepers right now yes we run sweepers

1:09:35 ↗ and we also we have our own mechanical

1:09:37 ↗ sweeper and we contract out um

1:09:40 ↗ regenerative air sweepers I believe um

1:09:43 ↗ we're looking into the possibility of

1:09:46 ↗ getting uh a new sweeper Grant funded um

1:09:51 ↗ that'll be something that that we're

1:09:52 ↗ planning on applying to this year uh in

1:09:55 ↗ and um with an enhanced maintenance plan

1:09:57 ↗ as well um

1:10:00 ↗ so the preliminary look at the permit

1:10:03 ↗ requirements is we're already going

1:10:04 ↗ above and beyond what they're asking us

1:10:06 ↗ to do as far as the amount of street

1:10:08 ↗ sweeping in the city uh the main thing

1:10:10 ↗ is just making sure that we're

1:10:11 ↗ documenting it and uh able to um

1:10:15 ↗ continue that level of effort moving

1:10:22 ↗ forward um and for folks that may not be

1:10:25 ↗ very familiar with street sweepers um

1:10:27 ↗ mechanical street sweepers are really

1:10:29 ↗ good at picking up large debris off the

1:10:31 ↗ street so like let's say there's a

1:10:32 ↗ really windy event they can they can get

1:10:34 ↗ a lot of that debris off the street but

1:10:36 ↗ then there are other types of street

1:10:37 ↗ sweepers which are very good at picking

1:10:39 ↗ up uh fine particulate matter so things

1:10:42 ↗ like tire wear particles which introduce

1:10:44 ↗ six PPD into our waterways so um it's uh

1:10:49 ↗ an important consideration to take in

1:10:51 ↗ like how much of that mechanical sweeper

1:10:53 ↗ are you running versus uh some of those

1:10:55 ↗ sweepers that are able to pick up that

1:10:57 ↗ fine particulate matter and making sure

1:10:59 ↗ that you're strategically implementing

1:11:00 ↗ both those tools in the right

1:11:06 ↗ way and that's it for my presentation

1:11:09 ↗ that I have prepared but if anyone has

1:11:11 ↗ any more questions or some items that

1:11:14 ↗ you'd like me to reach back out to the

1:11:16 ↗ environmental board about I'm happy to

1:11:18 ↗ write those down and start talking to

1:11:19 ↗ folks in the cities and get you prepared

1:11:21 ↗ answers

1:11:26 ↗ I see uh around town um businesses and

1:11:31 ↗ um the city using de icing salts and

1:11:35 ↗ herbicides and pesticides are those

1:11:37 ↗ being controlled or is there a need to

1:11:40 ↗ control

1:11:42 ↗ those um so we do have an integrated

1:11:47 ↗ Pest Management policy uh for the city

1:11:49 ↗ of isqua which is more focused or which

1:11:52 ↗ focuses on um you know know using

1:11:56 ↗ safer uh pest herbicide management tools

1:12:02 ↗ um so that's one of the ways that we

1:12:03 ↗ that we do handle that and then as far

1:12:06 ↗ as um salting I believe we sand our

1:12:10 ↗ roads for ice

1:12:13 ↗ events not 100% on that I might ask Evan

1:12:15 ↗ if he's still on to come in on this yeah

1:12:18 ↗ we we use salt as well salt as well okay

1:12:20 ↗ Y is salt be9

1:12:26 ↗ sorry is it be is that what you asked

1:12:29 ↗ it's salt a

1:12:31 ↗ benign is it bad for the

1:12:35 ↗ environment yeah I mean that's a uh that

1:12:38 ↗ is a topic of discussion across the

1:12:40 ↗ region right and so um it's it's a

1:12:44 ↗ conversation that we've

1:12:46 ↗ had it's it's a level of services issue

1:12:49 ↗ as well you know as far as Danger on the

1:12:51 ↗ road of having ice compared to um you

1:12:55 ↗ know removing that ice so so people are

1:12:57 ↗ able to to travel around and so um we

1:13:00 ↗ have not done any studies in the city um

1:13:03 ↗ but you know that's something I um that

1:13:06 ↗ we we do have discussions on so I I

1:13:09 ↗ can't can't answer that yes or no

1:13:12 ↗ example is I I see Costco in the

1:13:15 ↗ wintertime the Costco campus is just

1:13:18 ↗ covered all the walkways are just

1:13:20 ↗ covered with salt and I I can see it

1:13:23 ↗ just leeching straight into the water

1:13:25 ↗ you know the Watershed through their

1:13:28 ↗ ponds and and I'm just curious if that's

1:13:31 ↗ bad for our

1:13:33 ↗ environment it seems like it would be

1:13:36 ↗ yeah and without looking at you know to

1:13:38 ↗ know exactly what the product is and

1:13:40 ↗ everything I know um I I see the same

1:13:42 ↗ thing all over the place as well so um

1:13:46 ↗ yeah I can't I can't say yes or no to

1:13:47 ↗ that I have one last question I've run a

1:13:51 ↗ litter cleanup program in in isqua

1:13:55 ↗ and I I see just tons and tons tons of

1:13:59 ↗ plastic and aluminum these are solids do

1:14:02 ↗ do any of those have any impact on storm

1:14:06 ↗ water gluten glutens or is it is it

1:14:13 ↗ minimal i' say the biggest issue we have

1:14:16 ↗ with those in our storm system is they

1:14:17 ↗ clog up our system and then that could

1:14:20 ↗ cause overflows or um we have treatment

1:14:24 ↗ filters like the ground treatment vaults

1:14:26 ↗ that that Mike was talking about that

1:14:27 ↗ we're putting in uh all those large

1:14:29 ↗ solids like that can clog up those

1:14:31 ↗ filters and cause those then to go into

1:14:35 ↗ bypass uh which then would send

1:14:37 ↗ untreated storm water Downstream or into

1:14:39 ↗ our Creeks so that's um so a lot of

1:14:42 ↗ those devices have screening devices

1:14:45 ↗ that we can that we have to check and

1:14:47 ↗ clean periodically as they move through

1:14:49 ↗ our system um but yeah as far as if

1:14:54 ↗ there is you know there's microplastics

1:14:56 ↗ being released into the environment yeah

1:14:58 ↗ probably but I mean I don't know exactly

1:15:02 ↗ um I can't speak to exactly the the

1:15:05 ↗ contaminants in aluminum and and the the

1:15:07 ↗ various Plastics and stuff okay just

1:15:10 ↗ curious for for really just curious

1:15:13 ↗ thank you seems like most of your

1:15:15 ↗ pollutant that you're talking about

1:15:16 ↗ today are you know liquids and some some

1:15:19 ↗ rubbers things like that and feal caulif

1:15:23 ↗ but not things that are used generated

1:15:26 ↗ by you know human consumption of food

1:15:30 ↗ and drinks thank you yeah I would say

1:15:34 ↗ you know California they uh they require

1:15:38 ↗ they have trash removal like um trash

1:15:41 ↗ recycling removal in their in their

1:15:43 ↗ storm water program that is something

1:15:44 ↗ that is included in their mpds permit

1:15:47 ↗ they have like a metric for that but

1:15:48 ↗ that's not something that

1:15:49 ↗ Washington um has included in our permit

1:15:52 ↗ yet

1:15:55 ↗ couple questions before I let you guys

1:15:57 ↗ go um do you guys have any idea of how

1:16:00 ↗ much of your system has treatment to it

1:16:04 ↗ like for instance treatment didn't come

1:16:06 ↗ around till the early 2000

1:16:09 ↗ so any rough estimate of how much of the

1:16:12 ↗ system has some kind of treatment versus

1:16:14 ↗ no

1:16:15 ↗ treatment um not off the top of our head

1:16:17 ↗ but yes we have started to map out

1:16:22 ↗ existing uh you know treatment fac

1:16:24 ↗ facilities and flow control facilities

1:16:26 ↗ across the city I believe that effort uh

1:16:29 ↗ at least for um our city-owned areas

1:16:33 ↗ like the ms4 uh is is all mapped out at

1:16:36 ↗ this point in time so I haven't like

1:16:38 ↗ seen a conglomerate of the data yet but

1:16:40 ↗ that is something that we've been doing

1:16:42 ↗ in anticipation of an upcoming uh

1:16:45 ↗ deadline later on in this permit

1:16:47 ↗ cycle that' be interesting to see yeah

1:16:51 ↗ we do we report on that as one of our

1:16:53 ↗ performance metrics

1:16:55 ↗ um annually um we don't currently have a

1:16:59 ↗ Target but we do have data and 2024 I

1:17:03 ↗ don't know if they've actually published

1:17:04 ↗ the 2024 data yet we just submitted it

1:17:07 ↗ but in 2023 it was 40% of the streets um

1:17:12 ↗ public streets we don't we're still

1:17:14 ↗ working on the

1:17:16 ↗ private you had a question yeah um I had

1:17:19 ↗ a comment more um about the education

1:17:22 ↗ but um specifically about the adopted

1:17:23 ↗ drain program because I think at least

1:17:25 ↗ for me and the people around me and my

1:17:27 ↗ community um there's a lot of language

1:17:30 ↗ around storm water and adopted drein but

1:17:32 ↗ not necessarily the environmental direct

1:17:34 ↗ environmental impacts or just like what

1:17:37 ↗ specifically adopted drain does and

1:17:39 ↗ things like that so I don't know moving

1:17:41 ↗ forward but I think that the

1:17:43 ↗ publicization of adopted drain is

1:17:45 ↗ important but also like bringing along

1:17:47 ↗ with that the educational like impacts

1:17:50 ↗ of what exactly that does and how storm

1:17:52 ↗ water relates specifically to is qua and

1:17:55 ↗ like the environment in

1:17:57 ↗ general it's a great comment making it

1:17:59 ↗ more locally

1:18:03 ↗ based Mike could you provide the link to

1:18:06 ↗ the adopted drain program to the

1:18:07 ↗ environmental board please absolutely

1:18:10 ↗ would you like me email that out or just

1:18:12 ↗ drop it in chat I can send it out Mike

1:18:15 ↗ I'll send out the public comment um link

1:18:18 ↗ again so happy to

1:18:21 ↗ Great

1:18:22 ↗ Tom oh yeah TR MERS here I'm I'm

1:18:25 ↗ actually looking at the adopted drain

1:18:27 ↗ map right now and I'm noticing there

1:18:29 ↗ aren't any on Front Street but yet I

1:18:31 ↗ know there are drains on Front Street is

1:18:33 ↗ that a matter of policy you don't want

1:18:35 ↗ you don't want people accidentally

1:18:37 ↗ getting smacked by cars um so there's a

1:18:41 ↗ there's a grin where my driveway comes

1:18:43 ↗ out on the front street that I I've

1:18:45 ↗ adopted but not

1:18:50 ↗ officially is that a safety issue that

1:18:52 ↗ is why you don't do any of them yeah we

1:18:55 ↗ removed all of the um the hight trffic

1:18:59 ↗ uh drains from from that map uh you also

1:19:03 ↗ might notice that there are no uh

1:19:06 ↗ private storm drains as well listed on

1:19:08 ↗ there uh if there are folks who are

1:19:11 ↗ interested in adopting a drain that's

1:19:13 ↗ not on the map you can you can drop a

1:19:16 ↗ pin on there and then I'll get

1:19:19 ↗ notified um that a pin has been dropped

1:19:22 ↗ and I I when that happens I if I have a

1:19:25 ↗ concern about safety I reach out to the

1:19:27 ↗ individual directly to see if it truly

1:19:30 ↗ is the drain that they want to adopt and

1:19:32 ↗ and work with the the individual or

1:19:34 ↗ individuals to to adopt that drain um

1:19:38 ↗ but yeah that's a safety consideration

1:19:39 ↗ we also you know ask folks to never

1:19:41 ↗ actually open up the storm drain and do

1:19:44 ↗ anything inside of it just only do

1:19:46 ↗ things on the surface and you know where

1:19:48 ↗ bright clothing and things like that um

1:19:52 ↗ yeah like for instance we're working

1:19:54 ↗ right now with fish over at isqua samon

1:19:56 ↗ Hatchery to uh maybe develop some uh

1:20:00 ↗ educational program materials or at

1:20:03 ↗ least support them in that and then as

1:20:04 ↗ part of that they're looking at dropping

1:20:06 ↗ a number of pins across their facility

1:20:08 ↗ to show that they're adopting them

1:20:14 ↗ too

1:20:16 ↗ questions I'll leave you with one

1:20:18 ↗ farting thought um what can the

1:20:20 ↗ environmental board to help you do to

1:20:22 ↗ help you guys out with your program

1:20:23 ↗ going forward whether it be a budget ask

1:20:26 ↗ for us to support something in your

1:20:27 ↗ program or ecology Grant just consider

1:20:30 ↗ it I think we

1:20:33 ↗ be great I will say just immediately

1:20:36 ↗ it's very helpful to hear what sort of

1:20:38 ↗ information you're interested in and you

1:20:40 ↗ think could resignate with your

1:20:42 ↗ community um over here in my coordinator

1:20:45 ↗ position I have an idea of what would be

1:20:47 ↗ interesting or what would be impactful

1:20:50 ↗ to see tracked over time um I have a

1:20:53 ↗ background in uh in data and that's

1:20:56 ↗ something that I'm passionate about

1:20:57 ↗ tracking those metrics so if there's

1:20:59 ↗ anything that you think would be

1:21:01 ↗ most interesting impactful useful to see

1:21:05 ↗ um that's something I'd be interested in

1:21:07 ↗ hearing more

1:21:08 ↗ about the one I heard tonight a few

1:21:10 ↗ times was the types of spills the

1:21:15 ↗ quality metrics to that yep yeah I have

1:21:19 ↗ that down thank you very much

1:21:24 ↗ all right thank you Mike thank you thank

1:21:26 ↗ you very much

1:21:28 ↗ everybody thank

1:21:37 ↗ you that's all the presentations We Have

1:21:40 ↗ Tonight Stacy has a report for great

1:21:42 ↗ yeah why don't we start with youth

1:21:44 ↗ reports um I believe

1:21:47 ↗ minina yes um I have one report from Zoe

1:21:51 ↗ who's working with sustainability

1:21:53 ↗ ambassadors in city for the um policy

1:21:56 ↗ and they have a meeting set for March

1:21:58 ↗ 27th and that's when the board hearing

1:22:00 ↗ is um so they are going to get voted on

1:22:06 ↗ there and then it's in committee right

1:22:07 ↗ now so hopefully that will pass through

1:22:09 ↗ um but I know that the school district

1:22:11 ↗ is having some problems with their

1:22:13 ↗ General um running it um generally but

1:22:18 ↗ um that that is kind of that's that's

1:22:20 ↗ the current hope for that um and then I

1:22:23 ↗ just had uh one other thing about me a

1:22:26 ↗ personal project I'm doing so I go to

1:22:28 ↗ Gibs neck um and that's a big picture of

1:22:30 ↗ Project based school right next to Clark

1:22:32 ↗ Elementary the community center and as a

1:22:34 ↗ part of our model we do a Capstone which

1:22:36 ↗ is like kind of like a college thesis or

1:22:38 ↗ something like that where we choose a

1:22:39 ↗ project that encapsulates all of our

1:22:41 ↗ work that we've done all four years and

1:22:43 ↗ brings it out into the community so I'm

1:22:45 ↗ working with Stacy and Alex Anderson our

1:22:47 ↗ park ranger at the city of isqua to

1:22:49 ↗ develop a junior park ranger program um

1:22:52 ↗ and it's inspired by the National Park

1:22:54 ↗ System Program um but on a city level so

1:22:56 ↗ it's more personalized to kind of get

1:22:58 ↗ the youth out into the City and

1:23:00 ↗ connected with all of the green

1:23:01 ↗ initiatives we have and so one of the

1:23:03 ↗ things that I'm doing as a part of this

1:23:04 ↗ is reaching out to um green Isa Partners

1:23:07 ↗ so um some of the people in here I've

1:23:10 ↗ already reached out to but um trout

1:23:12 ↗ limited isqua Alps Trails Club Mountain

1:23:15 ↗ Greenway isqua History Museum uh the

1:23:17 ↗ fish hatchery the Squam tribe and then

1:23:19 ↗ green isqua are some of the partners

1:23:21 ↗ that hopefully how the program will work

1:23:23 ↗ is it will hopefully we Standalone so

1:23:26 ↗ participants will get a pamphlet and

1:23:28 ↗ then go around to certain prompts and

1:23:30 ↗ some of them will be just like visiting

1:23:32 ↗ uh Park point or something like that and

1:23:33 ↗ then others will be go to a mountains to

1:23:36 ↗ Sound volunteer event and every time

1:23:38 ↗ you'll get a stamp and then after that

1:23:39 ↗ you can send it in either by mailing it

1:23:42 ↗ and Alex will send a certificate and a

1:23:45 ↗ badge or there will be um hopefully like

1:23:48 ↗ de needed days where Alex is already

1:23:50 ↗ doing some sort of community event where

1:23:52 ↗ kids can come and it'll be a

1:23:53 ↗ semiofficial junior park ranger program

1:23:55 ↗ like ceremony um uh this was it kind of

1:23:59 ↗ been talked about uh last year at the

1:24:01 ↗ sustainability Fair we had a couple of

1:24:03 ↗ kids and parents asking if there was

1:24:04 ↗ anything that the park ranger or unqua

1:24:07 ↗ did for kids specifically and because

1:24:09 ↗ Alex is our only park ranger he doesn't

1:24:11 ↗ really have the capacity to run an

1:24:13 ↗ entire program by himself so the hope

1:24:15 ↗ with this is that it will be sort of

1:24:16 ↗ Standalone and self-run and kids can

1:24:18 ↗ complete it on their own time um the

1:24:21 ↗ timeline for this is um I'm hoping that

1:24:24 ↗ it will be done by the end of the school

1:24:26 ↗ year so around the end of the beginning

1:24:28 ↗ of May perhaps um give the hope but um

1:24:32 ↗ for launch I am hoping I'm in contact

1:24:36 ↗ with uh is off tra club and they said

1:24:38 ↗ that I could promote it at their harving

1:24:40 ↗ Manning a 100th birthday celebration uh

1:24:42 ↗ green isqua the parks department is

1:24:44 ↗ doing coexisting with carnivore's

1:24:46 ↗ Farmers Market day

1:24:48 ↗ um I'm launch it there as well and then

1:24:53 ↗ potentially if the pedestrian Pavilion

1:24:55 ↗ near the train depot is going to be open

1:24:58 ↗ before um the next school year I will

1:25:02 ↗ I've been in contact with his history

1:25:03 ↗ museum who's doing a grand opening event

1:25:06 ↗ and they said that I can also um promote

1:25:08 ↗ it there and then potentially the ks

1:25:11 ↗ summer reading program um alongside that

1:25:13 ↗ could be a great opportunity to continue

1:25:15 ↗ promoting that but I just wanted to

1:25:16 ↗ bring it to the environmental board um I

1:25:18 ↗ know a lot of people on here are already

1:25:20 ↗ like helping out as partners but if

1:25:22 ↗ there's any resources for outreach

1:25:24 ↗ feedback or any Community Partners or

1:25:26 ↗ activity ideas I would love to hear it

1:25:29 ↗ um and then I can bring a more finalized

1:25:30 ↗ version of the program it has been

1:25:33 ↗ gotten feedback on it exciting that's

1:25:36 ↗ great you already have a interest from

1:25:39 ↗ fell students on this

1:25:41 ↗ you a little bit I mean the hope is that

1:25:44 ↗ it's for like slightly younger kids so

1:25:46 ↗ not necessarily like high school level

1:25:48 ↗ but I mean if they wanted to for post

1:25:50 ↗ it's for all aging um but I know Stacy

1:25:52 ↗ has access to

1:25:54 ↗ young children um I've been reaching out

1:25:57 ↗ to people who are

1:25:59 ↗ interning um Youth and Child Care places

1:26:02 ↗ so I'm hoping that I'll be able to get

1:26:03 ↗ feedback and trial running certain

1:26:05 ↗ groups

1:26:09 ↗ true hey

1:26:12 ↗ Mina uh this is Alex um I was just gonna

1:26:15 ↗ say friends of Lake Sama state park is

1:26:17 ↗ hosting a new event on May 3rd called

1:26:19 ↗ spring into adventure and this would be

1:26:21 ↗ perfect to have there um because it is

1:26:24 ↗ it's about just different ways that you

1:26:26 ↗ can connect with the outdoors um so I

1:26:28 ↗ think I owe you an email on this anyways

1:26:30 ↗ so I'll include that information and how

1:26:32 ↗ you can contact them about tabling at

1:26:34 ↗ that one that amazing thank you and

1:26:37 ↗ Dixie we don't have that chat up but

1:26:38 ↗ Dixie said you're welcome to connect

1:26:40 ↗ with the small threads Community

1:26:45 ↗ too um me and I I run a litter cleanup

1:26:49 ↗ program in inqua and um I would love to

1:26:52 ↗ work with uh Gibson back or this school

1:26:55 ↗ high school to do a later clean up on

1:26:58 ↗ Earth Day um I'll give you my card

1:27:05 ↗ okay all right I have a few other

1:27:07 ↗ updates ready to launch into those um uh

1:27:11 ↗ just real quick on the work plan we had

1:27:13 ↗ a couple of item agenda items shift they

1:27:15 ↗ weren't quite ready to bring um today so

1:27:19 ↗ you'll see some updates on the work plan

1:27:21 ↗ those things have just been kind of

1:27:22 ↗ pushed out a little bit further and go

1:27:24 ↗ through our April agenda here in a

1:27:26 ↗ minute um uh wanted just to summarize

1:27:31 ↗ the response to the wildlife and waste

1:27:33 ↗ letter um I think Council and the mayor

1:27:36 ↗ really appreciated the thought the board

1:27:38 ↗ put into that topic and the

1:27:40 ↗ recommendations what is happening now is

1:27:43 ↗ Sam our um Solid Waste analyst is

1:27:46 ↗ working with rology to get bages printed

1:27:49 ↗ that will be will go on bins that have

1:27:52 ↗ been disturbed by a wildlife and she's

1:27:54 ↗ also working with them to um set up a

1:27:57 ↗ tracking system so the drivers can log

1:28:00 ↗ every time they see a bin Disturbed um

1:28:03 ↗ and then there's also quite a bit of

1:28:04 ↗ work happening around messaging that'll

1:28:06 ↗ be going out to the public over the next

1:28:08 ↗ couple of weeks that will remind folks

1:28:11 ↗ put your bins out the morning of lock

1:28:14 ↗ them up put them in your garage or use

1:28:16 ↗ um Wildlife resistant carts information

1:28:18 ↗ on the wildlife resistant cards will

1:28:20 ↗ also go

1:28:21 ↗ out um there are several Outreach and

1:28:24 ↗ education events also planned over the

1:28:26 ↗ next few months um and then we are

1:28:29 ↗ working to get a option in C clicks C

1:28:33 ↗ click fix um for residents to be able to

1:28:36 ↗ report if they see um any disturbance um

1:28:40 ↗ so between the rology reporting which

1:28:43 ↗ will be the most robust and then kind of

1:28:45 ↗ self-reporting of neighbors and C click

1:28:47 ↗ fix our plan is to look at that data and

1:28:51 ↗ see where we're seeing disturbances how

1:28:53 ↗ to what exent we're seeing them and then

1:28:55 ↗ to um bring that information to council

1:28:58 ↗ and determine whether we need to move

1:28:59 ↗ forward with additional action or

1:29:02 ↗ potentially a policy so we will come

1:29:04 ↗ back to the board um sometime this

1:29:06 ↗ winter once we have some of that

1:29:09 ↗ data any questions on that topic right

1:29:15 ↗ um just a few program updates we

1:29:17 ↗ launched our residential and small

1:29:19 ↗ business solar program last week um so

1:29:22 ↗ we have a Eide partnership that's we on

1:29:24 ↗ this program together along with a

1:29:26 ↗ nonprofit um and we'll be offering

1:29:29 ↗ discounted installations um so you'll

1:29:32 ↗ start seeing quite a bit of promotion

1:29:34 ↗ going out about that we have a couple

1:29:35 ↗ workshops that'll happen one in March in

1:29:38 ↗ the ISA Highlands and then one in May at

1:29:40 ↗ the

1:29:41 ↗ library um it'll be open for enrollment

1:29:44 ↗ through June 4th or excuse me July 4th

1:29:47 ↗ um just to at least get enrolled and get

1:29:49 ↗ signed up to have an installer

1:29:52 ↗ out um we also have our uh

1:29:55 ↗ electrification incentive program is

1:29:58 ↗ still open for applications that will

1:30:00 ↗ close on the 23rd these are uh pretty

1:30:03 ↗ significant rebates for electric uh heat

1:30:06 ↗ pump hot water heaters electric dryers

1:30:09 ↗ and induction stoves and then we also

1:30:11 ↗ have a induction cooktop giveaway

1:30:14 ↗ program that will come with cooking

1:30:16 ↗ classes um for kids to learn how to cook

1:30:19 ↗ on induction cook Toops we've had pretty

1:30:22 ↗ good interest in the rebate program um

1:30:26 ↗ right now if we were to allocate to

1:30:28 ↗ everyone that's applied we've spent a

1:30:30 ↗ little over half of the funds um so

1:30:32 ↗ we're doing another big push over the

1:30:34 ↗ next 10 days um less interest on the

1:30:37 ↗ portable cooktops but we're doing a lot

1:30:39 ↗ of personal Outreach met with the imagin

1:30:42 ↗ housing yesterday um we were handing out

1:30:45 ↗ flyers at the food bank today so we're

1:30:47 ↗ trying to do quite a bit more Outreach

1:30:49 ↗ there'll be a um flyer going out in the

1:30:51 ↗ school district's Peach jar um as well

1:30:54 ↗ the next few days so working on continue

1:30:56 ↗ to work on that

1:30:58 ↗ out um and then the last two updates um

1:31:02 ↗ the environmental board

1:31:04 ↗ recruitment um is complete uh interviews

1:31:07 ↗ are happening next week or I should say

1:31:09 ↗ it's underway the application period is

1:31:12 ↗ complete um we had 11 candidates um so

1:31:15 ↗ we'll be starting interviews we have um

1:31:18 ↗ two regular positions one of which is a

1:31:21 ↗ youth position and then one alternate

1:31:23 ↗ position position that are

1:31:25 ↗ open and then last item maybe to have a

1:31:29 ↗ very brief discussion on is the

1:31:31 ↗ sustainability Fair Booth seemed like

1:31:33 ↗ there was enough interest at the last

1:31:34 ↗ meeting to have an environmental board

1:31:36 ↗ booth and help introduce yourself to the

1:31:39 ↗ the public that might not be aware with

1:31:41 ↗ you aware of you um there was a few

1:31:44 ↗ folks that expressed some interest at

1:31:47 ↗ the last meeting about participating in

1:31:49 ↗ that I was thinking maybe we could just

1:31:51 ↗ get a few of you together to talk about

1:31:54 ↗ what's the message we want to have at

1:31:55 ↗ the booth what do we want to display at

1:31:57 ↗ the booth and then we could also get a

1:31:59 ↗ sign out a sign up out to the board um

1:32:02 ↗ for folks to sign up for slots to to be

1:32:05 ↗ present stand at the booth so it's April

1:32:09 ↗ 26 9 to2 and Saturday it's a Saturday

1:32:14 ↗ yeah David and I will definitely be

1:32:15 ↗ there to help you um and Whitley uh but

1:32:19 ↗ we will be um probably not available to

1:32:21 ↗ stand at the booth but we can help with

1:32:23 ↗ PL

1:32:24 ↗ so I know Ann was interested um in

1:32:27 ↗ helping project maybe you had mentioned

1:32:31 ↗ there's anyone else that least helping

1:32:32 ↗ to think about what we do at the booth

1:32:35 ↗ um would love just to have you all

1:32:37 ↗ connect offline so most I will just take

1:32:41 ↗ a look at my schedule and if I'm

1:32:43 ↗ available that day I would be happy to

1:32:45 ↗ be there okay I just there are a couple

1:32:47 ↗ of things happening around that time so

1:32:49 ↗ I'll just confirm with you in few yeah

1:32:51 ↗ spring is busy understand that if you're

1:32:54 ↗ available just even help brainstorm

1:32:56 ↗ ideas

1:32:58 ↗ that's I am working with isal high

1:33:00 ↗ school to develop posters yeah for for

1:33:04 ↗ birthday and u i don't I would like to

1:33:07 ↗ display them somewhere at the

1:33:09 ↗ sustainability fair but I don't know

1:33:11 ↗ where yet yeah but this would be a place

1:33:14 ↗ we could do it okay

1:33:19 ↗ great you send out a reminder Stacy I'll

1:33:23 ↗ send a reminder and maybe an at the very

1:33:26 ↗ least we could get together and

1:33:28 ↗ brainstorm uh our since David and I will

1:33:31 ↗ not have a booth we have a trifold we

1:33:34 ↗ have a spinny wheel so um we have uh

1:33:38 ↗ some items that could be used to display

1:33:41 ↗ information you know you have a skeleton

1:33:43 ↗ in the background right an yeah what's

1:33:46 ↗ that

1:33:48 ↗ guy what's that person's name yeah who

1:33:52 ↗ is that that's that's bony

1:33:57 ↗ Bonnie not

1:34:01 ↗ job ah did you have anything on the fair

1:34:05 ↗ an or uh no I'm happy to help plan um

1:34:09 ↗ it'd be great to see what materials we

1:34:11 ↗ have uh and then go from

1:34:15 ↗ there sounds great so do you want to

1:34:17 ↗ just have a meeting Stacy could you uh

1:34:20 ↗ help facilitate a meeting or do you want

1:34:23 ↗ one of us to facilitate it yep that

1:34:26 ↗ works I'll connect with um you and PR

1:34:28 ↗ and we can just

1:34:30 ↗ okay sounds

1:34:32 ↗ great um very last things are just some

1:34:35 ↗ reminders um April 2nd we are having a

1:34:38 ↗ joint meeting with the equity board to

1:34:40 ↗ discuss King County flood projects we

1:34:43 ↗ expect that to be about an hour so it'll

1:34:45 ↗ be short and joining virtually is fine

1:34:49 ↗ um I think our hope is to at least have

1:34:51 ↗ a porum there um so uh I can send out

1:34:54 ↗ another reminder about that and make

1:34:56 ↗ sure we'll have enough

1:34:58 ↗ participation um we have a pretty Hardy

1:35:01 ↗ April regular meeting right now we'll be

1:35:03 ↗ having an update on the natural

1:35:05 ↗ environment checklist our first meeting

1:35:07 ↗ on the tree code update this is our

1:35:09 ↗ Title 18 land use code um they're going

1:35:12 ↗ to be updating um the treat code and

1:35:15 ↗ presenting uh some of the proposed

1:35:17 ↗ changes to us and then Dan will either

1:35:20 ↗ provide a a written or be in person to

1:35:24 ↗ talk about uh what he's working on for

1:35:26 ↗ the urban Forest management plan we want

1:35:28 ↗ to pair that a little bit with the tree

1:35:30 ↗ code discussion because they're related

1:35:32 ↗ um and then the last April reminder is

1:35:35 ↗ the sustainability Fair on the

1:35:38 ↗ 26 questions no I will add you heard

1:35:43 ↗ about Mar tonight on a general level if

1:35:46 ↗ you want

1:35:48 ↗ clarification Washington reach out to

1:35:51 ↗ me locally

1:35:55 ↗ say good

1:35:59 ↗ answer that is it thank you great thank

1:36:04 ↗ you and Keith will connect in about 10

1:36:08 ↗ minutes joh put in a landfill they have

1:36:12 ↗ to put all kinds of mitigations in

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Council / Members (11)

Don McQuilliams

Alix Lee-Tigner

Nancy Davidson

Mina (Alexandra) Jun

Prajakta Ghatpande

Dixie Bair

Tom Anderson

Kiran Pan

Anne Newcomb

Keith Gonzalez

Jonathan Smith

Staff (6)

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager

Tina Eggers, Sister Cities Commission Staff Liaison

Evan Brumfield, Environmental & Regulatory Program Administrator

Mike Vermeulen, Water Resources Program Specialist

Gillian Straub, Management Analyst

Excused

Jamie Finch

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The minutes were approved as presented by unanimous consent.
Board Members DAVIDSON and GHATPANDE asked staff to provide additional details on the enforcement action and illicit discharge spills in 2024 and noted it is important to evaluate whether education efforts are targeted…