Equity Board · Wednesday, May 3, 2023 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of April 26, 2023 meeting

packet pp.3–4

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 04-26-23 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. April 26, 2023 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Virtual Attendance Policy: Follow Up

15 min · Mayor Mary Lou Pauly Tisha Gieser, City Clerk · packet pp.5–115

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Staff report:

Draft CIP: Focus on Equity MAY 3, 2023 EQUITY BOARD

Capital Improvement Plan: Follow Up

90 min · Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator · packet pp.117–124

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

The purpose of the May 3, 2023, info update is to brief the Board on the Comprehensive Plan and the state mandated 2024 periodic update.

Comprehensive Plan Overview: Informational Update [n/a] Staff memo prepared by: Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager

Topics: Land Use

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Board Processes & Chair/Vice-Chair Selection

10 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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5. STAFF REPORT

Updates from Mayor & City Council, and Other Updates

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Celebrating and Honoring Cultural Events

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.125–128

Topics: Arts & Culture

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Staff report:

This is an active document that will be updated with more specific timelines and details.

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0:02 ↗ good evening

0:12 ↗ good evening everyone welcome to today's

0:15 ↗ Equity board meeting with sixth floor

0:18 ↗ 6 p.m on Wednesday May the 3rd

0:22 ↗ members

0:24 ↗ and we have formed so we can go ahead

0:25 ↗ and get started on today's agenda

0:29 ↗ or you're going to call to order we have

0:31 ↗ our

0:32 ↗ set time for public comments as

0:35 ↗ a minute

0:36 ↗ most important today though we do have a

0:39 ↗ number of agenda items which is to uh

0:48 ↗ Patricia

0:49 ↗ our support as well as the capital

0:52 ↗ improve D plan

0:54 ↗ okay I'm not going to run through every

0:56 ↗ agenda item right now before

0:59 ↗ agenda but

1:01 ↗ that's really good and welcome our new

1:03 ↗ members

1:06 ↗ would you like to introduce yourself sir

1:13 ↗ very soon

1:15 ↗ [Music]

1:27 ↗ uh

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1:52 ↗ results

2:17 ↗ but now they're established

2:20 ↗ here tonight to

2:22 ↗ share some news talk about birth

2:24 ↗ Defender that I probably would be

2:32 ↗ um

2:34 ↗ I

2:36 ↗ used to be part of the

2:39 ↗ Food Services Commission

2:42 ↗ established

2:47 ↗ and

2:48 ↗ um

2:59 ↗ volunteers a lot in the community yeah

3:06 ↗ this week

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3:40 ↗ laughs

3:55 ↗ [Music]

3:58 ↗ every city

4:16 ↗ welcome

4:18 ↗ yeah

4:34 ↗ there

4:48 ↗ foreign

4:51 ↗ I also um

4:58 ↗ welcome my name is Kelly

5:04 ↗ Katie support and uh I am retired and

5:09 ↗ have in the past

5:11 ↗ organizing a community members typically

5:14 ↗ locally but also

5:16 ↗ around education

5:22 ↗ California

5:30 ↗ thank you

5:38 ↗ this is

5:42 ↗ actually

6:06 ↗ oh okay

6:10 ↗ I'm actually walking up this week before

6:13 ↗ they changed

6:26 ↗ I am a veteran US Army currently I work

6:28 ↗ for Microsoft

6:32 ↗ background is technically

6:36 ↗ um

6:51 ↗ so it's great to see me

6:54 ↗ another a new member on the board

6:57 ↗ starting to transformed because I've

6:59 ↗ been here in 2015.

7:02 ↗ San Francisco

7:06 ↗ so to see it transform

7:09 ↗ from a town which I meet

7:22 ↗ was about face everything

7:25 ↗ [Music]

7:26 ↗ so it's nice to see now people better

7:28 ↗ come down here

7:35 ↗ a smile like hey how you doing what

7:39 ↗ it's it's just amazing

7:47 ↗ and uh online uh shape would you like

7:50 ↗ some introduce yourself

7:55 ↗ sure

8:00 ↗ I mean Hillary

8:10 ↗ uh I'm sorry Monica none of us are able

8:14 ↗ to hear very clearly uh I believe Shea

8:17 ↗ is nodding but but Christina said that

8:20 ↗ the volume isn't high enough to hear and

8:22 ↗ neither can we hear to interpret

8:25 ↗ okay thank you for letting us know we'll

8:27 ↗ try to problem solve a little bit here

8:28 ↗ yeah

8:33 ↗ and we can hear you well Monica we just

8:37 ↗ can't hear others around you

8:44 ↗ we can hear it seems like we can hear

8:46 ↗ better now

8:49 ↗ Tony can you try saying something

8:50 ↗ seriously Tony Curry test test one two

8:53 ↗ three testing one two three yes we can

8:55 ↗ hear now much better thank you so much

8:57 ↗ thank you

9:02 ↗ so

9:04 ↗ um Shay our illustrious leader

9:10 ↗ for those of you

9:15 ↗ I'm the equity board chair and Karthik I

9:18 ↗ think um if you remember I helped

9:20 ↗ interview you

9:22 ↗ um so I am happy that you decided to

9:25 ↗ join

9:26 ↗ um I have been with the Equity Group

9:29 ↗ since its Inception as well

9:31 ↗ um and I was voted in as the chair

9:34 ↗ um which I'm very honored to have been

9:36 ↗ able to serve

9:38 ↗ um I am originally a transplant from St

9:41 ↗ Louis Missouri

9:43 ↗ um I have lived here for almost five

9:46 ↗ years now and

9:48 ↗ um my kids attend school in the Issaquah

9:50 ↗ school district and um I have deep roots

9:54 ↗ in De and I work so I was eager to be a

9:59 ↗ part of this team and it was important

10:01 ↗ for me to

10:02 ↗ um help develop a presence for our group

10:05 ↗ to be able to share ideas and become

10:07 ↗ what we are today so welcome to the team

10:12 ↗ um and thank you for joining us tonight

10:18 ↗ oh Christina

10:27 ↗ Christina your spirit on mute

10:37 ↗ we can see you Christina but we can't

10:40 ↗ hear you you're still on yeah

10:44 ↗ is

10:50 ↗ hello good afternoon it's nice to see

10:53 ↗ you all uh my name is Christina abonce

10:59 ↗ um I am happy to be here

11:06 ↗ Monica we have another new members no we

11:10 ↗ have a new uh youth member they were not

11:13 ↗ able to join tonight they have a college

11:14 ↗ class that they are taking as part of

11:16 ↗ their High School class but they are

11:19 ↗ hoping to be able to adjust and start

11:21 ↗ joining next month that sounds great

11:23 ↗ hopefully we'll see our new member our

11:25 ↗ new youth member next month that's great

11:27 ↗ okay so I'm assuming Monica this will be

11:30 ↗ this will serve as our roll calls so to

11:32 ↗ speak okay that sounds great all right

11:34 ↗ so as we welcome our new members are

11:37 ↗ there any um public comments anyone else

11:40 ↗ no one signed up for money for public

11:42 ↗ comments I do have of a public comment

11:45 ↗ follow-up that we received a few weeks

11:48 ↗ ago that I would like to discuss with

11:50 ↗ you briefly and then I'm hoping that we

11:52 ↗ can postpone it towards the end of the

11:53 ↗ meeting to have a more uh conversation

11:55 ↗ uh you may recall it a few weeks ago we

11:59 ↗ received a public comment via email and

12:01 ↗ actually a public comment was sent

12:03 ↗ directly to city council the equity

12:05 ↗ board was included in that feedback and

12:07 ↗ it had to do with the community

12:10 ↗ engagement toolkit and there was a

12:13 ↗ request that the communication staff

12:14 ↗ will bring that item back to you as an

12:16 ↗ equity board member as an equity board

12:19 ↗ so I checked in a little bit with the

12:21 ↗ communications staff

12:23 ↗ um uh they they took your input they

12:26 ↗ gathered input from other departments

12:28 ↗ and they also went to city council to

12:29 ↗ gather input they are now working on

12:31 ↗ finalizing the toolkit but since that is

12:34 ↗ an internal

12:35 ↗ um document they did not feel that it

12:37 ↗ needed to come back to the equity board

12:39 ↗ before going to council since it wasn't

12:41 ↗ anything that needed to be adopted with

12:43 ↗ that the communication team will bring

12:47 ↗ back information to you in a couple of

12:49 ↗ months once that implementation is going

12:51 ↗ to start to see what Corrections need to

12:54 ↗ be made so that's the feedback from

12:55 ↗ public comment and I would love to take

12:58 ↗ a second piece of information that I

13:00 ↗ learned from the public member that made

13:03 ↗ that that comment that public comment

13:05 ↗ because they give us actually some

13:07 ↗ helpful information about the process of

13:09 ↗ the equity board and I would like to

13:11 ↗ have the opportunity to discuss with you

13:13 ↗ towards the end of the meeting if that's

13:15 ↗ okay

13:16 ↗ um so it was just a process suggestion

13:18 ↗ and I think it's definitely helpful

13:23 ↗ thank you very much for that Monica okay

13:25 ↗ so everyone in the room I'd like to draw

13:27 ↗ your attention to the meet the minutes

13:30 ↗ that Monica passed out and for those of

13:32 ↗ you online please have a look at the

13:35 ↗ remaining minutes that was sent out in

13:37 ↗ the invite online so

13:39 ↗ um go ahead and give some time for you

13:42 ↗ to overlook the minutes from the last

13:44 ↗ thing and with that I

13:47 ↗ for that I would like to request as a

13:50 ↗ staff if we could postpone the minutes

13:52 ↗ from tonight and review them only next

13:54 ↗ month reasoning for that since we had a

13:57 ↗ meeting just last week just a week ago

13:59 ↗ we didn't have enough time uh to receive

14:01 ↗ the Spanish translations and so

14:03 ↗ Christina did not have a Spanish version

14:06 ↗ of the minutes so our translators are

14:08 ↗ working on that as soon as possible and

14:10 ↗ we'll have them for next month if that's

14:12 ↗ okay and if you don't mind just saying

14:14 ↗ that thank you all right so we'll do

14:16 ↗ that next month all right so let's move

14:18 ↗ on to our next agenda item which is the

14:20 ↗ virtual attendance policy follow-up

14:23 ↗ presented by our Boston mayor

14:28 ↗ thanks um Tisha do you want to start off

14:31 ↗ or can I do some introductory comments

14:33 ↗ first okay great well thank you for

14:36 ↗ giving me a spot on the agenda this

14:38 ↗ evening I appreciate it at least once a

14:41 ↗ year I try and get face to face in the

14:44 ↗ room with all of you time to chat

14:45 ↗ outside and if I get to stay long enough

14:47 ↗ time to chat after so thank you for that

14:51 ↗ um Monica I'm gonna stray off the

14:53 ↗ attendance policy for just a little bit

14:54 ↗ with everybody's everybody's okay with

14:56 ↗ that Monica has kept me up to date on

15:00 ↗ the amazing work that you've been doing

15:01 ↗ from the beginning and I this is just

15:04 ↗ such a point of Pride for me that we

15:07 ↗ have stood up this board that you are

15:09 ↗ working on Amazing items on your work

15:12 ↗ plan and I get to go share that out with

15:14 ↗ other cities who have not yet stood up

15:17 ↗ aboard or started this work almost all

15:20 ↗ jurisdictions have started some sort of

15:22 ↗ training but haven't really embraced the

15:25 ↗ idea of having an advice reward like

15:28 ↗ this take a hard look at other things

15:31 ↗ besides just training opportunities on

15:34 ↗ Equity inclusion and diversity and

15:36 ↗ welcoming so thank you you were Pioneers

15:39 ↗ for us but you are also Pioneers in the

15:41 ↗ region and I get to share a lot of your

15:44 ↗ work with them one of the items that

15:46 ↗ just gets totally wowed about is the

15:49 ↗ calendar that you came up with and the

15:52 ↗ fact that we were able to remove certain

15:54 ↗ days off of our scheduled calendar to

15:57 ↗ ensure that everybody could participate

15:59 ↗ that might like to participate and as

16:02 ↗ you see many times people do not choose

16:04 ↗ to come to these meetings but you are

16:06 ↗ providing the opportunity for them too

16:08 ↗ so I appreciate that very much thank you

16:11 ↗ for all the work and welcome again when

16:14 ↗ I got to Issaquah 30 years ago I moved

16:17 ↗ from a suburb of Toronto that was very

16:21 ↗ um diverse and my kids went to a very

16:24 ↗ diverse school where they were in the

16:27 ↗ majority by about three or four percent

16:29 ↗ so it was a fantastic opportunity and

16:31 ↗ one of my big concerns coming to

16:34 ↗ Issaquah was the reputation for the

16:36 ↗ school district was great but it was

16:39 ↗ also 97 Caucasian and I thought that's

16:43 ↗ that's challenging for me having had

16:45 ↗ them in a district in a in a community

16:48 ↗ that was so diverse

16:51 ↗ um Issaquah has grown its diversity

16:53 ↗ mostly through adding new neighborhoods

16:56 ↗ so adding the highlands and adding Talus

16:59 ↗ and adding that population there

17:01 ↗ has really Diversified our population

17:03 ↗ more than I could have hoped for and

17:07 ↗ that's great

17:08 ↗ um however we still kind of feel like

17:11 ↗ different areas we do not feel like one

17:14 ↗ large Blended City and we have tons of

17:16 ↗ opportunity not just within our city

17:18 ↗ organization but within our community to

17:22 ↗ work on being more welcoming I still get

17:25 ↗ anecdotal stories I got a lot during

17:28 ↗ covert I got a lot during the death of

17:31 ↗ George Floyd about things that actually

17:33 ↗ happened in town that had impacts on

17:35 ↗ people I still get those stories I

17:38 ↗ didn't used to get them so I know we

17:41 ↗ have a lot of work to do and some

17:43 ↗ organizations are now asking me to come

17:45 ↗ and just tell them what we're doing as a

17:48 ↗ city with our Equity board and our

17:49 ↗ Administration so that smaller

17:51 ↗ organizations may start to embrace some

17:53 ↗ of the stuff and the work that you were

17:55 ↗ doing so I am invited to a future

17:58 ↗ downtown disco association meeting uh

18:01 ↗ they're one of their members Works in

18:03 ↗ diversity equity and inclusion and

18:05 ↗ doesn't want to be the board for heard

18:09 ↗ you know she signed up to do board work

18:11 ↗ but she doesn't want to be their Dei

18:13 ↗ consultant and so I'm just going to come

18:15 ↗ and tell them about some of the work

18:17 ↗ that you're doing some of the training

18:19 ↗ I'm getting I serve on a professional

18:22 ↗ association's diversity Equity inclusion

18:24 ↗ team the sound cities Association which

18:25 ↗ is all the cities around Seattle 38

18:28 ↗ cities one million population and I work

18:31 ↗ on their Equity cabinet I'm hoping at

18:34 ↗ some point in time to get on the

18:36 ↗ association of Washington cities which

18:38 ↗ represents all the cities diversity

18:40 ↗ Equity inclusion board as well so just

18:43 ↗ sharing a lot of the stuff that I

18:44 ↗ learned from you all sharing the work

18:46 ↗ that you do it's very inspiring

18:49 ↗ um so the attendance poll the virtual

18:51 ↗ tendency

18:55 ↗ but we stood up two new boards the

18:57 ↗ equity board and the environment board

18:59 ↗ and we started off in all virtual world

19:02 ↗ and you guys just hit the ground running

19:06 ↗ um coming back many of our boards who

19:09 ↗ existed pre-covered we're excited to get

19:13 ↗ back in the room they wanted to have

19:16 ↗ those parking lot conversations before

19:18 ↗ and after again as well as the

19:22 ↗ opportunity to talk to community members

19:24 ↗ who might come in early they're coming

19:25 ↗ to talk to you but they catch it out

19:27 ↗ here and they catch it here for five

19:28 ↗ minutes on three other things that

19:30 ↗ they're not going to mention in their

19:31 ↗ comments and so our city clerk worked

19:34 ↗ really hard with all of our boards and

19:36 ↗ commissions to adopt virtual attendance

19:39 ↗ policies your adopted version is a

19:42 ↗ little different than others and for a

19:44 ↗ good reason you want to make sure that

19:46 ↗ we don't take steps that start to put up

19:49 ↗ walls and barriers again to coming in

19:52 ↗ practice you are actually a very similar

19:57 ↗ in your practice to the other board's

20:00 ↗ policies

20:01 ↗ you usually have more of your members in

20:04 ↗ person you usually have a quorum of your

20:06 ↗ members in person and the room feels

20:08 ↗ filled out and if I was coming to talk

20:10 ↗ to you I'd feel really good tonight

20:12 ↗ because there's a lot of you here and I

20:15 ↗ can you know grab one of you in the

20:16 ↗ parking lot if I feel I need to hammer

20:18 ↗ on my point a little bit more after but

20:20 ↗ you did adopt a different policy and

20:22 ↗ Tish is just here to explain it we're

20:24 ↗ not asking you to change it which she

20:27 ↗ just wants to talk to you about what is

20:30 ↗ going on with the other boards and

20:31 ↗ commissions and where they are and at

20:33 ↗ some future date if you feel like your

20:36 ↗ practice matches the broader policies

20:38 ↗ that are out there and you want to

20:39 ↗ adjust your policy go ahead but it's

20:41 ↗ really just to do that just to let you

20:43 ↗ know where everybody else landed and

20:45 ↗ especially with the environment we're in

20:46 ↗ the equity board because you grew up in

20:48 ↗ a computer instead of doing this

20:51 ↗ um and so one thing that would help me

20:52 ↗ before we we move on to this the

20:56 ↗ professional staff of people who know

20:57 ↗ what they're talking about is tell me

20:59 ↗ your personal experiences is with the

21:02 ↗ in-person and the virtual would you like

21:04 ↗ what you don't like what is working

21:07 ↗ why having a this virtual option is

21:11 ↗ important and what it feels like just to

21:12 ↗ be in the room and so informally anybody

21:15 ↗ wants to chat let's do that and then

21:17 ↗ I'll bring the profession to the table

21:20 ↗ and I love it that you have translation

21:22 ↗ services and that they work

21:24 ↗ whether it's virtual or in person

21:27 ↗ um we don't have that right now

21:29 ↗ on our other birds and commissions

21:31 ↗ so well because they are not as diverse

21:34 ↗ as the sport

21:36 ↗ yes good good yes so mayor Paulie I do

21:40 ↗ have a

21:42 ↗ um it's just for me so I'm not speaking

21:43 ↗ for the whole board it's just Tony Curry

21:45 ↗ talking

21:46 ↗ um the virtual component is important to

21:48 ↗ me because of my work

21:51 ↗ um I'm frequently busy like sometimes

21:54 ↗ stopping work at 11 PM and so what helps

22:00 ↗ me is that it was advantageous and

22:02 ↗ fortuitous that I was able to actually

22:04 ↗ come here tonight

22:05 ↗ but some nights I'm not able to like

22:09 ↗ spark down some food real quick and then

22:12 ↗ just get into the meeting and so if we

22:15 ↗ went to a

22:17 ↗ a format in which it was in person only

22:20 ↗ there'd be a lot of meetings out of your

22:22 ↗ business to me personally I would have

22:23 ↗ to resign yeah I would have to

22:25 ↗ um so I think it's having that mix and

22:28 ↗ that you know and I think we're all and

22:30 ↗ I'm not speaking for the board it's just

22:31 ↗ me

22:32 ↗ um I think we're all professional we're

22:34 ↗ all we're definitely all adults and I

22:36 ↗ think as long as we

22:38 ↗ make sure that if we can't be here in

22:41 ↗ person that we notify Monica or we

22:44 ↗ notify Shea is the chair or me as Vice

22:47 ↗ chair and there's some type of

22:48 ↗ notification or something like that but

22:51 ↗ um that's just me too that's just me

22:52 ↗ telling me that's awesome you know the

22:54 ↗ council did adopt on Monday night their

22:56 ↗ own virtual policy

22:58 ↗ um and Tisha can probably explain that

23:00 ↗ when she's up here too but coming out of

23:02 ↗ covid we've kind of decided virtual is

23:05 ↗ just part of us it's just how much

23:07 ↗ virtual so

23:09 ↗ um you know they there are a lot of

23:12 ↗ entities that I work with that are

23:14 ↗ demanding everybody come back I don't

23:16 ↗ see us ever doing that ever we have

23:18 ↗ opened so many doors with virtual

23:20 ↗ attendance that in one way shape or form

23:23 ↗ we're going to do it as mayor what I'm

23:26 ↗ hoping is that we can have as much

23:27 ↗ consistency and that is so that those

23:31 ↗ who do participate

23:32 ↗ get the same sense of vibrancy they get

23:36 ↗ with meeting to meeting meetings so it's

23:38 ↗ here forever I mean I would never

23:40 ↗ Advocate uh for all in person I just I

23:43 ↗ think those days are gone and I'm

23:45 ↗ frankly quite happy that they're gone

23:46 ↗ thank you for that thank you very much

23:50 ↗ anyone else sure yeah

23:55 ↗ um so for me it's always about

23:57 ↗ asking the question like who's not in

23:59 ↗ the room who would we like okay and so

24:03 ↗ when I put it in under that lens for me

24:05 ↗ I think of people who can't drive people

24:09 ↗ who need to use public transport

24:12 ↗ whatever the reason being that they need

24:15 ↗ to do it virtually and wanting them to

24:18 ↗ be able to participate

24:20 ↗ um and in addition to that I can tell

24:22 ↗ you that I have been able to participate

24:25 ↗ I'm from the Netherlands and I think

24:28 ↗ even some other part of the country I

24:30 ↗ can't remember or part of the world and

24:32 ↗ so when I think about like being able to

24:35 ↗ draw in a diverse pool of people

24:38 ↗ participate on this board for me it's

24:41 ↗ just very imperative that we have that

24:43 ↗ flexibility and also there's like an

24:46 ↗ unspoken I believe I don't know that

24:48 ↗ it's part of the policy that we all make

24:51 ↗ of consorted effort to be here right if

24:54 ↗ we're able to be here we will be here

24:57 ↗ I don't know that it needs to be spelled

24:59 ↗ out but if for whatever reason be it

25:01 ↗ Transportation be it child care be it

25:03 ↗ whatever it is right

25:05 ↗ um making sure that the people that

25:09 ↗ we're trying to include

25:11 ↗ are given that opportunity gives me that

25:14 ↗ opportunity and I think that that goes

25:17 ↗ hand in hand with the um policy that we

25:20 ↗ have regarding the stipend right yeah

25:22 ↗ making sure that we have a diverse pool

25:24 ↗ of people and not just people who happen

25:27 ↗ to have yeah

25:29 ↗ the time or whatever you know to be here

25:32 ↗ well said so that's why I think I voted

25:35 ↗ the way that I did very listening I was

25:38 ↗ exactly what she said and I would add I

25:41 ↗ think

25:42 ↗ I think there is a difference in policy

25:44 ↗ or practice because you see we've got

25:46 ↗ very programmed but I think it's really

25:48 ↗ important to have the policy and people

25:50 ↗ through so it is inclusive and welcoming

25:54 ↗ for folks who don't have the same types

25:56 ↗ of accessibility

25:59 ↗ um to be able to participate in this

26:02 ↗ type of Engagement with city government

26:06 ↗ so it's to me it's really important that

26:08 ↗ it stays in policy uh regardless of the

26:11 ↗ practice that's great

26:15 ↗ okay

26:18 ↗ hi yes

26:19 ↗ um and as the chair I can probably Echo

26:23 ↗ a lot of the things that everyone in the

26:24 ↗ room said

26:25 ↗ um including the fact that my work

26:27 ↗ schedule can be a little crazy sometimes

26:29 ↗ but um I also have kids that sometimes

26:32 ↗ their schedules interrupt mine and uh

26:35 ↗ for example even tonight

26:37 ↗ um I was unable to make it in person

26:38 ↗ because my son's sick

26:40 ↗ um and unfortunately I just didn't want

26:42 ↗ to bring any germs into anybody so that

26:46 ↗ we could all remain healthy

26:50 ↗ um but not only that

26:51 ↗ um this option gave me uh the ability to

26:55 ↗ be able to still participate and still

26:58 ↗ join my colleagues and help our city as

27:01 ↗ much as I possibly can despite the fact

27:04 ↗ that I can't be there and yes there are

27:06 ↗ recordings and yes there are other ways

27:07 ↗ that I can certainly get that

27:09 ↗ information but there's nothing like

27:11 ↗ being a part of the group when things

27:13 ↗ are happening and being able to express

27:17 ↗ any comments that I have even in the

27:19 ↗ virtual setting

27:21 ↗ um which is really kind of nice and I

27:23 ↗ think that our group does a really great

27:24 ↗ job of making sure that everyone's voice

27:26 ↗ is heard whether they're in the room or

27:29 ↗ virtually and I know that sometimes that

27:31 ↗ can be hard but um I think we've done a

27:34 ↗ good job of making it work

27:36 ↗ okay that's great you brought up

27:38 ↗ something that I hear everywhere is that

27:40 ↗ we'll never be able to make it work well

27:42 ↗ enough that the people on the screen who

27:44 ↗ were talking about this three months

27:46 ↗ into covet the people on the screen will

27:49 ↗ never have the same experience they will

27:51 ↗ feel like it's not fair they're not

27:53 ↗ being heard and I think we're way past

27:56 ↗ that I I think I've heard from Monica

27:59 ↗ you guys do a great job making sure

28:02 ↗ everybody's heard all the voices are

28:04 ↗ heard and that's great but it was a

28:06 ↗ really big sort of you know uh downside

28:10 ↗ that people were talking about before we

28:12 ↗ had the opportunity to come back but I

28:13 ↗ think we've worked it out and I've heard

28:15 ↗ you guys do a good job

28:17 ↗ that's great

28:18 ↗ anybody else

28:22 ↗ awesome well thank you for letting me

28:23 ↗ come tonight I'm going to give my chair

28:25 ↗ over to the professionals she's going to

28:28 ↗ talk a little bit about where we are as

28:30 ↗ a city and uh thanks for all that you're

28:34 ↗ doing and all that you're working on

28:36 ↗ it's nice to see everybody and welcome

28:38 ↗ and thank you yeah

28:54 ↗ um

28:58 ↗ kartik I'm Tisha Geezer I'm the city

29:01 ↗ clerk I think I've met everyone else in

29:03 ↗ here a few times it's nice to be with

29:04 ↗ you again so I'll just follow up on the

29:06 ↗ mayor's comments that yes you have

29:07 ↗ emerged as as you a somewhat unique

29:10 ↗ among our other boards in commissions so

29:12 ↗ we had we have had seven boards and

29:15 ↗ commissions adopt a virtual attendance

29:16 ↗ policy and yours is definitely far more

29:19 ↗ flexible and um emphasizing that uh your

29:23 ↗ policy says we don't care how you

29:24 ↗ participate virtually or in person all

29:27 ↗ of our other boards really emphasize

29:28 ↗ that in-person attendance and some of

29:30 ↗ them most of them have a requirement

29:32 ↗ that a certain number be in the room

29:33 ↗ which was you know is is the mayor's has

29:36 ↗ been her position she wants to make sure

29:38 ↗ that as our community comes to these

29:40 ↗ meetings they see folks together and

29:43 ↗ that Synergy that she talked about with

29:45 ↗ the public and with each other is there

29:48 ↗ um also respecting that you you had some

29:50 ↗ clear Direction and I um and respecting

29:53 ↗ that so I'll just say that um in the

29:56 ↗ over the next year maybe towards the end

29:58 ↗ end of 2023 or first quarter 2024 it

30:02 ↗ would be good to talk again about your

30:04 ↗ virtual attendance policy see how things

30:06 ↗ are going see what some of the Norms

30:07 ↗ have been

30:09 ↗ um and see if any adjustments uh might

30:11 ↗ be made so that's that's all I have to

30:14 ↗ say you have a big agenda tonight so yes

30:16 ↗ real quick I think that I just want to

30:18 ↗ drop

30:19 ↗ just

30:20 ↗ so that like a buzz in your ear that I

30:23 ↗ would challenge the other boards to

30:25 ↗ actually look at our policy because our

30:28 ↗ policy is more inclusive and I would

30:30 ↗ like those boards to consider if you

30:32 ↗ want to diversify your board you need to

30:35 ↗ be flexible in terms of who you're

30:37 ↗ including how you're including them and

30:39 ↗ why you're including people so yes I

30:42 ↗ welcome

30:43 ↗ you know us having this discussion again

30:45 ↗ in the hopes that we can model that this

30:48 ↗ works and encourage other boards to

30:51 ↗ actually change their policy

30:54 ↗ I will hardly agree with that I'm glad

30:56 ↗ you said that but

30:58 ↗ um because

30:59 ↗ we as an equity board this is kind of

31:01 ↗ what we do Model Behavior that and and

31:04 ↗ encourage behaviors in the city so yeah

31:07 ↗ I definitely Echo that that yeah and

31:09 ↗ really encourage every board to follow

31:11 ↗ because that model fits

31:14 ↗ Equity so that everyone can be included

31:17 ↗ all voices heard everyone is heard

31:19 ↗ everyone can participate

31:21 ↗ people want to come into a room like me

31:24 ↗ then yeah by all means do so

31:28 ↗ noted

31:30 ↗ thank you I have something something

31:34 ↗ anyway it would be interesting to track

31:37 ↗ somehow

31:40 ↗ um the diversity within the boards and

31:43 ↗ now we are obviously starting to be more

31:44 ↗ diverse but do they if there's some that

31:48 ↗ have lesser

31:49 ↗ strong strong do they add more people

31:52 ↗ right it would be worthwhile if nothing

31:55 ↗ else to know what the ratio is now and

31:57 ↗ what the ratio is next recruitment

31:59 ↗ right again we are tracking some of that

32:02 ↗ information now in our application yeah

32:04 ↗ and to also ask people why they you know

32:07 ↗ somehow to ask those who may have been

32:10 ↗ interested why they didn't apply or why

32:11 ↗ they decided not to do it right yeah I

32:15 ↗ know that's my word I'm just trying to

32:17 ↗ figure out how to you know because

32:18 ↗ that's that's the real deal

32:24 ↗ I mean the problem is the people who

32:26 ↗ they just think they can't do it right

32:28 ↗ that they're blind when there's more

32:30 ↗ problems

32:30 ↗ or don't know about it

32:32 ↗ so yeah and

32:34 ↗ and now have seven boards and I expect

32:36 ↗ to have up to nine who do have virtual

32:38 ↗ attendance so there is some a lot of

32:40 ↗ people yeah yeah it is it is not quite

32:43 ↗ as as open ended as that keyboards yeah

32:48 ↗ yeah okay any other questions comments

32:54 ↗ or Tisha thank you very much thank you

32:57 ↗ again

33:00 ↗ okay well let's move on to our next

33:03 ↗ agenda item the capital Improvement plan

33:06 ↗ follow-up and this will be presented by

33:08 ↗ Andrea Snyder our Deputy City

33:10 ↗ administrator yes and Andrea do you

33:15 ↗ prefer questions at the end or do you

33:17 ↗ prefer questions as people have them

33:18 ↗ questions as you have them or rates or

33:22 ↗ great my uh I think so before this

33:26 ↗ meeting my laptop was

33:29 ↗ starting to heat up and wasn't charging

33:32 ↗ it may be solved we'll see if it starts

33:35 ↗ to melt the table

33:38 ↗ um her burst into flames we might have

33:40 ↗ to switch to maybe Monica can share my

33:42 ↗ slides but we'll try this for now and

33:44 ↗ see how far it takes us okay so good

33:47 ↗ evening thank you for having me here

33:48 ↗ also with me is Robert hamoud who is our

33:51 ↗ Chief Financial Officer

33:53 ↗ um and so he'll be uh he'll be assisting

33:56 ↗ with the presentation today I'm so happy

33:59 ↗ to be here this is a follow-up to the

34:01 ↗ discussion for those of you who were

34:03 ↗ able to join us at what we called our

34:05 ↗ board Summit in February to talk about

34:07 ↗ the CIP CIP

34:10 ↗ Capital Improvement plan that's the plan

34:12 ↗ that

34:14 ↗ um we make it's a six-year plan and then

34:17 ↗ some uh to plan out our infrastructure

34:19 ↗ needs and how we're going to supply

34:22 ↗ um all of our infrastructure needs

34:23 ↗ across the city so that's what we're

34:25 ↗ here to talk about today we started off

34:27 ↗ this conversation back in uh February to

34:30 ↗ talk about what are some of the criteria

34:32 ↗ we should be thinking about

34:34 ↗ um to evaluate these projects that go

34:36 ↗ into our infrastructure planner CIP

34:40 ↗ um and so many of you participate in

34:42 ↗ that conversation thank you and this is

34:45 ↗ a follow-up we now uh finally have a

34:47 ↗ draft it just got issued on Monday so

34:51 ↗ many of you in your packets because the

34:52 ↗ packet was actually uh published really

34:55 ↗ before our CIP was even out you'll see

34:58 ↗ it in your packet you have a bunch of

35:00 ↗ different attachments

35:02 ↗ um that's because that was before we

35:04 ↗ even had a compiled draft and so we gave

35:07 ↗ you what we had at the moment

35:10 ↗ um so apologize for all those

35:11 ↗ attachments but hopefully that helps you

35:14 ↗ focus on uh the things that we're really

35:16 ↗ talking about today

35:17 ↗ and

35:20 ↗ foreign

35:21 ↗ so the agenda for for this item tonight

35:24 ↗ we want to first talk to you about well

35:27 ↗ what kind of feedback are we looking at

35:29 ↗ um receiving from you tonight then we're

35:31 ↗ going to go into a little bit of

35:32 ↗ background on the CIP process as a

35:34 ↗ refresher uh we will also give an

35:37 ↗ overview of the draft or proposed CIP

35:40 ↗ that covers the years 2024 to 2029 uh

35:44 ↗ we'll have that discussion and feedback

35:46 ↗ section and we'll also talk about next

35:48 ↗ steps as well

35:50 ↗ so what we're hoping to hear from you

35:52 ↗ tonight here's our general discussion

35:54 ↗ questions first we want to have feedback

35:57 ↗ on how the criteria were applied we're

36:00 ↗ specifically going to be focusing on the

36:02 ↗ equity criteria tonight that is your

36:05 ↗ area of expertise it's a brand new

36:07 ↗ criteria for us that we hadn't had

36:09 ↗ before in this process so we want to

36:11 ↗ hear from you how how have we applied it

36:14 ↗ uh do you have feedback for us should we

36:16 ↗ consider things differently uh were

36:18 ↗ there things that surprised you and

36:20 ↗ taking a look at the materials for

36:22 ↗ tonight

36:23 ↗ um and then if we were to use these

36:25 ↗ criteria to get again specifically the

36:27 ↗ equity criteria again what changes

36:30 ↗ should we consider should we consider

36:32 ↗ changes to the equity criteria itself

36:34 ↗ should we consider changes to how we

36:36 ↗ applied that criteria or thinking about

36:38 ↗ it

36:42 ↗ um so a little background uh before we

36:45 ↗ get to that discussion is just a

36:47 ↗ reminder of what the CIP is the CIP is

36:50 ↗ not a budget it is a planning document

36:52 ↗ so this is something that covers the

36:54 ↗ next six years of

36:57 ↗ um of our planning for infrastructure

36:59 ↗ but also some out years past those six

37:01 ↗ years

37:02 ↗ and so

37:03 ↗ um

37:04 ↗ this graphic should look familiar to

37:06 ↗ those of you who are part of the board

37:08 ↗ Summit that we had in February at the

37:11 ↗ top of the graphic shows that 20-year

37:14 ↗ big Vision picture we have a lot of

37:16 ↗ infrastructure plans that talk about 20

37:19 ↗ years or several years out so we have

37:22 ↗ our Master Mobility plan that talks

37:24 ↗ about transportation we have Park

37:27 ↗ strategic plan all types of different

37:29 ↗ infrastructure plans that give a big

37:31 ↗ Vision an idea for what types of

37:33 ↗ projects we could should consider to

37:35 ↗ improve our infrastructure during that

37:37 ↗ process there's a lot of community

37:38 ↗ engagement to form those plans

37:41 ↗ um they're also that's a time when we

37:44 ↗ think about what are these policies it's

37:46 ↗ time to think about Equity it's time to

37:48 ↗ think about environmental sustainability

37:50 ↗ and all of our other values and

37:52 ↗ incorporate them in that Master planning

37:53 ↗ process then once we have those big

37:56 ↗ Master plans for our infrastructure we

37:58 ↗ use those to populate the 60-year CIP

38:02 ↗ and that's really the document that

38:04 ↗ we're discussing tonight and so

38:06 ↗ um that is that's where we are on this

38:09 ↗ on this uh a graphic we're in that

38:11 ↗ middle trapezoid uh lighter green box

38:15 ↗ and so that's where we form the CIP

38:18 ↗ that's based off of those Master

38:19 ↗ infrastructure plans that's based off of

38:22 ↗ community feedback during the CIP

38:23 ↗ process that we're forming right now

38:25 ↗ where we're in right now and Community

38:27 ↗ engagement we've had over the years you

38:29 ↗ know sometimes we'll get neighborhoods

38:31 ↗ that come before us and say well this

38:33 ↗ isn't in a master plan but we really

38:35 ↗ think we need sidewalks here or

38:36 ↗ something like that

38:37 ↗ okay so we incorporate all that feedback

38:39 ↗ and figure out what we can afford to do

38:43 ↗ but we have the time and capacity to do

38:46 ↗ and put that into our six year CIP along

38:49 ↗ with the criteria that we'll talk about

38:50 ↗ in a second and then out of that

38:53 ↗ six-year CLP how does that get to

38:55 ↗ implementation then we form our two-year

38:57 ↗ budget so it's a planning document the

39:01 ↗ CIP it's not a budget so but we use it

39:04 ↗ to help form our budget our budget

39:06 ↗ covers uh two years we're in our first

39:09 ↗ year of our budget right now so we take

39:10 ↗ items out of those CIP and say okay here

39:12 ↗ are the projects that we had planned for

39:15 ↗ 2023 uh our Revenue picture may be

39:18 ↗ better than what we had thought maybe

39:20 ↗ it's worse now it really becomes a lot

39:23 ↗ more real in terms of what we can afford

39:25 ↗ what we have the capacity to do so

39:28 ↗ sometimes you'll find that things change

39:29 ↗ from the sixth year CIP to the two-year

39:32 ↗ budget that can happen because it's just

39:34 ↗ a planning document it's not an

39:36 ↗ implementation document

39:38 ↗ so so uh then

39:42 ↗ then what's in the budget then becomes a

39:44 ↗ funded Capital project then that's

39:46 ↗ something that goes on our work plans

39:48 ↗ when we start to really implement

39:50 ↗ so that's kind of the the process for

39:53 ↗ how we get to actually Paving a road or

39:57 ↗ putting in a new water line that's kind

39:59 ↗ of the flow of that process and again

40:01 ↗ we're in that middle

40:03 ↗ um light green trapezoid area right now

40:06 ↗ and all throughout this process we want

40:09 ↗ to be thinking as I said about Equity we

40:11 ↗ want Community engagement we want to be

40:13 ↗ thinking about all of our other values

40:14 ↗ too so this isn't just the one point in

40:16 ↗ time where we have to get it right we

40:19 ↗ have to get it right in every step and

40:21 ↗ so

40:21 ↗ um

40:22 ↗ so any questions on the planning process

40:25 ↗ for our Capital infrastructure you might

40:28 ↗ be discussing this in your presentation

40:30 ↗ but how do you prioritize like once you

40:33 ↗ have

40:34 ↗ you know

40:36 ↗ the items for the six year plan but then

40:39 ↗ you meet up with the finances like

40:42 ↗ yeah well it's almost like you're a fan

40:51 ↗ slide so hold on to it I'm not quite

40:54 ↗ there but great question and if I'm

40:56 ↗ going to come back to that question how

40:58 ↗ we prioritize

40:59 ↗ um I want to make just a little note to

41:01 ↗ make sure I do that okay

41:04 ↗ yes please do please do

41:07 ↗ um before we get to that excellent

41:08 ↗ question a little bit more background so

41:11 ↗ the CIP we update every two years

41:15 ↗ um we go through a big update process

41:17 ↗ and

41:19 ↗ um so here we are within that two-year

41:21 ↗ cycle and a couple of things have

41:23 ↗ changed since the last time we adopted

41:25 ↗ the CIP one of the things that have

41:27 ↗ changed is this lovely group of people

41:29 ↗ we didn't have an equity board two years

41:31 ↗ ago certainly not uh the way that you're

41:34 ↗ functioning now

41:36 ↗ um we also didn't have an environmental

41:38 ↗ board uh the way that they are

41:40 ↗ functioning now so we have two new

41:42 ↗ boards to help inform these projects and

41:45 ↗ inform how we think about our Capital

41:47 ↗ infrastructure

41:49 ↗ um part of that uh has affected the

41:52 ↗ criteria that we use to prioritize those

41:54 ↗ projects so we have new and improved

41:56 ↗ criteria that's what we started that

41:58 ↗ conversation about in February

42:00 ↗ um we also as part of those new and

42:02 ↗ improved criteria have a different

42:04 ↗ grading system so you'll recall maybe if

42:06 ↗ you have excellent memories uh before we

42:09 ↗ had project selection criteria but it

42:11 ↗ was like check the box yes or no is this

42:14 ↗ okay for the environment yes or no uh is

42:19 ↗ this

42:21 ↗ um

42:22 ↗ you know uh I'm now forgetting what the

42:25 ↗ other criteria because I'm so used to

42:26 ↗ the new ones but we've really wanted to

42:29 ↗ raise the bar and looking at these

42:31 ↗ projects and how we prioritize them

42:34 ↗ um is this something that is really

42:36 ↗ improving our conditions

42:39 ↗ um so that's what we want to do with

42:40 ↗ this year with the criteria so the

42:41 ↗ criteria themselves are very different

42:43 ↗ than what we've done in the past

42:45 ↗ the other thing that's new since last

42:47 ↗ time is uh in 2021 late of 2021 into

42:51 ↗ 2022 we had a Capital Finance Community

42:54 ↗ task force so they were volunteers much

42:57 ↗ like yourselves some of them were from

42:59 ↗ other boards and commissions we have in

43:01 ↗ the city some of them were community

43:03 ↗ members who had not who were not on the

43:05 ↗ board

43:05 ↗ the mayor appointed this task force and

43:08 ↗ uh they provided some recommendations on

43:11 ↗ what we should do for our infrastructure

43:12 ↗ we have so many needs and in government

43:15 ↗ it's very common uh we have more needs

43:18 ↗ than we have revenue for so how do we

43:20 ↗ figure this out what how do we invest in

43:23 ↗ stuff where should we prioritize

43:25 ↗ and the Capital Finance Community task

43:28 ↗ force came forward with a couple of

43:30 ↗ recommendations on simplifying them here

43:32 ↗ but they recommended that in general the

43:35 ↗ study should do more to invest in

43:38 ↗ infrastructure and uh they really wanted

43:41 ↗ us to do more than we have in the past

43:43 ↗ and they felt like in order to do that

43:45 ↗ we should pursue new Revenue tools they

43:48 ↗ felt that we didn't have enough existing

43:50 ↗ revenue or current revenues to be able

43:52 ↗ to pay for all the things that we need

43:54 ↗ in the community so they wanted us to

43:57 ↗ look at in Revenue tools they also

43:59 ↗ stated that mobility and transportation

44:01 ↗ were our first priority

44:03 ↗ um so instead of kind of spreading the

44:05 ↗ peanut butter out and trying to address

44:07 ↗ Everything at Once in an equal way we

44:09 ↗ should really be focusing on

44:10 ↗ Transportation mobility and that's

44:12 ↗ because every couple of years we do a

44:15 ↗ community survey we are finishing up

44:17 ↗ that process

44:19 ↗ um this year for our community survey

44:20 ↗ and we've heard from our community year

44:21 ↗ after year

44:23 ↗ um since we started this process that

44:24 ↗ mobility and transportation are their

44:25 ↗ number one concern

44:27 ↗ and so that's why the task force said we

44:29 ↗ should do this we should consider this

44:31 ↗ as a first priority when it comes to

44:32 ↗ infrastructure investment

44:34 ↗ and then um but parks and trails and

44:37 ↗ also City facilities Municipal

44:39 ↗ facilities are really important too

44:40 ↗ uh so they wanted us to address those as

44:42 ↗ well and look at new Revenue tools to be

44:45 ↗ able to provide more for parks and

44:47 ↗ trails and Facilities

44:50 ↗ so those are some of those

44:51 ↗ recommendations so as we look at how do

44:54 ↗ we form this CIP what are the things we

44:55 ↗ need to consider as we pick these

44:57 ↗ projects how do we prioritize

45:00 ↗ um we wanted to take those

45:01 ↗ recommendations from the task force uh

45:04 ↗ we wanted to look at those criteria

45:05 ↗ combine them together with things we've

45:07 ↗ heard from the community and also with a

45:10 ↗ lens of what can we realistically do

45:14 ↗ because we also say especially in

45:18 ↗ Issaquah we want to do it all and we

45:21 ↗ have a habit of biting off more than we

45:23 ↗ can chew we are Eternal optimists

45:25 ↗ sometimes to our own detriment and um we

45:29 ↗ can't seem to ever get as much done as

45:31 ↗ we want to and so we wanted to make sure

45:34 ↗ that this was a little bit more

45:35 ↗ realistic and that we were actually

45:37 ↗ identifying the resources we need to get

45:39 ↗ the work done and then

45:41 ↗ um not being overly ambitious

45:46 ↗ as well

45:48 ↗ this is the first time I believe the

45:50 ↗ city's gone to the boards into

45:52 ↗ merchandise

45:53 ↗ um to soliciting the nation and it's

45:55 ↗ very unique for City students that

45:57 ↗ usually students will have maybe a

45:59 ↗ community planning process Community

46:00 ↗ survey and then develop a CIP for their

46:02 ↗ insurance but here we're really trying

46:04 ↗ to make this the most inclusive CIP that

46:07 ↗ we can by getting as many stakeholders

46:09 ↗ starting with the community task force

46:10 ↗ last year but also coming to you with

46:12 ↗ the criteria and the project list to

46:14 ↗ probably selected the kind of explain

46:16 ↗ what a process is how we got there and

46:18 ↗ how it impacts here's residents in a

46:20 ↗ Citizens period and it's been a very

46:23 ↗ good process so far I think this is like

46:24 ↗ the third or fourth board that's third

46:26 ↗ yes

46:28 ↗ and so that going back to just the

46:31 ↗ principle of equity that's really

46:33 ↗ something that we're really trying to

46:34 ↗ focus on is that the interestingness of

46:36 ↗ this process thank you

46:39 ↗ so

46:41 ↗ um new criteria these may look uh

46:44 ↗ familiar to those of you who were there

46:47 ↗ for the February meeting and there was a

46:48 ↗ follow-up memo um talking about how what

46:51 ↗ we did with the feedback we heard from

46:53 ↗ you all in February so this is where we

46:56 ↗ landed with the new criteria

46:58 ↗ each one of these has kind of a red

47:01 ↗ yellow green threshold and how well the

47:04 ↗ projects meet these criteria so we

47:07 ↗ looked at the the projects for that six

47:10 ↗ year plan we wanted to make sure that

47:12 ↗ each of those projects responded to

47:15 ↗ these criteria in some way so we have

47:18 ↗ you can see them here I don't think I

47:20 ↗ need to read them out loud but there is

47:22 ↗ more in your packet so if you're

47:23 ↗ wondering what those red yellow and

47:25 ↗ green thresholds are that's an

47:27 ↗ attachment that's in your packet so you

47:28 ↗ can take a look at those we will be

47:31 ↗ referring to some of the ones

47:32 ↗ specifically on Equity this evening and

47:36 ↗ um the feedback that we heard especially

47:38 ↗ from this board was we had the equity

47:42 ↗ criteria way wrong when we first came to

47:44 ↗ you which we knew we did so we were very

47:47 ↗ happy to have your feedback and

47:49 ↗ incorporate that and we'll be talking a

47:52 ↗ lot more about that tonight

47:54 ↗ any questions on oh I should mention

47:58 ↗ um you may recall this last uh criteria

48:01 ↗ long-standing commitment that was

48:03 ↗ something that our Council really wanted

48:05 ↗ us to include in the criteria and so

48:08 ↗ they uh they didn't fully Define it

48:12 ↗ um we uh don't have a definition for it

48:15 ↗ we have a meeting coming up with city

48:17 ↗ council where they will be able to

48:20 ↗ identify which projects meet this meet

48:24 ↗ this criteria so they kind of have a

48:25 ↗ better idea of this it's a criteria they

48:27 ↗ wanted us to include but they also said

48:29 ↗ let us figure it out so we still have

48:32 ↗ conversations with Council to to figure

48:34 ↗ that out

48:36 ↗ um are they aware that we were concerned

48:38 ↗ about it yes

48:40 ↗ yes

48:43 ↗ I have passed on that information I will

48:45 ↗ continue to pass it on

48:47 ↗ um I think it's I think it's really good

48:49 ↗ feedback the concerns I'm from we heard

48:52 ↗ from many uh of you in February was that

48:55 ↗ this isn't very transparent what does

48:57 ↗ this really mean and

48:59 ↗ um the city council is going to have a

49:01 ↗ public meeting where they talk about

49:02 ↗ this in particular so they'll have those

49:04 ↗ discussions out in public you can see

49:06 ↗ how they're thinking about it

49:08 ↗ um I think they're trying

49:10 ↗ uh to make it as transparent as possible

49:12 ↗ but it's something that has been

49:13 ↗ difficult to Define

49:15 ↗ um up to this point so they they have

49:18 ↗ more conversations coming up about that

49:20 ↗ um let me ask one more question about it

49:23 ↗ um it's generously that since that's

49:26 ↗ more council's purview it's coming at

49:29 ↗ the end of a rigorous process that you

49:33 ↗ all have done with the other Hearts here

49:35 ↗ yet and so that also feels a little bit

49:38 ↗ like rigorous process something that's

49:41 ↗ coming late that doesn't have the same

49:44 ↗ type of Engagement and visibility for

49:47 ↗ phones so it feels like

49:50 ↗ okay the Optics of you know really

49:54 ↗ sketchy I'll just saying language so I

49:57 ↗ just want to kind of say that I expect

49:59 ↗ we had a lot of conversations I can't

50:01 ↗ speak for everybody in the city but we

50:02 ↗ had a lot of internal conversations

50:04 ↗ about what exactly what it defines

50:07 ↗ Equity how do we apply it so

50:09 ↗ um there's no right answer sometimes so

50:11 ↗ that's why the board in this case is

50:13 ↗ very helpful to us to get a second set

50:16 ↗ of ISO

50:17 ↗ um if you're trying our best but again

50:19 ↗ we don't have as much of the broader

50:23 ↗ inputs and so

50:25 ↗ um really you know there was an effort

50:27 ↗ maybe just say that there's a very

50:29 ↗ strong effort made and then we want

50:30 ↗ products you to get more of that

50:32 ↗ information that's why it made some

50:33 ↗ changes and yeah and I also um

50:37 ↗ the next slide will show this better

50:40 ↗ um but city council is adopting this

50:42 ↗ document they have uh the ultimate say

50:45 ↗ and what's included in the CIP and so

50:48 ↗ it's it

50:50 ↗ um I'm taking your note down I'm going

50:52 ↗ to convey that to council

50:54 ↗ um but you know they it's also their

50:56 ↗ privilege to be able to change

50:59 ↗ um what's in the document anytime

51:00 ↗ because that is what they have been

51:03 ↗ elected to do so but I I will I'll

51:05 ↗ certainly pass that on to them um the

51:07 ↗ other thing to note about these criteria

51:09 ↗ is that we decided not to wait them uh

51:12 ↗ so not one criteria outweighs another

51:15 ↗ necessarily

51:17 ↗ um but it is it is something that we

51:19 ↗ look at where in some cases and we'll

51:22 ↗ talk about this a little bit more we do

51:25 ↗ have to consider life and safety first

51:27 ↗ and foremost and so so and not every it

51:31 ↗ just depends on how much of an issue of

51:34 ↗ life and safety or what is that legal

51:36 ↗ mandate sometimes times it does I'll

51:39 ↗ wait some concerns sometimes something

51:42 ↗ is a life and safety concern in one year

51:44 ↗ but not in another year and

51:47 ↗ um you know we think about the black

51:49 ↗ nugget wall are you familiar with this

51:50 ↗ large wall above Fred fire right

51:53 ↗ um you know five years ago no life

51:57 ↗ safety concerns with it right

52:00 ↗ um 10 years from now if we don't do

52:01 ↗ anything maybe we'll start to worry

52:04 ↗ about life safety concerns so things

52:06 ↗ kind of way differently in different

52:08 ↗ years and so my point is when we apply

52:11 ↗ these criteria it is much more of an art

52:14 ↗ than it is a science

52:15 ↗ there are just individual conditions we

52:18 ↗ have to consider so we can't necessarily

52:20 ↗ uh provide numerical values to these

52:23 ↗ things and have it always make sense

52:25 ↗ um because we're looking at long-term

52:27 ↗ planning then six years and really just

52:29 ↗ trying to make sure we're applying them

52:32 ↗ right and so because it is an art that's

52:34 ↗ why we're here asking you did we get the

52:36 ↗ art right

52:37 ↗ what's your feedback uh you know is

52:42 ↗ there another way that we should be

52:43 ↗ looking at this

52:44 ↗ so

52:46 ↗ um

52:49 ↗ so uh we have

52:53 ↗ so this is an overview of the CIP as I

52:56 ↗ said it's a six-year planning window and

52:59 ↗ just in general some themes uh want to

53:01 ↗ make sure that you're aware of we have

53:04 ↗ more funding for maintenance programs

53:05 ↗ than in the past

53:07 ↗ um that's something that we have heard

53:09 ↗ uh from community and from Council to

53:11 ↗ make sure that we are maintaining our

53:13 ↗ infrastructure so that is a general

53:15 ↗ theme in the CIP

53:18 ↗ um this VIP also responds to feedback as

53:21 ↗ I mentioned we've heard from the Capital

53:23 ↗ Finance Community task force to make

53:25 ↗ more investments in our infrastructure

53:27 ↗ while also taking extra care to make

53:29 ↗ sure that the plan is achievable

53:31 ↗ um and the way that we do that is by

53:33 ↗ asking for more revenues

53:35 ↗ and so this CIP assumes and anticipates

53:39 ↗ new revenues for transportation in

53:41 ↗ particular We'll be asking for a 0.1

53:45 ↗ sales tax to help fund some of our

53:48 ↗ transportation needs that's something

53:50 ↗ that Council and other uh and we'll be

53:54 ↗ discussing a lot more in the future to

53:57 ↗ see if we get approval of that but

53:59 ↗ that's what we're proposing with this

54:00 ↗ dip

54:03 ↗ um we also have been looking at our

54:04 ↗ Public Safety facilities and so

54:07 ↗ um we have a municipal court that is uh

54:11 ↗ long past its lifespan that does not

54:13 ↗ have modern security uh measures in

54:16 ↗ place which we are concerned about

54:19 ↗ um we have and that's too small for a

54:22 ↗ growing municipality like Issaquah we

54:25 ↗ have

54:26 ↗ um

54:27 ↗ a police department that is only in half

54:31 ↗ of the building that it was originally

54:32 ↗ intended to occupy and has not increased

54:36 ↗ their square feet despite us more than

54:38 ↗ doubling in population

54:40 ↗ we have

54:42 ↗ um we have a fire station we need to

54:45 ↗ build in North Issaquah

54:46 ↗ and we need to figure out how to fund

54:48 ↗ that fire station

54:49 ↗ and by North Issaquah I mean just north

54:51 ↗ of 90 is where we're looking and so

54:55 ↗ um and then parks and trails we've heard

54:56 ↗ that we need to invest more in parks and

54:58 ↗ trails

54:59 ↗ um as well so we have a lot of different

55:01 ↗ types of needs and we are trying to

55:03 ↗ figure out a way to raise revenues for

55:05 ↗ each of these things to meet at least

55:07 ↗ some of those needs better

55:09 ↗ um

55:11 ↗ any questions about any of that

55:17 ↗ has there been any talk about what the

55:20 ↗ additional possible revenue streams

55:22 ↗ could be yeah that because something

55:25 ↗ that I have experienced in another city

55:30 ↗ is that

55:31 ↗ tickets

55:32 ↗ has been a revenue stream

55:35 ↗ oh I'm hoping that we'll see what this

55:39 ↗ is not looking through that matter no no

55:41 ↗ no no in fact no we're not

55:45 ↗ um we're not uh what we're I I don't

55:49 ↗ know that uh tickets would provide for a

55:51 ↗ huge amount of Revenue that we're really

55:53 ↗ looking for that's going to build us 32

55:55 ↗ million dollar fire station

55:57 ↗ um but no um it's a good question yes we

56:01 ↗ are starting these conversations now

56:02 ↗ about what Revenue sources we have and

56:05 ↗ the reality is in Washington state we're

56:06 ↗ very limited with what Revenue sources

56:09 ↗ uh we have as a city and so generally

56:13 ↗ the two most common Revenue sources are

56:16 ↗ sales tax and property tax and you know

56:20 ↗ each have Equity implications frankly

56:23 ↗ right absolutely

56:25 ↗ um we are limited so we are looking at

56:27 ↗ different versions of that that's why I

56:28 ↗ mentioned the 0.1 percent sales tax

56:30 ↗ already we think that that's a good tool

56:33 ↗ for uh transportation funding because

56:36 ↗ there's a lot of people who come to

56:37 ↗ Issaquah and go to the Costco and access

56:42 ↗ goods and services

56:44 ↗ um they're all using our our

56:45 ↗ transportation infrastructure whether

56:47 ↗ they walk bike drive a car ride the bus

56:50 ↗ they're all using our transportation

56:52 ↗ infrastructure to get to issaquad access

56:54 ↗ goods and services in Issaquah

56:56 ↗ um so when they buy something that I

56:59 ↗ would apply towards sales tax they're

57:01 ↗ all also using that transportation

57:03 ↗ system so you come up with a system

57:04 ↗ where users are helping to pay for the

57:06 ↗ infrastructure instead of putting that

57:09 ↗ entire Transportation infrastructure

57:11 ↗ burden on our residents

57:13 ↗ um uh and those who would pay property

57:16 ↗ taxes so that's one of the reasons why

57:18 ↗ we're proposing uh Transportation sales

57:20 ↗ tax

57:21 ↗ but property taxes too uh there are some

57:24 ↗ property tax forgiveness for low-income

57:27 ↗ households and so there's uh there's

57:31 ↗ other

57:31 ↗ uh considerations for that

57:34 ↗ um so we're looking at all of that but

57:37 ↗ generally those are the two types of

57:39 ↗ Revenue sources that we look at to pay

57:41 ↗ for this type of infrastructure

57:43 ↗ and the sales tax uh just catch up and

57:46 ↗ playing a little bit we estimate at

57:48 ↗ least three percent of the sales tax

57:50 ↗ comes from non-city of the support

57:52 ↗ residents and compared to other cities

57:53 ↗ we're more of a hug for retail so we

57:56 ↗ have a lot of retail that if you look at

57:57 ↗ Cinemas you can look at Stockholm if you

57:59 ↗ look at some of our neighbors Newcastle

58:01 ↗ they don't have the amount of retail so

58:03 ↗ a lot of those people come here to shop

58:04 ↗ and like

58:06 ↗ Andrea said they they use our roads or

58:08 ↗ you look at our daytime population you

58:09 ↗ look at the people that are working here

58:10 ↗ from REI now from Costco Microsoft

58:14 ↗ they're using our roads too they're

58:15 ↗ shopping here as well and so

58:18 ↗ it the sales tax

58:21 ↗ um

58:22 ↗ can be Equitable the one thing is with

58:24 ↗ sales tax yes it is regressive however

58:28 ↗ there's most of the items you buy every

58:30 ↗ day if you go to the store and you buy a

58:32 ↗ basic that's groceries they're not

58:34 ↗ taxable so a lot of the items that you

58:36 ↗ are buying on a daily basis are not

58:37 ↗ taxable gas is also about subject to

58:40 ↗ sales tax that's a fixed excise tax so

58:42 ↗ that would not go up with with anything

58:45 ↗ that we the specific Council decides to

58:47 ↗ add a transportation benefit District

58:49 ↗ tax

58:53 ↗ earlier but I'm not sure if she still

58:55 ↗ does yeah actually you all answered the

58:58 ↗ question about the sale because my

59:01 ↗ question was going to be about sales tax

59:03 ↗ and um essentially I also wanted to ask

59:06 ↗ how you would develop buy-in from the

59:09 ↗ community because

59:11 ↗ um I find that community members often

59:15 ↗ don't see the value in those kinds of

59:17 ↗ things and feel that it's unfair to tax

59:22 ↗ them for uh things like that despite the

59:27 ↗ fact that they may benefit from it

59:30 ↗ that is a great question and a challenge

59:34 ↗ of us as Municipal professionals so

59:38 ↗ um the first thing we want to do is have

59:40 ↗ a conversation well if you have strong

59:43 ↗ feelings we'd love to hear those

59:45 ↗ um but then we also need to have that

59:46 ↗ conversation with our city council to

59:48 ↗ see is this even worth exploring further

59:52 ↗ um we're proposing it in the CIP this is

59:54 ↗ a starting point for that conversation

59:56 ↗ and so if city council says yeah explore

59:58 ↗ that further then we need to have a lot

1:00:00 ↗ more conversations a lot more Community

1:00:02 ↗ conversations about okay well what does

1:00:04 ↗ this really look like

1:00:06 ↗ um so some of the taxation methods the

1:00:10 ↗ revenue generating methods that we have

1:00:12 ↗ require uh voter approval

1:00:16 ↗ and so nothing's going to get past if

1:00:18 ↗ the community isn't behind it right so

1:00:21 ↗ we would need to have you know for some

1:00:23 ↗ of these Revenue options we would need

1:00:25 ↗ to have a lot of community meetings we

1:00:27 ↗ would need to have a lot of we'd do

1:00:29 ↗ surveys all kinds of Outreach to see how

1:00:32 ↗ does the community feel about this what

1:00:34 ↗ is the level of Taxation that people are

1:00:36 ↗ willing to pay for what amenities do

1:00:40 ↗ they want to see what particular project

1:00:42 ↗ so

1:00:43 ↗ um no decisions have really been made at

1:00:45 ↗ this point this is just the start of the

1:00:47 ↗ conversation or these things and we

1:00:50 ↗ talked specifically about Transportation

1:00:54 ↗ um again back to Andrea's point

1:00:56 ↗ we're very limited on revenues weekends

1:00:58 ↗ so the city and our staff really

1:01:00 ↗ aggressively tries to go for as many

1:01:03 ↗ grants as we can get the federal

1:01:04 ↗ infrastructure act that came out we're

1:01:06 ↗ trying to work with our local lawmakers

1:01:07 ↗ so that has the mayor's doing a lot of

1:01:09 ↗ work with the National Conference on

1:01:11 ↗ Mayors the national league cities to try

1:01:13 ↗ to tap into some of those funds for our

1:01:15 ↗ projects and also tagging the fact that

1:01:18 ↗ we have a lot of Mobility projects we

1:01:20 ↗ have a lot of green projects Trails

1:01:23 ↗ connections at pedestrian access on our

1:01:25 ↗ busy streets here trying to get some

1:01:28 ↗ outside funding but absent that the

1:01:30 ↗ funding for the state has ruined over

1:01:31 ↗ time and if you look at the the gas tax

1:01:34 ↗ we get a we get a fixed percentage of

1:01:37 ↗ the gas tax excise tax back that you pay

1:01:39 ↗ at the on from the state every year it's

1:01:41 ↗ been decreasing for the past few years

1:01:43 ↗ we've been with the gas prices even when

1:01:45 ↗ they go up it's been steadily decreasing

1:01:47 ↗ because fuel efficiency is going higher

1:01:50 ↗ the state did pass a charge or vehicle

1:01:54 ↗ charge for hybrids and electrics yeah

1:01:57 ↗ and every year if you have one of those

1:01:58 ↗ vehicles that applies you do have to pay

1:02:00 ↗ an extra charge to the state however the

1:02:03 ↗ city gets receives none of that money

1:02:04 ↗ back yeah yeah the state has taken all

1:02:07 ↗ of it so that has also decreased our our

1:02:10 ↗ excise taxes over time

1:02:15 ↗ and Christina also has a question

1:02:19 ↗ do you have time for oh

1:02:25 ↗ um let's go into Christina first and

1:02:27 ↗ we'll go back to you

1:02:29 ↗ okay

1:02:31 ↗ okay buenos themes you never came

1:02:35 ↗ um

1:02:38 ↗ you mentioned that we don't have the

1:02:40 ↗ funds like you know you've been saying

1:02:41 ↗ about you've been talking about

1:02:44 ↗ is

1:02:48 ↗ [Music]

1:02:54 ↗ and I was wondering what type of

1:02:57 ↗ inclusion is uh from the community

1:03:00 ↗ is

1:03:10 ↗ and so I'm thinking uh in my experience

1:03:13 ↗ with the school I didn't even know what

1:03:16 ↗ a PTA was or what it stood for

1:03:20 ↗ cuando estamos

1:03:28 ↗ and when we're thinking about money you

1:03:30 ↗ know that's what really

1:03:33 ↗ um makes the our world go all right

1:03:53 ↗ and so why don't we use the uh means

1:03:59 ↗ that we have internally with uh the

1:04:04 ↗ sustainability uh issues or points that

1:04:08 ↗ we already have

1:04:11 ↗ um

1:04:24 ↗ perhaps if we look through that

1:04:29 ↗ way of thinking maybe we could reduce

1:04:33 ↗ cost from the city and that maybe that's

1:04:36 ↗ the way we should go about doing this

1:04:39 ↗ valorado

1:04:45 ↗ is

1:04:55 ↗ I know that in this country uh volunteer

1:04:58 ↗ services uh viewed in a very positive

1:05:01 ↗ light and I know of different

1:05:03 ↗ organizations that have used volunteer

1:05:04 ↗ volunteer workers in a very positive way

1:05:08 ↗ and then you all are doing that too I

1:05:09 ↗ think

1:05:10 ↗ is

1:05:32 ↗ and I hope that you take the point the

1:05:35 ↗ meaning that I'm trying to say here

1:05:38 ↗ because I

1:05:40 ↗ I think it helps people I think it helps

1:05:43 ↗ it's been helping people to feel better

1:05:45 ↗ about themselves and feel more involved

1:05:47 ↗ with the community

1:05:49 ↗ foreign

1:06:17 ↗ to integrate them because sometimes less

1:06:20 ↗ is more that's my point is

1:06:32 ↗ I've seen people here in our community

1:06:34 ↗ that own like beautiful huge houses you

1:06:38 ↗ know you could call them mansions and

1:06:40 ↗ they're still not uh half happy or

1:06:42 ↗ comfortable within the community

1:06:45 ↗ yes

1:06:51 ↗ where

1:06:52 ↗ yes

1:06:56 ↗ that's what I'm talking about you know

1:06:58 ↗ have that interchange with idea uh be

1:07:02 ↗ able to communicate within uh ourselves

1:07:04 ↗ with each other and that way we can

1:07:08 ↗ achieve the changes that we're seeking

1:07:11 ↗ thank you

1:07:19 ↗ thank you Christina okay Shay um let's

1:07:21 ↗ go ahead and go to you for your question

1:07:25 ↗ um yes I wanted to ask if you could

1:07:27 ↗ share any other ways you all used to

1:07:30 ↗ gain funding aside from taxation

1:07:36 ↗ so we can we can talk about that I do

1:07:39 ↗ want to make sure that we move on

1:07:40 ↗ because we have a lot of other things to

1:07:42 ↗ talk about it tonight

1:07:44 ↗ um so there's there are uh many ways

1:07:48 ↗ that we raise revenues the main ones are

1:07:51 ↗ really

1:07:52 ↗ um are really property tax and and sales

1:07:55 ↗ tax those are our main revenues there's

1:07:57 ↗ many others we can go into uh we don't

1:07:59 ↗ have time for it all we do also have

1:08:02 ↗ um to help fund some of these things

1:08:04 ↗ what we're talking about with City

1:08:06 ↗ Council next week is to sell SimCity

1:08:08 ↗ properties that doesn't require taxation

1:08:11 ↗ um we don't have a ton of city property

1:08:13 ↗ to sell but we can do that we have some

1:08:17 ↗ um we have impact fees so when there is

1:08:20 ↗ a development in town

1:08:23 ↗ um like with the new Costco headquarters

1:08:25 ↗ Costco helped pay for a number of the

1:08:28 ↗ roads and Road improvements around their

1:08:30 ↗ headquarters Costco pays any new big

1:08:34 ↗ development that happens they help pay

1:08:35 ↗ for their impacts to the infrastructure

1:08:37 ↗ so they'll pay a fee for impacts to

1:08:40 ↗ Transportation sewer water

1:08:42 ↗ infrastructure

1:08:44 ↗ even the use of government facilities to

1:08:46 ↗ help support their facilities and so

1:08:50 ↗ um so there's different fees that we

1:08:51 ↗ charge for development

1:08:54 ↗ um you know to use the pool you have to

1:08:55 ↗ pay a fee

1:08:57 ↗ um so we we charge a lot of different

1:08:59 ↗ fees across the city many of those fees

1:09:03 ↗ go towards operations of of those

1:09:06 ↗ facilities and programs that we offer

1:09:09 ↗ when we talk about Capital expenses

1:09:12 ↗ these are a big one-time dollars for

1:09:14 ↗ certain projects and so

1:09:17 ↗ um so there's many ways that we can

1:09:18 ↗ raise revenues

1:09:20 ↗ um but uh we can when we get further

1:09:23 ↗ along like I said in the beginning of

1:09:25 ↗ this presentation at this graphic we're

1:09:29 ↗ really just at that six-year CIP

1:09:31 ↗ planning process so

1:09:34 ↗ things are subject to change even within

1:09:37 ↗ the six-year Plan and there's a lot more

1:09:39 ↗ conversations we need to have about

1:09:41 ↗ Revenue so I anticipate coming back here

1:09:43 ↗ before we go out to a vote

1:09:46 ↗ um you know on any type of package or

1:09:48 ↗ anything and making sure that you all

1:09:49 ↗ are involved and have the ability to

1:09:51 ↗ provide feedback

1:09:52 ↗ um but if it's all right I'd like to

1:09:55 ↗ move on I do see that there is another

1:09:56 ↗ hand

1:09:58 ↗ okay but we can check Christina is your

1:10:02 ↗ hand up as a new question or comment or

1:10:04 ↗ is it left from

1:10:06 ↗ the previous comment

1:10:08 ↗ it is previous thank you Monica

1:10:11 ↗ thank you

1:10:14 ↗ Shay I just want to check in did I

1:10:16 ↗ answer your questions enough for now yes

1:10:19 ↗ yes you did thank you

1:10:21 ↗ okay great

1:10:22 ↗ great so let's move on to the equity

1:10:25 ↗ criteria itself and have a conversation

1:10:27 ↗ about that because I really I think that

1:10:30 ↗ you have a lot of expertise and

1:10:33 ↗ perspective to bring to this and frankly

1:10:35 ↗ nobody is going to look at this the way

1:10:36 ↗ that you were going to look at it so I

1:10:38 ↗ really want to take advantage of your

1:10:40 ↗ time tonight here so

1:10:42 ↗ um as I said earlier we had those

1:10:45 ↗ red yellow green thresholds for what

1:10:48 ↗ um for how to apply the equity criteria

1:10:52 ↗ and green we've defined as the project

1:10:57 ↗ improves Equitable access to services

1:10:59 ↗ and amenities for historical

1:11:01 ↗ underrepresentative or underserved

1:11:03 ↗ residents so we take a look at that

1:11:05 ↗ Equity framework that you have developed

1:11:07 ↗ and we think about who benefits who is

1:11:10 ↗ harmed and if who and so we need to look

1:11:13 ↗ at does this improve Equitable access

1:11:18 ↗ um to those Services amenities for those

1:11:19 ↗ who have been harmed in the past

1:11:23 ↗ um that's really what the green is about

1:11:24 ↗ so it has to improve

1:11:26 ↗ and

1:11:28 ↗ um so when we looked at that and applied

1:11:30 ↗ that green criteria there is

1:11:33 ↗ um an attachment in your packet that

1:11:35 ↗ goes through all the scoring

1:11:37 ↗ um for the project so you can see how

1:11:39 ↗ different projects scored against the

1:11:41 ↗ equity criteria and what was green and

1:11:44 ↗ what was red and mug was yellow

1:11:45 ↗ and so as we look at the themes from

1:11:48 ↗ that process of the projects that made

1:11:51 ↗ it into the six-year plan

1:11:53 ↗ many of the transportation projects

1:11:56 ↗ scored really high in equity and the

1:11:58 ↗ reason for that is because we looked at

1:12:00 ↗ where are there long-standing

1:12:01 ↗ deficiencies in in certain neighborhoods

1:12:04 ↗ different parts of town where are these

1:12:06 ↗ long-standing deficiencies and how can

1:12:08 ↗ we then improve them so that's why some

1:12:10 ↗ of the transportation projects scored

1:12:12 ↗ high in equity

1:12:15 ↗ um and then also a trend skipping to the

1:12:19 ↗ last bullet here also a trend is that we

1:12:21 ↗ noticed uh that those projects that

1:12:24 ↗ scored high in equity also scored high

1:12:27 ↗ in community priority and livability and

1:12:30 ↗ quality of life and our ability to

1:12:33 ↗ deliver those projects and I think that

1:12:35 ↗ that's really good because that means

1:12:37 ↗ that not only are we trying to correct

1:12:39 ↗ deficiencies in our infrastructure

1:12:41 ↗ um but and not looking at just gaffes

1:12:44 ↗ but also knowing that it's a community

1:12:46 ↗ priority it's been adopted in other

1:12:48 ↗ plans we talked about those Master plans

1:12:50 ↗ at the top of that inverted pyramid and

1:12:54 ↗ it's been adopted in those Master plans

1:12:56 ↗ it's been something we've heard from the

1:12:57 ↗ community is important and they also

1:13:00 ↗ score high in equity and so I just

1:13:03 ↗ thought that was pretty cool it is and I

1:13:06 ↗ also thought and that also leads to more

1:13:08 ↗ livability more quality of life I mean

1:13:10 ↗ it just makes sense right but it's nice

1:13:13 ↗ to see that it all that it all scored

1:13:15 ↗ that way and and worked together that

1:13:17 ↗ way I feel like that means that we're on

1:13:19 ↗ to something good uh and then even

1:13:22 ↗ better that I was highly encouraged by

1:13:25 ↗ was that these aren't just projects that

1:13:28 ↗ are necessarily we think we should do

1:13:30 ↗ because they're the right thing we think

1:13:31 ↗ we should do because it's a community

1:13:33 ↗ part in quality funds we also have a

1:13:34 ↗ high ability to deliver on these

1:13:36 ↗ projects that means we have grant

1:13:39 ↗ funding or other funding for them we

1:13:41 ↗ have internal staff capacity to do it

1:13:44 ↗ um and so that means that we can turn

1:13:46 ↗ them into reality and it's not just

1:13:48 ↗ ideas

1:13:50 ↗ and so I was very encouraged by that

1:13:52 ↗ that all of these things seem to work

1:13:54 ↗ together and relate to each other

1:13:57 ↗ um I and in particular what I would love

1:14:00 ↗ to hear your feedback on tonight is I

1:14:03 ↗ believe we took a conservative approach

1:14:05 ↗ to scoring uh Park projects in

1:14:07 ↗ particular with equity and I'm going to

1:14:09 ↗ talk about that so

1:14:11 ↗ um Park projects again that definition

1:14:14 ↗ of making green a green score means that

1:14:17 ↗ they have to directly

1:14:19 ↗ improve Equitable access for those who

1:14:22 ↗ have been harmed in the past that's

1:14:24 ↗ really what we're looking at so to score

1:14:26 ↗ granny how to do that and

1:14:28 ↗ um for Park projects I think that's a

1:14:31 ↗ really high bar and I'll tell you why we

1:14:33 ↗ look at uh let's say let's use the

1:14:36 ↗ example of the community center the

1:14:38 ↗ community center's right outside and

1:14:40 ↗ let's say the community center needed a

1:14:41 ↗ new room or the pool needed a new roof

1:14:46 ↗ um those aren't facilities that are used

1:14:48 ↗ by everyone

1:14:49 ↗ so it's not particularly target targeted

1:14:52 ↗ at somebody who has been harmed but if

1:14:54 ↗ we look at fast forward into the future

1:14:56 ↗ if we don't maintain the community

1:14:58 ↗ center if we don't maintain the pool and

1:15:01 ↗ we have to shut these facilities down

1:15:03 ↗ who is the most harmed by the lack of

1:15:06 ↗ maintenance who is the most harmed by

1:15:08 ↗ lack of investment uh people who can't

1:15:11 ↗ afford other options people who have

1:15:13 ↗ Country Club passes or a vacation home

1:15:17 ↗ in Hawaii

1:15:18 ↗ whatever they are not the most harmed

1:15:21 ↗ it's the people who can cannot afford

1:15:23 ↗ other options right and so we didn't we

1:15:28 ↗ chose a very conservative approach when

1:15:31 ↗ we scored these so park projects like

1:15:33 ↗ investments in the community center like

1:15:35 ↗ investments in the pool unless they were

1:15:38 ↗ improving Ada access

1:15:40 ↗ for example we scored them as as yellow

1:15:44 ↗ they weren't green up at the top but we

1:15:46 ↗ scored them kind of as yellow we'll talk

1:15:48 ↗ about yellow projects in a minute but I

1:15:50 ↗ wanted to um

1:15:52 ↗ as we go to the discussion part of

1:15:54 ↗ tonight's agenda I would love to get

1:15:56 ↗ your feedback on that are we applying

1:15:58 ↗ these criteria correctly do you think

1:16:00 ↗ that's the correct lens to not score

1:16:02 ↗ those projects as high to have a really

1:16:04 ↗ high threshold when we consider how does

1:16:07 ↗ this project

1:16:08 ↗ um

1:16:09 ↗ how does this project improve at

1:16:11 ↗ portable access for those who maybe have

1:16:13 ↗ been harmed or could be harmed so I'd

1:16:15 ↗ love to hear feedback on that thank you

1:16:18 ↗ I don't know if I'm thinking on it in

1:16:19 ↗ the right way but for me the park at

1:16:22 ↗ improving Community Center is very high

1:16:24 ↗ because we are getting a lot more

1:16:26 ↗ families that have low socioeconomic

1:16:29 ↗ access and because of that they're not

1:16:32 ↗ able to access as many sports in the

1:16:36 ↗ area so I see a lot of Select teams a

1:16:39 ↗ lot of teams that are very expensive

1:16:41 ↗ that a lot of our families can't access

1:16:44 ↗ using our parks and I'm assuming you're

1:16:47 ↗ collecting fees on that to help us but

1:16:49 ↗ what I don't see is access for students

1:16:52 ↗ who don't have money to use those parks

1:16:56 ↗ in the same way because we don't have

1:16:59 ↗ things like Boys and Girls Clubs or YMCA

1:17:02 ↗ or our community center doesn't have

1:17:04 ↗ like Rec teens organized teams and so

1:17:09 ↗ I'm struggling a little bit with the

1:17:10 ↗ project because I don't see

1:17:12 ↗ representation like I get that they you

1:17:15 ↗ know yeah those family you're talking

1:17:17 ↗ about just general important great space

1:17:19 ↗ but you're not talking about concrete

1:17:21 ↗ examples where students K-12 can go and

1:17:25 ↗ access and get support and that is very

1:17:28 ↗ much lacking in my opinion in our city

1:17:31 ↗ we have a lot of access for families who

1:17:34 ↗ can afford paying for services for that

1:17:39 ↗ so I'm looking at it more in that light

1:17:41 ↗ so when you're looking at selling City

1:17:43 ↗ Properties or you're improving

1:17:46 ↗ transportation and Parks I'm hoping that

1:17:49 ↗ all of that is also going to improve

1:17:52 ↗ transportation and park so that kids can

1:17:54 ↗ get to a facility and use that facility

1:17:58 ↗ to play games to to build community to

1:18:00 ↗ have access to sports also the Park area

1:18:04 ↗ like the community center really doesn't

1:18:06 ↗ have any before and after school care

1:18:08 ↗ services or day care which again is

1:18:11 ↗ something I got they

1:18:14 ↗ it doesn't feel like it has changed

1:18:15 ↗ since my kids approve here we're up here

1:18:18 ↗ and now it feels like there's a greater

1:18:20 ↗ than me so I I feel like Parks could

1:18:23 ↗ score higher if it was looked at through

1:18:26 ↗ that list

1:18:29 ↗ like

1:18:30 ↗ having like better transportation for

1:18:34 ↗ kids after school and more after school

1:18:35 ↗ programs dedicated like programming time

1:18:37 ↗ at the new say you're building a park

1:18:39 ↗ you're setting a set of field what might

1:18:42 ↗ be used for an outside third party

1:18:44 ↗ sports team you're setting a site for a

1:18:46 ↗ couple hours at least for and a facility

1:18:48 ↗ for kids to access it and then go home

1:18:51 ↗ to the apartments and talents so

1:18:54 ↗ somewhere up in you know in different

1:18:57 ↗ regions because right now they're very

1:18:59 ↗ much trapped to their facility so great

1:19:01 ↗ to get transportation to bring them down

1:19:03 ↗ to do what what are they going to do

1:19:06 ↗ right and so when you bring them down we

1:19:08 ↗ have to have give them the ability to

1:19:11 ↗ access different spaces what's the point

1:19:14 ↗ you know besides that is moiety for

1:19:17 ↗ their parents to go grocery shopping but

1:19:19 ↗ what can kids do so kids kids 12 per

1:19:22 ↗ week especially I walk around I drive

1:19:25 ↗ around the highlands and it's downtown I

1:19:28 ↗ see a lot of lack of

1:19:31 ↗ things to do for kids 6 through 12 and

1:19:34 ↗ that is a big concern for me and so when

1:19:36 ↗ you talk about Park I want to know what

1:19:38 ↗ exactly that means and I see that it

1:19:41 ↗ doesn't really impact what I want it to

1:19:45 ↗ do for our kids

1:19:47 ↗ okay thank you for coming

1:19:49 ↗ yeah I I totally see your exam with your

1:19:52 ↗ example of the community center like

1:19:54 ↗ that criteria might need some tweaking

1:19:57 ↗ and so I was trying to think of like

1:19:58 ↗ what is the refunding of the criteria

1:20:00 ↗ and I wrote this down because I like it

1:20:02 ↗ confused to my head so thinking about

1:20:04 ↗ what is beef is there a disproportionate

1:20:08 ↗ impact to not funding a project and is

1:20:13 ↗ it disproportionate impact on the groups

1:20:16 ↗ that have been historically

1:20:18 ↗ underrepresented or underserved

1:20:24 ↗ well for example

1:20:28 ↗ thank you thank you Robert do you guys

1:20:30 ↗ have time for a few more questions I

1:20:32 ↗ think we have we have a few more slides

1:20:35 ↗ in fact

1:20:38 ↗ so uh yes but I know I know that there's

1:20:40 ↗ other things you want to get to so I

1:20:42 ↗ don't want to eat up all of your time

1:20:43 ↗ but I I love that conversation

1:20:47 ↗ for you

1:20:53 ↗ okay uh great so

1:20:57 ↗ um yellow the project does not so this

1:21:00 ↗ is how we've defined that threshold that

1:21:02 ↗ yellow threshold project does not

1:21:03 ↗ provide benefits or harm to underserved

1:21:06 ↗ or historically underrepresented

1:21:07 ↗ community members so yellow is kind of

1:21:10 ↗ like neutral right it doesn't

1:21:12 ↗ specifically help doesn't specifically

1:21:14 ↗ harm

1:21:16 ↗ and most projects within that six year

1:21:20 ↗ CIP

1:21:21 ↗ overall scored neutral so most of our

1:21:24 ↗ projects are kind of neutral this yellow

1:21:26 ↗ color but we look at what is in the CIP

1:21:30 ↗ and there's a lot of things that our

1:21:32 ↗ general government purposes right like

1:21:35 ↗ equipment so how how is this bulldozer

1:21:40 ↗ itself as a bulldozer

1:21:43 ↗ yes you know right

1:21:46 ↗ um how how is this uh how's the software

1:21:49 ↗ program that helps us manage our

1:21:51 ↗ finances

1:21:53 ↗ um what's how do we how does that really

1:21:56 ↗ have impacts right yes there's all

1:21:58 ↗ there's 136 projects on our CIP

1:22:01 ↗ um over the next six years not all of

1:22:04 ↗ them have that direct impact they're all

1:22:07 ↗ necessary for us to run as a city and

1:22:10 ↗ serve you but

1:22:12 ↗ so so there's a lot of them that were

1:22:14 ↗ neutral

1:22:16 ↗ um and importantly no project scored red

1:22:19 ↗ so so scoring red means

1:22:22 ↗ harm doing harm so nope no projects were

1:22:27 ↗ included that did any harm from that

1:22:30 ↗ Equity lens that's cool so that seems

1:22:33 ↗ like a basic

1:22:35 ↗ um threshold to establish but I just

1:22:36 ↗ wanted to make sure that was there can

1:22:39 ↗ we give an example of a project that

1:22:40 ↗ scored red was it like maybe a Parks

1:22:43 ↗ project that was located in a very

1:22:44 ↗ affluent Community or something like

1:22:46 ↗ that or what

1:22:48 ↗ what would be right

1:22:50 ↗ uh I don't think we had any of that

1:22:52 ↗ sport read

1:22:54 ↗ okay

1:22:56 ↗ what would a project let's say like in

1:22:58 ↗ the highlands watch what I was happy

1:23:01 ↗ though but it isn't

1:23:02 ↗ um where the highlands got free Wi-Fi at

1:23:05 ↗ Grand Ridge Plaza in my mind I think

1:23:07 ↗ that probably should be red

1:23:10 ↗ City didn't pay for that oh really oh

1:23:13 ↗ okay there we go

1:23:15 ↗ so the highlands has their own larger

1:23:19 ↗ HOA type organization that provides for

1:23:22 ↗ the internet service in the highlands I

1:23:23 ↗ would also mention that there are a

1:23:25 ↗ number of low-income households in the

1:23:27 ↗ island there's a lot of affordable

1:23:29 ↗ housing in the highlands so ten thousand

1:23:31 ↗ household

1:23:33 ↗ there's a lot of affordable housing in

1:23:35 ↗ the highlands in fact that's probably

1:23:36 ↗ our highest concentration in affordable

1:23:38 ↗ housing so so yeah but but the city

1:23:41 ↗ didn't didn't pay for that and the other

1:23:44 ↗ the other thing is if you consider

1:23:45 ↗ investments in uh Central Park in these

1:23:48 ↗ violence yeah uh there are many soccer

1:23:51 ↗ teams or the community center operates

1:23:55 ↗ summer camps right many of them will go

1:23:58 ↗ up and use that field so it's not just

1:24:00 ↗ for uh the

1:24:03 ↗ Mansion uh that live around Central Park

1:24:07 ↗ I I know but it it yeah so um but we you

1:24:11 ↗ know but we do look at things like okay

1:24:14 ↗ the highlands just had a lot of they're

1:24:15 ↗ that's a newer Park Central Park is much

1:24:17 ↗ newer it's like great investment right

1:24:19 ↗ uh than say Tibbetts Valley Park and so

1:24:22 ↗ as we look at geographical disparities

1:24:25 ↗ areas that have had less investment

1:24:28 ↗ um maybe you know we want to focus on

1:24:30 ↗ these other parks that haven't had that

1:24:32 ↗ recent investment level the way that uh

1:24:34 ↗ maybe some of our newer Parks have so

1:24:36 ↗ that's also things that we looked at

1:24:38 ↗ when we were scoring things are

1:24:40 ↗ um where where are those gaps where are

1:24:42 ↗ those disparities and let's make sure

1:24:43 ↗ we're addressing them thank you yes

1:24:47 ↗ um so I'm just gonna scoot up next steps

1:24:51 ↗ um where are we in the process so we

1:24:54 ↗ refined the criteria uh we use this

1:24:56 ↗ criteria to form that CIP

1:24:58 ↗ um we're in that black boldened area on

1:25:00 ↗ this on this slide so boards are

1:25:02 ↗ providing feedback how does our draft

1:25:04 ↗ CIP meet the criteria how have we been

1:25:06 ↗ applying it any feedback for us

1:25:09 ↗ um then we even start next week going to

1:25:11 ↗ city council committees to talk about

1:25:15 ↗ um the different sections of the CIP so

1:25:17 ↗ next week I'm meeting with mobility and

1:25:18 ↗ infrastructure Council committee to talk

1:25:20 ↗ about Transportation sewer and water

1:25:22 ↗ infrastructure

1:25:23 ↗ um

1:25:24 ↗ and then the council committees provide

1:25:27 ↗ their feedback and then we all get

1:25:28 ↗ together at what we affectionately call

1:25:30 ↗ the cow meetings they are Committee of

1:25:34 ↗ the whole that's what that stands for

1:25:35 ↗ it's not uh where we all like little

1:25:39 ↗ cows or anything

1:25:41 ↗ um so a committee of the whole that's

1:25:43 ↗ all of council getting together to

1:25:45 ↗ discuss the entire CIP and that's

1:25:46 ↗ something we'll talk about

1:25:48 ↗ um the whole whole thing together and

1:25:50 ↗ then we look at Council adoption we do

1:25:52 ↗ have state requirement to adopt

1:25:55 ↗ um rcip by July 1st so that's what we're

1:25:58 ↗ aiming for trying to meet that state

1:26:00 ↗ requirement

1:26:01 ↗ and that's the next steps so we've been

1:26:05 ↗ having questions throughout I'm going to

1:26:07 ↗ ask these questions again for you for

1:26:09 ↗ any additional feedback you have to

1:26:11 ↗ offer how have we applied this criteria

1:26:13 ↗ if there were changes that we should

1:26:15 ↗ consider at this point let us know that

1:26:17 ↗ those are

1:26:18 ↗ um pretty I appreciate the language that

1:26:21 ↗ you provided is there a disproportionate

1:26:23 ↗ impact of not funding a project and you

1:26:26 ↗ know who does that impact really affect

1:26:29 ↗ um I'd love to hear other board members

1:26:31 ↗ reactions to that language or any other

1:26:33 ↗ feedback that you have

1:26:38 ↗ I do have a question about the scoring

1:26:42 ↗ um

1:26:42 ↗ how has that been

1:26:45 ↗ defined like who defines I mean you

1:26:48 ↗ engage with the definitions right but

1:26:50 ↗ when you're looking at a project who

1:26:52 ↗ defines

1:26:53 ↗ is there kind of an internal Equity

1:26:56 ↗ commission that's saying okay great

1:26:59 ↗ project

1:27:00 ↗ it's green

1:27:02 ↗ uh so

1:27:04 ↗ we have

1:27:06 ↗ um

1:27:07 ↗ part of that process starts at the very

1:27:09 ↗ top of this pyramid

1:27:13 ↗ and looking at many of these Master

1:27:15 ↗ plans have projects in them that are

1:27:17 ↗ suggested so some of that process

1:27:19 ↗ happens there

1:27:20 ↗ um while we were in this green light

1:27:22 ↗ green box here of drafting the CIP that

1:27:26 ↗ uh was

1:27:28 ↗ first we had the project managers kind

1:27:32 ↗ of self-scored they're the ones that are

1:27:33 ↗ most familiar with the projects so apply

1:27:37 ↗ these different thresholds look at their

1:27:39 ↗ scoring then we had

1:27:41 ↗ um Robert actually as CFO and the one

1:27:43 ↗ who sees all of these projects has more

1:27:46 ↗ of an eagle eye view he's not as vested

1:27:49 ↗ in any one particular project can make

1:27:53 ↗ sure that those criteria

1:27:59 ↗ but um

1:28:00 ↗ look at it and say okay this person

1:28:02 ↗ really is this the right way of scoring

1:28:04 ↗ this project yeah I'm not so sure they

1:28:07 ↗ might have inflated the score let's

1:28:08 ↗ let's talk about it right and so and so

1:28:12 ↗ Robert was able to just take a look at

1:28:14 ↗ all of 136 projects and make sure that

1:28:17 ↗ we're applying these things equally and

1:28:19 ↗ that power replying that makes sense and

1:28:21 ↗ so working internally to do that

1:28:24 ↗ um

1:28:24 ↗ and then uh so that was kind of our

1:28:27 ↗ internal process and now we're at that

1:28:29 ↗ external process of going to four boards

1:28:32 ↗ to see

1:28:34 ↗ did we do a good job did we are the

1:28:37 ↗ things we should change what do you

1:28:38 ↗ think

1:28:39 ↗ okay thank you thank you it's kind of

1:28:42 ↗ scared me when you said the project

1:28:43 ↗ managers just did yeah I'm a project

1:28:45 ↗ manager by trade originally yeah project

1:28:47 ↗ yeah it's great yeah let's go yeah yeah

1:28:49 ↗ I scored in everything yeah exactly no

1:28:52 ↗ there was there was some there was some

1:28:54 ↗ critique applied and just well wait a

1:28:56 ↗ second are we sure and you know there

1:28:58 ↗ there was still the the thought of

1:29:01 ↗ um it's it's a starting place looking at

1:29:05 ↗ these criteria and thinking okay

1:29:08 ↗ um you know how we apply them uh and

1:29:11 ↗ then what what can we do right so

1:29:14 ↗ how do I don't know what they're called

1:29:17 ↗ in the city but how do the program

1:29:18 ↗ managers

1:29:20 ↗ right uh do they get do they have

1:29:23 ↗ influence in this process so for example

1:29:26 ↗ who's the person in charge of the

1:29:28 ↗ programs for parts and Rec right how do

1:29:30 ↗ they influence because that goes to your

1:29:33 ↗ question when they

1:29:36 ↗ you know if if they look at it and they

1:29:38 ↗ say I'm not so sure the roof matters

1:29:40 ↗ because we don't have kids that fellow

1:29:42 ↗ showing up right or we have plans to do

1:29:46 ↗ you know more work in

1:29:49 ↗ in the pool with you know expanding to

1:29:53 ↗ who but we're going to need uh buses to

1:29:55 ↗ get the kids here

1:29:56 ↗ right I'm trying to say so so there's

1:29:59 ↗ like these great ideas up here but the

1:30:02 ↗ people who fill that are they involved

1:30:05 ↗ in this process

1:30:07 ↗ uh we had a couple of levels

1:30:12 ↗ levels first and and these these

1:30:15 ↗ projects aren't just projects we invent

1:30:17 ↗ right out of thin air right they're

1:30:19 ↗ Guided by a larger Community process and

1:30:22 ↗ we created those Master plans yeah and

1:30:24 ↗ so so it's not just like somebody coming

1:30:26 ↗ along because

1:30:28 ↗ um one person called them up on the

1:30:30 ↗ phone one day and said you should make

1:30:31 ↗ this investment right that's not how it

1:30:32 ↗ happens but

1:30:34 ↗ um so we have the project managers take

1:30:36 ↗ these plans and look at okay uh you know

1:30:40 ↗ this uh for whatever reason makes sense

1:30:43 ↗ to do within the next six years so they

1:30:45 ↗ they make the proposal and then uh we

1:30:48 ↗ have a larger team sift through those

1:30:51 ↗ proposals and say okay

1:30:54 ↗ looking at the criteria again and how

1:30:56 ↗ they apply them looking at

1:30:59 ↗ um what's our capacity to do what do we

1:31:01 ↗ have grant funding to do what do we

1:31:03 ↗ think we can get grant funding to do

1:31:06 ↗ um and and then uh the feedback from the

1:31:09 ↗ Capital Finance Community task force uh

1:31:12 ↗ Etc so all those things are kind of

1:31:13 ↗ combined with this other internal team

1:31:15 ↗ to form what's in that six year plan

1:31:19 ↗ did that answer your question

1:31:22 ↗ so there's a lot of people internally

1:31:23 ↗ that are involved and then the oversight

1:31:26 ↗ happens that's it there's a lot of

1:31:28 ↗ people internally that are involved and

1:31:30 ↗ then the oversight happens when we meet

1:31:31 ↗ with you so we've met with the park

1:31:33 ↗ board we've met with the transportation

1:31:35 ↗ Advisory Board

1:31:36 ↗ um we're meeting with you next week we

1:31:38 ↗ meet with the environmental board and

1:31:40 ↗ then City Council so there's a large

1:31:43 ↗ public process a lot of ability for

1:31:46 ↗ public oversight over the projects that

1:31:48 ↗ are selected right

1:31:51 ↗ I did have one

1:31:53 ↗ quick um

1:31:54 ↗ the where we talk about areas within

1:31:57 ↗ Issaquah there was a focus on the

1:31:59 ↗ highlands I would never have guessed

1:32:00 ↗ that there's there's

1:32:02 ↗ um Financial issues up there you know

1:32:05 ↗ things like that so is there data that's

1:32:08 ↗ that's able to segregate different areas

1:32:10 ↗ within our city that we can

1:32:13 ↗ like Talus as another example

1:32:16 ↗ there is an affordable housing there's a

1:32:19 ↗ number of units of affordable housing in

1:32:21 ↗ Dallas as well so that might help um

1:32:23 ↗ from a strategy perspective like the

1:32:25 ↗ State Transportation

1:32:27 ↗ um if there's not efficient

1:32:28 ↗ transportation in these areas that have

1:32:29 ↗ low income housing letting the United

1:32:31 ↗ line so we can apply it absolutely is it

1:32:34 ↗ absolutely is so um we have an idea of

1:32:36 ↗ where these affordable housing projects

1:32:38 ↗ are that we know are tax subsidized that

1:32:41 ↗ were part of like a development

1:32:43 ↗ agreement between the developer and the

1:32:45 ↗ city

1:32:46 ↗ um and then we have census data that we

1:32:48 ↗ can look at by census lock or census

1:32:51 ↗ trap to show us incomes because you know

1:32:54 ↗ could be maybe you live in a fancy house

1:32:57 ↗ but maybe you inherited it from somebody

1:32:58 ↗ and you don't actually make a lot of

1:33:00 ↗ money right so we have you never know

1:33:03 ↗ um so we have census data to also help

1:33:05 ↗ guide our decision making and that's we

1:33:07 ↗ use them for our programs um and where

1:33:10 ↗ we uh think about Transportation or

1:33:12 ↗ other other type of services and

1:33:14 ↗ District City define specific regions I

1:33:16 ↗ just mentioned two of them but how is

1:33:18 ↗ how does the city separate regions is it

1:33:21 ↗ we have neighborhoods neighbors so we

1:33:23 ↗ have defined neighborhoods in the city

1:33:25 ↗ and then on our website there's a

1:33:27 ↗ neighborhood map showing how our

1:33:29 ↗ neighborhoods have been defined but even

1:33:30 ↗ within a neighborhood there can be great

1:33:32 ↗ diversity like in the highlands is a

1:33:34 ↗ great example and so

1:33:36 ↗ um that's when we rely on census data

1:33:38 ↗ and known uh uh public housing projects

1:33:43 ↗ but also I mean there's me even like in

1:33:46 ↗ the areas the least expected it could be

1:33:48 ↗ in a senior own fixed their club we have

1:33:52 ↗ a lot more multi-generational households

1:33:54 ↗ yeah and especially with the cost of

1:33:56 ↗ living rights we've receive more and

1:33:58 ↗ more of that and that's where students

1:33:59 ↗ to State it really helps

1:34:05 ↗ it's for you or Monica or someone else

1:34:08 ↗ but can I get a sense of like what the

1:34:11 ↗ criteria were and 136 projects

1:34:14 ↗ yes

1:34:16 ↗ yes so in your packet tonight there is a

1:34:19 ↗ link to the criteria and the definitions

1:34:22 ↗ um I think that's the last uh item

1:34:25 ↗ that's linked in your packet so you can

1:34:27 ↗ take a look at that then uh there is

1:34:30 ↗ also in your packet a list of all the

1:34:33 ↗ projects and how they were evaluated

1:34:36 ↗ against those criteria there's also a

1:34:38 ↗ list of project summaries so all that

1:34:41 ↗ information is there in your in your

1:34:43 ↗ packet we also because we just posted

1:34:46 ↗ the CIP actually if you go to the

1:34:49 ↗ Issaquah website in the search bar right

1:34:52 ↗ Capital Improvement plan or CIP our

1:34:55 ↗ proposed CIP will will show up in the

1:34:57 ↗ search results as well so if you wanted

1:34:58 ↗ to see it all as that much more polished

1:35:00 ↗ document that's all together we that's

1:35:03 ↗ available as well but the information

1:35:04 ↗ you're seeking is is uh in your packet

1:35:06 ↗ thank you

1:35:08 ↗ thank you I feel like this one is really

1:35:10 ↗ well thought of it's using a lot of the

1:35:13 ↗ data because I I remember when I was

1:35:15 ↗ survey where that's the community and I

1:35:18 ↗ see that reflected in this work and so

1:35:20 ↗ for me Community input the promise chart

1:35:22 ↗ is always important and I say that it

1:35:25 ↗ definitely seemed like it's starting

1:35:27 ↗ then

1:35:29 ↗ invented and so I appreciate all of the

1:35:32 ↗ very

1:35:33 ↗ because part of our conversations has

1:35:36 ↗ always been are they looking at

1:35:38 ↗ different perceptions and different

1:35:40 ↗ viewpoints and I see that in your

1:35:42 ↗ presentation

1:35:44 ↗ thank you thank you

1:35:48 ↗ are there any questions online

1:35:51 ↗ all right so no questions online

1:35:55 ↗ okay so um I would love to talk about

1:35:59 ↗ next steps

1:36:02 ↗ um

1:36:04 ↗ I will take the feedback that you've

1:36:06 ↗ provided in your comments tonight uh and

1:36:09 ↗ provide them to city council uh in by

1:36:12 ↗ upcoming meetings with them so I'd love

1:36:15 ↗ to include that as part of

1:36:17 ↗ um my presentation and written materials

1:36:19 ↗ for them and unless this board feels

1:36:23 ↗ strongly that you want to communicate

1:36:25 ↗ with them directly and you'd prefer to

1:36:26 ↗ write a letter

1:36:28 ↗ um so I I want to help facilitate your

1:36:31 ↗ feedback as best as I can I don't want

1:36:33 ↗ to dictate how you speak to council but

1:36:36 ↗ I'm happy to just if it's okay with you

1:36:39 ↗ if it's easiest for you I will I've

1:36:41 ↗ taken your comments down and I can

1:36:42 ↗ convey them to Counsel on your behalf

1:36:45 ↗ that sounds fun to me everyone in the

1:36:47 ↗ room in agreement okay all right great

1:36:50 ↗ well thank you so much for your your

1:36:53 ↗ attention tonight we went over a lot and

1:36:56 ↗ all of your questions I love questions

1:36:58 ↗ and feedback so really thank you for

1:37:01 ↗ your time and I just appreciate you all

1:37:04 ↗ here and the way that you're helping

1:37:06 ↗ contribute to the city thank you thank

1:37:08 ↗ you today

1:37:15 ↗ so our next item on the agenda today is

1:37:18 ↗ the well actually next time is the Apple

1:37:21 ↗ grading for our next item on the

1:37:22 ↗ experience is the board processes and

1:37:24 ↗ chair slash Vice chairs selection

1:37:27 ↗ percentage Highmark

1:37:30 ↗ thank you so much Tony so board members

1:37:33 ↗ um it looks like um we are okay on time

1:37:36 ↗ so if you feel like you still have

1:37:37 ↗ energy we can go on I wasn't sure and I

1:37:40 ↗ still would like to ask the question uh

1:37:43 ↗ we didn't research on the item I have

1:37:44 ↗ two

1:37:46 ↗ um two items actually so board processes

1:37:49 ↗ it was what I talked earlier in in the

1:37:52 ↗ meaning about the public members uh

1:37:55 ↗ comments that I wanted to discuss with

1:37:57 ↗ you a little bit so that I would

1:37:59 ↗ estimate it probably takes us 5-10

1:38:01 ↗ minutes and then this is May this is

1:38:04 ↗ your first

1:38:06 ↗ um pretty

1:38:08 ↗ um I think so we didn't skip that that

1:38:10 ↗ agenda item is just an informational

1:38:12 ↗ item in your packet you don't have a

1:38:15 ↗ formal presentation for that I'm gonna

1:38:17 ↗ jump a little bit to to what you said

1:38:19 ↗ you skip so comprehensive plan overview

1:38:21 ↗ in your agenda packet you have a memo

1:38:24 ↗ from from our staff uh the manager

1:38:27 ↗ Stephen Padua uh it's just an

1:38:29 ↗ informational item for you uh he didn't

1:38:31 ↗ have any questions he's working they are

1:38:33 ↗ still working on a lot of preparations

1:38:35 ↗ and they are scheduled to come to you as

1:38:37 ↗ a board for actual feedback and input

1:38:39 ↗ and the meeting in August so for now it

1:38:42 ↗ was just like an overview we are

1:38:43 ↗ starting to work on it we don't have any

1:38:45 ↗ questions or anything substantial to you

1:38:48 ↗ uh but they will return in August so

1:38:51 ↗ that's that yes

1:38:53 ↗ um okay so going down to the next agenda

1:38:55 ↗ item so I have about 5-10 minutes to

1:38:57 ↗ talk about a input receipts from our

1:38:59 ↗ community member and also this is the

1:39:01 ↗ month of May so this is uh the first

1:39:04 ↗ time we have terms uh end and expiry in

1:39:06 ↗ April in may we have new terms and also

1:39:09 ↗ that's the time when we select new chair

1:39:11 ↗ and vice chair so if the time permits

1:39:13 ↗ and you're ready for that would love to

1:39:14 ↗ have that conversation probably it's

1:39:16 ↗ gonna take 10-15 minutes

1:39:18 ↗ um if you don't feel as a board that you

1:39:19 ↗ have the time and energy we can always

1:39:21 ↗ postpone it for next month but let's see

1:39:23 ↗ how it goes with that

1:39:26 ↗ okay so fourth process I wanted to talk

1:39:30 ↗ uh in an actual agenda item because I

1:39:32 ↗ wanted to hear ideas and comments from

1:39:34 ↗ you but I I spoke with a resident uh

1:39:38 ↗ Connie Marsh you may remember uh Connie

1:39:40 ↗ was also here a couple of months ago

1:39:42 ↗ presenting and then she occasionally

1:39:44 ↗ provides input via email in my

1:39:46 ↗ conversation with her uh about the

1:39:50 ↗ um a Communications toolkit she said

1:39:54 ↗ that she also had a suggestion for you

1:39:56 ↗ as a board and I thought it was very

1:39:58 ↗ intriguing and I found it actually very

1:39:59 ↗ helpful so I said oh let me talk to

1:40:01 ↗ board because I don't think they're

1:40:02 ↗ going to be very open to that

1:40:04 ↗ um so and she gave the example as what

1:40:08 ↗ happened at that meeting with the

1:40:09 ↗ communication toolkit uh brief summary

1:40:12 ↗ we had Thomas he joined he presented uh

1:40:15 ↗ he had a presentation he had formal

1:40:17 ↗ questions for you feedback and then the

1:40:19 ↗ item ended and Thomas left after Thomas

1:40:22 ↗ left you as a board continued the

1:40:25 ↗ conversation about the item and you told

1:40:27 ↗ me to engage with commas from a public

1:40:30 ↗ perspective and from a Public's meeting

1:40:32 ↗ um uh issue this was the issue that

1:40:34 ↗ Connie brought up and she said it's not

1:40:37 ↗ right it's not fair it's not Equitable

1:40:39 ↗ if you have a comment or feedback to

1:40:42 ↗ someone you should do it while they are

1:40:44 ↗ present in the room and you should

1:40:46 ↗ discuss it at the item when the item

1:40:48 ↗ ends you should move to the next item in

1:40:50 ↗ it's you shouldn't have further

1:40:52 ↗ conversation so I thought I'd bring this

1:40:55 ↗ up to you I know typically you are open

1:40:57 ↗ to ideas and suggestions but I realized

1:40:59 ↗ that it sometimes happens that in in you

1:41:02 ↗ I don't think intentionally but I did

1:41:04 ↗ notice that sometimes it happens in our

1:41:06 ↗ board meetings that we have we have an

1:41:08 ↗ agenda item we talk about it people

1:41:10 ↗ leave and then oh let's talk about it

1:41:12 ↗ again and and we probably should be more

1:41:15 ↗ careful as a board not to do that so

1:41:18 ↗ do you have any thoughts concerns or

1:41:20 ↗ comments about that anything that

1:41:22 ↗ I think I lean into doing it because I

1:41:25 ↗ feel like before I voice my opinion I

1:41:27 ↗ want to hear what the other members of

1:41:30 ↗ the board are doing and so the question

1:41:31 ↗ I guess for me to learn is it's doesn't

1:41:35 ↗ mean that everyone in the Board needs to

1:41:37 ↗ be in agreement that is just my thoughts

1:41:40 ↗ I lean too because I think this meeting

1:41:42 ↗ today and I think also with Stephanie I

1:41:45 ↗ think we discussed more clearly with

1:41:48 ↗ them right and one of my thoughts when

1:41:50 ↗ we didn't have any conversation about

1:41:52 ↗ what they presented after they left but

1:41:55 ↗ I think

1:41:56 ↗ in our younger days as a board I think

1:41:59 ↗ we were still learning and at least for

1:42:01 ↗ me I didn't feel like I could post

1:42:04 ↗ questions and concerns but I completely

1:42:06 ↗ hear um I feel like we we are doing that

1:42:10 ↗ and we did that last meeting and this is

1:42:12 ↗ yeah and thank you and that's a very

1:42:14 ↗ valid question and you're absolutely

1:42:15 ↗ right this and sometimes it is a

1:42:17 ↗ struggle because sometimes I hear

1:42:19 ↗ and you're absolutely right if you make

1:42:21 ↗ a recommendation as uh you should be in

1:42:24 ↗ agreement as a board right so then if

1:42:26 ↗ let's say

1:42:28 ↗ um pretty made the suggestion earlier to

1:42:30 ↗ Andrea right about reframing you know in

1:42:32 ↗ an Ideal World it February you as board

1:42:35 ↗ you should have a conversation and say

1:42:37 ↗ are you all in agreement with this

1:42:39 ↗ proposal right or if let's say one of

1:42:41 ↗ you asks hey Monica can you add this to

1:42:44 ↗ the agenda item I will be looking at all

1:42:46 ↗ of you to say are you all in agreement

1:42:47 ↗ right so you as an individual member can

1:42:50 ↗ make suggestions but you always would

1:42:52 ↗ want to kind of like have formally a

1:42:54 ↗ kind of like agreement from most of you

1:42:56 ↗ uh but yes do and I'm so glad you're

1:42:59 ↗ absolutely right I think as you grow and

1:43:01 ↗ continue to grow as a board you do feel

1:43:02 ↗ more comfortable with whoever is in the

1:43:04 ↗ room to look at your fellow members and

1:43:06 ↗ say okay uh how are we doing and having

1:43:09 ↗ that conversation with with the guest in

1:43:11 ↗ the room right so yeah

1:43:15 ↗ I also want to reiterate that it's

1:43:18 ↗ important sometimes for us to voice

1:43:20 ↗ different opinions so that the community

1:43:23 ↗ hears maybe a lesser heard voice

1:43:28 ↗ you know being spoken and then discussed

1:43:31 ↗ right so

1:43:34 ↗ I think it's important as long as it yes

1:43:37 ↗ it's important and that's why for what I

1:43:39 ↗ said it's not that you always need to be

1:43:40 ↗ in agreement for any type of feedback

1:43:42 ↗ you're absolutely right on that right so

1:43:44 ↗ I I hear that I think it's just when you

1:43:47 ↗ make a recommendation as a board

1:43:50 ↗ I think at least that's a discussion you

1:43:52 ↗ would want to make sure that even if

1:43:54 ↗ let's say you continue to disagree that

1:43:57 ↗ I'm not sure

1:43:59 ↗ but at least others heard you I guess I

1:44:02 ↗ don't know you know sometimes for me I

1:44:03 ↗ feel like to guess like just leave kind

1:44:06 ↗ of abruptly at least for me and so

1:44:09 ↗ sometimes I need a little more time like

1:44:12 ↗ right now like a prime example was when

1:44:16 ↗ we were talking about

1:44:18 ↗ um the virtual non-virtual policy that

1:44:22 ↗ we came up with right like I I didn't

1:44:25 ↗ want to interrupt mayor Paulie but she

1:44:28 ↗ was also facing in that direction and so

1:44:30 ↗ she kind of just left and so but I felt

1:44:33 ↗ like what I needed to say still needed

1:44:35 ↗ to be said right like I I wouldn't have

1:44:37 ↗ been okay with myself had I not stated

1:44:40 ↗ what I stated right and so it happened

1:44:43 ↗ after she left but I also didn't you

1:44:45 ↗ know

1:44:46 ↗ I honestly don't know how I could have

1:44:48 ↗ done it differently

1:44:50 ↗ so yeah I'll have to look back to when a

1:44:53 ↗ police chief polish Vaughn was here I

1:44:56 ↗ honestly don't think I could have had a

1:44:57 ↗ conversation with her no

1:44:59 ↗ so I think there are going to be times

1:45:02 ↗ for us to discuss a little bit more and

1:45:05 ↗ they can come back because just to get

1:45:08 ↗ hard thinking on that like because we're

1:45:11 ↗ processing but I feel like we were also

1:45:13 ↗ processing

1:45:15 ↗ with each other and just thinking of our

1:45:18 ↗ thinking and it is a recorded thing so

1:45:21 ↗ we could have them back and like

1:45:23 ↗ continue having the discussion because

1:45:25 ↗ or they could just sit there for the 20

1:45:28 ↗ minutes and have the conversation like

1:45:30 ↗ as we did the conversation yeah but

1:45:32 ↗ would you be open as a board to just

1:45:36 ↗ even voice those concerns in the moment

1:45:38 ↗ to say either like to either ask them

1:45:41 ↗ hey we need a little bit time to process

1:45:43 ↗ you're welcome to stay or can we just

1:45:45 ↗ come back next month to you or can we

1:45:47 ↗ follow up uh or yeah so just like you

1:45:50 ↗ know just just address address the time

1:45:53 ↗ that you need more time

1:45:55 ↗ um right because all of those valid

1:45:58 ↗ points

1:45:59 ↗ kind of the communication presentation I

1:46:01 ↗ remember two things happened at once we

1:46:02 ↗ got the email about communication and it

1:46:04 ↗ presented all and say to everyone wait

1:46:07 ↗ now we're seeing an exact example of

1:46:09 ↗ what you're talking about and so then I

1:46:12 ↗ think we are hopefully going to be able

1:46:15 ↗ to talk to the people and I'd be like we

1:46:17 ↗ did at this meeting in the previous

1:46:18 ↗ meetings we're learning and we can do

1:46:20 ↗ better I think that's a good point and

1:46:23 ↗ that I don't feel comfortable if

1:46:24 ↗ someone's okay we just need a little one

1:46:26 ↗ more meeting and then get down

1:46:29 ↗ yeah can you just hang on what we could

1:46:31 ↗ have talked to each other and you and

1:46:33 ↗ that's one question

1:46:34 ↗ and also to also your um

1:46:37 ↗ Lucrezia

1:46:40 ↗ as as the board grows and us different

1:46:43 ↗ departments who bring in items I've been

1:46:46 ↗ trying to work with them to make sure

1:46:47 ↗ that they always have a clear goal and

1:46:50 ↗ purpose for for what they want to ask

1:46:53 ↗ from you so they have clear questions

1:46:55 ↗ ahead of time at the end so it's also

1:46:57 ↗ clear for you as a board and knowing

1:47:00 ↗ like okay what's being asked from you

1:47:02 ↗ but that also like you're right there

1:47:04 ↗ are times when like oh on my drive home

1:47:07 ↗ in the evening at nine o'clock I still

1:47:09 ↗ have an idea so at least there's always

1:47:10 ↗ gonna be that option and possibility to

1:47:13 ↗ have some sort of follow-up right and

1:47:15 ↗ check I see your hand up there

1:47:19 ↗ yes thank you

1:47:20 ↗ um I just wanted to say too I think that

1:47:23 ↗ sometimes our guests get hung up on the

1:47:25 ↗ time

1:47:27 ↗ um and although I know time is important

1:47:29 ↗ to all of us and we all want to leave on

1:47:30 ↗ time

1:47:31 ↗ um I think it's important for them to

1:47:33 ↗ understand that

1:47:35 ↗ um in some instances we can go over

1:47:38 ↗ um there are options to move times

1:47:40 ↗ further back if need be or move

1:47:42 ↗ conversations further back and

1:47:45 ↗ we often have a buffer that they may not

1:47:48 ↗ be aware of

1:47:50 ↗ um so maybe encouraging them to stay a

1:47:54 ↗ little bit longer or give us some

1:47:55 ↗ opportunities to kind of go through uh

1:47:58 ↗ our our thinking processes might

1:48:00 ↗ encourage them to not leave so abruptly

1:48:03 ↗ and not run away from us before we have

1:48:05 ↗ a chance to really kind of dig into what

1:48:07 ↗ they're asking about

1:48:10 ↗ it

1:48:15 ↗ this comes up for me pretty often when

1:48:17 ↗ we uh reflect on Equity related topics

1:48:20 ↗ is that at first there's like this just

1:48:24 ↗ like

1:48:25 ↗ weird feeling like something's not

1:48:27 ↗ Landing right and it just takes time to

1:48:30 ↗ unpack what it is and you don't always

1:48:33 ↗ know if it's gonna

1:48:34 ↗ um if you're going to be able to

1:48:36 ↗ articulate what's giving or what's for

1:48:39 ↗ me it's like what's causing me I mean

1:48:40 ↗ CPL and that could be 20 minutes later

1:48:43 ↗ or it could be you know evidence meeting

1:48:45 ↗ or yeah shower you know who knows right

1:48:48 ↗ so I think there's some of that

1:48:50 ↗ for me but I do appreciate with that and

1:48:53 ↗ yeah I'll be happy for someone it does

1:48:56 ↗ mainland

1:48:58 ↗ not very respectable to be talking about

1:49:01 ↗ it after the box so I think we should

1:49:02 ↗ try that

1:49:04 ↗ figure out how to even if it's later to

1:49:08 ↗ be able to provide that feedback to the

1:49:09 ↗ individuals

1:49:10 ↗ okay so thank you thank you for that

1:49:13 ↗ great conversation I just yeah

1:49:16 ↗ um I I thought that would share this

1:49:18 ↗ video and

1:49:19 ↗ um always appreciating comments from

1:49:21 ↗ from residents and sometimes they come

1:49:24 ↗ up with great ideas that's what you

1:49:25 ↗ didn't think about them

1:49:27 ↗ okay so next uh selection of chair and

1:49:31 ↗ vice chair so

1:49:34 ↗ um Shane has been serving uh as the

1:49:37 ↗ chair of the board uh and Tony has been

1:49:41 ↗ serving as the advisor of the board

1:49:43 ↗ um so much heart and and work and

1:49:45 ↗ commitment put into this

1:49:48 ↗ um moving forward say has maternity lead

1:49:51 ↗ coming out for a few months uh it's just

1:49:55 ↗ expecting uh uh quite soon in a few

1:49:59 ↗ weeks now right how many more weeks five

1:50:02 ↗ weeks left six weeks six weeks a little

1:50:06 ↗ baby boy

1:50:08 ↗ congratulations congratulations thank

1:50:10 ↗ you

1:50:19 ↗ he of course he's gonna stay as a board

1:50:21 ↗ member she's probably going to be

1:50:23 ↗ attending virtually more often uh uh but

1:50:27 ↗ she expressed that she would love to

1:50:30 ↗ um provide an opportunity for others

1:50:32 ↗ just to step in uh as chairs there might

1:50:34 ↗ be others who are interested and have

1:50:38 ↗ the time commitment have a chance to

1:50:40 ↗ talk with Tony

1:50:41 ↗ uh Tony is uh also very busy but very

1:50:45 ↗ open to remain as a vice chair uh don't

1:50:49 ↗ wanna I was gonna say feel free go ahead

1:50:51 ↗ go ahead

1:50:53 ↗ um I mean I guess you know obviously the

1:50:55 ↗ obvious thing would be possibly a vice

1:50:57 ↗ chair moving into chair unfortunately I

1:51:00 ↗ don't have the bandwidth

1:51:02 ↗ um to do that with my current job and my

1:51:05 ↗ family commitments

1:51:07 ↗ um so uh I would like to remain on his

1:51:10 ↗ last year but if someone would like to

1:51:11 ↗ actually step up into my room hey

1:51:14 ↗ okay

1:51:18 ↗ but I will not be moving into a chair

1:51:21 ↗ room

1:51:24 ↗ um so thank you and so with with all of

1:51:26 ↗ that said board members

1:51:28 ↗ um

1:51:31 ↗ so if you're ready and interested like

1:51:33 ↗ the process is

1:51:35 ↗ um we open the floor to nominate or

1:51:39 ↗ um a chair you can nominate yourself uh

1:51:43 ↗ you can nominate someone else

1:51:46 ↗ um and then we might have more than one

1:51:49 ↗ nomination let's say if you have three

1:51:52 ↗ members nominating three people then you

1:51:54 ↗ would have a discussion on that and and

1:51:57 ↗ uh once you feel like you're ready for

1:52:00 ↗ voting you can formally take a vote or

1:52:03 ↗ just have an agreement amongst

1:52:05 ↗ yourselves you don't need to use the

1:52:08 ↗ actual voting system

1:52:10 ↗ and then we would do the same for a vice

1:52:13 ↗ chair position

1:52:15 ↗ um

1:52:16 ↗ so I have two questions

1:52:18 ↗ um can you remind me Monica

1:52:22 ↗ um if when a seat is vacated if the

1:52:27 ↗ alternates are brought into that seat

1:52:30 ↗ that is vacated or do they remain as the

1:52:33 ↗ alternates for the remainder of their

1:52:35 ↗ tenure

1:52:36 ↗ or how does that work and is this for

1:52:38 ↗ General members in general correct yes

1:52:41 ↗ very good question so actually with that

1:52:44 ↗ I'm glad that you brought it up because

1:52:45 ↗ we did have some changes in in seeds uh

1:52:48 ↗ in the previous terms Kelly and pretty

1:52:50 ↗ were alternate members uh as both of

1:52:54 ↗ their terms expired

1:52:56 ↗ um and we had a transition

1:52:59 ↗ um Elisa as a regular member left

1:53:02 ↗ um pretty was moved and into a regular

1:53:04 ↗ position

1:53:06 ↗ um Kelly remained into an alternate role

1:53:09 ↗ and

1:53:10 ↗ Karthik coming in

1:53:13 ↗ um as just brand new then he took

1:53:15 ↗ pretties

1:53:17 ↗ role as an alternate thank you that's

1:53:21 ↗ the new

1:53:22 ↗ configuration or the alternate positions

1:53:25 ↗ and regular members so that's great

1:53:27 ↗ because and great question because it

1:53:29 ↗ impacts typically alternate members

1:53:32 ↗ cannot serve internship or vice chairs

1:53:35 ↗ and then my second question is is there

1:53:38 ↗ anyone in the room or online who would

1:53:42 ↗ not like to serve as a chair or vice

1:53:45 ↗ chair so that we don't nominate someone

1:53:47 ↗ who just doesn't have the time doesn't

1:53:49 ↗ want to do it that sort of thing

1:53:52 ↗ think I would like to take myself

1:54:00 ↗ anyone else

1:54:02 ↗ Christina

1:54:07 ↗ yeah me neither thank you

1:54:17 ↗ that was really funny

1:54:25 ↗ well I would like to try if you want to

1:54:28 ↗ try Spanish but sometimes just just

1:54:32 ↗ joking thank you

1:54:37 ↗ so without any other questions board

1:54:40 ↗ numbers before we open the floor for a

1:54:42 ↗ nomination yes there's are there missing

1:54:44 ↗ remember

1:54:46 ↗ Heaven is missing

1:54:48 ↗ and I think that's it that's it yeah

1:54:51 ↗ wish you an excuse me

1:54:54 ↗ um well it doesn't matter I don't think

1:54:56 ↗ so

1:55:00 ↗ so can we nominate now

1:55:02 ↗ um yes if you don't have other questions

1:55:04 ↗ yes please start nominations yes I'd

1:55:06 ↗ like to nominate Richie for for chair

1:55:10 ↗ thank you we have a nomination for

1:55:12 ↗ praying for a chair anyone else

1:55:14 ↗ before we need to also ask uh pretty if

1:55:17 ↗ she'll uh accept the nomination

1:55:20 ↗ yes okay thank you say

1:55:25 ↗ um I also nominate Preeti for chair

1:55:29 ↗ thank you shay

1:55:31 ↗ we have two nominations for preview

1:55:34 ↗ any other nominations or any other

1:55:36 ↗ discussion if there are no other

1:55:38 ↗ nominations I was actually going to

1:55:40 ↗ Second the knowledge

1:55:43 ↗ not there yet

1:55:46 ↗ open the air it's like I'm pretty okay

1:55:53 ↗ it's already been nominated I've never

1:55:55 ↗ attended on the nominated

1:55:57 ↗ or two yeah

1:56:00 ↗ okay right would you like to accept the

1:56:02 ↗ nomination I respectfully decline do you

1:56:05 ↗ want

1:56:10 ↗ any other nominations before we go to

1:56:13 ↗ Second and discussion I guess or

1:56:15 ↗ actually we should have had a second

1:56:18 ↗ Christina

1:56:20 ↗ I would like to nominate to Kelly

1:56:29 ↗ okay see this respectfully declined

1:56:33 ↗ Christine Hansard

1:56:36 ↗ okay so we have

1:56:39 ↗ any other nominations before this

1:56:41 ↗ or second

1:56:45 ↗ the jet building is the Korean

1:56:49 ↗ okay so I think we do need to have a

1:56:51 ↗ second we probably should have had the

1:56:52 ↗ second before discussion but yeah second

1:56:54 ↗ and then discussion or I need to just

1:56:57 ↗ point out yeah

1:56:59 ↗ [Laughter]

1:57:02 ↗ athletic

1:57:06 ↗ further discussion that's needed or

1:57:09 ↗ anything else before you are you all in

1:57:11 ↗ agreement or I'll just make a comment I

1:57:13 ↗ I really appreciate that these um

1:57:16 ↗ thoughts input research and perseverance

1:57:19 ↗ in many of the discussions and so that

1:57:23 ↗ was one of the committed success

1:57:31 ↗ and I would like to say one thing as

1:57:33 ↗ well so um yeah I was really just kind

1:57:36 ↗ of up in the air for who should I choose

1:57:37 ↗ and I I it's not that everyone's really

1:57:40 ↗ that everyone's not connected in every

1:57:42 ↗ meeting but I'm kind of a watcher and I

1:57:44 ↗ learned I picked it up in my military

1:57:45 ↗ background and I always sleep quickly

1:57:48 ↗ and Rey just so connected to what's

1:57:50 ↗ going on so like intelligent on their

1:57:53 ↗ questions and their comments and whatnot

1:57:55 ↗ so I have the utmost confidence

1:57:58 ↗ that uh I I will take for these

1:58:01 ↗ leadership and um and serve you well as

1:58:05 ↗ your co-chair

1:58:08 ↗ if you accept them

1:58:11 ↗ selves yeah I just wanted to say that

1:58:14 ↗ since I'm So Into You I'm gonna abstain

1:58:16 ↗ from Omni not because I don't think

1:58:20 ↗ people are worthy of being nominated or

1:58:23 ↗ just that I don't know people so and if

1:58:25 ↗ you don't interpret that it's like

1:58:27 ↗ always

1:58:33 ↗ thank you

1:58:37 ↗ okay board members any other comments

1:58:38 ↗ before you move on to voting or just the

1:58:42 ↗ green however you would like to build

1:58:43 ↗ and Define voting

1:58:46 ↗ other comments okay

1:58:48 ↗ so everyone in agreements that pretty

1:58:52 ↗ can serve as the next year for the next

1:58:54 ↗ year bye

1:58:59 ↗ anyone opposed

1:59:03 ↗ Antonio post congratulations

1:59:17 ↗ thank you for staying on the check yes

1:59:20 ↗ you're welcome it's my pleasure

1:59:23 ↗ so the formal process of the vice chair

1:59:25 ↗ would be to open it also for nominations

1:59:27 ↗ is everyone in agreement with we can

1:59:29 ↗ also just just ask for earnings opposed

1:59:33 ↗ to let's just go downstair

1:59:45 ↗ congratulations Tony thank you so much

1:59:47 ↗ for continuing

1:59:48 ↗ okay

1:59:52 ↗ looking forward to working

1:59:56 ↗ oh I appreciate y'all that was nice and

1:59:58 ↗ smooth I can't believe we are you know I

2:00:01 ↗ thought we would be like 8 30 already so

2:00:02 ↗ you're only about 803 uh we have two

2:00:06 ↗ more agenda items not big it's just a

2:00:08 ↗ brief staff report

2:00:10 ↗ um and then other business and

2:00:12 ↗ announcements just basically we can

2:00:13 ↗ update you on juneteen events I guess so

2:00:16 ↗ I think in two minutes or less we can be

2:00:18 ↗ done if that's okay work

2:00:26 ↗ you know what I didn't put it on the

2:00:28 ↗ agenda because the agenda was so full uh

2:00:31 ↗ but if you have if you want to we can do

2:00:34 ↗ it impromptu a little bit to provide it

2:00:36 ↗ with update if not I was thinking just

2:00:37 ↗ have a further along uh but yes please

2:00:40 ↗ write pretty Alyssa and I have been

2:00:42 ↗ working and unless I have been killing a

2:00:44 ↗ lot of work uh although she's no longer

2:00:47 ↗ on the board on on the reporting Hayden

2:00:49 ↗ bias project that you are

2:00:50 ↗ self-identified as a work plan item so

2:00:53 ↗ then hopefully with a little bit more

2:00:54 ↗ time we'll have a lengthier conversation

2:00:57 ↗ hopefully next month and and provide you

2:00:59 ↗ an update on where we are and even just

2:01:01 ↗ some questions for you yeah

2:01:04 ↗ um a quick brief updates from mayor and

2:01:06 ↗ city council this is where typically is

2:01:08 ↗ to come and tell you like what else

2:01:09 ↗ that's Human Services related Equity

2:01:12 ↗ um related on in our department uh we've

2:01:16 ↗ been taking to city council I do have a

2:01:18 ↗ few Human Services updates uh for you

2:01:21 ↗ um uh as I uh I know that I updated you

2:01:25 ↗ last week actually do I have from my

2:01:27 ↗ sick because it's just that week has

2:01:28 ↗ passed

2:01:30 ↗ um

2:01:31 ↗ we just recently I have something to do

2:01:33 ↗ that if we went to city council so we

2:01:35 ↗ are going back to City Council on May 15

2:01:39 ↗ to formal receipt adjustments to the

2:01:40 ↗ Motel 6 project the emergency housing

2:01:43 ↗ project on that last week so actually

2:01:45 ↗ I'm good with updates

2:01:47 ↗ [Laughter]

2:01:57 ↗ I can tell you we are now in the

2:02:00 ↗ interview process for to Seeker Staffing

2:02:03 ↗ for for that project so I'm very very

2:02:05 ↗ excited

2:02:06 ↗ um

2:02:07 ↗ thanks to HR staff we've working really

2:02:10 ↗ fast and having some pixie depth

2:02:14 ↗ um and so we also had a great

2:02:15 ↗ conversation in the past five days with

2:02:17 ↗ some of you uh Tony Shay Lorna

2:02:21 ↗ I feel like there's someone else from

2:02:22 ↗ like a short that she was sharing with

2:02:25 ↗ the meeting sure from the school

2:02:26 ↗ district we have uh it wasn't another

2:02:29 ↗ Equity board member I feel like there

2:02:31 ↗ was someone else we were talking about a

2:02:33 ↗ pride event we were also talking about

2:02:34 ↗ the private events so Rey is has been

2:02:37 ↗ taking a lead on the pride event both

2:02:39 ↗ coming up for June

2:02:42 ↗ um you're right and so you and I still

2:02:43 ↗ need to connect on that

2:02:46 ↗ um but on the June teens we so we have a

2:02:49 ↗ small working group uh working on

2:02:52 ↗ hopefully a Juneteenth event

2:02:55 ↗ um

2:02:57 ↗ schedule tentatively for extra June 19th

2:03:00 ↗ uh I heard back the community center

2:03:03 ↗ might be an option for the event so

2:03:05 ↗ working out through those details uh we

2:03:08 ↗ are meeting now weekly to

2:03:11 ↗ um to really work out the details of the

2:03:15 ↗ event and as a board we will update you

2:03:17 ↗ and we have more substantial

2:03:19 ↗ um so it sounds like it's going to be

2:03:21 ↗ June 19th between four to six or five to

2:03:24 ↗ seven so in the afternoon

2:03:26 ↗ at the community center and we're

2:03:29 ↗ looking at having some performances some

2:03:33 ↗ students either coming to dancing things

2:03:37 ↗ food trucks

2:03:40 ↗ I know we have talked about having

2:03:42 ↗ something like a silent auction but I'm

2:03:45 ↗ not sure if that's even possible because

2:03:46 ↗ we would be I mean that'd be more of a

2:03:49 ↗ question for you Monica because as

2:03:50 ↗ always maybe obviously these staffers

2:03:52 ↗ we've been taking it as a monetary

2:03:53 ↗ amounts for this I'm not sure

2:03:56 ↗ the way she were planning it out for

2:03:58 ↗ last year was that

2:04:01 ↗ was the very information but if the art

2:04:04 ↗ let's say the artist who was gonna

2:04:06 ↗ present their art to to have Silent

2:04:08 ↗ Action or whoever was going to donate

2:04:10 ↗ items they were gonna be there they

2:04:12 ↗ could just facilitate directly this way

2:04:13 ↗ so we don't as a city staff we wouldn't

2:04:16 ↗ take money but so there's a way to work

2:04:18 ↗ around that if you want and so I did

2:04:20 ↗ reach out to the artist that uh um

2:04:23 ↗ provided the Arts last year and so they

2:04:26 ↗ are working around their schedule they

2:04:28 ↗ were invited at another juneteen event

2:04:29 ↗ so they're gonna see what works out but

2:04:31 ↗ yeah that sounds great absolutely and I

2:04:34 ↗ know that uh Ray rightfully so

2:04:37 ↗ um was the lead last year in a pride

2:04:40 ↗ month event we had a great panel virtual

2:04:42 ↗ panel conversation and you had some some

2:04:46 ↗ conversations already with with

2:04:48 ↗ potential other the same yeah yeah I

2:04:52 ↗ I've reached out to a few folks and I

2:04:54 ↗ really wanted to be another robust

2:04:56 ↗ um

2:04:57 ↗ uh online event so um I think I need to

2:05:00 ↗ talk to you a little bit further I have

2:05:01 ↗ some folks from last year who have not

2:05:04 ↗ been able to connect to but I know I

2:05:06 ↗ just found out that there is a um

2:05:08 ↗ Community event next door at the garage

2:05:12 ↗ btq which I plan to go to it's next

2:05:15 ↗ Wednesday May 10th and I would like a

2:05:17 ↗ youth in this panel

2:05:19 ↗ um I really feel like we need that voice

2:05:21 ↗ I think we had one last year but um I'd

2:05:23 ↗ like to work on that a little bit more

2:05:24 ↗ so you know there's a lot of stuff going

2:05:27 ↗ on in the lgbtqi community these days

2:05:30 ↗ that I think work and I would recommend

2:05:32 ↗ because it always feels very full youth

2:05:35 ↗ to be on a panel it can be scary and so

2:05:38 ↗ usually we recommend having at least two

2:05:40 ↗ or three so then they have yeah

2:05:43 ↗ absolutely yeah yeah and a sense of

2:05:45 ↗ community for our students is always

2:05:47 ↗ okay for in fact I had a note to check

2:05:49 ↗ in on with you video connection with the

2:05:51 ↗ school if you had a recommendation I

2:05:53 ↗ think starting with the garage is great

2:05:54 ↗ but uh this for high school and I'm sure

2:05:57 ↗ I know several other high schools you

2:05:59 ↗ can contact the principles and see look

2:06:01 ↗ up the advisor like okay we can find

2:06:03 ↗ that to find out for the advisors yeah

2:06:06 ↗ for those clubs and see if any of them

2:06:10 ↗ want to participate but really

2:06:12 ↗ importantly is to share the fact that

2:06:14 ↗ there's an event

2:06:16 ↗ so we have to pick a date yes so once

2:06:19 ↗ you have that just you know getting that

2:06:22 ↗ information to the schools to those Club

2:06:24 ↗ advisors so that they shared in school

2:06:25 ↗ and at the same time asking the students

2:06:28 ↗ if they're interested

2:06:30 ↗ in fact the one of the panelists Monica

2:06:32 ↗ which do I work with you on that to

2:06:34 ↗ narrow this date down yeah

2:06:36 ↗ okay and even now after the meeting if

2:06:39 ↗ you have five ten minutes I think it can

2:06:40 ↗ go a long way okay let's see that

2:06:43 ↗ started out last year that's really

2:06:45 ↗ powerful and I know the the youth uh

2:06:48 ↗ person there was amazing yes thank you

2:06:54 ↗ okay

2:06:58 ↗ we are yes all right so

2:07:02 ↗ um let's go to our endurance so uh thank

2:07:04 ↗ you everyone for joining online we

2:07:06 ↗ appreciate your attention your comments

2:07:09 ↗ your questions and uh just staying

2:07:12 ↗ connected with us thank you very much

2:07:13 ↗ Jay and Christina thank you very much to

2:07:15 ↗ our interpreters we always appreciate

2:07:17 ↗ everything you do to keep us all

2:07:20 ↗ connected with each other so thank you

2:07:21 ↗ very much so on behalf of everyone in

2:07:24 ↗ the room I consider this meeting adjourn

2:07:26 ↗ our next scheduled meeting is currently

2:07:28 ↗ scheduled for June 7

2:07:29 ↗ 2023. all right we'll see everyone in

2:07:32 ↗ our next meeting have a great night talk

2:07:34 ↗ to you soon

2:07:36 ↗ foreign

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