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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Council / Members (9)

Cristina Abonce

Priti Mody-Pan

Lorna Gilmour

Lucrecia Choto

Ray Manahan

Tony Curry

Shalanda Fleming

Karthik Kashinath

Kelly Munn

Staff (5)

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator

Robert Hamud, Chief Financial Officer

Stephanie Johnson, Human Resources Director

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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