Equity Board · Wednesday, April 2, 2025 · City Council Digest

3. AGENDA ITEMS

Opening Question Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan

15 min · packet pp.3–12

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Staff report:

Issaquah Creek Capital Investment Strategy (CIS) Presentation to the City of Issaquah Equity and Environmental Boards

Floodplain Management: Issaquah Creek Capital Investment Strategy

60 min · Natalie Seitz, King County River and Floodplain Management Alexandra Dolk, King County River and Floodplain Management

Topics: Water

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Closing Thought Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan

10 min

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0:04 ↗ Great. Well, it is 6:04 p.m. and I call

0:07 ↗ this joint meeting of the equity board

0:10 ↗ and environmental board to order. Um, we

0:14 ↗ start with a roll call.

0:18 ↗ Um, so members of the equity board, I'll

0:20 ↗ say your name. If you're here, stay

0:22 ↗ here. Uh, Ray Manahan here. Sha

0:26 ↗ Fleming, Varnica here, Prithy Mod Pan

0:30 ↗ here Arth

0:32 ↗ Kashina, Leslie Millinder, Irwin here,

0:35 ↗ Laura Gilmore,

0:37 ↗ Kelly Mun here, Shaunie Kapoor here,

0:40 ↗ Kunal Shriaba

0:42 ↗ here. Amazing. So, we do have some

0:45 ↗ regular members who are absent this

0:46 ↗ evening. Um, all alternate members

0:49 ↗ except for Kunal, if we were to vote on

0:51 ↗ anything, which we are not going to, uh,

0:53 ↗ would be acting as regular voting

0:54 ↗ members this evening.

0:58 ↗ Great. Um, and for the environmental

1:00 ↗ board, um, I'll just introduce myself

1:02 ↗ real quick because I don't know members.

1:04 ↗ I think I've only been the equity board

1:05 ↗ once or twice. I'm Stacy. I'm the

1:07 ↗ sustainability manager and then also the

1:10 ↗ leaison. So, I'll do a roll call for the

1:13 ↗ environmental board. Um, Kieran Khan

1:15 ↗ here. Jamie Finch has an excused

1:18 ↗ absence. Don Mc Williams here. Mina June

1:22 ↗ has an excused absence.

1:24 ↗ Project she had an excused absence.

1:28 ↗ Tommy

1:30 ↗ here. Alex Lee

1:33 ↗ here. Stacey Bear.

1:37 ↗ Nancy Davidson here. Keith Gonzalez

1:42 ↗ here.

1:44 ↗ and newcomer had excused absence and

1:47 ↗ John Smith has absent again we're not

1:51 ↗ voting on anything but

1:57 ↗ great okay thank you

2:00 ↗ I was going to say just to note for the

2:02 ↗ record is now here

2:05 ↗ sorry to be late no worries great and I

2:08 ↗ hear we have one emailed public comment

2:10 ↗ Dale we have one emailed public comment

2:12 ↗ it is not about our one agenda item

2:14 ↗ tonight, but is enriching for everyone

2:16 ↗ in that's present to hear about. Um

2:19 ↗ there's an upcoming event uh uh one of

2:22 ↗ the series of Literary Nights events um

2:26 ↗ is coming up here on May 5th. It's a

2:30 ↗ joint event between Literary Nights and

2:32 ↗ the King County Library. Um it will take

2:35 ↗ place at the Train Depot, so 78th 1st

2:38 ↗ Avenue Northeast um from 6:30 to 9:30.

2:42 ↗ The title of this uh May event is a mic

2:45 ↗ of our own feminist readings and salon.

2:48 ↗ Um and it is an intimate evening of

2:51 ↗ stories and poetry that are featuring um

2:53 ↗ a number of uh local, regional and

2:57 ↗ national uh poets. So there will be a

3:00 ↗ some spoken word done and then the mic

3:02 ↗ will open up to the community for the

3:04 ↗ second half of the event. refreshments

3:06 ↗ will be served and there will also be a

3:07 ↗ harpist um there to dazzle everyone with

3:11 ↗ some beautiful music. So, uh Cyra

3:13 ↗ reached out and just wanted to invite

3:15 ↗ everyone and I'm sure that extends the

3:17 ↗ environmental board as well. So, if

3:19 ↗ you're able to make it May 5th, that's a

3:21 ↗ Monday night, uh 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. And

3:25 ↗ that concludes the public comment I

3:26 ↗ received ahead of tonight's meeting.

3:29 ↗ Great. Okay. So then moving into the

3:32 ↗ meat of the meeting agenda for today.

3:34 ↗ We're going to start out with the

3:35 ↗ opening question. And the opening

3:38 ↗ question is something that um the equity

3:41 ↗ board has started up I think in the last

3:42 ↗ two or three years. And it serves two

3:45 ↗ purposes. One is um in order to have you

3:48 ↗ know like deep conversations and perhaps

3:53 ↗ uh debate lively healthy open conflict

3:56 ↗ and debate we felt like it's important

3:58 ↗ for folks to know each other and be in

4:00 ↗ relationship with each other. And also

4:03 ↗ for each individual meeting we think

4:05 ↗ it's really important to get everyone's

4:06 ↗ voice into the room in an easy way. So

4:09 ↗ once everyone's voice is in the room

4:11 ↗ it's much easier to contribute and share

4:12 ↗ opinions. So, that's kind of the purpose

4:14 ↗ of our opening question. It's in other

4:17 ↗ words, an icebreaker. And um for today's

4:21 ↗ icebreaker, I was teasing my son who's

4:24 ↗ in the room that I was going to ask,

4:26 ↗ what do you love most about your mother?

4:31 ↗ But dialed it back. And so the question

4:35 ↗ for today is, what is something you've

4:38 ↗ learned from a mentor, parent, guardian,

4:40 ↗ or elder that has stuck with you for

4:43 ↗ life? And I thought we could go around

4:45 ↗ the room. Someone could start and then

4:48 ↗ just call on the next person until we've

4:50 ↗ covered everyone in the room and maybe

4:52 ↗ start with your name, preferred

4:53 ↗ pronouns, if you're comfortable sharing,

4:56 ↗ and which board you're part of, and then

4:58 ↗ popcorn it over to someone

5:00 ↗ else. Could you restate the question one

5:03 ↗ more time? Yes. What is something you've

5:05 ↗ learned from a mentor, parent, guardian,

5:08 ↗ or elder that has stuck with you?

5:11 ↗ And I was just gonna call on Kieran

5:13 ↗ since he's had

5:17 ↗ Yeah. So, uh, something that I learned

5:18 ↗ from my

5:20 ↗ mother. Um, I'm Kieran Pan. He him.

5:23 ↗ Something I learned from my mother is

5:25 ↗ that it's important to consider many

5:27 ↗ perspectives when kind of thinking about

5:28 ↗ anything in life. uh it kind of very

5:30 ↗ differs from my father who uh has

5:32 ↗ learned quite a bit from my mother as

5:34 ↗ well in this regard where it's important

5:35 ↗ to understand everything you know all

5:37 ↗ perspectives before kind of taking

5:39 ↗ action

5:44 ↗ lesson

5:46 ↗ can you skip me I'm still thinking

5:50 ↗ okay um my mentor was my um teacher and

5:55 ↗ then she became my boss later on in

5:58 ↗ early years of work like and um uh

6:02 ↗ coming from the studies of gender and

6:05 ↗ feminism and all, she always um talked

6:08 ↗ about the importance of balance and um

6:12 ↗ and you know um so it that you know

6:16 ↗ managing the extremism or the the

6:20 ↗ passion that comes from being um going

6:23 ↗ forward with one issue but learning to

6:26 ↗ balance it out in in your own u career

6:30 ↗ and family choices. Those were the

6:32 ↗ things that that sort of stuck back with

6:34 ↗ me. It's it's a very delicate situation

6:37 ↗ there. Yeah. I don't know if that makes

6:40 ↗ sense.

6:42 ↗ Um I'm Verica, she her pronouns. Um I

6:45 ↗ guess one thing my mom always tells me

6:47 ↗ is to always work hard when I'm young

6:49 ↗ and while I can and to be grateful for

6:52 ↗ all the opportunities that I'm given.

6:54 ↗ Um, and to also always have empathy for

6:56 ↗ others and, you know, be able to share

6:59 ↗ what I can whenever I can and like

7:01 ↗ donate to food and clothing banks like

7:03 ↗ at least once a year and just appreciate

7:05 ↗ what I have in life.

7:09 ↗ Me next or go around. Okay. Um there are

7:13 ↗ probably a lot of them but one that just

7:15 ↗ came to mind that feels very topical for

7:17 ↗ me in my life at this point um is from a

7:20 ↗ farmer manager who uh used to tell me

7:23 ↗ the best laid plans are meant to be

7:25 ↗ deviated from. So kind of emphasizing

7:28 ↗ both the importance of having a plan and

7:30 ↗ then being willing to be flexible and

7:32 ↗ give up that plan um when the situation

7:37 ↗ calls for it. So, be prepared, but be

7:40 ↗ prepared to do something different if

7:42 ↗ you need to.

7:45 ↗ My name is Alice Dul. I'm the presenter

7:47 ↗ tonight. Um, as she her pronouns, uh, my

7:52 ↗ neighbor who was, uh, passed away last

7:55 ↗ year was 95 when he passed away. And he

7:58 ↗ was, he always said, "Be positive." And

7:59 ↗ he was a very positive person despite

8:01 ↗ having had a very tough life. um and you

8:06 ↗ know a very physical life. He had a lot

8:08 ↗ of aches and pains at 95 and he had a

8:10 ↗ lot of stories about things that had not

8:13 ↗ always gone so well, but he was so

8:15 ↗ positive and always attributed his

8:16 ↗ positivity to or his um longevity to his

8:20 ↗ positivity and it definitely seemed like

8:22 ↗ it. Um so yeah, be be positive

8:26 ↗ when you have lots of reasons not to be.

8:30 ↗ Um Kelly man, I'm on the equity

8:33 ↗ committee. she her pronouns. Um there's

8:37 ↗ several, but one that one one that I

8:39 ↗ just recently said to somebody else was

8:42 ↗ um a friend of my mom's I was she was at

8:44 ↗ her house and I was kind of whining

8:46 ↗ about she was going to large work event

8:48 ↗ where I didn't know very many people and

8:50 ↗ I was really not kind of dreading it

8:54 ↗ because who am I going to talk to? Who

8:56 ↗ am I going to say? You know, we're

8:57 ↗ supposed to be like a cocktail party

8:58 ↗ kind of thing. And she said to me that

9:02 ↗ you look for the person who's standing

9:03 ↗ by themselves and you go up and talk to

9:06 ↗ them because they'll be so happy that

9:08 ↗ you talk and you'll be so happy because

9:11 ↗ now you got someone to talk to you and

9:12 ↗ then somebody else will join you because

9:15 ↗ there's some people talking and that has

9:17 ↗ worked my entire life now because that

9:20 ↗ was a long time ago and I literally gave

9:22 ↗ it to a young adult just recently

9:25 ↗ because they were kind of whining about

9:26 ↗ something they had to go to and they

9:28 ↗ didn't know I'm excited and it has dark

9:31 ↗ and from an equity perspective it's very

9:34 ↗ inclusive right

9:40 ↗ my name is Laura Delmore she her

9:43 ↗ pronouns I'm also on the

9:45 ↗ board while my mom taught me many

9:48 ↗ lessons um she's very determined person

9:51 ↗ I really had to learn a lesson from my

9:53 ↗ dad on how to um let things roll off my

9:58 ↗ back to calm down and not take things as

10:02 ↗ intensely and also to forgive and forget

10:06 ↗ because I think that is important on how

10:09 ↗ to just um later on in life I heard the

10:12 ↗ phrase like water running off a grass

10:14 ↗ spat or something like that and it's not

10:17 ↗ quite the same but it's just don't delve

10:21 ↗ too deep into this annoyance, anger,

10:24 ↗ frustration at somebody else. It's not

10:25 ↗ worth it for your life and your health.

10:28 ↗ just let it go and you do what you can

10:31 ↗ be positive and just move on. So that's

10:35 ↗ something that you know Elsa said it

10:37 ↗ best to let it go

10:39 ↗ but that right before Elsa but yeah

10:48 ↗ good evening everyone man

10:53 ↗ um Kelly you stole mine but I'm going to

10:55 ↗ put a different spin on it

10:58 ↗ uh and I was teaching my daughter this

11:01 ↗ who's headed off to college in the fall

11:03 ↗ Um, it's when you're when

11:05 ↗ when be wary of the quiet ones because

11:09 ↗ they're the ones that um are thinking

11:11 ↗ the most and you need to pull them into

11:13 ↗ the conversation thoughtful way. And so

11:16 ↗ although they're sitting there absorbing

11:18 ↗ all this, they might not be able to

11:20 ↗ talk, but they're thinking a lot of

11:21 ↗ things. You want to just take a moment

11:23 ↗ and say, "Hey, such and such or

11:26 ↗ whatever. Um, what do you think?" Mhm.

11:28 ↗ So I think you you do an excellent job

11:31 ↗ say because not all of us are are

11:33 ↗ necessarily speaking but we're thinking

11:34 ↗ a lot. So I try to teach her that

11:38 ↗ something

11:40 ↗ many peers teachers over the years.

11:46 ↗ A lot of wisdom in this room. Um my name

11:49 ↗ is Natalie Cites. I am a presenter here

11:52 ↗ tonight. Uh she her pronouns.

11:55 ↗ [Music]

11:57 ↗ Um, I was listening a lot of wisdom and

12:01 ↗ and several things, but I I remembered

12:03 ↗ my grandmother who's since passed by

12:06 ↗ more than a decade now. And um, you

12:09 ↗ know, sitting at her kitchen table, you

12:12 ↗ know, prepping food like walnuts and

12:15 ↗ stuff like that. And she was a child of

12:17 ↗ the depression. Um, but her kitchen

12:20 ↗ always had little bits of string on a

12:23 ↗ ball all pulled together and it just was

12:26 ↗ a gratefulness for what you have and to

12:29 ↗ really get all the use out of an item

12:31 ↗ that you can um that I carry forward.

12:37 ↗ Caric, thank you. I'm Car on the equity

12:42 ↗ board as well. Um, but this is this is

12:46 ↗ teachings from elders at the East Bay

12:49 ↗ Meditation Center, which is a group that

12:52 ↗ I used to be part of back in the Bay

12:54 ↗ Area. Um, trying to recollect exactly

12:58 ↗ how it goes, but it's roughly along the

13:00 ↗ lines of um we take ownership for the

13:05 ↗ impact of our words and actions as

13:07 ↗ against sort of defending ourselves

13:09 ↗ behind the intent. Um because there is

13:14 ↗ there's a lot of justifications that can

13:15 ↗ be wrapped behind what's the intent of

13:18 ↗ why we're saying something or doing

13:19 ↗ something. Uh but it really matters how

13:22 ↗ it lands for someone. And so that's

13:25 ↗ that's always sat with

13:27 ↗ me. Thank you. And I'm Priy uh she her

13:32 ↗ pronouns. And um one thing I was

13:34 ↗ thinking about was something that I

13:35 ↗ learned from my parents. And it's um

13:38 ↗ something to the effect of it's it's

13:40 ↗ more important to be to focus on being

13:43 ↗ kind than trying to be the smartest

13:45 ↗ person in the room. And so just trying

13:47 ↗ to make sure that good doesn't get in

13:49 ↗ the way of um like getting the work

13:53 ↗ done, moving moving things forward.

13:57 ↗ Lastly, thank you and thank you for

13:59 ↗ letting me go last. These questions are

14:01 ↗ so we so I I know we'll kind of blast

14:04 ↗ you on um these questions are so

14:06 ↗ insightful that I mean I really got to

14:08 ↗ grab this moment and kind of honor the

14:11 ↗ question because it's a good one. So

14:13 ↗ um you made me think of my uh one of my

14:16 ↗ college professors. Her name is uh Sandy

14:18 ↗ Shman. She's my marketing professor and

14:21 ↗ she would always say to us, don't be

14:23 ↗ afraid to act. Uh don't be afraid to

14:26 ↗ make a decision. Uh, don't be paralyzed

14:28 ↗ by too much information or inactive

14:30 ↗ because you don't have enough. Don't be

14:32 ↗ afraid. Make a decision. Act. And so,

14:35 ↗ um, I always, um, I I talked to the

14:38 ↗ folks that report to me and I said,

14:39 ↗ "What do you think you know? Think about

14:42 ↗ that. And I want you to act. I'm going

14:43 ↗ to support you either way, but I want

14:45 ↗ you to act. Be decisive." So, yeah.

14:52 ↗ Um, thank you. Oh gosh, a lot of

14:55 ↗ different things into uh I think maybe

14:58 ↗ less something someone said to me and

15:01 ↗ more the bottling behavior just my

15:04 ↗ grandmother and mother of like

15:05 ↗ independence and

15:09 ↗ um we would now call it self-care but

15:12 ↗ maybe they looked at it as a bit of

15:15 ↗ selfishness taking the time to do it on

15:18 ↗ your own for yourself instead of um

15:21 ↗ allowing to or to always be giving

15:23 ↗ giving giving But just take that time to

15:26 ↗ for yourself um to make sure that you

15:28 ↗ can recover with and prepare to better

15:31 ↗ healthier.

15:34 ↗ Before we go to the computer,

15:38 ↗ oh gosh, you thought you were going to

15:40 ↗ get away with this, but Alan is a staff

15:42 ↗ member.

15:45 ↗ I'm senior

15:46 ↗ here works.

15:49 ↗ and we helping out with King County

15:52 ↗ working with them on a lot of their

15:53 ↗ different programs and things that we do

15:55 ↗ city um

15:58 ↗ so pronoun and I I guess my uh thing

16:02 ↗ that I would say would be humility and

16:06 ↗ not to be I got that from my father he's

16:09 ↗ extremely smart man you know MIT grad

16:13 ↗ worked for B engineer and I remember

16:16 ↗ going with meetings with him and he was

16:18 ↗ literally the smartest guy in the room,

16:20 ↗ but he never you would never know that.

16:22 ↗ He's just so humble and very modest and

16:26 ↗ uh which is

16:32 ↗ amazing person. I try to do that always

16:37 ↗ the quiet.

16:40 ↗ Thank you. And then maybe up on the

16:43 ↗ screen, should we start with Tom?

16:49 ↗ Can you hear me? We can. Oh, excellent.

16:53 ↗ Well, let's see. One thing I've learned

16:56 ↗ from author Douglas Adams that I use

16:59 ↗ every day, don't

17:02 ↗ panic.

17:04 ↗ Andy, then from my mother, she was a

17:06 ↗ very optimistic person. That's a theme

17:08 ↗ many of you have been reflecting on. But

17:11 ↗ her little catchphrase was keep looking

17:13 ↗ up. And I actually happened to be

17:17 ↗ wearing a sweatshirt, but it's at the

17:18 ↗ bottom here, but it has that phrase on

17:20 ↗ it that my kids gave to me at one point.

17:23 ↗ But anyway, keep looking up. Uh, that

17:25 ↗ was her words of advice in many, many

17:29 ↗ situations. So, that's that's what I've

17:31 ↗ got. Thank you. And can

17:36 ↗ Yeah. So, one of the So, when I first

17:39 ↗ started playing soccer, my very first

17:41 ↗ coach, I was I was a very physical

17:43 ↗ player. So, I'd always be getting all

17:45 ↗ the fouls for the other team. I still

17:47 ↗ remember the first thing my coach ever

17:48 ↗ told to me was like don't sacrifice the

17:52 ↗ team for your own actions. So, like

17:54 ↗ don't go like slide tackle this player

17:56 ↗ and give them a free goal. And I've kind

17:57 ↗ of like carried that throughout my

17:59 ↗ entire life. Like don't don't like

18:02 ↗ sacrifice other people for doing like if

18:05 ↗ working in a team like making sure that

18:07 ↗ the team doesn't get brought down

18:08 ↗ because of you being distracted or not.

18:13 ↗ That's just something I carried with me.

18:16 ↗ Okay. And Don.

18:19 ↗ Yeah. Hi. Um, thank you. So, mine are

18:22 ↗ pretty basic, but they are very early in

18:24 ↗ life. My dad pulled me aside and and

18:26 ↗ gave me two life lessons, and he said,

18:28 ↗ "Don't lie because then you don't have

18:29 ↗ to remember the lie." And then, and

18:33 ↗ always listen first because uh it might

18:36 ↗ affect your decision on what you're

18:37 ↗ going to speak next.

18:40 ↗ Thank you. And how about Alex?

18:47 ↗ Thank you. Uh Al, my name is Alex. I use

18:49 ↗ she her pronouns. I'm on the

18:51 ↗ environmental board.

18:53 ↗ Um when I was in college, I had an

18:56 ↗ internship advisor that gave me a lot of

18:59 ↗ assistance post college getting letters

19:02 ↗ of recommendation and things in. And I

19:03 ↗ sent her an email one day just thanking

19:05 ↗ her so much for helping me get a new job

19:07 ↗ and get to where I felt like I was

19:09 ↗ today. and her email response back to me

19:12 ↗ has stuck with me for a long time

19:13 ↗ because it was you need to think about

19:15 ↗ the things that you've done to get to

19:17 ↗ where you are. Yes, I contributed but

19:19 ↗ you did the work. And so I just got to

19:22 ↗ share that with them at my mentor last

19:23 ↗ year from Gibson High School or not my

19:25 ↗ mentor, my intern with Gibson High

19:26 ↗ School when she was giving a

19:28 ↗ presentation and was profusely thanking

19:30 ↗ everyone for all of their assistance.

19:32 ↗ And I said it, it's great that you

19:34 ↗ recognize and are grateful for the help

19:35 ↗ that you've gotten, but make sure you

19:36 ↗ recognize the work that you have put in

19:38 ↗ to get where you are today. Um, and then

19:41 ↗ my other one was just as my um toddler

19:44 ↗ is running around my house in the

19:46 ↗ background right now. Um, the best

19:48 ↗ advice we got as or like new parents was

19:51 ↗ that you're raising a family, not a

19:53 ↗ house. So, just don't stress the chaos

19:56 ↗ as much as you can. So, those are my

19:59 ↗ two. Nice.

20:01 ↗ Um, how about Keith?

20:06 ↗ Yeah. Hi. Um, Keith Gonzalez, uh,

20:09 ↗ environmental board, eBay pronouns. Um,

20:12 ↗ I guess thinking of my mom. Um, when I

20:15 ↗ was a kid, she was she's always been

20:17 ↗ very gregarious and outgoing and talks

20:20 ↗ to everybody she meets and uh, makes a

20:22 ↗ really good impression. I I think I was

20:24 ↗ a little embarrassed of that as a kid,

20:25 ↗ you know, out in public and her chatting

20:27 ↗ people up. Um, and I I think, you know,

20:30 ↗ now she's got a really great community

20:32 ↗ of folks and friends that uh I I think

20:35 ↗ are a result of that. So, uh it's

20:37 ↗ something that I'm especially the last

20:39 ↗ several years really uh struck by. You

20:41 ↗ know, um it it pays to just be nice to

20:44 ↗ people and and and say hi and strike up

20:46 ↗ a conversation.

20:49 ↗ Thanks. And then uh Nancy

20:59 ↗ Sorry, I'm here. I just have to get my

21:00 ↗ camera on. Nancy Davidson, environmental

21:03 ↗ board. And I guess the one thing I

21:05 ↗ picked up from my mother is think before

21:07 ↗ you speak. And a lot of people think

21:10 ↗ that you can just kind of I do better

21:13 ↗ listening often than speaking. So that

21:15 ↗ really has stuck with me and kind of

21:17 ↗ grounded who I am. So there you go.

21:20 ↗ Thank you. Thank you. Has everyone gone?

21:23 ↗ Do we?

21:25 ↗ Yeah. All right, that's awesome. Um,

21:28 ↗ let's see. So, now the next item on our

21:30 ↗ agenda is flood plane management with

21:33 ↗ Natalie and Auda.

21:38 ↗ So, I'm going to share my screen and

21:41 ↗ share the presentation.

21:48 ↗ reorient again how to do this through

21:52 ↗ the teams. While she's doing that, um

21:55 ↗ I'll mention my name again, Natalie. Um

21:58 ↗ I'm here, we are here to talk to you, uh

22:01 ↗ today's sled pain management. Um, and I

22:04 ↗ just really want to, um, thank you all

22:07 ↗ for coming here and, you know, volunteer

22:11 ↗ boards um, and donating your time and,

22:15 ↗ um, really excited to share with you

22:17 ↗ about the project.

22:21 ↗ Yeah. And I, um, I turn on my camera

22:24 ↗ here so you can look around a little bit

22:26 ↗ easily. Um, again, my name's Al Stolk. I

22:29 ↗ work at King County in the

22:32 ↗ river. Um I'm a project program manager

22:35 ↗ and I'm the uh lead planner on the Isqua

22:38 ↗ Capital Investment Strategy. Yeah.

22:41 ↗ Awesome. And I'm the PM project manager.

22:44 ↗ Sorry. Also with King County. I probably

22:46 ↗ should have led with that.

22:51 ↗ Um yeah. Um so we're here today to talk

22:55 ↗ to you about the Isqua Capital

22:56 ↗ Investment Strategy. Um, we're gonna

22:59 ↗ introduce flood pain management for

23:01 ↗ those of you who might not be familiar

23:03 ↗ with it and it's a main term anyway. Um,

23:06 ↗ so it's always good to ground ourselves

23:07 ↗ in what that actually is. Um, we'll talk

23:10 ↗ about the issued capital investment

23:12 ↗ strategy, what that is, um, the timeline

23:14 ↗ and process for the project, and then

23:17 ↗ um, what we're asking your help for in

23:21 ↗ um, engaging community

23:28 ↗ Um, so flood plane management um isn't

23:32 ↗ always the

23:34 ↗ most obvious term. So we're going to

23:36 ↗ talk about what it is a little bit. Um,

23:38 ↗ it encompasses a lot of things. Um, for

23:41 ↗ us that means um, first of all

23:43 ↗ identifying hazards. Um, figuring out

23:46 ↗ what flood hazards there might be, what

23:48 ↗ hazards there are associated with

23:50 ↗ rivers. Um, identifying those,

23:52 ↗ monitoring them, and then mapping them.

23:54 ↗ and sharing that information uh with

23:58 ↗ other entities and with the public where

23:59 ↗ it might be useful. Um we do a lot of

24:03 ↗ flood uh we provide flood warning

24:05 ↗ services. So communicating the risks of

24:08 ↗ living in the flood plane to people who

24:10 ↗ are living in it and to agencies who

24:12 ↗ might um be doing work related to that.

24:16 ↗ And King County has, for example, a

24:18 ↗ flood warning center where whenever

24:21 ↗ river is flooding, people can call in

24:22 ↗ and ask for information about river

24:24 ↗ flooding, where it's happening. Um, we

24:26 ↗ provide flood alerts. We do flood

24:29 ↗ patrols like physically walking along

24:32 ↗ rivers where there's flooding to provide

24:34 ↗ information to the flood warning.

24:37 ↗ Um we flood uh flood plane management is

24:42 ↗ also uh protecting residences and

24:45 ↗ helping people prepare for flooding. So

24:46 ↗ that might involve providing sandbags,

24:49 ↗ making them available in some cases um

24:52 ↗ things like home elevations um uh

24:57 ↗ providing information on how to be

24:59 ↗ prepared for emergencies like floods,

25:01 ↗ that sort of thing.

25:03 ↗ Um it also means protecting public

25:06 ↗ infrastructure and that's through

25:07 ↗ capital projects. Um we do a lot of

25:10 ↗ building and maintenance on levies and

25:13 ↗ revetments along rivers which is a lot

25:15 ↗ of rivers most rivers in King County

25:16 ↗ have are built up. They have these like

25:19 ↗ concrete or rock revetments and levies

25:21 ↗ throughout. Um and a lot of them are

25:23 ↗ very old. Um so we do maintenance on

25:26 ↗ those. We occasionally will move them

25:28 ↗ back to create more room for rivers. we

25:30 ↗ might um occasionally create new ones,

25:33 ↗ though not as

25:35 ↗ frequently. Um and then we work with a

25:38 ↗ lot of other agencies and jurisdictions

25:40 ↗ to reduce flood risk um and to restore

25:45 ↗ rivers as well. And that just

25:47 ↗ encompasses a lot of other work, but

25:50 ↗ kind of an endless list of possibilities

25:52 ↗ there.

25:59 ↗ All right. So, what is a capital

26:03 ↗ investment strategy? And it's kind of a

26:07 ↗ nebulous form in its very simplest form.

26:10 ↗ It's a list of actions

26:14 ↗ um that help us decide uh what and when

26:17 ↗ to put projects forward in a capital

26:19 ↗ investment or facilities plan. So, this

26:22 ↗ is kind of that step in between policy

26:26 ↗ and what you might see investments in

26:29 ↗ the ground being. Um, and we'll be

26:33 ↗ working with the city to identify how we

26:35 ↗ can align and put the right projects

26:37 ↗ forward at the right time. And that's

26:39 ↗ really why we develop strategies, why we

26:42 ↗ um seek to do it collaboratively with

26:44 ↗ the city so that we're really in close

26:47 ↗ alignment. Next slide.

26:51 ↗ Uh so the goals and objectives of this

26:53 ↗ capital investment strategy

26:56 ↗ um is uh to reduce flood risks in Isqua

27:01 ↗ Creek basin through an integrated flood

27:03 ↗ plane management approach and

27:05 ↗ consideration of multiple benefits. And

27:07 ↗ that's a mouthful.

27:10 ↗ It's a long sentence and um there's a

27:13 ↗ couple components to it with um

27:15 ↗ integrated flood plane management and

27:17 ↗ multibenefit. These are

27:20 ↗ um kind of common terms in our industry,

27:24 ↗ but what it means is that uh we're

27:27 ↗ always looking to reduce flood risk.

27:30 ↗ That's first,

27:32 ↗ but there are impacts to the environment

27:35 ↗ of of flood risk reduction efforts. um

27:39 ↗ water quality, equity, um environmental

27:43 ↗ justice, and we are looking to

27:48 ↗ um for lack of a better word, be mindful

27:52 ↗ of those impacts and help to um enhance

27:55 ↗ benefits where we can. Um so that's what

27:58 ↗ integrated flood plane management means.

28:00 ↗ It means that we are primarily focused

28:03 ↗ on flood risk, but we also consider a

28:05 ↗ breadth of other opportunities to help

28:08 ↗ us achieve our goals. Um, the three

28:11 ↗ objectives um are to provide information

28:14 ↗ and enhance our program. So, as Alex

28:18 ↗ mentioned, we currently provide um flood

28:21 ↗ warning um throughout the county,

28:23 ↗ including the city of Isqua. We

28:25 ↗ coordinate very closely with the city on

28:26 ↗ that. We do flood patrol routes in the

28:30 ↗ Isqua basin to um check on roadways and

28:34 ↗ where there might be erosion. Um so

28:38 ↗ looking at how we can enhance that and

28:40 ↗ make sure that we are um providing the

28:43 ↗ best services we can and also to provide

28:47 ↗ information.

28:48 ↗ Um, a lot of the work that we do is

28:51 ↗ focused on major rivers. And so, um, is

28:55 ↗ aqua basin since it's a smaller creek as

28:58 ↗ opposed to like the Cedar River or the

29:00 ↗ White River, um, or the Green River. Um,

29:04 ↗ you know, we we haven't historically

29:06 ↗ been as active in this basin. And so

29:09 ↗ that's another key important um, goal of

29:12 ↗ this uh, strategy.

29:15 ↗ Um, as I mentioned, the capital

29:16 ↗ investment strategy is at its core a

29:19 ↗ list of of potential programs and

29:22 ↗ projects that we think will provide the

29:23 ↗ best benefit. Um, and the last important

29:28 ↗ objective is to use hazard mapping um to

29:31 ↗ identify opportunities for partnership.

29:34 ↗ Um, there's lots of studies ongoing

29:36 ↗ right now. two of which um seek to map

29:40 ↗ the um flood inundation risk and set new

29:44 ↗ firm um flood insurance rate maps. Um

29:47 ↗ and those help uh protect people and

29:51 ↗ make people aware of risk but also

29:53 ↗ protect allow uh the purchase of um

29:56 ↗ flood insurance to help protect from

29:59 ↗ impacts. Um, the other study that's

30:02 ↗ ongoing right now that the county is

30:04 ↗ leading is the channel migration zone

30:06 ↗ study. And again, more big words, but

30:09 ↗ what that study looks at is the way the

30:12 ↗ creek moves over time, whether it's

30:15 ↗ eroding against the bank or it also

30:18 ↗ looks at the possibility of a sudden

30:21 ↗ channel movement. um and that is where

30:25 ↗ uh the creek would go in a new direction

30:28 ↗ from where it has historically been

30:29 ↗ flowing. Um so those are two important

30:33 ↗ um hazard mapping efforts that really

30:36 ↗ help inform where we uh think hazards

30:40 ↗ are currently and where we think they're

30:41 ↗ likely to occur in the

30:43 ↗ future. Um next

30:46 ↗ slide. So this is a very

30:49 ↗ big generalized overview of where we're

30:52 ↗ at. Um, we hope to have engagement

30:55 ↗ throughout the project. Um, it started

30:58 ↗ in in

31:00 ↗ 2024. Um, as Alan mentioned, we've been

31:03 ↗ working um with the city for a while

31:06 ↗ coordinating projects and flood risk

31:08 ↗ reduction activities. Um, and we sent a

31:11 ↗ letter out uh to residents um in the

31:16 ↗ flood plane, oh gosh, couple months ago,

31:20 ↗ three weeks ago or so. you might have

31:22 ↗ received it if you live in the plane.

31:24 ↗ Yeah.

31:26 ↗ Um and uh so this first part 2024 to

31:30 ↗ 2026 and so we've done some d gathering

31:34 ↗ but we're still right at the beginning

31:35 ↗ stages of that and we'll be doing that

31:38 ↗ for this year and a bit of next year

31:41 ↗ too. What we're looking at are the

31:43 ↗ condition of our river facilities. Um

31:47 ↗ there are

31:49 ↗ 41 reventments and levies um in the

31:53 ↗ Isqua Basin in total. A reventment is a

31:57 ↗ rock

31:58 ↗ embankment that is used to help keep the

32:02 ↗ uh river channel where it currently is

32:05 ↗ located.

32:07 ↗ uh a reventment doesn't provide

32:10 ↗ um inundation protection and that is

32:14 ↗ when the flood waters rise it will over

32:16 ↗ top the reventment the main channel will

32:19 ↗ stay where it is but the area on the

32:21 ↗ flood plane will get

32:22 ↗ flooded. Uh the majority of facilities

32:27 ↗ within this all the cities within the

32:29 ↗ municipal boundary of Isiqua that we

32:31 ↗ manage are

32:32 ↗ reventments.

32:35 ↗ Um and then there are some facilities

32:37 ↗ further upstream most of which are also

32:39 ↗ reventments. Um and just a few are

32:42 ↗ identified as levies. Um leveies on the

32:45 ↗ other hand have both a rock facing but

32:47 ↗ are also elevated to keep the inundation

32:51 ↗ water in the river channel. Um so we'll

32:55 ↗ be looking at the condition of our

32:56 ↗ facilities. As Alex

32:58 ↗ mentioned, it's been a while. It's been

33:00 ↗ a minute.

33:02 ↗ um and um you know the condition

33:05 ↗ changes. We'll also be looking at

33:07 ↗ different embankment areas that the city

33:09 ↗ is concerned about and other partners

33:11 ↗ might be concerned about. Um we are

33:14 ↗ going to use those studies to help

33:17 ↗ understand the location of flood

33:19 ↗ hazards. Um as I mentioned inundation

33:22 ↗ which is you know being

33:24 ↗ underwater and then erosion is the

33:26 ↗ movement of the channels it completely

33:29 ↗ moving and then there are other hazards

33:32 ↗ like um there's a term deep fast flow

33:36 ↗ and that is where we look at the

33:38 ↗ combination of how fast the water is

33:40 ↗ moving with how deep it is and that

33:42 ↗ really presents a threat to life safety.

33:45 ↗ Um, if you've ever been waiting in a

33:48 ↗ creek, you'll know that water can be

33:50 ↗ pretty forceful and sometimes it just

33:54 ↗ takes a foot or so of water um for

33:57 ↗ somebody to be swept away. And so um

34:00 ↗ we'll be looking at a variety of um

34:03 ↗ those hazards and also landslides that

34:06 ↗ are in contact with the stream because

34:08 ↗ also sediment is a huge part of the

34:12 ↗ story of Isiqua Creek um and how it

34:15 ↗ moves through this basin. So we'll be

34:17 ↗ looking at the location of flood

34:18 ↗ hazards. The next part of the data

34:21 ↗ gathering is looking at communities,

34:26 ↗ looking at where infrastructure is

34:28 ↗ located, where people live,

34:32 ↗ uh where they um meet and have uh

34:37 ↗ locations that are

34:39 ↗ important. Um and

34:41 ↗ so that involves a lot of

34:45 ↗ um looking at critical infrastructure.

34:47 ↗ inventories for things like roadways,

34:50 ↗ but also talking with the community and

34:52 ↗ finding out what's most important um and

34:55 ↗ where people are located.

34:57 ↗ Um the overlay of the

35:02 ↗ hazards with where communities are

35:05 ↗ located, where those overlay, that's

35:08 ↗ risk. Um and so we have this component,

35:12 ↗ then we have the community component.

35:13 ↗ putting those two together is how we

35:16 ↗ look at where risk is and that's really

35:19 ↗ what we're looking to manage

35:22 ↗ um overall and reduce. Um and then we

35:26 ↗ also take a look at what our current

35:28 ↗ capabilities and resources are. You know

35:31 ↗ we are currently doing a certain set of

35:34 ↗ activities. Are they

35:35 ↗ functioning the way we want them to? Can

35:39 ↗ we enhance our services in some ways? Um

35:43 ↗ so that's all part of the data

35:45 ↗ gathering. After the data gathering

35:47 ↗ phase starting this year, late this year

35:50 ↗ and moving into 2027 will be the

35:53 ↗ planning and strategy development. Um

35:56 ↗ and that's where we w where we get into

35:59 ↗ the values of the community and um the

36:03 ↗ priorities of the community especially

36:04 ↗ when it comes into those um in other

36:08 ↗ benefits that I mentioned related to

36:12 ↗ um uh integrated flood plane management

36:15 ↗ and what we're seeking to achieve from

36:18 ↗ our our projects. Um, we'll be looking

36:21 ↗ at reduction investments and strategies

36:23 ↗ in conjunction with the city and looking

36:26 ↗ at where we can have the greatest risk

36:29 ↗ reduction benefit for the cost

36:34 ↗ um and other benefits. Um, so that's a a

36:39 ↗ really high level overview of um the

36:43 ↗ timeline and

36:45 ↗ process. Um, next slide.

36:52 ↗ And as I mentioned, we're we're not

36:54 ↗ doing this in a vacuum. There have been

36:57 ↗ a number of studies, especially since

36:59 ↗ 2020,

37:01 ↗ um when when there was a a large flood

37:05 ↗ event here in the Isiqua Basin. Um so

37:10 ↗ the King County flood hazard management

37:12 ↗ plan was recently completed and that

37:15 ↗ sets policy for unincorporated King

37:17 ↗ County

37:19 ↗ Um the Isiqua Creek channel migration

37:23 ↗ zone study um is currently underway. Um

37:27 ↗ you may have met one of my um

37:29 ↗ co-workers, Judy Radloff. She's been

37:32 ↗ walking the entire creek um looking at

37:34 ↗ the geology, looking at past uh channel,

37:38 ↗ the way the river has moved over time um

37:42 ↗ as well as you know where it has been

37:43 ↗ and maybe where um over time as Isiqua

37:46 ↗ and unincorporated King County has been

37:48 ↗ developed or it's been straightened. Um

37:52 ↗ and so we're expecting the results of

37:55 ↗ that study this year. We're also

37:58 ↗ expecting the

38:00 ↗ uh study to be be complete of the flood

38:04 ↗ study this year. Um it being adopted by

38:07 ↗ FEMA and becoming firm rate maps, which

38:10 ↗ is the flood insurance rate maps, is a

38:12 ↗ multi-year process, but we certainly

38:15 ↗ will have the technical results of the

38:18 ↗ study um this year, and that's really

38:22 ↗ what we're going to be using as a large

38:24 ↗ part of our our technical foundation.

38:27 ↗ Um, the city of

38:30 ↗ Isiqua has done a tremendous amount of

38:33 ↗ flood risk reduction work. Um, and

38:37 ↗ currently is working on studies in the

38:39 ↗ Sycamore and Dogwood neighborhoods. Um,

38:44 ↗ and also is currently underway your all

38:47 ↗ hazard mitigation plan. As I mentioned,

38:50 ↗ the King County flood hazard management

38:51 ↗ plan is the policy basis for

38:54 ↗ unincorporated King County. The all

38:58 ↗ hazard m uh mitigation plan and the

39:03 ↗ local policies would set that the

39:05 ↗ background for the city of Isiqua. Um so

39:08 ↗ that's sort of how some of these other

39:10 ↗ efforts might feed into the work we're

39:13 ↗ doing.

39:16 ↗ Thanks, Alie. Um so for the part of our

39:19 ↗ work that is engaging with uh

39:22 ↗ communities in and around

39:25 ↗ um we particularly want to learn about

39:30 ↗ community values um broadly speaking and

39:34 ↗ the needs of people who are impacted by

39:36 ↗ flooding whether it's because they live

39:38 ↗ in floodprone areas or they um use

39:41 ↗ infrastructure or other community assets

39:44 ↗ in those areas or maybe they work in

39:46 ↗ them or travel through them. Um, we want

39:50 ↗ to know what local knowledge there might

39:52 ↗ be of flooding. We do flood plane

39:55 ↗ modeling. We do flood mapping, but it's

39:56 ↗ never perfect as models models are never

39:59 ↗ perfect. Um, and people who live near

40:02 ↗ the river or near the creek will

40:04 ↗ probably have local knowledge of

40:06 ↗ flooding hotspots that we can't see in

40:07 ↗ our maps. So, we want to know that sort

40:10 ↗ of thing. Um, we also want to learn

40:12 ↗ about uh well, I mean, sorry, being a

40:15 ↗ bit repetitive here, but what locations

40:16 ↗ and what assets are most important to

40:20 ↗ people and might be impacted by

40:21 ↗ flooding. We're talking

40:24 ↗ about I mean things that I can't

40:26 ↗ conceive of necessarily because I don't

40:28 ↗ live here and I'm not part of the

40:29 ↗ community, but everything from food

40:32 ↗ banks to cultural sites to um you know

40:36 ↗ parks that are particularly frequented

40:38 ↗ by people and people rely on because

40:40 ↗ they only take their kids out um uh

40:42 ↗ senior centers, community centers, other

40:45 ↗ community spaces, gathering places. um

40:48 ↗ where what are the important assets to

40:51 ↗ communities in Isiqua and where are they

40:54 ↗ and um are they potentially already

40:58 ↗ impacted by flooding or if they're like

41:00 ↗ close to the river is there concern that

41:02 ↗ they

41:04 ↗ um and we also want to learn as we're

41:06 ↗ reaching out to people how uh I mean

41:08 ↗ this is a little bit at the front end of

41:11 ↗ that how best we communicate with um

41:14 ↗ communities here and that All of those

41:17 ↗ questions are kind of why we're talking

41:20 ↗ to you all today. Um, we are hoping that

41:24 ↗ you will help us um or help us and help

41:27 ↗ the city of Isabah think about who we

41:29 ↗ should reach out to um as we're trying

41:31 ↗ to answer some of these questions. So,

41:33 ↗ who are the key community um like

41:36 ↗ champions who might be good people or

41:38 ↗ good organizations or good um liaison to

41:41 ↗ talk to as we're trying to discover some

41:43 ↗ of this information.

41:46 ↗ Um, and we are

41:50 ↗ uh also

41:52 ↗ particularly interested in talking to um

41:56 ↗ communities that are most vulnerable to

41:58 ↗ impacts from flooding. And we're

42:00 ↗ thinking about traditionally underserved

42:01 ↗ communities, communities of color that

42:04 ↗ are at risk of flooding and erosion. Um,

42:06 ↗ seniors immigrants uh low-income

42:10 ↗ communities, renters and tenant

42:11 ↗ associations, and then minority owned

42:13 ↗ businesses, for example.

42:17 ↗ Um, so we're hoping that, yeah, you can

42:20 ↗ connect us with contacts and liaison and

42:23 ↗ and and who should we be talking to to

42:25 ↗ discover

42:26 ↗ this?

42:29 ↗ Um, okay. Closing slides here. Uh, to

42:32 ↗ learn more about the project, we have

42:34 ↗ links here. I think that everyone has a

42:37 ↗ copy of the I'm not sure was the

42:39 ↗ presentation mailed emailed out for

42:41 ↗ people who are online. Yes. So, everyone

42:44 ↗ has links here and I'm happy to put them

42:47 ↗ in the chat, too, so they're a little

42:48 ↗ bit easier. But we have a project web

42:50 ↗ page. Um, you can sign up for blood

42:53 ↗ alerts. Uh, they come to your phone and

42:55 ↗ they come to your email. So if if Swa

42:57 ↗ Creek reaches um there are different

43:00 ↗ stages of flooding and if it starts

43:01 ↗ flooding you get a nice little alert to

43:03 ↗ your phone which is handy. Um and flood

43:06 ↗ season

43:07 ↗ is uh through April. So we could have

43:10 ↗ more flooding. Um you can also sign up

43:14 ↗ to receive email updates about this

43:16 ↗ projects and project and any others in

43:18 ↗ the in Isqua Creek through this email

43:21 ↗ list here. Um, and then if anybody ever

43:25 ↗ needs language and accessibility

43:27 ↗ services or needs any of our materials

43:28 ↗ in other languages or translation or

43:30 ↗ interpretation for inerson things, we

43:32 ↗ can do that. So, you can reach out to me

43:35 ↗ um there and I can set that

43:38 ↗ up. So, thank you so much for listening

43:41 ↗ to us. Um, sort of hoping that we can

43:44 ↗ open up the conversation here and hear

43:47 ↗ any questions that you might have about

43:48 ↗ what we've presented and any ideas you

43:50 ↗ might have. Um, and it's also fine if if

43:55 ↗ you just have questions for now and we

43:57 ↗ communicate um through leaison later on

44:01 ↗ or or in person or directly.

44:05 ↗ We're open to it all. Yeah. Do you

44:07 ↗ already have a list that you're working

44:10 ↗ on

44:11 ↗ because I feel like it still has a lot

44:13 ↗ of groups.

44:15 ↗ So it'll be interesting to know

44:18 ↗ more when we give input of other

44:21 ↗ organizations. That's a good point. I

44:24 ↗ think that our consultants will be

44:26 ↗ developing a list. Um we we do also

44:30 ↗ already have kind of a working list some

44:32 ↗ organizations that we have in mind.

44:34 ↗ Yeah, we do have um you know I know um

44:37 ↗ Mountain to Sound Greenway, Trout

44:40 ↗ Unlimited, we um have received

44:46 ↗ Yeah. And

44:47 ↗ um

44:49 ↗ um Oh gosh. Alps. Yes. Mhm.

44:56 ↗ Um

44:58 ↗ um and um other community groups as

45:02 ↗ well. Um we could share that list. Yeah.

45:05 ↗ So that I think that we should share

45:07 ↗ that list. That'd be a good and

45:13 ↗ chapter if you already have a robust

45:16 ↗ list so that then we can kind of help

45:18 ↗ brainstorm people that we miss. Okay.

45:21 ↗ Yeah. That's great. Yeah.

45:25 ↗ So, a a question for you like so as

45:28 ↗ you're doing this engagement and you're

45:30 ↗ building the list for strategy, are you

45:36 ↗ um like with what goes on the list or

45:39 ↗ what you recommend moves forward? Um

45:43 ↗ what what are you factoring in I'm

45:46 ↗ thinking about like maybe historical

45:48 ↗ racist practices? So similar to like red

45:50 ↗ lining and things like that because you

45:53 ↗ know I I have a sense that you know

45:55 ↗ certain where certain infrastructure has

45:57 ↗ been developed that might have been

46:00 ↗ privileging certain groups and ignoring

46:02 ↗ other groups and which has like

46:04 ↗ long-term implications on property

46:06 ↗ values when you talk about you know

46:08 ↗ residential properties. So just kind of

46:10 ↗ thinking about what if there's any

46:12 ↗ historical patterns around that in the

46:14 ↗ area that might need undoing.

46:18 ↗ Yeah. So, um we will be looking um and

46:24 ↗ coordinating with the city

46:26 ↗ um to help

46:29 ↗ identify areas like that. There's

46:32 ↗ certainly information around HUD and

46:35 ↗ low-income housing. There certainly we

46:38 ↗ can look to the comp plan the city has

46:41 ↗ recently developed to understand where

46:43 ↗ um low-income populations and and

46:46 ↗ populations that are vulnerable might be

46:47 ↗ in the future.

46:49 ↗ Um but again this is this is information

46:52 ↗ that we we definitely want to seek local

46:54 ↗ knowledge on a lot of times with

46:58 ↗ um red lining and those type of things.

47:02 ↗ Um I know it's readily available in some

47:05 ↗ areas. I honestly don't know if it's

47:07 ↗ readily available as well. Sure either.

47:10 ↗ I have tried to look for that data in

47:11 ↗ Mexico and it's I've not been able to

47:13 ↗ find

47:15 ↗ it searching for it but I do know that

47:18 ↗ there are some complexes that have been

47:21 ↗ impacted

47:23 ↗ for the past I've lived here for the

47:24 ↗ past 25 years and I'm sure you have that

47:27 ↗ issue um and there are many apartment

47:29 ↗ complexes and houses in the downtown

47:32 ↗ area and I'm just wondering if you have

47:35 ↗ a list of all the homes because if you

47:38 ↗ ask many of the people long-term

47:40 ↗ residences, they'll talk about which

47:42 ↗ houses had fish or which apartments had

47:44 ↗ fish going through because different

47:47 ↗ floods at all different times. And so I

47:50 ↗ think collecting data of which houses

47:52 ↗ have been impacted, which businesses

47:55 ↗ have been impacted. Yeah. Because again

47:58 ↗ in the German military area there were

48:00 ↗ lots of impacts and businesses that have

48:03 ↗ to be closed. this apartment over here,

48:05 ↗ the brown one that basically the river

48:09 ↗ on both sides. Um I remember it being on

48:12 ↗ fish in it. The little one island

48:16 ↗ further up and so every time there'd be

48:18 ↗ rain, I'd be walking around the

48:22 ↗ creek to see what the impacts on

48:24 ↗ riparian and flood zones were also. Um,

48:28 ↗ but I'm also wondering, have you I would

48:30 ↗ recommend putting Kanas besides the fish

48:33 ↗ catcher on the list because the Kanians

48:35 ↗ in the city of Isqua are uh long-term

48:39 ↗ residents of the city and they have a

48:41 ↗ vast knowledge and past history and

48:44 ↗ areas that have been impacted

48:47 ↗ uh for the port. I'm wondering if you

48:50 ↗ can also connect with the

48:52 ↗ range. They are also on long term. I

48:55 ↗ think they're celebrating their 70th or

48:57 ↗ 90th um anniversary of doing local

49:01 ↗ community work in the area. So I think

49:05 ↗ those two groups have been very active

49:09 ↗ and have historical knowledge of the

49:12 ↗ area and sounds like if she's in the

49:14 ↗ area she should be able to the person

49:17 ↗ doing study would be like um I don't

49:20 ↗ know um Dale can the city run numbers

49:24 ↗ and contacts for families along the

49:27 ↗ creek so that that information is

49:30 ↗ available

49:32 ↗ as do you have a database

49:35 ↗ that can you collect something like

49:36 ↗ that? I'm sure that within like

49:40 ↗ community planning and development in

49:41 ↗ terms of ownership that probably could

49:44 ↗ be done. Yeah, that I would imagine

49:47 ↗ Yeah, would be information that you

49:48 ↗ would already be able to have access to.

49:51 ↗ We

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49:53 ↗ um we certainly have the repetitive loss

49:57 ↗ information and that's when you have

49:58 ↗ repetitive insurance

50:00 ↗ claims.

50:02 ↗ Um, and we certainly from monitoring

50:04 ↗ like I know Creek Side Apartments

50:06 ↗ because we monitor

50:08 ↗ it was probably one of the places you

50:10 ↗ were speaking towards.

50:12 ↗ Um, but yeah, any information that might

50:16 ↗ exist about that and um and we we I mean

50:20 ↗ like with the the letter we mailed a

50:22 ↗ couple of weeks ago, it was to all

50:27 ↗ Yeah. all this to the taxpayer mailing

50:29 ↗ addresses because that's the assessor

50:32 ↗ data is that were within the 100 year

50:34 ↗ flood plane. So like in theory that gets

50:36 ↗ to a lot of property owners not

50:39 ↗ necessarily renters. Yeah, that's the

50:42 ↗ challenge. I'm not sure. Exactly.

50:44 ↗ Because a lot of those houses right here

50:46 ↗ in the downtown area that have impacted

50:48 ↗ our renters living in these little tiny

50:51 ↗ houses from the main owner. And so

50:55 ↗ honestly it feels like

50:57 ↗ doortodo QR code translated

51:01 ↗ information and it it feels like this

51:04 ↗ one because it's such a tight-knit

51:06 ↗ community needs a little bit more

51:09 ↗ personal interaction to collect the data

51:13 ↗ surveys or um like a meal sent to owners

51:18 ↗ when it might have been like so many

51:20 ↗ sales have been sold that they now have

51:22 ↗ renters

51:24 ↗ Ralon has something to do. Yeah.

51:28 ↗ See Canal has his hand raised up there.

51:31 ↗ Yeah.

51:32 ↗ So, I've I'm familiar with an

51:35 ↗ organization. It's I believe it's called

51:37 ↗ Mountains to Sound Greenway. I'm not

51:39 ↗ sure if you guys know about that, but in

51:42 ↗ I know that they do a lot of work with

51:45 ↗ high they have a high school program

51:46 ↗ that works with water and I think maybe

51:50 ↗ like 50 to 60 um this is just from what

51:53 ↗ I've heard around 50 to 60 kids work

51:55 ↗ with them to work in King County and

51:59 ↗ like with water and just like just like

52:02 ↗ maintaining the environment. I'm not

52:03 ↗ sure but you guys can look more into

52:04 ↗ that. Um, but if you're trying to look

52:07 ↗ for like youth who have like connections

52:09 ↗ with um with other youth who can kind of

52:12 ↗ create like who can spread that

52:14 ↗ information and who also are involved in

52:18 ↗ this kind of work, I think that's a good

52:19 ↗ organization to um reach out to. Maybe

52:23 ↗ they can help you more with that. Cool.

52:26 ↗ How does this sound really?

52:32 ↗ What um can I ask a follow question?

52:36 ↗ Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead.

52:38 ↗ So, what products do you think would be

52:41 ↗ most useful? Like would a social media

52:44 ↗ blast or would

52:46 ↗ um um what if we were to create products

52:51 ↗ that could go to that group with the

52:53 ↗ high school program to help spread the

52:55 ↗ word? Um is that like a social media

52:59 ↗ outlet? What what what product would

53:01 ↗ that look like? Sorry. Yeah. So, I think

53:04 ↗ I remember looking at the website um

53:07 ↗ once and I remember that they go in the

53:10 ↗ field a few days of the week and then

53:11 ↗ they also do some office work. So, maybe

53:14 ↗ as part of the office work you could

53:16 ↗ kind of work with the organization and

53:18 ↗ the youth can kind of develop like maybe

53:21 ↗ like something so it benefits the kids

53:24 ↗ too. Like they can make up their own

53:26 ↗ plan on how to educate people about this

53:29 ↗ and kind of like take lead on it on

53:30 ↗ their own. But like as a guide, maybe

53:33 ↗ social media works, maybe like making a

53:35 ↗ website, promoting it, um hosting

53:38 ↗ events, um educating people about this

53:40 ↗ at isqua events. Um I think I think

53:44 ↗ that's those are all good ideas that

53:46 ↗ could work. Thank you. Yeah,

53:51 ↗ I think you need volunteer hours, right?

53:54 ↗ So, high school youth. So, if you're

53:57 ↗ talking about doortodoor or something

53:59 ↗ like that, then that could be a good

54:02 ↗ option to bring them together and maybe

54:05 ↗ send in groups or something to cover a

54:07 ↗ certain area.

54:09 ↗ Yeah, I think in terms of youth

54:12 ↗ specifically, like reaching out through

54:14 ↗ like the King County um social media

54:16 ↗ pages would be really helpful. And I

54:18 ↗ know a lot of parents of high schoolers

54:20 ↗ or like you people check um school

54:24 ↗ newsletters. So looking through like

54:26 ↗ those platforms and asking people like

54:28 ↗ have you had experience with clubs or

54:30 ↗ like communities or businesses he knows

54:32 ↗ would really get a lot of input.

54:37 ↗ That that could be like uh working

54:38 ↗ through the school district. Yeah.

54:43 ↗ Reach a lot of families.

54:46 ↗ Yeah. I just have a question out of

54:48 ↗ curiosity. So I hear you mention that

54:49 ↗ the last time where the flood event

54:51 ↗ happened was 2020. Is that somewhere in

54:54 ↗ your comments? Uh the there was the

54:56 ↗ following year 2020 was a federally

55:00 ↗ declared disaster. The following year

55:01 ↗ you also had flood and it was occurring

55:04 ↗ at that time was it not? So all these

55:06 ↗ dates that I see here are post that. Was

55:08 ↗ that prompted by by that event? Some of

55:11 ↗ it was and some of it wasn't. I believe

55:14 ↗ the either this the channel migration

55:16 ↗ was its own zone study or I think the

55:19 ↗ channel migration zone study might have

55:20 ↗ been before and then the

55:24 ↗ um blood study might have been prompted

55:27 ↗ by it. This CIS that I'm doing was

55:30 ↗ certainly prompted by 2020.

55:33 ↗ It was absolutely Yeah, I was just

55:34 ↗ curious. And then so going back to that

55:36 ↗ event, maybe this is a question for us

55:37 ↗ and Dale, like if if people were out on

55:40 ↗ the streets putting sandbags because

55:42 ↗ they didn't want water to flow in their

55:43 ↗ homes, what was the city doing all these

55:46 ↗ folks that needed

55:47 ↗ assistance? What's a question for

55:52 ↗ um team here in this? Well, yeah, we

55:56 ↗ have a I mean once you know the county

55:58 ↗ like they said they have the flood flood

56:00 ↗ warning center and they you know as

56:02 ↗ they're monitoring all the flows in this

56:05 ↗ creek at different gauging stations and

56:07 ↗ it gets and they send off notices

56:09 ↗ warnings when it gets to certain

56:10 ↗ elevations flood stages the stage one

56:13 ↗ two three and

56:15 ↗ four phases I should say and so

56:18 ↗ operations city operations also monitors

56:21 ↗ that flood warning information you know

56:22 ↗ or the web page they're tracking the

56:24 ↗ gauges and making sure and seeing where

56:26 ↗ where the you know where the that's why

56:29 ↗ that gauge is going to eventually where

56:32 ↗ it's headed towards in the future,

56:33 ↗ right? And so and they what they do is

56:35 ↗ they I'm not I'm not the flood manager.

56:37 ↗ I'm not a hazard, you know, manager for

56:39 ↗ the city, but I know if it looks like

56:41 ↗ it's it's to the stage four, which is

56:43 ↗ the highest stage where you start, I

56:46 ↗ figure the different see, you know,

56:48 ↗ cubic feet per second, but when you

56:49 ↗ start to see flooding, I think it's

56:51 ↗ stage two, stage two, they activate, the

56:53 ↗ city's operations center gets activated

56:56 ↗ and they um and then they think some

56:58 ↗ point they do put out I mean, I know

56:59 ↗ it's in the past they had um you know,

57:02 ↗ they put on the website where sandbag

57:04 ↗ locations where they're going to stage

57:06 ↗ sandbags, and the public can come and

57:09 ↗ basically fill up a sandbag. I mean, we

57:11 ↗ don't act the city doesn't actively go

57:13 ↗ out and place the sandbags on private

57:16 ↗ properties, but we provide the

57:18 ↗ resources, the sand and the bags to do

57:21 ↗ that effort. And similar to the bomb

57:23 ↗ cycle, we the city also provides

57:25 ↗ temporary housing for them not a place

57:29 ↗ to go for refuge. Yeah. I'm not I'm

57:32 ↗ sorry. I don't have the details of that.

57:44 ↗ Tom, did you want to share your comment

57:46 ↗ or question? Oh, I'm sorry. It was the

57:50 ↗ attention drawn my way and I I was too I

57:52 ↗ must have delaz. Sorry. Um any so what I

57:56 ↗ was thinking is uh Isqua Food and

57:58 ↗ Clothing Bank might have enough

58:01 ↗ organizational memory to correlate back

58:04 ↗ to flood events and people who have came

58:07 ↗ come in for support um food or or

58:11 ↗ clothing because of flood events in the

58:13 ↗ past. Maybe maybe that's a stretch

58:16 ↗ because that would require keeping

58:18 ↗ records back to flood flood events. But

58:21 ↗ anyway, that's a thought. That's where

58:23 ↗ people go who are uh in need of some

58:25 ↗ help. Uh so there might be a connection

58:28 ↗ there that would uh draw give you some

58:32 ↗ insight into where people are being

58:35 ↗ impacted by flood

58:38 ↗ events. That's all I had on that.

58:43 ↗ And

58:44 ↗ then so just to build a little bit on on

58:48 ↗ your question

58:50 ↗ um with the services. So Jared I believe

58:53 ↗ is the name of your emergency manager.

58:55 ↗ He's been here a few times. Yeah. Um and

58:59 ↗ so that city of Isqua all hazard uh

59:04 ↗ mitigation plan kind of lays forth the

59:07 ↗ current the current city

59:09 ↗ capabilities. Certainly when we have

59:12 ↗ high water and we're on our patrol

59:15 ↗ routes

59:16 ↗ um you know certainly there there are

59:18 ↗ lots of conversations that we have with

59:20 ↗ folks while we do that. One of the

59:23 ↗ things I've thought about, but again,

59:26 ↗ this is where the community conversation

59:28 ↗ comes in, is that, you know, the CERT

59:31 ↗ teams, community emergency response

59:34 ↗ teams, maybe that could be a good

59:36 ↗ partnership opportunity that we don't

59:38 ↗ currently do. And this is again where

59:41 ↗ that that

59:43 ↗ um talking back and forth about who best

59:48 ↗ serves the community in an emergency. Is

59:50 ↗ it the search teams? is at the food

59:51 ↗ bank, you know, how do we create these

59:54 ↗ networks?

59:56 ↗ Um, sorry, I live in the zone right

1:00:00 ↗ here. Um, certain here, they're

1:00:03 ↗ all the city's clearly calling if not

1:00:06 ↗ the community is. And then I also wanted

1:00:09 ↗ to say thank you very much to the city,

1:00:11 ↗ but the city has a lot in flood plane

1:00:14 ↗ and um,

1:00:16 ↗ uh, they provide sand and bags now.

1:00:19 ↗ people have already sandbagged this

1:00:21 ↗ year, but there's still big piles of it,

1:00:23 ↗ which I think is, you know, this way

1:00:25 ↗ people can do it who know that they're

1:00:27 ↗ the ones who are most at risk. So, it's

1:00:29 ↗ a it's a wonderful service that's

1:00:30 ↗ provided. You know, you have to do it

1:00:32 ↗ yourself, but there's, you know, many of

1:00:34 ↗ us are very used to doing it. So, just

1:00:36 ↗ get out there and do it.

1:00:39 ↗ Is that a Are you familiar with that

1:00:41 ↗ service, Alan? Well, right. You're

1:00:43 ↗ right. So, I know in the past they we I

1:00:45 ↗ think it was over by the community

1:00:46 ↗ center where they staged the sand and

1:00:48 ↗ the bags and then people would just show

1:00:50 ↗ up and they, you know, if they really

1:00:52 ↗ help them or not, but mostly just to

1:00:54 ↗ monitor and make sure that there's

1:00:56 ↗ plenty of sand available.

1:00:58 ↗ And now they have it, like I said, in

1:00:59 ↗ the lot. Yeah. You know, like that way.

1:01:02 ↗ Yeah. You said now they're even Yeah.

1:01:04 ↗ It's an empty lot that's not developed

1:01:06 ↗ yet by the city. And so they just put

1:01:09 ↗ sand there so that our neighborhood can,

1:01:12 ↗ you know, bag when they need to. Yeah.

1:01:14 ↗ And be prepared.

1:01:17 ↗ But it's is it unmanned? It's unmanned.

1:01:19 ↗ It has a sign says it's the cities.

1:01:21 ↗ Yeah. Take it freely. Yeah. I was just

1:01:24 ↗ It'd be great to know who is taking it.

1:01:28 ↗ Yeah. And I don't if there's any benefit

1:01:32 ↗ explain maybe what the flood plane is

1:01:34 ↗ how we define the flood plane but maybe

1:01:36 ↗ everyone here knows that

1:01:39 ↗ about that background

1:01:41 ↗ maybe we talk about flood plane what

1:01:43 ↗ what do we actually what is that

1:01:44 ↗ boundary what is it how do we

1:01:48 ↗ so we talk a lot about what what's you

1:01:52 ↗ probably heard the term hundredyear

1:01:53 ↗ flood plane

1:01:55 ↗ um what that means is a a flood that has

1:01:59 ↗ a 1% annual chance of recurring. You

1:02:02 ↗ could certainly have two hundredyear

1:02:04 ↗ floods in successive years. Um, and over

1:02:09 ↗ time that chance changes. Uh, some of

1:02:13 ↗ that is to do with climate change, but

1:02:15 ↗ some of it is to do with our land use

1:02:16 ↗ practices and impervious

1:02:18 ↗ surfaces. Um, and so what we do is we

1:02:22 ↗ look

1:02:23 ↗ at the maximum storms that we can expect

1:02:27 ↗ with that recurrence.

1:02:30 ↗ hitting the tributaries and the main

1:02:33 ↗ stem. Um, and we look at what that level

1:02:37 ↗ looks like. And we also, um, and this

1:02:40 ↗ was an ad that was actually suggestion

1:02:42 ↗ from the city of Isiqua, are looking at

1:02:45 ↗ those scenarios from climate change as

1:02:47 ↗ well. Um, I think for the 50-year um,

1:02:51 ↗ flood event. So

1:02:54 ↗ um looking at those the probability of

1:02:57 ↗ the storm that would generate a certain

1:02:59 ↗ flow profile and then it hitting you

1:03:03 ↗ know simultaneously

1:03:05 ↗ um because you have the east fork the

1:03:07 ↗ north fork both coming in. Neither of

1:03:11 ↗ those two are actually in my study minus

1:03:14 ↗ the focused on the main stem and Hobart

1:03:17 ↗ Creek going up. Um

1:03:20 ↗ but we are but East Fork is being we're

1:03:23 ↗ looking at the East Fork. Oh yeah, the

1:03:24 ↗ city is definitely on the East Fork.

1:03:26 ↗ That's a map that's in the maps. It is.

1:03:30 ↗ Yes. No, there's certainly a the flood

1:03:33 ↗ study will map the main stem and six

1:03:36 ↗ tributaries.

1:03:38 ↗ So including East Fork. Um but the the

1:03:42 ↗ study area of the um flood study is

1:03:46 ↗ larger than where the capital investment

1:03:49 ↗ strategy is looking to invest.

1:03:51 ↗ And and just to title back, the flood

1:03:53 ↗ plane is the area of land that would be

1:03:56 ↗ inundated with water in 100. Yeah. And

1:04:01 ↗ that there are some nuances to the

1:04:03 ↗ modeling.

1:04:05 ↗ probably shouldn't have even said that

1:04:06 ↗ out loud, but this is why we ask for

1:04:09 ↗ local knowledge and um you know because

1:04:12 ↗ no model is is perfect. It's our best

1:04:14 ↗ available science to know without

1:04:16 ↗ actually having a flood. But

1:04:19 ↗ um we we really do also appreciate the

1:04:22 ↗ local knowledge especially when it comes

1:04:24 ↗ to that storm water creek interaction.

1:04:27 ↗ Um, and really the logo is important

1:04:29 ↗ when we develop the models. We run the

1:04:31 ↗ model is like to validate the models and

1:04:34 ↗ check. Okay, well here's what the

1:04:35 ↗ model's showing at this location. Oh, we

1:04:37 ↗ got some historical data. We got some

1:04:38 ↗ photographs. Oh, that's exactly yeah, we

1:04:40 ↗ got flooding up the year. That house got

1:04:42 ↗ whatever flooded and it's a good check

1:04:44 ↗ to see that the model is yes, we don't

1:04:47 ↗ think it is. One of the things we did

1:04:49 ↗ for the flood study is get high water

1:04:51 ↗ marks from different storm events. So,

1:04:54 ↗ we asked residents along the creek if

1:04:56 ↗ they had pictures of the 2020 storm or

1:04:59 ↗ the 1990 storm. Um, you know, some of

1:05:03 ↗ these major storm events. And if you

1:05:05 ↗ have a picture where the flow was like

1:05:07 ↗ the 2020

1:05:09 ↗ with the hatchery, yeah, we can say,

1:05:11 ↗ okay, we know the flow in Isaokqu was

1:05:15 ↗ this at that

1:05:17 ↗ time. And we could see where that that

1:05:20 ↗ ended up on the landscape. And we use

1:05:22 ↗ that to calibrate the models. What and

1:05:26 ↗ wow, I'm getting this is way too

1:05:27 ↗ technical, but what that doesn't account

1:05:30 ↗ for is how sediment changes over time,

1:05:32 ↗ right? Um, and that's a big part of the

1:05:35 ↗ story, too. I'm wondering if you could

1:05:37 ↗ ask the fish hatchery because they have

1:05:40 ↗ a very stronghold of volunteers along

1:05:43 ↗ with the kanas and the two groups um

1:05:46 ↗ have a very strong historical knowledge

1:05:49 ↗ and working with the two of them to

1:05:50 ↗ organize some kind of information or

1:05:53 ↗ conversation in the community and pull

1:05:56 ↗ people in to have that conversation

1:05:59 ↗ because it would be a great learning and

1:06:01 ↗ sharing building community also. But it

1:06:05 ↗ it would be very inclusive of all the

1:06:07 ↗ people in Canada at the downtown isa

1:06:09 ↗ area. You have a lot of people like as

1:06:12 ↗ someone who's lived in Isiqua for 25

1:06:14 ↗ years, I can talk to a lot of people

1:06:16 ↗ like, "Oh, you remember this? You

1:06:17 ↗ remember that?" I mean, I remember

1:06:19 ↗ February, I think it was 6th, 2020 and

1:06:22 ↗ like going down to my dentist's office

1:06:24 ↗ and walking across the bridge going, "Oh

1:06:26 ↗ my goodness, oh my goodness, what's

1:06:27 ↗ happen?" I mean, I knew it was

1:06:28 ↗ happening, but you know, it's that, wow,

1:06:31 ↗ it's a quiet again. And so there are a

1:06:32 ↗ lot of people who can tell you a lot of

1:06:34 ↗ those stories, but I'm wondering if you

1:06:36 ↗ could build community and pulling them

1:06:38 ↗ out to then help identify they could

1:06:41 ↗ maybe share other residents or community

1:06:44 ↗ members. And so really make it a

1:06:46 ↗ conversation and a gathering and once

1:06:49 ↗ you share the information because a lot

1:06:51 ↗ of people also if you're looking for

1:06:53 ↗ historical knowledge they might not be

1:06:55 ↗ using social media and technology as

1:06:58 ↗ much. So I'm hesitant to say oh you know

1:07:02 ↗ create a whole bunch of flyers and but I

1:07:05 ↗ think doing more community because I

1:07:08 ↗ think the data first says that we have a

1:07:11 ↗ high number of residents who are at a

1:07:13 ↗ certain age and we really want to pull

1:07:16 ↗ those residents into gather

1:07:24 ↗ at 34

1:07:26 ↗ Tom did you have something else you

1:07:28 ↗ wanted to add?

1:07:32 ↗ I'm sorry. No, I forgot to bring my hand

1:07:34 ↗ down. Sorry about that. No worries. Uh I

1:07:39 ↗ thought the organization Historical

1:07:43 ↗ very activated.

1:07:45 ↗ Yeah, we did. I believe Judy Radoff

1:07:48 ↗ reached out to them for historic photos.

1:07:50 ↗ Yeah. Uh the Isqua Historic Society.

1:07:53 ↗ Yeah. Okay.

1:07:56 ↗ You know I Jared was mentioned earlier I

1:07:58 ↗ think you he might be doing some a

1:08:00 ↗ afteraction reporting from the box

1:08:02 ↗ cyclones. So he might have like front of

1:08:05 ↗ mind like

1:08:06 ↗ current communities individuals who were

1:08:10 ↗ probably most impacted by that that

1:08:13 ↗ could maybe be intersecting with the

1:08:16 ↗ same types of no weather events like

1:08:19 ↗ like this could be or at least some

1:08:21 ↗ lessons learned about who was difficult

1:08:23 ↗ to get in touch with. that I think could

1:08:25 ↗ be helpful learn from you know the gaps

1:08:28 ↗ that we experienced.

1:08:30 ↗ Yeah.

1:08:32 ↗ Canel.

1:08:34 ↗ Yeah. So at Skyline um last year I was

1:08:38 ↗ part of the green team club at our

1:08:40 ↗ school and as part of that we made like

1:08:43 ↗ a lot of videos um that were like played

1:08:45 ↗ for the school like about recycling

1:08:47 ↗ during lunch or using reusable water

1:08:50 ↗ bottles at the stations. And I'm I'm

1:08:55 ↗ 94% sure that Isaqua High School Isqua

1:09:00 ↗ High School also has a green team club.

1:09:02 ↗ And maybe could like ask them see if

1:09:04 ↗ they do something similar. And then

1:09:06 ↗ maybe as a project for them, they could

1:09:08 ↗ make a video just like discussing

1:09:10 ↗ flooding regarding the BL and then

1:09:12 ↗ bringing in the bomb cyclone, how people

1:09:14 ↗ could be effective, what they could do,

1:09:16 ↗ and then help bring awareness to kids at

1:09:18 ↗ Isqua.

1:09:22 ↗ And then there's Yeah. Oh, sorry. What

1:09:25 ↗ was that? Green team, like a color

1:09:28 ↗ green. Yeah, green. Um, and there's

1:09:30 ↗ probably also some other clubs that talk

1:09:34 ↗ about water. I think there's like a

1:09:35 ↗ clean water club at Skyline. Um, there.

1:09:39 ↗ Yeah, it it might be helpful to like

1:09:40 ↗ look through the club list at Esqua. Um,

1:09:43 ↗ see if they have anything like that you

1:09:44 ↗ could reach out

1:09:47 ↗ to. Okay. Yeah.

1:09:52 ↗ with the flood plane maps. I don't know

1:09:55 ↗ if any of our tribal communities locally

1:09:57 ↗ are um if it's on tribal land or if

1:10:01 ↗ there maybe may experience some

1:10:04 ↗ downstream impacts with any of these

1:10:06 ↗ decisions that are made for capital

1:10:08 ↗ investments and things like that. So,

1:10:10 ↗ I'm I'm saying it out loud, but I figure

1:10:12 ↗ you're already thinking about that.

1:10:14 ↗ We've reached out to the toule and the

1:10:17 ↗ county. Oh, shoot. Oh god. Wow. I'm

1:10:21 ↗ rubbish after four. Sorry. The

1:10:24 ↗ Muckleshoot. Yes, we reached out to the

1:10:26 ↗ Muckleshoot and the Snowquali tribes um

1:10:29 ↗ and had conversations with them.

1:10:33 ↗ Um their

1:10:36 ↗ um Yes. Their their main reservations

1:10:40 ↗ are aren't in the city of Isqua, but

1:10:42 ↗ they may have ownership, but it and

1:10:45 ↗ cultural resources along the river.

1:10:47 ↗ Yeah.

1:10:48 ↗ Yeah.

1:10:51 ↗ Um, I haven't heard too many mentions of

1:10:55 ↗ specific any like cultural community

1:10:59 ↗ organizations and I don't know if our

1:11:01 ↗ list has

1:11:05 ↗ working with so much or we just to

1:11:07 ↗ develop one still. We were going to do

1:11:11 ↗ um a cultural resource

1:11:14 ↗ um to look at the the state has a

1:11:19 ↗ database of you know buildings that have

1:11:21 ↗ been designated as well as uh overlays

1:11:25 ↗ with other um

1:11:29 ↗ um potential resource locations. So we

1:11:32 ↗ were going to gather that information.

1:11:34 ↗ But if there were cultural resource

1:11:36 ↗ clubs or things like that um or like I

1:11:40 ↗ meant more like community organizations

1:11:41 ↗ that are um kind of formed around

1:11:45 ↗ specific cultural groups. Oh yeah.

1:11:49 ↗ The circle is primary

1:11:53 ↗ the circle. this circle and they are

1:11:55 ↗ really built around pulling different

1:11:58 ↗ cultural groups together and providing

1:12:01 ↗ them spaces and opportunities to

1:12:03 ↗ interact and uh meet with their heritage

1:12:05 ↗ groups that do celebrations share and

1:12:08 ↗ celebrations. Um she hasn't started

1:12:11 ↗ right here. Uh, and if you are trying to

1:12:16 ↗ connect with some families that are

1:12:19 ↗ linguistically diverse and who may also

1:12:22 ↗ be visiting her um, her organization,

1:12:27 ↗ that might be an opportunity. Um, you

1:12:30 ↗ might be able to connect with maybe some

1:12:32 ↗ families who are renting property who

1:12:35 ↗ may be of different incomes to reach

1:12:39 ↗ them and there's a lot of trust built

1:12:41 ↗ with the circle. um a lot of our

1:12:44 ↗ families. So that um I don't know she

1:12:47 ↗ can tell maybe of

1:12:49 ↗ some impacts on some houses um maybe of

1:12:54 ↗ renters who are impacted or it's great.

1:12:57 ↗ Thank you. Yeah.

1:13:01 ↗ So I have a question relating to that

1:13:03 ↗ because I was at first confused with

1:13:04 ↗ your question because I know that Gilman

1:13:07 ↗ village to me is a real thing and is

1:13:11 ↗ that a group or organization because

1:13:13 ↗ when there's planning that it's right

1:13:15 ↗ there. So is that also a group that

1:13:18 ↗ you're going to be looking at to see the

1:13:19 ↗ impact and then the entire complex by

1:13:22 ↗ the the post office that's right to see

1:13:26 ↗ the last one. So are you looking at

1:13:28 ↗ those company? Are you asking us maybe

1:13:30 ↗ what those groups do or you have those

1:13:34 ↗ kind of hits and you're planning on

1:13:36 ↗ going and talking to those? Yeah. So,

1:13:38 ↗ we're um at a very sort of interesting

1:13:41 ↗ time in our project development in that

1:13:43 ↗ we've started making an outreach plan,

1:13:47 ↗ but we haven't yet come up with our full

1:13:49 ↗ engagement strategy. And so that's why

1:13:52 ↗ we thought this was a great opportune

1:13:54 ↗ time to be gathering these strategies

1:13:56 ↗ and

1:13:57 ↗ um contacts.

1:14:00 ↗ So right now

1:14:04 ↗ um I we it the plan is in flux and

1:14:08 ↗ that's why then I would recommend

1:14:10 ↗ talking to someone at the Gilman village

1:14:12 ↗ and see if they have a little group of

1:14:15 ↗ the different businesses in Gilman

1:14:17 ↗ village because

1:14:19 ↗ historically they have been always

1:14:21 ↗ impacted and then there are couple the

1:14:24 ↗ Key Bank and couple other um restaurant

1:14:28 ↗ location businesses right next to it.

1:14:30 ↗ I've always I mean there was so much

1:14:32 ↗ water just a couple months ago in Ma and

1:14:38 ↗ Key Bank just a couple months ago for

1:14:41 ↗ that.

1:14:45 ↗ In terms of other community

1:14:47 ↗ organizations, I feel like the city has

1:14:49 ↗ a list right as part of the

1:14:50 ↗ communications toolkit. Yep. I was going

1:14:52 ↗ to say our enga communications team has

1:14:54 ↗ an engagement toolkit that lists a

1:14:57 ↗ number of key organizations to engage

1:14:59 ↗ with. I I couldn't tell you because I'm

1:15:02 ↗ not as familiar with the flood plane um

1:15:04 ↗ which is that fall within the flood

1:15:06 ↗ plane but I would imagine you pretty

1:15:08 ↗ easily be able to tell. Okay. Yeah.

1:15:10 ↗ Great. We will add those to our list

1:15:13 ↗ when we send you our list. Yeah. so that

1:15:18 ↗ you know what we know already. Capture

1:15:21 ↗ from us but I mean yeah it just it seems

1:15:24 ↗ like you know not everything is online

1:15:26 ↗ essentially there data isn't perfect and

1:15:28 ↗ there's just community groups that are

1:15:30 ↗ informal or um you know things that

1:15:34 ↗ you're not going to find online and that

1:15:36 ↗ need to know if has to be generated

1:15:39 ↗ through conversations sort of thing. So,

1:15:43 ↗ um, yeah, you might just want to throw

1:15:46 ↗ in broad club, too. I mean, I'm biased.

1:15:54 ↗ I think if Alan and

1:15:58 ↗ you department health department

1:16:01 ↗ disparity map. Yes. Yeah.

1:16:05 ↗ Pretty high like number eight, I

1:16:07 ↗ believe. For which factor?

1:16:10 ↗ Yeah, the overall disparity index. Okay.

1:16:18 ↗ So, I have a question. Um, you said, you

1:16:21 ↗ know, you develop models, right? And

1:16:23 ↗ then there's this whole question of the

1:16:26 ↗ river changing as well for various

1:16:29 ↗ reasons. So, how frequently do we do

1:16:32 ↗ these assessments? Because those models

1:16:34 ↗ can change. Yeah. And uh it seems this

1:16:37 ↗ is a lot of work to develop those models

1:16:40 ↗ right and mapping of both the technical

1:16:44 ↗ part of the river and the social

1:16:47 ↗ economic part of people has

1:16:51 ↗ to be there. So how frequently are we

1:16:55 ↗ kind of be able to do these kind of

1:16:57 ↗ assessments?

1:16:58 ↗ This is the first one for the capital

1:17:02 ↗ investment strategy for Isiqua Creek.

1:17:05 ↗ This is also the first channel migration

1:17:07 ↗ zone study for Esaqua Creek that's being

1:17:09 ↗ done now. I believe 1990 was the prior

1:17:13 ↗ flood study. Yes. So it's been a while

1:17:14 ↗ since we

1:17:17 ↗ Yeah. And what triggers that? I'm not

1:17:19 ↗ entirely sure when we decide to usually

1:17:22 ↗ jurisdiction needs to take it on. Yeah.

1:17:25 ↗ It's time for a new study that you think

1:17:27 ↗ there's some changes in the system

1:17:29 ↗ whether

1:17:30 ↗ it's increased precipitation patterns

1:17:32 ↗ and all that impacts that too. So yeah,

1:17:35 ↗ the county took it on this time. I I'm

1:17:38 ↗ not sure what drove that decision, but I

1:17:40 ↗ mean it is it's been a while. Yeah.

1:17:43 ↗ Well,

1:17:45 ↗ unfortunately the process of getting

1:17:47 ↗ those maps done and

1:17:49 ↗ adopted like the ones for the White

1:17:51 ↗ River are from the 80s. it it's

1:17:54 ↗ it's it takes a long time.

1:17:58 ↗ Um, so lots of communities and I I'm not

1:18:02 ↗ sure if this is one of them adopts in

1:18:04 ↗ our local called best available

1:18:08 ↗ science and that doesn't necessarily

1:18:11 ↗ provide the outreach and communication

1:18:13 ↗ and insurance benefits of having an

1:18:16 ↗ adopted firm map but it does mean that

1:18:18 ↗ new development does look at what is

1:18:21 ↗ current and recent. And so yes, you

1:18:24 ↗ actually every like that's a good point

1:18:26 ↗ that we flood

1:18:29 ↗ codes mitigation code. You have to

1:18:32 ↗ mitigate impacts. Anytime there's a time

1:18:33 ↗ of new development, they've got to

1:18:35 ↗ actually do a flood plane analysis and

1:18:36 ↗ look at what impacts are to their

1:18:38 ↗ facility where they're building a flood

1:18:41 ↗ plane and that that triggers remapping

1:18:44 ↗ of a section of the creek called the

1:18:46 ↗ conditional map provision. and and that

1:18:49 ↗ will

1:18:50 ↗ effectively look at what what that

1:18:53 ↗ within that defined area then you in the

1:18:55 ↗ case of Mr. like the many of these small

1:18:58 ↗ little studies almost that were flood

1:19:00 ↗ maps that were done have been done for

1:19:01 ↗ various developments. So, so it's kind

1:19:04 ↗ of peace meal all along as this study is

1:19:07 ↗ going to finally kind of

1:19:10 ↗ bring but bringing more hydraology

1:19:12 ↗ bringing current hydraology and you know

1:19:16 ↗ flow event or you know hydra he's

1:19:18 ↗ looking at climate change and all that.

1:19:20 ↗ So now it's going to be very

1:19:21 ↗ comprehensive map. They're surveying the

1:19:24 ↗ channels, you know, and so it's really

1:19:26 ↗ detailed mapping that we're do. Yeah.

1:19:29 ↗ And then in within the city, it's all

1:19:31 ↗ going to have the quality to allow us to

1:19:35 ↗ do the deep flow mapping, which is a

1:19:38 ↗ higher quality than

1:19:42 ↗ um what's minimally required for a FEMA

1:19:46 ↗ map. Um so really has been a is going to

1:19:50 ↗ be a great foundation for us to be

1:19:52 ↗ working from.

1:19:55 ↗ Um I don't know when the next

1:19:58 ↗ opportunity I your question about how

1:20:00 ↗ frequently not very frequently at all

1:20:02 ↗ this is a great step but I was just

1:20:04 ↗ wondering because things are changing so

1:20:06 ↗ fast these days and demography is

1:20:09 ↗ changing climate is changing so I was

1:20:12 ↗ just kind of wondering because of that.

1:20:15 ↗ Uh but if we have a a good map system

1:20:19 ↗ somewhere, then it's kind of easy to

1:20:21 ↗ build on from there if things if we know

1:20:25 ↗ things change. Yeah. And one of the

1:20:27 ↗ things I'm reaching out and working with

1:20:29 ↗ Jared on right now is uh gathering city

1:20:32 ↗ data for um a hazardous assessment which

1:20:36 ↗ looks at the um depth of flood waters

1:20:40 ↗ and the potential losses. And so really

1:20:42 ↗ allows us to get very um a great a a it

1:20:47 ↗ gives us one another piece of the pie

1:20:49 ↗ and it gives it will give us that piece

1:20:52 ↗ of the pie in a way that we can compare

1:20:54 ↗ with unincorporated King County which is

1:20:57 ↗ very important because our study area is

1:20:59 ↗ both but we want to work where there's

1:21:02 ↗ the most risk and so our ability to

1:21:06 ↗ match the types of mapping and assets

1:21:08 ↗ between King County and Isqua is very

1:21:10 ↗ important.

1:21:11 ↗ so that we can compare and say these

1:21:14 ↗ will provide the best benefits for

1:21:16 ↗ people

1:21:17 ↗ um when we're looking at options.

1:21:22 ↗ Well, I'm thinking about like related to

1:21:25 ↗ this if um like fish passage and issues

1:21:29 ↗ like that and

1:21:31 ↗ cocon, you know, priority for the the

1:21:34 ↗ fish hatch salmon hatchery. And so how

1:21:37 ↗ how does that does that is that part of

1:21:40 ↗ your engagement plan or thinking about

1:21:42 ↗ how to balance those priorities?

1:21:45 ↗ Yeah. So can I just add on to her

1:21:48 ↗ question is also you know um when when

1:21:53 ↗ we come to resource distribution kind of

1:21:55 ↗ thing how are we then prioritizing

1:21:58 ↗ between things like that and then maybe

1:22:02 ↗ uh you know just the the more vulnerable

1:22:05 ↗ population maybe some areas require

1:22:08 ↗ uh more input in terms of um technical

1:22:12 ↗ versus so how are those decisions being

1:22:16 ↗ made. Yeah. Yeah.

1:22:19 ↗ Um Okay. So,

1:22:22 ↗ um we will be looking at vulnerability

1:22:25 ↗ and this is a a growth area for our

1:22:28 ↗ these types of assessments. So, we will

1:22:30 ↗ absolutely be looking um and

1:22:33 ↗ prioritizing those who are most

1:22:36 ↗ vulnerable to be experiencing blood

1:22:38 ↗ impact. And like I said with

1:22:41 ↗ multibenefit, blood is first.

1:22:44 ↗ So this money that King County taxpayers

1:22:47 ↗ approved is primarily for the purpose of

1:22:50 ↗ flood risk reduction. So we will be

1:22:51 ↗ looking at that and looking to uh

1:22:54 ↗ alleviate those impacts in the most

1:22:59 ↗ um equitable

1:23:02 ↗ um you know it's always a way it's not

1:23:07 ↗ infinite. Um so that's first

1:23:12 ↗ then we will layer in the other

1:23:15 ↗ multi-benefits and um ISO has a very

1:23:19 ↗ unique

1:23:20 ↗ situation with the hatchery and where to

1:23:24 ↗ provide

1:23:26 ↗ um benefits with fish that may

1:23:30 ↗ not be upstream of the hatchery. And so

1:23:34 ↗ there's a lot of very nuanced

1:23:36 ↗ considerations in Isiqua related to fish

1:23:38 ↗ in particular. Um, and we're not looking

1:23:42 ↗ to solve those

1:23:43 ↗ considerations. We just recognize that

1:23:46 ↗ putting rock in the river is not what

1:23:47 ↗ people like and it's not what fish like.

1:23:51 ↗ And um,

1:23:53 ↗ so

1:23:54 ↗ we will try to be looking at where those

1:23:58 ↗ impacts can be avoided if we do need to

1:24:01 ↗ repair. um a lot of things. We just

1:24:04 ↗ completed a repair from the 2020 storms

1:24:06 ↗ along Isqua Hobart Road. Um that uh

1:24:10 ↗ incorporates a lot of more wood into the

1:24:13 ↗ design. Um so we're certainly looking to

1:24:18 ↗ of course meet our permanent

1:24:19 ↗ obligations, but above that provide

1:24:22 ↗ really good habitat benefit. Um but

1:24:27 ↗ blood is first and addressing the most

1:24:29 ↗ vulnerable risks, populations and the

1:24:32 ↗ risks is our our northstar.

1:24:36 ↗ Just a quick time check. Yeah. Also just

1:24:39 ↗ a quick time check. So if you have a

1:24:41 ↗ question or you have a you have

1:24:43 ↗ something to answer with the questions

1:24:45 ↗ that they presented

1:24:47 ↗ um just want to invite you to you know

1:24:50 ↗ raise your hand and let yourself be

1:24:52 ↗ known. Um, plenty of time also if you

1:24:54 ↗ want to ask like and I'm sure these two

1:24:56 ↗ would stick around to answer other flood

1:24:58 ↗ plane questions, but I want to make sure

1:24:59 ↗ they get out of tonight what they came

1:25:02 ↗ to get as well. So, just a quick time

1:25:05 ↗ check on that.

1:25:08 ↗ I just sort of quickly mentioned you

1:25:10 ↗ mentioned something about insurance and

1:25:11 ↗ I think for those skeptics out there who

1:25:13 ↗ might be coming to your listening

1:25:15 ↗ sessions or but I think providing very

1:25:18 ↗ clear explanation as to what data you're

1:25:21 ↗ collecting and what you're going to do

1:25:23 ↗ with that data and is this being used or

1:25:26 ↗ will it be used or is there some kind of

1:25:29 ↗ like after you said insurance I was like

1:25:32 ↗ hey is someone trying to build some

1:25:33 ↗ property around here is there some other

1:25:36 ↗ kind of this is my distrust coming out

1:25:39 ↗ or is there some kind of high number of

1:25:41 ↗ insurance claims that have been going

1:25:43 ↗ out in the city of Isqua? And is this

1:25:46 ↗ potentially going to impact the ability

1:25:48 ↗ for us to get insurance for some of our

1:25:51 ↗ properties and for some of our more

1:25:53 ↗ vulnerable houses and people because we

1:25:56 ↗ do have a lot of people who own property

1:25:58 ↗ for a long time in Isa. I think making

1:26:00 ↗ sure that they are clearly getting that

1:26:02 ↗ message because at first you want to

1:26:04 ↗ lean in with full trust like oh you're

1:26:06 ↗ doing a study science yay love it and

1:26:09 ↗ then it's like wait what are you going

1:26:10 ↗ to do with this data and how is this

1:26:12 ↗ negative

1:26:13 ↗ so yes

1:26:16 ↗ um a couple a couple of things with that

1:26:20 ↗ we have we

1:26:22 ↗ have the flood insurance and where there

1:26:25 ↗ have been historic claims there are

1:26:27 ↗ multiple safeguards and in fact right

1:26:29 ↗ Now I'm seeking to

1:26:32 ↗ um obtain access to that data and the

1:26:36 ↗ the people at FEMA have been let go. So

1:26:39 ↗ I

1:26:40 ↗ don't I'm going to still seek that data

1:26:43 ↗ because it's important but I can't even

1:26:47 ↗ provide it to you like that there there

1:26:50 ↗ are rules set in place related to uh

1:26:53 ↗ especially that that level of data. The

1:26:56 ↗ other part that I might say is that King

1:26:59 ↗ County in general um is um there's a

1:27:04 ↗ thing called the community rating

1:27:05 ↗ system. Um and everybody in King County

1:27:09 ↗ receives a 40% discount on their flood

1:27:11 ↗ rate insurance and that is because of

1:27:14 ↗ the mitigation actions that our group

1:27:16 ↗ does. The flood warning center gets us

1:27:19 ↗ points. Um us doing home elevations gets

1:27:22 ↗ us points. us knowing where the

1:27:25 ↗ repetitive loss properties are and

1:27:26 ↗ mitigating those either through raising

1:27:28 ↗ them or buying them out or moving them

1:27:31 ↗ back. Our channel migration zone

1:27:34 ↗ studies, all those things provide an

1:27:37 ↗ enhanced level of protection than what

1:27:40 ↗ is minimally required by the federal

1:27:42 ↗ government. And because of that,

1:27:44 ↗ everybody in King County who buys flood

1:27:46 ↗ insurance from FEMA gets a 40% discount.

1:27:49 ↗ And so the the I don't know that that

1:27:54 ↗ answers your question, but I I feel like

1:27:56 ↗ I'm not asking the question. I'm just

1:27:58 ↗ really important to share with people

1:28:01 ↗ you're talking to, especially people who

1:28:03 ↗ are worried about their property value

1:28:05 ↗ and potential growth of this area and

1:28:09 ↗ how that might negatively impact their

1:28:10 ↗ property value, their homes, this area.

1:28:13 ↗ So I don't think it's about me wanting

1:28:15 ↗ to know the information. towards being

1:28:18 ↗ aware that this is information you

1:28:19 ↗ should be ready to share clearly to or

1:28:23 ↗ at least acknowledge that we can't

1:28:25 ↗ predict the ramifications of every

1:28:26 ↗ single thing. Yeah. I mean we're not

1:28:29 ↗ developing develop zoning code or

1:28:32 ↗ anything like that but yeah

1:28:34 ↗ creating the connection between the

1:28:36 ↗ information we're collecting what

1:28:37 ↗ impacts might have like that

1:28:39 ↗ potentially.

1:28:42 ↗ Yeah. So the county actually has the

1:28:45 ↗ second

1:28:46 ↗ best score in the country in terms of

1:28:50 ↗ CRS. What are we at? It's eight or

1:28:53 ↗ seven. We're at two.

1:28:55 ↗ Your jurisdiction or anything that's

1:28:57 ↗ that's better is in Sacramento. Yeah,

1:29:00 ↗ there's only one CRS1 community and

1:29:03 ↗ there are only three CRS2 communities in

1:29:05 ↗ the state of Washington. So

1:29:09 ↗ um it's a it's a classification that we

1:29:12 ↗ get audited on. We seek to maintain it

1:29:14 ↗ to provide that benefit through doing

1:29:16 ↗ these actions

1:29:18 ↗ um

1:29:20 ↗ and seeking back back can piggy back on

1:29:22 ↗ that because we we adopt the same things

1:29:26 ↗ policies and things that the does

1:29:28 ↗ credit. So we're trying to also help

1:29:31 ↗ improve our score. Yeah. And get better

1:29:33 ↗ and better. Yeah. That's something great

1:29:35 ↗ to share. Yes.

1:29:37 ↗ Yeah, we're doing our best.

1:29:45 ↗ Well, um I don't want to wrap it up, but

1:29:49 ↗ yeah. So, I think any last questions or

1:29:53 ↗ comments for um Alexander or Natalie?

1:30:00 ↗ Okay. Well, thank you very much for uh

1:30:03 ↗ presenting and allowing this uh

1:30:06 ↗ conversation and discussion. Um I think

1:30:09 ↗ if folks have any other followups um I

1:30:12 ↗ think you're welcome. Yeah. Okay. Great.

1:30:17 ↗ Well, thank you. Yeah, I don't want to

1:30:20 ↗ speak out of turn, but really you are

1:30:22 ↗ all volunteers and the fact that you are

1:30:24 ↗ all here to help listen and provide your

1:30:28 ↗ input is so so meaningful. So, thank you

1:30:31 ↗ all so much for donating your time and

1:30:34 ↗ um your space to to listen to us

1:30:36 ↗ tonight. Thank you. Thank you.

1:30:40 ↗ All right.

1:30:41 ↗ Yeah. And I guess as we wind down our

1:30:44 ↗ joint meeting, um the last agenda item

1:30:47 ↗ is the closing thought, which again is

1:30:49 ↗ an equity board, uh it's part of our

1:30:52 ↗ standard uh meeting agenda. And we just

1:30:54 ↗ like to wrap up the meeting with like a

1:30:55 ↗ quick one or two word kind of checkout

1:30:58 ↗ question about how are you leaving the

1:30:59 ↗ meeting with? And um I think yeah if

1:31:03 ↗ someone would get us started and popcorn

1:31:06 ↗ out to someone

1:31:07 ↗ else to

1:31:11 ↗ start I can handle it.

1:31:19 ↗ I was going to say impressed at all the

1:31:21 ↗ work you all are doing on studying this

1:31:24 ↗ in this area. Happy also receiving love

1:31:29 ↗ impressed by the school.

1:31:32 ↗ So second in the country

1:31:38 ↗ um I'm feeling just a lot of gratitude

1:31:43 ↗ um of being in community with you here

1:31:45 ↗ tonight. So thank you.

1:31:48 ↗ Yeah. Grateful for your work and lot of

1:31:51 ↗ thoughts.

1:31:55 ↗ deeply reflective is what I'm going to

1:31:57 ↗ say. Yeah. Um excited that the city's

1:31:59 ↗ focusing on things like these and uh

1:32:02 ↗ focusing on different perspectives.

1:32:05 ↗ Gosh. Um I'm feeling very educated and I

1:32:08 ↗ learned a new word. I wrote it down.

1:32:10 ↗ Reetments. So look into that. Super

1:32:13 ↗ interesting. I kind of quit Google. Very

1:32:15 ↗ interesting.

1:32:18 ↗ Oh, just board member. Yeah, I agree.

1:32:22 ↗ The data says it's wonderful that

1:32:24 ↗ there's so many young people here to

1:32:25 ↗ find engaged. So that's great.

1:32:29 ↗ Feel very educated like she she said I'm

1:32:32 ↗ very impressed with all the work that's

1:32:34 ↗ going on. Yeah, I'm also impressed and

1:32:37 ↗ also intrigued. You know, I really want

1:32:39 ↗ to look into this project and I

1:32:41 ↗ definitely know a lot of businesses but

1:32:42 ↗ not their names.

1:32:44 ↗ So look into it. Yeah, it'd be great.

1:32:49 ↗ Yeah. Informed. feel super warm.

1:32:53 ↗ Yeah, I feel like I need to get on a

1:32:55 ↗ board like this in my

1:32:58 ↗ community. Evening activity.

1:33:02 ↗ So, going up to the teams. Uh Keith.

1:33:07 ↗ Yeah, just uh really interested in

1:33:09 ↗ everything. Um feel like it really piqu

1:33:11 ↗ my curiosity. I'm looking forward to

1:33:13 ↗ engaging with some of the info from uh

1:33:15 ↗ King County's flood plane management

1:33:17 ↗ online and yeah, doing a little more

1:33:18 ↗ reading after this.

1:33:21 ↗ Okay Tom.

1:33:24 ↗ Uh, well, as someone who lives along

1:33:27 ↗ Aqua Creek and has witnessed many

1:33:30 ↗ hundred-year floods in my short

1:33:35 ↗ life that I'm I'm there there's hope.

1:33:38 ↗ There's hope that us humans may figure

1:33:40 ↗ out a way to live on planet Earth and do

1:33:44 ↗ better managing the resources of our

1:33:47 ↗ creeks and streams and and all the

1:33:50 ↗ concern. So, thank you for your effort

1:33:54 ↗ and I'm I'm encouraged to see actions

1:33:58 ↗ like this going on. Thank you.

1:34:02 ↗ Canal.

1:34:03 ↗ Yeah, I'd say like a mix of like

1:34:06 ↗ informed and gratitude. I learned a lot

1:34:08 ↗ today of stuff that I was never exposed

1:34:10 ↗ to ever before. So, I appreciate that

1:34:13 ↗ and gratitude because like thanks for

1:34:15 ↗ the 40% discount.

1:34:17 ↗ [Laughter]

1:34:21 ↗ Stacy,

1:34:24 ↗ yeah, thank you. I think I believe this

1:34:26 ↗ is the first joint meeting of the

1:34:28 ↗ environmental board and equity board.

1:34:29 ↗ So, I really appreciate the two boards

1:34:32 ↗ coming together and being able to have

1:34:33 ↗ this conversation and look forward to

1:34:36 ↗ identifying future topics where we can

1:34:38 ↗ work together.

1:34:40 ↗ Great. Thanks. Did we cover everyone

1:34:42 ↗ with the closing? Okay, great. And with

1:34:45 ↗ that, I think um I adjourn this joint

1:34:49 ↗ equity and environmental board meeting.

1:34:51 ↗ Um the next meeting of the equity board

1:34:54 ↗ is on May 7th. I did not look up on the

1:34:56 ↗ environmental board, but

1:34:59 ↗ next week. Okay, there you go. Okay,

1:35:02 ↗ well, thank you all and have a good

1:35:04 ↗ evening. Really appreciated the

1:35:05 ↗ conversation tonight.

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