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Monday, April 26, 2021

7:00 PM · 2h 4m

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Cemetery 10-Year Capital Improvement Plan AB 9006 ›››››››››››››››››››››››››››››››››› 2/35

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Interlocal Agreement with Lake Sammamish State Parks for Sports Field Use AB 9046 ››››››› 4/8

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2022 Storm and Surface Water Master Plan Approve Resolution No. _______ , adopting the 2022 Storm and Surface Water Master Plan. Approve Resolution AB 7879 ›››››››››› 2/11

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1. CALL TO ORDER

Membership

packet pp.3

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Staff report:

Park Board About Staff Liaison Created in 1983, this board provides guidance and Milissa Ching, Operations Specialist direction in meeting the City’s parks and Email recreational needs by advising the Mayor and Parks & Recreation Director on matters relating to the Regular Members planning; acquisition, development; and operation 2025 - Vacant of parks, facilities and recreational programs inside 2022 of 2025- Danielle Githens the City limits. 2024 - Marlene Waxe 2024 - Zack Szablewski Membership 2023 - Chris Kovac The Park Board is comprised of nine regular 2022 - Bradley Book members, with four-year terms; and two 2022 - Ruben Nieto alternates, with two-year terms. All members are 2022 - Jonathan Richardson appointed by the Mayor and subject to 2022 - Linda Whitworth confirmation by the City Council. Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For more information, see Alternate Members…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of March 29, 2021

packet pp.5–7

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 03-22-2021 Park Board Minutes 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting March 22, 2021 DRAFT MINUTES

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Lake Sammamish State Park Trails Plan

30 min · Bill Way, Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park

Topics: Parks

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Storm and Surface Water Master Plan Update, (I, D)

30 min · Gary Schimek, Utilities Engineering Manager Engineer · packet pp.9–17

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

2022-2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) 4/26/21 | PARK BOARD

6-Year Capital Improvement Plan Update, (I, D)

Director and Jennifer Fink, Park Planner and · 30 min · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services

Topics: ParksBudget

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5. REPORTS

Director's Report

Chairperson's Report

Youth Report

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0:00 ↗ okay welcome everyone

0:03 ↗ uh good evening and uh welcome to the

0:06 ↗ april 26 2001 2021

0:10 ↗ park board meeting it was a track of

0:12 ↗ decades

0:15 ↗ and uh first of all i kind of would like

0:17 ↗ to

0:18 ↗ um start with the approval of minutes

0:21 ↗ and

0:22 ↗ my new way of doing this kind of

0:23 ↗ expedites things so

0:25 ↗ as everybody had an opportunity to

0:27 ↗ review minutes

0:29 ↗ and any comments or concerns for

0:32 ↗ corrections

0:35 ↗ and if not are there is there any

0:38 ↗ objection to the approval of minutes

0:43 ↗ not seeing any objections so

0:46 ↗ i hereby approve minutes from our last

0:48 ↗ meeting

0:49 ↗ in march

0:55 ↗ uh before

0:58 ↗ we get started actually i'm going to do

1:01 ↗ roll call now and then i'll bring jeff

1:03 ↗ in for a minute

1:05 ↗ uh so i want to roll call with all of

1:07 ↗ the board members

1:08 ↗ uh please just um i'm i don't know that

1:12 ↗ you're muted because that's controlled

1:14 ↗ by melissa in this new process but

1:16 ↗ if you are unmute yourself and just say

1:18 ↗ here when i call your name

1:20 ↗ uh chris

1:24 ↗ here present linda

1:28 ↗ here reuben

1:33 ↗ see that hand reuben here here we are

1:37 ↗ jonathan here uh marlene

1:42 ↗ here hey thanks everyone for that

1:47 ↗ well we have some disturbing news which

1:49 ↗ i think all of you are well aware of

1:51 ↗ and um jeff is going to say a few words

1:55 ↗ before we get started with our meeting

1:56 ↗ so jeff go ahead yeah thanks brad

2:00 ↗ i i certainly don't have anything formal

2:02 ↗ but but wanted to recognize

2:04 ↗ the loss of our our dear friend and um

2:08 ↗ fellow park board member carl reece uh

2:10 ↗ passed away

2:11 ↗ uh carl had shared with me a couple

2:14 ↗ months ago that he had

2:16 ↗ uh was not going to seek reappointment

2:18 ↗ uh this would have been carl's last

2:20 ↗ meeting with us um he knew he had a

2:22 ↗ medical procedure coming up

2:24 ↗ and was sort of looking forward to his

2:26 ↗ next chapter after that

2:29 ↗ i think through a series of of tragic

2:32 ↗ events

2:33 ↗ we were notified a couple weeks ago with

2:36 ↗ his family that

2:37 ↗ carl passed away i just i

2:41 ↗ i so appreciated carl's service here

2:43 ↗ with the park board we always knew we'd

2:44 ↗ get an honest

2:46 ↗ opinion and and position from carl

2:50 ↗ um he really had a heart for issaquah

2:52 ↗ and um

2:53 ↗ just wanted to to recognize um him not

2:56 ↗ only for his service but

2:57 ↗ just who he was as a person so um

3:01 ↗ brad i don't know if you have anything

3:02 ↗ you want to add but i'd love to ask for

3:04 ↗ a moment of silence before we

3:07 ↗ uh before we continue on with the

3:08 ↗ meeting

3:11 ↗ uh nothing you said it very eloquently

3:13 ↗ jeff um you know

3:14 ↗ he will be missed and like you said he

3:16 ↗ was a very valued member of the board

3:19 ↗ on behalf of the board i just want to

3:20 ↗ send condolences uh to his family i know

3:23 ↗ he had a few children

3:24 ↗ and i know how rough this has got to be

3:26 ↗ for them

3:28 ↗ so in light of uh light of this please

3:30 ↗ let's

3:31 ↗ have 30 seconds of silence

3:35 ↗ on behalf of the passing of carl

3:55 ↗ okay that's a that's a rough way to

3:57 ↗ start a meeting but

3:59 ↗ certainly we wanted to acknowledge uh

4:02 ↗ this recent event

4:04 ↗ uh so moving forward uh our next uh item

4:07 ↗ on the

4:09 ↗ agenda here is a public comments

4:12 ↗ uh do we have anybody that signed up uh

4:14 ↗ melissa to make any comments

4:18 ↗ yes i have connie marsh with her hand

4:20 ↗ raised so i'm going to go ahead

4:21 ↗ and promote her up and i also have

4:23 ↗ jeremy noble who's on the attendee list

4:25 ↗ so i'm going to add

4:26 ↗ him up to the group as well just one

4:28 ↗ moment okay

4:33 ↗ okay jeremy's been added connie you

4:37 ↗ have the floor okay we'll all start off

4:41 ↗ with carl

4:42 ↗ well shoot people should live for

4:44 ↗ freaking ever don't you think

4:47 ↗ i mean why do we have to die

4:50 ↗ it's craziness change that jeff

4:56 ↗ yeah right okay so now public comment

4:59 ↗ which is going to seem sort of

5:00 ↗ you know

5:03 ↗ normal uh and because i'm going to talk

5:06 ↗ about stormwater

5:07 ↗ because i love i just love storm water

5:11 ↗ because storm water is basically all of

5:14 ↗ our water it falls from the sky and it

5:16 ↗ hits everything and then it

5:17 ↗ all drains down toward lakes and amish

5:20 ↗ and it

5:20 ↗ impacts everything in its way and if

5:23 ↗ it's

5:24 ↗ if it's not going that's a problem if

5:27 ↗ too much is happening

5:28 ↗ that's also a problem it impacts us it

5:31 ↗ impacts our habitat

5:32 ↗ now the city of mississippi has long

5:34 ↗ held storm water as something that

5:37 ↗ that we should control so we armored our

5:39 ↗ streams

5:40 ↗ and we've piped our storm water we've

5:43 ↗ even very recently

5:44 ↗ buried storm water uh

5:49 ↗ because it was convenient so tonight it

5:52 ↗ sounds like

5:53 ↗ that they are asking you to make

5:57 ↗ uh an opinion on how

6:01 ↗ rigorously and strongly we should

6:03 ↗ prioritize storm water

6:05 ↗ as as a thing to make it better

6:09 ↗ and so i posed the question

6:12 ↗ who are we making it better for are we

6:15 ↗ going to continue our pathway forward to

6:17 ↗ make it

6:17 ↗ better for people and what that has done

6:22 ↗ is it is eroded our habitat

6:25 ↗ substantially um

6:28 ↗ we have armored our creeks and

6:32 ↗ then we've uh disarmed our creeks and

6:34 ↗ then because we conveniently want to put

6:37 ↗ a bridge in

6:38 ↗ then we created a buttress and armored

6:40 ↗ the same place we just got rid of the

6:41 ↗ armoring

6:42 ↗ and it looks to me like this year we

6:45 ↗ have maybe

6:46 ↗ four different stream armoring projects

6:50 ↗ because the high water started eroding

6:52 ↗ our streams

6:54 ↗ and several of these are in parks now do

6:56 ↗ we actually

6:57 ↗ want to keep the streams from meandering

6:59 ↗ as they are supposed to do

7:01 ↗ in order to create a variety of habitat

7:04 ↗ uh i think we need to stop you know if

7:07 ↗ we are

7:08 ↗ if you look over at the state park where

7:10 ↗ all the water wants to go

7:12 ↗ we've channelized the creek we're

7:15 ↗ constantly manipulating

7:16 ↗ the situation sometimes you just have to

7:19 ↗ let it go to

7:20 ↗ create the habitat so that we can save

7:22 ↗ our environment which is a priority with

7:24 ↗ this town

7:26 ↗ so with parks as we do allow storm water

7:29 ↗ facilities

7:30 ↗ in parks which i don't know how many of

7:32 ↗ you are familiar with that

7:34 ↗ i think you need to create policies

7:36 ↗ because the policies have not been

7:38 ↗ changed yet

7:39 ↗ in advance of the stormwater master plan

7:42 ↗ so it sounds like they're going to be

7:43 ↗ going sort of simultaneously

7:45 ↗ shocking uh i think you need to create

7:48 ↗ some policies

7:50 ↗ that mandate that stormwater facilities

7:52 ↗ and parks become

7:54 ↗ a community asset that they are

7:56 ↗ something that adds

7:58 ↗ to a park not just a place for

8:01 ↗ water to be treated or held ischa

8:04 ↗ highlands is a

8:05 ↗ gorgeous example of this right you go up

8:07 ↗ there you have huge ponds

8:09 ↗ you have trails around the ponds but

8:11 ↗ many of the ponds are just naked

8:13 ↗ they are naked because in the past the

8:16 ↗ storm water people did not want things

8:18 ↗ around their ponds because they dumped

8:20 ↗ leaves it was higher maintenance and

8:22 ↗ on and on so i think we need to change

8:26 ↗ how we look at this whole scenario you

8:29 ↗ guys have sort of the park's purview

8:32 ↗ and also you often end up with the parks

8:35 ↗ land

8:36 ↗ being the um the stream enhancements

8:40 ↗ that this group also includes in their

8:43 ↗ in their

8:44 ↗ master plans so i don't know if the

8:46 ↗ parks department has ever

8:47 ↗ discussed these particular improvements

8:50 ↗ in the list and how they have worked

8:51 ↗ over time i think that would be an

8:53 ↗ interesting education so last pitch

8:56 ↗ yes more for the natural um

8:59 ↗ i think we can do both at the same time

9:01 ↗ we can make it better for man

9:03 ↗ and better for natural but i'm even more

9:07 ↗ toward the systems for habitat

9:12 ↗ and less for the convenience of man

9:15 ↗ thank you thank you connie i appreciate

9:18 ↗ your comments

9:19 ↗ not a surprise

9:24 ↗ so melissa uh anybody else from the

9:27 ↗ community that would like to make a

9:28 ↗ comment this evening

9:30 ↗ not at this time okay we will close

9:34 ↗ public comments at this time

9:36 ↗ and move on to regular business we have

9:39 ↗ three items on the agenda this evening

9:41 ↗ we're going to have a presentation about

9:44 ↗ the

9:44 ↗ lake sammamish trails plan

9:47 ↗ we are going to have a presentation

9:49 ↗ about stormwater the stormwater plan

9:52 ↗ and a presentation on the six-year

9:55 ↗ cip and um

10:00 ↗ melissa if you could join in

10:04 ↗ david kapler and um

10:07 ↗ jennifer at this time i'd appreciate it

10:10 ↗ so that they can

10:11 ↗ make comments with bill if they need to

10:14 ↗ you got it

10:15 ↗ they're coming up to the panelists list

10:17 ↗ there you go

10:23 ↗ so welcome david and welcome jen

10:25 ↗ appreciate your attendance this evening

10:27 ↗ and bill will pass this over to you

10:30 ↗ and uh jennifer fink is going to

10:33 ↗ manage your powerpoint for you here this

10:36 ↗ evening which you did

10:37 ↗ very nicely put together uh there's

10:40 ↗ about 22 screens i believe

10:42 ↗ is what it was and so jennifer

10:45 ↗ if you could uh get that started

10:48 ↗ i'd appreciate that it's like we're

10:51 ↗ getting started

10:52 ↗ and there we are so bill i will pass

10:55 ↗ this on to you

10:56 ↗ and just let jen know when you would

10:58 ↗ like to have a screen advanced

11:00 ↗ for your discussion go ahead bill

11:13 ↗ bill muted we need to unmute him

11:15 ↗ anything going on

11:18 ↗ as a panelist bill should be able to

11:20 ↗ unmute himself

11:21 ↗ okay there you go i got you

11:25 ↗ we can hear you now bill go ahead

11:28 ↗ i just got bumped

11:32 ↗ you're good we can see you we can hear

11:33 ↗ you oh you can

11:35 ↗ i can't see you

11:38 ↗ um i guess i'll just uh wing it with

11:41 ↗ what i'm doing here

11:43 ↗ can you see the presentation bill no i

11:46 ↗ can't

11:48 ↗ i might have bumped something should i

11:51 ↗ bump the

11:52 ↗ cisco webex again or what am i

11:57 ↗ yeah try going down to your toolbar at

11:59 ↗ the bottom

12:00 ↗ and see if you can find uh the screen on

12:04 ↗ your internet explorer

12:16 ↗ so i clicked the screen uh

12:20 ↗ it says cisco webex add

12:25 ↗ uh what browser are you using chrome or

12:28 ↗ firefox or

12:30 ↗ edge i've been on the whole time until i

12:33 ↗ i've made a bunk

12:36 ↗ okay here maybe this is going to do it

12:47 ↗ all right

12:58 ↗ i can but we got an echo here bill for

13:00 ↗ some reason

13:05 ↗ any idea jennifer what would cause the

13:07 ↗ echo

13:08 ↗ he's in the list he's in twice brad so

13:11 ↗ i've muted the duplicate for him that

13:14 ↗ should do it

13:17 ↗ go ahead bill can we hear you now

13:23 ↗ sir daniel sounds like an echo again

13:32 ↗ yeah unfortunately we have an echo um

13:35 ↗ melissa is it possible to

13:37 ↗ excuse one of bill's bill somehow you're

13:40 ↗ on the webex now twice

13:42 ↗ and so we're getting a reverb um

13:47 ↗ yeah let me go ahead and um

13:51 ↗ demote that extra one hold on one second

14:06 ↗ and just as i was telling you bill that

14:07 ↗ we had all this worked out and things

14:09 ↗ should be flawless here we go

14:16 ↗ it looks like you've removed one

14:20 ↗ but i'm still in an echo

14:44 ↗ any luck melissa yeah i think we're

14:47 ↗ gonna have to he would have to close out

14:49 ↗ um it might be best for him to just

14:52 ↗ close all the way out and then come back

14:54 ↗ in

14:54 ↗ um thanks i just thought chris's note

14:56 ↗ too that would probably be the best

14:58 ↗ approach at this point

15:02 ↗ so in light of that i'm wondering if we

15:05 ↗ want to

15:06 ↗ make a little bit of a shift in the

15:08 ↗ agenda and

15:09 ↗ maybe bring on the storm water folks

15:12 ↗ rather than to wait for bill to come

15:14 ↗ back in yeah i was going to suggest that

15:17 ↗ same thing

15:17 ↗ brad that's your pleasure that's a great

15:19 ↗ idea uh so why don't you go ahead and

15:23 ↗ x out of the powerpoint that looks good

15:26 ↗ jennifer

15:26 ↗ and um let's uh bring in uh

15:30 ↗ gary and alan here to talk about the

15:32 ↗ storm water plan at this time

15:33 ↗ and then when that'll be done in 30

15:36 ↗ minutes and then by that time we should

15:38 ↗ be able to have

15:39 ↗ bill back in and move forward with that

15:42 ↗ i don't know which of you two is leading

15:44 ↗ the show here but uh

15:45 ↗ gary why don't you say a few words

15:48 ↗ certainly thank you so much

15:49 ↗ i just want to make sure everybody can

15:51 ↗ see

15:53 ↗ the powerpoint screen that i'm sharing

15:55 ↗ yes can

15:56 ↗ perfect okay thanks

16:00 ↗ thanks very much for that intro and uh

16:02 ↗ i'm glad we could jump in here

16:04 ↗ so uh good evening board members it's my

16:07 ↗ first presentation to you hopefully one

16:09 ↗ of uh

16:09 ↗ one of many uh my name again is gary

16:12 ↗ schimack

16:13 ↗ the relatively new utilities engineering

16:16 ↗ manager here at the city

16:18 ↗ my colleague and i alan quinn are here

16:21 ↗ today

16:21 ↗ to discuss the storm and surface water

16:23 ↗ master plan

16:24 ↗ update and in addition seek your

16:26 ↗ feedback on the plan

16:29 ↗ well i've only been working here in a

16:30 ↗ sequoia 90 days

16:32 ↗ i have been in the water resources and

16:34 ↗ environment environmental engineering

16:36 ↗ field for nearly three decades

16:38 ↗ prior to joining issaquah i served as a

16:41 ↗ utilities manager for the city of

16:42 ↗ redmond

16:44 ↗ as for six years and then was a senior

16:46 ↗ drainage and wastewater manager

16:48 ↗ for seattle public abilities for 13

16:50 ↗ years

16:52 ↗ and of course i should not go any

16:54 ↗ further without noting that my family

16:56 ↗ and i have enjoyed

16:57 ↗ the wonderful outdoors parks food and

16:59 ↗ beverages

17:00 ↗ and entertainment and all that issoquaz

17:03 ↗ offers since the early 90s so

17:05 ↗ i'm very happy to be working here on

17:08 ↗ that note let's look at tonight's

17:16 ↗ agenda

17:21 ↗ there we go a little bit

17:24 ↗ uh purpose tonight is to provide an

17:26 ↗ overview of the methodology

17:29 ↗ uh to develop the storm and surface

17:30 ↗ water master plan

17:33 ↗ and as i have mentioned seek your

17:34 ↗ feedback on the plan and in general

17:37 ↗ and also three specific questions i will

17:39 ↗ tee up those questions in a few minutes

17:41 ↗ uh after we look at uh as the first

17:44 ↗ agenda topic

17:46 ↗ after we get to those questions or the

17:48 ↗ input we're looking for uh

17:49 ↗ briefly provide an overview of

17:51 ↗ stormwater issues

17:52 ↗ that issue really and most cities have

17:55 ↗ have been

17:56 ↗ and are facing now and very similar to

17:58 ↗ what connie

17:59 ↗ actually talked about in her opening

18:01 ↗ statements

18:02 ↗ uh i've included this this stormwater

18:05 ↗ overview or

18:06 ↗ stormwater 101 uh as an agenda item

18:09 ↗ based on feedback that we received

18:12 ↗ from the environmental board earlier

18:14 ↗ this month

18:16 ↗ alan and then ellen and i will then

18:18 ↗ provide an overview on our work to date

18:20 ↗ next steps and then seek your feedback

18:28 ↗ so what what we're looking to looking

18:31 ↗ for

18:31 ↗ uh tonight uh in addition to any general

18:34 ↗ comments you might have

18:35 ↗ uh is your your feedback on three

18:37 ↗ particular issues

18:38 ↗ uh first one that again connie talked

18:41 ↗ about what what priority stormwater

18:43 ↗ issues

18:44 ↗ uh are most important to address for the

18:46 ↗ entire city in your perspective and for

18:48 ↗ parks

18:49 ↗ maybe they quote maybe they're one in

18:50 ↗ the same

18:52 ↗ second question what are your thoughts

18:54 ↗ on our criteria to prioritize issues and

18:56 ↗ solutions we'll be

18:57 ↗ alan will be going over that slide and

19:00 ↗ then the very end

19:02 ↗ come back to me and how aggressive

19:04 ↗ should we be

19:06 ↗ in addressing climate change so this is

19:08 ↗ a little teaser here and we'll come back

19:10 ↗ to these

19:10 ↗ at the end of the formal presentation

19:12 ↗ but please keep this in mind as we go

19:14 ↗ along

19:19 ↗ so again before we jump into the master

19:21 ↗ plan i'd like to provide context in

19:23 ↗ relation to

19:24 ↗ stormwater runoff stormwater pollution

19:28 ↗ and potential solution sets uh to both

19:30 ↗ those issues

19:32 ↗ so as we moved from forested to rural

19:35 ↗ and then to urban land use here in

19:37 ↗ issaquah and of course

19:39 ↗ everywhere else in our region there were

19:42 ↗ unanticipated negative consequences

19:44 ↗ related to stormwater

19:46 ↗ as the graphic at the top left as you

19:48 ↗ face the screen

19:50 ↗ shows only a small portion of rainfall

19:53 ↗ converts to storm water runoff

19:56 ↗ under forested conditions you know about

19:59 ↗ 90 percent of rainfall under these

20:01 ↗ forested conditions either infiltrates

20:03 ↗ or is utilized and processed by trees

20:06 ↗ shrubs

20:07 ↗ plants the remaining you know about 10

20:09 ↗ percent

20:10 ↗ is stormwater runoff now these

20:14 ↗ percentages change drastically as land

20:16 ↗ use moves from forested urban conditions

20:19 ↗ whereby storm water runoff increases

20:21 ↗ from about 10 percent to 55 percent on

20:23 ↗ any

20:24 ↗ given parcel of property and without

20:27 ↗ proactive measures

20:28 ↗ these this increase in stormwater runoff

20:32 ↗ results in increased peak flows and

20:33 ↗ thereby flooding

20:35 ↗ increased bank erosion and channel scour

20:38 ↗ and thereby sediment loading and finally

20:41 ↗ increased pollutant loading

20:43 ↗ because storm water collects and conveys

20:44 ↗ chemicals and debris

20:46 ↗ into our storm water systems and local

20:48 ↗ water bodies

20:50 ↗ the graph on the lower right as you face

20:53 ↗ the screen

20:53 ↗ attempts to show that the time between

20:56 ↗ the onset of rain and the peak

20:58 ↗ flood flow is also decreased under urban

21:01 ↗ conditions

21:03 ↗ all these impacts i described are really

21:05 ↗ the result of a lack of natural storage

21:08 ↗ and treatment for the rain in forested

21:11 ↗ condition rain is stored in the soils

21:13 ↗ trees and plants rather than being

21:15 ↗ converted to runoff

21:17 ↗ and their rainfall is treated when it's

21:20 ↗ infiltrated

21:21 ↗ by the soil and associated

21:22 ↗ microorganisms

21:25 ↗ now another thing connie just did a

21:28 ↗ great job in teaming this up uh these

21:30 ↗ physical changes as they occur

21:32 ↗ uh the runoff increases have direct

21:34 ↗ effects on humans and aquatic species

21:37 ↗ even with my limited time here at

21:40 ↗ issaquah the city

21:41 ↗ i'm keenly aware of the serious impacts

21:43 ↗ to residential homes and businesses due

21:45 ↗ to flooding

21:47 ↗ i'm also aware of beach closures in the

21:49 ↗ greater seattle area due to high

21:50 ↗ pollutant concentrations

21:52 ↗ and most of us are all aware of

21:55 ↗ declining fish populations

21:57 ↗ not only in our region but in our own

21:59 ↗ issaquah watersheds due to the many

22:00 ↗ factors we've talked about

22:02 ↗ including excessive flooding water

22:04 ↗ quality declines

22:06 ↗ lack of habitat and lack of food sources

22:08 ↗ for the fish populations

22:11 ↗ so let's focus just a bit on water

22:13 ↗ quality impacts before we talk about

22:15 ↗ possible short and long term solutions

22:16 ↗ to these serious problems

22:20 ↗ now both both the graphics here the

22:22 ↗ bullet list

22:23 ↗ and the little schematic basically tell

22:25 ↗ the same story

22:26 ↗ there are many possible sources of water

22:29 ↗ pollution in our urban landscape

22:31 ↗ uh most common solutions was what's kind

22:33 ↗ of shown in the

22:35 ↗ in the list on bottom right street

22:37 ↗ runoff from

22:38 ↗ a host of automobile components

22:42 ↗ road salt industrial waste pesticides

22:45 ↗ fertilizers

22:46 ↗ pet yard waste trash

22:49 ↗ and then rooftop driveway runoff and

22:51 ↗ leaky septics

22:53 ↗ now the good part of this bad news

22:56 ↗ is that the loading of many of these

22:58 ↗ pollutants that you see here

23:00 ↗ into our environment may be

23:02 ↗ significantly reduced by

23:04 ↗ changing day-to-day practices at work

23:06 ↗ and at home

23:08 ↗ the same good news holds true for

23:12 ↗ volumes of runoff and peak floats

23:16 ↗ on that note let us briefly look into

23:19 ↗ the solutions sets that we may have to

23:21 ↗ address these serious issues

23:24 ↗ so just a reminder as you know as a

23:26 ↗ society we began to better

23:28 ↗ understand the stormwater related

23:31 ↗ impacts of moving from a forested to

23:33 ↗ urban landscape probably

23:34 ↗ you know back in the 60s 1960s the

23:37 ↗ national pollution discharge elimination

23:39 ↗ system npds permit

23:41 ↗ program began to address water pollution

23:44 ↗ by

23:44 ↗ regulating sources that discharge

23:47 ↗ pollutants

23:48 ↗ into the waters of the united states

23:51 ↗ created in 1972 by the clean water act

23:54 ↗ this npds permit program is authorized

23:57 ↗ to state governments

23:58 ↗ by epa to perform many permitting

24:01 ↗ administrative and enforcement aspects

24:03 ↗ of the program

24:05 ↗ now much time has elapsed and many

24:07 ↗ lessons have been learned since 1972 in

24:09 ↗ the creation of that act

24:11 ↗ the existing focus of this npds permit

24:14 ↗ regulations that are geared to

24:17 ↗ reduce the impacts of the stormwater

24:19 ↗ runoff which which kind of our solution

24:21 ↗ set

24:21 ↗ are the following stormwater planning

24:26 ↗ public education and outreach public

24:29 ↗ involvement and participation i know

24:30 ↗ that's near and dear to many

24:32 ↗ of your hearts storm system mapping and

24:35 ↗ documentation

24:36 ↗ illicit discharge detection controlling

24:39 ↗ runoff from

24:40 ↗ new development redevelopment and

24:42 ↗ construction sites

24:44 ↗ operations and maintenance good

24:46 ↗ housekeeping

24:48 ↗ source control programs and then um

24:52 ↗ the evaluation of total maximum daily

24:55 ↗ daily loads

24:56 ↗ and monitoring and assessment programs

24:58 ↗ so that that's a portfolio of

25:00 ↗ you know regulations but they're also

25:02 ↗ solutions

25:04 ↗ uh last thing on this couple things that

25:06 ↗ on this slide before we jump to the

25:08 ↗ master plan

25:09 ↗ uh the actions on the top left as you're

25:11 ↗ facing the screen are something we can

25:13 ↗ all do

25:14 ↗ you know at home and at businesses in

25:16 ↗ little ways that that actually can make

25:17 ↗ a difference

25:19 ↗ uh just kick off a few here cover piles

25:21 ↗ of dirt mulch yard waste and other

25:23 ↗ debris

25:24 ↗ uh direct downspouts away from paved

25:26 ↗ services clean and clean roof gutters

25:29 ↗ check vehicles for leaks cover trash

25:32 ↗ containers

25:32 ↗ clean up waste so you know these are big

25:35 ↗ problems that we have but there are a

25:37 ↗ lot of small things that we can do

25:38 ↗ in addition to the big capital programs

25:40 ↗ and projects

25:42 ↗ and in the bottom right i just found

25:44 ↗ this while i was doing some research for

25:46 ↗ for this presentation and this is a it's

25:49 ↗ a three phases approach for

25:50 ↗ for cities to consider i'll summarize

25:53 ↗ but the first

25:54 ↗ first point here is adopting a long-term

25:56 ↗ approach

25:57 ↗ including capital programs uh capital

26:00 ↗ improvement plans and master plans which

26:01 ↗ are speaking about today

26:03 ↗ managing storm water close to where

26:05 ↗ precipitation falls

26:07 ↗ and then finally a little bit again back

26:10 ↗ to back to economy here

26:12 ↗ innovative technologies that can provide

26:14 ↗ benefits

26:15 ↗ beyond storm water such as community

26:17 ↗ amenities air quality

26:20 ↗ still be very cost effective and still

26:22 ↗ have a drainage and legal nexus to

26:24 ↗ to solving our problems

26:28 ↗ okay now we jump to the master plan so

26:30 ↗ i'm hoping that that

26:32 ↗ little stormwater 101 that i gave and

26:34 ↗ didn't give to the environmental board

26:36 ↗ will help out for the rest of this

26:38 ↗ presentation as a kind of a grounding

26:40 ↗ grounding board so desired outcomes um

26:46 ↗ we're we're hoping that this this plan

26:48 ↗ and implementation of this plan

26:50 ↗ uh achieves the following a road map or

26:53 ↗ you're basically a living document that

26:55 ↗ will help us reduce flooding improve

26:56 ↗ water quality

26:58 ↗ and habitat across the city and and the

27:00 ↗ document that will reviewed over time on

27:02 ↗ a regular basis

27:05 ↗ incise clear and concise policy

27:07 ↗ direction from which we can build

27:08 ↗ projects and programs under this

27:10 ↗ umbrella and again we're going to be

27:11 ↗ seeking some direction from you tonight

27:14 ↗ uh smart goals and performance targets

27:16 ↗ that we can track and report on

27:18 ↗ transparently over time

27:21 ↗ a list a very clear list of priority

27:24 ↗ actions

27:25 ↗ not only capital projects but operating

27:27 ↗ programs maintenance activities

27:29 ↗ uh that we can again hold ourselves

27:32 ↗ accountable to implement

27:35 ↗ of course compliance with the npds

27:37 ↗ permit that i mentioned

27:39 ↗ and then also compliance with the

27:40 ↗ department of ecology grant requirements

27:43 ↗ uh that we we receive to develop a

27:45 ↗ watershed scale plan and to be clear

27:47 ↗ this grant

27:48 ↗ is a mechanism that will allow us as a

27:50 ↗ city to go beyond

27:52 ↗ the basic permit requirements uh to

27:55 ↗ for doing just one base into looking at

27:57 ↗ all our bases so

27:58 ↗ a big shout out to the department of

28:00 ↗ ecology for the grant

28:02 ↗ um and to alan and his team for writing

28:04 ↗ a great application

28:05 ↗ uh you know that that one one of some

28:08 ↗ dollars

28:11 ↗ i thought would be helpful to provide a

28:12 ↗ summary of some plans guidelines

28:15 ↗ codes that may influence our work

28:19 ↗ or may be influenced by our work and

28:22 ↗ i've broken these down into

28:23 ↗ two categories the city and then

28:25 ↗ regional federal and i think this will

28:27 ↗ you know i can go over all these i'll

28:29 ↗ call out a couple

28:30 ↗ but i think this will will help us all

28:33 ↗ ground ourselves in realizing this is

28:35 ↗ going to be a very collaborative plan

28:37 ↗ across the city and across the region

28:39 ↗ we're going to be seeking a lot of input

28:42 ↗ so just some of the plans that i'll call

28:44 ↗ out here that we need to be in alignment

28:46 ↗ with of our city comprehensive plan

28:48 ↗ city strategic plan and then of course

28:51 ↗ park strategic plan

28:52 ↗ green necklace plan uh central issaquah

28:55 ↗ and old town plans and others and in

28:58 ↗ regards to regional and federal efforts

29:01 ↗ any city and county plans that exist and

29:03 ↗ are related to storm water

29:05 ↗ our water resource inventory area plans

29:08 ↗ and then uh washed out and fema program

29:11 ↗ rules and

29:12 ↗ and guidelines

29:17 ↗ and my final slide before handing it off

29:19 ↗ to alan here is

29:20 ↗ a overview of our schedule so let's just

29:24 ↗ highlight a few things here you know

29:25 ↗ there's a lot going on

29:27 ↗ but as we briefly touched upon the work

29:29 ↗ has been going on since 2009 and has

29:31 ↗ included identification of city-wide

29:33 ↗ flooding water quality and habitat

29:35 ↗ issues

29:37 ↗ through stakeholder engagement and

29:38 ↗ internal workshops

29:41 ↗ we've also documented existing based on

29:43 ↗ physical conditions such as water

29:44 ↗ quality and flow

29:47 ↗ through comprehensive research of

29:49 ↗ existing data and documents

29:52 ↗ and what lies ahead through the rest of

29:54 ↗ this year into early 2022

29:57 ↗ is the development of policy policy

29:59 ↗ directives that are consistent with the

30:01 ↗ city's

30:02 ↗ strategic and comprehensive plans as i

30:04 ↗ mentioned the long-term goals and

30:06 ↗ associated performance measures

30:08 ↗ and the priority actions again that are

30:11 ↗ not only projects but programs and

30:13 ↗ activities and

30:14 ↗ policies and stakeholder engagement as

30:18 ↗ we're doing tonight is going to continue

30:20 ↗ a committed committed to you and others

30:23 ↗ through the rest of this project

30:24 ↗ now this includes multiple touch points

30:27 ↗ with city council

30:29 ↗ external and internal stakeholders and

30:31 ↗ then three city

30:32 ↗ boards beyond the parks board that's

30:35 ↗ policy and planning commission

30:37 ↗ economic vitality commission and then of

30:39 ↗ course the environmental board

30:41 ↗ and then finally as you can see we're

30:44 ↗ hoping

30:44 ↗ to have the plan for adoption to city

30:46 ↗ council in first quarter 2022.

30:51 ↗ so now i will turn it over to mr quinn

30:53 ↗ uh to highlight our stagecoach

30:55 ↗ engagement work

30:57 ↗ great thank you gary uh yeah my name is

31:00 ↗ alan quinn senior stormwater engineer

31:02 ↗ with the city of this aqua uh just a

31:04 ↗ quick background on myself i've been

31:06 ↗ um with the city of issaquah for two and

31:09 ↗ a half years

31:10 ↗ um i have about 27 years total in

31:13 ↗ stormwater management

31:15 ↗ working in that field so quite a while

31:17 ↗ before his aqua i worked for the city of

31:19 ↗ rancho cordova in california

31:21 ↗ and then 17 years at the city of renton

31:24 ↗ before that

31:26 ↗ i grew up in in bellevue

31:29 ↗ raised in bellevue but have fond

31:31 ↗ memories of

31:32 ↗ ebissoqua and the salmon days and

31:35 ↗ so it's a you know near near to my heart

31:38 ↗ um i also lived in this islands back in

31:41 ↗ 1999 to 2007 so one of the first

31:45 ↗ residents up in the highlands when that

31:47 ↗ development was

31:49 ↗ built uh back in 1998 and then moved

31:52 ↗ back to bellevue

31:53 ↗ um to raise my family so just a quick

31:56 ↗ background on that um so start with the

31:59 ↗ slide

32:00 ↗ stakeholder engagement slide so there

32:03 ↗ was a

32:03 ↗ extensive amount of outreach that the

32:06 ↗ city conducted

32:07 ↗ um you know we we reached out to the key

32:10 ↗ stakeholders

32:11 ↗ and identified those stakeholders and

32:14 ↗ back in

32:15 ↗ late 2009 internal and external

32:18 ↗ stakeholder kickoff meeting

32:20 ↗ included all external agencies such as

32:23 ↗ washdot king county snoqualmie tribe

32:27 ↗ wdfw

32:28 ↗ ecology as well as key departments in

32:31 ↗ the city we had

32:32 ↗ parks department operations department

32:35 ↗ um

32:36 ↗ and that was sort of i gave a quick an

32:38 ↗ orientation for about two hours

32:40 ↗ describing what we're trying to do our

32:42 ↗ goals

32:43 ↗ for the thermostats water master plan

32:47 ↗ and as part of that meeting we had a um

32:52 ↗ sort of a people could not slides but we

32:55 ↗ had just

32:56 ↗ paper charts where people could uh go up

32:59 ↗ to and mark and and identify problems

33:01 ↗ you know had maps of the city and they

33:03 ↗ could provide input as to where they saw

33:06 ↗ issues so we had a good idea

33:08 ↗ geographical issue

33:09 ↗ area where people were seeing problems

33:11 ↗ both in terms of water quality water

33:13 ↗ flow

33:14 ↗ and habitat and then in

33:17 ↗ in early 2020 we did our community

33:20 ↗ outreach

33:20 ↗ the second phase of our out of our

33:22 ↗ engagement

33:24 ↗ and that was decided to we decided to do

33:26 ↗ an online survey

33:27 ↗ and a mapping tool uh our communications

33:30 ↗ team decided that was the best way to

33:31 ↗ reach out to communities as opposed to

33:33 ↗ having

33:34 ↗ um you know like a school

33:38 ↗ elementary school uh often you don't get

33:40 ↗ a lot of participation at those events

33:41 ↗ so the online was we thought was the way

33:43 ↗ to go

33:44 ↗ so we did you know media blasts and um

33:47 ↗ and had set up the survey questions for

33:51 ↗ uh community community to answer and

33:53 ↗ respond to

33:55 ↗ and we i got a fairly good response we

33:57 ↗ had about 74

33:58 ↗ respondents which is considered

34:01 ↗ relatively good

34:03 ↗ for this type of engagement and then

34:06 ↗ to some of the survey questions we asked

34:08 ↗ were uh one was where have you seen

34:10 ↗ flooding in the

34:11 ↗ in your community and have you noticed

34:13 ↗ any long-term changes in water flow and

34:15 ↗ creeks and water quality

34:17 ↗ and then in addition to the questions uh

34:19 ↗ folks could

34:20 ↗ online um there's a map that they could

34:24 ↗ that was available that people could

34:25 ↗ mark on the map exactly where they had

34:27 ↗ problems so we had a geo-referenced

34:29 ↗ so we had the problems and then the

34:31 ↗ location of those problems

34:33 ↗ and and people could comment and so we

34:35 ↗ have all that information all that data

34:37 ↗ available

34:38 ↗ um and then uh we did a council briefing

34:42 ↗ and then kovitz hit and then we decided

34:46 ↗ against having a formal council meeting

34:47 ↗ and then instead we did an out

34:49 ↗ or a council outreach memo so basically

34:51 ↗ a

34:52 ↗ four-page memo to council explaining

34:55 ↗ you know what we're doing why we're

34:56 ↗ doing it um and that occurred in uh

34:59 ↗ in april of in 2020 we finally get got

35:02 ↗ that to the to the council

35:04 ↗ um

35:08 ↗ so basically what we did this was an

35:09 ↗ important part of this survey was that

35:11 ↗ it

35:11 ↗ we needed that to inform our watershed

35:15 ↗ characterization studies that we were

35:16 ↗ doing so that's like the first phase of

35:18 ↗ the master plan was to first identify

35:20 ↗ what are the problems in the city uh

35:23 ↗ through various sources you know are not

35:26 ↗ so the community

35:26 ↗ and and our operations department and

35:29 ↗ use that information to come up with a

35:31 ↗ you know a list of all the problems and

35:33 ↗ then we from that we could then

35:34 ↗ prioritize those problems

35:36 ↗ um as far as the second phase so

35:40 ↗ um oh before i forget we did also have a

35:42 ↗ and it speaks to this meeting we did

35:44 ↗ have

35:44 ↗ two outreach meetings specifically with

35:47 ↗ parks department

35:48 ↗ so with jennifer and jeff we had a

35:51 ↗ meeting to discuss

35:53 ↗ the old town community neighborhood and

35:56 ↗ what we could do

35:57 ↗ for addressing significant stormwater

35:59 ↗ issues in old town

36:01 ↗ and that work involved

36:04 ↗ looking at options for utilizing parks

36:06 ↗ and this speaks to connie's

36:08 ↗ comment earlier that you know try to

36:10 ↗ where there's where we can collaborate

36:12 ↗ with the parks

36:13 ↗ and have a joint use facility we were

36:15 ↗ looking at that as

36:17 ↗ and and said certainly and that's

36:19 ↗ something that we wanted to make sure

36:20 ↗ you know we're all on board with and

36:22 ↗ parks is okay with that concept where we

36:24 ↗ could

36:24 ↗ use to have a park and potentially use

36:27 ↗ um

36:28 ↗ use that for a storm facility but you

36:30 ↗ know so so we had a lot of

36:32 ↗ in discussion on that um

36:35 ↗ and so i thought we you know that was a

36:37 ↗ great collaboration meeting

36:40 ↗ and then and lastly then you know we

36:42 ↗ want to look at

36:43 ↗ future for future engagement we're going

36:46 ↗ to look at uh

36:46 ↗ policy decisions that we need to uh for

36:49 ↗ addressing participation patterns due to

36:50 ↗ climate change

36:51 ↗ and other goals and strategies and

36:53 ↗ actions and programs to achieve

36:55 ↗ those those goals and strategies next

36:58 ↗ slide

37:01 ↗ so the basic characterization report uh

37:04 ↗ was

37:04 ↗ actually a significant effort that was

37:07 ↗ that our consultant helped prepare

37:09 ↗ for and you know for the master plan

37:12 ↗ that was uh

37:13 ↗ you know each there's five basins within

37:15 ↗ the city that we were

37:17 ↗ identify um looking at and so

37:20 ↗ determining existing conditions in those

37:22 ↗ in those basins with regard to you know

37:24 ↗ what is the flow

37:25 ↗ what is the uh you know water quality of

37:28 ↗ those basins

37:29 ↗ and then what's the issue with habitat

37:32 ↗ um

37:33 ↗ so we took the all the known issues from

37:36 ↗ all of our research we did a lot of

37:37 ↗ uh working with um

37:42 ↗ we had we hydraulic models that we

37:44 ↗ updated and we had

37:46 ↗ a huge amount of water quality

37:48 ↗ monitoring data that we were able to

37:49 ↗ utilize and put into the reports

37:52 ↗ uh that helped us identify water quality

37:54 ↗ trends and then

37:55 ↗ um based on that we could assess the

37:57 ↗ influences of the

37:59 ↗ land use on the on the on each of the

38:02 ↗ basins

38:02 ↗ next slide

38:07 ↗ and here's some of the just a real

38:09 ↗ simple table that shows

38:12 ↗ uh identifies some for each of the

38:13 ↗ basins what we saw in terms of flow

38:15 ↗ issues water quality habitat erosion and

38:18 ↗ maintenance so these are all

38:19 ↗ what came out of the the survey that we

38:21 ↗ conducted so you can kind of see the

38:23 ↗ number of

38:23 ↗ issues particularly this quad creek is a

38:25 ↗ more problematic basin

38:27 ↗ and so that's where we're going to you

38:28 ↗ know focus a lot of our efforts

38:33 ↗ next slide

38:38 ↗ and then lastly so what's going to come

38:40 ↗ out of these characterization reports is

38:42 ↗ then

38:42 ↗ a suite of

38:45 ↗ solutions to solve the problems that

38:47 ↗ we've identified

38:49 ↗ and to come up with those suite of

38:51 ↗ solutions we need to

38:52 ↗ be able to you know prioritize those and

38:54 ↗ what are the basically the metrics we're

38:56 ↗ going to use for

38:57 ↗ prioritizing all the possible solutions

39:00 ↗ and so here's some

39:01 ↗ thing prioritization metrics that uh for

39:04 ↗ consideration by the board

39:06 ↗ uh one of the effectiveness of solving

39:08 ↗ you know how can we you know how

39:09 ↗ effective is it in solving a particular

39:11 ↗ problem at hand and

39:12 ↗ the three main problems as i said are

39:14 ↗ water flow water quality and habitat

39:17 ↗ um land ownership you know is it is

39:19 ↗ privately owned publicly owned

39:22 ↗ how easy is it to construct permitting

39:24 ↗ issues

39:25 ↗ extensive protein involved obviously

39:28 ↗ costs and funding opportunities where we

39:30 ↗ can get grants and so forth

39:31 ↗ and timing and coordination with other

39:34 ↗ projects within the city and other

39:35 ↗ partnerships

39:36 ↗ mountains to sounds the non-profits

39:39 ↗ working with them

39:41 ↗ and of course that doesn't meet

39:42 ↗ regulatory requirements in particular

39:44 ↗ mbds phase ii

39:45 ↗ permit um and then of course considering

39:48 ↗ environmental social justice i'm going

39:49 ↗ to make sure that we

39:51 ↗ you know we're equitably you know these

39:53 ↗ these projects are solving problems and

39:54 ↗ all of the

39:55 ↗ communities in the city and making sure

39:57 ↗ that disadvantaged community

39:59 ↗ communities are are you know can realize

40:02 ↗ the benefits of some of our

40:04 ↗ solutions and then lastly um what you

40:07 ↗ know downstream benefits to lake

40:08 ↗ sammamish

40:09 ↗ and how can we improve the water quality

40:13 ↗ and habitat

40:13 ↗ at the state park

40:18 ↗ and i think that's the last slide and

40:20 ↗ then i guess gary takes over from here

40:22 ↗ thank you

40:23 ↗ thank you alan appreciate it so i'm

40:26 ↗ going to finish off the

40:27 ↗ uh presentation here the formal

40:29 ↗ presentation by

40:30 ↗ uh speaking very briefly about our

40:33 ↗ climate change approach options

40:35 ↗ and then we'll get a question and

40:36 ↗ answers and your feedback questions

40:39 ↗ one of them is based on this topic so

40:42 ↗ just for grounding

40:43 ↗ um the latest predictions that i'm aware

40:46 ↗ of on how climate change

40:48 ↗ might obtain might impact regional

40:50 ↗ precipitation patterns and therefore

40:52 ↗ stormwater runoff include a likelihood

40:56 ↗ of a greater

40:57 ↗ these high duration short intensity

40:59 ↗ storm events and a slight increase

41:01 ↗ in summer precipitation totals and a

41:03 ↗ corresponding decrease in winter now the

41:06 ↗ greater

41:06 ↗ likelihood in these high duration

41:09 ↗ short intensity events

41:13 ↗ may impact storm and surface water

41:14 ↗ management in very tangible ways

41:16 ↗ higher peak flows greater erosive forces

41:19 ↗ in our streams

41:20 ↗ and decreased water quality due to

41:22 ↗ greater sediment input

41:26 ↗ there are also of course potential

41:27 ↗ changes to temperature patterns that

41:28 ↗ might

41:29 ↗ impact riparian and wetland flora and

41:31 ↗ fauna

41:32 ↗ um so this master plan will include a

41:35 ↗ proposed uh

41:36 ↗ approach uh to take on

41:39 ↗ to address the impacts of climate change

41:41 ↗ based on best available silence

41:44 ↗ now currently there there is no mandated

41:46 ↗ plan that

41:47 ↗ this aqua must take so i'd like to

41:49 ↗ describe four options

41:51 ↗ um at a very high level that we are

41:54 ↗ considering and again we'll like get

41:55 ↗ your feedback on uh first is basically

41:58 ↗ no action unless required until until

42:01 ↗ predictions

42:02 ↗ about the impacts uh are more certain

42:05 ↗ or until other communities adopt

42:08 ↗ strategies and policies that have

42:09 ↗ defined actions that we could maybe work

42:12 ↗ with

42:13 ↗ option two is a minimal proactive

42:15 ↗ approach now this could

42:17 ↗ consider design standard changes for new

42:20 ↗ projects based on

42:21 ↗ a better understanding of how regional

42:23 ↗ precipitation may change

42:26 ↗ option three is a moderate proactive

42:28 ↗ approach would again

42:29 ↗ include include uh

42:32 ↗ the pieces with the minimal approach but

42:35 ↗ also

42:36 ↗ could talk about retrofitting

42:39 ↗ existing store mod facilities to new

42:41 ↗ design stances

42:43 ↗ uh we could also investigate real-time

42:46 ↗ control of storm modified

42:48 ↗ facilities to optimize storage and

42:50 ↗ potentially illustrate what a future

42:52 ↗ 100-year floodplain might look like on

42:54 ↗ issaquah creek

42:56 ↗ now on the very high end of the scale

42:57 ↗ aggressive proactive approach

42:59 ↗ would in addition to everything we just

43:02 ↗ talked about

43:02 ↗ would also include or potentially

43:04 ↗ include things like working with uw

43:06 ↗ or another uh research institute uh to

43:09 ↗ develop

43:09 ↗ issaquah specific uh precipitation

43:13 ↗ time series that we can can use to

43:14 ↗ better understand um

43:16 ↗ what what may happen in our area uh we

43:19 ↗ could also look at

43:20 ↗ uh not only developing that 100 year

43:23 ↗ future floodplain but actually

43:24 ↗ regulating it based on the best

43:26 ↗ available science

43:28 ↗ so that's the gamut that we we are

43:29 ↗ looking at and we would like

43:31 ↗ we will be requesting your feedback on

43:34 ↗ so that is a segue

43:35 ↗ to i'll just open it up now for alan and

43:37 ↗ i but also

43:39 ↗ uh back to these uh the feedback

43:41 ↗ questions here

43:43 ↗ um again the first one is just off the

43:45 ↗ cuff what you guys would like to see

43:47 ↗ um and then the second two again we we

43:49 ↗ had slides so we can go back to those if

43:52 ↗ need be so

43:53 ↗ brad i'll let you decide how you want to

43:56 ↗ move on from here

43:59 ↗ well let's see here if we have any

44:01 ↗ comments or questions from any board

44:03 ↗ members to begin with

44:04 ↗ reuben i see your hand up go ahead

44:06 ↗ reuben

44:08 ↗ reuben you need to unmute yourself

44:14 ↗ they can hear me i can go ahead i wanted

44:17 ↗ to go back to that one slide it showed

44:19 ↗ up

44:19 ↗ things residents could do i think it

44:21 ↗ would do it yourself it was oh yes

44:24 ↗ it was in the upper left-hand corner

44:27 ↗ yes yeah how we can help i was wondering

44:30 ↗ um when i first moved this about 30

44:33 ↗ something years ago

44:34 ↗ the real estate agent handed me a little

44:36 ↗ packet of welcome to issaquah something

44:38 ↗ put out by the city

44:39 ↗ or was dropped off on my porch that had

44:41 ↗ all these resources

44:43 ↗ i don't know if that's something we

44:44 ↗ would want to consider i mean one thing

44:46 ↗ i've noticed is

44:47 ↗ there are things that i could do and i

44:50 ↗ think they wouldn't be that hard but i'm

44:51 ↗ not really sure how to do them

44:53 ↗ and there's two options i can get a

44:55 ↗ resource that's

44:56 ↗ written or somebody could put together

45:01 ↗ i use youtube a lot you know how to fix

45:02 ↗ this how to fix that

45:04 ↗ it's all the resource that could be

45:05 ↗ either animated or or

45:08 ↗ sort of a youtube podcast that might

45:10 ↗ show

45:11 ↗ how can you do certain things like i saw

45:12 ↗ that one about running your gutters

45:15 ↗ off the pavement almost all my gutters

45:19 ↗ were

45:19 ↗ built to go onto the pavement so i'm

45:22 ↗ trying to figure it

45:23 ↗ you know how could i do something like

45:25 ↗ that

45:26 ↗ so it'd be helpful to have some kind of

45:27 ↗ resource that at least give me some ways

45:29 ↗ to look at it how to do it

45:31 ↗ and make sure i'm doing it correctly

45:32 ↗ again nothing

45:34 ↗ uh disturbingly difficult but things

45:36 ↗ that would be easy to do

45:38 ↗ that's a great recommendation is if

45:40 ↗ there's any kind of a resource

45:41 ↗ site or location where you can see

45:44 ↗ here's the things you could do

45:46 ↗ when somebody buys a house maybe they

45:47 ↗ get a packet of resources the city

45:49 ↗ provides

45:50 ↗ as you know as a new homeowner blah blah

45:52 ↗ blah blah you know there's things you

45:53 ↗ can do

45:55 ↗ i mean i'm looking at some even simple

45:56 ↗ things like where i live in my

45:57 ↗ neighborhood

45:58 ↗ most of us don't have fences like people

46:01 ↗ are starting to cut down trees either

46:03 ↗ legally illegally i don't know

46:05 ↗ and so i'm trying to figure out how do i

46:06 ↗ plant something

46:08 ↗ not to replace the tree but at least

46:11 ↗ create some barrier

46:12 ↗ and some element of water containment

46:17 ↗ thank you reuben two things there just

46:19 ↗ real quick uh

46:20 ↗ one we'll i know we have a lot of good

46:22 ↗ information you know in our

46:24 ↗ public works engineering probably you

46:25 ↗ know even beyond that so i will i will

46:27 ↗ get that

46:28 ↗ to jennifer maybe to pass along as as it

46:30 ↗ makes sense

46:31 ↗ and the second um uh we've also had

46:34 ↗ similar comments to yours and we're

46:36 ↗ we're actually embarking on creating a

46:37 ↗ stormwater 101 video

46:39 ↗ hopefully that um you know some of your

46:43 ↗ ideas really

46:44 ↗ you know resonate with me and what we

46:45 ↗ could potentially do so

46:47 ↗ we'll keep you keep you in the loop on

46:49 ↗ that as well so thank you thank you

46:54 ↗ any other questions or comments from

46:55 ↗ board members

46:59 ↗ i'm going to kind of scroll through here

47:01 ↗ to see if i see any raised hands

47:04 ↗ you could also actually say something in

47:07 ↗ chat if you want to be called upon

47:13 ↗ looks like a pretty quiet crowd here

47:16 ↗ this evening

47:18 ↗ i guess my only comment to you guys

47:20 ↗ primarily would be i'm

47:22 ↗ i'm in support of connie's comments

47:25 ↗ certainly

47:26 ↗ but certainly we also have to find

47:28 ↗ balance and we can't necessarily

47:31 ↗ uh totally you know weigh everything

47:34 ↗ towards the environment completely in an

47:36 ↗ urban development area

47:38 ↗ so to try and find win-win solutions

47:41 ↗ would certainly be my

47:42 ↗ suggestion if there is such a thing i'm

47:44 ↗ not a i'm not an engineer so i leave it

47:46 ↗ to you guys to figure that out

47:48 ↗ but it seems like we really need to

47:50 ↗ weigh heavily upon the environment

47:52 ↗ but certainly not necessarily um

47:57 ↗ you know at the expense of urban

47:59 ↗ development either

48:00 ↗ so you know that that's that's the

48:03 ↗ challenge i guess before you

48:06 ↗ well i appreciate that brad and that's

48:08 ↗ something that you know just so you know

48:09 ↗ we have a

48:11 ↗ fairly extensive well not too expensive

48:13 ↗ but a 12 or 13 member

48:14 ↗ internal uh stakeholder team and

48:17 ↗ jennifer's part of that

48:18 ↗ so we'll you know we will i don't you

48:20 ↗ know we're looking at policies now so we

48:22 ↗ will definitely work with some language

48:24 ↗ uh that connie and you kind of talked

48:26 ↗ about here that balancing

48:29 ↗ and i think that holds to you know the

48:31 ↗ the parks

48:32 ↗ public works relationship but also the

48:34 ↗ city as a whole the the balance to the

48:36 ↗ environment and

48:37 ↗ development so um i like your your you

48:40 ↗ know use of that word balance so i think

48:42 ↗ you'll see something like that

48:44 ↗ uh from us uh well i can guarantee you

48:46 ↗ will you will

48:47 ↗ we will we will float that up through

48:48 ↗ our through our team here on both those

48:50 ↗ issues

48:52 ↗ you know as far as climate change uh you

48:54 ↗ know i think we need to be as aggressive

48:56 ↗ as funding will allow in terms of future

48:58 ↗ planning in that regard

49:01 ↗ you know i think there's a lot of

49:02 ↗ uncertainties in that particular area

49:04 ↗ but uh to stay on top of the science is

49:07 ↗ is needed uh and to be

49:10 ↗ proactive when the time is right um

49:14 ↗ you know again i i think you're always

49:17 ↗ better ahead

49:18 ↗ you know to do proper planning and be

49:21 ↗ proactive

49:21 ↗ than to be trying to recover from some

49:25 ↗ sort of

49:25 ↗ you know hardship later on so i guess

49:28 ↗ that's my two

49:29 ↗ cents on that one okay

49:33 ↗ brad may i add something sure

49:36 ↗ who who who is this uh kepler

49:39 ↗ oh hi david sure go ahead david go ahead

49:42 ↗ thank you

49:43 ↗ it turns out tomorrow at 8 30 i'm

49:45 ↗ meeting uh somebody named gary um

49:49 ↗ on the preston trail to go in and look

49:52 ↗ at the

49:52 ↗ site over there where the pump station

49:55 ↗ has been proposed to get um

49:57 ↗ water up to the highlands or a duplicate

50:01 ↗ pipeline um also but

50:04 ↗ we're right in here we're we're mixed

50:06 ↗ it's all mixed up

50:08 ↗ what could be for our park trails and

50:11 ↗ the site's a mess it's got it's had

50:14 ↗ camping on it for years there's garbage

50:16 ↗ all over

50:16 ↗ and the rest but there's all kinds of

50:19 ↗ invasive plants

50:21 ↗ but there's springs coming out of the

50:22 ↗ hills so we have year-round

50:24 ↗ water in these wetlands and real small

50:27 ↗ creeks and ponds

50:29 ↗ so there's a lot of chance for habitat

50:32 ↗ we want to get trails that go from the

50:34 ↗ preston trail up to the highlands um

50:36 ↗ to the western part of the highlands

50:38 ↗ more of a hiking type trails

50:40 ↗ so we got a real mix of county or

50:43 ↗ well former county land we got a mix of

50:45 ↗ city park

50:46 ↗ potential and then public public works

50:49 ↗ storm water

50:50 ↗ money if you look at your utility bill

50:53 ↗ unfortunately

50:55 ↗ jeff sees a different one for his but

50:57 ↗ not being issaquah resident but

50:59 ↗ there's sections there there's a water

51:01 ↗ section there's a

51:02 ↗ city sewer section there's a metro sewer

51:06 ↗ you know we pay so much to get it to the

51:08 ↗ metro

51:09 ↗ and then metro's gotta take it from here

51:12 ↗ to renton and then deal with it all

51:15 ↗ you know everything and there's a storm

51:17 ↗ water fee

51:18 ↗ that's part of your water bill as well

51:21 ↗ and storm water

51:22 ↗ people can't be out really doing park

51:25 ↗ stuff

51:26 ↗ but they can if we can be working with

51:28 ↗ park people

51:29 ↗ and storm water people we can get some

51:32 ↗ park-like things

51:33 ↗ that are meeting stormwater goals

51:37 ↗ we're working well together i know

51:39 ↗ that's the intent here

51:40 ↗ but i want to really emphasize how how

51:43 ↗ important it is that the parks

51:45 ↗ and the public works are working

51:47 ↗ together

51:48 ↗ we all you know drives me nuts to see

51:51 ↗ these um

51:52 ↗ the ponds over there on on a 900

51:56 ↗ that are for talis that are still owned

51:57 ↗ by the developer i guess but

51:59 ↗ you know they're a big wasteland all

52:01 ↗ around it everything's cut down except

52:03 ↗ the um

52:04 ↗ the um the invasive plants that are

52:07 ↗ wanting to get there especially tansy

52:08 ↗ right hoard

52:09 ↗ but um you know how but then if you have

52:12 ↗ trees around those ponds

52:14 ↗ then you're getting leaves and things

52:15 ↗ gets you know drains get plugged and

52:17 ↗ it's

52:18 ↗ it's the whole deal it's it's it's not a

52:20 ↗ simple thing

52:21 ↗ but the i'm really encouraged by just

52:24 ↗ seeing this

52:24 ↗ interface here tonight between public

52:27 ↗ works and parks

52:28 ↗ and how we can we can we can do better

52:31 ↗ and efficiently do better

52:33 ↗ thank you thanks david thank you i made

52:36 ↗ a special exception just for you david

52:38 ↗ tonight

52:39 ↗ okay uh jeff go ahead

52:43 ↗ yeah really appreciate the discussion

52:45 ↗ gary allen thank you so much for this

52:47 ↗ i just want to reiterate a couple of

52:49 ↗ things um

52:50 ↗ you know as this is the surface

52:52 ↗ stormwater master plan we so appreciate

52:55 ↗ um public works taking that long view

52:57 ↗ and are really excited

52:59 ↗ to assist and aid in taking that long

53:02 ↗ view with them as well and

53:03 ↗ as we've certainly worked with the

53:05 ↗ community and tried to take that long

53:07 ↗ view with

53:07 ↗ with the park strategic plan um

53:10 ↗ and i think gary you touched on this a

53:12 ↗ little bit too and that

53:14 ↗ you know a lot of this is is sort of

53:16 ↗ look

53:17 ↗ to find near-term solutions it's so

53:19 ↗ valuable to take the long view

53:21 ↗ and to understand as we look at really

53:24 ↗ really important stormwater

53:25 ↗ infrastructure

53:27 ↗ to protect the environment as we look at

53:29 ↗ really really important investments

53:31 ↗ in park infrastructure to encourage

53:34 ↗ livability

53:36 ↗ um there's balance

53:39 ↗ there's opportunities for creative

53:43 ↗ solutions that might

53:44 ↗ serve multiple benefits and that's where

53:46 ↗ we really

53:47 ↗ um i just look forward to this journey

53:50 ↗ this isn't a one-time discussion

53:52 ↗ uh this is hopefully something that that

53:54 ↗ we continue and embark on and

53:58 ↗ long-term strategic plans aren't meant

54:00 ↗ to just gather dust on a shelf they

54:02 ↗ really

54:03 ↗ i think set a goal set some policies

54:05 ↗ begin to set some habits

54:07 ↗ to find those near-term opportunities to

54:09 ↗ do some new stuff

54:11 ↗ one last comment i would just i would

54:13 ↗ add to your prioritization

54:16 ↗ gary and alan is you mentioned ownership

54:19 ↗ land ownership

54:20 ↗ though i think that's a priority and i

54:23 ↗ would agree to

54:24 ↗ it i would want to make sure that's not

54:27 ↗ scored as a

54:28 ↗ good or a bad because i i think what

54:30 ↗ we're going to find

54:31 ↗ as we continue on in this endeavor there

54:34 ↗ might be strategic acquisition

54:35 ↗ opportunities

54:37 ↗ that could serve both an acquisition

54:39 ↗ benefit and a park benefit

54:40 ↗ so it's not necessarily how do we just

54:44 ↗ stuff stuff

54:45 ↗ in what we already have but how do we

54:47 ↗ find those strategic public investments

54:49 ↗ to do

54:50 ↗ multiple good so uh thank you again both

54:53 ↗ for for being here

54:55 ↗ yes thank you gary and alan both you're

54:58 ↗ welcome

54:59 ↗ so we'll see you again so look forward

55:02 ↗ to it

55:03 ↗ okay i appreciate your help tonight

55:06 ↗ so let's move on to uh the next uh

55:09 ↗ opportunity here

55:10 ↗ and uh bill sorry we had a bit of a

55:13 ↗ glitch

55:14 ↗ but uh we'll see whether or not part two

55:16 ↗ here works any better so

55:18 ↗ can we hear you bill

55:22 ↗ go ahead and say something bill here we

55:25 ↗ are

55:25 ↗ i don't hear any echo either so i think

55:27 ↗ we're good

55:28 ↗ and also melissa if you could re-engage

55:31 ↗ david and jennifer

55:32 ↗ if they're both still with us so that

55:34 ↗ they can

55:35 ↗ uh pop in for any comments that they

55:37 ↗ might like to make along the way as well

55:40 ↗ absolutely that's done thank you

55:43 ↗ okay bill you have the floor all right

55:46 ↗ then

55:47 ↗ just uh let jennifer know when you want

55:49 ↗ to advance the screen

55:50 ↗ and high tech we'll do it all right we

55:53 ↗ can move to the second screen right now

55:59 ↗ and here we go so

56:02 ↗ i'm uh on the board of friends of lake

56:05 ↗ sammamish

56:06 ↗ uh jennifer who's in the background

56:08 ↗ somewhere is the executive director

56:11 ↗ um i spent the last three years as

56:15 ↗ have uh several other people

56:18 ↗ uh on the board uh david kepler is not

56:23 ↗ on the board but he

56:24 ↗ was a charter member and he's on our

56:27 ↗ trail committee

56:32 ↗ when uh we had discussions with

56:36 ↗ the state parks and they said you know

56:39 ↗ with

56:40 ↗ your success having these events on top

56:43 ↗ of

56:44 ↗ of activities that are already uh just

56:47 ↗ people coming in the park

56:48 ↗ were maxed out so it'd be great if you

56:51 ↗ folks could figure out how to

56:54 ↗ increase year-round use of lake snyder

56:56 ↗ state park

56:58 ↗ and a bunch of us said oh my gosh you

57:00 ↗ know we could

57:01 ↗ improve uh the trail so they could be

57:04 ↗ year-round trails

57:05 ↗ which they clearly for most part are not

57:09 ↗ another element is ada practically

57:12 ↗ because we're in flat land

57:14 ↗ um there's huge constraints half the

57:18 ↗ park is wetlands

57:19 ↗ uh we've got you know i don't know how a

57:21 ↗ mile of lake frontage we've got

57:24 ↗ four different streams coming through

57:28 ↗ um anytime you do improvements to

57:31 ↗ uh existing uh

57:35 ↗ trails that are in wetlands you can't

57:37 ↗ put fill in

57:38 ↗ for various local state and federal

57:41 ↗ regulations but you can put

57:42 ↗ boardwalks in but boardwalks are

57:45 ↗ extremely expensive

57:46 ↗ so we uh also

57:49 ↗ wanted to uh self-mitigate as we

57:53 ↗ went with these various trail proposals

57:55 ↗ and

57:56 ↗ think twice about you know do we really

57:58 ↗ need this trail or that trail

58:00 ↗ and maybe use decommissioning as a

58:02 ↗ mitigation

58:04 ↗ strategy to move forward others

58:07 ↗ internal and external connectivity um

58:11 ↗ internal obvious external uh how do we

58:15 ↗ match up with city trails uh

58:18 ↗ next slide so this is

58:22 ↗ the eight and a half by eleven uh or

58:24 ↗ shot to whatever size

58:26 ↗ that uh shows

58:29 ↗ the various recommendations in the park

58:32 ↗ for trail improvements

58:33 ↗ and then at the bottom it spells out the

58:37 ↗ brief on the 14 recommendations which

58:40 ↗ i'll be elaborating

58:41 ↗ next go ahead to the next

58:47 ↗ the first project is we have a boardwalk

58:50 ↗ uh that goes to the mouth of its o'clock

58:53 ↗ creek

58:54 ↗ and uh connects up to the lower

58:58 ↗ the foot bridge and then fall iscock

59:00 ↗ creek trail

59:01 ↗ to the foot so footsteps of microsoft

59:04 ↗ slash

59:08 ↗ commercial uh business part

59:12 ↗ and unlike most of the projects

59:16 ↗ this one has a lack of uh

59:19 ↗ wetlands and so we get a lot of bang for

59:22 ↗ the buck bike

59:23 ↗ building this and by getting it to the

59:25 ↗ doorstep

59:26 ↗ of a business park and then i'll show

59:29 ↗ you momentarily

59:30 ↗ uh the notion of putting the

59:33 ↗ notion on to do improvements to make a

59:36 ↗ trail

59:37 ↗ through the business part so next slide

59:43 ↗ consistent with that there's a parallel

59:45 ↗ trail on the north

59:47 ↗ east side uh that goes out to the mouth

59:50 ↗ of this creek that

59:52 ↗ until the pandemic hit was pretty

59:55 ↗ non-existent and we proposed to

59:58 ↗ decommission it because it's duplicative

1:00:01 ↗ and uh we couldn't you know what are we

1:00:04 ↗ going to put us

1:00:05 ↗ two boardwalks out through the wetlands

1:00:08 ↗ and so

1:00:08 ↗ decommission it and use it for leverage

1:00:10 ↗ to build other projects

1:00:12 ↗ next slide

1:00:16 ↗ so we came up with this notion of a

1:00:19 ↗ gravel bar trail

1:00:22 ↗ and just before we went to press

1:00:26 ↗ i heard a presentation about mountain

1:00:28 ↗ sound greenway

1:00:30 ↗ they they wanted to reactivate this

1:00:33 ↗ uh uh oxfo

1:00:37 ↗ for hydraulically uh as part of their

1:00:40 ↗ uh project for uh doing stream

1:00:43 ↗ restoration

1:00:44 ↗ uh within lake city state park so it's a

1:00:47 ↗ little over a mile of

1:00:48 ↗ israel creek one of the components is

1:00:51 ↗ this

1:00:51 ↗ uh so

1:00:55 ↗ we have well we we don't want to get in

1:00:56 ↗ their roads so we pulled it

1:00:58 ↗ and so this is kind of a floater right

1:01:00 ↗ now we we need to have a gravel bar

1:01:03 ↗ trail somewhere where but we have not

1:01:04 ↗ identified a specific location

1:01:07 ↗ next slide

1:01:11 ↗ so this was a i mentioned first uh the

1:01:15 ↗ off-site trail that uh is

1:01:18 ↗ through a business park at the end of

1:01:21 ↗ the first leg of this clark creek trail

1:01:24 ↗ that would go on the north side so that

1:01:26 ↗ people work there could instead of

1:01:29 ↗ running across

1:01:30 ↗ the street

1:01:33 ↗ and sidewalks they'd actually have a

1:01:35 ↗ trail and that trail would

1:01:38 ↗ connect uh east lake ceramics regional

1:01:41 ↗ trail

1:01:42 ↗ on one side and to lake center state

1:01:45 ↗ park

1:01:45 ↗ on the on the west side so

1:01:49 ↗ leverage and whether or not they would

1:01:52 ↗ have an interest but

1:01:53 ↗ uh you get once one step and then you

1:01:56 ↗ can maybe

1:01:57 ↗ get leverage to make something big

1:01:59 ↗ happen off-site

1:02:01 ↗ next slide and then

1:02:04 ↗ the continuation is clock creek trail

1:02:06 ↗ upper israel creek trail that goes from

1:02:09 ↗ the steps of the business park to

1:02:12 ↗ southeast 56th street uh would be kind

1:02:16 ↗ of

1:02:18 ↗ cool to do but there's a lot of

1:02:20 ↗ complicating factors that

1:02:21 ↗ there's a buck creek is eroding into the

1:02:24 ↗ trail

1:02:25 ↗ uh it's got a lot of dog legs in it that

1:02:27 ↗ go into

1:02:28 ↗ wetlands that happen to be uh during a

1:02:30 ↗ flood event it's back waters of this

1:02:32 ↗ clock creek

1:02:34 ↗ and it's off property it's on actually

1:02:36 ↗ corporate uh

1:02:37 ↗ park property and then we get back onto

1:02:40 ↗ what is now

1:02:41 ↗ uh lake cement state park property that

1:02:44 ↗ was as a result of

1:02:45 ↗ gifting from lakeside industries it's a

1:02:47 ↗ five acre on the south end

1:02:50 ↗ so that's it's an exciting project but

1:02:53 ↗ probably not top-notch right now because

1:02:55 ↗ it's complicated

1:02:57 ↗ uh it's going to take a lot of design

1:02:59 ↗ thought

1:03:01 ↗ and it's going to be expensive so let's

1:03:03 ↗ do something a little bit

1:03:05 ↗ less expensive first next slide

1:03:11 ↗ somehow i know that we skipped here we

1:03:15 ↗ should be

1:03:16 ↗ back some uh way way back it should be

1:03:19 ↗ like five or six

1:03:22 ↗ still more still more closer

1:03:29 ↗ one yeah okay so

1:03:33 ↗ we're okay so just one click down bingo

1:03:36 ↗ okay so this this is kind of interesting

1:03:39 ↗ uh somehow we're hopping around here

1:03:42 ↗ bill we got a technical issues here with

1:03:44 ↗ jennifer

1:03:45 ↗ okay

1:03:52 ↗ can i keep talking oh you can but

1:03:56 ↗ without slides

1:03:58 ↗ that's fine so right now there's a

1:04:01 ↗ no crosswalk that connects three major

1:04:05 ↗ elements of lake tonight state park

1:04:08 ↗ there's

1:04:09 ↗ beach tidbits beach park

1:04:12 ↗ parking lot there's uh sunset beach and

1:04:16 ↗ sunset beach parking lot

1:04:18 ↗ and there's uh the kitchen shelter in

1:04:22 ↗ its parking lot but there's no crosswalk

1:04:25 ↗ and there's no like definition so if if

1:04:28 ↗ people have like an event

1:04:30 ↗ at one location it's like well

1:04:33 ↗ how how do you connect how you know

1:04:37 ↗ it's like a big deal for overflow issues

1:04:39 ↗ overflow parking

1:04:40 ↗ so if you have regardless of trail

1:04:43 ↗ networks those

1:04:44 ↗ that should be uh

1:04:47 ↗ there okay so there that's where you

1:04:49 ↗ want to be

1:04:51 ↗ bingo that that's it so there's a

1:04:53 ↗ crosswalk and then there's

1:04:54 ↗ internal loop that picks up from kitchen

1:04:57 ↗ shelter

1:04:59 ↗ uh out uh toward

1:05:02 ↗ the orchard loop trail and then back

1:05:04 ↗ again

1:05:05 ↗ to sunset beach uh

1:05:08 ↗ and we think we have a grant to do the

1:05:11 ↗ first leg of that

1:05:12 ↗ uh that'll come out in the next day or

1:05:14 ↗ so

1:05:16 ↗ next slide

1:05:20 ↗ so the this is decommissioning the

1:05:23 ↗ middle

1:05:24 ↗ segment of homestead creek it's on the

1:05:27 ↗ south flank is a

1:05:28 ↗ biscuit creek the creek has taken the

1:05:31 ↗ trail out

1:05:32 ↗ twice and at this point it's

1:05:36 ↗ uh the it's a vertical wall you know 12

1:05:39 ↗ feet high

1:05:41 ↗ good thing to fall off and drown um

1:05:44 ↗ and it's bumped up against the wetland

1:05:46 ↗ mitigation site

1:05:47 ↗ that winsdot had and uh it's taken out

1:05:51 ↗ the pedestrian bridge for what's called

1:05:54 ↗ tickering

1:05:55 ↗ stream um and it's sitting now in the

1:05:59 ↗ middle of

1:06:01 ↗ uh creek trail and state

1:06:04 ↗ parks has they think they have a 2.1

1:06:08 ↗ million dollar

1:06:09 ↗ grant that's that we have to match where

1:06:12 ↗ i'll elaborate

1:06:13 ↗ more on that but so next slide

1:06:19 ↗ so we're going to hop over to the boat

1:06:21 ↗ launch trail that

1:06:22 ↗ when the state parks acquire the

1:06:25 ↗ property for the boat launch and then

1:06:27 ↗ develop the boat launch that created a

1:06:29 ↗ situation where

1:06:30 ↗ they're trying to figure out how to get

1:06:33 ↗ equipment

1:06:34 ↗ from a to b the main body of the park to

1:06:36 ↗ the boat launch

1:06:37 ↗ for maintenance instead of going on city

1:06:41 ↗ roads

1:06:42 ↗ so that there's a nice trail there but

1:06:45 ↗ that nice trail happens to be

1:06:47 ↗ almost exclusively in legal wetlands

1:06:50 ↗ the add-on to boat launch trail next

1:06:52 ↗ slide

1:06:54 ↗ uh is a link from where the existing

1:06:57 ↗ trail comes out to the boat launch and

1:07:00 ↗ then

1:07:01 ↗ build a new trail likely boardwalk

1:07:04 ↗ from that point to east lake ceramics

1:07:07 ↗ trail

1:07:08 ↗ this has a great connectivity issues

1:07:12 ↗ but it also has offering of you know

1:07:15 ↗ like oh boy if i was a

1:07:18 ↗ bicyclist i could take a shortcut and

1:07:20 ↗ then

1:07:21 ↗ you got people with children and you got

1:07:25 ↗ uh whatever else the bird watchers and

1:07:30 ↗ uh whomever so you have potential

1:07:32 ↗ conflicts so how do you keep

1:07:34 ↗ the contradiction the the complication

1:07:37 ↗ out of that

1:07:38 ↗ next slide

1:07:41 ↗ and then flipping to the other side

1:07:43 ↗ connecting to uh

1:07:44 ↗ city visible is improvements to i-90

1:07:48 ↗ and northwest managed road and

1:07:51 ↗ the connector off the sidewalk or

1:07:54 ↗ whatever

1:07:54 ↗ to allow people to come into the park

1:07:59 ↗ uh uh from northwest

1:08:03 ↗ from the south west corner of the park

1:08:07 ↗ and then uh also the notion of having a

1:08:11 ↗ pedestrian

1:08:13 ↗ flyover uh on about ground tibbetts

1:08:18 ↗ so that would also be a city-led

1:08:21 ↗ uh pretty expensive proposition

1:08:25 ↗ next slide

1:08:28 ↗ and then on the south flank of of lake

1:08:31 ↗ center state park

1:08:32 ↗ is uh is northwest

1:08:35 ↗ road and northwest spanish road trail

1:08:40 ↗ so there's a 10 foot wide concrete trail

1:08:44 ↗ uh that's inside to the north of the

1:08:47 ↗ sidewalk

1:08:48 ↗ when i was out walking this with jeff uh

1:08:52 ↗ he said well there's no bicycle lane uh

1:08:55 ↗ you know so now you got a pedestrian

1:08:58 ↗ so the notion here maybe would be uh

1:09:03 ↗ maybe it's the city works the state

1:09:05 ↗ parks and they say look

1:09:06 ↗ how about this uh 10 foot wide concrete

1:09:09 ↗ trail could be for pedestrians and the

1:09:12 ↗ sidewalk could be

1:09:13 ↗ signed for bicyclists

1:09:17 ↗ so uh next slide

1:09:20 ↗ and last but not least uh this linkage

1:09:24 ↗ issue

1:09:24 ↗ of coming from east lake synage

1:09:28 ↗ regional trail on the

1:09:31 ↗ north side of southeast 56th street

1:09:34 ↗ whether or not this is a missing length

1:09:35 ↗ there's a bicycle lane and there's a

1:09:37 ↗ sidewalk

1:09:39 ↗ i've seen particularly on weekends where

1:09:41 ↗ you have

1:09:42 ↗ families of bicyclists they're going

1:09:44 ↗ across the intersection to

1:09:46 ↗ north or across the intersection south

1:09:50 ↗ on east lake cinnamon's regional trail

1:09:53 ↗ but they're not going

1:09:55 ↗ west on southeast 56th street towards

1:09:58 ↗ lake center state park

1:09:59 ↗ so there's there's something missing

1:10:01 ↗ here for

1:10:02 ↗ people i don't think they want to put

1:10:04 ↗ their children on that bicycle lane

1:10:06 ↗ and then why would they be putting their

1:10:08 ↗ children on the little bicycles on the

1:10:10 ↗ sidewalk

1:10:11 ↗ so uh whether or not we could

1:10:14 ↗ figure something out this all kind of

1:10:16 ↗ relates to

1:10:18 ↗ uh alternative pathways that uh for

1:10:21 ↗ fast bicycles and maybe slow bicycles to

1:10:24 ↗ not

1:10:24 ↗ short circuit through the park which

1:10:27 ↗ could be problematic

1:10:28 ↗ you know for everybody else but the

1:10:31 ↗ cyclist

1:10:32 ↗ you know on a boardwalk five foot wide

1:10:34 ↗ boardwalk

1:10:35 ↗ or or what you know people going fast on

1:10:38 ↗ a bicycle and everybody else going slow

1:10:40 ↗ next slide so that's all the

1:10:44 ↗ identified uh specific projects

1:10:47 ↗ and i just wanted to briefly just kind

1:10:49 ↗ of touch on different types of trail

1:10:51 ↗ surfacing

1:10:52 ↗ potential asphalt uh versus compacted

1:10:55 ↗ gravel to

1:10:56 ↗ the our ada whether

1:11:00 ↗ asphalt would be more in the developed

1:11:01 ↗ part of the park versus the wildlands

1:11:04 ↗ whether that is clearly more

1:11:06 ↗ expensive

1:11:08 ↗ but o m we could

1:11:12 ↗ volunteers could help uh with catching

1:11:16 ↗ gravel they couldn't help with patching

1:11:18 ↗ blacktop

1:11:19 ↗ and that out in the hinterland because

1:11:22 ↗ half the size is wetland

1:11:24 ↗ you know you might figure out how to

1:11:26 ↗ build a blacktop

1:11:28 ↗ trail that goes blacktop uh

1:11:32 ↗ boardwalk flat uh uh asphalt

1:11:36 ↗ boardwalk and it's like well that's

1:11:37 ↗ great you know we got the equipment

1:11:39 ↗ there

1:11:40 ↗ but then when we need to patch how do we

1:11:42 ↗ get do we drive through the

1:11:44 ↗ wetland alongside the the uh

1:11:48 ↗ the boardwalk uh in order to

1:11:51 ↗ uh patch the asphalt on the other side

1:11:54 ↗ of it so

1:11:56 ↗ uh it's problematic in terms of

1:11:58 ↗ maintenance

1:12:00 ↗ produce asphalt and the blanks

1:12:04 ↗ site that's happening next slide

1:12:09 ↗ now they're looking at various bridges

1:12:11 ↗ you guys have had plenty of

1:12:13 ↗ experience with pedestrian bridges uh

1:12:18 ↗ david uh took this picture of merrick's

1:12:21 ↗ bridge and tiger

1:12:22 ↗ mountain you can see the log hit that

1:12:24 ↗ and it didn't

1:12:25 ↗ make much of a dent so we're out in the

1:12:27 ↗ middle you know we're just having to

1:12:28 ↗ think about

1:12:29 ↗ you know cottonwood falling down on

1:12:31 ↗ these things i mean these things are

1:12:32 ↗ monster trees velvety has a really cool

1:12:36 ↗ uh bridge uh table stayed

1:12:40 ↗ um next slide

1:12:45 ↗ and then various boardwalks do we put

1:12:47 ↗ and just like with board boardwalks or

1:12:49 ↗ trails

1:12:50 ↗ or for footbridge i hadn't even thought

1:12:52 ↗ about this for footbridge until i was at

1:12:54 ↗ bella botanical during the pandemic

1:12:56 ↗ last winter taking a picture but it was

1:12:58 ↗ like

1:12:59 ↗ there was another couple on the other

1:13:00 ↗ side of the bridge we had a line of

1:13:02 ↗ sight

1:13:03 ↗ you know i don't want to cross paths

1:13:05 ↗ with them on a five foot wide

1:13:07 ↗ i just wait we waited till they crossed

1:13:09 ↗ and then we crossed now if you have

1:13:12 ↗ if you have two uh

1:13:15 ↗ wheelchairs and everybody says well okay

1:13:18 ↗ it has to be wheelchair accessible that

1:13:19 ↗ means you have to too wide or do you

1:13:21 ↗ have a pull out

1:13:22 ↗ well you know so and that how does that

1:13:25 ↗ relate to cost well you add another foot

1:13:28 ↗ uh does that add another you know 300

1:13:31 ↗ dollars to the

1:13:32 ↗ to the bridge same thing with the

1:13:35 ↗ um boardwalks and trails the other

1:13:39 ↗ element about

1:13:39 ↗ boardwalks is beaver proofing um

1:13:44 ↗ and designing so that uh we don't have

1:13:47 ↗ like the discussion at earlier

1:13:49 ↗ uh about stormwater management is like

1:13:51 ↗ you know well we have a problem so

1:13:53 ↗ let's because of our infrastructure and

1:13:57 ↗ you know a boardwalk could become our

1:13:59 ↗ the next infrastructure and

1:14:01 ↗ we'll get rid of the beaver because

1:14:02 ↗ we've got a boardwalk we've invested

1:14:04 ↗ well let's design the boardwalk so it

1:14:06 ↗ really doesn't matter what a beaver does

1:14:09 ↗ so you you just think about that and we

1:14:11 ↗ have one spot in particular

1:14:14 ↗ with across alps food trail where it's

1:14:16 ↗ going to cross paths with this

1:14:19 ↗ a little crack that comes in from

1:14:22 ↗ pickering uh that has beavers in it and

1:14:25 ↗ you know there's a three and a half foot

1:14:28 ↗ difference with a dam going in

1:14:30 ↗ so you have to think about that when

1:14:33 ↗ when you design

1:14:35 ↗ boardwalk next slide

1:14:39 ↗ and lastly uh uh continuity between

1:14:43 ↗ signs

1:14:44 ↗ uh between the city signs state park

1:14:46 ↗ signs

1:14:47 ↗ uh do we all all the signs talk about

1:14:49 ↗ fish

1:14:50 ↗ how about some signs about history it's

1:14:52 ↗ something about

1:14:53 ↗ wildlife birds you know another one

1:14:55 ↗ about fish but

1:14:57 ↗ history so there's all kinds of topics

1:15:00 ↗ and then but make consistent layout

1:15:04 ↗ so people don't look at this thing

1:15:05 ↗ looking like they're totally confused

1:15:07 ↗ and lost

1:15:08 ↗ and give up other thing

1:15:11 ↗ on the right uh this donor thanks which

1:15:13 ↗ is an

1:15:14 ↗ issue with state parks they don't know i

1:15:17 ↗ think they

1:15:18 ↗ uh they can't give private parties

1:15:22 ↗ recognition

1:15:24 ↗ so like how is this going to work we're

1:15:27 ↗ trying to

1:15:28 ↗ boost this whole notion about building

1:15:30 ↗ trails

1:15:31 ↗ and getting uh monies so that

1:15:35 ↗ we can back this thing up and make it

1:15:38 ↗ happen

1:15:39 ↗ and we're gonna preclude uh

1:15:42 ↗ the private sector because i mean maybe

1:15:44 ↗ they could donate out of their own

1:15:47 ↗ volition but my take is they would like

1:15:51 ↗ to have some recognition so how do we do

1:15:53 ↗ that next slide

1:15:57 ↗ uh so this is the last slide i just have

1:15:59 ↗ some discussion about sequential

1:16:01 ↗ uh trail items versus independent

1:16:05 ↗ uh first projects most bang for the buck

1:16:08 ↗ let's not let's think through and make

1:16:10 ↗ sure we're not gonna have unintended

1:16:12 ↗ consequences with uh

1:16:15 ↗ three bicycle commuters blowing through

1:16:18 ↗ the park as a shortcut

1:16:21 ↗ and then the other thing i wanted to

1:16:22 ↗ mention is that the 2.1 million for the

1:16:25 ↗ bridge loop

1:16:26 ↗ uh uh we would

1:16:30 ↗ it looks like state parks will get and

1:16:32 ↗ flex will have to match

1:16:34 ↗ that with getting a hundred thousand

1:16:36 ↗ dollars

1:16:37 ↗ and then the other one this community

1:16:39 ↗ grant thing is likely two hundred fifty

1:16:41 ↗ thousand dollars

1:16:42 ↗ for the kitchen filtered trail that

1:16:43 ↗ supposed 1100 feet

1:16:46 ↗ including 200 feet of boardwalk through

1:16:48 ↗ the little

1:16:49 ↗ wetland that we'll have to do an 82 000

1:16:52 ↗ match

1:16:53 ↗ lastly and i think i forgot at the very

1:16:55 ↗ beginning

1:16:56 ↗ you know how we got started with this

1:16:58 ↗ nikki fields of state parks

1:17:01 ↗ let those four retired guys run with

1:17:04 ↗ this thing

1:17:05 ↗ to come up with it they don't have the

1:17:07 ↗ money and

1:17:09 ↗ i'll i'll tell you i mean you know we

1:17:11 ↗ we've got

1:17:12 ↗ it's not just david kepler and me it's

1:17:15 ↗ rick benson who's

1:17:16 ↗ run the park there for 25 years

1:17:19 ↗ and kit ledbetter who uh was the parts

1:17:23 ↗ director for ctac for

1:17:25 ↗ 22 years or whatever so i mean you can't

1:17:28 ↗ buy

1:17:29 ↗ a consultant's help like what we got

1:17:32 ↗ so so when the city of visicon city of

1:17:35 ↗ spanish

1:17:36 ↗ donate money to keep flips alive

1:17:39 ↗ uh and if we can make something happen

1:17:42 ↗ they're getting

1:17:43 ↗ a darn good value out of their

1:17:46 ↗ investment

1:17:47 ↗ because uh right now uh us four guys are

1:17:50 ↗ free

1:17:51 ↗ but we're we've got talents that you

1:17:54 ↗ can't buy

1:17:57 ↗ question answers questions

1:18:01 ↗ very nice bill nice uh nice uh

1:18:04 ↗ presentation

1:18:04 ↗ really nice slideshow really like all

1:18:06 ↗ the visuals um

1:18:09 ↗ i guess my question to get started would

1:18:11 ↗ be you know what's your thoughts on

1:18:14 ↗ total funding of this uh plan and maybe

1:18:17 ↗ timeline in terms of how long you think

1:18:19 ↗ it would take to actually

1:18:21 ↗ pull it together well we described it as

1:18:24 ↗ a 30 to 40 year plan

1:18:27 ↗ uh we've been working on this thing for

1:18:30 ↗ three years

1:18:31 ↗ and we came up with estimates

1:18:36 ↗ last fall winner uh

1:18:40 ↗ and the price tag is just under 10

1:18:43 ↗ million for

1:18:44 ↗ internal costs not not another throw in

1:18:47 ↗ another 10

1:18:48 ↗ 8 10 million for pedestrian bridge over

1:18:50 ↗ 90

1:18:52 ↗ and over i mean these these things can

1:18:54 ↗ pile up but that's just

1:18:56 ↗ standard stuff you know boardwalk costs

1:19:00 ↗ in 2021

1:19:02 ↗ uh trail costs at six foot wide

1:19:05 ↗ compacted

1:19:07 ↗ um so

1:19:13 ↗ we've had good i've had a lot of

1:19:16 ↗ experience doing estimating in the

1:19:18 ↗ former life

1:19:20 ↗ i i don't you know we we hustle around

1:19:23 ↗ and

1:19:24 ↗ chew the fat with people that do this

1:19:26 ↗ currently

1:19:28 ↗ um so i that's it's a lot of money

1:19:31 ↗ uh but uh i and not everything's

1:19:35 ↗ to happen one two three and who knows

1:19:36 ↗ what eventual costs will be but

1:19:39 ↗ uh we we got a lot of hustle in the

1:19:43 ↗ and and i think we've got a lot there's

1:19:45 ↗ a lot of

1:19:46 ↗ business people in issaquah and there's

1:19:49 ↗ a lot of community

1:19:51 ↗ minded people in its aqua who

1:19:54 ↗ uh and our our we view our task

1:19:58 ↗ as as uh brainstorming and driving

1:20:03 ↗ stay parts to a quicker and more

1:20:07 ↗ thoughtful future

1:20:08 ↗ instead of putting things on an idea

1:20:11 ↗ let's have another meeting

1:20:12 ↗ level so um that that's what we did

1:20:16 ↗ with the playground

1:20:19 ↗ that was before my time there but it's

1:20:22 ↗ the same strategic

1:20:24 ↗ approach to

1:20:27 ↗ boost things along and you know i think

1:20:30 ↗ we have enough for uh experience

1:20:34 ↗ also with environmental you know

1:20:36 ↗ workarounds and you know like

1:20:39 ↗ why would you run a this or that when

1:20:41 ↗ you could

1:20:42 ↗ mitigate by doing this it was like oh so

1:20:46 ↗ i i think we've got a pretty darn good

1:20:48 ↗ sharp pencil

1:20:50 ↗ uh to get grants

1:20:54 ↗ uh to get support for those grants

1:20:56 ↗ matching

1:20:57 ↗ and then turn heating and then goose and

1:21:00 ↗ state parks along to design and build it

1:21:02 ↗ and then hopefully be in some kind of so

1:21:04 ↗ you can say wait a minute you know like

1:21:07 ↗ what do you what are you saying i mean

1:21:08 ↗ even though this thing that i think we

1:21:10 ↗ got you know is like

1:21:11 ↗ i overlaid the wetland map with a trail

1:21:13 ↗ map and it's like well

1:21:15 ↗ we're if i go 20 feet to the south

1:21:18 ↗ on that trail i can i can miss a

1:21:21 ↗ little dog leg of wetland g

1:21:25 ↗ which means that i don't have to build a

1:21:28 ↗ boardwalk that just saved me 200

1:21:30 ↗ 000 meaning that when i applied for the

1:21:33 ↗ grant

1:21:34 ↗ i showed 200 000 less than we needed

1:21:37 ↗ which

1:21:38 ↗ is heck a lot more reasonable than what

1:21:41 ↗ i

1:21:41 ↗ asked for so these are the kind of

1:21:44 ↗ tricks of the trade that i you know

1:21:47 ↗ hopefully we can

1:21:48 ↗ be used useful to state parks and

1:21:52 ↗ can uh circumnavigate uh problems that

1:21:55 ↗ they

1:21:56 ↗ otherwise might have trying to

1:21:59 ↗ you know push push

1:22:02 ↗ put something down the road so obviously

1:22:05 ↗ this

1:22:05 ↗ is a long-term project i assume the

1:22:08 ↗ initial

1:22:09 ↗ couple phases are the um

1:22:12 ↗ the two grants that you had mentioned

1:22:15 ↗ with um

1:22:17 ↗ similar support are those the two

1:22:21 ↗ priorities

1:22:23 ↗ uh i mean no i mean if

1:22:26 ↗ if we'll see if we get those two grants

1:22:29 ↗ but we can rock and roll i mean i think

1:22:31 ↗ this thing that

1:22:32 ↗ jeff came up with about uh interfacing

1:22:35 ↗ state parks

1:22:36 ↗ and the city and uh on the south slank

1:22:39 ↗ and

1:22:40 ↗ uh putting uh signing and saying this is

1:22:43 ↗ where bicycles can go

1:22:44 ↗ because there's a little bicycle lane

1:22:45 ↗ and this is where pedestrians go

1:22:48 ↗ that's i mean like that's so it's like

1:22:51 ↗ the whole crosswalk thing now why didn't

1:22:52 ↗ anybody

1:22:53 ↗ i don't know why they didn't think that

1:22:54 ↗ they did a crosswalk it just never

1:22:56 ↗ occurred to them

1:22:57 ↗ so same thing we we can like make stuff

1:23:00 ↗ happen on this

1:23:01 ↗ whole south flank for uh 3 000 all is

1:23:05 ↗ putting up some signs from 10th street

1:23:10 ↗ uh west uh i don't know what the

1:23:13 ↗ distance is but

1:23:14 ↗ so there's all kinds of things we could

1:23:16 ↗ make happen

1:23:17 ↗ uh and letting you guys know well it

1:23:19 ↗ would be cool if we had a trail off

1:23:21 ↗ northwest

1:23:22 ↗ dynamics uh uh on the

1:23:25 ↗ on the west flank it's

1:23:28 ↗ the states gonna have to reconstruct

1:23:30 ↗ that road anyway and they're gonna have

1:23:32 ↗ to put sound barriers and they're gonna

1:23:33 ↗ widen i-90 and

1:23:35 ↗ it's like well of course we could do

1:23:37 ↗ that but if nobody

1:23:39 ↗ pops the question uh nothing's gonna

1:23:42 ↗ happen

1:23:43 ↗ so the overall intent is for this to be

1:23:45 ↗ a part of the

1:23:47 ↗ um redeveloped

1:23:50 ↗ uh plan that the state is putting

1:23:51 ↗ together master plan

1:23:54 ↗ exactly yeah we're trying to do a double

1:23:56 ↗ up

1:23:57 ↗ and uh you know feed them uh

1:24:01 ↗ so that they go through as a descriptor

1:24:04 ↗ and their master plan alternatives and

1:24:07 ↗ you know and then and then it goes into

1:24:10 ↗ their seat boat and then if

1:24:11 ↗ we get ahead you know if we get a grant

1:24:14 ↗ and they're still

1:24:16 ↗ working on their eis then and we want to

1:24:19 ↗ move forward then we

1:24:20 ↗ write our own individual receive a

1:24:23 ↗ checklist and submit it to the city of

1:24:24 ↗ physical planning

1:24:26 ↗ okay and i say we this really

1:24:29 ↗ goes back to you know nikki fields and

1:24:32 ↗ being a company and the seafood person

1:24:35 ↗ that's with state

1:24:36 ↗ parks but if if we can be

1:24:39 ↗ uh useful to all above then you know we

1:24:42 ↗ can grease the skids

1:24:44 ↗ for them uh jennifer or david do you

1:24:47 ↗ want to add anything

1:24:50 ↗ we yes we've spent quite a bit of time

1:24:54 ↗ on the ground there at the park and

1:24:56 ↗ the map you see is kind of a stylized

1:24:58 ↗ map

1:24:59 ↗ as bill pointed out if we can avoid

1:25:03 ↗ a few feet of boardwalk

1:25:06 ↗ will actually cost as much as quite a

1:25:08 ↗ bit of that gravel trail

1:25:10 ↗ and if you've been up in tradition

1:25:12 ↗ plateau one of the first american

1:25:14 ↗ disability exact trails in or

1:25:17 ↗ in the region was that around the lake

1:25:19 ↗ trail up there

1:25:20 ↗ and it's still it's it's narrower than

1:25:22 ↗ we're talking about

1:25:23 ↗ but it's amazing how that was how well

1:25:26 ↗ it's done

1:25:27 ↗ it's got washed out a few times by plug

1:25:29 ↗ culverts that came and that that were

1:25:31 ↗ it didn't have that problem um it's

1:25:34 ↗ still

1:25:35 ↗ it's taken maintenance but it's an

1:25:37 ↗ amazingly great surface

1:25:39 ↗ and you know just any time i mean

1:25:43 ↗ 10 feet of boardwalk you can do a couple

1:25:46 ↗ hundred feet of gravel it is amazing how

1:25:48 ↗ expensive boardwalk is

1:25:51 ↗ because if it's in a wetland it just

1:25:53 ↗ you're going to have to go down a bit

1:25:55 ↗ to get to something solid and then

1:25:57 ↗ you've got and then

1:25:59 ↗ you know it's just really expensive so

1:26:03 ↗ anything we can do to to really figure

1:26:05 ↗ this thing out well

1:26:07 ↗ is is key and the problem on southeast

1:26:10 ↗ 56 and the bike issue there is some of

1:26:13 ↗ those

1:26:14 ↗ are wooden and people when it gets a

1:26:17 ↗ little icy or wet even

1:26:19 ↗ bikes crash so that's where the bikes

1:26:21 ↗ are on the concrete next to 56

1:26:23 ↗ and pedestrians in that way so um

1:26:26 ↗ or it could be

1:26:30 ↗ we can just get some signage would

1:26:31 ↗ really improve right there

1:26:34 ↗ yeah i guess my might be really nice to

1:26:36 ↗ add some

1:26:37 ↗ gravel turnpikes in a few areas that are

1:26:40 ↗ really wet so at least some of those

1:26:41 ↗ trails could be used year-round and

1:26:43 ↗ wouldn't really cost that much to

1:26:45 ↗ actually make that more usable

1:26:49 ↗ jennifer you have any comment

1:26:53 ↗ no i just um now we're just really

1:26:56 ↗ looking to engage all of our community

1:26:57 ↗ partners and we appreciate the

1:26:59 ↗ opportunity to be able to present this

1:27:00 ↗ to you

1:27:01 ↗ this is actually the first time i've

1:27:02 ↗ seen bill present this

1:27:04 ↗ um so he's done all the hard work now

1:27:06 ↗ comes you know the outreach and the

1:27:08 ↗ fundraising which is really the easy

1:27:10 ↗ part

1:27:10 ↗ because i think it's a great project

1:27:13 ↗ well that's that's your uh cup of tea

1:27:16 ↗ down there

1:27:17 ↗ fundraising right so it looks like

1:27:19 ↗ hopefully we'll see

1:27:20 ↗ i think if you have a good project it's

1:27:22 ↗ easy and i think this is a good project

1:27:25 ↗ something that benefits the whole

1:27:26 ↗ community agreed

1:27:29 ↗ any board members have any questions or

1:27:31 ↗ comments

1:27:34 ↗ uh chris go ahead

1:27:39 ↗ here we go well um thank you it's been a

1:27:42 ↗ while since i've been

1:27:43 ↗ at any of the list meetings uh but i

1:27:46 ↗ want to

1:27:48 ↗ comment that i hope the sorry you can't

1:27:50 ↗ hear me very well

1:27:52 ↗ it's okay chris go ahead okay i saw jeff

1:27:56 ↗ leaning in

1:27:57 ↗ i think it's important to recognize the

1:28:00 ↗ significance of that park

1:28:03 ↗ in our area you know it's massive

1:28:06 ↗ and it's this big green beauty

1:28:10 ↗ if you squint your eyes and try to

1:28:12 ↗ envision you know 100 years from now

1:28:15 ↗ it will be something that will be you

1:28:17 ↗ know infinitely more valuable

1:28:20 ↗ the folks on the board at lisp

1:28:23 ↗ that's kind of where i got some of my

1:28:25 ↗ start in

1:28:27 ↗ park projects and you know being more of

1:28:30 ↗ a community participant

1:28:32 ↗ that park does attract a very powerful

1:28:36 ↗ uh high quality giving

1:28:40 ↗ talented group of people um

1:28:43 ↗ and so i i just want to say that i think

1:28:45 ↗ it's important that the isquad parks

1:28:47 ↗ continues to coordinate with them they

1:28:49 ↗ will

1:28:50 ↗ that park will only be an ever more

1:28:53 ↗ important

1:28:53 ↗ uh portion of what else remains in the

1:28:57 ↗ city

1:28:58 ↗ and whatever we can i know our you know

1:28:59 ↗ our budgets are not uh

1:29:01 ↗ overflowing but uh whatever we can do to

1:29:04 ↗ coordinate

1:29:04 ↗ support i i advocate

1:29:09 ↗ agreed thanks for that chris anybody

1:29:12 ↗ else have a comment or question

1:29:15 ↗ just one topic um connie has

1:29:18 ↗ brought up with me a few times is uh

1:29:20 ↗ trying to connect the soccer field area

1:29:23 ↗ to the to the orchard there were the or

1:29:26 ↗ the trail to the orchard or there

1:29:28 ↗ by the kitchen or something and um i was

1:29:31 ↗ in there today just checking it out and

1:29:33 ↗ um

1:29:34 ↗ those fields just got to be a few inches

1:29:37 ↗ above

1:29:38 ↗ above the water table in some places

1:29:40 ↗ it's um it's difficult in there and

1:29:42 ↗ um the drier parts are blackberries

1:29:45 ↗ higher than my head

1:29:46 ↗ and um but that's that's where we

1:29:50 ↗ they help to identify where trail could

1:29:52 ↗ be in terms of the

1:29:53 ↗ blackberries and you get in there now

1:29:55 ↗ and you see the uh

1:29:56 ↗ the patches of canary grass are all

1:30:00 ↗ yellow and dead but the new

1:30:03 ↗ canary grass is popping up it you see

1:30:06 ↗ that you know that's

1:30:07 ↗ that's wetland there and that's going to

1:30:09 ↗ be hundreds of dollars a foot

1:30:12 ↗ for boardwalk so you got to be

1:30:15 ↗ really looking and seeing what can do to

1:30:17 ↗ make this whole thing work

1:30:20 ↗ well thanks so much bill and jennifer

1:30:23 ↗ and david for uh

1:30:24 ↗ giving us this presentation tonight it

1:30:26 ↗ was a very appreciative

1:30:27 ↗ and i know just kind of getting started

1:30:29 ↗ with it but

1:30:30 ↗ you've laid the groundwork for a really

1:30:32 ↗ good plan

1:30:34 ↗ for the future and now jennifer just

1:30:37 ↗ needs to find the money

1:30:38 ↗ jennifer and her team just needs to find

1:30:40 ↗ the money

1:30:42 ↗ okay thank you we need to get moving on

1:30:44 ↗ appreciate it and

1:30:45 ↗ you're welcome to stay with us if you'd

1:30:47 ↗ like or

1:30:48 ↗ move ahead i know it's getting late for

1:30:50 ↗ you

1:30:52 ↗ thank you brad okay you bet

1:30:55 ↗ so uh we're under our third agenda item

1:30:57 ↗ this evening which is the six year cip

1:31:00 ↗ and uh jeff and jennifer looks like this

1:31:03 ↗ is up to you

1:31:06 ↗ yeah thanks brad jennifer thanks for for

1:31:09 ↗ showing the

1:31:10 ↗ uh presentation given given the time um

1:31:13 ↗ i'm gonna i'm gonna give a really quick

1:31:16 ↗ abbreviated overview

1:31:17 ↗ so we can have some conversation about

1:31:19 ↗ the cip before i do that though i

1:31:21 ↗ i just want to commend bill and dave

1:31:23 ↗ kepler and kit ledbetter and the work

1:31:25 ↗ they did with that trail plan

1:31:27 ↗ uh yeah obviously that's work that's

1:31:30 ↗ going to be shepherded and folded into

1:31:32 ↗ the

1:31:32 ↗ state park master plan but uh you know

1:31:35 ↗ certainly no and i want to reiterate

1:31:37 ↗ you know the interface that our system

1:31:39 ↗ has

1:31:40 ↗ the interface our park strategic

1:31:42 ↗ planning effort whether it's the

1:31:43 ↗ issaquah creek corridor or

1:31:45 ↗ or just how we connect um to the state

1:31:48 ↗ park

1:31:48 ↗ is uh is integral and so that's

1:31:51 ↗ certainly a

1:31:52 ↗ a big thank you i want to give to them

1:31:54 ↗ and a relationship we want to continue

1:31:56 ↗ to

1:31:56 ↗ foster not only with flis but with state

1:31:59 ↗ park staff

1:32:01 ↗ because as you said chris you're right

1:32:03 ↗ that that park is going to play a

1:32:05 ↗ substantial role a significant role

1:32:07 ↗ in the value of issaquah's park system

1:32:10 ↗ well into the future uh well well beyond

1:32:13 ↗ any of

1:32:14 ↗ any of us whether it's trails whether

1:32:16 ↗ it's the beach whether it's soccer

1:32:17 ↗ fields

1:32:18 ↗ baseball fields etc so uh thank you

1:32:21 ↗ so on to our on to our our capital

1:32:24 ↗ planning

1:32:25 ↗ um yeah i again i'm gonna do this sort

1:32:29 ↗ of

1:32:29 ↗ um improv since i'm gonna abbreviate it

1:32:32 ↗ pretty quickly

1:32:33 ↗ um as this slide shows

1:32:37 ↗ um the the six year cip that's proposed

1:32:40 ↗ before council

1:32:41 ↗ and that many of you heard um introduced

1:32:43 ↗ to them the parks and trails element of

1:32:46 ↗ that

1:32:46 ↗ um did not come out of thin air it

1:32:49 ↗ originated

1:32:50 ↗ directly out of the the park strategic

1:32:52 ↗ plan effort

1:32:54 ↗ that you really helped to steer the the

1:32:57 ↗ community engagement that we had

1:32:59 ↗ um establish projects and establish

1:33:01 ↗ priorities for those projects

1:33:02 ↗ and that serves as the foundation

1:33:06 ↗ of the the cip next slide jen

1:33:12 ↗ um you heard this uh the other night

1:33:16 ↗ the cip is not a budget it's a it's a

1:33:18 ↗ planning tool it really is a way for the

1:33:20 ↗ city to begin to map out

1:33:22 ↗ and and understand its long view needs

1:33:25 ↗ for public infrastructure and what a six

1:33:27 ↗ year window for those long view needs

1:33:29 ↗ began to

1:33:30 ↗ to to look like how revenues align

1:33:35 ↗ with those infrastructure needs

1:33:38 ↗ that cip is updated every two years

1:33:40 ↗ we're getting into a really nice pattern

1:33:42 ↗ and sequence that i want to point out to

1:33:44 ↗ you as we've adopted that

1:33:46 ↗ 2018 park strategic plan

1:33:49 ↗ we have a really good cycle now that the

1:33:52 ↗ engagement effort that goes with that

1:33:54 ↗ strategic plan

1:33:54 ↗ really um sets that long year much like

1:33:57 ↗ the trails plan that you just saw for

1:33:59 ↗ the state park

1:34:00 ↗ that's a that's a 30-year vision

1:34:03 ↗ but it it begins to serve as that

1:34:05 ↗ foundation for the six

1:34:06 ↗ year priorities

1:34:09 ↗ as you remember with our park strategic

1:34:11 ↗ plan projects were prioritized

1:34:13 ↗ near term midterm and long term as we

1:34:15 ↗ went through that scoring exercise

1:34:17 ↗ the near-term projects out of the park

1:34:20 ↗ strategic plan

1:34:22 ↗ became the foundation became the

1:34:24 ↗ projects

1:34:25 ↗ for the six-year parks and trails cip

1:34:27 ↗ that you see there

1:34:28 ↗ for anyone who's listening or watching

1:34:30 ↗ this you'll notice

1:34:32 ↗ the two link tabs um to the to the

1:34:34 ↗ documents on that presentation those are

1:34:36 ↗ direct links to

1:34:38 ↗ those complete uh documents so we'll

1:34:40 ↗ certainly have those

1:34:42 ↗ up um as this agenda lives on our

1:34:45 ↗ website

1:34:47 ↗ um taking you back to the park plan uh

1:34:50 ↗ this wasn't meant as foreshadowing but

1:34:52 ↗ it was meant to sort of

1:34:53 ↗ uh present what is ideal as we begin to

1:34:56 ↗ to modernize our planning efforts with

1:34:58 ↗ the city

1:34:59 ↗ this this you may remember came directly

1:35:02 ↗ out of the park strategic plan

1:35:04 ↗ on one of the later pages of the

1:35:06 ↗ document that tried to identify what's

1:35:08 ↗ the role of this park strategic plan it

1:35:10 ↗ doesn't magically

1:35:11 ↗ make things happen but it serves as the

1:35:14 ↗ foundation as you see it it

1:35:15 ↗ informs um what uh initial find

1:35:19 ↗ our previous finance department wanted

1:35:21 ↗ as a five-year cip is now a six-year cip

1:35:24 ↗ but it's

1:35:24 ↗ it's the same thing it informs capital

1:35:26 ↗ planning

1:35:27 ↗ and funding strategy which then informs

1:35:30 ↗ adopted budgets annual budgets both

1:35:32 ↗ operating in capital

1:35:34 ↗ which then informs our effort to to make

1:35:36 ↗ these capital investments and really

1:35:38 ↗ engage in the community and scope those

1:35:41 ↗ in a more fine-tuned way in terms of

1:35:43 ↗ designing them and then

1:35:45 ↗ ultimately we produce capital projects

1:35:49 ↗ that

1:35:51 ↗ again are are born out of this

1:35:54 ↗ foundational work and not

1:35:56 ↗ just randomly selected next slide jen

1:36:02 ↗ this uh project this page came directly

1:36:05 ↗ out of the park strategic plan as well

1:36:08 ↗ these were all the projects um as if you

1:36:11 ↗ recall

1:36:12 ↗ um as we went through community

1:36:13 ↗ engagement and what we saw opportunities

1:36:16 ↗ needs for reinvestment into the system

1:36:18 ↗ um if you remember

1:36:19 ↗ the prioritization tool that was used

1:36:24 ↗ and the scoring that was done to put

1:36:25 ↗ these projects into these near-term

1:36:27 ↗ midterm long-term buckets

1:36:29 ↗ again as i said earlier those near-term

1:36:33 ↗ projects then really became

1:36:36 ↗ the parks and trails um

1:36:39 ↗ six-year cip uh that you saw presented

1:36:42 ↗ last night we'll begin having

1:36:44 ↗ discussions with the city council about

1:36:46 ↗ um some of the factors that that we were

1:36:49 ↗ asked to take on and

1:36:50 ↗ and jennifer fink and i took on as we

1:36:53 ↗ began to fine tune this is we had to

1:36:56 ↗ really look at what revenues are

1:36:59 ↗ available

1:37:00 ↗ and in particular in 2022 and 2023

1:37:04 ↗ how does the rubber meet the road in

1:37:05 ↗ those projects again not that this is a

1:37:08 ↗ a budget document per se but it is

1:37:11 ↗ something that's going to directly

1:37:12 ↗ inform the 2022

1:37:15 ↗ um capital budget request that's going

1:37:17 ↗ to go to

1:37:18 ↗ to council later this fall which

1:37:20 ↗ projects are ready

1:37:22 ↗ uh what is our staffing capacity

1:37:25 ↗ and cadence to be able to complete

1:37:26 ↗ projects in the public engagement

1:37:29 ↗ and then ultimately what's council's

1:37:31 ↗ priorities

1:37:32 ↗ as they adopt not only the cip but they

1:37:36 ↗ will also adopt

1:37:38 ↗ each of the annual budgets next slide

1:37:40 ↗ jen

1:37:43 ↗ the funding sources this is a page

1:37:45 ↗ directly out of the

1:37:46 ↗ cip the finance department spoke to this

1:37:49 ↗ as well

1:37:50 ↗ i'm not going to touch on each one of

1:37:51 ↗ these revenue sources but other to say

1:37:54 ↗ than to say the cip is really an effort

1:37:57 ↗ to be very intentional about

1:37:59 ↗ how much can we afford as we look at not

1:38:02 ↗ only the parks and trails cip

1:38:04 ↗ but our storm water needs our

1:38:06 ↗ transportation needs

1:38:08 ↗ our facility needs our water utility

1:38:11 ↗ needs

1:38:12 ↗ how do we spread what feels like

1:38:17 ↗ realistic revenue over over the six-year

1:38:21 ↗ planning document

1:38:24 ↗ this represents the proposed

1:38:28 ↗ revenue amounts and each of these

1:38:30 ↗ revenue sources that

1:38:32 ↗ are going into the the draft six-year

1:38:35 ↗ cip

1:38:37 ↗ of note in terms of parks and trails

1:38:39 ↗ funding we're not eligible for all of

1:38:41 ↗ these revenues

1:38:43 ↗ our primary revenue sources are the real

1:38:45 ↗ estate excise tax

1:38:48 ↗ under the mitigation impact fees you'll

1:38:50 ↗ see parks park impact fees are

1:38:52 ↗ obviously a revenue source that needs to

1:38:54 ↗ go to new capacity

1:38:56 ↗ it can't just go to funding and not

1:38:59 ↗ creating existing capacity

1:39:01 ↗ bike and pedestrian impact fees can also

1:39:04 ↗ go towards trail projects

1:39:06 ↗ the utility revenues really are for

1:39:09 ↗ those

1:39:09 ↗ enterprise utilities we're not eligible

1:39:11 ↗ for those utility revenues

1:39:13 ↗ um obviously grant funds were pretty

1:39:15 ↗ ambitious and

1:39:16 ↗ how we go about grants i would note that

1:39:20 ↗ in the 2022 and 2023 projects for the

1:39:23 ↗ parks and trails cip

1:39:25 ↗ um we did not the only grant revenues

1:39:28 ↗ that we

1:39:29 ↗ projected into those projects were grant

1:39:30 ↗ revenues we already had

1:39:32 ↗ grant grants take a while to get grants

1:39:36 ↗ take a while to get

1:39:37 ↗ agreements once you're awarded the grant

1:39:39 ↗ and so

1:39:40 ↗ we wanted to be as project ready as we

1:39:43 ↗ could

1:39:44 ↗ with those 2022 and 2023

1:39:48 ↗ projects next slide

1:39:52 ↗ and then this um is the the draft the

1:39:55 ↗ summary page of

1:39:56 ↗ that um six-year cip again projects

1:40:01 ↗ not randomly selected but came right out

1:40:03 ↗ of the prioritization exercise

1:40:05 ↗ um that we went through um

1:40:08 ↗ with all of you in the community with

1:40:10 ↗ the park strategic plan

1:40:12 ↗ um again of note um

1:40:17 ↗ well i'm gonna leave it at that looking

1:40:18 ↗ at the looking at the clock

1:40:20 ↗ um next slide jen

1:40:23 ↗ i think we're on to just questions and

1:40:26 ↗ discussion

1:40:26 ↗ um again i want to save enough time to

1:40:29 ↗ to hear

1:40:30 ↗ discussion from all of you any questions

1:40:32 ↗ any

1:40:34 ↗ overviews of of this again thank you for

1:40:38 ↗ the work that we started uh two or three

1:40:40 ↗ years ago

1:40:41 ↗ on this effort and the park strategic

1:40:43 ↗ plan and the prioritization that went

1:40:44 ↗ there because that is really what has

1:40:46 ↗ been informing

1:40:47 ↗ um this cip work there's a study session

1:40:51 ↗ um and conversations with the city

1:40:53 ↗ council begin

1:40:55 ↗ tomorrow evening in fact tuesday the the

1:40:57 ↗ 27th

1:40:58 ↗ uh we'll begin our cip discussions with

1:41:00 ↗ council that'll likely go through may

1:41:04 ↗ you've been asked and invited to provide

1:41:06 ↗ feedback it doesn't have to happen

1:41:08 ↗ all tonight but i know through this

1:41:11 ↗ effort

1:41:13 ↗ in discussions with the council they're

1:41:15 ↗ very open and receptive and wanting to

1:41:17 ↗ to get feedback from you as the the park

1:41:20 ↗ board

1:41:21 ↗ so with that thank you

1:41:25 ↗ so not everybody has their camera on so

1:41:28 ↗ i can't necessarily see your hand if

1:41:30 ↗ it's raised

1:41:31 ↗ so if you have a question or a comment

1:41:33 ↗ um you

1:41:34 ↗ either put your camera on or put it in

1:41:36 ↗ chat

1:41:37 ↗ does anybody have any questions or

1:41:39 ↗ comments

1:41:41 ↗ i have a few but i'll defer to the board

1:41:44 ↗ first

1:41:45 ↗ i just wanted to quick say if i need me

1:41:47 ↗ to pull the presentation back up i'm

1:41:49 ↗ happy to do that

1:41:50 ↗ okay

1:41:54 ↗ not seeing any hands so i'll get the

1:41:56 ↗ ball rolling here a little bit

1:41:58 ↗ jeff it was interesting when we actually

1:42:01 ↗ uh

1:42:01 ↗ the fair amount of the board was in

1:42:03 ↗ attendance at the council meeting

1:42:05 ↗ one of the slides that kind of grabbed

1:42:08 ↗ my attention was

1:42:09 ↗ the one where all the different

1:42:10 ↗ departments had their hand out

1:42:12 ↗ wanting to kind of grab a part of

1:42:15 ↗ funding

1:42:16 ↗ could you talk a little bit about it was

1:42:19 ↗ interesting to actually see each one of

1:42:21 ↗ the departments

1:42:22 ↗ what their six-year plan funding

1:42:24 ↗ allocation or

1:42:25 ↗ pro you know project plan was

1:42:28 ↗ parks really stuck out as having the

1:42:30 ↗ greatest number which

1:42:31 ↗ didn't surprise me too much but how does

1:42:34 ↗ the council go about

1:42:36 ↗ allocating or do they allocate to the

1:42:38 ↗ various departments is there a

1:42:39 ↗ percentage of allocation how how does

1:42:41 ↗ that

1:42:42 ↗ work uh there's not a

1:42:46 ↗ percentage based allocation uh no and

1:42:48 ↗ that's that's

1:42:50 ↗ that's that would be pretty rare most

1:42:52 ↗ cities don't do that i i think the slide

1:42:54 ↗ you're remembering if i recall

1:42:56 ↗ spoke to real estate excise tax and

1:42:58 ↗ general funds sort of those

1:43:00 ↗ those uh revenue sources that are

1:43:04 ↗ um really need to be balanced and and

1:43:07 ↗ have

1:43:07 ↗ competing needs of all those different

1:43:10 ↗ not only

1:43:10 ↗ and i don't think the slide was meant to

1:43:12 ↗ really be department based but

1:43:14 ↗ more in a sense of capital

1:43:15 ↗ infrastructure right we have

1:43:18 ↗ parks and trails infrastructure that the

1:43:19 ↗ community wants we have

1:43:21 ↗ obviously transportation road

1:43:22 ↗ infrastructure that also gets funded

1:43:25 ↗ and competes for real estate excise tax

1:43:28 ↗ money i'm trying to remember what the

1:43:29 ↗ other hands were facilities

1:43:31 ↗ right and some of our facilities related

1:43:33 ↗ needs that the community

1:43:35 ↗ wants also compete for that so it really

1:43:38 ↗ comes down to every budget cycle right

1:43:41 ↗ that

1:43:42 ↗ you know um that becomes some of those

1:43:45 ↗ hard decisions is how do you take

1:43:48 ↗ that i wouldn't say finite but that

1:43:50 ↗ revenue stream and prioritize it

1:43:54 ↗ with a greater um and higher need

1:43:59 ↗ so essentially what you have planned for

1:44:01 ↗ 22 and 23

1:44:03 ↗ you just submit as a part of your

1:44:05 ↗ proposed budget

1:44:06 ↗ and then the council figures out how

1:44:08 ↗ they want to

1:44:10 ↗ somewhat apportion available funds that

1:44:12 ↗ way

1:44:14 ↗ yeah in terms of a specific you know

1:44:16 ↗ again this is not a budget so we didn't

1:44:18 ↗ prepare this as a budget

1:44:20 ↗ the six year cip but as we now prepare

1:44:24 ↗ a budget request for 2022

1:44:27 ↗ um yeah it's

1:44:31 ↗ it's discussions it's understanding

1:44:33 ↗ priorities of the mayor

1:44:34 ↗ and administration that is ultimately

1:44:37 ↗ the mayor's budget

1:44:38 ↗ that the mayor proposes to the city

1:44:40 ↗ council

1:44:41 ↗ for their council deliberation and

1:44:43 ↗ ultimately the council adoption so it's

1:44:45 ↗ working with the mayor it's working with

1:44:47 ↗ the finance department

1:44:48 ↗ it's working with other departments to

1:44:50 ↗ understand

1:44:51 ↗ uh what's in everyone's capital

1:44:54 ↗ improvement plan i think that's why it's

1:44:56 ↗ so important as i was saying earlier the

1:44:57 ↗ 2022 and 2023

1:45:00 ↗ cip um projects

1:45:03 ↗ those are all um

1:45:07 ↗ um based on anticipated revenue for 2022

1:45:12 ↗ and 2023

1:45:13 ↗ those would all be able to be funded

1:45:16 ↗ does that make sense what i'm saying so

1:45:18 ↗ so

1:45:18 ↗ as the 22 ca the 20 that the cip

1:45:22 ↗ for the year 2022 is not

1:45:26 ↗ is not setting up to be a competition

1:45:29 ↗ it's it's saying hey there's already

1:45:31 ↗ some prioritization that happened

1:45:33 ↗ and these projects in 2022 across

1:45:36 ↗ all of these important spectrums of

1:45:38 ↗ infrastructure could be funded in this

1:45:40 ↗ way

1:45:41 ↗ does that make sense yes

1:45:45 ↗ could you explain a little bit about the

1:45:48 ↗ dog park

1:45:49 ↗ um so i see nothing in

1:45:52 ↗ for 2022 but 45 000 in 2023

1:45:57 ↗ and then over 500 000 in 2024

1:46:00 ↗ so could you explain first of all

1:46:02 ↗ actually why the dog park isn't

1:46:04 ↗ necessarily more of a priority since

1:46:06 ↗ we've been working on that for some time

1:46:09 ↗ and and how those years are playing out

1:46:12 ↗ and then

1:46:13 ↗ what's the intention of of a big amount

1:46:16 ↗ in 2024

1:46:20 ↗ again i want to reiterate this is a

1:46:21 ↗ planning document so it's not a budget

1:46:23 ↗ ask

1:46:25 ↗ i think the dog park definitely remains

1:46:26 ↗ a priority

1:46:28 ↗ um i think as we recognize staffing

1:46:30 ↗ capacity

1:46:31 ↗ and again that balance of where do we

1:46:34 ↗ spend

1:46:35 ↗ revenue and how do we balance realistic

1:46:37 ↗ revenue

1:46:39 ↗ something we've talked with

1:46:40 ↗ administration about is the dog park

1:46:42 ↗ tour

1:46:43 ↗ as we've as we've initiated the dog park

1:46:45 ↗ tour

1:46:47 ↗ what does it look like to continue that

1:46:49 ↗ dog park tour not only the remainder of

1:46:50 ↗ 2021 but into 2022

1:46:54 ↗ um and then in 2023 um

1:46:58 ↗ i i believe do we have the 45 000

1:47:01 ↗ requested in 22 or 23

1:47:03 ↗ jennifer i think 23

1:47:06 ↗ right so probably having an uh um

1:47:10 ↗ you know still having a dog park tour

1:47:13 ↗ but engaging the community with

1:47:15 ↗ hey what did we learn what what have we

1:47:16 ↗ learned through this dog park tour

1:47:19 ↗ exercise what's worked well what hasn't

1:47:21 ↗ worked well

1:47:22 ↗ we also have master planning work that

1:47:24 ↗ we need to do at tibbetts valley park

1:47:27 ↗ before we i think feel we can just

1:47:30 ↗ proceed and jump into

1:47:32 ↗ what was proposed at tibbetts valley

1:47:34 ↗ park so let's take this cumulative

1:47:36 ↗ community engagement we've been having

1:47:38 ↗ with um

1:47:40 ↗ the dog park tour um and

1:47:44 ↗ let's be intentional with the community

1:47:47 ↗ and and

1:47:48 ↗ what um what should be at tibbetts

1:47:51 ↗ valley park should it be at timbits

1:47:53 ↗ valley park

1:47:53 ↗ um the 500 000 request again as a

1:47:57 ↗ as a planning document it's a

1:47:58 ↗ placeholder and and trying to be

1:48:00 ↗ realistic

1:48:01 ↗ and pragmatic with i i want the

1:48:04 ↗ community to be able to express

1:48:05 ↗ what what is really going to work

1:48:09 ↗ for an off leash dog park or maybe it's

1:48:11 ↗ multiple off leash dog parks because

1:48:13 ↗ it's really tough to find one big off

1:48:16 ↗ leash dog park in this community

1:48:18 ↗ so again a planning document it's meant

1:48:20 ↗ to

1:48:21 ↗ to i think map out um that so it's i

1:48:25 ↗ i i hope it's not i can see that it

1:48:28 ↗ on its surface could be boy it's not a

1:48:30 ↗ priority it remains a priority

1:48:32 ↗ i think we just we have some learning to

1:48:34 ↗ do and we have some planning to do with

1:48:36 ↗ the rest of tibbetts valley park

1:48:39 ↗ thanks for that i suspected all of what

1:48:41 ↗ you said but

1:48:42 ↗ wanted to i thought it was good for

1:48:43 ↗ everybody to kind of hear some clarity

1:48:46 ↗ since that's been one of our kind of

1:48:48 ↗ number one projects over the last

1:48:50 ↗ couple years anyway and brad i just

1:48:52 ↗ wanted to add

1:48:53 ↗ you know with any project we know

1:48:55 ↗ there's a planning period and a

1:48:56 ↗ permitting process that goes with that

1:48:59 ↗ and so that's kind of how this was

1:49:01 ↗ phased out knowing

1:49:02 ↗ there's a permitting and further design

1:49:04 ↗ process that would need to occur before

1:49:06 ↗ the actual construction

1:49:08 ↗ so that's why you see it in two years

1:49:10 ↗ like that okay

1:49:13 ↗ other questions or comments about the

1:49:16 ↗ cip

1:49:17 ↗ anyone

1:49:20 ↗ seeing any hands not seeing anything in

1:49:22 ↗ chat

1:49:25 ↗ uh jeff i understand the board actually

1:49:29 ↗ needs to make some kind of

1:49:32 ↗ recommendations

1:49:33 ↗ to the council in a meeting in may is

1:49:36 ↗ that right

1:49:38 ↗ yeah i wouldn't say recommendations i i

1:49:40 ↗ would say feedback

1:49:42 ↗ right i mean if if there's any feedback

1:49:44 ↗ that the board has

1:49:45 ↗ um and we can continue to work on that

1:49:48 ↗ um

1:49:49 ↗ uh certainly brad with you and linda as

1:49:52 ↗ chair and vice chair and

1:49:53 ↗ and get feedback from the board um

1:49:56 ↗ but yeah i think there's interest in it

1:49:59 ↗ you know

1:50:00 ↗ what is the feedback of this group i

1:50:03 ↗ again i i hope

1:50:04 ↗ i hope we find this helpful and that in

1:50:06 ↗ some ways this is

1:50:08 ↗ sort of um closing a feedback loop

1:50:13 ↗ that hey you all as a board helped to

1:50:17 ↗ create the foundation that created the

1:50:19 ↗ six-year cip

1:50:21 ↗ and here's how this six-year cip mirrors

1:50:24 ↗ that strategic plan that we helped

1:50:28 ↗ we helped to build so whether it's

1:50:30 ↗ feedback on on that whether it's

1:50:32 ↗ feedback on revenues whether it's

1:50:34 ↗ feedback on specific projects it could

1:50:37 ↗ that could take whatever form that you

1:50:39 ↗ all feel i know we've had a busy night

1:50:41 ↗ tonight

1:50:42 ↗ i've appreciated the collaborative

1:50:45 ↗ conversations we've had with our other

1:50:46 ↗ partners

1:50:47 ↗ um but we we've got a couple weeks to to

1:50:51 ↗ try and maybe build some feedback

1:50:53 ↗ um from the whole group marlene has her

1:50:55 ↗ hand up

1:50:56 ↗ marlene hey guys thanks yeah and you

1:50:59 ↗ know it was a lot of listening today and

1:51:01 ↗ a lot of information so that could be

1:51:02 ↗ the

1:51:03 ↗ you know the energy of the group or at

1:51:05 ↗ least how i'm feeling i think what would

1:51:06 ↗ really help me is

1:51:08 ↗ as opposed to just a broad like what

1:51:10 ↗ feedback do you have i think maybe if we

1:51:11 ↗ could have some like

1:51:13 ↗ pointed questions are there certain

1:51:14 ↗ parts of this cip

1:51:16 ↗ that you specifically need feedback on

1:51:18 ↗ or something that's different than what

1:51:20 ↗ we've decided before

1:51:21 ↗ because to be honest with you it's so

1:51:22 ↗ much information i'm having trouble

1:51:24 ↗ sort of giving you feedback that's

1:51:27 ↗ helpful

1:51:28 ↗ so if you could guys could maybe help us

1:51:30 ↗ figure out where it's really important

1:51:31 ↗ to have our feedback or where it might

1:51:33 ↗ be different than what we've previously

1:51:34 ↗ decided

1:51:35 ↗ um that would really help me be able to

1:51:37 ↗ give you guys better feedback

1:51:39 ↗ thanks i appreciate that yeah i

1:51:41 ↗ appreciate that feedback

1:51:42 ↗ to some extent i think it's a matter of

1:51:44 ↗ what the council to some extent would

1:51:46 ↗ like to hear from us so that it might be

1:51:48 ↗ good

1:51:49 ↗ to clarify that you know

1:51:52 ↗ yeah well and i i guess to touch on one

1:51:54 ↗ thing you said marlene and i so

1:51:55 ↗ appreciate this is new

1:51:57 ↗ this this represents a whole new a whole

1:52:00 ↗ new um

1:52:02 ↗ again feedback loop um in terms of

1:52:05 ↗ um really getting engagement from boards

1:52:07 ↗ and commissions on this

1:52:08 ↗ on the six-year cip really opening it up

1:52:11 ↗ in a i think more

1:52:12 ↗ transparent way i shouldn't say

1:52:14 ↗ transparent but in a more

1:52:15 ↗ engaging way and i hope

1:52:18 ↗ this is just my hope that it also will

1:52:20 ↗ reiterate

1:52:21 ↗ some of this foundational work that we

1:52:23 ↗ as we start creating habits and create

1:52:26 ↗ sort of long-range strategic plans and

1:52:28 ↗ that those long-range strategic plans

1:52:30 ↗ like i said when gary schimack and alan

1:52:32 ↗ were here

1:52:32 ↗ they don't just sit on a shelf and

1:52:34 ↗ gather dust but they're put into use to

1:52:36 ↗ to create these nearer-term

1:52:38 ↗ prioritization exercises capital plans

1:52:41 ↗ um etc so this i i think what we're

1:52:44 ↗ doing

1:52:45 ↗ really represents a a new approach so

1:52:48 ↗ your feedback's helpful marlene in terms

1:52:50 ↗ of

1:52:51 ↗ yeah what what what helpful questions

1:52:55 ↗ might

1:52:55 ↗ might um aid you all

1:52:59 ↗ in getting a little more specific and

1:53:00 ↗ what is a a rather large planning

1:53:03 ↗ document you're right

1:53:06 ↗ places where you guys were unsure right

1:53:08 ↗ like if there's like oh we really

1:53:09 ↗ thought about this page or

1:53:11 ↗ we really want you know i think just

1:53:13 ↗ pointing this to those will help us

1:53:15 ↗ a lot to appreciate you being willing to

1:53:16 ↗ are open to thinking through that

1:53:21 ↗ yeah i think it's good to engage the

1:53:23 ↗ board more with this particular planning

1:53:25 ↗ document

1:53:26 ↗ it hasn't really happened too much in

1:53:28 ↗ the past and that may have something to

1:53:29 ↗ do with

1:53:30 ↗ maybe why a lot of those things may not

1:53:32 ↗ have been accomplished too

1:53:33 ↗ in years past there hasn't been enough

1:53:36 ↗ engagement

1:53:38 ↗ we'll see but i think it's good to move

1:53:40 ↗ forward with it

1:53:43 ↗ any other comments or questions on this

1:53:46 ↗ item

1:53:49 ↗ not seeing anything so i guess that

1:53:51 ↗ means we are

1:53:52 ↗ not seeing anything in chat so i guess

1:53:55 ↗ we're moving on

1:53:56 ↗ to um you want a little bit of a break

1:54:00 ↗ here jeff

1:54:03 ↗ yeah chair report go right ahead please

1:54:05 ↗ okay

1:54:06 ↗ uh i just have a couple things uh

1:54:09 ↗ first of all thanks everybody for your

1:54:11 ↗ service here this past year we're

1:54:13 ↗ really wrapping up this uh term here at

1:54:16 ↗ the end of april

1:54:18 ↗ uh and um

1:54:21 ↗ just to give everybody the heads up um

1:54:25 ↗ basically danielle and jeremy and

1:54:27 ↗ marlene will be continuing on with us

1:54:29 ↗ here over the next year

1:54:31 ↗ um and um thank you april but she will

1:54:36 ↗ be concluding her service here at the

1:54:38 ↗ end of

1:54:39 ↗ this month um we do have two

1:54:43 ↗ new board members joining us uh next

1:54:45 ↗ month

1:54:46 ↗ uh zach or i don't know if i can

1:54:49 ↗ pronounce his last name that is a

1:54:51 ↗ bluesky

1:54:52 ↗ maybe uh and i just

1:54:55 ↗ and i think that's april's husband if

1:54:57 ↗ i'm not mistaken so at least april will

1:54:59 ↗ somewhat stay in the loop with us here

1:55:01 ↗ as zach joins us

1:55:03 ↗ and then brenda spears will be joining

1:55:06 ↗ us uh here as well

1:55:07 ↗ uh starting next month uh

1:55:10 ↗ so and then we do have um one position

1:55:14 ↗ yet to fill that we're going to

1:55:18 ↗ do what we can to do some outreach here

1:55:20 ↗ over the next few months

1:55:22 ↗ for that we do have elections leadership

1:55:26 ↗ elections coming up

1:55:27 ↗ next month in may so

1:55:30 ↗ give some consideration to that how you

1:55:32 ↗ would like the board to move forward

1:55:34 ↗ with leadership

1:55:36 ↗ um it could be time for change we'll see

1:55:40 ↗ um jeff and i have had some discussion

1:55:42 ↗ about maybe

1:55:43 ↗ potentially changing the the policy

1:55:47 ↗ of leadership of boards and commissions

1:55:49 ↗ i don't know if that will occur here

1:55:51 ↗ this go around

1:55:52 ↗ but um something that we've talked about

1:55:55 ↗ in terms of

1:55:56 ↗ you know vice chair potentially

1:56:00 ↗ stepping into the chair position in the

1:56:01 ↗ following year or

1:56:03 ↗ something similar to that so we can talk

1:56:06 ↗ about that more

1:56:07 ↗ next month but give some thought to what

1:56:10 ↗ you would like

1:56:11 ↗ moving forward um

1:56:14 ↗ a couple things

1:56:18 ↗ oh um

1:56:21 ↗ there's a couple things coming out in

1:56:26 ↗ may that i wanted you to be aware of the

1:56:29 ↗ public forum's

1:56:31 ↗ uh annual forum for public lands which

1:56:33 ↗ occurred

1:56:34 ↗ last month i don't know if everybody had

1:56:36 ↗ a chance to

1:56:37 ↗ see sally or not that's actually now

1:56:40 ↗ been

1:56:40 ↗ published on youtube which is a good way

1:56:43 ↗ to

1:56:44 ↗ view it if anybody would that didn't

1:56:46 ↗ attend it that would like to see it

1:56:48 ↗ let me know i'll send you a link to

1:56:50 ↗ watch it it's a good

1:56:52 ↗ presentation and there's now

1:56:55 ↗ going to be a part two of the annual

1:56:58 ↗ forum for public lands this year which

1:57:00 ↗ is going to be a virtual meeting

1:57:02 ↗ um in may it's set for may 21st on a

1:57:06 ↗ friday at 5

1:57:07 ↗ 30. if you have any interest in

1:57:10 ↗ attending that let me know and i'll send

1:57:12 ↗ you a link with more information about

1:57:14 ↗ that

1:57:15 ↗ the guest speaker is going to be

1:57:18 ↗ commissioner

1:57:19 ↗ of public lands hillary franz i'm

1:57:23 ↗ sure she will have some real positive

1:57:25 ↗ things to say

1:57:26 ↗ about some funding i think that she was

1:57:29 ↗ able to get from the legislature for

1:57:32 ↗ primarily wildfires but a number of

1:57:34 ↗ other things

1:57:35 ↗ but that will be another good

1:57:37 ↗ presentation from

1:57:40 ↗ commissioner franz on may 21st

1:57:43 ↗ and then the last thing i wanted to

1:57:45 ↗ mention in may

1:57:47 ↗ coming up is the trail ambassador

1:57:49 ↗ program

1:57:51 ↗ which is being sponsored by the issaquah

1:57:53 ↗ alps trails program

1:57:55 ↗ as well as mountainous sound greenway

1:57:58 ↗ and primarily this program is getting

1:58:02 ↗ ambassadors

1:58:03 ↗ to provide information about trails

1:58:07 ↗ at various trail heads in our region

1:58:11 ↗ and if you want any more information

1:58:14 ↗ about that

1:58:15 ↗ or have interest in joining that program

1:58:17 ↗ or know of somebody who would

1:58:19 ↗ be interested please let me know and

1:58:21 ↗ i'll send you some more additional

1:58:23 ↗ information on that program as well

1:58:25 ↗ given that issaquah is considered trail

1:58:28 ↗ city i think this will be a very

1:58:30 ↗ valuable program to inform so many

1:58:33 ↗ people

1:58:34 ↗ that join the issaquah area

1:58:37 ↗ to use our trail system

1:58:40 ↗ more responsibly and so i'm real

1:58:43 ↗ encouraged to see

1:58:44 ↗ what comes of that new program

1:58:48 ↗ um that's all i had to say this evening

1:58:52 ↗ so jeff i'll leave it with you for a few

1:58:54 ↗ words

1:58:57 ↗ great thanks brad seeing the clock i'll

1:58:59 ↗ be i'll be sh

1:59:00 ↗ super duper fast um this saturday marks

1:59:04 ↗ the beginning of farmers market

1:59:06 ↗ season for 2021

1:59:09 ↗ pickering barn will be hopping we're

1:59:12 ↗ working with public health once again to

1:59:14 ↗ create a

1:59:14 ↗ safe safe space for the community to

1:59:18 ↗ gather and and get goods and

1:59:21 ↗ i think just celebrate another farmer's

1:59:23 ↗ market season so

1:59:24 ↗ great work there i'll save

1:59:27 ↗ project updates for our may park board

1:59:29 ↗ meeting we'll we'll be able to have

1:59:31 ↗ updates on both some of the work we're

1:59:33 ↗ doing with the community in blackberry

1:59:34 ↗ park

1:59:35 ↗ as well as an update on uh hillside park

1:59:38 ↗ and

1:59:38 ↗ and some of the site work we're doing

1:59:40 ↗ and continued

1:59:42 ↗ our site analysis work we're doing and

1:59:44 ↗ continued community engagement there

1:59:47 ↗ wayfinding if you remember that from

1:59:48 ↗ last um park board meeting

1:59:50 ↗ public engagement for that starts um

1:59:54 ↗ tail end of this week as well and we'll

1:59:55 ↗ run for the month of may

1:59:57 ↗ so please share with your

2:00:00 ↗ counterparts and residents and neighbors

2:00:02 ↗ to provide input

2:00:04 ↗ for that wayfinding engagement and

2:00:07 ↗ lastly

2:00:09 ↗ state budget came out was adopted over

2:00:12 ↗ the weekend you probably saw within the

2:00:14 ↗ capital budget

2:00:17 ↗ we are going to be awarded 1.87 million

2:00:22 ↗ dollars

2:00:22 ↗ for our bergsma acquisition

2:00:26 ↗ uh we went through the washington

2:00:28 ↗ wildlife reparation

2:00:29 ↗ um wwrp grant cycle

2:00:33 ↗ and scored highly you may remember that

2:00:35 ↗ but

2:00:36 ↗ that's now going to mean another 1.87

2:00:38 ↗ million dollars

2:00:41 ↗ to assist the city in that acquisition

2:00:44 ↗ that

2:00:44 ↗ wraps up our funding strategy for that

2:00:46 ↗ project

2:00:48 ↗ i just want to know what was a very

2:00:50 ↗ ambitious

2:00:52 ↗ endeavor for the city to purchase those

2:00:55 ↗ acres

2:00:56 ↗ uh we actually met our funding strategy

2:00:59 ↗ in terms of grant dollars

2:01:01 ↗ uh exceeded it uh by um

2:01:04 ↗ almost four hundred thousand dollars um

2:01:06 ↗ so the the city contribution for that

2:01:09 ↗ uh regional effort ends up being uh

2:01:11 ↗ really quite

2:01:12 ↗ um quite small so um kudos jennifer for

2:01:16 ↗ that grant application

2:01:17 ↗ and uh i just i think for the number of

2:01:19 ↗ grants that we were successful in

2:01:21 ↗ getting for that project

2:01:23 ↗ uh it also means in the cip you'll see

2:01:25 ↗ for next year

2:01:26 ↗ funding for doing some trail work we've

2:01:29 ↗ been initiating some trail design work

2:01:31 ↗ already

2:01:32 ↗ once we have that grant agreement and

2:01:33 ↗ that final grant funding from the state

2:01:35 ↗ will actually be able to do

2:01:37 ↗ some capital projects uh the first thing

2:01:40 ↗ we want to do is really

2:01:41 ↗ reinforce trail connectivity from the

2:01:43 ↗ valley floor up into

2:01:46 ↗ cougar mountain and beyond so that's it

2:01:51 ↗ thank you jeff for that and uh

2:01:55 ↗ ryan last but not not least thank you

2:01:57 ↗ for uh

2:01:58 ↗ i hope we've kept you entertained at

2:01:59 ↗ least for the last two hours here in the

2:02:01 ↗ area

2:02:02 ↗ yeah you're glad you hung in there with

2:02:04 ↗ this and we're looking forward to

2:02:05 ↗ hearing what you have to say about the

2:02:06 ↗ youth board

2:02:08 ↗ yeah so i'll sort of start with where

2:02:09 ↗ we're going or where we're where we've

2:02:10 ↗ been and then i'll go to where we're

2:02:12 ↗ going

2:02:12 ↗ um so this past month uh we held a civic

2:02:16 ↗ engagement conference that was pretty

2:02:17 ↗ well attended

2:02:18 ↗ uh council member d michelle spoke as

2:02:20 ↗ well as some

2:02:21 ↗ local youth activists who'd been

2:02:22 ↗ lobbying for a bill in the state

2:02:24 ↗ legislature

2:02:25 ↗ and then we also had one of our project

2:02:27 ↗ teams host a social justice conference

2:02:29 ↗ which was really great

2:02:31 ↗ um and then in terms of where we're

2:02:32 ↗ going this saturday from one to three

2:02:35 ↗ we're hosting

2:02:35 ↗ a food and book drive at the community

2:02:38 ↗ center

2:02:39 ↗ for the benefit of eastside baby corner

2:02:41 ↗ and uh the issaquah food and clothing

2:02:43 ↗ bank

2:02:43 ↗ um so we're collecting uh food books

2:02:47 ↗ baby wipes and bar soap and we're hoping

2:02:50 ↗ that that'll be

2:02:51 ↗ a really great event we're sort of

2:02:52 ↗ calling it fill the van and hoping to

2:02:53 ↗ fill up some of the

2:02:54 ↗ city's vehicles so that we can drive all

2:02:56 ↗ those great things over to those

2:02:58 ↗ organizations

2:02:59 ↗ and then looking forward to may jennifer

2:03:02 ↗ and i

2:03:03 ↗ are putting together a presentation to

2:03:04 ↗ work with youth advisory board

2:03:06 ↗ uh in terms of the wayfinding project

2:03:08 ↗ and hopefully getting some

2:03:10 ↗ engagement having some discussion with

2:03:12 ↗ them on that project in the future and

2:03:14 ↗ uh bringing that back to the parks board

2:03:15 ↗ in the future

2:03:17 ↗ and that is all i have for now um we are

2:03:20 ↗ in a new application cycle so if you

2:03:22 ↗ have any youth in your life that you

2:03:23 ↗ think would be interested in the

2:03:24 ↗ advisory board

2:03:25 ↗ uh the application is out on the city's

2:03:27 ↗ website and that's all i have

2:03:30 ↗ thank you for that ryan and appreciate

2:03:32 ↗ all your contributions

2:03:33 ↗ and hopefully you have a few things to

2:03:36 ↗ be able to pass on to the youth board

2:03:38 ↗ from

2:03:39 ↗ what you learned tonight as well so

2:03:42 ↗ thank you for that uh anything from the

2:03:45 ↗ mayor jeff

2:03:50 ↗ uh specifically no i do know uh in

2:03:53 ↗ talking with her that she wants to come

2:03:55 ↗ out and and

2:03:56 ↗ say hi to all boards and commissions so

2:03:58 ↗ i'll be working with

2:03:59 ↗ um with her office uh to see if we can

2:04:02 ↗ get

2:04:03 ↗ her scheduled for may or june okay

2:04:06 ↗ sounds good uh

2:04:10 ↗ any new business announcements anything

2:04:13 ↗ along those lines

2:04:16 ↗ not seeing anything chat looks empty

2:04:20 ↗ well thanks for hanging in there we kind

2:04:22 ↗ of uh over

2:04:24 ↗ overdid it a few minutes but somehow we

2:04:26 ↗ squeezed everything in

2:04:27 ↗ it was a busy night appreciate everybody

2:04:29 ↗ showing up

2:04:31 ↗ and have yourself a great spring and

2:04:34 ↗ i'll see you

2:04:35 ↗ all next month thank you meeting is

2:04:43 ↗ adjourned

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