Park Board · Monday, November 22, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Membership

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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 October 25, 2021

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 10-25-21 Park Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting October 25, 2021 DRAFT MINUTES

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Newport Way, (D)

Action · 40 min · John Mortenson, Transportation Engineering Manager · packet pp.9–11

Topics: Transportation

Previously discussed: Transportation Advisory Board · Nov 18, 2021

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Transportation Advisory Board Park Board

Surface Storm Water Master Plan, (I)

30 min · Gary Schimek, Utilities Engineering Manager, and Matt Ellis, Senior Engineer · packet pp.13–38

Topics: Water

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Section 2 – Background Section 3 - Analysis Section 4 – Results Section 5 – Next Steps

Scholarship Program Policy Update, (I)

Director · 15 min · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services · packet pp.39–47

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Staff report:

J E NNIFE R FINK , PA RK PLA NNE R A ND PROJ ECT A D M INIS TRATO R Recap from October Park Board •Parks Strategic Plan outlined Anchor Parks Project o Veterans Memorial Field o Tibbetts Valley Park o Creek Corridor • In 2019, projects had a collective public outreach • Separate each of the projects • Re-launch projects with Focus Group conversations

Anchor Parks Update

Information · 15 min · Jennifer Fink, Park Planner and Projects Administrator

Topics: Parks

5. REPORTS

Chairperson's Report

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Youth Report

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Director's Report

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0:02 ↗ event recording is in progress here we

0:03 ↗ go there we go and the park board

0:08 ↗ where we discussed three concepts for

0:10 ↗ the newport whey maple to sunset project

0:13 ↗ and the green necklace

0:16 ↗ outs based on the conversation

0:19 ↗ and that meeting we

0:21 ↗ identified the common values ranked the

0:24 ↗ common values

0:26 ↗ did some polling got it broke out into

0:30 ↗ breakout rooms and the project team got

0:32 ↗ a lot of really good feedback from the

0:35 ↗ two different boards

0:37 ↗ based on the feedback that we got

0:40 ↗ from everyone who was in attendance that

0:43 ↗ night a letter was drafted that will go

0:46 ↗ from

0:48 ↗ the two boards the park board and the

0:50 ↗ transportation advisory board to mayor

0:52 ↗ paulie advising on the

0:55 ↗ project

0:56 ↗ for the letter because

1:00 ↗ for anyone who wasn't there

1:02 ↗ the

1:03 ↗ when

1:04 ↗ the whole group was pulled

1:07 ↗ concept a which

1:10 ↗ had

1:11 ↗ a

1:18 ↗ um concept a

1:20 ↗ had a

1:21 ↗ a slight majority

1:23 ↗ of the overall pull but then when we

1:25 ↗ polled each board separately because

1:29 ↗ you are two separate boards the

1:31 ↗ transportation advisory board

1:34 ↗ voted

1:35 ↗ polled to show that they prefer concept

1:38 ↗ a

1:38 ↗ and the park board voted that you guys

1:42 ↗ prefer concept b

1:44 ↗ and

1:44 ↗ however i i feel like more important

1:46 ↗ than the actual

1:50 ↗ voting of the polling is the values that

1:53 ↗ went into this and

1:55 ↗ that's what the majority of this letter

1:58 ↗ tries to reflect is the advice that we

2:01 ↗ got from everyone who is in attendance

2:03 ↗ for the three concepts

2:05 ↗ and our intention is that that letter

2:07 ↗ reflects the advice that we got there

2:10 ↗ and then summarizes the polling

2:13 ↗ and then at the bottom of the letter

2:15 ↗ is a spot for the different boards to

2:18 ↗ add additional comments

2:20 ↗ that

2:21 ↗ they would like to

2:23 ↗ have listed in the letter that goes to

2:25 ↗ advise mayor paulie

2:27 ↗ i recently met with the transportation

2:29 ↗ advisory board

2:31 ↗ and i'm going to pull up

2:33 ↗ and read to you what they ended up

2:36 ↗ having as their motion that was approved

2:42 ↗ and that was to

2:44 ↗ the transportation advisory board voted

2:47 ↗ to endorse the letter upon having two

2:51 ↗ members of the tab receive comments from

2:53 ↗ the park board and add language

2:58 ↗ in the tab section

3:00 ↗ to add

3:01 ↗ about the

3:03 ↗ bicycles and pedestrian safety when

3:06 ↗ crossing and

3:08 ↗ entering and exit the roundabouts

3:11 ↗ and so that is what the

3:14 ↗ transportation advisory board

3:16 ↗ had and so the the two things that i

3:18 ↗ really am asking

3:20 ↗ for from you tonight is the park board

3:22 ↗ is number one

3:24 ↗ to

3:26 ↗ as a group decide what comments in

3:28 ↗ addition

3:30 ↗ to what's in the letter you would like

3:32 ↗ in the letter to be added to the park

3:34 ↗ board section and two

3:37 ↗ to vote to endorse the letter and with

3:40 ↗ that i will turn it back to you chair to

3:44 ↗ facilitate the conversation

3:48 ↗ uh thank you for that john um

3:51 ↗ so we have some time i think this is a

3:53 ↗ good opportunity for board members to

3:56 ↗ make some comments we actually had eight

3:59 ↗ people at the joint meeting

4:02 ↗ uh only two were missing chris and

4:05 ↗ jeremy we do have chris here this

4:07 ↗ evening so this may be an opportunity

4:09 ↗ for you to make any comments that you

4:11 ↗ would like chris

4:12 ↗ and really for any board members to make

4:14 ↗ comments i have a few additional

4:15 ↗ comments

4:17 ↗ so that we can have a little bit of

4:18 ↗ discussion

4:20 ↗ um you know to some extent i think to

4:22 ↗ help support why the park board overall

4:26 ↗ selected um option b as the preferred

4:30 ↗ option from the part board

4:32 ↗ you know you know what you know what

4:34 ↗ went into thoughts about

4:37 ↗ that versus what tab was supporting

4:40 ↗ with option a

4:42 ↗ so with that i'll open this up to

4:45 ↗ discussion from the board members

4:48 ↗ i'll speak last because

4:51 ↗ maybe you'll say something that i don't

4:53 ↗ need to repeat

4:55 ↗ so let's go around

4:58 ↗ and uh actually i'd kind of liked it we

5:00 ↗ have time i'd kind of like to hear from

5:03 ↗ everybody on the board

5:05 ↗ uh as to which option that you

5:08 ↗ selected uh and maybe your thoughts in

5:12 ↗ terms of why that was the case

5:14 ↗ could you um can somebody share their

5:17 ↗ screen and sew those again so that we

5:19 ↗ can

5:20 ↗ get our memory refreshed

5:24 ↗ uh that would be john maybe that could

5:27 ↗ do that i mean essentially yeah okay

5:30 ↗ i can i just need to be made a presenter

5:33 ↗ and i would be glad to do that okay

5:35 ↗ thanks

5:44 ↗ and while we're waiting for that is john

5:47 ↗ is essentially is option three off the

5:49 ↗ table or is that something that still

5:51 ↗ can be discussed

5:53 ↗ i would say it still could be discussed

5:55 ↗ it was pulling so far behind that i felt

5:58 ↗ like it was skewing the data to have two

6:01 ↗ alternatives that had a shared use path

6:03 ↗ and that i felt like it would not

6:05 ↗ reflect the support for concept b if we

6:08 ↗ still had concept c in there okay

6:18 ↗ i need to get with the program here it's

6:19 ↗ concept a concept b and concept c

6:29 ↗ now the only

6:31 ↗ yeah i can see that well okay

6:33 ↗ well i'll do a quick just description of

6:36 ↗ the different concepts

6:37 ↗ and

6:38 ↗ then hand it back to the discussion

6:41 ↗ this is concept a

6:43 ↗ which concept a has

6:46 ↗ separated facilities for bicyclists and

6:49 ↗ pedestrians where

6:51 ↗ and it's symmetrical on both sides

6:54 ↗ six feet of space is dedicated to

6:56 ↗ bicycles and would be a different

6:59 ↗ surface material

7:00 ↗ than the sidewalk that would be next to

7:02 ↗ it which is also six feet wide and so

7:05 ↗ the this concept achieves the

7:07 ↗ goal of having a 12 foot trail

7:10 ↗ by doing it on both sides but then to

7:12 ↗ separating the users between the

7:14 ↗ bicyclists and the pedestrians

7:18 ↗ and does this just um this the the

7:21 ↗ bicycle lanes

7:23 ↗ are not one way is that correct or are

7:26 ↗ they

7:27 ↗ do you remind us

7:30 ↗ they would be one way yes okay great so

7:33 ↗ my question

7:35 ↗ that follows up to what danielle just

7:37 ↗ said john

7:38 ↗ who actually monitors the one way my

7:41 ↗ concern with this part of it is is that

7:44 ↗ you could end up having bikes going in

7:46 ↗ both directions

7:48 ↗ which would actually potentially create

7:50 ↗ more of a safety problem because now you

7:52 ↗ only have six foot in width for that to

7:54 ↗ occur

7:57 ↗ i assume there's going to be signage is

7:59 ↗ that one thing that would help monitor

8:01 ↗ that

8:02 ↗ the signage and pavement markings it

8:05 ↗ would be no different than what we do

8:07 ↗ for cars where we'll sign it and put

8:10 ↗ pavement markings down indicating it's

8:12 ↗ one way

8:13 ↗ but

8:14 ↗ but there is the potential for people

8:16 ↗ for bikes and other electric

8:20 ↗ type vehicles to go in two different

8:22 ↗ directions

8:25 ↗ there would be the potential for that i

8:27 ↗ okay

8:29 ↗ i can't see everyone with this up so if

8:32 ↗ any board members want to have something

8:34 ↗ to comment or say just go ahead and

8:37 ↗ say your say your thing without me

8:39 ↗ having to call on you

8:42 ↗ but before we move on are there any

8:44 ↗ other comments from the board on concept

8:46 ↗ a

8:52 ↗ not hearing any let's go to concept b

8:54 ↗ okay

8:55 ↗ concept b

8:57 ↗ would

8:57 ↗ identify the

9:00 ↗ this is the squawk mountain side

9:03 ↗ and this is the issaquah valley

9:05 ↗ elementary school side and then squawk

9:08 ↗ mountainside would be identified for a

9:10 ↗ shared use path that would be 12 feet

9:12 ↗ wide this would be used by both bicycles

9:15 ↗ and pedestrians

9:16 ↗ it would

9:18 ↗ have traffic

9:19 ↗ that would go both ways for the bicycles

9:21 ↗ and the pedestrians and then this is a

9:25 ↗ 12 foot wide and we're calling it a

9:26 ↗ sidewalk but in a lot of ways it is a

9:29 ↗ concrete shared use path it would be

9:31 ↗ used by both bicycles and by pedestrians

9:34 ↗ and the bicycles would be able to head

9:36 ↗ both directions

9:38 ↗ and

9:39 ↗ from it's very similar to concept a but

9:42 ↗ it's different in that

9:45 ↗ the users are not given their own

9:47 ↗ specific space it is they're free to

9:52 ↗ either bike or walk on either side of

9:53 ↗ the road in either direction

9:59 ↗ any questions or comments from anybody

10:02 ↗ on the board on concept b

10:15 ↗ i guess my only comment that i have on

10:17 ↗ this is is that

10:19 ↗ [Music]

10:21 ↗ my concern

10:22 ↗ anytime you

10:25 ↗ have shared use with bikes and

10:27 ↗ pedestrians

10:29 ↗ and

10:30 ↗ i know this is a something that we've

10:32 ↗ talked about before but um i mean i i

10:35 ↗ just think that that's

10:37 ↗ a concern

10:39 ↗ and i think that

10:41 ↗ given that we have the space it would be

10:44 ↗ ideal

10:45 ↗ to separate bikes

10:47 ↗ and pedestrians altogether

10:49 ↗ i mean i know that concept a makes an

10:52 ↗ attempt at doing that

10:54 ↗ but my concern with that is you're going

10:56 ↗ to have overflow because you only have

10:58 ↗ six foot widths you're going to

11:00 ↗ potentially have overflow from bikes

11:02 ↗ into the sidewalk portion and people

11:04 ↗ walking into the pathway portion

11:09 ↗ ideally it would certainly be nice to

11:11 ↗ create the pathway

11:14 ↗ as being

11:15 ↗ bikes electric type

11:19 ↗ vehicles

11:20 ↗ that type of thing only

11:22 ↗ you could also have pedestrians on there

11:25 ↗ but

11:26 ↗ ideally sidewalks may be just

11:30 ↗ best for pedestrians only

11:33 ↗ i mean i you know to use a phrase from

11:35 ↗ an old movie i mean build it and they

11:36 ↗ will come and that's exactly what will

11:39 ↗ happen over time is if you

11:43 ↗ have the predominant use of bikes on a

11:46 ↗ paved pathway versus a sidewalk that

11:49 ↗ would be an awful lot safer

11:53 ↗ you know we

11:54 ↗ when you look at

11:57 ↗ rainier trail east lake sammamish trail

12:00 ↗ those type of pathways those are

12:03 ↗ multi-use

12:05 ↗ but you don't have the

12:07 ↗ issue with vehicles quite so much as you

12:11 ↗ do

12:12 ↗ in this particular corridor

12:14 ↗ and so an added additional

12:17 ↗ safety component that i see is people

12:19 ↗ turning off of the of newport

12:22 ↗ passing through the pathway or this

12:25 ↗ sidewalk

12:26 ↗ and having to then maneuver safety of

12:30 ↗ pedestrians and bicycles and you don't

12:33 ↗ have a lot of time to maneuver

12:35 ↗ safety to me is one of the concern

12:38 ↗ biggest concerns it's also the top

12:40 ↗ criteria that the everybody agreed upon

12:44 ↗ uh and when you as an example if you

12:46 ↗ have somebody driving down newport way

12:48 ↗ that decides to turn into one of these

12:52 ↗ parking lot areas there's a lot of

12:54 ↗ there's an awful lot of side streets

12:56 ↗ coming into this roadway

12:58 ↗ and having to

13:00 ↗ [Music]

13:01 ↗ very quickly decide safety of bicycles

13:05 ↗ and

13:06 ↗ electric skateboards and all sorts of

13:08 ↗ things i mean i just see that as being a

13:11 ↗ concern

13:13 ↗ and if you have all of those over on

13:16 ↗ just one side of the road rather than on

13:18 ↗ both sides of the road you at least

13:20 ↗ limit the hazard and risk of that

13:23 ↗ concern

13:25 ↗ [Music]

13:26 ↗ also you've got situations where you

13:29 ↗ know people could maybe rely upon the

13:32 ↗ one-way

13:33 ↗ aspect of concept a and not necessarily

13:36 ↗ pay so close attention

13:39 ↗ uh to bikes and electric vehicles on

13:42 ↗ these sidewalks

13:45 ↗ and like i said you have a five a little

13:48 ↗ five and a half foot buffer not much

13:50 ↗ time to make a decision when you're

13:52 ↗ pulling off newport whey and crossing in

13:54 ↗ front of

13:56 ↗ electric type vehicles

13:58 ↗ it's going to be high this is the main

14:00 ↗ high use corridor in

14:03 ↗ through issaquah

14:04 ↗ and um

14:06 ↗ so it is though it doesn't maybe get as

14:09 ↗ much use now it certainly will get a lot

14:11 ↗ of use in the future

14:13 ↗ and with so many side streets coming off

14:16 ↗ into there i guess that would be my

14:18 ↗ biggest concern in terms of safety

14:23 ↗ so i've said an awful lot more on

14:24 ↗ concept b here but essentially

14:27 ↗ this is the concept that the park board

14:30 ↗ kind of supported

14:32 ↗ and i think to some extent

14:35 ↗ some of those reasons may be

14:37 ↗ what i just mentioned

14:41 ↗ any other comments from park board

14:44 ↗ members

14:45 ↗ well sure that i actually um

14:48 ↗ i

14:50 ↗ think my um

14:52 ↗ preference between these two is actually

14:53 ↗ concept a

14:55 ↗ because i feel like it gives it does do

14:58 ↗ a little bit more of that separation i

15:00 ↗ know there will probably be some you

15:02 ↗ know

15:04 ↗ bleeding over from one side to the other

15:06 ↗ but i i did like that

15:08 ↗ that there was like a bike path you know

15:11 ↗ area um to me like that

15:14 ↗ that works um

15:17 ↗ but i think it just you know it all

15:18 ↗ depends on

15:21 ↗ um

15:23 ↗ you know i think i think they're pretty

15:27 ↗ i agree that i think everybody's

15:28 ↗ comments are everybody's just looking at

15:30 ↗ safety in a slightly different way right

15:33 ↗ and we won't really know

15:36 ↗ um you know until until it happens

15:40 ↗ you know how some of this will work out

15:42 ↗ i personally was really um would have

15:45 ↗ really preferred a completely separate

15:47 ↗ bike

15:47 ↗ um

15:48 ↗ path and i know that there's an issue

15:50 ↗ with the buffers

15:52 ↗ that there's not enough space to do that

15:53 ↗ but i would have

15:55 ↗ liked to have seen a

15:57 ↗ you know us deal with that in some kind

15:58 ↗ of creative way this is a transportation

16:01 ↗ corridor so like

16:02 ↗ to me it seems like we have to know we

16:04 ↗ know that there are going to be bikes

16:05 ↗ moving

16:07 ↗ using this road

16:12 ↗ so

16:13 ↗ i don't remember what concept c was

16:16 ↗ it was similar to this

16:19 ↗ it was

16:20 ↗ any other comments from board members

16:22 ↗ about concept b

16:26 ↗ yeah this is chris kovac so um i don't

16:29 ↗ know if you guys can see me or not

16:31 ↗ dan

16:32 ↗ concept b

16:33 ↗ what kind of signage and uh

16:37 ↗ direction are we

16:38 ↗ being proposed

16:40 ↗ to

16:41 ↗ let users know that the you know the

16:44 ↗ northeast side is pedestrian-only and

16:47 ↗ the southeast side is available for

16:48 ↗ bicyclists um i don't want to sound

16:52 ↗ anti-bicycle but they're going to go

16:54 ↗ wherever they want to go

16:57 ↗ and

16:59 ↗ give them a place and and

17:02 ↗ identify that place that they're i think

17:04 ↗ they're more likely to observe it

17:06 ↗ recognize it as their space but if it's

17:09 ↗ open

17:10 ↗ just paved um they're going to go all

17:12 ↗ over the place

17:16 ↗ i can answer your question

17:21 ↗ i'll answer it two ways the the first is

17:23 ↗ that

17:25 ↗ in the city of issaquah riding a bicycle

17:27 ↗ on the sidewalk is perfectly legal and

17:30 ↗ so with concept b

17:33 ↗ there's nothing to stop someone from

17:34 ↗ riding the bicycle on the 12 foot

17:37 ↗ sidewalk

17:38 ↗ and

17:40 ↗ now from a wayfinding point of view in

17:42 ↗ order to

17:44 ↗ accentuate the

17:46 ↗ very necklace components

17:49 ↗ that there would be wayfinding

17:51 ↗ that would be directing people

17:53 ↗ to the paved side

17:55 ↗ but

17:56 ↗ there would be nothing that would be

17:57 ↗ preventing a bicyclist from riding on

17:59 ↗ the sidewalk

18:04 ↗ thank you i i think i i don't know

18:07 ↗ my vote counts at this point because i

18:08 ↗ wasn't here at the last meeting but

18:10 ↗ um

18:12 ↗ that

18:13 ↗ said i think concept a

18:17 ↗ that seems uh more preferable to me

18:20 ↗ because it will at least identify

18:22 ↗ a lane four cyclists

18:24 ↗ and a lane for pedestrians and both of

18:26 ↗ them can figure that out as you know

18:28 ↗ when they're walking or riding they can

18:31 ↗ find it of where they should and

18:32 ↗ shouldn't be

18:33 ↗ and and i do see that you know at

18:36 ↗ all beach

18:38 ↗ green lake has it although i think they

18:40 ↗ might have separated something at green

18:41 ↗ lake but

18:43 ↗ so that's my thoughts on it

18:48 ↗ thanks chris and your vote does matter

18:50 ↗ especially at this time when we're still

18:51 ↗ trying to determine whether concept a or

18:53 ↗ concept b is something that the park

18:55 ↗ board wants to

18:57 ↗ support

19:00 ↗ other comments from the board

19:04 ↗ yeah i had one um

19:07 ↗ so

19:08 ↗ i liked concept a because there's

19:10 ↗ there's clearly defined paths for kind

19:12 ↗ of each mode of transportation but what

19:14 ↗ i worry about is

19:16 ↗ knowing that the school is on the

19:17 ↗ northeast side then for kids that come

19:20 ↗ out of school they only kind of kind of

19:22 ↗ forced to go one way

19:25 ↗ until they get to a crosswalk and then

19:27 ↗ cross the street and then head in the

19:28 ↗ other direction

19:34 ↗ talking about

19:39 ↗ did i understand that right this is for

19:40 ↗ kids riding their bikes to school

19:44 ↗ that's right so if if the school's on

19:46 ↗ the northeast side and kids get out and

19:48 ↗ they want to make a laugh but they're

19:50 ↗ only allowed to go right they would have

19:52 ↗ to go down

19:53 ↗ cross it around the valve

19:55 ↗ and then come back the other way correct

19:58 ↗ correct

20:02 ↗ yeah that's part of the point i was

20:04 ↗ mentioning is that there's in terms of

20:05 ↗ actual usage and convenience

20:09 ↗ even though those lanes may be one way i

20:11 ↗ can easily see people going in two

20:13 ↗ different directions

20:15 ↗ and then you're limited to six foot as a

20:18 ↗ pathway

20:20 ↗ and that you know potentially can create

20:23 ↗ some safety concerns

20:26 ↗ i think there's probably some ways to

20:28 ↗ mitigate that though like as far as like

20:29 ↗ exits from the school like currently

20:32 ↗ there's like a sidewalk

20:34 ↗ you know that or not sidewalks but

20:36 ↗ there's a crosswalk right like halfway

20:37 ↗ through that

20:39 ↗ kind of like in the middle part of their

20:41 ↗ field

20:42 ↗ um area so i think that if you had like

20:44 ↗ a fence

20:45 ↗ if you didn't have a fence opening and

20:47 ↗ you had you know bikes coming out

20:49 ↗ at the roundabouts or at a crosswalk

20:52 ↗ that could

20:53 ↗ would help mitigate

20:56 ↗ um but you're exactly right like

20:58 ↗ everybody's gonna go the shortest

20:59 ↗ direction that they

21:01 ↗ that they can like nobody

21:03 ↗ likes to go a little bit farther and

21:05 ↗ around you know the wrong way to go

21:08 ↗ to get on the right side of the road

21:11 ↗ that's an issue

21:15 ↗ other comments from anyone

21:21 ↗ nothing jack rubin anything

21:24 ↗ no i still prefer concept b only because

21:26 ↗ i think with identifying the sidewalk

21:29 ↗ and identifying the asphalt area at

21:31 ↗ least mentally people get a picture of

21:33 ↗ where they should be

21:35 ↗ so i just thought that'd be safer

21:39 ↗ meaning that if it's a sidewalk is most

21:41 ↗ people are going to use it as a sidewalk

21:43 ↗ for walking in the path most people are

21:44 ↗ going to use it for bikes and electric

21:46 ↗ vehicles

21:50 ↗ danielle do you have something more i

21:52 ↗ was curious what um i was just curious

21:54 ↗ what that what reuben thought was there

21:56 ↗ like

21:57 ↗ so are the two are the um are the ground

22:00 ↗ surfaces different on those two

22:03 ↗ or how would people

22:06 ↗ well my understanding was that on

22:08 ↗ concept b on

22:09 ↗ the northeast side was going to be

22:10 ↗ strictly a sidewalk of concrete

22:13 ↗ and the other side was going to be the

22:15 ↗ asphalt bike trail type appearance okay

22:17 ↗ that's correct and on that bike path one

22:20 ↗ i just need to get some clarity so that

22:21 ↗ one people could also walk

22:25 ↗ okay so on

22:25 ↗ if you're a parent and you've got a

22:27 ↗ couple little kids on their

22:29 ↗ bikes you could be on that walk in with

22:32 ↗ them and they could be on their bikes

22:33 ↗ correct

22:34 ↗ okay

22:36 ↗ although i as i see it

22:38 ↗ in some respects people might gravitate

22:40 ↗ to the sidewalk

22:42 ↗ concrete side as quickly as possible if

22:44 ↗ it's safer to walk and get away from

22:47 ↗ bikes and electric vehicles

22:54 ↗ i would say when you have little kids on

22:56 ↗ bikes i mean they are a hazard to

22:58 ↗ everyone around them right um but

23:00 ↗ they're also

23:03 ↗ you know when i had kids that age i

23:05 ↗ did not want them anywhere near like

23:07 ↗ commuter bikes because

23:08 ↗ you know they're just going so much

23:10 ↗ faster

23:11 ↗ um

23:12 ↗ right

23:13 ↗ yeah so

23:14 ↗ i don't and so i don't know i guess

23:16 ↗ concept b might be better for that but

23:21 ↗ right

23:23 ↗ because the kids would come out at the

23:25 ↗ northeast side get on the sidewalk and

23:28 ↗ they might not have as much encounter

23:30 ↗ with um

23:32 ↗ you know more bike type commuters you

23:34 ↗ mean

23:37 ↗ yeah

23:38 ↗ yeah perhaps

23:39 ↗ you know i don't know

23:41 ↗ and john we didn't really show concept

23:44 ↗ c

23:45 ↗ um

23:47 ↗ oh well i i stopped the screen share

23:49 ↗ because i think

23:51 ↗ it was kind of blocking the screen i saw

23:52 ↗ a few other hands that were up and i

23:54 ↗ wanted to make sure everyone got it to

23:55 ↗ talk

23:57 ↗ zach you had something zach's gotten

24:02 ↗ can't hear you zack

24:14 ↗ you're not on mute you must have

24:16 ↗ microphone issues jack

24:25 ↗ good the phone you're connected to be on

24:27 ↗ mute

24:28 ↗ uh he's on the computer um

24:32 ↗ you might take a look at your system

24:35 ↗ what's uh what microphone you're using

24:37 ↗ zach

24:39 ↗ zack on my end it shows you're unmuted

24:51 ↗ uh zach take a look at your mic

24:54 ↗ [Music]

24:56 ↗ in the

24:59 ↗ drop down

25:00 ↗ of under mute far right corner of that

25:03 ↗ it says audio options on that drop down

25:05 ↗ and you can maybe select your audio

25:07 ↗ option

25:11 ↗ and just step in when you're able to

25:13 ↗ make comment

25:22 ↗ while we're waiting for that john could

25:24 ↗ you bring up concept c

25:27 ↗ i was just pulling it up right now

25:32 ↗ and this is concept c

25:35 ↗ which

25:36 ↗ instead of having a 12 foot shared use

25:39 ↗ path identified a 14 foot wide shared

25:42 ↗ used path made out of asphalt and had an

25:45 ↗ eight foot wide sidewalk on the squawk

25:47 ↗ mountain side

25:48 ↗ and

25:49 ↗ one of the concepts

25:51 ↗ behind this one was thinking of extra

25:54 ↗ space with people going to and from the

25:56 ↗ school

25:57 ↗ you have a little bit of extra room

25:59 ↗ there and then

26:01 ↗ the

26:02 ↗ buffer here was widened a little bit and

26:04 ↗ the goal was that was if a car was

26:07 ↗ trying to

26:09 ↗ leave

26:11 ↗ it could pull up

26:13 ↗ into the path look both ways then once

26:15 ↗ it's safe

26:17 ↗ get up to here to look to go and it

26:19 ↗ would partially block the path but it

26:20 ↗ wouldn't fully and to try and

26:24 ↗ accommodate some of that and that's

26:25 ↗ where we came up with concept c

26:31 ↗ comments from the board on concept c

26:38 ↗ um question maybe maybe for for john and

26:41 ↗ not specific just to see but

26:43 ↗ um in what respect is the decision that

26:46 ↗ we make about the the corridor here in

26:48 ↗ fact

26:49 ↗ farther down the road or other places in

26:51 ↗ the city like if we you know we adopt

26:54 ↗ concept a or b here and then a year from

26:57 ↗ now we look at kind of newport

27:00 ↗ down to

27:02 ↗ uh you know like to the skate park and

27:04 ↗ then we say there's a different concept

27:06 ↗ there's just kind of curious about you

27:07 ↗ know what's decided here and how it

27:09 ↗ impacts other future expansions around

27:12 ↗ well that's a great question and that's

27:14 ↗ one that jennifer pink and i have talked

27:16 ↗ a lot about

27:17 ↗ is

27:19 ↗ we look at newport

27:21 ↗ from sr 900 west to 54th there is a

27:25 ↗ concept that has a shared use path on

27:27 ↗ the north side of the road

27:29 ↗ and then

27:32 ↗ there's the section where tibbetts

27:34 ↗ valley park is in the transit center and

27:36 ↗ then there's the section

27:38 ↗ i'll say between 12th and

27:41 ↗ maple

27:42 ↗ and so we've got these three different

27:44 ↗ sections

27:45 ↗ and

27:47 ↗ we need to do planning on

27:50 ↗ how best depending on whatever concept

27:53 ↗ is chosen here

27:54 ↗ knowing that a concept's already been

27:56 ↗ chosen for the section west of us or 900

27:59 ↗ some work needs to be done to think of

28:02 ↗ how to

28:04 ↗ move the

28:08 ↗ i'll just say the the green necklace or

28:10 ↗ the non-motorized users through there

28:13 ↗ and i think the

28:15 ↗ probably the next one to really start

28:17 ↗ thinking about is the section between sr

28:20 ↗ 912

28:21 ↗ because the

28:23 ↗ work to do the anchor park planning

28:25 ↗ is going to be

28:27 ↗ happening

28:28 ↗ and i think that's the time to start

28:32 ↗ thinking about what the road of newport

28:34 ↗ will look like at that sec in that

28:35 ↗ section

28:39 ↗ and that said i think

28:40 ↗ regardless of which one we choose that

28:45 ↗ and this is just me

28:47 ↗ off the top of my head the section

28:49 ↗ between sr 912 it probably makes more

28:53 ↗ sense to have it

28:55 ↗ have a shared youth path kind of like

28:57 ↗ west of

28:58 ↗ sr 900 but that's just me

29:01 ↗ doing a quick thought on it but not

29:03 ↗ actually going through a public

29:04 ↗ involvement process

29:06 ↗ well it does make sense to have

29:08 ↗ consistency through the city i would

29:10 ↗ think on all these arterials

29:13 ↗ or else it gets too confusing for the

29:15 ↗ people that are using the pathways and

29:17 ↗ the sidewalks so i mean actually having

29:19 ↗ some consistency

29:21 ↗ makes a lot of sense and and this is

29:23 ↗ kind of a key

29:25 ↗ area here that we need to get this right

29:27 ↗ so that the other areas

29:30 ↗ you know kind of use the same kind of

29:32 ↗ process

29:37 ↗ i'll just make a comment here this is

29:39 ↗ actually the concept that i voted for

29:41 ↗ initially and and my reasoning being is

29:45 ↗ if you shrink up the sidewalk to eight

29:47 ↗ feet

29:49 ↗ the likelihood of people using that for

29:51 ↗ bikes and other electric type vehicles

29:54 ↗ diminishes because it's not wide enough

29:57 ↗ and likelihood is people are going to

30:00 ↗ gravitate to the 14 foot path and that's

30:03 ↗ really where you're going to see most of

30:06 ↗ bikes and electric type vehicles

30:09 ↗ i got to tell you i was on rainier

30:12 ↗ the other day the rainier path and i got

30:15 ↗ passed by an electric skateboard that

30:18 ↗ that could have killed me was going so

30:20 ↗ fast and i think we have to really

30:22 ↗ consider you know

30:25 ↗ these newer electric type vehicles that

30:27 ↗ are going to use these pathways

30:29 ↗ as a big safety issue

30:32 ↗ and

30:33 ↗ there's going to be anybody that's going

30:34 ↗ to be monitoring this other than the

30:36 ↗ people that are using these paths to

30:38 ↗ some extent and so the safer that you

30:40 ↗ create a pathway for those type of

30:42 ↗ vehicles

30:44 ↗ the better off will be and

30:47 ↗ you know again that's why i

30:49 ↗ chose concept c is because i think

30:51 ↗ people are going to walk on the eight

30:53 ↗ foot path and the bikes are going to

30:55 ↗ probably stay off of it

30:57 ↗ and the 14 path 14 foot pathway is where

31:00 ↗ most

31:02 ↗ bikes and electric type vehicles are

31:04 ↗ going to use and

31:06 ↗ i realize i'm outvoted and so i guess i

31:08 ↗ should quit talking but at least that's

31:10 ↗ my sense of it

31:16 ↗ any other people want to add something

31:18 ↗ on concept c before we move on

31:27 ↗ i don't i would say i don't think that

31:29 ↗ you're outvoted on that i don't recall

31:31 ↗ actually i don't think we really voted

31:33 ↗ on concept c

31:36 ↗ um

31:38 ↗ but i i think that there's a

31:40 ↗ not a really strong consensus among

31:43 ↗ everybody because

31:46 ↗ because

31:47 ↗ there isn't a separate

31:49 ↗ a really separate area for bikers and

31:51 ↗ this is a transportation corridor so i

31:53 ↗ think like to me it just seems very like

31:55 ↗ kind of like we're not it just isn't

31:58 ↗ really doing what we really would like

32:00 ↗ it to do

32:01 ↗ and i know there are reasons for that

32:03 ↗ these the tree buffer kind of areas are

32:07 ↗ are big but i just wish there was a way

32:09 ↗ to maybe eliminate one of those and use

32:11 ↗ something that's narrower as a buffer

32:14 ↗ and then have an actual like a bike lane

32:17 ↗ uh

32:18 ↗ in an area that's clearly for bikers

32:22 ↗ that would be separate than

32:23 ↗ something for pedestrians

32:25 ↗ and little kids that are biking you know

32:29 ↗ but i think that's why we're not seeing

32:31 ↗ a strong

32:32 ↗ super strong consensus

32:36 ↗ uh zach sounds like you've rejoined on a

32:39 ↗ different machine or do you have the

32:40 ↗ ability to test your microphone and

32:43 ↗ make comment

32:46 ↗ yes can everyone hear me yep we can go

32:48 ↗ ahead

32:49 ↗ okay apologies about uh before

32:52 ↗ um

32:54 ↗ definitely think some some good points

32:58 ↗ for for

32:59 ↗ b

33:00 ↗ um this evening that definitely made me

33:02 ↗ rethink my initial vote for a

33:05 ↗ uh my initial vote for a was mainly due

33:07 ↗ to the fact that it was open to users on

33:10 ↗ either side so my thought was that at

33:12 ↗ least having some sort of delineation

33:14 ↗ between

33:15 ↗ pedestrians and cyclists

33:18 ↗ [Music]

33:20 ↗ on both sides would be at least have

33:22 ↗ some way to sort of corral

33:25 ↗ each

33:26 ↗ um

33:27 ↗ the cyclist and the pedestrians into

33:28 ↗ certain sections just thinking about it

33:31 ↗ from my perspective if i'm commuting

33:33 ↗ on that stretch of road that's only

33:35 ↗ about seven tenths of a mile

33:37 ↗ not necessarily going to like going

33:40 ↗ across traffic to get over to the other

33:43 ↗ side if i'm headed

33:44 ↗ um

33:46 ↗ you know in the

33:47 ↗ to go against traffic if i'm already on

33:49 ↗ the one side so i would tend to probably

33:51 ↗ just remain on the road if there's not

33:53 ↗ an option for both sides so that was my

33:56 ↗ thought for safety issues with concept b

34:00 ↗ but certainly with the

34:03 ↗ points about the school and children

34:05 ↗ kind of commuting on their bicycles

34:08 ↗ kind of made me

34:09 ↗ uh rethink that a little but

34:12 ↗ that was my thought for concept a was

34:14 ↗ just being able to have a

34:16 ↗ defined delineation between the two

34:19 ↗ where if somebody's coming out of their

34:21 ↗ house they're able to walk

34:23 ↗ on one side and they have a designated

34:25 ↗ area

34:26 ↗ similar to there's a designated area to

34:28 ↗ go with the flow of traffic if you're

34:29 ↗ coming in from a different street so

34:31 ↗ that was

34:33 ↗ my thought process

34:35 ↗ during the boat last week

34:39 ↗ thanks zach

34:40 ↗ john can you take this off screen so i

34:42 ↗ can see everybody

34:44 ↗ everybody's seen the concepts now

34:46 ↗ and i saw that jeff had a question and

34:49 ↗ comment so go ahead jeff

34:52 ↗ yeah thanks brad thanks everybody really

34:55 ↗ really good discussion um

34:57 ↗ kind of a question

34:59 ↗ um and a comment for for john

35:02 ↗ so and and based on what i'm hearing

35:04 ↗ discussion wise the it appears the

35:07 ↗ concept a and b

35:09 ↗ have a pretty similar prism a

35:11 ↗ right-of-way prism uh the

35:14 ↗ so as that design is happening as you're

35:17 ↗ building that infrastructure

35:19 ↗ and knowing again i i think we'd all

35:21 ↗ love to look in the crystal ball and get

35:23 ↗ this exactly right

35:24 ↗ but let's just say

35:26 ↗ um we we live with whatever concept how

35:29 ↗ and and it's not functioning to the

35:31 ↗ degree we want

35:33 ↗ um

35:33 ↗ how interchangeable um is that are there

35:36 ↗ ways that it can be designed and built

35:38 ↗ so that there's some degree of

35:40 ↗ um

35:42 ↗ switching out between since the program

35:44 ↗ of those two prisms is so similar

35:47 ↗ great question jeff and that's actually

35:49 ↗ something that i i thought of and

35:52 ↗ especially when we had the joint meeting

35:54 ↗ and

35:55 ↗ it wasn't like everyone just came

35:56 ↗ together saying

35:58 ↗ we really want this one concept that

36:01 ↗ it is interchangeable because they are

36:04 ↗ identical and so

36:05 ↗ from a construction point of view

36:08 ↗ and let me go ahead and share my screen

36:10 ↗ again

36:11 ↗ and what i'm going to do is i'm going to

36:13 ↗ share concept b

36:15 ↗ but

36:16 ↗ or

36:17 ↗ but the same thing would be true for a

36:21 ↗ or what you would do

36:24 ↗ let's see here

36:25 ↗ and share

36:27 ↗ is when you build this

36:29 ↗ 12 foot wide sidewalk

36:31 ↗ as we would have the jointing pattern

36:34 ↗ i would think just to put a joint

36:36 ↗ six at the six feet right down the

36:39 ↗ middle and then

36:42 ↗ if

36:43 ↗ we we go with concept b for ex

36:46 ↗ hypothetical situation and

36:48 ↗ five years into it

36:51 ↗ it's we have the system called c-click

36:54 ↗ fix where residents will submit their

36:56 ↗ concerns to the city and we get a lot of

36:58 ↗ neighborhood traffic concerns and if

37:00 ↗ this is our top c click fix thing and we

37:03 ↗ can see it's just not working out all

37:05 ↗ we'd have to do

37:06 ↗ is to go through and remove this six

37:09 ↗ feet of concrete and pour back six feet

37:12 ↗ of asphalt and then over here just

37:16 ↗ line up

37:17 ↗ right down the middle and then have an

37:19 ↗ asphalt saw cutter

37:21 ↗ go cut it out remove it and then put in

37:24 ↗ the concrete it wouldn't be too hard and

37:26 ↗ then likewise if we went with concept a

37:29 ↗ and same kind of thing where

37:32 ↗ we could just remove the asphalt

37:34 ↗ path and put in concrete right next to

37:37 ↗ the concrete and we could

37:40 ↗ remove the concrete sidewalk and just

37:45 ↗ basically just like you would widening

37:47 ↗ the asphalt and just widen it so it's

37:50 ↗ it's not too hard

37:52 ↗ to switch it if we go with concept a or

37:55 ↗ concept b and we find it's not working

37:57 ↗ and need to make a change

38:02 ↗ then answer your question jeff

38:07 ↗ uh limited time here so i kind of want

38:09 ↗ to go around the horn here and uh just

38:12 ↗ get a little poll here from everyone

38:14 ↗ what concept currently you would vote

38:16 ↗ for zach

38:23 ↗ i think i would still go with a

38:27 ↗ reuben

38:30 ↗ well i would go for b but i could live

38:32 ↗ with a but i'd still go with b

38:34 ↗ danielle

38:39 ↗ uh i still

38:40 ↗ would vote for a but um

38:43 ↗ yeah i'm not

38:45 ↗ i i i'm the same way i

38:47 ↗ could be comfortable with b

38:49 ↗ jonathan

38:52 ↗ uh concept b

38:55 ↗ chris

39:00 ↗ concept a but i could go either way

39:06 ↗ and i would actually go with concept b

39:08 ↗ but actually

39:10 ↗ somewhat to go either way but b

39:13 ↗ one two three so we're basically split

39:17 ↗ right down the middle

39:22 ↗ so and that's fairly close to where we

39:24 ↗ were when we met with tab i think we

39:26 ↗ were at 57 percent concept b and so um

39:30 ↗ we're kind of split

39:32 ↗ so anyway i think everybody's kind of

39:34 ↗ shared their vision here and um

39:37 ↗ you know my two senses you know really

39:40 ↗ for the other aspects of this in terms

39:42 ↗ of

39:44 ↗ fulfilling connections for green

39:46 ↗ necklace and all of that i don't think

39:47 ↗ it matters which concept it is i think

39:49 ↗ it really

39:50 ↗ fulfills that purpose to provide

39:53 ↗ connections

39:55 ↗ jennifer

39:56 ↗ or jeff can correct me if i'm wrong but

39:58 ↗ i'm not actually seeing any

40:00 ↗ future park development along that

40:02 ↗ particular corridor you know i i think

40:05 ↗ what's already there is kind of there

40:07 ↗ and so

40:08 ↗ for the most part it's really going to

40:10 ↗ just be about connections and i think it

40:12 ↗ fulfills that and and so it's really a

40:14 ↗ matter of which one of these is going to

40:16 ↗ be the safest i think

40:18 ↗ and and we've all commented enough

40:20 ↗ probably

40:22 ↗ more than enough that you'd want to hear

40:23 ↗ john about that but for the most part i

40:26 ↗ think

40:27 ↗ you know where

40:28 ↗ most of us stand danielle you had

40:31 ↗ something yeah i just one more thing to

40:33 ↗ add is that it would make a big

40:34 ↗ difference to me if a different if an

40:36 ↗ adjoining

40:38 ↗ part of this section if we were going a

40:40 ↗ different way with it so if it made if

40:43 ↗ it may so that the transition

40:45 ↗ from one section to another section of

40:48 ↗ newport was more seamless and like and

40:51 ↗ less confusing for people

40:53 ↗ so you know i don't know how helpful

40:55 ↗ that is but you know whatever that

40:57 ↗ you know that next transition is

40:59 ↗ that if there was a reason why we had to

41:02 ↗ go with one way one of these or the

41:04 ↗ other and that made more sense and that

41:06 ↗ would sway me one way or the other

41:09 ↗ okay

41:12 ↗ john i'm a little mixed here in terms of

41:13 ↗ how to uh

41:15 ↗ to reach some sort of vote here i mean i

41:17 ↗ think your letter is fine leading up to

41:19 ↗ the additional part

41:21 ↗ at least that's what i would say anyway

41:23 ↗ i don't know if anybody has any

41:25 ↗ objections to supporting the letter

41:28 ↗ as it stands in terms of what the park

41:31 ↗ board would want to add additionally

41:34 ↗ i don't know that we can

41:35 ↗ come up with consensus with a one-liner

41:37 ↗ like tab did with all of the comments

41:39 ↗ that we just made tonight

41:42 ↗ but i would say you're not limited to

41:44 ↗ one line they just only had one line

41:46 ↗ right

41:47 ↗ there's lots of great information that

41:51 ↗ and perspective that

41:53 ↗ you guys provided here tonight

41:55 ↗ and trying to think of how best to

42:00 ↗ add that to the letter

42:02 ↗ um

42:03 ↗ i might be

42:05 ↗ drafting something i don't know what

42:06 ↗ your time frame is but you know i could

42:09 ↗ draft something i guess you know kind of

42:11 ↗ consolidating what we talked about

42:13 ↗ tonight

42:14 ↗ and

42:19 ↗ i've got one idea

42:21 ↗ what if the motion that the

42:24 ↗ park board would have would be to

42:26 ↗ appoint one or two people

42:28 ↗ to then meet with

42:30 ↗ or to

42:32 ↗ take the comments from tonight and

42:35 ↗ add it to the letter

42:37 ↗ and that way

42:38 ↗ and then that those people that person

42:41 ↗ or people could meet with one or two

42:43 ↗ people from the tab

42:45 ↗ just making sure that assuming that we

42:47 ↗ don't change any of the intent of the

42:50 ↗ comments that is just capturing it that

42:52 ↗ way we can move it forward

42:54 ↗ but

42:55 ↗ not slow the board down with the board's

42:57 ↗ work plan

42:58 ↗ okay

43:00 ↗ um i like that so similar to what tab

43:03 ↗ put in their comments

43:05 ↗ okay

43:07 ↗ before we do that uh

43:10 ↗ ryan do you have anything you want to

43:11 ↗ add from the youth perspective

43:15 ↗ um nothing necessarily specific to youth

43:19 ↗ i would say i

43:21 ↗ for me when i was at the joint meeting i

43:22 ↗ was definitely more leaning towards

43:24 ↗ concept a but i will say that the

43:25 ↗ comments tonight have made me a lot more

43:26 ↗ comfortable with b so

43:29 ↗ i think either way it's going to be

43:30 ↗ beneficial

43:31 ↗ whichever one we go with it's going to

43:33 ↗ be an improvement from what it is now

43:36 ↗ okay

43:38 ↗ so um

43:40 ↗ let's have a motion

43:42 ↗ uh to approve the letter

43:45 ↗ and to add a comment that there will be

43:47 ↗ what two people to meet with tab uh to

43:51 ↗ reach any kind of consensus is that what

43:54 ↗ you said john

43:55 ↗ not consensus just to

43:58 ↗ capture the comments that

44:01 ↗ were discussed tonight at the meeting

44:04 ↗ that

44:05 ↗ weren't um

44:07 ↗ captured in the letter so if there's a

44:10 ↗ perspective that someone brought up at

44:12 ↗ the meeting tonight that was not

44:14 ↗ captured in the letter that we can make

44:16 ↗ sure it's added under the park section

44:19 ↗ that that's what i had in mind

44:21 ↗ okay

44:24 ↗ and for that to be documented into the

44:26 ↗ letter at some point after the meeting

44:28 ↗ with tab

44:31 ↗ yes

44:31 ↗ okay

44:34 ↗ okay

44:37 ↗ so can i have a motion

44:39 ↗ are you looking for a motion to approve

44:41 ↗ the lettering concept um

44:44 ↗ and

44:46 ↗ to appoint

44:48 ↗ like brad and zach

44:51 ↗ um to to me and um and ensure that the

44:56 ↗ comments from tonight are captured in

44:57 ↗ the letter under the park board

44:59 ↗ correct yes

45:01 ↗ yes

45:02 ↗ that emotion that's emotion

45:05 ↗ anyone like the second that well i need

45:07 ↗ to ask that i'm fine with having another

45:08 ↗ meeting with tab zach are you all right

45:10 ↗ with that jack i see a thumb okay

45:13 ↗ we need a second

45:15 ↗ motion

45:16 ↗ i'll second as well okay

45:19 ↗ okay we have um

45:21 ↗ now everybody uh say i

45:24 ↗ if you agree with the motion

45:28 ↗ hi

45:31 ↗ any objections if there are raise your

45:33 ↗ hand

45:35 ↗ uh seeing none the motion is approved

45:38 ↗ well thank you very much

45:40 ↗ everyone i

45:41 ↗ really appreciate the thought and the

45:44 ↗ insight that you guys provided that's

45:45 ↗ very helpful

45:46 ↗ thank you john for all your help with

45:48 ↗ this it's going to be a great corridor

45:50 ↗ when we get it on it's going to be

45:51 ↗ really good

45:53 ↗ so i appreciate your help tonight and i

45:55 ↗ guess zach and i will hear further in

45:57 ↗ terms of an additional meeting once tab

45:59 ↗ knows about that

46:01 ↗ okay

46:02 ↗ thank you john

46:04 ↗ thanks john

46:06 ↗ yeah

46:09 ↗ okay

46:10 ↗ we did all that with only four minutes

46:12 ↗ over we're not too bad here so i guess

46:14 ↗ um

46:16 ↗ we are now going to have a presentation

46:20 ↗ from gary schimack about the stormwater

46:24 ↗ master plan that's

46:26 ↗ being reviewed and

46:29 ↗ undertaken

46:31 ↗ so gary thank you please introduce

46:33 ↗ yourself you are the manager of

46:37 ↗ engineering of public works i may not

46:39 ↗ have that accurate but you could maybe

46:41 ↗ clarify

46:42 ↗ yes thank you brad um

46:45 ↗ could i be made a presenter so i could

46:47 ↗ share my screen

46:49 ↗ i did make you a prisoner

46:56 ↗ my uh

46:59 ↗ [Music]

47:00 ↗ my share

47:01 ↗ button is that highlighted

47:04 ↗ i don't see it yet

47:08 ↗ there we go okay

47:11 ↗ and

47:13 ↗ here we go

47:14 ↗ okay

47:17 ↗ all right so thank you again brad good

47:19 ↗ evening park sport as brad alluded to i

47:22 ↗ am your

47:23 ↗ utilities engineering division manager

47:26 ↗ and here to present a stat of support on

47:29 ↗ our

47:30 ↗ storm and surface water master plan and

47:32 ↗ our wastewater master plan

47:34 ↗ uh before we get into it i'd like to

47:36 ↗ introduce uh just call it our core team

47:38 ↗ members at this time that joined us

47:40 ↗ today so alan quinn

47:42 ↗ senior stormwater engineer

47:45 ↗ matt alice we'll be going over a fairly

47:48 ↗ detailed but very cool slide toward the

47:49 ↗ end he's our senior utility engineer

47:53 ↗ and then dave jacobs and francesca white

47:55 ↗ from osborne consulting which have been

47:58 ↗ providing

47:59 ↗ uh incredible support for us for the

48:01 ↗ past few months

48:02 ↗ so this is a combined update for the two

48:05 ↗ planning processes because

48:08 ↗ uh the strategic framework which we're

48:09 ↗ going to focus on tonight is common to

48:11 ↗ both efforts

48:13 ↗ as well as an overarching goal to

48:15 ↗ protect our

48:16 ↗ valuable water resources from the

48:18 ↗ potential impacts of sewer overflows

48:21 ↗ septic system infiltration and of course

48:24 ↗ storm water runoff

48:26 ↗ in addition to the status report

48:29 ↗ we'll be seeking your feedback along the

48:31 ↗ way on the first three elements of the

48:33 ↗ strategic plan those being

48:35 ↗ focus areas

48:37 ↗ purpose statements and objectives

48:39 ↗ now of course your general feedback is

48:42 ↗ always welcome but we do have some

48:45 ↗ specific questions that i just want to

48:47 ↗ run over now and then we'll go over when

48:49 ↗ we get into um

48:51 ↗ about halfway

48:52 ↗ well four questions that

48:54 ↗ will be looming uh during the

48:56 ↗ presentation are do the focus areas

48:58 ↗ cover

48:59 ↗ the most important categories of our

49:01 ↗ municipal storm water surface water and

49:03 ↗ wastewater work

49:06 ↗ do the purpose

49:07 ↗ statements make each focus area come

49:09 ↗ alive in a way

49:11 ↗ that is intelligible for technical and

49:13 ↗ non-technical customers

49:16 ↗ third is do the objectives address the

49:19 ↗ most significant issues associated with

49:21 ↗ each focus area and purpose

49:23 ↗ and finally a pretty wide open question

49:27 ↗ do you have any specific strategies or

49:29 ↗ actions that that you want to make sure

49:31 ↗ we can consider as we move towards the

49:33 ↗ next phase of our project

49:37 ↗ to the next slide here

49:45 ↗ so we have seven sections to cover today

49:47 ↗ so plan aid hierarchy

49:49 ↗ master plan contents our strategic

49:51 ↗ framework

49:53 ↗ the six uh preliminary focus areas

49:56 ↗ uh the focus area purpose and objectives

49:59 ↗ will really be the uh

50:01 ↗ the core of the presentation

50:03 ↗ and then a line of sight example that

50:05 ↗ math is going to be uh going through

50:07 ↗ hopefully bring it all together and then

50:09 ↗ next steps

50:15 ↗ so as i mentioned in the written staff

50:17 ↗ report one of the

50:19 ↗ most important pieces of our master

50:20 ↗ plans that set us at least in my mind

50:23 ↗ apart from from other plans

50:26 ↗ is the inclusion of a clear

50:28 ↗ line of sight

50:29 ↗ that stretches

50:31 ↗ from the city's comprehensive plan all

50:33 ↗ the way to our annual staff work plans

50:36 ↗ and this is important

50:37 ↗ to me for for at least two reasons first

50:41 ↗ it ensures that those policies

50:43 ↗ directives and goals uh from the

50:46 ↗ comprehensive plan

50:47 ↗ which really is the highest element as

50:49 ↗ you can see of our planning hierarchy

50:51 ↗ that those flow down and fuel the master

50:54 ↗ plan the capital improvement plan and

50:56 ↗ the annual work plans

50:58 ↗ so another way to look at this is that

51:00 ↗ that this line of sight helps us make

51:02 ↗ sure we are working on the projects and

51:04 ↗ programs

51:06 ↗ that reflect the most important needs of

51:07 ↗ our city and community which are

51:09 ↗ communicated in the comprehensive plan

51:12 ↗ and then second this line of sight

51:14 ↗ approach also helps staff understand how

51:17 ↗ their day-to-day work

51:19 ↗ is helping achieve long-term outcomes

51:26 ↗ master plan content now we went um

51:29 ↗ over this

51:30 ↗ beginning of this year in february i

51:32 ↗ believe

51:33 ↗ with the

51:34 ↗ stormwater surface water section

51:37 ↗ so a master plan typically includes a

51:39 ↗ system description basin

51:40 ↗ characterization

51:42 ↗ problem id

51:44 ↗ strategic framework and then recommended

51:47 ↗ actions

51:49 ↗ oh and again as i said we covered the

51:51 ↗ first four element of the star uh first

51:53 ↗ four elements shown here in the storm

51:55 ↗ and surface water master plan

51:57 ↗ um and today we're really gonna be

51:59 ↗ focusing on what's highlighted in red

52:00 ↗ the strategic framework

52:03 ↗ and i just uh just a heads up going

52:05 ↗ forward we'll be coming back to you

52:07 ↗ uh at least one more time if not twice

52:10 ↗ and other boards commissions and

52:11 ↗ councils uh with our recommended uh

52:14 ↗ actions so this is leading leading up uh

52:16 ↗ you know a key step to getting to to

52:18 ↗ those actions which will which i know we

52:21 ↗ all want to get towards

52:24 ↗ in terms of our strategic framework

52:26 ↗ there are six building blocks

52:28 ↗ focus areas purposes objectives again

52:30 ↗ those are the first three we're going to

52:32 ↗ just

52:32 ↗ focus on today and then we'll be coming

52:34 ↗ back with you again next year for

52:36 ↗ strategies metrics and actions

52:40 ↗ they all uh you know built together to

52:42 ↗ create this

52:44 ↗ framework

52:48 ↗ so for for us tonight like i said we're

52:50 ↗ going to be on those

52:51 ↗ folks on the first three and over the

52:53 ↗ past two months i wanted to let you know

52:54 ↗ that a city-wide team

52:57 ↗ from really every department including a

53:00 ↗ great uh support here from from jen with

53:03 ↗ parks

53:04 ↗ has worked closely with osborne

53:06 ↗ consulting to develop uh preliminary

53:08 ↗ information

53:09 ↗ now this

53:11 ↗ information is preliminary because we

53:13 ↗ truly are seeking

53:15 ↗ your input and input from others and

53:17 ↗ then incorporating those edits um as we

53:19 ↗ move along so again nothing is

53:22 ↗ uh nothing is baked fully here this is

53:24 ↗ uh in in process

53:30 ↗ so the six key areas here uh and again

53:32 ↗ these these are what i would call uh the

53:36 ↗ elements of a holistic uh delivery

53:38 ↗ approach or really any utility uh i'd

53:42 ↗ say and and as you look at these and as

53:44 ↗ i just read them out

53:45 ↗ any one or two may be very prio a high

53:48 ↗ priority for a few years for a decade

53:51 ↗ and then then maybe just a moderate

53:52 ↗ level but

53:53 ↗ but i think all six of these combined to

53:56 ↗ form like i said a really solid utility

53:58 ↗ plan

54:00 ↗ uh and again we'll just go over them

54:01 ↗ quickly here

54:03 ↗ collaboratively plan for our future

54:04 ↗ needs

54:06 ↗ protect our natural resources

54:09 ↗ invest in employee experience

54:12 ↗ responsibly manage existing utility

54:15 ↗ assets

54:16 ↗ transparent community

54:18 ↗ engagement and fiscal responsibility

54:23 ↗ what i'd like to do uh next is run

54:26 ↗ through

54:27 ↗ a series of slides for each focus area

54:31 ↗ and it's going to have the purpose

54:33 ↗ um and then the objectives on the next

54:36 ↗ slide

54:37 ↗ and i'm just going to remind you of the

54:39 ↗ the questions that we have and

54:41 ↗ please feel free to just stop me and

54:45 ↗ incorp you know let me know your us your

54:47 ↗ feedback or comments

54:50 ↗ and we can do this at the end as well

54:51 ↗ too but but this is um

54:54 ↗ you're really gonna gonna set us up

54:56 ↗ as we prioritize going forward with our

54:58 ↗ strategies and our metrics and our

55:00 ↗ actions so it's really important that we

55:02 ↗ we hear from you

55:04 ↗ um and everyone else on these higher

55:06 ↗ levels so as we get into the details

55:08 ↗ um

55:09 ↗ you know we we all know uh uh where

55:12 ↗ where where we're coming from so again

55:14 ↗ the

55:15 ↗ open-ended questions we have for your

55:17 ↗ specific questions are do the focus

55:19 ↗ areas you know cover the most important

55:21 ↗ categories

55:22 ↗ do the purposes that you're going to see

55:24 ↗ here uh really make that focus area come

55:27 ↗ alive does it make sense to you

55:29 ↗ what we're trying to get across and then

55:31 ↗ finally do these objectives

55:34 ↗ hit the most significant areas of the

55:37 ↗ focus here

55:40 ↗ so here's number one a collaborative

55:42 ↗ plan

55:43 ↗ for future utility needs

55:45 ↗ and our purpose here is to coordinate

55:49 ↗ across city programs and processes to

55:51 ↗ plan and build city infrastructure

55:54 ↗ in an efficient and safe manner based on

55:56 ↗ express community values

55:59 ↗ best available engineering and science

56:02 ↗ forecasting

56:03 ↗ and again i want to

56:04 ↗ emphasize the collaborative here that's

56:06 ↗ why we're with you at the parks board so

56:09 ↗ that we're walking hand in hand through

56:11 ↗ this plan and then as we get into

56:12 ↗ projects with parks and other

56:13 ↗ departments

56:15 ↗ but not just planning in our own little

56:17 ↗ utility

56:18 ↗ world

56:21 ↗ then in terms of

56:23 ↗ objectives for this focus area

56:26 ↗ a couple key things that we've come up

56:28 ↗ with is budget for life cycle making

56:30 ↗ maintenance costs

56:32 ↗ uh including staffing needs so if we're

56:33 ↗ going to build something capital let's

56:35 ↗ make sure we have the staff to take care

56:36 ↗ of it over time

56:38 ↗ coordinate utility planning across all

56:41 ↗ departments

56:43 ↗ it's kind of

56:44 ↗ the key element of this

56:46 ↗ uh cultivate collaborative relationships

56:48 ↗ with our regulatory community

56:51 ↗ and then develop a strategic asset

56:53 ↗ management plan to optimize service

56:55 ↗ delivery

56:57 ↗ okay so that was the you know focus area

56:59 ↗ one

57:00 ↗ and again uh purpose and objectives

57:03 ↗ and remember this is still a little high

57:04 ↗ level but these will then all lead to us

57:07 ↗ coming up with strategies and then

57:09 ↗ actions working with you and others uh

57:12 ↗ but that we can have that clear clear

57:14 ↗ line of sight so you can see when we're

57:16 ↗ when we develop a project and we come to

57:18 ↗ you with a project that you're going to

57:19 ↗ know is like oh okay

57:21 ↗ it comes from this objective that's why

57:23 ↗ they're doing this it makes sense

57:30 ↗ focus area number two

57:32 ↗ protect our natural resources so again

57:34 ↗ our purpose here

57:35 ↗ protect and restore the natural

57:37 ↗ environment

57:38 ↗ based on the city's strategic goals

57:41 ↗ best available science and express

57:43 ↗ community values

57:49 ↗ and our our level objectives here

57:53 ↗ and manage a septic system program to

57:55 ↗ reduce pollution impacts this one's

57:58 ↗ fairly specific specific because we do

58:00 ↗ have directive

58:01 ↗ uh from city council to be working on

58:03 ↗ this already matt we'll get into this

58:05 ↗ later

58:06 ↗ this will be our our case study of what

58:09 ↗ a fully

58:10 ↗ uh full strategic uh element looks like

58:12 ↗ for a for a focus area

58:15 ↗ protect existing stream and wildlife

58:17 ↗ habitat

58:20 ↗ protect our aquifer through responsibly

58:22 ↗ managing our utility assets

58:24 ↗ and then restore degraded stream and

58:27 ↗ wildlife habitat

58:32 ↗ and a question

58:34 ↗ yes please

58:35 ↗ i was just curious on that

58:37 ↗ on

58:38 ↗ the previous slide

58:39 ↗ yes i'll go right back there okay i'm

58:41 ↗ curious um on septic systems are we

58:44 ↗ talking about

58:45 ↗ in homes and residential homes ah yes

58:48 ↗ yes

58:49 ↗ great question sorry about that yeah and

58:50 ↗ what percentage do you think in the city

58:52 ↗ are authentic

58:54 ↗ uh i matt uh i believe there's about 300

58:58 ↗ but matt ellis can you remind me if that

59:01 ↗ is true if that number is about correct

59:03 ↗ yeah it's between three or four hundred

59:05 ↗ three hundred to four hundred homes okay

59:08 ↗ right great great question and and uh

59:11 ↗ matt's gonna be uh you asked a great

59:12 ↗ question because matt's gonna be coming

59:13 ↗ back to this later on that uh using that

59:15 ↗ as the case study okay great thank you

59:18 ↗ so thank you for that great question

59:20 ↗ uh focus area three so invest and deploy

59:23 ↗ employee experience

59:25 ↗ so what we mean here is invest in the

59:26 ↗ city's workforce to drive recruiting and

59:29 ↗ retain

59:30 ↗ skilled and diverse workforce

59:35 ↗ and some

59:36 ↗ objectives that we're starting with here

59:38 ↗ uh invest in staff training beyond basic

59:41 ↗ safety needs and accreditation

59:43 ↗ uh utilize asset management principles

59:47 ↗ to forecast future staffing needs

59:50 ↗ and continue

59:51 ↗ a supportive and innovative hybrid work

59:54 ↗ environment

1:00:00 ↗ all right focus area number four

1:00:03 ↗ uh responsibly manage existing utility

1:00:06 ↗ assets this is near and dear to my heart

1:00:08 ↗ uh so sustain sustainably operate and

1:00:11 ↗ maintain the public storm and sewer

1:00:13 ↗ infrastructure consistent with our level

1:00:15 ↗ of service

1:00:20 ↗ assembly jeff is here to give you a

1:00:21 ↗ flavor where we're headed

1:00:23 ↗ improve response improve response

1:00:26 ↗ effectiveness under emergency situations

1:00:29 ↗ to better ensure uh continuity of

1:00:31 ↗ operations that is great timing for this

1:00:32 ↗ one as you may or may not know we

1:00:34 ↗ recently hired an emergency manager for

1:00:37 ↗ the city so we're looking forward to

1:00:39 ↗ working with him lee shin in

1:00:41 ↗ participate in regional efforts and and

1:00:44 ↗ not just for

1:00:45 ↗ uh you know just to be part of the big

1:00:47 ↗ gang but to optimize the delivery of

1:00:49 ↗ utility services and leverage regional

1:00:51 ↗ resources

1:00:53 ↗ and then finally proactively manage

1:00:55 ↗ existing system performance to to make

1:00:58 ↗ to maintain expected level of service so

1:01:00 ↗ we're going to come back to that level

1:01:02 ↗ of services that is really work to be

1:01:03 ↗ done this is actually defining those uh

1:01:06 ↗ at a more granular level

1:01:14 ↗ transparent community engagement

1:01:16 ↗ again another one that i you know you

1:01:18 ↗ often don't see in a master plan

1:01:21 ↗ which is focused on mainly capital work

1:01:24 ↗ but

1:01:25 ↗ you know this i think we want to be you

1:01:27 ↗ know ahead of the curve in terms of how

1:01:29 ↗ we are providing utility services that's

1:01:31 ↗ why we're here talking to you uh but

1:01:33 ↗ it's not just you it's the whole

1:01:34 ↗ community we want to

1:01:36 ↗ we want to our community to better

1:01:38 ↗ understand what we do in utilities so

1:01:40 ↗ the purpose here

1:01:41 ↗ engage with the community to build

1:01:43 ↗ strong partnerships

1:01:45 ↗ and develop education outreach

1:01:46 ↗ opportunities

1:01:48 ↗ between public private and residential

1:01:50 ↗ entities

1:01:54 ↗ some of the objectives here

1:01:58 ↗ establish and here we come back to the

1:01:59 ↗ level of service which again it's work

1:02:02 ↗ in progress establish clear

1:02:04 ↗ and concise customer service levels and

1:02:06 ↗ again what we mean by customer service

1:02:08 ↗ levels

1:02:09 ↗ what matters to our customers not some

1:02:11 ↗ fancy

1:02:12 ↗ performance metric but we have lots of

1:02:14 ↗ those and we need those internally but

1:02:16 ↗ these are clear uh

1:02:19 ↗ that that any customer with any

1:02:21 ↗ background would be able to understand

1:02:23 ↗ collaboratively develop deliver

1:02:25 ↗ community education activities uh across

1:02:28 ↗ programs and departments and here again

1:02:30 ↗ we're getting back to that collaboration

1:02:32 ↗ that if we're going to get out to the

1:02:34 ↗ community let's do it together when we

1:02:36 ↗ can so parks and public works

1:02:38 ↗ um

1:02:40 ↗ working together uh maybe other

1:02:42 ↗ departments as well on education

1:02:44 ↗ outreach activities

1:02:46 ↗ and then improve implementation of

1:02:48 ↗ city's existing communication framework

1:02:50 ↗ for utility efforts so we we already

1:02:52 ↗ have a good communication uh strategy

1:02:55 ↗ kit and i think we in the utilities just

1:02:58 ↗ used to better implement that uh with

1:03:00 ↗ our with our work

1:03:04 ↗ and finally the last building block for

1:03:06 ↗ our uh focus areas here uh fiscal

1:03:09 ↗ responsibility so develop a fiscal plan

1:03:12 ↗ to support meeting our defined service

1:03:14 ↗ levels

1:03:15 ↗ with within an affordable rate structure

1:03:20 ↗ a couple objectives here uh budget for

1:03:23 ↗ full life cycle costs and staffing needs

1:03:25 ↗ associated with existing and future

1:03:27 ↗ systems so there you're seeing a kind of

1:03:29 ↗ a common thread here is making sure

1:03:32 ↗ that we

1:03:34 ↗ are looking in the long term of what it

1:03:35 ↗ takes to keep keep new facilities uh

1:03:39 ↗ efficient over time

1:03:41 ↗ and then finally you know something we

1:03:43 ↗ do here very well it is

1:03:45 ↗ identify and leverage federal state

1:03:47 ↗ county and other funding sources uh so

1:03:49 ↗ that we can keep our rates affordable

1:03:54 ↗ right so i'm going to hold off there uh

1:03:56 ↗ before matt goes into a real life

1:03:59 ↗ example

1:04:00 ↗ and um

1:04:01 ↗ just see if there's any comments

1:04:03 ↗ questions concerns about those uh

1:04:06 ↗ focus areas purposes objectives i can

1:04:09 ↗ run back to the slides

1:04:11 ↗ or we can go to maths

1:04:13 ↗ and then come back to these later so but

1:04:15 ↗ i'll just take a pause for a second to

1:04:17 ↗ see get the flavor of the room here

1:04:23 ↗ any comments from anyone

1:04:30 ↗ all right matt why don't we go on onto

1:04:32 ↗ your slide here and as a

1:04:35 ↗ precursor this um it's a very busy slide

1:04:38 ↗ this is

1:04:40 ↗ really showing you what it's going to

1:04:42 ↗ talk to you matt's going to talk about

1:04:43 ↗ what we uh our focus area and objectives

1:04:46 ↗ but then we're going to go a little

1:04:48 ↗ deeper to show you where where we're

1:04:50 ↗ headed to next with all of these which

1:04:52 ↗ is then strategies metrics and actions

1:04:55 ↗ so matt take it away please

1:04:57 ↗ all right

1:04:58 ↗ matt ellis senior engineer

1:05:00 ↗ and uh yeah as gary uh

1:05:03 ↗ explained this is a draft

1:05:06 ↗ uh sample

1:05:09 ↗ um

1:05:10 ↗ line of sight for uh

1:05:12 ↗ defining a uh

1:05:14 ↗ focus area through a defined objective

1:05:17 ↗ it shows specific strategies to

1:05:18 ↗ accomplish that objective and it shows

1:05:21 ↗ uh in this example is specifically

1:05:24 ↗ geared towards proactively managing our

1:05:26 ↗ private septic systems within the city

1:05:30 ↗ and the slide is primarily focusing on

1:05:32 ↗ the primary the four building blocks

1:05:35 ↗ last four building blocks as an example

1:05:37 ↗ developing the strategies metrics and

1:05:39 ↗ the action items

1:05:41 ↗ so again this is a draft

1:05:44 ↗ line of site and elements have not been

1:05:46 ↗ fully vetted

1:05:47 ↗ however we

1:05:49 ↗ developed this one further than others

1:05:52 ↗ because we had a commitment to the

1:05:53 ↗ council namely to uh improve our on-site

1:05:57 ↗ septic system inspection program

1:05:59 ↗ and evaluate our water quality sampling

1:06:02 ↗ program within our streams so this one

1:06:04 ↗ has been developed a little further than

1:06:06 ↗ others but it doesn't mean that

1:06:09 ↗ they're not all a priority this is just

1:06:10 ↗ one that was easier to kind of fill in

1:06:13 ↗ those last remaining building blocks

1:06:16 ↗ so as i go through this uh busy slide

1:06:20 ↗ i'll explain what each category is and

1:06:21 ↗ then provide examples and and i like to

1:06:24 ↗ think of this as a tree um we have a

1:06:26 ↗ very general focus area then more

1:06:28 ↗ specific objectives refined strategies

1:06:31 ↗ and still more refined and specific

1:06:33 ↗ metrics and action items

1:06:36 ↗ so for the specific objective on septic

1:06:38 ↗ we have three

1:06:40 ↗ draft strategies

1:06:42 ↗ strategy one

1:06:44 ↗ is to improve private septic system

1:06:46 ↗ inspection and reporting program

1:06:48 ↗ uh strategy two is to develop a robust

1:06:51 ↗ water quality sampling plan within all

1:06:53 ↗ our streams and water bodies and then

1:06:56 ↗ strategy three is to replace aging

1:06:58 ↗ existing on-site septic systems

1:07:00 ↗ with sewer connections in critical areas

1:07:03 ↗ so i'll kind of go into that as we go

1:07:05 ↗ through the metrics and actions

1:07:07 ↗ but the metrics and and basically the

1:07:09 ↗ strategy

1:07:10 ↗ i like to call the strategies as the

1:07:12 ↗ what what are we trying to accomplish

1:07:13 ↗ those three strategies

1:07:15 ↗ are kind of

1:07:16 ↗ what we're trying to do to create a

1:07:18 ↗ proactive septic management program

1:07:22 ↗ then we get to the metrics which is i

1:07:24 ↗ like to call the when when are we going

1:07:26 ↗ to do it and it's ways to check in to

1:07:28 ↗ keep us on task and to make sure we are

1:07:30 ↗ working to accomplish

1:07:32 ↗ the specific strategy

1:07:33 ↗ so metric one first strategy one is to

1:07:37 ↗ implement a revised inspection and

1:07:38 ↗ reporting program by 2025 so our goal is

1:07:41 ↗ to complete this

1:07:44 ↗ portion of the work by 2025 metric two

1:07:47 ↗ is to improve

1:07:48 ↗ incorporate our sampling plan into a

1:07:50 ↗ citywide program by 2025 as well then

1:07:53 ↗ metric three is replace all existing uh

1:07:56 ↗ subject systems

1:07:57 ↗ within the shoreline uh within

1:07:59 ↗ shorelines of creeks uh by 2020 by 2040.

1:08:05 ↗ and then we get beyond the metrics and

1:08:07 ↗ into specific actions and these are

1:08:11 ↗ kind of the how

1:08:13 ↗ i like to say and they're the work plans

1:08:15 ↗ to find with any strategy they can be

1:08:17 ↗ capital improvement plans

1:08:19 ↗ operating work programs or educational

1:08:22 ↗ programs or a series of different items

1:08:24 ↗ that work together to achieve a specific

1:08:26 ↗ strategy

1:08:27 ↗ so strategy so under strategy one our

1:08:30 ↗ actions are review and revise applicable

1:08:32 ↗ code relating to septic inspections and

1:08:35 ↗ develop staff inspection work program

1:08:38 ↗ and then under strategy two

1:08:40 ↗ uh

1:08:41 ↗ those actions are develop a best

1:08:44 ↗ develop best science

1:08:46 ↗ approach to evaluating stream samples

1:08:48 ↗ throughout the city and develop a

1:08:50 ↗ program for obtaining stream sampling at

1:08:52 ↗ strategic locations within the city as

1:08:55 ↗ well as developing secondary sampling

1:08:56 ↗ locations if issue if issues are

1:08:59 ↗ identified

1:09:00 ↗ then strategy three

1:09:02 ↗ the actions are developed funding

1:09:04 ↗ strategies to support residents if and

1:09:06 ↗ when sewer needs to be extended into a

1:09:09 ↗ neighborhood and then develop a capital

1:09:11 ↗ improvement plan for infrastructure

1:09:13 ↗ needed to extend sewers when the time

1:09:15 ↗ comes

1:09:16 ↗ so again this is just basically

1:09:18 ↗ an example of how this can kind of be

1:09:21 ↗ filled in and our goal tonight isn't

1:09:24 ↗ really to kind of go into the weeds here

1:09:26 ↗ but this just kind of explains

1:09:28 ↗ how

1:09:29 ↗ one would be developed from

1:09:32 ↗ the start of that trade down to all the

1:09:33 ↗ branches

1:09:35 ↗ you have any questions with that

1:09:40 ↗ so i assume math this just applies to

1:09:42 ↗ each different type of objective and

1:09:44 ↗ that's the scenario that you go through

1:09:46 ↗ like for storm water or whatever

1:09:48 ↗ similar process basically

1:09:50 ↗ that's correct and as gary said there's

1:09:52 ↗ there's six focus areas and so each

1:09:54 ↗ focus area will have

1:09:56 ↗ a number of objectives and it varies by

1:09:59 ↗ that by that focus area but it just kind

1:10:02 ↗ of helps us refine

1:10:04 ↗ how we're doing our work and making sure

1:10:06 ↗ we're not just looking at you know hey

1:10:09 ↗ we've got money let's we when we have

1:10:11 ↗ this cool idea let's build it let's

1:10:13 ↗ let's really look at what are our

1:10:14 ↗ priorities and what are we trying to

1:10:16 ↗ accomplish

1:10:17 ↗ with the strategic plan

1:10:20 ↗ uh ruben i saw your hand and actually

1:10:22 ↗ for everybody else on the board if you

1:10:24 ↗ have a question or comment just in chat

1:10:27 ↗ which is the lower right hand corner

1:10:28 ↗ just put in question or comment and i'll

1:10:30 ↗ call upon you

1:10:31 ↗ go ahead reuben because i can't see

1:10:33 ↗ everybody go ahead reuben

1:10:38 ↗ yeah the question i did have you

1:10:40 ↗ answered on the funding source for

1:10:42 ↗ residents who have to make that

1:10:43 ↗ transition

1:10:44 ↗ because they can it can get pretty

1:10:45 ↗ costly so yeah that's in there because

1:10:48 ↗ you know again i think somebody was

1:10:50 ↗ forty thousand dollars to hook up it's

1:10:52 ↗ like what

1:10:53 ↗ so yes and that's that's why this is

1:10:55 ↗ definitely a draft that's one thing i

1:10:57 ↗ want to highlight is that this has not

1:10:58 ↗ been vetted through the council yet but

1:11:01 ↗ as we develop it that's absolutely a

1:11:02 ↗ priority is is not just saying hey

1:11:05 ↗ there's an issue and you need to fix it

1:11:07 ↗ it's it's we're a team together and

1:11:10 ↗ we're trying to find ways that we can we

1:11:12 ↗ can accomplish this as a as a city as

1:11:14 ↗ well in the community

1:11:16 ↗ yeah reuben i just would like to add i

1:11:18 ↗ really appreciate that question that

1:11:20 ↗ that's why we actually have that uh

1:11:23 ↗ transparent uh community engagement

1:11:25 ↗ because this is where we would have an

1:11:27 ↗ example of this if we were to move down

1:11:29 ↗ that path

1:11:30 ↗ of the metric you know number three and

1:11:32 ↗ then develop the funding strategies

1:11:34 ↗ we will work hand in hand you know with

1:11:36 ↗ with the impacted community you know

1:11:38 ↗ that would be our commitment is to

1:11:40 ↗ is to work and see how we can do this

1:11:43 ↗ together

1:11:44 ↗ thank you

1:11:52 ↗ all right thank you matt

1:11:55 ↗ go to last slide here

1:11:59 ↗ um and where do we go from here so um

1:12:03 ↗ let me first start by saying that your

1:12:05 ↗ that last slide i really appreciate

1:12:07 ↗ matt's uh

1:12:08 ↗ that's of careful navigation through

1:12:11 ↗ that busy slide because that that's

1:12:13 ↗ really and i think you mentioned this

1:12:15 ↗ too brad that's where we're going to be

1:12:16 ↗ heading with all of the other objectives

1:12:18 ↗ right

1:12:19 ↗ um so probably be about 16

1:12:22 ↗ to 20 of those those cut sheets that

1:12:25 ↗ we're going to be uh you know coming

1:12:27 ↗ back to you with um and have a good

1:12:31 ↗ detailed discussion on of the actual

1:12:33 ↗ actions but when we come back then uh

1:12:36 ↗ again you'll see

1:12:38 ↗ why we have those actions you'll be able

1:12:40 ↗ to trace them all the way back up to the

1:12:42 ↗ focus areas and then put put one and one

1:12:45 ↗ together right and see why uh why we

1:12:47 ↗ believe that these are important actions

1:12:51 ↗ so next steps for us we're going to

1:12:52 ↗ incorporate the feedback that we uh

1:12:54 ↗ heard tonight anymore that we hear

1:12:57 ↗ we'll also be going to city council

1:12:58 ↗ tomorrow night

1:13:00 ↗ environmental board and ppc

1:13:03 ↗ uh in

1:13:04 ↗ december

1:13:06 ↗ so then we're going to begin the

1:13:08 ↗ development of those strategies

1:13:10 ↗ and performance measures and actions for

1:13:12 ↗ all the objectives starting december

1:13:15 ↗ in january we're going to develop the

1:13:17 ↗ preliminary

1:13:19 ↗ strategies measures and actions

1:13:21 ↗ and target a community meeting

1:13:25 ↗ in early a virtual i'm assuming at this

1:13:27 ↗ time still virtually community meeting

1:13:29 ↗ on

1:13:31 ↗ everything from

1:13:33 ↗ the focus areas to the actions

1:13:35 ↗ and then we're going to come back to you

1:13:37 ↗ and all the other boards with that

1:13:38 ↗ information um

1:13:41 ↗ and february and april time frame

1:13:44 ↗ going to go back one more time uh to the

1:13:46 ↗ community

1:13:47 ↗ and um then again back to you in the

1:13:50 ↗ city council in april to june to wrap

1:13:52 ↗ this up so most likely two more touches

1:13:55 ↗ so again it's a it's a lot of work to be

1:13:57 ↗ done uh and we're doing it gradually

1:13:59 ↗ getting from that higher level to the

1:14:00 ↗ details but uh you know we figured we'd

1:14:03 ↗ rather come multiple times so you can

1:14:05 ↗ see uh see how we're progressing step by

1:14:07 ↗ step rather than hitting you at the end

1:14:09 ↗ with one one large presentation

1:14:13 ↗ so i'll stop there and just uh unshare

1:14:15 ↗ the screen and uh

1:14:17 ↗ if any anybody else has any questions

1:14:20 ↗ or comments

1:14:25 ↗ uh anything from the board

1:14:29 ↗ uh danielle

1:14:31 ↗ just curious um i

1:14:34 ↗ really appreciate the opportunity to

1:14:35 ↗ hear what you guys are doing and just

1:14:37 ↗ give and give input if there are

1:14:39 ↗ overlaps

1:14:41 ↗ i'm just curious like how how you would

1:14:43 ↗ see this

1:14:44 ↗ affecting

1:14:45 ↗ um

1:14:47 ↗ the park board or parks and like where

1:14:49 ↗ do you see

1:14:52 ↗ the points that we should be paying

1:14:53 ↗ attention

1:14:55 ↗ that's a great thank you it's a great

1:14:56 ↗ and i'll maybe ask jenna to chime in

1:14:58 ↗ here a little bit but to date um you

1:15:01 ↗ know what um you know jen's voice has

1:15:03 ↗ come in uh it's really all that you saw

1:15:06 ↗ on the screen here right we we had jen

1:15:08 ↗ and others from different departments

1:15:10 ↗ um you know trying to help us

1:15:13 ↗ what should our focus areas be right so

1:15:16 ↗ that we are um

1:15:19 ↗ you know showcasing the utility

1:15:22 ↗ citywide right but you're right where

1:15:24 ↗ you're really going to see parks come to

1:15:26 ↗ light is in the strategies and the

1:15:28 ↗ actions

1:15:29 ↗ uh one that uh jeff myself

1:15:33 ↗ jen allen hears on screen

1:15:35 ↗ and then rob york bob york our our um

1:15:39 ↗ uh director have talked about uh was

1:15:42 ↗ just how issaquah creek and flooding and

1:15:45 ↗ um uh mobility uh transport and uh um uh

1:15:48 ↗ trail issues how can we work better

1:15:50 ↗ together there what can what is the long

1:15:52 ↗ range

1:15:53 ↗ impacts looking when we get to flooding

1:15:56 ↗ and if we're going to try to solve

1:15:57 ↗ something

1:15:58 ↗ solve a flooding problem how can we do

1:16:01 ↗ it in unique ways to involve parks right

1:16:04 ↗ in a way that might be beneficial

1:16:06 ↗ so i think that's where you're going to

1:16:08 ↗ really see some ties is uh in those

1:16:10 ↗ actions jen any anything else you'd like

1:16:12 ↗ to add to that piece the collaboration

1:16:14 ↗ and parks

1:16:16 ↗ well i just think it's important to note

1:16:18 ↗ that you know our all of our open space

1:16:20 ↗ actually also plays a role in storm

1:16:22 ↗ water management even though it's not a

1:16:25 ↗ active stormwater facility it really

1:16:27 ↗ does participate in that as well as some

1:16:30 ↗ of our park spaces along the creek and

1:16:32 ↗ just

1:16:32 ↗ ensuring you know public safety along

1:16:35 ↗ with being able to manage um the assets

1:16:38 ↗ with climate change um it's just it's

1:16:41 ↗ really important because all of our

1:16:43 ↗ properties are being required to do

1:16:45 ↗ so many more things these days whether

1:16:48 ↗ it's you know serve as a storm water

1:16:50 ↗ facility service recreational and just

1:16:52 ↗ making that

1:16:53 ↗ sure that we're able to really

1:16:55 ↗ manage all of our property to the best

1:16:57 ↗ of its ability to achieve multiple goals

1:17:02 ↗ yeah i really appreciate you coming uh

1:17:03 ↗ gary and giving us a

1:17:06 ↗ a touch point here i i do agree that

1:17:08 ↗ there's a lot of connections with parks

1:17:10 ↗ here i mean it's

1:17:12 ↗ primarily flooding

1:17:14 ↗ clean water

1:17:15 ↗ habitat issues saving salmon you know

1:17:18 ↗ all of those are in relationship to

1:17:20 ↗ parks and so what you're doing is going

1:17:22 ↗ to really have a huge impact so

1:17:25 ↗ look forward to more

1:17:27 ↗ thank you and feel free you know

1:17:28 ↗ danielle loved your question too just if

1:17:30 ↗ you have

1:17:31 ↗ um ideas to share that you'd like us

1:17:34 ↗ to make sure we don't miss as we go to

1:17:36 ↗ that next step of strategy and actions

1:17:39 ↗ please send them you know our way

1:17:41 ↗ through through jen or jeff or brad uh

1:17:44 ↗ because again we'll have a dialogue uh

1:17:46 ↗ danielle we've talked about those

1:17:47 ↗ actions that i think will resonate with

1:17:49 ↗ you when we come back next but if you

1:17:51 ↗ already know something like i really

1:17:53 ↗ want you to to incorporate this in your

1:17:55 ↗ plan or talk about it let us know now

1:17:57 ↗ this is the perfect timing

1:17:59 ↗ well i would say um from my perspective

1:18:02 ↗ the area that i think is going to need

1:18:05 ↗ like the most attention or in you all

1:18:07 ↗ appropriate you all know this but um

1:18:10 ↗ just from like our active parks that we

1:18:12 ↗ use is tibbett

1:18:13 ↗ um tibbetts valley park and so as we

1:18:16 ↗ do a master a new master plan and kind

1:18:18 ↗ of anticipate what

1:18:20 ↗ you know what else is going to go there

1:18:22 ↗ it's going to could be dramatically

1:18:24 ↗ different like if we put turf in right

1:18:26 ↗ and so

1:18:27 ↗ um so that'll be i think really

1:18:29 ↗ important for us to be working like

1:18:31 ↗ collaboratively

1:18:34 ↗ on that so that that that

1:18:36 ↗ you know we're not proposing something

1:18:38 ↗ that's gonna you know um you know be

1:18:41 ↗ problematic

1:18:42 ↗ and that you all know that it's exhibits

1:18:45 ↗ is gonna be a big priority for for us um

1:18:48 ↗ you know it's really an underutilized

1:18:49 ↗ park right now

1:18:51 ↗ um so like

1:18:53 ↗ i i would say that's like to me kind of

1:18:55 ↗ that's a pretty big priority

1:18:58 ↗ that's great that that's exact that's

1:19:00 ↗ wonderful feedback i know jen and i have

1:19:01 ↗ talked about that that already as well

1:19:04 ↗ so that's a little bit on our radar

1:19:05 ↗ you're right but those are the type of

1:19:07 ↗ examples we'd love to hear more from so

1:19:08 ↗ thank you

1:19:11 ↗ thank you gary you and your team both

1:19:13 ↗ and appreciate you coming we'll see you

1:19:15 ↗ again

1:19:16 ↗ thank you very much look forward to it

1:19:20 ↗ thanks gary

1:19:23 ↗ so

1:19:25 ↗ on to our next item and i i think we're

1:19:27 ↗ going to maybe hear from brian maybe

1:19:29 ↗ even on this one but potentially but

1:19:31 ↗ i'll introduce jeff this is your topic

1:19:33 ↗ uh for scholarship program

1:19:37 ↗ yes absolutely we're going to hear from

1:19:39 ↗ brian and melissa you don't want to hear

1:19:41 ↗ from jeff on this one um just i'll tee

1:19:43 ↗ it up real quick and then hand it off to

1:19:44 ↗ brian and melissa

1:19:46 ↗ so one of our our goals this year one of

1:19:48 ↗ our work fund goals within the

1:19:49 ↗ recreation

1:19:51 ↗ group was taking a a look at our

1:19:53 ↗ scholarship program and how we've

1:19:56 ↗ historically done it

1:19:58 ↗ find ways that we could quite frankly

1:20:00 ↗ improve

1:20:01 ↗ the program

1:20:03 ↗ incorporate some improvements to the

1:20:04 ↗ scholarship program and how accessible

1:20:07 ↗ those are to the community especially

1:20:09 ↗ those in need as we head into 2022.

1:20:12 ↗ uh brian and melissa will

1:20:14 ↗ uh sort of walk you through some of the

1:20:17 ↗ the elements of the of our historic

1:20:20 ↗ approach to scholarships and then

1:20:22 ↗ uh really sort of lay out the framework

1:20:24 ↗ of a new scholarship program that we're

1:20:27 ↗ putting together

1:20:28 ↗ um

1:20:29 ↗ i'll then follow up and talk real

1:20:30 ↗ quickly when they're done about next

1:20:32 ↗ steps and

1:20:34 ↗ really

1:20:34 ↗ just inviting your input comments

1:20:37 ↗ any advice you have as we proceed into

1:20:40 ↗ this new

1:20:41 ↗ new endeavor so

1:20:42 ↗ brian melissa take it away

1:20:46 ↗ yeah i'm happy to start out there and

1:20:47 ↗ melissa you can fill in any gaps that i

1:20:49 ↗ might miss there um yeah thank you jeff

1:20:52 ↗ um brian bernstein recreation services

1:20:54 ↗ manager

1:20:55 ↗ um yeah we've had uh and we created a

1:20:58 ↗ scholarship resolution like 2014

1:21:01 ↗ you know since then we've realized that

1:21:02 ↗ that's uh it's become a little limited

1:21:04 ↗ over time i think there's you know

1:21:05 ↗ there's a lot more we can do we wanted

1:21:06 ↗ to just sort of share with

1:21:08 ↗ you all where we've been and then get

1:21:10 ↗ some input of what you think would be

1:21:11 ↗ important moving forward um the the

1:21:14 ↗ previous scholarship sort of had a

1:21:15 ↗ limited funding source so it was a

1:21:17 ↗ little bit more of a first-come

1:21:18 ↗ first-served

1:21:20 ↗ uh

1:21:21 ↗ sort of basis and that's one of the

1:21:23 ↗ biggest things we're going to be looking

1:21:24 ↗ to get rid of whereas if you qualify in

1:21:27 ↗ the future what we're looking to do is

1:21:28 ↗ if you qualify you qualify

1:21:30 ↗ our goal is to sort of align ourselves

1:21:31 ↗ with some of what the other cities

1:21:33 ↗ around us have been doing

1:21:34 ↗ um it also you know it reduces some of

1:21:37 ↗ those barriers that you know if you

1:21:38 ↗ don't get in quick enough and sometimes

1:21:41 ↗ folks that are a little more

1:21:42 ↗ technologically savvy or what not get in

1:21:44 ↗ quicker

1:21:45 ↗ we want to be able to provide that

1:21:47 ↗ opportunity for everybody um

1:21:49 ↗ in that moving forward currently it's

1:21:51 ↗ been primarily more of a youth program

1:21:53 ↗ you know it's been really dialed in

1:21:55 ↗ towards you and i think moving forward

1:21:57 ↗ we would like to have a program that

1:21:58 ↗ serves both youth and adults youth is

1:22:00 ↗ always going to be one of our primary

1:22:02 ↗ focuses but moving forward you know we

1:22:04 ↗ want to have something a little bit more

1:22:05 ↗ comprehensive is what we've been

1:22:07 ↗ thinking

1:22:08 ↗ um i said the program we had worked for

1:22:11 ↗ a long time it's just we've grown

1:22:13 ↗ it's the city's become we're getting

1:22:15 ↗ bigger right so it's time to look at our

1:22:18 ↗ scholarship program and how we can

1:22:19 ↗ broaden it just so that it does meet the

1:22:21 ↗ needs and reduces some barriers to some

1:22:23 ↗ of the uh just some of the financial

1:22:25 ↗ barriers that we have

1:22:26 ↗ within our community so we can be a

1:22:28 ↗ little bit more equitable with our

1:22:29 ↗ programming moving forward

1:22:31 ↗ melissa do you want to add anything to

1:22:32 ↗ that

1:22:34 ↗ sure thing thank you no brian covered

1:22:36 ↗ that really well historically the

1:22:37 ↗ program

1:22:38 ↗ has been limiting that's kind of the key

1:22:41 ↗ word right so

1:22:42 ↗ we have a fixed fund that we would start

1:22:44 ↗ with at the beginning of every year

1:22:46 ↗ typically new applications will come in

1:22:48 ↗ starting in december

1:22:51 ↗ usually by the end of january from all

1:22:53 ↗ the applications we would get all of the

1:22:55 ↗ funds would be allocated out for the

1:22:57 ↗ year and so

1:22:59 ↗ early in the program what would happen

1:23:00 ↗ is

1:23:01 ↗ we would award those funds to the max

1:23:04 ↗ that we were allowed that year to

1:23:06 ↗ families to use and oftentimes families

1:23:09 ↗ either weren't using the funds and

1:23:12 ↗ holding them up from other people being

1:23:14 ↗ able to use them

1:23:15 ↗ or needed more and we didn't have the

1:23:18 ↗ ability to provide more for them

1:23:20 ↗ so over the years we revised

1:23:23 ↗ how we

1:23:24 ↗ allocated the funds on a quarterly basis

1:23:26 ↗ and that helped a bit but we were still

1:23:28 ↗ running into that issue where

1:23:30 ↗ as we got toward the end of the year

1:23:32 ↗ usually after summer camp was concluded

1:23:35 ↗ we would be out of funds for the

1:23:37 ↗ scholarship program and so what we're

1:23:38 ↗ hoping to do with this amended program

1:23:42 ↗ is to award scholarships on a percentage

1:23:45 ↗ base and that's based on the king county

1:23:47 ↗ adjusted median income amounts right and

1:23:50 ↗ so those are reviewed each year

1:23:52 ↗ um and adjusted accordingly depending on

1:23:54 ↗ what king county sets as those stan

1:23:56 ↗ those baselines

1:23:58 ↗ and then depending on where they fall

1:24:00 ↗ for their family size and their adjusted

1:24:03 ↗ median income they will qualify for a

1:24:05 ↗ certain percentage discount

1:24:07 ↗ for the programs for the course of the

1:24:09 ↗ year

1:24:10 ↗ one of the outstanding items we have is

1:24:13 ↗ you know what type of threshold or cap

1:24:15 ↗ we want to put on an individual or a

1:24:17 ↗ family

1:24:19 ↗ our neighboring cities around us

1:24:21 ↗ vary right anywhere from

1:24:24 ↗ you know a few hundred dollars to

1:24:26 ↗ several hundred dollars

1:24:27 ↗ so that's one thing that we would need

1:24:29 ↗ to take into consideration

1:24:31 ↗ and then the other consideration we'll

1:24:33 ↗ have is working with our partner

1:24:34 ↗ services

1:24:35 ↗ um when we have 30 third-party providers

1:24:38 ↗ coming in and teaching a class or

1:24:40 ↗ offering a program that um you know

1:24:44 ↗ we're paying them effectively a

1:24:46 ↗ percentage of the um

1:24:50 ↗ the totals that are coming in so

1:24:52 ↗ uh you know

1:24:53 ↗ i think the biggest thing for us um with

1:24:56 ↗ this is overcoming this limited fund

1:24:58 ↗ issue that we have so that we can better

1:25:00 ↗ serve the community

1:25:02 ↗ presently we serve um youth that are 18

1:25:06 ↗ and under not only within city limits

1:25:08 ↗ but also with the municipal school

1:25:09 ↗ district

1:25:10 ↗ so that might be something else we want

1:25:12 ↗ to talk about as well but

1:25:14 ↗ the fundamental change is just that

1:25:18 ↗ we would be allowing a percentage

1:25:20 ↗ discount across the board and removing

1:25:22 ↗ that limitation for participation in the

1:25:24 ↗ program throughout the year

1:25:26 ↗ um so jeff i'll yep pass it off to you

1:25:28 ↗ and you can go ahead and fill in what

1:25:30 ↗ our ask is of the board

1:25:33 ↗ you know that's a that's a great

1:25:34 ↗ overview and if if i could

1:25:36 ↗ paraphrase what brian and melissa said

1:25:39 ↗ so well so historically we

1:25:42 ↗ have managed a scholarship program that

1:25:44 ↗ requires

1:25:46 ↗ scholarship dollars

1:25:47 ↗ revenues and expenditures

1:25:50 ↗ and that has become extremely limiting

1:25:53 ↗ so we can only give as many scholarships

1:25:55 ↗ as we have revenue for

1:25:57 ↗ what we are proposing and which mirrors

1:26:00 ↗ a lot of other

1:26:02 ↗ both non-profit

1:26:04 ↗ private and and other city businesses

1:26:06 ↗ around us is transition to a fee

1:26:09 ↗ reduction model and that's if basically

1:26:12 ↗ if you qualify if you have financial

1:26:14 ↗ need

1:26:15 ↗ we are going to

1:26:18 ↗ set tiers and you will qualify for x

1:26:20 ↗ amount of a fee reduction

1:26:22 ↗ um

1:26:23 ↗ so that we're not having to become

1:26:26 ↗ limited by

1:26:27 ↗ um the revenue side of of the ledger and

1:26:30 ↗ again this this mirrors a lot of other

1:26:33 ↗ agencies and and scholarship sort of fee

1:26:36 ↗ discount

1:26:37 ↗ programs are around us why this is an

1:26:39 ↗ important step and sort of what comes

1:26:41 ↗ next for us

1:26:43 ↗ is

1:26:44 ↗ um

1:26:45 ↗ we will need to go to city council

1:26:47 ↗ uh beginning of next year and request

1:26:50 ↗ that ability for us to reduce fees so we

1:26:53 ↗ want to

1:26:54 ↗ set up this this

1:26:56 ↗ scholarship program define financial

1:26:58 ↗ need define

1:27:00 ↗ what that application process process is

1:27:03 ↗ and if a resident qualifies

1:27:06 ↗ we would need to get council's

1:27:07 ↗ authorization to allow us to discount

1:27:10 ↗ fees for those

1:27:12 ↗ qualifying

1:27:13 ↗ families so we just thought this would

1:27:15 ↗ be a great time to sort of give you an

1:27:17 ↗ update on some of the inner workings of

1:27:18 ↗ what's going on in recreation uh the

1:27:20 ↗ recreation team and really this

1:27:22 ↗ scholarship would

1:27:24 ↗ be for any and all of our community

1:27:26 ↗ center programs our athletic programs

1:27:28 ↗ our summer day camps uh swimming pool

1:27:30 ↗ programs

1:27:32 ↗ this is a program that would

1:27:34 ↗ could easily be implemented at the

1:27:35 ↗ senior center as well so it really

1:27:37 ↗ becomes universal across all of our

1:27:39 ↗ recreation

1:27:41 ↗ recreation lines

1:27:45 ↗ and to clarify there's a timing of it uh

1:27:48 ↗ where it's where that program shuts down

1:27:50 ↗ or is that open throughout the year i

1:27:53 ↗ didn't catch that part

1:27:54 ↗ it we strive for it to be open

1:27:56 ↗ throughout the year but currently it

1:27:58 ↗ shuts down if there's not if there's not

1:28:00 ↗ revenue sitting there to

1:28:03 ↗ fill scholarships whereas if a a model

1:28:07 ↗ we would like to shift would become much

1:28:09 ↗ more

1:28:10 ↗ available the whole year round

1:28:15 ↗ looks like danielle has a question

1:28:21 ↗ i

1:28:23 ↗ have you like what um what kind of

1:28:26 ↗ application process are you thinking

1:28:28 ↗ about doing is it going to be

1:28:31 ↗ like matching up with um like for

1:28:33 ↗ families who qualify for free or reduced

1:28:35 ↗ lunches like is it going to be i guess

1:28:37 ↗ my suggestion would be to have it be as

1:28:39 ↗ simple as possible

1:28:41 ↗ um

1:28:43 ↗ and absolutely you know and hopefully if

1:28:45 ↗ they are able to do that then

1:28:47 ↗ they don't have to fill up out another

1:28:49 ↗ application for you know like the next

1:28:52 ↗ the next session that they want to

1:28:54 ↗ um you know to do in a couple months

1:28:57 ↗ yeah absolutely danielle it's well said

1:29:00 ↗ yeah our we would want it to be simple

1:29:02 ↗ and be able to mirror some of the other

1:29:04 ↗ um

1:29:05 ↗ qualifying metrics that already exist

1:29:08 ↗ and then my other um

1:29:10 ↗ question is um

1:29:13 ↗ i know

1:29:14 ↗ on

1:29:14 ↗ on another

1:29:16 ↗ um board on which i serve um

1:29:19 ↗ where

1:29:22 ↗ where they have scholarships um you know

1:29:25 ↗ for for fees um they actually will hold

1:29:28 ↗ like when when it's like a super popular

1:29:31 ↗ like time when

1:29:33 ↗ like for a camp registration when

1:29:36 ↗ like if you're not on your computer at

1:29:38 ↗ whatever time that is

1:29:40 ↗ um or you know in line then you will not

1:29:43 ↗ get you know the camp will fill up um

1:29:46 ↗ and what what they do is will hold some

1:29:49 ↗ of those spots um

1:29:51 ↗ for families that are that they know are

1:29:54 ↗ going to

1:29:55 ↗ um need financial assistance because the

1:29:59 ↗ you know it's not everybody's on the

1:30:01 ↗ same playing field with being able to be

1:30:03 ↗ either like you know

1:30:05 ↗ in line at a certain time on a certain

1:30:06 ↗ day or on a computer

1:30:08 ↗ so it's just something else to think

1:30:10 ↗ about maybe

1:30:11 ↗ um

1:30:13 ↗ but the nice thing about our new

1:30:14 ↗ software that we have danielle in

1:30:16 ↗ managing scholarships is we're able to

1:30:20 ↗ pre get them approved ahead of time

1:30:22 ↗ and so even in the current model

1:30:24 ↗ they're allowed to register with that

1:30:28 ↗ amount that they're given now in the

1:30:30 ↗ current program and then moving forward

1:30:32 ↗ they would be able to register at the

1:30:34 ↗ same time with you know the same

1:30:36 ↗ abilities as others with the reduced

1:30:38 ↗ model as well so it removes that barrier

1:30:41 ↗ entirely from you know

1:30:44 ↗ prior to that we used to have issues but

1:30:46 ↗ now

1:30:47 ↗ our new software program definitely you

1:30:49 ↗ know cleans the slate and makes it a lot

1:30:51 ↗ easier for everybody to have the same

1:30:53 ↗ access

1:30:56 ↗ if i could just add one thing danielle i

1:30:58 ↗ think another another element to your

1:31:00 ↗ question and comments a really good one

1:31:01 ↗ and that's just one of equity right of

1:31:04 ↗ not necessarily

1:31:06 ↗ whether it's financial need or not but

1:31:07 ↗ just understanding some of that equity

1:31:09 ↗ lens and how are we

1:31:11 ↗ understanding maybe not everyone has

1:31:13 ↗ that the same access to a computer

1:31:15 ↗ etc so

1:31:17 ↗ um at the same time we're doing this we

1:31:19 ↗ are sort of starting to take take some

1:31:21 ↗ of those equity looks at um a number of

1:31:24 ↗ our programs um

1:31:26 ↗ and popular

1:31:27 ↗ and that's really where my that's really

1:31:29 ↗ where my question was aimed so you know

1:31:32 ↗ not everybody i mean i know i don't know

1:31:34 ↗ how the registration for day camps work

1:31:36 ↗ now but when my kids were little it's

1:31:38 ↗ like you you know went in person at a

1:31:40 ↗ certain you know time and place right

1:31:42 ↗ and

1:31:43 ↗ you know not everybody can do that right

1:31:45 ↗ super fast and it's online but it's

1:31:47 ↗ super fast you're right so um so the

1:31:49 ↗ point being is that just knowing that

1:31:51 ↗ equity is a bear yeah there are barriers

1:31:55 ↗ um

1:31:56 ↗ in enrolling you know promptly at that

1:31:59 ↗ certain time um that perhaps for those

1:32:02 ↗ programs that are super popular you hold

1:32:04 ↗ back

1:32:05 ↗ you know a certain number of of um of

1:32:08 ↗ spots you know to fill

1:32:11 ↗ with people who are qualified for

1:32:13 ↗ financial assistance

1:32:15 ↗ just something to think about

1:32:19 ↗ is there any proof that's required

1:32:22 ↗ in terms of financial need and on this

1:32:24 ↗ application process or is it an honor

1:32:26 ↗ system

1:32:30 ↗ yeah right i can answer that so we

1:32:33 ↗ um have a variety of ways that they can

1:32:36 ↗ have qualifications for the program

1:32:39 ↗ ranging anywhere from dshs approval

1:32:42 ↗ letters as a foster child or guardian

1:32:45 ↗ w-2 information

1:32:48 ↗ a variety of different

1:32:50 ↗ head start program verification so

1:32:53 ↗ there's a lot of different

1:32:54 ↗ options that they can provide to us

1:32:56 ↗ whereas if they don't have one they

1:32:58 ↗ could certainly provide another for us

1:33:00 ↗ and like you mentioned danielle uh

1:33:02 ↗ participation in the meals program would

1:33:04 ↗ be one as well

1:33:05 ↗ and we and we do check once a year we

1:33:07 ↗ don't once you do it it's good for a

1:33:08 ↗ year and then we do check every year

1:33:10 ↗ because situations can't change year to

1:33:12 ↗ year but so we try to not make it an

1:33:14 ↗ inconvenience but yet we want to there's

1:33:16 ↗ an accountability piece we want to hold

1:33:18 ↗ as well

1:33:20 ↗ we also have a piece built in um for

1:33:22 ↗ hardships so if somebody were to apply

1:33:24 ↗ and get approved for a certain dollar

1:33:26 ↗ amount but then experience a further

1:33:28 ↗ hardship throughout the year we can go

1:33:30 ↗ in and reevaluate and increase that

1:33:32 ↗ amount if need be

1:33:34 ↗ temporarily while they're in a further

1:33:36 ↗ hardship or alternatively if it's

1:33:38 ↗ someone who

1:33:40 ↗ doesn't have a hardship prior to this

1:33:42 ↗ but experience is one that puts them

1:33:44 ↗ into one of the categories we can assess

1:33:46 ↗ that and accommodate their needs as well

1:33:48 ↗ in a limited duration

1:33:52 ↗ i like it it's more flexible it's not so

1:33:54 ↗ restrictive uh it creates more a broader

1:33:57 ↗ opportunity for people i mean i think

1:33:59 ↗ it's a great concept

1:34:02 ↗ do you need anything from us as a board

1:34:05 ↗ just i think this feedback is really

1:34:07 ↗ helpful if you all feel the same way and

1:34:10 ↗ want to give a thumbs up or even just

1:34:12 ↗ sort of give an advisory vote one of

1:34:14 ↗ those things uh that'd be really helpful

1:34:16 ↗ as we um because we plan on taking this

1:34:18 ↗ to council in in january so we can

1:34:21 ↗ really hit the ground running with 2022

1:34:24 ↗ seeing thumbs up from everybody

1:34:26 ↗ thumbs up everybody if you approve

1:34:28 ↗ i see uh i see everybody so super

1:34:32 ↗ helpful

1:34:33 ↗ no thank you thank you and again brian

1:34:35 ↗ melissa the whole recreation team

1:34:36 ↗ appreciate their work and

1:34:38 ↗ really uh

1:34:40 ↗ again just making improvements to a

1:34:42 ↗ already successful scholarship program

1:34:46 ↗ thank you brian

1:34:48 ↗ good work

1:34:51 ↗ so we're down to our last item which is

1:34:54 ↗ uh anchor park information from jennifer

1:34:58 ↗ and we thought this might happen jim

1:35:00 ↗ we're kind of a little short on time so

1:35:02 ↗ you might shorten it up for uh

1:35:04 ↗ how seven minutes sound

1:35:07 ↗ i can do it in five

1:35:08 ↗ [Laughter]

1:35:10 ↗ or less

1:35:16 ↗ okay hi everyone nice to see you this

1:35:19 ↗ evening

1:35:20 ↗ um here to give you a quick update on

1:35:22 ↗ where we've been with anchor parks as

1:35:24 ↗ you may recall last month i gave you a

1:35:26 ↗ brief

1:35:27 ↗ overview of kind of the anchor parks

1:35:30 ↗ where we were pre-pandemic and where we

1:35:32 ↗ thought we were going to go

1:35:34 ↗ and so for our meeting tonight i just

1:35:37 ↗ want to share with you we have started

1:35:39 ↗ having some of our um again from october

1:35:43 ↗ we talked about you know the anchor

1:35:44 ↗ parks included both

1:35:46 ↗ veterans memorial field tibbetts valley

1:35:48 ↗ park and the creek corridor

1:35:50 ↗ and during that time we had collective

1:35:52 ↗ outreach um but we are going to be

1:35:54 ↗ separating those projects out

1:35:56 ↗ individually

1:35:58 ↗ and as we start kind of figuring out how

1:36:00 ↗ we're going to relaunch all of these

1:36:02 ↗ programs we've been our projects we've

1:36:05 ↗ been working with some focus groups and

1:36:07 ↗ having some real um

1:36:09 ↗ open and

1:36:11 ↗ high level conversation with them

1:36:13 ↗ to get their perspective on how

1:36:17 ↗ their thoughts on the parks and also how

1:36:19 ↗ the pandemic may have changed kind of

1:36:21 ↗ where

1:36:21 ↗ we were going so what i'm showing you

1:36:24 ↗ are just some really high level

1:36:26 ↗ um

1:36:27 ↗ graphics that were shared with each of

1:36:29 ↗ the six focus groups that we've met with

1:36:31 ↗ we've met with around 35

1:36:34 ↗ community members so far

1:36:36 ↗ and this is really just to kind of show

1:36:39 ↗ issaquah um where the parks are the

1:36:42 ↗ relationship to each other um also to

1:36:45 ↗ our natural open spaces the trails right

1:36:47 ↗ near trella creek corridor tibbetts

1:36:49 ↗ valley park veterans memorial confluence

1:36:52 ↗ park is up in there too and kind of

1:36:54 ↗ where the old town is so everyone can

1:36:57 ↗ kind of get a spatial feel

1:36:59 ↗ of that relationship

1:37:01 ↗ and then as we focus in a little bit

1:37:03 ↗ more here's tibbetts valley park

1:37:06 ↗ it's relationship to newport way but

1:37:08 ↗ also how close it is to the crete

1:37:10 ↗ corridor confluence park as well as the

1:37:13 ↗ rainier trail and veterans memorial

1:37:19 ↗ and then just a little bit more of a

1:37:21 ↗ close-up as far as what's happening

1:37:23 ↗ around tibbetts valley park you know

1:37:25 ↗ to the north of tibbetts valley park

1:37:28 ↗ north of newport way is going to is

1:37:30 ↗ central esport neighborhood

1:37:32 ↗ and there's um

1:37:34 ↗ going to be roughly

1:37:36 ↗ up to 700 new units just on the other

1:37:39 ↗ side of newport way uh probably within

1:37:42 ↗ the next five to seven years so how this

1:37:45 ↗ part can serve not only the future

1:37:47 ↗ central issaquad neighborhood but kind

1:37:50 ↗ of the newport neighborhood as well as

1:37:51 ↗ telus neighborhood as well as squawk

1:37:53 ↗ mountain neighborhood is going to be

1:37:55 ↗ really really important

1:37:58 ↗ as we move forward

1:38:01 ↗ and then as we look at veterans memorial

1:38:03 ↗ park

1:38:05 ↗ its relationship to the rainier trail

1:38:07 ↗ pedestrian park depot park the senior

1:38:10 ↗ center

1:38:11 ↗ alder street which is also festival

1:38:13 ↗ street which is undergoing some up

1:38:15 ↗ upgrades um this year and into next year

1:38:18 ↗ and its relationship to

1:38:20 ↗ you know

1:38:21 ↗ the rainier trail but also the lakes

1:38:23 ↗ mamas trail and issaquah creek and

1:38:26 ↗ really how

1:38:27 ↗ this really is an anchor for the

1:38:29 ↗ downtown area

1:38:32 ↗ so as i've mentioned we've had six focus

1:38:34 ↗ group meetings so far and we've just had

1:38:36 ↗ really high level conversation

1:38:39 ↗ um

1:38:40 ↗ with

1:38:41 ↗ and these are the prompt questions we've

1:38:43 ↗ been asking is what roles do these parks

1:38:46 ↗ and trails play for issaquah currently

1:38:48 ↗ how are these parks underperforming not

1:38:50 ↗ only for your personal interests but for

1:38:52 ↗ the greater community interests how do

1:38:54 ↗ you use these parks

1:38:56 ↗ how can the parks better serve you

1:38:58 ↗ what do these parks mean for isipo's

1:39:00 ↗ future and how should we reinvest or

1:39:02 ↗ reposition them

1:39:04 ↗ and as we revive these planning efforts

1:39:06 ↗ which project do you think we should

1:39:08 ↗ focus on and tackle first

1:39:11 ↗ and so last week was

1:39:14 ↗ the last of our meeting so i'm in

1:39:16 ↗ process right now of

1:39:18 ↗ putting together all of that information

1:39:20 ↗ compiling it and we'll reconvene with

1:39:22 ↗ our consultant team

1:39:24 ↗ and then it's going to be our goal to

1:39:25 ↗ really identify which of the anchor

1:39:27 ↗ parks is the first we're going to start

1:39:29 ↗ uh reviving and focusing on as we're

1:39:32 ↗ separating these projects out from one

1:39:35 ↗ another and then we're going to

1:39:36 ↗ reformulate our public engagement plan

1:39:39 ↗ and probably develop our forecasted

1:39:42 ↗ schedule

1:39:44 ↗ so with that i will take any questions

1:39:46 ↗ how'd i do in time brad

1:39:48 ↗ it outstanding we even got two minutes

1:39:50 ↗ to share here okay for questions

1:39:55 ↗ i guess my only question would be timing

1:39:57 ↗ when do you think that the

1:39:59 ↗ you know this will roll out to the

1:40:01 ↗ community for the next

1:40:03 ↗ step

1:40:05 ↗ honestly it's probably with this um

1:40:08 ↗ needing to get with a consultant team

1:40:09 ↗ gather all the information we're kind of

1:40:11 ↗ in the midst of holidays likely after

1:40:13 ↗ the new year just with timing and

1:40:14 ↗ vacations and people's availability and

1:40:17 ↗ the public's availability so likely the

1:40:20 ↗ consultant team and i will be getting

1:40:21 ↗ together start formulating kind of our

1:40:23 ↗ plan of attack and i would assume in

1:40:25 ↗ january i'd be able to come forward and

1:40:27 ↗ um likely public engagement being able

1:40:30 ↗ to get materials together

1:40:32 ↗ um you know it may be february but

1:40:34 ↗ definitely q1 we'll get the first one

1:40:37 ↗ out of the gate enrolling um and we'll

1:40:40 ↗ definitely keep you posted month to

1:40:42 ↗ month they're gonna be able to move

1:40:43 ↗ forward even if we need to do it

1:40:44 ↗ virtually

1:40:46 ↗ yes i think we can i think there's been

1:40:48 ↗ so much engagement has been

1:40:52 ↗ very good virtually and i think we also

1:40:54 ↗ have other methods that we can in

1:40:57 ↗ surveys and things if we need to

1:40:59 ↗ um i think we found that out with a

1:41:01 ↗ wayfinding survey that there's unique

1:41:04 ↗ ways we can reach the community

1:41:06 ↗ and still get their input

1:41:08 ↗ good

1:41:09 ↗ danielle

1:41:11 ↗ just i'm curious if what the status is

1:41:14 ↗ of the um kind of fields

1:41:17 ↗ survey or audit and where that work is

1:41:20 ↗ yeah great thank you um for asking we're

1:41:23 ↗ right now waiting for um a revised scope

1:41:27 ↗ of work from the consultant

1:41:29 ↗ so once we get that back we'll get that

1:41:31 ↗ under contract and likely be starting in

1:41:33 ↗ the new year so they have not yet

1:41:35 ↗ started work but we're getting it

1:41:38 ↗ underway

1:41:39 ↗ so that's something that consultants

1:41:40 ↗ doing not the city

1:41:42 ↗ correct well we're

1:41:44 ↗ we're guiding it but we're working with

1:41:46 ↗ a consultant team to help us on that do

1:41:48 ↗ an independent study

1:41:51 ↗ okay

1:41:54 ↗ it's the study to establish our athletic

1:41:56 ↗ field needs right correct

1:42:00 ↗ yeah it's a broader citywide look at

1:42:03 ↗ sports field assessments

1:42:05 ↗ needs

1:42:07 ↗ honestly take a look at our park

1:42:09 ↗ strategic plan and some of the

1:42:10 ↗ recommendations we have for athletic

1:42:11 ↗ fields and how are we sort of keeping

1:42:14 ↗ that big picture sense of how we're

1:42:16 ↗ going to be addressing

1:42:18 ↗ athletic fields as we're looking at

1:42:20 ↗ these um park planning efforts

1:42:24 ↗ and so daniel if i could just add to

1:42:25 ↗ what jen said yeah this is

1:42:27 ↗ very much going to be a big staff lift

1:42:30 ↗ but um

1:42:31 ↗ i think

1:42:33 ↗ as as other cities are an example and

1:42:35 ↗ some other cities i've worked in i'm

1:42:37 ↗ having some consultant assistance as

1:42:40 ↗ well is really really important given uh

1:42:42 ↗ just

1:42:43 ↗ what else is on the plate

1:42:46 ↗ will they be taking a look at schools as

1:42:48 ↗ a

1:42:49 ↗ as an option of availability yeah so

1:42:52 ↗ scope scope of work and again this is uh

1:42:55 ↗ um

1:42:56 ↗ this was spelled out in our park

1:42:58 ↗ strategic plan so uh talk about line of

1:43:00 ↗ sight i i love i love gary's sense of

1:43:02 ↗ line of sight it's like hey

1:43:04 ↗ park board knows line of sight because

1:43:06 ↗ the park strategic plan

1:43:08 ↗ is really trying to to everything right

1:43:11 ↗ our park cip is tied to it our capital

1:43:13 ↗ projects etc

1:43:15 ↗ so the park strategic plan would tell us

1:43:17 ↗ this this sports field assessment is

1:43:19 ↗ going to look at

1:43:20 ↗ city land school district land and state

1:43:24 ↗ park

1:43:25 ↗ and and how do we make sure all of those

1:43:27 ↗ those public uh land managers and those

1:43:30 ↗ public lands uh were sort of thinking

1:43:33 ↗ through

1:43:34 ↗ um uh from a field assessment field

1:43:36 ↗ needs standpoint

1:43:39 ↗ and is part of this my understanding

1:43:41 ↗ when we kind of tabled this all like i

1:43:44 ↗ think two years ago i mean it's been a

1:43:45 ↗ while um was that this that survey was

1:43:49 ↗ also going to

1:43:51 ↗ look specifically at

1:43:53 ↗ or it would it would give some shed some

1:43:55 ↗ light as to like what the current

1:43:58 ↗ um fields are that

1:44:01 ↗ that tibbetts and veterans memorial are

1:44:03 ↗ using and whether those can be

1:44:05 ↗ like if if we were to shift those uses

1:44:08 ↗ somewhere else like where where would

1:44:09 ↗ they go right so we're not just

1:44:12 ↗ losing feelings precisely exactly

1:44:14 ↗ exactly so that yeah this assessment

1:44:16 ↗ helps inform okay programmatically if

1:44:19 ↗ something shifts the tidbits how

1:44:22 ↗ in that shift are we still addressing

1:44:24 ↗ and accommodating

1:44:25 ↗ sports field needs

1:44:27 ↗ elsewhere or

1:44:29 ↗ quite frankly the assessment will help i

1:44:31 ↗ think

1:44:32 ↗ affirm what program

1:44:34 ↗ uh what sports field programs are still

1:44:36 ↗ needed um in some of our own city parks

1:44:39 ↗ so yeah it's really trying to keep that

1:44:41 ↗ big picture as we're making we may be

1:44:43 ↗ making site-specific

1:44:45 ↗ recommendations here in the coming year

1:44:47 ↗ as we're making those we we keep the big

1:44:49 ↗ picture in mind

1:44:51 ↗ yeah okay thanks

1:44:53 ↗ any other questions or comments from the

1:44:55 ↗ board on this one

1:44:59 ↗ seeing nothing it's time to move on to

1:45:02 ↗ reports

1:45:03 ↗ i guess that's me

1:45:05 ↗ first

1:45:06 ↗ and um

1:45:09 ↗ i got a few things so i'll try and rapid

1:45:10 ↗ fire through this here first thing um

1:45:14 ↗ thanks everyone for

1:45:17 ↗ uh such a good year here of uh so many

1:45:19 ↗ different topics we've been really uh

1:45:21 ↗ throwing a lot at you here in the

1:45:23 ↗ agendas for especially for the last

1:45:25 ↗ several months so

1:45:27 ↗ in honor of that uh we decided i think

1:45:30 ↗ it's time for a little break so we're

1:45:31 ↗ going to take a break during the

1:45:33 ↗ holidays and not have a meeting on

1:45:35 ↗ december 27th which is scheduled which

1:45:38 ↗ is the monday right after the christmas

1:45:40 ↗ holiday so

1:45:42 ↗ you get even a further break there

1:45:44 ↗ although there are a lot of things going

1:45:46 ↗ on as you well know and so jeff and i'll

1:45:49 ↗ talk further as to whether or not we

1:45:50 ↗ need to change our meeting date in

1:45:52 ↗ january or even add potentially a

1:45:55 ↗ special meeting in january

1:45:57 ↗ so we'll get back to you on that but

1:45:59 ↗ nothing happened in december

1:46:01 ↗ and the only thing that would probably

1:46:03 ↗ change it is if we have some

1:46:05 ↗ things possibly that might crop up in

1:46:08 ↗ the task force

1:46:10 ↗ for some timing elements in january that

1:46:12 ↗ might change our timing of our next

1:46:15 ↗ board meeting or maybe a need for a

1:46:17 ↗ special meeting but

1:46:19 ↗ but uh happy holidays uh for december

1:46:23 ↗ um i attended a cockney work group

1:46:26 ↗ meeting on top october 27th

1:46:29 ↗ and the real highlights of there is a

1:46:31 ↗ lot of design work going on with

1:46:33 ↗ laughing jacobs creek tidbits creek and

1:46:36 ↗ issaquah creek those are the three main

1:46:38 ↗ ones tributaries that running through

1:46:41 ↗ issaquah

1:46:42 ↗ uh issaquah creek actually is a big

1:46:45 ↗ design going on through mountainous

1:46:47 ↗ sound greenway

1:46:49 ↗ that they're kind of sizing up and

1:46:51 ↗ should have some construction actually

1:46:53 ↗ started next year on issaquah creek for

1:46:56 ↗ a number of restoration efforts

1:47:00 ↗ there's a

1:47:01 ↗ weed control project going on at lake

1:47:03 ↗ sammamish it's been

1:47:05 ↗ going on for some time now

1:47:08 ↗ managed by trout unlimited got some

1:47:11 ↗ funding to do that i don't want to share

1:47:13 ↗ anything specific now i can later

1:47:17 ↗ spawning grounds documentary film is

1:47:19 ↗ actually now being updated it's actually

1:47:21 ↗ done its full loop throughout the

1:47:23 ↗ country

1:47:24 ↗ with a variety of

1:47:26 ↗ film

1:47:31 ↗ projects i shouldn't say project film

1:47:34 ↗ um

1:47:37 ↗ film festivals i guess would be the best

1:47:39 ↗ thing that's a number of them throughout

1:47:41 ↗ the country but now it's actually going

1:47:43 ↗ to be updated with some new material

1:47:46 ↗ uh and re-released here in the next

1:47:48 ↗ couple months

1:47:51 ↗ and

1:47:52 ↗ with the intention of shortening it up

1:47:54 ↗ and bringing it available to public

1:47:57 ↗ television

1:47:59 ↗ and also a potential release to the

1:48:01 ↗ community

1:48:02 ↗ more openly and for free which is

1:48:05 ↗ something i've been advocating for some

1:48:06 ↗ time so stay tuned on that

1:48:09 ↗ some really good news in terms of some

1:48:12 ↗ kokanee returns

1:48:14 ↗ this year is looking

1:48:16 ↗ optimistic

1:48:18 ↗ uh and don't have any numbers yet but

1:48:20 ↗ we're just now getting into kokanee uh

1:48:23 ↗ uh review now so should actually have

1:48:25 ↗ some numbers probably first quarter next

1:48:28 ↗ year

1:48:29 ↗ probably the most uh interesting thing

1:48:31 ↗ is um

1:48:32 ↗ zac use creek which actually had a

1:48:34 ↗ pretty substantial restoration project

1:48:37 ↗ done to it in the last year or two

1:48:40 ↗ a bunch of culvert work done by city of

1:48:42 ↗ sammamish

1:48:44 ↗ and uh a number of restoration projects

1:48:47 ↗ between some amish um

1:48:49 ↗ the kokanee uh work group through king

1:48:52 ↗ county uh and the snoqualmie tribe

1:48:55 ↗ and so for the first time in decades

1:48:58 ↗ actually there's now a coconut going

1:49:00 ↗ into zacchaeus creek

1:49:02 ↗ so that's really good sign you'll see

1:49:04 ↗ more of that on the film

1:49:06 ↗ um

1:49:08 ↗ i attended the flist annual meeting

1:49:09 ↗ which was november 4th

1:49:12 ↗ and um nikki fields who is the state uh

1:49:16 ↗ park planner was uh there and gave a

1:49:18 ↗ nice presentation

1:49:20 ↗ uh primarily um

1:49:22 ↗ they're still working on updating the

1:49:24 ↗ master plan for the lakes and managed

1:49:26 ↗ state park i am still undergoing an

1:49:30 ↗ environmental impact statement

1:49:32 ↗ review

1:49:34 ↗ but primarily she was able to give us an

1:49:36 ↗ update on a number of

1:49:38 ↗ project capital projects

1:49:41 ↗ most importantly the dock at sunset

1:49:43 ↗ beach

1:49:44 ↗ and sunset

1:49:45 ↗ [Music]

1:49:47 ↗ upgrades sunset beach upgrades and the

1:49:50 ↗ trails plan which is something that was

1:49:52 ↗ introduced by bill way and a number of

1:49:54 ↗ people from

1:49:56 ↗ from fliss that was introduced to the

1:49:58 ↗ park board this past year

1:50:01 ↗ that's now been and is in the process of

1:50:03 ↗ being adopted into the master plan

1:50:06 ↗ uh and so there's funding available for

1:50:09 ↗ a lot of these things both for trails

1:50:11 ↗ dock sunset upgrades so a lot of good

1:50:14 ↗ things on the horizon for lakes of

1:50:16 ↗ memory state park

1:50:19 ↗ and the last thing is just give you a

1:50:21 ↗ brief update on task force i attended a

1:50:23 ↗ meeting on november 2nd and also another

1:50:25 ↗ one on november 16th

1:50:28 ↗ primarily

1:50:29 ↗ now we've refined the top three

1:50:33 ↗ priorities which are transportation

1:50:36 ↗ parks and facilities

1:50:38 ↗ transportation is at the top

1:50:40 ↗ parks and facilities is kind of a

1:50:43 ↗ toss-up in terms of which one of those

1:50:45 ↗ is more of a priority i've been

1:50:47 ↗ advocating for parks

1:50:50 ↗ and we also have now refined the top

1:50:53 ↗ five

1:50:54 ↗ refined criterias that we're looking at

1:50:57 ↗ to apply to these um priorities

1:51:01 ↗ and they are pain points

1:51:04 ↗ uh return on investment

1:51:07 ↗ uh

1:51:08 ↗ establishing least satisfy and most

1:51:10 ↗ important

1:51:12 ↗ life and safety and visionary and

1:51:14 ↗ ambitious

1:51:16 ↗ so i could get into a lot more detail

1:51:18 ↗ but i won't

1:51:19 ↗ but those are kind of the criteria that

1:51:21 ↗ we're going to apply to the priorities

1:51:24 ↗ jeff had a good opportunity to provide

1:51:27 ↗ some more detail about the metropolitan

1:51:29 ↗ park district and we'll talk further

1:51:32 ↗ into next year about that

1:51:35 ↗ but that looks to be a promising

1:51:38 ↗ funding opportunity that the city

1:51:41 ↗ has not explored until now

1:51:44 ↗ that we'll see how that plays out but

1:51:47 ↗ that might have a good

1:51:48 ↗ opportunity for future funding for

1:51:51 ↗ capital improvement projects with the

1:51:54 ↗ park system

1:51:55 ↗ and we actually also did a kind of an

1:51:57 ↗ overview of all of the funding

1:51:59 ↗ opportunities that apply to very various

1:52:02 ↗ departments and

1:52:04 ↗ again i won't go into the details of

1:52:06 ↗ that either but

1:52:07 ↗ i think the intention at this point we

1:52:10 ↗ have a couple more meetings in december

1:52:12 ↗ and several in january

1:52:14 ↗ with the intention by the end of january

1:52:16 ↗ to come up with some proposals to the

1:52:18 ↗ mayor and city council

1:52:21 ↗ uh about priorities and how to go about

1:52:24 ↗ funding them as it relates to the

1:52:26 ↗ six-year cip

1:52:28 ↗ so that's it for me

1:52:30 ↗ and

1:52:31 ↗ now we have uh

1:52:34 ↗ i always appreciate how patient ryan is

1:52:36 ↗ waiting for his opportunity here but

1:52:38 ↗ it's your turn ryan

1:52:40 ↗ to shine so what do you have for us

1:52:42 ↗ thank you brad um i don't have too much

1:52:45 ↗ to share we've had two youth advisory

1:52:47 ↗ board meetings since the last parks

1:52:49 ↗ board meeting uh the main thing we've

1:52:51 ↗ done is breaking up into

1:52:54 ↗ six different project groups so we have

1:52:56 ↗ a group working on a movie night that's

1:52:58 ↗ going to happen in february a group

1:53:00 ↗ putting together harry potter night for

1:53:02 ↗ january

1:53:03 ↗ and then there's a group of several

1:53:06 ↗ people that sort of fall under our

1:53:07 ↗ advocacy

1:53:09 ↗ committee and they're working on a

1:53:10 ↗ variety of projects within

1:53:12 ↗ lgbtq advocacy environmental advocacy

1:53:16 ↗ putting on the annual mental health

1:53:18 ↗ conference that we've been hosting

1:53:19 ↗ called state of mind

1:53:21 ↗ and then another group focusing on

1:53:22 ↗ supporting children in need

1:53:25 ↗ and so really we've just been digging

1:53:26 ↗ deep into planning for all those things

1:53:28 ↗ getting ready to promote them all as we

1:53:30 ↗ head into the new year

1:53:32 ↗ and really hit the ground running now

1:53:33 ↗ that we are meeting back in person again

1:53:35 ↗ uh and before i hand it off to jeff you

1:53:38 ↗ may notice that there is a new face here

1:53:40 ↗ tonight uh

1:53:41 ↗ sean fan is a member of the youth

1:53:43 ↗ advisory board and he's joining me as a

1:53:45 ↗ youth representative so sean if you want

1:53:47 ↗ to introduce yourself real quick that

1:53:49 ↗ would be great

1:53:54 ↗ i thought i got to sit in with all these

1:53:55 ↗ amazing conversations um and the stuff

1:53:58 ↗ that's happening in the parks and

1:54:01 ↗ um i just want to do a quick

1:54:02 ↗ introduction i'm sean um i currently

1:54:04 ↗ attend scallion high school i'm a part

1:54:06 ↗ of the sickle youth advisory board um i

1:54:09 ↗ am in the same great as ryan and i was a

1:54:11 ↗ senior um and i'm really excited to be

1:54:13 ↗ joining you guys this year um for a

1:54:16 ↗ future meeting so yeah

1:54:18 ↗ thank you sean welcome

1:54:22 ↗ and thank you ryan are you done with

1:54:23 ↗ that

1:54:24 ↗ thanks for all that information

1:54:27 ↗ so jeff you get to do the wrap up

1:54:30 ↗ let's wrap this up yeah ryan thank you

1:54:33 ↗ sean so glad you're here as well

1:54:36 ↗ thank you everyone so real quick

1:54:37 ↗ director's report last monday night city

1:54:40 ↗ council adopted the 2022

1:54:42 ↗ budget the operating budget and the

1:54:44 ↗ capital budget so

1:54:46 ↗ off we go into putting together our work

1:54:49 ↗ plan as a department um

1:54:52 ↗ lots of good support from from council

1:54:54 ↗ some additional resources coming our way

1:54:58 ↗ for park operations needs

1:55:00 ↗ we have some additional resources coming

1:55:02 ↗ on board within our recreation team for

1:55:05 ↗ additional staff

1:55:06 ↗ um

1:55:07 ↗ given some of the significant impacts we

1:55:10 ↗ had during that the pandemic within our

1:55:12 ↗ recreation facilities those four

1:55:13 ↗ positions will be really key as we move

1:55:16 ↗ move forward

1:55:18 ↗ with our with our new recreation model

1:55:21 ↗ so

1:55:22 ↗ with that adopted budget

1:55:24 ↗ as i've done in prior years

1:55:27 ↗ come january at our next park board

1:55:29 ↗ meeting i'd like to bring

1:55:31 ↗ sort of our are abbreviated not every

1:55:34 ↗ single item but abbreviated 2022 work

1:55:36 ↗ plan so you all have a chance to see

1:55:38 ↗ that um at that same meeting i'd like to

1:55:40 ↗ bring the 21

1:55:42 ↗ 2021 work plan and sort of have a quick

1:55:44 ↗ review of that

1:55:46 ↗ it's

1:55:47 ↗ it's healthy for us as a department and

1:55:49 ↗ i hope hopefully healthy for you as a

1:55:51 ↗ park board to look back at 21 and see

1:55:53 ↗ the check boxes we have

1:55:55 ↗ um it's it's been a crazy year

1:55:58 ↗ and i think for all of us um these last

1:56:00 ↗ two years but uh this department's uh

1:56:02 ↗ certainly accomplished a lot in that so

1:56:05 ↗ uh we'll have some time in january to to

1:56:08 ↗ sort of look at work plan and then um as

1:56:10 ↗ we've done

1:56:11 ↗ in prior years really then take a look

1:56:13 ↗ and say what does this mean for park

1:56:15 ↗ board work plan in terms of what are

1:56:16 ↗ those significant projects

1:56:19 ↗ that will be

1:56:20 ↗ sort of on on park board agendas through

1:56:22 ↗ uh through 2022 so

1:56:25 ↗ again always always look forward to that

1:56:27 ↗ discussion yeah i appreciated the chance

1:56:29 ↗ to share with the capital task force

1:56:32 ↗ uh the funding tool of a park district

1:56:35 ↗ um

1:56:36 ↗ i'll certainly continue to work with

1:56:37 ↗ with brad and with staff and with the

1:56:39 ↗ rest of the task force members to see

1:56:41 ↗ how

1:56:42 ↗ and where that might fit in some really

1:56:44 ↗ really important work being done by that

1:56:46 ↗ task force and really trying to

1:56:48 ↗ understand the capital funding needs

1:56:51 ↗ really for all the public infrastructure

1:56:53 ↗ that this city has so whether

1:56:55 ↗ transportation's first or parks and

1:56:57 ↗ trails are second or facilities are

1:56:59 ↗ third or whatever

1:57:01 ↗ it's really that's really important

1:57:03 ↗ infrastructure all of that for for

1:57:05 ↗ livability and quality of life and so

1:57:08 ↗ it'll be really important work to see

1:57:10 ↗ how

1:57:11 ↗ as as residents you all want to invest

1:57:13 ↗ in your

1:57:15 ↗ your public infrastructure um

1:57:17 ↗ moving forward so

1:57:20 ↗ have a great thanksgiving have a great

1:57:22 ↗ holiday i even though we're not meeting

1:57:24 ↗ in december still would be great if any

1:57:26 ↗ of you individually want to touch base

1:57:28 ↗ and just sort of talk through the year

1:57:30 ↗ or goals you have for next year i'm

1:57:32 ↗ certainly always available for that so

1:57:34 ↗ that's it thanks so much

1:57:36 ↗ thank you jeff appreciate it

1:57:39 ↗ and uh any other new business or

1:57:42 ↗ announcements or comments

1:57:46 ↗ so i'll um

1:57:48 ↗ got something daniel yeah just real

1:57:50 ↗ quick um

1:57:51 ↗ i

1:57:52 ↗ i i don't know if the rest of you guys

1:57:54 ↗ did um the survey that came out in the

1:57:56 ↗ city this last week that

1:57:58 ↗ um kind of was about what what

1:58:01 ↗ businesses

1:58:03 ↗ um

1:58:04 ↗ you know people want to see um kind of

1:58:06 ↗ be attracted it struck me as an is odd

1:58:10 ↗ what one of the categories there was

1:58:12 ↗ like a retail category and a restaurant

1:58:15 ↗ category and

1:58:16 ↗ arts culture entertainment category in

1:58:19 ↗ an outdoor recreation category and it

1:58:21 ↗ struck me as um

1:58:23 ↗ as odd that there wasn't anything

1:58:25 ↗ similar for indoor or like indoor

1:58:27 ↗ recreation if there was outdoor

1:58:29 ↗ recreation um

1:58:31 ↗ and so

1:58:32 ↗ i i i provide my feedback to the um

1:58:36 ↗ person who's doing the

1:58:37 ↗ um who did that survey

1:58:40 ↗ um i was kind of disappointed because i

1:58:42 ↗ think that from our perspective

1:58:45 ↗ it's really important for us to know

1:58:47 ↗ what

1:58:49 ↗ recreational kind of

1:58:51 ↗ opportunities people are looking for

1:58:53 ↗ other than parks and recreation

1:58:55 ↗ you know other than like um you know

1:58:57 ↗ fields and the recreational

1:58:59 ↗ opportunities that the park department

1:59:01 ↗ provides like for example what i'm

1:59:03 ↗ thinking of is like

1:59:04 ↗ are the family friendly opportunity um

1:59:08 ↗ like businesses that we don't have in

1:59:10 ↗ issaquah that we have to go elsewhere

1:59:12 ↗ for like bowling

1:59:13 ↗ like you know um like uh topgolf just is

1:59:18 ↗ going into redmond around renton um

1:59:21 ↗ uh laser tag that you know those types

1:59:24 ↗ of activities so anyway i encourage you

1:59:26 ↗ to do the survey and

1:59:28 ↗ um get your feedback as well and you

1:59:31 ↗ know i'm hoping that in the future

1:59:33 ↗ that that department will be thinking

1:59:35 ↗ about those types of things um

1:59:37 ↗ because those are the places where we

1:59:39 ↗ have opportunities in the future for

1:59:40 ↗ maybe public private partnerships or

1:59:43 ↗ you know

1:59:44 ↗ um

1:59:45 ↗ what not so anyway just wanted to bring

1:59:48 ↗ that

1:59:48 ↗ good point diane uh daniel

1:59:50 ↗ and danielle if i could give a shout out

1:59:52 ↗ to kudos to you thanks for bringing that

1:59:54 ↗ up and you know jen davis hayes and the

1:59:56 ↗ economic development team put that

1:59:58 ↗ survey together and i know

2:00:00 ↗ i know she'll take that feedback to

2:00:02 ↗ heart that's that's really good feedback

2:00:04 ↗ you know i think it was just a myth but

2:00:06 ↗ um

2:00:07 ↗ it

2:00:08 ↗ shows us why it's so important to have

2:00:10 ↗ these other groups come and talk to us

2:00:12 ↗ so that we can give our feedback as well

2:00:14 ↗ um because it's a real in my mind it's a

2:00:16 ↗ huge myth um because it would have just

2:00:19 ↗ it would have been so informative and

2:00:21 ↗ such good information for us we

2:00:23 ↗ struggled with that with that indoor

2:00:24 ↗ tennis facility

2:00:26 ↗ um

2:00:28 ↗ public private partnership issue you

2:00:30 ↗ know a number of years back and

2:00:32 ↗ um

2:00:34 ↗ you know so anyway give your feedback on

2:00:36 ↗ the survey

2:00:37 ↗ good good

2:00:40 ↗ anything else from anybody

2:00:43 ↗ if not have a great holiday everybody

2:00:46 ↗ and we'll see you in january and jeff

2:00:47 ↗ i'll see you sooner maybe actually you

2:00:49 ↗ and zach and i should maybe still meet

2:00:52 ↗ in december if

2:00:53 ↗ we'll i'll leave that up to you

2:00:55 ↗ absolutely yeah let's meet okay good

2:00:58 ↗ thanks everybody thanks everyone have a

2:01:00 ↗ great day

2:01:01 ↗ have a good evening

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Chris Kovac

Ruben Nieto

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Allen Quynn

Gary Schimek

Jeff Watling

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Matt Ellis

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