Park Board · Monday, July 25, 2022 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of June 27, 2022

packet pp.3–4

▶ Watch from 2:05 Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 06-27-22 Park Board Minutes Page 1

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Welcoming New Board Members

Director · 10 min · Jeff Watling, Parks & Community Services · packet pp.5–18

Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

Open Government Training JULY 25, 2022 | PARK BOARD

Open Government Training

Information · 20 min · Tisha Gieser, City Clerk · packet pp.19–34

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Staff report:

REGULAR BUSINESS c) JEFF WATLING, PARKS & COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR

Capital Investment Strategy

Director · 60 min · Jeff Watling, Parks & Community Services

5. REPORTS

Chair's Report

Youth Representative's Report

Director's Report

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0:02 ↗ all right so

0:03 ↗ uh calling to order the parks board

0:05 ↗ meeting for july 25th 2022

0:10 ↗ i would like to start things off by

0:12 ↗ going through a roll call

0:14 ↗ so when i call your name please unmute

0:16 ↗ yourself and state your

0:18 ↗ presence

0:20 ↗ so

0:21 ↗ we'll start with andrew e

0:30 ↗ okay

0:31 ↗ chris

0:34 ↗ andrew is here he's just trying to

0:35 ↗ reconnect i just wanted to make that

0:37 ↗ comment

0:39 ↗ and actually

0:44 ↗ um trying to test if

0:46 ↗ people can hear me okay

0:50 ↗ all right uh chris

0:55 ↗ right marlene

1:11 ↗ present

1:12 ↗ tim

1:16 ↗ andrew m

1:25 ↗ um danielle i believe has uh

1:28 ↗ excuse absence and brad

1:30 ↗ i'm here

1:32 ↗ great okay

1:34 ↗ so moving forward uh would like to

1:38 ↗ see uh if anybody has any questions

1:40 ↗ comments corrections with regards to

1:43 ↗ the minutes from the june 27

1:45 ↗ 2022 meeting

1:50 ↗ all right not seeing any concerns does

1:53 ↗ anyone have an objection to the approval

1:55 ↗ of the minutes from the june 27th

1:58 ↗ meeting

2:02 ↗ right

2:03 ↗ not seeing any objections so i hereby

2:05 ↗ approve the minutes from june 27th 2022

2:09 ↗ thank you

2:11 ↗ i just wanted to quickly review the

2:13 ↗ agenda items for

2:16 ↗ today's meeting

2:18 ↗ first we'll be going through

2:20 ↗ introductions of the new board members

2:22 ↗ and also

2:23 ↗ a little bit about the legacy positions

2:27 ↗ um then moving on to open government uh

2:30 ↗ training

2:31 ↗ presentation and uh then capital

2:34 ↗ investment strategy and uh with that i

2:37 ↗ will turn it over to

2:39 ↗ jeff i believe with the

2:41 ↗ uh introductions of the new members

2:45 ↗ that's great zach happy to have you to

2:47 ↗ do it also joining us as uh mayor mary

2:50 ↗ lou paulie so glad to have you here

2:51 ↗ mayor i just want to take the

2:53 ↗ opportunity uh after we do our welcome

2:55 ↗ introductions uh for the mayor to share

2:57 ↗ a few words well

2:59 ↗ um how exciting i i mentioned earlier um

3:02 ↗ we've got a few more a few more squares

3:04 ↗ on our on our screen here than we've had

3:06 ↗ before um

3:08 ↗ i certainly want to take the chance to

3:10 ↗ welcome david andrew andrew and nicholas

3:14 ↗ i joked with them on an email earlier it

3:16 ↗ sounds like a bit of a law firm

3:19 ↗ but it's not

3:20 ↗ but i thought it would be fun for all of

3:22 ↗ us to just go around

3:25 ↗ introduce ourselves

3:27 ↗ share how long you've

3:29 ↗ lived in issaquah or served on the park

3:31 ↗ board

3:32 ↗ and given the heat that's coming it's

3:34 ↗ fun to have a little icebreaker so think

3:36 ↗ about this for a second your favorite

3:38 ↗ please share your favorite

3:40 ↗ popsicle flavor

3:43 ↗ so

3:44 ↗ i'll kick this off and then i'll pass

3:46 ↗ the baton so jeff watling uh parks and

3:48 ↗ community services director here with

3:50 ↗ the city of issaquah uh certainly have

3:52 ↗ enjoyed this role and serving issaquah

3:54 ↗ for it'll be six years on august

3:57 ↗ the 1st so time certainly flies my

4:01 ↗ favorite popsicle flavor a hands down

4:04 ↗ classic twin pop banana

4:07 ↗ flavor i don't know that it really

4:09 ↗ tastes like a real banana but that

4:10 ↗ artificial banana flavor

4:13 ↗ still gets me

4:14 ↗ to this day

4:17 ↗ so i'm going to go around my screen and

4:19 ↗ i'll try and hit everybody so next up on

4:21 ↗ my screen is andrew e

4:25 ↗ hello everyone i am very excited and it

4:29 ↗ is a pleasure to

4:31 ↗ join the park board

4:33 ↗ i lived in issaquah since 2019

4:37 ↗ and um

4:39 ↗ i

4:40 ↗ live close to the hatchery so i'm a big

4:43 ↗ fan of

4:44 ↗ enjoying

4:45 ↗ uh parks and

4:47 ↗ the nature

4:49 ↗ as far as

4:50 ↗ my favorite popsicle flavor i think i

4:52 ↗ would go with

4:54 ↗ papaya because it reminds me of my home

4:58 ↗ country the philippines

5:01 ↗ fantastic andrew welcome

5:03 ↗ [Music]

5:04 ↗ uh brad

5:07 ↗ good evening everyone and a special good

5:09 ↗ evening to all the new members here

5:11 ↗ really great to see everybody

5:13 ↗ i'm brad book i've been on the park

5:15 ↗ board now for just over 10 years

5:18 ↗ i was the previous chair for six years

5:21 ↗ and so i'm really glad to see zach now

5:24 ↗ on board

5:26 ↗ uh i've lived on squawk mountain now for

5:29 ↗ 38 years um i'll see if anybody can beat

5:32 ↗ that one

5:33 ↗ and

5:34 ↗ boy you know popsicles i haven't had one

5:37 ↗ for over 10 years i don't know if the

5:39 ↗ park board had anything to do with that

5:40 ↗ or not but um

5:42 ↗ i guess as memory strikes me raspberry

5:44 ↗ was my favorite

5:48 ↗ nice thanks brad

5:50 ↗ brenda

5:57 ↗ i think you're still muted brenda

6:02 ↗ and i said such important things

6:06 ↗ um

6:07 ↗ glad to meet all of you uh this is my

6:09 ↗ first year as a full-fledged park member

6:12 ↗ i uh

6:14 ↗ enjoyed last year immensely learning

6:15 ↗ about the park board and so i'm now real

6:18 ↗ glad to be a full-fledged part of it

6:21 ↗ i've lived in issachar for 20 years i

6:23 ↗ raised my grandchildren

6:25 ↗ raised in my babysitter and had them

6:27 ↗ full time not full-time but when they

6:29 ↗ weren't in school and went to all the

6:30 ↗ parks

6:31 ↗ for all of those 20 years they're now

6:33 ↗ grown

6:34 ↗ and my favorite um

6:36 ↗ popsicles probably raspberry too

6:42 ↗ fruit is definitely winning the day here

6:45 ↗ katie

6:50 ↗ hi i'm i'm katie i live in talus um

6:54 ↗ since 2003

6:56 ↗ um i

6:57 ↗ this is my first year serving as a new

6:59 ↗ board member

7:01 ↗ and um i'm not crazy about popsicles but

7:04 ↗ i love ice cream so soft ice cream

7:07 ↗ vanilla chocolate

7:09 ↗ and that's kind of my

7:11 ↗ favorite things to do in the summer

7:15 ↗ brilliant

7:16 ↗ great katie thanks david

7:19 ↗ welcome

7:21 ↗ thank you um my name is david liu i've

7:24 ↗ been serving on the parks board for 10

7:25 ↗ minutes

7:26 ↗ and i've lived here in nisswa for about

7:29 ↗ five years i have a four and a half year

7:32 ↗ old daughter as well as a ten year old

7:34 ↗ rescue

7:35 ↗ um

7:36 ↗ favorite popsicle i wouldn't say it's a

7:38 ↗ flavor but maybe the rocket popsicles

7:40 ↗ the red white and blue ones if you guys

7:42 ↗ remember that that was like a big thing

7:43 ↗ when i was growing up so that i guess

7:45 ↗ would be my favorite

7:47 ↗ welcome david i can hear the ice ice

7:50 ↗ cream truck coming down the coming down

7:52 ↗ the street

7:54 ↗ there he goes

7:56 ↗ chris

7:59 ↗ hi everyone i'm kris kovac i've lived in

8:03 ↗ issaquah since 2000

8:06 ↗ my wife and i raised two sons here

8:08 ↗ they're both off in college now went

8:10 ↗ through all the sports programs

8:12 ↗ and we live on squawk mountain

8:15 ↗ hike it all the time

8:16 ↗ [Music]

8:18 ↗ i haven't had popsicle in decades

8:20 ↗ but

8:22 ↗ just came in from working on the deck

8:23 ↗ that's why i looked like this and picked

8:25 ↗ wrong weekend to work week to work on

8:27 ↗ the deck so i could really use a

8:28 ↗ popsicle probably citrus flavor of some

8:31 ↗ sort

8:32 ↗ lemon lime orange

8:36 ↗ classics

8:38 ↗ andrew myers welcome

8:41 ↗ thank you yes uh my name is andrew and

8:45 ↗ i'm a new excuse me alternate park board

8:48 ↗ member which still still learning

8:50 ↗ exactly what that means

8:51 ↗ but uh happy to be here and

8:54 ↗ i

8:55 ↗ uh

8:56 ↗ moved out

8:57 ↗ to issaquah with my family

8:59 ↗ uh back in 88 when i was in elementary

9:01 ↗ school and it was actually to some amish

9:04 ↗ now but it was just a while back then at

9:05 ↗ least our address

9:07 ↗ and uh

9:08 ↗ grew up uh in town and then

9:11 ↗ moved back with my family

9:14 ↗ in

9:15 ↗ 2016 i guess it was

9:17 ↗ and living

9:19 ↗ in downtown nassau with four kids that

9:21 ↗ run around and terrorize their

9:23 ↗ neighborhood

9:24 ↗ um

9:25 ↗ and so i we have a lot of popsicles

9:26 ↗ around the house my go-to would be root

9:28 ↗ beer

9:32 ↗ excellent welcome andrew

9:35 ↗ we're going to introduce some staff as

9:37 ↗ well you're not exempt so jen fink

9:43 ↗ hi everyone uh jennifer fink park

9:45 ↗ planner and project administrator i too

9:48 ↗ lived in uh what used to be issaquah an

9:51 ↗ incorporated

9:53 ↗ king county area now technically

9:55 ↗ sammamish i've been in the area for

9:57 ↗ 15 years and have worked here

10:00 ↗ in this roles park planner i'll be

10:02 ↗ starting my ninth year in august

10:05 ↗ so um

10:07 ↗ look forward to seeing you and since

10:08 ↗ jeff mentioned the

10:10 ↗ um

10:11 ↗ ice cream truck cruising around i'm

10:13 ↗ gonna have to say my favorite to get

10:15 ↗ from that was the

10:16 ↗ orange dreamsicle or the um strawberry

10:20 ↗ shortcake uh

10:21 ↗ one that was the one i always had to

10:23 ↗ find the extra order for

10:27 ↗ well played

10:29 ↗ marlene

10:33 ↗ hi i'm marlene waxy i've lived in

10:35 ↗ issaquah since 2016. i live on spock

10:39 ↗ mountain i've been part of the park

10:41 ↗ board since 2019 first as an alternate

10:45 ↗ and then regular member

10:47 ↗ uh i'm with jennifer as well i think the

10:49 ↗ push pop you know that comes in the uh

10:52 ↗ it's like orange or dream school where

10:53 ↗ you like push it up and it's like paper

10:55 ↗ looks like a paper toilet paper tube and

10:56 ↗ you push it up like i think that's a

10:57 ↗ classic

10:58 ↗ uh summer one so i think i'm gonna stick

11:00 ↗ with with dreams to go

11:04 ↗ nice marlene i'm also dying to know uh

11:06 ↗ how did sequoia little league do

11:09 ↗ they took second place in state

11:11 ↗ so they had a

11:13 ↗ great run

11:16 ↗ that's awesome congrats

11:18 ↗ yeah thanks mayor paulie you're next

11:22 ↗ oh not fair

11:24 ↗ uh

11:27 ↗ am i next and last or next

11:30 ↗ okay next

11:32 ↗ next maybe for intros do you want to

11:33 ↗ wait no that's fine that's fine um it it

11:37 ↗ gets you out of order if i do that so my

11:40 ↗ husband who is lurking around in the

11:41 ↗ background is the popsicle person not me

11:44 ↗ so he wanted me to tell you that he

11:46 ↗ would pick for me

11:48 ↗ a rainbow popsicle except i like

11:51 ↗ something called a fudgsicle and i don't

11:53 ↗ know if that's me being canadian or

11:55 ↗ vegetables or vegetables are down here

11:58 ↗ too but it's that chocolatey one

12:01 ↗ oh they're very much a thing delicious

12:05 ↗ monica

12:08 ↗ thank you jeff good evening everyone my

12:10 ↗ name is monica grilla i'm the human

12:12 ↗ services manager here in our parks and

12:14 ↗ community services department

12:17 ↗ and i have to admit i

12:19 ↗ was born in romania and for the longest

12:21 ↗ time after i moved to the states i

12:23 ↗ really did not make i could not

12:26 ↗ tell the difference between icicle

12:28 ↗ popsicle ice cream for me it was all

12:31 ↗ just ice cream

12:32 ↗ so um

12:34 ↗ with that i'm always looking for

12:36 ↗ anything coconut so i love love

12:39 ↗ coconut ice cream popsicles you name

12:42 ↗ them i just love them so

12:45 ↗ thank you

12:47 ↗ that's great monica thanks nicholas

12:49 ↗ welcome

12:52 ↗ i thank you uh nicholas leah this is my

12:54 ↗ first day on the park sport as well so

12:56 ↗ glad to be here this is my second parks

12:59 ↗ board

13:00 ↗ to serve on this i was a i worked for

13:02 ↗ the parks and trails commission in the

13:03 ↗ city of redmond for four years uh so i

13:05 ↗ have some limited experience on how you

13:07 ↗ can uh you know try to keep it keep the

13:09 ↗ town green while it grows up fast and

13:11 ↗ that's uh that's tough to do so i grew

13:14 ↗ up uh in the shadow squawk mountain but

13:15 ↗ i live now on squawk mountain which is

13:17 ↗ nice i moved to the other side of the

13:19 ↗ hill and

13:20 ↗ i'm in town and

13:21 ↗ i've been here since 2016 just now with

13:24 ↗ the kids and

13:25 ↗ um and my wife and uh to be honest today

13:28 ↗ our last sunday we also um

13:31 ↗ moved in a family of ukrainian refugees

13:34 ↗ and so now we have

13:36 ↗ four adults in our house and three kids

13:38 ↗ and they're all uh earlier today we're

13:40 ↗ out enjoying uh the

13:42 ↗ space between confluence and the blue

13:44 ↗ door park as we walked around and it is

13:46 ↗ hot out there so you're right about that

13:49 ↗ um my all the popsicles i've heard about

13:51 ↗ are all delicious sounding i want all of

13:53 ↗ them i also need to spend a ton more

13:55 ↗ time working on my deck because chris

13:57 ↗ you look great

13:59 ↗ whatever you're doing don't quit

14:01 ↗ but i was thinking uh

14:04 ↗ cranberry confluence which is a flavor i

14:05 ↗ just made up

14:08 ↗ another popsicle that exists i don't

14:09 ↗ think thanks jeff happy to be here

14:13 ↗ well done nicholas thank you for that

14:16 ↗ welcome again tim

14:23 ↗ hi everyone my name is tim motley i live

14:26 ↗ on squawk mountain we've been here for

14:28 ↗ about four and a half years enjoy

14:30 ↗ roaming all the trails with some

14:32 ↗ regularity

14:33 ↗ been on the parks board for a few months

14:36 ↗ and i'm glad no one has mentioned cherry

14:38 ↗ popsicles because that way i don't have

14:40 ↗ to fight you for them because the only

14:41 ↗ reason they eat any other flavors if

14:43 ↗ there's no cherry left

14:45 ↗ so

14:47 ↗ i'll bow out thank you

14:51 ↗ that's good to know we're not competing

14:53 ↗ tim

14:55 ↗ it's great tisha city clerk joining us

14:58 ↗ tonight

15:00 ↗ hi everybody um my name is tisha geezer

15:03 ↗ and as jeff said i'm the city clerk i've

15:05 ↗ been working um for issaquah for about

15:07 ↗ six years

15:09 ↗ um and mayor i'm with you it's the

15:11 ↗ fudgesicle my favorite i'm a chocolate

15:13 ↗ lover

15:19 ↗ all right if i am counting correctly

15:22 ↗ we're now down to zack

15:25 ↗ yes uh my name is zach i've been uh with

15:28 ↗ the parks board this is my second uh

15:30 ↗ second year

15:31 ↗ um i lived in issaquah from uh 2018

15:35 ↗ until this year

15:36 ↗ just moved down the road a little bit to

15:38 ↗ ravensdale uh but i still work in at

15:41 ↗ issaquah nursing in rehab uh

15:44 ↗ physical therapist there

15:45 ↗ and i still

15:47 ↗ uh run tiger and squawk most days of the

15:49 ↗ week so i'm still in issaquah quite

15:52 ↗ often

15:55 ↗ and the popsicle i would have to say i

15:57 ↗ agree with uh

15:58 ↗ with katie

15:59 ↗ i prefer ice cream but

16:02 ↗ i guess if i had to pick a popsicle

16:03 ↗ flavor i'd go with pineapple

16:12 ↗ yes this is uh bella the blue-headed

16:14 ↗ pioneers

16:16 ↗ and uh it's getting close to her bedtime

16:18 ↗ but i guess she

16:20 ↗ she may stay up for a little bit longer

16:22 ↗ this evening

16:26 ↗ well thank you everybody for that and

16:28 ↗ again welcome to our new members um

16:30 ↗ appreciate taking the time and doing

16:32 ↗ that um

16:34 ↗ you know we have a lot of new faces here

16:37 ↗ with the park board so um i i know as

16:40 ↗ we've been meeting in the virtual world

16:42 ↗ someday we will be able to come together

16:44 ↗ and meet again but uh just a great

16:45 ↗ opportunity to to get to know each other

16:48 ↗ a little bit

16:49 ↗ again as new members

16:51 ↗ i hope what you find here with the park

16:52 ↗ board is we

16:54 ↗ we do really important work and do great

16:56 ↗ work but um

16:58 ↗ we also not

17:00 ↗ don't try and turn this into such a

17:02 ↗ formal environment

17:03 ↗ it's really intended to be as advisory

17:07 ↗ a safe place for you to give feedback

17:10 ↗ you really are a reflection and a

17:12 ↗ representation of the community in

17:14 ↗ issaquah as

17:16 ↗ we navigate um

17:18 ↗ capital investments and and other uh

17:21 ↗ parks and recreation parks and community

17:22 ↗ services investments so um i just uh

17:25 ↗ thank you so much for your time

17:28 ↗ um in service um as we as we head into

17:30 ↗ this with so many new faces

17:33 ↗ i do want to point out with

17:35 ↗ these recent appointments uh that brad

17:38 ↗ book um and danielle both remain on

17:42 ↗ danielle's not able to

17:45 ↗ join us tonight

17:46 ↗ uh but they've transitioned to

17:49 ↗ um one of the new well alternate

17:52 ↗ positions uh though um as we've

17:54 ↗ identified them as legacy positions

17:58 ↗ and just so appreciate brad your

18:00 ↗ continued work in that role um danielle

18:03 ↗ her work in that role um

18:05 ↗ the perspectives that you both provide

18:07 ↗ and your experience and and also being

18:09 ↗ the two past chairs

18:11 ↗ um is really invaluable um and so um i

18:15 ↗ just

18:16 ↗ um for my part want to want to say thank

18:18 ↗ you and hats off for all of your service

18:21 ↗ you're going to be around with us for a

18:23 ↗ while as in these legacy positions so

18:25 ↗ we're not saying goodbye yet

18:27 ↗ so we'll save the

18:28 ↗ the goodbyes for later but um really

18:31 ↗ appreciate

18:32 ↗ appreciate you all sticking around

18:35 ↗ so with that though not on the agenda i

18:37 ↗ apologize for that mayor um what a great

18:39 ↗ time for you to share a few words you

18:41 ↗ know later on tonight we're going to be

18:43 ↗ talking about the community investment

18:45 ↗ strategy

18:46 ↗ and this is really going to be a

18:48 ↗ multi-month effort that we're going to

18:50 ↗ be taking on but

18:52 ↗ what better to have the mayor come and

18:54 ↗ and share some of her perspective and

18:57 ↗ and her

18:58 ↗ um

18:59 ↗ her views in uh in that important work

19:01 ↗ so mayor take it away

19:04 ↗ thank you jeff yes today i was not sure

19:06 ↗ if i'd be able to come or not and it as

19:08 ↗ it turns out i got home earlier than i

19:11 ↗ thought

19:12 ↗ uh so my name is mary lou and i lived up

19:14 ↗ on squawk mountain for about 24 years

19:17 ↗ and moved down into old town about five

19:20 ↗ and a half years ago so almost a 30-year

19:23 ↗ resident of town

19:24 ↗ i also served on a board uh as a border

19:28 ↗ commission as well prior to running for

19:30 ↗ council so i was on the development

19:32 ↗ commission for quite a long time and

19:34 ↗ just absolutely fascinated with all

19:36 ↗ things land use in town i serve one term

19:38 ↗ as council and i'm in my first year of

19:41 ↗ my second term as mayor so i'm in my

19:43 ↗ fifth year as mayor so

19:44 ↗ i think i caught all the new ones but

19:47 ↗ welcome nicholas andrew andrew katy

19:50 ↗ david and tim

19:52 ↗ and brenda who i wanted to say welcome

19:54 ↗ to as well just a year is not really all

19:57 ↗ that long of a time so i hope i caught

19:58 ↗ everybody

19:59 ↗ it is very exciting to see all the new

20:02 ↗ faces you know having shared the same

20:04 ↗ experience you have i recognize the

20:06 ↗ sacrifice you make in your personal time

20:08 ↗ to come to these meetings and share your

20:10 ↗ thoughts and ideas on behalf of our

20:13 ↗ community you know they come and visit

20:15 ↗ your meetings and speak out on the

20:16 ↗ things that are important to them

20:18 ↗ but the hundred or so volunteers that

20:20 ↗ work on boards and commissions

20:22 ↗ you are

20:24 ↗ the the biggest community touch that we

20:26 ↗ get because we have a hundred of you

20:29 ↗ advising the administration advising the

20:31 ↗ council on how to do all kinds of things

20:34 ↗ city business

20:35 ↗ so i wanted to thank you for that um i

20:37 ↗ also want to do a little shout out to

20:39 ↗ tisha you know during coven we moved to

20:41 ↗ this e-meeting format and i will tell

20:43 ↗ you it's a bear

20:45 ↗ it's a it's served its purpose and we

20:48 ↗ still get to meet and do our work but to

20:51 ↗ manage these e-meetings is really

20:54 ↗ a skill set that was uh desperately

20:56 ↗ needed we moved into covet and tisha has

20:58 ↗ stepped up as we move into hybrid it's

21:01 ↗ still the same hybrids are going to be a

21:03 ↗ bear as well so

21:04 ↗ i'm glad we're moving back into

21:06 ↗ in-person meetings but we'll always have

21:07 ↗ this remote component going forward

21:09 ↗ because it's been so successful in

21:11 ↗ getting us all to still be able to talk

21:13 ↗ and so we're we've seen uh more

21:16 ↗ individuals comfortable doing remote

21:18 ↗ formats so we're gonna push forward with

21:20 ↗ the hybrid and evaluate as we go we're a

21:22 ↗ city that likes to pivot we're a city

21:24 ↗ that likes to pilot

21:26 ↗ so tell us what you like tell us what

21:27 ↗ you don't like we'll do our best and

21:30 ↗ then the last thing i want to talk about

21:31 ↗ was what jeff had introduced which is

21:33 ↗ the capital financing strategy i put

21:36 ↗ together a task force and your board is

21:38 ↗ lucky enough to have somebody who served

21:40 ↗ on that task force brad

21:42 ↗ participated in approximately maybe six

21:46 ↗ months worth of meetings to look at

21:48 ↗ city revenues city financing tools and

21:51 ↗ to address something that has been a

21:54 ↗ shortage not just in our city but many

21:56 ↗ cities it's how we invest in capital

21:58 ↗ projects

21:59 ↗ most cities now do not have the kind of

22:02 ↗ revenue coming in that they can keep up

22:04 ↗ with the demands of the community

22:07 ↗ and good demands to make our city city

22:09 ↗ livable and enjoyable and high quality

22:12 ↗ of life

22:13 ↗ so there are tools out there that we're

22:15 ↗ currently not using there are some

22:16 ↗ changes we can make to current

22:18 ↗ strategies we have on fiscal policy and

22:20 ↗ brad sat at the table with a great

22:22 ↗ cross-section from our community

22:24 ↗ past council member to current council

22:26 ↗ members and talk through them

22:29 ↗ one of the areas i gave them to look at

22:32 ↗ is we have received two

22:34 ↗ tranches of federal funding during covid

22:37 ↗ we got the cares act dollars first which

22:39 ↗ were mostly used monica is responsible

22:42 ↗ for allocating most of that to different

22:45 ↗ human services needs that we had early

22:47 ↗ on in the pandemic

22:48 ↗ and the second tranche the

22:51 ↗ arpa our american recovery plan act

22:54 ↗ funds um an amount of 11 million dollars

22:57 ↗ was partialed up par parceled out such

23:01 ↗ that

23:01 ↗ about two to two million was spent again

23:05 ↗ on

23:06 ↗ human services or other coveted costs

23:09 ↗ that we have but it left a nine million

23:11 ↗ dollar bucket of money that

23:14 ↗ the

23:14 ↗ capital financing task force could also

23:16 ↗ talk about what to do and their

23:19 ↗ recommendations to the council

23:21 ↗ were received about

23:23 ↗ who i'm going to say maybe in may

23:26 ↗ and then the administration made a

23:27 ↗ formal proposal to council about a month

23:30 ↗ ago which the council accepted

23:33 ↗ and

23:35 ↗ we had an assignment in there for the

23:37 ↗ parks board which was to

23:40 ↗ find an investment that we can make in

23:42 ↗ our parks system

23:44 ↗ uh for a certain dollar value and

23:46 ↗ deficit four million five million four

23:50 ↗ million four million dollars so

23:52 ↗ um that's a a significant amount of

23:54 ↗ money but not enough money for a whole

23:56 ↗ new park but certainly enough money to

23:57 ↗ make a difference on something to give

23:59 ↗ the community

24:00 ↗ some upgrader improvement in one of our

24:03 ↗ older parks one of our existing parks in

24:05 ↗ an existing neighborhood

24:07 ↗ um so that's an exciting challenge when

24:10 ↗ the council talked about it they also

24:11 ↗ decided that they wanted to have

24:13 ↗ confluence park thrown in there as well

24:15 ↗ one of our newer parks

24:18 ↗ built in phases but not yet complete so

24:20 ↗ that got added to the list and they

24:22 ↗ actually grew the task that i gave you a

24:24 ↗ little bit so

24:25 ↗ jeff will go through with you

24:28 ↗ what the council's ask of you is but i'm

24:31 ↗ very sure that you are all up for the

24:33 ↗ challenge whatever you come up with will

24:35 ↗ be included in our budget we have a

24:37 ↗ short period of time to spend this

24:39 ↗ funding compared to other funding

24:41 ↗ and we want to do something impactful we

24:44 ↗ want to do something joyful we want

24:46 ↗ something that the community can touch

24:48 ↗ and see and play in that makes them feel

24:52 ↗ good so we we're looking for an

24:53 ↗ investment so jeff thank you for giving

24:56 ↗ me a couple of minutes and i'm really

24:58 ↗ excited to see how much the park board

25:01 ↗ has grown this is really fantastic

25:03 ↗ nicely done

25:06 ↗ thanks so much for that mayor and um

25:09 ↗ yeah board members as we dive into the

25:11 ↗ presentation uh following our next item

25:15 ↗ that tisha will cover

25:17 ↗ um yeah this is not gonna be a one touch

25:20 ↗ conversation tonight this is gonna be a

25:22 ↗ couple of months uh so as we really dive

25:24 ↗ in tonight um around

25:27 ↗ the criteria and do we have the

25:30 ↗ sort of the evaluation

25:32 ↗ um

25:33 ↗ matrix uh figured out well enough um and

25:36 ↗ and getting some ideas around

25:39 ↗ um ideas you might all have for project

25:41 ↗ is what projects as well will really

25:43 ↗ help us to frame up a bulk of the work

25:46 ↗ as we head into august and september so

25:49 ↗ mayor thank you again so much for

25:52 ↗ for joining us tonight

25:55 ↗ with that zach i think we're ready for

25:56 ↗ the the first item

25:59 ↗ all right uh so moving on to the uh open

26:02 ↗ government training

26:04 ↗ um

26:05 ↗ czech league tisha that

26:08 ↗ is uh giving that presentation

26:10 ↗ yes that's tisha

26:14 ↗ i sure am thank you zack um let me get

26:17 ↗ this powerpoint up for you here

26:25 ↗ get started

26:30 ↗ okay

26:33 ↗ all right i think you're able to see my

26:35 ↗ screen here

26:38 ↗ yes okay

26:39 ↗ great well it was um it's so nice to to

26:42 ↗ see you all some familiar faces and lots

26:44 ↗ of new faces and as the mayor iterated

26:47 ↗ um we're so uh grateful for your time

26:50 ↗ and your um intellect and perspective

26:53 ↗ that you're um contributing towards this

26:55 ↗ important work so what i have to talk to

26:58 ↗ you about tonight is some housekeeping

27:00 ↗ stuff some stuff we want you to be aware

27:02 ↗ of as uh city volunteers and so um bear

27:06 ↗ with me as i go through about 15 minutes

27:08 ↗ of content here and for those of you

27:10 ↗ who've been on the board before some of

27:11 ↗ this will be familiar this is this open

27:14 ↗ government training is training we

27:15 ↗ provide to all of our boarding

27:17 ↗ commissions annually

27:20 ↗ so let me get started

27:24 ↗ all right so i want to talk to you about

27:27 ↗ two washington state laws that are both

27:29 ↗ focused on transparency in government

27:31 ↗ and so these are the open public

27:33 ↗ meetings act and the public records act

27:35 ↗ and the idea behind both of these laws

27:37 ↗ is that the public should have access to

27:40 ↗ decisions that are being made documents

27:42 ↗ that are being

27:43 ↗ generated um

27:46 ↗ because the government is serving the

27:47 ↗ people and so as members of a city board

27:50 ↗ um you have some responsibilities under

27:53 ↗ these acts that we want to make sure

27:55 ↗ that you're aware of going forward

28:01 ↗ all right so

28:03 ↗ the first uh

28:05 ↗ thing i want to go over is you know why

28:06 ↗ we provide this training so um we want

28:09 ↗ to increase your knowledge we want to

28:11 ↗ reduce our legal risk because there are

28:13 ↗ some penalties for violating these state

28:15 ↗ laws

28:16 ↗ we also want i want you to be informed

28:19 ↗ and comfortable in your role and i'll

28:21 ↗ provide this brief training tonight if

28:23 ↗ you have questions on any of these

28:24 ↗ topics moving forward because i know

28:26 ↗ you're taking in a lot of information

28:28 ↗ tonight you are more than welcome to

28:29 ↗ reach out to myself or to jeff and we

28:32 ↗ can talk to you more or help you address

28:33 ↗ any questions that may come up in the

28:35 ↗ future

28:37 ↗ i'm going to move my screen a little bit

28:39 ↗ here so i can see it a little more

28:42 ↗ all right

28:43 ↗ oh okay

28:45 ↗ all right so um first let's talk about

28:47 ↗ the open public meetings act so the idea

28:49 ↗ behind this act is that the public

28:51 ↗ should um be able to access decisions

28:54 ↗ being made um in their government so

28:56 ↗ what this means for meetings of the park

28:59 ↗ board

29:00 ↗ is that you need to have an open door so

29:02 ↗ um when you resume in-person meetings uh

29:05 ↗ next month and we'll talk about that i'm

29:06 ↗ sorry in september we'll talk about that

29:08 ↗ a little more we're going to ensure

29:09 ↗ you're in a meeting space that is open

29:11 ↗ so anyone can walk in at any point and

29:13 ↗ hear your discussion and deliberations

29:15 ↗ we also post an agenda in advance on our

29:18 ↗ city website um we also in this virtual

29:21 ↗ format we publish the meeting link and

29:23 ↗ the phone number so anyone from the

29:25 ↗ public can participate in your meetings

29:26 ↗ make public comments or just observe

29:28 ↗ your decisions being made

29:32 ↗ so you have

29:34 ↗ regular meetings they're held on the

29:35 ↗ fourth monday of the month at 7 00 pm

29:38 ↗ starting in september your meetings will

29:40 ↗ transition to a physical location which

29:42 ↗ will be the steelhead room and i have a

29:45 ↗ picture of it shortly here i will

29:47 ↗ provide you the address but it is sort

29:49 ↗ of on the city's campus near the

29:51 ↗ community center it's directly next to

29:53 ↗ the garage teen cafe

29:56 ↗ right downtown in issaquah and again

29:58 ↗ we'll provide you more information on

30:00 ↗ the meeting location when that date

30:01 ↗ approaches

30:02 ↗ the point i want to make here is that

30:04 ↗ you will occasionally be asked to meet

30:06 ↗ at a different

30:07 ↗ date time or location maybe there's

30:09 ↗ additional work i know you have a robust

30:11 ↗ work plan ahead of you so we may need to

30:13 ↗ schedule an additional meeting or you

30:14 ↗ may choose to meet jointly with another

30:16 ↗ of the city's boards or commissions and

30:18 ↗ those are considered special meetings

30:19 ↗ we'll let you know of those in advance

30:21 ↗ for scheduling purposes and those

30:23 ↗ meetings are typically restricted to a

30:25 ↗ few specific items on your agenda

30:28 ↗ we have special noticing requirements

30:30 ↗ around those meetings that we city staff

30:32 ↗ will help take care of but just wanting

30:34 ↗ to let you know you have your monthly

30:36 ↗ regular meeting and additional meetings

30:37 ↗ may may come up

30:39 ↗ from time to time it's also possible

30:41 ↗ your meetings will be cancelled if

30:42 ↗ there's a lack of agenda items or

30:44 ↗ trouble getting enough board members

30:47 ↗ present for a particular meeting

30:51 ↗ so as i mentioned under the open public

30:53 ↗ meetings act the important thing or that

30:55 ↗ your meetings are open and accessible

30:58 ↗ we provide minutes and you will approve

31:00 ↗ minutes for all of your meetings we

31:02 ↗ provide advanced notice of the of the

31:04 ↗ content and the topics on your agenda

31:07 ↗ item

31:08 ↗ and we encourage public comment at all

31:10 ↗ meetings and boards and commissions and

31:12 ↗ that's a standing item on your agenda

31:14 ↗ um i should know on your agenda i don't

31:17 ↗ think i have a picture of it here but

31:19 ↗ you'll notice there's some indicators

31:21 ↗ next to your agenda items we put an a

31:23 ↗ next to an agenda item if there's action

31:25 ↗ so if you're being asked to make a

31:26 ↗ motion and vote on a recommendation an i

31:30 ↗ if it's just an informational item like

31:32 ↗ my presentation where you're just

31:34 ↗ listening um and then d

31:36 ↗ for items that we expect uh you to

31:39 ↗ discuss and maybe um deliberate lightly

31:42 ↗ but not make a formal recommendation so

31:44 ↗ you can see those little indicators next

31:46 ↗ to each agenda item and there's a key at

31:48 ↗ the bottom and that can be helpful as

31:49 ↗ you prepare for your meetings

31:53 ↗ um there are occasionally reasons that

31:56 ↗ you can meet

31:57 ↗ in what we call a closed session where

31:59 ↗ basically members of the public aren't

32:00 ↗ able to participate this is very

32:02 ↗ unlikely for the park board but some of

32:04 ↗ our other boards and commissions in our

32:05 ↗ city council

32:07 ↗ occasionally need to enter into one of

32:09 ↗ these closed sessions there's very

32:11 ↗ specific reasons that we have to cite to

32:13 ↗ enter those and i just mentioned it

32:15 ↗ in case it's something you encounter it

32:17 ↗ is allowable but only under really

32:19 ↗ limited conditions that i don't expect

32:22 ↗ to occur here

32:25 ↗ so one thing that's important to talk

32:26 ↗ about under the open public meetings act

32:28 ↗ and that we'd like you to be mindful of

32:30 ↗ is that any time there's a quorum of the

32:33 ↗ park board together it can be considered

32:35 ↗ a meeting so there are nine regular park

32:38 ↗ board seats which means that a quorum of

32:41 ↗ the park board is five members a

32:44 ↗ majority

32:45 ↗ well a majority um so five members this

32:48 ↗ means that anytime five of you are

32:50 ↗ meeting and there's business pertaining

32:53 ↗ to the park board currently or in the

32:55 ↗ future we technically need to notice

32:56 ↗ that as a special meeting where that can

32:58 ↗ come up is if there's some kind of event

33:00 ↗ in issaquah that's not a park board

33:02 ↗ meeting but that pertains to parks uh

33:05 ↗ maybe it's a

33:06 ↗ east side event a regional event or

33:08 ↗ maybe it's just something sponsored by

33:10 ↗ another entity and multiple of you are

33:12 ↗ interested in going we would encourage

33:15 ↗ you to limit the number attending to

33:17 ↗ less than five because if you're

33:19 ↗ together and there's park projects being

33:21 ↗ discussed it could be considered a

33:23 ↗ violation of the open public meetings

33:24 ↗ act so you may come across that if we

33:27 ↗ reach out to you with an event you might

33:28 ↗ be interested in we will be sort of

33:31 ↗ wanting to make sure that maybe two or

33:33 ↗ three of you attend and maybe report

33:35 ↗ back at the next park board meeting and

33:36 ↗ provide some highlights of that event so

33:39 ↗ it's just something to be aware of also

33:41 ↗ if you if you are find yourself

33:42 ↗ attending an event and you see four of

33:45 ↗ your fellow park board members we'd ask

33:46 ↗ you to not congregate and just sort of

33:49 ↗ diffuse diffuse yourself another time

33:52 ↗ when this this is important is an email

33:55 ↗ so

33:56 ↗ the state law says that you don't even

33:58 ↗ just have to be together to violate the

34:00 ↗ open public meetings act but you could

34:02 ↗ have what's called a string meeting and

34:04 ↗ what this could look like is um

34:07 ↗ andrew emails katie about an opinion

34:10 ↗ about a upcoming park board item and

34:12 ↗ then katie emails

34:14 ↗ um

34:15 ↗ uh brad

34:17 ↗ with the thoughts of the other two park

34:19 ↗ board members and brad forwards that

34:20 ↗ email onto someone else and all of a

34:22 ↗ sudden you kind of got this email chain

34:23 ↗ going where you've got the input of

34:25 ↗ multiple park board members that are

34:27 ↗ sort of documented um

34:29 ↗ outside of a meeting we don't want that

34:31 ↗ if you want to email directly with one

34:32 ↗ or two park board members or

34:35 ↗ call them on the phone that's fine but

34:36 ↗ what we don't want is you kind of

34:38 ↗ collecting um ideas or perspectives or

34:42 ↗ opinions from multiple park board

34:44 ↗ members and then sharing that with other

34:45 ↗ park board members so for email we're

34:48 ↗ very cautious with email so um we'd

34:51 ↗ encourage you if you see something or

34:53 ↗ have something of interest to your other

34:54 ↗ park board members rather than emailing

34:56 ↗ them all email jeff and ask jeff to

34:59 ↗ share

35:00 ↗ share your email with others and just

35:02 ↗ kind of use city staff as your filter um

35:06 ↗ for communicating uh

35:09 ↗ so that's what i would encourage you to

35:10 ↗ do again one you know one or two side

35:14 ↗ people involved in a side conversation a

35:16 ↗ phone call and email is fine but we do

35:18 ↗ really want to avoid any anything that

35:20 ↗ could be saved as collective decision

35:22 ↗ making outside of a an open public

35:24 ↗ meeting

35:25 ↗ so

35:26 ↗ that's a lot of information there if you

35:28 ↗ have questions about that let let me

35:30 ↗ know

35:31 ↗ we will do our best to make sure that

35:34 ↗ you know every we're doing everything on

35:36 ↗ our end to ensure compliance but we want

35:37 ↗ you to be aware of a few scenarios that

35:40 ↗ can occur outside of a meeting we want

35:42 ↗ to avoid

35:44 ↗ so uh the mayor and jeff mentioned

35:47 ↗ in-person meetings so we have

35:50 ↗ 13 advisory boards and commissions in

35:52 ↗ the city

35:53 ↗ half of them started in-person meetings

35:55 ↗ in july

35:57 ↗ and the other half of which the park

35:59 ↗ board is one of the boards will be

36:00 ↗ resuming in-person meetings in september

36:03 ↗ we are outfitting we've had a change to

36:05 ↗ our city facilities over the since covet

36:08 ↗ hit we've lost a large city facility

36:10 ↗ where that we are um going to be getting

36:12 ↗ rid of and so we are outfitting a new

36:15 ↗ space it's called the steelhead room

36:16 ↗ there's a picture of the exterior of the

36:18 ↗ building again it's right next to the

36:20 ↗ garage teen cafe and the community

36:21 ↗ center um and there's a meeting room

36:24 ↗ there

36:25 ↗ right next to jeff jeff's office um that

36:28 ↗ meeting room will be equipped with some

36:30 ↗ um hybrid meeting equipment but the

36:33 ↗ expectation is the board members attend

36:36 ↗ in person so what what we will be

36:38 ↗ allowing for um with virtual attendance

36:41 ↗ is members of the public can can listen

36:43 ↗ to your meetings live can make public

36:46 ↗ comment virtually you might occasionally

36:47 ↗ have a presenter a consultant or staff

36:50 ↗ who's presenting to you virtually but um

36:53 ↗ the the city is expecting the boarding

36:55 ↗ commission members attend in person if

36:57 ↗ you are ill if you are traveling um

37:01 ↗ please provide jeff advance notice

37:03 ↗ ideally five days ideally as soon as you

37:06 ↗ know you can't attend a meeting um

37:09 ↗ please email him and let him know you're

37:11 ↗ you are able to attend we do expect

37:12 ↗ attendance maybe a little reduced with

37:14 ↗ these in-person meetings it's been a

37:16 ↗ nice thing about attending virtually

37:18 ↗ right there's a lot of flexibility um so

37:20 ↗ please just uh keep us aware if you

37:23 ↗ aren't able to attend a meeting but uh

37:25 ↗ we very much look forward uh to seeing

37:27 ↗ you in person

37:31 ↗ all right and then i'm gonna move on to

37:33 ↗ the second second state law that i just

37:35 ↗ want to touch on briefly um and that is

37:38 ↗ actually this slide is still about the

37:40 ↗ open public meetings act this slide is

37:42 ↗ just letting you know there are some

37:43 ↗ penalties for violations of the open

37:45 ↗ public meetings act that i talked uh to

37:48 ↗ you about earlier which is exactly why

37:50 ↗ we provide this training

37:52 ↗ uh

37:54 ↗ and i have one but one more thing to

37:55 ↗ mention before we move on to records

37:57 ↗ which is the code of ethics form and

37:59 ↗ i've been seeing um these forms be

38:01 ↗ submitted if you're new to the park

38:02 ↗ board

38:03 ↗ you should have received an email from

38:05 ↗ the mayor's chief of staff tina eggers

38:07 ↗ and she included a link there's also the

38:10 ↗ web address is here on this slide but we

38:12 ↗ do have an ethics policy that you as

38:15 ↗ volunteers

38:16 ↗ we appreciate you reading through it

38:18 ↗ talks about conflicts of interest it

38:20 ↗ talks about not receiving gifts or

38:21 ↗ gratuities um if you could read through

38:23 ↗ that and sign an acknowledgement we

38:25 ↗ would greatly appreciate it

38:28 ↗ and it does touch on some of the things

38:29 ↗ i'm talking about tonight all right so

38:32 ↗ that here we go second state law i

38:33 ↗ wanted to mention to you is the public

38:35 ↗ records act so as a local government um

38:38 ↗ we anyone in the world um can reach out

38:41 ↗ to us at any time and provide a request

38:43 ↗ for records of any sort of scope or

38:46 ↗ scale and we um we have to provide those

38:49 ↗ records there's a lot of of regulations

38:51 ↗ about how quickly we have to provide

38:53 ↗ them and how expansive we have to be in

38:55 ↗ in searching for them so this is a big

38:57 ↗ responsibility for local governments and

39:00 ↗ you will encounter some city records in

39:02 ↗ your role on the park board

39:04 ↗ um most all of the records you receive

39:06 ↗ the city we've generated them for you

39:08 ↗ we're sending out your agenda packet you

39:10 ↗ might get emails from from jeff or other

39:12 ↗ city staff those records you don't

39:14 ↗ really have to worry about keeping

39:15 ↗ they're in our city systems

39:17 ↗ don't don't need to worry about them

39:19 ↗ what we do want you to just keep

39:21 ↗ organized are things that you receive

39:23 ↗ that we won't have so that's if you're

39:25 ↗ corresponding with a member of the

39:26 ↗ public in your role as a park board

39:28 ↗ member but a city staff isn't coffee

39:30 ↗ copied on that email you can copy uh

39:33 ↗ jeff on that email and that would be

39:35 ↗ helpful we now have a record it also

39:37 ↗ kind of keeps him informed on you know

39:39 ↗ what communication is happening

39:41 ↗ similarly if you're taking notes

39:44 ↗ if you're a note taker and you're taking

39:45 ↗ notes before or during these park board

39:47 ↗ meetings we don't have those records you

39:50 ↗ can have you have two choices with those

39:51 ↗ records those are considered transitory

39:54 ↗ you can get rid of them after they're

39:56 ↗ useful to you you can put them in the

39:57 ↗ recycle bin i'd encourage you to do that

39:59 ↗ if you'd like to keep them for a

40:00 ↗ duration of time just keep them

40:02 ↗ organized because if somebody reaches

40:04 ↗ out to the city and requests the notes

40:06 ↗ of all of our advisory board members we

40:08 ↗ will reach out to you and we'll say do

40:10 ↗ you have any notes if you do please

40:12 ↗ provide them to us so just keep things

40:14 ↗ organized um as much as possible also

40:17 ↗ routinely get rid of things that aren't

40:19 ↗ you know things like notes that don't

40:20 ↗ have long term value

40:23 ↗ and uh this slide here kind of delves

40:25 ↗ into what i've just been talking to you

40:27 ↗ about so a lot of the things that you

40:28 ↗ might generate are are likely um

40:31 ↗ transitory if you have a document that

40:33 ↗ you create and you're not sure if it's

40:35 ↗ something that we might need or want um

40:37 ↗ just provide it to us and we'll we'll

40:39 ↗ keep it on file

40:41 ↗ um but by and large but we we will be

40:45 ↗ handling the book the bulk of the

40:47 ↗ records you'll be receiving in your role

40:48 ↗ in the park board

40:52 ↗ all right so that was what i wanted to

40:54 ↗ cover tonight um i am available um to

40:58 ↗ answer questions um

41:00 ↗ now or in the future you can reach me at

41:03 ↗ clerks

41:04 ↗ at issaquah.gov

41:06 ↗ jeff can also direct you my way i'm also

41:09 ↗ happy to answer i know many of you are

41:10 ↗ new members if you have sort of

41:12 ↗ procedural or process questions that's

41:14 ↗ another area

41:16 ↗ i'm happy to help with and i will be

41:18 ↗ planning to see you at your september

41:20 ↗ meeting

41:22 ↗ so with that any questions

41:24 ↗ i have a quick question tisha i'm um

41:27 ↗ wondering how much of the which of the

41:29 ↗ quorum aspects and rules apply to

41:31 ↗ alternate members and how that role fits

41:34 ↗ with the whole equation

41:36 ↗ yeah that's a great question andrew so

41:38 ↗ our alternate members we by and large

41:41 ↗ expect to act just as regular members so

41:43 ↗ we expect attendance at all meetings we

41:46 ↗ accept preparing um for the meetings by

41:49 ↗ reviewing the agenda and materials and

41:51 ↗ you absolutely would count towards a

41:53 ↗ quorum so

41:54 ↗ the difference with the alternate

41:55 ↗ members is if um

41:58 ↗ so if we have nine if so the goal uh

42:02 ↗ with the park board which has nine

42:04 ↗ regular members is when it comes time to

42:06 ↗ make a recommendation

42:08 ↗ um

42:09 ↗ like on this park for example that the

42:11 ↗ mayor talked about we want nine nine

42:13 ↗ votes if possible nine people voting so

42:16 ↗ if any one of the regular members is

42:18 ↗ absent then one of the alternate members

42:20 ↗ will be asked to fill in and vote now

42:24 ↗ aside from voting when we're just

42:26 ↗ talking we talked earlier about those

42:29 ↗ action items informational items

42:31 ↗ discussion items

42:32 ↗ alternate members fully participate in

42:35 ↗ discussion items and informational items

42:38 ↗ full participation where it differs as

42:41 ↗ if it's an action item so say it's your

42:42 ↗ last meeting on this community

42:44 ↗ investment strategy and so the board is

42:46 ↗ going to make a formal make up there's

42:47 ↗ going to be a formal motion and vote to

42:49 ↗ sort of formalize the park board's

42:51 ↗ recommendation

42:54 ↗ say there's nine regular members and you

42:56 ↗ are there

42:57 ↗ you would be observing at the point

42:59 ↗ where you would not be the one to make

43:01 ↗ the motion to approve the recommendation

43:03 ↗ and once that formal motion is made and

43:04 ↗ they're deliberating right before the

43:06 ↗ vote that would be a part where the

43:08 ↗ alternate member would not be

43:09 ↗ participating unless there was an absent

43:11 ↗ regular member so it's something helpful

43:14 ↗ at the beginning of the meeting if the

43:15 ↗ chair can kind of help delineate like

43:17 ↗ okay we have two regular members absent

43:19 ↗ so andrew and brad will be serving as

43:21 ↗ regular members tonight that's ideal if

43:23 ↗ you're at a meeting and you don't know

43:25 ↗ if you're serving as a regular member or

43:27 ↗ not pipe up um and ask and then we can

43:30 ↗ help you clarify but i would say

43:32 ↗ probably for eighty eighty percent of

43:34 ↗ your park board meetings it's

43:36 ↗ everyone's kind of gonna be just all

43:38 ↗ together all providing input

43:41 ↗ counting towards a quorum

43:43 ↗ hopefully that helped

43:45 ↗ yep definitely thank you

43:49 ↗ and if i could just add real quick to

43:50 ↗ that tissue well well said you know

43:53 ↗ tonight's agenda is a great example

43:54 ↗ andrew right these are information and

43:56 ↗ discussion items so as we delve into

43:58 ↗ that

43:59 ↗ um

44:01 ↗ whether a regular member or an alternate

44:02 ↗ member you're a voice you're you're

44:04 ↗ lending perspective in in that

44:06 ↗ discussion

44:08 ↗ you know action items when they do come

44:10 ↗ up

44:11 ↗ you will note those in the agenda as

44:13 ↗ you're looking at them even ahead of

44:14 ↗ time where we'll note an a

44:16 ↗ behind that by the agenda item

44:22 ↗ thanks jeff thanks tisha

44:30 ↗ okay it doesn't look like there's any

44:33 ↗ other questions uh thank you tisha

44:36 ↗ so i think we'll be moving on to the

44:40 ↗ capital investment strategy

44:43 ↗ portion

44:45 ↗ sounds good zach i'll take that one away

44:49 ↗ thank you as well as she's uh

44:52 ↗ heading off wow well um

44:55 ↗ to keep the fire hose going tonight for

44:59 ↗ uh both uh current members and new

45:01 ↗ members uh let's jump into the the

45:03 ↗ community investment strategy

45:06 ↗ you know mayor probably did a great job

45:08 ↗ of i think providing context

45:10 ↗ uh to this discussion and a little bit

45:13 ↗ of the background pardon me as i'm

45:16 ↗ gonna share my screen here

45:18 ↗ and try and talk at the same time

45:24 ↗ are you able to see the presentation now

45:27 ↗ did i do that correctly great i'm seeing

45:30 ↗ a thumbs up thank you

45:33 ↗ i'm gonna move my little video screen

45:34 ↗ here so i can see uh that as i'm going

45:37 ↗ as well

45:39 ↗ all right so um you know again the mayor

45:42 ↗ did a great job with the sort of the

45:44 ↗ origin story coming from the the capital

45:46 ↗ financing task force that brad served on

45:49 ↗ i know throughout that uh brad

45:52 ↗ did a great job of updating uh the full

45:54 ↗ board on that work

45:56 ↗ um

45:57 ↗ uh you probably noticed uh the recent

46:00 ↗ emails i sent out from the late june and

46:02 ↗ july conversations we had with city

46:04 ↗ council

46:06 ↗ so i don't really need to dive too much

46:08 ↗ into that into that history

46:11 ↗ only to say that

46:14 ↗ you know we're

46:16 ↗ now

46:17 ↗ been tasked with

46:19 ↗ doing some of what we thought the

46:21 ↗ community scoping would be on an

46:24 ↗ individual recommended project that the

46:26 ↗ council wanted us to move forward

46:28 ↗ through

46:29 ↗ uh we're now going to be

46:30 ↗ doing a a little deeper dive into um

46:34 ↗ exploratory work around

46:36 ↗ um potential projects and and councils

46:39 ↗ really asked for an evaluation of of

46:44 ↗ of multiple projects as well as

46:48 ↗ any rationale the park board might have

46:51 ↗ around

46:52 ↗ what and how four million dollars could

46:54 ↗ be invested into

46:58 ↗ issaquah's system

47:00 ↗ namely

47:02 ↗ what we have sort of referred to as the

47:03 ↗ anchor parks and

47:05 ↗ as well including

47:08 ↗ confluence park

47:11 ↗ we're not going to accomplish all of

47:12 ↗ this tonight as i said earlier so the

47:15 ↗ goals for tonight just as as i begin to

47:18 ↗ roll through this presentation are

47:19 ↗ really three three-fold goals so goal

47:22 ↗ number one

47:23 ↗ is to provide an overview

47:26 ↗ for our new members as well as a bit of

47:28 ↗ a refresher for all of us

47:31 ↗ as to where we came

47:33 ↗ coming out of the park strategic plan in

47:35 ↗ 18

47:36 ↗ some of the initial planning work we did

47:38 ↗ before the pandemic

47:40 ↗ and now as we're sort of jumping

47:43 ↗ back into this

47:44 ↗ after this pandemic pause so first an

47:47 ↗ overview

47:49 ↗ second

47:50 ↗ really a conversation you'll see towards

47:52 ↗ the end of these slides around the

47:54 ↗ criteria themselves i really

47:56 ↗ uh welcome and and look forward to

47:59 ↗ feedback from all of you and discussion

48:01 ↗ from all of you

48:02 ↗ are these the right considerations um

48:05 ↗ are these the right filters that we

48:07 ↗ want to be evaluating

48:10 ↗ how to best spend this four million

48:12 ↗ dollars

48:13 ↗ in the next two years

48:15 ↗ by 2024 and then third

48:19 ↗ any project ideas you might have again

48:21 ↗ as we come to the tail end of this um i

48:24 ↗ really want to open up the discussion

48:25 ↗ not only for the

48:27 ↗ for the criteria but also

48:29 ↗ are there any any specific amenities

48:32 ↗ specific projects that you would like to

48:35 ↗ be considered

48:36 ↗ as we

48:38 ↗ delve deeper into

48:39 ↗ actual evaluations in august and

48:42 ↗ september

48:44 ↗ at those meetings members of the

48:46 ↗ consultant team from methuen our

48:49 ↗ landscape architects will be joining us

48:51 ↗ as well as we

48:53 ↗ begin to get a little bit more specific

48:55 ↗ in the coming months

48:57 ↗ so those are our three goals for tonight

49:00 ↗ all right so um

49:03 ↗ you were you recalled this cover page um

49:06 ↗ our park strategic plan adopted by

49:08 ↗ council in in 2018

49:11 ↗ uh this really

49:12 ↗ i think did a great job of of being very

49:15 ↗ community led and really painted a big

49:18 ↗ picture and and really identified the

49:20 ↗ strategies near-term mid-term long-term

49:24 ↗ for investing into the city's park

49:26 ↗ system

49:27 ↗ uh the themes you might recall on the

49:29 ↗ right side were the five

49:32 ↗ really sort of common threads

49:34 ↗ that we wove through the entire document

49:36 ↗ these themes came right out of

49:39 ↗ the initial public engagement that we

49:41 ↗ had

49:42 ↗ inviting residents to share with um with

49:45 ↗ us

49:46 ↗ um their thoughts on how the system's

49:48 ↗ working what's going what's working well

49:50 ↗ what's not working so well

49:53 ↗ the the two themes that i highlighted

49:55 ↗ are not necessarily because they're

49:57 ↗ special but they really

49:59 ↗ i think

50:02 ↗ formed the impetus for some of the

50:04 ↗ master planning work

50:05 ↗ around

50:06 ↗ what we've referred to as these three

50:08 ↗ anchor parks i'm going to read them real

50:10 ↗ quickly the definition of place making

50:13 ↗ was collaborate with the community to

50:15 ↗ reimagine and reinvest in issaquah's

50:17 ↗ public spaces parks and trails maximize

50:20 ↗ value and strengthen the connection

50:22 ↗ between people and the parks and trails

50:24 ↗ they share so this really this theme

50:27 ↗ spoke very much about reinvestment

50:30 ↗ into the existing system and then

50:31 ↗ connectivity

50:32 ↗ connect our parks and public spaces to

50:34 ↗ make a unified system that serves the

50:37 ↗ entire city

50:38 ↗ and beyond

50:41 ↗ with those themes in mind

50:45 ↗ you recall

50:47 ↗ as we

50:48 ↗ went into 2019 one of the priorities was

50:50 ↗ beginning

50:52 ↗ in earnest some some planning work some

50:54 ↗ master planning work and revision uh

50:57 ↗ reimagining work around

50:59 ↗ um at the time what we sort of referred

51:01 ↗ to as the anchor parks veterans memorial

51:04 ↗ park tibbetts valley park

51:06 ↗ um and the creek corridor i'm adding to

51:08 ↗ this map into these bullets confluence

51:10 ↗ park as has given some of the feedback

51:13 ↗ from council was they're asking us to

51:14 ↗ look at that community park as well

51:17 ↗ so as this

51:19 ↗ uh

51:19 ↗ really nice aerial

51:21 ↗ really identifies

51:23 ↗ these parks all have a pretty a very key

51:26 ↗ role

51:27 ↗ in

51:28 ↗ the valley floor

51:30 ↗ in the park system here in the valley

51:32 ↗ floor

51:33 ↗ the planning work like i said had

51:37 ↗ or identified as near-term priorities in

51:39 ↗ the in the park plan

51:42 ↗ we set out to begin that planning and

51:44 ↗ visioning work right away

51:46 ↗ with the understanding that

51:49 ↗ by and large the the development would

51:51 ↗ need to happen in a phased method over

51:53 ↗ time

51:55 ↗ so as you look back at the park plan

51:57 ↗ you'll see

51:58 ↗ that specifically identified in those

52:00 ↗ near-term goals

52:02 ↗ the term anchor parks uh again we

52:04 ↗ created that as a reference to the to

52:06 ↗ these public spaces and how key they

52:08 ↗ were on the valley floor

52:11 ↗ um i just note in that last bullet by

52:13 ↗ definition um

52:14 ↗ all three of these uh parks confluence

52:17 ↗ veterans memorial and

52:20 ↗ tibbetts valley park are community parks

52:23 ↗ i want to note that um

52:25 ↗ the the term anchor parks was not meant

52:27 ↗ to have a long lifespan and i think as

52:30 ↗ we move this this work forward

52:33 ↗ um it would be my recommendation and i

52:35 ↗ think our desire is staff to to sunset

52:38 ↗ uh that term anchor park um just because

52:41 ↗ we do not want to um

52:44 ↗ i ask it's not our intention to create

52:46 ↗ confusion as as this work moves forward

52:48 ↗ and before we know it we're going to be

52:49 ↗ updating the park plan in 2024.

52:55 ↗ so again a little bit of the background

52:57 ↗ so the park plan was adopted in 2018

52:59 ↗ you'll remember

53:01 ↗ the

53:02 ↗ summer

53:03 ↗ summer nights like this in 2019 we began

53:05 ↗ some some

53:06 ↗ really fun community engagement around

53:09 ↗ this work

53:11 ↗ we had that large

53:13 ↗ series of maps uh that that really sort

53:16 ↗ of comprised the vision for the creek

53:18 ↗ corridor and invited the community to to

53:20 ↗ respond and give us their thoughts and

53:22 ↗ feedback on that we attended the farmers

53:25 ↗ a couple of farmers markets

53:27 ↗ we attended a couple of our concerts on

53:28 ↗ the green and really had the opportunity

53:30 ↗ to

53:31 ↗ to have some initial exciting engagement

53:33 ↗ with the community uh to hear

53:36 ↗ specifically with them about uh these

53:38 ↗ three

53:40 ↗ um parks park areas uh we presented uh

53:45 ↗ provided an initial presentation of of

53:47 ↗ that engagement to council on february

53:50 ↗ 18th uh literally a couple weeks before

53:53 ↗ a worldwide pandemic hit uh then um in

53:57 ↗ march beginning of march came uh the

53:59 ↗ pandemic

54:01 ↗ and we really i think for a lot of good

54:03 ↗ reasons put this planning work put this

54:04 ↗ in community engagement work

54:07 ↗ um on hold

54:08 ↗ um doing master planning envisioning

54:11 ↗ work did not feel like the right

54:14 ↗ thing and the right time to be doing is

54:16 ↗ this community and and the city

54:18 ↗ navigated the pandemic

54:22 ↗ in many ways this community this capital

54:24 ↗ financing uh work and now the

54:27 ↗ the work of this community investment

54:29 ↗ strategy is really

54:31 ↗ um

54:32 ↗ um going to kick off and in many ways

54:34 ↗ help shape what um

54:36 ↗ what our visioning work begins to look

54:39 ↗ like

54:40 ↗ for each of those parks which park do we

54:42 ↗ prioritize

54:44 ↗ how do we start that work

54:46 ↗ as we

54:47 ↗ do this investment strategy work

54:52 ↗ so a really quick sort of overview and

54:54 ↗ tour of all four of these areas

54:57 ↗ veterans memorial park

55:00 ↗ as the as the map certainly shows

55:04 ↗ when you look at we're not just looking

55:05 ↗ at veterans memorial but the the whole

55:08 ↗ vision for this and the idea was this

55:10 ↗ was looking at all of those combined

55:11 ↗ park spaces of veterans

55:14 ↗ um let's see can you all see my if i

55:16 ↗ move my little cursor can you see that

55:19 ↗ seeing zach give a head down great so

55:22 ↗ eventually memorial park

55:24 ↗ sort of

55:25 ↗ comprises a bulk of this area depot park

55:28 ↗ is this area around uh the depot

55:32 ↗ pedestrian park is this little little

55:36 ↗ section that really

55:38 ↗ provides a great connection to front

55:40 ↗ street and sunset

55:43 ↗ these

55:44 ↗ three sort of defined and named parks

55:47 ↗ are relatively

55:49 ↗ disjointed

55:51 ↗ and in in some ways tired

55:54 ↗ in their

55:55 ↗ ability to serve the public

55:57 ↗ the vision

55:58 ↗ the idea as we move this

56:01 ↗ started this this community work in 2019

56:03 ↗ and even move forward now is

56:06 ↗ how do we look at this opportunity to

56:08 ↗ create a more cohesive

56:10 ↗ and updated public space and a park that

56:13 ↗ brings

56:15 ↗ not only great public benefit for

56:17 ↗ gathering but economic benefit

56:19 ↗ to front street and

56:21 ↗ historic downtown

56:24 ↗ with the rainier trail

56:26 ↗ as well

56:27 ↗ this public space really becomes a pearl

56:30 ↗ on on that necklace

56:32 ↗ of the the creek corridor and the

56:34 ↗ rainier trail

56:37 ↗ you may recall

56:39 ↗ in that in those months of january and

56:42 ↗ february of 2020 just before the

56:44 ↗ pandemic work we did with methuen from

56:47 ↗ all that community engagement

56:49 ↗ began to put together

56:51 ↗ concepts these are not designs these are

56:54 ↗ not specific amenities these are really

56:56 ↗ just ideas to begin

56:58 ↗ thinking about

57:00 ↗ how

57:02 ↗ those three parks could feel live

57:04 ↗ breathe

57:06 ↗ as more of as one public

57:10 ↗ space tibbetts valley park again a

57:13 ↗ similar aerial

57:16 ↗ whereas

57:18 ↗ the park previously veterans memorial

57:20 ↗ consolidated park really is

57:22 ↗ strategically located at old town

57:24 ↗ tibbetts valley park is really

57:26 ↗ strategically located

57:28 ↗ to the neighborhoods of talus and squawk

57:30 ↗ but also the future development of

57:32 ↗ central issaquah

57:34 ↗ it too

57:36 ↗ is an aging

57:38 ↗ park facility has not seen a lot of

57:40 ↗ significant investment for the last

57:43 ↗ boy probably 20 or 30 years

57:46 ↗ its functionality is a community park

57:49 ↗ though terrific as baseball fields is

57:51 ↗ relatively limited when you think of the

57:54 ↗ diversity

57:56 ↗ that you will really want to see in

57:59 ↗ more updated

58:00 ↗ city community parks

58:04 ↗ so to that degree

58:05 ↗ as we think of future development in

58:08 ↗ central issaquah

58:10 ↗ and more residential density

58:13 ↗ around this park

58:14 ↗ its programming being relatively limited

58:17 ↗ is not really positioned well to support

58:20 ↗ all those diversities of use

58:22 ↗ that

58:24 ↗ will be

58:25 ↗ sort of put upon this park space in the

58:27 ↗ future

58:28 ↗ so the idea for this planning effort was

58:30 ↗ how do we create a vision for a

58:32 ↗ community park that

58:34 ↗ serves more of a diversity of use

58:37 ↗ while also being a real anchor athletic

58:40 ↗ facility uh for the community

58:44 ↗ something i certainly noted in in

58:46 ↗ highlighting this to the council and and

58:49 ↗ something we need to remember on the

58:51 ↗ environmental condition conditions of

58:52 ↗ this site

58:54 ↗ um just being in the valley its

58:56 ↗ connection to tibbetts creek are

58:59 ↗ definitely going to need to be

59:00 ↗ considered and something

59:02 ↗ uh that we're going to need to play

59:04 ↗ really really close attention to as we

59:07 ↗ move forward in any phases of

59:09 ↗ development with this

59:11 ↗ with this project

59:13 ↗ and like any of these projects that last

59:15 ↗ bullet you know as we look at phase one

59:18 ↗ how do we consider

59:21 ↗ initial investments that help to

59:22 ↗ encourage

59:23 ↗ those future phases

59:27 ↗ much like veterans memorial

59:30 ↗ methuen also took from the community

59:32 ↗ engagement uh you may recall these

59:35 ↗ concepts that we were looking at

59:37 ↗ um

59:38 ↗ what feels like decades ago before

59:40 ↗ before covid

59:42 ↗ um

59:43 ↗ again not as as designs but really just

59:45 ↗ as concepts of how to how to still have

59:48 ↗ a core anchor or a core athletic

59:52 ↗ um programming at this site but really

59:54 ↗ bring in and introduce more diversity of

59:57 ↗ use maybe better connection to the creek

59:59 ↗ etc

1:00:02 ↗ the creek corridor this is a visioning

1:00:05 ↗ effort that unlike the other two and

1:00:08 ↗ unlike confluence park is not site

1:00:10 ↗ specific uh this

1:00:12 ↗ is really in many ways the culmination

1:00:15 ↗ of decades of city investment that have

1:00:18 ↗ been made

1:00:19 ↗ when you look at all the city

1:00:20 ↗ acquisitions from

1:00:23 ↗ quite literally this is our southern

1:00:25 ↗ border of issaquah right here at squawk

1:00:27 ↗ valley park

1:00:28 ↗ to lake sammamish which serves

1:00:31 ↗ as our as our northern border as the

1:00:33 ↗ city

1:00:36 ↗ when we began this planning effort and

1:00:38 ↗ and did all the community outreach it

1:00:40 ↗ became pretty clear that we could almost

1:00:42 ↗ pretty clearly delineate these three

1:00:45 ↗ different reaches

1:00:47 ↗ of the creek corridor pickering reach

1:00:49 ↗ really serves as his gateway into the

1:00:51 ↗ state park

1:00:53 ↗ anchored by pickering barn and and the

1:00:55 ↗ trail system just north of i-90

1:00:58 ↗ old town reach which really

1:01:00 ↗ serves as the thread

1:01:02 ↗ through old town

1:01:04 ↗ it includes the rainier trail as as well

1:01:07 ↗ as the creek

1:01:08 ↗ and then squawk valley reach to the

1:01:10 ↗ south uh which really starts to feel

1:01:12 ↗ more

1:01:13 ↗ pastoral more rural um how do we connect

1:01:16 ↗ um

1:01:17 ↗ do we look at opportunities to better

1:01:19 ↗ connect tiger mountain and squawk

1:01:20 ↗ mountain here in the valley um as well

1:01:23 ↗ as some of the critical areas and and

1:01:26 ↗ again more

1:01:27 ↗ um a natural setting of issaquah creek

1:01:30 ↗ to the south

1:01:33 ↗ just to

1:01:34 ↗ quickly highlight here you know some of

1:01:37 ↗ the planning work that methune did again

1:01:39 ↗ from that community outreach

1:01:41 ↗ the opportunities we have to start to

1:01:42 ↗ look at each of these reaches

1:01:44 ↗ individually

1:01:46 ↗ to look at where

1:01:48 ↗ we have strong connectivity already

1:01:50 ↗ where we might identify gaps

1:01:53 ↗ where we see opportunities for habitat

1:01:55 ↗ restoration and and

1:01:57 ↗ really emphasizing habitat versus really

1:02:00 ↗ emphasizing and complementing

1:02:02 ↗ complementing recreational use

1:02:05 ↗ similarly the old town

1:02:07 ↗ area

1:02:09 ↗ a little more complicated a lot more

1:02:11 ↗ smaller parcels

1:02:13 ↗ acquisition strategies become much more

1:02:15 ↗ tricky

1:02:16 ↗ when you start looking at such small

1:02:18 ↗ parcels so

1:02:20 ↗ as i said earlier how do we take

1:02:22 ↗ advantage of the rainier trail corridor

1:02:24 ↗ how do we take advantage of some of

1:02:26 ↗ these strong park acquisitions that have

1:02:28 ↗ already been made

1:02:30 ↗ but really some exciting opportunities

1:02:33 ↗ there and then

1:02:34 ↗ lastly the southern reach the squawk

1:02:36 ↗ valley reach

1:02:38 ↗ so many natural areas again wonderful

1:02:40 ↗ investments that the city's made over

1:02:42 ↗ the decades

1:02:44 ↗ that are now really

1:02:46 ↗ feeling like the opportunity to unify

1:02:48 ↗ much like that connectivity theme

1:02:51 ↗ within the park strategic plan

1:02:56 ↗ so moving forward with this

1:02:58 ↗ quick overview

1:03:00 ↗ um confluence park um as the mayor

1:03:04 ↗ um highlighted in our conversations with

1:03:06 ↗ the council uh there was really a strong

1:03:09 ↗ feeling to um add this to the

1:03:11 ↗ consideration and the and the work that

1:03:13 ↗ we're gonna be doing here in the coming

1:03:15 ↗ months in many ways it makes sense

1:03:18 ↗ confluence park happens to be

1:03:20 ↗ um

1:03:21 ↗ right one of the one of the key pearls

1:03:23 ↗ on the issaquah creek corridor necklace

1:03:25 ↗ and certainly serves

1:03:27 ↗ a key role as a as a community park a

1:03:30 ↗ lot of investment has been already

1:03:32 ↗ completed jennifer fink is certainly

1:03:34 ↗ well aware of that work as she managed

1:03:37 ↗ those efforts

1:03:39 ↗ [Music]

1:03:40 ↗ i would note here

1:03:42 ↗ and jennifer might be able to fill in

1:03:44 ↗ the gaps as i'm seeing phase two and

1:03:46 ↗ phase four i'm not sure whatever

1:03:48 ↗ happened to phase three maybe that's the

1:03:49 ↗ mysterious uh mysterious phase but um as

1:03:52 ↗ we look at phase two that was completed

1:03:55 ↗ um

1:03:56 ↗ with the completion of the pedestrian

1:03:58 ↗ bridge

1:03:59 ↗ there is some remaining work um

1:04:02 ↗ completion of path lighting

1:04:04 ↗ as well as strengthening some of the

1:04:06 ↗ trail borders smaller projects something

1:04:09 ↗ though we identified as well in our park

1:04:12 ↗ strategic plan if you if you read the

1:04:14 ↗ description of confluence park and look

1:04:16 ↗ at the near-term strategies

1:04:18 ↗ uh was the whole idea of the eckhouse

1:04:20 ↗ the eckhouse is if you drive by

1:04:23 ↗ the park the older

1:04:25 ↗ small

1:04:26 ↗ farm house on uh that be the north east

1:04:29 ↗ corner of the park

1:04:31 ↗ um opportunity that we spoke of of you

1:04:34 ↗ know how we consider activating that

1:04:37 ↗ park um either as a par or that that

1:04:39 ↗ house is a park amenity uh do we

1:04:42 ↗ strengthen some of the play

1:04:43 ↗ opportunities up in in that corner of

1:04:45 ↗ the park

1:04:46 ↗ um

1:04:47 ↗ phase four uh you are probably uh recall

1:04:50 ↗ in the master plan for those of you that

1:04:52 ↗ were around really looked at the

1:04:54 ↗ um

1:04:57 ↗ southern so this is the east fork of

1:04:59 ↗ issaquah creek this is the main stem of

1:05:01 ↗ issaquah creek thus the confluence

1:05:04 ↗ of of those streams the city owns this

1:05:07 ↗ parcel

1:05:10 ↗ here it is currently the

1:05:12 ↗ park maintenance and facility

1:05:14 ↗ maintenance operation shop

1:05:17 ↗ when the master plan was completed

1:05:20 ↗ some of the ideas

1:05:21 ↗ fostered were should that

1:05:24 ↗ should those

1:05:25 ↗ shop facilities be relocated

1:05:27 ↗ there's opportunity to convert that into

1:05:30 ↗ additional park space

1:05:33 ↗ something i certainly mentioned and the

1:05:35 ↗ mayor mentioned the council as we talked

1:05:37 ↗ with them

1:05:38 ↗ at their recent meetings

1:05:40 ↗ just wanting them to recognize and

1:05:42 ↗ understand

1:05:43 ↗ at least for this

1:05:45 ↗ 4 million and arpa funding

1:05:48 ↗ that really is not a candidate given uh

1:05:50 ↗ there is not any money to move those

1:05:53 ↗ maintenance and operation shops um and

1:05:56 ↗ to move those facilities in the is is

1:05:58 ↗ well beyond uh the four million dollars

1:06:01 ↗ but something we certainly want to note

1:06:03 ↗ as a

1:06:05 ↗ as an element of vision and opportunity

1:06:07 ↗ at confluence part

1:06:11 ↗ oh so wow let me catch my breath that

1:06:13 ↗ was a super fast uh overview of these

1:06:17 ↗ four

1:06:19 ↗ opportunities

1:06:21 ↗ as we look specifically at the feedback

1:06:23 ↗ the council was asking from the july 5th

1:06:26 ↗ meeting

1:06:27 ↗ you might recall from the emails the

1:06:30 ↗ mayor had

1:06:31 ↗ considered

1:06:32 ↗ recommended suggested a six million

1:06:34 ↗ dollar investment

1:06:35 ↗ council is is looking and is

1:06:38 ↗ um

1:06:39 ↗ looking more at a consideration of a

1:06:41 ↗ four million dollar investment into

1:06:43 ↗ parks of that nine million remaining

1:06:45 ↗ arpa funding

1:06:47 ↗ they're asking us to

1:06:50 ↗ provide an evaluation for options and

1:06:52 ↗ and

1:06:53 ↗ look at that

1:06:54 ↗ through a

1:06:55 ↗ sort of criteria based approach

1:06:59 ↗ the the feedback and rationale they're

1:07:01 ↗ seeking really in a nutshell is is what

1:07:04 ↗ can four million dollars achieve um and

1:07:07 ↗ remember needs to be achieved by the end

1:07:09 ↗ of 2024.

1:07:11 ↗ um

1:07:12 ↗ council has not asked for this right

1:07:13 ↗ away and as i mentioned um in my in my

1:07:17 ↗ introduction

1:07:19 ↗ um this changes our calendar and

1:07:21 ↗ schedule a little bit and i'll touch on

1:07:23 ↗ that in a couple of slides here and that

1:07:26 ↗ in order to complete this work by 2024

1:07:29 ↗ um

1:07:30 ↗ we're going to need to try and be as

1:07:31 ↗ efficient as effective with this work so

1:07:34 ↗ when when council

1:07:35 ↗ considers this as part of the budget

1:07:37 ↗ process meaning

1:07:39 ↗ they're likely not adopting that that

1:07:43 ↗ 2023-2024 budget until november

1:07:47 ↗ we

1:07:48 ↗ have a pretty defined scope and are able

1:07:50 ↗ to jump right into design and permitting

1:07:53 ↗ at that point

1:07:55 ↗ to make sure again that we

1:07:57 ↗ complete work by 2024.

1:08:04 ↗ so a quick overview here of

1:08:07 ↗ the criteria

1:08:09 ↗ and then

1:08:11 ↗ again i'll look to you all

1:08:14 ↗ as we look at calendar as well maybe

1:08:16 ↗ i'll save that for last um

1:08:20 ↗ so criteria seven criteria that that

1:08:23 ↗ we've drafted would again um love to get

1:08:26 ↗ your your thoughts and feedback on the

1:08:28 ↗ mayor really highlighted the first

1:08:30 ↗ criteria so well in in her overview and

1:08:33 ↗ that's

1:08:34 ↗ as we look at amenities

1:08:36 ↗ let's look at at investments that

1:08:38 ↗ provide year-round impactful additions

1:08:41 ↗ of impactful elements into our city park

1:08:44 ↗ system

1:08:46 ↗ so is it an investment is it an

1:08:48 ↗ investment that does that

1:08:50 ↗ um second criteria um make sure we're

1:08:54 ↗ looking at

1:08:55 ↗ uh the level of project readiness um and

1:08:58 ↗ that includes a number of things project

1:09:00 ↗ readiness in terms of um is it a is it a

1:09:03 ↗ single parcel is it multiple parcels do

1:09:06 ↗ we already own

1:09:07 ↗ those parcels

1:09:08 ↗ um

1:09:10 ↗ has the site been envisioned enough

1:09:12 ↗ that we can make this investment if it's

1:09:14 ↗ not the full investment

1:09:16 ↗ into that

1:09:18 ↗ into that parcel or into that space

1:09:21 ↗ third criteria um one that that again

1:09:24 ↗ especially with a shot clock that we

1:09:26 ↗ have for for completing this by the end

1:09:28 ↗ of 2024

1:09:30 ↗ we're going to want to be really really

1:09:32 ↗ aware of any critical areas

1:09:34 ↗ that might impact where we're making

1:09:36 ↗ these investments any other site

1:09:38 ↗ conditions that might

1:09:40 ↗ again be very doable to work around but

1:09:42 ↗ add

1:09:43 ↗ time

1:09:45 ↗ and complexity to permitting

1:09:47 ↗ which is not always friendly to

1:09:51 ↗ time sensitive

1:09:53 ↗ projects

1:09:54 ↗ much like we're seeing it at hillside

1:09:55 ↗ park

1:09:57 ↗ it's probably a really good example of

1:09:59 ↗ that

1:10:01 ↗ fourth criteria

1:10:03 ↗ um is really uh not an absolute but

1:10:06 ↗ given the arpa funding one of the goals

1:10:08 ↗ of arpa funding was how is this

1:10:10 ↗ these investments from the federal

1:10:12 ↗ government helping to incubate

1:10:15 ↗ incubate economic benefit

1:10:18 ↗ how also the fifth criteria are these

1:10:20 ↗ investments helping to

1:10:23 ↗ demonstrate

1:10:25 ↗ improved community access

1:10:28 ↗ or community benefit social benefit

1:10:30 ↗ are also goals of arpa

1:10:34 ↗ the six criteria that we think is really

1:10:37 ↗ important for us to consider are part

1:10:39 ↗ connections and what we mean by this is

1:10:41 ↗ are there other relationships does this

1:10:44 ↗ and is this investment sitting out by

1:10:46 ↗ itself or is it also

1:10:49 ↗ connected to

1:10:50 ↗ um

1:10:51 ↗ to other city infrastructure other

1:10:53 ↗ public infrastructure

1:10:56 ↗ example of this might be

1:10:59 ↗ you know really any of the parks and how

1:11:01 ↗ are they connected to

1:11:03 ↗ to other trails

1:11:06 ↗ or other investments being made in the

1:11:08 ↗ area

1:11:09 ↗ and last but certainly not least in

1:11:11 ↗ terms of a criteria we we think are

1:11:14 ↗ really really important to consider is

1:11:16 ↗ thinking of future phasing i'm

1:11:18 ↗ understanding that as we

1:11:21 ↗ carve out phase one

1:11:23 ↗ we need to keep in mind what those

1:11:26 ↗ future phases might look like

1:11:28 ↗ like a project you might do at home

1:11:30 ↗ right don't you don't necessarily start

1:11:33 ↗ in the uh

1:11:35 ↗ at the corner of the room that you need

1:11:36 ↗ to walk out of that you need to back out

1:11:38 ↗ of how do you how do you phase a project

1:11:41 ↗ phase of sight

1:11:43 ↗ uh so that that phase is not in the way

1:11:46 ↗ um of future phases or or does not need

1:11:48 ↗ to be sort of taken out

1:11:50 ↗ um

1:11:52 ↗ to complete the park so um

1:11:56 ↗ all of these certainly in important

1:11:58 ↗ considerations

1:11:59 ↗ um

1:12:02 ↗ i'm going to ask you because i've been

1:12:03 ↗ talking for a while do you want to sort

1:12:05 ↗ of have a conversation a little bit

1:12:07 ↗ about these criteria now do you want me

1:12:09 ↗ to quickly go through the schedule and

1:12:11 ↗ then open it up for

1:12:12 ↗ both criteria and

1:12:15 ↗ park discussion zach do you have a any

1:12:17 ↗ thoughts

1:12:20 ↗ um maybe seems like we could take some

1:12:23 ↗ comments with regards to the uh criteria

1:12:25 ↗ so we don't sort of lose track of what

1:12:27 ↗ those are because there's some

1:12:29 ↗ you know specific things in there that

1:12:31 ↗ might need to be addressed

1:12:35 ↗ if that sounds okay to you

1:12:37 ↗ that's that sounds great i would love to

1:12:39 ↗ i think what might be helpful to me

1:12:41 ↗ do all of you have these criteria down

1:12:44 ↗ i'd love to stop sharing my screen so i

1:12:47 ↗ can at least see the

1:12:49 ↗ because we could all see

1:12:51 ↗ everybody um at least for that

1:12:53 ↗ discussion

1:12:54 ↗ jeff i can pull it up and put it in the

1:12:56 ↗ chat for everyone if you give me a

1:12:58 ↗ minute

1:12:59 ↗ folks need those okay so

1:13:05 ↗ thoughts on how might these criteria

1:13:06 ↗ address uh do they address uh some of

1:13:09 ↗ the major considerations we need to

1:13:11 ↗ think of i see marlene's hand up chris's

1:13:13 ↗ hand up

1:13:14 ↗ marlene

1:13:16 ↗ yeah i have two thanks for sharing all

1:13:18 ↗ of that that was a lot of information so

1:13:20 ↗ hopefully you can have a breather while

1:13:21 ↗ we discuss

1:13:22 ↗ um

1:13:23 ↗ i have quest two questions about the

1:13:25 ↗ criteria i think the

1:13:26 ↗ first question is you know you've had

1:13:28 ↗ those

1:13:29 ↗ listed were they in any or order already

1:13:31 ↗ of prioritization or is that i'm

1:13:34 ↗ assuming that is part of the discussion

1:13:35 ↗ we need to have

1:13:36 ↗ and then the second piece that i think

1:13:38 ↗ would be important would be to

1:13:39 ↗ understand how we are going to measure

1:13:41 ↗ each of the criteria or at least

1:13:43 ↗ understanding that there is a measure

1:13:44 ↗ for them so as an example

1:13:46 ↗ in economic benefit

1:13:48 ↗ you know what is the way in which we are

1:13:49 ↗ measuring

1:13:51 ↗ um you know the economic benefit in

1:13:52 ↗ order to sort of

1:13:54 ↗ uh prioritize um

1:13:57 ↗ different criteria so those will be sort

1:13:59 ↗ of my two questions of either work that

1:14:01 ↗ either has to be done unless there's

1:14:02 ↗ already been a discussion around

1:14:04 ↗ um sort of both the prioritization or

1:14:06 ↗ weighting of the criteria and of the

1:14:08 ↗ measurements

1:14:10 ↗ yeah great questions marlene no these

1:14:12 ↗ are not in any sort of a ranked order um

1:14:15 ↗ at this point um and it

1:14:18 ↗ certainly open for for discussion that

1:14:20 ↗ the park board feels like

1:14:22 ↗ some of these are are more important

1:14:23 ↗ than others we we certainly wanted to

1:14:26 ↗ just put them up on the board and and

1:14:28 ↗ really i think present them as

1:14:30 ↗ uh lenses

1:14:32 ↗ all of them have a degree of import

1:14:34 ↗ importance um as as we consider but not

1:14:37 ↗ ranked yet

1:14:38 ↗ um in terms of how we might score them i

1:14:41 ↗ get again i i think we're open to park

1:14:44 ↗ board discussion you know we could turn

1:14:46 ↗ this into a deeply analytical

1:14:49 ↗ process

1:14:50 ↗ and try and create

1:14:52 ↗ points within each of these

1:14:54 ↗ or is it more of a

1:14:56 ↗ narrative description

1:14:58 ↗ uh that goes with each of them um

1:15:00 ↗ something like economic

1:15:02 ↗ benefit

1:15:03 ↗ um

1:15:04 ↗ again you know i don't think we're gonna

1:15:07 ↗ have time in the next three months to

1:15:08 ↗ try and monetize

1:15:11 ↗ any and all of these projects as to what

1:15:12 ↗ that benefit is

1:15:14 ↗ i would

1:15:15 ↗ suggest i think for the purposes of this

1:15:18 ↗ discussion that again that feels like

1:15:20 ↗ more of a

1:15:22 ↗ a qualitative narrative that would go

1:15:25 ↗ with that than trying to

1:15:27 ↗ quantify a specific amount

1:15:31 ↗ but open for for your discussion

1:15:38 ↗ chris

1:15:40 ↗ uh yeah a few thoughts so a ton of

1:15:43 ↗ information

1:15:44 ↗ um

1:15:45 ↗ thank you

1:15:46 ↗ uh with respect to

1:15:49 ↗ completing

1:15:50 ↗ you know use of the money expenditure of

1:15:52 ↗ the monies

1:15:54 ↗ um

1:15:55 ↗ can we are we able to do things like

1:15:59 ↗ use this for design on something that

1:16:01 ↗ we've already got in motion that's you

1:16:03 ↗ know

1:16:04 ↗ planned for the next five years

1:16:06 ↗ and sort of use it for the front ends of

1:16:08 ↗ other projects that are already in

1:16:10 ↗ motion

1:16:11 ↗ um and then you know maybe allow us to

1:16:13 ↗ say some of that already

1:16:15 ↗ anticipated say design money or

1:16:17 ↗ something like that

1:16:18 ↗ to then apply to construction later

1:16:21 ↗ as a way to sort of front load the the

1:16:23 ↗ use of it

1:16:26 ↗ and then

1:16:27 ↗ uh

1:16:30 ↗ with the uh okay i lost one but then the

1:16:33 ↗ other thing maybe we want it just a

1:16:35 ↗ suggestion but maybe like create a

1:16:37 ↗ matrix of

1:16:38 ↗ the sites

1:16:39 ↗ and then the criteria and it'll probably

1:16:42 ↗ be as you said like more of a

1:16:44 ↗ qualitative

1:16:46 ↗ scoring but we can maybe as a group

1:16:49 ↗ score each of the sites

1:16:52 ↗ um

1:16:54 ↗ based on the criteria you know one to

1:16:56 ↗ six or whatever however many there are

1:16:57 ↗ 107 and just kind of see where we land

1:17:00 ↗ because i think when i first look at it

1:17:02 ↗ i'm like oh that's cool that's cool

1:17:03 ↗ that's really cool

1:17:05 ↗ but we can't do all of them and we kind

1:17:07 ↗ of have to figure out how we're going to

1:17:09 ↗ present this and then defend it

1:17:13 ↗ and and

1:17:15 ↗ make it a you know a rational decision

1:17:18 ↗ not just uh because we got some momentum

1:17:20 ↗ in one direction or another

1:17:22 ↗ uh and then i think oh the other thing

1:17:24 ↗ was um

1:17:26 ↗ and we also i i mean if this money has

1:17:28 ↗ been given to other jurisdictions as

1:17:30 ↗ well it might be hard but

1:17:32 ↗ sometimes some of the other grant

1:17:33 ↗ opportunities uh

1:17:36 ↗ are

1:17:37 ↗ more favorable to a request

1:17:41 ↗ when there's other money that it can be

1:17:43 ↗ paired up with

1:17:44 ↗ so something like that

1:17:47 ↗ worth considering

1:17:50 ↗ those are my thoughts

1:17:54 ↗ great thoughts chris to your to your

1:17:56 ↗ question on that first one

1:17:58 ↗ so the goal of this four million would

1:18:00 ↗ be to go towards construction so we do

1:18:02 ↗ have we have some funding already in the

1:18:05 ↗ budget

1:18:06 ↗ um this year and and some

1:18:09 ↗ smaller amount proposed next year under

1:18:12 ↗ master planning that we would use for

1:18:14 ↗ design whatever whatever

1:18:17 ↗ becomes the priority project or projects

1:18:20 ↗ uh for this four million we'd use that

1:18:22 ↗ design money already budgeted this then

1:18:25 ↗ would um four million would would go

1:18:28 ↗ primarily for construction

1:18:32 ↗ katie did you have a comment

1:18:34 ↗ yes i i do okay um so

1:18:37 ↗ i i just have a question because um as i

1:18:41 ↗ understand it that there was in in 2018

1:18:45 ↗ um there was a part strategic plan which

1:18:48 ↗ identified

1:18:49 ↗ um that um you know building a dog park

1:18:53 ↗ was was a big priority

1:18:55 ↗ and and

1:18:57 ↗ tibbetts park was chosen uh for that

1:19:00 ↗ project and i think it was due to covet

1:19:02 ↗ um that this project was put on hold

1:19:06 ↗ so would it be would it be

1:19:10 ↗ prudent to be discussed that at this

1:19:12 ↗ time as now that we are you know coming

1:19:17 ↗ um we have this kind of funding

1:19:19 ↗ um

1:19:20 ↗ to

1:19:21 ↗ you know i just want to make sure that

1:19:23 ↗ that you know during that strategic plan

1:19:25 ↗ i mean that was the the survey of the

1:19:28 ↗ community was that it was a consensus

1:19:30 ↗ that a dog park um was needed um so i

1:19:34 ↗ just want to you know see if we could

1:19:36 ↗ address that

1:19:40 ↗ yeah i think katie as we as we talk

1:19:42 ↗ about sort of that next question of are

1:19:45 ↗ there park amenities um or specific sort

1:19:48 ↗ of park features that you all would like

1:19:50 ↗ to be considered in that discussion

1:19:53 ↗ um

1:19:54 ↗ dog park is is certainly an example

1:19:56 ↗ right um so i think as we you know

1:20:02 ↗ yeah i think the goal tonight is to you

1:20:04 ↗ know what what should we

1:20:06 ↗ um have on the list as we begin

1:20:09 ↗ um um running potential projects or

1:20:12 ↗ ideas sort of through this filter of of

1:20:15 ↗ criteria

1:20:17 ↗ tim did you have a comment

1:20:21 ↗ thank you yes i did

1:20:24 ↗ i i feel like maybe i'm missing a little

1:20:25 ↗ bit of

1:20:26 ↗ context in the sense that in that

1:20:31 ↗ quick presentation

1:20:32 ↗ especially at the tibbetts valley site

1:20:35 ↗ there was a couple of

1:20:36 ↗ mentions of future development and there

1:20:38 ↗ was an area blocked off

1:20:40 ↗ and i don't understand

1:20:42 ↗ what that means i don't know if that's

1:20:44 ↗ already been approved if that's

1:20:46 ↗ completely visionary

1:20:48 ↗ what's what do we know about that

1:20:50 ↗ because it was brought up a couple times

1:20:51 ↗ and i don't know anything

1:20:54 ↗ no i appreciate that tim and i again

1:20:56 ↗ apologize um

1:20:57 ↗ so the central issaquah plan

1:21:00 ↗ is that's not a that's not a parks

1:21:03 ↗ related planning effort so the

1:21:04 ↗ centralistic plan was

1:21:06 ↗ uh boy that predates me and my time here

1:21:09 ↗ in issaquah in 2016. that was a

1:21:13 ↗ sort of land use

1:21:15 ↗ planning effort that looked at as as the

1:21:18 ↗ city considers meeting its growth goals

1:21:21 ↗ where does it want growth to happen and

1:21:23 ↗ so the centralistic plan

1:21:26 ↗ identified um

1:21:28 ↗ [Music]

1:21:30 ↗ boy sort of that area north of of

1:21:33 ↗ tibbetts valley park all the way to i-90

1:21:36 ↗ in some cases a little bit north of i-90

1:21:39 ↗ when you go a little bit farther um

1:21:43 ↗ east into the city as

1:21:46 ↗ the

1:21:47 ↗ central issaquah area that

1:21:51 ↗ growth should be planned for

1:21:54 ↗ so these are not

1:21:56 ↗ there's not a singular development

1:21:58 ↗ project that's being planned but the

1:22:01 ↗ community development department the

1:22:03 ↗ planning and permitting folks that arm

1:22:06 ↗ of the city is saying hey that's where

1:22:09 ↗ this is where we want growth to happen

1:22:11 ↗ rather than spreading up into the hills

1:22:14 ↗ this is the area that we want to become

1:22:16 ↗ a denser

1:22:18 ↗ a denser community

1:22:20 ↗ so that's that's what the central

1:22:22 ↗ issaquah area that highlighted area just

1:22:25 ↗ north of of

1:22:28 ↗ of tibbetts valley park is

1:22:31 ↗ okay and the growth you're talking of is

1:22:33 ↗ residential not commercial is that

1:22:35 ↗ correct

1:22:36 ↗ res primarily residential but mixed use

1:22:39 ↗ um

1:22:40 ↗ so some degree of commercial retail but

1:22:43 ↗ all with a mixed-use residential element

1:22:47 ↗ to some degree

1:22:48 ↗ thank you

1:22:52 ↗ chris

1:22:54 ↗ uh yeah tim i think i can add to that as

1:22:57 ↗ just explained to me once um

1:23:00 ↗ probably

1:23:01 ↗ the vast majority of people on this call

1:23:04 ↗ me

1:23:05 ↗ and just residents don't really want

1:23:08 ↗ growth any more than we have to have it

1:23:11 ↗ but as a part of the growth management

1:23:13 ↗ act the city has to

1:23:16 ↗ doesn't quite have to but as i

1:23:18 ↗ understand it they have a choice no

1:23:20 ↗ funding for a bunch of opportunities

1:23:22 ↗ that would be available or select an

1:23:25 ↗ area in which which uh will be

1:23:27 ↗ designated for growth

1:23:29 ↗ and so that's how

1:23:30 ↗ these areas that are kind of north of

1:23:32 ↗ the park got selected is well if we have

1:23:35 ↗ to have a place that work where it

1:23:36 ↗ should happen and so i think that i

1:23:39 ↗ don't know the details but it'll be

1:23:40 ↗ multi-story

1:23:42 ↗ um you know more like mixed-use

1:23:44 ↗ apartments with some you know pedestrian

1:23:47 ↗ avenues and things like that and so then

1:23:49 ↗ when it says future development there's

1:23:52 ↗ the thought to

1:23:54 ↗ the park will need to support that and

1:23:56 ↗ be uh connected to it or something like

1:23:59 ↗ that so that's a little bit about that

1:24:02 ↗ future development and then and the

1:24:04 ↗ growth

1:24:05 ↗ why it's selected there

1:24:08 ↗ just one follow-up on that that's in the

1:24:10 ↗ back of my mind about these things is

1:24:12 ↗ when you bring in growth

1:24:14 ↗ and we look at areas like the old town

1:24:17 ↗ site the

1:24:20 ↗ right along front street

1:24:21 ↗ making that more

1:24:23 ↗ of a park area

1:24:25 ↗ front street is already

1:24:27 ↗ a parking lot in the morning in the

1:24:30 ↗ afternoon trying to get it through their

1:24:31 ↗ earth traffic and parking through there

1:24:33 ↗ is often times the summertime anyway

1:24:36 ↗ challenging and so i just think

1:24:38 ↗ accessibility needs to be in our minds

1:24:41 ↗ as we think about these various options

1:24:44 ↗ in terms of can people get in and out

1:24:46 ↗ and is there parking

1:24:48 ↗ i'll stop now thank you

1:24:50 ↗ because nicholas marlene and brad um

1:24:54 ↗ nicholas you want to kick us off

1:24:57 ↗ i'll jump into i had a digital hand i

1:24:59 ↗ don't know if that works on this

1:25:01 ↗ platform or not i tried it

1:25:03 ↗ in the case i couldn't see that can't

1:25:05 ↗ see the digital hand sorry that's okay i

1:25:07 ↗ think i think i've lowered it anyways

1:25:09 ↗ that

1:25:11 ↗ uh if this is easier i'll just do the

1:25:12 ↗ old fashioned hand

1:25:14 ↗ two hands uh so anyways i just uh wanted

1:25:17 ↗ to comment i like

1:25:20 ↗ statements already been made about

1:25:21 ↗ momentum leverage or alignment with kind

1:25:24 ↗ of things we're already

1:25:26 ↗ in process with or things we can add to

1:25:28 ↗ and

1:25:29 ↗ budget planning that's already in

1:25:31 ↗ existence based on the time frame being

1:25:32 ↗ pretty short

1:25:34 ↗ to be responsive to the fact that we got

1:25:35 ↗ to get this project complete and

1:25:37 ↗ delivered that means ribbon cutting by

1:25:39 ↗ the end of 24 i think that's a pretty

1:25:41 ↗ big ask just on the top of things and

1:25:43 ↗ the only ad to that list that i might

1:25:45 ↗ ask for is some consideration or

1:25:47 ↗ presentation of maintenance

1:25:49 ↗ costs on an ongoing basis for any

1:25:51 ↗ investment

1:25:53 ↗ that we would be considering just

1:25:54 ↗ because there are probably some

1:25:57 ↗ projects that might lower park

1:25:58 ↗ maintenance ongoing and they're probably

1:26:00 ↗ a lot that would increase and that would

1:26:02 ↗ be nice to kind of use that as a

1:26:04 ↗ weighted criteria as well

1:26:09 ↗ thanks um i believe uh marlene then brad

1:26:13 ↗ and then brenda

1:26:14 ↗ yeah and we may have moved on from this

1:26:16 ↗ but uh two comments one is we are

1:26:18 ↗ talking about

1:26:19 ↗ sort of the mixed use um you know area

1:26:22 ↗ of centralized law one i would say i

1:26:24 ↗ think there are people you know in his

1:26:25 ↗ school who obviously are very excited

1:26:27 ↗ about growth in issaquah so i just

1:26:29 ↗ wanted to throw that out there as well

1:26:30 ↗ as i know there's different opinions on

1:26:32 ↗ that um but even a good way to think

1:26:33 ↗ about about it anybody who's been to

1:26:36 ↗ woodenville lately who sees that lovely

1:26:38 ↗ downtown of mixed use

1:26:40 ↗ um that might give people a little bit

1:26:41 ↗ of a sort of visionary um perspective of

1:26:44 ↗ at least what i what my understanding of

1:26:46 ↗ what they mean when they say mixed use

1:26:48 ↗ with retail

1:26:49 ↗ of what that could look like so just

1:26:51 ↗ wanted to throw that out there i

1:26:53 ↗ am also in agreement on um

1:26:55 ↗ i like the idea of accessibility as long

1:26:57 ↗ as we think more long term as more

1:26:59 ↗ people

1:27:00 ↗ adopt e-bikes and other ways of getting

1:27:02 ↗ around doesn't always have to be car

1:27:04 ↗ related so i think accessibility i think

1:27:06 ↗ is a good idea as long as we keep that

1:27:07 ↗ feature focused

1:27:12 ↗ i'm brad

1:27:15 ↗ uh yeah i like chris's idea of well he

1:27:18 ↗ didn't necessarily say a spreadsheet but

1:27:20 ↗ sort of in terms of you know matching up

1:27:23 ↗ the potential

1:27:24 ↗ anchor parks in relationship to the

1:27:27 ↗ criteria and

1:27:29 ↗ i think by doing that would really help

1:27:31 ↗ isolate which ones are players and which

1:27:34 ↗ ones are not

1:27:35 ↗ um and so

1:27:37 ↗ you know that process could be very

1:27:40 ↗ helpful to get rid of a few of these

1:27:42 ↗ that really are not

1:27:44 ↗ falling within the criteria

1:27:47 ↗ you know the tricky part of this is

1:27:49 ↗ really going to be timing

1:27:51 ↗ and um

1:27:54 ↗ you know if if we're to be asked to

1:27:57 ↗ provide some recommendations on projects

1:28:02 ↗ the tricky aspect of that is until we

1:28:04 ↗ have

1:28:06 ↗ master plans in place for some of these

1:28:08 ↗ anchor parks it's going to be difficult

1:28:11 ↗ to talk about projects because projects

1:28:14 ↗ are an element of the master plans

1:28:17 ↗ and so i think that

1:28:19 ↗ given that timing is tight

1:28:22 ↗ we would be best served to

1:28:25 ↗ come fairly quickly to determine which

1:28:28 ↗ park would be a priority so that

1:28:32 ↗ master planning efforts could be a

1:28:34 ↗ priority for that particular park

1:28:37 ↗ so that projects

1:28:40 ↗ you know

1:28:41 ↗ potentially

1:28:42 ↗ you know that could be appropriate from

1:28:45 ↗ the community could be voiced um because

1:28:47 ↗ that's going to be a part of what we

1:28:49 ↗ want to know is you know what does the

1:28:50 ↗ community you know like about certain

1:28:53 ↗ master plan elements and so

1:28:56 ↗ uh i guess i'd say that um you know

1:29:00 ↗ trying to accomplish all of that within

1:29:01 ↗ the next couple months is going to be

1:29:03 ↗ tricky um

1:29:04 ↗ and so i i i think the faster that we

1:29:07 ↗ get started on a specific

1:29:11 ↗ anchor park the better

1:29:14 ↗ i don't like the idea of of spreading

1:29:17 ↗ the money around to various parks

1:29:20 ↗ because i don't think that you will have

1:29:22 ↗ a significant impact that the community

1:29:24 ↗ will see so

1:29:26 ↗ for instance if you start putting

1:29:28 ↗ various projects into different parks

1:29:32 ↗ you're not going to have a big bang

1:29:34 ↗ concept of where the community really

1:29:36 ↗ felt like something was accomplished and

1:29:38 ↗ that was one of the concepts that the

1:29:40 ↗ task force talked about in terms of some

1:29:43 ↗ of the money here is to show a fairly

1:29:45 ↗ good significant impact with this money

1:29:49 ↗ so i think it's it's beneficial to try

1:29:51 ↗ and isolate one particular anchor park

1:29:54 ↗ um and get moving quickly with um

1:29:59 ↗ with a master planning effort so that we

1:30:01 ↗ can have you know some ideas on some

1:30:04 ↗ uh specific projects that we can make

1:30:07 ↗ recommendations on because that looks

1:30:09 ↗ like that's kind of the new ask from the

1:30:11 ↗ council is wanting to have something

1:30:13 ↗ more specific

1:30:15 ↗ um

1:30:17 ↗ i guess maybe that's

1:30:21 ↗ and really this spreadsheet thing i

1:30:23 ↗ think would help us get there maybe

1:30:25 ↗ faster than just talking about it to

1:30:28 ↗ help isolate that

1:30:29 ↗ thanks

1:30:32 ↗ i appreciate that brad and if i could

1:30:34 ↗ add appreciate your comment earlier

1:30:36 ↗ chris um you guys are both absolutely

1:30:38 ↗ right yeah we're we're not

1:30:40 ↗ we're not intending to discuss our way

1:30:42 ↗ for the next couple of months i i think

1:30:43 ↗ the goal tonight was to really get a

1:30:45 ↗ sense of criteria and what you'll see

1:30:48 ↗ next is sort of beginning to map out how

1:30:50 ↗ do we accomplish this in the next three

1:30:52 ↗ months

1:30:53 ↗ but but

1:30:54 ↗ your spreadsheet

1:30:56 ↗ comments are spot on

1:30:58 ↗ that that is the intent is to take these

1:31:00 ↗ criteria

1:31:03 ↗ take the four park areas now

1:31:06 ↗ identify

1:31:09 ↗ with methune

1:31:11 ↗ and with this conversation about these

1:31:13 ↗ criteria

1:31:15 ↗ how do we start identifying what what

1:31:17 ↗ does four million dollars look like

1:31:19 ↗ at each of those and and begin to start

1:31:22 ↗ to filter those

1:31:23 ↗ ideas through

1:31:25 ↗ each of these criteria

1:31:27 ↗ and give you all give us something to

1:31:29 ↗ really start to

1:31:31 ↗ discuss

1:31:32 ↗ and evaluate

1:31:34 ↗ as we head into our next meeting

1:31:39 ↗ one additional quick thought jeff i i'm

1:31:42 ↗ sorry nicholas i forgot about the hand

1:31:44 ↗ raised thing too

1:31:46 ↗ um

1:31:47 ↗ getting used to it uh i liked marlene's

1:31:49 ↗ call about call out for woodenville as

1:31:51 ↗ well and would love to know if there's

1:31:52 ↗ other examples out there

1:31:55 ↗ of you know parks that people have run

1:31:57 ↗ into and or maybe it's

1:31:59 ↗ an email thread or some type of shared

1:32:01 ↗ place not necessarily right now on the

1:32:03 ↗ call but to be able to to bring in some

1:32:06 ↗ of these

1:32:07 ↗ you know best examples north stars

1:32:10 ↗ things like that from from other towns

1:32:12 ↗ that we might consider for for

1:32:13 ↗ inspiration here

1:32:17 ↗ yeah great idea nicholas i see your hand

1:32:19 ↗ up

1:32:20 ↗ sorry

1:32:22 ↗ yeah

1:32:23 ↗ sorry um i was going to add

1:32:24 ↗ something different i'll add that in a

1:32:26 ↗ second but you know from

1:32:28 ↗ another neighbor to our north on the

1:32:29 ↗ other side of the lake um both downtown

1:32:32 ↗ park and redmond and the central redmond

1:32:34 ↗ connector were

1:32:36 ↗ big projects that focused on these some

1:32:38 ↗ of these same attributes as we developed

1:32:39 ↗ them out knowing the city was going to

1:32:41 ↗ grow with light rail and and get that

1:32:42 ↗ mixed use development infill and if you

1:32:44 ↗ go to redmond now it doesn't look like

1:32:46 ↗ it did even

1:32:47 ↗ five years ago when i lived there i mean

1:32:48 ↗ it's just it's a totally different

1:32:49 ↗ downtown feel so

1:32:51 ↗ those are bigger than four million

1:32:52 ↗ dollars though and the comment i wanted

1:32:54 ↗ to make is watching that count the

1:32:55 ↗ council deliberate on this is that there

1:32:57 ↗ was some

1:32:58 ↗ definitely there was commentary about uh

1:33:01 ↗ over to brad's point you know making an

1:33:03 ↗ impact the community can see and feel

1:33:05 ↗ um and i think the gap jeffy can correct

1:33:07 ↗ me if i'm wrong because i know you were

1:33:08 ↗ on that call

1:33:09 ↗ or on that meeting the gap between six

1:33:11 ↗ and four million dollars was the two

1:33:13 ↗ million was carved out from the mayor's

1:33:14 ↗ proposal to do other strategic

1:33:16 ↗ acquisitions along the creek corridor

1:33:19 ↗ anyway that were

1:33:21 ↗ um so it's kind of like there's that

1:33:22 ↗ money didn't just disappear but it was

1:33:25 ↗ allocated specifically to creek court or

1:33:27 ↗ acquisition already and so this is kind

1:33:28 ↗ of like what else can we do with this

1:33:30 ↗ four million to make that splash for the

1:33:32 ↗ community

1:33:34 ↗ yeah you're absolutely right nicholas

1:33:36 ↗ from uh from a

1:33:37 ↗ a park development

1:33:40 ↗ standpoint right it says 4 million from

1:33:42 ↗ uh in the 2 million really it sounds

1:33:45 ↗ like a council goal was to look at that

1:33:48 ↗ as investments in acquisition

1:33:52 ↗ yes with a focus on

1:33:54 ↗ uh some of the key gaps uh within as we

1:33:57 ↗ try and accomplish the creek corridor

1:34:02 ↗ i believe brenda's had her

1:34:04 ↗ hand up for a while i'm not sure if she

1:34:06 ↗ still has a comment

1:34:08 ↗ i'm here i was running real low on

1:34:10 ↗ battery so i had to move around so i'm

1:34:12 ↗ not quite viewable yet but i was

1:34:14 ↗ listening into the city council meeting

1:34:17 ↗ as well and brad i did get the

1:34:19 ↗ impression that they

1:34:21 ↗ were leaning towards confluence park for

1:34:23 ↗ it for

1:34:25 ↗ one one thought and the other thing that

1:34:27 ↗ i want to reiterate reiterate what

1:34:29 ↗ you've all said is that they wanted

1:34:31 ↗ something impactful that would help draw

1:34:33 ↗ to the community

1:34:35 ↗ um

1:34:36 ↗ which goes with the wooden bill how when

1:34:38 ↗ you go into loonville it's just

1:34:40 ↗ shock and awe you're just saying wow

1:34:41 ↗ this is beautiful

1:34:43 ↗ and we don't quite have that they also

1:34:45 ↗ brought up the

1:34:47 ↗ aging look to veterans park

1:34:50 ↗ as an area we might look at again four

1:34:52 ↗ million isn't much but where what

1:34:54 ↗ direction do you see us going from their

1:34:56 ↗ comments

1:35:03 ↗ i i i think

1:35:07 ↗ from their comments i i think their

1:35:09 ↗ comments were fantastic i think their

1:35:10 ↗ comments are very reflective of you put

1:35:13 ↗ any seven residents in a room and that's

1:35:16 ↗ them where they would like

1:35:18 ↗ uh park investments to go and um

1:35:22 ↗ there's gonna be a mix of of everything

1:35:24 ↗ and i don't mean to say that

1:35:25 ↗ light-hearted i think that's just that's

1:35:27 ↗ a reality you're right i think there was

1:35:30 ↗ interest in confluence i think there was

1:35:31 ↗ interest by another council member in

1:35:33 ↗ the crete corridor i think there was an

1:35:36 ↗ interest in another council member in

1:35:39 ↗ one of the other parks as well and so um

1:35:42 ↗ i yeah i i don't say that as a

1:35:44 ↗ discouragement and nicholas i think you

1:35:46 ↗ said this well four million dollars is

1:35:48 ↗ not going to go super far

1:35:50 ↗ um

1:35:52 ↗ i don't want this to intimidate us

1:35:54 ↗ there's a lot of amazing opportunities

1:35:57 ↗ we have here in issaquah system and so

1:36:01 ↗ i think the goal ahead of us is

1:36:04 ↗ to try and have some degree of logic as

1:36:07 ↗ we

1:36:09 ↗ jump into our next meeting and start

1:36:11 ↗ looking at specific sites and specific

1:36:14 ↗ types and levels of investment

1:36:17 ↗ that it doesn't just feel like a

1:36:18 ↗ popularity contest but it gives us at

1:36:21 ↗ least some

1:36:23 ↗ criteria to try and and and bounce off

1:36:25 ↗ in this discussion because i would

1:36:27 ↗ imagine um

1:36:29 ↗ you're all going to have your own

1:36:31 ↗ interests to where you would like the

1:36:32 ↗ four million dollars to go and that's

1:36:34 ↗ going to be really important that you're

1:36:35 ↗ able to voice that but as as you all

1:36:38 ↗ voice that and as we voice that

1:36:40 ↗ how are we driving towards

1:36:42 ↗ some type of collective

1:36:45 ↗ and not just feeling like we're

1:36:48 ↗ trying to

1:36:50 ↗ sort of manipulate our way to it to a

1:36:53 ↗ decision so

1:36:54 ↗ you know having worked in other other

1:36:57 ↗ other cities um i think it's a

1:37:01 ↗ i think we're in it though it seems

1:37:03 ↗ daunting but we're in a good place and

1:37:05 ↗ that i think

1:37:09 ↗ this 4 million can be invested a lot of

1:37:11 ↗ different places and and

1:37:15 ↗ opinions are going to vary widely

1:37:19 ↗ i think i saw chris and marlene forgive

1:37:21 ↗ me if i missed anyone else and brad

1:37:26 ↗ uh a bunch of thoughts so

1:37:29 ↗ yeah i think you said this but if you

1:37:31 ↗ could please repeat remind me is it by

1:37:33 ↗ 2024 by the end of 2024

1:37:37 ↗ which one

1:37:39 ↗ by the end of 2024

1:37:42 ↗ okay so that's

1:37:44 ↗ 24 months plus

1:37:46 ↗ november december

1:37:48 ↗ um

1:37:50 ↗ and

1:37:51 ↗ what we probably should

1:37:54 ↗ know and i guess i'm kind of looking

1:37:56 ↗ towards jennifer but she probably knows

1:37:58 ↗ this all

1:37:59 ↗ inside and out but uh

1:38:02 ↗ we were to take the different projects

1:38:04 ↗ we have in their different timelines you

1:38:06 ↗ know what what of those could be slid up

1:38:10 ↗ to november of 2022 as a start date and

1:38:13 ↗ actually finish by 2024 december 2024

1:38:18 ↗ and

1:38:19 ↗ if none of those are among these

1:38:23 ↗ that we are looking at

1:38:24 ↗ is there a way to

1:38:27 ↗ uh manage the money you know i think

1:38:29 ↗ katie was maybe alluding to this and i'm

1:38:31 ↗ not saying this is what i want to do but

1:38:33 ↗ it's an idea at least

1:38:35 ↗ if we

1:38:36 ↗ pay for the uh dog park say with some of

1:38:40 ↗ this which isn't necessarily that

1:38:42 ↗ impactful result we're trying to achieve

1:38:45 ↗ but then we use dog park money to go

1:38:49 ↗ into 2025 and actually finish the

1:38:51 ↗ impactful project

1:38:53 ↗ i think as long as we could demonstrate

1:38:55 ↗ to the council and to you know our

1:38:59 ↗ uh community

1:39:00 ↗ that we're submit you know managing

1:39:02 ↗ things enough to get to this impactful

1:39:04 ↗ result

1:39:05 ↗ it

1:39:06 ↗ doesn't necessarily have to be by 2024

1:39:09 ↗ as long as the money is wisely spent by

1:39:11 ↗ then

1:39:12 ↗ um

1:39:13 ↗ some considerations

1:39:18 ↗ thanks uh marlene and then brad

1:39:21 ↗ great i'm watching the clock a little

1:39:23 ↗ bit here i think we're having a good

1:39:25 ↗ discussion i do want to make sure we

1:39:27 ↗ move to some potential actions knowing

1:39:29 ↗ time is of the essence i think one of

1:39:31 ↗ the things that i have heard kind of

1:39:33 ↗ through this i'm looking at the chat

1:39:34 ↗ with the

1:39:36 ↗ bulleted list

1:39:37 ↗ where it says level of community access

1:39:39 ↗ and benefit i think there was a lot of

1:39:41 ↗ talk about

1:39:42 ↗ a parent or immediate benefit right so

1:39:45 ↗ that might be a wording choice in the

1:39:47 ↗ criteria that might be an adjustment

1:39:49 ↗ otherwise it sounds like you know

1:39:52 ↗ people are rallying around sort of these

1:39:54 ↗ um

1:39:56 ↗ sort of criteria that you have mentioned

1:39:58 ↗ i don't know if this is this is

1:40:00 ↗ discussion but i think it would be in

1:40:02 ↗ our best interest

1:40:03 ↗ uh to get a small group of folks

1:40:05 ↗ together to potentially develop a

1:40:07 ↗ weighted criteria matrix or some type of

1:40:09 ↗ you know what we're calling the

1:40:10 ↗ spreadsheet for lack of a better term

1:40:12 ↗ but um

1:40:13 ↗ would love to get a small group together

1:40:15 ↗ so we can have something to react to

1:40:17 ↗ within the next

1:40:18 ↗ time so

1:40:21 ↗ that would be something i would be

1:40:22 ↗ willing to do with a small group of

1:40:24 ↗ folks if uh

1:40:25 ↗ that sort of building of that criter

1:40:27 ↗ weighted criteria matrix

1:40:29 ↗ spreadsheet is something that other

1:40:31 ↗ folks might be interested in doing i

1:40:33 ↗ know we have a fair amount of product

1:40:34 ↗ managers on this call as well so they're

1:40:36 ↗ used to requirements

1:40:38 ↗ but uh you know would be curious from

1:40:41 ↗ the group specifically

1:40:42 ↗ if there's any criteria that we are

1:40:44 ↗ specifically missing

1:40:46 ↗ or if anyone wants to advocate for any

1:40:49 ↗ that are more important than others i

1:40:51 ↗ think we've talked about being able to

1:40:52 ↗ get it done on time

1:40:55 ↗ and being impactful as some of the key

1:40:57 ↗ ones the level of project readiness

1:41:00 ↗ community i think those were some of the

1:41:02 ↗ key components that we've we've talked

1:41:04 ↗ about so far i wondered if anyone would

1:41:05 ↗ advocate for other ones that are rising

1:41:07 ↗ to the top from a prioritization list

1:41:16 ↗ i definitely think the formation of the

1:41:18 ↗ task force for i mean possibly or

1:41:21 ↗ developing the matrix sounds like a like

1:41:24 ↗ a good idea for uh something to be done

1:41:27 ↗ in the interim and i'm sorry brad did

1:41:29 ↗ you have a comment as well

1:41:32 ↗ yeah and it may just be a matter of

1:41:34 ↗ definition here i mean i i think one of

1:41:36 ↗ the things to try and

1:41:39 ↗ consider in the

1:41:41 ↗ um

1:41:44 ↗ in in the priorities of um

1:41:47 ↗ the level of community access and

1:41:50 ↗ benefit i mean i think one of the things

1:41:52 ↗ that has to be looked at is

1:41:55 ↗ is the level of impact

1:41:57 ↗ you know

1:41:58 ↗ and i guess the level of benefit i mean

1:42:01 ↗ i guess that's how you define it but i

1:42:03 ↗ mean i

1:42:04 ↗ in each one of the anchor parks four

1:42:06 ↗ million dollars is going to get you so

1:42:08 ↗ far

1:42:09 ↗ differently

1:42:10 ↗ and so when we actually deal with this

1:42:13 ↗ spreadsheet

1:42:14 ↗ ideally you want to get to the point of

1:42:16 ↗ where is the most impact for your dollar

1:42:19 ↗ is going to be i mean that's kind of the

1:42:21 ↗ bottom line at least as it relates to

1:42:24 ↗ arpa money

1:42:26 ↗ and um

1:42:31 ↗ and so somehow we need to get to get to

1:42:33 ↗ that uh

1:42:35 ↗ you know level of impact for four

1:42:37 ↗ million dollars

1:42:40 ↗ whether that needs to be rephrased or

1:42:41 ↗ whether it's good enough i'll leave that

1:42:44 ↗ open

1:42:46 ↗ thanks

1:42:49 ↗ um jeff do we need to uh move on to the

1:42:52 ↗ scheduling

1:42:53 ↗ section

1:42:55 ↗ time-wise

1:42:56 ↗ i can i can cover that in a in a quick

1:42:58 ↗ two or three minutes if we want to

1:43:00 ↗ continue this thread i think you guys

1:43:02 ↗ are all having a really good discussion

1:43:04 ↗ i i i put back out on the table

1:43:06 ↗ marlene's suggestion that you know if

1:43:08 ↗ there is a group of you again below a

1:43:11 ↗ quorum that wanted to be a subgroup that

1:43:14 ↗ uh want you know as jennifer and i are

1:43:16 ↗ working with and we'll be working with

1:43:18 ↗ methuen on what that spreadsheet looks

1:43:20 ↗ like

1:43:21 ↗ um

1:43:22 ↗ um it'd be great you know maybe that if

1:43:24 ↗ there's three of you that wanted to be a

1:43:26 ↗ a sub group

1:43:27 ↗ um

1:43:34 ↗ see marlene would be happy to help

1:43:38 ↗ i saw um andrew myers pop up first so

1:43:44 ↗ andrew

1:43:46 ↗ and who else would like to be part of

1:43:47 ↗ that

1:43:48 ↗ i saw both andrews raise their hand

1:43:50 ↗ chris raised his hand marlene

1:43:54 ↗ volunteered

1:43:56 ↗ we'd have to stop at four to stay under

1:43:58 ↗ quorum right

1:44:01 ↗ would there be a difference with um

1:44:03 ↗ alternate person could we be could

1:44:05 ↗ everyone be involved as long as we have

1:44:07 ↗ one of the folks as an alternate are you

1:44:09 ↗ still a quorum no it's still four

1:44:11 ↗ okay

1:44:12 ↗ yeah

1:44:13 ↗ i can drop out i'm fine with that

1:44:16 ↗ or i can drop out

1:44:20 ↗ i i can i don't know who else has

1:44:22 ↗ alternates but

1:44:24 ↗ happy to

1:44:26 ↗ um defer if

1:44:29 ↗ needed to

1:44:37 ↗ i think uh marlene andrew

1:44:39 ↗ e and chris your first string here so

1:44:43 ↗ feel free to take it and if there's a

1:44:45 ↗ opportunity i'm sure to upcoming

1:44:48 ↗ where if you need additional feedback or

1:44:50 ↗ a second set of eyes

1:44:52 ↗ you know however to do that above board

1:44:54 ↗ happy to to participate in that capacity

1:44:58 ↗ i really appreciate that andrew i guess

1:45:01 ↗ what i heard was marlene it could be

1:45:04 ↗ marlene andrew andrew and chris

1:45:08 ↗ there's four right there would be that

1:45:10 ↗ would work oh that still keeps us under

1:45:12 ↗ obviously before was okay

1:45:16 ↗ yeah so if we stay at four we're good

1:45:19 ↗ okay cool

1:45:21 ↗ and uh we'll reach back out to you as

1:45:24 ↗ jeff and i get with the consultant team

1:45:26 ↗ and get a few materials lined up

1:45:30 ↗ so we'll we'll reach back up get some

1:45:32 ↗ meeting scheduled david i saw your hand

1:45:34 ↗ up

1:45:35 ↗ yeah i just i just had a question about

1:45:38 ↗ just total scale that we're looking at

1:45:40 ↗ so if you can share with us jeff or

1:45:41 ↗ anybody else on the team like what is

1:45:43 ↗ the normal

1:45:44 ↗ yearly annual budget for capital

1:45:46 ↗ expenditures like is this four million

1:45:48 ↗ dollars huge or is it just kind of a

1:45:50 ↗ smaller part of what we're looking at

1:45:53 ↗ it's a really good question for par for

1:45:55 ↗ parks trails and open space is that what

1:45:57 ↗ you're asking

1:45:59 ↗ sure yeah i i think it it it it reflects

1:46:03 ↗ for issaquah pretty sizable investment

1:46:06 ↗ i i would say our

1:46:09 ↗ our capital program

1:46:11 ↗ uh within the city for parks

1:46:14 ↗ including acquisition uh which is

1:46:17 ↗ probably a majority of the capital

1:46:19 ↗ investment uh

1:46:21 ↗ within any any budget year

1:46:23 ↗ but a singular

1:46:25 ↗ sort of four million dollar investment

1:46:29 ↗ probably represents a doubling of of

1:46:34 ↗ a typical capital

1:46:37 ↗ capital investment capital project

1:46:39 ↗ more recently i think maybe that's

1:46:41 ↗ changed i think for context and you know

1:46:43 ↗ in 2018 we completed

1:46:46 ↗ central park pad one the two new

1:46:49 ↗ synthetic turf fields up there that was

1:46:52 ↗ roughly a five million dollar project in

1:46:54 ↗ 2018

1:46:56 ↗ um

1:46:59 ↗ boy more recently

1:47:01 ↗ i'm trying to think of what some of our

1:47:03 ↗ other bigger capital investments jen um

1:47:06 ↗ confluence park

1:47:08 ↗ yeah urban irrigation at confluence park

1:47:11 ↗ was close to 600 000

1:47:13 ↗ our state park was collectively with

1:47:16 ↗ design and permitting things was you

1:47:18 ↗ know

1:47:19 ↗ close to six as well

1:47:21 ↗ six hundred thousand

1:47:23 ↗ but under a million so yeah so

1:47:26 ↗ that's a pretty sizable sizeable project

1:47:28 ↗ first of all

1:47:29 ↗ if that helps you okay yeah

1:47:32 ↗ yeah it does and just a follow-up

1:47:33 ↗ comment i think you know heading towards

1:47:35 ↗ this matrix and having weightings and

1:47:37 ↗ everything will be great when we

1:47:38 ↗ actually see the full list and then can

1:47:40 ↗ score them but i think what would also

1:47:42 ↗ be interesting is just

1:47:43 ↗ for you jeff and maybe jen also having

1:47:46 ↗ kind of your roadmap of if you had

1:47:48 ↗ unlimited spend and unlimited time what

1:47:50 ↗ would you stack rank them and then

1:47:52 ↗ without influencing us just have that on

1:47:54 ↗ the side so that when we finish our kind

1:47:56 ↗ of ranking just to compare the two lists

1:47:58 ↗ um that would be also pretty powerful

1:48:00 ↗ and then we can debate that obviously so

1:48:08 ↗ good suggestion

1:48:11 ↗ so with remaining time can i share my

1:48:14 ↗ screen again and and just talk a little

1:48:16 ↗ bit about um schedule some of this i

1:48:19 ↗ think we've already

1:48:20 ↗ sort of emphasized

1:48:23 ↗ forgive me as i do all the sharing steps

1:48:26 ↗ here

1:48:28 ↗ you all see that now

1:48:32 ↗ so what we have ahead

1:48:34 ↗ both for sort of our work in these next

1:48:36 ↗ couple of well really august september

1:48:38 ↗ and october as as jennifer and i have

1:48:41 ↗ sort of taken a first look at

1:48:44 ↗ um i think to many of your points

1:48:47 ↗ while if we get a council decision in

1:48:49 ↗ november there's some early work we need

1:48:51 ↗ to do in these months so that once this

1:48:54 ↗ decision is made

1:48:55 ↗ um we are well and into design

1:49:01 ↗ design docs and permitting so

1:49:04 ↗ thank you

1:49:06 ↗ the four of you for

1:49:08 ↗ volunteering and work helping to work

1:49:11 ↗ with us on the matrix i think that's

1:49:13 ↗ really going to help when we come back

1:49:14 ↗ in august

1:49:16 ↗ we'd really like to dive more

1:49:17 ↗ specifically with these criteria into

1:49:20 ↗ beginning to scope

1:49:22 ↗ potential projects

1:49:24 ↗ bethune can be really really helpful in

1:49:26 ↗ looking at current dollars and

1:49:28 ↗ just general cost considerations how far

1:49:32 ↗ will 4 million dollars get us

1:49:34 ↗ but really beginning to do that work in

1:49:36 ↗ earnest in august

1:49:39 ↗ and probably dovetailing into september

1:49:42 ↗ something we've brainstormed and would

1:49:44 ↗ like to talk further with you all

1:49:47 ↗ and even maybe the subgroup is

1:49:50 ↗ having some degree of public engagement

1:49:53 ↗ perhaps in september

1:49:55 ↗ getting some broader perspective

1:49:58 ↗ amongst disappoint residents feels like

1:50:01 ↗ an important thing we want to do here in

1:50:03 ↗ august september

1:50:05 ↗ so that we're positioned maybe we're

1:50:07 ↗ having multiple meetings in october

1:50:09 ↗ something else to to pay attention to

1:50:11 ↗ this this might be calling for a special

1:50:13 ↗ meeting or or another but it would be

1:50:16 ↗ great by october

1:50:18 ↗ uh we feel like we're getting really

1:50:19 ↗ close to beginning to putting putting

1:50:21 ↗ together our feedback back to counsel

1:50:25 ↗ both as sort of some rationale and

1:50:27 ↗ justification

1:50:28 ↗ but also framing up a recommendation

1:50:32 ↗ that then would be handed to council as

1:50:34 ↗ their they would already be in their

1:50:36 ↗ budget process in october

1:50:38 ↗ but will be

1:50:39 ↗ adopting their budget typical if it's a

1:50:41 ↗ typical year

1:50:43 ↗ they'll be adopting their budget in the

1:50:44 ↗ middle of

1:50:47 ↗ their budget they'll be adopting the

1:50:48 ↗ city budget

1:50:50 ↗ in the middle of november

1:50:53 ↗ again with with sort of thinking of that

1:50:55 ↗ work in mind knowing we're going to need

1:50:57 ↗ to springboard

1:50:59 ↗ as i said earlier

1:51:01 ↗ at that point really into

1:51:03 ↗ design and cds construction documents um

1:51:06 ↗ as you know not not knowing what we're

1:51:09 ↗ going to build but knowing we're going

1:51:10 ↗ to have a permitting window that we're

1:51:12 ↗ going to need to get through

1:51:14 ↗ i think we're understanding

1:51:16 ↗ i mean giving ourselves a

1:51:18 ↗ relatively conservative

1:51:21 ↗ amount of time but really important that

1:51:23 ↗ permitting process takes longer than you

1:51:25 ↗ would think

1:51:27 ↗ but within reality when you start

1:51:29 ↗ looking at construction windows

1:51:30 ↗ construction seasons

1:51:32 ↗ we're really looking at one construction

1:51:35 ↗ season in in 2024 where we can

1:51:39 ↗ maybe come started early

1:51:41 ↗ in the winter of 24 but be completing it

1:51:44 ↗ and cutting a ribbon by the end of

1:51:46 ↗ the end of that year end of december

1:51:52 ↗ so again not uh not a firm finite finish

1:51:55 ↗ schedule but

1:51:57 ↗ certainly a tentative schedule that is

1:51:58 ↗ we are thinking of this work now in the

1:52:00 ↗ next three months

1:52:02 ↗ it needs to fit into that

1:52:04 ↗ that shot clock of um of end of december

1:52:08 ↗ completion a question about that jeff

1:52:11 ↗ yeah um how

1:52:13 ↗ in terms of knowing what 4 million will

1:52:15 ↗ get us is there

1:52:17 ↗ anyone on the board with enough

1:52:20 ↗ expertise or do we need to do some type

1:52:23 ↗ of lightweight request for proposal

1:52:25 ↗ process

1:52:26 ↗ in the next couple months to know

1:52:28 ↗ whether the ideas were proposing in

1:52:32 ↗ october and november

1:52:34 ↗ um

1:52:34 ↗ are within striking distance before um

1:52:37 ↗ the construction

1:52:39 ↗ estimates actually begin

1:52:41 ↗ yeah thankfully andrew you as as an

1:52:44 ↗ advisory board you're you're not needing

1:52:46 ↗ to make those budgetary decisions so

1:52:48 ↗ we'll we have a consultant team

1:52:51 ↗ uh methune architects who will be doing

1:52:52 ↗ that cost estimating for us

1:52:55 ↗ um and we'll

1:52:56 ↗ rely on them in our august september

1:52:59 ↗ deliberations to be giving us a good

1:53:01 ↗ sense of

1:53:02 ↗ um

1:53:03 ↗ of of you know what or how far that

1:53:06 ↗ money will go

1:53:08 ↗ gotcha so they're kind of helping us

1:53:11 ↗ set some reasonable guard rails to make

1:53:14 ↗ sure we're not

1:53:15 ↗ dreaming up spaceships when

1:53:17 ↗ yeah

1:53:19 ↗ exactly exactly yeah yeah so we would do

1:53:22 ↗ the criteria against

1:53:24 ↗ you know and just asking if this is true

1:53:26 ↗ jennifer and jeff of

1:53:28 ↗ okay if we chose veterans it would we

1:53:30 ↗ would you know the potential ideas and

1:53:32 ↗ veterans for four million dollars might

1:53:34 ↗ be x y and z for tibbetts it might be a

1:53:37 ↗ b and c and a confluence it that maybe

1:53:39 ↗ you know whatever another letter i

1:53:40 ↗ haven't said d right and so then

1:53:42 ↗ that would be what we we can build the

1:53:44 ↗ criteria matrix ahead of time but then

1:53:46 ↗ we would use methuen's sort of project

1:53:48 ↗ list to then you know bump those all up

1:53:51 ↗ against each other would that be sort of

1:53:52 ↗ the process by which we'd go through in

1:53:54 ↗ august

1:53:55 ↗ correct precisely yes and as i've been

1:53:58 ↗ having sort of these 2 a.m thoughts as

1:54:00 ↗ well right i mean that's where i think

1:54:01 ↗ the criteria could be helpful too that

1:54:03 ↗ is as we're thinking of the what could

1:54:05 ↗ be done on that site we're also thinking

1:54:07 ↗ all right what how are we thinking of

1:54:09 ↗ phasing okay where where would that

1:54:11 ↗ where would that happen on the site and

1:54:13 ↗ are we

1:54:14 ↗ right able to construct in a way that it

1:54:17 ↗ it it

1:54:18 ↗ allows future phases to flourish versus

1:54:21 ↗ getting in the way um for an example so

1:54:24 ↗ yep

1:54:26 ↗ this is going to feel this is going to

1:54:28 ↗ feel iterative in a way right that that

1:54:30 ↗ you know the the

1:54:32 ↗ this conversation very thank you so much

1:54:35 ↗ just having this discussion and getting

1:54:37 ↗ your your general feedback on the

1:54:39 ↗ criteria um i heard a number of key

1:54:42 ↗ points thank you for the chat box as

1:54:44 ↗ well i think finding a way

1:54:46 ↗ um in the criteria to make sure one of

1:54:48 ↗ those criteria is picking up maintenance

1:54:50 ↗ and sort of the long range

1:54:52 ↗ costs to that

1:54:54 ↗ singular capital investment is a great

1:54:56 ↗ point

1:54:58 ↗ i heard parking capacity and sort of the

1:55:00 ↗ other support amenities support

1:55:03 ↗ facilities are they are they there

1:55:06 ↗ or do we have to invest more into those

1:55:08 ↗ as we're making this investment um again

1:55:11 ↗ another really important site

1:55:12 ↗ consideration

1:55:14 ↗ um

1:55:15 ↗ so

1:55:17 ↗ again this this in the iterative process

1:55:19 ↗ is super helpful in

1:55:21 ↗ i think making a more informed matrix uh

1:55:24 ↗ that will really let us hit the ground

1:55:25 ↗ running um with

1:55:28 ↗ those sort of more site-by-site

1:55:30 ↗ conversations

1:55:32 ↗ in august

1:55:38 ↗ all right any other comments questions

1:55:40 ↗ uh with regards to uh community

1:55:44 ↗ investment strategy

1:55:47 ↗ well getting the group together be owned

1:55:49 ↗ by somebody on the city

1:55:53 ↗ yes jennifer yeah we will we'll take the

1:55:55 ↗ lead on that on

1:55:56 ↗ marlene chris andrew and andrew

1:55:59 ↗ getting some

1:56:00 ↗ some dates and times

1:56:02 ↗ and checking schedules

1:56:05 ↗ for the other three-fourths of my law

1:56:06 ↗ firm

1:56:08 ↗ what a amazing way to start

1:56:11 ↗ a parks board

1:56:12 ↗ job because you don't often get a

1:56:15 ↗ council that's ready to just kind of

1:56:16 ↗ commit

1:56:17 ↗ you know this kind of backing i was so

1:56:19 ↗ excited when i was watching those

1:56:20 ↗ council meetings just be like wow you're

1:56:21 ↗ just walking into this

1:56:23 ↗ uh gift of of uh of government funding

1:56:26 ↗ to go ahead and make your community a

1:56:28 ↗ better place so wow we're off to a great

1:56:30 ↗ start

1:56:32 ↗ and thanks for thanks for allowing me to

1:56:34 ↗ join

1:56:39 ↗ you bet thank you all of you

1:56:43 ↗ all right well i think we'll wrap things

1:56:46 ↗ up with the chair and director report i

1:56:48 ↗ don't believe ryan's here for the youth

1:56:51 ↗ report

1:56:53 ↗ um so

1:56:54 ↗ just a couple of quick uh items that i

1:56:56 ↗ have uh issaquah is uh has turned 130

1:57:00 ↗ years old so there is uh some various

1:57:03 ↗ festivities in the uh city

1:57:05 ↗ uh looks like it started last weekend

1:57:07 ↗ with the farmers market

1:57:10 ↗ seems that

1:57:11 ↗ unearthed the time capsule and there's a

1:57:14 ↗ chalk festival

1:57:15 ↗ on the rainier trail

1:57:18 ↗ also just i know we spoke about it

1:57:20 ↗ before but it's exciting to see on the

1:57:23 ↗ city news letter about the acquisition

1:57:25 ↗ of the squawk mountain estates the 20

1:57:27 ↗ acres and the

1:57:29 ↗ cooperation with the state parks about

1:57:31 ↗ creating some corridors trail corridors

1:57:33 ↗ in there which i'm very excited about

1:57:37 ↗ and also uh

1:57:39 ↗ on the city website what appears uh

1:57:42 ↗ seeking input for uh better

1:57:43 ↗ accessibility within the uh within the

1:57:46 ↗ city um

1:57:48 ↗ and that uh survey is running until

1:57:51 ↗ august 31st um

1:57:54 ↗ and finally um

1:57:56 ↗ brad sent me over the newsletter from

1:57:59 ↗ mountains to sound greenway it appears

1:58:00 ↗ there's um

1:58:02 ↗ some great youth internships related to

1:58:05 ↗ clean water

1:58:07 ↗ and just sustainable systems

1:58:09 ↗ so

1:58:10 ↗ some interesting

1:58:12 ↗ opportunities available there

1:58:15 ↗ that's all i have

1:58:18 ↗ jeff

1:58:20 ↗ well thanks for those highlights zach

1:58:22 ↗ you're right lots lots going on the the

1:58:24 ↗ 130-year time capsule will be at the at

1:58:27 ↗ the concert tomorrow night if any of you

1:58:29 ↗ are interested in coming by the

1:58:31 ↗ community center for the concert on the

1:58:33 ↗ green at

1:58:34 ↗ seven o'clock

1:58:36 ↗ a couple highlights to add

1:58:39 ↗ along with this work some other capital

1:58:41 ↗ projects are underway uh yes exciting

1:58:43 ↗ news about the acquisition i'm happy to

1:58:46 ↗ report out that blackberry park

1:58:50 ↗ construction will begin august the 2nd

1:58:53 ↗ thank you jen for leading and managing

1:58:55 ↗ that project you'd be amazed

1:58:58 ↗ at a supply chain and inventory

1:59:02 ↗ hiccups that continue to

1:59:05 ↗ cloud pretty much any type of industry

1:59:07 ↗ including play equipment

1:59:09 ↗ but we're really excited we've shared

1:59:11 ↗ that update with the neighborhood

1:59:14 ↗ the pickleball court the existing court

1:59:16 ↗ has been resurfaced already

1:59:18 ↗ but that work gets started in earnest

1:59:21 ↗ next week and uh we'll be excited to cut

1:59:24 ↗ a ribbon on that park here

1:59:28 ↗ later this fall um also hillside park

1:59:32 ↗ quick quick update we'll have more more

1:59:34 ↗ news to share and we'll want to add that

1:59:36 ↗ and and save room for that at our august

1:59:38 ↗ meeting so

1:59:40 ↗ um

1:59:41 ↗ thank you to many of you that were able

1:59:43 ↗ to attend either our site visit or our

1:59:45 ↗ virtual meeting

1:59:47 ↗ we also took a lot received a lot of

1:59:49 ↗ community feedback

1:59:51 ↗ on

1:59:52 ↗ the play concepts we had for hillside

1:59:54 ↗ park

1:59:57 ↗ our landscape architect consultant is

1:59:59 ↗ now working through all of that feedback

2:00:02 ↗ uh working up a

2:00:05 ↗ preferred concept based on that feedback

2:00:08 ↗ um

2:00:09 ↗ encouraging news a lot of the feedback

2:00:11 ↗ we heard was very supportive and felt

2:00:13 ↗ like we were headed in the right

2:00:15 ↗ direction in

2:00:17 ↗ that very careful mix of of

2:00:20 ↗ adding play into that neighborhood park

2:00:22 ↗ but really preserving that natural

2:00:25 ↗ character and sort of serene feel of of

2:00:28 ↗ hillside park

2:00:29 ↗ we got some really good feedback on

2:00:32 ↗ some ideas around maybe moving some of

2:00:34 ↗ the play amenities as they were proposed

2:00:36 ↗ and so

2:00:37 ↗ the consultants taking that feedback and

2:00:40 ↗ and we'll be

2:00:43 ↗ putting together a

2:00:45 ↗ sort of a preferred concept that we plan

2:00:47 ↗ to share with the neighbors here in

2:00:50 ↗ august

2:00:51 ↗ our goal to the city council was to have

2:00:54 ↗ a

2:00:55 ↗ preferred concept completed or at least

2:00:58 ↗ ready with some consensus around it by

2:01:00 ↗ the end of august uh we'd like to bring

2:01:02 ↗ to you um

2:01:04 ↗ not only that preferred concept in

2:01:06 ↗ august but also the feedback we heard

2:01:08 ↗ from the neighborhood as as we're i

2:01:10 ↗ think working really well towards

2:01:12 ↗ building consensus um there

2:01:15 ↗ another key part of that project is the

2:01:17 ↗ mitigation work uh so jennifer and i

2:01:20 ↗ have been

2:01:21 ↗ meeting with not only our consultant

2:01:24 ↗ environmentalists but

2:01:26 ↗ getting feedback from the army corps of

2:01:28 ↗ engineers from state department of

2:01:30 ↗ ecology from our own permitting

2:01:32 ↗ department

2:01:33 ↗ we will have by august a really good

2:01:35 ↗ idea of what our mitigation plan is

2:01:40 ↗ on that work as you recall we have a

2:01:42 ↗ wetland that we're proposing to mitigate

2:01:45 ↗ elsewhere so that we can do the field

2:01:47 ↗ improvements

2:01:49 ↗ the community has been very very clear

2:01:51 ↗ and

2:01:52 ↗ near unanimous in their consensus that

2:01:54 ↗ they want the functionality of that

2:01:56 ↗ field

2:01:57 ↗ to

2:01:58 ↗ remain

2:01:59 ↗ at hillside park and so

2:02:02 ↗ we'll have that all wrapped up and an

2:02:05 ↗ update for you um at our august meeting

2:02:07 ↗ but um i think that project is uh

2:02:10 ↗ progressing well um in terms of finding

2:02:12 ↗ that that really important balance of

2:02:16 ↗ um added play added features in a

2:02:18 ↗ neighborhood park but but really keeping

2:02:20 ↗ the character that that community and

2:02:22 ↗ the surrounding neighbors want

2:02:24 ↗ um

2:02:26 ↗ we will also be just so you all know um

2:02:29 ↗ with the

2:02:30 ↗ mitigation work uh we'll be pursuing as

2:02:33 ↗ part of the budget process with council

2:02:35 ↗ for 2023 some additional funding

2:02:39 ↗ uh that is going to help uh pay for and

2:02:42 ↗ fund

2:02:42 ↗ um

2:02:43 ↗ the mitigation and field drainage work

2:02:47 ↗ so that

2:02:48 ↗ the the project budget can go towards

2:02:50 ↗ the the project amenities

2:02:52 ↗ as planned so

2:02:54 ↗ more to come

2:02:56 ↗ but just a quick update there

2:02:59 ↗ with more to more to share come

2:03:03 ↗ come august

2:03:05 ↗ and i think

2:03:08 ↗ looking at the time as well zach that's

2:03:10 ↗ that's probably enough for tonight um

2:03:12 ↗ lots lots going on it's been a

2:03:14 ↗ great another great summer here in

2:03:15 ↗ issaquah

2:03:18 ↗ all right i think with that we will

2:03:20 ↗ close out the meeting for today thanks

2:03:23 ↗ everyone

2:03:26 ↗ thank you so much everyone have a great

2:03:28 ↗ night

2:03:29 ↗ goodbye

2:03:30 ↗ thank you

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Council / Members (12)

Chris Kovac

Marlene Waxse

Zach Szablewski

Andrew Eliquen

David Liu

Nicholas Lee

Brenda Spears

Katie Bell

Tim Motley

Danielle Wolfrom Githens (absent, excused)

Bradley Book

Andrew Myers

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Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Jeff Watling, Parks & Community Services Director

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

Jennifer Fink, Park Planner & Project Administrator

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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