Park Board · Monday, January 23, 2023 · City Council Digest

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 28, 2022

packet pp.3–4

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 11-28-22 Park Board Minutes Page 1 CITY OF ISSAQUAH Park Board – Special Meeting 7:00 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave November 28, 2022 MINUTES NW, Issaquah, WA 98027

4. REGULAR BUSINESS

Title 18 Update

Information · 30 min · Brian Berntsen, Recreation Manager · packet pp.5–75

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · May 27, 2021 Planning Policy Commission · Jun 24, 2021 Planning Policy Commission · Jul 15, 2021 Planning Policy Commission · Jul 22, 2021

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Staff report:

The city is currently undertaking large overhaul of the Title 18, the City’s land use code. This update is being guided by various city adopted policies in the following documents: Strategic Plan, Comprehensive Plan & Olde Town Subarea Plan, Central Issaquah Plan, Parks Strategic Plan, Mobility Master Plan, Climate Action Plan and Title 18 Ad Hoc Committee created Goals, Policy Changes, and Desired Outcomes Document. This update also incorporates updates that are to ensure consistency with State Law and other best management practices. The Title 18 Update was divided into six “buckets” (topics) that include: Natural Environment; Landscape, Trees and Open Space; Zones and Uses; Building and Design; Zoning and Development Standards and Procedures and Administration.

2023 Park Board Workplan Items, (D)

20 min · Jeff Watling, Park Director · packet pp.87–88

Topics: Parks

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Staff report:

Issaquah Park Board 2023 Agenda Items – Work Plan Parks Administration and Park Planning • Hillside Neighborhood Park – ’23 Permitting and ’24 Construction • Veterans Memorial (Ped Pk and Snr Ctr)– ’23 Design/Permitting and ’24 Construction • Confluence Park (Ek House)- ’23 Design/Permitting and ’24 Construction • 6-year CIP update – 2024-2029 – (SPECIAL JOINT MTG February 16) • Park Strategic Plan Update – Initiate with Spring ’24 adoption • Citywide Athletic Field Assessment • Dog Park – Community Center/Rainier Trail

5. REPORTS

Chairperson's Report

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Youth Representative's Report

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Director's Report

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0:03 ↗ all right uh so welcome everyone to the

0:06 ↗ January 23rd 2023 meeting

0:11 ↗ um so I'll start off by taking uh

0:15 ↗ attendance so when I call your name

0:17 ↗ please either take yourself off mute or

0:19 ↗ acknowledge that you are present

0:22 ↗ um the Paris Marlene has excused and

0:25 ↗ David is also excused absence today so

0:28 ↗ Chris

0:29 ↗ present all right Andrew e Preston

0:32 ↗ all right Nicholas

0:35 ↗ Brenda okay president

0:45 ↗ I see Tim

0:48 ↗ I didn't hear you

0:51 ↗ and Daniel present Brad present and

0:56 ↗ Andrew M

1:00 ↗ M oh that's it sorry I couldn't unmute

1:03 ↗ myself

1:04 ↗ no problem

1:07 ↗ all right so

1:09 ↗ um next on the agenda the approval of

1:11 ↗ minutes from November 28 2022 meeting

1:14 ↗ did everyone get the opportunity to

1:17 ↗ review the minutes from November

1:21 ↗ great all right uh any questions

1:23 ↗ comments or objections

1:28 ↗ all right so if there are no objections

1:31 ↗ I hereby approve the minutes from

1:33 ↗ November 28th 2022.

1:37 ↗ all right

1:39 ↗ um so uh today we'll be uh going through

1:43 ↗ um a Title 18 update uh

1:46 ↗ um Recreation uh review update and uh

1:50 ↗ the 2023 North plan review

1:54 ↗ um next I'd like to open it up to any

1:57 ↗ public comment

1:59 ↗ um so

2:00 ↗ um

2:01 ↗ basically if you would like to step up

2:04 ↗ to the lectern state your name address

2:06 ↗ relationship to the city and try to

2:10 ↗ limit your comments to about five

2:11 ↗ minutes

2:14 ↗ um so uh any

2:17 ↗ um your speech is that short okay yeah

2:20 ↗ and used to the long version wait

2:24 ↗ but I'm not going to give my address

2:26 ↗ it's that's illegal to make me do it so

2:28 ↗ I just don't okay then the owl can get

2:31 ↗ me yeah

2:33 ↗ hey my name is Connie Marsh I uh live up

2:37 ↗ on squawk but I'm the person that you've

2:39 ↗ been getting title eighteen

2:44 ↗ comments on

2:45 ↗ and I tried to narrow it so that it's

2:48 ↗ only the comments that I think pertain

2:51 ↗ to the parks

2:53 ↗ there are some other things but I I'm

2:56 ↗ focused so I'm just going to do yet

2:58 ↗ again another little summary that I sent

3:00 ↗ out today which was

3:02 ↗ um they got rid of Master site plans and

3:06 ↗ basically most phasing

3:09 ↗ um

3:11 ↗ and I'm not clear on how they expect the

3:15 ↗ first to be planned anymore so I would

3:19 ↗ ask what

3:20 ↗ how it's gonna work down and then you

3:23 ↗ can try to figure out if that seems to

3:25 ↗ work for you all and then

3:29 ↗ um the there's a lot of intrusions

3:32 ↗ allowed into parks with very little

3:35 ↗ public visibility and very little

3:36 ↗ understanding on what compensations

3:39 ↗ Parks get for being turned into other

3:42 ↗ uses and so it's it's sort of a habit

3:45 ↗ the city has had in the past where they

3:47 ↗ allow things into parks and Parks sort

3:50 ↗ of has to do it I would actually like to

3:52 ↗ see some language in this code that

3:55 ↗ clarifies that if public parks land is

3:58 ↗ used then there should be appropriate

4:01 ↗ compensation or we should be getting

4:03 ↗ that use in time and in place to to uh

4:08 ↗ to add

4:10 ↗ equitably to that Park system because in

4:13 ↗ this situation we tend to just lose

4:15 ↗ parts so now off that topic for just a

4:19 ↗ minute because I'm going to come back is

4:21 ↗ the Veterans Parks projects that went to

4:24 ↗ the council boat and they funded it for

4:27 ↗ nearly 800 000 in consultant fees but

4:31 ↗ there was no Fanfare I was the you know

4:34 ↗ the main public person I reached out to

4:36 ↗ DIA so they came in so I would like to

4:39 ↗ see signage in the in those areas I

4:42 ↗ would like to see descriptions of the

4:44 ↗ concept and then every day how far along

4:47 ↗ that Park system is coming

4:49 ↗ uh because I think it's a big investment

4:52 ↗ and the community could get excited and

4:55 ↗ we could have cake or something all the

4:57 ↗ time to celebrate these Parks but right

4:59 ↗ now it's just flat nobody really knows

5:01 ↗ and finally

5:03 ↗ um this is back to Title 18 and it's

5:05 ↗ about something called Manor major minor

5:08 ↗ modifications for matte strip plants and

5:11 ↗ this discusses the older Master plans

5:13 ↗ and it used to be subjective and it used

5:17 ↗ to be

5:19 ↗ uh sort of if it seems appropriate style

5:22 ↗ language so they are changing that

5:24 ↗ language to say 10 and they are also in

5:28 ↗ the language discussing setbacks and

5:32 ↗ buffers which are actually not allowed

5:34 ↗ for reduction in most any other parts of

5:36 ↗ the code so I don't

5:40 ↗ think that a broad sweeping 10 across

5:44 ↗ the board if you look at Central Park

5:46 ↗ which is huge or you look at Tibbetts

5:49 ↗ Tibbetts Valley Park lots of impervious

5:51 ↗ surface there and you say wow we can do

5:54 ↗ 10 of all the imperf pervious surface in

5:58 ↗ this area because they are now saying

6:00 ↗ it's for what is allowed so that's a lot

6:04 ↗ and that could have significant

6:06 ↗ implications

6:08 ↗ to these parks and then on another Park

6:12 ↗ you know I don't know 10 of the ten

6:14 ↗ percent of another Master site plan

6:17 ↗ maybe okay I don't know but I don't

6:19 ↗ think it's discreet enough I don't think

6:21 ↗ it allows enough public engagement and

6:23 ↗ so I don't think you can just sweepingly

6:25 ↗ say uh

6:28 ↗ 10

6:29 ↗ purse percent

6:32 ↗ um because the idea is you're supposed

6:34 ↗ to protect the original Master site plan

6:36 ↗ and so you need to actually touch back

6:39 ↗ on the original MasterCard plan and why

6:41 ↗ you have it and see if these things are

6:43 ↗ appropriate to that plan that's just

6:45 ↗ sort of

6:47 ↗ I don't know if it's gone or not I can't

6:49 ↗ see it in the in the language and then

6:53 ↗ one last little bit is if you now uh

6:56 ↗ have approved 10 and then you want to do

6:58 ↗ do it again you get to impact the 110

7:02 ↗ that you already approved because now

7:03 ↗ that's approved and so over a period of

7:06 ↗ 10 years you could increase safety

7:08 ↗ impervious service by

7:10 ↗ 50 for the whole part because

7:14 ↗ you're doing 10 of 100 then the next

7:17 ↗ time it's going to be that 100 plus 10

7:19 ↗ 100 plus 10 100 plus 10 as you go over

7:22 ↗ time and these Master site plans take a

7:25 ↗ long time so I think that needs to be

7:27 ↗ clarified if you go with 10 percent

7:29 ↗ is it a one-off can you only do that 10

7:32 ↗ for the rest of time or is it you know

7:35 ↗ every year here we go 10 more impervious

7:38 ↗ service

7:39 ↗ okay now I know I'm speaking gibberish

7:41 ↗ and I know I send stuff that's hard to

7:43 ↗ read but I do hope you spend the time to

7:46 ↗ understand because I think in order to

7:48 ↗ get a credit card system you actually

7:49 ↗ have to get the details in the code

7:51 ↗ right because that is your only tool to

7:54 ↗ get the city to do things without it

7:56 ↗ becoming a political debate and a power

7:58 ↗ struggle among amongst the Departments

8:01 ↗ which I know exists

8:03 ↗ you may think it

8:06 ↗ does but you wouldn't say it out loud

8:08 ↗ thanks

8:10 ↗ thank you Connie

8:13 ↗ any other

8:15 ↗ uh

8:18 ↗ okay so I believe uh Jen wants to

8:22 ↗ introduce our uh presenters for Title 18

8:25 ↗ update yeah thank you very much

8:29 ↗ um hi everyone

8:31 ↗ um as you know miss Connie just

8:33 ↗ mentioned Title 18 is our City's land

8:36 ↗ use code and that's what guides all

8:39 ↗ development

8:41 ↗ um

8:42 ↗ planning and growth within the city and

8:46 ↗ even our Park projects

8:47 ↗ as you've seen in the memo within your

8:50 ↗ packet this process of updating our land

8:53 ↗ use code has been hearing going on for

8:55 ↗ quite some time and has had an extensive

9:00 ↗ um input from community members as well

9:02 ↗ as boards and commissions and tonight I

9:06 ↗ just want

9:07 ↗ um

9:08 ↗ to introduce our fellow staff members

9:10 ↗ we've got Stephen Padua here with us

9:13 ↗ he's a long range planning manager we've

9:16 ↗ also got Christian gates from our who's

9:18 ↗ our

9:20 ↗ planning manager sorry Christian forgot

9:24 ↗ your title for a second

9:25 ↗ um uh from our planning departments here

9:27 ↗ to guide us through some of the more

9:29 ↗ significant impacts

9:31 ↗ um

9:32 ↗ uh changes to the code that would affect

9:34 ↗ things that the Park Court tends to

9:36 ↗ consider and both due to their hearts so

9:38 ↗ with that I'm going to pass that over to

9:41 ↗ um Stephen and Christian so thank you

9:43 ↗ very much

9:46 ↗ just give me one second to

9:48 ↗ do this

9:50 ↗ figure it out

9:53 ↗ foreign

10:09 ↗ thank you Jen as transaction my name is

10:12 ↗ on the long range client manager I am

10:14 ↗ one of many people working on this uh

10:18 ↗ big project to update our event use code

10:21 ↗ um

10:21 ↗ I'm not familiar with how many new park

10:23 ↗ board members are in the room so could I

10:26 ↗ actually get a raise at hand of who's

10:28 ↗ newer and hasn't been part of this

10:29 ↗ process that has helped me kind of

10:31 ↗ figure out the level of detail to go

10:33 ↗ into for the presentation thank you

10:35 ↗ foreign

10:41 ↗ project to update our land use code

10:43 ↗ um for majority of your benefit our land

10:46 ↗ use code is what we use for reviewing

10:49 ↗ development projects so any new project

10:52 ↗ comes through whether it's you building

10:53 ↗ or multiple buildings that come into the

10:57 ↗ city our development review process

10:59 ↗ looks at our regulations and tells that

11:02 ↗ development review or the permits that

11:04 ↗ come in what's exactly required

11:07 ↗ the building code there's a permanent

11:10 ↗ review for that the land use permit

11:12 ↗ review it tells them exactly what can be

11:14 ↗ built how it can be built and really the

11:17 ↗ process that it can be built so that we

11:19 ↗ are considering the health and safety of

11:21 ↗ the community as things get developed

11:25 ↗ now and into the future

11:27 ↗ are any questions on that in terms of

11:30 ↗ like what's in the context

11:36 ↗ so as indicated for your memos this has

11:38 ↗ been going on for a while

11:40 ↗ we have had a lot of different meetings

11:43 ↗ with different boards and commissions

11:45 ↗ and stakeholder groups throughout the

11:47 ↗ community to look at what exactly is

11:49 ↗ important to the community as well as

11:51 ↗ talking through major policy points of

11:53 ↗ how do we want to make certain changes

11:55 ↗ or how has our goals and and vision for

11:59 ↗ the city changed since those development

12:01 ↗ regulations were originally performed

12:03 ↗ and the development regulations go back

12:05 ↗ to the late 90s and so it's been updated

12:08 ↗ multiple times since then which has

12:11 ↗ created a set of development regulations

12:14 ↗ that weren't always necessarily

12:16 ↗ consistent with each other so now we are

12:18 ↗ updating the entire thing so that not

12:20 ↗ only is it consistent with the

12:23 ↗ regulations that are in place but it's

12:24 ↗ also consistent with the city's division

12:26 ↗ for how we want to develop

12:29 ↗ so the park board has participating in

12:31 ↗ the process of a couple portions so

12:33 ↗ there's three major phases to this

12:35 ↗ project the first phase was looking at

12:37 ↗ kind of the gaps pencils trying to

12:38 ↗ figure out what exactly are where are

12:41 ↗ the gaping holes in our system as it

12:43 ↗ relates to development and so the parts

12:46 ↗ for had some discussions related to

12:48 ↗ treating preservation as well as

12:50 ↗ Landscaping in terms of what the

12:52 ↗ regulations are for Development Area and

12:55 ↗ in the second phase we went a little

12:56 ↗ more specific conversations on what

12:58 ↗ those policy changes might come out of

13:00 ↗ those developed radiations and some of

13:03 ↗ those were joint discussions with

13:04 ↗ letting positive permission as well as

13:06 ↗ with impact metal board it's in some

13:07 ↗ more specific conversations but just the

13:09 ↗ hardware

13:10 ↗ okay

13:12 ↗ so there's a lot of topics to kind of

13:17 ↗ cover with our event use code but for

13:19 ↗ specifically for what's been discussed

13:21 ↗ with parkour we're going to be just

13:22 ↗ focusing on three major topics for this

13:25 ↗ presentation first being the community

13:27 ↗ space as well as the green necklace

13:29 ↗ implementation

13:31 ↗ as well as trees preservation and

13:33 ↗ Landscaping regulations

13:36 ↗ the specific or at least the larger more

13:39 ↗ significant changes that came out of

13:41 ↗ those discussions as specific changes to

13:44 ↗ our live regulations

13:45 ↗ irrigation regulations in terms of

13:48 ↗ trying to really Define when or how that

13:50 ↗ is required

13:51 ↗ use of organic materials and how it's

13:54 ↗ addressed throughout the code in terms

13:56 ↗ of applying the sustainability context

13:58 ↗ to how I develop economic regulations

14:00 ↗ are written as well as Community spacing

14:03 ↗ green necklace and providing Clarity on

14:05 ↗ what exactly is required and how that

14:07 ↗ implements the city's vision for the for

14:09 ↗ the creative necklaces defined in

14:11 ↗ parkship now

14:13 ↗ tree preservation and providing Clarity

14:15 ↗ in terms of what our process is for when

14:18 ↗ we are preserving trees when they can be

14:19 ↗ removed when they can't be removed and

14:22 ↗ what the process is for those type of

14:24 ↗ removals

14:25 ↗ allow

14:26 ↗ Ed as well as providing an updated

14:28 ↗ preferred treatments which is part of

14:31 ↗ your materials

14:34 ↗ so specifically on Landscaping

14:36 ↗ um actually before I start diving in

14:38 ↗ please stop me if you have any questions

14:40 ↗ because there's a there's only a few

14:42 ↗ slides but there's a lot of information

14:44 ↗ in those slides so just let me know if

14:46 ↗ you want me to stop and we can minion

14:48 ↗ Christian and myself we'll try to answer

14:50 ↗ your questions

14:52 ↗ would be helpful if you could refer us

14:54 ↗ to a section in the code like when you

14:57 ↗ hit one of these big topics so that we

14:59 ↗ can if we want later it'll be easier for

15:02 ↗ us to find so

15:03 ↗ luminous sure and one thing I can follow

15:06 ↗ up with

15:07 ↗ um we didn't including Richards is

15:10 ↗ actually a final list of changes that

15:11 ↗ went into the book which has all those

15:13 ↗ specific sections where we've made all

15:16 ↗ those changes that might be more useful

15:18 ↗ than me trying to remember which

15:21 ↗ sections they all went to Christian and

15:23 ↗ many could also help me try to identify

15:25 ↗ where those sections are I I can't pull

15:27 ↗ it up because I have the presentation up

15:29 ↗ so I might call on them if there's

15:31 ↗ specific sessions you're wanting to know

15:33 ↗ yes when do you anticipate completing

15:36 ↗ the revisions process and they might

15:38 ↗ imagine then it goes to council

15:41 ↗ yeah and I'll

15:42 ↗ have a schedule at the end of this

15:44 ↗ presentation that goes into a lot of

15:46 ↗ that but right now we're in the that

15:48 ↗ last third phase to finalize all those

15:50 ↗ revisions and then start working into

15:52 ↗ that finalization process with cancel

15:56 ↗ any other big questions before I start

15:58 ↗ diving in

16:00 ↗ thank you for the questions

16:04 ↗ um so getting started with Landscaping

16:06 ↗ we took more of a sustainability lens

16:10 ↗ when it came to our landscape

16:11 ↗ regulations

16:12 ↗ a lot of went into the changes for the

16:15 ↗ land use code was really consolidation

16:17 ↗ like I said there we had a lot of

16:20 ↗ different regulations that went into our

16:21 ↗ development review and so we needed to

16:23 ↗ consolidate it into the land use code so

16:26 ↗ that we have a more consistent

16:27 ↗ predictable process so that it's easier

16:29 ↗ for people not really to use it though

16:31 ↗ but it's also easier for us to enforce

16:33 ↗ and when we consolidate everything we

16:37 ↗ looked at all the policies with more of

16:38 ↗ a sustainability less to really identify

16:41 ↗ where we're missing the market we looked

16:43 ↗ at irrigation plant diversity as well as

16:46 ↗ looking at where Native or drought

16:48 ↗ resistant defined selection is really

16:51 ↗ addressed throughout the vote

16:53 ↗ um a cat named specifically where each

16:55 ↗ of those are but we can provide that

16:57 ↗ list of where those final changes are

16:58 ↗ and the specific changes for you after

17:00 ↗ reading

17:01 ↗ additionally we looked at the tree

17:03 ↗ plantings and irrigation standards as

17:06 ↗ and updated them so that they're a

17:07 ↗ little more clear on how that actually

17:10 ↗ gets implemented throughout developer

17:12 ↗ view before it wasn't as clear and we

17:14 ↗ Consolidated oh I mentioned we decided

17:16 ↗ many and Christian am I missing any

17:20 ↗ specific uh changes for landscaping

17:29 ↗ good evening everyone can you all hear

17:31 ↗ me

17:34 ↗ yeah you know uh not specifically uh

17:38 ↗ anything that comes to mind I mean uh

17:40 ↗ this is the city's code for when

17:43 ↗ development or Redevelopment occurs and

17:45 ↗ I think last time we heard

17:48 ↗ um from your joint participation with

17:50 ↗ the environmental board as well as the

17:52 ↗ planning and policy commission we had

17:53 ↗ some joint meetings and throughout that

17:55 ↗ we heard some of these so these are

17:57 ↗ highlights of what we heard in the first

17:59 ↗ round of review and um but overall the

18:03 ↗ Landscaping requirements really get at

18:05 ↗ what's your perimeter Landscaping what's

18:07 ↗ your parking lot landscaping and and you

18:11 ↗ know then we'll get into the trees but

18:13 ↗ the Landscaping is really getting at new

18:15 ↗ landscaping that's planted as part of

18:17 ↗ development or Redevelopment

18:20 ↗ foreign

18:22 ↗ are there any questions on Landscaping

18:24 ↗ before I jump into trees yes so my

18:28 ↗ first year whenever we did talk about

18:30 ↗ this was that the landscape for

18:33 ↗ um new developments or redevelopments

18:36 ↗ we were not requiring uh like irrigation

18:39 ↗ is that still like for you know like

18:43 ↗ uh

18:46 ↗ you know um like my sidewalks and

18:48 ↗ whatnot is that still is that the case

18:50 ↗ uh I think we we uh have some

18:54 ↗ um requirements for sensors and things

18:57 ↗ like that you know so

18:59 ↗ judicious use of uh irrigation it is

19:02 ↗ still a requirement we have not and

19:04 ↗ we've added a few things like uh you

19:06 ↗ know Browning of the of your lawn is

19:09 ↗ okay kind of thing so you know adapting

19:11 ↗ to the climate change and all that

19:13 ↗ that's coming and and then having more

19:16 ↗ drug tolerant species selection but

19:18 ↗ there's still a requirement and

19:19 ↗ expectation that you will have some uh

19:22 ↗ irrigation but it's not wasting water

19:27 ↗ um

19:28 ↗ so okay I think there's that trying to

19:30 ↗ find that balance yeah

19:35 ↗ questions um

19:41 ↗ so the next section is specifically

19:43 ↗ Beauty spacing green necklace and what

19:45 ↗ we really looked at for updating this

19:48 ↗ section is we took a deep dive into open

19:50 ↗ space and really tried to better Define

19:52 ↗ what we mean by that it was we used a

19:55 ↗ little more broader terms a little

19:56 ↗ inconsistently so we we have now

19:58 ↗ identified outdoor amenity space indoor

20:01 ↗ amenity space and then community space

20:03 ↗ which is more of that pelvic space

20:04 ↗ that's required as part of any

20:05 ↗ development and really focus on the use

20:09 ↗ of those terms and what that means for

20:11 ↗ any developer review we also

20:13 ↗ Incorporated new requirements or at

20:14 ↗ least new requirements specific for

20:17 ↗ those different amenity spaces so that

20:20 ↗ is clear in terms of when uh Frontage

20:23 ↗ improvements might be required or where

20:24 ↗ these requirements might be incorporated

20:26 ↗ for any development that might go

20:27 ↗ through the permitting process

20:29 ↗ and similar to the Landscaping we

20:31 ↗ Consolidated multiple different sections

20:34 ↗ of

20:35 ↗ regulations into this new code or this

20:38 ↗ section of code so that is consistent

20:40 ↗ and we're not having to bounce around

20:41 ↗ all the different plans and regulations

20:44 ↗ to identify what exactly is required and

20:46 ↗ when

20:47 ↗ any questions on this

20:54 ↗ if I wanted to find out what the um

20:58 ↗ the

20:59 ↗ green necklace requirements are where

21:02 ↗ would I look to the code

21:04 ↗ it'll be in the community space section

21:07 ↗ and then specifically there's going to

21:09 ↗ be a great necklace section under that

21:12 ↗ and then mini just listed the specific

21:14 ↗ section actually in the chat

21:17 ↗ uh which I'm not sure if we're able to

21:19 ↗ capture

21:20 ↗ um it's

21:23 ↗ 18.606.060 and it's the irrigation and

21:27 ↗ water standard and I can make sure to

21:29 ↗ email that out to those

21:30 ↗ thank you afterwards as well thank you

21:32 ↗ it's hard for me to see the chat yeah of

21:34 ↗ course there's a lot going on

21:37 ↗ yeah and I'll just add if you go to the

21:40 ↗ title 18 webpage there's a full list and

21:42 ↗ if you look at the table of contents on

21:46 ↗ that you can hit that hyperlink for the

21:48 ↗ item and it'll jump you to that section

21:49 ↗ of the 800-page documents so that's good

21:54 ↗ because I was on there today and but I

21:56 ↗ didn't see that

21:57 ↗ okay

22:00 ↗ all right excuse me but yeah the the

22:04 ↗ table of contents acts as a hyperlink to

22:07 ↗ um sections below so

22:09 ↗ you're able to find what you need in the

22:11 ↗ table okay thank you

22:13 ↗ thank you yeah

22:15 ↗ so for the next section is uh tree

22:18 ↗ preservation

22:19 ↗ um the biggest changes that kind of came

22:21 ↗ out of our look of this section of code

22:23 ↗ is really looking at the tree canopy

22:25 ↗ coverage and uh changing the Assumption

22:28 ↗ of the targets to go to 20 years instead

22:31 ↗ of 30 years as well as establishing

22:33 ↗ targets for specific sunberries in the

22:36 ↗ city so that we're not so that it makes

22:38 ↗ a more makes more sense in terms of what

22:40 ↗ regulations are when it comes to

22:42 ↗ coverage just because different sections

22:43 ↗ of the city do require different targets

22:46 ↗ because not everyone is every area of

22:50 ↗ the city is treated the same so we also

22:53 ↗ eliminated the administrative

22:55 ↗ adjustments of status which was

22:56 ↗ basically a blanket process for someone

22:58 ↗ to be able to deviate from our

23:00 ↗ regulations and it said we are focusing

23:03 ↗ on variances and very specific

23:05 ↗ deviations that are allowed with uh

23:08 ↗ criteria that go with it so that is not

23:10 ↗ so uh stringent in terms of like what we

23:12 ↗ require it also has a little bit of

23:14 ↗ flexibility so that

23:16 ↗ um we are considering kind of the cost

23:18 ↗ as well as the ability for projects to

23:21 ↗ still move forward in that process

23:23 ↗ the other consideration that we put into

23:27 ↗ the update was eliminating the tree

23:29 ↗ removal notification form and really

23:31 ↗ consolidating the process or the

23:33 ↗ different process to remove the tree

23:36 ↗ um there was a bit of inconsistent

23:38 ↗ process or uh

23:40 ↗ different ways that someone could remove

23:43 ↗ a tree but not consistent ways for them

23:46 ↗ to report it or for them to get a permit

23:48 ↗ through the city on how to do that so we

23:50 ↗ now have a consistent process to be a

23:52 ↗ that is identified for that and then we

23:55 ↗ also eliminated the maximum tree removal

23:58 ↗ for developed properties

24:00 ↗ and what that adds is a little more

24:01 ↗ flexibility on what's being said while

24:04 ↗ still allowing us to focus on our

24:06 ↗ targets of a tree can't recovery

24:09 ↗ are there any questions on Entry

24:11 ↗ preservation

24:13 ↗ can you explain a little bit more about

24:15 ↗ what the

24:16 ↗ the reasons for eliminating the maximum

24:19 ↗ feed removal

24:20 ↗ requirement

24:22 ↗ I'm going to ask Christian to actually

24:25 ↗ jump in on that one okay he is

24:27 ↗ one of the members of this group is kind

24:30 ↗ of the Deep dive for this section

24:32 ↗ Christian do you remember the

24:35 ↗ I don't I don't recall the reasoning

24:36 ↗ behind you know maximum number the the

24:39 ↗ canopy goal is what drives the retention

24:43 ↗ and focusing on nuisance or Hazard trees

24:47 ↗ so trees needing to you need to meet

24:49 ↗ specific criteria as evaluated by an

24:53 ↗ arborist with certain certifications

24:57 ↗ um and then yes allowing for those

25:00 ↗ removals nuisance could be uh damaging

25:04 ↗ Foundation driveway you know a defect

25:07 ↗ that cannot be easily you know altered

25:09 ↗ through common practice which would be

25:12 ↗ if you can't take a couple of Limbs off

25:15 ↗ to to eliminate a problem uh the tree

25:18 ↗ might need to to come out

25:21 ↗ um all the while looking at what the the

25:23 ↗ canopy is on that property so one that

25:27 ↗ might only have one tree remaining uh if

25:30 ↗ it does meet the criteria it could be

25:33 ↗ removed but it would be required to

25:35 ↗ replant with a projected 20 or canopy

25:39 ↗ off of the the tree growth estimate to

25:44 ↗ to do that on site

25:45 ↗ and then those trees that can't be

25:47 ↗ planted on site if if it is you know

25:50 ↗ wooded or there's not enough space then

25:53 ↗ they would need to be planted within

25:55 ↗ that sub area to you know achieve that

25:57 ↗ canopy goal within that that

25:59 ↗ neighborhood sub-area

26:02 ↗ um and fee and Lou could be utilized to

26:05 ↗ to plant them off-site in on a

26:07 ↗ neighboring property neighboring Park

26:10 ↗ um

26:10 ↗ or somewhere else

26:16 ↗ and this process applies to

26:20 ↗ um our parks

26:22 ↗ like so if we're creating doing a field

26:25 ↗ at a park and that requires elimination

26:27 ↗ of a removal of a bunch of trees is that

26:31 ↗ we go through the same process as every

26:32 ↗ other development and individual yeah so

26:35 ↗ yeah looking at it from a you know

26:37 ↗ development uh tract or maintenance of a

26:41 ↗ property track so Parks maintenance of

26:44 ↗ just you know Parts is going to retain

26:46 ↗ all their trees and maintain them but if

26:48 ↗ they need to if they're looking to

26:49 ↗ install a new field then we'd look at it

26:51 ↗ through the the development lens

26:54 ↗ um which which may allow for it so

26:58 ↗ um

26:59 ↗ Yes trees can be removed through

27:01 ↗ development activity if there's no

27:04 ↗ alternative to retention

27:06 ↗ but when it's not associated associated

27:10 ↗ with development then there are those

27:13 ↗ limitations of it's got to meet a

27:16 ↗ nuisance or a hazard criteria

27:19 ↗ um yeah

27:21 ↗ thank you

27:23 ↗ Leisure controls apply to all of the

27:26 ↗ projects

27:28 ↗ water main project King County project

27:33 ↗ yes yes the regulations

27:37 ↗ you'll apply to all projects the process

27:41 ↗ for

27:42 ↗ how it gets reviewed will be slightly

27:44 ↗ different which we'll cover

27:46 ↗ um

27:47 ↗ and the person do you want to speak a

27:49 ↗ little more to that or uh you know new

27:52 ↗ development of a new new utility project

27:55 ↗ versus maintenance so there are

27:58 ↗ exemptions for required maintenance

28:00 ↗ they've got to go in and do repair work

28:02 ↗ and that might require removal

28:05 ↗ um there are there are some some

28:08 ↗ afforded exceptions for a utility uh

28:11 ↗ that Mo that most jurisdictions follow

28:13 ↗ these look very similar to what what I'm

28:16 ↗ used to from my my previous uh life

28:21 ↗ [Music]

28:23 ↗ but that's your question

28:25 ↗ yeah

28:28 ↗ any other questions on trees

28:33 ↗ okay

28:35 ↗ so my last slide is going to be

28:37 ↗ specifically on changes we made for

28:39 ↗ process when it comes to trucks for

28:41 ↗ projects and

28:42 ↗ um the first is with master plan process

28:45 ↗ we removed the section for development

28:47 ↗ of Master Class from the code and then

28:48 ↗ our put in a process

28:53 ↗ Ary

28:54 ↗ um specifically as minor and major

28:55 ↗ modifications and we also included a new

28:58 ↗ section for Consolidated Capital

29:00 ↗ Improvement project permit which is a

29:02 ↗ brand new permit we'll be using for

29:04 ↗ public projects more Parks as well as

29:07 ↗ public works and utility projects and

29:09 ↗ what this allows us to do is is look at

29:13 ↗ a specific process that's a little more

29:15 ↗ efficient considering the public process

29:17 ↗ that goes into the development of the

29:19 ↗ projects that don't necessarily go into

29:21 ↗ private projects so separating out that

29:23 ↗ process and allowing it to be a little

29:25 ↗ more efficient with use of public time

29:27 ↗ and funds

29:29 ↗ the intention of is it to add a little

29:32 ↗ more predictability to public projects

29:34 ↗ something that we heard through the

29:36 ↗ development of this project that was

29:38 ↗ inconsistent prior to

29:40 ↗ um now

29:42 ↗ any questions

29:45 ↗ okay

29:49 ↗ um for

29:50 ↗ the master plan process you've removed

29:54 ↗ from the code does that only apply to

29:56 ↗ new

29:57 ↗ parks and projects or does that apply to

30:00 ↗ like or exists so we have Master plans

30:03 ↗ at Chipettes at Central Park at

30:04 ↗ Confluence Park those are the ones that

30:07 ↗ come to my mind

30:08 ↗ um does that mean that that processes

30:11 ↗ that that we're not using those anymore

30:14 ↗ um or you know if we want to do a revamp

30:18 ↗ one of those parts what is the process

30:21 ↗ and I won't go ahead so the way I

30:25 ↗ understand it I'll have uh Christian

30:27 ↗ probably help me out because you wrote

30:30 ↗ this section

30:32 ↗ um is any Master funds that are

30:33 ↗ currently in place would be using the

30:35 ↗ amendment process that are is now in the

30:37 ↗ code

30:38 ↗ um so it really is more established for

30:40 ↗ that it's not necessarily established

30:41 ↗ for establishing new masterpiece

30:48 ↗ modifications that part applies to

30:50 ↗ current existing Works correct but if we

30:53 ↗ have a new part

30:54 ↗ there will not be a master planning

30:56 ↗ process is that

30:58 ↗ yes

31:01 ↗ so they're still divisioning process

31:04 ↗ that we would do as Parts but as the

31:07 ↗ formal process of going through the

31:09 ↗ master plan approval

31:11 ↗ process and the extensive time and cost

31:14 ↗ that goes along with that that will no

31:16 ↗ longer take place so we'll still do the

31:18 ↗ visioning but then we'll take each

31:21 ↗ project as its own development project

31:24 ↗ under this new Consolidated format

31:28 ↗ so my understanding of how it kind of

31:31 ↗ has worked is that we for example

31:35 ↗ um

31:36 ↗ when we're looking at a major Park we at

31:40 ↗ that point in time when we're developing

31:42 ↗ it we you know do this I guess it is a

31:45 ↗ visioning process right right like so

31:46 ↗ the community tells us these are the

31:48 ↗ things that we're hoping to happen at

31:50 ↗ this park it might take you know 20

31:53 ↗ years it might take 10 whatever but we

31:55 ↗ do it in phases but the nice thing about

31:58 ↗ that is it sort of does put a stake in

32:00 ↗ the ground as far as like this is what

32:02 ↗ the community envisions you know in what

32:06 ↗ strategically we want to have happen at

32:07 ↗ that property

32:09 ↗ so that if we're going to change it in

32:11 ↗ the future

32:13 ↗ we we know what we're

32:15 ↗ you know changing so how

32:18 ↗ I like that because it kind of does make

32:21 ↗ sure that we're being intentional about

32:22 ↗ changing what uh

32:25 ↗ um the use of a particular part the

32:28 ↗ parcel that hasn't that we don't have

32:30 ↗ the funding for right that hasn't been

32:31 ↗ developed so how is that going to work

32:34 ↗ with this new plan

32:35 ↗ so I think there's still going to be a

32:37 ↗ lot of that same

32:38 ↗ documentation like what the hopes dreams

32:41 ↗ and fears for the activities that will

32:43 ↗ take place and that there'll be a loose

32:45 ↗ graphic like there is for Confluence

32:47 ↗ part

32:48 ↗ um but there was a formal process set up

32:50 ↗ for adoption that is no longer going to

32:53 ↗ be taking place and that was a very time

32:56 ↗ and costly process you know it was up

32:58 ↗ around forty thousand dollars in fees to

33:02 ↗ go through that adoption process we'll

33:03 ↗ still do the visioning we'll still have

33:05 ↗ supplemental documentation for the hopes

33:07 ↗ and fears and dreams of each of those

33:09 ↗ Master plans or visioning documents

33:12 ↗ excuse me but as each project comes to

33:15 ↗ be

33:16 ↗ well

33:18 ↗ um do it under this new Consolidated

33:20 ↗ project so it's more the adoption

33:23 ↗ process for that visioning document that

33:25 ↗ then makes it a full adopted master plan

33:28 ↗ versus just an active visioning document

33:31 ↗ that will change and still get further

33:33 ↗ Community input as each stage of that

33:36 ↗ project gets implemented

33:38 ↗ much like we're doing already I believe

33:41 ↗ that you wanted to chime in on this

33:43 ↗ stuff yeah please

33:50 ↗ there we go thank you sorry I couldn't

33:53 ↗ unmute myself

33:55 ↗ um to provide a little bit context on

33:57 ↗ what is a master site plan process in

34:00 ↗ Title 18 you know that the mysterious

34:03 ↗ Master cycling process is really

34:06 ↗ um a process set up where the decision

34:09 ↗ maker acts like a judge and determines

34:12 ↗ whether this this criteria in the code

34:15 ↗ has been met or not met and it's not a

34:18 ↗ you know that's not at the stage where

34:21 ↗ you're doing your visioning you're

34:22 ↗ trying to figure out what to do with

34:24 ↗ this Spark It's really does it meet this

34:27 ↗ adopted criteria and it's a very

34:29 ↗ specific kind of a criteria the city may

34:31 ↗ have used that process in different ways

34:34 ↗ but that that's how the master site plan

34:37 ↗ is set up

34:38 ↗ so the process was there was a hearing

34:41 ↗ with the development commission where

34:43 ↗ the community members could come in and

34:45 ↗ and everything is shared with them is

34:47 ↗ fully drawn up it's it's not your

34:50 ↗ preliminary design sketches and things

34:51 ↗ like that but it's an actual approval of

34:55 ↗ the design of the park so the city's

34:57 ↗ already spent the money designing and

34:59 ↗ all that and and then the community

35:01 ↗ feedback is coming in at the tail end of

35:03 ↗ the project

35:05 ↗ um then the development commission would

35:07 ↗ make a recommendation to city council

35:10 ↗ and city council was barred from talking

35:13 ↗ to any of the community members and had

35:16 ↗ to act in a in a judge-like manner to

35:20 ↗ issue an approval or not an approval so

35:22 ↗ it didn't really fit in the purposes of

35:26 ↗ what the park planning process really is

35:28 ↗ to engage with the community early on

35:31 ↗ and and and bring those issues before uh

35:34 ↗ you know a budget is set for the project

35:36 ↗ and and uh

35:38 ↗ a design is finalized so the park

35:42 ↗ planning process through the pro to the

35:44 ↗ Parks Board would happen early on the

35:46 ↗ community feedback would be factored in

35:49 ↗ the council then decides how much money

35:52 ↗ to spend on a particular project so

35:54 ↗ there's a lot of built-in community

35:56 ↗ outreach and feedback and decision

35:59 ↗ making that occurs for these public

36:01 ↗ projects and the permitting is the tail

36:04 ↗ end of it to make sure that everything

36:06 ↗ that the city is going to do still meets

36:09 ↗ the land use code update if there are

36:11 ↗ critical areas you're outside the

36:12 ↗ buffers or you're enhancing them there

36:16 ↗ are some state required permits like

36:18 ↗ cipa which is the environmental impact

36:20 ↗ statement and Shoreline if you are

36:22 ↗ within

36:23 ↗ um 100 200 feet of your uh stream three

36:27 ↗ streams or the lake

36:29 ↗ um and in those cases you would still

36:31 ↗ get those cipa and the shoreline permits

36:33 ↗ but the actual approval from the

36:37 ↗ development commission and uh the city

36:39 ↗ council is is going to be replaced by

36:42 ↗ the park planning project through the

36:44 ↗ parks department and Parks Board so

36:47 ↗ that's sort of the intent here and and

36:49 ↗ the reason Master site plan process has

36:52 ↗ gone away is because it's not just for

36:54 ↗ it wasn't meant just for the parks

36:55 ↗ department it was a 15 Acres or more

36:58 ↗ property it was subject to master site

37:00 ↗ plan the school district that just went

37:03 ↗ through the site planning Master site

37:05 ↗ plan process is in a more recent example

37:08 ↗ um and so that's some background on them

37:11 ↗ what is a master site plan now on to

37:14 ↗ whether it's a major modification or a

37:16 ↗ minor modification the existing you know

37:19 ↗ so so we have some of these things the

37:22 ↗ Tibbetts Valley Park Master site plan

37:24 ↗ which was decades and decades ago was

37:26 ↗ approved and there's you know the

37:29 ↗ buffers change and all those other

37:30 ↗ things change it doesn't mean that

37:32 ↗ you're set in stone based on what was

37:34 ↗ approved uh so many you know decades ago

37:37 ↗ so any Improvement that's going to

37:39 ↗ happen today will need to comply with

37:43 ↗ the code in place

37:44 ↗ whether it's tree protection or its

37:47 ↗ critical area protection

37:49 ↗ and the question whether it's major or

37:51 ↗ minor comes into play it still is the

37:54 ↗ same code you're still subject to

37:55 ↗ meeting all the requirements it's just a

37:58 ↗ process for small stuff is approved with

38:01 ↗ public notice but it's administrative

38:03 ↗ and major is it it requires a public

38:06 ↗ hearing and goes through a development

38:08 ↗ commission review process so

38:12 ↗ um the master site plans are now called

38:14 ↗ site development permits for level four

38:17 ↗ the parks will go through a Consolidated

38:21 ↗ um you know Capital Improvement permit

38:23 ↗ process and cpan Shoreline if that's

38:25 ↗ needed uh and the park planning and all

38:28 ↗ of those things will occur through the

38:30 ↗ parks department early on in the design

38:33 ↗ phase and we're getting it on the CIA

38:36 ↗ you know Capital Improvement uh project

38:38 ↗ list that's a council decision the

38:41 ↗ funding is a council decision

38:43 ↗ and um but we'll be at the table in

38:46 ↗ terms of sharing all that information

38:48 ↗ with parks department and the community

38:50 ↗ members of what the code requirements

38:52 ↗ are and will be participants in that

38:54 ↗ fashion the land use code will inform

38:56 ↗ the design the land use code will inform

38:58 ↗ some of those things but but the actual

39:01 ↗ permitting process will be when some of

39:03 ↗ those early conversations have occurred

39:06 ↗ so don't want to take up too much of

39:07 ↗ your time but just wanted everyone to

39:09 ↗ have some context on what is a master

39:11 ↗ site plan and what does Major versus

39:14 ↗ minor mean

39:16 ↗ and we're raising this as a discussion

39:18 ↗ uh point with the planning and policy

39:21 ↗ commission as well

39:24 ↗ I'll turn it over to you all

39:28 ↗ any other questions on at least the

39:31 ↗ process changes

39:34 ↗ well I guess

39:35 ↗ I guess Japan like I'm curious like from

39:38 ↗ here in perspective like

39:40 ↗ oh if we have

39:41 ↗ um a new

39:43 ↗ Park that would

39:45 ↗ that would require phasing you know like

39:48 ↗ all of our almost all of our big like

39:50 ↗ Community Parks went like how

39:53 ↗ um

39:54 ↗ do you without a visioning process

39:59 ↗ that we would normally do kind of under

40:01 ↗ the master planning process is that

40:04 ↗ going to say like in like this this part

40:07 ↗ of the property we expect to have

40:11 ↗ you know like Confluence Park for

40:13 ↗ example we have like a part that was

40:15 ↗ supposed to be active you know active

40:16 ↗ Recreation what not um Confluence or um

40:19 ↗ up at Central Park we I think did have

40:23 ↗ to do some

40:24 ↗ like changing of a master plan we

40:27 ↗ caress someone recently like eight years

40:30 ↗ ago or something you're right

40:33 ↗ um but we had to do that process to

40:34 ↗ change it from what it you know if a

40:36 ↗ parcel was going to be so we'll be the

40:39 ↗ same or

40:41 ↗ how's it going to work like from a

40:43 ↗ from your perspective

40:45 ↗ yeah I'll take a go at this to start and

40:49 ↗ sorry for being late I was at the parks

40:51 ↗ or the service of safety and Parks

40:54 ↗ committee Council committee meeting uh

40:56 ↗ just now

40:57 ↗ um

40:58 ↗ yeah I don't know that it looks all that

41:01 ↗ different you know I I mean any Capital

41:04 ↗ project let me say this I think what's

41:06 ↗ being proposed is very consistent with

41:09 ↗ other cities that I've worked in

41:11 ↗ um and I think it would it's consistent

41:13 ↗ with a lot of neighboring cities around

41:15 ↗ us

41:15 ↗ so

41:17 ↗ um the planning phase for any project

41:19 ↗ for a new like a new park as you're

41:22 ↗ proposing right we would still in that

41:24 ↗ planning phase want to engage in the

41:26 ↗ community we want to have a vision for

41:29 ↗ the whole site

41:30 ↗ [Music]

41:31 ↗ um

41:32 ↗ um so there'd still be that Master

41:33 ↗ planning effort that would be going on

41:36 ↗ um that's probably a master planning

41:37 ↗ effort that again is done by staff with

41:40 ↗ with guidance and Advising and

41:42 ↗ monitoring by the park board it's like a

41:45 ↗ going to city council for some type of

41:47 ↗ adoption uh that master plan or that

41:50 ↗ vision is then informing the CIP as

41:53 ↗ you're saying how are we going to fund

41:54 ↗ this boy we can't do it all at once

41:56 ↗ we're probably going to need to phase it

41:57 ↗ all right which phase makes sense right

41:59 ↗ so it's still very much a guiding

42:02 ↗ document it just doesn't have this

42:06 ↗ additional permit process attached to it

42:09 ↗ but it's it's doing all the informing

42:12 ↗ um

42:13 ↗ and then when we get into that whatever

42:16 ↗ phase that is that Council says all

42:18 ↗ right let's fund that first phase and

42:19 ↗ let's do it here we would then go into

42:22 ↗ the design and permitting phase of that

42:24 ↗ actual work

42:26 ↗ um let's say let's fast forward now four

42:29 ↗ years ahead in this hypothetical

42:31 ↗ scenario we're now oh boy we're now

42:32 ↗ ready for phase two that Master Plan

42:35 ↗ would still inform would greatly inform

42:37 ↗ The Design Network there'd probably be a

42:41 ↗ it'd be wise to say boy what did that

42:44 ↗ Master Plan say does that still make

42:45 ↗ sense uh to the community today so

42:48 ↗ there'd probably be a a check and a

42:50 ↗ touch Point

42:51 ↗ um

42:52 ↗ so the work would be still happening

42:55 ↗ um I just think I think some of the

42:57 ↗ [Music]

42:58 ↗ um

43:00 ↗ I don't know just just some of the the

43:04 ↗ comparison to a private project perhaps

43:08 ↗ it looks a little bit different

43:13 ↗ so that Packard say that Parks can still

43:16 ↗ have a master plan process without

43:18 ↗ having a master site plan permit process

43:20 ↗ precisely precisely it's a great way to

43:23 ↗ put it well said it's something we're

43:25 ↗ going to strive to do and you'll hear in

43:26 ↗ my Parks director update a little bit

43:28 ↗ you know we're we're adding some really

43:30 ↗ key staff positions here in the coming

43:32 ↗ months

43:33 ↗ um and as we bring on board some

43:36 ↗ additional Park planning resources and

43:39 ↗ not just gen we want to take a really

43:41 ↗ good look at communicating

43:45 ↗ what each of these phases of the capital

43:47 ↗ project are what happens in the planning

43:49 ↗ phase what are the kind of questions we

43:51 ↗ ask the community what's the engagement

43:53 ↗ and Outreach effort that we're going to

43:55 ↗ commit to as a parks department that

43:57 ↗ always happens in a planning phase what

43:59 ↗ then what's the gate what what

44:01 ↗ transitions from planning phase to

44:04 ↗ design and permitting what's our

44:06 ↗ commitment to the community in our

44:08 ↗ engagement and information the community

44:09 ↗ during design and permitting and then we

44:12 ↗ take it out to bid and the award is you

44:14 ↗ know we do a bid award that's the gate

44:16 ↗ then we're in construction same thing

44:18 ↗ what's our what happens during

44:20 ↗ construction what's our commitment to

44:22 ↗ information to the community but really

44:24 ↗ have a my goal would be to have a a nice

44:28 ↗ one-page graphic that goes with every

44:30 ↗ single Capital project we do any

44:33 ↗ engagement we do we're able to say you

44:34 ↗ are here

44:35 ↗ right yes we're asking these questions

44:38 ↗ now it doesn't mean the Park's going to

44:40 ↗ get built next month right but it just

44:42 ↗ helps to chart that course and for us as

44:45 ↗ staff to be really consistent

44:48 ↗ in communicating the full journey of a

44:51 ↗ capital project

44:52 ↗ sorry that's a little off topic but

44:54 ↗ hopefully helpful as we

44:56 ↗ Embark in this change

44:59 ↗ no I think that helps kind of fill the

45:01 ↗ story with how we're trying to set

45:02 ↗ today's process

45:05 ↗ um and then just the time we had time

45:07 ↗ for maybe one more question before I

45:08 ↗ move on I'm going to start going into

45:10 ↗ kind of what's left in the project

45:13 ↗ okay

45:15 ↗ so in terms of next steps right now

45:17 ↗ we're going through public hearings with

45:18 ↗ the planning policy commission that

45:20 ↗ we're going to transition to

45:23 ↗ kind of final discussions with our

45:25 ↗ Planning Development and environment

45:26 ↗ Council committee

45:28 ↗ um looking at final draft and then going

45:31 ↗ to that legislative process the city

45:33 ↗ council following the February meetings

45:36 ↗ to to eventually get to adoption

45:41 ↗ and if you any of you have any questions

45:44 ↗ about what's an advantage code or what

45:45 ↗ might be coming in terms of the

45:47 ↗ implementation of the language code on

45:48 ↗ today's adopted please reach out to

45:50 ↗ myself Vinnie or Christian or any of

45:54 ↗ your wonderful Park staff and would be

45:56 ↗ happy to kind of talk to you about any

45:57 ↗ questions

45:58 ↗ processes or what the regulations

46:03 ↗ any other questions

46:10 ↗ okay well thank you all for for having

46:13 ↗ me and thank you again for for waiting

46:16 ↗ oh did you have a question oh no no okay

46:20 ↗ no thank you Stephen yeah appreciate it

46:22 ↗ appreciate it

46:25 ↗ um so

46:27 ↗ um with that said I think we'll uh pass

46:30 ↗ it over to uh Brian who has a biannual

46:33 ↗ Recreation program with you

46:36 ↗ effort

46:37 ↗ okay

46:38 ↗ oh my goodness I can't like pull that

46:40 ↗ out

46:42 ↗ thank you

46:45 ↗ I think last time I was here was about a

46:47 ↗ little over six months ago

46:48 ↗ so it's been yeah it's a little over six

46:51 ↗ months in June 2022. I think I got to

46:54 ↗ run the table and was able to introduce

46:55 ↗ myself to everybody I didn't know so far

46:57 ↗ except our youth advisory reps

47:00 ↗ um but nice meeting you all and I am

47:02 ↗ Brian person I'm the recreation manager

47:04 ↗ for the parks and Community Services

47:05 ↗ Department

47:07 ↗ um

47:12 ↗ thank you

47:14 ↗ uh real quickly to bounce to the next

47:16 ↗ slide

47:20 ↗ yeah

47:22 ↗ nice thank you uh you know this is the

47:26 ↗ side that'll be like just the surprise

47:27 ↗ the department as a whole right it's it

47:29 ↗ sort of speaks to just what what our

47:31 ↗ core roles uh or core roles and purpose

47:34 ↗ are right it's about it's all about

47:36 ↗ places and people right with that

47:39 ↗ um you know investing in places you know

47:40 ↗ that is is including but not limited to

47:43 ↗ you know stewardship of our Parks trails

47:45 ↗ to Open Spaces you know very important

47:48 ↗ it's also managing our Issaquah public

47:51 ↗ facilities Community Center pool Senior

47:53 ↗ Center and Pickering Barn that also

47:56 ↗ includes investing in people and which

47:59 ↗ is including but not limited to

48:01 ↗ providing a variety of programs and

48:03 ↗ services that build community families

48:05 ↗ and residents in providing Recreation

48:08 ↗ Arts Human Services programs that um

48:11 ↗ Human Services products the Direct

48:13 ↗ Services and Partnerships I've read

48:15 ↗ those because I'm realizing it's not

48:17 ↗ reading as well up on the slide as it is

48:21 ↗ some area of improvement for Next Step

48:24 ↗ um next slide if you don't mind

48:27 ↗ to give you just a quick I'm here to

48:29 ↗ speak on the Recreation services

48:31 ↗ tonight that's kind of the division that

48:33 ↗ I work with so just to give you a

48:35 ↗ picture of what Recreation services is

48:37 ↗ it's one word but it's it's many

48:39 ↗ different units right so we have the

48:40 ↗ community center with the Jewish Home

48:43 ↗ pool we have Athletics and rentals we

48:45 ↗ have the senior center and then we also

48:47 ↗ have Pickering Barn

48:49 ↗ um those are some of the five teams that

48:51 ↗ make up the Recreation services uh

48:53 ↗ division there

48:55 ↗ um like I said tonight I'll be sharing a

48:56 ↗ few highlights and uh give me a couple

48:58 ↗ updates on just that what that division

49:00 ↗ work has been over the year of 2022.

49:05 ↗ foreign

49:06 ↗ Center

49:10 ↗ real quickly we've had our we had our

49:12 ↗ fifth annual Issaquah kids triathlon

49:15 ↗ um thank you you're the budget board

49:17 ↗ that's a big one that they spearhead for

49:18 ↗ us and it's a really neat one that we do

49:20 ↗ in conjunction with our use the basic

49:22 ↗ board but it's also done with our staff

49:23 ↗ our staff comes out in force to support

49:26 ↗ that event so we have our youth

49:28 ↗ volunteers we have our staff and a lot

49:30 ↗ of great community members coming we

49:32 ↗ have a little over 200 people to take

49:34 ↗ part in that last June

49:36 ↗ um our camps we had um 2 258 residents a

49:41 ↗ registrants for that for those programs

49:45 ↗ um just so you know this number includes

49:47 ↗ a variety of camps that are directly run

49:49 ↗ by the parks and Community Services

49:51 ↗ Department as well as our third party

49:53 ↗ partners that we work with so it's a lot

49:56 ↗ of different people doing different

49:57 ↗ things and we like I said we run a lot

49:58 ↗ of ourselves but we also work with

50:00 ↗ numerous Partners to provide the variety

50:02 ↗ of you know camps and services that we

50:04 ↗ do with that um

50:06 ↗ I think a neat point of the camps I

50:08 ↗ wanted to point out a lot as we created

50:10 ↗ 24 seasonal jobs so that's 24 you know

50:13 ↗ full-time jobs over the summer where a

50:16 ↗ lot of more youth young college aged

50:18 ↗ sometimes young adults that are working

50:20 ↗ to make these programs possible so

50:22 ↗ that's just our portion there's the

50:24 ↗ contractor camps that have all their

50:26 ↗ services but we had 24

50:28 ↗ uh staff that it takes to run all the

50:31 ↗ camps and programs that we do with that

50:33 ↗ um the neat part about that too is it's

50:35 ↗ up for one of them it's their first time

50:36 ↗ ever working in a job so we also get the

50:39 ↗ opportunity to work with them and

50:41 ↗ develop their leadership skills and uh

50:43 ↗ you know grow them into young leaders

50:44 ↗ right which is kind of exciting and we

50:45 ↗ take that very seriously it's an honor

50:47 ↗ to be able to work with them in that

50:49 ↗ capacity uh we have beat the heat Splash

50:51 ↗ day our 21st year running this event

50:54 ↗ it's a it's a wet and wild afternoon

50:57 ↗ where we have lots of fun with kids that

51:00 ↗ youth Advisory Board again you divide

51:02 ↗ support plays such about apart for so

51:04 ↗ many of our activities because they help

51:05 ↗ us out in so many different way so it's

51:07 ↗ a great partnership uh with uh with all

51:10 ↗ those

51:11 ↗ youth Advisory board members

51:13 ↗ um our fitness room uh we kind of have a

51:15 ↗ refresh in 2022 for uh some equipment we

51:19 ↗ got new equipment with uh we're gonna do

51:21 ↗ cardio equipment specifically uh we got

51:23 ↗ some treadmills elliptical trainers uh

51:25 ↗ bikes and a rowing machine so if you've

51:28 ↗ been into if you go into the fitness

51:30 ↗ room at the community center you'll see

51:32 ↗ some of those new pieces of equipment

51:34 ↗ that we have which has been very well

51:35 ↗ received and a nice upgrade from what we

51:38 ↗ had previously

51:39 ↗ uh this was uh the first light of the

51:42 ↗ night event that we had this year which

51:44 ↗ was that's our first inaugural event

51:47 ↗ oh gosh so I'll say we have nearly 400

51:49 ↗ people attend for this free Tree

51:51 ↗ Lighting Event we also had wonderful

51:53 ↗ partners that came out and supplied you

51:55 ↗ know coffee cocoa Donuts uh Cucamonga

51:59 ↗ zoo goes out a reindeer so that was kind

52:01 ↗ of fun that the mayor did a big light

52:03 ↗ turn on the lights so it's sort of fun

52:06 ↗ who bounce into the uh thank you

52:10 ↗ our senior center uh you know Senior

52:12 ↗ Center some of the a few quick

52:14 ↗ highlights with them uh in 2022 we

52:17 ↗ started some summer hiking uh trips

52:19 ↗ which was a new thing we did

52:21 ↗ um you know most of the hike for about

52:23 ↗ 10 people and they maxed out with those

52:25 ↗ 10 people

52:26 ↗ um in this program also sort of catered

52:28 ↗ to a younger

52:30 ↗ a senior if you will we have so we

52:32 ↗ brought in some new

52:33 ↗ some new people to you know get a flavor

52:36 ↗ for what is offered through the uh

52:37 ↗ through the senior center

52:40 ↗ um we had our 90 and better lunch and

52:42 ↗ lunch and celebration that's a strictly

52:45 ↗ where we honor our seniors that are 90

52:47 ↗ years and older we have quite a few of

52:48 ↗ them we had about 70 not 70 we had 70

52:52 ↗ people attended lunch but we had an f70

52:54 ↗ 90 plus all right we caught 90 in bed I

52:57 ↗ guess right so um it was a real fun

53:00 ↗ event just a chance to honor those that

53:02 ↗ have made that mile marker

53:03 ↗ uh our baby we were boot camp we had our

53:06 ↗ fifth uh it's a fifth edition we had

53:09 ↗ fifth year of our fifth time of

53:10 ↗ offerings that year but this time of

53:12 ↗ offering this which is sort of Helping

53:14 ↗ Seniors step into that next phase of

53:16 ↗ life you know what does that look like

53:17 ↗ we have 40 people attend this uh it's on

53:20 ↗ a weekend and it's and you know with

53:21 ↗ speakers but eight different speakers

53:23 ↗ speaking of topics like you know uh

53:25 ↗ healthy eating avoiding scams uh

53:28 ↗ planning ahead for senior living

53:31 ↗ and uh our boot camp is actually offered

53:34 ↗ in conjunction with uh the King County

53:36 ↗ library system and uh era living so they

53:38 ↗ work with us to partner I help get some

53:40 ↗ of those speakers and provide and come

53:42 ↗ together some of the information we

53:43 ↗ shared with those seniors uh our

53:45 ↗ Veterans Day luncheon

53:47 ↗ um this was an opportunity for us to

53:48 ↗ come together and celebrate our our

53:50 ↗ veterans

53:52 ↗ um we had a little lunch and a concert

53:53 ↗ you can see a little picture of that

53:54 ↗ there where they they got the concert

53:56 ↗ and the people singing for our veterans

53:59 ↗ um just a fun way to come together and

54:01 ↗ honor those that have served

54:03 ↗ um we have our CX it had a Seahawks

54:05 ↗ legends of that we do this every year

54:07 ↗ it's sort of a fun event we had a couple

54:09 ↗ former Seahawks come out they sort of

54:12 ↗ tell their stories they meet and greet

54:13 ↗ take pictures with their seniors it's

54:15 ↗ just a fun day to come out sort of you

54:18 ↗ know rude on the home team and

54:19 ↗ unfortunately we're still not we're not

54:21 ↗ in the playoffs right now but you know

54:22 ↗ hey

54:24 ↗ yes next year is our season

54:27 ↗ um and then we serve you know our I

54:29 ↗ think I've shared this last time too but

54:31 ↗ we do weekday we have a weekday lunch

54:32 ↗ program

54:34 ↗ um and just to give you just sort of a

54:36 ↗ flavor of what we do with that um we

54:38 ↗ serve 6001 lunches in 2022.

54:43 ↗ um we partner with Catholic community

54:45 ↗ services which you know they provide so

54:48 ↗ separate they provide lunches on Mondays

54:50 ↗ and Tuesdays and we support that program

54:52 ↗ and then our Issaquah Senior Center

54:54 ↗ provides lunches on Wednesday Thursdays

54:56 ↗ and Fridays so Wednesday Thursday Friday

54:58 ↗ yes and then that's we have it on staff

55:00 ↗ and our own cooking crew that does all

55:02 ↗ of that so it's sort of a neat thing

55:03 ↗ Alexa that's a lot of lunches and it's

55:05 ↗ uh very well and very much appreciated

55:07 ↗ seniors love the uh lunch program

55:11 ↗ heck I like to watch program

55:14 ↗ um

55:17 ↗ a little bit of our Athletics some

55:18 ↗ highlights there we have our gliders

55:20 ↗ cross country and track and field

55:22 ↗ program

55:23 ↗ um you know we had 461 participants our

55:27 ↗ our gliders programs got in spring and

55:29 ↗ summer we have that's when the track and

55:31 ↗ field time is and then the fall is when

55:34 ↗ we have our cross country and then we

55:36 ↗ also have an extended cross-country time

55:37 ↗ a cross-country program we partnered

55:40 ↗ with the cities of Auburn Retton

55:42 ↗ Bellevue Maple Valley and side view

55:44 ↗ Metroparks to host and run joint meats

55:46 ↗ and uh yeah dorm joint Meats well yeah

55:49 ↗ so we come together with all those other

55:51 ↗ cities and it's kind of fun nice little

55:52 ↗ recreational competition we had 32

55:56 ↗ participants in our cross-country in the

55:58 ↗ extended season and it was sort of cool

56:00 ↗ because four of those Runners uh went

56:03 ↗ down and competed last December in Texas

56:06 ↗ um in the Junior Olympics which was

56:08 ↗ Kennedy

56:10 ↗ and again that's just strictly a

56:11 ↗ recreational program so there's no you

56:13 ↗ know we don't everything we offer we

56:15 ↗ don't everybody

56:16 ↗ gets a chance to participate if you want

56:18 ↗ to

56:19 ↗ youth basketball program uh this is you

56:22 ↗ know one of our larger programs as an

56:24 ↗ individual program we have over 15 1500

56:26 ↗ kids uh participating in this uh we

56:29 ↗ offer girls kindergarten through ninth

56:31 ↗ grade basketball along with boys

56:33 ↗ kindergarten through 12th grade

56:35 ↗ um you might ask Josh why don't you

56:39 ↗ offer girls up through 12th grade that's

56:40 ↗ kind of an obvious Gap there right

56:42 ↗ um we try it's strictly a numbers game

56:45 ↗ we're really happy that we were able to

56:47 ↗ get ninth grade girls going this year

56:48 ↗ because last year we didn't have it so

56:50 ↗ we continually try to Foster that

56:52 ↗ sometimes the numbers just drive whether

56:53 ↗ or not we can have that program or not

56:55 ↗ so this year we picked up ninth grade

56:57 ↗ girls and hopefully in the future we'll

56:58 ↗ pick it up more

57:01 ↗ um our classes and Clinics we have uh oh

57:04 ↗ we back to basketball really fast I

57:06 ↗ wanted to mention because this is

57:07 ↗ another one that we employ a lot of uh

57:10 ↗ a lot of Youth we have 45 high

57:12 ↗ school-aged referees and gym supervisors

57:14 ↗ that work with this program so that's I

57:16 ↗ said that that is

57:18 ↗ 45 youth right work on this program and

57:22 ↗ um our full-time staff works really hard

57:24 ↗ to you know take very seriously

57:27 ↗ developing the leadership skills and

57:30 ↗ helping

57:31 ↗ all of our referees learn The Importance

57:34 ↗ of Being a role model on a positive role

57:35 ↗ model for those of them coming into

57:36 ↗ contact with right because we we deal

57:39 ↗ with people's most prized possessions

57:40 ↗ right

57:41 ↗ so we're in a second we're using we're

57:43 ↗ getting their time so we're really

57:44 ↗ trying we see that not only as an

57:46 ↗ opportunity to to have a great program

57:48 ↗ but also a great opportunity to develop

57:51 ↗ these young people into leaders and

57:53 ↗ living with us like to be successful in

57:55 ↗ that working world right we hope hope

57:57 ↗ they launched well

57:59 ↗ um the classes and clinics that the

58:01 ↗ Athletics division runs we had nine

58:03 ↗ Partners service providers over the uh

58:05 ↗ course of 2022 that we partnered with

58:08 ↗ over 2 000 registrations and 136 classes

58:12 ↗ offered

58:13 ↗ um we gave you a list there a little bit

58:15 ↗ of some of the opportunities

58:16 ↗ participating in basketball cheer dance

58:19 ↗ and drill gymnastics martial arts soccer

58:21 ↗ and volleyball

58:24 ↗ all right thank you

58:27 ↗ um also under the Athletics umbrella and

58:29 ↗ that team is the rentals of picnic

58:32 ↗ shelters and ball fields

58:34 ↗ um just to give you a little bit of data

58:36 ↗ on that we got 190 picnic shelter

58:39 ↗ rentals

58:40 ↗ uh we had on our ball fields 35

58:42 ↗ different field rental organizations

58:44 ↗ that used our fields and we booked over

58:48 ↗ about 70 700 hours on the fields

58:57 ↗ pool

58:58 ↗ we had the

59:00 ↗ 3157 registers for swim lessons we do a

59:05 ↗ lot of swim lessons

59:07 ↗ um and if you ever try to sign up for

59:08 ↗ one you realize how busy and

59:10 ↗ popular they are

59:12 ↗ those in like separate individuals or is

59:16 ↗ there duplication that would include

59:18 ↗ duplications

59:20 ↗ yeah

59:22 ↗ no maybe who knows but there are

59:25 ↗ multiples because yes uh we offer 21

59:28 ↗ lifeguard classes

59:30 ↗ um and just to give you a little because

59:32 ↗ we say Life part about it sounds like

59:34 ↗ but each class is about 32 hours right

59:36 ↗ so there's a significant amount of uh

59:39 ↗ learning training that goes into that

59:42 ↗ um we also provided the Waterfront

59:44 ↗ lifeguard training for the cities of

59:45 ↗ Medina and Sammamish so you know it's

59:48 ↗ sort of a specialty it's not just the

59:49 ↗ lifeboating and an indoor facility but

59:51 ↗ an outdoor facility so the cities in

59:53 ↗ Medina and Sammamish

59:55 ↗ we're able to offer you we were able to

59:57 ↗ trade out their folks so they could have

59:59 ↗ flashbacks on that and this summary it

1:00:00 ↗ was a uh you know there's been a sort of

1:00:02 ↗ a shortage of that where lifeguard Beach

1:00:05 ↗ lifeguarding was something that was

1:00:06 ↗ definitely um

1:00:07 ↗ yeah there's a big shortage of it all

1:00:10 ↗ over the place some beaches weren't

1:00:11 ↗ monitored so it was great to be able to

1:00:13 ↗ help out with that with our neighboring

1:00:14 ↗ cities it's a great help but we also

1:00:16 ↗ charge your feet for that oh yes yes

1:00:18 ↗ we do yeah

1:00:21 ↗ yeah it's not free but uh yes we like to

1:00:24 ↗ trade them up though and our team does a

1:00:25 ↗ great job of doing that

1:00:27 ↗ uh we had over 27 000 drop-ins

1:00:30 ↗ um

1:00:31 ↗ that number does not include swim

1:00:33 ↗ lessons swim team practices or Swim

1:00:35 ↗ teammates so it doesn't include those

1:00:36 ↗ but that's just drop-ins to use the pool

1:00:39 ↗ over the course of 22 22. and question

1:00:42 ↗ from Tim oh yeah sorry thank you Tim

1:00:48 ↗ there you go you should be unmuted great

1:00:50 ↗ thank you so much yeah so thanks for all

1:00:53 ↗ this and I'm a regular user of the pool

1:00:54 ↗ it's a great pool uh I've I'm a swimmer

1:00:58 ↗ I've swim in pools all over the West

1:01:00 ↗ Coast from here to San Diego and one of

1:01:03 ↗ the things I brought up with Jeff on a

1:01:05 ↗ couple occasions is the Lockers in the

1:01:08 ↗ pool are nice but they're coin operated

1:01:11 ↗ and it's the only pool I know of that

1:01:14 ↗ I've swam in anywhere on the west coast

1:01:16 ↗ that you can't just bring your own

1:01:17 ↗ locker and put it on and lock your stuff

1:01:20 ↗ up and I've watched and I I I think of

1:01:25 ↗ all the times I've been at the pool I've

1:01:26 ↗ seen maybe once or twice one Locker is

1:01:29 ↗ being used through the coin operated

1:01:30 ↗ system

1:01:31 ↗ so I asked Jeff about replacing at least

1:01:34 ↗ some of those Locker doors with some

1:01:37 ↗ doors that allow people to bring their

1:01:38 ↗ own locks and put them in it would keep

1:01:40 ↗ stuff from piling up out on the pool

1:01:42 ↗ deck it'd keep stuff from being thrown

1:01:44 ↗ all over the the room in there that

1:01:46 ↗ often is the case and I just wanted if

1:01:49 ↗ you've thought about that if there's any

1:01:51 ↗ progress on it if you have any updates

1:01:53 ↗ thank you

1:01:54 ↗ no thank you Tim thanks for being a

1:01:56 ↗ member of the uh uh swimming of the pool

1:01:58 ↗ appreciate that and yes we oh did you

1:02:01 ↗ want to go ahead oh yes no we have yes

1:02:03 ↗ it is that is our radar we have had

1:02:05 ↗ conversations about that absolutely and

1:02:08 ↗ we are looking into as far as the

1:02:09 ↗ progress update nothing to report on

1:02:11 ↗ that but it is on our radar and we are

1:02:13 ↗ looking into it and it's coordinating

1:02:15 ↗ with our facility staff Tim so yeah I've

1:02:17 ↗ always appreciated that feedback we're

1:02:19 ↗ we're moving on it

1:02:21 ↗ okay thank you

1:02:23 ↗ absolutely

1:02:26 ↗ um drop-ins oh yeah and then like I said

1:02:28 ↗ we're proud supporters at this school

1:02:29 ↗ district is swim team and blue dolphin

1:02:31 ↗ swim team

1:02:33 ↗ um I don't know just sometimes we'll we

1:02:35 ↗ support the the Islam pool you know one

1:02:39 ↗ facility we have that supports uh

1:02:41 ↗ Issaquah Liberty high schools for both

1:02:43 ↗ practices and needs we support Skyline

1:02:46 ↗ High School for all of their mates

1:02:48 ↗ um and then the Issaquah swim team does

1:02:50 ↗ practices and they do in-house meets at

1:02:52 ↗ a facility and then the blue dolphin

1:02:54 ↗ swim team practices at the uh at the

1:02:57 ↗ pool so that's a lot of practicing and a

1:03:00 ↗ lot of use because my a lot of swim

1:03:02 ↗ lessons so to say the least that is a

1:03:03 ↗ very very busy facility

1:03:06 ↗ Barn

1:03:08 ↗ [Music]

1:03:09 ↗ uh Pickering Barn just uh you know we

1:03:13 ↗ got someone as a rental division that

1:03:15 ↗ bickering bar is where the rental

1:03:16 ↗ tradition is housed depicting bar is

1:03:19 ↗ responsible for the operation of the

1:03:20 ↗ rentals events out of the Pickering Barn

1:03:22 ↗ as well as the farmers market and it

1:03:25 ↗ also oversees the community garden

1:03:28 ↗ um as you can see here we had in 2022

1:03:30 ↗ 136 rental and events at the at the barn

1:03:35 ↗ um there's a little bit of a breakdown

1:03:36 ↗ below that

1:03:38 ↗ in the future I'll probably update the

1:03:41 ↗ graph a little bit so you can read it a

1:03:42 ↗ little bit better that's kind of just a

1:03:43 ↗ little segment of just the different

1:03:45 ↗ types of events and how much use is

1:03:47 ↗ there

1:03:48 ↗ um with the farmers market some just

1:03:49 ↗ some fun data for you there we have uh

1:03:52 ↗ we had 21 markets with 88 vendors

1:03:54 ↗ average daily attendance is 3 400 people

1:03:57 ↗ and realize that not average daily

1:03:59 ↗ attendance right that's Saturdays we're

1:04:01 ↗ only open from nine to two so you think

1:04:04 ↗ about the volume that volume of people

1:04:06 ↗ going through there in that five hours

1:04:07 ↗ is pretty crazy and that's I said that's

1:04:10 ↗ average some days they're up pushing

1:04:11 ↗ closer to five thousand

1:04:13 ↗ um so yeah it is a busy fun place and if

1:04:16 ↗ you haven't been uh highly recommend

1:04:18 ↗ going because it's it's awesome uh 450

1:04:21 ↗ volunteer hours we often get people that

1:04:23 ↗ want to volunteer and we always welcome

1:04:25 ↗ people coming down and volunteering and

1:04:27 ↗ they are a vital part of our operation

1:04:28 ↗ down there uh we have 15 participating

1:04:31 ↗ non-profits that would have booths and

1:04:33 ↗ 16 local businesses and lastly we gave

1:04:36 ↗ uh 4 617 pounds of produce we're uh

1:04:40 ↗ given to this by food and clothing bank

1:04:42 ↗ which is pretty cool

1:04:46 ↗ thank you

1:04:48 ↗ without you wait thank you and a big

1:04:51 ↗ thanks to the team that makes it

1:04:52 ↗ wouldn't happen without I mean there's

1:04:53 ↗ each one of those divisions talk about

1:04:55 ↗ Community Center for everybody each one

1:04:57 ↗ has their own team they work very very

1:04:59 ↗ hard to make all the magic happen and

1:05:02 ↗ they also have a tremendous amount of

1:05:03 ↗ volunteers and people in the community

1:05:05 ↗ and people like yourself too that help

1:05:07 ↗ provide input inside the things that we

1:05:08 ↗ do because it it takes it takes it takes

1:05:11 ↗ a village right it's everybody doing

1:05:13 ↗ pieces of that so it's our staff along

1:05:15 ↗ with the community and it's I say a lot

1:05:17 ↗ of people who really care about

1:05:18 ↗ increasing the quality of life for

1:05:20 ↗ people in the community so

1:05:22 ↗ yeah thank you

1:05:27 ↗ thanks Brian any uh other questions

1:05:29 ↗ comments

1:05:31 ↗ um this Thursday

1:05:44 ↗ so we

1:05:46 ↗ [Laughter]

1:05:53 ↗ it gets nice and warm in there so

1:05:56 ↗ sometimes I wish I were

1:05:57 ↗ to jump into them

1:06:01 ↗ oh that's awesome appreciate that kid

1:06:04 ↗ yeah Brian I was just curious the blue

1:06:07 ↗ dolphins swim team I had never heard of

1:06:09 ↗ that entity before uh that was in in the

1:06:12 ↗ mix of the pool over there

1:06:14 ↗ yet they are relatively new and that is

1:06:16 ↗ literally I think they get a little bit

1:06:18 ↗ of time on Sundays or Saturdays that

1:06:21 ↗ nobody else is using it because there

1:06:23 ↗ just isn't any we don't have any time

1:06:25 ↗ like during the middle of the week or

1:06:28 ↗ the normal time zone like the weekends

1:06:30 ↗ so they're getting a little piece I

1:06:32 ↗ threw them in there but they're a real

1:06:33 ↗ small user compared to primarily it's a

1:06:37 ↗ squad School District it's a swim team

1:06:38 ↗ and they've been with the Jewish foam

1:06:40 ↗ pool for shish they were practicing

1:06:43 ↗ there even before the city's operation

1:06:45 ↗ of that facility back in like the 90s

1:06:48 ↗ yeah I gotcha and um apologies that this

1:06:51 ↗ was already mentioned somewhere but

1:06:53 ↗ what's on the list for 2023 any anything

1:06:57 ↗ particular that you would want to

1:06:58 ↗ highlight or looking forward to foreign

1:07:02 ↗ a little bit of our stuff with our work

1:07:04 ↗ plan

1:07:05 ↗ um but yeah I mean yeah it's it's a lot

1:07:08 ↗ of we're really fortunate that we got

1:07:10 ↗ some staffing that we're getting back on

1:07:12 ↗ boarded this year and ramping up so

1:07:14 ↗ that's going to be a big help for us

1:07:17 ↗ um and as far as 2023 we're looking at

1:07:20 ↗ some new program we've got some some new

1:07:21 ↗ programs we're trying to lean into uh we

1:07:23 ↗ have a Halloween event that we're

1:07:25 ↗ looking to do in the fall that's going

1:07:26 ↗ to be coming up which will be sort of

1:07:28 ↗ fun I mean along with everything else we

1:07:29 ↗ do normally

1:07:31 ↗ but also having some of those fun events

1:07:33 ↗ that uh you know we're currently in

1:07:36 ↗ planning for how we're just going to hit

1:07:37 ↗ this in the work plan but what other

1:07:39 ↗ events can we bring that will bring

1:07:40 ↗ community members together and uh you

1:07:42 ↗ know with you for the adults and

1:07:43 ↗ Families

1:07:45 ↗ yeah and I guess sorry one one more

1:07:47 ↗ question along those lines maybe think

1:07:48 ↗ of it how when you think about the youth

1:07:50 ↗ sports and those type of activities how

1:07:53 ↗ do you tend to decide what to offer and

1:07:56 ↗ what what gets the perennial treatment

1:07:58 ↗ like the Basketball League versus some

1:08:01 ↗ of the other options that I've seen in

1:08:03 ↗ the mix over the years like rugby or

1:08:05 ↗ Ultimate Frisbee and that type of thing

1:08:07 ↗ oh great great question a lot of times

1:08:10 ↗ it starts with the proposal of somebody

1:08:11 ↗ coming to us or if we're seeking a

1:08:14 ↗ certain sport if we can find somebody

1:08:15 ↗ that's teaching something

1:08:17 ↗ um they usually talk with us and we're

1:08:20 ↗ you know if it has if it's viable we'll

1:08:22 ↗ give it a chance if there's somebody in

1:08:23 ↗ the community that might benefit from it

1:08:25 ↗ especially the program

1:08:27 ↗ um that's why we try to if you've been

1:08:28 ↗ paying attention over all the years

1:08:30 ↗ we've tried a lot of different things

1:08:31 ↗ and some have taken off and stayed and

1:08:33 ↗ some haven't right so basketball that's

1:08:36 ↗ one that's that I participated in this

1:08:39 ↗ with my basketballs again so that one's

1:08:42 ↗ been around for quite a while so that's

1:08:44 ↗ just an opportunity we've been running

1:08:46 ↗ that one over and over again but yeah we

1:08:48 ↗ we usually get if we get a proposal for

1:08:50 ↗ a program we sit down with whoever's

1:08:52 ↗ proposing it look at their what are they

1:08:54 ↗ thinking what's a market what's their

1:08:57 ↗ budget and we have a nice little chat

1:08:58 ↗ and like I said if it has if it's viable

1:09:00 ↗ we'll try it

1:09:02 ↗ we're always open to trying new things

1:09:04 ↗ to see what uh you know what we can make

1:09:07 ↗ happen do you have some ideas

1:09:10 ↗ oh and not at the top of my head but I'm

1:09:12 ↗ I'm was just curious having seen some of

1:09:15 ↗ those pop in and out on the schedule

1:09:16 ↗ over the years

1:09:18 ↗ yeah and there's sometimes a lot of

1:09:20 ↗ things we'd love to offer

1:09:24 ↗ dance class

1:09:27 ↗ and it was very very popular but finding

1:09:30 ↗ a good instructor to run and operate

1:09:32 ↗ that program that's that's been a

1:09:34 ↗ challenge we haven't been able to find

1:09:35 ↗ somebody to do something like that so

1:09:36 ↗ sometimes it's a matter of finding the

1:09:39 ↗ right person to be able to run that

1:09:40 ↗ program too

1:09:41 ↗ makes sense

1:09:43 ↗ thanks Brian yeah

1:09:47 ↗ my question was about Staffing like are

1:09:49 ↗ you having have you like last year did

1:09:52 ↗ you have a hard time building some of

1:09:54 ↗ those seasonal positions the part you

1:09:56 ↗ know like

1:09:57 ↗ the camp Camp counselors the basketball

1:10:00 ↗ reps yeah if I was testing you I'd say a

1:10:03 ↗ big Capital yts exclamation point

1:10:05 ↗ yes absolutely yes the parts I'm not

1:10:08 ↗ regulars that talk in like counterparts

1:10:10 ↗ with other cities it's across the board

1:10:12 ↗ the part-time on regulars have been very

1:10:15 ↗ very difficult

1:10:16 ↗ um on a odd real positive note our our

1:10:19 ↗ full-time positions that we've been

1:10:21 ↗ recruiting for we've had very very great

1:10:23 ↗ candidates across the board in all of

1:10:25 ↗ our positions

1:10:26 ↗ then we've got just a great Canada pool

1:10:31 ↗ so that kind of I think speaks to the

1:10:33 ↗ environment that we have in our parks

1:10:35 ↗ and Community Services Department

1:10:37 ↗ um but the part-time operators have been

1:10:38 ↗ very very difficult so if you didn't

1:10:40 ↗ know anybody

1:10:41 ↗ that wants to come and work our time for

1:10:44 ↗ us we have a lot of different

1:10:45 ↗ opportunities for them to uh participate

1:10:48 ↗ with us home or work for us

1:10:51 ↗ nice plug we're really trying to get

1:10:53 ↗ creative and and how we recruit through

1:10:55 ↗ those positions and and Brian touched on

1:10:58 ↗ this a little bit but you know we really

1:11:00 ↗ see our Employment Program as a as a in

1:11:03 ↗ many ways a team program in itself we're

1:11:05 ↗ often a first employer right and we take

1:11:08 ↗ that really seriously and and we hope

1:11:10 ↗ anyone who works for us realizes your

1:11:13 ↗ whatever you turn pro in you're gaining

1:11:15 ↗ value you're gaining value leadership

1:11:17 ↗ you're gaining value in so many

1:11:19 ↗ different ways and we just want to

1:11:21 ↗ continually emphasize that and uh

1:11:24 ↗ yeah because yeah the markets the

1:11:26 ↗ Market's thinner than it used to be

1:11:29 ↗ um and it's uh yeah it's not unique to

1:11:31 ↗ us either

1:11:35 ↗ yeah

1:11:36 ↗ so I'm curious because Recreation

1:11:38 ↗ represents like how engaged Community is

1:11:41 ↗ so compared to the pandemic years 2020

1:11:45 ↗ 2021 have we seen an increase in

1:11:48 ↗ engagement in these programs and have we

1:11:50 ↗ gone back to the normal pre-pandemic

1:11:53 ↗ numbers

1:11:54 ↗ you know some we are busier yeah I'd say

1:11:58 ↗ as far as activity was it's up okay yeah

1:12:01 ↗ it's it's fully back that's where the

1:12:03 ↗ Staffing come in this year that we're

1:12:05 ↗ getting on board with is going to be

1:12:07 ↗ really exciting

1:12:08 ↗ um we also have coming up but we're

1:12:10 ↗ going to be hiring our Recreation

1:12:11 ↗ coordinator let's go work specifically

1:12:12 ↗ with our adaptive Recreation so what was

1:12:15 ↗ called our specialized Recreation it's

1:12:17 ↗ going to be working with our adaptive

1:12:19 ↗ and creating a whole bunch of programs

1:12:20 ↗ working with our Special Olympics and

1:12:21 ↗ that too which would be really neat but

1:12:23 ↗ yeah things are things are cooking and

1:12:26 ↗ cooking quickly yes um there's a lot of

1:12:28 ↗ these I think coming out of color people

1:12:30 ↗ already start getting active again and

1:12:32 ↗ getting the kids and getting themselves

1:12:33 ↗ involved and things it's been

1:12:35 ↗ there's been a slight object and

1:12:37 ↗ pickleball I say that jokingly because

1:12:40 ↗ there's been a huge update

1:12:42 ↗ um but yeah just a lot of people want to

1:12:43 ↗ get out and enjoy the different

1:12:44 ↗ facilities and enjoy the parks right too

1:12:46 ↗ which has been outstanding so just a

1:12:48 ↗ follow-up question so with the increase

1:12:50 ↗ in demand and a little more competitive

1:12:53 ↗ market are we seeing

1:12:55 ↗ um that we will bridge that with a an

1:12:59 ↗ increase in fees in these programs is

1:13:01 ↗ that something that is

1:13:04 ↗ um planned for 2023. any Christmas fees

1:13:07 ↗ yeah our fees usually go up a level of

1:13:09 ↗ cost living anyways right yeah yeah and

1:13:12 ↗ we also always pay attention to what

1:13:13 ↗ other cities are doing we don't we don't

1:13:15 ↗ usually compare ourselves we can look at

1:13:17 ↗ the whole Market

1:13:18 ↗ you know because we want to be able to

1:13:19 ↗ provide affordable programming we also

1:13:22 ↗ have resources for people that can't

1:13:24 ↗ afford programming to have that with

1:13:26 ↗ scholarship program so we make sure that

1:13:28 ↗ everybody wants participate

1:13:33 ↗ great job Diana I'm glad you asked that

1:13:35 ↗ question about you so I was going to

1:13:36 ↗ just add a few comments at the end thank

1:13:38 ↗ you Brian for being here but I think

1:13:40 ↗ your question really nailed what I was

1:13:42 ↗ going to say and it's really just

1:13:43 ↗ commending the recreation team right the

1:13:46 ↗ you know a two-year we're still we're

1:13:49 ↗ still living with covid but coming out

1:13:52 ↗ of a global pandemic in 2021 endearing

1:13:56 ↗ that and you've maybe heard me say this

1:13:58 ↗ through that process that

1:14:00 ↗ the Adaptive nature of the recreation

1:14:02 ↗ team and the fact that we kept

1:14:04 ↗ facilities available accessible safe it

1:14:07 ↗ was really really important for this

1:14:08 ↗ community and the recreation team did

1:14:09 ↗ that in amazing ways and now in 2022

1:14:13 ↗ to see it's kind of why I was you know

1:14:16 ↗ doing that I mean the drop-in use of the

1:14:18 ↗ community center you know transitioning

1:14:20 ↗ to hardwood floors in 2018 and coming

1:14:22 ↗ out of the pandemic oh my goodness I

1:14:25 ↗ mean it is it is hopping in there the

1:14:27 ↗ pool and just look at those numbers is

1:14:29 ↗ really hopping so yes a lot of a lot of

1:14:32 ↗ use the Pickering Barn is certainly back

1:14:35 ↗ in

1:14:36 ↗ full fold it's really cool to see a

1:14:38 ↗ farmer's market a farmer's market a

1:14:40 ↗ local City Farmers Market to average 3

1:14:42 ↗ 400 people

1:14:44 ↗ um

1:14:45 ↗ any given Saturday that's a

1:14:48 ↗ it's a really cool place to be that

1:14:50 ↗ tells us that you know a key part of

1:14:53 ↗ what we do in Recreation is we want to

1:14:55 ↗ respond to the to the community and we

1:14:57 ↗ want to be relevant to that community

1:14:59 ↗ and I think we are

1:15:01 ↗ hitting that

1:15:02 ↗ as we see the community using news

1:15:05 ↗ direct programs so great job by Brian on

1:15:08 ↗ the recreation team really

1:15:10 ↗ amazing work

1:15:12 ↗ great thanks Brian thank you

1:15:16 ↗ um so I think I'm going to pass it off

1:15:17 ↗ to uh Jeff with the 2023 Park Board work

1:15:21 ↗ plan uh update yeah get to work

1:15:28 ↗ just kidding just kidding hey good

1:15:29 ↗ evening everybody and thank you Asante

1:15:31 ↗ for for pulling that up on the screen so

1:15:34 ↗ um tonight I wanted to as in as in past

1:15:37 ↗ years you might remember what probably

1:15:38 ↗ the last four years or so I've provided

1:15:41 ↗ in January a what I called our sort of

1:15:44 ↗ our major work plan item for the whole

1:15:45 ↗ department items for the whole

1:15:47 ↗ department this list represents a bit of

1:15:50 ↗ a shift sort of version 2.0

1:15:53 ↗ I'm happy to provide you the full sort

1:15:56 ↗ of Department major work plans item and

1:15:58 ↗ if you remember from past years that

1:16:00 ↗ really is is from our adopted budget

1:16:03 ↗ both our operating budget our capital

1:16:05 ↗ budget mayor and Council priorities

1:16:09 ↗ um

1:16:10 ↗ initiatives that we've probably already

1:16:12 ↗ been working on

1:16:14 ↗ um again not representative of

1:16:16 ↗ everything we do but really

1:16:17 ↗ representative of those tasks those

1:16:20 ↗ major items that we'll have a pretty

1:16:22 ↗ high degree of community touch

1:16:24 ↗ what this version before you the 2023

1:16:27 ↗ version represents is really

1:16:31 ↗ in working with with Zach and Marlene

1:16:35 ↗ these past couple of months uh say all

1:16:38 ↗ right which of these items are are going

1:16:40 ↗ to be filling the agenda for the coming

1:16:42 ↗ year for the park board

1:16:44 ↗ um and not only getting fed feedback

1:16:47 ↗ from uh from both of them but also

1:16:49 ↗ really informed our capital budget by

1:16:52 ↗ the mayor's priorities

1:16:54 ↗ um

1:16:56 ↗ as I said earlier Zach and Marlene

1:17:00 ↗ um

1:17:00 ↗ the first page and I could certainly go

1:17:02 ↗ through these

1:17:04 ↗ um you know you'll see it sort of broke

1:17:06 ↗ them down by division and work teams

1:17:09 ↗ within the department

1:17:11 ↗ um primarily as in Prior years focused

1:17:14 ↗ on some of our capital projects

1:17:17 ↗ Hillside Park and continuing that

1:17:19 ↗ permitting process Veterans Memorial

1:17:22 ↗ our pedestrian Park and Senior Center

1:17:25 ↗ project that we started on last summer

1:17:28 ↗ will be in design and permitting this

1:17:31 ↗ year the Confluence Park project namely

1:17:35 ↗ the eckhouse and the work around that

1:17:38 ↗ um

1:17:39 ↗ the secure Capital Improvement plan a

1:17:41 ↗ six year CIP is due for an update this

1:17:44 ↗ spring

1:17:46 ↗ um I'll touch a little bit more on that

1:17:48 ↗ um under my director's report we're

1:17:51 ↗ being invited to a special Joint

1:17:53 ↗ Commission meeting where the

1:17:55 ↗ transportation board the park board

1:17:57 ↗ the equity board the environmental board

1:17:59 ↗ might be missing another board are all

1:18:01 ↗ going to be invited to come on February

1:18:02 ↗ February 16th and learn about the CIP

1:18:05 ↗ process have a chance to give input on

1:18:09 ↗ criteria and how we want to go through

1:18:11 ↗ the evaluation process for the CIP

1:18:14 ↗ process

1:18:15 ↗ so more to that

1:18:19 ↗ terms of a special meeting Park

1:18:22 ↗ strategic plan remember plan we worked

1:18:24 ↗ on at Ernest in 2017 and Council adopted

1:18:26 ↗ a 20 in 2010 well here we are 6

1:18:29 ↗ meeting to initiate that Community

1:18:31 ↗ process here in 2023 with a adoption in

1:18:35 ↗ 2024. Jennifer and I have been working

1:18:38 ↗ with the school district and a

1:18:40 ↗ consultant on a city-wide Athletic Field

1:18:42 ↗ assessment I want to bring that to you

1:18:45 ↗ all and update you all on that and get

1:18:46 ↗ some good policy discussion going around

1:18:49 ↗ that

1:18:50 ↗ the dog park

1:18:52 ↗ project converting the old skate park

1:18:55 ↗ site to our first permanent dog park

1:18:57 ↗ probably first of a couple dog parks

1:19:00 ↗ within the community will be coming your

1:19:02 ↗ way as well but within our park

1:19:04 ↗ operations team we've touched on a few

1:19:06 ↗ of these last fall but a review and

1:19:09 ↗ update of our heritage Street program

1:19:12 ↗ you might recall through the budget

1:19:13 ↗ process too I highlighted we have an

1:19:15 ↗ urban Forest supervisor a position

1:19:17 ↗ that's going to be coming on board so

1:19:19 ↗ embarking on our first urban Forest

1:19:22 ↗ management plan initiating that work

1:19:24 ↗ will be a key advisory role for the the

1:19:28 ↗ park board ongoing work with green

1:19:30 ↗ Issaquah

1:19:32 ↗ much like Brian just did with Recreation

1:19:34 ↗ we'd like Rick still to come probably

1:19:36 ↗ twice a year and just give the general

1:19:38 ↗ park operations

1:19:39 ↗ um

1:19:40 ↗ updates

1:19:42 ↗ within the recreation group

1:19:45 ↗ we have successfully received a grant

1:19:48 ↗ from King County you might remember

1:19:51 ↗ conversations about this school district

1:19:54 ↗ is leaning in but we're doing a

1:19:55 ↗ feasibility study on the booms pool in

1:19:59 ↗ particular the hay School District if

1:20:01 ↗ you're adding a additional or when

1:20:03 ↗ you're adding an additional high school

1:20:05 ↗ how are we taking into account capacity

1:20:09 ↗ needs

1:20:10 ↗ for

1:20:12 ↗ um and the stress that's already being

1:20:13 ↗ put on

1:20:16 ↗ all the school teams needing that

1:20:19 ↗ a Pickering Barn Brian mentioned we're

1:20:22 ↗ looking at reinstituting a Halloween

1:20:24 ↗ event historically we've done a

1:20:26 ↗ Halloween event at the community center

1:20:29 ↗ taking the pause through the pandemic

1:20:31 ↗ it's exciting to get some really

1:20:34 ↗ creative folks on the recreation team

1:20:35 ↗ together and say you know what what if

1:20:37 ↗ we reinvent that and it feels like an

1:20:39 ↗ event that should live at the barn such

1:20:41 ↗ a great place for an event like that so

1:20:44 ↗ certainly more to come with that is that

1:20:45 ↗ takes shape a farmer's market

1:20:48 ↗ um as Brian you know and I shared

1:20:50 ↗ immensely popular farmer's market we're

1:20:53 ↗ going to be working with the finance

1:20:54 ↗ department and establishing EBT funding

1:20:57 ↗ which is a way for those

1:21:01 ↗ um on food stamps or other

1:21:04 ↗ um food scarcity programs are able to

1:21:07 ↗ fund and buy their produce and food

1:21:10 ↗ through right there at the at the Foods

1:21:12 ↗ Market or the Farmers Market

1:21:14 ↗ Brian will also be back for another

1:21:17 ↗ Recreation update throughout the year as

1:21:19 ↗ well just to keep you all and prize to

1:21:21 ↗ what's going on

1:21:23 ↗ um Arts though there is an art

1:21:24 ↗ commission you might recall that

1:21:27 ↗ Northwest troll hunt project that is

1:21:30 ↗ going to be coming to Issaquah

1:21:31 ↗ continuing to do some really good work

1:21:33 ↗ in that regard look for on the on the

1:21:37 ↗ calendar some updates with that it is

1:21:40 ↗ looking like Confluence Park will be a

1:21:41 ↗ location for that for that troll if you

1:21:45 ↗ haven't looked already

1:21:46 ↗ um

1:21:48 ↗ um oh my goodness uh Thomas dambo Thomas

1:21:52 ↗ dambo is the artist so if you ever want

1:21:54 ↗ to do a Google search Thomas danbo

1:21:56 ↗ trolls

1:21:58 ↗ um you'll see some of these trolls that

1:22:00 ↗ he's put up around the around the world

1:22:01 ↗ uh what will be coming our way we've

1:22:04 ↗ also just in these last couple of weeks

1:22:06 ↗ last months had some conversations with

1:22:08 ↗ Snoqualmie tribe and they're really

1:22:11 ↗ becoming part of that conversation well

1:22:14 ↗ in terms how that project can also

1:22:16 ↗ incorporate native art and really

1:22:20 ↗ respect for respect for the land

1:22:23 ↗ holiday lighting as Brian mentioned you

1:22:26 ↗ know the last couple years through the

1:22:27 ↗ pandemic we've been sort of evolving and

1:22:29 ↗ growing what tree lighting or what

1:22:31 ↗ holiday lighting looks like through old

1:22:33 ↗ town we're at a point here as we head

1:22:35 ↗ into 2023 where we're sort of reaching

1:22:38 ↗ our limits with with some really old

1:22:40 ↗ tired electrical through through old

1:22:43 ↗ town so we need to do some visioning for

1:22:46 ↗ maybe some some Investments electrical

1:22:49 ↗ Investments that need to be made and so

1:22:51 ↗ what we want what do we want holiday

1:22:53 ↗ lighting to look like and sort of be as

1:22:56 ↗ something here in Issaquah

1:22:58 ↗ so some conversation there oh

1:23:02 ↗ the share screen well it's all right

1:23:05 ↗ uh we also have and we touched on one of

1:23:08 ↗ these tonight with Title 18 but um other

1:23:10 ↗ departments projects that we know

1:23:13 ↗ those projects or initiatives will

1:23:16 ↗ likely be having a touch here with the

1:23:17 ↗ park board uh one of those along with

1:23:20 ↗ Title 18 is Newport way we're staying

1:23:23 ↗ closely a prized to Public Works in

1:23:26 ↗ terms of where they are and that Newport

1:23:27 ↗ Way design process what that means how

1:23:30 ↗ that might impact Tibbetts Valley Park

1:23:33 ↗ as well as the mountain the sound

1:23:35 ↗ Greenway Trail

1:23:38 ↗ we also you might recall Public Works

1:23:41 ↗ the stormwater folks are updating the

1:23:44 ↗ surface and strong water master plan

1:23:46 ↗ again a really close connection with our

1:23:49 ↗ with our parks and open spaces so likely

1:23:51 ↗ an update there

1:23:54 ↗ I'm going to hold off for a second on

1:23:56 ↗ the on the color coding because that

1:23:58 ↗ really that opens it up for a

1:23:59 ↗ conversation for all of you quickly to

1:24:02 ↗ the next page

1:24:03 ↗ the second page is really meant to be a

1:24:07 ↗ very much a working document but this is

1:24:09 ↗ something that as I meet monthly with

1:24:12 ↗ the chair and vice chair with Zach and

1:24:14 ↗ Marlene will be sort of populating this

1:24:16 ↗ calendar as as specifics get to being

1:24:19 ↗ they know so as we're not only building

1:24:21 ↗ the calendar for that month but we're

1:24:23 ↗ trying to look a couple months ahead and

1:24:25 ↗ sequence these agenda items as they go I

1:24:30 ↗ haven't talked to Zach yet about this

1:24:31 ↗ but um I could see this working calendar

1:24:35 ↗ just being something that's in the

1:24:36 ↗ agenda every month so you all too are

1:24:39 ↗ sort of seeing tabs of maybe how things

1:24:41 ↗ are moving thank you Asante for also

1:24:44 ↗ putting in the actual dates for the

1:24:47 ↗ meetings those months so you can you can

1:24:49 ↗ Mark those as well

1:24:51 ↗ so if we scroll back up again I'm

1:24:54 ↗ available for any questions you might

1:24:55 ↗ have about any of these items but also

1:24:58 ↗ the color coding is really inviting all

1:25:01 ↗ of you we talked

1:25:03 ↗ um at our discussion last fall about the

1:25:08 ↗ Heritage tree program for example that

1:25:10 ↗ with the urban Forest supervisor coming

1:25:12 ↗ on board with that update there's a real

1:25:15 ↗ opportunity to couple the both of those

1:25:17 ↗ tasks and have an ad hoc group that can

1:25:21 ↗ really

1:25:22 ↗ meet with a higher frequency with staff

1:25:24 ↗ be a little bit more engaged in that

1:25:26 ↗ that ad hoc group would then

1:25:29 ↗ these topics would be coming back to the

1:25:31 ↗ to the park board obviously but just an

1:25:34 ↗ opportunity for a little more intensive

1:25:37 ↗ touch into those those topics and then

1:25:40 ↗ the park strategic plan as well it's

1:25:42 ↗ such a a big lift

1:25:45 ↗ again just wanted to highlight it and

1:25:48 ↗ welcome it as you know as a Park Board

1:25:51 ↗ you want to

1:25:54 ↗ receive if you might remember when we

1:25:56 ↗ did the last Park One update I want to

1:25:57 ↗ say for probably four or five months in

1:25:59 ↗ a row we had the park strategic plan on

1:26:01 ↗ every agenda we could certainly do that

1:26:03 ↗ that certainly can fill up agendas

1:26:05 ↗ really quick or do you want to consider

1:26:07 ↗ an ad hoc that might do some of those

1:26:09 ↗ touches and then be coming back to the

1:26:12 ↗ park board with updates so two potential

1:26:16 ↗ ad hoc groups for all of you to discuss

1:26:18 ↗ consider

1:26:21 ↗ just want to add some of the

1:26:24 ↗ um

1:26:25 ↗ ad hoc work for the community investment

1:26:28 ↗ strategy Park projects that we're going

1:26:29 ↗ to be working on that's likely going to

1:26:31 ↗ wind down here in the next month we've

1:26:35 ↗ got a few meetings coming up here in

1:26:37 ↗ February early March and then likely one

1:26:39 ↗ more meeting after that for

1:26:42 ↗ um at the control and Spark project and

1:26:44 ↗ then after that that's probably the

1:26:46 ↗ biggest lift

1:26:47 ↗ um regarding the back route

1:26:50 ↗ does that work heads into permitting

1:26:52 ↗ right it's probably a lighter lighter

1:26:55 ↗ load for that yeah so then that would

1:26:57 ↗ free up if you want to volunteer for

1:26:59 ↗ another should you want to take that you

1:27:02 ↗ you won't be obligated for the rest of

1:27:04 ↗ the year

1:27:05 ↗ just twisting an armor too first of all

1:27:09 ↗ questions discussions all yours I think

1:27:12 ↗ I saw Brad and then Danielle

1:27:15 ↗ hey Jeff thanks for that I wanted to

1:27:18 ↗ clarify with all the additional Staffing

1:27:21 ↗ you're bringing on board how much of the

1:27:23 ↗ planning of some of this stuff like the

1:27:26 ↗ Strategic plan and the urban Forest

1:27:28 ↗ management plan is going to be done

1:27:30 ↗ in-house versus

1:27:31 ↗ bringing Consultants on board

1:27:36 ↗ yeah great question I think it'll still

1:27:38 ↗ be a mix of both

1:27:41 ↗ so you are planning to bring on

1:27:42 ↗ consultants for for both those planning

1:27:45 ↗ efforts yep okay yes

1:27:50 ↗ anyway

1:27:52 ↗ um

1:27:52 ↗ I would just like to say that I think

1:27:54 ↗ that using an ad hoc committee for like

1:27:57 ↗ the park strategic plan is a great idea

1:28:00 ↗ um because it will allow a few members

1:28:02 ↗ of the board I think to really take a

1:28:04 ↗ deep dive in a way that we can't do in

1:28:06 ↗ our normal monthly meetings that said it

1:28:10 ↗ would also be good if if like that um

1:28:12 ↗ the ad hoc committee is still meeting

1:28:14 ↗ for

1:28:16 ↗ um

1:28:17 ↗ the um

1:28:20 ↗ I can't remember what it's called the

1:28:22 ↗ arpa funds the community investment it

1:28:25 ↗ would be good to have

1:28:27 ↗ um make updates from that as well at our

1:28:30 ↗ meetings

1:28:32 ↗ since our previous okay

1:28:36 ↗ yeah it'll just be good to you know make

1:28:39 ↗ sure that um that there are some touches

1:28:41 ↗ yeah and then the other thing is I

1:28:44 ↗ actually think

1:28:45 ↗ [Music]

1:28:45 ↗ um

1:28:46 ↗ when you get the results back from the

1:28:51 ↗ um the athletic field assessment that

1:28:53 ↗ that's another area where it might be

1:28:56 ↗ helpful to have a few member another

1:28:58 ↗ committee to the extent that that is

1:29:00 ↗ going to sort of people are going to

1:29:02 ↗ need to strategize and you'll want to

1:29:05 ↗ get community input or board member

1:29:07 ↗ input

1:29:08 ↗ and maybe you know

1:29:10 ↗ what the city strategy is going to be

1:29:13 ↗ open that they also were really trying

1:29:15 ↗ to time the completion of that Athletic

1:29:17 ↗ Field assessment to help inform this

1:29:20 ↗ park strategic Plan update and I think

1:29:23 ↗ we need that before we can really do

1:29:25 ↗ figure out what to do with veterans or

1:29:27 ↗ tidbits and Central Park here so

1:29:35 ↗ great points

1:29:37 ↗ any uh any other comments on the uh ad

1:29:41 ↗ hoc potential ad hoc groups

1:29:47 ↗ questions with regards to the

1:29:50 ↗ 2023 plan

1:29:54 ↗ okay

1:30:00 ↗ um I was just curious about the the

1:30:02 ↗ highlighted ones Jeff in terms of

1:30:05 ↗ what what about these ones specifically

1:30:08 ↗ stood out as you know needing the ad hoc

1:30:10 ↗ committee versus versus not

1:30:13 ↗ um because it's just the complexity and

1:30:15 ↗ the funds involved or trying to to learn

1:30:19 ↗ here yeah no appreciate that Andrew yeah

1:30:22 ↗ I think just that complexity

1:30:26 ↗ frequency of of

1:30:31 ↗ um

1:30:32 ↗ yeah conversation

1:30:35 ↗ um

1:30:36 ↗ you know I I think that

1:30:39 ↗ um

1:30:40 ↗ yeah I'll stop there sorry

1:30:42 ↗ that sounds pretty straightforward

1:30:44 ↗ thanks

1:30:47 ↗ okay so I guess uh I'd just like to

1:30:49 ↗ gauge the interest

1:30:51 ↗ um from from The Parks Board

1:30:54 ↗ um if uh we're uh in favor of trying to

1:30:58 ↗ create an ad hoc group to discuss the

1:31:01 ↗ park strategic plan

1:31:06 ↗ foreign

1:31:09 ↗ show of hands for interest in creating

1:31:12 ↗ that ad hoc group for the uh

1:31:14 ↗ are we committing at this point or just

1:31:16 ↗ like saying yes we should do it

1:31:19 ↗ oh yes

1:31:23 ↗ just kind of changing the interest from

1:31:25 ↗ The Parks Board as a whole of creating

1:31:28 ↗ the group and that will sort of then if

1:31:31 ↗ we are interested in boarding that uh ad

1:31:34 ↗ hack group then we'll take a sort of a

1:31:36 ↗ show of hands to see who's interested in

1:31:38 ↗ being a member of that at our group

1:31:43 ↗ so in in favor of uh creating an ad hack

1:31:47 ↗ group for the parks strategic plan

1:31:53 ↗ it appears as though we we do have a

1:31:56 ↗ majority

1:31:58 ↗ uh so uh with that said does anybody

1:32:01 ↗ have

1:32:03 ↗ um an interest in joining that ad hoc

1:32:06 ↗ group to discuss the Arts strategic plan

1:32:09 ↗ um raise your hand

1:32:13 ↗ foreign

1:32:19 ↗ I believe and Andrew M so uh I think

1:32:22 ↗ three is a pretty good number for uh

1:32:26 ↗ yeah

1:32:28 ↗ so not signing up but a question about

1:32:31 ↗ that

1:32:34 ↗ that's the left hand okay

1:32:37 ↗ uh for the yellow ones the Arca projects

1:32:41 ↗ if we were on that I had a bug

1:32:44 ↗ think you'd asked us just to continue

1:32:46 ↗ yes is that yes so it's going to go

1:32:50 ↗ um

1:32:53 ↗ yeah but you should be done with that

1:32:55 ↗ probably second of March

1:32:59 ↗ would be my best friend okay I know yeah

1:33:02 ↗ yeah not sure that but yeah I think that

1:33:04 ↗ the yellow highlight and I'm sorry I

1:33:06 ↗ didn't mention that too much earlier but

1:33:08 ↗ yeah yeah my hope would be the current

1:33:10 ↗ ad hoc members as that gets now that a

1:33:14 ↗ design con design contract has been

1:33:16 ↗ approved in that work and that

1:33:17 ↗ engagement work begins to happen that

1:33:19 ↗ that ad hoc groups can be maintain

1:33:21 ↗ meeting multiple times we have a bunch

1:33:23 ↗ of dates but yeah okay yeah

1:33:26 ↗ that would be about we should be pretty

1:33:29 ↗ far in and we're going to be doing some

1:33:31 ↗ public engagement sometime after that

1:33:36 ↗ I suppose the Assumption being everybody

1:33:37 ↗ that's in that parent group is still

1:33:40 ↗ interested and yeah does everyone

1:33:43 ↗ understand

1:33:45 ↗ you've got your feedback for everybody

1:33:47 ↗ right Jim yeah thank you great okay uh

1:33:51 ↗ so the uh the second ad hoc group or

1:33:54 ↗ potential ad hoc group would be uh to

1:33:56 ↗ discuss

1:33:58 ↗ um revising the Heritage tree program as

1:34:00 ↗ well as initiating Urban Forest

1:34:03 ↗ management plan

1:34:05 ↗ so is everyone

1:34:07 ↗ by show of hands interested in creating

1:34:10 ↗ a uh another ad hoc group to discuss

1:34:13 ↗ those items

1:34:16 ↗ great

1:34:18 ↗ here's uh everyone's also interested in

1:34:20 ↗ that so um

1:34:22 ↗ would like to see who is interested in

1:34:25 ↗ joining that at Howard group

1:34:28 ↗ um

1:34:31 ↗ it's like we've got four

1:34:34 ↗ um Katie Andrew Brad and myself

1:34:40 ↗ okay

1:34:44 ↗ and the Rooney right

1:34:51 ↗ okay

1:34:55 ↗ um so any other uh any other comments

1:34:58 ↗ questions with regards to the uh at hack

1:35:00 ↗ groups or any of the 2023 any address I

1:35:05 ↗ think Danielle indicated that maybe we

1:35:08 ↗ should consider an ad hoc committee for

1:35:09 ↗ the field

1:35:10 ↗ uh Athletic Field attachment sure

1:35:13 ↗ I don't know I don't know if that's

1:35:15 ↗ premature or

1:35:18 ↗ yeah I open open the parkour

1:35:21 ↗ conversation I would suggest with the

1:35:23 ↗ maybe the park strategic plan at our

1:35:26 ↗ group that is that I think as we bring

1:35:28 ↗ that field assessment draft forward

1:35:30 ↗ maybe we do that first I

1:35:34 ↗ forgive me I don't have the calendar

1:35:35 ↗ memorized

1:35:36 ↗ um

1:35:38 ↗ I think it was made today but I think we

1:35:41 ↗ might be able to do maybe a draft

1:35:43 ↗ earlier than that

1:35:45 ↗ um

1:35:46 ↗ let's sort of see what that let's let's

1:35:48 ↗ report on it

1:35:50 ↗ um have some discussion see how it might

1:35:52 ↗ get folded into the you know ways it

1:35:54 ↗ could get folded in the park strategic

1:35:56 ↗ plan and then see at that time if you

1:35:58 ↗ want to create a an additional layout

1:36:01 ↗ group what that's my suggestion

1:36:03 ↗ um love ad hoc groups um but also love

1:36:07 ↗ the staff in the department and I'm

1:36:09 ↗ going to need to make sure we're not

1:36:12 ↗ um oversaturating with

1:36:15 ↗ support support Etc so

1:36:19 ↗ okay

1:36:20 ↗ um so I I suppose

1:36:23 ↗ um is everyone interested in graduating

1:36:25 ↗ until a little bit later

1:36:28 ↗ um on in the year to form that other AD

1:36:31 ↗ hacker report potentially hold it into

1:36:33 ↗ the park strategic plan or do we want to

1:36:35 ↗ move forward on trying to create an

1:36:39 ↗ additional out group

1:36:40 ↗ I would suggest we just wait but keep an

1:36:43 ↗ eye on it

1:36:44 ↗ um I think that

1:36:46 ↗ having community members weigh in on

1:36:50 ↗ whatever the at you know after this the

1:36:54 ↗ field assessment comes in weighing in on

1:36:57 ↗ what the next options are and what we

1:37:00 ↗ want to do as a city strategically I I

1:37:02 ↗ think it would probably be helpful

1:37:04 ↗ um but

1:37:05 ↗ don't want to create extra work but sure

1:37:09 ↗ um

1:37:10 ↗ okay that's an excellent point okay any

1:37:14 ↗ other comments with regards to that or

1:37:19 ↗ are these ad hoc groups um intended to

1:37:22 ↗ be just board members or also could they

1:37:25 ↗ involve community members

1:37:30 ↗ and your your discretion

1:37:33 ↗ good thing to the good involve community

1:37:36 ↗ members again these are these are your

1:37:38 ↗ adult groups right sure we just need to

1:37:41 ↗ limit the number of uh people from the

1:37:44 ↗ park board yeah what's the limit that

1:37:47 ↗ there are people on the cardboard but

1:37:48 ↗ but we could also have exactly members

1:37:50 ↗ yeah

1:37:53 ↗ um and how many hardcore members can be

1:37:54 ↗ on an ad hoc

1:37:59 ↗ or less

1:38:02 ↗ thanks something that that made me think

1:38:06 ↗ of is like for the field part if that

1:38:07 ↗ was

1:38:09 ↗ let's say it's part of the um plan group

1:38:12 ↗ but it might be a preliminary part of it

1:38:16 ↗ for those meetings but field assessment

1:38:18 ↗ meetings or what you may have I mean you

1:38:20 ↗ may want to mentioned School District

1:38:22 ↗ people but also uh like Spanish State

1:38:25 ↗ Park

1:38:26 ↗ there's all of all of that engaged in

1:38:28 ↗ this work yeah

1:38:30 ↗ our the athletic you know the 35 some 30

1:38:34 ↗ plus you know athletic groups that rent

1:38:37 ↗ our our spaces yeah that's a great Point

1:38:39 ↗ Chris yeah

1:38:43 ↗ community members should we leave that

1:38:46 ↗ to the discretion of the ad hoc groups

1:38:48 ↗ or would you like to

1:38:49 ↗ um for discuss

1:38:52 ↗ um whether community members should be

1:38:53 ↗ allowed in yet

1:38:56 ↗ groups

1:38:57 ↗ I think it's a great way to um like uh

1:39:00 ↗ for example at some point like Brad and

1:39:02 ↗ I will be rotating off the park board

1:39:05 ↗ um and we have other parkour members who

1:39:07 ↗ have

1:39:09 ↗ um

1:39:09 ↗ you know who might still be really

1:39:11 ↗ interested in a particular topic to be a

1:39:14 ↗ member of the community and might you

1:39:15 ↗ know add value

1:39:17 ↗ um and then we also have you know we

1:39:18 ↗ have other members of our community that

1:39:20 ↗ who might have a particular interest or

1:39:23 ↗ expertise or might sit on another

1:39:25 ↗ board or you know that has the overlap

1:39:28 ↗ like I could imagine with a

1:39:30 ↗ um

1:39:32 ↗ characteristry program or that we might

1:39:35 ↗ have community members across session

1:39:37 ↗ okay I guess I'd say we should we should

1:39:40 ↗ wait

1:39:40 ↗ maybe let staff have a chance to chew on

1:39:43 ↗ these ideas and see what's manageable

1:39:44 ↗ for them and then

1:39:46 ↗ workable and I like that idea of

1:39:49 ↗ discretion of each of that groups too

1:39:51 ↗ right so that's and our group meets and

1:39:54 ↗ starts rolling up its sleeves yeah I

1:39:56 ↗ could it could be a decision of a group

1:39:59 ↗ by group

1:40:00 ↗ okay I will also you know add to my list

1:40:03 ↗ to make sure from the clerk's office and

1:40:06 ↗ open public meetings act we're not doing

1:40:08 ↗ anything that is we're doing it we're

1:40:10 ↗ doing everything that is above

1:40:12 ↗ above board and above that those rules

1:40:15 ↗ which I I'm pretty certain we are

1:40:18 ↗ all verify okay but it seems to be no

1:40:21 ↗ glaring objections for many one

1:40:25 ↗ okay great uh any other comments

1:40:28 ↗ questions

1:40:35 ↗ thank you I support uh bringing

1:40:39 ↗ community members onto ad hoc groups uh

1:40:42 ↗ although I think that that should be at

1:40:43 ↗ the discretion of the ad hoc group and I

1:40:45 ↗ think that the ad hoc group

1:40:47 ↗ should have the ability to pick and

1:40:50 ↗ choose who they think would be best

1:40:52 ↗ because you don't know how many

1:40:53 ↗ community members are going to volunteer

1:40:55 ↗ and there's probably some people that

1:40:58 ↗ you would like to have on the group and

1:40:59 ↗ others maybe not so much so I think that

1:41:01 ↗ that should be at the discretion of the

1:41:03 ↗ ad hoc group as to who is selected

1:41:09 ↗ thanks thanks Brad

1:41:14 ↗ yeah all right so I would like to

1:41:17 ↗ propose uh a motion to create uh an ad

1:41:20 ↗ hoc group for both the Strategic uh plan

1:41:24 ↗ and the uh tree Heritage tree

1:41:28 ↗ um provision and urban Forest management

1:41:31 ↗ plan

1:41:32 ↗ um

1:41:33 ↗ so

1:41:34 ↗ um

1:41:35 ↗ if you are in favor of creating those

1:41:37 ↗ two ad hoc groups

1:41:39 ↗ [Music]

1:41:41 ↗ thank you

1:41:43 ↗ huh

1:41:45 ↗ all right

1:41:47 ↗ now we vote yep so um all in favor of

1:41:50 ↗ creating the ad hack groups uh please

1:41:52 ↗ raise your hand

1:41:56 ↗ okay

1:41:57 ↗ Brad Tim do you have an eye

1:42:04 ↗ we need to probably clarify which of us

1:42:06 ↗ are allowed to vote although we get uh

1:42:08 ↗ two three so actually Danielle and I are

1:42:10 ↗ both eligible for voting tonight so

1:42:12 ↗ that's correct Yeah well yeah I'm I'm

1:42:15 ↗ good

1:42:19 ↗ very great thank you thanks everybody

1:42:23 ↗ appreciate that discussion

1:42:27 ↗ I saw some degree of head knots but you

1:42:30 ↗ know having this is just sort of a

1:42:32 ↗ working document that is in an agendas

1:42:36 ↗ like that idea it's very helpful

1:42:42 ↗ all right so

1:42:44 ↗ um moving on to uh the reports so I'll

1:42:48 ↗ start with the chairperson's report and

1:42:50 ↗ then the youth representative and then

1:42:52 ↗ Jeff the director's report

1:42:54 ↗ so

1:42:56 ↗ um

1:42:57 ↗ for my report of the uh there's a

1:42:59 ↗ sustainability open house the Physical

1:43:01 ↗ City on Monday January 30th 6 30 to 8

1:43:05 ↗ P.M uh mayor Paulie will be there

1:43:08 ↗ discussing the sustainability state of

1:43:10 ↗ the city at Gibson Hall

1:43:12 ↗ um there's also going to be a a green

1:43:16 ↗ Issaquah activity at burnston Park on

1:43:19 ↗ Saturday February 18th from 9 A.M to 12

1:43:22 ↗ p.m that'll be removing invasive plants

1:43:24 ↗ alone uh Issaquah Creek uh February 2nd

1:43:28 ↗ uh there will be

1:43:30 ↗ um a public hearing uh for the proposed

1:43:34 ↗ amendments to Title 18 and Shoreline uh

1:43:37 ↗ master program

1:43:38 ↗ and the um there will also be a nursery

1:43:43 ↗ event February 4th at Lake Sammamish

1:43:46 ↗ State Park from 9 A.M to noon and that

1:43:49 ↗ is basically I believe uh potting plants

1:43:53 ↗ for um the places along the mountains to

1:43:57 ↗ sound Greenway so

1:43:59 ↗ that's all I got for the airport so

1:44:03 ↗ okay um so I'll just introduce myself uh

1:44:06 ↗ my name is

1:44:08 ↗ a sophomore at school high school

1:44:10 ↗ guys and part of the exclusive Advisory

1:44:13 ↗ Board

1:44:14 ↗ um there's a couple events that we've

1:44:16 ↗ been working on

1:44:18 ↗ um the most like recent one is the youth

1:44:21 ↗ Civic engagement Forum that is um on

1:44:24 ↗ February 4th 2-4 at the escrow Community

1:44:27 ↗ Center

1:44:28 ↗ um this event's mostly aimed at high

1:44:30 ↗ school and we have the mayor isafah and

1:44:33 ↗ the mayor of Sammamish coming in as well

1:44:35 ↗ as City Council Members to give

1:44:37 ↗ presentations in the first part and then

1:44:39 ↗ the second part is organizations around

1:44:42 ↗ Issaquah to help China show volunteer

1:44:45 ↗ opportunities and ways you can get

1:44:47 ↗ involved both in different organizations

1:44:49 ↗ in the local government and it's also

1:44:52 ↗ aimed to just make youth more

1:44:54 ↗ comfortable like speaking to government

1:44:56 ↗ figures and speaking to adults in

1:44:58 ↗ general

1:44:59 ↗ um the second event is the State of Mind

1:45:01 ↗ mental health conference which we've

1:45:03 ↗ done a couple years in the past this is

1:45:05 ↗ going to be at March 18th and I don't

1:45:08 ↗ exactly know the location yet I know

1:45:09 ↗ they're still figuring that out but I

1:45:11 ↗ believe it's either going to be at the

1:45:13 ↗ community center or gibsonac

1:45:16 ↗ um and this is aged from high schoolers

1:45:20 ↗ to adults so all of you are welcome to

1:45:22 ↗ come and it's going to be breakout

1:45:24 ↗ sessions with different speakers on a

1:45:26 ↗ variety of different topics I'm like

1:45:28 ↗ depression and anxiety to how to deal

1:45:31 ↗ with stress and a lot of other disorders

1:45:33 ↗ that aren't usually talked about

1:45:36 ↗ um and then the last which I think was

1:45:39 ↗ talk like touched on before is June 4th

1:45:42 ↗ is the annual Izzy kids triathlon

1:45:45 ↗ um I don't know if you've been to this

1:45:46 ↗ in the past it definitely needs a bunch

1:45:48 ↗ of volunteers so if you're open and it's

1:45:51 ↗ just Triathlon for kids I believe ages

1:45:54 ↗ five to eleven I might be a little awful

1:45:56 ↗ not but that's around and then

1:45:59 ↗ um it's swimming at Julia's film and

1:46:01 ↗ then biking and running around District

1:46:03 ↗ club and it's just kind of like a fun

1:46:04 ↗ way to get a bunch of kids involved

1:46:07 ↗ um there's a couple others that are

1:46:09 ↗ still in the works we don't really have

1:46:11 ↗ set dates for but um

1:46:13 ↗ it's like the environment

1:46:15 ↗ um dodgeball and donuts is something

1:46:16 ↗ we've done in the past

1:46:18 ↗ and I believe that's like the gist of it

1:46:21 ↗ but yeah

1:46:24 ↗ thank you if any of you ever question or

1:46:28 ↗ worried about the future of this country

1:46:29 ↗ the future of Issaquah go to the

1:46:31 ↗ Issaquah Triathlon and just feel the

1:46:33 ↗ energy uh that morning it's it's a it's

1:46:36 ↗ a really fun day a really really fun

1:46:39 ↗ morning and go through the the young

1:46:42 ↗ participants but then the youth board

1:46:43 ↗ who really play a key role in helping to

1:46:45 ↗ put that on

1:46:48 ↗ followed by free hot dogs okay and don't

1:46:51 ↗ forget the free hot dog thank you

1:46:52 ↗ brother it's almost like a fruit

1:46:54 ↗ exercise

1:46:59 ↗ my turn yeah

1:47:01 ↗ all right well boy thank you everybody

1:47:04 ↗ um a couple of updates uh I I shared a

1:47:06 ↗ little bit with workplan we have

1:47:10 ↗ some really Key Staffing additions

1:47:13 ↗ coming in in 2023 two of which I just

1:47:15 ↗ wanted to update you on

1:47:17 ↗ um uh in terms of the recruitment

1:47:19 ↗ process we are in the midst of

1:47:22 ↗ recruiting for the park Planning

1:47:24 ↗ Development manager position

1:47:27 ↗ um thank you Brad book

1:47:29 ↗ um served as a Park Board rep on those

1:47:33 ↗ interviews that occurred last week

1:47:36 ↗ some excellent excellent candidates in

1:47:39 ↗ that recruitment we also have

1:47:43 ↗ just closed on the urban Forest

1:47:45 ↗ supervisor position that we advertised

1:47:47 ↗ for

1:47:49 ↗ um

1:47:49 ↗ very impressive pool of candidates who

1:47:52 ↗ applied and are interested working here

1:47:53 ↗ with the City of Issaquah Rick still our

1:47:56 ↗ park operations manager will be leading

1:47:59 ↗ that interview process of four

1:48:01 ↗ candidates I believe

1:48:04 ↗ next week

1:48:05 ↗ so progress being made on both of those

1:48:07 ↗ hopefully by the February meeting we'll

1:48:09 ↗ have an announcement of

1:48:11 ↗ the editions of those key

1:48:14 ↗ key staff

1:48:17 ↗ um

1:48:19 ↗ two of our capital projects that you'll

1:48:21 ↗ be getting a little bit more of an

1:48:23 ↗ update on in February but just wanted to

1:48:25 ↗ highlight

1:48:26 ↗ the both of them are our parpa

1:48:29 ↗ investment projects that pedestrian Park

1:48:32 ↗ Senior Center project as I mentioned

1:48:34 ↗ earlier the design contract was approved

1:48:37 ↗ by Council just last week we'll be

1:48:40 ↗ coming back at the February meeting with

1:48:43 ↗ um more of a calendar for those projects

1:48:45 ↗ what Outreach and engagement will look

1:48:47 ↗ like as we as we head into design and

1:48:49 ↗ permitting for that work in regards to

1:48:52 ↗ the Confluence Park project and namely

1:48:55 ↗ the eckhouse Jennifer and I have reached

1:48:57 ↗ out and have had a couple meetings now

1:48:59 ↗ with King County historic preservation

1:49:01 ↗ staff we've been immensely helpful we've

1:49:06 ↗ introduced King County historic

1:49:07 ↗ preservation staff to to the design team

1:49:13 ↗ um just a week and a half ago we met out

1:49:15 ↗ on site we really look forward to

1:49:18 ↗ endeavoring in a

1:49:20 ↗ really the task of that work that as we

1:49:22 ↗ look at

1:49:24 ↗ um making improvements to the accounts

1:49:27 ↗ and really making that

1:49:29 ↗ um a public facility the public use a

1:49:33 ↗ park amenity of how we could also

1:49:35 ↗ achieve that to be a landmark space as

1:49:39 ↗ well and really

1:49:41 ↗ recognizing the history of the eckhouse

1:49:43 ↗ and what that means so more work ahead

1:49:47 ↗ again well I love a little bit more of

1:49:49 ↗ an update on both of those projects in

1:49:51 ↗ February but just want to let you know

1:49:52 ↗ some some phone work has been happening

1:49:56 ↗ over the over the holidays and turning

1:49:58 ↗ into the new year with both of those and

1:50:01 ↗ thank you Jen for all your your work

1:50:03 ↗ gearing those projects up

1:50:05 ↗ um the six-year Capital Improvement plan

1:50:08 ↗ just again Santi and I'll send out a

1:50:11 ↗ little bit more information as it comes

1:50:13 ↗ but February 16th I know that's going to

1:50:16 ↗ mean an additional meeting in February

1:50:18 ↗ but I really hope we can get all of you

1:50:21 ↗ to attend

1:50:23 ↗ um we'll get a it will be in person

1:50:26 ↗ it'll need to be at a location uh look

1:50:29 ↗ like now it might be the Pickering barn

1:50:31 ↗ but a big enough location for multiple

1:50:33 ↗ boards to attend right now that's

1:50:35 ↗ scheduled for 6 30 to 8 30 but certainly

1:50:39 ↗ more information coming as that

1:50:42 ↗ um

1:50:43 ↗ [Music]

1:50:45 ↗ that's it my Premiere thanks John all

1:50:48 ↗ right

1:50:49 ↗ um so uh with that I think we'll call to

1:50:52 ↗ close the February I'm sorry the January

1:50:55 ↗ 23rd meeting so the next the next

1:50:59 ↗ meeting will be uh February 27th and

1:51:02 ↗ also potentially the February 16th

1:51:04 ↗ meeting

1:51:06 ↗ um so thank you everyone

1:51:11 ↗ adjourning thank you

1:51:15 ↗ what's the name of it yeah uh probably

1:51:17 ↗ six year

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Attendance

Council / Members (10)

Zach Szablewski

Chris Kovac

Andrew Eliquen

Brenda Spears

Katie Bell

Tim Motely

Danielle Wolfrom Githens

(Serving as Regular Member)

Bradley Book, Alternate (Serving as Regular Member)

Andrew Myers, Alternate (Serving as Regular Member)

Staff (9)

Jeff Watling, Parks & Community Services Director

Jennifer Fink, Park Planner and Project Administrator

Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager

Christian Geitz, Planning Manager (Virtual)

Minnie Dhaliwal, Community Planning & Development Director (Virtual)

Brian Berntsen, Recreation Manager

Hasanthi Piyasena, Business Operations Specialist

Shivani Gupta, Youth Board Representative

Connie Marsh, Community Member

Excused

Marlene Waxse

David Liu

Nicholas Lee

Recommendations & actions (3)

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a) Minutes of November 28, 2022 There being no corrections, the minutes were approved as presented.
Following the discussion, Zach Sablewski moved to: Create two new ad-hoc committees on Urban Forestry and an ad-hoc committee for the Park Strategic Plan.
By a vote of 9-0, the motion was adopted.