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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

6:00 PM · 1h 25m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Transportation Improvement Program 2/10
Mobility Implementation Plan COM 0082 2/4
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD Staff Liaison Stephen Padua, Senior Transportation Planner About Email Stephen Padua Created in 2017, the board provides additional expertise and advice on the City's Regular Members transportation system and goals. 2021* - Cynthia Krass 2021* - Janie Walzer Membership 2021 - Tom McDonald The Transportation Advisory Board is 2021 - Erika Boyd comprised of nine regular members, and up to 2021 - Joseph Zhang** three alternates. All members are appointed 2022 - Sujata Goel by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by 2022 - Micah Zeitz-Chua the City Council. Terms expire April 30 of the 2023 - Kristi Tripple year listed. For more information, 2023 - Dave Waggoner see IMC 2.92. Alternate Members 2021 - Alec Yildirim** 2022 - Jeri Bernstein 2022 - David Holzberg
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of Feb. 4, 2021
packet pp.5–7
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 02-04-21 Transportation Advisory Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Transportation Advisory Board 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting February 4, 2021 MINUTES
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Transportation Improvement Program
60 min · John Mortenson, Transportation Engineering Manager · packet pp.9–29
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
Each year, the City Council adopts a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) which is a list/description of projects, anticipated costs, anticipated funding sources and years in which planning and construction will likely occur. The TIP includes projects identified in the Central Issaquah Plan, the Walk-n-Roll Plan, the adopted Concurrency model and the recently developed Mobility Master Plan. The purpose of the TIP is to identify transportation-related projects that are – or may become eligible for Federal, State, and/or local funding. Additionally, the TIP is the transportation component of the Capital Improvement Plan, which is updated biennially.
4b
Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Implementation, (D)
30 min · Stephen Padua, Senior Transportation Planner · packet pp.31–254
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
Following the final report and recommendations from the Traffic Task Force in 2016, City staff pursued the development of a Mobility Master Plan (MMP) to set the City’s vision and provide guidance for all efforts related to the transportation systems. In the process of developing the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) in 2017, the Mobility Master Plan project and staffing support for the newly formalized Transportation Advisory Board was funded.
5. REPORTS
5a
Board Work Plan
packet pp.255
Staff report:
• Pedestrian Crossing Guide updates MARCH SEPTEMBER 3/18/21 • Pedestrian Crossing Guide updates 9/16/21 • Transportation Improvement Program • Streetscape Plan Update project update • Discuss traffic calming updates • Discuss transit system
5b
Staff Report
5c
Chair Report
5d
Youth Report
6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
6a
The next meeting is scheduled for Mar. 18
0:00 um hi everyone welcome this is um
0:03 i wanted to go ahead and call this
0:05 meeting to order today is february 24th
0:08 2021 and the meeting is called to order
0:10 at 601 pm um
0:13 the first thing we have on the agenda is
0:16 the
0:16 motion to approve the minutes um from
0:20 the february 4th meeting
0:21 um can i get someone
0:25 to make a motion to approve
0:30 this is christie i'll make a motion
0:33 thank you
0:34 and a second this is david all second
0:37 thank you all in favor
0:43 i think we're all eyes any any oppose
0:50 no okay great so we'll go ahead oh and i
0:54 am i supposed to introduce myself sorry
0:56 i my name is sujata goyal and i'm the
0:58 vice chair of this committee which is
1:00 why
1:01 i didn't introduce myself uh cynthia was
1:04 unfortunately out
1:05 um today um managing a family matter
1:08 so i'll be sharing the meeting today all
1:11 right
1:12 so now i think our minutes have been
1:14 approved
1:15 yes okay great um and then i don't see
1:19 anyone here with public comment but i
1:21 wanted to do we have any public comment
1:23 and no one
1:24 emailed or no no emails and
1:28 no one let me know that they're going to
1:29 want to speak for public comment tonight
1:31 okay excellent so there is no public
1:34 comment tonight
1:35 um and so i guess we will move on to the
1:40 heart of the agenda and so i'm going to
1:42 pass it on to john
1:44 who's going to give us some information
1:46 about the tip
1:48 thanks steven's going to
1:51 go ahead and load up the presentation
1:53 for me tonight i've got a
1:55 another meeting at seven o'clock so if
1:58 the
1:58 item lasts longer stephen will finish
2:01 those this one out
2:03 we're here tonight to talk about the
2:05 transportation
2:06 improvement program and the current
2:08 update
2:10 next slide
2:19 tonight discussion we've got a couple
2:22 questions for you and the first one
2:24 is does the tab agree with the strategy
2:27 for how we're proposing to use the
2:30 traffic impact fees
2:31 and the bicycle and pedestrian
2:33 mitigation fees and i'll
2:35 present the strategy for those two
2:37 different
2:38 buckets of funding and then the next
2:41 discussion point
2:42 is what projects to prioritize
2:45 that will be funded with either the
2:48 school zone safety fund or
2:52 read real estate excise tax
2:55 and so we'll keep these questions in
2:57 mind as we're going through the
2:59 presentation
3:00 next slide
3:04 a couple of uh
3:08 things for the transportation
3:09 improvement program
3:11 is we're looking at the next six years
3:14 and that's where these discussions are
3:16 going to be focused on
3:18 which is more of a short-term discussion
3:20 there's some other long-term discussions
3:22 for
3:23 how best to incorporate the goals and
3:25 policies of the mobility master plan
3:27 into what we do long-term for
3:29 transportation and we'll have those
3:31 discussions with the tab later on
3:34 another thing is we've tried to really
3:37 break this out by funding source so that
3:39 way
3:40 if there's a project that the tab is
3:42 really excited for we make sure that we
3:44 have a funding source identified for it
3:47 and we'll discuss the mobility
3:51 master plan priorities and one thing i
3:53 want to apologize for
3:54 i messed up on the agenda there was
3:56 something that got added to the packet
3:58 yesterday
3:59 that was the top 30 mobility master plan
4:03 priority projects and so i hope you guys
4:06 got to see it if not we can
4:08 pull it up during the discussion part
4:10 next slide
4:14 as i mentioned one of the things that i
4:16 want to discuss is the strategy for the
4:19 traffic impact fees
4:21 and inside the agenda pack it was a
4:24 sheet that showed which projects are
4:26 eligible
4:27 and how eligible they are for traffic
4:29 impact fees
4:32 and the strategy that we're proposing
4:34 for the transportation improvement
4:35 program
4:36 is to focus on these three projects
4:39 the 12th and sr 900 17th intersection
4:44 project
4:44 that's the third and final project of
4:46 the costco development agreement
4:49 and so the city's already made a
4:50 commitment to get that project built so
4:52 we have to move forward with that one
4:54 and then the next two are the two
4:56 newport way projects the first one being
4:59 newport way between sr 954th
5:02 and newport way between maple and sunset
5:06 these are two projects that will make
5:08 intersection improvements
5:11 build bicycle and pedestrian facilities
5:14 and the city's already received federal
5:17 funding for design on both of these
5:18 projects
5:20 and so we have an obligation to move
5:21 these two projects forward to eventually
5:24 complete them through construction
5:26 and because of that
5:29 i really want to use the traffic impact
5:31 fees to the maximum extent
5:34 possible to try and accomplish getting
5:36 these two projects built
5:38 because they're both really expensive
5:40 projects their estimates are
5:42 right around 30 million and they'll need
5:44 to be phased and
5:46 but just in terms of not wanting to have
5:48 to pay back the design funds that we've
5:51 already received
5:53 and so i guess at this point i think
5:56 would be a good time to pause for
5:58 discussion and feedback
6:04 okay um we can either go around and ask
6:07 questions or if somebody has a question
6:09 if you could put your hand
6:12 um up then that would help
6:15 but one question i have john real quick
6:17 is on these three
6:19 um sorry this yeah i didn't have a
6:21 chance to look over the spreadsheet but
6:23 um do you know what that what the score
6:26 was of these
6:27 um you know based on our plan priorities
6:32 i can quickly find the two newport whey
6:35 projects
6:36 and it'll take me just a little bit
6:38 longer i can get the
6:40 12th and sr 900 score
6:44 okay because 12th and sr 900 was not in
6:47 the top
6:48 30. right
6:52 okay and in the chat let me open up the
6:55 chat
6:56 um i christy i noticed you physically
6:59 had your hand up is
7:00 did you have a question i just wanted to
7:04 comment when it was appropriate
7:07 go ahead okay great um
7:12 again being the newbie um i did want to
7:15 share so
7:16 from my observation just being in the
7:18 community and
7:19 um watching the evolution of these
7:22 projects
7:23 um they're well in motion
7:27 um even though i i recognize they don't
7:30 line up with the mmp
7:32 kind of alignment i think all of these
7:34 projects fall
7:35 almost to the very lowest of the list
7:38 but they're also
7:40 projects that are important for mobility
7:43 but also
7:44 from the perspective that external
7:46 funding was worked really hard to
7:48 achieve
7:49 the tr4 was
7:53 recipient of some legislative funding
7:55 that was
7:56 hard hard earned um and senator
8:00 supported
8:01 and then um on the newport way projects
8:04 those have been conversations that
8:08 were decades in the making and also i
8:11 believe
8:11 recipients of external funding
8:14 so it's hard to kind of blend the two as
8:17 we go
8:17 but important projects nonetheless
8:21 yeah thank you christy that's really
8:24 good background and information on those
8:25 two projects
8:26 three projects and then in the chat it
8:29 sounds like jerry has a question
8:34 yes i found it interesting as to what
8:37 christie was saying
8:38 that um these these projects don't meet
8:42 the mmp
8:43 requirements or they don't get
8:45 prioritized based on
8:47 that plan is is that what she was saying
8:50 pretty much
8:52 that was one question so
8:57 and then the second question was is
9:00 um so if they're funded for design
9:04 then do we have to go back and apply for
9:07 funding
9:08 for construction then later
9:11 is that how it works
9:18 so i'll go over each of them and first
9:22 of all i'll go over the scores
9:24 and i still need to find the score for
9:26 12th and sr 900 but
9:28 the newport way sr 900 to 54th
9:32 scored 50 on the mmp priority so it was
9:35 pretty high up there
9:36 and the newport way maple to sunset
9:38 scored 46 which
9:41 was pretty that's pretty high too that's
9:43 high
9:44 okay and then let's see here so for
9:48 construction we have
9:50 design funding for both projects and
9:53 then
9:53 for the well let me back up oh i'll talk
9:56 about the two new ports and i'll come
9:58 back to 12th and nassar 900.
10:00 so for the two newport projects we have
10:02 design funding
10:04 for newport way sr 900 to 54th
10:08 street we have funding for acquiring
10:11 right-of-way that will be available
10:13 in 2024 that we received a grant last
10:16 spring for
10:17 and then for newport way maple to sunset
10:20 we have a little bit of
10:22 right-of-way funding that actually came
10:25 from
10:26 the long long ago front street bypass
10:28 project
10:29 that made it's over to this project
10:33 uh but we will need to acquire more
10:35 right-of-way in order to build or more
10:37 money for right-of-way
10:39 but on that one i think what we could do
10:42 is use city funds
10:44 to acquire the right-of-way and get
10:46 grants for construction
10:48 and i think it would be a very able to
10:50 sense that
10:51 at least for the first phase or two
10:53 would be very
10:54 competitive for funding and hard to beat
11:00 the maple sunset so it's a hundred
11:02 percent funded for design
11:04 it's what you're seeing so you could
11:06 have a shovel ready
11:07 project cool well
11:11 we'd have to look right yeah except for
11:14 the right-of-way yes
11:15 but we do have enough traffic to impact
11:18 fee money that if we wanted to we could
11:21 use that for rideable the rest of the
11:23 right-of-way and we could have a shovel
11:24 ready project yes
11:28 and and then for the 12th and sr 900
11:32 project
11:33 as christy said we have the one half
11:36 million dollars from the state
11:37 legislator that's
11:38 funding the design costco is
11:42 funding up 48 up to a certain amount
11:46 which
11:47 will end up being around 2 million give
11:48 or take depending on where the
11:50 accounting comes to
11:51 and then we isabella
11:55 and i met with the transportation
11:57 improvement board
11:59 recently and discussed this project and
12:02 once we have this one ready to go
12:03 close to construction it's got a very
12:07 high probability of having construction
12:09 funds so
12:10 i'm hoping that the city will be able to
12:12 build this project with little to no
12:15 of its own funds but i don't want to get
12:18 too excited until we
12:20 actually sign the agreement on the grant
12:26 okay thank you
12:35 i just have a comment if um
12:39 i can make a comment
12:42 um it seems that this is
12:45 um falling into the mmp goal of
12:50 investing wisely i guess there's not
12:52 really um
12:54 it's almost like we need a different
12:55 category of um
12:57 i don't know how to capture this so like
12:59 there's momentum right we're talking
13:00 about um
13:02 you know there's like fun there's been
13:04 uh as christie noted like lots of behind
13:06 the scenes work and like a
13:08 like big history of things behind this
13:10 and so um
13:11 i'm not quite sure i think for me like
13:12 that best falls in the category of like
13:14 i think it's like the fifth one for
13:16 just investing uh wisely and whatnot
13:22 if i can jump in real quick john yeah
13:24 erica i think you make a
13:26 a pretty good point we did try to
13:28 discuss
13:29 um adding a different category about
13:32 projects
13:32 that have kind of momentum but then when
13:35 we started scoring it it didn't really
13:37 matter
13:37 because we have to do them anyway um
13:40 particularly because they're federally
13:41 funded we're required
13:43 to do those projects or else give the
13:45 money back
13:46 and so um it didn't really make a
13:49 difference but yes you're correct it
13:50 does kind of fall under that query of
13:52 investing wisely making sure that
13:54 we're prioritizing the investments we've
13:57 already made
14:02 so so john the question that you posed
14:06 to us
14:06 was whether the advisory board
14:10 agrees with supports the strategy for
14:12 these traffic impact fees
14:14 i want to make sure i understand these
14:16 three projects is this
14:17 to state essentially that the proposed
14:20 strategy is
14:21 to use the traffic impact fees for these
14:24 three projects
14:26 and then in addition to that
14:29 what what is the total for the traffic
14:31 impact fees and what would that actually
14:33 pay
14:33 if we were to say yeah that is the
14:35 strategy
14:36 how much does that actually buy us for
14:38 each of these
14:40 oh good good question so
14:43 yeah the strategy is to focus using the
14:46 traffic impact
14:47 fees on these three projects to get them
14:50 done and to take advantage of momentum
14:52 and
14:52 other funding the as for what you get
14:56 right now the estimated balance on the
14:58 traffic impact fees at the beginning of
15:01 the next tip cycle which is 2022
15:05 is about 4 million and then
15:09 it's estimated that we have 700 000
15:12 of revenue per year for traffic impact
15:16 fees
15:16 as for how much that gets us it kind of
15:19 depends on how successful we are
15:21 or not for getting grants i think
15:24 what we could do is the first phase on
15:28 both of the two newport projects so like
15:30 on maple to sunset
15:32 i think we could build the improvements
15:34 from
15:35 maple through the intersection at
15:37 juniper
15:38 but then the next tip cycles when we
15:40 would have to
15:41 continue that quarter project moving
15:45 southward and then for sr 900 to 54
15:48 kind of the same thing where we could do
15:51 a phase of it but
15:52 we wouldn't have enough to get the whole
15:53 thing done
15:57 so the traffic in fact these could they
16:00 entirely fund whatever the gap is
16:04 right now for any one of these projects
16:07 like the uh 12th avenue s or 900
16:11 if if we said yeah that's what that's
16:13 the priority within the strategy
16:16 does that completely cover that and then
16:18 leave some left over
16:19 for one or both of the newport way ones
16:23 it would for the 12th and sr 900 project
16:26 i think we would need about three
16:28 million if we did not receive another
16:30 grant
16:31 and there would be enough to cover that
16:34 and keep the two newport wave projects
16:36 going
16:36 okay and traffic patterns for newport
16:39 way do we know
16:41 uh do do people typically
16:45 drive just the section maple to sunset
16:49 or the
16:50 the part that would be affected from
16:51 able to sunset and and
16:53 not sr 900 and the people that did the
16:55 s954
16:57 don't drive the maple to sunset or
16:59 traffic patterns really
17:01 it's you know a lot of people using that
17:03 newport way
17:04 travel that whole range
17:08 that's a good question i i don't know
17:10 the answer
17:11 i don't know what the distribution of
17:13 people who travel both
17:15 i i would imagine there would be some
17:17 who'd travel the whole way
17:19 because if someone lived like in the
17:21 oakcrest neighborhood and wanted to go
17:24 they would probably drive the whole
17:25 corridor
17:27 so if i understand that quickly the
17:29 question was if they come out of the
17:30 900 first avenue basically the costco
17:32 holiday inn bcc area
17:35 and if they turn there's probably a
17:37 percentage that goes onto the freeway
17:39 as soon as it goes straight 900 percent
17:41 and it goes down to newport
17:43 goes that way i would say that the just
17:46 from living here for 25 years the
17:48 percentage going down newport was
17:49 probably gonna be um
17:51 less because there's other ways to go
17:53 where they go back over to
17:57 by the home depot and go back that way
18:08 i don't know if the question was some of
18:10 those
18:11 i mean i i think that the 917th is
18:14 kind of separate itself to address all
18:18 the issues that are there
18:19 besides uh the maple the sunset which i
18:22 would kind of see is probably the next
18:23 priority
18:24 over 900 to 54
18:27 hours need and probably grant wise
18:29 because it's
18:31 a walkable way to the elementary school
18:33 elementary school safety so there's a
18:34 lot of factors in that that
18:36 would help that rise in a grant
18:37 application as far as the
18:40 school safety facts
18:43 yeah thanks for that don that's kind of
18:45 what i was trying to understand
18:46 because i i will admit i'm much more
18:48 visual person
18:50 and i'm trying to picture these in my
18:51 head and uh
18:53 compare that picture a little different
18:57 with the point that tommy made about
18:59 safety
19:00 are you know if we said the 12th avenue
19:03 s1900 is priority one and then we wanted
19:05 to direct as much as possible to just
19:07 one of these two i'm not saying we do
19:10 want to do this just as a question
19:14 do both of them have are they expected
19:16 to have an impact on safety and is one
19:18 more so than the other
19:23 they're pretty similar projects when it
19:25 comes to the safety improvements so i
19:28 without having gone through the accident
19:31 history on both them i
19:34 i think that both would get pretty
19:36 similar ratings for safety improvements
19:48 what would be in your opinion the
19:50 benefit of
19:51 directing funding just to one versus
19:54 both
19:54 for the newport weight ones and like do
19:57 we get
19:58 enough further along with one of them
20:00 that it would
20:02 really make sense
20:05 i don't and actually i think what i
20:07 would recommend
20:09 is to show both of them to being
20:12 have phase one in construction in 2025
20:15 and 2026 where one would be in 25 and
20:18 one would be in 26.
20:20 and then when we go to the
20:24 stp or surface transportation program
20:26 grant application
20:28 we would put in for both of them i don't
20:31 anticipate that we will receive funding
20:33 for both of them
20:34 and so i think what will happen is we'll
20:36 receive a construction grant for one or
20:38 the other of the two projects
20:40 and then the other one will be put on
20:42 what they call the contingency list
20:44 and but i think it would be near the top
20:47 of the contingency
20:48 list and so what happens a lot of times
20:51 that when we get our federal
20:55 transportation funding for this region a
20:57 lot of times
21:00 we have to go through a redistribution
21:02 process
21:03 and projects that are on the contingency
21:05 list move up and receive funding
21:08 and i
21:11 i have a feeling that is what will
21:12 happen with these projects and
21:14 if i had to make a guess i think based
21:16 on what phase one
21:17 of maple to sunset would be i think that
21:20 one would probably get funds
21:22 first but i could be mistaken
21:25 and then sr 900 to 54th would be put on
21:29 the contingency list
21:30 but if we had the funds and could move
21:33 quickly which i think we could be in a
21:34 position
21:35 then we could be finding ourselves
21:37 building phase one for both those two
21:39 projects
21:40 and i don't think that we would be able
21:43 to build
21:45 phase one of and phase two at the same
21:49 time
21:50 and usually the funding applications
21:53 they try and keep it where
21:56 you're looking at building about a five
21:58 million dollar project and
22:00 so i don't think i don't think our
22:03 match money would go as far if we tried
22:05 to focus on one i think if we
22:07 tried to focus on both we could get the
22:09 most benefit from
22:10 external dollars
22:15 okay and it looks like christy has a
22:17 question or comment
22:20 yes i just wanted to comment in support
22:22 of what john was saying i think it's
22:24 really important to link
22:25 the two projects they both have
22:28 different
22:29 safety considerations but both have
22:32 an important focus for pedestrians bikes
22:36 for one if you think about in context of
22:39 where the transit center is
22:40 between the two and then also in
22:44 looking at the safety feature from
22:46 pedestrian slash vehicular because
22:48 we've got the old storm ditches there
22:51 aren't areas for turnouts
22:53 i recall in the past there were a lot of
22:55 concerns
22:56 by school bus drivers about
22:59 navigating and then also just kind of
23:02 the pressure because there aren't
23:04 the um there isn't the ease of access
23:06 for
23:07 navigating around vehicular and
23:09 pedestrian traffic at the same time
23:12 so um absolutely support what was john
23:15 was saying in terms of linking them
23:17 and putting both in the queue for
23:20 funding
23:29 any other questions or comments
23:37 so if if this is the proposed
23:40 strategy are there are there more slides
23:42 to follow that we're going to discuss
23:44 about the strategy or is this really
23:46 just the
23:47 question right here whether what's on
23:50 on the screen now is what you're looking
23:53 to see tabs
23:54 approval or well we could either
23:58 do it now or later on we'll ask the same
24:01 question again
24:02 and i will just refer to sujata for how
24:05 she would like to handle this
24:10 well because i think the next set of
24:12 stuff is a different funding source and
24:14 kind of a different
24:16 right it's a different bucket of money
24:18 different projects so i think
24:20 you know if you guys are as you're
24:22 looking for direction on where the board
24:24 is going
24:25 personally i think it would make sense
24:27 for us to sort of decide
24:28 for these now and our recommendation
24:32 even though i don't think we have a
24:34 formal recommendation on the agenda
24:35 correct like there's nothing we're
24:37 really approving but maybe provide you
24:39 guys guidance
24:40 um clear board guidance um on these
24:43 three projects
24:45 or this approach and then we can move on
24:47 to the next
24:48 section of projects because this is
24:51 already fresh in our minds
24:53 yeah so suggest is correct um
24:56 it's it's not necessarily something we
24:59 need to take action on it's primarily us
25:00 asking the question
25:01 here's our recommendation for approach
25:04 are there any concerns or
25:05 questions about this approach and then
25:07 just moving on to the next one
25:12 okay
25:14 so i think it sounds like to summarize
25:16 from what i've been hearing it sounds
25:18 like a lot of us are very supportive of
25:20 this approach
25:21 um and think this is a good strategy for
25:24 moving forward for multiple reasons
25:27 um is there anyone who feels like maybe
25:30 this is not a good approach for the city
25:32 and would rec would want to sort of
25:34 either um
25:36 provide a counter to this approach
25:40 or you know ask for questions etc
25:43 otherwise i i personally i feel like the
25:46 board is really coalescing around
25:48 having confidence in the approach you
25:50 guys have presented
25:59 no i have my hand raised i wasn't sure
26:02 oh sorry
26:03 sorry tom go ahead
26:06 um i think he answered part of my
26:08 question is that
26:09 um the question to us is if we agree
26:13 with the approach to use the traffic
26:14 impact fees as presented for these
26:16 projects
26:17 as a as it is uh
26:20 as it was presented now that we agree
26:22 that the traffic impact fees
26:24 this is a good use for them to be put to
26:27 these
26:31 so i guess my question is is that is the
26:32 question that we're being asked to
26:35 say we agree to
26:39 yes
26:47 um i guess if there are no
26:51 other comments would the next step would
26:53 be to a motion to
26:54 disagree with the the
26:58 thought process and the the plan
27:01 for this from our perspective saying
27:04 that we
27:07 i think it's more of just feedback and
27:10 more of a
27:11 thumbs up thumbs down type
27:15 yeah i don't think this one this one
27:16 didn't require formal motion but
27:18 um i think the the conversation we had
27:20 was really good it provided a lot of
27:22 good background
27:23 and i think it provides um the staff
27:25 some good direction
27:27 on sort of what the board is thinking
27:29 and
27:30 um you know kind of where we are and so
27:33 if if stephen and john if you guys feel
27:36 like you have
27:37 a good handle on where we are with sort
27:40 this set of recommendations we can move
27:43 on to
27:44 um the next one which is the
27:48 pedestrian ones
27:52 [Laughter]
27:57 okay okay i inside your
28:01 packet i did make an error on the list
28:05 so that yesterday added was the
28:08 mobility master plan top 30 projects
28:11 and on that list i accidentally included
28:14 a project
28:15 that went from
28:18 pivots valley park to squawk
28:22 and that was mistaken that's not
28:24 eligible for these funds so the
28:25 projects that are eligible for that are
28:28 currently eligible for the bicycle and
28:29 pedestrian mitigation fees
28:31 are the tibbetts valley frontage
28:33 improvements project
28:35 which is in front of tibbetts valley
28:37 park
28:38 where the transit center is and would
28:42 also connect or it'd be a
28:45 non-motorized project primarily that
28:48 would build bike and pedestrian
28:49 facilities
28:50 and then the other possibility is
28:53 there's a project
28:54 on northwest juniper that will connect
28:56 into the
29:00 newport way project and then the third
29:02 one which i didn't include on this but
29:05 i guess the tab could also have as a
29:07 recommendation
29:09 is the three trails crossing so right
29:11 now a developer
29:12 is building most of that crossing
29:15 however
29:16 we do need to come back eventually and
29:19 make some
29:21 vehicle improvements on the south side
29:24 of the intersection
29:26 and so that would be an option too as
29:29 well
29:30 the approach that i would like to do is
29:33 to focus the bicycle and pedestrian
29:35 mitigation fees on the tibbetts valley
29:39 frontage improvement project and the
29:41 reason for that
29:42 is it scored pretty high on the mobility
29:45 master plan scoring criteria and i'll
29:47 try and pull that up
29:48 tell you guys what that was it scored
29:50 higher than the juniper one
29:52 project and later this year there's
29:55 going to be a grant competition
29:57 for the transportation alternatives
29:59 program which
30:01 can do a number of things but one of the
30:03 things it can do is build
30:04 non-motorized improvements and so
30:08 and with this project being located
30:12 right along the regional growth center i
30:14 think it would be a
30:16 a very strong project to compete in that
30:19 competition
30:20 and so kind of going with the theme of
30:22 trying to maximize our funds
30:24 is to use bicycle and pedestrian
30:28 mitigation fees
30:29 to match hopefully a transportation
30:32 alternatives program
30:33 and build these non-motorized
30:35 improvements
30:36 and this project also would connect the
30:38 two newport way projects so
30:41 from a user's point of view it'd be
30:43 great because once
30:45 all three of these projects are built
30:47 we'd have great non-motorized facilities
30:49 all the way from
30:50 54th to sunset
30:54 as so a similar question to you the
30:57 traffic impact fees does the
30:59 tab support this
31:02 strategy yeah
31:06 you you had me at maximizing our funds
31:09 but i also really like to hear that
31:12 it would be able to connect with these
31:14 other ones because i'm a big believer
31:16 and
31:16 the more our our non-motorized uh
31:20 projects actually connect to each other
31:21 then they sort of build on value more
31:23 than just what each independent one
31:25 delivers
31:28 yeah i would say what mike is saying i
31:30 think this is all
31:32 that sounds very good
31:36 i'd like to third uh that
31:39 what you were both saying if that's
31:40 possible because i uh
31:42 going back to yeah the mmp um i think it
31:46 uh hits that first one right of mobility
31:48 and connectivity if we're
31:50 lining up an entire segment um for a
31:53 yeah city that is uh bisected by a
31:57 interstate highway i think um yeah i
32:00 would fully agree those statements
32:09 i'd agree also i like being able to tie
32:12 the three of them together and
32:13 strategize on the funding and building
32:14 part so i think that's good
32:23 does anyone else have any other comments
32:30 a real feeling thumbs up then on this
32:32 one
32:36 all right
32:41 okay that sounds good so i think um does
32:44 this give you guys the
32:46 feedback you need then yep see that
32:49 motorized is
32:49 always so much easier than motorized
32:56 okay so is there more we need to discuss
32:58 as far as the tip
33:00 um right
33:03 yeah there's one other bucket of
33:06 categories
33:07 and that is the
33:12 the city has the ability to use the
33:15 school zone safety fund and
33:19 some of the reit funding to do
33:22 a little bit more more so the school's
33:25 own safety fund which could be used for
33:28 ada or non-motorized improvements it
33:31 could be
33:31 used for safety and so this is
33:35 for anyone who's driven by the middle
33:36 school in high school
33:38 and gone a little bit too fast and
33:40 gotten a ticket in the mail
33:43 those funds go to pay for operating the
33:46 camera
33:47 and also go into the school zone safety
33:49 fund so we have
33:51 some more opportunity to try and build
33:53 some mobility master plan
33:55 projects and i think this bucket of
33:58 money gives us the most flexibility
34:00 and i think we would have about six
34:02 hundred thousand dollars a year that we
34:04 could use this funds for
34:07 and so inside your packet
34:10 was the mobility master plan top 30
34:14 projects
34:15 and for one of the categories
34:22 so these ones are sorted by funding
34:24 source and so
34:25 if you open up if you have that
34:27 attachment or if you've had a chance to
34:29 review it
34:30 the first one talked about the bicycle
34:32 and pedestrian mitigation
34:34 fees and then the second page
34:37 talked about projects sorted by how well
34:40 they scored
34:44 that would be eligible to be funded
34:46 through the school's zone
34:47 safety fund or through real estate
34:50 excise tax
34:51 and so like the the first project
34:54 on that list is the mountains to sound
34:56 greenway trail
34:58 which that's more of a long-term
35:01 big project that actually includes both
35:03 the newport projects and the tibbetts
35:05 valley frontage and then some other work
35:07 and so if we think of that one more of
35:10 like a long-term aspirational goal i'd
35:13 recommend skipping on that one
35:15 but then we started getting into things
35:17 like trying to build bike lanes
35:19 on southeast 56 that's
35:23 would basically connect the brown bear
35:26 car wash to east lake smamish parkway
35:29 or to we have the tier one sidewalk gaps
35:33 as a potential project
35:35 that's basically the mobility master
35:39 plan
35:40 prioritize the sidewalk gaps that we
35:42 have in the city and
35:44 the tier ones looks like we have
35:47 almost 24 000 feet of tier one sidewalk
35:51 gaps
35:52 that we would like to eventually get
35:54 built
35:55 the next project that ranked was the
35:58 newport way
35:59 54th to city limits which i think once
36:02 we complete the other two newport
36:03 projects would be a great project but
36:06 i wouldn't want to take on another
36:09 multi-million dollar project until we
36:11 complete the
36:13 current ones so john that's going in the
36:15 opposite direction
36:16 correct going yes westbound correct so
36:19 it'd go from 54th to bellevue
36:22 right okay yeah and then
36:26 there's a project to do uh
36:29 some non-motorized facilities on gilman
36:32 and i think that project goes from
36:35 triple x root beer
36:37 and then it goes on to third avenue and
36:40 connects into the old town neighborhood
36:43 there's a simple project that we could
36:45 on 220th avenue that would build bike
36:48 lanes
36:49 that's uh if you're
36:53 at i think that'd be fedex taco time
36:56 that intersection
36:57 and you head towards those office
36:58 buildings where the school district has
37:00 offices and
37:01 microsoft and costco and some others
37:04 and then another one is the
37:07 northwest samamish road pinch point
37:10 that's a
37:11 project that would connect the
37:12 neighborhood south of lake sammamish
37:15 sometimes called southco
37:16 to the state park and then the sidewalk
37:19 gaps and
37:21 the rest of the list is in there but
37:23 instead of just listing all of them
37:25 i i just wanted to try and get some
37:27 feedback
37:29 see what direction you guys would like
37:31 to go on these
37:33 uh how much revenue is there for the
37:36 school's
37:37 own safety fund and is it
37:40 pretty consistent year to year
37:44 the assumption is consistent it's
37:47 look at the exact amount i know it's a
37:49 little bit more than six hundred
37:50 thousand
37:53 well the the revenue is higher but once
37:55 we take off the amount that goes to
38:00 that contract to run it it looks like
38:02 there would be about six hundred and
38:04 twenty-five thousand dollars
38:05 a year to be able to use for that
38:11 tom i see your hand up yeah a question
38:14 on the
38:15 gilman third avenue um
38:18 is that where it connects to the little
38:19 small bridge that goes over the creek
38:21 and then it connects to the old
38:22 neighborhood
38:23 and would that be widening that bridge
38:25 so it's more of a pedestrian
38:27 like a path bridge as opposed to just a
38:28 narrow pedestrian bridge
38:31 it certainly could be it's not currently
38:33 defined and
38:34 i recently had a cost estimate done that
38:37 included
38:38 both doing everything but the bridge and
38:41 including the bridge
38:46 and those cost estimates would fit
38:48 inside the kind of revenue projections
38:50 you have
38:53 i think we'd have to save up so if we
38:55 wanted to do that project
38:57 i can't remember its exact cost estimate
39:00 but
39:01 i think what we'd have to do is not use
39:04 the school's own safety fund for several
39:06 years
39:06 to be able to afford to do the third
39:08 thing let's say that okay
39:10 right okay you know one thing
39:13 so i have a comment one is on that the
39:16 sidewalk gaps
39:17 um you know personally i like the idea
39:20 of sort of
39:21 having it you know there are these gaps
39:24 out there
39:25 they've been out there for a long time i
39:27 personally like this idea of being able
39:30 you know close those gaps create longer
39:33 stretches
39:34 of mobility you know non-motorized
39:37 mobility for people
39:39 that's safe you know
39:42 it's like it feels like a little gap
39:44 maybe it's a small investment
39:46 but for the person who lives in that
39:47 neighborhood where that gap
39:49 separates them from access like for me a
39:52 gap separates me from target
39:54 and being able to walk there safely to
39:56 buy my toothbrush um
39:57 so for i feel like for people who live
40:00 in these neighborhoods or in these
40:02 places where there are those little gaps
40:04 um you know uh
40:08 investing in that it feels like it could
40:11 provide a lot of relief
40:13 all over the city and potentially create
40:15 some really
40:16 positive non-motorized benefits so
40:19 that would sort of be where i'd want to
40:21 throw um some resources
40:26 okay i think erica is next
40:31 yeah my um maybe this is a completely
40:34 unfounded concern
40:36 but um because it sounds like the school
40:38 zone safety fund
40:39 is pretty consistent but um
40:44 i'm a little worried about attaching a
40:46 funding source
40:47 that has some potential um
40:51 it could be kind of wavy i guess um or
40:53 it's not consistent every
40:54 year to like the dime um i don't know if
40:56 that any kind of fun like that exists
40:58 but um
40:59 attaching it to um some more like ada
41:02 focused
41:03 projects because if i don't know if
41:06 something um
41:08 you know we're while we're planning for
41:09 something and then some kind of odd
41:11 event happens where suddenly
41:13 like the funds from that uh really just
41:16 dive down and now we aren't able to
41:19 carry
41:20 out um you know some project or like
41:23 fun projects that like a specific
41:25 community was like really looking
41:26 forward to as like a
41:28 a means of frankly justice i guess um
41:30 [Music]
41:32 uh yeah i would have some concerns there
41:34 but if if that fund is truly like
41:36 pretty stable then um that would have
41:39 switched my
41:40 concerns a bit maybe maybe that's just a
41:42 completely unfounded
41:44 concern
41:47 thank you and then i think micah and
41:49 then after that joseph
41:52 so uh before i see my comment a quick
41:54 question um
41:55 for john sidewalk uh gaff
41:59 said 24 000 feet how much is it by the
42:03 how much does a thousand feet of
42:04 sidewalk cost
42:07 or 100 feet or whatever they use as a
42:09 normal metric just so i have an idea of
42:11 what that
42:12 means in terms of dollars you know
42:14 that's a good question of course
42:16 it really would vary but
42:20 why don't we have other go on to other
42:23 things and then on my other monitor i'm
42:25 going to try and
42:26 look up something that might give us a
42:28 little bit of a rule of thumb
42:30 so then i guess i'll just make my
42:31 comment anyways uh
42:33 so can i actually uh reflecting on what
42:36 you said erica
42:37 the the sidewalk gaps you know it and
42:40 answer joseph for that matter it
42:42 addresses accessibility which is
42:44 something that
42:46 we it stayed in the master plan as a
42:48 goal we we've all
42:49 agreed as a goal um and i kind of
42:53 actually like the idea
42:54 of saying hey we have this revenue
42:57 source it varies a little bit
42:58 if the sidewalk gaps is a gap is enough
43:01 more
43:02 than 600k a year 600k doesn't do
43:05 all 24 000 feet we can just put all of
43:08 that
43:08 each year towards that and just use it
43:11 says this
43:12 fund essentially to go and close
43:13 sidewalk caps and then we can figure out
43:15 what our priorities
43:16 for where we want to focus are but then
43:19 it is a you know if there's less a given
43:20 year you just
43:22 do less of that sidewalk apps or because
43:24 there's one that's a really high
43:26 priority or there's a
43:27 big safety issue because of it we can
43:30 talk about separate funding for that but
43:33 but i kind of like this neat sort of
43:35 you know people running the red light
43:37 cameras in cars
43:39 and we're going to go and solve some
43:41 accessibility issues with it
43:42 as as a reoccurring yearly uh
43:45 activity
43:50 thank you and then um joseph
43:54 yeah i just wanted to say really quickly
43:56 that i agree with what you said uh
43:58 and also micah i think that um like
44:01 fixing the sidewalk gaps would probably
44:03 be a pretty big priority like not only
44:05 is it scoring high
44:06 i don't know what the cost estimate is
44:08 because it doesn't stay here
44:10 um but i think it'd be a pretty big
44:13 or important project mainly in order to
44:17 get
44:17 more people like off the road in uh
44:20 getting places
44:21 through walking um and not like that but
44:24 just like for pedestrian safety i think
44:25 it's a pretty important priority
44:32 okay thank you joseph um i don't think i
44:35 see
44:36 any more hands and i don't necessarily
44:39 see anything else in the comment section
44:42 um and i think just at the interest of
44:44 time if there's anyone else that wants
44:46 to comment
44:47 you know we'd love to hear more feedback
44:48 or maybe if there's somebody who
44:51 thinks there's a different priority
44:52 project that we could potentially
44:54 discuss with these funds
44:56 um you know we we'd like to hear that
44:59 too
45:00 otherwise you know i think john and
45:03 steven have the
45:05 sense of where the board is going on
45:07 this one
45:11 going once
45:16 okay
45:18 all right so steve and john are you guys
45:20 feeling like you have what you need
45:24 i do yes and uh so
45:27 we'll try and focus on as much sidewalk
45:29 gap as possible
45:31 might not be able to use the whole 600
45:33 000 because
45:34 there might be other people have other
45:37 priorities for it but
45:38 what we'll generally try and do is
45:40 program as much as we can
45:42 for addressing the sidewalk gaps and
45:44 then to answer micah's question
45:47 before you add in the mobilization the
45:49 traffic control
45:50 design and a few other things it's 48
45:54 a linear foot per sidewalk or a six foot
45:57 wide sidewalk
45:59 but then there's a bunch of other soft
46:01 costs so
46:03 i'm not sure if it'd be a hundred
46:04 dollars a foot or two hundred dollars a
46:06 foot
46:06 but i'll work on trying to figure that
46:08 out as we try and figure out how much
46:10 sidewalk we can
46:11 construct in a year
46:18 thank you
46:21 okay so it sounds like john has what he
46:23 needs for the first part of the agenda
46:25 um and so oh do you want to go through
46:28 next step sorry john
46:32 sure so next steps i'm going to take
46:35 this information
46:37 and we're going to internally get it
46:40 entered into the city's accounting
46:43 system
46:44 for what projects and basically use what
46:47 we talked about tonight for the
46:49 different funding sources and projects
46:51 then from there that goes on we do
46:54 internal review with finance and then
46:56 the
46:56 administration they do a review in april
46:59 it'll be presented to council with the
47:02 plan that council would adopt it on may
47:04 17th
47:05 and then this summer you know how we
47:08 talk about the long-term
47:10 part of the transportation improvement
47:12 program we'll begin some of that
47:14 discussion
47:15 and talk about maybe ways that we might
47:17 want to
47:18 update some of our projects to better
47:21 incorporate
47:23 the mobility master plan goal so we'll
47:26 come to the board with some
47:28 recommendations on changes we think
47:30 might be good for project scope in order
47:35 accomplish what the city would like to
47:36 do for mobility
47:39 and thanks a lot for the feedback is
47:40 very helpful i appreciate it
47:44 thank you john all right
47:48 so i think we're done with john's agenda
47:50 item and just in time for him to leave
47:54 all right maybe it's a few more minutes
47:56 i have just a quick question that's
47:57 trying to
47:58 type a comment in there um so
48:02 this year there hasn't been a lot of
48:05 revenue from the camera just because it
48:06 hasn't been on because there hasn't been
48:08 school
48:08 is that correct actually
48:12 so last year we turned it off because
48:14 all the
48:15 kids went home but this fall the
48:18 school ended up having special ed
48:21 students returned to the middle school
48:23 and so we actually turned it on
48:27 in order to have the same enforcement we
48:30 would
48:31 yeah so there's revenue this year good
48:34 okay
48:39 okay thank you
48:42 so we're ready to move on to the
48:43 mobility master plan implementation
48:47 yeah okay great
48:50 thanks steven take it away
48:57 all right thanks john um and
49:00 thank you sujata tonight i'm going to
49:02 give a
49:03 [Music]
49:04 brief overview of the process that we
49:06 use to develop
49:07 the mobility master plan as well as
49:10 discuss the implementation work
49:12 that we that we're going to be taking on
49:15 over the next few years
49:19 but really quick the the purpose or at
49:22 least
49:23 what the mobility master plan is is
49:26 it's a long-range planning document that
49:28 the city developed to be consistent with
49:31 what's going to be in what is now in the
49:34 comprehensive plan
49:35 transportation element with our actions
49:38 that we're going to be moving forward on
49:39 implementation
49:41 that's consistent with the city-wide
49:43 strategic plan
49:44 it consolidates a lot of the simplified
49:47 ver
49:47 vision goals and policies into one place
49:51 and sets a new foundation for kind of
49:52 our planning efforts moving forward
49:54 one important aspect of it is it doesn't
49:58 supersede
49:59 the subarea plans at the moment but
50:02 eventually when we kind of go through
50:04 all the plans
50:05 update process they'll be updated to be
50:07 more consistent with mobility master
50:09 plan
50:10 right now we have some area plans that
50:12 call for
50:13 sidewalks to go in areas that mobility
50:15 master plan says
50:16 shouldn't and there's just some
50:18 inconsistent inconsistencies like that
50:20 that we'll need to
50:21 kind of address when we update the
50:22 sub-area plans
50:26 throughout the process to develop the
50:28 master plan the board identified
50:29 specific
50:30 priorities throughout um
50:34 how to develop the guiding principles
50:36 developing the goals and policies
50:38 and what kind of worked out is it
50:41 these priorities seem to align uh quite
50:44 nicely with a lot of priorities that the
50:46 board's new membership just kind of
50:48 called out in our discussions this year
50:51 safety being an important priority um in
50:54 terms of
50:55 users using the system and feeling
50:58 comfortable uh which is a a close
51:01 appreciation of everybody's unique
51:02 perspective
51:04 on how they want to use the system
51:05 something that we never really addressed
51:06 before
51:08 another important aspect of the master
51:10 plan that the
51:11 board really would emphasize was the
51:13 importance of addressing climate change
51:15 although we we don't go as far as
51:18 going to too much detail on it the
51:20 expectation on that
51:22 is that there was to be an environmental
51:24 board that was kind of helped with some
51:26 of that work so this year
51:28 they're going to be taking on the
51:29 development of a sustainability
51:31 plan that's going to look at some of
51:33 those climate change and once they go
51:35 through that work we'll we'll look at
51:36 making updates on how we want to
51:38 address climate change specific to
51:40 transportation
51:41 and the other important aspect of the
51:43 master plan is the inclusion of
51:46 equity and equity and access to mobility
51:49 options
51:50 looking more in depth of how people
51:53 actually actually
51:54 access the transportation system or how
51:56 they don't
51:57 and making sure that we are identifying
52:00 ways to make improvements in that area
52:04 something that another area that the
52:06 city never really addressed
52:07 um in its planning efforts
52:12 now in the development of the master
52:13 plan itself we took on three major
52:16 phases of engagement the first phase we
52:19 worked
52:19 to broaden the
52:23 we worked a very broad range and talked
52:26 multiple community stakeholder groups we
52:29 talked to
52:30 many of the boards of commissions we
52:32 reached out to
52:33 a lot of um community groups that we
52:36 never
52:37 talked to before when it came to
52:38 transportation topics uh
52:40 just as it goes with our engagement
52:42 process we always start really big
52:44 and then as we go through the
52:46 development of the plan and be more
52:48 specific
52:48 we kind of ramp down who we actually
52:51 talk to not because we don't want to
52:53 talk to everyone but
52:54 more as you go through the process
52:56 really more specific stakeholder groups
52:58 want to stay engaged in the process
53:00 so in the second phase in the of
53:02 engagement we really focused on
53:04 developing the policies and project
53:05 priorities
53:06 and a lot of those discussions were made
53:08 with the boards and commissions
53:10 and specific stakeholder groups that
53:12 wanted to stay engaged in those
53:13 discussions
53:14 and then the final phase we went through
53:18 the confirmation of the policy changes
53:20 as well as finalizing the plan
53:22 and in each of these phases we really
53:25 wanted to
53:26 um emphasize the importance of the
53:29 guiding principles and
53:30 really had discussions about why we
53:33 wanted to use those so because
53:35 that's really what was supposed to set
53:36 the tone for the entire plants we really
53:38 brought that up through each phase of
53:40 engagement
53:44 now the in the plan there are seven
53:46 major areas of policy changes
53:48 um the first is the integration of
53:52 proactive safety measures instead of
53:54 waiting for collisions to happen and
53:56 making a change
53:57 we are looking to integrate proactive
54:01 activities so
54:02 looking at specific infrastructure that
54:05 has high risk
54:06 and making changes before collisions
54:08 actually happen
54:10 and um the next is fully committing to a
54:13 multi-modal system
54:15 something that we talked about before
54:16 and was addressed in previous planning
54:18 efforts
54:19 but never fully committed to and we did
54:22 we didn't really provide much of a
54:24 definition so we actually define it now
54:25 and what that means
54:27 for the community but also what it means
54:29 for staff in terms of implementation
54:32 on top of that we embedded context-based
54:34 design principles
54:36 into the policies and what that means is
54:38 that we are embedding
54:39 flexibility on how we want to design
54:42 projects
54:43 based on location and context so is
54:46 there
54:46 a school nearby is there a transit
54:49 center nearby is there is there
54:50 retail or shops nearby where you might
54:53 get a lot of people walking on the
54:55 street or riding their bikes
54:56 that's really going to find the type of
54:58 facility we actually put in place as
55:01 part of a specific project and
55:05 we also emphasize the importance in the
55:07 coordination between land use
55:09 and transit something that we also
55:11 talked a lot about before but we're
55:13 very specific about we weren't really
55:16 specific in the master plan too we just
55:17 went a little more detail about how we
55:20 want to approach it
55:21 the hope is that in the next year or two
55:23 that we're actually going to be
55:25 having discussions later this year to
55:29 kind of start the process to develop a
55:30 transit plan something that
55:32 the city has never done before where we
55:34 look specifically at just the transit
55:36 system
55:37 how it aligns with the regional goals of
55:40 king county metro and sound transit
55:42 which is our regional transit provider
55:44 and how do we better accommodate the
55:47 trends that we
55:48 actually want versus them telling us
55:50 what we need
55:51 and better aligning that with our growth
55:54 goals
55:55 because right now we have a lot of
55:56 growth going into central issaquah
55:58 but not necessarily the transit or the
56:01 type of transit that we need to
56:02 support it and so we want to
56:05 take that next step with metro and some
56:08 transit kind of has partners through
56:10 that process
56:11 to help define what those projects
56:13 should look like what what corridors
56:15 in central esqua should have dedicated
56:17 bus lanes
56:18 or other major roads in isfah that
56:21 should have
56:22 major transit stops or different
56:26 accommodations so that it's easier to
56:28 access
56:29 transit in throughout the community and
56:33 the other important aspect of transit
56:34 and coordination
56:36 with land use is also looking at
56:38 investments for
56:39 intelligent signal systems that's that's
56:42 adaptive signals so instead of having it
56:45 timed and
56:47 um the signals can actually adjust
56:50 based on the traffic uh patterns that
56:53 are going through the intersections
56:55 the important what's important about
56:57 this too is that
56:58 its improvements also make improvements
57:01 for safety for intersection crossings
57:03 there's
57:04 accommodations for bike and peds
57:06 crossings at intersections that
57:07 its um can make improvements on
57:11 and lastly the next part is the
57:14 importance of parking management so
57:17 in 2019 the city took on a study to look
57:20 parking management strategies and so we
57:23 reference a lot of that study
57:26 in the master plan so that we're not
57:27 trying to have any conflicting
57:30 strategies or information
57:31 in the master plan itself and lastly is
57:34 that
57:35 identification of access of
57:37 affordability
57:38 as important elements of our mobility
57:40 system and it's it's imperative that we
57:42 explore this further as we
57:44 go through the implementation of the
57:46 master plan because we don't know yet
57:48 really what that fully means for
57:50 transportation
57:51 um but as we go through the design of
57:54 the tip
57:55 or developing a program to fill the
57:59 sidewalk and bite gaps we can look a
58:01 little bit closer on
58:02 where we are delivering those projects
58:04 or filling the gaps
58:06 and making sure that we're addressing
58:08 affordability and access to
58:10 transit or access to any other community
58:12 resources
58:14 as where we want to prioritize those
58:16 type of projects
58:21 the other important um element of the
58:23 master plan is it identifies
58:26 kind of phases of implementation so
58:28 there's we put in this timeline
58:30 for the next few years that it looks at
58:33 policy improvements
58:34 program development but also evaluates
58:37 the projects
58:38 that we're currently developing so that
58:41 we can take a look at what projects we
58:43 should be pursuing in the near future
58:46 what's important to kind of remember
58:48 with all this
58:49 is that with the pandemic and
58:53 a lot of other things going on in our
58:56 society
58:56 in our local community there's a lot of
58:59 changes to how we have to approach this
59:01 we can't necessarily say
59:03 this is how we can do things right now
59:04 because the travel patterns have
59:07 completely changed in the next year and
59:09 they continue to change
59:10 as we move towards recovery and
59:12 restoration of how things were before
59:15 it's created limited um or it's limited
59:19 our financial resources is quite a bit
59:21 not just locally but also federally and
59:23 statewide there's a lot of
59:27 grants that have been reduced because of
59:29 coba there's grants that no longer exist
59:31 because of covenant and so
59:33 we as we're kind of moving forward with
59:35 implementation we have to take that into
59:37 account that
59:38 things are just going to be constantly
59:39 changing and as we approach even the tip
59:42 development probably for next year it's
59:45 going to be changing
59:46 on what we can go for in terms of grants
59:49 the other big impact from kovid and and
59:53 the changes in our community is transit
59:55 funding
59:56 we were we king county metro was
1:00:00 already forecasting a financial
1:00:03 dip in the next 10 years where they're
1:00:05 gonna be short two billion dollars
1:00:08 and we were going to have to find out as
1:00:09 a community how to fund that
1:00:11 the biggest you know solution that was
1:00:14 being
1:00:16 pursued before last year was some type
1:00:20 metro levy um they they don't know where
1:00:22 that stands anymore so
1:00:24 as things continue to change we'll have
1:00:26 those discussions on how to approach it
1:00:30 and lastly the there's also the
1:00:32 elevation of the importance of
1:00:34 equity and access specifically for
1:00:36 transportation we we need to really look
1:00:39 more beyond just access to transit but
1:00:41 also how do we
1:00:43 improve access to just our community
1:00:45 resources whether that's
1:00:47 through the sidewalk sidewalk gaps or
1:00:51 bike lane camps
1:00:56 so for timing and next steps we'll be
1:00:58 making a bunch of policy updates this
1:01:00 year somewhat we'll be involving you and
1:01:02 some that are already ongoing with city
1:01:04 council one of them being complete
1:01:06 streets
1:01:07 later this year we'll be hoping to start
1:01:09 that discussion on transit
1:01:11 with the board on terms of laying out
1:01:13 what the foundation looks like now
1:01:15 and what's coming up next with king
1:01:17 county metro and sound transit
1:01:19 and then start those discussions how to
1:01:20 put together the transit plan
1:01:22 particularly of
1:01:23 what what should our transit system look
1:01:26 like in the city of this globe
1:01:28 is should we consider a restructure
1:01:30 should we
1:01:31 should we be focusing on growth or do we
1:01:33 need to have a balance with
1:01:35 neighborhoods and so we'll staff will be
1:01:37 posing those questions later this year
1:01:38 as we kind of start those discussions
1:01:41 uh in 2022 we'll be taking on an update
1:01:45 of our concurrency system
1:01:47 and for those of you that are don't
1:01:49 really know what concurrency is
1:01:51 it's how we um
1:01:54 it's the system where developers are
1:01:57 investing in the infrastructure for our
1:01:59 city so
1:02:00 as a developer comes in and proposes a
1:02:03 1 million square foot development they
1:02:06 are required to pay a certain amount
1:02:08 of funding to support that development
1:02:10 and and it's
1:02:11 right now our model isn't adequate to
1:02:15 fully look at the multimodal connections
1:02:18 for developments and so we are going to
1:02:19 be looking at how best to do that
1:02:21 concurrency and so we'll
1:02:23 we'll be looking at uh potentially
1:02:24 hiring a consultant to help us kind of
1:02:26 walk us through that process
1:02:33 all right now i'll open up for any
1:02:34 questions um i know i
1:02:36 kind of just threw a lot at you so i'm
1:02:38 happy to go back to any slides
1:02:40 if anything seemed um confusing
1:02:44 we'll be covering a lot of this over
1:02:46 again as we kind of
1:02:48 go through implementation of the master
1:02:56 jerry i see a question from you about is
1:02:59 current concern
1:03:00 is concurrency the same as mitigation uh
1:03:03 it is and it's just handled in different
1:03:06 ways whether you're looking at
1:03:07 um the the the
1:03:11 so john had talked about the the bike
1:03:13 and pad mitigation fee that's part of
1:03:15 concurrency
1:03:17 are our developer impact fees that's
1:03:19 part of concurrency and so
1:03:21 um looking at our level of service of
1:03:24 the system that's also part of
1:03:25 concurrency so we'll be taking a look at
1:03:27 all of that next year
1:03:35 any other questions
1:03:38 any concerns it was a great summary
1:03:42 thank you
1:03:43 okay yeah i was hoping i could
1:03:46 get at least um all the information for
1:03:49 you available
1:03:50 uh in case you want to read it on your
1:03:52 own but feel free to
1:03:54 let me know if you have any questions
1:03:55 about what's in the plan or what's not
1:03:57 in the plan
1:03:58 the i think one of the more interesting
1:04:01 aspects of the master plan is
1:04:03 in the beginning parts of the appendices
1:04:06 where we put together a context report
1:04:08 of where the city
1:04:09 is at right now we collected
1:04:12 cell phone data to look at travel travel
1:04:14 behavior for
1:04:15 our area and it really looks at where
1:04:18 people are coming from
1:04:20 but also their destinations in the
1:04:22 regions we looked at all the other
1:04:23 growth centers around in our region
1:04:25 and we looked at where a lot of people
1:04:27 are going for work or where they live
1:04:30 not specifically it kind of just looks
1:04:32 at general areas but
1:04:33 you can kind of see the travel behavior
1:04:35 patterns and it really
1:04:37 looks at um in a little more detail of
1:04:40 how many people actually stopped in
1:04:41 issaquah if they're just passing through
1:04:43 or do they even stop at all
1:04:51 okay well that's the end of my
1:04:53 presentation
1:05:00 okay so if there aren't any you know one
1:05:03 comment i'd like to make tom and i were
1:05:06 sort of uh carryovers from the previous
1:05:08 board and
1:05:09 you know one thing just i i'm sure all
1:05:12 of you have noticed steven and every
1:05:14 you know john and everybody at the city
1:05:15 staff they do such a good job of
1:05:18 integrating comments and listening to
1:05:19 feedback answering questions and so
1:05:22 you know as as this as the board was
1:05:25 forming
1:05:26 and we were trying to actually
1:05:28 understand what we were supposed to be
1:05:29 doing
1:05:30 um and asking a lot of questions you
1:05:32 know that plan
1:05:33 really you know however they guided us
1:05:37 you know we just sort of trusted that
1:05:38 process and the plan at the end
1:05:41 really we all felt as a board very much
1:05:44 reflected
1:05:45 you know kind of our values the values
1:05:47 of our community you know the individual
1:05:49 communities we all come from in the city
1:05:52 um and it really sort of puts you know
1:05:55 what our vision for you know mobile
1:05:58 issaquah would look like so just sort of
1:06:02 you know from the board side i think you
1:06:04 know and
1:06:05 tom chime in that we just felt like the
1:06:07 process went very well and staff did a
1:06:09 great job
1:06:10 and and we and we hope this community
1:06:12 you know as you guys are coming on
1:06:14 it it's it's seen as something that's
1:06:17 useful and and and reflects your values
1:06:20 because it's what we are you know
1:06:23 presenting as the face of issaquah's
1:06:24 mobility so
1:06:29 no i'd second what do you just said uh
1:06:30 suggest i think you said it very well as
1:06:32 far as this
1:06:33 first came together and kind of thinking
1:06:35 from a collective backgrounds of people
1:06:37 that were on the board
1:06:38 as far as what did we want to see what
1:06:40 was the vision and
1:06:42 values of the where it wanted to be and
1:06:44 go so that was good
1:06:50 one one thing i forgot to mention with
1:06:52 the master plan
1:06:53 what's what's in our work plan that i'll
1:06:56 talk about in a minute
1:06:57 is um at the end of each year we're
1:07:00 going to be kind of doing a review
1:07:01 process of the master plan of
1:07:03 you know is everything that we've set up
1:07:05 working or do we need to reconsider
1:07:07 something
1:07:08 and look at making any type of revisions
1:07:10 through the plan so it's it's not set in
1:07:11 zone it is a very much a livable plan
1:07:13 that we're trying to implement
1:07:14 but at the same time if something's not
1:07:16 working it is
1:07:18 open for taking a look at if we need to
1:07:20 make any
1:07:26 changes
1:07:28 so if we don't have any more comments
1:07:30 then i guess we can move on to the next
1:07:32 agenda item though
1:07:33 the various reports and it looks like
1:07:35 steven we're going to start with the
1:07:36 board work plan
1:07:38 so from you
1:07:42 yeah i i i i
1:07:45 i can pull it pull it up if if that's
1:07:47 easier but really there hasn't been
1:07:49 much change to the board work plan other
1:07:51 than for april where we're kind of
1:07:53 dedicating a whole meeting for
1:07:54 the racial equity training for the
1:07:57 special meeting that we'll be
1:07:58 working on scheduling
1:08:06 oh sorry this is tom the only thing i
1:08:08 see on the schedule when you click on
1:08:10 the link for the work plan is
1:08:12 in march is the 18th meeting so the
1:08:15 other training
1:08:16 i don't see on the on the calendar of
1:08:18 the schedule
1:08:35 wait time you're saying you don't see it
1:08:36 on the schedule for april
1:08:40 oh april sorry i was looking in march
1:08:41 yes it's on the schedule april 15th
1:08:43 tax day for april yeah oh okay okay
1:08:47 i was like i'm pretty sure
1:08:54 that was the biggest change was that we
1:08:56 we originally had a couple
1:08:58 agenda items for april but right now
1:09:00 it's going to be
1:09:01 dedicated two hours for the racial
1:09:03 equity training for the april meeting
1:09:05 whenever that gets scheduled um right
1:09:08 now it says
1:09:08 the 15th but that's it's either gonna be
1:09:10 the 13th or 14th
1:09:13 and then for may um i'm looking at
1:09:17 potentially taking up changing the
1:09:20 agenda for that meeting as well
1:09:22 to have that follow-up discussion um
1:09:24 specifically on transportation and
1:09:27 racial equity because the the one in
1:09:29 april is going to be a general
1:09:31 racial equity training with our
1:09:33 consultant and then the may meeting will
1:09:35 a more specific racial equity training
1:09:38 or discussion
1:09:39 specific to transportation
1:09:44 okay and then i'm sorry micah did you
1:09:46 have a question or comment
1:09:48 no okay did anyone else
1:09:53 have any more questions about the work
1:09:56 it looks like erica oh erica erica um at
1:10:00 any point do we
1:10:01 or are we gonna dedicate a specific time
1:10:03 to talk about complete streets or is
1:10:05 not for us
1:10:10 we can um that's a that's a question i
1:10:13 can talk with
1:10:14 the chairs about of if we want to talk
1:10:16 more about complete streets
1:10:17 is do you have a specific question on it
1:10:20 uh i just need to know more about it so
1:10:23 if i can do that on my own if that's not
1:10:26 a priority of the board but or if that
1:10:28 was something that was discussed last
1:10:29 year but um
1:10:30 yeah i would love to know more about it
1:10:36 i think what we can do um because we
1:10:38 have so many new members we
1:10:39 we can send out a survey and ask
1:10:41 everyone if that's something we want to
1:10:43 add to the work plan and we can
1:10:45 put together a 20 30 minute presentation
1:10:48 to kind of talk about complete streets
1:10:50 that works for usage out of yeah i think
1:10:52 that'd be a good idea and maybe
1:10:54 you know complete street there's vision
1:10:56 zero there's
1:10:58 you know there there's a lot of i
1:11:00 remember at one of the previous meetings
1:11:02 we were talking about
1:11:03 um people were there was tons of
1:11:06 regional acronyms like psrc
1:11:08 and blah blah blah so maybe there's a
1:11:11 acronym
1:11:12 soup um kind of overview policy
1:11:16 conversation about how all these you
1:11:18 know because there's state legislative
1:11:20 money there's these
1:11:22 regional bodies that give us federal
1:11:24 funds
1:11:25 there's you know there's a lot of
1:11:26 fingers in the pot so maybe
1:11:28 one meeting we can do an overview of
1:11:32 what all those pieces and parts are um
1:11:36 you know so yeah maybe in the survey if
1:11:40 if we sort of gave some ideas of topics
1:11:42 and just saw
1:11:43 and maybe it's like you know a kind of a
1:11:45 15 minute
1:11:46 sort of deep dive into a certain
1:11:50 transportation wonky thing that could be
1:11:53 interesting for people
1:11:56 and i think a complete street over your
1:11:59 view would be good because that's kind
1:12:00 of the whole basis of
1:12:01 the transportation between urban decor
1:12:04 building the building
1:12:05 incorporating all the components of the
1:12:06 transportation within that
1:12:10 frame okay um how about this
1:12:14 if anybody else has any other topics
1:12:16 they want me to add to the survey send
1:12:17 me an email
1:12:19 and i'll try to get that out probably by
1:12:21 the end of
1:12:22 of this week um just so we can start
1:12:25 planning
1:12:26 to figure out which meeting that'll fit
1:12:27 invest if that works again
1:12:30 yeah that sounds great thank you stephen
1:12:34 okay so staff report staff report
1:12:38 um i just want to give a quick summary
1:12:40 on the february
1:12:41 early february study session that we had
1:12:43 with city council we covered a lot of
1:12:45 topics
1:12:46 i don't know if any of you got a chance
1:12:47 to listen in or watch it we
1:12:50 were able to talk about our programs
1:12:52 that are going to be our kind of ongoing
1:12:54 programs in terms of like maintenance
1:12:56 building construction projects ada uh
1:12:59 curb ramp projects we talked about
1:13:01 transit a little bit
1:13:03 council added and asked us to take a
1:13:06 look at
1:13:07 looking at a shuttle system which we'll
1:13:10 we'll be bringing back to them i think
1:13:13 at the june
1:13:13 9th study session so more information
1:13:16 about that will be coming
1:13:19 but one thing that will be kind of
1:13:21 changing around is
1:13:22 looking at when we want to look at
1:13:24 street standards athletes
1:13:25 and so that might be coming a little bit
1:13:27 later in the board's work plan
1:13:30 than originally expected anyway
1:13:34 and then oh the last thing is
1:13:37 the mobility master plan um will be
1:13:40 going to council for adoption
1:13:41 they'll be adopting the actions and
1:13:43 strategies on march 15th
1:13:46 and then at that same meeting they'll be
1:13:48 making uh uh
1:13:49 considering the complete streets
1:13:51 amendments for approval
1:13:53 which was also discussed at that early
1:13:56 february study session
1:14:00 that concludes the science report okay
1:14:04 thank you stephen does anybody have any
1:14:06 questions for steven on either that
1:14:08 council meeting
1:14:09 or the council study session or any
1:14:12 other
1:14:13 questions posed to staff or any other
1:14:16 information
1:14:17 tom i was just saying i think there's
1:14:20 something in the chat
1:14:21 oh sorry um is there a schedule of
1:14:24 yeah jerry do you want to ask your
1:14:26 question yes
1:14:28 and it's hard to type it i suppose i was
1:14:31 curious about um when the council
1:14:35 was going to be doing a work
1:14:38 plan or doing a work session
1:14:41 with the transportation group um is
1:14:43 there an advanced schedule of that
1:14:46 that we would know about
1:14:49 so like you had that you had that work
1:14:52 session
1:14:53 right in february and like i i wasn't
1:14:57 paying attention and then all of a
1:14:58 sudden it was
1:14:59 that evening or something so i was just
1:15:02 wondering if
1:15:02 if there was one way if there it's
1:15:06 listed somewhere
1:15:07 on the city of issaquah website so we
1:15:10 can find it
1:15:11 and plan to listen in if we wanted
1:15:15 do you mean when they discuss
1:15:17 transportation topics
1:15:19 or like those staff specific work plans
1:15:24 uh so i thought when they were
1:15:27 discussing transportation topics is
1:15:30 staff specific work plan something
1:15:33 different
1:15:34 steve uh they're they're related so
1:15:37 we this year right now we only have two
1:15:40 study sessions we'll be going to council
1:15:42 to talk to them about a work plan
1:15:44 this first one in february was about our
1:15:46 2021 work plan
1:15:48 and then the one in june will be um
1:15:52 different topics but more specifically
1:15:54 on the 2022 work plan
1:15:58 and that's that's right now those are
1:16:00 the two like
1:16:01 transportation specific study sessions
1:16:06 okay and so do we know when that is
1:16:11 scheduled for already is that already on
1:16:13 city council website and i don't know
1:16:16 that it's on the city council website
1:16:18 they usually don't get that posted until
1:16:21 a few weeks before each council meeting
1:16:25 but i can tell you right now it's on
1:16:28 june 8th
1:16:31 okay thanks so i will
1:16:34 make a note of that and then the other
1:16:37 thing that's going to be coming that i
1:16:38 forgot to mention is that
1:16:40 um there may be a special joint meeting
1:16:43 the environmental board park board and
1:16:47 the uh i think economic and vitality
1:16:50 commission
1:16:51 to discuss the the whole cip but also
1:16:54 the tip um and and it's not required
1:16:58 that everybody needs attend but it would
1:16:59 be nice to have some board members
1:17:01 attend
1:17:02 to kind of give the tab perspective
1:17:05 on what was kind of discussed with the
1:17:07 tip but also
1:17:09 if you have a chance to review the whole
1:17:10 cip that'll take a look at all the
1:17:12 environmental
1:17:13 all the infrastructure and everything
1:17:14 else that the
1:17:16 all the capital projects other capital
1:17:18 projects the city kind of takes on
1:17:21 uh so more information will come out as
1:17:22 we get closer to that
1:17:29 thanks steven thank you
1:17:33 all right i don't see anything else in
1:17:34 the chat so
1:17:36 no other questions for the staff report
1:17:38 then we're um we'll move on to chair
1:17:40 report
1:17:41 um i don't really have a report uh but
1:17:44 one thing i will say is for the
1:17:45 snowstorm
1:17:46 that came and stranded us on our hill
1:17:50 i very much appreciated the crews um the
1:17:52 rhodes crews were out
1:17:55 you know plowing away and sanding
1:17:58 and um really keeping issaqua at least
1:18:00 the parts of israel i visit
1:18:02 everything was really kept moving so um
1:18:05 i was surprised that there was that much
1:18:07 snow on the ground
1:18:08 and um that we were still able to get
1:18:10 around so personally i'd just like to
1:18:12 give a shout out and
1:18:14 stephen if you could pass it on to the
1:18:15 operations folks that
1:18:17 you know everybody in my neighborhood
1:18:19 was just floored at how quickly
1:18:22 things were moving you know things were
1:18:23 cleared up and even
1:18:25 downtown issaquah we you know people
1:18:27 could get to groceries
1:18:28 you know for the people who don't plan
1:18:30 for armageddon they could even do
1:18:32 groceries and everything like
1:18:34 i heard very good um feedback about
1:18:37 um the ability to get out and get about
1:18:39 after that snowstorm
1:18:40 so so big shout out to the maintenance
1:18:44 teams for
1:18:45 making that happen um but otherwise yeah
1:18:49 does anybody else on the i know it says
1:18:51 chair report but we have a few minutes
1:18:53 does anybody else have any other
1:18:56 anything else they'd like to comment on
1:18:58 pretty street they saw
1:18:59 i don't know but i was i was too
1:19:02 impressed i don't remember ever having
1:19:05 that much snow
1:19:06 and it being so easy to get out and
1:19:08 about i had to
1:19:10 drive to the grocery store i did take my
1:19:12 wife to work though because she worked
1:19:14 overnight shift to the hospital and i
1:19:16 didn't want her driving
1:19:18 back and unknown conditions of course on
1:19:20 the way back when i picked her up the
1:19:21 next morning it was fine but i didn't
1:19:23 know that on the way
1:19:24 but yes it was great i could once i got
1:19:26 out of the hump to my neighborhood
1:19:28 everything was was good
1:19:33 yeah i'll second that driving around the
1:19:35 highlands is uh spooky in the snow
1:19:37 because of the different uh gradients
1:19:40 and i
1:19:41 drive a honda civic so it's not equipped
1:19:43 to handle snow whatsoever but
1:19:44 so i really appreciate y'all the main
1:19:46 main routes being super clear and like
1:19:47 the minimal amount that i did
1:19:49 was out and about it is yeah made it
1:19:52 less spooky
1:19:59 okay all right thank you guys um and
1:20:02 then the youth report
1:20:04 anything exciting happening yeah i
1:20:07 actually do have a youth report today um
1:20:10 so i sent out a survey for i guess
1:20:12 transportation
1:20:14 like interests and concerns um based on
1:20:16 the youth advisory board
1:20:18 i got 16 responses out of i think
1:20:22 the 40 different representatives on the
1:20:23 board so i might wait for like some more
1:20:26 responses
1:20:27 um but for now i guess i can just report
1:20:30 some of my findings so
1:20:32 in terms of public transit one of the
1:20:34 questions was before the pandemic
1:20:37 how many people use public transit
1:20:41 and seven responses said they never had
1:20:44 to use
1:20:44 public transit while the other um
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1:20:48 nine responses said that like they have
1:20:50 used public transit or
1:20:52 they do like once in a while or
1:20:54 frequently used uh public transit
1:20:57 um and in terms of concerns and
1:21:01 her interests the most common concern
1:21:04 that i saw out of the survey
1:21:07 was that one there weren't enough
1:21:09 electric vehicle chargers
1:21:11 um two there
1:21:15 some people said that sidewalks in
1:21:17 certain streets
1:21:18 aren't necessarily safe enough but um
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1:21:22 three another really
1:21:26 common interest was um pushing to
1:21:29 implement like the linked light rail or
1:21:31 increasing public transit options
1:21:34 um and on top of that making school
1:21:36 transportation
1:21:38 uh more suitable for like the pandemic
1:21:40 so that
1:21:41 kids could attend school again um those
1:21:44 were the most
1:21:46 common concerns and like interest that i
1:21:49 and in terms of
1:21:53 efficient transportation and also like
1:21:55 clarifications that some people had
1:21:58 or comments um one person said that
1:22:01 they thought second avenue in sunset way
1:22:03 had a lot of um
1:22:05 traffic but i looked in the
1:22:07 transportation improving plan that was
1:22:08 already like
1:22:09 one item on it and one person said
1:22:13 they wanted to see more rant about being
1:22:15 used in the community and
1:22:17 another person said that they want to
1:22:18 see public transit um
1:22:20 focused on more so yeah that's basically
1:22:24 everything that i found through my
1:22:25 survey some really good feedback
1:22:28 yeah that's really cool
1:22:32 yeah thank you i'm excited to see if you
1:22:35 can get more
1:22:36 um you know more response rate um
1:22:40 and especially that van about is
1:22:42 interesting in
1:22:43 in connection with what stephen was
1:22:44 saying earlier about the shuttle
1:22:48 thing that council wants them to look at
1:22:51 um also it appears to be a high priority
1:22:55 um the youth population so that's very
1:22:58 um okay and so i think that's good is
1:23:02 there
1:23:03 um any other business any announcements
1:23:06 for the good of the order
1:23:08 go for it
1:23:11 christy here um if you haven't seen the
1:23:14 news yet
1:23:15 i am super super excited that
1:23:18 rally properties today signed a lease
1:23:21 with rei
1:23:23 so they will be joining our community at
1:23:26 2005 poplar right at the gateway
1:23:28 to issaquah so we can't think of a
1:23:32 better brand
1:23:32 to welcome our citizens and visitors
1:23:36 a company that really cares about share
1:23:38 values with us as a community and so
1:23:42 i'll share the article that the seattle
1:23:44 times posted
1:23:46 but the coolest thing is you know we are
1:23:48 in the middle of a pandemic
1:23:50 and the future of work is unknown but
1:23:53 they're going to use this building
1:23:55 for um testing technology and the future
1:23:58 of work
1:23:59 and hopefully post pandemic we'll see
1:24:02 400 new employees and jobs here in our
1:24:05 community
1:24:06 so it's a pretty big deal
1:24:09 good that is really exciting because
1:24:13 after they decided to not
1:24:16 occupy their big bellevue facility
1:24:20 um because they were going all remote i
1:24:22 was wondering about that
1:24:24 so that is very very cool for issaquah
1:24:28 yeah that's exciting
1:24:32 so we're excited for our community
1:24:36 okay all right well if there aren't any
1:24:40 other announcements
1:24:41 um just our next meeting is scheduled
1:24:43 for march 18th
1:24:45 and we have an exciting agenda and for
1:24:48 that meeting
1:24:49 and i think we're going to actually be
1:24:51 done early so that's kind of exciting
1:24:56 okay well i think it's 7 26 and we can
1:25:00 adjourn
1:25:01 so thank you all right thank you secular
1:25:03 motion
1:25:05 thanks everyone sorry
1:25:09 thank you all right thanks have a good
1:25:13 night everyone
1:25:15 good night