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And welcome to the Kent City Council meeting for January 15, 2019, if you could all rise for the flag salute.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation and the God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Kim, can you call the roll please?

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Thank you, Madam Mayor. Mayor Ralph.

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here. Council president boys.

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Yeah. Council member Fincher.

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Yeah. Council member Higgins.

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Yeah. Council member Core.

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Yeah. Council member Larmor.

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Yeah. Council member Thomas.

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Yeah. Council member Troutner.

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Yeah. Thank you.

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All right. Thank you.

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Are there any changes to the agenda from Council or staff?

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All right. Seeing none is there a motion to approve the agenda as written.

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So move.

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The motion to second all those in favor.

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All right.

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Opposed. Motion carries seven zero. All right. Welcome everyone to this meeting. There are a ton of you here. Really good to see.

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It's been about a month since the council met so this is a pretty lengthy agenda. We are going to work our way through.

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One item by one item and lots of good things to celebrate and lots of business to get done tonight.

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Before we start on the formal agenda, I do want to recognize the passing of one of Kent's heroes.

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Over the weekend, Colonel Joe Jackson passed away.

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Some of you might be familiar with the bridge that is named after him that connects up the road that connects up to military.

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Joe was a Medal of Honor recipient, Air Force Legend and a Veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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He was a native of Georgia but he called Kent home.

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He retired here and lived here for many years, so we're very sad at his passing.

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There will be public services more information to come on that, but I just want to recognize the contributions that Colonel Joe Jackson made to our entire country and to our city as well.

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So sad news.

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Now we get to move on to some of the fun stuff.

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So the first item on our agenda is the oath of office for Judge Michael Franz.

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He is our newly appointed judge, started officially in that capacity at the beginning of January.

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And, judge, friends, if you'd like to come up, we'll do this wearing in.

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Okay. If you could raise your right hand, repeat after me. I do solemnly swear.

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I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

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That I will support the Constitution of the United States.

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And the Constitution of the State of Washington.

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And the Constitution of the State of Washington.

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And that I will faithfully discharge.

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And that will faithfully discharge.

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The duties of the Office of Judge, the duties of the Office of Judge, of the municipal court, of the city of Kent, of the municipal court, of the city of Kent, according to the best of my ability, according to the best of my ability.

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All right, I think that makes it officially official.

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All right.

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So I probably should have done that background first, but as you may or may not know, our Judge Carly Jorgensen officially retired at the end of December, and Judge Franz is being appointed to fill that seat in our court.

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So we are sad to see Judge Jorgensen go but very excited to see Judge Francis take over

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in what our court has in store with him presiding.

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Oh, and Judge Jorgensen's there in the back.

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So thank you very much, Carly, for coming tonight.

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And Judge Phillips as well.

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Next on our agenda is Employee of the Month.

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Is Taylor here tonight?

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Yes.

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All right.

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So, each month, our city employees come together and nominate a fellow employee for the honor of employee of the month.

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Our employee of the month, January 2019, is Taylor Burns.

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Taylor is our January employee of the month. He began working for the police department on April 3, 2017 as a probationary police recruit officer.

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He works to protect life and property and force laws and ordinances and to rent and investigate crimes.

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Congratulations very much Taylor.

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Yeah, unless you want to say something.

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I wanted to introduce this whole family in the back there.

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Do we have a family back there?

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No, all those guys have blue.

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Every single one of them, exactly.

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I always give, I always give our employee the month the option.

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sometimes they want to say something and sometimes they don't. So I never want to put

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anyone on the spot.

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Next on our agenda is a very important proclamation. It is a proclamation

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for human trafficking month. I'm going to read the proclamation and then I'm going to assume

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we've got some folks here from youth and family services to come up and accept.

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Whereas human

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trafficking is modern day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud and coercion to exploit

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person for involuntary servitude, labor and commercial sex acts, and whereas trafficking victims

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can be men or women, boys or girls, U.S. citizens are foreign nationals. And whereas

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the average age, a girl enters into commercial trafficking trade is 12 to 14 years old and

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boys 11 to 13. And whereas each year as many as 100 to 300,000 American children are at risk

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of being trafficked in the United States, and whereas traffickers may target young victims

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through social media websites, telephone chatlines, shopping malls, and after-school programs,

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and whereas after drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with illegal arms industry

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as the second largest criminal industry in the world and the fastest growing.

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Whereas assisting victims of human trafficking requires a coordinated community response

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among community group social services, schools, and law enforcement.

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And now, therefore, I, Dana Ralph, mayor of the city of Kent, do here by proclaim January

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23rd, 2019, as human trafficking awareness day in the city of Kent, and call upon

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the people of the city to support the subservents by helping educate residents about human

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trafficking in our city, as well as across America and around the world.

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Wow, Mike's coming out by, would just like to celebrate the fact that it was constant.

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They found that 13-year-old girl, are you going to say something?

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Go ahead, Mike.

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No, I'm so excited,

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I'm a pastor.

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Hey Jen.

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Good evening, City of Kent.

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My name is Kira Dobeck, and I work with Kent Youth and Family Services,

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and I have the really wonderful pleasure of working also alongside

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a campus department.

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And I wanted to kind of share with you something wonderful that happened recently.

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About nine months ago, I received a referral from Kent Police Department of Young Woman who was 14

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at the time and had been a human trafficking victim for a couple of years that had been within

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children's administrations care and on the run frequently for three, four months at a time and

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then back in care for about a week at a time. Recently, we were able to reunite her with her biological

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go father and she was able to go home out of state and had we not received the support

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from Kent Police Department, as well as so much support from everyone here in the city

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of Kent, Mayor Ralph, all of the members of the city council.

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We wouldn't be able to continue this program and continue to have the opportunity to reunite

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families together in such an impactful way and I have reports that she is now enrolled

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school, she hasn't been in school for over three years now. So I just wanted to think

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all of you, that's one of our most recent success stories that I would share with you. Also,

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this will be talked about more, but get a T-shirt. Thank you Kent Rotary and Kent Police Department

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and Lightning Strike Design for helping us put together this T-shirt to help spread more awareness.

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So, thank you.

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Now, my kind of shunny executive director,

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can't even think of families.

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So, I want to introduce Jane Presby,

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the pastor, Kennedy's in church.

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Here are blue arrows with Starbucks.

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Both of our board.

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Board members who supports work as well as cheap

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the dollars back there with the blue spell somewhere.

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I think there he is.

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He's also on our board.

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And the case, please department,

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a particular, and Karina,

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rather start fun developing person who puts

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this stuff together.

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But it's the, can't please department,

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particularly took the stand to say,

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we need to have a partnership

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with an nonprofit community-based organization to start really attacking in a different kind of way a different scale

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this scourge of human trafficking in our community and so we're fortunate enough to find a cure as you found us

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and as we're close with the police department in partnership on rest of the young women being the women

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but certainly young men too when they come to the attention to the police department and the story she told she didn't tell you

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It was late Friday night, which actually had to find the young woman who had run again,

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and her father was leaving the next morning after trying to be here to find her daughter,

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his daughter, to get them reunited and back out of state. That's the other part of the story.

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The T-shirts, if you want to model, turn around. She mentioned the T-shirts.

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Part of our effort of course is to keep this program going and in recognition of human trafficking

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on this month. We've developed these t-shirts with the support of the Candidate Rotary,

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the Campus Department and ourselves and the Designers, etc. They're on sale

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through our website at $20 a piece, or you can come across the street during

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business hours and second-titles and walk in by one. It's

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spread the word about end-demand because demand is what this issue is about.

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It is the issue. It's end-demand. So thank you.

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I just want to say the work that Kira is doing in this community is second to none, the

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number of who are now survived people who are now survivors because of her continues

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to grow every single day when she started. I think we talked in that first month and you

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already had 14 and that's been two years ago, one and a half okay so just amazing work

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that's being done and the partnership between her, can you think family services and

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our police department is really making the difference in a lives of a lot of people.

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So, it's a much bigger problem than I ever realized until I started doing talking to folks

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and it's happening to our kids and to our neighbors, kids and people that we know.

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And we need to stand together as a community.

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So, thank you for the work that you're doing.

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Thank you so much.

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Okay, now I'm going to ask Tony Denotti to join us at the podium.

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I'll look at there, he is right there.

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All right, we are going to recognize our adopters street

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and adopt a spot partners.

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Again, another amazing community partnership

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that we've got going on.

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Tony's going to talk a little bit about it,

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and then we get to recognize all of our wonderful volunteers.

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Thank you so much.

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Tonight we're here to honor some real hometown heroes

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our adopt a street and our adopt a spot volunteers.

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Many of whom are here tonight.

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These dedicated folks consistently donate their time

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energy to ensure our community is clean and looking good. And for that we cannot thank them enough.

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These civic-minded individuals range from, well, range from individuals, couples, families,

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churches, neighborhood groups, businesses, and organizations. Whoops. And they have all taken

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ownership of their community to make a difference weekend and week out.

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We started the Adopt Street program in 2012 and we currently have 24 active groups.

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We started the Adopted Spot program in June this last year in 2018 and we already have

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Eight Act of Groups.

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At 19, so we're really growing. In 2018, the adopters combine to collect 458 bags of trash,

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and they put in 745 volunteer hours.

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So not only are these adopters reducing litter in

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our community, but protecting our wildlife, our water quality, and being outstanding role models

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to our children, family, and other community members, and how to take care to take pride

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in where they live and where they work.

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All these volunteers are true hometown heroes.

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Amazingly not all the groups could make it here tonight, but we do have many that are here.

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So when I call your name, could you please come up?

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So we have Paul Hammaker of Alberto, Alberto Snats, and your groups can come up as well

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if you like.

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Mary Engelhart of LeBlanc Gardens,

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Gary Stratton, or actually it's, let's see, Jane,

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of catenighted Methodist Church, and Brienne Green of Girl Scouts Unit 020,

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Willie Drinker of Twisted Riders Motorcycle Club,

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Robert Indiana Craft of the Craft family,

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Francesca Ambrotine, and John Young of Inger Saul Rand,

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Vivian Bruns of the West Hill neighborhood group,

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our pre-car of Seats of Washington, and this group is actually adopted two different areas.

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Cherry Sare,

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and his Mike Campbell here from Doxa, come on up if you are.

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Jeff Snyder,

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Jason and Gail Valley in,

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Cynthia Boyd, you're here at Constation.

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See here.

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A Mickey of Kent, Teresa Hurn and Kenna Duckworth,

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Edward Jones, Kevin Haslinger, and of Kent

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Clean Streets, Tom and Tammy Berkley,

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also Sean Bower and Michelle from Michelle

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case post my family.

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Everyone up here, okay. All right, thank you, God everyone. So also, also. Also,

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taking who are also really great members of this group are many of our council members. So of the

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Mayor Ralph, and Venture, and Less Thomas, all and anyone else who has before my tongue.

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I need to go to the street, I feel like that's out now.

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Tony, if you're going to get out of the street, okay?

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Okay, we all please give these folks a round of applause for making a,

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and of course I encourage

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anyone interested in joining this elite group to please contact me via our website or

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call me and together we can all clean Kent one bag at a time. Thank you so much.

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Thank you

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guys. Good job. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. It was a plastic bag. You haven't quite officially

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John.

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You got one.

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I'm here.

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Maybe I just bet you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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That's not an impressive group.

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Look at all the people that care about keeping the city clean.

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Thank you all so much.

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It's amazing.

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And like Tony said, that's not everybody that is out there working in our community.

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So I encourage everyone, it's easy, super easy process, pick a street, you can sign up,

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give Tony a call, you'll get a really fancy vest that looks amazing with anything, a couple

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of litur picker things and some bags, and that's really all there is to it, and then you

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get a sign on the street, you can free your club, your organization, your family, and it

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I'll tell you it's a good family event.

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My boys will attest to the fact that they've spent more

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than their fair share of time out picking up trash.

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The best part is now that they are getting to be adults

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every time they see someone litter or they see litter

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on the ground, they say something or do something.

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So, huge benefit there.

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Thank you, Tony, for all your work.

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All right, we are moving on in the agenda

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to a couple of appointments that we have.

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So the first one is an appointment

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and some reappointments to our lodging tax advisory committee.

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This is the committee that oversees funding that comes in through hotel stays in the city of Kent.

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It's a program that was set up through the county or the state.

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I'm not totally sure that that lodging tax money comes in and we have a committee that determines how that money is spent.

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If you follow the council meetings, maybe at our last meeting we talked about where some of that lodging tax funding goes.

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Council President Boise chairs that committee and we were able to use it to sponsor things like the job fair that was that happened at show where the last week the

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Aerospace job fair. We've got some great programs coming to the city. So it will be the recommendation to appoint Mohammed Abelrus to the committee and also re-appoint Andrew Hutchinson and Barb Smith

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to that lodging text committee and that will be wrapped up in the consent calendar

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So, hopefully the council will approve those appointments.

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Next item on the agenda is another reappointment and that is the reappointment of Mel Roberts

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to our Bicycle Advisory Board.

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Mel has served on that committee for, I want to say about 18 years if memory serves me,

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a wonderful gives lots of advice to us on great bicycle projects in the city of Kent.

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I see you all sitting out there. Thank you, Mel, for your service, and it's my pleasure to

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put you up for reappointment by the council at tonight's meeting.

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All right, we are going to move on to our final public comment, and that is the Tork Lift

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Turkey Challenge Awards.

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Okay, so I want to join us and see, we've got the awards up here, and yes, hi, good evening.

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How you doing? I want to just start off by thanking you guys, Mayor Ralph, and the council for your support again.

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This is our eighth year for the Kent Turkey Challenge. How many here knows what that is?

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Okay, for those of you that don't know what that is, the Kent Food Bank lost its funding

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during the Great Recession, and they were unable to meet the needs of people, especially

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around that time of year, and so we had the opportunity to kind of step up and help facilitate

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So, diversity is a good thing, right?

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Diversity is a good thing.

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And what diversity gives us is a lot of different perspectives.

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And those perspectives, when they come together, they give us clarity.

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And when those perspectives come together, when that diversity comes together,

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not only does it give us clarity, but then it gives us unity, right?

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the unity of the community coming together.

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And so when you have the community coming together,

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and that's really what the Turkey challenges about.

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What we're able to do is bring schools together,

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different organizations, and different businesses together,

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and contribute both donations and dollars

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and food donations for folks to have hope.

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And the love that they can share their family

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for Thanksgiving.

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And we feel like, in a small way, we're able to help do that and facilitate that, and it's a great honor that we have for that opportunity, so.

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Yeah, just like Jack said, it's a huge honor for us to be able to help facilitate it.

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And, you know, we want to take that honor and share it with all the participants. This year we had 79, which was amazing.

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And so we just wanted to honor them today, but to start off we just wanted to kind of share some stats from the previous Turkey challenges.

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So far, over the past eight years, we have managed to collect $180,000 and over 55,000 pounds of food, which is huge in eight years.

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So just I really appreciate everyone who participates and helps spread the word and helps make this such an amazing event.

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So I would like to start off this year we did a really fun coloring contest with the schools and also the businesses.

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So we had some really awesome prizes that we've never had before. We had electric scooters.

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And so there was one electric scooter awarded to each school and then there was also one scooter for the businesses and organizations for all of those coloring pages.

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And so we wanted to honor the coloring contest winners and we invited them today

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So I'm hoping some of them are here, but some of them might not be, but if you guys could just come up if you're here

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And then we'll just you know give you guys some applause and then you guys can go back to your seats

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So to start off, we have probably from sunrise elementary

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I'm not sure if there's a lot of people outside so

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And then we also have Lily from Glass like elementary

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All right,

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Erica from Springbrook Elementary and I'm not sure if she's here, and then Max whose mom is from Kent CrossFit

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So that was where we got his coloring page from so just thank you so much to Lee with really appreciate you sharing your coloring with us and it was really awesome

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So thank you so much

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All

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right, so moving on to the top monetary or to the top donors

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We also invited the top five of each for both monetary and for food donations, so

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you know, we're hoping some of them are able to come.

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If not, we will make sure to get their trophies to them as soon as you know the

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challenge, as soon as the meeting is over.

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But if you guys could come up, then we'll get hand you guys your trophies,

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and then we'll just give them a round of applause too.

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So

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first one for top five monetary is Eberly Vivian.

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to see you. It's not strong. It is. Thank you so much.

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All right, and then next up is Pegasus Northwest. Hopefully they're here.

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No, okay.

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Third is can't United Methodist Church.

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No, okay.

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Fourth is Shannon and Associates.

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Anyone here?

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And then fifth is Chatoa Valley Center,

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both the residents and the employees participated.

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No, okay, cool.

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So moving on, all right.

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So the top five food doughenators,

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plemins, industries, anyone here?

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No, okay.

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Next is Sunrise.

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I know they weren't able to come today.

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So Seattle Tacoma, K-O-A, anyone here?

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No?

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Okay, fourth is grass-like elementary school,

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and then fifth is the Seattle Lions Club.

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Thank

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you.

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Thank you so much.

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Okay.

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I don't get that anymore.

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Thanks.

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All right, and then last but not least, we wanted to thank any time fitness in Kent Washington.

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They were the ones that won our Facebook contest, so two of their trainers actually are getting a trip to Las Vegas for a weekend.

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So they're very, very, very excited and that was, as a thank you for sharing their photos

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of the donations on Facebook to kind of, you know, promote social recognition and, you know,

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commentary and communication, everything about the challenge so. So, you know, just, we

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wanted to say thank you to everyone so much for all of your participation. You know, it's really

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your guys' efforts and help that really make this so successful.

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I want to say thank you to Torcliffe. This is shows what that grassroots community effort can do every year. We see bigger numbers, more participation, more businesses and kids participating. Thank you Torcliffe so much for everything you do for our community.

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Very, very grateful.

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Okay. Moving on to the next item on our agenda and that's community events. Council President Boy, do you have some events to talk about?

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Just a few to talk about here. I've got a lot of these going on at a Cecil show where I sent in here

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They hit the ground running on January 3rd and 5th. We got check challenge

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They kept downtown partnership and visit can't have thousands of elite high school rassler that

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Came all around the country to came to compete. That was a real huge event for the city greater tenets

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We also have on January 17 18 we got the commas stars

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We got the M.A.K. Basketball Tournament on Martin Luther King Day on January 21st.

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Lots of hockey, so please get a chance to go in and tune out from the birds.

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And I think that's about it for the most part. A lot of hockey is going on.

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They can definitely use our cheer to kind of keep them going.

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So thank you, madam.

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All right, thank you. Council number four.

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Thank you, Madam Mayor.

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on January 21st from 6 to 8 p.m. Living well-kinned is organizing a night of healing

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right here at Council Chambers in honor of MLK. So if you're able to join them on Monday

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night, that would be great. It says on the on the flyer, the night of healing is a night

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to come together and remember the lives lost due to gun violence and heal as a community.

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And on January 26, our neighborhood program is organizing under our skin workshop, which should be a great workshop.

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Learn about neighborhood program, but also come have a conversation about difficult topics like diversity or racism.

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Just bring your experiences and we'll have table facilitators to talk about your personal experiences and have conversations.

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It's supposed to be very, like it says, under our skin conversation.

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So I hope you'll be able to join on January 26,

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9 a.m. at Ken's Senior Activities Center.

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Thank you.

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Council member Troutner.

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Thank you, Madam Mayor.

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The spotlight series continues in 2019.

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And this Saturday, we have an evening with Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary.

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So if you're lucky enough to have tickets,

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it looks like that event is sold out,

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but that is this Saturday.

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January 19th and on February 2nd, the Seattle Rock Orchestra performs the Beatles number

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ones.

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So more events coming up and we'll bring those up at our next meeting.

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Thank you.

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Highly recommend that Seattle Rock Orchestra show they're pretty amazing.

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Councilmember Fincher.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Then we will move on to the next item on our agenda and that is the Public Safety Report

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and joining us is Chief Raph Pidea.

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Good evening.

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We bring up the presentation here real quick.

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Well, good evening.

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Madam Mayor, Council, Kent Community.

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My pleasure to bring you the report.

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We've got an action-pat full agenda,

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so I'm going to go through this pretty quick.

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We're going to start with swearing in.

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And as you know, we said to work last year

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really hard to close the gap with the numbers

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that we have of open positions.

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And we are doing a great job at that.

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And to that end, we hired 28 police officers last year.

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So, and nine of them are getting sworn in tonight.

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I don't think I've asked around.

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I don't think we've ever had nine sworn in at a time.

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So, we'll get to work right away on that.

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I'd like to call down.

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These are our entry level, sworn in.

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So, new brand new officers never before police officers.

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And once they line up, I'll run their names.

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I think it looks like a sister chief

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having got them squared up in the right order.

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So looking at them from the audience perspective,

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left to right we have Matthew Fisher, Jordan Axeson,

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Joshua Arnett, and Andreas Rodriguez.

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And I'll go through a quick, quick bio in each of those.

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Officer Matthew Fisher, he was born and raised right here

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in Kent, he is a former Kent Explorer, by the way.

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Graduated from Kent Ridge High School,

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later earned an associate's degree

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from the American Military University.

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Before he worked for Kent, he served in US Army for five years

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with two tours overseas.

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Why he chose Kent because he loved going up in the city

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and would like to see others grow up in the community

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that he keeps safe.

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Something interesting about himself is that he is a twin brother

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who I believe is also here in the audience.

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That also went to Kent Rich High School,

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Officer Matthew Fisher.

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Next up there is Officer Jordan Axelson,

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interesting story on Jordan.

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He's kind of what I call legacy hire.

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his dad is worked for us, and his dad's been with the Department of Lombard and I have.

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So, got to be approaching 30 or close to 30.

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His dad is a crime analyst for us, Kevin Axison.

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He is from Covington, Washington.

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His education includes graduating from Kent Lake,

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attended Northwestern College in Iowa,

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and he received his bachelor's in criminal justice and minored in political science.

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Before Kent PD, he was a full-time college student and member of the football team there, and let's see

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work for maintenance company in Seattle. He chose Kent because he is the strong connection to Kent as he grew up here

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and went to Kent schools. Always wanted to work for the department that requires extreme amounts of hard work and that has a

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culture that demands excellence. Something interesting about Jordan is his wife, Aubrey, and he just had

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for his baby Jessica K. Axeson on January 6th.

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His gentleman Jordan Axeson, officer of Jackson.

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Next up, Joshua Annette, he is from Tacoma.

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Later, moved to Pihuahua.

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He's a graduate of Rogers High School.

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He has a journey level, diesel mechanic working,

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mostly on semi-tracks and heavy diesel engines.

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Reason he chose Kent is he likes small town department.

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He likes the mentality and the community involvement.

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He likes the chance to stay proactive and have a lot of a valuable and valuable training.

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Something interesting about himself, he's married to Brittany for over six years and has a daughter named Riley.

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He's a loving, hurtly training for his private pilot's license that has over 20 hours of flight experience,

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most camping, fishing, and scuba dance, diving.

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I guess that's what we're dancing.

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And last but definitely not least of our entry level is we have Andreas Rodriguez.

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00:37:13,150 --> 00:37:24,310
She grew up here in Kent as a Kent-Rage high school grad graduated from Central Washington with a Bachelor's of Arts in Law in Justice and a Second Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

464
00:37:24,930 --> 00:37:32,550
And she chose what she do before Kent. She was a correctens officer, so she is one of our corrections officers to police officer

465
00:37:34,110 --> 00:37:41,450
Transverse if you will and she chose Kent because nothing mentioned here because it's a wonderful place to work

466
00:37:43,630 --> 00:37:47,790
And something interesting about herself is half her family is in Honduras.

467
00:37:48,410 --> 00:37:52,710
She loves to travel, has been to Honduras, Mexico, Spain, and the Dominican Republic.

468
00:37:53,030 --> 00:37:55,150
Ladies and gentlemen, Andreas Rodriguez.

469
00:37:56,690 --> 00:37:57,650
Mayor, you do well.

470
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,260
It is my honor to get to swear you guys in tonight.

471
00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:14,500
If you could raise your right hand and repeat after me, I state your name.

472
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:20,880
I do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance.

473
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:44,360
to the United States of America, the State of Washington, and the City of Kent, that I will uphold the constitution and laws of the United States and the State of Washington, and the United States and the State of Washington, and that I will obey the rules and regulations of the Kent Police Department.

474
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:50,460
All right. Congratulations. Welcome,

475
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,560
and have you come over and find your certificate.

476
00:38:58,410 --> 00:38:59,430
Got a pen here.

477
00:39:03,110 --> 00:39:04,830
This is the final test.

478
00:39:15,940 --> 00:39:18,300
I will get them signed. Thank you and welcome.

479
00:39:21,150 --> 00:39:22,010
I want to do a photo.

480
00:39:31,580 --> 00:39:32,120
Yeah,

481
00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:38,170
wait. Yeah.

482
00:39:38,510 --> 00:39:38,630
Yeah.

483
00:39:53,730 --> 00:39:58,010
All right. Well, they're doing that. Let's have the next group come up.

484
00:39:58,010 --> 00:40:00,490
And we'll have our lateral officers come on up.

485
00:40:00,490 --> 00:40:02,850
I'd like to talk to you.

486
00:40:02,850 --> 00:40:03,810
I'd like to talk to you.

487
00:40:03,810 --> 00:40:05,350
I'd like to talk to you.

488
00:40:05,550 --> 00:40:05,750
Thank you.

489
00:40:06,310 --> 00:40:08,190
I'd like to talk to you.

490
00:40:08,750 --> 00:40:11,710
I'd like to talk to you.

491
00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:15,390
All right.

492
00:40:20,860 --> 00:40:22,600
Next up, we have our lateral officers.

493
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,460
And just for those that may not be aware,

494
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,700
lateral officers are the officers.

495
00:40:26,980 --> 00:40:29,160
We hire away from other good departments.

496
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,300
It's because they're attracted here because what we can offer and they come with experience

497
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,760
and the biggest thing for us in addition to bringing outside experiences and perspective,

498
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,900
they get to work right away because they don't have to go to a full academy.

499
00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:47,480
And the other part of it is, we did a cost analysis years ago and I'm going off the top of

500
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:54,160
my head here, but easily we save about $60,000 in training costs and lead time getting

501
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,360
a lot of officers on the street pro-office, so it's a big opportunity to take advantage

502
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:03,020
of it. And to that end, I'll go ahead and start introducing from the left to the right. We have

503
00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:09,380
Jacob Mines, Jim Beamer, Patrick Baumann, William Fritch, and Oscar Rodriguez. And I'll

504
00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:15,660
go through their bios. We're quick. Mr. Rodriguez has someone here for him. This one.

505
00:41:16,220 --> 00:41:22,220
All right. We'll start with Jacob Mines. He is from Hurricane West Virginia. He is a bachelor's

506
00:41:22,220 --> 00:41:27,800
In criminal justice, minor and business administration from Wheeling, Jesuit University.

507
00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:36,180
Before Camp PD, he worked at the, I'm going to mess this up, they called County Police Department in the Atlanta Georgia for three years.

508
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,740
He chose camp because it's a fast-paced department with diversity and has a lot of opportunity for growth.

509
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,300
Something interesting about him is he did track and field in college.

510
00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:48,740
He did the shot put, hammer throw, discus, and javillate.

511
00:41:48,980 --> 00:41:50,840
These are gentlemen, Officer Jacob Mines.

512
00:41:55,670 --> 00:42:03,130
Next up, we have Jim Bieber. He is from North Central Montana. He is a high school graduate

513
00:42:03,130 --> 00:42:11,190
and before Camp PD worked at the Montana Sheriff's Department. Let's see here. He chose

514
00:42:11,190 --> 00:42:15,230
camp because of professional atmosphere and knowledgeable co-workers. Something interesting

515
00:42:15,230 --> 00:42:20,190
about himself is he is an Avid Hunter and Fisher, Lays and Jim and Officer Jim Bieber.

516
00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:30,960
Next up, we have Patrick Baumann, who is from Fort Pierce, Florida.

517
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,980
He has a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida.

518
00:42:34,940 --> 00:42:39,240
Before Camp PD, he was the U.S. Army for five years and worked for three years at the

519
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:40,260
Seattle Police Department.

520
00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:46,840
He is one of three officers that we were recently able to recruit from Seattle PD and that

521
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,560
is unprecedented.

522
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,920
It's we've never recruited from that great department, so we're very glad to have our

523
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,760
Seattle transplants, if you will.

524
00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:59,600
He chose Kent, because he heard the campus department

525
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,120
supports their employees and wanted the work for the department,

526
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,420
the support of their officers.

527
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:06,560
He has only heard great things about the city of Kent.

528
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,740
Something interesting about him is he lived in Bosnia

529
00:43:09,740 --> 00:43:12,860
and Germany for approximately one year with his dad

530
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:15,460
in 2003 while working for the UN.

531
00:43:15,820 --> 00:43:17,500
Ladies and gentlemen, Officer Patrick Balm.

532
00:43:22,380 --> 00:43:23,700
Next up, we have William Fritz.

533
00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:29,340
He is from Wellington, New Zealand, grew up in Geneva, Illinois.

534
00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:35,380
I always say Illinois, but Illinois is education is he graduated from Geneva High School

535
00:43:35,380 --> 00:43:39,340
spent four years in the Marine Corps and attended the University of Iowa.

536
00:43:39,780 --> 00:43:44,760
Before Kent PD worked also, this is another Seattle PD off lateral for three years.

537
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,460
He felt that Kent was a better fit for him and that's why he made the move.

538
00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:53,900
And something interesting about him is that he is a triple citizen and has three passports,

539
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,120
ladies and gentlemen, Austria-William Fritz.

540
00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:05,320
And next up, last but not least, we have Oscar Rodriguez.

541
00:44:05,780 --> 00:44:07,960
He is born and raised in Santa Ana, California.

542
00:44:08,660 --> 00:44:15,280
His education includes high school, general education requirements, Santiago, Canyon College,

543
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:21,920
and Orange County, California, and you transfer to the University of Texas in the Permian

544
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:22,640
Basin.

545
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,900
currently working on his bachelor's in political science in English.

546
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,680
Before Camp PD was a police officer in Odessa, Texas from 2014 to 2018,

547
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,720
and prior to law enforcement he worked the day program to help build useful life career

548
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,560
and education skills for individuals with developmental disabilities.

549
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,780
He chose Camp because it's a dynamic and diverse community that is rapidly growing.

550
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,920
The opportunity to work for the city during an exciting time at a police department that values training

551
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,340
and provides good standard of...

552
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,620
For my family, make Kent an easy choice to work. Something interesting about Oscar, as is married to

553
00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:14,100
D.N., I'm guessing the one here with the camera in front. They have, it says for child, but I think

554
00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:20,080
they meant for Charlie and an engine, two year old, and a board of college, a two year

555
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:29,980
board of college, for children, and a board of college. No. Okay, got it. That's only wrong. All right,

556
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:37,260
All right kids, and closing out, he says I am a lucid dreamer, and I'm able to control the

557
00:45:37,260 --> 00:45:40,320
direction and outcome of my dreams every night.

558
00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:44,280
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Officer, I'm ready to go.

559
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:57,240
All right.

560
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,860
Once again, it is my honor to be able to swear you in this evening if you could raise your

561
00:46:01,860 --> 00:46:09,900
right hands and repeat after me, I state your name, do solemnly swear that I will bear

562
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:19,310
true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, the state of Washington, and the

563
00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:27,220
city of Kent, that I will uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the

564
00:46:27,220 --> 00:46:33,440
state of Washington, and that I will obey the rules and regulations of the Kent Police

565
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:34,180
Department.

566
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:40,430
Okay. Again, it's official and congratulations. Welcome.

567
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:47,800
Same test.

568
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,020
Train spots with you in the evening.

569
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:37,300
We are very excited to welcome all of our new officers this evening and I am with the chief.

570
00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:39,520
I don't know that we've ever had nine in one night.

571
00:47:40,140 --> 00:47:42,960
So speaks volumes to the work that our hiring officers are doing

572
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,400
and the quality of the police department that we have.

573
00:47:46,180 --> 00:47:47,280
So congratulations, Chief.

574
00:48:10,490 --> 00:48:10,890
All right.

575
00:48:11,110 --> 00:48:13,470
Next up, I'd like to call up Officer Taylor Burns

576
00:48:13,470 --> 00:48:15,850
for a life-saving award.

577
00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:22,460
Many of you may recognize Officer Burns,

578
00:48:22,460 --> 00:48:25,080
he attends these council meetings regularly, I say.

579
00:48:29,860 --> 00:48:35,560
So on November 7th of last year, Officer Taylor burns along with other Kent officers responded

580
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:41,080
to assist King County to investigate or help with a shooting that they had just south of

581
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:41,860
our city.

582
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:48,440
When Officer Burns got there, he was responded to help a particular deputy that was treating

583
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,380
and providing lifesaving efforts to one of the people shot.

584
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,920
Taylor has some depth from his military background in training in life-saving techniques and got

585
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,900
to work right away, taking care of some serious wounds, some definitely fatal wounds if

586
00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:08,960
not treated too right away, and his expertise basically saved that person's life that day.

587
00:49:09,420 --> 00:49:14,680
When above and beyond, and so for that, we are recognizing him with the life-saving award

588
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:15,720
and metal.

589
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:17,460
Um, to say thank you.

590
00:49:30,980 --> 00:49:32,160
By the way, the second.

591
00:49:33,060 --> 00:49:33,280
Yeah.

592
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:34,280
And the third.

593
00:49:35,380 --> 00:49:36,180
Oh, where are you?

594
00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:39,560
Just kind of into the lower side of the right side of the right

595
00:49:45,670 --> 00:49:46,110
side of the right side.

596
00:49:46,150 --> 00:49:49,280
You don't want to say anything.

597
00:49:51,140 --> 00:49:52,440
Maybe next time.

598
00:49:57,900 --> 00:49:58,160
No.

599
00:49:58,780 --> 00:49:59,000
No.

600
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:00,780
No.

601
00:50:01,460 --> 00:50:01,560
And next.

602
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,180
This is a job, by the pressure driven.

603
00:50:14,910 --> 00:50:17,230
Next I'd like to call up Officer of Test of Melville.

604
00:50:25,570 --> 00:50:28,610
This has also received in a life-saving medal.

605
00:50:29,210 --> 00:50:31,430
On November 9th of that last year,

606
00:50:32,530 --> 00:50:34,670
she was dispatched to a report of a stabbing

607
00:50:34,670 --> 00:50:36,430
at one of her local apartments downtown.

608
00:50:37,190 --> 00:50:40,730
She found a victim on the corner of 240th and 30th

609
00:50:40,730 --> 00:50:44,470
and had life-threatening injuries from being stabbed, obviously.

610
00:50:44,470 --> 00:50:52,250
test. We do a lot of combat first aid training, but she also has exceptional background

611
00:50:52,250 --> 00:50:57,990
from her prior military experience as it was a medic in the military. So far and above

612
00:50:57,990 --> 00:51:02,330
what we provide, she already brought that with us. So we hired some outstanding people without

613
00:51:02,330 --> 00:51:07,970
standing skills. She quickly went to work. These were also very severe life threat in the injuries.

614
00:51:07,970 --> 00:51:14,230
Um, and without hesitation was able to place a chest seal over a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

615
00:51:14,230 --> 00:51:18,030
what they call a, a sucking chest wound and stop bleeding from other injuries.

616
00:51:18,350 --> 00:51:21,550
And basically kept this person alive until, um,

617
00:51:21,690 --> 00:51:25,350
um, men can arrive and get this person safely, the hard review where they survive.

618
00:51:26,030 --> 00:51:32,290
So, another outstanding effort to save a life and we just want to award her and also say thank you.

619
00:52:03,420 --> 00:52:09,320
Okay, it's always kind of nice to do the life-saving metal thing because it makes me feel

620
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,860
like we're keeping up with the firefighters on saving lives and stuff.

621
00:52:15,580 --> 00:52:21,360
So switching gears just a little bit, I want to do quickly go through some 2018 statistics.

622
00:52:21,540 --> 00:52:28,180
These are preliminary, some numbers may still be coming in, but a snapshot comparison to where

623
00:52:28,180 --> 00:52:30,800
we ended up with some crime categories for the year.

624
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,460
The first one up there are our vehicle problem numbers.

625
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:35,840
It's no mystery.

626
00:52:36,260 --> 00:52:41,200
We have higher than we'd like vehicle crime in the city and we're working on it.

627
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,080
And this is a little bit of success over the last two years.

628
00:52:44,260 --> 00:52:46,440
You see there is a three-year trend downwards.

629
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,840
And we are 13% down from last year.

630
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:52,600
So moving into the right direction.

631
00:52:53,860 --> 00:52:55,920
There's some crime per capita rate.

632
00:52:56,260 --> 00:52:59,020
Same numbers, just a different way looking at them.

633
00:52:59,020 --> 00:53:14,380
are vehicle thefts. We're also down in 2018 and I know it's here. Down 13.4% continuing along with the

634
00:53:14,380 --> 00:53:18,600
three-year trend. If you're wondering what the difference between a vehicle proud of vehicle theft is,

635
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,240
a vehicle prouds when they break into your car for whatever reason, but don't necessarily,

636
00:53:22,380 --> 00:53:25,840
necessarily still it. A theft is obviously to take the whole thing.

637
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:43,800
This is a very serious crime as you can imagine, but we have, and we have a little work to do in this category.

638
00:53:44,020 --> 00:53:47,220
Unfortunately, it was up 0.9 percent.

639
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:54,520
So, working on that, we're seeing a lot of what we call, we used to call Iraqis, but they're changing,

640
00:53:54,520 --> 00:54:02,540
where it's just kind of happenstance people getting contacted on the street and being still robbed of your personal effects.

641
00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:05,320
We're working on that.

642
00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:13,360
We're doing a good news from that residential burglaries, which has really been down almost since 2012.

643
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,900
Significant drop in those from last year were down 8.1%.

644
00:54:17,900 --> 00:54:21,260
From last year and 61% down from 2012.

645
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,860
So things continue to trend in the right direction of that.

646
00:54:24,860 --> 00:54:29,860
You know, we work that problem really hard, but I also think some of the reasons behind

647
00:54:29,860 --> 00:54:35,460
is the advanced of technology, a lot of wireless cameras, Wi-Fi cameras, and not, so it's

648
00:54:35,460 --> 00:54:35,800
helping.

649
00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:41,900
Commercial burglies, another area where we have some work to do, we've seen a steady trend

650
00:54:41,900 --> 00:54:46,600
now for the last five years, and we are up 4.6% with commercial burglies.

651
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,600
So this is, like I said, something we're working on,

652
00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:57,920
homicides, good news here, but still

653
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:05,480
way too many, we were down 45% in homicide from 2017 with a six coming in last year.

654
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,800
And so that's the trend in the right direction, obviously, we'd like to see none of those.

655
00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:18,180
Case reports, we are also down a little bit in our case report, surprisingly, this was

656
00:55:18,180 --> 00:55:24,460
surprising to me, down 3.9%, but then I realized that at the first part of the year,

657
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:29,400
we really put an emphasis on online reporting, we changed some of our service delivery

658
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,380
model, so some of the trends there are kind of a specific perspective.

659
00:55:34,860 --> 00:55:37,480
There's our online reporting numbers which are up.

660
00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:43,840
We took an additional 630 case reports via people filing online, so that's a 20% increase.

661
00:55:45,900 --> 00:55:50,260
Pat incidents, cats are the incidents that are tracked through our 911 center, either

662
00:55:50,260 --> 00:55:55,180
a dispatch calls that come in, or officers conducting business on their own like traffic

663
00:55:55,180 --> 00:55:56,700
stops, or field contacts.

664
00:55:56,700 --> 00:56:01,220
So those are up a little bit there, 1.9% over last year.

665
00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:06,940
And here's the part that was really good for me to see.

666
00:56:07,260 --> 00:56:09,940
We are down 13.9% in our shootings.

667
00:56:10,100 --> 00:56:12,060
These are verified shootings throughout the city.

668
00:56:12,860 --> 00:56:14,960
So that's a big trend.

669
00:56:15,460 --> 00:56:16,440
Still way too high.

670
00:56:17,060 --> 00:56:20,380
We had 105 verified shootings in the city last year.

671
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,340
And verified shooting just means we were able to prove

672
00:56:23,340 --> 00:56:26,500
in some fashion through evidence or someone being hit

673
00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:30,480
that there was actually a shooting, it just wasn't, you know, people celebrating a Seahawks victory

674
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,440
on Sunday, which unfortunately happens by, so,

675
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,980
and that would complete my report. Any questions?

676
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:42,980
Any questions for the Chief?

677
00:56:45,460 --> 00:56:47,920
All right, thank you very much, Chief.

678
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,640
Lot going on in the city, a lot of good things.

679
00:56:51,220 --> 00:56:54,480
Very grateful for the work that our Police Department is doing every single day.

680
00:56:57,720 --> 00:56:59,580
All right, moving on in our agenda.

681
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:02,880
Next item is the Economic and Community Development Report.

682
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,580
and joining us is Bill Ellis.

683
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:05,620
Good evening, council.

684
00:57:05,780 --> 00:57:06,260
Good evening.

685
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:07,780
Please call up the council.

686
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:10,620
So good evening.

687
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,120
I'm here to give the updates since for the quarter.

688
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:16,560
So Happy New Year, if that's still applicable.

689
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,520
I wanted to talk first off about the drive-in

690
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:20,700
that opened last month.

691
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,040
We had some pretty stellar lines at the Dix Drive-in.

692
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:25,500
And what we're hoping this will do now

693
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is generate more interest in the remainder

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of the shopping center and on some of the other parcels

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to fill in.

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I wanted to start with that because I also

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wanted to cover.

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Another property, a closure in town, and the Kmart Properties, you might have noticed, has gone dark since October.

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00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,420
We're in constant communication with the property ownership and the representatives.

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There is still a lease on the property, and as the Kmart Sears Corporation is entered into bankruptcy,

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00:57:52,880 --> 00:58:01,680
we're just sort of tracking the machinations of the hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert to his effort to restore stores all across the country.

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So, there's some elements of this that are beyond our local control, and of course in the meantime what we are doing is forwarding a lot of the interests from national retailers and from developers who are interested in talking to the properties ownership about the site and about the location and will be close communication with them as the situation matures and may enter a point where we can actually talk about redevelopment scenarios.

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00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,720
In the interim, a lot of the property owners and business owners, West of Washington, on

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00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:35,400
Meekers Street, have come together collectively to improve the area and to work together.

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00:58:36,220 --> 00:58:39,780
Not quite a business district, but they're discussing what they can do together.

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00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,820
So there are good things happening, West of Washington, along the Meekers Street corridor.

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00:58:44,620 --> 00:58:49,860
And the came our property, I want to pause it as an opportunity, although there's fittingly

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00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:55,420
fog around this photo today, as we were watching, even late this afternoon, headlines come

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00:58:55,420 --> 00:59:00,800
across business news wires about what's the latest from Eddie Lampert and his long running

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00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,380
saga with the Sears Team Work Corporation.

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00:59:03,700 --> 00:59:09,500
Another positive news, second and maker, you might know this location from its proximity

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00:59:09,500 --> 00:59:14,980
this tax lot to a town square plaza, and of course the tenant maggies in our downtown, has

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00:59:14,980 --> 00:59:21,380
new owner. And that owner is restoring the building facing on the right there, a town square

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00:59:21,380 --> 00:59:29,020
plaza. It's actually two structures on the one parcel. In the 1980 structure seems in much better

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00:59:29,020 --> 00:59:35,480
condition than the 1909 structure that is facing towards the lots with the penguins sculptures

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00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:43,000
to orient you at second and maker. So the second and maker building that is 1909 structure

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00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,740
is still undergoing some conceptual planning with the new owner of the building with his

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00:59:47,740 --> 00:59:49,380
architects and engineering teams.

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Whereas we are already bringing forward tenants and ideas for the town square, Plaza

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Facing Structure.

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00:59:56,060 --> 00:59:59,400
So stay tuned there, that's a good story I think for downtown.

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Having this long vacant structure in between Kent Station and the rest of the historic downtown.

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Another corner of interest in the historic downtown is the moral bank building. Kent downtown

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01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:16,960
partnership has been a champion of fundraising and investigating some of the underlying

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01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:22,380
conditions of this non-profit owned building by multi-service center. You can see from this

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01:00:22,380 --> 01:00:27,640
image that the way it looks today is not the way it always looked. And they want to go towards a

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01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:34,540
original look, removing some of the stucco and restoring the double-high windows that face

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01:00:34,540 --> 01:00:38,160
Harrison and on first avenue of this grant for you.

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01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,900
The city is a facilitator and convener is working with Kent Downtown Partnership, Green River

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01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:47,800
College Small Business Advisor, Kevin Grossman, and the tenant project feast in identifying

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01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:52,920
the impediments and solutions for a restoration of this building and trying to put it on

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01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:57,240
path towards a credible business plan that might attract additional funding help.

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Looking at the building interior on the right, you can see it's a bit of a rabbit worn

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01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:08,820
of unleasable, difficult spaces that have built up by creation over the years on the first

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01:01:08,820 --> 01:01:09,880
floor of the commercial space.

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The second floor is affordable housing service delivery by multi-service center, but the first

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01:01:14,660 --> 01:01:19,080
floor is kind of, it's not clear if it's been an asset or a liability to that entity.

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The photograph on the top left is what the historic structure looked like on the corner first Avenue, which is our most intact

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01:01:25,460 --> 01:01:27,000
street in historic downtown

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01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:28,680
double-high ceilings

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01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:33,880
been filled in now as you can see in the image of the right with a false drop of ceilings, and

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01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:39,380
Addict for storage for the Alleluia Catholic store on the corner there. So this is a really opportunity

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01:01:39,380 --> 01:01:46,520
I see for the city to work in concert with partners and champions to look at another corner that doesn't have a private investor and

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01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:51,340
think about how do we tackle the capital meeting's backlog for this building and make

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01:01:51,340 --> 01:01:55,060
them more usable first floor on a key corner across from a wild week.

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01:01:55,800 --> 01:02:01,140
We did this thanks to the via architecture who was introduced to us from Project Feast.

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01:02:01,500 --> 01:02:05,100
They offered their services pro bono to measure the entire building and run a day-long

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01:02:05,100 --> 01:02:10,880
half-day-long Sharet with community stakeholders and start to come together on a vision

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01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,000
and for the program on the first floor.

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01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:17,480
multi-service center executive director Robin Quirk participated this really helped many understand

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01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:22,400
the potential of the building and start to have a coalition or a coalesce rather around ideas

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01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:28,420
for the first floor of vision statement for inclusive entrepreneurship and maybe some small meeting

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01:02:28,420 --> 01:02:33,480
event hall state steps. Next steps include working with Green River's business advisor to look

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01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:38,420
at the financial statements from multi-service center on the building, try to assess the backlog of

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01:02:38,420 --> 01:02:43,140
capital improvements and maintenance, and help to define future funding gaps and deal points.

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01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:49,900
Cities also reached out to way-find and other nonprofit legal groups to help work on the legal

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01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:53,780
work that is necessary to unlock some of the value of the first floor, given the complicated

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01:02:55,300 --> 01:02:59,520
control of the multi-service center to continue to deliver their services on the second floor.

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01:02:59,980 --> 01:03:04,740
Another quick update for you on Need and Avenue, where I've briefed this council in the past

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01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:06,800
about our interest to receive in the private marketplace

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01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,120
for hotel in this other portion.

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01:03:08,820 --> 01:03:12,020
As of January 8th, we have an agreement letter

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01:03:12,020 --> 01:03:14,420
for describing the terms of a deal

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01:03:14,420 --> 01:03:17,920
with PewDiePie, from a purchase and sale agreement

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01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,560
of the last little parcel that you can see there

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01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:25,380
that would enable a structure of a road right in right out

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01:03:25,380 --> 01:03:28,000
from the state highway, which is really necessary

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01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:29,840
to go back into the marketplace.

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01:03:30,820 --> 01:03:34,720
Once this PSA, sorry, the PSA purchase and sale agreement

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01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,460
and is reviewed by an internal stakeholder team of Puget Sound Energy.

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01:03:39,100 --> 01:03:43,160
We can then, and they sign off on it and bring it back, I can come back to committee

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01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,700
into full council for approval of the terms of that deal.

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01:03:47,300 --> 01:03:51,900
And that would then trigger us to go back to the marketplace and talk to all the hotel

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01:03:51,900 --> 01:03:56,620
interests that was there and is there still and maybe some that have drifted and may

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01:03:56,620 --> 01:04:01,980
want to come back knowing that this is in place and really put together an internal review

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01:04:01,980 --> 01:04:07,380
some committee to review proposals from the marketplace once we've fully controlled that.

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01:04:07,780 --> 01:04:13,000
Another update for you, late last year, we commissioned a study with the Community Attributes

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01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:13,740
Economic Group.

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01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,220
Those already working with the State Center for Excellence in Global Trade and Supply Chain Management.

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01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:23,980
Community Attributes is helping us define the broader Ken Valley area, and that's the map

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01:04:23,980 --> 01:04:24,620
on your left.

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01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:30,380
This is a map of communities and industrial areas that CBRE, which is the world's largest

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01:04:30,380 --> 01:04:36,980
a commercial real estate brokerage house, maps and tracks from a private marketplace standpoint

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01:04:36,980 --> 01:04:39,920
when they track vacancy rates in an area of similar pricing.

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01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:47,260
We verify this map with them and now we're continuing to investigate wholesalers, trucking,

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01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:52,860
e-commerce, distribution, those types of industries that comprise the state-wide significant

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01:04:52,860 --> 01:04:57,560
industry and start to pull together some of the statistics of what this area contributes

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01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,060
needs to the state economy and to our local economy.

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01:05:01,060 --> 01:05:06,000
Other uses for this effort, as we expect this report to be finished last week of January

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01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:10,900
first week of February, is that we can take statistics from this and plug it into our marketing

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01:05:10,900 --> 01:05:16,100
efforts, create better intelligence for our workforce to do an interview with leading employers

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01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:21,140
in the sector to talk about career pathway mapping to state policymakers who might be interested

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01:05:21,140 --> 01:05:27,360
to know that $164 million a year come out of this industry from this geography.

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01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:33,940
We're still ascertaining how much truck traffic from the ports, both Decoma and Seattle

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01:05:33,940 --> 01:05:37,520
and the airport flow through the infrastructure on Kent Valley roads.

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So I think this will have some meaningful results that we can talk about in committee and

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01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:45,780
in the future as that report wraps up.

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01:05:45,780 --> 01:05:58,580
Another update for you, Kent Valley Marketing, Logitech's Advisory Committee has awarded some funding to economic development to do some promotion and business recruitment type of marketing efforts.

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01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:15,560
Now that we have that funding secured from Logitech's, we have an application going to the port of Seattle later this month that would round out our budget with the city owned funds to look at public relations and marketing firms that can start to leverage large stories that will be coming out of the Kent Industrial Valley.

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01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:21,160
over the next year and to national and even international media outlets that help get the

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01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:23,340
Kent story line out there.

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01:06:23,860 --> 01:06:28,640
We will also be looking to create a third-party website to put economic development messages

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01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:32,620
forward and have a landing place for people who are reading about Kent perhaps from the

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01:06:32,620 --> 01:06:37,100
first time to learn more about business locations, demographics of the area, what's available

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01:06:37,100 --> 01:06:37,860
in terms of property.

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01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:43,960
The image to, but you know about, is greater Seattle partners there, have hired a new CEO

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01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:44,720
back in August.

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01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:48,560
They're still in start-up mode, they're still working on their strategy for their marketing

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01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,900
for welcoming investment into the area.

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01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:55,560
We've talked with their staff and they have a promise that any marketing effort that we do

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01:06:55,560 --> 01:07:01,000
as a Kent, or actually even with our neighboring jurisdictions in the Kent Valley area, would

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01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:06,000
be considered as foundational to their later bringing it on board their own marketing

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01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,240
help for their greater Seattle region.

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01:07:08,900 --> 01:07:10,300
Lastly, may have mentioned this earlier.

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01:07:10,300 --> 01:07:15,080
We put on a job fair at the Accessal Show or Center on January 7th with some partners.

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01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:22,360
At this job fair, we had more than 1200 registered job seekers who were greeted by 1338 potential employers.

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01:07:23,180 --> 01:07:25,600
The employer feedback we've received so far was strong.

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01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:33,380
Most of them wanted to do it again, and all rated eights are above on a scale of 1 to 10 as to their opinion of the event.

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01:07:34,180 --> 01:07:35,880
No employer scored less than a 7.

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01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:40,240
It's hard to know exactly how many were hired at this point because a lot of interactions were

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01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:44,240
sort of for the first time and may be dependent upon later interviewing, but for working

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01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:50,360
the floor and talking with everyone, we know of at least one local company that hired eight

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01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:56,080
people before noon, so I'd love to extrapolate that out, but I won't do that.

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01:07:56,800 --> 01:08:00,560
I would imagine that hundreds were hired, and I do like the quotes from the Kent Reporter

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01:08:01,180 --> 01:08:05,380
that I read earlier this week, one person to quote from the Kent reporter.

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01:08:05,740 --> 01:08:09,460
I came from California looking for works at one engineer who has to remain anonymous.

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01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,420
There's a lot of energy here, it's very promising here. I've already had an interview.

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01:08:14,420 --> 01:08:19,680
Blue Origin was there at the event, their recruiter, again quoting the Kent reporter,

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01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:25,100
said that she had scant time to sit down and even eat lunch, given the city stream of inquisitors.

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01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:30,440
So I think the feedback I was most interested in for this event was what the employers had to

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01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:34,600
day, and what the employers had to say is we wanted to do it again.

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,860
So I thought that was a strong statement as a cultural location for this.

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01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:43,560
We put this on with the aerospace futures alliance, who has merged with the Washington State

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01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:44,780
Space Coalition.

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01:08:45,540 --> 01:08:50,520
This event, I had me to also thank Michelle Willmont in my office who worked a lot with

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01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:55,780
the organizing committee and helping to stage it and making things the trains run on

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01:08:55,780 --> 01:08:56,200
time.

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01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:02,480
And I really hope that this events will start to help substantiate the claim of Kent resident and corporate

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01:09:02,480 --> 01:09:06,920
historian for the Boeing, Michael and Barty, that Kent is the center of gravity for aerospace and

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01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:11,260
huge its sound. And I think having events like this with thousands of people seeking jobs,

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01:09:11,380 --> 01:09:16,400
employers throughout the region coming to downtown Kent, helps tell that story very well.

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01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,960
And I think as we continue to do events like this throughout the calendar year, it will start to,

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01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:26,800
the actions will start to be do this talking for us. We're also going to be looking at a marketing

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01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:31,380
firm to do some of that talking as well. So we're hoping to rinse leather repeat on this

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01:09:31,380 --> 01:09:37,900
event and future and that this will grow a reputation as a place where hiring happens and that

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01:09:37,900 --> 01:09:44,440
the hiring happens and can't. Good message I think for companies. Thank you. All right, any questions

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01:09:44,440 --> 01:09:50,640
for Bill? I'll just make a comment. Bill, I'll just say thank you to you and your team. I think

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01:09:50,640 --> 01:10:02,060
This is just a prime example of how our economic and community development, the part of me is just going out of being creative and finding ways to have been as come to kit and running a business.

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,920
So to the team, excellent job and keep up the good work.

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01:10:06,300 --> 01:10:06,520
Thank you.

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01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:06,820
Thank you.

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01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:18,000
I should be remiss also if I didn't think a high-line school district can't school district and rent in school district who also participate with workshops to give a resume interview skill based training at the event itself.

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01:10:20,020 --> 01:10:25,920
So thank you Bill, one thing that he failed to mention that job fair was the morning after

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01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:29,740
our most epic windstorm that we had over that weekend.

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01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:33,900
And so when I got there in the morning, I thought, you know, if there's going to be a ton of people

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01:10:33,900 --> 01:10:36,600
who didn't have their alarm clock or didn't have their showers.

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01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:41,060
And I will tell you, the room was packed by 9 o'clock in the morning.

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01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:43,100
So definitely a successful event.

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01:10:43,100 --> 01:10:51,340
And I want to thank our economic development staff, all the work that they put in with AFA to make sure that that was a quality event.

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:58,780
All right, we are going to move on to the next item in our agenda and it's a presentation on how electricity came to Kent.

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01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:05,480
And I see the Greater Historical Society president Tim Clark and joining him is Gabrielle Johnson correct.

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01:11:05,480 --> 01:11:06,680
That's correct.

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01:11:07,340 --> 01:11:13,300
You want to just want to say a special thanks to Councillor President Boyce and the City Council

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01:11:13,300 --> 01:11:17,060
and yourself for the support of the Greater County Historical Society.

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01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:23,920
It has made a tremendous difference in our ability to keep history alive and I see later

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01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:30,240
on the agenda you'll be looking at holding on to the devourant barn, which of course was

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01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:34,560
one of our members Sharon Massos had worked so hard to basically hold on to that piece of

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01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:42,680
industry. I'm very pleased to introduce Ella Johnson. She represents, I think, a good pattern

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01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:49,500
for young people who need to consider the value of volunteering because that is how Ella

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01:11:49,500 --> 01:11:57,120
came into the kit museum. And then we went through a staff shortfall and had to go through

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01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:01,800
a hiring process and it was already quite evident that Ella had already mastered a number

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:09,560
of the process in terms of entering collections and taking care of materials and and working

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01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:15,240
on things. Ella is a junior at Kent Meridian High School.

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01:12:15,500 --> 01:12:24,380
No, no, I mean advanced education IB program and I asked her to work on this presentation

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01:12:24,380 --> 01:12:29,260
to keep local history from our students here in the community and live before us.

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01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:34,620
Hi, so I'm here today to talk to you about how electricity came to Kent.

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01:12:34,860 --> 01:12:46,100
I'm going to talk about three sections of Kent history before electricity in 1890 when electricity was first turned on to the city and then after electricity and how life changed.

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01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:56,040
So before electricity was in Kent, all housework had to be done by hand. This meant that a lot of families had house staff to help them with daily tasks.

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01:12:56,040 --> 01:13:02,560
In addition to this, care scene lamps and candles were provided all the lighting for homes and businesses.

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01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,760
This was expensive and somewhat unsafe.

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01:13:06,420 --> 01:13:12,800
And so this meant that at night time the business section of the city would be very dark.

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01:13:12,980 --> 01:13:16,060
And it became dangerous to be out at night.

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01:13:16,180 --> 01:13:23,380
And businesses would close earlier, especially in these winter months when we could start out at four, which caught into their revenue.

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01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:30,320
At this time, Kent was famous for producing hops, which would go into beer production.

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01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:36,380
But unfortunately, before the turn of the century, there was a hops infestation.

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01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,520
And this killed the whole hops crop.

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01:13:39,180 --> 01:13:47,820
And so, around this time, we see this area of looking for new products to sell out of the Kent Valley.

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01:13:48,020 --> 01:13:51,720
And two of these big products were lettuce and dairy.

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01:13:54,310 --> 01:13:59,830
In 1875, it would take you two to three days to go to and from Seattle.

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01:14:00,450 --> 01:14:05,910
So going outside of the Kent Valley, it was really a big deal and the roads were notoriously

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01:14:05,910 --> 01:14:06,570
terrible.

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01:14:07,350 --> 01:14:11,250
So rivers became the highway transportation system.

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01:14:12,130 --> 01:14:16,870
Steam engines would run between different landings on the green, white, and black rivers.

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01:14:17,650 --> 01:14:23,670
One of these landings was Albert's Landing, which you can see a photo of here, and these

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01:14:23,670 --> 01:14:26,190
steam engines were really common.

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01:14:26,370 --> 01:14:31,550
The biggest one was the Lily, which was run by Captain JJ Crow, and that picture on

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01:14:31,550 --> 01:14:34,310
the right is a model of the Lily.

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01:14:36,010 --> 01:14:41,010
Around this same time in 1889, the Kent Recorder, which would later become the Kent News

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01:14:41,010 --> 01:14:43,150
Journal, publishes for the first time.

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01:14:43,150 --> 01:14:46,890
This is a picture of their offices on opening day.

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01:14:47,930 --> 01:14:51,190
And this newspaper really helped establish information,

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01:14:51,850 --> 01:14:52,590
transportation, and rent.

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01:14:52,930 --> 01:14:54,570
Rather than just word of mouth and gossip,

904
01:14:55,270 --> 01:14:57,150
it became a written down and recorded system

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01:14:57,730 --> 01:14:59,870
of sharing information throughout the valley.

906
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:11,700
So, on a national level, Alexander Graham Bell had filed his patent for the telephone in 1876, and that's almost 30 years before Kent would get its first telephone.

907
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:18,780
It took quite a long time for telephones to reach the west coast, whereas electricity, we were pretty much on the same page.

908
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:29,360
Electricity became common in homes across the country in the 1890s. In Washington, DC, DC had a 24-line switchboard in 1878,

909
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:33,360
And this was, again, almost 30 years before Kent would have been one telephone.

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01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:39,600
The number one line on that switchboard went to the White House, which received its power in 1891.

911
01:15:40,440 --> 01:15:42,820
So, really close to the time that Kent was getting power.

912
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:48,240
The first distributors of power in Kent was the Kent Water and Light Company,

913
01:15:48,700 --> 01:15:53,140
which was started by the Giverson Brothers, William Jason, and Captain JJ Crow.

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01:15:53,140 --> 01:16:01,160
They signed a 25 year agreement with the city in 1891 to provide the water and light for the growing city.

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01:16:01,660 --> 01:16:03,240
At the time, they signed this agreement.

916
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:10,340
The company was valued for $3,000, which would today be $8,300 and some change.

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01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:15,580
They built this powerhouse, which was located around 6th and Nicar.

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01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,160
And it was on where the future inter-urban train would come through.

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01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:30,290
So you can see in this photo, where the power station sits on the train yard for the inter-urban.

920
01:16:30,550 --> 01:16:36,410
The inter-urban was a train between Seattle and Tacoma that the middle point of which was kept.

921
01:16:36,630 --> 01:16:41,650
And this was really important because it meant that trains were staying in Kent overnight.

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01:16:42,270 --> 01:16:44,990
And then when they needed repairs, they would come to the Kent Depot,

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01:16:45,510 --> 01:16:48,850
which is this building right here behind the power station.

924
01:16:48,850 --> 01:16:54,750
So, because power was in Kent, it really helped the inter-urban to establish roots here and to grow.

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01:16:55,350 --> 01:17:01,610
These photos also show the power station, boxed and red, and you can see in the background the train depot.

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01:17:02,850 --> 01:17:07,370
And you can see on the ground there, all of the train lines for the inter-urban.

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01:17:10,510 --> 01:17:15,610
Unfortunately, Kent water and light could not keep up with the demand of the growing city of Kent.

928
01:17:15,610 --> 01:17:19,450
So, 12 years after they signed their contract in 1902,

929
01:17:19,890 --> 01:17:23,610
Kent handed change providers, and they switched to the Inter Irving Railroad Company,

930
01:17:23,810 --> 01:17:26,270
which was the company that built the Inter Irving train,

931
01:17:26,830 --> 01:17:31,050
and would later become immediate sound energy, which is what we still use today in Kent.

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01:17:32,110 --> 01:17:37,790
These pictures are of receipts from immediate sound energy to the city of Kent in 1907.

933
01:17:40,220 --> 01:17:43,040
So, the first telephone came to Kent in 1902.

934
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:46,960
Again, almost three years after it was first established.

935
01:17:48,220 --> 01:17:52,100
Gasey Rogers was the young woman who ran the telephone lines in Kent.

936
01:17:52,340 --> 01:17:55,180
The first telephone line, and she would continue to run the telephone lines

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01:17:55,180 --> 01:17:59,340
for the next 55 years until her death in 1957.

938
01:18:00,180 --> 01:18:02,360
Here you can see a photo of a younger Gasey Rogers,

939
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,580
along with a photo of her standing in front of her switchboard

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01:18:05,580 --> 01:18:07,340
in the Kent Telephone Office.

941
01:18:10,470 --> 01:18:13,890
So after electricity, we get a lot more electrical products

942
01:18:13,890 --> 01:18:18,550
to help with health work, and they began to replace hired staff.

943
01:18:19,130 --> 01:18:22,330
Only very wealthy families would keep staff in their homes.

944
01:18:23,650 --> 01:18:27,050
And around this time, we also get our first hospital in Kent.

945
01:18:27,190 --> 01:18:28,430
And this hospital had electricity.

946
01:18:29,030 --> 01:18:32,770
It was 20 beds, and it was built in 1900 by Dr. Taylor.

947
01:18:33,410 --> 01:18:36,690
The most famous thing that happened in this hospital was in 1903.

948
01:18:36,690 --> 01:18:43,490
The first successful, the Serian operation, west of the Mississippi, happened in that hospital with the use of electricity.

949
01:18:44,830 --> 01:18:52,890
So you can see there is a photo of a 1910 ice box above a photo of Dr. Taylor, and then next to him is a photo of his hospital.

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01:18:55,050 --> 01:19:02,010
The first car is also coming to Kent around this time, removing away from steamboats on rivers and towards automobiles.

951
01:19:02,010 --> 01:19:05,690
It was a one cylinder brush and it was owned by Jim Finley.

952
01:19:07,030 --> 01:19:09,430
There were many other cars coming to Kent in this time.

953
01:19:09,730 --> 01:19:12,710
One of which was owned by Dr. Taylor, who I mentioned earlier.

954
01:19:13,490 --> 01:19:17,890
His car was a Mitchell and he crashed into the Sue's Creek River

955
01:19:17,890 --> 01:19:20,270
a few years after buying it.

956
01:19:20,430 --> 01:19:23,510
It was fished out of the river and put up in a storefront

957
01:19:23,510 --> 01:19:26,030
as an advertisement showing the SS Mitchell

958
01:19:26,630 --> 01:19:28,690
after it had been sunk by the Sue's Creek River.

959
01:19:30,470 --> 01:19:35,810
Like I mentioned earlier, the inter-urban railroad also came through Kent, and this was a really,

960
01:19:35,810 --> 01:19:41,790
really big deal. As the middle point, we had a lot of people, products, and ideas coming

961
01:19:41,790 --> 01:19:47,030
through our city, and it really helped the city grow, and it really helped the farmers in the area,

962
01:19:47,350 --> 01:19:53,810
who no longer had to put their crops on barges and float them down the river, which is a slow process,

963
01:19:53,970 --> 01:19:57,690
and they would also sometimes lose crops. Instead, they could just load them on trains, which would

964
01:19:57,690 --> 01:19:59,510
them to Seattle or Tacoma.

965
01:20:01,690 --> 01:20:05,190
The first radio opens in Seattle around this time and the spread

966
01:20:05,190 --> 01:20:11,470
of radio would begin around this time with small radios throughout the area. This radio station

967
01:20:11,470 --> 01:20:17,670
was KDR which still exists in Seattle under a different name. We also have the odd fellow's

968
01:20:17,670 --> 01:20:23,630
lodge opening on West Meeker in 1907 and this was a social gathering place for the people of Kent

969
01:20:23,630 --> 01:20:28,750
where they could come and let loose as much as they did, yeah.

970
01:20:29,770 --> 01:20:33,550
So in 1899, a really big company comes

971
01:20:33,550 --> 01:20:35,910
starts in Kent, and it's Carnation Milk.

972
01:20:36,710 --> 01:20:39,770
In this period of experimentation, we moved to Dary a lot.

973
01:20:40,610 --> 01:20:42,730
And they opened their first factory in 1899,

974
01:20:42,930 --> 01:20:45,510
and that top photo is of opening day.

975
01:20:46,890 --> 01:20:49,330
And then after they got electricity to their buildings,

976
01:20:49,750 --> 01:20:52,830
in 1901, they got their first electric quilt candy machine,

977
01:20:52,830 --> 01:20:58,070
which helped their business expand, and slowly the business would expand until it could

978
01:20:58,070 --> 01:21:02,490
the Kent Valley could no longer support the amount of dairy needed for the company.

979
01:21:02,970 --> 01:21:07,190
And it would move north to a small town which would be renamed to Carnation, Washington.

980
01:21:08,450 --> 01:21:14,370
The bottom photo there is around 1915 and it's the front of the same building in the first photo.

981
01:21:14,970 --> 01:21:22,090
But now you can see all the telephone lines in the area that are going to inform the building and helping provide electricity for this factory.

982
01:21:23,210 --> 01:21:27,890
So next, we're going to look at three photos of Kent over a 20-year span.

983
01:21:28,330 --> 01:21:34,090
This first photo is from 1910 years after power was turned on to the city, but not before

984
01:21:34,090 --> 01:21:39,310
power became common in homes, so you don't see a lot of telephone lines really any.

985
01:21:39,610 --> 01:21:45,670
In this photo, the houses are on big lots, pretty separated, and you don't see, they're mostly

986
01:21:45,670 --> 01:21:48,650
residential, there's not a lot of industrialized buildings.

987
01:21:49,370 --> 01:21:55,130
7 years later this is Kent and you can see now telephone lines and poles in the front of

988
01:21:55,130 --> 01:21:59,350
this photo and you notice the houses are starting to move a little closer together and

989
01:21:59,350 --> 01:22:04,690
there are more buildings that aren't residential and then finally 13 years after that in

990
01:22:04,690 --> 01:22:10,470
1920 this is what Kent look like and now you can see many telephone lines and poles throughout

991
01:22:10,470 --> 01:22:16,810
the city. The city has become much more condensed with everything in a downtown core and most

992
01:22:16,810 --> 01:22:21,610
The buildings have signs of industrialization on them showing how the city moved from a very

993
01:22:21,610 --> 01:22:25,230
agricultural-based society to an industrial-based society.

994
01:22:27,050 --> 01:22:30,350
I want to leave you with the favorite photo I came across in my research.

995
01:22:30,530 --> 01:22:35,230
This is a photo of 1930 of contented cows in Kent listening to the radio.

996
01:22:36,030 --> 01:22:43,450
It was taken by P.J. Sant Energy as a promotional postcard to show how electricity can improve

997
01:22:43,450 --> 01:22:44,430
your life.

998
01:22:45,830 --> 01:22:47,550
in the lives of your cows.

999
01:22:48,910 --> 01:22:54,430
Thank you for having me today, and I want to give a special thanks to the White River Historical Society for the use of some photographs.

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01:22:56,130 --> 01:22:56,150
Right.

1001
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:04,980
That was fabulous.

1002
01:23:05,300 --> 01:23:07,140
I learned all kinds of things that I didn't know.

1003
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:11,440
Thank you so much for taking the time to put that presentation together and come into Council tonight.

1004
01:23:12,340 --> 01:23:16,480
I think probably everyone gets to walk away with a new fact, right?

1005
01:23:16,480 --> 01:23:17,760
And some fabulous pictures.

1006
01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:25,680
Okay, we are going to move on to item number five in our agenda, which is report from standing committees, council and staff.

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01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:44,300
All of your council members are out in the community and the region on a regular basis, making sure that Kent's voice is being heard at all those regional conversations that are occurring, so that resources and things that we need and our opinions are being taken into consideration when decisions are made.

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01:23:44,300 --> 01:23:49,840
So, you will hear from tonight, I believe, all of our council members, looking at council member

1009
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:51,900
Larmor, because she's going to have a report this evening.

1010
01:23:52,540 --> 01:23:55,740
I will start very, very quickly, and then we'll turn it over to our CAO.

1011
01:23:56,340 --> 01:24:00,620
I've been attending a lot of transportation meetings the last couple of weeks, the biggest topic

1012
01:24:00,620 --> 01:24:05,160
on every single agenda is Viadume, the closure of the Viaduct.

1013
01:24:05,740 --> 01:24:10,000
So, talking about that three week period when we know that the Viaduct is closed and the

1014
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:13,780
tax that it will have all the way down to Kent.

1015
01:24:13,980 --> 01:24:19,180
We're seeing traffic backups just as we're predicted.

1016
01:24:19,980 --> 01:24:22,360
And I'm going to continue to encourage everyone,

1017
01:24:22,820 --> 01:24:25,580
if you have to go into Seattle public transportation,

1018
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:27,920
it appears to be the way to go.

1019
01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:30,180
So spend a lot of time talking about that.

1020
01:24:30,700 --> 01:24:32,740
The two things I want to, or I guess the one thing

1021
01:24:32,740 --> 01:24:34,100
that I really want to talk about tonight,

1022
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,900
over the last two days, I have made trips to Olympia

1023
01:24:37,900 --> 01:24:43,060
to testify in front of the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate to Ways and Means Committee,

1024
01:24:43,440 --> 01:24:47,280
lobbying for the continuation of streamlined sales tax.

1025
01:24:48,020 --> 01:24:52,400
If something that you hear us talk about a lot, the way that sales tax is sourced, it used

1026
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:58,420
to come to Kent if things left are warehouses in our valley and now it's going to wherever

1027
01:24:58,940 --> 01:25:00,260
the product is being delivered.

1028
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:06,360
So we stand to lose about $4.5 million a year in mitigation and you have my commitment to

1029
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:10,920
if I have to drive to Olympia every day during this session, I will keep going and letting them know

1030
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:16,780
how important it is that money continues to come to Kent to support the warehousing and the

1031
01:25:16,780 --> 01:25:22,020
jobs that we have going on in the Kent Valley. So yesterday I testified alongside the mayor

1032
01:25:22,020 --> 01:25:26,920
of Sumner and the mayor of Tekwila and today it was the mayor of Sumner and the mayor of Auburn.

1033
01:25:27,260 --> 01:25:33,260
So we are working collectively to make sure that the resources that our city needs to support

1034
01:25:33,260 --> 01:25:37,820
that economic engine continue to come in our direction. So with that, I'm going to turn it over

1035
01:25:37,820 --> 01:25:38,680
to Derek Nathison.

1036
01:25:39,980 --> 01:25:45,640
All right. Thank you, Madam Mayor. As I reported last time, we're gearing up for our 2019

1037
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:52,220
City Council Strategic Planning Retreat, which will be on February 1st and 2nd. So Friday

1038
01:25:52,220 --> 01:25:58,700
afternoon, all day Saturday. Our facilitator is now finished interviewing the mayor and all

1039
01:25:58,700 --> 01:26:06,380
Council members. The good news is a lot of topics came up in those interviews. The bad news is

1040
01:26:06,380 --> 01:26:14,260
we have to fit them into an agenda. So we should be able to issue a draft final agenda by the end of

1041
01:26:14,260 --> 01:26:19,940
the week and you'll see it features the topics that most Council members wanted to talk about.

1042
01:26:20,220 --> 01:26:26,640
But we've also reserved a session toward the end called other issues on the horizon where that's

1043
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:32,020
opportunity for any council member to bring up any issue on their mind and for the council to give

1044
01:26:32,020 --> 01:26:40,760
direction on next steps there. Also I want to mention we've closed out 2018 and a fun fact,

1045
01:26:41,060 --> 01:26:48,180
the City Clerk's office process 3,400 public records requests. Some of those are simple,

1046
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:55,120
some of them are complicated, most of them require some kind of review. And so that's

1047
01:26:55,840 --> 01:27:00,860
quite a body of work and want to thank the City Clerk's Office as well as the department record

1048
01:27:00,860 --> 01:27:08,400
coordinators who work on that day and end day out. My written report is in your packet. We do have

1049
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:15,440
an executive session this evening. The topics are litigation and property negotiations expected

1050
01:27:15,440 --> 01:27:25,100
time is 25 minutes and there will be no action when we reconvene an open session. Thank you. Thank you,

1051
01:27:25,100 --> 01:27:33,540
Before I get started, I just wanted to say that the mayor mentioned about all those working on different committees and trying to represent the city of Kent.

1052
01:27:33,820 --> 01:27:39,000
I don't think there's going to be a bigger advocacy for Kent than I may have.

1053
01:27:39,220 --> 01:27:44,300
You see our orange truck, brownie, can't say, don't mess with Kent. That's the mayor truck.

1054
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:51,600
And she mean that. So big advocate, I want to thank you for all of you who was making sure that you know, up in Olympia and then being an advocate for us.

1055
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:56,400
really linked a lot, so I want to just say thank you. For myself, I sit on the

1056
01:27:56,400 --> 01:28:01,680
Salon City Association Pick Committee. We had a meeting last week, very short.

1057
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:04,200
I mean, the only thing that was on the agenda item that we probably

1058
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:07,800
did talk about at some time is around the keen county parts,

1059
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:13,100
Levy, I didn't speak to our parts director, Julie, how are we going to perceive it

1060
01:28:13,100 --> 01:28:18,080
at my only issue with that is that we're not getting enough money, right? What is this

1061
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:23,800
So Julie is going to be looking at us and give us some insight on how we move forward to that.

1062
01:28:24,440 --> 01:28:26,340
So I look forward to that.

1063
01:28:27,100 --> 01:28:30,960
For workshop today, we had two agenda item on our workshop today.

1064
01:28:31,440 --> 01:28:36,120
One was around the drainage sustainability, timelaport team.

1065
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:37,820
For now, I'm going to job.

1066
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:40,840
This is a lot of stuff that going on in the city can't that is behind.

1067
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:46,900
Seeing that we don't always think about, but I did a good job on talking about,

1068
01:28:46,900 --> 01:28:52,960
The Green River, Levy, was one of the neat talk about, which many, many years ago, I think it's all one of the pictures.

1069
01:28:53,220 --> 01:29:02,620
It was flooded. Can't use a flood a lot, right? So, we are coming a long ways, and over the years, we still have ways to go.

1070
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:12,180
And also, I mean, can't is an economic driver for the state of Washington, which is one-eight of the Washington GDP.

1071
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:15,940
So we play a major role in that. So when we talk about

1072
01:29:16,820 --> 01:29:23,060
2019 drainage sustainability, right? It's all about protecting our trail, our water, our parts, levees

1073
01:29:23,060 --> 01:29:27,780
We talk about the drainage to basin to ditch shoulders, stolen pipes

1074
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:35,420
You know we have people sometimes just dump the garbage and and stuff in our ditches and so on and his team

1075
01:29:35,420 --> 01:29:42,140
Go out and make sure that stuff is clean to prevent flooding so on and we even got beavers in cat, right?

1076
01:29:42,180 --> 01:29:47,380
go down and chop down the trees and also cause problems. So his team is doing a phenomenal

1077
01:29:47,380 --> 01:29:53,820
job and we really appreciate the presentation and focus on the 2019 drainage sustainability.

1078
01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:59,740
We also had another presentation from K-P-K.

1079
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,920
We'll see, share a little bit of interest, which is a keen kind of city climate collaboration.

1080
01:30:07,100 --> 01:30:14,780
And we have a target on what they want to do for Israeli growth management. So, large-term plan around a climate.

1081
01:30:14,980 --> 01:30:22,040
They want to have 80% below the 27 emission by 2015, and they have some targets along the way.

1082
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:27,900
So by 2020, they want to do so by a 25% and then by 2030,

1083
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:32,680
want to reduce it by 50%, I think we all agree that, you know,

1084
01:30:32,740 --> 01:30:36,080
climate control is important and we all played a role in that.

1085
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,520
So we had a good presentation tonight, and I'm sure some

1086
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,660
goes on to be hearing a lot more about it.

1087
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:45,660
I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to my council member.

1088
01:30:45,900 --> 01:30:47,280
I'm very, very excited here.

1089
01:30:47,500 --> 01:30:51,100
Council member, warmer presentation here because she built

1090
01:30:51,100 --> 01:30:55,040
Council for four years and she's been begging to be on the committee for four years.

1091
01:30:55,040 --> 01:31:01,560
Well, for months, I think like four years, okay. I was thinking for months. So I will start

1092
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:05,840
with Council Member Lama and it will just come down and you guys can talk about your committees.

1093
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:12,600
Thank you. Thank you, Council President. Yes, I now serve on the King County Advisory Council

1094
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:18,880
for Aging and Disability Services. We kicked off the year with the strategy and legislative retreat

1095
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:24,840
on January 11th. It was an all-day working session where we spent the time discussing what

1096
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:30,580
our legislative priorities and opportunities were for the year. There was five main legislative

1097
01:31:30,580 --> 01:31:37,060
priorities. I won't go into all of them, but just on a high level, we're seeking support for

1098
01:31:37,060 --> 01:31:46,100
long-term care trust act. Some new technologies to help those heart of hearing, staffing support

1099
01:31:46,100 --> 01:31:51,780
for those that are working and providing support for developmentally disabled adults.

1100
01:31:51,980 --> 01:31:54,520
There's a staffing crisis going on in that sector.

1101
01:31:56,280 --> 01:32:00,280
We're also looking to increase the annual income threshold for the senior

1102
01:32:00,280 --> 01:32:05,240
and veterans property tax exemption program and to overall increase the supply

1103
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:08,520
of affordable housing units for seniors veterans and disabled adults.

1104
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:13,800
Information on all these priorities can be found at agingkingcounty.gov.

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01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:35,720
And we also want to encourage residents to call the Washington State Legislative hotline at 1-800-5626000, which is a direct line where you can talk to a representative who will pass on your message to the legislators and we ask residents to consider calling and asking for support for aging and disability services.

1106
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:37,600
Thank you.

1107
01:32:39,540 --> 01:32:40,780
Thank you, Council President.

1108
01:32:40,780 --> 01:32:50,220
I serve on Peugeot Sun Cleanier Advisory Council and our meeting was on January 9th.

1109
01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:56,800
We talked about, again, had a presentation from the staff on greenhouse gas emission reductions,

1110
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:05,100
We had update on well, basically looking at comparing how California and Oregon are doing and

1111
01:33:05,100 --> 01:33:07,040
what we can do in Washington.

1112
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:11,660
And we also had update on our legislative session that just started.

1113
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:19,340
So the Pugest Sound Clean Air Agency will be working in the, of course, on bills,

1114
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:24,160
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, possibility of a transportation package,

1115
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:31,060
and updating, working, supporting the states updated, would heat emissions standards,

1116
01:33:31,500 --> 01:33:34,500
as well as increased funding for wood stove replacement.

1117
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:44,900
And on February 7, I was also appointed to domestic violence regional task force and we will be meeting on February 7.

1118
01:33:45,500 --> 01:33:46,840
Thank you.

1119
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:53,120
Council President Boise, I serve on the regional transit committee which has not yet met this year.

1120
01:33:53,420 --> 01:33:58,280
We'll meet tomorrow for the first time in downtown Seattle and I will be at that meeting.

1121
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:07,700
As far as our city public works committee meeting goes we did meet last Monday and one thing

1122
01:34:07,700 --> 01:34:12,480
I'd like to point out I'll leave you to read the minutes for most of it but we did pass

1123
01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:18,080
a residential parking or we did recommend to the full council of residential parking zone

1124
01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:23,740
for the Mill Creek neighborhood so it's going to be coming soon as I don't think it's on

1125
01:34:23,740 --> 01:34:27,640
today. Becoming at our next meeting. Thanks.

1126
01:34:28,820 --> 01:34:34,800
Thank you, Council President. I chair public safety and I only have one thing to add from

1127
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:41,920
the report chief, Padilla Gave. We had a presentation by Stacey Judd who is our Kent

1128
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:46,480
Police Community Education Coordinator. She brought two of our youth board members to talk

1129
01:34:46,480 --> 01:34:52,120
about the game of life conference that was held December 10th and 11th here in Kent. And it

1130
01:34:52,120 --> 01:34:58,820
brings together leaders from Kent, middle schools, and high schools, and there's a great

1131
01:34:58,820 --> 01:35:02,820
video that's out. They're working on the video for this conference, but there's a video

1132
01:35:02,820 --> 01:35:08,920
out from last year's conference. And you can find that online. It's on the Kent website under

1133
01:35:09,700 --> 01:35:15,100
Kent Police. It's a great video that talks about the game of life. And if you want more information

1134
01:35:15,100 --> 01:35:20,080
on joining the Kent Police Youth Board, we are always looking for members and our new member

1135
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:24,320
meeting will be in February. So if you're interested, please check that out. And I

1136
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:28,860
also sit on the regional LA Safety and Justice Committee, and we meet next month. Thank you.

1137
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:35,840
I chair the Parks and Human Services Committee. Oh, you know what? I skipped my

1138
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:41,700
illustrious council member here. You go for me. I jump first. Thank you. So with Parks and

1139
01:35:41,700 --> 01:35:48,200
Human Services, on the Human Services side, great news is that grantees are being

1140
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:53,940
notified the ones who have applied for human service grant that was available so they are

1141
01:35:53,940 --> 01:35:58,940
being notified now and the good thing is that that's a two-year grant so they'll get

1142
01:35:58,940 --> 01:36:05,200
that dollar round over the two years and there will be a list of those available. Riverbind

1143
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:12,380
restaurant will pending approval by this body will hopefully have a restaurant tour soon so

1144
01:36:12,380 --> 01:36:21,620
that's going to be good. For the Arts Commission, the RAP artists, the traffic signal boxes,

1145
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:26,560
the traffic controller boxes, the ones you've seen with the RAPs, there's will be more

1146
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:30,760
of those RAPs appearing this year and things are coming along well with those Artists

1147
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:36,060
submissions getting their final submissions in. And as far as the Arts Commission

1148
01:36:36,060 --> 01:36:41,400
cut spotlight series, here at about Peter Yaro, which is already sold out, the Seattle

1149
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:45,520
Rock Orchestra on Saturday the 19th.

1150
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:47,400
Our rather, I'm sorry, February 2nd.

1151
01:36:47,620 --> 01:36:50,580
But on February 15th, when that sounds like a lot of fun

1152
01:36:50,580 --> 01:36:54,080
to me, is the letters read aloud.

1153
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:55,260
Love me or leave me.

1154
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:58,760
There's a wide variety of people you have slash of,

1155
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:01,240
Mark Twain, you have Virginia Wolf.

1156
01:37:01,380 --> 01:37:05,100
Just a wide variety of people who have their real letters

1157
01:37:05,100 --> 01:37:07,660
read by actors.

1158
01:37:08,180 --> 01:37:09,700
So that's going to be fun.

1159
01:37:09,700 --> 01:37:11,380
They're going to be dramatic reading.

1160
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:12,440
Some will be funny.

1161
01:37:13,060 --> 01:37:15,840
The subtitle there is left me or leave me.

1162
01:37:16,380 --> 01:37:18,200
So I am looking forward to that.

1163
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:21,080
Even George Carlin has letters in there.

1164
01:37:22,540 --> 01:37:26,120
And the mid committee, the mental illness and drug advisory,

1165
01:37:27,440 --> 01:37:31,340
council wisely has canceled their meeting for this month,

1166
01:37:31,900 --> 01:37:34,160
due to the traffic issue in Seattle.

1167
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:35,860
Since we meet in Seattle,

1168
01:37:35,860 --> 01:37:42,400
can conservation district we met last Saturday and what it was was a meeting with a number

1169
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:51,240
of the SCA sound cities, sound cities, association cities where it was a touch point so

1170
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:57,040
that KCD could actually hear directly from the cities, what is of interest with them.

1171
01:37:57,100 --> 01:38:03,180
All of you guys are invited. The next session will be February 9th. So that's another Saturday.

1172
01:38:03,180 --> 01:38:10,420
it goes all day till about three o'clock and they are taking city input to make sure that

1173
01:38:10,420 --> 01:38:15,680
cities are able to voice what is most important to them, whether your city has drainage

1174
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:23,080
problems, whether your city has food deserts and you're trying to find out ways to enhance

1175
01:38:23,080 --> 01:38:29,100
your farmer's markets, get more food and get more farmland, whether it's your urban tree

1176
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:36,500
that you have issues there, don't know what your tree can't be actually in consists of.

1177
01:38:37,080 --> 01:38:42,580
So, lots of good information exchanged and that is all for today.

1178
01:38:45,230 --> 01:38:46,350
Thank you, Councillor President.

1179
01:38:47,210 --> 01:38:51,450
I'd share Operation's committee and those that report is in the minutes.

1180
01:38:52,230 --> 01:38:57,050
I also serve on the regional, Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority along with

1181
01:38:57,050 --> 01:39:10,230
Tony Troutner and our Council President Bill Boyce, and that meeting will be actually tomorrow at three o'clock, a very special time at station 78 out of Kobe did and that concludes my report your honor.

1182
01:39:10,770 --> 01:39:11,810
Madam Edittons, our reports.

1183
01:39:12,770 --> 01:39:16,670
She can see your council is busy at work for you every single day.

1184
01:39:17,710 --> 01:39:23,550
All right, we will move on in the agenda to item number six public hearing. Good news is we don't have one.

1185
01:39:24,170 --> 01:39:31,470
The next item on the agenda is public comment so this is the opportunity the public has to come up and address the council with issues concerns

1186
01:39:32,090 --> 01:39:39,410
Things that they're that we're that are going well and things you'd like to see address in the community please note that we've got a three minute time limit for speakers

1187
01:39:39,410 --> 01:39:46,270
And if when you are called up you can state your name and city of residents for the record that would be wonderful.

1188
01:39:46,770 --> 01:39:49,290
Kim can you give us the names of our speakers please.

1189
01:39:49,290 --> 01:40:02,890
I have two people signed up to speak. Tim Brown is going to speak on bags, and then I think I have a number of representatives from living well, Kent, youth policy council that are going to speak on the night of healing.

1190
01:40:03,430 --> 01:40:05,070
All right. Mr. Brown.

1191
01:40:08,590 --> 01:40:14,170
I'm Tim Brown. I live here in the city of Kent. I recently heard, well, first I wanted to

1192
01:40:14,170 --> 01:40:21,470
just thank the mayor for going to the state and representing others the city and speaking

1193
01:40:21,470 --> 01:40:27,070
with the other two gentlemen there bringing the message to the city to the state about the

1194
01:40:27,070 --> 01:40:38,230
problem of the tax mitigation and how we have the foundation and provide services and such to make

1195
01:40:38,230 --> 01:40:42,270
the economy go but not the tax baits to port the services.

1196
01:40:43,090 --> 01:40:49,270
The issue I came here tonight to talk about is the proposed plastic bag ban that someone

1197
01:40:49,270 --> 01:40:49,850
to bring.

1198
01:40:50,370 --> 01:40:58,730
I really think that the city council has better things to do with its time than to be worrying

1199
01:40:58,730 --> 01:41:04,990
about banning plastic bags and imposing a 10 percent charge for paper bags.

1200
01:41:04,990 --> 01:41:11,090
I really would like to see Council if they want to do this, take it to the vote of the people,

1201
01:41:11,370 --> 01:41:18,410
but the people decide if they want to ban plastic bags and pay a fee for paper bags or what

1202
01:41:18,410 --> 01:41:19,410
they want to do.

1203
01:41:19,850 --> 01:41:25,250
You'll get greater support if the people support it than if you shove it on them.

1204
01:41:25,470 --> 01:41:31,390
You need the people's support on that idea, you need businesses ideas and I think a plastic bag

1205
01:41:31,390 --> 01:41:34,190
And it's going to have a negative impact on our businesses.

1206
01:41:34,910 --> 01:41:38,150
Some people aren't going to want to go down to a business here.

1207
01:41:38,350 --> 01:41:41,630
And then suddenly we told, oh, I got to pay an extra 10 cents

1208
01:41:41,630 --> 01:41:44,470
for a bag, because I didn't bring one with me.

1209
01:41:44,890 --> 01:41:48,150
I really want the council to work another thing

1210
01:41:49,030 --> 01:41:51,590
than pushing a ban on plastic bags.

1211
01:41:52,030 --> 01:41:54,410
We need to say for schools, we need to say for streets,

1212
01:41:55,590 --> 01:41:58,170
through reducing easy access to guns,

1213
01:41:58,710 --> 01:42:00,510
more than worrying about plastic bags.

1214
01:42:00,510 --> 01:42:03,250
I thank you all for my time here.

1215
01:42:03,790 --> 01:42:04,450
Thank you.

1216
01:42:04,710 --> 01:42:05,050
Thank you.

1217
01:42:07,770 --> 01:42:08,110
Okay.

1218
01:42:08,850 --> 01:42:11,630
Living well, Kent Youth Policy Council.

1219
01:42:34,290 --> 01:42:34,610
Thank you.

1220
01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:38,920
I'm on my way.

1221
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:45,880
Thank you.

1222
01:42:49,110 --> 01:42:49,710
All right.

1223
01:42:51,490 --> 01:42:52,450
Good evening.

1224
01:42:52,610 --> 01:42:53,190
City of Kent.

1225
01:42:53,430 --> 01:42:54,350
My name is Raham Haishi.

1226
01:42:54,550 --> 01:42:55,690
I'm with Limwell Kent.

1227
01:42:56,430 --> 01:43:01,290
I want to first thank the mayor and city council members for providing us with

1228
01:43:01,290 --> 01:43:06,830
and also the opportunity to be here to present to you an event that we're holding that

1229
01:43:06,830 --> 01:43:14,030
we're calling Night of Healing. This is to honor Dr. King in his legacy. We were going to

1230
01:43:14,030 --> 01:43:21,110
hold this event on MLK Day 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. here at City Council City Chambers. What we want

1231
01:43:21,110 --> 01:43:25,070
to do is basically we want to invite the community to come together to Hill and talk about

1232
01:43:25,070 --> 01:43:30,750
gun violence and to also raise awareness. With that said, I would like to introduce our City

1233
01:43:30,750 --> 01:43:36,060
council members and for them to elaborate on this event further and to invite all of you.

1234
01:43:38,150 --> 01:43:43,650
Hi, so my name is Deb and we are all a part of the Youth Policy Council of Living

1235
01:43:43,650 --> 01:43:52,230
Wilkent and we are specifically this during committee within the Youth Policy Council that is

1236
01:43:52,230 --> 01:43:55,390
responsible for planning the night of the council.

1237
01:44:03,380 --> 01:44:05,340
I like to introduce myself, my name is Karim.

1238
01:44:05,340 --> 01:44:13,300
I'm the youth leader for Living Will Kent, and I would like to invite every single person in this room to our annual night of healing.

1239
01:44:13,420 --> 01:44:23,720
That's happening in January 21st, Monday on MLK Day 6-8pm. It's going to be a great event. We have a lot of great people coming to this event.

1240
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:31,020
Um, we have first, uh, the mayor, um, uh, Dana Ralph coming. Also, we have, uh, state representative, uh,

1241
01:44:31,180 --> 01:44:39,880
Tina Orwell. Also, um, we have, um, KSD supervisor, um, Dr., uh, uh, Dr. Watts coming. Also,

1242
01:44:40,040 --> 01:44:47,300
we have, um, the chief police, uh, Rafael Padilla, uh, it's a hard name to say. But, um, he's also

1243
01:44:47,300 --> 01:44:54,100
going to be there. First I'd like to talk about our mission for this whole event. Our mission

1244
01:44:54,100 --> 01:44:58,560
for this nice to bring awareness to gun violence around the city of Camp and also to hold

1245
01:44:58,560 --> 01:44:59,980
an event on where the community can be.

1246
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:20,940
Going around nationwide and in camp. As a young youth of camp, we fill those our obligation to hold an event for the city of camp, because on a day-to-day basis, we deal with this problem, living in low, low income communities, we wanted to work towards healing the community and work towards a solution even if it's a small step.

1247
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:35,940
And I'd like to thank everyone, I thank you guys, thank the Council members, thank the mayor for letting us speak and help change our community for the better and help young youth have a voice. Thank you very much.

1248
01:45:35,940 --> 01:45:36,280
Good job.

1249
01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:36,860
Thank you.

1250
01:45:40,580 --> 01:45:43,580
Well, I also have flyers, so if you guys want one.

1251
01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:44,600
Corrie?

1252
01:45:45,100 --> 01:45:45,300
Yeah.

1253
01:45:45,820 --> 01:45:47,040
Corrie, may I have my name's Corrie.

1254
01:45:47,300 --> 01:45:49,780
May I ask the question Mr. President?

1255
01:45:50,860 --> 01:45:51,140
Okay.

1256
01:45:51,940 --> 01:45:52,760
Where do you go to school?

1257
01:45:53,300 --> 01:45:56,020
I just graduated from Kentwood High School.

1258
01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:56,600
Kentwood High School.

1259
01:45:56,600 --> 01:45:58,760
Oh, a culture. Okay. Thank you.

1260
01:45:59,820 --> 01:46:00,220
Thank

1261
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:03,320
you. Yes.

1262
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:06,760
Thank you. I can tell you, they've been working hard on this event.

1263
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:11,680
Excited to see it happen. I got to have a visit with them in my office.

1264
01:46:11,820 --> 01:46:15,920
I don't know what's it been guys about a week ago and learned all about what they've got planned

1265
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:20,520
and excited to see how this turns out. So thank you for your work for our community.

1266
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:24,300
All right. Kim, do we have any other speakers?

1267
01:46:24,300 --> 01:46:26,500
I have no more to yield signed up to speak.

1268
01:46:27,180 --> 01:46:27,640
All right.

1269
01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:30,880
With that, we will move on to the consent calendar.

1270
01:46:31,120 --> 01:46:48,040
So the consent calendar is a collection of items that the Council has been working on at committee for the last several weeks, meaning that these issues were presented and voted on at the committee level, one of our five council committees, and they came out unanimously or without controversies.

1271
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:54,380
So the vote tonight is to affirm the work that was done at that committee level.

1272
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:57,920
Council President, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar?

1273
01:46:58,320 --> 01:46:58,940
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

1274
01:46:58,960 --> 01:47:03,420
I like to make a motion to approve item A through S. Second.

1275
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:05,780
All those in favor?

1276
01:47:06,960 --> 01:47:07,580
The post.

1277
01:47:08,660 --> 01:47:10,720
Motion carries seven zero.

1278
01:47:11,420 --> 01:47:11,780
Good work.

1279
01:47:12,080 --> 01:47:12,600
Thank you.

1280
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:14,380
Okay.

1281
01:47:14,660 --> 01:47:17,140
Next we are on to item number nine other business.

1282
01:47:17,140 --> 01:47:22,460
our first presentation will be from our Park St. Dr. Julie Parris Kindola on some good news about

1283
01:47:22,460 --> 01:47:24,140
the golf course.

1284
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:36,460
Great, thank you. Thank you, Mayor Council members. For those who don't know me in the audience,

1285
01:47:36,620 --> 01:47:41,980
I'm Julie Parris Kindola, the Director of Parks and Recreation for the City. Super excited

1286
01:47:41,980 --> 01:47:46,580
to be here today. I can't even have a little ran up if I could. I am the main presenter

1287
01:47:46,580 --> 01:47:50,940
tonight, but I did want to take a quick minute to introduce who is here in the audience today.

1288
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:55,280
From Half-Line Brewing Company, we have the three owners. So if you guys just want to stand

1289
01:47:55,280 --> 01:48:01,700
up and wave there in the back. We've got Jason Ellison, David Westby, and Adam Sheay, and then

1290
01:48:01,700 --> 01:48:06,420
they've got their family members as well here. Also in attendance, just in case any questions,

1291
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:14,560
we've got Pete Peterson, who you know, who is the golf complex manager. So first, you know,

1292
01:48:14,860 --> 01:48:18,680
for the listening viewing audience, I guess what I really just want to say first is just a

1293
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:24,480
very sincere thank you and appreciation. It's been a journey to get where we are right now in

1294
01:48:24,480 --> 01:48:28,140
and it really, they've shown a lot of incredible patients and support.

1295
01:48:28,720 --> 01:48:33,740
We're presenting to the City Council and February, late February, about the golf course and

1296
01:48:33,740 --> 01:48:40,120
how we did in 2018. Happy to say we exceeded business plan goals and round goals and this year

1297
01:48:40,120 --> 01:48:45,520
we're rolling into our 30th year in a nursery so we've got the new logo look. Lots of exciting things

1298
01:48:45,520 --> 01:48:50,300
happening there and it's all because we started thinking back and took that step to think

1299
01:48:50,300 --> 01:48:54,320
through long-term strategic planning and that really gave us a chance to really study

1300
01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:55,540
what does this course need?

1301
01:48:55,660 --> 01:48:58,080
What do we need is a financial point for the restaurant?

1302
01:48:58,460 --> 01:49:01,040
And so I just really think allowing us to step back

1303
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:03,180
and look at that is giving us the right partner

1304
01:49:03,180 --> 01:49:04,980
that we need out with the golf course.

1305
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:09,920
So the new lease at Half-Line,

1306
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:11,400
it's a little bit of a different approach

1307
01:49:11,400 --> 01:49:13,320
than we've had in prior years.

1308
01:49:13,420 --> 01:49:14,640
And I want to take us back

1309
01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:16,660
because I need you all to understand the journey

1310
01:49:16,660 --> 01:49:18,980
of why we're changing it up a little bit.

1311
01:49:19,340 --> 01:49:21,660
And so I've got a summary slide here

1312
01:49:21,660 --> 01:49:24,100
which probably is the first time several council members

1313
01:49:24,100 --> 01:49:29,760
have seen and it summarizes the history of the restaurant at River Bend. So you'll see in

1314
01:49:29,760 --> 01:49:34,920
the last 18 years we've had three prime restaurants out there, many changed in ownership

1315
01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:42,940
or assignment of of fleeces or sublaces. One of the challenges I think that you can look at is

1316
01:49:42,940 --> 01:49:49,140
whether it's the term or the the option either way every restaurant has ended up defaulting

1317
01:49:49,140 --> 01:49:53,320
in breach and owing the city at least revenue as we're moving forward.

1318
01:49:53,860 --> 01:49:57,780
When you're looking at that collective, you know, loss to the city,

1319
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:03,580
you're at $175,000 after that time frame and that doesn't even include finance charges,

1320
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:08,820
legal fees. And think of this too, every time we transition a restaurant,

1321
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:13,680
we have to go in there in facilities and internal services and kind of clean that up and get that

1322
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:20,100
for tenants. So this is an issue and one of the things we did is really stuck it took a step back and

1323
01:50:20,100 --> 01:50:25,980
said, what are we doing here? How are they not successful? What can we do? Because if we continue to do

1324
01:50:25,980 --> 01:50:30,580
this model, we will get what we've always got. And that is an effective and the way that we're managing

1325
01:50:30,580 --> 01:50:35,520
now. And so we had to do something a little different to figure out, how do we get long-term

1326
01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:42,520
sustainability? Is Kenton the golf course about high profit for the short-term or solid sustainable

1327
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:47,380
experience and quality revenue for the long term. And so after having some good dialogue with the mayor,

1328
01:50:47,820 --> 01:50:51,780
we switched some things up. And so I just wanted to give you that demonstration. This is why

1329
01:50:51,780 --> 01:50:58,260
we have to learn from our past mistakes as we're moving forward. There's a couple of themes.

1330
01:50:58,580 --> 01:51:03,860
Every one of these restaurants has a story and there's many different reasons why or why not they

1331
01:51:03,860 --> 01:51:08,800
might have been successful. But a couple of themes of why things are different now. The first one is we

1332
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:18,660
We have a really clear understanding of our financial strength and what we need out of this particular model or a segment of our business in order to maintain in the business plan.

1333
01:51:19,020 --> 01:51:21,760
We're going to highlight that for you a little bit later in the presentation.

1334
01:51:22,620 --> 01:51:25,720
So I know that I need $X dollar to break even.

1335
01:51:25,960 --> 01:51:28,840
I need this much more that's going to give me some indirect benefit.

1336
01:51:29,220 --> 01:51:33,920
Prior to this we didn't know we budgeted two years and another two years and another two years.

1337
01:51:33,920 --> 01:51:39,700
We're looking at a six-year window and beyond that this new plan is in direct alignment with.

1338
01:51:39,880 --> 01:51:42,520
So we have that knowledge now. We didn't have that in the past.

1339
01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:49,060
The other thing too is looking at just the history on the restaurant side for those who are in the business.

1340
01:51:49,320 --> 01:51:52,080
There's a very small net profit margin.

1341
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:54,200
You know, and that's a challenge.

1342
01:51:54,580 --> 01:51:58,860
And when Kent was taking a percent of gross profits and more to a B&O, they're taking gross.

1343
01:51:58,880 --> 01:52:00,180
They're not taking the net.

1344
01:52:00,180 --> 01:52:07,180
It was proving to be too much for the restaurants to be able to handle even with the proven clientele in an automatic clientele there.

1345
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:11,820
What we've chosen to do also is rethink a little bit about how are we looking at it.

1346
01:52:12,100 --> 01:52:15,220
This is a tenant landlord relationship. It's a for-profit.

1347
01:52:15,420 --> 01:52:18,620
But they're also a collaborative partner and we need to see them as that.

1348
01:52:18,740 --> 01:52:23,020
We're partnering on events, we're discounting, we're working on a logo where, you know,

1349
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:28,660
so there's a lot of other things that just a standalone business, you know, on whatever street has a change on.

1350
01:52:28,660 --> 01:52:31,180
So it's changing that philosophy as well,

1351
01:52:31,280 --> 01:52:33,400
is how do we see a partner ever have been?

1352
01:52:33,500 --> 01:52:36,080
Because both of our successes are linked

1353
01:52:36,080 --> 01:52:38,060
to the course of success as well.

1354
01:52:39,380 --> 01:52:42,300
So what we did here is we removed the growth profit.

1355
01:52:42,340 --> 01:52:44,360
And that's probably the most significant change.

1356
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:48,740
As we were taking 5%, 10%, 8% of growth profit,

1357
01:52:49,020 --> 01:52:49,840
and top of that.

1358
01:52:49,920 --> 01:52:52,000
What we've done now is got rid of that.

1359
01:52:52,020 --> 01:52:54,600
And we're just doing a sit, flat, monthly fee.

1360
01:52:54,640 --> 01:52:57,140
Similar to a mortgage or just a regular apartment rental

1361
01:52:57,140 --> 01:53:04,240
right on the CPI. That's probably the biggest change that you'll see. This does break even for us.

1362
01:53:04,340 --> 01:53:08,900
Offsets my facility fees, it offsets any, you know, charges with utilities and so on.

1363
01:53:12,460 --> 01:53:16,740
The other fundamental flaw I think in the past, you recall when we went out for Scotch and Vine,

1364
01:53:16,860 --> 01:53:21,600
we hired the big restaurant consultant, you know, a person that did the huge study and they went everywhere

1365
01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:26,180
and they did all this stuff. Now, once did they ask the golfer what they wanted?

1366
01:53:26,180 --> 01:53:32,060
major flaw. We went ahead and did that in our strategic business plan as you know when we presented

1367
01:53:32,060 --> 01:53:36,360
so you'll see there obviously food and beverage is extremely important to the experience of golf.

1368
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:42,500
66% said they just want a bar and grill. They don't need fancy fine dining, China plates out there.

1369
01:53:42,500 --> 01:53:47,100
They just want burgers and fries and some drinks to have a conversation about their golf game.

1370
01:53:47,720 --> 01:53:52,760
We swayed a little bit when we went to a different model out there. We're trying to do and this is

1371
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:57,840
1950 golfers gave us this really clear opinion. The other thing that's exciting that we had

1372
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:02,840
to think differently this time is we have the golf customer, but we also have Maker. Maker

1373
01:54:02,840 --> 01:54:07,920
has some really exciting stuff coming. It's going to be a whole different corridor here in the

1374
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:13,300
coming years bringing in a lot of millennial generation, a lot of different activities, so we had to

1375
01:54:13,300 --> 01:54:18,580
kind of look at a restaurant coming in that can serve both and I believe we found that they've got

1376
01:54:18,580 --> 01:54:22,620
this niche. We'll talk about in a few minutes. The other thing I just wanted to remind

1377
01:54:22,620 --> 01:54:28,300
the council on is that we have as part of the business plan reduced the square footage

1378
01:54:28,300 --> 01:54:33,360
of the restaurant space, so it is not the same size. As it was in the past, we have expanded

1379
01:54:33,360 --> 01:54:37,980
on the pro shop to bring more pro shop merchandise sales and that was the business plan strategy.

1380
01:54:38,140 --> 01:54:41,360
And you'll hear more about that in February. So this is just a smaller footprint.

1381
01:54:44,380 --> 01:54:49,320
So we began the search in April 2018 and went out for formal RFP to see who was interested

1382
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:54,540
out there in the community. We did, as you know, had some of the interested hackers burn grill

1383
01:54:54,540 --> 01:55:00,700
out at Madrona Lynx and spent four months negotiating, got all the way down to the final

1384
01:55:00,700 --> 01:55:05,740
wire at no fault of the cities. They pulled out personal and family reasons. So that was a

1385
01:55:05,740 --> 01:55:11,340
devastating for us. We love to Kelly family. They're very high up in promoting the game of golf

1386
01:55:11,340 --> 01:55:16,240
and, well, of course, always be welcome at River Bend. But that didn't work out. It was too late

1387
01:55:16,240 --> 01:55:20,180
at that point because that was after, you know, right when summer ends, so that was a devastating

1388
01:55:20,180 --> 01:55:24,780
loss for us like, oh, so what it did is to give us the opportunity to reach back out to

1389
01:55:24,780 --> 01:55:28,980
people that were interested, the timing might not have been right, so we started working with

1390
01:55:28,980 --> 01:55:35,580
the few and then eventually after discussions of what people's visions were, staff is now

1391
01:55:35,580 --> 01:55:40,420
recommending to the council tonight that we move forward with awarding at the least two half

1392
01:55:40,420 --> 01:55:46,940
growing company who will be creating a new subsidiary. So the new name out there now will be the

1393
01:55:46,940 --> 01:55:51,800
half-line public house at River Bend. So a little bit about half-line, you know, had to check

1394
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:56,700
old Jason asked if he should bring like beer samples, which of course it's, you know, late now,

1395
01:55:56,920 --> 01:56:02,500
you might have been good, I was like, no, but is anybody here familiar with half-line? Oh great,

1396
01:56:02,980 --> 01:56:07,520
good. So they're out fairly new out in some nerve. I have just like flown the second they started.

1397
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:12,920
And they have their full tap room and some nurse and will remain open and so that business

1398
01:56:12,920 --> 01:56:13,500
will be going.

1399
01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:17,280
This is an expansion of their brand and they're kind of branching into now the public house

1400
01:56:17,280 --> 01:56:18,320
side of the house.

1401
01:56:18,500 --> 01:56:22,900
Just want to clarify it is a full service bar so there will be alcohol and everything else

1402
01:56:22,900 --> 01:56:27,840
there but they will also be serving their craft grooves and their beer there as well.

1403
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:33,560
I think it's kind of hard to see but their tap room has a really authentic rustic Pacific

1404
01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:38,940
Northwest field, they're going to bring that same style to Riverbend, which is exciting.

1405
01:56:39,480 --> 01:56:42,500
Lots of experience with food and events in catering.

1406
01:56:42,780 --> 01:56:47,440
There, beer now, can be found on tap from Tuckwillet to Olympia in 200 locations.

1407
01:56:48,240 --> 01:56:49,980
They're obviously in the Sumner Auburn area.

1408
01:56:50,060 --> 01:56:51,020
I know them well.

1409
01:56:51,100 --> 01:56:55,720
They are very involved in the community that they serve in the surrounding area of R.E. raised

1410
01:56:55,720 --> 01:57:00,940
cumulative up to 250,000 for their, you know, different events and fundraisers, so they've

1411
01:57:00,940 --> 01:57:05,040
that really strong brand very excited about it and where they're moving forward.

1412
01:57:06,540 --> 01:57:10,820
So to bring it into the least world of the nitty bit gritty restaurant name half-lane

1413
01:57:10,820 --> 01:57:16,920
public house, security deposit of course is 5,000 that's standard, least term is a 25-year

1414
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:23,340
term we're looking for the long term on this one. The first term is 10 years and then three options

1415
01:57:23,340 --> 01:57:28,820
to extend for five. We do have a redevelopment clause in there that was a challenge. That's

1416
01:57:28,820 --> 01:57:33,460
expectation from the mayor, we had to have it in there, but we're asking for a long-term partner,

1417
01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:39,000
but then saying, hey, we might want to switch out the way that we work through that with half

1418
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:45,600
line, is that we will look at if we choose to do that for whatever reason, do a depreciated buy out

1419
01:57:45,600 --> 01:57:50,740
of their original capital investment when they're coming in there. So it can offset some of that if we do that,

1420
01:57:50,740 --> 01:57:57,060
obviously that's not on the plan, but it's there. Based annual fee like I mentioned, it's around $3,000 per

1421
01:57:57,060 --> 01:58:06,200
month 36,000 per year, it does have a 3% CPI growth factor. Looking at the timing and some

1422
01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:10,460
of the capital improvement, we're going to do a lot of window replacement, etc. We did go for

1423
01:58:10,460 --> 01:58:16,440
a 3 month rent event. The other thing that's important in our stand is in talking with

1424
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:22,980
the mayor and with F-line, a lot of opportunity on Meeker. And when Meeker is successful and

1425
01:58:22,980 --> 01:58:27,880
have line is successful, that's a time to re-evaluate and then we all should share in some

1426
01:58:27,880 --> 01:58:28,580
of that success.

1427
01:58:28,920 --> 01:58:33,460
So at the time of the option for renew, we'll be looking at the market and what is the

1428
01:58:33,460 --> 01:58:35,980
going rates for some of that stuff and begin working.

1429
01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:42,920
We may jump their annual lease higher than 3% but we will not go higher than 6% we won't

1430
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:44,780
go higher than 10% so on.

1431
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:46,200
Utilities.

1432
01:58:46,620 --> 01:58:50,900
Utilities right now, they're responsible for paying 45% of actual and that's just based

1433
01:58:50,900 --> 01:58:52,440
on historic trend out there.

1434
01:58:52,440 --> 01:59:03,500
We do have obviously two years of no utility consumption, so we know what's not there, and then we're going to be tracking this year, and then we'll be adjusting that formally of what that real formal percentage.

1435
01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:08,820
Capital investment right now initially we're still working through final design, probably around 100,000.

1436
01:59:09,020 --> 01:59:14,800
I think if you've seen their tap house, they're just going to keep moving with that as they're moving forward and continue to evolve.

1437
01:59:15,140 --> 01:59:18,920
All taxes, least sold insurance, etc. is on the tenant.

1438
01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:24,020
So, here, kind of linking back to business plan and alignment with vision.

1439
01:59:25,460 --> 01:59:29,280
2018, as I mentioned, we kind of exceeded business plan goals.

1440
01:59:29,420 --> 01:59:30,360
We did not have a restaurant.

1441
01:59:30,500 --> 01:59:34,000
We absorbed that lease fee into regular operations.

1442
01:59:34,160 --> 01:59:35,540
We'll talk about that February.

1443
01:59:36,640 --> 01:59:39,540
2019 lease is going to be pro-rated towards the end of the year.

1444
01:59:39,600 --> 01:59:42,680
We already have a plan to offset that loss in the business plan.

1445
01:59:43,040 --> 01:59:46,640
So, when you look at that solid green line is what the business plan shows.

1446
01:59:46,640 --> 01:59:50,640
If you have took out the business plan, you would see that's what we expect to receive.

1447
01:59:50,920 --> 01:59:52,820
We're just a little bit higher than that.

1448
01:59:53,220 --> 01:59:55,540
What this doesn't show is indirect benefit.

1449
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:07,540
etc. That's all stuff that's not just directly linked to revenue. So this just shows you were in 100% alignment with business plan.

1450
02:00:08,580 --> 02:00:19,040
So next steps, depending approval tonight, we've got to finalize any kind of least detail final stuff for the mayor and half-line to sign. Hopefully we'll lock that down in a couple weeks.

1451
02:00:19,840 --> 02:00:23,780
We've got to finalize our renovation, get through that remodel, we think that'll take about

1452
02:00:23,780 --> 02:00:28,500
three to four months, hoping for a tentative soft opening and may get our feet wet over

1453
02:00:28,500 --> 02:00:32,860
there, and then grand opening and June, again, that's dependent on construction and liquor

1454
02:00:32,860 --> 02:00:34,040
cannabis board right now.

1455
02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:38,120
They say they're running 90 days on permits, we'll see, so they have to get through that.

1456
02:00:38,720 --> 02:00:42,860
And then, as I mentioned, it's our Riverbends 30th year anniversary.

1457
02:00:43,080 --> 02:00:45,800
We have a new restaurant coming in, so a lot of hype to marketing.

1458
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:47,600
We're going to really do a lot of joint promotion.

1459
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:49,040
and they'll be putting out press releases.

1460
02:00:49,100 --> 02:00:52,360
They bring a huge draw for them as well.

1461
02:00:52,620 --> 02:00:54,020
One of the things in the business plan

1462
02:00:54,020 --> 02:00:56,020
is to really focus on the millennial targets.

1463
02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:58,280
Obviously, having half-line in there

1464
02:00:58,280 --> 02:00:59,840
is a direct length for that.

1465
02:01:00,060 --> 02:01:01,980
We were laughing in the back that the presentation

1466
02:01:01,980 --> 02:01:04,840
about bringing hops back to Kent, of where it was.

1467
02:01:04,960 --> 02:01:06,060
I mean, that's a great link.

1468
02:01:06,360 --> 02:01:08,360
So we need to think of that one, which is great.

1469
02:01:09,240 --> 02:01:11,140
So other than that, we're super excited.

1470
02:01:11,300 --> 02:01:13,240
I'm excited, we're jazzed, they're fun.

1471
02:01:13,500 --> 02:01:14,540
Alex made a comment.

1472
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:16,740
He's super excited, so we've been working on that.

1473
02:01:16,740 --> 02:01:19,180
So I'm here, Peter, have plans here.

1474
02:01:19,320 --> 02:01:20,260
If anybody has any questions?

1475
02:01:21,280 --> 02:01:21,540
OK.

1476
02:01:22,220 --> 02:01:23,500
Any questions for Julie?

1477
02:01:26,160 --> 02:01:26,980
Councilmember Higgins.

1478
02:01:27,320 --> 02:01:27,900
Thank you, Your Honor.

1479
02:01:28,060 --> 02:01:29,340
Thanks, Julie, for the presentation.

1480
02:01:29,800 --> 02:01:33,060
I think I don't really have a question so much as a comment.

1481
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:40,140
I've less than I have been here the longest at this point, and I remember after Scotch and

1482
02:01:40,140 --> 02:01:51,420
left at some presentation I made the remark, you know, three times I think it must be us and I'm really pleased to see that

1483
02:01:53,320 --> 02:02:00,420
by that I meant that we had three different restaurants fail in that space and so we must be doing something wrong

1484
02:02:00,420 --> 02:02:08,560
and so Mayor I want to thank you and Julie for rethinking how you're going to run that lease and I'm really excited

1485
02:02:08,560 --> 02:02:13,560
been to your brewery and excited to have you there.

1486
02:02:14,940 --> 02:02:21,980
So Councilmember Higgins, that exact quote that you said has been running through my head all the way through this process.

1487
02:02:23,080 --> 02:02:31,480
So I think you were spot on and I feel like we have accomplished that in the changes that we've made to make sure that we're setting all of us up for success.

1488
02:02:31,480 --> 02:02:37,540
So, to the gentleman from Half-Lion, I do know that there are some of those original

1489
02:02:37,540 --> 02:02:42,520
Kent hops still growing down here in the valley, so if you're interested, we can certainly

1490
02:02:42,520 --> 02:02:44,580
make sure you get some of them.

1491
02:02:44,820 --> 02:02:45,200
There you go.

1492
02:02:47,410 --> 02:02:47,650
Okay.

1493
02:02:48,190 --> 02:02:50,230
Any other questions before we call for a motion?

1494
02:02:51,450 --> 02:02:51,610
All right.

1495
02:02:51,870 --> 02:02:53,030
Seeing none, Council Member Fincher.

1496
02:02:54,190 --> 02:02:59,630
Madam Mariah moved to authorize the mayor to sign all documents necessary to enter into a

1497
02:02:59,630 --> 02:03:07,070
agreement with Half-Lion Brewing Company LLC doing businesses Half-Lion public house for

1498
02:03:07,070 --> 02:03:11,690
the restaurant at River Bend Golf Complex, subject to final terms and conditions

1499
02:03:11,690 --> 02:03:14,810
acceptable to the parks director and the city attorney.

1500
02:03:15,790 --> 02:03:20,390
Second, all right. There's a motion there. Second, any discussion? All right, hearing none,

1501
02:03:20,530 --> 02:03:25,390
all those in favor? Hi. Hi. If you don't mind, can we get a photo up there?

1502
02:03:26,650 --> 02:03:30,430
Let's make an official motion carries 7-0, all right.

1503
02:04:11,010 --> 02:04:12,310
Good job, guys.

1504
02:04:13,150 --> 02:04:13,550
Welcome.

1505
02:04:15,310 --> 02:04:17,690
Thank you so much.

1506
02:04:18,170 --> 02:04:20,330
Thanks for hanging in there with us tonight for this meeting.

1507
02:04:20,330 --> 02:04:22,330
Thank you.

1508
02:04:23,050 --> 02:04:23,690
Welcome, boarder.

1509
02:04:23,970 --> 02:04:24,070
I can't.

1510
02:04:24,530 --> 02:04:25,210
I can't.

1511
02:04:26,750 --> 02:04:27,490
Welcome, boarder.

1512
02:04:29,490 --> 02:04:30,650
Thank you.

1513
02:04:31,210 --> 02:04:31,670
Thank you.

1514
02:04:33,770 --> 02:04:34,230
It is.

1515
02:04:34,630 --> 02:04:34,810
Yeah.

1516
02:04:34,990 --> 02:04:35,630
It's good.

1517
02:04:36,390 --> 02:04:37,030
I wasn't sure.

1518
02:04:37,370 --> 02:04:37,910
Five o'clock.

1519
02:04:38,190 --> 02:04:39,830
All right.

1520
02:04:39,990 --> 02:04:41,350
Thank you very much.

1521
02:04:41,970 --> 02:04:42,210
Okay.

1522
02:04:42,270 --> 02:04:43,790
We are moving on in the agenda.

1523
02:04:44,270 --> 02:04:48,410
The next item we have is the Kent Town Homes Resown Ordnance.

1524
02:04:48,410 --> 02:04:54,590
And with this, special process that we will be working through here.

1525
02:04:54,590 --> 02:04:57,170
And I'm going to turn that over to our city attorney, Pat Fitzpatrick.

1526
02:04:57,330 --> 02:04:58,170
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

1527
02:04:58,430 --> 02:05:02,910
It's been a long time since we've had a quasi-judicial hearing before the council.

1528
02:05:03,090 --> 02:05:06,170
So we have to go over some ground rules that apply to this kind of process.

1529
02:05:07,070 --> 02:05:18,390
So before you as a agenda item 9B, where a new or asked to consider the reason of the Kent

1530
02:05:18,390 --> 02:05:25,090
presentation by staff and open record hearing regarding this reason occurred before the

1531
02:05:25,090 --> 02:05:31,030
sitting hearing examiner on December 5, 2018. People owning property within 300 feet of

1532
02:05:31,030 --> 02:05:35,030
the subject property were notified of the hearing and no person appeared to oppose the

1533
02:05:35,030 --> 02:05:41,490
reason of this property. Staff recommended approval and on December 18, 2018 the hearing

1534
02:05:41,490 --> 02:05:46,550
examiner recommended the reason be approved. The property subject to this reason is located

1535
02:05:46,550 --> 02:05:53,770
at 2, 3, 9, 0, 108th Avenue South East and Kent and there's a map of the parcel in your

1536
02:05:53,770 --> 02:06:00,910
agenda packet at page 4, 6, D7. Because this is an issue of changing the zoning on a specific

1537
02:06:00,910 --> 02:06:06,870
parcel, this is a quasi-digital matter. So typically as a city council, you sit in a legislative

1538
02:06:06,870 --> 02:06:13,710
capacity and you make policy decisions for the city. But in a quasi-digital matter, you're

1539
02:06:13,710 --> 02:06:18,130
changing your hat and you're acting like a panel of judges

1540
02:06:18,650 --> 02:06:21,270
to determine the rights of a specific property owner.

1541
02:06:22,730 --> 02:06:24,530
So because of this, the appearance of fairness

1542
02:06:24,530 --> 02:06:26,330
doctrine applies to your actions.

1543
02:06:27,590 --> 02:06:31,370
And that doctrine is set forth in the state code.

1544
02:06:31,510 --> 02:06:34,970
And it is established to ensure that you, the decision maker,

1545
02:06:35,130 --> 02:06:38,110
is impartial, and you are free from outside influences

1546
02:06:38,110 --> 02:06:39,010
on these matters.

1547
02:06:40,330 --> 02:06:42,890
So in order to ensure this, I have to ask you a number

1548
02:06:42,890 --> 02:06:48,190
questions, and if you have an affirmative answer to any of them, just please let me know,

1549
02:06:48,550 --> 02:06:52,030
and then I have a question for the audience as well. So I'm going to go through those questions,

1550
02:06:52,030 --> 02:06:57,710
and if you have an answer in the positive, let me know that. So the first and there's six of them,

1551
02:06:57,890 --> 02:07:02,590
I'm sorry, there's so many. So the first one is, does any member of the Council have knowledge

1552
02:07:02,590 --> 02:07:08,330
of having conducted business with the proponents of this reason and the proponents are John Graves'

1553
02:07:09,730 --> 02:07:15,350
Okay, hearing none, moving to question two, does any member of the Council have either a

1554
02:07:15,350 --> 02:07:18,990
pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in the outcome of this proceeding?

1555
02:07:20,450 --> 02:07:24,360
I may, who is the owner of that property?

1556
02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:27,220
The owner is John Graves' architects.

1557
02:07:27,440 --> 02:07:34,720
Oh, John Graves' architect, no, I'm going to be the owner of the property is Dana Beckley.

1558
02:07:35,200 --> 02:07:39,200
Okay, I'm sorry, John Graves is the person who is proposing the reason.

1559
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:52,960
Okay. We're still safe. All right. Okay. Number three. Does any member of the council know whether or not his or her employer has a financial interest in this matter has an interest in the outcome of this proceedings?

1560
02:07:54,820 --> 02:08:02,720
All right. Number four, does any member of the council live or own property within 300 feet of the property, which is the subject of this proceeding?

1561
02:08:04,360 --> 02:08:09,300
Okay. Other than what was established in the record, the records contained within the council

1562
02:08:09,300 --> 02:08:15,040
packet that you have, does any member of the council have any special knowledge of the substance

1563
02:08:15,040 --> 02:08:20,500
or merits of this proceeding which might cause a council member to pre-judge the outcome that

1564
02:08:20,500 --> 02:08:26,060
you're going to have to decide tonight? All right. And the last question, does any member of

1565
02:08:26,060 --> 02:08:31,560
the council believe that he or she cannot consider this matter fairly and impartially? All right.

1566
02:08:31,560 --> 02:08:32,700
So we pass that test.

1567
02:08:32,840 --> 02:08:36,820
So I have one more question for the audience, and this is just to ensure that there's no member

1568
02:08:36,820 --> 02:08:40,680
of the audience that we have any objection to this, because of one of you sitting before

1569
02:08:40,680 --> 02:08:41,140
here.

1570
02:08:41,340 --> 02:08:44,980
Is there any member of the audience who, because of the appearance of fairness, doctor, and

1571
02:08:44,980 --> 02:08:48,480
which is to disqualify any member of the council from the hearing in this matter?

1572
02:08:48,880 --> 02:08:53,620
And if so, please state your name and the reason that you believe the member should be disqualified.

1573
02:08:55,120 --> 02:08:58,400
And nobody in the audience has spoken.

1574
02:08:58,400 --> 02:09:05,180
So, just to be clear, the record in this matter has been established that you are qualified

1575
02:09:05,180 --> 02:09:07,980
to consider this quasi-judicial matter.

1576
02:09:08,560 --> 02:09:12,420
Staff member, Jake Arnam, senior planner with ECV will make the presentation.

1577
02:09:13,060 --> 02:09:17,740
This is a hearing that has already occurred, so you're being asked to approve the reason

1578
02:09:17,740 --> 02:09:20,700
based on the record that's in the council packet tonight.

1579
02:09:20,880 --> 02:09:26,300
So, there's people testified at the hearing, there was evidence presented and that information

1580
02:09:26,300 --> 02:09:31,140
is contained within the packet and Jay's here to give you a presentation of what happened

1581
02:09:31,140 --> 02:09:34,520
or what occurred at that hearing and you're being asked to approve what the accounts

1582
02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:39,180
or what the hearing is them and recommended and there's an emotion in your packet to do so

1583
02:09:39,180 --> 02:09:44,180
at page 462 and that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you.

1584
02:09:44,880 --> 02:09:50,080
Ready for the presentation? Okay. Thank you, Patrick. Good evening, council members and the mayor.

1585
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:56,580
Many of you have met me, but for those of you who have not, I'm Jason Garnham, a planner and

1586
02:09:56,580 --> 02:09:56,880
ECD.

1587
02:09:58,320 --> 02:10:05,200
I primarily work in development plan, review, and permitting for private development projects

1588
02:10:05,200 --> 02:10:05,740
and Kent.

1589
02:10:06,500 --> 02:10:08,560
So don't necessarily see me here very often.

1590
02:10:10,620 --> 02:10:20,060
As Patrick stated, this is a request to reason a vacant one acre property located on

1591
02:10:20,060 --> 02:10:27,820
On 108th Avenue, southeast, just northwest of its intersection with southeast 2040th Street.

1592
02:10:28,740 --> 02:10:34,100
The applicant requests to reason on the property from CC Community Commercial Zoning to

1593
02:10:34,100 --> 02:10:37,960
MRT-16, multifamily residential townhouse zoning.

1594
02:10:38,660 --> 02:10:46,960
The CC zoning permits a wide variety of retail and service business type land uses, but

1595
02:10:46,960 --> 02:10:49,880
prohibits residential development entirely,

1596
02:10:50,860 --> 02:10:56,200
whereas the MRT-16 zoning allows

1597
02:10:56,200 --> 02:11:02,400
development of townhouses only and up to density of 16 units per acre.

1598
02:11:04,480 --> 02:11:09,700
As you may see, if you're looking at the site plan that is on the site

1599
02:11:09,700 --> 02:11:13,060
and map that's on page 467 of your packet,

1600
02:11:13,060 --> 02:11:28,040
You can see that this property does not have access to or visibility from the commercial portion of southeast 240th Street and as evidenced by its long vacant status.

1601
02:11:28,860 --> 02:11:36,760
The argument is that it's not a viable, the property is not viable for commercial uses.

1602
02:11:38,080 --> 02:11:44,740
So, the applicant property owner intend to develop the site with 14 townhouse units.

1603
02:11:45,700 --> 02:11:52,800
They did submit a multi-family design review application with related plans about a year ago.

1604
02:11:53,300 --> 02:11:59,260
You can find the renderings and site plans for that development starting on page 498 in

1605
02:11:59,260 --> 02:12:05,400
your packet if you would like to have a look at what sort of development they're interested

1606
02:12:05,400 --> 02:12:06,240
in doing.

1607
02:12:07,920 --> 02:12:15,220
The site and surrounding area, particularly to the south, has a comprehensive plan land use

1608
02:12:15,220 --> 02:12:26,100
designation of MU mixed use, and MRT 16 zoning is consistent with that comprehensive plan

1609
02:12:26,100 --> 02:12:33,860
land use designation per the land use portion of the comprehensive plan.

1610
02:12:33,860 --> 02:12:41,840
Further, the proposed development is also consistent with the vision for mixed use areas

1611
02:12:41,840 --> 02:12:49,380
in having vibrant urban centers with a mix of housing types and that support the nearby commercial

1612
02:12:49,380 --> 02:12:50,900
establishments.

1613
02:12:51,600 --> 02:12:58,520
So for those reasons and as detailed in the hearing examiners, findings and conclusion and

1614
02:12:58,520 --> 02:13:05,080
recommendation and in the staff report that I wrote, both of which are in your packet, both

1615
02:13:05,080 --> 02:13:13,000
city staff and hearing examiner reviewed this proposal for compliance with the five criteria

1616
02:13:13,000 --> 02:13:22,140
of Kent City Code for approval of a rezone and the hearing examiner provided a recommendation

1617
02:13:22,140 --> 02:13:28,240
approval after an open record hearing as described by Mr. Fish Patrick.

1618
02:13:31,160 --> 02:13:32,980
That's that's it for my presentation

1619
02:13:32,980 --> 02:13:54,040
so I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay any questions? I do your own hands. Remember Thomas? Patrick I want to make sure that I'm doing this right because I may have to

1620
02:13:54,040 --> 02:13:59,400
that the end of verse is 108V, is that three-thin three-hundred feet,

1621
02:13:59,420 --> 02:14:00,380
use the pose?

1622
02:14:03,080 --> 02:14:04,440
Do you see where I'm at here?

1623
02:14:04,780 --> 02:14:05,660
The Fox property.

1624
02:14:06,060 --> 02:14:06,600
That's correct.

1625
02:14:07,580 --> 02:14:08,600
The Fox property.

1626
02:14:09,500 --> 02:14:12,040
All the way in to, all the way at the end of the dead end,

1627
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:15,300
probably closer to about 244.

1628
02:14:16,660 --> 02:14:17,140
Third.

1629
02:14:18,140 --> 02:14:19,940
Well, access is all the 108.

1630
02:14:20,240 --> 02:14:23,260
It is, but where that starts, I think it's,

1631
02:14:23,260 --> 02:14:26,360
Yeah, I would think that that's further than 300 feet,

1632
02:14:26,920 --> 02:14:29,340
but I also would question whether you have any ownership

1633
02:14:29,340 --> 02:14:31,580
interest or a pecuniary interest in that property.

1634
02:14:31,980 --> 02:14:34,680
Well, I've been kind of working with him a little bit

1635
02:14:34,680 --> 02:14:36,620
in contact with the city and doing things.

1636
02:14:37,260 --> 02:14:40,060
So if it's okay, I'd just assume to be accused by his self.

1637
02:14:40,560 --> 02:14:42,560
If you feel the need to be accused yourself,

1638
02:14:42,900 --> 02:14:44,120
then by all means you've got to be better.

1639
02:14:44,320 --> 02:14:45,340
Okay, that's fine.

1640
02:14:45,620 --> 02:14:47,900
Does I don't want to jeopardize this?

1641
02:14:48,240 --> 02:14:50,080
So, thank you.

1642
02:14:50,080 --> 02:14:52,500
Any other questions?

1643
02:14:54,540 --> 02:14:54,920
All right.

1644
02:14:55,760 --> 02:14:56,120
At this point.

1645
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:01,520
We call for the motion,

1646
02:15:03,880 --> 02:15:10,600
or there. Okay. Do we have a motion? Council President Boyz.

1647
02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:15,820
Yes, madam, let me get back here for a little bit of y'all, I don't know what's there.

1648
02:15:15,940 --> 02:15:16,360
Come on.

1649
02:15:16,620 --> 02:15:16,780
I know.

1650
02:15:17,920 --> 02:15:18,680
Uh, excuse me.

1651
02:15:19,020 --> 02:15:19,800
On his number.

1652
02:15:20,120 --> 02:15:20,900
Kim, please.

1653
02:15:26,240 --> 02:15:28,640
Ordnance number 4303.

1654
02:15:29,960 --> 02:15:30,560
4303.

1655
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:31,620
Thank you.

1656
02:15:31,940 --> 02:15:34,780
Madam, I'd like to make a motion to set the findings,

1657
02:15:35,040 --> 02:15:38,920
conclusion and recommendation of the hearing exam of the Kent Town House

1658
02:15:38,920 --> 02:15:43,200
Reson application and adopt ordinance number 4303.

1659
02:15:43,200 --> 02:15:49,000
three approved a kit town homes. Reson application from C.C.

1660
02:15:49,480 --> 02:15:52,720
Community Commissioner to MRT-6T,

1661
02:15:53,020 --> 02:15:55,880
multi-family residential townhouse.

1662
02:15:57,820 --> 02:15:58,960
Okay, have a motion.

1663
02:15:59,100 --> 02:16:00,200
The second is there any discussion?

1664
02:16:01,700 --> 02:16:03,380
All right. Seeing none, all those in favor?

1665
02:16:04,180 --> 02:16:05,400
Aye. Opposed?

1666
02:16:06,160 --> 02:16:10,600
Motion carries 6-0 with Council member Thomas for accusing himself.

1667
02:16:10,800 --> 02:16:11,440
Thank you, Governor.

1668
02:16:12,300 --> 02:16:12,700
All right.

1669
02:16:12,700 --> 02:16:13,660
Thank you.

1670
02:16:13,740 --> 02:16:14,040
Thank you.

1671
02:16:15,560 --> 02:16:16,120
Okay.

1672
02:16:16,640 --> 02:16:21,480
The next item on the agenda is also something a little bit out of the ordinary for the

1673
02:16:21,480 --> 02:16:26,120
Council, so I will turn this over to our city attorney as well for an explanation

1674
02:16:26,120 --> 02:16:26,660
of process.

1675
02:16:26,840 --> 02:16:28,120
Thank you very much.

1676
02:16:28,540 --> 02:16:29,760
So this will be much quicker.

1677
02:16:30,600 --> 02:16:35,400
So we have an ordinance before you to establish a process for franchise applications.

1678
02:16:36,140 --> 02:16:41,060
Assistant City Attorney Christina Schuck will explain that the FCC rules that she's been

1679
02:16:41,060 --> 02:16:48,240
talking about for some time now with regards to small cells, went into effect yesterday actually.

1680
02:16:48,880 --> 02:16:53,720
We had hoped for a stay of the FCC rulings because of court action, but that did not occur.

1681
02:16:54,520 --> 02:17:01,680
So as a result, we are in dire need of putting together our processes for an ordinance

1682
02:17:01,680 --> 02:17:03,280
for processing the franchises.

1683
02:17:04,120 --> 02:17:08,740
So we have before you an ordinance and because of the timing of this issue, the ordinance

1684
02:17:08,740 --> 02:17:13,240
is presented to you as an emergency ordinance, which if past will become effective immediately

1685
02:17:13,240 --> 02:17:17,860
usually ordinances are effective either 30 days or sometimes five days from the data

1686
02:17:17,860 --> 02:17:22,820
passage. This ordinance if past would become effective immediately. However, and this is

1687
02:17:22,820 --> 02:17:27,440
the key, in order to become effective immediately, the motion to adopt the ordinance must

1688
02:17:27,440 --> 02:17:32,080
be approved by a majority plus one of the full council or five members of the council. So I

1689
02:17:32,080 --> 02:17:35,940
just want to let you know the emergency nature of the ordinance and the need for five

1690
02:17:35,940 --> 02:17:38,440
of affirmative votes on this matter to become effective immediately.

1691
02:17:38,980 --> 02:17:39,680
Thank you.

1692
02:17:39,740 --> 02:17:40,420
Thank you.

1693
02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:42,240
All right, ready for the presentation.

1694
02:17:43,260 --> 02:17:45,160
The evening, Christine, I should like assistant city attorney.

1695
02:17:45,360 --> 02:17:48,000
So tonight I wanted to give you just a brief overview

1696
02:17:48,640 --> 02:17:51,340
of this draft order, or this proposed order

1697
02:17:51,340 --> 02:17:53,340
and as which is called franchise applications

1698
02:17:53,340 --> 02:17:54,900
for the use of right of way.

1699
02:17:55,400 --> 02:17:57,440
And I wanted to break it down really briefly

1700
02:17:57,440 --> 02:18:00,100
into the what, why, how, who and why.

1701
02:18:03,400 --> 02:18:05,780
So first, what, this is a new chapter

1702
02:18:05,780 --> 02:18:12,360
within within Title VI, which is the public works chapter, what it does is set forth a specific

1703
02:18:12,360 --> 02:18:18,820
franchise application process. It has application requirements and the time and review of such

1704
02:18:18,820 --> 02:18:25,360
applications. Why, as Pat mentioned, overall, overall we're here because it's a good idea to have a

1705
02:18:25,360 --> 02:18:31,640
franchise application process. Most cities have something similar to what's before you, but specifically

1706
02:18:31,640 --> 02:18:34,520
We're here and under, I'm constrained,

1707
02:18:34,720 --> 02:18:37,820
because of the new FCC order and what small cells are

1708
02:18:37,820 --> 02:18:40,580
in the small cell deployment that's coming to the city.

1709
02:18:41,820 --> 02:18:43,120
So we're here to standardize the process.

1710
02:18:43,700 --> 02:18:45,700
We're really here to standardize that process,

1711
02:18:45,800 --> 02:18:50,480
so we can comply with the new deadlines in the FCC order.

1712
02:18:50,640 --> 02:18:53,840
And that's the most impactful thing of the FCC order

1713
02:18:53,840 --> 02:18:58,200
is that we have to process applications for small cells

1714
02:18:58,200 --> 02:18:59,920
within a really tight timeframe.

1715
02:18:59,920 --> 02:19:04,780
And that is 60 days or co-locations.

1716
02:19:04,800 --> 02:19:09,620
For example, installing small cells on PSU utility poles or city infrastructure,

1717
02:19:10,480 --> 02:19:11,720
and 90 days for new poles.

1718
02:19:12,020 --> 02:19:16,260
So that's a quick turnaround for getting a franchise authorization

1719
02:19:16,260 --> 02:19:18,460
to use the right of way and individual permits.

1720
02:19:21,240 --> 02:19:22,800
So how we're going to do it?

1721
02:19:23,040 --> 02:19:26,720
This ordinance sets forth application contents.

1722
02:19:26,900 --> 02:19:28,920
We'll have an actual application on the to fill out.

1723
02:19:28,920 --> 02:19:36,020
So this is timeframes we can start counting, start the clock, also let's us do a complete

1724
02:19:36,020 --> 02:19:36,640
in this review.

1725
02:19:36,820 --> 02:19:43,200
So if we're missing information, we can stop the clock and request the information, information

1726
02:19:43,200 --> 02:19:48,940
we're requesting is designed to help us ensure, you know, our design standards are met,

1727
02:19:49,220 --> 02:19:53,520
safety standards are met, and also that we're streamlining the process.

1728
02:19:54,860 --> 02:19:58,760
So, who this applies to utility and service providers?

1729
02:20:00,200 --> 02:20:06,680
Definitely tailored towards telecommunications, even fiber buildouts and small cells, but it also would include other utilities.

1730
02:20:07,520 --> 02:20:11,040
It does not include cable, and it would not include water and sewer districts.

1731
02:20:11,300 --> 02:20:16,400
Like the franchises we've just adopted with like high line and midway sewer.

1732
02:20:16,460 --> 02:20:19,860
Those would not be covered under this application process.

1733
02:20:19,860 --> 02:20:25,660
process. And when, as Pat said, if adopted, it would go into effect immediately.

1734
02:20:27,260 --> 02:20:27,700
So,

1735
02:20:30,040 --> 02:20:31,480
okay. Any questions?

1736
02:20:34,320 --> 02:20:36,760
All right. Seeing none, then emotion would be an order.

1737
02:20:37,500 --> 02:20:39,240
I don't need to have a one. Sorry.

1738
02:20:41,140 --> 02:20:44,560
You got a question? Nope. I was going to do an instant. Go ahead.

1739
02:20:45,560 --> 02:20:48,780
I would come. I need an ordinance number. Four, three, zero, four.

1740
02:20:50,620 --> 02:20:51,840
Shouldn't this come on operations?

1741
02:20:53,160 --> 02:20:54,300
I think that seems reasonable.

1742
02:20:55,960 --> 02:20:56,900
You're on her.

1743
02:20:56,900 --> 02:21:03,420
I would move to adopt orders number 4304, creating a new chapter 6.15 of the Kent City Code,

1744
02:21:03,800 --> 02:21:08,420
to establish franchise application requirements for the use of city right of way declaring

1745
02:21:08,420 --> 02:21:12,500
an emergency and providing for an immediate effective date for the ordinance.

1746
02:21:13,820 --> 02:21:14,120
Second.

1747
02:21:14,840 --> 02:21:17,380
Yeah, there's a motion a second, any discussion?

1748
02:21:18,880 --> 02:21:19,380
Seeing none.

1749
02:21:19,620 --> 02:21:20,360
All those in favor?

1750
02:21:20,740 --> 02:21:21,040
Hi.

1751
02:21:21,860 --> 02:21:21,960
I.

1752
02:21:21,960 --> 02:21:24,600
Post, motion carry 7-0.

1753
02:21:24,900 --> 02:21:28,140
So we have the supermajority that we need.

1754
02:21:28,720 --> 02:21:29,620
Thank you.

1755
02:21:31,780 --> 02:21:35,240
OK, moving on to the last item under other business.

1756
02:21:35,420 --> 02:21:37,620
It is transit operation and maintenance facilities

1757
02:21:37,620 --> 02:21:39,280
interim zoning ordinance.

1758
02:21:40,160 --> 02:21:44,100
We'll once again turn it over to our City Attorney Pat Fitzpatrick.

1759
02:21:44,760 --> 02:21:45,260
Thank you.

1760
02:21:45,760 --> 02:21:47,720
I promise this is the last special process

1761
02:21:47,720 --> 02:21:48,780
that we're going to deal with tonight.

1762
02:21:49,700 --> 02:21:52,080
This one's a little more complicated than the last one.

1763
02:21:52,080 --> 02:22:01,280
So, Haley Bond's deal, the city's long range planning managers is going to present the background for the transit operations and maintenance facilities in terms of zoning ordinance.

1764
02:22:02,140 --> 02:22:07,400
This is an interim ordinance that provides for a temporary zoning code change to the midway sub-area.

1765
02:22:07,920 --> 02:22:21,300
The effect of the ordinance is to prohibit transit operations and maintenance facilities in the north midway sub-area, which is the MTC and MCR districts, and specifically allows them in the south midway sub-area, the CM2 district.

1766
02:22:22,300 --> 02:22:30,800
We're presenting this order ordinance to you in accordance with RCW's 35A 63.220 and 3670A

1767
02:22:30,800 --> 02:22:37,400
390. And this is an interim ordinance that may be effective or remain effective for

1768
02:22:37,400 --> 02:22:43,920
up to six months unless it is renewed or repealed by the council. And because it is an interim

1769
02:22:43,920 --> 02:22:50,460
ordinance, a public hearing must be held within 60 days of adoption of the interim ordinance. So as a result,

1770
02:22:50,460 --> 02:22:55,800
The ordinance provides that a public hearing will occur on February 5th at the council meeting

1771
02:22:55,800 --> 02:23:01,120
on that date and moreover the ordinance direct staff to prepare a permanent zoning ordinance

1772
02:23:01,120 --> 02:23:05,920
for transit operations and maintenance facilities for your consideration.

1773
02:23:07,340 --> 02:23:11,700
Once again, though, similar to the last ordinance because of the detrimental impacts

1774
02:23:11,700 --> 02:23:20,440
to the area that could be caused by siding in operations and maintenance facility in the

1775
02:23:20,440 --> 02:23:25,660
emergency exists and it's imperative that the ordinance become effective immediately upon adoption.

1776
02:23:26,400 --> 02:23:32,380
And once again, in order to become effective immediately at least five members of the council have to approve the ordinance.

1777
02:23:33,020 --> 02:23:42,220
So this again, it was much like the moratorium that was passed a number of years ago on a couple of issues that we dealt with from a land use planning perspective.

1778
02:23:42,220 --> 02:23:44,140
but this is just an interim ordinance,

1779
02:23:44,680 --> 02:23:47,080
requires to have to create a permanent ordinance

1780
02:23:47,080 --> 02:23:49,320
for your consideration, and it's presented

1781
02:23:49,320 --> 02:23:50,500
as an emergency ordinance.

1782
02:23:51,020 --> 02:23:51,680
Thank you.

1783
02:23:52,380 --> 02:23:53,140
Thank you.

1784
02:23:53,340 --> 02:23:54,780
It's good evening, Council Mayor.

1785
02:23:55,380 --> 02:23:57,640
I'm here before you as Pat described

1786
02:23:57,640 --> 02:23:59,400
to bring forward an interim zoning ordinance.

1787
02:23:59,540 --> 02:24:00,880
So first I'm gonna set the context

1788
02:24:00,880 --> 02:24:03,100
and then kind of walk you through

1789
02:24:03,100 --> 02:24:04,280
what we have in front of us.

1790
02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:06,640
So on the screen is the midway sub area

1791
02:24:06,640 --> 02:24:08,860
just to remind you of where we kind of considered

1792
02:24:08,860 --> 02:24:10,520
to be midway, of course, this is I-5.

1793
02:24:10,740 --> 02:24:13,360
We're looking west of I-5 for the most part,

1794
02:24:13,720 --> 02:24:16,620
between 99 and I-5 in Kent's West Hill area.

1795
02:24:17,380 --> 02:24:18,840
So knowing that light rail was coming,

1796
02:24:18,980 --> 02:24:21,260
the city invested significant time and resources

1797
02:24:21,260 --> 02:24:23,540
in a robust visioning process that you all

1798
02:24:23,540 --> 02:24:25,460
have probably heard me describe many times

1799
02:24:25,460 --> 02:24:26,880
our midway severity of plan.

1800
02:24:27,200 --> 02:24:30,420
We were really trying to welcome light rail plan for its success

1801
02:24:30,420 --> 02:24:33,400
and provide a framework for future decision-making

1802
02:24:33,400 --> 02:24:34,900
because knowing light rail is coming

1803
02:24:34,900 --> 02:24:36,280
is just the very first step

1804
02:24:36,280 --> 02:24:38,860
and there's lots of decisions we made after that.

1805
02:24:39,040 --> 02:24:41,320
So the next few slides as I'm just going to describe

1806
02:24:41,320 --> 02:24:43,060
a few things in the midways of area plan

1807
02:24:43,060 --> 02:24:45,320
and just shows in photos actually from that plan

1808
02:24:45,320 --> 02:24:47,720
so you have an idea of what we were envisioning.

1809
02:24:48,140 --> 02:24:50,460
So obviously community engagement guided that vision

1810
02:24:50,460 --> 02:24:52,340
significantly and I think to some extent

1811
02:24:52,340 --> 02:24:55,840
the region kind of records the approach and bought into it.

1812
02:24:55,900 --> 02:24:59,080
By that I mean that between various agencies,

1813
02:24:59,420 --> 02:25:01,260
this midways of area plan has laid the framework

1814
02:25:01,260 --> 02:25:04,120
for a lot of the decisions made as part of the station area

1815
02:25:04,120 --> 02:25:08,620
planning, and then also we got some press local transit blogs and things, you know, really

1816
02:25:08,620 --> 02:25:10,800
recognize the work that was done as part of this plan.

1817
02:25:11,760 --> 02:25:17,780
So the overall plan goal in the midways very plan is to create a dense pedestrian-friendly

1818
02:25:17,780 --> 02:25:23,060
sustainable community that provides jobs, housing services, and public open space around

1819
02:25:23,060 --> 02:25:28,380
nodes of high capacity mass transit while maintaining auto-oriented uses between the transit

1820
02:25:28,380 --> 02:25:29,140
oriented nodes.

1821
02:25:29,160 --> 02:25:33,580
I'm going to come back to that, but essentially, it envisions a well-designed built environment

1822
02:25:33,580 --> 02:25:35,680
including pedestrian-friendly streetscape,

1823
02:25:35,860 --> 02:25:38,280
small-time little connections, and a variety of housing types

1824
02:25:38,280 --> 02:25:40,300
and jobs that support transit use.

1825
02:25:40,640 --> 02:25:42,260
And that's, of course, based on best practices

1826
02:25:42,260 --> 02:25:45,780
about how you plan for mass transit coming to your city.

1827
02:25:46,180 --> 02:25:48,820
So this framework guided the zoning changes

1828
02:25:49,480 --> 02:25:51,260
that we've passed at the same time,

1829
02:25:51,280 --> 02:25:52,400
that's made ways to vary a plan.

1830
02:25:52,900 --> 02:25:56,460
Where we established new zones for the pedestrian-oriented

1831
02:25:56,460 --> 02:25:58,800
kind of urban development that takes full advantage

1832
02:25:58,800 --> 02:26:02,040
of the high capacity transit and brings a host of benefits

1833
02:26:02,040 --> 02:26:09,860
to the area. So the midways of area plan identified a distinction between the midway areas that

1834
02:26:09,860 --> 02:26:14,800
are north of what we call approximately south to 45th Street, which there's not a 245th

1835
02:26:14,800 --> 02:26:19,480
there, but that's kind of what it's aligned with. And to the south of that. So in the pink area,

1836
02:26:20,080 --> 02:26:26,080
the text that's too small to read from here describes the transit-oriented community as, you know,

1837
02:26:26,160 --> 02:26:32,020
being a high-intensity transit supportive mixed-use area with a residential focus in a strong

1838
02:26:32,020 --> 02:26:37,580
pedestrian orientation with no single use, big box, industrial, or auto-dependent uses.

1839
02:26:38,100 --> 02:26:42,860
To the south in that orange area, that's considered highway commercial corridor, and

1840
02:26:42,860 --> 02:26:47,700
that includes a wider range of community, city-wide, or regional commercial, and light industrial

1841
02:26:47,700 --> 02:26:50,060
uses that are primarily vehicle-dependent.

1842
02:26:50,320 --> 02:26:53,800
I think that this is a really realistic plan.

1843
02:26:53,940 --> 02:26:58,080
We were not anticipating that the entire West Hill north of south is going to become completely

1844
02:26:58,080 --> 02:26:58,960
skyscrapers.

1845
02:26:58,960 --> 02:27:03,060
You know, we recognize there's an existing auto oriented character and then it was a very

1846
02:27:03,060 --> 02:27:05,240
plan really reflected that.

1847
02:27:05,760 --> 02:27:11,080
So that distinction, just to view it from another angle, this is if you're looking south,

1848
02:27:11,900 --> 02:27:17,040
I-5 on the left and 99 on the right there, you can see kind of as the guideway will be coming

1849
02:27:17,040 --> 02:27:18,520
and pulling back behind the lows.

1850
02:27:19,360 --> 02:27:22,860
That 240 fifth is shown with this yellow line.

1851
02:27:22,920 --> 02:27:28,340
So that's kind of the distinction between the area mostly in the foreground here is what we consider to be the

1852
02:27:29,160 --> 02:27:33,540
We're hoping to see dense compact development and behind where the midway landfill starts,

1853
02:27:33,800 --> 02:27:37,020
that's where we understand that it's a different context there.

1854
02:27:37,840 --> 02:27:40,980
So with that in mind, of course, we made zoning changes.

1855
02:27:41,340 --> 02:27:42,580
Reflecting that intent.

1856
02:27:43,100 --> 02:27:48,260
So the new zones that we proposed at the time that the midway severe plan is adopted,

1857
02:27:48,260 --> 02:27:53,960
include the MTC-1 and 2 zones, those are in the red here, and the MCR zone.

1858
02:27:54,100 --> 02:27:56,920
And those stand for midway transit community, 1 and 2,

1859
02:27:56,920 --> 02:27:58,660
and midway commercial residential.

1860
02:27:59,680 --> 02:28:02,000
So the purpose of all three of those zones

1861
02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:04,880
if pulling up slightly, they have slight distinctions,

1862
02:28:05,100 --> 02:28:06,200
but essentially they all say

1863
02:28:06,200 --> 02:28:08,540
that they serve the purpose of providing a location

1864
02:28:08,540 --> 02:28:11,020
for dense and varied retail office

1865
02:28:11,020 --> 02:28:13,580
and residential and pedestrian orientation.

1866
02:28:14,720 --> 02:28:17,060
Now of course, we could not contemplate

1867
02:28:17,060 --> 02:28:20,000
every eventuality that would come to pass.

1868
02:28:20,980 --> 02:28:24,060
And so at the time, we didn't add a lot of new use categories

1869
02:28:24,060 --> 02:28:25,700
when we made this zoning change.

1870
02:28:25,700 --> 02:28:31,300
We took a look at the existing use categories and said, you know, whether or not they belonged in these new zones.

1871
02:28:32,460 --> 02:28:38,760
And, um, one category that, you know, makes a lot of sense in, um, in sort of hindsight that we,

1872
02:28:38,760 --> 02:28:41,700
we said, were permitted in all these were transit facilities, right?

1873
02:28:41,700 --> 02:28:44,700
Because this is the whole point is for attracting transit here.

1874
02:28:45,260 --> 02:28:53,180
Um, we were, of course, picturing light rail stations, and light rail stations, you know, have a couple different primary characteristics, they serve passengers.

1875
02:28:54,000 --> 02:28:58,200
They also attract activity, they catalyze dense development.

1876
02:28:58,980 --> 02:29:01,520
They tend to be in the sort of five to seven acre range.

1877
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:04,320
If you discount land that might be surplus after construction.

1878
02:29:05,300 --> 02:29:09,520
For instance, the Kent Demoing station is just under six acres.

1879
02:29:09,580 --> 02:29:13,600
I think a little under six acres and the Star Lake station as they're currently designed as about seven acres.

1880
02:29:14,300 --> 02:29:16,180
So that's kind of what we're envisioning.

1881
02:29:17,760 --> 02:29:22,280
We've learned that sound transit is considering the midway area for a very different kind of transit facility.

1882
02:29:22,280 --> 02:29:34,340
It's called an operations and maintenance facility and this is a quick Googler from the Seattle operations and maintenance facility and this one is about 21 acres, but the one that they are looking in Kent for is actually about 30.

1883
02:29:35,220 --> 02:29:42,180
So for those of you for whom this reference might be relevant, that's apparently according to the internet over 22 and a half foot ball fields.

1884
02:29:43,420 --> 02:29:48,060
So it's quite a large, quite a large dimension to contemplate.

1885
02:29:48,060 --> 02:29:51,760
So, not quite what we were picturing in terms of scale

1886
02:29:51,760 --> 02:29:53,320
when you think about a transit station.

1887
02:29:53,760 --> 02:29:55,500
So these things operate in the middle of the night

1888
02:29:55,500 --> 02:29:57,000
because that's when vehicles are available

1889
02:29:57,000 --> 02:29:59,880
for maintenance, cleaning, you know, repair.

1890
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:14,400
That kind of thing. They don't really attract pedestrians. They're not great for pedestrian interest or activity. They do bring some jobs. They bring about 300 jobs, which over 30 acres is maybe could be considered a low intensity job use.

1891
02:30:15,080 --> 02:30:25,740
And so if we actually look at our use tables, we might not say that their closest in use to, in terms of functionality, to a transition. They might be a bit closer to something like outdoor storage of trucks.

1892
02:30:25,740 --> 02:30:32,400
Have you equipment contractor yards and you can kind of see this is a lot of outdoor train tracks and that kind of thing so

1893
02:30:32,960 --> 02:30:35,080
based on that kind of

1894
02:30:35,080 --> 02:30:37,540
Characteristic where would we allow

1895
02:30:38,760 --> 02:30:46,820
Outdoor storage of trucks and every equipment you might imagine we were planning on allowing that kind of thing in our MTC 1 and 2 and MCR zones, right?

1896
02:30:46,880 --> 02:30:50,780
Because we were trying to attract those more pedestrian oriented uses, so

1897
02:30:51,580 --> 02:30:55,100
We do allow outdoor trucks though in CM2

1898
02:30:55,100 --> 02:30:58,380
So that's just to the south, it's commercial manufacturing too.

1899
02:30:58,680 --> 02:31:02,320
It's slightly different color there, but that's again, that's sort of more vehicle-oriented

1900
02:31:02,320 --> 02:31:03,040
zone.

1901
02:31:03,580 --> 02:31:08,920
And the purpose of that zone is to combine some characteristics of both retail with small-scale,

1902
02:31:08,920 --> 02:31:12,460
light industrial, heavy commercial, wholesale, advanced manufacturing.

1903
02:31:12,660 --> 02:31:17,480
Very different words than the words that describe those more transit-oriented zones.

1904
02:31:18,660 --> 02:31:23,880
So, while characteristics of either truck storage or operations and maintenance facilities,

1905
02:31:24,420 --> 02:31:27,820
don't necessarily, you know, they're not necessarily the most favorable for some of our

1906
02:31:27,820 --> 02:31:28,060
plans.

1907
02:31:28,060 --> 02:31:29,680
That doesn't mean that they don't belong anywhere.

1908
02:31:30,180 --> 02:31:34,480
We think that, you know, they do belong in cities, but they need to be very carefully

1909
02:31:34,480 --> 02:31:35,040
cited.

1910
02:31:35,660 --> 02:31:41,840
So we have a zone, CM2, that is very appropriate for these facilities, and it's obviously

1911
02:31:41,840 --> 02:31:46,340
it's also appropriate for connecting to a light rail that aligns with I-5.

1912
02:31:47,640 --> 02:31:52,980
So what the ordinance before you tonight defines transit facilities to be what we were all

1913
02:31:52,980 --> 02:31:58,740
texturing transit facilities meant, which were light rail stations could also be a significant

1914
02:31:58,740 --> 02:32:01,520
transit station, like a bus, depot, that kind of thing.

1915
02:32:02,180 --> 02:32:06,420
But it talks about operations and maintenance facilities and defines those as being something

1916
02:32:06,420 --> 02:32:07,120
great different.

1917
02:32:07,740 --> 02:32:12,500
And it zones those to be permitted in that CM2 district and not permitted in other zones.

1918
02:32:14,700 --> 02:32:21,160
So finally, I think it's safe to say that operations and maintenance facilities were pretty

1919
02:32:21,160 --> 02:32:26,160
contemplated at the time of the Mid-Waste of Area Plan, and so when we think about the goals

1920
02:32:26,160 --> 02:32:31,180
and there's many quotes throughout the plan that I've spared you this evening, but this is just one

1921
02:32:31,180 --> 02:32:37,760
of a safe urban place where buildings hugged the edge of generous sidewalks, and it's aesthetically pleasing sights and smells and sounds.

1922
02:32:37,900 --> 02:32:45,120
I don't think that anyone was picturing an operations and maintenance facility, and it would be very difficult to say that that would fit in with that environment.

1923
02:32:45,120 --> 02:32:51,660
So, to protect our MCR and MTC zones, to ensure that an OMF can be a benefit to our community,

1924
02:32:51,780 --> 02:32:56,340
which I truly believe it can be, to set the stage for a win-win project that meets the goals

1925
02:32:56,340 --> 02:33:01,660
of both agencies, and to meet this shared vision that our community so bought into.

1926
02:33:02,860 --> 02:33:08,500
This ordinance before tonight invites some transit to work with us to site a facility in our CM2 zone.

1927
02:33:08,760 --> 02:33:10,540
So, with that, I'd be happy to take any questions.

1928
02:33:11,560 --> 02:33:12,960
Council Member Thomas.

1929
02:33:13,720 --> 02:33:14,360
Thank you, Your Honor.

1930
02:33:14,940 --> 02:33:18,940
Would you go back to one of the earlier slides showing the south picture of a

1931
02:33:18,940 --> 02:33:19,380
lows?

1932
02:33:19,580 --> 02:33:20,720
I think it does.

1933
02:33:22,780 --> 02:33:25,800
So if I'm looking at that lows, the large building of the center,

1934
02:33:26,800 --> 02:33:27,720
where is Dix?

1935
02:33:28,120 --> 02:33:28,740
Right here.

1936
02:33:29,020 --> 02:33:29,720
Right down there.

1937
02:33:30,400 --> 02:33:30,640
Okay.

1938
02:33:31,340 --> 02:33:31,460
All right.

1939
02:33:31,480 --> 02:33:32,040
Thank you.

1940
02:33:35,460 --> 02:33:36,540
Other questions?

1941
02:33:41,500 --> 02:33:42,700
Council Member Higgins.

1942
02:33:43,760 --> 02:33:46,260
Well, I'm not sure a question,

1943
02:33:46,260 --> 02:33:48,420
And so much first off, thank you Madam Mayor.

1944
02:33:48,500 --> 02:33:53,440
Thank you, Haley, for the presentation and I appreciate the administration for bringing

1945
02:33:53,440 --> 02:33:57,460
this forward and I'm very much in favor of it.

1946
02:33:58,100 --> 02:34:02,400
Less than I were here when we passed the midway sub-area plan.

1947
02:34:02,620 --> 02:34:04,980
I don't think Dana, you were-

1948
02:34:04,980 --> 02:34:06,640
I was on land planning.

1949
02:34:06,640 --> 02:34:08,700
Or landing planning at the time.

1950
02:34:09,320 --> 02:34:16,220
I can tell you what I was thinking at the time, which very much corresponds with your

1951
02:34:16,220 --> 02:34:24,380
description, Saley, that in that area within the walkshed of the light rail station itself,

1952
02:34:25,220 --> 02:34:30,780
that someday, and I remember sending Gloria, the lead planner, what was her last name?

1953
02:34:32,220 --> 02:34:33,520
Gloria, gold, Western.

1954
02:34:33,680 --> 02:34:38,260
I remember sending her an email saying, someday, when I'm 80 years old, Gloria, I want

1955
02:34:38,260 --> 02:34:43,020
to meet you up there next to the light rail station, and we'll have a cup of coffee and

1956
02:34:43,020 --> 02:34:50,000
walk around and enjoy what we just did in this area plan for midway.

1957
02:34:51,140 --> 02:35:00,540
The whole area is prime for high density, mixed use, development, including residential.

1958
02:35:01,940 --> 02:35:15,420
It's certainly not what we had in mind to put some big 30-acre train yard and it's

1959
02:35:15,420 --> 02:35:27,300
inconceivable that a public agency or the region would even conceive of doing such a thing

1960
02:35:27,300 --> 02:35:36,900
in a city like ours. And so I am so glad that we're taking this option. There are so many

1961
02:35:36,900 --> 02:35:46,440
better alternatives for a rail maintenance yard than in the middle of an area that the community

1962
02:35:47,520 --> 02:35:55,360
has a dream of re envisioning. So I would strongly urge your support of this.

1963
02:35:55,360 --> 02:36:04,440
Thank you. Any other questions? All right. With that, I would call for a motion.

1964
02:36:05,960 --> 02:36:07,900
Or just number 4305?

1965
02:36:09,040 --> 02:36:11,880
Is that okay? Go easy, D.C.

1966
02:36:13,420 --> 02:36:17,360
Thank you. I moved to adopt ordinance number 4305.

1967
02:36:18,340 --> 02:36:23,420
I'm bending title 15 of the Kent City Code to establish interim zoning for transit operations

1968
02:36:23,420 --> 02:36:28,800
maintenance facilities in the midway sub-area, setting a date for a public hearing, declaring

1969
02:36:28,800 --> 02:36:33,360
an emergency and providing for an immediate effective date for the ordinance.

1970
02:36:34,740 --> 02:36:35,300
Okay, have a motion.

1971
02:36:35,460 --> 02:36:35,700
The second.

1972
02:36:35,780 --> 02:36:36,560
Is there any discussion?

1973
02:36:38,320 --> 02:36:38,800
Hearing none.

1974
02:36:38,980 --> 02:36:39,840
All those in favor?

1975
02:36:40,180 --> 02:36:40,560
Aye.

1976
02:36:40,960 --> 02:36:41,580
Opposed?

1977
02:36:42,380 --> 02:36:44,120
Motion carries 7-0.

1978
02:36:45,440 --> 02:36:45,700
Thank you.

1979
02:36:47,260 --> 02:36:53,380
I would like to give some additional background in, and it likes an addition to Hayley's

1980
02:36:54,800 --> 02:37:07,480
So as you've heard, we were brought into this conversation back in November by sound transit after a significant amount of work was done on their part looking for locations.

1981
02:37:09,320 --> 02:37:19,360
There have been several sites identified in Kent, one being this property that is the home of Lowe's, the only hardware and home improvement store in that area.

1982
02:37:19,360 --> 02:37:25,820
And the brand new, just opened on December 12th to extract and along with other businesses.

1983
02:37:27,260 --> 02:37:35,240
The other site is the Midway Landfill that was the region's garbage dump for many, many years.

1984
02:37:35,920 --> 02:37:45,480
Has been capped and treated and measured and monitored and all of those things that would be required for construction to be done on such a property.

1985
02:37:45,480 --> 02:37:47,920
It's owned by Seattle Public Utilities.

1986
02:37:48,180 --> 02:37:54,680
It is a large piece of vacant property in our community that is begging for a use.

1987
02:37:56,080 --> 02:38:01,880
We have what I deem and I believe the action from this committee or from this council shows

1988
02:38:01,880 --> 02:38:08,240
a really, really bad choice and what we believe to be a really good choice for this operations

1989
02:38:08,240 --> 02:38:09,180
and maintenance facility.

1990
02:38:09,800 --> 02:38:14,180
Can't is not saying we don't want this in our backyard, that is not at all.

1991
02:38:14,180 --> 02:38:20,360
what we are saying is we've got a place that it's not appropriate because of the planning

1992
02:38:20,360 --> 02:38:24,120
that's been done for many, many years as Council Member Higgins talked about because

1993
02:38:24,120 --> 02:38:29,940
of the fact that we have viable, healthy, important businesses to the community and that

1994
02:38:29,940 --> 02:38:34,020
location were the first dicks driving in the South County.

1995
02:38:34,900 --> 02:38:39,660
And as you saw in our Chief Economic Development Officers report today, the lines are still

1996
02:38:39,660 --> 02:38:40,140
out in the street.

1997
02:38:40,140 --> 02:38:42,420
they're not able to utilize their entire parking lot

1998
02:38:42,420 --> 02:38:44,580
because the lines go out so far.

1999
02:38:46,140 --> 02:38:49,740
I have asked repeatedly that sound transit take

2000
02:38:49,740 --> 02:38:51,760
the lows and dicks site,

2001
02:38:52,240 --> 02:38:54,500
the one that the zoning was just made the change on,

2002
02:38:54,800 --> 02:39:00,220
off of the list of potential locations for their EIS process.

2003
02:39:01,500 --> 02:39:02,700
Sound transit put it on the list,

2004
02:39:02,840 --> 02:39:05,080
my ask is that they can take it off the list.

2005
02:39:06,800 --> 02:39:08,240
We have a viable alternative.

2006
02:39:08,240 --> 02:39:16,580
So, I am committing to this council, to the community, to do everything in my power to make sure that this site gets taken off the list.

2007
02:39:16,720 --> 02:39:24,520
The problem is, as if it makes it into this process, we're talking about two years that those property owners will, we held in limbo.

2008
02:39:25,060 --> 02:39:30,400
That redevelopment, new development, and their existing businesses will be in question as it works through the process.

2009
02:39:30,440 --> 02:39:32,420
That's not acceptable to this community.

2010
02:39:32,420 --> 02:39:39,480
We deserve better. We will demand better. Very, very willing to work with sound transit

2011
02:39:39,480 --> 02:39:47,580
on figuring out how we make the landfill site a win-win. It would be a fantastic use of that property.

2012
02:39:48,760 --> 02:39:54,000
So we will continue to have conversations with sound transit on this site.

2013
02:39:54,080 --> 02:40:00,880
There's a group of us going down to tour the operation and maintenance facility at 2am on Thursday morning.

2014
02:40:00,880 --> 02:40:07,140
So we are committed to making this process work, want to see it happen to am, right?

2015
02:40:07,140 --> 02:40:09,720
So you can meet us at my car at 1115.

2016
02:40:11,360 --> 02:40:15,320
This isn't us saying, no, this is us saying that they're just as a place for this facility.

2017
02:40:15,960 --> 02:40:20,980
So we will definitely keep you posted, have the support of the City Manager and

2018
02:40:20,980 --> 02:40:24,340
Des Moines, the mayor of Fejwai, Council Member Pete Vongrike, Bairbauer,

2019
02:40:24,400 --> 02:40:29,640
has sent a letter supporting our position and we will do everything we can to make sure

2020
02:40:29,640 --> 02:40:36,100
protect the land and the development that was envisioned by this council and this community many years ago.

2021
02:40:36,680 --> 02:40:37,640
So. Thank you.

2022
02:40:39,910 --> 02:40:46,590
All right. Councilmember Fincher. I wanted to thank you for leading this

2023
02:40:47,230 --> 02:40:52,790
for leading this effort to have that moved. They could move next door to literally next door.

2024
02:40:52,810 --> 02:40:59,110
Share a property of where they want to build now. I take this as a slight decant. They wouldn't do

2025
02:40:59,110 --> 02:41:01,250
in Bellevue and they didn't do that in Seattle.

2026
02:41:02,610 --> 02:41:04,390
So again, right next door.

2027
02:41:04,610 --> 02:41:05,170
Good point.

2028
02:41:05,390 --> 02:41:05,910
Thank you.

2029
02:41:06,390 --> 02:41:07,370
Thank you.

2030
02:41:08,550 --> 02:41:09,110
Okay.

2031
02:41:09,470 --> 02:41:11,750
We are going to move on to Bids.

2032
02:41:11,930 --> 02:41:12,890
We have three tonight.

2033
02:41:13,070 --> 02:41:19,270
The first one is the Lake Meridian Park Bathhouse Repair Project Bid, joining us once again as

2034
02:41:19,270 --> 02:41:21,050
our Park Director, Julie Paris-Condola.

2035
02:41:21,830 --> 02:41:22,710
Thank you, Mayor Council.

2036
02:41:23,550 --> 02:41:29,030
So as many of you know, last year we renovated the Lake Meridian Bathhouse and finally real

2037
02:41:29,030 --> 02:41:35,830
for the public for use on June 15th, and then two weeks later, unfortunately was damaged by

2038
02:41:35,830 --> 02:41:41,250
arson fire, not only the restrooms, but extended into the lifeguard office and storage area,

2039
02:41:41,370 --> 02:41:47,190
so obviously very critical to operations at the park in providing programs. On a side note, I

2040
02:41:47,190 --> 02:41:53,090
did just double-check with Chief Bedea. On the arson side, they did a rest of the event,

2041
02:41:53,210 --> 02:41:56,790
nine on a separate, couldn't directly find a link, so we still at this point don't know

2042
02:41:56,790 --> 02:42:01,870
how that happened. So that's just a side note for you. So immediately following the fire of what

2043
02:42:01,870 --> 02:42:06,670
we had we began working with the city's insurance carrier on what our path forward is on that.

2044
02:42:06,690 --> 02:42:11,190
We did contract with Miller Hayashi who was the original architect on the original to try and

2045
02:42:11,190 --> 02:42:16,610
speed that along since they had most of that going on. Very little changing from the original of

2046
02:42:16,610 --> 02:42:21,830
what we rebuilt, what we're doing, but we did do a few things. We're all the same interior fixtures

2047
02:42:21,830 --> 02:42:26,050
are similar to what was installed prior to the fire, building, plumbing and electrical

2048
02:42:26,050 --> 02:42:26,970
we replaced.

2049
02:42:27,810 --> 02:42:29,310
Largest change is going to be on the roof.

2050
02:42:29,470 --> 02:42:33,330
It's the overall same design, but it's going to be updated to meet current building code

2051
02:42:33,330 --> 02:42:34,370
and be insulated.

2052
02:42:34,890 --> 02:42:38,750
This is going to raise that roof height up a little bit about a foot, as well as adding two

2053
02:42:38,750 --> 02:42:42,230
skylights and a breezeway to add for more light and surveillance in that area.

2054
02:42:42,330 --> 02:42:43,670
I don't know if you've been out there.

2055
02:42:44,810 --> 02:42:48,350
We did obtain final approval from the insurance carrier to move forward forward forward

2056
02:42:48,350 --> 02:42:52,970
bidding and went through a public bidding process that did occur with bids opening on December

2057
02:42:53,610 --> 02:42:59,830
27th. We received three responsive bids. Engineers estimate was 550,000 are low bid by

2058
02:42:59,830 --> 02:43:07,390
eight to be builders with 610,311. 60,000 higher. We've looked at it at this point. It's a direct,

2059
02:43:07,390 --> 02:43:11,750
we believe a direct result of the competitive bid market right now. And that's, so we feel confident

2060
02:43:11,750 --> 02:43:17,350
moving forward. The insurance provider has approved that and what we're doing. So with the award of

2061
02:43:17,350 --> 02:43:22,510
tonight. The project has a little over a four month construction window, so we're really hoping

2062
02:43:22,510 --> 02:43:30,630
fingers crossed. We will be open by mid-June. Hopefully, and we'll be maintaining it out there.

2063
02:43:31,650 --> 02:43:36,970
Just a reminder, you know, the original renovation that we did first in June was an RCO funded grant

2064
02:43:36,970 --> 02:43:41,730
project. So we still have commitments to fill on that side of the house. We did get an extension

2065
02:43:41,730 --> 02:43:46,470
from our CO, that's through all the way of December 2019, so just to close the loop on that.

2066
02:43:47,730 --> 02:43:50,890
We do have an insurance expense, the deductible, if you will, and that's not really that,

2067
02:43:50,910 --> 02:43:55,430
a hundred thousand dollars, and then the insurance carrier covers the rest of the expense from

2068
02:43:55,430 --> 02:43:59,590
there as we move forward. So I'm happy to answer any questions from there.

2069
02:44:03,110 --> 02:44:08,950
All right, seeing none. Council member Fincher, did I motion? Yes, Madam Mayor. I moved to award the

2070
02:44:08,950 --> 02:44:16,190
We're reading in Park Bath House Repair Project to A to B Builders LLC and they mount

2071
02:44:16,190 --> 02:44:24,350
of $677,942 and 10 cents, including Washington State sales tax, and authorized the mayor

2072
02:44:24,350 --> 02:44:29,950
to sign on necessary documents, subject to final terms, and conditions acceptable to the city

2073
02:44:29,950 --> 02:44:31,470
attorney and parks director.

2074
02:44:32,570 --> 02:44:33,050
Have a motion.

2075
02:44:33,070 --> 02:44:33,430
A second.

2076
02:44:33,550 --> 02:44:34,210
Is there any discussion?

2077
02:44:35,550 --> 02:44:35,870
All right.

2078
02:44:35,990 --> 02:44:36,370
Seeing none.

2079
02:44:36,550 --> 02:44:37,330
All those in favor?

2080
02:44:37,330 --> 02:44:37,970
Hi.

2081
02:44:38,610 --> 02:44:39,090
Opposed?

2082
02:44:39,570 --> 02:44:41,110
Motion carries 70.

2083
02:44:41,870 --> 02:44:42,690
Thank you, Julie.

2084
02:44:42,930 --> 02:44:44,050
Just a quick note on that.

2085
02:44:44,410 --> 02:44:48,790
As we talked about this was an arson that occurred last year, I have to be at a conference

2086
02:44:48,790 --> 02:44:51,530
in Eastern Washington and got the news.

2087
02:44:51,930 --> 02:44:56,990
I do want to commend our parks department for jumping in, saving the day we had splash

2088
02:44:56,990 --> 02:44:59,430
coming up immediately after that.

2089
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:07,440
And we brought in some alternative restroom facilities, figured out the work for the lifeguards, still were able to staff the lake for the summer.

2090
02:45:07,880 --> 02:45:14,300
It will be wonderful to be able to celebrate this one more time and have a permanent facility there.

2091
02:45:14,480 --> 02:45:15,400
The sea, the renovation.

2092
02:45:16,380 --> 02:45:16,980
It happened.

2093
02:45:17,240 --> 02:45:26,100
It happened that quickly, but thank you to all of the parks department for pulling together and making sure that our residents had as little impact as possible through this.

2094
02:45:26,300 --> 02:45:27,280
Thank you.

2095
02:45:28,220 --> 02:45:35,280
All right, the next bid we have is the Kent Valley Signal System Upgrade bid joining us is our public workstractor Tim Laport.

2096
02:45:35,600 --> 02:45:37,320
Thank you Mayor and Council members.

2097
02:45:38,080 --> 02:45:42,680
Very pleased to bring this to you in the effort of moving traffic along.

2098
02:45:43,840 --> 02:45:49,700
This project has been conceived some time ago by actually a Kelly Peterson and his staff.

2099
02:45:49,700 --> 02:45:57,160
And we're very pleased to move this forward, the next, let me get this thing going here.

2100
02:46:05,720 --> 02:46:10,660
The Kent Valley Signal System upgrade follows two or three phases that we've already completed.

2101
02:46:11,920 --> 02:46:18,700
The staff were able to get a $780,000,000 grant from the State DOT or through the State DOT.

2102
02:46:19,480 --> 02:46:24,160
That grant was received some months back putting the package together.

2103
02:46:24,160 --> 02:46:26,240
I was completed in December.

2104
02:46:27,300 --> 02:46:28,900
We did receive five beds.

2105
02:46:29,020 --> 02:46:33,760
The low-vitter was North East Electric out of Stonewich County.

2106
02:46:34,300 --> 02:46:40,580
We go a lot of work for the DOT, so we're very pleased to recommend a warning to them.

2107
02:46:40,960 --> 02:46:46,960
This also includes new fiber, which is shown in the red on this slide, includes new traffic

2108
02:46:46,960 --> 02:46:51,800
cabinets, and we will be installing new controllers at 20 intersections.

2109
02:46:52,480 --> 02:46:59,520
Again, the flashing yellow arrows that we are installing at the north end require essentially

2110
02:46:59,520 --> 02:47:02,980
a new brain to be able to add that function to it.

2111
02:47:03,220 --> 02:47:08,500
So this would complete the work that was envisioned a number of years ago to add flashing

2112
02:47:08,500 --> 02:47:11,320
yellow arrows for the signal system and the valley.

2113
02:47:11,840 --> 02:47:15,800
There's more work to do on the west till and the east till of course, but we are very

2114
02:47:15,800 --> 02:47:20,580
pleased to do this and do recommend awarding this work to them.

2115
02:47:20,580 --> 02:47:23,340
So with that, I'm here to take any questions.

2116
02:47:23,680 --> 02:47:26,880
I would like to make one slight correction in the motion.

2117
02:47:27,520 --> 02:47:31,080
One of the skrivener's error, the motion should read

2118
02:47:31,080 --> 02:47:34,140
northeast electric, as opposed to northeast

2119
02:47:34,140 --> 02:47:34,900
electrical.

2120
02:47:35,600 --> 02:47:39,700
The low biter, again, is northeast electric LLC.

2121
02:47:40,760 --> 02:47:43,860
Without I'm ready to take any questions, or I can go on to the next presentation.

2122
02:47:46,080 --> 02:47:46,340
Clear plug.

2123
02:47:47,100 --> 02:47:51,740
would you we can have to do the second presentation to both motions are there any questions

2124
02:47:51,740 --> 02:47:56,980
on this item. Council member Higgins. I just wanted to point out I don't know if you

2125
02:47:56,980 --> 02:48:02,520
mentioned but we did receive a grant that covers almost all of the cost of this. Yes

2126
02:48:02,520 --> 02:48:08,000
Kelly and his staff receive that grant about a number of months back. Yeah, it covers 780

2127
02:48:08,000 --> 02:48:15,840
2000 of it. Congratulations. We like those. We like those. All right. Okay, I'll move on to the next

2128
02:48:15,840 --> 02:48:19,820
presentation. Very different. It's regarding the

2129
02:48:19,820 --> 02:48:22,860
DeVort barne. We had quite a bit of history earlier today.

2130
02:48:23,440 --> 02:48:28,220
This barne is actually built around 1930. And it is located.

2131
02:48:28,460 --> 02:48:31,680
Here's another shot actually looking essentially north,

2132
02:48:32,240 --> 02:48:37,260
north west at the bottom right. But the existing barn is located

2133
02:48:37,260 --> 02:48:40,380
just a little bit north of the nursery that we have at the

2134
02:48:40,380 --> 02:48:43,560
Green of Natural Resources area. If you look at the photo on the

2135
02:48:44,440 --> 02:48:50,700
Unfortunately, the, unfortunately, the, you know, get this thing work, it's kind of darkening

2136
02:48:50,700 --> 02:48:51,000
or thing.

2137
02:48:51,000 --> 02:48:52,260
I'll just forget that.

2138
02:48:52,340 --> 02:48:57,420
At any rate, the levy will be going right through the location where the barn is currently

2139
02:48:57,420 --> 02:49:00,200
and so the barn would need to be moved.

2140
02:49:01,320 --> 02:49:07,580
At the time, when a city acquired this property, we did not realize it's historic significance.

2141
02:49:08,440 --> 02:49:12,580
We have work with members of the Historic Society and they're very pleased that we're able

2142
02:49:12,580 --> 02:49:14,840
to find a location or relocate it.

2143
02:49:14,840 --> 02:49:16,560
In addition to that, we're going to be using it

2144
02:49:16,560 --> 02:49:17,420
for barn purposes.

2145
02:49:18,080 --> 02:49:19,880
It's going to be part of the nursery area,

2146
02:49:20,080 --> 02:49:22,820
and so it's kind of like a match made, whatever.

2147
02:49:23,360 --> 02:49:24,440
I'm going to look at that.

2148
02:49:24,460 --> 02:49:26,280
At any rate, Jennifer is excited to have it

2149
02:49:26,280 --> 02:49:28,280
as part of the nursery facility.

2150
02:49:29,040 --> 02:49:31,080
It will also be in a protected location.

2151
02:49:31,200 --> 02:49:34,300
It'll be behind the lobby, recall that the lobby

2152
02:49:34,300 --> 02:49:36,380
on the front side of the barn is unstable,

2153
02:49:36,620 --> 02:49:39,540
which is why we have to set the lobby back to begin with.

2154
02:49:39,840 --> 02:49:42,500
So with that, we did solicit a number

2155
02:49:42,500 --> 02:49:50,320
beds. We received a couple of them and we do recommend ordering to the low beds. I can

2156
02:49:50,320 --> 02:49:57,580
please represent any questions on the barn. Tim Clark mentioned today that it was this effort

2157
02:49:57,580 --> 02:50:04,060
was spearheaded by a couple of our Kent residents that are very involved at the Historical Society

2158
02:50:04,060 --> 02:50:06,800
Sharon Brassos and Nancy.

2159
02:50:07,760 --> 02:50:08,280
Absolutely.

2160
02:50:08,880 --> 02:50:09,560
So, Nancy Simpson.

2161
02:50:09,880 --> 02:50:10,500
Thank you.

2162
02:50:10,820 --> 02:50:12,200
It's been a long night.

2163
02:50:12,240 --> 02:50:13,760
Thank you for the help there.

2164
02:50:14,160 --> 02:50:17,320
So, very, they were both very passionate about saving this piece of our history.

2165
02:50:17,840 --> 02:50:21,200
So, I feel like this is a good, a good win on all fronts.

2166
02:50:22,360 --> 02:50:26,920
Seeing no questions, is there a motion for, let's start with the, the first item?

2167
02:50:27,820 --> 02:50:33,200
Yes, Madam Mayor, I would move to award the Kent Valley Signal System Upgrade Project to

2168
02:50:33,200 --> 02:50:43,840
North East Electric LLC in the amount of $820,869 in authorized the Mayor to sign all necessary

2169
02:50:43,840 --> 02:50:49,200
documents, subject to final terms and conditions acceptable to the City Attorney and Public

2170
02:50:49,200 --> 02:50:50,060
Works Director.

2171
02:50:51,260 --> 02:50:51,780
Have a motion.

2172
02:50:51,940 --> 02:50:52,140
Second.

2173
02:50:52,440 --> 02:50:52,860
Any discussion?

2174
02:50:53,780 --> 02:50:54,220
Seeing none.

2175
02:50:54,400 --> 02:50:55,160
All those in favor?

2176
02:50:55,580 --> 02:50:55,820
Aye.

2177
02:50:56,660 --> 02:50:57,220
Opposed?

2178
02:50:57,500 --> 02:50:58,980
Motion carries 7-0.

2179
02:50:59,440 --> 02:50:59,600
All right.

2180
02:50:59,700 --> 02:51:00,500
Moving on to the barn.

2181
02:51:00,960 --> 02:51:01,800
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

2182
02:51:01,800 --> 02:51:08,980
I would move to award the Historic Divorac Barn Relocation Project to Nickel Brothers in the

2183
02:51:08,980 --> 02:51:18,200
amount of $159,494.50 and authorize the mayor to sign all necessary documents, subject

2184
02:51:18,200 --> 02:51:22,640
to final terms and conditions acceptable to the City Attorney and Public Works Director.

2185
02:51:22,640 --> 02:51:23,500
Second.

2186
02:51:24,100 --> 02:51:24,400
The motion.

2187
02:51:24,580 --> 02:51:24,840
The second.

2188
02:51:25,060 --> 02:51:25,540
Any discussion?

2189
02:51:26,660 --> 02:51:27,080
Seeing none.

2190
02:51:27,220 --> 02:51:28,240
All those in favor?

2191
02:51:28,820 --> 02:51:28,840
Aye.

2192
02:51:29,340 --> 02:51:29,900
Opposed?

2193
02:51:30,300 --> 02:51:31,020
Motion carries.

2194
02:51:31,380 --> 02:51:31,560
Seven.

2195
02:51:31,720 --> 02:51:32,120
Zero.

2196
02:51:32,840 --> 02:51:33,380
All right.

2197
02:51:33,560 --> 02:51:36,940
With that, we are at item number 11, which is executive session.

2198
02:51:37,040 --> 02:51:41,600
We have several items to discuss, falling into the categories of current or potential

2199
02:51:41,600 --> 02:51:43,260
litigation and property negotiations.

2200
02:51:44,460 --> 02:51:48,280
Executive session is expected to last 20, 25 minutes.

2201
02:51:48,540 --> 02:51:51,340
There will be no action after executive session.

2202
02:51:51,340 --> 02:51:56,860
And so with that, if we could get Council Chambers emptied out and we'll have Council going

2203
02:51:56,860 --> 02:51:59,200
to Executive Session, thank you.

2204
02:52:05,460 --> 02:52:06,080
Welcome back.

2205
02:52:06,220 --> 02:52:08,440
The Council has just finished Executive Session.

2206
02:52:08,620 --> 02:52:11,540
There is no action following that session this evening.

2207
02:52:11,900 --> 02:52:17,460
So with that, after a very long meeting, it is now 10.30, this meeting is adjourned.

2208
02:52:17,580 --> 02:52:18,180
Have a good evening.