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A good evening and welcome to the August 17th regular city council meeting for the city of Ellensburg. We will again with pledge of allegiance, which I will lead.

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Pledge of allegiance to the fire of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Call the roll. Motion, here, good, low, here, lowquist, here, Elliot, Miller, here.

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Thompson here Josh okay yeah we'll start off on page seven we have an

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International Overdose Awareness Day and I'll remember a good low agreed.

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Proclamation not fall on International Overdose Awareness Day 2026.

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Whereas the City of Ellensburg does affirm and acknowledge the harm and

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hardship caused by drug overdose and whereas we recognize the purpose of

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international overdose awareness day as remembering loved ones lost to overdose and ending

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the stigma of drug related deaths. And whereas we resolved to play our part in reducing the

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toll of overdose in our community, which claimed the lives of 368 Washington State residents

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in the year 2025 with countless more affected forever. And whereas we recognized that in 2025,

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Kittitas County lost nine individuals to overdose, and whereas we recognize that first responders in Kittitas County have responded to an increased number of substance use related calls this past year.

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And whereas we affirm that the people affected by overdose are our family, friends, and community members who are deserving of our love, compassion, and support.

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And whereas death from overdose is preventable, whereas there continue to be deaths from stimulant

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use, and whereas overdose continues to increase both medical and other economic cost greatly

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impacting our society, and whereas substance abuse disorder, substance use disorder is a

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treatable disease, and the stigma and shame often are a barrier to seeking help.

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And now therefore be it resolved that the mayor of Ellensburg does hereby proclaim August 31st,

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2026 as international overdose awareness day and invites everyone to join in the August 31st

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event at Mountain View Park from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thank you. Item 3 is a special deal that's an

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award for the Elmsburg Natural Gas Division and the city manager and everybody can talk first.

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I would just say we're going to spend just a couple of few minutes this evening celebrating

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an amazing achievement by our natural gas division. And the progress toward this award began more

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than six years ago. We have decades of amazing operational history and safety. And there was a

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commitment to actually become recognized for that.

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And so, buddy's going to talk, buddy is our energy services director.

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He's going to talk a little bit about how we got here today.

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And we're going to start off with a video.

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Yeah, a good evening, Mayor's Council, buddy,

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Senator Chennergy, services director.

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Before I start, yes, so the gas team was awarded the gold level.

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One of the highest awards handed out by the American Public Gas Association.

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One of only 16 public gas systems in the country who have achieved this immense honor.

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But it has taken, like Heidi said, over seven years of deliberate work to get here, and

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it recognizes system integrity, system improvement, workforce development, safety, and much more.

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And it's a continuous improvement award.

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So it's going above and beyond the regulations that very strict regulations that are placed on us

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So with that here's a quick video.

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The City of Elmsberg's natural gas utility takes great pride in our 70 year history of

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Delivering safe reliable natural gas to over 5,000 customers in our service area

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Our award-winning utility would not be possible without the unwavering dedication of our remarkable

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employees. We bring care and expertise to the utility every single day.

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National awards for environmental stewardship, safety and operational excellence demonstrate

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the continued commitment to all aspects of the utility. Ensuring our infrastructure stays

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reliable for decades to come.

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So the majority of the gas team is with us tonight. Thank you everyone for being here and for

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We're all that you've done, we really appreciate it.

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Council, I have a statement to make, but do you guys have anything to ask or say?

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Just congratulations.

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Thank you for your work and

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where's Darren, you see?

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Yeah, he could have made it tonight, but yes, big shout out to him, he put a lot of work into this.

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And I just like to say on behalf of the city, and no offense to the public, but the reason I even got involved in city council,

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was I worked for the city up until 2005, and I recognize that I worked in multiple cities,

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Bellevue, ZTAC, other governmental entities, and the level of service and commitment for

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our employees is significantly higher than in other communities that I've been around.

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And then subsequently, I work with the utilities in my other capacity, and

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And I just like to say that it's always professional,

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it's always efficient, it's timely.

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And I just, I really appreciate you guys.

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And I think that goes a long way towards minimizing

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the problems that we have.

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But when there's a problem that pops up, we deal with it.

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And people get back online and they're safe.

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So I appreciate that.

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So thank you.

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By the way, this is 16 out of 730.

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So yeah, that would be number.

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So thank you.

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Very incredible.

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So I'm wondering if we can take just a little break

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and do a photo.

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We have the award here. It's pretty impressive with our gassing.

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And I would recognize there are folks here who are current and past employees who joined us for tonight.

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Do you want us to?

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Yeah.

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Do you want me to count the little council kids?

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No, everybody.

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I don't want to share with my boss while I'm staying still.

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Got a little power to go in.

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Don't drop it.

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Are you going to drop it?

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No, drop.

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That's all I got.

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All right.

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Everybody in together.

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Thank you.

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No worries.

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Is this not all right?

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Thank you all.

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Thank you.

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Josh, we'll superimpose you on the green screen.

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Let's pay back, right?

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Okay, approval of the agenda before which does anybody on council or in the audience wish to move anything on consent agenda?

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To approve the agenda.

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Second.

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We have a motion second to approve the agenda as presented in the discussion.

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Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

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That motion passes.

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Consent agenda.

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Move to approve the consent agenda.

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Second.

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We have a motion second to approve the consent agenda as presented in any discussion.

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Harry Nguyen, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

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We've made our way all the way to page 104.

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This is Petitions, Protests and Communications.

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Item 6A is the Ellen's Burghs Ash Yakima Humane Society and we are going to get an Ellen's Burgh Animal Shelter update.

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There will be an opportunity for public comment.

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Hi, everyone.

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Thank you for having me tonight.

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My name is Jeff Boyd.

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I am the executive director of the Yakima Humane Society and the Ellen's Burgh Humane Society.

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I want to give you all an update here because as you know, we signed a new contract with you all at the beginning of the year.

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And one of the things we're most excited about and that agreement was to re-brand the old Ellensburg animal shelter to the Ellensburg Humane Society.

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And give it its own identity, its own website, just basically not have it be a part of Yakima Humane Society anymore.

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We really wanted to this community to feel like this is their own because it is their own and the funds that they donate to us go back to the animals in their community.

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So I don't have slides today, I have these passouts here, hopefully each have a brochure.

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But what we're going to start with is some numbers.

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Okay, so this graph, as you can see here, just kind of shows the impact we've had since taking over the Ellensburg Animal Shelter, which was in August of 2022.

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So you can see that number is a little unfair because that's only based on five months of data.

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I didn't have your data for the prior seven months, but if you extrapolate that out,

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you still see a big improvement as we've been kind of able to increase the capacity of intakes,

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which is animals that come in as strays or owner surrenders and come in through animal

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control and Heidi who does great work and we've become great partners with Heidi, animal control

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officer Heidi and city manager Heidi of course as well. But yeah this team's been super supportive

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of our work and I've really enjoyed our partnership and as you can see, adoptions have also gone up

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significantly, which shows that the community continues to get more involved on the outcome side.

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What we've noticed is when we take a new marketing campaign like this, which obviously has a few goals and objectives.

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In addition to the fundraising aspect, there's the community that realizes, wow, these services are out there for us to take advantage of.

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Which is what we want to do other than sometimes the demand greatly and significantly outweighs our capacity to help folks.

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So we just can't take an unlimited number of animals as strays and surrenders.

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So we have a system, especially on owner's surrender side, where they'll call us and if we can't take the animal and immediately we put you on a waiting list and then we call you back when space becomes available.

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And as we're getting ready to actually send this out to about 5,000 folks who live, not just in Ellensburg, but the other cities here in Kittitas, Kleeellown, Roslin, the city of Kittitas, excuse me.

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And so that's obviously a big branding fundraising push, but I also think it's going to let a lot of folks know that we have this service available to them in terms of folks who don't need to re-home their animals, or especially our spay and neuter services which run through Yakima humane.

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And literally this morning, I'm very happy to announce that we actually just received a $100,000 grant for our spay and neuter services.

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Now, that's not specific to Kittitas, but it's for our clinic, which offers an innovative $99 surgery to cats and dogs,

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which is a pretty much unheard of price to only folks who live in Yakima and Kittitas counties.

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So that's a really cool thing that we're really excited.

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We've been doing that actually for the last five, six months, but I've been unable to sustain it without this grant.

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So I applied for this grant last month and literally found out this morning that we received that so

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we can have that going through the end of the year, which would be super helpful.

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So, in sitting numbers, I can give you a hand out if you'd like.

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If you're interested in this data, I brought some copies here, because, again, I'm sorry, I don't have slides.

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But the council members should have this.

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So that's kind of the data there in terms of things just to continue to increase on the intakes and outcomes fronts.

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Beyond adoptions, because you might wonder why there's a difference between intakes and adoptions.

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Twofold, there's a lot of return to owners.

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So if an animal comes in, we still code it as an intake even though it's then returned to the owner who comes and finds it

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That's part of the purpose of a shelter and then we also transfer animals out to West Side rescue organizations

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In fact, we then Yakima too. It's about a 25% rate and we're lucky to have those partners or we'd be we wouldn't be able to take in as many animals

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So that's kind of the numbers on that front and then I just want to touch base again on the rebrand

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And I don't know if anyone has been able to come down to the shelter recently and see

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the new red paint job and the new Ellen'sburg Humane Society logo.

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We're really excited about that.

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We just had a photographer out about six weeks ago as we were finalizing a very new website

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which is the Ellen'sburghumane.org, so a completely separate site.

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We've got that up now.

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And again, we've got our logo and we've got marketing materials that we're about to send

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out for a direct mail campaign.

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And most importantly, it's leading up to a big event on October 3rd at the fairgrounds, which is going to be our first annual fundraiser for the Ellensburg Humane Society, hope to see you all there, by the way, you can give you more information.

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But we're really excited about that to, again, help increase our revenues on the fundraising side.

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So yeah, the two big campaigns we have going on from the fundraising perspective are this direct mail.

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it's going to go out to 5,000 residences, and then this big event that we're having on October 3rd, which is hard to be about six weeks away.

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Now I know I have a time limit here and you got lots to get to, so I better save it for Q&A, so I'm happy to answer any questions that the council members have or the community.

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Please, please ask.

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I'll start with council questions,

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other than thank you, and when you close out, you let the community know if there's still opportunities to volunteer, the shelter, walking dogs, things like that.

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Yeah, and we are actually very lucky there has so one of the things that the paint job has done is I feel like I've seen half of the central Washington campus out to watch walk dogs for us.

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So we have a great, I've never seen like a turnout of volunteers like I have here, it's not nearly like this in Yakima, so that's amazing.

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And to your point that's without even promoting it, but absolutely there's an opportunity to come in and volunteer

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There's lots of ways, but there's nothing better than walking a dog that needs some time out of its kennel

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Anybody in the audience wish to speak

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And nobody online?

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Thank you, and thank you for the work that you're doing. This is cool. Thank you all. Appreciate you.

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Item 6B is recommendation appointment to the lodging tax advisory committee. There will be an opportunity for public comment. This is page 106.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council, Kelly Bandenberg, arts and economic development manager with the city of Ellensburg. When I was preparing for this evening's council meeting, I was thinking about the first time I met the

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the gentleman recommended for the lodging tax advisory committee.

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And I don't remember the actual event, but I remember he was volunteering.

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And that has been the running thread through everything that he and I have done together.

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Tonight, Steve Reed has been recommended by the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee for our open position.

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He is the owner of the Ames House bed and breakfast, but more than that, he and his family spent two, three years now, Steve, restoring the Ames House.

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And if you have not seen the inside, it's wonderful.

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He has served with a downtown association, he's currently on the Board of Directors with a downtown association and is known for historic preservation throughout the community in our downtown buildings and in our historic district.

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So it gives me great pleasure to introduce Steve Reed to you this evening.

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Mayor, council, city employees, as Kelly said, my name is Steve Reed, owner, operator of the Ames House.

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I've applied for a seat on the LTAC committee and so what I bring to the committee, and I hope you'll know yes, is so for my chosen career, I traveled every single week.

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So my record hotel night stays was 286 nights and one year, so I would travel throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, northern Europe, Asia.

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So, I bring to the LTAC committee the experiences of eating in these different cities, staying in hotels, meeting people, finding out what works, what doesn't work, things of that nature.

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So, I hope you guys have questions or not.

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Council, any questions of Mr. Reed?

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I don't.

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I'm reading the audience.

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No, we don't have any questions.

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Thank you for your interest.

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Thank you.

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So Council, I think we need to, are we affirming or are we actually making the appointment?

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We make the appointment.

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The emotions are to make the appointment.

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And to a point, Steve Reed to the lodging tax advisory committee.

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Second.

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We have a motion second to a point, Steve Reed to the lodging tax advisory committee discussion.

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Very none.

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All is in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Two will vote. I oppose that motion passes. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Item 6c is a presentation of historic resource map.

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This will be an opportunity for public comment. This is page 110.

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Good evening, Council.

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Stacy Henderson, Planning Manager.

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In 2024, the City of Allen's Berg was rewarded a certified local government grant funding to build a historic resource map on our city website.

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The goal for this was to be able to be accessible to the public as a helpful tool for people to learn about local history and buildings.

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This is an important and needed project as the information of our local historic districts was largely not digitized till now and could really only be found in our community development office.

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Story maps can be a great way to share large amounts of information and something we liked

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about it is that it can be built upon into the future.

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So the scope of this grant project and important first step was to develop the base information

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that includes our historic registry and makes this information searchable to the public.

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Looking to the future, this map can be built upon with various layers of information that

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I can continue to help build this map

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into an important tool for our community.

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City staff partnered with Spencer Howard

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of Northwest Vernacular Historic Preservation Consulting

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to create this map.

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He worked with our staff to help build this tool

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as we were able to take photographs

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and scan materials in-house and he did the rest.

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As the map is nearing completion,

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we wanted to share what we've created

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to help bring attention to this new available resource for the city. I will hand things off

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to Spencer now so he can give you a little more information about how it works.

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Stacy, thank you, Mayor Council. I'm delighted to be able to do a quick walk through through

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this story map. It scrolls down vertically, and as Stacy said, so we have a summary which gives for

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public a little bit of the background for the city's historic register,

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difference with the national register, but the purpose of this was, and how to use this

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for smartphone navigation. This says we template works both for desktop use, and if you're

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walking around the city with your smartphone, and you can turn on location services, and we'll

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talk about that a little bit more, and we get to one of the other maps. So this bar across

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here, across the top, is an navigation bar. So we have landmarks, we have landmark districts,

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and then we have the sandborne fire insurance maps and then credits.

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So we'll jump through this fairly quickly, but for the landmarks,

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so these are the six individually designated city of Ellensburg landmarks.

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So each of these are shown on the map.

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You can zoom in on them.

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You can click on the individual property.

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It has space for photographs.

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and then we have a hyperlink for the PDF of the nomination that staff scanned as critical information address when it was built, when it was landmarked.

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Then a quick summary on the back down below the landmark districts. We have two, the downtown Ellensburg historic district and the first railroad addition historic district.

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So it gives a little brief background about those.

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Again, we've got the National Register nominations linked for those as well as the designating

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ordnance for them and similar structures with the landmarks.

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So you have a grid of the individual properties.

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You can click into each one and be able to get photographs, additional background on here.

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You can see we're still working through on some of the draft elements on this.

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But it'll take you through each one for the downtown and then for the first railroad.

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So again, nomination, designating ordinance because of limitations on the site, we had

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this split the district into two portions.

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So we've got the west third and then we've got the east two thirds and it's the same structure.

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One of the critical things is if you're using your smartphone, when you're on this

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map, and if you're walking through the neighborhood or downtown, it will show a little blue dot

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on the map where you are. So if you want to click on the house, it's there, or your

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or at your house, you can see that information, and you could effectively do a quick walking tour.

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So one of the parts we're really excited about, and this came from the work from one of the

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commissioners from the historic landmarks and design commission,

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is he, both from the Library of Congress and your reference, the Historic Sanborn Fire Insurance

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Maps from 1888 all the way through 1909. So then we, you can click on those CDGIS staff, pull those in

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and create this face map. And what it allows you to do is to be able to zoom in. And this, you can expand

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it for a larger map, but for kind of demonstration purposes. You can see what was there at the time

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that that map was made. So in 1889, this is the building that was there at this location.

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Again, if you're using it on the smartphone, your blue dot will show where you are relative to this.

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So it makes a really fun way to explore the historic layers of the city. Look at what's there.

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with the Library of Congress maps,

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is they have a ton of detail.

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There's color coding.

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That's all it's blamed up a little bit further

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in the key for that.

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So a lot for the public to explore.

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And then credits as well.

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So again, city staff did an immense amount of scanning

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and all the current photographs.

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And then city GIS staff were amazing

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for being able to get all of the state

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up hold into here for us, which helped a ton.

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Are there any questions?

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Council questions.

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Any questions from the audience or comments from the audience?

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Just thank you. This is really cool.

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Yeah, I think this is over here. This is cool.

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Looks fun.

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Awesome. Nice job you guys.

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Item 7 is public comment on non-agenda items.

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This is an opportunity for your people in the audience to discuss issues over which the

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council has control, over which affect the city.

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We have political statements for against a ballot measure announcing yourself as a candidate or against a candidate.

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We'll take people in the audience first and then we'll move on to anybody online.

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Comments limited to three minutes and nothing that's going to disrupt the orderly conduct of the meeting.

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We'll start with the list and Mr. Keller, when you introduce yourself, name, whether you represent your group individual or group or both, city, county, or other resident and the topic you wish to speak to.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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That's Keller, her city of Williamsburg, two topics.

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First, I had my hand up on your agenda modification.

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I don't know if that's a rule, but I'll speak to that.

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I was going to comment on the minutes of last meeting, and I hate being first every

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time, but under public comment, it has Pat Kelliger, okay, great.

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Well historically, it's always had the name of the person in, I mean, just a subject line

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or something other than just the name.

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The second part is this is a venue to be able to speak to all seven of you.

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The public can also submit a letter or email for public comment for non-agenda items.

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And I feel that at least those letters should be acknowledged or emails should be acknowledged

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in the subject line.

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You know, you don't have to respond to them, but at least, you know, if a public was looking at your minutes,

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you know, they could see that the public is, you know, it might run at a couple more pages to your agenda,

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but at least acknowledge that you are getting that information.

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The reason I am making public comment tonight is concerning Tier 1 power,

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which will be a big issue coming up.

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In federal hydropower was developed under a postage stamp system.

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Public power preference in express congressional purpose of

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benefiting domestic and rural consumers.

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Ellensburg should therefore apply its limited tier one allocation first to residential requirements.

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Thank you.

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Thank you Mr. Gilherr and apologize for missing your hand there.

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Anybody else in the audience on agenda items?

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We go to item 9a, which would be second reading and potential adoption of ordinance 4994, which would vacate a city easement located between Catherine Cottages and Radio Road.

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There will be an opportunity for public comment and this is page 112.

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Well, it evening, Council, Chris Horner, city attorney, as the mayor stated, this is ordinance 4994, second reading, which would vacate the city easement located on the east side of lot one of the Margaret's edition of the flat council conducted a public hearing and approved first reading of this ordinance on August 3, 2026, if council approves the ordinance tonight, a copy of the ordinance would be recorded with the Kittitas County Auditor's Office, and that would formally vacate the easement.

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With that, I will turn it back to Council.

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Council, questions of staff.

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Everybody in the audience who wishes to speak to this issue?

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The online council.

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Mr. Mayor, I move for a second reading and adoption of ordinance 4994,

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vacating a city easement located between Catherine Cottages and

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Radio Road and authorize the city manager to sign and record any necessary documents to complete this action.

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Second.

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second two. Conduct second reading ordinance 494 which would vacate the city's easement between

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cathering cottages and radio road discussion.

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We now will court call the roll.

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Oshan, yes. Good lo. Yes lowquast. Yes. Miller. Aye. Thompson. Yes. Elliott. Yes.

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In ordinance of the city council of the city of Elm's Park, Washington relating to vacating

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a city easement located between cathering cottages and radio road.

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Item 9B, page 121, public comment opportunity, this could be first reading

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in accordance for 993.

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Which would amend change funds.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council, Sarah Thorson, accountant three for financials. Before you tonight is ordinance 4993 amending change funds, first reading. This ordinance will update city code to align with the current utilization of petty cash revolving change funds for the city. This ordinance will repeal authorization for the Ellensburg Animal Shelter Change Fund and the Ellensburg Racket and Recreation.

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creation center change fund that are no longer being utilized.

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It will also reduce the authorization for the library change fund from $300 to $238.

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The reduction for the library is related to $62 that was previously utilized for

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a change drawer at the Hall home center that is no longer being utilized.

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That $62 was surrendered by the library in 2024 and

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deposited into the Treasurer's Cash Bank account.

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In working with Josephine at the library, they will no longer need that account and so we're reducing it to match that.

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Thank you.

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Council questions of staff?

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I don't feel like you should tell me if my CTR and shift ticket done, right?

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Different world.

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Anybody in the audience?

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Council.

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Council.

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I'll move to conduct first reading of ordinance 4993 amending

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Ellensburg City Code regarding change funds.

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Second.

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Motion second to conduct first reading of ordinance 4993 which would amend our change fund

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ordinance.

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Discussion?

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Hearing none.

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All those in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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My tool vote aye opposed.

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That motion passes.

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And ordinance of the City Council of the City of Ellensburg, Washington, relating to

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Chapter 2.16, funds, and amending section 2.16.2360, and repealing sections 2.16.2280 and 2.16.2610 of the Ellensburg City Code.

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Okay, item 9c is proposed ordinance, which is the first reading, ordinance 4995, which would deal with traffic provisions.

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Page 126, there will be an opportunity for public comment.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of City Council, Josh Matheson, Assistant City Engineer in the City of Ellensburg Public Works Department.

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Before you tonight is the first reading of Ordinance 4995 with proposed revisions to Title 8, the traffic section of the Ellensburg City Code.

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The proposed ordinance reflects traffic code revision requests from staff at three different intersections.

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The first is to correct the two-way stop traffic code by removing the intersection of Chestnut Street with third avenue since this location is already correctly identified in the all-way stop code.

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The second revision is to convert fifth avenue and Chestnut Street from a two-way stop to an all-way stop intersection.

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A recently completed traffic level of service analysis with the city's comprehensive plan update identified this intersection as nearly failing and needing to be converted to an all way stop to maintain adopted service levels.

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This request will remove this intersection from the two way stop traffic code section and add it to the all way stop section.

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Finally, request to install a stop sign for southbound traffic on Chestnut Street at Umptanum Road.

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The location will be added to the stopping required at certain cross streets traffic code.

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This intersection is currently uncontrolled and would benefit from adding southbound stop control

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due to increased traffic in the vicinity to access residential developments further south.

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With that, staff recommends that Council consider first reading of the proposed ordinance revising these portions of the traffic code.

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Council, questions of staff?

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I just thank you and as noted in the report, I've been hearing as others have about the fifth avenue.

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I'm just not intersection for quite a while,

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so people say just do it like you do it for your time.

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It's perfect, so I'm getting there.

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So thank you.

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Any questions of staff?

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Is anybody in the audience who wishes to speak to this matter?

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Council.

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I move, Council, consider first reading

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of traffic code ordinance 4995.

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Second.

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We have a motion second to conduct first reading

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of ordinance 4995, which deals with the listed traffic code

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revisions. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Two will vote aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion passes.

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An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Ellensburg, Washington relating to title 8 traffic

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and amending sections 8.36.40, 8.36.80, and 8.36.120 of the Ellensburg City Code.

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Okay item 9-D is resolution 2026-19, which would accept a donation from the Queen of Spades Garden Club.

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There will be an opportunity for public comment, this is page 149.

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All that for three slides.

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Brad Kays Park's Recreation Director from the City of Williamsburg, Gideven Council, Mr. Mayor.

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Before this evening is a resolution to accept a donation in the amount of $2,000 from the Queen of Spades Garden Club.

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for a beautification project at the entrance to the Rotary Park, and to approve the necessary budget adjustments associated with that donation.

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The Queens of Spades has a long history of supporting our department, whether it be downtown beautification projects or projects within city park facilities.

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This particular project is to enhance the entry into Rotary Park.

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We've actually already started some work with the Queens of Spades Club with some past donations that they've provided us to start the beautification

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of this area of the park.

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And so this gives you an idea of what the park entrance looked like back in 2023.

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And if you're familiar with the park, which I'm sure all of you are,

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when you first initially drive into the park, a lot of that is parking lot and kind of undeveloped area.

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What you see kind of often the distance developed is our small off leash dog park area that has some trees around it and some grass.

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And so we decided that as you enter into that park, we wanted to provide and

434
00:37:20,940 --> 00:37:24,680
give more of a true park feel as you're entering the park.

435
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:30,020
And so we started the process of doing some development there.

436
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:34,000
This photo illustrates the work that's been done already.

437
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:39,540
So there's some trees that have been planted already, as well as some grass and some irrigation.

438
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:48,240
So we want to expand and improve in this area with this generous donation from the Queens of Spades Garden Club.

439
00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:57,780
We will be purchasing a variety of trees and bushes and shrubs as well as the necessary irrigation to support that.

440
00:37:58,220 --> 00:38:03,320
All of the work will be done by our parks and recreation department and maintenance division staff.

441
00:38:03,540 --> 00:38:11,940
And so that gives you kind of the visual of the trees and the vegetation that will be purchasing with this money.

442
00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:21,120
So per Ellensburg City Code, Chapter 2.04, any donation in excess of $1,000 must be approved by Council.

443
00:38:22,340 --> 00:38:27,540
This donation will provide, as stated, the additional funding for the Parks and Recreation Department to do this work.

444
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,200
The resolution also authorizes the necessary budget adjustments to these funds.

445
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,820
And so with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions that the Council may have.

446
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,780
questions of staff.

447
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:41,700
Is there

448
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:43,300
anything going to be in that circle?

449
00:38:44,780 --> 00:38:46,180
Not planned right now, no.

450
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:47,760
Because it's hard to get irrigation.

451
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:49,580
Yeah, it is hard to get it.

452
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,060
We do have a planter in that area that has flowers in it.

453
00:38:53,140 --> 00:38:54,020
So we do water that.

454
00:38:54,940 --> 00:38:57,520
It was you could kind of see it.

455
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:58,200
On the.

456
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,540
Oh, I guess you can't see it.

457
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,140
It's just kind of off screen,

458
00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:09,080
But we do have one of the old actually one of the old round planners from downtown that we surplus

459
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,060
We we had some extra down to city shop and so we put one in that location

460
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,240
And our new transit stop is

461
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,540
It's to the it's to the left of this photo the correct as a function of the L or the entrance

462
00:39:20,540 --> 00:39:21,060
I think

463
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,600
The landscaping in the transit stop. I think are nice enhancements

464
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:32,220
Is there not part of this but is there a plan for the post? They look like mallards, but they're just like

465
00:39:32,220 --> 00:39:40,140
Whatever their post is that for the rustic look are we going to do something with that the the purpose behind that is to keep people from jumping the curb

466
00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:44,380
Yeah, I get the idea of the purpose, but I mean visually is that what we want. I mean yes, okay

467
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Rustic will just say

468
00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:50,680
Well, and long-term there's actually

469
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:57,980
A parking area that's that's to the north side of the of the off-leash area as well

470
00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:02,940
So you can leash up the dogs there too when you go in the park or your horse whatever you want to do it's good perfect

471
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,480
Anybody in the audience wish to speak to this issue?

472
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:11,300
Council

473
00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:19,540
I'll move to adopt resolution 2026 19 accepting the donation of

474
00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:21,940
$2,000 from the Queen of Spades

475
00:40:21,940 --> 00:40:28,840
Garden Club for a beautification project at the entrance of Rotary Park and approve the necessary budget adjustments

476
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:29,500
Second.

477
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:35,400
Motion second to adopt resolution 2026-19, which accepts the $2,000 donation for the entrance

478
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:40,220
to a road report from the Queen of Spades and authorizes budget adjustments discussion.

479
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,580
I would just say thank you to the Queen of Spades.

480
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:43,040
Yes.

481
00:40:43,220 --> 00:40:43,600
The next one.

482
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,020
Thank you very much.

483
00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:45,820
Appreciate your donation.

484
00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:48,300
When will that project start?

485
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:49,200
We'll start on the fall.

486
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:50,160
Okay.

487
00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:53,600
Any further discussion?

488
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,280
All those in favor signify by saying aye.

489
00:40:56,820 --> 00:40:57,040
Aye.

490
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:57,440
Aye.

491
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,920
I too will, when I opposed, that motion passes.

492
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:01,400
Thank you.

493
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,160
Thank you.

494
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:09,560
Item 11A, page 151, this is a lodging tax advisory committee funding recommendation for the Ellensburg Recreation Center.

495
00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:12,980
Also known as the field house, there will be an opportunity for public comment.

496
00:41:19,020 --> 00:41:20,120
Good evening, Council.

497
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:31,380
Kelly Vandenberg, arts and economic development manager, speaking with you again this evening regarding the Ellensburg lodging tax recommendation to support the Ellensburg Recreational Center.

498
00:41:31,380 --> 00:41:33,520
otherwise known as the Field House.

499
00:41:34,460 --> 00:41:40,300
The Ellen's Book Lodging Tax Committee believes strongly in this project, the Ellen's Book Recreational Center project.

500
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:49,140
It is a direct investment into lodging tax future funding opportunities with the growth of recreational tourism throughout the state and the nation.

501
00:41:49,920 --> 00:42:01,280
This investment in the facility aligns with the intended use of lodging tax funds by supporting tourism related activities and facilities that have potential to generate overnight stay.

502
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,420
and increased visitor spending in local economy.

503
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:18,780
Approval of this motion would authorize the use of lodging tax funds consistent with LTAC recommendation and would support the city's broader goals related to tourism promotion, economic development, recreation and community vitality.

504
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:28,940
Recreational tourism, we will get to later on this evening as part of the economic development chapter in the comp plan is recognized as

505
00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:39,100
a emerging market in tourism and a fast-growing one. So it would be wonderful if Council would

506
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:43,160
recommend this as the staff has written in the staff report.

507
00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:45,980
Council, questions of staff.

508
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,580
Anybody in the audience wish to comment or question?

509
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Council.

510
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:53,280
Council.

511
00:42:56,290 --> 00:43:02,710
Mr. Mayor, I move to approve lodging tax advisory committee funding recommendation to

512
00:43:02,710 --> 00:43:11,150
award $1 million of lodging tax funds in 2028 for capital cost and dedicate $100,000 per

513
00:43:11,150 --> 00:43:19,150
year for three years from 2029 to 2031 to support operational cost of the Ellensburg Recreation

514
00:43:19,150 --> 00:43:19,590
Center.

515
00:43:19,590 --> 00:43:20,930
Second.

516
00:43:21,530 --> 00:43:22,250
Second.

517
00:43:22,250 --> 00:43:30,730
Second to approve the LTEx funding recommendation for $1 million in lodging tax funds in 2028 for capital costs.

518
00:43:31,570 --> 00:43:39,670
And it's subsequently $100,000 per year for 2029 to 31, to support operational costs at the Ellensburg Recreation Center discussion.

519
00:43:40,590 --> 00:43:44,610
Just appreciate the lodging tax committees consideration of this.

520
00:43:45,390 --> 00:43:54,430
Yeah, as the lodging text, based on it was unanimous, I mean it wasn't even a question on, so it's a very good presentation.

521
00:43:55,010 --> 00:44:01,770
I wanted to thank the committee for that, and I think it's very, if you look at it, it's a very thoughtful way to allocate the funds, and I also,

522
00:44:02,070 --> 00:44:12,010
please to see the fund balance both before and after, so I think it's a very responsible use of our resources, our community's resources, so thank you for their discussion.

523
00:44:13,650 --> 00:44:15,970
Here we none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

524
00:44:16,410 --> 00:44:16,630
Aye.

525
00:44:16,950 --> 00:44:17,110
Aye.

526
00:44:17,650 --> 00:44:18,750
The tool vote I opposed.

527
00:44:19,450 --> 00:44:20,570
That motion passes.

528
00:44:20,810 --> 00:44:21,150
Thank you.

529
00:44:22,030 --> 00:44:23,990
Item 11B, page 154.

530
00:44:24,230 --> 00:44:30,730
This is a potential amendment, professional services agreement, between the City of Ellensburg and the Ellensburg Downtown Association.

531
00:44:31,150 --> 00:44:31,770
This is your night.

532
00:44:33,670 --> 00:44:34,770
We need to see warmer.

533
00:44:34,770 --> 00:44:36,830
Do I need to introduce myself again?

534
00:44:37,390 --> 00:44:42,010
Kelly Vandenberg, arts and economic development manager with the City of Ellensburg, Good evening, Council.

535
00:44:42,830 --> 00:44:58,830
We are here, again this evening, to make a suggested motion to approve amendment 82758-01 to the professional services agreement between the City of Ellensburg and the Ellensburg Downtown Association as presented.

536
00:44:58,830 --> 00:44:59,970
or...

537
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,360
Substantially similar form and authorize the city's manager to assign the amendment. The EDA has been a city partner in downtown beautification for many years. We continue that partnership with the latest beautification project with historic photo wraps and the photos will highlight historic downtown buildings, businesses, events, central Washington University historic photos and our rodeo and ranching farming heritage throughout our community.

538
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:35,620
the photos will be done in CPF, fast lane signs will be doing the wraps and we think this is

539
00:45:35,620 --> 00:45:42,060
an incredible way to bring our historic culture and preserve our historic nature within the

540
00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:47,600
downtown as well as utilize our larger capacity wind resistant trash cans.

541
00:45:51,080 --> 00:46:00,800
And with that, I would happily suggest and recommend for council improvement of amendment 827501.

542
00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:10,240
Oh, do I want to talk? Yes, Heidi. On the dias you will find a draft sales sheet that

543
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:19,480
the EDA plans on using also in this format or in a very similar format so that you get

544
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:26,860
a look at what the intent is behind this project. This project does have quite a bit of community

545
00:46:26,860 --> 00:46:27,360
support.

546
00:46:30,010 --> 00:46:32,630
So I have a question. We

547
00:46:34,710 --> 00:46:38,330
need to make a motion first. Go ahead. Will the

548
00:46:38,330 --> 00:46:42,150
reps cover the whole all four sides or just one side? All four sides.

549
00:46:44,850 --> 00:46:47,010
And so on the

550
00:46:47,010 --> 00:46:54,790
inside pages of this you have other verbiage options. Where would those go? So you'll

551
00:46:54,790 --> 00:47:00,750
see also in there they'll be on the bottom of the can. So the template of the can

552
00:47:00,750 --> 00:47:08,450
itself will always be photograph and then the bottom space for either verbiage and or the name

553
00:47:08,450 --> 00:47:15,850
of a family or an organization and or the businesses logo. So it'd be at the bottom but you could

554
00:47:15,850 --> 00:47:24,670
also, it's not, it doesn't replace the family name or whatever it just adds, it's additional. Okay.

555
00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:32,030
It's going to ask, so EDA is managing the recruitment and the sponsorship.

556
00:47:32,510 --> 00:47:32,690
Correct.

557
00:47:33,470 --> 00:47:38,470
Two questions, do we know if it's, is it first come for a service sort of thing?

558
00:47:39,070 --> 00:47:51,710
No, no, it is, the program is designed for fundraisers for the EDA as well as the sponsorship opportunity for downtown businesses and or families throughout the community.

559
00:47:51,710 --> 00:47:55,850
It's 250 per side or 750 for a whole trash can.

560
00:47:56,670 --> 00:48:08,110
So, and the way the selection happens is the business or the organization or the individual will be able to select from a topic whether it's historic downtown buildings,

561
00:48:09,550 --> 00:48:15,950
rodeo or historic CW. And then the EDA subcommittee will actually select the photos.

562
00:48:17,070 --> 00:48:19,270
So, there's some checks and balances in there.

563
00:48:19,270 --> 00:48:23,710
to do the sponsors get to choose their can, or is it up to the selection committee, okay?

564
00:48:24,310 --> 00:48:28,090
So a business may want a can right by their business, but may or may not happen.

565
00:48:29,450 --> 00:48:31,710
What's the timeline for getting these wrapped?

566
00:48:31,850 --> 00:48:37,950
They would like to start and have at least some done for the places conference in October.

567
00:48:38,550 --> 00:48:39,030
Oh, nice.

568
00:48:40,530 --> 00:48:43,010
I think these are great, so yeah, it's a great idea.

569
00:48:43,690 --> 00:48:45,890
I told my big goal for your can, if you'd talk to one.

570
00:48:45,890 --> 00:48:47,950
Do we call these the big dumper cans now?

571
00:48:48,170 --> 00:48:48,570
Is that okay?

572
00:48:50,150 --> 00:48:51,710
They've been called many things.

573
00:48:52,630 --> 00:48:54,610
I think the foot pedal takes some getting used to.

574
00:48:55,250 --> 00:48:57,630
People look at it and can't quite figure it out.

575
00:48:57,910 --> 00:49:01,830
They do. When we've selected, when we finalized on this style of can,

576
00:49:02,570 --> 00:49:04,930
the idea was always to be able to wrap the cans.

577
00:49:05,290 --> 00:49:05,370
Yeah.

578
00:49:05,950 --> 00:49:06,030
Yeah.

579
00:49:07,030 --> 00:49:12,090
And I can't think of a better way to do that than with the history of our community.

580
00:49:13,070 --> 00:49:15,170
Well, you could put pictures of City Council members on.

581
00:49:15,170 --> 00:49:17,610
I mean, well, there is that, David. I do stand corrected.

582
00:49:17,890 --> 00:49:20,010
I stand corrected, you're right.

583
00:49:20,630 --> 00:49:23,050
There are other options. There are other options.

584
00:49:24,030 --> 00:49:25,910
That might be a little more than 750.

585
00:49:26,330 --> 00:49:28,630
Yeah, I think that will be a little harder, I think, yeah.

586
00:49:29,610 --> 00:49:30,110
Thank you.

587
00:49:30,350 --> 00:49:33,110
Any further questions? Anybody in the audience?

588
00:49:33,310 --> 00:49:33,710
Just to speak.

589
00:49:35,610 --> 00:49:36,270
Okay, Council.

590
00:49:38,450 --> 00:49:43,610
Well, Mr. Mayor, I move the approval of Amendment A2758-01

591
00:49:43,610 --> 00:49:47,950
one, to the professional service agreement between the City of Ellensberg and the Ellensberg

592
00:49:47,950 --> 00:49:54,210
Downtown Association, EDA, as presented or in substantially similar form, and authorize

593
00:49:54,210 --> 00:49:56,090
the city manager to sign the amendment.

594
00:49:57,130 --> 00:49:57,770
Second.

595
00:49:58,290 --> 00:50:03,910
Motion second to approve the amendment 275801, to the professional services agreement between

596
00:50:03,910 --> 00:50:10,030
the city and the EDA, as presented, and authorize the city manager to sign the amendment.

597
00:50:10,030 --> 00:50:10,670
I have a statement, discussion.

598
00:50:12,530 --> 00:50:13,610
Perry Nen, all of the favorites.

599
00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:14,550
Signify by saying aye.

600
00:50:15,050 --> 00:50:15,330
Aye.

601
00:50:15,530 --> 00:50:15,550
Aye.

602
00:50:15,550 --> 00:50:15,690
Aye.

603
00:50:16,110 --> 00:50:16,390
Aye.

604
00:50:16,390 --> 00:50:16,510
Aye.

605
00:50:16,770 --> 00:50:16,930
Aye.

606
00:50:17,150 --> 00:50:17,190
Aye.

607
00:50:17,190 --> 00:50:17,250
Aye.

608
00:50:19,570 --> 00:50:19,850
Aye.

609
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:19,890
Aye.

610
00:50:19,890 --> 00:50:19,950
Thank you.

611
00:50:21,530 --> 00:50:25,930
Item 11C is second quarter of 2026 financial statement and investment reports.

612
00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:27,710
There will be an opportunity for public comment.

613
00:50:27,810 --> 00:50:28,970
This is page 167.

614
00:50:29,270 --> 00:50:29,650
I'm

615
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:49,440
sufficient.

616
00:50:49,700 --> 00:50:49,900
Good job.

617
00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:51,380
May I get it?

618
00:50:51,860 --> 00:50:52,200
All right.

619
00:50:52,580 --> 00:50:53,020
Almost.

620
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:54,260
He's coming in.

621
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,140
Get back off.

622
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,640
You doubted me.

623
00:51:00,020 --> 00:51:00,580
You like a shark?

624
00:51:00,980 --> 00:51:01,200
You know it?

625
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:02,740
It's circling.

626
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:05,740
Good evening, Council Mayor.

627
00:51:05,740 --> 00:51:09,060
Early at Jericho Pasco Finance Director for the City of Elmford.

628
00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:20,940
Beginning on page 170 of your genders report are the quarter to 2026 financial status and investment reports for the period ending March 31st of 2026.

629
00:51:21,820 --> 00:51:23,340
You're going to try to speed this up today.

630
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:30,660
Not a lot has changed from first quarter to second quarter and it's still very difficult to make a lot of projections when you're early in second quarter.

631
00:51:30,660 --> 00:51:34,900
So I'm not going to go through every chart and every description here.

632
00:51:34,980 --> 00:51:38,160
I'm just going to hit some of the major top points today.

633
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:51,620
So I think if we go ahead and jump to 171 of which would be tabled to, of the report

634
00:51:51,620 --> 00:51:59,000
there just to note that so far for our year-to-date revenue remitted from this state of Washington

635
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,200
in sales tax activity.

636
00:52:00,820 --> 00:52:04,700
We are up 7% compared to second quarter of 2025.

637
00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:08,400
Majority of that is due to actual sales tax,

638
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,320
which I'll talk about a little bit more here in table five.

639
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,040
These other charts that I'm skipping

640
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,020
are actual projections to budget.

641
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:28,080
So since we adjust budget a year and it isn't as valuable.

642
00:52:31,060 --> 00:52:33,360
Looking at table fairly private here,

643
00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:35,960
we have year-to-date sales tax activity.

644
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:46,800
So, as you can see, sales tax compared to second quarter is up that 9.19% between in mind, again, that regular retail trade is down 0.3%.

645
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:54,520
Quarter two is actually up 33.5% compared to quarter two of 2024.

646
00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:56,780
So it's continued to go up.

647
00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:01,000
It's again due to a big project that we have here in town.

648
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:16,120
We were under the impression that the professional scientific and tech service purchases for that project is about near the end of those purchases, but we will continue to see some construction payments for that for a while.

649
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:22,980
The construction again had the highest dollar increase with the real estate and rental lease having the highest percentage increase.

650
00:53:22,980 --> 00:53:33,320
The retail trade continues to decline and is down 0.3% from Q2 2025 and down 2.4% from Q2 2024.

651
00:53:34,530 --> 00:53:41,820
If I went ahead and took out the construction sales tax, the sales tax would actually be

652
00:53:41,820 --> 00:53:47,860
up less than 0.1% over 2025, so it is all due to construction.

653
00:53:47,860 --> 00:53:54,100
And again, these revenues are from cells for November 2025 through April of 2026.

654
00:53:56,990 --> 00:54:01,890
Looking at the utility tax, which is another big portion of our taxes that we receive.

655
00:54:01,890 --> 00:54:08,610
We are actually down 4.56% from 2026, but I spoke about it last year, each quarter, and

656
00:54:08,610 --> 00:54:13,930
I'll probably talk about it through this year until it runs out.

657
00:54:13,930 --> 00:54:21,230
But that is due to a large PIF plant investment fees that were paid for it first quarter of 2025.

658
00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:26,690
A lot of people put in for those building permits and stuff prior to some building code changes.

659
00:54:26,930 --> 00:54:30,030
And so we knew it was going to skew our numbers for the next two years.

660
00:54:30,390 --> 00:54:37,690
So we really wouldn't be down in the utility taxes if it wasn't for that excess revenue that we received in first quarter of 2025.

661
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:46,780
So just for quick, the water, that's not a consumption drop because people are following their plea.

662
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,880
No, no, no, I don't know if you'll get a better sense.

663
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:51,840
I tried that one, it didn't work.

664
00:54:52,180 --> 00:54:52,840
Not even close.

665
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,880
Second court, this one's only through June.

666
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,720
That's true, yeah, but not expecting more.

667
00:54:57,820 --> 00:55:05,540
Table 7, so General Fund Revenue's expenditures, budget to actual, the big takeaway here is that in the budget for the year,

668
00:55:05,540 --> 00:55:09,600
We were budgeting to use about 3.5 million and fund balance.

669
00:55:09,860 --> 00:55:16,220
The projection is to use just under or just over 150,000 of fund balance due to some

670
00:55:16,220 --> 00:55:21,300
excess revenue that we're receiving a lot of it due to under the miscellaneous column

671
00:55:21,300 --> 00:55:25,740
which would be interest earned and some excess taxes that we're receiving and then of course

672
00:55:25,740 --> 00:55:31,320
we always work hard to underspend our budget and we're projected to underspend the budget

673
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:32,880
by about 2.3 million.

674
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:33,780
And

675
00:55:38,060 --> 00:55:43,840
then going on to Table 9, the Citywide Report, this shows that the city's brought in

676
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:51,400
an approximately 14 million more than it spent through quarter two of 2026, sorry, of this

677
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:56,900
revenue over expenditures, 10.25 million of that is attributable to the utility and

678
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:58,300
internal service funds.

679
00:55:58,740 --> 00:56:03,460
The general fund, including the managerial funds which are shown in blue, there recorded a

680
00:56:03,460 --> 00:56:06,020
net gain of 472,000.

681
00:56:06,260 --> 00:56:10,620
However, majority of this is attributed to the $407,000

682
00:56:10,620 --> 00:56:14,180
animal shelter donation that we received in quarter two.

683
00:56:19,420 --> 00:56:22,640
And then jumping to investments at the end of Q2,

684
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,700
we had about 93.5 million invested of that.

685
00:56:27,140 --> 00:56:30,340
We had around 70.4 million in the LGIP.

686
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,680
The LGIP rate is still holding strong.

687
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:41,680
it was about 3.7 percent at the end of Q2. The feds had continued to talk about some possible

688
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:46,600
rate increases, but with numbers that came in most recently, we're probably not going to see

689
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:52,780
interest rate increase until maybe quarter four now, but we're not going to be seeing any

690
00:56:52,780 --> 00:56:59,580
decreases, so these are probably going to hold strong. We also continued to, in second quarter,

691
00:56:59,580 --> 00:57:06,560
reinvest some of the investments that matured, and we're able to get around 3.75 for some

692
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:14,860
five-year investments. So when rates, and if they do drop, LGIP drops, we have something

693
00:57:14,860 --> 00:57:19,580
locked in at about a higher rate in our portfolio. Overall, staff recommends that

694
00:57:19,580 --> 00:57:23,320
council accept the report as presented, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

695
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:23,560
Questions?

696
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,300
Questions yourself?

697
00:57:25,660 --> 00:57:26,120
Questions.

698
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:26,440
So,

699
00:57:29,020 --> 00:57:36,380
on your table, well, I guess it's on the page with table six, so you said that the

700
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:42,260
if you take out construction, sales taxes up just like 0.1%.

701
00:57:44,180 --> 00:57:51,080
So our economy is essentially stagnant, and can you explain the role of inflation?

702
00:57:51,080 --> 00:58:00,200
I'm spending more at the grocery store, so are people spending less on other things?

703
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:07,100
I mean, people are typically buying what they have to and spending less on other non-necessity items.

704
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:17,560
And that's why we're really seeing a segment really in the retail cell, which is where we typically are able to gauge better our actual local economy.

705
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:22,120
because those necessities that we need, a lot of them are still point of delivery.

706
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,580
A lot of them are still being ordered off of Amazon and things like that are the locally grocery stores.

707
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,860
But it's the vehicles and it's the other things like that that people tend to put a hold on.

708
00:58:31,340 --> 00:58:36,800
I am surprised that accommodation and food services is still upward is, but a lot of that,

709
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:39,080
again, is probably increase in prices.

710
00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:41,920
It's not that people are able to are getting more.

711
00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:45,280
It's just that things are costing more and

712
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:55,300
And keeping in mind that this is December or November through April, so we still, we're behind in the leg of the trend there that we expect to continue to see in some of those.

713
00:58:55,780 --> 00:59:07,820
So on the retail trade, so essentially people are spending about the same, they're just getting less across the board, whether it's a tariff, impact or inflation or other things.

714
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,160
And that's just what we're stuck with, we don't control that.

715
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:17,540
And they may choose to buy food over clothes, you know, that people have about the same

716
00:59:17,540 --> 00:59:21,100
amount of money. They're just not, they're spending all the money that they have,

717
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:22,760
but they're not getting as much.

718
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:28,100
And I would encourage you. It's maybe not necessarily stagnant, but it could be also

719
00:59:28,100 --> 00:59:32,280
stable, so it's just not growing stable, but negative, I guess.

720
00:59:32,380 --> 00:59:37,820
And keeping in mind that other things that aren't, that people don't pay sales tax on are

721
00:59:37,820 --> 00:59:44,060
continuing to go up, utilities, you know, is a great example of that, you know, that

722
00:59:44,060 --> 00:59:48,680
comes out of people's everyday pockets and they have to decrease their their spending

723
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:49,900
sometimes elsewhere too.

724
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:51,600
Yeah.

725
00:59:51,980 --> 00:59:52,660
Okay.

726
00:59:53,140 --> 00:59:54,160
Any further questions?

727
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:55,700
Anybody in the audience?

728
00:59:55,700 --> 00:59:56,300
Wish to speak.

729
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:58,520
Coleman.

730
00:59:58,520 --> 00:59:58,660
one.

731
01:00:02,990 --> 01:00:04,190
Three minutes, same rules.

732
01:00:08,980 --> 01:00:31,720
William Coleman, resident of Kittitas, I just want to confirm what she said. I've been a manager on Main Street for 20 years. Everything is costing us more, but inflation has not trickled down into local paychecks. People are not spending like these two. It's bad. And it's not just us. I hear it from all over the local business community. Thanks. Thank you. Anybody else?

733
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,900
Okay. Council will give you a second quarter financial status.

734
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:44,100
Mr. Mayor, I move to accept the second quarter of 2026 financial status and investment

735
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:45,280
reports as presented.

736
01:00:46,500 --> 01:00:47,120
Second.

737
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,880
Motion second to accept the second quarter of 2026 financial status and investment reports

738
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,380
as presented in discussion.

739
01:00:54,860 --> 01:00:55,740
Here you none.

740
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,440
All those in favor signify by saying aye.

741
01:00:58,100 --> 01:00:58,300
Aye.

742
01:00:58,300 --> 01:00:58,640
Hi.

743
01:00:59,540 --> 01:01:00,700
Hi, Phil, will I oppose?

744
01:01:01,420 --> 01:01:02,500
Motion passes.

745
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,500
Item 11D page 182 in the packet.

746
01:01:08,050 --> 01:01:11,450
This is comprehensive plan chapter review economic development.

747
01:01:12,190 --> 01:01:12,870
Hello.

748
01:01:13,570 --> 01:01:16,510
This is the Kelly show.

749
01:01:16,610 --> 01:01:17,410
I can't get rid of me.

750
01:01:19,730 --> 01:01:22,490
Kelly Bandenberg, arts and economic development manager

751
01:01:22,490 --> 01:01:23,890
with the City of Ellensburg.

752
01:01:25,150 --> 01:01:28,910
And final item before you tonight from me, anyway,

753
01:01:28,910 --> 01:01:35,630
is the discussion of Chapter 8 of the comp plan, which is the economic development chapter.

754
01:01:36,710 --> 01:01:41,690
And I want to start by saying in the three years that I have been with the City of

755
01:01:41,690 --> 01:01:49,670
Ellensburg, I was most surprised by how much myself included did not realize what the

756
01:01:49,670 --> 01:01:51,530
city's role in economic development was.

757
01:01:52,690 --> 01:01:58,330
And I wanted Chapter 8 to be an educational, practical, future-facing

758
01:01:58,330 --> 01:02:03,170
that reflected the groundwork being done to build opportunities for the future of

759
01:02:03,170 --> 01:02:03,650
Ellensburg.

760
01:02:04,710 --> 01:02:06,590
What are our city's opportunities?

761
01:02:07,290 --> 01:02:12,350
What are some of the impacts of those opportunities and challenges that we need to consider with those opportunities?

762
01:02:12,930 --> 01:02:15,510
And what does this look like for Ellensburg's future?

763
01:02:17,950 --> 01:02:25,130
And in the staff report, I listed out some of the changes where content was revised,

764
01:02:25,130 --> 01:02:27,270
where it was refreshed and where it was new.

765
01:02:28,230 --> 01:02:33,990
But I really want to focus on the seven goals that we have listed in this chapter.

766
01:02:34,870 --> 01:02:40,350
The first goal being regional collaboration and economic leadership, excuse me, economic leadership.

767
01:02:41,190 --> 01:02:45,470
And we would strengthen the existing partnerships and

768
01:02:45,470 --> 01:02:53,010
expand those existing partnerships regionally to create a strong safety net of economic development

769
01:02:53,010 --> 01:02:58,270
throughout the county with Ellensburg being the economic development seat of that county.

770
01:02:59,450 --> 01:03:02,630
Two is economic resilience and diversification.

771
01:03:03,210 --> 01:03:14,130
As we've heard this evening, people are struggling and we need to develop diversification within our economic strategies so

772
01:03:14,130 --> 01:03:21,470
that we can create a resilient and diversified retail business trade and

773
01:03:21,470 --> 01:03:25,690
and expand those existing businesses and support our existing businesses.

774
01:03:26,750 --> 01:03:31,650
Goal three is workforce and talent development, and that's creating a strong and

775
01:03:31,650 --> 01:03:38,650
capable, innovative workforce that can rise to some of the challenges that are ahead of us in our workforce.

776
01:03:39,410 --> 01:03:43,010
Goal four is our business development and entrepreneurship, and

777
01:03:43,510 --> 01:03:48,550
that's really where we focus on supporting and expanding those existing businesses,

778
01:03:48,550 --> 01:03:52,650
while creating opportunities for new businesses to come into the community.

779
01:03:54,370 --> 01:03:58,210
Number five, infrastructure and economic competitiveness.

780
01:03:58,910 --> 01:04:05,290
Dedicating resources to long-term infrastructure planning that will support innovation in our future.

781
01:04:06,430 --> 01:04:09,950
Number six, is tourism, creative economy, and quality of place.

782
01:04:11,090 --> 01:04:17,250
We are incredibly fortunate to have an incredible quality of life in our community

783
01:04:17,250 --> 01:04:23,570
do to our heritage, our culture, and the people that call this place home.

784
01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:27,770
Strengthening that, building community pride while growing the economy.

785
01:04:28,970 --> 01:04:32,470
And number seven is commercial industrial and logistics development,

786
01:04:33,050 --> 01:04:37,650
leaning into and driving the logistical diversification and

787
01:04:37,650 --> 01:04:43,030
shape it for what Ellen's bird needs rather than waiting for it to shape Ellen's bird.

788
01:04:43,030 --> 01:05:06,470
So those are the goals as we have laid out in chapter 8, and I really wanted to, rather than give a presentation and go through kind of line by line, I wanted to open tonight up for questions from council for the chapter because this is really really more for discussion and for information.

789
01:05:06,470 --> 01:05:12,490
There's no action here. This is really intended to be the discussion between the community

790
01:05:13,930 --> 01:05:19,250
and Council on the comprehensive plan. So I'll open it up to questions from Council

791
01:05:19,250 --> 01:05:21,830
for Staff, and then we'll do a more round-robin open.

792
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:39,090
I have a question. So, when we talk about measuring the different sectors of the economy,

793
01:05:39,090 --> 01:05:48,990
I mean, it seems like a lot of that is based on employment, and for a few of the sectors,

794
01:05:49,790 --> 01:05:55,450
like the egg sector, there's a total value in the narrative.

795
01:05:57,630 --> 01:06:07,130
I would love to see a chart, a graph that has that total value for each of the sectors.

796
01:06:07,130 --> 01:06:24,310
Okay, just because employment is important, but I think it, in terms of the impact on the

797
01:06:24,310 --> 01:06:29,330
community, maybe the dollars, is also important.

798
01:06:29,630 --> 01:06:35,790
And I don't know that you're going to be able to do that because of consistent, there's

799
01:06:35,790 --> 01:06:37,210
It's not a consistent data source.

800
01:06:38,230 --> 01:06:39,530
We can give it a shot though.

801
01:06:41,530 --> 01:06:44,310
Yeah, we can take a look at that and I appreciate that.

802
01:06:46,900 --> 01:06:51,020
And maybe, you know, tax revenue is a surrogate,

803
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:52,280
but not really.

804
01:06:52,580 --> 01:06:55,720
I mean, the egg industry and their millions of dollars

805
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:59,840
versus the university and, you know,

806
01:07:00,220 --> 01:07:03,600
they're mostly payroll versus, anyway,

807
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,500
it's kind of apples and oranges,

808
01:07:06,500 --> 01:07:07,740
that it would be helpful.

809
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:11,140
Anybody else?

810
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:19,340
I just had a quick question on page 8181 of the plan 193 of our packet.

811
01:07:19,620 --> 01:07:20,280
Which speech, David?

812
01:07:20,420 --> 01:07:24,300
I'm sorry, graphic, the figure 8-8, the labor force participation

813
01:07:24,300 --> 01:07:25,420
193 of our packet.

814
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:26,860
193 of the packet, I'm sorry.

815
01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:30,660
Is there something weird going on with the end of the graph?

816
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,620
2025, the peak and the decline.

817
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:34,920
It just looked like a graphing error to me,

818
01:07:35,100 --> 01:07:37,840
and it didn't match the text when it talked about peak total workers.

819
01:07:38,280 --> 01:08:07,720
Oh, wait, I'm sorry. I did. 28. I missed. I'm sorry. I transpose that. Other is 25. Okay. So we have a peak. But what happened? What did we have a real decline? Or did it just fall off the end of the earth? Are you talking about figure eight, 11 or figure eight, 12, I was struck by the vertical up and down. I get the up. If that's really a peak, but didn't just go away. What was happening in April of 2025, 10 year peak? Yeah. I mean, that's another

820
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,680
question, I didn't quite know what happened exactly.

821
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:19,240
That whole last sentence and then the end of the graph looks a little suspect unless there's something I'm not seeing.

822
01:08:22,460 --> 01:08:23,940
So that was just a question for.

823
01:08:24,020 --> 01:08:37,100
Well, I will talk to Andrew and see if he has an explanation for the peak other than if there's a specific logical reason for that.

824
01:08:37,100 --> 01:08:47,700
One of the things I can think about is, we've got more construction going on in 2025 as well.

825
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:53,080
So I'll find out specifically, see if we can't dig into why that peak is there specifically.

826
01:08:53,220 --> 01:09:00,020
We're talking about a net increase of almost 6,000 workers in one year, which seems unusual even for a large construction project.

827
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,580
So yeah, just a question.

828
01:09:02,580 --> 01:09:05,060
That's a good question. Thank you.

829
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:06,060
Any further questions?

830
01:09:06,260 --> 01:09:07,120
And then the drop.

831
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:07,840
And then the drop.

832
01:09:08,460 --> 01:09:09,580
It was a concertion.

833
01:09:09,660 --> 01:09:10,200
I could see the drop.

834
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:12,700
But it's not the, you know,

835
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:14,120
it's not the east wing of the White House.

836
01:09:14,260 --> 01:09:16,360
You know, it's some of the other questions.

837
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:23,800
I don't have a question, but I was struck by your paragraph on retail leakage,

838
01:09:25,940 --> 01:09:29,860
especially in light of the report that we just heard from Jericho.

839
01:09:29,860 --> 01:09:37,160
Yeah. 9,000 Ellen's Park residents are nearly half the population is shopping at shopping

840
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:41,600
centers outside the city on average about once a month.

841
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:42,260
Yeah.

842
01:09:43,340 --> 01:09:49,220
So, there's a lot of our money is going to Costco and Winco.

843
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:50,260
Yeah.

844
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:51,400
Yeah.

845
01:09:51,900 --> 01:09:52,020
Oh.

846
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:57,240
And I just have to say that's kind of creepy that someone is following my phone around.

847
01:09:58,520 --> 01:09:58,700
Wow.

848
01:09:58,700 --> 01:10:00,200
Placer AI is a little creepy.

849
01:10:00,500 --> 01:10:04,280
I was, yeah, I wondered how you found all that data, I mean.

850
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:06,200
Yeah, that's creepy.

851
01:10:07,020 --> 01:10:08,020
I don't like that.

852
01:10:08,980 --> 01:10:10,200
So it's on the...

853
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:10,820
I'll leave my phone.

854
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:11,460
Oh my god.

855
01:10:12,540 --> 01:10:15,080
Yeah, your car will tell where you are.

856
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:20,120
Yeah, it is interesting to see that union gap in particular

857
01:10:20,700 --> 01:10:24,040
with Costco, Winco, the mall there.

858
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:32,200
that does tend to be, and it's less the mall than Costco and Winco in particular.

859
01:10:33,540 --> 01:10:39,060
It's groceries and necessities, so we need to attract a Winco.

860
01:10:42,220 --> 01:10:43,880
I don't want to chuckle that one.

861
01:10:45,260 --> 01:10:47,280
I don't want to tip your hand yet.

862
01:10:49,820 --> 01:10:54,680
I'm familiar with the concept and the term I've seen it applied in lots of different ways.

863
01:10:56,120 --> 01:11:07,880
Aside from the union gap examples, when we have a large amount of online shopping to the various big boxes in the sky in the cloud,

864
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,980
Is that counted in the leakage as well?

865
01:11:11,540 --> 01:11:16,660
No, not in this report, specifically, because it's through Creepy Place or AI.

866
01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:22,340
So it's still shopping outside the community, so I mean, I guess it's not technically

867
01:11:22,340 --> 01:11:26,600
leakage, but it looks suspiciously like leakage.

868
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:30,520
And just to remind you of that, we have a destination-based sales tax.

869
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:31,680
That's true, that's true.

870
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,720
So it's still, yeah, we're still getting benefit from that.

871
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:34,800
not.

872
01:11:37,300 --> 01:11:41,280
You're also allowed when you're at Costco to say you're zip code and they're supposed

873
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:42,380
to apply the sales tax.

874
01:11:43,460 --> 01:11:45,160
Is that kind of like Amazon's file?

875
01:11:46,260 --> 01:11:50,560
No, it's like if you buy a car for some reason outside the community, I don't, but if you

876
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:54,540
did, you tell them what your zip code is and the sales tax is supposed to apply here.

877
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,180
If you bother to tell them if they don't ask then it goes to the local community.

878
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:01,920
It feels like that needs to be an awareness campaign.

879
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:09,200
Yeah, that education yeah, I tell them yeah, they're supposed and they're supposed to know you just tell them

880
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,980
Do we know they actually do that though?

881
01:12:12,020 --> 01:12:14,440
Do they actually do that though?

882
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,420
I don't know, but I tell them where I'm from

883
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,900
One more question so when you're talking about health care

884
01:12:26,740 --> 01:12:35,800
It's mostly KVH, which is fine, but our assisted living and nursing care facilities also considered health care.

885
01:12:36,220 --> 01:12:43,820
And there seems like a significant employer and piece of that health care puzzle.

886
01:12:44,340 --> 01:12:50,700
I think it is included in that overall, which makes health care one of the, if you go back to our employers,

887
01:12:50,700 --> 01:12:55,200
We have an employment list.

888
01:12:56,420 --> 01:13:01,400
It's, it's, I did not see it in the narrative of any mention of it.

889
01:13:01,500 --> 01:13:04,240
There are two sections to assisted living.

890
01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:09,400
One has no health care support to it, and the other has in nursing homes.

891
01:13:09,500 --> 01:13:11,120
Skilled nursing facilities are definitely health care.

892
01:13:11,500 --> 01:13:15,220
So the top floor on the assisted living facilities is not health care.

893
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,040
There are apartments with a meal service.

894
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:28,400
But on, well, page 186 for me, but figure 815, health care and social assistance is the second largest

895
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:29,940
employment by industry sector.

896
01:13:32,690 --> 01:13:35,470
And you're saying nursing care is included in that?

897
01:13:35,970 --> 01:13:38,410
I will double check, but yes, I would assume it is.

898
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:41,680
Let me make a note of that.

899
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:41,680
Yeah,

900
01:13:45,730 --> 01:14:00,930
it also relates to the demographic information and why Ellensburg has older people than maybe the county does, I think.

901
01:14:04,510 --> 01:14:13,230
I mean, you moved into town to your assisted living, and or closer to the hospital, and

902
01:14:13,230 --> 01:14:16,870
right, yeah, closer to services.

903
01:14:21,180 --> 01:14:23,020
Okay, any further questions to staff?

904
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:29,600
You've been in the audience wish to speak to the economic development chapter of the Comprehensive

905
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:29,900
Plan?

906
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:33,620
Nobody online?

907
01:14:34,900 --> 01:14:36,480
Okay, this was informational only.

908
01:14:36,480 --> 01:14:40,500
Thank you. We'll move to I

909
01:14:45,460 --> 01:14:49,180
was wrong the sales tax. I'm just telling them for no reason.

910
01:14:49,460 --> 01:14:55,900
Apparently you got to have them deliver it. Somebody was listening. No, I looked it up.

911
01:14:55,900 --> 01:14:56,600
I don't know what you're looking at.

912
01:14:56,860 --> 01:14:58,020
But beyond the...

913
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,740
Collecting the sales tax, we're missing the brick and mortar and the jobs and the,

914
01:15:09,860 --> 01:15:13,000
you know, people who sponsor are little league and all that.

915
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:20,860
I guess I, I would, I would like to revisit if you could come up for a quick, yes, please.

916
01:15:27,430 --> 01:15:34,010
This is not a comment on a nursing home, you know, making a profit of people who need their services.

917
01:15:34,010 --> 01:15:43,030
But our community has a significant deficit in terms of the number of beds available in the nursing, skilled nursing facilities.

918
01:15:44,050 --> 01:15:50,470
And from an economic development standpoint, I know those beds cost between $8,000 and $12,000 a month.

919
01:15:51,010 --> 01:15:59,650
That's a lot of economic activity, so I don't know if there's a way to encourage that kind of investment.

920
01:15:59,650 --> 01:16:08,450
But I do know that we transfer a lot of people out of our community for nursing care and their families then don't visit them.

921
01:16:08,910 --> 01:16:13,790
So it's not just the economic loss. It's hard to visit somebody in Yakima that it is here.

922
01:16:14,570 --> 01:16:24,350
Well, and in the Bottle community they have catered to nursing home care on many, many different levels.

923
01:16:24,350 --> 01:16:34,170
there's several facilities very close to the downtown region, and it has become a part

924
01:16:34,170 --> 01:16:40,510
of their economic story, economic development, and economic growth story is to take that.

925
01:16:40,830 --> 01:16:47,530
It's not a significant strain on infrastructure, it's making sure to find space.

926
01:16:47,530 --> 01:16:56,550
Okay, so that's absolutely something that we could look at recruiting developers and businesses.

927
01:16:57,170 --> 01:16:58,430
The need is absolutely there.

928
01:16:58,950 --> 01:17:05,770
Yeah, they're putting three people in a room, virtually every room, there's no capacity.

929
01:17:06,190 --> 01:17:08,670
Is that eight to 12,000 a bed per month?

930
01:17:08,750 --> 01:17:11,810
Is that anywhere close to what Medicare were in versus?

931
01:17:11,810 --> 01:17:13,190
So, that's not-

932
01:17:13,190 --> 01:17:15,210
I have to take a percentage of Medicare patients in the school.

933
01:17:15,330 --> 01:17:17,030
There's still a small percentage I assume.

934
01:17:17,730 --> 01:17:19,010
I don't know what that percentage is.

935
01:17:19,250 --> 01:17:19,950
It's a small percentage.

936
01:17:20,230 --> 01:17:28,150
It's caring for elderly in a lot of communities has become a very big business and

937
01:17:28,150 --> 01:17:30,550
not necessarily a caring business.

938
01:17:31,470 --> 01:17:38,370
And so there has to be some ethical conversations, I think, around what we want to recruit to

939
01:17:38,370 --> 01:17:41,690
Ellensburg in that, with that in mind.

940
01:17:43,370 --> 01:17:43,970
Thank you.

941
01:17:46,270 --> 01:17:50,750
Okay, now we move on to item 11E, which is the comprehensive plan periodic update,

942
01:17:51,010 --> 01:17:54,070
dealing with land development code amendments.

943
01:17:54,570 --> 01:17:55,830
And this is page 231.

944
01:17:56,670 --> 01:17:58,070
There will be an opportunity for public comment.

945
01:18:16,310 --> 01:18:17,070
Thank you for that, sorry.

946
01:18:17,330 --> 01:18:18,330
Thank you, Mayor Counsel.

947
01:18:18,650 --> 01:18:21,450
Mark Rudd, Associate Planner with Community Development Departments.

948
01:18:22,230 --> 01:18:24,950
I'm going to just jump right in because it is starting to get late.

949
01:18:24,950 --> 01:18:31,590
So, staff, community development farmative started drafting revisions to Onesburg City Code Title 15, the land development code.

950
01:18:31,590 --> 01:18:42,190
You'll notice there was no attachment to this item is just for discussion to give a preliminary overview of some of the things we're looking to incorporate largely in response to some changes to state law.

951
01:18:42,830 --> 01:18:53,270
As part of the Growth Management Act under which we're fully planning jurisdiction, our local regulations have to adopt adequate provisions to implement planned goals and policies,

952
01:18:53,270 --> 01:19:02,570
these, particularly around housing, just as a reminder, our 2046 growth estimates put us at needing a roughly 3000 dwellings over that 20 year period.

953
01:19:03,270 --> 01:19:12,550
So our local regulations have to also then comply with the Growth Management Act and a number of related statutes, particularly with regard to timing of when we adopt those things.

954
01:19:12,790 --> 01:19:20,830
Most of those are preemptory laws under laws that apply to the code, city, authorities, 35A of the RCW.

955
01:19:21,370 --> 01:19:28,330
And there's been numerous substantive legislation both in the GMA and other sections of statutes since our last plan adoption.

956
01:19:28,650 --> 01:19:39,650
That means that there was a lot of work for us to do in order to make sure that we're conforming both with the act as well as the goals and policies that we have drafted in you guys have had previews of over the past couple of months.

957
01:19:40,250 --> 01:19:49,830
Just a reminder at the types of housing that we're really looking forward to, this shouldn't be new to you guys, but we're really looking for the largest area in those lower non permanent

958
01:19:49,830 --> 01:19:56,750
permanent support of housing categories, up to 50% AMI is kind of the largest income bands.

959
01:19:57,270 --> 01:20:03,990
And we are required to actively plan for the supply of housing at these income bands

960
01:20:03,990 --> 01:20:07,710
and adopt regulations that would support that level of housing.

961
01:20:08,290 --> 01:20:12,930
So there's a number of things that we have been looking to incorporate as part of this.

962
01:20:12,930 --> 01:20:17,190
This was included in the Environmental Impact Statement and

963
01:20:17,190 --> 01:20:22,290
elements of this have been shown in the land use section of the chapter.

964
01:20:22,390 --> 01:20:24,930
This is just a visual way of putting it together.

965
01:20:25,130 --> 01:20:27,250
So I'll highlight some of these for you.

966
01:20:27,570 --> 01:20:32,970
One that I believe you folks have discussed a number of times is that combining the residential suburban and

967
01:20:32,970 --> 01:20:40,970
residential low to effectively then repeal the RS zone to have a single lower density residential zone.

968
01:20:40,970 --> 01:20:47,590
and to change, to create a minimum density requirement for that combined zone.

969
01:20:48,050 --> 01:20:50,770
Currently, the RS zone, which is the lowest density of the two,

970
01:20:50,930 --> 01:20:52,890
does not have a minimum density requirement.

971
01:20:53,550 --> 01:20:56,170
And in the RL zone, there's a minimum density of six.

972
01:20:56,310 --> 01:20:58,390
So it would be kind of splitting the difference.

973
01:20:58,390 --> 01:21:00,650
Well, you can actually split a zero, but I think you understand.

974
01:21:00,750 --> 01:21:05,110
My meaning, the maximum density that is permitted in the RL zone is currently eight.

975
01:21:05,570 --> 01:21:07,210
We would increase that to 12.

976
01:21:07,210 --> 01:21:30,330
The main reason for that would be to incentivize an encouraged development of things like townhomes and duplexes, which under the strictest literal reading of our code, are very infeasable to develop with the amount of lot size that you would need to plat a townhome lot, or the amount of undeveloped lot space that would end up with a smaller duplex structure as well.

977
01:21:30,330 --> 01:21:36,410
A couple of other pieces, we'd be looking at doing a number of targeted re-zones around

978
01:21:36,410 --> 01:21:37,170
the city as well.

979
01:21:37,430 --> 01:21:41,250
This was part of the land capacity analysis for vacant and underutilized properties.

980
01:21:41,990 --> 01:21:47,750
And so these targeted re-zones can help us really move the needle to hitting these housing

981
01:21:47,750 --> 01:21:49,470
targets and getting toward that capacity.

982
01:21:50,090 --> 01:21:55,750
So some specific areas to highlight what's commonly called the canal's property or the

983
01:21:55,750 --> 01:22:01,950
majority of it down at the southern end of town, that would be re-zoned to neighborhood

984
01:22:01,950 --> 01:22:07,290
center mixed use, which, as it sounds like, is a neighborhood-centric mixed use category

985
01:22:07,290 --> 01:22:15,150
that's really more tailored toward medium to higher density residential mixed uses, either

986
01:22:15,150 --> 01:22:20,030
within a development or across a larger project site, as well as kind of neighborhood compatible

987
01:22:20,030 --> 01:22:21,710
commercial uses as well.

988
01:22:21,710 --> 01:22:30,050
And that similar zoning would happen with some areas that are currently zoned residential suburban on West Helena as well as on North airport road.

989
01:22:30,350 --> 01:22:44,070
And again, these were identified as undeveloped properties that could potentially have these neighborhood compatible commercial mixed use and moderately higher density residential than is currently permitted by their zones.

990
01:22:44,070 --> 01:22:54,370
A couple of other areas to highlight along West University, there are a number of properties that immediately border West University that are currently zoned commercial highway.

991
01:22:54,670 --> 01:23:00,590
The key distinction that that has from some of our other commercial zones is it does not permit residential uses by rights.

992
01:23:00,590 --> 01:23:04,910
It requires a conditionally use permit for uses in there.

993
01:23:05,250 --> 01:23:08,690
We would propose rezoning that to central commercial two.

994
01:23:08,690 --> 01:23:11,830
that would permit both, again, mixed uses,

995
01:23:12,330 --> 01:23:16,770
some potentially broader diversity of some commercial uses.

996
01:23:17,270 --> 01:23:19,350
Again, mixed use on-site or part of a wider project,

997
01:23:19,350 --> 01:23:20,870
as well as residential by-right,

998
01:23:20,990 --> 01:23:22,410
including at the ground level.

999
01:23:23,290 --> 01:23:25,610
And then finally, further along West University,

1000
01:23:25,870 --> 01:23:28,190
some areas that are primarily zoned,

1001
01:23:28,270 --> 01:23:30,150
commercial highway would be re-zoned

1002
01:23:30,150 --> 01:23:31,930
to regional center mixed use.

1003
01:23:32,250 --> 01:23:35,570
That is a higher intensity than the neighborhood center mixed use.

1004
01:23:35,890 --> 01:23:38,370
There is a, I believe a minimum density requirement there,

1005
01:23:38,370 --> 01:23:47,250
and it's really tailored toward higher density residential projects, as well as, again, mixed uses either within a single structure or across a project site.

1006
01:23:47,650 --> 01:23:51,930
I'm happy to address any of these, please feel free to stop, this is a discussion, I'll make it up.

1007
01:23:52,210 --> 01:24:04,850
I have a question on the minimum in any zone, I guess, if there's a minimum density, so if the rule is three units per acre,

1008
01:24:05,930 --> 01:24:19,930
I own an acre and I just want to build one house, can I do that or is that apply when someone's subdividing or just under our current code?

1009
01:24:20,630 --> 01:24:28,370
It reads that it's for the RS and RL zones only, really just for the RL zone, because it's the only one with a minimum.

1010
01:24:28,370 --> 01:24:36,030
But it states that the minimum density requirement only applies to subdivisions that are greater than one acre in size.

1011
01:24:36,570 --> 01:24:43,370
Okay, we were proposing to remove that as an addition to these that were already incorporated into the analysis.

1012
01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:52,450
So that, yes, if a project were to come in that wanted to do the single house on one acre under the most literal interpretation, we may not be able to do that.

1013
01:24:52,450 --> 01:25:17,090
I would need to chat about what the full implications of a project like that would be, but yeah, we would potentially make that change, but again, these are discussion points, and if the goal here is if any of this feels too far afield, then we can dial this back at this point because we are still on a working draft basis for a lot of changes.

1014
01:25:17,090 --> 01:25:20,490
just sort of that you're saying that it's only when you

1015
01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:21,170
would subdivide.

1016
01:25:21,650 --> 01:25:23,210
That is what our current code states.

1017
01:25:23,310 --> 01:25:26,290
Currently, the proposal is to eliminate the exception,

1018
01:25:26,590 --> 01:25:28,750
right, so it would apply to any single law.

1019
01:25:29,010 --> 01:25:29,430
Correct.

1020
01:25:29,810 --> 01:25:32,730
And for just demonstrative purposes, not to get

1021
01:25:32,730 --> 01:25:35,270
two in the weeds for this, but another one of the proposals

1022
01:25:35,270 --> 01:25:38,630
that you'll find on page 233 would be to permit duplexes

1023
01:25:38,630 --> 01:25:41,850
as an as of right use on any law.

1024
01:25:42,010 --> 01:25:46,190
So we would not have a density kind of calculation for that.

1025
01:25:46,190 --> 01:25:53,110
So, that kind of begs the question for if a single-family home and a duplex are both permitted.

1026
01:25:53,270 --> 01:25:58,670
How do you then run the density calculation at the time of subdivision when it could be six units across?

1027
01:25:59,410 --> 01:26:07,290
So, there's a couple of kind of muddy issues to potentially get into in terms of what projects we actually do the density calculations.

1028
01:26:08,010 --> 01:26:16,170
On, I personally haven't really seen it on a subdivision type basis because there's almost a presupposition that the only thing

1029
01:26:16,170 --> 01:26:45,430
that will be developed as a single family home project for a subdivision when potentially with some of the other changes were proposing there would be the opportunity for mixed housing across a subdivision type development so some of the smaller plexes built in with single family homes and depending on the zone you're in calculations could get really fun if we're trying to apply plat notes for the density restrictions on a lot by lot basis or prescribe that in advance.

1030
01:26:46,710 --> 01:27:07,350
I guess just for myself I would, I'm fine with having the minimum density applying to subdivisions, I would hesitate to tell someone who walks in and wants to build their dream home on the acre that they bought 10 years ago that now they have to build three houses on it.

1031
01:27:09,430 --> 01:27:15,810
Yeah, it would seem like on a single lot basis, you have one standard, but for a short

1032
01:27:15,810 --> 01:27:21,830
platter or even a long platter, you could apply a density standard that it's hard to envision

1033
01:27:21,830 --> 01:27:28,290
taking a single parcel and, you know, in a historically residential sense and saying it,

1034
01:27:28,670 --> 01:27:30,250
you know, unless it's, unless it's zoned.

1035
01:27:30,790 --> 01:27:31,090
Right.

1036
01:27:31,330 --> 01:27:34,870
And there are other provisions in terms of reasonable use.

1037
01:27:34,870 --> 01:27:42,470
We have a non-conforming use chapter that I believe makes special provisions for the development or continued use of single family properties.

1038
01:27:42,710 --> 01:27:49,590
So we can look into where all of this would need to be kind of crosswalked if you will, across other elements of our code in terms of entitlement.

1039
01:27:49,710 --> 01:27:55,130
I don't think we would want to eliminate the ability for the guy who owns an undeveloped one acre property.

1040
01:27:55,370 --> 01:27:59,730
I think there's a different question about walking through the door for future development proposal.

1041
01:27:59,850 --> 01:28:03,850
So I would like to subdivide what is the minimum density required.

1042
01:28:03,850 --> 01:28:10,350
And I think that's what you're talking about keeping the distinction between perfect I think there's ways that we can massage that pretty well

1043
01:28:10,350 --> 01:28:15,090
I think it's a distinction part between minimum density and maximum. Yeah, you know, I mean if

1044
01:28:15,670 --> 01:28:20,950
You know if you're gonna if you have that interest in subdividing you don't really care what the minimum is you're gonna exceed it

1045
01:28:20,950 --> 01:28:23,310
If you have multiple lots within a

1046
01:28:24,210 --> 01:28:26,070
question I was wondering on the

1047
01:28:26,890 --> 01:28:31,910
We have that a lot of that RSL land is sort of remnants of annexations over time

1048
01:28:31,910 --> 01:28:50,230
And historically, I think County residential, you know, three acre lots were fairly common, so I mean, do we sense that there's a bit of that that needs to that capacity exists that's undeveloped that that former, the former three acre lot that could be significantly divided.

1049
01:28:51,370 --> 01:28:54,090
There's probably pieces here and they're further out in the UGA.

1050
01:28:54,390 --> 01:28:57,030
So the boundary that you're looking at is the city limits right now.

1051
01:28:57,350 --> 01:28:59,410
There are some pieces like that throughout.

1052
01:28:59,590 --> 01:29:05,590
Some of those were left over to meet previous density requirements as part of those former plants.

1053
01:29:06,290 --> 01:29:09,410
And some of those have plat notes that potentially prohibit resub division.

1054
01:29:09,570 --> 01:29:13,990
So there's a lot to wait into without being able to make kind of broad general statements.

1055
01:29:14,610 --> 01:29:18,350
Some of it's in the airport overlay where there's new restrictions and maybe didn't apply at the time.

1056
01:29:18,350 --> 01:29:23,870
I can't remember but my recollection is from the planning commission discussions that the

1057
01:29:24,490 --> 01:29:30,590
you mentioned earlier the the demand of roughly 3000 dwelling units over the next 20 years if I

1058
01:29:30,590 --> 01:29:36,510
remember correctly yeah and our conclusion for the analysis is that that demand can be met

1059
01:29:36,510 --> 01:29:41,990
within the existing city limits or is it within the UGA and the city limits?

1060
01:29:42,290 --> 01:29:47,470
The analysis that we've done shows that if we do specifically these targeted

1061
01:29:47,470 --> 01:29:58,390
We will be able to meet and actually exceed the baseline capacity to have housing units on the land.

1062
01:29:58,390 --> 01:29:59,970
And that doesn't mean that a developer-

1063
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,820
Cooper is going to come in and do a project at the highest capacity on all these properties. And some of these are mixed zone. And so there's assumptions about how much would be residential versus how much would be commercial. So we don't know. And that's why we're proposing is to find a page 233 in addition to these other elements of changes that will be going through as well that can help, again, move the needle potentially a little more proactively to get us toward those housing types as well. Can we have these slides? Yeah, absolutely.

1064
01:30:29,820 --> 01:30:30,980
I'll be able to send these to you.

1065
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:37,180
And I appreciate the proactive rezoning to the more mixed use.

1066
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:44,140
And just a reminder to Council, this is the first stop for this item.

1067
01:30:44,480 --> 01:30:48,500
And before it hit planning commission and affordable housing and

1068
01:30:48,500 --> 01:30:53,660
additional stops, I wanted to make sure to go through at a high level sort of your input.

1069
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:56,840
So this will have a lot more community process associated with it.

1070
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:05,400
Again, this was just looking back at, I believe some of this was shown to you previously with

1071
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:05,720
the housing.

1072
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:11,360
But again, if we do, again, just those targeted re-zones, we would meet the housing capacity

1073
01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:15,840
and meet the adequate provisions on at least on a baseline basis for that.

1074
01:31:15,900 --> 01:31:20,340
And again, 2,500 of this is some level of subsidy, according to the...

1075
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:23,180
The non-PSH would be non-subsidized.

1076
01:31:23,700 --> 01:31:28,820
So here, I mean, ultimately, some of that would probably need to be in order to be feasibly

1077
01:31:28,820 --> 01:31:36,860
we developed, but we're, I don't think we're necessarily required to address how those units get on the ground necessarily.

1078
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:41,600
If you go through the housing chapter, there's a lot more kind of policy and numbers basis.

1079
01:31:41,660 --> 01:31:45,320
That first slide, though, says 2,500 of them happened below 100%.

1080
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:47,240
That's based on the income, am I right?

1081
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:49,760
Yeah, and that's based on household area needed income.

1082
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:54,340
This isn't saying that these are income restricted to households at those.

1083
01:31:54,340 --> 01:31:59,100
but we need to plan to accommodate households that have lower AMIs.

1084
01:31:59,300 --> 01:32:07,840
The other point, too, is that as we go through this exercise and we go through all the corresponding land use adjustments and things,

1085
01:32:09,940 --> 01:32:19,780
the real test for commerce and everyone to approve it is that the recommended land use aligns with the demand, right?

1086
01:32:20,140 --> 01:32:22,180
And this is kind of a measure of the demand.

1087
01:32:22,180 --> 01:32:26,460
And it doesn't mean those homes are going to be built that way, because we're not dictating

1088
01:32:26,460 --> 01:32:26,740
that.

1089
01:32:26,860 --> 01:32:32,280
That's just creating the structure zoning and so on density, but the market will dictate

1090
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:33,540
what is built largely.

1091
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:34,820
That's ultimately correct.

1092
01:32:35,100 --> 01:32:40,700
We are required to adopt, if these are adopted housing targets and we've adopted goals and

1093
01:32:40,700 --> 01:32:45,980
policies to meet these housing targets, XYZ ways through ABC regulations, we then have to

1094
01:32:45,980 --> 01:32:48,640
put those regulations into effect under the Growth Management Act.

1095
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:55,060
So, that's what we're doing through this process, facilitating the ability to do these things, but you're correct.

1096
01:32:55,300 --> 01:32:58,520
Another way to say it is, no one is outlawing someone building a single family home.

1097
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:01,620
No. No. People think that's what we're doing perhaps.

1098
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:02,960
That's not what we're doing.

1099
01:33:03,380 --> 01:33:08,100
However, just as a counterpoint, as a policy through the conference of governments,

1100
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:14,400
we've deemed that we're doing pretty good in terms of single family homes in meeting the needs of our community.

1101
01:33:14,540 --> 01:33:18,080
But we will of course, when people walk through the door with a development application,

1102
01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:22,760
we have rules that permit them to do these things, and we will facilitate those as the rules

1103
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:23,340
pull out.

1104
01:33:27,990 --> 01:33:31,830
Just a quick note on adequate provisions, so I believe this was also part of a previous

1105
01:33:31,830 --> 01:33:36,750
slide in another presentation, but really, this started with just a checklist basis as well

1106
01:33:36,750 --> 01:33:41,670
for what are the laws that have changed over the past set number of years?

1107
01:33:41,930 --> 01:33:50,270
Do your currently adopted rules restrict, or in some ways get in the way of doing XYZ things,

1108
01:33:50,270 --> 01:33:51,950
and how can you address those?

1109
01:33:52,150 --> 01:33:53,890
So we ran through a number of those,

1110
01:33:54,130 --> 01:33:56,370
both for the actual affordable

1111
01:33:56,370 --> 01:33:57,750
and permanent support of housing categories

1112
01:33:57,750 --> 01:33:59,870
as well as a number of other land use rules.

1113
01:34:00,690 --> 01:34:02,970
Some of the other changes that we would propose

1114
01:34:02,970 --> 01:34:05,570
to adopt that has not been incorporated specifically

1115
01:34:05,570 --> 01:34:07,790
into the EIS, but that are consistent

1116
01:34:07,790 --> 01:34:09,850
with the other adopted goals and policies here.

1117
01:34:13,570 --> 01:34:16,570
Are to, and again, we have that note

1118
01:34:16,570 --> 01:34:18,190
about the minimum density requirements,

1119
01:34:18,190 --> 01:34:23,090
So that will be taken in and we will revise that prior to taking that over to planning commission.

1120
01:34:23,770 --> 01:34:27,170
Another one we would revise our density calculations, it's currently in up or

1121
01:34:27,170 --> 01:34:32,870
down whether you're at the .5% to potentially incentivize a project that would

1122
01:34:32,870 --> 01:34:37,530
like to have another unit available, we would potentially round all of those up.

1123
01:34:37,730 --> 01:34:44,730
So to just change how we calculate the density to entitle that one additional unit potentially on a project.

1124
01:34:45,390 --> 01:34:51,670
Again, permit duplexes as of right in the RL zone without a density calculation on those.

1125
01:34:52,410 --> 01:34:57,950
We would permit duplexes in the NCMU zone, that's the neighborhood center mixed use.

1126
01:34:58,090 --> 01:34:59,150
They're currently not permitted.

1127
01:34:59,630 --> 01:35:03,890
And we would strike a prohibition on multi-family, that's any project with three or

1128
01:35:03,890 --> 01:35:09,530
more attached units adjacent to single family, unless they have a specific subdivision plat note.

1129
01:35:09,530 --> 01:35:15,150
There, it's currently restricted under our code, under a strict literal interpretation,

1130
01:35:15,470 --> 01:35:22,870
and that's just based off of a table footnote, so we would strike that to permit those kind of neighborhood compatible, small,

1131
01:35:23,110 --> 01:35:26,330
plex housing, this infill development potentially.

1132
01:35:27,110 --> 01:35:28,510
Any questions on those on this slide?

1133
01:35:30,090 --> 01:35:30,210
Okay.

1134
01:35:31,510 --> 01:35:37,050
More consistency, there are currently some design restrictions that only apply to manufactured housing.

1135
01:35:37,050 --> 01:36:07,030
When it is established as a single family home, and that relates to both roof and wall materials as well as it requires them to be two sections we would strike those provisions technically under state law we are authorized to enforce those however specifically with the roof and wall materials it's inconsistent with some design regulations that this council passed earlier this year that prohibit us from prohibiting certain exterior building materials and so just to create a little internal

1136
01:36:07,030 --> 01:36:08,350
no consistency would repeal those.

1137
01:36:08,790 --> 01:36:13,390
We would also apply single family design standards to some of those small multiplex housing

1138
01:36:13,390 --> 01:36:17,290
if they specifically had a single primary point of entry.

1139
01:36:17,550 --> 01:36:27,330
So think of a four plex or a six plex, small apartment maybe two story home that literally looks like a home with a single front entrance,

1140
01:36:27,330 --> 01:36:33,230
maybe a single rear entrance where all the units are accessed by a single interior corridor.

1141
01:36:33,230 --> 01:36:51,670
From the street, it looks probably like a larger single-family home and is compatible with a single-family, largely single-family neighborhood, for our code, anything that's three or more units currently requires us to go through a completely different set of design standards than these smaller style of residential.

1142
01:36:52,010 --> 01:36:57,910
And so we would revert to the simpler set of rules that govern the smaller style of residential.

1143
01:36:57,910 --> 01:37:03,730
So there's still things like access, requirements, porch covers, minimum transparency, stuff

1144
01:37:03,730 --> 01:37:08,490
that creates kind of a neighborhood feel, it just doesn't have the same intense level

1145
01:37:08,490 --> 01:37:14,010
of detail that larger projects would have, and we would cap that again, it's six attached

1146
01:37:14,350 --> 01:37:17,930
and it would be restricted to where there's a single primary point of entry.

1147
01:37:18,110 --> 01:37:23,370
So it wouldn't be sort of a eatplex sort of thing where there's individual doors, that

1148
01:37:23,370 --> 01:37:25,850
would still be governed by a different set of design standards.

1149
01:37:27,270 --> 01:37:33,830
One of the other ones that staff have discussed is the reducing parking standards for both duplexes

1150
01:37:33,830 --> 01:37:39,530
and multi-family for all of those two in one space per unit, as well as striking the incremental

1151
01:37:39,530 --> 01:37:45,410
additions that are based on bedroom count. And there's a little deviation between those as to

1152
01:37:45,410 --> 01:37:51,690
what the bedroom threshold count is, whether you're doing it based on the number of bedrooms or if

1153
01:37:51,690 --> 01:37:55,290
that's as the base or if it's the type of unit that's the base.

1154
01:37:55,850 --> 01:38:02,250
The only exception would be in the CC zone outside of the historic district where the current standard is 0.7.

1155
01:38:02,430 --> 01:38:06,110
We would retain that as it currently exists as part of this proposal.

1156
01:38:06,610 --> 01:38:14,770
Parking has been specifically identified at planning commission and affordable housing commission as an extreme cost to developing multifamily housing.

1157
01:38:14,770 --> 01:38:26,370
There are estimates in the planning literature that it's anywhere from 20 to potentially 35,000 dollars per space to develop just as a surface parking area.

1158
01:38:26,850 --> 01:38:38,510
If you have one car and it's a two bedroom space, but they built two spaces for the apartment, you're paying in your rent the cost of that space, whether or not you're using that second space.

1159
01:38:38,510 --> 01:38:47,870
And so it creates kind of a inverse subsidy to folks who potentially over park on the property.

1160
01:38:48,870 --> 01:38:51,450
Happy to discuss again any of these as we're going along.

1161
01:38:51,450 --> 01:39:01,570
Yeah, so I had a question on that just having been through some battles with neighborhoods that had parking issues.

1162
01:39:01,570 --> 01:39:16,200
And I'm thinking yellowstone and some others that when you have students and you have a five bedroom house, you typically have five cars.

1163
01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:32,540
And so if we're not going to have a per bedroom addition, you have one five bedroom house with one parking space.

1164
01:39:32,540 --> 01:39:39,100
These wouldn't apply to detached homes, so those would still follow under a single family standard which require minimum two per residence.

1165
01:39:39,820 --> 01:39:46,560
Okay, so we're talking about maybe one to three studio to three bedroom apartment.

1166
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:50,600
That would be the typical product that I would imagine would be built as a multi-family and

1167
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:53,160
yeah, when those are attached with three or more units, yes.

1168
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:55,720
Okay.

1169
01:39:56,160 --> 01:39:57,300
Or duplexes as well.

1170
01:39:57,300 --> 01:40:10,540
Well, is the state doing anything with the building or the fire code for fire suppression systems is normally it's triplex and above is you have a sprinkler system.

1171
01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:15,300
There are different standards, I believe that is generally the case.

1172
01:40:15,460 --> 01:40:22,480
I'm not a building code expert so far as I know they're not moving on any sort of preemptive directions on that route.

1173
01:40:22,480 --> 01:40:44,520
There are other states and jurisdictions that have, though, I think the city of Memphis doesn't require sprinklers for up to six units, and so some jurisdictions that have more home rule authority under their state statutes have been moving that direction, I don't know that that's an area that we would go and these are technically overseen by our fire marshal anyways, so there's an inter jurisdictional question on some fire and building application.

1174
01:40:44,520 --> 01:40:54,820
I just, I foresee the parking issue being an issue for development of these kinds of places in neighborhoods.

1175
01:40:56,160 --> 01:41:13,880
As we saw with Catherine Park, the parking concerns and the number of parking even when we increased beyond the one that was required one space per unit that was required there was still concerns in that neighborhood.

1176
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:18,460
So, I mean, we have to meet state law, but-

1177
01:41:18,460 --> 01:41:33,980
Yeah, and again, these are beyond state law, so these are things that we believe are consistent with some of our housing goals to incentivize and encourage development of the types of housing that we have identified as meeting our needs based on those AMI thresholds.

1178
01:41:33,980 --> 01:41:41,400
So the question becomes where, so if you have three bedroom apartments, and you're asking for one parking space.

1179
01:41:42,140 --> 01:41:54,680
Sometimes that's okay, but a lot of them will rent with two, at least two vehicles and where do those extra vehicles go?

1180
01:41:54,680 --> 01:42:15,380
So maybe if it's available and I mean on some lots, it will be, but some lots, you know,

1181
01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:22,060
we're wanting the parking to be internal to the multiplex, right, usually.

1182
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:33,280
I mean, as a general policy basis, yes, if there's not sufficient parking on a site as part of a development, again, these would be the minimum requirements.

1183
01:42:33,460 --> 01:42:39,860
So if a developer wants to provide one space per bedroom, this is not restricting them from going above our minimum standards.

1184
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:45,680
If they think that's what's going to make a project pencil better for their project, we're not prohibiting them from doing that.

1185
01:42:48,650 --> 01:42:50,030
Which I imagine-

1186
01:42:50,030 --> 01:43:00,710
I share the concern, once we allow it to be built on any level, any scale, reversing that mistake is very difficult to do.

1187
01:43:01,490 --> 01:43:13,390
Because you have people and you have an expectation and you've permitted a use and now that parking scarcity becomes a neighborhood issue and we will hear about it.

1188
01:43:14,870 --> 01:43:21,310
So that's just, I'm just, I guess, what we're saying is that we have feedback that that might not work.

1189
01:43:21,650 --> 01:43:23,050
Yeah, well, I think it's different.

1190
01:43:23,270 --> 01:43:33,670
I think the transition effect is that you've got traditionally low density neighborhoods that will have higher levels of density that are added incrementally, and the street parking will change.

1191
01:43:34,150 --> 01:43:42,550
We, my street, you could probably go up and down four blocks and two-thirds of the street sidewalks or the curbs are not occupied.

1192
01:43:43,170 --> 01:43:48,350
Now, if you put a 12 plex in the middle of that, then some of that would probably end up on the street.

1193
01:43:48,610 --> 01:43:51,090
And I think that's what typically happens.

1194
01:43:52,370 --> 01:43:53,890
I don't know, it's just my observation.

1195
01:43:55,010 --> 01:44:02,430
To be clear, we haven't done a deep dive analysis of if we hit the greatest potential density on every parcel.

1196
01:44:02,590 --> 01:44:06,890
What is the potential for parking leakage off site for this?

1197
01:44:06,930 --> 01:44:08,830
We haven't gotten into those levels of weeks again.

1198
01:44:08,830 --> 01:44:13,890
And this is first pass to you guys before we take out even a working draft to the public.

1199
01:44:14,510 --> 01:44:21,410
And I think everybody in the room understands to the goal is to try to remove some of the barriers to building housing.

1200
01:44:21,750 --> 01:44:27,590
And so looking at what those levers might be and they will have trade-offs associated with them.

1201
01:44:27,590 --> 01:44:36,470
Yeah, you know, if it's near transit, that's different, if it's near, if there is on

1202
01:44:36,470 --> 01:44:40,370
street parking available, that's, you know, that's different.

1203
01:44:40,830 --> 01:44:46,850
I just, some, some streets, there's not on street parking.

1204
01:44:47,250 --> 01:44:55,630
I mean, and we might want the flexibility to on certain arterials to not have on street

1205
01:44:55,630 --> 01:44:59,970
parking, so, you know, the

1206
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:21,680
And the idea of having a little extra for overflow, and I get your point about a developer could do more, but some won't, because they really want to maximize and not spend that extra, we say $35,000 for a parking spot.

1207
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:31,320
I mean, I feel like I understand that the need to, you know, remove some of the barriers.

1208
01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:37,220
I'm just saying that one might not be the barrier that we want to remove because the pushback is going to be not worth.

1209
01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:45,340
I understand that Council has consideration suffered from just urban planning principles, so I appreciate the position.

1210
01:45:46,940 --> 01:45:59,840
And I'd be willing to entertain something a little higher than one, maybe, and for certain conditions, certain sizes of places or something.

1211
01:46:00,260 --> 01:46:00,600
I don't know.

1212
01:46:02,840 --> 01:46:08,780
Just a preview note, some rules that are not being incorporated in this round.

1213
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:15,160
But we will have to adopt by the middle of next year would prohibit us from requiring any parking for affordable housing projects.

1214
01:46:15,340 --> 01:46:32,620
So, well, I guess that kind of drives that decision, then, is for development that doesn't want to qualify for affordable housing credits, then you're stuck with the old parking requirements.

1215
01:46:34,200 --> 01:46:36,860
And to me, that just absolutely makes it.

1216
01:46:36,860 --> 01:46:39,360
We're going to have to accept it for one set of housing.

1217
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:43,560
We have to offset it for a different kind of development and different kind of housing.

1218
01:46:44,460 --> 01:46:53,640
because we're not going to be able to accommodate all the parking if all of this stuff is next to each other and we don't have, you know, minimums that represent what people actually do.

1219
01:46:54,000 --> 01:47:02,420
And again, just, we can get into all of that and again, I appreciate the position that you're in, but again, that would be that we can't require any parking on site.

1220
01:47:02,420 --> 01:47:07,960
They may have a need that they feel that they would need to accommodate as part of those projects.

1221
01:47:08,220 --> 01:47:15,260
It's difficult for me to imagine a developer not providing any off-street parking even for an affordable housing development.

1222
01:47:15,260 --> 01:47:21,640
Because most folks here do have cars and have gotten here to this community with a car.

1223
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:30,180
Moving on, I appreciate your thoughts there and we will go back to that piece.

1224
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:36,360
We have to, we would, excuse me, propose permitting transitional housing and permanent supportive

1225
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:42,120
housing by rights in the neighborhood center mixed use zone that's currently in conditional

1226
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:45,020
use and requires a CUP in that zone.

1227
01:47:45,920 --> 01:47:51,180
This is another piece that gets us a little bit in the weeds, so if you'll bear with me.

1228
01:47:51,960 --> 01:47:59,800
On the left is our existing street frontage tight map that applies to properties when we're

1229
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:05,100
applying our design code. So this relates to really how the building has to be developed

1230
01:48:05,100 --> 01:48:11,360
with reference to the street. So things like transparency, entrance to the street, as

1231
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:15,860
the code has written some specific building details. On the streets that you see highlighted

1232
01:48:15,860 --> 01:48:23,480
in red, those are considered storefront streets. So those in the current rules, we do not permit

1233
01:48:23,480 --> 01:48:28,540
It's residential uses within 30 feet of the sidewalk on the ground level.

1234
01:48:28,740 --> 01:48:43,820
Council may recall that these were the ones that we've recently designated also as major pedestrian corridors in order for us to not flout some other recent preemptive laws that we can't restrict these uses unless we so designate streets as those.

1235
01:48:43,820 --> 01:48:45,740
You just orient folks to where that was.

1236
01:48:45,740 --> 01:48:46,780
Oh, yes, I am so sorry.

1237
01:48:46,900 --> 01:48:47,940
I look at this all the time.

1238
01:48:48,440 --> 01:48:51,280
Here is the county courthouse for folks.

1239
01:48:51,860 --> 01:48:57,900
Here is Pearl and Fourth, which is, and as I always

1240
01:48:57,900 --> 01:48:59,540
orient myself kind of the hub of downtown

1241
01:48:59,540 --> 01:49:02,900
so the Davidson building would be at the Northeast corner

1242
01:49:02,900 --> 01:49:04,780
of that, the Unity Park right there.

1243
01:49:04,820 --> 01:49:08,600
I think there's six water to be here to find.

1244
01:49:09,100 --> 01:49:12,400
So University down to Second Avenue here,

1245
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:22,940
Yep, water over to just ruby on the fourth street side and to pine street apologies. Sorry. I look at these so frequently. I forget.

1246
01:49:23,060 --> 01:49:30,400
I was trying to. That's very similar to me, but I was a pearl goes up to what university on the existing and that gets changed.

1247
01:49:30,420 --> 01:49:37,460
Yes. So the key distinction between storefront streets and secondary streets. So the storefront earned red.

1248
01:49:37,460 --> 01:49:45,280
the secondary are the ones that are designated in purple is that on the north section of pearl it

1249
01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:51,220
goes from being a storefront to to a secondary so the north section of pearl two blocks here and

1250
01:49:51,220 --> 01:49:56,780
then all of the blocks that are currently designated on water street again the key reason and distinction

1251
01:49:56,780 --> 01:50:02,540
between these two is on the designated storefront streets residential use is not permitted at the ground

1252
01:50:02,540 --> 01:50:04,100
level along those streets.

1253
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:11,320
We would propose remapping these and then clarifying in our rules for secondary streets that

1254
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:14,780
residential uses are permitted at the ground level along those.

1255
01:50:15,900 --> 01:50:20,860
These were highlighted for the Planning Commission at a recent meeting.

1256
01:50:21,160 --> 01:50:25,720
We also had a separate kind of sit down confab with some members of the development community

1257
01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:33,160
and the Onesburg Downtown Association who strongly endorsed these changes, because there

1258
01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:38,860
are potentially redevelopable sites along these blocks that are outside of the kind of

1259
01:50:38,860 --> 01:50:45,260
true core of downtown where we have the existing brick building stock from the 1889 rebuild.

1260
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:51,820
And so there's the opportunity to potentially develop those with ground level residential or

1261
01:50:51,820 --> 01:50:54,900
been exclusively residential uses on some of these sites.

1262
01:50:55,320 --> 01:50:59,560
That currently is not permitted because of the street front designation solely.

1263
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:09,740
Is the residential definition, you have to, is it, it's not per se where the unit is relative to the street, it's the door.

1264
01:51:10,360 --> 01:51:16,140
So ground level residential within 30 feet of the sidewalk is not permitted on storefront streets.

1265
01:51:16,140 --> 01:51:22,240
So I think one of Tyler, the building that Tyler has, Tyler Glenn has,

1266
01:51:22,800 --> 01:51:28,160
trying to remember the block, but it's on, you know, water and...

1267
01:51:28,160 --> 01:51:30,480
Water and fourth. I mean, some of those...

1268
01:51:30,480 --> 01:51:34,480
That came in the door right before those design standards went into effect.

1269
01:51:34,800 --> 01:51:38,880
That kind of design wouldn't be permitted on the storefront street.

1270
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:39,740
Is that correct?

1271
01:51:40,460 --> 01:51:43,100
Correct. Yeah, but we would permit something like that

1272
01:51:43,100 --> 01:51:47,920
along the secondary streets that we, what we would re-designate as secondary streets.

1273
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:52,220
I remember when this was presented a month or two ago in concept to the planning commission,

1274
01:51:52,380 --> 01:51:58,320
there was some real question whether that was a wise approach prohibiting storefront

1275
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:08,080
or storefront level, residential, as a way to really eliminate innovative design, if that makes sense.

1276
01:52:08,080 --> 01:52:14,940
I think the intent, and again, I wasn't there when these were passed, I believe, in 2013, if memory serves.

1277
01:52:15,860 --> 01:52:25,440
I believe the intent was to incentivize and induce more commercial uses, the actual mixed use structure, commercial down below residential up above.

1278
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:34,440
But we've seen in developments that have happened where these requirements are in place that instead of doing that, we don't actually proactively require commercial space.

1279
01:52:34,440 --> 01:52:39,220
We just restrict the ground level residential and it's just the dwelling units themselves

1280
01:52:39,220 --> 01:52:40,560
So you could have a common space

1281
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:46,600
So the perfect example would be kind of across the corner from that where the other building now has kind of that

1282
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:48,980
Concrete area that's out front

1283
01:52:48,980 --> 01:52:52,860
A what I believe is fairly sparsely used kind of

1284
01:52:52,860 --> 01:52:58,200
Recreation space where they're potentially could have been dwelling units there, but for

1285
01:52:58,780 --> 01:53:02,020
That specific restriction. I just don't see a lot of it

1286
01:53:02,020 --> 01:53:08,040
But I was in Salt Lake City a couple of years ago and downtown walked around downtown quite a bit and I was struck by the number of ground floor

1287
01:53:08,660 --> 01:53:13,860
They look like townhouses more they were like literally sidewalk to the front door and I know in larger cities

1288
01:53:13,860 --> 01:53:19,580
You've got basement apartments and things so I know that's not the style or probably what's in demand here

1289
01:53:19,580 --> 01:53:26,020
But it just seems like I'm just yeah, I get it. I get it the ground floor with the residential above but

1290
01:53:26,020 --> 01:53:31,700
You know, prohibiting it seems, I'm, you know, I can live with it either way, but it just.

1291
01:53:32,580 --> 01:53:37,700
And again, that prohibition would still stay in place where the remaining red areas are.

1292
01:53:37,860 --> 01:53:41,840
And again, most of those are already developed out with a lot of our historic building stock.

1293
01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:50,400
And I think what we heard also pretty clearly from that sort of informal conversation with some developers and downtown association was.

1294
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:56,120
We want to preserve the core of the retail function and use of the core of our downtown.

1295
01:53:57,020 --> 01:54:02,100
And there are spaces where you're halfway between kind of the heart of downtown and

1296
01:54:02,100 --> 01:54:07,280
halfway between campus that are effectively undeveloped that could potentially accommodate

1297
01:54:07,460 --> 01:54:13,800
a residential, exclusively residential use, potentially very well to kind of transition between those two spaces.

1298
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:17,360
I guess, so just

1299
01:54:20,050 --> 01:54:33,020
adding to the conversation, if you, what this does is, and if the residential

1300
01:54:33,020 --> 01:54:41,820
is built out on all of those purple streets, it kind of limits the walkability, the expansion

1301
01:54:41,820 --> 01:54:52,560
of downtown. So, if you have a commercial experience and then you start walking past

1302
01:54:52,560 --> 01:55:00,380
a block of residential, that's the end of the commercial and because you're not going

1303
01:55:00,380 --> 01:55:10,260
to go further to get more commercial than that block. So, that was the intent of the

1304
01:55:10,260 --> 01:55:15,740
the storefront streets originally and the second area, the limitation on the secondary.

1305
01:55:16,260 --> 01:55:25,140
Yeah, if we're going to more mixed use outside of the downtown, maybe that's okay.

1306
01:55:25,380 --> 01:55:33,360
If we're satisfied with the size of the downtown and we're not thinking that it's going to grow outwardly, then that's okay.

1307
01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:36,540
But I think that has to be part of this discussion.

1308
01:55:36,540 --> 01:55:37,440
Is,

1309
01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:44,020
are we limiting our commercial area to those red streets?

1310
01:55:44,520 --> 01:55:50,620
Because once it's residential on the ground floor, people won't walk past it.

1311
01:55:56,040 --> 01:55:56,760
Walk past it.

1312
01:55:56,760 --> 01:55:57,440
Go to another commercial.

1313
01:55:57,960 --> 01:55:59,500
You got to another commercial area.

1314
01:56:00,480 --> 01:56:04,460
Because you're separating, now you're in the residential area.

1315
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,140
You're not in the commercial area anymore.

1316
01:56:09,460 --> 01:56:17,760
And I mean, I learned that at an EDA, not Allen's, but a downtown association conference, right?

1317
01:56:17,980 --> 01:56:23,680
And that was the message that was driven home, is you need the continuity of the commercial.

1318
01:56:23,680 --> 01:56:25,640
But it doesn't appear to be broken up.

1319
01:56:25,960 --> 01:56:33,140
I mean, the red is all together, it is, and so, but-

1320
01:56:33,140 --> 01:56:34,600
get smaller in the proposed?

1321
01:56:34,800 --> 01:56:37,480
Just for reference, like this is Kelleher Motors here.

1322
01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:42,180
This is a development that has already developed without pushing to the street front.

1323
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:45,180
There's actually parking that's fronting the street right here.

1324
01:56:45,360 --> 01:56:47,960
This is an undeveloped gravel surface area.

1325
01:56:48,660 --> 01:56:51,280
So this is kind of the area that we're talking about.

1326
01:56:51,460 --> 01:56:54,360
And it is kind of a policy question for the elected.

1327
01:56:54,880 --> 01:57:01,320
Do we kind of require that this match the same form of the areas that's

1328
01:57:01,320 --> 01:57:06,340
a block and a half further to the south, or potentially open up some of those options.

1329
01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:08,240
And as it redevelopes, do we want to connect with the other way?

1330
01:57:08,240 --> 01:57:12,160
That might not be a fair way to characterize it, but that's the way that we were thinking of, kind of the levers.

1331
01:57:12,560 --> 01:57:13,620
I think they're all excellent points.

1332
01:57:13,780 --> 01:57:17,700
I think we've been talking about the University of Wake horror for as long as I've been in Ellensburg,

1333
01:57:17,700 --> 01:57:20,380
and it doesn't really exist in any functional way.

1334
01:57:21,040 --> 01:57:26,440
The barrier that university avenue is for pedestrians is significant, and it is what it is.

1335
01:57:26,440 --> 01:57:35,920
But I also think there's an argument that communities find that when they're when they don't have a, you know,

1336
01:57:36,500 --> 01:57:41,240
downtown Seattle, when, you know, end of the day, everybody leaves, you've got a ghost town, right?

1337
01:57:41,340 --> 01:57:46,640
So there's an argument on a small scale that if you have a mix of residential in your urban core,

1338
01:57:47,240 --> 01:57:49,660
that will help stimulate activity in your community.

1339
01:57:49,820 --> 01:57:54,340
So I think, frankly, Seattle would love if that were still the case because they've the remote work.

1340
01:57:54,340 --> 01:57:59,260
It could be, I think we're getting into what, how precisely do we're designing?

1341
01:57:59,500 --> 01:58:01,480
But it's a good point, I think they're all good points.

1342
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:05,320
So figured that out.

1343
01:58:08,180 --> 01:58:10,140
I do, unfortunately, have more.

1344
01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:14,260
Now we're going to get into some of the other preemptive laws.

1345
01:58:14,420 --> 01:58:16,280
Some of these are part of the Growth Management Act.

1346
01:58:16,420 --> 01:58:19,000
Some of these were separate bills that are passed under separate statutes.

1347
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:21,220
Some of them got really nitpicky.

1348
01:58:21,220 --> 01:58:26,600
We are only allowed to require a minimum parking stall size.

1349
01:58:26,680 --> 01:58:32,560
The largest minimum parking stall size we can require is 8 feet by 20 feet for residential uses.

1350
01:58:33,340 --> 01:58:37,380
So we're making a couple of changes in our code where we reference 22 foot setbacks for

1351
01:58:37,380 --> 01:58:38,880
garage frontages to 20 feet.

1352
01:58:39,340 --> 01:58:42,600
And then a lot of this is actually going to be changed in the public works development standards.

1353
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:47,740
Because that's where a lot of the specific dimensions for these things are housed.

1354
01:58:47,740 --> 01:58:51,600
They'll be doing that as part of their administrative updates, I believe, next month.

1355
01:58:52,040 --> 01:58:55,800
We also have to permit up to six existing non-conforming spaces.

1356
01:58:56,240 --> 01:59:00,240
So whether they're constructed differently, marked out differently in terms of size,

1357
01:59:00,380 --> 01:59:04,340
to count toward a residential development on an undeveloped lot, or

1358
01:59:04,340 --> 01:59:07,800
if they wanted to put new residential uses in an existing structure on there.

1359
01:59:07,880 --> 01:59:12,860
Just a suggestion, anything that's required highlighted is required, and then we don't have to talk about it as much.

1360
01:59:12,860 --> 01:59:15,320
That's we're going to have a handful of these.

1361
01:59:15,980 --> 01:59:24,360
So residential parking preemption, religious shelter preemptions for things like outdoor encampments, safe parking efforts, overnight shelters, and temporary small houses.

1362
01:59:24,780 --> 01:59:32,980
When those are on property under controlled by a religious organization, there's a ton of very prescriptive and narrow preemptions and authorities.

1363
01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:36,840
So we would mostly reference the RCW to incorporate those.

1364
01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:39,800
And there's a good definition for a religious organization, right?

1365
01:59:40,080 --> 01:59:44,340
There is the definition of religious organization for this RCC.

1366
01:59:44,400 --> 01:59:49,580
We don't need it as long as, I mean, it is what it is, I go.

1367
01:59:49,740 --> 01:59:50,700
Yes, there is.

1368
01:59:52,040 --> 01:59:57,420
Density bonuses, we have to adopt a specific, additional density bonus for

1369
01:59:57,420 --> 01:59:59,860
housing that is developed on a property longer controlled.

1370
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:29,140
By our religious organization, the wording of this one through a couple of loops, but we're ultimately going to adopt another section of our density bonus chapter that would just apply to these. It would effectively allow 150% of the existing density bonus on a property. This isn't religious organizations, but there's new preemptive standards for shelters. So we basically have to treat them like any other land use for our purposes.

1371
02:00:29,140 --> 02:00:38,560
So, under our current zoning code, we have a number of standards that relate to services on site and operations that we can't enforce anymore.

1372
02:00:39,060 --> 02:00:48,640
There are some specific things that we can still require from them, like personnel policies, single point of contact, in case of emergencies, and we would include those in code.

1373
02:00:51,200 --> 02:00:53,920
Composting, we have to permit composting.

1374
02:00:57,310 --> 02:01:02,710
I don't want to hold the up, but I think it's okay if that composting has become an EPF, I'm sorry.

1375
02:01:03,230 --> 02:01:04,590
I can relate to this, but I'm sorry.

1376
02:01:04,590 --> 02:01:06,050
It's not becoming an EPF.

1377
02:01:06,170 --> 02:01:12,190
We are incorporating the definition of organic materials and facilities to our EPF definition.

1378
02:01:12,330 --> 02:01:13,670
Not to include composting, got it.

1379
02:01:13,970 --> 02:01:14,010
Yeah.

1380
02:01:17,070 --> 02:01:21,050
Design, this is, unfortunately, something I do need to dig into a little bit.

1381
02:01:21,050 --> 02:01:25,970
But this took probably the most volume of us to look through.

1382
02:01:26,570 --> 02:01:34,370
There's a new preemption for the types of design requirements that we can impose on exterior design of new development.

1383
02:01:34,710 --> 02:01:44,890
And those standards have to adopt one or more ascertainable guideline standards or criterion by which an applicant can determine whether a design is permissible.

1384
02:01:46,830 --> 02:01:51,550
Asertainable per Webster means capable of being learned with certainty, so there's no

1385
02:01:52,350 --> 02:01:58,010
fudging the numbers, there's no subjectivity allowed in it, even if it's a guideline where

1386
02:01:58,010 --> 02:02:02,750
it's an option, it needs to be clear how they can meet the guideline, the thing that we're

1387
02:02:02,750 --> 02:02:08,190
preferring to do, and those standards can't result in a reduction in density, height, bulk,

1388
02:02:08,230 --> 02:02:13,370
or scale over what would otherwise be allowed for a development in that zone for that type

1389
02:02:13,370 --> 02:02:13,990
of development.

1390
02:02:14,550 --> 02:02:19,830
I was going to ask, did that don't go off the track, but did that effectively eliminate

1391
02:02:19,830 --> 02:02:20,790
form-based codes?

1392
02:02:22,030 --> 02:02:25,330
I mean, it seemed we were all in on form-based codes when we did our land development code.

1393
02:02:25,470 --> 02:02:28,230
But now it seems like that's a little too prescriptive.

1394
02:02:28,570 --> 02:02:32,150
It's only if they do those specific things, right?

1395
02:02:32,330 --> 02:02:37,330
So you could have form-based code if it's part of the base zone entitlement, right?

1396
02:02:37,430 --> 02:02:42,650
If it's more kind of permissive language versus restrictive language for certain types.

1397
02:02:42,650 --> 02:02:45,830
getting into windows and transparency levels.

1398
02:02:46,310 --> 02:02:48,650
Yeah, and we can still maintain those elements

1399
02:02:48,650 --> 02:02:50,090
if they are clear and objective

1400
02:02:50,090 --> 02:02:52,630
and don't reduce bulk height and density.

1401
02:02:52,650 --> 02:02:54,030
That's questionable whether they were clear

1402
02:02:54,030 --> 02:02:54,890
and objective they were in.

1403
02:02:54,950 --> 02:02:55,830
And 15%?

1404
02:02:56,190 --> 02:02:57,390
Line of the reader, I suppose.

1405
02:02:58,810 --> 02:03:01,150
So just some examples of stuff

1406
02:03:01,150 --> 02:03:03,450
and the top three are hypothetical,

1407
02:03:03,450 --> 02:03:05,290
but based on some stuff we have in our code,

1408
02:03:05,410 --> 02:03:07,250
so a compliant regulation might see something

1409
02:03:07,250 --> 02:03:09,570
like parking lots along an interior property line

1410
02:03:09,570 --> 02:03:11,950
that need this type of landscaping at this type of depth,

1411
02:03:11,950 --> 02:03:18,110
where there's dimensions, there's material standards and you can look through and figure out what you need to do, that is all compliant.

1412
02:03:19,350 --> 02:03:26,250
A noncompliant standard might read something like the scale of any mixed use building in this zone shall complement the established character of the neighborhood.

1413
02:03:26,530 --> 02:03:33,190
Well, how big is the neighborhood? What is the character? Is there a divine diversity there already? What would we restrict based on all of that?

1414
02:03:33,230 --> 02:03:35,050
So something like that, not going to fly.

1415
02:03:35,050 --> 02:03:41,970
or when located near a residential zone, the maximum height of your commercial building has to be reduced to the maximum height of that zone.

1416
02:03:42,330 --> 02:03:48,690
That would specifically restrict the height based on a consideration other than what you're allowed to do in that underlying zone.

1417
02:03:48,970 --> 02:03:50,910
So that can't be implemented anymore.

1418
02:03:53,250 --> 02:03:55,450
The bottom one is one that's actually in our code.

1419
02:03:56,210 --> 02:04:02,690
It asks for a certain type of design to use window or entries that reinforce the pattern of small storefront spaces.

1420
02:04:03,430 --> 02:04:17,230
I don't know how to measure what a small storefront spaces versus a larger one, so there's elements of subjectivity in these that we can no longer enforce as of the adoption of our comprehensive plan.

1421
02:04:17,590 --> 02:04:32,090
This led us to some choices, we can strike only the very limited element with interregulation, that's noncompliance, if there's a single vague term, or we can replace that vague term with one that's pretty clearly along the same line of intent as what was in there.

1422
02:04:32,090 --> 02:04:36,570
we can make that limited swap out or do that kind of targeted strike through.

1423
02:04:37,170 --> 02:04:41,450
We can replace a completely non-compliant regulation with one that is compliant.

1424
02:04:41,710 --> 02:04:46,530
So for that last example, what they're trying to get at is like some neat arrangement

1425
02:04:46,530 --> 02:04:48,350
of the transparency of the storefront.

1426
02:04:48,490 --> 02:04:53,490
So we can ask for windows and or entries with evenly spaced or symmetrical pattern.

1427
02:04:54,030 --> 02:04:57,850
Symmetry is something that you can objectively do, evenly spaced is also something

1428
02:04:57,850 --> 02:05:00,990
that you can measure out with a measuring tool.

1429
02:05:00,990 --> 02:05:08,890
So there's ways to get to the same sort of design parameters that were in the code without just taking everything away.

1430
02:05:09,390 --> 02:05:10,750
Except where we can't.

1431
02:05:10,910 --> 02:05:15,170
So things like landscaping that adds visual or seasonal interest to a space.

1432
02:05:15,790 --> 02:05:21,330
I would don't know what that means in terms of creating that on a year-long basis.

1433
02:05:22,490 --> 02:05:29,130
There's opportunities for us to retain standards that ensure quality design features, though.

1434
02:05:29,130 --> 02:05:33,810
So this was one of, I think, like three options of six.

1435
02:05:34,330 --> 02:05:38,070
Like three have to be implemented and you've got this menu of things to meet the standard.

1436
02:05:38,290 --> 02:05:41,870
And then there's all these additional guidelines that you can do that we would like to see these things in.

1437
02:05:42,330 --> 02:05:44,730
And this is specifically for non-residential open space.

1438
02:05:44,950 --> 02:05:49,330
So we're still going to be able to achieve, I think, some of the design goals on this way.

1439
02:05:50,930 --> 02:05:55,610
We can also newly establish a compliant standard to fill in a gap if we've taken something away.

1440
02:05:56,190 --> 02:06:01,270
So, where we have limited options, we can provide more design choices for folks as well.

1441
02:06:02,190 --> 02:06:10,090
We could also change a guideline that's recommended to a standard, again, to kind of fill in a gap if there's a bunch of elements that are no longer there.

1442
02:06:10,710 --> 02:06:15,030
And provide a lot of it as providing objective references to other sections of code.

1443
02:06:15,790 --> 02:06:23,390
This choice was made a lot in our regional retail commercial master site plans, which had a lot of non-compliance with the statute.

1444
02:06:23,390 --> 02:06:30,050
you. Doing all of that also allowed us to then reorganize where stuff should be together

1445
02:06:30,050 --> 02:06:34,730
but is not in code and has been frankly a little bit frustrating to administer and I imagine

1446
02:06:34,730 --> 02:06:38,770
a little frustrating for the development community so there's three different areas that talk

1447
02:06:38,770 --> 02:06:43,090
about landscaping standards that apply to a side yard property line depending on what

1448
02:06:43,090 --> 02:06:45,930
the thing is we're just going to put them all in the same place that way you don't have

1449
02:06:45,930 --> 02:06:51,150
to look across four different chapters. The other big change is that we can only have

1450
02:06:51,150 --> 02:06:56,970
have a single meeting if there is a public meeting about design, and except for landmarks

1451
02:06:56,970 --> 02:07:00,310
and design commission, they can potentially have more for theirs.

1452
02:07:00,590 --> 02:07:04,850
But regional retail commercial master site plans, currently required council approval after

1453
02:07:04,850 --> 02:07:09,570
hearing examiner recommendations, so that would just change to a type three permit hearing

1454
02:07:09,570 --> 02:07:12,850
examiner only. Any questions on all of those pieces?

1455
02:07:13,410 --> 02:07:19,310
The vast volume of what you're going to see in our proposed ordinance is attacking this beast

1456
02:07:19,310 --> 02:07:24,190
right here. So, it's going to look like a lot of nitpicky strike through changing, moving

1457
02:07:24,190 --> 02:07:30,090
around stuff. A huge portion of it is really just trying to hit on that. There's a couple

1458
02:07:30,090 --> 02:07:34,810
of other things that we wanted to address at the same time. One of them is about our design

1459
02:07:34,810 --> 02:07:40,290
permits. So, it's either a type 1 or 2 permit under our code. It's administrative process,

1460
02:07:40,530 --> 02:07:46,750
but a type 2 requires limited public notice and comment. The permit type, I think, is meant

1461
02:07:46,750 --> 02:07:49,850
to entitle a conforming site or building design.

1462
02:07:50,730 --> 02:07:52,830
The LDC permits, the upshot of that

1463
02:07:52,830 --> 02:07:55,430
is that they're confined then to the local project review act.

1464
02:07:55,610 --> 02:07:57,770
So we have to, once we determine it complete,

1465
02:07:57,950 --> 02:07:59,910
issue a decision within a certain amount of time.

1466
02:08:00,450 --> 02:08:02,950
If someone's on a building project, stuff changes

1467
02:08:02,950 --> 02:08:05,230
based on review for any number of reasons,

1468
02:08:05,390 --> 02:08:08,230
utilities, structural things, fire code, provisions

1469
02:08:08,230 --> 02:08:10,390
that they didn't recognize at the time.

1470
02:08:10,590 --> 02:08:13,530
So we end up in this weird procedural cycle

1471
02:08:13,530 --> 02:08:15,590
where we're doing multiple design reviews

1472
02:08:15,590 --> 02:08:19,590
or multiple amendments as an entitlement before they even pull a building permit.

1473
02:08:20,070 --> 02:08:23,590
Or before we'll issue the building permit, they need to have this in hand.

1474
02:08:23,930 --> 02:08:28,870
We think we can just put it all into the same review process because it's all administrative anyway for

1475
02:08:28,870 --> 02:08:30,130
most of these review types.

1476
02:08:30,390 --> 02:08:36,730
So we would repeal this permit, all of the standards that we're again looking to substantially revise based on the last thing.

1477
02:08:36,730 --> 02:08:40,410
It would just be reviewed when someone pulls a commercial building permit for a project.

1478
02:08:41,070 --> 02:08:41,990
Any questions there?

1479
02:08:41,990 --> 02:08:50,450
Okay. Similarly, another kind of can of worms is our site development permits. So these

1480
02:08:50,450 --> 02:08:57,190
are basically intended for a project applicants to do preliminary site clearing and grading.

1481
02:08:57,730 --> 02:09:03,510
Over the time, the scope has really creeped on these so that folks are looking to entitle

1482
02:09:03,510 --> 02:09:10,290
a range of construction specific elements, so things like utilities, things like location

1483
02:09:10,290 --> 02:09:14,530
of buildings and square footages and site design elements.

1484
02:09:15,170 --> 02:09:20,670
Stuff that's well beyond the scope of, am I allowed to move dirt around before I actually go vertical with a building permit.

1485
02:09:21,410 --> 02:09:26,610
And it's getting a little messy in terms of procedurally how we do things between our department,

1486
02:09:26,870 --> 02:09:30,610
between public works, and how some of our commercial review is working.

1487
02:09:31,070 --> 02:09:35,430
And again, as a planning permit, it's subject to local project review act timelines,

1488
02:09:35,430 --> 02:09:42,250
which, again, puts us in a very strange time crunch for all sorts of project elements that maybe need to be, like, cycled through revisions.

1489
02:09:43,230 --> 02:09:49,930
Our proposed changes would reduce these to clearly specify this is just your permission to move dirt around,

1490
02:09:50,190 --> 02:09:54,370
and if you want review on all of these other things, you need to submit the appropriate permit.

1491
02:09:54,570 --> 02:09:59,810
So whether that's a standalone utility permit, a construction permit that reviews the utilities, things like that.

1492
02:09:59,810 --> 02:10:05,690
But this will probably be a fairly substantial change for our development community, who's used to kind of the current

1493
02:10:06,930 --> 02:10:13,910
Regime that we have going on right now. So we may try to vet this with them a little bit more before

1494
02:10:14,450 --> 02:10:19,090
This ultimately comes back for public hearings, but this is another proposal of ours

1495
02:10:19,970 --> 02:10:21,170
Another specific one

1496
02:10:21,750 --> 02:10:27,850
We would look to repeal our commercial neighborhood zone, which is currently only zoned on two parcels in the city

1497
02:10:27,850 --> 02:10:36,950
As was shown in your packet, there's a weird inconsistent gradation between the RO zone and the NCMU zone in terms of the permitted uses allowed.

1498
02:10:37,870 --> 02:10:41,930
It's part of our area-wide rezone where we would do some of the targeted zoning changes.

1499
02:10:41,930 --> 02:10:45,750
We would incorporate re-zoning those CN parcels to NCMU.

1500
02:10:46,590 --> 02:10:51,490
A quick note from the land use presentation you guys had the other day.

1501
02:10:51,850 --> 02:10:57,370
Urban neighborhood, future land use designation would duly permit the NCMU zone

1502
02:10:57,370 --> 02:10:59,230
as an eligible zoning designation.

1503
02:10:59,730 --> 02:11:04,070
So to make sure that the neighborhood scale uses are appropriate to neighborhoods there,

1504
02:11:04,230 --> 02:11:07,250
we would make some targeted changes to the land use table, because currently,

1505
02:11:07,650 --> 02:11:12,410
things like taverns, marijuana dispensaries are permitted in that zone,

1506
02:11:12,710 --> 02:11:15,970
which don't necessarily feel appropriate to have in the middle of a neighborhood.

1507
02:11:16,470 --> 02:11:19,430
So we would do some targeted changes in there.

1508
02:11:22,960 --> 02:11:24,660
Lastly, subdivision streets.

1509
02:11:24,660 --> 02:11:31,600
We have this convoluted set of standards and potential departures for exceptions for how you're

1510
02:11:32,860 --> 02:11:36,600
required to design a street when you do a new subdivision.

1511
02:11:37,320 --> 02:11:42,620
There is this sort of moot applicability for the special provisions that we grant to local access streets.

1512
02:11:42,620 --> 02:11:48,560
It says as of this date, only subdivisions approve before the adoption of this ordinance are eligible,

1513
02:11:48,960 --> 02:11:53,140
which is a weird thing to then have lingering out in code and perpetuity.

1514
02:11:54,160 --> 02:11:59,780
Those departures for these also require a special public works authorization unlike the rest of our departures

1515
02:11:59,780 --> 02:12:05,660
Which are really I have an alternative design proposal. It meets the purpose of the standard and has our director's review

1516
02:12:05,660 --> 02:12:10,900
So we would change these to kind of be standardized across these street types and

1517
02:12:12,240 --> 02:12:14,680
Change some of the administrative standards there as well

1518
02:12:17,220 --> 02:12:21,860
Sections would also then be reorganized for clarity. I just hit on those topics

1519
02:12:21,860 --> 02:12:28,960
Other targeted revisions to the land use table, those would be repealed and replaced largely just for organizational clarity.

1520
02:12:29,240 --> 02:12:34,200
If you look at the columns for those, they don't line up when you're looking across different use types.

1521
02:12:34,440 --> 02:12:38,840
So we've got three different tables for residential, commercial uses, other special uses.

1522
02:12:39,400 --> 02:12:43,500
And if you're trying to look through to all three of them to see where you're at, it doesn't line up.

1523
02:12:43,580 --> 02:12:48,380
So we would repeal or replace just to keep it cleaner and easier in retaining most of the standards.

1524
02:12:48,380 --> 02:12:53,020
and we'll be calling out what the specific changes are as part of any updating ordinance.

1525
02:12:53,700 --> 02:12:58,920
And then clarify density intensity standards and uses for the manufactured home park zone

1526
02:12:59,660 --> 02:13:03,000
across some of those other use tables where they're currently not there.

1527
02:13:03,480 --> 02:13:05,760
Strike a minimum manufactured home park standard.

1528
02:13:05,940 --> 02:13:12,080
Those currently have to be a minimum of three acres where with the established minimum density requirements that we're looking to have.

1529
02:13:12,140 --> 02:13:17,420
And you could potentially have a smaller one on a smaller size if there's the potential to do that use.

1530
02:13:18,380 --> 02:13:21,420
We would also update our permitted landscape plant material standards.

1531
02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:25,520
The existing list comes from a dead link website that when you actually find what it is

1532
02:13:25,520 --> 02:13:31,280
refers to the pollution region and it was from an ecologist and former arborist, but they

1533
02:13:31,280 --> 02:13:35,720
were doing a lot of hobby orchards on their property and they're like, this tree seems

1534
02:13:35,720 --> 02:13:41,860
to work out here, which doesn't seem like the best use of here's the trees that you must

1535
02:13:41,860 --> 02:13:42,700
have in our.

1536
02:13:42,840 --> 02:13:47,880
So we found a bunch of appropriate regional uses from Benton County Conservation District

1537
02:13:47,880 --> 02:13:52,460
has a list of Columbia-based and appropriate species, the Washington native plant society,

1538
02:13:53,000 --> 02:13:56,660
also drought-resistant fire-resistant species as well.

1539
02:13:57,240 --> 02:13:59,640
And then general internal consistency and cleanup.

1540
02:14:00,400 --> 02:14:01,820
With all that, our next steps.

1541
02:14:02,080 --> 02:14:05,700
Planning Commission Affordable Housing Commission will look at a full text of what we currently

1542
02:14:05,700 --> 02:14:08,300
have drafted, with some of the guidance that you folks have provided.

1543
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:12,340
We will tweak what we currently have drafted before we get that out to them.

1544
02:14:13,080 --> 02:14:16,440
Those amendments will ultimately require an ordinance that will go before planning commission

1545
02:14:16,440 --> 02:14:21,460
and have Council approval, and that will run concurrent with the Complan Adoption Cycle.

1546
02:14:22,780 --> 02:14:31,940
Next year, we're going to have more stuff that we're doing, though, that are technically related to this cycle on what's called Unit Lot Subdivision and administrative residential lot subdivisions.

1547
02:14:33,060 --> 02:14:42,560
We'll also take a quick review of our critical areas ordinance to see if there need to be any revisions based on some guidance understate law for that.

1548
02:14:42,560 --> 02:14:47,320
that, as well as develop a work program, we've heard some interest in looking at the airport

1549
02:14:47,320 --> 02:14:47,900
overlay.

1550
02:14:48,040 --> 02:14:50,960
We'll have some discussion on that at the planning and affordable housing commission

1551
02:14:50,960 --> 02:14:51,400
meeting.

1552
02:14:53,140 --> 02:14:54,540
There's a lot of stuff there.

1553
02:14:55,780 --> 02:14:59,400
I want to give the audience a chance to you, so that's a lot.

1554
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:04,180
So we gave you some feedback. Absolutely. You've been in the audience wish to speak to this issue.

1555
02:15:09,960 --> 02:15:20,960
That was a lot of work. Thank you all for. It's not a short ordinance, and it's current draft, so we appreciate your patience when that comes before you. We

1556
02:15:25,340 --> 02:15:26,500
have experts. Okay.

1557
02:15:39,440 --> 02:15:42,380
Of course, escaping, you were supposed to stay the whole meeting.

1558
02:15:43,680 --> 02:15:44,460
Just kidding.

1559
02:15:46,240 --> 02:15:47,480
She's like, what?

1560
02:15:48,140 --> 02:15:49,460
Going out with the rest of the group.

1561
02:15:49,480 --> 02:15:49,940
Just mean.

1562
02:15:50,380 --> 02:15:50,820
I apologize.

1563
02:15:51,080 --> 02:15:51,520
Just mean.

1564
02:15:51,840 --> 02:15:52,140
I don't know.

1565
02:15:54,160 --> 02:15:57,560
We have a number of items in the manager's report.

1566
02:15:57,880 --> 02:16:02,180
Just a reminder, we have our community grant programs open for applications.

1567
02:16:02,420 --> 02:16:04,160
These are 2027 grants.

1568
02:16:05,060 --> 02:16:06,580
The applications are due.

1569
02:16:06,580 --> 02:16:15,880
the 31st of August this year. I believe that's still the date? Yes. We also have the AEE

1570
02:16:15,880 --> 02:16:21,660
Commission grants. These are 2026 funded grants. Those are also due at the end of the month.

1571
02:16:22,380 --> 02:16:29,580
And more details can be found on the City website. A reminder to Maronite is the ADU

1572
02:16:29,580 --> 02:16:34,800
homeowner panel at Hal Hall. It's from 6 to 730. If you're interested in ADUs

1573
02:16:34,800 --> 02:16:56,560
so you can listen to people who have worked on them and with them, so opportunities to continue to educate about options for housing in our community, rodeo and fair items kick off this month and so pay attention and just join in on one of the many opportunities that just lost.

1574
02:16:57,740 --> 02:16:58,140
Sorry.

1575
02:16:58,140 --> 02:16:58,800
Thank you.

1576
02:16:58,820 --> 02:16:59,560
I appreciate that, too, Chair.

1577
02:17:02,740 --> 02:17:03,340
Excellent.

1578
02:17:04,080 --> 02:17:06,640
So, just an amazing opportunity.

1579
02:17:06,900 --> 02:17:11,040
I had the opportunity to visit the Radio Grandstands off of the ribbon cutting.

1580
02:17:11,080 --> 02:17:16,940
It's a really impressive facility, ADA access, updated facilities.

1581
02:17:17,580 --> 02:17:21,220
It's a really nice gym that will serve our community well.

1582
02:17:21,220 --> 02:17:31,160
So in a reminder to council, we do our annual employee picnic and so from 1130 to 130, I believe, at the City Shop.

1583
02:17:31,440 --> 02:17:38,300
We will have some of our front offices closed on so folks can attend, but council is invited and encouraged to show up.

1584
02:17:38,380 --> 02:17:39,260
We'll make you a cheeseburger.

1585
02:17:40,700 --> 02:17:43,440
And that is again Wednesday the 19th.

1586
02:17:43,940 --> 02:17:50,080
We also have, and I would just remind I handed these out and I can send these to council as well.

1587
02:17:50,080 --> 02:17:56,280
Well, this week we picked off our community results team and so this is part of our priority

1588
02:17:56,280 --> 02:18:03,280
base budgeting and what I provided you are the matrix of attributes that we rate the

1589
02:18:03,280 --> 02:18:09,700
programs on and so these are sort of basic attributes are, you know, what is the level

1590
02:18:09,700 --> 02:18:10,340
of mandate?

1591
02:18:10,620 --> 02:18:14,920
Some of the things that we do are required and a lot of the things we do, we're the only

1592
02:18:14,920 --> 02:18:19,020
want to do these things. And so those types of programs and proposals will

1593
02:18:19,020 --> 02:18:24,540
rate higher. And so we created a matrix and you can see the scoring if you have

1594
02:18:24,540 --> 02:18:29,200
any feedback on this scoring or any of the items. I'm a feel free to reach out to

1595
02:18:29,200 --> 02:18:34,600
me but we will do orientation this week and we are working very, very

1596
02:18:35,840 --> 02:18:39,840
diligently and especially in finance and across our departments to prepare all

1597
02:18:39,840 --> 02:18:43,720
of that information that the community results team gets to look at. We have a

1598
02:18:43,720 --> 02:18:50,040
staff results team, our community and staff result team will primarily focus on general

1599
02:18:50,040 --> 02:18:54,760
governmental programs, and so those are the things that are, again, primarily tax funded

1600
02:18:54,760 --> 02:19:00,380
programs. And then we have an internal team that's going to work on our enterprise funds

1601
02:19:00,380 --> 02:19:04,700
and so all of our utility funds, so we're working a parallel process because we thought it

1602
02:19:04,700 --> 02:19:10,320
would probably be a lot for some groups to look at some well over 100 different programs.

1603
02:19:10,320 --> 02:19:17,860
So we do a lot as a city, and I think this will be a fun process to sort of open the doors and help people advise on

1604
02:19:18,440 --> 02:19:18,960
prioritizing

1605
02:19:18,960 --> 02:19:23,220
signatures for the city. So with that, I

1606
02:19:23,980 --> 02:19:28,860
Can stand for any questions and we'll turn it back to the mayor. Questions from CM Andrew?

1607
02:19:30,380 --> 02:19:30,900
Josh

1608
02:19:35,020 --> 02:19:41,960
Yeah, hey, not much of a report. I do want to say a big thank you to

1609
02:19:41,960 --> 02:20:06,500
city staff and city council for their support with dealing with my kiddo going through his surgery. Good news was there's a little bit bigger than we thought but super successful and he's already chasing our caps around the house making dinosaur noises, so I called out a victory.

1610
02:20:07,720 --> 02:20:10,900
But yeah, that was an update. Thank you to everybody.

1611
02:20:12,020 --> 02:20:12,920
Thank you.

1612
02:20:13,020 --> 02:20:13,460
Glad to hear that.

1613
02:20:13,460 --> 02:20:14,580
Yeah, glad things worked out.

1614
02:20:15,520 --> 02:20:16,120
David.

1615
02:20:17,360 --> 02:20:18,680
Let's see, light on meetings.

1616
02:20:19,100 --> 02:20:20,920
So I attended.

1617
02:20:21,180 --> 02:20:25,400
I was asked to participate in a task force at Stacey, who's left now,

1618
02:20:25,520 --> 02:20:33,520
put together to evaluate some refinements to the chapter nine, chapter two,

1619
02:20:33,520 --> 02:20:41,140
or the comp plan, the old chapter nine, the new chapter two, and it's mostly related to zeroed in on policy and goals and that kind of thing.

1620
02:20:41,380 --> 02:20:44,420
So, Council Mayor Goodlow was also on that with me.

1621
02:20:45,040 --> 02:20:48,600
And it was, I give Stacey a lot of credit.

1622
02:20:48,740 --> 02:20:53,000
It was a very productive conversation, but it wasn't exactly linear.

1623
02:20:53,560 --> 02:20:56,820
So credit to her for sifting through all of that.

1624
02:20:57,800 --> 02:21:03,900
And then I attended, just out of my own interest, I attended a American Planning Association

1625
02:21:03,900 --> 02:21:06,560
webinar on the new housing bill.

1626
02:21:06,940 --> 02:21:09,980
And basically, it's planning for housing reform in the 21st century.

1627
02:21:10,120 --> 02:21:14,380
So it's all the elements that go with that bill that Congress passed this year, that will

1628
02:21:14,380 --> 02:21:16,120
be unfolding here in the years to come.

1629
02:21:17,200 --> 02:21:21,320
Then Finance Committee, I get the detailed briefing, what we heard tonight, and Jerk, again,

1630
02:21:21,440 --> 02:21:26,140
just, it's always amazing the detail that she put in the effort she puts into this and

1631
02:21:26,140 --> 02:21:33,800
staff that pull all this stuff together for us. So much appreciated. And then last week I was

1632
02:21:33,800 --> 02:21:41,560
able to attend the behavioral health court graduation. And it's if you haven't done it and you're

1633
02:21:41,560 --> 02:21:46,300
interested in kind of getting a feel for how the community works. I think there are a lot of really

1634
02:21:46,980 --> 02:21:52,240
good stories coming out of that and a lot of people put a lot of time into that. So that was that was a

1635
02:21:52,240 --> 02:21:59,220
highlight and then I was able to attend one of the performances of our Shakespeare in

1636
02:21:59,220 --> 02:21:59,440
the park.

1637
02:21:59,840 --> 02:22:05,820
So once again our downtown or Unity Park is becoming a venue and even though the smoke

1638
02:22:05,820 --> 02:22:08,460
canceled the Thursday event for us it was able to see Friday.

1639
02:22:08,860 --> 02:22:15,780
So one of our own city staff in fact was prominent on stage, I was shocked so Mark did a great

1640
02:22:15,780 --> 02:22:16,000
job.

1641
02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:23,140
Mark Red was quite good, and I know whether I saw there, I think Kelly did some work for the posters and stuff.

1642
02:22:23,340 --> 02:22:27,160
So it's nice to see our city staff getting involved in community events, so that's all I had.

1643
02:22:28,360 --> 02:22:28,560
Thank you.

1644
02:22:29,840 --> 02:22:35,740
I attended the Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board annual meeting where we

1645
02:22:37,260 --> 02:22:44,540
forwarded on a number of grant proposals for fish habitat kinds of projects.

1646
02:22:46,160 --> 02:22:54,520
And also attended a, I guess, a listening tour from Department of Ecology, Washington Water Futures.

1647
02:22:57,300 --> 02:22:58,480
Just, it was,

1648
02:23:01,690 --> 02:23:02,770
yeah, talking about water.

1649
02:23:03,510 --> 02:23:03,630
Is there bad news?

1650
02:23:04,010 --> 02:23:06,110
I think nothing too happy in that, I'm sure.

1651
02:23:07,270 --> 02:23:11,790
It wasn't, yeah, I guess the background.

1652
02:23:11,990 --> 02:23:14,050
Yeah, we could be worse.

1653
02:23:16,990 --> 02:23:24,970
The have coming up this week, the Transportation Commission, the Environmental Commission

1654
02:23:24,970 --> 02:23:30,430
and the Utility Commission meetings, as well as meeting a group of Japanese students

1655
02:23:30,960 --> 02:23:38,010
on Friday and some three decarbonization consultant interviews.

1656
02:23:39,390 --> 02:23:40,110
So,

1657
02:23:43,020 --> 02:23:51,900
okay, so I did coffee with council a couple of weeks ago with Mayor Elliott and we had

1658
02:23:51,900 --> 02:23:57,700
a really nice attendance, I thought. Good conversations about several different topics.

1659
02:23:58,700 --> 02:24:05,000
I did attend the task force meeting for chapter 2 for the comp plan.

1660
02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:07,780
And I think it had been a really good meeting.

1661
02:24:08,340 --> 02:24:11,060
A lot of lights went on in people's heads

1662
02:24:11,060 --> 02:24:12,680
of what we're really trying to accomplish

1663
02:24:12,680 --> 02:24:14,240
with that chapter in the goals.

1664
02:24:14,780 --> 02:24:17,880
And so that made it really productive.

1665
02:24:18,240 --> 02:24:21,040
I think it'll be a little easier going forward

1666
02:24:21,040 --> 02:24:21,980
because of that.

1667
02:24:23,080 --> 02:24:25,320
Library Board was canceled because there's

1668
02:24:25,320 --> 02:24:28,640
some big library thing going on this month.

1669
02:24:30,960 --> 02:24:33,360
So that kind of took the place of the meeting.

1670
02:24:33,360 --> 02:24:41,080
I mean, at Parsley Rec last week, we got kind of an update on the status of where the feasibility

1671
02:24:41,080 --> 02:24:46,880
study is with the pool and the future of it and what we're doing, kind of an outline

1672
02:24:46,880 --> 02:24:48,640
of the work plan.

1673
02:24:49,500 --> 02:24:56,880
So that was really interesting and we should have, I forgot what they said with this in the

1674
02:24:56,880 --> 02:25:00,040
year, early next spring, we should have a report back on that.

1675
02:25:00,040 --> 02:25:05,800
And I think something like that, I don't remember, but that work is going on.

1676
02:25:06,340 --> 02:25:07,960
So we should sit soon.

1677
02:25:10,000 --> 02:25:17,220
Cog had a special subcommittee meeting with the folks from CWU who are helping with the

1678
02:25:17,220 --> 02:25:26,880
implementation of the economic development work, particularly with the role of the executive

1679
02:25:26,880 --> 02:25:32,180
director in the scope of work for the next couple of years. There was a presentation

1680
02:25:32,180 --> 02:25:38,060
at the COG meeting and there was concern among some of the folks who are already involved

1681
02:25:38,060 --> 02:25:43,500
with economic development work that there's some overlap of being proposed. Work week

1682
02:25:43,500 --> 02:25:50,980
done, it's already been done. So we had a meeting to get that all squared away and it was

1683
02:25:50,980 --> 02:25:56,440
was very interesting and I think everybody's happy with the plan that we had moving forward.

1684
02:25:57,340 --> 02:25:59,520
So that was last week.

1685
02:26:01,900 --> 02:26:10,440
Our executive director is doing impressive work without, still without an office.

1686
02:26:11,200 --> 02:26:16,920
I think he's still without an office but he had had his little work tablet for 24 hours

1687
02:26:16,920 --> 02:26:20,200
when we met with him when that meeting happened last week.

1688
02:26:20,340 --> 02:26:25,720
So we're slowly getting there and it's obvious to me he's going to need some staff support

1689
02:26:25,720 --> 02:26:31,060
pretty quick to be able to do all the stuff that's lined out for him.

1690
02:26:31,200 --> 02:26:33,380
So that was a good meeting.

1691
02:26:34,160 --> 02:26:37,700
Other than that, I haven't done anything in the last two weeks.

1692
02:26:39,400 --> 02:26:39,700
Sir.

1693
02:26:40,620 --> 02:26:42,280
Except a lot of yard work.

1694
02:26:43,360 --> 02:26:49,860
Okay, so my work life has been a bit chaotic, so unfortunately my reports are pretty minimal.

1695
02:26:50,280 --> 02:26:51,380
KitKom, there's a lot.

1696
02:26:52,000 --> 02:26:55,700
We're still talking radios and we're getting staffed and we're just doing a great job for

1697
02:26:55,700 --> 02:26:58,900
us and so I always let him speak to it more than me.

1698
02:26:59,340 --> 02:27:03,080
Unfortunately, because of that hectic work life right now, I missed my art commission meeting

1699
02:27:03,080 --> 02:27:03,640
this week.

1700
02:27:04,380 --> 02:27:11,300
But I am super happy and proud of the LTCH for helping with the upcoming rec center.

1701
02:27:11,300 --> 02:27:16,340
that's a big support and I'm sorry and then I have another meeting coming up

1702
02:27:16,340 --> 02:27:20,940
later this month and I was also fortunate enough to see the Shakespeare in

1703
02:27:20,940 --> 02:27:23,900
the park. I didn't know it was going on half the time because I don't know

1704
02:27:23,900 --> 02:27:26,520
Shakespeare but very entertaining nonetheless.

1705
02:27:30,870 --> 02:27:33,050
Over the last few months all the

1706
02:27:33,050 --> 02:27:35,570
fire departments in Conor Tessie County have been rated by what's called the

1707
02:27:35,570 --> 02:27:40,610
Washington State Survey and Radiance Bureau and there's a score attached and that

1708
02:27:40,610 --> 02:27:43,110
That correspondingly affects your fire insurance rates.

1709
02:27:43,810 --> 02:27:47,070
For businesses it's significant for residential properties many times.

1710
02:27:47,070 --> 02:27:48,010
It's a smaller portion.

1711
02:27:49,530 --> 02:27:51,830
I requested sending here anything back from them.

1712
02:27:51,830 --> 02:27:54,970
I requested kick-com scores and our scores are up, which is cool.

1713
02:27:55,130 --> 02:28:01,310
So I'm trying to figure out what we did to improve our scores, which overall positively affects the rate here is here.

1714
02:28:01,430 --> 02:28:04,890
I don't know what KVFR's rating is, I don't know if it changed, I kind of doubt it did.

1715
02:28:06,030 --> 02:28:11,130
There are four out of 10 ones the best and that's where we've been stuck for a very long

1716
02:28:11,130 --> 02:28:11,390
time.

1717
02:28:12,230 --> 02:28:13,670
But that would be through KBFR.

1718
02:28:15,150 --> 02:28:22,130
I spent a bunch of time in Kansas City talking to federal officials about wild land, it's

1719
02:28:22,130 --> 02:28:24,830
depressing, it's going to get worse, that's all I'm talking about.

1720
02:28:26,050 --> 02:28:30,610
D-DAC is tomorrow, they're going to do a coordinating meeting with the ADU group, they're going

1721
02:28:30,610 --> 02:28:34,030
to meet first at the courthouse, then go to the ADU meeting, so that's a tie there.

1722
02:28:34,810 --> 02:28:40,930
We've got Cog tomorrow, the EMS meeting was Thursday, this is more good news, transfers

1723
02:28:40,930 --> 02:28:46,910
are almost inevitably moving, EMS transfers away from hospitals, nursing homes, and such

1724
02:28:46,910 --> 02:28:51,350
are almost assuredly moving outside the fire department.

1725
02:28:51,810 --> 02:28:57,470
They've started that process, it's very contentious, I can guarantee you it will cost you more and

1726
02:28:57,470 --> 02:29:00,950
the service level will be lower. It may cost you more in two or three different ways.

1727
02:29:01,610 --> 02:29:04,290
So pay attention to that and have input if you care about that.

1728
02:29:04,730 --> 02:29:05,490
Went to the springwood?

1729
02:29:05,710 --> 02:29:10,150
Can I ask, does that mean higher contracting with an ambulance service?

1730
02:29:11,530 --> 02:29:16,150
And that's almost assuredly the outcome in this way to probably double the cost for the transfer.

1731
02:29:18,270 --> 02:29:20,790
So based on the rates they charge other communities.

1732
02:29:22,330 --> 02:29:25,210
Springwood Ranch, the water retention.

1733
02:29:25,450 --> 02:29:25,770
Went there too.

1734
02:29:25,770 --> 02:29:46,830
That was awesome, it was really cool to see a project that looks like it'll basically benefit everybody and be a pretty good investment of a lot of dollars, but a lot of it federal and state money and a really cool outcome for the tribe and it just I was trying to find out who loses in this whole thing and maybe a few sheep that can't swim.

1735
02:29:47,810 --> 02:29:48,870
That's about it.

1736
02:29:49,690 --> 02:29:55,150
I wanted to just totally endorse the coffee with council since we've gone to something

1737
02:29:55,150 --> 02:29:58,090
that's co-located with an event is absolutely worth it.

1738
02:29:58,190 --> 02:29:59,970
I'm not saying it's not good to interact with people.

1739
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:12,480
Well, but when it's two people, it's the same two people. So having it in advance, we need to absolutely continue doing that. So that's it. And I'm pretty adjourned.

1740
02:30:14,840 --> 02:30:15,420
Yes, sir.