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Good evening residents of Everett Washington and interested parties. I'd like to call to order the Everett City Council meeting of September 2, 2026 for information on council meetings and how to participate. Please visit Everettwa.gov slash city council. Please note that we do not allow comments that make up any kind of campaigning, whether for or against ballot measures or candidates running for office. We also do not accept comments focused on personal matters that are unrelated to city business.

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We ask that audience refrain from clapping, cheering, or booing, and no signage of any kind is allowed in the chambers.

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We also ask everyone to take a seat and not gather in our entryway area.

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Clerk, please take the roll.

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Mayor Franklin, here, Councilmember Bader.

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Vice President Ryan.

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Councilmember Burbano.

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Excused.

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Councilmember Tuey.

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Councilmember Weer.

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Councilmember Zorlingo.

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Here.

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President Schwab.

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Excused.

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I'd like now to ask Councilmember Bader to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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The City Council wishes to acknowledge the original inhabitants of this place, the Stohogship people, and their successors, the Tulalip Tribes.

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Since time immemorial, they have hunted fished, gathered on, and taken care of these lands and waters.

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We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

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We will strive to be honest about our past mistakes and bring about a future that includes their people, stories, and voices to form a more just inequitable society.

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Thank you, Mayor Franklin.

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Good evening.

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Good evening council and community.

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First, happy first day of school to all our everett and muckelteal students, including my daughter.

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I want to give a shout out to the superintendent, Dr. Saltson and Dr. Bernelson as well as our teachers administrators and other school staff members.

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And a reminder to our community that there are a lot more kids out there on the road.

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So please be cautious as you're driving about and as they're heading to school, so please be extra cautious.

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And then Labor Day is coming up, so I want to take a moment to acknowledge the many hard working people that keep our community moving forward every day.

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Ever, it has a proud history built by workers and that continues today in our businesses, industries, public service and throughout our community.

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The rights and protections many of us rely on today were hard earned through generations of advocacy by working people and organized labor.

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I'm grateful for our city employees, our labor partners, and workers across the effort for everything they contribute to our community.

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And I hope everyone has a safe and restful labor day.

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And to everyone who will be working on Monday, thank you. Thank you for keeping our city running and keeping our community safe. We appreciate you.

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And with that, no further comment. Thank you.

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Thank you, and now on to old business.

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Do I hear a motion for approval of the minutes for August 26th, 2026 meeting?

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That's my bear's.

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Second, the motion.

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We're please take the roll.

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Councilmember Bader.

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Yes.

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Vice President Ryan.

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Councilmember Tuey.

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Councilmember Weir abstain.

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Councilmember Sanlingo.

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And now on to public comments, which includes written

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comment acknowledgement under our rules written comments are considered in the same manner

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as oral comments, the person submitting the comments must provide their name and city

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of residents written comments require this to be made part of our official council record.

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Angie do we have any written comments or did anyone sign up to speak this evening?

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Hi, we received no written comments and we have one person online and quite a handful of people

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in the chamber. So we'll start with Rob Online. And if you could unmute and turn your camera on

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Hello, my name is Rob Workman.

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I live in unincorporated, snowmish County, but literally across the street from the city of Everett. Good evening, Mayor Franklin, members of the Everett City Council, my name is Rob, and I'm speaking regard to the proposal consolidation of the Everett Transit and Community Transit.

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I'm not speaking as someone who has simply studied transportation.

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I spent decades using it, advocating it, advocating for it, and helping planet.

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I love public transportation.

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I will continue to use it for the rest of my life.

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I live in Everett.

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I lived in Everett often on from 1998 to 2016.

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For the last 10 years, I've lived just across the street from Everett City boundary.

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From my home, I'm eligible to use both Everett Transit and clean transit.

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I regularly use both Everett Paratrans and Community Transit DART

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I've been using and writing DART since 1998.

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For those 28 years, my personal experience with these two paratrans

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systems have been dramatically different.

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I estimate the light, late pickups, arrivals, and scheduling problems

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that affect approximately 80% of my dart rides.

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With Everett Paratrans, I've experienced those problems

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less than 10% of the time.

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For people with disabilities, that difference is enormous.

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Transportation is simply arrived as independent, dignity, and access to health care, education, employment, and our community.

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If your parent transit consistently makes you late or your disability begins determining which opportunities you can participate in.

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I also bring experience from planning side from 2002 to 2005. I served on average transit advisory committee representing an ever community college.

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Students and writers with disabilities while also serving two terms as ASB President.

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I later served five years on Air State Transit Citizens Advisory Committee working on accessibility, universal design, facility planning and student transportation needs.

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So I understand the potential benefits of consolidation, more service, better frequency, fewer transfers and improve regional connections.

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But bigger does not automatically mean better.

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Transit ever transit has served this community for 133 years.

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Once an independent transit agency is dissolved,

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that the CIS will be extremely difficult to reverse.

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I'm also deeply concerned that this decision permanently

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can move forward without ever its voters making the final decision.

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My greatest concern is Everett Paratransmit. Everett has built a service that, in my

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experience, is remarkably reliable in response to riders with disabilities.

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You can see that attention in the details. Everett transit routinely updates the riders

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guides approximately every 12 to 18 months while community transit is currently working

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to update their guide that hasn't been updated since 2021. And simply look at the differences

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and paratransit vehicles themselves. As a long-time wheelchair user, I notice the practical

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differences in how these vehicles work for riders and drivers every day.

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So I'm sorry you'll have to wrap up for three minutes of IX gone over.

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Okay. If consolidation was forward, please require a specific enforceable long-term

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recommendations. Please protect it, improve it, and make every accessibility standards

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something community transit riders to not something ever riders are asked to surrender.

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It is the one, it is the one, I think that's it to be fair to either commenters.

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We have to hand it here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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To the desk there, it's your turn to speak, yes,

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that's key, okay.

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Please state your full name and see your residence and press the button on the make. Yes.

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Keith Jacobson, City of Everett. You see me before. I've been here before. I've spoken personally to many of you.

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You all know where I stand on this. I'm opposed to the merger of Everett Transit for a multitude of reasons.

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first and foremost of course, is the whole sales tax thing. This is going to be the largest

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single sales tax increase in the history of the state of Washington at this goes through.

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And it's going to be that and it's going to be that without a vote of the people,

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in input and without a vote of the people. Prior to this, the largest single sales tax increase

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was ST-3 in 2016.

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And this 0.6% that we're talking about here, that's a lot of money we're talking about, that's going to come out of people's budget. That's, that's approximately 30 million a year.

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That's enough to buy a baseball state in every four years. So we're talking a lot of money here that we are going to be handing over a community transit.

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And this sales tax increase we're talking about if this goes through, it means the citizens of Everett will lose control of their sales taxes forever.

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Yes, we will have a voice on at least a voice on the community transit council, the governing board.

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But right now, we got all the voices.

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We will be giving up control. We will be the citizen of every way at the mercy of the community transit governing board for its sales taxes for the rest of the first long as there is an effort.

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this tool is wrong.

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We should not be voice forcing this sales tax increase on people without their say, so if you really think this is such a wonderful thing for the people of Everett, make your case and let us vote.

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There's, there's not an emergency with Everett transit that it has to be done right now. You've got time.

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Yeah, unless there's some external force that is making us do it right now, we've got time to think about this and put it to a vote of the people and yet we're choosing not to do that.

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I think the sizzle of Everett deserve the right to vote on this, especially for a sales

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tax increase of this size, the largest in the history of the state of Washington.

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Thank you.

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Thank you Renee.

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If you could please come to the podium,

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and please say your full name and city residents,

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you have three minutes to speak.

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Hello, good evening.

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Mayu.

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Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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My name is René Bédoan. I'm a Marine, so I don't follow. I am a resident of a tax payer

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in every country. I would like this opportunity to address the major merger between every

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transit and the community transit, but only from a perspective of a tax payer. There would

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be some other opportunities, I hope so, for different perspectives like surface sustainability,

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these subsidies to corporation, etc. We would like to call this opportunity, in front of you,

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the Franklin Cell Stacks Fund.

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I am here because I see a gigantic red flag

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associated with the mergers and the cell stacks in heaven. The merger implies an automatic and

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permanent increase in the sales tax in every. With this merger, the sales tax portion for

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transit service service in every will double from 0.6 to 1.2 percent of the total sales tax.

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This means that the residents, voters and taxpayers of every will have to pay an additional

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a permanent approximately 30 million dollars a year to finance transit service in every.

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and equivalent to $450 extra dollars a year for every household in Everett.

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Important instrument that only about 6% of the residents

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in Everett due to transit for daily work commute,

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but this can really go up to 10% if we consider the service that Everett transit

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provide going to neighborhoods and local routes.

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At this moment, for the next three to four years, Everett transit

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is and would be able to provide this service, like it has done it in the last 33 years of

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which 56 years it's been owned by the city by popular vote. It was put to the vote of the

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TV. As the decision makers, you become some members, are bounded with an undeniable

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official responsibility with every single resident voted a taxpayer to favor it.

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This legal bond requires from you on this subject of the measure only to consider and to

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act in the best interest of the resident's voters and taxpayers of error.

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All of them say that the subject of shame should not only be about the taxing trees, but on

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how to maximize the use of the sales tax increase for the benefit of everyone.

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I believe that the city of Egypt has not a money problem, it has an idea problem, it has

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effective and efficient communication problems, and most of all, personal agendas.

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But if you want the sales has increased and need the money to finance projects for the city in the city, then let's get the data to increase and make the people choose on how they want to use this money.

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One of the options is to give them the option of approve the merger and give the money to CTE. The other option should be approve the merger and increase the sales tax and the money states here.

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Remember, you are custodians, non-liquidators,

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who feel your fiduciary duties with every resting and taxpayers of ever,

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and advocate and approve the vote for the practice,

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sales tax reform.

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That's it. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Jack, if you can come, you're Jack, right?

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Okay.

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If you go, please go to the end of the desk.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And please state your full name and city of residents and you'll have three minutes to speak.

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Yes, my name is Jack Williams.

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I was an Everett transit driver years ago.

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I was here when the very first disabled accessible bus.

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We got it on a grant.

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As you can see, I am now severely disabled myself.

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the injury that you see now, the cervical collar is caused because the community

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transit driver and as a group they refuse to secure our chairs. I'm not just

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mine, but I see this with other people.

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Ever transit is every bit as high quality

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a bus company. So it was when I drove for them years ago. Police do not

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loot by merging.

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Community transit can learn a lot from Everett transit. I never have to ask

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one of the Everett transit drivers to secure my chair. I have been told by a turn that if I

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get on another community transit bus and they don't secure my chairs. I request that I either have

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get off the bus and find another bus. Or I am on a known hazard.

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This is not right.

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I need

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to be able to transport. I'm spending a lot of time and ever it now. And the difference

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between community transit and ever transit is worlds of difference. Please do not dilute

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a fine bus company.

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If any of you want to talk to me outside of the meeting, I will make myself available.

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I'm in the driver, you can ask for older people in the town. I'm the one that, from the neck down, had costumes for all the holidays.

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I had passenger asking for years after I left.

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Again, come back and drive again.

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I love my passengers, my passengers,

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respect them appreciated me.

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I was not late for my stops.

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When I deployed the lift and most take a lot more time

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than the ramps that we now have to flip out.

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I beg you, please do not dilute a very fine bus company.

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They're not going to get better.

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I've been merged and I am speaking now with myself, but a number of other people in chairs that could not make it in tonight.

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Thank you.

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God bless and keep you all and please take to heart what I'm saying because any moment, any one of you could be in the situation.

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And I have to wait two and a half hours to get a bus driver that will finally grudgingly secure your chair.

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This is humiliating. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

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Wait, both my service dog and I were injured when we were thrown the driver took an S curve too fast and I would launch that's could be as well as launched.

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I am an example of what happens when we don't get what is fair. Thank you.

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Thank you. William, if you please come to the podium,

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see your full name and city residents, you have three minutes to speak.

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William parents, silver lake, this is forever summer festivals and support tourism and local businesses and

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positive media coverage throughout the sector. This is a I need this. We need this in the city of ever need this and this is a this is good. This is real good.

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Uh, bring the good here. Blend to every it's all right.

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You don't like to go to your blocks.

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I don't know if the good year blimp dear mayor in the city council members ever has unique opportunity

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attract one of the most recognizable aviation symbols in the world the good year blimp

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an influx of tourism weekend restaurant spending a national television exposure for a massive event

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like a major golf tournament or festival with California intimately new tire regulations that

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year has argued, could affect roughly 70% replacement tires and an increase cost the company may

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eventually evaluate whether other locations better support its operation and if that happens,

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ever it should be at the top of the list, our city is already known worldwide for aviation,

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And as you can see, the combination of playing field, Boeing,

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presence in a supportive community makes

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ever a natural fit for the Good Year Blimp.

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A permanent blimp presence would draw a tourist,

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local support local businesses and create jobs

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and provide excellent opportunities for

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community events and educational programs.

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Good Year Blimp belongs in the city that celebrates flight

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and few cities do that better than ever.

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addition of the Gidveer Blamp could make these efforts by drawing additional visitors to festivals,

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community celebrations, and waterfront events, while providing another highly visible symbol

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of innovation and imagination. Ever's growing calendar of summer festivals and cultural events

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presented outstanding opportunities for the Blamp to become a centerpiece attraction as the

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bringing the good year blint to every it would be an investment in tourism, local businesses, civic pride in our city's world,

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reowned aviation legacy. I hope the city, I hope that every

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leaders will proactively communicate with good year and highlight the many advantages our city can offer.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. Jordan, if you could please come to the podium.

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Please state your full name and city residents.

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you have threes to speak and if you could press the button on the base of the mic. There you go.

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I am Jordan Beardson. I am some Ed Brits. What did you ask? I'm sorry.

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I can't hear you. Oh, um, just that your full name and city of residents.

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Okay. Jordan Beardson. Jordan Beardson. Jordan Beardson, Edward Washington.

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Thank you for your time and listening to me tonight. I am seeking your support for a new

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small business take called Take a Moment Mobile Care Bus LLC. Our stationary mobile child care

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us provide safe short-term care for children while parents shop, run errands, attend appointments

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or just need a moment in their car.

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The bus is fully contained with a restroom and handwashing that we do not serve food.

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The challenge is that current child care regulations were designed for traditional building

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not mobile buses like ours.

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Because of this, there is currently no clear pathway for our business to operate.

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I respectfully ask the City of Everett to explore a permitting option that would allow retail

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properties to safely and legally host our bus.

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We believe the service could support local families, strengthen local businesses, and bring

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an innovation solution to our community.

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Thank you for your time.

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I'd also e-mails Everett, Mill Creek, and Linwood, I've gone to the legislators meeting

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talk to Peterson and Dunn. They are interested, but I need to get on the ground floor first.

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Thank you for your time. Well, you make sure that Jennifer Gregerson has your contact information,

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so we can follow up. She's right here. Thank you.

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Saeed, if you could please come to the podium.

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He's pressed the button on the mic and state your

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name city of residents, you have three minutes to speak. My name is Saeed Haiki and I live in

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Would be really surprised to find out that any of you, or the people at the state level, who have started this process, would have a relatively intimate knowledge of the challenges in the day-to-day life of a disabled person.

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I have been listening to their stories for over seven years and believe me, even I don't have a clue what they go through.

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I know for a fact that many of them limit their use of our pirate transit service because of the $2 fare, $2.

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And they would like to use the service more, but they can't afford it.

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Now many people here think we are trying to fix something that isn't broken and in fact has been functioning well for a very long time.

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A decision of this magnitude which affects the lives of many thousands should be decided by the voters who would be directly affected by it.

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You have to be forthright about the actual reasons of your decision, about the benefits and drawbacks of this decision, for the citizens and voters of effort and informed them accordingly.

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if you avoid this, you will have failed in your duty to serve the people of Everett

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and will have, essentially, overcept your electoral mandate.

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In other words, you will have acted just like our federal politicians who once in office

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will pursue their own personal objectives and pay little attention to the needs of the

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country and the welfare of the people.

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To close, why don't you survey 50 paratransit customers who regularly use us and the

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CTE dollar system and find out for real what they think.

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These are the people who use the system and it's worthwhile to know what they think of this

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proposal.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Daryl, if you could please come to the podium

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and please state your full name and see your residents, you have three minutes to speak.

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Good afternoon everyone, citizens. My name is Daryl Sullivan, and I'm a resident of Everett.

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I'm here to speak about the proposed transit consolidation,

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and I'm a real basic person.

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peats and beer. One plus one equals to higher taxes, less good bus service, local bus

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service, and never it. I'm speaking local. It doesn't,

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it's negative two, lose

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we're here to represent everything,

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just everything, just everything, the county, take care of their business, county council does their things, city council does theirs, we're local just everything,

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I can't see paying higher sales tax, especially in times like this, you all know it's crazy.

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the inflation.

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Six tenths of a percent is significant. Local businesses lose.

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The average citizens lose.

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I don't see a winner in every.

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That's a pizza and beer.

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Go on. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Evan, if you could please come to the podium

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and see your full name and see

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residents, you have three minutes to speak. I spoke, Soloria. Nice to see you again. My name

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is Evan Reed. I run a non-profit here in downtown Everett. I live here in downtown Everett,

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called Bunker Arts Collective. I'm kind of going off the cuff today. I could totally regret this

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or it could be a legendary moment for me, but here's here goes. I'm speaking mostly about my experience

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as a resident living in downtown.

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I've gotten a lot of time to walk around. I have very busy legs. I have walked around every single

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nook and cranny of our downtown corridor. There are so many historic buildings. We have so many wonderful

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businesses right after this. I'm going to lucky time to go say how to Alex and after that, I'm

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going to pop over to a Paolo or or shoe or El Parais was going to be still open. But I think the reason

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why the gears are turning my head of what is even still open is that there are some pretty

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serious systemic issues here in the downtown core that I want and I want to emphasize our

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downtown evidence association. Chefs gets they do amazing work. This has nothing to do with them.

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There are systemic issues, policy wise and administratively wise and resource wise that

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I'd really love for us to prioritize in the coming years in future here to make sure that

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downtown is going to set our businesses that are trying to do their best up for success.

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Large part of that, we have so many historic buildings. So many. I think right now they're currently

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unlit most of them. We have so much mid-century modern and neogothic and art deco and it's just kind

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of sitting there. It's not part of the landscape despite most of these buildings being there for over

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100 years, blade signs, neon signs, things that used to catch people's attention when you're

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looking up and down the street, most of it has it gone. It's a lot of flat signage right now.

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That's, I think when most folks are saying, going to lucky dime, for instance, they'll see

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that Apollo is open across the street. But if you start walking on to Colby, you're kind of,

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I don't know, you look both directions in the synergy kind of fizzles out a little bit. So

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really some of those systemic issues are long-term abandoned vacant properties, whether or not

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the code situation of getting these facilities up to code is the problem or these property owners

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are holding on to a waiting for marking conditions to work in their favor. It's very nuanced

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and not going to be a accusatory, but that lack of historical preservation, whether it be historical

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signage historical markers, exhibitions, things actually highlighting the uniqueness and

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weirdness of what makes Everett so fun and so cool and such a great place to call home.

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And I think right now we're we're not doing enough.

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So through my nonprofit, we're starting a program called Refresh Everett, we're adopting

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a corridor every six months that the residents get to vote on.

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that poll is open right now.

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Downtown is an option of an opportunity for us

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to do trash cleanups, overgrowth, paint some murals,

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work with small businesses, really do what

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we want to do full time with the ultimate aspiration

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to build a brick and mortar community art center

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right here in downtown Africa.

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So thank you for your time.

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I'd love to chat and you have my information.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Duane, if you could please come to the podium.

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You state your full name and city of residence, you have three minutes to speak.

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Hi, Duendo has born in the old ever general hospital in 1962.

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I've been a parent transit driver now and you're number 33.

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Rob spoke earlier.

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He's been on my bus many times taking lots of places.

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He was council president at ASB with every community college used to write.

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You know, we take him down and he even played about some of the roads because, you know,

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over some of the seams on the roads. I go on up 13th street towards the hospital. I then

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take that right on to what more and go down.

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There's a lot of the riders that was like

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the drivers to speak for them. We tell them that we can say something, but we can't speak

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for you. You need to speak for yourselves. That's why it's great to have Rob speak. It's great

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Just a moment here. Thank you for your, you know, I didn't know him as an, as an ever driver. I think that I've been here 33 years.

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The bus fare is another thing, you know, with the taxes going up, we're still at $2. They say, you know, that with a merger, we'd still be $2 for a while.

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Recognition for it's was at an employee meeting and he had told us that the work of people are actually trying to nudge him for a $3 fare.

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The people that we say that we care about that, you know, can least support a lot of these things are going to have that sales tax increase

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They're going to maybe have a bus fair go from $2 to $2 to $2.50 and then possibly $3, you know, fairly quickly, and

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It doesn't seem like we're looking out for those guys and

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You know, we love our passengers. They

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Consider us some of their best friends and

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You know, we hate to lose that. I mean not the dart doesn't

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Provide the valuable service to you, but unfortunately, they got their issues. I worked for them a couple years before I came to the city, and they were run by different people.

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It was run by senior services. It was different people running it.

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I mean, and it's still a great service, but ever transit, I've heard from so many people over the years that they've come from other places, and they tell us that we're the best.

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Like I said, somebody's got to be the best, and if you're ashamed to give that up. So thanks. Please vote no.

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Thank you. Steve, if you could please come to the podium,

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you state your full name and city residents, you're three minutes to speak.

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Good evening, my name is Steve Oase. I live here in Everett.

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Mayor Franklin, council members.

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I'm here to speak about the potential merger also.

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The sales tax is a terrible idea.

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I've gone out and talked to a lot of people about it, they aren't aware of it.

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They should be made aware of it if you are going to do that without letting them vote on it.

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If you want to let them vote on it and they say yes, they pass it.

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Great. I'll support it 100%.

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But they have the opportunity to come in here, but they don't know.

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I go out and talk to them all the time.

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They don't know this is going on.

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I don't want to say any more about the sales tax or some other things I want to talk about.

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I've heard that we're going to have twice the bus service in Everett.

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If you believe that, I got some lakefront property out in Montana.

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Not near any lakes, but it'll be lakefront. I guarantee you that.

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We won't have double the service in Everett.

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It won't happen. They can tell you, they can tell you that, but once this deal is done, it's done.

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Ever it has a transit agency itself.

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We will never get it back if you get rid of it.

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Don't let that happen.

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One of the things I've heard from the administration is we want to make sure our team is taking care of.

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Our drivers are taking care of.

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I had a meeting with 1576. That's the union. Same union as us. There would be a sister one.

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We're 8-8-3. They're 1576. And what they said in the meeting is we want you to die on the vine.

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They want we can have our union. They'll have their union. And as we lose people through attrition,

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all the new hires would be hired into their union and they'd be coming over and driving our routes.

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So we won't get rid of them, we'll keep them around for another 30 or 40 years, but once they die out, they're gone.

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We don't get to hire new people.

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That's not acceptable.

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our local has a long history. Everett has a long history with having our union.

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We've been

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here since 1919. They have been here since 1976.

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We've been here a lot longer than them.

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That doesn't make us better. But we have survived very well. We've provided good service

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From many of our passengers, you've heard the type of service that they want and that they get from our local, they don't get from community transit.

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Anyway, thank you for the time. I hope you think about this. I'd like to be contacting some of you and having some meetings, but have a good night. Thank you.

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Thank you, Deborah, if you could please come to podium

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and please state your full name and city residents, you have three minutes to speak.

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I need to push things.

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Okay.

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Hi, my name is Deborah Kappenthin.

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I live in Mary's Hall, but I am an employee of Everett Transit for the last couple years.

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I'm also a retiree of community transit.

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So if I understand correctly, you guys have a priority list.

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And ever transit was that the bottom half of that list and all of a sudden we're at the top of the list, the last couple months, it's like what's going on, why does it have to happen now?

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Why can't we go back to the bottom of the list and give us time to prioritize and get the...

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Employees are financial affairs in order. I think about the employees who just purchased the home the last year. So I think about the employees who are sending their kids to college, are they going to have to have them come home? Like I said, I'm a retiree of community transit. Not everybody's going to end up there.

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So I'm just going to leave it with it that and I honestly hope that you will put ever

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transit back at the bottom of the list and give us time to get our personal affairs financial

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personal affairs in order.

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Thank you.

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Thank you and that concludes our public comment.

431
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:53,920
Okay, thank you, now we'll go on to administration, Jennifer.

432
00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:57,840
Council President, usually it's council comments next.

433
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:58,760
Oh, sorry, all right.

434
00:40:58,900 --> 00:40:59,220
You're right.

435
00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:01,060
Skip that.

436
00:41:01,180 --> 00:41:01,460
Surprise.

437
00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:02,200
Jennifer.

438
00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:04,200
Now to council comments.

439
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:05,920
I can't remember better.

440
00:41:06,140 --> 00:41:06,380
Thanks.

441
00:41:06,580 --> 00:41:08,240
I didn't want Jennifer speaking for me.

442
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:08,760
No report.

443
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:09,200
No comments.

444
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:10,360
Thanks.

445
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:14,040
Also, let's see.

446
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:20,660
council member Ryan. Great things. Good evening, everybody. On Friday, I was honored to attend the

447
00:41:20,660 --> 00:41:26,560
New Start Center Ribbon Cutting. It's the old days in there. Right next to the Everett Mall,

448
00:41:27,220 --> 00:41:33,200
and it's been, it was purchased by the county and then I would help from the city. It's now transformed

449
00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:38,900
into a transitional housing facility operated by a salvation army. I know that they gave a

450
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:43,080
presentation at the committee meeting earlier tonight, so I don't want to steal too much thunder on it,

451
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:49,400
but I did want to share just a couple of comments about what a positive transformation this whole

452
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,620
space is going to be for the city of Everett and for the people that are going to be staying there.

453
00:41:54,380 --> 00:41:58,260
You know, for a really long time the day's in was a place where there wasn't a lot of positive

454
00:41:58,260 --> 00:42:05,360
opportunities for the people who stepped on site there and so now with the vision from through

455
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,240
the county and then with the support of the city and subation army, there's a lot of positive

456
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:14,200
outcomes that are going to happen as a result of this facilities. I'm really excited for other

457
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,620
people who are going to be able to stay there and who can get their feet under them and move

458
00:42:18,620 --> 00:42:24,580
towards that stability. I'm also really grateful for Salvation Army's commitment to being a good

459
00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:30,280
neighbor. They were really outstanding and robust, a good neighbor policy. Some glad that they put a lot of

460
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:39,220
thought into that to make sure that they are great partners here in the city. And also kind of

461
00:42:39,220 --> 00:42:43,720
a point to this knowledge county partnership to end homelessness. So I think we'll start our

462
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:48,140
all start meetings later this month, then look forward to recording back on that. So other than

463
00:42:48,140 --> 00:42:56,320
that, no more comments. Thanks. Thank you. Council member Tui. Yeah. I will talk a little bit more about

464
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:05,380
the new start center. We had them at our committee meeting for the community safety and community

465
00:43:05,380 --> 00:43:33,360
healthy community meeting meeting. Sorry about that. The snowmish county group was so it's an emergency bridge housing. So it's not for permanent housing, but it's about a 90 day transition is the goal. This whole new project is really innovative. I don't know that there's anything quite like it. This one room has this one facility has 71 rooms.

466
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,000
And they are hoping that 75% of those rooms will be with

467
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,540
every people that are experiencing homelessness

468
00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:44,300
and that they will be there 90 days and when they leave,

469
00:43:44,380 --> 00:43:47,440
they'll be going into permanent housing.

470
00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:50,100
So it's really quite an exciting project.

471
00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:55,400
And I know that Caslomerware probably has a few things to say too,

472
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,200
but it was very impressive what all they're doing.

473
00:44:00,780 --> 00:44:01,340
Caslomerware.

474
00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:30,880
Yeah, I agree. It's exciting to see after the many years that they've been working on that location and project that it's finally ready to open to residents for that temporary stayover and get them on their feet. And they really do have a well laid out plan for what they're doing and have put a lot of thought into the you know the all the little details of how that's going to function for for the residents and then in the community members around it.

475
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,420
But other than that, no comments for me.

476
00:44:34,860 --> 00:44:35,560
All right.

477
00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:37,380
Thank you.

478
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,540
Actually, I was at that ribbon cutting as well.

479
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:41,540
Listening to comments.

480
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,460
Took a tour.

481
00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:48,140
And I was also impressed with, especially the, the thought that has already gone into this with

482
00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:53,360
from the Salvation Army, the layout of the facility, the control access, the incremental

483
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,580
kinds of help they expect to walk people through to get them back for self-sufficiency.

484
00:44:58,580 --> 00:44:59,440
Um

485
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:07,660
Let's see in the past week or so, I've been part of three meetings in events where I represented ever, all those turned out to be regional this time.

486
00:45:08,180 --> 00:45:13,920
Just a couple of quick highlights. One of them was the homeless county tomorrow, kind of a countywide planning effort.

487
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:20,640
We got a briefing from the PU Public Utility District, the homeless county, PUD, CIO, John Harlow.

488
00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:28,840
And one of the things that I thought was particularly remarkable there in light of the current questions about power and power use and data centers.

489
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:34,380
that sort of thing. They use the phrase growth, pace for growth, meaning that new users pay

490
00:45:34,380 --> 00:45:40,020
for the cost of new users. That's kind of an amorphous term, and he added a lot of specifics

491
00:45:40,020 --> 00:45:45,400
to that. And one thing I would say is that those specifics were reassuring to those of us who

492
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,180
worry about power availability, about power rates. So for example, if you're worried about a large

493
00:45:51,180 --> 00:45:57,000
new power user, such as a data center, causing rates to go up because more power is being used,

494
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,840
more expensive power has to be purchased,

495
00:45:59,460 --> 00:46:00,780
more power lines need to be run,

496
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:01,560
and that's sort of thing.

497
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:04,320
And they are pretty careful in this,

498
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,860
and they work with the large power users

499
00:46:06,860 --> 00:46:09,100
in the early stages to make sure

500
00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:12,640
that all of those power needs are met by the new user,

501
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,300
and they are not causing increases in rates for the rest of us.

502
00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:18,720
So it was a well-thought-out process

503
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,940
that's in advance of our typical kinds of permitting.

504
00:46:22,460 --> 00:46:23,500
And that's especially important

505
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:26,240
because the advance thinking on that process

506
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:34,800
means that projects don't go forward when power is not a workable, not a workable process for them.

507
00:46:34,980 --> 00:46:39,820
Then I also attended earlier this week, Fusion Week. I represented

508
00:46:39,820 --> 00:46:43,680
the Mayor and Council Administration. I was there with Dan O'Neill and I see our economic

509
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:49,100
development director. A lot of people are familiar with nuclear power in the form of fish in the

510
00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:54,820
power plants we've seen, or we're heavy elements like uranium, our split apart. That's what we're

511
00:46:54,820 --> 00:46:59,240
familiar with, but those unfortunately have risks associated with things like loss of cooling

512
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:01,780
and production of the long life, nuclear waste.

513
00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:08,380
Fishing is the opposite way to take light things and merge them together, fusion, and the

514
00:47:08,380 --> 00:47:12,920
important part about that is that it's inherently safer and also does not produce those

515
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:18,400
long life waste products. And that means something to effort because there are a couple of fusion

516
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:24,080
companies here. So I'm an engineer and have an interest in fusion going back decades.

517
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:30,420
It was a logical person to attend that Fusion Week, representing Everett, and I along with

518
00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:31,120
Dandernessy.

519
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,740
And I have to say I was really encouraged this Fusion that we've heard about for decades,

520
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:40,220
always seemed to be something on the far horizon, but with the effort of companies like

521
00:47:40,220 --> 00:47:46,460
Zap Energy and Healy on here, there's a real center, a kind of a convergence of things

522
00:47:46,460 --> 00:47:50,200
here in Everett, a cluster for Fusion, various aspects of it.

523
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:54,680
I think it's really promising, we are finally getting to the point where we can see the potential

524
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:59,820
for actual commercial power plants, something goes beyond these large science experiments

525
00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:00,720
that we've heard about.

526
00:48:01,020 --> 00:48:05,140
So I think that's good news for Everett, it's good news for the planet, and it's good news

527
00:48:05,140 --> 00:48:06,560
for technology for us here.

528
00:48:07,420 --> 00:48:15,820
And then lastly, earlier today, I represented Everett at the PSRC's Economic Development District

529
00:48:15,820 --> 00:48:21,580
board, that sounds kind of a esoteric sort of thing, but it's the designated regional development

530
00:48:21,580 --> 00:48:26,640
authority, which gives us access to federal resources, particularly the Department of Commerce

531
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:32,780
and federal and other funding. That means we get funding that way to develop a regional

532
00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:39,660
economic strategy, and that allows us to get funding to do local economic development. So just

533
00:48:39,660 --> 00:48:44,380
multiple parts operating that way together, and that's part of the duties of the council members

534
00:48:44,380 --> 00:48:49,540
here is to represent effort and those efforts to make sure that we do the best we can for

535
00:48:49,540 --> 00:48:50,160
effort.

536
00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:54,160
I think that is it for me and now on to administration, Jennifer.

537
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,280
Yes, I just wanted to point out, in item, in the last item, item 14, there is the typo

538
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:08,100
in the street address, so 2302 Pacific Avenue should be 2303.

539
00:49:08,100 --> 00:49:15,280
We will make sure it's corrected, and I don't think you'll have to change your action, but we

540
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,000
want to make sure that is clear. It's accurate in the eminent domain ordinance that's linked to

541
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,260
there, but I just thought that I would point that out before we got there, because sometimes when we

542
00:49:24,260 --> 00:49:28,260
get to the end of the agenda, we'd move expeditiously. So.

543
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,880
On to our city attorney, Ramsey Remer.

544
00:49:35,460 --> 00:49:38,660
No comments, no executive session tonight. Thank you. Thank you.

545
00:49:47,820 --> 00:49:49,720
All right. Now we go on to our six

546
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,120
You can set items, do I have a motion to pass the consent items?

547
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:54,840
That's one of our beta solos.

548
00:49:56,500 --> 00:49:56,760
Second?

549
00:49:58,640 --> 00:49:59,620
Ah, clerk, please take the roll.

550
00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:12,100
Councilmember Bader. Yes. Vice President Ryan. Yes. Councilmember 2e. Yes. Councilmember Weir. Yes. Councilmembers are lingo. Yes. And now on to propose action items.

551
00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:18,700
Item 7 and 8 have been read already into the record. Does the council have any question or comments on those two items?

552
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:31,800
All right. And then on to item number 9 on our agenda. Councilville 2608-46. This will be both the first and second readings for this item.

553
00:50:31,940 --> 00:50:36,880
adopt an ordinance assuming jurisdiction over a portion of the MuckelTO water and wastewater

554
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:42,240
district responsibilities, property facilities, and equipment in areas previously annexed

555
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:49,340
to the city of Everett, expect a third and final reading on September 9th, 2026. Do we have any

556
00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:50,680
questions or comments from council?

557
00:50:54,410 --> 00:50:59,770
All right, moving on to item number 10, council bill 26008-47.

558
00:50:59,770 --> 00:51:10,750
This is the first reading adopted ordinance creating a special improvement project entitled 41st Street to Rucker Avenue Corridor phase 2 fund 303 program 123 and

559
00:51:11,390 --> 00:51:19,530
Repeating ordinance number for a 4118 dash 25. We expect the third and final reading on September 16

560
00:51:20,490 --> 00:51:27,830
And on this we have any council questions or comments council member Vader. I request to take we get more information

561
00:51:28,970 --> 00:51:36,110
on what this next phase involves, maybe also a reminder of what phase one was and what we

562
00:51:36,110 --> 00:51:39,450
hope phase three might be. I don't know if we need to, I'm not asking for a briefing,

563
00:51:39,730 --> 00:51:44,270
but would just appreciate additional info. I apologize if I missed it, but didn't notice

564
00:51:44,270 --> 00:51:50,410
that much specifics in the pack. I think we can expand on it. I don't have it, but I think we

565
00:51:50,410 --> 00:51:56,630
should get that to you. Okay. Or maybe Ryan may have it now. Okay. I didn't mean necessarily

566
00:51:56,630 --> 00:51:59,010
Yes, we're briefing now, but any, whatever.

567
00:51:59,530 --> 00:51:59,970
Good evening.

568
00:52:00,550 --> 00:52:02,090
Ryan Sassman Public Works.

569
00:52:02,850 --> 00:52:07,010
Phase one of this project was the multiple intersection improvements

570
00:52:07,010 --> 00:52:10,810
at 41st and Rucker, Rucker, and Pacific,

571
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:15,190
and Pacific, and West Marine to drive

572
00:52:15,190 --> 00:52:17,270
that were completed a number of years ago.

573
00:52:17,510 --> 00:52:20,590
And this project phase two,

574
00:52:20,590 --> 00:52:29,080
are additional improvements between the Pacific and Rocker and the Port of Everett.

575
00:52:31,410 --> 00:52:34,870
And again, I apologize for being the road geek here, so should have called you ahead of time,

576
00:52:34,990 --> 00:52:39,190
Ryan, but when we're seeing improvements, can you just give me some interest to what those are?

577
00:52:39,190 --> 00:52:45,830
Yeah, yeah, there's widening to better move larger freight, elevation of signals for greater

578
00:52:45,830 --> 00:52:56,830
clearance improvements of radius is that sort of thing so that the movements are smoother and then we'll also have some pedestrian and non-motorized improvements in associated with it.

579
00:52:57,050 --> 00:53:12,830
This particular action is just an update to the funding ordinance because we got an additional 1.3 million in connecting Washington funds and so we're updating the ordinance to accommodate the additional funding.

580
00:53:13,910 --> 00:53:16,210
Thank you. Thanks for indulging my questions.

581
00:53:16,410 --> 00:53:17,030
I have the little answers.

582
00:53:17,870 --> 00:53:20,090
Any other questions or comments on that item?

583
00:53:21,330 --> 00:53:25,070
I'll add them. We're moving on to a briefing and proposed action item.

584
00:53:25,490 --> 00:53:27,530
First, I'll read this into the record.

585
00:53:28,730 --> 00:53:32,890
Our agenda item number 11, Council Bill 268-48,

586
00:53:33,090 --> 00:53:34,050
the first reading,

587
00:53:34,270 --> 00:53:38,110
the attached ordinance adopting amendments to land division procedures

588
00:53:38,110 --> 00:53:39,350
and development standards,

589
00:53:39,350 --> 00:53:56,090
The Mending Chapters 13.16 13.68 19.01 19.04 19.06 19.33 19.34 19.38 19.35 and 15.02 of the

590
00:53:56,090 --> 00:54:06,210
evidence ever municipal code repealing Chapters 19.24 19.25 19.26 19.27 of the municipal code

591
00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:14,150
and adding a new chapter, 19.23, the public hearing will be on September 9th of this year,

592
00:54:14,330 --> 00:54:19,690
the third and final readings expected on September 16th. And I think we have a presentation

593
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,800
Along with that long list of sections and chapters, proposed for update along with this ordinance.

594
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:20,520
The proposed ordinance would update procedures and development standards for land divisions, which is the process by which a piece of property can be divided into multiple other one or more other properties and lots that may be then sold or transferred.

595
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:20,580
And

596
00:55:24,550 --> 00:55:30,370
our goals of this project are rooted in some comprehensive plan policies that came along

597
00:55:30,370 --> 00:55:36,250
with the effort of 24 periodic update a few years ago around increasing opportunities

598
00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:38,010
for home ownership in the city.

599
00:55:38,770 --> 00:55:42,690
There is a state bill that was adopted in last year's legislative session that we are

600
00:55:42,690 --> 00:55:44,170
addressing with this.

601
00:55:44,910 --> 00:55:50,530
And we are modernizing land divisions for middle housing kind of a complement to the development

602
00:55:50,530 --> 00:55:57,010
regulations that were amended in the periodic update to allow for development to that

603
00:55:57,010 --> 00:56:03,050
middle housing to as much as possible be available for home ownership and fee simple home

604
00:56:03,050 --> 00:56:08,870
ownership specifically which is the most flexible and often most desirable form of ownership

605
00:56:08,870 --> 00:56:14,670
compared to condominium or unit lots or some other forms of ownership. As with everything we

606
00:56:14,670 --> 00:56:21,830
try to work on streamlining and simplifying, and one example of that is currently we had a few

607
00:56:21,830 --> 00:56:25,830
development regulations that only apply to if you were doing land division, but not if you were

608
00:56:25,830 --> 00:56:31,270
doing the same type of development under a condominium, for example. So part of the streamlining

609
00:56:31,270 --> 00:56:36,670
means making all of those the same regardless of the ownership type of the development that our

610
00:56:36,670 --> 00:56:44,330
standards apply to the physical development and not to the ownership type. Those policies in the

611
00:56:44,330 --> 00:56:48,830
comprehensive plan, talk about boosting home ownership opportunities, providing for land

612
00:56:48,830 --> 00:56:54,890
division into small fee simple lots and allowing lots splits, we knew that the bill was

613
00:56:54,890 --> 00:57:00,350
coming and wrote that into the policies to anticipate this stuff.

614
00:57:01,510 --> 00:57:08,450
House Bill 1096 from 2025 requires cities including Everett to allow residential lots splits,

615
00:57:08,450 --> 00:57:12,590
which is a process by which one lot is divided in two

616
00:57:12,590 --> 00:57:14,490
with an administrative process.

617
00:57:15,190 --> 00:57:19,110
And each of the new lots must meet the minimum lot size.

618
00:57:21,350 --> 00:57:23,110
There are a couple pieces of this bill.

619
00:57:23,350 --> 00:57:26,030
We wanted to, we're taking kind of a,

620
00:57:26,030 --> 00:57:29,670
we're one of the first adopters of local amendments

621
00:57:29,670 --> 00:57:32,730
to implement the lot split if not the first.

622
00:57:33,010 --> 00:57:34,870
So we're breaking some new ground here

623
00:57:34,870 --> 00:57:36,790
and wanted to make sure that we're complying

624
00:57:36,790 --> 00:57:42,970
with each of the pieces of the bill. So I've got them all listed out here. A lot split must

625
00:57:42,970 --> 00:57:47,530
maybe combine with the building permit. It must be administrative, so not using hearing

626
00:57:47,530 --> 00:57:51,730
examiner planning commissioner council decisions, which are the case for some larger land

627
00:57:51,730 --> 00:57:57,890
divisions. Planning director decision, clear and objective standards, public hearing prior to

628
00:57:57,890 --> 00:58:02,670
the land division would not be allowed and administrative appeal would be exempt for these

629
00:58:02,670 --> 00:58:11,390
lot splits. We propose implementing the lot splits as a form of a short subdivision or a unit

630
00:58:11,390 --> 00:58:16,810
lot sort short subdivision. So we've got in this table those two routes and we went down the

631
00:58:16,810 --> 00:58:21,910
line to make sure these each one of these rows is one of those requirements from the lot split

632
00:58:21,910 --> 00:58:27,890
bill. And for the most part I would say we're actually already mostly consistent with the bill.

633
00:58:27,890 --> 00:58:35,570
We've done a lot of work in recent years and in the last decade to streamline and simplify our development regulations and procedures.

634
00:58:36,310 --> 00:58:42,890
We already have a administrative short-plat process and we already check a lot of the boxes here.

635
00:58:44,850 --> 00:58:55,670
And so a lot of the amendments that are part of this ordinance here are improving and streamlining, but there was only a few little tweaks that we needed to do to actually meet a lot split bill.

636
00:58:59,130 --> 00:59:08,070
One of the changes is for a unit-lot short subdivision and we see a lot split us again being just a small version of one of those.

637
00:59:08,890 --> 00:59:19,030
They had been a review to process for unit-lot land division which did include public notice and if requested a public hearing prior to making a decision.

638
00:59:19,030 --> 00:59:25,010
one of the changes in this bill is to bring those unit lot short subdivisions into a review

639
00:59:25,010 --> 00:59:31,270
one process, which is the administrative decision and planning director decision, which is consistent with the

640
00:59:31,270 --> 00:59:37,530
lot split bill, it would extend some of the streamlined aspects that are anticipated by that

641
00:59:37,530 --> 00:59:46,310
lot split bill out of the legislature upwards through all of our short plot allowance, which is up to nine lots.

642
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:54,220
We're also looking at minimum lot size in the lot split bill.

643
00:59:54,860 --> 00:59:59,960
You must meet the minimum lot size for the two lots created through that right now in the two zone.

644
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:12,800
Residential Zone and our U.R. 4 Zone. Currently, the minimum lot size there is 5,000 square feet with some minimum dimensions, 50 feet wide up and 80 feet deep, I think.

645
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:28,460
Proposed to reduce the minimum lot size to 2,000 square feet with corresponding reductions to those other dimensions for the width, which is an important one, bringing it down from 50 feet to 25 feet, which matches the lot pattern in North Everett.

646
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:37,880
Commonly 25 foot lots, some of which have been merged into 50 foot lots, but we do have quite a few that still remain at that 25 foot width.

647
01:00:38,660 --> 01:00:47,700
The primary, the primary result of this is there could be a few lots in the city that are not buildable because they don't meet those minimum dimensions.

648
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:54,460
If they can prove that they were created legally prior to our subdivision ordinance of 1956s,

649
01:00:55,300 --> 01:00:59,140
We started to put some of these minimum dimensions into city code.

650
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:03,680
You may build on it, but if you don't have that record of legal establishment,

651
01:01:03,980 --> 01:01:05,200
the lot is somewhat stranded.

652
01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:11,180
And nothing can happen on with it until it is merged with a neighbor or something like that.

653
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:15,300
So for some of those lots that meet the proposed new smaller dimensions,

654
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,840
but not our existing dimensions, it could make them buildable.

655
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:31,840
And for others that provides a route for that small lot land division that was anticipated in the comprehensive plan and for them to be fee simple lots with the most flexibility and independence compared to

656
01:01:32,420 --> 01:01:44,300
We have a unit lot subdivision process right now where you can get a lot down to any size, the regulations operate on the parent lot setbacks and

657
01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:51,600
setbacks is the main one. Maximum lock coverage by building as a percentage is another one.

658
01:01:52,460 --> 01:01:57,380
If you meet those setbacks, five feet on the sides, 10 feet in the front, 10 feet in the back.

659
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,960
You can create as many and as small of lots within that.

660
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:07,700
And this is current code as you want by reducing the standard minimum lot size.

661
01:02:07,700 --> 01:02:15,260
you could do a standard short-plat or long subdivision process to achieve fully independent

662
01:02:15,260 --> 01:02:22,040
lots down to that 2,000 square foot size. We sized it both the dimensions in the total

663
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:29,860
to accommodate reasonable dwelling size that would be legal under the building code and leave

664
01:02:29,860 --> 01:02:37,060
room for those setbacks on all sides. There have been some questions about whether a short-plat

665
01:02:37,060 --> 01:02:40,100
could be redevited again in the lot split build.

666
01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:43,600
You may not use a lot split again once it was split into.

667
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,600
For our short plots, as long as you do not wind up creating more

668
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,900
than nine lots, you can redevide again.

669
01:02:53,140 --> 01:02:57,040
That nine lot limit would exist for five years at any given time.

670
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:01,500
And if you were to take a lot split it into two and then split it again

671
01:03:01,500 --> 01:03:04,480
into something that would in total exceed the nine lots,

672
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,720
then you would have to go through the formal full subdivision process.

673
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:13,300
But as long as you are keeping that lot in under nine total,

674
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,480
we could have a kind of a rapid fire

675
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,440
two step subdivision process.

676
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,360
We anticipate some folks, for example,

677
01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:22,980
wanting to sell their backyard.

678
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,360
Maybe they don't use it as much

679
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,800
or they need some funds or something like that.

680
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,620
But they don't know what they want to do with it

681
01:03:30,620 --> 01:03:34,420
and a big piece of this use case would be selling that backyard

682
01:03:34,420 --> 01:03:42,520
and then a developer buys it and then they decide what they want to do with it, which could involve a second land division.

683
01:03:43,580 --> 01:03:47,620
And so that would all be within that nine lots permissible.

684
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,320
Here's a couple examples of what this could look like.

685
01:03:54,720 --> 01:04:01,260
This is an alley lot with a house in the front and an existing curb cut coming off the street.

686
01:04:01,260 --> 01:04:31,160
Allie access was a big topic of discussion in the planning commission and in our work at a staff level, we have a requirement that if you have alley access that you use that alley access and not create a new curb cut and drive way on the street side and a couple examples here show how that would work in this case we didn't want to create a pathway for like I said dividing that backyard and then all of a sudden you're no longer an alley lot so written into this ordinance.

687
01:04:31,260 --> 01:04:39,280
that at the point that you sever your property from the alley that is the point to maintain

688
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:45,160
access to the alley and if you don't and it's after the effect of data this ordinance you

689
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:51,560
would not be able to have a new curb cut to the front part. So in this example you see three new

690
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:57,440
lots created in the backyard and this would be a unit lot land division and you can tell because

691
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,980
There are no setbacks for the new units in the back.

692
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:10,880
Now you do, thanks for spotting that. For this example, what if it's a corner lot, so it wouldn't, so like, on the graphic

693
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:18,260
where it says New Unit, what if that's an is a street, so then wouldn't it make sense to have access

694
01:05:18,260 --> 01:05:24,680
from the street side on there, but not necessarily in front of the principle, dwelling if that makes sense?

695
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:32,200
Yeah, if the lot has alley access, then it needs to take access from the alley and it does include

696
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:39,680
order lots. There are a few exceptions if it is infeasible if there's significant topography

697
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:45,140
or something else blocking that access. But for the most part, even if it's a corner lot, if the

698
01:05:45,140 --> 01:05:51,880
parcel has alley access, that's where the vehicles need to come off of or onto the property through.

699
01:05:54,680 --> 01:06:05,820
And so what we're doing here is with the land division, making sure that we don't have a two-step process that results in a whole bunch of new curb cuts and driveways.

700
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:18,140
Some of the reasons for that, we get questions about that. In my mind, the main ones are that the curb cut on the street takes two, perhaps three parking spaces off the street.

701
01:06:18,140 --> 01:06:25,200
Removes the landscape strip removes multiple street trees or the opportunity for multiple street trees and then interrupts the sidewalk

702
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:32,060
And anybody who goes walking with toddlers know that you can let them run as far as they can until they hit the next driveway

703
01:06:32,060 --> 01:06:37,140
So for parental strolling freedom purposes and the other ones that I mentioned there.

704
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:38,620
Great, did that.

705
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:40,500
Okay, thank you.

706
01:06:42,050 --> 01:06:43,350
Okay, so this is one scenario.

707
01:06:43,710 --> 01:06:48,070
Here's this scenario where the house does not have any curb cut on the street

708
01:06:48,070 --> 01:06:53,850
maybe they have a garage or surface parking on the alley side and on the right side you

709
01:06:53,850 --> 01:07:01,110
would see an example of how that front unit could preserve their ability to park in a garage

710
01:07:01,110 --> 01:07:07,010
or on the surface in their lot. You would need to maintain an easement or build the driveway

711
01:07:07,010 --> 01:07:09,110
or something as part of that land division.

712
01:07:11,330 --> 01:07:13,810
This preserves people access to the front lot.

713
01:07:14,770 --> 01:07:27,450
On this one, you can see an example of these the children lots, the three in the back, have setbacks, they're smaller, and this is an example of not a unit lotland division, but a short subdivision.

714
01:07:28,150 --> 01:07:33,850
Now, each of the lots are fully independent, but they do need to have their own setbacks, we're in the prior example.

715
01:07:34,630 --> 01:07:39,270
Each lot was potentially exactly the size of the dwelling unit and no more.

716
01:07:40,610 --> 01:07:56,370
In this case, you can see that no access was provided to the front principle dwelling and in this case that front principle dwelling would no longer be able to in the future create a curb cut and a new driveway on the street side.

717
01:07:56,830 --> 01:08:05,010
So the decision needs to be made and we will communicate that to applicants that this is the time to preserve your ability for a future driveway to your property.

718
01:08:05,010 --> 01:08:09,930
after you've severed from the alley that would no longer be possible.

719
01:08:13,140 --> 01:08:23,780
Here's an example on a non alley lot and you could have either an easement parking area with walkways to the individual units.

720
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:32,200
Or you could have, think, a more common driveway to a parking port or to individual garages in the back.

721
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:38,180
This is an example of a short land division with the setbacks there,

722
01:08:40,820 --> 01:08:42,020
easement access track.

723
01:08:44,140 --> 01:08:46,460
Okay, so those were a couple of examples of what this can look like,

724
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,440
but there are a thousand different ways that land divisions and development and lots,

725
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,320
patterns and everything exist in the city.

726
01:08:55,340 --> 01:08:58,060
The updates, a lot of these are in the memo,

727
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:04,240
we're proposing to combine what is now for separate chapters into one that I'll deal with land

728
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:14,440
We're updating the purpose statement that guides the land divisions and in cases of need for interpretation. That's what we look to.

729
01:09:15,300 --> 01:09:23,600
We are I understand a rare city to require that before recording a subdivision you clear any gaps or encroachments.

730
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:31,080
gaps or encroachments and this is a fairly common thing in North Everett, where the fence line does not perfectly follow the property line.

731
01:09:31,620 --> 01:09:37,000
In most places, that's a civil matter between neighbors and the city stays out of it.

732
01:09:37,020 --> 01:09:46,440
In Everett, we've been in it and that can be a drag on a land division because they either have to move the fence or they need to go to court or to make an agreement to address that.

733
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:50,680
This would step us back out of that and they would remain a civil matter.

734
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:59,980
These necessary provisions in 1.32.30 and 3.30 of the new chapter are things like every land division no matter what is going to happen.

735
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:07,800
And everything that you need to have a successful dwelling unit and independent property in the future.

736
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,300
So we've reorganized those to make them clear for applicants.

737
01:10:12,700 --> 01:10:21,300
And as I started out by saying these residential lot splits on the new state law are to be processed as a short subdivision or as a unit lot.

738
01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:28,700
short subdivision. So we're not proposing to have a separate article or section or chapter for

739
01:10:28,700 --> 01:10:35,460
unit for residential law splits. We do have a section in there that clarifies that this is our

740
01:10:35,460 --> 01:10:41,060
intent so that there is no confusion there. I'll get to this at the end with a schedule thing but

741
01:10:41,060 --> 01:10:46,520
the Department of Commerce who provides technical assistance and reviews along with other state

742
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:51,400
agencies all changes to development, regulations and procedures is taking a look at this.

743
01:10:51,480 --> 01:10:56,320
Like I said, we're an early adopter and we will work closely with them to make sure that

744
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:57,300
we're on the right track.

745
01:10:57,480 --> 01:11:01,860
They've asked for the full 60 days of the state agency review, which is going to push us

746
01:11:01,860 --> 01:11:05,900
past that September 16th by a couple of weeks.

747
01:11:06,060 --> 01:11:10,660
So we may be looking into October before the council may take action on it, but the benefit

748
01:11:10,660 --> 01:11:15,460
of that is that we will give some good discussions with the state and it could be that we

749
01:11:15,460 --> 01:11:21,280
creating a model that other jurisdictions may be able to follow, or we will need to make some changes,

750
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:25,880
and I'll be sure to keep you up to speed on that.

751
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,980
Timing of improvements is another important aspect

752
01:11:30,980 --> 01:11:37,300
of this ordinance right now before you can record a land division and sell any of the properties

753
01:11:37,300 --> 01:11:44,900
you have to actually physically install access of driveways, walkways, and that sort of thing

754
01:11:44,900 --> 01:11:50,000
Recreation facilities, some larger subdivisions require a playground or something like that.

755
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:58,120
Utility stuffs you need to run the water lines and sewer lines to the future site of the development and landscaping.

756
01:11:58,140 --> 01:12:03,080
All that needs to be installed and inspected before you can sell any lot and that takes a time.

757
01:12:04,300 --> 01:12:13,300
So we are proposing to instead apply conditions on the face of the plat that would provide for the construction of all of those before any building permit could be issued.

758
01:12:13,300 --> 01:12:19,520
So it ties the physical development of the infrastructure and supporting stuff to

759
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:20,740
see what's still here.

760
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:22,580
Thank you.

761
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:23,360
Thank you.

762
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:27,400
Thank you.

763
01:12:28,020 --> 01:12:32,260
I mentioned the minimum locked dimensions.

764
01:12:32,980 --> 01:12:37,280
This is for only the NR and you are four zones.

765
01:12:37,460 --> 01:12:39,400
We had a question in committee a couple weeks ago.

766
01:12:39,480 --> 01:12:40,040
Thank you.

767
01:12:40,140 --> 01:12:40,780
Councilmember Ryan.

768
01:12:40,780 --> 01:12:45,320
believe it was for spotting this one. It does not apply to the neighborhood residential

769
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:52,800
constrained zone, no changes to what you can build or how you can divide to that zone.

770
01:12:54,660 --> 01:12:59,960
Those are the dimensions that are changing here. We did have a comment, which I thought was a

771
01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:07,780
good spot. The 60 foot minimum lot depth is exactly half of a common 120 foot lot depth in north

772
01:13:08,340 --> 01:13:14,340
And the question was, what happens if a survey shows that to be 119 feet and eight inches?

773
01:13:14,980 --> 01:13:17,900
And then now you could not do that front and back separation.

774
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:23,760
So one thing we'll think about and look at the implications of other than it looking strange could be to make that minimum

775
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:27,160
locked up 59 feet or 58 feet instead of 60.

776
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:31,160
So we don't get into an issue of inches.

777
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:53,640
Access, right now there's a table in chapter 1926, one of the land division chapters that shows which types of number of dwelling units in it proposed development and the type of access drive or easement access drive or driveway or private street or public street that it connects to.

778
01:13:53,640 --> 01:14:00,820
there are some confusing aspects and some unclear aspects to it, we are proposing to delete that

779
01:14:00,820 --> 01:14:09,200
table and instead handle that table administratively in the DCSS, the city's design construction

780
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:14,740
standards and specifications that public works maintains and they are working and have a complete

781
01:14:14,740 --> 01:14:22,740
draft of that or will very soon that will allow us to change it more easily and have all of the

782
01:14:22,740 --> 01:14:25,940
under drawings and everything connected to it.

783
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:31,900
Like I said, we're trying to make it the same process, whether and the same physical development

784
01:14:31,900 --> 01:14:34,020
whether it's a land division or not.

785
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:39,040
So we wanted to make sure that we have the ability to require dedication of public

786
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,900
right of way or expansion of it, whether there's a land division or not right now those

787
01:14:42,900 --> 01:14:44,900
sections are in the land division's chapter.

788
01:14:45,580 --> 01:14:51,380
So if you were to build a development all on one parcel as a condominium or something like

789
01:14:51,380 --> 01:14:56,800
apartments. We wanted to make sure that we have the ability to build out the public road

790
01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,980
network if justifiable. Same thing with block.

791
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,700
Three, which is shrubbery, landscaping for the sides of private access drives and recreation and stormwater facilities.

792
01:15:08,260 --> 01:15:12,880
But if you were to build the exact same development without a land division, you don't have to have that.

793
01:15:13,460 --> 01:15:26,340
So we proposed to delete that and through discussions with the Planning Commission. They thought that the most important of all of those five foot strips of landscaping could be the portion between a driveway and the neighboring property.

794
01:15:26,340 --> 01:15:33,760
so that outside of a driveway. So we do have that written in and preserved in 1935, 130.

795
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:41,140
Otherwise, all landscaping would be just the per the landscaping chapter. Like it would be for a non-land

796
01:15:41,140 --> 01:15:42,360
division development.

797
01:15:44,810 --> 01:15:49,670
Issued a determination of non-significant, under CEPA a couple of weeks ago,

798
01:15:49,670 --> 01:16:15,570
So the Planning Commission recommended approval of the Resolution 20604 and we are in that state agency 60 day review period through October 13th. So we are asked or told not to take final action until that period is complete. So looking at potentially October 14th, but I will work with Jennifer to confirm that that's an okay time.

799
01:16:16,510 --> 01:16:20,430
And then a couple of weeks after that would be the effective date of the amendments.

800
01:16:22,780 --> 01:16:24,780
Thank you for tolerating all of that.

801
01:16:25,100 --> 01:16:26,320
I'd happy to take any questions.

802
01:16:26,820 --> 01:16:32,160
One clarification and that does mean we would still be doing our public hearing on the night that we come today.

803
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:36,180
I think so. Yeah, we've already scheduled it and noticed it.

804
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,480
So it makes sense to continue and you'll get the benefit of hearing.

805
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:41,920
Okay, questions and comments.

806
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:43,040
I don't remember where.

807
01:16:43,440 --> 01:16:48,700
This may be a silly question, but do these same restrictions apply

808
01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:52,280
or guidelines apply, whether somebody is trying to sell off

809
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,260
the property for development or whether they're doing it just

810
01:16:55,260 --> 01:16:58,500
like as a mother-in-law, like family live-in type thing,

811
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:00,360
but they would continue ownership.

812
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,280
Does it, is all the same risk requirements?

813
01:17:03,820 --> 01:17:05,660
It would work for either power.

814
01:17:09,510 --> 01:17:10,350
That's what I'm going to be better.

815
01:17:10,590 --> 01:17:11,510
Thanks, sir.

816
01:17:11,510 --> 01:17:18,030
I could maybe three questions one I guess at some point be interested know what in here we're

817
01:17:18,030 --> 01:17:23,970
proposing isn't required by the new state law just so we know where we have some discretion.

818
01:17:24,950 --> 01:17:35,650
Second question would be, I think it was slide 14 where timing of improvements.

819
01:17:37,930 --> 01:17:56,690
What if it goes forward with a lot of division goes forward and then something prevents these improvements from happening and they can't develop is there some provision for re integrating those lots or I mean I don't know what that might entail if there'd be a desirable to do that.

820
01:17:56,690 --> 01:18:05,970
Yeah, I think you would need to revise the subdivision or do a new subdivision or a boundary line adjustment to change course after that.

821
01:18:06,450 --> 01:18:20,850
We will make sure that any land division results in buildable lots so we will ask for a site plan that shows what you intend to build with the land division although that is not binding you're allowed to change, but you have to

822
01:18:20,850 --> 01:18:24,030
You cannot create a bunch of one foot lots or something like that,

823
01:18:24,110 --> 01:18:28,550
even through a lot of land vision or strange sizes or something like that.

824
01:18:28,690 --> 01:18:35,530
So it will have to be buildable, you may change from an L-shaped to a square

825
01:18:35,530 --> 01:18:38,490
or something like that in the future when you come for building permits.

826
01:18:39,030 --> 01:18:42,090
So we want to make sure that we're not stranding any land.

827
01:18:42,710 --> 01:18:46,870
But if the development of the actual buildings falls through,

828
01:18:47,610 --> 01:18:50,010
you would still have a buildable lot that could be sold

829
01:18:50,010 --> 01:18:51,550
and someone else could pick that up,

830
01:18:51,810 --> 01:18:54,610
or there are a couple of ways to change the personal lines

831
01:18:54,610 --> 01:18:55,430
in any of these events.

832
01:18:55,670 --> 01:18:58,630
It's more thinking that if once you start digging

833
01:18:58,630 --> 01:19:00,570
and then you find out there's something like,

834
01:19:00,750 --> 01:19:02,770
you know, we can't go forward with this project,

835
01:19:03,630 --> 01:19:06,870
and no one probably ever could or utility access

836
01:19:06,870 --> 01:19:10,550
is just can't happen, just thinking,

837
01:19:10,850 --> 01:19:13,410
all of a sudden we've created lots, we don't need.

838
01:19:14,590 --> 01:19:16,470
And some, you know, where is now we would know

839
01:19:16,470 --> 01:19:18,990
before this was approved, if we had created lots,

840
01:19:18,990 --> 01:19:29,950
We would need to take some action of revising the plat or doing a different boundary line adjustment or doing a new subdivision.

841
01:19:33,130 --> 01:19:38,030
There is some risk of false starts like that.

842
01:19:38,210 --> 01:19:41,030
I think we think that it is worth it.

843
01:19:41,250 --> 01:19:46,350
And that's the feedback that we've heard is that in the rare cases, I think this came up the planning commission too.

844
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:05,900
Part of an issue, but it is a common case where folks are running into frustrations and shins and timelines

845
01:20:05,900 --> 01:20:06,800
with lane divisions.

846
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:07,220
Yes.

847
01:20:07,220 --> 01:20:08,660
Just wanted to shouldn't be some provision.

848
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:09,880
We'll take a look.

849
01:20:10,180 --> 01:20:15,760
I mean, even planning directors discretion, and then finally, maybe the Earth is when you

850
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:23,420
capture the offline, but several of you are graphic example showed both structures, apparently

851
01:20:23,420 --> 01:20:32,080
immediately next to each other and others with setbacks. So at some point wondering, if you can

852
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:37,860
remind me, I'm not necessarily here, but when they have to be set back and when they can be

853
01:20:37,860 --> 01:20:39,860
immediately, you're right next to each other.

854
01:20:40,540 --> 01:20:46,020
You know, a lot of land divisions allows for zero-lot-line development within the parent lot,

855
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:52,060
and the standard short subdivision requires that each lot has its setbacks. That's the main difference.

856
01:20:52,060 --> 01:20:58,560
Okay. Thank you. And to your first question, I would say almost everything in this ordinance

857
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:05,840
is city initiated in city discretion. We had already been almost entirely compliant with the

858
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:10,060
lot split build just with work that had been previously done through, I think mainly rethink

859
01:21:10,060 --> 01:21:18,980
zoning. So this was all improvements that we put together. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

860
01:21:20,260 --> 01:21:35,880
Okay, my other council question, I guess I had one or two myself, one of them, maybe the complement to council and verbators question, I, where I can imagine situations currently where to make a, to make a subdivision,

861
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:41,140
the owner would need to put in a bunch of infrastructure improvements, but those might not

862
01:21:41,140 --> 01:21:44,480
then align with what the buyer would like in terms of their configuration.

863
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:50,520
So in that sense, there is one problem that is maybe averted there, even though another might be created.

864
01:21:51,660 --> 01:21:56,600
And then just one other question that was a removal of some requirements for public notice,

865
01:21:58,220 --> 01:22:03,280
are there mechanisms for neighbor notices, not general public notices, but one of the things we

866
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,900
Sometimes here from people is this something was happening and I didn't know about it.

867
01:22:07,140 --> 01:22:12,420
Are there provisions that way that would, where adjacent neighbors or a budding neighbors

868
01:22:12,420 --> 01:22:13,020
would notice?

869
01:22:13,580 --> 01:22:18,280
Yeah, with a review one decision, there would not be public notice, not the poster or not

870
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:19,260
mailed notice.

871
01:22:20,860 --> 01:22:25,840
So, like to think of what we do with the public comments that we receive and for a lot of

872
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:31,120
these decisions that have been put to a review one, there's not a lot of discretion necessarily

873
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:37,220
for the city and it can serve to create

874
01:22:37,220 --> 01:22:39,440
consternation among neighbors when there's not

875
01:22:39,440 --> 01:22:42,080
necessarily much we can do with the input.

876
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,420
I would rather you did not split that lot, but it is

877
01:22:45,420 --> 01:22:47,060
legal to do so.

878
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,100
So with the review one, there would not be public notice.

879
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:54,660
I believe it would be up on our active projects.

880
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:58,200
Web page if someone were to map if someone were to

881
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:01,660
just go click again looking regularly, but we wouldn't expect that to happen.

882
01:23:02,020 --> 01:23:08,560
Right. We are. Our next ordinance is local project review procedures, which is

883
01:23:09,220 --> 01:23:14,380
title 15, and we'll be looking more comprehensively at those review procedures, including the

884
01:23:14,380 --> 01:23:19,500
public notice. So I expect to have more conversations about what's in and what's out of this

885
01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:25,800
part of that ordinance too. Councilmember Bader. Just to follow up on that, but that public notice

886
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:30,660
require or non-requirement. It's actually one of the things a state actually did

887
01:23:30,660 --> 01:23:33,120
take away from us. Correct. So it is in our world.

888
01:23:33,440 --> 01:23:40,080
Yes, for the two, for the two lot-lots, let's yes. What we are proposing is, and right now,

889
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:45,120
a short-plat is already not, has already does not have public notice. It is only the

890
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:50,020
unit-lot land divisions. So those are the ones where you don't do not meet the internal

891
01:23:50,020 --> 01:23:56,960
setbacks, but you still have an external setback. So, under current procedures, if you're

892
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:02,420
doing short subdivision, no public notice, if you're doing a short unit lot subdivision,

893
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:09,320
there is public notice. Both of them require the same setback from a neighbor, so it didn't

894
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:20,880
to make sense that difference. But we could under the law require public notice for two to nine

895
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:27,680
lots. We do require a whole hearing examiner process, public hearings, and hearing examiner

896
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:39,300
decision for 50 lot plus land divisions. So we're going through that process right now for the

897
01:24:39,300 --> 01:24:42,260
a lot of public process. This is for the small ones.

898
01:24:43,740 --> 01:24:46,360
All right. All right. Thank you, Eric.

899
01:24:47,980 --> 01:24:51,400
Okay. We're moving on now to our action item section that in number 12,

900
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:55,620
Council Bill 2608-42, the third and final reading

901
01:24:55,620 --> 01:24:59,060
adopted ordinance creating a special improvement project entitled

902
01:24:59,060 --> 01:24:59,960
evergreen way yet.

903
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:08,880
Center Road pedestrian safety fund 303 program 141 to accumulate all costs for the improvement. Any questions?

904
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:12,160
Well, first, do I have a motion to approve?

905
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:13,760
So move the motion.

906
01:25:17,230 --> 01:25:20,750
All right, I do we have questions or comments on this on the side.

907
01:25:22,510 --> 01:25:24,310
All right, please take the roll.

908
01:25:24,610 --> 01:25:26,970
Councilmember Bader. Yes. Vice President Ryan.

909
01:25:26,970 --> 01:25:39,430
Yes. Councilmember Tui. Yes. Councilmember Weir. Yes. Councilmember Zerlingo. Yes. And on to agenda item 13. Council Bill 268-43. The third and final reading.

910
01:25:39,810 --> 01:25:47,650
Adopt this ordinance. Semending ordinance number 4098-25 has previously amended to continue the special improvement project entitled

911
01:25:47,650 --> 01:25:57,610
Everett outdoor event center fund three four two programs zero five two for the accumulation of expenditures associated with property acquisition costs necessary for the project

912
01:25:57,610 --> 01:26:00,290
And do I have a motion to approve

913
01:26:01,010 --> 01:26:02,990
Council more bears the most

914
01:26:05,100 --> 01:26:09,640
second all right questions are comments from council on the side of council member

915
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:17,860
Do we yeah, I'm not in support of the interfund loans without knowing the financial picture

916
01:26:18,500 --> 01:26:25,920
the total cost financing and the financial performer of the stadium and the impact that it will have on the city.

917
01:26:26,420 --> 01:26:32,680
That's my understanding that we are expecting a full financial report of the project, hopefully by the end of the month.

918
01:26:33,340 --> 01:26:39,320
And I know staff is working hard on it, but they still have a lot of things that need to fall into place.

919
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:47,120
So for me, I, I would need that financial information before providing an additional 3.5 million

920
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:49,300
in this interfung loan.

921
01:26:49,820 --> 01:26:50,480
Thank you.

922
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:51,720
Hello.

923
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:54,480
The comments or questions.

924
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:56,040
I like.

925
01:26:56,640 --> 01:26:57,380
Please take the roll.

926
01:26:57,580 --> 01:26:58,180
That's another thing.

927
01:26:58,260 --> 01:26:58,940
One question.

928
01:27:00,140 --> 01:27:09,300
Scott is, well, 1314, we're moving forward on that piece of parcel property where the

929
01:27:09,300 --> 01:27:11,920
the parcel property that we're for.

930
01:27:12,340 --> 01:27:13,720
How's my better, can you repeat?

931
01:27:14,180 --> 01:27:19,840
So I know recently we have had to deal with a owner who wanted to close on their parcel

932
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:29,300
before mids of Canberra is this other either this item or item 14 cover either of those situations.

933
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:36,180
Yes, this is the same property for both 13 and 14, which is property number 28.

934
01:27:36,180 --> 01:27:44,040
And this is the property where we negotiate a very fair deal.

935
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,600
And part of that was a quick closing.

936
01:27:48,480 --> 01:27:51,440
And I think for 1031 exchange reasons,

937
01:27:51,980 --> 01:27:54,740
so they could do a reinvestment of their finances.

938
01:27:56,140 --> 01:27:57,620
Thank you.

939
01:27:57,740 --> 01:27:58,380
Don't remember where.

940
01:27:59,580 --> 01:28:01,180
So on that same subject.

941
01:28:01,420 --> 01:28:03,580
So what is the timeline for that closing requirement?

942
01:28:03,580 --> 01:28:10,720
And so to council member, too, is concerned about that we're expecting more financial information

943
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:18,980
by the end of the month and is there the timing of that line up to wait on this or is

944
01:28:18,980 --> 01:28:21,020
it not something that can hold off?

945
01:28:21,300 --> 01:28:26,180
No, the closing on this is in about two weeks.

946
01:28:27,020 --> 01:28:27,160
Okay.

947
01:28:30,890 --> 01:28:33,250
No further comments, please take the roll.

948
01:28:33,250 --> 01:28:40,970
Councilmember Bader. Yes. Vice President Ryan. Yes. Councilmember Tui. No. Councilmember Weir. Yes.

949
01:28:41,370 --> 01:28:47,110
Councilmember Sarlingo. Yes. And our last item number 14, adopted resolution and

950
01:28:47,110 --> 01:28:52,470
program purchase of property. That is a lot 28 for the Everett outdoor events center. And I

951
01:28:52,470 --> 01:28:56,770
guess I will note, Jennifer, this was the one where you had a correction. Yes, it's um,

952
01:29:01,890 --> 01:29:02,110
the

953
01:29:02,110 --> 01:29:06,190
solution and it's on the cover there right in the middle and so we'll just make sure that's

954
01:29:07,490 --> 01:29:09,490
adjusted before we get the final document.

955
01:29:10,330 --> 01:29:12,870
Thank you. Do we have our motion to adopt the resolution?

956
01:29:13,670 --> 01:29:14,110
Yeah, it's our beta.

957
01:29:17,870 --> 01:29:19,190
Second the motion.

958
01:29:20,270 --> 01:29:20,790
All right with a motion.

959
01:29:21,050 --> 01:29:23,470
And a second, do we have any discussion on the side?

960
01:29:26,620 --> 01:29:28,000
All right, clerk, please take the wrong.

961
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:29,080
Councilmember Bader.

962
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:29,360
Yes.

963
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:30,480
Vice President Ryan.