Welcome everybody. I
m calling
this meeting of the King County
Council to order. Welcome to
the Tuesday, MARCH 4th, 2025
meeting of the King County
Council. Welcome to the
courthouse, everyone. Thank you
so much for joining us today on
today
s agenda, we have items
on consent, including approval
of a couple of general sewer
plans and authorizing an
interlocal agreement with the
City of Kent for inspection and
maintenance of the Rock Creek
Bridge. We have a couple of
memorandum of labor agreements
concerning the juvenile
detention guild and supervisors
and ordinance approving the
East Lane. And Downtown Redmond
Link extension service changes
and also we have motions
regarding confirmation of
several executive appointments
to various committees, a motion
requesting the executive to
engage on a task force on
transit safety and security. I
believe that
s why we
re joined
by our, our brothers from atu
in the audience today, a motion
requesting the Metro report on
unplanned trip cancellation and
describe how information about
unplanned trip cancellations
for fixed route bus service
could be more quickly provided
to. For passengers in real time.
So it
s a good agenda, uh,
clerk, please call the roll.
Thank you, Chairahale
Councilber Baucci here
Counciluncilmember Baron
councilmember Dimowski,
councilmember Dunn
Counciluncilmember Mosquera
Councilcilmember Perry,
councilmember Quinn. Here.
Council member von Reichbauer.
Chasahala, you have a quorum.
Great, uh, council member of
Baron, would you be willing to
lead us in a flag salute today.
Yes, please stand if you
re.
Like in America. One nation
under GOD in his soul. Next, we
will turn to approval of the
minutes councilmember Dunn
right on time. MAY you please
give me a motion to approve the
meeting minutes of the special
meeting of FEBRUARY 21st, 2025
and the regular meeting of
FEBRUARY 25, move both sets of
minutes, the minutes approval
is before us. All those in
favor please say aye aye aye.
All those opposed, the meeting
minutes are approved. Next we
will ask the clerk if there are
any additions to the council
agenda. There are none. All
right, then we will turn to the
public hearing portion of the
agenda during the public
hearing portion of the meeting,
the council will take public
comment on ordinances and
motions on today
s agenda for
action. Listening to the public
and taking into consideration
the public
s thoughts is an
important part of our process.
Uh, in order to allow everyone
to testify, I would like to set
the following ground rules.
Please remain seated until time
for your testimony. Do not make
audible noise during the
meeting. Your comments must be
germane and relevant to the
subject matters of the public
hearing. This is also a
reminder that public testimony
MAY not be used for the
purposes of campaigning if you
do not abide by these ground
rules or are otherwise
disruptive, you MAY be ruled
out of order and MAY be asked
to leave the meeting before we
hear from the public, I want to
be sure that everyone who has
called in understands how the
process will be managed. We
will begin with members of the
public who have joined us in
the chambers today. If you
re
providing comment remotely,
please listen to the meeting on
the Zoom call until your name
is called. If you
re in the
room and would like to give
public testimony. We will be
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to proceed through public
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Wish to speak. Our clerk will
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those who have raised their
hand when you, when your name
or last three digits of your
phone number is called, Staff
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ll
have 2 minutes to speak and
we
ll hear a timer go off when
you have reached 2 minutes. You
can finish your thought, but
please do wrap up your comments
to allow the next person to
speak if you go much past 2
minutes, you will be muted.
Clerk, MAY you please read the
items into the record. Thank
you. Item 6 is proposed
ordinance number 2024-0252
approving the Valley View Sewer
District 2023 general sewer
Plan. Item 7 is proposed
substitute ordinance number
2024-0263, an ordinance
authorized in the King County
Executive to execute an
interlocal agreement with the
City of Kent for the inspection
and maintenance of the Rock
Creek Bridge. Item 8 is
proposed ordnance number
2024-0410 proving the Southwest
suburban Sewer District general
sewer Plan update dated JULY
2024. Item 9 is proposed
ordinance number 2025-0082,
approving and adopting the
memoranda of agreement
negotiated by between King
County and the King County
Juvenile Detention Guild
representing employees in the
juvenile division of the
Department of Adult and
juvenile detention and
establishing the effective date
of the agreement. Item 10 is
proposed ordinance number
2025-0083 approving and
adopting two memoranda of
agreement negotiated by and
between King County and the
juvenile Division supervisors
Bargaining unit representing
supervisors in the juvenile
division of the Department of
Adult and juvenile detention
and establishing the effective
date of the agreement. I 11 is
proposed ordinance number
2025-0056 approving East Link
in downtown Redmond Link
Extension Transportation
service changes for King County.
Item 12 is proposed motion
number 2024-0362, confirming
the executive
s appointment of
Richard Bard, who resides in
Council District 8 to the King
County Bashon Mare Island
Groundwater Protection
Committee representing Bash on
Maury Island residents. Item 13
is proposed motion number
2024-0363, confirming the
executive
s appointment Donna
Klimka. Resides in council
District 8 to the King County
Basel and Maury Island.
Groundwater Protection
Committee representing
residential exempt well owners.
Item 14 is proposed motion
number 2025-0002, confirming
the executive
s appointment of
David Ellison, who resides in
council District 7 to the King
County Lake Management District
number 2 Advisory Committee as
the Lake Geneva Property Owners
Association representative.
Item 15 as proposed motion
number 2025-0003. Confirm the
executive
s appointment of
Colleen Short, who resides in
council District 7 to the King
County Lake Management District,
number 2 Advisory committee as
a representative of Lake. Of
property owners. Item 16 as
proposed, motion number
2025-0007. A motion
acknowledging a receipt of the
accountability report required
by the 2023, 2024 biennial
budget ordinance. Item 17 is
proposed substitute motion
number 2025-0020 relating to
public transportation
requesting the executive to
engage in a task force on
transit safety and security to
address public safety on
transit and in the community in
which the Metro Transit
Department operates. Item 18 is
proposed motion number
2025-0043, accepting the King.
Cities, climate collaboration,
2025 work plan and budget
prepared as the annual work
plan and budget requested under
motion 1449. Uh, item 19 is
proposed. Motion number
2025-0058 relating to public
transportation and requesting
that the Metro Transit
Department report on unplanned
trip cancellations describe how
information about unplanned
trip cancellations for fixed
route bus service could more
quickly and efficiently be
provided to inform transit
riders in real time and
describe how metrics about
unplanned trip cancellations
could be incorporated into the
next update of the King County
Metro service guidelines to
inform operational and
investment decisions and item
20 is proposed. Number
2025-0081, confirming the one
corrected reappointment for the
King County Library System
Board of Trustees. Thank you so
much, Melanie. That was a lot.
We appreciate you. Um, all
right, let
s begin with the
individuals who are signed up
to testify in the chambers
today. First name on the list
is Matthew. Welcome, Matthew.
Thank you for being here today.
Hello, my name is Matthew
Renner. I live in Des Moines,
Washington in District 5. I
m
here today because this, uh,
esteemed council is going to be
considering and voting on the
new Metro safety Committee, uh,
but I have to ask, what is this
community actually going to do
other than just make a lot of
noise. You guys had a safe
reform committee for 3 years,
and all you came up with was
plans that actually encouraged
people to commit crimes. Your,
your policies for fair
enforcement is to find them $20
after 3. On the 3rd time
they
re caught. I
ve had my
first check on sound transit
twice in over a year. If you
charge someone only $20. For 3
times of waiting fares, that
s
cheaper than buying than paying
with an orca. And let
s be
honest. All this committee is
going to do is have a couple of
meetings, order some, order
some takeout and just talk. Not
actually implementing anything
that
s gonna matter. If you did,
you
d be looking at adding a
full-time dedicated police
force to handle transit, who
rides the buses, who rides the
trains, who has jurisdiction
over the entire transit in the
county and can actually make
arrests on the spot when crimes
happen and can actually kick
people off the bus when they
re
acting up. If you
re doing
anything less, it
s just
proving. Point. You don
t
really care about the safety of
the people, especially those
who don
t live in Seattle.
That
s my time. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Matthew.
Next on the list is Steve
Wilhelm. Welcome, Steve. Howie
folks, um, so my, my name is
Steve Wilhelm. I
m here as lead
facilitator for Busees for
Cottage Lake. It
s a community
organization that is for 2
years has been pushing for
restoration of bus service to
the Cottage Lake area and we
re
completely supportive of the
EastLink project, which will
bring the Metro 222 bus
connecting Cottage Lake to
Light rail and Redmond and the
931 dart bus connecting Duval
Cottage Lake and Woodenville.
Uh, briefly, Cottage Lake has
had zero bus service since
SEPTEMBER 2023 when the 232 bus
was shut down, and for those of
you who don
t know, the cottage
Lake area is a very vibrant and
peopled area and unincorporated
Northern King County close to
the Snomish border in the
effort to restore service buses
for Cottage Lake has been
working closely with Sarah
Perry with the King County
Metro with the North Shore
School Board and the other two
facilitators are Brooke McBride,
pastor of the Bear Creek United
Methodist Church and Dan Lilly,
minister of the Woodenville
Church and both of them are
right near Cottage Lake and
they lost bus service. So the
cottage lake, it
s within a
2-mile radius, this kind of
area we
re talking about of the
intersection of Woodenville
Duval Road and Avondale Road,
which is exactly where the 222
will start and the area
includes 12 churches, 2
Buddhist centers, a large
shopping center with a Safeway,
the Woodenville Library,
Cottage Lake Park, and the
North Shore Learning Options
School, the North Shore School
District, and right now nobody
can get to any of those places
without a car, um, that means
that elders are stranded
because they can
t. You know,
there
s no bus. Young people
are stranded, which is really
amazing if they can
t drive,
they
re stuck in Cottage Lake
and also people who can
t drive
due to medical reasons or can
t
afford a car, so some Safeway,
the managers told me employees
must walk to work, which is
dangerous in those dark roads
and bicycling along Avondale
Road, which I
ve tried several
times but it
s pretty perilous
because the cars go 50 miles an
hour. So just want to thank you
and invite you to please
approve East Link, which will
benefit many beings, including
the people at Cottage Lake.
Thank you. Thank you, Steve.
Next on the list is Alex Zimmer.
Welcome back Alex. Me. Surprise
me a little bit dirty dam, um,
sorry, change the rules. You
absolutely right, Chief Banjita
in killer. My name is Alex
Zimmerman, PRESIDENT Of Sendapa
America support for 10 every
day, and I mabaerna. I want to
speak about agenda number 9
about contract but consul
consul consul Jail, union, sir,
my question to you is very
simple. Uh, are you coming time
you spent in jail, yeah, last
year I spent 22, 2 days. It
makes me a shock. Shuck It
s
not about fabrication in my
case and everything, let us
prosecute me 5 times. Inside a
nightmare. I want to go to the
restroom. All the restroom with
. You cannot ever open that
door, number 12, how many
bargain site. I never see so
many bug in my life. It
s a
dozen different bucks. It
s go,
go, go, go, go around. When
last time you in jail, when you
expected, you won
t be same
like Don Constantine for 15
years who cannot clean floor
fromra from It
s a nightmare,
you know what it means you need
inspector. You need a. Dogs
dodgy, you know what this means?
You need something doing, guys,
because Don Constantine 15
years, don
t change nothing.
Don
t make contract. Make
contract only when you inspect
these people and starts making
inspection every couple of
months. Stand up, America, for
Donald Trump. For new American
revolution. We need to clean
this dirty chamber from this
banditta include you, my
favorite. Aristocrat. Thank you
for staying mostly on topic,
Alex. I Next on the list is
Greg Woodville. Welcome Greg.
Uh, thank you, chair. Um, My
name is Greg Woodfield,
PRESIDENT Of the atu 587. Um,
we, our members our officers
came here today to speak in
favor of this, uh, um,
legislation that, uh,
councilmember Dunn introduced.
We appreciate that and the help
of a councilmember Baucci to
get it up before you, um, I
think most of all of you I
ve
talked to, I appreciate your,
your support on this. I think
we all realize, um, we
re at a
critical junction here. Um, we
can
t afford not to, to act, um.
A lot of my members would want
to hold you and Metro more
accountable, but um, we
realized this isn
t just all
about you and, and Metro. We
have to get everybody involved.
We need to get all the cities
involved, all the police chiefs,
um, prosecutors, um, and the
state involved, um. W we
re
we
re spending, we invested
billions of dollars in our
transit. We all recognize that
we need public transit. We
re
going to spend billions more
and uh we cannot afford to go
down this slope of people not
feeling safe to use transit or
not being able to hire transit
workers, uh, to do it. So, um,
I just want to recognize and uh
from our union, um, this is a
great first step, and we
re
looking forward to, we
ve been
calling for this task force and
we are. Glad that um you
re
going to support it and and
join us and, uh, help us all
work together to, uh, come up
with solutions, a time for
finger pointing, I think is
over, um, it
s the time we all
get together, all of the
stakeholders in this region,
and the state and, uh,
recognize, uh, that we need to
restore public safety and
safety on transit. Thank you.
Thanks so much, Greg. Next on
the list is Ken Price. Welcome,
Ken. Good afternoon, uh,
council, and, uh, uh, Ken Price,
atu 587, vice PRESIDENT, former
PRESIDENT. Um, and we are
definitely in support of in
Brother Matthew
s views of
making sure that others are, um,
Butt into taking care of, of
the transit needs of the public
out there that go to, uh, the
different cities, we, we
already have a buy-in from
other leaders of saying we need
to take care of our citizens,
right? That is this task force,
uh, um, Major goal is to bring
us together and, and support
the public, uh, riding transit,
the money that we put in. Is,
is staggering, but we need to
get people back on the buses
and, and, and us making sure
that we
re safe. We
re the,
we
re the transit operators
that have been out there, um,
but, but our, our, is this task
force really focused on, on the
public, making sure that they
have a lighted, uh, bus stop.
Out of the elements, but that
s
the city police could The Say
Federal way, go by and take
care of that zone and make sure
that it
s not an encampment for,
for someone and then relying on
our resources from the King
County Metro Police to, to go
out there and, and police that
thing, uh, it will lessen the
resources if we work it
together. And thank you for
your, for your help on all of
that. Thank you. Thanks a lot,
Ken. Last on the in chambers
list is Jack Wisner. Welcome,
Jack. Good afternoon. Thank you,
uh, chair and council members.
I live in council District 4.
Um, I follow transit issues
very closely, um, when
councilmember Balducci during
the committee discussed East
Link ordinance. She used the
analogy of spaghetti and it
s
true that, uh, transit networks
are very complex. Um, I suggest
that the council be very
careful and not approve this
ordinance the way it is today.
I think there are, there are
many things wrong with it. I
ve
written you about them over the
last couple of years. But let
s
just talk about 3 noodles right
now. Ok, um, Cottagela Citizen
just mentioned that he
s going
to be help, uh, glad to have
Route 222 and get service. The
service to Cottage Lake was
suspended when the 9:31, was
suspended with covid. Um, and
the 222 is a pretty good route,
but the 222 would be better if
it extended to Woodenville and
made other transit connections.
If you look at the density in
the area, the area between
downtown Woodenville and
Cottage Lakes is actually
denser than the areas that the
222 will serve to the south. Um,
There are two routes that I
think are just so much in
violation of the, of the
service guidelines that we
shouldn
t implement them. One
is the 256, a one-way peak only
route between Woodenville and
downtown Seattle via. Uh, 5:20,
um, I can go into great detail
if you want. Uh, another is
Route 240, which, um, is far
too indirect. It goes between
Renton and Bellevue. Of Via
East Eastlake, Eastgate rather,
and so it really won
t help
mitigate the Route 114 that
s
being deleted and takes a very
too too many minutes to go
between factoria and South
Bellevue. Thank you. Thank you,
Jack. All right, we will now
turn to online public comment.
Please use the raise hand
function if you
re online and
would like to give public
comment. Seeing none, we will
close the public hearing. Thank
you so much. We now turn to
consent items 6 through 8 Vice
Chair Dunn, MAY you please move
consent agenda item 6 through 8.
Move the consent agenda items 6
through 8. Clerk, please call
the roll on these items. Thank
you, councilmember Balucci. I
Council Member Baron Council
Member Dimowwski. Council
Member Dunn Counciluncil member
Mosquera council member Perry.
Councilmember Quinn Councilmemb
von Reichbauer. Chazahalae is 8
ayes and councilmember Perry
excused by our vote, we have
adopted proposed ordinances
2024 0252 0263 and 0410. Moving
on to item 9 on the agenda
proposed ordinance number
20250082 councilmember Dunn,
MAY you please move this item.
Move proposed ordinance number
2025-00 82, you are the prime
sponsor. If you want to speak
to or would you like me to
start? Uh, let
s go to, would
you like to have um Jeff, Mum
brief it or do you want to
speak to it, I think Jeff has
got it. He can orient the group
to it. Thank you. Jeff, please
go ahead. Thank you, MR. Chair.
Uh, for the record, Jeff Mum
chief policy officer, King
County Council. And if it
s ok
with the chair, I
d like to
brief items number 9 and 10
together. They are closely
related collective bargaining
agreements that kind of depend
upon item 10 before us then. Uh,
however you want to do it, uh,
vice chair Dunn, MAY you please
move item 10. Yeah, sure, i
will. We proposed number
20250083. All right. Is 9 and
10 are before us, uh, Jeff Mumm
to speak to them or to brief
them. Thank you, MR. Chair. So
proposed ordinances 2025, 0082
and 0083, um, taken together
would approve 4 different
memorandums of agreement
regarding juvenile detention
officers and, uh, the
correction supervisors, so
they
re supervisors and these
uh employees work. Uh, together
and jointly to provide safety
and security services at the
Patricia e. Clark Children and
Family Justice Center, um,
taken together, uh, the, the
MLAs cover two subject areas,
um, instances of declined
mandatory overtime protocols,
um, for the workgroups and then
overtime incentives for each
workgroup, and these MOAs are
designed to um Temporarily
address some staffing issues at
the facility. Um So the And
then the, the terms and the
MOAs, there
s some subs
substantively identical, um,
for the subject areas that they
cover for each of the
bargaining groups. So the first
area is the declined mandatory
overtime protocols. And um So
these protocol, this agreement
for both the um detention
officers and their supervisors
provides that if an employee
who is assigned to work
mandatory overtime. Declines
that over time assignment due
to an author, a pre-authorized
purpose, um, or I
m sorry, to
an authorized purpose under
paid sick leave and does not
have a pre-approved family and
medical leave, um, mandatory
overtime. Restriction assigned
from, from the department. That
employee would generally be
required to use their paid sick
leave hours to cover the missed
mandatory overtime assignment.
So if they
re assigned
mandatory overtime, um, and
they don
t have pre-approval,
they would have to use sick
leave, um, to cover, uh, To
cover that time. If an employee
declines mandatory overtime and
does not use the sick leave
available, or, or and doesn
t
have the sick leave available
or doesn
t use it, um, they MAY
be. Uh, subject to disciplinary
action. Um, additionally, the
agreement provides for an
additional mandatory overtime
pass per year, so the employee
has a pass so that they don
t
have to, if they
re assigned
mandatory overtime. So rather
than having one a year, they
received 2 a year. Um, and then
this, uh, would also provide
that employees. Not be required
mandatory overtime on 3 or more
consecutive calendar days
unless there
s some sort of
emergency. Um, and these
protocols MAY be, MAY be
terminated any anytime by the
county, um, before JUNE 30th of
this year. So that
s that,
those are the protocols that
apply to both the, um,
detention officers and the
supervisors on the mandatory
overtime um decline protocols.
And then in addition, and these
are separate MOAs, um,
Temporary and voluntary
overtime, they would receive it
2 times um pay incentive for
working these voluntary and
mandatory over overtime shifts.
So right now employees would
receive time and a half, and
under this agreement, um, they
would receive 2 times their um
their pay for working on these
mandatory or mandatory
involuntary overtime shifts. Um,
and this provision could be uh
terminated by the county
anytime after JUNE 30th of 2025.
And will not go any longer than
JANUARY 1st of 2026. So these
are both, um, temporary
memorandums of agreement. Um,
the fiscal impact, and this is
all associated with the With
the 2 times over time
incentives would be for the
entire. At its most if, if they,
um, agreements were to stay in
effect through the end of the
year would be $879,000 to the
general fund. Um, I
m sorry,,
$939,000 to the general fund,
879 of that is associated with,
uh, the overtime for the for
the um JDOs and then 60,000 is
associated with, um, over time
for the supervisors. Um, so
that
s, that
s the high-level
briefing. We also have
representatives from the
bargaining units as well as olr
to provide additional
background and answer a
detailed questions. Thank you
so much, Jeff. Would any of our
guests from the executive
branch, olr, um, Or the
Washington State council of
County and City employees like
to make any comments before we
ask for questions. Are they
with us? He I see Andre from
olr, but I don
t see the
representatives from the
bargaining units. Hey, Andre.
Hello. Uh, just wondering if
you have any remarks that you
d
like to make, or if you
d like
to just answer specific
questions. Um, happy to answer
any specific questions. Ok,
councilmember Baucci. Thank you,
chair. And just I apologize for
the The noise and the
inconvenience here. I
m
actually on a bus, but I
ll be
there shortly. Uh, I just
wanted to say, uh, a word of
appreciation to the party for
negotiating this agreement.
These issues are really
operationally challenging. We
are required on the one hand to
have full staffing. And these
facilities when we have for
safety or even to be treated
well for them to be protected
for the staff to be protected.
And, uh, we sometimes have uh
vacancies. And vacation and
sick leave and all the things
that happen and then it is very
disruptive to a person
s life
to be. You have to stay when
you weren
t planning to stay
for mandatory overtime for an
additional shift. Uh, but at
the same time, so, so these are
very conflicting interest in
their real and I know that it
is hard to strike a balance,
and I appreciate that y
all are
here today with a balance
having been struck again, uh,
and I know that you
ll continue
to work it, but I, I really
just didn
t want to let this go
by without noting. I know how
hard this is, and I appreciate
the efforts on both sides to
come to a place where we can
balance all the very real
interests here. Thank you, Jim.
Thank you, councilmember.
Councilmember Mosqueda. Uh,
thank you. Uh, just a few
questions. The incentives in
here are they general fund
funded and are they one time or
ongoing? So the Uh, Jeff, do
you want to answer that messing
with my microphone. Yes, they
are general fund. And they are
uh the term of the overtime. It
can be, it goes, it can
t go
any longer than through the end
of the year. So the JANUARY 1st,
2026, and the county can um can
suspend the provision any time
after JUNE 30th, 2025. It
s
temporary. Ok. Uh, just a
followup, chair. I mean, um, I
appreciate that. Overtime is
not something that anybody
necessarily wants to sign up
for, especially given the
compounding community and
family needs that we have. So
over time is usually an
incentive for an employer to
try to hire more people. Is
that part of the goal here that,
um, we will be actively working
to try to scale up hiring and
have we seen an impact on
hiring since implementation of
these incentives. I
m happy to
take that question. Um, so we
have received, uh, I think
positive impacts on juvenile
detention officers staffing
over the last um several years
including into this year with
these incentives, um, we in
2022 we
re at about 68 juvenile
detention officers, and now
we
re upwards of 95, um, so
we
ve made substantial
improvements and um the
staffing numbers and mandatory
overtime has actually gone down
dramatically since these
incentives have been in place,
which um is a major benefit
both for the employees and for
the operation because of the
comments that councilmember
Balducci made. Thank you.
Colleagues, any more questions
or comments? COUNCILMAN Baucci,
is your hand still up or is
that from before? I think that
that is. I apologize. I
ll take
it. No worries. Uh, did you
want to make any comments,
councilor. Thank you.
Cheersahalai. So just real
quick, uh, so these are both,
uh, Adopting memorandum of
agreements, um, with one, the
King County juvenile detention
Guild, and then 2, the second
ordinance, the juvenile
division supervisors bargaining
unit, and I just want to make a
point that, um, for both of
those very important uh
bargaining units. It
s been
tough, um, for you, uh, over
the last number of years with
this uncertainty of whether you
uh, was going to close or not.
And um this is a a moment for
us to, to take a second to just
say thank you for the work that
you are doing, uh, There and as
you know, this council voted 80
and a motion to keep the youth
jail open to create some
predictability and certainty
for a lot of different things,
our criminal justice system,
but also for the employees that
work, uh, at that very
important facility, uh. We
thank you and I thank you for
hanging through those tough
times and being there to
renegotiate and and as part of
this, uh, you
re, you
re
incredibly valued in what you
do. I
m excited to sponsor to
speak to these and move these
and I
d urge my colleagues
support in that context. Thank
you, MR. Chair. Thank you,
councilmember. All right, any
final comments or questions,
seeing none, I will ask the
clerk to call the roll on item
9 proposed ordinance 20250082.
Thank you, councilmember
Baalucci. I, councilmember
Baron, councilmember Demowski.
Councilmember Dunn
Councilcilmember Mosquedae
councilmember Perry. COUNCILMAN
B Quinn Council Member von
Reichbauer. I Chazahalaye the
vote is 8 ayes and
councilmember Perry excused. By
your vote, we have adopted
proposed ordinance 20250082.
Moving on to item 10, which is
already before us and was
already briefed by Jeff. Thank
you again, Jeff. Um, clerk,
please call the roll on item 10
proposed ordinance number
20250083. Thank you,
councilmember Balducci. Aye,
Council member Baron that
s
remember Dimowwski
councilmember Dunn
Counciluncilmember Mosqueda
council member Perry,
councilmember Quinn
Counciluncilmember von
Reichbauer, chairs aye. The
vote is 8 ayes and
councilmember Perry excused. By
our vote, we have adopted
proposed ordinance 20250083.
Moving on to item 11, proposed
ordinance number 20250056.2 and
ordinance approving EastLink
and Downtown Redmond Link
Extension Transportation
service changes for King County
council member Quinn, MAY you
please move this item before us.
And we propose ordinance
2025-0056. Item is before us,
um. Mary, would you like to?
Come forward. Thank you so much.
Colleagues, would you like a
briefing from uh Mary, for
those of you who are not in the
transportation environment
committee, would you like to
have this general discussion
questions. I think I
m seeing a
nod for a high-level overview.
Thank you. Thank you, Chair
Zahalaya I
m Mary Burganon from
the council staff. So the
EastLink service restructure
would create 8 new bus routes,
revised 14 routes and replaced
20 routes to coordinate with
the full opening of Sound
Transit
s 2 line or the East
Link Light rail, which is
expected later this year. This,
uh, process of developing this
service restructure was done in
coordination with the council
s
adopted service guidelines and
In particular with the
requirements that the council
added by amendment when the
service guidelines were last
adopted to go through a
community engagement process
that involves setting goals for
the restructure and then
following specific steps with
the community, which occurred
over the course of a number of
years before it was brought
before you. The restructure in
front of you also, um, would
comply with federal
requirements under Title 6 of
the 196. For Civil Rights Act
and is in conformance with the
adopted budget for 2025. Over
time, it would add about
160,000 bus service hours in
the East King County area. And
I will note that the ordinance
was amended in committee to add
a requirement that Metro report
back by the time of the fall
2027 service change on
essentially how the restructure
is doing. Is it meeting
ridership needs and to
coordinate with local ju ri s
di ction s so that any changes
or adjustments can be made as
needed. I
ll ao note that, uh,
in the. Green folder that is in
front of you today, there is an
amendment proposed by
councilmember Baucci that would
make a couple of technical
corrections to the attachment
that describes the routes that
are affected with this
ordinance. One would just make
a, a correction to a map for
one of the routes and the other
would make a slight correction
to nighttime service
frequencies for a different
route. So with that, I
ll stop,
see if there are any questions.
Thank you so much, Mary. Uh,
councilmember Baucci, would you
mind moving the Amendment to
proposed ordinance number
20250056 and by the way, this
is the uh ordinance approving
EastLink and Downtown Redmond
Link extension. Thank you very
much, chair. I move Amendment 1.
All right, Amendment 1 is
before us. Councilmember
Balducci, would you like to
speak to both the underlying
ordinance and the amendment. Uh,
can I just ask if the
amendment
s been briefed. I
m,
I was shifting here. So I noted
that the amendment would
replace the attachment that
describes the routes, it would
provide an updated route map
for Route 221, a route that
s
proposed to be deleted to
reflect the current deviation
to Overlake Village station
that was implemented last
spring when the EastLink
starter line opened, and it
would correct the frequency
table for current service on
Route 240 to reflect nighttime
frequency. So again, a sort of
crossing the t
s and dotting
the i
s, technical corrections
to that. Attachment. Great.
Thank you. Um, I thank you for,
uh, for calling on me, MR.
Chair. Um, and I will take this
moment even though we
re on the
amendment to just say a little
bit, um, uh, lately I
ve been
telling people that I feel like
my role is to, uh, to tell, uh,
what my gamer kid calls the
lore, uh, and the lore of this,
uh, restructures that it
s been
going on for quite some time.
Uh, councilmember Quinn knows
very well how long we
ve been
working on this restructure. It
is possibly the biggest. One
that we
ve ever done, it
s
definitely one of the biggest,
um, and because East Link
itself, the light rail
extension has been delayed, uh,
we asked, this council asked
and Metro agreed to go back and
take another look at, uh, the
proposal to coordinate buses
around the new light rail
system and you know, and, and
take into account current
conditions, ridership, demand
patterns, etc. Like we do when
we do restructure. And they
adjusted some things. Um, I, I
want to say, uh, I want to say
a word to, uh, MR. W Wisner
s
comments, which I was listening
to. I was listening to all the
comments online, um, and I, I
mean this will surprise no one.
This restructure is not perfect.
No restructure is perfect, no
best network is perfect. And
the nice thing about buses is
we can adapt, we can adapt them
over time. We can see what
s
working. We can see where
demand is being served. In fact,
so much of what we do is we
look at crowding and
reliability when there
s
crowding. That means we haven
t
put enough service to meet the
demand in a location. And when
buses are unreliable, they
re,
it tells us something that we
have the ability to act upon.
Um, one of the things, uh, that
I was very, uh, appreciative of
was that Metro took a look at
some of these long tails that
go way out into East King
County, providing service, uh,
we heard from the gentleman
from Cottage Lake in places
where there has been scant
service, and that
s an
important thing to do. And we
balance that against making
sure we
re putting enough
resource in the places where
there is a lot of demand and
they attempted to do that and
we
re going to find out how
well that balance was struck
and we will find. Out through
experiencing it and we, this is
not the last time we will touch
this bus service. There will be,
uh, more openings in the coming
years of sound transit stride
bus rapid transit on I-405 and
I-5 and uh sr 522, we will have
opportunities to look back and
see, did we hit things right? I
guarantee you there will be
places where we want to make
adjustments and we should. And
I think that that
s basically
what we
re hearing, uh, when we
hear, uh, input from, from
people like MR. W Wisner who is
very, very expert in the ways
of our bus system. So I am
happy to, uh, recommend that we
adopt both the amendment, which
is in my view, kind of
technical. It sort of just
conforms what we
re adopting to
what we said we were doing, um,
and the underlying motion
because the alternative is to
go back to the drawing board
and we
re running out of time,
believe it or not, because the
light rail is going to open
soon, so, uh, thank you for the
opportunity to say a few words,
and I, I do recommend support.
Thank you so much,
councilmember. Uh, let
s first
begin with the amendment,
Amendment. One to proposed
ordinance number 20250056.2.
Any more questions or comments
on the amendment on the
amendment. Ok. Uh, the
amendment is before us. All
those in favor please say aye
aye aye. All those opposed
amendment one carries now back
to the proposed ordinance as
amended councilmember Demowski,
thank you, Chair Zahala with a
question for Mary, um, Mary,
this is, uh, kind of the next
installment of our grand, I
ll
call it restructuring of
services the light rail spines
open. To get away from
traditional one seat rides into
core employment center, big
picture talk and shift the
system to feeding the light
rail spine and hopefully in the
process expand to have more
frequent all service extend our
range and into the mornings and
late nights and weekends.
That
s a big picture of kind of
what we
re doing. We did this
with Lynnwood Link. Does this
restructure add additional
service hours into the service
area. So council member, what
this restructure will do is
over the course of about a year
or so at about 160,000 service
hours now, as you
ll recall
from 2023 and the council
service recovery Plan that is
largely the amount of hours
that had been reduced during
the pandemic. So it
s, it
s
sort of, you know, saying we
re
going to restructure the
service in a way that meets the
needs of tomorrow with that, uh,
new, uh, light rail line
opening and bring that service.
Back in through this
restructure and uh the last big
one that we did, which
Councilor Bellucci, I don
t
know which one is bigger than
this one or the Lynnwood Lake,
but they
re competing for very,
very serious researchers in
that I, I confessed or maybe it
was prior iteration to some
frustration and that there was
a reduction of service hours,
largely from the Route 41, we
did not bring, keep those in
the area. You
re nodding yes,
Mary. Well, so with the Route
41 and the Northgate
restructure of years ago and
that was something that the
council did debate at some
length when the service
guidelines were last adopted in
2021, the decision was made to
disperse those hours because in
that case, that route
specifically followed the route
that the light rail was taking.
So, you know, a little bit
different situation and was
then adopted in policy by the
council of how that kind of
service hour would be treated.
And there
s not a similar case,
um, with this restructure
because there aren
t routes
that parallel well we have the
I-90. Route that used to come
from South Bellevue Park and
Ride into downtown. Yeah,
there
s some, there are some
sound transit routes that will
be affected, but those aren
t
subject to this particular
ordinance. I just wanted to
take a moment to say I think
there was, I know that was a
distinction there, but there
was a reduction of hours in a
very transit heavy and high
transit use community North
Seattle, to be specific, where
we reduced service hours and
they were sent out into the
system. I
m not sure they ever
really got deployed. If they
did, I don
t know where, where
they went. But on behalf of the
constituents I represent who
are thirsty for more transit.
There was, there
s some
frustration, uh, there and we
all want more more transit, but
I didn
t want this to go by,
and this is not picking at all
on this restructure, you know,
I think we are working very
hard to make our system work
and work in partnership with
Sound Transit, um, but I wanted
to raise the flag for folks in
my community who still are, you
know, buses that used to come
in certain places don
t and no
restructure is perfect, I think.
Or do Uh, and just plant the
flag a little bit, mayor, I
m
not asking you to comment on
that. That
s more of a kind of
a I can councilmember, if you
want to just make one comment,
which is in, again, in the
areas that you
re referring to
for the Northgate and then to
some extent for the Lynnwood
restructure. One of the issues
that I know that transit riders
in that area experienced during
the pandemic years is that the
Seattle Transit measure, which
had funded until 2020, about
350,000 additional service
hours within the city of
Seattle that the city of
Seattle was paying Metro to
provide when that measure was
reauthorized by the voters in
late 2020, had a smaller
funding source and more
priorities. So it funds
currently about half of the
service hours it used to fund.
So I know that 4 people in
Seattle, there has been a
change in the amount of transit
service that is available
simply because of how much the
city of Seattle is or is not
funded. Through its transit
funding measure that is a good
reminder and then I
ll I
ll
finally add my additional
appreciation to, uh, MR. W
Wisner, who is a frequent
correspondent with great detail
and uh I, I do read them, uh,
it
s educational and I think
that on occasion we have been
able to make suggested
adjustments to routes, but it
is hard to um manage a
restructure at the council
level after a long process and
so I agree with my colleague.
League counselor Balucci in
whose district is primarily is
that we should give this a go
and see how it works and fine
tune as needed. Thank you very
much for the opportunity to
engage a little bit here, chair.
Thank you, councilmember.
Colleagues, any more questions
or comments? Council member
Balucci just would be, uh,
neglectful to not call out the
team here. I, I don
t think you
could count how many hours they
put into this restructure. How
many meetings they held with
various council members, uh,
certainly with my office, uh,
they
ve been very responsive,
very analytical, very, um,
really trying to balance all
the needs of this very complex
system and make it work well
for everyone, and I just want
to remind those following along,
this is fundamentally a good
news item. What we
re doing
here is we are trying to make
our bus system work the best it
can around a major new
investment in high capacity
transit, which is the light
rail system that will be
opening up to East King County
in a few months. So, um, Thank
you for that. Thank you, Metro
folks. Thank you to everybody
who worked on this, and I look
forward to writing it and
figuring out how my world will
change, which, uh, which will
happen soon. Thank you. Thank
you so much. Yes, thank you so
much to the Metro team. Thank
you so much, Mary. Great work,
uh, clerk, MAY you please call
the roll on proposed ordinance
20250056.2 as amended. Thank
you, councilmember I
ll excuse
me, Counciluncilmember Baucci.
Councilcilmember Baron
councilmember Dimowwski,
councilmember Dunn. Aye. That
s
Moscara Iye Councilcilmember
Perry, councilmember Quinn. Ie
council member von Reichbauer,
Chasahaye the vote is 8 ayes
and councilmember Perry excused.
By our vote, we have adopted
proposed ordinance 20250056 as
amended. Moving on to the
another consent agenda. We have
councilmember Dunn to make a
request, uh, would request the
chair if possible to remove
item 17 from the consent agenda
just so we can focus on it.
Item 17 has been removed from
the consent agenda. Vice Chair
Dunn, MAY you please move
consent agenda items 12 through
16 and 18. Move consent agenda
items 12 through 1616 and also
item 18. Those consent agenda
items are before us. Clerk,
please call the roll. Thank you,
councilmember Bal Ducie
councilmember Baron Council
Member Dimowski councilmember
Dunn council member Moscara
councilmember Perry
councilmember Quinn
councilmember von Reichbauer
Charaahalay. The vote is 8, aye
and councilmember Perry excused.
By our vote, we have adopted
proposed motions 2024 0362 and
0363 as to public
transportation requesting the
executive to engage in a task
force on transit safety and
security to address public
safety on transit in the
communities in which Metro
transit Department operates
councilmember Dunn, MAY you
please put the item before us.
Move item 17 proposed
substitute number 2025 0020. 17
is before us, councilmember
Dunn to speak to it. Thanks
very much and just a reminder
to my colleagues this past
unanimously out of Allen was on
today
s consent agenda. I
pulled it off just because I
think it
s important enough for
us to flag it and talk about it.
This really is is really in
spirit, intent, and function
led by atu and they deserve our
thanks for their work on this
and they
re continuing, uh,
coordination and fight to
represent transit operators and
to keep them in the entire
system running safely. This
safety task force is joint
effort of local government, law
enforcement agencies, uh,
transit partners, uh, and of
course being led by atu 587
involves the King County
council, the ex. Metro, uh, to
address public safety and
transit in the communities in
which Metro transit, uh,
operates. Um, it is, uh, was
requested initially, uh, by atu
to establish a task force on
transit safety and security,
and it would bring together the
following groups to really, I
think, seriously, take a good
hard look at how we will work
to make safety a top priority
and continuing to improve
safety. And that, and that
includes atu 587 frontline
transit operators, the King
County Sheriff, the general, uh,
gm of Metro Transit, director
of dchs, some local elected
leaders, local law enforcement,
the ceo of Sound Transit,
Transit Riders organizations,
and others as necessary. The
task force will work to develop
a plan that will address the
following things, improvements
to operating a safety on Metro
transit buses and the barriers
and barriers for operators. I
think, I think both probably
literally and figuratively, um,
strategies that hold transit
passengers and others at bus
stops and transit centers
accountable for require for
required conduct on the buses
and around those areas
interagency coordination and
shared responsibilities with
the jurisdictions with the
Metro Transit Department
operates coordination with
communities and with transit
riders and their safety and
other issues is the task force
kind of comes along and
identifies. Which I think we
should be open to moving
forward. And then I asked the
executive to come back and give
us a briefing no later than
SEPTEMBER 30th of this year. I
want to thank Councilor Mayor
Balducci for her leadership on
this, um, and also atu
PRESIDENT Greg Woodfield and
his team for their leadership
as well on this. I know we
re
just getting started, community
safety, whether it
s on our
buses or some other part of the
community. It
s not like you,
you have a meeting or a task
force, it gets done and
everybody
s safe forevermore.
These things evolve and modify
over time and so you have to
keep coming back and looking at
it and making it better and
making improvements and
adapting to local and changed
conditions including things
like crime rates, um, and so we
got to do this. I
ve never seen.
A more serious intense focus on
transit operators
safety and
rider safety that I
m seeing
right now. Sadly, in part
because of the recent tragedies,
uh, but sometimes that forces a
policy body to to to work to
Make change and, and that is a
good thing in my opinion to be
able to make change, so i
d
urge my colleagues
support.
I
ve had a couple of requests
from some other council members
to add on or sign on as
co-sponsor. I
d ask the clerk
perhaps to pass on a
co-sponsors sheet so that
members can join. I
d urge your
support and any reflections you
have on the legislation. Thank
you. Councilmember anyone? Any
comments or questions?
Councilor Baucci. Thank you. No,
I, I, I think councilmember
Dunn put it quite well, and I
really appreciate him, uh,
stepping up to take the
laboring or to introduce this
piece of legislation and to do
the work, um, it does start
with a statement of commitment
any change starts with a
statement of commitment and
it
s very important that this
body lean in and state our
commitment, uh, we are the
policymaking body for this
county. We are the, we have the
power of the purse for this
county and so, uh, it is super
important that we make it known
when we make something.
Priority, uh, I want to
acknowledge MR. Renner
s very
consistent advocacy, uh, for
change and for change that will
improve uh fair collection,
improved safety on our systems.
Uh, I expect you will continue
to advocate with us for those
things, and I think it
s
important that we do have an
impact and that
s what the goal
of this work is ultimately it
is about getting together with
uh in you know in support of
atu 587
s leadership. With all
of our colleagues and partners
in the cities, uh, and various
police agencies and all the
organizations that have a role
here to figure out how we make
things safer and better, uh, as
I
ve said many times, we have a
lot of goals, a lot of policy
goals with our transit system,
including connecting people to
opportunity and education and
housing, uh, a climate and
sustainability goals for having
a clean and green, uh,
transportation system and we
can
t achieve any of these goal.
Our mobility goals, our
economic goals are our equity
goals, our environmental goals,
unless people ride the system
and they will not write it if
they don
t feel safe, and we
have to make a safe system for
our employees who are out there
every single day all day making
the system work, including the
bus I just came in on, so I
m
very happy to be a co-sponsor
and to uh to partner in this
work and make sure it means
something, make sure it has
results in the end. Thank you,
council member councilmember
Baron. Thank you, chair. Well,
I just want to um extend my
appreci. I can
t remember
council members Dunn and Baduci
for bringing this measure
forward, uh, but particularly,
um, my appreciation to uh the
atu leadership who actually
started this conversation, this
call for us to have this
regional uh conversation on
safety on our metro system. Um,
I also just wanted to point out,
I, I think folks know this, but
uh there MAY be some
limitations on how many of us
want to partic uh are able to
participate in the actual
conversation just because of
our, our requirements with the
Open Meetings Act. Uh, but I
wanted to convey to make sure
that all of you that even those
of us who MAY not get to
actually physically be in the
conversation at the same time,
we
re going to be monitoring
this very closely, uh, and so
there
s, I think there
s a
shared commitment that you see
through this legislation that
all of us are here going to be
monitoring this and even if
we
re not physically being able
to be part of that conversation
with all of you. We
re gonna be
monitoring very closely the
results and, and have uh you
have our commitment to make
sure that we act on, on, on
recommendations that come out
of that that uh regional
conversation so. Thank you for
your work on that and uh I look
forward to supporting this
legislation. Thank you, council
member von Reichbauer. Uh,
first of all, I think the
previous speakers for their
comments. As I said at the
incident at the when this issue
first happened, if our drivers
don
t feel safe, how can our
passengers? Very simple. That
s
all I want to say. Thank you so
much, councilmember.
Councilmember Moscada. Uh,
thank you very much, MR. Chair.
Uh, first, I want to thank
members of the atu family
who
ve come here today and
who
ve come here almost every
single meeting since this
tragic incident happened. Uh,
thank you for voicing your
support and more importantly,
demanding this, um, as my
colleague just noted, this was
your idea. You created it and
we are here to support and
follow your lead, but we have
to do so with urgency. I think
we
ve heard that from you,
we
ve heard that from members
of the public, and I think what
you
re hearing from this
council. And what we
ve heard
from Metro in the previous
testimony is there has to be a
change. There cannot be the
status quo. This can
t be
business as usual. We cannot
have another tragic murder and
I want you to know that we see
your power here today, and we
see that Shan Yim is resting in
power with this bill coming
into action. We stand here
together with you to demand uh
a change in process investments,
and protections. And we stand
with you in the call for making
sure that both writers and
operators are safe, as my
colleagues have said. MR.
PRESIDENT and members of atu
members of the community, we
hear you and we stand with you
and this call to action. Thank
you very much to the sponsors
for your quick work as well to
Metro for your quick work to
implement some items already
and we look forward to
furthering that with urgency.
Thank you again to the sponsors,
and I will absolutely take you
up on the offer to add my name
to this today. I
d love to be a
sponsor. Thank you. Thank you
so much, councilmember.
Councilmember Demowski, thank
you very much and uh I want to
co-sign the statements of the
previous speakers as the young
and sage chair chairsay, um,
I
ve joined as a co-sponsor as
well and I appreciate
councilmember Dunn
s
willingness to an invitation to
invite colleagues to sign on as
co-sponsor and thank him for
his work and picking up the
suggestion from the leadership
of atu, uh, when I chaired the
transportation economy
Environment Committee, we had a
number of hearings on this
growing issue to try. Highlight
and surface the concerns that
were being raised, uh, some of
the very tragic public, uh,
violence that has occurred on
our system has prompted a lot
of my regular constituent
transit system riders to reach
out and say they too are seeing
these incidents on their
experience and frankly it
s led
them to having changes in
behavior, whether they stop
writing the system or they stop
writing parts of the system or
stop writing it during certain
times of day or don
t let their
children ride it to get. And
from school. This is real for
our constituents and and riders
and uh councilmemb Baucci
s
remarks about if you want folks
to write at the beginning and
the end is safety. That
s just
a predicate, a foundational uh
value and, and principle in
terms of how we ought to
operate the system. I really
like this approach in that uh
one of the things I believe in
is uh don
t judge someone or
tell someone what to do until
you
ve walked a mile in their
shoes, and in this case our
driver. Are driving mile after
mile after mile, and they know
best. I really do believe that
our operators of our system who
are in the field every day
running it ought to have the
worst. The loudest voice, the
voice that we listened to, uh,
the most, and I if we
re being
candid, I do believe that
perhaps that voice wasn
t heard
in some reforms that have
occurred in recent years, some
changes that we made, uh, I
m
just being very candid here,
and I think that this task
force, this group ought to take
a look at the state of our
rules of our ride right rules,
and don
t be shy. Don
t hold
back about what changes ought
to be made. Come forward, tell
us in plain English. What needs
to be done. You will be
listened to. The report
s gonna
come back by SEPTEMBER 30th.
That timing is important. I
ve
now got a different hat on
budget share. We will not put a
price on safety. Ok, let me say
it again, we will not put a
price on safety. We will fund
the necessary improvements to
our system to ensure that it is
safe as possible. That
s my
commitment as budget chair here
at the council. We have the
resources and we
ll bring more.
We
re working with PRESIDENT
Woodville on proposal to bring
more capacity for dollars and
uh and an answer that we can
t
afford it will not be the
answer. So I look forward to
this work. I like the
flexibility in the language to
bring forward and bring on
board. The people here, um,
that, that have knowledge and I
just want to say from this
council member
s perspective,
the recommendations will be
acted upon. Promptly, and they
will be funded fully. Thank you,
MR. Chair. Thank you so much,
councilmember. Councilmember
Dunn to close. Woo Well, I
pulled that off consent. I
m
telling you. I, I think
everyone said it right and just
come up with good sound
recommendations and their
chances of implication are very,
very high, and we
ll keep our
buses safer moving forward. I
just want to say something real
quick. I, I really appreciate
the metro transit. Handle this
a lot of times and we try and
do a task force involving an
agency, we get a lot of
pushback and screaming. And
they welcomed it right away,
which is the wise thing to do
and also the right way to
effect change. Let
s not forget
that it was just a few short
years ago where Metro was the
outstanding transit agency of
the United States or North
America it might have been is
the best. We got to keep it, I
got to keep it that way and,
and one of the key things we
can do is, is keep it safe. So
thanks for my colleague
s
support. Thank you, MR. Chair.
Thank you so much,
councilmember. Uh, clerk.
Please call the roll on
proposed substitute motion
number 20250020.2. Thank you,
councilmember Bellucci.
Counciluncilmember Baron
Council memberber Demowwski
councilmember Dunn.Ye
councilmember Mosquerae
Councilcilmember Perry,
councilmember Quinn council
member von Reichbauer.
Theresahaye the final vote is 8
ayes and councilmember Perry
excused. Fantastic by our vote
we have adopted proposed
substitute motion 20,250,020.
Thank you so much again to our
atu family to Metro Transit, we
know that you have been up late
night, burning the midnight
candle every single day since
the tragic murder of Shan Yim
working on this, organizing
funerals and rallies and
legislative action and you have
a council full of allies here
and congratulations on passing
this task force. Successfully.
Thank you. All right, moving on
to item 19, uh, proposed motion
number 20250058. Uh,
councilmember Quinn, MAY you
please move this item before us.
I proposed 2025-0058. Item 19
is before us, um. We have Mary,
do you want to come back, Mary
Burganon can speak to it as
well um, councilmember Quinn to
open it, open discussion, yeah,
so the proposed motion
2025-0058 would ask Metro to
report on unplanned trip
cancellations. Um, Metro
already already reports on, uh,
schedule reliability, um, when
a bus is running late, um, but
Metro does not provide public
reporting on unplanned trip
cancellations which occur when
a bus trip does not happen at
all. So the motion before us
today would ask Metro, uh, to,
to add information on the
unplanned shrimp constellation,
um, to its annual system
evaluation report, uh, to
provide a real-time information
to transit riders. Um, and to
brief the council on how Trump
calculation information will be
incorporated into Metro service
guidelines, um, when they are
next updated, um, and the
motion was drafted by my
colleague COUNCILMAN Baduci, um,
and I would just ask Mary, did
I get any of that wrong? Thank
you. This again is Mary Burgen.
I
m from the council staff and,
uh, councilmember Quinn, you
described it well. This is, uh,
really about Metro reporting to
the public and providing more
real-time information to the
public about when unplanned
trip cancellations happen. I
will note that in your packets
today in the green folder,
there is an amendment that
councilmember Perry had
discussed the intention of
providing during the tree
committee. I know she
s not
here today, so I don
t know if,
um, anyone else would be moving
that, uh, amendment on her
behalf. And if you
d like that
briefed or not. Uh, I think
there
s a request for a
briefing. Thank you. Ok, so
Amendment one would add on to
the reporting requests made in
this motion to do two things.
First, in the 2025 system
evaluation in which Metro is
asked to report an unplanned
trip cancellations. It would
ask Metro to include data about
the the impact of trip
cancellations on transit riders,
and then second, in the
upcoming briefings that the
general manager would be
providing to the tree committee,
it would ask the gm to provide
information about how Metro
s
performance relate to trip
cancellations compares with
peer transit agencies. Great,
thank you. Is that Amendment
one? Ok. Uh, any questions or
comments on Amendment one? Uh,
MAY uh COUNCILMAN Baucci, could
you put Amendment one before us.
I move approval of Amendment 1.
Amendment 1 is before us. All
those in favor please say aye
aye aye. All those opposed.
Amendment one carries. Are
there any more amendments? No?
Ok. All right, uh, underlying
motion as amended. Do we have
any questions or comments?
Councilmember Balducci, thanks
just to uh just to for the
record, um, uh, this item, this
idea came up, uh, when we were
having a review of Metro
s 2024
service report it
s a regular
report, lots of great data
about what
s going on with the
bus system, uh, each year, and,
um, this question of unplanned
trips, colloquial and
colloquially known as a ghost
Busses, uh, on unplanned trip
cancellations, uh, came up and
I just. Wanted to underscore as
a writer, anybody who rides,
and I know many of us do, um,
there
s I, I think possibly the
most frustrating thing that can
happen is you
re waiting for a
bus you see on your app that
it
s coming, it
s
coming, and then you see that
it left and you
re like, no, it
didn
t. I was standing right
here and it did not go by, um,
possibly exceeded only by buses
that go by early and, uh, by
the way, Metro handles those
really, really well. I think
they, they managed, they,
they
ve trained people not to
be early. Um, and, and it
s the
same frustration. It
s I
ve
relied on the system. I have
somewhere to be. I thought I
knew when I was gonna get there
and now I don
t know when I
m
going to get there, uh, and it
can be dark, it can be rainy,
it can be for, you know, for a
lot of reasons it can be very
inconvenient and it can cause
people to choose to take a
different mode the next time
they take a trip and so I think
that the idea of shining a
light on this, making sure we
have good data about what
s
going on and following up and
making sure that. We are
communicating with our third
party app providers so that the
buses that are out there are
accurately reflected on One Bus
Away and Google Maps and all
the things that people use in
order to uh really improve
their uh knowledge of what
s
going on in the system and
their ability to plan their
trips and so I think this is
very important we
re
daylighting information and it
will help us to make better, uh,
policy decisions in the future
and to make sure that our
system is all it can be. It
s
been a theme, actually of this
meeting here today is making
our bus system everything that
it. Can be, uh, I wanted to say
a word of thanks to
councilmember Perry and her
staff. Uh, they, uh, Councilor
Perry came up with the concept
of what became Amendment one in
the committee meeting, uh, and
then took the time between then
and now to really make sure it
was, uh, solidified and written
down in a way that, um, that,
that dovetails very well with
the intent of this motion. I
was happy to support it, so I
urge your support of the
underlying uh proposed motion.
Thank you, council member. Any
more questions or comments?
Counciluncil member brought on.
Thank you, Chair. Um, well, I
m
pleased to co-sponsor this
motion with Councilor Ba Duchin.
I appreciate her leadership for
bringing forward and I think
it
s important to recognize
that, you know, there
s a lot
of good work and Metro
s doing
a very good work and has done
work with this council to make
sure that we increase our
reliability, so this is an
effort to just improve, uh,
information and transparency,
uh, and I think to your point,
Castleber Balducci actually had
a constituent meeting this past
week and one of my constituents
specifically raised this issue
and I was kind of. To be able
to say like we
re actually
working on that on Tuesday, uh,
because she expressed that
frustration of, of, of, of not
having the bus here and and I
think it
s important for us to
do everything we can to make
our system as reliable because
of the impact that it does have,
as you mentioned, I think the,
the for the Rider experience,
uh, whether it
s the bus being
delayed or the bus not showing
up when, when it
s supposed to,
it, it, it, it creates this uh
uh tension that I think
undermines our ability to
provide the. And so I think
it
s important that we have
that information so that we can
uh use it to, to improve the
system and, and make it even
better than it is today, uh, so
I appreciate this, uh, and
encourage a yes vote of this.
Thank you, councilmember. Any
more questions? Councilor
Mosqueda a question, just a
comment I want to congratulate
our good chair of the tree
committee. I think this item
and item number 11 are the
first, uh, bills out of your
committee, MR. Chair. So thank
you, uh, for your stewardship
there and exciting to see those
bills come. To full council.
Thank you. That
s why I was
quiet through the process
because I wanted to get there.
One meeting and, and
everything
s on, yeah, good.
All right, uh, we have before
us proposed motion number
20250058 as amended clerk,
please call the roll. Thank you,
councilmember Balduccie Council
Member Baron Counciluncilmember
Dimowwski. Councilmember Dunn.
Can
t remember Moscara. Aye
council member Perry,
councilmember Quinn. Council
member von Reichbauer.
Chazahalay. Councilmember von
Rigbauer, thank you. The final
vote is 7 ayes and council
members Dunn and Perry excused.
Thank you. By our vote, we have
adopted proposed motion
2025-0058 as amended, moving on
to the reappointment consent
agenda item 20 call on
councilmember Dimowwski. MAY
you please move consent agenda
item 20. Uh, Consent agenda
item 20 is before us. Clerk,
please call the roll. Thank you,
councilmember Baucci.
Councilmember Baron
Councilcilmember Demowwski.
COUNCILMAN Dunn. Can
t remember
Moscara. I can
t remember Perry.
Council member Quinn Council
member von Reichbauer,
Chesahala. The vote is 7 ayes
and council members done and
Perry excused. By our vote we
have adopted proposed motion
20250081, uh, councilmember
Dunn would like to record his
votes on a couple of items. All
right. Good. Thank you on those
clerk, thank you. If there is
no objection, the published
marked agenda together with any
changes made in today
s meeting
will stand approved as the
first reading and referral of
ordinances and motions, items
21 and 22 as listed with no
other items to come before this
meeting. The meeting is
adjourned and a friendly
reminder to my colleagues who
are unemployment administration
Committee eac will be meeting
upstairs in 5 minutes. Thank