[0:06] Welcome everybody. I
[0:06] m calling
[0:08] this meeting of the King County
[0:09] Council to order. Welcome to
[0:11] the Tuesday, MARCH 4th, 2025
[0:12] meeting of the King County
[0:13] Council. Welcome to the
[0:14] courthouse, everyone. Thank you
[0:16] so much for joining us today on
[0:16] today
[0:18] s agenda, we have items
[0:19] on consent, including approval
[0:21] of a couple of general sewer
[0:22] plans and authorizing an
[0:23] interlocal agreement with the
[0:25] City of Kent for inspection and
[0:27] maintenance of the Rock Creek
[0:29] Bridge. We have a couple of
[0:30] memorandum of labor agreements
[0:32] concerning the juvenile
[0:33] detention guild and supervisors
[0:34] and ordinance approving the
[0:37] East Lane. And Downtown Redmond
[0:38] Link extension service changes
[0:40] and also we have motions
[0:41] regarding confirmation of
[0:43] several executive appointments
[0:44] to various committees, a motion
[0:45] requesting the executive to
[0:48] engage on a task force on
[0:49] transit safety and security. I
[0:49] believe that
[0:50] s why we
[0:50] re joined
[0:53] by our, our brothers from atu
[0:55] in the audience today, a motion
[0:57] requesting the Metro report on
[0:59] unplanned trip cancellation and
[1:01] describe how information about
[1:02] unplanned trip cancellations
[1:03] for fixed route bus service
[1:04] could be more quickly provided
[1:06] to. For passengers in real time.
[1:08] So it
[1:09] s a good agenda, uh,
[1:10] clerk, please call the roll.
[1:14] Thank you, Chairahale
[1:16] Councilber Baucci here
[1:17] Counciluncilmember Baron
[1:20] councilmember Dimowski,
[1:21] councilmember Dunn
[1:22] Counciluncilmember Mosquera
[1:22] Councilcilmember Perry,
[1:24] councilmember Quinn. Here.
[1:26] Council member von Reichbauer.
[1:28] Chasahala, you have a quorum.
[1:29] Great, uh, council member of
[1:31] Baron, would you be willing to
[1:33] lead us in a flag salute today.
[1:34] Yes, please stand if you
[1:39] re.
[1:47] Like in America. One nation
[1:54] under GOD in his soul. Next, we
[1:57] will turn to approval of the
[1:58] minutes councilmember Dunn
[2:00] right on time. MAY you please
[2:02] give me a motion to approve the
[2:03] meeting minutes of the special
[2:05] meeting of FEBRUARY 21st, 2025
[2:07] and the regular meeting of
[2:09] FEBRUARY 25, move both sets of
[2:11] minutes, the minutes approval
[2:12] is before us. All those in
[2:14] favor please say aye aye aye.
[2:16] All those opposed, the meeting
[2:18] minutes are approved. Next we
[2:20] will ask the clerk if there are
[2:21] any additions to the council
[2:22] agenda. There are none. All
[2:26] right, then we will turn to the
[2:27] public hearing portion of the
[2:28] agenda during the public
[2:29] hearing portion of the meeting,
[2:31] the council will take public
[2:32] comment on ordinances and
[2:33] motions on today
[2:33] s agenda for
[2:36] action. Listening to the public
[2:37] and taking into consideration
[2:38] the public
[2:38] s thoughts is an
[2:41] important part of our process.
[2:43] Uh, in order to allow everyone
[2:45] to testify, I would like to set
[2:46] the following ground rules.
[2:47] Please remain seated until time
[2:49] for your testimony. Do not make
[2:50] audible noise during the
[2:52] meeting. Your comments must be
[2:53] germane and relevant to the
[2:54] subject matters of the public
[2:56] hearing. This is also a
[2:57] reminder that public testimony
[2:59] MAY not be used for the
[3:01] purposes of campaigning if you
[3:02] do not abide by these ground
[3:03] rules or are otherwise
[3:04] disruptive, you MAY be ruled
[3:06] out of order and MAY be asked
[3:07] to leave the meeting before we
[3:09] hear from the public, I want to
[3:10] be sure that everyone who has
[3:12] called in understands how the
[3:13] process will be managed. We
[3:14] will begin with members of the
[3:16] public who have joined us in
[3:17] the chambers today. If you
[3:17] re
[3:18] providing comment remotely,
[3:20] please listen to the meeting on
[3:21] the Zoom call until your name
[3:22] is called. If you
[3:22] re in the
[3:24] room and would like to give
[3:26] public testimony. We will be
[3:28] using the raise hand uh feature
[3:29] to proceed through public
[3:30] comment today once I call for a
[3:33] comment, either press 9 on your
[3:35] phone or click the raise hand
[3:37] icon on the Zoom toolbar
[3:38] located at the bottom of your
[3:40] screen to raise your hand,
[3:41] which notifies the clerk you.
[3:43] Wish to speak. Our clerk will
[3:44] call the names and numbers of
[3:45] those who have raised their
[3:46] hand when you, when your name
[3:48] or last three digits of your
[3:50] phone number is called, Staff
[3:50] will unmute your line. You
[3:51] ll
[3:52] have 2 minutes to speak and
[3:52] we
[3:53] ll hear a timer go off when
[3:55] you have reached 2 minutes. You
[3:56] can finish your thought, but
[3:57] please do wrap up your comments
[3:59] to allow the next person to
[4:00] speak if you go much past 2
[4:02] minutes, you will be muted.
[4:03] Clerk, MAY you please read the
[4:04] items into the record. Thank
[4:07] you. Item 6 is proposed
[4:08] ordinance number 2024-0252
[4:10] approving the Valley View Sewer
[4:12] District 2023 general sewer
[4:15] Plan. Item 7 is proposed
[4:16] substitute ordinance number
[4:17] 2024-0263, an ordinance
[4:18] authorized in the King County
[4:19] Executive to execute an
[4:20] interlocal agreement with the
[4:21] City of Kent for the inspection
[4:22] and maintenance of the Rock
[4:26] Creek Bridge. Item 8 is
[4:26] proposed ordnance number
[4:28] 2024-0410 proving the Southwest
[4:29] suburban Sewer District general
[4:31] sewer Plan update dated JULY
[4:34] 2024. Item 9 is proposed
[4:35] ordinance number 2025-0082,
[4:37] approving and adopting the
[4:38] memoranda of agreement
[4:38] negotiated by between King
[4:40] County and the King County
[4:41] Juvenile Detention Guild
[4:42] representing employees in the
[4:42] juvenile division of the
[4:44] Department of Adult and
[4:45] juvenile detention and
[4:46] establishing the effective date
[4:49] of the agreement. Item 10 is
[4:50] proposed ordinance number
[4:51] 2025-0083 approving and
[4:52] adopting two memoranda of
[4:53] agreement negotiated by and
[4:55] between King County and the
[4:56] juvenile Division supervisors
[4:57] Bargaining unit representing
[4:58] supervisors in the juvenile
[4:59] division of the Department of
[5:00] Adult and juvenile detention
[5:01] and establishing the effective
[5:05] date of the agreement. I 11 is
[5:06] proposed ordinance number
[5:07] 2025-0056 approving East Link
[5:09] in downtown Redmond Link
[5:10] Extension Transportation
[5:11] service changes for King County.
[5:14] Item 12 is proposed motion
[5:14] number 2024-0362, confirming
[5:15] the executive
[5:15] s appointment of
[5:17] Richard Bard, who resides in
[5:18] Council District 8 to the King
[5:20] County Bashon Mare Island
[5:20] Groundwater Protection
[5:22] Committee representing Bash on
[5:23] Maury Island residents. Item 13
[5:26] is proposed motion number
[5:27] 2024-0363, confirming the
[5:28] executive
[5:28] s appointment Donna
[5:29] Klimka. Resides in council
[5:31] District 8 to the King County
[5:32] Basel and Maury Island.
[5:33] Groundwater Protection
[5:34] Committee representing
[5:35] residential exempt well owners.
[5:38] Item 14 is proposed motion
[5:39] number 2025-0002, confirming
[5:39] the executive
[5:40] s appointment of
[5:41] David Ellison, who resides in
[5:43] council District 7 to the King
[5:44] County Lake Management District
[5:45] number 2 Advisory Committee as
[5:47] the Lake Geneva Property Owners
[5:48] Association representative.
[5:51] Item 15 as proposed motion
[5:52] number 2025-0003. Confirm the
[5:52] executive
[5:53] s appointment of
[5:54] Colleen Short, who resides in
[5:55] council District 7 to the King
[5:56] County Lake Management District,
[5:58] number 2 Advisory committee as
[5:59] a representative of Lake. Of
[6:01] property owners. Item 16 as
[6:04] proposed, motion number
[6:05] 2025-0007. A motion
[6:06] acknowledging a receipt of the
[6:07] accountability report required
[6:09] by the 2023, 2024 biennial
[6:11] budget ordinance. Item 17 is
[6:14] proposed substitute motion
[6:15] number 2025-0020 relating to
[6:16] public transportation
[6:17] requesting the executive to
[6:18] engage in a task force on
[6:20] transit safety and security to
[6:21] address public safety on
[6:23] transit and in the community in
[6:24] which the Metro Transit
[6:27] Department operates. Item 18 is
[6:28] proposed motion number
[6:30] 2025-0043, accepting the King.
[6:32] Cities, climate collaboration,
[6:33] 2025 work plan and budget
[6:34] prepared as the annual work
[6:36] plan and budget requested under
[6:38] motion 1449. Uh, item 19 is
[6:41] proposed. Motion number
[6:42] 2025-0058 relating to public
[6:43] transportation and requesting
[6:44] that the Metro Transit
[6:46] Department report on unplanned
[6:48] trip cancellations describe how
[6:49] information about unplanned
[6:51] trip cancellations for fixed
[6:52] route bus service could more
[6:53] quickly and efficiently be
[6:54] provided to inform transit
[6:56] riders in real time and
[6:58] describe how metrics about
[6:59] unplanned trip cancellations
[7:00] could be incorporated into the
[7:02] next update of the King County
[7:04] Metro service guidelines to
[7:05] inform operational and
[7:06] investment decisions and item
[7:09] 20 is proposed. Number
[7:12] 2025-0081, confirming the one
[7:13] corrected reappointment for the
[7:14] King County Library System
[7:17] Board of Trustees. Thank you so
[7:19] much, Melanie. That was a lot.
[7:21] We appreciate you. Um, all
[7:23] right, let
[7:24] s begin with the
[7:25] individuals who are signed up
[7:26] to testify in the chambers
[7:30] today. First name on the list
[7:36] is Matthew. Welcome, Matthew.
[7:39] Thank you for being here today.
[7:40] Hello, my name is Matthew
[7:42] Renner. I live in Des Moines,
[7:44] Washington in District 5. I
[7:44] m
[7:46] here today because this, uh,
[7:47] esteemed council is going to be
[7:51] considering and voting on the
[7:52] new Metro safety Committee, uh,
[7:55] but I have to ask, what is this
[7:56] community actually going to do
[7:57] other than just make a lot of
[8:00] noise. You guys had a safe
[8:01] reform committee for 3 years,
[8:03] and all you came up with was
[8:04] plans that actually encouraged
[8:06] people to commit crimes. Your,
[8:07] your policies for fair
[8:08] enforcement is to find them $20
[8:10] after 3. On the 3rd time
[8:10] they
[8:11] re caught. I
[8:12] ve had my
[8:14] first check on sound transit
[8:17] twice in over a year. If you
[8:20] charge someone only $20. For 3
[8:21] times of waiting fares, that
[8:21] s
[8:23] cheaper than buying than paying
[8:25] with an orca. And let
[8:25] s be
[8:27] honest. All this committee is
[8:29] going to do is have a couple of
[8:30] meetings, order some, order
[8:32] some takeout and just talk. Not
[8:33] actually implementing anything
[8:33] that
[8:34] s gonna matter. If you did,
[8:34] you
[8:39] d be looking at adding a
[8:40] full-time dedicated police
[8:41] force to handle transit, who
[8:43] rides the buses, who rides the
[8:44] trains, who has jurisdiction
[8:46] over the entire transit in the
[8:48] county and can actually make
[8:51] arrests on the spot when crimes
[8:52] happen and can actually kick
[8:53] people off the bus when they
[8:53] re
[8:55] acting up. If you
[8:55] re doing
[8:56] anything less, it
[8:56] s just
[8:57] proving. Point. You don
[8:58] t
[8:59] really care about the safety of
[9:00] the people, especially those
[9:00] who don
[9:01] t live in Seattle.
[9:01] That
[9:03] s my time. Thank you.
[9:06] Thank you so much, Matthew.
[9:07] Next on the list is Steve
[9:12] Wilhelm. Welcome, Steve. Howie
[9:14] folks, um, so my, my name is
[9:15] Steve Wilhelm. I
[9:16] m here as lead
[9:17] facilitator for Busees for
[9:19] Cottage Lake. It
[9:19] s a community
[9:20] organization that is for 2
[9:22] years has been pushing for
[9:23] restoration of bus service to
[9:25] the Cottage Lake area and we
[9:25] re
[9:26] completely supportive of the
[9:28] EastLink project, which will
[9:30] bring the Metro 222 bus
[9:31] connecting Cottage Lake to
[9:34] Light rail and Redmond and the
[9:36] 931 dart bus connecting Duval
[9:37] Cottage Lake and Woodenville.
[9:39] Uh, briefly, Cottage Lake has
[9:41] had zero bus service since
[9:43] SEPTEMBER 2023 when the 232 bus
[9:44] was shut down, and for those of
[9:45] you who don
[9:46] t know, the cottage
[9:49] Lake area is a very vibrant and
[9:50] peopled area and unincorporated
[9:52] Northern King County close to
[9:53] the Snomish border in the
[9:55] effort to restore service buses
[9:56] for Cottage Lake has been
[9:57] working closely with Sarah
[9:58] Perry with the King County
[10:00] Metro with the North Shore
[10:03] School Board and the other two
[10:04] facilitators are Brooke McBride,
[10:06] pastor of the Bear Creek United
[10:07] Methodist Church and Dan Lilly,
[10:08] minister of the Woodenville
[10:10] Church and both of them are
[10:11] right near Cottage Lake and
[10:12] they lost bus service. So the
[10:13] cottage lake, it
[10:14] s within a
[10:16] 2-mile radius, this kind of
[10:16] area we
[10:17] re talking about of the
[10:18] intersection of Woodenville
[10:20] Duval Road and Avondale Road,
[10:22] which is exactly where the 222
[10:23] will start and the area
[10:25] includes 12 churches, 2
[10:26] Buddhist centers, a large
[10:28] shopping center with a Safeway,
[10:30] the Woodenville Library,
[10:32] Cottage Lake Park, and the
[10:32] North Shore Learning Options
[10:34] School, the North Shore School
[10:36] District, and right now nobody
[10:38] can get to any of those places
[10:40] without a car, um, that means
[10:41] that elders are stranded
[10:41] because they can
[10:42] t. You know,
[10:43] there
[10:43] s no bus. Young people
[10:44] are stranded, which is really
[10:45] amazing if they can
[10:46] t drive,
[10:46] they
[10:48] re stuck in Cottage Lake
[10:48] and also people who can
[10:49] t drive
[10:51] due to medical reasons or can
[10:51] t
[10:54] afford a car, so some Safeway,
[10:56] the managers told me employees
[10:57] must walk to work, which is
[11:00] dangerous in those dark roads
[11:01] and bicycling along Avondale
[11:02] Road, which I
[11:02] ve tried several
[11:03] times but it
[11:04] s pretty perilous
[11:07] because the cars go 50 miles an
[11:09] hour. So just want to thank you
[11:11] and invite you to please
[11:12] approve East Link, which will
[11:14] benefit many beings, including
[11:15] the people at Cottage Lake.
[11:18] Thank you. Thank you, Steve.
[11:19] Next on the list is Alex Zimmer.
[11:33] Welcome back Alex. Me. Surprise
[11:38] me a little bit dirty dam, um,
[11:42] sorry, change the rules. You
[11:43] absolutely right, Chief Banjita
[11:45] in killer. My name is Alex
[11:49] Zimmerman, PRESIDENT Of Sendapa
[11:51] America support for 10 every
[11:54] day, and I mabaerna. I want to
[11:58] speak about agenda number 9
[12:00] about contract but consul
[12:07] consul consul Jail, union, sir,
[12:08] my question to you is very
[12:11] simple. Uh, are you coming time
[12:14] you spent in jail, yeah, last
[12:15] year I spent 22, 2 days. It
[12:19] makes me a shock. Shuck It
[12:19] s
[12:20] not about fabrication in my
[12:22] case and everything, let us
[12:24] prosecute me 5 times. Inside a
[12:26] nightmare. I want to go to the
[12:28] restroom. All the restroom with
[12:31] . You cannot ever open that
[12:34] door, number 12, how many
[12:35] bargain site. I never see so
[12:38] many bug in my life. It
[12:38] s a
[12:39] dozen different bucks. It
[12:40] s go,
[12:43] go, go, go, go around. When
[12:45] last time you in jail, when you
[12:47] expected, you won
[12:48] t be same
[12:50] like Don Constantine for 15
[12:53] years who cannot clean floor
[12:56] fromra from It
[12:57] s a nightmare,
[13:00] you know what it means you need
[13:03] inspector. You need a. Dogs
[13:05] dodgy, you know what this means?
[13:08] You need something doing, guys,
[13:09] because Don Constantine 15
[13:10] years, don
[13:11] t change nothing.
[13:12] Don
[13:13] t make contract. Make
[13:15] contract only when you inspect
[13:18] these people and starts making
[13:18] inspection every couple of
[13:21] months. Stand up, America, for
[13:24] Donald Trump. For new American
[13:26] revolution. We need to clean
[13:28] this dirty chamber from this
[13:29] banditta include you, my
[13:34] favorite. Aristocrat. Thank you
[13:35] for staying mostly on topic,
[13:41] Alex. I Next on the list is
[13:48] Greg Woodville. Welcome Greg.
[13:51] Uh, thank you, chair. Um, My
[13:52] name is Greg Woodfield,
[13:55] PRESIDENT Of the atu 587. Um,
[13:57] we, our members our officers
[13:58] came here today to speak in
[14:01] favor of this, uh, um,
[14:03] legislation that, uh,
[14:05] councilmember Dunn introduced.
[14:06] We appreciate that and the help
[14:08] of a councilmember Baucci to
[14:10] get it up before you, um, I
[14:11] think most of all of you I
[14:11] ve
[14:13] talked to, I appreciate your,
[14:15] your support on this. I think
[14:16] we all realize, um, we
[14:17] re at a
[14:19] critical junction here. Um, we
[14:19] can
[14:20] t afford not to, to act, um.
[14:24] A lot of my members would want
[14:26] to hold you and Metro more
[14:28] accountable, but um, we
[14:29] realized this isn
[14:29] t just all
[14:32] about you and, and Metro. We
[14:32] have to get everybody involved.
[14:34] We need to get all the cities
[14:37] involved, all the police chiefs,
[14:38] um, prosecutors, um, and the
[14:41] state involved, um. W we
[14:41] re
[14:41] we
[14:42] re spending, we invested
[14:43] billions of dollars in our
[14:45] transit. We all recognize that
[14:46] we need public transit. We
[14:47] re
[14:49] going to spend billions more
[14:52] and uh we cannot afford to go
[14:53] down this slope of people not
[14:56] feeling safe to use transit or
[14:58] not being able to hire transit
[15:01] workers, uh, to do it. So, um,
[15:03] I just want to recognize and uh
[15:06] from our union, um, this is a
[15:07] great first step, and we
[15:07] re
[15:07] looking forward to, we
[15:08] ve been
[15:09] calling for this task force and
[15:12] we are. Glad that um you
[15:12] re
[15:13] going to support it and and
[15:15] join us and, uh, help us all
[15:17] work together to, uh, come up
[15:18] with solutions, a time for
[15:20] finger pointing, I think is
[15:20] over, um, it
[15:22] s the time we all
[15:24] get together, all of the
[15:26] stakeholders in this region,
[15:28] and the state and, uh,
[15:29] recognize, uh, that we need to
[15:31] restore public safety and
[15:32] safety on transit. Thank you.
[15:35] Thanks so much, Greg. Next on
[15:39] the list is Ken Price. Welcome,
[15:45] Ken. Good afternoon, uh,
[15:49] council, and, uh, uh, Ken Price,
[15:50] atu 587, vice PRESIDENT, former
[15:55] PRESIDENT. Um, and we are
[15:58] definitely in support of in
[15:59] Brother Matthew
[16:00] s views of
[16:01] making sure that others are, um,
[16:05] Butt into taking care of, of
[16:07] the transit needs of the public
[16:11] out there that go to, uh, the
[16:13] different cities, we, we
[16:16] already have a buy-in from
[16:17] other leaders of saying we need
[16:19] to take care of our citizens,
[16:22] right? That is this task force,
[16:26] uh, um, Major goal is to bring
[16:28] us together and, and support
[16:31] the public, uh, riding transit,
[16:34] the money that we put in. Is,
[16:35] is staggering, but we need to
[16:36] get people back on the buses
[16:39] and, and, and us making sure
[16:39] that we
[16:39] re safe. We
[16:40] re the,
[16:41] we
[16:41] re the transit operators
[16:43] that have been out there, um,
[16:46] but, but our, our, is this task
[16:47] force really focused on, on the
[16:49] public, making sure that they
[16:52] have a lighted, uh, bus stop.
[16:54] Out of the elements, but that
[16:54] s
[16:57] the city police could The Say
[16:59] Federal way, go by and take
[17:01] care of that zone and make sure
[17:01] that it
[17:03] s not an encampment for,
[17:05] for someone and then relying on
[17:07] our resources from the King
[17:09] County Metro Police to, to go
[17:11] out there and, and police that
[17:13] thing, uh, it will lessen the
[17:14] resources if we work it
[17:15] together. And thank you for
[17:18] your, for your help on all of
[17:20] that. Thank you. Thanks a lot,
[17:26] Ken. Last on the in chambers
[17:34] list is Jack Wisner. Welcome,
[17:37] Jack. Good afternoon. Thank you,
[17:39] uh, chair and council members.
[17:42] I live in council District 4.
[17:45] Um, I follow transit issues
[17:48] very closely, um, when
[17:49] councilmember Balducci during
[17:50] the committee discussed East
[17:52] Link ordinance. She used the
[17:53] analogy of spaghetti and it
[17:54] s
[17:56] true that, uh, transit networks
[18:01] are very complex. Um, I suggest
[18:04] that the council be very
[18:05] careful and not approve this
[18:08] ordinance the way it is today.
[18:10] I think there are, there are
[18:12] many things wrong with it. I
[18:12] ve
[18:13] written you about them over the
[18:15] last couple of years. But let
[18:15] s
[18:16] just talk about 3 noodles right
[18:22] now. Ok, um, Cottagela Citizen
[18:22] just mentioned that he
[18:23] s going
[18:25] to be help, uh, glad to have
[18:27] Route 222 and get service. The
[18:29] service to Cottage Lake was
[18:31] suspended when the 9:31, was
[18:33] suspended with covid. Um, and
[18:35] the 222 is a pretty good route,
[18:38] but the 222 would be better if
[18:40] it extended to Woodenville and
[18:41] made other transit connections.
[18:43] If you look at the density in
[18:45] the area, the area between
[18:46] downtown Woodenville and
[18:47] Cottage Lakes is actually
[18:49] denser than the areas that the
[18:51] 222 will serve to the south. Um,
[18:55] There are two routes that I
[18:57] think are just so much in
[18:59] violation of the, of the
[18:59] service guidelines that we
[18:59] shouldn
[19:01] t implement them. One
[19:04] is the 256, a one-way peak only
[19:06] route between Woodenville and
[19:10] downtown Seattle via. Uh, 5:20,
[19:12] um, I can go into great detail
[19:15] if you want. Uh, another is
[19:18] Route 240, which, um, is far
[19:21] too indirect. It goes between
[19:25] Renton and Bellevue. Of Via
[19:27] East Eastlake, Eastgate rather,
[19:30] and so it really won
[19:30] t help
[19:32] mitigate the Route 114 that
[19:32] s
[19:34] being deleted and takes a very
[19:36] too too many minutes to go
[19:37] between factoria and South
[19:40] Bellevue. Thank you. Thank you,
[19:45] Jack. All right, we will now
[19:47] turn to online public comment.
[19:49] Please use the raise hand
[19:49] function if you
[19:49] re online and
[19:50] would like to give public
[20:00] comment. Seeing none, we will
[20:01] close the public hearing. Thank
[20:06] you so much. We now turn to
[20:08] consent items 6 through 8 Vice
[20:10] Chair Dunn, MAY you please move
[20:12] consent agenda item 6 through 8.
[20:14] Move the consent agenda items 6
[20:15] through 8. Clerk, please call
[20:17] the roll on these items. Thank
[20:22] you, councilmember Balucci. I
[20:24] Council Member Baron Council
[20:26] Member Dimowwski. Council
[20:28] Member Dunn Counciluncil member
[20:32] Mosquera council member Perry.
[20:36] Councilmember Quinn Councilmemb
[20:37] von Reichbauer. Chazahalae is 8
[20:39] ayes and councilmember Perry
[20:42] excused by our vote, we have
[20:45] adopted proposed ordinances
[20:48] 2024 0252 0263 and 0410. Moving
[20:53] on to item 9 on the agenda
[20:54] proposed ordinance number
[20:55] 20250082 councilmember Dunn,
[20:57] MAY you please move this item.
[20:59] Move proposed ordinance number
[21:01] 2025-00 82, you are the prime
[21:02] sponsor. If you want to speak
[21:03] to or would you like me to
[21:04] start? Uh, let
[21:05] s go to, would
[21:08] you like to have um Jeff, Mum
[21:09] brief it or do you want to
[21:10] speak to it, I think Jeff has
[21:11] got it. He can orient the group
[21:14] to it. Thank you. Jeff, please
[21:16] go ahead. Thank you, MR. Chair.
[21:18] Uh, for the record, Jeff Mum
[21:19] chief policy officer, King
[21:20] County Council. And if it
[21:20] s ok
[21:21] with the chair, I
[21:22] d like to
[21:23] brief items number 9 and 10
[21:26] together. They are closely
[21:26] related collective bargaining
[21:28] agreements that kind of depend
[21:30] upon item 10 before us then. Uh,
[21:31] however you want to do it, uh,
[21:32] vice chair Dunn, MAY you please
[21:37] move item 10. Yeah, sure, i
[21:39] will. We proposed number
[21:41] 20250083. All right. Is 9 and
[21:43] 10 are before us, uh, Jeff Mumm
[21:44] to speak to them or to brief
[21:49] them. Thank you, MR. Chair. So
[21:51] proposed ordinances 2025, 0082
[21:54] and 0083, um, taken together
[21:56] would approve 4 different
[21:57] memorandums of agreement
[21:58] regarding juvenile detention
[22:00] officers and, uh, the
[22:01] correction supervisors, so
[22:01] they
[22:02] re supervisors and these
[22:05] uh employees work. Uh, together
[22:07] and jointly to provide safety
[22:09] and security services at the
[22:11] Patricia e. Clark Children and
[22:13] Family Justice Center, um,
[22:16] taken together, uh, the, the
[22:20] MLAs cover two subject areas,
[22:21] um, instances of declined
[22:22] mandatory overtime protocols,
[22:25] um, for the workgroups and then
[22:25] overtime incentives for each
[22:28] workgroup, and these MOAs are
[22:30] designed to um Temporarily
[22:31] address some staffing issues at
[22:36] the facility. Um So the And
[22:37] then the, the terms and the
[22:40] MOAs, there
[22:41] s some subs
[22:42] substantively identical, um,
[22:43] for the subject areas that they
[22:44] cover for each of the
[22:46] bargaining groups. So the first
[22:48] area is the declined mandatory
[22:52] overtime protocols. And um So
[22:54] these protocol, this agreement
[22:57] for both the um detention
[22:58] officers and their supervisors
[22:59] provides that if an employee
[23:01] who is assigned to work
[23:03] mandatory overtime. Declines
[23:05] that over time assignment due
[23:08] to an author, a pre-authorized
[23:09] purpose, um, or I
[23:10] m sorry, to
[23:11] an authorized purpose under
[23:13] paid sick leave and does not
[23:15] have a pre-approved family and
[23:17] medical leave, um, mandatory
[23:21] overtime. Restriction assigned
[23:23] from, from the department. That
[23:24] employee would generally be
[23:26] required to use their paid sick
[23:28] leave hours to cover the missed
[23:29] mandatory overtime assignment.
[23:30] So if they
[23:31] re assigned
[23:32] mandatory overtime, um, and
[23:32] they don
[23:33] t have pre-approval,
[23:35] they would have to use sick
[23:37] leave, um, to cover, uh, To
[23:41] cover that time. If an employee
[23:42] declines mandatory overtime and
[23:44] does not use the sick leave
[23:45] available, or, or and doesn
[23:46] t
[23:47] have the sick leave available
[23:47] or doesn
[23:48] t use it, um, they MAY
[23:51] be. Uh, subject to disciplinary
[23:55] action. Um, additionally, the
[23:57] agreement provides for an
[23:57] additional mandatory overtime
[23:59] pass per year, so the employee
[24:00] has a pass so that they don
[24:00] t
[24:01] have to, if they
[24:02] re assigned
[24:03] mandatory overtime. So rather
[24:05] than having one a year, they
[24:07] received 2 a year. Um, and then
[24:09] this, uh, would also provide
[24:12] that employees. Not be required
[24:14] mandatory overtime on 3 or more
[24:15] consecutive calendar days
[24:15] unless there
[24:16] s some sort of
[24:18] emergency. Um, and these
[24:20] protocols MAY be, MAY be
[24:21] terminated any anytime by the
[24:23] county, um, before JUNE 30th of
[24:25] this year. So that
[24:25] s that,
[24:27] those are the protocols that
[24:29] apply to both the, um,
[24:30] detention officers and the
[24:32] supervisors on the mandatory
[24:34] overtime um decline protocols.
[24:37] And then in addition, and these
[24:40] are separate MOAs, um,
[24:41] Temporary and voluntary
[24:44] overtime, they would receive it
[24:46] 2 times um pay incentive for
[24:47] working these voluntary and
[24:48] mandatory over overtime shifts.
[24:50] So right now employees would
[24:52] receive time and a half, and
[24:54] under this agreement, um, they
[24:56] would receive 2 times their um
[24:58] their pay for working on these
[25:00] mandatory or mandatory
[25:03] involuntary overtime shifts. Um,
[25:06] and this provision could be uh
[25:07] terminated by the county
[25:08] anytime after JUNE 30th of 2025.
[25:13] And will not go any longer than
[25:15] JANUARY 1st of 2026. So these
[25:16] are both, um, temporary
[25:20] memorandums of agreement. Um,
[25:22] the fiscal impact, and this is
[25:24] all associated with the With
[25:26] the 2 times over time
[25:26] incentives would be for the
[25:30] entire. At its most if, if they,
[25:32] um, agreements were to stay in
[25:34] effect through the end of the
[25:36] year would be $879,000 to the
[25:38] general fund. Um, I
[25:39] m sorry,,
[25:42] $939,000 to the general fund,
[25:44] 879 of that is associated with,
[25:46] uh, the overtime for the for
[25:49] the um JDOs and then 60,000 is
[25:50] associated with, um, over time
[25:53] for the supervisors. Um, so
[25:53] that
[25:53] s, that
[25:54] s the high-level
[25:55] briefing. We also have
[25:56] representatives from the
[25:59] bargaining units as well as olr
[26:01] to provide additional
[26:02] background and answer a
[26:04] detailed questions. Thank you
[26:09] so much, Jeff. Would any of our
[26:11] guests from the executive
[26:14] branch, olr, um, Or the
[26:15] Washington State council of
[26:17] County and City employees like
[26:18] to make any comments before we
[26:25] ask for questions. Are they
[26:30] with us? He I see Andre from
[26:32] olr, but I don
[26:32] t see the
[26:33] representatives from the
[26:36] bargaining units. Hey, Andre.
[26:38] Hello. Uh, just wondering if
[26:38] you have any remarks that you
[26:39] d
[26:40] like to make, or if you
[26:41] d like
[26:41] to just answer specific
[26:44] questions. Um, happy to answer
[26:46] any specific questions. Ok,
[26:50] councilmember Baucci. Thank you,
[26:52] chair. And just I apologize for
[26:54] the The noise and the
[26:55] inconvenience here. I
[26:56] m
[26:57] actually on a bus, but I
[26:58] ll be
[26:59] there shortly. Uh, I just
[27:01] wanted to say, uh, a word of
[27:03] appreciation to the party for
[27:05] negotiating this agreement.
[27:07] These issues are really
[27:08] operationally challenging. We
[27:10] are required on the one hand to
[27:13] have full staffing. And these
[27:15] facilities when we have for
[27:16] safety or even to be treated
[27:17] well for them to be protected
[27:20] for the staff to be protected.
[27:22] And, uh, we sometimes have uh
[27:26] vacancies. And vacation and
[27:28] sick leave and all the things
[27:30] that happen and then it is very
[27:30] disruptive to a person
[27:31] s life
[27:33] to be. You have to stay when
[27:34] you weren
[27:35] t planning to stay
[27:36] for mandatory overtime for an
[27:38] additional shift. Uh, but at
[27:40] the same time, so, so these are
[27:42] very conflicting interest in
[27:44] their real and I know that it
[27:45] is hard to strike a balance,
[27:47] and I appreciate that y
[27:47] all are
[27:50] here today with a balance
[27:51] having been struck again, uh,
[27:52] and I know that you
[27:52] ll continue
[27:53] to work it, but I, I really
[27:54] just didn
[27:54] t want to let this go
[27:56] by without noting. I know how
[27:57] hard this is, and I appreciate
[27:58] the efforts on both sides to
[28:00] come to a place where we can
[28:02] balance all the very real
[28:03] interests here. Thank you, Jim.
[28:07] Thank you, councilmember.
[28:09] Councilmember Mosqueda. Uh,
[28:11] thank you. Uh, just a few
[28:12] questions. The incentives in
[28:14] here are they general fund
[28:15] funded and are they one time or
[28:22] ongoing? So the Uh, Jeff, do
[28:24] you want to answer that messing
[28:24] with my microphone. Yes, they
[28:27] are general fund. And they are
[28:31] uh the term of the overtime. It
[28:32] can be, it goes, it can
[28:33] t go
[28:34] any longer than through the end
[28:36] of the year. So the JANUARY 1st,
[28:40] 2026, and the county can um can
[28:42] suspend the provision any time
[28:45] after JUNE 30th, 2025. It
[28:45] s
[28:47] temporary. Ok. Uh, just a
[28:49] followup, chair. I mean, um, I
[28:52] appreciate that. Overtime is
[28:52] not something that anybody
[28:54] necessarily wants to sign up
[28:56] for, especially given the
[28:57] compounding community and
[28:58] family needs that we have. So
[28:59] over time is usually an
[29:00] incentive for an employer to
[29:01] try to hire more people. Is
[29:04] that part of the goal here that,
[29:06] um, we will be actively working
[29:08] to try to scale up hiring and
[29:11] have we seen an impact on
[29:12] hiring since implementation of
[29:16] these incentives. I
[29:16] m happy to
[29:20] take that question. Um, so we
[29:24] have received, uh, I think
[29:25] positive impacts on juvenile
[29:27] detention officers staffing
[29:28] over the last um several years
[29:30] including into this year with
[29:33] these incentives, um, we in
[29:34] 2022 we
[29:36] re at about 68 juvenile
[29:38] detention officers, and now
[29:38] we
[29:40] re upwards of 95, um, so
[29:40] we
[29:42] ve made substantial
[29:44] improvements and um the
[29:45] staffing numbers and mandatory
[29:48] overtime has actually gone down
[29:48] dramatically since these
[29:51] incentives have been in place,
[29:54] which um is a major benefit
[29:55] both for the employees and for
[29:58] the operation because of the
[29:59] comments that councilmember
[30:03] Balducci made. Thank you.
[30:05] Colleagues, any more questions
[30:06] or comments? COUNCILMAN Baucci,
[30:08] is your hand still up or is
[30:13] that from before? I think that
[30:15] that is. I apologize. I
[30:16] ll take
[30:19] it. No worries. Uh, did you
[30:20] want to make any comments,
[30:24] councilor. Thank you.
[30:25] Cheersahalai. So just real
[30:27] quick, uh, so these are both,
[30:31] uh, Adopting memorandum of
[30:34] agreements, um, with one, the
[30:35] King County juvenile detention
[30:37] Guild, and then 2, the second
[30:40] ordinance, the juvenile
[30:41] division supervisors bargaining
[30:44] unit, and I just want to make a
[30:47] point that, um, for both of
[30:49] those very important uh
[30:50] bargaining units. It
[30:50] s been
[30:53] tough, um, for you, uh, over
[30:57] the last number of years with
[30:59] this uncertainty of whether you
[31:01] uh, was going to close or not.
[31:04] And um this is a a moment for
[31:06] us to, to take a second to just
[31:08] say thank you for the work that
[31:12] you are doing, uh, There and as
[31:14] you know, this council voted 80
[31:17] and a motion to keep the youth
[31:20] jail open to create some
[31:21] predictability and certainty
[31:22] for a lot of different things,
[31:23] our criminal justice system,
[31:25] but also for the employees that
[31:28] work, uh, at that very
[31:30] important facility, uh. We
[31:32] thank you and I thank you for
[31:34] hanging through those tough
[31:36] times and being there to
[31:38] renegotiate and and as part of
[31:39] this, uh, you
[31:40] re, you
[31:40] re
[31:41] incredibly valued in what you
[31:42] do. I
[31:44] m excited to sponsor to
[31:45] speak to these and move these
[31:46] and I
[31:47] d urge my colleagues
[31:48] support in that context. Thank
[31:51] you, MR. Chair. Thank you,
[31:53] councilmember. All right, any
[31:55] final comments or questions,
[31:56] seeing none, I will ask the
[32:01] clerk to call the roll on item
[32:02] 9 proposed ordinance 20250082.
[32:03] Thank you, councilmember
[32:07] Baalucci. I, councilmember
[32:11] Baron, councilmember Demowski.
[32:12] Councilmember Dunn
[32:12] Councilcilmember Mosquedae
[32:15] councilmember Perry. COUNCILMAN
[32:16] B Quinn Council Member von
[32:21] Reichbauer. I Chazahalaye the
[32:22] vote is 8 ayes and
[32:24] councilmember Perry excused. By
[32:28] your vote, we have adopted
[32:29] proposed ordinance 20250082.
[32:31] Moving on to item 10, which is
[32:32] already before us and was
[32:33] already briefed by Jeff. Thank
[32:36] you again, Jeff. Um, clerk,
[32:40] please call the roll on item 10
[32:41] proposed ordinance number
[32:42] 20250083. Thank you,
[32:45] councilmember Balducci. Aye,
[32:47] Council member Baron that
[32:48] s
[32:50] remember Dimowwski
[32:51] councilmember Dunn
[32:51] Counciluncilmember Mosqueda
[32:54] council member Perry,
[32:57] councilmember Quinn
[32:57] Counciluncilmember von
[32:58] Reichbauer, chairs aye. The
[32:59] vote is 8 ayes and
[33:01] councilmember Perry excused. By
[33:05] our vote, we have adopted
[33:06] proposed ordinance 20250083.
[33:10] Moving on to item 11, proposed
[33:12] ordinance number 20250056.2 and
[33:13] ordinance approving EastLink
[33:15] and Downtown Redmond Link
[33:15] Extension Transportation
[33:18] service changes for King County
[33:19] council member Quinn, MAY you
[33:22] please move this item before us.
[33:25] And we propose ordinance
[33:27] 2025-0056. Item is before us,
[33:31] um. Mary, would you like to?
[33:32] Come forward. Thank you so much.
[33:42] Colleagues, would you like a
[33:42] briefing from uh Mary, for
[33:47] those of you who are not in the
[33:47] transportation environment
[33:48] committee, would you like to
[33:50] have this general discussion
[33:51] questions. I think I
[33:53] m seeing a
[33:55] nod for a high-level overview.
[33:58] Thank you. Thank you, Chair
[33:59] Zahalaya I
[34:00] m Mary Burganon from
[34:03] the council staff. So the
[34:04] EastLink service restructure
[34:07] would create 8 new bus routes,
[34:09] revised 14 routes and replaced
[34:11] 20 routes to coordinate with
[34:12] the full opening of Sound
[34:12] Transit
[34:14] s 2 line or the East
[34:16] Link Light rail, which is
[34:19] expected later this year. This,
[34:22] uh, process of developing this
[34:25] service restructure was done in
[34:26] coordination with the council
[34:26] s
[34:28] adopted service guidelines and
[34:30] In particular with the
[34:32] requirements that the council
[34:33] added by amendment when the
[34:35] service guidelines were last
[34:38] adopted to go through a
[34:39] community engagement process
[34:40] that involves setting goals for
[34:42] the restructure and then
[34:43] following specific steps with
[34:45] the community, which occurred
[34:47] over the course of a number of
[34:49] years before it was brought
[34:51] before you. The restructure in
[34:54] front of you also, um, would
[34:55] comply with federal
[34:56] requirements under Title 6 of
[34:59] the 196. For Civil Rights Act
[35:01] and is in conformance with the
[35:03] adopted budget for 2025. Over
[35:07] time, it would add about
[35:11] 160,000 bus service hours in
[35:12] the East King County area. And
[35:14] I will note that the ordinance
[35:17] was amended in committee to add
[35:18] a requirement that Metro report
[35:21] back by the time of the fall
[35:23] 2027 service change on
[35:23] essentially how the restructure
[35:25] is doing. Is it meeting
[35:26] ridership needs and to
[35:27] coordinate with local ju ri s
[35:30] di ction s so that any changes
[35:31] or adjustments can be made as
[35:32] needed. I
[35:33] ll ao note that, uh,
[35:36] in the. Green folder that is in
[35:39] front of you today, there is an
[35:40] amendment proposed by
[35:41] councilmember Baucci that would
[35:43] make a couple of technical
[35:45] corrections to the attachment
[35:46] that describes the routes that
[35:47] are affected with this
[35:49] ordinance. One would just make
[35:51] a, a correction to a map for
[35:53] one of the routes and the other
[35:55] would make a slight correction
[35:56] to nighttime service
[35:57] frequencies for a different
[35:58] route. So with that, I
[35:58] ll stop,
[36:00] see if there are any questions.
[36:02] Thank you so much, Mary. Uh,
[36:04] councilmember Baucci, would you
[36:07] mind moving the Amendment to
[36:08] proposed ordinance number
[36:10] 20250056 and by the way, this
[36:12] is the uh ordinance approving
[36:13] EastLink and Downtown Redmond
[36:14] Link extension. Thank you very
[36:16] much, chair. I move Amendment 1.
[36:17] All right, Amendment 1 is
[36:18] before us. Councilmember
[36:19] Balducci, would you like to
[36:20] speak to both the underlying
[36:22] ordinance and the amendment. Uh,
[36:23] can I just ask if the
[36:23] amendment
[36:26] s been briefed. I
[36:26] m,
[36:29] I was shifting here. So I noted
[36:30] that the amendment would
[36:31] replace the attachment that
[36:33] describes the routes, it would
[36:35] provide an updated route map
[36:36] for Route 221, a route that
[36:37] s
[36:39] proposed to be deleted to
[36:40] reflect the current deviation
[36:41] to Overlake Village station
[36:43] that was implemented last
[36:44] spring when the EastLink
[36:45] starter line opened, and it
[36:47] would correct the frequency
[36:49] table for current service on
[36:50] Route 240 to reflect nighttime
[36:52] frequency. So again, a sort of
[36:52] crossing the t
[36:53] s and dotting
[36:54] the i
[36:54] s, technical corrections
[36:57] to that. Attachment. Great.
[36:59] Thank you. Um, I thank you for,
[37:01] uh, for calling on me, MR.
[37:03] Chair. Um, and I will take this
[37:04] moment even though we
[37:04] re on the
[37:05] amendment to just say a little
[37:08] bit, um, uh, lately I
[37:08] ve been
[37:09] telling people that I feel like
[37:12] my role is to, uh, to tell, uh,
[37:14] what my gamer kid calls the
[37:16] lore, uh, and the lore of this,
[37:17] uh, restructures that it
[37:18] s been
[37:20] going on for quite some time.
[37:22] Uh, councilmember Quinn knows
[37:22] very well how long we
[37:23] ve been
[37:24] working on this restructure. It
[37:26] is possibly the biggest. One
[37:26] that we
[37:27] ve ever done, it
[37:27] s
[37:32] definitely one of the biggest,
[37:33] um, and because East Link
[37:35] itself, the light rail
[37:37] extension has been delayed, uh,
[37:39] we asked, this council asked
[37:41] and Metro agreed to go back and
[37:45] take another look at, uh, the
[37:46] proposal to coordinate buses
[37:47] around the new light rail
[37:49] system and you know, and, and
[37:51] take into account current
[37:52] conditions, ridership, demand
[37:54] patterns, etc. Like we do when
[37:57] we do restructure. And they
[37:58] adjusted some things. Um, I, I
[38:00] want to say, uh, I want to say
[38:02] a word to, uh, MR. W Wisner
[38:02] s
[38:02] comments, which I was listening
[38:04] to. I was listening to all the
[38:07] comments online, um, and I, I
[38:08] mean this will surprise no one.
[38:10] This restructure is not perfect.
[38:12] No restructure is perfect, no
[38:13] best network is perfect. And
[38:15] the nice thing about buses is
[38:17] we can adapt, we can adapt them
[38:18] over time. We can see what
[38:18] s
[38:20] working. We can see where
[38:21] demand is being served. In fact,
[38:22] so much of what we do is we
[38:24] look at crowding and
[38:25] reliability when there
[38:25] s
[38:26] crowding. That means we haven
[38:26] t
[38:27] put enough service to meet the
[38:29] demand in a location. And when
[38:30] buses are unreliable, they
[38:30] re,
[38:32] it tells us something that we
[38:34] have the ability to act upon.
[38:37] Um, one of the things, uh, that
[38:39] I was very, uh, appreciative of
[38:40] was that Metro took a look at
[38:42] some of these long tails that
[38:45] go way out into East King
[38:46] County, providing service, uh,
[38:47] we heard from the gentleman
[38:49] from Cottage Lake in places
[38:50] where there has been scant
[38:51] service, and that
[38:52] s an
[38:54] important thing to do. And we
[38:55] balance that against making
[38:55] sure we
[38:56] re putting enough
[38:56] resource in the places where
[38:58] there is a lot of demand and
[38:59] they attempted to do that and
[39:00] we
[39:02] re going to find out how
[39:03] well that balance was struck
[39:05] and we will find. Out through
[39:06] experiencing it and we, this is
[39:08] not the last time we will touch
[39:10] this bus service. There will be,
[39:12] uh, more openings in the coming
[39:14] years of sound transit stride
[39:16] bus rapid transit on I-405 and
[39:19] I-5 and uh sr 522, we will have
[39:20] opportunities to look back and
[39:23] see, did we hit things right? I
[39:23] guarantee you there will be
[39:25] places where we want to make
[39:25] adjustments and we should. And
[39:26] I think that that
[39:27] s basically
[39:27] what we
[39:28] re hearing, uh, when we
[39:29] hear, uh, input from, from
[39:31] people like MR. W Wisner who is
[39:32] very, very expert in the ways
[39:35] of our bus system. So I am
[39:37] happy to, uh, recommend that we
[39:38] adopt both the amendment, which
[39:40] is in my view, kind of
[39:41] technical. It sort of just
[39:42] conforms what we
[39:42] re adopting to
[39:46] what we said we were doing, um,
[39:47] and the underlying motion
[39:48] because the alternative is to
[39:50] go back to the drawing board
[39:50] and we
[39:51] re running out of time,
[39:52] believe it or not, because the
[39:54] light rail is going to open
[39:56] soon, so, uh, thank you for the
[39:57] opportunity to say a few words,
[39:59] and I, I do recommend support.
[40:00] Thank you so much,
[40:02] councilmember. Uh, let
[40:02] s first
[40:03] begin with the amendment,
[40:06] Amendment. One to proposed
[40:07] ordinance number 20250056.2.
[40:09] Any more questions or comments
[40:10] on the amendment on the
[40:12] amendment. Ok. Uh, the
[40:13] amendment is before us. All
[40:14] those in favor please say aye
[40:17] aye aye. All those opposed
[40:19] amendment one carries now back
[40:22] to the proposed ordinance as
[40:23] amended councilmember Demowski,
[40:25] thank you, Chair Zahala with a
[40:26] question for Mary, um, Mary,
[40:29] this is, uh, kind of the next
[40:31] installment of our grand, I
[40:31] ll
[40:32] call it restructuring of
[40:33] services the light rail spines
[40:37] open. To get away from
[40:39] traditional one seat rides into
[40:40] core employment center, big
[40:42] picture talk and shift the
[40:43] system to feeding the light
[40:45] rail spine and hopefully in the
[40:48] process expand to have more
[40:50] frequent all service extend our
[40:52] range and into the mornings and
[40:53] late nights and weekends.
[40:53] That
[40:54] s a big picture of kind of
[40:55] what we
[40:57] re doing. We did this
[40:59] with Lynnwood Link. Does this
[41:00] restructure add additional
[41:02] service hours into the service
[41:05] area. So council member, what
[41:07] this restructure will do is
[41:08] over the course of about a year
[41:11] or so at about 160,000 service
[41:12] hours now, as you
[41:13] ll recall
[41:16] from 2023 and the council
[41:18] service recovery Plan that is
[41:19] largely the amount of hours
[41:21] that had been reduced during
[41:22] the pandemic. So it
[41:22] s, it
[41:23] s
[41:24] sort of, you know, saying we
[41:25] re
[41:25] going to restructure the
[41:27] service in a way that meets the
[41:29] needs of tomorrow with that, uh,
[41:32] new, uh, light rail line
[41:33] opening and bring that service.
[41:36] Back in through this
[41:37] restructure and uh the last big
[41:38] one that we did, which
[41:39] Councilor Bellucci, I don
[41:39] t
[41:40] know which one is bigger than
[41:43] this one or the Lynnwood Lake,
[41:43] but they
[41:45] re competing for very,
[41:47] very serious researchers in
[41:48] that I, I confessed or maybe it
[41:50] was prior iteration to some
[41:51] frustration and that there was
[41:53] a reduction of service hours,
[41:54] largely from the Route 41, we
[41:56] did not bring, keep those in
[41:57] the area. You
[41:57] re nodding yes,
[42:01] Mary. Well, so with the Route
[42:03] 41 and the Northgate
[42:04] restructure of years ago and
[42:06] that was something that the
[42:07] council did debate at some
[42:08] length when the service
[42:10] guidelines were last adopted in
[42:13] 2021, the decision was made to
[42:15] disperse those hours because in
[42:18] that case, that route
[42:19] specifically followed the route
[42:20] that the light rail was taking.
[42:22] So, you know, a little bit
[42:24] different situation and was
[42:25] then adopted in policy by the
[42:27] council of how that kind of
[42:29] service hour would be treated.
[42:29] And there
[42:32] s not a similar case,
[42:33] um, with this restructure
[42:35] because there aren
[42:36] t routes
[42:37] that parallel well we have the
[42:40] I-90. Route that used to come
[42:41] from South Bellevue Park and
[42:41] Ride into downtown. Yeah,
[42:42] there
[42:43] s some, there are some
[42:44] sound transit routes that will
[42:45] be affected, but those aren
[42:46] t
[42:47] subject to this particular
[42:48] ordinance. I just wanted to
[42:50] take a moment to say I think
[42:51] there was, I know that was a
[42:53] distinction there, but there
[42:56] was a reduction of hours in a
[42:58] very transit heavy and high
[42:59] transit use community North
[43:01] Seattle, to be specific, where
[43:02] we reduced service hours and
[43:04] they were sent out into the
[43:04] system. I
[43:06] m not sure they ever
[43:07] really got deployed. If they
[43:07] did, I don
[43:07] t know where, where
[43:10] they went. But on behalf of the
[43:11] constituents I represent who
[43:13] are thirsty for more transit.
[43:14] There was, there
[43:14] s some
[43:16] frustration, uh, there and we
[43:17] all want more more transit, but
[43:18] I didn
[43:19] t want this to go by,
[43:20] and this is not picking at all
[43:23] on this restructure, you know,
[43:24] I think we are working very
[43:26] hard to make our system work
[43:28] and work in partnership with
[43:29] Sound Transit, um, but I wanted
[43:31] to raise the flag for folks in
[43:33] my community who still are, you
[43:35] know, buses that used to come
[43:36] in certain places don
[43:37] t and no
[43:38] restructure is perfect, I think.
[43:41] Or do Uh, and just plant the
[43:42] flag a little bit, mayor, I
[43:42] m
[43:43] not asking you to comment on
[43:44] that. That
[43:46] s more of a kind of
[43:47] a I can councilmember, if you
[43:49] want to just make one comment,
[43:50] which is in, again, in the
[43:51] areas that you
[43:52] re referring to
[43:53] for the Northgate and then to
[43:55] some extent for the Lynnwood
[43:57] restructure. One of the issues
[43:59] that I know that transit riders
[44:01] in that area experienced during
[44:03] the pandemic years is that the
[44:06] Seattle Transit measure, which
[44:09] had funded until 2020, about
[44:10] 350,000 additional service
[44:12] hours within the city of
[44:13] Seattle that the city of
[44:16] Seattle was paying Metro to
[44:18] provide when that measure was
[44:21] reauthorized by the voters in
[44:23] late 2020, had a smaller
[44:25] funding source and more
[44:27] priorities. So it funds
[44:28] currently about half of the
[44:30] service hours it used to fund.
[44:33] So I know that 4 people in
[44:34] Seattle, there has been a
[44:36] change in the amount of transit
[44:37] service that is available
[44:38] simply because of how much the
[44:39] city of Seattle is or is not
[44:42] funded. Through its transit
[44:43] funding measure that is a good
[44:44] reminder and then I
[44:44] ll I
[44:45] ll
[44:46] finally add my additional
[44:47] appreciation to, uh, MR. W
[44:50] Wisner, who is a frequent
[44:52] correspondent with great detail
[44:55] and uh I, I do read them, uh,
[44:56] it
[44:57] s educational and I think
[44:59] that on occasion we have been
[45:00] able to make suggested
[45:01] adjustments to routes, but it
[45:04] is hard to um manage a
[45:05] restructure at the council
[45:08] level after a long process and
[45:10] so I agree with my colleague.
[45:11] League counselor Balucci in
[45:13] whose district is primarily is
[45:14] that we should give this a go
[45:16] and see how it works and fine
[45:18] tune as needed. Thank you very
[45:19] much for the opportunity to
[45:21] engage a little bit here, chair.
[45:22] Thank you, councilmember.
[45:23] Colleagues, any more questions
[45:27] or comments? Council member
[45:29] Balucci just would be, uh,
[45:30] neglectful to not call out the
[45:32] team here. I, I don
[45:32] t think you
[45:34] could count how many hours they
[45:35] put into this restructure. How
[45:37] many meetings they held with
[45:39] various council members, uh,
[45:41] certainly with my office, uh,
[45:42] they
[45:44] ve been very responsive,
[45:46] very analytical, very, um,
[45:47] really trying to balance all
[45:49] the needs of this very complex
[45:52] system and make it work well
[45:53] for everyone, and I just want
[45:54] to remind those following along,
[45:56] this is fundamentally a good
[45:57] news item. What we
[45:58] re doing
[45:59] here is we are trying to make
[46:01] our bus system work the best it
[46:03] can around a major new
[46:04] investment in high capacity
[46:05] transit, which is the light
[46:06] rail system that will be
[46:07] opening up to East King County
[46:10] in a few months. So, um, Thank
[46:11] you for that. Thank you, Metro
[46:12] folks. Thank you to everybody
[46:13] who worked on this, and I look
[46:14] forward to writing it and
[46:16] figuring out how my world will
[46:18] change, which, uh, which will
[46:20] happen soon. Thank you. Thank
[46:21] you so much. Yes, thank you so
[46:22] much to the Metro team. Thank
[46:24] you so much, Mary. Great work,
[46:26] uh, clerk, MAY you please call
[46:30] the roll on proposed ordinance
[46:31] 20250056.2 as amended. Thank
[46:32] you, councilmember I
[46:33] ll excuse
[46:36] me, Counciluncilmember Baucci.
[46:37] Councilcilmember Baron
[46:38] councilmember Dimowwski,
[46:41] councilmember Dunn. Aye. That
[46:41] s
[46:42] Moscara Iye Councilcilmember
[46:45] Perry, councilmember Quinn. Ie
[46:48] council member von Reichbauer,
[46:50] Chasahaye the vote is 8 ayes
[46:51] and councilmember Perry excused.
[46:54] By our vote, we have adopted
[46:56] proposed ordinance 20250056 as
[46:58] amended. Moving on to the
[46:59] another consent agenda. We have
[47:01] councilmember Dunn to make a
[47:03] request, uh, would request the
[47:05] chair if possible to remove
[47:07] item 17 from the consent agenda
[47:09] just so we can focus on it.
[47:11] Item 17 has been removed from
[47:12] the consent agenda. Vice Chair
[47:14] Dunn, MAY you please move
[47:15] consent agenda items 12 through
[47:22] 16 and 18. Move consent agenda
[47:25] items 12 through 1616 and also
[47:27] item 18. Those consent agenda
[47:28] items are before us. Clerk,
[47:31] please call the roll. Thank you,
[47:33] councilmember Bal Ducie
[47:36] councilmember Baron Council
[47:38] Member Dimowski councilmember
[47:41] Dunn council member Moscara
[47:43] councilmember Perry
[47:44] councilmember Quinn
[47:44] councilmember von Reichbauer
[47:46] Charaahalay. The vote is 8, aye
[47:46] and councilmember Perry excused.
[47:50] By our vote, we have adopted
[47:53] proposed motions 2024 0362 and
[48:08] 0363 as to public
[48:09] transportation requesting the
[48:11] executive to engage in a task
[48:13] force on transit safety and
[48:14] security to address public
[48:15] safety on transit in the
[48:17] communities in which Metro
[48:18] transit Department operates
[48:19] councilmember Dunn, MAY you
[48:21] please put the item before us.
[48:23] Move item 17 proposed
[48:26] substitute number 2025 0020. 17
[48:27] is before us, councilmember
[48:29] Dunn to speak to it. Thanks
[48:30] very much and just a reminder
[48:31] to my colleagues this past
[48:32] unanimously out of Allen was on
[48:33] today
[48:33] s consent agenda. I
[48:34] pulled it off just because I
[48:35] think it
[48:35] s important enough for
[48:36] us to flag it and talk about it.
[48:40] This really is is really in
[48:42] spirit, intent, and function
[48:45] led by atu and they deserve our
[48:47] thanks for their work on this
[48:47] and they
[48:49] re continuing, uh,
[48:50] coordination and fight to
[48:51] represent transit operators and
[48:54] to keep them in the entire
[48:55] system running safely. This
[48:58] safety task force is joint
[49:00] effort of local government, law
[49:02] enforcement agencies, uh,
[49:04] transit partners, uh, and of
[49:07] course being led by atu 587
[49:07] involves the King County
[49:10] council, the ex. Metro, uh, to
[49:12] address public safety and
[49:14] transit in the communities in
[49:16] which Metro transit, uh,
[49:18] operates. Um, it is, uh, was
[49:21] requested initially, uh, by atu
[49:23] to establish a task force on
[49:25] transit safety and security,
[49:27] and it would bring together the
[49:29] following groups to really, I
[49:30] think, seriously, take a good
[49:34] hard look at how we will work
[49:37] to make safety a top priority
[49:37] and continuing to improve
[49:40] safety. And that, and that
[49:41] includes atu 587 frontline
[49:43] transit operators, the King
[49:45] County Sheriff, the general, uh,
[49:48] gm of Metro Transit, director
[49:49] of dchs, some local elected
[49:51] leaders, local law enforcement,
[49:54] the ceo of Sound Transit,
[49:56] Transit Riders organizations,
[49:59] and others as necessary. The
[50:00] task force will work to develop
[50:03] a plan that will address the
[50:04] following things, improvements
[50:07] to operating a safety on Metro
[50:09] transit buses and the barriers
[50:10] and barriers for operators. I
[50:13] think, I think both probably
[50:14] literally and figuratively, um,
[50:16] strategies that hold transit
[50:17] passengers and others at bus
[50:19] stops and transit centers
[50:21] accountable for require for
[50:23] required conduct on the buses
[50:25] and around those areas
[50:26] interagency coordination and
[50:28] shared responsibilities with
[50:30] the jurisdictions with the
[50:32] Metro Transit Department
[50:32] operates coordination with
[50:34] communities and with transit
[50:35] riders and their safety and
[50:37] other issues is the task force
[50:37] kind of comes along and
[50:39] identifies. Which I think we
[50:40] should be open to moving
[50:42] forward. And then I asked the
[50:43] executive to come back and give
[50:44] us a briefing no later than
[50:46] SEPTEMBER 30th of this year. I
[50:48] want to thank Councilor Mayor
[50:49] Balducci for her leadership on
[50:53] this, um, and also atu
[50:54] PRESIDENT Greg Woodfield and
[50:55] his team for their leadership
[50:57] as well on this. I know we
[50:58] re
[50:59] just getting started, community
[51:00] safety, whether it
[51:00] s on our
[51:02] buses or some other part of the
[51:02] community. It
[51:04] s not like you,
[51:05] you have a meeting or a task
[51:07] force, it gets done and
[51:07] everybody
[51:09] s safe forevermore.
[51:10] These things evolve and modify
[51:12] over time and so you have to
[51:13] keep coming back and looking at
[51:15] it and making it better and
[51:16] making improvements and
[51:18] adapting to local and changed
[51:19] conditions including things
[51:21] like crime rates, um, and so we
[51:22] got to do this. I
[51:23] ve never seen.
[51:28] A more serious intense focus on
[51:29] transit operators
[51:29] safety and
[51:31] rider safety that I
[51:32] m seeing
[51:35] right now. Sadly, in part
[51:38] because of the recent tragedies,
[51:40] uh, but sometimes that forces a
[51:43] policy body to to to work to
[51:45] Make change and, and that is a
[51:47] good thing in my opinion to be
[51:48] able to make change, so i
[51:49] d
[51:50] urge my colleagues
[51:50] support.
[51:50] I
[51:51] ve had a couple of requests
[51:53] from some other council members
[51:54] to add on or sign on as
[51:55] co-sponsor. I
[51:55] d ask the clerk
[51:57] perhaps to pass on a
[51:59] co-sponsors sheet so that
[52:00] members can join. I
[52:01] d urge your
[52:02] support and any reflections you
[52:03] have on the legislation. Thank
[52:09] you. Councilmember anyone? Any
[52:10] comments or questions?
[52:11] Councilor Baucci. Thank you. No,
[52:13] I, I, I think councilmember
[52:15] Dunn put it quite well, and I
[52:16] really appreciate him, uh,
[52:18] stepping up to take the
[52:20] laboring or to introduce this
[52:22] piece of legislation and to do
[52:24] the work, um, it does start
[52:26] with a statement of commitment
[52:27] any change starts with a
[52:28] statement of commitment and
[52:28] it
[52:30] s very important that this
[52:31] body lean in and state our
[52:33] commitment, uh, we are the
[52:34] policymaking body for this
[52:36] county. We are the, we have the
[52:37] power of the purse for this
[52:39] county and so, uh, it is super
[52:41] important that we make it known
[52:42] when we make something.
[52:44] Priority, uh, I want to
[52:46] acknowledge MR. Renner
[52:47] s very
[52:49] consistent advocacy, uh, for
[52:52] change and for change that will
[52:53] improve uh fair collection,
[52:55] improved safety on our systems.
[52:58] Uh, I expect you will continue
[52:59] to advocate with us for those
[53:00] things, and I think it
[53:00] s
[53:02] important that we do have an
[53:02] impact and that
[53:03] s what the goal
[53:06] of this work is ultimately it
[53:07] is about getting together with
[53:10] uh in you know in support of
[53:11] atu 587
[53:12] s leadership. With all
[53:14] of our colleagues and partners
[53:16] in the cities, uh, and various
[53:18] police agencies and all the
[53:20] organizations that have a role
[53:23] here to figure out how we make
[53:25] things safer and better, uh, as
[53:25] I
[53:26] ve said many times, we have a
[53:27] lot of goals, a lot of policy
[53:30] goals with our transit system,
[53:31] including connecting people to
[53:33] opportunity and education and
[53:35] housing, uh, a climate and
[53:37] sustainability goals for having
[53:39] a clean and green, uh,
[53:40] transportation system and we
[53:41] can
[53:41] t achieve any of these goal.
[53:43] Our mobility goals, our
[53:46] economic goals are our equity
[53:47] goals, our environmental goals,
[53:49] unless people ride the system
[53:50] and they will not write it if
[53:50] they don
[53:51] t feel safe, and we
[53:53] have to make a safe system for
[53:54] our employees who are out there
[53:56] every single day all day making
[53:57] the system work, including the
[53:59] bus I just came in on, so I
[53:59] m
[54:00] very happy to be a co-sponsor
[54:02] and to uh to partner in this
[54:03] work and make sure it means
[54:04] something, make sure it has
[54:08] results in the end. Thank you,
[54:09] council member councilmember
[54:10] Baron. Thank you, chair. Well,
[54:11] I just want to um extend my
[54:12] appreci. I can
[54:13] t remember
[54:14] council members Dunn and Baduci
[54:15] for bringing this measure
[54:18] forward, uh, but particularly,
[54:20] um, my appreciation to uh the
[54:21] atu leadership who actually
[54:22] started this conversation, this
[54:24] call for us to have this
[54:26] regional uh conversation on
[54:28] safety on our metro system. Um,
[54:30] I also just wanted to point out,
[54:32] I, I think folks know this, but
[54:33] uh there MAY be some
[54:35] limitations on how many of us
[54:37] want to partic uh are able to
[54:38] participate in the actual
[54:39] conversation just because of
[54:40] our, our requirements with the
[54:42] Open Meetings Act. Uh, but I
[54:43] wanted to convey to make sure
[54:44] that all of you that even those
[54:46] of us who MAY not get to
[54:47] actually physically be in the
[54:48] conversation at the same time,
[54:48] we
[54:49] re going to be monitoring
[54:51] this very closely, uh, and so
[54:51] there
[54:52] s, I think there
[54:52] s a
[54:53] shared commitment that you see
[54:54] through this legislation that
[54:56] all of us are here going to be
[54:57] monitoring this and even if
[54:57] we
[54:58] re not physically being able
[55:00] to be part of that conversation
[55:01] with all of you. We
[55:02] re gonna be
[55:04] monitoring very closely the
[55:05] results and, and have uh you
[55:06] have our commitment to make
[55:08] sure that we act on, on, on
[55:09] recommendations that come out
[55:11] of that that uh regional
[55:12] conversation so. Thank you for
[55:13] your work on that and uh I look
[55:15] forward to supporting this
[55:16] legislation. Thank you, council
[55:18] member von Reichbauer. Uh,
[55:20] first of all, I think the
[55:21] previous speakers for their
[55:24] comments. As I said at the
[55:26] incident at the when this issue
[55:28] first happened, if our drivers
[55:28] don
[55:29] t feel safe, how can our
[55:32] passengers? Very simple. That
[55:32] s
[55:34] all I want to say. Thank you so
[55:36] much, councilmember.
[55:39] Councilmember Moscada. Uh,
[55:41] thank you very much, MR. Chair.
[55:42] Uh, first, I want to thank
[55:44] members of the atu family
[55:45] who
[55:46] ve come here today and
[55:46] who
[55:47] ve come here almost every
[55:49] single meeting since this
[55:50] tragic incident happened. Uh,
[55:51] thank you for voicing your
[55:53] support and more importantly,
[55:54] demanding this, um, as my
[55:57] colleague just noted, this was
[55:59] your idea. You created it and
[56:00] we are here to support and
[56:02] follow your lead, but we have
[56:03] to do so with urgency. I think
[56:04] we
[56:05] ve heard that from you,
[56:05] we
[56:07] ve heard that from members
[56:08] of the public, and I think what
[56:08] you
[56:09] re hearing from this
[56:09] council. And what we
[56:10] ve heard
[56:12] from Metro in the previous
[56:14] testimony is there has to be a
[56:15] change. There cannot be the
[56:16] status quo. This can
[56:16] t be
[56:20] business as usual. We cannot
[56:23] have another tragic murder and
[56:25] I want you to know that we see
[56:28] your power here today, and we
[56:30] see that Shan Yim is resting in
[56:32] power with this bill coming
[56:34] into action. We stand here
[56:37] together with you to demand uh
[56:38] a change in process investments,
[56:43] and protections. And we stand
[56:45] with you in the call for making
[56:47] sure that both writers and
[56:48] operators are safe, as my
[56:50] colleagues have said. MR.
[56:53] PRESIDENT and members of atu
[56:54] members of the community, we
[56:55] hear you and we stand with you
[56:57] and this call to action. Thank
[56:59] you very much to the sponsors
[57:01] for your quick work as well to
[57:03] Metro for your quick work to
[57:04] implement some items already
[57:05] and we look forward to
[57:06] furthering that with urgency.
[57:08] Thank you again to the sponsors,
[57:09] and I will absolutely take you
[57:10] up on the offer to add my name
[57:11] to this today. I
[57:12] d love to be a
[57:14] sponsor. Thank you. Thank you
[57:17] so much, councilmember.
[57:17] Councilmember Demowski, thank
[57:20] you very much and uh I want to
[57:22] co-sign the statements of the
[57:24] previous speakers as the young
[57:26] and sage chair chairsay, um,
[57:26] I
[57:28] ve joined as a co-sponsor as
[57:29] well and I appreciate
[57:30] councilmember Dunn
[57:30] s
[57:31] willingness to an invitation to
[57:32] invite colleagues to sign on as
[57:34] co-sponsor and thank him for
[57:35] his work and picking up the
[57:37] suggestion from the leadership
[57:40] of atu, uh, when I chaired the
[57:41] transportation economy
[57:42] Environment Committee, we had a
[57:43] number of hearings on this
[57:45] growing issue to try. Highlight
[57:46] and surface the concerns that
[57:49] were being raised, uh, some of
[57:50] the very tragic public, uh,
[57:52] violence that has occurred on
[57:54] our system has prompted a lot
[57:56] of my regular constituent
[57:57] transit system riders to reach
[58:00] out and say they too are seeing
[58:02] these incidents on their
[58:03] experience and frankly it
[58:04] s led
[58:05] them to having changes in
[58:07] behavior, whether they stop
[58:08] writing the system or they stop
[58:10] writing parts of the system or
[58:11] stop writing it during certain
[58:13] times of day or don
[58:13] t let their
[58:14] children ride it to get. And
[58:17] from school. This is real for
[58:20] our constituents and and riders
[58:21] and uh councilmemb Baucci
[58:21] s
[58:22] remarks about if you want folks
[58:24] to write at the beginning and
[58:26] the end is safety. That
[58:26] s just
[58:30] a predicate, a foundational uh
[58:31] value and, and principle in
[58:33] terms of how we ought to
[58:34] operate the system. I really
[58:36] like this approach in that uh
[58:38] one of the things I believe in
[58:39] is uh don
[58:39] t judge someone or
[58:40] tell someone what to do until
[58:40] you
[58:42] ve walked a mile in their
[58:43] shoes, and in this case our
[58:45] driver. Are driving mile after
[58:46] mile after mile, and they know
[58:49] best. I really do believe that
[58:51] our operators of our system who
[58:54] are in the field every day
[58:54] running it ought to have the
[58:57] worst. The loudest voice, the
[58:59] voice that we listened to, uh,
[59:00] the most, and I if we
[59:01] re being
[59:03] candid, I do believe that
[59:04] perhaps that voice wasn
[59:04] t heard
[59:06] in some reforms that have
[59:08] occurred in recent years, some
[59:10] changes that we made, uh, I
[59:10] m
[59:11] just being very candid here,
[59:12] and I think that this task
[59:14] force, this group ought to take
[59:16] a look at the state of our
[59:18] rules of our ride right rules,
[59:18] and don
[59:20] t be shy. Don
[59:21] t hold
[59:22] back about what changes ought
[59:26] to be made. Come forward, tell
[59:29] us in plain English. What needs
[59:32] to be done. You will be
[59:34] listened to. The report
[59:35] s gonna
[59:36] come back by SEPTEMBER 30th.
[59:37] That timing is important. I
[59:37] ve
[59:39] now got a different hat on
[59:41] budget share. We will not put a
[59:44] price on safety. Ok, let me say
[59:46] it again, we will not put a
[59:49] price on safety. We will fund
[59:50] the necessary improvements to
[59:53] our system to ensure that it is
[59:54] safe as possible. That
[59:54] s my
[59:55] commitment as budget chair here
[59:57] at the council. We have the
[59:58] resources and we
[59:58] ll bring more.
[59:59] We
[1:00:00] re working with PRESIDENT
[1:00:03] Woodville on proposal to bring
[1:00:05] more capacity for dollars and
[1:00:06] uh and an answer that we can
[1:00:06] t
[1:00:08] afford it will not be the
[1:00:09] answer. So I look forward to
[1:00:11] this work. I like the
[1:00:12] flexibility in the language to
[1:00:13] bring forward and bring on
[1:00:15] board. The people here, um,
[1:00:17] that, that have knowledge and I
[1:00:19] just want to say from this
[1:00:19] council member
[1:00:20] s perspective,
[1:00:21] the recommendations will be
[1:00:25] acted upon. Promptly, and they
[1:00:26] will be funded fully. Thank you,
[1:00:28] MR. Chair. Thank you so much,
[1:00:31] councilmember. Councilmember
[1:00:34] Dunn to close. Woo Well, I
[1:00:37] pulled that off consent. I
[1:00:37] m
[1:00:38] telling you. I, I think
[1:00:41] everyone said it right and just
[1:00:43] come up with good sound
[1:00:44] recommendations and their
[1:00:45] chances of implication are very,
[1:00:46] very high, and we
[1:00:48] ll keep our
[1:00:49] buses safer moving forward. I
[1:00:50] just want to say something real
[1:00:52] quick. I, I really appreciate
[1:00:54] the metro transit. Handle this
[1:00:56] a lot of times and we try and
[1:00:57] do a task force involving an
[1:00:59] agency, we get a lot of
[1:01:02] pushback and screaming. And
[1:01:03] they welcomed it right away,
[1:01:05] which is the wise thing to do
[1:01:07] and also the right way to
[1:01:08] effect change. Let
[1:01:09] s not forget
[1:01:11] that it was just a few short
[1:01:15] years ago where Metro was the
[1:01:16] outstanding transit agency of
[1:01:17] the United States or North
[1:01:19] America it might have been is
[1:01:20] the best. We got to keep it, I
[1:01:22] got to keep it that way and,
[1:01:23] and one of the key things we
[1:01:26] can do is, is keep it safe. So
[1:01:27] thanks for my colleague
[1:01:27] s
[1:01:28] support. Thank you, MR. Chair.
[1:01:30] Thank you so much,
[1:01:31] councilmember. Uh, clerk.
[1:01:32] Please call the roll on
[1:01:36] proposed substitute motion
[1:01:38] number 20250020.2. Thank you,
[1:01:40] councilmember Bellucci.
[1:01:42] Counciluncilmember Baron
[1:01:44] Council memberber Demowwski
[1:01:45] councilmember Dunn.Ye
[1:01:46] councilmember Mosquerae
[1:01:48] Councilcilmember Perry,
[1:01:49] councilmember Quinn council
[1:01:52] member von Reichbauer.
[1:01:54] Theresahaye the final vote is 8
[1:01:55] ayes and councilmember Perry
[1:01:58] excused. Fantastic by our vote
[1:02:02] we have adopted proposed
[1:02:03] substitute motion 20,250,020.
[1:02:05] Thank you so much again to our
[1:02:07] atu family to Metro Transit, we
[1:02:09] know that you have been up late
[1:02:12] night, burning the midnight
[1:02:13] candle every single day since
[1:02:15] the tragic murder of Shan Yim
[1:02:18] working on this, organizing
[1:02:21] funerals and rallies and
[1:02:22] legislative action and you have
[1:02:25] a council full of allies here
[1:02:25] and congratulations on passing
[1:02:26] this task force. Successfully.
[1:02:31] Thank you. All right, moving on
[1:02:35] to item 19, uh, proposed motion
[1:02:37] number 20250058. Uh,
[1:02:38] councilmember Quinn, MAY you
[1:02:42] please move this item before us.
[1:02:46] I proposed 2025-0058. Item 19
[1:02:50] is before us, um. We have Mary,
[1:02:54] do you want to come back, Mary
[1:02:56] Burganon can speak to it as
[1:02:58] well um, councilmember Quinn to
[1:03:00] open it, open discussion, yeah,
[1:03:03] so the proposed motion
[1:03:05] 2025-0058 would ask Metro to
[1:03:06] report on unplanned trip
[1:03:09] cancellations. Um, Metro
[1:03:11] already already reports on, uh,
[1:03:12] schedule reliability, um, when
[1:03:16] a bus is running late, um, but
[1:03:18] Metro does not provide public
[1:03:20] reporting on unplanned trip
[1:03:22] cancellations which occur when
[1:03:23] a bus trip does not happen at
[1:03:28] all. So the motion before us
[1:03:30] today would ask Metro, uh, to,
[1:03:33] to add information on the
[1:03:34] unplanned shrimp constellation,
[1:03:37] um, to its annual system
[1:03:39] evaluation report, uh, to
[1:03:40] provide a real-time information
[1:03:42] to transit riders. Um, and to
[1:03:45] brief the council on how Trump
[1:03:48] calculation information will be
[1:03:50] incorporated into Metro service
[1:03:51] guidelines, um, when they are
[1:03:53] next updated, um, and the
[1:03:56] motion was drafted by my
[1:03:57] colleague COUNCILMAN Baduci, um,
[1:03:58] and I would just ask Mary, did
[1:04:02] I get any of that wrong? Thank
[1:04:03] you. This again is Mary Burgen.
[1:04:03] I
[1:04:05] m from the council staff and,
[1:04:06] uh, councilmember Quinn, you
[1:04:10] described it well. This is, uh,
[1:04:11] really about Metro reporting to
[1:04:13] the public and providing more
[1:04:14] real-time information to the
[1:04:15] public about when unplanned
[1:04:17] trip cancellations happen. I
[1:04:19] will note that in your packets
[1:04:21] today in the green folder,
[1:04:23] there is an amendment that
[1:04:24] councilmember Perry had
[1:04:25] discussed the intention of
[1:04:25] providing during the tree
[1:04:27] committee. I know she
[1:04:27] s not
[1:04:28] here today, so I don
[1:04:30] t know if,
[1:04:31] um, anyone else would be moving
[1:04:32] that, uh, amendment on her
[1:04:33] behalf. And if you
[1:04:34] d like that
[1:04:38] briefed or not. Uh, I think
[1:04:39] there
[1:04:39] s a request for a
[1:04:44] briefing. Thank you. Ok, so
[1:04:45] Amendment one would add on to
[1:04:46] the reporting requests made in
[1:04:48] this motion to do two things.
[1:04:51] First, in the 2025 system
[1:04:52] evaluation in which Metro is
[1:04:54] asked to report an unplanned
[1:04:56] trip cancellations. It would
[1:04:58] ask Metro to include data about
[1:05:00] the the impact of trip
[1:05:02] cancellations on transit riders,
[1:05:03] and then second, in the
[1:05:04] upcoming briefings that the
[1:05:06] general manager would be
[1:05:07] providing to the tree committee,
[1:05:10] it would ask the gm to provide
[1:05:11] information about how Metro
[1:05:11] s
[1:05:14] performance relate to trip
[1:05:15] cancellations compares with
[1:05:19] peer transit agencies. Great,
[1:05:20] thank you. Is that Amendment
[1:05:24] one? Ok. Uh, any questions or
[1:05:28] comments on Amendment one? Uh,
[1:05:29] MAY uh COUNCILMAN Baucci, could
[1:05:30] you put Amendment one before us.
[1:05:32] I move approval of Amendment 1.
[1:05:34] Amendment 1 is before us. All
[1:05:35] those in favor please say aye
[1:05:37] aye aye. All those opposed.
[1:05:39] Amendment one carries. Are
[1:05:41] there any more amendments? No?
[1:05:44] Ok. All right, uh, underlying
[1:05:46] motion as amended. Do we have
[1:05:48] any questions or comments?
[1:05:50] Councilmember Balducci, thanks
[1:05:52] just to uh just to for the
[1:05:55] record, um, uh, this item, this
[1:05:56] idea came up, uh, when we were
[1:05:59] having a review of Metro
[1:05:59] s 2024
[1:05:59] service report it
[1:06:00] s a regular
[1:06:01] report, lots of great data
[1:06:02] about what
[1:06:02] s going on with the
[1:06:07] bus system, uh, each year, and,
[1:06:08] um, this question of unplanned
[1:06:11] trips, colloquial and
[1:06:12] colloquially known as a ghost
[1:06:15] Busses, uh, on unplanned trip
[1:06:17] cancellations, uh, came up and
[1:06:20] I just. Wanted to underscore as
[1:06:21] a writer, anybody who rides,
[1:06:24] and I know many of us do, um,
[1:06:24] there
[1:06:26] s I, I think possibly the
[1:06:28] most frustrating thing that can
[1:06:28] happen is you
[1:06:29] re waiting for a
[1:06:31] bus you see on your app that
[1:06:31] it
[1:06:32] s coming, it
[1:06:32] s coming, it
[1:06:32] s
[1:06:34] coming, and then you see that
[1:06:34] it left and you
[1:06:35] re like, no, it
[1:06:35] didn
[1:06:36] t. I was standing right
[1:06:40] here and it did not go by, um,
[1:06:41] possibly exceeded only by buses
[1:06:42] that go by early and, uh, by
[1:06:44] the way, Metro handles those
[1:06:45] really, really well. I think
[1:06:46] they, they managed, they,
[1:06:46] they
[1:06:47] ve trained people not to
[1:06:49] be early. Um, and, and it
[1:06:49] s the
[1:06:50] same frustration. It
[1:06:50] s I
[1:06:51] ve
[1:06:53] relied on the system. I have
[1:06:54] somewhere to be. I thought I
[1:06:56] knew when I was gonna get there
[1:06:56] and now I don
[1:06:57] t know when I
[1:06:57] m
[1:06:59] going to get there, uh, and it
[1:07:00] can be dark, it can be rainy,
[1:07:01] it can be for, you know, for a
[1:07:03] lot of reasons it can be very
[1:07:05] inconvenient and it can cause
[1:07:06] people to choose to take a
[1:07:08] different mode the next time
[1:07:11] they take a trip and so I think
[1:07:12] that the idea of shining a
[1:07:14] light on this, making sure we
[1:07:16] have good data about what
[1:07:16] s
[1:07:17] going on and following up and
[1:07:18] making sure that. We are
[1:07:20] communicating with our third
[1:07:22] party app providers so that the
[1:07:24] buses that are out there are
[1:07:25] accurately reflected on One Bus
[1:07:26] Away and Google Maps and all
[1:07:28] the things that people use in
[1:07:30] order to uh really improve
[1:07:30] their uh knowledge of what
[1:07:31] s
[1:07:32] going on in the system and
[1:07:34] their ability to plan their
[1:07:36] trips and so I think this is
[1:07:37] very important we
[1:07:38] re
[1:07:38] daylighting information and it
[1:07:40] will help us to make better, uh,
[1:07:42] policy decisions in the future
[1:07:43] and to make sure that our
[1:07:44] system is all it can be. It
[1:07:44] s
[1:07:46] been a theme, actually of this
[1:07:47] meeting here today is making
[1:07:48] our bus system everything that
[1:07:49] it. Can be, uh, I wanted to say
[1:07:51] a word of thanks to
[1:07:52] councilmember Perry and her
[1:07:54] staff. Uh, they, uh, Councilor
[1:07:56] Perry came up with the concept
[1:07:58] of what became Amendment one in
[1:07:59] the committee meeting, uh, and
[1:08:01] then took the time between then
[1:08:03] and now to really make sure it
[1:08:04] was, uh, solidified and written
[1:08:07] down in a way that, um, that,
[1:08:08] that dovetails very well with
[1:08:09] the intent of this motion. I
[1:08:10] was happy to support it, so I
[1:08:14] urge your support of the
[1:08:15] underlying uh proposed motion.
[1:08:17] Thank you, council member. Any
[1:08:18] more questions or comments?
[1:08:19] Counciluncil member brought on.
[1:08:22] Thank you, Chair. Um, well, I
[1:08:22] m
[1:08:23] pleased to co-sponsor this
[1:08:24] motion with Councilor Ba Duchin.
[1:08:26] I appreciate her leadership for
[1:08:28] bringing forward and I think
[1:08:28] it
[1:08:29] s important to recognize
[1:08:30] that, you know, there
[1:08:30] s a lot
[1:08:32] of good work and Metro
[1:08:32] s doing
[1:08:33] a very good work and has done
[1:08:35] work with this council to make
[1:08:36] sure that we increase our
[1:08:37] reliability, so this is an
[1:08:41] effort to just improve, uh,
[1:08:42] information and transparency,
[1:08:43] uh, and I think to your point,
[1:08:44] Castleber Balducci actually had
[1:08:46] a constituent meeting this past
[1:08:48] week and one of my constituents
[1:08:48] specifically raised this issue
[1:08:49] and I was kind of. To be able
[1:08:50] to say like we
[1:08:50] re actually
[1:08:52] working on that on Tuesday, uh,
[1:08:53] because she expressed that
[1:08:54] frustration of, of, of, of not
[1:08:57] having the bus here and and I
[1:08:57] think it
[1:08:58] s important for us to
[1:09:01] do everything we can to make
[1:09:02] our system as reliable because
[1:09:03] of the impact that it does have,
[1:09:06] as you mentioned, I think the,
[1:09:08] the for the Rider experience,
[1:09:08] uh, whether it
[1:09:10] s the bus being
[1:09:11] delayed or the bus not showing
[1:09:12] up when, when it
[1:09:13] s supposed to,
[1:09:16] it, it, it, it creates this uh
[1:09:18] uh tension that I think
[1:09:18] undermines our ability to
[1:09:19] provide the. And so I think
[1:09:19] it
[1:09:20] s important that we have
[1:09:23] that information so that we can
[1:09:24] uh use it to, to improve the
[1:09:26] system and, and make it even
[1:09:28] better than it is today, uh, so
[1:09:30] I appreciate this, uh, and
[1:09:32] encourage a yes vote of this.
[1:09:34] Thank you, councilmember. Any
[1:09:36] more questions? Councilor
[1:09:37] Mosqueda a question, just a
[1:09:38] comment I want to congratulate
[1:09:39] our good chair of the tree
[1:09:42] committee. I think this item
[1:09:43] and item number 11 are the
[1:09:44] first, uh, bills out of your
[1:09:46] committee, MR. Chair. So thank
[1:09:48] you, uh, for your stewardship
[1:09:49] there and exciting to see those
[1:09:50] bills come. To full council.
[1:09:51] Thank you. That
[1:09:51] s why I was
[1:09:52] quiet through the process
[1:09:55] because I wanted to get there.
[1:09:56] One meeting and, and
[1:09:57] everything
[1:10:00] s on, yeah, good.
[1:10:02] All right, uh, we have before
[1:10:05] us proposed motion number
[1:10:06] 20250058 as amended clerk,
[1:10:09] please call the roll. Thank you,
[1:10:11] councilmember Balduccie Council
[1:10:12] Member Baron Counciluncilmember
[1:10:16] Dimowwski. Councilmember Dunn.
[1:10:16] Can
[1:10:18] t remember Moscara. Aye
[1:10:21] council member Perry,
[1:10:22] councilmember Quinn. Council
[1:10:26] member von Reichbauer.
[1:10:31] Chazahalay. Councilmember von
[1:10:34] Rigbauer, thank you. The final
[1:10:36] vote is 7 ayes and council
[1:10:38] members Dunn and Perry excused.
[1:10:42] Thank you. By our vote, we have
[1:10:44] adopted proposed motion
[1:10:45] 2025-0058 as amended, moving on
[1:10:48] to the reappointment consent
[1:10:50] agenda item 20 call on
[1:10:51] councilmember Dimowwski. MAY
[1:10:53] you please move consent agenda
[1:10:55] item 20. Uh, Consent agenda
[1:10:56] item 20 is before us. Clerk,
[1:10:59] please call the roll. Thank you,
[1:11:01] councilmember Baucci.
[1:11:02] Councilmember Baron
[1:11:03] Councilcilmember Demowwski.
[1:11:05] COUNCILMAN Dunn. Can
[1:11:06] t remember
[1:11:07] Moscara. I can
[1:11:09] t remember Perry.
[1:11:13] Council member Quinn Council
[1:11:13] member von Reichbauer,
[1:11:14] Chesahala. The vote is 7 ayes
[1:11:16] and council members done and
[1:11:18] Perry excused. By our vote we
[1:11:22] have adopted proposed motion
[1:11:24] 20250081, uh, councilmember
[1:11:26] Dunn would like to record his
[1:11:31] votes on a couple of items. All
[1:11:33] right. Good. Thank you on those
[1:11:35] clerk, thank you. If there is
[1:11:36] no objection, the published
[1:11:38] marked agenda together with any
[1:11:39] changes made in today
[1:11:40] s meeting
[1:11:41] will stand approved as the
[1:11:43] first reading and referral of
[1:11:45] ordinances and motions, items
[1:11:47] 21 and 22 as listed with no
[1:11:49] other items to come before this
[1:11:50] meeting. The meeting is
[1:11:51] adjourned and a friendly
[1:11:54] reminder to my colleagues who
[1:11:55] are unemployment administration
[1:11:56] Committee eac will be meeting
[1:11:57] upstairs in 5 minutes. Thank