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First, welcome back from the break every one, back to our regularly scheduled programming. We have a very busy agenda tonight. We have 11 items, so I'm going to remind everyone to keep your remarks brief. And if you have a lot of questions, please indicate to staff that you will be emailing your questions for follow-up. And we're going to go ahead and kick it off tonight. We're going to start with items from other committees, since this is on tonight's business meeting for new business. And we're going to look at the FY24 assistance to fire

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provider's grant program, and I will hand it on over.

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Excellent.

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Thank you.

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Good afternoon.

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Thank you for allowing us to be here to participate in tonight's meeting.

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We're here asking for that you authorize the mayor to execute the first amendment to the

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fiscal year 24 assistance to firefighters for joint peer support training program.

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This grant provides the opportunity for revenue to participate in a joint training to build

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out our peer support team with regional collaboration.

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So, we are included in this grant today, already, is agencies from Bellevue, East Side Fire Rescue,

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Kirkland Fire, and Shoreland Fire Department.

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Balthal Fire Department was originally a part of this grant and pulled out because they're in the process of a regional fire authority with the Shoreline Fire, so it didn't make sense to have both of them in there.

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With them removing themselves, it gave us the opportunity to come in and be part of the grant, which we look at as a huge thing as a regional provider responding to critical incident.

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all together and able to support each other.

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This ACFG grant provides for instructional expenses and OT that will allow members to attend

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24 hours of initial training for new support members, 8.5 hours of online continued education

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for peer support members that exist today that are already in play, excuse me, and eight hours

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of training for regional practitioners related to critical incident debriefings.

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So it takes our team that currently exists today, makes it far more robust in numbers, and also provides for additional training

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container education for those that are already members.

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Through this grant, over the next year and a half,

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Redmond will have the opportunity to provide 18 new members, initial training,

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24 members that are existing peer support members online container education,

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and then additional 24 members are probably a combination of the two,

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the critical incident debriefing training.

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So that initial response right after the big event.

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This all goes in concert with, you've heard about our MHP program with Brooklyn

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Quest and Raider.

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This is a team that she oversees, but operates with her during those times of need.

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Whether it's for red and fire department, citywide across departments, and certainly

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regionally to play with these other agencies that are involved.

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Reddance financial responsibility for this training will come from previously budgeted

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and the peer support budget, and will include a total of $7,653 in expense to us, everything

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also be covered by the grant.

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We were asking that Council authorize the mayor to execute on the amendment, ask that action

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be taken tonight, and approval during the business meeting this evening.

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Again, we apologize for the short notice that this kind of catent about quickly for us,

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gave us a great opportunity to get involved, and the reason for the quick turnaround is that

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the next session of training for the initial is September 14th when we don't want to miss that

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opportunity. So thank you for hearing me out. I'm happy to take questions if they're

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ready. Thank you. Any questions from Council?

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I'm going to go to

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Manga Online and then, sorry, Council Member Sone Online and Council Member

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Cursor in person after that.

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Hi, everyone. Sorry. I have to attend this

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meeting on, you know, online because I'm an NDR due to a family emergency. I just have one

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question, I, as you, like, you know, because this, this, they are different, but agencies, those

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who are participating in this, and my question is suppose, if one of the agency is not able to continue

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forward, is there any failure on the dropout, is the cost to Redmond is going to increase currently,

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I believe it is coming with a share of 7,653. And if this happens, is there going to be an extra

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for the non-city off-ragment of this particular share.

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Yeah, it's a great question.

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So we would, as one of the agencies within the grant,

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we would want to continue the grant to move forward.

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If that was to happen, which is highly unlikely,

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but if it was to happen, we would probably split that additional,

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that approximately $7,000 that that agency had removed themselves from.

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I don't see that happening.

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They've all committed to this willingly with a desire to build out a program,

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that honestly looks much more like our program looks and I think that they're the likelihood

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of that occurring is very, very slim, but if that was to happen that cost that $7,000 would

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We split amongst the performed agencies.

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Is that are still involved? And we do have money budget in our line-up currently through peer support that we could cover that if we had to.

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Thank you. Council member Kurtzer.

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Thank you. And glad to see this, I think, having additional resources supporting the health and wellness of our firefighters and training is great.

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Just since it is a federal grant, just wanted to make sure there's nothing that we would

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be aligning to and signing on to receive this grant that would be in contrast to our own values

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as a city.

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Absolutely not.

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That's a great question.

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But AFG grant and safer grant are both well protected in an environment that has been tested,

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I guess it's probably the best way to say it over the last year or two, and there's been no impact to agencies.

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Strings on this.

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I think that we're additionally added.

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Correct.

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It's 2024.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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We will see this item on new business tonight.

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Thanks, everyone.

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Thank you.

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We'll move on to our regular agenda now.

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Thanks for moving that with me, everyone.

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This is the first item approval final contract with integrity, energy, and acceptance of construction for the sustainability LED lighting retrofit project.

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Good afternoon, Council, Christine or Acting Director of Public Works and joining me as Steve

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Gibbs Capital Manager.

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As stated, we're looking for approval of the final contract with Integrity Energy Services

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and Acceptance of Construction for the Sustainability LED lighting retrofit project.

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This project upgraded the lighting at City Hall and was completed under an Energy Savings

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performing contract administered through the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services.

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Tonight we're requesting committee direction to move this item forward to consent to approval

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at the September 15 business meeting and with that I'm going to turn it over to Steve Gibbs to provide

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some details.

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Good evening council.

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Good to see you again.

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This is a couple of fun facts on this project.

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At the completion of this project, City Hall is now, we'll meet the new clean building

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energy standards that I believe come in effect in June of 27.

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Also, we're going to save about 28,000 a year in energy cost for the building.

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And the final step in this project is I think completion was right around March, April,

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time frame and so in about a year we'll finish a final energy audit and kind of the contractor

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report back on whether they met the commitments that kind of started this whole process off,

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which is that kind of it's about a 9% reduction in total energy costs for the building.

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Wonderful, thank you. Any questions on this item? All right, council member Percy.

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Can you elaborate again when we can see potential evidence of the cost savings being reflected in our electricity bills?

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If we wanted to just kind of actually look at the evidence to celebrate it?

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Sure, sure.

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So like I said, the audit will be completed in about a year.

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We've got our first set of Billings came in and they are reduced about the amount we were expecting.

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So I think we're on target to meet that the goal of the project.

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And 9% reduction in energy costs.

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Great. We look forward to hearing any year with the overall total list.

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Councilmember Brockria.

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Thank you.

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You know, I've heard community feedback that says will City Council be able or will City

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Hall be able to turn their lights off at night.

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This is something I'm sure most of us sitting around the table have heard.

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I was wondering if you could speak to that point of community concern with regards to the

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new light fixtures in the building.

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So that was one of the nice features about this project was we originally was just replacing

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with LED lighting, which obviously is a reduction in energy, but then we added the controls.

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And so if a space is unoccupied for a certain amount of time, the lights will dim and go out.

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And then once they sense activity, it'll come back on.

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And so I haven't verified.

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I haven't been out here at midnight to check.

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We know the lights turn off at night.

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I don't want to date myself, but if you remember get smart when you walk in and it's kind of like that.

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All the lights and you really feel welcome when you come in to see all.

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Wonderful. Thank you. Other questions on this acceptance.

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Great. Any issues with having this on consent?

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On September 15th. Oh, I see Council Member Sony.

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Just a quick question, because there is a debate. So just in case, if during the audits, if you find that the

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post installation, the usage has been different than what we have been originally projected,

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is there any clawbacks on those debate, or is it like we will still get that?

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Yeah, that's one thing about this process is that the contractor, the builder,

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design builder has kind of guaranteed that we will see these reductions and if at the end of

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the year and the audit comes back and we're not seeing that then they will cover the Delta.

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They will be responsible for the difference.

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Great question.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Seeing no objection we will see this on September 15th and we'll move on to our next item.

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Thank you.

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Next item is the approval of consultant agreement with Osborne Consulting for the

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waste water pipe rehab to project and increasing the total funding for the project.

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Hello, again, Steven I are staying for this next item, which is as stated for the approval

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of a consultant agreement with Osborne Consulting for the waste water pipe rehab number

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two project and increase in total funding for the project.

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So this project will rehabilitate aging waste water mains using cured in place pipe or otherwise

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known as CIPP to extend the life of the existing wastewater infrastructure.

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Expanded projects go pull at approximately 6,400 feet,

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critical pipe rehabilitation along Avendale Way and

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Woodenville Redmond Road northeast.

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So the night we're requesting committee direction to move this item forward

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for council consent approval at the September 15th business meeting,

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and with that I'll turn it over to Steve Gibbs for a little more detail.

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So, the 317K agreement that covers design also optional construction support services and then there's a little bit of contingency built in.

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We brought this earlier this year during our one of our updates and we're talking about some of the challenges and if we the original scope project was so small that we were

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concerned that we would have little or no bitter interest in the project and so we were

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advocating for a larger scope and kind of knock out a bigger run of pipe and so the crews

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went back and looked at the the the pipe videos and the inspection reports and came up with

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adding this additional run and one is on Avenue Way the other one is on Redwood and we'll get a big

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chunk out on that and and part of the problem is if you have a bunch of small pieces of

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If there's multiple mobilizations, it's very labor-intensive in cost, high cost, component for the contractors, and so that's why it's not as an attractive, there's a lot of this type of workout right now.

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And so that's why we're recommending adding that additional 1.5 to the funding so we can get a more robust project in there.

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It's not going to impact any future projects on the wastewater CIP, and so we feel like this

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is a big need right now, and we want to get a good first start on this program that we're

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probably going to be coming back with more of this, because it's not invasive and it's a great

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technique to upgrade our sewer infrastructure.

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Thank you.

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Questions from Council?

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Council member, New Wave of Camina.

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Thank you.

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Thank you both of you for the breakdown of that because for listening public if they're seeing this and they see

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503 five and change and now we're up at two million

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It's quite a large delta and I do understand the justification for it and remember readily the the conversation

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We had about increasing the scope of it

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for those that are following along if we were to have

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more or less piecemeal this and did it in say three separate runs. Have you taken a look

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at what the cost savings are that we're going to experience by doing this in one go round.

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And if we were to have, as I mentioned, piecemeal it together.

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You know, roughly I would say a mobilization for this type of work. They have to dig a couple of

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large pits at each end and so there's this fair amount of cost in there and then we also

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have to have the room to do it and so when you have more mobilizations it's very so I would

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say 50,000 probably for each mob and digging the receiving pit and getting all the infrastructure

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and there it is to start the operation.

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And that's why we were really advocating for getting a long run and fewer mobilizations. That's really the big cost there.

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So you get, you know, five, six of those, and then it's a big chunk of your project cost.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. Other questions?

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Seeing none? Any objection to this going on to consent on September 15th?

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All right. We will see this on consent on September 15th. Thanks everyone.

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Moving right along, approval of the Interlocal Agreement for Washington Conservation Corps

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2627 with the Washington State Department of Ecology.

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All right.

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Now joining me as air and mold for our environmental services manager and Tom Hardy,

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our senior environmental scientists.

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This is for has stated the approval of the Interlocal Agreement for the Washington

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conservation course 2026-27 agreement with the Washington State Department of Ecology.

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So the Washington Conservation Corps, as you know, supports the city by maintaining

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a stream and habitat restoration sites throughout Redmond and assisting with scientific

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monitoring.

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This maintenance is important to meeting our permit obligations and ensuring the long-term

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success of our restoration investments.

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So the night we're requesting committee direction to move this item forward to the consent agenda for the September 15th

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Business meeting and with that I'll turn it over to Aaron and

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All right, thanks Chris. He covered a lot of what I have here so I'm just gonna kill real quick on some things

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That we didn't cover so the interlocal agreement with the Department of Ecology for the WCC crew for the 2627 season

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provides a six member crew for 46 weeks in an additional crew for four extra weeks

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with one individual placement, the total cost is 344,246 dollars funded entirely by the stormwater operations budget.

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Currently it's funded in this biannium and it's proposed for the next biannium because it starts in October, so it covers both biannium.

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The WCC crew is also subsidized by AmeriCorps, which provides an estimated $89,000 in support of the program.

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So it's a really good deal.

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We get a lot of work out of this crew.

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And we've been using this crew, this type of crew

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for almost 20 years, to support our habitat projects.

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So we have about 83 completed habitat restoration projects.

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Good example of a major site is the 12 acre lower bare creek

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project.

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And then the ongoing maintenance is essential

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to meet all the permit requirements

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and protect the city's capital investments in these areas.

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In addition to maintenance, the crews implement smaller streaming enhancement projects around the city as well, such as installing habitat logs to planting native trees to help expand the city's tree canopy, and they also support volunteer events so that folks from the community come out and get their hands dirty and help support the community as well, along with education outreach and ecological monitoring.

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So overall the agreements, it's a really cost-effective and flexible workforce of individuals

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that are preparing for new careers in the environment.

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So it's a great mentoring opportunity as well and we've had a lot of crew members move

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on to great careers after working here.

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So that's inspiring to me, you know, to be part of this.

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So with this, we're asking the committee to approve moving the agreement to the September

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15th Council of Consent Agenda, and Tom and I are here to answer any other questions you

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might have.

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Thank you.

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Always good to see this one.

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It's always a no-brainer for, in my opinion, so Council, questions, Council Member Critser.

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Thank you.

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I think I always comment on this one because I just love it so much.

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And I think it is a really great deal for our city, both in being able to do I mean, if

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you look at this restoration map, it's impressive and also kudos to your team that make

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this possible. It's really incredible. It's also really great to be able to support our next

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generation of land stewards and get some of that hands-on training. So it's such a win-win.

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And one question I had just on the AmeriCorps subsidy piece. Do we expect any changes to that

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or have we seen any changes that might affect the cost to the city and the long run?

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So, we were just informed a couple of weeks ago that the AmeriCorps came through with

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subsidy for this crew year, in terms of long-term past this one year we're unsure.

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But, yeah, this year we're expecting.

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That's great news.

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Thank you.

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Other questions?

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All right, seeing none. Any objection to this going on consent on September 15th?

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All right, we will see this on the 15th. Thank you.

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Next up, approval of the final contract with Alfa developer LLC, an acceptance for construction for the fire station,

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17 citing replacement to project.

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Thank you. Now, joining me again, Steve Gibbs, capital manager, and we're looking for the approval of the final contract with Alfa developers.

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LLC and exceptions of construction for fire station 17 siding replacement project.

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This project replaced the building's weather barrier flashing and exterior setting after

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facility staff identified moisture intrusion behind the existing siding. The improvements

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will prevent further damage to the building and below an extent of the life of the facility.

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So project was completed with a file contract amount of approximately $916,000,000, and was completed under the overall project budget by approximately $90,000.

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So the night we're requesting a committee direction to move this item forward to consent for the September 15 business meeting, and with that I turn it over to Steve Gibbs.

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You're still on my good news.

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So anyway, this project did take a little longer than we had thought.

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And if you recall in some of the updates, the contractor had actually, there was two colors.

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It was integral coloring.

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He had ordered the wrong amount on one color.

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And so the stuff was made in Switzerland.

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And so we had a wait for the boat to get over here.

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So it was about a three month delay to get the final.

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We had it almost 90% complete and one-sided needed the other.

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It was gray and red.

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I think with the two colors.

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And so that's why we are a little late getting here for acceptance.

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But the news is still good.

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We're 14K under contract and 90K under budget.

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And the crew really did a fantastic time.

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We had a great weather proof for helping with the crew and

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walking up some of the unique flashing situations.

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And so we really feel confident that we've got a good barrier,

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great flashing, and then the sighting product is going to hold up for

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many, many years.

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Thank you.

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Councilmember Perci and then Councilmember Perci.

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From this project, are there any learnings for how we can install

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preventative maintenance or have other preventative work to prevent

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and similar costs for other buildings that we have.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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The key takeaway on this is that we had a similar cement

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tissue-siting product in the original install.

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And I think it was around 2012.

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And the contractor did not follow the correct details

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in installation of that product.

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And so that's what we found that was leading to some of these distresses we were seeing in the panels with a water getting behind getting trapped.

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And so really the lesson to learn here is follow the manufacturers recommendations and then we have really up our consultants support in these envelope inspections and commissioning.

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Especially like on the senior center, we really amped it up tremendously so that we don't have to come back with these

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Rehab projects after 15 years. Thank you. Councilman, procre.

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My question was similar enough that I don't want to risk it. Thank you. Any. Oh, Council of Vice President and with the commune. Thank you

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I've just got a quick clarification money question on here. The memo states that the project cost was

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is 916, 916,000, and the project sheet,

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I was at 1.2 million.

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I'm missing something and looking just for a little bit of clarity on that.

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Yes, so the 916 is the actual construction contract.

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And I believe the other number you're looking at is

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it's 1.2.

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Yeah, and that's total.

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Let's design, staff cost, everything.

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Thank you so much for. Okay, any objection to this going on consent for approval on the 15th of September

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Right seeing none. We will see this on the 15th and move right along to our next item. Thank you so much

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Our next item is the 2026-27 go red men King County Metro contract renewal

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Get a be with the planning department for a little bit

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All right, so I am Sarah Fee Allen, and I am the interim co-planning director for the city of Redmond.

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And we're excited to bring this contract forward today, so as stated, the Go Redmond contract isn't item that our department brings to city council each year.

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To zoom out a little bit, transportation demand management or TDM helps people to use the transportation system more efficiently through education, incentives, products,

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like incentivized transit fair cards and programs like carpooling, vanpooling, walking, biking and taking transit.

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So TDM strategies help to reduce single occupancy trips, which has the dual impact of putting less strain on our roads and reducing our carbon emissions.

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and this contract helps us to pursue that work.

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So I will now turn it over to Lynne Taylor,

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our Transportation Demand Management Program Coordinator,

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to share more information about this partnership

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and the contract with King County.

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Lynne?

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Good evening.

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As a reminder, the City of Redmond and King County Metro

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have been in partnerships since 1999

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for the Redmond Transportation Demand Management Program

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that we, so finally, call, go redmond.

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Some of the areas of focus for this 2026-27 contract

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include expanding our residential TDM focus with neighborhood based outreach, multi-family,

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worker transit pass programs, promoting and distributing free youth and reduce fair

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senior and low-income worker cards under our TDM category, and then lastly, as part of our TDM pilot

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programming, government will continue to collaborate on shared parking and for last mile solutions.

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These focuses will continue to help businesses meet required goals for both

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community reproduction laws and mobility management program requirements.

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To continue this work through 2027, King County Metro is agreed to contribute

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176,500 dollars of funding and we are seeking approval to move this item to

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the consent agenda at the September 15th meeting.

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Thank you.

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Questions from Council, Council Member Kritzer?

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Thank you.

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I guess two quick questions, so one, the pilot intervention that it's funding is that Metro

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helping us to fund red link, or is that a different community shuttle?

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Not community shuttle, no, oh, okay, yeah, it's about the parking program and a community

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shuttle.

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I think as part of overall TDM, the community program that community shuttle falls in that TDM

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But Metro does not contribute to that funding.

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Okay.

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So what is funded through the $40,000 of the program budget of pilot and interventions?

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So we have shared any sort of, I guess that we leave it open for any sort of pilot programming.

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If there's any businesses that are willing to do any sort of shared parking possibly

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why I'm parking corrals in different things we keep it open to any sort of programs that may pop up

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for piloting and if there were a community shuttle as is referenced with that be run by Metro

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that's the community shuttle that you're referencing in the scope of work on on page

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page two with a scope of work under number three I think that that's so in the scope A so I think

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that Metro and that scope is just saying,

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look at all these wonderful things that Redmond is doing.

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There's this community shuttle.

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And so we are the portion that TDM does is

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do the outreach on that.

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We help solicit feedback, marketing materials, that kind of thing.

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But none of that funding is going

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into funding the actual implementation of the program.

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Got it.

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Thanks for the clear figure.

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No problem.

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Yeah, and I'll add a little bit too.

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So I'm trying to remember when we went to council

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that we gave the overall presentation

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for transportation demand management. I will call that date, but we can February of this year.

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And so that's why I kind of talked about TDM broadly, as Armbrella, this is the specific

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contract with the county and funds, as Lenea put more on the worker cars or supporting businesses.

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We also receive funds from the state and it's called a CTR grant that also comes to the city.

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And that has other things that we dedicate those dollars to and it also helps to pay for the staff that we have.

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So, the combination of those grant dollars and then city dollars help to create our overall programming for TDM.

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And then we have been able to use some of the dollars that the city puts to help match grants like the red link.

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We had to have matching grants for those, and we were able to use dollars that we had in our pool of TDM funds to match the state grant for the regional mobility grant, but that's a one-time grant.

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So, we like to have some ability to linay as point to have dollars that pay for specific things like for this grant, but we then have other city dollars that are contributed to help us apply for other grants to do bigger things like red link shuttle.

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We'll refer back to that presentation that I have because it's a big bucket of topics that we do.

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Thank you, Council President Stewart.

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And thanks Team really appreciate the update and happy to support this going to consent.

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I just wanted to pass along for the sake of the outreach and the partnership, a piece

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of feedback that I've heard a few times from community members.

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I know that for instance, at the Red Men's Senior and Community Center, there have been

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a few events where folks have been able to get their senior or low-income Orca cards.

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I hear from seniors frequently that they just wish they could pick up their Orca card

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at the pharmacy that they go to once a month in many cases already, so an opportunity perhaps

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to be creative with the retail partners in our community, you can buy a fishing license that

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sporting good stores, why can't you pick up your orca card for your age qualified orca card

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that could happen with your monthly errands, too. So that's a little bit of the feedback that I get,

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but happy to see and definitely support the continuation of making sure that folks

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are able to get them at our facilities and that those events are well-apportized.

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Thanks.

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A little to add there that Neighborhood Pop-up went away during COVID and was brought back.

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And so they just started in person events last year.

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And they started off with just government locations.

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I believe there's an expansion coming up.

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Happy to do any of that.

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You know, let them know what you provided because that does make sense.

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It is pretty difficult to get reduced fair and senior worker cards on the east side.

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Good idea.

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Good feedback.

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Council of Vice President, new wave of commina.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Tim.

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Also, totally in support of moving this forward to consent.

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And I just wanted to call out, like, we were just talking with public works about increasing a budget from 500,000 to 2 million.

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And where this doesn't, you're not asking for, you know, an additional 1.5 million, right?

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We're looking out, hundreds of $76,000.

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And it is, it's, and while, while the, the bigger things, the larger ticket items are definitely things that we're responsible for.

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It's a small of things like a new focus of working with employers with less than 100 employees.

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that is the experiential things that make a difference for a community.

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So happy to have this move forward.

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Councilmember Parker.

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Thank you.

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And I would just want to add on to what Council President Stewart said.

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It just made me think about something that in the same lens I would love if it is possible to encourage

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schools, the Distribute Orca cards out to students.

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I know that I believe you can just board with your student ID,

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so maybe also encouraging that bubble of education

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because I have many friends and schools who actually

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were not aware of that fact until they were told.

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I will add in to you.

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I'll be excited to see the budget process come through with some of those

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suggestions.

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to both of your comments.

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Wonderful.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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I got very quiet.

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The H.F.

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Turned off.

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It's not just you.

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All right.

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Seeing no objection, we will see this on the September 15th consent agenda.

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Thanks, everyone.

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Moving right along to the Consultant Agreement with Transpo Group

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for the ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan.

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Interim director Alan is sticking with us.

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Yes, thank you. And so we're very excited to bring this consultant agreement forward in partnership with public works

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and I also wanted to show that this internal work group will be working cross-departmentally with the long-range team and our ready divisions

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which will include Theresa Lee and I'll turn it over to Francesca to give more details about the consultant contract.

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All right, revenue is developing an ADA self-evaluation and transition plan for the public

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right of way.

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This transition plan is a federal requirement under Title II of the American With Americans

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with Disabilities Act, planning departments staff, as Fairfee mentioned, with support from

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public work staff, are requesting approval of the Consultant Agreement with Transport Group in

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the amount not to exceed 330,000.

447
00:34:52,910 --> 00:34:59,970
This includes a $200,000 funding increase to allow for full data collection and preparation of a federally compliant plan.

448
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:15,020
Finance has confirmed that funding is available for this increase through the transportation benefit district. So, in collaboration with public works, planning staff are requesting council's approval of this consult and agreement on the consent agenda of September 15th business meeting.

449
00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:16,700
Take any questions?

450
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:17,820
Questions from council?

451
00:35:20,140 --> 00:35:21,400
All right, I'll kick us off then.

452
00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:29,860
So, with an ADA transition plan, I'm very concerned about some of the federal rollbacks to some of our ADA laws.

453
00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:36,080
We're seeing things as far as wanting to re-institutionalize people that have different abilities.

454
00:35:37,140 --> 00:35:43,520
So is that going to be looked at in this, or are we making sure that we're setting a high bar

455
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,000
and not a low floor for this transition plan?

456
00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:54,240
Yes, so this plan, while being a federal requirement also goes, we have the power to go beyond

457
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:57,180
the bare minimum of those requirements, which we will do.

458
00:35:57,180 --> 00:36:02,940
So, this plan will look at not only just data collection within the right of way, which includes

459
00:36:02,940 --> 00:36:06,100
curb ramps, pedestrian push buttons and sidewalks.

460
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:11,060
It'll also take a pretty extensive review of city policies that relate to the Americans

461
00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:15,500
of Disabilities Act, different programs that are in the community, and provide recommendations

462
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:18,480
for how we can better those initiatives as well.

463
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:19,120
Fantastic.

464
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:21,600
I love the idea of setting a very high bar for our city.

465
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:28,140
I'll just add to that. I mean, I wouldn't discount anything happening in the next two and a half

466
00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:35,220
three years. I have not seen any any rumblings around ADAs as far as the title two goes,

467
00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:41,880
which is the title on which ADA transition plans are required, any rollbacks or anything like that.

468
00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:46,680
Right. And I'll just give a shout out for all the universal design work we've already done

469
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,440
and very excited to see that continue through this process.

470
00:36:51,640 --> 00:37:01,260
Thank you so much for bringing this forward and I know this has been a really big priority for our council and making our community even more accessible and inclusive.

471
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:19,180
I am curious if you can speak a little bit more to the budget change and you know what change from when we were originally budgeting and the assumptions that went in around the data that would need to be collected to more than double the budget.

472
00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:21,180
if you can speak to that.

473
00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:22,660
Paul?

474
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,180
We'll defer to Paul on that one.

475
00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:27,120
Good afternoon.

476
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:27,880
Council members.

477
00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:30,080
Paul Chow and with the public works.

478
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,580
Traffic safety division.

479
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:39,340
And so the original budget that was approved by council was $150,000 for the ADA transition plan.

480
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:48,780
As we started to move this forward, it was apparent to us that there was a significant data gap with the information that we had.

481
00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:52,960
and had catalogued and the infrastructure that was out of the city.

482
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,780
So rather than just moving forward with those pieces of information,

483
00:37:58,380 --> 00:38:04,000
we paused and we had a small contract to have a consultant

484
00:38:04,540 --> 00:38:09,360
to assess the data that we do have, the documentation we already have,

485
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,440
and then what are we missing?

486
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:17,320
So we wanted to make sure that we were fully prepared to move forward

487
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:23,360
and to complete this endeavor rather than two-thirds of the way and find out we're coming

488
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:31,640
up short. Also we wanted to not do the bare minimum but see what it would take to do any

489
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:39,460
additional recovery of data and also addressing what's really needed out in the right

490
00:38:39,460 --> 00:38:50,400
way. So we did spend $20,000 to get a data assessment completed and then we looked at several

491
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:56,240
different options on how to move forward and this was the preferred option. So there was

492
00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:06,000
some time taken in 2025 to go through this effort and then we also had a number of coordination meetings

493
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,040
with transportation planning and talking about, you know, how best to move this effort forward.

494
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:20,260
And so that's sort of the background on how we arrived here. There was also a time to take

495
00:39:22,260 --> 00:39:27,980
information we had, information we needed, and to get an updated scope from the consultant

496
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,000
to get the estimated fees.

497
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:41,080
And I would just ask in terms of the, like, the length that this investment will help us with.

498
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:47,620
Is this something that, once we do it, we think that we'll be able to use this data for a long time,

499
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:53,260
or at some point have to kind of redo this work again within a, what do we think the time span of kind of the,

500
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:54,860
the usefulness of this data will be?

501
00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:59,980
Yeah, I can answer that one. The this data collection will kind of surf.

502
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:07,600
As a snapshot in time for the current condition of Redmond's ADA facilities on the right of way.

503
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:14,820
But this plan is called a transition plan for a reason, so this will be a long lasting plan.

504
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,900
We'll help us prioritize improvements to the public right of way.

505
00:40:20,180 --> 00:40:25,260
So we'll be able to use this data and continue to move those improvements forward for quite some time.

506
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:32,380
I just wanted to add that it will establish a real good baseline for our asset management system going forward.

507
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:38,400
As Paul pointed out, we had some pretty spotty data around curb ramps and sidewalks.

508
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:44,380
So that will be addressed through this effort and then feed into the asset management system ongoing.

509
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:50,820
I'll also just add real quick to the 20,000 that Paul mentioned that was spent for the data collection.

510
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:55,500
are consultants, that was the same consultant team that we're working with for the overall plan

511
00:40:55,500 --> 00:41:01,180
who performed that work and that work will go in seamlessly into the plan so there won't

512
00:41:01,180 --> 00:41:06,560
be any sort of rehashing of work that's already done that is something that we can, you know,

513
00:41:06,620 --> 00:41:07,880
move right into this contract.

514
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,360
All right.

515
00:41:13,620 --> 00:41:14,700
Thank you.

516
00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:15,700
Council Member Sony.

517
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,780
So again, my question is actually on the follow up for the engagement process.

518
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:31,920
did we totally relied on the questionnaires or were we able to involve or recruit the

519
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:36,720
residents those who totally rely on these mobility devices or maybe having some

520
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,380
advocacy groups those who have been working around on this thing just want to ensure that

521
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:45,140
you know we had the right set of information coming from right set of people.

522
00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:51,800
Yeah, so we will have a pretty in-depth engagement process when this project gets started.

523
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,740
We'll have both an online and in-person options for engagement.

524
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:02,500
The online option will include a website that has a map, so folks can actually go in

525
00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:08,020
and pinpoint areas where they are experiencing difficulties as far as accessibility could

526
00:42:08,020 --> 00:42:13,580
be anything like a tree route bulging up through the sidewalk or a curb ramp that's not

527
00:42:13,580 --> 00:42:14,580
ADA compliant.

528
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,220
We're also in addition to that online effort, we will have an in-person focus group

529
00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:23,060
and we'll make sure we're reaching out to those groups

530
00:42:23,060 --> 00:42:25,960
and persons in the community who can most benefit

531
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,100
from this work.

532
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:29,060
Wonderful.

533
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,140
Thank you.

534
00:42:30,460 --> 00:42:31,000
Council Member Percy.

535
00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:36,000
I'm looking at the materials.

536
00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:40,060
It seems like in three places in the scope document,

537
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:45,200
it is that we assume that the consultant will deliver

538
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,260
the deliverables that they're responsible for.

539
00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:50,220
I'm curious why we're making an assumption

540
00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:55,420
about the deliverable rather than stating it kind of as a matter of fact for clarifying

541
00:42:55,420 --> 00:43:00,480
the expectation which would be able to kind of elaborate on why we're saying we assume

542
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,380
that they will deliver something versus just making that clear in the contract?

543
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:11,060
Yeah, can you maybe point to, I don't recall that exact language?

544
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:17,660
I can read out for you. It is assumed that transfer will digitize GIS features such

545
00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:23,020
sidewalks, push buttons and curbs. Another example is that it is assumed that the data will

546
00:43:23,020 --> 00:43:27,780
include the following sidewalks and such and such. So there's three areas that we're saying

547
00:43:27,780 --> 00:43:32,960
we zoom versus why are we not just saying this is expectation. Yeah, I mean I think that's more

548
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:39,440
just a factor of the language of the scope. I think that was our consultant team when writing this

549
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:46,260
making sure that they could cover the requirements that we were asking for. I think that was more

550
00:43:46,260 --> 00:43:54,660
just a language or, you know, phrasing than any sort of other meaning beyond that, I don't

551
00:43:54,660 --> 00:43:59,640
know, Michael, if anything, Dad. Yeah, I think it's just a word choice, and we are all

552
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:05,900
under understanding this contract that they will be delivering those products. Would it be

553
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:09,340
okay to change that from an assumption to a statement?

554
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,180
Yeah, we could look into doing that for

555
00:44:16,180 --> 00:44:22,360
Is there enough support on council to look into that change?

556
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,360
Sorry, I heard something over there.

557
00:44:29,660 --> 00:44:30,520
Was there more?

558
00:44:31,060 --> 00:44:35,780
So I would like to mention that since it's changed

559
00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:42,280
to the contract language, that then we probably would have to delay

560
00:44:45,450 --> 00:44:47,390
as we change.

561
00:44:48,070 --> 00:44:51,710
I don't think changing the language itself.

562
00:44:56,450 --> 00:44:59,410
We might be looking at October instead of September for...

563
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,560
Is that written? I mean, we'll move it as fast as fast as you can.

564
00:45:03,860 --> 00:45:07,180
And then that would delay our consultant team being able to get started on their work.

565
00:45:07,380 --> 00:45:15,020
I see. All right. So I put in future, since there's sounds like there's some concern around using the term assumption.

566
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:25,800
We can use a different more definitive term for future contracts, but the request would be that we can move forward currently, as it is, rather than changing the contract language and maybe needing to delay the project.

567
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,140
But that's face. Any council discussion there?

568
00:45:29,140 --> 00:45:32,360
Yep, seeing nods around the table, so that looks like it will suffice.

569
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:32,700
Great.

570
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:34,480
Thank you for the flag and conversation.

571
00:45:35,140 --> 00:45:35,240
Thank you.

572
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:36,740
Sorry.

573
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:37,640
Council President Stewart.

574
00:45:37,940 --> 00:45:38,460
Thank you.

575
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:40,200
And I do appreciate the question.

576
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:41,840
Thank you so much to my colleague.

577
00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:48,420
And since we have the opportunity to make a dent in this work and make sure that it does

578
00:45:48,420 --> 00:45:51,660
sound to me and I appreciate the conversation we've had at the table, it does sound

579
00:45:51,660 --> 00:45:54,760
to me like ultimately there is cost savings to be realized here.

580
00:45:54,760 --> 00:46:05,160
But I did want to caution us, the conversation around the budget and the additional 200,000

581
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,400
because there are dollars available in the transportation benefit district.

582
00:46:09,940 --> 00:46:14,720
I just wanted to take a moment to recognize the opportunity cost there because, of course,

583
00:46:15,060 --> 00:46:21,240
every transportation benefit dollar is going to be poured right back into the very reason that we are collecting that revenue.

584
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:38,460
And that is preservation of our roads and our sidewalks and as I was stated earlier today I do think that this council has long prioritized the need to get going and make a big dent on this 88 transition. So in the end I very much do support this but I do want to caution.

585
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:50,500
Around just around some of the language in the memo it caught me a little off guard but I do appreciate the opportunity to get to work on this now so thank you.

586
00:46:53,140 --> 00:46:53,700
I'm sorry.

587
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,520
One more question actually following up on that I guess I am curious whether it was explored

588
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:04,440
to use any other sources of funding than the TBD or whether there's any opportunity on

589
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:04,840
that.

590
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,100
I guess I'll just confirm.

591
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:11,520
So we confirm with finance that the funding that is from the Transportation Benefit District

592
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:16,460
is funding that is used and held for purposes such as this.

593
00:47:16,460 --> 00:47:30,200
So that this additional 200,000 from that transportation benefit district is not going against something else that it could potentially funding be funding, nor is it impacting the future budget.

594
00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:39,280
So this is purely additional funding that we have included in the transportation benefit district for needs such as this.

595
00:47:42,290 --> 00:47:50,210
Okay. Seeing no other hands. Objections to this going on the consent agenda for September 15th.

596
00:47:52,390 --> 00:47:57,630
All right. Seeing none. Thank you for the good discussion and we will see this back on the 15th.

597
00:47:57,870 --> 00:48:05,090
Thank you. Thank you. Next up is our 2026 community stability funding recommendations.

598
00:48:08,070 --> 00:48:11,810
I'm going to get talking as they settle down because we still got items to get through.

599
00:48:11,810 --> 00:48:18,510
But we have Allerg BN here to present a recommendation for the community stability fund.

600
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:24,030
Staff will be proposing this item be placed on the consent agenda for September 15th.

601
00:48:24,230 --> 00:48:29,930
We will also be asking City Council to direct staff on how you would like to manage the remaining balance of these funds.

602
00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:36,490
And with that, I'll turn it over to Allerg to provide an overview of the fund process and the recommendation we have to date.

603
00:48:37,110 --> 00:48:37,130
Allerg.

604
00:48:37,330 --> 00:48:38,810
Thank you.

605
00:48:39,450 --> 00:48:47,810
I'm here to provide an update on the additional actions that have been taken in regard to the community stability fund and present recommendations for your consideration.

606
00:48:48,430 --> 00:48:55,850
And as a reminder, Council designated $1.4 million for community stability fund in the 2025-26 by NAM.

607
00:48:56,450 --> 00:49:06,010
And last year, you approved a resolution, designating $250,000 to be used to support the needs of immigrant refugee and asylum-seeking community members.

608
00:49:06,010 --> 00:49:11,350
So, the staff partnered with the City of Kirkland to request proposals from agencies and these

609
00:49:11,350 --> 00:49:15,150
funds were awarded with contracts wrapping up at the end of this year.

610
00:49:16,130 --> 00:49:21,170
And more recently, staff provided additional options to spend down these funds per council

611
00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:26,350
request and the options in guiding principles are included in attachment A of the memo.

612
00:49:26,990 --> 00:49:33,050
The options were provided to council via email and again, shared at the July public,

613
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:35,990
July

614
00:49:35,990 --> 00:49:45,930
And at this meeting staff direction to prioritize programs that provide services in the areas of financial assistance, food assistance, and legal services.

615
00:49:46,810 --> 00:49:54,490
So we conducted a focused procurement process during the month of August and received 11 applications which we quickly but thoroughly reviewed.

616
00:49:55,110 --> 00:49:59,730
And we're proposing that we fund 10 programs for a total cost of 439.

617
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:10,420
$1,439,469, and these awards all aligned with the guiding principles that are outlined in attachment A.

618
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:16,240
For our understanding of the council's previously expressed interest, staff recommend that the balance

619
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:25,820
of funds, which is $7,710,531, will be carried forward into 2027, which will allow staff to evaluate

620
00:50:25,820 --> 00:50:31,120
and implement additional procurement processes such as funding for one-time capital or equipment

621
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,340
needs that have been identified by our community members.

622
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:40,600
So just to summarize all that, big chance what we're hoping to receive your direction today

623
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,800
on is one, staff for seeking and approval to place the recommended allocations and attachment

624
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:51,300
on the September 15th consent agenda and then two seeking your feedback on the recommendation

625
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:58,320
for next step for the balance of funds and we'd request if possible to receive feedback first

626
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:03,480
on item one since that's most pertinent and getting those funds out to community and then move

627
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,620
on to the second request.

628
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:06,520
Okay.

629
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:07,960
Thank you.

630
00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:14,060
So first up, let's look at the attachment A and B and see if there are any questions about that

631
00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:16,360
before we move on to the second question.

632
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,620
Questions on the current allocation?

633
00:51:18,620 --> 00:51:21,280
Council President Stewart, and then Council Member Procure.

634
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:30,380
Thank you for the proposed allocations totaling the 439,000.

635
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:35,160
I do support and thank you all for your work to run an additional procurement process

636
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:40,260
and to make sure that we could get those dollars to those who can get them out the door

637
00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:44,080
and in the hands of community members who need them this year.

638
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:48,820
So I do support that, I guess I will reserve comment on this other question until we come

639
00:51:48,820 --> 00:51:49,180
back around.

640
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:51,180
That's been practically.

641
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:58,520
Thank you for your work in reviewing this and I don't have any problem with allocating

642
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:04,900
the 439,000 particularly because these were already councilallicated funds and we are in

643
00:52:04,900 --> 00:52:12,180
a time of need but at a higher level, I would be more comfortable allocating this money

644
00:52:12,180 --> 00:52:27,920
If we had, even if it was just a one-page or if it was a paragraph for each organization on the results that we got back from the 250,000, particularly because you said those contracts are wrapping up by the end of the year.

645
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:41,180
And as well as expected results for this 439,000 that we're now delivering just because I, I do believe that every taxpayer dollar should be held to the highest.

646
00:52:41,180 --> 00:52:46,770
possible standard and we do need to to keep organizations accountable even if they are doing good work.

647
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:54,740
Councillor Cretzer. Thank you and appreciate the comments from my colleagues. I would say I would also

648
00:52:55,260 --> 00:53:02,120
really like to understand because since there are only several on this list we're fully funded and then

649
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:11,160
others we're not fully funded and I think it'd be helpful to just understand even if there's a kind of

650
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:18,700
actually one that was not recommended, but I think understanding some of the factors that

651
00:53:18,700 --> 00:53:21,640
went into the decision making would be helpful.

652
00:53:23,220 --> 00:53:27,700
Yeah, so I can speak to kind of wise them of them, I'm not fully funded, and it really

653
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:29,060
comes down to the level of service.

654
00:53:29,220 --> 00:53:33,520
So this contract would be through August through the end of this year.

655
00:53:33,940 --> 00:53:38,340
So we don't have a gift of public funds, they're being to demonstrate kind of an increased

656
00:53:38,340 --> 00:53:45,660
level of service and expand by the end of the year, and so the award is done by the proportionate

657
00:53:45,660 --> 00:53:50,780
to that level of service. And then I'll look for the one that wasn't funded, I believe that

658
00:53:50,780 --> 00:54:00,300
was a staff, a staff cut. We want to have it really be one time. Yeah, it was for staffing and not direct

659
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:07,380
assistance to residents. And so I felt like it didn't fall within the parameters of the request for proposals.

660
00:54:08,660 --> 00:54:18,620
And I would just request, so if there's any more detail as you're sending us more detail on these proposals, if you could just include any explanation of that, I think it'd be helpful just to be able to reference.

661
00:54:19,780 --> 00:54:34,660
But I appreciate that. And I also wanted to note that I actually serve on the Hoping Board. So if we do move forward with this item, I think it might be appropriate for us to separate out the vote on those particular allocations so that I can recuse myself since.

662
00:54:34,660 --> 00:54:40,900
While I do, I got on the board as in one of their elected roles, I do that in my independent capacity.

663
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:43,220
Thank you for that flag.

664
00:54:44,260 --> 00:54:46,500
Any other questions, Councilmember Sony?

665
00:54:50,410 --> 00:54:56,830
Following on that, I have noticed that I've heard it from a lot of smaller organisations,

666
00:54:57,370 --> 00:54:59,870
that majority of things like the grants and all of these are located.

667
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:10,780
To the bigger organizations. And there isn't much equity applied towards the classroom organizations that I'm not not operating at a bigger scale, but yet doing a lot of work.

668
00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:20,480
But was there any organization that has applied and could not go through this process? We do have some funds available. We saw that.

669
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:24,880
So,

670
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,600
Either remove them or did they not apply it or if they were to apply it, they can work

671
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:34,240
made us to not give any opportunity to those organizations.

672
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:35,620
Yeah, thank you.

673
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:42,140
So the request went to specifically these 11 organizations because of the requirement that we

674
00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:49,260
fund currently, that we, on currently existing program, currently funded programs and that

675
00:55:49,260 --> 00:55:54,740
they fall within those three categories of financial assistance, food insecurity and legal

676
00:55:54,740 --> 00:56:01,640
So there are a number of smaller grassroots agencies that do provide other services, but they didn't fit within those parameters.

677
00:56:02,740 --> 00:56:06,960
And I'll just add dollars point as a reminder, this is kind of a separate fund.

678
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,980
Then our overall human services fund, which will be coming back to the council with.

679
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:24,720
And that is where we're trying to address some of the feedback that you gave council member Sony of and had a very ongoing dialogue with the human services commission about how to support smaller organizations that are trying to get in.

680
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:30,820
to being able to have these kind of contracts as well as larger organizations because we are

681
00:56:30,820 --> 00:56:37,380
trying to not duplicate a similar process with these funds but also be responsive to what

682
00:56:37,380 --> 00:56:42,840
Council is requesting to get out. That's why we shared with the Council we recommend doing

683
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:48,260
the organizations we already have contracts with because it makes making sure that they're meeting

684
00:56:48,260 --> 00:56:53,600
the performance measures much easier and all of that kind of work and so that's what the Council

685
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:58,580
gave us direction for back in the early summer, and that's why we move for what this process.

686
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:04,500
I'm just to provide more context on that, and I'll just put in a caveat.

687
00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:11,020
This is why it'd be helpful when we do it as one process rather than having multiple kinds of processes in this way.

688
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:12,980
Thank you.

689
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:14,660
I will jump in with my question.

690
00:57:15,420 --> 00:57:19,200
Are we the only jurisdiction that's doing a second round of this kind of funding?

691
00:57:19,380 --> 00:57:21,100
Is Kirkland doing another round of view?

692
00:57:21,100 --> 00:57:22,960
And then we teamed up before.

693
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,200
So Kirkland is not.

694
00:57:25,340 --> 00:57:26,600
I'm not Billview.

695
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,980
I'm not sure about they've got lots of streams of funding.

696
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:32,060
I've been doing lots of different things.

697
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,900
And I haven't really been tracking that closely.

698
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:35,840
Yeah.

699
00:57:36,180 --> 00:57:39,280
I love and appreciate that we teamed up and that first round.

700
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:43,960
So if there's more opportunity for that, then I will be welcome that.

701
00:57:44,180 --> 00:57:47,620
Okay, I think we're good on this portion of it.

702
00:57:47,620 --> 00:57:52,500
So I just wanted to get in from, so it sounds like thumbs up from council to move forward

703
00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:57,000
with coming to consent but you'd like to see and have a send-up follow-up email with maybe

704
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,800
the additional context for why decision-making happened. So that doesn't stall us from getting

705
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:07,420
dollars out but helps give you more. And an easy way for council member could search to

706
00:58:07,420 --> 00:58:13,960
recuse. Okay, sounds good. All right and then on the remaining funding that's moving forward into

707
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:18,220
next. That's moving forward into the next

708
00:58:18,220 --> 00:58:22,720
by anium. Thoughts on how to use that funding.

709
00:58:24,140 --> 00:58:25,940
Council President Stewart, I know you had some thoughts.

710
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,080
Sure, thank you so much.

711
00:58:28,220 --> 00:58:32,280
Appreciate the conversation and the consideration that staff provided in the memo.

712
00:58:32,860 --> 00:58:39,360
I'm not sure if we will come to a conclusion today about how best to spend those dollars.

713
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:48,820
I did want to acknowledge and just back up to say I appreciate the alternatives that were listed here and the recommendations and I'm

714
00:58:48,820 --> 00:58:52,760
I imagine we will pursue one or more of those.

715
00:58:53,140 --> 00:58:54,680
But I did want to acknowledge for the Council.

716
00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:02,360
This was a very unique way to fund resiliency for our community by

717
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:10,080
by reserving cost savings from staff positions that were not filled in the biannium in order

718
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:11,140
to fund this.

719
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,080
So there is just one alternative missing from the page that is worth acknowledging

720
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:20,840
a loud, which is we could in fact return the dollars to the general fund and continue to

721
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:21,800
use them.

722
00:59:22,260 --> 00:59:27,100
That's not what I'm suggesting, but I do want to acknowledge that that is an in fact also

723
00:59:27,100 --> 00:59:33,780
a valid use of the dollars in the sense that we have priorities for every single dollar as we've

724
00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:40,480
been discussing today for for the use of taxpayer dollars. For my part in particular, I think

725
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:47,620
it is appropriate to move the $700,000 forward as we continue to experience the instability

726
00:59:47,620 --> 00:59:56,300
that inspired this conversation for this funding and Council has received a couple of capital funding

727
00:59:56,300 --> 00:59:59,980
requests that are also significant on May 21st, the council.

728
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,540
Council received a inquiry related to the wayfinder hub for instance, which is being built by the friends of the village collective.

729
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,920
And that is something that I think does merit conversation here in the council.

730
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:19,440
So, I don't know that we will come to that conclusion today, but those are some of the curiosities I have as we consider caring that.

731
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,020
Those dollars forward. Thank you.

732
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:22,840
Thank you. Other thoughts?

733
01:00:23,420 --> 01:00:24,980
Briefly. Since we're at time.

734
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,080
Council Member Kritzer and then Council Member Procure.

735
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:35,220
I agree that I think there's more conversation to have in the context of the broader budget going forward and how we think about this.

736
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:44,120
I will note on the wayfinder hub, if we did want to think about any uses of this funding at all in this by any,

737
01:00:44,260 --> 01:00:50,240
I do believe that there has been some requests for this year in addition to looking forward on that.

738
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:55,840
So that may more conversation than we have time for at the moment, but I'd be interested in us discussing that more.

739
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,180
Thank you, Council Member Procrea.

740
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:05,780
Just me personally wanted to reiterate back to my last point that I would not feel comfortable

741
01:01:05,780 --> 01:01:11,580
making any decision on how to spend the 700,000 without seeing deliverables from that

742
01:01:11,580 --> 01:01:16,840
or from the organizations on how they first spent the 250,000.

743
01:01:17,420 --> 01:01:23,760
And then for my own thoughts, we set this fund up for a very particular reason and I still want to

744
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:28,580
see it serve that very particular reason personally, but there will be more conversation to

745
01:01:28,580 --> 01:01:28,800
be had.

746
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:30,020
It looks like so.

747
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:34,840
So a question then on, so staff have a recommendation in front of the council, which is

748
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,640
to bring it forward in Q1, because this is related to the staff capacity to get it out this year

749
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:45,040
since we're there managing the human services grant funding that's the regular process, is

750
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:45,420
there.

751
01:01:45,780 --> 01:01:52,280
It sounds like maybe there's interest in having us come back to in this year, but we'll plan

752
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:56,860
moving the funds forward into next year, but whether it's reserved for capital or something else

753
01:01:56,860 --> 01:02:01,340
is something that Council wants to have another time to discuss. Yes, this year. Okay, that's

754
01:02:01,340 --> 01:02:05,000
take away I have from it. Okay, I just want to make sure real line. So we will

755
01:02:06,020 --> 01:02:10,100
let finance know that it will continue to be moved over, but we will follow back up

756
01:02:11,780 --> 01:02:18,440
with options. Yes, and we will see the recommended that we discuss tonight on September 15th.

757
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,360
Yep, and you have any mail following up with the other things, yes, for it.

758
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:30,840
All right, moving on to our last topic for this moment is the Human Services Action Plan.

759
01:02:33,620 --> 01:02:36,460
And Allercan is going to go take notes.

760
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:44,420
Okay, fantastic. So joined here by Ian Leftcore, our principal planner,

761
01:02:44,420 --> 01:02:49,220
in the long range division, and this has been a collaborative effort between the long range

762
01:02:49,220 --> 01:02:54,880
and human services team, because we are going to be combining the housing and human

763
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:59,520
services action plan. So you've got to see that in your attachments and staff is seeking

764
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:05,600
counsel questions and topics ahead of the study session that's scheduled for September 22nd,

765
01:03:05,780 --> 01:03:11,900
and we propose this item being placed on the consent agenda for October 6th, and I will give

766
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:18,060
the microphone over in the end to give a brief overview given the amount of time we have.

767
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:24,200
Thank you, Sarah Fee. Hello, Council members. Message received. This is a combined plan.

768
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:30,700
It combines and updates our previous work from the 2021 Housing Action Plan and our 2022 Human

769
01:03:30,700 --> 01:03:35,860
Services Strategic Plan. We had a series of four presentations earlier through this year about

770
01:03:35,860 --> 01:03:37,960
about how we wanted to frame our conversation.

771
01:03:38,540 --> 01:03:41,680
It focuses around building more housing faster,

772
01:03:42,220 --> 01:03:43,640
getting and keeping people housed,

773
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,400
and connecting, and strengthening our communities.

774
01:03:47,180 --> 01:03:49,220
The plan builds on all of the engagement

775
01:03:49,220 --> 01:03:51,540
from this three previous plans I just discussed.

776
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,580
That's over a thousand different points of community engagement,

777
01:03:55,220 --> 01:03:58,340
questionnaires, tabling, going out and just having conversations

778
01:03:58,340 --> 01:04:00,960
with our community members where they are.

779
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,880
Also included conversations with our human services providers

780
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,080
and our commissions.

781
01:04:06,940 --> 01:04:10,500
The plan refresh specifically the engagement for this project

782
01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:13,800
included 19 interviews with 37 participants, 33

783
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:15,280
let's connect questionnaire responses,

784
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,880
and all of the staff commissions and volunteers

785
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,080
that we previously discussed.

786
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,520
The top community needs are affordable housing,

787
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,200
food insecurity, and homelessness prevention.

788
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:27,560
That second one about food insecurity

789
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:31,280
is one of the key reminders about one of the multi-faceted

790
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,000
components of housing stability.

791
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,100
If gas prices go up, housing stability goes down.

792
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,620
If food cost goes up, housing stability comes down.

793
01:04:38,980 --> 01:04:39,680
It's all connected.

794
01:04:41,420 --> 01:04:47,520
The ask to counsel right now is to provide us with questions and comments that inform our

795
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:56,500
conversation for the upcoming 1922 discussion, matrix and study session that can include comments

796
01:04:56,500 --> 01:04:57,140
and corrections.

797
01:04:57,140 --> 01:04:59,380
Oh, this table was labeled incorrectly.

798
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,800
We'll integrate any feedback we get for those kinds of comments and feedback.

799
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:10,680
Questions about what are the main drivers, data that's interesting? Questions about the plan

800
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:16,220
or the process itself? And of course, possibly the most important, any deep dives into any

801
01:05:16,220 --> 01:05:22,100
of the specific actions and strategies in the plan. So with that, we'll open it up to the council

802
01:05:22,100 --> 01:05:23,100
to start populating.

803
01:05:23,780 --> 01:05:29,980
All right. Thank you so much. Given our amount of time, if everyone wants to just give a

804
01:05:29,980 --> 01:05:32,780
a quick one or two questions for the study session,

805
01:05:32,900 --> 01:05:34,220
and then if you have several,

806
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,720
like I will be emailing my questions to save time.

807
01:05:37,980 --> 01:05:39,100
Council, Vice President, and we have a community.

808
01:05:39,700 --> 01:05:40,300
Thank you.

809
01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:44,120
Thank you, team for the work on this already,

810
01:05:45,100 --> 01:05:46,100
and the direction that it's going

811
01:05:46,100 --> 01:05:48,900
understanding how everything is working together

812
01:05:48,900 --> 01:05:50,120
and how it's all combined.

813
01:05:51,260 --> 01:05:54,800
One of the things I'd like to see kind of reported out on

814
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,260
is we've called out several times the plan

815
01:05:57,260 --> 01:06:00,900
that we have doubled our investment in funding in this.

816
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,980
And I would love to see what are the results

817
01:06:03,980 --> 01:06:08,200
not from a critical, criticizing it,

818
01:06:08,380 --> 01:06:10,920
but more of a, what are the wins that we're celebrating?

819
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,160
As a result of doubling our investment.

820
01:06:15,140 --> 01:06:15,140
Thank

821
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:18,020
you.

822
01:06:18,260 --> 01:06:18,980
Council President Stewart.

823
01:06:19,860 --> 01:06:22,340
Thank you so much all, Sandova, a couple of thoughts.

824
01:06:22,860 --> 01:06:25,260
But one of the main ways I'd like to spend time

825
01:06:25,260 --> 01:06:28,260
in the city session is going through the three goals and strategies

826
01:06:28,260 --> 01:06:47,980
With particular emphasis on what's affirming what's new or what's expanded, I will say that the table left me with a few questions, particularly because it felt like more things should have been marked as expanded efforts, given the language that was used to describe them.

827
01:06:47,980 --> 01:06:58,060
And I'd also like to have that conversation with the focus on why it's valuable to have these two plans integrated.

828
01:06:59,020 --> 01:07:05,240
And then I guess for Brevity I'll say the other piece of feedback that I got from some providers.

829
01:07:06,060 --> 01:07:14,440
And in the community and some conversation is this is an action plan but to what performance standard and by when.

830
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:22,700
I think our previous action plans have been four and five year plans for instance, and this draft

831
01:07:22,700 --> 01:07:27,500
didn't feel as time-bound so it felt a bit more nebulous, so looking forward to having the

832
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:33,810
conversation there. Thank you. Thank you. There's Council Member Kritzer.

833
01:07:34,150 --> 01:07:40,050
I'll send in questions, but I think high level I'm interested to hear how this interacts with

834
01:07:40,050 --> 01:07:45,410
the existing two plans that informed of the human services strategic plan and the housing action

835
01:07:45,410 --> 01:07:54,330
plan what happens to some of the things that are left on the cutting room floor and if it's

836
01:07:54,330 --> 01:08:00,910
possible to highlight any things that did get left out or whether we still use those plans

837
01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:01,890
in different ways.

838
01:08:02,570 --> 01:08:05,290
So I would be interested in that, but also another questions and thanks.

839
01:08:05,850 --> 01:08:06,930
Thank you.

840
01:08:07,670 --> 01:08:07,910
All right.

841
01:08:08,030 --> 01:08:09,930
Hi, level for my take.

842
01:08:10,170 --> 01:08:14,010
I'm really interested in the new Affordable Housing Development Fund and would love to hear

843
01:08:14,010 --> 01:08:20,070
more detail specifically about that and how it's connected to land banking and I will send

844
01:08:20,070 --> 01:08:24,950
my other questions in as well. Council Member Percy. And I will love to see

845
01:08:24,950 --> 01:08:31,110
goals quantified right now. The goals are relatively high level and aspirational but not

846
01:08:31,110 --> 01:08:35,230
in a measurable way. So it would be great to have measurable goals that we're targeting.

847
01:08:36,590 --> 01:08:38,570
Thank you. Council Member Prakri.

848
01:08:40,010 --> 01:08:45,150
And I think just combining what my colleagues, council members, Stewart, and Parti said,

849
01:08:45,410 --> 01:08:51,530
I would love to see quantified goals on a roughly five to ten year time scale, because

850
01:08:51,530 --> 01:08:57,150
I think we have a lot of quantified goals for 2050 that we adopted in our 2050 comprehensive

851
01:08:57,150 --> 01:08:57,770
plan.

852
01:08:58,230 --> 01:09:02,530
But those baby steps to get to 2050 are a little bit more vague, so I would love to see

853
01:09:02,530 --> 01:09:02,770
that.

854
01:09:02,790 --> 01:09:03,730
Thank you.

855
01:09:05,650 --> 01:09:06,530
All right.

856
01:09:07,510 --> 01:09:09,730
That enough, and you should be getting a lot of emails from us.

857
01:09:09,730 --> 01:09:17,230
We can't let emails and just request that we get the emails by Friday, not earlier, because

858
01:09:17,230 --> 01:09:20,210
Close a business Thursday would be terrific. We have a tight turnaround.

859
01:09:20,730 --> 01:09:24,710
Close a business Thursday because we'll need to submit the memo the following week.

860
01:09:26,190 --> 01:09:28,210
Since it's on September 22nd.

861
01:09:28,770 --> 01:09:32,650
So, end of day Thursday, please get your questions to staff.

862
01:09:32,650 --> 01:09:37,750
Send directly to Interim Director Alan and those will get dispersed.

863
01:09:38,910 --> 01:09:41,050
All right. Thank you. Thank you.

864
01:09:41,150 --> 01:09:42,750
And we also had to read.

865
01:09:42,750 --> 01:09:54,570
I read only items the 26 amendment to the King County Countywide planning policies and the storm and stormwater and surface water system plan progress updates.

866
01:09:54,590 --> 01:09:59,210
If you have any questions on those after reading them, please reach out to the appropriate staff.

867
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:04,400
That brings us to the end of our agenda. Thanks, everyone, and we are adjourned.