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Mayor: City Council work study session to order. And will Deputy Mayor Pennington please lead us in the
Deputy Mayor Vic Pennington: flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Mayor: Thank you. This doesn’t seem like a Can I be heard? No. We need some more volume. No. Mayor on the Oh, excuse me. That’s here. It’s good here. Apparently, apparently I have all the volume. Um, I was told that those at home can hear us fine. We’re having some volume issues here. Um, but everybody at home will be able to hear you just fine. Or come to this microphone perhaps. I’ll do my best here, folks. Um, and that means when you do speak, you’re going to have to pull the microphone that’s in front of you close to you. So, um, Council Member Nutting and our city manager are out tonight because they’re not feeling well. And Council Member Buxton is unable to attend tonight’s meeting. So, is there a motion to excuse both council member Buxton and council member [Nutting]?
Council Member: So, moved.
Mayor: I have a motion by council member Bangs, seconded by Council Member [inaudible]. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, “I.”
Mayor: passes 5-0. Excuse me. At this time, we will take uh comments from the public for council rule 10. Comments from the public must be limited to items of business on tonight’s agenda because we are in a work study. When I call your name, please come to the podium. State your name and the city in which you live. You will have three minutes to speak. Our first speaker is Sheila Brush.
Sheila Brush: Hi, good evening everyone. Oh boy, this is loud. I’m gonna break out in song. Um, so thank you. My name is Sheila Brush. I am a resident of Des Moines. I’m also your um representative on the Des Moines aviation committee and your representative on the SeaTac advisory committee up at SeaTac airport. We have um a round table to talk about these growing issues. I’m also the founder of Quiet Skies. So, it’s kind of duality because I advocate but I also have to learn the process. So, I’m here to talk about the disconnect of what is going on. And I only have two minutes so I’m going to be really quick. Um, in 2005 there was a a Washington aviation system plan. We are repeating what has been going on since 2009. And I’m glad Senator Kaiser is here because she was able to pass in 2009. Um, I know it’s it is deja vu a bill. Uh, actually the bill didn’t get passed 5121. But what happened was um they adopted the language on 6304. And in a nutshell, what it did is it identified that we need a new regional airport by 2030 that we’re going to be at capacity. And I think now they’ve stretched it, but they recognized back then um of what it was doing to the communities. Well, they didn’t recognize. Senator Kaiser recognized of what was missing from this aviation study that they did, which we’re doing right now, was not identifying the schools, not identifying the communities, not identifying the impacts of health. The same thing is happening again. Uh I had the good fortune of talking directly with commissioners and I asked them, why is there not citing a new regional airport on your legislative agenda? And their answer was is because we’re waiting for the PSRC. Well, the problem with the Puget Sound Regional Council, which is the mothership of all councils, is they eliminated the sighting of a new regional airport from their body of work. So, we are playing kick the can down the road. I will give thanks to our mayor because at the last Highline Forum when we had the representative Josh Brown from the PSRC give a presentation on the study that they’re doing which is was a ridiculous watered down PR campaign for the port. He at the public at his time to speak was very direct with the Puget Sound Regional Council asking what happened when we met with you. You were going to have citing another regional airport in this study. You removed that. You removed that. Unfortunately, Commissioner Felleman interrupted the conversation and moved on to the next person. So, our mayor could not have open dialogue that was viewed by the public on the disconnect of what happened. And I’ll tell you what happened. You can do records request. The port has such an incredible influence on every elected official whether they know it or not. The power of the port has become too big. The only thing that we can do is become together, become stronger, and recognize the bowling that’s going on. I know currently our council member Matt Mahoney, he sits on a board called the skateboard. It’s a skateboard is all the regional south cities have come together. He once again is trying to get on this legislative agenda the sighting of another regional airport. We tried last year with Councilwoman Debbie Wagner who is very fluent and airport issues with council member uh Peter Kwon from the city of SeaTac again very fluent in airport issues. We were shot down. We were told no. In fact our own Dave Kaplan voted against. Actually he’s not our own because now he works for the port. Dave Kaplan, former mayor, former council person who sat up there time and time again that we might need another regional airport. He said no to putting on the legislative agenda. It was so shocking. We did a records request and in that records request we discovered the back and forth from the government affairs liaison that worked for the port of Seattle, the lobbyists for the port of Seattle and all the local council people on the different committees asking them not to put it on their legislative agenda. These relationships need to end. They’re not relationships. These the Port of Seattle is bullies time and time again. It’s evident in the ACE fund. And I’m going to wrap up the ACE fund. A million dollar tree fund that we were given because they have pulverized our tree canopy. A million dollars. It just came out today in a press release. The cities will receive 550. All the rest, 450,000 will go to admin and PR. It is time to wake up. It is time to play hard ball. It is time to come together. Thank you.
Mayor: Next speaker is Ann Kroeker.
Ann Kroeker: Thank you for fixing the system for me. Um, I’m was going to talk about the uh 2010 uh 2010. This is what happens when you leave your glasses at home. Uh 2019 legislative priorities. Uh oh, thank you for the um for your upcoming which is on your agenda. And oh um whoa I wrote that. So the um I was actually referring uh to your the letter that just that you just had published in the um city current. So that seemed to be um useful to um use that as a as a as a as a as a guideline. But really what I wanted to say is that the city that the um airport lobbyist could be doing I’m I’m not going to talk about the current uh what you have as priorities but what they could do in addition uh because I think sighting is is is so multironged that they need to have other um other uh um subjects ready to go and any of them that came from the letters like following through on the past agreements for the third runway use. Um, uh, any of the any place where the port meeting is at, anywhere there’s a port lobbyist, we need one there. Um, the Puget Sound Regional Council for sure, the meetings as they go forward, the uh, Highline Forum showed very clearly what they needed for push back. um this uh anything to do with the state legislative meetings that has to do with aviation, anything that might have to do with the congress congressional um uh action like the aviation impacted communities um choose um I think it’s department of ecology that does the monitoring uh getting a relationship there to get mon so I I guess what I was just trying to say is like anything that we have started or that the city has started uh to be able to push it through and continue to do that and also So, you know, the the other one was like be there wherever and maybe maybe this doesn’t follow doesn’t uh go down one topic, but maybe it just shows that we have the presence and um that Yeah, that was it. Thank you.
Mayor: And thank you very much. Thank you, Liz Burn.
Liz Burn: Thank you, mayor, for the article aligning our city’s needs regarding CATC and its responsibilities in the winter 2019 city currents. Really appreciate it. That was a great article and I passed it on to all my neighbors. Thank you, council. Please continue working for our residents, health, and future. Thank you, Quiet Skies Advisory Members, for your hard work and dedication. We do need a second regional airport. We do need flight curfew over our city. Uh, I have a question. Where are the closest air quality monitors located? We don’t have any in De Moine. We need them here. And happy holidays to everybody. That’s it.
Mayor: Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mr. JC Harris.
JC Harris: I would ask the council for uh the next the coming year to focus on uh having a full-time aviation professional. You have to have somebody who’s working full-time. Every time that I’m in Olympia, there’s a guy there on every issue representing the port’s interest. The unions are there representing the port’s interests. Um, they are a force. And as I have looked back through the decades, every time the port goes ahead with a construction plan, the community swings boldly into action, as we’re doing now, to try to respond. But that’s already 5 to 10 years too late. The port by the time we get to these open houses and all of these pleasant chats we’re having has already made and implemented their plans. We cannot respond effectively to the port without having an ongoing effort and that means having a full-time person who works on airport issues constantly. If there is one thing that I could get across, it is the notion that we must decouple our efforts in dealing with the airport from any construction plan that the port puts forth. What we do now is we react. Every time they decide to build, we respond. And it’s a sucker’s bet. And As far as a second airport, that’s fine. But the reason there hasn’t been a second airport is not only because of the port’s effort, but look around at your sister cities. They don’t feel the need for that second airport. And unless you fight at the state level and build a coalition, which you need that aviation lobbyists to do, you will never get the other cities to support you to get that airport. It’s not just fighting against the port. You have to get the cities to work with you. Thank you.
Mayor: Okay. Thank you. Um that completes our list of that have signed up to address the study session items. So, I’m going to move forward to emerging issu I’m sorry. Oh, is there a chance I can jump in? Yes.
Steve Edmiston: Hi. Uh uh thank you, Mr. Mayor, city council, uh members of our state uh legislative delegation. I’m Steve Edmiston. Uh just quickly I have a comment that is very specifically related to the agenda that I understand is on the table tonight with respect to establishing our 2019 legislative agenda. And I was looking at the documents and our website and I just wanted to kind of go through a little bit of process just to make one point at the end and and that process is you know looking at our website uh coverage and thinking about this in terms of organizational structure. You know we’re here and we talk about our vision and mission and it essentially that vision and mission are all ways of saying protect our quality of life. That’s number one. And then it trickles down to our goals. And our goals are uh include protect people and prosperity. And our goals include protect the natural environment. And that makes sense to us when we talk about the airport issues. That trickles directly down to what we have identified as our short-term and our long-term objectives for our city, which include two things. One is the sighting of the regional airport that we’ve already heard about, right, and has been on our legislative agenda for years and years and years. Um and second is to oppose further expansion or growth at SeaTac airport until they have mitigated what has already happened. Okay, so that’s the important second part. Why I bring that up is we go back to last year’s legislative agenda in 2018. Those two bullets are on the agenda. One bullet when we talk about the airport is the sighting of the regional airport and the other bullet is to continue to oppose expansion or increase in operations at SeaTac until the current impacts including health and noise are adequately mitigated. So that legislative agenda then trickles down if you look at our intergovernmental policies and procedures for 2018 and you look at numbers 23 and 28 and guess what those two bullets are? stop, you know, get a cited regional airport and oppose further expansion of the airport until we get the mitigation that we need now. And then that trickles down, right? So, it just so this permeates our DNA. It’s been that way for years. On the 2019 legislative agenda that you’re going to consider tonight, I was a little surprised that instead of two bullets, there was only one. And the one bullet was site the regional airport. And the second bullet that says and oppose further expansion of SeaTac airport until we mitigate what has already happened to us isn’t there. I’m guessing it’s probably an oversight and I just want to that’s my point. I encourage you if it’s not an oversight or if it is an oversight to bring it back in. That’s so important because as Mr. Harris said these are different animals. The regional airport’s one issue. everything else we need to do to stop that expansion or to mitigate the current effects, whether it’s nighttime flights, whether it’s how we do the glide slope paths, whether it’s what Miss Kger has talked about. There’s a whole bunch of things. So, I just encourage you, put it back in. If it was intentional, if it was an oversight, put it in so our representatives in Olympia know exactly what our agenda is. Bam. Thank you.
Mayor: Thank you. Okay. I will move us forward at this time to emerging issues and we have um one of our local issues um with the Adriana we have Mr. David Ba here.
David Ba: Hi Mayor and council. Thanks for allowing me to have this time. Uh been a developer for a very long time. I’ve never experienced a city such as De Moines and and this is the first time I’ve ever done this in my 25 years. You are blessed with a building department and a develop or a development department with strong people. Um that project had its issues and your city stepped up and helped us get through them. And if it wasn’t for key people, the Larry’s and the OLS and the Dan and and the utility guys, um you know, that project may have not have happened. And so I wanted to come and thank you, um one for supporting such a cause as affordable housing, but then two, taking the time and energy and coming together as a forprofit and a city municipality and making something happen. you are blessed. I have never in my 25 years experienced the amount of support uh and um just the amount of support and uh working out the issues because we had issues, we had huge issues and the city staff was amazing. uh Tony who’s no longer with us or with the city um you know very early on was very instrumental on making this it’s not easy doing these these deals uh it’s not easy doing the right thing and when the city and the private sector get together amazing things can happen and I tell you what you have some great soldiers that work really hard on making this a reality and and I just wanted to come and say Okay, I’m we’re glad to be here. The building filled up in 90 days, so there’s definitely definitely was a huge need for it. and um and thank you for allow us to be in your city and to be supportive and and I just uh I should have come down here months ago and you know I just wanted to say merry Christmas and and thanks again for all the hard work you your city and city staff do to make De Moines a better and stronger community. And uh that’s all I have. Thanks.
Mayor: Thank you very much. We’re glad you’re here. It takes us forward to um the police and citizen acknowledgements. These are one of the This is one of the fun um aspects of of the job on the on the council. We get to recognize some folks for outstanding work. I just have some things I want to read here because I I think the magnitude of the story bears bears paying attention to the words. In the early evening of October 28th, 2018, a vehicle entered the frigid waters of Puet Sound from a boat ramp at Red Roondo. Several De Moines police officers responded to the 911 call. When master police officer Doug Weeble arrived, he could see the car floating in the water just a few yards from the boat ramp. Seeing a citizen in the water attempting to rescue any occupants in the vehicle, Master Police Officer Weeble removed his police gear, put on his personal flotation device, and entered the water. Master police officer Weeble swam to the vehicle and tried to get the driver of the vehicle out. Neither he nor the citizen were able to remove the driver before the vehicle sank. A dive team arrived and was able to remove the only occupant from the car who was then transported to a local hospital. Right after that call, still soaking wet in in from the freezing cold water, police officer Weeble then responded to another high priority incident which happened to have been the unfortunate homicide at Roondo Square. It’s my honor to present this award of merit to master police officer Doug Weevil and to recognize him for his efforts to rescue the occupant of the vehicle in the water in Redondo of OC on October 28th, 2018. I’d also like to thank and acknowledge the citizen who I was told drove off I’m sorry, who I was told drove off the fishing pier when he saw the car in the water and tried the citizen that tried to help get the other people out. Sorry, I twisted my words. We’ve tried many times to contact this individual and let them know that we wanted to recognize them, but we haven’t been successful. We will continue to reach out to them, but the bottom line is it’s humbling, but it’s a great opportunity to say thank you. So tonight, I would like to present this award of merit to Master Police Officer Doug Weeble in recognition for his efforts to rescue the occupants of the vehicle in the water in Redondo on October 28th, 2018.
[Recognition ceremony continues]
Mayor: I think and now I will wait that doesn’t seem like enough you know sorry I get hung up on that so uh now I will give the podium um over to Sher Verberg
Sheri Verberg: Well, hi Mayor Pina, city council members, city staff, and guests. I’m Sheri Verberg, 2018 chair of the De Moines’s Arts Commission and I’m joined by Vice Chair Michelle Faucet and our 2019 chair elect Marcus Williams and we are here to do an update uh to city council. So, oh, so this was our 2018 commission and our support staff. So, I mean support staff, our adviserss, best volunteer group I think I’ve ever worked with. It was an amazing year and council member Bangs and Susan Cesar and Shannon Kerchburg uh certainly provided all the direction, support and encouragement allowing us to continue on and uh do our mission here in the city. So, what’s our mission you ask? We decided to establish De Moines as a center for the arts is crisp and clear and we repeat it every chance we get because our vision in the long term is that De Moines is recognized for its advancement of vibrant arts and culture and through all of the activities and projects that we undertake that’s going to enable us to get there. So, we established four um goals on top of that to help guide us this year. The first one to improve diversity and access to the city through the arts as measured by our surveys. That is an ongoing thing and that’s what Michelle’s going to address when we get to our uh concerts in the park uh segment. Our second to communicate with the city council on a quarterly basis. We did pretty good. 75% actually because our second quarter ran right into our third quarter and we were so we kept saying, “Well, we’ll wait till we complete this and then we’ll come talk and we’ll wait till we complete this.” But I know they know we weren’t just um avoiding it because they were all at our events all the time. So, they know we were keeping busy. So, we’re here now. and then to increase donations uh 20% over previous year because we were hoping to keep raising the level of what we’re able to provide to our community and Michelle will touch on this as well. Um we more than exceeded that uh amount and even more importantly we exceeded our uh thoughts for increasing attendance at our events. words getting out and then to develop a marketing plan and that is where Marcus in a moment is going to share with you our marketing plan and our social media update.
[Arts Commission presentation continues with Michelle Faucet and Marcus Williams providing updates on concerts, events, and social media metrics]
Mayor: So, it’s it’s my pleasure at this time to award Sher Verberg the certificate of appreciation from the city. Um, you did an outstanding job. You really did. And, uh, you can tell by the the the company that you brought with you and the way you have brought the program forward is just amazing. Thank you very much. You’re so lucky.
[Council business and appointment confirmations]
City Attorney Tim George: Yeah, I’ll just uh kick off in the packet. We’ve got um we’ve identified three legislative priorities for the city for 2019. Uh I’ll cover the first one here, which is the North Marina Bulkhead project. U 2018 we were authorized uh $2 million from the state legislature. Um yeah as part of the capital budget. Uh at this point the project is about 60% complete in design and we’re working on our permits. Um hope to be under construction on the project uh mid 2019. The issue that we have is that the appropriation uh expires uh at the end of June 2019. So we’ll need to get the the 2 million reauthorized as part of the budgeting process for next year. We believe that’s an administrative process uh through the Department of Commerce. Uh but if if there’s issues with that, we may need some help on making sure that the funding that we have to complete the North Bulkhead stays in place. So here this diagram you can see the north bulkhead that we’re talking about. Everything in red is uh what we’re planning to go to construction with next uh next year. And then phase two to kind of complete the bulkhead work. It’s currently unfunded. That’ll we’ll pick that up once the north bulkhead is complete. The focus right now is just to get our current appropriation reappropriated into the next construct the project. Before we move forward, we’re going to describe what’s on our legislative priorities. But um this is our chief operations officer, Dan Brewer, who didn’t introduce himself yet. So for those of you who may not know him, I wanted to make sure you did get his name. And now I’m going to turn over to our our city attorney.
City Attorney Tim George: Mayor Tim George, city attorney for De Moines. Um I’m going to talk about the next two. Um so SCORE, uh for those that don’t know, is the South South Correctional Entity Regional Jail and it’s located in the city of De Moines, but there’s seven member cities. Um, and currently SCORE has a contract with the Department of Corrections to house um administrative violators for the DOC. Um, and under state law, the maximum amount per night per inmate is capped. Uh, so the maximum that DOC can pay to score is capped at $85 per night. um member cities as we are we’re an owner, we pay more than that. Um and so do the contract cities that contract with us to house their inmates there. So essentially at this point the city as well as the other cities um are subsidizing the inmates from the department of corrections. SCORE needs department of corrections inmates um but the uh the subsidy is creating an unsustainable uh situation. So, um, I’m going to hand this out. This is a worksheet that we have that provides some additional background on this topic. But, um, the big ask at the state legislature will be to, um, amend those caps so that the Department of Corrections can pick up additional costs to pay for the actual costs of what what the states are. And there’s a couple issues that are identified in there, but that is one of the asks at the state level and uh currently the city is working with the coal coalition including all of the score cities uh to push this this issue. Um the final issue is the public was here and discussed is citing a second regional airport in Washington. I would like to thank our the city has an aviation advisory committee. Uh two of those members spoke tonight, I would like to thank Steve Edmonson and Sheila Brush for speaking on this issue. Additionally, those members that are that didn’t speak tonight, Dr. Wendy, Mark Prow, and David Clark have been especially helpful in identifying and helping to address airport issues for the city. Um, as uh the council heard and as our state legislators heard, this is a very important issue for our residents. Um, and it has been an important issue going back historically. And the position of the city is that the It’s a crit critical aspect providing relief for airport impacts u that a second regional airport be cited outside of this region. Um and just for the council to address the issue that was brought up by airport uh our aviation advisory member Steve Edmonston. The issues that are identified tonight are specifically the issues that the city council is asking our state legislators, state legislators um to work at the state level. Um the issue of opposing further airport growth is an issue that city council staff as well as our aviation advisory committee has made clear will be a priority moving forward. So that that completes our summary of these three issues that were identified for discussion.
Mayor Matt Pina: So, there’s a couple pieces that I think um in the past we’ve had a very long list for you and uh me I believe in one of your first visits here you said you’d really like to know what you really want to focus on because there’s a lot of stuff and I’m sure that with other cities around you all very long list. Okay. Um we are looking at these are the key issues for the city of De Moines. Um it’s not to say that those other issues aren’t important, but these are really paramount. And on the uh I’m going to I’m going to make the u airport issues my third the third portion I want to talk about. But you know the marina it’s essential to this region for emergency management. Um and and that that support is is really really necessary. Um I think recently we have understood that it may be able we may be able to get the extension through an administrative act and but we may need your support if it’s not as easy as we’re being led to. Is that correct? Okay. Um I mean aside from the emergency management which is absolutely paramount to this region um in terms of we can land helicopters there. We can fuel vehicles. We have 30,000 additional gallons of fuel there. We can refill those tanks from the water side if the landside is unavailable. There’s no I mean there’s there’s a variety of things that we can do there. Um from the score issue, you know, the biggest challenge is this imbalance, the $85 a day cap. There’s it’s more than just um misdemeanor incarcerations. There’s a series of services that SCORE has a tendency to provide. And um it is noted a cafeteria style model. So if someone comes in and they need you know drug treatment or something like that that that that um that should be an additional cost. Uh the bottom line is though the differentiation between the $85 and per night and what’s okay but the u the contract cities are between 124 and 180 a day and ours is probably And what that causes is is a huge gap. So the member cities and and the other participants are are having to pay more. And frankly that’s led to federal way making the decision that they’re pulling out. And one more thing to add. So our annual cost at score even though our average daily population has remained around the same has doubled. Um, so we were paying around 450,000 a few years ago. This year we’re going to be paying close to 900,000. So, and then um on on the second regional airport. Yeah, I I I appreciated Sheila brush talking about the fact that I did try to bring this out. There’s an enormous issue when within the community because when PSRC came forward and that second regional airport sighting was in the study and then it got taken out, the trust of the community is gone. They’ve already been trying to regain some trust because of the the way the third runway happened and with and there was a there were moments of of being optimistic. Well, because of where things stand right now, there isn’t a lot of faith and there isn’t a lot of trust. And so we are looking to our leaders both in DC and in Olympia for help. um the the eroding community confidence, the the expansion of CTAC right now um can be having an impact on on some of our development and in in in the uh business part um and and just where we stand right now. This is a this is a great challenge. Um but we’re doing well and keep in mind, you know, The goal of this council and this administration is to secure De Moines’s future and make us sustainable and make us the no longer the city of potential but the city with realized potential. And these are key issues that are preventing us or or at least making it very difficult and extremely expensive to get there. So enough from us. One of the things that I want to ask is is putting it in this shorter format helpful and is there would you like to see something else or is there more that you need? Um I do want to follow up with on Steve Edmonson’s comment. The the opposition of CATAC expansion as our city attorney said we will continue to address. However, I do think that if there’s work that can be done at the Olympia level to say or at the DC level that says no, you can’t go forward until you’ve mitigated what you’ve what you’re already doing, then that would be that’s something that we would definitely ask for. Um, looking around the table, seeing not. So, again, I I at this point want to hear your impressions. Now, you waited very patiently and now we hit you with the list.
Senator Karen Keiser: push the button and get going here. Thank you for inviting us, updating us, and keeping us in the conversation. Uh, I know the airport is on the top line of all of our thinking, but just to step back and and reassure you, I am I’m quite confident we can get the bulkhead funding reauthorized. just continue to work with me on that and um clarify why we haven’t spent it all yet so that we know there’s a reason. one of them obviously that the capital budget was delayed and so that’s a good good reason but any other hang-ups or obstacles we need to know about and also give me a heads up if you would about what your phase two um likelihood of an ask will be so I can sort of put that in the queue for the next capital budget coming down the road. So backing up to that on the score um score problem It is a problem. It’s a really serious problem. Uh I I think the additional ask of a $7 million ask will be a very hard heavy lift and we’re going to have to figure out some alternatives to that. I don’t know what that is. I’m no expert on jails, but I’ll work with you on seeing what we can do to mitigate. I’m sorry to hear that Federal Way is not partnering that the more cities we have obviously in the the better we can all share um the costs and opportunities. So that’s um that’s a step backwards. Maybe we can step forward some other way. Um now to the airport. As you know, I’ve been working on this one for a long time. We did this study in 2009 that included that there should be planning for a second regional airport. Um there has been a reluctance to admit to that. So One other thing that’s we’ve done is to help fund and get Payfield operational for passenger service. It will start in early 2018 with 24 flights a day. Um, and we work very hard to get that up and functional. Once it gets to 24 flights, it will increase and Payfield will increase incrementally. We will, I don’t think, get to a full second regional airport, but it will grow. So, let’s focus on helping that facility get operational for more passenger service over the next few years. Um, the um the other element of the airport that I’ve been working uh with uh Representative Roarwall on is to make our case, a strong case about the disadvantage our communities are facing in our health and safety. Uh we have an ultrafine particulate study underway. My um ask going into this next session will be to undertake a full scale public health study of our airport communities with the King County Public Health Department as well as the W Department of Design Science and Occupational Science. So um the the vision right now finish complete the ultrafine study, take those findings and then begin the public health survey and then take that those two reports and put them on the table for mitigation as well as for the argument that we are disproportionately disadvantaged as citizens of our state by the burden of operations and continued growth at SeaTac airport. That gives us I think both um legislative standing and also legal standing if we want to pursue legal action and that’s another option. We’ve done that before. It has its effects. It’s very costly but it also has its effects and we can judge over time here whether we want to go down that road but it’s an option to consider. Stop talking.
Representative Mia Gregerson: Could I just introduce my new colleague? I was just going to say I you know these conversations are oftentimes um because we we see each other around here very casual and I I’m terribly sorry um c can can we just just because we have cameras and people at home right will see you um probably ought to raise your hand when I but uh state representative Mia Gregerson state senator Karen Kaiser state representative Mia Gregerson and Tina Tina Owa oh my god Gosh, Mia, you’re here twice. I can’t believe I did that. Wow. Okay, sleep is really a commodity these days. And my new colleague is Senator Claire Wilson from the 30th district.
Mayor: Thank you. And I I want to introduce from Congressman Congressman Adam Smith’s office, his district representative, M Miss Shakisha Ross. So, thank and and And we have our legislative act advocates here. We have Connor Edwards and Anthony Hson. Um, one of the things I’d like to do, I’m going to take this microphone and move it over closer to Shakisha so we can keep going. But, um, yeah. U, yes, please.
Representative Tina Orwall: Well, first I want to say thank you. We really appreciate our partnership with the city of De Moine and I know there’s so many important issues that we work on together. So, I want to thank you for your leadership and for the community participation as well. It’s pretty incredible community we have here. Um, so I just want to, you know, second what uh Senator Kaiser said about the capital budget. We don’t see that being a seems like we can really move forward on that. The airport stuff, there is a lot going on there and we’re in a number of meetings and I do want to acknowledge Congressman Adam office. They’ve been great partners with us because really a lot of things we’re looking at really involve local, state, and federal government partnerships. And so, um, the one thing I would kind of build on, so that just to kind of clarify, the ultra fine particle study is an 18-month study and we started last January. So, it’s got another six months to go, but I really appreciate Karen partnering up and saying, you know, we’re going into a full budget cycle. we need to go after the dollars that we need for some of the next steps now, right? And not wait till the report’s actually done. So we, you know, so I think knowing that we need the Department of Health to step in. Right now we have money at the state level and they’re looking at articles um related to the impact of ultra fine particles, but we do need to go and look at our region as far as health conditions. And so I don’t think that’ll be all the recommendations that come out of that study, but that’s one we wanted to make sure there was money in the budget. Um, there’s also the air pack the airport impact study going on and I really appreciate it’s been a great partnership with the cities and the community and we’re I wasn’t able to go to the last meeting but I know we’re trying to look at the scope of work and next steps and that’s another opportunity as a community to really look at the both the impact but al also the opportunities we have uh to really make sure that the community gets what it needs and other opportunities. The one thing that Senator Kaiser didn’t really mention as well is the cargo because the cargo study which I think was your bill um but we all three of us have been participating in that um you know there’s some next steps going into the session around department of commerce and having someone who’s designated to work on this issue. I think there’s some exciting opportunities. I mean having participated you know Moses Lake is very excited about this and being a location. So we want the Department of Commerce to be working other locations. Um they may need some additional um infrastructure and things to make that happen. So I just wanted to kind of highlight that as well. Yeah. Um so that’s so there’s a lot going on and a lot of community involvement and I think trying to figure out these partnerships because there’s going to be a lot of next steps and there’s I think I appreciate Sheila like we got to kind of manage all this right to make sure we’re all moving in the right direction because there’s going to be a lot of advocacy with all of our partners coming Um the last thing is on the the score. Um this kind of the first I’m seeing it. It would be helpful to have a lot more information. That’s a pretty big price tag. And so I don’t know if you’ll be doing a joint ask from the other cities. Um and kind of but I feel like I I need to kind of learn more to be able to advocate effectively on that. That’s it.
Mayor: So we’ll get you additional information. Okay. Thank you. And I don’t know at some point if you want to hear other things we’re working on that we think may potentially impact the area site. Um you know some some other issues. One is a lot of people are still struggling with property taxes. So we’re there’s work some of our members are looking at the expansion of some of assistance to like seniors and other people that may be struggling with property taxes. I’m working on a tax lean foreclosure bill to allow
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