Environmental Services Commission - Regular Meeting

It is 06:30PM. I called the May first environmental services commission meeting to order. Next, I will do a roll call. Commissioner one is ex absent excused. Commissioner DePertis, are you online?

Not online yet.

Okay. If you can please let me know once he's joined. Commissioner Luterman? Present. Thank you. Commissioner Laxon? Present. Thank you. Commissioner Margolis?

Present.

Thank you. And commissioner Hainosh? Present. Thank you. Good evening, and welcome to the May first environmental services meeting. First on the agenda, we have approval of the agenda.

I move to approve the agenda. Any

objections? Hearing no objections, the agenda is approved as motioned. We go right into oral and written communications. Oral and written communications are now open. Remember, there's a three minute time limit per person and thirty minutes total per meeting.

Public comment shall be limited to matters relating to City of Bellevue government and to subject matters encompassed within the power and duties of the Commission. Persons participating in Commission meetings must not engage in speech or conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any meeting. Disruptions may include and are not limited to failure of a speaker to comply with the commission bylaws concerning public comment. In compliance with Washington state campaign laws regarding the use of public facilities during elections (RCW 42.17A. Five fifty five), no speaker may support or oppose a ballot measure or support or oppose a candidate for an election, which includes your own campaign.

Any speaker who begins discussing topics of this nature will be asked to stop. Joe, are there any written communications?

There are no written communications.

Okay. And, mister Zimmerman, I see you've registered Yes. To speak. You very much. Come on up.

Thank you very much.

Sorry. I don't have choice. You can open time. I'm okay, Vince. No problem. Okay. Nazi, stop a fascist. You know what this mean? In mob in Bandita. My name Alex Zimmerman. I'm president of Stand Up America, Trump supporter from beginning. I'm a member. I have six thousand day of trespass, ninety day trespass from Bellevue, yeah, from mayor Robinson. And I Bellevue prosecute me for for my time. I won't speak about water, guys, because water is very serious problem, but as we have.

It's a fundamental problem. And I'm very happy. So Trump administration right now talking about this very critical. Because ingredient, what is we have in water right now is a nightmare. This can easy works, for example, can easy bring you to cancer. Easy. So I, for example, right now for last few year, you know what this mean? Because I have similar situation before, start going shower only one time per week. It's very dangerous. It florox flurry flurry is Trump administration talking about this?

It's a serious problem. It absolutely don't have sense. The water very dirty right now. Sometimes I need in my apartment, I need open a think, you know, what this mean? Wait for five, ten minute because it's all pardon shit. We'll be go out. And after this, we can doing this. It's a number one. It is critical if we need doing something about this. Second, what is I want talking about Conrad Lee? Conrad Lee, in a environment, what is we have right now, Zizkov same condition because he stand for thirty two years. And from my understanding, next week, we you will go

Mister Zimmerman, I'm gonna stop you. Did you listen and understand the rules of conduct and not being able to speak about the candidates?

He's not candidate. Condorantly, candidate.

Okay.

Sorry. I will be candidate next week, but he not candidate first. You guys still spoke about him.

Okay.

I'm so sorry, guys. You understand? I never broken a red line. I'm staying for this business for forty year. Yeah. I know him for thirty from '96, first year, but he's elected '95. Yeah. Exact. So situation, what does he have right now for thirty two year? What is key in the environment commission probably many year too? He don't do nothing. It's make me absolutely sick. You know what this mean? Because he's staying for a long time. He very quiet about this.

Water need be more clean. Right now, I'm very happy. So Trump administer administration come to this very close because people about Florox in Florida talking about this for many year. I know this because I I speak from Tacoma to over at 5,000 time, and I see many people talking about this. So I wanted to right now speak to everybody. Sorry so you cannot see my face. People in in Belvieu Hundred 50 we were Trump. We were new American revolution. Stand up 120,000 from Jungle. Thank you very much.

Thank you, mister Zimmerman.

Yeah. I very appreciate you.

Thanks. Yeah.

Has commissioner DePurgis

joined? Yes. Let me bring him on. He's he's here. Andy, you wanna do a sound check?

Commissioner DePertis, can you hear us?

I can hear you. Can you hear me?

Yes. K.

I'm I'm present. Sorry sorry for being late.

No worries. Thank you. For the purpose of minutes, commissioner Dupuyt has joined at 06:36PM. Would anyone in attendance like to speak? If so and you're attending remotely, please use the raise your hand feature in Zoom. Or if you're joining via phone, press 9.

Billy.

K. Thank you. Council member Lee is not here at the moment. Joe, do you have any staff reports for the evening?

We do have a staff report. Lucy Liu, our director.

Good evening, chair. Come on, cheers. On behalf of council member Lee, who is not able to make it tonight, as well as the Bellevue Utilities Department, I just want to recognize chair Vanya Nesovic for her term as her term on the Environmental Services Commission comes to a close at the end of this month. Vanya was appointed to the commission in 2017 and became vice chair in 2018 and has serviced here since 2019. She has provided steady and forward thinking leadership, as utilities navigated through complex challenges and made, meaningful progress in our work.

Under her leadership, the commission has advised on four, successful budget cycles and on major rate setting decisions and as well as the implementation of the bill assistance programs, for residents that are in financial need. Vanya has championed equitable access, to essential utility services, including our neighbors helping neighbors assistance program that we, stood up recently. She played a central role in guiding the discussion of the city's emergency water supply master plan as well as the long term funding strategies for our infrastructure renewal and replacement. Her deep knowledge of utility operations, commitment to sound policy, and just care for our community, has been hallmarks of her service on the commission. So, Vanya, we are so grateful, for your legacy of just thoughtful, impactful leadership.

You've made a lasting difference in how W's utility serves our community. And so thank you very much for your years of dedicated service. And in addition, thank you to all the commissioners for all your continued, support and partnership.

Thank you. Thought about writing notes so I can, you know, sound smart, but I it just didn't happen. I appreciate it, and it's been an honor to be here for last eight years. Of course, I'm sad.

This is why I wasn't gonna talk.

I've learned a lot from each and every one of you. I've grown significantly over the last eight years, and I'm thankful to all of you. So thank you.

Thank you. Well, we really appreciate, all your leadership, and and don't be a stranger. You know where to find us. Thank you.

Oh, I guess it's back to me. Okay. Next, we have approval of minutes. The first up, we have approval of March 6 minutes. If I can have a motion. Thank you.

I move to

approve the March 6 minutes.

Second. Any objections? Hearing no objections, minutes approved as motioned. Next up, we have minutes from 04/03/2025 meeting.

Approve the April. Second.

Any objections? Hearing no objections, the minutes are approved as motioned, and we go right into our water system plan update presentation.

Good evening, commission. Eric Lafrance, utilities planning manager, and I'm, it's my pleasure to introduce our new water engineer that we have got to come aboard on in Bellevue. I worked with Jim in Sammamish for a number of years, and so I knew he was gonna be good, and he has proven to be such in his short time here. But with that, I'll let him pull up his presentation and and get started with the water system plan. Thank you.

Yep. Working through this for the first time, so bear with me.

Alright. Great. Thank you for that introduction. Thanks.

I'm chair and and commissioners. I'm glad to be here and excited to be starting on this journey serving, community of Bellevue. And so our meeting objectives for the night. Last November, Eric gave an introduction to the three system plans for water, wastewater, and stormwater. And tonight, we're here to discuss the efforts to update the water system plan.

This is only an informational briefing, so there isn't anything to approve tonight. Although we would love to hear any initial thoughts or questions regarding the update. Our agenda for tonight is to talk briefly on a number of topics. We'll cover the process for updating the plan. We'll look at population growth trends.

We'll cover some elements of elements of the water system, and we'll touch on past and future work. We'll talk briefly on the different categories of water system policies. And we're still in the early stages of effort. So thinking of when Eric introduced the utility system plan back in November is flying at the 5,000 l 5,000 foot elevation. We're still flying close to that elevation and staying out of the weeds.

Operating the water system is like a revolving ten year project management cycle of plan, do, check, and act. Our last water system plan update started in 2014 and was considered complete in 2017. Now we've come full circle in the management process, and it's time to review and reset for the next ten years. So why do we go through this effort? Well, for one, it's legally required.

But more important, it's just a good thing to do to ensure we're providing great service to ratepayers, relying on us to keep high quality water flowing with flowing from the taps. And, also, system planning helps us identify current demands and future needs of the system. This effort improves our efficiency and minimizes costs and protects the community. These are the stages of effort that we'll be stepping through to update the plan. We're currently working to update the system description, which is basically a summary of the service area history and the system components.

We're also in the initial stages to review and update system capacities and projections for water service demand. It's a two year long process which just started this past January. The heavy lift performed the analysis and provide recommendations is happening this year. Majority of next year involves review and coordination with other agencies and leads up to plan approval in early twenty twenty seven. So before the city of Bellevue Incorporated, local water localized water districts were drawing water from wells and lakes to serve the areas of local community developments.

The map on the left shows historic water districts and the complicated boundaries between them. And then fast forward today to today, and we have a much less colorful map on the right. Most of the water districts within the city Of Bellevue have merged into one large public water system, which is managed by Bellevue Utilities. The Hilltop community, which is that hole in the center of the map just south of I 90, it has its own water source. And there's also a small neighborhood on the North Side of town with its own water source also.

Most of the water districts that serve communities on the West Side of the city, like Medina and Hunts Point and Yarrow Point, they've been assumed by Bellevue. But the town of Po Arts is is, the only community that continues to maintain its own water source. As that I don't know if you can see it very closely, but that's that there's a tiny little spot just off of Mercer Island above I 90. On the Southeast Edge of Bellevue, there's a pocket of King County that is within our water service area. It's currently not part of our retail service area, but soon could be if it's annexed into Bellevue.

I don't know if you're familiar with the distinction of, service areas and retail service areas, but retail service areas is the area that we have a responsibility to to provide water to. Where service area is is just an area sort of like annexation areas that are like, the potential annexation areas, that's the same as a future service area, unless that that's like that little pocket of of King County. For the most part, Bellevue Utilities retail service area has been expanding. Occasionally, it shrinks. The South Cove neighborhood, which is just inside the city of Issaquah, that's that I don't know if you can tell us that little pocket of green, down by the, where you can see Issaquah up on the map.

A South Cove neighborhood, was just transferred to Issaquah a few years ago, but we still have a few items to address related to that transfer. So drinking water for the service areas provided by regional sources. Bellevue is a member of Cascade Water Alliance made up of seven different cities and water districts. And Cascade purchases water from Seattle Public Utilities, who sources most of its water from large watersheds. The watersheds are the green areas that are up on the map.

One is the Tolt Tolt River Reservoir, and the other one is the Cedar River Watershed. Those are the primary sources of of water, and the and the area of those watersheds totals over a 160 square miles in size. And if you've ever hiked to the top of Rattlesnake Ledge near North Bend, you can actually look to the Southwest and see Chester Moores Lake in in the Cedar River Watershed. This lake can store over 13,000,000,000 gallons of water. That that picture is up at the top of, Rattlesnake Lake, and and just barely in the distance up on the top of the picture is where you can see Chester Moores Lake.

Okay. Now we're gonna trans transition into, population growth. So this chart shows a comparison of population growth estimates between the 2016 water system plan and the current plan update that we're working on. The hatched columns show estimated numbers for milestone years, and those are numbers of population. And the solid columns show actual population numbers that have been reported.

Both plans utilize population data developed for the city's comprehensive plan, which was updated back in 2014 and then just recently in 2024. The most recent cons comprehensive plan update included adjustments for anticipated growth targets and recent state laws impacting housing densities. So looking at the population within the service areas, two trends are apparent. In the past years, population has been growing faster than anticipated. The 2024 population report exceeded past projections by almost 10,000 people and approximately 77% higher than what was anticipated.

Then looking forward, population growth is anticipated to be even higher than previously projected. Between now and 2044, we're anticipating close to 75,000 more people within the service area. We also look at service demands for jobs or the number of people working within Bellevue, and job numbers are also growing. Employment numbers in 2024 were near a 150,000, and they're anticipated to grow to 220,000 by 2044. Our community development department has been working to predict where all of this future growth will occur.

The city subdivided into 16 different neighborhoods, and anticipated growth has been distributed between the neighborhoods. This distribution is heavily influenced by land use designation, which is determined through the city's larger comprehensive planning efforts. The largest changes are anticipated to occur in the downtown BellRed and Wilburton neighborhoods, which now have the sound transit light rail running through them. And those three neighborhoods are the ones that are are highlighted up near the center of the map. For most of the other neighborhoods and for the communities outside of Bellevue that are within our water service area like Medina and Hunts Point, population employment numbers are anticipated to remain relatively constant.

So while we're tracking changes to population and employment, we're also tracking the amount of water that flows through our system. And an interesting trend is that while population has increased, water use has generally decreased. From 2005 to 2025, Bellevue's population increased by approximately fifty fifty thousand people. But in that same time frame, with a few ups and downs, which you can see on the graph, the annual retail water consumption, which is the amount of water that is metered to the customers, has decreased from almost 5,100,000,000 gallons to 4,800,000,000 gallons. In fact, water use has been decreasing since the nineteen eighties.

In 1987, the max consumption was 39 the max day consumption was 39,000,000 gallons. And last year, the max day consumption was down to 28,000,000 gallons, almost a 25% reduction in. Much of this improvement in water conservation can be attributed to programs and public education effort to reduce water use and to changing development trends, from single family to multifamily development. The largest future efficiencies will likely be recognized through continued changes to land use that promote multifamily development. And the important message of this graph is that a population increase does not directly correlate to a water demand increase.

While it is likely that water demand will increase, it will likely be at a slower rate than population growth. This is the other big question that we'll be investigating. Is there enough water, and do we have enough facilities to accommodate anticipated growth? So that image up on on the right, won't talk about all the numbers that are up there, but that that image is is a graphic of our whole system. And all of the different colors that you see, those are our our pressure zones.

The the blue lines that you see are the transmission lines that deliver the water from from the reservoirs from Toll River and and Cedar River. And then all of those little dots, the rectangles, squares, and triangles, those are those are our essentially, point assets, like the reservoirs, the pump stations. And then the white light the white lines that you see are all of the the local transmission water main lines or the distribution lines. I would like to highlight how this is a complex system. The pipe network spans a service area of over 36 square miles and almost 1,400 feet of elevation change, which requires a significant number of pressure zones to the water flowing at just the right amount.

I'd also like to highlight our operations and maintenance teams. I've only been here for a short time, but it's clear that that that the crew has an immense knowledge and understanding of how the water system functions. And it's exciting to see the passion and commitment they have for their work and the service they provide to the community. Evaluating our water reservoirs will be an important element of the analysis. The system currently has over 41,000,000 gallons of storage capacity, but it's spread out across the service area in 24 different reservoirs, and all of these have a limited surface service area.

What we'll be looking at is if the existing storage is in the right place and if there's enough capacity to accommodate the increasing demands. This schematic shows how a reservoir fits within the water system. There's a sweet spot for elevation above the area it serves. Place it too high above the homes, and the pressure in the pipes can be damaging. Place it too low, and there's not enough pressure to fight fires or take a good shower.

There's also a sweet spot for capacity. Make it too big and water sits in the storage for too long and the quality of water is reduced. Make it too small and there's not enough volume to handle the daily fluctuations in water to fight fires or provide emergency supply in the event of a natural disaster. The schematic also shows the five components of storage that we evaluate, operation, storage, equalizing storage, standby, sometimes referred to as emergency storage, fire suppression storage, and and dead storage. Dead storage, there's nothing wrong with that water.

It's it's it's simply something that we refer to for the water that's that's in the tank that can't be used. Oftentimes, it's because the the outflow pipe is at elevation above the the floor of the tank, and there's no way to get the water out without opening up the opening up the tank and pumping it out. Each one of these components has unique requirements for determining the proper amount of water volume needed. Volume requirements can be impacted by regulatory changes and policy changes. So this gets us into projects.

The utilities department has accomplished a significant amount of work since the last system plan update. You'll see on on the slide a list of highlights. Projects completed that led to increase in increases in flow capacity, have increased resiliency by replacing high risk water mains, and improving or replacing reservoirs and pump stations to make them seismically resilient. The photo up there is of a the Pikes Peak Reservoir, which was just recently reconstructed. Other projects have improved metering of water use or balanced water pressure within the system.

And while a lot has been accomplished, there's still much more to do, which we will be discussing with you later this year after our system analysis is complete. Some work will be continuation of projects highlighted in the previous plans, such as the new Maidenbauer South Reservoir. It's currently in design and planned for completion by 2030. Some will be new projects needed to address growing population. A number of initial studies were recommended in the last plan update and have spurred project development.

This graphic, for instance, is a product of the recently completed emergency well siting study. Green the green highlights areas of good potential for emergency wells, and the red denotes areas of low potential. Fortunately, the Crossroads wells that we are planning to rehab for emergency use happen to be in one of the green areas. And then many of these studies also require continued effort, such as working with Department of Ecology to clarify water rights as part of the emergency water supply master plan and securing additional emergency well sites. Continuing with our goal to replace five miles of high risk water main every year.

Our effort to update the water system plan will also likely result in recommendations for additional studies. We have almost 50 system policies that guide the daily decisions we make to manage the water system in the service area. These these policies fit within three categories, technical policies, managerial policies, and financial policies. The technical policies address the design, operation, and maintenance of the water system infrastructure to ensure safe and reliable water service. Our requirement to maintain a minimum surface pressure of 30 PSI under normal conditions or 20 PSI during emergency conditions is a technical policy.

Managerial policies focus on the administration and governance of the water utility, including organizational structures, staffing, customer service standards, and emergency response planning. An example of this is our service extension policy, which states that water services will be extended to unserved areas of the water service area if the city's costs are reimbursed and sufficient financial resources are available. Financial policies pertain to the fiscal aspects of the water system, such as budgeting, rate setting, capital improvement planning, and financial sustainability. Rate policies, for instance, require that rates are set at levels sufficient to cover current and future expenses and maintain reserves for long term financial forecasts. To plan for long term funding, we estimate operating capital and renewal and replacement costs for a seventy five year period.

We'll be reviewing the systems or the system policies this fall, and we'll be coming back to to you to discuss any recommendations for policy revisions and for new policies. City used to adopt financial plans specific to departments and programs. Recently, effort was made to develop a city plan with comprehensive financial policies and procedures. These are now used by all departments to create consistent strategies to better inform council and the public and to increase effectiveness and accountability. However, financial plans and policies specific to utilities will continue to be maintained.

Utilities department has a financial plan with policies and procedures that align with the city financial plans. For capital planning, we'll be looking at a twenty year horizon, essentially what projects are needed to accommodate changes to water service demands through year 2046. This capital planning analysis along with the seventy five year renewal and replacement strategies for asset management will inform future budget and planning. So the effort to update the water system plan is broken into two intervals, analysis phase that you see on the left, and the review phase. Throughout this process, we'll be coordinating with the ESC and the community and council.

Events shown above the timeline are touch points with the ESC. We started last November with an introduction to utility system planning. Unfortunately, it's pretty tiny. Hopefully, you can see that. Today, we're talking about the water system plan update.

Later this fall, we'll be coming back to discuss our analysis and recommendations. And then early in 2026, we'll be reviewing the trap the draft plan, and we also have a public meeting scheduled. And then the we go through this long stage of review with other agencies, through the review with the Department of Health, and then we come back. We make refinements to the draft to come back with the final draft for approval and, move that on to council for final review and approval also. That, our process is a little bit light on public meetings, but much of the water system plan updates are driven by regulatory requirements, and the recommended system improvement needs are driven by analysis.

We do engage in the public in other ways through these meetings that are open to the public to share opinions and concerns. We also publish annual water quality reports that provide important information about the water system and water quality testing results. And then Cascade Water Alliance has outreach programs and engages with residents to educate and draw awareness to water conservation. There's quite a few agencies that we coordinate with for water system planning and operation. Some are within our water service area, and some are neighboring or regional water suppliers.

Every agency that you see up there are ones that we, have a touch point through this process. We coordinate with Cascade Water Alliance and the neighboring agencies to help ensure adequate regional water supply, confirm that service area boundaries align with neighboring services, and confirm that agreements are in order, operating agreements for regular and emergency interties between the different water systems. Then we have three agencies that have to approve the plan. Bellevue is the first agency to approve it, and we'll adopt the plan through a city council resolution. King County approves the plan once it has had a chance to review and knows that Valve has formally adopted the plan.

And then Department of Health will approve the plan once it is confirmed that regulatory requirements have been satisfied and that all the other approving agencies have formally accepted it. After that, the plan becomes a valuable resource for staff to utilize. The data that's compiled for the plan is frequently referred to during discussions with the public and with developers and even within staff. And system policies will guide the decisions for budgeting, project design, and system operations for years to come. And that's that's it.

So that was a lot that we just covered, and and I'm happy to go back and review any of that in greater detail and answer any questions. I'm I'm a little bit new, so I might not be able to answer all of the questions, but happy to look into it.

We got you.

Alright. Got you.

I just had a quick question on fire protection. And with all the fires that have been happening here, not here, but just on the West Coast, are is there a move to be looking at fire storage fire system storage standards or changing any of that? I know, you know, fighting wildfires versus fighting urban fires is very different. But, you know, I just think I'm thinking of LA fires in particular. Is that, you know, causing folks to think about fire storage standard?

It it's hard to watch the news and not think about that. But, you know, our system of storage is what he mentioned, you know, over 40,000,000 gallons. And currently, that standard that we use today that's set within the plan is a one day storage. Even if we just say, okay, let's go to two days, that's obviously gonna double that amount of storage. We'd need to go from 24 reservoirs to a number much higher than that. We will definitely talk about that, and and we're are happy to answer any questions when we come back in the fall with our policy recommendations.

Okay. Thanks.

I'm watching for Andy.

I'm Oh,

yeah. Didn't

drop off.

No. He's here. No questions you ask.

I had a question. Are there presumably, some businesses use water more than other businesses. Mhmm. So are there policies that are in place or ways that we think about that to when you're projecting of are there other policies that are that affect what kinds of businesses we encourage or discourage from coming within the city limits based on how much water they might require? Something we pay attention to when new companies are coming in?

We we do pay attention to that. And we I'd I'm not familiar enough with those regulatory policies yet, but it but it goes through a development review. And then we we can track how much water is flowed. And it's something that we account for in our system analysis too, tracking tracking how much water they've used and evaluating that for future needs.

Yeah. There's a standard. You know, there's standards in place that, you know, for office or whatever, we can assume and project how much use is going to happen. Now if we get another company like Coca Cola wants to come in and start bottling, that's a one off. Then we'd have to work directly with them. You may all remember Doug, who was the engineer that that before Jim. Doug went to Tacoma. And Doug was working in Tacoma when the paper mill shut down. The paper mill used 16,000,000 gallons a day. That's our average use for the city, and they lost that customer. So, I mean, if things like that happen, we, you know, we plant quickly, but we have to respond to those things as a one off.

I have another kind of current event question. Has to do with fluoride, actually. Do we add it? Does it come already added from cascade?

Yep. I gave a presentation on this twenty plus years ago, so I should remember some of

it. But,

fluoride was I think don't quote me on the years, but fluoride was added by Seattle Water. It's now Seattle Public Utilities.

Okay.

And it was a a vote of the city of Seattle, not Bellevue voted, but we've been we buy water from them up through Cascade, obviously. But it was voted on, I think, 1967, '68, somewhere in there. And it is added. We have a state m maximum fluoride level goal. I'm getting my acronym wrong. But Yeah. It's around point o eight milligrams per liter, as I recall. And so we do have fluoride. It's Bellevue has had it for almost fifty years. Yeah.

Fifty two years probably. And there's always you see it in the news, Florida, Utah. Right. Some of the things going on at the federal level. Having said that, all indications from all the studies are saying and how we have that fluoride is beneficial for our our kids' teeth, etcetera. K. And so, it is there.

But we don't add We do not add it.

It comes, at the treatment plant. So the on the tolt and the cedar,

treatment plants.

Mhmm.

Commissioner DePurtis, just wanna make sure if you had any questions. We're done in house with questions. Oh, look. He raised his hand. Here

we go.

Thank you very much for the presentation. Think to everyone's great delight, I don't have any questions for for tonight, but thank you for the presentation.

Okay. Well, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You know, I'm glad to be here. Hey,

Joe. We're at the calendars.

Here we go.

Alright.

June,

we will be having election of ESC chair and vice chair. You may have seen in the if you subscribe to any of the city of Bellevue websites, we have already put out an announcement to replace, Vanya on this commission. So we'll be looking at that over the next four to eight weeks. Gets con commission council member Lee is in charge of that recruitment. So that election will be in June 5.

And then sustainable Bellevue, we're gonna give you that update that justice Stewart talked about a couple of months ago, and then a watershed management plan update. So in July is the CIP projects tour. Those sites haven't been announced yet, but what we'll be looking for is active construction sites that can give you a sense of what's going on, including some of the things that we've talked about through these capital projects, capital discussions within the budget development cycle. I am going to, we've got some system plans coming later this year, cost of service analysis coming later this year, which is a little bit what you were maybe getting at with what kinda businesses come into Bellevue or not. And and so that's really about different classes of customers.

So residential, commercial, those kinds of things are looked at. And so I'm not gonna get in detail, but it's a way of analyzing that to see that we're being equitable across the customer classes. Then the solid waste program and water, wastewater system plan update in November, and then the annual what do we cover this year? How did we do? What do we wanna do next year?

And we're planning with the commission. And that is the the ESC, calendar council calendar. There's an interesting topic coming next week, the King County wastewater treatment division, sewer rate proposal, and twenty year forecast. That will be recorded. So if you wanna check that out later, it's it's gonna be a well attended meeting just to hear what's coming up in the future with King County. The others are pretty standard. We have a grant on the Factorio Boulevard conveyance improvements coming from the King County Flood Control District. We're happy to get that. That will fill out that project. The work has been done.

We expect that grant to go to council next month. And then pretty standard, defect repairs, Aqua Vista sanitary sewer. I'm looking forward to that August. Sorry. I'm just going through. You've heard a couple of these more defect repairs, water main replacements. Council will have a couple of week, recess in August. A lot of capital programs going to council, and I'm gonna call that good.

Okay.

We're going for a record in eight years. We're we've reached the end of the agenda.

Motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn.

Second.

Any objections? Hearing no objections, the meeting is adjourned at 07:14PM. Record breaking.