Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

All right. Well, hello, everybody. This is the Sea Level Rise Response Collaborative Executive Committee meeting. Today's Friday, September 4th. We're just a minute or two after noon. And my name's Dani Madrone. I am the lot representative and I am calling the meeting to order. I'll just do a quick roll call of executive committee members who are here. We have Commissioner Craig Unseld from the Port of Olympia. And we are anticipating that Olympia City Council member Paul Barrett will be joining us as well. And for ex-officio members, I see that we have Rachel Grant here. Did I miss anybody, Natalie? I think everybody else on here is staff. So if you don't mind just going through the roster of staff that we have with us.

Great. Yes, we have Pamela Braff with the City of Olympia, Susan Clark with the City of Olympia, Amelia Schwartz with Thurston County, and John Wolf with the Port of Olympia, and myself, Natalie Weiss with the City of Olympia.

And until we've got Paul back, we've just got two voting members here. So, Craig, I'm going to look to you to make a motion to approve our agenda for today.

I move that we approve our agenda for today.

Okay, excellent. And I see that Paul has joined us. Welcome, Paul. All right.

Can you hear me?

Yep, I can hear you.

Thank you.

Yeah. Would you like to second the motion to approve?

Sure, I'll second that.

Excellent. All in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Excellent. Our first decision we need to make is to approve the minutes from June 5th, from our meeting on June 5th. So I'll entertain a motion to do so.

I will move that we approve the minutes from June 5th for the Sea Level Rights Committee response collaborative.

I second it.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. We're on to public comment. Zach, have we had anybody sign up for public comment for this meeting?

We do not have anybody signed up for public comment.

Okay. Easy peasy. um see if we have any announcements from staff I know we have some reports after the business item but are there any announcements that we need to work in right here no okay great well we'll just move on to our one business item which is approval of the 2728 sea level rise collaborative work plan and budget and Natalie I'll turn to you to lead us through this discussion yeah thank you

So we are here today to adopt the 2027-2028 work plan. And just to quickly remind people what's on the work plan, I'll just read through what the key items are and the attachments were also in the staff report. So the first main project that we'll be working on is evaluating and recommending long-term public financing mechanisms. Again, this will be a continuation of a report that we finished back in 2024. and is really the main project that we'll be leading in 2027. Moving on, we also will be modeling the peak flow reduction strategy for separation of the combined sewer system. This was a grant funded project that we received last year and will be led by the City of Olympia Storm and Surface Water Utility. Thirdly, we have our monitoring report. So we just finished the AECOM's long-term monitoring strategy for sea level rise progression. And we'll be doing monitoring activities and calculating metrics and then publishing our first monitoring report at the end of the 2028 cycle. So that will be ongoing throughout these two years. And then lastly, we have more of our logistical and administrative projects pursuing state and federal funding. supporting emerging opportunities as they arise, and then also supporting administrative and logistic support for the Sea Level Rise Collaborative, which are all also budget items on the work plan. And that's everything. Let me know if you have any other questions or want to discuss about any of those tasks individually.

Thanks, Natalie. I didn't know we've got a presentation on this previously. So I'll look to my committee mates here to see if there are any questions about the tasks we have for our work plan for next year.

No questions from Berend.

All right.

No questions from me either.

Well, okay. Easy peasy. Any questions from other folks in the room or listening in? staff or exhibition members. Right? Well, Natalie, are you looking for a formal action on this from the executive committee?

I move that we approve the work plan and budget for next year.

I'll second that if it needs a second.

All right. Excellent. All in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Excellent. All right. Well, that was very quick. And that was our one item of business. I do understand that we have some reports, though, from some of the partners. Is that correct, Natalie?

Yeah, I can start it off for the city. So we have three items here that we wanted to share with you all. The first is that we officially submitted the BRIC grant proposal back to Washington City. emergency management division back in July, so since our last meeting. The grant proposal focuses on midterm strategies for sea level rise along Percival Landing and would be doing some design and engineering around that if we received the proposal. So we'll keep you all updated as that moves along, but just want to let you know that it was submitted. We also received the final report for the long-term monitoring strategy from AECOM They presented at our last meeting and like the draft form, but we received the final report as well. This report also includes the final vertical land motion study and the updated sea level rise projections. And I think that people will probably be most interested in the projection map and maps. So if there's anyone in the agencies that need access to that, just let me know and I can share. the report, as well as the monitoring activities. And then lastly, we got started with a contract with KPFF for the Climate Resilient Design Guidelines. This has been on the work plan for the 2025-2026 schedule, and that work is underway and should be continued throughout the fall. So we will again, keep you updated and probably have a presentation on the outputs of that work at a future meeting, but just happy to report that that's getting started.

Excellent.

Yeah. And then Thurston County, and I believe Lott, Wendy, did you want to share your reports as well? We can pick it to you.

There is, can you hear me? Yeah. Cool. All right. We don't have much to report. We did finish our greenhouse gas report for 2025. And then we also are just in the planning phases for a couple of projects that will increase capacity here. So those are ongoing and kind of a longer term. They won't happen tomorrow. But yeah, ongoing. Thanks.

Great. Thanks, Wendy. Cool. And then lastly, Amelia from Thurston County, do you want to share a bit about flood preparedness week and the emergency expo? Hi.

Yes, I can. So we've got our Thurston County Emergency Management will be hosting our annual flood awareness week, October 19th through 23rd. And then we've got the uh, the all hazards exposition Saturday, I believe it should be Saturday, September 26th of this year. Uh, we're hosting it at the Lacey and that one's a great event. If you've ever gotten to go, tons of people come out to it. Um, it's usually, uh, fantastic. We often have a lot of the cities, we have state agencies there. We have, uh, people being formed about floods, lahar hazards, fires, so wonderful events. It really reaches a lot of the community that maybe we don't always reach.

Excellent. Thank you so much, Amelia. Hi, Rachel. Any other reports and updates from any of the jurisdictions? Okay. Any questions on the reports that we just heard? All right, well it works out for me, since I would have had to jump off here a little bit early, but this is turning out to be a short meeting for us, but it is a big deal for us to make that a recommendation on approving that work plan. Paul and Craig I'll look to you to take the work plan back to your respective jurisdictions and champion it there so that all of the jurisdictions and the elected bodies are in the loop on the work that is happening in this space. And if there's no other good of the order type things, I'll just pause real quick to see if there's anything else for anybody to share. And otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting adjourned. This is very fast. We'll get a little bit more time back into our schedules today.

Thank you, Danny.

Thanks all. Oh, wait, Jerry, I see you have a hand up.

I apologize.

I was not meant to be a hand.

Oh, I was like, I already ignored. All right. Thanks, y'all. Have a great day.