City Council - Regular Meeting

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Sounds good. I did see a hand over here first.

Very good. Thank you. Council Member Sturgis. Thank you, Council Member Baldwin. Thank you guys so much. Just a quick question on when you're saying that private property owners could pay a fee to be included in the city's overall repair. Do you have an idea? I'm sure it's different, but is there a typical fee of what that is?

Yeah, and I appreciate all the details you have here. CP 2512, On page 24, it showed the cost as $1,195,000 estimated cost. On 35, it shows $987,000. So I was wondering what the differences were. That's a good question. So,

I have a couple of questions before we wrap up. The first was in the first section, I was curious with the new employee parking lot, how many spaces is that going to be able to accommodate?

Okay, great. And then perhaps a bit of a clarifying question. When you guys referenced in the I Street project some of the issues and concerns, speeding was one of them. You had also noted cars leaving the road. Are people trying to send it? Like are they launching their vehicles or what does that mean?

Council Member Sturges. Thank you. The site is awesome, by the way, the website there, so thank you. But how, if I'm a community member who has private property and wants to reach out to you to be included, how do I get a hold of you? Is it through the same contact information here?

My question would follow what we heard from Councilmember Sturgis. In the space of the private property owners that might be affected by the repairs, do you know how many parcels that is along the designated area?

And then with that, if there's a property owner that wants to be included in the city project for repair, how would payment work for that individual? Would they need to pay up front? Do they have installment plans? What are those options for those individuals?

Thank you for the additional context. Councilmember Lott.

I just want to ask one question along the same line. And that is, if the repair were covered by a grant that the city received, would the property owner still be charged?

and then from my own standpoint i was going to say i'm very excited to see the considerations for biking uh incorporated into the high street project i think as with most people if you only get three choices on a survey uh in your biking you want people not to be speeding right next to you so i think that that speeding likely entails um both bicycle and pedestrian safety as much as anything. When we add that section that you had shown, I think you said it would be connecting that last portion up by, I think it's Copper Gate. Yes. Will that give us a full connection all the way down to 15th or

And then on the image that you have on the slide that shows filling in the pedestrian bike gaps, I think it shows a six-foot two-way bike lane and then a two-foot gap. And zooming in a lot, it looks like there's a little something. Is there going to be... In the buffer?

Great. I think that always makes a big difference for people who are trying to bike in and around and near traffic, feeling a little bit safer. So that's really great to see. And then I had had a resident actually take me through on I Street and show me a biking enthusiast who was saying, look how nice this is. Look at these trees through here. You know, this could be a really great asset for people who want to be able to do more transit that way. So they seem like great improvements. Thank you. Council, any last questions?

I just want to say thank you for taking care of I Street. I use it all the way from the time to go to 272nd and I know there is some area there is no sidewalk, especially in winter. I know the residents, they love to walk. So thank you. THAT'S REALLY IN THIS AREA. I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE IT.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION. NEXT UP, WE WILL HEAR ABOUT THE PARKS PROJECTS FOR 2026 WITH THE STATUS UPDATE FROM DIRECTOR have any way to fix getting past the trains on 37th.

Council, do we have questions? Council Member Sturgis. Thank you. Thank you guys so much. Lots of awesome updates. One quick question about the golf carts and future flooding. Is there, have we done preventative measures in the basement to where this won't happen again if there's another flood to the new carts? Or what's the plan there?

Council, any other comments or questions? Thank you.

The Your Money Matters is so cool. Is that an opportunity for yearly to become a yearly thing or was it a one-time grant? And then also would there be opportunity for the youth to present to council on how it was if they're presenting to Port of Seattle? Is that something that you guys have talked about?

Yeah, so the project, it's a three-year project. I mean, you have to, every year, it's basically like starting a new project. And so, again, it has to be on public property. Yeah, so there's an opportunity. Part of that requirement is that they have to present what they learned on. So yeah, there's a possibility of some of them want to do that. There may be a few that might want to present what they learned over the summer. Yeah, and there's kids in the program that are from all over the area as far IS BURIEN HAVE COME OUT TO WORK ON THAT PROJECT. AND SO, YEAH, SO IT'S BEEN A REALLY GOOD PROJE

Yeah, thank you. Just a quick comment. Kudos to all of the different partnerships that you have. I really appreciate just the different ways that you're trying to get young people involved, especially introducing them to potential areas of you know, career interests that maybe they never would have even thought about. But if nothing else, just the hands-on experience and learning some different things that, in particular, horticulture. I like this pilot project. It's something that is a real passion of mine in terms of how do we keep the kids engaged during the summer because that usually is w

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I didn't have one question. So on the one slide, there was the $1.9 million. I think I see $1.9 million. Yeah, right there. So tracking there. So where are we at in terms of that?

that I had had on the bridge repairs when you said that there was kind of a set of things that needed to be corrected. Some could be handled by staff, and some would need to be completed by a contractor. Are there any that would shut down the bridge during repairs, or will it be able to stay open?

That's what I was looking for, thank you.

All right, if there's no other questions, I have one last piece, which is I was also excited to see the cricket field being added into the mix. Having played one season fairly poorly, I used to have to go all the way out to Redmond to be able to play in practice. So being able to have that in our region and in our area for our community I think would be really nice. And even if I wasn't good at it, it's actually quite a lot of fun. especially when you get to be a batsman. Council doesn't have any other questions. This was a great update. Thank you for compiling all of the many, many projects a

Council Member Sturgis. Aye. I am scheduling time with Candace just to do a brief pre-plan for the next SFA agenda items based on some topics of the last couple weeks. Fabulous.