Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, August 25, 2026Official site

The Planning Commission Finance Subcommittee assigned chapters of the Preliminary 2027-2032 Capital Facilities Plan for commissioner review and established a September 1st deadline for submitting questions to staff. The meeting was brief, with no public comments received.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Olympia, WA
Meeting Date
August 25, 2026

Published excerpts

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0:12•Elle Burger

Okay, excellent. So that'll be a call to order at 628. And I need to call the roll. Casey, can you call the roll?

0:39 – 0:50•Elle Burger

Okay, thank you. We'll do an approval of the agenda next. We are looking at the preliminary 2027-2032 capital facilities plan. Can I get a motion?

0:53•Elle Burger

I'll second. And we will vote. All in favor?

1:00 – 1:39•Elle Burger

We're moving into public comments. During this portion of the meeting, community members may address the planning commission regarding items related to city business, including items on the agenda. In order for the commission to maintain impartiality and the appearance of fairness and to comply with the public disclosure law for political campaigns, speakers will not be permitted to make public comments before the commission in two areas. Items for which the commission held a public hearing but has not yet completed its deliberations and issued a recommendation to city council or where the spe

1:57•Elle Burger

Okay, then we will move into business items.

3:54•Elle Burger

Thank you. So Daniel, you were able to do this last year. Do you feel like you have a familiarity with any of the chapters that are available?

4:01 – 4:55•Daniel Garcia

Yeah, I've been doing CFP for a couple years. Love it. Casey likes to call it boring. I think it's anything but. But that's okay. Still convincing him. In the past, I have taken on transportation and some others. Definitely would love to do transportation. But honestly, we'll take whatever. Usually, I think we've had like three people. So we've kind of done it like two each-ish. There's only two of us, and I know... um greg zaynab uh samir have suggested they wanted to do some one i can kind of guess i feel like what i can guess what greg might want to do um i would love transportation fire an

4:57•Elle Burger

Well, transportation is definitely also my favorite.

5:00•Daniel Garcia

Transportation always gets like 10 people on it, which is good.

5:39 – 6:01•Daniel Garcia

I can also throw in like a storm or waste resources just to like round it. Cause I, yeah, I think like transportation will be like an all, like all hands on deck sort of situation. So I feel like it's more, yeah, those ones, those ones are the more ones that we need people assigned to are the ones that are not so popular. What do you want to do?

6:02 – 6:34•Elle Burger

I can do waste resources and then I don't want to step on Zeynep's toes with storm and wastewater, but I'm noticing that those are both longer chapters. So I'd be willing to support maybe with wastewater. That brings us to drinking. And then you already have perks. So that brings us to drinking water in capital facilities. I mean, that's all that's left.

6:38•Elle Burger

Yeah? Okay. Then I feel like maybe Samira can do drinking water soon. She doesn't miss out entirely.

7:02 – 7:13•Elle Burger

I think I was going to help with wastewater, if that's okay. Okay. Got it.

7:16 – 7:35•Elle Burger

Yeah. That's 70 pages, I think, for you, Daniel. You've got more than half of it, I think, with all those chapters. Is that feeling right for you?

7:36 – 8:09•Daniel Garcia

Uh, yeah, because I mean, like, transportation, like, Greg, like, let me, like, yes, yes, it's good for me, but also I feel confident that I know Greg is definitely going to look at transportation, like, there's no way he's not going to. Um, and like I said, like, a lot of people are going to do that one, so I feel like, uh... that is good. Um, I feel like as long as we just have somebody that's like definitively looking at each of them, then I feel good. Like Zaynab is going to do a super, super thorough job of like storm and surface water. Um, so yeah, I feel as long as we just have somebody

8:12 – 8:25•Elle Burger

Okay. Yeah. I mean, would you be comfortable, uh, letting Samir also do the general capital facilities? I know that he, um, I just want him to have an opportunity to be involved, even if he couldn't be here tonight.

9:13•Daniel Garcia

She's working with the project manager to get some of the cost basis for that facility sent out.

13:00•Daniel Garcia

In case you just, we then do not have planning commission that Monday, September 7th.

13:09•Daniel Garcia

Cool. I have it on my calendar because I have it like recurring. So now I'm putting in like a big, like no planning commission, which is fun. So yeah.

14:50•Elle Burger

Then we're going to adjourn at 6.42. Thank you, everybody.

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