Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the North Bend City Council meeting for September 15th, 2026. Will the clerk please call roll?

Mayor Pro Tem Errol Tremolata. Present. Council Member Brendan Elwood. Council Member Mark Jocelyn.

Present.

Council Member Heather Colon.

Here.

Council Member Rob McFarland. Council Member Christina Rustick. Present. Council Member Susan Torgerson.

Here.

All are present with the exception of Council Member McFarland, who is absent and excused.

Thank you. We'll take note of that. And would you like to lead us in the flag salute?

Thank you.

Okay, good night. Good night. Good evening, everybody. That was a short meeting. Just kidding. Okay, Mr. Mayor Pro Tem, would you like to take it away and approve tonight's agenda?

Motion to approve City Council meeting agenda for September 15th, 2026 as written.

Thank you. And do we have a second?

Second.

Okay, second by Mr. Johnson. Thank you all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much. And I get a motion for the consent agenda to approve that.

Yeah. I meant to ask this earlier, but my day's been crazy. On the checks that are on this particular consent agenda is the one for art and industry on that one. I know we pay them a certain dollar amount. Every quarter. Is that this or is that going to be in October?

I would say if we could move along with the consent agenda, Ms. Torgerson would like to pull that and we can have that separate while Elaine's looking that up. Okay. Which one is that? It's payroll? No, number three. Excuse me. Yes. So we can have a motion for everything but number three. That would be great.

Can we get that motion in play?

Blaine, do you have it? I just have a question. What could you tell, which? I think it was $7,500.

For art and industry. I'll double check it. They have a special name in the front of it. We always forget what that is.

Well, if we're going to pull that for that, so let's move.

Can we get a motion for that in play?

I move approval of the consent agenda as amended polling item three.

Can I get a second? Second. That was seconded by Mr. Tremolata. Okay. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Let's move on to audience participation.

We'll have still item number three, Mayor. Sorry. Back. Item number three.

So should we do that a little bit later when she gets her chance to?

Take a sequence like that, but we can do that if that's something that the mayor would like to do. We would want to move that down to past commissions report to give Elaine time.

So that'd be before number seven then? Before number seven. Okay, yeah, we can do that in between. Okay, now we'll move on to audience participation. If we have anyone online or in the chambers tonight, I don't think CID Don't see anybody tonight, but anyway, we, this is a time to come up to the podium and state your name and spell your name for the clerk. And, uh, you have three minutes to speak for the record, either online or in person. I don't see anybody online tonight. Quiet night so far. All right. We'll move on to commissioning committee reports then, uh, let's start with FNA finance administration and East side fire and rescue council member rustic. If you provide both those reports, it'd be fantastic.

Thank you. Finance and Administration Committee met on September 1st at 2.30. A couple items on the agenda. We talked about the ordinance amending the North Bend Municipal Code to allow for discounted residential utility rates for low-income senior citizens and disabled customers residing outside the city limits, and that is on tonight's agenda agenda. The consent agenda. We also talked about an ordinance amending the city's tax rates and fee schedule to include discounted residential utility rates for outside city customers, which was also on tonight's consent agenda. Discussion about motion authorizing professional service contract with creative financial staffing to allow the city of North End to engage short-term contract staff, and that was on our last city council agenda. And then we had an update to the January through July 2026 monthly budget status report and took a look at the 27-28 budget calendar check-in. As you all know, October, we're going to be having tremendous discussions about our budget going forward. So we look forward to that. And then finally, we discussed the Human Services and Cultural Arts Grant Policy, which is... Not on tonight's agenda. No, it is. Anyway, that was it. Thank you. Eastside Fire and Rescue Board of Directors met on September 10th at four o'clock. It is typically about an hour and a half to two hour meeting. And it was over three and a half hours this month because the majority of the agenda was to discuss the Eastside Fire 2027 budget requests. A lot of good discussion. A lot of questions were asked. This had come through the committee, preliminary committee. And then this was the first time that it was presented to the full board. No decisions were made on that. It will be our next board meeting on the second Thursday of October. So where things should be finalized. So more to come on that.

And that's all I have. Thank you. Well, that's great. Thank you so much. Let's see, CED, Community and Economic Development. Ms. Torkeson, would you like to provide that report, please? Sure.

Today we met September 15th at 4 p.m. We went over a little bit until about 5.10. We first started talking about the CED activity report because we always have that as last and we never get a chance to really get to it. So we chose to go over that and that was very interesting. And then we talked about parking regulations, which included some biking parking requirements, you know, parking your bike. in in residential and commercial areas and we decided on that one to kind of maybe we like the regular parking with parking that is basically state mandated but the biking I think we wanted it was pretty heavy we wanted to kind of review that a little bit more so we're going to review that one more time at CED and then probably bring it here to council. So look in your email and find out more about that before that meeting because it's pretty thick. And then we talked about upcoming state mandates, which was interesting and could put a lot of work on our staff, which is disappointing, but state mandates. So hopefully some of them won't pass. So it'll be less work for our staff. Comprehensive plan capital facilities element. We had some questions about that and it was also a good topic and we believe there's not going to be any impact to our budget. So that'll be going on our October 6th council agenda. And that pretty much wrapped it up. We had some other conversations, but that's pretty much it. Our next meeting will be, I don't have it on my report here, but it will be the third meeting in October, 4 o'clock, same room.

Fantastic. Thank you very much. Public Health and Safety, Mr. Elwood.

Thank you, Your Honor. We met September 1st at 4 p.m. in the City Hall Adjournment Room. We had a light agenda. We got a fire update from Deputy Chief Walker, police update from Chief Hall. Our big ticket discussion item was the update on the ordinance regarding e-motorcycle storage and impound. And we talked about driving some more marketing and awareness around that. And we had some walk-ons, but I don't remember right now exactly what they were. So check us out next time if you want to know. Cliffhanger.

All right. Moving on. Transportation Public Works, Ms. Colan.

Yes, Transportation and Public Works last met on August 25th at 3 o'clock in our adjournment room. It was a very light meeting, which is unusual. All items went on the September 1st City Council meeting. We talked about a bill of sale for Tanner Electric substation. We talked about a bill of sale for Otis Milan, which is sewer. We talked about a resolution awarding a construction contract with Fury Site Works Incorporated for the Ribery Creek Sediment Pond Maintenance Project. And we talked about a motion approving Schedule 74 lighting agreement with PSE for the North Bendway Northwest 8th Starfish Roundabout Project. We were also brought up sign placement for Elk Crossing, and we've been working on things of that safety. That's it. Thank you.

Fantastic. Work study, Mayor Pro Temp.

Yes, we met on August 25th with a few major discussion topics. One was the human and community services grant funding policy. I believe we're bringing that forward in the coming months or two. We also discussed a destination marketing and placemaking manager position to be potentially added to staff, and that'll be coming forward with more details in the next couple of months as well. We discussed the battery energy storage system moratorium that this council passed, as well as a study update, which we expect to have a follow-up work study in the coming months as well.

Is it? Wonderful. Okay, we'll look to our fantastic city staff. Let's see, Parks Planning and Economic Development Director, Mr. Henderson, take it away.

Yeah, good evening, Mayor and Councilmember. The Planning Commission met on August 5th and held a public hearing and reviewed draft amendments to the capital facilities element of the comprehensive plan. These updates addressed police service contract with King County Sheriff's Office, Snoqualmie Tribe docket requests, and other minor amendments. Following the public hearing, the Planning Commission provided a recommendation of approval. The Planning Commission will not meet in October, but will next meet on November 4th to review and provide a recommendation on dockets received for 2027 and their 2027 work plan, along with draft updates to the signed regulations and draft amendments to the multifamily tax exemption. The Parks Commission met on August 26 and will provide an overview about Project Belay. In addition, the Commission discussed their 2026 Small Park Improvement Budget for purchase and installation of bike racks for parks in North Bend and discussed progress on bike and pedestrian wayfinding signage and the City's upcoming Arbor Day recognition scheduled for October 17 at 10 a.m. at Meadowbrook Farm. The Parks Commission will next meet on October 28th to discuss next steps of the Bike North Bend plan and recommendations for the bike and pedestrian wayfinding signage for inclusion in a future plan and capital project. And finally, the Economic Development Commission met on August 27th and received an update about the city's lead generation work to attract businesses to North Bend. In addition, the commission received an update about the development of the Creative Economy Action Plan and discussed future speakers for the small business series, What's Brewing North Bend. The commission will next meet on September 24th and will receive a presentation about a recently completed sales tax analysis. Thank you.

Thank you very much. We've been busy. Regional reports. Anybody on council have anything to provide? Ms. Torgeson.

Yes. On August 27th, King County Regional Law, Safety and Justice Committee met at 730 in the morning. The meeting focused on how King County and community organizations can better respond to people experiencing behavioral health issues. Crises, Homelessness, Substance Abuse, and Repeated Involvement with Emergency Services, and the Criminal Justice System. And actually, just so you all know, I'm the one that brought this one up, so I was excited it got on the agenda. The Sawyer Culbertson Project described a community-based approached center on housing, healing, and income. The program uses peer support, mentoring, workforce development, violence prevention programs, and short-term financial assistance to help People stabilize their lives rather than duplicate existing services. The project seeks to connect individuals to available resources and ask cities and organizations to assist in referrals, meeting locations, employment, and mentorship programs. And then King County provided an update on the voter-approved crisis care centers levy. Five centers are planned, including four regional facilities and one youth center. The centers will be providing 24-7 behavioral health, urgent care, short-term observation, and crisis stabilization as an alternative to emergency rooms and jail. We have one up and going. It's in Kirkland, and it has served thousands of people and allows police officers to transfer individuals in crisis in only several minutes. King County also has expanded mobile crisis teams, diverted some 911 calls to 988, and increased behavioral health beds, and began developing follow-up services that last between 30 and 90 days after a crisis. The King County Executive also had an update, and they said they're doing a Breaking the Cycle initiative, which focuses on people who repeatedly move between homelessness, behavioral health services, hospitals, police, courts, and jails. The regional work group is examining changes to housing services, data sharing, and coordination among agencies. Housing is a major concern, particularly for people with extreme low incomes who need supportive housing. The initiative also calls for bringing 500 additional housing units online in 500 days. So the central theme was basically we need more coordinated system. Community programs help To help reduce crisis, crisis care centers can provide an alternative when crisis occurs, and then Breaking the Cycle initiative is examining how to provide longer-term stability. Our next meeting will be on September 24th at Seattle City Hall, which is cool because for the last two years, we've always been on teams, so it'll be great to actually see people in person. So that concludes the King County Regional Law Safety and Justice Committee report.

Tremendous. Thank you very much. Any other regional...

Yes, Your Honor. The Sound Cities Association Public Issues Committee met September 9th. I was unable to attend, but I did review the minutes, and we'll touch on a couple things that were discussed. One is the King County Executive has submitted legislation to move the King County Transportation District inside of local services at King County. The other alternative the county has is to somehow turn it into like a flood control district. They have faced a couple of choices, but the executive is moving in that they're advocating. They get moved to local services. It is the time of year that the Sound City Association is reaching out for people who want to serve on the multiple regional bodies and committees through SCA. Marissa Chavez, the Director of Policy and Innovation for the King County Executive briefed public issue committee members on the work of the Breaking the Cycle Investments and Revenue Workgroup to share the executives' thoughts on that topic. The state legislative agenda and priorities for SCA was discussed, and they have unveiled a new levies and ballot measure tracker that's an effort to communicate amongst all the different jurisdictions that uh, proposed or upcoming, uh, levies or ballot measures just to help everybody have, uh, be planned from the same sheet of music. Uh, the group will next meet October 14th. Thank you.

Thank you very much. That's it for our regional reports. One more. Oh, pardon me.

The Snow Valley chamber. Um, the chamber has, uh, several updates. Um, They have a seven-week veteran entrepreneurship program through Snow Valley Innovation Center offering scholarships to help veterans launch a business or develop new ideas starting on September 30th. And most of their facilitators are business professionals from North Bend. If anybody wants to apply that's a veteran, they just need to go to the website, snowvalleyinnovationcenter.com. And then the Best of Valley is in conjunction with Snoqualmie Valley Record has voting now open with winners announced at their Best of Valley celebration on October 16th at the Snoqualmie Casino. Vote for your favorite businesses now. And next Wednesday, September 23rd, CEO Joe Fain of the Bellevue Chamber will be joining them at the luncheon luncheon. We'll be there, some of us, on doing business in Washington and the state's latest developments. So there's going to be some interesting updates there. And that concludes the chamber report.

Very good. Thank you so much. Okay, moving on. We're going to go back to item number three on consent. Elaine, would you like to provide your answers to Ms. Torgerson's questions, I guess?

Okay. Thank you. Council Member Tersen, the North Bend Art and Industry grant, third quarter grant was issued in this packet, the council number two item and it's check number 79443.

Do you, sorry, that follow-up question is, I know the contract was for $30,000. Is that the third payment? I think that's the third payment. It's the third payment. So that's... So we're still in... We're still good. Yeah. So... Our procurement laws are that it's up to $25,000 that we give contracts. For $30,000, council needs to approve it. So I'm suggesting that we do something to approve that because we want to approve that. But I think we slipped on that.

So that one came through council. So we made a note on, I want to say it was a couple months ago that I replied to your email stating the sequencing of that. And so that was approved with budget authority through council. So I can go back and free forward that to you. So that is to make sure we were legal beagle. Oh yeah. We're legal beagle. Okay. Thank you for bringing that up. Okay. Thank you. We'll see. We need approval to get that item across the finish line. I'm sorry. We need an approval to get that item.

I have no objections to going ahead and approving that as it's written. Okay. Do I have a second on that?

That wasn't a motion.

No, that wasn't. So motion to approve item number three from the consent agenda.

Can I get a second on that? Second. Okay, very good. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you again. Let's move on to our introductions. Item number 7, AB 26-081, public hearing. Ordinance amending taxes, rates, and fees. Schedule RE, school impact fees. Jamie Burrell, lead the way. Please, and thank you for the time.

Thank you. And then I assume we'll open the hearing after the introduction?

Great.

Okay. Yeah, so state law requires new growth to pay a proportionate share of the cost of new facilities to serve the growth. So the city council annually approves and adopts the city school impact fees into the taxes, rates, and fee schedule. And this rate will be effective January 1, 2027. The city collects these impact fees to pass along to the school district with the issuance of building permits, and that supports their adopted capital facilities plan. Pursuant to our interlocal agreement, our past ordinances, and an indemnification agreement that we have in place, the city has agreed to accept the district's fees as presented by their board. The school district's capital facilities plan 2026 reflects recent legislative changes, adjusting fees for the proportionate impact of new housing. And that is based on the number of bedrooms and housing types, which were separated into three categories, single family, middle housing, and apartments. So that's a new change this year. Ordinances 1636 and 1838 build upon the original Ordinance 1260, so they're proposed to be repealed due to overlap and unnecessary layers. The Ordinance 1260 forms the basis for setting the school fees for the coming year and directs the clerk to update the taxes, rates, and fees schedule. The Community and Economic Development Committee reviewed this item at their August 18th, 2026 meeting and recommended full council review and placement on tonight's agenda. Ryan Stokes, Assistant Superintendent with the Snoqualmie Valley School District is here to briefly go over a few highlights and then to answer any questions. So I'll go ahead and pass it off to him now.

Fantastic. Welcome, Ryan. Glad to see you.

Thank you. Thanks. Thanks for having me.

Of course. We've got some slides I think the council members may have. And we just wanted to, given the changes that Ms. Burrell just mentioned, I want to just give you kind of a brief overview of impact fees and those changes from the city plan. So the impact fees are driven by a capital facilities plan. And the capital facilities plan is only looking out six years. That's one of the requirements of that. And it's really focused on capacity needs and enrollment growth. When there's a shortage of capacity, that then drives the ability to collect impact fees. We also, as a district, have a, go ahead, you can advance if you can, Jamie. Let's make sure this is working.

Stable network connection.

Stables.

Do that.

Perfect. Can you advance one more, Philip? Thank you very much. So besides the six-year capital facilities plan, we also have a 20-year long range plan that has been developed over the last few years. That plan drove trying to give our community a long range vision for the facility needs of our school district. The first phase of that plan, which was approved in 2024, was focused on the rebuild and expansion of Fall City Elementary, North Bend Elementary, and Snoqualmie Middle School. And then it also noted that after that, We have some other needs at other buildings, specifically Opstead and Chief Canem Middle School. So the six-year plan that is driving the impact fees focuses on that first phase, Fall City, North Bend, and SMS on the Ridge. Go ahead, Phillip. Of note on our elementary capacity, over 30% of our capacity is currently in portable classrooms. That has been driven over the last decade and a half by a number of factors. Kindergarten turned into full-day kindergarten, which doubled the number of students essentially in our buildings at kindergarten. We've had a large amount of enrollment growth and state funding for lower class sizes. And so part of that, prioritization of rebuilding North Bend Elementary and Fall City is because of the high concentration of portables at those facilities. And that is driving the generation of the impact fees. Go ahead, Philip. While we do note that there is an SMS rebuild in the plan, we currently have enough permanent capacity to serve the middle school needs. And so it does not, that does not generate an impact fee. So that's not in the current impact fee representation. So the impact fee is calculated in a formulaic way. The first is you calculate the construction cost of the buildings in your plan divided by the capacity that building will generate. And so that's a cost per pupil. And then you apply that to a cost per dwelling unit. So we look at our student generation rates over the last recent history of new homes and how many students come out of that. And that creates an impact fee per dwelling unit. The ordinance, King County ordinance for the impact fee then has a number of quite significant credits and discounts in that. One being a discount for the taxes that that new homeowner will pay over the next 10 years. And there is an acknowledgement in the ordinance for a local share. of the impact fee, which King County has defined as 50%. And so after all those discounts, the resulting impact fee is really only 20 to 30% of the proportional costs. So we're limited based on the ordinance and that formula. One of the changes, and as Ms. Burrell mentioned, in the prior years, what you have seen in our impact fees are two rates, one for single family homes and one for multifamily homes. State law has been changed and it required additional levels. And so that included levels by bedroom count. And then King County added an additional level for what they call middle housing. And so we now have six fee categories. We have a single family rate. And there's a bedroom count for that, a high bedroom count and a low bedroom count. Similar for our middle housing, which is the townhomes and duplexes, a high bedroom count versus a low bedroom count and an apartment one. So there's now six fees based on the type of dwelling unit and the bedroom count. We use a demographer to look at our student generation rates. And this is what our demographer came up with. It's a lot of data. So what I just wanted to show, have you kind of pay attention to because the elementary school is what's driving the impact fee. If you can look under on the right of that table under K-5, That is the student generation rate by dwelling unit. So if I take you kind of down that, single family average is 0.3 per dwelling unit. So for every 10 single family detached houses, there are three elementary students generated out of that house.

Yes. I'm just trying to understand on the slide before that, is there any reason why the... fees are calculated by number of dwellings and not like an AAV?

It is by dwelling unit because you're trying to calculate the fee per dwelling unit. Because a dwelling, if you go, Philip, if you go to the next slide that had the table. So each house that is sold is If you're using the top row there for K-5, each house that is sold is going to generate 0.3 of a student at elementary. And so the impact fee is 0.3 of a student of that building. So it's the proportional share of students coming out of that new dwelling unit. Now, the second and third line is kind of bifurcating that average. It's taking the new bedroom count levels. So two bedrooms or less, you can see that 0.3 goes to 0.07. So very few students coming out of small single family homes. And the three or more bedroom units, we have a much larger percentage coming out of that. So in the past, that was a combined average. In the new rate, we have two. So we have a fee for two bedrooms or less and a fee for three bedrooms or less. So what that does is that increases the fee for three bedrooms or less because they are bearing more of that proportional share of the growth. Whereas in the past, the average went down because of the smaller bedrooms, if that makes sense. So our two bedrooms or less fee is going to be very small now because that single family home doesn't generate a lot of students, whereas a three bedroom or more will have a higher fee than in the past. Middle housing is of interest. King County wanted that middle housing, I think, to help try to make that kind of that affordable housing come into play and incentivize people to do that. In our data, it's quite interesting that the two bedroom or less or three bedroom or more on that apartment duplex has a very similar student generation rate. And then apartments, and we'll talk about that at the next slide, but apartments, it's really hard to get a bedroom count. And this is something that all the jurisdictions are struggling with. All these laws changed and we don't have historical data on how many bedrooms were built in each of these dwelling units. So our demographer did the best they could to find these, but the apartment counts were really hard. And so we have not, we're taking the average count for apartments. Go ahead, Philip. And then the other component of the impact fee is the actual cost of the building. And so the way that we calculate the cost of the building is by using current construction bids that are being submitted for school construction currently. And then we inflate those costs to when we think we would be building that building. So in the case of our capital facilities plan, since we don't have a bond initiative on the ballot, we would need to do that in the next year or two and then start the construction of North Bend Elementary in this case. And so the cost of that building is projected to be out in 2029, 2030. And so you'll see that that elementary cost is about $129 million. And so that drives part of that impact fee calculation. Go ahead, Philip. And so this is the resulting fees, and you can see the six fees that we have. What I've put on the right is kind of the prior year fees as a combined rate, so you can kind of see what we talked about. Last year's single family rate was 13,000, and that was because you're using the average student generation rate. By separating those out, that smaller bedroom single family house, that fee goes much lower, and the larger single family house goes much higher. And then you'll see that on the middle and apartment. Interesting, again, in our student generation rates, we're seeing more students coming out of apartment complexes over the last 10 years than the middle housing section. And so I think we're kind of unique in that regard. But that's kind of what our student generations are. Because we weren't able to... determine the number of apartments that had fewer than two bedrooms. We've assumed a zero student generation rate, and that's probably reasonable. A one bedroom apartment probably isn't generating a lot of students. And so the apartment two plus bedrooms is the average of all apartments. And then the final change that was made by King County is instead of an annual update, they wanted to move to biannual updates. And so these fees will now be in place for two years. And I think there was some desire to have better predictability for builders in the fees. And it also lowers costs to districts having to go through that process. a demographer every year and going through the process to re-up that. So we don't anticipate, we could come forward with changes if something changes drastically, but we are also able to do it every two years now. So hopefully that gives you a good sense of why the change and what's changing and why that's making the fees look a little bit different and how we got there. As Ms. Burrell mentioned too, there is an indemnification agreement between the city and the district where the district is taking full responsibility for the adequacy and appropriateness of the calculation of the impact fee, noting that the city just collects it on our behalf because it's part of the permitting process. And so it indemnifies the city from liability related to our fees. Hopefully that was helpful and happy to take any questions.

Thank you, Ryan. Council, do you have any qualifying questions for Mr. Stokes or Jamie? Brendan.

Thank you. I'm kind of glad it's moving to twice every two years instead of having to do this every year. And I'm sure it's out there, so I apologize. I haven't Googled lately. When we're talking about putting in a new infrastructure in the city of North Bend, I know we've talked about this in the past, and I think you've said, and rightly so, that remodeling the existing school is just cost prohibitive and you can't get what you need to get as far as the student ratio. So building net new would be the plan. And I think this was a conversation we had a couple of years ago. Have you picked or do you have in mind a site where a new elementary school would go? Is it on the same existing site and you just tear it down and rebuild? Yes.

In the case of North Bend, so North Bend Elementary is within the floodway or floodplain. Sorry, I always forget which zoning it is. And there's a requirement that if you improve a building over 50% of its value, you have to flood proof it. So if we were to remodel North Bend Elementary and add a wing so that we got rid of portables, that would be too much value of the overall building and you would have to lift the entire building to make it floodproof. And so it is cost prohibitive to do a modernization. And so the committee had recommended a rebuild and where the rebuild would take place is in the field in between buildings. the Early Learning Center and North Bend Elementary. So you would build in the field and then once that is built and occupied, then you would tear down the old existing building and turn that into some fields.

Okay, so that would become the new playground area.

Correct. And so there's some benefits to as well, you aren't constructing during school year. And so the students aren't getting kind of moved around into some portable cluster village while you're turning tearing apart half of the building. And so there was, it was essentially cost neutral to just build a brand new building versus trying to modernize.

On that same?

On that same property. Okay. Thank you. And so the new building would be elevated similar to like Mountside High School with parking underneath because it's a fairly limited site. And so it would have to be a two or three story school to fit in there. Cool. Thank you. Yeah. And the rebuild would also help us with like busing and car transportation. We could have separate entrances. And so there's some benefits to not trying to kind of put the, make a square into a circle.

I believe Ms. Rustick has a question, and I think Mr. Tremolata.

Yeah, thank you. I had emailed some questions to Jamie Burrell, and she shared them with you. And so thank you very much. It was very helpful to help me better understand. Just was trying to wrap my head around exactly what was changing. And I asked if any of the other cities that were in the Snoqualmie Valley had had a chance yet to review this. And your response was that they haven't yet, but that the King County that King County has done a review of this. But so my question is, you made a comment about the city of Sammamish and how they are maybe choosing to. to address this. They've chosen to alternatively apply a lower 25% local share.

So can you just explain that a little bit? And maybe the easiest way to show... Councilmember Rustick had asked about the burden to the local taxpayer as far as development. And so one of the ways... Is the council able to see the capital facilities plan in their packet?

Yep.

So the capital facilities plan, the easiest way to show that, Ms. Rustick, is if we go to the calculation. So if you could go to page 22 of the capital facilities plan, and hopefully this will be the easiest way to make sense of that.

In our packet, we don't have page numbers. We have our packet's page numbers. So can you describe which page you're wanting us to go to?

Can I just show you what it looks like? I think it's page number 45.

It's what?

Is everybody, has everybody found that? It's a lot of numbers. And so I appreciate those good questions. And that's part of the challenge you guys face is you get this every year and it's not really something we talk about a lot. So this is the fee calculation. So we don't have to purchase land. So the top section is zero cost. This next section is that facility cost per residence. And you see that in this case for single family, it's $44,000. And then there is a state match credit that's very small because we don't qualify for a lot of state matching funds. And then the tax credit. So there's a $10,000 tax credit that reduces the fee. And then at the very bottom, there's a summary. So you take the $44,000, you take the state match and tax credit. And then at the very bottom, you see that 50% local share. So that is where the King County ordinance requires a local share and King County since the inception of the ordinance has defined that as 50%. So we take, excuse me, the fee and cut it in half as we propose an impact fee. So city of Sammamish has wanted to have the developer or the new homeowner bear a larger burden of the impact fee. And so the city of Sammamish separate from the school district has elected to make that local share 25%. And so that increases our fee by one and a half times So the 17,000 would be 26,000. And then that, that, so the local share is less. That is not our proposal because that, that could open the door for litigation or, or challenges. But the city of Sammamish has done that. Now, Snoqualmie Valley School District has essentially zero buildable land inside of the city of Sammamish. And so that doesn't really impact anything that we collect. But Lake Washington School District and Issaquah School District are really what make up most of Sammamish. And so I think they're looking at a fairly large development, a number of like multifamily housing. And so they are really struggling with that. So that a couple of years ago, they decreased that local share. And so that's not what we are proposing, but that's what the city has chosen to do.

Understood. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So the, just as a follow-up, the proposed with the 50% is the, By my math, it was about 24% increase for a three plus bedroom home, single family home. So in your example, Sammamish, it would be an even greater burden to the developers that are building three plus family homes, correct?

Yes. And that cost would get passed along to your home buyers, right? Thank you.

I appreciate the clarification. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other clarifying question? Okay.

So the facilities plan and these impact fees are based on future development. And how is the school district able to stay nimble with this plan if development slows, right? Is the solution, the lever, like a school bond down the road, if there's a gap in that or how does it fill the gap, right? Correct. If growth isn't meeting at the impact fee rate so that that schedule can continue to

And the impact fee is a point in time. So that's the purpose of the annual and now biannual updates is you do a check every so often and see if plans have changed. The board in this case approved in 2024 this plan to look at SMS North Bend and Falsete Elementary. Last spring, we did some statistical surveying of the general community to try to get a sense of impact. general sentiment towards a bond and the results were mixed. And so the board has reconvened a new committee, getting some more feedback from folks that they're doing this year. And so if that were to change the plans of what our facilities needs are, what they may look like, then we would at that, when it comes time to update the plan, we would make those updates and we'd get a new demographer report. And so every two years you're refreshing and It's not intended to be a live document that changes all the time because you have to go through all these processes to be able to collect the fees. So there's a general acknowledgement that it's your best plan at the point that you're adopting the facilities plan. And as you revise that, those could change. Okay. Did that answer your question? Yeah.

Okay. Jocelyn, I think you had your hand raised. Okay.

Simply to state the obvious, but here you are. This number of 129,000 and an anticipated completion date of 2031 are all contingent upon the residents of the school district coming together and passing at a 60% level a capital bond.

Correct.

Yes, thank you.

Yes, and the validity of the impact fees is not contingent upon a bond passage. Correct. And so if a bond were to fail, it doesn't mean that now the impact fees aren't legal or collectible. So it's just part of the process.

Okay. Susan, please talk. And I'd like to follow up on that. Because in your notes, you did say you're going to. you'd have a bond that you would go out to the public and get, do you know what percentage that would be? Like, you know, levy, live, lift, we toss around 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. Do you know?

I don't have that off the top of my head. We don't do percentage like lid lifts, like a city does. So what we would do is we would collect based on how, how big of a bond ask that would be. And so it just would increase a rate per thousand of homes. And that would depend on, And that's one of the things I think the board is kind of struggling with is do you run a bond for all three of those buildings because costs of construction have significantly increased? Or do you look at a smaller package? And so they're trying to figure out kind of what would be supported by the community and what wouldn't. And they're trying to get a lot of varying perspectives on that so that it's not just, you know, we don't have our blinders on. We're trying to get a lot of feedback from all kinds of community members.

Do you have any bonds that are expiring soon? Because right now I think it's like in North Bend, it's like 33% of our property tax is going to the school district.

Yeah. And I don't know if the percentage is offhand, but some of that goes to the state for the state portion of the funding. And some of that goes towards paying off bonds. We don't have a lot of bonds expiring. We sell bonds in a 20-year increment. So the bonds that are currently maturing would be ones that we sold in 2025, 26, which would have been around the construction of Twin Falls Middle School and Cascade View Elementary School. So the bonds for the high school and Timber Ridge Elementary are still on the books for another another 10 years or so.

Okay. And out of curiosity, does the school district? I don't know what the rules are for the school district. Do you guys get grants anywhere like from any entity?

We do get grants. School construction is not a great source of funding. The state has an archaic formula to calculate state matches, what they call it. So, for example, our elementary schools with 36% of our capacity in portables, the state does not think that that is insufficient. And so we don't qualify for state matching funds for unhoused students is what they would say. And so we essentially, this is kind of my soapbox, but usually the state matching funds that we collect is less than the sales tax we have to pay on the construction, which I think is weird because we're taxing our residents and then charging ourselves sales tax on top of that. It's one of my soapboxes.

Okay, Ms. Coleman, thinking of North Bend Elementary being rebuilt, which is very needed. My children went there and they're old now. Sorry, girls. Anyways, is it been thought of, I'm sure it has, next to Twin Falls Middle School, there's land to put the elementary school there. that potentially would not need to be raised from a flood zone.

We looked at that, and you're right. There is property next to Twin Falls Middle School that was slated as an elementary site. The committee looked at that and looked at the cost differences between that and felt like it came with other challenges as well. While it might save a little bit of money, it doesn't put the elementary school near the population and would force us to, say, bust the majority of the students there. And attracting bus drivers is challenging and also expensive. And so the committee felt like keeping it where the people live is worth the extra dollars for having to raise it up.

Thank you.

Yeah. Now that might change. Again, the new committee may have a different sentiment for that, but that was the kind of sentiment when we looked at it last.

Thank you, Mr. Stokes. Thank you, Ms. Burrell. This went through CED. Ms. Torgerson, would you like to read the motion?

Mayor, we have a public hearing opening. Even though we have no one in the audience, we still have a public hearing.

I've been listening all along. This is a public hearing. I'm going to open it up for just that. And I don't think we have anyone here tonight. Once again, keep it open. All right. How long should I leave it for? 20 seconds? 20 seconds.

Bill, do we have anybody online?

No.

There's nobody online tonight.

I'd like to close the public hearing at this time. Thank you so much. Okay, now, Ms. Torgerson from CED, if you'd like to read that motion for us tonight, please. Sure, once I find it.

I'm on page 20. Is that it? No, that's 81. Yep, that's it. Okay. Motion to approve AB 2681, an ordinance related to school impact fees, adopting a table of school impact fees, amending the taxes, rates, and fee schedule, and repealing ordinance numbers 1636 and 1838 as a first and final reading. Can I get a second?

Second.

Okay. Ms. Torgers, would you like to speak to your motion?

I'm debating on this one cause I just, um, I guess I'm concerned about the potential bond that it's going to happen to occur. I know that doesn't affect this. That's something that school district would be do separately. Um, so that's where I'm just, I'm worried because everybody has, you know, being taxed to death and, um, Yeah, I'm just I'm just I have some concerns, so I don't not really I'm actually not even sure how I'm going to vote yet. So.

OK, Ms. Cohen, anything to say?

I as well don't want to tax people more and everything, everywhere, all the time, money is going up, up, up, up, up for fire, for police, for schools, for jails. It's never ending. So it is exhausting. I agree with Ms. Torgerson. However, I think Snoqualmie Valley School District is a wonderful school district. I believe people value it and move here because of it. And I do not want to raise more money, but I do like the product of our schools. I can vouch for my two children, and I hate to say yes, but I'm going to say yes.

Okay. Anybody else on council wish to say anything? Ms. Rustick?

Yeah, I appreciate your comments, and that was where my head was as well when I sent off the questions. If I understand correctly, though, this is taxing new development, not existing residents.

Is that correct? That's correct. The impact fee is only applied to new development, and it's assessed at time of permit.

And the way this is now going to be structured, single-family homes that are less than three bedrooms will actually pay less. Our developers for those kind of homes will actually pay less than what they do in 2026. Is that correct?

Correct. $13,000 in 2026 and $2,000 in 2022.

So it's somewhat maybe going to help us with those entry-level homes in with the structure potentially making it less expensive for those entry-level homes and taxing those new homes that are greater than three bedrooms, which is probably where the kids are going to be going to school and be utilizing. So anyway, so I just wanted to clarify. Thank you.

Okay. Anybody else from council wish to speak? Mr. Johnson.

Yeah, thank you, Your Honor. Yeah, to reinforce Council Member Rustick's point, this is an impact fee that's a mechanism through which the city has offered an opportunity to recoup some small amount of the cost of the school district, to recoup the cost of building capital facilities to support the folks who are moving in. You know, development pays for development, right? That's exactly what this is. It's interesting to learn about the constraints and conditions that the school district faces and everybody getting a piece of the same pie, as it were, that makes it more challenging. So I'm certainly in support of the notion of impact fees because certainly I support the intent that folks who are moving here have to contribute towards the construction of public facilities that their families will benefit from. That's how it should work. The notion that in and of itself, this means that, you know, a bond measure being brought forward by the school district. Also, I would like to point out that finally after decades, They are planning to build a new school inside of North Bend. If that's going to happen, they're going to need cheerleaders and folks to get out there and support because it is a very challenging time to try and ask for money to build things. But boy, you know, yes, my children went to North Bend Elementary School, you know, and it was needed then. And these figures about how many kids are in portables, I find unacceptable. And I appreciate the school district's efforts, even in these challenging times, to use the tools at their disposal. We face the same challenges. There's a limited set in the, you know, there's only so many tools in the toolbox. I'm supportive, as Council Member Colon said, the school district is great, top notch. It is why people live here, and we need to invest in it and be advocates for doing so going forward. None of this is easy, and it doesn't happen overnight. The school district has just formed a new committee with a wide range of membership to get as broad a perspective as they can. And so, but hope that they're also on the clock. I mean, both of those things are true, but as folks, you know, sitting here in the position we have as elected officials, I hope we can offer support and row in the same direction as this moves forward because we're absent and other alternatives. You know, the state passed a law that you, there was a lower threshold for what, but not public schools to 55%, you know, but schools were not included in the 60% is a tough go. If you want to get that many people to support this. And so if we choose to look for it, which actually this vote tonight has little or nothing to do with because the bond measure is a ways down the road. I'll be voting in support. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Anybody else? Mr. Elwood.

Thank you. Yeah, I concur. It's an impact fee. Growth pays for growth. This is my third term. We've had a lot of heated discussions in the past. Portables have driven me crazy. And now it's about time we're going to have North Bend Elementary School. We're going to get up to speed with to date. We're going to have some modernization here. It'll be built better for flooding and all the environmental conditions that we have to deal with. And actually being downtown. I do support the committee's decision on that. And I understand the rationale. But I also like the fact that we're going to have a point of pride with our young individuals coming up in downtown North Bend. It'll become a cultural anchor point for all of the families that are moving here, all the families that exist that currently live here. And to me, it's one of those things. It's a great site. I'd like to see other things in that area. But since you're going to do that there, it makes perfect sense. So I'll be supporting the impact fees. I'll be advocating for the bond measures when those come out and all that other good stuff, because this has been something that's been a hot button for me as counsel. since I started council 11, 12, however long ago it was. So I'm hoping that by the end of my term, I can say, okay, it's about time I can walk out of here. And at least that thing was accomplished. So thank you. And I will be supporting this measure tonight. Thank you.

Thank you for your enthusiasm as always. Ms. Tremlata.

Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. I surely support the school district. I think my gripe is more with the state than anybody. I think the idea that they can... force growth through the Growth Management Act and then do some math on paper and say, well, look, it's all going to add up and we're going to get all this funding. You know, for the folks that are concerned about a school bond, I would say buckle up because the growth is going to slow down and the capital facilities plan is going to be short. And then those of us who live here that want to see North Bend Elementary and all these others, we're probably going to have to buckle up and support that, which I would. And I want to see our community thrive. I just... It feels like a little bit of funny money math. I mean, obviously you're doing your job. I get it. And I totally support it. I just, you know, I feel like some of this is the state's wondering if we're paying attention. And I think when you read between the lines, it's not going to hit the numbers that they can. And then once again, like you look at the impact fee schedule and apartments that are two plus bedrooms are, you know, going up in fees. And then that raises the question of like, how do we get affordability when we want multifamily housing? But again, Most likely families are going to move here to the Valley because our school districts are good and they're probably going to need more than two bedrooms. And so we're juggling that. So yeah, Like I said, I think my gripe is more with the state. I do hope some of this works. I do agree. You know, new development should pay for that growth should pay for growth. But I just that's that was the crux of my question is how do we flex this if we're short on fees? And I knew the answer, but I just wanted to make sure we walked through it. So and then I guess my only takeaway to the school district would be like highlight that if we did go to a bond and be, you know, let them know, let the voters know that. we aren't seeing the growth that some of this math pours out. And so we want to invest in our community. So, and I'll, I will help champion that as council member Jocelyn is. Cause I think that makes a lot of sense. But you know, this is the process and I, I get it. But so I will support it, but I'm just not optimistic about the state's math.

All right. Well, thank you for all the input tonight, counsel, and conversation. I think we're going to make a motion now. Motion to approve AB, what is it, 26, excuse me, 081, an ordinance related to school impact fees, adopting a table of school impact fees, amending the taxes, rates, and fees schedule, and repealing ordinance numbers 1636 and 1838 as a first and final reading. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Thank you so much, and thanks again, Mr. Stokes. Thank you very much. That was a lot of information tonight. We value that. Okay, so we're going to move on to item number 8, AB 26-082, motion authorizing amendment to score jail services in a local agreement. Amber Emery, Ms. Emery, you're up.

Thank you, Mayor. Can I have Chief move to a microphone so we can get some questions if we need to do that? We're short on microphones on this side, so bear with us while we play musical chairs a little bit. Soon, I hope. Okay. It's not impacting us.

It's not impacting us.

to apply for our tech package to the state okay so um we are here to talk about the uh motion to authorize amendment to score jail services in our local agreement the city entered in 2023 with score which is south correctional entity for our misdemeanor jail services it's one of five contracts that we carry for jails uh jail contracts within the region We have listed, we always get it about July as far as they're letting us know that their rates are going to change. We need to enter into a new amendment by the end of the year so we can pay the rates in 2027. So I've listed the rates that were in 2026 so you can see in comparison what the 2027 rates are. The one paragraph that I will call to your attention, and we can take any questions that Chief and I on the changes, is on the paragraph where I say SCORE is the city's secondary alternative for housing inmates. We've always used City of Issaquah Jail for the last long while. We have five beds that we pay for. The issue is, as of yesterday, so I'm sorry that I wrote this and then now this has changed, so I just wanted the council to be aware that we often do not have those five beds filled, but we pay for them. So we are going to be shifting to SCORE being our initial person that we're going to be dropping folks off on. And so whether we have those five beds filled or not, we pay City of Issaquah. And so we've had a lot of issues lately where they've been turning folks away when Chief's been bringing because maybe they have an illness, they don't want to take liability, which just happens with misdemeanor jails. But that costs us money. So I'm going to be shifting. I'll let JL know tomorrow. We have a 90 day clause in our contract to give notification that we no longer need to hold those beds. And when I say we've been paying, we paid about 25 grand a month to hold five beds a day at $170. So it is absorbent. It's, it's huge so it's a huge shift that we can help pay for other things like our municipal court contract that we have coming forward so we'll be giving that tomorrow so i just want council to be aware of that as i wrote this two weeks ago that's a new change and when we brought it through public health and safety we didn't have that information so i want you all to be aware of that And we can take questions on those pieces. Yes, Council Member Brostick.

Thank you. Just so I understand the Issaquah jail, what you described, those were guaranteed beds. Right. And there's also non-guaranteed beds. So will we still utilize Issaquah just with non-guaranteed beds?

Yeah, I can start with that. And then Chief, please add to that. We have seen an influx since I've been here, probably, and especially since Chief's team's been here, where we get turned away a lot. So that time for that officer to go to book and then spend time in their car, and then we still have to take that person to SCORE. We will be going to score first. There's more bed movement there. The pricing, once we look at the paying for the beds that we're not using, is not much different. And so we'll default to that first. And Chief, do you have anything you want to add on those pieces?

So what we're finding with Issaquah, with a lot of our declines, they're for medical reasons. And we're forced to take them to a hospital, have a doctor check them out. We'll bring them back to Issaquah. And Issaquah says that even with the doctor's clearance, they still don't meet their standard for booking. And we're going to end up having to go to score anyway. So my officer will arrest someone. They'll take them to Issaquah. They'll get the decline. They'll go to Swedish. that could be anywhere from an hour to several hours. They go back to Issaquah, they get declined again, and now they have to grab the SCORE. So we're just cutting out the middle of that, quite frankly.

The other piece I'll call to attention is also the virtual court admin fee. So SCORE actually has a really robust virtual arraignment process, and it actually saves transport time. So chief doesn't have to be involved in that. The jails don't have to be involved in that. And that also cuts down time for transport, time for officers to be available, and it also cuts down on our costs. So even scores rate at 78.75, ISSA clause is over $100. So we're also saving money in that part of the equation too. So I just want council to be aware of that as we approve this tonight.

Any other questions? Thank you. Any clarifying questions for Ms. Emery? About how many people would we estimate would be going to score? I get Issaquah is not working for us. Yeah. But on a regular month, how many?

So we typically have three folks. So let me pull up my numbers here. We typically have... Three folks or so in Issaquah, maybe, at this point in time. And this has been for about the year as we've been doing data. For example, King County, who's our felony jail, it's our last resort for misdemeanor, but it's our felony jail. And we don't pay for those. But the misdemeanors for, for example, for SCORE for the year so far, we've spent $65,000. For Issaquah, we've spent $204,000. So we're paying for beds that we're not using, and we're averaging about three, three to four, because it's really, I mean, what we've seen our uptick in, and Chief, with your numbers, I know you've been collecting, we've seen our uptick in traffic, and that doesn't go to jail. So that's the, we're still, or the crime area, we're still kind of holding steady on that. And where is the SCORE facility? It's near CTAP. Okay.

Thank you. Any other questions?

I like using my stage voice. Just a procedural one. So I'm assuming I'll be making this motion, which is fine. But do we need to amend the motion that provided the summary statement will be updated? Or is that irrelevant?

There's not any binding pieces. Our binding part is part of the ISSAQUAH notification. And that's 90-day notification. And I'll give that in memo form tomorrow. OK, great. You bet.

And any other clarifying questions from Ms. Emery? Nope. Okay. Let's take this to Public Health and Safety.

I think that would be me.

Yeah, that'd be you, Mr. Elwood. Okay. Make the motion.

Motion to approve AB 26-082, authorizing the mayor to execute an amendment to the interlocal agreement with SCORE for jail services in a form and content acceptable to the city attorney.

Thank you, sir. And we have a second. Second. Thank you, Ms. Torgerson.

Brendan, would you like to speak to your motion? I think Amber and the chief explained it perfectly well as to why we need to move on this. So thank you. Wonderful.

Ms. Torgerson, would you like to speak to your motion? I concur. Well, fabulous. Any other council member wish to speak to this motion?

I triple concur.

Well, there we have it. Okay. Is that, we're good? We're clear? Okay. Okay. Motion to approve AB, thank you for that, by the way, AB 26-082, authorizing the mayor to execute an amendment to the interlocal agreement with score for jail services in a form and content acceptable to the city attorney. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you, Ms. Emmerich. Okay, moving on to item number 9, AB 26-083, Resolution Accepting FHWARTCC Grant Funds for North Bend Way, Mount Sai Road Roundabout Project. I'm excited about this one, Mr. Moore, if you'd like to take it away and let us all know what's going on.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor and Council. On page 78 of the packet, you'll see the agenda bill accepting the Federal Highway Administration Rural Town Center and Corridor Construction funding for the North Bend Way Mountside Road Roundabout project. In 2026, city staff applied for and were awarded just over $2,217,000 in federal funds for construction of this project. The city has a match requirement of just over $346,000, providing a construction budget of $2.56 million. The local match will be covered using transportation impact fees and transportation benefit district funds. This project is a high priority on the city's six-year TIP and is a necessary project as this is a dangerous intersection for vehicles, pedestrians, and bikers. The attached resolution accepts the construction grant, authorizes use of local match funds, and authorizes the mayor to execute the local agency agreement, project prospectus, and all other documents necessary to obligate funds for this project. Staff are currently planning on 2027 construction of this roundabout, but this may push to 2028 depending on how successful we are with other grant funding later this year. which will affect workload moving forward. This is a big win for the city. TBW committee also recommended approval of this item at their July meeting. And staff's currently working on right-of-way acquisition with the Slough Grange, the motel right now. So we'll be bringing that forward in the coming months, some small temporary construction easements and some small permanent takes. And once we get that wrapped up, we can obligate these funds, assuming council approves, and then hopefully get to construction next year. So happy to answer any questions council may have.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Any clarifying questions for Mr. Moore? Oh, Mr. Jocelyn, excuse me.

simply in the spirit of helping us all, you know, ground ourselves in how some of these things work. This funding did come through and is administered by the South Cities Association. Is that correct?

Yeah, PGA Center Regional Council.

Great. Thank you.

Great. Thank you for that clarification. Anybody else from Council? Mr. Elwood?

I have a comment. I love the ratio, the matching ratio. I think you could do better, Tom. I mean, come on. This is amazing. Well done.

Hey, did I get everybody? All right. Motion to approve the AB 26-084 resolution accepting federal highway administration. Mayor. Oh.

Did I? No, there's need a motion. Heather.

Heather, boy, I. My apologies. I'm so excited. This roundabout, oh, it makes me, okay. All right. I'm turning it over to you.

Motion to approve AB 26-083, a resolution accepting Federal Highway Administration, Rural Town Centers and Corridors funds for construction of North Bendway, Mount Cyrode roundabout project.

Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Ms. Rustick. And Heather, please, I apologize again. I would never want to take away your chance to make a motion. I just did, though, for a second. Anyway, would you like to speak to your motion?

This is a very needed project. It's been a long time in the making. Getting the money, well done, Mr. Moore. And this is great for our city. Wonderful.

Would you like to speak to your motion, Ms. Rustick?

I'll just add that crossing North Bend Way can be a challenge if you're on foot. So this is going to be, I think, not only a benefit to slowing cars down on North Bend Way, but allowing pedestrians to get to the Snoqualmie Valley Trail. So I will be supporting. Thank you.

Wonderful. Anybody else from council wish to comment? Okay. Now, here I go. Motion to approve AB 26-084 resolution accepting Federal Highway Administration Transportation. 8-3, ma'am. 8-3. Sorry.

We're taking a vote. 0-8-3. You're the one. You're moving ahead. Yeah.

Oh, 0-8-3. Oh. Yes. Page 79, Your Honor. Thank you very much for catching me on that. A resolution except, do I have to go back and redo the whole thing? For a motion to approve AB 26-083, a resolution accepting Federal Highway Administration Rural Town Centers and Corridors funds for construction of the North Bend Way slash Mount Cy Road roundabout project. That's a mouthful, but let's see where we go with that. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much and appreciate the help along the way. Okay, we're going to go to Mr. Moore again. That's our second to last item number, number 10, AB 26-084, resolution accepting FHWA TAP grant funds for Tanner Trail Extension Project. Mr. Moore, we're looking back to you again for more information on this.

All right. Thank you again, Mayor and Council. Very similar to the previous item. On page 83 of the packet, you'll see the AB accepting the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternative Program, or TAP, construction funding for the Tanner Trail Extension Project. In 2026, city staff applied for and were awarded just over $1,183,000 in federal funds for construction of the project. The city has a match requirement of just over $184,000, providing a construction budget of $1.37 million for this project. The local match will also be covered by transportation impact fees and transportation benefit district funds as with the previous project. This project is in the city's six-year TIP and was designed with federal funds as well. The project's purpose is to extend the paved portion of Tanner Trail, starting just east of our Public Works entrance, heading your way east down North Bend Way, all the way to the Stokoe Valley Trail crossing of North Bend Way. There'll be a few bump outs along the trail for benches to take a look at views of the mountain, and those areas will also be landscaped as well. So the attached resolution accepts the construction grant, authorizes use of local match funds, and authorizes the mayor to execute the local agency agreement, project prospectus, and all other documents necessary to obligate funds for this project. Staff are currently planning on 2028 construction based on current workloads for this project. Also, this is another big win for the city. Staff did a good job of getting this through. There's a lot of hoops with these grants, and we're getting pretty good at it. So I just want to call out my staff. They did a great job on all this stuff. So yeah, TPW also recommended approval of this at their July 28 meeting. Happy to answer any questions Council may have.

Great. Thank you so much, Mr. Moore. Any clarifying questions for Tom? Nope. Hey, Heather, looking at you. Here we go. Smooth sailing.

I got it. Okay. Motion to approve AB 26-08 for a resolution accepting Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternatives Program funds for construction of the Tanner Trail Extension Project.

Second.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Thank you, Ms. Colon. Would you like to speak to your motion, Heather? Okay.

I love our transportation projects when they work out, and they help us money-wise. It makes our city better. It's nice for the citizens. It's just, as Tom Moore said, it's a big win.

Fantastic. And Mr. Chawson, thank you for that.

Yes, exactly. That's spectacular. This one's really exciting, actually, to connect downtown via a paved path to the Snoqualmie Valley Trail. going east and west. I mean, you got to go a lot farther. You can just go a little ways north and you hit it in a gravel trail, but you know, that paved part, that's going to, there'll be a few people are going to wander into downtown. It wouldn't otherwise, or maybe more than a few. Anyway, I think it's great. And right. The Tom Moore said staff did a good job. Well, they did more than a good job. They did a great job. Just like on a previous project to bring a council member. Elwood said this ratio is pretty good. You know, it's incredible that for investment of $186,000, we've got a $1.5 million construction budget. You know, I would, you know, that's wonderful. That's a benefit to this city. And, you know, stretching dollars, however you want to look at it, it's just great. I want to acknowledge, again, the staff and all of their hard work to continue to pursue these sorts of opportunities for the city. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Anyone else from council wish to speak? Mr. Elwood?

Yeah, just continuing the praise and send it on to your staff and team. This is fantastic. These are the nights that we look forward to coming to. So thank you for having it on here, but also being able to celebrate it. So well done.

Anybody else? Okay. I'll just say the same thing. Good job, staff. It was excellent. Okay. All right. Well, I feel the same. So let that be known for the record. You guys are just rock stars doing great work. Okay. Motion to approve AB 26-084, a resolution accepting Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternatives Program, TAP, funds for construction of the Tanner Trail Extension Project. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much, everybody. Okay. Number 11. Let me flip over here. AB 26-085, motion authorizing collective bargaining agreement for office clerical and technical employees. Ms. Escobar, this is your time to fill us in. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. The city has wrapped up negotiations with the Teamsters Local 763 covering our public, professional, and office clerical employees. This collective bargaining agreement controls the working conditions and wages for 12 of our valued employees who are represented in all departments. Accordingly, 33% of the cost of this contract is from utilities and 66% is from general funds. In this negotiation, the city had the following priorities. to recruit, hire, and retain top-of-the-line talent, to bargain agreements that were fiscally sustainable long-term, to provide continued quality customer service and colleague collaboration, to respond to employee requests for a VEBA account, and to continue to establish parity with the Public Works CBA when possible. Annual salary raises will be cost of living increases. Employees that opt out of medical coverage will receive an increase from 35% to 50% of the medical premium monthly. The longevity bonus now matches the public works department as well as the maximum number of hours of comp time an employee can carry over annually. The city's negotiating team consisted of myself, Martin Shaw, the finance director, and Aaron DeBerg, our HR manager and emergency management coordinator. The union's negotiation team consisted of Jonathan Williams, the Teamsters business agent, Stephanie Dearman, our senior GIS analyst, and Daniel Turpel, our infrastructure inspector. All members of the negotiating team are recommending the attached CBA, which was ratified by the union on August 25th, 2026. An updated salary schedule reflecting the clerical contract before you tonight will be brought forward to the October 6th, 2026 council meeting for ratification. Happy to entertain any additional clarifying questions. Thank you, Ms. Escobar.

Any clarifying questions for Ms. Escobar, counsel? No? Okay. Can I ask Mayor Pro Tem to make this motion?

Thank you. Motion to approve AB 26-085, authorizing the mayor to enter into a collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local 763 relating to public, professional, and office clerical employees.

Second. Thank you for your second, Ms. Rustick. Mr. Tremolata, would you like to speak to your motion?

No, just happy to get this done and appreciate Lisa and Aaron updating council along the way. It was great. Sounded fairly smooth for all things considered. So appreciate it.

Fabulous. Ms. Rustick.

Yeah, I'll just add to that and thank both the city's negotiating team and the union's negotiating team for their time. I know these kind of conversations can be challenging at times, but appreciate you all coming together to find a resolution. So thank you.

Great. Any other council members wish to comment at this time?

No?

All right. Well, thank you, Ms. Escobar. All right. Motion to approve AB 26-085, authorizing the mayor to enter into a collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local 763 relating to public, professional, and office clerical employees. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, we're past 6-0 once again. Thank you so much. And now we're going to go on to Council. Anything you want to say tonight? I'm going to start with Mr. Elwood right at the corner.

Your Honor, you start with Mr. Elwood quite often.

I do. My head turns your direction and that's natural for me.

Well, I'm looking at the clock and I'll say nothing me tonight.

Thank you, sir. Yeah, I like it. Ms. Torgerson. I'm going to say the same thing. Nothing from you tonight. Okay. Are we establishing a pattern tonight? I don't know. Pattern. No. Establish. Nothing from me tonight. I'm going to be the loud mouth then.

Okay. That's funny. I wasn't looking at the clock, but I truly had nothing to share tonight.

Okay. Wow. Mr. Jocelyn.

I too shall pass.

Okay.

Keep it clean. Nothing from me, believe it or not.

Well, then I have three items because you all didn't take time. I know. I'm sorry. Because I know you failed to mention in our public health and safety, the very full idea that you all three had about having a forum. So we have a public open house. We'll have an invite go out for October 6th. Mike Coons from the line is graciously bringing over bikes so that parents and folks can see what an e-bike looks like. We're looking for an e-motorcycle, so we might have that available, but he's graciously going to bring three different bikes over so that people can check it out. So I think that's great. We have a little show and tell. We'll talk about the ordinance and the changes to different things with folks. We've invited the school district, so we'll have a notice go out, but I wanted to give counsel that notice tonight that Thank you three for your idea. And we are taking it and I wouldn't say writing off in the sunset because I won't make that pun. So thank you for that. And then I'm going to embarrass Tom because I call him the operational closer. I've never seen someone better at closing operations and he gets these projects done. So kudos to him and his team. I know he'll be embarrassed by that, but that's okay. And And then thank you, Council Member Jocelyn. I always get, like, when you guys reach out and give ideas, there's a great idea from Council Member Jocelyn. I'm sorry, I'm going to put you on the spot, sir, too. That, I know, that talks through the letting people know, you know, we have a proposed SINA go up when there's a land use piece, but also the great projects that you guys all approve. So having a sign up saying, like, the sidewalk projects. This is a sidewalk project brought by the City of North Bend. And letting folks know that we have one being done by Orchard. there's no signage and i think people are really curious and they want to know who's bringing that project forward and i think it's really important to show the community what you guys invest in infrastructure so we're looking at what we're going to do and thank you to councilmember jocelyn for that lovely idea so that's my three things well i concur with all of that it was wonderful so um

Let me begin. The city is hosting a free shred event on Saturday, September 19th from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at City Hall. Are you doing some home organizing? Because I am. Need to get rid of some old papers? Well, that's me too. And documents? Then just bring them on by and we will shred the dickens out of them. Please don't bring DVDs or stiff metal plastic bags and things like that. That'll jam the shredder. Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16th, Police Chief Ed Hall invites residents to join him in a community conversation about local public safety and the city's new police department. Please stop by Heartwood from 9 to 10 a.m. Look forward to that. The Friends of the North Bend Library Fall Book Sale takes place at the North Bend Library, of course, located at 115 East 4th Street. A special pre-sale is set for Wednesday, September 16th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. $20 entry for two people with a general public sale running Thursday, September 17th through Saturday, September 19th this week. Join me for my meetup in the Mayor Series, which residents are invited to stop by, chat, and talk about anything you wish to, city-related or whatnot. It's important to connect with you all at times. So I'll be at Hartwood Thursday, September 24th from 930 to 1030. And the North Bend Blues Walk, I love this one, so I hope you all come into town for that. Saturday, October 3rd from 6 p.m. to midnight. The festival will feature... 25 bands throughout 19 downtown North Bend venues. To find out more about the Blues Walk, including how to purchase tickets, please visit the community calendar on the website. Okay. Can I get a motion to adjourn? Okay.

Second.

Thank you. And let it be noted, it's 826 p.m. Have a wonderful week, everybody. Take care of yourself and each other. Take care.