City Council - Regular Meeting

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Thanks. At 6 PM all members are present. So with that being said, we will move right on to ordinance number 2953 zoning code text amendment co-l livingiving housing. We have with us uh Ryan Windish, director of economic and community development and city administrator Jason Wilson. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. I'll turn it directly over to Ryan. Thank you, mayor. Members of the city council microphone on. Thank you. I was ready to do that. It's an issue tonight. Don't worry about it.

And I'll be presenting on uh zoning code text amendment regarding co-living housing. You're probably all wondering what that is. So, I'm going to try to explain how this works. So in 2024, the legislature adopted House Bill 1998 and it amended the growth management act to require cities to allow co-living housing in zones where at least six dwelling units are allowed in one structure. So really multif family zones and I have a map that shows where these would be allowed in the city. And the intent is to allow this type of housing to expand housing options and affordability. Uh, one of the kind of targeted um, uh, demographics for co-living housing is really single person households uh, seeking more affordable housing options. So, co-l livingiving housing is defined as residential development with independently rented sleeping units with shared kitchen facilities. And I'll I'll talk about what sleeping units are because you're probably all wondering. Cities are required to adopt the regulations by December 31st, 2025. You'll note that we we missed that deadline. Uh I don't think we're currently in threat of being overcome by co-l livingiving housing. And even if we were, uh the regulations are pretty good at the state level. So, uh zoning code updates, uh it adds definitions for co-living housing, sleeping units, shared kitchens, and other related terms. This would allow for co-living housing to be permitted in all zones, all our multif family zones. I mean and it would add performance density and open space and parking and sewer connection standards consistent with state law and I'll walk through those details and it would ensure co-l livingiving housing is regulated no more restrictively than other multif family residential and the way accomplished that in the code is just to add co-living housing as part of the multif family residential definitions in the code and then when you go through and

see where multif family residential is allowed co-living is kind of right there right with it. So this map shows the areas in pink, it's pinkish purplish color where co-living housing would be allowed. This is where we allow for at least structures with six uh units um which includes our town center plan area around the train station, multif family zones north of Main Street, north of the high school. Sorry, I don't have a pointer. And what you don't see in in purple on here is industrial zones, interchange commercial zones where we don't allow residential housing or what are our lowdensity residential zones which are characterized generally by as as single family residential. Um so those are the areas that co-l livingiving housing would be allowed. So what are sleeping units? So a sleeping unit is uh a unit that is no more than 300 square feet. A private bathroom is required. And the key here is there is no kitchen associated within a sleeping unit. Within a sleeping unit you can have a kitchenet. You might be asking yourself what's the difference. Uh, kitchens have a 240 volt plugin for an electric range and a kitchenet only has 120 volt plugins. Both could have, you know, microwave oven, uh, could have a sink, have counters for preparing food, but the one the difference is one could have an electric range at 240 volt and one could not. Shared kitchens are required at a minimum ratio of one per 15 sleeping units. uh state law, oddly enough, I think is odd, uh doesn't provide any ratio. It also doesn't provide a maximum

square footage. Uh where I got those numbers is from a model ordinance that was developed by our partners at Shape, the South Sound Housing Affordability Partnership. They came up with a model ordinance based on some guidance from the state. Uh and so I pulled some some of these requirements from uh that model ordinance. And the the reason there's a limit on kind of maximum size is that these are intended really to be for single person occupancy. And so this provides a a space that could have a sleeping area and a kitchenet and a bathroom. And so if you could imagine uh these area these co-l livingiving housing so you've got multiple sleeping units in there probably single occupancy that's really the intent and so state law um requires any density calculations. So if you're allowed 20 units to the acre, let's say dwelling units to the acre is a density, you could do four sleeping units for every one dwelling unit. So you could do 80 sleeping units in a co-l livingiving uh development if it were allowed to do 20 units to the acre. So you can do four times as much density. And then there's also some calculations that I'll talk about regarding sewer uh that are reduced as well. And then open space requirements. So one sleeping unit equals half of the requirements for a dwelling unit. Uh we calculate open space when we start looking into the details of our design and development guidelines uh where that's applicable. So that would be a a change there. Uh parking requirements. One of the so state law says the the maximum you could charge excuse me the

minimum the minimum would be one parking stall per four sleeping units. So that's that's a minimum. Uh and then no parking would be required within a half a mile of a major transit stop which the definition would include the sounder station. So within this within this circle and the circle goes well beyond honestly the uh the town center boundary but uh so it goes into the low density residential where you couldn't do co-l livingiving housing not to be too confusing but within this half a mile circle that's allows for co-living we would not the city would not be able to require any parking. Now, the developer would have the option to do parking, and they often do because they realize it's hard to lease a unit if you don't have a parking space. And then state law allows for a city to basically seek an exception from that rule by conducting a traffic study. And it has to be done by a certified engineer or planning consultant. And I just want to kind of read the the particulars there because uh it was it was a point of discussion and recommendation by the planning commission. So the city would have to do an empirical study prepared by a credentialed transportation land use planning expert that clearly demonstrates and then the department of commerce would have to certify it as well that this uh parking limitation will be significantly less safe for vehicle drivers or passengers, pedestrians or bicycles. bicyclist than if the jurisdiction's parking requirements were applied to the same location. So basically, if the city wants to seek

an exception to this no parking within a half a mile, we'd have to do a study and it would have to conclude that our city streets were unsafe or less safe, significantly less safe for drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and bicyclists. Uh, and not only that, if you think it through a little bit, you'd also have to have enough co-living construction to kind of start to create, I don't know, a problem in my mind. Uh, so um, the recommendation from the planning commission that, um, came came out was to have the study done, recommending the council do the study. Uh staff's recommendation is to not do a study uh at least not anytime soon. Um because first of all u it's not real beneficial for us to have a conclusion that our streets are unsafe. Um, that's and and and I think first of all, I think it's going to be hard honestly to draw any kind of a nexus between on street parking that might be happening versus things that are unsafe. And the reason I'm saying that is because if we're enforcing our parking codes the way we should be enforcing them and our streets are designed the way they should be designed and everything's kind of lined out, our streets should be safe. I mean, it's going to be really tough, I think, to have somebody come in and make a case for unsafe streets if we're following all those things. So, staff's recommendation is to not do the study. If the council wants to talk about doing a study, I have some ideas for when that could be done. Um, and then sewer impact fees, uh, 50%, there's a 50% cap in the bill for co-living housing on sewer fees.

So the sewer fee for a multif family dwelling unit is 75 eru 3quarters of an eru an equivalent residential unit. And so 50% of 3/4 is 375. So that would be I think it's still accurate. It might have gone up a little bit under today's rates uh was about $2,100 per sleeping unit for sewer hookup fee. So that would have us compliant with state law as well. Um I have a staff report that's accompanied this document and concludes that it's consistent with our comprehensive plan uh providing housing variety and affordability. Uh in those regards and then the planning commission recommendation, this went to planning commission a couple times. They held a public hearing. Uh, we received public comment and the planning commission recommended the city conduct a traffic study per state law that I talked about earlier and they passed it unanimously as a recommendation for adoption. So, happy to answer any questions.

To be clear though, what is in your recommendation? Oh, my recommendation is to pass the ordinance as written and to not do a traffic study. questions. Yeah, questions. I was just going to say and that is how it is prepared for your consideration. So, there's nothing council would need to do to address the traffic study issue unless you chose to uh not follow staff's recommendation. Okay. Council member Alers.

Thanks, Ryan. Um I was just curious. I remember we had talked last year not about co-l livingiving housing but um about when the parking garage was done and some of the parking we have some parking requirements where people can get a certain number of parking passes and all that stuff and there was some talk about doing a parking or traffic study after that but I don't think it had anything to do with unsafe streets. So when you're talking about the traffic study and I don't understand the correlation between doing a traffic study and is it a specific I don't get can you explain what the difference in this traffic study would the one we were talking about last year was not related to unsafe street I don't think any so what's the difference

uh we would recommend our recommendation and I think it's even written into some of our policies in the comp plan is to do an updated parking study for the downtown after we have a parking garage in after more than likely after the red apple market area is developed to you know ascertain whether or not we needed to address inadequate parking in the downtown. Um that would that's and that's unrelated to a traffic study related to co-l livingiving housing. Okay. So just make sure I'm trying to track with you. So still going to do a parking study. The parking study won't address co-l livingiving housing.

Okay. Because I think the issue with the traffic study was about parking but it's the different type of so that's why I'm getting confused. So this is you're looking at this is a state required if you want an exemption from the parking requirements and you want to require more parking then you would have to do a traffic study and the traffic study would have to conclude that it's unsafe. Correct. And so that the and if it traffic studies not just it's not doing traffic counts to see if you need to widen streets. It's not it's it's actually specifically looking at safety.

Yeah. And I'm not sure all the intimate details of what it would represent there in terms of what gets studied but the conclusion would have to be that that is significantly unsafe. Okay. It's not just looking about because I was thinking traffic studies mostly relate to number of cars and how big the street is and this is it sounds like it's similar to that but it's more about the safety issue which creates some liability is what I understand. Yes. Got it. Okay. But we are going to do parking studies. I do think people are concerned about parking. It's not going to be next week and it's not going to be next year but it'll be after some of this development happens and we're able to kind of see how things pan out. Parking study not next week but probably April. I'm just joking. Okay. Um, thank you. Thank you, Council Member Rinky.

Okay, let's try it again. Yeah, I was just curious. Do we have a rough estimate on what the parking study or traffic study costs? Is it very expensive? Is it uh five grand, 20 grand? It's probably in the I think I put 30 to 50. I responded the same question uh earlier today in an email. Um, I think we said 20 25 to 30. 25 to 30. There we go. Okay. Okay. Thanks. I was just curious what how expensive they are. Council member Kenna.

Thanks, Ryan. Um, yeah, just a few questions on the back of what we exchanged emails on earlier. Um, and uh, want to make it clear as you did in your presentation too, um, that this is in all the multifamily zoning locations, but I know specifically the parking issue is when we're focusing in on that near the transit stop and the Sounder Station. So, to that effect, um, do you have an idea about the abundance of, uh, street parking that's available in that half mile radius?

I don't know. I don't have numbers, but if but since it's in a residential parking zone, it gives you a good idea of kind of what the residents are utilizing for parking on the street. And in a co-living housing situation, if they are on a they're in a residential parking zone, those tenants could also be allowed to get a permit to park on the street. And if you drive those streets, I mean, there's anywhere from, you know, 50 to 70% of the street that's open for somebody else to park on, uh, if it's if it's in an RPZ zone, right? It's probably just those couple blocks around the train station that are moreer more Yeah. that are taken up a little bit more. So, yeah.

Okay. Um and then uh in terms of uh building parking, I know you said that a lot of developers even if parking is not required, they may choose to do that anyway um to provide a service and customers may want that kind of parking anyway. Do you have an idea about the additional costs that it um would add on to a project if a developer were to add parking? I know it's really ballparking it here, but yeah, structured parking, uh, these might be a little bit dated numbers, but 30 to 50,000 per space. And and then surface parking is probably about half that. Okay. Or a third of that. And yeah, half that.

And if um I believe that I saw this in the in the agenda packet, but if um somebody wanted to retrofit an existing house, I believe that's allowed. However, if that existing house doesn't have um parking and then we we're seeking to require parking, that would be an impediment or a barrier to um being able to do that. Is that right?

Yeah. If it's in an area that would be outside that half a mile, we'd be able to require parking and it could be an impediment given Yes. Given that if it's a single family house and you can't create parking, say off an alley in the back or something like that, it could be an impediment. The other impediment is that the for a house conversion is that there's a bathroom required to be in the sleeping unit, individual bathroom. Right. Okay. So that might create a problem with the structure in terms of retrofitting it. Okay. Um lastly, uh so this didn't go to the um community development committee, just came straight to council. Correct. Straight to council. Okay. Gotcha. Thank you.

Good. Thank you, council member Wily. Oh, there we go. Um, so just to clarify, and I know we've already talked about it, um, but just to clarify, that the state mandated the co-living housing in all in all of of the cities. So, what we're doing is we're we're clarifying the the expectations of somebody building a co-living housing unit within the um multif family housing zones that we have. Correct. That's what this is is we're just clarifying exactly what our city's mand mandatory requirements are to build that co-living housing.

And one of those ways that we're doing that to define it is having the bathrooms for every single sleeping unit and other ways in which we can make sure that um they're um built um to facilitate correctly. Yes. Okay. That's that's true. That's correct. And I should also point out that in our code presently we talk about uh rooming houses and boarding houses which if you look back in the history of those it's it's a form of co-l livingiving right so kind of I brought in the more modern discussion or definition of co-living housing and removed the reference to rooming and boarding houses. Yeah. Just as a as a

Yeah. I just wanted to I Yeah. Perfect. I just wanted to clarify that this wasn't something we're coming up with. This is something that we're editing to fit the city's expectations. Correct. To the degree that we can and still meet state law. Correct. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Hawksteader.

Thank you, Ryan. So to piggyback on council member Wily here between you as a as as staff, how many of these units do you foresee coming our way here in Sumar between us not being maybe located in Seattle where there's a lot of college campuses where there's a big demand for it and then on top of that the city clarifying that there needs to be a bathroom for each unit. as a staff, how many do you think will be bombarded with these? There's going to be far and few in between. What are your thoughts on that?

Uh my crystal ball, if I have one, is that we're not going to be bombarded with this. I think one of the big limitations, I mean, you brought up some good points about, you know, the college demographic isn't in Sumar. Uh this is really a, you know, I think a pretty urban a much more urban type of of style of development. And part of that has to do with I think more frequent transit service than the city of Sumar is currently able to provide. I think somebody who chooses to live in co-l livingiving is probably also maybe not doesn't have a car. They're they're looking for an affordable place, affordable transportation, and I think part of the limitations would be that we don't have frequent transit. And between with with that said, the traffic study side of it with us knowing or not knowing us foreseeing this not being um not taking on a lot of co-l livingiving and all that, I can understand the staff's recommendation of not needing a traffic stud at this point. I can understand that. Thank you, Ryan.

Okay. Anyone else? Oh, uh, Deputy Mayor Elers,

thank you. Hey, I just curious on the on the uses of these buildings. Are these something that we would allow to be condoized or is this something that would just be pretty much 100% like a rental property? What What kind of a ownership do you see? It sounds to me I'm just going to I'm guessing that it's more of a rental property, which we have quite a few. I think it would. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm not an expert on it, but I kind of thinking the way a building would be configured with a shared kitchen, I think it'd be hard to condo them, honestly. I don't I don't I don't know if that would be I don't know if it's impossible legally, but I don't know if it would be something desirable. I think it's in far more likely it's going to be a rental.

Okay. I did like Mr. Beerman had some comments at the end that he put in. and it sounded like he lived in uh co-l livingiving housing in Seattle and made some really good observations about our code and how that fit. It did sound a lot like it was much more appropriate for urban although the state doesn't seem to differentiate anymore. Um the uh so I think it seems like it just we're adding a different type of rental inventory is what I'm hearing. U does it have any anything related to senior housing? It seems like in some ways this could work for single young people or for seniors. Is that Yeah, seniors. uh can prefer this type of housing because it's a little more social than uh maybe normal and it's more affordable than normal uh maybe senior opportunities.

And could somebody build this and just limit it to 55 plus? Is that something that the code allows? I think they would. Yeah, they could. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you very much. And mayor, just uh for council's information, this is set for April 6th, regular council meeting for consideration.

Okay. Thank you. Uh now we're going to move on to resolution number 1744-2027-2023ear transportation improvement program annual update. So we have public works director Mr. Michael Kosa, Andrew Leech, senior associate engineer, and Courtney Latrell, assistant engineering manager. You get some handouts. Good evening, mayor and members of the city council.

Hello. Uh I am Michael Kosa, the public works director, and I'm so excited to be here uh to share with you uh our uh draft six-year transportation improvement program for the years 2027 through 2032. Um, I am joined by, as as mentioned, Courtney Latrell, uh, who will be going over our roadway, uh, projects and then also Andrew Leech, who will be going over our, uh, our maintenance projects as well as our our, uh, trail projects. So, um, happy to be here. Love talking about projects, love talking about capital improvements. So, um, but yes, a little introduction. You all have maps. Uh the the map is available in the presentation. Uh but and it was also in your packet, but we figured we print it out at 11 by7. So uh it's a little bit bigger. And uh I would focus on the map. You can you can look at the other um um Excel spreadsheet that's printed out as well, but um the map is is very helpful for for looking at where we're looking in the city and uh there will be a lot of uh a lot of it in the slides. So with that, what is the six-year transportation improvement program? So uh it identifies our transportation projects for the next six years. Uh it allows this body to formally adopt our the project list, the projects that we wish to include from a transportation perspective, which includes both uh vehicular travel or non and non-motorized pedestrian travel. So those are all on here. Uh it ensures our projects are included in an adopted city planning document which helps us seek funding for those projects. Uh many of our granting agencies ask has the council adopted this as a uh uh a project they want to move forward with and we can confidently say yes when we have this uh uh

uh there will be a resolution uh that that gets passed. So uh why create a six-year tip? Well, the easy answer is because it's the state law. So RCW 3577010 and 3681121 generally say each city and county shall update its transportation improvement plan annually and file a copy of the adopted program with the state department of transportation. It's required to be a six-year planning document. It's also required to be updated annually uh which adds to the confusion but uh is uh it's helpful. So uh how are these projects added? Uh our projects are prelim are primarily originating from our city's 20-year transportation plan which uh was passed uh early last year actually. Uh we updated every 10 years. Uh it's part of the comp plan. Uh but then we also re-evaluate this list annually as part of this process. So projects are removed as they become completed uh and or they age into our six-year plan. Uh, also new projects are added as needs arise. You know, projects that we did not identify in previous years, but all of a sudden it gets it's a new project that we really need to address. Uh, we we make sure those get in here. Uh, also includes uh some washd projects. Uh, so uh you'll see a couple washd projects on our list. This provides a basis for city support for those projects. It makes it easy for us to say yes that is something that we're in favor of and that we're supporting it because it's in our plan too. We are uh you know in incorporating that. Additionally uh if there is a financial comput contribution uh that we are providing for any uh project it needs to be part of this. So, uh, we did have we'll talk about the gateway project, uh, in a few minutes. Uh, Courtney will, but, um, if we we did have a financial contribution to that project as well as a number of of of

cities around the region, uh, WASHD asked for for, uh, for financial support there. So, um, real brief, uh, there are two different types of t of transportation improvement programs out there. They can be constrained or they can be unconstrained. uh we have an unconstrained tip. So what does that mean? It means that uh we note the funding that we know about that we have uh but it also some projects don't have full funding on this. Other cities show all of their uh all of the ways that they're going to fund all of their projects. So that's why they call it constrained. Uh but with uh with ours, it shows our future project needs and it allows us to go after grants uh for those future project needs. Uh we just it's more of a wish list than it is uh or at least a desired list than uh maybe other agencies uh use it as more of their their budgeting and planning document. So generally how are transportation projects funded in the city? Uh so there's kind of two two sides of it. There's the limited local resources side of the slide and then there's our state and federal grants. So what are those limited local resources? We're using them primarily for grant matches. Uh we're uh like I mentioned at the bottom, it's uh very rare to complete a transportation project without a grant in our city. uh in in most cities too. There's many uh uh it's it's very you know these projects are very expensive and so the financial resources uh we try to leverage outside granting agencies as much as we can and then we take the funding that we do put in and try to use that as uh as a grant match uh strategically. So, uh those funds can come from there's a property tax set aside which we'll talk about later in the year. Uh that is specifically for

transportation grant matches. Uh there is a uh uh our transportation impact fees which is a restricted pot that can only be used for uh projects that increase capacity on our roadways. There is the real estate excise tax or REIT that uh is can be used for this or many other things. So that's not necessarily a pot that we use very often, but it is available to fund transportation projects. Uh the council strategic reserve is another location where historically uh projects have gotten a shot in the arm uh for those projects that council wants to move forward a little bit more aggressively. And then um new to this new from last year is our transportation benefit district. typically uh we're using uh or we've been instructed to use that for maintenance and preservation projects. It is a little bit more open to what it could be used for but uh that is uh um what we are doing within. We talked about that earlier in the year. Uh additionally the general fund is is available for transportation projects although it's pretty rarely used um because there's just so many competing interests. So on the flip side there's the state and federal grants. Uh just want to mention off the bat there significant staff effort every time we get one of these grants. However um they are no they are very u beneficial to moving projects forward and like I mentioned we really can't do projects without them. Um they're typically limited to major roadways. So we're talking um Courtney will talk about it a little bit but you know traffic avenue valley our major arterials our major collectors are federally classified roadways. Those are roadways that we can typically apply for for some of the larger grants. Uh there are many, you know, a project on Washington Street or Hunt or Elizabeth is not one that we can easily get uh funding uh from those

state federal grants for. Those state federal grants are also usually regionally competitive. And you also have to have a project that really aligns with the grant criteria. So, uh it might be a freight project that uh you or a freight grant that you're going after. You're going to have to find that project on our tip that is a great uh great that provides a great freight benefit and that's the one we probably want to try to apply for for that grant or um there are a myriad of other grants. Uh there's a bicycle and pedestrian grant. Well, we're going to trying to find the project that best aligns with their with that program's uh project needs. and it'll be bicycle bike is a bike lane or maybe it's a sidewalk. So, we're very selective and that is also a reason we have so many projects on our list so that we can look at a grant competition and say what is the best the best project we can put forward to uh uh try to secure some funds. So, with that I will turn it over to Courtney who will go through a lot of roadway projects for us.

Thank you Michael. Um, as you mentioned, I'm going to go through a lot, so bear with me as I ramble about each project. Um, so this map you see on the screen is all of our projects that are on the six-year tip. The A uh designated projects are our arterial street program. The C's are our collector street program. The T's are our trail program. Um, these two maps uh break it out between the federally classified roadways and the non-federally classified roadways. As you'll see, um the federally classified roadways does have all of our A's, A projects, and a few C's. Um and then the nonfederally classified on the right, um does have quite a few projects on it. So, those are the ones that are a lot harder to get that grant funding for. Okay. So, now I'm going to go through each project individually. Um so, I'll have each project zoomed in with the letter and number and then I'm going to kind of just go brief description and I'll keep flipping. So, bear with me. Um, project A1 is our Steuart Road bridge. This project began in March 2025 and is expected to wrap up in 2028. Project A2 is our 166th Avenue East Widening. Um, this project will construct a roundabout at the intersection of 166 and 64th as well as the on andoff ramps at uh State Route 410. Um, this project we're currently working through environmental permitting um and it's expected to last through the middle of this year. This project also includes the replacement of a fish passage coververt for Salmon Creek that runs under the intersection of 166th and 64th. Um we were awarded uh 2.25 million from PSRC um for our rideway phase and our construction phase is currently unfunded. Project A3 is uh Valley Avenue overlay phase one which is from the south city limits to mean mccumber road east. This project design is currently underway and

the project is expected to be constructed next summer. Project A4 is phase two of the Valley Avenue overlay which would go from Mid Mccumber Road east to Elm Street. Um this project uh construction is unfunded and will begin design for that next portion in 2028. Project A5 is our Steuart Road IT corridor improvements. So this project will connect traffic signals in the railroad crossing to coordinate that signal timing along the corridor corridor. Um the project is going to begin design in the coming weeks and our construction phase is currently unfunded. Project A6. This one's a little bit tricky to show on the map. So that's what this the little list is there. Um so this project is our systemic horizontal curve and roadway departure safety improvements. Um, this project's going to install curve warning signs, speed feedback signs, rumble strips, um, and all the things of that nature. The project's currently in design is and is expected to be constructed in 2027. Project A7 is our PEP Street and Tacoma Avenue intersection improvements. So, this project will upgrade the intersection of Pop and Tacoma to a roundabout as well as do overlay along Tacoma Avenue. Um the project design is ongoing and is expected to last through 2029 and the construction phase is currently unfunded. Project A8. This one's kind of spread out. This is our Main Street crossings project. Um this project will upgrade the intersections along Main Street with curbouts, flashing beacons, and refresh crosswalk markings. This project was awarded TIB grant funding for design and construction of which the grant will cover 76% of the project costs. The design will be completed this year with construction beginning in spring of 2027. Project A9, this is another one that's

hard to show on a map. Um, this is our roadway curve warning and delineation project. Um, so this one will install signing and striping improvements, raised median, and speed back signs. Um, design on this project will begin in the coming weeks with construction in 2027. And this project is 100% funded through HIPP. Project A10 is East Valley Highway and Forest Canyon Road east intersection improvements. Um, this project will upgrade the intersection to a roundabout to improve the uh intersection improvements. Uh, this intersection was identified in our transportation plan as currently functioning at a level service F, which is as bad as it gets. Um, planning was recently completed on this intersection upgrade. Uh, project A1 is our traffic avenue and Main Street intersection improvements. Uh this project will upgrade upgrade that signized intersection to improve function. Um this project was identified in the updated transportation improvement plan and is currently a level D and will be a level of service E and uh 2044. Project A12 is our East Valley Highway and Elm Street and Valley Avenue intersection improvements. Um so this project will upgrade the inter both of those intersections to roundabouts. Um, this project was also identified in our updated transportation plan to make improvements to both of these intersections. Um, and planning was also recently completed. Project A13 is a wash out project. This is the state route 167 and I5 connection project, the wash gateway project. Um, project stage 2A is currently underway with the entirety of the project expected to be completed in 2030. Project A14 is another wash project. This is the state route 167 southbound

express toll lane extension project from state route 512 to Ellington Road which will add that southbound hot lane. Um, this is al a washed out lead project which is expected to begin in about six years. Project A15. This is the Sumar Taps Highway and 60th Street East intersection improvements. This project will rebuild existing and the rebuild the existing intersection to improve redway geometrics to increase the allowable movements. Uh this is an unfunded project that will come in future years um with possibility to fund this project through TIFF. Project A16. This is also a washed out project. This is the state route 410 and 162 interchange improvements. Um, this will construct a onelane roundabout configuration at each of those on and off ramps. Um, this project is expected to be completed in the early 2030s. Project A17 is um 160th Avenue East between Main Street and 64th Street East. This project would improve and widen the streets to minor arterial standards. Um, this has been partially completed by developers with additional improvements to be completed by developers prior to a full city-led project. Project A18 is our main street and 160th intersection improvements. Um, this would evaluate the intersection improved sidewalks and ADA improvements. Um, this was also identified in our transportation plan to construct a signal or roundabout when the volumes are warranted. Project A19 is Main Street crosswalk improvements near the new library site. Um, this project would evaluate a warranted pedestrian crossing facility in the vicinity of that new library. Um, this is a study only and will be used to determine the future needs of additional crosswalks near that new site. Project A20 is a traffic avenue it

improvements between State Route 410 and Main Street. This project would connect uh traffic signals to coordinate signal timing to increase that vehicular traffic flow and reduce peak hour delay. Um this is a new project on the list that will connect those traffic signals and is currently unfunded. And project A21 is the 24th Street East reconstruction between 136th and 138th including um that approach to the railroad there. Um, so this is a new project that will reconstruct that roadway, just the approach, not the tracks. Um, and would rep-profile that roadway to help reduce the that crown as you're going over the tracks there. Okay, on to our collector street program. The list is much shorter. Um, project C1 is our Elm Street and Wood Avenue sidewalks. So, this is between Bonnie Avenue and Zinder Street. And this would extend that sidewalk on the north side of Elm Street. Um, kind of tying into that recently completed sidewalk sidewalk work near Seventh Thaler Park. Project C2 is the Cherry and Maple Street utilities. Um, this is project would replace aging utilities in support of that town center plan redevelopment. Um, but also rebuild that roadway there. Project C3 is Hunt Avenue. Um, this project's going to improve Hunt Avenue to residential street standards. Um, this project's currently in design with our construction phase unfunded. Project C4. This one is also kind of in a bunch of locations. So, this is our neighborhood traffic calming and intersection data collection. So this will be a planning study to conduct intersection and traffic calming data um which will begin in the coming weeks and is 100% covered by HSP.

Project C5 is um 160th Avenue East from Elm Street to Main Street which will improve 160th Avenue East to collector street standards with curb gutter sidewalks. Um, this project's unfunded and design completion would assist developers of properties to provide required design information. Project C6 is Elm Street East between East Valley Highway and 160th. Um, this would also improve Elm Street to collector street standards with curb gutter sidewalks. Um, this project is also unfunded but is ready for developers who need public design information. Project C7 is Parker Road east between 62nd and 63rd Street. Um, this would also construct curb, gutter, and sidewalk on the east side of the street. Um, so there's a section of missing Parker um over there, and this is currently unfunded, but the design completion would also assist developers if if we're developing where that missing sidewalk is at. Project C8 is also Parker Roadies, but from Main Street to Elm Street. Uh this would also reconstruct Parker Road to Collector Street standards with curb gutter sidewalk. Um currently unfunded and again design completion would assist developers uh to provide that required design information. Project C9 is Zinder Street from Peace Avenue to Wood Avenue. Um so this would be railroad crossing improvements at to the at grade BNSF rail crossing. We're continuing to look for grant funding to improve this rail crossing. Project C10 is the 162nd Avenue East segment extension from 64 Street East to 60th Street East. This would construct a new two-lane roadway with sidewalks. Um, this has been laid out in the Eastunder neighborhood circulation, but further planning is still needed. Project C11 is the 164th Avenue Court East segment extension from 162nd to

164th, which would also construct a new two-lane roadway section with sidewalks. Um planning has been completed but there has not been any funding identified. Um C12 is the meccumber road east and Gary Street sidewalk improvements between Wood and Valley. Um so there are some sidewalk gaps at both of these locations. Um this is an unfunded project that we're continuing to look for grant money for. And then um the last on our collector street list is Elizabeth Street between Hunt Avenue and Traffic Avenue. And this would improve Elizabeth Street to residential street standards with those roadway improvements including uh curb gutter and sidewalk. Um I do want to point out portions of this have been completed with our past sidewalk uh program projects. Um but this is also a project that is currently unfunded. I'm going to turn it over to Andrew.

All right. I'll cover our trail projects. Um first up is T1. That's our Fire Avenue Trail. Uh this is completing a new section of the Sumar Link Trail from West Main Street to Pulp Street. Uh we're currently right in the middle of design and rightway phases with both expected to wrap up by fall this year and then we'll start construction right after that with constru construction wrapping up next year. Uh next up is T2 is the White River Restoration Trail. Uh this project is part of the the much bigger White River Restoration Project. Um but this portion uh relocates about 10,000 linear feet of the Sunlink Trail. Um right and that this we're looking to complete this project in 2027 and it's fully funded by the restoration project. Uh next up is T3. That's our Rivergrove pedestrian bridge. Uh this is conducting a overpass over State Route 410. um linking from 143rd Avenue east over to the corner of Alder Avenue and Maybel Street. Uh we're currently at 30% design and moving forward going to start we just started our environmental phase. Um we're looking at construction in 2028. We've re received partial funding uh but we're still looking to fully fund the construction phase of the project. Uh T4 is the Palt River Trail Bridge. Uh this is a project identified by our parks and trail plan for a potential crossing over the Palt River kind of over in the uh River Grove neighborhood area. Um currently this project is unfunded and T5 is another uh trail crossing over the Pup River um next to the treatment plant over to the Pialup Trail. This project will require kind of a joint project with the city of Pialup. Uh it's also a project identified in our parks

and trail plan and is currently unfunded. Um next we have the group of our annual street maintenance programs. They're all listed here on this table. Um not shown on the map just cuz they're kind of all over the place and different locations every year and some are kind of for a as needed basis. Um but we have our street overlay program, our roadway paint line application, pavement repairs, roadway plastic marking applications, chip seal application and crack seal application. Um these six are all kind of annual programs that we complete uh yearly that are kind of analyzed based on their PCI ratings. I have a map coming up next that will show that. Um R seven is our neighborhood traffic control program. This is a as needed program um that looks at modifying residential streets to enhance pedestrian safety or slow down speeding. Uh then we have our ADA transition plan. Uh this helps address identified projects in our ADA transition plan. Um kind of help it's also as needed basis can help fund any ADA grievances that we receive for uh city-owned uh property. Uh then we have our sidewalk maintenance program. Um this is helped to rebuild failing sidewalks due to street tree damage. And then our helping homeowners program. Uh this is a kind of 50/50 cost share program that we work with homeowners where they are responsible for sidewalk repairs. So uh this year we have a combined project coming up for the sidewalk maintenance program and helping homeowners uh that's currently in design and looking to start constructing this summer. So, here's that uh P pavement condition index map that I mentioned earlier. Um we're the citywide map based on our

pavement ratings that we do each year. Uh we do half a city at a time each year. So, and then each a rating is calculated for these roadways based on cracks or potholes. And the lower the number, the worse the road. Um, so red kind of 0 to 25 are some of our worst locations, but these this these ratings kind of help us determine where we do these annual programs such as crack seal, pavement patching, chip seal. Um, then brings us to our projects completing this year. Uh, first up we have our Washington Street preservation project. Uh, this is kind of rebuilding the roadway between Wood Avenue and McMillan Avenue. Uh we're currently out to bid right now. Um so we'll be starting construction soon and hope to wrap up by the end of the year. And then we have our Maple Street pedestrian signal city and city citywide signal back plates project um that started construction. Um, this is going to replacing those uh back plates on all our signals and then replace the existing pedestrian activated uh or putting in a new pedestrian activated crossing there at uh Maple Street. Um, we started construction. The project's currently suspended at the moment, waiting for better weather for kind of paint striping and then uh still waiting on uh materials for the uh back plates and flashing beacons. So, And then

so I'll just quick quick wrap up. Uh so that that kind of is the the encompasses this and summarizes our transportation improvement program. Uh there is a resolution that uh you'll be adopting. Um um this is clearly a draft. So we welcome feedback. We welcome um discussion and any sort of uh especially if there's you know you find typos too. Um there's a lot of information here. So we're always trying to make it as good as we can. But uh tonight's our study session. Uh after this in a on April 6, we're scheduled to have a public hearing on this and then uh it will be back for unfinished business on April 20th for a resolution adoption. So, um, with that, um, we wanted to see if we had any questions, feedback, and what we can incorporate or or, uh, what we can help with.

All right, Council Member Kenna. Thank you all. Uh, that was really extensive. Um, you guys did a great job of shephering us through all the all the work going on. Um, a few uh, maybe clarifying questions and then a couple um, more granular ones. In terms of the the total costs column, is that the project all in? That doesn't necessarily demonstrate how much is left to fund like if we're through planning and design or something like that. That's just the total project cost. That Yeah, I believe that's the total project cost that you're seeing there. Gotcha. Yeah, that would be both design and construction.

Okay. Um, and in terms of the, you know, just visually looking at the the projects across the map and and thinking about all the different neighborhoods in our town. Um, do we is it really just strategically about the money and the timing and when we can get funding or not? Or do we apply any sort of equity lens to this to say, um, certain parts of town maybe haven't had a had had a repair or improvement for a while and we're looking over there? um how is that kind of baked into this?

So, um not as not as much baked into the overall plan. There's just so many different projects out there. So, uh we we do feel like there's a pretty good distribution of of uh projects um really among the entire city. uh when it comes down to uh other uh you know some some of the maintenance discussions and and also the uh you know we have a lot of uh especially our street tree sidewalk repair program uh that is one where we are very focused on making sure that funds are spent uh around the city not just in one portion of the city. So, uh, looking at how we can kind of have benefits to all different parts of the community and and make those, uh, make and develop those neighborhoods, uh, an equitable fashion.

Sure. So, yeah, I mean, I it does look like they are, you know, sprinkled throughout town and there we have a variation of different types of projects, so it's not one for one, but it sounds like what you're saying is that, you know, because we're identifying different projects throughout town, like generally we're going to get to these all at some point in time. It's not as easy as just saying this neighborhood then that neighborhood, that kind of thing.

Yeah. For some of our other more programmatic things like our crack seal program, our chip seal program, yeah, we are looking at at the roadways themselves to see what the conditions are. Uh but we're also looking at well, are we just focusing on one area and really need to be looking at each neighborhood and and making sure that we we have dollars spent um you know, in in the main street, you know, downtown historic downtown area as well. and you know some town center east Maine and also looking at the industrial uh area and making sure that people's needs are being met.

Sure. Um and and then on the uh just going to the the annual street maintenance program um who is it is it council I might I might not even know but is it council that kind of determines the amount in each of those buckets the proportion of funds to each of those buckets? Yeah, that's a great question. It is part of the uh annual or the bianial budget. So, it's something that uh we uh discuss and recommend uh during the budget cycle which is coming up. Uh and then council decides what they if they want to change those levels or not. Uh it's it's it's a discussion topic and it's something that's adopted by council every two years.

I I would um maybe just a note for that process is, you know, I'd like to see that ADA transition plan um get a little bit more money. It's currently funded less than painting. Um, and I know that's uh can be a safety measure as well, but um I know that you know folks that rely on being able to get around town through a wheelchair or motorized wheelchair um you know we have a number of sidewalks that just need improvements. So maybe we can talk about that down the road during the budget process. Absolutely.

Yeah. Um last question, I'll let you off the hook. Um I I was aware there's a project um and I I didn't think about this until tonight otherwise I would have like asked you beforehand, but there's a project that um the Puget Sound Regional Council identified in their regional safety action plan and it's on East Valley Highway from 150th to 29th Street East. Um and they kind of identified that as a safety uh issue or concern. And I didn't see that um on this map. It's in that the area of one of our trail improvements on T2, but I I wondered if that was kind of on a list to look at to get go after funding down the road or if that appears somewhere else in our planning.

That's something we can look into. I want to make sure that we uh we need to go back and probably take a look and see what that uh specific was. Uh we do have uh uh safety improvements along the East Valley Highway Corridor right now, which is part of one of the fedally funded 100% grants that um uh in in our in our safety, it was the highway safety improvement program grant through uh through FHWA. So, we do have some planned kind of basic safety improvements there. I think there's some guardrail and rumble strips um that we're looking at on East Valley Highway. So, we'll look and see how that is compatible with what they're looking at and maybe we cover some of that and maybe we need to make some adjustments to match what they're what what other people are seeing. So, great. Thanks for dealing with my curveballs, Michael. No, it's all right. Thank you,

Deputy Mayor Alers.

Yeah, thank you. I always enjoy this presentation. There's a lot of stuff going on. So, um a couple pieces of feedback that I think Mr. uh kind of mentioned, but one of them was I think on the um information here, one thing I got from Courtney when you were going through the arterials is on A10 and A11, you mentioned that A10 was an F and A 111 was a D. Um I think it'd be really helpful if that was on everyone because I think I'd love to like for for making decisions on priorities and stuff like that looking forward. I'd love to see number one like I think maybe you just mentioned the only D's and Fs but I'd like those those are really helpful because the map with the uh list of streets that are behind and then this which has dot cost to me like those should be next to each other. So I'd love to see that together if that's possible at least the ones that are graded to the point where you're like hey these are getting to like the urgent so I appreciate you mentioning those. Is there I think I think one of the questions I had on that was Hunt uh I want to see which one of them was Hunt Street and I thought that was on the list that was that was a D or an F as well and I remember that was that C3 maybe.

Yeah. So the the levels like D E F that's uh the function of the intersection. So Hunt Avenue wouldn't have like a level service associated with it. Got it. Okay. So those are like I know some of them don't connect at all. Right. because some of them are. But I remember we had the map that had like these these areas are really bad like the Washington Street and Oh, you're talking about like the PCI the pavement condition index. Yes. So, so our level of service is kind of like an intersection. Yeah. Rating of how quickly you can make it through or how efficiently that intersection moves or how much it backs up. Um and then our pavement condition index is how how is us rating the pavement and what kind of condition the pavement itself is in.

So that's what I'm talking about. So, those are both helpful and some of them I think that they go past me cuz I'm like the one intersection has a pavement issue and the other intersection has a traffic issue and so people are concerned about both.

So, in the decision-m part, I'd love to be able to look at this and and be like, "Okay, this one is a intersection and it and it's rated an F." Oh, is it a big priority? I don't know. We'll have to decide, but and then this one. So, I think that's good. I appreciate it was in your narrative part. And then the second thing is on the funding like I remember the pedestrian bridge on the trails. I think we got a $5 million grant at the Pugtown Regional Council last two years ago. Um, so one thing I forget every time we look at this is like, all right, how much was that grant? I think it was 5 million and then like how long do we have to spend it? So that was an expensive project. I think that's on T3. Uh, and it was Rivergo pedestrian bridge. I think it's 12 million on the total cost. If there was a way to I think on a couple of I just jotted down real quick notes. I think A2 you had a 2.25 million grant. Uh, and that one at 5 million. Cuz I think if I'm looking at it and I'm like, "All right, which one is important?" I'm like, "Oh, this is a big project. Never mind. Let's put it on the back burner." But if I'm like, "Oh, wait a second. We got a 50% of it." So that those numbers would be really helpful just to have in the notes column even like this is how much because I do the notes are good. And I'm not trying to be too critical, by the way. I think it's really helpful. I just there's a lot of information.

Absolutely. Uh, if that's something we could I think we uh endeavor to have uh a lot of the grant the secured grant information in there. So, um, we'll make sure that we can go through and and add any of that information, um, to the notes section, uh, for the public hearing. That's great, great feedback. I think, uh, the, uh, level of service and, um, PCI, I think that's something that we can look at developing for next year. Yeah.

Maybe I know we have some of that information, but we definitely don't have it for all the projects. So, uh, that's going to be a little more difficult for us. But, uh, we could, um, I think we should probably look at doing that, uh, for, uh, for next year's version of this. We will definitely add any sort of grant funding and and get that in there because I think that's really important, too. Cool. And then I had two more questions. Sorry, we got a lot of them. Um, the I'm curious, we're doing the tip discussion. Can you explain how the annual street maintenance program connects to the tip? So um trans so we we've included our transport our annual maintenance program uh because it is improving our roadways. It's it might not be you know uh the same as as widening a roadway but it is still improving the and and showing that we have a commitment to maintenance. uh which is something else actually that grant funders really like to see that you are you know maintaining those roadways that you do have and trying to keep them as in as good a shape as possible before you may have to come to either expand those roadways or you know just falling into disrepair is not a good look. So this is it's moreformational only to kind of promote like hey we are

a little bit like how we have on a parks trail like we want to say like hey we have we have kind of matching funds or something to show like hey we're we are doing our and then um I think my last question is

is there a way to turn the collector streets into arterials? Like I have we have a couple streets I'm looking at that I'm like well this is a pretty main road and if you improved it it could be a very main road to get traffic through. I'm looking at for example Elm Street down to 160th. people go through there and get on the freeway as kind of a pass through um Parker Road similar. Those streets get extremely busy. Um if is what is the how do you how could you get a street from a C to an is that a state thing or do we have to if we improved it and all a sudden you had traffic counts? So, uh, some of it is part of our transportation plan, uh, that we did, uh, last year, the our 20-year transportation plan, uh, that planning level document we talked about, that was the, um, you know, part of the comp plan. Uh, they did they modeled the entire city and looked at what where the traffic patterns are and those were the rating th those collector and arterial descriptions came out of that. they they re-evaluate based on level uh you know traffic levels. So that's what came out of uh that analysis.

So it's independent traffic study. Yeah. Okay. So we can't just be like hey I want this to get like like your grade at school. I want this to move up to an A.

Yeah. Not specifically. I think some of those are federally classified though. So there are opportunities for us to apply for grants. It's just how competitive that grant th those roadsway would be those roads would be for a grant in comparison to some of our other ones which um you know things like 166 that intersection improvement um is one that scores very well on a lot of projects or a lot of grant funding because of uh the connection to washdot services the uh um you know kind of gateway to uh the east neighborhood and other other connection points. So it's the the further the the smaller the roads the more challenging it is to describe how they will be of a ren of a regional benefit. So right I'm just thinking okay I think I said that was the last question but I like I have one more when you mention one thing I really like that you mentioned is you said um this is a good if we improve this area C5C6 I think you mentioned hey this would be good for development. Um, so looking ahead into the plans, like, uh, I appreciate that comment, but I just was curious. Those are those are factors I like thinking about when we're looking at budgets and stuff like that, too. Um, how do you guys evaluate that? Because I would like to evaluate that when we're deciding it. Sometimes we're like, oh, how bad is the street? And other times you're like, wait a second, this could could really benefit like certain areas. You might be like, oh, this is going to help

the city as a whole for future developments. Maybe we have an area of town that isn't this could use some improvement. and we're like, "Hey, if we just did some money, put some money into the sidewalks and improved it, maybe it would draw some businesses there that would really benefit." Um, how do you guys how can we how can you how can we get information to help us figure that out?

It's a little tangential, but uh one of our u one of the things I would probably uh look to is our our our water system plan. uh when uh when we did a I know it's utilities rather than transportation, but uh we looked at that and we looked at the lens of the the town center plan and how those two ideas would stack if you're going to end up uh you know improving uh or you know increasing and upzoning areas like we did in the town center plan a few years ago.

What's the impact on utilities? How what do we need to do to be prepared for additional development? And that's uh what bore out at least two projects in our SER town center area. Uh which was the ended up being the Wounderf project uh which uh was actually a major water main project at least on our from a public works perspective. We were doing a a really large water man upgrade there. And then uh the other project you mentioned the Cherry Maple Utilities project is also a a large uh water man uh improvement project. We went from like a 2-in water mane in in a number of our older areas of town to an 8 inch water mane. So, we really up or was it six? It was a a major upgrade though and water pressure and looking at how we would serve taller buildings and looking how we would serve multif family. So, um those are some areas where we've looked at how can we be ready for development when uh things get reszoned and and that um we will be prepared to support those new developments that could be coming in without having to rely on those developers to do that.

So, you just repeat what you said. I think I heard you say that in order to for us to figure out which areas we might want to prioritize for for benefiting development or allowing the city to development, we'd have to look at not just the streets, but also what the water plan and the utilities plan to look at it holistically. That's kind of what we tried to do. Thank you. I think my time's up. Thank you, Council Member Evers. Okay. What do we turn it on again? Turn off. Okay. Let's see where you're at. Here we go. Council member Evers, here you came out of uh It's red. Yeah, it's all right. Turn it on. I'm going to Wy. Council member Wily, hit your button.

Hit it again. No, no, just just turn it off and turn it back on. All right, jumping in real quick. Just a clarifying question. So, this is not a to-do list like tick tick tick. What this is is an accumulation of all of the information and as it gets funded you then proceed on with each task that needs to be accomplished until that it is done and then taken off of the list. Correct. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Just uh yeah just making sure we're not waiting on this to get that done. Absolutely. We we do a lot of times look at the priorities of you know what we are thinking is going to be

um happening more more quickly versus not. So we do kind of rep prioritize on a yearly basis and look at okay well this you know Stewart Road bridge for example is A1 that is currently under construction it's going to go. So um we look at kind of it's not really too much of a science it's more of an art but but uh um looking at what might be the some of the higher priorities and making sure they're kind of near the top. Yeah. Okay. So all of these projects are kind of in flux and constantly moving uh forward to try and complete for the for the city. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Thank you, Council Member Evers.

Okay. Uh, thanks guys. This is great. I love this stuff. Um, I hope my wife is not watching. I don't think I No, this only No, just because she's whenever she hears the word roundabout, her she cringes. But, um, I'm I'm They're growing on me and I understand calming, you know, I I understand all the community development stuff. Just really quick, help me out. Last year um the the council passed is it 0.1 or 0.01 01 on the sales tax 0.1 0.1 okay it was about 600,000 or uh so yeah somewhere between 6 and 800,000 okay not just right straight to maintenance

it it it is yes uh it's been earmarked for uh well I mean it it is committed to transportation projects because that's uh what that uh what that sales tax uh increase was uh it all but it's specifically um is being used for uh maintenance and preservation of our roadways as well as some sidewalk work. So as council can kind of ask um yeah I mean we get to the budget then we can we'll have an estimate right of the next year's and then we can divvy it up how we wish or

yeah this this year's uh I think there was a presentation to council a couple like a month ago or so uh talking about what uh we were going to use the the the current the the funds that were collected in this year and then uh really that will be a budget discussion of how those funds will be used moving forward. forward. And thank you. Um the the two kind of big ones I see on here, I mean, they're all important, but um this getting traffic through town and and making driving safe is A2 and then A16. And I think A16 we have no control over, correct? Or do we have We have no control over it. It's outside of city limits actually. Oh, this the overpass.

Yes. Okay. And do we have we heard anything? I think Courtney I didn't quote you. I thought you said early 2030s and that kind of made me kind of happy but yeah I didn't I'm not going to hold you to it. Yeah. So Wash they completed their design and then when they did the whole budget process this last year it got shifted out a few bianiums. So that one is just kind of on hold from wash.

Okay. Then um A2 I I live on Valley Avenue. I I do everything I can never to go down there just because I I I don't know if anybody else can agree, but I've had Well, I did have somebody tagged my bumper a while back and I looked at it. I said, "Just pay it forward." But um so that that's is wash involved in that at all or is it just this I don't know. I this that's a really concerning intersection for me. Um yeah, so they're involved in it, not funding wise, but they are involved just because we are in their limited access um you know working on their on and off ramps there for 410. Um and then you know construction in general um this is federally funded uh quite a bit. So we are having to follow wash local uh the local agency guidelines and so we are working with washout through this entire process.

And then we have this is 18 million. How much do we have now, do you think? Ballpark. That's a good question. I'm not trying to hold I won't hold you to anything. So, design's funded and so is our um our right away. So, we're just looking for construction funds, which is probably closer to the 12 12 million or a little bit more. Okay. And just last thing, it looks like you're going to be working on my street valley avenue. Thank you. I guess well, I'll let I'll put up a lemonade stand if you want. Um, so but I'm just curious on when it says partial I mean so it looks like the first phase it says partial but it looks like the money is already there for that if I'm reading that correct receive grant funding for that section.

Yes. So but then but then the other part is partially funded. So but the but the first phase is already funded. Yes. So thank you for pointing that out. I will definitely update that for the public hearing. But yes, uh phase one, that one we're funded for design and construction and then phase two, we have design funds. Okay. I I was just happy to I think I'm the only council person lives maybe east of Valley. So I think that's right. Just barely. Yeah, barely. Yeah. Council member Wilson. Yeah, I'm down by Okay.

Yeah. Anyway, as as I guess a fellow eastsider, I mean, you know, obviously this is a great walking town, but me mccumber, you know, I try to rock down at Rain Park and you run into farmland and then you have to cross the street and which is more walking, which is I guess is good. And then and member too on the west side of valley that's always a if I'm going to walk by downtown walk, that's always a little dicey kind of getting through there. So I was happy to see that. Thank you, Council Member Kenna.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I don't want to start any beef here between Westsiders and Eastsiders um as a Westerider myself, but uh no, just uh one one kind of last question or point and maybe I'll just uh prompt you with what I think the answer is and you can kind of correct me if um if the community was looking where their input is in this list. My assumption is within the street maintenance program, if somebody says, "Hey, my, you know, sidewalk's not so great. how can I get that sidewalk program um get some funding for that? So that that's where that might show up. Um if we do notice like a ramp or something that maybe the ADA transition plan could be used for part of that if we hear from the community um different chip ceiling or things that come up as needed, that's where um community input might be found. And then I assume um you know, you guys may hear from uh the public occasionally about a certain project that might be used as data to inform, you know, things you might already know or maybe not know. when that ends up on this list, maybe sometime down the road. So, is there any other ways that the public feedback um might kind of end up on this list somewhere underneath it all?

Yeah, I mean, uh there are a multitude of ways and clearly contacting the city is is is one way. Uh we hear a lot of folks that um you know usually it's more frustrations about traffic or or or pavement condition than um you know compliments. But um when people reach out you know we're we're we're here to listen and to take those com those comments and and look at what are we doing there? How are we adjusting? You know do we need to adjust something? Is there something that we can that we should be doing? is that road uh you know in in worse condition than some of the other roads that we do we underestimate. Uh so uh when we do have people reach out to us uh and they're they're welcome to do that. That's great. We want we the community is our eyes and ears and how we can try to best manage this this uh roadway network. So uh we do appreciate anytime people reach out to us. Um of course we're usually at open houses that the city holds. Uh uh the public hearing is another way that someone can can comment either u you know in in writing beforehand or in person. Uh they can always provide uh comment on on this program. Um but but really any any way of of communication, you know, email is a great way for people to communicate that. Uh so we take all of all those different avenues and any way that people can reach out to us and and analyze what what what their concerns are and sometimes we can help them. Sometimes we can say we got a project coming. Sometimes we say well it's going to be a while u or we're looking for funding for that and but it's really helpful for us to be able to uh guide our our our recommendations to council.

Sure. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So then I will ask uh city administrator Jason Wilson to come up. Do we have a report tonight? And then agenda setting. So council meeting agenda calendar. Anything on that of criticality? I don't have any, but I know that uh the public works committee uh was moved to now the third Tuesday of the month. So, it was the first, now it's the third starting uh in April. Correct, Michael? Yes. Starting next month.

All right. And then council committee meeting agenda calendar. Anything there that anybody needs to share, talk about. All right. We have no executive session. Correct. Correct. So, anybody have anything else?

Oh, we got to take her. Council member Hawksteader. I just want to say it was fun to see our city attorney at the um Sumar girls basketball game and see so many other I saw council member Kenna there as well to see to I know people that work at the city or serve on the council invested in the local high school and the athletic it's really cool to see. So thank you and the girls just barely lost. They barely lost. They got second in state but that was a lot of fun. Thank you. Then on that note, I will end this meeting at 7:17.