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A
Everybody
to
the
regular
bellevue
city
council
meeting
for
may
16
2022
before
we
get
started.
I
have
two
things
I
want
to
talk
about.
First
of
all,
I'm
very
proud
of
our
newport
high
school
team,
who
is
crowned
national
champions
in
the
world's
largest
student
rocketry
competition
over
the
weekend.
This
is
an
amazing
achievement.
A
A
They
exemplify
our
community
focus
areas
of
education,
innovation
and
technology.
I
just
you
know
it's
so
fitting
that
our
our
city,
which
actually
had
the
most.
A
B
All
right,
thank
you,
mayor,
so
I'll
just
say.
First
before
we
get
started
that
the
murders
and
the
murder
in
buffalo
hits
home.
For
me,
I
have
family
who
I
don't
know
if
they're
still
living
there,
but
I
know
most
of
them
have
moved
out
of
buffalo.
But
you
know
we
hear
about
these
terrible
incidents
across
our
country
and
just
have
to
always
keep
in
mind
that
it
impacts
not
only
the
members
of
the
people
in
that
community,
but
also
many
of
us
across
the
nation
as
well.
B
We
see
ourselves
in
many
cases
and
in
those
in
those
places
we
see
people
who
we
who
are
like
us,
who
just
we
don't
understand
why
these
sort
of
hate
crimes
happen
and
it
brings
the
uncertainty
of
like
who's
next.
Where
is
next
and
are
we
or
people
that
we
know
our
family,
our
friends,
our
loved
ones,
trying
to
understand
if
they're,
if
we're
ever
at
risk,
because
these
are
random
acts?
So
I'll
just
say,
this
was
10
community
members.
B
In
a
predominantly
black
neighborhood,
a
grocery
store
were
killed
in
the
new
york
attack
and
one
person
from
a
taiwanese
church
congregation
in
a
separate
shooting
in
l.a,
and
this
buffalo
shooting
is
the
deadliest
mass
shooting
in
the
u.s
this
year
and
as
we
probably
heard
that
these
are
attacks
that
were
either
racially
and
or
politically
motivated.
So
if
we
could,
I
would
really
appreciate
if
we
could
take
just
a
moment
of
silence
for
the
lives
lost.
B
D
A
A
G
And
whereas
the
effectiveness
of
planning,
design,
construction
and
maintenance
work
is
dependent
on
the
dedication
and
skill
of
public
works
professionals,
engineers,
managers
and
field
staff.
Now,
therefore,
on
behalf
of
lynn,
robinson
mayor
of
the
city
of
bellevue
and
on
behalf
of
its
city
council,
do
hereby
proclaim
the
week
of
may
15th
through
the
21st
2022,
as
national
public
works
week
in
bellevue,
and
encourage
all
residents
and
civic
organizations
to
recognize
the
contributions
that
public
works
staff
make
every
day
to
our
city's
health,
safety,
comfort
and
quality
of
life
signed
lynn,
robinson
mayor.
Thank
you.
A
C
C
So
just
as
a
reminder
to
folks
oral
communications
is
for
a
period
of
no
longer
than
30
minutes
and
speakers
will
be
allowed
up
to
three
minutes
to
make
their
comments
to
the
council
and
a
maximum
of
three
persons
are
permitted
to
speak
to
each
side
of
any
one
topic
and
yeah,
and
with
that
I
will
call
our
first
speaker
and
she
has
a
powerpoint
presentation
and
margie
yee,
we'll
call
you
to
the
table.
C
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
I
also
experienced
this
big
pot
of
noodle
dish
that
consists
of
30
ingredients
and
again
we
all
pitch
in
by
cutting
lots
of
cutting.
If
you
know
what
about
asian
cooking
lots
of
preparation
once
the
dish
is
it's
actually
a
cold
noodle
dish
with
sauce.
H
H
I
A
J
I
also
share
margie's
enthusiasm
for
for
being
in
person.
It's
been
a
while,
since
I've
spoken
to
anybody
in
person
in
a
while,
okay,
so
good
evening,
council
members
good
evening,
city
staff,
good
evening,
city
manager,
members
of
the
public,
my
name
is
mason
g.
I
am
a
representative
of
a
501c3
non-profit
organization
called
the
friends
of
bellevue
cross-cultural
center,
I'm
also
an
attorney,
but
I'm
more
than
that
aw
citizen.
J
I
grew
up
in
bellevue,
I
went
to
interlake
high
school
did
a
little
bit
of
globetrotting
for
higher
education,
but
there
really
is
no
city
like
bellevue
and
I'm
really
proud
for
the
progress
and
the
multicultural
aspect
of
the
city
has
developed.
J
And
we
are
here.
We
are
ready.
We
have
community
partners,
we
have
pledges
and
we
are
here
to
support.
Now.
I
want
to
close
with
a
little
bit
more
perspective
on
how
monumental
this
project
will
be
for
the
better
part
of
five
years.
I
worked
at
the
united
nations.
I
was
a
delegate
for
the
republic
of
seychelles,
a
small
island
country
off
the
coast
of
africa,
negotiating
international
treaties,
and
you
might
be
surprised
to
hear
that
actually,
the
most
productive
moments
of
my
un
experience
were
actually
over
coffee
at
the
un.
J
Cafe
it
wasn't
where
the
lights
were,
where
all
the
pop
and
circumstance
happened.
It
was
those
heart-to-heart
conversations
that
I
had
with
a
senegalese
delegate
or
the
ambassador
from
south
korea
we'll
just
have
that
over
coffee,
and
that
is
exactly
the
purpose
of
what
this
cross-cultural
center
seeks
to
do.
J
It
seeks
to
take
the
best
parts
of
that
united
nations
experience,
bring
it
to
bellevue
and
make
it
that
really
bridge
building
cross-cultural
communication
experience
for
us
all
and
it
I
think
it's
it's
really
just
so
important
to
all
of
us
in
the
community,
from
different
ethnic
groups
from
different
cultural
backgrounds,
to
have
a
safe
space
to
have
those
kinds
of
in-depth
dialogues
and
those
opportunities
to
make
our
stories
heard
and
to
give
that
space
to
the
community
to
do
that,
and
so
we
at
the
friends
of
bellevue
cross
cultural
center,
strongly
recommend
that
the
council
move
forward
with
his
support
on
this
project.
C
L
I've
been
a
strong
supporter
of
the
cross-cultural
center
for
several
years
now,
along
with
many
others,
many
of
you
here
and
I'm
grateful
to
the
council
and
staff
for
this
multi-year
feasibility
study.
In
the
draft
summary
report,
recommendations
include
quote:
the
city
could
lead
a
process
to
identify
a
lead,
nonprofit
organization
to
become
the
project
champion.
End
quote.
L
I
encourage
the
city
to
make
this
leadership
role
an
open,
rfp
process
where
organizations
come
forward
with
their
proposals,
qualifications,
resources
and
identified
community
support.
If
the
city
identifies
a
lead,
nonprofit
organization,
without
an
open
and
transparent
process,
it
risks
a
lack
of
trust
and
broad
support,
jeopardizing
the
effort.
There
must
be
a
diverse
representative
group,
led
by
an
organization
that
has
the
capacity
experience
and
relationships
required
to
convene
and
facilitate
this
very
important
process.
L
Without
this
shared
understanding
and
intentionality
bellevue
risks
losing
the
chance
to
pioneer
something
truly
innovative
and
in
line
with
its
vision
from
eight
years
ago,
while
cross-cultural
programming
is
an
important
element,
something
that
wasn't
adequately
articulated
in
the
draft
study
summary
is
the
prioritization
of
a
physical
cross-cultural
space.
Rather
than
being
solely
about
the
programs
and
events
that
happened.
The
center
would
be
a
mission-centered
physical
space
designed
built
and
operated
to
fulfill
the
mission.
Current
facilities
are
maxed
out.
L
Bellevue
has
determined
that,
based
on
population
alone,
the
current
city,
the
city,
is
in
need
of
two
additional
community
centers.
However,
the
main
issue
is
that
existing
facilities,
the
people
who
manage
them
and
the
people
who
currently
offer
programming
are
not
experienced
in
cross-cultural
spaces
or
activities.
L
I
fully
appreciate
the
realistic
options
outlined
for
funding
in
this
this
endeavor
and
I'm
optimistic
that
bellevue
can
move
forward
with
this
vision
in
a
way
that
honors
the
city's
hopes
for
the
future.
I
hope
we
can
have.
I
believe
that
we
do
have
the
resources
and
community
will
to
make
it
happen
and
really
again
stress
that
there's
an
open
process
for
identifying
the
cross-cultural
center's
leadership.
Thank
you
very
much.
F
The
heil
damn
nazi
fascist
map
by
dieter,
my
name
alex
zimmerman.
What
does
everyone
spoke
today
about
something
that
is
unique?
I
don't
think
so
is
have
a
knowledge
in
american
history.
First,
for
two
years
you
build
something
like
a
concentration
camp.
What
is
right
now?
300
million
americans
look
like
a
slab
in
zombies
for
two
years.
F
Every
adult,
gitler
and
joseph
stalin
cannot
do
this
so
fast,
but
you
did
it's
mean
you
are
best
of
the
best
but
situation,
but
as
we
have
right
now
in
seattle,
killed
country
is
so
unique
because
it's
fascism
dominate
by
minority
are
people
of
color
and
women,
and
I
give
you
write
down
statistics.
What
does
make
me
absolutely
shocked,
because
it's
not
analogy
not
in
america
in
all
planet,
never
example
number
one,
seattle,
port,
five
people
for
minority.
F
Latina,
who
represents
only
seven
percent-
it's
very
interesting
in
six
women,
yes,
is
exactly
in
here.
Look
it's
on
one
party
system
democrat,
so
this
is
pure
fascism.
What
is
I
want
to
explain
to
people
who
don't
understand
why
it's
going
on
guys
this,
not
simple!
Only
minority
contract
with
democrat
mafia,
what
is
control
the
elite
democrat
elite,
destroy
american
middle
class
and
middle
class
is
the
most
white.
This
is
exactly
what
they
say.
It's
right
doing
right
now
and
what
has
happened
right
now.
F
F
I
never
seen
like
this
before
in
my
life,
you
understand
what
I
say:
I'm
talking,
so
what
is
you
doing
here?
This
fashion
is
what
is
you
have
in
the
what
has
made
me
totally
six
or
two
million
people
in
country
in
750,
000,
zombies
in
seattle,
very
quiet,
nobody
talking
about
this.
Nobody
come
and
talk
straight.
We
need
something
changed,
everybody's
scared.
Why?
Because
story
percentage
minority
caller,
you
know
what
is
mean:
control
everybody.
F
M
M
We
feel
it's
important
to
update
the
bellevue
tree
code
to
eliminate
the
ability
to
haphazardly,
remove
significant
and
landmark
trees
in
bellevue,
without
a
permit.
A
permit
should
be
required
for
the
removal
of
significant
trees
over
six
inches
in
diameter
and,
even
more
importantly,
to
remove
landmark
trees,
which
are
trees
that
are
30
inches
or
more
in
diameter.
M
These
trees
are
100,
sometimes
200,
plus
years
of
age.
Our
large
trees
are
critical
to
maintaining
bellevue's
character
and
if
you
look
at
the
logo
up,
there
there's
a
big
tree
right
in
the
middle
of
it.
So
what
more
can
I
say
these
trees
enhance
the
quality
of
life
ability
residents.
They
provide
significant
environmental
advantages
which
are
critically
important
during
these
times
of
climate
change.
M
Very
interestingly,
I
read
an
article
editorial
new
york
times
last
saturday
on
what
creates
happiness
and
these
researchers
this
happiness
study.
They
ping
tens
of
thousands
of
people
on
their
smartphones
and
they
came
up
with
various
activities
that
make
people
happy.
I
won't
go
into
the
activities,
but
they
concluded
that
people
are
consistently
happier
when
they
are
out
in
nature,
particularly
when
the
scenery
is
beautiful.
M
So
hey,
you
can
just
say
I'm
on
a
mission
to
make
people
in
bellevue
happier
by
retaining
this
beautiful
nature,
all
cities
and
municipalities,
almost
all
cities
and
municipalities,
around
bellevue,
have
instituted
tree
codes
that
require
permitting
and
offer
better,
but
very
reasonable
tree
protections
permits
to
remove
significant
trees
and
landmark
trees
are
required.
Almost
universally
updating,
bellevue's
tree
code
would
simply
bring
bellevue
into
conformity
with
surrounding
communities.
M
Personal
note:
I
moved
to
anatai
from
a
somewhat
sterile
development
and
this
is
not
to
downgrade
it
but
lake
mont
area.
Ninety
percent
of
the
trees
were
eradicated
in
new
mega
homes,
constructed
with
all
this
beautiful
new
landscaping,
very
sterile,
somewhat
unnatural,
lacking
in
character.
I
move
to
another
for
the
trees,
the
natural
beauty
which
I
find
spiritually
uplifting.
M
It
makes
me
happy
right
we're
into
happiness
and
I
have
been
witnessing
the
unnecessary
annihilation
and
destruction
of
our
canopy
and
it
is
painful
and
frustrating
and
I'm
not
suggesting
that
we
stop
or
impede
the
construction
of
new
homes.
I
myself
built
a
two
large
custom
home,
but
it
was
custom,
so
I
retained
a
lot
of
the
trees.
It
had
that
been
a
speck
builder.
All
those
trees
would
be
gone.
A
lot
of
them.
M
A
Send
us
send
that
to
us
in
an
email
we
can
read
the
whole
thing.
Thank
you.
N
My
name
is
lee
sargent.
I
live
over
in
sherwood
forest
and
basically
happened
to
be
the
president
of
the
community
club,
and
I
also
am
interested
and
concerned
about
the
trees
for
livability
because
of
the
fact
that
I've
been
there
in
the
last
few
weeks
watching
people
have
their
trees,
have
trees,
cut
down
on
lots
that
are
across
from
them
and
they
sit
there
with
them
talk
about
being
happy,
it's
not
and
they
always
worry
about
how
it's
going
to
affect
them.
N
N
I
can't
answer
that
question,
but
I
do
know
that
the
thing
about
it
is
that
I
don't
represent
every
member
of
sherwood
forest
because
some
people
probably
agree
with
what's
going
on,
but
I
have
to
admit
I
haven't
met
any
of
those
when
I
walk
through
shorewood
forest.
I've
met
a
lot
of
people
that
come
up
to
me
and
say
what's
going
on
here.
Why
is
this
being
torn
down?
Why
are
these
trees
being
moved
out?
The
latest
one
at
northeast,
27th
and
162nd
they're
going
the
whole
property
is
going
to
be
a
building.
N
N
N
O
It
was
really
nice
to
be
able
to
gather
with
other
bellevue
residents
and
staff
for
education
and
brainstorming.
I
attended
workshops
on
civic
engagement,
hybrid
government,
reimagining,
retail
and
I
took
the
east
rail
tour
all
were
done
very
professionally,
and
I
think
my
fellow
attendees
were
just
as
pleased
as
I
was
so.
Thank
you.
O
My
dad
taught
me
that
when
someone
does
something
right,
you
should
acknowledge
that,
and
especially
when
that
what
they
do
right,
it
has
a
positive
impact
upon
you
and
with
that
in
mind,
I
wanted
to
publicly
acknowledge
and
thank
edward
butterfield,
the
public
private
partnership
manager
for
community
development,
the
reimagining
retail
in
bellevue
workshop
that
he
and
his
colleague,
whose
name
I
did
not
remember.
I
apologize.
O
It
was
really
fantastic.
Not
only
was
their
discussion
about
the
major
commercial
centers
in
the
city,
but
also
the
smaller
neighborhood
districts,
and
you
know
that
I
really
appreciated
that
part.
The
air
in
the
room
was
electric
with
the
enthusiasm
of
the
attendees,
including
patrick
bannon,
from
the
downtown
bellevue
association.
O
I
appreciated
edward's
leadership
with
the
discussion
and
keeping
it
on
track,
while
maintaining
the
resident
driven
focus.
I
loved
his
use
of
the
term
ecosystem
when
I
brought
up
the
interdependence
of
the
businesses
in
any
commercial
district,
but
particularly
in
the
neighborhood
districts,
I
really
get
the
feeling
that
edward
gets
it,
and
that
was
very
reassuring
to
me.
O
I'm
grateful
to
edward
and
his
team
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
them
and
any
other
retail
focused
partners
on
returning
the
newport
hill
shopping
center
to
a
vibrant
and
commercial
center,
full
of
small
local
businesses
serving
the
needs
and
interests
of
our
community.
Thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
speak.
C
Thank
you,
miss
dean.
The
next
three
registered
speakers
are
were
going
to
comment
in
support
of
the
multicultural
cross-cultural
centers,
and
we
have
reached
three
speakers
on
that
topic
already.
So
with
that
I'll
call
our
final
speaker,
who
is
eva
collins
and
she
is
joining
us
virtually
miss
collins.
Can
you
hear
me.
K
Oh
my
gosh,
thank
you
well
good
evening,
council
members
and
thank
you
so
much
for
this
opportunity.
I
appreciate
the
virtual
option,
so
thank
you
and
I
just
have
a
very
quick
message
of
gratitude.
My
name
is
eva
collins
and
I
work
in
the
bellevue
school
district
and
serve
in
the
role
of
deputy
superintendent
on
the
instructional
side,
and
I'm
here
this
evening
just
to
thank
you
for
your
generous
support
of
east
side
pathways,
the
backbone
and,
ultimately,
the
entire
eastside
pathways
partnership.
K
The
city's
support
of
this
community
partnership
helps
ensure
that
all
stakeholders,
individuals,
public
private
and
non-profit
organizations,
work
not
in
isolation
but
together
to
ensure
that
equitable
pathways
are
available
for
kids,
youth
young
adults
step-by-step
cradle
to
career,
especially
for
those
most
impacted
by
current
systems,
and
because
of
this
partnership
and
our
aligned
work.
The
bellevue
school
district
is
working
to
examine
our
own
practices
and
behaviors,
especially
in
the
areas
of
early
learning
mental
health,
racial
equity,
in
order
to
break
down
the
systemic
barriers
that
we
know
exist
for
our
kids
and
young
adults.
K
So
just
a
few
quick
examples
of
the
work
that
we're
doing.
One
of
the
collaboratives
is
in
early
learning
collaborative
that
works
with
several
dozen
early
learning
providers
from
health
and
education,
and
really
focusing
this
year
on
working
with
our
latinx
community
to
improve
systems
and
increase
access
to
supports
and
services.
K
Last
week
I
attended
a
partnership
convening
that
was
organized
and
facilitated
by
east
eastside
pathways
and
within
the
first
hour
I
was
able
to
make
a
connection
with
a
community
leader
from
the
group
africans
on
the
east
side
and
we've
already
scheduled
a
time
to
meet
and
talk
about
our
common
goals
and
perhaps
work
together
on
some
initiatives.
So
it's
these
types
of
community
connections
that
strengthen
our
educational
system
and
all
of
the
services
that
we
provide
for
people
of
our
community.
So
thank
you
again
for
your
continued
support.
C
List
we
do
have
a
few
minutes
left
of
oral
communications.
I'd
ask
if
there's
anyone
present
with
us
this
evening.
That
would
like
to
make
comment
to
the
council.
Please
raise
your
hand
and,
in
addition,
if
you
are
connected
virtually
if
you
would
like
to
make
comment,
please
raise
your
hand
and
go
ahead
and
come
up.
P
Hi,
my
name
is
maliha
amarsi.
Thank
you
for
having
me
here
today
good
evening,
ladies
and
gentlemen
of
the
bellevue
city
council.
Like
I
said,
my
name
is
maliha
omarci
and
I'm
here
today
to
speak
in
support
of
the
creation
and
appeal
of
the
cross
cross
culture
multicultural
center
here
in
bellevue
throughout
my
life.
C
A
Q
Good
evening,
robinson
and
council
members,
I
have
one
item
to
report
on
tonight
and
that
item
is
an
update
on
the
bellevue's
youth
link
program,
with
a
focus
on
just
the
great
work,
and
that
is
emerging
out
of
youth
link
for
our
community
here.
Joining
us
this
evening
are
tony
esparza
assistant
director,
as
well
as
patrick
alina
program
coordinator,
both
from
our
parks
department.
R
Thank
you
so
much
good
evening,
mayor
deputy
mayor
council
members,
thanks
for
having
us
this
evening,
good
to
see
you
in
person
it's
my
first
time
back
and
I'm
enjoying
seeing
everybody's
faces.
We
appreciate
the
opportunity
this
evening
to
share
with
you
about
our
youth
link
program
and
the
great
work
of
our
youth
leaders
here
in
our
community
in
bellevue.
R
The
bellevue
youth
link
board
is
a
city
manager,
appointed
youth
advisory
board
composed
of
12
youth
and
6
adults
that
provide
system
level
input
to
our
city
manager
on
local
and
regional
topics,
and
we
are
currently
accepting
applications
from
both
youth
and
adults
to
join
the
board.
Residents
can
email,
youthlink
bellevuewa.gov
to
get
an
application.
R
R
We
offer
innovative
youth
programming
and
opportunities
for
our
youth
to
get
involved
in
the
work
that
you
all
do
on
a
daily
basis.
In
addition,
youthlink
has
expanded
its
boundaries
and
engages
youth
from
around
the
world
and
recently
has
helped
the
city
of
lake
forest
park,
start
a
youth
council
and
also
away
also
rockaway
township
in
new
jersey
start.
R
Some
of
the
projects
you
think
contributed
have
enduring
impacts
on
our
community,
including
the
bellevue
skate
park,
youth
link
university,
our
youth
involvement
conference
community
leadership
awards,
which
we'll
talk
about
more
in
a
little
bit.
Kids
care
coat,
drive
and
youthlink
community
food
pantries,
which
mr
alina
will
share
with
you
more
about
here
in
a
moment,
and
so
on
that
note,
I
will
turn
it
over
to
patrick
alina
our
youth
link
program
coordinator
to
share
about
the
critical
work
that
youthlink
has
accomplished
during
the
pandemic.
S
Thank
you
tony
good
evening,
council
members
and
community
guests.
My
name
is
patrick
valina
youth
program
coordinator,
the
onset
of
the
pandemic.
You
think
members
quickly
roasted
the
challenge
of
the
pandemic.
Organizing
projects
supporting
youth
mental
health
needs
housing
and
food
insecurity,
tackling
dei
related
topics
and
issues
and
finding
new
opportunities
for
community
collaboration.
S
S
At
one
event,
the
info
series
was
successful
in
helping
over
1
500
bellevue,
family,
youth
and
teens
get
vaccinations
in
the
past
couple
of
years.
There
has
also
been
a
growing
need
to
provide
much
needed
social
services,
support
youth
members
partnered
with
the
little
food
pantries
project
and
have
opened
up
two
community
food
pantries
with
more
to
come.
S
Since
the
opening
of
our
first
little
food
pantry
in
june,
2021
a
crossroads,
we
have
stopped,
we
have
stopped
it
90
times
two
times
per
week
since
2019,
we
also
modified
our
collection
drive
to
keep
it
safe
and
bellevue.
High
school
youth
link.
Members
have
just
completed
a
two
week:
food
drive
that
allowed
us
to
donate
over
300
items
for
food
banks
like
the
renewable
food
bank.
S
S
R
Thank
you,
patrick,
and
so
finally,
this
evening
we
want
to
extend
our
invitation
to
the
council
and
to
community
members
to
join
us
at
our
upcoming
community
leadership
awards,
which
is
happening
on
wednesday
may
25th
from
6
to
8
pm
here
at
city
hall.
We're
happy
to
be
re-hosting
this
event
that
was
suspended
during
the
pandemic,
but
that
was
prior
an
annual
event.
This
event
celebrates
city-wide
youth
and
provides
recognition
for
diverse
forms
of
youth
leadership,
community
service,
allyship,
advocacy,
diversity,
equity
inclusion
and
social
justice
work.
R
All
of
our
youth
nominees
and
award
winners
will
be
recognized
during
the
program.
We
acknowledge
with
you
that
our
youth
are
important
leaders
in
our
community
and
are
making
vital
contributions
to
our
city
every
day
to
help
us
to
ensure
that
each
youth
can
thrive
in
bellevue.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
opportunity
to
share
and
thank
you
to
the
city
manager,
brad
miyake,
for
sponsoring
this
important
work.
B
All
right,
thank
you.
Thank
you
mayor.
I
just
am
in
awe
and
amazed
by
our
youth,
just
even
when
you
talk
about
the
support
that
they
provided
and
the
work
that
they
did
during
the
pandemic
as
they
themselves
and
their
family
members
were
also
going
through.
The
pandemic
still
had
the
care
for
our
community
and
the
empathy
to
to
help
where
they
could.
So
I
look
forward
to
the
community
leadership
awards
and
acknowledging
and
recognizing
them
for
all
the
work
that
they're
doing
so.
A
Great
next
up,
we
have
the
consent
calendar.
Do
I
have
a
motion.
A
Excuse
me
all
in
favor,
say
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Okay,
we
have
three
study
session
items
tonight.
Mr
miyaki.
Q
U
Good
evening,
mayor
robinson,
deputy
mayor,
newinghouse
and
members
of
the
city
council
great
to
see
you
in
person,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
address
you
this
evening
with
a
fire
prevention
update,
as
you
already
know,
to
keep
our
community
safe.
We
utilize
a
blended
strategy.
We
aim
to
prevent
every
fire
we
can
in
our
community
and
then
be
ready
with
a
fast
and
professional
response
to
fires
that
we
can't
prevent
in
november
of
2018.
U
I
approached
you
with
a
predicament
our
ability
to
keep
pace
with
necessary
fire
inspections
was
taxed
and
I
was
presented
with
a
forced
choice
to
either
adjust
the
frequency
of
fire
inspections
from
every
two
years
to
every
third
year
or
get
some
additional
help.
At
that
time,
you
approved
the
addition
of
two
fire
prevention
officers
from
five
to
a
total
of
seven
and
we
instituted
a
fee
to
cover
this
work.
Thank
you
sincerely
for
that
support.
It
has
had
a
positive
impact
on
public
safety.
U
V
So
I
want
to
start
with
just
highlighting
kind
of
our
cost
recovery
goal
and
the
way
that
that
was
put
together.
V
The
idea
was
to
take
50
percent
of
a
50
administrative
assistant
role,
75
of
a
program,
analyst
role
and
75
percent
of
seven
fire
prevention
officers,
and
so
that
total,
that
total
equates
to
891
thousand
dollars,
that
that
was
the
goal
to
to
recover
costs
for.
V
In
the
next
slide,
this
highlights
where
we
got
with
our
inspections
completed
over
the
last
six
years
so
years,
17,
18
and
19
were
previous
to
the
ordinance
adoption
and
in
2020
we
started
initially
you'll
see
that
we
didn't
quite
get
to
our
100
objective
in
2020,
primarily
due
to
covid
kind
of
issues
actually
getting
in
touch
with
much
of
the
business
community,
trying
to
get
into
places
that
weren't
being
occupied
at
the
moment
at
that
time
created
quite
some
challenge.
V
And
then
this
next
side
is
the
inspection
piece
remitted,
so
you'll
see
that
that
lines
up
in
2020
a
slight
slightly
less
than
our
hundred
percent
in
2021
we
got
up
to
731
thousand
at
a
hundred
percent
and
we
are
projecting
in
2020
this
year
to
get
up
to
100
or
812
000.
V
I
will
kind
of
remind
you
that
part
of
the
difference
in
in
this
cost
recovery
is
a
that
we
see
the
increase
will
happen
over
time.
As
we
add
more
building
stock,
as
we
continue
to
develop,
we
will
those
numbers
will
increase
with
that
additional
square
footage
added
to
the
to
the
city
as
well
as
most
of
the
buildings
that
we
inspect
are
on
every
other
year
cycle
and
so
from
year
to
year
it
it
will
change
since
that
doesn't
reflect
the
same
in
all
years.
V
So
the
next
one
I
want
to
just
kind
of
point
out
some
some
successes
that
we
we've
had
over
this
two
year
period
since
starting
the
ordinance
we
moved
with
help
of
it.
We've
moved
to
paperless
inspection
software,
where
we
are
tracking
all
the
inspections
that
we
do.
V
V
This
another
thing
to
maybe
highlight
is
that
the
the
information
that
we
had
to
collect
was
a
little
different
from
the
inspections
prior.
When
we
were
doing
inspections
previously,
we
were
now
trying
to
get
in
touch
with
people
that
we
would
actually
be
billing
versus
maybe
tenants
that
we
would
be
inspecting
so
so
that
that
had
quite
a
bit
of
challenge.
V
But
but
we
feel
that
we've
been
very
successful
in
that
process
and
then
our
collaboration
with
fam
to
ensure
that
we
were
invoicing
and
generating
those
invoices
and
collecting
fees
and
timely
and
consistent
basis.
V
Very
good
about
that,
and
then
lastly
transitioned
paperless
billing
in
2021,
which
I
think
is,
we
can
all
agree
that
going
paperless
in
this
time
is
been
a
benefit
not
only
to
us
but
to
the
customers.
V
Ongoing
improvements,
things
that
we're
looking
forward
to
is
to
continue
collecting
better
building
information.
This
just
helps
us
as
we
go
on,
saves
a
lot
of
time,
we're
not
chasing
our
tail
trying
to
find
this
stuff,
and
once
we
get
it
in
the
into
our
database,
it
helps
us
going
forward.
V
This
the
program
itself
continues
to
educate,
building
owners
and
managers
on
the
importance
of
fire
life
safety,
and
you
know,
as
we
were
asked
by
council.
We
continue
to
monitor
the
nexus
between
the
fees
collected
and
the
time
spent
and
effort
that
we
do.
V
A
D
Yeah,
thank
you
for
the
presentation.
I
think
it's
very
important
to
get
to
100
so
that
we
know
that
from
a
prevention
standpoint
you
know
the
the
equipment
is
sensing
and
working
properly.
I'm
curious
about
as
you
go
out
and
inspect
what
percentage
of
the
time
do
you
find
that
there
are
issues
with
the
the
first
alarm
system
that
needs
to
to
have
some
repairs
versus
the
you
inspect
and
it's
good
to
go
and-
and
we
keep
going,
I'm
just
curious.
I
Thank
you,
council
members
on
we,
I
don't
have
prepared
an
exact
number.
However,
it's
kind
of
it's
a
sliding
scale.
You
know
some
occupancies
occupancies
that
we
go
to.
We
have
small
issues,
like
extension
cords,
where
it's
just
something
that
needs
to
be
tidied
up
a
little
bit
and
in
other
occupancies
we
have
more
extensive
issues.
I
However,
approximately
80
percent
of
our
occupancies
in
the
city
of
bellevue
are
100
compliant
with
their
fire
and
life
safety
systems
being
the
sprinkler
system,
the
smoke,
control
for
larger
buildings
and
fire
alarm
systems,
so
approximately
80
of
buildings
are
100
compliant.
V
Think
I'll
just
add
that
you
know
with
the
program
and
as
we
continually
get
out
there
and
do
100
percent,
you
know
we
will
expect
those
numbers
to
just.
You
know,
increase
over
time.
G
Councilmember
robertson,
thank
you.
You
said
that
you
are
tracking
the
nexus
between
the
cost
and
effort
and
the
actual
fees,
but
you
didn't
tell
me
what
the
result
is
of
that.
So
are
we
finding
that
we're
about
covering
our
expenses
relative
to
the
cost,
to
run
the
program
relative
to
the
fees
coming
in.
V
Yeah,
I
think
that
those
in
the
two
slides
as
I
as
I
previously
previously
shown
the
with
the
goal
of
891
000.
You
know
we're
expecting
this
year
to
be
at
at
collecting
812
000..
V
V
G
It
sounds
like
we're
collecting
about
90
of
our
costs.
Then
don't
know
if
that
will
be
a
budget
issue
chief
hagan
this
year,
but
I'd
like
this
program
to
support
itself
to
the
extent
we
can
in
a
fees
in
a
feasible
way,
that's
fair
to
the
building
owners,
so
maybe
think
about
that.
So
and
then
I
love
the
the
online
paperless
systems
that
you're
coming
up
with.
That
makes
it
easier
for
everybody,
and
it
also
gives
us
information
about
building
owners.
G
G
One
question
is:
was
there
any
other
things
that
you
found
during
coven
when
you
had
to
modify
how
you
did
things?
I
don't
know
if
you
did
any
of
those
like
video
inspections
or
anything.
I
know.
Building
officials
were
doing
that
in
many
cities.
If
there
was
any
other
efficiencies
you
found
in
operations.
Aside
from
what
you
listed.
V
Well,
we
actually
did
we.
We
offered
some
services
of
videos,
especially
to
inspection
companies
who
were
doing
work,
particularly
we
also
for
fire
drills.
We
we've
been
offering.
We
continue
to
offer
them
to
do
a
more
virtual
model,
including
belgium,
city
halls
has
taken
advantage
of
that
as
well.
So.
A
W
Thank
you
so
much.
Obviously
it's
for
safety.
You
know
we
shoot
on
the
shoe
for
100.
You
know
that's,
but
the
key
is.
I
just
have
to
concern
when
you
find
that
is
its
deficiency.
W
What
do
you
do?
Do
you
help
them
how
to
rectify
it?
Fix
it
or
you
just
say:
hey
you
got
to
fix
it.
I
think
you
have
to
prove
value
to
the
people
that
you
inspecting
right.
The
people
who
have
problems.
Obviously
you
already
provide
them
a
value,
but
maybe
just
following
that
is
what
you
know
assistance.
Can
you
give
them
to
fix
it?
That's
the
first
question.
W
Second
question
following
this:
is
that
you
know
it
when
when
you
know,
ideally,
we
want
to
inspect
everything,
but
if
we're
spending
all
the
money,
just
finding
20
that
need
to
be
fixed,
the
other
80
is
okay.
W
What
is
the
judgment
beside
hundred
percent?
When
does
the
money
become?
You
know
I
mean,
what's
the
word,
how
do
you
justify
that
spending?
A
hundred
percent
of
money,
eight
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
maybe
find
twenty
percent
the
problem,
and
can
we
do
it
in
a
better
way,
focusing
on
something
that
focus
on
the
20?
So
you
don't
have
to
spend
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars,
maybe
a
little
bit
less
money.
Is
it
possible,
I'm
just
raising
as
a
question?
I
One
I'll
take
number
two
yeah.
Thank
you
chief
councilmember
lee,
so
the
the
first
question
I
heard
was:
are
we
educating
business
owners
and
building
owners
on
how
to
fix
or
prevent
these
issues
down
the
line?
And
we
are
the
there's?
I
V
I'll
add
that
customers
will
have
opportunities
to
correct
it
in
multiple
fashions.
If
it's
more
severe,
then
we
may
go
re-inspect.
If
it's
not,
maybe
to
the
previous
point,
we
will
let
them
self-uh.
U
Councilmember
lee,
thank
you
for
your
question.
I
wanted
to
reiterate
that
our
original
mandate
and
the
ordinance
was
to
collect
roughly
three
quarters
of
the
cost
of
the
program,
and
so
that's
a
council
member,
perhaps
that
I
wanted
to
follow
back
and
and
let
you
understand
that
it's
not
a
dollar
for
dollar
proposition,
because
it
was
kind
of
an
experiment
at
the
time,
but
it's
working
well
and
sir.
U
I
also
want
to
let
you
know
that
we
did
meet
with
business
leaders
about
a
year
into
the
program
and
they
told
us
some
really
intelligent
stuff.
First
of
all,
they
wanted
to
be
responsible
for
the
billing
and
then
they
would
pass
those
fees
on
to
their
tenants,
and
so
we
wanted
to
deal
direct
with
them.
We
made
that
change
and
we
also
learned
that
something
like
a
giant
parking
garage.
U
I
know
you're
concerned
with
mom
and
pop
shops
and
like
a
barber
shop,
we
can
inspect
that,
and
you
know
almost
from
the
doorway
and
same
thing,
so
we
made
an
adjustment
there
as
well,
so
we're
learning
as
we
go,
we're
attentive
to
the
needs
of
the
community
and
we
pledge
to
be
back
here
on
a
routine
basis
if,
if
the
fees
or
the
dollars
being
generated
seem
to
get
out
of
whack.
So
thank
you
for
the
questions.
A
A
Okay,
we're
starting
up
again,
we
are
on
our
next,
our
two
second
of
three
study
session
items.
Mr
miyaki,
would
you
like
to
enter.
Q
Thank
you,
mayor
yeah.
The
second
topic
is
a
report
on
phase
three
of
the
cross-cultural
feasibility
study.
Just
by
way
background,
the
city
has
taken
undertaken
a
number
of
studies
over
the
past
five
years
to
evaluate
the
feasibility
of
a
cross-cultural
community
center
tonight.
The
staff
and
consultants
from
acom
will
present
the
phase
three
findings,
conclusions
and
recommendations.
Q
Tonight,
staff
are
seeking
direction
from
the
council
on
the
report.
Recommendations,
including
engagement
strategies
and
next
steps
in
the
development
of
the
cross-cultural
community
center
joining
us
this
evening
is
dr
linda
whitehead,
our
chief
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
officer
accompanying
her
also
is
our
consultant
from
aecom,
linda
chu,
with
that
I'm
going
to
go
over
and
turn
it
over
to
dr
whitehead
to
begin
the
presentation.
Thank.
X
You
good
evening,
mayor
deputy
mayor
and
city
council
members,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
provide
the
results
of
phase
three
of
the
cross-cultural
feasibility
study.
I'm
linda
whitehead,
chief
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
officer
joining
me.
Virtually
this
evening
is
linda
chu
from
acorn
consulting
firms.
X
X
X
X
Y
Thank
you
good
evening,
mayor
robinson,
deputy
mayor
noon,
house
and
council
members.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
tonight
about
our
work
evaluating
feasibility
of
cross-cultural
center.
I
also
want
to
personally
thank
you
for
making
accommodations
for
remote
participation.
Y
I
do
appreciate
it
listening
to
council
member
barksdale's
comments
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting.
I
think
we
can
all
appreciate
the
particular
relevance
and
importance
of
cross-cultural
engagement
in
today's
context.
Y
Y
So,
during
our
work
across
these
two
phases,
we
conducted
over
100
interviews
or
conversations
with
stakeholders,
including
community
members,
possible
partners,
non-profit
organizations,
educational
institutions,
cultural
facilities,
the
corporate
and
development
community,
city,
council,
members
and
city
staff.
We
also
conducted
a
survey
of
potential
facility
users.
We
sent
the
survey
out
to
over
90
people
and
included
language
encouraging
people
to
share
the
survey
we
received
over
60
responses,
which
were
all
very
thorough
and
thoughtful.
Y
We
completed
benchmarking
related
to
models
for
the
development
operations
and
governance
of
cultural
centers,
reviewing
close
to
30
cultural
centers
as
part
of
our
work,
and
we
also
updated
much
of
the
information
that
was
in
the
first
phase,
feasibility
study,
around
demographic
trends,
site
analysis
and
the
evaluation
of
existing
supply
from
our
first
phase.
So,
based
upon
all
this,
we
developed
an
illustrative
program
for
a
cross-cultural
center
and
completed
a
non-site
specific
building
test
fit.
Y
We
had
aecom's
cost
consultancy
group
estimate
capital
costs,
we
developed
an
operating
performa
for
the
facility
and
we
assessed
feasibility
across
four
core
areas
and
developed
an
implementation
strategy
with
short
and
long
term
steps.
So,
let's
get
into
it.
I'm
going
to
focus
a
lot
of
my
discussion
tonight
on
an
analysis.
Sorry,
next
slide
of
these
four
core
feasibility
areas,
which
include
one
concept,
definition,
two
demand
three
development
economics
and
four
operating
economics.
So,
let's
start
with
concept
concept
and
visitor
experience
really
drive
all
feasibility
analysis
for
facilities.
Y
So
these
definitions,
you
see
here,
were
actually
provided
in
some
of
the
survey
responses
that
we
received
and
we
found
them
particularly
clear.
So
we
are
using
them
here,
so
we
can
have
some
common
terminology
and
I
think
you've
all
had
a
chance
to
read
them,
so
I'm
not
going
to
keep
them
in
detail.
But
the
key
point
is
that
the
cross-cultural
center
is
envisioned
to
be
a
place
for
all
of
these
activities.
Y
Second,
and
I
think
to
some
of
the
public
comment
earlier,
you
know
what
else
defines
this.
The
vision
is
does
include
a
place
to
have
both
formal
programs
as
well
as
informal
interactions
through
the
creation
of
a
physical
space
that
really
serves
as
a
third
place
for
community
members
to
build
connections.
Y
So
the
vision
also
includes
possible
synergies
from
non-profit
and
community
tenants
co-locating.
So
yes,
it's
not
just
about
a
place
for
programming,
and
finally,
it
is
envisioned
as
a
mission-driven
facility,
which
means
that
operations,
costs
and
revenues
are
going
to
be
strategically
tied
to
an
organizational
purpose
and
one
quick
terminology
clarification
before
I
move
on
you're
going
to
hear
me
several
times
refer
to
cultural
centers.
Y
More
broadly,
throughout
my
presentation,
we
are
studying
kind
of
business
and
operating
models
here,
so
we're
using
the
broadest
applicable
terminology
possible
for
this
kind
of
facility
typology
to
have
the
greatest
number
of
reference
points.
Okay,
next
slide,
please,
so
I
want
to
quickly
walk
through
some
of
the
key
findings
from
the
other
three
core
feasibility
areas,
demand
development
economics
and
operating
economics.
Y
Okay.
So
for
demand,
what
do
we
know?
Cross-Cultural
engagement
is
clearly
a
priority
for
both
the
city
and
the
community
overall,
and
there
is,
you
know,
demonstrated
commitment
among
everyone.
We
spoke
with
at
the
city
council,
members
and
staff
to
supporting
spaces
for
cross-cultural
activities,
and
this
is
very
important
because
for
mission
driven
facilities,
community
need
often
drives
demand
so
again,
a
very
important
foundation
and
a
positive
indicator.
Y
It
is
our
assessment
that
it
will
take
some
investment
to
translate
this
interest
to
effective
demand,
meaning
to
facility
utilization
to
the
ability
to
pay
to
support
the
facility-
and
this
is
a
complex
nuance
of
demand.
Analysis
right
demand
for
a
grocery
store
is
much
simpler.
You
look
at
trade
area,
demographics
spending,
competitive
market,
etc,
but
for
a
cultural
center
demand
relies
upon
having
sufficient
programming
related
to
the
facility
mission
users
who
can
pay
for
the
space
or
funders
who
are
cultivated
to
cover
full
operating
costs
and
users
cannot
so
very
quickly.
Y
You
can
see
that
the
demand
for
a
non-profit
facility
becomes
very
closely
paired
with
the
ability
to
operate
the
facility
sustainably.
So
this
leads
us
to
the
next
core
feasibility
area.
The
third
one
operations,
the
vast
majority
of
community
and
city
stakeholders-
have
discussed
this
from
an
operating
model
perspective
as
a
community-led,
city-supported
effort,
which
is
very,
very
common.
Y
What
will
be
required
for
a
successful
public
nonprofit
partnership
is,
as
we've
identified
you
to
have
a
city
for
the
city
to
have
a
clear
and
identifiable
non-profit
community
partner,
and
this
should
be
done
in
a
transparent
process.
Whichever
process
you
select
and
given
the
nature
of
a
cross-cultural
center,
it
will
be
important
that
the
community
partner
is
committed
to
being
inclusive
and
able
to
work
with
many
different
groups
in
the
community
as
the
entity
that
formerly
works
with
the
city.
Y
On
behalf
of
the
community-
and
it
is
likely
for
that,
for
this
to
happen,
an
investment
in
organizational
capacity
building
will
be
required.
So
I'm
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
later
about
the
dollars
and
cents.
So
let's
actually
skip
to
the
next
slide
and
discuss
some
of
the
development
issues
thanks
so
big
picture,
the
development
of
any
cultural
facility
requires
an
intensive
leadership,
organizational
and
financial
commitment
over
a
multi-year
period.
Y
Y
So,
let's
turn
to
the
dollars
and
cents
next
slide.
Please,
we
developed
a
preliminary
order
of
magnitude,
cost
estimate
all
those
disclaimers
for
this
excluding
site
costs.
Y
I
do
want
to
say
an
actual
cost
estimate
would
need
to
be
ultimately
tied
to
a
specific
site,
but
we
developed
an
approximately
27
000
square
foot
program
plus
outdoor
programmable
space
of
about
5000
square
feet,
plus
we'll
need
parking
and
everything
else
based
upon
stakeholder
engagement
across
all
three
phases
of
work,
the
benchmarking
that
we
completed
and
demanded
supply
analysis
based
upon
the
program,
current
construction
costs,
which
are
remarkably
high
in
recent
years
and
high
level
inputs
regarding
levels
of
finish
and
likely
physical
characteristics.
Y
The
vast
majority
of
all
cultural
centers
are
funded
in
one
of
four
ways
which
are
shown
here
so
nonprofit
capital
campaign,
city
funding,
some
sort
of
real
estate,
partnership
or
developer
incentive,
or,
in
some
more
rare
cases,
they're
an
angel
donor
which
can
be
public
or
private,
but
it's
certainly
hard
to
plan
for
and
a
lot
of
times.
There's
a
combination
of
all
of
these
funding
sources.
Y
Y
There
are
many
operating
models
ranging
from
completely
city
operated,
which
is
actually
more
uncommon
for
cultural
centers,
common
for
community
centers,
but
uncommon
for
cultural
centers,
two
operations
purely
by
a
nonprofit
and
many
cultural
centers.
Probably
most
of
them
fall
within
a
hybrid
model
of
some
sort
where
a
city
and
nonprofit
share
varying
degrees
of
responsibility
for
funding,
for
programming
facility
operations
etc,
and
there
are
as
many
hybrid
models
out
there
as
there
are
facilities.
Y
Y
So
these
kind
of
partnerships
can
be
complex
but
also
provide
numerous
benefits
to
overall
financial
and
operational
sustainability,
and
this
leads
me
to
our
implementation
steps
next
slide.
Please,
okay:
we've
developed
two
sets
of
strategies
for
moving
forward,
divided
into
short-term
and
longer-term
strategies,
so
note
that
longer
term
doesn't
mean
just
waiting.
It
just
means
that
typically,
these
steps
require
more
time
and
can
be
somewhat
sequential
in
nature
and
in
the
meantime,
the
city
can
be
making
investments
now
or
soon
to
support
cross-cultural
engagement.
Y
So
these
short-term
steps
actually
have
kind
of
two
purposes
one
is
they
allow
the
city
to
actively
support
cross-cultural
engagements
or
the
obvious,
but
two
there
are
fundamental
building
blocks
that
will
contribute
to
the
longer
term
development
and
operational
sustainability
of
a
facility,
and
they
can
operate
on
parallel
paths.
So
again,
even
if
you
could
fund
the
development
of
a
cross-cultural
center
today,
it
will
be
important
to
take
steps
to
ensure
the
facility
can
be
sustainably
operated
year
after
year.
Y
So
let's
talk
quickly
about
the
strategies
in
the
short
term.
You
know
this
is
from
the
city
perspective.
City
can
provide
space
in
any
of
its
facilities
for
cross-cultural
activities
and
programming.
Community
centers
are
the
most
likely
place
for
this,
but
there
are
others
as
well:
library
parks,
city
hall,
they're,
also
private
bellevue
theater.
Y
There
are
also
private
facilities,
but
this
strategy
specifically
focuses
on
what
the
city
can
do
with
city
assets.
This
is
envisioned
as
more
of
a
formal
effort
right,
not
just
saying
okay,
your
space
is
available,
but
it's
actually
where
the
city
can
prioritize
scheduling
and
subsidies
of
spaces
for
cross-cultural
programming
and
it's
important
to
know
one
big
difference
between
our
first
two
studies
are
the
two
studies
that
we've
done.
Y
Conditions
have
changed
and
the
community
centers
have
far
more
availability
now
than
they
did
in
2019
prior
to
the
pandemic
and
as
with
many
community
facilities
nationally,
traditional
patterns
of
utilizations
have
shifted
tremendously
since
the
pandemic,
creating
opportunities
to
approach,
priorities
and
facility
usage
differently,
one
of
the
pandemic
silver
linings.
Perhaps
the
city
can
also
make
key
funding
investments
in
non-profit
capacity
building
that
will
be
required,
as
I've
discussed
and
the
city
can
provide
funding
or
grants
for
intentional
cross-cultural
programs
or
engagement.
Y
So
this
would
help
develop
a
portfolio
or
a
successful
track
record
to
create
that
demand
we
discussed
previously
having
this
track
record
will
also
help
with
corporate
and
philanthropic
funding
relationships,
which
in
turn
supports
operating
feasibility.
So
again,
these
contributions
in
the
short
support
and
long-term
records
and
finally
staff
time
can
be
provided
to
help
across
many
areas
and
will
be
required
to
support
these
strategies
longer
term.
The
city
can
work
with
the
community
to
identify
and
support
a
non-profit
champion
for
this
project,
and,
yes,
again,
transparent
process
is
important.
Y
City
can
evaluate
its
own
priorities
and
available
funding
as
well
to
understand
really
how
much
you
can
support
in
terms
of
development
or
operations
so
that
you
can
determine
the
best
model,
particularly
for
kind
of
operations
in
the
facility.
And
finally,
the
community
has
a
number
of
steps
to
take
which
are
detailed
here.
Y
So
in
some
we
think
there
are
important
positive,
concrete
next
steps
for
the
city
and
the
community
to
take
to
move
this
forward,
to
see
some
immediate
cross-cultural
engagement,
as
well
as
to
build
the
foundation
to
ensure
that
across
cultural
center
will
be
economically
sustainable
and
and
really
thrive,
given
the
economics.
So
thank
you
very
much.
I
hope
this
was
helpful
and
I'm
happy
to
answer
any
questions.
X
X
X
Existing
capacity
at
bellevue
community
community
centers
for
programming
exists.
There
are
three
elements
needed
to
translate
community
interest
into
effective
demand
for
a
facility
number
one
mission-driven
partner
organization,
two
capacity
building,
including
funding
and
promotion,
and
three
time.
A
Great
presentation-
and
I
have
to
say,
linda
that
was
remarkably
good,
hybrid
presentation
here
tonight,
so
thank
you,
dr
whitehead
and
linda.
So
we
have.
Could
you
put
slides
six
up?
Please
no
excuse
me:
13
13,
sorry
yup,
that
one!
A
This
is
what
we
can
comment
on
and
we
have
a
recommended
motion,
but
we
can
change
that
as
well.
We
can
alter
that
if
we'd
like
to
so,
let's
start
with
council
member
lee.
W
Thank
you,
madam
mayor.
I
want
to
really
compliment
the
consultant.
Econ
and
linda
ciao
made
a
great,
concise,
in-depth,
real
insightful
in
a
look
at
this
project
at
this
mission,
and
I
call
this
a
vision,
as
you
mentioned
right
up
front,
you
know
quoting
from
councilmember
boxdale.
W
You
know,
based
on
what
we
just
saw
in
buffalo
the
incident,
and
this
is
very
much
this
reason
why
a
cross-cultural
center,
the
purpose
of
which
is
to
bring
all
people
together
and
all
understand,
each
other
all
can
communicate
and
have
a
you
know,
a
unity
of
people
who
are
on
the
level
of
understanding
and
working
together
with
accessibility
with
ease
with
a
sense
of
being
there
and
a
sense
of
belonging
and
without
having
go
through
barriers
of
you
know,
trying
to
become
part
of
the
community.
W
I
think
we
all
in
some
degree
or
another,
my
personal
experience
included.
We
we
may
be
at
the
table,
but
we
have
different
experiences
as
a
result.
We
have
different
backgrounds,
different
sidekiq
and
we
don't
con
connect
the
way
as
people
who
have
similar
backgrounds.
So,
in
order
to
get
over
those
barriers,
we
need
to
provide
a
place-
that's
really
accessible,
really
with
no
barrier.
We
can
be
there
because
we're
common
goals
that
draw
us
together,
we
feel
comfortable.
W
W
For
you
know
this
is
the
time,
and
this
is
now
you
know
we
just
been
through
this
covered
and
heightened
awareness
of
the
differences,
the
polarization
that
we
we
are
seeing
and
that's
leading
to
actual
you
know,
incidents
like
councilmember
box
still
mentioned
in
buffalo.
We
don't
want
to
have
that
continue,
so
this
is
not
easy,
because
it's
really
a
challenge.
W
As
econ
mentioned,
we
haven't
got
a
model
like
this,
because
it
requires
every
one
of
us
to
be
working
together
to
be
comfortable
to
be
working
at
the
same
goal.
You
know
together,
so
I
I
really
appreciate
you
went
to
the
extent
of
actually
laying
out
you
know
the
first
step,
second
step,
the
step
whatever
it
takes,
but
it
has
to
be
leading
to
the
ultimate
goal,
we're
looking
for
and
we
need-
and
this
is
challenging-
that's
why
you're
laying
out
so
well.
W
So
I
really
agree
that
every
step
you
mentioned
is
is
what
we
have
to
go
through
and
I
believe,
belvio's
place.
We
have
the
community,
we
have
the
people
that
are
willing
that
are
ready.
Then
we
are
capable
of
making
this
happen.
It
may
take
time,
but
we
have
to
start
now.
We
cannot
wait
every
year,
we'll
wait.
We're
slipping
back
two
three
years.
So.
W
Finally,
I
want
to
say
that
the
the
the
estimate
you
have
you
know
I
think
I
want
to
ask
the
consultant.
This
is
just
an
estimate
right
based
on
the
first
shot.
You
have,
we,
you
know
number
one.
We
have
done
three
studies
and
we
know
the
demands
that
we
know
the
need.
Is
there
so
we
kind
of
reaffirmed
you
know
the
necessity
of
this,
but
the
the
step
you
lay
down
to
have
a
community
center.
That
is
something
that
is
yet
to
be
determined
right.
W
You
just
make
it
ask
them
roughly,
but
I
think
the
community
you
mentioned
one
of
the
key
is
community.
Let
and
its
partner
partner
includes
the
city
other
people
that
will
be
as
part
of
the
partner.
We
would
determine,
though,
that
day
would
determine
what
this
would
be
exactly
and
what
is
the
take,
and
what
the
it
is.
I
assume
that's
the
case
right,
so
we're
I'm
not
going
to
go
into
asking
you
what
why
27
000
square
feet?
W
Y
Yeah
the
27
000
square
feet,
I
think,
is
a
reasonable
number
in
the
right
range
that
is
very
typical
of
many
of
these
centers
and
based
upon
the
specific
spaces
that
the
community
was
interested
in
the
cost
estimate.
It
is
an
order
of
magnitude
estimate,
but
it
was
developed
by
our
cost
consultancy
group.
Y
W
W
I've
talked
to
people,
private
companies
and
businesses
and
they're
very
supportive,
and
I'm
I
probably
am
not
at
liberty.
I
should
not
say
who
they
are,
but
I
think
we
have
very
strong
support
indication
from
businesses,
corporations
that
they,
because
most
of
the
employees,
high-tech
employees
in
our
city
in
our
region,
they
have
a
lot
of
employees
from
all
over
the
world.
W
Culture
is
the
big
thing
and
they
want
to
have
the
employee
to
be
to
feel
safe,
feel
they
belong
here,
feel
that
they
can
produce,
have
the
maximum
production
and
do
the
best
they
can
for
a
place.
The
country
and
people
that
belong
to.
So
I
think,
there's
no
hesitation
of
the
opportunity,
no
opportunity
that
if
we
work
at
it
it
will
support
it
if
the
city
gets
behind
it,
we
can
make
this
happen.
Thank
you.
A
A
You
know
we've
been
talking
for
years
about
pace,
performing
arts
center
in
on
the
east
side
in
bellevue,
and
we
have
made
a
tentative
commitment
of
a
lot
of
money
toward
that.
If
pace
gets
to
a
certain-
and
I
think
that
actually
maybe
the
contract
has
expired,
and
we
would
have
to
look
at
that
again,
but
we've
always
wanted
to
have
some
kind
of
a
performing
arts
center,
and
I
look
at
the
multicultural
center
or
the
cross-cultural
center.
A
Excuse
me
and
the
value
of
that
and
I
think
we're
we're
looking
at
you
know
we
can't
do
both
and
we're
looking
at
the
same
thing,
really
we're
looking
at
a
home
for
people
to
explore
their
cultures
and
their
arts
and
share
knowledge
and
and
and
celebrate
and
entertain
and-
and
it
seems
like
that
would
be
the
first
partner
I
would
look
at
as
in
talking
to
terry
dwyer
from
pace.
A
You
know,
I
think
I
would
really
encourage
us
to
talk
to
them
and
see
if,
instead
of
looking
at
splitting
the
money,
maybe
on
two
things-
that
we
encompass
it
all
in
one
and
I
can't
think
of
a
better
use
of
our
tot
tax.
To
be
honest
with
you
when
that
becomes
available
to
our
city,
so
I
am
happy
with
the
proposal
here.
I
love
the
the
programming
idea,
but
I
really
want
to
move
quickly
and
see
if
we
can
get
on
the
pace,
timeline
and
work
with
them.
So
that
would
be
my
recommendation.
G
Thank
you,
ms
whitehead
and
ms
chu
for
coming
and
doing
such
a
great
job.
You
took
five
years
worth
of
process
and
distilled
it
down
so
well
that
I
think
any
even
people
that
didn't
understand
and
follow
the
process
closely
would
understand
what
we've
been
doing
so
excellent
job.
So
I
do
support
moving
forward
with
this,
and
you
know,
as
I
think,
as
councilmember
lee
said,
the
way
our
city
is
changing,
we're
already
a
majority
minority
city.
Now
we
have
over
40
percent
foreign-born.
G
I
would
like
every
city
that
the
or
every
building
that
the
city
owns
to
be
a
cross-cultural
center
in
and
of
itself
as
far
as
programming
as
far
as
use,
because
that's
just
who
we
are
as
a
city.
So
I
love
the
idea
of
working
to
do
some
of
the
programming
first
and
capacity
building,
because
I
think
that
and
and
re
you
know,
maybe
filling
up
some
space
that
now
is
underutilized
due
to
kovid.
G
I
think
that
will
create
momentum,
momentum,
it
will
drive
demand
and
it
will
also
build
support
for
the
programming,
as
well
as
a
dedicated
space
of
a
cross-cultural
center.
I
I
do
like
the
idea
of
partnering
with
pace
or
even
potentially
repurposing,
some
of
our
a
portion
of
one
of
our
community
centers
in
the
meantime,
as
a
dedicated
home
for
this
kind
of
use.
G
While
we
go
work
and
build
support
and
stack
capital
for
foreign
owns
for
its
own
space
in
terms
of
partnership,
I
we
had
two
people
talk
today
who
were
both
non-profits
interested
in
this.
I
know
we
have
businesses
that
might
be
interested
in
funding
it.
I'm
wondering
just
like
we
stack
capital
with
big
bold
projects
like
we're,
trying
to
do
with
the
aquatic
center.
G
X
To
my
right,
okay,
I
think
your
partners
will
come
in
different
forms,
so
when
you
say,
can
we
have
more
partners
when
we're
looking
at
partnerships
for
just
funding
alone,
we
want
to
take
out
our
checkbook
and
give
money
as
many
as
we
can
receive.
As
we
look
at
the
city
of
bellevue,
we
look
at
the
skylines.
X
G
Okay,
that's
that's
helpful.
The
other
idea
I
had
that
I
was
thinking
of
and
actually
right
after
I
was
thinking
it.
Ms
chu
put
the
slide
up
about
the
different
kinds
of
hybrid
centers
and
the
different
funding
is.
I
think
we
should
consider
in
addition
to
looking
for
partners
at
pace
and
whatnot.
G
I
think
that
we
should
consider
as
we're
moving
forward
with
the
wilberton
and
bell
red
land
use
plans,
seeing
if
we
might
put
a
land
use
incentive
in
a
big,
bold
incentive
for
someone
to
build
this
as
part
of
a
project
and
then
dedicate
it
over
to
the
city
for
use.
That
might
be
a
really
good
partnership.
The
other
thing
we
could
do-
and
I'm
just
thinking
out
loud
here-
is
we
own
property
as
well.
The
city
owns
property.
G
We
could
use
some
of
our
own
property
and
I'm
not
talking
about
existing
park
property,
although
that's
a
possibility,
but
some
of
the
commercial
property
we
own.
We
could
partner
put
that
on
an
rfp
for
sale
and
put
a
cross
cultural
center
as
the
thing
that
needs
to
be
built
and
ordered,
and
you
know
it
will
affect
the
price,
but
there's
a
lot
of
different
ways.
G
We
can
go
about
this
without
you
know,
without
having
the
city
write,
all
the
checks,
so
I
just
think
we
should
be
creative
in
trying
to
figure
out
how
we
can
get
this
done,
because
I'm
I'm
very
supportive
of
of
moving
this
forward,
and
I
guess
that's
about
all
I'll
say
I
will
support
the
motion
and
I
also
support
the
mayor's
idea
of
reaching
out
to
pace
seeing
if,
if
that
could
be
incorporated
into
their
vision
for
that
space,
that
they're
that
we
all
want
to
see
built
thanks.
B
All
right,
thank
you,
mayor.
Thank
you,
dr
whitehead,
and
thank
you
and
joe
on
the
on
the
call
here
really
appreciate
the
presentation.
Just
I
appreciate
the
comments
already
made
by
councilmember
lee
and
councilmember
roberson.
I
had
a
question
kind
of
building
on
the
ideas
idea
generation
how
soon
or
when,
when
did
we
foresee
building
another
community
center?
B
Given
what
debbie
lacy
said
in
her
earlier
comments
that
I
think
there
were
maybe
due
for
maybe
another
one
or
two
community,
centers
down
the
road,
just
curious,
what
that,
what
that
might
look
like
I'll
just
go
through
all
the
more.
If
you
want
to
respond
now,
that's
fine
too,
which,
whichever.
Q
B
Just
curious
as
part
of
the
ideas
of
where,
where
we
might
have
a
community
cross-cultural
center,
I
think
so.
I
I
also
agree
with
the
next
steps
in
terms
of
the
motion,
I
would
just
say,
as
we
start
looking
at
what
we
share,
I
would
say
generally
I
I
appreciate
the
hybrid
approach
where
there's
the
investment
by
the
community
as
well
as
investment
by
the
city.
B
I
would
just
say
in
terms
of
governance.
I
would
also
think
about
what
that
looks
like
from
a
hybrid
perspective,
so,
whichever
non-profit,
we
go
with
just
making
sure
that
as
a
cross-cultural
center
and
a
nonprofit
that
we
make
sure
that
it
also
from
a
governance
perspective,
has
a
a
board
that
represents
the
diversity
in
the
community
and
the
people
that
we're
serving,
and
so
I
like
the
next
step
as
well
of
looking
at
programming
current
spaces
to
get
a
sense
of
what
the
opportunities
are.
So
thank
you.
E
You
mayor
yes,
dr
whitehead
and
linda
chu.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
great
presentation.
As
councilmember
robertson
said.
Yes,
you
did
a
great
job
distilling,
five
years
of
data
and
studies
into
a
very
succinct
presentation
tonight.
So
so
thank
you.
E
I'm
very
enthusiastic
about
this
cross
cultural
center
as
and
really
appreciate,
councilmember
lee
bringing
this
forward
to
this
point
as
well
as
thank
you
to
all
the
community
members,
not
just
tonight
who
spoke
up
with
interest
and
excitement
and
enthusiasm
for
this,
but
for
all
the
many
years
that
they've
spoken
up,
I
mean
we
have
heard
it
loud
and
clear.
E
I
think
at
this
point
it's
let's
get
going
so,
but
at
the
same
time
we
want
to
approach
it
in
a
very
thoughtful
manner,
really
appreciate
your
recommendations
and
and
and
next
steps.
The
biggest
thing
for
me
is
which
I
I
thought
continually
came
through
in
the
presentation
was
a
sustainability
piece.
You
know-
and
I
think
that's
a
real
important
when
we're
looking
for
those
community
partners
we're
looking
for
and
I'm
thinking
about,
the
actual
physical
space.
Now
not
just
the
programming
space.
E
So
that's
important
as
well,
but
you
know
I
think
we'd
all
be
kicking
ourselves
that
we
built
this
beautiful
facility.
That
brings
the
community
together
the
engagement
cross-cultural
engagement.
Yet,
but
yet
we
haven't
figured
out
how
to
make
it
sustainable.
E
So
one
question
that
I
did
have
and
mr
I
think
it
would
be
for
you.
Could
you
please
explain
this
a
little
bit
more
about
your
assumptions
on
the?
I
don't
have
the
slide
right
in
front
of
me
right
now
about
the
revenue.
I
think
it
was
something
like
three
hundred
thousand
to
five
hundred
thousand
a
year.
Is
that
generated
through
ticket
sales
food
admission?
E
Y
Sure
I
think
so
earned
revenue,
I
guess
I'll
say
two
things
about
it.
So
one
in
terms
of
the
composition,
it
does
include
missile
non-profit
leases,
so
leases
with
you
know,
either
non-profit
or
community
users
for
leasing
space,
either
on
a
long
term
or
a
shorter
term
basis
like
co-working
space
it
includes
you
know.
Y
I
think
the
primary
source
of
revenue
is
facility,
rentals
or
basically
usage
fees
for
the
different
spaces
in
the
facility
and
then
there's
other
kind
of
ancillary
income
as
well,
and
you
know,
depending
on
what
ultimately
is
built,
you
know
there
may
be
some
additional
opportunities.
Y
I
will
say
in
a
community
like
bellevue
with
bellevue's
demographics
in
general,
a
community
facility
that's
nicely
designed
and
a
depending
on
site
could
probably
generate
a
higher
percentage
of
earned
revenue.
But
you
know
a
lot
of
that
may
be
more
kind
of
market
rate
rentals.
We
did
include
some
market
rate
rentals,
because
every
public
facility
will
get
used
for
kind
of
private
market
rate
rentals,
sometimes
corporate
rentals
that
are
not
necessarily
related
to
the
mission
of
the
organizations.
Y
You
know,
I
think,
they're
constantly
balancing
you
know,
mission
versus
money
and
making
decisions
about
usage
based
upon
that.
So
I
think
you
know
there
are
there's
potential
to
be
higher,
but
there's
always
the
consideration
of
what's
the
impact
on
the
ability
of
the
facility
to
serve
the
original
mission
of
the
organization
exactly.
Y
Why
we
were
very
conservative
in
that,
so
20,
I
think,
would
be
the
minimum.
You
know
in
terms
of
creative
ways.
You
know
people
often
look
to
depending
on
your
site,
you
might
have
a
real
estate
tenant
or
some
kind
of
other
commercial
tenant
that
could
help
provide
kind
of
a
steady
source
of
income.
Y
You
know,
sometimes
you
know
you
can
see
some
sorts
of
other
sources,
but
generally
speaking
for
these
types
of
facilities,
it's
all
about
facility
usage,
these
tenant,
you
know
tenant
leases
or
some
kind
of
operating
agreement.
The
hybrid
models
can
include
regular
funding,
non-competitive
funding
from
cities.
Y
So
that's
one
option
and
then
sometimes
you
know
some
sort
of
a
dedicated
financing
source
too.
E
Okay,
thank
you
for
bringing
that
additional
color
in
terms
of
some
of
the
comments
made
by
my
colleagues
so
far.
Yes,
I
think
everything
should
be
on
the
table
right
now.
I
like
the
idea
of
partnering
with
with
pace
either
short
term
or
long
term,
so
certainly
would
like
to
have
staff
follow
up
on
that.
I
think
a
land
use
incentive
is
is
a
great
idea
from
council
member
robertson
as
well
as
looking
at
any
other
potential
city
property.
You
know,
I
think
at
this
point.
E
Everything
should
be
on
the
table
in
terms
of
different
options,
of
moving
this
forward
so
again,
very
in
favor
of
moving
this
motion
forward
tonight
and
look
forward
to
next
steps.
Thank
you.
D
I
heard
the
word
third
place
right.
I
think
it's
really
important,
especially
in
light
of
you
know
all
of
the
the
ways
that
we
need
to
connect
now
as
a
community.
So
I
support
both
the
short
term
and
the
long
term.
D
I
do
have
some
thoughts
and,
as
I'm
listening
to
my
colleagues,
I
I
would
start
out
by
saying
all
creative
innovative
options
on
the
table,
so
I'm
I
was
glad
to
see
that
the
short
short-term
one
does
not
only
say
community
centers,
because
I
think
the
draft
version,
the
ask,
was
to
look
at
community
centers
and
I
think
it
needs
to
be
as
broad
as
possible
for
the
short
term,
why
not
city
hall?
D
Why
not
other
public
spaces
or
even
to
create
partnerships
with
libraries,
schools
and
other
spaces
so
that
it
actually
is
a
much
broader
engagement
throughout
the
city
to
look
at
the
short
term?
So
that's
one
of
my
comments
and
then
on
the
on
the
comment
about
the
existing
capacity
at
community
centers.
D
I
guess
my
my
only
thought
to
that
is.
We
know
that
things
are
just
opening
back
up,
so
any
evaluation
of
of
capacity.
I
think
it's
not
a
good
measure
of
where
we
are,
especially
when
we
were
talking
about
our
parks
and
open
space
planning.
We
talked
about
the
fact
that
we're
going
to
want
more
active
recreation
at
our
community
centers,
whether
it's
cricket
ping
pong
pickleball
more
youth
spaces.
D
So
I
would
think
that
what
we're
seeing
now
as
underutilization
is
maybe
a
an
anomaly
and
not
something
we
can
rely
on
and
then
on
the
long
term.
I
I
agree
with
my
colleagues
about:
let's
look
at
all
of
the
ways
we
can
partner.
Why
not
have
a
cross-cultural
center
and
something
else
why
not
affordable
housing?
We've
been
talking
about
that
forever
right.
So
how
do
we
incentivize
to
do
that?
How
do
we
create
partnerships
that
are
more
broad,
so
I
would
recommend
not
just
picking
any
one
partner.
D
So
you
know
the
friends
for
the
cross-cultural
center
eastside
for
all
pace,
east
hub
there's
any
number
of
organizations
as
well
as
a
large
employers,
were
talked
about
earlier
as
potential
partners
as
well.
So
I
would
say,
as
broad
of
an
inclusion
as
possible
is
what
I
think
is
important
and
then
to
the
piece
about
the
earned
revenue.
D
My
my
one
caution
would
be
that
when
I
think
about
a
cross-cultural
center,
it
should
be
accessible
for
all
where
people
can
come
and
have
that
sense
of
belonging
and
the
ability
to
co-create.
Together
about
what
that
space,
I
had
an
opportunity
to
sit
in
on
a
couple
of
of
community
meetings
where
they
had
a
padlet
and
they
were
imagining
what
a
space
might
look
like,
and
the
word
co-creation
came
up
a
lot.
D
But
I
think
sometimes,
when
we
use
that
lens,
we
have
run
into
some
equity
issues
where
not
everybody
in
bellevue
is
earning
the
kind
of
income
that
can
pay
to
use
facilities,
and
so,
let's
make
sure
that
we
don't
inadvertently
create
a
space
that
is,
is
not
as
welcoming
and
a
sense
of
belonging
as
it
can
be,
and
then
lastly,
I
guess
I
would
just
say
that
you
know,
as
we
look
at
then
having
some
seed
money
for
capacity
building
or
a
city
contribution
to
this
cross-cultural
center.
D
I
would
recommend
to
my
colleagues
that
we,
at
least
when
that
discussion
comes
back
to
the
council,
about
the
parks
and
open
space
levy
that
we
talk
about,
whether
we
have
a
place
holder
around
some
city
funding
for
that,
because
that
levy
is,
I
believe,
a
20-year
levy,
and
so
we
certainly
don't
want
to
lose
the
opportunity
for
the
city
to
have
some
some
of
our
own
contributions
of
funds
whatever
that
might
end
up
being
from
with
my
colleagues
and
when
I
think
about
partnership,
you
know
when
we
talked
about
the
aquatic
center,
we
looked
at
lincoln
center.
D
We
talked
about
bellevue
college.
Those,
I
think,
are
two
very
viable
potential
partnerships
for
a
cross-cultural
center.
I
mean
I
I'm
imagining
the
kind
of
of
engagement
we
could
have
if
we
were
able
to
partner
with
a
college
that
has
right
lots
of
students
and
vibrancy,
and
so
I
just
want
to
leave
all
options
open.
Thank
you.
A
T
Well,
thank
you,
mayor
yeah.
I
appreciate
the
the
conversation
so
far
and
right,
could
you
put
the
other
slide
back
on
that,
please
that
show
yeah
the
recommendations.
I
want
to
say
right
at
the
beginning.
I
support
these
recommendations
and
I
think
the
the
best
thing
we
did
was
add
in
actually
steps
for
now
and
moving
forward.
T
It's
it's
an
interesting
issue
in
the
sense
that
this
is.
This
is
an
old
concept.
T
Actually
it
goes
back
to
1942
apparently,
and
it's
it's
and
there's
a
statement
that
cross-cultural
undertakings
and
communities
are
essential
in
a
global
economy,
and
it's
been
looked
at
more
in
in
the
economy
or
in
in
business
as
as
opposed
to
others,
but
the
other
interesting
thing
is
nowhere
has
actual
cross-control
center
like
we're
talking
about
has
been
done.
T
There
are
some
that
are
kind
of
similar
and
I
think
there
are
a
lot
of
reasons
for
that.
So
what
I'm
really
glad
that
we're
looking
at
something
that
will
be
take
the
concepts
and
the
need
for
a
cross-cultural
center,
but
actually
elevate
it
to
something
even
better,
because
one
of
the
needs
we
have
is
we
can
come
talk
about
culture,
we
can
be
together
and
we
need
to
do
that
and
we
started
this
here
in
bellevue,
17
1617.
T
We
basically
said:
let's
do
something
like
this
and
I
I
think
we
can
move
from
this
to
we
can
do
this.
Get
people
together
and
have
cross-cultural
conversations
get
to
know
each
other.
Have
this,
but
that's
that's
kind
of
a
it's
a
lofty
goal,
but
it's
it's
not
the
goal
that
really
gets
us
to
a
multicultural
city
that
actually
engages
in
cultural
activities
and
it
has
places
for
them
putting
something.
T
Sometimes
just
in
a
box
and
say
this-
is
it
kind
of
puts
you
in
the
box
so
whether
we
do
a
box
cross-cultural
development
in
one
building,
which
is
probably
going
to
cost
twice?
What
we're
talking
about
when
we
get
to
it
is,
is
something
we
can
work
on
the
future.
The
goal
is
to
integrate
and
and
make
equity
for
cultures
in
bellevue
and
the
region
to
really
understand
each
other
work
together
and
actually
help
the
people
who
don't
understand
culture
and
cross
culture
move
forward.
T
So
this
is
a
great
step
and
I
think
in
the
long
run
it's
going
to
be
something
even
better.
We
could
we
could
build
a
building,
and
I
don't
quite
know
what,
after
we
all
worked
together
on
five
years
later,
what
you
would
be
doing,
you'd
probably
be
trying
to
find
out
some
other
things
to
keep
the
money
going,
keep
the
program
going
and
people
want
to
have
to
get
together
and
they
want
to
have
performances.
They
won't
have
places
they
can
go
and
have
you
know,
picnics
and
go
and
have
cross-cultural.
T
You
know
dinners
at
night
and
those
kind
of
things.
I
think
we
can
open
this
up,
and
this
will
do
this
so
taking
this
time
to
really
look
at
cross-cultural
engagement
strategies
and
then
coming
back
later,
and
what
do
we
want
to
do
with
you
know?
How
do
we
make
it
go
further?
Further
and
again,
by
the
time
we
get
to
looking
five
years
out
or
so
on,
looking
for
the
building,
we
may
decide
that
that's
a
great
way
to
go,
or
we
may
say
well.
That
was
yesterday's
idea.
T
What
we
really
want
to
have
is
a
community
that
really
embraces
and
is
cross-cultural
and
multicultural
in
itself,
and
it's
not
has
to
be
done
artificially
in
a
sense.
So
I'm
really
excited
about
this.
The
way
you
put
this
together
and
and
again,
I
think,
there's
there's
nothing
wrong
in
doing
something
that's
never
been
done
before,
but
there
is
a
reason
why
it
hasn't
been
done
before
so
got
to
keep
that
in
balance.
T
The
last
thing
we
want
to
see
is
which
we
have
an
example
of
right
now,
we've
been
talking
about
of
a
performing
arts
center
that
started
20
some
years
ago
is
spent.
Apparently
I
don't
know.
T
T
So
I
think
we're
in
a
good
spot-
and
I
really
am
appreciative
of
the
councils
and
everybody's
comments
about
this
and
looking
forward
to
it,
and
the
other
thing
we
have
to
put
this
in
context
in-
and
this
affects
everybody
here
and
and
is
a
multicultural
issue-
is
homelessness,
affordable,
housing,
the
need
for
something
that
is
a
lot
more
expensive
aquatic
center,
more
community
centers,
more
places
where
people
can
gather
more
places
where
people
can
have
events
and
this
this
building
could
be
used
for
multicultural
cross-cultural
events.
T
That's
a
big
space
out
there.
I
think
we
can
do
things,
and
then
we
put
ourselves
in
a
position
if
four
or
five
years
from
now,
we've
done
all
this
and
looked
at
it
and-
and
I
think
debbie
lacy's
wise
comments
are
to
be
taken
to
account
because
we're
we're
dealing
with
people
and
how
we
make
it
work
has
to
be
very
careful
and
get
everybody
engaged
on
a
fair
basis.
T
T
I
think
what
we're
looking
for
is.
More
is
more
a
a
a
an
attitude,
a
spirit,
a
this
is
bellevue,
and
this
is
something
really
really
special
and
we've
done
it
and
building
a
building
is
going
to
be
part
of
it
or
maybe,
but
just
building
a
building,
for
it
is
not
the
goal.
The
goal
is
to
have
multicultural
cross-cultural
programming
events,
participation
in
this
city-
and
I
think
this
gives
puts
us
on
the
line
for
that.
So
I'm
very
happy
to
vote
for
this
and
looking
forward
to
just
making
this
happen.
A
Thank
you,
okay,
so
would
you
like
to
make
a
motion
deputy
mayor.
A
W
W
A
A
Okay,
we're
reconvened
here,
mr
miyake,
what
what
is
our
third
of
three
study.
Q
Sessions,
the
third
and
last
item
on
your
study
session
agenda
is
an
informational
update
on
our
retail
study.
The
economic
development
staff
are
about
to
undertake
and
just
for
council's
awareness
conducting.
This
study
is
consistent
with
the
2020
economic
development
plan,
which
was
adopted
by
council
so
joining
us
this
evening
is
jesse
canadore
assistant
director
and
edward
butterfield,
public-private
partnership
manager,
both
from
the
department
of
community
development
that
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
turn
over
to
jesse
and
edward
for
the
presentation
to
the
council
this
evening
again,
this
is
an
informational
update.
Thank
you.
AA
Good
evening,
mayor
deputy
mayor
members
of
council
we're
looking
forward
to
tonight's
presentation,
as
the
city
manager
mentioned,
the
retail
state
that
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
tonight
is
one
of
the
larger
elements
in
the
edie
plan.
AA
It's
one
of
the
foundational
pieces,
the
the
data
and
the
scope
that
edward
will
walk
us
through
tonight
will
unlock
a
lot
of
data
and
understanding
and
insight
that
will
help
us
develop
some
additional
tools,
strategies
and
programming
that
can
help
support
the
retail
environment
here
in
bellevue,
as
the
as
our
community
has
been
asking
for.
So
we
want
to
focus
on
future
focused
solutions
as
we're
as
we're
working
with
our
consultants
and
as
a
result
of
tonight's
discussion
with
the
council.
Z
Z
Our
agenda
tonight
is
to
walk
through
some
background
and
policy
information
on
retail,
we'll
also
talk
about
the
retail
study
goals,
the
scope
of
work
and
the
specifically
five
components
of
that,
and
then,
as
mentioned
our
timeline
and
next
steps.
Z
Z
In
addition,
the
covid
pandemic
really
did
impact
retail
locally
and
nationally,
especially
our
small
businesses
and
expedited
many
of
the
rapid
changes.
We're
seeing
on
online
shopping
that
we're
already
seeing,
of
course,
with
with
many
of
our
amazon
and
local
businesses,
also
benefiting
from
that,
and
the
other
thing
is:
why
is
retail
focus?
In
addition,
the
opportunities
that
retail
really
provides
to
our
community
retail
gives
us
services
for
residents.
It
allows
us
to
go,
get
our
pets,
trimmed
get
our
hair
cut.
Z
It's
also
tax
revenue,
32
of
the
tax
revenue
of
the
city,
is
generated
from
our
retail
sales
and,
as
demonstrated
on
the
slide,
there
is
a
breakdown
of
those
categories.
Z
In
addition,
it's
place
making
when
we
look
at
our
beloved
places
like
old,
bellevue
crossroads
and
others,
it's
really
anchored
by
retail
and
then
tourism.
We
are
a
regional
center
for
retail
and
shopping
and
it
really
helps
our
retail
and
our
tourism
really
adds
a
lot
to
our
small
business
community
and
contributes
to
our
vibrancy
here
in
bellevue
and
then
finally,
amenities
for
employees.
Z
AA
And
to
add
a
couple
of
notes
there
with
regards
to
the
changing
the
changing
ecosystem
that
we're
starting
to
highlight
one
one
thing
I'd
like
to
call
attention
to,
as
well
as
the
changes
in
the
regional
ecosystem
that
have
happened
in
bellevue
over
the
last
couple
of
years
as
well
as
we
look
at
the
evolving
landscape.
Regionally,
we've
seen
the
totem
lake
area
in
kirkland
get
redeveloped
with
a
substantial
amount
of
retail
and
housing.
AA
Similarly,
downtown
redmond
over
the
last
couple
of
years
has
added
a
lot
of
space
for
mom
and
pop
restaurants.
Local
independent
restaurants,
with
a
similar
number
of
housing
units,
downtown
bothell,
has
transformed
and
woodenville
has
also
done.
The
wooden
creek
and
schoolyard
redevelopments
that
bring
a
substantial
amount
of
consumers
and
space
for
small
business
into
the
community,
and
we
want
to
understand
the
dynamics
and
how
that
is
changing
the
perception
of
bellevue,
the
need
for
services
and
retail
in
bellevue.
AA
So
we
want
to
make
sure
we
take
a
look
at
that,
because
the
retail
is
also
moving
closer
to
where
people
are
all
of
those
new
housing
units
in
bothell
in
woodville
they
create
a
built-in
consumer
base
for
those
small
mom
and
pop
restaurants
and
retailers,
and
as
edward
was
highlighting
in
the
pandemic.
One
thing
we
saw
is
people
wanted
to
shop,
they
wanted
to
eat
so
they
wanted
to
support
their
neighborhood
businesses.
Z
Great
and
so
all
the
importance
of
retail,
we
of
course
have
many
supportive
policies
highlighted
in
your
council
vision,
21
until
23..
The
economic
development
plan
plan
is
number
one
with
retail
included
in
that,
and
then,
of
course,
our
economic
development
plan
adopted
has
six
sections.
Retail
is
again
included
in
that
our
comprehensive
plan.
As
we
look
at
our
regional
growth
centers
and
our
tod
urban
villages,
retail
is
really
a
key
part
of
those
in
anchoring
those.
Z
Great,
and
so
our
goals
for
the
retail
study
are
really
high
level.
Two
high
level
goals,
the
first
one
is.
We
really
wanted
to
find
the
current
future
retail
needs
through
the
study.
It's
going
to
be
really
data,
informed
approach
and
will
provide
us
key
economic
and
market
information,
and
we
want
to
use
that
to
develop
information
and
strategies
for
working
with
our
partners
to
support
more
robust
and
sustainable
retail
activity
in
bellevue,
and
the
second
one
is,
of
course
our
diversity
and
equity.
Z
Inclusion
is
a
core
focus
of
our
of
ours
throughout
the
study,
particularly
when
we're
talking
about
our
small
business
community,
we
learn
from
the
february
update
that
it's
very
important
to
the
council
to
not
only
understand
where
the
barriers
for
diverse
businesses
in
bellevue,
but
also
reaching
out
to
diverse
businesses
in
our
region
and
understanding
how
we
can
attract
them
to
our
city,
and
so
that
will
be
a
really
key,
important
part
and
a
goal
as
we
move
forward
on
this
study.
Z
Z
Study
literally
is
looking
where
we're
leaking
retail,
where
people
are
buying
outside
of
the
city,
and
one
of
our
goals
is
to
make
sure
that
we
have
those
services
here,
so
they
shop
here
in
bellevue
and
then
we'll
also
be
looking
at
current
trends
in
the
market
as
jesse
mentioned,
and
then
a
square
footage
analysis
to
really
look
like.
Are
we
over
retailed
here?
Are
we
under
and
where
are
those
areas
where
we're
missing,
especially
as
we
look
at
our
small
business
sector,
mom
and
pop
retailers,
and
then
we'll
look
at
regional
analysis?
Z
Z
Our
next
section
is
about
district
capacity
building.
We
really
want
to
look
at
how
we
catalyze
the
creation
of
business
districts
outside
of
downtown
downtown's
doing
well.
We
really
appreciate
the
leadership
of
the
bda
for
that,
and
we
would
like
to
look
at
other
mechanisms,
including
management
frameworks,
implementation
strategies.
Another
six
plan
expand
these
districts
outside
of
downtown,
especially
as
we're
looking
at
the
continued
urbanization
of
many
parts
of
our
city.
Z
It's
gonna
be
very
important,
so
that
will
be
really
helping
us
lead
out
on
how
strategies
and
how
we
go
about
doing
that
and
the
next
one
is
planning
initiatives.
We
have
a
lot
of
exciting
planning
initiatives
and
we've
been
working
closely
with
our
internal
planning
and
development
services
staff,
and
we
see
a
lot
of
overlap
with
the
comprehensive
plan.
Wilburton
and
belred
planning
work
that
is
going
on
and
we
see
an
opportunity
to
share
data
and
also
see
how
we
can
support
retail,
usually
smaller
business
in
in
as
part
of
these
planning
efforts.
Z
And
our
next
is
really
our
small
businesses.
This
is
specific
as
we
talk
about
the
strategies
and
programs
to
support
our
small
business
owners.
Many
of
these
strategies
can
include
how
we
how
we
preserve
our
existing
spaces.
I
mean
how
we
create
new
spaces
for
independent
retail.
This
is,
could
include
many
strategies
of
working
directly
with
our
property
owners
working
with
developers
and
then
how
we
might
even
create
programs
within
the
city
to
support
those
small
business
owners
and
especially
retail
and
then
target
sectors.
Z
We
know
that
we're
hearing
from
the
community
that
there
are
a
lot
of
target
sectors,
including
breweries,
entertainment
nightlife,
that
the
community
would
like
to
see.
More
of
so,
we
would
like
to
see
how
we
could
encourage
these
retail
uses
via
pro
via
city
program,
so
this
will
be
a
really
key
area
of
our
small
business
strategy
and
programs
as
we
move
forward
and
then
our
final
component
is
our
auto
sales
and
services,
as
you
probably
saw
from
the
breakdown
auto
sales
are
very
a
huge
area
of
our
retail
sales.
Z
As
you
can
imagine,
one
car
really
adds
up
quickly
when
you're,
looking
at
our
overall
revenue
generated
from
retail
sales
and
as
we're
urbanizing
in
wilburton
and
other
areas,
we
really
do
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
supporting
more
creative
layouts
that
are
compact
and
it's
important
for
us
to
work
directly
with
those
auto
sales
centers
to
help
them
with
that,
and
we
also
want
to
preserve
and
grow
them.
We
just
don't
want
them
to
stay
placed,
but
many
of
them
as
auto
sales
are
increasing.
Z
And
finally,
we
just
wanted
to
highlight
that
we
have
been
doing
a
lot
of
stakeholder
engagement.
This
is
a
list
of
the
many
groups
that
we've
been
reaching
out
to
small
business
owners.
We
did
make
it
a
goal
to
reach
out
to
all
major
districts.
We've
also
worked
with
many
of
our
cbo's
residents,
as
was
mentioned
on
our
saturday,
community
engagement
activity
and
then
real
estate.
Brokerage
community
is
very
key
to
this,
as
are
business
associations
and
property
owners.
Z
And
finally,
we
talk
about
our
timeline
and
next
steps,
so
here
today
may
16th.
We
would
like
to
get
rfp
and
select
a
consultant
in
quarter
two,
potentially
in
june
and
quarter
three.
We
will,
as
jesse
mentioned,
return
to
the
council
for
contract
approval
and
consent
and
then
quarter
four,
maybe
even
earlier.
If
we
can
get
it
in,
we
would
like
to
conduct
the
study
and
commence
that
with
the
goal
of
maybe
quarter
one
2023
reporting
out
to
to
all
of
you
on
those
findings
and
initial
findings
for
the
retail
study.
A
T
Okay,
thank
you,
yeah,
that's
very
exciting
report
and
addressing
these
issues
as
you,
as
you
say,
I
mean
this
whole
change
in
and
the
pandemic,
and
all
this
really
change
things
greatly
in
a
negative
way,
but
I
think
you're
looking
at
it
from
what
are
the
positives
in
and
how
do
we
deal
with
it?
T
And
that's
that's
good
what
the
question
I
had
is
on
the
auto
sales-
and
I
know
this
gets
into
a
lot
of
detail
on
it,
but
it
you
know
the
market
itself
has
changed
and
again,
apparently
a
lot
of
people
are
buying
their
cars
online.
Now
a
lot
of
that
and
I'm
sure
that's
having
some
effect
on
it.
T
But
I
agree
with
you
that,
having
that
keeping
that
here
as
much
as
possible
is
a
very
important
thing
and
that's
going
to
be
a
tough
one,
I
think,
but
having
the
efforts
for
that
is,
is
really
good.
So
what
you're
thinking
about
is
maybe
not
having
the
big
lots
where
you
have
300
cars
sitting
out
there,
and
I
wonder
why
they're
even
doing
that
now,
because
but
anyhow
things
have
changed
a
lot,
but
you're
preparing
to
change
go
with
those
changes
in
a
way
that
keeps
keeps
the
business
here.
AA
One
of
the
reasons
the
car
dealers
still
prefer
the
large
flat
paved
lots
is
because
it's
a
lot
cheaper
to
construct
structured
parking
garages
are
very
expensive.
We
have
a
project
right
now
worth
consulting
on.
That
is
very,
very
expensive
for
parking,
and
so
we
are
looking
at
opportunities
as
the
city
continues
to
redevelop,
particularly
with
the
continuing
deployment
of
elect
electric
vehicles
that
changes
the
relationship
between
a
dealer
and
a
multi-story
mixed-use
building,
and
how
can
we
take
advantage
of
those
changes
in
the
market?
Yeah?
That's.
T
Great
yeah:
well
good
luck
on
that
one!
It's
a
tough
one
but
but
you're
attacking
it.
So
that's
good.
G
I'm
really
excited
about
this.
Thank
you
so
much
for
coming
and
doing
the
presentation.
Gentlemen.
I
think
that
this
is
going
to
be
really
really
good
information
that
will
help
us
and
help
our
businesses
figure
out
how
to
best
grow
in
bellevue.
I
wholeheartedly
agree
with
councilmember
stokes
about
the
auto
sales.
I
know
that
those
are
a
big
big
component.
G
They
always
have
been,
and
I
think
that
finding
ways
to
reduce
footprints
of
those
kind
of
businesses
so
that
as
the
city
gets
more
dense,
while
they
can
still
be
successful,
would
be
very,
very
helpful.
I
think
we
also
want
to
keep
our
eye
on
making
sure
that
we
continue
to
provide
space
for
other
big-ticket
items.
G
I
know
cars
are
the
biggest
because
there
aren't
very
many
purchases
aside
from
a
home
other
than
a
motor
vehicle,
but
electronics,
e-bikes
appliances.
All
of
those
are
things
that
people
can
purchase
them
online,
but
then
they
get
delivered
here
and
as
long
as
they're
coded
correctly,
the
sales
tax
will
come
to
bellevue.
G
So
that
was
my
second
comment
was
going
to
be
about
an
edge
that
I
think
that,
as
we
gather
this
information,
I
think
it
would
be
useful
to
make
sure
that
we
are
providing
education
to
people,
both
consumers
and
residents,
as
well
as
businesses
and
builders
in
bellevue,
about
making
sure
that
they
correctly
code,
if
you're
ordering
something
make
sure
that
it
is
delivered
to
a
bellevue
address.
G
So
the
sales
tax
comes
to
bellevue,
in
my
case,
whether
it's
my
home
or
my
business,
it
it
generates
sales
tax
from
bellevue
wherever
I
get
it
delivered,
but
some
people
don't
and
if
they
haven't
delivered
to
their
business
and
the
sales
tax
is
wrongly
coded,
then
it
doesn't
come
to
our
city,
where
it
should
same
thing
with
construction
materials.
G
I've
seen
this
where
sometimes
builders
will
have
the
items
delivered,
they
might
code
the
sales
tax
to
be
delivered
to
that
where
they
are
not
where
it's
going
to
be
used
in
the
bellevue
building,
and
so
that
can
be
a
problem
too.
So
I
think
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
give
education
to
our
builders
to
make
sure
that
they
are
coding
where,
where
the
construction
materials
are
used
is
where
the
sales
tax
should
be
paid.
That
doesn't
always
happen
in
my
experience,
and
I
guess
that's
it.
G
I'm
just
really
excited
to
see
this
good
luck
go
forth
and
learn
and
bring
it
back
to
us.
D
Yes,
thank
you
jesse
and
edward
looking
forward
to
having
this
retail
study
done.
I
was
thinking
about
destination.
Bellevue
had
their
awards
ceremony
just
a
couple
weeks
ago
and
john
howie
restaurants
john,
how
he
spoke
about
right
that
making
sure
that
we
are
really
looking
at
what
is
saturation.
So
I
would
say
both
in
terms
of
missed
opportunity
or
leakage
analysis,
but
also
looking
at
those
spaces
where,
as
you
said,
there's
not
enough
critical
mass
to
support
the
level
of
certain
types
of
retail
that
we
might
have
and
just
be
understanding.
D
The
importance
of
that.
Some
questions
that
I
have
and
I'll
just
put
them
out
there
and
you
can
respond
at
the
end.
I'm
wondering
for
these
consultants
how
well
they
can
really
predict
what
the
new
normal
looks
like
postcovid
and
the
kind
of
changing
habits,
especially
since
we're
not
really
sure
what
the
hybrid
employers
are
going
to
be
doing,
and
so
just
how
much
of
that
critical
mass
is
really
available
in
our
urban
cores
to
support
retail
and
how
they
account
for
that
in
their
analysis.
D
D
Definitely
like
the
idea
of
micro,
breweries
incubators,
mom
and
pop.
I
really
think
it
feeds
into
the
15-minute
city
walkable
so
and
also
making
sure
that
our
neighborhood
retail
actually
has
the
kind
of
services
that
are
that
our
residents
need,
so
they
don't
have
to
get
in
their
car
if
they
don't
want
to.
I
mean
it's:
it's
like,
as
they're
walking
to
you
know,
pick
up
their
dry
cleaning
or
up
some
food
that
they're
going
to
run
into
their
neighbors.
D
I
was
visiting
a
friend
who
lives
in
a
suburb
of
philadelphia
and
she
absolutely
is
in
a
walkable
neighborhood,
where
she
says,
oh,
that
that
house
there.
My
my
dentist
is
on
the
main
floor
and
then
he
lives
above
it.
So
you
know,
are
we
really
looking
at
all
of
the
kind
of
services
that
our
community
needs
and
how
to
what
kind
of
innovations
might
be
possible?
Related
to
that?
D
I
agree
about
the
auto
sales
and
making
sure
that
the
higher
sales
tax
pieces
are
here,
but
I
also
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
looking
at
how
we
attract
the
the
ones
that
maybe
don't
make
a
huge
amount
of
revenue
for
us,
but
I'd
love
to
see
a
zero
waste
store
here,
there's
one
in
kirkland
right.
So
what
are
some
retail
that
might
support
green
businesses
and
green
products
that
we
might
be
able
to
have
here
and
then,
lastly,
will
the
retail
study-
or
maybe
we
already
do
this?
D
Do
we
have
an
inventory
or
mapping
of
our
small
and
diverse
businesses
throughout
the
city?
So
we
can
get
a
sense
for
right
who's
here.
How
we
make
sure
that,
as
we
look
at
the
retail
study
and
add
more
retail,
that
we
don't
somehow
inadvertently
displace
a
lot
of
those
that
are
legacy
business
owners
that
are
in
bellevue.
So
I
definitely
want
to
make
sure
that
we
we
keep.
That
in
mind
as
well,
and
so
there
were
some
comments
and
some
questions
in
there.
AA
Absolutely
I'll
tackle
a
couple
of
those
and
then
edward
will
cover
the
balance.
So,
let's
see
so
we'll
start
with
regards
to
data.
We
we
have
some
challenges
with
data
collection.
Currently,
bellevue's
business
license
is
a
lifetime
license,
which
means
you,
you
have
the
benefit
of
paying
once
and
as
long
as
your
business
is
open,
you
have
a
license,
but
that
means
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
great
data
on
businesses
after
they've
closed.
AA
So
we
are
looking
at
some
different
opportunities
to
to
right
size
that
we're
working
with
with
tax
and
finance,
to
figure
out
some
alternative
methods
and
we're
also
doing
now
to
try
and
supplement
the
data
we're
doing
more
neighborhood
walks.
We've
got
some
staff,
that's
going
out
to
the
different
parts
of
bellevue
they've
done
a
walk
with
the
chamber
and
crossroads
in
factoria.
AA
So
we're
trying
to
find
some
different
ways
to
collect
the
data
and
help
us
understand
who's
out
there
and
what
the
needs
are,
and
that
will
also,
I
think,
be
part
of
the
work
we
do
with
the
consultant
to
understand
what
is
the
makeup
of
our
business
ownership
and
to
your
point,
council
members
on
the
the
work
with
the
consultant
will
help
us
understand
some
of
those
saturation
points
and
how
we
might
be
able
to
encourage
the
market
or
the
brokers
to
work
with
different
business
types
that
might
not
normally
find
a
lease
because,
as
councilmembers
on
noted
during
the
the
visit
bellevue
awards
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
one
of
our
most
famous
restaurant
tours
in
the
city
noted
how
one
of
his
worst
years
was
actually
the
year
that
all
of
the
restaurants
opened
in
bellevue,
because
there
were
more
restaurants
than
there
were
consumers
to
take
them
up.
AA
Z
Yeah,
I
think
when
it
comes
to
diversity,
equity
inclusion.
This
is
a
new
idea
of
how
we
embed
this
in
all
of
our
studies,
and
so
I
think,
there'll
be
some
lessons
learned
for
sure,
but
we
want
we
are
making
it
a
central
goal
of
that
and
that
will
include
how
our
consultant
engages
with
the
community
ensuring
that
they
have
an
equitable
engagement
plan
and
also
having
kind
of
the
results
data-driven
that
that
surveys
and
other
things
are
reflecting
that
so
definitely
more
to
come.
Z
But,
as
I
said,
I
think
this
is
kind
of
our
next
step
of
making
sure
this
is
always
a
part
of
all
of
our
study
components.
So
we
will,
I
will
definitely
be
having
can
follow
up
with
more
examples
in
the
future,
as
we
work
with
our
consulting
community
also
working
with
them
to
ensure
that
they're
thinking
about
that
firsthand.
E
Right,
thank
you
mayor
and
thanks
jesse
and
edward
really
look
forward
to
getting
this
presentation
back,
or
this
survey
and
study
back,
it's
gonna
be
great
and
I'm
sure
a
lot
of
folks
will
be
able
to
make
very
good
use
of
it
as
well.
Just
a
couple
of
thoughts
that
I
have,
I
don't
think
have
well.
I
have
one
question,
but
just
a
lot
of
thoughts
around
the
around
the
study.
E
So
you've
mentioned
it,
but
I
just
want
to
reiterate
that
this
should
really
go
beyond
downtown
and
it
should
really
get
to
other
parts
of
the
city,
especially
those
aspects
of
the
city
that
are
have
been
suffering
from
a
retail
perspective,
be
it
newport
hills,
be
it
lake
hills,
village,
for
example,
which
is
only
about
half
full
still
even
being
open
for
all
these
many
many
years
and
there's
some
fantastic
retailers
and
restaurants
in
there,
but
still
only
half
full.
E
Why
I
don't
know
and
factoria
as
as
another
example-
you
had
mentioned
some
retail
leakage,
but
specifically
I'd
be
really
interested
in
some
of
this
amenities
leakage,
and
from
that
perspective,
not
only
for
because
rightly
so.
You
know
business
want
those
amenities
for
their
employees,
but
I'm
also
curious
from
a
resident
perspective
as
well.
What
other
amenities
are
they
looking
for?
E
So
hopefully
that
will
be
included
in
the
in
the
study
as
well,
and
then
I
really
would
be
interested
in
making
sure
we
understand
who
the
stakeholders
that
you
have
spoken
to
when
you
do
come
back
again,
getting
back
to
making
sure
this
is
kind
of
a
full
city
study.
E
I
would
like
to
see
you
know
equal
amounts
from
every
part
of
the
city
again,
not
just
downtown
and
then
on
the
piece
about
what
bellevue
doesn't
have,
because
my
perspective
on
this
is
that
we've
we're
doing
a
lot
of
great
things
and
there's
a
but
there's
a
lot
of
great
things
that
we
can
that
we
can
build
on
so,
depending
on
the
lens
that
this
study
will
have.
E
My
perspective
is
hey.
Let's
build
on
the
things
that
are
working
right
now.
What
can
we
do
to
enhance
grow,
or
you
know
kind
of
that
nuanced
approach
of
building
on
our
current
successes
already,
maybe
a
terrible
example,
but
you
mentioned
microbreweries
I
like
microbreweries.
E
Maybe
that
would
work
in
bellevue,
but
maybe,
on
the
other
hand,
from
a
regional
perspective,
we're
known
for
our
great
wines
and
we're
right
next
to
woodenville,
maybe
opening
up
more
wine
tasting
is
facilities,
makes
makes
more
sense
so
terrible
example,
but
an
example,
nevertheless
of
just
taking
advantage
of
what
we
can
offer
regionally
tying
in
those
perspectives
and
those
opportunities
and
then
building
on
our
successes
versus
always
just
looking
for
that
bright,
shiny,
new
thing
that
we
might
want
to
do.
Thank
you.
AA
A
AA
B
All
right,
thank
you
mayor,
so,
as
you
can
imagine,
I
am
so
thrilled
about
this
study
and
the
focus
on
mom
and
pop
shops,
and
you
know
when
you
were
talking
about
the
retail
leakage.
One
of
the
things
that
came
to
mind
for
me
were
services
that,
from
a
cultural
perspective,
where
people
aren't
able
to
get
the
services
that
they
need
so
think
about
you've
just
moved
into
bellevue
right.
You
need
to
go.
B
Get
your
a
haircut,
get
your
hair
done,
whatever
that's
very
cultural
in
the
sense
right,
and
so
where,
where
are
people
having
to
go,
I
can
say
I
don't
think
there
are
a
lot
of
places
for
black
people
to
get
their
hair
cut
or
hair
done.
So
I
guess
I
would
just
say.
B
B
The
other
one
is
I
I
I'm
excited
about
the
mom
and
pop
shops
also,
because
I
think
that's
going
to
be
our
bread
and
butter
from
a
tech
industry
perspective
there's
going
to
be
a
mix
in
terms
of
which
companies
require
employees
to
return
to
the
office.
I
don't
think
it's
going
to
be
a
a
return
back
to
I'm
just
speculating
here
but
being
in
the
tech
industry.
B
I
don't
think
there's
going
to
be
a
full
swing
back,
so
what's
going
to
draw
people
are
those
mom
and
pop
shops
and
those
businesses
that
that
exist
that
don't
exist
elsewhere.
So
I
think
that's
going
to
be
really
important
and
really
appreciate
the
dei
lens
there,
not
only
in
terms
of
the
outreach,
but
also
in
terms
of
the
which
businesses
you
look
to.
You
know
outside
the
city
as
well.
B
W
I
appreciate
you
know
your
effort
to
identify.
You
know
the
things
that
you
need
to
do
right
to
make
sure
that
we
don't
miss
anything
we're
reconnected
and
it's
been
said,
you
know
what
I'm
concerned
is
and
interested
that
you
might
want
to
get
some
assurance
for
for
me.
W
How
do
you
do
it
and
how
well
do
you
do
it?
You
mentioned
earlier
about
the
system.
You
know
trying
to
get
data
from
businesses,
and
you
mentioned
that
it's
hard
to
get
them
because
once
they
got
their
business,
they
are
there
forevers,
you
don't
know
who's,
not
still
there
who's,
not
there.
So
it's
not
what
you're
looking
for,
but
it's
how
good
the
date
is.
What
you're
going
to
get
to
get
you
the
information
you
really
need
when
you
implement
it,
it's
going
to
work,
it's
going
to
give
you
what
we're
looking
for.
W
So
I
I
would
rather
have
you
have
a
way,
a
system
structure,
a
process
to
get
information
necessary
for
you
to
do
what
you
want
to
do,
and
I
don't
know
what
they
all
are
right.
I
mean
you
are
figuring
out
what
to
do.
What
not
to
do
how
it's
going
to
impact
your
business,
small
businesses,
pop
mom,
probably
mom,
and
whatever
type
of
business
everybody's
expressed
an
interest
to
make
sure
that
they
are
going
to
be
helped.
You
know
auto
service
whatever,
but
to
do
that,
you
got
to
have
good
information.
A
Thank
you.
So,
as
my
fellow
council
members
have
said,
I
think
everything
we
do
from
here
on
out
should
have
an
equity
and
sustainability
lens,
and
it
sounds
like
you
get
that
and
I
appreciate
it.
You
know
our
retail
organizations
are
so
excited
about
this
study.
I've
talked
to
a
number
of
them
and
they're
really.
You
know
happy
that
you're
doing
this
and
looking
forward
to
the
results.
So
thank
you,
car
sales.
A
You
know
we
have
some
amazing
family
owned
car
businesses
here
in
bellevue
that
really
offer
more
than
just
selling
you
the
car.
They
you
know
they
they
stay
with.
You
they're
there.
If
anything
goes
wrong.
If
you
want
to
trade
it
in
for
something
else,
they
remember
who
you
are,
there's
a
lot
of
value
to
that,
and
so
also
they
bring
in
a
ton
of
revenue
and
taxes.
A
So
I
really
appreciate
our
car
sales,
one
thing
to
think
about
jesse
you
and
I
met
with
art
ma
last
week,
and
I
hope
that
that's
part
of
the
study
is
looking
at
where
community
arts
organizations
might
be
able
to
display
their
local
art,
like
at
newport
hills
or
in
lake
hills,
in
some
of
those
retail
spaces
that
we
have
a
part
of
the
study
looking
at
avenues
for
display
of
local
art.
I
really
appreciate
that.
AA
On
that,
no,
yes,
absolutely
so
the
results
of
the
study
will
help
us
understand.
Are
there
ways
to
work
with
brokers
that
might
be
able
to
utilize
and
vacant
space
for
art
or
other
pop-ups,
and
then
also?
How
do
we
help?
AA
How
do
we
get
organizations
like
the
old
bellevue
merchants
association
to
help
us
make
those
connections
between
the
artists
and
the
small
businesses
that
can
help
create
that
community
and
put
the
art
out
into
the
community
as
well
as
also
helping
stand
up
some
of
those
merchant
organizations
in
other
neighborhoods
across
the
city,
so
that
we
can
have
a
more
equal
level
of
service
across
bellevue,
terrific.
D
I
just
wanted
to
mention,
since
you
brought
up
pop-ups,
that
if
you
go
to
factoria
mall,
I
was
just
there
yesterday
there
is
a
vacant
space
where
there
is
a
pop-up
of
of
art.
I
think
it's
called
colors
from
newport
high
school
students,
it's
right
next
to
the
panera
and
the
seeding
right
there.
So
it's
already
happening
and-
and
we
should
be-
hopefully
seeing
more
of
that-
so
just
wanted
to
put
a
plug
out
there.
For
that
any
other
comments.
A
Q
We
are
now
down
to
other
ordinances
resolutions
and
motions
and
we're
looking
at
ordinance
6662,
which
were
is
being
brought
back
per
council
direction
and
feedback.
We're
returning
tonight
with
an
updated
proposed
ordinance
to
reinstate
limitations
on
remote
participation
of
our
boards
and
commissions,
and
so
joining
us.
This
evening
is
kathy
gerlar
city
attorneys
from
our
city,
attorney's
office,
city
attorney.
For
a
brief
presentation
and
to
answer
any
questions
the
council
may
have
before
you
take
action
on
this
ordinance
kathy.
AB
Thank
you,
mr
miyaki
good
evening
council,
before
diving
into
the
specifics
of
this
particular
ordinance.
I
thought
it
would
be
helpful,
since
this
is
the
third
touch
on
this
for
the
council
to
just
recap.
Briefly,
where
we've
been
and
where
we
are
now
so
before
covid
the
the
code
said
no
more
than
two
members
could
participate
remotely
of
any
border
commission
and
it
was
limited
to
at
any
one
meeting
and
and
each
member
was
limited
to
no
more
than
four
times
per
year.
AB
Four
meetings
to
participate
in
remotely
per
year
that
those
restrictions
were
taken
out
of
the
code
during
covid
so
that
the
boards
could
meet
fully
remotely
and
then
in
march,
staff
came
back
to
the
council
now
that
the
boards
can
meet
in
person
to
ask
for
direction
on
an
ordinance.
So,
at
the
march
meeting
the
council
voted
to
have
staff,
bring
back
an
ordinance
that
allowed
for
to
expand
from
two
members
per
meeting
to
three
members
per
meeting.
AB
So
no
more
than
three
members
per
meeting
can
participate
remotely
and
to
eliminate
the
restriction
on
for
no
more
than
four
meetings
a
year.
So
there
would
be
no
restriction
on
how
how
many
meetings
per
year
that
the
board
and
commission
member
could
participate
in
remotely
as
long
as
there
were
no
more
than
three
per
meeting
and
that
the
board
and
commission
needed
to
approve
the
remote
attendance
and
that
the
council
would
revisit
this
in
a
year
so
that
that
is
the
direction
from
the
march
meeting.
AB
So
a
few
weeks
ago,
at
the
april
25th
meeting,
that
was
the
ordinance
that
was
presented
to
council
at
the
time.
AB
That
staff
heard
coming
out
of
your
discussion
at
your
april
25th
meeting
and
those
are
first,
a
concept
was
discussed
about
a
statement
of
recognizing
the
value
of
in-person
attendance
and
encouraging
it,
while
also
recognizing
that,
for
a
variety
of
reasons,
it
may
not
be
practicable
for
members
to
participate
in
in
person,
and
so
there
was
a
discussion
around
a
concept
that,
without
specifically
calling
out
any
particular
category
or
reason
for
needing
to
participate
remotely.
Could
there
be
a
statement
that
that
at
least
encouraged
in-person
attendance?
AB
So
that
is
one
amendment
that
you
will
see
that
is
different
from
what
was
before
you
in
april.
So
if
you
will,
all
of
all
of
the
provisions
of
the
ordinance
are
are
numbered.
Similarly
e123
so
e1
has
a
sentence
that
says:
commission
members
are
encouraged
to
attend
meetings
in
person
when
practicable
and
that's
an
attempt
to
get
at
that
at
that
concept.
It
is
similar
to
language
that
the
seattle
city
council
has
used
recently
for
itself
in
terms
of
its
own
remote
participation,
its
own
council
meetings.
AB
If
you
have
questions
because
I
don't
understand
the
technology
very
well,
but
but
we
did
look
at
that
further
and
indeed
that
they
found
out
the
equipment
for
the
zoom
meetings
right
now,
where
the
in
the
room
where
the
boards
and
commissions
are
going
to
meet
is
one
camera
in
the
very
back
of
the
room.
AB
For
that
reason,
and
so
we
added
a
new
provision
to
e-2
that
requires
the
presiding
officer
to
attend
in
person
and
if
the
presiding
officer
is
unable
to
do
so,
then
they
must
pass
the
presiding
officer
role
to
a
border
commission
member
who
is
going
to
be
in
person
and
again
that
is
similar
to
what
other
jurisdictions
have
also
done,
realizing
that
it
it
may
not
be.
AB
There
may
be
some
difficulties
in
effectively
trying
to
preside,
particularly
if
you
have
large,
like
public
hearings
like
the
planning
commission,
for
example,
under
the
growth
management
act,
they
hold
public
hearings.
So
if
there
are
large
groups
of
people,
it
could
make
it
more
difficult
to
preside
if
you
are
participating
remotely.
AB
So
so
those
are
the
two
additions
we
were
asked
to
consider
and
evaluate
as
part
of
this
equitable
implications
and
considerations,
and
so
the
proposed
ordinance
does
address
a
number
of
equitable
equity
considerations.
It
broadens
the
number
of
members
again
from
two
to
three
that
can
participate
at
any
meeting
and
even
more
significantly
eliminates
the
restrictions
on
the
number
of
meetings
per
year.
AB
Although
the
remote
participation
must
be
approved
in
advance
by
the
boards
and
commissions,
the
those
boards
and
commissions,
you
know,
should
and
can
and
should
be
considering
equity
equity
in
making
those
decisions,
and
I'll
also
mention
that
that,
regardless
of
what's
in
the
code,
that
overlay
of
the
federal
ada
law
will
still
apply
here
as
well
and
then
finally,
the
provisions
regarding
the
presiding
officer,
meaning
to
be
in
person,
do
incorporate
some
of
the
equity
concerns.
We
heard
about
the
public's
ability
to
be
able
to
effectively
engage.
AB
The
intent
again
is
that
the
council
will
reevaluate
this
within
a
year
to
see
how
it
is
working
and
whether
any
changes
you
know
may
be
warranted
and
the
minutes
of
the
board
and
commission
meetings
we'll
have
some
information
about
numbers
of
of
of
board
and
commission
members
attending
remotely
attending
in
person
or
just
on
it
being
absent.
So
that
will
be
some
information
that
the
council
can
use
in
its
evaluation,
so
that
ends
the
staff
report
mayor.
I
will
turn
this
over
to
you.
E
Kathy
fantastic
job,
throwing
the
needle
on
this,
especially
after
our
last
conversation
on
this,
I
think
you've
re,
you
know
succinctly
addressed
all
the
issues
that
that
did
arise.
So
bravo
great
job,
I'm
ready
to
move
this
forward.
My
only
request
is
to
make
sure-
and
you
did
touch
on
it,
and
I
appreciate
that
it's
just
a
data
collection
piece
for
us
in
that
one
year's
time.
E
You
know
how
many
were
remote
versus
in
person
just
to
see
if
there's
anything
that
we
might
need
to
address
in
that
one
time
this
you
know,
I
think
we
we
all.
My
colleagues
appreciate
that
data.
I
want
to
make
sure
we
fully
understand.
If
we
do
need
to
tweak
this
in
a
year's
time
or
if
it's
working
well,
then
we
don't
do
we
don't
do
anything
so,
but
thank
you
great
job.
A
And
I'll
just
add
that
with
that
feedback,
I
I
with
the
data.
I
hope
we
get
feedback
from
the
members
that
it
applies
to
as
well.
So
I
I
I
support
this
as
well.
The
only
pause
that
I
have
is
in
the
remote
participation
number
one,
the
last
sentence.
Remote
participation
must
be
approved
by
the
commission
in
advance
of
the
meeting.
I
want
to
make
sure
that's
not
an
arbitrary
decision.
AB
A
AB
AB
So
it
is
the
board
and
commission
could
theoretically
vote
no
and
say
no
to
somebody's
request
to
participate
remotely.
I'm
not
sure
that
that's
I'm
not
sure
why
they
would
do
that.
But
but
it
is,
you
know
it
is
conceivable
that
they
could
vote.
No,
that
is
so.
A
Can
we
put
based
on
the
stated
criteria
or
something
like
that?
So
it's
not
arbitrary.
I
mean
I
can't
imagine
a
board
doing
that
also,
but
I
want
to
make
sure
that
I
can't,
because
that's
that
wouldn't
be
fair.
A
And
what
would
be
the
quorum?
That
would
be
the
criteria
that
I'm
thinking
of
that
you
have
to
maintain
a
just
based
on
you
would
say:
no,
you
can't
be
remote
if
you
already
have
too
many
people
or
the
the
limit
of
people
and
what's
the
limit
that
can
attend
remotely
three
three.
So
if
a
fourth
person
wanted
to
attend
remotely,
obviously
say
no.
A
A
D
D
I'm
hoping
that
at
some
point
we
will
actually
go
back
and
look
at
our
various
codes
from
an
equity
review,
because
the
sentence
in
the
second
sentence
in
e1,
where
a
member
not
able
to
be
physically
present
for
a
meeting,
I
I
might
have
wanted
to
see
that
more
as
a
a
member
not
able
to
attend
the
meeting
in
person
just
so
that
we're
using
inclusive
language
without
having
to
use
words
about
you
know
physically,
because
it
just
seems
to
connotate,
maybe
some
language
that
we
could
choose
some
different
language
for.
D
G
I
support
this
as
well.
I
think
that
this
is
a
nice
compromise
and
I
think
that
it
gets
to
a
lot
of
my
concerns
and
I'm
fine
with
it.
As
written.
I
join
with
deputy
mayor
new
house
about
wanting
to
make
sure
that
we
do
have
that
good
information
in
a
year
when
we
revisit
this,
including
getting
feedback,
complaints
or
kudos
from
the
members
themselves,
but
also
from
staff
members
of
the
public
stakeholders.
People
who
have
you
know,
lived
with
it
for
a
year
and
seen
how
it
works.
G
I
think
that
would
be
really
helpful
and
then
the
data
tracking,
you
know
how
many
you
know
how
many
people
are.
Do
we
have
quorum
issues?
Do
we
have
a
quorum
in
the
room?
Do
we
have
you
know?
Is
it
being
something
where
people
are
using
it
intermittently?
Do
we
have
the
same
people
using
it?
I'm
not
naming
names
or
anything
same
you'll,
be
using
it
every
time
you
know
so
that
we
can
understand
how
it's
all
working.
G
That
would
be
really
really
helpful,
but
otherwise
I
appreciate
the
hard
work
and
the
discussion
that
this
council's
had
about
this
really
important
issue.
Thanks.
W
T
Yeah
I'm
in
favor
of
this
site,
and
I
would
echo
council
member
robertson's
comments,
and
I
think
this
is
a
reasonable
approach
and
we'll
look
at
it
next
year.