001e so good evening and I'm just going to check audio here I think my audio is okay is it all right I don't often use this microphone so thanks everyone for coming this is um I think our second annual um co- meeting with the NorthShore school board and the Bothel city council so just want to thank everyone for getting together these kind of opportunities to talk about where we are in our our two Civic organizations how we're serving our citizens jointly and separately and keeping in in sync is is a really important task so thanks everyone for coming um I thought mayor Thompson and I would just kick off a round of introductions of people around the table so I am Amy cast I currently serve as president of the school board and maybe we'll
002start your way mayor Thompson my name is Mason Thompson I am on the Bothel city council and currently serve as the mayor Jackie mcgi I'm the legislative representative of the school board for Northshore school district and I've been on the board for six six and a half years something like that yeah oh there we go Ramy Al Cabra I am on Bal city council currently serving as Deputy Mayor hran Schoolboard director position three Amanda DOD B city council Northshore Alum and Northshore parent good evening everyone I'm Kyle stanner I'm the city man for the city of B Hey I'm carsten kurd um B city council hello Jenny Alder from B city council green light means go right I'm I'm jeene Laurence Bothel city council and I'm Elizabeth soac a Northshore School Board director and Michael
003T superintendent thanks everyone again so nice to be together so a little Logistics we have about 90 minutes and we have an agenda before us and how we organized this in our planning meeting was to um kind of group topics together under categories with the idea that um we'd probably have some staff presentations to provide a little context but still leave some room for conversations amongst ourselves um we have this really high-tech system here at Northshore that if you want to speak and be acknowledged you tip your name card up because we don't have those fancy microphones with the light things on them so um just wanted to let you you know so as we get go through the agenda um I'll be happy to help facilitate conversation that wait did I forget anything superintendent
004telling all right all right we're good so then we can dive into our first topic which is school safety this covers um some overlaps and um manager standard do you want to kick us off yeah thank you very much and yes while this is listed as a joint topic on the agenda I think most of the information is coming from the city and then the intention is to have a discussion around just some observations and if there's any feedback for the B city council to consider so uh yeah and good evening I am going to handle the first presentation directly and I'm going to be covering uh two updates that are on efforts that have are new since the last time we had our meeting last year um so they that you're probably going to
005be a little bit aware of them our our city council certainly is but I think the board will probably have heard of some of these before too um the first update is talking about the implementation of school zone speed enforcement cameras as well as then we'll talk a little bit about our Capital Improvements along school routes and some discussions that are coming up even just next week that uh tonight's conversation can help inform so first up with the school Z enforcement camera program um as you may have been following this was actually something that the Bothel city council approved prior to covid-19 so in the in the budget leading into 2020 the this program was approved but the implementation was put on hold as you may imagine because so many things were but certainly within
006school's own to doing Outreach about schools out infection cameras when there was not traffic going to schools this regularly um didn't seem like the way to go so things had been um had been held off on so that we could um roll out the program and really again the emphasis that we're uh looking to instill is on promoting safety for students and pedestrians and school zones so our Outreach was focused on that and um looking at timing to make sure we were successful uh that actually that timing took place then at the beginning of this school year uh trying to start a new program with a new year uh for for those who need a refresher we have five locations in Bothel where there are now school zone cameras that includes the schools area surrounding
007Northshore Woodmore as a collocation as well as the Canyon Park West Hill Frank Love and Crystal Springs um the community outreach took place last summer in anticipation of moving forward with the work and the implementation ended up going live September 20th for a 30-day warning period so there's communication first then a 30-day period where the lights flashed and notices went out if anyone did in fact uh would have gotten in an infraction otherwise the the violations began then being issued on October 20th of 2023 and so we're now two quarters into the program and we can start our very first small trend line experiment um quarter 1 here's what we learned we saw a total of 8,850 uh uh violations take place with an average speed in the again school zones um 20 M an
008hour the average speed over of of those infractions was 32 miles per hour so pretty significant um also when we looked at where these were taking place 65% of the infractions were at the NorthShore Woodmore location so that tells us something about the proximity and what people um are looking where they're trying to go uh our second quarter so again with the emphasis being on we're trying to reduce speeds we're trying to improve safety so on a positive we've wrapped our second quarter and while there's not a dramatic change in the TR the data it is at least going in the right direction so that gives us something to look and see if behavior is going to start shifting um we saw an optimistic trend of down to 8,437 violations so about 400 less but
009the other thing is is that the overall speed that average also decreased by one mile an hour but again trend line in the same same direction um and then also the other Trend that we're seeing one of the things that we focused on is where were the vehicles that received uh violations where were they registered for and so we're paying particular attention to both Bothel and then also the neighboring communities um part of the reason behind that is is that we we believe that the behavior change will be most likely for people who are routinely traveling these roads and then people who are once every once in a while we understand that that Behavior change a little harder when it's a a oneoff um but one of the other things that I'll just share that
010we've had an observation on is that the majority of infractions have been happening for drivers of vehicles that are registered outside of Bol um and so we recognize there too that behavior change could be slower because there is a number of vehicles registered even outside of our immediate area so that's something that we're going to be looking at and um seeing if there's any uh any change in that area in terms of next steps is before we move move on to the next topic we will be continuing to monitor the data for Trends again two quarters isn't really enough to tell a full story um but it's something that in the first year we'll be looking and seeing where is the data set showing us and then um over time we'll continue to monitor for
011the change again if behavior is affected positively it may mean a change in locations or potentially even consideration of added locations depending on what we're hearing and where the problems might be um again if the effectiveness is there so for our second update is a bit about Safe Streets and sidewalks and I we did talk a little bit about this last year and hopefully again they you're familiar with um efforts that we are continuously looking at of how to invest in um changing the behavior much like with the school zone enforcement um but also providing infrastructure for keeping people safe as well um we actually just completed our our Public Works team presented our 2023 annual accountability report what which looks at all of the um work that we promis the community in our Safe
012Streets and sidewalks program that just happened on May 21st if you'd like to go back and watch and we've also published a report on our website that is the accountability annual report of which each Year's report is there a few of the details from that report that um we focus on was around there's details around PR pavment preservation which is a safety measure of we need to make sure that um again that the roads are safe to travel that's a that's a priority and once you fall behind on that as you can imagine maintenance of everything is that way once you fall behind on maintenance you're digging out of a hole that is uh difficult to do um also looking at streets and sidewalks operating programs and safe walks uh routes to school within the
0132023 update we did have a lot of focus in terms of things that would affect the school district around public Outreach um looking at the scoring criteria of how we prioritize our sidewalks uh which included some feedback from the community around the importance of sidewalks around schools I'm I'm sure you I'm sure you would expect that and then also um some exciting work around there was a Northeast 188 Street sidewalk project that was completed so next steps on that and to really tee up and open things back up for discussion uh tonight is that next week the city council is going to be starting in on our conversations preparing for our next budget which is 2025 to 2026 but then we also we focus on our capital budget a little longer range and so we'll
014be looking at 2025 to 2031 in our capital facil facilities plan and that includes possible scope for uh funding A Renewed Safe Streets and sidewalks Levy and so some of the themes that will'll be looking for Council to discuss so spoiler alert for Council is next week having some conversations about what would be included in the scope if we were to go back out to the community um and as well as how are we prioritizing within our current uh Capital facilities plan so observations tonight from the school board would be helpful to inform the Council of any themes that maybe you've been hearing from parents or from the schools at your own meetings or just out and about in the community and um for those who just recently were elected to the board I'm sure
015you heard things in your campaigns so we'd love to hear a little bit more and Council I know would benefit from hearing U what you know as they to help inform their discussions so with that I'll turn it back over to president Cass to help facilitate questions and answers among the council and the board thank you director Tren thank you thank you for diving right in also yeah any any questions thank you Kyle that was helpful um I'm excited to see some of the the work around the schools my question is around what consideration considerations are made to decide which schools to focus on when we're looking at safety and um Shoring that up there we'd be able to Pro provide back to some some other information the council may may have some information from
016when they were filling at to fill in some gaps too but overall where this where we look at this is that we are able to do some modeling around TR traffic volumes and then uh the vendor who provides the the the cameras and the platform for doing this is able to look at Trends from around the country and can kind of predict of where the issues might be we also um again we look at traffic volumes and can do some analysis based on that so a lot of the um a lot of the criteria in ter determining these five schools was based around that there's also the aspect of that there are some schools that are right on the border of geographic boundaries out of B so we have to look at that too of
017making sure that as we pick the locations we're also looking at ones that are fully within the control because we aren't able to do any sort of cross-boundary uh enforcement okay and then a follow-up question to that is has the city or maybe and I don't expect you to know the answer to this but um maybe it's more of a Planning Commission thing and you're no longer on that so I don't know why I'm pointing at you um but has has the city considered um other cons ation such as uh redlining and are there any correlations to the traffic um you know analysis that you've done to you know underserved communities I don't know council member Alder because I know you've asked questions about that too so I'll let you chime in if there's anything
018you'd want to add one of the things that we've done and I think we received direction from council member Don on this too is that um the chief does have a community advisory committee um where we bring a lot of the programs that are police related to to get feed feedback from um what is the lens that we need to put on this from the community that maybe we haven't in the past and so the this program and any additional like camera programs if we were to go in that direction does go to that Community advisory committee to give us that type of feedback um we're also I think there is some interest and this is where I'll tea up Council M Alder is as we're looking at our legislative agenda of what we want
019to talk to uh down in Olympia if there may be some different options in terms of what uh infractions and and um penalties might look like and where the uh what giving some tools to the court to be able to play into some of those considerations so I know again I have two council members that might want to chime in on that I got my thing up um thanks um so one one thing that I think is useful as in terms of a data point is when we look at uh the people who are most likely to get these infractions are not actually Bothel residents so they're not neighbors they're not people living near the schools I think the people living near the schools are are actually highly motivated to protect the safety of their
020school zone um and so they're not the ones receiving the infraction um and so they're often coming from outside of Bothel driving through and are maybe just not as familiar with our community um and so that's that's one piece I can you do you have like a ballpark number of what percentage was not resident um and while you look for that I'll also just speak to the point that um we have very much been wanting to create a type of like a fine system or whatever um enforcement that can take into account the economic impact on Ames knowing that that people who can afford to pay more may be more likely to accept the ticket and Inc impr continue the behavior While others may be more negatively impacted by the same amount that's charge of
021somebody who can afford to pay more so those are conversations that we're having and um and maybe council member Dodd wants to speak to that too so that that's exactly I was going to say is one of the things we're looking at is if we have a a legal ability because we're pretty regulated on what we can do and why and how to charge potentially um like a sliding fee based on the value of the vehicle that committed the infraction to council member alr's point if you own a $150,000 car versus a $10,000 car your ability to pay that fine is probably very different with exceptions um the other thing I was going to say about like the location of the cameras I appreciated the thought that when into it so like my neighborhood school
022is at a dead end Road you really can't speed down that road so there isn't a camera there which totally makes sense but I have seen officers on the The non-dead End Road where you would turn a lot recently um during like pickup and drop off so it's been kind of interesting to see the balance of enforcement methods um and I know that future locations are also being considered I I don't think like my neighborhood school is going to get one because it's still going to be a dead end unless something crazy happens um but so I appreciated that thought and then I also um not about the cameras but about like the safe School safe routes to school levy um I appreciated that our public works department went to the schools and asked kind
023of what would be your top priority projects and I believe and I'm going to look at um Aaron over there but I believe they were all submitted for like grants and matching funds and then we were able to jump on the ones that got the grants because we're also when we're getting grant money beholden to however that organization is is viewing the project and you know the communities around and the the status so there's aot lot of um I appreciate all the different checks and balances and sometimes I have to think okay what are the considerations because there can be a lot but yeah one of the one to dub tail on that uh part and then I'll answer the question about locations too is that one of the things specifically um that was requested
024and when the council cons was presented with the sidewalk prioritization was around proximity to mobile home parks which is um been designated in our community as preserved type there are some communities where I'm sure you've heard Heard mobile home park land will be purchased because it's available and developable and then people are displaced and mobile home parks have been preserved as a land use type in Bothel but we also then want to look at the infrastructure that goes into supporting those communities and so um that was a that was a waiting Factor schools was a waiting Factor as well as mobile home parks of where sidewalks would go to answer the question too about the where folks were coming from only about 20% of the violations um for the feeding infractions come from Bothel so
02580% are outside the community um and then even within that just doing some quick math um really it's it's almost like 45% then are outside of the communities of Bothel Kirkland Woodenville Lynwood or Kenmore so um and we we have shared a heat map with our city council of where the registration vehicle registration took place and um again to just speculate um we do think that sound transit would be interested of knowing in terms of vehicle uh Vehicle registrations we might have some people who are motivated to V register outside of the King County area because we have quite a few people from Ohio for example speeding through our school zone so there's something to be said about that so the data is not perfect but we may have stumbled upon something else in that
026conversation see the mayor has his card up push then talk um no I just wanted to follow up that I really appreciate board member tr's question um and if there's anybody out there in the audience or the virtual audience who's watching and wants to learn more about what red lining is and the history of it um on bothel's Dei website um you can actually go and get kind of a a primer on specifically what that is what the intent of it was and what the effects have been um even to this day thank you that queued off my other question um this is more directed towards our school district actually I don't know how we want to prioritize this or provide suggestions for the city of Bothel as we partner here thinking about our Title
0279 schools and if we provide that kind of information right because those are the most undisturbed areas and um we should probably make sure they have their crosswalks their sidewalks and all that right um specifically yeah title one so specifically Title One um Springs would come to mind right so a a community that um um especially as it's a foundational value within Northshore to do need space budgeting and resource allocation and so being able to have those conversations that's a great idea director TR have any um I guess my question is uh related to Bothel but maybe it's a broader conversation I know we have some schools that are have a Bothel address but are in the more unincorporated areas and we're wondering about sort of plans or ideas that Bothel may be having with
028those or discussions maybe it's a discussion that needs to happen more with like snow homish County but I'm thinking particularly of safe routs to school and lighted cross walks for places like Lockwood Elementary is one that comes to mind I always call that post office Bothel because it's not in our city limits so there are some parts that we do plan for in our Municipal Urban growth area or muga which is the most fun acronym that I get to say um um but we can't build any infrastructure for them so it would be the sish County Council for sure yeah sorry and then as a follow-up question to that would y'all have any suggestions so we um we we have talked to snow homish County Council and um you know we have even seen grants
029applications come through for the Lockwood Community but we know it happens to be a a community that really could use some school safety work so just in in addition to to reach out to the council would there be any other suggestions anyone would have would there be information that would be helpful for us to bring to them would there be um you know information about the households in the area that would be helpful I'm just trying to think of things that um to help you understand what we're kind of asking I think if the operations staff from from this District wanted to reach out to our Public Works team we could share what we know um I do know I think we did recently just get a an email for about Lockwood Elementary um somewhat
030related too and so knowing a lot of the information we do have is on snow much County I believe that is in King County but I'm not 100% sure but um yeah so there there but in terms of kind of thinking about how to how to influence I think there's also you know a conversation for this group too is around um how to potentially share voice in terms of um things like with the um with the the legislative agendas how do we tie things in and also um if there are ever opportunities where if you're having conversations with the county and a letter of support from the Bothel city council would be helpful is to notify us and then that we can put that on an agenda for the council to vote on um to
031sign on to something and maybe that helps as an as an exhibit or we can use our voices as well and in um the converse of that too um the Kenmore City staff when they were applying for grants for the Kenmore schools that they serve we um we did sign on when I was legislative representative we did so vice versa too very happy to do that um but council member oh I'm sorry director Tran I was I I think also this is kind of towards the district as well as we're Gathering the information some of the qualitative data that we're getting from families because there are people that stop us in the hallway and ask and tell us you know my kid just got ran over or almost got ran over excuse me and you
032know how do we as a District address when those issues come up how do we get that information to the city of Bothel to you know find some way to prioritize these situations as they arise good point well we've been having those conversations too the Council of how to how to capture that and so I would um I'll follow up with the superintendent with an email address where those incidents can be shared and we'll um add them to our to our tracker director thank you uh thank you Kyle you went exactly where my where my head was going what I was going to bring up with respect to um getting support and even just having perhaps a letter that spells out this information particularly to snom Mish County but I think it and I think
033director Tran was was referring to this also it would behoove us to have available a list of schools where perhaps the sidewalks need some improvement perhaps they don't have enough sidewalks or even the potential for expanding further out from the schools you know sort of a a priority list from from us as the board that we can then take to our different Municipal and County um Partners good idea to support I thinkk council member I was going to say too um I think there's a a really good sort of official pathway from like staff to staff I also like and I'm just going to call out my entire Group of Seven feel free to give out our emails there's one on the city website that I don't have memorize that goes to all of us
034and our executive team but like we want to hear from people too um and so don't don't feel like you have to just pass it through staff and say I did it like feel free to be like and I'm looping in Amanda and here she is and she can answer it too because we don't want you guys to feel stuck with those it's definitely going to be a joint effort and I think that that's really important to keep in touch so very helpful thank you just I'm one voice of seven right um so um uh I just wanted to add that when I was campaigning neighbors would say it was great that the sidewalks went this far but this last piece around the corner kicks kids out into the street and there and there at
035Hazard and and and so I have passed that information on to the city and um so they're aware of it and I think it's just a matter of figuring out how do you have the funds to continue sidewalks a little bit further because the sidewalks are great but when they run out where do the kids go on their way home all right thank you thank you so um that I'm gonna segue us into our next topic um with us all taking notes so the next item is for the city of Fel to help the school board with the comprehensive Plan update excellent so another topic that may have come up last year but we are definitely further along in the process this year and so um for this overview I'm going to turn things over
036to our Deputy city manager Tony call to walk us through where things are at with the comprensive plan and what comes thank you city manager Stannard uh uh president cast and mayor thank you for having us here this evening um so I'm going to do a quick overview of the comp plan and the punch line is we're growing so that's that's going to be the punch line when we get to the end so uh as you know every 10 years the city needs to update the growth uh under the under the growth management act we need to update our comprehensive plan in Bothel our comprehensive plan is also referred to as imagine Bothel so you might hear it synonymously to different ways it will set forward a 20 years so at to 2044 uh path
037for Bothel it will be a vision and a road map and it will help shape how Bothel will look feel and operate into the future so here we are we're two years almost two years into this process and we're coming down to the home stretch of where we are on the comp plan process at this point uh we have posted the draft comprehensive plan on the website it is open for public hearings and in fact the Planning Commission will start their public hearings this month in June making a recommendation to the city council body probably sometime in July or thereabouts city council will then take the draft comprehensive plan hold their own set of public hearings redirect provide feedback and eventual adoption towards the end of the year under the growth man management act it
038must be adopted by December 31st so uh council's got some work to do as we head out of the summer months into the fall time frame I think it's important to note that the comprehensive plan is not done in isolation so it is based in a foundation of the growth management act which gives directions to the cities and counties in our Set uh the counties have given us a series of growth targets that the city will then use those growth targets as well as their own planning Direction example would be the uh Council Vision document uh that was adopted back in January of 23 to think about the future and the perspectiv of the city of Bal so a couple of the two big uh targets that I would bring to your attention that shows
039that we're growing um is probably one is our housing Target and the second one is our employment targets so housing Target uh the housing targets we have received uh So currently in the city of Bothel we have about 21,000 and I rounded these numbers for those who might know them specifically so I have rounded them uh 21 ,000 units uh housing units in Bothel uh our current targets from from both King and sish county says that we need to add 13,000 additional housing units in Bothel which is almost a 60% increase of those 13,000 housing units 75% or just shy of 10,000 of those 13,000 need to be for income bands that are 80% or less of our area of our area median income so 80% or less need to is the bulk of what
040those housing targets will be our employment targets uh currently we employ about 32,500 jobs here in the city of Bothel uh the employment targets that we have received is that Bothel will grow by 18,000 jobs by 2044 or that's about a 55% increase over the next um 20 years so again all this to say Bothel is growing now and we are continuing to grow for the foreseeable future so our comp plan is addressing those items I would bring to your attention that the city is planning now for that type of growth right so I'll highlight a few projects I'm not going to go into the whole L but a few projects uh capacity projects under the transportation project uh transportation department bus transit uh B bus Rapid Transit is ant is anticipated to be up
041and running by 2028 and the final phase of our Bal Way multimodal project will be up and running by 2031 so we're planning for capacity now Parks the park at both land is in design now and I'm hopeful that we'll get through final design and permitting and shovel ready by 2027 but I'm not sure that's real so we'll keep working on that uh in addition uh we are updating our Parks and Recreation open space plan in 2025 that is a plan that needs to be updated every six years so that will be happening in 2025 as well and then heading back to those housing targets um after the comp plan is adopted Ed one of the first things that the city of B is working towards is an update of the housing action plan because
042again we have those housing targets we're going to need to meet uh the city of Bothel Council I want to say it was earlier this year towards the latter part of last year and earlier this year adopted middle housing code that started that process this housing action plan will continue to take that work and continue to move it forward as our Council has directed so with that back to the comp plan our next steps are the draft plan is posted we're starting to head into public hearings Council will be deliberating reviewing directing staff as we head towards the end of the year for their final adoption as as they uh listen to public feedback so thank you for your time this evening and I'm going to turn it back over to all of you to
043have a discussion yeah um welcome to have I have I'll kick it off with the question so of the 13,000 new housing units over the next 10 years um of those you said they are um part of the housing action plan to support or be part of the middle housing code so when we when we think about it when we're planning for enrollment at schools we think about um you know basically single occupancy versus housing that will support families um so of that 13,000 that middle housing I mean in terms of to help us translate to to people who understand math curriculum really well but not so much zoning so um you know how much of that do do you anticipate will support families is I will say that you have brought up a really
044interesting dichotomy that we've created through the zoning that we have right now which is there are apartment buildings and family homes and I think that's a dichotomy that we really need to move past if we're going to solve any of our problems whether they be climate problems racial Equity problems or just like where the heck are our kids going to raise their family problems um so when we look at middle housing we're looking at homes that are in the neighborhood hoods that the families traditionally come from um we're looking at you know quieter Treeline streets the kind of places where folks look and say Hey I want to raise a family there um what middle housing and um other homes in those neighborhoods do is it allows a different type where maybe somebody we don't
045build 1,200 foot Ramblers anymore like we did in the 60s um maybe they buy a 12200 foot different type of home in the same neighborhood so it kind of allows us to move past that dichotomy of just like there's apartments and there's family um so because if we don't grow in the places where people are comfortable having families then well we're not doing you much service I was I was just going to add when we talk about planning so this is the first comprehensive plan where we have to plan for growth at different income bands historically it was just housing units and anyone who's been here for a while can see that the way that we've done it the cost of housing has just gone up and up and up so this is the result
046of a state Bill a few years ago that basically says okay you don't just plan to grow plan to grow at different levels right because a city needs all types of families at all income levels to function um so we have from the Department of Commerce like a table of which types of housing we can say are allowed in a Zone and what income bands we can say they count for and then separately the city has kind of statistics on okay if it's this size of apartment building we expect this many schoolgoing students and that's where we get the impact fees to collect and stuff like that so it's kind of like we're going to Zone based on the income bands we have to meet and then when we actually permit something then we'll have
047those impact fees and we'll have like okay if there's 100 units of these sizes of Apartments like three-bedroom two-bedroom one bedroom we expect this many students so I don't know that there's a direct like we're going to have this many students from what we're doing it's a lot more because we're just zoning and then people have to come with like here's what I want to build within this framework So my answer is there's kind of an answer but but the fact that it's a a new model is actually very helpful to understand we shouldn't look at it the same way as we have in every city that's comp planning so all the cities that are in Northshore are doing this too so it's kind of the first time that we really have to do this
048sort of broader planning um so we're all going to be learning together um and it's it's a lot I think to digest if you are sort of married to the neighborhood you're in and you want that to stay exactly the same um because probably under state law we can't guarantee that nor that not that we ever could but yeah it's it's really kind of fascinating if you step back and also a lot to take in if you're in it every week perhaps so yeah very helpful thank you um I just had a quote that I wanted to read really quick and I learned about it recently and then I had a question for the city of Bothel I'm sure you've considered it uh but the quote again you're going to notice a theme this is
049from um Richard Rothstein who's the author of red lining it's the book that we mentioned earlier um he he says schools today are more segregated than at any time in the last 50 years in this country and they are more segregated because the neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated and this ties directly into our um Educators who want to live in the areas that they teach it's not always possible because I mean I've looked at the housing cost here in Bothel it's like doubled for in some areas it's pretty ridiculous it's great for the homeowners but it makes it very inaccessible to um teachers who are just starting out in their career and don't have a lot of funds right can't afford to live in the areas that they want to teach Northshore
050is always trying to hire more diverse Educators um because our students have given us that feedback that they would like to see themselves repres represented in the educational Workforce that they are with and around every day so this is a perfect opportunity for a partnership um and so my question to the city of Bothel is what are some or have you considered uh ways in which we can promote um creative ways in which we can promote teachers who cannot afford to stay here to be able to to live here yes um the color of law is the book that uh Richard rosin wrote and it's uh if you ever want to get really angry and you haven't read that book you should go read that book um we have a couple different options that we're
051considering right now um on the city council for our comp plan we have um kind of the call it the centers approach and then the neighborhood's approach and the Cent's approach is kind of the status quo sort of what we've historically done which is keep certain neighborhoods completely segregated from growth and not allowing any more growth there which has really led to not just a lot of the uh racial segregation that you're talking about because a lot of it segregates based on economic ability as well but um it um creates a ton of traffic and like as we as we run our campaigns you know we hear a lot of people who are a little dissatisfied with the way that we do things right now in terms of growth so we're looking at the neighborhood
052Hood approach um I think that's the direction the council overall has been going in um because it does a few things a it uh listens to our community who's dissatisfied with the growth that we've seen so far and tries to change things so we can get our community better results um but it also does a lot to write the historic wrongs around redlining and exclusionary zoning um and um and additionally to that it allows more modest housing closer to where the schools are which are usually not in the centers they are usually out in the neighborhood so I we're we're doing our best um in the framework that we've got to address a lot of those issues that that you brought up today director and so director mcgr was you in the interest of helpful
053facilitation did you have a follow-up question or a different topic as I'm wondering if council member Alder has a followup you get where I'm going here okay I'm in trouble without even speaking no no it was more about me it was more about me facilitating well first thank you um it's really encouraging to hear you talking about the um well I mean perhaps it's legally required but but you know having housing of of you know range of housing costs as well as focusing on income levels as well as as Bothel is is growing um I I I it's sort of a wonder that I have with respect to that I mean Bothel has its City Limits currently um in you know I I tend to Le a little more with the snow homish County Council
054where they have a lot of in unincorporated areas and they deal with that too and they've spoken quite a bit with respect to their long-term plan of not necessarily just expanding out and expanding out with respect to where homes are being built in schools and so forth but they don't call it backfill infill infill think you um backi is wrong um and I'm wondering if if Bothel is looking at a a similar kind of approach with respect to that um keeping the same city limits over the course of this this 20 years and then looking for areas where perhaps more housing could go in and you know going up as opposed to spreading out so that these new housing units are available for a range of of incomes well thanks for that question um I
055don't know if I'll be able to touch on that um but hopefully someone else will I do want to go back to the question of where will teachers live under this new kind of zoning model with the income bands um and if you look at the Department of Commerce guidance um a lot of times housing units might be referred to as as Workforce Workforce housing as well and we're thinking about our teachers our firefighters our you know service workers that live in our we want them to be able to live in our communities and have the quality of life where they're not having to endure long commutes um across you know uh City boundaries to to get to work um and so part of part of the housing um targets that we're talking about is
056also being able to build um not just in neighborhoods but throughout the city places where people who work in the city can live um and that's especially I think important for our teachers but I think it's also important for parents of students in the schools too um I think that families are very neg art can be negatively impacted by long commutes um with the quality of life uh just less time with parents more time in cars for kids um that's not great for the environment but it's also not great for family connections it's not great for Child Development either um and so I just really appreciate uh how the mayor kind of described how um building throughout the city and neighborhoods and helping build family homes um or where families can live near near schools
057and neighborhoods as one piece of it but also building uh Workforce housing so teachers have places to live as well I think is an important part of of the of the new model of of building and growth as we go forward um your question was about incorporation and like future incorporation and infill um there's always talk about neighborhoods wanting to incorporate into Bothel um and it is it is possible and there is a pathway to do that um nothing's quite on my radar right now but that is always something that um Neighbors in communities can kind of lead and move forward try to move forward um um and but to your point about infill that's sort of the concept of like centers have been a major focus of let's build more densely in our centers
058in our cities um and that has also led to some of that the I think the perpetuation of segregation the perpetuation of of um income bands being kept separate from one another as well so yes there is building more densely that can be really great in a lot of ways especially from walkable cities um and also building to where people can live in neighborhoods so it's I think it's maybe a both-and to your question um but the in the future incorporation to join the city is a very big other conversation so thank you I really appreciate the discussion I think one thing about um again post office Bothel I'm not going to trademark that I just wanted to catch on um it is that um the county is looking at their own comprehensive plan process
059and I am now the city council's representative on the S homish County tomorrow's um board and one of the discussions we're having is about expanding the urban growth area and I think that that while it might expand outside of Northshore is a risk because what that's going to do is put a lot more dense housing further out from where we have services and I don't think it's unfair to say that the current stretch of unincorporated sish county is underserved compared to some areas within cities um we have areas within Bothel that used to be unincorporated snow County that we annexed with no sidewalks no sewers you know it's a it's a much harder thing to fix after the fact so the more that you can pressure infill development where we have Services putting people where
060they can take a bus to where they're going um the better we can do it um when we don't have bus service to Sky View I don't even believe to North Creek High School that means you are driving there you are biking there I see parents in school district groups saying hey my kid needs to leave before the last period I don't have a way to get them home can anyone carpool can anyone recommend a taxi service like it's it's something to think about as you look at what's best for the students in the schools and just what's best for the county I think King County doesn't have quite such an unincorporated swath but I do know um in talking about um the NorthShore parks and service Recreation Area same name totally different job um
061that owns the the buildings that our senior center and Health and Wellness Center occupy we are evaluating a potential Community Center and we've had to cut out the unincorporated areas near Woodenville like Cottage Lake and unincorporated areas near North Creek because there is no bus service and if you want to serve all ages it makes sense that CU I used to take the bus from my house to the Baja Library as like a 11 12-year-old and um and and and I lived and I'm here um and so some families might want to take that advantage and if we put a building where kids can't get to it without getting a ride we've already kind of lost the the thought there so um as we look at what to advocate for not that you guys don't
062have a lot of advocacy already on the schedule for schools how people interact within communities is is going to be a big deal so I know in Botho we put a lot of focus on that um but we can only control our city so it's really just it there's and there's a lot there but I think as we all look at all the different comprehensive plans this this risk of adding even more urban areas to serve with probably not a greatly expanded budget that's already not meeting what I would say are the needs of communities already in the urban growth area that's just a risk I wanted to um share I think it's it's come up in a lot of different like Regional coalitions recently so I'll just add it here that's really helpful thank
063you council member dot in fact it's a really good segue and thank you so much for the update it's really wonderful we're going to segue to our next agenda item which is serving our diverse communities so um we have this is a joint presentation between city of Bothel and and norshore staff so superintendent Telly do you want to help us segue yes so I would like to invite up to our table here um three staff members from Northshore as well um our executive director of racial and educational Justice who's uh Dr Ava Thomas executive director of communication and engagement Carrie Campo and our assistant director over our family engagement Resource Center shos cadum so um I just want to frame this in terms of uh when the topic was discussed during our planning meeting we
064wanted to have an opportunity to share the work that we've been doing in in response to our families so last year my interim year as a superintendent I did a lot of listen and learn tour um and opportunities to listen from families and hear from what what their concerns were and what we found is that they they kept telling us they know that we have lots of resources supports within Northshore but there isn't one place you can go to and find the answers to everything so we reorganized and formed our family engagement Resource Center uh we didn't add any additional staff we just took people within the organization and um and I I have to say they have already been doing the work we just gave them um permission to do more and so I'd
065have to thank uh Dr kadum for that so um and and then then in terms of our race and educational Justice work there about six seven years ago we actually have a board policy was called the diversity and Equity policy that was passed with um expectations within that to address the diverse needs of our community um it's most recently been U revised to refer to as racial and educational Justice um policy but it also led to the formation of a department that oversees that work within our district so we want to give an opportunity to talk about that as well so I'm going to turn it over to the team to do a little presentation and informing you about that work hello good evening I don't have a slide deck for you but I'll be
066talking um so like Mr tly shared uh we were a department that was formed in September of 2018 and we've been really building out the work ever since when we started that we had at the time the diversity and Equity policy and that was really that big pwor of putting something down on paper to institutionalize the importance of the work but then we had to think about what that little p policy work was of the implementation of um at the time equity and diversity since then we've really shifted our language to racial and educational Justice to signal that we have to dive deeper into the work and that this is a about yes it's about fairness and uh equality and um Equity but it's also about um going Beyond like representation and diversity to really
067thinking about Justice and understanding that there's injustices within the public education system that we and norshore can really um work to dismantle and disrupt and reimagine what education can and should look like so one of the um kind of other documents that we put in place at the time was an equity inventory and that had four different domains in it and we turned that into a four-year which turned into a fiveyear plan um because of remote learning due to a global pandemic um and in that there was four different domains the first one was governance uh policy and practices the second one was climate and culture the third was teaching and learning and the fourth was family and Community engagement and then there was a through line of self-reflection through all of that so we
068took each of those domains Year bye and thought about the implementation of that but really building in the structures within our school district to implement um the work so we have school action plans which are documents that are building administrators or principes and um assistant principles complete on a yearly basis and they actually had to because we revised that plan and template they had to narrate how they would um select indicators within those domains to work on that at their school level and then they operationalized that because we have also a racial and educational Justice team at each of our school sites so they were kind of those leadership bodies at each of our school sites to think about that school level leadership for the implementation and the accountability of that work those domains were
069then turned into a Google forms survey that all staff completed at the beginning and end of each year so that we can measure and track progress on that so there's been a lot of work that's been done uh because of that and through that but then also we've continued like I said to dive deeper into that work and um I think it's important also to note we say and educational Justice because it signals an intersectionality to that piece so we talk about racial Justice and Injustice we also talk about Justice across identities including um socioeconomic status gender sexuality um disabilities um citizenship body positivity so we have a a large range of intersectionality when we're thinking about our supports for students um we also think about like the teaching and learning side of the work
070so we've done work with our curriculum materials adoption committee and a couple years ago um I worked with the team to create an anti-bias form so that anyone who is trying to look to pass any new curriculum could complete that form and it really signaled that we could look through that lens of racial and educational Justice to think about the curriculum materials that we were adopting as a school district system and then most recently um our high schools did a high school novel um Ela study which they looked at um a a large range of books that they're introducing as supplemental materials in our high schools and in our Ela classes that were done through that racial and educational Justice lens so that's just an example we also do the work um it's it's uh
071Department work it's also systems work so each of our departments is accountable to the work as well so we've partnered with our Human Resources Department I know hiring and retention was mentioned earlier um just briefly on retention because that is super critical and when we think about the staff that we already have here our staff have to be affirmed and included and feel welcome for who they are is exactly how they are and who they are so we created a staff of color Coalition um a few years ago and that's a a retention support to our staff of color that serves as an affinity space and then this year we launched an administrators of color Coalition finding some similar through lines and experiences but when we can really think about retention that can be one
072of our greatest uh recruiting tools as well and and then Community uh Partnerships and pipelines are super important to us so I have worked with Gabby who is your diversity equity and inclusion coordinator they are incredible and because of that partnership with Gabby I was able to then as we were thinking about our annual student Justice Conference have some of you around this table be a part of that this year which had such a tremendous impact on our students um in Northshore and as they then think about what the next level is and the next step is in their education career um just fast forwarding a little bit this is uh the last piece of my presentation we created a 2023 or 2024 to 2027 racial and educational Justice framework and that's the next step
073in the work so as we've talked about uh connecting with students connecting with staff and families The Next Step that they've articulated is really thinking about the everydayness of racial and educational Justice in their schooling and educational experiences so we took that and identified three lines the first one is anti-discrimination and microaggressions the second one is identity affirming environments and experiences and the third one is student and family co-design because of that anti-discrimination work um we developed a safety and anti-discrimination toolkit to Signal additional resources to our students families and staff members and then also some howtos for intervening in the moment um when discrimination or a microaggression is is said or done and then um I've also partnered with Rick farell who is our director of student services to build out a training module
074essentially for our staff on discrimination-based discipline work because we have to do discipline again through that lens of racial and educational Justice and be in tune to that when for example a racial slur is said in school there has to be the discipline protocol there also has to be the educational piece and that restorative piece and then with that through line to um I mentioned the student Justice Conference and it was such a delight to think about expanding our Partnerships and having the city of both will be a part of that um I think as we tend to do event planning I think just generally speaking we try to think about like who can we invite more broadly but I think one of our biggest resources is who we already have in our district community
075so I would love to continue building out those Partnerships in terms of racial and educational Justice and then with that last through line on student and family co-design uh Dr kadum um leads and helps facilitate the family engagement and resource center and he will be talking about some examples from that thank you thank you for giving us an opportunity to um share the family engagement work so with uh Mr T's um vision and the launch of family engagement Center on July 1st so as you mention mention that like we already we were already doing that work but this has become more like a structured manner how we can um eliminate or address the barriers that families have been facing so um the four goals we we started with four goals and those four goals are
076intended to remove barriers that families and students are facing in terms of seeking education and as well as opportunities for their children and so forth so uh in my experience from my experience I could say that at least there are 15 plus barriers um that students come with into the classroom in addition to their backpacks that we may or may not know and the teachers needed to know that and the principals needed to know that and even administrators need to know that so that they can be able to help so um we moved on to how can we engage families in an intentional conversation so that we could listen to them previous years we had about 10 or eight or 20 families turning up for this lesson and learn sessions but we were strategic and
077uh being known the community very well we partnered with the community leaders and the turnout was 300 like you know it was intentional as I said if you understand the culture you know what are the some of the those barriers that they are facing so we understood that for example you know the evening Child Care is the biggest challenge for them to come to the meetings and then food was the biggest challenge for them to come to the meetings at 6:30 why do they wanted to come here and listen to the PowerPoint right so we eliminated those barriers and we had 300 people families right so and also we uh wanted to acknowledge and as well as honor their culture so we gave them a space to celebrate their culture who they are what they
078are and educate everybody else including all our administrators what is their culture about it so when they we know their culture and we will be able to serve them better so we had Spanish speaking families about 300 Then followed by Muslim families about 120 to 30 and we had the Asian Indians about 300 families turned up here it was full capacity and and we have East asan families turning about about 250 to 300 so and Mr T had an opportunity to engage them engage with them actively and listen to them we had an intentional 20 to 30 minutes of time have shoulder partner discussion to share what's going well what's not going well what we should be doing more the next year so listening putting together all those listen and learn and the points that
079we gathered their notes uh what we did was we hosted some sessions and especially we addressed this year a lot of uh sessions for focused for the Spanish speaking communities the reason is they're the farthest away from racial and educational Justice not that rest of the families are not but you know we wanted to go one level by one level so our family engagement Specialists who are five of them located in the middle school and high school they're already serving families really well for the last a decade or so and they know the pulse of their families very well so they partnered with their uh parent leaders uh who are some of them are natural leaders they formed a coalition of actually call them parent leader group and they meet here regularly once a month
080and we opened up the resource center for them to come and meet not meet in Starbucks or something like that why not here right this is their space so they loved it and they finally they said oh my God we belong here this is our space sir of course it is your space they come once a month and spend an hour and a half here and meet and talk about what our families needs are and what do we need to do next so they hosted FAFSA wsa sessions that is high school applications college applications and also thank you to the botal police in our partnership and we were able to um hold a gang prevention information session for parents fantastic thanks to Sergeant Detective Sergeant Martin for his team coming together and as well as
081supporting us it was a fantastic we had a great response and we has hosted technology sessions and they were attended by parents at least 100 plus parents so they were receiving more and more information they are receiving more education and how to support their children and all these things have been really you know good for them they had a good feeling and with the result of that in the spring nor we also Mr T has a listen and learn session separately said no let's do something a little bit different this time so we brought all the families together we called it as a family Symposium we partnered with the community organization such as in our botle city obviously Anand was know incredible I worked with Anand regularly and uh um also hopelink and uh King
082County Libraries and all these community members they came together and we had about 10 sessions uh on different types of information including special education how to address the gangs maybe again also the drugs and how to access resources in King County Library etc etc so they were attended by you know quite a bit at least 65 families were there that was a Saturday we hosted session it was successful we heard from families and it was really good information for parents and parents are asking we want them more we want to do more we want us they want us to do more so we are being creative about that and we are going to go back again take a look at their notes and we are coming up with a new model of Hosting those sessions
083next year with information when parents know more about uh the school districts and the community and the resources and they tend to be encouraged you know to take some lessons for example one of the things we are partnering with the udab bottle is also how to have some you know English classes for uh parents they have been asking for that we want to learn English when they learn English they can support their children and they also can at Workforce also they can improve their um finances and status and so forth so that's how we are uh addressing all these you know barriers and we are trying to eliminate and in my uh role what I do is when families we created a jot form J jot form comes to us when families are in need
084of any several Services whatever that we could do we will try at the school level when we don't and I pa them to XYZ you go to this Source maybe hopelink or maybe go to the Puget Sound electricity or maybe even snow homish County also sometime they have some mental health and as well as other resources too so I point them in different directions that way they are able to um you know overcome some of the challenges that are facing and housing is one of the biggest need just let you know so and we want with this we are creating creating inclusive and belonging environment and uh last but not the least I just want to say something like that I know I saw mayor at the launch of cricket right so we saw that
085so I mean I have to speak about that sorry you know been a former Cricket player and so on because we wanted to create that inclusion like the the district is a nshore school district everyone is looking up to us because we created under the leadership of Dr raid and this opportunity for children to play cricket you know and they're saying how do you do this model so we've been trying that that also is inclusion and especially Spanish speaking students and other some other students they may not play other sports at all so how can we help them to play either soccer or whatever the sport that is close to their heart so not only academic wise but also we are looking into uh Sports area too so that we can be able to support
086uh families did I miss anything K good okay thank you thought of making a elevator speech of 3 minutes I think I too bad okay thank you so much and and from the city of Bal do we have yes thank you president and um it's great to have heard a couple of things to reinforce what we're doing so um just a by a boa background the Bothel city council did in their um 2023 2024 budget we had very modest requests for investments in new positions but two of the three positions have come up tonight so that was our Dei coordinator and our human services coordinator positions so great to hear that the partnership is there um both of those programs are overseen by our assistant city manager Becky range who also oversees our Communications program
087so I'm going to turn it over to Becky to give some highlights of what we're working on at the city schol board and city council thank you so much for allowing me a little bit of time I would just like to say I'm so excited about this joint update because we are doing so many similar things and working on common programs they might be called different names but as I hear the updates that are happening and I'm reminded of the Partnerships we've already been working on in the last year it makes me really excited for our communities because we're moving in the same direction so a common theme tonight has been that Bothel is really growing and changing and for us as I help the city with Dei and Human Services and Community engagement it
088reminds me it's even more important that we think about how we plan for our community and we really think about how we're delivering services are we really meeting the needs of everyone in the city of Bal are we delivering services in the best way for them that they would like for us to deliver services for them and in a way that's culturally competent for them and it's what they need and what they want so it's really important for us to think about how we deliver Services um I want to do a little bit of background for you uh Bothel city council has long been committed to fostering a safe and Equitable and well in community but it's really been in the last few years that we've been really intentional and very strategic about how we
089do that work and you did mention the two positions that were hired um that was very important for us to make investments in our community in this more strategic work um we knew that we needed to take very purposeful actions if we're going to really deliver service and support our diverse communities um last year our city council came together and created a very inspiring vision for bothel's future and I won't go into all parts of that Vision but I want you to know that Dei and inclusive community engagement are woven throughout that vision for our community and there's two things I just want to give updates on tonight very high level updates two components of that Vision that they asked staff to work on the first was a very formal and updated Dei program that
090program needed to foster a organizational culture for us that is um Equity driven and it actually is embedded throughout our policy and practices Council asked staff to do that and that was a priority for us um there was also a lot of focus on long lasting and meaningful Community Partnerships and relationships and we've heard a little bit about that tonight I one of the other things that Council prioritized in that vision for us was an updated Community engagement strategy we always had a community engagement strategy but is it really effective anymore as we grow and change so actually tomorrow night at our city council meeting staff will be updating City Council on that updated engagement strategy and similar to my colleagues here it is focused on barriers to participation as public servants uh we think
091it's very important that every single person in our community should have the opportunity to follow influence and participate in decision making but we know that doesn't always happen so our engagement strategy is really focused on how do we balance the loud voices of a few with the silent thoughts of many in our community that engagement strategy is also revolving around a government of of ours that's very responsive um we truly listen to feedback in the community we seek out feedback from the community Through multiple channels and we involve as many people in the decision-making process that we can in those two areas we have made some significant progress in the last few years um I do want to mention we are currently in the process of conducting a human service's needs assessment that is on
092in our staff member uh the school district's been very helpful in that process so so thank you for that um and that will inform a human services strategic plan that we're working on last year we did hire a Dei coordinator Gabby and if you haven't met Gabby already they are a force of Nature and Gabby jumped in and probably met everyone on your staff in the first couple of months of being here uh Gabby helped us finalize our Dei road map strategy similar to some documents that you have as well and plans um that document for us it's both aspirational but it's also very practic iCal it has the same kind of tangible steps of actions that staff can take on a day-to-day basis if they're making a decision or also help inform larger policies
093and plans um that's very exciting for us to move forward with that and that is already underway with implementation another thing that we've just rolled out is some new staff and Leadership training we have a new uh comprehensive training program and the one of the first steps is an updated Dei 10 one training for all of our staff and that was a long time coming we needed to update that training and we'll be teaching that first class in the next two weeks um that class does a little bit of a deeper dive into our community demographics cultural competencies and help staff understand what their implicit biases are so that perhaps when they're making a decision in the Parks and Recreation Department on a sport maybe it's a sport they're not familiar with maybe it's something
094they didn't grow up doing that they understand how to best serve the community when they get that training we've also hosted some internal workshops that have been really great for staff on topics such as ableism systemic racism and how to actively practice anti-racism so that we can deliver better service in the community we also have a similar guide It's called the equity impact worksheet and we use that with staff to help guide conversations on day-to-day work budget decisions uh it just helps you run a a bit of a lens through the work that you're doing on a day-to-day basis we also have done some work with our um interview processes and recruitment practices with our human resources department and that's been really exciting and then as we update on the engagement strategy one of the
095most important things that we've done is when we talk to staff they do need practical checklists and tools and resources to do this type of work and so we just developed a community engagement toolkit and that toolkit has a lot of information on how do you plan and run a public meeting that's really accessible to everyone how do you make all of your materials really accessible are you offering uh in language materials and are you thinking about interpreter services that might be needed when you're engaging with the public so we're very excited about that toolkit that will be unveiled in the next month um but probably the most important and exciting thing thing that's happened in the last year is we really have grown in our relationship building with our Community Partners um in the
096last year we've made it a point to reach out to informal leaders in the community reach out to demographic groups that maybe we haven't uh built relationships with before and that's really exciting for us uh we also have done some partnership programs with Cascadia and udub bothal the Bothel Library we um partnered on an indigenous people's Day event with both the colleges we did a partnership dwali event with the library and we recently had our first pride in the park activity with several community- based organizations just this last Friday and we also have worked quite a bit on our Multicultural education and community events it's one thing to think about how you do your work and how your staff are trained on cultural issues but isn't it really great in our community to celebrate at
097all the wonderful things about our community and all the wonderful different foods and cultures and practices that we have and it makes up our beautiful community so our parks department I'm I'm hoping all of you are very familiar with the amazing set of events that they have um implemented in the last few years but those events they have partnered with community- based organizations to come together and celebrate this uh beautiful tapestry of the community that we have and I I just want to to end by saying thank you so much to the NSD staff for the Partnerships that you've done with us you have mentioned the student Justice Conference I think council member Dodd you worked an event with students um and council member Alder were there as well thank you so much for that
098um I do also want to thank you during that Human Services needs assessment um the school district has been very helpful we've set up several focus groups to determine some Human Services needs um you helped us with your Spanish speaking uh focus groups um some bilingual immigrant and Refugee families that you connected us with for that assessment so thank you so much for that um I think we are very excited about the growth and the Partnerships that we built over the last year and we're very excited about how we know that will continue to grow thank you so much and thanks for that update this joint update has been really helpful I I do have to do a little bit of a time check we have another item on our agenda we have some questions
099which we're going to do but I just wanted to bring attention to the fact we do have a construction update so we have some school projects going on within both we wanted to provide an update too so just calling attention to the clock but council member Alder do you had a question yeah thank you and I'll I'll try to make it brief um it's really exciting to hear about the um Family Resource Center and and all of the efforts that you're engaging in there um and so there's I just want to make sure that you guys are well connected with the center for Human Services um they've been doing excellent work in our community with ARA funds and I know that they're working closely with schools um and then I also just want to make
100sure that there might um and I might talk to you offline too about um potential Partnerships with other mental health organizations supporting kids um because we know that that's an area where kids in our district are really struggling so um yeah thank you thank you all for the presentation it's really great to see you here thank you thank you so much it's amazing uh it's it's really cool that cool people think alike so we have this very similar presentations going on so uh I very much appreciate I've been in botel for 15 years my kids have grown through um you know the the uh the elementary middle high school so we've gone through this and for the past year at least I I recognize the ch you know what NSD has been doing uh for
101the past couple years even so which is amazing work thank you thank you also and I'm very proud of our city for implementing the past few years I've been on Council for three years the year before I ran I gave you know Becky for example and others before very hard time with along with some of my current council members that's why I ran for Council to make sure that we're seeing the what we we were discussing through I very much appreciate appreciate all the work I want want to bring it to the one of the topics uh that were discussed about um racial Justice and anti-discrimination and these things over the past few months we've seen what's going on in the world and which caused some tension in schools like my son is in middle
102school and um there was been whether it's something that's been lingering I'm not talk going to talk about only my son because my son has been called terrorist a few times already in his school we've tried to work with Administration and because my son says I'm not going to snitch on my my friends he doesn't provide names so nothing happens like so we need to have a solution for that the other thing that also happens which is also similar is that um you know agan kids uh are called you know slurs black kids are called slurs within schools I don't know it's like we know there's curriculum for teachers and students but I don't know if there's something could be extended to families as well cuz I don't know what's going on in those households
103but you know they're bringing it obviously a lot of the stuff is coming home if coming to school as well and just affecting kids and again the kids don't want to um report these things because they don't know how like they don't know they they worry like they worry about themselves getting in trouble because they're reporting something like this uh and because they don't want to get they have F everybody's everybody's friend for some reason so you know but they don't want to be snitching on their friends you know so I I don't know how I'm not an educator but I'm just saying I'm seeing symptom things happening at school where I have conversations with my son it didn't happen so much before um with my the daughters the older ones but with my son
104it's happening a lot I don't know what the Dynamics are between is it them not being uh yeah I don't know what's going on there but that's the one thing I wanted to to talk about uh and mention because uh um a lot of things uh one thing I wanted to mention we there was something discussion about comp planning but also in schools we are uh about I know NSD and the and city of both intersect but there's not overlap but one in um one in five 20% or so are people who speak a foreign language or are born in a foreign actually it's an immigrant let's call it that they call it born in outside of the US but it's like immigrants like me I finally brought up Council to almost that number one
105in seven so uh which is which is a which is a good thing uh 33% are people of color um yet uh we see those still those issues in schools and within our city I'm glad that we're going we're starting to do the the Multicultural thing to celebrate the cultures within our city we're seeing it with the schools the programs that you guys are doing the listening sessions that been happening over the past year and the follow-ups like I'm seeing this because I'm also part of the Community I see a lot of this stuff so I very much appreciate that work but then there's also things happening at schools that are you know um that I worry that might if they don't get addressed will you know will the kids are going to grow up
106not achieving the goal that you want to achieve you know so I I thank you for for the time and I'm sorry I took longer than I was supposed to but I've been waiting for this moment this whole meeting thank you thank you for that W mayor it's it's really helpful and that is these are conversations that we are having and and hearing their direct feedback is really helpful thank you okay I will be fast um I really have enjoyed this conversation and when there's a cricket game that can be watched I want to be there so badly you don't even know um I just wanted to just chime in um to State the o to State the obvious because we're all on the same page I'm old my background found a special ed deed
107and when I first started um kids who had disabilities struggled to get Services struggled for acceptance and it's still a problem so I just want to encourage you to keep those kids on your on your radar because they're working extra hard so um and it's been a long long struggle and we we still have a ways to go to get there for the kids I just wanted to throw that in there as well thank you council members Z that's an area where the district is doing a lot of work as well and so now we have an agenda item for our next meeting but you will be so fast mayor Thompson I know you're I I know you're running a meeting I just wanted to say I had a few things but I'm going to
108go really quick um I really appreciate when you guys talk about Justice and anti-racism the focus on action rather than feelings the focus on what you can do talking about checklists like things that actually are concrete and real and not just a we should all feel good things um um and I also just really appreciate how many times I've heard housing from different folks in the school district on staff and on the school board um the more we hear about how much of a need this is through all parts of our community the more it helps us to do our job which is to enable all of that to get built than you everyone I feel like we should continue that conversation I think that one's coming back too yes 100% this has been really
109wonderful so I think this um I'd like to introduce executive director Dre Ralph who runs um our capital projects and so many things in our district because we have some really exciting construction projects going on in Bothel we just wanted to provide an opportunity for a quick update and see if there's any questions I was red now I'm green thank you appreciate that uh anyway so Lockwood working on I also am in close contact and I'm working with your staff on your comp plan update I've met with your um deputy director of um public works as well as uh we're dealing with a lot of permits with a lot of new construction so I'm a pretty frequent guest uh and actually with all of our jurisdictions that we interact with so uh I don't know
110if the state just hates us to make us do all the updates at the same time uh but it does feel pretty intense for those of us who are trying to participate um so I'm excited to see your progress with that said I would like to um jump in and talk about our projects for this summer this is when we're really starting the heavy duty work when it comes to our 2026 bond that was passed we've done a lot of our smaller projects um and we will continue to do some of those but I'm going to run through a list and you'll um hear some things that coincide with other things that the city manager and um mayor have talked about tonight so uh first and foremost at Innovation lab we'll be doing a little
111bit of exterior work a few small Plumbing things interior but as you may know that's our choice high school that is located in the business park that was an Adaptive reuse project uh I think a good model of um some creative uh building use and looking at things that are maybe a little outside of our typical zoning boxes um then we're also doing uh some lighting upgrades to a lot of schools um in that includes Frank Love uh and this is replacing our exterior lights with LED lights we're always working on ways to be more sustainable and long lasting so you'll see some of those kind of smaller things um we're working on access controls at Frank Love Wellington West Hill uh Shelton View and our transportation department uh this is goes along with security
112at schools keeping the buildings safe along with that first uh agenda item that uh your city manager spoke very well about um we're also continuing our fencing projects at multiple schools around the district uh the big ones that I think you'll all be excited about is we're doing um some inclusive learning which for us means playground improvements at Frank Love and Hollywood Hills um Frank Love of being in your jurisdiction and these inclusive play places are kind of going back to the last council person I'm sorry I've forgotten your name who's talking about our students who need access yes uh so these places really um allow them to interact on the playground and have that experience better for all of our students uh we're also working on um doing a let's see installing modular classrooms
113at Bothel high school we have spent almost a year permitting this project but I am proud to say we have the permit in hand so the buildings have been built we'll now be installing them so again a new type of construction for the district um with modular construction and I think it's a thing you'll see us work on a lot in the future in fact we'll be talking to you about a swing site uh with similar modular Construction uh as we do future development for elementary schools in particular that we don't have uh the space to do the projects uh on site uh while students are there so the last but not least for the Outdoor Learning space we will be working on the fields doing two new uh turf fields as well as the
114track at Sky View Middle School and Northshore middle school so uh I know that your citizens will be very excited about those projects they're always very excited when those get installed uh and then we go into our larger projects uh at Crystal Springs we'll start trenching and demoing portables for the large expansion that's happening there uh we'll start um working at wooden which is just in boundaries uh also you'll see a lot of new construction happening there over the next uh year um and the same with the same with um Maywood Hills those are the big projects that are happening in your jurisdiction and they're all getting going this summer so uh look forward to that um and then last but certainly not least is Sorenson uh at Sorenson this is also getting which is
115our Early Learning Center next to West Hill uh it is also getting an expansion and that will start this summer uh but you'll see a lot of construction and demo happening with um their Portables there so those will be kind of the outside demonstrations of the projects that are to come but really that construction starting this summer going all through next year uh and then we'll work on our next Bond uh and we'll like you asking for a lot of Citizen input for your comp plan we'll be looking for the same for those Bond projects and I am in communication for sure with your Public Works folks in particular about where some of those places that need that corner on the sidewalk and other things as far as our transportation goes um that's one of
116the common conversations that we have so that was a really fast run through that was amazing thank you and council member D did you have a question it's not a question but I believe in giving Kudos as much as asking tough questions and I know the last time we met I mentioned that the Frankl playground was the one I played on as a kid when I went there so I really appreciate that it's getting a new playground that's inclusive that's very exciting so I I know it's not because I said it but it's very exciting to hear it I mean you you own it it's awesome council member Alders yeah I hope this can be a quick question um but when you mentioned the swing sites for modular classrooms you were able to go into
117more detail about that I think last year I think we had more time with you we did um but my question is when do you expect those swing sites to go into use yeah so realistically we um would like to if if we stay on the same uh Cadence with our bond passage that would look at 2026 uh so it would likely take us a year to get some projects permitted Etc um so it would be shortly after that that we'd like to start using them because if we have an elementary school again that doesn't fit on its site to do construction uh we need to move them to that site during construction so you'll see us pretty aggressively pursuing it over the next year and a half two years yeah okay I thought of
118one more um and it's about the swing sites so I'm curious and I it's I don't know if you know this yet but will it be like School a is being rebuilt so School a will now just happen at the swing site or will it so it won't be like reassigning people Here There and Everywhere it'll be like with Transportation provided to the swing site I mean it might have to be a little of both we haven't worked out all of the logistics but ideally it would be this school needs to be located here for one year uh and then this school needs to be located here for one year this school needs to be located here for one year I can't imagine the logistics of that it'll be an adventure best of luck to
119I'm sure I'm sure superintendent hly is much looking forward to that Adventure yes but it is a it is a strategy other school districts use that have some older buildings that they can use as their swing site and we've just repurposed all our buildings and that's why we have a very creative team trying to come up with a solution yeah thank you for the presentation lot lot happening and I was going to go and ask uh a little CB so with all the budget issues that are occurring I know you mentioned bonds but I'm sure the bond not sure does the bond cover everything number one and number two if it does not or B if does not like how are we paying for all this work this is a great question our bonds are
120uh voted on by the uh great voters of our multiple municipalities that are in our service area and they are for Capital bonds specifically there's very strict um guidelines of what we can use Capital bonds for uh we have a plan that we present to the voters of what we will be building with those bonds and we follow that plan so we cannot use those bonds for any general fund concerns or Staffing or other things uh so there's kind of a pretty strict uh line between our general funds and our Capital funds um thank you I understand I mean we do the in the city see yeah so doesn't the all the money you get is not going to meet your aspirations because things are happening faster than you can get the money for to
121do the construction you know we put together a pretty comprehensive plan of what we could accomplish in the four years uh that we plan as far as our bond Cycles go so in 2022 we asked for uh $425 million and we do believe that we can make that um cover all of the projects that we outlined in that 2022 Bond uh to go for additional classrooms going back to your it's the same uh the same playground that we had when I was a kid uh we have some of those things happening at other elementary schools too so as we go back to our voters uh we'll ask for a certain amount of projects we work very hard to get our estimates to correct uh to do the best Crystal balling we can with escalation and
122other things to put the right number in front of the voter and hopefully they approve it so that we can accomplish the projects that we outline that we're going to accomplish thank you this this is very helpful I was um I was going to ask is there anything that us as a city can do to help also in terms of not money because we have our own struggles too so the Kyle was looking at me he's like you better not say it so I mentioned um that like you we ask for input from our citizens and other groups uh we do have a bond planning task force that will start preparing for our next Bond um we actually have the application up on our website on the capital um facilities site uh you're welcome to
123to apply we would love some participation I do believe last year we had or last Bond cycle we did have someone from the Kenmore city council not no pressure I don't know that they'll be there next year um but even if it's not you if you have other people who you think could represent uh the city well when it comes to talking about schools and future development uh really active participation in that task force would be great um with other things that you've talked about we also have an application now for our enrollment and demographics task force you guys spoke a lot about zoning codes implications of housing Etc this task force um looks at those things and how you're growing and what we do to answer that growth how we cover that growth we'll
124be looking a lot at boundary lines over the next uh couple years so it would be great to have um people who are interested in zoning anyone who wants to the color of law should be interested in this committee or task force uh it's a really great way to um you know it's kind of that finished cycle you all Zone it they build it and then they come to us and we have to have some building to house them when they come so that's really kind of the cycle of how that works and it's my group who um does our annual plan that looks at our Capital facilities plan that looks at our impact fees uh so you all see me usually once a a year coming to talk to you about impact fees and
125that's really when we do the assessment about how different types of H housing what students they're generating and we look at it every year so we will be able to see how your comprehensive plan is performing for each of those um types of Housing and what students they are producing or not thank you JY so we we are officially over so I'm I'm just going to call that out but this the conversation was really good and I hate to cut it off so thank you so much um if there's any followup questions that we didn't get to we can absolutely um find other ways to communicate and get together um because this is just so helpful so thank you everyone any other concluding thoughts all right we'll adjourn and again thanks for the partnership much
126appreciated