All right, I think let's get started.

Good evening and welcome to the June 24th meeting of the City of Bellevue Planning Commission.

This evening's meeting is held via hybrid format with both in-person and virtual options via Zoom.

Tonight's meeting will provide an opportunity for public comments during the oral communications portion of the agenda.

All written comments that have been submitted prior to 11 a.m.

today, Wednesday, June 24th, will be summarized into the record.

We have two study sessions on the agenda tonight, both of which are seeking approval to set a public hearing.

First one is the parking reform Luca, and uh the second one is the Great Neighborhoods program.

Uh review of the full draft of Factoria Neighborhood Area Plan, comprehensive plan amendment.

Now let's move forward with the roll call.

I'd like to note that Commissioner Ferris is attending remotely.

Vice Chair via Basis.

President Commissioner Kanlu.

Here.

Commissioner Geppel?

Here.

Commissioner Kennedy.

Here.

And Commissioner Neil Chian?

Here.

And uh Councilmember Bardova.

Also here.

And I am Chair Liu and uh I am here.

All right.

Can we get a motion to approve tonight's agenda?

So moved.

Is there a second?

Second.

All right.

All approved, say aye.

Great.

Thank you.

Uh Councilmember Bardova.

Do you have any updates from the council?

I can provide a quick update.

First of all, congratulations on being appointed chair and vice chair.

And thank you to the outgoing chair and vice chair for an incredible job last year.

Wish you the best for this year.

So we've got a lot to do.

And uh quick updates.

Uh from yesterday.

We had a um pretty extensive public hearing on the budget.

So the council is right now wrapped up in uh putting together um working with staff uh on putting together the budget for the next biennium, and the public hearing yesterday was sort of an early view of what folks have provided as input within the community of what they'd like to see uh as part of the budget.

Uh so that was uh I think it must have been 30 plus people who were testified on the budget, so it was really good input across a very broad spectrum of things.

Uh following which uh we got a really good update on where uh staff is on things like rates and forecasts.

Uh it was just an information session to get early input on what the council would like to see.

So that was a session.

And the second one was uh uh a study that was initiated out of council contingency funds uh on the request from uh council member Newenhouse uh and this was an assessment following the comprehensive plan update in 24 to see if our electrical grid is going to have enough capacity to support the growth.

Um and this was a regional study.

So uh the City of Bellevue conducted this in partnership with PSE as well as with the city of Redmond to look at substation capacity, feeder capacity, and all of those things outside of special uses like uh what could be uh data centers or very large energy uh consumption elements that are not part of the typical growth profile for the city.

And there's some good findings in there.

We got our AECOM as a consultant to come on, and they did uh extensive study in partnership with PSC in the cities, and they found then places where juristic uh specific substations that require upgrades in the next in the near term that are also uh probably a good uh reason for us to do a more comprehensive evaluation.

So they had some next steps prescribed.

And so this is the general support from the council on that, and then there will possibly be uh there is a request for uh additional budget allocations that they can be accommodated in the general fund uh for the next steps in the study to come back as we evaluate the budget.

So those were sort of a quick summary of what happened in the last week or so.

Great.

Thank you.

Uh any questions for councilmember Barduba?

All right.

If not, uh Kate, are there any reports from boards and commissions?