The Kirkland City Council held a study session beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. on September 6, 2022. The meeting included three proclamations, a public hearing, presentations on the city's biennial survey and progress on Resolution R-5434, and several business items. The council approved a planned action ordinance for the Google campus, an agreement with WSDOT for the I-405 improvement project, and a consent calendar with numerous routine items. Key discussions focused on the solid waste reserve policy, capital facility charges, the surface water master plan, and the two-year review of the city's equity work.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:14 p.m.
Recording in progress. Thank you. I would like to call to order the city council meeting of September the 6th, 2022. Tonight's meeting is a hybrid meeting. Community members are welcome to join us either in person or remotely through Zoom or by telephone. Clerk, will you please call a roll for this evening's meeting? Council Member Nixon. Here. Council Member Black. Here. Council Member Curtis. Council Member Falcone. Here. Council Member Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Sweet. Here. Thank you. Our study session tonight is on three topics. The first is on proposed 2023-2024 solid waste reserve policy options. The second is on the capital facility charge policy. The third topic at tonight's session study session is a draft 2023 surface water master plan update. We expect to convene our regular meeting at approximately 7.30 p.m. City Manager. Okay, thank you, Madam Mayor. So uh the one thing we want to say about the last topic is if the first two topics take longer, we can cut it short and bring it back to a future council meeting because we're probably gonna have several conversations about the surface water master plan anyway. So um but with that, I'll go ahead and nurse the first topic. It's gonna be uh led by our utility and polic utility policy and community relations supervisor, John McGilfrey. And this is on the solid waste reserve options. Welcome, John McGill. City manager, um Mayor, can you call the role? Oh, we did we did call the role. Kevin, we did call roll. Okay. Um well, thank you, City Manager, and uh good evening, uh Mayor Sweet, uh Deputy Mayor Arnold and uh City Council members. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen here. Got four quick slides. Okay, so um, as you recall, um at the August 3rd study session, staff brought to the city council's attention uh that the solid waste 2024 operating uh reserve balance fund balance was uh for a variety of reasons was going to be lower than we projected back in January when the council adopted the February and July 2022 rate increases that are attributable to the um new contract with waste management. So tonight we're back uh to get some policy direction from the the council. So shown here um are the uncodified but um observed utility reserve policies uh with solid waste highlighted. Um the solid waste um reserve policy is uh 2.3 million. So that's what we try to achieve, which is essentially one month payment to waste management, one month payment of disposal fees to King County plus operating expenses. Uh, we're projecting right now that our fund balance would be at 1.2 million instead of 2.3 million at the end of 2024. Brought some options back to you to manage that this uh situation. So um the first option is maintaining that 1.2 million dollar fund balance, which is recommended by staff. Um really the question is you know, can we carry a lower fund balance in solid waste? And the the short answer is is yes, we can, but it's certainly not ideal. We'd love to be at 2.3 million.