The Kirkland City Council held a regular meeting on July 5, 2023, starting with a study session at 5:30 p.m. and the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m., adjourning at 10:07 p.m. The meeting included a study session on a potential parks ballot measure, honors and proclamations, public comments, a petition, consent calendar, business items on automated noise enforcement and the school resource officer program, and a contract amendment for the Park Lane study.
The consent calendar was approved with a 7-0 vote, excluding the pulled item.
Thank you. We're live, Mayor. Thank you. I'd like to call to order the City Council meeting of July the 5th, 2023. 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 the roll? Councilmember Nixon. Here. Councilmember Black. Here. Councilmember Curtis. Here. Councilmember Falcone. Here. Councilmember Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Sweet. Here. Thank you. Our study session tonight is a discussion on a potential parks ballot measure draft ordinance. We expect to reconvene our regular meeting at approximately 7 30. City manager. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Members of the Council. So tonight is our last sort of discussion opportunity before we're going to be asking Council to make final decisions on the July 18th council meeting. So we're definitely looking for your final input, suggestions, comments, edits, and so forth on the presentation tonight. She's been extraordinarily working on that getting this through the team, as well as Beth Goldberg. They worked really hard on this over the last two days to get it signed. So we now have that in the packet. While there are certainly things we might tweak on it if we could, we felt that uh since it's not yet binding and is going to be replaced by a purchase and sale agreement, uh, that it made sense to go ahead and sign it. So we at least now have that actual physical document as part of the presentations for the today and July 18th. So very excited about that piece of information. So with that, uh, to give you an overview of where we are now and ask you the qu the final questions we have is Lynn's Wagstra, our parks and community services director. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor, Deputy Mayor and City Council. As you know, we're here this evening to continue our conversation on the parks ballot measure. Presenting this evening would be me as well as Hilary De La Cruz, our management analyst, Shri Krishna, the Deputy Director of Finance, and back by special invitation is Deanna Gregory, our Bond Council with Pacifica Law Group. And she is joining us virtually this evening. So those are our three primary sections. And then at the end, we'll kind of um finish with a little update on the timeline and any next steps necessary for the ballot measure. And on that note, I will hand it over to Shri. Thanks, Lynn. Good evening, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Council. So we wanted to just take a moment at the very beginning and walk through the base levy for the city and what the impact of the 20% assessed valuation decrease has on it. The table in front of you is also in the memo. And we're gonna walk through it in sort of columns by talking about what has happened in 2023, what we're projecting for 2024 with the 20% reduction and what the changes are. The bottom line is to let you know that uh the impact on the property tax levy itself is roughly 24 cents.