The Kirkland City Council met in a hybrid study session from 5:30 p.m. and regular session from 7:30 p.m. on September 5, 2023. The study session covered the preliminary 2023-2028 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) update and the Future of Park Lane study findings. During the regular meeting, the council heard public comments, adopted a consent calendar, and acted on three business items: a childcare partnership with Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech), a property acquisition for the Cross Kirkland Corridor, and a utility box art wrap work plan. Key decisions included retaining Park Lane’s current status (no permanent or partial closure), approving a childcare interlocal agreement, and authorizing a land purchase with amendments to secure external funding.
Good evening. I would like to call to order the city council meeting of September the fifth, two thousand twenty-three. 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. Council Member Curtis. Here. Councilmember Falcone. Here. Councilmember Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Sweet. Here. Thank you. Our study session tonight is on two topics. First, a preliminary update on the twenty twenty three-2028 capital improvement program. And second, a review of the future of Park Lane study findings. We expect to reconvene our regular meeting at approximately 7 30. City Manager. Okay, thank you, Madame Mair. Um so just a general public service announcement. Uh just before the council meeting, we blew a fuse in our HVAC system in the chambers, which unfortunately we don't have that fuse to replace tonight. So fortunately, it's a reasonably good day outside, but if it gets a little hot here, we can bring in some more fans. Uh this may not be an issue now, but as we get closer into the evening, it could be an issue. Um tonight we have two topics. The first is to talk about our CIP update. Um the purpose of this is a check-in for council, and then we'll be bringing this back in November, December, for final action. So I want to update you on any changes. We do have one policy issue, which is a discussion of real estate exercise tax reserves, and then a second discussion on Park Lane. So here today, the CIP project update is our financial planning manager George Dugdale and our financial planning supervisor Kevin Pellstring. Thank you, City Manager. Good evening, Mayor. Welcome, George. Good evening, Mayor, Council members. Um as the city manager said, we our first part of our study session is on the update to the twenty twenty-three twenty twenty-eight capital improvement program. So I'm gonna introduce the topic and then Kevin Pelstring, our financial planning supervisor, will go through the um the details of the project changes. We have about twenty we have twenty-four slides for you this evening. We walk through some of the policy highlights, some of the the re reserves, and then also the detailed project changes. And at the moment, there are a number of items, the transportation management plan, uh, translation master plan rather, and some other significant planning processes underway. Um so we have more kind of updates to the current CIP and some kind of changes to projects rather than new thinking and a lot of new projects. Um we do have changes related to work program items. We have updates to project timing, we have some changes in funding sources, and then as mentioned previously, we have some changes to the re reserve policies. The primary goal for for this um biennium and this biannual budget is delivering the projects that are already underway. Some of these have been impacted by elevated inflation, which we've discussed before at retreats and at council meetings, and the some of the impacts of that will be seen as we get into the budget, uh into the projects themselves.