Good afternoon and welcome to the March 16th meeting of the Olympia City Council Finance Committee.

It's 4 30 p.m.

And I'll call the meeting to order roll call.

We have all three committee members with Councilmember Kelly Green and Councilmember Robert Vanderpool joining me, Clark Gilman.

We have an agenda to approve.

Say it.

Right.

So the move is seconded to approve the agenda for tonight.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay.

We have an agenda.

Is there anybody signed up for public comment this evening?

There's no one assigned up in personal public comment and nobody register on the zoom for public comment.

Thank you, Sean.

Okay.

The next item is to consider approving the minutes from the February 23rd meeting of the planets committee.

So all in favor of approving the minutes, say aye.

Aye.

Wonderful.

And this brings us to the first item of committee business this evening.

Um, an update on the waste resources carpenter road facility.

And Debbie, do you have any introductory comments for this?

I do not.

Well, then we will call on public works director Mark Russell to kick off the presentation, and you can introduce Ron and Tom and your attorney and anybody on the buddy.

Yeah.

Well, good evening, Finance Committee.

Um, for the record, I'm Mark Russell, Public Works Director, and with me is Ron Jones, our interim waste resources director.

And behind me is Tom Jeffers, the deaf fund director of public work.

Thanks for having us.

I'm here tonight to talk to you about our Carpenter Road waste resources maintenance facility project.

So with that, our agenda is um we've been working on this project for a very long time, many, many years actually, as I'm sure some of you know.

Um so I'll give you some background, kind of catch us all up on where we've been, and talk about the Carpenter Road facility itself.

Um, go over the latest uh project cost estimate, including uh potential debt payments and the rate implications of that debt payment, and then discuss next steps with the project.

So if you're okay with that agenda, all right.

Super.

So let's uh next slide, please thanks.

Um just to ground everyone.

I know you've all been to the maintenance center on East Side Street, that that's a aerial of the picture.

And that building is almost 50 years old.

It was the previous transit maintenance facility.

Um, it is no longer efficient for the operations crews that work out of that facility.

They've outgrown the space dramatically.

Ums and building deficiencies exist.

Um, they're at the end of their useful life.

Um, there's challenging environmental conditions as you can see.

We have Bat Mox Lake Creek on one side of the property.

There's some wetlands in the middle of the property.

Um, so there's just some environmental and stormwater challenges on the site.

Um, there's also steep slopes around the perimeter, so there's really not a lot of space we can use around it.

Um, and the facility itself, the main building does not meet any seismic requirements.

So if there were an earthquake, it would greatly hamper our response.

We would be working 24 hours a day if that building collapsed or had something, some major damage to an earthquake, it would really hamper our response to the community.

So previous building condition assessments have estimated that it would cost about 15 million dollars to do the needed repairs and renovations.

And that also includes addressing the environmental concerns on the site and the strawwater concerns on the side.

So that's a picture of our existing facility.

Next slide, please.

So given those challenges of the current site, the city hired a consultant back in 2017 to help identify solutions.

They looked at renovating the existing building or rebuilding on the current site.