Olympia Planning Commission Subcommittee Capital Facilities Plan Review - August 27, 2026
Olympia Planning Commission Subcommittee Capital Facilities Plan Review - August 27, 2026
The subcommittee of the Olympia Planning Commission met on August 27, 2026, at 6:28 p.m. and adjourned at 6:42 p.m. Vice Chair Daniel Garcia and Commissioner Berger were present; Commissioner Ibrahimovich was absent. A quorum was established, and the meeting agenda was approved unanimously. The subcommittee took no public comment and spent the meeting assigning chapter reviews for the preliminary Capital Facilities Plan (CFP) and setting a question deadline for the September 8, 2026 chapter-contributor meeting. The transcript refers to the plan as both the preliminary 2027-2032 capital facilities plan and the preliminary capital facilities plan 2026-2031 financial plan, so the exact plan year/cycle is unclear in the record.
Agenda Approval
- The agenda was approved by unanimous voice vote after a motion and second.
Public Comments
- No community members provided public comment. The only non-commission attendee mentioned was a member of the media.
Discussion Items
- The subcommittee divided CFP chapter review assignments. Commissioner Garcia volunteered for transportation, fire, and parks, and offered to support the wastewater chapter. Commissioner Berger said transportation was also his favorite and volunteered for waste resources; he was willing to take the capital facilities chapter and offered support on wastewater.
- Commissioner Ibrahimovich, absent, had earlier indicated willingness to review any chapters. He was asked to take drinking water and the general capital facilities chapter.
- Commissioner Najati, not a subcommittee member, offered to review utility chapters where possible, including drinking water, wastewater, and storm/surface water. She had also requested public works documentation related to the new waste resources facility off Carpenter Road.
- The group agreed that each chapter needed at least one definite assigned reviewer, while transportation in particular might draw additional reviewers from the full commission.
Key Outcomes
- The chapter assignment list will be sent to the full planning commission, and all commissioners are welcome to review any chapter.
- Written questions for chapter contributors are due to staff by Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Staff will forward them to contributors before the September 8, 2026 meeting; written responses may follow after that meeting.
- The chapter-contributor meeting is scheduled for September 8, 2026. Staff apologized for the tight timeline following the Labor Day holiday.
- The regular planning commission meeting on September 7, 2026, is canceled due to the Labor Day holiday.
- Staff will distribute prior years' QA documents and comment letters, including roughly the last 12 years of comment letters, to support the review.
Meeting Transcript
Commissioner Berger, we're up and running. Okay, excellent. So that'll be uh call to order at 628. And uh I need to call the role. Or Casey, can you call the role? Yes. Um, Vice Chair Daniel Garcia here. Uh Commissioner Berger. Here. Um Commissioner Ibrahimovich is not able to attend this evening. So um for the subcommittee, we do have quorum. Okay, thank you. Uh we'll do an approval of the agenda next. We are looking at the preliminary 2027-2032 capital facilities plan. Can I get a motion? So moved. I'll second. And we will vote. All in favor. Okay. Excellent. Well, we're moving into public comments. During this portion of the meeting, community members may address the planning commission regarding items related to city business, including items on the agenda. In order for the commission to maintain impartiality and the appearance of fairness and to comply with the public disclosure law for political campaigns. Speakers will not be permitted to make public comments before the commission in two areas. Items for which the commission held a public hearing but has not yet completed its deliberations, then issued a recommendation to city council, or where the speaker promotes or opposes a candidate for public office or a ballot measure. Comments are limited to three minutes or less. Doesn't look like it. And I think they're actually a member of the media. So I think we're good to go, uh, Commissioner Merger. Okay, then we will move into business items. All right. Um and for that tonight, um, we're discussing the preliminary capital facilities plan 2026-2031 financial plan. And actually, um, should be a pretty quick meeting for you folks tonight. I'll share a slide. I am just looking for you uh you folks to um assign chapters, and I'm sorry, let me switch some screens real quick. There we go. Um looking to assign those chapters for your review, and then to also discuss um when to get follow-up questions for our chapter contributors um in preparation for our September, I believe it was September 8th meeting um where we'll discuss the program chapters with those chapter contributors. Um so uh are you folks seeing a slide with the program sections? Yeah, thank you. Good deal. So I do want to give you a heads up that um Commissioner Najati, um, though not technically a part of the subcommittee, has offered to review a couple of sections. Um, should you want to spread uh that work a little bit? Um her request is to uh maybe assign her the utility chapters where possible. So that might include drinking water, wastewater, storm and surface water. So that's an option there. Um and then Commissioner Ibrahimovich, who can't be here this evening. Um, he is fine reviewing any of the chapters um that um the both of you uh would like to assign um or don't want to review yourselves. So with that, um it's really kind of a discussion between the two of you to start on what chapters are of most interest. Um so Commissioner Berger, I'll turn it back over to you and I'll work through this uh as you go.
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