I'm calling this meeting to order.

This is a Redmond City Council study session held on Tuesday, October 28th, commencing at 7 p.m.

Council members in attendance are Council Member Nueva Camina, Councilmember Salahouden, Councilmember Stewart online.

We have Council Vice President Forsyth and Council Member Fields.

We also have Mayor Burney with us tonight.

And myself, Council President Kritzer.

I will note Councilmember Anderson if and when she arrives.

There are four items on our agenda tonight.

The Capital Facilities Plan 2050 General Government, a short-term rental code update, transportation master plan status update, e-mobility technology maintenance, performance metrics chapters, and transportation facilities plan, and council talk time.

So the first item on our agenda is the Capital Facilities Plan 2050 General Government.

And we have Laureen Hamilton, our Parks and Recreation Director here to introduce this item.

Go ahead.

Good evening, City Council.

I'm Lorene Hamilton, the Parks and Recreation Director here for the City of Redmond.

This evening we are bringing forward the Capital Facilities Plan 2050 General Government.

As you'll recall, we had a previous study session in which we brought this item to you.

This item has also gone through the planning commission, and I sent to you earlier today the planning commission's recommendation for adoption of this plan.

In our last study session with you all, the request was to dig a little bit more into the financial strategy behind the capital facilities plan.

And so that's the presentation and information we've prepared prepared for you this evening.

I'm joined by Kelly Cochran, our finance director to help dig into that, and then Cameron Zapata, our parks uh senior planner who really has shepherded this process throughout the city, and um honestly publicly just want to give her and Glenn Coyle from the planning department um huge props for the hard work that they've done with our consultants and um Quinn Kuhnhausen, our facilities manager.

So at this time I'm gonna hand it off to Cameron to start our presentation.

All right, good evening all.

Uh, my name is Cameron Zapata, a senior park planner.

Also joined here with some city staff members.

We have Quinn Kunhausen and Glenn Coyle, and we also have our consultant Scott from Makers.

Um we're here to bring back the Capital Facilities Facilities 2050 General Government Plan.

As a reminder, the purpose and goals for this project are to update the 2025 to 2030 Capital Facilities Plan, which was adopted as part of Redmond 2050.

This plan forecasts the future need of capital facilities based on the 2050 uh growth targets.

It'll identify potential locations and expansions for facilities, and it provides an analysis of how the city will finance capital facilities projects within its funding capacity and identifies as potential funding sources.

And lastly, it updates facility conditions and department needs from the 2019 Capital Facilities Plan.

The Capital Facilities Plan is considered an amendment to Redmond 2050 as it's a reference to the capital facilities element.

The draft plan, like Lorreen mentioned, uh went to the Planning Commission on its October 22nd meeting where they recommended approval with the following recommendations to City Council.

So the first recommendation is to add climate resiliency policies to section one, and this shows consistency with Redmond 2050 and the broader sustainability goals.

Second, uh to add a statement to the city's commitment to using resilient and sustainable building materials with an emphasis on long-term durability and sustainability.

Third is to add language to conduct climate vulnerability assessments during the design phase of new facility construction.

Um additionally, expanding the list of hazards to explicitly include extreme heat, which has become a more frequent and relevant risk to our community.

The revenue source uh source charts are to be updated with additional text to provide clearer context on how funding sources align with current budget allocations.

And then lastly, an added reference to the water system plan, especially as it relates to campus planning coordination.

So here's a cost summary graph of the projects, and they're color-coded by the different functional areas.

You can see that throughout the different time frames.

A bulk of the spending isn't focused on just one functional area and that it's spread throughout.

And then here's the revenue sources based on time frames.

The capital facilities plan, it doesn't commit specific funding sources.

These sources are assumed based on current and projected funding sources.

And paying with cash is generally not feasible for most cities, and common methods for securing funding include councilmanic bonds, voter approved and revenue bonds, as well as impact fees.

The specific funding strategies will be determined during the budgeting process.

And next steps include going to committee of the whole on November 18th, and then for final adoption anticipated for December 2nd.

And then in 2026, staff will begin the process to update the CIP for 2027 to 2032, which this plan will inform.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there questions from the council?

Councilmember Stewart.

Thank you so much for bringing this back with some additional data.

And I'll just say for the planning commission's report that we received earlier today, I had a chance quickly to take a look at those.

In terms of the financial questions that this plan had, I'd love to hear a little bit more.

So as Cameron said, the plan included some assumptions about how the plan would be funded.

I think for me, the baseline is making sure that when we have done our job of adopting the capital facilities plan, we've done our job of not necessarily knowing where every single dollar is going to come from, but proving to ourselves and the next generation of the council that will be responsible for implementing it that it's possible to fund to fund it in this way.

So at the moment, the the plan is missing a little bit more of explanation about some of those assumptions, and I'd love to learn a little bit more about those assumptions.

I see, for instance, the call on a bonding strategy that is big in these first few years, and then additional reliance in the 2030s through 2050 on greater investment from REIT and the general fund.

And I'd love to you know hear about how we are prepared to make those obligations and that recommendation.