The Committee of the Whole for Public Safety and Human Services met on May 19, 2026, to review several action items, informational reports, and discuss future agenda items. Presiding Officer Councilmember Prakriya led the meeting, with council members Stewart, Nuevacamina, Parsi, Forsyth, Soni, and Kritzer in attendance. The committee considered consent agenda items, an informational police report, updates on the REDI program, community stability funding, and zoning code amendments.
And this is the May 19th. Council members in attendance are Council President Stewart, Council Vice President Nueva Camino, Council Members Parsi, Forsyth, Sony, Kritzer, and myself, presiding officer, Councilmember Brocria. We have five action items on the agenda today. And I will note that this is actually a very packed meeting. So I may need to cut you off at some point when it comes to questions. The first action item is Vision Blueprint 2050, an update of Redmond's capital investment strategy presented by Glenn Coyle of the Planning Department. I guess I'll skip you our talking points. Okay. Good afternoon, Council members. I'm Glenn Coyle, senior planner in the long-range planning team. Staff is requesting council uh to approve the Vision Blueprint 2050, which is the city's capital investment strategy. This strategic plan serves as the nexus between the vision goals and capital facility policies in the Redmond 2050 comprehensive plan and the city's capital investment program, known as the CIP, and the two-year budget. Vision Blueprint 2050 compiles the city's capital planning and financial policies as well as projects from the city's adopted functional plans and lays out a capital investment strategy to the year 2050. It should be noted that the city's long-term capital projects and these are housed in separate functional plans. Vision Blueprint 2050 brings together these existing projects into one resource that can be used as a guide to plan and coordinate the city's CIP as well as long-term planning for capital projects. It is not a budget document, but rather a planning document. Vision Blueprint 2050 will serve as a resource for the city's long-term capital planning. Similar to his present predecessor, Vision Blueprint 2030, the plan is intended as a live in document. It will be updated during off-budget years in anticipation of updates to the six-year CIP. Lastly, I'd like to note that this was a true multi-departmental effort with numerous staff from public works, parks, finance, planning, environmental sustainability, police, and fire involved in the reviewing and editing process of this plan. It is also the product of other important plan updates that needed to be completed before we could finalize this plan, such as the Transportation Master Plan, the Capital Facilities Plan for Government Facilities, and the Fire Functional Plan. As it was mentioned, staff is seeking approval by resolution on the consent agenda June 2nd. And I will turn it back to the chair for discussion and any questions. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you, Glenn. Any questions? Councilmember Kritzer. Thank you so much. This is a very robust document and obviously reflects a lot of years of work on a variety of plans that are contained within this plan or things that inform the this plan. Typically, when we look at something of this kind of scale, we usually have a study session. So I'm just curious. It seems like this is our first touch of moving it straight to consent. Can you speak to kind of the thinking on that or whether is it just because it it's includes so much that we've already covered? Otherwise, I I guess I'm just wondering if it makes sense for us to have an additional kind of touch on this. I would say yes uh to the first thing uh related that all the material in this is already existing in other places. Um adopted functional plans that council had adopted, the Redmond 2050 plan, um, even parts of the current budget and things like that. Um that's one of the first reasons. The second also is that the city is going into an updated um budget process. The city is currently updated updated CIP, which will be coming to council um this spring, summer, fall. And we did also didn't want to kind of muddle those kind of similar but parallel processes with this document, um, which would be triggered to be updated uh next year after the next budget's approved. So that that was kind of the thinking and the original scope of this plan ultimately was to have this adopted a little bit earlier um in this year, or perhaps even last year. Uh it's just with the other delays to some of our functional plans, you know, just trying to get those approves, you know, getting all the numbers and metrics there kind of updated. Uh, this got pushed back a little bit. So that was kind of the reasoning behind um that um I don't know turns to either. Anybody else want to say anything? Okay. Yeah, I guess I would say, like, for example, I know we're in the middle of review right now on our fiscal policies, which um are referenced in chapter three. Um, so my only concern about passing this is if this is kind of leveling up. One is I think being able to be assured if there are any things in here that aren't policies we already approved or kind of direction that we already approved and being able to pull out anything that's net new in here, which is a little hard to tell from here.