Thank you.

Hello and welcome.

It is 4 30 p.m.

and this is the July 2 21st meeting of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee of the Whole.

All council members are in attendance.

And I just want to note that this is a very packed meeting for this committee.

Um due to an item from another committee that is at the end and just being very packed for relative to how this committee goes in general.

So please try uh to be brief and I may have to cut folks off at some point.

Um but the first item of the three action items is the community development block grant projects presented by Deputy Director Allen and Alaric Bean of the planning department.

Thank you, Council.

We figured we'd get up here, so since it's a tight agenda.

Um presenting on the proposed allocation of the estimated 2027 community development block grant funds.

Alaric, it will explain how the determinations were made as well as some background information on how CBDG works and what uh the requirements are for the distribution of funds.

Uh the plan is very similar in uh compared to prior years, and we are looking for guidance from the council on how to proceed and are open to answering any questions you may have.

Alaric?

Great, thank you.

Um so the city is under an interlocal agreement with the county for administration of the federal community development block grant awards, so it's C D BG.

Um and under this arrangement, Redmond is what we call the joint agreement city.

So that means that some of the CDBG funds are allocated directly to us, passed through the county for us to allocate directly while the remainder is administered by the county.

The benefit of this is that we have some control over a portion of our funds, but uh we don't have to deal with all the additional requirements of being a full entitlement city.

Um things like the very complicated annual consolidated performance and evaluation report, the CAPER, uh entering data into their integrated disbursement and information system, IDIS, and meeting and documenting all of the federal civil rights and fair housing requirements.

So the portion that we do control goes to public services, to capital projects, and for out and an allocation for some administrative expenses.

How we determine what projects to fund, um CDBG capital funds can only support certain public improvement or parks projects, and because the amount that we get for um for capital is so small, it's difficult to use um to complete a whole single project.

The amount of staff time to run a full request for proposals and perform the required oversight and monitoring for a small amount would be overly burdensome for both the city as well as the grantee.

So by allocating these funds to Arch, um the city can leverage its CDBG dollars along with Redmond's general funds and the contributions of 13 other participating jurisdictions to support regional housing projects that Redmond couldn't finance alone.

And Arch's expertise in federal requirements and housing development also allows them to combine Redmond's CDBG funds with those from other cities like Kirkland to support major projects in Redmond like the John Gabriel House right here.

CDBG grants don't allow for the supplantation of existing funds, only the newly only newly funded or newly expanded programs are eligible.

And as part of the human services grant project process, the city staff reviews proposals to determine which programs meet these criteria and also have an interest and in and capacity to manage the federal funding.

So I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

And the the proposed um requested action is to go to consent on September 1st.

Um any questions from my colleagues.

Council Vice President Nueva Camino.

Thank you, Chair.

Um thank you, Alec, for presenting.

Um couple of quick comments on it is one.

Um, thank you for bringing it forward in a timely manner because I did notice the October deadline with budget with recess, all of the things.

So thank you for bringing it to us now while we've got time to get it where it needs to go.

Um I can't find it as I'm looking for it right now.

I vaguely remember reading, and please correct me if I'm wrong.

Um, that we needed if we weren't going to utilize the funds, then there needed to be a contingency plan.

Oh, yes, the contingency plan, because we don't know how much money we're actually going to get until probably the spring or early summer of next year.

The contingency plan, it's in the uh in the attachment.

The contingency plan, it's in the uh in the attachment, it's like if we get more we'll we'll um increase by proportionately more and if we get less we'll decrease proportionately for that.

And that was the question that I was getting to was what specifically is the contingency plan because I I as we're we're talking I remembered reading it somewhere in there but I just wanted to clarify on that before we move forward.

Great thank you.

Councilmember Sony will there be an SOW that you will receive it once the funds allocation is guaranteed and do or do we have to submit any report back or any metrics uh you know once these funds have been used and how we're going to keep a track of that.

Yes we um it's federal funding so there are a lot of requirements along with it so there is quarterly reporting and we have to document um everything and get monitored by the county actually every two years and we just finished our monitoring visit for this last um period.

I'm sorry what was the first part of the question?

First question was regarding the SOSOW I believe like you know we'll be signing the SOW with uh for this to receive this funding.

Yes we will um be doing uh a scope of work with with porch light and we're combining it with general funds because this is I think estimated to be only 49,000 dollars and the Eastside men shelter I think the allocation in past years has been about a hundred ninety thousand or a hundred thousand something like that.

So it's not enough.

So we do combine that into one scope of work.

Thank you.

I'm not seeing any more questions um thumbs up for moving this to consent on the September 1st business meeting.

Great.

Thank you so much Alaric and deputy director Allen.

The next action item of the day is the LWSD 2026 to 27 school community resource officer contract agreement presented by Chief Lowe of the police department good afternoon.

What you have in your packet or before you is the uh renewal of the contract with Lake Washington School District for the uh community resource officer program formerly known as the uh school resource officer program uh no significant uh changes or modifications uh glad to answer any questions thank you i see a question from council vice president Nueva Camino thanks Chief for bringing this forward um glad to hear you already answered one of my questions was are there any significant changes between last year's MOUs and this year's um and my second question is have have you been made aware of any uh new concerns um that we may not have heard yet um uh with with our CR um CRO thank you CROs uh no no no concerns with uh uh our staff there no concerns uh overall with the program um for sake of time I won't uh go through the modifications that you know it's uh um I'll say business as usual thank you council member Forsyth thank you um in years past we've had that dashboard reshared to us so we could track uh the the different instances when the CRO is involved could you reshare that out before we actually take the final vote on this uh yes thank you any more questions great well I'm not seeing any um can we get thumbs for putting this on consent on the August third business meeting great thank you um and are we doing the low altitude radar but okay in the in the packet it was um in a different order than the agenda so the next action item of the day is the low altitude radar system and Office of Airspace Management item also presented by Chief Lowe of the police department so uh in the memo it it gives a uh high level uh overview and outline of the uh low altitude uh radar uh system um that uh the city is looking to uh install um as part of the backstory uh we submitted for uh congressionally uh congressionally directed spending uh and the application was accepted so at this point uh we're waiting uh uh approval or signature by the uh house ways and means committee to understand uh exactly how much money is likely coming uh to the city uh so uh upon that approval there will not uh there will not be any initial uh cost to the city for the uh hardware uh what the uh system allows is it allows us to have a uh better operational picture and understanding of what is occurring uh at 400 feet and below uh which is the uh altitude in which uh our DFR program operates uh is the uh altitude in which most um recreational drones operate uh and it will be the uh altitude in which uh commercial drones will operate um at whatever point in time um I'll say that business or uh they come to

Uh what the uh system allows is it allows us to have a uh better operational picture and understanding of what is occurring uh at 400 feet and below uh which is the uh altitude in which uh our DFR program operates uh is the uh altitude in which most um recreational drones operate uh and it will be the uh altitude in which uh commercial drones will operate um at whatever point in time um I'll say that business or uh they come to the city of Redmond.