Tuesday, September 1st.

Welcome back from the break, everyone.

Uh, back to our regular regularly scheduled programming.

We have a very busy agenda tonight.

We have 11 items, so I'm gonna remind everyone to keep your remarks brief.

And if you have a lot of questions, please um indicate to staff that you will be emailing your questions uh for follow-up.

And we're gonna go ahead and kick it off tonight.

We're gonna start with um items from other committees since this is on tonight's business meeting for new business, and we're gonna look at the FY24 assistance to firefighters grant program.

And I will hand it on over.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Uh good afternoon or evening, everyone.

Thank you for allowing us to be here to participate in tonight's meeting.

Uh, we're here asking for uh that you authorize the mayor to execute the first amendment amendment to the fiscal year 24 assistance to firefighters grant uh for joint peer support training program.

Uh this grant provides the opportunity for Red and Fire to participate in a joint training uh to build out our peer support team uh with regional collaboration.

So we are uh uh included in this grant today uh already is agencies uh from Bellevue, East Side Fire and Rescue, Kirkland Fire, and Shoreline Fire Department.

Both Fire Department was originally a part of this grant and pulled out because they have a um they're in the process of a regional fire authority with shoreline fire, so it didn't make sense to have both of them in there with them removing themselves.

It gave us the opportunity to come in and be part of the grant, um, which we look at as a huge thing as a regional uh uh provider of uh responding to critical incidents uh altogether uh and able to support each other.

Uh this HG grant provides for instructional expenses expenses uh and OT that will allow members to attend 24 hours of initial training for new peer support members, uh 8.5 hours of online continued education for peer support members that exist today that are already in play, excuse me, and eight hours of training for regional practitioners um related to critical incident debriefings.

Uh so it takes our team that currently exists today, makes it far more robust in numbers, and also uh provides for additional training, continued education for for those that are already members.

Through this grant, over the next year and a half, Redmond will have the opportunity to provide uh uh 18 new members, initial training, uh 24 members that are exist existing peer support members, online continued education, and then additional 24 members are probably a combination of the two.

Uh the critical incident debriefing training.

So the that initial response right after the big event.

This all goes in in concert with you've heard about our MHP program with Brooke Lunquist and Rader.

This is a team that she oversees but operates with her in those uh during those times of need, whether it's uh for Redmond Fire Department, uh citywide across departments, and certainly regionally to uh play with these other agencies that are involved.

Uh Redwind's financial responsibility for this training will come from previously budgeted monies in the peer support budget and will include a total of $7,653 uh in expense to us.

Um everything else will be covered by the grant.

We are asking that council authorize the mayor to execute on the amendment, uh ask that action be taken tonight and approval during the business meeting this evening.

Uh and again, we apologize for the short notice.

The this kind of came about quickly for us.

It gave us a great opportunity to get involved.

And the reason for the quick turnaround is that the the next session of training for the initial is uh September 14th.

Um, and we don't want to miss that opportunity.

So um thank you for hearing me out.

I'm happy to take questions if there are any.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

I'm gonna go to Menka online and then um sorry, Councilmember Sony online, and Councilmember Kurtzer in person after that.

Um hi everyone, sorry I have to attend this meeting um you know online because I'm in India due to a family emergency.

Um I just have one quick question.

I as you like you know, uh, because this um there are different agencies, those who are participating in this, and my question is suppose if one of the agency is not able to continue forward, is there any failure or the drop out?

Is the cost to Redmond is going to increase?

Currently, I believe it is coming with a share of 7,653.

Uh, if this happens, is there going to be an extra button on city of Redmond for this particular share?

Yeah, it's a great question.

So we would uh as uh uh one of the uh the agencies within the grant, we would want to continue the grant to move forward.

Uh if that was to happen, which is highly unlikely, but if it was to happen, we would probably split that additional uh that uh approximately $7,000 that that agency had removed themselves from.

Um I I don't see that happening.

They've all committed to this uh uh willingly and with a desire to build out a program uh that that honestly looks much more like our program looks.

Um and I think that they're uh the likelihood of that occurring is is uh very very uh slim.

Um but that if that was to happen that cost that $7,000 would be split amongst the per four agencies that are still involved.

split that additional uh that uh approximately 7,000 dollars that that agency had removed themselves from um i i don't see that happening they've all committed to this uh uh willingly and with a desire to build out a program uh that that honestly looks much more like our program looks um uh and i think that they're uh the likelihood of that occurring is is is uh very very uh slim um but that if that was to happen that cost that seven thousand dollars would be split amongst the per four agencies that are still involved uh and we do have money budgeted in our lineup uh currently through peer support that we could cover that if we had to thank you council member Kurtzer thank you um and glad to see this I I think having additional resources supporting the the health and wellness of of our firefighters and and training is great um just since it is a federal grant um just wanted to make sure there's nothing that we would be um aligning to and signing on to uh to receive this grant that would be in contrast to our own values as a city no absolutely not um that that's a great question but uh AFG grant and safer grant are both um uh well protected in in in an environment that uh uh has has been tested I guess is probably the best way to say it over the last year or two and and there's been no impact to the to agencies strings on this this grant that were additionally added correct since 2024.

No thanks great thank you we will see this item on new business tonight thanks everyone thank you thank you we'll move on to our regular agenda now thanks for moving that um with me everyone this is the first item approval final contract with integrity energy and acceptance of construction for the sustainability LED lighting retrofit fit project take it away good afternoon council Chris Stinger acting director of public works and joining me is Steve Gibbs capital manager as stated uh we're looking for approval of the final contract with integrity energy services and acceptance of construction for the sustainability LED lighting retrofit project so this project upgraded the lighting at City Hall and was completed under an energy savings performing contract administered through the uh Washington State Department of Enterprise Services tonight we're requesting committee direction to move this item forward to consent approval at the September 15th business meeting and with that I'm gonna turn it over to Steve Gibbs to provide some details good evening council uh good to see you again um just a couple of fun facts on this project uh at the complete completion of this project um city hall is now um uh will meet the new clean building energy standards that I believe come in effect in June of 27 um also uh we're gonna save about 28000 a year in uh energy cost for the building and um and and the kind of the final step in this project is um I think completion was right around um March April time frame and so in about a year we'll finish a final energy audit and kind of the contractor will report back on whether they they met the commitments um that kind of started this whole process off which was that kind of the it's about a nine percent uh reduction in total energy cost for the building wonderful thank you any questions on this item all right council member parcy uh can you elaborate again when we can see potential evidence of um the cost savings being reflected in our electricity bills if we wanted to just um kind of actually look at the evidence to celebrate it sure sure so so like I said the the audit will be completed in about a year we've got uh our first set of billings came in and they are uh reduced uh in about the amount we were expecting so I think we're on target to meet that the goal of the project that nine percent reduction in energy costs great we look forward to hearing in a year what the overall total is uh council member Procria thank you um you know I've heard community feedback that says will city council be able or will city hall be able to turn their lights off at night this is something I'm sure uh most of us sitting around the table have heard I was wondering if you could speak to that point of community concern um with regards to the new light fixtures in the building so that was one of the nice features about this project was we you know originally was just replacing with LED lighting which obviously is a reduction in energy but then we added the controls and so if a space is unoccupied for a certain amount of time the the lights will will dim and and go out and then once uh they sense activity it'll it'll come back on and so I do I haven't verified I haven't been out here at midnight to check do we know the lights turn off at night I don't want to date myself but if you remember get smart when you walk in and it's kind of like that all the all the lights and you really feel welcome when you come into city hall wonderful thank you other questions on this acceptance great uh any um issues with having this on consent on September 15th oh I see council member Sony uh just a quick question because there is a rebate so uh just in case if if during the audits if they find that the post installations um the the usage has been different than what we has been originally uh projected is there any clawbacks on those rebate or is it like we will still get that yeah that that's the one

Oh, I see Councilmember Sony.

Uh just a quick question because there is a rebate.

So uh just in case if if during the audits, if you find that the post installations, um the the usage has been different than what we has been originally uh projected.

Is there any clawbacks on those rebate or is it like we will still get that?

Yeah, that that's the one thing about this this process is that the the contractor, the builder, design builder um has kind of guaranteed that we will see these reductions.

And if at the end of the year and the audit comes back and we're not seeing that, then they will cover the delta.

They will they'll be responsible for the difference.