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Special City Council Meeting
- . November 2, 2015 -4:00 PM
° Auburn City Hall
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I. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Nancy Backus called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. in the Council
Chambers located in Auburn City Hall, 25 West Main Street in Auburn, and led those
in attendance in the Pledge of Allegiance.
City Councilmembers present: Deputy Mayor Holman, Rich Wagner, Bill Peloza,
Largo Wales, Wayne Osborne, Claude DaCorsi, and Yolanda Trout.
Department directors and staff members present included: City Attorney Daniel B
Heid, Director of Administration Dana Hinman, Police Chief Bob Lee, Community
Development and Public Works Director Kevin Snyder, Assistant Director of
Engineering Services/City Engineer Ingrid Gaub, Assistant Director of Community
Development Services Jeff Tate, Planning Services Manager Jeff Dixon, Utilities
Engineering Manager Lisa Tobin, Transportation Manager Pablo Para, Traffic
Engineer James Webb, Human Resources and Risk Management Director Rob
Roscoe, Economic Development Manager Doug Lein, and Deputy City Clerk Shawn
Campbell.
II. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Introduction of the Core Comprehensive Plan (15 Minute Presentation/ 15
Minute Q&A) (Snyder)
Assistant Director Tate presented Council with the Comprehensive Plan
overview and schedule. He explained the schedule and some of the groups that
have had input on the document including Council, Planning Commission, staff
and citizens. The City is using several different kinds of reports to develop the
Core Plan, including the buildable lands analysis, a health impact assessment,
the Countywide Planning Policies, the Imagine Auburn survey, the Puget Sound
Regional Council Vision 2040, the Growth Management Act and the Housing
Characteristics assessment. With the data used to develop the Core Plan the
City has created the Land Use Element, Utilities Element, Housing Element,
Transportation Element, Capital Facilities Element, Economic Development
Element, and the Parks Element of the Core Comprehensive Plan.
Councilmember DaCorsi stated staff has done great work developing the
Comprehensive Plan. He said the City needs to move forward with mixed
income housing as part of the Housing Element.
Councilmember Wagner stated he appreciated the added detail and the addition
of the Seven Core Values. He said he would like to see something on
the people who do not live in the City limits but are still in the city at various
times for various reasons.
B. Comprehensive Storm Drainage Plan (15 Minute Presentation/ 15 Minute Q&A)
(Snyder)
Storm Drainage Engineer Carlaw recapped the accomplishments from the 'l
2009 Strom Drainage Plan. He explained the City has completed most age of 3
projects in the Plan. The City is subject to new regulatory requirements for the
National Pollutant Discharge Elemination System (NPDES) Permit including new
Low Impact Development regulations, increased inspection and maintenance
requirements, payment for the Ecology Water Quality Monitoring Program and
adherence to a new stormwater management manual. The 2015 Drainage Plan
Capital Improvement Projects have been prioritized by these three levels:
1.) level of significant risk and failure to meet level of service; 2.) some risk and
level of service could be improved; and 3.) opportunity to resolve drainage
issues when combined with other projects. The 2015 Drainage Plan Capital
Improvement Projects are: West Main Street Pump Station upgrade, 37th and I
streets NW Storm Improvements, Hillside Drainage Assessments, 30th Street
NE Area Flooding with Phases 2 and 3 of the North Airport Area
Improvements, West Hill Drainage Improvements, D Street Improvements, 23rd
Street SE Drainage Improvements and a vegetative waste sorting facility. The
Plan does not include any increases in the Storm SDC except for inflation, their
are no changes to the adopted rate through 2017 and there will be a future rate
increases of 2.6% annually beginning in 2018 and 2019. The Plan recommends
the City continue to monitor current location and any future projects, continue
the Storm System Inventory Program, increase ditch maintenance, improve
stormwater pond maintenance, continue asset management, and improve
easements access. The future staffing needs for the program include two Storm
Inventory Team members in 2016, one Engineering Services staff member in
2017 and one additional staff person in the Maintenance and Operations
department in 2017.
Councilmember DaCorsi asked what level of effort is required to complete the
Hillside assessment. Storm Drainage Engineer Carlaw explained the concerns
are not wide spread. Staff will research the issues then physically inspect each
drain on the hillsides to assess the needed repairs.
C. Comprehensive Transportation Plan (25 Minute Presentation/ 20 Minute Q&A)
(Snyder)
Transportation Manager Para explained the Comprehensive Transportation Plan
has not had a major update since 2009. Since 2009 the City has completed over
50 transportation projects totaling over$70 million. The City currently has over
216 centerline miles of roadway, over 100 miles of sidewalks adjacent to
roadways, over 2,700 City owned and maintained street lights and over 8,000
City owned and maintained street signs. In the traffic signal system the City has
93 traffic signals, one rail crossing signal and gate, 48 school zone beacons, 6
speed radar signs and 7 pedestrian crossing beacons. As part of the intelligent
transportation systems, the City has a traffic management center, 47 traffic
cameras and 20 miles of fiber optic and copper interconnections.
Transportation Manager Para explained the way the City forecasts for
population, housing needs and employment for the next 20 years. He then
explained the levels of service for the City and how two intersections within the
City currently operate below standards.With the forecasted population and
employment growth the City is expected to have other intersections that will
operate below standards by 2020.
Traffic Engineer Webb explained the City must to go through the focasting
process in order to be able to update the plan for future growth. He explained
the plan will update the capital projects including removing completed or
unneeded projects, and adding new projects. Non-motorized updates include
ADA improvements and fixing sidewalk gaps, the Transit.Plan updates include
discontinuation of bus routes 152 and 919, midday Sounder services being
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added in 2016, adding route 497 to meet all Sounder Trains, and working with
Sound Transit for additional parking.
Councilmember Wales stated she appreciates the City has a system to analyze
the roads.
III. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:21 p.m.
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