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KEN T Kent, Washington
WASXINGTON
July 16, 2002
The regular meeting of the Kent City Council was called to order at
7 : 00 p.m. by Mayor Pro Tem Woods . Present : Councilmembers Clark,
Epperly, Orr, Peterson, White and Yingling. Others present : Chief
Administrative Officer Martin, City Attorney Brubaker, Police Chief
Crawford, Fire Chief Schneider, Public Works Director Wickstrom,
Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director Hodgson, and
Assistant Finance Director Hillman. Mayor White was not in
attendance . Approximately 30 people were at the meeting. (CFN-198)
CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
Other Business Item 7B was added at the request of
Council member Epperly. Martin removed Item 4B from
Public Communications . White removed Item 6P from the
Consent Calendar. Woods added a Public Communications
item introducing an appointee, and Consent Calendar
Item 6T confirming the appointment .
Continued Communications Item 11A was added at the
request of Joe Rubio, Val Ensor noted that she would like
to comment on the S. 228th Corridor Noise Abatement Wall ,
which was added as Continued Communications Item 11B; and
Continued Communications Item 11C was added at the
request of Ted Kogita, 25227 Reith Road. (CFN-198)
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
National Night Out. Mayor Pro Tem Woods read a pro-
clamation noting that it is important that all citizens
of the City of Kent know the value of crime prevention
programs and the impact that citizen participation can
have on reducing crime and drug abuse, and noted that
Mayor White has proclaimed August 6, 2002 as National
Night Out in the City of Kent She presented the
proclamation to Judy Mauhl of the Police Department, who
explained the program. Woods noted that most of the
Council members will be participating in the program on
August 6th. (CFN-155)
Introduction of Appointee. Woods noted that the Mayor
has appointed Mr. Oleg Pynda to serve as a member of the
Kent Diversity Advisory Board. (CFN-155)
Senior Center. Mayor Pro Tem Woods noted that City staff
and many citizens are mourning the loss of three senior
citizens who died in a City-sponsored event last weekend.
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Parks Director Hodgson explained that a plane taking them
to a fishing trip in Alaska went down and everyone on
board was killed. He commended staff members Leah Bishop
and Lori Hogan for their professionalism and their caring
support of the families, and expressed thanks for the
many offers of help from other citizens, staff members
and communities . He noted that a memorial will be held
on July 31st Woods extended the Councils thoughts to
the families, and said these three men touched the lives
of many people at the Senior Center. (CFN-198)
CONSENT CALENDAR
ORR MOVED to approve Consent Calendar Items A through T,
with the exception of Item P. Yingling seconded and the
motion carried.
MINUTES
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6A) (CFN-198)
Approval of Minutes. Approval of the minutes of the
regular Council meeting of July 2 , 2002 .
PUBLIC WORKS
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6C) (CFN-1038)
King County Flood Control District Interlocal Agreement.
Authorization for the Mayor to sign an Interlocal agree-
ment which provides for the continued support for the
flood hazard reduction, flood warning and emergency
response embodied in the Green River Basin program. The
term of the agreement is for ten years . The citizens of
Kent and the business community have benefited substan-
tially from this program by the high level of risk
reduction provided.
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6D) (CFN-171)
S. 228th Street Corridor Noise Abatement Wall.
Authorization to direct staff to include the design and
construction of a noise abatement wall in conjunction
with the 228th Corridor project , as recommended by Public
Works Committee .
(BIDS - ITEM 8A) (CFN-1270)
2002 Traffic Striping. The bid opening for this project
was held on July 8th with three bids received The low
bid was submitted by Stripe Rite, Inc . in the amount of
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$38, 429 . 50 . The Engineer' s estimate was $45, 961 .40 . The
Public Works Director recommends awarding this contract
to Stripe Rite, Inc . CLARK MOVED that the 2002 Traffic
Striping contract be awarded to Stripe Rite, Inc . for the
low bid amount of $38 ,429 50 . Peterson seconded and the
motion carried.
STREET VACATION
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6E) (CFN-102)
Street Vacation, Smith Street and Thompson Street.
Passage of Resolution No. 1622 setting a public hearing
date of August 20th for the street vacation located along
a portion of Smith Street and Thompson Street, as
recommended by Public Works Committee .
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6F (CFN-1172)
Microsoft Software Purchases. Authorization for the
Mayor to sign purchase agreements necessary to purchase
Microsoft Upgrade Advantage licenses from Insight Direct
USA and Microsoft Software Assurance licenses from
Washington State DIS contract .
The need to update the City' s Microsoft software licenses
was identified as part of Technology Plan 2002 . Upgrades
are planned for both the Office Suite and e-mail systems
software .
Microsoft has altered purchasing programs and has
eliminated a program that allowed purchase of version
upgrades at a reduced price This purchase takes
advantage of a government open licensing program that
expires on July 30th.
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6G) (CFN-1172)
Desktop PC Replacement Plan 2002 . Authorization for the
Mayor to sign purchase orders for replacement computers,
payable to Washington State Department of Information
Services, not to exceed $191, 968 .
The City PC inventory tracks 632 desktop computers that
are eligible for replacement .
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Each year the City replaces some of the oldest and
slowest computers in the City. This project will replace
150 of the oldest desktop computers in the City.
Computers will be purchased from the Washington State
D. I . S . contract .
LODGING TAX
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6H) (CFN-1170)
Lodging Tax Budget Change and Contract Amendment.
Authorization for the Mayor to sign the First Amendment
to Contract for Services between the City of Kent and the
Kent Chamber of Commerce .
At its July 2 , 2002 meeting, the Operations Committee
authorized the revised Kent Lodging Tax budget of $57, 530
for the Kent Chamber of Commerce tourism efforts and
amended the work plan by adding $7, 530 for a total 2002
budget and contract to reflect the changed scope of work.
FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6I) (CFN-122)
Washington City and County Pipeline Safety Consortium
Interlocal Agreement Amendment. Authorization for the
Mayor to sign Amendment 1 to the Interlocal Agreement
Establishing the Washington City and County Pipeline
Safety Consortium, extending the current Interlocal
Agreement for an additional year.
The Washington City and County Pipeline Safety Consortium
was established by Interlocal Agreement in the Year 2000
in response to the devastating explosion of the Olympic
Pipeline in Bellingham. The current Consortium member-
ship includes : Auburn, Bellevue, Bellingham, Bothell ,
Kent, Redmond, Renton, SeaTac, Seattle, Tumwater,
Woodinville, Clark County and Thurston County.
The Consortium is now reaching its two year sunset and
termination, as provided in the Interlocal Agreement .
Paragraph 3 .G on the Interlocal Agreement provides that
additional one-year renewals may be approved by agreement
of the principals .
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PARKS, RECREATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6J) (CFN-118)
Parks Fee-In-Lieu of Revenue Budget Transfer. As
recommended by the Parks Committee, accept the fee-in-
lieu of funds totaling $66, 567 . 00 and amend the
appropriate budgets for the following projects
132nd Ave . Neighborhood Park (P68) $ 9, 375 . 00
Clark Lake Park Land Acquisition (P21) $14 , 367 . 00
Service Club Ballfields (P24) $42 , 825 . 00
$66, 567 . 00
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6K) (CFN-118)
King County Youth Sports Facility Grant Application.
Authorization to submit the 2002 King County Youth Sports
Facility Grant Application, as recommended by the Parks
Committee .
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6L) (CFN-146&118)
Park/Facility Naming Policy. Passage of Resolution
No 1624 , which amends Resolution No. 1049, regarding the
policies and procedures for the name of City parks and
public facilities .
The City finds it appropriate to update the original
policy and procedure to further develop the circumstances
under which it would be appropriate to name a park,
public facility, or feature within a park after a living
person
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6M) (CFN-118)
Service Club Ball Field Donation. Accept the $4 , 500 . 00
from the Kent Sunrise Rotary Club and amend the Service
Club Ballfield budget, as recommended by the Parks
Committee
POLICE
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6N) (CFN-122)
Public Health Of Seattle and King County Grant. Accept a
grant in the amount of $20, 000 . 00 from Public Health of
Seattle & King County, and establish budget documents, as
required.
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The funds from this grant will be used by the Kent Youth
Board to provide tobacco education and training during
the 2002 "Game of Life" youth conference held in
December. The grant will also allow the Kent Youth
Board to participate in a regional summit next spring.
The program period will run from July 1, 2002 through
June 30, 2003 and will include media and public educa-
tion activities .
The match requirement for this grant will be met with
current Drinking Driver Task Force funds .
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 60) (CFN-122)
Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Application. Approval
to apply for an LLEBG in the amount of $68, 410 Funds
from this grant will be used by the Community Education
Unit for crime prevention and publication education
programs . Funds will also be used for officer training
software .
The total award amounts to $68 , 410 with a City match of
$7, 601 . The grant project total is $76, 011 . The
deadline for the application is July 17, 2002 .
FIREWORKS
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6R) (CFN-122)
New Years 2002 Fireworks Prohibition Ordinance. Adoption
of Ordinance No. 3609, which amends Ch. 13 . 05 of the Kent
City Code to prohibit the sale, purchase, possession or
use of consumer fireworks during the 2002/2003 New Years
period, from December 27 through December 31, and
replaces the term, "common fireworks, " with the term,
"consumer fireworks, " in accordance with a newly enacted
state law.
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6S) (CFN-122)
Permanent New Years Fireworks Prohibition Ordinance.
Adoption of Ordinance No. 3610, which amends Ch. 13 . 05 of
the Kent City Code to permanently prohibit the sale,
purchase, possession, use and discharge of consumer
fireworks from December 27 through December 31 of each
year.
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AGRICULTURAL LANDS
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6P) (CFN-131)
(REMOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE)
Agricultural Lands Amendment Ordinance. The Planning
Committee has recommended approval of an amended Land
Use and Planning Board recommendation for Comprehensive
Plan and Zoning map, text , and use amendments in the
Agricultural Lands study area. The study area includes
lands with a current zoning designation of A-1 ,
Agricultural, and AG, Agricultural General . The
Committee ' s recommendation includes Agricultural
Resource Land, Agricultural Support , and low-density
Single Family Residential designations . The Committee
recommendation is consistent in the southern area with
the Board' s recommendation, with the exception that
"reserve" lands with development rights previously sold
to King County would be designated A-10 . The Committee
recommendation for the central and northern areas again
designates King County lands as A-10 and designates all
other areas SF-1/SR-1 . The Committee also recommends a
subsequent comprehensive plan and zoning amendment
procedure to provide a clustering provision in areas
zoned SR-1 . Details of the Planning Committee ' s motion
are included in the staff memorandum of July 10th.
ORR MOVED to accept in part and modify in part the Land
Use and Planning Board ' s recommendation regarding
Agricultural Lands as follows :
• for the southern study area to accept the map, text
and use recommendations regarding comprehensive plan
designations of Agricultural Support and zoning
designations of AG, and to modify the recommendation
to replace the zoning designation of A-1 on King
County PDR program lands with a zoning designation of
A-10,
• for the central study area to modify the map, text,
and use recommendations to change the comprehensive
plan and zoning designations to SF-IJSR-1;
• for the northern study area to modify the map, text,
and use recommendation to replace the zoning designa-
tion of A-1 on King County PDR program lands with
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a zoning designation of A-10 ; and to replace the
remaining comprehensive plan and zoning designations
with SF-1/SR-1 ,
• for all study areas, neither a PDR nor a TDR program
would be created because the only agricultural
resource lands would be those for which King County
has already purchased the development right ;
• and to conduct a public hearing on August 20 , 2002 ,
on the limited issue of enacting comprehensive plan
and zoning code amendments to add clustering to the
SF-1/SR-1 designations for lands in the agricultural
study areas .
Woods seconded. Orr explained that this recommendation
came from the Planning Board. Yingling noted that he is
opposed to the motion as he is inclined to move towards
an SF-3/SR-3 designation for those property areas
designated SF-1/SR-1 in the motion. Upon a roll call
vote, the motion was defeated by a vote of 5-2 , with
Orr and Woods in favor and Clark, Epperly, Peterson,
White and Yingling opposed.
WHITE MOVED to accept in part and modify in part the
Land Use and Planning Board' s recommendation regarding
Agricultural Lands as follows :
• for the southern study area to accept the map, text
and use recommendations regarding comprehensive plan
designations of Agricultural Support and zoning
designations of AG, and to modify the recommendation
to replace the zoning designation of A-1 on King
County PDR program lands with a zoning designation of
A-10 ,
• for the central study area to modify the map, text,
and use
• recommendations to change the comprehensive plan and
zoning designations to SF-1/SR-1;
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• for the northern study area to modify the map, text,
and use recommendation as follows :
- to replace the zoning designation of A-1 on King
County PDR program lands with a zoning designation
of A-10;
- to adopt SF-3/SR-3 comprehensive plan and zoning
designations as designated in Option C; and
- to replace the remaining SF-1/SR-1/TDR Receiving
Overlay and SF-1/SR-1/Urban Separators with
SF-1/SR-1
• for all study areas, neither a PDR nor a TDR program
would be created because the only agricultural
resource lands would be those for which King County
has already purchased the development right .
Peterson seconded. White explained that the SF-3 option
lessens the City' s legal liability and is the zoning the
current land owners have asked for. The City Attorney
clarified that this motion refers to the SR-1 lands in
the northern study area and does not include clustering.
Planning Manager Anderson displayed a map and pointed out
the areas which would be affected The motion then
carried unanimously.
KENT STATION
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6Q) (CFN-171)
Kent Station Planned Action Ordinance. Adoption of
Ordinance No 3608 designating "planned actions" as
provided under SEPA and GMA for the Kent Station project
The Planned Action Ordinance for Kent Station describes
types and amounts of land use development in a specific
area of Downtown Kent for which environmental review has
been completed. The Ordinance selects Alternative 2 from
the environmental document as the Preferred Alternative .
Future proposals for development that are consistent with
the Planned Action Ordinance will not require a separate
environmental evaluation nor be subject to procedural
appeals under the State Environmental Policy Act .
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APPOINTMENT
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6T) (CFN-1127)
(ADDED ITEM)
Diversity Advisory Board. Confirmation of the Mayor' s
appointment of Mr. Oleg Pynda to serve as a member of the
Kent Diversity Advisory Board. Mr. Pynda is employed as
Director of the Ukrainian Community Center. He was born
in Ukraine and has been a Kent resident for eleven years .
Mr. Pynda hopes to serve as liaison between the Ukrainian
Community and the City of Kent . He will replace Marya
Goy, who resigned, and his term will continue until
9/30/04 .
FINANCE
(CONSENT CALENDAR - ITEM 6B) (CFN-104)
Approval of Bills. Approval of payment of the bills
received through June 30 and paid on June 30 after
auditing by the Operations Committee on July 2 , 2002
Approval of checks issued for vouchers :
Date Check Numbers Amount
6/30/02 Wire Transfers 1203-1212 $ 990, 967 18
6/30/02 Prepays & 535098 1, 586, 262 . 61
6/30/02 Regular 535738 1, 959, 395 73
$4, 536 , 625 . 52
Approval of checks issued for payroll for June 1 through
June 15 and paid on June 20, 2002 :
Date Check Numbers Amount
6/20/02 Checks 261081-261427 $ 268 , 954 . 26
6/20/02 Advices 130320-131006 1, 158 , 372 . 06
$1, 427, 326 .32
Approval of checks issued for payroll for June 16 through
June 30 and paid on July 5 , 2002 .
Date Check Numbers Amount
7/5/02 Checks 261428-261818 $ 278, 468 . 19
7/5/02 Advices 131007-131755 1, 105, 496 13
$1 , 383 , 964 . 32
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FINANCE
(OTHER BUSINESS - ITEM 7A) (CFN-104)
Limited Tax General Obligation Bonds 2002 Ordinance and
Bond Purchase Contract. The City Council has recommended
approval of the 2002 LTGO Bond Ordinance and authoriza-
tion for the Mayor to sign the Bond Purchase Contract
with Lehman Brothers . John Hillman, Assistant Finance
Director, introduced Dick King of Lehman Brothers, who
reviewed the bond issue and purchase contract . King
noted that the City has a bond rating from Moodys of Al
and of AA- from Standard & Poore ' s . He announced that
the interest rate is just under 4 . 7% .
YINGLING MOVED to adopt 2002 LTGO Bond Ordinance No. 3607
and to authorize the Mayor to sign the Bond Purchase
Contract with Lehman Brothers . Orr seconded and the
motion carried
COUNCIL
(OTHER BUSINESS - ITEM 7B) (CFN-198)
King County Council. Epperly explained that Kent Pullen
and David Irons brought forth a charter amendment which
would downsize the King County Council from 13 members to
9 members . She read a resolution in support of the
amendment, and MOVED to adopt Resolution No. 1623 . White
seconded Yingling expressed concern that Kent residents
are properly represented on the County Council , and Orr
pointed out that it is important that the voters have an
opportunity to speak. The motion then carried.
Woods opined that the County Council positions should be
non-partisan positions
REPORTS
Planning Committee. Orr noted that the next meeting will
be held at 3 : 00 p.m. on September 17 . (CFN-198)
REFERENDUM 51
(CONTINUED COMMUNICATIONS - ITEM 11A) (CFN-198)
Referendum 51. Joe Rubio, 3831 S 248th, outlined some
unfinished transportation issues and other high cost
projects and asked the Council to consider not supporting
Referendum 51 or any proposal which does not include at
least performance measures and performance audits, and
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demands that the programs be accountable to the tax
payers . Yingling agreed that performance measures and
audits should be included
S . 228th STREET CORRIDOR
(CONTINUED COMMUNICATIONS - ITEM 11B) (CFN-171)
S. 228th Street Corridor Noise Abatement wall. Val
Ensor, resident of The Lakes , spoke in favor of the noise
abatement wall . Peterson noted that additional design
work and input will occur before the wall is built .
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
(CONTINUED COMMUNICATIONS - ITEM 11C) (CFN-118)
Performing Arts Center. Ted Kogita, 25227 Reith Road,
noted that at the Operations Committee meeting of June 4 ,
2002 , an expense of $2 , 230 , 640 was shown under Other Kent
Station Related Projects for Performing Arts Land
Interest Expense . Martin explained that when the
Performing Arts bond measure failed, the property was
no longer eligible for tax exempt status for bonding
measures, and that the tax exempt status was being moved
somewhere else . He noted that the property was only
being identified as the potential site, and said there
was no money anywhere in the Kent Station budget for a
performing arts manager or anything like that . Upon
Yingling ' s request, Martin agreed to clarify that this is
a designation for the property before the bond failed so
that there is no confusion in the future.
ADJOURNMENT
PETERSON MOVED to ad3ourn at 7 : 52 p.m. Orr seconded and
the motion carried.
Brenda Jacober,qa-e—�
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City Clerk
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