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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Planning and Economic Development Committee - 04/07/1992 CITY OF L�� d�rer¢c�r� CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7, 1992 4 : 00 PM Committee Members Present OTHER CITY STAFF Leona Orr, Chair Tom Brubaker Jim Bennett Tony McCarthy Jon Johnson Planning Staff OTHERS Lin Ball Jim & Elsy Rust Sharon Clamp Margaret Porter Fred Satterstrom Alice Shobe GROWTH MANAGEMENT UPDATE - (F. SATTERSTROM) Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom reported that approximately four months ago the City of Kent entered into an agreement with King County and other suburban cities to sponsor the Growth Management Planning Council for King County. State law requires that King County develop the framework for all cities to develop their comprehensive plans. The Growth Management Planning Council (GMPC) will help to do that. Mr. Satterstrom distributed a map showing the proposed 30 year urban growth area for King County. The eastern boundary shown on the map is roughly equivalent to Kent's 20 year annexation boundary. Establishment of the boundary was a controversial issue and was arrived at based on discussion with master builders and others concerned with housing affordability. It was thought that drawing a tight urban growth boundary would create a land and housing crisis. King County planners state that the boundary is 1. 5 times what is needed to accommodate 20 years of growth. Mr. Satterstrom also distributed a brochure introducing the GMPC and suggested asking a representative of the GMPC to come to the April 21 meeting to make a presentation on the growth management process. Mr. Satterstrom noted that the Kent City Council is going to be asked to ratify the county-wide planning policies in July. He will be discussing more of the growth management policies at future meetings. King County is looking for ratification from 30% of the CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7, 1992 PAGE 2 jurisdictions representing 609* of the population. The GMPC's draft policies will be complete April 15, 1992 after which public meetings will be held for two weeks. The policies will be adopted by the King County Council in June. HUMAN SERVICES ROUNDTABLE UPDATE (L. BALL) At the Roundtable's March retreat they decided that their focus for Children and Youth would be on the issue of abused and neglected children. The Roundtable will be looking at existing systems in King County and will feature speakers from different programs within the system at their meetings. The April 1 meeting featured the program manager for the Guardian ad Litem program. This program features volunteer advocates for children who have been severely neglected or abused. This program had 480 new cases in 1991 and 30% were from South King County. Ms. Ball explained it was not a good year for human services legislative issues. Many program increases that were fought for during the last legislative session were taken away. The domestic violence bill passed, however, funding was not provided for statewide master data collection and the 24 hour domestic violence hotline. Some new money was granted for homeless prevention but this was not for King County. In summary, funding for human services has gone back to dealing only with crisis situations and prevention intervention is not being funded. It is unfortunate that a number of bills dealing with children issues died because a number of legislators took the position that if there was no money available to fund a program, they would not vote for the program. If the programs had at least been created, then other means of funding could have been sought and groundwork could have been laid. Therefore, creation of these programs is back to square one. SOOS CREEK PLAN (J. HARRIS) This item was deferred to the next meeting. WEST HILL ANNEXATION (T. BRUBAKER) At the City Council' s recent retreat questions arose regarding the City' s ability to annex the West Hill island. Assistant City Attorney Tom Brubaker explained that the City can unilaterally annex the island by ordinance, which is subject to a referendum election, and because of the small number of voters within the island area it is very likely that a referendum election will be called. By law any referendum election must be held within 90 days CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7, 1992 PAGE 3 from the filing of a referendum petition, therefore, the City must time its annexation process so that either a general or special election date falls within that 90 day period. Because of additional waiting periods imposed for public hearings, the City should wait until late June or early July to commence the island annexation process so that a referendum election, if called for, would coincide with the general election in the fall. Mr. Brubaker distributed a memo to the Committee outlining in detail timing and cost factors relating to this process. He will also distribute the memo to all City Council members and the Mayor. This issue will be brought back to the Planning Committee in two months. 1993 CDBG FUNDING (A. SHOBE) Planner Alice Shobe explained that the City of Kent qualifies to receive "pass-through" funds for its 1993 Community Development Block Grant Program. King County estimates that Kent will receive $225, 615 in 1993 which is $40, 000 higher than the original estimate received last year; just under $250, 000 was received in 1992 . Therefore, it is felt that the City will receive between $225, 000 and $250, 000. Staff requests that the following actions be recommended to the full City Council on April 21, 1992: 1. Accept 1993 CDBG Pass-Through funds. 2 . Allocate $35, 743 to Public (Human) Services, the maximum available to the City of Kent. 3 . Allocate seven (7) percent ($15, 793) of 1993 Pass-Through funds to Planning and Administration. 4 . Allocate $6,788 of CDIL program income to the Consortium-wide Emergency Shelter System. Councilmember Johnson MOVED and Councilmember Bennett SECONDED a motion to approve the aforementioned actions. Motion carried. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 4: 30 p.m. PC0407 .92 CITY OF J11D JT CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7 , 1992 4: 00 PM Committee Members Present OTHER CITY STAFF Leona Orr, Chair Tom Brubaker Jim Bennett Tony McCarthy Jon Johnson Planning Staff OTHERS Lin Ball Jim & Elsy Rust Sharon Clamp Margaret Porter Fred Satterstrom Alice Shobe GROWTH MANAGEMENT UPDATE - (F. SATTERSTROM) Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom reported that approximately four months ago the City of Kent entered into an agreement with King County and other suburban cities to sponsor the Growth Management Planning Council for King County. State law requires that King County develop the framework for all cities to develop their comprehensive plans. The Growth Management Planning Council (GMPC) will help to do that. Mr. Satterstrom distributed a map showing the proposed 30 year urban growth area for King County. The eastern boundary shown on the map is roughly equivalent to Kent's 20 year annexation boundary. Establishment of the boundary was a controversial issue and was arrived at based on discussion with master builders and others concerned with housing affordability. It was thought that drawing a tight urban growth boundary would create a land and housing crisis. King County planners state that the boundary is 1. 5 times what is needed to accommodate 20 years of growth. Mr. Satterstrom also distributed a brochure introducing the GMPC and suggested asking a representative of the GMPC to come to the April 21 meeting to make a presentation on the growth management process. Mr. Satterstrom noted that the Kent City Council is going to be asked to ratify the county-wide planning policies in July. He will be discussing more of the growth management policies at future meetings. King County is looking for ratification from 30% of the CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7, 1992 PAGE 2 jurisdictions representing 60% of the population. The GMPC's draft policies will be complete April 15, 1992 after which public meetings will be held for two weeks. The policies will be adopted by the King County Council in June. HUMAN SERVICES ROUNDTABLE UPDATE (L. BALL) At the Roundtable's March retreat they decided that their focus for Children and Youth would be on the issue of abused and neglected children. The Roundtable will be looking at existing systems in King County and will feature speakers from different programs within the system at their meetings. The April 1 meeting featured the program manager for the Guardian ad Litem program. This program features volunteer advocates for children who have been severely neglected or abused. This program had 480 new cases in 1991 and 30% were from South King County. Ms. Ball explained it was not a good year for human services legislative issues. Many program increases that were fought for during the last legislative session were taken away. The domestic violence bill passed, however, funding was not provided for statewide master data collection and the 24 hour domestic violence hotline. Some new money was granted for homeless prevention but this was not for King County. In summary, funding for human services has gone back to dealing only with crisis situations and prevention intervention is not being funded. It is unfortunate that a number of bills dealing with children issues died because a number of legislators took the position that if there was no money available to fund a program, they would not vote for the program. If the programs had at least been created, then other means of funding could have been sought and groundwork could have been laid. Therefore, creation of these programs is back to square one. SOOS CREEK PLAN (J. HARRIS) This item was deferred to the next meeting. WEST HILL ANNEXATION (T. BRUBAKER) At the City Council's recent retreat questions arose regarding the City's ability to annex the West Hill island. Assistant City Attorney Tom Brubaker explained that the City can unilaterally annex the island by ordinance, which is subject to a referendum election, and because of the small number of voters within the island area it is very likely that a referendum election will be called. By law any referendum election must be held within 90 days CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES APRIL 7, 1992 PAGE 3 from the filing of a referendum petition, therefore, the City must time its annexation process so that either a general or special election date falls within that 90 day period. Because of additional waiting periods imposed for public hearings, the City should wait until late June or early July to commence the island annexation process so that a referendum election, if called for, would coincide with the general election in the fall. Mr. Brubaker distributed a memo to the Committee outlining in detail timing and cost factors relating to this process. He will also distribute the memo to all City Council members and the Mayor. This issue will be brought back to the Planning Committee in two months. 1993 CDBG FUNDING (A. SHOBE) Planner Alice Shobe explained that the City of Kent qualifies to receive "pass-through" funds for its 1993 Community Development Block Grant Program. King County estimates that Kent will receive $225, 615 in 1993 which is $40, 000 higher than the original estimate received last year; just under $250, 000 was received in 1992 . Therefore, it is felt that the City will receive between $225, 000 and $250, 000. Staff requests that the following actions be recommended to the full City Council on April 21, 1992 : 1. Accept 1993 CDBG Pass-Through funds. 2. Allocate $35,743 to Public (Human) Services, the maximum available to the City of Kent. 3 . Allocate seven (7) percent ($15, 793) of 1993 Pass-Through funds to Planning and Administration. 4. Allocate $6,788 of CDIL program income to the Consortium-wide Emergency Shelter System. Councilmember Johnson MOVED and Councilmember Bennett SECONDED a motion to approve the aforementioned actions. Motion carried. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 4 : 30 p.m. PC0407 .92