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NOTICE OF SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Kent City Council
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Kent City Council
will hold a special workshop at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
October 12, 2004, to discuss the legislative agenda and the
2005 annual budget. The workshop will be held in the
Council Chambers at Kent City Hall, 220 4th Avenue
South, Kent.
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contact the City Clerk's Office in advance at 253-856-
5725. For TDD relay service call Washington
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SPECIAL MEETING
40 Council Workshop Agenda
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W A S H I N G T O N
October 12, 2004, 2004
5:30 PM — 7:30 PM
Item Description Speaker Time
1. Legislative Agenda Doug Levy 20 min
2. Budget Overview Bob Nachlinger 1 hour and 40 min
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Council Chambers East,Kent City Hall,220 4th Avenue South,Kent,98032-5895.
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September 9, 2005
TO: Council Members
FROM: Doug Levy/Mike Martin
RE: Preliminary Draft List of 2005 Legislative Agenda Issues
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Below is a draft 2005 legislative agenda we will be bringing you in workshop in the first
week of October. They are the result of discussions with the Mayor, the MLT, along with
Doug's own knowledge and history of issues important to the City.
These issues are categorized as those that are "Active"where we will put our emphasis;
those we "Support"which are still very important but not necessarily Kent-led; and those
we want to "Track/Monitor"where impacts on Kent are not as direct,but worth
following. As always, we have a"Placeholder" section for items that we don't know
about but may need to react to. FYI, the Streamlined Sales Tax issue fell into this
category in the 2002 session... Please call if you'd like to discuss these with me prior to
workshop.
I. Active Issues
• Sales Tax Streamlining/sourcing: Either working our own bill and opposing that
of DOR/"winner" cities-counties or working off of agreed-upon cities package.
This also will need to involve business sector outreach, further cultivating the
manufacturing center/GMA/econ development angle, and finalizing our outside
legal opinion and circulating.
• Capital Budget request: Seek 2005-07 Capital Budget line-item funding for Clark
Lake. Sitdown meeting with Rep. Geoff Simpson,who's been the lead champion
of this and sits on House Capital Budget Committee, is essential.
• Center for Advanced Manufacturing: If need be, seek Operating or Capital budget
dollars to help match the federal EDA money for feasibility study. If we are
successful pre-Session in getting money from either Port of Seattle or Port of
Tacoma or both, then this issue does not need to be on our list.
• Transportation—Local Funding/Local Options—plus TIB/Freight: Work with
coalition of cities and counties, AWC &WSAC, on new direct local funding and
new funding options in any 2005 investment package. Part of this also involves
advocating for additional TIB dollars and dedicated funding for freight projects.
• Transportation—State Package, RTID, TIB/Frei hg t, etc.: In any investment
package, work on our list of key projects—SR-167, SR-509, I-5/272"d interchange
—to obtain additional funding for these corridors. Public Works worries that the
state is not paying as much attention to 167 as we believe necessary, and we need
to instill that concern in our legislative delegation as well.
• Transportation—RTID: Unclear what will happen with the RTID statute,but it's
quite likely that the issue of other taxing options, eligibility of high-capacity
transit and wider range of projects, and local arterials/local funding match issues
will be at play.
• Transportation— 167 "HOT"Lane Project: Team with WSDOT, Auburn, and
others to gain legislative authorization of a pilot project to convert a section of
167 HOV in Kent/Auburn to a"high-occupancy toll (HOT)" lane.
• Economic Development Financing Authority_ Team with other big-city lobbyists
in promoting new .033 state sales tax credit for economic development efforts.
We have identified concrete projects where we can use it. Vancouver is likely to
get Rep. Bill Fromhold, D-Vancouver,to prime-sponsor this.
• DV Visitation Exchange FacilitX—Seek 2005-07 Operating Budget dollars for
this, asking our Senate or House Ds who have an interest in these issues to help
lead the effort.
• Fiscal Matters—Protect against unfunded mandates, oppose legislation that
reduces revenue or undercuts local taxing authority, support new local funding or
local financing efforts.
• *Cancer Treatment Facility on Gateway site: Asterisked because it's not really a
`legislative' item but rather a weigh-in and advocacy linked to the State
Department of Health Certificate of Need evaluation
II. Key Items—City will want to be engaged in supporting/opposing and
lobbying—but not necessarily ours to lead
Capital Budget(or Transportation Budget)
• Matching funds for signalization work on road near county owned park-and-ride
lot behind RJC. We need a$189,000 match to go with $600,000 in PSRC
countywide funds previously obtained. Work is needed for development of 8
acres up for sale.
General Government
• Public Disclosure Act: Join AWC/cities, counties, ports, in keeping current
authority intact as validated in recent "Hangartner" case which involves
Attorney/Client privileged documents and rejecting PDA requests that are overly
broad and vague.
• Mobile Home Relocation Assistance: We should support CTED-planned
legislation that could increase maximum funding levels for an individual, and
allow the assistance to utilized more flexibly.
GMA/Land-Use
• Support new"PERF" funding—CTED may well seek new$$ to recapitalize the
Planning and Environmental Review Fund(PERF). We like this fund—used it
previously for downtown master plan.
• AWC is part of a 2004-2005 interim legislative study and CTED-convened
advisory committee of cities, counties, some others. We may well see 2005
legislation. Suggest we can SUPPORT a likely Kirkland-initiated bill providing
cities new utility tax surcharge authority to help finance cost of annexations. We
need emphasis on uniform development standards between incorporated areas and
PAAs. There will soon be a King Count cities' meeting on this whole topic.
• Give locals more deference and flexibility in defining"Best Available Science"—
A big deal to locals during any Shoreline Master Plan or Critical Area update
work. AWC and counties working on this as part of"GMA Work Group."
Worthy of us supporting.
Human/Social Services Funding & Other—As listed by Katherin Johnson —suggest we
can have as "Support" items
• Support Children's Alliance on effort to prevent new Medicaid premiums from
going into effect next year(e.g. make the 1-year reprieve more permanent)
• Support Children's Alliance effort to increase child care subsidy from DSHS for
child-care workers
• Support funding for increased access to food and nutrition programs such as Food
Stamps and WIC
• Support funding requests for access to and insurance coverage for health care,
mental health treatment, dental services, substance abuse treatment, decreasing
racial disparities in health care
• Support 2005 effort to enact a statewide vision and strategic plan for after-school
programs - similar to HB 2777 of 2004.
• In terms of cost-savings, Kent believes the Community Health and Safety
Networks are duplicative and supports proposals to eliminate them
• Kent wants to support and work with other human/social service advocates to
protect core programs in welfare services, continuum of care, etc.
• Kent would stand opposed to any legislative initiative to reduce the size of the
housing trust fund or raid the fund
• Support effort by DSHS to provide substance abuse treatment on demand for
Medicaid clients. The plan would be paid for by using the Medicaid cost offset.
Support, given that substance abuse is one of the leading causes of homelessness
and crime in our region.
Law-Enforcement/Criminal Justice/Courts
• DWLS 3 Fix—Join with others—police,prosecutors, etc. —in pursuing a
legislative remedy to the Redmond v. Moore case so DWLS 3 can once again be
imposed.
• Municipal Court issues/Court Funding Task Force—We'll see proposals for new
courts funding, likely legislation to require all judges to be elected, perhaps
legislative effort to require Muni Courts to handle more subject matter, and
perhaps legislation to provide Municipal Courts more explicit authority to enter
into multi-city service arrangements. Suggest we can support the funding and
multi-city flexibility and oppose the new subject matter requirement(Legal
particularly wants to ensure that any attempt to require small claims jurisdiction is
strongly opposed).
• Defense/Indigent Defense Standards: Want to ensure we don't have any
provisions that undermine our ability to contain costs through indigent defense
contracts.
Parks &Recreation
• WWRP Funding—Support efforts to continue funding for—and possibly enhance
funding for—the WA Wildlife, Recreation and Parks (WWRP)program in the
2005-07 Capital Budget. We've used WWRP extensively and will have a project
on the list when it's finalized.
Personnel
• Making WA State Minimum Wage Act consistent with federal Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA)— There's one part of the state act that conflicts with
Congressionally-enacted changes to the FLSA. It has to do with being able to
suspend exempt employees for less than a full work week.
Transportation-Related
• Automatic voting seats on PSRC Executive Board—Through a 2004
Supplemental Transportation budget proviso, Bellevue, Kent, Renton, Bremerton
were granted automatic voting seats on the PSRC Executive Board. Federal Way
was not,which is a very big sore spot for that city. Federal Way would like to
have a coalition work on extending the budget proviso (which expires 6/30/04).
Water Resources
• Instream flow legislation—The 2005 Legislature will almost surely have a
discussion over whether to direct new instream flow setting and how to best
achieve instream flows. We need to ensure there is strong language in any bill to
recognize existing and pending FERC and HCP agreements so we aren't forced
into a very expensive "do-over"that could unduly impact our existing water rights.
• Oppose public-vote requirements on water-sewer assumptions—A perennial issue
—the W-S districts want it, cities hate it. Been in the legislative arena for nearly
10 years and we won't be surprised to see it again. Typically we involve ourselves
in strongly opposing, particularly given recent discussions we've had with one of
the districts.
III. Other Issues—City should involve itself in at least tracking/monitoring
and weighing in at some point, but probably to a lesser extent than key
items above
Economic Development
• Expansion of TIF—Certain stakeholders and legislators may want to take another
run at this. Hardly worth our time leading,but we could sign in support of such
an initiative.
General Government
• Motorized Scooters—regulation of. Want to ensure local flexibility to regulate,
ensure any state legislation is more of a"Model Ordinance"type approach. Rep.
John Lovick, D-44th, plans to sponsor a bill(s). We are unconvinced that state
statute is necessary, but the fact that a bill will go forward necessitates some
tracking/involvement.
• Protect public works bid law authority, flexibility: Last session, through bills
such as HB 2522, subcontractors sought to make our lives more complicated and
onerous in bidding, requiring things such as new"just cause" findings to reject
bids. We should join AWC, counties,ports, others in opposing these.
GMA/Land-Use
• Oppose onerous delays in payment of impact fees—A big deal for numerous
cities, AWC, school districts—and we don't want payment delayed until time of
occupancy because that's an administrative nightmare. There was supposed to be
an informal work group assembled on this issue for 04-05 interim, but nothing yet.
• Explicit authority for cities to regulate zoning of gambling establishments—AWC
and numerous cities will pursue this again in 2005. Not a Kent issue but suggest
that as a"support the cities" family gesture, it's the type of thing we can sign in in
support of.
Law-Enforcement/Criminal Justice/Courts
• Photo-radar—City of Lakewood has led annual effort to expand authority for use
of photo-radar(discretionary, not mandatory) and to recraft statute so that locals
keep a higher% of fines imposed. Worthy of support as new local-option tool.
• "SOU—Per some city/county prosecutors, support any effort to restore authority
for Judges to use Stipulated Orders of Continuance. Here's the problem as
encapsulated by one prosecutor: An "SOU is an agreement between prosecutor
and defendant, signed by the judge, where in return for the defendant paying costs
and usually attending some sort of course or treatment (DV perpetrator, alcohol,
drug, aggressive driving) the prosecution holds off prosecuting. If the defendant
blows it, conviction enters without a trial. If the defendant does what he/she is
supposed to and remains law-abiding during the SOC period(usually 1 or 2 years),
the case is dismissed without a conviction ever having entered. It's a great tool,
and we will lose some opportunities now that we are not able to use it
Liability Reform
• LRC package—The Liability Reform Coalition(LRC—AWC is a member)has
been working on comprehensive liability reform packages—address joint and
several liability, medical malpractice liability, etc. Pieces we like involve joint
and several and employee reference liability protection. Has gotten hung up in
partisan politics—especially the"med mal" item. We've traditionally supported
individual items that impact us but steered clear of wading into "omnibus bills."
• Expand"Public Duty Doctrine"—AWC, counties, certain state agencies worked
last year—and working through an interim group this year—on idea of expanding
the"Public Duty Doctrine"to legally cover more governmental functions as
things we have a"Public Duty"to perform. This is a morass of government on
one side and trial lawyers/ACLU/defense lawyers on other.
Local Government Financing/Local Government Efficiencies
• Protect/continue funding of Public Health—We traditionally support
• "Efficiencies"bill for cities/counties, cities' "Technical Fix"bill—A group called
the"Tri-Association"may forward a 2005 legislative package with ideas of minor
changes in statute to help cities operate more efficiently. AWC also may pursue a
"technical fix"bill—little nickel-and-dime technical changes in law to benefit
cities.
• Public Works Trust Fund—Each year, the Public Works Board must get
legislative approval to finalize low-interest loan projects previously approved by
the Board.
Parks &Recreation
• New M&O funding—It's possible we'll see legislation to increase REET tax and
allow portion of new funding to be used for Parks M&O. We can support that
type of approach but need to be leery of efforts to use existing REET for M&O.
• Conservation Futures funding—For a few sessions straight, Clark County has led
an effort to increase County Conservation Futures funding authority. We and
other large cities typically support the CONCEPT but ask for legislative language
that directs counties to ensure Conservation Futures are spread throughout a
county, not just in rural areas.
Personnel
• Workers' Comp reform—Business community may take run at reforming
Worker's Comp—less onerous rates for employers. Worthy of city doing a "me
too".
IV. Items Not Categorized—More discussion needed
Courts
• More oversight of Pro-Tem Judges—Legal raised this issue,with a concern that
Judges can appoint anyone they want, qualified or not, no oversight and checks
and balances.
Miscellaneous
• Restrictions on conveying of substandard mobile homes—Raised by Katherin, I
did some checking and asked her to talk with L&I—no word back yet.
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