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KENT CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Kent City Council will hold a Special
Workshop on:
May 7, 2021 – 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
LOCATION:
City of Kent Senior Activity Center
600 East Smith Street
Kent, WA. 98030
This meeting will comply with the Governor’s requirements for in-person business meetings,
including masks and physical distancing.
for the purpose of:
The Kent City Council Annual Planning Session
This is an open public meeting under Washington law, and the public is invited
to attend. However, public testimony will not be allowed unless listed on the
agenda or approved by the city council during the meeting.
Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City
Clerk’s Office in advance at 253-856-5725. For TTD relay service, call the
Washington Telecommunications Relay Service at 7-1-1.
Kimberley A. Komoto
City Clerk
CITY OF KENT CITY COUNCIL
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Friday, May 7, 2021, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Senior Activity Center @ 600 E Smith St.
AGENDA
G OALS:
1. Discuss strategic issues of interest and importance to Council members.
2. Identify issues that the Council anticipates could be topics for future discussions.
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8:30Welcome! Review Meeting’s Purpose - Council President Toni Troutner
8:35 Review and Approve Agenda - Council / Facilitator Jim Reid
8:40Public Involvement in the Budget Process -Council / Mayor Dana Ralph / Paula Painter
While preparing for today’s retreat, Council members expressed this interest:
Ensure that public engagement in the City’s budget and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
processes is meaningful.
We’ll discuss the ideas listed below that have been identified for achieving that interest and
solicit and discuss additional suggestions.
Budget Road Show
Participatory Budgeting
Balancing Act
1. Are there other ideas to add to this list?
2. For each idea, what is it? What role would the public play in it?
3. Which ideas is the Council interested in pursuing?
4. What are the next steps in moving forward?
10:00 Break
10:10 Housing and Homelessness -Council / Mayor / Derek Matheson / Chief Raf Padilla
During this session we will discuss:
HB 1590 Implementation: In February Derek updated the Council on the status of
implementing the City’s new one-tenth of one percent sales tax for affordable housing.
1. What is the current status of implementing the legislation?
2. Does the Council have questions, interests, or concerns?
South King County Co-Responder Pilot Program: At the February retreat we also briefly
discussed this pilot program. The concept is that when people call 911, Valley
Communications will dispatch police and/or mental health responders from the City or King
County.
1. What decisions have been made to further define the program and provide its
structure?
2. What are the Council’s and Administration’s thoughts regarding whether Kent
should participate in the regional program or work one-on-one with a service
provider?
3. Does the Council have additional interests or questions?
Issues on the Horizon:
1. Are there other housing and homelessness issues or initiatives that Council
members want to mention as potential items to consider in the future, possibly at
next year’s Annual Planning Session?
11:30 Race and Equity, Part 1 - Council / Mayor / Uriel Varela / Teri Smith
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Uriel is developing a Race and Equity Strategic Plan with the Cultural Communities Board’s
assistance.
1. What’s the status of the development of the strategic plan? What is the timeline for
producing it? What might the plan include?
2. What is the status of engaging the public in the plan’s development?
3. What projects or actions comprise the Board’s work plan?
4. Does the Council have additional interests or questions about the strategic plan or
the Cultural Communities Board’s overall mission and efforts?
Council members have expressed an interest in a workforce that reflects the community’s
diversity.
1. What is the City currently doing to recruit, hire, and maintain a diverse workforce?
2. What strategies and actions does the Council suggest to diversify the workforce?
3. What is the City doing to incorporate race and equity principles and practices into its
procurement policies?
4. Are there “best practices” from other agencies that the City has or could learn
from?
12:30 Lunch
1:15Race and Equity, Part 2: Community Policing - Council / Mayor / Raf
In preparing for the retreat, Council members expressed these interests: a) Ensure the safety of
all Kent residents and businesses; and b) Strengthen the relationship between the Police
Department and the community, particularly communities that have a history of not interacting
with or distrusting the police.
1. What impact will recently enacted state legislation have on equitable policing?
o What are the Council’s questions, reactions, or insights?
2. The Police Department is implementing the Community Immersion Law
Enforcement Program (CILEP). What is it? How is it intended to benefit the
relationship between the public and department? What is the status of the
program’s implementation? And what should the Council expect through the
end of this year and in early 2022?
o What are the Council’s questions, reactions, or insights?
3. What is the status of hiring the consultant to gather data the state is requiring?
4. How is the Police Race and Equity Advisory Board operating? How might its work,
including the Charter and goals the Board is developing, help advance the above
interests?
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5. What other ideas do Council members have for achieving their primary interests?
6. Are other issues related to race and equity and policing that the Council sees on the
horizon?
3:00Break
3:10 Land Use Notifications -Council / Mayor / Kurt Hanson
The Bridges Neighborhood comprehensive plan amendment process indicated to some Council
members that it may be necessary to notify a greater number of potentially affected
people/households about potential land use changes than current policy requires.
1. What are the current requirements? How were they applied in the Bridges Property
case? What lessons did we learn?
2. Is there interest on the Council in changing the current requirements?
3. If so, how do we proceed?
3:30Other Issues on the Horizon - Council
Are there any other issues to discuss today?
What are other issues of interest for possible future Council discussions? (We won’t discuss
them but instead will list them as issues that Council members anticipate could be of
interest in the future.)
3:55What are We Taking Away From the Meeting? -Council / Mayor Ralph/ ELT
Does the Council approve using the guiding principles we used today to guide discussions at
their meetings until next year’s retreat, at which time they could be reassessed?
4:00Adjourn
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