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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council Workshop - Special Minutes - 10/05/2022 Approved City Council Workshop Workshop Special Meeting Minutes October 5, 2022 Date: October 5, 2022 Time: 8:36 p.m. Place: Green River College at the Kent Station I. CALL TO ORDER Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Bill Boyce Council President Present Brenda Fincher Councilmember Present Satwinder Kaur Councilmember Present Marli Larimer Councilmember Present Zandria Michaud Councilmember Present Toni Troutner Councilmember Present Les Thomas Councilmember Present Dana Ralph Mayor Present II. PRESENTATIONS 1 2023-2024 Biennial Budget Paula Painter Mayor Ralph provided opening remarks. Finance Director, Paula Painter expressed appreciation of the work of staff to assist in compiling the budget. All departments will report out on their budget. Municipal Court - Margaret Yetter, Court Administrator, reviewed the one request for a judicial specialist starting in July to cover the additional work generated from the six new intersections. Police - Assistant Chief Hemmen reviewed the requests from the Police Department: · Unfreeze evidence position in the records division and unfreeze corrections officer position. · Request for a temporary Corrections Commander for 6 months so current commander can train prior to retiring. · Court Security Officer - Increase 1 FTE to bring staffing up to 2 FTEs · Office Tech 3 traffic school coordinator - Reclass to 1 FTE administrative Assistant II to coordinate traffic school and provide administrative support in training. · Recruiting and first aid supplies - Increase current recruiting budget and first aid supplies that routinely expire. City Council Workshop Workshop Special October 5, 2022 Meeting Kent, Washington Minutes · Car per officer program - 6 cars/year over next 2 years + 6 additional cars to cover for cars that are in catastrophic accidents · Jail population management - Funds to pay to send inmates to Yakima to manage jail population. · Flock system - Software for automated license plate detection to be used for prevention and investigations. · Investigation technology - funding to pay for licenses, POD trailers, etc. Economic and Community Development - Kurt Hanson, Economic and requests that are all funded with existing revenue generated from permit fees: · Extend current TLT Office Tech in permit center for one additional year to the end of 2024. · 2 TLT Plans Examiner Positions - request to convert to permanent. · New position for a GIS Data Analyst · Planner Position - Convert current Sound Transit-funded position (TLT) into an FTE · Talent Development Initiative Human Resources - Teri Smith, Human Resources Director, provided · Extension of TLT Benefits Analyst for additional 4 years to the end of 2026 that is funded with ARPA dollars · Workday Training Credits for HR and Payroll staff · Workday Collaborative Solutions - company that helped city implement Workday - to provide for continuous support for HR/Finance Staff · Administration - Uriel Varela, Race and Equity Manager provided details on his budget requests: · Translation of vital documents - Language Access Plan portion of Equity Strategic Plan - This is the first actionable step out of the Strategic Plan. · Implementation of the Strategic Plan (47 total actionable items) funds to contract with consultants for actionable steps · Mandatory training - 4 years Parks - requests: Operating Requests: Parascondola provided statistics on the Parks outreach efforts with the public and provided an overview of the Human Services Agency Contract funding recommendations: Parks, Recreation & Community Services General Fund requests: Page 2 of 4 City Council Workshop Workshop Special October 5, 2022 Meeting Kent, Washington Minutes Recreation Extend 3 Year TLT to a 5 years for the Senior Center to engage BIPOC seniors in the community. Increase average wage for temporary, part time staff by $1.5/hour. Park Operations 1 FTE Volunteer Coordinator - Work on the Green Kent Stewardship Program and Grant Program work Garbage handling in parks Contract with Security Company for locking parks Hazardous Tree Removal - ARPA use over 4 years Councilmember Larimer suggested setting aside funds for tree replacement. Parks Capital Requests Parascondola detailed all of the Parks capital improvement project requests that include: Restore funds to Riverbend that were lost during COVID - Those funds will use towards capital investments. Facilities $10m, one time investment to address issues. Parascondola detailed all of the General Facility requests Parascondola talked about the Kent East Hill Operations Center and the phases of work being planned. Phase I is complete - demo site, preliminary erosion, temporary buildings. Phase II build on the site The KEHOC will be utilized by the Public Works and Parks Operations departments, along with the Police Department for storage. Update and complete design in 2023, start construction in 2024. Parks, Public works and Police are contributing funds. Parascondola addressed questions about the changes anticipated for City Hall and the Centennial Center. Public Works - Chad Bieren, Public Works Director detailed his departments requests: · Extend TLTs · Convert existing TLT to a permanent position for the right-of-way group · Convert TLT environmental engineering Tech II to work on wetland mitigation · Convert GIS analyst II TLT to work on utility asset management · Convert TLT Construction Inspector · Convert Civil Engineering Designer II TLT Page 3 of 4 City Council Workshop Workshop Special October 5, 2022 Meeting Kent, Washington Minutes Accesso ShoWare Center -General Manager, Tim Higgins reviewed his budget requests. The Shuddered Venue Operators Grant - (accesso ShoWare received $4.575M) can be utilized for other purposes in addition to expenses lost during COVID. Higgins talked about how they plan to invest back into the building - get a return on investments. Higgins went over all of budget requests for 2023- 2024. Information Technology - Mike Carrington, Information Technology Staffing: Replace agency systems with Temp Employees Senior applications Developer - 4 years Technical Lead - 4-year TLT Technical Support Specialist - Tier 1 Service Desk Support capital requests. Answers and Questions: Painter responded to all of the questions submitted by councilmembers. appreciated the work of the departments and staff in developing this budget. All councilmembers expressed they were comfortable having the Finance Department work to finalize the budget. th Any remaining questions by the Council will be resolved before October 18. Meeting ended at 2:15 p.m. Kimberley A. 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