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Motion passes unanimously.
Meeting adjourned.
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City Manager speaking up on behalf of staff and being a good boss.
CM Scully is saying he wants things like the "roundabout simulator" to be cut. Hard agree.
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"It's a very [jurisdictionally] chopped up roadway and there's a reason they don't let that happen anymore," - staff.
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CM Robertson asking about difference between "Revenue Deficit" and "Shared Allocations of Cost." Staff gives a solid answer I do not in any way understand. Funding confuses me.
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Staff says the biggest problem wasn't getting outside partners to be more of a stakeholder.
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Deputy Mayor Mork asking why we didn't go design/build which would have put the contractor more on the hook. Staff says its harder to get federal funding that way.
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Staff reinforces that these overruns were completely unpredictable and would have happened for a higher bid countracot. Its also the result of a calculated risk to go for grant money.
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CM Pobee mad that we have to pay for outside delays. Seems like we can claw back utility delays but not WSDOT delays.
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CM Scully now angry at SCL taking too long and says to tell him as soon as possible so he can call Bruce Harrell personally to straighten it out. Staff says most problems are solved.
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Now onto city discussion. CM Scully moving to authorize. CM Pobee seconds.
CM Scully has concerns about the cost differences in bids like I called out before.
Apparently some of these were due to a pole being 18 inches out of reach. That level of small problem causing delay.
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Talking about developing a roundabout simulator available at city hall and festivals. What the f
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Roundabout set to open partially in Sept 25 (west side) and Feb 26 (east side) with full opening in summer of 26, but it is a half-year behind schedule.
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Seems like most of the problem was utility work overages, some of which may be reimbursed by SCL and PSE, etc. Could impact Shoreline by as much as $4.5 million.
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This is a company who made the lowest bid now with a total cost more than the highest bid. Totally amazing. This is just since 2023.
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Sorry, it's $5.7 million over, but these are only projections and estimates.
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The 145th st interchange appears to be $7 million over budget. Report seems to be about how important the work done was and is clearly being read aloud. We know it's important, why is it $7 million over budget?
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8a is unanimous and amendments will be studied. Onto 8b which is a cost increase on the 145th street project.
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Procedural hiccup but now onto CM Ademasu who has a question about the Bike Level of Traffic Stress alteration. Council has super complex questions that reach deep down. I can't explain this in a bsky message.
Doesn't feel like micromanagement, just question asking.
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The city is seeking "countywide center" designation for 4 locations, 2 near the Link stations plus North City and City Center along Aurora and CM Robertson has questions about how the staff will tackle that.
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This is still early discussion of amendments which may take more than a year to make it to the "action" stage where it can be voted on.
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Onto consent calendar. Consent Calendar passed.
Onto 8a, comp plan amendments.
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Yeah, I am concerned that suddenly we will ALL own trees on one lot, so tearing down an old house is just a loss of a house, but taking out a tree demands compensation to all neighbors or something.
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#5 is online. Another Moms Demand Action member.
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#4 is council candidate Jack Malek speaking on trees. Malek strongly prefers density over trees because density is far more carbon neutral than single family housing with a few trees.
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#2 is a Moms Demand Action member thanking for the proclamation. It is just a day, June 6th. I was wrong earlier.
#3 is another, talking about his nephew being killed by a gun. Awful and sobering statistics following, with a shout out that gun deaths are down in WA, which is great.
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Onto comments:
#1 is Save Shoreline Trees about 7F, wanting the dollar value of trees in RoW calculated for each tree via automation.
I have issues with SST, but this is not really one of them. More how they will use it, the data is good.
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One of the recipients is speaking as President of the Shorewood HS GSA. Short and sweet.
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Mayor Roberts declaring June as both "Gun Violence Awareness" Month and Pride month. Two young folks accepting the pride month proclamation. Mayor calls out Stonewall explicitly as the origin of Pride and declares that the Progress Pride flag will fly at city hall during this month
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Packed audience tonight, but first of the month often has mayoral proclamations not on the public agenda. At least one interest group (Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America) is visible for its matching orange shirts.
Full roster for the council as well.
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Again, I am not a journalist so I will be deeply biased, but I try to be fair.
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Ugh. I can't make it tomorrow. I have come down with a case of children.
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My wife demands pictures. She is deeply unreasonable.
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I feel like this will be a difficult and harrowing experience for you, but not as much as it will be for your dogs.
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I should have gotten a better look at the map she brought, but I think it was the area along Firlands between 185th and 195th. I spent some time on Google maps last night and I'm not sure what is here to be preserved.