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COUNCIL PRESENT
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� Armondo Pavone, Pres. Pro-Tem
❑ Ryan Mclrvin
� Ruth Perez
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❑ Ed Prince
❑ Carol Ann Witschi
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'� Denis Law, Mayor
❑ Jay Covington, Chief Administrative Officer
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❑ Julia Medzegian, City Council Liaison ❑ Other:
❑ Larry Warren, City Attorney ❑ Other:
❑ Zanetta Fontes, Senior Assistant City Attorney ❑ Other:
❑ Shane Moloney, Senior Assistant City Attorney ❑ Other:
� Kelly Beymer, Community Services Administrator ❑ Other:
� Chip Vincent, Community and Economic ❑ Other:
Development Administrator
❑ Other:
❑ Ellen Bradley-Mak, Human Resources& Risk
Management Administrator
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� Chief Kevin Milosevich, Police Department
l� Gregg Zimmerman, Public Works Administrator � Other:
❑ Other:
❑ Jan Hawn,Administrative Services Administrator
❑ Jennifer Henning, Planning Director
❑ Jim Seitz,Transportation Director
�- Leslie Betlach, Parks Planning & Natural Resources Director
� Cliff Long, Economic Development Director
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AGENDA
Committee of the Whole Meeting
5:30 PM - Monday, September 26, 2016
Council Chambers, 7th Floor, City Hall – 1055 S. Grady Way
1. DRAFT 2017 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
a) View PowerPoint Presentation
2. DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION ISSUES
3. POLICE PHOTOGRAMMETRY DEMONSTRATION
a) View PowerPoint Presentation (videos located in Dropbox)
Draft City of Renton
2017 Legislative Agenda
Presented by
Doug Levy, Outcomes by Levy LLC
Preeti Shridhar
City Council
Committee of the Whole
September 26, 2016
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2017 Renton Legislative Agenda
Renton’s Priorities
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2017 Renton Legislative
Priorities
Renton urges lawmakers to protect “state-shared”
revenues, avoid funding cuts for public safety needs
and provide more tools and authority to address local
need.•Support a $2.4 million early-action Operating Budget allocation
to address severe backlog in training slots at the Basic Law
Enforcement Academy (BLEA). Renton plans to hire several
officers who will need BLEA training.
Public Safety -Fund critical needs
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2017 Renton Legislative Priorities
Quality of Life
2017-19 Capital Budget Request:
The City of Renton hopes to request funding for the next
phase of development of the Sunset Area Park. (We will be
finalizing the details including the exact amount and present
those to you along with the final agenda).
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2017 Renton Legislative Priorities
Quality of Life
Affordable Housing, Homelessness Prevention, Mental
Health
•Renton will strongly support efforts to better fund
affordable housing, homelessness prevention, and
mental health/chemical dependency programs and tools
to assist local communities.
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2017 Renton Legislative Priorities
Quality of Life
Affordable Housing, Homelessness Prevention, Mental
Health
•Specifically, the city will:
•Support a coalition effort to extend and increase the document
recording fee utilized for homelessness prevention programs
and services;
•Support a $200 million Capital Budget request for the Housing
Trust Fund;
•Work to ensure a 2017-19 Operating Budget allocation to
enable use of the “1115 Medicaid Waiver” toward supporting
housing services;
•Support local options and tools for communities to add
affordable housing units.
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2017 Renton Legislative
Priorities
Fiscal Stability
•Protect state-shared revenues
•Fund key programs to assist local governments
•Provide options and make structural changes for local
agencies to address their needs
•Support legislative changes to allow cities and counties
to operate more efficiently
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2017 Renton Legislative
Priorities
Fiscal Stability
•Remove cap and gradually restore liquor
revolving account revenues
•Protect funding distributions from the Fire
Insurance Premium Tax –Renton has an overall
LEOFF 1 liability of $40+ million
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2017 Renton Legislative
Priorities
Fiscal Stability
Support modifications to the Public Records Act
to make it more efficient and less susceptible to
abuse.
Renton will support 2017 legislative changes to
allow for electronic records cost recovery, and
an Alternative Dispute Resolution process to
settle records disputes outside of expensive
court processes.
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2017 Renton Legislative Priorities
Transportation
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Potential cost savings of $10M from the I-405/SR 167
Direct Connector.
We are setting up a meeting with WSDOT to discuss the following.
We will then follow-up with our legislators
•Ramp improvement projects –WSDOT has already committed to
the improvements at 30th and 44th interchanges
•Maple Valley intersection and ramp improvements
•HOV access at the Sunset Blvd ramp (Rep. Bergquist interested)
•These improvements should cost no more than $1M
2017 Renton Legislative Update
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•Transit Access Road –This would construct a new public roadway
from the Talbot Road off ramp of I-405 to the new Sound Transit
BRT Station at Grady Way and Rainier Avenue South. $15M
•Construction Mitigation Measures during the WSDOT D/C and
Bellevue to Renton Widening Project -This could include TDM
measures, additional parking and transit service.
2017 Renton Legislative Update
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•This part of the City’s 2017 Legislative
Agenda includes an array of issues that
others will lead efforts to either advance or
head-off
•The city will use time and effort and join
others in supporting beneficial measures or
opposing those which would have an
adverse impact
2017 Support/Oppose Items
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•Oppose legislation that would undermine local
B&O tax collection/administration authority,
but support legislative initiatives growing out of
the EHB 2959 Task Force that could streamline
business licensing applications
•Oppose any legislative initiatives that would
weaken or undermine hotel-motel tax revenue
authority. Unsuccessful legislation was put
forward in 2016 to transfer local H/M tax
authority toward statewide tourism and
marketing activities
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Budget and Fiscal Matters
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•Support initiatives that remove the 1 percent annual-growth
cap on property taxes and replace it with an inflationary or
inflation-plus-growth index that is reflects the year-to-year
cost increases faced by local agencies
•Track and monitor any legislative initiatives growing out of a
study by the Office of the State Actuary into potential merging
of the Law Enforcement and Firefighters’ Plan 1 (“LEOFF 1”)
and Teachers’ Retirement System Plan 1 (“TRS 1”)
•If merger legislation or budget initiatives are introduced, city
will urge they be structured in a way that protects underlying
LEOFF 1 funding and assists cities with LEOFF 1 medical costs
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Budget and Fiscal Matters
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•Support legislation that makes a fourth Driving
Under the Influence offense a felony
•Concerns with “Justice Reinvestment Initiative”
(JRI) legislation that would put new resource
and law enforcement burdens on local
communities
•Support funding for gang intervention grants
and gang data-base training for officers
•Support legislation allowing Regional Fire
Authorities (RFAs) to renew benefit service
charge levies on a majority vote. This authority
already exists for Fire Districts
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Criminal Justice, Public Safety, Fire, Courts
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•Support Capital Budget funding to upgrade the Fire
Training Academy in North Bend
•Oppose legislation that prohibits local governments
from using data on traffic citations to help evaluate
officers
•Protect Operating Budget funding for Court
Management System computer upgrades in courts
of limited jurisdiction
•Oppose legislation that would weaken current “civil
forfeiture” authority
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Criminal Justice, Public Safety, Fire, Courts
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Support for Capital Budget programs that invest in key
infrastructure, including:
–Replacement funding for suspended stormwater grants (Renton has
multiple) and initiatives to make the Model Toxics Control Act
(MTCA) account more sustainable and less prone to revenue spikes
and reductions due to fuel prices
–A 2017 legislative initiative to modify and reform the Public Works
Assistance Account so that the state retains a low-interest loan
program for basic infrastructure needs throughout Washington
–The Floodplains by Design program
–The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program and
–The Youth Athletic Facilities program
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Economic Development, Infrastructure
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•Oppose legislative initiatives to extend
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
(WDFW) fee authority for Hydraulic Permit
Approvals (HPAs) –unless such a fee
extension is accompanied by appropriate
limitations on WDFW authority to require
permits for projects above and beyond
the “ordinary high-water mark.”
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Environment,Natural Resources
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•Support legislative initiatives to continue
to streamline the State Environmental
Policy Act (SEPA),perhaps including efforts
to expand the use of infill exemptions;
•Support funding to assist cities and
counties with required Shoreline
Management Program updates.
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Land Use, Growth Management Act, S horeline
Management Act
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•Oppose legislation that would impose “unfunded mandates” on local
governments, or seeks to pre-empt or remove local authority;
•Support legislative initiatives that can help reduce costs for cities and
counties, or make service delivery more efficient;
•Oppose legislative initiatives that would require local agencies –absent any
new funding –to publish emergency notices in multiple languages beyond
English. Proposals to require multi-lingual notices are admirable intention,
but would need to be accompanied by appropriate funding.
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Local Government in General
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•Join the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) and other local government
and business organizations in opposing legislation that would add new costs
and requirements to employee benefit programs without accompanying
funds;
•Join others in opposing legislation that would expand “presumptive disease”
laws and definitions in the area of Workers’ Compensation claims;
•Urge the Legislature to refrain from bills or budget initiatives that would
result in increased employer/employee pension rates.
2017 Support/Oppose Items
Personnel, Pensions and other HR issues
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Questions?
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RENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
UAS PROGRAM
9-26-16 COW MEETING
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THE OLD WAY
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THE NEW WAY
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3D ROBOTICS SOLO
•We have two of these platforms
•One with a Sony still camera
•One with a GoPro camera
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SOFTWARE
•Pix4D
•Faro Reality
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PIX4D
•Does all f the photogrammetry computations and creates a 3d point cloud for import into the Reality
Software
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FARO REALITY
The Reality software is used to do the actual crash reconstruction
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