TIC 2019-01-23 Item 3F - SCATBd - 12/14/18 and 12/18/18 Meeting Summaries / 1/15/19 Meeting Agenda

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EASTSIDE TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP (ETP) Friday, December 14, 2018 — Meeting Summary Public Comment: None 11. The ETP Nominating Committee recommends Mayor Debbie Bertlin (Mercer Island) as Chair and Councilmember James McNeal (Bothell) as Vice Chair for the ETP in 2019. III. Approval of November meeting summary: The November meeting summary was approved. IV. John Stokes introduces new King County Department of Local Services Director, John Taylor. John Taylor, Director of the new Dept. of Local Services described his experience in working in the rural areas of unincorporated King County with the King County Flood Control District, as assistant director of King County's Water and Land Resources Division. He has worked with both the agriculture and forestry communities and explained the rationale for new Department of Local Services to better serve unincorporated communities that receive direct service provision from King County. The new department will contain the roads and permitting divisions — the two agencies that provide direct service to unincorporated areas. The department is securing agreements with other agencies that provide services in the unincorporated areas — surface water, parks, animal services, on -site septic and gas plumbing to start and more as time goes on. We will be working on a continuous feedback loop with input from the public to improve the agreements and develop measures to track performance. The Council approved funding for a new economic development position and an outreach lead. Questions: Where do you anticipate the most interaction with the ETP and what will those issue be centered around? There is a structural flaw in taxation and how roads funding operates in this county. The way we approach managing stormwater here and in the state is ludicrous. Water has no boundaries but we've carved up SWMwith each city managing with their own fees and systems. The single biggest impediment to salmon is how we manage stormwater. The same thing with roads funding and transportation. What do you anticipate from this group? I plan to visit often. I don't know what long term solution is. When you talked about road network and when I think about the 250k people in unincorporated King County, they are most likely working in one of our cities and congestion is making their ability to get to our cities difficult. When you look at emergency response, please get a better sense of that. Never met a firefighter that lives in Seattle. In fact, many come from out of state. Like what you said about reorganization because many cities have same struggles. What services will be removed? All services will remain the same. Appreciate your comments about performance metrics. Effort will rise or fall on how successful we are with performance measures. With the general public, our King County departments and the Executive. You talked about PAA's and rural areas, and how does that relate? In King County there are 58 tiny little pockets relics where cities didn't want to incorporate. The biggest are White Center, Skyway and Federal Way. These areas have been getting lesser levels of service. The Service Partnership Agreements will have to approach other elected officials like the sheriff and fire districts. We hope to create a value proposition so the agreements add value to these agencies and elected officials. 91