Speaker 3: And that is actually the next agenda item. So if you would like me to just move forward to many of its agenda.
Speaker 0: Items, I want to point out that was exactly what I was about to do. So I was ahead of everybody. But yes, please do move on to agenda. Thank you as always. Please go ahead and move on to agenda item number six. I do have just a brief opening remark before we get into the substance of it. The council members will recall that we've had a regional advisory committee on this project since the beginning, and it has consisted of owner jurisdictions. Redmond. Kirkland. Redmond, Kirkland. And. And. Then organizations that hold easements. So Puget Sound Energy and Sound Transit. And I'm missing one King County, of course. Well, we're owners. Owners, right? Yeah. So so that that body has done a lot of good work. They did all the early planning, came up with the vision. But then as time went on and other jurisdictions that didn't actually have an ownership or easement rights became engaged and saw the potential and started to build and make plans for the corridor. It became clear that we needed to have a broader group of people at the table. So we've been working for the better part of a year and a half to try to update the the adopted rules that this body adopted by ordinance to restructure the Eastside Rail Corridor Regional Advisory Committee to be more inclusive took a lot of negotiations. We're here today to talk about the results of those and hopefully to move forward and improve the menu that we've negotiated. And with that, I will hand it over to Jeff. Please go ahead.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Madam Chair. You've actually covered pages 21 through 23 of the staff report, so I could probably just move on to 24. We discuss the details of the memorandum of understanding, as you said, that the RAC has decided to reform and enlarges membership. And now and instead of just having these is owner jurisdictions and the rail being quarters, they they'd like to expand the membership to include jurisdictions through which the corridor runs through and also jurisdictions, Erin, and also a an advocacy organization that is interested in seeing the trail about through their organization. So the new expanded rack will include that seat. Will include Dobby and Renton who are non owner jurisdictions. But the the quarter runs through those cities and then Woodinville and Snohomish County. Both of those are still active freight lines, but they're also very important in the future of that corridor. And the Eastside Greenway Alliance, which is made up of RCI, Ford, Terra Cascade, Basil, got a land trust for public lands and all of the then with that and they would be joined by the current five members of the RAC, King County, Kirkland Redmond, Sound Transit and Puget Sound Energy. The other either major component of the memorandum of understanding is that governance structure and currently the RAC is chaired by the King County Council member who is represents the district in which the largest part of the corridor runs through. That's in the that was the previous motion and that is you, Madam Chair, District six. And so the Memorandum of understanding would change that and a chair could be selected from the it would from the King County delegation. So one of the three King County Council members or the King County executive, the executive wished and then vice chair of function is added and that is from the other owner jurisdictions could and an elected official from the other jurisdictions.
Speaker 0: Let me just jump in for a quick session there. It just seemed more democratic to be able to select our chair and our vice chair from among our members, as opposed to having it set out in ordinance that it shall always be a particular position and also to include the cities and other owners as potential leadership of this group as opposed to as it is now. The actually there's co-chairs and one of them is the councilmember from District six and the other one is the county executive or his delegate? A delegate. So we are not to break our arms patting ourselves on the back, but the executive and the AARP and I all sort of gave up our guaranteed seats of authority on this body in order to make it more democratic, so that we sort of had the ethic of working together as a group as opposed to having one in the lead and or another. And I think that would be very healthy. So thank you.
Speaker 3: And just a couple of other items, the Racquel can we'll work on a consensus basis and MRU makes it clear that there won't be any votes in the rack. It's basically, you know, everyone in the RAC agrees or the position or action doesn't go forward. And similarly, the RAC can also add or remove members from the RAC through a consensus basis. And those are the major points of the memorandum of Understanding. Happy to answer any questions.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Any questions about this? I will add that the body, when we had our last meeting, agreed that we would try to get the NYU ratified by all the members by hour before our next RAC meeting, which is September 15th. So we have a little bit of time. Seems like we've once again lost our quorum so we won't be doing anything with it for a minute or two. But I'd be open to questions or discussions before seeking action on the IMO you.
Speaker 5: Speculation.
Speaker 0: Council member.
Speaker 5: So just clarifying. What is that? So rather than it being the chair just district six, it could be district three or nine in addition, correct? Okay. All right. Keep taking your vitamins.
Speaker 0: Think you could get a turn? Yes. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: One more item. Last night, the city of Woodinville adopted the Fantastic.
Speaker 0: We can thank Councilmember Cook when we see her again. She's around here somewhere. Okay. So now that we have a quorum, can I ask if the council is prepared? If the committee is prepared for a motion to move this forward to the full council to do pass recommendation? Let me do that. Yes, please. Councilmember Lambert.
Speaker 5: Thank you. I'd like to move. Adoption of proposed motion 2017 0293 with the do pass recommendation.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much, Councilmember. It's been moved. Any comments or questions?
Speaker 4: There is an amendment.
Speaker 0: There is an amendment.
Speaker 5: Yes, there is amendment. There's amendment number one, one, one. And it is sponsored by you. And this makes a technical change to the motion replaces attachment A, an updated attachment A that includes the technical changes.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Typo. I see. Okay. All those in favor of amendment 1.1 please signify by saying i. I. Any opposed? All right. Any other amendments? No title amendment with that. Okay. So thank you. We're at the underlying motion, and I believe we have to have a roll call vote on this one. So, Mark, would you please call the roll?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Dombroski Councilmember. Again. Council Member Garson Price Council Member Cornwall Council Member Lambert High Council Member McDermott.
Speaker 0: High.
Speaker 1: Council Member of the Grove. Council Member one Right there, Madam Chair.
Speaker 0: So you got that?
Speaker 1: Yes, I did. Madam Chair, the vote is six sighs, three no's, three.
Speaker 0: Excuse. Excuse me. Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right. It passes unanimously. I want to thank the staff and Jeff, who sort of picked this up after it had been quite a ways down the road and helped to carry it over the finish line. And that was not nothing. So that was very good work. Thank you. But also just acknowledge the cities of Kirkland and Redmond, Bellevue, Renton, Woodinville, as well as Puget Sound Energy, Sound Transit, the East Greenway Alignment Alliance and Snohomish County. Because we all we all had to come together on this and I think it worked out quite well and will serve us into the future. All right. Thank you. I believe you can go on consent. Yeah, thank you. All right. So that finishes up item number six and brings us to item number seven, which is an update on progress report on the 911 strategic plan. Uh, I'm not going to do a whole introduction. I will allow you to introduce yourselves, but I will say council members done.
A MOTION approving a memorandum of understanding to restructure the Eastside Rail Corridor regional advisory committee.