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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/22/2019 03 City Manager Update 1 to\'4\lyy tbxk ik 1 d + PPP P P p P 1 PPi ittYlltYlt.\ta. BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEM ENT Item No. 3. For Meeting of: January 22, 2019 ITEM TITLE: City Manager update SUBMITTED BY: Cliff Moore, City Manager SUMMARY EXPLANATION: City Manager Update Items: 1 . Follow Up on Strategic Planning Retreat: Strategic Plan Document will be updated by staff in the next 10 days with the changes Council moved forward during recent retreat. Please review this list and proposed committee assignments. 1. Fiscal Sustainability, with target of reaching 16.7% reserve by 2022 (responsibility of all, not assigned to a particular committee) 2. Main/Arterial Street Development (Economic Development Committee) 3. Community Policing (Public Safety Committee) 4. Safe Routes to School (Public Safety) 5. Youth Development (Healthy Community Committee) 6. Mill Site Development (Partnership Committee) 7. Homelessness/Affordable Housing (Healthy Community Committee) 8. Airport Expansion (Partnership Committee) 9. City Facilities: Pools and Community Centers (Ad Hoc Committee) 10. Downtown Destination (Economic Development Committee) Additional information requests from retreat: The Council General Information tab for the February 5 business meeting agenda will include the following updates: Report from Chief Markham on Regional Fire Authority(previous process; current conversations); update on fiscal 2018 closing, including fund balance and projections for reaching 14.6 to 14.8% reserve level; information on airport marketing metrics with data going back several years. 2) City Pretreatment Delegation — Union Gap and Terrace Heights: (See January 16, 2019 memo from Scott Schaffer, attached). This is an information update. 3) CWU Aviation Program: (See January 12, 2019 Yakima Herald article, attached). Council direction needed: Should City support CWU state capital budget request as part of the 2019 legislative priorities? Should staff attend the January 24 Aviation Caucus meeting in Olympia? 2 4. Community Integration Committee: Council discussion on status of the Community Integration Committee. 5. Council attendance at City and external board and committee meetings: If unavailable, please alert Cally Price so she can attempt to find an alternate. ITEM BUDGETED: STRATEGIC PRIORITY: APPROVED FOR City Manager SUBMITTAL: STAFF RECOMMENDATION: BOARD/COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: ATTACHMENTS: Description Upload Date Type 0 CM update items 2 and 3 attachments 1,17,2019 Cover Memo .37 evv\ Memorandum Date: January 16, 2019 To: Honorable Mayor, Members of City Council, and Cliff Moore, City Manager From: Scott Schafer, Public Works Director Mike Price, Wastewater/Stormwater Division Manager Subject: City Pretreatment Delegation — Union Gap and Terrace Heights The City of Yakima Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publically owned treatment works (POTW) with the design capacity to treat over 20 million gallons of wastewater per day. As a regional facility, the Yakima POTW treats wastewater from Union Gap and from Terrace Heights/City of Moxee (contributing jurisdictions) in addition to the wastewater from customers within the Yakima city limits. The wastewater conveyed and treated in the City of Yakima system includes discharges from industrial and commercial customers throughout Yakima and the contributing jurisdictions. Depending on the processes within a given industrial or commercial facility, certain wastewater discharges may have properties that could harm the wastewater collection system or the wastewater treatment plant. These potentially harmful properties can range from physical characteristics like high temperature to the presence of specific chemical substances. In recognition of the need to protect collection and treatment systems from potentially harmful discharges, federal regulations require any POTW with the capacity to treat more than 5 million gallons of wastewater per day to establish and maintain a Pretreatment Program. A Pretreatment Program provides a framework for the treatment system owner to protect the wastewater collection system and treatment plant from harmful discharges. Pretreatment Program activities range from annual facility inspections to writing, issuing and enforcing facility- specific wastewater discharge permits. Throughout the 1990's, The City of Yakima collaborated with the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) to establish the City of Yakima Wastewater Pretreatment Program. The City's 2003 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit formally approved the City's Pretreatment Program and acknowledged that Ecology had assigned (delegated) Pretreatment Program authority to the City of Yakima for dischargers within Yakima city limits. Ecology retained pretreatment authority in the contributing jurisdictions with the provision that Ecology would eventually delegate pretreatment authority, as required by federal regulations, to the City of Yakima for dischargers in Union Gap and Terrace Heights/City of Moxee. In consultation with the City of Yakima, Ecology issued Administrative Order Docket#16086 (Order) to the City of Yakima on November 19, 2018. The Order established a schedule for the City to apply for expanded pretreatment authority to include the contributing jurisdictions of Union Gap and Terrace Heights/City of Moxee. The ordered date for application submittal is June 20, 2019. 4 The terms and conditions of the use of the City of Yakima wastewater treatment system by the contributing jurisdictions are formalized in the 2014 3-Party Wholesale Service Agreement (Agreement). The Agreement specifies the capacity allocations, regulatory responsibilities and financial obligations of each party. The City fully anticipated this expanded delegation and included the pretreatment roles of the City and the contributing jurisdictions in the Agreement in the event of such delegation. Following approval of the expanded delegation, the City's role will be to write, issue and enforce NPDES permits for existing or new significant industrial facilities in the contributing jurisdictions that discharge to the City of Yakima POTW, and to monitor Pretreatment activities conducted by Union Gap and Terrace Heights/City of Moxee. Union Gap and Terrace Heights/City of Moxee will report to the City of Yakima instead of to the Department of Ecology. In cooperation with Ecology and the contributing jurisdictions, the City of Yakima has identified ten existing permitted industrial facilities whose permits would transition from Ecology administration to City of Yakima administration. 1/14/2919, Central Washington University requesting state funding to move aviation program to Yakima I News I dailyrecordnews.cipm https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/central-washington-university-requesting-state-funding-to-move-aviation- program/article_d8939fb7-bb71-57d9-b505-fe399c144874.html tTOP STORY Central Washington University requesting state funding to move aviation program to Yakima By KARL HOLAPPA staff writer Jan 12, 2019 ..: ot .. n ':y$' .�,. '::�.v. "<ry�..S• 'E�'W.:k x:'�..'s x"+asM� `.'.x'r. ..... .......\. '� .. �... w :oux...:... .. '.-„ :....:._"�� .yw;,,a�h w.}•' � � `taw'.,.•d.a'.d.....,.,.,�i ': '..:,: x.W.—...._...........:..m,m , ..x a..''"•?,a•." zw.r wa :8.a:'"''�C•-• .*.? 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In doing so, it will request approximately $5 million in state funding for building renovations at the field and $9 million for hangar construction. https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/central-washington-university-requesting-state-fund ing-to-move-aviation-program/article_d8939fb7-bb71-57d9... 1/7 1/14/209 Central Washington University requesting state funding to move aviation program to Yakima News I dailyrecordnews.6)m "They, on their own explanation can't bring state money to the airport without actually physically owning it or having a management agreement in place," Wright said. "That was part of the effort behind the (joint-operating agreement)." Wright said another misunderstanding was that the Federal Aviation Administration would provide funding based on the amount of aircraft operations at Bowers Field. Because the university flight program accounts for the majority of those operations, there was a fear that the airport would not be a candidate for funding if the flight program was moved to another location. "That was proven to actually not be true," he said. "We are in fact right now receiving FAA funding for our airport master plan, which is a requirement for further funding. Now we are eligible for operations and maintenance grants." In order to receive funding for the proposed runway extension project, Wright said the airport must have at least 500 critical aircraft operations within a year. "The critical aircraft size is like a Citation business jet," he said. "Central doesn't fly those. It's inapplicable." An underlying legal issue that caused concern was whether the university was allowed to co-operate an airport with a municipality. In a November letter to Gaudino, Wright said Kittitas County Deputy Prosecutor Neil Caulkins looked into the matter and concluded that the proposed agreement was statutorily prohibited. Caulkins noted that as CWU does not own an airport, they would have to operate the airport to fit the statute. Operation is defined as being through a "governing body," and the "governing body" is defined in the context of the state as being the Secretary of Transportation. "Hence, the only state agency that seemingly could 'operate' an airport (that it didn't own) would be the DOT," Caulkins wrote in his opinion. "Said another way, a joint-operation agreement between the county and state must be signed on to by the Secretary of Transportation (not CWU folks), and the DOT Secretary is not going to have authority to enter into an agreement on behalf of CWU." Gaudino responded in a letter expressing his surprise by the legal opinion produced by the county. He said the university reached out to Washington State Assistant Attorney General Alan Smith for his opinion, and he concluded that his review of the code showed that CWU has the authority to "enter into such contracts as the trustees deem essential to regional university purposes." https://wwwdailyrecordnews.com/news/central-washington-university-requesting-state-funding-to-move-aviation-program/article_d8939fb7-bb71-57d9... 3/7 1/14/20,19, Central Washington University requesting state funding to move aviation program to Yakima I News I dailyrecordnews.Om "I think at some point it was inevitable that the university would look to expand," he said. "There's different aspects of it. You have an uncontrolled field here, you have controlled airspace down there. Single-engine planes maybe work better here, and you can run the multi-engine planes down there. There's an evolution of the program, I just hope that for them that maybe this wasn't premature. I would certainly love to take the time to explore this further, but I understand that they have to do what they need to do." Wright said he feels that Bowers Field still has plenty of untapped potential, and that he would like to see it grow with along with the flight program. Although he feels that the memorandum of agreement was done in good faith, "Do I want to see them out there? Yes, I do," he said. "I just want to make sure that we are going down the due diligence process correctly and making sure that we have all this knowledge in place before we encumber ourselves." UNIVERSITY STANDPOINT CWU Office of the President Chief of Staff Linda Schactler said the historic position of the county is the maintenance and upkeep of Bowers Field has been prohibitively expensive, and that county has asserted over the years that they do not have the money to do so. She said as a result, the airport's condition has deteriorated, resulting in the closure of runway 7-25 last March. "We had airplanes trapped in a hanger this fall because the doors were rusted shut," she said. "There's weeds growing out of the pavement, and so on." https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/central-washington-university-requesting-state-funding-to-move-aviation-program/article J89391b7-bb71-57d9... 5/7 1/14/2019 Central Washington University requesting slate funding to move aviation program to Yakima I News I dailyrecordnews.a4m , "This is where we want to be," she said. "We want our students to be on campus. We love this community. This is our home, and this is the best solution. However, if we can't make it work, we have to do something. We have 250 students in these programs, and we have to serve them." KarlHolappa https'//www,dallyrecordnewszorn/newskentral-washngton.universily-requesiing-state-funding-lo-move-aviation•program/article_d8939fb7-bb71-57d9 7/7 9 TMr8 j�a4 Q k Aviation Caucus 24 January 2019 Cherberg A/B/C 7:00 AM Welcome and Introductions (7:00) CWU (7:05) Giving an Aviation Update Steve Dupont, Director of Government Relations Perry Tech (7:15) Perry Tech & Aviation Christine Cote, President of Perry Tech School Bravo 369 Foundation Update (7:25) Around the World Friendship Flight Craig Lang, Bravo 369 Flight Foundation 4 e Legislative Update (7:35) Taking Nominations Election of Senate Co-Chair (7:45) *Be prepared t©:=p resent names for House Co-Chair nominations and subsequent election.* Good of the Order Adjourn (8:00) Thank you to David Ketchum, President of WSAA for providing breakfast *Aviation-Related Bills Attached* 4 1 0 f' MI! Aviation Caucus 2019 Aviation Bills SB 5138 AN ACT Relating to aircraft registration Sponsor: Sen. Honeyford -Requires commercial unmanned aircraft to be registered with the department of transportation for each calendar year in which the aircraft is operated or is based in this state. Exempts the following from aircraft registration requirements:A nonresident owning an aircraft, which is based at an airport jointly owned or operated by a municipal corporation or other governmental entity within the state and another state, and the owner or operator provides proof that all taxes, license fees, and registration fees required by the state in which the owner or operator resides has been paid. SB 5137 AN ACT Relating to modifying the aircraft excise tax Sponsor: Sen. Honeyford -Modifies the aircraft excise tax. By providing clearer language and defining more different types of aircraft this allows the excise tax for the various types of aircraft to be adjusted accordingly and established if needed for the newly defined. SB 5011 AN ACT Relating to a community aviation revitalization loan program Sponsor: Sen. Honeyford -Requires the department of transportation to: (1) Convene a community aviation revitalization board to exercise the powers granted in chapter 47.68 RCW(aeronautics); (2) Provide management services, including fiscal and contract services, to assist the board in implementing chapter 47.68 RCW; and (3) Provide staff support to the board as needed. Authorizes the community aviation revitalization board to: (1)Make direct loans to airport sponsors of public use airports for the purpose of airport improvements that primarily support general aviation activities; and (2)Provide loans for the purpose of airport improvements if the state is receiving commensurate public benefit that must include, as a condition of the loan, a commitment to provide public access to the airport. Requires the department and the board to keep proper records of accounts, which are subject to audit by the state auditor.