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Home My WebLink About07/16/2013 12 Council General InformationxIN 6 ti' tIlI BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEMENT Item No. For Meeting of: 7/16/2013 ITEM TITLE: SUBMITTED BY: Council General Information Sonya Claar Tee, City Clerk SUMMARY EXPLANATION: 1. Weekly issue report 2. City meeting schedule 3. Preliminary Future Activities Calendar 4. Preliminary Agenda 5. Newspaper /Magazine /Internet Articles: * "Deal of the week: Quincy," The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 Resolution: Ordinance: Other (Specify): Contract: Contract Term: Start Date: End Date: Item Budgeted: Amount: Funding Source /Fiscal Impact: Strategic Priority: Insurance Required? No Mail to: Phone: APPROVEDFOR SUBMITTAL: City Manager RECOMMENDATION: ATTACHMENTS: Name: C] 7 -16. info 20130710155433.pdf Description: info Z � MEWIMN ! Manager SUBJECT: Weekly Issues Report Council CITY COUNCIL EXECUTIVE SESSION: There is a e Session on Tuesday, . 1 p.m. The regular business meeting begins 6:00 • COUNCIL • (Coffey, Lover, and Ensey) is meeting on Thursday, July 18 at 2:00 p.m. in the CED Conference Room. For July 15, 2013 — July 22, 2013 0 . - - 0 1 ^ - 0 -F 9 Mondal, July 15 10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing — Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. WA Utilities & Transportation Commission Hearing — Council Chambers Tuesday, July 16 10:00 a. m. County Commissioners Agenda Meeting — Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. City Council Executive Session — Council Chambers 6:00 p,m. City Council Meeting — Council Chambers Wednesday, July 17 12:00 p,m. PAL Board Meeting — PAL Center 2:00 p.m. Bid Opening — Council Chambers 2:00 p.m. Council Built Environment Committee Meeting — CED Conference Room Monday, July 22 10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing — Council Chambers Office Of Mayor/City Council Preliminary Future Activities Calendar Mon. July 15 10:00 a.m. Council Media Briefin Scheduled Meetin Lover woommow.-A U-NowwNp- Council Chambers Tue. July 16 12:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, TBID Coffey 12:00 p.m. Capitol Theatre Executive Scheduled Meeting Bristol Capitol Theatre - Admin Off Committee Meeting 5:30 p.m. City Council Executive Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers Session 9:00 m. cheduled Meetin Council Council Chambers Wed. July 17 12:00 p.m. PAL Board Board Meeting Coffey Coffey PAL Center 3:30 m. Arts Commission Scheduled Meetin Adkison CED Conference Room Thur. July 18 2:00 p.m. Council Built Environment Scheduled Meeting Coffey, Lover, CED Conference Room Committee Meetin Ensev Fri. July 19 9:00 a.m. Welcome American Legion Scheduled Event Cawley Convention Center Conference ...... **a ............. Mon. July 22 12:00' o,m. Greenway Board Meetin Board Meeting Ettl Greenwa Visitors Cente . ......... Tue. July 23 9:00 a.m. EMS Operations Board Board Meeting Lover EMS Office Wed. July 24 :3 0 m p, M. 1 Im Council Chambers Historic Preservation Scheduiled Meeting Z Commission C v onvention Center 11ST211-5ye- M22 RU-TIN-311110i =0 TBID Thur. Aug. 1 0 p.. GFI Advisory Committee Scheduled Meeting Adkison, Coffey, CWCMH Meeting Ettl Fri. Aug. 2 8 :00 a.m. Sister Cit Meetin Scheduled Meetin Adkison CED Conference Room Mon. Aug. 5 10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing Scheduled Meeting Cawley Council Chambers Tue. Aug. 12:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, TBD Ettl 1:00 P.M. City Council Executive Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers Session 2:00 m; Cit - Council Meetin Scheduled Meetin Council Council Chambers Thurs. Aug. 8 I 1:00 P.M. Harman Center Board Board Meeting Cawley, Adkison Harman Center 5:30 `.m -_ YCDA Board Board Meetin Adkison New vision office ki I by 1-1 0 To review the performance of a public employee Business Meeting — Council Chambers 3=13MM Resolution authorizing a contract with Conley Engineering, Inc. to provide design services and bid preparation for replacement of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system at the Water Plant and remote sites. 9 Resolution authorizing contract with Comprehensive Mental Health for Gil Public hearing to consider the Yakima Planning Commission's recommendation to amend YMC 15.09 related to retaining wall standards. MGM Deal of the Week Quincy - WSJ.com P Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non - commercial use only. To order presentation -ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djrepdnts.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now r'�'{��p' �wj; �pn, ., .............. .............. �...., , �..... 1lilJ ML l JRW. VVSJ.cam DEAL OF THE WEEK July 9, 2013, 8:23 p.m. ET Deal of the Week: Quincy Quincy, Mass. Is the Latest Midsize City Trying to Reinvigorate Its Downtown By MAURA WEBBER SADOVI Quincy, Mass., an inner -ring Boston suburb where U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams are buried, is the latest in a long list of midsize old cities trying to reinvigorate downtown. But whether Quincy's plan will succeed depends in part on whether it can attract enough tenants to fill the new residential buildings. Street -Works Development The first phase includes 287 new apartments. Like many cities, Quincy has suffered in recent decades as shoppers migrated to malls and residents moved to farther -flung suburbs. To bring people back downtown, many developers are embracing traditional features of urban life that include streets filled with car traffic and apartments that provide built -in demand for shops and restaurants. Some cities are building glitzy, big -city amenities, such as a new concert hall that opened about two years ago in the downtown area of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, Ind. To be sure, these ambitious projects have had mixed results. Some past downtown redevelopments centered on the creation of pedestrian malls that closed off streets to cars, or enclosed malls, designs that often failed. Kansas City, Mo.'s efforts to turn its downtown into an entertainment district haven't lived up to some expectations, and became a drain on the city's finances. Some local governments are wrestling with partially built downtown redevelopment projects, such as the Sunnyvale Town Center in California's Silicon Valley. But Ken Narva, president of Street -Works Development of White Plains, N.Y., the lead developer for Quincy Center, says Quincy has an advantage over other cities because its downtown already is knitted into the fabric of the city's neighborhoods, and because the city's rich colonial history already draws hundreds of thousands of tourists annually. online. wsj. corNarticle/ SB10001424127887324867904578593852352302688 .html#printMode 1/3 1 Im rc 1i myjymg Z!MMTATjT'k,_q =171 The plan for Quincy is to tear down many low-rise buildings in the city's core and replace them with 1,40o residential units, 1.2 million square feet of office space, 650,000 square feet of retail space and two hotels. The total cost is expected to hit $1.6 billion. Construction is under way on the first block. By decade's end, Quincy Center is slated to be completed on a 50-acre swath of t former shipbuilding hub's existing downtown. I In NFALIP.11 MM111100.16 • Irl 12 is It It's "Probably the biggest success story in new downtowns is getting people to live there said Patrick Phps, chief executive of the Urban Land Institute, a Washington group focused on urban planning and land use. "That in turn drives restaurants, retail and office demand." IM41 I a I I WORAN W.-., 10, W, 1.01 I IM _W WYK31 dRY6 &S M ercUW"KX% new apartments in Boston, Mr. Narva said. er s MIT snops ana res-tall-ran-is Mso are expecteu Co TicreasEFT=M=711 a pea centuries- old city. Quincy Mayor Tom Koch says he hopes to give tourists a reason to stay longer, and boost the presidents are buried. The city also is embarking on a project that will be adding a downtown park, providing easier access to the church and building more parking. "T$,MT7'7-'AM Treme no Tp E e cr-Tmaslm pe• pte (7• 7 771TIg To rignt "-Lp r Boston Mr. Koch said. "It will be more • a destination." Filling those buildings won't be amid a surge of new-apartment construction. A six-year high of 4,771 new apartments will be completed in the Boston area next year, up from 3,287 this year, according to Reis Inc., a real-estate research firm. Harold Brown, one of Boston's biggest apartment landlords, says demand for apartments in Quincy is lower than in Boston despite a growing immigrant population. "We have 3oo apartment.- in Quincy and they rent but we don't have waiting lists or people waiting to tear the doors down to get in," Mr. Brown said. 'Vhere are the people going to come from?" 213