PRHSPSC MINS 04-10-2018City of Federal Way
City Council
PARKS, RECREATION HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE
Tuesday April 10, 2018
5:00 p.m.
SUMMARY
Committee Members in Attendance: Chair Johnson, and Committee members Koppang and Moore
Staff Members in Attendance: Eric Rhoades, Assistant City Attorney, John Hutton, Parks Director,
Jeff Watson, Community Services Manager, and Mary Jaenicke, Administrative Asst. II.
Guests: Charissa Eggleston, Co -Director of HYPE, Shay Coston, Leader of HYPE, Xochityl Maykovich,
Political Director of Washington CAN, and Geoff Tallent, Rental Program Manager (Via Phone).
Chair Johnson called the meeting to order at 5:00pm
Commission Comment: None
Public Comment: Darcy Alderman Store Director at the 320`h Safeway spoke about the challenges at
this store location. She spoke about the large homeless population in the area and that there has been a lot
of negative comments being blogged about her store. She wants Safeway and the City of Federal Way to
work together to make it a safer place. Committee member Moore requested to add this item to the May
agenda.
BUSINESS ITEMS
Approval of Minutes
Committee member Koppang motioned to approve the March 13, 2018 minutes as written.
Committee member Moore seconded. Motion passed.
COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON EMERGING ISSUES
Federal Way Youth Action Team Clean-up
Charrissa Eggleston introduced Shay Coston. Mr. Coston spoke about a Community Cleanup that is
scheduled to take place on April 28 at 9:30am. They would like to make this a weekly event. The goal is
to create awareness and start a conversation to eliminate littering. They want to make Federal Way a safe
and clean environment. Ms. Eggleston stated at this time this is a volunteer event, and they are looking
for funding support from the city and local businesses to pay the youth that are cleaning up the garbage.
HYPE has funding for kids that are on probation or at risk of being on probation, and when somebody is
in crisis. Funding for HYPE will end in June; it takes $30,000 to operate the HYPE program.
Rental Inspection Ordinance Review
Chair Johnson invited Brian Davis, the Community Development Director to this meeting, and the Mayor
suggested that this item be brought to LUTC. Committee member Koppang stated that this item is at the
LUTC meeting and that Community Development is working on it. Chair Johnson added that there have
not been any formal presentations at LUTC because the presentations have been at the PRHSPSC
meetings, and they did not want to duplicate. Committee member Moore asked if this program would no
longer be discussed at the PRHSPSC meetings. Chair Johnson stated that it makes sense for this to be
transferred to LUTC.
The committee had a lengthy conference call with Geoff Tallent, the Rental Program Manager for the
Rental Inspection Program. The purpose of the call was to ask questions about the Rental Inspection
Program that he manages.
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A lengthy follow-up discussion was held with Xochityl Maykovich, Political Director of Washington
CAN.
Committee member Moore would like this researched in a timely manner, and put measures in place that
enhance the City's current ordinance. He would like to review the current ordinance at the May meeting
and modify the language.
Committee member Moore inquired what the timeline would be to change the language in the ordinance.
Committee member Koppang stated that there has to be Council support and a budget to support the staff
to implement the program. The idea of putting together a Council led task force was discussed, Chair
Johnson stated that if there was a task force this could be looked at immediately instead of waiting for
monthly committee meetings.
Ms. Maykovich stated that she would like to city to take some tangible action, and put something in an
ordinance sooner than later. Committee member Koppang stated that he is behind doing something, but
the challenge is that staff has numerous things on their plate that are also urgent. We do not have staffing
in place because of the budget issues to actually get to a lot of the issues that the city is facing as quickly
as we want to.
Mapping the Coalition
This was tabled and will be discussed at the May meeting. Committee member Moore would like to have
conversations instead of working off of the work sheet that was included in the April packet. Chair
Johnson would like to bring in people that have more expertise in the issues that they are interested in.
The purpose is to discuss an issue that is relevant to this committee that could- be brought forward.
Committee member Moore would like to have the Chair invite people to the committee meetings so the
committee knows what's going on at the ground level.
The committee revisited the 320"' Safeway issue. Chair Johnson stated that it's more than a homeless
issue. He wanted to know how to proceed. Committee member Moore said that Darcy should be invited
to come back to the May committee meeting to discuss the issue further. Committee member Koppang
stated that he is surprised that Safeway hasn't developed a program to deal with these kinds of issues that
are happening across the country. Chief Hwang will be invited to the May meeting to discuss this.
Committee member Moore would like to create a working meeting within the PRHSPSC meetings. This
would get them on a path to working on solutions, policies and drive a direction. Chair Koppang stated
that in the past the Council has given staff direction on what they want researched. He is concerned that
Council can do a lot of work, but they're not the professionals on the subject matter, so the process may
not be made shorter, they'll just get more educated.
Committee member Koppang stated that the prior City Attorney stated that two people on a Council
Committee cannot discuss committee business outside of the Committee meeting. He asked Mr. Rhoades
to address the quorum rules.
Committee member Moore would also like the committee to talk about panhandling.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING
May 8, 2018
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 7:00p.m.
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