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PRHSPSC MINS 09-11-2018City of Federal Way City Council PARKS RECREATION HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE Tuesday September 11, 2018 5:00 p.m. SUMMARY Committee Members in Attendance: Committee member Koppang, and Committee member and Moore. Council Members in Attendance: Deputy Mayor Honda Committee Members Excused: Chair Johnson Staff Members in Attendance: Eric Rhoades, Assistant City Attorney, John Hutton, Parks Director, and Mary Jaenicke, Administrative Assistant Il. Guests: Amer Randev, Michael Anderson and Jordan Plummer, King County Housing Authority Committee member Koppang called the meeting to order at 5:00pm Commission Comment: None Public Comment: Lyn Idahosa, Federal Way Collective has met with local business owners located in the Pacific Highway area to discuss the possibility of doing a coat drive. They are asking them if they would be willing to put out a coatrack / bin in front of their business. This would allow people to leave a coat on the rack, and people would be able to take a coat off the rack. She is asking if the City would be willing to partner with them in advertising this service. She would like to discuss this further at a later time. Committee member Koppang motioned to move item B to item C, and have a presentation from King County Housing Authority as item B. BUSINESS ITEMS Approval of Minutes Committee member Koppang motioned to approve the August 14, 2018 minutes as written. Committee member Moore seconded. Motion passed. King County Housing Authority Presentation — Source of Income Protection Amar Randev, Program Manager and Owner Liaison gave a presentation on the hardships that tenants of Section 8 are facing when they are trying to find housing in Federal Way. He is proposing that the City of Federal Way have something in place for families that are using subsidies as their income to prove that they are eligible to rent housing. Many apartment complexes do not allow subsidies to be used as income to qualify for being eligible to rent housing. Many surrounding cities have ordinances in place that address this issue — Federal Way does not. There is a state law (Source of Income Discrimination) (SOID) that will be effective September 30, 2018 to address some of the concerns. Landlords will no longer be able to discriminate against tenants who use federal, state or locally issued benefits to pay their rent. Committee member Moore stated that the Council has an interest in holding landlords accountable. Committee member Koppang stated that there are two issues: 1) A rental inspection program, which Community Development is researching. 2) Making sure that all subsidies are accounted for in the total income for prospective renters in the evaluation process. Renton, Kent, Bellevue and Redmond have all enacted ordinances that have begun the process of addressing this issue. Committee member Koppang set up a policy priority that the staff look at the ordinances of Renton, Kent, Bellevue and Redmond and have this information brought back to committee for review. Mr. Rhoades will also review the state statute. Deputy Mayor Honda added that if the state is enacting a law on September 30, 2018, then it may be unnecessary to create an ordinance. 3 KAPRHSPS committee\2018\09-11-2018 Mins.doc PARKS, RECREATION, HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Summary Page 2 Authorization to Allocate Additional Funds for the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan Mr. Hutton reported that Parks Department staff expanded the scope of work for AHBL, and therefor need to amend the contract to increase the compensation. The total increase in compensation is $26,000. Committee member Moore moved to forward Option 1 to the September 18, 2018 Council consent agenda for approval. Committee member Koppang seconded. Motion passed. COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON EMERGING ISSUES Mr. Hutton updated the committee on all the hard work that the We Love Our City volunteers have been doing at the Blueberry Farm. The group has put together a video on the Blueberry Farm and would like to present it to Advancing Leadership as a potential project for them next year. They want to continue to make improvements at that site and have it become another amenity in the park system. There is some concern from staff that a Master Plan has not been done for the site, and some of the improvements that may be done to the site could potentially be removed in the future. NEXT REGULAR MEETING October 9, 2018 ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 5:42p.m. C!