Community Engagement Commission

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024 – 6:00 P.M. 22710 E. COUNTRY VISTA DRIVE The purpose of the Community Engagement Commission is to serve in an advisory capacity to the mayor and City Council. The Commission’s role is to gather ideas, input, and feedback from community members, and to advise and guide city leadership. • Sign up to provide public comment at the meeting via calling in. • Submit written public comment prior to 4:00 p.m. on the date of the meeting. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. APPROVALS a. Agenda b. Minutes of May 15, 2024 4. CITY HALL UPDATES (David Goehner) a. See handout 5. DISCUSSIONS & BUSINESS a. Farmers Market updates b. 2025 work plan and budget c. Other upcoming opportunities? 6. PUBLIC COMMENTS 7. NEXT MEETING: July 17, 2024, at 6 p.m. a. Requested items for agenda? 8. ADJOURNMENT  JOIN ZOOM MEETING To view the meeting live via Zoom, join the Zoom web meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81440267233?pwd=SkxldUZobnhvbEcyZ1U4YndLcnRJZz09 Meeting ID: 814 4026 7233 PUBLIC COMMENT If you wish to provide oral public comments during the Community Engagement Commission meeting, you may do so in-person at City Hall or virtually via zoom. You may speak in-person at City Hall, or if you wish to speak via zoom, please join the zoom meeting using the meeting information above. Public comments will be invited during the appropriate section of the agenda, at which time you can send a request to speak to our meeting host using the chat function within the zoom meeting. WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENTS If you wish to provide written public comments for the Community Engagement Commission meeting, please email your comments to tgarcia@libertylakewa.gov by 4:00 p.m. the day of the commission meeting and include all the following information with your comments: 1. The meeting date 2. Your first and last name 3. If you are a Liberty Lake resident 4. The agenda item(s) you are speaking about If providing written comments, the comments received will be acknowledged during the public meeting, but not read. All written comments received by 4:00 p.m. will be provided to commission members in advance of the meeting.  City Hall Updates for Community Engagement Commission 6-12-2024 1. City Council: • City Council is looking to schedule its public session about transparency for around Sept. 10. The thought is that there could be higher public attendance for this after school resumes and that this would allow more time to promote the event. 2. Zencity forum on 2025 budget: • Online public forum to obtain community input on the 2025 city budget opened on Zencity on May 31. Public will be able to write comments there until Oct. 14. Site also includes a tentative budget timeline. Forum is promoted at top of city’s homepage and is available at: www.libertylake-wa.civilspace.io/en/projects/2025-liberty-lake-budget-development . 3. City Academy • 3rd series concluded on June 6 and involved 7 people. CEC has had a member in all 3 sessions. 4. Liberty Lake Fest: July 4th Community Celebration • Signs are available at City Hall and Farmers Market to promote area’s July 3 and July 4 activities. Sign was also posted on city’s Facebook site an in June “Splash”. 5. Public arts: • Trailhead Golf will start an annually rotating display of Ridgeline student art (themed on nature) within the next few weeks outside the upcoming restaurant space. • The Park and Arts Commission is initiating a call to artists to create a “whimsical map” of Liberty Lake to place inside Trailhead Golf’s pro shop entrance. • Proposals are also being solicited for a “Liberty Lake Together” art piece for the area southeast of Kramer and East Country Vista. • For Pavillion Park, the Liberty Lake Historical Society is creating content about the history of the park for a display that is being planned for the northeast landscaped area. 6. Pavillion Park basketball/skate upgrades dedication: • About 50 people attended last Saturday’s dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new art projects and basketball backboards. A large portion of the attendees were there to watch the 3-on-3 basketball game between the LLPD and SVFD. 7. Farmers Market: • Magnetic 2’x3’ easel board has arrived and is available to use. 8. Spokane River Centennial Trail construction. (Not a city project.) • State Parks and Recreation Commission completed asphalting portion well ahead of schedule and reopened the trail on June 4. Previous plans were to have the trail closed throughout the summer. 9. City Podcast: • We are doing 3 episodes for June, in order to promote upcoming activities. On the schedule: Friends of the Library’s Book Sale and Soiree with Sue Hamblet and Marsha Binder (posted in early June), summer recreation preview with recreation coordinator Mickael Stevens (posting in mid-June), and Summer Movies in the Parks with Dan Dunne (posting at end of June). --David Goehner  COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMISSION WORK PLAN 2024 Activity Due Date Who Workshop with CC October CEC and CC Framework final draft January or February Aaron Strategic Plan Outreach March CEC Work Plan and Budget June 19, 2024 CEC Special Session Develop the binder for FM Bill and Summer Develop display themes for Robin FM Comp Plan Public Outreach May 13, 2024 Workshop with Lisa Comp Plan Public Outreach meeting with the Planning Commission Town Hall Public Outreach June Bill and Summer Final Draft Special Projects (video)  NOTICE OF CANCELATION AND RE-SCHEDULING OF THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED JUNE 2024 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMISSION MEETING IN ACCORDANCE WITH RCW 42.30.030, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES THAT: the City of Liberty Lake Community Engagement Commission has rescheduled its regular meeting of June 19, 2024, to one week earlier on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will take place in person at City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive, Liberty Lake, WA, and remotely via Zoom. The agenda items to be covered and the Zoom link is available in the published agenda, on the City’s website: https://www.libertylakewa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06122024-992 David Goehner, Communications Specialist Dated: June 11, 2024