Copy of City Council Committee of the Whole | November 2, 2026

At the November 2, 2026, City of Redmond City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, members reviewed several items for possible consent-agenda action. The Council supported moving an ordinance amending development impact fees—including updated parks and fire schedules, annual inflation indexing for transportation fees, and amendments to the school-impact-fee agreement with Lake Washington School District—to the November 17 agenda. Members also supported forwarding the proposed 2027–2028 ARCH budget and work program, a roughly $3 million coalition-wide budget; Redmond’s contribution would rise from about $600,000 to $694,000, approximately 16%. ARCH described its affordable-housing work and a consultant-supported Salesforce database project. No final approval of these items occurred at this meeting.

The Council also reviewed final amendments to the Redmond Paired Watershed Study: extending the study through September 2027 and adding an interactive data dashboard through a Herrera consultant-contract amendment, with funding provided through the state Department of Ecology’s Stormwater Action Monitoring program. The amendments were slated for the November 17 consent agenda; no dollar amount was stated. A septic-to-sewer feasibility update was informational, with staff planning further analysis of funding options, equity, regional coordination, and project prioritization. In discussion of the mayor’s salary adjustment, members considered 2.3% and 4.1% options and favored revisiting the broader approach in a future work plan; the transcript does not establish a final vote.