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Federal Way parks committee advances housing allocation, pool repairs and several parks grants; public urges enforcement of 2% public-art rule
Summary
The Parks, Recreation, Human Services & Public Safety Committee forwarded multiple items to the Feb. 17 consent agenda, including a $121,813 allocation from Federal Way to a South King County pooled housing fund for a 20-unit project, authorization to solicit bids for Community Center pool repairs funded by a $1.525 million King County grant, a DSHS interlocal for respite services, a 4Culture equipment grant and a conceptual downtown civic plaza update; public commenters urged applying a 2% public-art requirement to capital projects.
The Parks, Recreation, Human Services & Public Safety Committee of Federal Way on Feb. 3 (committee date in record: items forwarded to the Feb. 17 consent agenda) advanced a suite of routine and policy items, including authorizing staff to solicit bids for the Federal Way Community Center pool repairs, forwarding an interlocal agreement with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) for respite funding, and endorsing city participation in a pooled South King County housing capital fund to support a 20-unit affordable project in Federal Way.
At the start of public comment, resident Karen Brigado urged the city to apply Ordinance 94-217 — the city's 2% for public art requirement — to applicable capital projects and requested a checklist to ensure past and future projects include the mandated art allocation. "This amount funds the arts in public places fund for public art," Brigado said, and she specifically cited the Federal Way Community Center renovation as an example where the 2% allocation should have applied.
Paul Ishii, president of the local arts foundation (AFFW), told the committee the foundation won a $200,000 grant to support school-district programming and that the award will expand student access to arts programming over the next two years.
SCIP housing recommendation and Steel Lake project
City staff and Claire Goodwin, executive manager of the South King Housing and Homelessness Partners (SCIP), presented SCIP's 2025 housing capital fund recommendations. Goodwin highlighted a project located in Federal Way — the Mental Health Housing Foundation's Steel Lake Affordable Housing — described in the presentation as a 20-unit new-construction rental project for people with severe and persistent mental illness at roughly 30–50% area median income. The SCIP executive board recommended $922,000 to the project in this funding round; the portion the city was asked to authorize was $121,813.…
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