The Sammamish City Council voted Tuesday to appeal the recent ruling on the southern segment of the East Lake Sammamish Trail project.

The trail segment, a 1.3-mile stretch from the 4300 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast to Southeast 33rd Street, is the second of three sections in Sammamish city limits King County would see widened and paved as part of a 44-mile regional trail system.

Last month, Hearing Examiner John Galt ruled on the county’s appeal to the city’s conditional permit, which it issued in July 2015.

The City Council voted to appeal Galt’s February decision on two counts: One regards drainage issues, which the council approved 6-0; the other regards the placement of a stop sign at the 206th Avenue Southeast-East Lake Sammamish Trail intersection, which the council approved 5-1 with Councilmember Kathy Huckabay dissenting.

“We’re disappointed,” King County Parks Director Kevin Brown said Wednesday, noting the work county and city staff put in to compromise on several points.

Brown said the county does not plan on appealing the hearing examiner’s decision.

“The hearing examiner got it right,” Brown said. “The county should not be on the hook for those existing issues.”

Galt had ruled the stop sign at 206th Avenue Southeast should halt vehicles, giving trail users the right-of-way. Currently, tail users must stop to motorized traffic.

There are 15 single-family residences located west of the trail on 206th, a cul-de-sac with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour.

Regarding the drainage issues, the city had wanted the county to mitigate water runoff from nearby properties, which Galt quashed in his report.

“The county has no obligation to correct existing drainage problems unless it will exacerbate them,” Galt wrote.

Additionally, the city will appeal Galt’s decision not to force the county to work with property owners and the city to produce a study on a culvert regarding its stormwater capacity and fish passage potential.

“The record contains no legitimate justification for [this condition],” Galt wrote. “King County cannot be required to solve that problem since it neither created it nor will exacerbate it.”

The city’s appeal will further delay the project, Brown said, which was originally slated for October 2015. Brown added further review and delay will cost tax payer dollars.

The council voted to appeal the decision after spending about 20 minutes in executive session Tuesday night, the second of the evening.

Councilmember Tom Hornish had left the meeting before the council voted to appeal Galt’s decision.