The last day to submit language to the county auditor to propose the annexation of Klahanie and surrounding neighborhoods is Aug. 6.

That means the city of Issaquah needs to make some decisions in a timely manner. At Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s Land and Shore Committee, the city’s finance director, Diane Marcotte, presented a fiscal analysis of the proposed annexation, based on a report which was prepared by consultants Tom Nesbitt, of Nesbitt Planning and Management, Inc., along with independent consultant Cynthia Stewart.

Annexing Klahanie and 12 surrounding neighborhoods would produce about $620,000 in net income for Issaquah, before taking into account start-up costs and a sales tax-credit from the state that the city of Issaquah will have to apply for.

Issaquah would gain about $6.47 million annually from additional property tax, some sales tax, state-shared revenues, utility taxes and real estate excise tax. Cost to the city to service the new areas would be about $5.85 million.

The Land and Shore committee, consisting of council members Fred Butler, Stacy Goodman and standing in for Tola Marts, Josh Schaer, agreed that the next step is an agenda bill, which will be prepared by city administration.

The bill is scheduled to go to the full council at the regular July 1 or July 15 meetings.

“It’s time, I believe, to make a decision,” Butler said.

This issue came up in 2005, when it was presented to voters in two parts. First was to annex or not, and the second question was whether Klahanie agreed to assume Issaquah’s debt. The first part passed, the second did not. The question will not be split this time.

Dick L’Heureux of Klahanie was on the nine-member task force appointed by Mayor Ava Frisinger to be a sounding board for the consultants. He said he favored annexation.

“Our address is Issaquah,” L’Heureux said. “We want to be a part of it.”

L’Heureux said 95 percent of the residents in his neighborhood of Brookshire, supports annexation.

However, David Kappler of Issaquah said Klahanie would logically be viewed by any land use planner as the south east corner of Sammamish. His view was that annexation would stretch fire and police services too thin.

Kappler thinks the logical sustainable server for Klahanie is Sammamish, not Issaquah, pointing out that there is only about a quarter of mile of land in common between Issaquah and Klahanie.

Matt Bott, CEO of the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce said the business community very much favors annexation, and would lend strong support.