Dissatisfied with the recently updated East Lake Sammamish Trail design plans for segment A, the Sammamish City Council wants an explanation from King County staff.

The county released its 90 percent design report for the southern Sammamish segment A earlier this week.

However, council members said the design appears to lack flexibility concerning trail width and the number of trees removed — something residents had felt would be considered more closely.

The county had collected public comments regarding its recent plans to widen and pave the path. Public works director Laura Philpot said at the Sammamish City Council meeting on Tuesday that the county has not been able to get through all of those comments.

Council member Romiro Valderrama-Aramayo pressed the council to vote to bring the county in and explain the situation, which was being blamed on miscommunication. The motion passed.

Valderrama-Aramayo even moved to threaten to withdraw the trail from the Inter Local Agreement with the county if county staff do not present a satisfactory answer.

Ultimately, Valderrama-Aramayo’s motion to withdraw the ILA failed.

“I don’t think we’ll be ready to have that discussion,” council member Kathleen Huckabay.

Huckabay was concerned with the consequences of taking such action. She said she wants to give the county the benefit of the doubt.

Philpot was slated to meet with King County parks director Kevin Brown late this week.

An update from that meeting is scheduled to be presented at the next council meeting, on March 3.

Philpot said she would also ask Brown, or another King County staff member, to address the council at the next meeting.

The East Lake Sammamish Trail is an 11-mile recreational path, which was originally a railway, that winds along Lake Sammamish. Recently, the county has been making progress on paving and widening it. The trail runs through some Sammamish private residences.