City Council - Regular Meeting

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So you're meeting at the end of the year. So, you know, because I think it's, you know, it's been a really, really, really cool thing. And so, you know, I don't know if you want to say your part, but I think they just have a really exciting new season. So, you know, they have a lot of new projects. So, they are moving towards, you know, that people might talk. I mean, they have, you know, these are very local.

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I think it's really important that you take advantage of your time to work. It's now 6 o'clock. We're about to meet an order. May I please have a quorum? Confirmation of quorum. Sorry, I'm going to be off guard there.

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Item three is special orders of the day announcements. There are none. Item four is public hearings. There are none. Item five is public comment.

Okay. Okay, we've reached the point in our agenda for the press to speak to council about issues that are coming before us or may come before us in the future. House members may not act on any requests at this meeting, but may refer a speaker to staff for assistance. May I ask that you hold your comments three minutes or less and refrain from personal attacks. At any time, public comment is your courtesy, and we expect everyone to conduct themselves in the manner. Speakers are asked to complete a public comment before Madam Clerk. Were there any public comment forms submitted prior to the meeting?

We've attended two of the first in April. Hello. My name is Vicki Brown. I live at 2404 Heather Terrace. which my backyard is so pure. So I want to draw your attention to the lack of sidewalks or bikeways from Murphy Woods to Cranston. Somebody is going to get killed there. And I rode my bike down here tonight. I hope it's not torn home. But they do not go 35 miles an hour into the pier. You took it from four lanes down to two. But even those little scooter things, you know, they don't wear helmets. They're flying. You know, I mean, somebody really is getting hit and killed between Princeton and Murphy Woods. And you're going to have 100 homes in that Murphy Woods area. You definitely need to come up with a plan for sidewalks there. So, you know, in that area. And don't even get me started on the glass everywhere on the bike paths and the gutters. There's glass everywhere. I got you three times riding the bike down here. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Brandon Mixon.

Hello, my name is Brandon, and I'm here to pose a few questions and comments about the proposed changes to the Lillie-Jewsville Express Line for I-17 for this year. First, I would say there's the parking plan being used as a deterrent for station and people in Lille. That station is very light on infrastructure for passenger and pedestrian safety, considering it's currently being used as the downtown transfer facility. I believe the space requires attention to make it a more viable transport. Specifically, I'm suggesting more proper signage as well as beach and bus lanes and passenger waiting areas to avoid confused understanding of the parking lot for the bus. Second, I'd like to ask how this realignment is going to affect other services in the network. Currently, bus route 4 serves the length of Prairie Avenue from Grand School Road to Gale Drive. With an external transit service on the route, are we looking to create a frequency corridor on Prairie? Probably looking to potentially rework route 4 to use as operating hours on other areas of the city.

Last week was the outline of the direct-to-service new Prairie Avenue and its overall content.

I did have a key service provider from Jamesville who gave me access to downtown, including Des Moines College. Considering that I was one of my two separate transit agencies, I don't believe that the transfer is viable in this situation, which would cost me a partnership on two units. I know I've had a lot to talk about, and thank you for your time.

I'm always happy to see Trinket being developed in Des Moines and continues to invest in this pretty good structure.

Are there any members of the public that did not sign up to host the Threats to the Council this evening? If so, let's look forward to your name. Present. Second call. Okay. Finally, I'm glad we had your comments. Send them by email. Email? Email. All right. Let's run this round closed. Thank you.

Item 6 is the Consent Agenda. All items listed under the Consent Agenda are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless the Council member so requests. In which event, the item will be removed from the general order of business and considered at least quite on the agenda. Okay, thank you.

Any comments or slides? Any items or needs to be submitted?

Okay.

Okay, we have a motion to approve. Second. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The motion carries. Next item.

Item seven is licenses. There are none. Item eight is ordinances. Be paid consideration of ordinance number 3920, adding a school crossing on Town Light Avenue between Pop Street and Little Street.

Okay. So this is the seventh reading. We have a motion to approve the ordinance. All right, so we have a first by Navy SEAL. Do you have any questions or discussion about that? All in favor say aye.

Aye. All in favor say aye. Aye.

Opposed say aye. Any motion carries.

Item 9 is Appointments. There are none.

Item 10 is Counselor Activities and Upcoming Events. All right. Most of the items are in this culture by social media. quick question. We didn't have the chance to, well, see what some of our neighbors are doing. They've attended meetings with the kind of public employee, and they're looking to see how they are going to deal with data centers in their backyard. So we're trying to make sure that we keep an eye on what they're doing so that we know more about how we can address the issue here. Also, just my husband happened to be visiting.

It's our anniversary, so happy anniversary. All right. Thank you.

Just a reminder, the famous office of Gainesville, with storm damage incurred any day during the series of storms from April 13th to the 23rd. The damage of the line was most obsessive from May 17th. That's when we were hit with severe hail. That office is at 1717 Eastern Avenue that can be contacted for hail. 621-346-2. They cannot reimburse costs that are already covered by insurance, but if there are other costs that you bear as a result of the storm that are down, there is some assistance that can be made by contacting them. Again, 1717C, Center Avenue to the south side, and they will be open through August 31st. At that location, Thank you. Yes, thank you.

And just a reminder, everybody, that tomorrow is National Night Out Day. So even if you don't have plans for a neighborhood picnic or a night of sport, You can go to the start of it, which is late afternoon, over in Vernon Park on the west side of the city. And then after that, you can hang around there for a while, or you can go to someone's home where you know they're having a night out with you for a party. So let's see, there was one other thing. Oh, voting is next Tuesday. I almost forgot to mention that. Yeah. It's a preliminary. It's a preliminary vote. But every vote matters. So please look into that. And you can speak to Rebecca. And another point about voting in person here. here in the city hall, where you need to stay in your regular voting and your polling place. And that's all I've got. I hope to employ Wisconsin city government website. Thank you. Well, I think it's more important than I was going to say, all the things that I can say. So, now that we're right now, that we're looking to do that, I have to say some simple terms, which I'll mention if you want to. But they're always nice. And why it's nice to see those EMTs go by. And I'm going to replace your daddy's student. Sorry about that. His name's Jerry T. The EMT's dating from the 1960s.

We never reached that number. Thank you. What's your name? Okay. I'll just add to Councilor Blythe's issues and her steps to voting. So it's 830 here, right here at T-Consult. And it's up until 9 o'clock on the 5th of June. Also, the next 7th of May, we're going to run another meeting in two weeks. But the weekend Saturday is in 30th edition. I hope you're excited for that. And if you haven't been there, it's not a freak of a chance. That's all I have.

Item 11 is city manager presentation. Item 11A, city manager to provide an update on the development of a strategic plan for the city of Flint.

I just want to provide the council and also the public an update on this strategic planning process. I know this was a project or process that had been started before I came on board. With the goal in mind to bring the R&D facility or to help navigate the city through this process. It isn't yet in the process. The city has done it. As far as it's been being needed. but it was important the council felt to bring on a third party to obviously take that. We'll both meet coming up in four days. And then we're going to see if we can have these initializing process in the past to really let big things get forward, monitoring and identifying what the community's initiatives really should be for the years to come. Back on July 7th, City Council's workshop, City Council had reviewed approximately 17 respondents. They had responded to the CSR-3 process. The consensus at the time was to select CQs for consulting or for auditable employing, looking at their experience, looking at their response from communities. Subsequent to that, the city entered into the agreements with CQs for consulting and for any information I'm at the timeline for this process. I'm going to get this updated here in the fall. Who is CP2 insulting as a material annoyance? They are a space-based community that's chasing planning and organizational development and facilitation of such events. They work with many local governments, nonprofit organizations, and community and global sector organizations with experience in this positive year, basically. They use a collaborative and innovative approach that's determined to implement a community survey by combining We are in a difficult year, so there are further rules to ensure there's no technical planning process for all the procedures and planning processes that we're moving forward with. The focus is on creating a practical and implementable solution. We do plan to write this and introduce the report on a annual basis, but we're willing part of their comprehensive approach is to go to the association that's going to look at a 2020-2030 window as an independent entity. We'll see accounts for an individual level or a six-year check is also going to come up. We finalize it in a rollout statement. the community survey that has come out recently. It's going to facilitate state Florida focus groups. And they're going to put community feedback and key themes and then benchmark those and get to other surveys they've done and see what the other communities are working. They're also going to facilitate a fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee-for-fee While we're probably in the current phase, we just kicked off with the strategic planning community survey. That was launched on Friday. So I think you'll start seeing more and more details with QR codes and information as we roll out our marketing campaign. That's going to go through September 3rd. There will be focus groups later in the month of September from September 4th through September 15th approximately. The council will then review the results of the community survey and focus group feedback on September 21st. with their workshops and intubations until October 3rd. A big part of the goal of this vision plan is to engage in broad diverse and diverse concepts of the employee community to ensure that this vision plan reflects a wide range of perspectives and priorities. Those themselves are going to be added to 50 parts of the Spitzberg focus groups to encourage meaningful discussion and dialogue. There will be a list generated of people who are interested in participating with them in a mental lottery system, a randomized lottery system to determine who will actually be part of that. But by no means is there going to be an opportunity for folks who are interested to be able to engage with this process in a natural manner. Those full districts are going to entail community members with two resident focus group positions. A focus group to focus on the business community with business representatives, community partners such as nonprofits and other virtual organizations such as the school district, housing authority, and things of that sort. City's team of frontline employees. to engage primarily with our community on a online basis, which may involve students that need to use college if they are also looking for a brand new youth voice. They're going to be able to get focus groups that engage with students at the normalized board, youth, and academy as part of their process to ensure that that's made on a perspective of the future of the community and also couching the responses. Part of our community, we're in a campaign. We're going to be posting information on our website through social media. We have prepared materials, both in English and Spanish, to be potentially captured by our legal community. The PQR flyers and other parking information will be sent to the legislature across the community, and it's working with our community partners to assist in getting all these schools, our media, and community We are planning on August 29th, there will be the performance markets sharing with both as well as engaged members, but also to showcase and promote our institutional brand committee survey. I believe as we kind of go into this, at least I'll approach it in a sense that this is certainly an hour for us to establish some considerations. Because I've kind of been making my way throughout the community and looking at some of our facilities and some of our initiatives and assets, and there are certain things that are really good. We are in this new planet one way or the other. At the same time, you know, we do have existing responsibilities and long-term challenges and disabilities that require attention regardless of what this community crosses things out. We have several facilities that are in either direction. It's internet updates. We can include our police department, which has been on the topic in the past. I'll go in the direction I'm going to go with the police department. City Hall. I'll talk to you during the day about our community pool.

I'm pretty sure that will be an honestly hot topic for all of you every year.

I mean, I guess every year has been, you know, just a huge number of rounds, and so 8 years and that's still getting there in the bottom. And it's one of our projects. With regards to City Hall, it seems like, you know, they look at different doors and it looks behind door number one. And so here's one of the doors that I actually walked through. This is our, it's both our stairwells, you know, we have visible cranking on our stairwells and just indicative of some of the density that's placed on our cars, you know, off the engine walls.

It's something that we've been looking at to see for the past few years, but I think it's something that, when it comes with going to four funds or two funds before the economy comes, it looks more of a same situation.

Now, I'd like to thank the administrators for providing well-prepared data on where these priorities will be addressed, not where they exist, but where and how they should be addressed. A key piece of the concern would be to maintain the city's reliable public infrastructure, improving the city's long-term financial sustainability, and preserving and investing in public houses. Supporting this global quality of life for residents with a position important for the future of the public. we recognize that single school is a big part of our community and you know there's a lot of interest right now with both the county as well as the school district and so part of that community survey that's submitted through consulting that we use as a benchmark does include ratios that reference schools we wanted to make sure that those were included but we also wanted to make sure that schools are a big part of the community We also recognize the city in itself, and we have the Board of Jurisdiction of the School District to be meaningful partners in working with them to ensure that their invited assets will be able to be able to forwarding positive news and vitality for our community. So a big part of the community survey is just to be able to capture that meaningful feedback across a broad section of the community, to be able to capture that holistic importance of equal I think that this is a very rapid process in the time frame that we have laid out initially. We were in the middle of a 2027 budget process that's currently underway and will come to you here in a few months for consideration, for you to be able to apply for recommendations out to you. Our distribution plan actually will be finalized shortly thereafter, and so the community engagement will come to you here later this fall.

This is the planning workshop being the first part of October.

That's the final plan to adopt. And that's going to take us to the 27th place, which is going to be for the budget. That being said, some of the big projects we have that are going to come about through the future plan will help guide future budgets. Certainly as we move forward, we're going to find opportunities wherever possible and practical.

to incorporate elements such as we've had in the upcoming operating budgets.

I would certainly look to implement and identify opportunities to align initiatives as far as broader priorities to be established. cases, this is for those students who have to provide a primary framework for the annual bucket list and key bucketing process every year. That helps, so you can really get the Department of Work plans, performance measures, inclusion policy, and investment decisions in a short-term and long-term year. So that's really important. With that, I'll take questions you may have in that process. How's your mic? I appreciate the value you're talking about, but do you mean to include youth voices? Is there any specific avenue for college students to provide feedback in their process? I've got an A slot in. I'm sure if that's something that we haven't talked about, you know, follow up with our consultants to try to incorporate that into our framework. Do you have any other questions?

I don't have to talk about anything.

I don't even have to talk about the police station and stuff, I guess. But I do want to make sure that we keep talking to them. And I don't necessarily just know, but if we talk about it in a very succinct way, then we clarify it too. And again, I don't think we need to give them secret meetings. There will be meetings if we want to continue to keep that at the table. I just want to make sure that we're moving forward with some things. And I want to make sure that they lose sight of that. And that's why I mentioned that to every point. You see the results of the survey come back. It's where the priorities are raised. Other items that they, for whatever reason, they take a more pressing or a higher priority by recognizing that that's still in my interest.

We need to look to the talking address here towards that price.

As you know, I also appreciate the approach to develop the plan because we're spending some time on this. It's different than what we've done in the past. We're involving the public from all different levels, youth, all the way through different organizations and stakeholders. So thank you, Manager Ortiz, for doing this. I know we're all looking forward to this, developing our plan first in a year coming up. Thank you again. Thanks, Dave. Mr. Dyer, can you hear us?

Item 12 is Reports for Florence and City Officers, 12A, Presentation on Changes to the Molloy and Janesville Express Routes. Mr. Dyer, can you hear us?

Yes, we can. I'm sharing my screen, too.

We can see it, all right? And I'm definitely waiting for her to be able to see it. All right. Thank you. The Blue Janesville Express provides regional public transportation between Blue and Janesville through a consortium of public and private partners. A study of the service was conducted to identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, strengthen long-term financial stability, and support the addition of new consortium members. This presentation will provide an overview of the study findings, the evaluated service concepts, and some data. many, but she'll also take us through and recommended route and service changes. So, Jim Meyer, we shared at ADM, which is a consulting firm that we use for many of our other cities, the micro-transit city, the zero-emissions bus flight city, and our transit development plan, so they had our So they've had, and currently they're also doing their trans development plan, so they've got a lot of experience working with also their employee. And they conducted this to me. So Jim Meyer is the project manager and lead on this project for ADECOM, and he is joining us remotely, and he'll be going through a slide presentation. I can come off the couch and work with you for any questions. I want to thank the member of the public who came up with their concerns, and I did get that person's email address so I can answer some of the questions that they had.

With that, Jim, that's the Jim Meyer Show. members of council and the person at the time let me know if you have any issues with the slides here alright so as Sari mentioned I'll provide a little bit of background the BJA services study that we did talking a little bit briefly about the analysis that and we are looking to implement here and then run a little bit of work through this. So if we had a free session, we could run through here and have you know, just Most of you are probably familiar with the UGE for those who aren't, just a quick overview. This is the inner city bus service operating between Gouldway Transit, UJ's old transit. They both supply quite a bus that operates. And these are fighting service and immigration for 30 years. And on the right side of the screen where you see the map, just in order to take everyone out of the out here at the bottom is the flight transfer center the run is probably a difference of plus a 50 to north of 51 over at Black Hawk and then continues north of Kings Hill transfer center goes a little bit further north of this and then returns back to the plane Just to provide a little context, looking back at annual ridership in 2019, there were around 45,500 riders. During the pandemic, that number dropped significantly. We saw it with all transit agencies across the country. But I am starting to see where we have also the existing transit agencies across the country that are getting back to the over or near that Keith said were great to invite. So I also believe the recommended changes that I'm going to share tonight that there's an opportunity to enhance little ridership growth as well. The BGE does consist of a consortium that does fit the numbers that you see on the screen there. This is a very important part. when you look at what the service was in 2026 roughly around $765,000 a year that brings down to the majority of that coming from federal and state funds but the consortium members who make up the second most portion of that almost a quarter of that total so very critical piece of the BGE service so Terry I have the study objectives a little bit I mean our focus really is to look at the financial sustainability of the system, could be improving the system performance, the efficiency, and a lot of that had to do with reviewing the road line and the travel time. And if the emphasis for us was really cost controls and many improvements, I do recommend wanting to make sure that we were not going beyond any of the the current service costs and finally we wanted to see if with any improvements if we might be able to expand the membership expression and help strengthen financial sustainability so just like the slide of blocking transportation is important there's a lot of statistics out there but it really boils down to a lot of the users of transit and many of the riders of the BKE have no other means of transportation and a lot of our older adults and people with disabilities it's a service it's critical to have access to access services and change in the area There are some numbers out here, I won't go through all of them, but you know the stats of the ATE estimates that about 20 to 40 percent of rock county residents are not drivers and there are economic quality benefits associated with this as well and I should mention that as part of the study the point The Greater Illinois Economic Development Corporation is a key member of this. As we went through the analysis of any one of those recommendations, Early on, in the first survey, existing BG&E riders, we wanted to know where they were, or when they were using the services work. And surprisingly, we found that the engineering fork riders are using it different from the work. But we were actually surprised by the numbers of how many people are using this for shopping. medical trips recreation all of those trips so this is an important mobility service for a community home person we also ask riders to do this for the fun since you know not only that but it's how easy is it to get to the crowds is it safe is it on time And if you look at this chart, the blue bars represent accident responses. The gold are good. And so when you combine those, you look over to the right, the number of these that are up at 70% or higher, so these are spring. The results, people are saying, you know, 80% are saying it's safe and secure. The buses are clean and set up fine. One thing that does turn about at us, and I'll talk more about this in a minute, is the hours of operation. And so we found that riders would really like to have the service operate later into the evening or even start a little earlier in the morning. We also did a survey of employers in the area to see what their level of interest was in the building. We did full express service, and then we did architectural analysis. And what we found are that for a round-the-line, there are really some missing exact generators where you can get out of this session as you start to get more of the demo cap building. and so I wanted to see if there were other corridors or alignments that might be better suited where we could attract more riders. As I mentioned just on the previous slide, the riders had pulled a set of service apps to early in the evening and later in the afternoon. And so like transit service does, we're in an operation that SACS will engage and will continue to enter into the evening. So there's a strong demand that we heard from riders as well as employers in the area that there's a need for later service. In addition, we heard from employers that weekend service, for the lack of weekend service, It's difficult for their employees to get to work, a number of them who operate seven days a week. And one final thing we heard from the current insertion of numbers is, I think, like many people nowadays, the funding pressure is the cost of service. It's something to be aware of. making sure that, you know, we can, this service has to continue to increase in which is also critical for the sustainability piece of trying to attract the new members. So on the right-hand side of the slide, I'm showing the front row alignment. And we took a look at this alignment. And again, as I mentioned, fully transfer, so there isn't a bump. The goal of the objective is we wanted to make sure that the continue to provide service to all of the existing consortium members again we'll focus on that cost control development and then when we look at new alignments we have balance that we make sure that if you don't attract new members you can still operate within that 16 minute time that the most other departments are going to be needing to make adjustments Asking who did this for the existing corridor and other corridors that were available, the one that really kind of jumped out as being the most promising is very evident. And so that red dashed line that you see on the right-hand side is an exact alignment. This was kind of the concept that we began with and ultimately began to refine it as we did. technical analysis of the service concepts. But ultimately, we focused in on this corridor. We did some additional outreach to employers. We took a look at what employers were within a half mile of this area and we surveyed some employers. We did some direct emails. We did some follow-up phone calls. We had some conversations, really seeing if we could gauge any interest in joining the consortium. And we did have interest from three agencies, the Hawaii Health, Mercy Health, Hawaii Dairy and Animal Welfare, Avenue, and Dollar General further north. So we did have some conversations with them, and we continue to have some discussions around their interest in potentially joining. The other benefit of switching to the priority avenue corridor is that it actually did quite increase access to the health care facilities and could connect you at a particularly great length where a plastic center would be in. So this would perfect for Riders who currently come from Tainesville have to make a flight transfer center and then transfer to another bus to come back out and now have the ability to make that ride in a more direct and faster direction. The other piece of the study that was important to us was the DCM is opening this fall. There's going to be 1,500 potentially new jobs associated with that. And we wanted to see if there was a way that we could connect to the DCM as well. We also reached out to the Mojave Nation and had some conversations with them. They are very interested in the ancestry of that service. We have heard, you know, some of their greatest needs, which we find with their cabinets, you know, that they really would need this later evening service, especially for second and third-hand workers. And weekend service is also very important to them as well. one of the things that we had as I mentioned earlier the bus operator runs every 16 minutes and when we put that adding in the casino it becomes a little challenging to beat that run that route at that time so we would potentially interval something between 2 to 90 and then add a minor busloading every day Just very quickly, as I mentioned earlier, we've looked at a number of different options for this to share with you. So currently, the point became to bust the entire length of the route. So we did take a look to see if we could potentially split the routes at Rock County Resource Center. We don't have to move the center point too quickly. there are some potential benefits of this but there's also some limitations so either you have to transfer if they're going you know between the two transfer points same thing I got technical college the CF route split there I guess during the casino it does but overall we felt like the having the switch buses in one of these locations really would limit the ridership or the convenience of the service that's one of our options a number of iterations of the service and ultimately we ended up So what we're referring to is phase one, the baseline road improvement, which we're targeting implementation on August 17th. It will continue to operate the same days and hours of service. and we are recommending that the center terminus be relocated to piglet wiggly now it's important to note that piglet wiggly is a transfer point with other local bps routes some riders that still get to that location As I mentioned, there's benefits with additional access to health care. Again, this does provide the ability for future members to join, which is really our face to Zoom. Again, the three members that we've had conversations with are highlighted along this road. If one or all of them were to join, we would work with the bts agency transit to identify how to set up sites for those new members and then also identify what the impact would be on the travel time so it's important to note the casino is not included in this phase at this point but that is phase three if you know if you make the casino opens later this fall and you've ended up joining the consortium in the lower right hand of this slide you'll see that purple alignment which connects you to the bigly wiggly and over to the casino also makes a deep bay area so this as i mentioned earlier when required has to go to a 90 minute runtime we have talked with the current conscription members who are on board with that change and again according to our 90 minute runtime also the existing opportunity to get additional members to the conscription that will contribute to that to the funding consider so It's important to note that South Loop alignment, we would have to finalize that alignment once we understand what members have joined. And so I just want to point out that that alignment is not set in stone. It can be modified to accommodate the final membership. there is just a summary of the phases and the timeline again that I just covered so again that baseline rounded from March 17th so if you remember if you were in that could really happen at any point after the the reloaded intakes place the those impacts would be consider it to be modified and then finally the casino you can look at if the casino were to join that service panel would be adjusted to 90 minutes and we'd be looking for additional members of the detection each minute as well So with that, I will turn it back over to Terry, if there are any questions. And also, I can see that James will draft his here as well. But I will leave up this last slide here that is suggesting that one of the three things as well, while we have any questions. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Aaron, do you want to answer questions?

maybe not do these three, but we would be looking then to run the most longer. I mean, if we could see how we can, and if we could do it, and we've gotten some other people that can help us afford this, I'm assuming that maybe that could be more of our strategic hopes, to leave it a little bit longer. Yeah, just to add to that, I don't know how the numbers shape out, but I think that's certainly a piece of the possibility of making these

I guess that we may be going forward, but it's certainly, if I'm listening to the survey correctly, I'm assuming this is where our businesses will point. They're saying that there's no good need. It's a business in both order and in the weekends. So I know we've had this conversation for years, and I think it's my question, how can we get there, even if whatever our business is, whatever the business is, how can we They're telling us this is our main business, but we won't have employees that can't get here because the business isn't ready.

So how can they get there? I don't know if that's a very good question. I don't know if we can get there.

How can we get there?

That's a good question. It's a fair question that I don't have an answer for. I have some ideas, but I don't know if we'll get as far as the finish line right now. So we're exploring other ways to look at this revenue. And we're starting with the internal discussions, of course, and aren't ready for public consumption yet. But we're seeing that, seeing the energy development plan, which is about to be finished in two. Jeans will have their buses from until 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. And some of us, their buses are until 9. And they serve South Point, Rocky, Roscoe. So we're going to have the captain service there. And we have a lot of employment opportunities. So we're the micro-training study, I think. So I'm sensing it has some cost to the senior that they can. We have a number of different options we can explore and then map that out and see what the cost is and then how do we try to cover that cost with some of the ideas that we're tossing around to try to increase revenue.

I don't know if the grant is saying that it should be part of it, but I want to make this, to me, kind of something that I want to make sure people on the table just see how it could be. Because I just don't understand everything that you're saying, but I just want to make sure you've been living, caring for us as best as you can. This is me.

This is who we need. And like I said, it's not

You have to play into that thing where we're doing the greatest part of being self-reliant.

I'm just kidding. I am just kidding.

It's an important issue for me. I know you're working on stuff for me. So I apologize for being a jerk. I know you've all been with me. I don't know this guy, but I guess, yeah, I guess before you were, you know, fisting with him, you guys would like to say, can you get that done in your security? I don't know who you're going to get. The other piece that I'm concerned about is the 90-minute time you can go up there and go through one of the bad days before.

And what was presented was to keep the cops neutral. So if we were looking at a different budget, then we would probably have to look at adding another bus in order to keep those times. Or maybe a different structure to keep those times. Or they don't carry power or something. Right now, all of the consortium members that are already on board are OK with it any minute. I don't know if they would be long-term, but they're looking more for long-term sustainability, so we're trying to get more constituency members. The more members we have, the better position we invite you to be. And that might be one of the pieces that helps us expand the, you know, the service at bigger hours. I have a hard position at home every day, but every time I leave,

You just have to write it down. I agree with everything you're saying. And it should be part of your strategic plan because you think we have kind of 1,500 employees at the scene. Several of them are not in run of county. They're in their north and south. So we should be more than happy to service that larger employer plus the 100 acres of scrum to them.

want folks to pull through for their team.

Absolutely. Does this, the basis you want to include the two things that Jim started with, which was a name service and the vehicle service, this doesn't cover everything?

No. What was presented was the recommendation within the context of the current budget. So those are the names that we see. There was a way to work those in within the What do you think we have?

I think we'll do a survey of the employers in the gateway.

Yes, we can. Jim, can you speak to that? Or Drew, maybe? I forgot to mention in my status report that the GPDC also contributed to this study, and Drew has been involved in this study. That's why this is here, too. Sorry about that, Drew.

But I don't know if Jim or Drew, if you want to take a look at the survey. I can address the survey. the corridors and obviously we have to do it within about a half mile in order to be able to accommodate service and so we did serve our new employers we had about 25 responses I believe And that's where we hear a lot of the for later service, you know, meeting service, setting shift. There's also some individuals that said, you know, even if the list started 15 minutes earlier, it could be more beneficial. So there's a huge need. This is also something we've heard, you know, in other studies, the long-range transportation plan. One of the top uses is really people looking at the animal morning portion of the study area. right and north to jobs. And what I think that was known from the survey and from talking to some of the employers we heard from, there is an increasing number of residents coming from the Blackford area traveling north to the cooling area for jobs. And I would say that we heard over and over again from a few different employers

And it's part of the transit development plan. There is a portion where we did come into a little bit of options for providing service or parking for service over the quarter, too. But that's in a different state.

Any other questions? So do you have an idea of how much traffic we're expecting with the group? Because you know, if you were to change of other casinos come in, do we have some idea how many people are going to want to utilize that specific casino?

I think O2 had some numbers. I don't really have anything to put down on my head, and I don't know if you do, Drew, or if Jim, if you remember, those of you who did have some discussions around it, and they did give us a pie chart. There was no pie chart. It was a plot of where their employees are coming from. And they had a sense of guns for the employees, but I haven't heard anything about people who are afraid of getting a signal for entertainment.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. change out because I do know that they purchase buses and they're going to also have shuttle buses that are going to cover campus in a lot of different locations. And maybe you can work with them on that. So I can help with that. I can help with those buses. I don't have any more questions if you have any more questions. Is this for contracts or bus services? Could they be profitable? And can you just lay it on the earth and make an investment?

Yeah, no, they're never free. No, it's a service. It's a true service.

services that cities or counties or states provide for jobs. But yeah, I know it's just, it's not profitable.

To be profitable, the fairs have to be really, really high. So it's a service that you can provide to the community. The local government provides to the community for their and better residents. And there's a big chunk of tax money that goes to this, as well as the federal and state. So I don't know what the percentage is of the total money, but it's not federal and state. But I can go to another lecture for you guys.

Okay. Thank you for the conversation. Thanks for the presentation, Terry. This is a little exciting.

12b the city council may adjourn into closed session pursuant to a spouse's statute section 19.85 sub 1 sub e with the purpose of deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties the investing of public funds or conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session Namely to 1. Discuss development of the properties at 500 Willowbrook Road and 2300 Colley Road. And 2. Consider potential sale of the properties at 507 St. Lawrence Avenue, 1223 St. Lawrence Avenue, and 514 Highland Avenue. The Council may reconvene into open session to take action on the matters discussed in closed session.

Thank you.

emotional to turn into an obsession. So for me, for instance, the whole point of this is I don't think

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.