City Council - Regular Meeting

You indicated that there was a some guideline, like some standard that you use. What was the name of that organization again?

A little bit further than that. I thought it was more of a federal standard that you were using. I'm sorry. For guideline.

I have to stop then. I have to stop because my notes don't reflect the exact name.

I thought there was some engineers that you mentioned.

So I think that that's where I was going was, since we're following those and we know that they are constantly kind of changing, and we also know that there have been some reorganizations at some of those type operations, what are you doing to make sure that we are that we don't get caught up in a situation where perhaps there aren't as many people to do some of the work and do some of the oversight that we're seeing in some organizations

Are there any other questions or comments? Alderman Salgado.

Thank you for the presentation. Real quick, Jeremy, is it every five years that this gets updated, this plan? I know you said 2015, 2021, now we're in 2026.

So just if I may follow up just so this is more to streamline the process makes it easier for developers some of the frustration that occurs with that So and then because I noticed that you put flowcharts in there. When do I need a permanent? When do I need? certain things so that's where I'm going with this and so the question that I really have is I You know, is it going to also help out city staff? when Going through the process where it's more clarification It's going to save us some money potentially man hours if you want to call it or labor hours Intensive when like you could say hire an

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU. We'll now have a presentation from Andrea Carlson and Sarah Elias, economic development presentation by Community and Economic Development Department.

I'll go ahead and open up the floor. Are there any questions or comments? Alderman Meeks?

I was just wondering, of the programs that were presented, which of these programs do you feel will generate the most revenue? If we were looking at departments and tried to identify revenue generating opportunities within departments, what would you kind of lean to to say, this is where we can put our eggs in this basket here?

Alderman Prenti. Thank you. You used the words livable and affordable. Can you just, and that's how they have measured us. How did you, what criteria did, that's the wrong question. How are you defining livable? How are they defining livable?

Yeah, just quick questions. I got two actually. The first one is on slide six, the US EPA grant portfolio. Do we manage that or someone else manages it for us?

And do you know how much we have outstanding or any of that nature balances? Or how many businesses have taken advantage of it?

But it is available as long as they meet the criteria for brownfield development opportunities? Or how does that work with the EPA?

Thank you. My next question goes to slide 11, similar to a prior question that was asked by Alderwoman Meeks. So I noticed the pre-applications, applications, and projects completed, and projects in process. Like, for example, I'm just going to jump into the commercial corridor property revalidation program. We're looking pre-applications, 46, 35, and only 14 about have been completed and in progress. So how is that determination from a success, and is there additional funding in there, or has all the funding kind of been eroded from those applications and what the projects are currently in th

So I may follow up on that. just trying to get an understanding of how we can assess that i know it's not complete yet i get that completely understand that but from a perspective of assessment of the program success or opportunity that say hey there is additional funding still remaining you know does it go back into the general fund is there an opportunity for us to say, hey, you know what, let's give it a third attempt, right? We did it once, we did it twice, we reached out to some of these corridors, but is this something that we could say, hey, you know, maybe we need to reach out again fr

I do have a question that kind of piggybacks off of the one he just asked. So I'll ask this one and I'll go to the others. So what's the timeline that developers have to get these projects completed then?

OK, gotcha. That makes sense. Thank you. Yeah. Alderman Durkee.

to the finance director, ironically. When should we expect the TIF analysis that breaks down the balances for the TIF projects?

Okay, so your department kind of kicks that off and then finalizes it with finance?

And we usually get it in August, September-ish time, so we might not see it until...

That's what I needed help with. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments? I just had one final one. On slide 10, where you have the education slash information sharing, is that going to be like a informational session within these five different organizations over those two periods? Or what's kind of happening there? Or what are you conveying?

I guess I was looking at the business first, and I was tying them together. Maybe I was looking at it wrong.

Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. Were there any other comments or questions? Thank you, Ms. Anna and Ms. Sarah. I'm sorry, Ms. Garrison and Ms. Labs. Next up, we will have Tim Hinkins' team with the Capital Improvement Program, CIP, presentation by Public Works. I'm definitely going to remind you three to make sure you're speaking into the mic since you guys are sharing right there.

Thank you. Rolling Green flood plan. When are we ever going to hear about when we can complete that? And now we have another street that's also having problems, Dakota. I think I've talked to you about that before. But do we have any idea? I'm glad we're going to get to Keith Creek finally. But what about finishing up Rolling Green? Sure.

So somewhere within five years, you're saying?

We're not finished. And now we have Dakota. the water has gone to the top of cars. So I don't know if you've added that onto our flood plan, or is that going to be something separate?

Thank you. Just wanted to thank. Ms. Rot for coming to the board meeting and presenting. Appreciate that. And then since we were talking about, since you were talking about more money for lead service lines, does that, and you're still sending those letters out in October? Is that?

So we were talking about when Sixth Ward might be revisited. Now that you're having more money, Mean that we might be moving up sooner and we need to be thinking about that or does that?

Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you and then Now continue Yes. Oh, OK. You talked about the multi-use pass. There's a TH in there somewhere. And I know that we got, we ended up with one, not ended up with one, we received one on Sandy Hollow. And I appreciate that you all maintain that. You'll be maintaining these as well?

I guess one of my concerns has been, and I kind of put this out to the director, but when you're doing the gutters and the sidewalks, at least what I've noticed in some neighborhoods is that we get these wonderful new infrastructure and you spend a lot of money. But some people aren't prepared to maintain those. So when I'm downtown, I think, oh, there's no grass on any of the curbs. But when I'm in other parts of the city, I'm seeing where people have, especially in this new stuff where we have grass and small sampling trees, growing up out of those new sidewalks and alongside those new sidew

Is that going to require money, or is that, are you talking education?

Because I just see where we're doing it on the paths, and those are important. But when you invest so much in curbs and gutters, and then that people aren't able to keep up with it or don't keep up with it, I just think that it might ruin our investment. And that's all I have to say.

Thank you so much. You know, I got a question posed to me about the multi-use path. And I have to assume, because it's multi-use, you can ride your bicycle on these pathways. OK. Is there anywhere in the city where we stripe or mark Bike usage on multi-use paths where we, you know what I mean, like those signs where it shows the bicycle riding. Have we ever done that in this city on a multi-use path?

Yeah, just something to identify. that it's a multi-use path, that people can ride their bikes on it. This is something, I'll just use my area as an example along North Main Street. We have it all along North Main Street. We have an event called Tour de North End that happens every single year. And it's just those little markers that really provide people the knowledge that they can use these paths. I think it's a safety effort as well. So I just didn't know how to kind of go about executing something like that? Or if it's been done, how can we make it happen in other areas of the community?

Thank you. Thank you for just considering that. I appreciate it. That's it.

Yeah, just real quick. I know it's mid-year. I know we're looking at budget coming up here pretty soon. When are you guys looking to look at next year and what that projection is going to look like for next year, of course, but just wanted to throw it out there since we are in August, September now, but getting closer to January.

Speaking of that program, I think also we brought up at the award meeting about how much trained staff and tradesmen that you would need. Has there been any more discussion, or has there been any discussion about kind of up in our summer pre-apprentice programs to include the lead service?

Are there any other questions or comments? Seeing none, thank you for the presentation. If there are no objections, there was a one-page front and back memo that was placed on all of you's desks before city council in relation to the citywide fiber installation. In order to give you all some time to look that over, gather information, and ask any questions to Mr. Scott Sanders, with your permission, I'd like to... I'd like to ask, does anyone object to that? Give you all some time to look at that. Is there anyone that wants to discuss this tonight? If you would like, he can come up. If not, he

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Can Director Sanders present on the next following city council meeting on this? Should we have any questions after reading this one pager, he can add those all up and maybe give a quick presentation in a week or two.

We'll make that happen. All right. Seeing as there are no objections to that, do I have a motion to adjourn?