City Council - Regular Meeting

We can call the meeting to order. Welcome everyone. Thank you for being here, taking the time to engage with our beautiful city work. Your voice matters and we are glad to hear from you. Uh, before I go to the roll call, can I have a motion to excuse councilor in your own house? He's not going to join this evening meeting.

It has been moved and being seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. With that city clear, are you ready for the roll call?

Deputy mayor, would you please lead us in the flag salute?

Thank you so much. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

It's been moved by Deputy Mayor and seconded by Council Member Robinson. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. City Clerk, are there any speakers signed up for the oral communication?

Thank you. You can go back. Thank you. I appreciate all of the enthusiasm, but we cannot clap hands. Thank you.

Welcome. Can everyone hear me? I can. Perfect.

Do we have additional time or the time also expired? So let's just use the time and go to the next person.

Great. Thank you so much, everyone. As always, we are hearing and we thank you for sharing the comments and we assure you that we are listening and we follow up if and when necessarily. City Manager, we have reports of boards and commission.

Sure. Would you please ask them to just move five feet that way, or close the door maybe, one of them? Please go ahead.

Thank you so much. Great presentation. Thank you so much for being here, Chair. Let's just start with going around the room. Council Member Somadeviro, we'll start with you.

Thank you for the presentation. By the way, that cake walk was very exciting. I don't even eat cake. I look at it, it makes me so happy. Thank you for planning that. And I heard that was sold out right after release, right? It was. In seconds. Very quickly. Thank you. I just have a few questions, just I think actually two mostly. One of them, I was wondering, you know, the Art and Culture and Innovation Initiative, I find that very exciting. And how does it translate to exactly the dollar allocated to marketing and communication for, I say, the branding of the East Side?

I think, would there be any collaboration with our commission in here? Okay, great. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you so much. Let's see. I think that's all my questions. And I have other questions I emailed you guys already, so feel free to email me back. Thank you so much for your presentation.

Thank you so much, Councillor Massimo Deverio. Councillor Robinson.

Mayor, Chair Hashimoto, it's nice to see you. I was curious who was on the council. So it'd be nice to put everybody's names somewhere in this material.

That would be great. So I love what you do. I've been watching this for the two years that we've been funding this and Of course, I think what I really liked what you said about the benefits not just to tourists but also to the people that live in the area and The bellhop is a great example of that but you know, I'm really interested in supporting big events kind of like the rock and roll marathon and And I thought, gosh, we have one of the top bluegrass conferences or whatever events in the United States, if not the world, here right in Bellevue every year, and nobody knows about it. I'm wond

Well, it just seems like it's been going on in our city for how many years now?

We stole them from Tacoma. And it's all people staying over in hotels. So I would really like to see how we might, without forcing them to expand, take something that already exists and promote it a little more to the people that live in this city.

Absolutely. Thank you, Council Member Robinson. Council Member Breyer.

Thank you for the fun presentation. I think we could all use a wellness bath. So thank you for teaching me about what that is. I just have no substantial comments. I think this is just fantastic. I'm very excited and on board. One thing I wanted to ask is if I'm able to informally or formally influence the programs. The only reason is, and it feels like a full circle moment, is prior to joining the council, I had bothered Lori and talked her ear off about this program and how Timbaland, the producer for Justin Timberlake, is interested in doing some sort of talent show. Rainn Wilson, Dwight fr

Thank you so much, Council Member Breyer. Council Member Bargava.

Thank you, Mayor, and really appreciate the presentation and all the work that's gone in. It's definitely a win-win in every way that we can think of. So great work. Congratulations on what you continue to do for Bellevue and Redmond. Two really quick things. One, you mentioned something about cruise connections, which I think was really a great idea. This also came up during the pre-FIFA presentation that we had seen. And I was curious if you had any serious uptake on those cruise connections during FIFA and if that's been sort of an encouraging signal. Any data that we have on that?

I totally agree. I think this is a really great idea and we are the launching pad for many of those cruises. around the nation. So, you know, we have a captive audience that's coming here and leveraging that to come to bring them to Bellevue or our region is definitely a great opportunity. The only other comment quickly I'll make here is, you know, I spent 10 years almost in the, or seven years in the Midwest. And one of the things that, you know, I used to go to and I found was a very big national draw is the Jazz Festival in Chicago. We have a really great location here in downtown Bellevue.

Thank you so much. Deputy Mayor Hamilton.

Thank you, Mayor. Thanks for the presentation, Chair Hashimoto. Appreciate all of the effort that you and the other members of the BRTPA have put into preparing this recommendation for us. Generally supportive of the tourism promotion area concept. I like how ours is run, and I think that the Bellevue Zone strategic plan is well-focused. and two and a half million visitors to Bellevue next year certainly sounds wonderful. So I'll appreciate seeing you back here and how well we've gone about accomplishing that goal. So thank you. Ready to move forward.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much again. Thank you for great presentation. I just have one quick question. Great comprehensive plan. Fast forward five years from now, what do you think Bellevue has the biggest opportunity to stand out from other cities that are competing for the same visitors that we are competing for?

Thank you so much. And I think as you all mentioned, tourism is about visitors, but it's about also supporting all of those restaurants, retailers, hotels, art organization, and all of them, and all of our residents who are working for all of these businesses. So I think it's a whole ecosystem. So I really appreciate the strategy and all of the comprehensive work that you guys did for our economy. Can I get the motion, please?

I move to accept the BRTPA Advisory Board recommendation and direct staff to return with legislation as part of the 2027 budget process to support expenditure consistent with the annual budget and strategic plan as recommended by the board.

It's been moved by Deputy Mayor and seconded by Council Member Robinson. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you so much again for being here, Chair. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar?

has been moved by Deputy Mayor and seconded by Council Member Brouillard. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. Let's just go through our first study session. City Manager, would you please introduce that to us?

Thank you so much, both Cameron and Betsy. I see Meredith on the backs. Thank you for being here, and welcome again, I guess. Chair Kilima, thank you so much. Representing the Parks Board, I see Eric Drever also. Audience, thank you for all of your work and everyone who participated. It sounds like there was a very, very thoughtful public process, and I really appreciate the effort to find a name that reflects our community input and also our future vision for this park. Councillor Biryar, we'll start with you.

This is the best part of being on the council is getting to approve really amazing things like this. I think the name that the board has recommended speaks directly to the site's future as home to the Japanese American Legacy Project commemoration led by Esan Bellevue. And it reflects on our history, quite honestly, and reconciles it. I think this name sets the tone for what we're going to build there. Like I said, a public space that honors its history, but also includes artwork that enables metaphysical reflection. And in this case, a metaphysical reflection of the name and the path now, whi

Thank you so much, Councillor Brewer. Councillor Bhargava.

Yeah, I just have to say thank you for all the great work. I love the idea of the park. I love all the things the park has come to represent. And I'm fully supportive of the recommendation. Thank you for the work to the commission. So no more comments from me. Just gratitude.

I was trying to look up the name of this book I read. It's called A Cold Wind, and it's by one of our Japanese American community, I think a son of somebody who was interned in the camps. And it's such a powerful story of the generational impact of that experience. And so to celebrate our heritage, but also to remember what happened, I can't think of a better way to do this. And I just want to thank you, Chair, and the Parks Board for their strong, I'm sure, discussions and thoughts on how best to commemorate and name this park. And I think it's a wonderful name. And I do hope that we continue

Thank you so much, Council Member Robinson. Council Member Somadeviru.

Thank you, Mayor. And first of all, I love this name. Thank you so much for picking it and for your hard work. By thinking about over 200 names, that just show how excited our residents are. And that's rare to find sometimes for 200 just for one park. And at City of Bellevue, we are a city, park in the city, city in the park, but any. The city with many parks we love, that's what matters. And I think that the part that we can actually honoring our Japanese American residents who's been here for so long. And I think it's overdue for us to honoring their heritage and culture. This just one of th

Thank you so much, Councillor Maduveria. Deputy Mayor Hamilton.

Thank you. Appreciate the presentation, Chair Klima, Board Member Drever, and all of the Park Board members. I appreciate the effort put into this recommendation. I love the Japanese American Legacy Project that is planned for the new park, and I think the Park Board has recommended a name that perfectly suits a park that is designed to inspire education and reflection. The legacy of Japanese Americans in our city, our country, and in our defense of democracy in World War II is one we should reflect on, learn from, and honor. And this park with the name Esan Park helps us do just that. I appre

Thank you so much. I just have one quick question. It's kind of not related to this naming, but it's maybe related. You guys did a great job engaging with community. Has there been any lesson learned for the future naming of another park or in general our effort to be much better as a city to engage with our community? Has there been any lesson learned that you can share with us that we learned just through this process?

Then hopefully we are going to share all of these great lesson learns with the whole city and our community engagement efforts. Can I get the motion please?

say the correct name of that book that I referenced? It's called A Cold Wind from Idaho and it's by Lawrence Matsuda. Thank you.

With great honor, I move to direct staff to prepare a resolution to formalize the name Ysan Park for the park site located at Main Street and 112th Avenue Southeast as recommended by the Parks and Community Services Board. Second.

It's been moved by Council Member Briar and seconded by Council Member Sommadevaraya. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you. On this fun note, we are going to take a break. Thank you.

We are going to be back by 7.28, 10 minutes. We start over. Thank you so much. We are back and we continue with our second study session. City Manager, would you introduce that to us?

Thank you so much, guys. Andrew, Mark, Laura and the whole transportation team. Great job. John, I appreciate you also as well. I personally think this new program structures makes it much easier for the council and our public to understand where transportation thinking and dollars are going and why and I think this makes sense of your growing and we need to plan ahead. Let's just start with our Deputy Mayor Hamilton.

Thank you Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. I certainly appreciate you coming back to us with another information session and as transportation is a prime focus of the upcoming budget, having ample opportunities to learn and provide feedback is critical. Just have a few comments and questions. I'm curious, you know, we just lowered the speed limits here in the city on many of the streets. And wondering if you've had the chance to assess system performance targets and gaps in the context of our recently changed speed limits.

that be incorporated into your budget recommendation going forward? Are you going to have information soon enough to do that?

Okay, good. In the presentation, in the agenda memo, it notes that 28% of arterial streets have no pedestrian facilities. And I'm curious to know what that number is for local and neighborhood streets.

Okay, great. Yeah, I'd appreciate that. And then, too, I wanted to... I think as we move forward, I would like us to be clear about our plans to not only improve pedestrian facilities in neighborhoods, in near local neighborhood streets, but to add new facilities there as well. And 64% of our arterial streets don't have any bicycle facilities at all. And I think that is an attention grabbing figure. And I hope it remains in focus as we move forward. There's plenty of work we need to do to address the lack of bicycle facilities around the city. I think maybe, and you kind of maybe alluded to th

Okay, good. And this was already mentioned, but you know, certainly the focus on projects that help folks access light rail and transit without needing to drive, I think should remain a priority and to focus on projects that improve access to existing bike facilities, which was also mentioned. So appreciate that. I just think we need to make new strategic investments in our transportation infrastructure that help maximize investments that have already been made. Focusing on improving connections to existing infrastructure is critical. Appreciate the additional information and clarity regarding

Okay. And two, Bellevue residents would pay approximately 30%. of a 0.1% sales tax and 70% would be paid by everyone else and then 90 to 95% of the $20 license plate fee would be paid by Bellevue residents, is that right?

And then the TAB fee would be 90% to 95% paid for by residents.

Okay. So I know we have a ways to go, and I want to keep learning, of course, and collaborating with community members and my colleagues. But I'm inclined to believe that now is the right time for us to fund a TBD and get out in front of building transportation infrastructure that will make our neighborhoods safer and more functional, better support all modes of transportation needed in a modern city like ours. maintain what we've already built, and stay out in front of supporting growth. The level of detail in the program area examples suits me. The examples help us all understand that projec

Thank you deputy mayor till John you are here and the slide is that it just asked the clarification question So the 30 percent of 11 million is paid by Bellevue resident comparison 95 percent of 2 million

100% of 2 million versus 30% of 11 million.

And then the sales tax would be still bigger from the Bellevue because 30% of 11 million is larger than 100% of 2 million. Is that correct? That is correct. Great. Council Member Robinson.

OK, thank you. I have so much to say. I've got all these notes. So first of all, with the funding, I would like you to next time bring us back a model that's just the sales tax. and then one that's a sales tax and the vehicle license fee, so we can see the difference in the numbers. So currently, we have some safe routes for bikes in our city, and we have some routes that are not safe at all. But not everybody knows the difference between the two. There's no signage that says if you're going from here and you want to end up there, you should take 1 10th, or 1 8th, sorry, 108th. And if you're g

Thank you so much, Council Member Robinson. Council Member Saldivaria.

Thank you for the presentation. As our city grows, this is so exciting to see what we can do. I really appreciate the way that you're improving the process where it's like, I don't know which slide was, it was just really, I think it's very effective how to break it down to the single portfolio versus so many different ones. So it's going to be really transparent and clear for our residents to understand.

Can you please go to that slide, please, if you don't mind? It's 12. Absolutely. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Number 12. I just have a few questions. And let me see. Actually, one of the questions, it was not the one I shared, but I just wanted this out of curiosity. So I read somewhere. So we are doing the $20 on the vehicle registration, right? I just read the other day that about 10% of the Washington state residents don't pay their tab. That's about 600,000 vehicles per year. Do we know a percentage in Bellevue how many yes we don't pay tab? Ooh, yes.

That's good. Thank you so much, because I was looking at them. I was like, okay, what are we going to do for the people? We're going to be projecting the budget, right? So thank you. That answer, the... But the first actual question was, so when in April we were talking about the 60% budget and then the 40% to major projects, and I see there's a shift to 90 to 10% TBD revenue. Can you kind of walk through that, the funding assumption now behind the 10% for the grant connection? And then like, how did they change through the process?

Thank you for listening. That's really important. Thank you. I appreciate you. And my second question is, under the new portfolio management structure, because there's a lot of neighborhood that's underserved, you know, like Vasa neighborhood. There's so many neighborhoods out there. When I walk the side way, there's a lot of projects could help the resident and the kids feel safe. How are we going to track the progress in these underserved community versus like a bulk as a whole portfolio?

Thank you. Can I ask one more question? Yes, absolutely. OK, one last question, I promise. So my last question is, so far, I really appreciate there's so many engagement sessions. I read we have about 171 survey response so far Okay, correct me if I'm wrong. So for September 15th, do you think that we were gonna have enough engagement for a really sound data to share with the public? I feel like especially the renters and lower income families.

I really appreciate you meeting the neighbors and residents where they are. That's really important. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Councillor Rosamundi-Verea. Councillor Brouillard.

Thank you, Mayor. On the point of community outreach, I was actually interested in this point. I know that you're doing tabling events. It'd be really great, if not already, to look at social media. The Bellevue subreddit page on Reddit will always let you know what they're thinking. They're an incredibly passionate community. Of course, we're going to run into the verification problem, but I do think it'd be reasonable to request names and addresses and then provide assurance from the city that that data will then be aggregated and anonymized and not retained for longer than 27 days or whatev

Excellent, okay, thank you for that. One trivial point is that I have friends in Bellevue and Redmond and Kirkland, and our group chat is named the BRK. I feel like that rolls off the tongue better than BKR, but that's just a, you don't need to write that down. That's just a me thing. Okay. Next is one thing that I saw was, oh, okay, we're investing in large multimodal projects. Okay, I think this is interesting because we've got 10% allocation. The increase in property values that this provides for everyone, including the people who might oppose the project or funding it, it happens anyway, s

Yeah, I appreciate that. I guess, are you able to explicitly state the principles? Of course, one of them was community engagement. I had missed the other contention you had stated while you were speaking. Like, is there a list somewhere of the inputs? It's fine if not, but just curious.

Excellent, okay, and if there's a prioritization method included in that as well, I'd love to see it. No worries if I'm getting too granular there. Okay, and slide 16 also includes multi-purpose paths. The portfolio groups bikes and pedestrian infrastructure together. I was just curious about what this looks like. I think it's slide 16, yeah. Okay, pedestrian bicycle, new sidewalks. Okay, multipurpose paths. What is this? I've not seen an example of this, so just curious about what this is.

Okay, so it's not what's visualized on the image underneath? No, that's a sidewalk example. OK, that was a wrong conflation on my end. OK, because I was getting nervous. OK, great. And then slide 19, with the TBD, personally, I had campaigned on not increasing taxes. But the base fund versus what the TBD can offer, I can understand why this is being proposed. And not sure if you can answer this, but can you say for certain that with a TBD by 2044, is it? Correct me if I'm wrong. 46? By 2046, that all neighborhoods will have excellent pedestrian infrastructure. Is that a guarantee that can be s

So if we compartmentalize that even further, could you then guarantee safe paths to school by 2046 in all neighborhoods?

Okay. Okay. Thank you for that. I guess just to wrap things up. You know, I cannot emphasize how I personally want to see the safety of our children prioritized. The neighborhoods that have no pedestrian infrastructure, Vasa Neighborhood Park that had kids that cross a 30 mile per road, 30 miles per hour road that is informally used as a highway off ramp to wait for their school buses in the midst of the winter. I mean, this is, it makes me very nervous. I want to make sure we're being as proactive as possible here and not reactive, God forbid, if something ever happens. You know, I want to se

Thank you so much. Council Member Brouillard. Councilman Borgo.

Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Andrew, Mark, Laura, and John for the presentation and for the ongoing work. I really appreciate the work to move us towards a more strategic outcome-focused approach to transportation investments. One of the lessons from Bellevue's past growth is that infrastructure needs to be delivered concurrently with growth, not after the fact. And as we look ahead in the next 20 years, there's a few priorities that I would like to highlight. First, safety needs to be and needs to remain the foundation of our investments. Whether someone is walking, biking, driving, takin

Yeah, where I'm going with that, maybe I can just explain a little bit more clearly, is imagine if you're looking at pedestrian or bike or any mode you want to choose. Can we see that with the investments in our CIP and then extended beyond that, 10, 15 years, if you have a 10-year window and maybe beyond, When complete, what our infrastructure network will look like by mode, that's the model overlay so that we can see where our biggest gaps are to make sure that the desire lines that we have in the community are being addressed and prioritized in our investments.

Okay. A couple other things to reiterate, and I do have a couple of questions. I want to also reiterate sort of my earlier request from the budget workshop a while back about a clearer view of sources and uses over a longer-term horizon, beyond just the six years in a CIP. I would like to see a more granular list of the projects beyond the broad categories, if possible, that would be funded, including the additional revenue sources associated with them. We have a few choices that we have to work through, including the TBD choices. So we, and actually the community at large, also has higher con

Yeah, and it's more not just the $1.5 billion of projects, but how you stack them based to your framework, which was a prior question, which I think is more relevant to that longer list. What you're putting above the cut line is where I think most interest would be. And then lastly, in terms of the revenue sources from the TBD, I would like for us to come back with a more clear view of separated options. I think this is maybe what Council Member Robinson was also saying, of what you get with the baseline, what you get with just the sales tax, and what you get with the potential vehicle tabs. A

Okay, and just a couple, three quick questions. Thinking about the urgency of the need for multimodal infrastructure and the possibility of councilmatic action versus taking it to the vote, what is the cost from your perspective of waiting versus investing quickly?

No, what would be the impact of waiting versus moving faster potentially?

Okay, that's helpful. That's kind of what would be helpful, is to understand those trade-offs, and anything you can do to support The decision in that process would be helpful. Quantification as much as possible. Excellent, thank you. Two, how will safety performance be weighted in your new project portfolio framework?

This is very helpful, Mark, actually. So be great if you don't mind sending this out with those percentages and weights associated with them. I think it's really good background material to have. So at least for me, and it might be for others, to understand the mental model you're approaching this with. Because if you said 25 out of 100 is safety, that's pretty good. But I don't know what the other weights are, but would love to see it. OK. And the last question for me is, how are we ensuring the investments today are preparing ourselves for possible future changes in how we move around, speci

Yeah, I think it's just a matter of time that we will need not just things like Waymo and Zoox and others, but privately owned vehicles need to talk to each other and talk to these traffic management systems. So if there are specific investments we need to be thinking about, we should be calling them out at least. Even if they stay below the line, it's important to just get visibility.

We will definitely be considering that for September. Thank you so much. Do you want to go? Yeah, please, go ahead. Council Member Briar.

Mayor, sorry, really quick question, because Council Member Bhargava brought this up. Are we doing any data sharing with Waymo or any of the private companies that are operating here in terms of helping them fine-tune their ML models with particular city infrastructure data?

That'd be great because that particular data is not publicly available if memory serves me correctly. And it can generate a lot of revenue for the city if that's something that we ought to pursue. But this is something like Anthropic and OpenAI and others are really interested in acquiring because that specialized data is not on, you know, it's not available on the internet. Anyway, sorry Mayor, thank you. That was my last question.

Great question. Do you want to go? Okay, great. No, I was asking for more. Great. I always say this, that I am so honored to serve with my colleagues because they are a bunch of smart, passionate, compassionate human beings that They are doing an amazing job representing the City of Bellevue, so I wanted to thank them. I am going to just do some plus ones for the sake of time. On the slide that we have that I think both Council Member Biryar, Council Member Bargavo, and maybe even Council Member Somadeviria talked, so in the memory bank, you are going to elaborate more on this and put maybe so

Great. So if you can get, again, in the memory bank some more elaboration, how you are thinking about the framework of first portfolio programs and then project in each programs would be great. Council Member Somadevirio brought the 60% to 90%. I would love to see also more kind of context. And again, you see that that even can change when you come to the budget is a moving needle, I understand. But I think it still is a huge shift. What was your thinking and what is some of your maybe in your word, innovative way of funding. If you can have more context in the memory bank on that, I would app

Thank you. They are not helping you. Great. Can I ask you one question? So if, as my colleague mentioned, we improve the safety of last mile with walk and bike and rolling and transit and bus stop, if we improve the connectivity of them, Is it possible that we move some of the number of the last two columns, the high occupancy vehicle and single occupancy vehicle, and we shift them through the three buckets or maybe the two buckets on bike, walk, and transit?

And if we change some numbers, from the single occupancy and by having more safe, more connected to the bike and walk and public transport, if we have connected the last mile and my colleagues brought first mile, everything, do we help the congestion?

So in summary, to address congestion, I think we have maybe two methods. One is maybe increase the intersection capacity, that's one way, but the other way is help the other modes to be more popular, more safe, more connected, that people hopefully change their habit. Okay, great. John, you wanted to say something, I was interrupting you.

And that's exactly my next question after all of this. This now projection of increase, 49,000 in walk, 54,000 in transit, and 5,000 in bike, are these projections after filling the gap or as what it is?

I got the growth, but for example, that number of growth for the bike, 5,198. IS THAT CONSIDERING THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO THE SPRING BOULEVARD CONNECTION AND ALL OF THE OTHER GAPS OR IS NOT SEEING THOSE?

If we can see any of those modeling a little bit for our and for public, that would be great. Thank you so much. I think overall we are going to the. hopefully right direction, making transportation planning more transparent. I think we are doing that with the memory bank. And if you can address all of my colleagues there, that would be great. And when we move to the budget discussion, I think It is challenging to finding revenue, but also make sure that every dollar is tied to clear priorities and measurable result, I think, as much as we can, I think would be great. This is just information.

Thank you so much, Bianca and Hannah and the whole team. Hannah, I would remember you as the MFT queen. So thank you for all of your efforts on this journey that we have had. Appreciate that you all. come back, listen to all of our comments, to listen to all of the community comments, and came back with this more targeted proposal. Let us go around the room. Council Member Robinson, we'll start with you.

Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank you both for all the work you've done on this. You've been very responsive to many different groups. And I just want to clarify what I understand here, that a developer can have a fee-in-lieu exemption from the mandatory inclusionary housing requirement and can still participate in the multifamily property tax exemption if they provide 20% of their units at 80% AMI. Yes, that is correct. Spent all day understanding that, and so I'm good with it. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Council Member Bargava.

Yeah, thank you also for all the responsive work and continued effort in this. I'm generally supportive of all the changes you've made. Really appreciate the, like Council Member Robinson said, listening to stakeholders, evolving it, and bringing it forward. Thank you. Thank you so much.

I just wanted to extend my gratitude and recognize your patience and ability to be extremely responsive. It doesn't go unnoticed, so thank you both.

Thank you so much, Council Member Somerville.

Oh, everybody's so concise. Thank you so much. Plus one to everyone. I do have a very, just ask. So is it possible when we do the look back, can we see the NEMPR breaking down by the AMI level when they come back to your look back?

Thank you so much, Deputy Mayor Hamilton.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. Thanks for all the work you've done on the MFTE Catalyst Program for Houma since our last meeting. Hannah, do I understand it right that your time with the city is kind of drawing to an end here? Are you moving on? yes deputy mayor my last day with the city is going to be this thursday me and my spouse are relocating to pittsburgh to be closer to family all right well good for you made a real impact here so you'll be missed and of course wish you all the best on what comes in your future we asked for some supercharger options back in february a

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much. My question is the same I think I asked when we talked about this last. After the two years, what circumstances would you guys come back and recommend scaling back, or we need to end this catalyst, or let's just add another two years? How are we deciding this after two years?

Thank you. If you all Agree. We can bring this as a consent calendar. Any objection to that? Great.

So can I have the motion, please? I move to direct staff to finalize the ordinance for final action on the consent calendar at a future meeting.

Is there a second? Second. It's been moved by Deputy Mayor Hamilton and seconded by Councilor Bargaba. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No, the motion passes. Thank you so much again, both of you. I think at that point, we can adjourn the meeting. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you so much, everyone.