before we begin I would like to offer a moment of silence for an officer out of Las Vegas I want to say thank you to the Reno Police Department for wearing your badges until officer um trong Tai is laid to rest so thank you so much um all right thank you all right Madam clerk before we begin I just want to put it on the record this is Wednesday October 26 2022 for the Reno city council and I'm going to send it right back to you to call the roll thank you madam mayor council member breckis door Weber Taylor yeah Reese here chibi here Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno City Council I'm going to send it right back to you for item A3 public comment anime before we do that can I just interject momentarily read your own public comments yes public comment thank you so much um I am today a proud Buffalo Bills fan I've been forced to be so by my colleague councilmember Taylor so I lost a bet last week when the Chiefs fell in a last minute uh you know moment of weakness so I will be a Buffalo Bill fan for in the next few minutes but it's really hot so I probably won't wear it for very long but uh thank you to councilmember Taylor for building camaraderie among the body and for allowing me to humiliate myself once again whether it's a pool with pumpkins or raccoons or Buffalo Bills hat you know I'm always ready for a good laugh before I like the Elton John glasses bring those next time all right sending it right back to you madam clerk thank you madam mayor we're moving into item A3 which is opening public comment it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda please note that Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded three minutes if you're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there is disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues our first public commenter today is Mark Markell followed by Terry Brooks followed by Jerry mifsud means Mrs mirrors she comes from members and should never onions is Mark Mark workout and control three Horizons uh I just I'm here God willed me alive to warn people not to drive with drunk drivers and everything I I had to say today I I was on the police report my crash I was a passenger in a nerve vehicle crash we were doing a hundred and well first off we drank 40 gallons of wine and we're in London to Southern California and we were going to get more and we're doing 100 and we rolled eight times I was adjusted and the car landed on my head Premier coma for a month and in the high school for five and a half minutes more and I I have a hard time taking care of myself it that's basically they're saying a lot I it's basic I had I had a curling down ahead I'm uh I'm not out there and I do I as I could be a place to live oh God sent me here but as I gave me the place to live and I I I I don't know what I say but don't drive with drunk drivers at as many when I would say is not for retired with drug drivers thank you great message Mark thank you Terry Brooks followed by Jerry mifsud followed by Dorothy Erickson thank you good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I'd like to address following politics to mental health care in the case of homelessness back in the 1980s the government shut down a lot of mental facilities where a lot of people had lived with mental disabilities so a lot of mentally ill people were forced out on the street so then where were they going to sleep where would they get food to eat this was one of the biggest problems ever for homelessness and one of the biggest problems ever for those with mental illness if you are mentally ill and wind up out on the street the problem if you are mentally healthy and wind up out on the street the problem is already hard enough for you to try to defeat but if you are mentally ill you won't know what to do you won't know how to deal with it you will not have a clue for a long time you had been under the facility's care but now you are all by yourself and it's too much to bear you're just trying to figure out what it was that happened and you have no idea why such a thing had happened you don't know what to do you don't even know where you are your life is Stranger Than Ever everything is just bizarre you are getting hungry you have nothing to eat you look for food out in the middle of the street you are getting sleepy you don't know where is your bed you don't know where your bed is so you sleep out on the street instead and then you wake up and everything does seem so different that it may have just been another dream why did they throw you out what did you do why has everyone done all of this to you I would like to thank you all for listening to me today especially when you're willing to listen when I speak in such a way this is chapter 41 and just so you know I've only got five more chapters to go Jerry mif said followed by Dorothy Erickson thank you so much someone brought winter hmm okay can you put this uh you like that Hillary okay my name is Jerry Memphis um I was escorted out of this Podium on May the 18th because this shirt that I'm wearing was too open and uh that was a a real big mistake um on May the 20th two days after an article appeared online this is Reno written by Bob Conrad you should have read that article you told me you didn't and um that's May the 20th and it tells the full accounting of what took place on May the 21st I was rushed to renowned hospital for what was done to me by Mr Devin and Doug Thornley who had me thrown out because he's a sergeant of arms well let me tell you um I had an hour long and who gets an hour with the mayor unless the mayor is worried about re-election she didn't want to talk about elections but what took place in that hour was the balance of two bees one black male and bribery I was not there to Blackmail you I had set the terms for our meeting and the terms were that you read the article that I offered an olive branch to Devin neither one of them took place because Carl Hall who's half asleep most of the time he didn't tell you the things that he should have did you have to tell me when I offered you my medical records of what took place Hillary did you have to say to me do you have somebody to talk to you're not Dr Phil you know how insulting that was you're you you're going to my mental state when I offered you my medical records and you ignored them when you said to me how much money do you want Jerry Carl jumps in and he says I'm not giving you no money right did you see how red his face was he was having another typical meltdown you contradicted him and said the city council will determine that if and when it's brought to them you gave me the feeling that you would bring them bring my issue to the city council and agenda is it but Carl told me on October 4th over here uh that's not going to happen who's making the decisions in this city it's important to vote for Eddie Lorton you like that ring to it and seeing you dropping into the lake mayor you know cleansing yourself the only thing that's missing was a minister that should have baptized you from your sins uh you're getting a kick out of this I'm not every time you said Carl admires you Carl kept getting madder and madder he can't has no control over his emotions don't vote for me or chivi she's been here too long it's a monarchy at this point I don't know more to say I lost a dear friend today 31 years old Matt I offer you this up and then my son Joe you asked me too many questions about my personal life man I'd like to know about your personal life anyway it's pathetic you could agendaize this you could let me out thank you you're not going to do it are you Dorothy Erickson Mary Edwards and Patricia Price Edwards will be coming to the podium together good morning mayor council um Dorothy Airlines and close this is Patricia Dorothy if you'll lower the microphone down to your face that would be thank you fine go ahead stay there it's all good we're here to talk about agenda F2 why are we trying to become the next California have you seen the statistics for California over the past two years they're drugged driving cannabis DOI is up 42 percent we're not California we don't have the budget to cover the costs he's from Cannabis will not pay for extra police proposition 64 was a lie sold to voters mayor you have spent many years and countless money on downtown are you prepared to see the investment loss do you really want Reno to become a tourist trap for drug addicted people takes five and six hours for THC to subside how are we going to stop people that are high from wandering through our city plain and simple more people THC the higher the level the more DUI crashes in fact the number of death related to drugged motor vehicle accidents is 18.6 percent in the US that's 360. excuse me 36 800 deaths look around where do you plan to get the Cannabis California Colorado Oregon how do you plan to protect the purity you can't unless you're planning to grow it here before you start proving these languages you need to ask and answer a few questions and accept that cannabis is a health hazard look at The Vaping the most popular answer to smoking where did that get you do you think that this is a profit only scenario who's responsible for HazMat cleanup the city the owners who's going to pay for the medical professionals on site to prevent overdoses how much liability will the city incur after the first death at one of your approved lounges I'm sure there's an attorney out here that would be willing to take that on we are also wanting to speak about the five policemen that were recently injured in the Fentanyl raid in Douglas County no doubt this was marijuana related and then P.S we have a question about how is this bill being voted on when it's never been seen and voted on by us thank you thank you appreciate it our next public commenter is nayez De Badillo Delgado followed by Jeff Church followed by Wayne Gordon today I stand before you on behalf of my family to show my support for Miguel Martinez I met Miguel Martinez 14 years ago this November we will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in these past years I have seen Miguel grow tremendously both personally and professionally he adores his two his two daughters and is always looking to set a positive example for them we're both working class citizens who have had the opportunity to get a post-secondary education and provide a better future for our daughters higher wages civic participation including volunteer work and voting are amongst the many benefits of achieving a tertiary education Miguel Martinez knows this and has worked relentlessly these past six years to Mentor young high schoolers to graduate and pursue up a secondary education helping young students navigate the higher education system teaching them how to tie a tie and instilling the value of volunteer work are just a few examples of how he has devoted his entire career to the future future of our community our youth I admire his dedication to mentoring young people he's always answering text messages or phone calls after business hours and on the weekends during the community forums the question about balancing the cancer position and personal life was a topic of high interest all I can say is that Miguel has a wife and a strong support system that understands the importance this role will have in helping his beloved community Miguel has achieved the American dream of owning a home having a family of his own and having a stable profession many could say he's self-made according to the dictionary this means having achieved success or prominence through one's own effort however I have a different perspective he says he's not self-made he's a product of a community that has supported and provided him with the resources so he could be successful and today has the opportunity to pay it forward Miguel your wife and daughters understand that time commitment this position entails and we want to tell you that as long as you respect your community and serve your family we would be next to you and be there every step of the way it would be selfish to not do so because one day there were teachers pastors mentors and many others in the community that took the time to support you and pave the way for you to have a better future having a family is not an inconvenience but rather a propellant for you to keep going thank you madam mayor and council members for all your work and I hope you take into consideration when deciding my words when deciding on this appointment Miguel is a working citizen who is empathetic and caring and understands our community since he's one of them gracias thank you thank you Jeff Church followed by Wayne Gordon followed by Drew rebar there good morning folks long time no see I'm sorry Mr Reese I had to leave the the room my name is Jeff church I run a website Reno tax freevolt.com you're welcome to have a look I'm here with a really benign requests and flyers I'd like to ask you to use some taxpayer dollars to belong to a non-profit what could be wrong with that one of them citizens for coal power plants Republicans for Right to Life liberals for women Reproductive Rights I think you can maybe see where I'm going with this those I made up but the City of Reno pays a hundred thousand dollars to belong to Edon according to my research you belong to the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce those are 501c6 lobbying organizations they're not charitable they're not non-profit so am I just speaking you know off the cuff on this no the Nevada Constitution Article 8 section 9 states that you as a government may only belong to those corporations formed for educational or charitable purposes but there's more NRS 82.2021 only defines for public benefit a 501c3 charitable not 501c6 NRS 281 520 tells you that you as a public officer may not incur an expense to support or oppose a ballot measure or a candidate but that's exactly what Edon does that's exactly what the chamber does Edon is a 501c6 advocacy organization so is the chamber the also the U.S Supreme Court also weighed in under a case called Janus Nationwide and I have a handout I already submitted for the record attorney generals from Across the Nation have weighed in on this very issue I can't find one from Nevada nor can I find an LCB opinion but we have opinions Nationwide from attorney generals and case law that says you really shouldn't belong to a 501c6 organization so I don't think it's too much to ask Mr Hall look into it I've asked him I would I would describe his response as non-responsive I've got a few minutes left this is the Chamber of Commerce for the City of Reno legislative affairs the fire department why would the fire department belong to the chamber city manager City attorney why would a City attorney belong to the Chamber of Commerce and advocacy group he might have to hear cases related to that Reno city council it says that your members city clerk's office Works what does that have to do with it special events Finance the list goes on and on and on so I don't know if this is accurate but if it's not you need to tell the chamber to cease and desist if it is accurate why are you spending multiple memberships for the police department the fire department the city attorney and her advocacy organization so I appreciate your time unfortunately we're probably going to have to do a ethics complaint if this continues doesn't mean it's going to be the City of Reno but we'll have to deal with it some other way but I would ask you to ask your City attorney to look into it thank you very much and I hope Mr Reese makes it back right thank you so much Mr Church Wayne Gordon followed by Drew rebar my name is Wayne Gordon I live in ward 3. and my ward is now without a representative and um we will now be the second ward when this sub prop what's going on now is finished who is not represented on the city council as we're supposed to be currently you're in process of deciding who will be our representative but it wasn't somebody that we selected you selected who would be on that I went and watched them on at Neil Road last week who would be on that we didn't select them we didn't volunteer somebody from our this allows a small group of members of the city council to figure out who is like them and who will be on the board who will be on the council and um and then get those in it severely awaits the city council and um when the elections are held that person will be an incumbent which gives them an unfair advantage over whoever is going to try and run to unseat them presumably somebody will um this is how the uh Washoe County School District has managed to keep people who agree with them on the school district and has managed to wait unfairly the elections now I'd like to know a would like to see the city council conduct elections for both Ward 5 and Ward 2 and have people come in Forth but especially in Ward 2 where I mean ward 3 where I live um I'm sure that as I recall the reason is that we want to save money it's too expensive we were already very close to an election the election still hasn't happened and this kept fit in the state has mandated basically mail-in elections so a mail-in election could have been done without much expense um foreign and I believe that it would have been much fairer because then our Wards five and three would be represented by people who we are representative I recall we're resent we are representative Council here you're supposed to represent us but if it's being appointed by somebody else it's representing them not us all right thank you Wayne grew rebar followed by Joseph Sanchez good morning my name is Drew rebar with a A Towing um I'm here today to uh advise the city that Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing a regulation uh adoption meeting scheduled for November 2nd what this regulation is about and doing is to in my estimation insert a third party in total loan sales how does this affect the city how does this affect Property Owners abandoned vehicles abandoned motorhomes are a huge problem for our community currently the city pays the stipend to the tow operators that remove abandoned vehicles in a timely fashion this has helped over the last bunch of years Mr Woodley if he is here is aware of this problem and I'm certain most of you are what what this appears to do is uh Nevada DMV has been in contact with a company called auto return over the past year plus it appears based on their emails and it appears that they're going to insert this company as a middleman between the tow operators and the wrecking yards and anybody else that wants to buy a vehicle this will increase costs as far as I can see from running my business I estimate the additional cost to be 150 to 200 per vehicle to sell the vehicles and what that means for me running my business is I'm going to look closely at every abandoned vehicle and determine whether I'm going to take it or leave it on the street again this has happened in the past there was an incident at Walmart on 7th years ago with a BMW where no tow operator in the city would take the vehicle uh the city ended up I think you were doing a condemnation or whatever the term is and pretty much the city had to order the tow operator remove the vehicle and there were some payments and some other things that it was just a big mess so I'm trying to prevent the mess from starting so I would ask the city to look at these regulations that they're proposing look at the already completed small business impact statement how do you complete a small business impact statement before you meet with small businesses small business impact statement or it's supposed to go into the financials has zero costs to small business to insert all of these new regulations in these new processes I don't know about you but every process I run in my business has a cost and these costs are going to become prohibitive or just more expensive for private property owners and municipalities to have these abandoned pieces of garbage removed from our streets and to be processed and recycled and to me apparently what this means is we're going to be sending another 150 to 200 for every abandoned vehicle to a California company that's just my presumption based on the public information that I got back from dnv I did a five-year records request I requested all tow complaint liens that type of thing no com no complaints really came back from the citizens or the community against the processes that we've been using for decades and decades and decades to get rid of these vehicles so it appears that there's something else going on behind the scenes I appreciate your time this morning have a good day thank you drew um just really quickly to clarify you said this is a contract between the state um no what what it appears to be in the public records requests there's emails recommending here's a third party vendor it's a solution to fraud all of these things yet there's no fraud in the system and they're changing the regulations that I've got a copy of it here and they're cumbersome basically we've got to get appraisals and cars insert a third party do arm's length transactions okay um and it's designed to not name a specific business that's going to come in but there's already been conversations with a very specific business that has a reputation in the state the same auto return company came into Highway Patrol years ago took over that contract and essentially what's happened is anytime Highway Patrol impounds your car in the state of Nevada 25 goes to this company okay there was no legislative approval for that but you have through contact information right okay and Alex thank you so much appreciate it Sanchez followed by Stephen Van Zee via zoom and will Adler via Zoom hi I don't have to press the button right I'm done okay hello I'm Dr jeffette Sanchez I'm an associate professor of educational leadership and I'm the director of the Latino Research Center but I'm here as a citizen of Reno and I want to highly advocate for Megan Martinez for Ward 3. I understand that your responsibility is to remain super unbiased but also to be able to identify individuals who are quietly highly qualified for the role and within the candidates that you've elected I want to express my support for Miguel Martinez I've known him for over a decade actually when he was a student at UNR he was my McNair student at the time he was an undergraduate student working to identify how to examine and use research for the ability to make informed decisions which was not very common with undergraduate students so I know that in his lens and the work that he'll do to serve the community he's going to use that context to better support the needs of our community and of all members his identity I think is tied to some of the things that will help to give a voice to everyone in order to identify cultural and economic impacts and social impacts and all the things that you're tasked with doing so I just want to express that I highly value the work that he's done not only as a student but in his trajectory into his career which I've been privileged to see he's at TMCC and through that work so much of his Focus has been on supporting those from underrepresented backgrounds from low-income family backgrounds first generation students all the things that if we're able to do as a community we can improve our outcomes within the city for everyone again and so to me that's highly important I value and Trust the work that you're doing I know that you're doing so and it's not easy to do so when you have to go through special meetings and and others don't have that full voice but to me this is where I do get a voice and where our community also gets a voice and so if um having gone through this special election section if it means that we can better give voice to to those who have these this possibility to make an impact for me I value the opportunity to advocate for him and I hope that you take him into consideration given his context given his expertise given his high levels of educational attainment but having come from a low-income family background where he understands those from the full spectrum and we need somebody who who can think along those lines who can remain unbiased and who can support the needs of everyone so thank you so much foreign thank you Stephen Van Zee via zoom and will Adler via Zoom good morning my name is Stephen Van Zee I'm a property owner and resident of Ward 5. am I able to be heard yep go ahead Mr fancy okay thank you I'm a property owner resident of Ward five I'm also a property owner resident of the Northgate 19 LaSalle Heights Landscape Maintenance District [Music] areas my conference addressed the department of parks and recreations continuing mismanagement of these lmds a person who access management has extended that for almost five years and these issues have been brought to the attention to products and Rec the city manager and the only five council member numerous times by letters and public comments this year's this year Parks and Rec have gone unanswered on September 14th you approve the new landscape maintenance contract that became effective September 30th as a reminder property owners are required to pay for all the landscape maintenance costs at contrary to the parts manager's comments in which he promised improved performance the new contract has been mismanaged from day one the new contract requires the contractor to submit its weekly work schedule for all regular and routine tasks separately identifying the schedule for each lmd however their City responded to a public records request for these schedules by stating quote no responsive documents the contractor Reliance Home Services stated that they would spend the first month October bringing the lmds through appropriate conditions for routine maintenance end quote apparently a contractor is now deciding what when and where landscape activities are performed oh the contract identifies specific landscape activities that the contractor is required to perform weekly or as needed in online lmds on October 12th I notified Parks and Rec and the word five and award for council members that the contractor had not yet performed any landscape Services environmental amd's I said to buy numerous issues of non-compliance and provided sample photographs documenting those issues essentially this morning is the first time this month the contractor has appeared in my lnd during September 13th council meeting the Park's manager saying as the regular and routine task that the contractor must perform what the price manager did not tell you is that Parks and Rec has failed to enforce some of those Landscape Maintenance requirements for the last five years one of those unadforced requirements was noted as quote Fast Fire breaks end quote this requirement is particularly important because it directly addresses the public safety hazard letters to Parts interact on September 26 and October 12th as parks and reacts to prioritize compliance with this landscape maintenance requirement those letters have also gone on an insert and their work has been done to comply with the requirement property owners are forced to foot the bill for air D landscape Services regardless of parks and rec sniff management and failure to enforce landscape maintenance contract requirements and the city council is fearing its constituents by not holding parks and recs accountable for Smith's management thank you for your attention [Music] will Adler via Zoom followed by Dora uchel via Zoom okay hello my name is Will Adler and I'm here on behalf of silver state government relations uh I would briefly like to take this time to thank Council for their decisions on F2 and I would like to support the the prior decision to add additional zoning barrier uh to drug treatment facilities and the 500 foot barrier uh additionally spoken about at the last meeting I'd also like to thank Angela Foose personally for uh all the hard work she's put into this and the time and effort all staff of uh dedicated to this project thank you very much please in our oh it looks like uh Ms Martinez lowered her hand so at this time we have no additional public comment for the record Madame mayor we did receive six letters of Correspondence which have been oh I'm sorry five letters of Correspondence which have been distributed to the Reno City Council on various items and we do have two voicemails code enforcement issues in my neighborhood for six months now I've been trying I finally get a call back from detective Todd Davis and all he does is talk over you and talk at you he won't let you express what your problems are he is like a mind reader as far as he's concerned so him and Alex Woodley they both should be removed from their position you need better communicators in that you can't just call somebody up and assume you know what they're complaining about or what the issue is and talk over them the whole time what's the point of calling him why don't you just send him an email that's ridiculous detective Todd Davis and Alex Woodley are pathetic employees for the City of Reno hi I am calling in regards to the trash that is building up in the Lemon Valley all the way in Northbound on 395 even going past par Boulevard all the way down in the center dividers and alongside the freeway this goes on and on and on and I travel a lot through Reno and it is the only place that is really building up that nobody seems to care or clean about we have no sign saying littering not one sign in Nevada but in California they do I wonder why we don't have a sign that says that people throwing their trash or debris coming out of the back of their cars is going to be fined it is terrible and it is nasty and it makes our area look terrible please take a look at this and why should I the citizen have to do go out there and pick up the trash we should be allotted it is not happening in South Reno at all thank you foreign T Mr vice mayor that is the closing of our opening public comment item A3 we're moving into item A4 approval of the agenda okay Mr manager do we have any changes to the agenda well I don't know that we necessarily have any changes in terms of uh pulling things off the agenda everything is ready to go but I would like to take a couple of things out of order uh so that we can be efficient about conducting the business of the city while this meeting goes on so in consultation with the city attorney's office we have an awful lot of agenda items today that affect the police department and as you can see sort of looking out into the audience today we have an awful lot of support from the Reno Police Department here and so once we get through the consent items that go through without being pulled I would like to open C1 C2 D1 D2 and D3 at the same time so that the chief of police can give an overview of those items and we can get all of our police officers back out protecting our community the way they want to be okay okay Madam mayor what the city managers asked is that after we approve the consent items that are not pulled just the general consent items that we moved into the public hearings on C1 is that acceptable to you madam mayor okay thank you with those changes can I get a motion to approve the agenda as posted I will okay I have a motion by Madame mayor a second by council member Weber all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously all right consent agenda we are going to go to Item B Madam clerk any public comment thank you madam mayor we have no public comment registered additionally we did not receive any correspondence okay thank you so much uh at this time I'm going to ask council members if they would like to pull off any agenda items for consent I want to start with you Council on breakfast yes I'd like to pull off item B2 item B3 item B4 item B8 and item B12 is that correct two three four eight and twelve okay and then I just want to remind everyone we're not going to get into those items until after uh the C items that we're gonna be pulling okay so uh councilman Taylor anything thank you vice mayor Reese Madam mayor I have items this time uh B5 and B6 which can be heard together uh B10 b11 I was just pulling Weber okay thank you so much all right at this time I'd ask for a motion so move the remaining items that's right I have a motion from councilman Reese a second by councilwoman doer all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay Madam clerk sending it back to you I believe we're gonna pull several C items nope Madame if you would like to open the public hearing for items c one and C2 perfect E1 V2 of a broad overview and get into his specific presentation city manager can you talk into the microphone please thank you thank you um I'd like to open D1 1 he will give an item specific presentation on the arc money and then the subject matter experts for from public works and capital projects uh will will come behind him and and make follow-up presentations on subsequent items okay so for the record let's just reiterate the items C1 C2 D1 E2 D2 and D3 may I ask a question about how we're going to proceed go right ahead yeah under our rules we only get three minutes I think and then three minutes again and then one minute and when we bundle seven items together or six items together um we have had a practice of limiting them the time I will object to that um these are you know separate items and I hope that our rules will allow all members who have questions about each item to have the time for each item and not bundled up I don't think that's fair I've expressed that in the past and I will express my objections if we're not given individual time for each one thank you very sensitive to that yeah I think that's a great idea too because one of the items requires a two-thirds majority some don't you know and they're on pretty different topics you know they're related but they're on so typically we don't pull this many right so I want to make sure we all have enough time to yeah ask questions and get it on the record so okay [Music] okay so Madam clerk I'm gonna send it to you I need to put it on the record was proper notice given and any correspondence received thank you madam mayor proper notice was given and no correspondence was received for items C1 C2 D1 D2 and D3 okay so at this time we're going to move into presentations from the one and only Reno Police Chief Jason Soto and I believe and then we'll have something from Vicky I'm doing I think at some point Buren and uh Justin George will be around yes okay great all right take it away good morning good morning for the record Reno Police Chief Jason Soto I am very very grateful uh to be at probably my last presentation for this Council and for this body um we couldn't have chosen a better um oh no we'll make sure we have one more a better grouping of items uh probably one of the most significant and historic agendas certainly in my career I'm joined today by many of the professional men and women of the Reno Police Department in the back of the room and we're very excited to give you this presentation uh my portion of this presentation today is going to be on the technology portion of this I brought with me deputy chief Zach THU who is one of our technology experts within the Reno Police Department I also have our Chief Financial Officer Christina Rodriguez with us to answer questions at the end of this presentation um so I'm going to go ahead and just get started um I think I think the way I want to begin this presentation really first off is to explain why technology really is so crucial for the Reno Police Department and our line of work especially in 2022 when I began my career back in the 90s as I was putting this presentation together I thought about the four separate decades in which I've worked in this profession and when I started my career just to give you perspective all of us perspective our community perspective is we had two options on how to write a report either a typewriter or handwritten to get from point A to point B in a car we used a map today in 2022 as we all know it has become much much more technology driven and we as the Reno Police Department need to make sure that we're at The Cutting Edge of that technology what this technology is going to do for us and I think it's important for this Council to understand is it's going to make us a safer City it's an investment if you will into your community into your Reno Police Department into our future for the biggest little city in the world a little bit later today we're also going to be talking about the public safety center which is near and dear to my heart I remember a conversation mayor that you and I had seven years ago about how are we going to do this I'm not going to steal Carrie and her team's Thunder but this is a very big momentous day for the Reno Police Department this technology is going to make us smarter it's going to make us faster it's going to make us more efficient and it is sorely needed and sorely or crucial for the success of your Reno Police Department so without further ado I'm going to start off with intelligence-led policing you've probably heard that term and it is more prevalent today than ever what that does is it utilizes technology and Analysis to most effectively identify Trends and for me or for us Arena Police Department to deploy resources Reno Police Department is seeking approval for three complementary contracts that will further intelligence-led policing ensure alignment with regional Partners improve services to the community and contribute to officer and Public Safety so the three items that I'm going to be speaking to you about today are axon officer safety package 7 plus forensic logic LLC otherwise known as cop link and fuses so we're going to start off with axon everybody I'm sure you're all familiar with axon and what it is it is they are at The Cutting Edge of Technology we've been using them for several years with our body worn cameras they are a leader in body worn cameras tasers and Fleet cameras they have numerous other software and Hardware products that all operate and integrate within the axon ecosystem that's really really important for all of you to understand is that they operate within the ecosystem so all three of these products that I'm going to be talking about today are all integratable they're they're all integrated into one system and what that does is it gives us information faster it's all together it's more organized and it's going to keep our community safer all right so we're going to start off with body worn cameras we all know about that in 2017 Nevada legislative mandate was initiated for us to start wearing body worn cameras for all Reno Police all police officers in a uniform capacity what we've learned since 2017 since we started to uh deploying these body worn cameras if you remember back in 2017 there was some some concerns from our community from our police officers from myself from our Council from our elected officials on how effective they were going to be and I can tell you since 2017 they have been incredibly effective not only for our community to have more trust and you know transparency within the arena police department but also from the men and women of the Reno Police Department we've learned that this is a tool that benefits everybody including us and they've been extremely successful body worn cameras improve officer safety and improve quality of evidence and as you're going to see later on in this presentation I'm going to tell you just how much of that Improvement is going to be further affected they're associated with a reduced use of force I recently in the last two weeks met with execs of of axon and one of the the great goals that they have within their company is in the next decade they are working to reduce officer-involved shootings by 50 percent that is huge and it is very very achievable we have seen a downward Trend since we started deploying body worn cameras that Trend I believe is going to continue and you couple that with training and some of these products that we're bringing in front of you today and it has an automatic instant effect for those in our community it's also reduced citizen complaints it reduces liability it increases transparency and Community confidence again it's completely integrated into the axon ecosystem I should mention that both washer County Sheriff's Office and Sparks Police Department have these same Technologies that's very important for our regional approach because we can communicate with each other and what we've learned regionally is the more information that we're able to share between agencies and across city lines the more effective we can be at catching the bad guys uh let's see new cameras will be given to officers at 30 60 90 and 120 months all right moving on to Taser Taser obviously reduces use of force reduces injuries to suspects reduces officer injuries it's a left less than lethal option it's integrated with our axon ecosystem and new tasers within in five years with this with this plan moving on to Fleet cameras I know this was something important to all of us it took us a little bit to get there but this is the perfect opportunity to actually put all of this into one Fleet cameras are pretty self-explanatory but again they reduce use of force reduce liability complaints officer safety certainly transparency and Community confidence quality of evidence and they're completely integrated in the axon ecosystem one of the things that we learned with Fleet cameras is oftentimes even with body worn cameras if we go to a call or a scene where another agency has Fleet cameras those Fleet cameras can capture video that maybe we did not get from our officer if he or she was in a fight and the camera Falls up there's a lot of things that can happen this is just one additional quality or piece of evidence that we'll have in place with Fleet cameras because they're not going to fall off foreign s with the officer safety package seven first off you see the axon interview room that's really really important our interview room now is with we use outdated technology this acts on technology is current it's actually way fit forward-facing it's the most advanced technology that we have out there so we'll have Inner Room interview rooms that we can tie all this video and interviews and all of that information together axon redaction assistant this is super important this is important for our support staff this allows the the men and women who work on our records division to have a tool to easily redact footage from videos for these public records requests that we all know are very very significant in our region this this allows us to do that work faster more efficiently and quicker Auto transcribe this goes back to what I said when we used to have to write or type reports now their software that can understand what we're saying and put it into a report for us which is fantastic respond for devices plus axon standards citizen one to one these these next two the citizen one-to-one and citizens for communities is really really neat one to one is if we're out on the scene and a citizen or an individual has some video or photos or things like that we can capture that right then and there book it into our axon system It'll recognize that and it'll transmit it so we'll have it and it'll improve those efficiencies I know that one of the um points that the mayor has touched on recently is increasing call response time the SE two items are going to help us a lot of these items actually are going to help us increase our our ability to respond to calls quicker because it's all done faster it can be done in our car it can be done on scene we can send out a link with axon citizens for communities and allow them to download that information into our system or into their case or report and what that does is against our officers back out on the street for more visibility and the ability to respond to those calls in a quicker manner it has virtual reality the virtual reality portion of this package is fantastic I've tried it I've used it I invite all of you to do that if and if this is approved because it really gives us exposure to types of calls and incidents that we might not ever see otherwise so it's it's pretty neat third party video playback and then of course unlimited storage fuses so fusis is another technology and what it does is it extracts live video feed from various cameras within our community and sends it to a single operating system and officers in the field and again this is integratable with Axon so what this allows us to do is I know so many times where businesses certain areas of town even our own City cameras that we have throughout the city we will have the ability to tap into those systems view that video there's even deeper layers within fuses where we can put in things like floor plans so we can understand what a building looks like once we get inside there and it makes our officers safer because of that it acts as a digital Evidence fault for investigators and is capable of integrating video with other data sources such as computer-aided dispatch axon real-time officer geolocation registry map of cameras multimedia tip line for the public so what this really does is it invites our public to be part of their Police Department we've always said we wanted this forward-facing Police Department this you know the leader if you will in policing in the state of Nevada and this is one of those products that's going to get us there a limited number of feeds will also include this artificial intelligence technology to identify relevant footage and I know this is kind of complicated but to simplify it it means we'll have a limited number of feeds to where if we have something like a missing child or a senior citizen somebody with dementia we can put in some parameters into these feeds it'll understand what those parameters are it'll search that database and it'll give us the ability to locate somebody who may need assistance from the police department so it is a fantastic product at what I what I believe to be a very very um a good price the pro package what that gives us is it gives us initial setup access training of users to include 500 data points so we'll decide what those data points look like and then once we figure out how successful this is we can increase that number at some point in the future if uses Ops implementation of smartphone application which provides viewing of live camera feeds and setting up and transmitting the location of teams and special events critical incident management and then the analytics that's the crime and incident heat mapping and Analysis platform and then finally what we have in here is coplink X um and and I put in asterisks here Google for cops but it really is a powerful law enforcement search engine uh for information platform that enables law enforcement to search police databases from agencies across the United States it sounds like a simple uh no-brainer in terms of a Google for cops but we haven't had this we haven't had this type of technology and we haven't been able to tap into those databases until right now this is going to help out exponentially when you're talking about um information that we need to be safer as police officers and to affect arrests to keep our community a safer place so coplink X again is another incredible investment it does enhance situational awareness of course it improves officer and Community safety and then it generates investigative leads and improves clearance rates all of these things are technology that brings us into 2022 and forward and I I don't I don't know if I can say it clearly enough this all ties into the public safety center and what we're trying to achieve at the Reno Police Department by bringing our department into 2022 giving us the tools that we need to be more efficient faster safer and just a a modern leader within law enforcement so that is my portion of this presentation and I of course am ready for any questions or input that any of you may have all right thank you so much thank you okay I'm going to start with councilman breakfast go ahead thank you madam mayor thank you Chief three minutes thank you um and I'll make my comments to item C1 but they may be also applicable to others um first of all I I do believe that everything I've learned about local law enforcement is that technology is the path to um to make a community safe it's it's really right up there along with you know having a force that's well trained and well supported but I um have some concerns the way this item's been brought before us today um you know when Mr manager started in 2020 we did the CPS study remember that and that laid the template the examination we put a lot of money into it we put a lot of resources into the focus to develop that study that study told us what our how our force was it was a checkpoint on how things are going and the the path forward to improve and become best practices that report never had the light of day before this body to understand is that the storyline for asks like this and so when I get contracts you know maybe bids that are going stale you know ordinances and medium-term debt it makes me want feel like I I have had a gap in my knowledge without having that brought before us to understand where this is in the priorities and um you know where this fits in on on best policing you know why this vendor why that vendor so I am concerned that we have not um you know seen why this one versus others and I you know haven't had the briefing of the CPS study so I'm very disappointed about that and I think it's good for our community also I woke up today one of the newspapers was you know on lions was saying what's going on Reno's committing all these resources to these Technologies well you know if we were all on page with this is where we're moving the department forward that I think that would make these conversations almost um ministerial by us you know check the box you did a good presentation but you're down here on specifics of why this vendor that vendor when I think we spent money to examine and do a performance analysis of the department and we never had discussions nor did we build it into the budget when I come in here to the budget in the CIP that we adopted in May I don't see these items in here and it makes me wonder well why did these perk up and and not so I I am struggling this isn't to you this is kind of your send-off this is to our manager that I I feel like if we're gonna examine as a best practice what a Department's doing we need to set that table to then move forward to these implementation items so I do want to support this but I have concerns um but you know I'll let my next round of questions go um well well the one is this Google for cops um is there a uploading database of our resources that is kind of a reciprocal thing to you know this sharing and and are the parameters for that how does that work I I think that um those are questions that I would have liked briefed you know if we had a more front loaded conversation about how we're gonna you know advance in our technology needs as a department okay thank you for the question councilwoman breakfast yeah there is that was uh in my presentation that's why I spoke to the regional piece to this um because we're all going to be sharing this cop link or Google for Google Google for cops information we don't have a a cohesive database right now so it requires a an enormous amount of time and effort to try and cross those lines and find that information think if there were let's just say we had a suspect that was in another state we can do simple data searches now to find information that would normally take several phone calls several calls back just just a cluster of information in it brings it all together this isn't something that's just being utilized here locally in this region this is a national type database there's multiple departments that we've gone to asked about it this isn't something that I know you made a comment councilwoman breakfast about the technology and my my only ask of you is to um understand that we did look at a ton of different vendors and we we came up with what we thought was the best most Fair vendors for our department and our city okay I have a follow-up when my account my job comes around thank you uh because your three minutes is up and we'll come back all right go ahead councilwoman do her thank you um I have I guess a pretty different perspective um for at least seven years I've been talking to you uh Chief Soto about the need to improve um the Department's technology the ability to take most the best practices uh the best available equipment to both keep our officers safe and to solve crimes uh more directly quicker with less wasted time I mean everything you've presented here today to me speaks to that it connects data you know from one source to the other it connects you with our regional law enforcement agencies that we're working with so that you can share information and share data which makes for a better much better policing operation for our region you have spoken about and I'm just scrolling we have new tablets I'm scrolling to some of the things you've added in terms of the dash cams and the use of tasers instead of you know potentially lethal weapons the body worn cameras and then just the software with axon which ties all of this together I mean I think it's an incredibly important step forward and I commend both you and our manager for seeing an opportunity right now with the arpa funds and our ability to do some short-term bonding to actually take this step forward now I have other comments about the public safety center as well separate from this but your presentation was just about this and I couldn't be happier to see this so thank you so much for coming before us thank you all right councilman Taylor go ahead thank you madam Mary um so I'm gonna have two common things pro themes probably throughout the day today um and I'll make them quick one is going to be fiscal responsibility and the other one is Public Safety the first one for fiscal responsibility I think I might ask Vicki um to answer this for us is this a good place for the city to spend their resources do we have the resources and is this a responsible action for this Council to move forward with these resources an investment Vicki Van Buren Director of Finance um yes to answer your question council member Taylor I have done a physical analysis of this um based on what we've come up with I've worked with the police department to determine what's our best fit going forward um I think one of the the main things to get off the chief's presentation here is that this is a 10-year plan we're talking about a 10-year medium-term obligation it's not a bond it's basically we're making payments over 10 years but the way we've structured it it fits within our budget and it fits in a way that we can ask for reimbursement to from the e911 board when we get to those payments as well so when I get to my section when you're done with your questions with the chief here I'll be glad to answer some more questions about it thank you very much that's very helpful and then Chief Soto with the public safety aspect I heard three things from your presentation it's alignment with regional partners and improved services to the community and contributes to officer and Public Safety and being new here I think that was one of my major priorities in considerations with this and what our responsibility is so you're confident that this software these packages this movement investment supports those three initiatives I am more than confident that it supports those three initiatives and it also does one additional thing that I think you might appreciate and it that is it's really going to support this transition for the next decade you're going to have a new police chief or two and this is putting product technology in place that will carry us forward for 10 years thank you very much you guys are the experts I am not so I appreciate your input and help on this thank you thank you councilman Robert did you want it okay go ahead vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor I have a lot of thoughts so I want to First situate ourselves properly today first of all Chief Soto thank you and thank you to the men and women of your department especially those are here in support of it we know that every day the men and women of this department risk their own personal lives and their safety to protect this city so for that you have my whole heart and I thank you for it I see there as being a couple of things going on in the overall presentation scope so you've got some technology asked you've got some Building Safety Center asks and then there's an overarching question of How It's funded and so I want to try to situate again myself along those lines and then I want to also start off by taking a step back and asking oftentimes in political campaigns and during campaign season you start to see some things that are disturbing especially from particular candidates about the City of Reno and so I want to ask first of all how are we doing out there how are the men and women of this city who are tasked with protecting us doing you know you see things that are very misleading in campaign mailers about crime rate and the certain things that are sort of designed to promote fear where I think I know what you're doing I know on a daily basis what you're doing you share with me those statistics but I think it's the the elephant in the room right the purpose of your presentation I think boils down to safety Public Safety and our officer safety so maybe can you sort of start by answering that question for me about sort of the state of the city what you might want to say to folks who are tearing down the police department and making those false claims absolutely absolutely I'll answer your question um in this profession I've been in this profession for a quarter Century all the men and women that I that are standing here behind me everybody in that department one of the things that is most telling about our profession and what we do is we have incredible resilience and incredible resolve these men and women put their heads down they do their job and they understand what that job is and that's to keep our community safe they don't really get wrapped up in the political uh huhas going on because it doesn't do anything for us we have a job to do the job for us is our community that is our number one priority it has always been our priority I think one of the things that's very unique about the Reno Police Department and our situation and where it is today is we have a community that overwhelmingly supports us and what we do for the past several years every single day we're getting phone calls Donuts coffee thank yous that speaks volumes to the men and women who are standing behind me and how they carry themselves and how they do their jobs we have thick skin we always have and we always will so they're doing just fine well I appreciate that I suppose what I want you to also understand of course is that while the community may have a thing to this Council also wants to be able to thank you and has I think consistently supported more officers greater funding access to resources and I think those are kind of the backdrop for this entire discussion because without the safe community that is Reno Sparks you know Carson City Tahoe the regional area I think that we are doing ourselves a disservice not to acknowledge the good work that you're doing and to you know sort of go down the rabbit hole and some of these things I appreciate that you're being very thoughtful in your approach but for for my part I see the safety every day I see the patrols that work hard and after hours and nights and weekends I was down here this weekend during what looked like to be a very busy weekend it was a Zombie Crawl there was a concert there was the homecoming weekend and as I drove through downtown Reno the presence of police officers keeping this community safe was was obvious and apparent and that's just one example but I think before I talk about which technology the news how do we pay for it what about the thing I want to just say thank you because the public safety is the number one priority of any Community I think the mayor often says you know a safe city is a happy and thriving City I probably said it not as well as she would do a Prosper city um and so I think it's important as a starting point I do have technical things to talk about about the presentation but for my first three minute period I want to make sure that I situated myself appropriately so thank you I appreciate that and I have one comment that I'd like to get back to you many of these topics or conversations that we're having today I think it's important for our community to know we've been working on this for a long time not just during political season so the fact that we're getting a new public state of the art you know nicest Public Safety Center in our state when it's completed speaks volumes to your support for the police department number one number two I'm in a very good position right now because I have a pending retirement and I will say this we need more police officers City and manager and I have had many discussions about that I've had many discussions with our council members we have to find a way to get our Force to over 400 people that's another 50 bodies that's your job that's something that we're going to have to work on in the next few years and find a way to do that but we've done a great job at bringing us back down from 281 up to where we are today but there's more work to be done thank you so much Chief Soto um this is so long overdue yes uh to your comment I do want to point out because people always say to me and every budget it comes up I'm like we need more police we need more police and I want to point out so that people understand the backstory of that because they're like wait uh you were bringing up more but what happens is attrition and um you know people retire and so it kind of like is the cycle so sometimes it can be really difficult and then there's a lag and when you put an officer out on the street I think it's 18 months yes correct correct so that's why it's so hard to get back up whenever you're approving more officers and if you know so um to your point um we are a medium-sized City now so it it's a very different Dynamic but the police station if I'm right was built in 1947. correct and I will tell you this going through all the research and I apologize for any of my colleagues that feel like they've been left out because we've been talking about this for the last seven years and Reno has been so incredibly far behind when it comes to the technology apology and artificial intelligence we we talked about this like this was like we just desperately desperately desperately need this infrastructure it will make a massive difference in how cities fight crime and I know that through the United States Conference of Mayors and using the same technology here it is a game changer for your community it's Bar None and the fact that our men and women from the Reno Police Department have not had this at their fingertips is um it's been just tragic in a lot of ways because I think it's so easy for people to talk about the one incident that you might hear on the news and there's a saying in news because I used to work in it if it bleeds it leads and a lot of times this is what you hear when it comes to news but what you don't hear is every day that our police officers are confronting crime solving crime um working these cases the hard work that you do every single day no one talks about that but hey yesterday just so you know 50 we solved 50 crimes and arrested you know people for this that and the other um so I want to commend the Reno Police Department because you guys do a tremendous job and I think at times people forget about the the big picture but like I said we've talked about this for so long and we've had a lot of briefings I read the report we've all had the report right at our fingertips where is mine because I have it here did you steal my oh um and so every council member on this body knows exactly where we've been going what the goal is and finally we're here today and the reason why we are here today is because and I want to make this clear because I'm very proud of this and all of us have made very big sacrifices up on this body to make it so that financially we could get here and this will keep our community safe but a lot of that doesn't happen without the really really strong work that the Reno Police Department and yourself Chief Soto for your leadership so I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart this um and these um technology platforms are tremendous and every maybe you can explain that talk about other cities that have them why they have them and then my time is finished thank you mayor shivi I agree with uh everything he said this technology also leads into some of that attrition that you talked about it allows us to train more efficiently get people where we need to get them in order to be out on their own and safe on the streets City manager's office has been working very well with the Reno Police Department to try and fill those attritions you're right so we get additional positions that this Council approves but we also have about one retirement a month throughout you know every any given month so there is people that leave and then we fill those and you got a new generation of officers it is complex it does take a long time and again this technology that you see today is going to help us be better at that in the training aspects many of the training aspects of these officers and it's going to make them smarter and safer yeah exactly thank you so much and not to mention we are not the experts you are this is why we have a police chief and we have a tremendous police force so I want to remind everybody that everyone that we we don't direct you tell you what to do how to run the department you come to us and I highly respect your expertise people that know me know that I I do what I'm going to do I do what's best for our community and I do what's best for our department thank you so much okay we are going to move um right along are we still I want to just keep it clear Madam clerk item C1 right now we're on item D1 D1 okay if you're ready to make a motion on item D1 that was for D1 and D2 or the presentation you were just given I would make a motion okay we'll put a motion on this one please I'm gonna um give it to councilman breakfast for three minutes and then we are going to make a motion yeah and then I have um other Financial questions on this too so um question number one is you know without having the CPS study you know up here and having someone who studies police departments around the country say Reno's behind on technology you know I have to go on what I remember when I read it and one of those is there's a lot of policy gaps and needs to update and modernize policies so I want to ask about this camera one um I have always supported you know the cameras sometimes we joke that it's just a camera up there it's not even tied to anything but maybe it'll you know maybe I should say that but but I presume now we're going to have these cameras out there and I want to ask a very specific question Reno High there's some steps going downtown California Avenue Reno high students sit there at lunch and I get you know the whole neighborhoods are no you know whatever they're doing littering sometimes there's graffiti uh you know I maybe smoking cigarettes who knows you know and there's other people too and I will say that I have used to maintain those and one day came across a Sharpie uh you know in my tennis shoes and under leaves and was very frightening so it's a problem spot so when you put the camera up there and it's taping everything could the Reno High student who's sitting there you know doing something like you know graffiti would they get uploaded then into this database are you going to have policies that you need to establish or how to use those cameras those are the kind of questions that I I think sets the tone a little bit more to make this this okay yeah um I can I can answer that question for you councilwoman yes absolutely there's policy that we put into place when we created the policy for our body worn cameras we did so with the assistance of model policies around the country that we're already implementing body worn camera so we took a look at all of those we crafted it to what our community uh what we felt our community would keep our community the safest it's pretty consistent regionally we got input from my Chief's Advisory Board Chief's Impact Panel advocacy groups community members both associations the entire executive staff our supervisors a lot of thought went into the creation of this policy and policies for these new technologies that we have into play so yes we do have policies I'd be happy to share those with you okay so they're expansive enough for these new acquisitions yes ma'am thank you very much um I think I'll ask some other questions about since I do have time an allocation of 6 million from the arpa funding now this 6 million is at R 6 million that was direct to the City of Reno um it is it does come out of the pool of money that we that were directed to the city Flex that was decided upon by this body in the first tranche yes and then a an exactly similar amount from the second term so this item D1 because you know we're really controlling time here this item D1 is a first tranche that came through to the city and the money is in the bank account okay and okay okay thank you all right thank you so much I'm gonna put it down to uh councilman sure oh wait hold on sorry before you make that make them go ahead vice mayor uh Rhys thank you um Chief Soto I want to sort of uh conclude the thread related to not the CPS but the cpsm study right um we're good at doing studies at the city right we get these glossy handbooks and then oftentimes unfortunately in government those handbooks go on a shelf and they collect dust and and ultimately that's not the best practice right so between the cpsm study the Gwen Center report we have a lot of things that are a road map for what we can do to improve our community's response to Public Safety that happens both in the police side and the fire and it's no slight to the department it's just that we go out and we conduct these Audits and these studies in order to become better as an agency is that a fair characterization correct and so um do these technological or technology asks that you've now brought forward do they help us to meet the goals aspirational are there wise of the cpsm study of the Gwen Center report as I read them and I've read both reports extensively over the years at times for different reasons um but these will allow us to achieve the goals that are identified in those documents I've read all those studies and studies that we've done in the past and yes they do help achieve those goals that we have and bring us even further in terms of both of these studies both the Gwen Center and the cpsm study we map that out at the Reno Police Department we take that input and we say okay what can we achieve and what's it going to take for us to achieve there sometimes it does take technology sometimes it takes more positions sometimes it takes different policy or expanded or updated policy all of that has gone into this work this is a thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of work that have come that have come together today in a culmination to make our city safer that is extremely important Reno is growing at an incredibly fast rate we have to be in front of this not behind it well and I think council member Taylor said some things that were very specific that I want to sort of glom on to one is that it's shared Technologies between various partner agencies Washoe County Sparks that improves safety and outcomes right you have noted in your reports on this subject the improved officer safety the reduction in force issues issues related to reduced officer-involved shootings all those things one of the things that perhaps was not mentioned and I would highlight from the report is this concept about processing times for public records right we as a city need to get better and have been working on how to get better as we respond to the Myriad of public records requests that come in and when those are video records it becomes even more complicated of course and so these Technologies the um I guess the axon redaction assistant is what I'm specifically thinking of allow for that and then the last thing I'll say is that and Miss Van Buren hinted at this but with the approval of the 10-year contract it locks in the price for the equipment over that period of time so we're not subject to escalation in that regard is that true that's true and I'll further that comment just a little bit for you councilman Reese not only with the the redaction but the integration you know how it brings in CAD and all these different Technologies that's going to help records our records division our support staff our crucial support staff at the Reno Police Department be quicker and more efficient and more organized we still need more bodies in those seats and we're doing a great job and a you know in the last past few budget Cycles but this technology makes all of that quicker and better not just the redaction piece all of it mayor yeah hold on so if if I might jump in just one second to provide a little more context around sort of the ongoing discussion between leveraging technology and and adding Personnel the chief is of course correct that when you look at the cpsm report there are opportunities for us to enhance Staffing in in sort of myriad places across the police department and that provides a road map but when you hear Chiefs say things like it helps us with redaction instead of making multiple phone calls to other agencies we're able to just pull it up and all the information is at our fingertips um we don't have to type out the reports anymore we can dictate them or they'll self-populate using AI I think that you know what's lost in that shuffle is is when we look at other departments we talk about hey this is the bandwidth we want folks working at so that we're getting the day-to-day work done but we have just a little bit of slack so that we can pick up the odd emergency that shows up on an idle Tuesday when we talk about the police the bandwidth that they would ideally be operating at is actually significantly less than those other departments because that's where the magic happens in terms of the community police work that you want to see and the proactive business checks and and folks doing things on the street and so anytime we have an opportunity to invest in tools that make our folks safer and more efficient it's something that we have to take really really seriously oh absolutely um one of the things I do want to just ask you because I I saw this crazy number and you might not you may or may not know it off the top of your head but um and I know you've seen it but talk a little bit about because I don't know if people really realize how much crime is organized through technology and online yeah so in 2022 um our world is much more organized in terms of like computer crime fraud crimes faceless crimes it has gone up through the roof and when you don't have the technology that the that the bad guys or the crooks have um how are you going to you know affect arrests and be Progressive and you know be safer we need this technology to stay in front of all that and that's exactly what this does is it captures those people who are doing things where you don't see them uh where it's uh faceless crimes it's it's the the highest crime increase rate of any crime in the United States it's because people are getting really smart computers do a lot of things for us and that's another great point and significant reason that we need to remain on top of technology and in front of technology so that we can do our jobs better most crime is organized a lot online and I don't know if people really realize that sex trafficking is huge it's huge but the other one that people don't realize is the sideshows those were all organized online and they're organized with technology absolutely parties uh parties where you have fights and shootings and things like that all online on all these different programs this technology will capture that it'll let us know things that we didn't previously have access to and it provides an outlet for us to go after these criminals after the fact meaning if we don't catch them in the middle of a sideshow activity we can get them the next day or a couple days from now that's essential to have and to be able to make these recipes and people know if I do something there's going to be consequences it's not going to get lost in space yeah absolutely thank you so much I really appreciate it I'm going to send it councilman door because I think you had two rounds on this item so yeah I'm sending it to you thank you I would like I think under our rules we get one last round and so I do have one last question and it'll take a minute um I I'm a little confused this is just to Grant the six million dollars but the managers said that's already came from the first tranche so haven't we already acted in this way so if I can provide just a little context there originally the ARB funding came in front of the body and we had a broad-based discussion led by Mr Hodge about how the council would prioritize dividing up that money into buckets and and what we said in that first tranche was the percentage is escaping me I think it was 10-ish percent five percent five percent of the the all-in give from the federal government we would put towards Public Safety and in the first tranche that amount was roughly three million dollars and so both the first and second tranche of the art funding are in the bank and so this ask reflects three million dollars from the first tranche an equivalent amount from the second or total of six million dollars of course if you know the money isn't all spent and if the council wishes to change some direction on on other um segments of that prioritization there is time to do that and that's a discussion that we'd be happy to have I do think that this reflects um a significant investment in public safety uh for our community and I think it's uh these are tools that our Police Department need and so that's why we're recommending that the body proceed with this agreement I think we've been so focused on being fiscally responsible I mean this council's made a lot of sacrifices for that this is really long overdue and like I said it will be a game changer on how quickly we can solve crimes but again I think the most important thing that you always say Chief Soto is making sure your men and women come home safe at night number one and that has to be and you say all the time number one hand in hand all right um I just clarify Madam clerk I believe it's two rounds then it's motion then you can do discussion and then one one minute correct I want to make that discretionary for it should be yeah I believe I'll double check but it should be two rounds of three minutes one round of one minute and then a motion as needed that's what it is all right thank you so much sending it to you go ahead uh councilman all right thank you uh before I make the motion I just want to thank you madam mayor and our police chief for clarifying the use of the intelligence-based policing to get ahead of these crimes that are organized online because I think that is an area that we have really been challenged by and now we we are evening up the stakes and the ability to get out ahead of it so thank you so much that includes as you mentioned Chief the sideshows the parties Etc um The Gatherings so with that it's my pleasure to make a motion on item D1 which is a proposal a recommendation to approve six million dollars out of the American Rescue plan act arpa funds for Hardware software and related equipment for our Reno Police Department all right I have a motion by councilwoman sure I have a second by councilwoman Weber go ahead discussion vice mayor thank you madam mayor I'll just take the time Chief Soto you situated us at the beginning by saying two things one is that this might be your last time making a presentation I think we'll figure out a way for that not to be true but we'll see if we get our way or you get yours so but if I don't I want to say thank you you've sat up here in fact as the city manager for a time you've sat where you sit now yeah it's not not always the fun place to sit but I think given those two things you have a great perspective and I think you've shared that perspective with us today and I look we have questions because we're council members who have questions about things I don't want it to be lost in the shuffle though our thanks to you for your leadership not only during the time you served as our interim city manager but as the police chief I know it's a legacy defining issue for you and you said this much when you began this morning you said this was important and I think there reason why it's important you've heard from a number of us on this diet today is because we are invested in the safety of your officers right we are invested in the safety of this community and we want to get it right we want to spend it on the best Technologies and the the companies that do the right thing and and we want to balance competing interests about surveillance and how technology is used or misused and all those things being equal of course at its core the question is how do we make sure that this place that we call home is one that on the wall it says a community that people are proud to call home so I thank you for this the work that went into this it's an enormous lift I know it's been years in the making it's been multiple studies and audits coming it's been a lifetime of service by you to this community and so I will be very proud to support the motion by councilmember Dewar it is time that we had the opportunity to support you in a meaningful way and the men and women of this community through that technology piece and it's an honor to do it it's an easy ask so thank you so much thank you and I just really do want to say something I want to thank all the departments in this city everybody had a play in this this was not just the police department and I appreciate your comments towards me but it truly is I've said it a long time it's probably getting pretty old by now but it's the men and women of this department that made this happen not me madame all right we have a motion in a second I have discussion one minute for discussion one minute okay I'll let the clock start then I didn't know we only got a minute for discussion um I have reservations but I am going to support um I'm glad that we had a lot of talk about the cpsm study because I think that's probably something our new Chief will look at day one as they should it's probably gone out to the candidates already unfortunately it hasn't been out vetted publicly number two I just I did not understand yeah you know Mr manager's statements I thought it was all on the first tranche and then in his second replay said it's in the second tranche so if we're taking six million someone's losing some bucket that we put is not going or we haven't gotten to the second tranche we have not had the work of deciding how we're going to use the second tranche and maybe we're jumping on it because you know you're leaving I don't know I just feel that we need to discuss that second tranche and where we are on it before others leap ahead um so I may not be so supportive in the future with other departments coming I generally don't like to see a whole lot of Personnel in our meetings because it's you know desk work not going on for two hours but for all departments is if we're not laying the table right on what we're doing particularly on resources that are tight um you know it's it's it's not a good practice so I will support I have the reservations that's the epsm study has not been daylighted I have reservations that were jumping ahead on the second tranche without analysis of you know coming to mind of where we're at on that that money and then I'll have other comments about just the mechanical um for the other items but thank you madam mayor for letting me speak all right thank you all right so I have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously and I want to thank the men and women who are here today from the Reno Police Department I want to remind you you guys are the experts not us up here at this body so when you come up here to support um your initiatives it means a lot to us because it means we have your confidence um in behind a lot of these initiatives so when you show up we greatly appreciate it so I want to just um give you a huge shout out in kudos for being here and and we actually um I believe most of us maybe not all of us but most of us on this body really appreciate your time and we do think um that it absolutely matters that you're you know by just being here your voice matters thank you thank you all right we're going to move on Madam mayor go right ahead we have a bunch of items open at the moment or traffic control the council just voted to allocate six million dollars of art money towards these projects and now the order of battle for the remaining open um items will be C1 which is the adoption uh resolution supporting median term obligation to the Nevada Department of Taxation C2 which is the amendment of The axon Master Services agreement uh that gets our men and women of the police force the tools that they need D2 which is the Improvement of the agreement with forensic logic which is coplink and then D3 which is the approval of the amendment with or the agreement with fuses Madame Erin prepared to make motions I asked to item C1 Madam clerk I move to adopt the resolution dependent upon the approval of financing from the dramatic Department of Taxation I have questions about this Madame mayor that I'd like to ask so you're jumping to a motion and I have questions of our finance department on this um let's see I have a motion already on the table why can second and I have a second from Council on door then I'll send it to you Council on breakfast well this is discussion so it doesn't allow me to ask questions but some of my questions are um one it's showing two funding sources one is the e-911 surcharge fees and one is the general fund the surcharge fee is a fee that goes on everyone's cell phone and then it goes to Washington County to divvy it up it's unclear how much of this 5 million 6 million is going to come from each will we are we you know that's very unclear and this is not a small matter secondly I guess the money's in the bank for the tranche so right here does this eat up the 6 million that we just went with I mean it's there's no ability to ask these questions and without these answered and this laid out I will not support thank you um you have Mr city manager can you please let kind of of course go through this just I just I do want to put on the record that all of us um have access to information questions Consulting Gathering um so kind of I I'm hoping that Miss breakfast gets the information she needs councilmember Ruckus was party to a briefing last week uh where this issue was slated to be discussed the value of the contract with axon is a little more than 11 and a half million dollars the term of the agreement is 10 years so the six million dollars just allocated by the council effectively cuts that contract value in half by paying for half of it up front uh the remaining five and a half million dollars we paid for over over the balance of the life of the contract over 10 years so a little more than half a million dollars a year at present uh the e911 funds pay for this technology um at the at the Reno Police Department and we would sort of be in line we'd be eligible for reimbursement through the e911 board um I'm sure in certain Director Van Buren or chief Soto could add more color to that but presently we do seek and receive reimbursement for this technology through the e911 board um that said we do want to make sure that we take a belts and suspenders approach to such important technological um tools and so if for whatever reason in the future that changed the general fund would be the backup for that technology just the same as the general fund is the backup for the tech all the tools the police department uses very much okay go ahead I'm Gonna Let You know Van Buren Finance I just wanted to to let you know that included in your packet in the staff report it did include the breakdown where the funds were coming from and then there also was included a brief presentation that did explain um council member breckis's points so I if Council wanted to see that it is available um but it was included okay so everyone has that yes everyone on this body has that information yes in the staff report and then in a presentation as well okay thank you and the public right I mean it's out there on the yeah so it's in the public record it's been given to the council I just want to make sure because it sounds like we're not getting all the information when we really are yes okay I just wanted to have it because so here it sounds a little um I'm gonna uncomplicate this a little bit too just for for councilwoman breakfast so for the e911 funding what is um proved through the 9-1-1 board in their master plan is the fleet cameras and the body worn cameras um the only piece that isn't would be the tasers that's a much less significant amount but we do have representation on the e911 board and we do have input and say into what that number is and a great understanding of how it operates Chief Soto or Miss Van Buren if I could because this was the question I asked during my briefings on this issue um look it's pretty Technical and wonky how it's all paid for because you have money coming from different sources and you have some of those monies being paid over a period of time and you have then some of that being repaid right so you've got money in Money out some things happening if we are repaid for monies that we expend through the e911 those just newer back to the benefit of the general fund is that a fair statement that is correct yeah and so um is there a way for the public to understand that although we're paying for a chunk of it up front and then we're paying for a a chunk of it over time in what is defined as a medium-term obligation but not really that way um is there a way for them to understand what the actual cost being expended is over the lifetime of the 10-year period meaning will we get reimbursed dollar for dollar is it a percentage I mean does my question make sense absolutely and I I have about three sizes I'd love to see the three slides because it will explain all of the of this and it's not so much that I'm hopeful that the explanation doesn't match up with what I already understand but I want the public to understand the investment being made and how it's paid for so I'd love to see the three slides Madame mayor is that okay okay sorry absolutely go ahead of course so what we're talking about here is the axon piece of this agreement and that was the bundle piece that Chief Soto was coming up here and talking about not the um forensic logic piece or the fuses Peach fuses piece which was the cop link X so this is just for when we're talking about the medium term obligation the piece that is for the body cameras the dash cameras or the fleet cameras as we call them and then the tasers so in this piece those three items over this 10 years are 11 point a little over 11.5 million dollars and when we look at that one of the things I worked with the police department on was trying to figure out how we can afford this now with given how the economy is how can we ensure that the city is fiscally responsible in doing something that we need to do but also within the restraints that we have and so what we came up with was working with axon we front loaded the contract to have a one-time upfront payment for those items that are not reimbursable by e9114 or even potentially reimbursable and so what what came out of that was that the items that as they are split out from that 11 million dollars of the total contract were 5.6 million dollars of items so that's going to be the one-time upfront payment from the arpa funding that Council just approved after that the balance of that is what you see here for the medium term obligation so the medium term obligation is going to be a little over 5.9 million dollars and this would be the Second Amendment to the master services at agreement and just to give um just a little background to council we we've done these agreements before with axon your police department does have tasers that was the original medium term that we had for them it was a five year when we did it back I believe it was 2018 or so we've done it a number of years ago but now those tasers are at a point where they need to be replaced so we're at a point where we have to figure out what the long term what we're going to do to make a plan for that we also did it once body cameras were mandated we did the same thing over five years again those were paid off we currently have an agreement with axon for the fleet cameras we're in the second year of that agreement by doing this this actually consolidates all three into one and now we're not continuously coming back trying to figure out ways to fund each one independently and so it's a 10-year obligation it's zero percent interest the same as we've done previously the annual payments are around six hundred and five thousand dollars of that we anticipate 528 000 coming from the e91 board and then we have 78 000 approximately from the general fund and in the first year of the payments if you looked at the schedule you'll see we're getting a credit of a hundred and forty four thousand that's because we're consolidating the two agreements that we have right now so we've already paid some into this one agreement because we're in the second year so the first year is going to be at less that 605 000 by that credit that we're getting but the ongoing two through ten years will be 605 000. it's contingent the medium-term obligation it is contingent upon approval by the Department of Taxation so that's why we're bringing this item first before you can actually approve the contract because this is how we would afford the contract the benefits of this um looking for my financial standpoint and looking out as this is a plan for all three of these Technologies and not only these Technologies all the other things that they're getting along with this package the interview and all the other things that the chief talked about we get Replacements on these things body worn cameras replaced every two years the fleet cameras every five the tasers every five right now we don't have a replacement plan as we were doing these individually all along we were just coming back and trying to figure out okay how do we pay form again how do we replace them again how do we get the cartridges needed for the tasers because we're having to maintain those that was not part of the contract how do we get upgrades to the softwares to the cameras and other things once those we buy these items and we pay for them then we didn't have that so those were ongoing costs to our budget where maintenance and keeping things up to date we were having to figure those things out and that's what's so great about this plan over 10 years we know that all the maintenance is included we know the replacement is included we know that we're going to have the best technology out there and we don't have to continue to try to build this into the budget we know what it's going to cost each year as we go along and again I just listed kind of some of the additional things on here that we didn't even have before that are part of this package and having those arpa funds has really enabled us to be able to pay that lump sum up front and then kind of in a way have it budget neutral going out in the future because we do see savings from a number of things like the virtual reality training the unlimited storage in the cloud we have uh that we're currently paying for we have other things such as um the replacement of the cartridges like I said upgraded the softwares the cost to the general fund we'd look at is around seventy thousand dollars each year um and it's more than paid for in the savings that we're going to see going forward so um from a financial standpoint um getting that reimbursement it will be budget neutral and we'll have a 10-year plan for all of these items great thank you so much any other questions yeah I have one um you know we haven't had this e911 funding source for a long time you know it's new we haven't it hasn't weathered a recession um but you're feeling it's pretty stable right absolutely yeah we talked I talked to the Chief and to a number of his deputies about it and they're very close contact with those agencies and what's going on with those um and they recently did increase that fee to a dollar now oh okay and then the next question is I know we're on you know the resolution and I am getting satisfied on the resolution but the contracts D2 and is there a funding out clause if we are not able to be reimbursed by the 911 because the backstop of the general fund makes me nervous I came on in 2012 when the general fund was very hampered and a lot of replacement things Vehicles equipment you know how to go on the sideline and this will jump ahead of all other replacement needs if we're sitting on a medium term so is there a funding out clause for this well I mean we currently have a have a contract in effect with axon if you don't do this we currently have a contract that's for 240 000 a year sure just for the piece for the dash cam so even if you know yeah even if we don't bundle these together we would be obligated to pay that if we did not get reimbursed for it yeah but this doubling in you know you don't have a funding Clause that says we can't get e911 we're not going to go there correct um I yeah okay we would have to replace these items anyway and what we're getting in this package as far as maintenance and ongoing upgrades and things I don't see us being able to fund this any other way at least in the near term and this is just an excellent option that we have at this time okay okay thank you all right councilman breakfast has had two rounds I'm gonna um ask anyone else on this body nope okay well Madame mayor I will say I think councilmember breakfast's question was an important one and I think that Ms Van Buren has answered the financial component to it having now voted to approve it my hope is that we would be unanimous in our vote to approve this motion um I think the questions that you've the presentation answers that question so thank you for that awesome click so I think we have to vote on this so we currently have a motion from council member Reese second from council member door and we're looking for okay so that was the discussion I gave councilman breakfast actually four minutes over so I just want to make sure that we're keeping track so that all other council members have the same amount of time and I um allowed councilman breakfast to have four additional extra minutes so the next round we will tighten it up a little bit so okay I've got a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay Madam mayor as to item Charlie 2 C2 I'm prepared to make a motion please do okay I moved to approve the Second Amendment to the axon Master services and purchasing agreement MSA between acts on Enterprise zinc and the City of Reno in the total amount not to exceed 11 million 545 251.39 contingent upon approval while the department of taxation of the state of Nevada okay second I have a motion from Vice [Music] motion carries unanimously Madam mayor I believe we're on to item D2 for a motion I have a question on this okay yeah so we allocated six million under item D4 or D1 of arpa so these are adding into that six million correct yes so this takes you to then say these are 400 so that's five so 5.4 then was for the I mean it doesn't seem to be adding up to me we have the 5.6 million that went to the access okay and then these 400 and then D2 and D3 do take you to 600. take you to the 6 million and these ones get paid out lump sum correct okay and I'll just say you know one other question and it's it's relevant I think when we finally do have our second tranche discussion and allocation meeting which you know I I thought was going to be on this meeting actually is we have that money in the bank but do is there any provisions in that money that it could get clawed out by an action of Congress because I am concerned about what I'm hearing out there in the world that there are desires in Congress depending upon how the election goes that there will be clawbacks of this money do we have any provisions that money can get clawed back from us we've seen similar conversations out there I do not believe that we are at risk for that because we have plans for the funding as long as we have the plans in place for that funding and we begin begin implementing those plans I believe that we are fine with it we do have a time frame we've received the funds and as long as we are doing our reporting and our planning for those funds I believe that we are okay one good hope so because we're making commitments maybe more importantly we have the money in the bank but I could certainly see a congress say you know you're not going to be eligible for all of these buckets of funds if you don't give back this bucket you know and and I really you know this is maybe for other people in our department to bring forward you know in the agency to bring forward to us about the landscape on this tranche but um I really would like to understand what we're doing with the second tranche and our spend Downs thank you thank you go ahead councilman do her yeah I think um what we just heard is actually the reason we should move forward expeditiously because when you have committed funds um and these are essentially Grant funds they are committed and they are commit we've entered into agreements and those are somewhat in violent the funds that we've not committed are at risk and so that's why I think it's ever more important the the Motions we've made today to expend arpa dollars I think are critical uh to get those resources out expended and the equipment bought and purchased so it puts us in a much better position than if we had not made these motions that we've made so far and I would be supporting the next couple motions as well okay Madame I'm prepared to make a motion on item D2 I moved to approve the three-year contract in the amount of 172 380 with forensic logic LLC to integrate law enforcement databases all right thank you so much I have a motion from vice mayor Reese a second from councilwoman Weber all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed Madam mayor with your permission as to item D3 I'm prepared to make a motion all right please do okay I moved to approve the three-year contract with fuscious LLC in the amount not to exceed 195 thousand dollars all right all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously Madam mayor thank you for your Indulgence in a little bit of um procedural change this morning before we go back to the consent agenda I do want to close a loop for the sake of the record section 15-2 in the axon agreement includes the funding out clause it reads or it is titled by agency under the broader termination heading and it reads the agency is obligated to pay the fees under this agreement as May lawfully be made from funds budgeted and appropriated for that purpose during the agency's then current fiscal year in the event that sufficient funds will not be or are not appropriated or are not otherwise legally available to pay the fees required under this agreement this agreement may be immediately terminated by the agency by providing axon with written notice of this fact the agency may also terminate this agreement including any amendments associated with the agreement for its convenience for any reason or no reason within 30 days written notice to Axon all right thank you for putting that on the record and then we still yeah okay so I want to make sure that we're getting through these because I know that you have a lot of work ahead of you so why don't we um we're not going back to am I right Madam clerk we're not going to go back to consent items right now oh you want a dp4 I think we should yeah I do because then that way yeah and then maybe you are even take the break I'm fine and then after that we'll take a break I just hope I need to leave for just a second I just hope we won't go to a vote on D4 until I can return okay no we won't but when we are finished with that item councilman breakfast we will take a break [Music] back to you thank you madam mayor we're moving on to item D4 which is an approval of contract Amendment presented by Justin George all right I'm going to send it right to you Justin the floor is yours take it away all right good afternoon Madam mayor council members I'm Justin George senior civil engineer for Public Works item D4 before you today is for contract Amendment with plenty of builders for phase two Construction in the amount of 34 million and to extend the contract time for a 2024 completion date with me today are many representatives and supporters from the Reno Police Department and our contractor Palladium builders RPD and chief Soto have expressed the need for a new facility to be able to maintain the level of service our community needs in order to keep the community safe Council has responded by prioritizing Public Safety with the purchase of the old rgj property and awarding phase two of construction I have a short presentation today that will review some of the features of this facility break down some of the construction and phasing details and highlight how the planning and strategy of this Council will provide the citizens of Reno with the safe secure and functional Public Safety Center on the inside what you'll notice is that the public safety center is much larger more efficient and more comfortable than the current station this facility will be the hub for RPD to continue to keep our community safe the photo on the slide is at the lobby it's about 1500 square feet in size which is over three times larger and more functional than the existing station the reception desk was designed to provide more privacy and means and many essential features are right off of the lobby including Bitcoin services private interview and report writing rooms and a large conference room with a multitude of uses the bottom line is this facility will provide a welcoming more comfortable and safe location for the public and is a facility that has been designed for Reno Police Department operations so that they can better serve the community on the outside what you'll notice is a large off Street public parking lot that leads into an inviting public Plaza at the entrance to the building this is indicated in the yellow area shown on this image included in the purple area on this image is enough parking spaces to accommodate not only the sworn officers their marked vehicles but also the civilian staff and volunteers working to serve the public out of this facility just for reference the footprint alone of the existing building shown here is over 30 percent larger than a football field the red dashed line in this image indicates the perimeter fence and a controlled and controlled access gates those together with improved lighting surveillance cameras and clear open sight lines of the site and the parking lots will Aid in keeping the public safety center secured so the space provided will bring many Services Under One Roof including RPD headquarters evidence mobile Outreach safety team senior auxiliary volunteer effort 360 blueprint and victim Advocate volunteer programs to touch on some of the sustainability goals from this project repurposing and reuse of an existing facility and site has diverted some demolition materials from the waste stream and we are saving on construction costs by utilizing the existing structure and infrastructure already in place this project includes updating the lighting plumbing and HBA systems to Modern standards and efficiency we work with the urban Forester and the Project's landscape architect architect to save as much of the existing tree canopy as possible this facility will also include a photopoltaic solar array and battery storage system for redundancy and to offset the electric usage this is under a separate contract an energy performance contract with ameresco and that's that component is not a part of this contract Amendment to wrap up the highlights this project will provide a public safety center that is safe secure and functional so Switching gears I wanted to revisit what phase one includes last year we bid the project and received one responsive bid from plenum builders this was after extending the bidding period by 30 days to gain more interest on the project bid received was higher than our cost estimate and per NRS we were able to negotiate with plenty of Builders to break the project into phases phase one for 19.97 million was awarded using cash funds last October to include interior demolition backbone Plumbing Heating electrical and AC material procurement seismic upgrades structural improvements and site security what these photos show here are some of the foundation and structural upgrades many of the footings have been substantially increased in size cross bracing has been welded in place in a completely new second floor will be added to the East part of the building for evidence storage some fun facts about the amount of materials used to strengthen the structure over 2000 cubic yards of concrete has been poured and for those of you that don't own a yard what a yard of concrete is that's about 200 concrete truckloads approximately 75 tons of structural steel will be added to stiffen the structure and if all the rebar used was laid end to end it would almost complete the McCarran loop and just for reference that's almost 23 miles long phase two is what we're here for today last year we let you know that phase two would be coming back before you after General obligation Bonds were secured those Bonds were secured earlier this year so like every other facet of our life the cost for the construction industry has seen unprecedented increases on average trades the construction trades have seen cost increases around 30 percent for both labor and materials this is attributed to a tight labor market and Supply bottlenecks along with many other contributing factors so phase two will complete construction of the facility for our PD to move in phase two includes the architectural improvements finishing out the plumbing electrical and HVAC do it networked infrastructure evidence locker rooms parking lot Landscaping electric vehicle charging and security and surveillance to give a quick review of the schedule the large Arrow shows where we are today and pending Award of this item will have substantial completion in late spring early summer of 2024. what you'll notice in this slide is that we have two phases of construction prior to this we had this project broken into four phases of construction so this contract Amendment shortens that to only two phases and allows for those phases to overlap saving time in the construction schedule so for example phase one work such as constructing the second floor for evidence in the East part of the building can be completed while plenty of Builder starts phase two to get underway with the building enclosure work and build back of the Interior Furnishings on the west side of the building so the total project cost is approximately 70 million including property purchase design ffne permitting inspection the energy performance contract and phase one and two of construction for Project funding thanks to the generous 5 million dollar donation from the William n Pennington foundation and because of the fiscal responsibility of this Council over the last several years you're able to provide this public safety center to better serve the community to break it down a little more your fiscal responsibility provided 33 million in cash funding the general obligation bonds at a low interest rate provided 31 million the police impact fees from the development Community provided 1 million and the energy performance contract will provide 800 000 from investment tax credits for the inflammation implementation of the solar system at this facility that concludes my presentation thank you for your time all right thank you so much okay I'm gonna bring it back to the body councilman breakfast three minutes three minutes for 33 million dollar contract so questions I I do have an number of questions I guess I'll start with you as the technical staff is you kind of referenced it we we did have four phases on this and now we bundle them to two I'm getting concerned about cost I've always been concerned about costs I did not support this initially because under my world view um the pool was first as our most major Capital Improvement um plan and then this one more or less leaped up leaped ahead of it even though the need is as significant as the pool um but you know were jurisdiction that's still recovering from the great layoffs of over a decade ago and we all know that in terms of per capita stopping levels so uh caution is warranted in my view so why are we bundling three and four which I think were shown as architectural and for dispatch and evidence can we cost save this in any way and put those off for another day like we discussed before um I think if if we're able to bundle everything together we get prices we have today moving that off to the Future there's there's no knowing what it's going to do and if we break it out into more phases we're adding time to that schedule and adding time to a construction schedule means cost we've got to pay for contractor to be on site we've got to pay for their insurance and bonding and all their other fees which adding time and phases to a project increases the complexity and and yeah but the answer I have in the last Miss Van Buren is when the council embarked upon this this was not a 70 million dollar project in the near term and we didn't have the seismic retrofit going which is a cost that's getting pretty major and the pool was not up at the number we're at so I am getting really nervous on this um Miss Van Buren he had on his um and thank you he had could you go back to the one with all the the cost makeup um those the Geo Bond that's the PD you're marked of the 65 million correct Vicki Van Buren for the record Director of Finance yes the 31 million is the general obligation Bond that's the portion from the 60 million dollars that we received in July you received the all the bond proceeds in July correct okay and is there ability to roll those all over to the pool and then use for example arpa money on this extension I mean is there is there how how are those Bond covenants written are they exclusive to the two projects this is this is the anticipated use of the funds in the bond when we applied for the bond itself we had 31 million for the public safety center 28 for the pool or 27 I think it's 27 for the pool and then 2 million for the planning and design of the fire headquarters if we needed to deviate from that I believe that we probably could um but it would just be you know very slight because we've already set into motion that this is how the funding was intended okay thank you it might be helpful actually if I could intervene go right ahead to have Mr George uh or or director Koski discuss sort of the specific construction aspects that are unique to dispatch and evidence because they are effectively buildings within a building and so it it's it's it would be extremely difficult to get the station up and operational and then come back through and retrofit those facilities into the structure yeah Justin George senior civil engineer Public Works um the let's start with the evidence um with evidence in this building in the East part of the building that's the old Warehouse where our GJ printed their papers distributed and everything it's a big open single story warehouse and for evidence specifically we're building a complete new second floor and what that second floor gets them is the space that they need to store all the evidence they're going to have a processing center and select storage down on the first level but for us to construct a project and get it functional and operational also back in that warehouse is the locker rooms so for us to build the public safety center without completing that second floor in the warehouse it's going to be an operational challenge to build a second floor in a building that's functioning with locker rooms and storage and processing on the first floor so that needs to get in and and it's it's best to get it in and built when the project is underway everything's opened up and we're not trying to operate out of it for the dispatch component of that dispatch has their own requirements it's a building within a building they've got additional fire ratings for the wall they've got to have their own dedicated electric HVAC and Lighting systems separate from the rest of the building so again to construct a building and start operating out of it and then to come back later would be disruptive to the facility overall so it's it's it reduces that cup complexity and the interruptions to the surrounding offices and areas to construct evidence and dispatch right now while everything's opened up before it's occupied city um we're in October three years ten months good for you um may or may not know the but when was the last time the city invested in new building construction for the Reno Police Department well before my time what what was that do you have any idea and I would imagine Miss Koski you probably know when when Gary Koski your director of Public Works and your city engineer um when was this building built Justin in 1947. so last time that's the last time that we built a new facility now we've we have done some improvements along the way um but the facility itself nothing for the I don't know if people realize I was there like last week and we have officers working out of jail cells yeah and literally I mean it is falling apart at the seams yes yes so 1947 I just want people that know on the record the last time there was any infrastructure built for the Reno Police Department was in 1947. great great go ahead uh councilman thank you madam mayor um look I I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about the award one members thoughts about how we funded it because we've already made those votes we've said we're going to fund it I understand that there may be a disagreement by the ward one member about whether it should have been Pago whether we should have issued bonds we have had that debate in that fight it is unnecessary to go over it I will say and Miss Van Buren can certainly back me up this is an exciting project because it's sort of taken the best of all of those opportunities we paid 33 million in cash we had a significant outside contribution without which we would not be in the position to do what we have to do and we have taken the opportunity to use a debt instrument to make it happen and so I think that is really the best way to be fiscally responsible is to consider your opportunity cost think about the value and of interest and money and how it's used and spent this Council has I think spent almost all of its entire time in the last 10 years paying down debt because that was what was in front of this Council and this body now because we're in a different position and we have different opportunities and different opportunity costs we've made the decision to invest in our police Public Safety Center because we know that for the next hundred years they will need a home which they can be successful in and which can provide Public Safety resources to this community and so the idea that we have been somehow financially on sound or that we're not doing the right thing I think that's anathema the issue before today is the increase in cost so perhaps I want to focus on that right because we've already made the decision as a body nearly unanimously to move forward with building this building and we will do it plenum is a great partner they have been an outstanding partner with us they have helped us along the way to engineer the building and to make changes and to them I say you know thank you very much for that I will say that for my part no one anticipated the cost of Labor and materials and supply chain economics to be what they are I have the privilege to sit on the capital funds project subcommittee for the school district they face equally the same challenges right on a much larger scale quite frankly because they're building hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new facilities and they're having to make choices and similarly here we are making a choice about the increase in cost for this facility and while no one wants to spend more than we had originally thought we might and no one wants to figure out the ways in which we will make those decisions here we are we have to make the decision uh certainly we're not going to pay for it in a different vehicle uh taking money you know robbing Peter to pay Paul in some weird scenario where arpa funds get eliminated from consideration but we have some obligations to meet I think we can do that Miss Van Buren has provided the path for us financially that is the way to go and so I'll be excited to approve this second amended contract when the kind that comes okay thank you so much um councilwoman Taylor and then for uh just keeping us on track Madame clerk I believe councilwoman breakfast has already had two rounds no I've only had one okay and you have hands up on the other side of you too go ahead thank you madam Mary um I appreciate your patience with me colleagues as I asked some questions because I wasn't here before but um I think I'm gonna just start with Carrie if you don't mind thank you for the presentation and I have been into the existing building and it is scary to say the least and I think we might be able to make some haunted houses out of it or something for the next go around to make some money off it is it's very scary um so I'm excited about this I just have a couple of questions when I look at this I think of scope schedule and budget so the scope um is there anything that we can do to try and get this cost down as far as you know rebids start over what did your team look at as far as the scope of the project and the schedule what is your confidence level of this 2024 and how do we maintain that I know we have a good building partner we only received one bid that's sort of telling honestly everybody knows the costs have gone up so if you could just talk to me a little bit about the options that we you may have thought about and why this is the best path forward in consideration of scope schedule budget please sure Kiri Koski your director of Public Works in city engineer we did we did look at Alternatives what would happen if we put this out to Beta again we looked at that we looked at the risk obviously you just mentioned we only got one bid and quite frankly um it was very difficult to get the one bit um we looked at the when you talk about scope what could we what could we do to decrease the scope or what could we do to Value engineer so Justin and I and um the plenum team have spent the last three months combing through contracts the value engineering proposals we've looked at everything that we could possibly look at in order to reduce cost so I with much confidence and bringing this to you today to say we have done our due diligence I think there is a large amount of risk for the city if we do not continue on this path and as far as schedule goes I feel very confident that we can meet this schedule I feel confident because of the the um the ideas that Mr George has put forward with the phasing plan of overlapping things so we can actually start to get get started on some things on phase two that we wouldn't have had the ability to if we delayed that as well so does that answer your question yes thank you very much and thank you for the presentation I would never be in favor for the most part of delaying Construction in order to save money that usually does not work thank you okay um did you have your hand up councilman Weber you okay councilman you're right just uh drinking okay just let us know we'll come over I'm like okay councilman Weber did you have your no okay all right I'm gonna ask a question for um and and because I think you know we see it on a little different level and this would be for chief Soto I would love for you to talk a little bit about the challenges with where you're at with evidence right like that's an issue but the other thing talk a little bit about the things that we don't see that I mean you guys know it's you know to every single detail in that building but also parking and then the other issue that I see because you know all of our jobs actually have become in increasingly um a bit more volatile and I think one of the things that is really important with this project is the amount of security that we can Implement versus what we have now and I because I think potentially certain rules or targets police stations are targets Fire Department stations or targets those kinds of things so can you talk a little bit about maybe the things that we don't see and why this is so critical just on some of that level because we talk about how far we are behind in investing with the infrastructure of our Reno Police Department but talk a little bit about the things that make it incredibly challenging because I I don't think we even know yes for the record Reno Police Chief Jason Soto thank you for the question mayor um a lot of different answers there evidence has been extremely difficult for the Reno Police Department it is dotted throughout the city in terms of how and where we store these uh our evidence for cases that go back a long long time with the capabilities of this new station we can bring it all Under One Roof goes back to what we were talking about earlier about being more efficient as a police department we spent a lot of time in the pre-planning of this with Carrie and her team developers experts on police stations and we really came up with what we felt was a perfect location we are centrally located Police Department we wanted to be able to deliver the same or better levels of service so the location of it was fantastic the size is you know I think all of you have taken a tour of the Reno Police Department you understand the limited capacity we have for space it is really really small really tight in there it's very anti Antiquated outdated there's some unsafe areas several times we've had to close half of our department for asbestos cleanup things like that because it was built so long ago and there weren't regulations in place the safety of this new building the structure of this new building some of the Milestones that we had to complete or that Kerry's team had to complete and make sure we're in place for things like natural disasters floods earthquakes the Outer Perimeter all of the security pieces put into place extremely important parking space right now to go downtown and file a police report is not an easy thing to do because you don't know where you're going to park you don't know how you're going to get there and then sometimes you walk out you don't know where you're at because it's confusing it's a very small tight little maze in there this has all the parking right out front as you saw on the slide a huge open Lobby we are a forward-facing police department we're victim-centered approached we have spaces and capacity for victims of crimes that are very delicate in nature rooms to where we can have conversations things that lead into like winter our facility dog our victim Advocates um all of our Advocates all of our community we have a community room to where we can share information with our community we have the ability to have a real-time Intelligence Center for uh all of the evidence all of the different all under one-time Intelligence Center yeah so it's just right there everything all these technologies that we were talking about today blend right into that so we have it real time and we have data coming into us the second it's occurring hugely important and makes us safer makes us quicker makes our community safer okay how big is your lobby about as big as this bathroom back here I'm gonna say I don't know 300 square feet 200 square feet pretty small 200 square feet 200 like literally maybe from here to there when that department was built in 1947 we had less than 50 employees on the entire place and I've watched where you literally have victims that come in and they have to be taken outside because they can't be in that Lobby because they have they're dealing with sensitive situations and I want to remind because there's only one other person on this body that um was elected whenever I was and that's councilwoman breakfast and I remember very early on and I know um well maybe you do and maybe you don't councilman breakfast but it was the first year that we were in office and chief Pitts was our chief at the time and they came to us with a proposal and at that time the council couldn't do anything because of financial reasons and we had to literally for the last several years make sure we were being financially responsible so that we could put our priorities in line and we knew sort of where we were going I didn't think we would ever see it till this day but your leadership and the tremendous team that we have here in Koski from you know Finance to every aspect I have to tell you is phenomenal it's absolutely truly phenomenal and it's really hard to believe that we're actually here and we're so lucky because there are so many things that have come together that we wouldn't have had the opportunity and so it really speaks volumes about the talent at the City of Reno it's amazing that I'm sitting here in the gallery today watching this presentation and you're right we have attempted this many times in the past we have realized a need for a bigger space a more efficient space several times in the past we weren't able to make the numbers work we weren't able to get it penciled out but with this council with our city manager's office all the different teams of the Pennington Foundation all the community that's come together plenty of Builders you know and a lot of people that put a lot of their own time into this project to make all of this happen it wasn't just our elected officials myself the Regional Police Department a lot of community members step forward and really made a push to you know the Perry de loretto's General bath Norm Deanda who you know Bob Cashel a lot of these people that came together and said how do we do this this Vision that has been in the in the process or the works now for 40 years is finally coming to fruition we are at the finish line and I'm very very grateful Madam mayor um just incredible to see because I do think that this Council has been so um so fiscally conservative and it has been painful at times and so here we are with the opportunity to finally get it done all right I think excuse me I think I can speak now thank you um you know we in in thinking about this you just brought us back to the history so I wanted to just talk about the recent history the the history that happened from the time you mentioned since we got elected to today um we looked at every option we looked at space that properties that the city owned we looked at other people's buildings we looked everywhere I mean I was toured so many properties and places what about this one how would this work when we came upon this as an option it just seemed to fit check all the boxes it's not perfect but one of the amazing things about it is that we're taking a building that has been in our community for quite some time itself and we are Reinventing that building with today's technology and in term with an overlay of sustainability in every single aspect of the building so I think what it really is doing is it is taking um we are putting our words into actions we say we care about sustainability reuse recycle saving trees you mentioned but we're all not only saving trees but we're looking at recycling the materials that were used we're adding features such as solar we are putting in a photovoltaic batteries you know to to store and and provide that backup generation we're taking such a big step forward it's very similar to what we did with the software and equipment we are bringing our building and Facilities into this 20 21st century kind of time period IQ toward the police station when I first got on I and many times since and every time I go there I am astonished that people are still sitting in jail cells doing work police work that and of course A lot of it has become storage as well you got to put all that stuff somewhere the fact that we've had evidence separate the fact that you now have a forensics unit and it's a question you know where does that co-locate we have dispatch what your vision and the pre our predecessor's vision is bringing that all together Under One Roof and I want to just speak a moment several people have referenced the finance issues and I'm chair of the debt management commission for Washoe County and I have been for the last six years and everyone who spoke before me is right we have struggled so hard to deal with debt that was taken on by previous councils it's not not just that it was debt but how the debt was structured very high interest rates adjustable interest rates so that if you could not get out from under that debt until our finance folks came in with very creative ways to refinance a debt and put it down into fixed instruments that were at very low interest rates and that is you know it's been very um it's been challenging it's been hard we've had to forgo a lot of things we wanted to do not build a Moana pool for seven years later not get to the police station we've had to have fiscal discipline those were my grandmother's words to me and I live by them and I guess that's why I'm chair of the debt management Commission because they're relying on us to make sure that we're doing something fiscally responsible and I guess I wanted to just I don't see Vicki here but I believe the these debt levels are in the when you actually sold the bonds in in July you know to come in July I think I don't even want to speculate what was the final interest rate I don't know Vicki Van Buren for the record Director of Finance the final rate was right and that's what I thought it was so that is way different than the eight percent and uh ten percent the adjustable rates that we inherited I mean and this is good for the long term so I just want to commend our finance staff for what they've done to get us here today and these very fiscally responsible bonds and to be able to take this step on our watch and while you're still here while many of the folks in the back are here to see this happen I think is rather remarkable so thank you madam mayor all right thank you councilman Weber go ahead and then we're going to start on our second round thank you I just wanted to remind us of a few things and one of them is is during this time we went through the pandemic and that has created a lot of a lot of issues going on and the Commodities and the prices of everything has gone up and through all of this it was kept on working kept on getting things done so I just want to say I really truly support moving forward I've been very supportive from the very beginning and um we we can't have we can't have that old building it needs to go away and soon so we need to keep working and thank you so much to all of you that have contributed to moving this forward keep moving we got to keep moving and make this happen but the pandemic had a big bullet here and into uh the the situation and I I just appreciate that we kept on moving thank you all right thank you sorry vice mayor I think I skipped over you go ahead oh no I I have no shortage of opinions no no worries there uh Chief Soto and maybe Mr George you may have to answer his question but I think Chief soda as you know um in my other life I represent police officer Statewide oftentimes in the most difficult moments of their career which are officer-involved shootings a week ago about three in the morning I got a phone call and I had to go out to the Sparks Police Department where a suspect had hidden in the bushes at the police department and then um unfortunately discharged the firearm and and really was uh up to no good and we'll leave it at that for now but my question is related to something you mentioned earlier about um the safety of this facility as it relates to our police officers conducting their job tasks in that facility so have we I don't know do we use National experts do we use Mr George's expertise plenum's expertise to ensure that when our officers are in that facility that they are safe from the kinds of things that we experience just here in Sparks a week ago I I recall Chief Crawford even saying you know there were some trees that were going to have to come down in front of the the police station over there because the suspect hid in those trees and so I want to just make sure that we flag the issue and you feel confident given that you raise the issue to begin with thank you for the question I think we can probably both answer this to an extent for the record renal police chief Jason Soto a lot of time and efforts went into the safety of this building to include things like bulletproof bulletproof glass throughout and the design and the line of sight all the things that are important to us as the Reno Police Department not only did we look at it but we consulted with experts I know that Carrie and Mr George and his team all did the you know did our due diligence to make sure that it is an extremely extremely safe location much safer than the one we have today all right councilman breakfast yeah um you know one question um is about the evidence because we are fast forwarding evidence and dispatch into phase two whereas they were usually out there and you know there's operational issues is Chief you said evidence was all going to be in one area we usually have a lot of um like vehicles and evidence are you gonna be able to get you know all the vehicles into that yard for evidence that we have or will we have to have continue to have like a remote yard somewhere well thank you for the question for the record room police Chiefs Chief Jason Soto the we've actually changed some of our policies councilwoman breakfast on storage of evidence vehicles we've eliminated a lot of that storage space need because of some of the equipment and technologies that we now have in place okay to to process those vehicles and then release them or move them to either back to the rifle owner or to a junkyard or wherever it is that they're going to be we do have a lot of additional space I'm sure that as we continue to grow at the rate that we are that is always going to be a challenge but I think the important piece of this forensic portion of our station is all of the itemized type evidence you know that we come across in our profession we can have it all there categorized we don't have to take trips back and forth from here to different locations to gather that evidence for a trial or a case yeah or things of that it's it's all right there again increasing our our ability to do our job better and more efficiently yeah I appreciate that and um that's interesting about the vehicle evidence you know maybe that's something came out of the cpsm study maybe it's technology I don't know I'll leave it there I'll go refer it to it as I had the one that we did before but the dispatch is causing me a little bit of concern because I always hear and we had a special meeting this year this summer fix dispatch fix dispatch we have other people at the table in dispatch we're up there co-located with the county and for me the fact that we're building dispatch now there really makes me understand you know the operational considerations but here we are talking about a building but not operations of dispatch which had been an issue for 10 years so um what is going on with moving dispatch why are we moving dispatch what are we leaving behind with dispatch who are we dispatching who are we inviting to join us in dispatch well dispatch is now under the oversight of assistant city manager JW Hodge but I think I can answer some of those questions and some of the importance of dispatch in our current space where we are located up at Parr Boulevard again it comes down to space I think that when you have dispatch within your Police Department you are getting real-time information and an example that I like to give for real-time information in terms of dispatches when we had the Montage shooting downtown there was a lot of moving parts and a lot of back and forth trying to organize through what was a very critical incident and there were time delays on all of that information when you have a real-time center it's right there and we can transfer that that information effortlessly because it's coming in and we're hearing it not only on the dispatch side of the house but on the sworn side of the house Chief would you also extrapolate a little bit on sort of the lack of a better way of describing it the theory that you know two is one one is not and having space for dispatch and more than one location is operationally important yes having a co-location for dispatch is something that we have been trying to achieve here at the City of Reno for decades oftentimes technology fails us and one Center or another will go down or in the case of some type of catastrophe we have co-locations for dispatch so we have the capabil we will have the capabilities of the Reno Police Department will have the capabilities up on the hill and that's really important to have in fact it's something that we're required to have in place so this eliminates that that challenge and it again it makes us safer thank you so much okay and go ahead yeah well I'd love to make a motion on this item if we're ready for that um further questions from the body saying that they're not I'm going to send it right back okay well it's a great honor I would love to move to approve the contract to amend um the contract amendment to plenty of builders for the public safety center phase two and the amount of 34 million dollars and to extend the contract time for completion of phase two second all right I have a motion and I a second any discussion go ahead councilwoman breakfast one minute one minute thank you um I am not going to support I wanted to support this um because the bonds are in place the money in theory is in place it was not money that I wanted to in debt you know the general fund with but I have two concerns one is the project is expanding and I'm not entirely sure that it's not time to skinny up the project rather than extend it certainly with a tough bidding world out there but this dispatch component causes me a lot of concern it was always out there and I just don't understand and I don't believe that function a building should drive operations I just heard that assistant city manager has dispatched for under them at the same time I heard that dispatch needs to co-locate well that wasn't 10 12 years ago when we did a 1-8 sales tax for this region for Public Safety and built that and also you know there's a lot about dispatch that's non-pd you know I hear I hear a lot of chatter we want to consolidate fire we're going to consolidate fire dispatch out of the Reno PD I'm concerned about this dispatch moving forward without the operations on in comparison to the budget the budget is not making Madame mayor can I just have three more seconds maybe five ten the budget is not to the point where I'm feeling like oh boy I'm looking at North Las Vegas city hall during the depths of the recession but it is starting to kind of give me concern in concert with a seismic retrofit and a pool coming down these are big big commitments to the general fund that the City of Reno has taken on in addition to you know labor but um I won't be supporting this thank you thank you so much um go ahead uh vice mayor Reese thank you mad mayor I just want to uh perhaps comment about the dispatch issue look there's a lot of unknowns in the dispatch space because they're currently being discussed regionally but we know we have to have more than one facility which was your answer Chief Soto but also I asked Miss Koski too like is it mean that we're going to design a space that can never be used for anything else if all of a sudden we don't use it for dispatch the answer of course is no the building is going to have some flexibility to it it's going to be built to a standard that allows us to change over the next hundred years we're not going to put people into uh you know jail cells and ask them to do the work the space can change over time and so it's a red herring to talk about dispatch it really is at the end of the day we've approved the funding mechanisms there is a cost to override I understand where it's coming from I'm supportive of the efforts to make this a police station and a public safety center that will be something you can call home for the next hundred years thank you [Laughter] um you're fine too okay with the hand sanitizer okay all right so I had a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed post motion carries and I'm I'm so um I can't even believe you know this is so Monumental today to be honest with you and a cute photo into the men I even just got chills from the hole please be incredibly proud this is your new home and I also think it speaks volumes about the new direction that the Reno Police Department will go in to especially being Innovative and into the future so uh and it only happens because um all of your hard work so I want to say thank you so much I'm incredibly proud so give [Applause] sorry okay for the vote against police yes we're going to take a break yeah I'm going to send it back to you madam clerk I need everyone to get up go to the bathroom eat something get ready we still have a lot of work left to do so we are going to come back it's now let's just say it's 1 15 it's 10 after one but let's say 1 15 we'll be back at 2 2 15 2 15. 215. we will reconvene at 2 15. thank you okay all right Madame mayor if you are ready we can go ahead and read can be in this meeting okay so we're reconvening at 228 all numbers are present and we're going to open item B8 as pulled by council member breckis foreign you know I wouldn't mind a um presentation wait wait this is B8 I thought you had other one but I thought I also asked for B2 B3 and B4 to people because of staff that we have in the room we're trying to get people back to work so we're going to open item B8 first sure we had a lot of RPD away from their desks today so um this is a con an interlocal which I think is the first step to an agreement with this non-profit um 360 blueprint um I asked for the blueprint contract and that didn't come from the clerk I think I just got the invoices but we paid about a million dollars um with this you know 360 blueprint in the last I don't know did I ask for five years five years um so how is the you don't have a fiscal note on this but how does this um how is this budgeted for when you bring forward that 360 blueprint contract well thank you for the question uh Oliver Miller deputy chief Reno Police Department for the record that's where we teach so this 360 blueprint is a little bit different than what we had before uh the 360 blueprint program was actually established back in 2013 and we ran that for a number of years until the pandemic and then it went by the wayside we weren't able to get into schools to do mentorship with children anymore so what we brought back is an agreement or an interlocal agreement that's much less comprehensive there is no more portion of the agreement that really outlines the churches being involved this is just a simple agreement between the Reno Police Department and the Washoe County School District what we're going to be doing is taking five police officers on overtime five hours a week and five of our at-risk schools doing mentorship and that is reading programs Etc there will be no office staff or facilities or anything like that with this current program and its current iteration well I thought as recently the last two or three months on the accounts payable we've been paying about ten thousand dollars on invoices to this 360 blueprint vendor not that I'm aware of and it's no vendor there's no 501 C3 yeah there's no 501c3 that's uh affiliated with it anymore 360 blueprint is the name of the program and who owns the name of that program would be the Reno Police Department where it was developed and it was developed by a former Reno police officer it was developed by one of our former volunteers and a police officer it would be Pastor Nate Dupree as well as Master detective Jerry Bowden and are they still um are they so um Mr bowden's still a member of the Reno Police Department yes he's still one of our sworn members and we're not he's not a contractor to us through this 360 blueprint is he no he's not he is working on his regular hours he is the coordinator of the program working that collaterally so he's an employee of the Reno Police Department we are not Contracting with him or any other entity and the other entity was this Nate Dupree does he have relatives in the Reno Police Department no okay so we're not we're not anticipating any sort of contract to come forward next and we don't we're not going to operate this agreement under our existing contract with this 360 um this vendor correct no we are not operating under the old guidelines of you know a 360 blueprint board because we had expanded to include the DA's office as volunteers the Sparks police department and a number of other volunteer groups that would come and help us in this effort now it's going to be just the Reno Police Department and the Washoe County School District just one other question are you saying that we have not been paying someone in under a contractual arrangement with a 360 blueprint over the last say year if you would prefer it looks like your city attorney's on zoom and would like to answer the question on your behalf if you'd like please yes please uh hello everyone this is Rob Boney with the Reno City attorney's office and council member breckis this agreement terminates the previous agreement regarding 360 blueprint and as deputy chief Miller has indicated it's now a scaled back program strictly between the school district and RPD how to I don't see where how an interlocal agreement with another political subdivision in the state of Nevada cancels a contractual relationship we have with a third party I I didn't see that in the that the previous 360 blueprint and I'll have officer or deputy chief Miller chime in I believe that program was terminated was it not it absolutely was it was all right so thank you council member records I think I could be wrong but are are you thinking of the blue cover six platform maybe I think you're thinking of something else this is where you read to Children we've it's been around for a long time I don't even remember us giving them money like it might be Council does like with our contingency funds but I don't think we've ever invested in 360 blueprint no you're exactly right Madam mayor uh which we should because it's an incredible program there were a number of donations over the years to this program but uh confused to Mr thornley's Point manager thornley's point I think uh you're exactly correct the blue cover 6 program speaks to Innovation and a number of agreements that we've got with bluecover six uh similar name but different program well I do see here an account payable too I'm going to move on really quick two 360 blueprint is a PD donation councilman Reese of five thousand dollars you met a mayor um just for uh disclosure and I had to sort of dust off my memory banks some years ago my Law Firm did the incorporation for 360 blueprint as an organization and so I'm going to abstain from the vote on this although I support the um the action I I don't have any knowledge of that entity and certainly I'm not affiliated with any way but I did check the silver Flume State registration and so I just want the public to know that I will not be voting on the item right thank you so much okay all right that being said any other questions councilman Breck is three minutes yeah I mean I am seeing a fair amount and I I do agree that the the blue cover one is different and that that's like a computer program correct a number of different programs yes okay and that's unrelated to this but it does look like at least in 18 we paid a five thousand dollar police donation I don't know where police has donation funds too but maybe it's because it's a non-profit but um I guess I will accept the answers that you're saying right now that we're not uh don't have an Associated contract with this there was not a fiscal discussion by Finance because there is no fiscal so I can accept that and thank you all right thank you thank you any anything else no um I just want to say anyone that knows this program it is phenomenal and they usually have a really big event to raise money every year but I think that they haven't been able to have it for a while obviously because of covet and and they always struggle for funding and this program is so great for many reasons because children get really familiar with law enforcement at early ages so that they build sort of relationships but even more so they teach them how to read um you know at early ages and that is so incredibly critical and I think gratifying on both sides but now more than ever especially when teachers are so strained for resources that the fact that the Reno Police Department goes into our schools and and donates their time this is it's an incredible program but very commendable well just a quick comment it's more than establishing relationships with the students the parents that we wouldn't ordinarily have contact with the faculty and staff our cops are out there doing crime prevention through environmental design around the schools and that is taking away the abandoned cars graffiti and other nuisance issues in the areas to make the school better for all the children and the parents that come to visit so and I would even argue that actually we should fund this program and I'll tell you why because really this is the core of community policing and I know that they they struggle every year to get every single Dollar in dime to do that and we could be buying books and things of that nature so thank you so much Chief we've come this far would you spend just a minute sort of talking about how the program um was sort of paused because of the pandemic we're starting to back up again at its base this agreement that that you're presenting on is essentially a facilities use agreement where we're going to send some police officers over to identified spaces and then of course you know there's more to it than just your time in this facility and that's where you know five thousand dollars here five thousand that was there comes into play in terms of adequately resourcing this this program so it can be successful absolutely so getting into the schools and and thank you Mr manager for that uh it is an agreement for us to be in their schools uh we have five participating schools and for those of you don't know it's Mount Rose Elementary Dorothy lemelson Elementary Rita Cannon Elementary Glenn Duncan Elementary and Hunter Link Elementary the other part of the agreement is uh waiver for the parents and the children to be actually participative in the program itself some of the things that are important to us is we see reductions in all types of behaviors that you know we're looking to actually reduce through mentoring and what it means for mentorship for us is exactly our our police officers participating in reading programs with these kids actually spending time with them out on the playground and or during social activities I just have a couple of stats here that I think are important to note 46 set more less likely to use illegal drugs if you have a mentor 27 percent less likely to use alcohol 52 percent less likely to skip school 76 percent of at-risk students who have a mentor are more likely to enroll and graduate from college which is incredible and we know that you know literacy has a direct correlation with you know reducing incarceration risks later on in life so lots of benefits lots of positives to this and I appreciate the question thank you ah great great job okay any other questions seeing that there are none uh councilman dork give me a motion um I'd like to approve item B8 thank you so much I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed emotion Kerry thank you thank you so much okay where are we going next Mr city manager okay it's sending it right back to councilman Ruckus yeah um you know I want mine a little bit of an update on this um but I'll preface by saying this is something the council launched back in nineteen I think it's outside of our regular audit schedules but I haven't seen you know the first I heard I think of this um was this uh acceptance um and I I don't know if we got a you know a report we usually get reports from our audits I don't recall that but one question I had is it looks like this money's already been paid in accepted by the counts by the city two thousand four hundred and one thousand dollars but when I add up what the audit says we're entitled to it's well north of that it's over three million dollars and there was not any explanation in the staff report why we um you know when maybe we renegotiated it looked like it was a finality demand letter we made um or our people made you know on our behalf a demand letter of this much and then what the report says is far less than that and there wasn't a reference to the stop report why we accepted less so that's really the Crux of what I'm looking for okay great um so the total uh for this external audit uh franchise fees of telephone is coming in at 2.4 million dollars so I'm here to say it's a good day we did recover those underreported business tax excuse me business license taxes and the penalty fees associated with that because it was initiated back in 2019 when the world was a different place it's taken a while to get to where we are today with the final reports from at T one of the attachments you'll find in your binder is the at T settlement payment which does detailed the the difference in the penalty calculation and that's why the main a report does have a higher number initially after that report was issued we did talk with at T and and work towards a place of acceptance on both sides so that's kind of where we are now and all those documents are in your packet well what about the rationale council member Becka says that that period 16 to 9 the money itself would have been impossible to recover if we were engaged in some sort of legal action and so the penalty is similarly impossible to recover okay just putting stuff like that in the staff report is really helpful you know especially since our briefings come before we have the packet you know but what about Nevada bell and you said that was that was ATT that's paid that but what about Nevada's Bell 372 000 Charters 109 000. I'm sorry what is your question well did we also get money from Charter in Nevada bell yes yes they paid full amount I have a visual here okay those came in in 2020 and 2021 respectively so the time was quite a bit different uh we we just had a hard time getting um that final vendor um on board with uh with their documentation so so the Orange is Nevada bell they paid the full amount correct Charter is the blue they paid their full amount and ATT got a got a A two point got a 900 000 Break um because the amount owes with two million eight hundred and twenty four thousand and 858 thousand dollars that's correct okay so they got a nine hundred thousand dollar break and then how did we pay our vendor of flat fee oh okay so we've they're already paid and accounted for yes absolutely that's um that's a great Point um this vendor cost was uh fifty thousand dollars okay Roi on this project is quite High okay I'm hoping to do similar external audits of franchisees in the future okay so I'm gonna okay sorry I'm gonna move on so that everyone gets an opportunity the same amount of time uh vice mayor you are up on my screen I'm gonna try really hard for Madame clerk to get this right well I think unfortunately I may have been testing it for Madam clerk to help me understand whether we were able to click out of it we're still beta testing it but miss kid thank you so much um the audit function is um an important one but sometimes overlooked it's just that in the scope of the things that we do in this building uh it can be dizzying the pace of it so sometimes the audit function does not get the highlight it needs and in this case I just want to say thank you for doing the work and working through the complexities of it but because that means you're safeguarding our resources right the audits here revealed some underpayments essentially and with regard to the nature of whether we collected the full boat or less than these are sometimes typical questions too because as Mr manager said for one of the audit periods that we're looking at we know that we missed entirely the statue of limitations for them we would have recovered zero dollars but I think it's a good thing that we are we have been able to navigate that all three of these entities work very hard to provide service to do the right thing none of them are trying to Chisel their customers or us and so it's often that collaborative effort that goes a long way towards recovering those fees when quite frankly you know they could have said pound sand you're not getting anything right and so it's always a good thing a good day when you're recovering money on behalf of the city so thank you for that and Miss kid for the record will you state your name and title oh my apologies thank you madam clerk for the record Emily Kidd internal auditor here at the City of Reno okay no introduction needed just for the record all right any other council members seeing their non-councilman breakfast yeah you know I am not going to make a motion in support of this and I'll tell you why um I I am so strongly supportive of the audit function it's one that I work to restore when I came on in 2012. I know this is a little bit outside of it but it's more a vote of inspiring people to be a little more complete in their staff reports because you know this nine hundred thousand dollar discount rate that one of these people one of these you know the large one got but the others didn't and without that being out there in the staff report and I had to kind of do it by doing long math here on my notes I don't think is very transparent I think we needed to say what maybe the manager just verbally said and and so my vote on this nine hundred thousand dollar break is um it's just more on let's get that information up and forward I'm I'm a little disappointed but I also happy that um you know we got you know we got a good Roi on this but I am disappointed that that information and the 900 000 break that I think is material was not detail to us thank you okay move to approve staff recommendation oh [Music] so I do want to say though um I think that's good feedback the disappointment though should be directed to me I have final say over what goes into the staff reports and I approve the staff report this way and in fact edited the staff report um in a couple of ways so I don't remember exactly what those what the draft said but we did have a conversation and I made a conscious choice to bring this to your attention at the meeting rather than through the staff report okay that's not that should not be disappointment directed at the auditor thank you so much so the other thing I do want to put in here because I I really hate to look at staff reports and be like oh that's it one of the things that we do have access here constantly is that we can reach out to any of you at any time typically whether it's through email or pick up a phone and so sometimes I think too we get so used to sort of government speak and so I think in staff reports they tend to be a little redundant but I thought your staff report was just fine and again I'm just going to encourage all council members to reach out to our staff because you also have them as a resource and backstory and things like that and I know a lot of you guys get pre-briefed uh you get your pre-briefing so you can always ask those questions during pre-briefing as well so I just want to put that out there so I have a motion from vice mayor Reese I believe it was a second from uh councilwoman Weber then yeah I think you did okay all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed post motion carries thank you okay the other thing I was just going to ask my colleagues if you could when you want to speak let's try using your monitor you you have yours councilman I did already once today okay and I'm gonna whack it there might be some functionality issue because when you try and go again it's not clearing out okay so and also we're not I can't eyeball what you've got down here you know so okay but I will try and I'm yeah I can raise my hand away too if you can just try and if it's not happening then just wave your hand I want to just try to get sort of this system down and then after they speak then what happens I will remove them from the queue and then they can re-raise their hand at that point okay so you have to remove it we can't move it remove it here because we used to be able to lower our hand yeah okay all right we're gonna we're gonna give it a try okay we're moving on to item B3 this is a very routine designation of our major funds and I just wanted to know were there any um you know a very important um set up for our fiscal conditions are there any changes to last last year when we did this we did this every year under the accounting regulations Vicki Van Buren Director of Finance these are the same major funds that came out last year the council approved it's determined by a calculation and has to meet two different criteria and what this does is determine how the Auditors proceed because the major funds have a certain threshold and they're in they're individually audited whereas non-major funds are kind of grouped together and then have another threshold yeah I just we've had so much fiscal activity the debt assumption the federal funds coming in that I just you know was there a change from the Baseline and I there's not a change okay but then I do want to ask um you know thinking look we have the CAC as a major fund the community Assistance Center correct it is not a major fund no what is it designated as it's just a fun and actually it's not a it's not the community the the CAC the CAC anymore it's just the community Assistance and so a lot of the programs that grants and such that Monica Runs run through the community Assistance fund now okay okay so maybe we changed the definition because I thought it was always the community Assistance Center but you're saying it's it's that kind of catch-off okay and those are usually Federal pass-throughs anyway correct okay thank you very much and I I can make a motion if no one else wants to go right ahead please okay I'll make a motion two is this a resolution now yes make them make a motion to adopt the resolution okay thank you I have a motion from councilman breakfast I have a second from councilwoman Weber all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously um councilwoman breakfast just to reiterate what what other items did you pull well the next one I pulled is the very big uh quarterly um budget augmentation before and B12 but I think other people someone pulled B10 I think several five six ten and eleven okay all right go ahead sending it right back to you councilman breakfast yeah so this is also a fiscal one what why don't you tell us what we're doing here I think it's also really nice because we have a new member we maybe have one who's watching because this is a really integral to our budgeting role absolutely Vicki Van Buren Director of Finance for the record again I do have a just a brief presentation if you would load it Madam Clerk it's just three three slides and it gives a really brief description of what's Happening Here we do augmentations quarterly we have a presentation for B5 but I don't see one for B4 I do is it just in the staff report it wasn't got it okay there it is so we bring these to council quarterly typically they kind of run um some similarities in the timing of the year of the items that we bring to you so this first quarter augmentation that we bring to you has a lot of very just clean up items from the prior year so in this augmentation what you're going to see and it's through September 30th you're going to have grants from police fire and Parks which are typical throughout the year we bring those typically throughout the year um but then in this one you will also see all the carry forward of any encumbrances from the prior year that were not completed so you have purchase orders money that was encumbered in the system prior to your end they did not complete the items or the survey they did not receive the items or do the services prior to your end so those items need those budgets need to be carried forward because they'll be paid for out of this year so that's what you see there is carry forward of the fiscal year 21-22 encumberences then we also have items that we know are outstanding at year end but they don't actually have a p or p a purchase order that has encumbered the funds at your end a good example of this this year was the um item through human resources the class and comp study that study was approved last year and we budgeted it last year but the contract was not awarded until this year so we have to increase the budget and bring those funds forward to cover that we also bring forward any carry forward prior year fund balances a lot of those are the capital funds so Capital funds those funds are allocated for particular projects and we know projects go on several years in the making the biggest ones we have on here are obviously the pool and for the public safety center because we had cash balances available for those we bring those monies forward we also bring the money forward forward for the police department they have forfeiture funds that are specific to their department and then the courts have funds that are specific as well for their Department revisions when you look at them on here are just transfers between line items it's really just aligning the expenditures how they're actually need to be booked so it doesn't increase the overall budget it's just rearranging it in the way that we're actually spending it so in this proposal occasionally we do bring forward uh increases in Staffing as well with the augmentation in this one you have two increases in Staffing one is for the victim witness Advocate and that is a limited term two-year Grant funded position for PD and then we also have the management assistant this is a new position that's going to be split between streets and Sewer 50 50 and that's meant to help the new director of Maintenance and operations in that field we also are bringing forward some of the excess fun balance that we have from the prior Year from some savings from uh positions that were vacant and such so we have some savings there of two million dollars and we're going to bring that forward and we're gonna augment the um Severance lines and the other payouts such as callback payout and other payouts that we have to do when long-term employees retire it's not something that we know on an annual basis we typically find out during the year approximately how many people and what what the size of those payouts will be when those retirements occur and we believe that this will this will cover what we know about to this point and we may come back at some point if if we need more and figure that out but right now this would be a good one-time use of these funds because really it's a one-time payout on these severances and so that's pretty much it you have the augmentations which are they add to your budget increase the budget and then we have the revisions which are just move things around between the budget and then we update you on any staffing if there are any staffing changes in here as well so I appreciate that explanation and you know I went upstairs and this is my budget book so this is how in our workload here we closed out May and this is how you know the tools that we gave have changed since May so this is May this is the first movement off of May the one issue I have and I may be not the one here who is in step with the rest of the body but that is that just like we're adding two new positions and I had asked Miss Van Buren for this when I went with her on Monday is I wanted a Chronicle of any other changes to positions and I didn't get that and I'll just give an example is I'm seeing that the city manager's budget through this action is up two million dollars and that may involve someone who got a new position and was moved over somewhere I think Mr flansburg whose picture is not here under Public Works is now in the city manager's office but I want to see the position trail from what this was I don't think that's a a wrong ask we have an obligation from Mr manager to report you know through the Civil Service rules you know at June 30th of every year but in and above that I understand I didn't close out the end of May with something called an urban theorist Urban Economist position but I understand there is such a position now so I really asked Miss Van Buren to show me you know in Department X you know management analyst is now a Senior Management analyst and that money came out of where and I didn't get that and I've been asking for this for years now and if if the rest of the body doesn't want it that's fine but I do want it and I'm going to keep bringing it up so I'll leave that there um but I also want to ask um on this tourism you know page nine and I'll just I only have three of these why did we add 125 000 to Debt Service for tourism on page nine and also why are we adding 96 000 in services and supplies to tourism this is on page nine and this applies to the room tax and so on this particular one we had some encumbrances that came forward in that services and supply line and then we also had the addition of the principle for the payment on the Lear theater on the what the Lear theater the medium-term obligation that is that 125 and actually you'll see that um overall there's really no change in the budget it's we're bringing it Forward yeah so yeah I think those um encumbrances if you will that happen after we close out the budget June July while they're in the executive Authority they compromise our ability to do budgeting so those should come forward I'd like to know what those that encumbrance was and and then I'll also ask I have one more um and I'll ask about page 11 the 788 000. there is a list of income nurses with with the um just for clarification it was an attachment and it has a list of all the accumbrances for each fund what was this encumberance then okay I'm gonna move on to okay councilwoman Taylor because your hand is up on our screen thank you madam Mary um I just wanted to say thank you councilwoman breakfast for recognize that yes I am the newest member and um also to the Vicki and your team into JW because I did have a lot of questions on this because it was new to me so I want to thank you for taking the time to go through this with me and answer all my questions and to JW um I appreciate that and I know you had to go and hold my hand so um I am supportive of this now moving forward with information that you gave me thank you all right next I have councilman thank you madam mayor uh Miss Van Buren uh thank you for the presentation I suppose I want to maybe start at the beginning budget augmentations are required by both gasby standards or generally accepted government standards and also the state of Nevada is that accurate so periodically throughout the year as you said quarterly you come back with budget augmentations because a budget often is a forecast of a thing that we believe is going to be based on some historical Trends and what we believe will happen in the future and so you know saying that you have a budget in May and that is you know something etched in stone is not really accurate with regard to budgeting is that true well it's not etched in stone it's it's a working document yes yeah it's it's living and breathing and I guess um I think any council member is welcome to ask the questions that are being asked of you and you've been kind and answered them thoughtfully and appropriately but there's also some level of like micromanagement that I am not going to engage in um I am not I mean I asked the questions I ask of you about these things in our briefings we I think someone mentioned earlier incorrectly that we don't have the materials when we go to our briefings that's not true I always have the book and the materials that support it about four days before my briefing occurs so I always read it before my briefing happens and then the briefings are much more focused and so what I hope that people take away from this discussion is number one the budget is a living breathing document it is not set in stone and then we never return to it we return to it you do so on a minute by minute basis I'm guessing saying but we return to it in the augmentation process right so that's the first thing the second thing is um you know we have imbued a great deal of authority in our manager mayor system uh in the city manager's office and so this question about whether or not you know a management analyst one was turned into a management analyst three you know those are issues that I'm not going to dig into in that way I just don't think that that's what the voters have elected me to do which is to set policy directions for the city and then the city manager's office through the various departments to go about and make that policy choice so I appreciate the work that goes into these quarterly you know check-in so to speak and of course we've had ones where there have been great swings in certain funds or in revenue streams and then you have us making policy choices about those but as to the sort of minute detail of every paper clip that the organization buys I'm not going to engage in that but I thank you for for doing that work thank you appreciate it Let's see we are actually going to go to councilwoman Dewer just reminding someone up here to try to uh I did on breakfast too yeah it's yeah I I was working the tabs are hard to negotiate through but I get it yeah right right it just takes a little bit of getting used to so once you spoke you've spoken correct so then it goes okay I think oh good okay yeah you're up yeah thank you okay go ahead oh Council under her sorry we're trying to navigate this system but I did see councilman beckus on the on the board now right okay just just a couple Global comments so long long ago I got a master's in public administration and several other people here did too and um we really focus in those in those degree programs on two things one is budget one is Personnel in addition to being a good manager and um I really appreciate what you all did in the last budget cycle which you provided us a very nice org chart um and was really helpful and useful and I thank you so much for doing it um in addition to policy one of our jobs is to keep our eye on the money that's why all the money things come to us that's why our budget our agendas mostly fill of money items not policy questions for us often and so what I would just request going forward if we can is to give us that quarterly update on the org chart I think it's really important because as organization gets bigger it gets harder to track the pieces 85 percent of what we do as I recall is our staff so it is like the one big piece who we hire what levels they're at what they're paid and it just will help us you know follow the bouncing ball and so I just asked for that in a future update um quarterly update to go along with the the financial reporting I think it would be super helpful so that's all I've got I really appreciate the work you do and finally a budget is a plan it's not to your point it's not locked in stone it is called a budget plan and all plans have to change to accommodate you know changing situation changing conditions so that's how they work all right okay uh councilman breakfast you're recognized thank you madam mayor so do you happen to you know one thing the encumbrance list does not sync up to what you're sending down to the state because it it has um you know categories like tourism but then on your encumbrance list it it all has fun numbers so it's hard to see which one's which what is that 96 000 do you remember it's actually a combination and actually it's not encumbrances as I look on here if you look at the staff report it breaks it out it's um it is carry forwards but it's carry forwards of items that were not with an encumbrance and it's the Arts commission their fund balance and they carry forward of the art in public places because those funds carry forward every year if they don't spend it okay and then on page 11 of the uh you know I guess it's the special forfeiture Revenue fund we put in um 788 000 under in the services and supplies line for Public Safety what what was that that hit the budget this is just the balance in the forfeiture fund the forfeiture fund is an account that accounts for the revenues resulting from drug and other related crimes that are solved and the funds are restricted to law enforcement law enforcement only okay so really this is treated kind of like a capital fund where it's specific to them at the end of the year our books are closed out really on this fund already even though we don't have the audit yet we know we're closed here so we go ahead and bring those funds forward okay and that thing is moved up and down a lot over the years that I've been depending on what they purchased yes well no the the forfeiture coming into us you know so that's a big nut to come in and yeah okay so um thank you I am not going to support I have been a broken record on these quarterly augmentations about Marriott up to the positions so that we can see you know what's going on in the organization to deploy the resources to meet the strategies and I keep seeing that and then I will you know and I think Ms Stewart's point was good as we get into a become a bigger organization I walk into a meeting and I hear someone refer to someone who's in a different department with a different level and have I can't keep it straight cannot refer constituents to those people or departments and it's just it's really just too much movement and then what is lost when a new position is created or something's reclassified um you know of a priority of ours was it a position that couldn't be filled I don't know but we need that information through this process quarterly in addition to what is given in a timely once a year to this you know for the Civil Service roles and I just I think it's very much lost on the organization if there's not transparency in positions it brings up questions of who's getting promotions and um you know who's getting reclassified or recreating positions for people here or there um do they sync up to what's being advertised I'm concerned and I will Express again my frustration and not support this augmentation thank you okay I'm prepared to make emotions to the city manager and I I don't know about you guys but I do get updates on whenever someone gets a promotion and works out I don't know you know I I do I get them vacation I think uh thank you madam mayor I think that there are two of the examples is a more acute um comment but then a sort of a broader observation from today's discussion um first Mr flamesberg position was included in and approved during the actual budget cycle that we worked up in the spring um the urban Economist position is a transition from the general funded long-range planner position that was uh vacated the long-range planning function uh has returned to the planning department as an Enterprise funded position in the urban Economist is uh in place to help us better achieve and understand the various buttons and levers we can pull to to get to the master plan and and its achievement um but for me I think one of the things that is is laid bare by today's conversation is that by using the label augmentation I think sometimes we cause some unintended confusion I know it's an industry term but I think that uh the lay person sees that word and assumes or thinks hey we're adding to the budget we're spending more money and that sometimes is the case um as revenues come in higher than projected but it is not always the case and there were a number of examples that I think caused some consternation or some confusion today that um when you listen to Director Van Buren explain them really all it is is balancing the checkbook and making sure that the money we said in the budget was for a particular purpose is there and then this first one this this q1 at the at the very beginning of the fiscal year really does get us Square from all of the things that needed to be read when you close at the end of the fiscal year and so this is a particularly big one in the cycle um and I I think you can see with some confidence that Director Van Buren knows where the money is and and what it's for Madame may or may I have one more minute of questions um yeah just let me make sure that there isn't anyone else on the board on speaker okay go ahead thank you you know that that kind of raised some questions and it was budget discussion about the size of the manager's office so I do recall Mr Franz flansburg took on a new role and that was in the budget but I didn't recall that rolling up to the city manager's office and that did roll up to the city manager's office and this augmentation brings that role and extra Services supplies and a position is that correct what is this no he there were two positions that were approved during the budget process Mr flansberg's position which was the infrastructure position and also a management analyst or an assistant I think it was an assistant that was approved during the budget process for that and were they in the integers office at that time I don't believe uh so but I believe they were updated yes okay so that came afterward because I I know you're still being paid from the sewer fund okay because he is mostly but for reporting structure yes it does exist in the manager's office but as it was created with one of the it was one of the last discussions during the budget process and at that time we did not set up any service and supplies for him or his staff at that time so we did with this augmentation takes the money from the fund balance from the cash available to create some service and supply so that he can do the things that he needs to do within out of the manager's office and then dispatches in the manager's office now is that true it's under Mr Hodge it does report under there yes is it budgeted through the manager's office or budgeted through Public Safety budgeted is a general fund I mean it's through the general fund reporting up okay and I've got councilwoman Doer coming on up so go ahead councilman tour yeah I was just I don't mean to cut off discussion I'm just ready to make a motion is over like two minutes so I'm I'm now gonna make sure that it goes back to you go ahead well I was just prepared to make a motion to approve item B4 okay I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye yeah I'm opposed but I also am going to leave it with you know because you didn't call for discussion real questions about that Public Safety you know function not being in the city manager's office has reported through the city manager's office I hadn't seen some budgeting you know you know that that that kind of mirroring of budgetary authority and uh chain of command we haven't seen before and it's it's curious to me I'd like a further discussion on it all right thank you so much um hold on a second I'm now I'm kicked out I think the next items be fine I do want to I do want to say I think and I would ask staff this just kind of keep in the back of your mind all staff that looking at some of the terminology that we use like even we were talking about this the other day we say incentives and then a lot of people think incentives oh we are giving it away right and so and I think I even brought it up earlier about City speak and code speak and we have you know all these acronyms and it can be very very confusing but like I I think when we talk about ins developer incentives it's just something that I believe people really think um in a different context than how we think of it because it's in our code so I think to Doug's Point our city manager's point about augmentation what that does or doesn't look like so any staff I would just say if you can think of some terminology that might be read a little simpler yeah maybe simple or read a little bit differently in in layman's context well Madame mayor just to the point uh budget augmentation is really a budget amendment you're mending the budget and I mean that's probably a more correct term frankly than augmentation right so yeah help I was doing so well new technology system like now it's got black screen and it says in Big Red Letters sorry it seems you run into an error that's just Frozen but like calling me out all right okay so we're gonna move right along uh Madam clerk I believe we're gonna go to vice mayor Reese with item B5 that is correct thank you that a mayor I pulled items B5 and B6 really are related uh simply because I think it's important for us to get an update on them and so I'm hopeful that Miss Cochran you and your team are ready to go on this item okay thank you so much did we vote okay I think so welcome thank you first time I'm ready to go I love seeing new faces up here so we're rooting for you and you're going to do great so go ahead take it away thank you uh good afternoon Madam mayor council members and city manager Thornley for the record my name is Teddy Reed I'm a management analyst with housing and neighborhood development I'm here today to present information on the First Amendment to an agreement with Volunteers of America that uses emergency solution grants here we go emergency Solutions Grant funds and this amendment extends the timeline of the agreement I have a brief presentation then I'll be happy to take any questions great so this slide provides some background on why we're here today um so emergency Solutions Grant emergency whoa that's gonna get me every time emergency Solutions Grant funds or ESG which I'll call it from no one um are used for programs that serve our residents that have extremely low to no income These funds are issued through HUD the city usually receives 180 000 annually in ESG and as a result of the covid-19 pandemic the city received 4.2 million in ESG CV funds through the cares act that were again allocated through HUD funds allowed our division to broaden existing programs and create a new pilot program in April of 2022 HUD extended the spending deadline for ESG CD from September 2022 to September 2023. so far Volunteers of America has spent 1.1 million of the four 1.4 million total in the agreement so this agreement funded three types of projects which are highlighted on this slide there's a breakdown of the progress that you can see here so first we have rapid rehousing so rapidly housing is designed to rapidly connect families and individuals experiencing homelessness to permanent housing through a tailored package of assistance and case management rapid rehousing is community-based housing where the client enters into a lease for a unit and they are provided up to 24 months of assistance the program is designed so participants live as independently as possible and so far the rapid re-housing program has spent about 386 thousand dollars and you can see some of the monthly costs on the slide and 40 individuals have been housed so far next on the slide is Bridge housing the goal with Bridge housing was to place people experiencing homelessness into a stable Transitional Living environment while they looked for permanent housing Bridge housing was a pilot program and clients were provided case management and housing navigation the majority of these Bridge housing clients were in the transitional housing while they looked for housing through the rapid rehousing program the bridge housing program also provided a space for the veterans transitional housing program and served 45 veterans so far the bridge housing program is sun setting next month on the 18th and participants are being moved to permanent housing or placed in a more long-term program that will meet their needs and so far roughly 565 000 of the budget was spent on bridge housing and then third on the slide you can see Street Outreach so Street Outreach Services allow for case managers to meet clients experiencing unsheltered homelessness where they are workers engage people experiencing unsheltered homelessness where they stay so that could be an encampment or any outdoor location and the street Outreach Team Works to engage with clients in order to provide them resources that could be assistance with maybe obtaining an ID or accessing emergency shelter the street outreach program has cost roughly 194 thousand dollars and that funded two full-time workers this grant Amendment will allow rapid rehousing and Street Outreach to continue until September 2023 or until the grant funds are expended uh here's staff's recommendations and I'm available for any questions Miss Reed thank you so much for the excellent presentation um and thank you also we had the opportunity as a city to go to the Nevada housing conference last week and I appreciated your enthusiasm there at the conference it is um incredibly rewarding but also challenging work that you do every day and one of the things that I've enjoyed about getting to know you a little better is just your personality is very warm and engaging and I think that's what is required in this area of work especially I was really excited about this in part because as the federal government continues to allocate additional funds and because of our status as an entitlement jurisdiction you know I'm hopeful that it will happen again right and that you will be back in front of us in I don't know next September or shortly there before and you'll say hey we've been allocated more funds but the truth is we never know when the funds will be sort of cut off and we'll be done with that so as it relates to these different programs you've already indicated that one of them essentially sunsets next month it sounds like um and so you know part of the issue is always discussing how do we make the resources we have go further than we know we have people to support those resources for and so that's I suppose ultimately a question for another day but as to these funds is there a way to quantify how many folks are to be served by this additional addition to the grant funds I mean you've done a good job about saying here's what we went out and did with the money that we have had is it fair to say that these could be extrapolated into the future of the course of the next uh you know I guess it would be 10 months 11 months and say we would expect similar good outcomes or similar engagement or for each of these line items yes so thank you for that compliment um uh earlier so the rapid rehousing funds so far have they've housed 40 individuals um and it's costing roughly ten thousand dollars a little under to serve each client so we would expect these funds will serve more clients but really the majority of the funds will likely go to keeping the people housed that we have currently okay that makes sense um yeah exciting programs thanks for the work that the entire team there in hand is doing this is something we should be very proud of of course I think as I look around the country and see other communities um yes the grants and the guidelines have a particular set of conditions but not every city is doing it as dedicated I think as your team is right it's a choice it's where we put our effort into and I think your team is doing a good job of kind of rolling with changing guidelines and changing Financial streams to make it so that we can serve as many people as we can and that's because of all of you so thank you for that thank you and and if no one has a questions I certainly would be prepared to make a motion all right any further questions I don't see anyone on my board okay Madam mayor I'm pleased to recommend acceptance uh according to staff recommendations here with the approval the First Amendment agreement The Volunteers of America all right thank you so much I have a motion we have a second I have a second from um I was going to say Taylor I was gonna say mayor Taylor over there to make too much coffee I only drink decaf and today I've had three cups of regular coffee um I have a second from councilwoman Taylor all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right great job you got a unanimous that's rare I'll take it they're not laughing because they know I'm right I'm so proud of you I thought you did great were you nervous at all or no I mean just a bit well we couldn't tell thank you yeah really proud and I know it makes Monica really proud she's like oh my baby I don't know what that's like no no all right uh take us into item B6 thank you so again how do you read for the record um item B6 is actually really similar to item B5 I'll skip some of what I've already talked about um just want to highlight that this was an agreement with safe Embrace this also extends the agreement to allow us to spend funds until September 2023. These funds were also used for a rapid re-housing program and there's a different cost that you can see there uh safe Embrace actually self-funded the case management so the costs were a little lower these costs just went to housing for each client and since the program began they've housed 18 households and um as you probably know save Embrace serves folks who are survivors of domestic violence so all these folks have been um impacted by that here's the recommendation and I have I'm available for any questions all right fantastic I love this non-profit they do great work okay any questions from Council Members I don't see anyone on my screen I'm going to send it right back to vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor I of course pulled the item because I do think it's important to highlight groups like safe Embrace that are doing excellent work uh super helpful before I make the motion though can you give us an update about how safe Embrace is doing out there I had read some challenging issues in the media and so I want to know given that they've had some issues with maybe their Sheltering site can you tell me anything about that yeah there were some questions about how this the shelter site was zoned they have been forced to reduce the number of folks they're able to serve in their emergency shelter however this that did not impact this program yeah so I this is for Rapid rehousing Safe Embrace has been the topic of some conversation locally because the county who is responsible for enforcement of related zoning issues for their emergency shelter site sort of running into some opposition I suppose from Neighbors in the area for my part I want us to explore of course Solutions where we find them if there are ways for the City of Reno and your team to help safe Embrace navigate the difficulty that they find themselves in it enures to the benefit of those people who are experiencing intimate pirate or violence or domestic violence it's a difficult time in in this space and so while this particular line item or this recommendation is related to the rapid rehousing element of it sometimes those folks come in the door through the emergency shelter side of it and as they exit into housing this is the only way for them to do that so um again incredible work that your team does happy to see them as a an organization that is having the support of the city let us hope to find other ways to support them in the future with that in mind Madam mayor I'll move to improve the First Amendment to the agreement with safe Embrace for Rapid rehousing using esgcv funds for the period of January 1 2021 to September 30 2023. all right did you say something I might have a disclosure on this this safe Embrace I think is a entity that's in the city of within the city of Sparks or just outside of the city of Sparks within Washoe County and I think my husband who I'll have a disclosure about this who works for the city of Sparks has had some um interaction with them as a land use within the city of Sparks I'll just make that disclosure and I could be completely wrong and off but I think the facility that we're talking about is the one that perhaps he's had some interaction with in his public capacity thank you it's a disclosure and I will be voting on the matter okay okay thank you councilman breakfast um quick question that how does this money exactly get what how does it get tied to them and housing and what qualifies that I did work with one of their residence and then she ended up there was a time period that she could stay there and then they literally were like okay that's your cut off and so I want to make sure that when we are being partners that we um sort of have the same you know respect on the other side of making sure that those funds are doing what they should be doing I mean I I just I get that they have sort of this program but I think there needs to be some leeway in how they transition people um out of their program so I'm not sure exactly which program that person may have been a part of for this agreement um since it was rapid rehousing people could be funded for up to 24 months um sometimes there is a difference in the amount of assistance provided based on a client's case plan but that should definitely be discussed with their case manager and with agency staff so there's a plan to provide assistance as much as needed and get them to a place where they're independent all right that's great and then who's there do you know who their Ed is right now off Sean West okay all right thank you so much thank you okay anything else go ahead uh vice mayor Reese oh I think we I made a motion we have a second somewhere along the way [Music] motion carries okay moving this is also my matter item B10 by councilmember Reese and council member door thank you madam mayor this was pulled um by both myself and my colleague councilmember duer an important project and so I just wanted an update on it and then perhaps councilmember duer can do us the honor of walking through this agenda item all right so thank you everyone for the record my name is Alex Wilson I am an associate civil engineer with public works and yes this is also my first um presentation I wasn't going to say anything until later but I was going to say you look like a new face too definitely how are you feeling are you excited are you nervous it's a little bit of both okay you're fine you're gonna be just fine so including you on so I am here today with an agreement between the City of Reno and Nevada Department of Transportation to provide funding and Define responsibilities for the Plumas Urban sidewalk project so as most of you may recall uh this project was previously uh prioritized and approved by the council last September I've got an overview map on the screen this project was chosen to be submitted for what's called Federal Transportation Alternatives set aside funding or ta set aside if I end up staying on accident that is a federal program that is meant for projects that improve non-vehicle travel to public infrastructure this is a great example of it this project was submitted for that funding it was successful it was awarded that funding so I'm excited to be here to hopefully bring this project to the finish line and get this um or work with the council to bring this project to the finish line and get this agreement approved so um I have an overview map on the screen uh as the name indicates it's on Plumas Street and urban road it's denoted by the pink line the main purpose of this project is to improve The Pedestrian connectivity in this area the Washoe Golf Course kind of creates almost like a pedestrian wall and there's really not many opportunities to travel east west and so the goal was to improve connectivity to both the tennis center Virginia Lake Park and any other attractions in the area so I've got a couple pictures up um wanna preface this by saying these are just visual representations the final design will likely look a little different but generally look like this for urban road The Proposal is to install sidewalk on the south side of the road currently there is no sidewalk on either side of urban road and to also put in a new bike lane eastbound there is a westbound bike lane but no eastbound bike lane for Plymouth Street sidewalk is being proposed on the west side from urban road to Mountain View Drive which is the tennis center driveway in that area there's only a little bit of sidewalk and that's just for an existing bus stop so this will continue That Sidewalk South to the tennis center one of the things before I start on the agreement one of the things I've noticed too about this project and I think it's exciting is that every time I go out here and and do a field review I do see people using the path Where the Sidewalk will be going so it's nice to know there is demand for it and it will be used when it gets completed so let's move to what the actual agreement is so the total estimate for this project is six hundred thousand dollars per the terms of the agreement the city is required to provide a five percent match uh thirty thousand dollars and the FEDS or the state on behalf of the Fed so ndot acts as a kind of a proxy for the for the FED for the um Federal funding and they are they obligate it and so they'll be providing 570 000 so this agreement allows the city to administer a contract for construction um design has actually already been progressing for a little while in-house with City staff some special design considerations for this project the trees are a big one there are a lot of nice mature trees this area we're making sure we address that through design and we'll also be working with the urban Forester on that the Washoe County property it's an interesting project in that we've only got one neighbor that we are adjacent to in that's Washoe County we are looking at what the final alignment will be and if we need to acquire any easements through the county we will do so the Reno Tennis Center activities will be making sure they're involved in the discussions mostly making sure that when construction goes it's we we limit the disruptions to their activities as much as possible and then pinch points there's a couple locations on here where the sidewalk will get a little constrained and I can't exactly say what all those areas will look like but the goal will be to make sure we maximize the width of the sidewalk at those locations schedule this as I said this Project's currently under design construction will begin spring of next year and will be complete uh fall of next year so with that said the recommendation is to approve the agreement with the Nevada Department of Transportation and authorize the mayor to sign I'm available for any questions all right congratulations you did a fantastic job really you did um okay I'm gonna send it over to councilman breakfast it's your word well you know what other people pulled this but um I'll just I'll just start because I'm glad they did I wasn't going to pull it but um but I'm glad they did about the trees because it is now across well first of all um a sidewalk's been long needed over there and you have a lot of gaps you know and that's this is a gap because the public presence of the sidewalk of the public golf course but um the trees there I I now hear from constituents who are in Ward one you know they've been there a long time that the trees are in ill health and they look like they're in the right-of-way from where you show the the signal the sign you know the the right-of-way seems to extend on the other side of that fence because otherwise you wouldn't have a speed sign there um who irrigates those trees and um are they going to have to get um you know yanked out because someone has told me that they look like they're in ill health you know someone's lived across the street for decades so I don't know the answers to all those questions I do know the trees that are in front of the tennis center on Plumas are irrigated by the City of Reno the city does have irrigation facilities there on urban road from what I've seen those are mostly on the uh Golf Course property and so I I can't comment on those yeah I'm only talking about the pluma side just because that's where I've been hearing from so those are irrigated By Us in association with our Tennis Center irrigation and um they're gonna get yanked replaced or you don't know yet So the plan is I I don't anticipate any trees will need to be replaced um we're going to design the sidewalk honestly to stay as far away from them as we can in areas where we get close we'll utilize the tree protection standard okay and what's the plan further to the south then do are we then all the way we still have some Gap then right that's correct so the the south of that product of the tennis center is not a part of this project however it'll be a project that can be um submitted for future grants okay how many feet do we have there of of lack of sidewalk do you know do you remember I don't know the answers okay I'll look at it okay thanks okay um go ahead councilwoman doer yeah thank you um yeah I'm so glad to have opportunity to speak on this so when the project was submitted for Grant it wasn't in word two and um I did it in conjunction with Alexis Hill with the county we we asked for a joint proposal because as you pointed out the part on Urban I think is on County Land it's it's city right of way but adjacent right well it was a joint project and I just think that's a great model to talk about is how we work together um this is her District um was my ward um needed sidewalks forever we had this great opportunity to get this money um thank you for addressing the trees just knowing that Matt Basil is going to be involved I know that if there are any impacts to tree roots you're going to come up with a creative solution because that is what he does and you know that is what our public work staff do on public property so it really sets a tone for the rest of the city on how to how to better do these things the other question was I had similar question I councilman breakfast about the continuing South End and if we had to apply for a grant or if you know if there's a way to do it at the same time I wasn't really sure so I I can't speak on it if it can be done at the same time however I do know there will be another round of the TA set aside funding so there will be additional grant opportunities for the city to apply through it could be through both the RTC or the state directly okay the other question I had was you note on the sketch of the map which was I think your second slide you show at the intersection of Mountain View which is a very very difficult street it's very very narrow it's very steep heading down to the lake there is there's been challenges that's we're doing a whole Road and sidewalk Rehabilitation project I don't know if we ended up doing anything on Mountain View or just left it alone or narrowed it I think narrowed it and added some sidewalk on one side is what I think but here's the suggestion right here it says on your schematic rapid flashing Beacon crosswork so I wanted to make sure we're all using to the mayor's Point similar lingo what I would hope we're installing is a pedestrian activated crosswalk and the reason is is just south of there when this was also my ward there was a yellow flashing light it was very confusing because not many people even used it and people didn't know is it do they really mean it is it is it a fake thing are we supposed to slow down they don't know how to interpret just a always flashing yellow light so could you just tell me what you have planned here yeah so I believe it's it's existing right it's so the the rapid flashing Beacon crosswalk is existing that was kind of the reason we chose to terminate the sidewalk at this location because it's kind of the last opportunity to safely get across um but agree you know we we're trying to become more consistent when it comes to how uh flashers are are put out there in fact there's been other conversions from continuously flashing to right to push button right so that's what I'm hoping so this was meant to say what is not what might be and what I would like to suggest is that we do do The Pedestrian activated crosswalk because those are very meaningful and then to your point about people being confused by flashing um we have a situation down there on Steamboat and Veterans where there's a flashing yellow light turning there's more accidents right at that spot than almost anything we're trying to get that taken out we just got one similar taken out at Steamboat and Rio Wrangler I think they terminated a flashing left turn it was very confusing and I probably have that wrong because that's actually a stop sign not a light but anyway um the to your point yes I'm going to come back and say one more thing let me send it back to vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor Mr Wilson first of all thank you for the outstanding presentation I know that uh coming before us for the first time is always nerving but I think you just handle with Grace so thank you for that um this is an exciting project um something that council member doer and I uh and Miss Koski began talking about maybe a little more than a year ago related to the TA set-aside and of course always with the TA set aside there are more projects than there is ever money for so we have to make some choices and priorities are done and oftentimes that happens through the process of determining who's going to participate so I guess my first question is whatever did become of the county participating or not participating is the county in any way providing any of the dollars that are related to any of the costs associated with the project so they are not the the agreement is just between the City of Reno and the state of Nevada it happened I think what I will do then as I'll talk to my colleagues over at the county and see if we can't think about the extension as it wraps around down towards Moana and up towards the Moana Tennis Center which is on the back side of the Washoe Golf Course for my part also since we're here in this area I'll call out that first of all the sidewalk on Urban has been needed my whole lifetime it's it's crazy you walk if you walk along there and cars hit rocks and hit them they fly up at you just a very uh scary stretch of roadway and a very beautiful stretch of roadway at that so it'll be great to have more pedestrian amenities there obviously I hope that our great planning folks in the streets and sidewalks are thinking about you know complete streets ones that are safer bicycles as well as pedestrians that's important to me but also of course the Plumas Tennis Center is uh I think a jewel of our Parks and Recreation Department the connection of these roadway or walkways to it I think highlights the need for a little bit of love there so I'm going to be certainly advocating for I think the back Four Courts are inoperable currently and you know far be it for us to drag beautiful new sidewalks to a facility that is not fully functioning or operational so we'll work on that in the coming months but thank you Mr Wilson to you and your team and Miss Koski for leadership in this area because again when it comes down to it we have to prioritize the very small dollars that come through that ta set-aside process and each year I think we will find good ways to spend it this is a particularly good example of a great area a great idea and I appreciate you all bringing this forward a couple questions I did want to ask you and I guess I always thought that this was County Land because of the golf course so I never sort of I I and I should have thought of that with the sidewalk like so so needed have they ever had a sidewalk I can't remember my whole life and I literally lived maybe three blocks from there so question when would we start this project so if everything goes according to plan the hope is that construction yeah spring of next year though okay next year and then the other thing is I I get really confused and maybe someone can answer this because you mentioned RTC and I was asking our city manager I said okay I'm confused because he's saying this is City of Reno but then where's RTC because we're always doing this with RTC and so how do we how do we know whose role it is and then you got the county like not participating when quite honestly I think they should have um it's just getting really confusing and I just think we need to be all on the same page when it comes to our infrastructure and transportation and quite frankly how we design because I am worried that we're what we're going to do here is just put in this looks really nice the drawing here but that's not what it looks like and so what I I'm going to write so I'm going to assume what you're going to do and I think good good intentions but you're gonna put like almost concrete just down a dirt sort of half dirt road kind of thing so kind of so I have answers to most of these questions so the uh I'll start with the RTC part of it so um one of the reasons why RTC isn't directly involved in this project is that they're responsible for What's called the regional roads in the area so those are more of your arterials major collectors Urban is not considered a regional Roadster plumases yeah so yeah so that's why I'm like and then the other thing I just want to point out I don't see a bike lane on Plumas is that going to exist and then also I would say on Urban just to make sure that and I'm sure it is but green yeah so we'll we'll use the green markings when we put the the bike lane markings down there is actually the the visual inadvertently kind of for Plumas was actually on top of the bike lane it is actually there currently there's no sidewalk but there is a bike lane on southbound Plumas so that'll stay in place that that's that was more just the drawing not showing that correctly um and then going back to your other question about on Urban with the dirt road So the plan is we'll have curb and gutter and then we're going to separate the sidewalk as far from the road as the width allows so the West End it'll actually be fairly separated from the curve and gutter and then as you work east of Plumas it constrains and it'll get closer I just would like to see because there's some areas close to California Avenue you know where the Big Trees sort of come over we have an opportunity to sort of do that here as well it could be really really beautiful obviously probably not in my lifetime because it will take some time but it would be really great to make sure that it's really you know I think planned I don't aesthetically complete you know pleasing absolutely yeah okay all right any other questions councilman guess anything no I have one go ahead councilman so to just following up on your point um when you look at Urban we we have quite a bit of room to work with there and but we do have some trees um one of the suggestions that I've made in Double Diamond let me think sorry Damani Ranch they have sidewalked right up on the road like this but it's the residents feel a lot safer when there's more distance between the road and the sidewalk and so to the mayor's point it may be an opportunity to set the sidewalk back a little bit and to potentially since it's our right-of-way put in more trees and then you're walking through a tree tunnel and then also the residents these trees are a little bit scraggly on this side of the golf course I don't know what's going on with them maybe it's because we're not watering them the golf course people are watering them but we do have an opportunity to put in what we've been talking about which is um canopy shade trees even between the road and on the sidewalk whole different idea but since we have to be in there and it's to the mayor's point it's just kind of left as sort of a Gravelly weird area where it could be really beautiful yeah you know so from from the perspective of the project you know what we will try and Achieve as much separation as we can from the road um and then the other part you know because this this Federal money is very it's very specific you know what has been used for you know we may not be able to necessarily do this and and do that in this project but we can make sure infrastructure is in place to help facilitate it maybe there's opportunities within the city to partner and make something well we could do you know a tree planting project between the road and the sidewalk um for example what you see in um Longley in the um professional office area Longley north of Peckham for example you get this kind of tree-lined canopy thing going which we could create here while we do this because we have the room so it's just an idea to think about oh definitely and I that that's a good point I think we'll share at a minimum on the sidewalk project we put in items like irrigation sleeves under the sidewalk so that way if something does come to fruition we wouldn't have to tear out what we just put in right right and lighting I mean just just out of safety we're hearing that more and more lighting I think we have to really pay attention to lighting but I don't think they have any lighting it's pretty dark it is dark it's really dark we'll take a look at that okay matter of fact I remember I had a dog that was hit on that road um because it was late night and you could not see it so there was one more thing I wanted to point out and this is just a shout out um to Kurt right around the corner from here and I don't know if we can see on this map but we've been doing other improvements so right where Arlington and Skyline are at that curve that's been a very dangerous area uh because people are going straight and suddenly I take this sharp right turn and you guys came in I believe and put in some um what would you what is the right term curtain okay the barriers along Arlington and um Skyline you know where you and I and John flansburg went out could could you just say something about that well I'm just saying we put a lot of attention in this area absolutely for the record Kurt Dietrich traffic engineer uh correct there was a over uh turned vehicle that hit a rock there and we went in there and did some speed radar and upgraded the signage through there on that curve app and didn't we also put in some more reflectors I think um yeah we actually put in some Chevron panels around the curb as well right so I mean we we all around the golf course we've been doing improvements is my point and to your point as well you know because it's Central to much housing it's it's our own version and so we're doing everything we can and so it's just a continuation in my mind so thank you much appreciated thank you all right sending it back to you vice mayor thank you Mr Wolfson again for the presentation outstanding job we'll be looking forward to more things from you to come Madame mayor I'm happy to move to approved staff recommendations much I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carriaging honestly you got a unanimous I think we gotta get on to get on new ones up here because you guys are getting unanimous votes great job congratulations we got one more okay all right Madame mayor we're moving on to item b11 b11 it is we still love these RTC people you're right love it hi hello you ready I am no pressure here you gotta get you you have two in front of you so he's all no pressure all right um Madame mayor council members Mr manager my name is Roy Flores I'm a senior civil engineer with the utility services department item before you today is item b11 Consulting agreement with VNA Consulting for flow monitoring services in the amount of 622 thousand dollars coming from the sewer fund of a brief overview of our project here we're going to be installing 60 temporary flow meters throughout our collection system the idea behind this is to collect wet weather data so that's essentially when there is rain events and the rain that enters the collection system once we collect that wet weather data we will be removing the meters and that's why they're temporary also you'll see up there on the map there is six yellow dots those are permanent flow meters we'll also be pulling that information as well obtaining that information those permanent flow meters are what the city has in measuring the flow that's going to the trucking Meadows treatment plant and has to do with billing purposes so total this project will have 60 temporary meters six permanent meters 66 total meters and will also be stolen installing rain gauges to collect the rain when it comes down and gives us an idea of how much has been a fall at the various times there's three main goals as part of this project we're going to identify areas of high inflow and infiltration uh the common language we use in my world is ini inflow being storm water that enters the collection system whether at a manhole or through a storm drain that's connected to the collection system and infiltration infiltration is kind of the it's like called The Silent kill of our system it's the groundwater that enters the collection system whether at a joint in a manhole or a joint at a pipe the second goal of this project is to refine the accuracy of the sanitary sewer model the city has spent a lot of funds and done a lot of hard work to develop a sanitary sewer model which gives us uh information on how much capacity is throughout the various regions of the system and with this project we'll be collecting wet weather data which will allow us to update our model as well and kind of tell us how our collection system behaves in rain water events and it's also important to point out that you know we don't want rain water entering our collection system that's rain water that ends up at the treatment plant and that's more funds that we have to spend to treat that and also if there is areas of town where there's a lift station that's more times that the pumps are turning on during a rain event and it's more electricity so with this we're trying to identify those areas and the third goal is to assist in prioritizing Capital Improvements to the system once we identify those areas where there's High inflow and high infiltration we're able to kind of develop a capacity Improvement program which is as simple as you know rehabilitating the existing sewer line removing replacing sewer line and then also making that determination of whether or not it makes sense to increase the sewer line a common theme we've here today is that projects are kind of getting it more expensive and so we want to make sure that you know we identified areas that there are challenges we come up with Solutions cost effective Solutions uh to the ratepayers and the citizens of of the community this consultant agreement is year one of a three-year flow monitoring plan that was developed by our consultant this year one is for we'll focus on a large area of the collection system and then subsequent years two and three will pinpoint other areas of the collection system where we see high inflow infiltration uh this project was included as a part of the approved fiscal year 23 Capital Improvement program and the consultant was selected from the 2022-2024 unraked consultant list from the sanatory sewer Capacity Analysis Services category and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions how do you feel you feel fine you could not at all you seemed so calm yeah I only had one cup of coffee instead of my normal four so [Laughter] uh great job I'm gonna say questions no all right councilman Taylor any questions vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor I pulled this item for two reasons one I wasn't sure why all these Engineers were dressing better than me I mean here I am in like a red panda sweatshirt so I was trying to see what that was all about but Mr Flores thank you for the presentation I also the second thing I was really thinking about was I had not seen V A Consulting Engineers before in the last number of times that we've done different Consulting agreements and so I was um I guess I was excited to see a new name not only yours of course but also V A Consulting so in that regard this is because you know as a body we want to make sure that we're going out and having transparent processes where we find Consultants we don't want to always stay with the same consultant we know or the consultant who's been in the community the longest anything like that and of course we want to go with Consultants who can do the work so I appreciate your sort of thoughtful process in terms of putting together the staff report to describe the actions at the end goal the point of all of these monitorings is to what prepare us for an extreme weather event or a nowhere flows or or more and what is the goal of knowing where the flow rates are how it happens mayor Reese thank you for that question um so you know we're always kind of looking at what the capacity of the system is you know Reno is constantly changing people are moving around businesses are moving around you know so the flow that's coming in the system it's it's never the same and you know kind of in an engineering World we're always kind of Designing for kind of worst case scenarios right so worst case scenario in my world would be you know everyone on a weekdays getting ready to you know go to work go to school you know taking showers doing laundry and then there's uh kind of like we had last year where we have a you know uh atmospheric river that comes comes through and so you know we're kind of looking to make sure that you know is our is our collection system responding appropriately and do we need to make any alterations you know we don't really know until we do this flow monitoring as I mentioned we have six permanent meters but those are kind of just for kind of billing purposes you know the collection system itself is over 800 miles so there's areas of of the of the region where you know we don't necessarily know how it's behaving unless we put a meter in their so that's what we're going to get you know we're going forward right now because this is kind of the the rainy season I guess or the wet weather season so you know we're going to be looking to collect this wet weather event but also at the same time we're also going to be gathering data and how our collection system uh responds is in necessary which is considered the dry wet weather event which is like I said you know your normal getting ready for work everyone's taking a shower doing doing laundry so we want to see what the capacity is and you know also if you know we need to make any sort of improvements for you know future developments or you know alterations um and would it detect if we had like a line collapse and then there were uh I guess the flows were going in a different direction or something I mean I again you've given an excellent uh indication of why we need it I'm happy with that but what happens if one of these monitors goes down and then the I guess the pipe collapses around it would it would we be able to know from what we're watching in real time vice mayor Reese so these monitors themselves if I'm going to scroll back to the beginning we're actually going to be inserting these in the manhole themselves so if you look at the picture on your left that's as if you open the lid of a manhole and you look down and so then if you look to the picture to your right that's the flow meter that we're going to be installing in there and so you know this is kind of real-time data you know our consultant would be looking at this um and you know they would kind of see irregularities and you know we selected this Consulting because they had the expertise in providing these kind of services and you know that's why it's important that we do a baseline so where you know if you're if you just simplify it if you're seeing a unit of of a hundred come through during your normal events and all of a sudden everything spikes up to let's say 10 000 units then it's like well hey wait a minute there's there's something going on in in the system and you know that's why I kind of mentioned this is a three-year program the item before you today is for year one and then we would basically you know work with our Consultants even if I identify other areas within the collection system to to address and do more investigation well thank you for that a very interesting an area which I know nothing about so I was appreciative of your walking through it for me I appreciate that very much Madam mayor I'm prepared to move to approved staff recommendations all right thank you so much I um Weber all those in favor say aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously look at you you did it good job thank you great job all right good okay we are at B12 pulled by council member breckis let me toggle here to the one staff report yeah so in the interest of full pants transparency on item item is this B12 and this is for the record I am disclosing the fact that my husband or under Nellis who's the community service director for the city of Sparks item B12 is a proposed Professional Services agreement between the city is Reno and Sparks and brown and Caldwell for the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation facility fluidized bad reactor and nitrification Pump Station evaluation pre-design services the cost of the agreement is one million 205 437 and Reno is going to pay 827 291 with Sparks paying the Rex on the matter on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office here because Reno Sparks have an existing cost share agreement and the parties share the same public Regional wastewater treatment goals and objectives my commitment in a private capacity to the interests of my spouse as an employee of the city of Sparks but not clearly and materially affect the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my position to Warrant abstention under NRS 281 subsections and this is pursuant to the matter of public official off the commission opinion number 12-15a from 2012 that says a public officer has a responsibility to represent constituents vote on matters of public importance unless a clear conflict outright weighs that Duty Madam clerk please accept this disclosure spoken verbally for the record and Lodge it on the record for this meeting in subsequent meetings pertaining to this agenda item thank you Madame mayor Reno city council my name is Matt Smith I have a presentation if you'd like yeah what is a fluid fluidized bed reactor that's a great question thank you I am yes yes great so I'm Matt Smith with uh utility services and today I will be talking about item B12 which is the tumor fluidized bed reactor nitrification Pump Station evaluation and pre-designed services agreement wow wow that's a mouthful hopefully by the end of this presentation we will know what a fluidized battery actor and a nitrification pump station is so this project will have happen at tomorph it's on the Northern side of the plant so this is the Blue Water side of the of the plant so a brief overview tomorph is a very unique plant it's very old um we have nutrients that we remove from the water our permit stipulates that we do that we use biological nutrient removal to do that which is a fancy word for saying we use microbiology that naturally occurs in nature we cultivate and Foster an environment for them to thrive and they pull out these nutrients namely phosphorus nitrogen so phosphorus is removed in secondary treatment nitrogen is removed in tertiary so what is a nitrification pump station well that's outlined in blue here on this slide that's where the blue green yellow and red lines all converge we take this water after it's been after the phosphorus has been removed we pump it to our nitrification Towers where it removes the ammonia and then we pump it from there into our fluidized beds where the rest of the nitrogen is removed what is a fluidized bed reactor so it sounds pretty scary it's just a concrete box with sand and water in it we pump water into this beneath the sand to fluidize it it's a fluidized sand bed and the sand is a substrate for that biomass to live on so we're giving it a home but they don't work for free so we inject methanol into this process and they party inside this reactor and remove the nitrogen from the water it's very similar to a snow globe that's the best way that I could describe it so why it's recommended capacity on the right here you can see these are fluidized beds under a high flow condition um that should never happen where water is coming out of the reactor and overflowing um it's important to note though during this situation we did not violate which was awesome but we don't like the biomass to be coming out of the reactor they don't like it we don't like it it's a safety concern so capacity is a big one redundancy we're running three of our four reactors right now but we're getting close to turning on that fourth so once we do turn on that fourth we won't have a spare which is the industry standard it's critical infrastructure both the nitrification pump station and the fluidized beds without that we cannot remove nitrogen at the plant and we will violate safety I mentioned permit as I mentioned at the beginning our permit stipulates that we remove nitrogen from our water we do a very good job at it we want to continue to provide that type of service without having these capacity issues and it's a facility plan recommended project the facility plan is available on the city of Sparks website and it is part of that plan it's on our CIP list and it's old infrastructure although it is old we know that it's in good shape I had a project previously where we were just maintaining some of the concrete of these tanks but we want to get a deep dive and really understand what issues could be present with this infrastructure since it is so critical so our recommendation is to approve the consultant agreement with the tumor fluidized beds and nitrification Pump Station evaluation and pre-esign project great so um I appreciate that presentation now you rely heavily on the 2020 facility plan which is you said on city of sparks's website that's correct but it hasn't been given to us nor has it been presented to us in fact we had two workshops scheduled this year I think on sewer where I thought it was going to figure prominently and um we haven't seen it and so you know I'm going to continue to bring these up but I really feel very isolated because the the plant is a system so you know designed for this where does it go to this where does it go to that don't have the big picture here haven't had the big picture here um finding it problematic I've been supportive of a lot of wear and tear sort of things but when I hear the capacity part of the new you know expansion you know whether or not it's design capacity or in capacity capacity I am very troubled by you know 1.2 million on design because 1.2 million on design is going to mean a 10 30 million dollar project is this what what do you think the the ultimate you know design project will look like in terms of dollar amounts well it's a good question we're that this is why we are pursuing this evaluation in pre-design Project is as a part of this we will get cost estimates um and we will get a scope of work determining what our action should be um I know what a fluidized bed reactor is because I work at tumorf but I'm not the guy who's seen the ones at every other plant and I can't diagnose why our capacity is or or what appropriate action should be taken that we're leaving that to the professionals and it could mean that maybe the pipes are just size too small but it's speculation to yeah determine that but we have like three or four of these design Pro design consultant bids out right now and we don't have the big picture we're the money peeper well you know ultimately and and what's the big nut we're looking at when I was on The JCC a long time ago we were looking at reverse osmosis at like 65 million dollars or so are we still in the RO world are we thinking we're gonna have to move into that direction the facility plan does have a a path forward um however I would consider my career to be a success if we never build reverse osmosis out there and so that is definitely uh way far out if if anything um Ro is not in the immediate future it's not on the horizon it is in the facility plan because a facility plan is a path to get to the permitted capacity but um it's our job to make sure that we get there in the most cost effective and conscientious Way Forward [Laughter] first of all thank you for the presentation I you could absolutely be a teacher you're so good with this but um I have a overall question on the timeline and so you say pre-design Services what does that actually mean what comes next and what is the the schedule for something like this estimated certainly so we're planning on wrapping up this project full completion uh with this stage of the project by August of next year um with that there's evaluation which means we're going to make entry into these reactors C touch feel what's wrong with them um and then additionally we're going to run tests stress test those reactors because as I said we are unsure what the issue is it could just be a sizing of a pipe potentially but we need to figure that out um the pre-design will end up with a 30 plan set as well as a basis of design report or a technical memorandum that outlines the actions that are recommended so then based on that what you get at 30 percent you'll you'll decide what needs to happen between that and any time of construction and improvements or actual design that's correct yes thank you so much yep all right any further questions on the body how about stuff to you Council on breakfast yeah you know I'm I'm just not going to support I am not going to support until you know the technical folks come forward but the financial picture is not clear on this plan increasingly to me and when you marry it up to what's going on up instead and we've had two chances to have workshops this year and they've got canceled and we continue to forge ahead with you know commitments of design you know based upon need and to get to a permitted capacity and you know the stumbling of those workshops and moving forward with policy which is fiscal is highly problematic to me I mean let's remember and it's a great week to have this discussion because the sewer bills probably go out this week they're jumping up last time I heard 7.1 percent where are the connection fees for capacity they're stuck at twenty twelve dollars so we've lost a whole year of growth in an Up Cycle to pay for these sort of improvements I don't think we're going to get there I think that whatever we need here when you marry it up with stead we're not going to be there and we've missed a decade of robust growth for connection fees to get there I'm very troubled I'm going to continue to vote against these sorry to the technical folks because you guys are you know good Engineers good Warriors but the fiscal house is not being done in my view and that has to stay at this body and when this body has workshops that don't get get scheduled and canceled we ain't doing our job so I'm not supporting thank you madam mayor I'm prepared to make a motion I'll respond though to the award one members comments we don't have a time machine we can't go back in time and change the rate connection fees for new growth and development it just these are not related Concepts so continuing to tie them together I think does a disservice to the ward one members who have faced a rate increase but they aren't again they're not related Concepts those rate increases are tied to CPI everybody knows the world is more expensive the connection fees for new users that's coming we're going to be here in another couple of weeks it'll be fine we can get through today's vote while waiting for that for another couple weeks so I moved to approved staff recommendations all right thank you so much I have a motion I have a second all those favor say aye aye all those opposed post motion carries I think you did a tremendous job and I do think we're going to get there so um honestly you guys should all be proud good job good win thank you all right thanks you guys okay Madam clerk I'm gonna send it back to you and then I'm just wondering if we should get up um for 15 minutes and take a break Madame mayor if you would be so inclined to open uh art ordinance oh we still have four more let's take a break hold on pardon [Music] we have two ordinance introductions and two ordinance adoptions okay so let's see let's do um item E1 and at this time Madam clerk do we have any public comment on this item and um after we take public comment I am going to send it right back to the ever famous it says Carl hall or Brian Duty either one we have no public comment registered and we've not received any correspondence okay thank you I'm going to send it to our City attorney Carl Hall go ahead thank you my importance amendment to section 1.04.015 State misdemeanors and civil infractions of the Reno municipal code to comply with changes made by the 2021 Nevada legislature to the Nevada revised statutes converting some traffic violations from misdemeanor crimes to civil infractions this is where we're at because I remember on this one we worked a lot okay good afternoon uh mayor and city council Brian City Deputy City attorney for the record we are here today this is basically a housekeeping matter um to update our code to reflect the changes of what the Nevada legislature did there in essence two components to this the one we have opened on is regarding section 104015 uh RMC 104015 allows our police officers to charge State misdemeanor crimes we don't have that mechanism currently in place starting January 1 to to charge civil infractions under our state law so what what this amendment is doing is just adding in that component to allow our officers if they encounter someone committing a traffic violation or state law they'll be enabled to just charge that state violation so that's reflecting that that change um and I'll wait for E2 wait that's it all right thank you so much uh any questions see that there are none I'm going to send it to vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor I'll move to uh well is it ordinance introduction Mr Hall yes okay yes [Music] opposed motion carries unanimously all right we are going to head into item E2 so again this is an ordinance introduction bill number 7221 creation of new ordinance within Reno Municipal Code title six vehicles and traffic chapter 6.04 definitions section 6.04.001 findings of for civil infractions to acknowledge the changes made by the Nevada legislature with ab116 and clarify that any traffic violation contained within Arena Municipal Code under title VI is a civil infraction less otherwise stated by the Nevada revised statutes okay thank you so much any public comment on the side of Madam clerk we have none registered and have not received any correspondence okay thank you so much back to you Mr suti uh Brian City Deputy City attorney for the record this is in conjunction with what the Reno Municipal Court received notification from the Nevada Supreme Court uh they are working on bringing all those state laws that were once a misdemeanor traffic violation to civil and in that process they discovered that many of the localities have their own traffic codes like the City of Reno does and they needed a clarification that we are conforming to what the Lend Nevada legislature enacted so this is just acknowledging that our traffic code is also civil infraction unless we have any corresponding Nevada revised Statute that is to remain a misdemeanor okay thank you any further questions I think they're not I'm going to send it to you vice mayor move to refer I have emotions I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously great job okay moving right along this is item F1 I believe I'm gonna send it uh Madam clerk to ever so famous Carl Hall but before we do that do me a public comment on this item Madam mayor we have no public comment registered and have not received any correspondence all right back to you thank you madam mayor ordinance adoption ordinance number 6637 case number LDC 22-00048 dp2 master plan and zoning map Amendment owners to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning of plus or minus 8.05 Acres site located plus or minus a thousand feet south of the intersection of Claim Jumper way into larian mine drive and unincorporated transition five acres ut5 to single-family eight dwelling units per acre sf8 together with matters which pertain to or necessarily connected therewith Ward 2. all right thank you so much I'm going to send it to you uh councilwoman doer yeah um Madam mayor if I may please I'll interject and move to adopt all right motion carries yes um I think this is probably a good time um so we've recently approved a number of projects up in the foothill area above um double uh Damonte Ranch High School and um I'm probably out of order here but I'll probably bring it up at the very end of the meeting but we'll be tired by then so while we're just on this topic we really really need to get I've asked for a few years to get a plan together for this area and this is just a request I can save it to the end or now but for our manager I know more developments are going to be coming in and we just we can't you know doing them one by one by one by one you know we have an incremental approach and I'd love to just sort of have a unified approach so we can handle these in a really coordinated way so just just a note for the record and I can bring it up later if you want all right good idea thank you right okay metal clerk this is item F2 any public comment and then I will send it to our City attorney thank you madam mayor we don't have any public comment currently registered however we did receive three letters of Correspondence which have been distributed to the arena city council one letter of support and two letters of opposition okay thank you so much I'm going to send it over to you Carl Hall thank you madam mayor ordinance adoption ordinance number 6638 case number txt 23-00001 Title 18 cannabis package alcohol live entertainment adult business request to amend renamins book code Title 18 annexation Land Development specifically in chapter 18.03 use regulations Section 18.03.206 table of allowed uses section 18.03.304 commercial uses section 18.03.306 industrial uses section 18.03.405 standards for specific accessory uses and chapter 18.09 rules of construction and definitions section 18.09.303 commercial uses section 18.09.306 accessory use is in order to revise local governments for cannabis uses amended regulations for package alcohol sales for General retail and accessory uses to amend standards for daytime and live entertainment uses and to add a local criteria for adult businesses in the mixed employment zoning District together with other matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected therewith okay [Music] okay it is good afternoon assistant director so this is a second reading if there's any specific questions I can answer those otherwise I'm not going to rehash the presentation I'm just going to direct it towards specific questions okay any specific questions yeah go ahead thank you madam mayor first of all the onset of this meeting there were a couple uh commenters in the audience about lounges and this does not pertain to that lounges there's a cam cannabis component but it does not pertain to lounges is that correct that's correct okay um second with adult uses I read this as it came out of the Planning Commission and then other questions were promoted prompted to me about adult uses how does this impact adult uses any existing adult use would be considered conforming well non-conforming if they don't conform to this code any future adult use would have to comply with this code okay um so there's a non-conformance provision when was that put into place the non-conformance yes when was that drafted how could that clean up from coming out of the zoning ordinance so our current code allows for existing non-conforming uses to remain yes if they want to expand they can go through a conditional use permit yes and I I don't understand that so if we have a lot of existing non-conforming uses whether it's been in place adult uses how many adult uses do we have in the City of Reno I couldn't answer that I don't know okay how many of those are non-conforming I also couldn't that I I don't know it's the non-conformance only related to adult uses no our non-conforming section of the code is related to all uses through this ordinance this ordinance and the Provisions related to non-conformance do they only apply to adult uses the the only change we're making with this text amendment is related to the mixed employment zoning District where we allow adult uses we are adding requirements that they can't be located within certain distances of sensitive areas that was part of the old code however it got taken out of the new code so we're putting it back in that's specific to the mixed employment zoning District this is just a cleanup it's not intended to change anything on conforming or non-conforming uses so here's what I understand has happened is I've been working on the Reno zoning code since 1998. in that time only one adult use maybe two but that was an expansion have ever licensed about three weeks ago I saw a new adult use that is licensed at the corner of Mill and terminal the code prevents adult uses on arterials Mill and Terminal Way are arterials I do not understand how that use was permitted that use includes not only retail But it includes two theaters one for eight people or nine people and one for ten people so people can go in and watch pornography which is a defined term in this new use this is a use that's in the mixed employment I went down I did my research I'm like I am appealing this and plus when you approve an adult use you must have a written description of the stop there must be a production of a written document of why this decision was made that was not produced I went to appeal it and the city attorney's office told me that I missed some notice on appealing it because I wanted to go to the hearing officer and I wanted to bring it to the city council okay we've got right you know from the destination of the airport to you know one of our biggest gaming properties biggest tourist locations a new adult use it's around the corner more on Mill Street but terminal is the massage parlor I don't know if they have a door in between and then you have the adult theater does this that's a non-conforming use I think it was a permanent air but it has a license it's a non-conforming use does this put this into Conformity then all right because it's not on a breakfast hold on so you're over four and a half minutes so hold on I just let me just check in with everyone anyone have any comments yeah I mean we went over this in quite a bit of detail at the last meeting and we tried to parse it and I think you're bringing up a great Point um Miss breakfast if I I don't think it was our intent to legitimize non-conforming uses was it no this has nothing to do with non-conforming uses we're not touching non-conforming uses I think Miss Council uh Miss breakfast is talking about a specific project which is not what we're talking about today that is completely off the agenda we can take that up separately but that's not what we're talking about I think what she's asking is if if the city legally permitted an adult use based on the zoning code that allowed that use and now we're changing the direction of the zoning code saying if they came in under the new proposed language would they still be allowed but because they were legally permitted based on what zoning was in place at that time they're allowed we're not going to kick anybody out but but understanding that if you know what we're doing here are some cleanups for example on the Cannabis correct we had rules in place they were accidentally in my term dropped out or putting them back in there could have been a use come in in the intervening time that would have gone against our policy correct and it would have been just a let's call the scrivener's error really because it was not our intent we never said it was our intent on cannabis to to delete the distance requirements for example that was never part of our intent so I'm trying to apply it understand here it sounds like for a period of time there was an error in our rules because we were very clear on adult business we all most of us lived through the experience of setting up these zones so I want to make sure I do understand are we correcting like similar to cannabis in error or are we doing a new thing or are we syncing it up with the change in the um the want to say the zoning code when you change the names could could you just be look precise on that yep so specific to adult business let's go back to where we allow adult businesses three zoning districts the entire city three zoning districts step one right are they in the right zoning District yes or no if the answer is yes then the question is are they located within certain distances of sensitive uses schools Parks other adult businesses so those requirements right now only pertain to two of our zoning districts which is an industrial I think industrial and industrial commercial we want them to apply to all three of those zoning districts so the only change requirements and so on correct so what we're doing is saying in that mixed employment yes you can have adult businesses we also want to make sure that you're not within you know a certain distance of those sensitive uses that's what this change does so any use that came in prior to today followed whatever code was in place at that time for the last you know 50 years related to that one like there was on cat cannabis there's many many errors in our zoning okay we are cleaning those up so I'm not going to say whether it was an accident on purpose January a year and a half ago right so what we're doing is cleaning that up so again any use that has ever come in has to follow the code that's in place when they come in I'll stop here and I I just uh I'm unclear I think I didn't understand and I'll leave it at this you don't have to answer that we were adding an area mixed employment for adult business it sounds like what you're saying mixed employment never existed it was not part of our own our old zoning code and you created it we created it because we got rid of certain zoning districts we used to have industrial business that went away that was replaced with mixed employment so you were allowed an industrial business to have a um adult business correct so it's replacing one for the other we don't have industrial business anymore but now we have mixed employment but my understanding is mixed employment is much broader than what industrial business there are more Parcels Zone mixed employment than there were before yes just not more but I think there's a great deal more so that's what I maybe didn't understand at our last discussion there are definitely more yes not a mayor thank you Miss Foose obviously this is a second reading we went through this and unanimously adopted these ordinances uh for uh I think two weeks ago so here you are um the ward one member of course was not here during that process so I understand why she might have some questions um I don't think they're germane to this discussion I too went to Full Belly Deli and thought oh wow there's a new business here that I didn't know was here before but it's not related to this item and if there is going to be some you know inquiry about how it came to be that Susie's was able to locate at that location it's not going to be in this agenda item right correct um and so I appreciate your sort of keeping us narrowly focused on it uh you know all of these businesses um and and when you start talking about cannabis live entertainment adult businesses you know people's hackles get a little bit raised um for my part Susie's look like you know any other store on the on the street I didn't go inside it's not my interest but uh also I'm not sure it's relevant to the discussion so at the end of the day I'll be happy to move forward with the second um or the the adoption as it were and so when we get to that point I'm prepared to adopt the ordinance all right I'm going to send it to councilwoman because yeah you know in this line of questioning you do not hear any discussion about these adult businesses on our arterials and when we we have one at the intersection of two arterials I believe it was a permit issued in air and now you heard an introductionary she said non-conforming uses are acknowledged to be conforming so it in way legitimizes and I don't know what happened through this permitting effort I've asked for public records I've explored filing suit on it myself but I will not be doing that but I want to let the council know that you have made a complete and tremendous shift in adult business regulations with this action and we've already seen one pop up where we have not and we are in a whole new landscape and not only that when I went and saw this I thought well it's just the retail component you know it's a small intimate seating area for pornographic viewing in a small strip center that one has two eateries where children can be sitting in that outdoor table right in feet from where people are entering and exiting their cars to go into the theater and two also in a center that has massage a massage business and we are opening up a complete can of worms here because we see market demand in these little theaters with this new one coming forward I am very concerned it can happen in any of your Awards we haven't had an explanation how this was able to locate on two arterials I believe it's an heir I'm sorry to bring it up at this point but I in good faith wanted to just have questions answered before the hearing officer and then if I felt because I wasn't getting them from staff on the record a written decision was never issued in violation of the a Title 18 requirement I just wanted to go into the hearing officer and see that and find that was legitimately permitted I was kicked out on procedural grounds because I didn't have noticed can't have noticed when something is not you know a report isn't written this legitimizes this and it opens it up in your Wards right now I would urge you to either ask them to kick out the title 18 stuff we related to adult uses uses and non-conformances or to table this second reading okay I actually I think you have a valid point yeah can we can we do that um with the motion here you can let me just kind of reiterate one thing if if you don't approve this change that entire shopping center can be an adult business we we have no limitation based on today's zoning code if we approve this proposed change no more adult businesses can go there because we can't allow them within so many feet of each other we also can't allow them on an arterial that's what this does if we do nothing today that entire shopping center can become multiple adult businesses I don't understand how that's true how can it go into a mixed employment zoning District when the mixed employment zoning district is not shown as eligible or for adult uses so today we have three zoning districts where adult businesses are allowed right industrial industrial commercial and mixed employment only two of those also have locational criteria that you can't be within a certain distance of arterials of schools of parks so what we're trying to do is clean that up let's make sure the mixed employment also has that same locational criteria so that we don't allow adult businesses on arterials or within so many feet of each other or schools or perks can we do it this way and then we would come back later and remove that so I'm not sure what you want to remove like this what we're proposing allowing them a mixed employee says that basically um we would still allow them in mixed employment which again is our industrial part of of Reno um but we add that locational restriction no but she's asking once we do this could we come back and take out Mixed employment as even a zone that could be allowed for uh adult business you could yeah okay I think what we really need is a map I think we need um that is the safest most prophylactic way right that comes as an allowed use in the mix yes employment District right between this instance impose the locational criteria right that are missing from the code then come back and then you can come back and amend the code good okay yeah and if if it helps we do have a map um that shows mixed employment Zoning for the entire city that's what I was looking for so that purple area is the entire mixed employment this general area here was what used to be industrial business and is now called mixed employment so we have a couple I'm kind of hodgepodge areas up here near TMCC this is the TMCC dandini campus so no adult business would be allowed because that whole thing is a school right so that locational criteria that we're talking about would limit adult businesses from going up there okay and generally here again that's by the university so that would kick adult businesses generally outside of that area and we also have areas down here next to residential so they would likely be kicked out as well and then kind of a hodgepodge down here again most of that's going to be near some of these sensitive areas which is why what we're proposing today you want to put in today so from a planning perspective the best way to do that is approve this and then come back and take it out of the mix yep and maybe what we can do is come back and show you what any of those purple areas still allow adult businesses if we added all those kind of you know distancing requirements so you can have a comfort level of does it even matter okay that's great all right any more account I disagree I think there was a lean of an administrative decision to allow this one to be permitted okay and we know there's not a written decision on it because I've checked the record I've had stuff look for it so I disagree I think we can at this point in time prohibit them in the Emmy okay I wanted to get in front of a hearing officer and hear their rationale I wasn't given that courtesy I wasn't giving that courtesy as a council member I don't believe we move forward I don't I think that staff made an heir and the temporary adoption if it's temporary is a legitimization of that air okay I'm gonna man go ahead yeah I just want to say this that I don't we're not styled to um change a meet today I mean we're not to my knowledge correct so again we can bring you more information but I'd rather have this coverage today and then I'd rather come back and talk this through that's what I think I'd rather do yeah and then um just for city managers I mean I I do need to say though that I think you know it's been said a couple different ways the here that that Miss Foose is is trying to describe for you there was not a staff error in approving a business at uh at this location the code requires us to approve that business at this location because for whatever reason in the changeover 18-ish months ago the locational criteria didn't translate that's what I'm saying that's where the little that's what that's what Miss Foose is asking you to cure today and we can have the policy discussion later but to avoid proliferation of this situation this change needs to occur okay correct me if I'm wrong councilwoman breakfast I'm just getting from what you had mentioned is that I guess I'm hearing that you think it was deliberate and we're saying that we gave the license based on the zoning correct based on the code that was adopted by this Council we gave that license which didn't carry forward those um arterial restrictions correct and those arterial restrictions one question I have did they apply to IB yes yes so when we change diabeta on me we didn't catch that that's when it did not carry over correct yes okay well those are bigger I think so the bigger downside like to what you're saying if we don't do this today that could be extremely problematic correct okay so all right so I'm going to send it to you vice mayor Reese go ahead go to adopt second I have a motion I have a second I will head councilman breakfast yeah I won't be a voting but I would like to encourage because we don't have a written decision we have a permit of one of our most sensitive land uses issued without following the ordinance number one if there is a it you know a predated written decision and it's I think 1808 304 F I can't remember the sub you know ask for it to be produced but the land use table shows this uh in me but there is a footnote and a reference to the specific standards and I think I believe that that train had judici had discretion and the discretion I believe was given to the benefit of allowing them to enter in here where they should not have been loud that's where I think the administrative decision of issuing this permit should have been made it's very problematic to me because I think a new use you know adult uses are very sensitive because of secondary effects and secondary effects can be prostitution and trafficking all right thank you so much and I appreciate that and listen I think we're all sensitive to it but I think today if we don't do this then we could be if you talk about sensitivity it could be that much more so I I can't agree with that so anyway I have a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye all those no motion carries all right thank you so much Angela great job thank you good job okay and Madame mayor I just want to say one more thing yes please do whether right or wrong whatever they did which we are not litigating here today whether right or wrong we we um that by doing this I feel that we have said we're agnostic about being right or wrong but what we are aware of is there's a potential loophole and we want to close it up and I don't think we're either giving a better standing to anybody or worse by closing up uh what appears to be in a loophole may not be a loophole it appears to be and maybe there is language in the footnote that you know XYZ but by doing this doesn't take away the language that was in the footnote this just covers it up more so you know another maybe that's the wrong words not covers it up more but it provides the coverage uh to the ordinance that we need in clear language okay so let's look at our agenda Madam Clerk figure out where we're at because I really need everyone to get up and take a break we're almost even at dinner this has been a pretty long agenda we are hold on G1 Madam mayor if you would like we could take a motion on item G2 take a brief break and then come back and move into our interview portion of this meeting oh let's do that um let's go into about let's see it's five o'clock now what are you guys thinking 20 minutes 30 minutes could we hold I mean could we just do it now like um take the break yeah that's what I was doing oh I mean before we take any more items or do we have no we're not going to take any more okay we're just figuring out my suggestion was opening item G2 which is account the city council appointment and then that way the only item we have remaining on our agenda today is Council announcements and the interviews go ahead make a motion oh I would on G2 if we're gonna open it no we were going to do that after yeah so I'm just gonna I would rather we just like get up take a break don't come back and we'll do this okay and uh and then go into the internet talk about that okay so it's five o'clock why don't we come back here um at 5 15. okay we'll reconvene at 5 15. all right Madame mayor if you are ready we can reconvene this meeting at 5 26 all members present [Music] I think everyone in here has been here all day how are you holding up Carl you've been here all day uh bless your heart do any of you guys want water could you use some water soda nothing come on you can't have water oh then you can't have water [Music] there's one no there's one I'm good that's it I'm glad you mentioned that what about if you had it in a and there's a water fountain oh all right if we are ready to move on we can open item G1 and her and other and that's why I met a mayor um you know before we left we were talking about going to item G2 and I presume we're gonna swear in the new person this evening and then they'll sit at the diocese with us rather than burden that person with you know a vote on an issue they may not be briefed for or um you know it's often kind of controversial let's just do item G2 um that would be myself and they can sit down um I would ask that they don't vote then we should find out finished out this meeting because it's not fair for someone to come well I'd like to make a motion to override your and I think the rules allow for that um I'd like it to make a motion that we open up item G2 and if I can't get a second I can't get a second that's fine okay all right uh councilman breakfast made a motion make it a second okay okay all right so we'll just stick to the agenda so that we stay in accordance to the item number that we are on okay at this time uh Madam clerk I'm gonna send it right back to you thank you Madame Mayors give me just a second sure oh no there's nothing up there it's fine I realized I sent I sent my counterpart away and now I have to be here so I made a mistake um good evening mayor and Council thank you for having me Nikki Huntsman city clerk for the City of Reno for the record um so we're opening up item G1 which is the interview and selection portion of our meeting for the ward 3 vacancy we do have our four applicants in the building they're upstairs and they are sequestered at this moment and have been for quite a bit of time hopefully they've gotten a bite to eat for dinner and so the thing that we are looking for from this body is a determination of order generally we have gone in alphabetical but if there's a preference from you Madame mayor or the body as a whole to do it in a different order we're happy to oblige um and then same as past process will allow them time to come down they'll have a short period of time where they can make an introductory statement to both you the body and to whomever is in the public watching um then each of you have a series of questions that we will go through one each which the applicant will be allowed a two-minute time frame to answer the question that is presented to them and then upon all questions being answered we'll go into a closing statement period and then we'll move on to the next applicant so are we good with alphabetical order yes I want to follow normal process exactly what we did perfect five okay just to stay consistent absolutely okay so we will get our if Ashley would get our first applicant down here we will go ahead and start in just a moment okay thank you so much foreign um taking public comment on that I'm gonna do you want me to start setting it no no all right at this time I'm gonna have Madame clerk come to the diocese I would love for you to give the background of sort of how we ended up here um because I think there has been a lot of conversation about why we didn't do a special election um and an appointment talk a little bit about that because we have the register of Voters here correct um there was something else that I thought we should put on the record so if we if we wanted to start from the beginning councilmember Delgado resigned from his position in the ward three as the ward 3 elected member of this body on September 29th we did move forward with a special meeting where this there was two options presented to the body one was a special election and one was a appointed process similar to what we just went through for Ward five and essentially after much discussion the timeline because we're in the middle of an election cycle has stayed the same so if we went if we moved forward with a special election we would be looking at somewhere between a six to nine month process and a vacancy in ward 3 for that period of time um while we were there would remain a vacant seat for Ward 3 if we moved forward with a special election for at least six to nine months six to nine months okay I just want everyone to no because I've had a lot of people ask ah well I think we all agree with going out to a special election but six to nine months is a long time to leave a seat vacant unattended and so during that meeting the discussion was again special election versus the appointment process we did have Jamie Rodriguez the interim Washoe County Register of Voters here with us who also kind of confirmed the situation that if we did move forward with a special election standing up the election itself is not so much of the issue it's rather obtaining the voting machines to be able to conduct the special elections those are currently being utilized and then additionally the resources that are required to then prepare the the ballots accept the ballots go through the confirmation period so there was a lot of moving factors that contributed to that six to nine month time frame okay so with that in mind the body took those two items under consideration decided to move forward with the appointment process immediately following that meeting we did open up the application period which was open for one week we closed that the following week on October 12th we had the applications posted um and then went through a finalist selection process at that point which we narrowed down to our four finalists Kyle Edgerton Courtney mckimmy Miguel Martinez and Sean Savoy um following that finalist selection we had two meet and greet sessions with the public both were held as hybrid options so we did them in person at two ward 3 locations the Northeast Community Center and also the Neil Road recreation center we had a phenomenal turnout for both of them I think we had somewhere between 30 and 40 participants in person and then both nights there was on average between 10 to 20 people online that also participated those those meetings were posted then on our website for those who weren't able to participate to still be able to watch those questions were curated via submissions that we got on the reno.gov website and then here we are today where the finalists like I said are upstairs I think we have our first one here with us now and they're just anxiously awaiting the opportunity to meet and interview with each of you okay and then I just want to put it on the record due to the Charter that has to be done within 30 days so that's another reason I want people to understand that um I would be supportive of a charter change and I think anyone else is that doesn't like how this works that's to our Charter so to become involved um how can someone do that right so there's two areas of law right now that are binding us so NRS is a portion of it and then also our Charter is also the secondary portion so the 30 days is outlined basically the first one is that we have to take an action on that seat within 30 days so if that was moving forward with a special election we have to make that decision and move forward with that within the first 30 days if we decided to go forward with the appointment process which is designated in our Charter that c also needs to be filled within 30 days so there's two opportunities there those would require legislative changes which we are moving into a legislative season so if people are interested I would say reach out to your legislators and and start that conversation okay Adam mayor all right good yeah I just well I I think you know early on you said we all agreed and I just want to get the record I did not vote in support of the appointment I'm here today but I did not vote but I it was just this body you were not here you haven't participated no matter mayor I was here to vote against the appointment for the ward three I was present and I did not vote in support you said we all did and I did not well you haven't attended a lot of you haven't attended this process so I'm not including you well I I just let the record request for the record okay I want to correct the record that I did not vote in support of the appointment process and I wasn't including you because you haven't been in the process so thank you you're welcome so our first time applicant today first before we start okay um because I don't want to get ahead of us uh with public comment um we do have one public commenter so I'm gonna pop back over to my area and then immediately following the closing of public comment we do have our first applicant here tonight and that is Mr Kyle Edgerton okay thank you so much Mr Edgerton if you want to come and sit down you're more than welcome to you anywhere you want to be yeah I I guess Ashley is that okay sorry well I guess my point is what would they learn during public comment that no one else would learn thank you whatever you okay so our first public commenter today is Pam McNeil good evening it's always nice to be here and I learned a lot today it's always good to come to the meetings and uh and learn different things about sewer and adult entertainment but uh thank you for having me I feel funny being the sole public commenter but I did want to say that we appreciated going through the ward 5 selection and that you appreciated what we did so we thought it was such fun we're gonna do it again for Ward three um we do think that the although the ward 3 person needs to represent ward 3 he also represents the city and we really enjoyed getting to know each one of the um applicants we spent there was four of us out of our group that spent an hour with each of the applicants um and since you appreciated what we did it was it was great um one of the things kind of like doing the findings on a project one of the criteria that we chose to um rate the people on was their knowledge and experience they all I mean they they all blew me away on just their different areas that they were strong in which they were strong um Courtney was oh because she was just very Dynamic and with her experience experience with the state she knew a lot and had she taught me a lot of stuff that I didn't know uh Meg I shouldn't say Miguel Mr Martinez and Ms McKinney Mr Martinez was definitely qualified to be with the Hispanic Community he has his knowledge at the school and where he's uh got his education and it's been great and um uh Mr Savoy has been so involved with the city in so many different areas and I I learned a lot from him also ultimately we went with um Kyle Edgerton that we all agreed that he would be the best to hit the ground running he had all the qualities that we were looking for as far as knowledge and experience he has knowledge of the city's master plan he knows that you can take things and baby steps you don't accomplish things all at one time and he is very knowledgeable of his Ward lives in the ward drives his drives his bicycle rides his bicycle and gets acquainted with people and he provides pro bono work and discounted Legal Services um so although we do support Sean Sean Kyle Edgerton for this position um we also really enjoyed working with everybody and would appreciate getting to know whoever you guys decide to choose thank you I think it was so helpful in five um so I just want to commend you and I think maybe was Cecil here with you I thought I saw him will you tell him thank you so much of course I don't think we realized it would go this late so it's easy to see how at the end you sort of get tongue-tied right because I do thank you so much okay back at you madam clerk all right Madame mayor so for the record we don't have any additional public comment registered in the audience we would like to note that we did receive various comments in support of several different individuals there were 10 letters of support one letter of opposition we did have two members of the public earlier today that did sign in for public comment but did not do not wish to speak who are also in favor of Mr Martinez and we have two voicemails which will transition to now okay hello my name is Carlos and I'm going to express my support from Miguel Martinez to fill the war food vacancy they are the men of our community and will represent as well I think he has the right stuff to be successful and as a city councilman please keep the representation of our community on the city council at a point Miguel Martinez he has helped me in many many many many occasions um I am attending college and currently at the University of Nevada Reno and he has helped me through that whole entire Journey when I started once I freshly was out of high school he was become more than a mentor and a great friend a friend and someone that I look up to I definitely can support Miguel he is a man of our community or present us very well he is a family man above all and he takes care of the people around them you have a very great relationship if you have any other questions or comments or concerns please you know how you take the call in at 702-600 1950 again you get as a man of our community thank you hello good afternoon my name is Vincent and the reason I'm calling is because I wanted to call this expression support for when you get my penis to feel that they can see it ward 3 for the city council of Reno um Miguel has had a huge impact too on myself and then also to the students that were able to work with Miguel I you know I had an honor to working with me yet alongside of medical and programming which is programming set and intended to help a lot of the men of color that are entering the college that don't have the support system possibly don't have a lot of the the role models in their life that are needed in order to propel them to go forward in advance and um it really does make a difference too um and I've seen it through firsthand with the work that he's done um not only to within cncc and his current occupancy but then also to Across the state working throughout other colleges in the higher education the invest in higher education in additionally too um I've also worked with Miguel too with um the NGL access which is the group that goes out of the way to go above and beyond to help and support um immigrant and undocumented students at their campus so we're trying to see like because regardless of the status they're still a student of the state and that group just meets and tries to work out ways that can help and support um and be there for them too so I'm really you know happy and proud to support Miguel too and I just wanted to tell everyone here or what I was listening to this that you would be an excellent candidate um uh sorry an excellent city councilman and you know please keep the representation of our community on the city council and appoint me to go Martinez thank you so much I appreciate it and with that Madam mayor we have no additional public comment all right thank you so much Miss Ashley where are you I think she's out there yeah okay we're ready did you see a signal hello Mr Edgerton how you doing good evening I'm great how you feeling just relax a little bit Yeah that's the hope my biggest concern is I think that Sean's gonna complain I got extra time [Laughter] because the delay all right he's on to me yeah so this is is how um the process works um let's see we're going to view three minutes for an opening statement and then we're gonna go around and ask you questions and then I think if we have enough time don't we try to always like fit some others in if we have enough time I don't remember no one round okay all right well then we're gonna just try to stick to the process that we used last time so just take your time and whenever you're ready all right well good evening uh for the record my name is Kyle Edgerton mayor shivi council members manager Thornley I had Mr Holland here are you still here hi still hanging in um I'm glad to be here uh nearly at the end of this process uh it has had all the the speed and thrills and I guess lines and uh kind of stomach in your throat uh anxiety of a roller coaster but it's been a good one it's been a really positive experience as I've said before in other comments um and I've connected with almost everyone up there behind the diocese and many other folks throughout the city this process has been positive because it spurred me to have conversations that I don't think I otherwise would have started um if you'd asked me three weeks ago why I was having all these conversations I would have said it was to uh I guess get people to like me and give me a job um in other words that I was going to be the one convincing others and The Uncanny thing about these conversations is they've had a different effect um they've really strengthened my belief that I am a great fit for this role at this moment uh and that I could be an asset to the city to the council and to Ward 3. three weeks ago I was focused on what I didn't know I was trying to learn as much as I could about the various issues and it wasn't because I wasn't already well informed it wasn't because I wasn't already paying attention uh it was just because if you're going to be the one making these decisions shouldn't you have a platform or a 20-point plan or something like that and I think what I've learned through this process is that the easy issues are already on the consent agenda it's the hard stuff that actually takes a bit more of effort that's the leftover stuff and and when it comes to the hard stuff um there's not always going to be an easy solution or a right answer um in statistics or econometrics you sometimes take a big cloud of data and you try to find a best fit line um and I suppose you know in the absence of Clairvoyance which I don't think anyone on the council has that's maybe the best we can aim for is just kind of a best fit when it comes to policy choices so how do we make those best fit decisions uh I think the answer is easy to recite and it's hard to implement it's outreaching aggressively into the community finding those stakeholders who won't come forward on their own we probably need to be creative to draw people's attention away from breaking news and Tick Tock and gas prices and the cost of milk and you need to facilitate a conversation that's about needs identifying needs trying to work together to solve a shared problem and moving away from Headline numbers or bottom line results or immovable Red Line kind of priorities and then you just grind it out you try to have the best conversation you can have it be a complete and honest conversation out in the open and try to find that best fit for all the data that you're Gathering through that process um I have a number of abilities to bring to this role for half a decade I ran an immigration program serving some of my most vulnerable Neighbors I have experience reaching out to folks who don't have ordinary nine to five jobs and as an attorney my job essentially boils down to those three functions of listening to people identifying problems and trying to find solutions for them and then bringing people together to to have some common ground there so again easy to say hard to do I hope that it's come through through my application comments submitted on my behalf the conversations that we've had and hopefully the conversation will have the site to this tonight this evening um that I have those skills I'm looking forward to the opportunity I have no questions from Mr Edgerton but I will disclose that after Mr delgado's resignation he and I at his request did have a telephone conversation and uh that's what we did we had a talk thank you you had a conversation with Mr Delgado no I I cannot remember when he and I spoke Mr Edgerton and I buy telephone oh you I think it was prior to the council me excluded wanting to do an appointment I think people were reaching out it might have been right after but I had a telephone conversation with him and I'm just making that disclosure okay I thought you said councilman Delgado okay all right um councilwoman Taylor go ahead thank you madam mayor thank you for being here I think I know how you might feel it's been a long day um you talked about this a little bit in your opening statement and one of the things that are important to me is um or two things our character and open-mindedness so my question is how do you make decisions with competing priorities so sometimes we have person a on one side and person B on another side of an issue how do you go but your process to get to a decision thank you um and when it comes to you know the character piece your question and maybe you'll set aside for the moment but generally in in these kind of decision making when you have two people who are at antipodes on an issue um you know I said this in a previous comment it's not necessarily that the answer is the 50 the average between those two positions um when there's a dispute I try to approach them from a standpoint of again identifying needs and trying to work together to solve a shared problem and what that means Beyond just kind of the cliche bumper sticker side of it right is is it sometimes folks have gotten into their trenches and they think that they they know exactly what they want and what they're fighting for but if you can have a broader conversation you can identify opportunities for for overlap there might be some Creative Solutions that no one had thought of before because again if you're kind of coming at each other like old old rivals that tends to be the um the approach um and I did speak about this in my opening in terms of you know again the hard the hard stuff the hard issues don't necessarily have obvious answers um you might just have a big cloud of data and a lot of different you know this is good in XYZ dimensions and this is good in pqr dimensions and you're trying to kind of reconcile those um you know I I do have strong uh principles right in terms of kind of how I view the world and what I think are are the right ways to to implement policy and and you know Implement public will um I think when you get into kind of a tie-breaking situation you have to go back to those first principles and just kind of search your conscience but um I also think that there's often opportunities to uh to resolve an issue well well in advance of just kind of that soul-searching piece um and also I'm a pragmatist right so uh there's there may be situations where uh achieving 100 of what I want or when constituency wants uh isn't as it isn't going to happen and it's better to maybe have something that meets 70 of everyone's needs um you know to to kind of uh again in search of what those Creative Solutions are yeah and if you have any follow-up or if you want to get into the character thing more I think that's I'm happy to answer the question further yeah okay I am going to send it now to councilman door sure hi hi um good evening and for my colleagues I had a chance to um interview all of our four finalists before we narrowed them um just so I've got to know them a little bit but I am curious on um I wanted to say that for for I think most of us Public Safety is our number one issue um we put about two-thirds of our budget towards Public Safety we made huge steps today uh to further buttress our Public Safety activities um in just the last three years we added about over 60 uh fire and police officials professionals so since that's such a given I want to ask about something else because we've spent a lot of time today on public safety and I want to dive a little deeper and this issue is an issue about growth uh it's really important to me I'd put it right under there right under Public Safety for me but I I wondered in terms of growth what do you think is the single most important issue facing the growth of the city and how do you plan to work with your colleagues from other Awards to best consider the issue so I'm trying to get a sense and I'll ask the same question everyone trying to get a sense of we we have growth we've had some unprecedented growth and the growth has faced some challenges you know we have growth on Hills growth and water or growth infill I'm just wondering what you see as some of the pressing issues related to growth but more than that because it's easy to list those off what how would you work with your colleagues or how would you consider the issue thank you well the first part of your question is I I had a lot of the same thoughts right I think other members of the council maybe you in particular have said that the easy land is gone right when it comes to growth and development um I think you know for obvious reasons a lot of the growth has been in in the Hinterlands where it's been it's been on the outside of the community uh that's where the available land is that's where some of the marketable land is um but those obviously present challenges it presents challenges to our Open Spaces to kind of the historic look and nature and feel of our community um they're also much harder areas to service with our infrastructure whether that's physical infrastructure Public Safety as you mentioned at the outside of your question um you know there's there's natural resource concerns and so that is I think the the biggest challenge growth wise is probably just the the the situes right where where we're actually going to put growth because the logical easy place is you know in the in the places we've been building far north far south um but those also have some some externalities um in in the the flip side of that or the corollary is that infill is is a very enticing uh solution I think it solves it begins to solve a lot of our concerns it helps with the density it helps us with getting away from single occupancy Vehicles it helps us with revitalizing you know having thriving uh downtown and in vibrant neighborhoods uh it's also really hard you know you run into just the just the uh physical limitations of actually getting a project done in a safe you know safe way maybe you're dealing with historic buildings where there might be asbestos or chemicals rather other concerns there in an in a densely populated area um you're trying to reverse engineer things as opposed to just build it fresh um you're dealing with more of an issue with displacement of historic communities um and and then I think just from a you know I've had some conversations that have enlightened me as to the challenges just from a permitting standpoint right in code uh you know if you're taking an old a former casino building that you're trying to turn into condos you're taking some other historic structure you're going to run into those those issues of okay these doorways aren't wide enough or this kind of pipe is outdated uh what are we going to do about that and then the city is faced with you know uh do we create variances to our own codes that we think are in the best interest of public health and safety earthquake preparedness or do we massage those a little bit in order to meet our urgent housing and growth needs and so again uh you know to kind of go back to my overall platform right it's it's it's Gathering data from informed folks from as many stakeholders as possible um including who I hope would be my council members my fellow members of the council um to just have those honest conversations about those trade-offs and try to make a best fit decision okay okay great thank you for you thank you madam mayor great to see you here likewise um my question will be one that I think is really important and that is about the senior population and we know in word three there's been a lot of things going on with with the war with their seniors and there are parks and so I'd like to ask how you plan to engage with the senior population specifically yeah um yeah and that's an issue that I've been clued into a bit I think one recent issue was at Paradise Park right there's a there's a a large number of seniors in the high-rises there and the other kind of multi multi-family units um it's also a park that I freaking with my children and we often you know encounter seniors there enjoying the outdoors um I mean a very kind of hokey but Earnest and genuine answer right is is I'd love to do you know walks at Paradise Park with the folks from that Community right and I think a lot of the engagement that I've been preaching and kind of talking about I imagine just rolling my daily life into opportunities to meet people right I take my kids on weekends to parks and we hang out and there's no reason I couldn't then be letting constituents know reaching out to them right in in kind of co-programming in that way um so I'd love to find Opportunities like that to push into those communities um and and I think you know there's in terms of concerns for that Community right I think your question was more about reaching them I think that you know the short answer is just I you know I have a a long track record of doing Outreach kind of unusual or creative Outreach to just kind of meet people where they are so identifying those those areas um where there's you know bang for your buck you could say um and just you know reaching into into these communities are people that often don't have easy Mobility easy access to Transit and so going to them as opposed to waiting for them to show up at your Venue is important um and then you know in terms of issues that they face uh obviously I would want to know what what they identify as key issues I think um there's been some consternation over that access to that particular uh you know social Center rec center and and what that might be transformed to do and whether that would cut those folks out and that needs to be a conversation um it might just be a situation where they're just the air just needs to be cleared a little bit I don't know the details of it um you know Mobility is also a big thing and so I've talked about making sure that our streets are safe for all users that comes in part for me as a bike commuter but the same concerns that animate my my desire to get home safely at night on a bicycle often intersect with folks who are going to be slow getting through a crosswalk or people who are in a motorized scooter or whatever uh you know in a public transit as well so those are intersecting concerns that I think I'm aware of thank you madam mayor and I apologize in advance my question is rather long uh hopefully it'll get us to a place where we can have a good conversation first of all it's a pleasure to have you in Chambers tonight we have had the opportunity to have a number of conversations and I have really gotten to like your demeanor and so I appreciate your thoughtfulness tonight my question focuses on Coalition building and it has some discrete subparts what I've learned in my four years on Council is that nothing happens singularly or in a vacuum the greatest accomplishments of this body and policy decisions happen when folks come together collectively and in solidarity around a cause or an idea sometimes it is an event or a policy decision and for your benefit I Define coalition building as bringing together different groups to achieve a common goal city council is nonpartisan and for good reason one of which is because it forces us to create coalitions across various groups of people whether that's racial and ethnic groups political affiliations gender sexuality economic experience Builders and con conservationists those are just some examples there are also different subgroups that shape our coalitional efforts constituents I think there are stakeholder groups colleagues and city employees and I want you to focus on two of these subgroups in particular because your answers today in your previous examples indicate that you understand how to build coalitions within your ward and within constituents so taking them out of the equation for the purposes of your answer how will you speak to First build coalitions with your colleagues and I'll give you some examples what would you do if for example you learned that your colleague is an election denier right or one colleague is not interested in communicating does not participate in the processes of elected life or routinely is negative or denigrating to those they encounter the second part is how can you build coalitions with different departments and team members and that really focuses on the other folks in this building so again my discrete subparts with the background that I've given you are building coalitions with your colleagues should you sit on this diocese and then the other one has to do with building coalitions with members of the organization the team members who really do make the city run all right is there an appendix [Laughter] um I appreciate the the question and it's it's a thoughtful one um maybe one way to start again maybe kind of a hokey but overly Earnest one um you know I've I've I'm I'm I'm uh have no Hispanic heritage but I do speak Spanish right I speak English I speak Spanish uh I speak NPR I speak Fox News uh I speak golfer hiker uh sneaker head um skateboarder right I'm not fluent in a lot of those languages but I speak them I can communicate in them um maybe I'm just kind of a hokey guy I like trying to find common ground with people and connect over their their interests uh maybe we have a common interest maybe I can just develop an interest in in what you know I just I'm just interested in people so I think just add a person to person level I mean you know a team of six seven eight people uh hopefully you can find something there that you can connect over um whether that's an outdoor activity or a cultural interest and so I think those those are the starting points for actual relationships and friendships that then I think can can facilitate the difficult decisions that you might have to work through as a working group right and I commented to this extent in one of the meet and greets right it's it's for me it's it's important to just have that Baseline relationship that I think you that can then do the harder work building up from that from that structure um you know you asked about you know denigrating or or folks holding positions that you really can't connect with if someone holds a philosophical or quasi-factual position I can't connect with I think the best solution there is to just kind of agree to disagree and not really engage with it I don't really see the benefit of poking that particular bear um when it comes to you know caustic or denigrating Behavior I you know I wouldn't expect to find that on this body or or in other dealings and if I if I did uh I think I would deal with it depending on what the power Dynamic was either by interceding or by letting you know certainly I'm you all are welcome to denigrate me to your dear to your heart's content I I have a thick again um I I might feel compelled to speak up for other people given the circumstances um and in terms of coalitions within uh you know the tower right so to speak um uh you know I I I would the only real constraint would be not wanting to come off as it being fake right uh I I would love to learn more about what the different departments are doing uh again finding those those connections at a person-to-person level trying to find uh problems that we can solve together and I think this this goes to an earlier part of your question that wasn't necessarily one of the subparts but it's how do you build coalitions when you've got folks who are who are at odds um and I think at least a starting point if you can't build a relationships or if you're working on building the relationship the actual human to human heart to heart relationship um if you're still if that's still under construction the other thing that you can do is is find and Notch easy wins right you can you can collect that low-hanging fruit together so even if you've got group a and Group B that don't agree about anything uh darn near there's probably something that they they can agree about and I think that the process as I've said in other contexts before the process of notching that win finding a way to somehow compromise and and reach a shared goal build a coalition to solve a shared problem as you said uh that can be animating that can help knock down some barriers that previously existed that's what the optimism says all right mine is much shorter really short so I think you're going to appreciate it that thing against my smear about it um so Mr Edgerton if you should be selected for uh word three can you tell me what your first ward 3 initiative would be oh that's a great question um I honestly the the first thing that I've been thinking about um excuse me uh is is reaching out to all the other 1819 folks that reached out right and put their applications in um I'd love us to come together and have a an event or a gathering right break bread together um and I was gonna pitch it as uh one good idea right where we all kind of come forward with one pet idea one one something that kind of got us going and then we can kind of Workshop that together and then kind of for lack of a better term deputize each of those folks to kind of lead that initiative forward uh help identify who in the you know who in the tower is the right Point person for that connect them and really kind of give that that project legs yeah yeah uh in Ward three on the nav would you be willing to serve on the NAB if you are not selected I would yeah I would I would look more you know I honestly don't know what the you know parameters and time commitment are but yeah I think as I said as I sputtered out during my opening remarks it's it's it's been a really activating process to go through uh and so that's been inspiring and it's been just a good kind of kick in the keister forward okay yeah all right fantastic so um then at this time do you want to give us your closing remarks sure um well again thank you I almost made it I know yeah you're doing great geez and Sean can't complain about the time either okay go ahead I was somewhat brief um yeah thank you again all of you for for the opportunity for the time that you gave me to to meet with me to talk with me um they were genuinely wonderful conversations again I can't overstate how positive the process has been activating me getting me out there making these connections so I appreciate that um I identified what I thought were the you know the things that I brought to the to the table here and I think I contributed in this role um and I hope that that has landed with some veracity for you um I I hope that you have uh you know looked through my application and and the meet and greets and our conversations and comments that you received on my behalf and you've found I hope that you found someone with uh you know a mind to bring to uh these problem-solving dynamics that I've described that are that are tricky and that involve the hard stuff and trying to find those best fit policies um I hope that you have seen a heart that is big and full of love genuinely and that really does desire to reach out uh to folks especially folks who don't feel enfranchised or folks who don't feel like these doors are necessarily open to them and trying to find a place for them to come in and communicate and help and I I do hope that my demeanor has come across as uh you know like someone you'd like to go on a mountain bike ride with or a run or or you know find some other thing that we that we share in common we might actually get to hang out uh build a friendship from which we could build uh the foundation of a working relationship so thank you for the opportunity and uh that's all I got all right thank you so much um fantastic any questions of us uh-huh gotta be a two-way story yeah no I mean I think I've I've taken the opportunity to speak with you about um questions I had about the the challenge of the job and and some of the um you know the particulars of it um now I just get to hang out and watch my good friends uh sweat through the same thing well good job you made it how you feel yes I'm glad to be done okay good all right fantastic thank you foreign our next applicant is making their way in and it should be Mr Miguel Martinez hello hi Hi how are you how are you feeling wonderful how are you feeling good heck yes I'm sorry excuse me all right Mr Martinez it's so nice to see you thank you um we are going to start out where we're going to give you three minutes for opening remarks and then we're gonna go around um once with some questions okay and then we're gonna ask you to wrap up your closing remarks and then we'll see if you have any questions of us okay okay sounds good all right so go ahead just you know take your time whenever you're ready go ahead let's do it so good afternoon mayor shivi council members breakfast Taylor Reese tour and Weber city manager Thornley the team here at the City of Reno and a special thank you and appreciation to the city clerk Huntsman for all the help in this process I also want to send a big hello to all the people that are still here present thank you all for joining us and for those of us watching virtually thank you for still being here today before I continue it is important for me to say thank you to each of you for your commitment to making this a fair and transparent process thank you to everyone who shared their time during the community meetings last week either in person or virtually I want to start off by saying that I am honored and humbled to be a finalist in this appointment process to fill the ward 3 vacancy also regardless of your decision today I already feel like I won the reason I say that is because someone with my background with my story is standing before you today as a finalist this experience can only be expressed by me as sisepudo I'll be frank and state that I'm not an attorney I'm not a lobbyist I don't have a background in government Affairs I'm not an urban planner I don't and I don't have a soapbox from which I stand however I am a mentor an educator a leader a follower of two beautiful amazing daughters a husband a listener and a native ward 3 resident that has a deep prideful and lived experience in the community that raised me that is something that I know thousands of our residents can relate to as I mentioned during my public comment on October 12th I'm a Reno native more specifically I was raised in a small mobile home park near the little Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant on Kietzke Lane I lived there until sixth grade when my parents hard work paid off and they were able to achieve their American Dream not only did my parents achieve this dream but they also instilled in me the values of transparency humility a willingness to serve and to never shy away from hard work these values and their sacrifices carried me through my education Journey where I eventually earned a master's in education from Virginia Tech this accomplishment allowed me the opportunity to obtain a professional position at Turkey Meadows Community College to mentor and support youth from Title 1 schools to achieve the best version of themselves like many I want to believe that those lessons that were taught to me were special but I know that those lessons were also taught to my friends and Neighbors I'm a bit biased but the residents of ward 3 are some of the most hard-working prideful humble caring and diverse people in Nevada and that understanding can simply be taught in school or by being bilingual that's something that is shared by our Collective lived experiences as you know the services and infrastructure located within ward 3 are as diverse as its people the following is a little bit for those present and watching ward 3 is home to three of the most vibrant business corridors in Northern Nevada the Wells Avenue business district the brewery District the east side of Midtown additionally a bunch of other resources to the community like the airport the cares campus the ROTC bus station the RPD Public Safety Center which was heavily discussed earlier today and I am out of time so I will go ahead and stop there with my introduction all right great job thank you okay I'm going to start with councilwoman Taylor go ahead thank you madam mayor thank you oh I'm so sorry I'm so sorry councilwoman breakfast did you want to ask any questions okay go ahead councilman Taylor okay uh thank you Mr Martinez for being here um I've had the pleasure of talking with you as I have all the applicants and I know you've had a long day so I'm gonna get right to the point of my question okay um what I'm what I'm looking for what is most important to me is somebody that I can work with um we I'm new to this we have very long days as you can see um character is important and also the ability to have an open mind when making decisions so can you tell me a little bit about your decision making process when it comes to um competing or opposing sides and how you go about making that decision that final decision please yeah thank you so much for the question and I appreciate the opportunity to be able to discuss a little bit about my own thought process about collaborative work and the collaborative approach that I bring as a leader in the work that I currently do and obviously I would bring that here to the council as well I with the mediation and conflict resolution training that I've received in the past that has helped a lot to be able to drive different parties as you mentioned with competing interests into finding common ground in a common solution where there is some compromise that can be happened between the two parties and being able to come up with a solution where everybody feels like they want something out of it so whether even if it wasn't a hundred percent in your favor you still have the opportunity to voice record concerns bring that to the table have those be heard and incorporate that into the final decision that was made based on that mediation I would also describe the way that I work and as a leader as a transformative leadership style I've heard the term servant leadership brought up before but in the work that I do I like to be a transformative leader and make sure that isn't a transactional thing between colleagues or staff members but there is sort of a Synergy between the goals that we have established and how we can make how we can accomplish those as well I'm very goal oriented I like to include people that may not be speaking up in the conversations and make sure that they have the comfortability to bring their ideas forward in the conversation and so I want to look for ways that there can be win-win situations for both parties and then an example that I have of that would be putting together a Statewide Summit on my current job in working with different agencies and stakeholders to put a Consortium together at our community college where we brought everybody to um discuss different things in our community and how we can advance the educational opportunities for our youth so that collaborative inclusive open-minded approach is something that I would definitely bring with me to this Council appointment where I to get appointed okay all right councilman breakfast and um you I'll disclose that we have not spoken um and I don't know if you reached out and that's okay if I missed the call I apologize if you didn't it's no problem at all either um in a way it it avoided awkward conversations where I'm going you know I don't agree but you do know what the RTC is you mentioned in your comments do you know that if you see tonight we're going to have a vote on the RTC appointment and did you discuss that appointment with anybody's members of this body I did not okay thank you councilwoman doors yeah sure um thank you so much for being here and congratulations you said you're a winner already and I agree um we spent a lot of time today in our meeting and I don't know if you all got to see any of that but um on our top priority for our Council which has been public safety for years we made some huge gains today with uh finalizing a new police station uh adding what how would you plan to work with your colleagues from other Awards to best consider this issue and uh I'm just interested you know from growth we're obviously it's been a lot in the newspapers um we've heard a lot about it the challenges and it is one of the biggest jobs that we do here after spending money is deciding development projects so I'd like to get your take on you know how we could what are the issues as I said before and I was looking for the most important issue but you can mention several on growth and how how would you basically be working to address those that's a great question and I think it's multifaceted I'm able to take that and make more time maybe so I appreciate the openness that you're coming to the question with um I will start off by saying that some of the complexities that come with growth and development obviously include making sure we're building something that's sustainable that will be able to uh survive um and ways to come back climate change and keep that into consideration when we are thinking about developing and growing our area I will say that I think growth is a positive thing for our community that it creates more opportunities and economic development for our our communities to thrive and the possibility to get a future job opportunities along with that sorry a whole bunch of notes that I took just to get ready for this presentation um and then in terms of working with other council members um I think I want to tackle that a little bit by saying that I will come at this position with an open mind and understanding that you all obviously have a lot of historical knowledge and I don't know about what has been happening in the council in the city more so obviously than me as a newcomer coming into the position and so I would rely a lot on the conversations in the open door policy which I hear you all have about like keeping those conversations afloat and learning from you all about the intricacies of each project that comes before us and so being able to have enough uh firefighters police officers to make our area safe for our families and our communities to be able to thrive is definitely something that I think should be included when we think about growth and development I know that number was brought up earlier today during the presentation the number of officers that has grown but there still seems to be a gap there another thing that I heard in my conversations with community members was the need for a more permanent structure for the fire stations in ward 3 so that's definitely something else that I would want to look at and explore a little bit more driving down is it Mill Street where the the temporary station is the roof on the temporary structure is kind of coming off um and so looking at ways that we can support our fire department and making sure that they have all the resources they need and obviously that's just a structural thing but looking at other ways whether it's technology or more firefighters kidding okay summary I think what I heard you say is that within growth you support growth but that you understand that places extra demands on our fire and police officers to provide those services and that kind of stands out in your mind because I my question was about was there a top is she yeah I would say those I would also add maybe the floodplains that are okay in ward 3 and the river that flows along a large portion of the word um and making sure that we're taking those things into consideration mitigating the possibility of floods happening in our area all right thank you of course Council Weber go ahead thank you madam mayor I'm so excited to see you thank you following through and making it here yeah so my question is more about um the senior population in in the City of Reno but in in your ward and about their various senior issues impacting the city in Ward 3. so what plans do you have to engage with the senior population specifically to your ward my from my conversations and what I've learned so far thank you very much for the question I think there is a lot of programming that's done in our Recreation Center so making sure that I am aware of what's happening there and maybe even participating in badminton or anything like that other programming that happens in the recreation center so try to connect with the seniors and understand what are the difficulties there I think another thing that I heard a lot was about um people that are on fixed incomes and making sure that we're having some protections there for them and considering that they are on a fixed income and that there are affordable housing options for the community there I mean so I do want to State for the record that I don't want to get rid of any of the senior services that are already available for the community and making sure that our rec centers continue to be a great place for seniors together and take advantage of course thank you thank you madam mayor and Mr Martinez thank you for being here what a pleasure it has been to get to know you a bit better over the last several weeks I'm so proud of your work ethic and your commitment to this community is very nice to see it's not every day that we meet someone we haven't encountered and then come to like them very much so thank you for that my question is rather long so please bear with me it has some subparts and and there will be a point at which there is a question in there so I apologize in advance for that it gives you a chance to kind of situate yourself take a deep breath and think about what I'm trying to get at thank you so my question focused on Coalition building and does contain some discrete subparts what I have learned in my four years on this body is that nothing happens singularly or in a vacuum the greatest accomplishments and policy decisions that we make are when folks come together collectively and in solidary around a cause or an event an idea or a policy decision I Define coalition building for your benefit as bring bringing together different groups to achieve a common goal City Council of course is a non-partisan office and for good reason one of which is because it forces us to create coalitions across various groups of people whether it's racial and ethnic groups political affiliations gender sexual orientation or identity expression economic experience sometimes it's Builders and conservationists there are also different subgroups which shape our coalitional efforts and I will identify a couple of them as constituents and stakeholder groups both of which I think you've done a very good job of addressing in the various public forums that you've been engaged in and so I want to focus on two of the other ones which are colleagues and city employees so how would you seek to build coalitions with your colleagues and for example what would you do if you learned that one of your colleagues was an election denier or a colleague is not interested in communicating with you or does not participate in the processes of elected life and is routinely negative or denigrating to our employees so that's the first subpart it's really focused on colleagues right the second part is how can you build coalitions with different departments and team members so that really focuses on our city employees our our staff the people who really make the magic happen so again I'm really focusing on the Coalition building aspect both with colleagues that's those of us on the diocese and then secondarily with our employees those folks who actually do the work thank you very much for the question councilman Reese um I think I would start off by saying that in order to engage anybody in these sorts of conversations there has to be some sort of personal Rapport that is created with the individual it's difficult for anybody to take constructive criticism from somebody who they don't have a a relationship with and so starting off from that point from a point of empathy from a point of caring and love and knowing that being positive myself can really lay the groundwork for that sort of relationship to flourish and so that's the approach that I would take both with the colleagues and the city employees and going back to your point specifically about maybe somebody who um treats other individuals uh wrong I guess I would start off like I said with the relationship and once that is built maybe acknowledging the behavior and asking if my perspective of what I'm witnessing is the same as the individual's perspective and if there's some disconnect there trying to figure out why the behavior keeps occurring or what's the reasoning or the why behind what is happening and so understanding that maybe at a deeper level might give me a better understanding of how I am able to build that Coalition and that collaboration that you've been discussing in your questions and so I go back to the some of the responses I gave a little bit earlier in terms of working with the city employees making sure that I am a synergistic uh supervisor I guess I'm now it's not technically a supervisor but having Synergy between the work that they want to accomplish the goals that the city has along with what I would have as a council member as well um and so keeping that goal-oriented mentality in in the back of our minds and starting off the conversation from there I will also say that even though we may not always agree on every single topic that we discuss we're always a team and we need to make sure that we um behave in that way in our actions mirror or reflect that as well and so having a team mentality and understanding that it takes a village to complete anything whether it's raising a child or accomplishing a certain goal um it will probably be a similar approach for me in this Council appointment again if I were to get it so that's kind of like where I would be coming from as an individual and that's the practice that I've that I do every day at my job and incorporating those individuals building rapport with people and making sure that they understand that I care about them on a human level and then we're here to get stuff done and so having both of those facets present and acknowledged by both parties I think it's going to be crucial to that relationship building that I would do okay all right uh let's see if selected what would be the first ward 3 initiative that you might Implement yeah I have a great question um I during the community forums there was a lot of talk from the community members there that were present about infrastructure issues and so I think that's something that I would definitely want to get involved with and when I say infrastructure I mean lights sidewalks Public Safety and then making sure that our parks and recreation centers are modernized or as best as we can keep them up to be able to have families enjoy those spaces but going back to it the lights sidewalks I've been looking at um uh driving zones or the mile the speed limits are in certain areas when they transition from maybe uh a large Street like McCarran into more residential zones and making sure that there are reminders for drivers to acknowledge that there is a speed change and we need to be aware of that and abide by those things so those are some of the things that I've noticed even just driving around ward 3 and in my own neighborhood they put up a sign that tells you how fast you're going in so that's definitely caught my attention every single time and luckily I am abiding by the speed limit but there's always that chance right off of when you're going you know 45 50 miles an hour to go into a residential Zone to really slow down and be aware that you're not in that space anymore you're somewhere else now yeah isn't that so true yeah I mean yeah if you're like me I'm always trying to pay attention to the sign so I know what you're saying yeah um okay uh lastly and this is kind of tied into the first question um if you are not selected would you be willing to serve on the ward 3 now of course okay all right yeah all right all right well thank you uh really appreciate it so I'm gonna let you have closing remarks and then um any questions for us you might have so go ahead thank you is it still three minutes for the closing as well I mean I you know know I don't like to cut anyone off we try to you know give them enough time to where they can you know get all their remarks in so we won't unless it's you know very long we want to make sure everyone has the same amount of time so we would appreciate three minutes okay yeah I will abide by that okay thank you we'll follow the rules okay thank you all for the opportunity to speak with you about my involvement in the community and the vision that I have for the ward 3 Council seat as you consider the applicants I would very much like you to take into consideration the demographics lived experiences and the average age of all three residents my suggestions come from an understanding of our community because I am from that same Community I know I have grown a lot in this short amount of time and I appreciate a council member Reese acknowledging some of that growth and you can call me ambitious but I want to outline some of the things that I would like to Champion for Ward 3 in case I didn't expressly say them earlier so first I'd like to work with city manager thoroughly and his team on making sure that the neighborhood renewal program continues to get funded second I would work with Parks and Recreation team and how we can better serve our youth and seniors both in programming and infrastructure third I would work with our fire and police to make sure that they have the tools and Personnel to continue to keep us safe forth to continuously work on Outreach to make sure that constituents are being heard Faith work on ways to provide more support for code enforcement Sixth and finally to continue working towards regionalization in order to achieve efficiencies muchas gracias thank you so much for the opportunity together we will succeed great thank you very much thank you all do you have any questions I do I would um let's see how any advice for any of us applicants going through this process um anything else you would like to see from this process as being from on the opposite side of this of this process how has it been for you all or is there any advice you all have it is really really tough these are decisions that you don't like to make I don't know anyone that likes to make them but I think we felt very strongly and maybe you know I say I felt very strongly that we should not be leaving seats open for six to nine months I even set up to a year um and then also we have a lot of restraints obviously within that 30-day period for the the charter all of us were elected up here so I believe uh we would I mean again I shouldn't speak for everyone up here but I believe um that you know we would we want people to run for office because we did and it's really really challenging it's really hard it's a little different obviously you know to be to be appointed but I think you guys probably got a taste of what it's like for you know that time period to run for office um because you have to meet with a lot of people you have to do a lot of listening you have to do a lot of Outreach and I think you guys had to do that sort of all-in-one um but you know I think it's really really tough I would say I mean that it's always so hard because you you want spots for everyone because everyone brings something really special and unique I think um to the seat and it's um just it's tough it's tough yeah I can imagine I've heard it described as a mini campaign yeah but good job is there any um advice or anything you'd like to say to Mr Martinez okay all right okay right it is a long day that's that is true and I'm sure you guys have been anxious so thank you so much of course thank you for the time have a great one all right Madame mayor our next applicant is Courtney McKinney how are you doing you doing okay I mean you had to wait all day long so I am so sorry I apologize we're excited I'm excited to be here with you all this evening okay all right good all right okay so we're just gonna dive in so take your time don't be nervous um we are gonna give you three minutes of opening remarks and then we're gonna do one round of questioning and then we're gonna give you another three minutes for closing remarks and then you can ask us some questions so um relatively easy wonderful right relatively easy take take it away whenever you're ready sounds great thank you madam mayor for the record my name is Courtney mckimmy Madam mayor council members Mr manager good evening and thank you for having me here tonight I want to first start by saying congratulations to my fellow finalists and to everyone who put their name forward for this process our city is very fortunate to have so many folks interested in serving our community it's also been wonderful getting to know you all a bit better during the course of this process and getting to know much more about our community as well one thing that is clear about the City of Reno in this council is your deep commitment to building a thriving City and I would be honored to join you all in that Pursuit as your colleague I not only share that same commitment to ensuring our City of Reno is a place where everyone can Thrive but I bring a track record of public service and experience as well from serving as a member of the city's access advisory committee where we advocated for the expansion of accessible infrastructure from auditory crosswalks to Adaptive playground equipment for our children to working as a senior policy advisor in state government diving into a variety of public policy issues from Economic Development tourism Transportation outdoor recreation and small businesses I'm proud to say that despite my relatively young age I've been in the room where it happens many times through this process I've also been fortunate to speak with residents small business owners some of our Region's largest employers Advocates city employees Community leaders and despite their perceived differences they all share a similar vision for the place we call home they want accessible well-maintained Community spaces and recreational programming they want safe roads and walkable neighborhoods and they want living here to be attainable and affordable for families young professionals senior citizens veterans and for everyone and that is a shared Vision I hope to work toward as the ward 3 city council person and a vision I believe and know this council is working on and has outlined in the master plan I believe it's also important to note the incredible diversity in ward 3 not only in its residence but in its Commerce Community spaces and services ward 3 is home to our Center the VA hospital is a stadium the Eddy house the airport and incredible neighborhoods such as Donner Springs to Wells Avenue I think it's very likely that many of our City's residents spend at least a portion of their week in ward 3 and I would look forward to supporting the uniqueness of ward 3 and the entire city as a member of this Council of course it's always easier said than done but the National Guard has taught me time and time again what you can accomplish when you aren't afraid to try that's why when lieutenant governor Kate Marshall called me on a Friday afternoon to ask me to figure out how to deliver food to our resident or most risk at-risk residents and their families during the pandemic I didn't hesitate within 10 days the help of our business Community local officials such as many of you on this body are restaurant owners non-profit organizations and our incredible food hero volunteers we launched delivering with dignity Reno Sparks serving over 70 000 meals and retaining 11 restaurant jobs through the course of the pandemic it was that experience that showed me what we can accomplish when we all come together toward a common goal and it was that experience that inspired me to put my name forward for this process I know as a member of this Council I will be able to bring folks together to continue building the Reno we all love and uh bring the experience needed to dive into topics such as store rate studies the budget process and so much more that this body does so thank you again and I'm looking forward to your questions okay great job thanks okay um I'm going to start with councilman breakfast I I don't have any questions for Miss McKinney I will disclose that early in the process about the time I spoke with Mr Edgar 10 she and I also had a telephone conversation thank you all right councilwoman Taylor go ahead thank you for being here I know it's been a long day and um thank you very much for your service too very much appreciated one of there are two things that are super important to me and I'm looking for somebody that has fantastic character that I can work with and that has an open mind because we Face some tough decisions up here that I'm learning recently too so can you tell me a little bit about how you come to make a decision when you're faced with challenging and competing interests from different sites yes great question thank you council member um I pride myself on being someone that I think is approachable and I mentioned this in the community forums that I first would like the residents of ward 3 in the city to see me as their neighbor as someone that they can come to speak with um and maybe if they don't feel comfortable coming to council directly that they feel comfortable enough to come to me and that's the kind of relationship I would like to build with all stakeholders in our across our city um and so first I like to elicit the information from all sides and perspectives uh do my own research and understand and also have the humility sometimes when I am not the most uh when I'm not the subject matter expert on a certain thing and seek out those subject matter experts and at the end of the day it's also important for me to always make the Assumption and start from a place of people coming to me with good intentions and also understanding what some of their intentions may be on the back end and so I think when we're when faced with a difficult decision I like to have the information I don't like to make willy-nilly decisions I like to be well educated feel that I have fully grasped the the question at hand and that at the end of the day I can go to bed knowing that I made the best possible decision for on behalf of the City of Reno and I think that's what you all aspire to do as well [Music] um we spent a lot of time today talking about our number one priority Public Safety uh we talked about adding we we took motions to complete the new police Public Safety headquarters we added 11.9 million dollars in software and Hardware we took a lot of actions to say we really care about it and just for your information it does take up almost two-thirds of our budget so and I mentioned today earlier that a lot of our agendas are about spending money but the second most probably challenging difficult controversial I will say things on our agendas have to do with development and and growth and so I was wondering about what do you believe is the single most important issue facing the growth in the City of Reno and how would you plan to work with your colleagues from other Awards to best consider this issue so growth is many faceted I just kind of interested in what facets you're interested in or you might be concerned about or pay special attention to as we get into those discussions well I think as you alluded to in the lead up to your question I I do think Public Safety is one of the leading issues um when we talk about growth you know and I was encouraged by this morning's discussion and the budget approvals to help RPD fight rise in online crimes and update our public safety center but I'm also very encouraged by the regionalization conversation and I think that is an enormous component to addressing the the recent growth that we've experienced not only in the City of Reno but across our region as you as you mentioned and so I'm very focused on uh you know as a member of this Council I'd be very focused on helping further those conversations with our regional Partners making sure those discussions and deliberations are successful I think that's an important thing um when we're talking about number one issue facing us as a as a region when it comes to growth okay and any other thing you'd like to add in terms of I think part two was how would you work with your colleagues to best consider this issue but you may have addressed it in other questions I'm not sure yeah similar to you know coming to the table with good intentions I think that's a place where I always like to start when I'm having stakeholder conversations no matter what the topic is um but also understanding I think when we're talking about the regionalization conversation specifically when we're talking about fire and EMS Services uh coming to the table with knowledge of what the city of Sparks and Washoe County also value and also coming knowing as a City of Reno representative the important things that we value and finding that common ground so I always like to have knowledge of what the folks I'm going to be working with care about and how we can Bridge those maybe possible differences okay thank you thank you all right count them on Weber go ahead thank you madam mayor so glad to see you here um and just as I said with the others I am so excited for the folks that are here tonight and um I I do have a question and it's based on seniors so um you know we have a huge senior population um and they have many issues impacting the city and Ward 3. um what plans do you have to engage with the senior population in your area yes thank you council member for the question um there's a couple different components here one of the things I'm very passionate about and would be very focused on as a member of the council is how we develop our third spaces as a community these are places traditionally outside of your home and outside of your place of employment for our seniors this is traditionally a place outside of their home as they enjoy their retirement and first and foremost I think it's it's making sure that we have funding and opportunities for our seniors to get out and socialize with others and I would like to meet them at those spaces directly I know Paradise Park we have very active senior community who enjoy the recreational programming that occurs there so meeting them where they're at especially I think across the diversity of ward 3 it's important that this the member of the council representing ward 3 goes directly to the people and doesn't expect them to come to them um obviously with the VA in the ward as well I think that would be a phenomenal place to engage with our senior citizens who most likely aren't only ward 3 residents it will be all of our senior citizens that are veterans coming to that facility and they have also wonderful recreational programming for our veterans so those are a couple of the spaces I would expect to to be present and to make sure that that Outreach is occurring thank you thank you all right councilman Reese thank you Miss mckimmy uh always a privilege to spend time with you we've known each other for a number of years uh bear with me because my question is rather long it has some sub parts but I hope that gives you a chance to really collect your thoughts about it and and then say your peace about it there is a question in here so just hang in there with me my question focuses on Coalition building and has a few discrete subparts what I have learned in my four years on Council is that nothing happens singularly or in a vacuum the greatest accomplishments and policy decisions happen when folks come today they're collectively and in solidarity with a cause or an idea event or policy decision in mind I Define coalition building for your benefit as bringing together different groups to achieve a common goal uh city council is nonpartisan and I think there's a reason for that a good one one of which is it because it forces us to create coalitions across groups of people which sometimes do not agree or have very different views that can include racial and ethnic groups political affiliations gender sexuality economic experience Builders and conservationists there are also different subgroups that shape our coalitional efforts and two of them you've really already addressed tonight so my question will not focus on constituents or stakeholder groups you've proven that you have a good grasp of that issue and so I don't want you to address that but the two that I'm interested on and I want you to focus on in your answers today are colleagues that's the people on this diocese and city employees so how do you seek to build coalitions with colleagues when you don't or can't agree for example what would you do if your colleague is an election denier or your colleague is not willing to communicate with other colleagues on the body and is routinely abusive to staff so that's the colleague portion of it and then what would you do about building coalitions with different departments and team members within the city so that means our city employees so those are the two focuses on my Coalition building question is colleagues perhaps when those colleagues are not in alignment with your particular view or city council I mean and then the other part is staff and team members question I think I will start with the second portion of that in regards to our city employees and staff here you know as a junior officer in the National Guard my job is really making sure that my soldiers have the tools resources and training necessary to carry out the vision and Mission that I set forth and if I am unable to provide that on the front end then I have failed as a leader as a member of this Council I think it's important that we are giving the Mr manager the tools resources and directives that he needs to be able to successfully support his staff in carrying out the vision of the council um and additionally when we're talking about building coalitions and support across different departments it's important to me to foster a sense of camaraderie it's something that I take passion or take pride in doing for my soldiers you know recently we put up a platoon flag in our platoon area so my soldiers felt that they had pride and a unique identity when they stepped on foot to our our training area and that's something I would like to do in terms of showing appreciation for our City of Reno team members and something I would be really focused on as a member of the council when going to the second part of your question about building Coalition and relationships with colleagues I may disagree with on this Council and maybe aren't unable to find agreements with um I think in the long run it's about building at least a sense of mutual respect and uh hopefully having the sense that they in you know whatever they may believe is in the best interest of of their residents knowing that I am also guided have my own guiding principles that I can can rely on um I think it's all about building decorum as well and ensuring that when I have disagreements and interruptions to the process as a member of this Council that uh I I would make it known that that is something that is disruptive to the operations of our city and ultimately harmful toward our residents and the services we are able to provide them and I think it's about having that direct honesty though it's not about um you know saying things behind people's backs it's not about posting on social media a certain way if you are not able to give the common courtesy to to a person um that you may disagree with that you let them know um how you feel and um the impact that they may be having I think you also have to recognize that there is some burden on you to to facilitate that relationship whether it's a good one a strong one or a neutral one or a weak one um it's about the people of Reno first and that's where I would always guide myself and hope that my fellow colleagues on this body do as well okay okay so if selected what would be your first award three initiative great question um one of the things that I've thought about for Ward 3 specifically uh in kind of alignment with the community cleanups that have been happening is jump starting a ward 3 yard Brigade and help bringing volunteers together on the weekends to do yard maintenance along our sidewalks or just you know picking up trash across our community helping our senior citizens or certain individuals that may have difficulty you know keeping up with their lawn care or their weeds in the side you know there's a number of things as a runner in my community I notice as I uh make my morning jogs around the neighborhood and so that's something I would like to to bring to the ward I think it's building a sense of community taking pride in our in our Ward and building some camaraderie and creating an open forum for residents to come and and be part of that as well right okay so if you are not selected would you be willing to serve on the nap uh I believe the answer is yes Madam air well I should know in full disclosure we served on access together yeah and um you were wonderful so um I figured your answer would be absolutely all right good job okay um I think at this time you go ahead with three minutes of closing remarks and then after you can ask us any questions or you don't have to you can you I mean this has probably been a long sort of process the last couple weeks so yeah I I will keep my my conclusion brief but I will ask one question okay um so just thank you all again for your time today and throughout this process the the phone calls the coffees the meetings I would be honored to serve my community and city as the ward 3 city council person I believe my experience working on a number of issues across our state region and City best prepares me to join this body and get to work on day one I also have a track record of building diverse coalitions and I would look forward to fostering our council's cohesion and vision as a member of this body to ensure that our city continues to succeed um so with that though I will ask one question Madame mayor and this can be to the entire body or just to you uh what would be your advice to an incoming council person they discussed that wasn't that sort of similar um you know it such a good question it's a tough job but it's incredibly rewarding but I would say now with social media you mentioned third spaces um and you know that just reminded me of you know the viral Tick Tock video that was going around with third spaces which was really good but I would just say you have to be really prepared that you're going to take a lot of criticism you're going to be told you're corrupt you're going to be told you're a horrible person you're going to be told some really disturbing things and you have to um I think be really grounded in in what your um what your surroundings look like and the people that matter most and that was what I had sort of said when we did this process in the beginning it really doesn't matter what we think it matters what the people that you are around who love you and support you because at the end of the day when we breathe our last breath none of us up here matter the person that's holding your hand matters so just remember in the scheme of things um but anyway and you're so impressive you're so impressive and it's hard I think you're like an old soul because you're really I mean I don't know I think are you 26 I am 26 yeah you're so young and you're and you are you everything about you it says like old soul in such a great way so um impressive thank you anyway how are you feeling you made it good yeah it's great it's uh anytime I get to talk about our city it's a good day yeah so yeah no but thank you all for the for being here and obviously for this process it's been great yeah good good all right thank you Adam Clerk one more our final applicant today is um Sean Savoy I feel like we shot the shark tank music if you walk in we need to have some good walk-ups hello I feel like it should be the Hunger Games music The Hunger Games music um okay so I'm going to tell you a little bit about the process how you feeling I'm feeling great you're just ready to get it over with I know you guys have all had a rough couple weeks full of pizza full of water full of coffee good to go good perfect okay so this is what we're gonna do so I'm gonna ask you to give us uh three minutes of opening remarks for just three just three and then we're all going to go around and ask you um each each of us are going to ask you a question and then we're gonna give you another three minutes for your closing remarks and then you can ask us a question if you have any so okay at this time um go ahead take it away the floor is yours thank you so much Madam mayor my name is Sean Savoy for the record and I'd like to um greet you all I had planned to say good afternoon I will say good evening to uh you mayor to the council members city manager staff and community members present in those online uh and in Spanish that would be buenos noches Senora alcalesa we say concerto Senor gerente personally is [Music] so I want to just say I'll sum it up by saying this the story enthusiasmado that means I'm very excited um I'm going to say simply put I'm fired up and I kind of feel uh right now like the Reno Arch all lit up inside me that's how I feel I've always said that all roads lead to Reno and that's true no matter where I go in the world I hear from someone who's been through Reno lived in Reno has family in Reno ancestors in Reno or plans to visit Reno and I make no joke about that from beautiful Lake Tahoe to the Sierra Nevada the BlackRock or the beauty of the high desert and Pyramid Lake Reno and the Truckee Meadows is the gateway to beauty and adventure we are a historical City whether you consider us a jewel in the desert or the West's best kept secret the truth of the matter is progress is inevitable and with progress becomes responsibility we are the biggest little city but we are no longer the biggest little secret do in great part to this mayor and the city council's efforts we are on the map which means we have to rise to the occasion of meeting the demands of a city that is in demand a common term these days is non-binary some of you may know what that means but in this context I refer it back to the idea that Reno does not have a to have a black and white approach to progress and growth I believe we can see the Arts Thrive the outdoors cared for the environment respected and our resources survive we can see sustainable growth we can see responsible development but we can also encourage businesses to come here small businesses to operate and to promote technology to inform our decisions we can see dwellings made available for those who can afford sprawling ranch homes and for those who need affordable housing Urban Suburban or rural there is a way for us to all work together so in light of this what I bring to the table is a spirit of collaboration engagement and experience my passion is communication and my motto is action it is possible for us to create what we envision we are a pioneering people and a freedom-loving people in Northern Nevada and we have the gumption the drive and the Ingenuity to move forward progressively and if we don't have the answers I know that we have the humility to seek them out and that's my three minutes my pleasure Mr Savoy and I had a phone conversation a week ago it was last Friday and I don't have any questions for him thank you all right councilman Taylor thank you for being here tonight thank you for putting in the effort and I know the last couple of weeks have and busy with coffee and pizza and everything else yes so in your opening statement you mentioned a little bit about collaboration my question is when you are faced with a decision and there are two competing priorities on opposite sides how do you go about making your decision well being the and I'm usually bring up some kind of astrological commentary because I find it fascinating being the Libra that I am I'm always weighing two sides of things sometimes I do overthink but I find that if I can put each issue or each priority in the same light and I can write my pros and my cons for each then I can through a system of deduction come to a conclusion that I believe will be the best suited for the occasion and so um I think deliberation is important I think another way that is very important for decision making especially on important matters and when we're dealing in city government and governance they're all important matters that we also should seek out the advice of our peers we should seek out the advice of our community if possible I'm kind of a kind of person who has an open open door policy in my in the way I administrate and manage and so for me I I tend to gather input and with that input then I feel much more able to make informed decisions thank you okay okay so we spent a lot of time today on Public Safety um there it is I would say probably for most of us all of us our number one priority and we we added you know we confirmed the completion of the building we added 11.9 million in software and Hardware to enhance policing and um so you might get from that that policing is you know a top priority we spent a lot of time on it and I also made the comment today that most of our agenda is about dollars and cents but some of the most controversial and difficult parts of our agenda really revolve around growth and development and so that's what I wanted to talk to you a little bit about um I was wondering what do you believe there's a single most important issue entwined with the growth issue in the C Arena or what would be your top one or two and then how would you plan to work with your colleagues from other Awards to best consider it so I'm just looking for when you hear growth what does it mean to you and what would you be thinking about considering when you evaluate these projects that caught before us virtually every meeting yes often with attendant participants from the public absolutely well first of all I was very excited to hear about what was happening with the public safety center in fact it resides in Ward three so that's very um of interest to me personally I also agree with you that Public Safety is a top priority and I think to answer your question about growth I believe that was the first is your question um I believe one of the greatest considerations actually is Public Safety when it comes to growth because when we are growing the community we have to think about how we're going to be able to to provide services to the to the community and one of the top priorities is safety for our street safety in our Parks safety in our neighborhoods safety for our businesses to function and safety for uh people to recreate so I would say Public Safety and the second would be uh would be resources we know that we live in an area where we have limited resources that's also a sign of the times and so I believe that we have to be very conscious of how we grow sustainably and how we grow responsibly I think that there is a way not knowing all the technicalities for example of engineering or for example but I do believe there's a way for us to work together to grow responsibly to meet the needs and the demands of the community which is going to continue to grow whether we like it or not oh we have to address that issue and the other question was well it was just related um we don't all see it the same right um we've actually I didn't add this before but we've had a number of four three votes where some of us see a one-way and other people see it another way and I'm just wondering if you what you might bring to the table to deal with that kind of thing I mean sometimes we've had 7-0 votes on growth related issues but often there is some diversity of opinion well I'm a champion of diversity so I'm all for diversity I also understand very uh intimately the committee process I've grown in my professional career from the time I was quite young in non-profit work Administration and management and that is a trademark of the non-profit World um committees boards and commissions of this type and we don't always see eye to eye that's the truth so I think that there we it's it's difficult to find consensus all the time um but I think it's appropriate to listen uh in in the environment of Health Care when we are working with patients when we're working with uh colleagues in the interdisciplinary team like to use that term interdisciplinary team because we all bring something different to the table uh we have to listen listen to our colleagues and listen to the people who are the ones who are in the either suffering or the ones who are going to be the recipients of our care and those would be in this case our constituents so I think a lot of listening is very important and less talking and uh and with that listening I think we can hear Solutions and again we also have to go by the process bureaucracy can be difficult there can be red tape involved but I believe in respecting the process we are a system or land of laws we're a land of uh of regulations and of ordinances in this community and so we have to respect the process and we may not always get our way but I think as a body we would be working together to bring the best possible solution to the community got it thank you so much thank you all right councilwoman whoever thank you so much I'm so glad you're here just as I shared with each of the others it is a great process for the situation that we're in so um my question is uh seniors are a big deal in ward 3 as well as in the City of Reno and um there are various senior issues out there in your award um or in ward 3 and that's reward um where you live what plans do you have to engage with the senior population specifically first let me say this I love seniors in fact I got my a trip what do you call it the ARP card in the mail the other day so you can sign me up uh my um my uh father was a World War II veteran and a man born in the great prior to the Great Depression I was raised with respect for my elders and also in my Latin culture we respect our elders we respect family I took care of my father who was passing of natural causes caused by dementia which was caused by multi-infarcts or small strokes and watching people age people you love age seeing them lose their dignity their sense of self their sense of ability to ambulate can be very um heartwarming and also very tragic and I'm not suggesting that every senior has those issues but we do have to remember that our issue our seniors are the ones who bred us they they lived before us and they lived concurrently with us and so I I respect them greatly I know that there are issues happening around um Paradise Park specifically I've heard of the issues there with the recreation center and I understand how important it is for seniors to have activities for seniors to feel part of community for seniors to know that they're loved and they're respected so I think I would like to engage the senior community of ward 3 and and not over just by Paradox Paradise Park I mean we have seniors throughout the entire ward of course living downtown those who are who are less fortunate than others socioeconomically um in in very discreet what we call discrete populations whether they be uh by ethnicity or bisexual orientation we have seniors who are alone we have seniors who don't have access to Transportation so I think engaging the seniors in a real open public dialogue about what it is that they believe they need how we can help them better access resources how we can help them feel involved and loved and how we can have compassionate conversations would be my Approach with our senior population and we see in in healthcare in the hospital system in which I work a great number of seniors not only are our clients but also are the people we work with and in fact we've just started recruiting folks from our sterling silver club and our older older clientele not only to shore up our employee base but also for them to feel involved engaged in the community in which they live in that in this case the the community in which they are receiving services thank you thank you great okay vice mayor Reese thank you madam mayor Mr Savoy we've known each other probably perhaps of all the applicants the longest and I consider you a friend so it's been a privilege to be participating in this process with you because it is a step out in faith to put yourself out for any kind of elected or appointed process so thank you for that I absolutely enjoy my question is rather long and I apologize in advance it will be the last time I have to give it tonight and so everybody in the audience has heard it in some version many times now just give yourself the opportunity to hear the entirety of it and then you'll be prepared to answer the question which there is at the end my question focuses on Coalition building and does contain some discrete subparts what I've learned in my four years on this council is that nothing happens singularly or in a vacuum the greatest accomplishments and policy decisions that happen here in this room come together collectively and in solidarity with a you know a cause an idea could be an event or a policy decision I Define coalition building as bringing to together different groups to achieve a common goal City Council of course is a nonpartisan office and for good reason I think one of which is because it forces us to create coalitions around issues that cut across various groups of people so racial and ethnic groups political affiliations gender sexuality economic experience sometimes it's Builders and conservationists there are also different subgroups which shape our coalitional efforts I want you to focus in the answer on two particular subgroups tonight and in your answers previously you have already shown me that you understand how to build coalitions within your ward with constituents and with stakeholder groups so mine is a little different I want you to focus on colleagues and in that way it's those people on this diocese and city employees because I think those are two very important groups and and so I'll further say I want you to maybe focus on how you can seek to build coalitions among your colleagues when you don't or can't agree for example what do you do if your colleague is an election denier or your colleague is routinely abusive to staff right and then the second part is certainly much more positive I think but how do you build coalitions with different departments and team members so again it's coalitions but I want you to think about colleagues especially when you don't agree and also then with our staff who are really the people that make the magic happen right they're they're still upstairs working tonight I'm sure many of them and they really have the a great deal of responsibility for what happens in this community in a very positive way thank you for the question when it comes to Collegiate Coalition Coalition building um especially with those with whom you may disagree I believe very strongly that it is possible to sit at a table to reach across the table and to find ways to communicate there's something to be said for for breaking bread together for having dialogue together for having a glass of water together whatever it may be that brings you to to the same place I have spent 35 or more years of my professional career working with people I don't necessarily agree with and I'm going to mention I'm going to cite the Interfaith multi-faith community multi-faith means there are people of various faiths who believe different things Interfaith means you come together and you come together across the table to achieve programs projects and to have dialogue and the purpose of that dialogue is not to convince someone else to believe exactly as you believe or to change their deeply held values or beliefs or to change their faith what it is about is coming to the table on a point of conversation to better the community and when you are able to do that you can achieve great things with respect with dignity because it's really all about relationships when you build relationships you build trust and when you build trust then things can be done with the spirit of Good Will I believe that 100 when it comes to staff I have been very privileged in my in my recent career to work with people who are so highly trained who are so highly trained at puts me to shame and I know that it you you know I cannot in my work achieve what my staff achieves in the clinical setting on my own but what they require of me is leadership to put them in places of safety to advocate for them I can cite the covet pandemic as a very good example again I mentioned before an open door policy I believe in listening to the people who do the work on an everyday basis on an every hour basis and also to providing them with a forum for interchange and an exchange of ideas knowing also that at some point someone's going to have to make a decision and it may not always be the most popular decision but hopefully it is one that can can bring us together to move ahead with whatever project it is we're working on and if it's the case of constituents or if the case of clients then is always in their best interest and I think that's what we have to keep first and foremost in mind so if the staff are being paid if it is their career if there's their intention to serve the community and it is Our intention As Leaders to help serve the community then I'm sure that there are ways to work together to achieve results so I really do think it's a matter of really first and foremost approaching people with respect okay let's see if selected what would be your first ward 3 initiative Oh My First Ward three initiative would like and I'm just gonna throw this off out off the cuff I would like to gather the neighborhoods of ward 3 I would like to see the NAB actually become a lot more activated um not that it necessarily hasn't been but I would like to continue I think in the legacy of my prede of our predecessor I say R because we don't know who will be selected but if I were to be selected my predecessor um and to continue that Community engagement but I would like to gather the different uh neighborhoods and bring them together in a conversation around what they think um are the most pressing issues facing Ward three is it our is it our socioeconomic challenges it is our infill challenges uh affordable housing is it public safety uh are there diversity issues we should be facing together I I would like to do that I think that would be my first initiative would have an open Forum or a conversation with with the folks in each neighborhood together and and just have a have a dialogue that's what I'd like to do okay okay I certainly would consider that I would for sure uh at this point uh you know with regard to Ward three I feel so engaged in ward 3 already but I know there's more I can do I live in ward 3 I work in Ward three I think I was mentioning to someone I shop in Ward three I exercise in Ward three I even recreate in Ward three so I love Ward three I'm all over Ward three that's great love it okay uh so now you get three minutes closing remarks oh you got Johnny it said three to five and I you know I'm long I'm long-winded they said something there's an old there's an old Legend they say in uh here in this Northern Nevada Reno area that uh if you come here you you never leave I think we all feel that way about City Hall tonight so I do I do feel um you know I feel like the every man I truly do my ancestry in fact represents every continent and that's the truth I have lived worked or had land and property in every ward of this city and now as a resident of ward 3 for the past several years as I mentioned I operate in every neighborhood of the ward where I reside work recreate shop and exercise the simple truth is I love Reno and I love Ward 3. I truly feel like a walking breathing Reno ambassador who doesn't just represent diversity in who I am as a person but as someone who has lived diversity ethnically religiously professionally and as a volunteer Mentor advisor and advocate in and for this city and its people some years ago I was honored with Arena people award by the City of Reno for our 150th anniversary and I can say that today I commit myself if I'm selected to this office to live that designation de facto I'd like to thank the council I'd like to thank the mayor and the city manager and my predecessor Oscar Delgado who worked hard to represent the constituents of Ward 3. I believe I've mentioned that as a founding advisor and board member for over 15 years of the Latino Research Center along with Dr Emma sapulvida Dr Daryl Lockhart Nancy Fennell and others I had the opportunity to serve along Mr Delgado and I thank him for his service but mostly I'd like to thank the City of Reno and the people of Reno and to my parents my father for bringing my family here without that move I would not have been a native renoite in Nevada yes home does mean Nevada I want to thank my father also for fighting to keep democracy free and this nation alive as a member of the Navy of the United States of America and I want to thank my mother for Having the courage to follow him from her native country of Peru away from her beloved ocean via Mexico City to reside in this desert land and become a naturalized American with the strength dignity and integrity to raise a family as a working professional woman against ethnic religious and other forms of personal persecution perpetrated against her and our family I commit myself 100 percent to the service of Reno and to Ward 3. with faith and Goodwill and I appreciate this opportunity all right and three minutes almost exactly good job public speaking um first of all I do want to commend you on um on HRC you really were the driving force behind that and also I truly believe that that is one of the you are one of the reasons why we achieved 100 score and thank you I've known you by 40 years so um and I know how much um you know you love your faith and others faith and how much you give back so um I just I want to commend you thank you madam mayor thank you for championing the Human Rights Commission to all of the members of the council at that time who voted to implement it for our city I'm very proud of that and also of our initiatives in diversity that we are undertaking at this time um do you have any questions for us well I have to go to the Human Rights Commission meeting tomorrow yeah yes you're not allowed to skip uh I I don't have uh I don't have any questions I I simply just want to again reiterate my thanks to all of you for the time not only tonight but also in in the weeks prior to this evening to uh to answer my questions to Mentor me in the ways that you have and also for your service to the City of Reno over many many years and I appreciate every single one of you for for that service so thank you made it and I even wore brown shoes because it was daytime earlier I should have changed to Black it's night time now um it is it's like a it's like a Labor Day thing so since we're at the end of this process and obviously I'm out in public a lot I have to tell each and every single one of you you have a lot of fans out there you know some people will be like oh my gosh I love Courtney Kyle I mean um you had you know some supporters in the room earlier just singing all of your Praises uh this is so hard so difficult each one of you are so incredibly worthy um and I also I really want to Cur encourage you to um run for office we have a lot of offices open um State Senate um you know you've got assembly you've got Commissioners you know we'll be terming out these kinds of things like you really need to stay involved I think you know I've done this a couple of times right um councilman duer and I have done it a couple times I think you guys are the most impressive Bunch that I have ever seen truly impressive I I just I can't even begin to tell you this is like one of I I would say if I there's a couple times yeah there's a couple times that I can remember taking some really tough votes this is up there in my top three 100 percent thank you so I just want to say I'm so proud of each and every one of you you guys all knocked it out of the park all of you may I joined my colleagues yes yes I wish I could buy you guys all drinks what okay how are you doing okay it has been a long day it has been a lot it's been a long day I'm just hoping and praying we don't have to do this for a very very very long time okay how would you like us to so we would just move into the deliberation um phase of the appointment process same as last time it was out loud in public for each of you so if you want to set a timer we can do that if there wants to be some user it was just kind of I think General discussion and and thoughts where you're Landing after the interviews thank you madam mayor um like you I have many of the same thoughts about the process having now gone through two of these in the last month I also like you don't want to do this again it's it's a hard one because you get to know the applicants um you understand that they're human beings and each one of them has different skill sets I think this is uh an exceptionally close call and I'm interested to know what my colleagues think or if want to deliberate I mean I certainly would Hazard emotion but I'd prefer if our my colleagues have any questions or comments first thank you know if none if none have any no I I just if I'm at a mayor I this group of people is um I think there's a reason that we ended up with four of you and that is because you are so well matched you you all bring unique strengths and talents to this and I could see any one of you frankly succeeding in the position and that's what's the hardest thing about today because it's almost uh you know no matter what we choose we're not going to be making a bad decision we're going to be making a good decision and um those of you who are not chosen need to know that that I don't even know how to begin to choose because I see I I thought you all did outstanding in the interviews frankly um some of you have very similar answers so now how do I discriminate you know um you you all were very well spoken I mean very articulate so it gets to be very difficult to put ourselves in the position of making this decision it's not one that I sought either I strove mightily to have an election so that we would not be you know five of us or six of us would not be picking from four of you one of you so I I'm not loving that but I am loving the fact that we have such a talent depth in ward 3 and in our community in general so I I think I'll leave it there um I could probably add more as we go on you know as everybody else sort of says an opening statement or something but yeah I and I would just say any I would be proud to serve with any of you honestly I can't say that for I mean I've done this about four times I think now so I can't say that um in in the whole process of doing this but I would say this and I think I I spoke with all of you briefly um before at the initial process and then um I think a lot of us feel like now it's time for you guys to go and kind of Meet the community and um we shouldn't really you know sort of Muddy that but I would say Kyle you were just like crazy impressive because you're so brilliant you're articulate you're obviously um a very very well respected attorney um and I really enjoyed our conversation and uh just you you've got this very big kindness about you and um it's just it's very admirable on a lot of levels and then Miguel um I just I love how you love your family and I think I'm really impressed with you as you seem to have a a pretty large knowledge of Ward three um it sounds like you have been really really embedded in in the community of Ward three but you um I I love how you are a um sort of a consensus Builder and you talked about uh mediation we need a lot more of that on this Council at times um but I love that you mentioned that and Courtney I am such a huge fan I think you're like future Senator future uh Governor you could easily be our governor one day no questions asked you and like I said you're like this incredible old soul and um you're just so so impressive and I have to tell you lots of people in the community respect you and love you and um it's uh it's just so it's so nice to hear but I mean I like I said I got to serve with you so I've I've been able to see that but I have to tell you I hope one day you are a governor you could be the first female um and then obviously Sean we like I said we've been friends Almost my whole entire life um and you know so I just love and adore you and I love your heart and I know it um inside and out and I love how you spoke about your family because I know that that's truly who you are with True Values um and I think you know not I think I know your father up there would be so so incredibly proud and your mother but I I think what you need to know Sean is you've left a massive mark on the city with your work with HRC that's one of the reasons you received such um such a high honor of an award in the City of Reno so I just want to encourage each and every one of you I don't think we make a bad decision tonight at all other than um you know three of you unfortunately won't won't be here but I have to really encourage you to please please don't let this um discourage you in any way we need you guys are our future so we need you to be running and staying involved it's really important so super hard very very hard okay I'm gonna go ahead councilman Weber thank you madam mayor I just want to say I agree completely with my colleagues every one of you could be picked right now um but I wish we could have all four and so um I mean every one of you is just great and I'm so thankful that each of you made it through to this point and that it sounds like you all learned a lot but we are the ones that um get to have one of you with us and the process in my mind was really good I know it was really hard for you all I mean it was a tough time but um just appreciate I learned a lot from you so thank you so much go ahead council member Taylor go ahead thank you madam Mary this was honestly the hardest part for me during this as you're listening I was listening to everybody I'm like just pull the Band-Aid off please um so so this is what I'm gonna do I'm gonna just start the conversation with what I'm thinking and um I reiterate everything that everybody set up here not a bad choice amazing people amazing character when I'm looking at this getting into what my decision process is I'm looking at Ward 3. and um there was one person to me everybody was and this is I put some um Matrix together what I wanted to see and everybody hit everything and I was like oh well who had a better answer to this question and it just didn't really work out that well because you guys all did a great job um there there wasn't something that stood out to me except for Mr Martinez your description of the word and the specifics that you got into was something a little bit deeper than some of the other applicants I didn't see now that doesn't mean that I'm I don't have um you know bandwidth for to entertain other thoughts from the council I just that was something that stuck out to me and you listed the resources within the ward you listed some specifics um your story of of how you have come to be where you are is very compelling to me and the knowledge and the experience that you have that being said I could say that for every single person sitting there so that's I know that's not much help but that's where I'm at right now and I'm eager to listen to my colleagues because I haven't decided I was going to listen to all of your videos honestly I figured you guys get it yeah that's true that is my one advantage all right councilwoman Weber did you no you're fine okay go ahead vice mayor for the benefit of our four applicants um and sort of inside baseball but as the at-large member oftentimes it falls on my shoulders to make a motion for a particular thing especially if it affects the entirety of the city Madame mayor is very gracious and oftentimes is running the meetings and so I'm trying to pay attention to all the moving parts so I will Hazard emotion if my colleagues are ready for it yeah well uh uh I moved to a point Miguel Martinez to the office of the Reno city council Ward 3 to serve the balance of the unexpired term or until the general election in 2024 and directed Mr Martinez be sworn into office immediately I have a motion from councilman councilman Weber any discussion I won't be supporting the motion okay I um uh I I don't want I my objections to this no decision by the council to take this path I think well known but I want who if this passes Mr Martinez to come to this seat not owing me anything and I think that's what this process does he owes you all something and that I think replaces the big job he has which is owing the ward 3 residents who aren't able to be a part of this decision-making process the constituent services that they require so it's not an opposition to him personally or to any of you I would have taken the same role but it is a role of a vote of great dissatisfaction that this body individually twice now has enhanced their own individual power against the opportunities of the voters to do what they do which is vote and so I oppose um all right thank you thank you so much I guess I I and do you think it's that long because when you were out councilwoman breakfast and then councilman Delgado had to leave we had to completely stop business at the city council for committing for it at all Madam mayor I okay one one my attendance record is 10 years and I'll stand it against anyone but when you leave meetings Midway I'll call those out from now on but two I want everyone to know the LA City Council which gives particular assignments to their council members they had a council member leave since Mr Delgado left and guess when their special election is April that's different rules and that's fine I just want to point it out to you oh sorry Mr Facebook I know we've had a long day here um should the motion go through Mr Martinez I will welcome you with open arms you owe me absolutely nothing I appreciate all of your service and sitting here right now nobody has made me feel that way that I owed them something through this process do you do you want to elaborate at all or anything no but I also I do want to put on the record that April is if I'm thinking about it's five months away so it's okay to leave seats fake it I just and listen I don't expect anyone up here to owe me anything ever um I want to make that that very very clear what I what I do expect is if of opinion and great dialogue and respect because I do think at times it gets lost up here how we treat each other does matter it matters greatly and how we talk to one another um and I'm I apologize if today there were some moments where it seems like um we have we find each other um at odds and that's okay you you should be I think that that is important to be at odds with each other but it's how you address it that matters um sometimes it's not you know what you say it's how you say it and I think at times um staff gets um really treated poorly and I want to apologize for that because I saw it today a few times so anyway um okay I I want to stay positive I want to have a good mental attitude and you know keep it keep it positive and high level be better not bitter okay go ahead councilman um vice mayor thank you madam mayor since we're in the discussion part having uh made the motion in a second I'll just say um to the applicants and their family and the people watching at home this is about this appointment process and these four candidates who are in front of us these folks are all of them fine individuals none of them owing anyone anything other than their maker and perhaps their spouse in some cases it's you can imagine after having been on the diocese now for the last 10 hours that sometimes nerves get frayed that is the nature of the work that we do at times and unfortunately some theatrics are involved in some of the council processes and so we'll just leave that for another time and place and just say congratulations once again to each of the four of you you and I absolutely look forward to working with all of you no matter who is ultimately selected to serve on the body go ahead councilman Council waiting for them all right call for the question all those in favor say aye aye motion carries all right congratulations [Applause] congratulations oh I didn't even we all okay look at each other and you know I do want to point out that that is one thing I did look up um Council members in Los Angeles there are 15 of them so they they can afford to get up and leave Mr Martinez um you're coming up here we've got someone who's gonna swear you in I know how exciting yeah I know you're probably screaming out of your chair thank you welcome welcome thank you for this opportunity that'll be the last time we'll expect you though there at the diocese I think who is making the uh we've got some official stuff happening over here and then we'll welcome you to a seat up here on the council awesome thank you all so much for believing me in me and giving me this opportunity thank you is this your wife right here yes well she should be up there with you that's for darn sure she's a saint she saved the entire I know right she stuck it out so why wouldn't be possible without Grandma Grandpa and all of the aunts and uncles taking care of our two little ones that's right are they watching right now yes they are they are walking oh I bet they're so proud that's so great I'm ready hi Miguel Martinez do solemnly swear that I will support protect and protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United of the United States the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada and the charter and ordinances of the City of Reno against all enemies whether domestic or foreign and that I will bear true faith Allegiance and loyalty to the same any ordinance resolution or law of any state now withstanding and that I am not under under any direct direct obligation or indirect obligation to vote for a point or elect any person to any office or employment position or employment in the City of Reno government and that I will well and Faithfully performed all these all the duties of the office of city council member Ward three on which about to enter so help me God on which I am about to enter so help me God thank you so much [Applause] there you are okay and you have two children yes do you have two children yeah two little girls two oh two little girls yeah six-year-old and a three-year-old oh yeah well they're gonna be so proud of you it was her birthday yesterday they're just the cutest yeah thank you so much they really are um so Mr Martinez we'd love to have you at the dice I am going to ask you to refrain from any votes for the rest of this Council agenda since it's brand spanking new for you okay wait take a picture this is a full Council take a picture this is a full Council [Laughter] all right everyone wave everyone waved AJ oh yeah all right okay Madam clerk moving on all right Madame mayor we are moving on to item G2 which is discussion a potential appointment of one city council member to the Regional Transportation Commission all right do we have any public comments Madam clerk on this item Madame mayor we do not have any public comment registered and we have not received any correspondence on this item okay I would like to make a motion for vice mayor Reese second I have a motion I have a second go ahead councilwoman breakfast yeah you know um this is one of the most coveted seats of the appointments and um we do well when we share the appointments and I've been on this body for 10 years you know I've long sought it but I understand last week Mr um Bruce was appointed to the Board of Health that's a real big one and um I I just think that it's it's rather stingy to not distribute those two out so I will not support and that's my primary reason for not supporting him and I will not support this appointment thank you I have a motion and a sec [Music] all right Madam mayor we're moving on to item H1 which is city council comments which includes City boards commissions and activities okay is there anything anyone would like to add from their boards and commissions that they're none moving right along all right we're moving into our final public comment period item J1 we do not have any I'm sorry council member breckis is currently registered to speak um publicly and in the meantime I will just State for the record that we did receive additional comments after 4 pm yesterday which have been distributed to the Reno city council and are part of the permanent record we let received five items or five comments of support on various items okay sounds good foreign [Music] since we were able to talk about the adult business and in context of that ordinance and now we have a word three person where as I mentioned before I've worked with the Reno Ordnance since 1998. I've seen only one adult business license since then maybe another one expanded okay we don't have view we don't have you don't we don't have enough on two hands there are noticed known secondary effects by adult businesses that's why they are regulated so sensitively balanced with their first amendment rights I found out one had cited very low recently the intersection of terminal and Mill Street I'm asking this body to bring It Forward for a revocation of the license as issued in air and I want to go over that today because I don't think the full story was told and I also want to state that this is in a shopping center where children are present eating at tables and there's a massage business co-located if not a door in between in 2019 the licensing head of the Nevada Board of therapists massage therapists estimated that we have 25 illegal massage businesses in the city of Ringo okay so it's it's a real deal so and I hope you'll stop the clock while you scroll in here please can you all see this okay adult business right here adult business right here goes into these districts and you can see that the me is the new one that's been added and there are two notations in this table one is P4 and that's up here and it says permitted or conditionally perted permitted only in Geographic areas explicitly with the use specific standards over here 1803 304 1 are the use specific standards those were not applied they were not applied as I can tell but of course we don't have the information that a written record was provided that's supposed to be in here but and I don't I don't have the time nor will I show that find that written record issue before that business license was recorded I'd like to see it because I've asked strenuously and searched the record and I can't find it but no adult business may be located on a parcel which abouts a freeway Expressway or more major or minor or teal roadway what is Mill Street what is terminal okay they are two arterials I do not know why these specific use standards were not applied this was issued in air I've been denied an appeal because they're covering their tracks because there's probably liability in issuing this but it needs to get pulled back in my view we have a very serious concern of use that cited and if nothing you know I want one of you to bring it back put it on the agenda the managers denied me opportunities to put things on the agenda so I don't ask anymore but it needs to come back it was issued in air we need to stop this business from operating there in ward 3. and I want to also know that that is very prominent arterial where two arterials meet a gateway to the community for airport people going into downtown flying in and you've got a triple X theater with a private intimate theater setting for nine seats and one for 10 seats to watch pornography that should not be in that location thank you Courtney McKinney for the record Courtney mckimmy thank you council members for today's process um I just want to say and make sure that the record is clear that congratulations council member Martinez I just wanted to say that officially and I wish you all the best and it's been wonderful getting to know you throughout this process so congratulations again thank wow Class Act by the way Courtney all of you for staying and watching Mr Martinez get sworn in usually the rest just bolt out of here because obviously it's probably a really tough thing to accept but I want to say this is why I said you guys have been the best group I've ever seen Bar None amazing amazing there I yeah it's impressive classy classy all right Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comment and we're moving on to item K which is the adjournment all right I'm going to send it to a motion uh to Mr Martinez for the first um motion thank you for that Madam mayor I'd like to motion to adjourn this meeting I have a motion I have all those in favor say aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously I've never seen otherwise okay good night everyone thank you so much for being here all day long