e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e all right good morning Madame mayor are you ready to call this meeting to order hold on one second my eyes they going to be strong enough all right good morning everyone okay we are going to start the reen counseling this is Wednesday ju 24th 2024 and we are going to start out with the Pledge of Allegiance I would love who's the leader of your group do you have a leader he saw me I would love it if you would just in the pleas good job all right Madam clerk I'm going to send it to you for a roll call thanks Madame mayor we're calling roll for Wednesday July 24th council member breus absent at this time der here Martinez eert absent at this time Taylor Reese here shivy here Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council great our first item today is opening public comment unless we have any proclamations we do we actually have a proclamation to start day um honoring our Parks and Recreation team Nathan there you are come on come on up thank you Madame mayor Nathan paration director of the record um happy read this on of our team who does wonderful work and also want to thank uh mayor and Council for recognizing the hard work that they do regularly at the deis and also through emails and conversations so and so like to their Parks and Recreation committers very hardal of Reno and four outdoor spaces in our our facilities and programs so with that I've been practicing my wear ases take a shot is this no the one's still talking to whereas Parks and Recreation integ part of nation's communities Reno Park recreation promotes health and wellness improving the physical and mental health of people who live near parks and whereas Parks and Recreation promotes time in nature positively imp haacks mental health by increasing cognitive performance and wellbeing and eling depression def disorders and Alzheimer's and whereas the City of Reno Parks and Recreation Department is dedicated to enhancing Community Wellness through comprehensive programs in Aquatics Athletics engagement Senor Service and Health protion and whereas urban forestry initiatives maintain and expand green spaces to improve air quality and mitigate Urban heat islands and our inclusive programming ensures Equitable access to Recreation for all fostering belonging and Community cohesion and as the U Representatives designate July as Parks and Recreation month and now therefore I Nathan olot on behalf of Mayor Hillary shivi mayor of the City of Reno Nevada do here CL 2024 Park recreation month and I encourage our residents to get enjoy Reno's outstanding facilities programs and Parks you nailed it perfect good job just want to our our in the audience to stand we've got Park M here oh don't you laugh when he does that stand up thanks you guys we've got a a ton of years of service in this room and knowledge experience I don't didn't make it down we wanted to instead of this sitting on a shell like to present it to staff or Commissioners last year we gave one to uh uh commissioner pritet um prior to his passing um along with Sue burhan who also passed recently who were our Park Commissioners so this year we want to give it to a uh person who's been here a long time behind the scenes um would probably ask why I would have her come down here she helps us with our finances and keeps us in line so ping who's upstairs on the 11th floor we're going to give this to her good thank you thank all right Madame mayor so our first item today is public comment members of the public may hear observe provide public comment virtually by registering the following link can be found on reno.gov meetings https colon sl/ l i n k s period r e n o period g v c o u n c i l 07 hyphen 24 it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole commented under this will be limited BR minutes person and may train to both on the council's agenda Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized on today's agenda when you're called on for public comment please please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will forwarded 3 minutes those participating iners in with Council rules 6.3.1 one while in this room please be respectful disruptive behavior from audience members like clapping yelling whistling Etc which impede the meeting May result in a warning issued by ziding Officer if the behavior continues you may Beed from chambers if you're an attend to zoom meeting with make public comment please raise your hand at this time our first group of public commenters today is the Nevada peer support network good morning everyone uh we're three of the 26 members of retirees we're all retired First Responders with a total of about 600 years of experience between us all and U I just wanted to talk a little about the peer Network hopefully uh if you have interest um be able to sit with us for a while and discuss some of our needs uh bottom line is we take care of the people who take care of all of us all of you all your families and friends uh because take care of the mental health needs of our first respons and Veterans the community um we have a history that started back in 2019 when uh one of our young Dynamic firefighter Medics his own life and um who many First Responders uh fear the going to HR or telling their boss hey uh you know I'm I'm up for promotion but I'm struggling with some things so um he did not feel that he wasable it's at that time he was on and took his life and it started uh by his his fire captain said we need to do something a little bit different something that we can do with confidentiality and then refer people out uh last year our therapists and peer support teams took care of made contact with about 600 people U about 300 hours of volunteer uh therapy was was provided by our two therapists and one of was in the Army for 20 years one of our and the other one was a is a uh retired paramedic after 24 years at Rema so we have a really great staff we have a resiliency Center to thanks to company our is only 2500 for 2500 squ foot really nice place they gave us more than 50% off the rent uh the second part of our organization is basically uh we have incident Port go to emeres when called we've been numerous fires I about 17 fires from in the county uh and in City of Reno together uh we've been to some law enforcement incidents including the one in Sparks a while back where three officers shot and weide climate control shelters in the summer we've had we had Three Fires last week in Sun Valley where um the temperature was well over 104° so we had shelters set up cooling fans uh re hydration drinks things like that towels Etc again like to be able to do is at some point maybe sit down with um you mayor possibly we've met with uh councilman Martinez back and uh Council Ebert um to get um an appointment on schedule but we are 501c3 and uh yeah we beg for everything we get so um we have a couple uh old converted trucks rescue trucks we we respond to call on okay you I I just um uh it's the hardest part of our job is to take to ask for money from people it's I a pretty good paric yeah is really hard I was up I guess but we see such a strong need yesterday morning uh received a phone call from a Sher a sheriff in one of the rural communities Northern NADA who struggled with his D's who responded to an infant had died and they worked on on the the infant because they have a volunteer fire department was going to take like 25 minutes for anybody to get there and they were struggling with that so we set them up with a critical and stress thing so it's kind of kind of a s we take care of our own and then we take do direct uh assistance right at emergency scenes for our brothers and sisters are on the job okay we also bring a toilet toes because yeah we had the bul fire um the bul compartment we were there f a while I know REO that was quite a fire and um they really appreciated us but the bathroom was used more than the coffee pots so um I'm G have with you service are soal especially when it comes to mental health and our First Responders um they see some of the most tragic situations that we deal with in our community so um super important work I did not know you that I'm a supporter of so you guys lot like but for the first bonders that side and it's really important that we have those super those peer support groups um because you can really identify cuz the stigma that you talked about is very real where they don't want to go HR they want to go with system for the year of either rated against or uh you know scrutinized those types of things and so when it comes to mental health it's really really important impressive impressive work well I look forward to supporting you um make sure that you give information to uh Mickey the clerk and we'll have Brian reach out to you thank Youk you very much go ahead I'm also going to meet with the group so if my staff can get together and make sure they do that I also want to thank Council m is not here yet this morning she's got an Nation on the agenda today for um the peer Sport Network which I think is very important and I thank her for it excellent okay where is Brian Madam CL right all right Madame mayor getting back in order we have Darren McDonald on behalf of the financial Advisory Board followed by Ron Trevor on behalf of save and Tara Tran great good morning mayor members of the city council my name is Darren McDonald I'm the new chair of the financial Advisory Board following after congratulations oh thank you thank you following after Tila Kell uh McKeller she was on the board for 10 years so I've on the board about four years but we have a fair am of experience and this time we're coming up to speak about our annual re uh report and our annual work plan for your approval so just uh they're available to disp the city for any a financial if I have obviously work very closely with the finance director and and with the internal City auditor and but that's most of our skill is heavily into accounting we have accountants and CPA I'm a CPA we also have maerial accountants and investment advisers but we also have other diverse experience that's within that board so we can provide a well-rounded uh point of view for the benefit of the city as well as perform some additional site so I love get your perspective so it's really important you come because it's very Val it's different set of eyes and so it gives us a better perspective I think um how are we doing well you're doing you're doing really good you know the city's always worked really hard again you're doing really well City's worked really hard to balance the uh Financial objectives that the board the financial Advisory Board is always going to have a very Financial Focus compared to the other objectives that are important like law en homelessness and other elements that you have balanced against so but yeah but it's so critical cuz otherwise we can't find those things yeah we always take a long-term View and so that's always the uh the angle we're trying to do is how you can save more money over a longer period of time all right thank you so much look forward toar from you any time we'll do all right thank you Ron Trevor followed by Tara Tran followed by Sierra Rambo all right save Yay good morning my name is I'd like to thank mayor shivi and the council for allowing me to speak today I'm a representative of Save which stands for the senior auxiliary volunteer effort that works for Police Department today I've got Recaps for the hours volunteer for second quarter 2024 save currently has 71 active members and another three in training during the second quarter there was a total of 4521 hours volunteered by members of safe this presents a saves of $134,500 of Reno some of the key areas that we covered were citizen contacts 6,681 38 hour on abandoned vehicles [Music] 1,797 School patrols 950 handicap violations money for the city 511 uh stolen ni fictitious lates located 12 and that is it any questions all right fantastic y um let me ask ask you just quickly how do you decide on the areas you're going to focus on how like how is that determined well we have we have four quadrants Northeast northwest southeast Southwest and we receive uh service requests that come in from Reno and depending upon quad in we we place in slots and then we have the PS that go up in the individual quadrants okay all right good good to know um so those requests come through Reno Direct correct perfect yes okay that's all I want to I had an email last week praising your work and all doing so so you know people are recognizing make sure the membership knows thank you so much bye Tara Tran followed by Sierra Rambo followed by Ilia this is a clicker great hi um how's it going my name is t Tran I'm here today as part of the River Community advisory team the River Community advisory team or tat is a small group of community members that live and work near the downtown River Corridor um east of downtown and are affiliated with initiative shelter equality and for Reno Sparks Indian colony so it's kind of a combination of those organizations and community members in that little area we came together because we believe that the community who lives in area should be Forefront convers and winching a better f for it with support of river Network the National Park Service and one try River we designed an executed a community-led research project to learn about the needs wants and desires of people who use live and work in Target area so a Target area um spans from Broadhead Memorial to John Champion Park and so for those who don't know that's kind of the Asus Stadium to Sutro Street and it has received disadvantaged Community status donation by the environmental friction agency this is exuse area with apartments homes commercial and industrial buildings adjacent to the river despite rapid economic change in the surrounding areas the portion of theah raail and adjacent spaces is Contin degr due to a of Maintenance because it is a highly urbanized area this is also a critical Source uh a critical point for preventing Downstream pollution into the trucky rear which is designated Source water fiction area as a um Community uh we believe that public green spaces are necessary assets that everybody has a right to use regardless of their background or their current situation so our goal in this unit research project understand needs desires and current usage of the community that already exists benefits from and is invested in this part of our city um so in our community research project in to reach resents we were really focused on meeting them where they're at so uh thanks to the Human Service Outreach groups through uh Rise um the newsletter in the arenos Indian colony uh firing door too and tabling at highly frequented areas and in apartment buildings right on the river we were able to collect information from 157 respondents in the area I'll turn it over to my colle to hit the okay good job you could work here that was so good Sierra Rambo followed by Ilia arbitman so hello uh I'm Rambo and I am a tri member I also work at the Reks Inon our cultural resource department as the program assistant and oral historian uh I will be sharing with you the results of our survey uh first I would like to start off with our survey demographics as you can see we have good distribution of responses from various Community from various communities we were trying to reach there's nice bell curve in age and an almost even split uh of gender this shows how often these different graphic survey you truck on a daily and weekly among homeowners renters and individuals in transitional housing 40 to 70% of respondents uh use all areas of theor uh we only see RS fall off of the in Colony we found they use River least all the group surveyed and as a Renos Sparks inding Colony Tribal member and Resident uh I would like to make a small comment about that uh historically many things been taken away from our people and this is another example of that uh many tribal community members don't feel the river is safe uh my father used to fish in the river uh all the time when he young man and he no longer fishes uh he tells us to eat any that come the trucky uh and it's a common attitude among tribal MERS uh this next slide shows uh you know we know that people are using the river and these are the five five most common responses among surve Acres the respons is walking and picnicking fing Gathering friends and family and commuting respondents also use the river Corridor for swimming running fishing paddling and other Hobbies uh another question we asked was desired improvements to the survey respondents want to see for us this was one of the most surviving surprising results of the survey uh this graph shows that across the board whether someone is in traditional housing or homeowner they want to see same improvements uh these Park solar River uh the top five improvements were more benches more trash cans better lighting uh public restrooms and access to food and drink and thank you turn over there good job Ilia arbitman okay Ilia arbitman for the record we're just um there's a lot to talk about and we're actually happy if any wants to meet and the long slideshow that's kind of against um I think one of things that it highlights is just the importance of soliciting input um from people who use an area um we know obviously there's a lot of attention being paid to the river right now the trucky plan came out um I think we were trying to do here kind of balance uh some of those thoughts with uh information from the people who already use it ra rather than looking at it as a place that we necessarily need to bring in people to who aren't already there want to start the community that's already using it or we would like to be using it but doesn't for whatever reason um I think if we look at a park like Wingfield we see in example of a downtown park on the river that's very different from Broadhead from John Champion these are parks that I think people don't even their name because they don't go there and we're trying to understand why that is what's different field certainly has a very diverse mix of people there people that are down and out that are sleeping there there's families right there's there's special events that happen there there isn't really anything about field different um from Champion actually like there's just investment that Park more amenity gets clean more regularly it's better maintained it's better lit um and uh the success of a park like that is not just about who's there so sometimes might assume that there's you know a bunch of Bing on the river that that's why people don't go there but that's not really true because there's plenty of people sleeping in Wingfield any day and people still go there so we were trying to understand um with the survey and we we may as well go actually talk to the people there and kind understand they feel about it um so the biggest takeaway from this and what we learned about the river was actually the model of gathering information which is very different from the consultant model which is very top down um and doesn't necessarily involve like Studios whoever big pration um it doesn't necessarily ask people what do you want to see here right and if it does it's very limited uh and the surveys that the city puts out online I think are very effective but there's no guarantee that they're actually going to reach the people that are there so um we compense people with gift cards um and the community engagement model that we used is a little bit more intensive like we got a team of people together we went out there we tabled there so obviously um it doesn't a little more grassroot work but City demonstrated Aire to engage the community and we really hope that this type of information gathering can be incorporated in the future for projects or currently with the river because we think it's a great way to enfranchise basically them feel like if they live on River and a project next door to them uh would feel they were part of it if they were like oh right that's something I recommended like a bench right there and they put in the bench or more lighting right there um so we hope this is a model for working together in the future thank you very much great job IIA let me ask you a couple questions um did you call it the Hat it's Tre River Community advisory team okay um have you met with Doug or dig um I don't I mean I'm not sure I haven't because I think your information is super important to it's really really critical because it's really good um do literally boots on the ground did you guys come to the um the presentation we had last week from them um I I mean I watch I'm going to I'm going to set up a meeting for you guys cuz I think it's really really critical and then one last question this is and I think people are getting this piece of it do you have plans to share this um and do a presentation like you just did over at the city of Sparks and the county um this was we pilot we won presentation at the NAB is our pilot presentation you know hav like you've been for long so it looks good but sure if you think it's a good idea we'll do that could you please do that because I feel like people forget that we all share the river together and the only way that this is successful is if actually we're all working with the jurisdictions um we're connected and you can't just be like hey Reno this is it and then it stops whenever you're over on the county side and you're over on the spark side cuz then it will look very very different and it needs to be like you said for all so if you do that that would be huge yeah if you could mean we would be glad to that as anise too we just didn't public comment here because we figured it'd be easier but um uh if you could the connection make the connection that would be great absolutely okay I'm going to put you in touch with and and mrman I would like to be part of you to make those connections as well because and with our parks and recation Department we've got a lot of different um divisions within the city departments that in this but we've all got to be enged with your as well I think your model which is you know up is something very constructive for us so I'd to make sure that my staff works with your team to figure out how we can make those things happen because you've got a lot of stakeholders between rise RTC is an important stakeholder Mad May has been arguing for many years the river path is a transportation Corridor and so the money that is going to happen as roadway way construction moves towards the river we've asked them to improve lighting and path improvements in this section so i' have RC seat at the as well um and again a lot of information here today is not entirely new but it's presented differently and also it does have the implication being presented bottom up which I think is more interesting us than down but TR structure government are very top down Focus we'd rather be bottom up but governments don't really talk that language often enough so like to make sure that we can get a coordinated effort because again Public Works Parks rise our community team our police officers enforcement teams our park rangers there's an agenda item later about park rangers all those things have to be done together so I'd like to make sure that we love to have you weigh if we can make the connection I'm sure we we glad to to set a meeting and just toy could said that I to use it at Transportation Hub I want to be very clear cuz people will I'll get emails of um you know cars and things like that bicycles bicycles great job okay guys okay followed by Olivia Tanager followed by Terry Brooks the slide Champion I love it good morning Connie sarahk you for letting speak today and I do have a little good news is this on okay Connie coming okay this is the original reason I down here was list Park and it is fixed it is completed and when I stopped by the other day to check on it these boys were having a blast and I got to it so rewarding to see them having so much F so just really excited to see that happen um moving on to the next Park uh we do still have picket Park which I have to apologize I think last time I mised this is St Park which it is not it is picket park by hospital it's a pretty break the slide that's pretty dangerous for kids and so I just wanted to bring that to your attention and and uh and then also Wilkinson Park is the other at this time that I found that um is pretty shaped this is on little kids so you know they don't have the same it's a little harder for them to maneuver around but it's pretty severe it looks pretty dangerous and so I just wanted to give an update on that and uh moving on for Parks do want bring up other sub for the city know that's very upset about and that is the hot August night's parade that's been cancelled because they can no longer afford the extra $220,000 the city is now charging for parades so um I've been a big hot night supporter I've volunteer I have cars uh for years that's it just brings so much to the community uh not money but fun and activities and we're just all really sad to see that the parade will happen and I believe we didn't have a rep parade possibly not a veteran we're not having parade anymore because these organizations cannot afford the extra 20 $1,000 they have to pay now so I would hope that in your budgets coming up that you look a hard look at that and see if there something you can do help with that because did not have totally agree with you um I I been very unhappy with um maybe it's a you know an existing structure we have put place maybe has made it more difficult I'm asking for a special meeting address special events also need to let people know um because a lot of people think that the city puts on like I think there was a fourth of July parade that's not done through City that's through a private promoter um and so what we're do is do special meeting and adjust special events so that they can afford to do it because they we are sort of that City that's known for our special events so I would love for you to come when we have that meeting because I want the council weigh in and adjust the fees we can make it um affordable for everyone to participate I have been very disappointed um and I'm hearing a lot of cry about uh the hardship of doing Special Events um they are challeng ing because we have contracts with um you know groups have to be a by state law so you have to have all these things in place we got to figure out how we can mitigate some of that so that these events can make it and Thrive the only parade that i the city of re does is our vet Day Parade I think is the only one we put on but all the other ones are from the hard work of people wanting to put on special events and we need to make sure because um parade has been for many many many years so I meet with them make sure that um they continue to have because that's a huge driver especially with our tourists and our community both both love it we're of it just so you know when we have special me it'll be um in September October Jackie is on it she's Superwoman over here and she's the one that was responsible for fixing your slide she's on both of those Parks now for you um if there's any that can get in it's Jackie and uh it was her we take the CRP here it was our that helped helping we appreciate all your team so thank you very much all right thank you all right Barry levenson followed by Olivia Tanager followed by Terry Brooks good morning um mayor shivi and Reno city council hi my name is lenson I'm resident M Club um talking about energ change of subject as you all know Envy energy has proposed a large increase in the base rate for electricity with a concominant reduction in the charge kilow it is quite clear that goal to shift their income from a variable amount on electricity usage to a guaranteed fixed rate independent of usage while this may be advantageous to Envy Energy's bottom line it would be devastating to customers and the Environ customers will be the elevated before they ever even turn on a light switch this removes the ability ility to reduce one's electricity bill by conserving energy consequences may be dire for lower income people may not be able to afford bills it's terrible for the environment as moove incentives to conser energy secondly the increased base rate will almost surely kill the solar industry in Northern Nevada people install solar on the roof to save money in the long run on their electricity bills I did just that two years ago with the expectation the base rate stay low charged per kilowatt hour would continue to increase over time with these thought of assumptions rooftop solar makes a lot of sense in the long run if Envy energy gets its way rooftop solar will not likely sense financially greatly reaching the number of people choose to go solar this would be a travesty for the solar industry and for our environment this proposal also flies in the face of the new Reno Envy energy partnership agreement which is where you guys in energy agreed to work with re to reduce energy related EMS increase local renewable energy improve resilience and reliability and support Equity the osed huge increase in the base rate runs counter to all these goals sh Club inunction other environmental groups you see behind me is requesting a statement from the City of Reno in opposition to the proposed base rate increase in the form of written comment to the pucn and a letter to the nvy energy whatever makes sense we feel that support from the could really bolster our position against this arious proposal from Envy energy and that the city must stand up vociferously vociferously for the tenants of the energy partnership agre agreement okay thank you any support can provide all right thank you so much I'm going to sit over col Council of woman dur because we've been we've been working on this yeah we have um I as you know uh Barry I was I think really the only local elect official that an opportunity comment when MV their meeting in want to say it was um Jun at their hearing it was a meeting to gather public input um and I uh came out against it and I was um for the main reason you just really dvantage low-income residents who is advocating for them us there's um they are our residents uh number two your point about solar is very important I think I may be the only elected official in Northern Nevada that actually has on my root uh maybe tell me I them the team in the anyway one of the few I'll say um that have it on the roof and I advocated in 2014 for the same reasons that you made which is that uh you change energy model disadvantage solar which economic base return and um and I wanted to mention to the mayor didn't we recently have the Secretary of Commerce here and when she flew in um with Senator Rosen they um spoke out our new technology that have at and she made comment how few roofs in Arena solar I mean it was part of her commentary and um so for a person to just come in and recognize the issue that we have made very little progress the only this he's been able add in the last 10 years is is our community solar project which is a partnership with MV energy the work we're doing with our public safety center and our Moana pool but separate from those that are new buildings or new ads we haven't able to ret or so M mayor I hope that we can get this on an agenda and consider it for a potential resolution before MV or before the puc has their uh final hearing on the rate setting in August August 12 that's the deadline what's that 12 a is is the hearing well we spoke about it this morning and we will you we did oh yes you and I I thought you met with I thought you met where have you been no I was here okay and so um and we thought that would be a good idea so we look to seeing you soonk okay thanks so much Barry great job Olivia Tanager followed by Terry Brooks followed by Benjamin cro thank you Adam mayor and council members my name isan my comment very similar to ber we probably should have conferred before getting up here today but I'm the executive director the Sierra Club toyabi chapter I just started in March the toyabi chap believes we all have a right to liveable PL and we work supporting Equitable reable energy ining access public transportation and protecting and conserving the land water and wildlife in our region we represent 40,000 members and supporters across the state Nevada and a slice of California as well and as where the largest gr Environmental Group in the Nevada and recently proposed a basic service charge increase for Northern nevadans and the BC is how much you have to pay to in energy every month for turning on a light switch as I mentioned we're very concerned because of the applications that they have the renewable energy Market in Nevada for small businesses that feed Northern Nevada economy as well as for the equity of lowincome folks who live here right here and now um and as Barry mentioned especially concerned about the potential violation energy partn agreement you all work hard on in the cityo because of the equity concern that we have and because of the implications for renewable energy development in the state as well and if I may Mad May Olivia wait Olivia are you finished I I was just going that we were reaching out to all council members and I would like Echo said about our desire to have the City of Reno uh publish a resolution and send a letter to the that effect about your concerns about this proposal okay I have uh their on to thank you very okay before you go you mention the high rate I heard that was tripling correct and that it was going from $16 to $45 yes that's correct it would make our basic service charge here in Reno the highest in the whole country that's what I wanted to make sure that it was act that you put that on the record YK thank you maybe you want to say that again sure uh if Envy energy goes through with this proposal to increase basic service charge make our basic service right here in Reno the highest in the country disadvantaging low-income renoit and folks AC the state of across Northern triple corre today y yeah can is there do they be a reason for why that is I I think the reason that we've heard is it would add more stability to the revenue for the energy so they be able count and have set am of flow in every month but of it wouldn't allow for folks FKS to do things like conserve their energy turn off light switch when they leave the room uh to try and protect their energy bill it would allow in energy to more money which a reason they're ping that that seems dis genous it does does one more question if I may sure uh Olivia didn't um I read that their rate of return I think would go from 9 to 11% is that right yes that's correct so this so that their sharers their shareholder make more money mon is that in a public statement I believe so I believe it's in their proposal in the pucn um in the docket that you can look at it says that their return will be after this proposal um they they have commissioner pu Commissioners there are three PC Commissioners they're appointed by the governor okay know who they are uh yes there's I'm not going to be able to remember all three of their Nam Rand oh okay y random from not oh oh I didn't know that perfect okay thank you so much and Olivia I'm so impressed uh with you future Senator thank you women to run thank you and we are counting on of you to protect your constitu from this proposal so I appreciate your attention to this urgent matter thank you thanks so much Terry Brooks followed by Benjamin Castro followed by Bill Miller Terry good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today's presentation is about different so-call classes when it comes to discrimination many sociologists have described a lot of different classes and they all usually fall under three known classes these three classes are the upper class and the middle class and the lower class the upper class is usually known as being the most wealthy and because of their living conditions are probably the most healthy born in a wealthy family and neighborhood they usually receive a education which usually leads them to better occupation most of the wealthy don't work long because once they've gain their wealth they don't have to work anymore because they're just living off of their wealth then there's middle class who are quite high they referred to as a working class make enough hit by most of them have access to a decent education which can then lead to a decent occupation and a middle class person usually has enough what they need survives and usually winds up working most of their lives most people of the said lower class were probably born poor and can easily wind up being even poorer than before even being brought up in a PO neighborhood they don't receive such a good ucation which does not help their chances of receiving a good occupation Lower Class Property is usually inherited from generation to generation which is why may have such long duration sometimes it's theer class that practices discrimination while it's usually the lower class who are victims of discrimination I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back because I still have more to say oh this is chapter 34 and just so you know I've only got 12 more chapters to go EXC oh good Benjamin asro by Bill Miller by Robin good morning Madam mayor manager Bryant city council members and staff my name is Benjamin Castro for the record I am the executive director of you know ini for shelter equality today I'm here to give you an upate on the stewards program that we launched back in May for those of you who may not recall This Is Us employing residents of the river or unsheltered to help up pick up asash um on 100t either side River so so far uh from westforth and McCarron all the way down to the end of the world which is out past Sparks Vista that's what that's what they call it um that has been kind of the almost High River stretch uh we have gathered 471 Gall bags of trash uh which is pretty significant uh our truck holds about 12 at any given time assuming that we're putting like a net over it to make sure it doesn't you know go all over the freeway so that's about 48s or about to the other days times twice so um I have tons of pictures of before and after I bring them with me it's pretty significant though um and I definitely don't want to Discount those wins but for me of course I'm happy ites back to people right because um people don't remember what you did they remember how you made them feel so if people feel seen if they feel safe and if they feel heard that where the begins uh as of today we have employed 10 UNH house neighbors to help us um great in this work four of them are looking very very promising as far as being being uh consistent and reliable and one of them we've actually convinced to access emergency Shel so that is within the first days of the project um yep and I'm I'm very confident that by the end of 12 months we'll have even bigger wins so uh there's that project again uh we would have been able tochi this without oural partnership here and our partn with County so I think the intersectionality of government agencies uh public private sector and even just environmental sciences and human Sciences we're able to achieve a lot so come down thank you and uh hope you all have a okay it's impressive like where we've been and where we are now and what you what you've done it is truly remarkable uh well we do it together so well that's very very very kind um curious are you also still over um seeing our place as well and both initiatives what tell me all the stuff we're doing um so we operate our place in partnership with F show County HSA Human Service Agency we operate the men women's women and families Crossroads programs uh in partnership with HSA that sober Supportive Housing for um our unsheltered neighbors uh under the and safe here city of we do Outreach um the steward is funded by the trucky River fund and administered by the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada so we have that partnership we have a partnership with one trucky River to maintain the lose Broadhead um outside these store here and champion and we're about to launch another project with one treky River the state forestry division and the City of Reno uh to do um uh Workforce Development Reclamation and restoration along the river path W that's impressive I mean You' really grown I you know um I think again they treat people well they tend to stick around so they do all the work I just get to uh I just get to sign their check that's true that's not true you do a lot of work great job so great and please coming back I love update yep I will be back thanks Ben go ahead Council and Taylor thank you um so good to see you I think this is a phenomenal project and I think it goes back to one of the challenges that we see Madam always talk is the deated fund source for the river um and what you are doing it helps the whole community and I am always going to supportive of what you do and the way that you do it so from the bottom of my heart and the I would say entire Council thank you for this and we know not easy we know you have a tough job and you do it with compassion and with leadership and results so thank you very much ben I I appreciate that thank you TW oh go ahead I think we have a schedule for August I'd like make sure that have more time than has been allocated so if you'll just coordinate with my staff they've only set it up for an hour but it's like I need to know a little bit more I'd also like to include uh as part of that a walking tour it's interesting to hear the early presentation which I you had a part in some of the folks are overlapping team members I'd like to be able to actually walk with you when we do do the tour in in August but also um I'm interested to know if you know about group called Green VI World um this is a local nonprofit that mayor um is able to secure a a national us conference mayor's grant for and they do a lot of cleanup activities along the river I wonder if there would just be an opportunity to coordinate with you and work with you in because I wonder paying for the Run um and and the amount of trash because we obviously have some ability help with that with our partners at waste management and and the ways that we can use our um alloc but I I'm just saying something there with GRE Vibe world the May has gotten a national grant for that organization to do some extensive work in cleanup so I'm just saying we should try to figure out how to connect you with them too no absolutely um I think U I think really good folks and collaborating with anybody who is to you know to the vision so um the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned that's awesome great job awesome thanks Ben thank you all right Madam clerk Bill Miller followed by Ron Palmer followed by Rich B is is this a great City or what wow good morning mayor shivi council members St and fellow citizens I'm Bill resident advocate for a lival climate in our Fair City I'm here today as a grinch to talk about Reno's partnership agreement with NB energy signed in May and already violated by them spirit andle I a back request triple their B rate sabotaging rooftop solar for consumers and installations owned by the City of Reno I'm reminded of a fable about a scorpion and a Frog Scorpion and frog are right across the stream the Frog being suspicious says you're poisonous how do I know you won't bite and kill me the Scorpion replies because if I did we would both sink and drown frog thinks it to give scorpion ride halfway across the Scorpion s his fang to the Frog as they're sinking the Frog cries why did you do that and the Scorpion answers because that is my nature so it's exam the nature of Envy energy and the council the council is empowered by citizens to protect the public welfare build and repair infrastructure plan for sensible growth and protect our environment in which it is doing a remarkable job eny is publicly Corporation owned by an out ofate investor beholden to Wall Street and managed by law solely for the B Financial benefit of its shareholders Envy energy not only has no stake in the health wellbeing of our citizens it is in fact task law making as much money as possible any way it can so how does EnV energy enser the ensure the largest possible returns essentially building converting power plant burn fossil fuels and emit dangerous trapping gases worse it simultaneously resists highly beneficial infrastructure improvements like rooftop solar that it can't monetize to return to fa energy a scor scorion that will not only act according to its nature it will actually destroy our local environment helping helping kill both the planet and itself for profit to think it will otherwise is Hardy so I encourage the city cc to rethink this so-called partnership agreement the Inc had barely dried when NB energy sank its fangs deep into our back being the city with the highest temperature increase in America uh 78 degre average 11.1 in summer is already disastrous for Reno's residents expecting EnV energy to voluntarily help is only ensuring our crisis will be even more in Dro thank you for your time thanks so much great Robin Palmer followed by Rich Bisset followed by Kathy Fulkerson we're railing against not energy good morning mayor sh conso and all I'm Robin Palmer I'm a climate Advocate kudos to the city for making climate action priority all the projects undertaken to further energy goals 11 solar install relationss with two more to come yeah in May I stood before you in support of the partnership agreement between the C end of energy City and energy Express tent to elaborate a shared Vision to reduce emissions increase loc local renewable energy and support energy related solutions that are accessible and equable I vo concerned that the No Visions to resolve disagreements particularly when impacting Nevada Energy's bottom line as you've heard Nevada Energy has requested that the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada pn a monthly increase in the base rate from $66.50 to over $45 the highest of a US investor owned utility the base rate is the amount we pay Nevada Energy before flipping a single light which the we pay must to be a Nevada Energy customer average Nevada Energy customers bill will increase nearly 9% if you use nothing electric or are solar powered your Nevada Energy bill will nearly triple low fixed income families who tyly use electricity will be financially burdened while higher income high energy users will be rewarded by a decrease in electricity rates those who have installed solar will be penalized and future solar installation will will be incentivized meanwhile profits to Nevada Energy investors will increase to over 10% Nevada Energy's proposed base rate increas conflicts with the vision of partnership agreement I'm asking to protect our low fixed income families you and Nevada Energy agreed to increase renewable energy the Nevada clean energy fund was recently awarded $156 million to encourage solar installation low inome families rate discourages call Nevada Energy on the carpet please formly oppose the base rate increase and inform Nevada Energy double talk regarding the idin the city and Nevada Energy customers can submit comments to pucn overhead please is it I up there can all of us can submit C uh comments to the PN through pn's user unfriendly website or by letter with subject line doet 24- 02026 received by August 12th to PN attention pocket number 42026 1150 East William Street Carson City Nevada 89701 thank you thank you good job Rich Bisset followed by Kathy Fulkerson followed by Rano Zoom good morning mayor and council members Reno mayor Hillary shivi won one of two top awards at the recent us Conference of Mayors 92nd Annual Meeting our mayor members of the council and W staff one Reno staff one for the Moana Springs uh recreational complex uh and Fire Station 3 nearby this is a rather Complex Community Based resource Awards recognize outstanding leadership in combating climate change Reno citizens can feel justifiably proud that Reno is recognized nationally as a greening City targeting the ill effect of ouring region anding air pollution mayor shivi and Reno council's community-based solar resource initiative utilized a partnership partnership with Envy energy to build the's First Community so project in this core participating businesses and residents receive solar energy from a utility scale facility as opposed to installing a private solar system on their property with low income customers eligible for guaranteed lower rate there are many climate and environment environmental groups in our region I feel I can speak for all or a majority of them when I say congratulations and good job mayor shivi and know Council keep up the work realize we are here to help you on any climate project in any way we can to help reduce carbon use and Emissions or moderate the harmful effects of air temperatures M you all hit a grand land with Mona we will still be looking forward to some home runs now and again we'll be cheering team Reno on thank you well that incred kind I could take the credit but we have wonderful people Suzanne Jackie and my team over here so abolutely thank you so much for the Kudos but really it's the hard work that they do and then we get to go look what I did we have we have an offering is that LGE yes you know the baggy is in we're going back to the '90s thank you anyone how yes how can we support you yeah we we all want one I'm sure that's a very bright color andely a rat some for you all I'm grateful but the color is very Bri thank you very much Kathy Fon followed by relle Vi Zoom Andel via Zoom hi I'm Kathy Fulkerson I'm the co- facilitator of third act Nevada third Act is a National Organization that harnesses the generational power experienced Americans um we work to repair the climate and repair our communities those are the values that drive our we have three main campaigns one of those is to democratize energy and that's to um facilitate moving away from fossil fuels as quickly as we can as well as to ensure that all our communities benefit as we transition um my my perspective in coming to speak before you is that opposing Envy enies B rate is a nonpartisan issue uh increasing space rate from $16.50 to $453 will be the highest in the nation that means you have to pay $45 a month before you even turn on your lights before you cook anything on your electric stove um and it also means that you can do nothing to decrease your bill if you run up short with in 2020 the American Council on energy efficient economy did a study and found that lowincome nevadans already experience a high energy burden that means they pay more than 6% of their household income for energy bills that was in 2020 This research also found that numerous other groups of nevadans are impacted with with higher disproportionately higher when fixed rates are increased those are a people aged 65 or older the experienced Americans I'm talking about um blacks Hispanics Native Americans venters are disproportionately carry a burden as well as um people living in multifamily lowincome housing so by by range their rate this way by designing it this way it takes away nadin's ability to choose they can't choose to reduce their rate when they need that flexibility in meeting their blls and so I urge you to oppose this and you can do it individually or as a resolution or as a um as a group thank you very much thank you good job and Madam mayor yes pleas um just for the information for the council I've U at the time of the hearing and when our next meetings are and it really has become apparent we would need to um take this up at our next meeting if we're to be in time for the Pu hearing so some thoughts that may want to end of the meeting when we talk future item may want to our staff bring this back um ASAP by by our next meeting which is a very short turnaround but even if we just um record what heard here from theat um there's plenty to resol by 31st thank [Applause] you we've tasked you what's that tasked you all right M roelle Mao via Zoom Follow by Dora ell Martinez via Zoom good morning manam mayor council members staff and fellow citizen my name relle I to address you the previous public commenters thank you ah please mark your schedule to attend the public comment at the Supreme court on August 1st 24 3m. to voice opinion on the need for judicial guide for use when judges have unrepresented litigant in their courtrooms also at that time you can voice your opinion on the familyfriendly divorce proposal that they're considering I'm here today beg your um consideration against licensing airbnbs I would like to know from the council if they attend a tour of airbnbs in the area before they vote and I would like to know from the council under what terms will they vote so I can meet the criteria when I attended C session previously on this matter the gentleman in charge when asked why are you considering this answered Vegas it I sure doesn't jump a bridge he didn't have any other reason it wasn't because they had statistics from the police department from the fire department from 911 rir it wasn't because of a petition from concerned citizens I think it's a cash grab but they have no idea a if they already receive money from Airbnb and if so how much because no idea nor do they any idea how much revenue they will re re receive when they start requiring licenses when ask what did they do to get the word out to current owners was pass the homers who are run their homes to short-term rentals I have to go to the website to find out about this the the that's ineffective we need to attempt to form hosts need to do more information gathering and it needs to be Community Based will you please deny the proposed law since Lance feto cannot show the council serious and successful attempts to inform hosts there are no statistics there was no petition there is no history of any problems because of a andb the Restriction are far too uh great to make any sense minimum one night I'm not sure if you've even heard the proposal yet but they want to make it a minimum of one night so the person who wants stop driving for won't be able to stay one night in a friendly Airbnb they might continue driving I have many notes and you'll be hearing from me a lot because I will using my for these public comments thank you Dora ell Martin via Zoom good morning can you guys see good morning we can good morning M mayor and fantastic Council people this is Dora Martinez um I want to thank everyone especially you Madame mayor for all that you do and um Deon re and and der for um their help and build of trar uh for making the um pre trips on the ad a 34th anniversary this this Friday it's the first in our area I want to thank Madam mayor because um I've learned when I see see your name on everything I get an answer so I guess who you know really counts and I am not you know I'm not gonna abuse that but it sort of frustrating because I do it my own I don't get H but when I see several of you guys it it gets answered and addressed so I appreciate that um I I appreciate that you guys are um bring accessible meeting public meeting places I want to thank uh Miss nomi nomi I hope I'm pronouncing her name right Martinez from our uh Reno advisory accessibility advisory committee meeting yesterday um she sort of part of the um language access plan and they are Implement she has in place the ASL anywhere everywhere so people who are hard of hearing can request that ahead of time and be able to be included in um all in all of the uh Council meetings so I also appreciate that um said two months ago about you guys had the um Mr Juan Osuna for the equity Plan Focus plan for the of Reno include people with disability on how to implement accessibility and equit Equitable accessibility in the in the City of Reno and Madame mayor and and councel I want to thank to you because we I believe the city of you know the big little city in the world fantastic City we're the first one to implement the um stop issuing the 14c certification and that is uh the minimum W um shelter workshops for people significant ability you guys stop issuing that so I appreciate all of all of the things that you guys do and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts have a session and stay hided and so much thank you Dora thank you so much that was very very kind but um just so you know there's oftentimes I reach out to folks and I do not get a response either so um I wish I could say that there was um don't feel single out it just so happens that Bill Thomas also um is very passionate about the initiatives that you're doing and maybe Dora just speak really quickly because I think that tomorrow is it it's Friday will you um talk a little bit about that so people know what's happening so on Friday because of the Americans with Disability Act was signed by George Bush the father 1990 um it's where people have the people with disability will have equal access to everything and um sort of like our counterparts and so it's the 34th anniversary of the sign of that bill and so all RPC Services um e parat trans door too RTC access will be free flex ride will be free and all RTC Ride will be free um all day to all day on Friday until 12 1201 a.m. Friday so that fantastic and actually was Dora that made this come to fruition so Dora I applaud you um you're tremendous thank you for all the work you're doing on access and everything you're fighting for this was all you so give yourself a round of applause let's real quick good job thank you madam mayor thank you byebye all right thank you all right Madame mayor with that we have no additional opening public com for the record received 27 coms which were General nature and not associated with an agenda item prior to 4m. yesterday July 23rd these comments were voicemail and or written correspondence received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by to our office copies of these have beened to the city council are available to public on read.gov two letters in favor 25 letters of concern and again those are on reno.gov meetings on item A4 approval of the agenda all right thank you so and thank you for my green shirt I love it okay um at time I would like to ask Council for uh approval of the agenda um no I'm going to ask her after or do I need to do before yeah Madam if there are changes by Bryant I'm prepared to move forward with an approve Madam clerk usually you chime in and say oh ma Madam um City interim cator do you have announcement in the agenda only one to Mr son staff member who is leading us on item excuse D3 dog3 um is not available until after 1:30 p.m. so we don't need time certain we just need to not take that item before 1:30 please okay sounds good all right May approval of the agenda so move I have a motion a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right approval of the minutes move to approve I have a motion I have a second all those favor say I I opposed Mo carries unanimously all right Madam clerk thank you madam mayor we're moving into our consent agenda items and just for the record we do have one public commenter on this item perfect okay let's take comment Richard hi madam mayor and council members thank you uh my name is Richard weight I'm a board member with SI NADA Community Aquatics who's been involved with the mo pool for few years as a founding board member in 2008 and I'm here commenting in support of item b45 for you which is your acceptance of a contribution from sier Nevada Community Aquatics fund at the Community Foundation Northern Nevada this has been raised byous donors in the community who have supported snca we call it snika in our mission to facilitate the expansion and sustainability of aquatic resources in Northern Nevada it's pleasure to our efforts to facilitate development of the highest quality Aquatic Center to meet the needs of the community this enhancement to the timing system will improve invaluable to the competitor user groups but also will allow for enhanced city of Areno programming of like sponsorships upcoming event promotion and movie Nights we hope to see that will improve beneficial to many users of the facility we look forward to the opening of the pool and our continued partnership with Sereno make F Improvement enhancement to the project as it becomes operational next month so thank you thank you so much really appreciate your being here and the donation I was going to pull it off the agenda just to to highlight it we I was the only one available today due to the not able to predict when that would happen yeah well a number of groups have made contributions but um yours is one of the larger ones and we just so appreciate what you're doing what you have done to help us get Theon ground and also this indidual donation very important thank you looking for having you at the um ribbon cutting I look forward to being there yeah okay thank you all right and um that ends public comment on the consent agenda and then Madam just for the record one in fav an item that also been distributed to the city council okay well I was just going to start calling if anyone has items to pull off the consent agenda and then we'll hand it back to the mayor um uh council member Martinez I don't have any at this point okay council member uh b19 please thank you 19 all right um council member Reese item B7 uh B17 all right um do Council Ebert um one second here B13 B7 b19 B21 b23 B24 okay let me go over wait I'm done 31 b32 b33 b34 and b36 and b41 and B9 okay so have 13 17 19 21 24 no 23 and 24 oh 23 24 31 32 33 34 36 4 and 49 yes okay thank you and then um I have some which is um I'm just pulling b11 just so that staff can explain this down safe skate process is since so many are there unless someone's pulled one of those I've pulled 17 and 13 is also been okay so I won't pull um 11 I just wanted to have staff explain what that is my same request for B7 and then I had um b29 and 30 just for some Kos and then um b39 I don't know if anyone else pulled that and I think that is all I had let's hold on one and B 45 so I have 29 so 2930 39 and 45 okay Madam vice mayor I'm just going to read them down the list to make sure I've got all of them hold on and then Madam mayor um I'm pull B1 B12 hold on 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 234 25 26 and 27 and 39 is it 39 was that a number yes the par 39 no many of you have also P those uh I think we'll have a good discussion all right did you track it okay so just to reiterate we've got items B 11 through 27 pulled we have 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 39 41 45 and 49 perfect okay all right so we're looking for a motion to approve the remainder item if there are any on the cons agenda moved okay we've got a motion council member Reese and a second from council member Taylor all in favor please say I I I any opposed all right motion passes unanimously and back to you madam mayor all right thank you so much B 11 um did anyone else pull that just me um I was going to but I held off but for probably the same reason I don't know okay let's start with this thanks Lance so much is Alex here he is good perfect um couple things um I would it and I don't know what the rest of the council's um thoughts are on this I love it if these uh because these are privileged licenses right these are liquor stores that I pulled that's right yeah they're L for the record they are safe compliance updates so all packed alcoholes in the downtown area or in the buffer area that have received their annual compliance check okay and then we also I think um probably should have been more clear because had a hold on there the last I think council meeting um and I think it was opportunity for the coun to weigh in so what you're saying this all of these are approved based on the safe Scapes of what we um approved correct basically Lance FR for the record basically these are all exis license in the town area that are required to have annual inspection where we go through and make sure they're meeting the certain criteria laid out in safescape which is chapter 5 7123 and uh we we do a checklist we do interviews with the staff and we complete that compl report andit it with recommendation in this case all of them are recomended for approval yeah and I looked up every single one of them um in your staff report I saw some pictures I would love it if from now on that we put these um especially the privilege slices onto the regular agenda not on content because I think very easy Overlook as you know um I have been walking up and down Virginia Street a lot looking at a lot of these um safes Scapes um I think you should give us a little background what that can serve uh those requirements are safe I am still seeing many stores um that look very problematic um a couple of things I would like to know that I'm seeing I'm seeing paraphernalia in the windows is that something um includ in safe um I thinkover wants the criteria of safescape so that also the liquor stores are very much aware and then I also want you to give us the definition of a privileged license and what that exactly means okay start with criteria of whatcap is um first off your first uh question about the tobacco paraphernalia uh that is not included in safescape but that is regulated under the tobacco paraphernalia chapter I figured and it should not be out in the windows um we have recently started a comp program for tobacco rilers retailers we are doing internally not something that comes to council but we just started that recently and that that's where everybody uh compliance officer will go to a location um go through the requirements correct correct action if necessary and then back um being done in when the annual license RS so they're not all done at one time um so if there are certain ones out there then yeah definitely we'd like to jump ahead and and get to those um yeah there's a few right here right outside this door so um maybe on my if I can have a checkl what you got check off of um I'm seeing things and I'm like this just can't be sure permissible okay okay yeah um as far as the safe gate uh operating requirements as I said we have a check we go in and and and make sure they're to the all list basically they have um operating hours and conditions uh basically they are required to like any business operating within zoning hours uh they have to have a height marker placed by the door in case of reporting any you uh identifying that may have trouble um pipe marker you know like in a lot of convenience stores on the door um they are not allowed to store merchandise in boxes uh Outdoors they as far as products offer sale this was a big that came when we created this new ordinance chapter 5 whining contains less than 750 m beer malt liquor with wine coolers and similar beverages in containers less than 20 ounces not in the original Factory packaging dist Spirits in contain less than 370 M or per PLS in qu less than usual custom packaging those are not allowed at all within the downtown safescape area which is basically the bid um there's the buffer area which is 1,000 ft around that area and then ft north south the Citys in the buffera all the samples apply except for the fact that they can sell these products from the hours of 5: to 8:00 a.m. that's the only difference of the buffer okay um next on requir surveillance entry detect have to placed at the ENT of the door that somebody has entered um ATM machines have to be uh located inside the building mounted securely to the floor and located not so to block required views of the cashier when in direct line of and not let 10 ft edge of door um surve business has to have cameras that allow sales clerks to monitor the interior and exterior activities um there must be a notification that the premises is under record visibility standards um the standard of 25% Windows not be covered or 25% of the windows can be covered um we have as we as we noted in our last presentation time we came to council when Glitters are in a bling position window technically the C allows for them to be 3 feet inward as long as they're not up against the window which kind of defeats the purpose because you still can't see in there so we have a me Memo of understanding with code enforcement that if this if they are in compli everything else let this one pass because it would requ sign remodeling it a condensed store would take away from business's ability to operate sufficiently wait I I guess I'm confused you said that they can cover the windows they can cover the windows up to 25 % you could have have ads um things like that to 25 the cooler that could be 25% based on our our memo of understanding that's right so 25% of the business business's Windows right could be okay okay um exist glass and store um uh on the storefront should not be removed basically don't brick in Windows and things like that if there's a window there it's there for a reason it needs to stay there um window security great when used inside of a building are be located on the inside um Windows consistent with the uh style in shape of Windows consistent with the design facade and keeping the guidelines adopted by the city for which the business is located door secur um the metal Grill TI doors when locked um are they located on the interior and equipped with a metal guide tracks so basically if you can imagine the uh the doors that that kind of slide across um yeah there's certain requirement make sure that they're using the right the right kind of and on the windows I think I just heard you say that the I guess it's like a mesh that covers it or bars right I see them a lot on the outside and looked up every single one of these on this agenda did thought you had to be on the inside okay so yeah on on this so this is similar to the coolers where almost everybody that we asked to put their bars on the inside did so okay um there were couple that had isues with because they said we put ours on the ins side people come byy and car window window and it's tap over and time and time again um this is part of that memo of understanding those are the two items that we discussed with code enforcement where we were work with people to ensure that we're creating more of an issue bled where there's broken all the time um so that was as a part of that memo as well which is attached um when applicable in the staff report as well okay um and then the last piece of this is outdoor merchandise uh they're not allowed to um things in the right way out out to you know set up SS and things like that for sale in the right away okay um and and that in a nutshell is what is what safescape let's talk about signage because there's still lot of signage down here anyway down here that their signage is absolutely it's atrocious so what's going on there are you speaking to um like the content of the sign or no no it's it's broken all light out of it it's I obviously I mean it hasn't been changed in probably 20 30 years sure I and and I think the signage standards would be more of a question for director Woodley if you if you like address all right thanks so much good job uh thank you mayor Alex for the record direct vode enforcement we do have a coding officer Town who is working alongside the assigned uh business compliance officer who's also dealing with sescape so that code enforcement officer is addressing those issues that you just mentioned Madam mayor uhuh what is that code does it say sign it can they have broken lighting and that go that goes to uh the maintenance of of the item so we do have some cases that are open and then we have some others we just recently did a tour uh a new downtown enforcement officer and identified properties specifically onia Street okay uh question here um do any of these establishments have any code outstanding code violations as of right now I'd have to check I know we had one code enforcement violation I read some of the comment and they were um I'm not sure if it's still active in violation CU I know we had the individual removed we someone unlawfully um occupied in one business and we had removed I don't think they've returned there yet I'll have to check with the code officer with the status is okay is it possible to wait to bring it to council for approval before um so that those Co code violations are taken care of or get because um I think when we approve them then it's really difficult walk it back when there are Bad actors and that's what we've seen to be quite honest I think the city has been so lenient for so long um and you know they become very very problematic High call service I mean sure I'm surprising anyone with these comments um but they are they're Troublesome that's a good idea we can do that we can um typically we like to separate um inform actions but but if that's the desire Council we'll definitely start doing that and we'll work we have a code officer and a business compliance officer we meet this codee officer I've been asking to meet this code officer I don't I'm not sure he really even exists kidding all right thank you so much okay good job okay I'm going to start with youber I I don't have okay just nothing okay uh Council dur yeah I just thought it was very important we understand since he's starting to come to us so that pulled him off I was going to pull off one have example so I think that was great and um it really sounds like a new day uh with this new program that we instituted to bring everyone up to compliance and obviously the whole has to be together make this Ive um I had asked you in briefing um I wasn't sure how to interpret when they're on the agenda I said sort of a related to what your comment was Madam mayor what if they don't need it are they be listed in a separ category you might bring that you review safescape and don't meet the criteria right uh Lance FR for the record yes you make a good point um the intent we were going to cross that bridge when we got there but we want to assure the C that if there was a recommendation for denial it would definitely be brought up if pulled to Department item um and we're happy to do that if you'd like to see these all in Department items as opposed to consent going forward then you'll just know and then when we have our briefings we'll be able to discuss exactly this is one one that recommend maybe you them in two bucks and little tight you know uh meet compliance don't meet you know so we know when we look at the agenda what we're reading I want to put on a separate UMC or whatever but I think they need broken out somehow absolutely but you're telling us today all of these do what I heard mayor say is May or Mr Woodley say maybe one doesn't meet and in that that being a separate instance of you know of the safe Escape u in separate code but again is there are there any out here that meet to the mayor not not to not to the Escape standards but they might not meet some other standard they may have another code Andra well I think that's a little concerning and confusing you know I mean it implies sort of a seal of approval okay good deal of approval and then another I had was um on on this seal of approval I wanted to let's see I I guess what I'm wondering is the safescape listed 20 things that in that but are there some things that we all care about that aren't in there and if they aren't like to this point that somebody's out of compliance on another issue shouldn't we bundle it all together say either all those criteria don't I think that a little conf we certainly can attempt to do that obviously as you know there's there's a lot of different departments that interact with these businesses and there's a lot of um leg work that would have to be done um it's it's definitely possible send out an emailing each indidual say does the department have any issues this or any could note that yeah I mean it would be more comprehensive yeah sure I guess my concern is whenever I see some of these and the signage is falling apart the building is you know cing um the paint and then also often times we've seen I mean the one for instance that I'll just keep talking about forever and ever until people stop listening is when you know they come in and say oh it's going to be like a Whole Foods well that's not anywhere near a Whole Foods um and so you know there's been a lot of leeway and leniency when it comes to approving these licenses and you know you've seen the comments the public comments they're not happy about the condition of toown whatsoever and as walk most them are typically these stores so um that's where I'm frustrated that we continue to give them the licenses and Lance um and I don't you didn't I don't remember if you did but this priv privilege license is and what is the purview of the council under a privilege license Madam Madame Meritt let me look that up really fast just to give you the technical definition and then if M address over theity just want to sure that we're on the agenda I mean I'm hearing two things I'm hearing this safescape review which is what's in front of you today and that's kind of limited to the items that uh Mr Fado is bringing you and then there's the broader question code enforcement that is an agenda for today that is something the council would to pursue or discuss more in depth I would recommend that we put it on a subse I guess my issue is I don't want to be approving any licenses if they're out of compliance so I do think that that falls in line with code so does it not so I want to make sure maybe that's the confusion that what what you're looking at today is a safescape um inspection and what staff is saying is that those every every store or establishment that has been viewed is met that standard so there you are not approving anything as to other code potential code violations or anything else um and nor is that on the agenda today to be actually discussed um M ask a question Qui I just want to point out that's exactly Alex said so I want to be clear well actually Madam mayor Alex willly for the record I did want to clarify because as this discussion was going on I want everyone to understand you can have a small business owner who doing everything right and doing everything comply with the c and you can also have a property owner that has code violations and it would just be terrible if we have a small business owner that's doing everything that we ask for in Escape because their landord has a enforcement case that' be penalized for it that's a very good point thank you good good point I'm so glad you mentioned that very good point Alex go ahead councilman Taylor um I guess I can wait until my turn if we're going your turn oh okay then whoops my I'm going to T time to I am fully in support of of your on downtown I want a clean and safe downtown and I think we all do and in this this item I only pulled one because um it was of the ones the calls for services gone up I think for the most part this is really improving downtown but what is the tolerance I mean I'm seeing places that have one two three four tries how many tries are giving business down when you have to go you start May and then the fourth time it comes in July so how many compliance checks do they get before we say enough is enough Lance brought for the record uh you make a great Point um being the first round we were trying to induce this way that didn't just run and shut everybody down um that was that was the approach we took being that that you know the next time that they get a review you've already been on notice you've been warned this is this is needs to be fixed you're they don't get another R for a year right that's correct so we're letting I think spending a lot of time making sure people are in compliance when we've already been there one or two times so is there a time after the time where we say forget it you're not getting this privileged license anymore I don't know if that was disc thatc had I did have a chance to talk with our code enforcement officers on a ride along and I would like to meet with him too one-on-one for the downtown initiative and I think code enforcement is definitely a part of this discussion because it's in the reports we are going meet code enforcement and these safe operations is that accurate they're bed up so we need to look at how we bring them back as one I think and I'm I'm just very passionate about this I think our teams are doing a great job but these businesses are taking advantage and I want to say I Reen open for business all at times I want to be business friendly but at this time you follow the rules you got to be a good partner downtown you can't you can't have all of these violations and if your calls for service aren't going down I mean most of the calls for services are going down correct most most Parts ones that aren't going down we have a problem I I'm I'm not prepared to speak about call for service specifically but I Know Chief Nance could and I know there are some situations where C for Serv may be equal or maybe even uh up depending on what type of activity that we're talking about or the that the police department taking if you have question on that I think the gold gate Fireside K Bazar those are three that I noticed where the calls for services went up and they had multiple compliance checks so I would like to understand if there's something we need to be to say we're not we're not back four five times we're going to you know maybe two times I don't know what the council's preview or you know a decision would be on that but that would be something that I would be interested in doing too but thank you very much for you and your team and thank you code enforcement thank you so much great comment martinz thanks so much mam mayor I appreciate all the clarifications um what we're being asked today I had a specific question about um the costs for service and what a business check is uh what happens during that for service good morning Chief n for the record on a business check a lot of that is when our officers are going out to do something to look at the business so for a variety of reasons it could go in it puts them out in that area so dispatching their officer know where they usually those are initiated activities that our officers would do not necessarily as a result of any issues or crimes and that's different than the safescape walkthroughs that were also included I don't know the answer if when they if they themselves out on a call for my assumption would be no no okay so in addition to some of the numbers that we're seeing that are reported for these business checks that they also got maybe one two or three safe skape through as well I couldn't that question so would be Lance on that of it Lance R for the record absolutely like so so our our uh process is to just go and meet with the licy the first one is a surprise once back we're trying to make sure that we Rec the situation aren't really related to for service we're not again is we're not we're not calling out that we're at that at that um uh business that those are totally separate okay yeah I just want to understand I hear a lot of concerns not just up here on the dice my colleagues but also in the community about the multiple opportunities that folks get to come to compliance and where are we can actually you know put our foot down and decide where enough is enough and we do see the detriment to our community to a special events to things happening downtown encourage more business coming and so that I it's not what we're considering in the safescape but I would like to see us look at code um and calls for service within this sphere um and if there's something else that we need to do in a future agenda item happy to support that conversation and Contin to help up situ in for arena which we do have here understood yeah okay take it away privilege license wait I I do have questions now I'm sorry I didn't I didn't go my first round is this for all of the safe escapes or just doing Lin right now okay so um I do have questions and um a lot of my fellow council members brought up some things that I've been trying to communicate since we went through this with um fire side and or not fire but um WR market and maxart and one of the things that was said specifically by Mr Woodley is that we don't want to penalize a business owner for the code violations of the landlord I think that's something happened to the mar that was something that I was trying to um Express when we use the calls for service to the lak mill and is specifically why I want to know what calls for service were on where they were going to specifically and I think it was relevant that the calls were to the Mot for things like human trafficking stolen cars things like that I think that instance we use the calls to the landlord facility to remove the license for um a tenant um and that's exactly what I didn't want to happen so to hear now the the rest of council um get and understand that I hope that they have better perspective as to where I was coming from I was arguing um my case for those those two um liquor stores at that time another thing I would like to mention is I also brought up um the comparisons that were used at the time for um and one of them we should have compared fir side to one of the locations and I can't remember which one it was now but I think it might have been right way because it was a closer liquor store than the one that was given in our staff report I think it's interesting now the liquor license has been removed right way that the for service have increased at Fireside because I think the issue is the location and these things are shifting to another location I don't think it's necessarily the fact that have a li license a proximity to station um and I think that's pretty clear based off of the data that we now have um and I also have concerns and questions about these types of calls for service I think it's relevant um I calls for service you know we look at them we should also look at what they were but I've also been asking since the the first discussion about lak Mill and RightWay that we do have a hard and fast set guideline for we P license and know Mr said previously we need to trust their judgment on this but it doesn't seem like it's uniform and to council member Taylor's Point how many times are we going to um give them opportunity to these required changes are really required at the point U and these rules be enforced unilaterally and we need to have a a hard and fast set thing that says this is the rules and if you don't follow these specific rules you don't to have license and from we don't have that this time thank you thank you all right privileged license section 55.5 title regulat those acties which found by to require higher demand city services by affecting the economic social health and general well-being of the city and its residents the activities have commonly been referred to as privileged and must comp this title shall be known as the Li and per and what other businesses privileges um quite a few let me I can run down a list so got interactive arrays alcoholic bges P bar any bar privileged P Brokers and secondhand dealers auctions and auctioneers escorts and out call services gaming Peddlers solicitors and temporary okay um to booting companies for higher tobacco paraphernal okay cannabis massage establishments I think I hit them all okay and what is reason to a priv license tell us why that's important uh essentially as the as that definition kind of entails that it it takes more more city services more uh special attention to a license e um they they they greater effort regulate and they may be doing something like serving where you want somebody that's on the up and up and that's following the rules that is going to you know they're going to listen and it's it's a privilege to do that and it can be revoked you I appreciate because often times here are a lot of community members say to me how do businesses not saying all the on this agenda but how do these businesses with these privileged license continue to operate and they you know are problematic um you know with crime or whatever those things that we're seeing CA ofice so that gives the council more leverage to revoke those licenses correct that's correct okay M all right thank you so much I appreciate I just really believe privilege now on to a regular agenda um because I what I would say is I think the city has been lenient for a very very long time we've allowed people one of the reasons why we see the way things look the way that they do cuz allowed to G with it so in some ways it's our fault and have been uh you the business fault in that retrospect because they've been able to get away with it so um yeah I just think it's a you can tell we're all very passionate we're all pay attention and um also take in great um consideration the level of calls for service through the Reno Police Department and what I hear from the Reno Police Department and if our officers are having to spend outrageous amount of time and resources in particular business having to manage that when they have to be out um you know in the community working hard on other serious issues um I take great offense to that for sure um and so you know that's I go off on of those um those last on that we pulled um I hold the renal Police Department's discretion in very high regard and will continue to do so all right thank you anyway councilman go ahead Madam mayor I have probably more than three minutes of comments and they're not particularly linear so I'll just start where I can um the first is really I guess I as oppose I need to know from Mr Shipman our agenda items 17 licenses 11 through I think 24 which all were pulled by various persons for various reasons but are all centrally about uh our licensing process I I'm trying to understand what the Contour discussion are supposed to be about because in my mind um I feel uncomfortable voting for any of these even though they've been recommended as compliant because there's a broader question to be had about the safescape um policy disc what is it that and then i' also heard lot Council memb go on to T about past revocations which I think um you did not say that they shouldn't be doing um which I think probably would have been the the thing I would have advised I'm understand the Contours of the item in us I be 11 and what I talk about what I cannot thank you for the question um council member ree yes so there's two things that I'm hearing pieces of discussion about there's the what has been noticed for the meeting which is the saave um review and that conducted City staff of these X number of establishments 11 through 27 if you have questions and questions about specific operations specific through 27 involve safescape that's fully within scope of ability to make questions where this is starting to get a little concerning on my end is that we're starting to talk about broader issues about code enforcement in general about um where know things unrelated to safescape specifically um addition I would say that to your question you are not doing anything here today that I would call a seal of approval that these you know that these businesses other than complying with the safety requirements as has been verified staff um that is the full extent and scope of what the council is doing today relative to those specific businesses that are on the agenda if there's a desire talk about broader issue about priv license about revocation of privs about nonenal for certain code violations that are unrelated to safescape that's fine but that should probably be put on a separate agenda and and so that people would have the ability participate know that's what's going to be happening if that me I think understanding except I think it's a related concept meaning if I as a council member believe that a specific license holder among these enumerated licenses is a bad actor and that actor evidence is that they have high volume of calls for service that is one of the criteria under the safe ape or safe Escape compliance considerations so may I today to deny a license to a person for believing they have excessively High numbers of calls for service so the the I think our recommendation would be if you believe that there is a business that meets that criteria that because Falls of Serv then I would recommend you pull that item and put on another agenda on a regular agenda uh notify the owner notify everybody that potentially would respond to that and then deal with it at that point in time and I that because at this point in time you have a recommendation that says they meet the safe shape requirements so it's it's you need to have a record if you want to go and not renew a license or deny a license um from a City St from a City attorney standpoint we'd want to have a record not so much oh think it's called for services that should um down on a bit more before you make that recommendation so that would be our recommendation okay and I agree 100% with that line of analysis meaning I think that if someone is going to lose a privileged license over the decisions we make they ought to be here to be noticed process all those things and at this point in time I'm not sure that I can personally vote for any of the lenses because I don't think that that piece had teased out and there may one example on this list where I have I don't know a gut instinct a feeling from talking to our code folks from talking to our police folks that one of these on this list enumerated is a bad Act and you're saying if I believe to be the case that individual should be P off and Ted and the other should be going through that would be our recommendation correct what if I am not in a position to aine today because I did not get the information necessary to that should I see have every one of them tabled at time because I that's an option for us is to table them all send our staff back to find out are they're and I'm using a generic term I'm just saying bad actor I don't know if any of them are Bad actors um I am concerned about all of them uh individually because I don't have the information I need to make that decision decision so I think the recommendation at that point would be yes continue these to the next meeting on the 31st number one number two um have that additional due diligence done number three comes back and there are flags that you believe that one or multiple of those companies or businesses do deserve an additional layer of scrutiny I would still go the next step and um at the next meeting um move those particular ones to another meeting because my guess is and I'm doing that there's not 11 of them or what have you it's probably maybe a couple Bad actors in in the ver um but again cond that more um instead of kind of all of them at once do a specific uh drill down on each particular one that you think and give them the time and the effort that you need and not do it kind of as a you know a I vote to approve one today am I saying that I will not have an opportunity to uh revoke or or do something negative to their license if we come to find out that they're non-comp mean are only shot people no and I that's maybe misunder we have an entire code enforement division that is working with through by with all of these businesses on a day-to-day basis if there are codes violations and they being in things like revelation of Li hearings and that sort so what you are doing today has nothing you are not passing judgment on the quality of any particular establishment you are just recognizing that staff has indicated that the sacap um the safe requirement have been met and you're accepting that and we're moving on from there um that does not it's not a seal of approval it's not anything other than just that and if you want to come back and look at some of these because you think that hasn't been met that standard you're entitled to do that I just we just need the conversation not to turn into a broad discussion about downtown it would be the request because we can do that we just need to notice it as such well I think um then I have to ask Mr Fado is one of the requirements of the safe Escape lightting schema is an analysis of calls for service is not okay that answers the question I suppose then I'll leave my time mayor for round two I can continue just briefly any questions okay back at you okay so I want to also ask the mayor said something which I think is very instructive to me and that is um whatever decisions we made in the past and I won't um spend a lot of time on our past decision those have been gone but they were based on uh the our police department and our code enforcement team's very strong recommendations so anyone who's not following the strong recommendations of our police department and our C enforcement I feel very bad and shame on them making that choice um other motivating reasons I I like the mayor believe that um when the police department and code comes to us and says this individual business owner is a bad actor that that evidence is um kind presly the answer we can dig around the edges but I'm not conducting my own stings of those individual places I'm not sitting on them for six months at a time and analyzing their calls for service I trust our police chief I trust our police officers in this community and they have M support when tell me the business bad actor right I do think mam mayor um that although these uh safe Street or safe Escape compliance um considerations are our agenda there are broader questions will require us to have different kinds of agenda items about them because Madame mayor your point and I think Miss Taylor's point is well taken that what we are looking for is a different enforcement mechanism and if you're saying Mr fr that the sacap standards are not that enforcement mechanism we need to know as a body where our off-ramps are how do we see and identify a known uh bad factor and make they can because Miss Madame May is correct we allowed a history of this um either by sort of Mal feasance or misfeasance and what we need to do is perhaps do a town hall where we bring all these license holders in say what we to do I'm just suggesting the safety standard are not necessar the way for us to do that today um but there is some future action that should come from it okay okay Madam a quick question thank you um I don't know it's necessary question but I also want to bring attention to this is not something that these business owners are knew it's not something that they just heard of as I understand it it was put into um effect then we gave them 18 months comply with they also more hour them so when they're not complying with safe Scapes it's not something that they have not seen before or have had adequate time to prepare for or invest in is that is that accurate I would agree it was enacted in 22 at the the beginning year and then it's it the the order gave them 8 months to come compliance once we started doing our Outreach there was a lot of uh you know it's been a long time I didn't I forgot I didn't realize it was this quick and so that's where the the staggered approach to and I have and that sounds child answer to me when they somebody says that me the other thing I wanted to talk about real quick is If This Were to come back one of the things that I would need I think um help with and this I'm going to ask our legal team is in our staff report it talks about the city May review these businesses on the annual business business license renewal and that's RMC section 5.71 123 J2 and it it's linking the saf process to annual view of the business license and that's I'm having a not we're removing or revoking business license we are either renewing it or we're not renewing it and that's why I'm I don't know if it's tied to the safescape but I just need some clarification in that and if we bring it all back together with safescape call for service and compliance that's something that would be asking for so we're clear on what we are looking at and what we are not and I do think I do agree with um councilman re Miss owners them notice that this is thing that we're going to be looking at but at the same time knowing they've had years to comply with this so and I appreciate the Outreach that you and your team and code enforcement have been doing with these businesses we didn't send them a postcard we sent them a postcard we talked we worked with them we've been back and back and back and to help them so thank you thank you man that's all I have um I I I think great questions I'm just curious because from what I'm hearing on the City attorney side that we really don't have any um I guess purview at this moment so I wonder why does something come on an agenda if the council like what would be the purpose if we really didn't have any leverage to look at each of these so mayor for the City Attorney office just to clarify the comment there what we're saying is that there's a set of Standards called safescape what has done has gone out and measured the current business operations against the safe state state safe Escape standards and every case they've come back indicate that the current the business that are on your agenda are compliance with that so that is what the report is showing it has nothing to we're not saying that you can't do anything I mean I think if you want to talk about enforcement that's fine if you want to talk about potentially working license that's fine um that's not what the item is um and that can come back on a subsequent agenda for a broader discussion okay and may we should probably do that to have better clarification I think um exactly to the point discussed someone I I can't remember but in the sense that they should be here um because it is serious and it's their livelihood but also one of the reasons why we see high rates of uh liquor stores and bars and things like and I not realize it because I've been doing a lot studying this um business and and agenda is that it's much more expensive in California to um get a li license I did realize how lucrative these liquor Li really are how Nevada is very easy to obtain one so if that's the case then they need to be probably handled much more um like you said as a privilege so just kind of based on the discussion up today that it's something we are all um concerned about okay and uh you know because these are sort of coveted licenses that it's time to start treating him as such okay yeah and I appreciate because honestly you've been doing a ton of work Lance a ton um no better person to do this than a pass gaming regulator but a good one a good one so thank you so much you've been tremendous to work with you were in my office not too ago and you've just been fantastic so appreciate you okay um go ahead go right ahead Mr Fado I was looking at each of the uh various license holders and for each one you've provided the checklist for the sa um you've also provided calls for service so why are the calls service included in the packet for each of these businesses if that is not one of the items that is supposed to be on the safescape checklist because this is why confused all here we are thinking that if we saw call service that extreme that ready to reach out and grab them but now it sounds like that's not the case and our legal counselors recommended a different path for us why include them at all if it's part of the checklist so basically what happened as you can tell by the conversation there are the the the path always leads to calls for service so this came up many times it did not get written into the ordinance so I put a little subsection in each staff report that says during the adoption of the insance stages ordinance 668 Council press and call service when condu these these reviews according calls for service were compiled for the six months preceding the annual license expiration and compared to that same period in the prior year a summary of the data is attached to exhibit D essentially it's subal information because question has come up um it's ordinance uh thankfully we're in the process rewriting our our our code at this time and if that's something the council wants to adopt then we can talk about that as well but that's why it it comes up as a supplement and I know the question would be asked and than Rush dig and try to somebody quick while standing up put it in the rep for your review yeah so but of course many of the things in the safescape checklist are about um safety right it's video surveillance it's cameras where they are what kind doors are being used so it seems like we just have a gap in our safety ordinance that should be changed to reflect that the concern that underlies those safety and surveillance things is calls for service so that when we move forward have a way to evaluate this as it now based on what you said and what our City attorney has recommended even if I felt like there was a bad actor in this Bunch today is not the day for me to say this is a bad actor and I'm not going to vote to up their license is that an accurate statement I don't think that's completely accurate I think that you have the ab ility right now based on the information you have if you wanted to go against staff recommendation and and condition the license or refer back to staffer the look oroke revoke denying the the annual renewal um or denying this report so I think you still have that ability um of the 17 or 18 licenses on this agenda is there one or two or three you think we couldn't approve we should you back for deu based on my review of the safescape compliance the no everything should be everything is recommended for approval based on the fact the safe skate compliance include calls for service Anis no this is why I I should have to be a lawyer cross examining my good friend and staff member to get the answer that we just got sure right because at this point in time I am not going to be in a position to evaluate any of them because You' have told me that they're disconnect from call or service um so I that'll be my position on all of the license holders Madame mayor is that I would move to table all of them individually until we can fix this connect because I'm going to approve license today without connection being made and it's fault of your you have not done anything wrong it's just that you've now identified the the singular gap between the two analyses and the code provision which will not allow to make a informed judgment a and uh maybe there's a question for Alex um how do we thread both of those how do we how do we marry those to work well have to be honest Mad May Alex Woodley for the the cing the only reason why you see the service is because the body asked for it the last time we brought it forward and that's why you see it attached there initially sescape had nothing to do with calls for service sayc was here are some extra rules that we want on these businesses downtown in this geographical area we want you to do all these SS to include restricting you from selling the 99 cent shot bottles that was the big that had concern concerns which has great it's been POS thing I haven't up one empty shot you're right good there you go so it's working but what I'm curious is because the number one to me when we're talking about safety and what I really pay attention to what I said before was the C for service from the to the ren Police Department because that would tell me something unsafe is going on so that's where I want I want those two together because I think councilman Reese is right where he's saying this makes no sense we're saying yes you're safe but you're not safe here so um I'd love to know you know uh Mr Shipman how how do we what would your suggestion be so that the council feels like that they could see this um is very broadly so again I would that this a good item to have a separate discussion on not necessarily today if if the will of the body is to continue these items until the next meeting um okay I think calls of service is a very difficult situation because you mean issues you don't want toiz for call the police people won't call the Poli because they know potentially it'll have an impact on their license that again jeopardizes potential um you know people so so it's it's a subtle very you know it would be a thought conversation I don't calls for services alone are is a very good metric it needs to be thought out and create a metric and we're just not equipped to do that here today um so okay so you yes there two comp the you want to have a decision about service where that should be located in this product regulatory framework that would be a an item if you want to table these items until the next meeting um that would another is okay Shipman are any unended consequences of laying them and I'm not saying to next meeting because by a week from now I don't think we're going to be able to make the change to coordinate linking the safescape standards to all Serv being part of that list so are going to lose revenue is someone to be without a license to operate do you see what I'm saying and I would defer to Mr ferado on kind of what that would do to the status of the license and you know the time element the so no would be no impact right now the ordinance these made to council for review Council expressed when we initiated this bring it to us so the the sh is not there lenses will keep on operating until make a decision okay may yeah go ahead yeah just to clarify so uh Lance are these you said it was done in U recognition that they were up for their license renewal I mean are all the ones on our list of which there I guess 16 or 1 um are they all up for renal they up over renewal over the last couple months so there was a when this project came on it all got kind of bunched together so so are they on hold now no they're not on hold they've already been issued their license these ones issu some are coming up but the way the reads you you could just say you know the current license that's issued right now so it's not tied to Renewal you're doing it at renewal but it's not part of the renewal already people on this list got renewed licenses correct okay so us holding it up oring it doesn't affect their license that's correct and it's not a precursor to to have this done to get your license correct okay so then I just want to be clear too these safe skate to me primarily about infrastructure improvements in a building now there might some operational changes too for example you mentioned security cameras and is there a requirement an operational requirement that they retain security footage for a certain time it's different maybe than it used to be is that an example there's a requirement and it is the data should be collected stored for at least four hours and that is in our SAE standards backward title so that straight over so how long we had these safescape requirements um 2005 2005 2005 they were in Title 18 from 2005 till 2022 and they were brought over uh part of the regation of they all existed with exception of The Minis and and the alc and the buffer area yeah those got changes but everything else was been in there for 20 years they are not new to the mayor point they maybe had had that scrutin attention and one more thing I I want to um support what our attorney said and I brought this up way before and and I think it was really well set right now I just up the first one b and with the kind calls for service there was an accident at their place two of them there was medical I mean they can't control if someone has a medical problem at their place and there was a suspicious vehicle they can't uh control whether a suspicious vehicle suddenly shows up and the other thing is like him I do not want to discour them from calling I don't want them to be punished because they're trying to be careful and so whenever this comes back I just think we really have to keep that in mind that it's not just the sheer volume of calls I think brought this up long time ago today again what is the nature of the call is it a medical call is it an accident is a suspicious vehicle they had no control over or is it something that they did control you know so I'm not they do I mean do they control larsy or robbery I mean how well they secure their facility if they deposit their money frequently all the things that prevent big robberies so you know I think if we didn't service we' be super careful and how we analy that data yeah one thing I do want to point out because I know we're saying listen we don't want to penalize the businesses um versus the landlords that is joint relationship between basically business the city have to be very careful of getting in theid of that and that is where as a business owner it is your responsibility to also do business with a landlord that is going to maintain the property so that they can also Thrive right that that goes there is something the city has to also as I think about it um you know and and understanding what those leases look like you would want to rent from someone that is going to um keep those properties to the condition that meet this requirement so I get we don't want to penalize that all of that but there is a responsibility between you when you're in business and also who you do business with so let's just be very careful about that and we don't want to penal them but also I think umbly appropriate thing to do and attorneys over here would probably recommend something in your lease that says that you have to to maintain the property to where it's up to the city standards so that they um are found ination and if that be broken then there's an Clause those leases but I want to be very careful of the city getting getting into that business because we're not that's a relationship between the business and um the landlord and and the so as much it sounds oh yes we don't want to punish these people but therefore it can work together where they're both sort of putting pressure on each other to make it work if you really yeah you know want to receive revenue from those establish or those properties all right uhe mayor I'm move to continue item B1 B27 okay I'm going to go to councilwoman Ebert for a second well I just had a comment and I just wanted to start by saying that I would just appreciate a little bit more respect for for college during Council I don't think it's appropriate to call of questioning and thinking of one member tangents while theirs are are relevant um so I just wanted to to ask for more respect to on the colleagues um the other thing I want to out is part reason why we were talking so much about calls for because that the reason why licenses were revoked that's why we're talking about it and that's why it doesn't make sense that we're talking about it now because it's not of safee but it was used to justify taking licenses and yet here we are now saying it's not actually relevant currently so that's why there is a disconnect because it didn't make sense to do it that way um and I recall that case and reaching out to Mr wood about code viation those locations to my recollection there wasn't any or they had been addressed it was things like a cord in the wrong place or whatever so again I just want to reiterate that we really need to have a set set of rules for everyone and if we are going to use calls for service and if that's the identifier for knowing who's the Bad actors then that needs to be included in the safe and that needs to for everyone so that's my comments thank you all right thank you so much um I do want to say I think this is go ahead councilman Martinez go ahead sorry I mean to interrupt no no you're fine no no I'd much rather you guys get on the record for sure it I had a question we are looking I know this is the or the agenda item but when we're looking at renewals for annual business licenses our code calls for service included in that process Lance fr the record in a normal annual r no code for service on um it's this is the only compliance type checks that we would run um in in concert with a renewal and being one of the new members I was just wondering if like those two ever inition to couped so the Escape renewal denial implementation of more conditions along with the an annual business license renewal or was there just a different focus it doesn't like it's evolving we've implemented escape a little bit over the last couple of years and so just curious your thoughts on if there is a way to merge both of those processes coming together or if you think with the code cleanups that we're going through currently that would be a way we can I know they have different times renewal dates um so it might a little bit of leg work to get that done but just curious on your thoughts on how we can put both of those processes combined together yeah absolutely I think that that anything's possible with this right and way that things areed and that we dra tically um the the biggest thing to consider will be how those are measured uh like if calls for servers are considered what's the line and what's the what's the type of call and that's where it gets tricky I think and that's where I would need the assistance of P code to you know some some real Intel this what this how we can use this information but I it's possible we can definitely look into it okay thank you all right thank you so much uh coun re just clarify the motion I do want to say I think this has been a very respectful conversation despite some of the comments that were made I think we're actually all sort of speaking the same language up here but just a little bit differently so we don't want to the impression that we're up here haing because that's not what I mean and when that happens you guys know I try to call it out I want everyone to be up here cohesively even if we are um have a difference of opinion I think that that's important I would ask then we call conversations tangent thank you what did you say you want to repeat that I didn't hear you I said I would ask then that comments would not be called tangents I find that to not be respectful all right thank you may I'll my motion which was motion to table items b11 through B27 all right thank you so much I I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I all those opposed all right motion carries unanimously hey Madam sending it back to you sorry Madame May mayor just logging that motion we're now moving on to item b29 P by calber door take a break at one o'clock um Madam clerk just so you have a little heads up okay thank you yeah it was it was um thank you it was item b29 and 3 they're on the same topic of Huffer and Lakeridge lift stations and this is really just a compliment and a reminder since half the council wasn't here then but in 2017 we had a FL and it was caught by a lot of rain um and the T was on uh Swan Lake however a few houses flooded in Swan Lake but a majority of houses that flooded in Reno were actually in the huffaker area about 40 as compared say three or four or five and um in all those 40 homes were being flooded um there we have a sewer lift station that's below ground that also flooded and what happened there is that mechanical the electrical and actual facility was below ground and so it filled with water and what that meant was that sewage started backing up in these 40 homes or more homes because it didn't matter if you were flooded or not the sewage is not moving and so you're flushing your toilet it's backing up to your house not a good situation whatsoever and so the staff did a two-phase process um they elevated I think the electrical mechanical parts of this but there was still an underground vault um that really not a standard um bottom line you know much as flows gravity but then if you run out of angles you got to lift the sewer again so it can run by gravity and isn't that what these are these are lift stations to lift the sewer up so continue its Journey gravity right that's correct so I just want to say that um back in 2005 now this is 20 years ago there was also a flood in this very same place and in fact the city was about because it was perceived it was lack of action that City took that caused that flooding and there was a settlement back then in 2005 I didn't come on Council to 2014 so I had to learn about this um and I learned about it when I went and visited all homes in 2017 that FL learned all the previous flood and I we have worked very hard on our storm water um but we have not really made progress like we would like to with then separate storm water utility separate fee um which would have helped remember this sewer right now sewer and water are together in the same buding bucket um they might be separated internally in the CIP but they're for all intents and purposes together we don't have separate storm water funds so I just want to say now I know far less about the Lage challenges and the Lage apparently I learned the sewer lift station that's within the private community of Lakeridge and so it doesn't flood and it's a different issue is that correct uh or it does FL no it's not flood right but it's a issue the station we want to bring it up to code and isn't the idea I learned to not have to go below 5T in an enclosed space so that our employees don't unage a risky situation that would might danger to their health is that why we live you know raising these vaults or could you explain a little yeah Eric Miller associate civil engineer with utility services for the record um both of these lift stations how they currently are designed or refer to as a dry wet pit scenario so the the live sewage comes into the wet pit p and then the dry pit portion has the pumps and all your valves which sit um I think these ones are about 20 ft deep or we have some others that we've already fixed that were about5 deep and um so all theps and the valve are all down 20 ft deep so if um a service needs to happen on these lift stations then the maintenance folks have come down 20 ft it and vaults are maybe 5 six feet in diameter and so they're doing all the work down there and it's yes they need in a dark confined space in a dark confined space where they have to use confined space entry techniques where they have to be hoisted together uh drawn down so in case something does happen they can be pulled back up uh to safety and so yes we are trying to bring those valving and and the equipment that maintenance actually has to work on up to the surface or close to the surface as possible okay I just want to Comm you that we're finally dressing I mean it's been a long time coming that 2017 flood when it came to my attention is now now you know what uh seven8 years ago and so we're finally here this is you here government moves well we have to have the money to address issue we only take on so many things but I just wanted to bring everyone's attention to the issue that you know we have employees crawling into confined spaces like Mining and you have safety gear probably oxygen probably some other gear as well as hards as well as BL up above I mean it's a comp complicated operation and dangerous and now these will be raised up to ft now they'll only have to go down 5T is it the will be roughly about 5 Mark so they'll have a ladder they can climb down and is it wider too so it's not yeah so the vaults are wider and they're spaced and um yeah a lot safer in that the pump are still down deep the 20t but they're at portion where they can hook their crane truck up to and bring the pump to the actual ground surface do all their pairs right there on their truck and then they just lower them back in never have to go below all for pump so one more question on this once you complete this obviously it's a big safy Improvement and obviously these are older but let's say we have another flood because we really haven't addressed the flooding problem there at huffaker it will these likely flood again and we have a s backup still I can't guarantee there won't be a sewer backup but these pumps are designed a little bit more than what just the peak design or the peak flow rate coming into the station is um and our electrical still remain high along with our generator will high so in the instance that a power outage happens and a flood is happening those pumps can still be operational which did happen yep and so our generator will be working and that um and we maintain 24 hours of fuel in the Genera time so they'll be able to handle and go and still one more question what when we have floods we have a lot of water and so is there a way to separate the storm water way back to you sorry I don't mean to cut you off bu want to make sure just in case anyone else has any thank you yeah I appreciate you Council ber I don't have cards on this item thing counc no council Council okay go ahead to I apologize go back at you I totally lost my place I was so I'm so happy but I am learning there a way to separate the water blood flows from the sewer what happened is the remains popped up also in the street which very dangerous covered by water anyone can step in there and fall into the sewer M with the lid popping up and so what's the answer to that recer Johnson engineering manager in Utility Services um with regards to separating sewer and storm water flows once the flows get into the sewer system it's difficult to separate because that water to be treated at that point that's in there however we do have SE in our SE system that's something that we look at there are opportunities to lock the manholes and do other things to prevent manholes from lifting and moving away well it would be good to lock manholes areas we that have like this yes okay so maybe could be part of this Pro I don't know is that possible we will look into uh um some opportunities to to to um evaluate that and if I mean it was super scary there actually was a person walking right where that was in the FL going to her dog only like 22 not really not about world and storm water and sewer Ms and all that and had just moved in two weeks before so wasn't even knowledgeable about the region and the area could have so easily fallen in this main just you know I'm so happy but I don't want the risk there okay agree all right well with that many mayor I'd like to recommend approval of these two items with much thanks to our staff so much I have a motion a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion thanks thank you all right Madame mayor we're on um items b31 through 34 pulled by council member Ebert all right Council Ebert um I'm going to ask if we can do these later I need to leave to a count meeting for something that's relevant the socer in war war possi we could do these items after our lunch break um yeah I think that'll be fine okay thank you we'll just hear them right when we get back sounds good okay are are you for item 36 counc E I think b36 I show is pulled by Miss Eber as well oh okay the next one she wanted to do that one we'll hold off on that one 39 is first one is because we're trading all the item that Miss Eber is on what's next okay so item b39 pulled by council member door I'm sorry vice mayor door and mayor shibi right so I'll just say um it challenge meeting um at um Mr martinz and I were there we did get through it um Mr ulot who I think is here did did a very good job and he had been able to meet with the staff and it sounds like Mrs sparza as well I'm by that I'm flood staff but I maybe come up and you know no it's not um what I wanted I wanted a higher number and I wanted it more defined and easier to administer rather than a 20% of every employee I wanted it to be a mount more a grant to go to this program simpler operation I didn't make the motion to approve it uh with a caveat that every quarter Mr ulot will present probably just a written report to the flood Management on how it's going but um one of the things I brought to mrot later and well actually brought up meeting is there was an argument made that the flood should only pay 20% of these costs based on the lineal Frontage of uh flood lands along river and I got up a meeting that is probably a flaw metric that the we're just looking at one foot within the River Bank we're looking at the whole property and the whole property is over 100 acres and I don't I ask Mr ulot for a future time to compare our C Parks their acreage with the flood Parks or flood property so we might come up with a different number that's not a 20% I mean it could be less it could be more but it's a different way of looking at if you want a trick on who cover what um I it might helpful so some thoughts from you sure um thank you Nathan ellot Parks and Recreation director for the record um I think it it's definitely worth looking into and I think as we've had discussions let's not wait another two years get something so getting the position funded um we very helpful in metime and allow us to to share that reality um at a clearer level for the entire board to hopefully hopefully understand and see the value of the Rangers not just on that property and what means for forood Authority so looking forward for the next year and getting started and build relationship further and we also made the point that the work that we do Upstream in the city Upstream of this property helps keep this property clean I mean things float around the river floods or just high waters things are deposited on the land all kind of trash debris log all kind of things that um impair the property so I'll I'll leave it there I'm sure other people will have comments or questions but thank you okay this is maybe Point Riv Rangers yes um I guess I'm sort of confused Nathan like who's doing what today we heard Ilia it sounds like they're somewhat involved I think like a lot of points never see them here I don't where we're mov along part of thetive was supposed to be that Sparks and the county were supposed to contribute it was supposed to be um and I feel so strongly about the river being um really Regional cooperation um because we've seen where when one side is doing something and the other is doing another you know it you can clearly see the difference when um there's two very different ideas um so what is that like and I love for the Rangers come and um introduce themselves and I think they should take Counsel on a tour and see how we can possibly help them as well but I I really look at it in the way that you know you're responsible for so many miles or feet or whatever so also um what those standards are what they believe the standards are because my big fear is if we have a fire or a flood especially the people that if they're living there or they're camping there they could you know um it could devastate effect right it's all our drink water um want to you know make sure that you can't be sleeping there make sure that you know um because I believe that's in our ordinance um you know those things and we've looked at doing the park district um you I just think so much more to do maybe can weigh on what that looks like sure firstly the the general fund positions that were approved we're we're near hiring those that should go through the final steps in the next week and a half and then that will be the two positions defunded budget so for that that will to get seven-day cage um which keeps us from Los our foothold through the week um and then the weekend everything seems to reset so that's going to be a huge lift for our staff and then also for the river in general um this this would allow you mentioned County on the posal that to make sure it's within what they need um to potentially fund a seventh or to support the program in other ways which might free up money to fund a seventh um which will just expand that coverage um and we'll be a to run the river instead of just kind of focusing in one area we'll stop the Upstream effects we'll get to the downstream effects a little more often so um is in in regards to the regional side I think the county is supportive um Sparks has their method and and that's that's their way doing it um but we're going to work in our spes along river and try to get the proposal to turn the river Frontage into a park uh so that we have some more clarity for our public on on how it should look how it should be maintained and some consistency there thank you so much Nathan really appreciate that the one I would say and this is something I could T over to Jackie in the sense is that I do believe we need sort of a regional board um to address this to um you know have Trey River Regional Board um that way we're missing out on tuming comes down also each jurisdiction is sitting on there so we're all no pun intended but rowing in the right direction together um and Sparks can decline if they want to seat the table but at least you know I'm so grateful for the county um and partnership with continuing to move forward to make it clean safe and vibrant in someplace that we should all be able to enjoy as a little girl I went down there my whole entire life and um felt safe and want to keep it that way for generations to come I don't think it will ever happen unless we are doing itally I really do and accountability measures and uh funding measures because right now um you know Reno's doing a lot of the the lifting on this and um it's you know I everyone well I say everyone you know there's a lot of of oh yeah we love it want to preserve it but then I see you know that level of Comm commitment and um I think it's super critical so I that's why I do think a board a regional board would be um implement so that uh you know we're having these discussions otherwise it's one of the reasons why the river doesn't get taken care of because there the discussions aren't happening there isn't public comment there isn't community members holding them accountable so or us accountable so um maybe that's you can to Eric Brown out and call um the new city manager over at Sparks I don't even know who that is but um call him and see if we can get better Regional cooperation because we're lot better together and I I think your recommendation COD Pros and also the being suggested in the trucky River plan as well does that Park District idea that that District that has funding consistency throughout the whole river and and the other thing that I would say we're now at a level where this is complex on every every level from the tribe to uh the flood project to Tuma uh to one trucky River you have um you know the those organization then you have the reg organizations that are that are governmental right and there's funding and the tax funding then also you got to be at and we should be raising money and what does that look like like you're talking about like the parks District in order to do that that's here's the other key this is what I we've had this conversation I think this a lot of sense but having one person that manages the relationships um and all the other inner workings of what it takes to keep this River sustainable and clean and beautiful and all that it possi can be right now it's all over the you need one person uh to be completely dedicated to solely uh you know this incredible asset because otherwise I'm we're like all over the place you know it's over here over there no you know right I'm talking to you it would be just really great if we had one person all they focus on like Suzanne does with sustainability so um but great answers thank you so much Nathan all right go ahead Council Taylor take it away thank you Madame mayor I would like to really quick thank you to leadership of cwom and Martinez I know this was and to you Mr I know this was not an easy lift at all I saw the couple of meetings where you had to go back and I appreciate all of your efforts I would just Echo the mayor that this this river is be our greatest asset in the region and we need to look at it as Regional Partnerships not just Sparks not just the county not just the city of Mareno it is a treasure for all of us and the you know the renos Sparks Indian colony the pyramid tribe everybody needs be on board with this echo echo those thoughts and the idea of Park um district for this I think is a great idea we can start I I love where you're going with that and the pros plan so but thank you to my colleagues really very much appreciate your lift off I know it wasn't easy thank you I don't know some broader conversation maybe Jackie attorneys you know what and this is where you're really good is a ballot initiative to for a Citywide Parks um Parks initiative what do we call it um well b b initiative but there's another name I know we have a bdr but something um well it would be a citizen ballot we we already tried going to legislature for the other B initiative where they authorize us to do and they declin move it out ofe so this would have to be citizen L but we could put this on ours correct I don't think we can lead I I mean I'll can it's a I think we're in fact we're foreclosed from I guess City Park District what is what I was think yes that's an option we can look at the first thing we would need to do is a service plan somewhere around $200,000 that would give us the options and it doesn't mean we do anything it just lets us know what it would do the amount of um FS that would need to raise what that would cover those of things and you talk about original resource whoes what so Jonathan what does that look like Mr that look like for a a ballot initiative well I think you're talking there's two different Mr talking about a park strict was already authorized under state law and I think that that just requires some additional funding for some studies whatnot if if I'm understanding and then there's the issue about like a like a part like a an over override for either proper or sales tax we'd have to look that a little specific just because there may be issues about capacity on capacity and you know ta tax capacity so but yeah there there's potentially options but it might not be something the city can lead pursuant to what Miss was to extend Parks District because now it is identified as here it is and then actually you would want to extend it it gives it's the flexibility to do we could do it River we could do City only so it really gives the option that we want okay all right perfect thanks go ahead councilman Martinez thanks so much Madam mayor I just wanted to give a quick thank you to council member der for the support and all of our regional Partners I know it did take a little bit so thanks for your patience toah and director CI for all of your uh briefings and information that you provided get all of us prepared for those conversations and make sure that we provideed the best information I know one of the key things that was said to us during the meeting was the accountability piece so I'm glad that Nathan will be a provide that and show the and we continue to prove numbers why it's for us to to work regionally to support our River Corridor all right mam mayor I'd like to make a motion to let me just read it should be St um that we ENT inter local joint funding agreement with the two River flood Management Authority and the city Reno to partially fund the park ranger program for fiscal year 25 amount equal to 20% of the salar benefits the overall team is what of a maximum of 200,000 second all right I have a motion is second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously do we want to do our break now let's do um what what do we next is it something can do quickly the next would be b45 pulled by council member door yeah this is just purely a thank you so um please do that I just wanted to do a shout out to your Nevada Comm aquaus for for the effort and collecting $25,000 they are then um offering to us to help underwrite uh the scoreboard and timing clocks for the pool Moana pool so I just make a motion to approve with great all right thank you so much I have a mo second those in favor say all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right next Madam clerk I think the rest of the items were is there anything else on there where were we at there's there's nothing else on there that is council member BS okay we'll come back to that and when we come back we will be item C1 when we come back we'll go back to item b31 okay but right now if we were to move forward C1 yes ma' correct okay all right well let's take a break um tell 1:30 I think we have a legal oh do do we have one is that true we do Jonathan it's a labor negoti it's a labor update okay all right thank you so much then we'll come back at uh 2 o'cl e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e are you ready to call the meeting back to order yes I'd like to call the meeting back to order Madame clerk okay if the room can quiet in the house is that what you say y in the house I don't know okay Madame mayor we're going to call the meeting back to order at 2:22 and I would just like to note record that council member Ebert and Council bre absent at time right seeing that we're coming back we're moving back our centage agenda and we're opening items B 31 32 33 34 pulled by council member Ebert all right thank you so much um we did wait I thought those uh council members would back but not but we did wait next 25 minutes so um take it away Madam clerk item what was it b31 through 34 Jonathan Smith Madame mayor I move to approve items B 31 B 34 okay a motion all those in say I all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay okay we're on item b36 v to approve I have a motion second I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion ra unanimous Madame clerk uh item b41 move to approve I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay we're on item C1 oh B4 I have uh make motion move to approve I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay item C1 okay hold on one quick second here we go okay um staff report um at this time Madam uh oh here we go okay uh this time um was proper notice the public hearing will begin was proper notice given and any correspondence received thank you madam mayor proper notice was given and no correspondence was received on this item okay perfect at this time I'm going send it right on over to City attorney Hall to read the ordin title R it says here no this one madame mayor no okay perfect uh then we're moving right on all you staff presentation hi nice to see you mayor in the interest of our economy I don't need a staff presentation on this item and would be uh interested if anyone else does I'm not trying to truncate discussion sure does anyone let me just ask thing Madam cler public comment this item have no public comment and have not received any correspondence okay perfect thank you so much mayor I'll move to approv staff recommendations perfect okay I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those post motion carries unanimously and I bet you stayed up last night a little bit of being here diet CU I know I like in mind you know whenever I prep and prepare for something something so um there you go good job very happy with this outcome thank you all right thanks so much okay M I'm clerk back at you item C2 hold on my agenda is very different today I I'm liking it I'm definitely liking the new structure but uh let me just say I I'm just trying to down here okay we can open item what is it C2 C5 together C2 C3 C4 C5 yes ma'am oh yeah C2 through through C5 together um but we'll need to make separate motions all right um so let's into Madame mayor I have a comment sure uh hold on before you do that um to reiterate I will now open the public hearing um was proper given any respond received proper notice was given and no corespondence received additionally we have public comment registered for these items okay thank you that's all I wanted to know um I don't believe it says on here city of attorney no we don't have to do that so at the time then I'm going to send it right to you you it stay last night too thinking about your presentation I may or may not have all right go ahead take it away uh Jesse pit labor relations manager with resources for the record presenting item c 3 four which tenative EVS with four of your labor groups RG admin our APG Pro and then the two local 39 groups item C2 is for the Reno administrative professional group the administrative unit call them pgad we've come to a three-year agreement with these folks there are 25 employees in this group it's mostly your department managers um managers out at maintenance and Ops managers and works and manager parks and and then there sprinkled other department well um again a three-year agreement with uh three salary adjustments for each year 3% in July of 24 3% in July of with a reopener in case that the per rate increases on salaries and a 3% increase in July of 26 um other economic items we have for ourg admin we've implemented the classification and compensation study in totality for these groups that affects about 10 employ and groups almost half and we've added anation incentive for going above and beyond the minimum qualifications of a job with a a degree for item C3 we have the Reno administrative professional group professional unit our APG prep in here we've got a three-year this is for 93 employees these are your engineers your analysts um your professional White Collar employees that are throughout work throughout the city we've got three Sal adjustments here as well 3% in July of 24 3% in July of 25 with a pers reopener the same kind of pers reopener we have for our APG admin and then a 3% increase in 26 with an additional step add to their salary schedle here as well implemented the classification and compensation study that the city began in 2022 it affects 28 employees um and we've also added an education incentive the same limiting as well C4 and C5 are for the international Union of operating engineers stationary local 39 which is a mouthful to say um so instead we say local 39 non supervisory and local 39 provisory for two groups we do a two-year we have a 3% in July of 2024 and a 3% in July of 2025 with that same pers reopener some other economic items that this group received the big one longevity they were the group to receive longevity that is included in this contract we've also implemented the classification and compensation study um for this group as well so for this group across the two we have about 443 employees these are your CL staff your maintenance workers your um blue colar are working out in the field and for the classification and compensation study there's about 128 128 employees um that were affected by the study and we've included various incentives that really gets group to to match and match peers on this slide I have a total fiscal impact by group and by applicable contract year um so for r $269,000 um and on and so forth across these the total per year um in year one for all four groups is 62 million rounding up 9.2 million in year two and then 2.8 million in year three which seems counterintuitive because local doesn't have a year their cost included in their year on this slide I have some recommended motions for you um the way I Envision this being read to make it easier for you is to read the first line then the first bullet point return back to the first line the second point and so any questions good Jessie uh may think so go ahead yeah I'm I'm prepared to make a motion but I also want to make a comment so my comment is that I'm incredibly impressed with members of this group because what they've done is they have used the time they've been able to come to closure on their bargaining they did a very reasonable multi-year for the most part uh contract the reasonable salary increase able to implement the class comp study which is maor and then we were able to do the longevity for this long delayed group that never has received it but but I just want to do a shout out to them and tell them how grateful we are for coming to the table getting through this process being reasonable in their being open to negotiation and then we can actually bring it to closure and and and here we are today right at the beginning of the fiscal year so I a huge shout out kudos to them um and your privilege to make a motion on the Mad go ahead just on top of that too but also like to thank our team um Jesse and Norma and Vicky and all of our our management team I know there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes here and you're all very talented and um appreciate your expertise in this area and getting to this and agree with Council too thank you very much thank you madam mayor all right thank you so much all right well with that I'd like to move to approve the tenative agreement between the City of Reno and the Reno administrative professional group administrative unit I vot a second all those in favor I all those post motion carries unanimously and then I'd like to move to approve the Ten of agreement between the City of Reno and the Reno administrative professional group professional unit all right I have a motion second I have a all those in favor say I all opposed motion Carri and then I'd like move to approve the Ten of agreement between the City of Reno and local 39 the nonsupervisory unit all right I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion unanimously then fin I'd like move to the 10 of between the Cino and low 39 the supervisory unit second I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously thank you we done yeah with this do you have any not for I want to say um Norma and Jesse great great job What A Difference A Day Makes um Norma you should be really proud HR wasn't always smooth and well liked so one thing I hear from a lot of people hey I may not agree with her but I really respect her and they feel heard uh whatever you're doing you're doing it really well and you're doing it really right and Jesse you've done a really great job so I've got a good team and um I want want you to know that I'm noticing such huge difference we used to in a day where people didn't even want to go to HR to voice their complaints and that's where they would come to my office so I knew directly how challenging um the challenges we had in our H department and you've totally changed um the complete Dynamic and I people are incredibly happy so Norma good job Kudos good job okay Madam mayor moving on to item D1 David one okay hold on one second good afternoon mayor council very well right uh Madam clerk do I need to open the public hearing on this it doesn't look like it this is not a public hearing item and just for the record we did not receive any um correspondents and have not received any public comment is registered perfect that was to be my question um there's a lot more jargon on on my agenda and I just want to make sure that I'm reading everything that you want me to I'm sure there's a reason why she changed my agenda okay good job all right Travis it's all you get away so item D1 um aligns with a strategic plan in the area of Public Safety and then also infrastructure climate change and environmental sustainability uhing just kind of a quick overview to the as to what we're discussing today um on April 24th a presentation was given to council to discuss downtown public safety and following that presentation uh staff was directed to address the railroad today we are here discuss maintenance operations uh safety concerns um Emergency Services as it pertains to this railroad Corridor um staff is proposing to develop ordance and this is where we're here we're just here discuss you at this moment um get feedback from you from you on how you might want to proceed so we are looking at developing an ordinance that would create a 100 foot buffer safety zone from the edge of the road and this is ended to really allow um unencumbered unobstructed access to maintenance and operations to our emergency services along the railroad and to keep our public safe the the railroad core is very dangerous here that's why we keep fences that's why we already have signs to tell them to keep out so we're we're trying to uh remedy some of this these issues maintenance and operations specifically has a lot of infrastructure along the railroad way we have everything fencing in like I mentioned but we also have a lot of C stormed Rin structure which requires regular attention days like today where we get a downpour that we're not expecting it's our job to run out and inspect these ditches and inspect the inlets and make sure everything's functioning properly and if can't get where we need to be because struction the very limit access road we have along the way we're talking delays that might cause property damage from flooding yeah um we have infrastructure such as a um sewer lift station and we need to be able to get that lift station that's there in the RightWay yeah um this the map here is kind of to snatch out a small of the overall railroad um operations in town if you think about it the railroad runs east west through the entire vicinity of the city we we have spur lines throughout the city and then we also rail up in North Valeria so this this picture here this map really kind of just depicts one of the more problematic areas we have in Reno um the red line is actually the railroad rideway and it's very narrow um y think sorry I'm think all the area is um is city-owned properties just for reference and uh again so this ordinance would give us the room to be able to operate safely um 100t past to that red and this would be um tant throughout the entire railroad area some of the um challenges we Face specifically in m is um again the obstructed maintenance access to the infrastructure we need to get to um we have a lot of increased cost year-over-year of a related to vandalism theft um the pictures you see here are actually they were taken down in the retrack area and uh this is the electrical that controls the safety lighting and retract it's all the controls for our ation stems and currently we're looking at about $25,000 in repairs that are needed just in that retrack area because of the vandalism theft and people using this this space um and then you know lastly as I already mentioned storm water con is a major for us we need to be able to the areas quickly Public Safety is also is probably the number one issue um that we want to make sure we're addressing uh fire hazards are regular on the railroad area and um fire fire department needs to be able to get to these fires as quickly as possible again if the areas are obstructed and they can't get to them as you see in the top picture it's going to delay their ability to put out a fire a lot of these areas are in space yeah where you have that's easily um derailment train has been a a very recent concern we've had the uh very it's been kind of a something that's gotten worse uh fairly recently where we're seeing a lot of people dis of garbage on the tracks um just a couple weeks ago actually had to move an engine block that deposited on the on the tracks so something like that could easily cause a derailment these people who are using the space um it's not all campers we have people that just park cars along to the rail the rail a people that use it as shortcuts for walking biking um train comes off the tracks not only could it potentially hurt people on the train obviously the people that are next to the tracks um then we have the increased cost for patrol for PD and they're in ability often get to where they to go to to um deal with uh concerns they have and and then um like I already mentioned the Emergency Services a lot of times this can be medical emergencies again proct if they can't to where they need so proposed solution is this ordinance with this safety buffer zone created um again we're here at this point this we're not introducing an ordinance in any way we're trying to get feedback from body to what you guys want and to see what what you have um back for us so we can incorporate into a future ordinance if that's the direction to move forward okay so with that if there's any questions I'm happy to answer them thank you so much uh really appreciate okay questions I think I think it's a good yeah go ahead well I I will say I have been noticing um some real issues on the train track with um um debris being there and now I saw the motor and I wasn't sure if that was deliberate or how it got there and I'm I'm afraid that if we don't start to really look at ways that um we can protect people that whole area it's it is very very dangerous um and again I don't know if people really see that until something happens and I hate to do be one of those it's not a matter of if but a matter of when um and I know it's same thing when people get upset with me whenever I don't want people cing along the river um you know very prone to fires very prone to floods and then people are really going to be unhappy um you know people loose lose their lives because didn't take safety measures so um I appreciate you bring this forward I can understand why it is necessary go ahead thank M Taylor um can you go back to your slide number six absolutely while you're doing I just want to say thank you for bringing forward thank you to the team um this is just unacceptable I'm thrilled that this is coming before us um sleeping people near the C near the tracks trash it's like you said it's a health and human C issue and I am so grateful that we're going to be looking at something this so I fully support an ordinance um I know Madame Mar and I just had a meeting with some of those four Street businesses and this is a real concern for them too so I think this is a way that we're going to be able to support the businesses in the along the railroad Corridor um this way that we protect our citizens our tourists our businesses I'm just fully in support of this and I I'm I'm very grateful to you and your team for bringing it forward thank you all right anything yeah thanks I'm here too much Mr Trill for the presentation um outside of an ordinance are there other things that staff is looking at I know you said already like barricades anding and signs but there other things that will be included in this are you just asking us to look at the ordinance for now well I'm I'm soliciting feedback right now if there's something I it stands out to you that we would like incorporate into we certainly work with our legal um what we currently use now as main way trying to the public safe is the fencing we have up along the r the rideway which requires frequent mending we have to get to it frequently it gets cut daily um it's also the signs the signs that are we're required right now to have uh in order to make sure that somebody's informed that they're trespassing we have to have signs placed every 500 ft and when you think about the entire stretch of Areno that the trains run through plus the Spurs plus the um Ops of it's a lot of it's a lot infastructure we do our best with what we can under the current laws this kind of expands it out this creates a a wider area that would give be the ability to trespass people who have the legal rights to be um in the space in and when you I think it's just curious out of the words you're using encroachment in a lot of the language that you're and this is that's just to be a bit more encompassing of not just let's say a tent or human but block and a car blocking access to those sites yep um and then the other thing if just to help me once the ordinance does come through if we can get a more clear defined map that you have on uh light four I think that gives the impression that there's things obviously like uh north of 80 which I know it's just a city own parcel but if I could kind of see more clearly what areas we're talking about I think think help me better supp this proposition you to do thank you all right okay that being said I would like to get a motion please uh Madame mayor I moved to direct staff to introduce an ordinance for railroad adjacent city-owned property that includes proing encroachment and recommendations made by Council day all right thank you I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you somebody all right madam clerk this thank Madam mayor moving on to item D2 which is a presentation and discussion adoption of the Reno's language access plan okay thanks so much with that being do you have a public com we don't have any public register item okay thank you uh staff presentation no go ahead Madam mayor I'm prepared to make a motion please do second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carried it has to okay Madam clerk was D3 the one we needed a Time certain on I I wrote a note I'm so sorry yes it was after 1 and we're well that on item D3 VI three okay thank you so much um do we have any public comment on item D3 which would be a presentation discussion potential direction to staff regarding the bill draft request bdrs for the 83rd session of Nevada legure and it's the one and only Nick so good to see you okay the floor is yours take it away unless there's any public comment which I don't think there is we have no public comment um all right let us know what's going okay great Nick Sony govern Affairs manager Office of policy and strategy for the writer today's uh the beginning of our conversations with respect to build draft requests I want to be very clear here this is an open discussion a dialogue on some of the ideas that we've heard so far um but we're run ahead with anything until we get the fact from this um um there are a number of bdrs that you'll see here we have five different ideas and they kind of align with the various different elements of the Strategic plan um all of them I would say apply to fiscal sustainability for the city um so as you know thetive session is quickly coming up I can't believe it's almost here I know can you believe that we're actually less than 200 days away um is that what's going on no one's counting I'm for you so the city of canit up to two build requests um last session if you remember uh we only submitted one Bild draft request and the direction from this body was to go ahead and move forward with affordable housing um policy and find a way that we could align the state gos with ours worked out well for us last session and that I was able to spend that extra time that I had to find rental assistance dollars for the City of Reno proper um so again the City of Reno can choose up to two Bill draft requests um but you're not required to uh I'll be back before this body on August 14th for final sele election uh and we have until September 1 to actually submit that to the legislative Council Bureau so again just going through the process since the end of legislative session till now we've been Gathering ideas heard some committees we heard some from indidual Council Members um and now we're at this July 24th meeting to um get some additional feedback from the council and uh let me know or let the staff know if we need to do additional research on any of these topics and finally SE first that deadline Factor bdr selection um there's quite a few here um today we're at the council input section and I think that is the most important to understand um and get that feedback uh how it aligns with strategic plan is also incredibly important what is impact or how we bettering um Service delivery as well as um making sure that we're meeting the needs of Reno ites is incredibly important and the ability to effectuate um I don't think it's any Su at a city opposed to a legisl have quite as much political capacity if you will and so I think it's just important to you know be aware of that and look at what our stakeholders are asking for and see if there's a way that we can snc that up with what the legislature is looking for um again CH in on stakeholders and partners so um over the of the last year it's been an honor to serve as a government Affairs manager and I have had the opportunity to work with um many different coalitions leagues the urban Consortium the Nevada League of cities the Housing Coalition actually was on a l learn um for in Coalition and sit on policy committee so that's why I had to have a Time certain after one 13 so we're we're building up those relationships I just want to um make it clear that for all of these ideas I don't think any of will be a surprise to our local government partner or the house Coalition not to say that they've done extend stakeholder feedback on every single one of these ideas but we've been working very closely with our regional partners and other local governments so these are the five ideas before you the charter committee recommendations changes to Capital searge fund uh and changes to the residential construction tax some kind of mechanism or fund to replenish the cost of waving affordable housing sewer Enterprise fees and an update on the regionalization or consolation conversations that we have had to date so as you know on Monday July 29th you will be meeting with the the charter committee and they will be presenting their recommendations um of those recommendations and I'll give them the opportunity to actually present those ideas but of recommendations uh first Ament uh and just a reminder although there are four recommendations in here it would use one draft request slot um so of those recommendations the Amendments include the requirement for a special election in event of a vacy um there's a staffed item that just aligns the terms of um Senate and assembly member appointed uh Charter committee members with the city council terms and the terms of that individual that is actually holding the office uh the third would be requiring the manager to reside in theity of Reno and the fourth is uh has returned I believe for the fourth time now uh to remove remove gendered language from our city Charter next up is the capital search fund so in 2011 a em Bill 376 gave the City of Reno and only the City of Reno we are the only local government that has this ability to charge $2 on every room night for non-restricted gaming uh hotels and the district that we defined in order to fund Capital Improvements for the pures of touris um to date and I believe um you've heard a bit about this but that generates about $1.3 million uh We've identified two different scenarios we could look at to potentially in that rate and I will go into now um so as I said that's $2 for the purposes of T tourism we have existing obligations um if you look over the course of the fund um with the um removal some of the uh hotels or nonr gaming that originally downt uh we are losing the ability to pull in as much money with uh like harz uh no longer being around there are less room naturally to produce that that money uh and so that money over the course of the next four years will eventually shink uh as it relates to our existing needs and future needs so one of the options that we looked at had to do with simply increasing the rate not including any other hotels or nonr G and not Chang boundary District simply looking at what it look like if we just increase the rate from $2 to $4 um you'll see there that we went all the way into our analysis of $10 we just did that for the purposes of understanding that this point in time Nevada rev statute says that we can Le $2 um if we want to go down this path it would be my recommendation to ask for the ability for this body to actually increase by more than just the $2 $24 for the purposes of not having to come back to legislature to ask again when we are starting to run out of money this account the second scenario that we played out would include those non- gaming Resorts uh in the in that District um and as you can see it does generate a little bit more money and the two parties that combined that would be impacted by this would be Whit PE as well as the Renaissance and I believe there are a couple other stragglers um but we will continue to Define that and like I said these are early stage so we'd have continue working our stakeholders see what that would be like our region the next one would be changes to the residential construction tax so the residential construction tax for purposes of um changes that aren't technical in nature or larger impacts has not changed since the 1990s uh since then uh the way the residential construction tax works is that um it would charge 1% of the valuation of that home um in order to bring that money for the purposes of neighborhood parks or $1,000 since the 1990s uh homes have been over $100,000 in cost so it's been effectively Capp at $1,000 for each dwelling unit since then um naturally the cost of parks is only exp increased couple of the options that we've looked other than simply saying remove this would be consolidate districts um when I say that I don't necessarily mean that all of the money would have to be spent in one District or that it couldn't be negotiated by this to where those would go but it would remove that limitation the money generated would have to spent in the place that it was generated and then if we were going to do that it might be wise to look at the option of removing the acreage limitation which is currently 25 acres um again was created for the purposes of neighborhood parks um and the legislature at that time did not deem a 25 acre park or greater a neighborhood park uh the example that came to mind because I was very curious last night uh Virginia Lake Park would be 30 Acres give you kind of idea of what it looks like and so just I again draw attention to the fact that this has changed quite a bit over the years in 1990 about 100 homes were needed in order to uh build one acre of a park or actually that uh versus with the cap it takes 346 homes and if there was no cap if uh if it was just 1% of the valuation of the home they would only take 65 home so there is potential for a happy medium here again we have not a stakeholder discussion any of the developers ORS on this topic and so I couldn't tell you where they stand or how they feel about any of these ideas and this is just another example of you know what would it look like if we actually Consolidated all of those districts put all the money in one place and then give this body opportunity to decide where money would spent um so as you can see these districts are not actually broken up by Ward um I'm not sure when they were drawn maybe they at one point did align with the ward boundaries uh but they not do currently today and they mostly do not with the Ws that we soon have um but if we were to have one single District that would have $26 million in it which could mean a a game Cher in terms of what that means like for building new parks one thing I'd like to add here to um with the $26 million sorry I lost my train of thought oh just the discrepancy when it comes to these different um districts and if we were to consolidate the districts idea would not be to say hey we told you that you were in this district and this money was going to be spent that way this would only be looking forward so for 2024 on the next idea is something I'm sure you all very familiar with with the sewer wave connection um uh cap that we have placed on our affordable housing waivers um to date this body has waved n roughly $9.5 million just for sewer connection which has resulted in roughly 1800 units being built or on way to being um body has made um great strides in this Lane and I know that Clark County um is considering or has considered actually adopting an ordinance simar but I'm not of any municipality actually looking at what look like if wave these fees and what build more affordable housing so um I think everyone knows we're a leader in this space but unfortunately we have Capp that and we're looking at other options for how could we replace this money and in my mind one of the things that could be helpful here is encouraging other local governments to be a stakeholder here and join us um because they might be more likely to actually wave those fees if there's a state fund that they could access um and we've had um early conversations with the Housing Coalition as well as the league of on this topic fire regionalization discussion updates so um we are in very early talks I think you know meeting with my counterparts at um trucky Meadow fire County Sparks it's that we need more time to narrow down ask and work together collaboratively so I don't want to tell you that this is a pause or a stop on this conversation and I think it's quite important for our region it's honestly been an honor to even be part of it but we need more time to really vet the idea and make sure that when we go down to the legislature all of us are from the same sheet and are are ready to ask for the same thing and work together um to to build that ask and really understand um how we're helping community and that will look like reality from the financial piece and from the fire departments uh three different fire departments in our jurisdictions so again that the plan would be to come back uh for 2027 with that actual idea so what's next uh continuing to meet with stakeholders NADA of Le cities will have uh Bild draft quests ready and again these are stakeholders that we could ask to sponsor a bill for us rather than the city proper uh the Nevada Housing Coalition their policy forum is actually tomorrow will be there and I'm interested to what kind ofas they come with contining work with the local legislators in our region um depending on the direction from this body looking at uh you know additional research and Analysis on any of those items identify sponsor like I said Theo doesn't actually have to sponsor these draft we could all go find a legislator that would be willing to pick up the idea and finally August 14th I will be back before y'all to uh select the bdr concepts and admit those before the September 1st this is the reced Motions just to dive into this this would mean that I would come back on August 14th with the charter committee recommendations uh with the residential construction tax and the capital search charge build request ideas uh the motion would ask I look at the fa state fund and and find a sponsor or at least continue to have that dialogue and the third would just um asked that I come back for 2027 to explore the option of fire realization we're consolidating based on our talks go with other stakeholders all right thanks Nick um very comprehensive and what I'd like to do now is to take these one by one and just discuss them and so if you could pull up your um your first proposal there about the charter I think um I'm G start this um I am supportive of uh moving forward with the Charter bill I'm not necessarily supportive of the way that the charter committee laid everything out and I some of these could be dropped potentially but some could be out just very briefly um the very first one deals with a special election and I actually agree with this principle not necessarily the division that laid out in terms of months and two years you know over six months you would go to election um I actually think we would need a longer time let's say eight months because even to go through an appointment process takes a couple months as our appointees know I mean they got a register their interests go through interviews meet the public have decisions you by Council so i' probably that to 8 months but here's why I think it's important I think it's important because I think that the narrative for the last two years has um either intentionally probably or unintentionally delegitimize our two council members who we appointed through a uh duly approved process so we appointed them we went through a rigorous analysis we selected them we put them on Council and then there an up and end to this contant drum that they're illegitimate that they don't really belong that they're a temporary placeholder and I find this very offensive they were appointed through our process that we have and they're doing a very fine job coming to the meetings they're learning they're paying attention they're bringing their brains to the table and I um feel that if we had a process laid out for when we appoint and when we elect that and it was set up that this could get rid of this entire dialogue which I has um hampered us and hampered them and hampered us as a body and I would like to see it address personally and I know that often there is a um a u point that um you know it's either the six of us let's say pointing one or the fact that special elections have very low attendance but I've got and we we just saw some lower attendance elections in our last primary um disappointing but still thousands of people participate and um we could well those thousands of people low information but they have information at least they would have been participating in the Democratic process to elect their representatives and so I feel strongly that we should move forward with something like that on the other three things quickly um you know the terms fine uh on the city manager I don't necessarily think they need to live in City of Reno I wouldn't mind having that said waso County um more broadly okay but I there is some benefit having um the people are RC locally um and so could support something that elimination of gendered language I think that's pretty much I'll call it no-brainer and then I just want to add two more things very quickly um I this up almost every discussion Charter bill that is I think some people agree with me I think that we should look at um appointing our legal counsel instead of electing our legal counsel I know that our um Charter committee I guess didn't dive into that one I know Council was opposed to that years ago came up at his ter ending just mine like the mayor and we are only two cities in Nevada to my knowledge that have an election for a city council a City attorney and that is Reno and Sparks all the other cities appoint their I think there's a benefit there they work for and for our staff and lastly I would like to have a conversation about the mayor I think that um the it's a very simple fix I don't think we have to do a lot of heart- Runing I think could simp say in our and City members not the same position I think lost some uh it's not that it worked out poorly I love our mayor but people have lost an opportunity to run for mayor I mean 18 people ran um in 2014 for 21 will R some people out but I do think that it would um provide an opportunity for those with experience to run for mayor and that's the way it is in most cities in again in Nevada and um not all I think more like I'm not positive I haven't done analysis I do think we have an opportunity to address it um I think it would help members of the council that want to run mayor have a longer term I think that it would um uh really help you know provide was leadership given people with experience could run so I'll stop I went over but I just wanted to get it all out on the table quickly and let me open in I think council member ree um this we're on the Tarter thank you vice mayor derer um I'm going to start maybe take a step back not going to dive into these I want to first ask is the two that we get to run that includes if we ran one for the charter is that correct yes that's correct last time we really did a charter bill that ran and we Ted you with refocusing efforts on housing so we run another bill that's correct and then I want to talk about the general use of capital and that means political capital I get the sense often times that um their um experience local governments is very um their um experience local governments is very different than our experience with them meaning that um in spite of protestations about various things that impact us at times it appears our legislators believe that they experienc Trump and as a result I'm skeptical to believe that they are really listening to us specifically about what we run now that's a general statement it's not directed any person political party or entity but simply that I often wonder why a lot of the things that come out of there are not ask about them they don't ask what the impct would be on us we are not necessarily always invited to the tables where those decisions are being made and as result I think that fewer bdrs on our part is more effective right we're going to have a particular policy option that we want and we very important we should run fewer bills not more bills just because there's only so much political Capital there's only so much time that you have in the day um sometimes the the saus made in Carson Z is a bit confusing to those who are there a lot and so for my part I was to sort of re say what our absolute priority is rather than say I want to do all of these things it's po potential we would say we would want to do none of these things now if we turn our attention to the spefic things that posited here um there are none of harder recommendations that I would talk specifically about today because we think we're going to do that in a special meeting I'd rather save my energy to have those conversations in that context I will say that some of these uh are a little bit more um not align with my interest but that's why we have Charter committee right one that's not here which I am and uh would like to explore perhaps more generally is this question of whether or not when there is is a very close election whether or not recount those ele should be automatic and for out of government costs I believe fundamentally that when an election is close as it was in this last election cycle and there were some uh headlines about it uh we should not have placed anyone in the of having to make very difficult choices how those were paid for so when you have an election that's say within you know a half a percentage point or a percentage point of being uh contested those should have automatic recounts now I will say back to my political Capital argument earlier it's like the county may already run such a bill so maybe we don't need to running our own bill but we're just supporting a bill being raised there um and if I may Madam vice mayor um I I think the bill draft request on uh residential construction tax is probably a good one in concept again question whether or not we want to raise oural capital and spend it in order to achieve that I'm not saying whether I would either way as to the capital search charge fund it's absolutely true that that fund will not be self-sufficient within the next several cycles of its budget and as we just really need to think about how we make sure it's solvent and if it's not uh it really cannot be born on the backs of just two properties which is what we're really down to there but again I'm I'm not saying that that would be my priority there are other things that might be a priority like housing um the last two are most to me and I think perhaps will be I would look at using our political Capital One is the replenishing the cost for our sewer fee when we do use those funds to otherwise support affordable housing projects super important super critical to allow for those projects to build and really speaks to our concerns about housing and one of the few tools that we have in the toolbox to do it I am very interested in that and then the last one I think you've already said that we need probably a little more time to bake and ruminate on it and therefore would not be in favor of using our Poli capital in that regard but I will say that is a very important topic it should be the number one priority we have in a multi-year analysis of how we do and I have been someone who has always said we should regionalize our fire servers in this I'll continue to say that so sorry rather quick Mr Sony I just trying to be respectful my colleagues but now you have my general thoughts the overarching one which I would like you to take from my conversation with you today is just that concept that more Bulls does not equal better chances of success passing in fact I think if we tail our ass we are more likely to use the political Capital we have to achieve the goals we want okay council member Taylor thank you Madame vice mayor um looking at from a Global Perspective at this point and when I look at the five five Bill draft requests that are here in front of us four of them are specifically about revenue and increasing Revenue so talking about um something about what oun said regionalization and how the local governments are are funded and that is through property tax and primary primarily sales tax so until we figure out something different we're always going to be having these conversations about fees about added um trying to get more Revenue somehow um I'm not going to get into the charter committee recommendations because we're going to be meeting with them on all of these other ones I'm and not expert any of these things and i' say that definitely to have the experts at the table and it sounds like you're going to be doing that through more targeted stakeholder engagement um there are some good ideas in here but I would need to understand if the capital Sarge fund if the capital projects all properties down and I those are the conversations that you are going to be having and I look forward to hearing that and residential construction tax we are always trying to find a way increase our Revenue at the low level this is look at parks right um we we want build more Parks we want to have more Parks we're having a hard time maintaining our Parks um so it all comes back to what is the the global conversation and it's how we're funded on the um sewer Enterprise fee I think there was comment made how we look at this as a regional program which is great because I mean we've been able to help so many people and so and and move affordable housing in a positive direction however there's still somebody subsidizing costs I do love the idea of regionalization on our our fire um again I don't think we're quite there yet and I would rather us um be really confident and have all of our ducks in a row before we take something that's unbaked the legislature but I tend to with my too that um Le is probably more and I want to make sure that where we can collaborate with our partners um on build draft requests we're doing that and we are being very strategic in what we're asking for so appreciate you months that will coming your life all the hard work and I'm glad that you're excited to still be working in in this field so thank you very much okay Mr Martinez thanks so much Adam vice mayor and thanks Nick for the presentation um I think I'll keep my comments Global well um and reserve some of the stuff that I have for the charter committee for when that uh comes up in 5 days I believe and we have that joint meeting with our Community we talk a little bit more specific there I think that um looking at bi regionalization as you already um talked about and seemed to get a lot of support up here on the Das for is something that's been identified for 2027 and so hopefully we can continue to push that forward and lay the on work so we can have sucessful bdr partnership for that legislative session when it occurs in 2027 for the other for number two and three so changes to RCT and capital search charge fund I think similar to the comments were just made it it's important and crucial for us to to look at providing a high level of service um and opportunities for our community members and with the tax structure the way that it is now and the way that our budgets are set up it keeps theing and so impacts the way that to serve our community and so U there's maybe a more Global thing that you can think about to help increase Revenue overall I think that might be a better push uh for us to look at that uh and then I do hear that there might some for for their Partners about the Enterprise E waver and establishing some sort of budget at the state level so I'd be happy to talk more about that especially with our partners and keep exploring uh that collaboration with other folks to help us carry the W in that sense I'm going to make a final comment to turn it back to Mayor um I um I I I think it's worth noting that in my 10 years here this would be the fifth session I guess um in my opinion we've been spectacularly unsuccessful getting any pass can you think of any no I can't think of any so um whether we've submitted zero one or two bills we have been not successful and I believe that um that has almost every time every time gone asking for more money whether it's a par or regionalization of fire we we asked for that before you know in a different way we asked to be able to set up a fire district ourselves that was a no-o we asked for a bot initiative on marks that was a noo um I can think of several others now now I I think it's important for people to know there was a bill on residential construction tax and it made very very modest changes as I recall and not really the changes we wanted and that was a a bill that was put forth by you know a Consortium of people and it didn't really uh yield a lot of fruit and I wanted to Echo and I'm very glad council member ree brought this up I wanted to Echo his points that um my knowledge none of our local legislative U uh officers elected officials have never served in local government per se uh we have one person that's served on the Schoolboard so has more experience maybe in making a budget but most of the ones that are either elected today or in cont to elected have served in a local government have not participated in a budget process like we do and to not face the dire uh restrictions on Revenue that we have trying patch it together to make this all work and so I think the biggest issue we could probably do is to educate our legislators better on the real challenges that we face and do a very good thorough job about that very asly as possible starting now and in past I sort of remember we had Enclave with elected uh legislators um but it sometimes it was like in the lobby of County Commission and it wasn't like we got to really talk right over at the county and Lobby it it was really sit down talk about issues with legislators it was more hey how you do good luck at the session so I think that um the education process has to start occurring and it has to continue throughout the years and um all of these like I like to PRI bills on Revenue too I just haven't seen be successful they seem to not want to give us more money all right that's what I to say you're over okay I wasn't aware I didn't see any clock going but okay over to you Madame mayor would you like add for this yeah the thing I want to add um just really quickly quickly first of all um great job I'm so impressed you've really grown into this role um and it's it's impressive to see um how knowledgeable you are and I think you're really enjoying it Nick job the one thing I want to say is I think it would be really helpful that we send invitations to every single um representative from our area um and jurisdictions especially when it comes on to so often we never hear from them ever um and I don't know if that's on us cuz we haven't invited them I'd love to know the bills that they are going to bring forward and the ones that particular are going to affect the city in general um you know and don't be dis full but do these jobs um you know 365 days a year and um and they do theirs every other year um and so it's a very different dynamic because a lot of times I they put in um bills and um laws that affect us greatly and then we're left holding the bag now it works both ways good and bad but typically it's not so good and so it's their um the work that they do down there that we have to end up carrying the water on and I think a lot of times they don't understand the challenges and at the very least if I mean I think it also help them understand our frustrations and our challenges and what it is like to live in that space all the time 247 365 days a year um on the local side instead because the state tends to be much more removed then we do and we always have that I know even when walk into the building they don't that um it's just very territorial sort of dynamic but I really do think it would help especially they represent us uh I'm I'm a constituent you're a constituent just like everyone else is you're constituent and I think um you we we should know what they're going to proposing bringing forward really hard to hear after the fact when we should have all been at the table addressing some of the issues that are going to be the bigest issues in the city and having some make those proposals um are going to be you know um I just think that the people that they affect the most should be at the table so maybe you could um send some invites out and let's hear about what they want to do what they want to propose and um I think that could be beneficial what do you think Nick I wanted to chy and let you know that there is at least one local elected official assembly woman Anderson is moving forward with a key group of stakeholders to look at the property tax um and how that actually funnel within the state of data I can't say exactly it's going to look like I know we've heard a little bit about how that might like senator's bill from like 2018 with respect to reset at sale but she's starting to get stakers together and I know that um you know it's a slow um process but I think that uh we're being hurt I think that very process is guess what there isn't a politician that wants to go out there and say hey we want to raise taxes and especially maybe one party more than the other I don't know I I shouldn't say that but the nonpartisan me gets a little a little bitter right so but no I mean with everything that important issue but everything I would love to see them come and address um you know the city and also I would love for the the community to hear because a lot of times they don't they have no idea so to a lot of time why they supporting someone when they do usually it's a recommendation from a a friend those kinds of things but at the end of the day Nick I would love to see um let's send them some invites let's have them come to council and then it would be nice um you know be able to expand that or you know Kos too so and just one more thing there I am excited to invite them and and make sure that we continue having those conversations I know that um respect to this Council and for the safety c as well moing Center that's exciting for this community and it's also exciting for them and although they may not have given us money directly for any of those projects I think it's important that we invite them to the table when we're celebrating our EV so they working on totally because we'll have to do together promise you it'll be so much better if we are collaborative and doing it together thank you Nick okay do we have to accept this um Nick what you had put up a recommendation here what would you like from I moved to direct to bring back BR 2401 there was three go I'm going to send it to councilman ree go ahead do you have sufficient uh input from us to move forward or do you need a specifically directed motion does none of these apply to what we've talked about I I could go your way um if you feel strongly one way or the other then I feel like I've gotten the feedback that I need today yeah perfect Mr hall or Mr Shipman is do you believe we have to have action so I okay thank you for presentation great job all right Madam clerk sending it to you thank you madam mayor we're on item D4 I'm sorry f11 all right uh Madam do you have any um public comment on this we do not have any common on this item okay thank you I'm going to send it to the one and only Carl Hall it's all you thank you madam mayor ordinance adoption ordinance number 679 case 23-2 States ordinance annexing two and making part of the City of Reno certain specifically describe territory being 8181 Acres of property consisting of two Parcels located plusus 350 ft southeast of the intersection of claim J way until mine drive and directly east of trucky Metals Water Authority reservoir tank the subject side is adjacent to the City of Reno jurisdictional boundary located within the sphere influence and has planation of Incorporated position together with matters properly Rel two word two all right thank you so much may I get a motion move to adopt I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed no okay voted no originally motion carries all right Madam item F any public comment no public comment at this time okay thank you so much sending it right back to Carl Hall thank you Madame mayor ordinance adoption ordinance number 66 680 LDC 232 value Ates ordinance to Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled owning resoning a plus or minus 8181 Acre Site consisting of two pars located orus 350 ft southeast of intersection claim jway until Air Mine drve directly east of the rocky Meadows Water Authority reservoir tank from Plus or 71.9 Acres of unincorporated transition 40 acres ut-4 and plusus 106 62 acres large residential 2.5 acres l- 2.5 to 8181 acres of plan unit development PUD Val Estates together with matters properly relating there to ward two dropped that's a long one okay uh I have motion I do I have a second a second all those say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right uh Madame clerk any public comment no seeing there's none I'm going to send it sorry my computer still loading you have have any public comment but we did see um three comment on this item and we're all in opposition okay thank you so much I'm going to now send it right back to Carl Hall item F3 again uh ordinance adoption ordinance number 6681 LDC 2444 side SP ordinance toand Title 18 chapter 18.02 with the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning at plus or minus 1.39 Acre Site located west of terminus of Riverside Drive North of the River from M family 30 per acre and 32 Civic Plan D SPD with matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected therewith W one all right perfect great job okay may I get a motion I have a motion to adopt second I I have a second all those in favor say all those motion carries all right sending it right back Madam clerk any public comment on item F4 we have no public comment okay thank you so much I'm going to send it right back to Carl Hall thank you madam mayor this one's really long ordinance ad done ordinance number 6682 case number txt 24-1 title affordable housing initiatives ordinance amending the Reno Municipal Code Title 18 land develop specifically in chapter 18.03 regulation section 180326 table of allowed uses section 18.03 302 residential uses chapter 18.04 development standards section 18.04 905 standards for the family District section 8.0.1 153 incentives for affordable housing in section 18.04.1 15 for density bonus incentives for small unit sizes to expand with running discs multif family single family attached uses allowed and use standard for res residential uses locate the standards for density bonuses and multif family districts and certain Muse districts to a different section of the zoning code and an expedited building permit process for afford housing projects increase density bonus for affordable housing projects to increase the density bonus of small units ring in size from 800 ft to 1200 ft together with matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected therewith 1 2 3 4 5 an out move to adopt sorry um all right uh we F4 um did you make a motion and I second and you okay all those say I all those carries you nly okay uh we're going to hand it over to G1 Madam clerk am I correct you are correct okay I'm going to send it to uh vice mayor der yeah and I was going to thank you I was going to ask to delay this to the first meeting in August okay that's okay or it could be on next agenda if you're up for that Mickey no she doesn't want do whatever okay um let's continue to the first meeting in August okay okay all right do you need you don't need a motion from us do you no no okay um item H1 comments any announc regarding City boards Inc commens anything no um okay so here's I'm going to um just a couple things so we need to be back here at 6 o' for um public hearing uh that's be important thing that I want to let everyone know please eat dinner before you get here because we are not going to be ordering dinner tonight um because we're going to have a few hours in between so it would be a lot easier everyone please eat and be ready energize before we come okay so I'll see you all at 6 o' Madam clerk do you need anything from us no okay good all right see you everyone soon e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e 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fantastic um the thing is because we have so many public comments um I would love if we could get a chair up here and then the next person can come forward so we're sort of in sync okay mayor while we get set up let's go ahead and open the meeting so we'll we'll call the meeting back to order it's 6:05 and at this time um all members are present with council member breus absent okay thank you so much welcome everyone thank you for being here I so many future mayor out here right yes she's saying yes maybe if you saw my email you might think different no I'm just kidding kidding kidding no we we need you you're our future um okay Madam clerk uh a little different um script here so just bear with me if you need to correct me on anything cuz I know we are changing it up a little bit to accommodate such a large group um just stop me or have the attorne St car off please okay so at this time um I am going to have um let's see uh City attorney car oh Madam if you want to the public hearing I will hold on one sec okay um I'm going to open the public hearing and then I'm going to send it to you perfect okay all right at this time Madam clerk uh we will now open the public hearing proper notice been given and all correspondence receed you madam mayor proper notice given on this um the record we received 214 comments 53 in support of the mup 157 in opposition of the mup and four of concern and then as I stated previously have about 20 public comments that are registered this time okay perfect thank you so much so I uh assume I'm going to send it to our City attorney Carl hall and then um I'm going to ask you for public comment right thank you Madame mayor let the record reflect that the city council is opening the public hearing for item i1 case number mu 24-10 appeal of the administrator's approval of a minor conditional use permit to allow for the development of a primary secondary K through2 school campus all right thank you so much okay at this time I'm going to ask Council uh my council members do you have any disclosures to make I'm going to start with you councilman um Miguel Martinez nothing councilman Taylor um Madam mayor I don't know if this is I met with the app and um the Washington School District thank you so much council member Reese councilwoman tour yeah I um tour the site and I met with whoever called me to meet with me I I don't have list but there were counc I do have a closure just one moment while they find it thank you okay so um preparation for this I sought legal guidance from the city's attorney's office I understand that the city council is acting in a quasi judicial capacity as opposed to legislative capacity the councilman I understand that in cases like these have a legal Duty be neutral and unbiased and hearing and on the matter if I cannot be neutral and unbiased I've been advised that I shouldn't participate I want the record to be clear that I can will be neutral and unbiased in hearing case and cases Bo for I have not made up my mind nor nor have I prejudged the specific facts of this case or any other upcoming potential case I am open to hearing the evidence uh applying the facts the law voting accordingly clerk please log this uh log closure for in for the record all right thank you very much okay I'm going to send it to you Madame clerk for public comment um may actually just going to go over the the structure of tonight's meeting so that every in the room is clear um so the way that it will work is that we will move into staff presentation first we will then move into appellant presentations and then we will finally close out with the was with the um applicants presentation after the presentations would be the public comment per the public comment period and then closing that out would then be the discussion and deliberation by the body okay so we're going a little bit verse than our typical are okay yes ma'am all right uh um okay so then I would say then at this time we're going to have staff presentation we are starting out with Miss Leah picotti all right Leah nice to see you good evening Madame mayor members of the council Leah picotti for the record I am an associate planner with the City of Reno development services and this evening I am presenting application for matter Academy my conditional use which you all know has been appealed so to give you a little bit of information the project is located on the corner of North Hills Boulevard and beckworth drive this is UN 4 inan e area the site is 10.62 acres in size and the request is a minor conditional use permit to allow for a kindergarten through 12th grade school adjacent to residential district Orient with this side I'm bringing you up a little bit closer here where you can see that it is on the corner there of North Hills and beckworth the site is highlighted in yellow and that is the matter Academy site right there this is shopping center the adjacent to it here and Al Smith Elementary School is adjacent to the east the subject site does have split zoning it's approximately 5 acres in the S3 single family residential Zone District approximately 6 acres in the commercial zoning District um split zoning is fairly common we do see this throughout the city and rather than having the applicant split it or rezone it we do allow this uses on the specific side of the as long as they're consist with the uses are allowed in the zoning district Key issues that were analyzed in this request were the overall site design compatibility with surrounding uses and developments traffic access and circulation and natural resource protection um the reason that natural resource protection is in there is because there is a major drainage way on the site however it is being avoided completely so it wasn't necessarily part of this application and there is no disturbance to that drainage so here's the over site design the school is proposed to be approximately 150,000 Square ft it is going to be two stories with a single story gymnasium it is going to be built in three phases over the course six years phase one you can see in the pink there will be the elementary and middle school buildings which can accommodate approximately 786 students along with the elementary school and middle school buildings all site improvements will be complete during pH one so that will include any of the off site improvements that you'll see here later on in the slide it'll be the stacking Lanes the driveways the parking areas all of that will be uh completed in phase one phase two will be the school building which you see there in green and then fa I'm sorry High School building which will add 68 668 students we have a total of approximately 1554 students this is based on the trffic analysis uh is going to dictate the mass amount of students and then phase three will add a gymnasium it's an 850 user capacity gymnasium and you can see that on your screen in blue so most of slides today talk about traffic mitigation because that seems to be the the main concern here so regarding traffic mitigation again we have matter Academy located here we have Alice Smith Elementary located here so what I want to show you is the existing school zone and this is the school zone that requires 50 m hour with the blinking lights overhead that makes everybody slow down so that kids can go back and forth so that current school zone runs right across here across the face of beckworth essentially we've done mitigate traffic first off in the areas only have we expanded that existing school zone but we have created a whole another school zone adjacent to it so where we do have some concerns along North Hills Boulevard and that other portion of beckworth the new school zone will be be and this P of North as you see on in green on screen so one of our ways of mitigating these traffic concerns was to increase the size of that school zone increases safety slows people down makes people more aware of what's going on out there secondly uh I want to point out where access points are so you can see again where matter Academy is and Alice Smith Alice Smith accesses off of beckworth Drive they have an In-N-Out over here on this side our Academy is going to access all North Boulevard so it's not accessing on the same street there was contemplation about whether or not the access should be on beckworth and the overall determination was that backworth is would would um having the two schools next to each other like that onth would compound the existing traffic issues there so at staff's request that was moved to the north Hillside offside Improvement okay so preface this this is 30-day process for minor conditional use permits normally those are submitted we have 30 days to review them and we issue a decision letter this particular case took about s months from time that it that it was submitt to our office till we issued that decision letter and one of the reasons for that is that we were working with our TC Public Works our engineering department and planning on this traffic study and I believe we ended up with um four durations this traffic study this was the F traffic study where we decided collectively that these were all the improvements that needed to be made off site to mitigate the traffic concerns in this area so first of all we have a deicated right turn lane off of nor Boulevard in matter Academy secondly the applicant also owns that little triangle there on the corner of beckworth so they're going to do a dedicated right of way for a turn lane off beckworth onto North Hills Drive additionally we're going to have two overhead rapid flashing beacons here on North Hills we're going to have four side mount rapid flashing beacons uh along beckworth and one on North Hills and we're install two additional crosswalks here and here so these are the offside improvements and these will all be paid for at the applicant six months this is not going to cost the city anything on site um we're looking backing in circul so where the blue arrows are those are the same blue arrows you just saw on my other slide for the entrance and the exit onto the site off of North Hills this stacking line has been designed so runs all the way around 10 Acre Site and what they've done here is created a double stacking Lane with a bypass lane that can accommodate over a 100 cars on site at one time possibly up to 150 cars depending on how close together they are and the size of those cars additionally they created a very large pickup drop off area that can accommodate pickup and drop off for 30 cars s simultaneously um so when we look at how many cars can stack online stack on how many can drop s simultaneously it meets all parameters for um being able to pick up and drop off in a fairly Swift manner additionally uh we have offset the bell times by 30 minutes between matter Academy and Smith Elementary School so these will not be starting or end at the same time there will be a 30 minute difference and there's a 30 minute difference between matter 's elementary middle school and high school as well so all of their their three schools will all offset by 3 minutes and those will all offset from Alice Smith by 30 minutes as well and just kind of to break it up right and then we're going to have them open up that campus and do a 30 minute pickup and drop off so like everybody to get there in five minutes of school to pick up drop off they come anytime 30 minutes prior and drop off children so we all read the Appeals and I've just kind of highlighted the concerns on the appeals and what mitigation staff has taken um so one traffic and sa uh City staff engineering and public works and RTC worked with the applicant on traffic mitigation plan for six months so please understand we worked very hard we went back and forth we did several different iterations of what this could look what this would look like what it needed and came out with this final plan pretty much 7 months after we started the we started looking at again the belt times are offset 30 minutes and additionally um matter Academy pay $100,000 in Impact fees Road impact fees to RTC for this project um so that's always a good thing as well especially when we're looking at those up in the valleys and the different improvements that are needed there were concerns lack of transparency public participation in the decision making process I just want to make everybody aware that this um application was received in mid November it was November 14th and November 17th a development review memo was emailed to 1385 contacts and that development review memo is all of our internal and external agencies it's um it's anybody and everybody would need to see this including wow County School District so that was sent out 1385 contacts on November 17th on number 27 second we 56 misses surrounding property owner and interest parties that also includes all of your NAB members the following week the site was posted with two of those large yellow public notice signs those one oneor and one North Hills are over six months I believe they're still there and then on June 3rd pretty much uh seven months later the decision decision letter was issued so this wasn't a fast process um there was no of trans public participation um we had it out there it was on our website development review memos everybody received uh notices that it was happening giant posters on site so there was nothing happening behind the closed doors um everybody everybody had opportunity to participate in this project including County School District and we received our first round of comments from them on November 30th just so that that's clear uh okay inappropriate zoning Primary School absolutely per in the sing family residential zoning District we all the time U we permitted one I issued a decision letter yesterday for wasel County School District about a mile away in the single family residential zoning District secondary schools are permitted in single family and general commercial so it's an appropriate owning is appropriate owning there was some um Talk About Us forcing them to rezone to public facilities we don't do that uh we don't force anybody to rezone to a public facility schools are allowed pretty much in all the zoning District RS and then there were Financial concerns from Wasa County School District um unfortunately it's just not a concern we don't analyze economic impact to the surrounding businesses and um that's just not thing that we do in our our analys so minor conditional use permit findings the findings that are on the board are the findings that we have to make in order to approve an application so number one uh compes with municipal code and the purp of the Z District absolutely uh in the single family residential zoning district schools are literally listed under the purpose um in The General commercial it's a gradual transition to the city's Suburban neighborhoods and exactly you would see that gradual transition you kind of the neighborhood on one side those neighborhood commercial businesses on the other side so that's it definitely complies with RMC and the purpose of the zoning district is it compatible and consistent surrounding development yes it's B to a school neighborhood and a commercial center it's an ideal location public services and utilities are available absolutely it's an infill project everything is available for it the characteristics are compatible with types of surrounding development it's adj to a school a neighborhood and a ccial center and you know those characteristics are what we look at in our staff analysis over the past seven months um and as you know there were a ton of conditions of approval for this and and all those of approval are making sure that those characteristics are compatible with the types of uses that are surrounding and then not materially detrimental to the public health safety and Welfare we know traffic is a problem in the North Valley we all that we are very very aware of it and of course the traffic study was completed and it was based on that information um that the applicant worked with staff and determined those appropriate mitigation me and what you on my slide for offsite movements are what was recommended by the traffic study and what was reviewed in approved by our engineers and our Public Works and our TC so were we able to make all of the findings yes we concludes my presentation the remended motion on the board and I am available for questions thank you all right thank you so much Leah really appreciate it no problem all right Madame mayor we're going to move into appellant presentations as a reminder the appell have 10 minutes for your presentation and it's understanding that the WEA and nsea have combined their presentations and they're looking about 20 to 30 minutes um for a presentation so we'll clock it at 20 if they're not done in that time we'll just add on about five minutes for them our presenter today was count School District all right okay thank you good evening my name is Adam cersi representing the wash County School District as an appellant to this decision uh the district is an AG reeved part by virtue of our adjacent property ongoing School operation and we're also technical experts in this area of facility design entitlement and construction tonight we will highlight how this process was flawed improvements do not meet the standards project not comply with existing Zing code therefore the must be upheld the school district did provide comments to the city nearly 9 months ago however then it has been through individual effort that we able to learn of anything about the critical details required for approval in fact the process through which the City of Reno has approved this brand new charter school with nearly 1,700 students and staff has included exactly zero public hearings it was only upon repeated direct requests that we were even made aware that an approval had been issued at all on approval which disregarded the majority of the district's substantive comments an effort to better understand the materials which the staff approval is to the district was asked to file a public records request just to view the traffic study on which this important decision was made I highlight all of this in support of the perspective that the public has done a great disservice this extreme lack of transparency postcards email to your folder really cut it for a project of this significance the district knows this well we have constructed many schools within the City of Reno in Rec Rec years during Each of which the school district has regularly conducted public meetings hearings community events attended neighborhood advis board meetings in person Planning Commission and many other public meetings in a good faith effort to partner with our community and the city the new hug high school at wild creek which you saw on our title slide here tonight and which there's more similarity and difference to this project proposed uh was particip participatory in a great many public hearings as this council is well aware again I frame this to highlight the extreme disparity between how this process has been administered with the school district and how the process has administered in this instance and to emphasize that the community deserves better beyond the issue of process upon review of the actual approval it clear that numerous technical efficiencies EX in fact add to approve project was reached in eror the initial is what the initial issue is with the underlying zoning of the property much discussion was made about how this school is a allowed in this zoning and back and forth but the existing zoning does not support the proposed use specific to Primary School the applicant should have initially and absolutely been required to initiate a zone change on the property prior to proceeding we shouldn't even be here tonight currently the property is Zone General commercial and family as descried but primary schools are not allowed in General commercial yet a significant portion of the primary school building itself is literally demonstrated in the applicants own submitt to to be physically located with General commercial Zone therefore it does not comply zoning requirements and certainly does not comply with additional requirements such as setbacks access and circulation yes staff did condition adjustments to address this violation such a remedy would require major site reconfiguration to comply and it is an unreasonable presumption that all of these deficiencies can be cured perhaps more importantly the approval should be based off of plans which are substantially complete representative of the true future development and not hypothetical this is clearly an erroneous approval in conflict with allowable zoning code and use requirements an abuse of discretion and to the original point on process use ad job such as this should be v through a public zoning mapap amend process next we want to talk about significant traffic and safety impacts associated with the application we talked about this earlier and again I want to reiterate we're talking about a new school where none exists today which have well north of 1500 students has no enrollment Zone students won't necessarily be walking to school that'll be coming from all areas of the community nor no organized Transportation program or Department hug high school for example in compar conditioned over $8 million of offsite Ro and pedestrian improvements and even jwood raw Elementary School it recently opened in the City of Reno a school with less than half the number of students that this is proposed installed hundreds thousands of dollars of improv at the direct quest of this ccil the project this project tonight provides little more than some pavement striping and a couple of overhead flashers however more specifically following the receipt of the traffic study via public records request by the applicants own analysis this project does meet the requ standard in mple instances policy states that level of service D must be achieved or mitigation is required the study presumes that major regional Road improvements be will be completed within RTC program next deck of course not all the projects are currently fed planned guaranteed and certainly should not be relied upon for such important safety measures even after these improvements are actually completed it will be more than a decade after negative impacts of this project are brought to bear on the community as you can see on this Slide by the applicant's own analysis they have demonstrated their failure to comply with the approval criteria and therefore the appeal must be upheld even after factoring factoring the m was provided or described previously the implementation of this project will immediately result in seven intersections in the vicinity failing to meet code including five of which that are documented as a level service F this is not just tra congestion we're talking about safety here and our community deserves better in addition to the Past precedent that I've referenced which wcsd has participated there's also press from just a few yards up the street two years ago planning did the North multi family application primarily on the grounds of traffic and safety impacts the North Hills project was actually proposed on land which was correctly zoned for their improvements the project lied almost exclusively on the same future presumed improvements by the RT their trffic study on the North Hills project suggested around four times less traffic impacts than the application under review this evening and yet that project was denied by the Reno Planning Commission not two years ago regardless of the outcome it was that project North Hills project at least reviewed public hearing by an appropriate body and this community deserves a more transparent process directed towards such significant decisions and that these evaluations be applied more consistently so this evening I provided multiple examples of new school projects which have been subject to a more thorough and public process I've provided an example of an extremely relevant project which represent significantly less acute impact which was publicly denied more importantly I've also Illustrated how this application is insufficiently complete and the analysis is more than deeply strained the applicant has demonstrated through their own documents that it does not comply with numerous General and mandatory findings these deficiencies are statements of fact they are clearly documented in the applicant's own analysis and unfortunately are only brought to light for you in my presentation this evening these facts represent the object rounds for our appeal as is often the case there there is much emotion associated with this item whether you hear about frustrated drivers school choice Advocates or the safety of our precious children we encourage you to consider all of that as c fit the school district does support or oppose this or any project we seek only for an equitable consistent public consideration of all such projects and in this instance the city has fallen short of that Mark both in the eyes of the public and a matter of technical fact however a o this project to proceed through an appropriate zone change process would provide the applicant with an opportunity to remedies these deficien would provide the public process our community titled to I'm here on behalf of the was County School District speaking directly to the facts and demonstrating objectively that the decision to approve this application was made an error and that the appeal must be upheld thank you all right thank you very okay Madam clerk sending it back to you we have someone else from your team we have a joint presentation from the nsea and WEA okay perfect good evening my name is Robert mson I'm here to represent the Nevada State Education Association and the Education Association I serve as Government relations chair the NSA and the treasur for the WEA I will be presenting today with my colleagues Adrienne Connelly who is a kindergarten at Silver Lake Elementary School Jen Martina third grade teacher from Donar Springs Elementary School and Chris Daly our political director from the Nevada State Education Association so who are we no problem [Applause] okay thank you okay um how do we change sides right pushed it oh the table this one here oh okay thank you okay the NSA Nevada Education Association has been the voice of Nevada educ for over 125 years we represent 11,000 Educators across the state this includes licensed Educators such as teachers but ALS and counselors but also support including our drivers our custodians par professional school secretaries Etc the nsca has nearly 2,000 educators living here in the Reno area uh including 250 in the 8956 Z Cod this would impacta represents hundreds of Educators working in this impacted uh School area in the North Valleys now I may not be um a planner for U Know the city and I'm certainly not a professional planner or land use attorney but as a high school English teacher I teach at woster High School and I spend a great amount of time planning courses my lessons um my assessments Etc I know what good planning is and let me tell you what good planning is when it comes to school facilities over eight years ago a large Coalition of community groups businesses labor unions and Educators including our associations came together across this the city to address the serious school facility issues that were dire here in Washo County we worked together craft wc1 and campaign and work our community to get it to pass overwhelmingly sorry so embedded in the process of developing W1 with the citizens oversight panel school facilities this committee um now it's sometimes called the capital funding protection committee helps plan and oversee all of Washo County School District's facilities plans two members of this Council Martinez and councilman ree are members of this committee as of today was County school district has completed the construction of four new elementary schools four new middle schools one new high school as well as aor expansion to one high school and middle school was County School District began construction of the Debbie Smith CTE Academy in Northeast Reno which will be serving some students from the North Valleys as well and open in August 2025 throughout 2023 the wsd conducted a thorough evaluation of all existing school facilities and in partnership with the community developed a plan to modernize these buildings on the primary basis of equity and efficiency with nearly 50% of our schools now 50 years old and with a healthy reliable source of source of Revenue to address these needs the school district developed a plan to provide Equitable learning envirment for all students this plan now known as 2023 wcsd facilities modernization plan was approved in December and is in the process of being [Applause] executed in addition to reations at woster high school which I can attest to because I teach there this good planning process has delivered for the North Valleys in the past 5 years SCH district has ined nearly half a billion dollarars in capital projects within the valley code or immediately adjacent to it this includes the new hug High School desert skies Middle School inep uh Elementary School and fully reconstructed O'Brien School pictured here is a rendering of the new St Elementary School Which is less than three miles from the proposed site and is scheduled to open in 2026 fortunately due to a number of factors enrollment in the school district has declined and all impacted schools in and around the North Valleys are operating currently under capacity decline enrollment is related to the effects of Co decline birth rates rapid growth of charter schools and while the area's high schools are close to capacity due to declining enrollment they are not predicted to re capacity in the next 10 years meanwhile $120 million modernization and expansion of North Valley's high school has been approved in the facility's modernization uh plan contrast the multi-year process with thousands of stakeholders in the community that delivered the rebuilt O'Brien Middle School hug high school with the item that is before you today you heard from the district the total La of notice and planning with respect to M Academy just before the holidays in December the school district received notice from the state public charter school Authority and they responded within a month no Community hearings no area needs assment no districtwide planning the proposed School site is right next to Alice Smith Elementary School a school was County School District school that's currently only at 72% capacity this proposal has no regard for students and the Educators at Smith Elementary School or other school in the was County School District despite this the spcsa approved the charter expansion at their January meeting this letter that you see before you in this January letter to the state public charter school Authority the school district stated quote school closures at the elementary school level would be likely on opening of the M Academy in Golden Valley a was County School District school closure in the North Valleys would be devastating to the existing school and surrounding community and would cost dozens of our members jobs as well as students the school that attend and it is wild to think while the KY school district is investing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to renovate and build new schools including a new stad elementary school just three miles away this new Charter with little plane would cause the closure of an existing School in the community as an English teacher I can attest this this is most certainly poor planning and should be rejected hello I'm Jenny Martinez and this is Adrien Conley we're going to be presenting on behalf of the Washo County Education Association uh we both sit on the board together the wa has served was educator since 1965 it represents about 4,000 licensed Professionals in was County school district and we believe that the best possible working conditions for children um sorry the best possible working conditions are children's best possible learnings so by helping teachers make sure that they have those best learn best conditions we can improve our education for our [Applause] kids when a student leaves a neighborhood school for a charter school the Public Funding for that student goes with them neighborhood school's overhead cost stay the same when a certain percentage of students are enrolled by The District's count day we lose allocations and teachers have to leave either they're laid off or they have to go to some other school the problem then arises we get students far to school after day when we have fewer teachers on average these students are half a year behind those students that are already in our classrooms since the public funding has already gone to the charter school it is now up to the student own public school to allocate their already scarce resources to make that discy this takes me away from earmarked projects and from classroom fundings in their Zone schools Charter Schools can also exasperate existing inequalities by creating barrier entry for vulnerable students this could be a simple students with the self support selfing into Charters effectively um siphoning away students with the most engaged parents leaving students with greater needs and fewer resources for public schools also schools are to excel students with behavior problems and or other issues sending these students back to their neighborhood Public Schools who have lost teachers and the funding this has created a two system of Education in my experience many years I taught Garden at sake the charter school students we get in our classrooms when they come in mid year are unable to write their names they don't know their letters they don't know their samp and the way behind students in my classroom in some cases primary and immediate classrooms will see students who are not only behind but have behavior issues that the teachers are unaware of until the parents mention casually that the students behavior reason they were asked to leave the school we're going to bring it back to traffic the impact of traffic I don't know if you guys have driven up in the north North Valley is anytime late but um it's not fun on normal day and school is not getting out um and in this picture you can see the pickup at the current um matter Academy location on 9th Street um we've received from different people complaining about the traffics that this facility causes on a daily basis um now imagine tripling this since this school would be triple the size of this location in a already traffic induced neighborhood with another Elementary School and a high school nearby um creating these massive trap traffic problems um the bell times can be staggered but it's still if you have kids in elementary school or high school or a junior high you know you have to be there at least a half an hour beforehand to get a parking or to get in there so staggering the bells while a good T would still need more and we have some issues with pedestrian and bicycle safety as well um adding the number of vehicles to the road to accommodate a school the planned enrollment of 1500 additional students on an already strained Street pretend a presents a threat to Educators students and other community members in the area matter Academy of Northern Nevada already marking their new location to their existing students and others across the county this means even more vehicle traffic than a neighborhood than a neighborhood Public School of a similar size between the new man and the existing Al Smith North Valley's High School a mile away that's for 4,400 students in a very small geographic area meanwhile city code requires the School site to provide bicycle parking for 150 students to bike to school this is a standard set for Community Based Regional Schools staff failed to consider this um and they did not investigate the stability of bicycle infrastructure to safety Transportation um of students from the school while we would typically like to encourage walking and biking opportunities in the line of safe routes to school programs this will not be a safe option at this location either alisi or Mater Academy the new school's built we have some teacher and parent testimonials would like to share with you and just piggy back what she said about trffic if any you have ever Dr off your kids at school you know what some of those parents do and how they're flipping u-turns and they're speeding through school zones and they so and then at teenage drivers we all how to do so well so this is from aley Robbins she has fifth grade at Alis Smith for more than a decade the infrastructure in the region is insufficient for the traffic for parent pickup and drop off for our little neighborhood school every day my colleagues are at RIS trying to direct traffic for and after school to Kids Safe poorly designed ways do not give the drivers opportunity to move in and out in an intuitive manner so we face not just speeding and distracted drivers but also drivers who are behaving erratically and unpredictably making turns their own convenience there's one neighborhood school with 51 students that pull from a from a graphically distinct and nearby population what staff has failed to consider in this matter Academy is three time that's three times our size will affect traffic far more than we do adding 1500 fames to the same already insufficient system of our current needs presents an unaccept unacceptable danger to the safety of my workplace and my students but also to the students of this proposed school and to the community at large the city has willfully its role in serving families and businesses in this area instead turning a blond eye to education as a public service this area is very transient and allowing the applicant to pull the most stable families into what is essentially a private school leaving the true public facility with revolving of students are far more resour intensive while pulling educational resources cash staff and resources into a separate facility this just doesn't make sense all these decisions were made behind closed doors with no public input or consideration relying entirely on a developers promise please reconsider decision and reject this site from matter Academy okay and this is from Erica bowling teacher she's a teacher of first grade at Alis Smith she I this project will have a detrimental effect on Alice Smith and other public schools in the region waso County school district has invested millions of dollars into North Valley Schools from elementary to high school to ensure we are properly meeting demand the children and family in our community building a charter school with a projected student population of 1,500 will directly take students out of the local public schools on a practical level this means Public Schools will lose fund Position will beut worse yet was County school district schools could be forced to close I am also troubled by the traffic concerns presented by a project of this mitigate of this magnitude and the apparent lack of infrastructure plan this area already faces track concerns that alisi teachers and staff deal with daily traveling to and from the North Valleys can take up to 50 minutes worse during s snow storms due to the ongoing construction on 580 on beckworth cars are regly exceeding 15 M hour during the school hours and illegals in the middle of street staff and teachers are in danger as they protect students crossing the road we love our children but B blindly approving the construction of schools is and not necessary to to the benefit of students or families careful consideration must be made to ensure all needs of the community are appropriately addressed this last letter is from cnth Rees who's a parent in the north a former County student and a school volunteer in addition to concerns regarding proximity to current Washo County schools and traffic safety a significant issue reol revolves around Financial considerations with matter funding may be redirected from existing schools potentially leading closures losses the need for teachers seek employment elsewhere questions have been raised about the source and allocation funding for matter while it is classified as a nonprofit its partnership with a for-profit company Academia which significant interest in real estate his doubts at the destination of funds can it be confirmed evidence that funds will remain within the local community rather than being sent back to Florida the question of supporting High earning individuals at matter while Nevada schools Educators face Financial challenges further aspirates the concerns the initial lack of public hearing uncertainty surrounding fund distribution and undisclosed connections to Academia and Florida give the impression of a lack of transparency trust has been lost has been cast and bu anded how do you plan rebuild trust Community migrate concerns council members my name is Chris Daly I'm the political director for the Nevada State Education Association while politics and my job spend most of my time trying to figure out how to increase Revenue uh for Nevada's underfunded Public Schools uh and as you've probably heard uh they are underfunded nada schools rank 48 in the nation in per people funding and moving n up that list has proven quite difficult with the massive expansion of charter schools over the last decade we realized Nevada school districts were losing more and more of their already insufficient money to Charter so we quickly moved legislation to level the playing field between these two types of schools while we have we have had some success in Carson City there remained fundamental inequities for example 100% of teachers at your na Public School are required license this is not the case at Char schools um we so push legislation to require limits on Charter Schools or at the very least require better planning uh what the state ended up passing instead in 2019 was a chart growth management uh plan unfortunately the of chart has only increased under this growth management plan so um let's talk about uh the appeal here this evening and connection that we see that's clear between the impact on the was County school district and the neighboring School uh and uh this uh conditional uh use uh permit so say this while might think the charter school Authority should have ensured that the growth of Charters and Reno made sense for the broader Community they didn't so it's up to you here at the Reno Reno city council you do have uh guidance however uh based on your own codes master plan I to uh 1808 304 e uh which uh in relevant Parts requires consistency with the Reno master plan mitigation of traffic impacts and provision of a safe environment this project in the administrative condition approval fails on all three of those points the district covered how this project fails to mitigate traffic impacts and we've talked about how this project creates an unsafe environment for pedestrians and bicycles but let's dig in a little bit to your own master plan so there it is reimagine Reno and I'm just going to go ahead and read various parts of your master plan and it's not surprising that this plan mentions the was County School District no less than 20 times SC from resilient local and Regional economy responsible managed growth to a safe healthy and inclusive community so under in support of a development of a diverse educated healthy and adaptable Workforce 1.5d says you are to identify ways to support education programs of the Washo County School District uh Etc under collaborate with regional entities and service providers on growth and infrastructure issues 2.4 says collaborate with the waso county school district and planning for the design and location of new public schools and that Advance the city's growth PES uh let's read on on impacts of new development coordinate with the school district to evaluate the impact on school enrollments and capacity when reviewing projects when did staff do that so funding support current and future efforts by the was County School District to diversify and or expand sources of revenue let's go to uh a little bit later in your plan this is the uh concurrency management planning uh document related to schools and it states public primary schooling in Reno is provided by the Washo County School District which plans and develops new or expanded campuses to meet the demands created by new development based on its own resources and needs the city will work with WCS by involving the district review of development to ensure the implementation of mutual development goals littered throughout your vision document your guiding principles is the City of Reno is to work with Washo County School District to make sure that there is quality education for all Reno kids that's your vision document the Reno master plan you can uh go to the findings uh as in 180804 and I'll lean a little bit on the district's presentation the zoning the zoning at best with primary schools not allowed in The General commercial Zone the zoning at best is creative um I actually that little gold uh section that I uh colored in there that's actually part of uh the primary school in uh the GC zoning which is not allowed uh at the very least this violates the spirit of zoning uh and the the prohibition on the primary school uh in that in that zoning uh category because you know that practically there is going to be a flow of students back and forth it's not as if if you're K8 you're just going to stay on the one side of the school facility and high school is going to stay on the other side of the school facility uh there's going to be a logical back and forth finally I just say this uh in conclusion uh staff for the uh District uh talked uh about uh the Reno Planning Commission uh denying a house Project based on L impacts on traffic I had it at a meeting we were talking and I said look that was a multif family housing unit that I think the City of Reno actually needs and the planning committe denied it school show County of Reno does not need we ask that you uh deny uh the the conditional uh use overturn the administrator's uh decision uh and ask Folks at Academy folks that you're going from for hours I assume um to do this right do it in the right way and do right location thank you and Madame mayor we're now moving into the applicants presentation and they also have 10 minutes all right thanks so much Madame mayor members of the city council Sev Carlson with ker koll for the record I'm here on behalf of the applicant and for the record I'd ask for leeway we go over time a little bit um because we've had a number of P who've had plenty of time to present their case there's a lot to unpack so let me start by saying I come here as a lawyer B for about 20 years come here as a parent three student in the was County School District and I come here as an advocate for our children and our parents to have a choice I also come here most importantly to look the legal aspects of the condition permit that was granted by the administrator the applicant completely concurs and joins in staff's comments this evening Leah did a wonderful job lay the issues did a wonderful job laying out substantial upon which staff relied to Grant the conditional minor conditional use permit before I get to my presentation there's been some a about that multi family project that the planning mission denied I represented the applicant in front of the Planning Commission on that one I think it's important to point out that process under the municipal code different than the process laid out under the municipal code for a minor conditional use permit the applicant and City have followed the code with respect to this application there has been no deviation following the code with respect this application with respect to the zoning again We join in staff's comments the zoning allows for both uses despite it being split a little bit background matter Academy of Northern Nevada was founded in 2017 it enjoys a right under state law to operate NRS 38a their Academy has been ranked highest in middle school and second highest in elementary school in Washo County this is a public school it is free for anyone to attend there's no tuition and it's exclusively based on Public Funding it's open to All Families if we reach a capacity limit there's random L preferen even based someone's background connections lack of connections what families may earn or not earn and all teachers at the Mater Academy have a NADA teachers license I won't belabor the zoning it's there it's clear the code allows for both the elementary and middle school use as well as the high school use on we think about master plan and it's wonderful that the school district is referenced in there so many times but the master plan at that section 1.5d that was rinsed by our opponents this evening says and other educational institutions I would submit to you that a charter school a public CH school is and other education Institution so the application again Leah pointed it out this was a long process the code require to the planning Mission code didn't require it have a public hearing but it was a long process and substantial evidence was created throughout that process to justify the grant of the minor conditional use permit focusing on residential adjacency focusing on split zoning being compliant with the Reno plan I won't belabor the components of the project Leah described that well in terms of the elementary middle school and multipurpose gymnasium the layout again we have the five appeals the education associations are identical with respect to the school's appeal it own on face it does not describe with particularity the grounds for the appeal and that should be enough in in a in and of itself to deny the appeal and in fact the school direct indicated that things have only been brought to light in his presentation I agree he only brought the issues to light of their appeal in their presentation sorry for my language we have sanded with presentation this evening because none of it was included in their appeal documents respect to standing administr decision permit appliations including unconditional use permit may be appealed to the city council an AG grieved person is defined as one whose personal right or right of property is adversely and stantially affect by the action discretionary body and then an appeal has to be written and briefly specified specify as the key word the grounds of the appeal the standard review is the city counil needs to deter whether the administrator committed an abuse of discretion a decision that lacks support in the form of substantial evidence is arbitrary or capricious and therefore an abusive discretion here the administrator based it approval on substantial evidence presented as part of the application process over that seven-month period and did not abuse its discretion substantial evidence is that which a reasonable mind might accept as equate support inclusion so I'm going to turn it over because the big issue here I think is traffic and we have a traffic engineer who's licensed here in Nevada he talk about the stantial evence that heed staff considered and relied upon but before doing that I think it's also important to point out that the code does not Grant this counselor right to economic winners and losers this land use application is not about competition McDonald's cannot show up and depose an in Burger coming in next door if the Zone's right if meet the code standards for design that's what's taking place here our opponents don't want competition once our TR engineer seeks I have just of Clos remarks but thank you for your consideration we ask that you affirm your administrator's approval right thank you very much good evening Ted egerton lockal engineering 6345 South Jones Boulevard Suite 100 Las Vegas Nevada uh I'm a licensed engineer in the state of Nevada I've been here in the state of Nevada since 199 preparing track studies in 34 years I've been prepar traffic studies we prepared traffic studies for Public Schools public elementary schools public middle schools public high schools charter schools and private schools in high school middle school and Elementary with that being said we look at school site we go and look at existing conditions so when we were contacted to prepare this traffic study we went out there and looked at the existing operations of the existing adjacent roadways of course Alice Smith Elementary School Stuck Like A S right next to us has acrosoft Beck what was interesting to note that school however as most elementary schools public elementary schools they do not have enough on-site storage for the pick up and drop off operations therefore that's the con see on backwards drive we recognize that in when we started the layout of the site plan we recognize that with that respect may I continue yeah please with that respect we purposely had our access point on North Hill the purpose that was to lessen the congestion on beckworth and lessen the effects on the existing Elementary School with that being said our site will have 1500 students will have separate bell times our bell times usually we dissipate the bell times within 20 minutes of the bell times so with three bell times in the morning and three in the afternoon that's roughly two hours so for 2 hours increments we will have a little congestion the other 22 hours it should be noted that the roadway system will work with acceptable level of levels of service with that being said the presentation by the was County School District it latched onto a table uh that showed levels of services and it showed level of services findings I think I need to explain how that table was created because it creates a false impression when we do a traffic stud we go out there and we look at morning peak hours when the drops are going happen we look at the afternoon peak hours when the pi s will happen and then we also look at the afternoon peak hour of thejason Street traffic which is typically the rush hour between 4: and 6 in the afternoon and evening hours that being said we look at we look at existing conditions and then we look at the existing conditions with the project and try to identify areas where we will impact that for example uh one of the table that we've presented drive and Shores it showed service that's correct but that is under the existing conditions with a four-way stopped an unimproved intersection it's important to note the RTC does have a project and it funded not only improve Buck drive but install a traffic at Buck Drive in North Hills that will allow the levels of service to be acceptable very important to note it also noted the intersection of of Beth and Hills currently that is a four four-legged intersection with the stop controls being on the East leg a beckworth and in commercial driveway what we identified the problems that we have with that intersection is the left turns that are out onto nors from backward commercial driveway it a little bit of time to make that left turn we acknowledge that that is that is the truth right now beckworth has one lane for all movements with a part of this what we're posing to alleviate some of those levels of and some of those lays is to install an exclusive right turn lane which will also be through Lane what does that do that allows a exclusive left turn lane so therefore those movement that are making left turn onto North Hills will not impede any through movements or any right turn movements now what's important to say is how much is this school really affecting that intersection if you can imagine in the morning all we're adding is 23 cars make a left turn in the afternoon it's 19 now that's over a full 1H hour period 19 cars in the evening it's six cars so the impact while we're not increasing it it still has delay associated with it okay so when we do those level service we try to identify those problem movements at each intersection and try to mitigate it like I said our mitigation for that was to uh install an exclusive right turn lane therefore try alleviate the level of service at that intersection but also then with the guidance of Staff we also have to look at the intersection 20 years down the road so we had to look at had a 20-year projection two more minutes I'll try to wrap it up so we had a 20 projection 20e projection things can change in 20 years in other words one of the major components of a level service analysis for example at a signalized intersection is the signal timings you can expect signal timing to maintain constant over 20 years so RTC Regional transp Commission of wasel County they actually recognize this and they do a volume to capacity analysis and then asss a level of service for that intersection is very very important at that particular intersection at be and North Hills based upon the proposed improvements that we're doing in 20 years based upon the volume capacity ratio we will be a level of ser B in the morning B in the afternoon and a in the evening now that based upon the number vehicles that are projected out there and the capacity of the intersection therefore we meet the guidelines set forth by the RTC level service that said I'd also like to address the chewing we know we will have congestion out there we know we'll have parents dropping off students from our experience doing Charter Schools this isn't our first R folks we've done this last 10 years designing instructing Charter tools what we tried to do is we project out how many parents will be dropping off their kids per each bail time and then we accommodate that on site unlike a public school that cannot or will or shall not accommodate we accommodate all our tra on site and in order to increase the traffic flows along North Hills we have also proposed an exclusive right turn for our driveway that will help the through traffic nor Hills to be imp by our traffic with that being said I'd like to say whyem your staff up here in City Reno fantastic we worked with them they were great they offered sightful impact sightful insights on it and explained we came to heads I just want to say thank you thank you for your time 30 seconds Madam mayor because I was going to say I'm only going to give you one minute all right appellant do not have standing relates to petition have not their burden of proof to show an Abus of discretion therefore we ask this city council affirm its administrators Grant of a minor conditional use permit thank you very much all right thank you clerk send it back to you thank Madam mayor we are closing out all of our presentations this evening so we're moving into our public comment period um again sorry my timer will not reset um have 26 mentors and we do have a person CU I will be reading names for those who have registered for public comment in threers increments if I've read your name please come up and sit in the queuing system so that we can move through this as quickly as our commenter today is Rebecca flanny Follow by by Mary Pon followed by Janet urbina and for those making public comment I'll just read my disclosure so that everybody is aware when you're called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin say your name you will be 3 minutes for those participating Chambers ordance with rules 6.3.1 one while in this room please be respectful disruptive behavior from audience members like clapping yelling whistling Etc which impede the meeting May result in a warning issued to the presiding officer the behavior continues may be removed Chambers if you're attending in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time so again please state your name for the record and begin speaking hello my name is Mariam Bon as a of children that graduated from was school district and one of that is still currently attending District middle school I still come before you to ask you to please approve matter Academy second location I have a daughter that has been on an ie since prek when she left Elementary scho she was pretty much at a grade level but would still require some help continue her educational growth last year she began her sixth grade and attended desert skies middle school as a parent that is very involved in my children's education I noticed a GI after a few months she no long wanted to share how her went or what she learned that day a question I ask every evening during our dinner conversations I really began to worry when I received her fall progress report and it stated she was failing almost every class the next day I went speak to the teer that the report and was handing her IP he shared with me that in the six months that she had been in school he had never met with her to discuss her IP goals the week after the meeting I went to school to see what her day day was like for I was so disappointed and heartbroken my child I witnessed how she was not receiving the help that she needed the help that her IEP clearly states she should be receiving I saw how she was completely shut down because she couldn't up how she was offered help that evening my husband and I had a discussion and we're going to do everything that we needed to pull her out and take her to a private school what happened next I called Divine attention you can call it you want the following day IED a notification that was a spot for her matter to become to be to begin immediately I took it and in four months that she has been at matter they've met with us several times to discuss her IEP goals and what day-by-day learning will look her grades come back up and she is once again excited about SCH more importantly she knows that she is in a place where she matters I hope the city sees how important this approval is for all the children that are failing due to overcrowded and UND district schools you right nice job were you nervous you were no we could we couldn't tell it all no I I just know how difficult it is it's in the top three fear of flying the dentist and public speaking you did a great job all right take away hi I'm Rebecca Henry um I to speak on behalf of the fact that I do have a currently a son who is 16 who is living with his father in Fallon because the wasel county school district is considerably full bullying full of violence full of kinds of fun things that you know kids do that don't seem to be addressed they seem to be swept under the carpet the bullies are then they get away with it the children who were bullied are then retaliated against and it end up being a very cycle of school district that do not want children in and I'll tell you I grew up in the North Valley I am a graduate of hug High School of all places and hug high school when I was in school was actually pretty amazing um and as a graduate now seeing what kids have went through what currently happens in the county school district is a it's the same school district I went to and graduated from unfortunately um and I also want to address traffic because I do live in the valleys and it is really bad day there's also Apartments approved down Road in direction from this school so I don't understand what the difference would be where we get something that is absolutely beneficial for our children to have an option of education but yeah we keep getting Apartments proed development approved but do that for our kids and give them an option and an opportunity possibly a better future for themselves I think is something that we should be should be very much looked at and um we should be entitled to apparently you know as parents and as people of the valley at least we are benefiting and just more and development where these also going to have to have somewhere to go for more education so I hope you take that into account and I thank you for listening to me I know it's not quite as well as hers no you great job you did a great job guys you have a great evening thank you thank you so much appreciate it Janet urbina followed by aurelli Martinez Rodriguez followed by Lily Joe Perkins hi hi good afternoon mayor in future mayor here yeah forget that future President right can happen I know right um I am here to express my strong support for the proposed expansion of Mara Academy of Nevada as a parent of a student attending to Mar Academy since K Garten I have seen the positive impact this institution has on the students particularly those with minority backgrounds including bilingual students I am bilingual um M Academy works really hard to provide highly education to students and my experience as a mother is that um when my daughter came to M Academy first we started it at wasan and then within matter of two weeks I was regretting turning around matter Academy I turned around and I went to the school and my daughter landed on space number nine um within a couple of months I received a call from Miss Stephanie I call almost every single day I'm one of those parents that call schools and we'll find a way to get in and um I follow up with Stephanie my daughter got accepted to the school and since then my daughter has been a student of um first and I mean kindergarten first grade and now grade now she into third grade kindergarten and grade I had the um I will say I I was my daughter was one of the first class that was part of a new process where the same teacher stayed with my daughter for a couple of years a statistics shows that a a k stud going to first gr it takes about half a year for that student to get used to the new teacher or new system my daughter went right away to first grade like nothing you know and continue to grow I value the effort from our Academy and teachers to provide quality education to our students and also my daughter is part of a program a program called 21st century which it is a that provided some students that they need more help education and and in a daily basis when I pick up my daughter from school I can see how excited she is to leave a school and the first thing that she like how's your day how your day my day okay how's your day see my daughter happy it's one of the most rewarding things that a mom or as a parent can have I honestly would like to request please move forward with this project it be benefit for the nor I live the nor I drive every day at 50 minute drive and I think it will be not not only beneficial for our students but as a parents you know to see our kids grow I want to see my daughter be one day a mayor I want to see my daughter to be a cember and I'm to support that and support our community and support my background which is Hispanic but other people that they don't speak the language thank you so much are you proud of your mom you are huh she like a really good Mom all right hi Martinez Rodriguez followed by Lily Joe Perkins followed by Fred Meyer they would like to do it together sure come on up Fred Meyer and Luke welmering you can come up and C please yeah hello good evening my name is aeli and I have been attending matter Academy for 7even years now this year would be I will be entering 7th grade my experiences matter have forgettable the teachers give students personal attention and provide informative feedback motivating students with rewards for progress or accomplishment will only make them try harder moreover the uniforms would decrease the amount of bullying and allow students to be more focused on work instead of what others think with the help of our teachers at matter Academy strong efforts keep us on track topic may not comprehend a high school at matter Academy will introduce new new experiences such as after school clubs therefore making a matter Academy High School only broken and Horizons and allow us to exceed in the future for upcoming opportunities hi my name is Lily Joe and I am in I'm going into my seventh grade year I have been at mass and third grade when I first came I had transferred from public school because I was struggling with my schoolwork and after I transferred I haven't struggled any more since then since being at matter I have a higher level of Education available than students from different schools while being at matter I have seen students and teachers work together to stay safe and I have been able to help teachers with student aid to keep students on track that matter all students have support and attend from teachers all teachers are so helpful and deep care about students moreover the high school will benefit many and open so many more opportunities to change lives for the better therefore I support the expansion of Academy wow you've did a great job are you BFFs no all right excellent thank you Fred Meer followed by L welmer followed by Lissa Estep Fred Meyer for the record that is a hard act to follow I'm not going to do as well as they did I'm going to tell you that right now I was going to say I suggest uh using your guitar drums drums thank you uh I am uh for this uh Mater school um I believe we need it I I guess it's competition um that's the way well that's the way uh Beth Smith is here to uh to she's against it I go to the Schoolboard meetings all the time I you know I don't know what they do over there they do a lot of slapping each other on the back go to a lot of the meetings so I'm there and sing through and um uh they don't address the issues in the schools we have major issues in these schools these public schools and forcing our children uh giving them that one choice is which is they like is just not fair we de Adam said uh he said you know uh we we deserve better and I agree we do deserve better we deserve better schools and uh that's what Mater is providing for the for the young people beautiful young children that are out here and fantastic and uh I'm just here as an advocate um for choice I really believe we need choice I think the competition will be good for the public schools they something wake them up we are last in the on everything Public Schools so we really need to step it up uh and I think that if uh if they see these things happening out there and and people are waking up to what's going on in public school and don't like it and they don't want kids have to be exposed to the material that are available the books you can't believe what's in the books available to the kids in the libraries it is filthy and it does not belong there it's not ucational so um I'm getting on a little bit of attention there but I just would appreciate if you would uh just look out at these beautiful people and uh and give them what they're asking for and the attorney here did a fantastic job I think but thank you all right thank you Luke Waring by Melissa steep followed by Jackson cross hi Luke hello Madame mayor uh Luke Walmer for the record uh Madam mayor and esteemed committee um I stand before you in a number of capacities I'm a full generated NAD born and raised in this town I'm an attorney also bar licensed in the State uh for the last 10 plus years I'm the father of three daughters uh who all attend a wash County uh School District public school going into third and second grades this fall I'm the businessman who oper ated and owned an orthodontic practice the dentists were all afraid of uh in Sparks for nearly 40 years I'm a business owner I own commercial property in the state I own a residential in the state but I stand by you today as the chairperson for the board of directors for matter Academy of Northern Nevada so what you're going to hear I mean I'm not going to sit here and argue the merits of the application uh I believe staff did wonderful presentation highlight the issues our Council for the applicant reiterated all of the support for the application I'm not here to argue the merits but I'm going to highlight some of the issues that have been addressed in the appeals there were a number of comments made the uh app regarding the economic impact in the area uh what I would just like to point out I did a little research there are more than 340 job openings right now in the was County School District and you can't deny it will have an impact on Alice that an undeniable potential consequence uh in improving this uh application in front of you or denying the appeal more appropriately however that is not an issue to be addressed here what what we encourage you to think about is the importance of supporting School uh you had started this meeting by saying to our students we need you and I can stand as a member of the board of directors I've been a part of this committee or part of the board since we were a committee to form more than years ago and we have seen Monumental growth educational opportunities for these students we are a the again I'll reiterate the second High rated Title One Elementary School where the highest rated Title One Middle School our academic curricula and the focus on bettering the education for these students comes Paramount to everything else and you'll hear more and more stories tonight presented by our our students and our parents about how much this has positively impacted those student Liv justly and I you to take into consideration in addition to all of the merits and denying the appeals in supporting the uh administrator's decision thank you very much all right thank you so much meliss EST Follow by Jack Cross by thas so I'm so sorry hi my name is Melissa Eep uh and I am the Middle School social studies teacher at matter Academy wait wait you're the teacher I am oh my God those are my students I'm sorry sure you're old enough to teacher you you me later one day prior to teaching at matter Academy um I worked in wo County School District I was a long-term substitute teacher um and I completed my schooling and my student teaching in the district um over the last few months we at M Academy have watched these different groups and organizations attack matter Academy while having no direct interactions or experience with our school our staff or our students they promoted a false narrative that our school will Dain to students in our staff and into the community this fear-based entirely false narrative is what I want to address today I left the school district because of safety during my student teaching required our panic and around neck of the con fights that out at the school a county school also made national news last summer for violence taking place in their schools teachers bravely came forward to share their experiences being thrown into lockers hospitalized and bring up over 20 each school year teachers are not the only ones in W County School District who feel this fear in the 2023 climate survey from was County School District 40% of students said they were frequent bullied our school 20% students reported that they feel unsafe in their school 34% of their students feel unsafe in their bathrooms and 20% of all Washo County School District students have stayed home because they unsafe in their school 20% students and families deserve to feel safe at their school it's a concern we hear often at matter Academy parents desperately signing their children up for our wait lists in hopes of having a safe option Washo County School District needs to address a severe problem their school rather than spending their time resource fighting a free public charter school we want to serve these families we want to serve this community I ask the council to continue your support for our school and for students who spoke you today thank you all right nice thank you oh jeez okay we have Jackson cross followed by Tomas Macaluso followed by JC Hancock uh hi I'm Jackson cross I just recently graduated from mqueen a year early and I just like matter helped me a lot that went during my grade year the Year and like most other middle schools we actually got to go to school most of the time uh they really helped me turn things around I was in and out of the foster care system uh up until 8th grade when my new parents adopted me really good ATO until I came to Academy where ended up with straight A at end of the year so really helped me with that and I don't think I'd be able to be where I am now without them wow I am impressed future senator for sure uh I just rejoined the so you did well thanks for your service wow is are you with no you're not I say oh my goodness you make me so proud thank you so did a phenomenal job you nervous oh you didn't look like it you didn't look like it at all thank you so much congratulations and again thank you for your service thank you Tomas Macaluso followed by JC Hancock followed by Tor Palmer mayor shiv council members for the record my name is Macaluso and I am the proud principal of North Valley's high school and I'm even excited to see one of our proud graduates sitting on the council now as a longtime M of this community I come before today to talk about the building of the matter Academy near Alice Smith Elementary School I believe first and foremost any school should have to go through all of the regulatory hurdles that a public school has to go through those requirements put in place to safeguard the community school and the students attending it there is not enough infrastructure in our portion of Golden Valley to support the schools that are there now and the traffic connect to them adding addition families area creates a very unsafe environment where respons will not be able to serve both schools and that will also impact us just down the road aside from the infrastructure concern I think the larger question here is why why is the place Target for a new school thanks to the community and the power of wc1 funds the north Valley's vertical has received a huge investment to our schools O'Brien has been completely replaced Debbie Smith and Technical Academy about to open and come line with thousands for high school students with career Pathways St elementary school will be replaced in the 2627 school year and finally with robust Community engagement Board of Trustees has $1 million to span modernize North Valley High School these projects alone have brought almost a half billion dollars of investment into the schools and the families in this area last but not least important people to consider here is the role of for profit education companies in this community across the country as you see groups just like the one backing matter swoop into a community claiming they will solve all their problems that they are here to serve the underserved but have you investigated what ends happening schools open initially they every single student they can get then the trimming starts since they are for profit they have to turn a profit and if there are no you know and and that means means if you're performing at grade level you're in if you're attend every day if you don't need any addition help additional resource you're there as long as you cost less than the student per pupil funding and I think it's extremely important to understand that all of the students who don't meet the requirements I played out you know where they end up school they end up back with us we have less teachers and less resources to go ahead and help them and I hear from the people in this audience and I understand the support and I am the the son of two teachers my aunts uncle everybody family isor and we all serve this community and I will continue to Ser it this day and I couldn't be prouder the North Valleys are in good hands because of schools like mine thank you JC Hancock okay Tori Palmer followed by Nikki Miller followed by Phil Kaiser all right good evening uh mayor shevi and City Council Members my name is Palmer and I'm assistant principal matter Academy I've been an educator 24 years I earned a PhD in education Specialties at UNR uh for 12 years in Washo County school district and the last 10 years I've worked for tntp the new teacher project a national nonprofit committed educational inequities foric marginalized students at entp I partnered with schools and districts around the country from California to Tennessee with a focus on ensuring more historically marginalized students would have the resources and support to achieve academic excellence and to get a picture of what their schools are doing and the field looks like this spring I chose to return to a building my Consulting role because when I step foot in matter Academy and walked the classrooms with Gia there was something fundamentally different than what I typically have seen in so many schools that I've supported and worked it was fantastic there's Innovation incredible commitment evidence clear impact student learning in a very real school setting at matter we serve 88% students of color 95% of our students receive free and reduced lunch 18% re special ucation services 32% are English Learners as long as we have the space we do not turn students away with that we are currently serving 498 students we have 246 on our waiting list at 9th Street campus another 175 students this list keep growing on the interest list new campus our families want our school why because they the same thing that brought me to matter this spring we offer a fundamentally different School model with sources and support that are uh parallel in many Zone schools we receive the same pupil funding as the district actually a little a little bit less and have to get creative with our budgets but we do that and we do it successfully because we are small smart and Nimble how do weend our money on our people we have two adults in nearly every classroom of which is always certified teacher many of these teachers are we're looking for an alternative to Washo County uh yes we pay into Pur the state retirement pension plan and our typical teacher salary is compared with District a in joining this I not expect W WC to raise the temperature of matter expansion to blistering levels targeting our school of 498 students the overwhelming majority who have been historically underserved by schools instead viewing a threat I would strongly encourage you and the school district and the union to matter as a partner and Innovation and opportunity that it is in my 24 years in education working in schools and districts across the country for the last 10 matter is one of the strongest models there is You' be in the city and our families an En diser to oppose expansion to our K12 campus so I ask that you vote in favor of innovation opportunity and and academic excellence and vote in favor of expanding matter Academy to K thank you thank you so much Miller followed by Phil giser followed by Scott Meyer good evening everyone my name is Nikki Miller and I have been a teacher in Northern Nevada since 1993 I spent most of my time in was County School District and our three sons and all the way through the district as well I loved my time at was County and many my many of my best friends still work there and our sons received a good education when our oldest son was about to enter Middle School my husband and I knew he would go withal Middle School set at that time he a unique combination of brilliantly gifted and socially competent typical classroom academics weren't enough for him I had him for two years just because of mul track he's a hard kid to teach because I think he was than me third grade um so he wasn't getting what he needed academically and the gifted program wasn't providing what he needed socially so we began to search for different options had nothing to do with County School District everything with our son needed a place where he would be challenged academically and feel as if he belonged socially we looked at different options like Coral Academy Davidson Academy Exel Christian School went with that fit on best after a year in that alternative setting we brought him back to washa County School District and he received his IB diploma at wster high school wster is not our zoned school and we were so great F that County School District gave voices through their signies our other two excelled in sports and academics and graduated from Spanish Springs High School just like one shoe doesn't fit every child the same is true for schools families need choices and education we need to find the best schools for The Unique needs of kids schools where our kids will Thrive Excel seven years ago I had the honor of opening matter Academy and as a kindergarten and first grade teacher I take great offense to miss Connelly's reging students that ENT County School District coming from Charter Schools 100% of my students this year I taught kindergarten and could write their names knew all their letters and sounds were writing basic sentences um and I get to r with them next year so uh any that I saw will be filled next year because I know them there are many reasons I chose to teach at matter Academy the ability to have a say in the curriculum that I use administ willingness to change if not meeting needs of our kids commitment to provide an excellent education um to the wonderful families in our community the opportunity to work with exceptional Educators who believe in the mission of our school the fames at matter Academy are different from families was County School District All Families no matter the demographics deserve to have a choice thank you all right thank you very much Phil Kaiser followed by Scott Meyer followed by Susan Kaiser good evening my name is because I taught in the county school district for over 20 years I'm a nationally board certified teacher I never felt threatened I never felt unsafe but I don't discount the fact that things happen at various schools at all schools I think I um but we needed to push for funding for wc1 to get schools built and modernized we formed coalitions we went to the County Commission we went to Carson City we formed broad broad Alliance get that done part of the difficulty I have with this process is that there were no public hearings before this was pushed forward that's a real problem for me in all my years advocating on behalf of Education I think that you have to have public hearings to talk about stuff and let me bring up just one thing it's been mentioned before and that's the traffic patterns I respect the engineer I respect the city staff but after teaching over 20 years at high school level I can tell you kids come go all day sometimes on purpose going to a doctor's appointment and sometimes because they're just leaving the school okay um the number of students we talk about the daggered stop times at the high school level Juniors and seniors often drive themselves Juniors and seniors and sophomores and freshmen come before school for clubs stay after for band stay after for theater stand for music productions it's not just a couple of hours in the middle of the day it's not just a couple of hours in the beginning of the day and in the afternoon sports teams clubs theaters everybody's coming and going and I think that that element wasn't really adequately addressed in part because they have public hearings where people could actually talk about what happens in particular with traffic patterns that go on and I think that needs to be addressed thank you all right thank you so much thanks Phil Scott M followed by Susan CER Follow by G Marini oh I look like Fred but I'm not double dipping I was gonna say wait a minute that's all right I think I think you already had your turn that way we get two turns that's the benefit of being a right you could pull it up um so some of these uh I'm I'm for this Charter School by the way and some of these same three-letter School entities here today are the same ones that complained about Charter School uh that recently applied for approval South Reno I have to say that the public education system in this state has a very low rating I'm not going to say h low cuz it's embarrassing Ing and I don't mean this as an personal attack on teachers themselves as I know there are many teachers them are members of my own family I think no matter where a Char School tries to get an approval the WEA the Nea the school board and waso County School District will object if these people here from the NAA waa and the was County School District uh who are against these Charter Schools spent their extra time focusing on the standard of of Education of at the in the public school system we would not be in last place sorry I did say it last place in in the country we're in last place in the country Ed of educating our students and one last thing is someone earlier mentioned that they were concerned about the lack of transparency I'm but I think they're getting back some of their own lack of transparency which I have certainly seen at the school board and these School entities want to take away our choice which is unamerican thank you all right thank you Susan Kaiser Follow by gini followed by Elizabeth CAD again all right Susan hi everyone um for the record my name is Susan Kaiser I'm a native nevadan second generation I'm a product of the waser county school district and I'm a teacher I taught for 20 years at Pine Middle School school that's predominantly uh serving lower income and minority students on Neil Road I've been a national board certified teacher since 2006 I actively involved in the effs to pass1 to provide funding for new schools and refurbish older ones which by the way had leaking roofs no boilers it was a disaster I felt motivated enough to knock on doors I wrote letters I went public meetings I engaged voters the success of wc1 showed extremely broad Community Support including the Chamber of Commerce parent groups the wasel county County School District the labor unions and the water Education Association um as well as others we can view Pride the new hug high on Sullivan Lane and the new O'Brien Middle School just ofstead Boulevard both serving predominantly at risk students in the northern of our community the Smith rear and Technical education Academy under construction on Sutro Street will provide students with uh from across the district expanded opportunities for their education that's sorely needed these are addition deserts Middle School which opened in val 2019 and inep Elementary which opened in Cold Springs in 2021 this is just a partial list of the new schools that illustrate the choices available the investment and quality of learning um good learning environments for our students that have expanded dramatically uh because of the community supported B question we still have a gap with the Staffing but we could only fix the buildings first with youc people to forget that 48th Nation per funding doesn't give you enough to reduce class size and staff those rooms so that is a state level issue um was County taxpayers have invested in state-of-the-art facility located areas growth and KN um from in elementary to desert skies to North Valley's height on Golden Valley Road the district has literally built the foundation for a brighter future of students I'm opposed to them acad Charter School it undermines the existing taxpayer funded schools in our County furthermore supporters of the academy argue that the district has been discriminatory in its approach to school um it went an act the dist clearly provides new schools to lwi income predominant minority uh area on behalf of the tens of thousands of Voters that um passed wc1 to in public schools in County who are not being considered here tonight I submit the matter Academy um expansion undermines the existing Cooperative agreements in our city and our County their school district um and we can't go there we need to work together as a team so um than you one more s the project did not broadly engage the community members and in fact subverts the will of the public as expressed in WC one's vote I'm asking you to resend the approval than thank you I appreciate your time gini followed by Elizabeth kigan followed by Linda Silva Sylvia mayor Shi and City Council Members thank you for this opportunity to address about matter M Northern data my name is Gia Marini I am the proud principal of matter I have been an educator in the waso county public schools for 27 years 21 years with waso County district and last six with Academy of nor Nevada a public charter school the course of my career I've spent about half of my years as an educator in Title One schools I've worked with wonderful Educators and have always been amazed at the dedication to students however matter we have been able to really students in a way I've never seen or experienced in other schools each Public School in Nevada receives an index score based on a 100 points which is calculated by looking at student growth proficiency several other indicators in 2017 matter Academy with 15o index school we have worked hard since then and in 222 3 matter Academy Elementary was an index score of 65 compared to the average index for the W County school district schools in North Valley's 23 M Middle School had an index score of 57 compared to 27 for the was County school district North Valley school middle schools with the middle school closest to the proposed matter C scoring 12 in points people think they're able achieve these gains as we handpick our students that's simply not true we're a public school and we accept anyone who applies even if they have an IEP a behavior plan or they're a second language learner other people said that we are pro po profit school and we are a public charter school we have a volunteer board as you heard that oversees the operations of our school and I oversee the academics we spend our per pupil Mone on our students directly impacting their individual education over the past seven years matter Academy has had the wonderful privilege to partner with the boys and girls club this partnership provides our amilies with extensive resources as well as a safe place for children from 7 morning till 6 night we are excited to be partnering with gin in the northes and impacting students through their program as well the bottom line is this we do great things for kids I believe that the families waso County have the right a choice of their child's education family need to access to high quality schools where children are challenged and they to be able to pick what's is the best fit for their child the children of Washo County need our help their individual educ needs to be a top priority for each and every one of us they are all our students whether they go to Washo County school district schools matter Academy or they choose a different Educational Opportunity we need to fight for them and provide with them with the very best education they are paired to be next generation of leaders and me of our community this evening our students famili staff and Community Support met in front of the belief sign because we all believe that you will do what's best for every child wasow County and vote to approve expansion matter Academy than you thank you so much Elizabethan followed by Linda Sylvia followed by Maggie bab all right Elizabeth kigan for the record my name is Elizabeth kigan and I am a product of public schools I lived in Norther Nevada my entire life school year I will be entering my 15th year as a public school educator I get why charter schools are alluring for years our public schools have been struggling to meet the needs of our students in our community I get when a is told about an option where their children will be a better education many jump at that opportunity but I also recognize that charter schools are not the solution while Charter Schools May provide a glimmer of better education for comparatively handful families they ultimately hinder and negatively impact the overall strength of our community as a whole unlike unlike Public Schools charter schools are able to be selective as to which students they retain and they do not students their visions and which do not which students improve their performance levels and again which do not alternatively schools are required to teach all students regardless of their ability all students regardless of their behavior rather give excuses and and as such dismiss students that fit public schools are required to find Solutions finding and fully providing Solutions on an already paper thin public school budget will only become difficult if we continue the allowance of your school as explained in the B we your children to by Bonnell Pearson charter schools that are allowed to pull public funds and other resources away from public schools are examples of modern-day segregation I encourage Reno count to roke approval of this Charter all right thank you Linda syvia followed by Maggie bab followed by William mantel hi Linda are you Linda perfect good Linda syia I wasn't going to speak paper fine but I will I have listen to everybody here and the things that I'm concerned with is infrastructure because if we have a fire like we did back in 2020 we only have exit really actually three the freeway we have U North Virginia and we have Golden Valley that goes through over to Sun Valley my husband and I were evacuated because I live across the street in the housing complex where you want and it 45 minutes to over to Valley and if you include another school school and something happens in the daytime heaven forbid the people have to come get their kids and then try and get out it's really heartened but other thing I I have heard is high school and Junior High kids do ride bikes to school the ones that do live out there and are going to be able to walk or ride bikes and stuff there is not enough The Pedestrian crosswalks and in high school there's a lot of fast foods around my area high school kids are are going to be walking up and down North Hills thats me too students are not safe our thorough on worth is cars trucks and buses and they do go speeding up and down there with or without the school being there I am very concerned about our kids crosss and I just think that is a big area what they want to do thank you okay thank you so much Maggie bab followed by William mantle followed by Arian horn all right good mayor and council members my name is Maggie B and I've been an elementary school teacher in the North Valleys for 9 years um I am here today to express my strong opposition to the proposal to build a for-profit Char School matter Academy in our community as an educator my primary concern is wellbeing and Suess of my students education should be driven by the desire to nurture and develop our children's potential not by the pursuit of pro Prof for profit Char schools prioritize financial gain for the educational need students often leading to cost cut measures that can undermine the quality of Education this can result in larger class sizes less experienced teachers and inadequate resources all of which negatively impact children's experience of great concern to me is that for profit Charter Schools can siphon much needed funds away from our Public Schools our public schools are already struggling with limited budgets and diverting public funds to a for-profit entity iterates Financial challenges as a teacher I see firsthand dedication and hard work of my colleagues who often go above and beyond to support their students despite limited resources weakening our public schools to benefit private Enterprise is a service to our community whole additionally for Charter Schools often lack the same level of accountability and transparency as public schools they can operate with minimal oversight making it diff difficult for parents in the community to hold accountable for their performance and their use ofs this lack of transparency can lead to mismanagement and fraud as we have seen in numerous cases across the country consider then acade academica the corporation that would oversee matter eony is based in Florida so we're to take money away from our community Public Schools send it outside of the state if this proposal goes forward it is also important to consider the social implications of this decision our Public Schools serve all children regardless of their background or abilities fostering a sense of community inclusion for charter schools on the other hand may not be as committed to serving all students equitably potentially leading to increased segregation and inequality within our system finally I urge the counts to prioritize the wellbeing of our children and the strength of our public education system I've heard all the comments about the challenges that waso County School District faces I don't believe that we face those challenges by abandoning Public Schools butting our Public Schools supporting our dedicated teachers and uring that every child in our commity has access to high quality Equitable education thank you all right thank you so much can William mantle followed by Arian horn followed by JIS Alvarez Cortez thank you for coming today I just want to acknowledge her she's my daughter's teacher in the North Valley so thanks so much for coming out tonight thank you can I have the overhead please no okay and zoom in a little a little bit to migan great thanks right good evening Council William mantel for the record I'm here tonight because I found this curent situation curious live in the North valys I don't have any children I am a product of a public school but it's in Eureka County so very far from here um what concerns me is really a lot of the development with our and something that I focused on care very passionate about one thing in rev in reviewing all of the materials reports and whatnot within this whole process is I didn't really see what I thought was great expression of the traffic that would come in here so looking at the numbers provided by the applicant um at 890 trips per day that would be roughly 2.37 miles of cars that would have to fit along a grand perimeter of4 miles in total which the applicant provided total 39 M of cars for within the internal property of what they're talking about for the loading and unloading of children or that transport internally which is rough six times less than what you would need to peek out for the and obviously miles of car 64 miles of cars um if you wanted to go 2.37 miles from here and walk south anybody want to guess where that get you justly past the so when you think about fting from here to the Peppermill with cars and at 15 mph and if there's a math teacher in the room maybe they can check me um it's roughly 9 and A2 minutes to travel 2.37 miles so when we when we think about the inefficiency of light of timing for traffic lights or turning or people's attentiveness texting while driving children being dad drivers in general I am not seeing Rosy pictures of traffic impacts in this very particular section and I think that does really bear a greater scrutiny now I did listen to the um to the testimony of the traffic expert I am not um be frank I did not quite understand some of the numbers that were being provided in terms of the impact that was there but I can tell you these are real numbers and if it's that many cars at roughly 14t per car which actually a estimate the length of R you've got a lot of graphic that's going to be there that's going to be very disruptive to I think people's Lifestyles the businesses and may not really be accommodated by that uh further I think there's a duplication service with this and I think that's one of the major rules government spending don't duplicate when you don't have to thanks all right thanks so much William nice to see you Arian horn followed by Genesis AZ Cortez followed by Ashley Robbins good evening hi my uh my name is Arian horn um my son is currently um going to matter School Academy um I am here today to express my strong support for the Post expansion of matter Academy of Northern Nevada as a parent of a student who began attending the academy last year kindergarten um I have witnessed firstand profound and positive impact this in intution on its students particular particularly those from Minority backgrounds matter Academy provides an invaluable opportunity for educational choice in our community in an era for education is a Cornerstone of's future having access to diverse and high quality educational option is essential the Academy's commitment to academic excellence includ and teaching that already made a significant difference in my son life wanted to um let you guys know that um after kindergarten so he just graded kindergart kindergarten he's actually reading off um the menu when we go for restaurant not you know learning how to write when he started because he didn't um he didn't uh take prek he went straight to kindergarten um the significant change um that we saw from my son um with matter is very impressive um sorry since en rolling he has not trive acade academically but has also devel has also developed a new found into a new found on for um the post extension is crucial for extending these benefits to more children in our community but by approving this expansion you will be supporting an in a school that is dedicated to fostering academic success personal growth all students regardless of background this expansion will enable more families particular particularly those minority groups to access an education that meets their unique needs and aspirations I urge you to consider the positive impact that matter has already had our students and to support this expansion so even more student can benefit from exteral education provides thank you and um hope you consider thank you so much your this is my son and is visiting California so supporting matter I am um I'm really impressed I have to tell you the children in this room have behaved 10 times better than a lot of the adults that come before us so I am really impressed here some may marks for you there's some pins oh that you can have so any of the children that are in the room they they can have a mayor's Mark there you go I am impressed except I did see a big yawn there young man I blame you I don't blame you it's late all right thank you so much thank you Jenice Alvarez Cortez followed by Ashley Robbins followed by Burgess um my name is Hennessy ales Cortez I'm a mother to one Alum and two current matter students and future student notably matter Academy serves unders serf Community cross through mton S we this an opportunity to demonstrate what it truly means to serve a marginalized Community the opportunity has the importance of having matter campus Street and the second campus in valy it showed our community that we don't have to sacrifice our beloved roots to provide our children with the education they deserve that's why we choose matter at its core matter is the school it is a community that emphasizes the importance of having Village behind every child who through those doors many of us have faced or will be facing the difficult decision of where to send our children once they AG out of the current campuses grade levels imagine if they could continue that journey through High School a critical period in their lives with support it is during critical years that Community sacrifices truly shine ultimately supporting expansion of matter means supporting our children as they cross the finish line into high school and Beyond these very children will one day sit the council sitting reflect his very day and seeing that in a community that deserve to served thank you all right thanks so much Ashley Robbins followed by Joe Burgess followed by Justin Brown I'm extreme nervous just take your time and I'm smelling at you you're going to be great than don't worry about anyone else in the room thank you um out of respect for your time I'm here speaking on behalf of Alice Smith staff um inste of us giving an individual repetitive messages there are at least two others in the room um my name is Ashley rins I'm a teacher at Alice Smith I've been there since I started teaching in 2011 um wouldn't want to teach anywhere else I've taught siblings I've taught cousins I've seen families and students grow over the years I've been to high school graduations my former students I love our community on top of that colleagues at school like a second family to me the matter Academy expansion will create a rift in that family both for the students as well as among staff I do not to lose my team family my friends are forc downside due to the expansion we are worried not just for staff but for our students putting another school up against our fence will take valuable resources include teachers from students and it will disrupt local education ecosystem in the North Valleys Alis Smith as well as other schools in the area will be left with larger class sizes with students while they may be amazing for very high needs we will be working less supp and resources that we to provide quality education not to mention the traffic nightmare that will result results from adding another school in the same street your priority should be keeping our kids safe I feeland is not that into consideration it hinder County District safe routes to school programs this impacts our many students who walk and ride their bike to our school I urge you on the council to please recter this project thank you for time you made it how do you feel I thought you did a great job I'm going to go pass out there no you did I know you did a great job you seem like a wonderful teacher what what do you you teach there uh I taught fifth grade for many many years and I believe oh okay love it thanks so much good job Ashley Burgess followed by Justin Brown followed by Ryan Reeves hi my name is Joe Burgess I'm here as a member of the community I'm also president of a local Rotary Club s Rotary Club love the rotary and rot in the area speak rotary clubs of course I can speak for my club we've had the opportunity to look at the matter program we we're so excited about what they're doing for kids and we're basically planning a project with them no other rotary clubs it's just Charter Schools there's no I think I go with Gia on on it's it's making all schools the best they can be I know Sparks rotary for example we're with Dorth and what wants more than else is the kids a chance to that hand up to get started and get have the opportunity later it's it's important for us as a community and what what they're doing at matter with scores exciting I love watching teachers and seeing the teachers and their commitment and they're doing they're teaching because they love teaching the lady who just spoke to me she's another teacher who's doing what she wants to do as well she loves her work and there's no there's no differentiation between tradition Public School charter school because the teachers are all out there doing what they everything they can I just want to look at a positive side and see what the possibilities of matter can do what they've already done and what they'll to do they kids waiting list I'd like to see that waiting list go away and kids have the great opportunities going forward thank you very much all right thank you so much and thank you to the rotary you guys do a lot of amazing work in our community Justin Brown followed by Ryan re hello mayor and council members my name is Justin Brown for the record um I taught English as a second language at hug high school and sure I'll be the weight Co weights coach there good I appreciate the opportunity to address you today and I'm speaking beh of many my colleagues High School um I will keep this brief brief at of your respect your time um I'm not an expert planner um it just surprises me how the council could approve a placement of a school right next already established ones CU there's multiple um knowing the the decision could affect the existing schools in the area shouldn't schools be thoughtfully placed to support the existing educational ecosystem not harm colleague ni parts of the nor valy community supporting every child regardless of their attendance record Behavior disability at hug high school we work with some of the most impacted students and family in our community while this presents challenge we love our work because we our students these students are great kids despite many of the hurls they have to overcome and the city would prove the place of a school that could their ability to serve our students and possibly lose jobs at high or the district it is clear that this was not the the type of planning that best benefits our community fortunately you have the opportunity to this I understand it's not an easy decision for you but on behalf of myself and many colleagues at hug High appreciate your consideration and urge you to uphold this appeal thank you all right good job were you nervous a little bit no you didn't seem like it good job and congratulations you're going to be the weight coach is that what awesome I visiting that program um last year may I I have the opportunity to work in the like brand new weight room yeah it's going to be it's it's going to be amazing and they have a cold they have one of those cold bath in there do you that I haven't got it yet maybe after a football practice you never know yeah but I I've toured it so I'm very familiar good job thank you miss all right Madame mayor final the commenter today is Ryan Reeves okay Ryan take it away hello mayor council my name is Ryan Reeves I am the Chief Operating Officer for academica Nevada I've been a resident of the state of Nevada for 20 years uh I moved here to go to law school and decided uh this was I would raise my three daugh uh 11 years ago was resued from practice of civil litigation and given the opportunity to be a part of creating Public School options I literally formed academica LL uh through the Secretary of State office opened it account have operated everyday than it's existed the idea that we are some outof State organization that is considering only profit is a false narrative that is often sh shared by opponent charter school we employ more than seven NADA to do the work that we do and in doing that we charge matter Academy to be lawyers accountants facility Consultants procurement Specialists registar student information system Specialists basically be a district off for schools aren't in a district and those kinds of services and we charge matter Academy less than 5% of their student F to do that by comparison the central office expenses of was County School District are over 510 so we are doing great work for a great school and that school deserves the opportunity to go the vision to B uh K12 has always been present with matter it has not been there have been plenty public hearings because every single matter Bo meeting public and open our minutes are posted since formation of school on the webite the initial application to grow in 2022 which was submitt to the district and opposed by them due to location was moved and remitted for a different location and then opposed again and received as if this is shocking we never knew this no the vision of matter Academy has always been there and we can live side by side as great neighbors matter Academy High School in Las Vegas is right next door to Desert High School they collaborate they coordinate they share facilities and they're good neighbors that happened here too the neighbor Elementary School do not have the fear that has been within it and the only issue before this board board is traffic and as I said I used to be a civil litigator and as a litigator you had to qualify an expert before they were allowed give testimony that was listen to there have been two traffic experts that have spoken today and both of them have supported this application therefore we request that you approve it as well thank you all right thank you so much Madame mayor apologize have one more commentary or okay Kell come on up and we have one commenter via VIA Zoom Sarah angle hi good evening Kelly or record I am a for Resident also director for affordable tax credit property in the area uh copper M I also have two children that go through the school district one's 25 she's at UNR one 15 he's mqueen uh he zoned for valleys but grateful F County signature programs he in the sixth grade was looking at going to O'Brien middle school and the first day of school during uh Co we got a phone call from D Academy in South Reno that he had accepted their weight list disenrolled my child from Washo County School District and I traveled 24 miles each way every day to take my son to school to South Reno who D Academy borders Galina High School my son's been in elementary school at Alice Smith where he started kindergarten he went to um hunsburger and then he went to lens and then he to um lemon valy and then we back to D after one day O'Brien all schools have traffic issues all North Valleys have traffic issues South Reno has traffic issues spring Spanish has traffic issues those are not new issues to the council and I think RTC and um the RS are really trying to partner to make those expansions I also sit on the RTC multi modality commission and I wanted to engage myself with the community and what's going on and I feel that putting Academy where it's at is a great opportunity for the growth of our community we have seven home developments being built right now we have million dollar million square foot warehouses being built um on the back of the airport we have growth happing in our community was bringing more residents which is the need for more schools and more of a choice we have um you know four elementary schools we have one school we have two high schools if you consider TMC High and then I believe the uh other charter school snacks has a high school within it so we're giving our students our communities more of an opportunity to have a choice with this continued growth in our area every word education matters so I really want to see everybody in the community get together and get excited about more growth right now Boys and Girls Club expand our area it's amazing our baseball team having a place to host events instead of the schools cafeterias bringing the community together more I'm very excited for this growth so I hope you take everything into account and uh as a parent and thank you for your time thank you so much Sarah via Zoom followed by Madison Jackson and Gil Lopez via Zoom Sarah please unmute state your name for the record and begin speaking sorry thought I was talking um I just want to Echo the previous speaker in saying that I think educational opportunities for the young people are more important than worrying about traffic because traffic is horrible everywhere like literally everywhere and so using that as an argument against the school just doesn't make any sense to me like I don't even have any kids but I think education is super important and I hope that the school is upheld thank you madis jaon followed by gilz via Zoom hello my name is Madison Jackson I am an English teacher at Sparks High School speaking on behalf of my colleagues against the expansion of Mater school one of the most important parts of my job as educator is collecting and analyzing data when I compile student data I ask myself what worked and what didn't I'm asking you wo County leaders to apply that same discernment to making decisions impact our school district I have points emphasize with data one there is no evidence that charter schools have better outcomes a rigorous 2010 study by the doe found no overall positive impact on test scores it found that school enrollment can have netive impact on earning later in life another 2020 peerreview study of years of charter school performance found charter schools to have insignificant effects on student scores two Charter Schools Drive segregation Nevada overly on standardized test as a me of Student Success wellbeing the Imp test result individual Charter Schools must take in a huge grain of salt when keeping this fact in mind Charter Schools disproportionately do not serve our most vulnerable populations excuse me 27% of AD State schools enrolled income S at the same or higher rate than public schools only 25% of spcsa schools enroll students with IEPs at a rate only 70% of charter schools have L enrollment at the same higher rate Charter Schools also expel students with plinary issues at higher rates and their expulsion process is not as Equitable or rigorous three the for-profit motive Nevada has LAX Charter School laws that allow for low oversight and maximized heing these nonpr schools often owned by for-profit companies who taxpayer funding from Public Schools public schools have strict reporting requirements on how their funds are spent charter schools are not held to the same level of transparency the public deserves to know how their tax dollar spent especially when ites to their children's education four Charter Schools hire underqualified teachers matter Bonanza is managed by the state branch of the florida-based for-profit company academica a23 report by the a current from that 30 Elementary School teachers 16 a substituting license five of the school's 13 Middle School teachers only held a sub license analysis of other state Charter Schools found similarly troubling numbers with sckers of UC I'm specialized in my cont area it's heartening to see expectations for teachers drop turer schools underpay their Educators under my teacher unions and have higher teacher turnover poor teacher retention negatively impct student achievement in this na shortage in this national teacher Cris schools still have greater teacher turnover than public schools by a rate of upwards of 10% in some districts because excuse me you're doing fine just calm down you're doing great Charter schs pay teach 10 15 less Charter Schools fently do not have un protections or representation my previous experience at a non-unionized charter school was a revolving door of teachers with one contracts Charter School teachers deserve better with 50 position our district I must ask who has undering and underwing our Educators ever worked for our state if Nevada cares about teacher retention and qualification then charter schools are clearly not the answer Madison um how much long do you have oh good okay well they're right on point all right um did you say you're currently a teacher yes I work at Sparks High School oh okay good school yes I love that school we have wonderful students wonderful staff all right thank Madison thank you now our final commenter is gilz via [Music] Zoom are you sure so my name is go thanks M uh Madam clerk so the S my name is Lopez you're supporting uh the administrators decision uh to go against the appeal uh they did a wonderful job presenting the case for why it should be approved we're just adding more context to it uh here the this is obvious you guys know what do do the right thing it's about academic success for our students and I will leave with one thing well I've learned two things first keep it short the shorter the better and second of all listen to the experts in case you're expert thank you very much and wonderful day thanks Gil I appreciate it okay Madam clerk all right madam you know you've got two more back there that's it I they're all out of my pockets we're done all right so now we're moving into deliberation from the body okay so um a couple of notes here um uh hold on um I just want to acknowledge councilman Reese is on the phone so um he did have to leave but he is on the phone so he is still with us so I want every to know that the other thing is I like everyone to take a 5e recess I need you to get up go to the bathroom uh you know stretch your legs get something to eat um you've been sitting here entirely too long and then when we come back um I'm just going to reiterate some Council rules and so we'll be back here um quter [Music] up e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e is this abuse of the special mayor all right thank you madam clerk you're welcome if you'd like to reconvene we do have a quorum with council member thank you is councilman Reese on the phone council member Reese is on the phone so we can Recon the meeting it is 8:47 at this time vice mayor door council member eert and council member breus are oh I'm sorry vice mayor is in the room she's making her way back up so council member Ebert and council member breus are at this time all right thank you so much so I do have a COR thank you and now this time uh we're going to bring it back to the body so um before we begin I want to just remind Council uh two rounds of three minutes and then if you need another round please let me know so um we can grant that and then I going to start out asking um for clarification from the city attorney Mr Hall can you talk a little bit about about um can you canline or Mr outline what council's ability is to review um what we what our role is when it comes to reviewing because i' I've heard a lot of things that maybe don't apply to what what's in the description of the city council so can you talk a from a legal standpoint what our role is yeah for the record John Shipman uh city attorney's office so your role here tonight is that this is an appeal of a inter conditional use permit um normally a condition use permit is use that is permitted um and then the generally what the governing body does is ensure and staff ensures that the mitigate measures are put in place to make sure that that use which is allowed by owning is appropriate for the exact for the property that it's on so you're here to listen to the conditional use permit appeal you've heard the record that was made by the was County School District you've heard the record that's been made by the other appellants and also the record made by um the the applicant um and and so and the standard for review is substantial evidence so what what has happened to to date is that um C staff has viewed everything from the traffic in the um all the different findings and has presented a recommendation that it should be approved with the conditions that were included in your staff report so your role today to look at what the administr did make a determination based upon the evidence that's in the record that you've heard tonight you've seen in this and read in the staff report and if um and if you believe that that evidence supports what the administrator did um you're that you would be approving um the act of the administrator if you believe that the administrator did not abused his his or her discretion um did not take into account all of the evidence that's record or misunderstood some of that evidence have a on it then then you need to discuss what your view is and um and in that event you can deny or modify the conditions that are proposed by the administrator to sense and then um I guess the other thing it must adhere to the zoning use correct so the the zoning um based upon the staff report the zoning is correct um it that in fact that that's correct so use is allowed by right and but because it is a um conditional use permit the still the question out there is whether or not the mitigation for that use because it is based upon that use uh it may need to be mated and that's where all different traffic measures and such we're putting there so that and you got to determine if that is appropriate if that's not enough or if that's too much or if it doesn't work all right you hope that add some clarity for this body okay um that being said I'm going to start with you councilwoman Ebert it is your word so take it away great so um I have a few questions here just give me one second to log in um okay so I have some questions I think for the the school board did anybody on the school board or the district out to me I was going through my emails I couldn't find any kind of communication to talk about um the appeal directly with I know that some other council members said that they spoke with um members of the school board now there's nobody Mr CI he's saying he did uh good evening good evening for the record my name is Adam C again chiefing officer of school district uh Council mber I did not route you directly I do want to clarify I did receive inquiry from some of your staff for some um enrollment and uh geographic information about schools in War 4 just week it did provide cont so I don't know that it was related to this um appeal or not but other than that um to my knowledge so there was no no communication with at all the membering this word to talk about your concerns regarding this school no we follow the process as governed by this particular uh this opportunity to file an appeal demonstrate our um you know grounds for our appeal um and met the presentation in timely fashione of the publicly post Enda okay all right so um I understand that but I think that you know matter Academy also followed what was asked of them um Community through that um they follow the processes asked of them they did meet the um conditions put on by the planning department um so I'm not really sure um you know what's the expectation be I've heard what people are saying and I hear that there's a lot of concerns maybe just about um charter schools in general um but that's not really what we're voting on we're voting on whether or not this school should be allowed not how it's going to affect the school district am I correct that's kind of a broad question I mean in in the sense of there you're looking at the property and how property is figured and that operation of the property under the use that is being um being proposed for that property and the mitigating measures um whether that's appropriate for that neighborhood there is a school next to it um as a neighbor yeah I mean eventually um as a neighbor they have an interest in how that school's going to operate and how that yeah well and even that statement is strange to me considering that St Elementary and ran are practically joined as well are both County school district schools and something that I've done as a council member to be a good um representative for my community is met with um the principles of almost all the schools in my War I think there's been two that haven't responded school and another school um I've heard um from the teachers uh and the principles at those schools and I've heard some um you know I issues that they've shared with me um when I reached out to um support of them and relationship and a lot of the issues that they share with me I'm concerned about and that's one of the reasons why I support um the idea of charter schools is because without them the community members that don't have the ability to go to private schools don't have any other choice and I hear from constituents that have um issues with bullies at school and I've reached out to I'm going to cut you off okay thank you all right thank so much okay go ahead Council okay well given that we only have um two rounds of three minutes a piece I I do have a number of questions but I'm just going to lead with some conclusions because there's been so incredible am amount of testimony so here's the deal um Academy is like a delightful successful Innovative School in my mind after all this testimony it's indisputed um and I would just like to stipulate to that Kudos and congratulations to the representative School the teachers of school uh the people attend the school at the same time I think the um was County School District also made some points that I think are fairly Undisputed in fact I even heard them from Mater Academy acknowledging that they probably will take students from the public schools I think that's their goal I mean I mean their goal is to offer a choice and so that means the students are probably enrolled somewhere and they're going to come over so there will be a loss to the school I think that's also undis and something could all stipulate too so here's the thing we are not having a referendum on the value of Charter School tools on on the Excellence of Mater Academy um or the issues and policy perspectives of was County School District what we are doing um is that we are evaluating whether or not the school as presented today meets the criteria the general review criteria and the minor conditional use permit criteria so that's the L and we've looked us because my is at the school district board not on any of those boards my job is not primarily education it's generally education so here's some observations that I've made um um everyone has drive to school that huge difference between public school that has public transportation and a charter school um the details in this uh report I found a little bit inconsistent and I I would could take some time and show you where but generally there areas of parking traffic and so on we'll talk about so many uh students and so teachers and other section talks about a different amount of of uh students different amount of teachers different need for parking and what I saw throughout the report was in the numerous places it said all of this will be figured out before get either a um building permit or certificate occupany and I think that is a general level of information that should have been resolved during the review um I do want to say I think our staff did a phenomenal job uh looking at the on circulation on the school and redirecting the traffic onto North Hill uh Boulevard versus um beckworth I did have a chance to go out there drive the whole place um one of the challenges that I've seen when we have schools next to other schools example is we recently approved a uh not support we approved a light church school right across from dman Ranch School and one of the issues I brought up was emergency access during school hours especially during the tra transition a few more details I can hold Madam I do want to say at point I need to just ask the two Traffic Engineers some questions but okay that's important I'm going to move on all right uh councilwoman Taylor uh thank you madam mayor there's of things that we heard tonight and for um what I'm looking at is one is the zoning and two is the traffic um our attorneys said um something about the administrator abuse discretion I don't believe that is true I believe our team is phenomenal and if you can't get something done with Chris and Angela and their team you probably need to go back to the drawing board and the idea that the process was deeply flawed and transparency I defense I think our team works very hard with all of our community and all of our partners to make sure that they are making decisions for the best of our community so I'm going to say that in a in a broad stroke but I do have questions on traffic so do you want me to wait and or bring up Traffic Engineers cuz I just no go right ahead okay um actually I'd like for our our Traffic Engineers to here C thank you a couple of things I heard is the roadway system hi Mike how are you uh good morning I mean good we have been sitting here since this morning uh Mike Michelle entering manager and services for the record so in the application I saw the um there's been a lot of mitigations done for right around the school for the extended school zone for the flashers for the offsetting the time for on off stack queuing all that stuff that's seem to be mitigated to um to my concerns my question is what is the perview of the council to look around the surrounding Road Network and do we have that information is it going to be impacting Golden Valley Road 395 those exit is that something we need to be looking up because I look at what was presented I see that the traffic has been mitigated yeah I mean we uh we analyzed North Hills at Golden Valley we analyzed um Golden Valley at beckworth we analyzed uh North Valley uh nor North Hills at Buck drive but anything over that we did not look at we looked at kind of confined to those parameters should be looking at that when we're looking at a when we're taking in consideration uh the magnitude of cars going in and out of here is that something that that we should be looking at we consider the scope outlined in the traffic study to be um to sufficient okay I'll have more questions in detail but thank you thank you Madame mayor okay all right councilman Martinez thanks so much mad mayor and M you stay up a quick question for you I don't know staff bring up slide s um and the presentation that staff provided from staff's presentation from presentation I wanted to get a better understanding of the flow of traffic here so if folks are traveling Southbound on North Hills from Lem will they be able to left to the school or are we going to get the exhibit up 30 is so if they're traveling is it Southbound on North Hills okay will they turn left or will they going the ability to turn left to the school yes yeah the yes the uh Ingress will be uh full left turn from North Valleys into the school and similarly when you're exiting the parcel you can take a left to go back out through Golden Valley you can and where sidewalks that that were mentioned in the presentation where would those be at uh those are located ated on the south side of beckworth from North alleys heading east to connect to the existing nightwalk at um Smith School okay that gives me a better picture thank you so much and I think I'm just asking the questions for context I want to appreciate everybody who's here today that gave public comment whether it was via email or our public portal that in to show their support Pro or against I think we are asked for a very specific thing and it's not having to do with Charter School versus Public Schools um in this case and being an educator myself gone to North Valley High School driven those streets for years riding the bus having worked at Alis Smith Elementary School as a kindergarten Aid uh many years ago I understand the the fear that was explained from the school district and teachers specifically about the impacts there um I just think that based on what we're being asked today and meeting the findings I agree with staff and that we are able to make the findings to approve the conditional use permit all right thank you so much um councilman ree are you up there in the cloud somewhere mam mayor thank you yes and good evening I apologize for not being a to be there I think as you know I have a medical procedure which prevents me from being there tonight so I do have a number of questions I want to first ask uh did this project go to the nav I think uh the ward member from Ward 4 said it did I want to confirm that that this was presented to NAB who was the end of that question Miss picotti thank you so much yes thank you councilman Reese uh Lea picotti for the record this did not go to the NAB we do not require more conditional permits to the NAB however all of the NAB members are on our notification list so they all received notification of the project with the link and everything so they knew about it yeah Miss I don't think that is the function of the na it's not about that the na members to know that it's happening it's that the public gets to come and see it the public gets to come and put their hands on the project and determine whether they want it and so and and I do have questions for you m your slide number 10 if that can be brought up this was the findings for the minor conditional use permit and you gave two answers that were related about being adjacent to school you said if it's next to a school a school must be allowed I'm not sure I understood that to be the legal standard Yep this is it slide 10 so you're saying compatibility is adjacency and I'm not sure that that's what RMC requires so I want to understand what you're saying so I don't misinterpret it um thank you councilman ree uh what I'm looking at there is the types of uses and the developments that are surrounding the property when I see like uses I assume them to be fairly compatible located in the same area between a neighborhood and a commercial District um it seems like it's a school is a compatible and consistent in the in the area with the asent school with the neighborhood with the commercial center um and then I'm sorry and then the characteristics are compatible with the types of surrounding development uh what that the rest of that finding says um shortened there for the slide is it be conditioned to be compatible with the types and I feel that the conditions that we put in mitigate the impacts to that adjacent School mitigate the impacts to the neighborhood and the commercial okay here's where perhaps I disagree as much as you know there was analogy made tonight this was a thing about competition that we would allow a McDonald's to be next to an In-N-Out and I'm not sure that's the right analogy and your example kind deposit that is analogy I think you're asking whether you have a government entity right next to a government entity meaning a public school next to a public school would we build a DMV next to the DMV for example is that a question yeah I'm asking based on your adjacency analysis would you would you say from a planning standpoint that we would be build a DMV next to a DMV according to Reno Municipal Code those would follow the same use and as all the use stand development standard were met would be yes okay I have questions but Madam mayor I'm out of time and so I have questions still for Miss picti but I'll come back to those in round two all right thank you so much I appreciate it um okay couple things I will say um there were some stat M statements made on both sides that were Troublesome for me um because we are living in a world where it's so divisive right now now than ever um this is an opportunity when a community should coming together and accepting each other especially I think on the wasow County School District side you guys know better than anyone um how difficult your jobs are I see Beth Smith I'm a huge huge huge support of you and um just adore you so um really kind oft my heart um some of the things that were said one I want to start off a little bit um you know it just reminds me of us saying um you know what there um for the of God I um know I I think sometimes we don't put each other in um in other people's shoes enough uh I think that that is really important because one person's circumstance may not be the same everyone else it's also really hard to be up here and here so much of this CU we have to um we have to vote on um on projects all the time especially housing projects often times it's interesting to see a development come in and now we're like at phase three of the development right but a couple years before phase one came before us and the people living in Phase One are now opposing phase three and so it's a very hard place to especially when we're in a you know a housing crisis but also we have to provide places for um people to live and um so you can imagine those people that are just you know sort of saying not in my backyard so we have to bring down to on the law side the little ramifications of what really looking at um and so one of the things that was brought up that was a little Troublesome there was talk about the process I will say this I would love staff to explain why it did not come to um commission also thought might become for regional significance talk a little bit about that but I want to include the process I'm going to assume you got up here Mr cersi and said you followed the process correct yeah okay um and then Mr Carlson you got up here and you followed the process correct yes followed the process under the code as it exists okay so I want to make sure everyone followed the process under the rules there was a be statement that um you know pointing the finger this way so think we got that out of we both follow the process correct he's going like this all right so it's one of those things um don't hate the player the game I think both follow the process so I want to make sure um everyone knows because there was a lot this really quickly give me the reason why I was surprised because this is very rare when this happens why did this not come to Planning Commission and why didn't it trigger uh region significance um you for the record uh we do not require conditional use permits for any schools whether they're Charter or public or they're primary or secondary um we do not require it across board they're all minor conditional use permits and um it's project of regional significance because um as councilwoman Dora knows she's been working to try to get something like this on that list um but the trigger for it is really about how so if you're bringing in subvision with over 675 something trips then that triggers it but a school does not trigger it okay do you have any idea why I don't you don't but Council why get okay so I share the uhal plan governing board and um it became apparent that we needed a public process for schools at both levels at the city and also at Regional planning schools of a certain size so we formed committee myself Von Tong um may spark and also uh Katie H Simon and then uh it was Beth Smith took her role and we discussed it and as Beth pointed out to me the other day we actually made a recommendation it went to the Planning Commission there's a regional Planning Commission they recomended a change apparently academica actually challenged that and our staff over at Regional planning with our attorney are still trying to figure out how to move forward and and so we did our work Planning Commission did their work a issue was raised academica that they didn't that process and so sort of stalled there I will just say Madame mayor that I am recommending going forward that we change our rules and we do have a public process for schools of a certain size I don't know what that size is over 300 students 600 students I don't know number we figure that later but schools have a great amount of public interest no matter what kind of school they are because typically of traffic issues so I'd like to us to see us change our process and I'm going to continue I've been on Regional planning mission for 10 years and I want to see this through and make sure that we have Innovative process at that level all right thank you I was just curious cuz it seems a little off that um it wouldn't go through those that process so and back in previous too um so prior to me being here prior 2017 it was the same okay all right thank you I'm going to hand it back to you uh councilman Ebert go ahead okay so I just you know want to kind of clarify some things I think I'm just kind of maybe disappointed there wasn't Outreach from the public school stem just as a represent for the ward and just as a you know a human being who's a parent in the ward and the representative um and having relationships I thought with the district that um I had expectation there would be communication there I have disappoint there um you know I I run into people from the school board um I see Beth socially um frequently and um I'm just kind of surprised that there was no um reach at all prior to this um process to filing to just talk to me May about any concerns that they had during the um application process so I just wanted to say that but also I mean I I have a lot of notes here and concerns and I really truly at the end of the day just want to have the best possible um educational resources for the kids and all of Reno and I during my research have come across a lot of things and and I know arguments that have been said tonight um you know against the uh Charter School saying that it'll take away um students from the public schools you know I just read a thing um a quote from best saying that the school district rezoned our neighborhood or our schools um in W four because they were all over capacity they red zoned Alice Smith O'Brien North Valley School EST elementary school elementary school desert guys middle school and high school because they were overcapacity and this just happened in the 2021 or 2022 2023 school year so this was last year so if we're not over capacity at these schools now it's because you justone and you're you're shuffling kids around to other schools um maybe a benefit would be that kids don't have to be rezoned to other schools um and they can continue to go where they used to go there's a quote bestman there that says you know um she was happy that the kids in North Valley uh High School would would get a variance to continue going to North Valley's High School to finish their high school education that's great I mean to me that says that there was a problem there was overing in this area so I just think that we need all the help we can get in North Valleys and yes traffic is a huge concern of mine infrastructure is a huge concern of mine but um education is also a very important resource for community and I want kids have the best possible um start for their education and their lives and um I've also been notified about something that I a program that I heard about I don't know if it's true or not it's called the newcomer schools that a lot of kids are bring to the North Valleys as newcomers um I just have a lot of concerns about the education that our kids are getting in the North Valleys um and I volunteered my kids school I've been in the classroom I see what happened and I know how much our teachers care our kids my daughter's teacher is wonderful my daughter cries when she talks about you know going to the next grade CU she's not going to have the same teacher anymore these teachers are passionate and they're wonderful but I don't necessarily see them getting support that they need to help the students and I hear that from constituent I hear that from uh Educators that I talk to in my area so um I you know I hear that there's concerns about pulling resources away but there's also you know I went on the was County School District web page and there's hundreds of job listings talk about the r people losing jobs well maybe we just take some of the job listings down it's not necessarily people will lose jobs um it looks like there's you know plenty of them there that are filled so um I just have a lot of concerns about um not seeing this as a benefit that it can be to the community and not looking big picture um I think that you know Council a lot of times does not to my my concerns about traffic you know when we approved 192 apartment units and a parcel visible on the map of the school area um because of traffic concerns um I still have concerns about that traffic there I view the school as a resource benefit Community it's something worth the traffic our children's education is worth the traffic counc okay thank you thanks all right um Council dur go ahead yeah can do the best I can if you can come up if could bring up SL 13 which is the very last slide of the staff PowerPoint before we start the clock um okay so my concern is that we continue to approve all kind of projects with Iration traffic tax this is a slide I don't you showed in your presentation but it was an attachment and what I understand from this is that you have streets on the left you have the AM and PM you have how much delay will be experienced in seconds you have level of service at 2043 and um what I see on this chart is that um we will at the point of this and I think to some extent now uh on North Hills and beckworth which is my concern which is um Alice Smith is on beckworth this school's entrance would be on North Hills where those two streets intersect I sat there I went through that intersection five times it was the middle of the day o00 there's no school traffic whatsoever I had a very hard ter time turning from beckworth onto North Hills taking a left and people will be doing that they do it today it is hard today it will be hard in the future I will be honest I think we a tra FL there don't know if RTC either online or in the room or out the lobby I believe I saw Dale huh oh here's D okay there you are well what I want to understand is I know beckworth is not a regional road but North is I want to understand if you come up is North plan any kind of improvements anytime soon is there a light planned at this intersection these are things when I brought up to our staff I will tell you they said we went back and forth back and forth meaning they could see an argument that we need a light we need Improvement there that we don't they thought if they put right turn lane onto beckworth that would alleviate the traffic challenges I don't think so uh when I was there in the middle of the day 2:00 no school in and out cars piling up behind me I couldn't get out traffic was5 it'll be 15 theoretically at school time but nevertheless going very slow you won't be able to get out either so could you just address that for us you know what does this mean I think you had input into this chart I'm not sure sure good evening maders Dale Keller Deputy exec director dor of engine for the RTC um to answer your question question council member deer is North Hills is a Regional Road and right now North Hills does not stop and so it meets the level of service policy minworth is a local street I'm not sure exactly from the foot i p out correct so you are correct of you're of how you're characterizing that now improvements on North Hill is identified in the next 10year window 10 years and it's also included in our regional impact VI cap Improvement plan or CIP so my understanding is this school is expected to pay $700,000 into the uh Road impact fee except that you can use that anywhere not necessarily this space that is correct I mean where I'm sorry you can use those funds on any project that's identified in that CIP program north of North yes ma'am okay so my concern is as it stands right now it might be in the future but as it stands now I don't believe traffic's mated I think we could a better job I think we bring to be our tools I think we should lean in and be conservative and and vote for Public Safety because what I've seen happen here too many times is a situation developed something's approved the medication's not in and all people for people that here today come to us say City Maro you need to fix XYZ and it's happened to me over and over in war two uh you know that we have some 40 Projects that need to be fixed by RTC and South Reno we fixed three and that list more to come by the way goes on the um Double R North turn phenominal I saw it last week but that was seven years in the making okay but it's done now so fantastic but my point is my concern is ability to these findings which specifically specifies trffic input provides a safe environment design is compatible with surrounding development will not materially be detrimental to public health safety or welfare I can't right now today make those leave it at that sorry I'm letting you uh go over so I just point I just see FF um you know Etc all right thanks uh go ahead Council Taylor thank you madam mayor um I will say that I actually reached out to was school district I I reached out to applicant I did a lot of my own Outreach and I think that is part of our responsibility um Le Leah I had a question for you the minor conditional use permit process um we were talking to Mayor is it different for a charter school than is a County School District no it not so if was County School District came in and said we're going to put a school here same thing would they go through a different process they would go through exactly the same process would end up the same place started so there there's not discrepan between the zoning or the master plan or the conditional use permit based on the school they're both the same correct so again for me it just it thank you so much it comes down to traffic and what I need to understand is are mitigations planned or in the future for this project to mitigate the traffic so I need an an traffic expert engineer in waso County School District if you have one um that would like to come up and and too I know we have ser and we have RTC that's my biggest question Michelle engineering manager and development services um yes from a staff level we are comfortable that this school mitigates its traffic impact okay and I think have another minute so I'm going to ask our attorne something quick um I might have misunderstood Mr Shipman when you were outlying our process but in order to overturn the administrator's decision to approve Academy are we asked to find staff use their discretion yeah you're asked to find I mean the standard of review is substantial evidence so there's evidence in the record and if the evidence in the record supports the administrator and the administrator is not in your opinion abusing her discretion his or her discretion right so like that they're not mischaracterizing evidence they're not omitting evidence they're not um if you believe that they are doing in fact taking the evidence and foring a judgment and then um approve based upon that evidence that is not an abuse of discretion and then you would essentially affirm that if you think that no the evidence is being mized the evidence is there they're relying upon that would in abuse discretion is that makes sense yes I'm not going to ask any more questions I think I understand it thank you all right uh councilman uh Martinez thanks so much Madam mayor I don't think I have anything else at this point to do um to support or make a motion when it's okay um let me we're just going to go a couple more um councilman ree go ahead Madame mayor thank you so much um I have this is my second have a third I want to chat again with Miss Pai and I wanted to ask a question about the zoning the GC sf3 issue I don't understand why we have created a fiction in which half of the school is in one zone half is another we believe that only high school students will stay on one line and primary and middle school students will stay on the other why was a zone change not required well we um Le for the we we're not b a fence in between the two zoning districts and not allowing students to cross from the other they um both schools secondary and primary are allowed in the G zoning only the elementary school that's allowed in the C zoning district and the reason for that is because there are other uses in GC like liquor stores or things like that that could be permitted that we might not necessarily want next door to elementary school that's ra that sells alcohol is that what you're talking about no not necessarily other uses that that might be allowed in GC so I know but why didn't we require a zone change we would require a z change an elementary school allowed in zoning District I know you have a High School yeah and a middle school which are and those are both also allowed in the SF zoning District what is the point of having this slide which you represent two different zoning districts and you have a building that's or a property that's bisected I'm just trying to show that the elementary school is on the single family residential parcel not on the GC parcel and there is a condition of approval that requires all components of that Elementary School beond the F parcel however we are not requiring them to build a fence and say no elementary school children allowed in GC we understand that the children will cross the intent of code not allowing um primary school in in GC is to protect the children from those other types of uses so so if this project had been built mirrored the elementary school on the head side of the picture and the middle school high school on the side of would that have run a foul of our zoning coded yes the primary schools are not allowed it can't be the the opposite because that makes no sense to me from a planning standpoint let me ask about bicycle infrastructure Martinez and miss and miss Conley talked about bicycle infrastructure being overlooked did did we look at bicycle infrastructure and what is required we absolutely looked at bicycle infrastructure and we felt that the adjacent neighborhood who do havec infastructure and sidewalks that children middle school and high school would be likely to ride their bikes and so is there sufficient bikee parking on site for those children there is yes compliant with uh the safe rout school reations yes I have um other questions for Mr cersi Madame mayor would you like me to wait till round three no go right ahead okay Mr cersi I know it'll take you a minute to come forward and we're trying to move quickly it's late when was school district build a new school how many acres do they allocate that School site meaning when I look at this site it's tight it's small and because I do serve on the capital funding protection committee and have seen your work in that area I I'm not sure I think there's an appropriate site for a school period good evening again for the record my name is Adam cersi with the was County School District on average our elementary schools are cited on Parcels of about 8 Acres Middle Schools a range of 20 to5 acres in high schools often in excess of 50 acres of course with football stadiums and the like so here you have a combined Middle School elementary school and high school when built out completely on 10 acres as opposed to the I suppose 75 80 AC that would happen if you were build I believe that's correct okay Madame mayor I uh will wait till round three to sort of summarize BS all right thank you so much I'm sort of pick up where uh Reese sort of left it said um or someone made the comment earlier required um um slots for bicycles was that you Mr CI someone made that there was um required slots for bicycles Mr charson do you know well I think there was 150 bicycles required in this plan by Miss picotti right okay okay so it does meet the requirement Leah for the r yes mayor it not just meets the requirements but it exceeds the requirements in this case um I uh staff felt that we um would would get a in order toate traffic with those asent neighborhoods that kids be riding bikes so we increased it normally it's capped it's 10% of the student capacity or I'm sorry it's 10% of the square footage of the building capped at 50 um but looked at 10 it would 150 So based on the frost School recommendations I did that 150 so it's 10% of the student capacity and those bicycle racks have to be in the front of the school in an open area so it can't be like around the back in a corner it has to a safe area where feel safe their schools Mr Carlson you would have to include those and put those in at your expense Madame mayor seev Carlson for the record correct they're a part of the design they're compated part of the minor additional permit and their project lost okay and then can you talk a little bit about this what you call the stacking um one of the reasons I think that this is sort of the process and maybe it works in maybe it doesn't what I was asking earlier about company Council Regional significance um all that because in my whole probably um in the last 10 years I think I can only remember two um issues well not issues but two schools coming for us so I'm curious or to this um of charter schools um I guess right so I a little bit the stacking or the the timing in which um so I I'll let our Traffic Engineers speak that he's the expert on it in terms of I think preliminary that though in terms of size the city code does not mandate a particular size for the site so we do not have to follow a school district standard for site size that ultimately leads the design of site lacking foric Mr Egan talk about specific all right and I assume this is common practice um in your expertise yes field Ted ederton locko engineering and Charter Schools what we try to aim for is a ratio of five cars per student for the drop off and pickup Lanes we actually are providing 0.2 uh so we're exceeding that by 33% so basically one comment was made ear in the presentation by uh by person that the we'd have miles and miles of stacking that's not correct what was mistaken in that presentation was the number of trips you've got to remember one vehicle makes two trips right to the school one out origin destination so we say 800 trips that's actually 400 cars what studies have proved is on the stacking because it's a dynamic stacking in other words it's continually moving it isn't a stop let all the vehicles St up in the link and then drop the kids or pick up kids but it's Dynamic so that's why the rate of 0.15 is generally acceptable for a queuing area like I said for this school we provided 0.2 so we actually exceeded 33 okay great thank you I really appreciate that the other I wanted to ask a question on because it did bother me um a a little bit is uh Mr cersi I think you had mentioned you had to do a public records request can you talk a little bit about that and I'm I'm also curious did you with Mr Carlson at all tell me the communication between the two parties yeah I mean again Adam cersi for the record with the was County School District we received our email as on the you know development list we always do we we received our post card uh we no other Outreach from the applicant um we submitted our technical comments to the city as we do on all development reviews um and then that was really it all communication was from the school district to City staff inquiring as to status we did not have a meeting or engagement with the applicant we did not reach out directly to council members and we were not ined in any of months of discussion or reining and then ultimately again there was no Public Announcement of decision being made thus the appeal period being triggered that was only because we asked staff repeatedly if a approval had been issued then when we could we see the final documents that um were developed for approval that's when we were just you know respectfully asked to submit a public records request so I don't want mean to be disparaging I just want to accurately character I worry when I hear that because I want you have access to the information transparency and so sta was very responsive and we did receive it immediately but it was only Upon Our very deliberate effort to obtain the information okay I just wanted to clarify that again cuz like I make sure you're getting everything that you need um you know to be able to make the best possible decisions and if you're getting pushed back from our team then that's not I don't want that to be the perception I just part of so and I'm going to assume um every time that this body uh sees a project before us uh Housing Development or um maybe a business license or something close to a school that you are aware of those things yes absolutely we receive the same uh list of all projects that are seen before the and and we review them and provide comments on them in this instance we feel that a couple findings were not appropriately met and I tried to characterize that in detail and that's why we've persisted in our position because I've always felt that the school should be at the table on anything that we are ring I guess my question is I this is First time seen you at a coun meeting or the school district at a council meeting and it would be helpful I think you know moving forward um I guess obviously you chose this um this issue to be up front of versus maybe some of the other ones that weigh in is that correct we take a very active and attentive uh posture on all development residential of course um but really we on that list provide appropriate even hand feedback to staff and engagement with us is almost without exception right in line it was this instance where the placement of the primary school on The General commercial of the part which is allowed by code believ to me findings and all those level of service Fs in the traffic study was believed to be able to meet findings that we felt uh appeal must be submitted okay I I guess I was just trying get at maybe some of the comments that were made seemed a little bit more personal um and some of those things so I was trying to kind of figure out why this one versus other ones that we've looked at that are just as important that have just as many probably issues that come for us so I just was curious because there were things that were said um that you know would give me a little bit of concern to make sure that we are um all playing well in the sandbox nothing personal intended certainly was staff coun theant above we are subject X in this field and feel strongly that the findings were not represented by the documents submitted by the um applicant and that's that's the grounds it's it's it's technical in nature only well and because you're an expert I welcome you to C any time weigh in any project that has any effect on the school district in any capacity so um I would just always leave that door open for you I want to make sure you're getting everything you said like you said uh you had to request public records all those things so I just want to make sure you everything you need that in this s and I appreciate the open invitation good thank you appreciate it okay councilwoman Ebert last round and uh we're going to then I'm going to send it back to you for a motion I have comments but I know I necess have questions at this time do you want to do you want to wait and then make the motion and include those comments okay all right councilwoman dur go ahead I have Dale come back because I didn't get my question answered about the light and I just want to clarify Madam mayor you brought up a good point I asked um miss picotti the same point I said when was the traffic study done two days before the permit was issued you told me and so between the two days that the traffic stud's done to be able to get that traffic study final which you said didn't share any docent only a document so the school district wouldn't have gotten that until two days before the permit was issued and so their only recourse at that point is that right the only recourse that point is filing B I mean that's one Reon I would recomend a different process with the planning Comm commission where the traffic study would be done Planning Commission would have it all of this would be evaluated go ahead yeah councilor this is Leah pakati for the record I just want to clarify that um we had asked them to um make final modifications to that um and we only received it 3 days before the decision letter was issued so for me as staff I had already written the decision letter I was waiting for that traff traff information to come in came in finalized it we stood off and I can tell you that applicant received a copy of the ision letter and was County School District received it within 60 seconds of each other I sent it to them I sent it to them I'm saying the process is not designed to allow out of review of the documents to to make an intelligent analysis exactly and and was County School District also said in their comments we will defer to City staff regarding the traffic so I just want to call up I only have a minute um Mr so you know really concerned about Public Safety on this road said North Hills would be in a 10-year time period potentially upgraded to I guess a wider Road or a different kind of Road maybe a road line with sidewalks because there are a bunch of fast food restaurants there at least three counted and there's aies there's a Taco Bell and there's a Wendy's and all of these things are going to be attractants for the attendees of the school I don't know if they have an open Period where they can leave the school or at least after the school they'll be it'll draw I want to understand what road improvements are and what is it possible to have a light or when would that happen and how could that happen so Dale Keller RTC to answer your question right now North does have sidewalks I understand on both side roadway recently did back up in 2019 um the road project intended of our transportation plan would be actually wi from two lanes to four lanes and we have not done the in-depth analysis look at intersection operations so as we go through that then look at the need of signals they okay so again on this gra we showed on page 13 if staff could bring it up these FS you had input into that right I saw a bunch of correspondents with you and our city staff so City staff described the process um really well we looked from The Proposal went back to process with the same line as the school district we submit to staff staff leads the um the dialogue between the applicant and then we're ask to provide input after the fact so well these are my concerns you know I've always been focused 10 years on Public Safety road traffic conditions when everyone says we have bad traffic we have bad traffic because we don't have concurrency we don't fix the traffic while we're building the thing that's my opinion you know that's my opinion I've seen other jurisdictions that they require currency they require you a roads as build the thing where it's an apartment complex a residential development a school a shopping Center OH an apartment complex over at Lakeridge whatever it is um we re they would require that roads get addressed at that time not 10 years later so those are my issues I think can be fixed you know people put their minds to it and I certainly embrace the school its results you know the challenges this may be a bad place Mr Reese talked about the size I had this written down too the in intensity of use in very tight space with with you know just 10 acres with 1,500 students there's no open space there's no there's a gym but there's no field space there's no you know I don't know if the parking's sufficient for people to come after school I'm not in a position to evaluate those those are concerns mayor thank you thank you but but Dale did you say they could use a 700,000 for a traffic light I still haven't gotten that answer so council member the minute to make understand you're ased that their Regional fee is roughly $700,000 so you're saying could they apply that as part of the rift program as we call the offset for a waivers um so so two any ons provide capacity identifi in our um that's one and a signal would be an eligible uh Regional impact yes ma'am would be signal would be eligible that's great news not planned it's great news was an issue well I'll continue to answer your question my apologies well someone put on the record that um there were no Road improvements so let me clarify so the correspondent was asked by the school district FTC and they back to St was two what projects are Curr RTC working on currently we are widening Buck drive from lemon to North Hills um drive and so as we talk about those intersection operations that are looked on here those being addressed those real impacts now the second question was are you doing RT doing anything on Hills right now to this day the answer is no we do not have approval we do not have an interlocal Cooperative agreement with City Reno do any improvements on North Hills Drive it is identifying that 10 your windows but today we are not working on any Improvement North Hills Drive and the light you're so part of our one resource that we have as a region is the Region Road impact fees which allows if development comes in that has um capacity needs for the greater region there's opportunity for them to build those improv on behalf of the region so with North Hills on that list of the CIP that could be an eligible uh waiver for a developer to go ahead and build that type of infrastructure for then they just have to make a commitment to do it correct and has to be Ford compatible for those future Ms we don't want to build a track signal and the wi you have to take off that would not be eligible and what you say you have to what uh for a future compati compatibility for that roadway widening you but did you say your whole sentence again yes so the Improv on North would be aable as long as Improvement meet compatibility of that roadway widening project and that would include the lane so that would like the four lanes we look at those intersection operations a lot more engineering and detail would have to go into that make sure we place signals at appropriate locations thank you mam any no stay right there thanks Dale wait one more question I'm just kidding just kidding uh councilman Martinez anything no okay um councilman ree go ahead Madam mayor I want to go back to something public comment there Linda Sylvia said earlier which were concerns about fire safety crosswalks and traffic she was a neor who I think we had ABS would have come and said please don't build this here because I'm worried about being able to get out unfortunately and and I think it's rather odd um the award four member is now arguing that the end justif the me basically that because they value so highly education they don't mind the traffic impacts and what I will say is council member der I think had the most consistent position and she's been consistent throughout my time on Council in the I really do thank her for that when the Life Church came up several weeks ago she said the traffic is bad I like education but the traffic's bad I won't do won't do it we disagreed on that and I have had conversation about our disagreement I appreciate the consistency again I don't think the ends justify the means is what we're supposed to do as a body we're a planning body and when the public comes and says hey I'm concerned about getting out of my home it 45 minutes to get out of there in a fire I'm concerned about having kids in crosswalks I'm concerned about traffic we ought to be listening to that we ought not say but I value educational Choice more we do not get to play in the educational Choice setting we are planning body the decisions we make about planning I do not want to hear one thing about traffic concerns in the North Valleys for the remainder of this council's uh term if that is the decision that's being raised today because to do that means that it's repicking and choosing which projects they want to Pro to allow um I think one of the other public commenters Kelly or said something very telling too she said North Valleys and all schools have traffic issues yeah we shouldn't be to make it worse this site is so tiny and for my part Madame mayor you know uh my history um you know that I have voted to approve the coral Academy in Northwest Reno I voted for the desert Peach monori school I voted the Life Church expansion because all of the sites I believe were appropriate sites here the site's not appropriate it's like putting a a a round peg into a square hole right it it just does not fit the compaction is bad the road in and outou are bad and I just sort of at a loss to understand how the ends justifying the means mean should we should throw all the planning considerations so when the motion comes if it's a mo for approval I'm not support it and I'll have other comments at that time okay thank you so much okay uh we're going to do a quick wrap up here Leah let me ask you I went through um all of your um pres your your whole entire packet I was very impressed me to say one thing is this is a council um and you know this and that's one thing I know that staff has incredible apprehension coming before this body because we can be super uber critical correct I know there's always that um you know looking extra hard at projects um I actually thought it was really really good and here's what I'd say with everything I don't care where you in the city of we are now um a medium City I hate to break to everyone it's the saddest thing I've ever heard that we are no longer the biggest little city we are now the biggest little mediumsized city we are growing up that comes with um very unfortunate growing pain raise hand if you I'm going to really myself say this raise hand if um you remember hash Lane councilwoman doer oh Mr Carlson you're really old anyone else hash Lane was McCaron remember back in the day and so um that's what's really challenging about it and it's there is never an easy answer and we see it all the time you know I see all the time oh my goodness thatal Council they approve this housing project and that housing project and they're take and all these things um and know more divisiveness I I one question I want to ask you that um just to clarify for me but I wanted to tell you I went through this I was impressed um I know you know you went back and forth um and you had mentioned there were um was schools next to was County Schools did you did you say that that sometimes that they are near each other next to each other I don't think it was me that said that and Brian are likeing each other and causes traffic problems getting in and out of them and they just built O'Brien middle school so I mean they're not they're not following their own argument here so okay thank you all right so thanks for clarifying that then obviously um you know it's a little bit concerning so I would just say say this I think the system works so much better when we work together I am very disappointed to hear that you that the school district and applicant not meet or sit down that that can be very uncomfortable but it actually helps tremendously and also you should be doing it for our children it makes a lot of sense but sometimes and some of the comments that made tonight adults uh really really alarming especially now when we live in a time where things are incredibly divisive I would ask you to be better for our community in every capacity and better for the children of what side you're on um I just think that's so important right now so and the school district you guys need to be leaders and lead by example some of that was really disappointing on certain levels please I just ask you because we are all live in this community together across this country we need each other especially in our communities you know it's funny I live in an area so prone to fires and on my street you know they're Democrats Republicans and how you tell because they their sign who supporting who so everyone's like oh I can tell you know and they're judging each other by you know the political signs that are up well I find it interesting during times of Crisis you had a fire there you think anyone gave Dam what they were no they were running over to help each other grab medications the elderly people that live next to me so at the end of the day think about your community first we live here together and I don't care we're all human people care about political party when in times of so I would just ask you guys please work uh with the applicants that come before you and lead by example especially for when children are watching you because I can guarantee you even when you're watching the school district meeting it there be children in background and they're watching parents watch you guys so it I just think it does matter at the end of the day we will be better off if we work together sometimes we can get a lot further I bet there were things that you could have put in there Mr Carlson some concessions for them figure it out and I really hope that you guys can work together at the end of the day I you got to do it for the children um because they were sort of put in the middle as political footballs tonight and that was really unfortunate so um being said I'm to send it to councilwoman E I need to give me a motion but included in that motion I need you to give me the findings okay um can I make any Com or do I have to wait no you can um you can make you can before I give me the motion okay I just want to make some comments here and I want to address some things that were unfortunately said by fellow council members um I represent a community and when I'm sitting up here I'm not speaking on behalf of me I'm speaking on behalf of the constituents I represent this isn't about me personally this is about the people I talk to community they want when we had a meeting March 8th 2023 and it came to council to vote on 192 apartments in that parcel next to Ry visible in the app of this post I brought up traffic concerns and I were being told several times in different ways by different people that it's not the developer's job to fix the traffic issues in the City of Reno that vote went through with the only people opposing that apartment complex uh being myself and Council breus council member der did not have anything to say about the traffic at that point council member ree did not have any concern about that intersection traffic at that point he seemed quite certain the the traffic issue be handled RTC um you know with for the development to happen I think it's disingenuous to say that he suddenly has uh so much concern and care for this area I feel like it's politically motivated it's not consistent previous votes in this exact area um and there's been other votes around schools that don't match What's Happening Here I think it's very plain to anybody that's that's watching what's happening up here and I think really really unate act like it's something that I'm doing I'm a representative a mouthpiece for for the people that I represent and this is something that has been discussed at my NAB multiple times um I've discussed with constituents individually to make a statement that you don't hear another statement about traffic you will hear more statements about traffic woman I I just don't know if that's going to serve us well okay right now because to me you're kind of well iisten I say I wanted to be about the community and if you have it is about the comme it is about the I'm going to ask you I'm going to ask you right now ask you right now if you have issues I want you to work them out together because the things you get upset about and vice versa you're it's not helping I want it to be staying focused on what we're doing and if there are issues with each of your council members please ask you sit down and work it out just talked about working collectively together as a community and I want to keep the same level the high level up here okay I would like my time back and also I would appreciate the same um Intervention when I'm being for okay we just talked about it we talked during my time yes thank you for that can go into break if everyone is not going to have the same respect for each other we can go into break and come back I would like my time bag that was spoken over please give me um yeah so again part of building infrastructure is having a good educational system and that's important and that's relevant and I am also concerned about evacuation I live in an area where two access points leave and come in out of The Valleys that's something that up every time we have a development that comes through here and it's dismissed by the rest of council Almost 100% of the time thank you all right I the use um wait how how would we add a traffic light would that be possible to add a traffic light now okay uh you can put it in the condition okay can we add a condition to add a traffic light now Madame mayor I I think we have to explore the traffic light I'm not going to say no to it I think we're leaning yes on it but but but to tell you why record mayor tell me the RTC order for the Riff credit to actually be waved for us to actually obtain the benefit of it we have to build a project that RTC plans to build means it need to be their design I don't know they are committed on a design at this point with our timing of our project that we could agree to this and receive no riff credit at the end of the day that would be a b switch my client okay well Dale killer RTC um like I said RTC has not done any analysis on this siding we have not take a look at what these intersections could look like now could the city and RT sit together in a solution to find out make some reasonable with designing a whole roadway system yes that is possible okay is there a way to earmark any kind of um contributions to RTC to make sure it's used in a specific location Council no that is not part of theam okay I assume uh RTC commissioner could put it on the agenda uh Madame mayor yes that's always an option for one of the cing counsil to take that as part RTC I will be that all right thanks so much thanks Dale you've really been beat up tonight you're doing great all right okay Council go ahead okay I move to affirm the approval of minor condition use permit by the administrator deny the appeals okay can you give me findings and you can make the findings yeah I can make the findings presented by the um the planning department at the city of renown okay I will second your motion okay all right I have a motion and a second any discussion discussion Madam mayor okay go ahead councilman Ree and listen to me do not make it personal do not make it personal and keep it in the um in the best interest of our community okay FSE thank you madam mayor for sure first the political and emotional fight over Charter Schools versus traditional Public Schools is reserved for the legislature for my part I'm proud to have been the project of the was school district education and have raised three kids in the was school district at the same time I have visited the matter Academy principal manini is a tremendous educator an advocate for her students and there are good and gracious people work there and their children seem to be just absolutely enjoying being there what a cute school what wonderful students they have and their parents is too moreover with regard to schools that have come before this body I have consistently approved them oral Academy Northwest Reno the desert Monas and the life are all example but Madame mayor we sit as a planning bot we are not here to pass judgment on how the schools are done and what the capacity for those schools is I believe in the school district and believe they are subject matter experts here in my part the public input has been lacking at this body we have had multiple projects that we've denied or continued for failing to engage in meaningful public input here there was no no planning Mission Regional governing board no public input postcards and emails uh you know aside uh but for this appeal we would never have seen this item as a result I do not believe the administrator lacks sufficient public input upon which to bision and lack substantial evidence also I cannot make a finding about a school being placed on a site that is a combination of GC and sf3 um I do not think that that is correct next cannot make finding related traffic I not feel the mation me are extended enough toate the significant traffic impacts 1500 students equates to hundreds and hundreds of additional trips and an already overburdened area with traffic congestion creating hazards for students very different than apartment complex I had public comment Linda Sylvia was really the the Touchstone who said that she had concerns about fire safety crosswalks and traffic I believe if there had been more public comment opportunities there would have been more of this and certainly would militate against approval um finally the city staff wrote their decision before rev receiving the revised study Miss picotti said that this evening and that was concerning I don't believe the administrator therefore had the necessary traffic impact decision on which base the decision finally the master plan section 2.4k mandates collaboration with waso County School District this is not the same as the general Proviso which says that we should take into account other educational institutions rather I agree with Mr daily comments were that there are call outs 20 or 30 times in our Master planning document that say we should work with the school district here we have not done that that I think means we cannot the findings I certainly not make them that basis thank you so much all right um go ahead Council yeah just briefly um I concur with what Mr ree said and probably 80% um I'm not as concerned about the zoning because I found out that our routine do not require public um public facility Zoning for any school and most of them don't have it apparently 35 I think you told me don't have it so that's not a biggest concern but almost everything else that he said are issues concern me the very same point here to weigh in on value or the impacts of charter schools or this particular school I think they're doing a phenomenal job and I want to see that to continue I want better F on site elction byter school I probably have a record of about 5050 and the ones that I think have the big traffic impacts I haven't supported and um I don't mostly because of Public Safety so it's just my insistence for years um I want all of us to do better planning and um that's just where I stand so I'll just leave it at that thank you all right thank you so much any further comments see that they're not M mayor Madam mayor I have one other comment and I'm so sorry go ahead I I want make clear too that had this Academy on a different parcel we might be having a very different conversation I I think that that the work that this school is doing should be celebrated its children should be honored it's Educators I am not in a position to um attack them on the basis that some commenters have raised tonight again I I that is for another conversation but it is the site for me it is truly a question of whether it's a good fit on this site okay thank you so much okay any further questions no okay so I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed n opposed nay okay uh you I believe take a call vote uh councilwoman Ebert yay oh yeah yay yay Council yay yes yes and Council mace I am a no I'm opposed so sending it to go ahead City attorney so according to our rules we're going to put this on the next uh agenda next week for what because if a tie goes it gets placed in the next agenda okay all right so there you go um this is what one thing I do want to say because I do get frustrated you guys all know this how I feel about this and I feel very strongly about this this where I have a real problem only vot um I think obviously C members know um pretty much what they need in their W their constituents and I for me that's always um really difficult to see that when that that of happens um so um you know I wanted to be very supportive and um the things that you especially out there where I think um it really matters about what it's looking like as we move forward I appreciate that so anyway okay um what do I need to do this is very attorney just just from I'm a little slow I just want to make sure motion fails was it 42 or was it 33 3 three it was three it was three so um council member voted for it no against was Martinez Ebert and the mayor voted for it yes three three okay in other words to deny the appeal and to uphold the original decision by the staff very rare and we yeah so so just to sum up to make sure for the slow people like myself that are in the room there was I mean the motion was to affirm the conditional permit and it three votes that did not pass okay so under the rules this will come back next week at the next regular agenda city council meeting unless um well well unless there's an emotion if someone's to make another motion that's option right now or um unless the all designate will be comfortable with coming back on a different date if they agree that you can you can arrange for a different date but otherwise it's coming back to try to throw a I'm going to assume no no so mayor the opposite motion would be to uphold the appeal right right and let's just say the voting was the same that also wouldn't pass I'm just it might not be the same but I'm assuming it might be the same you can go ahead or Mr had had all the words find may I ask a question um a point of order I'm just trying to understand procedurally my understanding is that at a 33 tie that's a technical uh affirmation we have not reverse decision low the administrator that I don't understand no so um so under the open meeting law it takes four votes to have any action so yes there there wasn't an action on that item but our rules call um if if there's vote the motion is passed presiding officers are determined in accordance with the rules if there is another motion or second and if there's no action on the item the public hearing shall be placed at the next regular agenda of the city council and that's rule 8.12 of the city council um that's where we are the exception being that if the appellants were to agree to some other date we could designate another date for this to return yep Mr and I just asked uh Council to give me another motion okay well that I want to ask give another motion toy the I ask me to firm the appeal which would be the opposite motion and let's say it's a 33 I think that would be a technical denial and I think the project would be approved what do you think no no you can't approve it by you have to vote affirmatively to approve the project or to deny about the appeal though both both ways you can't you can't by lack by not acting approve something is under the bad open meeting law okay well I'll just for the good orderless you like Mr ree go ahead no go ahead okay well I I make a motion to uphold the appeals all right all five okay I have a motion do I have a second second okay all those any discussion all in favor say hi councilman Ebert opposed he yeah councilman Martinez n Nate okay same outcome so we will put it back on the next agenda when we also have another council member present in this should happen again um that would probably not be the same outcome we probably will not get the same outcome so anything else that I need to do okay all right M I'm going to sit back to so um we will have to you'll probably have to do a Time certain um 6 o' unless we have another appeal we do have another Appeal on the 31st um City attorneys do we need a time and date certain or will this continue over to 6 PM for next week yeah I mean under rules it'll continue to next week so I'd be looking just for a motion to continue Contin to the July 30th okay first yeah sorry May I'll make to continue this until July uh is it in the evening again yeah um 6 PM hearing okay so I have a motion do I have a second second second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carried unanimously right thanks guys I appreciate all of you you must be exhausted but we we've also been sitting here since 10:00 a.m. so we're probably at that point where we're ready to fall over and pass out too but get some rest and uh we appreciate you attending okay Madam cler go ahead thank mayor we're on to item J1 which is closing public comment all right do we have any closing public comment we do have public comment from Kelly or Kelly where are you come on [Music] up good evening Kelly or for the record I just wanted to say that this is the holding and put microphone a little bit low all right good [Music] job okay Kelly thank you so much patience no you everybody good job for seeing Kelly or for the record I just wanted to go online you know go on public comment stating this is the first time I've ever been at the city council meeting where um I'm sorry just kid no no I've been to plenty this is the first time where I've ever been at a meeting where Devon Reese um and Naomi deer have been and this is one out of like five that I've been to have been against an education bill um the comment Mr ree about traffic it is because I have shown up many times holding a sign saying you're doing it wrong you're doing it when we plan the city the roads not being first and foremost of the concerns we are 20 years behind the time we all know this this isn't new news but I think RTC and the freeway expansions with uh end off trying um just like your area Miss deer it took seven years to get what you got accomplished done one turn Lan right it it takes a village and I think having this matter Academy what it brings to our community is bigger than the roads because the roads will follow just like they've done in every Ward it will happen but when is another school going to be built in our community North Valley I've lived in Ward one I've lived in Ward five I've lived in Ward four now and three we all have our struggles but when we work as a team to unilaterally combine and make sure that we're planning our education our resources for our Wards you know luckily we're getting a hospital out in the North Valleys mind blowing um you know when you're concerned about exit routes you really need to hope you have a four-wheel drive area in the entire Washo County area just take the dirt um is what I giggle why a Jeep um don't need a I will make my own and I am great ful to live in such a beautiful County in Northern Nevada that allows for that opportunity to happen and I think we're just kind of figuring it but I'd really like to see each council member next week really take the time to look at what is happening in the next 10 years in each of your Wards but now Ward four it is exponentially growing education and choice for our students and our children matter and it just needs to happen so thank you for your time thank you so much Kelly apprciate Kelly love to go to coffee with you if we get the chance you sound like a tremendous Advocate just love your passion we with me by email so we go grab coffee but it's on roller States you guys I'm sure he can accomodate well and miss or just so you know you said you never heard just six weeks ago I was one of the only council members voted against Life Church school with students across from dman for very same reason and there was a pledge from RTC to look at a roundabout but it isn't here today and I also voted against deral Academy because of the very same traffic It's Working got calling other out I'm the only one that did I'm the only did that no I know but you you divide us instead us no I'm just pointing it out whenever you keep saying and you said it earlier today I want you I want everyone to be a little bit more um aware of how we read each other up here but she said she had never heard me object and I was just sharing I just object Ed 6 weeks ago yeah not yet we are not adjourned yet but we do need to go home and go to bed yes I and I thank you for I have heard and know your word and know we we're all fighting the good fight for our area so very much Kelly I'll see you soon all right come back anytime Madam mayor we do have one more public commenter on Zoom okay hurry go for it hi there this is assembly member Selena laru hatch been watching this quite spirited debate uh for the last couple hours and I you joined us you should have come I should should I know um I miss the party but I just wanted to clarify um some comments that I heard from a council member today that were a little concerning um I teach at nor high school and we are newcomer Center and there was an implication somehow us being a newcomer Center was harming the students of waso County or lowering the standards of our education and I just wanted to point out that you know we're a newcommerce center because students that come to this country don't speak any English at all really a lot more support and so we like to concentrate them in one or two schools so they can have that support and and my students that are newcomers are some of the hardest working kids I have ever met many of them are refugees face challenges that many of us can know whole life and it really I think hurt my heart and I and would have hurt theirs too to hear those comments that somehow they were lessening our schools and so I just wanted to really share um the importance of that program and just that you words have power and I want to make someone is happy for those thank you and I appreciate you bringing that up and I I heard it on both sides and it was disappointing that's why I was saying we need to be supportive of each other especially you know in politics now more than ever we need to support each other even though sometimes we might have the same views but there were things that were said that hurt my heart as well as your heart and I'm so glad that you clarified that um because I think it is important to to address it CU um it's it's going to help so we appreciate you and we invite you to come down next time well I heard there'll be another party so maybe I will okay anytime we'd love to have you all right well thank you so much and thank you for that I know you all want to get thanks all right May for the record to close out item J1 we did receive um after 400 p.m. yesterday and throughout the day today 27 letters total via reno.gov online public comment form or emails to my office 20 letters support on items letters of opposition and one letter of concern that we're moving on to item K adjournment all right um councilwoman Ebert give me motion favorite motion no I'm just kidding I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I opposed see I never get opposition on that all right thanks everyone good night for