a pledge that we would do a much better job of supervising so I just wanted to put that out I think that we are and I'd actually like Mr Edelstein to come up and give you an an update on what's happening okay great good morning Madam mayor council Eric Edelstein assistant city manager for the record um yes Mr van z um has has communicated uh directly with myself Mr ulyad council member Taylor uh council member Taylor um Nathan as well as mapper Zina have visited with Mr Van Zee on a repeated basis and we have had Fairly constant dialogue up to and including emails yesterday discussing activity where the uh where the contractor was working exactly what they were doing so uh you think it's been remediated is what you're saying uh I would not say that it has been fully remediated but it is in a very solid process and a really strong communication back and forth we understand the issues and uh and are addressing them very actively okay would you mind talking about one of the other comments that we received in the same neighborhood please um yes thank you council member Taylor we do have another constituent who has been in this District who has also replied to us with her thoughts actually initially telling us that she thought everything was great and that we were doing a very good job so we received very conflicting reports she did follow up about a month later saying might have been a little quick to say how great it was if it identified some issues so again we have we have kind of a little bit of competing information but you can say that the contractor went back out fixed what she needed and it's back I mean we are very responsive to this concern and we are making progress yeah and there's differing opinions in the neighborhood there are differing opinions and yes we're an active conversation and activity virtually daily on this item well that's fantastic thank you so much and I just want to encourage I know we've had an incredible winner with rain and that leads to Credible growth weeds so I'm hoping that the landscape folks are out there weekly not monthly or bi-monthly right now this period is really critical for that and we want to make good on our promises so thank you councilmember Taylor for getting directly involved with this I I had no idea of the backstory or the second letter I just it struck a nerve because we had such a prologist perfect conversation last year about this thanks thank you all right thank you all right I thoroughly do you have any updates or anything on this agenda yes Madam mayor item G2 golf 2. we'd like to postpone to August 9th so that we can make sure we have a complete and comprehensive list of applicants for the position all right everyone please remove that from your agenda G2 yes all right thank you so much at this time I'm going to ask for approval of the agenda so moved I have second motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously uh we're gonna head into item A5 approval of the minutes let me get a motion so moved I have a motion second kind of a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right thank you so much we're gonna head into um Item B Madam clerk do you have any public comment on this item thank you madam mayor we do have a public commenter David Pritchett in the audience all right perfect and again for the audience comments are to be made to the mayor and Council as a whole and you will be limited to three minutes please state your name for the record good morning nice to see you uh hi good to see you all I'm David Pritchett I am your chair of the Recreation and Parks Commission my colleagues gave me that honor a few months ago in our annual cycle so I'm striving to fulfill my duties with vigor [Music] um despite some um kind of personal health challenges lately so I I think the way this is going to work today is the consultant and staff were also presenting something somewhere on your agenda they're talking about it right now um so what I'll do is give my perspective as a chair on what we're doing with this item which is the pros plan parks recreation open space plan which is something the city's been working on for over five years although it's a little dormant for a while it's revived heavily in the last one year so um as a lot of us know the prose plan is a key element for any contemplated special Parks District there's ideas going around based on legislation from 2017 via the state that um the two cities and the county could work together form a special services District that would fulfill and improve Recreation and park services to the public so that's a whole nother beast in itself although we're getting frequent briefings on it and the briefings are getting better with more detail but um a plan on basically an address the question okay you get a bunch of public money what are you going to do with it we need a real plan not just like make everyone's quality of life better in Reno I mean that's cool and we do that every day but it needs to have a hard plan of what this new funding source potentially would go to so that's been if the prose plan has been appearing at our commission agenda for the last three meetings and will appear consistently every meeting or two throughout the summer that's the proposal you have on your agenda is to enhance the existing contract by an extra fifty four thousand dollars which is maybe a quarter of what the existing contract is and it's a very good use of the funds because our commission has torn into the draft Pro's plan and some of the supporting materials with great Vigor during our last three meetings and um we've found a lot of concerns to the commission especially the newer members and um we feel the new approach that we've already have a response will address those concerns especially a lot of tidbits in there that look like it's a policy decision without a policy venue that's properly to foresee that I'm going to talk a little minute or two more yes please give us one give us one more minute yeah so there so there are a lot of elements for example that look like it's a decision or a conclusion we found those we teased them apart the consultant had a response memo last month to um present that in a better way you know like like there's some instances about redesign of Civic Plaza you know with the skate ring well that's not a project anyone's doing but it was in there so now it's out there was a extensive paragraph that looks like privatization of park services that wasn't the intent but it sure read that way so that was something we found and we'll have updated and corrected in the prose plan next version um the intent is to finish this over summer that's in the detailed proposal that's on your agenda today and I think this will be the most important work um the recreation and parks program at the city may do in the next five years especially to get poised for a special district that could provide services you know when we're ready to do that collaborating with the county and Sparks for their equivalent of a prose plan so with that um that's my perspective as the chair it's been a lot of fun serving as the chair um in our monthly meetings and uh one last bit related to the prose plan we have a project going on right now Holcomb Avenue rehabilitation it's led by um RTC you may have heard of and that is um reworking the asphalt on Holcomb Avenue and The Interchange where the south end of Sinclair Street merges to Great encouragement of speed onto South Holcomb Avenue so that that merges section is gone from this RTC plan the City Public Works has been involved in there to tweak a lot of differences um I coincidentally am the most uh adjacent neighbor there at my personal residence has a lot of curb space right there at the the end of the merge lane but my point here you can go now hear the screeching of the equipment breathe in the diesel watch the dust and watch watch the old asphalt carried away but what this is getting to my neck I do have a Nexus here um part of the prose plan identifies categories of parks big parks you know Regional drivers down to little neighborhood or pocket parks to use a consistent phrase and um it's a good outline to describe how to sort of tidy up our Myriad number of parks that are out there and when we saw the pros plan there's like twice as many designated Park sites as you actually can find at the public website or even by driving around looking for them or riding around on your bike so part of the Holcomb Avenue project will produce little spaces of open space vegetated pollinator Garden um super duper righteous Street trees already working with our Forester Matt um they're racist to go the soil doesn't look too ravaged from what they've exposed so far yesterday and I encourage you to go down the south end of uh Sinclair Street see what's going on there and and see an example of new pocket parts that eventually will be fit within that configuration yeah so with that thank you we'll hear the rest of it from staff so much you are the perfect person with passion and persistence so I'm glad you're the chair and I want you to keep coming back and giving us updates I think it's really important I will strive to do that some of the most important work that we will do well thank you very much it's I'm having a great time I'm grateful for the appointment to this uh commission well we're glad that it's that it's you leading the charge glad to be here thank you thank you so much David is Heather Carpenter via Zoom okay Heather if you would please unmute state your name for the record and begin speaking hi my name is Heather Carpenter um I think I might have selected at the wrong time I really just had a few follow-up questions on this um project that potentially could be answered at a later time but I just wanted to know when um or what the options are for Community oversight on the pros project uh particularly when it comes to the deliverables provided by the consultant uh once again you do not need to answer right this moment but if that could be provided in some follow-up information I would appreciate that thank you thank you okay fantastic all right we're going to send her your way we have no additional public comment for our consent agenda items and we would be looking for disclosures and items to pull okay at this time I believe we have a council member with the disclosure I'm going to send it to councilman Taylor well I need to pull item okay so let's do that first councilwoman Ebert I'm going to ask you do any items to pull no okay Council endure well I was gonna pull item b14 the pros plan and B15 uh the bowling Stadium okay and others may wish all right thank you so much councilman Taylor item B10 please all right councilman Martinez none at this point thank you okay councilman breakfast Madam mayor I'd like to pull um in addition to something that have already been pulled B13 but I do have a disclosure on b14 all right thank you so much so at this time um let's read disclosures to approve the remaining items second okay I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries councilwoman B10 thank you madam mayor fellow council members and Madam clerk in the interests of full transparency on item B10 I am disclosing that Jacob's Engineering Group is a current client of my consulting firm TaylorMade Solutions specifically in 2022 Jacobs Engineering Group retained tailor-made solutions to provide public Outreach Services for the Arlington Avenue bridges project and the Mill Street capacity and Safety project on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office I've been advised that I have a substantial and continuing business relationship with Jacobs Engineering and therefore a commitment in a private capacity to the interests of Jacob's Engineering Group here Adam being 10 seeks approval of a 197 246 dollar Consulting service agreement with Jacobs for mobile organic biofilm pilot project at tem or if this is a small but significant piece of business for Jacobs Engineering as such I have been advised that the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my situation would be materially affected by my current contracts with Jacobs Engineering Group accordingly I will not be participating or voting on this item today Madam clerk please accept this disclosure and Lodge it on the record for this meeting pertaining to these agenda items thank you and I will leave right now all right thank you so much Madam Clerk did you get it into the record thank you so much all right councilwoman breakfast go ahead should we just is this one I think we should vote on 10 so that she can return for the next items right so I'll make a motion that we approve um B10 second perfect I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed promotion okay and then uh while she's getting herself settled back in I'm gonna read a disclosure for b14 um Madame mayor fellow Council city council members and Madam clerk in the interest of full transparency I have a disclosure to make on item b14 in September 2022 the city council approved a 150 000 contract for Stan with stantec Consulting Services Incorporated to bail the parks recreation and open space plan master plan under that contract stand to have subcontracted with City Gates Associates LLC and more specifically Julie Conway who served as our City's director of Parks and Recreation uh for seven years item item b14 is the Second Amendment to the Colts Consulting contract with stantec that increases the project amount by 54 397 dollars to pay for additional plan review meetings for Council and staff expanded public Outreach and additional analysis the amendment brings the total budget to 206 000. um I'm disclosing that my husband Armando or Nellis Jr is an hourly employee at citygate Armando joined citygate in 2023 after leaving the city of Sparks months after the city council ordered the initial contract to Stan Tech Armando is not a partner at citygate his compensation is entirely based on billable hours completed for projects for clients on projects He is assigned today Armando has not performed any billable work for any City Gate client Armando's not assigned to this project and I confirmed that he will never be assigned to perform work on this project moreover Armando has not spoken to our Council in any what city gate about this project nor will he in the future on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office here I've been advised that I have a commitment and a private capacity the interest of my spouse and his employer City Gate however given the timing of the initial Award of the stantech contract the nominal increase in Project budget the subcontracting relationship between stantec citygate and Julie Conway and the lack of any pecuniary impact on our household income or my husband's deployment I have been advised that the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my situation would not be materially impacted by my husband's employment to citygate to um warrant abstention under nrs281a 420 sub 3. Madam clerk please accept this disclosure lodging on the record for this meeting and subsequent meetings pertaining to this item thank you okay thank you so much and I believe that was for b14 correct it's correct all right thank you so much all right we've got to go back to actually be 13. so I'm gonna send it to I think councilman breakfast yeah I pulled this one um I don't know who's the staff member for this is that oh okay I'll let them come up and introduce themselves good morning Madam mayor city council my name is Chris Harper I'm the CEO security manager and I'm here to represent the item great you know Mr manager on this agenda it's been a little tricky because we have a lot of agreement amendments and sometimes the master agreement are not present the bowling one we had all six amendments added but not the master I asked for that over the weekend to come forward it came forward and actually I realized in the b14 we uh didn't have the first contract we had the second contract so this one we don't even have a first contract and we just have an amendment contract an addendum and I don't know maybe the attorneys you know I would think that an informed client is in a forum climate who knows what you're mending when you're taking an addendum um and I'm struggling with this one because I'm here I heard competing information on this when I was in my agenda review and um this involves the use of security private security forces in the downtown area correct me if I'm wrong but I I understood during my briefing that we were going to deploy these private individuals to focus on people trespassing on private property is that correct no that's not correct okay I thought I heard in my agenda review that uh sometimes there's people um over the nighttime hours when are you know out um who who come back into downtown maybe they're sleeping in a doorway somewhere else and we were going to deploy them you know off premise from city property and what I mean city property I mean property owned by the city Nots rights way so not having the main contract not understand where will we be deploying these private security forces which is addendum the security officers only have authority on city property because they are contracted officers with the city so we will not be enforcing any trespassing regulations on any private property whatsoever so when you say no this is not uh specifically for streets of sidewalks specifically for the area that is from the CAC all the way to the Courtyard along the railroad tracks well that's not City actually the city property throughout that area ma'am okay Union Pacific operates under an easement through that space it is our property um that brings up a whole other issue because one we've sold a lot is some and two you know I'd like to know if that we have a lease on one and we're going to be deploying security officers onto a property where we've leased one is that within our rights of the lease or are we doing an extra favor to someone who's a tenant uh Cynthia as far as the chief equity and community relations officer I'd like to defer to uh John Shipman to provide Clarity on the corridor from galetti to Chisholm which is one of the areas that will be seeking assistance how would I have known that this was from Glady to Chisholm by reading this stop report and the agreement did I miss that there was some Geographic boundaries mentioned in the stop report there wasn't as a team we will assign support to City properties as the need arises so the areas are not necessarily excuse me highlighted in the staff report but will be deployed to City properties only and specifically properties that are belong to the city but are not intended for public use and pose significant Public Safety and Hazard to the community okay your three minutes are up and I'm gonna go to council uh councilman Reese go ahead thank you madam mayor just a couple of thoughts and comments first of all thank you I appreciate the work that um you're doing here at the city the both of you I think there's been a market change especially Miss Esparza once you took over the handling of the clean and safe program because it has allowed us to um really position it well in a very respectful and thoughtful manner it's also had some great outcomes because you give us those updates all the time but I also want to call out um you know Allied I think they have done a very good job as well I think that the work that they do is appreciated we all have safety at top of mind and so anytime that that's an issue I think it's important one to think about but at the end of the day what our goal is as a city is to act responsibly thoughtfully with the best interest of all our community in involved including our unsheltered neighbors and friends and I think that nothing about this what I've believe is a ministerial extension of a contract or an expansion of it changes that outcome so again I I just want to basically say first the clean and safe team is doing excellent work and second that the folks that we work with to provide those kind of Security Services I think is really improving the quality of life or uh especially in the area that's bounded by the geographic Nexus that we've talked about earlier so thank you for that thank you I like the initiative and um I think to improve uh transparency and communication about it I think it would be great to task our GIS team to create a map that shows these properties um and so it could be appended later um even on this agenda so people can see where you're talking about which areas the city owns which they may shade differently areas that have been either leased or contacted or have an easement in some way obviously areas that are sold will show a different color so they're not city property but I think it would help both communication with the team the Allied team as well as any public members or members of the public that would be interested they're always interested in what we're doing in our public spaces and I think this this would really improve that Outreach that you are always looking for so just a proposal an idea that might improve the situation so thanks all right any other comments back to councilwoman Breck is three minutes three minutes um thank you um you know I I honestly thought I heard in my briefing this was downtown and you know I considered these four streets so have you had a shift in thinking in the last week certainly there are some areas within the downtown Corridor but there are other areas that we may see activity and will adjust and pivot as needed um with this uh partnership okay so I Echo that Ally does good work they're the gentleman and some women who are in here and I I just I really appreciate every but private security Force out to do engagement with the public on private property on city of right-of-ways is not a comfort area for me at this point with what I have which is one no Geographic definitions and scope but you know where they're going to be no scope of the services when they interact with the public maybe it's all in the master agreement but I am concerned and it's as much for the Allied Forces people who may be put in a position to interact with members of the public they aren't trained to do I don't know maybe they are maybe they're the top-notch people but maybe they're we're also looking to deploy them to do work that you know police officers typically do or you know other peoples of part of our you know our teams and so I just I don't have confidence in deploying private security guards across through the downtown area to do this kind of work I I don't and to the degree that I understand what this work is so I will not be supporting this amendment thank you madam mayor I think thank you so much appreciate it uh councilman Reese oh I have nothing Madame but I'm prepared to know please I moved to approve staff recommendation all right I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed the post motion carries okay moving along Item B 14. yeah thank you madam mayor um I pulled this item because we've been working on the pros plan for a really long time and as you pointed out just earlier it's an incredibly important uh blueprint for our future um we're talking about this Parks District we've put significant funds of arpa money into park development I think it's a passion of almost everyone on Council frankly um when we last heard the discussion I myself asked that the Consultants consult with Council to get specific input that it not be um I guess grouped with all the other public comment that they spend time with each council member to ensure that the council member understands what's in the plan especially we have three new council members and uh for those of us who've been here for a while then we understand the changes that have taken place so uh when it was explained that the cost increase was due to consultation with council members I was assured at our last meeting when we discussed this that that would not materially add to the cost of contract so I wanted to make sure that I actually did understand what the increase of cost was I'm not opposed to it I I want this plan to be as good as it possibly can be I'm all for spending more money if we have to and I just wondered if Nathan or you know Mr Elliott uh Elliott could explain what's going on here and there might be other members with questions as well thank you for the question Nathan Elliott Parks and Recreation director for the record I think we have a few slides if we could pull that up foreign so to your point councilmember door um we we have there's a few different phases to this but I kind of want to give an explanation of where we're at where we've moved from um so you can see on the left there these are things on the with a check mark means we've done it with an open box means it's it's yet to come and this is under uh our current agreement this is without the amendment so um it's moved quite a long ways as chairman Pritchett uh mentioned earlier it's it's getting close so what's left to be done under our current agreement is an action and implementation plan which would come after Council input we don't want to do that before make all the edits and then give it to council so that would come after that so that's why you see that box unchecked and then the recommendation and implementation meeting with city council which would be under the current agreement in this format and with everybody with without a one-on-one setup so that is a big part of what the um additional cost would be in the amendment and then a final report and then adoption so I kind of just explained that so we'll skip that next one well you said that that is a big part what was what was the big part to instead of doing a a altogether meeting doing one-on-one feedback as as my as I understand it it was important to have Council have individual input as you mentioned and so it makes sense to me and we worked through the uh uh vendor to to come back to each person individually to say this is where those have been addressed and to give you that that time with the okay and I wanted to make sure during that feedback that you know if you're hearing something from us that is not reflected in the plan or is um reflected differently in the plan that we highlight those issues and we make sure that we do address them you know I don't want to come back for approval of the plan and go well where is the thing that we asked for either earlier or at the 101. absolutely and and you should have received a copy of how we did it with the commission and it came from a we heard the commission's concerns staff has a point and addressed it the consultant addressed it then we went back to the commission to say are you satisfied with these responses in 19 occasions three of them they were hey we still want to amplify that message okay and so I think that worked pretty effectively I'll leave that to chair Pritchett to tell me uh behind closed doors hopefully um but we uh but we think that would work effectively with Council too and then the action implementation plan that you identified that's going to have what dollars and money to how to get there I think so as along with prioritization you know I meant I didn't mean dollars of money I meant money and Milestones is what I meant yes if we can if we can find the money we can do the Milestones yes okay all right I'm going to cut you off hand it over to councilman breakfast yeah you know um I was on um I was disappointed to see this come on consent because you know there was attachment of the draft of the plan a memo came out to council to me it looked like it was an item that rather routine Contracting Amendment vote wanted to talk a little bit about you know what we're doing and where we're going of course the the contract Amendment lays out a path um but I'm not sure it's a good one I'm not sure that this plan is where it needs to be right now in the path that we've outlined in recognition that I think we're on our third planning project manager our second Parks director it's really gone on far longer than it was ever proposed to do and that's to me I'm a planner is a plan and trouble and I spent the weekend um reading our plan it was a little glitchy so I didn't get through most of it on our website but I did read the read the city of Austin's plan that was the most recent national uh Parks plan Award winner in the country so it's a model of a you know best quality recent for a city plan and um I think we can get there but I think it needs focus of this body I was really unhappy to see and now I understand what Mr Stewart said you know have meetings one on one and with us that is not productive and the statement said in lieu of a workshop you know that's to me also had open meeting questions if we're gonna have a Serial Quorum walking you know ask council member records what she thinks about the plan then go to Martinez and that and then we'll have an outcome well why not have a workshop and be transparent and discuss it I think that's how the Parks Commission did it and I know this body you know hasn't been wanting to have a lot of workshops lately uh but I think we should on this I think that's the path forward um and the plan you know it it it's it's kind of a hot mess the draft right now um so I think there are a lot of structural issues to tickle um into rather than um uh you know modifying the draft um and I think you can get there with Clarity but I think it needs a you know a bigger a bigger audience you know these five meetings with us for a half hour is really a joke and it's kind of delegating our oversight to this important function we say park parks are important but we're once every five years good or ten years gonna do a plan and we won't even give it the time of a workshop shame on us and shame on us for having a plan that's going on this long too so I'll support the amendment but I just want to call out um you know my dissatisfaction I think I was maybe the parks and rec um liaison when we started this or the concept came up but anyway thank you all right Vice Maurice go ahead a couple of things I want to start with Mr liott if you'd come forward so the first thing is I want to say I had the privilege of having a meeting this last week with a number of folks who are committed to park adjacent and related issues primarily in the field and Recreation Area how do we allocate fields and so I wanted to start by saying they have been incredibly impressed with your thoroughness and thoughtfulness and presenting the ideas related to what Rosa does how it integrates with our Park system what our vision is for it and basically I share that with you because when you stand at this Podium oftentimes you're not hearing the good things so I want to start with the good thing which is that there is a sense that you are really adding an incredible amount of experience that has been different than past experiences that we've had in the city in part because you came from a city in an area of the country where they have robust Park systems and a very different kind of focus so at the top level good on you thanks for doing it when people tell us that in the community we know that our city managers made the right choice in bringing you on board the second thing is I want to address sort of this concept of um you know failing to plan is planning to fail right um I I think that this is a draft it has things that have to be resolved in it I'm hopeful that that large lift in that will be done by our Recreations and Parks Commission because I think that those are the folks who have a very invested and and experience that perhaps does not always bear out and on this Dice and so I really want to make sure that they are the ones that are getting a lot of opportunity to review tear down build up work through it because you know I trust people like Mr Pritchett to give us good insight into what they're thinking collectively as a body yes ultimately we have some decision to make this die as but those decisions are often informed by the good people who work on the commissions that we serve it's very strange to say we should have commission but and give them no Power Authority or opportunity to share their voice so I'm very happy that that is the focus the third thing is this really this General concept that I hope that you hear and have heard from me before which is that you know no matter what plan we're on whether it's the first plan the third iteration of the 12th plan the 987th plan um this is not rocket science our community demands and wants more and more robust parks recreation and open space opportunities right how many times do we have to make a 200-page document to say we don't have enough fields we don't have enough swimming pools we don't have enough tennis courts these are things we deal with and and what happens oftentimes is we do the planning in order to say we've done a plan but then we don't carry through with it what I'm hoping is with your vast experience and that what you're bringing to this team now is that when we get to that moment where we have a plan and I think the plan will win all sorts of awards and and recommendations when it gets there is that we as a body commit to doing the things that are necessary to make the plan happen because this document will not mean anything if we on this diocese from a policy making perspective do not go forward and implement the plan which means we have to make some commitments financially to it I'll save some other comments for the next round but thank you for the first round thank you all right go ahead councilwoman door uh thanks Madam mayor um I just wanted the second part of my comment was exactly about this community Town Hall Outreach to present the plan and then the online survey so I wanted to make sure I understood correctly that you are going to do that um and secondly are you going to have a workshop with counsel um that's a question I I happen to agree with councilmember breakfast that it's very important many people don't realize something's going on until the moment we're supposed to vote on it and then they suddenly show up I don't care if it's bike Lanes or property acquisition or whatever it's not real until we're about to vote and one of the things I was hoping is that we could have some kind of public Workshop with the council where we hear directly from the people and then we get to give our final guidance as a body and then you bring it back for final approval so that there's a little bit of space and time from when we hear what the public saying in our face with us and when we have to vote which gives that opportunity to make some final tweaks and I'll give you an example I am not sure right now I'm speaking about pools if there is a pool in South Reno in the plan there might be I I don't know I haven't read this closely enough to understand that in my meeting 101 that was something I was going to bring up because so many South Reno residents have brought it up to me but are those South Reno residents participating you know do they even know this is happening it's very hard for them to stay engaged in our process no matter how we reach out I've seen it at tamois we've seen it at Regional planning we think it's incredibly important what we're doing and a lot of people have like this much time they care deeply but they can't really quite make the time that is necessary to participate so um first Kudos on having the town hall Outreach component number two I want to make sure we have something similar with Council even if it's a 30 minute where the public can come and speak their truth to us and thirdly an opportunity to digest those final comments before we're asked to vote that that would be my request in this and uh as much media coverage as we can get calling it Pros that most people don't know what that is right but as long as we keep saying our Parks plan our Recreation plan whatever you're calling it in real words that grasp people's um attention and Imagination I think that would help did you want to weigh in no okay go ahead councilman Taylor thank you mad at America um Nathan I have a quick question um first of all I will say thank you um to you and your team for the briefings I found them very helpful and um I guess I would disagree on some workshops because sometimes we have some negative dominant polarization that happens in our workshops and I feel like I can get more accomplished on one-on-one meetings so I appreciate you taking the time to do that and listening to me my second thing is very specific one of the comments was um number 10 that there would be a chapter of all recommendations and policies would be listed and I don't know if I'm not understanding this right but I imagine that information will be part of the plan um and just that it is easy to to to find and that that is incorporated but I think it's a fantastic I think you're making a fantastic effort with you and your team and we have to be accountable for getting the word out too as Leaders up here and we always um you know working construction I hear I never knew this project was coming until somebody's building right in front of you but we have to be responsible and accountable to and find out what's going on and there's multiple opportunities to participate in this so thank you to you and our Communications team thanks so is there I just want to get an answer really quick so I think um to kind of touch on a few of the points I think the individual components have a benefit there to make sure that questions can be asked in a in a setting that allows specificity and feedback and and detailed um response from the consultant and from staff and then I think there is value in in learning from colleagues too so I think that can happen in a lot of different mechanisms and I feel like we have the ability to do that and we have flexibility with this amendment we don't have to do everything in the amendment and we'll only do what we pay for or what I mean more specifically there will be a place within this plan where we can find recommendations oh yes okay yeah it will come after feedback too there's plenty of recommendations in there already as well as you get time together so number 10 will be number 10 from the parks and rec commission their comments will be incorporated oh absolutely yeah and and that was explained if you if you go through that document it explains how it was responded to by the consultant and by staff and if there's no response beneath that that means generally they were satisfied with that response thank you all right councilman breakfast go ahead yeah and you know I just sound this isn't scheduled for Council Direction you know it's really up or down on this agreement um so I'll try and Center in that I wish it was itemized for um Direction because I do think direction to you to help you you know on board would really be good would be a council workshop with your draft to to understand and clarify to the council you know what plan and tools we're going to give you in your tenure um in combination with these you know one-on-ones but I want to focus more to the scope you know somehow someone decided that it'd be good to enhance this effort with a community input online survey and you know when you have a draft and you have a draft that's already have comments and then you know by reviewers the Parks Commission and they have standing um and then you have responses you know you're in my world of planning process you're kind of past your point of online input you know online input comes early in a process to clarify you know large values and then that's distilled into a draft so what advantage or why did you Scope in this online survey when you already have a draft so that was based on the feedback of the parks and rec commission and then also the consultant that hey some of the surveying was dated it's pretty old that survey initially was not done by the consultancy group it was done by the city so there was some some feedback that hey this might be beneficial we do not have to do it if even if we put it in the agreement we can decide to do that or not do it I think it's important to get through the feedback process with Council before we make that decision but we also want to make available as a part of this agreement if we want to present this at the NAB which I think we should to be able to have the consultant available to participate which that was not included in the First Agreement okay and I can I can get that but you know really it is iterative to do at this point of a planning process that's in trouble and this one is you know the changeover and and so on so um it does you know fortify you know validity and the weakness of the draft or you know where we're at and it may just be a timing issue you know so I really wish the council could have a workshop on this especially from what I'm hearing of you know we want to pull down South we want this we want that the the plan seems to come from a real strong um fiscal reality perspective and I think um versus you know balancing that with a CIP wish list um you know I just don't know I'm I'm still struggling with um with it and the council not getting to a workshop on this draft right now thank you all right thank you any other comments no okay Nathan I wanted to say I think you've done a fantastic job I really appreciate the communication that you've given me I also want to say thank you to the commission fantastic job because I mean you guys are you guys have been so dedicated uh to what's happening David really really appreciate it and you know I think there have been um you know some challenges but some of that has not been uh the fault of anyone we went through a pandemic and also you you were brand new how how many weeks have you been here uh about 12 weeks up to 12 weeks okay and I think it'd be remiss to not say that the staff that have moved it along this far have been just incredible in that process I also think um plans do they have to change they have to um sort of look at how we are changing and I think in the pandemic we changed a lot and people had a totally different idea of what happens in our parks and open space and I think it's actually a really good thing because people now realize how critical they are and the quality of life that they provide so um so I think that that's good and I think any time you're doing the Outreach whether it's before or after it all should be heard and it all matters regardless you know know how you do it so I just want to say thank you I think you're you know going about this in the direction that is going to get us there um but you know also we do do a lot of plans that sit there and do nothing I think that's I think that's part of it is that in an effort to make everything perfect we're not doing enough good and I think um this plan is really close and as you have I know it's 250 Pages it's going to take a while to get through but as you do that I think you'll see that a lot of the concerns are addressed in different spaces and sometimes it's important to pull those things forward to to the council member's Point like to be very clear that we had a good plan in 08 probably but we didn't get to it so those issues are still there well anyway thank you yeah I appreciate it okay I'm going to send it councilman Ebert go ahead no oh okay all right uh vice mayor go ahead Madame mayor moved to approve staff recommendations all right I have a question I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously thank you so much Nathan all right moving on yeah Madame mayor I pulled item B15 on the Bowling Stadium because I just thought we should understand what's being proposed it's not I don't have a position positive or negative I just interested in what is what the change is okay fantastic we have Mr Edelstein here with us and we also have a representative from the rcba as well if there are any questions so go ahead take it away yes thank you uh Eric Edelstein assistant city manager for the record we do have Mike Largo Vice President of Sales for the rcba as well as Rick Murdock uh representing both the rcba board and Caesar's entertainment here should you have any additional questions um the uh the the simple the the simplest way I can boil it down is to to show this uh this document here so the amendment before us today uh is the Sixth Amendment um to the master agreement um this particular Amendment um really just deals with um the setting back of two dates so we had uh the Women's Championship scheduled for 2025 and 2030. um the USBC is proposing uh moving those to 2028 and 2033 uh the remaining uh tournaments that are in the the current uh agreement would remain static uh there there's no additional burden um on on the city no additional Capital expenses required in this in this amendment all right go ahead councilwoman so my question is just um what is necessitating the change like they were supposed to have it 2025. and are they having it somewhere else and then coming back here is that the idea or is it just delayed in their schedule so I'd like to actually probably invite Mr laryngetta to um to address that as as he has those direct conversations with USBC okay okay good morning and welcome good morning good morning Madam mayor council members thank you um to address your questions so USBC had a tournament scheduled in 2024 in Cincinnati that tournament was moved to Reno or given the option to for Reno to host it which we moved forward uh that tournament is on the books for 24. we then had 25 on the books and 30. and what we have seen is what happens is when you have three consecutive years of the Open Women's women's women's women's we tend to struggle a little bit in terms of the registrations that are sign ups so USBC approached us in order to maintain momentum of constantly having demand for the destination and having registration numbers up for bowlers so we agreed to move 25 to 30 and 30 to 33 or 25 to 28. I'm sorry 25 to 28 correct well this makes a lot of sense I mean what you're saying is there might be a location fatigue uh it would result in drop off and by sort of change it up it keeps it fresh that's correct okay well that really helps thank you councilman breakfast yeah I don't have questions thank you um I'm Mike from Mr Edelstein so um this is one of our assets that is backed by revenues that we own and when the revenues aren't there we pay for The Debt Service on it and this agreement is with us with rscba but we've got the most skin in the game because it's our facility and how are we doing on it is it worth pushing it back for three more years because that's what this does it might be two but I think it's three okay I have the sixth amendment and but you know what it contracts it conflicts with what we were told many years ago we have materials I have and I have a file this thick on this in these amendments which is don't go out this far and encumber this property that far it's very unclear and you know you need to think about it and here we go amending amending and you know what if they don't come they owe us money and guess what they don't come and we amend it and and do for them things remember the issue about we have to get the X exterior mural done and we're gonna do a mural because that's the cheapest way to do it and we did it and we worked on it well who knew that they were in negotiations to not come we could have gotten off of that and I mean I just I'm incredulous that we continue to amend and commit this facility for them to have a lock box on without even understanding if they're doing on their side of the deal I have this from 2016-2017 when we knew how many room nights they were doing how many room nights have they been doing I haven't seen a bowler we don't know that and then I want to talk to the about the other terms of the deal okay because we didn't even have the master agreement attached until I asked for the weekend um let's see the right of first opportunity um Mr Edelstein does Nevada land LLC still have the right to lease that first floor of the of the um premises uh I do not believe so okay so that's gone and you said that we've done all of our um obligations clear in here uh this amendment does not deal with any ongoing obligations uh so any obligations would have been negotiated in previous amendments but there are none in this amendment this said this this agreement says you know um it incorporates the rest if there's conflicts you have to read it but there's so much open in this the lineage fees that drop down to two dollars from way back when they're they're still low so they're getting a Cut Rate deal still we have no evidence the room rates there they've done okay and we're obligated on the surcharge that about five or six years ago was producing two million dollars to spend 75 percent to the bowling Stadium rather than good things downtown and so I submit to this Council um you know you're you're doubling up you're continuing this you're paying essentially these Bowlers to come to Vacation here they don't even want to come here anymore you know maybe it's delivering to the El Dorado there's reference in here that we have to have for our side of the deal ten thousand room available and Harris has mentioned you know is there clarification on that we should be renegotiating this deal in total and understand how this agreement is delivering for us rather than autopilinate piloting it councilman Ruckus yeah thank you I'll I'll continue on in a sec yes hold on all right go ahead councilman door um I I think I got my question answered but I'm not opposed to having a fresh look at the agreement at some point making sure things we've already done are taken off you know or acknowledged that we've met contractual obligations on our end um you know I think that do you recall or maybe councilman records does when this was first engaged in the it's like 10 years ago I want to say 2012. right correct correct yes councilman Brooks is correct 2012. so about 10 11 years ago so it wouldn't hurt either of us you know there's a proposed for a change just to take a fresh look ice you're new here uh our city managers but new since the agreement was originally signed we have a number of new council members it's just always good to keep it fresh and make sure it's still working for all the parties I I'm not I think that's actually a good idea I don't have to tie it to this change but I think it's just a kind of a good practice something to think about thank you I would say this too there has been constant communication with USBC which has been really really good I think you know the concern is if they're not there it's vacant that is very challenging that building is incredibly challenging and it's not something that this Council you know did um and now we do have someone in place which I asked for a very long time but that was sort of an issue over at the rscva um but we finally have someone in place to start programming and he's got a whole bunch of other things coming on which is really good but we kind of had to do look at everything and what was happening I wonder Mr did you want to come and address any of of councilwoman breckis's comments thank you again Mike larrigota for the record Vice President of Sales rcba so uh commissioner councilwoman I don't remember exactly your questions if you mind repeating those then I can address them let me just show you right here you see I feel the council's slit but even focusing on information we had on amendments three four and five in 2017 for FY 16 and 17 when they came back and said what a great partner they were we had evidence from the rscda what great Partners they were room nights remember there's uh you know lineage fees unique Bowlers remember all those Concepts what what are you presenting to us to let us know that you know since the last Amendment we've had a good run with this group so I believe this information is was provided in your staff report by Mr Edelstein but what I presented to the rcba board on May 25th was a recap of what USBC has produced for the region since 2012 through 2023 and just to highlight some of those numbers since 2012-23 there's been over 493 cash room nights produced over three and a half million dollars in room tax for Washoe County over 224 000 Bowlers and an economic impact of our 455 million dollars well that's not particularly helpful because um you know they have this fatigue you know I don't blame someone from Alabama who is a fervent bowler League member from wanting to make her fourth trip to Reno in 15 years you know and and so I really wanted to see this like we had in 1617 I really wanted to see it on how many bowler nights you know bull how many room nights we got uh what the lineage fee is and all those specifics and we're just not getting this and you know the mayor makes a great comment is you know this is really hard facility for us to have and so on but you know let's flip that thinking and think about it as an asset because at one point we did go out and talk to people about repurposing it now if I'm wowed that this is a great economic boom for our downtown but I'm not seeing it I'm not seeing it all in fact I'm finding it a drag because um it's unoccupied a lot of the time the bowlers keep wanting to not come and kick it out they've really are kind of freeloading Lisa leaseholders and we let them you know reserving the facility we put so much money into and so on I mean you know so and I'm disappointed too that this starts over at rcba rscva you know has the El Dorado that is specified in the contract is getting room nights you know as part of the deal yeah they're gonna vote for it probably some of their friends and partners over there and that's legitimate but it should come over here as our policy as one of our important assets downtown and I'm just so disappointed to see this autopilot again and um I think the council needs to just say we're done you guys are here we'll go into negotiations with you on the overall and and really have some hard discussions here about how that facility fits into our vision for downtown because it is not working for us right now thank you so I I will also say that I've had frustration over at the rscva with executive directors not making this a priority I have thought and fought for Esports forever um Caesars have been incredibly supportive I would say thank you to the bowlers without them what does that look like then we're really in trouble so that those negative comments um I I don't agree with at all so and matter of fact I flew in the other night and there were actually a lot of Bowlers um which was really great because I talked to many of them but also uh they were really excited to come back uh which is a good thing but we've also been in talks with the university um and then we were also trying to see was there a possibility to do other events in that space and we found out that there is which is really great The Haunted House came in which was correct pretty incredible how that whole thing worked there's also meowloof that has reached out it's now finally starting to get some traction because we've actually showed that we can diversify that property but I thank you to the bowlers we had opening night there I mean it was I thought it was phenomenal and I appreciate their partnership but I will say I've been um and I've been vocal about this over at the rcba so this is nothing new that my frustration with executive directors um and obviously not wanting to um help program and treating um downtown like it you know it's it's not important to the city and that has been frustrating for me and again I'm usually the lone vote over there but very vocal about the frustration of how I feel that downtown gets treated over at the rscba nothing to you I don't mean to like look at you that's not your job but um that's sort of everyone knows that about me so a matter mayor just a couple comments there was a lot of discussion there so I'll try and address as much of that as I can as it relates to the facility itself when the rcba took the facilities back in-house instead of Outsourcing it through SMG which then became ASM we made an effort to hire a sales and Facilities team that team is responsible for selling our facilities for anything within a 12-month window and in if you look at our production since the time period we took and taken the facilities back in-house they are doing extremely well they are tremendously over budget in terms of revenues and occupancy you're seeing our facility activity and occupancy go up in all of our facilities so we have made Headway in that front also I think you're aware that we held two national bowling days we had where we had one and we have another one scheduled in August where we're bringing in the public and giving them access to the facility to the get some exposure and they understand what the facility represents not only just bowling but also Kingpin and get ready downstairs with the museum and the Pro Shop area upstairs that is rentable so we we also use the facility whether it's through the row or any other property that wants to use the facility as an off-site option for groups to use we have several groups that I can think of that the row uses that facility for to basically give them the opportunity to get out of the hotel and do something fun in a different environment and then Kingpin of course is booked probably nine months out of the year yeah and that that outside contract that was not you but I'm going to say it was a disaster and I voted no against that correct I knew that was a bad path anyway thank you so much I appreciate your comments absolutely councilman Reese thank you madam mayor Mr Largo thank you for the information I think um asking you for financial information then dismissing it is wrong right I know that the economic impact of having these Bowlers come to Reno is a huge deal I think it is the largest economic impact of any of the groups that we bring to Reno and anecdotally I'll tell you that whenever I travel and people inevitably you're in the airplane and you ask where are you from and they tell you and you tell them where you're from they always say I've been there why they've been here because they came for a bowl in Congress right or they've been coming every other year for 10 years and certainly Miss doer is correct in understanding that there is some fatigue when you stack them back to back back and you're asking the same group of people people by their nature wish to go to other places so they can go to Las Vegas where there's a huge bowling complex it's there I think there's one in Connecticut and so we aren't the only game in town what we have to be is responsive to the customers that are coming here which ultimately generate I think when Mr Murdock came last time we looked at the agreement the collective impact of all of the tournaments over the period of time and this is historical data this is not projection but historical data was somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars with a b and so it is obvious that as I drive down Virginia Street each day and I watch the hundreds of Bowlers walk across Virginia Street going from the Caesar's Entertainment Properties over to the bullins team that they're here ultimately this Council has struggled at times with this building and you can hear the frustration at times and it spills over I don't think that's a reflection of our belief that this is not a good opportunity for us it's just that we have to evaluate the opportunity cost as they arise and so for us these are I think minor modifications to a schedule I don't think it changes anything about the nature of our angst over this building what we want is for all the buildings in that area all the the conference center the ballroom and the bowling Stadium to all have engagement and activity and it's part of our broader I think Economic Development pitch for making sure that Reno's downtown is vibrant and has reasons to attract people to come to it so again I I view the sixth amendment as not the time to like dig into the whole thing reopen everything we've got but to stay the course but I think long term we have this uh asset that we own and which we want to make sure is productive so um you know sort of try to hear through some of the noise not all that is valid I think and and I think you're hearing the disagreement on the dice about how we can best move forward at the end of the day though if we want to program it we have have to dedicate attention to it and so that's what I'm hopeful that you will do with us and for us and certainly about a mayor has advocated strongly for it at the rcba and I think Caesar entertainment is adding a higher level of sophistication to the mix as well so those are all good things so thank you councilman Reese thank you appreciate the comments if I could just add a couple more things um to my feedback is to to the minimators comments that the RCB has now hired as a specialist who has lived in wreath bowling since I think he was old enough to walk and he is putting together an extensive program of opportunities of going back to what we did you know back in the days of when the bowling stadium was first opened in the 90s where we were really attracting bowling tournaments outside of USBC and we're moving forward with that we're in discussions with several opportunities and we anticipate that being on those those tournaments being on the books as we go into 24-25 so very positive all right any other questions all right I'm going to send it to you thank you thank you madam mayor I'll move to approve all right I have a second breakfast yeah I just you know I just would encourage my colleagues um because since we just got out of that budget to look at The Debt Service load on this you know oh it's an off-site use for some of the hotels or so on you know when you put that with the ballroom The Event Center um you know they're they're real um they're real drags and you know they are real drags you get those um we used to have them on the agenda but you get the accounts paid look at some of these big debt payments you're paying for that and think to yourself is downtown better I've been around what how many years on this Council now and I'm just not saying ask to yourself so it's downtown better is it coming back better because the bowling contract delivering uh particularly for what it's doing I don't think so and and you know we've paid over 20 million dollars in general fund on that when it wasn't making Debt Service in the early years I was here so uh and I don't hold any problems with rscva I think they've got their own structural problems which really is you know probably governance and a lot of our own issues the the conversation needs to be here on our asset our downtown and think about that when you look at those debt payments going out I'm gonna know thank you so much all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed no motion carries okay moving right along I'm gonna send it right back to you Madam clerk thank you madam mayor we're moving on to item d one David one I do think we should take a break pretty quick hold on one second let me ask all right so I think we should uh take a break and let's come back at what do you think 12 15. okay 12 15. okay all right thank you so much foreign Madam clerk thank you and we're back on record let me know when you're ready all right Madame mayor it is 12 30 and we are ready to reconvene this meeting so we're on item again just to bring everybody back in order on item D1 which is a presentation from Brian McArdle okay thank you so much at this time I'm actually going to ask you madam clerk you have a public comment we do have public comment on this item from Rhonda Tyson okay great and we do have one attendee via Zoom that would like to speak great thank you hi I'm Rhonda Tyson I addressed this Council for the first time almost four years ago when zero Riverside Drive was originally on the agenda for disposition at that time Council directed the city manager to request proposals and mayor Chevy promised me that you would find something adequate and suitable for that parcel I thought that that was probably better than just putting this up for auction but based on the proposal the council is going to review today that's actually not true this proposal doubles down on the failures of the development that actually led to the city even owning this parcel I should actually say triples down or quadruples down because it's three times as many units as the development that could not succeed it is four times what that parcel is zoned for unless you engage in spot zoning which would really undercut the city's credibility when it comes to planning it relies on a variance when it comes to parking based on an assumption that parking was available on Riverside Drive right now even this the zero Riverside Drive is being used by the apartments to the east for their overflow parking and those four five or six spots on Riverside are used by people who access the the Truckee River at that location there is no overflow parking also a indoors the East the 1200 Riverside Drive has across that parcel assuming that it can simply be moved it was judicially created 50 years ago you can look at City Planning Maps as far back as 1947 to see it so you cannot simply move our easement in order to accommodate this development uh more inexplicably that development back in 2005 failed in part because it couldn't provide adequate emergency vehicle response and everybody here and everybody there knows How concerned I am about emergencies at our location there is no provision at all on this map free emergency vehicle response which would put the residents of this community as well as our own in in great Danger um I think the city how to just go ahead and auction it off let's let a developer try to figure out how to use this lot to his or her Advantage um because the other problem is having gone this route people in the neighborhood don't even know this is going on last summer when the council decided not to consider the Sinai Mansion proposal it was because it was felt that developers didn't have adequate notice none of our neighbors have any notice of this and the people who will be greatly disadvantaged aren't the people in my Condominium Association it's those apartment dwellers um on the on the east side of that lot who will be severely crushed thank you and Trey Abney via Zoom I met a mayor a members of council for the record Trey Abney here on behalf of Northern Nevada sorry I could not join you today in person still recovering from Carson City uh just real briefly uh you know nav knows the city has stated multiple times over multiple years it wants a vibrant livable downtown and we believe that this proposal meets that criteria and as as neop actively Works to support and advocate for a federal public lands bill that will allow us to continue to grow and diversify our economy we have been told multiple times from people at the city and others that the focus needs to be on infill so here it is this is infill we think we need to move forward on projects like this and a federal lands Bill we are a uh all of the above approach uh here at nap uh and again we want to praise your staff for their hard work and we want to thank you all for your service and for your time thank you madam mayor all right Madame mayor with that we have no additional live public comment it should be noted for the record that we did receive 11 letters of Correspondence three or eight in opposition and three concerned those have been distributed to the Reno city council and are part of the permanent record we're closing public comment all right go right ahead afternoon Madam mayor and new president of the conference U.S Conference of Mayors congratulations again council members good afternoon uh Brian McArdle revitalization manager for the City of Reno for the record and today we're here to negotiate or to discuss Council Direction on a negotiated uh sale and purchase agreement for zero Riverside Drive for which we did an RFP earlier this year and we received puzzles and we're going to discuss them today so just some background on zero Riverside Drive is your Riverside Drive goes along the Trekkie river right by Booth Street it does uh terminate right at the end there and ends at this property which is zero Riverside Drive currently there is a parcel map of 40 condo units uh 12 story 40 condo unit parcel map uh that was um entitled in 2005 on this property that developer was unable to build that project and so through a series of uh of liens it came before the city um and the city decided last July to pay off those liens to the county and acquire the property it was also decided at that council meeting to go out for proposals um at that time and so we put together a RFP process released the RFP right around the first of the year I received those a few months ago and we're here today to show you the winning proposal that came through our scoring and review process the current zoning on the site is multi-family 30. which does allow for uh 55 feet buildings acreage is 1.33 and it does have a flood zone which we will address here this is how the building or the site currently looks uh it is um I guess a blighted lot with two existing structures it has been fenced off it has been a nuisance for the city for some time people have been breaking into the site um I believe Alex Woodley's here he can share some of the issues related to that some people breaking the fence parking cars camping on it some people have been trying to Garden on the site uh and so when we approach this RFP process during that last council meeting it was discussed that some of the priorities were to create a scoring process to create a strategic priorities that the city would want to see take into account someone's ability to actually get the project done and so we looked at the master plan we just created some priorities related to this proper process and that was to address affordable and Workforce housing to increase the density of housing specifically in the downtown area given this location Place making quality of life is very important sustainability and design materials and then given its site along the Truckee River we do want to make sure that it it adds to environment truck River and encourages Recreation in addition to that we created other scoring criteria so just the alignment with the city goals was 20 points but we looked at uh the team that was proposing their experience in the space the projects they've done in the past we looked at the design of the site to incorporate the number of units uh the type of building being proposed all three proposals we did receive uh proposed a multi-family project of five stories um we looked at the financial structure the pro forma's the average rents that would be charged for this and then the capacity for these for the proposer to actually get the project done using uh their existing equity in the project and then last is the timeline and so the proposal that Rose to the top is a proposal from built who is a local Builder developer in town they're proposing a attainable housing unit with high density attainable being that they can offer rents within the spectrum of what an average income could afford in the area we call that Workforce housing between 80 and 120 percent they are proposing 123 units mostly Studios and one bedroom apartments uh there's a something happening in in place of downtown living is that Studios and one bedrooms are becoming more and more popular because people are choosing to stay single and not get roommates uh and so it's putting a further pressure on housing because they want their own dwelling units in this proposal is 110 open-air parking lots the open air is important because there is flooded challenges on this site so if it does flood the water can flood through that open air parking and continue to um to go through the site it is a 55-foot proposal four over one Podium structure they are going to maintain the river path the plaza and allow for public access and they do have an erosion and flooding control plan these These are other other renderings from the site that are proposing 29 studio apartments 77 one bedrooms and 17 two bedrooms on the proposed entitlements something that's going to be needed for this project to go through is there is that 40 condo unit parcel map existing on site so they'll have to do a reversion to acreage they do plan to maintain the current easements but there might be some alignment but the it they did say to reserve a 28-foot asphalt fire and emergency access easement to that 1200 Riverside property they will need a parking variance uh the 120 10 units is less than the number of housing units being proposed but there is site for parking storage this is uh near multimodal and RTC bus areas and then it will require zoning change from multi-family 30 to possibly mixed-use Suburban which would remove any density caps but keep the height at 55 feet we did go out for appraisal on this property uh per NRS in in City process and so one was for a million the other was from eight for 875 000 so the way that process works is we average the two and so this came out to 937 500 which would be the fair market value for the property and the offer price from built is nine hundred thousand and with that it is proposed that we do a 10-year timeline uh Tour Version in case this property or this project doesn't get built there would be some potential clawbacks for the city to regain ownership if the project can't proceed or some other challenge gets presented and so the recommended motion would be to allow City staff to just negotiate so we're not proposing uh anything other than proceeding to negotiations on a sale agreement and we can discuss anything that the um any deal points we would want in that agreement uh they will have to come back for those zoning changes there will be a whole process from here on out if this proposal is selected uh and so this isn't the only process we'll also be bringing that sale agreement back to this body for final approval and that's it okay okay all right thank you so much I really really appreciate it and Brian I think you did a fantastic job I think it was very clear and concise so congratulations because thank you you don't come up to the podium that much and you did a great job so I haven't been here that long I love it you did you'll see me more like I said thank you so much um okay so let me just say one of the things and I maybe I wasn't clear with communication to staff um first of all I think this property is extremely extremely unique and for someone to probably look at this property and see the beautiful River I mean it it is incredible but I also think I would have liked to have seen the other proposals that came in but I also in my mind thought when we asked to look at what we could do there I also would have liked to have seen anything from Parks to open space because I always kind of wanted it to be sort of a Memorial Park now I also have issues of having the city maybe own the park and maybe it could have been the residence next door I also as everyone knows on this body I also have extreme challenges with um you know sites that flood sites that flood sites that flood and also there is an emergency issue to access um and so and I know we need housing listen I'm not against housing I vote 95 of the time for housing because we so desperately need it but this parcel is incredibly incredibly unique so I would have liked to have seen what other options um we could have had on the table I didn't realize it was specifically for housing and I know that we're always so hyper focused on housing and so maybe that's where my communication uh was was not clear so um I'm just curious to know the rest of the council's comments but that's uh sort of my comments I do have um I think there's a lot to overcome here to get to a project um that's just my feeling so all right thanks okay I'm going to start with councilwoman breakfast and then I'll go all the way down go ahead yeah you know I share a lot of layers um thoughts um and um you know I think you did a good scoring and a proposal but typically and I know you're new to government um but Mr manager this is for you I think due process fairness transparency would have involved you know discussion of the other ones you know how they scored short and these ones short at scored ahead you know I think that that's just fair to them you know they they met the deadline I didn't see in your stop reporting I didn't hear anything you know who were they where were the points difference that's really how you do an RFP scoring it's just following through on the process so you know we'll see where we want to go and and I don't want to stop my time right now um you said there were other housing but I I would would have liked to have known and I could easily accept you know this was the issue or not so that's number one for me number two is um you know I'm not categorically opposed to this proposal but we need a good deal on our end and I want to know how old the appraisals are the dates and months oh probably 30 days I think we got those in March okay I count already low Jacobs was buying a hundred for dirt you know when he stopped buying um and I know there's encumbrances but when you pull that out so I I would like to know a square footage um Miss Tyson brings up an interesting thing of like just have a clean auction you know and it's and I don't I want to be fair to these proposers who came through a process um but I want to make sure we're getting a good deal I don't like kind of the summarily oh just go rezone it I think that maligns and discounts are regulatory environment you know so we have to be really careful with that what I would say is if we're going to ink a deal they bring us a draft SPD document that's exhibit a that ex shows the project and it is contingent upon exhibit a getting brought through and approved approved through the land use process and I think this is one that's called for SPD that's the specific plan District that we've discussed that's where a lot of this spot zoning and the other issues you know customizing and always been important to me to look after the Riverside neighbors who have suffered so much in the last nine months and have true real lived experience on Emergency Response needs so that's that I have a few others um you said I think on my briefing that this went to the HRC and they were okay with the with the building demolition I went back and looked through HRC agendas I didn't see where this was discussed what was the date and time where that was discussed uh October 13 2011. that was a long time ago goes if you know but the building has significance it has significance to the um history of the place I understand and you know 2011 oh boy that's a long time ago I think it but but you know um they've got a lot of asks coming in that I'm uncomfortable with some of their ask our discount fees um you know we demo some of those things I'm not comfortable I just I want it cleaner and I'll tell you another thing is I'm not even at a point where I need to see it go to this affordable housing I'd almost suggest to the council we're getting nine hundred thousand dollars for the property throw it into that Housing Trust Fund that we've created and let them go market but work a harder deal with them you know that's cleaner I'm sorry I'm going to cut you off yeah councilman Martinez any comments yeah I had a couple questions thank you Mr Ricardo Madame for the time um I'm just wondering if Mr McCarter you could address I know it's in the plan but if uh on record you can address some of the issues with impeding emergency vehicles I did read some of that in that plan but I'm just wondering if you can specify what are their plans currently for their success yeah thank you there's an existing easement on site the the there's no proposal to remove the easement there was um some if you look at the artist earned Rings uh some parking in the front of the building um but that I mean the easement would go through that parking asphalt right there and then go up to where it currently ties in the existing easement ties in so um minor alignment but it did say in The Proposal of 28 foot up to code fire an emergency asphalt Access season and I did get the chance to walk the site yesterday and I that trail I think would definitely help along the river there in terms of flood mitigation I know that some of the mapping that was used was the most recent data that's available from the flood Management Authority so I'm just wondering if you can speak a little bit to those flood hitting mitigation efforts yeah so we do have the proposal here if we need to have them answer any questions but uh it was addressed that they would go after a 408 encroachment permit based on I think it was the Carson Truckee Water Conservation District as well as the Truckee flood Authority but those could change uh in the timeline the mat the flood maps could change and so they're willing to work and adjust as those those change as well and but right now they're they're proposing building at grade without adding any fill on site uh and then removing that existing structure would actually allow more water to flow through okay that's where addressing those I think the other thing just in terms of processes is understanding the timeline um regardless of how this vote goes today or if this is the vote is in favor I'm assuming this will still go through both the Planning Commission review a site plan review and I did see something about the United States core army or Army Corps of Engineers sorry having to review some of that site plans is that correct they would probably have to review those during the entitlement process yes okay that's all I had thank you okay thank you so much and I I apologize Ryan you're awesome you also weren't here when we did this but um I apologize to staff because they did do exactly this and it said the focus of this RFP is broad-based and all ideas and concepts are welcome so as long as it supports Economic Development and or activation of the subject property and fits in the surrounding development so I did that's where whenever I said I promise that we'll make sure that we um you know kind of keep it into what that looks like so okay that makes me feel better because I I thought maybe we just staff thought it was specifically housing that was not my intent like I said I always sort of envisioned it as like a you know a memorial garden of sorts or even quite honestly even the property next door purchasing it and making it an amenity um to their property anyway okay uh go ahead councilman Taylor thank you madam thank you Brian um I'm just gonna say I love this I love this idea I love what you did I love the RFP process of including a financial capacity and timeline into it I did have concerns like my other council members about the other rfps so I reached out to you and asked and you were very forthcoming with what the other rrps look like I believe one of them was a zero um dollar offer which and then the other one probably wouldn't have met the time or the criteria for the financial and the timeline Criterium RFP so I fully appreciate the RFP process that you went through um the Builder coming through for a zoning change that's not something uncommon that's a very that's an entitlement process that we deal with all the time it's not something that we need to get into the weeds with here I also am very very supportive of the info um Mr Abney mentioned that we say we want envy infill and yet we make it hard to do infill I think as the city in my position the city needs to be a partner in these projects and I'm glad that you and your team were at the Forefront of that to work with with the proposers and get where we want I mean I would love to see more Parks who wouldn't but just going through the budget process we don't have enough money the time or the resources to take care of the parks that we have now so the the idea that we might be able to get a fair market value on something like this bring more housing into an area where maybe some people wouldn't be there before we'll go through the entitlement process see what happens I'm thrilled I can support this project 100 thank you vice mayor ahead thank you madam mayor Mr McArdle thank you I want to maybe start at an earlier starting point than the presentation that is this concept that we as a city have to be intentional about what we want when we last uh when I was in Columbus a year ago for the national gathering that we did there which was the icma conference we spent a lot of time in Columbus talking about that intentionality it wasn't random who showed up to various cities to build various projects that were providing that kind of Housing and economic development so that concept of intentionality is an important one to me and that's my starting point with regard to the RFP process I um I I think that's a better process than an auction I heard a couple of comment uh one of the public commenters and even miss breakfast suggests that an auction would be better that again violates my first principle which is intentionality right if we want to be intentional about what we want to see there then going out to auction gives up that intentionality so we get the highest price for it but maybe they'll build a strip club there I I don't know you know the point is is that this intentionality principle is guiding my thoughts about it the scoring process you said we scored and we did this who were the scoring team it was a mix of Public Works utility flood Economic Development and development services just to make sure that everything that was being proposed there weren't going to be any huge hiccups um that we weren't unaware of well and again going back to that intentionality I don't need to see the proposals that did not make the cut right my point in that is that if there's a huge gap in it just because someone made a proposal doesn't mean they're they get to be at the show right I think one of the proposals that offered zero dollars uh certainly did not attract the attention of any of the scoring matrices that were used and it would be unfair for them to sort of I don't know take up the time that we have to evaluate these intentional the second one which had uh I think didn't have a timeline associate was like maybe someday when we get around to it we can build it on the other hand you have a Stitzer um who I think has a known quantited us they've done good work in this community they have a track record that we can Bank on them doing right so if you look at things like the Eddie you know at one point time there was a lot of consternation would it be successful could it be the thing again we're trying to be intentional with the parcel that we have and when you have people who have proven that they have a track record of doing a thing and being successful and maybe they are innovating and they're pushing our comfort level I think that's important so um I think saying just have an auction ignores the fact that we want some intentionality to it the last thing I'll say is I think councilmember breakfast has a multiple good ideas contained within the thought process one is this SPD process my hope would be that in this negotiation process that concept is present there um that we can negotiate the things that we want to see or do as long as they're negotiated fairly and the last thing is certainly the dollars that we receive if any should go to something like a Housing Trust I think by virtue of the fact that they're smaller units those Studios one bedrooms they're certain you know that Urban infill that's micro units makes it more affordable no matter how we look at it smaller units the more affordable they will become so those are my thoughts on this first round I may have some uh other thoughts as we go around all right councilman dork oh yeah thank you um thanks for bringing all this and doing the hard work that goes behind these kind of proposals a couple questions for you I'll kind of try to lay them all out in the first of all I wanted to complement the staff report a lot of times we don't see the background included and you actually have some major points even including the Sinai Mansion what happened there and that is so helpful to us getting a historic perspective of what came before what and where we are um one of the things that you said in the staff report was that we directed A year ago staff to pursue an RFI process RFI to my knowledge was a request for interest but then we go out with a request for proposal so one of the questions I'm going to have for you is how do we switch from RFI to RFP um so we've got this RFP um I uh everything is very site-specific right what fits best in a particular development and I'm totally fine with multi-family in this location we already have multi-family but where I am concerned is that we're between two major Park areas we have McKinley a couple blocks away to the East and we have Idlewild one block to the South and this has become a pretty major parking area in this on street parking and I'm concerned when I hear about the impacts on parking that they only proposed 110 parking spots for the 123 units and some of the units have two bedroom which means they may have two people which means they may have two cars and so it is um the disproportionate need for parking is not just a short 13 spots but it may actually be as many as 25 spots short because you know of the 17 of them were I think two-bedroom so what I would like to see given this location the tightness the curve the amount of people that go through there what I would like to see see is a similar proposal I'm fine with it I'd like to see a reduction in the units so that we can make it up with the parking I'd like to see parking on site and they are already doing a good job meeting mitigating the flood by building the parking lot underneath the building which is very much appreciated from my perspective that's a common building technique I do want to make sure we're in the flood plain not the flood way and I asked you this before but I wanted to hear our experts speak to that Trina speak to that and I was a little confused about when you said we needed a 408 and a Trekkie River different kind of permit with the core than what I was expecting to hear so I wanted to hear a little bit about that and the reason I mentioned parking I'll just give an example to the body so we have a street in my ward called Warren Way which is parallel to Lakeside we have a lot of multi-family on there but the street itself is not very well developed it doesn't have striping for example parking spots aren't laid out and a lot of the apartments have overflow parking onto the street um recently we had a piece come in and the proposer came in at mf30 but with public input who were not against a multi-family they lowered it to mf-14 which brought this story I'm not suggesting that here but I'm giving an example but what it did was allow them space to put the parking on site and with that one change the neighbors all signed off they were not against multi-family what they were concerned about was the impacts to them so I would love to see if we move forward the parking address I really like the idea of SPD because that nails down what would be built and then finally I'm concerned about this public access on the fireway I'm not sure I really understand it what what we're talking about so I'd love to hear a little bit more about that so the flooding the parking SPD I think we're on our way and finally in the staff report you say proposals came in for 54 units to 123. so presumably between 54 and 123 could be a magic number that everyone thinks pencils okay it isn't like you need 123 to make it pencil you might have to charge more for the units but this place may not be that perfect place for the cheaper units I'm just given the parking constraints and the demand for recreation there so that's some of my thoughts all right could I get a couple answers though from either Brian or Trina yeah [Music] thank you good afternoon Madame mayor city council Trina Magoon director of utility services for the record to address a couple of your questions we did provide a map to all of the applicants identifying the flood plain the flood way the ctwcd or Carson Truckee Water Conservancy districts 14 000 CFS boundary all of those were provided based on that information a couple of the proposals I believe did provide a you know an open parking underneath the structure to mitigate flood risk there's also removal of the existing structures which will increase flood conveyance through the site as far as the 408 permit from the Corps of Engineers those are typically for navigable Rivers right um I believe unless they're doing modifications which they may be down in the river environment uh with the path that that may not be needed depending on how far back this uh structure is but we're definitely out of the flood flood way a portion of the structure is in the flood plain but then again it's elevated by that first um story uh parking and there is very little grading on the site to modify the landform as it is okay so they've addressed most of my concerns obviously we have not seen an actual design but we will continue through the process and it will have to meet our code as this moves forward if it moves forward and then the other questions for Brian were about the RFI to RFP and the ability to potentially reduce and deal with the parking SPD I think it was mentioned in the proposal that if if they can't get the parking they would reduce the number of units to meet the allowable parking it just might have an effect on the attainability of the housing I understand yeah maybe this is a luxury space being right on the river we've we've traveled to a lot of cities uh doing our homework and we have noticed that density in cities are really is what's saving cities right now with the offices vacating uh creating these dense Urban neighborhoods uh for uh Fort Collins um embrace the parking overdriving culture that that drives there encouraging people to own and purchase a bike it was mentioned the proposal that they could even possibly incentivize people who choose to go carless with the um further reducing rents if they choose to do that um so those are some of the options there you know as we encourage more multi-mobility uh travel throughout the area um you know we these are the types of projects we're seeing in other cities that have dense neighborhoods right uh in the RFI process uh versus RFP um when this process started uh you you essentially received two proposals or two ideas for the property uh and based on the comments that there wanted to be scoring in the assessment of a price and the ability to get things done and the capacity um that wouldn't be included in RFI you wouldn't get the information you wanted it would just be were willing to do something but we're not going to give you many details which would only put us back into the process we are here which is getting more detailed thorough proposals to make take the next step I'll come back with more comments thanks all right councilman Ebert no nothing going down to councilman breakfast go ahead yeah um you know I was not able to call you and ask because um the city manager has not been allowing me to have those conversations with staff and I brought that up in my review you'll see next week but um so for the benefit of me and everyone else that one who asked for zero price was that a an affordable housing developer with a a track record it was an affordable housing developer the price wasn't zero but they requested that the city do a lot of um essentially make it shovel ready and that wasn't fully defined it was you know we'll give you a price assuming the city makes the project shovel ready who was the developer uh it was it was an affordable housing product do I have to say who it was or yeah it's you I could yeah it was um it was Veterans of America's national it's v-o-a-n-s okay someone who's done a lot of good things here um they're on the sidelines but you know um I don't I want to be fair to these folks too and respect you know the stop job we went to have staff do um I I could get there for 950. I want to see the SBD you know I think that could be customized you know relevant on the density I'm Not So Married to the parking age someone messes up on their design they they mess up on parking that's a them problem you know I really do feel that um but I I don't want a discount for them any fees you know they they they demo they go through the permit they do all the fees everything uh because I think they're getting a good price on this land I really really do you know on the affordability uh because I think there was some desire to keep some units Market are affordable for 10 years which is one the shortest uh affordability period you know ever I've seen but also brings up compliance questions I would submit to the council and this is really to the mayor is um and maybe Miss Taylor is see it let's put a provision on there that there'll be a property that takes Choice vouchers because that is a huge problem for the Housing Authority a lot of Apartments will not take those Choice vouchers so if someone shows up on that doorstep leasing office and wants a choice voucher formerly known as Section 8 they'll take it that's a really really that that's a cleaner deal I think on their side and it's cleaner on ours but the 10-year revision area I want to have some clawbacks that are solid I want I want a building permit pulled within three years you know um and once a building permit is pulled I would like to see construction a CFO within two years and if they miss those timelines there's a penalty of payment and the penalty of payment is a CPI uh increase on the land just whatever CPI is on the sewer rates we're getting that back on the 950 000 and should the entity in any way change we get a first right of research re first right of buy back at the price sales price um uh you know so we get we get that prior to see a bow obviously I think those are Fair Deal points and parameters um to give stuff to Noodle on um but I'm you know also want to hear what my colleagues say on that too thanks and the applicant all right any other comments go ahead I think many of the things that councilmember breakfast mentioned are things that we would all conceptually support I'm not sure we're using the exact same language to describe them for example I would say that we need to have a very robust and well thought out disposition development agreement so that means I'm not necessarily saying I am in favor of the SPD process whatever we can accomplish in a negotiated agreement with built would be the best practice and so you know whether it's 900 937 950 again those are things that you can negotiate about in the negotiating process I sort of like and or analogize it to this we've we've now had the first date with these folks who have put in their development process the question before us days whether we would go on a second date doesn't mean we're getting married but I think we could go on a second date with built and figure out if there are things here I mean they're here they are hearing us have these conversations and I think probably some of these things they would be very flexible about other things maybe harder I like councilmember breakfast do not want parking to Wag the Dog I think that I have said before number one as a body we have reduced parking requirements in the code when it involved density issues because I think we're seeing as a society people are less car Centric uh by analogy or by just anecdotally I have three children one of which has chosen not to drive you know they're 23 years old has never had a car it's not in their interest to do that so I think that we are not so car focused so on top of that this idea of incentivizing people not to have a car some people who have a studio are going to have a bike they're going to work at the you know the drug store over there by Reno high school and they're going to walk to work each day those are things that we're looking for I sort of want to to make sure that I have fully shared with my colleagues that I think this is part of our Redevelopment strategy right this what we have engaged in here and this very robust process which involved a lot of different departments is why Mr Mercado you are here it's why Mr Edelson is with us it's why we're trying to be intentional with our actions as a city because we have development that needs to happen we're trying to find the PATH forward to do that again as you mentioned you said going to other cities and looking at what they're doing I think they are embracing that increased Urban density where appropriate it's not appropriate everywhere I think we have the ability to use our building and Zoning codes to make sure that we are making good choices that's a great parcel there are challenges I think that built will have to do their homework right they've got to make sure the easements are in the right place fire access is preserved parking is required the density I don't think the density is really for us to negotiate here today or perhaps it will be something you discuss with built but density is tied to the proforma that makes the project pencil that makes it support the price that we're asking for it all those things are true again I think there's a lot of positive conversation going on here but I also want to make sure we're focused on that Economic Development piece and if I may just continue for one minute you know when we start talking about Urban infill you're talking about people who will live here at this project they will ride their bike to the hub on Riverside where they'll buy their coffee they'll bike over to you know the shopping center where there's the China Bistro and there's Egg Roll King and they'll be able to shop and eat there we're trying to create livable walkable communities and that's why Urban density and urban projects are the thing that are saving many American cities and so we have to be reactive to that and intentional and so again for my part I want to make sure that we're being intentional I think this process is the first of many that we may engage in as we start to move towards Redevelopment agency work this is a small one but I think hopefully instructive and and the fact that we had some bidders who were interested including a national one tells me that people are paying attention to Reno still for my part I'm happy that it's someone with a local track record and I think that's good let me see if anybody else has questions yeah councilmember doer yeah thanks um to my colleagues sorry for being so quote old-fashioned but here's my perspective real estate's always all about location location and if this location was on a more of a main artery such as Keystone Fourth Street something I would be having a different conversation uh bringing up different points than I am what I'm focused on right now is that the city has two assets right here McKinley and Idlewild Idlewild is out of 88 Parks is our most visited Park and parking is always a challenge and so to protect and preserve our asset which we are fully programming I'll give you an example we went to Earth Day okay no place to park it I don't want uh that was within blocks people of family and children were walking many many blocks filling up all the communities and my concern is this is one of the places that they bark if they can't park here because it's full of parking from Apartments then that will interfere or impact our asset which is our most visited Park so just some things to keep in it's not that I'm against um being under parked but if we were closer to a more main artery I would be more for that but here we're in a very constrained area between these two parks next is they think that as part of the deal I think we should revisit the historic review on the liaison to Historic Resources Commission and I think just like an appraisal is out of date in six months I think a historic review from 11 years ago or 12 years ago is too old I think that has to be Revisited they may come out with the very same answer totally confident comfort with that as to the price I'd already brought this up with you or Eric that I think that since it's just a land deal a market deal so far the price should be closer to the appraised price and I understand 35 000 below is not that much but I I want to be able to look at the our residents and be able to say that we followed all of our guidelines and got the close to the appraised price which to me is the 935 or even this 950 I've heard bandied about um I had already told Eric that I was concerned about the reversionary Clause that at 10 years if we weren't there but they're in the middle of Permitting that would be very hard to say no so I liked very much the proposals that councilwoman breakfast brought up and those included things like looking having some Milestone timelines that are earlier than the 10 years so that we know something's happening having I hadn't called heard it called Choice vouchers but if that's a new word for Section 8 I'm all for that like you should be you they should not be able to discriminate based on where the money's coming from okay they should take people people are people their money's good they should take them um whether it's a disposition and development agreement or whatever Mr Reese called it or uh SPD I'm fine but I do have a preference in the SPD is have designed accepted planning document that we already know how to deal with and the public isn't put on notice with that whereas they aren't with agreements other than to council meeting but they are they do receive notice on spds I'd like to see that um and let's see did I have one more thing um I I just liked her her proposals I thought they were very reasonable and shouldn't scare anybody away so it included a CPI increase um and so again it's a different perspective I'm a city councilwoman right I have to be looking out for City assets our programming the food truck Fridays the Earth days all the things that we're trying to do and make sure that residents can access those so thanks and a mayor go right ahead yeah I um you know I've been the ward representative for 11 years and um I just think driving it on you know the special event programming vis-a-vis parking is not maybe the right right approach um and um you know but I do have and and frankly when this Council said no to the Sinai building mobile movement we lost the the other building in my view you know it's no surprise that all three came through with the Demolition and a larger multi-family we had a very unique offer on the table we it was summarily put away and to me that was the the point of no return on the Sinai building and saving the uh building next door which I think I can't remember what it's called like the baker house or something so I'm prepared to move forward and not revisit uh the historic nature of that um because I think that that left us a while ago I want to understand um a DDA that Mr um Rhys mentioned and maybe he's had conversations with staff that I haven't but my understanding is DDA is really only when you're in the Redevelopment agency and we're not in the Redevelopment agency what's the instrument that you visualize was it just a sales agreement I think it is just a sale agreement um we could explore a development agreement but I think you're correct in that development agreement is usually when you're within Redevelopment because you know and everyone could work this out in the tools but development agreements and spds are NRS 278 tools DD days in my knowledge are in the Redevelopment statute but this is really neither um I mean it's you know I don't even think you need a development agreement I think you would have an SBD so let me try a motion and um the thing is we I'm happy that you might try a motion but can we first I thought we might ask Mr Stitzer if he wanted to say anything at this time I I know that um we've had a lot to say it may help Mr sitzer any interest never pass up an opportunity look you've you've heard a good lead maybe an hour or so conversation uh all I think relatively positive I mean there's some issues there to be on to work through sure but what is your vision for the project Kurt Stitzer for the record representing built which is the uh presumed uh winner of the RFP process and potential buyer of the property you know my vision for the project is a you know very nice but Market affordable attainable housing project um and and you said it Devin when it was you know the higher density it's smaller units allows us to offer units at that at that price point a good example on a smaller scale is the calav studios project that I developed and currently own on California Avenue across from the Rubicon Deli again at or below market rate um units and and brand new um that we actually completed under the Thousand homes in 120 days program and I believe that we were the first and only ones to actually have completed um a project and paid back our note to the city I might add so uh thanks thanks for that um but yeah we uh you know we really just like the opportunity we we place a huge amount of value on the location um Miss doerers as you noted you know the the value the asset that is the Truckee River really should be capitalized on and I think that um you know this gives probably some of the highest and best use to the land as far as all the different product types that we'd considered when reviewing this RFP and coming up with a proposal so you know we worked long and hard with with our civil engineering consultants and our architectural Consultants to come up with a design that that addresses the unique nature of the parcel including flood mitigation density issues and you know truly it comes down to underwriting at the end of the day I mean as as you guys may have seen in our RFP it's it's a pretty robust underwriting model that substantiated or drove a lot of the decisions that we made when it came to number of units so you know there's been a lot lot of good discussion up here and I think it's actually really in line with a lot of the discussion that happened in our office as we worked on putting together this proposal so um you know I'm happy to answer any specific questions or address anything that may come up along the way but certainly appreciate you guys putting forth the opportunity and Mr sitzer what's the bandwidth for built to get this out of the ground meaning let's let us make an assumption that three months from now we've tidied up whatever the document is we're down the road together we've decided to get engaged in my analogy and you're ready to go how long is it going to take for us to uh do you have capacity are you ready to build oh yeah we're ready to roll I mean we are just wrapping up or real close to wrapping up our development at the historic property the Colin Ranch House doing that Office Park development or within a year of completing our development the Cold Stream subdivision up in Truckee we've got a commercial project that we're going to be doing up there as well but you know we're in really good place as far as in-house development projects to have the bandwidth to take this on um so yeah we're looking forward to getting going on it now obviously there is a long entitlement road that we're gonna we're gonna have to undergo that's very likely going to take the better part of a couple of years hence the timeline and some of the things that we put in there we start talking about you know Federal and reversion to acreage and all the different things that we got to get done to make this project work the way that it was proposed so um you know we're we're not going to waste any time getting going on all that though of course council member broadcast wanted to yeah I don't have a question go ahead yeah I don't have questions for you Mr Stitzer so I'm going to make a proposal and I think you know I do believe it's iterative as Mr Reese said but we have to give them the clear Direction on a negotiations because there's a lot of points to make so let me try a sales agreement to be negotiated with Bill for a 950 000 sales price an exhibit to the sales agreement is an SPD that will be submitted to the city and receive City approval prior to execution of the sale and I would hope in that SPD you know there would be attention to the easement that then it is so important to those neighbors um and then flexibility also you know on the unit issues all costs associated with the development um including demolition of the structure and site prep is built's obligation so that's a point we will the city will agree to put a deed restriction with built on the property um that may be involved RHA is a counterparty to have the property be a a choice voucher accepted a property that accepts Choice vouchers the management accepts Choice vouchers and then rather than a 10-year revisionary um which I I think I think there's clawbacks of getting permit through Us in two and a half years in completing construction two and a half years after that missing those Milestones each of those for each year that's missed is a CPI payment to the city off of that 9.5 so if in year three they miss it they have to pay that Year's CPI increase to that 9.5 I don't think so that's how I would I would do it up until point of CFO and then any Reliance on a clawback deteriorates and then they go firm in their firm in their financing do you understand that yes I just want to note the offer was for nine hundred thousand they did ask for they wanted a proposal the original proposal was asking for things similar to a thousand homes initiative and we said we can't do that so they adjusted their offer price tonight what was the appraisal value that you said the fair market value is 937 500. that's that's the value I'm comfortable with because I know I've got a track record for a very good affordable housing developer behind us and I think this is the right the right price for this Market product 937 000 is what if you had okay 500. okay so councilwoman Ruckus gave me a motion so Obsession I have a second any discussion discussion okay councilman Taylor go ahead thank you madam mayor I'm comfortable with some of those emotions in the second however I I'm not a real estate agent I would like to let our team go back and negotiate with the applicant at the price of what councilman Rebecca said and come up with some more of the details with that I have concerns about putting economic restraints on something that I don't necessarily understand all of the conditions affordable housing vouchers CPI all that stuff I think that's something that um our experts are much suitable to negotiate and then bring that back to us I guess when we get to the engagement process as Mr Reese said Thank you aren't you on the are you on the Housing Authority board yes you are okay and I agree with um your proposal to get those vouchers because it's it's very challenging and um and they actually work really really well and we I mean they're monitored too but I'd like to make sure that we understand all the economic impacts of that and whether it can pencil before we start putting restrictions on something it doesn't impact the proforma no no issue no you're right it doesn't I'm just saying I think that's actually a really good program that as we move forward to think about that because Ed it's always challenging um sometimes for people to take those vouchers and the reason why a lot of times it's challenging is they don't know um they actually aren't educated on them so they don't realize that they're actually money so that's why we always have to go out there and educate landlords on why they're actually really good and think about it then once landlords have that relationship and they know they know they get paid I said it's money is money yeah and um and actually much more secure right okay go ahead Madam mayor I um like Miss Taylor am Desiring to support the motion meaning I I have an interest in the thoughtful uh discussion that's happened here miss breakfast has uh I think put forward something that is to be celebrated in as much it's a it's movement towards the direction I'm worried that our staff will believe that every item which you've identified is a deal breaker meaning if it does not end up in the final thing then somehow we cannot get engaged or get to the marriage part I believe strongly and I think maybe all of the parts that you identified except that I want to make sure that there is an opportunity for them to have a negotiated agreement so in my mind I would have appreciated a less uh detailed motion and and therefore more like motion would be the generic motion but with direction that we've given right so that that's my only concern because I don't want to get hung up to where the point where we get to very close to the deal we're 99 there but you know some element like calling it an SPD versus calling it something else unwinds the deal does that make sense yeah and I can accept that I mean I think these are the the motion is to and if they can't get there explain why but you know for example the Housing Authority maybe may say I don't think this is the case I think they are looking hard for these but say we have too many in this area or something or um you know but I think I think it's a good um motion and I've seen us send them off with not enough um detail and they they struggle in the counterparty struggles and um so I think you know this is where they should strive to land and if they don't you know let us know and we'll be on our way on this one then well I think with that explanation the idea that let us know is that I'm happy to support them for example Mr Stitzer may say you know what the um this Federal agency is permitting in this time so the two and a half to permit is three you know or something and just go to six so I can be comfortable there but I think this gets us as far as we need to go um and uh and cleanest too I think I think you've made an excellent motion and so I'm happy to support it okay [Music] okay in some circles I actually am very disappointed that we didn't get other rfps at the table uh quite honestly for for other things to consider and look at but I also want to be supportive of my body um and support all of them because I also know we need housing and I not saying that it won't be a great project I also would would I wanted everyone to keep in mind you have neighbors very close to this location and to work with them before you come here what I watch is projects get far down the road and it becomes a complete disaster and then it leaves a very bad taste in all of our mouths up here and then we can't get there so just a word of advice because I don't know your um who you're representing built I don't know if I I can't think of who they are off the top of my head [Music] it is your company Oh I thought you said you were representing them okay so I'm just saying please don't do that we've had a couple um not that I know that you do that but we've had a couple of the last couple Council meetings that were really unfortunate they didn't work with the neighbors and because your neighbors are so close and um they're you know they are going to be concerned that is going to be really critical moving forward because the density as well go ahead um Mr Ricardo was that path along the river area a condition you felt of the meeting the nature in which we got the prod property from the county I don't think I understand the question meaning we got we got the property from the county under that we have a as a local government 's directions I was wondering if that was driving the design in any way nope okay okay yeah okay gotcha okay okay I now I know we're not going to do an Eddy there now I get it okay now I'm like you do housing but no thank you so much I actually now I know you're working it's very very good so um thank you I know you'll and that's one thing you've worked really really well with the residents so um I appreciate it okay go ahead yeah I wanted to Second your comment mayor it is critical that we do that Outreach and I gave the Warren Way example to say that we did infill multi-family infill an area that is already built up over and above what the streets could support in their current condition but we got sign off from the neighbors because we were aware and heard what they said and addressed it and that's I that's why I want to give a second to what you're saying we can get there infill's a little more challenging it's not like a green field like go do what you want this is work with every neighbor on all four sides right behind you next to you in front of you passing by you if you do that this will work and if you don't we're going to be hearing complaints forever seriously we can no longer go to Idlewild because of X or we couldn't attend the whatever event art pause at McKinley because of why okay just keep that in mind our city assets okay so we have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed thank you all right Madame mayor we're moving on to item F1 which is an ordinance adoption to be read by the City attorney [Music] F1 to be read by the City attorney I'm going to send it to Carl Hall thank you [Music] option ordinance number 6657 ordinance authorizing the issuance of the City of Reno Nevada of its first general obligation limited tax Capital Improvement refunding bonds additionally secured by pledged revenues series 2023 and the maximum aggregate principal amount of 28 million for the purpose of refunding certain outstanding obligations of the city in providing other matters relating there too [Music] move to adopt you have a motion in a second any additional questions or comments at time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify me saying aye aye aye any pose motion carries unanimously all right item G1 appointment to the Truckee Meadows Regional planning and governing board mg1 yeah Madam mayor um uh I was let's let's just Trail per minute till our colleague returns um give us one second Jenny breakfast reappointment yeah okay go ahead she's not in the room so I wanted to make sure that we were good to go um so let's Trail this she very well may want to be well that's what we want to make sure so give us one second um Mickey can we don't know Madam clerk can we Trail this item for one moment we just took it out of order I'd like to go now to G3 item G3 okay and let's just give ourselves a second to reset the room here for one second hold on hello hello it's your first time we're super excited to see you we're rooting you on you're gonna be great thank you thank you I'm excited to be here so good we you know what we're gonna take a quick five minute break we've got some technical issues we got to get some of this stuff together so give us a minute okay thanks okay all right foreign hello okay so actually Mr clerk we're going to go back to item G1 I would like to reappoint councilwoman breakfast councilwoman Dewer and uh vice mayor Reese second I have a motion in a second all those in favor say hi hi all those opposed motion carries okay okay moving on thank you minute mayor and now we're moving uh back to item G3 okay thank you so much um Mr clerk do we have a public comment on this item at this time we have no public comment on this item okay sending it back to you first of all I want to say a huge shout out to City leadership and city clerk Mickey Huntsman for giving me the opportunity and trusting me to get up here and give really a knockout presentation on this topic great love it so good afternoon Council good afternoon mayor my name is Cody Freeman Human Resources business partner for the City of Reno human resources department today I have the opportunity to talk about item G3 that is the city clerk's 360 degree performance evaluation and provide you with a short summary of The stakeholder feedback so what did this process look like it was a process that was facilitated by the human resources department and prior to launching the survey we reached out the council to get their feedback on how to develop this process and really the great idea of the survey so thank you so much for your participation in that process we launched the survey using an online survey platform in doing so we received eight external responses from external stakeholders those stakeholders consisted of other city clerks and assistant City Clerks throughout the region we also received 71 stakeholder responses from internal stakeholders and the internal stakeholders consist of superiors colleagues and subordinate employees all of the stakeholders had 14 days to complete the survey what areas did we decide to evaluate and how right we focused on five areas this time and we use the rating criteria from exceeding expectations to no basis for judgment it's important to note when we talk about no basis for judgment we mean not observed or the stakeholder didn't have that opportunity that relationship to give good judgment on that question we looked at communication skills we looked at interpersonal skills leadership Innovation and management also the survey included a field for comments and you'll see those comments throughout the presentation when we look at the first summary for communication skills we find that 94 of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets their expectations when we evaluated the communication skills we focused on the fundamentals of oral and written communication as well as presentation skills when we received the summary for interpersonal skills and relationships we found that 91 of the stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations when we decided to evaluate the interpersonal skills we looked at areas such as the ability to gain trust relate to others and Foster positive working relationships the summary for leadership found that 89 percent of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations important to note on this slide here is about 10 percent of the stakeholders answered no basis for judgment when evaluating leadership we focused on the areas of being a forward thinker and being receptive to change and new ideas the summary for Innovation showed that 94 of the stakeholders fill the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations and when examining Innovation looking at areas such as being a forward thinker and receptor to change and new ideas and I believe for leadership if I can just go back for one second leadership was the ability to make decisions in a timely manner and stay current on management practices and techniques all right lastly when we look at the summary for management we found that 85 percent of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations important to note here on this slide that about 15 of the stakeholders responded with no basis for judgment the areas of focus for management were knowledge about the city Charter ability to delegate Authority and operate with sound judgment this concludes my presentation on the stakeholder feedback at this time I would like to invite city clerk Mickey Huntsman to the podium to present her self-evaluation all right welcome I'm much smaller than Cody first time nailed it and in that I would like to thank the HR team and Christy she won't want recognition but I'm giving it anyway thank you for all your hard work preparing and coordinating my 360 review Taking this on in addition to your daily workload is a feat in an in and of itself and I'm and I'm grateful for all of you so thank you for the support um and lastly before I begin I do want to thank Jackie JW and DRT um so much of the confidence that I have and the preparedness that I have to stand here today comes from their mentorship and support so thank you I don't think it's often enough that we get to share how much work they do and how closely we all work together so um my gratitudes to the three of you but Madam mayor keep me on track here today honorable mayor and council members I am Mickey Huntsman the Reno city clerk for the record I'd like to start today by saying thank you for choosing me as your city clerk I'm honored to serve as a representative of you and of this organization I take my job seriously but I'm also very playful at heart and for the context of today I'd like to take the next few moments to share my story of the last 12 months please lower your expectations because this isn't going to be a story about mythical creatures or small humans with hairy feet although there are sections of that that coder could not be true but rather one where I get to share with you my achievements one where we'll discuss the breaking of barriers to build stronger teams and one that ends with the grandest adventure of all setting my scene for my third year as your Reno City Clerk to kick it off I'd like to remind you that I'm here today because of and alongside the seven of you as one of two city council appointed positions I'm honored and humbled to lead within this organization but more importantly I'm proud to call this elected body my superiors as some of you are aware from my last presentation the clerk's role is the oldest documented Municipal role with routes back to pre-biblical times clerks were identified as remembrancers recording events through oral history oral storytelling and recall now fast forward a couple of thousand years clerks across the group across the globe share only one common description or job function to recall and record the history and policies of our elected or judicial bodies and organizations now ironic as it may be it turns out we're good record Keepers but terrible at taking records of ourselves Google provided no cool clerk quotes or famous Municipal clerks and thus Henry pouring care enters the scene he was an influential mathematician theoretical physicist and philosopher which again nothing related to clerks but relatable enough through the existing through existing in a myriad of spaces both creating and solving problems in the polarizing time that we live in I hope to utilize this quote as a guiding point for Innovation but also as a pause for my criticisms nearly 80 people participated in my 360 review 72 percent of the external invites responded to and 51 of the internal invites were responded to and for that I would like to say thank you to each of them I cannot grow and understand my impact without honest feedback and I look forward to continuing to represent this body my employees and myself in a way that clearly reflect reflects my intent knowing me is to know that I would never stand up here and tell you how important I am but NRS 266 405 states that an elected body must have four positions to establish a municipality City attorney a Treasurer a municipal judge and a city clerk these positions are required by NRS due to their technical responsibilities for oversight and control differing in power and responsibilities but Equitable in their review of resources and justice my position however is still different established out of control may be but really to set forth and to ensure an accurate record is kept of the city's history so mayor council members and Mr Thornley the moral of this slide is that the City of Reno literally could not exist without me and Vicki and Carl and of course our esteemed judges so now you've got the why and The Who and that leaves us with the what my predecessor referred to the clerk's office as the nerve center of the organization through records management Central cashiering or elections my team has established a reputation of being friendly and doing what needs to be done this slide shows you the data numbers and qualifiers to display their hard work but what it doesn't show you is how incredible these individuals are even with the work even with all the work on their plates even with a chaos creator for a boss they show up every day and cultivate an all for one and one for all culture within the city they're experts at filling in gaps they're professional with customers and they're eager to grow yes even Barb we are a small team with a lot of responsibilities but mostly in a space that can sometimes feel thankless they are the first to smile and the first to lend a helping hand and for that I couldn't be more proud working in local government can be hard with little thanks and little recognition our city manager's office has done a great job at finding new ways to celebrate and educate within the organization and I wanted a piece of that pie everything starts with one action and I knew above all else I wanted to water my people and I wanted to watch them grow in order to achieve that my leadership and I developed a monthly training plan for our team one that aims to train new skills from time to time we even have guest appearances from our sister departments cross-departmental collaboration is vital for a team that acts as the information center for City Hall and what better way to learn the ins and outs of this organization than from the experts themselves we are so grateful to have shared time with Mr cecconi and policy and strategy where he shared a presentation on his role in the 23 legislative session Ms Lindsay from our housing and neighborhood Development Department who taught us about the city's rental assistance program and most recently Mrs pagli pav Legion I want to say that wrong from Reno Direct these are small efforts but have already increased confidence in my team's communication and their relationships within the organization I am also excited to have launched a 360 review platform that supports that supports their growth while also providing them New Perspectives a process that follows very closely to my own this experience has great has been a great opportunity for my team to share feedback with each other with praise to share feedback and praise without fear anyone in public speaking or performing will tell you that it doesn't get easier the nerves in Adrenaline never go away you just learned to be a little bit braver each time and with this in mind I thought it was important to close out the process with a presentation and a celebration of each team member they will tell you it was scary at first it's hard to read the comments about yourself both positive and negative But ultimately becoming one of the best experiences and conversations many of my employees have ever had in a workplace and lastly and maybe even the most important of them all we have a fun committee they are tasked with creating bonding opportunities for my team outside of work we've done various things like movie nights game nights and even volunteer opportunities where we built boxes care packages for our overseas military personnel so last June I stood in the same spot doing the same thing giving you my annual review I feared that I couldn't fill the shoes of those who came before me and yet somehow I survived I wasn't exactly sure how but I knew that I wanted my second year to be different what kind of leader would I be what kind of impact would I have this job requires diligence and accuracy but also empathy something that I am continuing to learn every day and thankfully in partnership with Mr manager and chief Nance to whom I own I owe many thanks I'm most excited to share with you the work that we're doing in the Reno Police Department's records division earlier this year the city settled a case with a local reporter on the mishandling of public records while the Judgment was in our favor the reality of our records was apparent and one that required urgent attention over the last three months my records manager and I conducted an internal audit of the RPD records department we've spent 63 plus or minus hours shadowing staff collaborating with the city of Sparks Washoe County and Las Vegas Metro spending time with the police department's leadership team to really understand their why the results of that audit will be shared with you all later this year but I will say that I have been astonished at the willingness and cooperation of this division that this division has displayed their records leadership team is working to redefine how they engage in the organization in Daily processes and how they want to manage their own teams they want to develop each other and their employees and we are honored to be a part of that process now I want to touch on the work I've done with our regional Partners both Statewide and here locally you've already heard but I've personed a lot in 22 and 23. and as an introvert I'm incredibly proud of the work that I have accomplished in this space using the city council vacancy appointments and the 22 elections as a catalyst for opportunity I'm honored to have worked closely with Jamie Rodriguez at the Washoe County Registrar voter's office this last year together Jamie and I collaborated with the city of Sparks Clerk and clerks across the state to ensure Regional consistency while we've been reviewing and commenting on the numerous proposed election Law changes at the 23 legislative session we've my team has worked with several local non-profits to lead educational and Leadership conversations both at the Eddy house and at the University of Nevada's School of Journalism something that I am excited to continue and grow in the upcoming years and finally as we wrap the 22-23 portion of my presentation last year several of you asked me to focus on my professional development so that I did in partnership with the manager's office and with the support of my team I attended three conferences this year the national league of cities in Kansas City the international City Managers Association conference in Columbus The International Institute of Municipal clerks conference in Minneapolis and I also took a more active role in the Nevada chapter of the clerk's Association referred to as the nmca thank you for for allowing me to focus on me thank you to Doug and staff that came alongside me during and after the conferences to continue collaboration and relationship building I've learned a lot about myself and a lot about my colleagues we love food we love laughing we love Innovation we really love ice cream but mostly we love coming together and doing incredible things for this city but most excitingly and not to take away any excitement for the mayor's new position but through my regional work and Leadership efforts I'm happy to share the nomination and election of me your city clerk as the president of the Nevada Municipal clerks Association yay [Music] [Applause] [Music] not unlike Reno there has been a mass Exodus of Clerks across the state and Country and I look forward to utilizing the lessons that I have learned here to grow and support that organization to my nmca family many of you I know are watching thank you for your support over the last two years now let's go make great things happen and with that I'd like to take a few moments to share what our office will look like for 23 and 24. through discussion with with each of you I wanted to thoughtfully find ways to stay consistent with my values within my boundaries of Charter but while also pushing myself to the next level and before you is what I'm calling the big three for year three I'd like to enhance services provide more equity in government and most obviously improve technology my leadership team is working on an organizational chart redraw through this we can Define positions and responsibilities have a mission statement for each division to provide a North star and outline goals and measurables to understand where improvements need to be made within Equity it starts with us I want to continue understanding our current impact and find tangible ways to enhance those Services through compliance of our public meetings and public records requests but also also with our Dei team through multilingual Services noticing and accessibility at Council meetings and finally it is time to make technology work for us we're excited that we're going to pursue city council chamber updates with technology and improvements we're looking to streamline the public comment process um and to have a tech-based agenda accessibility both in the room and outside of the room for those who are participating we are moving forward with digital signatures yay we spend a lot of hours in my office tracking the location of documents and obtaining signatures to increase tracking consistency and accurate record keeping we're excited to launch a policy in a process to obtain these signatures digitally we want to push information out so revamping our public access on the City of Reno website and continuing to digitize records and lastly we want to use technology to fix perceptions we want to streamline work processes both here at City Hall and at RPD records and we are excited to continue doing policy work and objectives related to city council and that leaves us with our next steps I feel like I gave you a healthy overview of my achievements in the last 12 months today I am seeking from you confirmation of or direction for opportunities that you would like me to pursue but also I would like to have a conversation about compensation I've heard the great work that I've done and plan to continue doing for this organization as we enter in it into a discussion on salary I'd ask that you keep in mind my profession is one that is primarily held by women a position that is often discounted and grossly underappreciated I'm incredibly grateful that last year this body brought me into alignment with the director's pay but in a space where we continue to discuss equity and fair pay for women my title is different I share the unique responsibility of working for the seven of you my peers in this organization and many clerks across the state report to a manager which provides a different layer of protection and Oneness my position is one that is required by law much like that of the finance director which is why I'm asking to revise my resolution and be placed in the same pay band as Ms Van Buren I look forward to continuing to influence by position but also where I can continue to set examples as the person who fills it and to close this the very same way that I began thank you for being my leaders and for allowing me to shoot for the stars these accomplishments and goals wouldn't be possible without each of you and your support yay [Applause] how'd that feel laughs well listen you did like that like a breeze were you nervous at all no not at all never not at all um first of all I think great leaders really show that they bring people together not um separate them and if you look around this room there are a lot of people in here supporting you big time and the funny thing it's so interesting because I I guess I never thought Ashley would do a different job um and so I think I'm not so sure you ever saw yourself in this position and I think you have just done an incredible job and you are kind you are humble what I love about you is that you um train everyone else to a higher level so that they can do the work that they need to do so you can give them the freedom to fly and that's another great trait of a leader um I love that you are always kind responsive um you know Ashley had a very different style than you she's laughing not bad or good just different totally different style and and so you can really see sort of the transition um but I would say I just you work so hard you've worked so hard but the other thing that you do is you love hard and you love all the people that work for you and that you work with and I think you just are a Class Act Mickey you you just really are and this um city is so lucky to have you and I agree with you 100 that you should be in line um with that pay that that has to happen it's still there's a statistic it's about 17 of women today are paid less than men to do the same job Seventeen percent that's a big deal and I'm so glad that you mentioned it and brought it up it's very hard especially as women to negotiate that it feels really awkward and we just sort of have this barrier of asking for things but if you don't ask you'll you'll never get it so I'm impressed that you did that because it's really tough to do and it just shows again um that you're tenacious and I think it also what I love about it is it shows all these people in this room how to lead so be very very proud I am going to give you one I there's nothing in your review that I um could criticize in any capacity the only thing I'm going to say I would love to figure out some sort of button right here so I can communicate with you a little bit better because I don't want to yell at you over there that's the only only negative thing I'm gonna say but everything else I think you do a phenomenal job and like I said we're very very lucky to have you thank you so okay I'm gonna um open it up to the board or to the body and start with uh vice mayor Reese yeah happy to um Miss Huntsman it's an absolute privilege and pleasure to work with you alongside you every day I could not have done any better than the presentation that you uh made along with Mr Freeman so I wrote a poem yeah so it says in the realm of the city where duties reside their stands a remarkable clerk full of Pride Mickey the name that Echoes with Grace a beacon of excellence in every Embrace with diligence and passion she takes her stance a custodian of Records a leading Advance her skilled hands tend to documents with care preserving history a legacy she dares transparency flows within her diligent stride a bridge to the people with nothing to hide in the chambers of governance she shines bright guiding the path with wisdom and light Mickey your expertise and record keeping thrives creating order amidst a sea of archives attention to detail of virtuous command ensuring the city's forever story will stand proactive and Visionary you always Aspire navigating complexities with unwavering fire Innovation blooms in your steadfast Soul improving processes reaching the ultimate goal elections find Solace under your watchful eye candidate filings voter rolls all comply your orchestrate the dance of democracy's voice ensuring fairness and integrity the people Rejoice communication flows with eloquence Divine a bridge of understanding a sympathy fine your words paint Clarity in every exchange uniting the community a harmonious range Mickey your contributions beyond measure they be an exceptional employee we all clearly see in gratitude and awe we raise our voice to celebrate your greatness to Rejoice may your path continue with success and cheer as you uplift the City of Reno year after year Mickey you're never your name forever engraved a symbol of Excellence a leader so brave peace nice the only problem with that is now we all expect one I know well you outed yourself all right go ahead Council mom and door this is not fair that Chad Chad GPT I am going to like go challenge next [Laughter] um I think you just made a phenomenal presentation one of the things that shown through is your confidence and um that is something that I marked on your review that somehow you come across as incredibly confident but not overbearing very humble um and that you're very non-controlling and non-judgmental and those are features that I so value because it's very hard to be that pivot point that point of expertise the person everybody needs to go to but not I don't know what other word to use but not lorded over them not hold them in your debt like I gave you something now you owe me something I I think this is something so special about you um and that goes in addition to your emotional intelligence being empathetic and caring but at the same time gracefully laying down the rules of the road and somehow you do that balance and keep everyone with you no one against you and I mean I think it's an incredible balancing act that you've done um I um i i i in my review I called you a shining star um I think that you put on my eyes what we're looking for in innovation um I think that the things that you've done and I'm going to give a couple examples that you know no one else would know about but me because I saw you do them but those are things that are these small but important things and an example is when you helped me with this recent animal Advisory board so you weren't even going to be here and yet you figured out with the training with being able to call on other resources in the city that willingly Rose to the challenge with being willing to coach people that were very afraid to come into this Council chamber had never done a hybrid meeting they did it flawlessly with um you know Michelle's uh support and advice to them they were scared to death but they were made to feel welcome here and so in my review I constantly talk about both internally and externally and I also mentioned I didn't know that you had just become the president of this organization him but I knew you were active in doing Statewide activities and that says a lot when other people looking up to you for a bison Council so all of the things you know I don't want to be redundant with everyone I'm not going to write a poem on the Fly you're right at the moment but I do want to just say you know I just think you have battered at home you've done an exceptional job this year I'm looking forward to putting you in that pay band I 100 percent agree um you know records and clerks have been looked down upon as not critical to the functioning of an organization and yet at the end of the day you're dealing with the data and the data the information that everyone needs and they must come through your organization and so it's got to be seamless in that the organization's got to run when you're not there and they've got to feel confident in what they're doing and they've got to be trained and they've got to learn an attitude to public service to uh that they're going to be kind and generous with the public who come and don't know really what question to ask don't know how to ask for the information they need but they do need it so I just I think it was a phenomenal year for you and it was a very different Mickey this year than just one year ago that presented to us I mean the growth that we've seen in this one year is phenomenal so in terms of things for next year the the things I suggested are continuing to work with RPD because at the end of the day I want to see the clerk's office be the place to go not multiple places to go and the more you work with them the better the output is going to be for the public you hit the technology button of course but here's something that you maybe you haven't thought about but you and I have talked about offline which is I want it so that the city can run elections so that this we are not dependent on the county so that when we do have vacancies to fill or opportunities like that that we can step up and do the job and I think that's a you know that would in today's error of a concern about elections I think that having another competent person and organization to go to to do an election would say a lot about our City's capacity and that we've heard the public and that we can do it and so I know it'll be a lot of building it may not be for a number of years till we get the equipment and the Staffing and the processes down but I think that should be you know potentially on your goal sheet to do so thank you for everything you've done you're making us look good thank you and just to that note council member um the city of Henderson recently just hosted their own special election and so I have been in communication with that that City Clerk and then um just kind of continuing the conversation with Ms Rodriguez on kind of what future plans look like she kindly asked that we wait until after this upcoming session and upcoming election cycle but we know that we there are things that are out of our control so that will be something that I do continue pursuing thank you okay great thank you okay councilman Ebert sorry you want me to go down here and I'll go back thanks all right uh councilwoman breakfast go ahead um I want to talk a little bit about our process um it's very unusual to have the room filled with staff you know I mentioned that right you know it really is you know unusual and um I don't mean it in a good way either you know I I think I think it's nice I'm glad you guys I'm glad we do I'm glad you do but um I know yeah and and I do but it it it is is atypical to evaluations and I mentioned that last year when a lot of people came in I think in matching shirts for the managers one um I I guess I know it shows it feels like it's showing support but um you know that's okay that's that's okay I just I'm not a fan of it I think it shows like uh you know she's running a campaign or this is a social event for her and so I see it differently and I'm gonna call it out from a management point of view I want to thank Mr Cody what's your last name Freeman I thought so I want to thank Mr Freeman and Miss cintoya for running the evaluations this year um I repeated before the PDFs are glitchy and maybe I'm the only one who's experienced that because I do it as a PDF and not the online survey I mentioned that last year they're still really glitchy um you'll see that I had to recreate the form for the manager next week but on hers I was able to do it um she's been very good for me to work with this year uh we meet quarterly we met him in advance of this um of this review unlike the city manager I haven't had a meeting with face to face in two years um so we've gone over a lot um but last year we were mid-election cycle and the election came up very well so I give her a big thumbs up on that um and also her involvement on redistricting too um the first round the second thing that were the downsides I felt were really um you know the police records um you know taking ownership of that I'm glad to hear we have an audit but even the records themselves you know I've been I never learned more about city services than when I experienced it myself I went upstairs and paid my sewer bill during our lunch break you know always a great experience they have new handheld devices but the public records production is lacking still I believe and I think you need to take leadership of that and it's not a win that we're up before the Nevada Supreme Court right now on a records issue and I don't know if it's deferral to the city manager deferral to the City attorney but I think you need to take ownership of it even if it goes to the point of telling the council you need to adopt some guidelines here so to elaborate upon it so that's my my go-to for you but other than that I'm very happy with the work that you've done one last point on the evaluation um I do mine as a PDF I ask for it to go separate and apart as an evaluation a standalone document I I like the 360 review I'm glad the clerk from Carson City had her input provided but that input and review is Incorporated in with my colleagues who didn't do it that way they're entitled to do it that way someone could come public records for how they did it but I think they're I think our comments and our reviews need to stand on their own separate apart not merged in with the clerk from Carson City and that but that's how I want to do my job but I'm disappointed that it's not established that way as a parameter of that because we only have two people we evaluate the manager and her and I think we should all be okay identified with our responses all right thank you council member coming right back to you so are you good yeah okay I'm fairly new here so I don't have a whole lot of experience I can't compare to last year's review but just for my own personal experience um you've been very helpful to me getting up to speed with different processes and different things that I need to do as a council person different um documents I need to supply um for things like Financial disclosures and things like that you know people might not think about that aspect of the clerk's job as well that it's not just the outside role that you take on for the citizens of Reno but also the work that you do behind the scenes for the city council person so I really appreciate the help that you've given me as a new council person so I'm sure that next year we'll have more experience to go off of but I just want to say thank you for the help that you've given me as a new council person you've done a great job and I know that you are really receive a lot of public records requests I know that it's it's a um a huge task and I know that you and your staff do a really great job at that um and I just want to say thank you for your hard work all right thank you I'm going to send it to you now Miguel or councilman Martinez sorry thank you so much no you're good um thank you so much for the presentation I think I read somewhere in your self-evaluation that you feel like that was a spot where you just meet expectations but I would contradict what you just said based on you what you just performed right now and I would say you exceed that part that performance so I appreciate that I want to Echo what council member Ebert said to being a new member on this body I appreciate your willingness to provide information and guidance in filling out the requests that we have to on our end and provide information that we need and clarifying some of that I also want to highlight um how quick you in your office is to implement Innovative strategies especially when it came to our Spanish-speaking community and embracing those comments that came especially on our last meeting and being able to adapt to that and and to do that and always being conscious of how to encourage participation from that segment of our community is very uh I just want to applaud and come into you for that I also will say that the technology up here is great so I'm glad that that's one of the goals that you're looking at I'm looking at getting better the other thing that I wanted to point out um is that it seems that you have obviously a lot of support within and outside of the organization and specifically within your department I see a lot of happy smiling supportive people here and so in order for you not to get to this point where you mentioned in your evaluation of not being able to function that you feel like you can rely on your team and you're able to delegate some of those tasks so hopefully you don't get to a spot where you feel like you're accommodating too much I mean you can rely on that your teammates to help you with those rules so I'm looking forward to continuing to work with you over this next year thank you so much for everything that you do thank you all right councilman Taylor Kathleen's gonna sing a song because she has because she's gonna up with her voice she's gonna up bring in the band remarks I would not punish you that way Mickey I love seeing strong confident professional kick butt women and you are one standing right before us today I am so proud of you and your team and everything that you bring to the City of Reno I imagine this is a very uncomfortable place for you to be right now so I will make this quick the City of Reno is lucky to have you and we are proud to have you and you make us a better place thank you for everything that you've done and I look forward to working with you in the next year okay we've all made remarks um councilwoman breakfast can we are we gonna go one two rounds yeah I think okay um and I want to address the salary on this um I uh the ask I am not comfortable on the Fly here reclassifying the clerk position to be on par with the finance director that's problematic for me and unfortunately you know you're the first one of before we close out our fiscal year and then next week we do the city manager and then all the resolutions for the unrepresented and I'm very big on parity in the organization and I think asking you know because you get the opportunity to be before us and ask for a re-class I think we need to do re-classes within the framework of a methodology and I think we are under a methodology analysis right now right Mr Freeman yes a class and comp study yeah so I want to see that because director On a par with the clerk we recently you know just by virtue of the fact that Jason Soto retired we reclassed you know to assistant city managers and a fire chief you know kind of tailed along and I thought that was not a best approach and um and we have to be careful you know we have to be really careful that those who are not the most visible in the organization are the ones getting you know the bump ups and we have to do it within a scope even though they're outside in negotiations of groups we need to do it within a framework that's adopted so what I see next week is I mean I guess the fire chief is getting a large raise again but I see two and a half is built into the budget correct yeah that's where I'm comfortable I don't want to put she's done a great job but I don't want to reclassify her out of scope and I don't want to you know I I argued for for a tighter budget this year we've missed since the budget adoption we've missed I've learned now we've missed three sales tax projections three we three months in a row a third month came in below projection and so I I think it's the two and a half is where I'm at and certainly not a reclassification of the clerk to the level of the finance director without any you know without outside of our class and comp study thank you all right thank you so much any go ahead bye Sarah thank you madam mayor um I think roles that are here at the city we have two employees the city manager and you and I think last year when we had this exact same discussion we talked a lot of good game we said let's look at the bands let's do these things let's pass a resolution none of that happened I think we moved you up intentionally because sort of the eye test I can see that you are misclassified and also underpaid so the same thing is true here what I would like to see us do as a body as I would like to see us honor our commitment to you and your commitment to this city by making a substantial raise that puts you in the same pay band essentially as our CFO I think that's the right place I I make that decision based on one a lifetime of being a labor and employment lawyer and understanding and Advising companies on how these kind of issues work within an organization two is I see the direct reports right I see and understand how many folks you supervise I think you know if you look at our organizational structure we're going through some changes and as those changes happen it will require a broader discussion but that's not for today from my point of view and what I am comfortable with is um significantly getting you into the different Pay Band which does take you out of those director pay bands and placing you in that sort of unique position where we find ourselves I think it's a bit below where I see our chief of police and our chief of fire I think it's definitely different than how I view our acms but you know I think mayor Chevy said it best early on which was pay Equity is a huge thing and as an organization we cannot cling tightly to these concept of Dei and starting to move in the right direction when we are not willing to pay phenomenally talented woman who has done all the things right and so again for my comfort level I'll respectfully and politely disagree with my colleague from Ward one but suggest that there's a better path and we can get there together today and then I hope that we will make the appropriate resolutions that would backstop that so we aren't having this discussion each year and missing it in the kerfuffle of a the following year um so I'm much more comfortable in that range Madame mayor the other thing I would also say um I think it's absolutely important that you are in there but it's not what you say it's what you do and so I mean I think it's it really is um people that make the organization really great I think it says a lot about us if we don't show that we are paying people to where they need to be recognized um that one is is really concerning to me um and I don't know I I think you are one of the lowest am I right in the North like I'm sure we you know how we always look and see what other municipalities or have what a you know yeah I can definitely answer that one for you when um discussing compensation our best practice in our department is to do a comparative analysis of external agencies as well as an intern internal Equity analysis and so um we we did do that for this position and for um the the comparative analysis showed that Miss Huntsman is is at the top for when it comes to competitive agencies but again when looking at compensation it's really the the influence that the person has on the position and what they bring to the table and that's what this Council knows when they when they they see the work that Mickey does and that's what makes this position kind of unique and outside of a class in comp study is that this work that is being done is known by the council in this position when we're discussing compensation is at the discretion of the council too so although we may find our in our findings what the analysis says at the end of the day the position is is unique in a way that it reports to council and that you have the ability to make the compensation recommendation and I think you've really done a great job of like building upon it and really expanding it I I feel like it's a completely different Department um and I mean I've never had like one issue out of your office ever ever ever not one that I can even think of I mean Barb does an amazing job like you guys have a dialed it's really incredible and the things that you're innovating and expanding on so um and I really appreciate that so I agree I agree with that I think it is a very unique position but it does need to be in line with that so I agree um go ahead councilman yeah just um I'll just comment on this thing um it's a very important to have pay Equity absolutely number two in some ways we are making up for lost time okay so we've been behind and sometimes you have to make a leap ahead to sort of balance everything out number three your position and what your group does reflects extremely on us so you are the front face you are the face most people see most people aren't submitting development applications the average person uh isn't um you know engaged with our public works department occasionally on snow removal or redoing a street but almost everybody has to come to you for something so you set the tone for the entire city and that and your department it trickles through so that's why I think it's kind of exceptional I mean that's why I always want to do a pay and compensation study to set a baseline we have to know what it is I also have to say I'm completely shocked that our recommendations for last year were not implemented and I guess I have to say we own that but you own that too like if if it didn't happen uh 30 days I would have been saying where is my pay rate I mean come on I mean you should not have suffered in what's that I understood differently from Miss cintoya so maybe we should I I yes could you please speak to that I can provide some clarification on that so the pay increase was applied it was the resolution that was not updated section F2 has an outdated um range in there so that is what did not come to fruition but the pay increase did okay so the pay was adjusted correct but the actual resolution which sets the ban yeah which discusses the band as well as the benefits provided the total comprehensive package that was the part that has outdated information in it okay so on which we're looking at it today correct it's outdated so it needed to be updated yes it does okay well let me re rewind a few of those remarks and say at least you did get paid it sounds like as I think I would have heard about that like you know hey 45 days um anyway I I support this and I feel a little bit not prepared to say what is the right pay ban frankly I don't know what the CFOs pay band is and how it relates to every other I haven't had the opportunity lately to see that and so it's unknown to me I feel a little awkward to kind of throw in a dart here frankly because I'm not I don't see a layout of all the paid bands that I would like to see but higher is better in this particular case so move forward okay so I think um I would say so I go 20 I think 25 raise then we should probably come back right adjust the band bring that back yeah we'll bring the resolution back to okay all right that sounds right so that's a motion a second discussion go ahead Council on Ruckus you know I understood that last year the clerk position was moved to the department head position that sounds great so that happened correct Mr Freeman it is at a department head position that is correct okay so within the department head level we have different acms correct so the department head primarily involves the directors in that range on that management salary schedule is 152 000 just north of that to 199 000. as the low on some of those different bands from yeah the minimum of the band to the maximum of the band and which band that it would go from a43 which you know hey it could be yeah the numbers help though to a46 in the same management salary schedule and what that band looks like is a hundred and eighty nine thousand 108.99 to 236 392 dollars and who just the CFO and then who is in the bands above the Two Chiefs and the acms I don't have that information right in front of me on the salary schedule I can tell you that the answer is yes so yes um you have your department heads and then you have Director Van Buren then you have the police chief and the fire chief and then you have the three ACS okay thank you I'm not comfortable jumping the clerk jumps above the Public Works director she jumps above the um the utilities director she jumps above the planning director she jumps above the parks director um I just I want to see where clerks go in other you know arrangements and and you know this is not personal this is not a reflection on the you know contribution the individual makes to the job or how she does to the council it is you know not supporting a 25 percent one-year salary in government is not a place I'm comfortable at this point in time and jumping someone else in our organization and the Ripple effects that house is not comfortable for me either so I am not going to support on the motion on the table but I think that I've done my job in evaluating her yeah and having communication with her year round with her performance and I apologize for being overtime that's okay you're fine Madam mayor I just um yeah I just want to get some clarification so I mean awkward but could you tell us what the current pay is please yeah yep the current pay for uh the city clerk is 176 529 okay and and in that current range that's 13 from the top of the range and 15 from the bottom of the range and I'm happy to give some percentages if we were to move the Pay Band and what that means like you know I guess I'm less comfortable with moving bands I'm very comfortable with the proposal for the increase is the increase it sounds like would be um bumping up against the top of the band based on what you just said the increase would exceed the top of that pay band on on what the mayor just said correct I got you so that's helpful but if we don't move the band then we're in the same place that we were last year moving forward and we're not recognizing where she is and where her responsibilities are based on all the other arguing I'm asking I was just asking whether I'm just clarifying that there are other responsibilities that our clerk has one is discussing her pay in front of everybody else and it's not necessarily that we're jumping people it's what is appropriate for her responsibilities and the people that she works with yeah all right I need a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed post post motion carries all right thank you so much everyone thank you so much for being here and being supportive I think it shows that the culture at City Hall is a strong one so I appreciate everyone all right okay moving along I'm going to send it back to you Mr clerk thank you minute man we're on item H one mayor and city council 20 percent all right any Council comments from from the body Megan our councilman Gabby comments for anything no okay that makes sense all right thank you we're going to move right along um thank you public comment I'm going to send it back to you Mr clerk public comment go ahead okay yeah uh we do have public commenters registered in the room great okay first we'll welcome uh Barbara fenney did I say that oh yeah fine how about you good are we in final public comment are we and city council comments or where are we this is final public comment item J1 did vote did we didn't do H1 I I believe we just moved past that is that what's that I believe we oh I didn't hear it I'm sorry go back we um I did ask everyone if they had any okay I missed it thank you I have none thank you you don't have any no do you okay I didn't see anyone else honey no okay okay thank you all right clarify we'll stick with item uh J1 closing public comments and our uh first speaker is Barbara fenney whenever you're ready uh please state your name again speaking Barbara take it away thank you foreign my name's Barbara Finney I'm with the biggest little bee city oh yay and um I'm working with Tom Stilley on the Valleywood Park and we have just this is to inform you about what's been going on and then ask a money question um we just did our first cleanup of Valleywood park there were about 20 people present and wasn't a big number of people but the right people were there so we did get two of the eight Gardens cleaned up and the trails Built Well the trails cleaned up and mulched so as you'll enter the park you will see some beautiful area we have more tours and more cleanup scheduled um of course the first one was May 27th the second cleanup is August 12th and the third one is October 7th and then along with that we've scheduled tours the week after those cleanups so the dates of June 10th August 19th and October 14th and these are open to the public of course we'd love to have any of you your families friends come out and enjoy the park on those days and on other days the park has eight Gardens they're all separate pollinator parks and we've kind of shuffled them around a little bit change the location change some of their names and um we're still hard at getting everything accomplished we put temporary signs up run off on our computers and some with UV tags but we need to have permanent signs the big signs that have been there since 2015 when Tom Stilley started the park started working on it have faded and they're really obsolete we need to give some you know some really good uh information on the geology the water flow the situation with uh the chalk Creek feeding the Truckee River and the chemicals that are in Shaw Creek things like that so I'm asking for a discretionary amount of uh 12 I'm sorry twenty five hundred dollars for assigns we are in Ward five I've spoken with um Miss Taylor about the park we haven't really gotten into this part though so I understand the processes to come here ask for the money and then the next city council meeting show up again and hopefully we will have some money that's it thank you so much um I know we're not like supposed to do this is that also something where she could go to the Parks Department see if they're because sometimes they have set-asides Madam mayor I think that Miss Taylor and I will work on it and I think we'll get somewhere with it together okay thank you we'll find a way okay good we'll find a way thank you there's a will there's a way thank you so much and we love what you're doing thank you and to those on the legislation yeah the neonic no neonic legislation amazing yes it's that was a huge team effort by the whole organization it's a step in the right direction we still need to work on some more absolutely I asked the innocent question about whether that would ban Roundup and it would not because it's not considered uh in the same category of pesticides that's correct and um you know agricultural right so there's more to do yes but let's take our wins where we can and congratulations right and that's the whole idea thank you thank you so much next we have Marie Rodriguez followed by Jessica Tapia torado [Music] um good afternoon Madame mayor and city council for the record Marie Rodriguez um I originally was here for item 6.2 as an applicant but um during b14 with the conversations about the parks recreation and Open Spaces um something came to mind that I just wanted to maybe remind you of As you move forward with them regarding surveys Outreach and workshops um last month I think it was Bernice Bernice Matthews Elementary School had a bunch of students here right and they all came up here and as you'll remember they were talking about their parks they want a safe place to play some of them ask for water parks they wanted a safe place to ride their bikes and a place to play soccer I think we need to remember as representatives of the city that we're not just representing the voters but we're representing our future voters we need to remember those kids so um when we talk with um going forward about um what we want for our parks and when we have these workshops I know I have grandkids they love those water parks and I know that not everybody has a safe Street in which to ride their bikes so let's remember all that feedback that we got from the kids from the schools and Implement those and take those into consideration when we're making planning on the parks and the open spaces for citizens of Reno that's all thanks Jessica Tapia tirado followed by itself Guerrero hello hello hello Reno city council my name is Jessica Tapia and we all have seen inflation happened right before our very own eyes however housing housing is an illustri thing it's not a want it's a need everyone deserves a safe and secure place to call home for many people the cost of housing is simply too high this is especially true in urban areas where the cost of living is high the result that many people are forced are forced to live in substandard housing or to spend an ex an excessive amount an excessive amount of their income on housing this can lead to a cycle cycle of poverty that is difficult to break we need affordable housing because it is essential to the health and well-being of our community without affording without affordable housing families are forced to choose between paying for housing and other basic needs such as food health and health care this can lead to chronic stress and poor health outcomes it can also lead to homelessness which has a devastating impact on individuals and Families there are many solutions addressing to affordable housing including providing financial assistance in low-income households increasing funding for social programs that help people access affordable housing and providing tax and intuitives for developing to build affordable housing without being said as the Reno as the regional city council this would be smart to take into consideration any of these offered solutions for affordable housing housing should not be a luxury that is only affordable to the world everyone deserves a safe and secure place to call home regardless of their income level by providing affordable housing it can help create a more more than just wait we can help to create a more just and equatable Society that's it I am impressed tell us what school are you from I go to hook high school you go to have high school I was so nervous no you did a great job future Senator I thought you did a fantastic job thank you um what grade are you in I'm in 12th grade you're in 12th grade great yeah are you gonna go to college I'm in real estate courses already so good girl yeah that's awesome good for you thank you well I think you did a fantastic job is this for government class for government yeah who's your teacher Mr Johnson Mr Johnson yeah well tell Mr Johnson he would have been very proud thank you great job I also have a teacher her name is Miss Lauren and I think she knows Doug uh-oh yeah when I mentioned I was going to present my speech she was like oh I have a good friend I was like yeah well good tell her we said hello thank you very much well and for all of the speakers who are here from hug high school please make sure you consider our youth city council councilmember Miguel Martinez here is the liaison to that body but it's always looking for new members so we just check in with the clerk and they'll help you figure out how to do it you go online and apply but they're doing what we're doing and quite frankly it's how I started in government a long long time ago mayor Pete sperraza's youth city council so check it out Guerrero followed by Paula Becerra you're gonna do great and that microphone it moves around see how I'm moving around so you just pull it where you want it to be and then it'll pick you up real well you know Council I am at cell Guerrero um today I would like to talk to you about the rise in homelessness here in Reno homelessness is not a new issue in the right now it is an ongoing issue that I feel is overlooked and deserves more of our attention for it to change there are many individuals and families unable to afford housing this causes a number of homeless people that are living in this on the streets in the Reno area to continue to increase if we work together as a community we will be able to find a solution to homelessness that could help hundreds of people I would like to provide some ideas on what we can do there are a lot of people who don't know where to find a safe and affordable home to live in we should provide more housing and make plans to provide rental assistance housing is an important human need that helps create opportunities for people to have stable living everyone deserves to to have a safe place to live in however housing prices keep re keep Rising these aren't enough there aren't enough housing options being provided for families and individuals who are in need making it extremely difficult for employment health and education it is important we start to do something to fix this problem the government leaders of the government and leaders of the community and non-profit business need to work together to create affordable and Emergency Shelters and long-term housing there are a couple of reasons that causes homelessness a lot of a lot of individuals struggle with mental illness substance abuse domestic violence unemployment and many more there is a lack of mental health and addiction treatment programs if we invest to create more treatment programs it will help these individuals break the cycle of homelessness many people suffer from domestic violence and are unsure of where to go and end up without a home we should invest in opening more shelters for them to be able to stay once a person is unemployed for a while it is extremely difficult for them to find a job because they don't have a permanent address we should provide connections to job training programs that can help them find a job create a resume or teach job skills they need many homeless people don't know where to start looking for help and are not able to access the help they need the longer a person is homeless the more difficult it is to feel connected to society we as a community must come together and reach out to individuals families and coming communities to help them feel safe and supported in conclusion homelessness in Reno is a very serious issue that requires more attention than it is getting by providing more affordable housing helping individuals who are struggling and working together as a community we can create solutions that will help make sure everyone here in Reno has a home affordable housing should be a right not a privilege thank you okay I loved your remarks did you write those it wasn't chat GPT right um especially your comments about mental illness and addiction and we need way more treatment centers you did a fantastic job I'm impressed future Senator thank you president okay good job and Paula becera good morning oh good afternoon members of this Reno Council hello my name is Paula becera I'm a student from hug high school today I would like to talk to you about the issue of homeless as well in Reno Nevada homeless is a complex and motor affected issue that affects Invisibles family and communities as you may know Reno has a homeless problem parks are getting full of homeless people walk through past streets and we see a big increase happening in our Reno local parks as this leads to a range of Social and economic issues such as poverty unemployment and crime as a community we should take responsibility and come together and find solutions to this problem starting off fixing this problem is increasing the housing providing a job training employment opportunities and offering mental health and a ad Mission yeah sorry got it services we should make more services like the Reno burrito project I have volunteered and it has became an eye-opener experience to me we have sold about 500 plus burritos every Sundays which are distributed to homeless homeless people and not just Parks also around downtown they only do not also hang out I mean pass out burritos they also Pass Out Clothing hygiene and supplies when needed resources like this will help our community and fix the problem with homeless people not just our local parks but also help families and people that actually need it when they have drug addictions I would like to say that not only the Reno burrito project is like a big you know source for the community I think you should invest more into it since they're really providing a good impact on the homelessness problem and that's pretty much all I have for you thank you for your time I'm so impressed you guys are amazing all Future Leaders thank you and if um it's like councilman Reese said we would love for you guys to get involved with our utility Council we need you guys you're a future impressive good job thank you have a great day thank you madam mayor that concludes our public comment in the room for the record we received five comments which were General in nature or not directly associated with an agenda item prior to 4 pm on June 6. these comments were written correspondents received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office copies of these comments have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available to the public on the reno.gov meeting portal they represented one in favor one in opposition and three concerned and that concludes our final public comment period and when you are ready I'm ready for a motion to attend okay thank you so much can I get a motion to adjourn councilwoman Eber motion carries thanks everyone you guys