we have a full house in our Zoom meeting so we are good to go great I appreciate that welcome and good morning this is the Wednesday October 11th 2023 council meeting and I'll Now call it to order we'll start off with the Pledge of Allegiance uh Kai plen can you join us and start us off there I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Madam clerk roll call please thank you council member breus here D here Martinez here Ebert absent at this time Taylor here Rees here shivi here thank you uh vice mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council thank you so much Madam clerk we're going to start off this morning with a brief moment of silence um council member Ebert and I were able to attend last night uh Interfaith Gathering of the Jewish and non-jewish community in supporting uh some of the ongoing issues in Israel in the Middle East so I just want to take a moment of silence uh for that okay thank you madam clerk I will say that Tempo Emanuel um LED this uh Gathering the other night and I want to thank them publicly for it council member derer who I know was not able to be there um but did make the opportunity available to us I thank her for it as well public comment thank you vice mayor ree we are opening public comment which is our first item today members of the public may hear and observe and provide public comment virtually by registering through the following link which can be found on reno.gov SL meetings https colon l n k s period re n o period G oov sl3 capital Z Capital a n capital a q n it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes for those participating in Chambers in accordance with Council rules 6.3.1 one while in this room please be respectful disrupted behavior from audience members like clapping yelling whistling Etc which impede the meeting May result in a warning issued by the presiding officer if the behavior continues you may be removed from chambers if you're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time our first public commenter today is Ron Trevor followed by Kai plaskin followed by Mark marel Mr Trevor welcome let's hear how save is doing out there always well I think well you just stole part of my thunder here oh sorry about that's okay yeah my name is Ron Trevor and I'd like to thank Council for letting me speak today and as uh council member ree pointed out I am a res representative of Save which stands for uh senior auxiliary volunteer effort and we work for Reno Police Department uh today I've got the Recaps for the hours that were volunteered during third quarter of 2023 we currently have 67 active members and we have another three in training um during the third quarter there was a total of 4543 hours volunteered by members of save that translates into a savings of approximately $129,450 to the city Arena some of the key areas that uh were involved where we had citizen contacts 6 ,17 we had um 1,875 48 hour notices placed on abandoned vehicles we did 516 School patrols had 269 handicap violation citations and there were 20 stolen vehicles or fictitious plates located and turned over to the police department that's it any questions well one question when is the holiday party this year I want to make sure that we're all able to attend that that's an important one I know Madame mayor has for years attended and and it's one of the highlights of the holiday season so let us know that would be I can give it to you right now yeah fabulous you give me one moment sorry got a new phone I'm still stumbling with it you and me both my apologies oh no worries it is going to be on December the 13th it's a Wednesday at El Dorado fantastic we'll make sure that we have some folks here we'll look forward to seeing you thank you Mr Tre thank you Mr plaskin welcome as K plaskin followed by Mark marel followed by Terry Brooks good morning Kai plason of the Chucky mows bicycle Alliance I'm the president there uh we met with City staff yesterday uh at um craft in Midtown at 6 pm and uh we went over the micro Mobility plan the item D3 and I'm I'm pleased to report that uh we voted to support uh item D3 the micr Mobility plan that you've been working on for quite some time and the board asked me don't mention University Way Center Street um but you're going to hear it in City's report uh today and it's the elephant in the room as Carrie said yesterday and so I think that we need to address it to some extent which is some important historical context so we don't repeat some of the same mistakes and you know if you remember a city made a promise uh during the Midtown development to install a protected path on University way it was well supported by professional Traffic Engineers and studies and it had a lot of public support um but uh then Jackie gave me a call one day and said uh so you want a bike path downtown and there was this kind of pull uh push and pull over time on do we put it on Virginia or do we put it on Center Street and it was just two streets uh and one mile on either one of those streets and now this downtown micromobility network is four streets and four miles it's four time times the safety right and so that's the reason why we're supporting it period it's four times the safety which is absolutely wonderful and we we do have some questions and those are pending with City staff I sent them this morning uh that some of our board members had sent this morning or sent talked to us about uh yesterday so I sent those to City staff today um and there's areas for improvement uh you'll hear that City staff and the RTC like to say that every bike plan needs a car plan well every bike budget needs a car budget and so if we break out the budgets of these these plans uh you're going to see that up to 75% is for the benefit of drivers and that's an important point when we're trying to sell these to the general public we need to be able to say hey this also benefits drivers and and a huge amount benefits drivers in terms of drivers feel safer too when they're not having to try and drive around a biker right so there's a lot of benefits to to drivers and we'd like to be able to break that out and that's part of the learning that we're all doing together and this micromobility plan item D3 shows that City uh staff have learned a lot from the visit of the Dutch cycling Embassy which said you need a network not just one street and uh so that's wonderful to see and I think that that learning can continue and we've also seen that City staff and the RTC Are engaging with The truy Meadows bicycle Alliance a lot more and a lot earlier as well so those are the reasons why we support um item D3 I think finally we'd really like the city to keep its promise uh this time around and maybe in a year and a half we'll all be able to ride bikes downtown safely with children and families so thank you Mark marel followed by Terry Brooks followed by Barry O Sullivan good morning M uh what I call Vice okay sh I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I at city council MERS and and city manager my name is Mark marel and I'm a concerned Arena resident I don't talk very well I I I so I hope you understand me I I I was involved in a drunk tring crash back in 89 and I'm here today to show you people and warn you people about the dangers of driving with a drink driver and drinking and driving I I I I have trouble taking care of myself I I I just I I I say this to people so you you're you don't drive with drunk drivers this is what happen I'm a perfect example of what can happen I I know there I I'm I'm a goober I I don't know what I am but I'm not I'm not normal I had a car land down my head we we are doing 100 and we roll eight times and I was ejected and landed on my head the paper I gave the the city cler the pretty city clerk says that I was driving but the news newspaper article I gave you guys it said that was a past Jer I was in a coma for month so I don't remember anything main I just I just recollect off of uh the police report and it's it said that we were doing 100 and we roll each time I already said that and now there I want you people to understand and I'm now there and I just I'm just here to warn you people and show you people what can happen if you're drun driver are drinking and drive it it's I I I I think I'm sorry I just want to warn you people thank you Mark thank you so much for your advocacy and especially during the holidays it's a good reminder so thank you for that yeah thank you Terry Brooks followed by bario Sullivan good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I'd like to engage in the topic of discrimination when it comes to age people live longer now than they used to live and the elderly now need more than they're able to give when employers look for help it's the elderly they usually avoid so the elderly are less likely to become employed the elderly then are usually the last ones to be hired but when help is not needed as much the elderly are the first to get fired because of their age the elderly have a burden to bear and they have a higher need for good health healthare and if they're unemployed and don't receive Health Care they will make their burden even harder to Bear some politicians want to do their best to help the elderly while other politicians want to avoid the elderly but a lot of politicians who have won an election and then age while in office start heading in the right direction when older people retire they can sometimes get set in their ways and then for a long time they can stay through such a phase the older you get the more you've seen inflation but it can get out of hand Way Beyond your expectation paying rent can be harder to do when it's higher than your Social Security that can not only lead to Poverty but can cause a sense of insecurity the elderly population keeps increasing more and more but their income doesn't keep up with expenses so they might might wind up poor with all that they have already done the elderly should not be ignored instead all of our elderly people deserve a good reward I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and if I can afford to live a while longer I'll have a lot more to say thank you bario Sullivan followed by Trey abne thank you Council for letting me come up and talk today am I able to reject this on a yeah just give them a second Barry and Barry if you're going to stand over it and talk can you just make sure you move the microphone with you do thank you thank you okay um my name is bario Sullivan I live in Midtown I have a business in Midtown I've been there my whole life I was born there 1958 before it was called Midtown um I've been involved involved in a lot of projects with RTC I've gone to every single meeting regarding the redo of Midtown and um Center Street the one way we converted it down to one lane going north and uh about a month ago I was contacted by the city asking for my input regarding Center Street so I met over there on Center Street and um this is what I heard and I was very concerned um they were talking about bike lanes and having the bike Lanes go in both directions on Center Street and we also talked about um Center Street from cheni to Moran on possibly making it narrow one lane just as we did from Virginia Street to chinii I think that was a great idea and I fully endorse that but I'm very very nervous and very scared about having a bike lane going both directions on Center Street Street and I start to think about it more and it everything that I've learned from when I was a kid to riding a bike when I'm older is you go with traffic you never go against traffic so I Googled it on my phone which only took 15 seconds and there is numerous articles from the state of Nevada from every lawyer in this town on your way that you should be traveling on a bike go with the traffic and not against it so I'm not really sure why the bike lane going against traffic is even an option I think it's very scary I I'm all for bike pass but I do not believe um if you take this picture and look at it um where the stop sign is and you're looking to the right down Center Street for the traffic that's come in that direction you're constantly looking to make sure you can get across and you're occasionally looking to the left to make sure you don't run across any pedestrians like the in this picture but you cannot see down Center Street if you're parked where you're supposed to to be waiting to cross that street and the minute you pull out and if you pull in front of a a bike and you're already getting people who are crossing the street because you're already across the crosswalk um because you have to cross the crosswalk to look down Center Street and I know every single person has has experienced this because I experience it probably about 10 to 15 times a day so my thoughts are for this is I'm very concerned um I don't want John Jesse I know a lot of people know John Jesse he's a big bicyclist in this town and he ran into a parked car and it killed him and I would hate to see that happen to anybody because it's it's affects not just the bicyclist it also affects the driver and that's all I had to say on that one I do have am I supposed to talk next no okay thank you Mr got one more to come back up thank you for for your time thank you thank you Trey abne followed by Damen Cole followed by Mary Ortega Mr Abney welcome good morning uh members of council near and far and good morning Madam assistant city managers good to see you for the record Trey abne and I'm here today as the chair of the board uh for bristle cone Recovery Center I'm going to jump ahead to D4 Mr vice mayor just because I I won't be able to stay for that specific agenda item but I just wanted to thank the city for your commitment uh to our facility I think most of you have had an opportunity to go through there if you haven't uh please reach out to me and we'll we'll get you scheduled to take a walk uh we are a holistic uh Treatment Center that deals with addiction both uh with opioid addiction alcohol addiction and gambling addiction we offer inpatient people that live there we have trans Transitional Living and outpatient uh folks there and we serve hundreds of people in this community um every year we get folks from drug court and folks that are in the uh Medicaid population so folks that are that are sometimes hard to find and and and difficult to serve uh I want to thank especially um assistant city manager Bryant and Mr hodj for their uh help and and assistance uh on this the funds that are that are in that agenda item D4 will be used uh to go toward uh our building of a brand new detox facility uh we have an isore uh building on the corner of our property at um at Wells and Mill that will be uh we've got the plans drawn up we've got the general contractor we've got everything ready to go still working with our partners at was County and other partners uh and Foundations uh that we're working with uh to make this uh to get this a reality we're hoping to break ground in a couple months the funds provided here uh will help us do that and as you know um we could probably open 10 of these in this community and still not have enough beds uh for the need here and so the idea would be again a detox facility we would work with of course Reno PD waser Sheriff all of the uh healthc care providers in the community to get folks there and then they would then be able to walk across the parking lot and get full treatment once they are detoxed uh from the substance they are on so again uh Mr vice mayor I won't take any more of your time I just wanted to say thank you very much to this Council and for your commitment uh to bristle cone Recovery Center thank you thank you Mr Abney you know as well as I do how important this issue is to our mayor and and unfortunately she's with us but uh in the sky but I know she's happy about the opportunity Damen Cole followed by Mary Ortega followed by Benjamin Castro good morning everyone Madame mayor city council City staff I have three minutes to briefly talk about the iceberg of information that I've been working on for the last year and a half in reference to item D3 today um connectivity and design of your bicycle Network work together they are equally as important and they both work together as cogs in the machine uh Miss KY you've spoken in the past about the network very important other people have talked about the design including you the dangerousness of the CER Street cycle track very important key things to understand there's a difference between bike Lanes a cycle track and a bike way or what the Dutch call Feats pad which means bike path everything to them is a bike path and that's the gold standard I don't know if this is showing up on camera but basically these are the different types of designs I put this together the other day to try to describe to people what's going on this is in regards to six street but this is kind of universal for just about every type of bicycle track that's out there RTC is proposing the second version which is a bike lane with a curve protection on each side of it this is good for certain circumstance not good for Sixth Street definitely not good for Center Street or any other kind of a cycle track the cycle track on the third one here is where you see the cycle track is counterdirectional in each Direction regardless of the the direction of the street doesn't matter it's still dangerous because cars can still get in there and you're still on the street what needs to happen for two-way cycle tracks quote unquote don't do those do bikeways what do a bike way two roads that's are side by side parallel this is what the Dutch do this is over the last 40 years what they have been leaning toward two different roads with not just the buffer we're talking about separation of networks on the network level why do I bring this up because 50 years ago Public Works proposed this 1975 I got this from the pat Lewis papers from UNR this is what Public Works had proposed for the entirety of Reno in conjunction with the city of Sparks and the regional Planning Commission the entire trucky Meadows had a Bikeway system that was planned proposed and over a three-year period approved and published in the Reno Evening Gazette what happened to it there was opposition RTC was created further opposition the oil crisis of the 70s was over and we just forgot about it all we were left with was segments of the trucky River bike path which we now call a trail and we don't even mention the word bike this is all that we have it's bike route two and the mutcd signs are being systematically removed in place of recreational blue signs that do not give any guidance for a total Network before we pass D3 I I can talk about this later on I know I'm out of time I have a doctor's appointment I'll try try to get back here for the for the actual item I'm just telling you that the proposal that is under place right now the specifics of the connectivity and possibly the design because we haven't actually looked at the full design yet we've just looked at mockups is in contradiction with each other Center Street is dangerous but the Vine Street bridge is not even though it's a I I don't want to time thank you very much yeah appreciate your work Mary Ortega followed by Benjamin Castro followed by Lauren torvin torvinen thank you Daman good morning welcome that moves all the way around it can do a lot of things yeah so make it comfortable for you great thank you um hello vice mayor Reese assistant manager Bryant and councel my name is Mary Ortega for the record and I am the field operations manager for Rise Outreach um I transitioned from our place to the Outreach team team exactly one year and one day ago and for my oneye anniversary with this team I would like to celebrate the success of the neighbors that we have worked with the 2022 clean and safe report was a helpful summary of all of the work accomplished last year now that we're getting close to the end of 2023 I would like to share our total results since the beginning of our contract 19 months ago 133 of our unsheltered neighbors were able to access replacement IDs social security cards and other vital documents 91 folks were motivated to access local resources such as getting signed up with SNAP and Medicaid or substance use and mental health treatment and all they needed from us was a little support 84 individuals took the first step towards changing their stories by bravely choosing to go into a shelter safe camp or a program 11 people were able to reunite with their family or friends both locally and across the country and last but not least we have celebrated with 17 of our neighbors as they moved into their own place none of this would have been possible without the collaborative efforts of Jackie Bryant Cynthia sparza Caitlyn caner and the clean and safe team as a whole who provide us with support and direction through every step of the way as well as Jamie Peak at the housing and neighborhood development team who plays a vital role in almost every housing success our neighbors have ever had I want to extend so much gratitude to you all for supporting our team in this work our team of peers share many things in common with the individuals that we serve through shared lived experience and I feel that that makes our Outreach team experts in this field of work as a person and long-term recovery myself 21 years ago I would have laughed at the thought of someone finding any value in the things that I say or in the life that I have lived I now get to walk alongside the people I serve and show them how much value they carry and sometimes even get to hire them onto my team I hope that you can support our continuing efforts by voting in favor of agenda item D4 thank you mrga that was very powerful and I appreciate you're being here I'm going to ask my staff to meet with you to find a time that we can meet so I can get to know you a little better okay thank you for being here thank you Benjamin Castro followed by Lauren torvinen followed by Jennifer Kent via Zoom Mr Castro welcome as ever hi vice mayor ree thank you good morning good morning um uh assistant city manager Bryant Madame mayor council members my name's Benjamin C uh for the record I'm the executive director of Rise so I'm also here to ask you to vote in favor for item D4 um want to thank Mary and our rise Outreach team for the incredible work that they've produced over the past two years uh really want to put some of those numbers into context as well so it's important to remember that the people we're engaging with are some of the most traumatized individuals or Neighbors in our community these are people that have been through or they're likely chronically unsheltered for many years if not decades they been through our systems they've fallen through the cracks um they've lost faith in society and honestly a lot of times Society has given up on them a lot of times they've given up on themselves I've had numerous conversations with people who have told me pretty candidly as soon as I accept the fact that they're going to die here I can just move on with my life uh which is kind of heartbreaking right but we don't give up easily so as Mary had stated uh walking a lot of those neighbors through their recovery through through their transition seeing the life return to their eyes uh seeing Hope come back uh treating them as if they're worthy that they deserve dignity um and that nobody's Beyond Redemption is extremely powerful and bringing a lot of them onto our team I think has been really beneficial um a lot of our strategy is about recruiting the people that we work with to our team that reminding them that their experience and that all the hardships that they've gone through was for nothing because they would have had to gone through it themselves and when they get to the other side they're going to use that experience to save somebody else so I can go on for a long time on that I think uh you know I've been an advocate and a volunteer in this community for many years 13 plus years I know that my priorities haven't always been everybody's priorities and I understand that I also understand that sometimes we haven't always seen eye to eye and I don't envy your positions uh you have a lot to balance you have a lot to navigate through all those challenges and it's a thankless job so I just wanted to say I appreciate appreciate your endurance through all of that um two years ago the the previous Council made a bold move in uh bringing us on to the clean and safe umbrella uh I also like to take this moment to thank Cynthia and Monica and their teams because they and obviously Jackie you guys have been incredible to work with we've definitely elevated our access to resources been able streamline a lot of the work that we do um yeah it's been it's been incredible this partnership represents more than the service that we actually provide our neighbors it represents the fact that the people we serve have a voice in the process that they have a seat at this table and that their experience matters so I'm asking again for uh this body to support our work and continue our partnership and I thank you thank you Mr Castro thanks as always Lauren torvinen followed by Jennifer Kent via Zoom good morning thank you for having me today my name is Lauren torvinen and I am here to speak um in support of item B1 I moved to Reno in 1995 to get my teaching credential from UNR and I have lived only on the 500 block since that time I'm currently a teacher I have a great principal who let me take a break from my class today to come here so I probably won't be able to stay for the whole meeting in here so I wanted to give public comment um these are some of the photos I shared with the NAB we were we um attended our um NAB meeting about a month ago and this I just documented the same car parking in our neighborhood and these are date stamped and you can follow along right there that's my house in the first one and they are right in front of my mailbox they're parking in the stub between two houses blocking a driveway um they just move they just can you move the microphone over to yeah just let it follow you thank you um and so it's they leave to go run an errand and then they come back and use our neighborhood as the parking lot so you can see it's that same car over and over but it's like that for all of the cars we have become a parking lot um some other items are they did when the city did come um part of their study they did site some vehicles that hadn't moved and you can notice it has the same citation eight days later so even though it says please move your vehicle they don't move their vehicles they just are it's just disregard um for what we're trying to do um we also have people parking in front of the fire hydrant when there's no parking um we have gotten a lot of garbage my kids are very good at going out and collecting garbage that's left behind in our yard um we have bird scooters that get left they get moved save a parking spot then we're done with the bird scooter so we're going to throw it in your yard so it's just really changed the dynamic um of our of our neighborhood and we decided a while back to have one point of contact and that's me so that we're because we all called a lot of us called parking and the same person say I'm going to call your neighbor later and I'm going to call this neighbor so I do speak for a lot of the people in our neighborhood I would say a majority and I think with the um the information that um you will see when b11 is is up um you'll kind of see the process that we've been through um something I do want to make sure I show today this is a new one I just took this today that's in front of my house and they were cited this envelope was there the day I came here for NAB which was September 12th I took a photo today this car has not moved since September 12th and they don't move this is what has happened in this last year I've lived there like I said since '95 it's never been like this we have lots of people parking but they used to leave you know they would come to the game they would come and attend classes we didn't have garbage we didn't have the speeding we didn't have the the inconsideration for our homes but in this last year now we have it all the time it is a 247 parking lot and the data will support it um I am just here to please um I hope that you will support us getting residential parking permits because it's not something we really wanted but we have to have them because we can no longer live in a parking lot thank you so much for your time thank you Mr T for your advocacy for yourself and your neighbors can I ask um before you run off which is your school and your principal that was so gra um it's principal Mike gford I teach at a act High School I teach math yeah what a great school thank you very much thanks a lot for being here M TB and if you can actually stop over here too for a second um and then our next commenter is Jennifer Kent via Zoom Jennifer we're going to move you over if you can unmute state your name for the record and begin [Music] speaking hello can you all hear me okay we can please state your name for the record and begin speaking great uh my name is Jennifer Kent uh I am a proud administrative faculty member at the University of Nevada Reno um I am also uh member of the trucky meows bicycle Alliance and uh co-chair of unr's bicycle working group um you may have guessed that I'm also a regular bike commuter uh and I'm here because I'm thrilled that RTC is enthusiastically moving forward with greatly improved connected micr Mobility Pro through uh downtown Reno uh I've been commuting by bike for almost all of my adult life uh more recently I've been commuting on my bike with my toddler riding on the back which I think you may have seen this image of us commuting on campus I don't know if you can see that but hopefully you can because she's very cute um so what that means is that while I used to categorize myself as an extremely confident writer you know not too concerned about um you know having buffered Lanes I am now in that much larger pool of uh cautious writers who I will only ride um a route if I feel absolutely confident that it is safe that I will not interact with cars very much that uh speed limits are low so right now my commute currently consists of riding slowly mostly through Parks uh and on some of the new protected lanes that have been put in place um that said when I when the uh pilot project was in place through down Virginia Street um I did use that with my daughter and it was really fun we you know rode down Virginia Street we went to um Sundance books and picked up some books and uh met my husband for dinner in Midtown that is something I haven't done since that has been removed I won't won't ride through the downtown area um with my daughter so um I am here to support uh agenda item D3 and I hope all of you will as well I really appreciate rtc's consistent and open communication throughout this process um after the Timba meeting yesterday evening um I'm now I am very confident in the decisions that were made by the city Engineers um and I'm also really excited about the increased connectivity that our city will see um I know they told us it was four more miles of safe routes through downtown um so yeah I'm just really excited to add um downtown and Midtown to my regular writing route um I know that there are many out there like me that are busy with work and kids and life and that can't be on this meeting so I'd like to you know speak for all of them um so yeah thank you so much I'm I'm really looking forward to this project moving forward and I hope you will all support it thank you Miss Kent vice mayor ree with that we have no additional public comment for the record we did receive 10 comments which were General in nature or not directly associated with an agenda item prior to 4 pm. on October 10th 2023 these comments were voicemail and or written Cor respondence 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 will be available on the reno.gov meeting portal two comments in favor two comments in opposition and six comments of concern from um several individuals give me just a second before we officially close okay Robin Palmer Miss Palmer welcome good morning good morning Council members my name is Robin Palmer and I need to put on my glasses so I can see what I wrote imagine that I'm wearing my climate Advocate hat right now kudos to the City of Reno for all that you've done to get us to this point this morning of considering um micromobility plan to improve access to and the safety of walking biking and scooter use as means of transportation according to the area's 2014 greenhouse gas inventory which is available on the city's website and terribly in need of updating Transportation was the second leading contributor of greenhouse gas emissions contributing 30% of climate pollution over 820,000 metric tons over over 80% of that was vehicular traffic and I suspect the majority of that 80% was single occupant Vehicles the rtc's data shows that over half a million daily vehicle trips un are under five mil miles within the McCarron Loop how many of you oops how many of you and you traveled five miles or less this morning and a fossil fuel fueled vehicle taining our clean and I'll tell you quite cool air in the trucky Meadows this morning transitioning to a clean energy economy includes changing the way we get around that means Transit rail electric buses EV cars ebikes we need to promote micromobility in our region in alignment with the city's sustainability and climate action plan promoting micromobility can further decrease the area's greenhouse gas emissions while reducing traffic congestion and improving air quality by promoting walking biking and Transit connectivity to make it easier for the public to access more sustainable ways to move about and at the same time enhancing road safety for all Road users safety is enhanced by increasing separation between Transportation modes reducing the number of accidents micro modes of transportation are space efficient and offer a sustainable healthy and cost-efficient ways to travel see I'm running out of TR time so I'll cut to the chase here wearing my bicycling hat I came here this morning to a oppos D3 because as it's outlined in the packet it does not include the Center Street University way Corridor I rode Center Street to get here this morning it's one of the most frequently used and dangerous roads in the City of Reno I'm not privy to the discussions with the bike Alliance but I'm happy to hear that they now support the micr Mobility plan I urge you to continue to include the bike Alliance at the table and listen to what they're saying thank you thank you m pmer okay vice mayor Ree and with that we have no additional public comment and we are moving on to item A4 approval of the agenda and announcements from assistant city manager Bryant uh yes thank you very much we have item i1 where the applicant has withdrawn the appeal so that hearing this evening can be canel okay I won so no evening hearing thank you so much Miss Bryant okay can I get a motion please on the remaining items for the agenda approval motion to approve okay I have a motion by uh Miss Taylor a second by miss derer any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries unanimously item A51 can I get a motion to approve without Corrections motion to approve okay I have a motion by Miss Taylor second a second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed motion carries unanimously Madam clerk the consent agenda items we have public comment on these items at this time we do have public comment our first public commenter is bario Sullivan followed by Tom Dunn thank you so much Mr Sullivan welcome back I've heard that famous last words before Mr guarantee can I have this here again again my name is Barry O Sullivan and all I'm here to do is give two thumbs up to the City of Reno Public Works Department about a year ago I was asked um my input regarding Sinclair coming into Hokum this has been a nightmare for about 50 years for me um as you can see Sinclair used to come right into the crosswalk and everybody was trying to get in front of traffic so they were always going so fast and they're always looking to their left to see if they can get in front and they're nobody's ever looking at this crosswalk here um we met they asked me what I thought I said it's perfect that's how it used to be when I grew up it came around it stopped into hokam you turned right and moved down the street um it is so much nicer I thank them I give my two thumbs up to them and Cleo Wilson who also came out wonderful wonderful he he wanted the input of not just me other neighbors and uh thank you again they're great thank you thanks Mr Sullivan Mr dun welcome good morning good morning Mr vice mayor uh assistant city manager Bryant members of council for the record Tom Dunn representing the proud men and women the Reno firefighters Association I am here today to support item B10 which is the augmentation to the pvis uh station dispatching system I can tell you as being a 24e firefighter at the Reno Fire Department that this station dispatching system that we've just implemented this year is one of the best health and safety measures that we have done in my career here um we as of today we are at over 38,400 calls for service this year we're expected to run approximately 52,000 calls for service and this new station dispatching system is making our lives in the stations much easier at night especially in our multi-company stations whether they have an engine a truck in a rescue or engine a truck in an ambulance whatever the case may be so having the ability of uh being able to Zone off those calls to the proper uh app forus that's responding uh not having to turn on white lights in the middle of the night in the fire stations is an improvement and so we are here to support this agenda item thank you thank you Mr dun all right vice mayor ree for the record we did receive six comments um associated with a couple of different uh consent agenda items those have been logged into the records and um are available for the public on reno.gov so with that we are moving on to um items being pulled and disclosures okay thank you so much let me start with W one do you have any items Miss breus for uh the consent agenda to be pulled yes please I would like to pull items um B1 B12 and B18 okay and just to reiterate it's b11 B12 and B18 for you madam it's correct thank you so much Miss Taylor do you have items from the consent agenda Mr thank you so much Miss Ebert do you have anything at this time did I'm sorry council member Reus did you pull 12 also yes okay all my uh did you pull B18 yes all right then uh I'd like to [Music] pull B6 and I think everything else has been pulled okay so B6 is the additional one for you thank you so much uh let's go to the phones and ask on Zoom Mr Martinez do you have any items to be pulled at this time nothing from my end thank you vice mayor okay and Miss der anything at this time uh B5 B5 okay and then um Madame clerk uh I'm going to identify that uh B12 which has been pulled by council members breus and Ebert will be heard not sooner than 1:00 and so that will not go in the normal order we'll take that out of order when that arises but sometime after 1 o'clock I I suppose if we're still here at one o'clock we'll see what what happens there it may just be that it'll be trailing to the end we've got some uh folks who wish to participate from the municipal court but can they're in Chambers and in uh on the dis this morning so just a note for my colleagues okay um okay now that we've pulled the items I had nothing to be pulled from the consent agenda can I get a motion to approve all the remaining items motion to approve okay I have a motion by Miss Taylor I'll second a second by miss eert any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries unanimously let's start with item B5 is that correct item B5 pulled by council member door Miss Stewart the Flo is yours thank you Mr vice mayor um I just um wanted to pull this off to identify uh the work that our police department has done in obtaining grants um and I want to give an opportunity for our police chief to just tell us a little bit about this grant if you would okay Miss Nance Chief Nance thank you so much for being here this morning uh welcome thank you uh Chief Nance for the record so this is a uh 1.5 uh Grant and aark fund from the federal budget that will allow us to uh grow our forensics unit and continue that process of developing more in-house forensic a bigger in-house forensic team we're able to process more evidence okay and it also mentions uh Chief something about complete um Community oriented police services so is there another part so that goes into how we're processing evidence with the um additional software that we're going to obtain that makes it easier for our community members to identify items of evidence that are booked and different ways for us to be more communicative and responsive to our community okay well I just wanted to um congratulate you and I'm sure the whole Council does continuing to look for these opportunities um apply for them and and get them so that we can um increase um our efficiency and Effectiveness in our policing so I just wanted to personally thank you and uh just get it on the record a $1.5 million Grant Kudos thank you Chief Nance I wanted to thank you publicly for being present last night at Temple Emanuel often times I know that it is not necessarily in the job description but really uh taking the lead in assuring our citizens in this community especially members of the Jewish community of their safety so thank you for being there last night as a represent reprentative of the city council member eurn and I I know very much appreciate your being there and being the leader that you have uh shown us that you are so thank you for that thank you it was my privilege to be there any additional questions or comments at the time from the body I'd also just like to say thank you for the support the the Areno police department and you specifically have shown the the Jewish Community thank you for being there last night it was very very important so thank you for being there okay council member der can I get a motion please yeah I would move to approve item B5 okay I have a motion by Miss der a second by Miss Taylor any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries unanimously okay item B6 pulled by council member Ebert okay council member Ebert and secure [Music] this was just to say um great job um on getting these grants again this is awesome I was able to go to um a closing ceremony for um a veterans dinner for um uh the wounded veterans games and it was just really great to um be a part of that and and hear their feedback and and how appreciative they were for the equipment that we have available so I just wanted to say thank you for um starting that program in April and um and just for uh pursuing these grants to kind of expand that and keep them going so thank you oh wonderful Eric Edelstein for the record and on behalf of our parks and recck team who most of which are uh at a conference in Dallas which is why I'm standing here today um yeah appreciate the support and uh very proud of the work they do thank you yeah yeah it was very very well received by the veteran veterans group that was was there so thank you for that council member thank you for your consistent support for our veterans I know that you have really taken uh a heart for our veteran community and you directed Council directed funds on a number of occasions to different programs so thank you for highlighting that important work um can I get a motion um motion to approve okay I have a motion by Miss Ebert I'll second any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed motion carries unanimously item B1 pulled by council member breus okay Miss breus yeah I'd like to staff report on this please great um I hi Amy Pennington with public works for the record um I do have a presentation prepared all right good morning mayor and city council again Amy Pennington for for the record special projects and Outreach coordinator for public works this item is for the proposed residential parking Zone um it would be parking Zone 15 in the putam area um just uh west of the University oh that's the clearer okay there we go that work there you go all right so just a little bit of a background on parking zones um RNC 6.07 is where this is drive from parking zones for residential areas are petition driven by the residents and they need to be verified by City staff we have code enforcement go out and verify the needs of the area as well as um the public work staff to verify and evaluate the vehicles have to be proven to cause congestion or a burden on the neighborhood and for it to be implemented it can't be opposed by more than half of the homeowners in an area and then it comes to council for approval and the map that is on the screen right now shows some of our current residential parking zones most of the parking zones that we have in the city right now that are residential are um in that Northwest region near the university so the proposed parking Zone on put in the putam area there's a map of it right now it involves the east of Washington Street putham Drive and kraton way and um is basically encompasses a like a neighborhood little circuit there it looks like putham Drive goes out towards Sierra Street but that's actually not a through Street the street is stopped um where the green shape ends there's actually a um a a barrier there and the road doesn't go through the picture on the side is actually where that area is and so um as you can see cars regularly Park um in that Cove so we received a request from the property owners on pattinam drive and code enforcement did go out to verify the area they did two different days they did traffic studies um where they came out at two different times in the morning and the evening and evaluated the cars there it was found that 75% of the vehicles were not registered to Residents in the area and so we went through a public Outreach process to verify that this Zone was indeed the desire of the neighborhood we did a postcard mailer to all the homes with a survey attached we received feedback from the vast majority of the homeowners and um there were there was a a bit of a mix of responses but the majority was in favor we brought it to the NAB to get further input and about a dozen of the residents showed up and provided additional comment and the NAB board um wanted me to make sure you knew that they were um in support of the item so there are pros and cons to parking zones which is why we do want to get the input of the neighborhood because um it does impact uh some of the ways that they can use their their neighborhood um the pros are um only residents of guest sorry I have a typo here only residents and guests of residents displaying a parking pass can park on the street guest passes are available to each home free of charge um and um you can purchase passes for the number of bedrooms you have in your home where you can register a vehicle and then the cons are there are more parking restrictions on the street so um you know that it just does impact how one goes about their life if there's more restrictions parking passes can cost or they cost $26 annually and um there is a limited number of space available on the street we do actually measure the neighborhood to make sure we don't overell um spaces for cars so there's 112 spaces for 56 properties in this neighborhood um this is some of the results from the survey um we contacted this 56 Property Owners we had 39 unique responses to the survey and 79% of the residents were in support and so this is the recommendation and I'm happy to answer any questions okay thank you Miss Pennington Miss breus yeah so um we have a lot of new people who haven't been around since we worked on the master plan and adopted in 2017 but one of the work items that was strongly advocated by myself and others was to revise the parking program and stand up a unique parking division which we have not done we're doing the same things we've done which is relying upon this code and I think it shows a number of flaws in how we are managing parking but I just want to say um the parking issues if anything have just exacerbated in the last two years my office reviews the um service requests that come through each quarterly or month on the report and last month 25% of the issues coming through Ward one were parking I've for so long had a hot spot up on Summit Ridge of parking it's a High multif family area a lot of on street parking abandoned vehicles that sort of thing this exceeded um accelerated during the pandemic um and just uh coincidentally or not coincidentally but it's evidence not quantitative I estimate at least 30% of my Outreach this summer with constituents was over parking issues one of those is that the City of Reno made a decision to not re ire off street parking for a number of developments so some developers are then building cheaper product good for them good hopefully for renters and buyers but they don't have parking and now they want to privatize the parking on the street and we need some ground rules this is relying upon the old ground rules and they're not correct and one um I'm sympathetic to the person who came forward today to say you know people are parking all over look they're between my mailbox they're in my walkway they're between driveways you know I live south of California and Arlington I have a lot of that too I live across an under across the street from an underpar multif family building and have that too you know if they're blocking my driveway or someone's mailbox that's life if they're a walkway or mailbox but if they're blocking the driveway that's a problem but the argument was we need this parking program so we have better enforcement well we're not enforcing what we have right now there was evidence by the speaker who showed a parking citation that had been sitting out for you know a month a month or so um noticing that we don't have people going out and uh you know Towing Vehicles booting Vehicles we don't have the parking program so The Logical conclusion is not that we're going to have more regulations in the area the area the The Logical conclusion is the city council needs to do what we said we were going to do in 2017 and look comprehensible comprehensively at the parking division and program and I want to speak a little little bit about the flaw on this one in particular under the rules that limit the council discussion I only uh have three minutes to talk on this very big topic that because the council hasn't had a strategic Workshop in four years I've been hoping to bring forward as a council priority but I haven't had that meeting in four years so I've got to stop right now and the chair will um allow rotation to other people and then I'll get maybe I'll get another three minutes to discuss specifically some of the flaws that see in this recommendation but staff is just doing almost um rote administration of a code that I think needs an overhaul and this Council has said we're going to overhaul it but um I'll cease now thank you Mr breus does anyone have any with Miss Hebert the floor is yours okay so um the staff report we have says that um 50% the residents um if less than 50% of the property owners don't object correct we can move forward with this um and that includes people that just don't respond at all cor we count them as not objecting yes okay so we had 22 people respond out of 56 so that's that's less than half of the property owners have responded and of those 9% or nine people said no so that's you know less than half the people um you know what that we had more responses in that one second um I just want to make sure I'm read I'm following the numbers as you're sharing them my apologies all right okay um okay so yeah we go ahead okay so 22 people responded Yes nine people said no so you know less than half of the people responded yes there is a pretty significant amount of people that did respond that said no we don't want it so I'm a little concerned about making this decision to do this with only 22 people out of 56 saying they do want to move forward with it I mean that's a pretty significant um amount of people that just didn't even respond um so um as in regards to the the passes themselves um I assume that there's going to be some kind of proof of residency that's required to purchase these passes um yes and so just for the first part part of the reason why we went to the NAB meeting was because um there was a mix of responses and we wanted to make sure that we heard from the neighborhood and were able to address any questions or concerns so um so we did after that we went to the NAB and invited all the residents to attend and um there was overwhelming support at the NAB some people still had questions or concerns but there was overwhelming support at the NAB um with the how to obtain permits yes you do have to provide proof of residency um in the clerk's office administers that process okay so at the NAB was there any requirement to show proof of residence in this area when they had their overwhelming support of this parking zone no we did not check people's residency when they made comment at the app okay okay um so um my other question would be um enforcement I know that we spoke you know during our um briefing prior to this meeting uh that uh people can submit Reno direct tickets for people that are parked without a pass and the public comment M we had today showed vehicles that were already cited um how is that any different you know how how is the parking enforcement going to be any different than what we currently have it looks like people are being cited for parking there they're just going to get tickets and and not be yeah I'd love to um pass this off to director Woodley thank you good morning Alex Woody director of parking code enforcement yes ma'am the uh tickets that you observe there requires a 48 hour 72h hour observation of a vehicle to be able to issue that ticket once you have specific restricted uh parking within that area if you don't have the tag then you will be issued the ticket immediately and the ticket is a lot more expensive and more impactful than the 48 hour ticket okay and is there going to be any kind of uh limits on how many um passes a resident can buy is it you know are we going to make sure that all 56 residents can get a parking pass or or is it going to be kind of first come first served CU I imagine that these homes my understanding of how it works ma'am is you are limited each each uh dwelling has only so many that they can get um of course you know first come first serve um is typically the approach um for the most part um in that particular neighborhood because I actually walked that entire both streets um they do have unlike other parts of our residential parking where they don't have a driveway they don't have a garage these do have garage and they do have um driveways so there's a very good chance that we might not have individuals seeking those passes because of the fact that they have four parking spots on site so that is very um common that may occur in this particular situation okay so these residents have four spaces already and they're requesting yes ma'am per so that I went out there in response to the constituents complaint I went out there twice personally in the evening and in the daytime and it is bumper to bumper parking on the street um the individuals that I saw Park actively um they would park their vehicle and they would walk towards Sierra Street even though there's a um um some blockage there I think the pedestrians are able to maneuver around it but you can't drive through it but uh but I did see the need of course being doing the fact that we do parking enforcement we're not looking for more areas to have to patrol but um but I definitely um it's undeniable that there's a need for some help there because both days that I went it was Bumper to Bumper parking on the street and the majority of individuals did not live in that area Okay so these residents have four parking spaces available but they would like to potentially have five or six available via parking permit I'm just trying to understand Woodley if I if I may so since we issue the passes the way that it actually works is that um my team goes in and goes to the was County Assessor's website and we it it we identify how many bedrooms are associated with each dwelling and then you get one permit per bedroom as indicated for the Washo County assessor's office um there is a total number of spaces that are identified by the traffic engineer so they go out and measure the street and say this street can take 10 cars so we take that total number and say Zone 15 is is um eligible for 100 cars to be parked in that area and we won't exceed that number of permits being issued so it's govern both by the number of SP the number of spaces on the street in addition to the number of bedrooms per dwelling yes but these homes also have driveways and garages correct which is correct okay so what I'm saying is they would have their driveways and garages and an additional guaranteed spot on the street they would be eligible for that if they needed it so yes I would say yes well I I would also you know kind of echo council member braus is concern you know we we um approved a project on was a zero Riverside Drive where they did not have one space per door so I I feel like we're being inconsistent if we move forward with this the these residents will have driveways garages up to two permits guest passes for the residents and we have other areas where we're not mandating one space per unit so thank Youk you miss Hebert uh let's go to the W five representative Miss Taylor do you have comments uh thank you Mr vice mayor I would just say that um you know the the this is a positive example I think of government working for you if I could but the residents had a challenge they reached out to us our team went out and did the work they did the research collected the data did the Outreach went above and beyond um went to the NAB noticed everybody and um the residents can't park in front of their house houses and I think that you guys have done a great job and having being one of the newest members I still have experience I know some people on this body don't see that but I appreciate your work and I appreciate the neighbors and their patience this has been a long process for them thank you Mr vice mayor Miss Taylor thank you so much for my part I I'll make a few comments number one miss breus is not wrong that this Council has had some history in the parking space I think part of what happened is that we had a long-standing employee of the city of Rena who's no longer with us miss Hansen who was spearheading some of the changes and ideas about how we might resolve parking or or move parking forward more as a Citywide undertaking right parking is an issue in in every city in this country and in the world because uh we have a very car Centric focus and whether you're in Midtown and can't access the business businesses you want because the people are not having enough uh you know meter attendance to do it or whether or not we have to change our systems that allow people to pay and Park from their phone I me there's things to do in parking so miss breus is not wrong that if uh among the various priorities that a city has parking is one of them I think over the last I would say five or six years this Council has prioritized through the budgetary process uh police officers and enforcement so to to the expense of probably parking enforcement I don't know what M director Woodley would say about how many folks we have in the parking enforcement but I know it's less today than it's been in the historic past meaning we have a larger City that's growing but we have deprived that particular Department in an enforcement of the resources because we prioritized policing and fire and a whole host of other things so um our budget is always a reflection of what we value and perhaps what we have valued less is issues surrounding parking uh in conversation with my colleagues over this particular thing I note that it's really a form of incrementalism M breus is not wrong we need as a council to address parking we have other priorities uh it doesn't maybe rise to the level of a level one priority although for the residents of this neighborhood it is obviously their number one priority so it's one of those things where I think um council member Taylor wisely given her depth of experience as a human being knows that when citizens and complain their complaint is the most important one that they're dealing with and this neighborhood is unique and challenging because it's adjacent to the university and as the university increases their parking pass fee into the thousands of dollar range students who are squeezed by an economy that's not working for them are finding creative places to park and they're parking in this neighborhood and walking across the street to go to the university and so we can either stick our head in the sand and hope that parking will just magically resolve itself or we can take an incremental approach which has fixed this issue for this neighborhood for these residents now um I don't find that to be inconsistent with for example Miss Ebert's comments about zero Riverside right as a function of our building code we have said in order to encourage more micro units which are cheaper to build and cheaper to rent uh we are going to reduce parking requirements there is a depth of literature that would Boggle the mind about parking Miss breus has pointed out one of such pieces of literature an 800 page tomb uh and treat us on parking and and being overp parked um we can do this project and Miss Taylor is right we should do this project without having to necessarily make every decision that one could make in the entire universe in history related to parking and in the budget when that budget workshops start to kick off after the first of the year if parking is your thing and parking enforcement is the thing that you believe is the most depressing thing in the city I'm sure you'll bring your uh interest and and inquiries in that regard uh but until then uh this is a a good and and good fix uh staff has come up with a a good fit for this neighborhood and I think the public commenter was squarely right uh it is desperately needed in this neighborhood so I'll be supportive when the uh time comes Mr Reese Miss derer thank you so much for letting me know you were there but uh I I hope I have not stolen any of your thunder I'll give you the floor no I am generally supportive I like to solve problems and I think that this is uh exactly what we're supposed to do is to hear our constituents and help resolve day-to-day issues so very supportive I have just a few questions about how uh the program will be rolled out and it just wasn't clear to me and I wanted to get a Clarity on the record so I want to understand on these streets that were covered in the green color um can anyone park or only those people with the pass um only people with the pass will be able to park so using your example let's say someone has four bedrooms and they could have four passes but they also have space in their driveway um it it presumes though that they could take up four spaces on the street um as well as a driveway right it would also depend how many vehicles they have so they have share the number of vehicles they have and the number of passes they need the passes get i'll Mickey actually um okay well while she's getting ready um I also have a question about the enforcement I think a really good point was brought up if we're not enforcing today in other words we put a notice on a car and it says you need to move the car and the car isn't moved and eight days later the car is still not moved and a month later the car is not moved what are we going to do to address that so those are my two primary questions who can park and and ancillary to who can park so if you do not have a pass I mean it's presumably if you do not live in this neighborhood you cannot park so no University students could park even if there was a space I mean University student or not no one could park unless even if there was a space to park right yeah or or if they were in possession of a guest pass from one of the residents and how do you get a guest pass um residents are able to obtain them from the from the clerk's office like for like one incident or a permanent guest pass or how does that work maybe Mickey could expl yeah I'll let Mickey speak to that more specifically hi council member dor so yes the each residence is eligible for one pass per bedroom and they get one guest pass per residence as well um and so to your question related to you know how if they can park four cars in the driveway and four cars on the street um I guess you know we don't govern how many cars somebody does or doesn't have but they would be eligible for the four passes related to it so when they come into us they have to to identify proof of residency so they live or rent at home they have to provide um a photo ID to show that they are who they say they are associated with such documentation about residency um and then we do require valid um vehicle registration to tie to that address so there's a series of things that my team double checks on to make sure that they can issue those passes but we don't deduct um part we don't deduct passes based off of driveways it's just not written in code that way yeah I get it but it does mean that we could end up with since there's 112 spots and 56 residents and I didn't understand do all have driveways or just some um the majority of the homes at least have driveways I don't know if every single one does but it's a neighborhood with driveways okay so today's world they have their driveways to park in but the I I understand this sort of random parking and the speaker mentioned people blocking access to all kind of things and basically parking illegally in front of uh fire hydrants and so on so I want to get to the Enforcement issue does anything change on enforcement with this new program good afternoon Alex uh Woodley for the record um good afternoon ma'am so with regards to enforcement when we have restricted uh parking uh required passes that's an immediate enforcement any other type of parking would require us to go back for example dead storage or an excess of 48 Hours So currently right now any vehicle can park in a public rideway unless it's restricted parking so once it's restricted parking which is what will occur here then if we roll up today and we observe Vehicles without the pass They will receive an immediate $100 citation a citation yes ma'am like a it's like a a parking ticket correct where it's going to crew finds if they don't pay it yes ma'am okay but what if someone um you know we just had some documentation from the speaker that cars are parking there eight 30 days in a row and I think our ordinance is that you can only um park in the street in one same spot 48 hours is that correct that is correct yes ma'am that is correct if we if we are aware if we issue a citation to a vehicle and we're made aware that the vehicle is still there then we will follow up um fortunately we do have a proactive approach specific for restricted parking such as these for the neighborhood so we do go into the university area every week all four officers go there and issue their necessary citations specifically for that so if we do have that particular violation they will get cited again and if we have a total of five violations and it sounds like I'm over time because I heard the buzzer but I just wondered who's responsible for Towing aspect like they there a month exactly they're there a month if we've issued five citation then we'll tow it five yes ma'am okay M just Mr Mr vice mayor I would I am supportive of this item I just uh I do think we should revisit it after a time um based on how it's going so if there's a lot of room on the street uh let's say only half of the spaces on the street are being used by the residents for one reason or another perhaps we can revisit that in some way but I don't know what that is so I'm willing to move forward today for sure okay thank you uh Miss St Mr Martinez did you wish to weigh in on this controversy I I did thank you so much vice mayor I just wanted to get some clarification on the timeline I also agree with council member uh Taylor that um this is definitely an example of our local government being um an Assistance or we're listening to our constituents and making sure that we're responsive and so I just want to get more clarification on the roll out as well and when this would be implemented if we were to pass this today how does it look like and when can residents start applying for these permits um thank you for the question Amy Pennington for the record um Public Works will work with the clerk's office on the implementation roll out um there'll be um it takes time for them to get all the addresses into their system as well as for us to do signage and Outreach to the neighborhood to let them know about this change um the permits are issued in in line with the calendar year and so um I I I would I'm hoping that we can um move in a way where we could have permits for January sorry I was having some issues with my microphone um I appreciate the clarification and for people that will be getting uh any notices is uh will there be signage that goes up in this neighborhood and what is the notification to the residents or renters in this area um we there will be signage that is added to the neighborhood um and as far as um how we would reach the residents we will I haven't actually done exactly the mode but um we'll probably do another postcard mailing to them um which was very effective the first time for noticing and um we will um go through other kind of ways that we typically notice people about new things whether it's um you know the using the ward um NAB and using different ways to let them know that this is happening okay I just want to make sure that uh what the game plan was and I appreciate your efforts and council member Taylor's leadership on this Miss Pennington if you would please put up the map of putam sure again I think it Bears noting that this neighborhood is a neighborhood that was built probably 30 years after the neighborhood it surround is surrounded by and the reason why this particular uh neighborhood um is a challenge is because the secondary access at the end of putam there which borders on uh the park which is Rancho San Rafel allows people who are on foot to walk through the park from the University and into this neighborhood were this a neighborhood with no access for people to be on foot we would not have this problem because you would only be able to access it off of Washington uh and getting into that neighborhood so it's a very unique uh pocket neighborhood we'll call it I don't think that what happens here is like precedential and set some Grievous precedent for How We Do parking or code enforcement it really is the physical layout of the neighborhood with the secondary access that only can be accessed on foot that is allowing students to park in this neighborhood um and so again I I think as a practical matter uh you've done what you can with the code we have Mr Woodley I thank you for being here today and shedding some light on it obviously we have much larger discussions that need to be had about what our value is and what do we place our value on parking and parking enforcement uh that is a city-wide issue not necessarily directed only at putam and kraton um but again I think um you've come up with as a staff and and with Miss Taylor's leadership a fine solution here I'll come back now to the body and see if there are any parting comments I think everyone's had one opportunity to comment does anyone have addition oh miss breus the floor is yours yeah I see things a lot differently than how they're being discussed here first of all um if we had had the steps that we talked about we'd have some Pol policy clarification of what what our values and policies are about on Street street parking um some see it as you know something that should be privatized and that's really how this Ordinance Works it is an enhanced private property right to give someone a pass to park out on the street to the exclusion of others it's very very clear okay um I think the best practice is to look at it differently if people walk in from another area Rancher or the university to use that public resource that we all pay for everyone in the city pays for our street program in one way or the other you know that's an very different value and those are the conversations that we were going to have when we put this not as a budget item but as a work program item to tell our city manager this is a priority of the council to deal with and I think at some point all the heads will go together and say we're busted here we're spending so much time in this department that department that department we got to get our head together on um on street parking management and parking garages and oh by the way they run self- sustaining like an Enterprise fund they pay their own way when you get them right that's the best practice so the comment is well we can visit this in time is when you give someone an enhanced private property right and this is one they're hard to pull back through a regulatory environment I'd like Miss um Pennington would you come up I'd like to discuss a couple flaws in the logic here and put that under the screen thank you so they talk to we know that about 50% of our Arena residents are renters that's probably lower in single family homes but we're up by the University where I think it's probably on par I took this photo a few days ago okay and she said that the the input had 26% of homeowners giving their feedback well how many of those homeowners lived there how many of them are using it as Investments and their business probably a lot so if I'm a homeowner owner in Colin ranch or California with this property right here and seeing the way this goes I'm like heck yeah I want that property right for my tenants to be able to park on the street because the first thing I'm doing is telling UNR lease holder you know a UNR student who leases right in those two cars you're the on Street Parkers I'm getting a permit to fill in the garage and create two more bedrooms and you know this enhances my business model that's really what happens and that is part of the flaws in this problem these people now can add extra added bedrooms and have parking displaced onto the street it helps their business model it excludes other people excludes you andr students who are up on that area and they want to come back and forth and most of all if you could put on the map it's very well known by users in um this part of town that the gates at Ranch of San Raphael close at sundown during the winter months and people who get off work and have to go out exercise in the daylight they all Park on Washington and putam now they will be excluded from parking on putam and they'll be pushed down on Washington which is kind of a busy street it's safer and I've sent you know a child up there a teenager to park on putam when you've got winter hours because they're walking into uh Rancho they don't want to get caught with that gate closed because it's a bad deal for a per a park user and it's also it doesn't matter if you have a special event whether it's balloons or um the you know Cross Country meets whatever people are now excluded from this area it really is not a right approach I'm sympathetic to the residents but the answer is doing better enforcement all those ones that she showed if someone's parking there we need to be towing or booting immediately those aren't UNR students staying there with unlicensed vehicles or for 12 days that's not a UNR student that is someone dumping a car and that happens all over this will be precedent setting because I know a few W one neighborhoods that are more impacted and they'll be coming asking this Council for the same enhanced private property right I really think we're we're approaching this wrong I I understand there's a desire to you know uh well this is what they want but we don't work like that we work on what's best for the public interest and this is exclusionary to a whole lot of people and it doesn't follow through with best practices or really what a value is that parking on street is a public resource thank you okay thank you miss burus any additional questions or comments from the board Miss Ebert the floor is yours so I just want to say thank you Amy and I just want to say that um I appreciate the work that you do and also I just want to state that deliberating this process and reviewing the staff report is in no way an attack on your work it's part of the process it's part of our role as Council people to deliberate and decide whether or not we think this is the right thing to do so I just want to make sure that you're aware of that when we deliberate it's not a personal attack it's our job so I'm want to call that out but um I do think this might set a precedent this is an issue in my neighborhood up in word for and I'm no wordier you and are we don't have enough parking on my street I frequently have cars that park right in front of my house for days I've actually gotten HOA findes notices for cars that aren't mine in front of my house and I have to notify my HOA not my car I don't know whose it is I can't put my trash cans in front of my house because I have cars parked in front of my house because we don't have enough on street parking so I am concerned that this will set a precedent for areas that are paying attention that struggle with on street parking and these are people that don't necessarily have garages driveways that accommodate four vehicles currently so um I I do think we need to really consider this that this is setting a precedent for other areas as well so that's my comment thank you so much Miss Taylor I'm going to come to you for a motion I thank Mr Vice may I moved to approve proposed residential parking Zone 15 for putam drive and Kon way okay it sounded like miss derer you were wishing to be heard before we called for the motion I I was okay the floor is yours all right right thank you um I just want to say that I think my colleagues have brought up very um important issues related to privatization I've heard in in um you know the ether that there are proposals by private businesses to uh privatize our city parking in downtown and I'm I'm not supportive of that and yet I am supportive of this um so I wanted to go on record that I I don't want this to be considered well we solved a problem here and we're going to continue privatizing parking on streets so I do think it is a step in that direction but I don't like the direction so I wanted to just be clear before we vote um secondly I do think Miss bber brings up a really good point there are parking issues throughout our city and my biggest concern is our lack of enforcement I don't think it's right that we need to have five notices before we tow um I thought we only had to have two um so I have a question about that um and I also have a question about do do violations have to be called in every time by the residents I I would have thought our staff would follow up like if they issue a citation I would have thought they would follow up to see if the vehicle moved or not you know in other words the issue citation are they following up so I still this this whole discussion has raised a lot of issues for me um I too like missra brought up about zero Riverside I'm very concerned concerned about whether it's there or some other place not including enough parking on site pushing that off on the street let's say we do it in that case we may have a request on Riverside to have a parking permit um program initiated there too because they can't park anymore so I think this brings up a lot of questions I'm willing to support today but I really would like to see our staff um think a little bit more globally about the issue and the direction our enforcement is taking generally um and and really put some thought and work into that with or without a strategic plan this is a issue that's plague the city for a while and I think I'm looking for some um larger solutions from our staff thank you Mr vice mayor thank you Miss St okay I'll come back to the body I have a motion by Miss Taylor I'll second the motion any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed opposed opposed motion carries 4 to two Okay Madam clerk I think we're on to item B18 because we're trailing B12 am I correct correct council member breus pulled item B18 okay before we do that do I have any disclosures on item B18 I pulled this item I'll let him go ahead okay Mr Martinez thank you Madame mayor fellow city council members and Madam clerk in the interest of full transparency on item B18 I am disclosing that I am employed by TMCC on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office I have been advised as an employee of TMCC have a commitment and a private capacity to the interest of TMCC here item B18 seeks approval of the donation to The TMCC Foundation to support tmc's International Education week to recognize and celebrate our local and Global diversity in the context of Education in the amount of $750 TMCC is a public employer not a private business I did not request this donation and the donation will not in any manner affect my employment at TMCC I have been advised that the independent judge independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my situation would not be materially affected by my commitment in a private capacity to TMCC accordingly I will be participating or voting on this item today Madame clerk please accept this disclosure and Lodge it on the record for this meeting pertaining to the this agenda item thank you thank you council member Martinez council member uh breus you pulled this item yeah I did and um I have the same disclosure I'd like get adopted um I won't U I'd like it adopted for the record um as a my disclosure what Mr um Martinez just read and I likewise will be voting on that I am also an employee at TMCC okay any additional concerns or comments at this time I'll come to you Miss Taylor can I just I'm sorry uh City attorney Shipman or Carl um is that sufficient for a disclosure from council member breus yes just and just to put it on the record I just want to put some additional legal reasoning on the record I don't think after and it was a quick review on this when I got the notion for this but I think because uh TMCC is in fact a public entity um essentially a governmental body it doesn't meet the definition of a per of a person under NRS um 0.39 that excludes governmental entities again because TMCC is a is a party to Nishi the Nevada system of Education which is a constitutional entity I don't think that even a either um council member Reus nor council member Martinez has any obligation to disclose this as a commitment into a private capacity because again those inst that institution is not a person and it wouldn't apply so I just want to put that on the record so that if there is a question um the ethics commission can can see what the reasoning is there and that's kind of late news thank you thank you so much council member tayor thank you so much for um this uh really gracious donation I'll look to you for the approval for the motion I move to approve staff recommendation okay I have a motion by Miss Taylor or second by Miss der any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you Mr vice mayor we're moving on to our D items so we're on item D1 D is and David one um what about our Charlie items what happened there we don't have any did I just miss that you oh I have them as C items online but they're D items okay I apologize on my uh staff report C1 is identified as the resolution to augment the budget but that's a d item okay so item D1 uh Madam clerk thank you item D1 and this should be Lindsay Hatfield and Vicky vanen okay Miss Hatfield welcome I think this may be your first time presenting in front of me I don't know that we've met one another but welcome and and glad to have you thank you uh Lindsay Hatfield Senior Management analyst with Finance um I have a brief presentation on this item and I'll kind of Hit the highlights for the augmentation but there are detailed tables included in your staff report and the attachments for this item if you want more details as far as exactly what's being augmented so this item is bringing um augmentations and revisions through the end of the first quarter for FY 24 September 30th included our general fund appropriations of $12.2 million there are grants and reimbursements for various City departments some revenues that have come in higher than anticipated and two and a half um new positions which are budget neutral there's no imp act to the budget for these positions that we're proposing the majority of what we're proposing um for Appropriations are carry forwards from the prior fiscal year so these are funds that were either encumbered or intended for use during FY 23 and the Departments either were not able to complete the project or um receive the goods Services um whatever before the end of the fiscal year so we're carrying those funds that are available from FY 23 to 24 so they can complete those projects we're also recognizing some Grant and reimbursement Revenue in the general fund we have those for our Public Safety units Municipal Court um City manager's office and Parks and Recreation there is a public art Grant in room tax that we're recognizing um and then our general capital projects funds we have two grants there one from HUD and one from FEMA we anticipated receiving those funds last F schal year but we only received part of those funds so we are augmenting for the remainder of those grants all of the grants that we're augmenting for have come before this body and been accepted previously the two and a half positions that we're proposing to add um the first is a systems analyst for IT department this position will be responsible for um facilitating the new CAD system for dispatch and it was approved at the August meeting for the e911 board for 100% reimbursement so that will be no fiscal impact to the city um we'll receive 100% reimbursement for for that new position the other one and a half positions these are 30 hour per week positions there's a recreation leader and a senior Recreation leader in our parks department um these will help facilitate the Sierra kids School site at the new Elementary School based on the interest that we've gotten from parents for this new program we believe that the costs will cover more than cover the the the revenues will more than cover the cost for these positions um and finally we are proposing additional transfer to the risk fund to replenish the fund balance for unanticipated claims and for the increased insurance premiums and I'm available for questions thank you Miss hfield I appreciate that let's start with the body anyone on the phone on Zoom has questions at this time vice mayor ree if I might I just want to State for the record that this item was properly noticed and we did receive one letter from council member breus as correspondence um and it has been included in the record okay I saw that earlier thank you so much none for me okay thank you council member der let's come now to the room any colleagues have questions from the Das at this time miss breus the floor is yours Miss Hatfield um I have not met you either are you new with our organization um I've been here four and a half years but this is my first time presenting okay sorry about that and your um director and your assistant director aren't here today um my director is here oh she is oh okay okay um I'd like to bring up my email if you could um this is something we do quarterly it's part of our budgeting role and it is the first quarter one so it's usually the most involved correct yes okay thank you so um there's a lot that goes into these and um I have for the past 10 years sat with Finance directors to go through the back data on them the tables you mentioned some of the tables but there's a lot of narrative that needs to go in and when I had my agenda briefing on this and knew the first quarter one was coming I asked to meet with Miss what what's going on here time is not started to I'm saying okay um I um asked to meet with um miss van beran as I have for 10 years to go over the data and uh she she agreed but what I got immediately after was from our city manager is that up there okay um and I asked this to be included in the record for this item and another item that's very large and important budgetary and it says um the purpose of this information being included here I'm sorry did the time Jump because I I didn't oh okay um I asked to meet with his van Beren that's what it says then Mr Thornley after the agenda review sent the following email and restrict restricted my access to our finance director to ask about this item on very technical information you know council's biggest job is to hire evaluate the manager's performance and set the budget and this is part of our budgeting activities um and Mr Thornley said that I couldn't meet because of memorialized hostile treatment from of our team that I have that is not true that is not accurate um our team is very professional and knows that our job here is to do our job and a lot of that involves the fiscal and overseeing the organization policy setting um and actually Mr Thornley is the one who has been hostile and is currently under investigation himself launched by the city council for improper government actions against me and um uh so it's a twisted reasoning and if you could scroll down to Mr um thornley's writing to me council member Reus as per my previous Direction please review the documents associated with the augmentation send your questions in writing to me no other member of the body has to provide information in writing to Mr Thornley and this is for every Department to understand what's going on with their budgets or their activities and we will make sure they are answer timely you are not authorized to meet with staff because of your previously memorialized hostile treatment of our team it should be of concern to every member of the public that a member of a council body cannot meet with a finance director in particular about one of our greatest charges and that is going over this budget there is a lot going on in this budget I have tremendous concerns thank you thank you miss breus any additional questions or comments by okay Miss Ebert we'll come back to you any additional questions Miss Taylor okay Miss um breus I'm going to come back to you for another round of three minutes no I don't want three more minutes I am not going to participate in Q&A of items that really need an hour of the finance director's time once a quarter and I was not given that Miss no no please don't interrupt me Miss breus I am the chair of the meeting and I'm not interrupting you I'm trying to give you the time you asked for you decided you did not want it we don't have a running commentary if you wish to use your 3 minutes of public comment to continue this line you are welcome to do it but we are not going to do it off time so am I cut off now no if you would like to use your additional three minutes the floor is yours as I was stating this is an item of great complexity that requires an hour of time for me to understand to do my job for those reasons I will not be asking for Q&A particularly because this body only gives us 6 minutes of Q&A to understand incredible complex items so I will not participate I will not vote in favor and I want to call out how I am not able to do my job on the most important effort efforts that I was voted in here to do and so thank you I will yield the rest of my time thank you Miss burus Miss Ebert did that give you enough time to get yeah started okay the floor is yours thank you I do have some questions um so one of them that particular particularly jumped out at me during uh my review of the staff report was um a line or a budget item that was uh $40,000 for demolition of 455 pompy um so one of the things I want to call out is 455 pompy is a location um first of all it's it's not a complete address it's 455 ppy way and I I don't recall us voting on that I just would like to have a little bit more information about that is that something that was discussed prior to my coming on to council um you know why are we just now voting on $40,000 demolition of a of a a property and is this a property that the City of Reno owns I I looked it up on the county assessor's website and it looks at the uh like the City of Reno um acquired it in 2021 but I'm not sure if it was a purchase or or what happened there I actually don't have that level of detail with me today but I can look into that and get back to you um this item though is not approving any sort of demolition it's just recognizing the revenue that we've received okay so we received $40,000 for the demolition of pomy as far as I understand but I can I can get you more information on that call or Mr Shipman do you wish to weigh in on this matter yeah maybe to Pride record Mr vice mayor um John shman for the city attorney's office but um this property came into the city's possession through the um Lemon Valley litigation so this was what it was the walls residents so this was part of the settlement agreement um it was a purchase of that agreement and with the notion being that that property would be demolished and then that would um be additional um capacity for flooding okay so this result of the flooding part of the settlement correct City of Reno took ownership so that's how we got the ownership and then um and it was and I'll just leave it at that if you have any other questions I'll be Happ okay all right thank you and then um just because I'm I'm fairly new to all of this so the augmentation is to do um a $12 million increase to what we had already proved correct yes so the ma the majority of that is carry forward that was remaining from the prior year because we didn't spend it we anticipated spending it and we did so it's um excess fund balance at this point that we're carrying forward okay so um um so the $5 million um allocation to the risk fund um is that because we used the entire 5 million previously like is this usual that we would need to allocate $5 million like quarterly for this fund no we we wouldn't normally do this quarterly um this is to replenish the the fund balance that we we generally try to carry in that fund because of the increased um settlement costs and insurance premiums okay okay um all right and then I did have another question the title four and five rewrite is that is this the business license rewrite that we're working on I believe so yes okay okay um all right um and then just to confirm how how do we fund our budget what's a primary source for that sex and property tax and how have we been doing with our um projections on sex have we been meeting that exceeding that falling short I'm not prepared to discuss CX today but I think our director could bring that back in the future okay so that's not something we can get an answer on while we're discussing our budget we're we're not augmenting SE tax or or either of those Revenue sources today okay okay well I just feel like it's relevant you know when we're augmenting our budget by $12 million I think it's relevant to say you know are we meeting our projections or exceeding them or falling short just so that we could be wise as council members when we're you know allocating funds and at this point we only have one month I believe of sex that's come in for this FAL year so we only have July okay okay all right thank you Miss Ebert excellent questions all any other questions from the board at this time okay I'll come to you Miss Taylor for a motion a motion to approve approve the augmentation revisions from July 1 2023 through September 30th 2023 I do have another thing I I remember to ask about I apologize no problem we we'll come to you now okay so a few more questions um in regard to the um hold on here I'm sorry I have so many folds on here I'm trying to find it so if you can just bear with me real quick in the meantime Lindsay can you pull the microphone just a little a little bit closer to you so that the recording picks you up thank you yep so Public Works can you explain what that what falls under that category that's not any kind of public structures we would have correct that wouldn't include like the record Street facility or anything like that or can you tell me what category that would fall under um is there a certain page that you're referencing on the asking you if you could tell me what page I would find it on just the public works well I I'm not sure if that would fall under public works or where would I find the um allocations to um maintain or um you know care for facilities that are owned by the city of raino that's under maintenance and operations maintenance and operations can you let me know what page that's on please the staff report is um grouped by fund not not necessarily Department can you tell me what page it's on in the St report oh in I'm sorry in the res uh yes in the state document I see what you're asking now yes the um maintenance and operations department is grouped on this um the state document under the Public Works um function yeah so makes sense okay can you tell me what page on the staff report that is on what page you're looking at right now six okay thank you okay so uh it looks like we needed to allocate an additional um a total $8 million for uh police it looks like we're ahead for fire dispatch is doing all right um so um where am I looking now for properties that public work s okay is there any additional funds allocated for maintaining any city of Ren now projects I thought I saw something in here about like the retrofit we did for City Hall but I can't remember what page is on I'm just looking for help in finding that the the retrofit is actually included in our capital projects which is a different section so the the one I just referenced was for the general fund um sorry give me one moment this is a long report and that particular um it's page 12 um so the retrofit grant that I mentioned we received part of those funds we had $4 million that we're receiving for that um and we received part of them last year and we anticipate receiving the other portion this year so that's what we're we're um just recognizing here is that Grant that's already been awarded that we have haven't received all the funds for okay so we anticipate getting getting the rest of them okay so is there anything in here about additional cost for the police station or anything like that no this is um there are carry forward amounts so okay okay what we anticipated spending last year for the public safety center and pool that weren't spent we're just carrying that balance forward okay thank you okay Miss Eber thank you again for your uh thoughtful questions I'll come now back to the body I think Miss Taylor has made a motion I'll second the motion any additional questions or comments at this time okay hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed no Madam clerk can we do a roll call please council member breus nay d i Martinez I Ebert yes Taylor yes Reese yes all right council member ree you do have a passing vote 5 to one much 5 to one miss Hatfield thank you so much I I appreciate your uh thoughtfulness I know it's not easy especially to make the first presentation on such weighty matters and the budgets are complicated so thank you for leading us through that discussion you did an awesome job thank you thank you so much okay Madame clerk back to you thank you Vice May ree we're moving on to item D2 which is a presentation from Justin George and Carrie kosy okay Madam clerk do we have public comment on this item yes vice mayor Reese we do have um one letter of Correspondence again from council member breus this is included in the record and has been distributed okay thank you so much for that Mr George welcome uh always privileged to see you I apologize also we do have Tom Dunn oh Tom Dunn one of my favorites Tom Dunn welcome and good morning again sorry to waste your time today you're never wasting our time Mr Dunn you know that for the record uh Tom Dunn vice president of the Reno firefighters Association proudly representing the women wom men and women that staff your fire department um we are here in support of item D2 um once again in my early career here 24 years now going on we had a downtown fire station which is now located where there is a downtown baseball park and our fire station facility was sold to a private developer for a dollar and here we are 24 years later 24 years later actually take it back 18 years later 18 sorry finally getting to the point of uh replacing our downtown fire station um every person that's come in front of the Reno firefighters Association for an interview for public office we have asked them what's your plan for replacing our downtown fire station and here we are today talking about that plan to replace the fire station and we are grateful for it um after the downtown fire station was demolished one of our fire companies was working at of the downtown um bowling Stadium until a temporary station that was only supposed to be in effect for five years was occupied we are now working on I think it's year 18 for that temporary fire station and so by let's put it this way by the time this station is built in staffed I will be retired but I'm here to Advocate publicly for this fire station and it's a long time coming and let's make it happen thank you I sort of don't believe that you'll ever retire Mr Dunn but thank you for being here today Mr George now the floor is yours any puns for us today or how are we going to go uh next time thank you all right uh good morning Mr Vice mayor council members I'm Justin George senior civil engineer for public works and I'm here today to seek approval to move forward with the construction manager at risk project delivery method for the Reno Fire Department Central Station project I wanted to start off with a quick clarification that today I'm not asking for authorization to use any funds approve the design or select a contractor what we are here for is ask just asking for authorization to move forward on the crr selection process I have a short presentation to update you on the status of the project and outline the next steps so I'd like to remind Council that City or remind Council that the city owned parcel at 4555 East 2 Street the current Reno Police Station was approved as the future location for Central Station at the March 8th council meeting this aerial map here shows a a portion of downtown where current and future fire department facilities are located and the uh Administration and fire staff at the fourth floor of City Hall that's that blue arrow on the bottom left corner and fire station one at Valley in Fourth Street will be relocated to the Central Station which is that red arrow to the right of the ballpark so the diagram on this side shows the four phases that we have planned to complete the Central Station project phase one includes the the schematic design of Central Station and when we bring a construction manager at risk or semar on board to work with staff the architect and Engineers to finish the design with direct contractor input on constructibility material and scheduling concerns and provide accurate cost estimating to help with procuring funding phase two includes the design development where the semr and team really dive into the design of the building phase three includes final design concurrently with abatement and demolition of the current police station and F phase four is Construction of central station so the red arrow on this slide shows where we are at in the process today the schematic design is nearly complete and we are ready to bring a construction manager or we're ready to start the construction manager at risk selection process if you recall this is the same time frame that we brought a semar on board with the Moana pool project so getting to this point included a considerable amount of effort to develop a Central Station concept that will help the Reno Fire Department be better serve the community our project manager has diligently coordinated the schematic design process with input from the fire department administration firefighters and other City departments the work that went into the schematic design includes space planning to identify how many personnel and firefighters will occupy the building identifying the number and size of each type of room and their location in the building laying out the floor plans conceptually for optimal functionality and efficiency fitting the building location on the site plan and then preparing a preliminary building rendering so back in March we began the design of this facility with after approval of consultant agreements with TSK Architects and dowel and this is our first look at the conceptual rendering of Central Station so please note this rendering is still preliminary so this is something that will continue to evolve as we move through the design phase and is subject to change as we finalize the design of this project so switching back to uh construction manager at risk for Central Station project we are recommending the semr project delivery method so this is our preferred project delivery method for large facility projects based off of the the successes that we've had with the Moana Springs Community Aquatics and fitness center project so this slide right here shows the phases of semr engagement on a project the first step is to select a contractor based on their qualifications that is followed up by the preconstruction services phase where the contractor works with the city and our designers to complete the design after the final design the contractor selects subcontractors and prepares a guaranteed maximum price for construction that will be presented to council for award that that at that time some of the many benefits of bringing a Contractor on board earlier in the design phase include identifying construction challenges budget constraints material availability issues and scheduling concerns along with providing accurate and comprehensive construction cost estimating that can help guide the final design for Central Station so this slide highlights where we're at in that phase today we're simply looking for approval to move forward with that qualifications based selection process we'll be back early next year to award or with the approval of the selection of a contractor for the semar process and to award preconstruction services at that time um that concludes my presentation thank you guys for your your time thank you Mr George for that I appreciate your uh diligence and sort of thoroughness in it let me maybe start off some questions and really I want to focus on the original Moment In Time some years ago now where we chose the semar process as a way to deliver the Moana Springs pool project I think by all measure everyone on staff and and even the city council would agree that the semar process has worked fabulously there at the pool in part because uh we've got great people building the pool um I think Core Construction has been our partner in that project but I will go back in time and say that when you first came to us with the Seymour concept there were a lot of questions from our body because it was an unfamiliar process to us there are different ways of course to build projects and if you look across our Valley and you look at the government entities each one has taken some variation and liberties with it and quite frankly based on the economy and what else is going on in the economy we have found different delivery methods have been appropriate given the circumstances and so um I think it was a leap of faith for this Council to uh choose the semar process although it really was in my mind a very good decision and I think has been proven over the course of it um with the semour uh process um is it correct that the it reduces the risk to us because it allows for sort of the owner designer and construction manager to all be in one place and and it makes it so that guaranteed maximum price is what we're scheduled to Target and hit is that kind of the general broad reason why you have found this delivery method to be a good one yeah that's correct the the early engagement with the contractor in the design phase kind of helps us with that you know material selection they can look at the plans and review the plans and identify areas that we may be overdesigning or you know adding a little too much flare to and we can dial that back based off a material selection or or Poss a different type of construction method than the the designers have originally anticipated and I think from my perspective as I've watched um your team and core's team uh work on the Moana Springs pool it's really been um you know fairly refreshing because as someone who was the general counsel for a builder developer for many years uh trying to figure out what Target you're hitting is part of the issue and when you start to go over budget and you don't have the semar process in place you're really scrambling to figure out how to continue to meet your budget right and so when you have that guaranteed maximum price and that you have the sort of the history and consistency with your uh person who is selected as a semour I think that allows at least from my perspective us to best utilize the resources we have in part because as council members we're you know wanting to make sure that we make sure that the dollars are spent as they were intended for the benefit of our our community who is paying for them and so um again I um think that we'll have other issues to discuss at Future as you've identified on the slides but for my process and and perspective the semar process has proven to be really effective on these larger scale projects and maybe they're not U you know appropriate for smaller ones because there really is no need for a manager to manage that risk but when you start talking about large Public Works projects this really does seem to be the best fit for us as a City so I'll be supportive thank you so much I'm going to come to the body and see if there are questions Miss Ebert just a quick question just so I can kind of understand some things that happened did we follow this process when we initiated the police station do we have see more on the public safety center process that was a design bid build process so that's one where the architect designs the project through final design and then we put the project out to bid so that when the project is finalized is the first chance the contractor gets a look at the process so they don't have the ability to give feedback during the design to kind of help and and steer the design so with Public Safety Center no we did not use semar we did a a design bid build process okay do you think that process would have helped it all with risk management of the cost to the station certainly I think early early contractor engagement in that project could have helped so do you think this is kind of like something a lesson that we learned so using this process will help going forward to not end up in that situ sitation yes certainly with the the large facility projects yes thank you Miss Ebert though I will say because you do highlight the important question between the design build and the semar process I was on site at the public safety center this week with Mr George and one of the things I will say is that our staff is always trying to protect our resources and I'll give you just a random example there was some sighting that was old and and part of the original building and I asked Mr George you know what what's going on there it kind of you know doesn't look that great he said well in the process of working with the architect and the engineers and the project team we've been able to lower the cost on that specific item and so it's not that there are impossibilities in reducing the cost or watching the bottom line but I think Mr George has has accurately said it's a lesson learned but also I think different economies and depending on what kind of bidding environment you have can change the way in which the design build process evolves so in the Contracting world I think people go back and forth In fairness there are some years and some projects which it really works for and other projects which it doesn't and I think it's hopefully our job to figure out which one works best for all of us because I can't say that 10 years from now a design build project would not be the right method delivery method I can say today it's not but I think it's always something we have to sort of sus out but you're absolutely right you've hit the key issue of whether it would be those two and there are actually other delivery methods too I mean there are different kinds of fee based ones where the contractor basically throws in with you and they get a percentage of what they save I mean there are all sorts of different ways to deliver it but your question is the good one yeah thank you thanks okay any other questions from Council oh miss breus the floor is yours thank you could you bring up my public comment again um so I was surprised to see this item come up um and asked about it during my agenda review um and then of course Mr um the finance director said well we do have some thoughts how we're going to pay for this um and then of course Mr Thornley if you could scoll down to Mr Thornley saying I cannot meet with staff over this issue now in March you can't and I went back and the reason I thought we were going to have another item come before this was because in March you said when we got to 30% then we were going to dig down into the financials and that was when response to my inquiry of how we're going to pay for this um and we haven't had that discussion I wanted to have some discussion from Miss um van Beren she's not here we're not teed up for that discussion but um is the 50 million still the number we're looking at so I think one of the the benefits of bringing the semar on at this point is they're working with us to help us really develop an accurate construction cost estimate well I mean let's let's let's do this okay you know Sparks is over there building a fire station and they have a number out there because I read it in the paper of how much they're ready to go bond for I want to know how much Miss Van Buren's ready to go bond for the discussion about design build like the police station versus the Moana is not a fair uh example because at that point in time we had less debt now we have more debt and we have some other obligations that have increased we need to have the discussion of how to fund this first because as you go into the semar and I understand that's prescribed under state law right so we're going to go out we want to be in good faith to the Contracting Community but say this Council gets to the point where I don't know maybe maybe you have a different city manager different Finance director whatever and starts going wow we're in trouble the the sea tax isn't coming the federal Money's been exhausted how are we going to pay for that well we have two ways we have a resolution for layoffs which I have had in front of me or you know we're going to go out for Bond and the council goes oo I don't think we can get there so if you're at that point and you've got a $60 Million number down the road what are the penalties under the semar contract or the semar law if you back out of the project are there penalties specified in the agreements so I think we we we Engage The the construction manager at risk through those preconstruction services at which time upon final design of the project is when they present us the guaranteed maximum point I think that's the the threshold that we um cannot pass once we we award it we have to have the funding before we move past that point okay so you said the next step is bringing the contract forward so the next step what the step we're at right now is selecting the con construction manager at risk and then look at a preconstruction Services agreement early next year we don't look at the guaranteed maximum price or or are locking that in until a couple years down the road after Central Station has been demolished if I could have a few more minutes I know absolutely but let me just also see um Ebert's time like a little more time well we were engaging in the iterative process and Miss Ebert and I did that um can I ask is there anyone else on the phone who wishes to speak at this time before I come back to miss Reus for round two Miss Taylor it looks like you're up thank you Mr vice mayor thank you for the presentation I just wanted a quick clarification during the semar during this process we're not guaranteeing the contractor anything as far as building the contractor it is just we are going through the construction manager at risk process to get to a design to get to a construction price we have no obligation to award them a contract for building and that wouldn't even happen until we look at the GMP agree on it and even at that time we would have an opt option to go out to a different contractor if we wanted to correct yes at at the time of the GMP which was further down the road is is yeah that's the correct process thank you okay Miss breus I'll come back to you now Mr vice mayor okay Miss der I'm gonna come to you and then I'll come to you Miss breus yeah I just a couple points um excuse me I just um I wanted to thank all of our staff uh for their diligence in getting us to this point and for the fire department for their patience and us getting to this point this is huge huge uh for our entire city what we're about to embark on here this is a a there's been a lot of background work and now we would actually be selecting the semar contractor we we're actually being U allowing our staff to go out and bit you know requests um proposals to be our cart contractor but I think it's we really got to spend one moment and think about what a significant uh step this is for our fire department for our city as a whole um I'm so glad that we're here um the second thing I wanted to ask is a question I I wondered from Mr George if he had an approximate cost at this time I mean even a ballpark or no U not at this time I think that's that's what we're still working through in the schematic design process and looking for feedback from a a searon okay all right um anyway Kudos I'm glad we're here today it's very exciting thank you Mr Martinez thank you so much vice mayor uh George thank you for the presentation appreciate um you sharing all that good info with us I also want to Echo some of the comments already made I think this is a great moment for our fire department to see uh the body the council um supporting their efforts and recognizing that those temporary spaces that they're a part of are just not uh part to the level of service that they're trying to provide for our community and so I appreciate all the efforts done by the public works department to get us to the space and making sure that we're taking the right steps to to make sure that this is successful for our fire department so again thank you for the information I'm looking forward to supporting this this motion thank you Mr martinz Miss breus I'm gonna come back to you now thank you so um Mr George so up until uh we get the guaranteed price the design are we paying them for some them for design so the the construction manager at risk is paid for pre-construction services which would be an agreement brought to council early next year okay and then and then the guaranteed price okay so um I get that but I just want to bring back you know not telling us a price you know I'm going to go off the 50 million because that was what you brought in March okay maybe it's increased maybe you've been able to shave it down but 50 million Council colleagues staff too because you know having a discussion about how we're going to buy something for 50 million we just went over how much is in our full budget you know without having a plan is just not how it's done in the world of Municipal finance and management if you go back to the budget session when we closed out our budget we pulled away from paying for some things that we've have policy that we're going to pay for and those were the OPB the the public employee benefits and we didn't fund that so we're already shorting things and look there's no bankruptcy there's no l there's no loan modifications when you commit to debt it comes out of operations and that's why in 2007 to 2009 this body that put themselves into a lot of yet laid off a third of the workforce I really don't think we should go here until we have a full financing plan that Public Works stands down Finance comes forward and explains how we're going to do that one thing this might involve council is selling some of our assets next thing you know is South are we going to have a fire sale on Southside school some people are looking at the CAC to use that for abla purposes is the manager going to come forward and say look we've got to sell the CAC at a fire sale price we've got to sell what's known as the leers of fire sale we need to do $20 million of property sales to get you here that preludes other options Council you are not going into this step with full knowledge and you're also not even following the information that Mr George said you would have when you got to this step you can go back and read your um you know watch it like I did and you said at 30% we died down into the details now I also want to say CU staff has always been very professional and does know you know what we're doing here and sometimes they're put up to just you know follow directions we're a hierarchical organization Mr George no wrong you know men mention against you that's why I brought up Mr Thornley not giving me contact and um making false allegations about me and how I do my job and keeping me from do doing my job the buck stops with him he is not here but he is having you move forward with contractual agreements for a $50 million outlay that you don't even know how you're going to pay for it not not a good step councel okay any additional questions or comments from the body hearing n no goody Miss Taylor for a motion thank you Mr vice mayor I mooved to approve staff to pursue the construction manager at risk schr project delivery meth method for the Reno Fire Department Central Station project second okay I have a motion by Miss Taylor a second by miss duer any other questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed I vote now motion carries Mr uh chair acting can we have a 15minute break um let me just look at the agenda one second happy to do it except that please remember we have an attorney client privilege meeting when we take a break that information never came to me how did you get that information it's on my calendar when did it populate I I don't know Mr attorney can you explain that I did not I was not aware of that yeah we uh we sent a request yesterday okay scheduling and I think put it on people's calendars Miss breus I think you have wisely pointed out that we've been on the dis now for two and a half hours we have the next item on the agenda is D3 is that correct Madam Clerk and that may be a larger presentation so we're going to go ahead and break now until um we'll say we'll break till 1:15 and that gives everyone the opport do you want do you need a little longer Miss cler no that's fine oh no I I I guess my recommendation was more so the majority of the members that are in the audience right now are waiting for D3 so if there is an opportunity to hear D3 so that they can go ahead and be about their day that might be better suited for those who are waiting patiently okay so let me see what the will of the body is we can take a 10 minute break a comfort break come back hear D3 and then take a lunch break I I think we break once we don't have a lot to do I am you know sorry folks but I think we should come back in a half hour at least or whatever attorneys are going to do but that's my preference understand and and I apologize to the folks in the audience who are waiting so patiently and diligently uh we have had a busy morning and we've got some business that we've got to do off the dis so we're going to be in recess until uh 1:15 thank you for for [Music] all right Vice May ree if you are ready to reconvene it is 1:18 and at this time looks like council members Martinez and D are both back onto our Zoom um and we're reconvening without mayor shibi so it is 118 and we are on item d as in David 3 which is a presentation from K kosy thank you madam clerk before we do that I want to Welcome to our Chambers two of Reno's finest new recruits to our Police Department I understand you gentlemen are with us today although not yet to the academy uh you're spending some time with us as we get you to that point I think that's a a great thing that Chief Nance has really put in place where Although our Academy has not started we know that you're quality folks that we want to have and tie up and we don't want you going elsewhere uh so they've invited you to participate and watch our hearings here today uh both of you gentlemen have my deep sympathies and gratitude for having to uh see us in our Glory but also know that that's part of our job is to interact with you all and sometimes it's hard to see the connections between the Department that you are sworn to represent and the city council but there are lots of them and so welcome nice to have both of you here Madam clerk uh item D3 uh and Miss kerosi welcome may I ask do we have public comment on this item thank you Vice May ree we do have some public comment on this item well let's welcome those folks to uh give public comment before Missy's presentation okay I would just like to reiterate um our standards for council chambers as we do have some new members it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to the item in front of us which is D3 when you're called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes in accordance with Council rule 6.3.1 one while in this room please be respectful disruptive behavior from audience members like clapping yelling whistling Etc which impede the meeting May result in a warning issued by the presiding officer if the behavior continues you may be removed from chambers if you're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time our first public commenter is Bernie Carter followed by Damian Cole followed by Thomas Albright Mr Carter welcome always good to have you in Chambers thank you I try not to be here very often smart man so thank you for allowing me to speak today to be clear we are in favor of bikes in downtown Reno the question is where would they be the safest for both themselves and the motorists around them or would they be positive for the area and where would they be detrimental I will speak today only about the Center Street Corridor versus the Virginia Street Corridor selecting Center Street for bikes in our opinion would be Reckless Center Street is a one-way street that carries primary Vehicles traffic from Mary Street to 6th Street Center Street from Liberty to 6th Street has over 15 multiple vehicle accesses and four high-rise garages including the city's own parking garage these do not include private residences or controlled intersections in our own building we have over 50 parking spaces entering and leaving on Center Street Mill Street has 33 parking spaces that are oneway that all depart on Center Street the combined parking off Center Street May count several thousand that means several thousand cars per day entering or exiting on Center Street Center Street also provides Dell and Xcel opportunities for many of these parking areas the Pioneer Auditorium uses Center Street often to load and unload Road Road shows to their venue our own property has a left turn lane to allow slow down and enter the Virginia Street Bridge was when the Virginia Street Bridge was built we lost our access to Virginia Street in contrast Virginia Street from Liberty to Sixth Street excuse me Center Street from Liberty to Sixth Street has four entrances for buildings the major Auto generators have an auto access on either Sierra Street or Center Street but none on Virginia Street you recently completed a a study that I believe indicated the majority of Virginia Street is inactive I've been told it's either a chicken in the egg situation no one will improve their property unless more people are there to access it but no one will come downtown without a reason to be there I think we showed in Midtown that the real answer is chicken invest first be bold introduce bikes walking customers begin the process of enhancing Virginia Street downtown no one stopped their car to walk into a store on Virginia Street but they may do so if they're riding a bike maximize the opportunity to make our city center a VI a vibrant one allow bikes on Virginia Street and protect those bike riders by keeping them off of Center Street thank you very much thank you Mr Carter Damen Cole followed by Thomas Albright good afternoon sorry for I'm tall I'm going to do I'm tired of like leaning forward um my name is Damen Cole I have been as you know who I am so um thank you for hearing me again item D3 um I always blank out when I come up here um the reason why I'm not happy with how D3 is being presented is not because it's presenting a bike Network for downtown even the trucking meows bicycle Alliance is celebrating the fact that the city and RTC is committing to this um what I have as a protest against this is the way that the public process in quotes was handled um the very foundational question is where should we have these the public was not included with this the engineers decided for themselves based off of statistical data here's where we are selecting the bike routes and what do you think about them do you like them how how safe would you feel on them things like that um we needed to start from a space before that we need to have public hearings workshops to discuss with the community in a collaborative effort where people would find the routes the most helpful everyone knows that the trucky Metals bicycle Alliance has had the long-standing opinion that Center Street is the best place I agree only if there is no rest of the network if that's a single road down that would be the best route which is what RTC studied however considering the entire network which I showed you in 1975 was created for the entire trucky Meadows where would the best route be downtown for a nonstop try to stop as few as possible times bikee route I came to a different conclusion I came to Evans which could connect up to the bike way which could connect up to hul which gives you a straight shot down separated from car traffic I'm not on the side of putting Center Street Bikes on Center Street I'm on the side of taking Center Street putting a bike way next to it separate Road for its own B now that was decided the cycle track version the designs I showed you were not deemed safe I agree because you're putting bikes in a two-way cycle Lane a dual cycle Lane on one side of the road that's part of the road Network can't do that for speeds that quick for that much congestion can't do it however paradoxically I am seeing that RTC is saying we can put bikes on Vine Street Bridge which is not a Viaduct it is a clear span arched bridge that goes over the freeway and has two side streets that are also named vine on the side it was made in the 1967spud public process was it's not there Thomas Albright Professor Albright welcome good afternoon uh thank you for having this opportunity for us to voice comments I am Tom Albright for the record um I'm a professor of geography where I teach uh physical geography and sustainability including Transportation issues at the univers um at a local University I'm not officially representing them um more important importantly I'm a family member and a citizen of Reno um and I want to speak from a very personal basis that uh three out of the four members of my family travel primarily in their day-to-day routines by micromobility including scooter and bicycling a fourth one would if only she could feel more comfortable traveling through the downtown area um this has been a huge benefit to my health and my both mental and physical since IED started doing this you know almost 100% And I've been following this issue for a long time and it means a great deal to me to have safer routes through the city and I also Echo the comments that I think if this is done right this will be a real feather in the cap for downtown Reno's attract attractiveness um I also want to make sure that we don't forget the safety issues involved with this um I'm U my brother was lost to uh a traffic violence when we were children and I always carry that with me um so I think about that when I think about ways we can make our streets safer for people so I want to thank the engineers the planners and City staff and the um the council members and mayor for taking this issue seriously and and and and hopefully pushing this through today I think it will be u a big benefit not only for the safety of the mobility folks but also for motorists vast majority of whom have no interest in hurting anyone or getting scratches on their vehicles and a lot of the data that we look at in places that have made such improvements shows that these these enhancements also bring major safety benefits for motorists as well and by taking some cars off the street we provide an invisible benefit to motorists by reducing some congestion because you can fit a lot more people on on bikes last little piece I'll mention is I'm involved in an informal um student and staff organization at my educational institution that advocates for safe routes um through downtown and um would very much like to see this we know that we have many students who are nervous about traveling uh through downtown and having this network um enhancement will really help and we have people who are very much cut off to businesses to shopping and things like that because they don't have a license or they don't have a car and having safe routes will be a big benefit to them so I see this as a a win on many levels and uh again thank you very much for your consideration that's all I have to say thank you Professor vice mayor we have no additional public comment but for the record I would like to state that we received 29 comments um prior to 4m yesterday October 10th these have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available on the reno.gov meeting portal two letters in favor 24 letters in opposition and three letters of concern which do include voicemail transcriptions and with that we have no additional public comment and I'll give it over to Carrie okay Miss kosy welcome thank you very much vice mayor and council members Carrie kosy your director of Public Works and city engineer um before I get started here today I want to I want to just mention that I don't do things single-handedly I do things with a team and there's a team sitting behind me that I want to just recognize all of the efforts that they have provided in the last couple of years um we have uh Dale Keller he's director of engineering with RTC we have Mr Paul Nelson Communications and government affairs with RTC we have Katie Harrison she's our Public Works uh engineering manager we have Amy Pennington she's our special special projects and Outreach coordinator a couple of people that H could not be here today because they're they're carrying on business is a Cleo Wilson the assistant director of Public Works and Sarah goinging of the RTC she's a transportation engineer and I want to just say thank you to all of their support so today I am here we are here seeking your approval on the downtown micromobility network of streets so that the RTC the Regional Transportation Commission can include these streets into their Improvement plan for design and construction funding so my presentation today I'm going to outline some of the council priorities and actions that we that have been taken in the past year and a half to two years how what it takes to grow the micromobility network what corridors we evaluated our recommendation funding for the recommendation and the implementation steps so first off um I want to just comment on the um council's commitment to micromobility and it been extraordinary over the past two years so the first picture up there at the top uh it depicts um Hulk Avenue improvements where we placed 100 excuse me we placed one 1.2 miles of buffered bike lanes that were added to connect Midtown to the trucky River path and to downtown most recently um the project also realigned that dangerous skewed intersection that Mr O Barry O Sullivan spoke about in in public comment and we also improved The Pedestrian infrastructure we are anxiously awaiting our new path sweeper and um I believe I've talked to our communications director we want to have a naming uh contest for that uh the micromobility pilot study was completed by um two miles of of uh streets in downtown you're familiar with the Virginia Street in the Fifth Street portions of that um next one is nearly one quarter of a mile of new separated micromobility path along Enterprise Drive which is north of the University connects student housing to the University the next one is uh upgrades we did some upgrades to the parking lot at the Reno adaptive Cycling Center and um which is heavily supported by I know the mayor in this Council um this picture here depicts a a portion of the Reno's uh piece of the uh Audi Wells project approximately three miles of raised and separated micromobility infrastructure connecting Sparks to Reno along AI Wells is underway and it's about halfway complete I'm I'm happy to announce too to this Council that through your dedication of of uh funding we have uh We've surface treated over 20 miles of bike Lanes uh this past summer we've added the new thermoplastic bike symbols and the green contrast Lanes the Virginia Street placemaking study was uh was was uh completed and supported and I'm happy to announced that we are in underd design in implementation uh for phase one uh we the council approved the uh uh the receipt of some Don of of a uh a grant fund for the C Carson trucky Water Conservancy district and we were able to put some rip wrap along the trucky River path which is an extremely important connector um along the trucky River we we also enhanced that by putting some some uh curve being along there to further protect the path the bird scooter franchise agreement was approved and it's provided as of this morning we have over 581,000 miles the bird scooters have racked up in Reno 581,000 miles that is 24 times around the earth let that sink in there is a need for micromobility that's just bird scooters last but not least we uh we used funds from the capital Improvement uh uh program to surface treat about 1.8 miles of the trucky River path from Lake def Fisherman's Park very impressive thank you all for your support on this so what does it take excuse me so so so so what does it take to grow the downtown mo mobility Network essentially a sustainable micr Mobility Network balances trade-offs to serve different users across the network we heard that from the public commenter it balances the tradeoffs to serve different users so the group of users that we most interested that are that we we are we're targeting and we heard it over and over through public comment is the one that I have kind of circled there the 51 to 56% those are probably most of us in this room that feel most comfortable on a low stress facility so what does a flow stress facility mean it's the space on the street where there is less traffic lower speeds and less conflicts with vehicles so we learned a lot from all of the uh workshops and the training and the pilot study that we that we put forth we learned that low stress facilities require more space there just is simply not enough space to do everything we want so there's trade-offs that are needed we need to remove travel Lanes we need to remove parking Lanes or sometimes both there are changes in maintenance needs that need to be considered we need to consider how we sweep their streets how we remove the snow how we place surface treatments um there there many things that we have to consider so in our study we evaluated seven corridors and I just want to touch on what those seven corridors were so from from the left from the the the map on the on the slide here from the left hand side Vine Street connects the northern neighborhoods all the way down to the uh trucky River the next north south is Virginia Street connects the university to Midtown University way and Center Street connects University through Midtown well I wouldn't say all the way through Midtown but to the roundabout there at Mary Street and then the the the last Northwest or the north south Corridor was Lake Street Evans and Sinclair there we connect the university to the bus station the RTC bus station to downtown to Midtown so expanding the network what does it take to do that and I'm really proud to um to let the council know that our team has provided a community oriented engineering approach and what that means is we tested out the micromobility infrastructure through the pilot study we gathered feedback through that pilot study on the types of things that work and don't work we gathered feedback from the users from the bike Community from the scooters from the vehicle folks about what what their preferences were we held a lot of public meetings we did um uh uh surveys we did virtual meetings we've gathered an enormous amount of feedback from the users the stakeholders the activators and what the activators are the businesses right nobody would I mean there'd be no reason to really come downtown if their businesses weren't here so in those three fundamental areas we looked at Transportation Community engagement and adjacent and property owner uh interests so I want to talk a little bit about the transportation engineering part of this we we looked at we looked at the vehicle we looked at the vehicle speeds we looked at the vehicle volumes we looked at the width of the rideways the number of conflicts all of the things that you've heard from our our uh speakers today um that were concerns we looked at driver visibility we looked at the intent of the roadway and the expect expectations of the users one of our commenters today talked about you don't expect to see a bicycle going the wrong way right so we looked at all of that we we we really looked to see what what made sense we also looked at in the transportation evaluation you've heard myself and Dale say this over and over every bike every bike plan needs a car plan where are cars going where do we want people to come in into the City and out of the city we don't want people to be frustrated to be able to get to and from if they're in a vehicle we also looked at the cost benefit and what what yields the the greatest cost benefit for the community there is a limited amount of funding so we want to be responsible and respectful of the of the funding that we would have community and properties and businesses so this the community is is is the users of the space um we looked we gathered input to determine you know what what supports a safe connected route and the network survey that we just recently did the purpose of that survey was to do just that find out what routes did the did the users feel that were comfortable the the purpose of that survey was not for the users to rank which ones that we would go forward because we're using the three elements to decide make the final decision transportation engineering and business proper Property Owners um as far as the prison the the property owners generally as you heard today they support the micr mobility in downtown what what they don't support is is they don't support things that are going to affect their businesses um loss of parking um loss of vehicle Lanes um many had had safety concerns as well so that brings me to the the seven corridors and on this slide here I show kind of evaluation of where those those seven corridors landed um with the three three areas that we we looked at engineering business and community so there on the Le hand side I list the corridors list the limits of those corridors approximate length approximate project cost um and then if there's a check mark there that was supported by engineering supported by business or supported by community so the the light blue are the four that we are moving forward today uh stclair Lake Evans Virginia Street Vine Street and Fifth Street I want to talk a little bit about um the the uh Street the corridors that were not selected to come forward that Sixth Street is a is supported by engineering and by the community and um the RTC has put forth A Safe Streets for all Grant so that particular Corridor will come separately through an local agreement if that Grant is goes forward Third Street Third Street has some issues with Crossings um as as Damien point out that it makes it makes it very difficult when you're Crossing High Volume streets on a vehicle and it's not um if there's not a signal there so we had some issues with that in the transportation engineering evaluation some of the businesses also had concerns because of the RightWay width it would mean that we would have to take away their their uh parking University and and uh Center Street now this one here gets a little bit more attention so I I decided to put together a slide and basically talked about where this where University we in Center Street was not supported by uh transportation engineering or the property owners and businesses first Transportation high-speed Vehicles so as we've heard today over and over we do have a lot of high higher speeds I believe the the uh the speed on Center Street University way is 30 miles per hour we have a lot of high vehicle volumes so in those cases that does not provide us with a low stress facility those are two two big things we looked at conflicts with the high volume cross streets so we've got the the universe up I mean the the freeway high high or I80 we've got some major intersections up there um travel Lanes removed removed we would have to remove the travel lanes and and our our streets for cars to get in and out of Reno or in and out of downtown are Center Street and University way and and um SAR street we have limited access during special events so this last weekend we had the Italian Festival and you all probably some of you may have attended and noticed that when we have the the events downtown we shut down Virginia street that means the traffic all goes to the other streets and capacity is important they don't have another option to go quickly in and out of downtown cost benefit um it was the least beneficial due to the higher cost to construct um Property Owners I've already talked about that the limited business support um due to uh loss of parking and vehicle Lanes so that brings me to the four corridors that we were recommending to bring forward three corridors in the north south Direction and one in the east west direction I've highlighted those um on the slide here Sinclair Lake and Evans that's the um kind of in the brownish color that one would connect the university and the RTC bus station all the way down to Midtown uh Virginia Street was supported through our um uh placemaking study and that one goes uh connects the university to Midtown Vine Street is a very good connector connecting the Norther the north communities uh residential communities to the river and then Fifth Street is connecting the Keystone area all the way over to Evans or the brewery District I want to talk a little bit about the costs here for these projects so when we put prepare estimates for the for the corridors we look at safety for all so we don't just we're not looking at striping on the on the roads we are looking at um what makes the most sense is as as as Tom mentioned is we have to be deliberate about all of the improvements and a lot of times that means we have to remove curbs we have to remove gutters we have to remove traffic signals um uh the the lines that go to the traffic signals so that there is more cost involved I often hear complaints from from folks that say well Washington DC did 40 miles of micromobility for a million dollars what's wrong why can't we do that after we've kind of dug into that yes they have they've done a lot of uh micromobility with just striping but we're also finding out that they're going back and they're spending more money to put more more infrastructure in to make it safer so they're using kind of like a let's get it on the road let's get it in and then we'll come back and deal with it later we're we are taking the approach that no let's do it right the first time so that brings me to the my favorite slide of this presentation is what this micromobility does for us so this map here shows the connectivity the the blue lines are all of the the the streets that currently have some sort of of um micr Mobility on them like uh uh bike striped bike Lanes or separated paths um the green line around is the trucky River path if you see the if if you notice here in the the connections that we have with these four corridors Vine Street I'm going to start the left hand Vine Street has a very nice connection smooth connection all the way down from from across the freeway all the way to the river um those dotted lines I forgot to mention that those dotted lines like the one off of West for Street those are future projects and we're going to be bringing those uh probably interlocal to this this body for um approval we've got that one in in place and then the Dickerson Road we'd put some money from CD gbg and we've started the design on that and we're programming that into our um next uh um Street rehab I I I can't remember which year it was Katie will she can fill in the blank here for me on that one and then um up at the top of the page we have East Ninth that connector we're working on u a connection with uh endot to provide a connection from the Wells Avenue project that I mentioned all the way over to EV street so the pink streets are all of the the new corridors that we we're we're recommending here today and they will provide us with um some enhanced connection um for our downtown micromobility Network so if the body chooses to approve this today in our recommendation we would we would ask that the RTC board uh put put this on their agenda for I believe that's um next week next Friday that if if approved at that point then we could go into the design and bidding process in next year work out the details as as a lot of people have mentioned these are just you know these are these are our conceptuals and they are um we are look we would have to finalize the design and in the final design you know we would the RTC would be the um the project manager and they would provide the Project funding construction would anticipated to start in 2025 some of these projects for example like the Virginia Street project may take a little bit longer we're working on placemaking implementation there's some things that we have to make sure that we coordinate so that brings me to the end of my presentation and I will turn it over back over to you well thank you Miss ksky it's um first of all incredible presentation the depth of your work on this subject is not unnoticed I think it's been you know a a 10year undertaking to get to this moment in lot of gr hair well you don't seem to have any and then your attitude improves with age while mind gets worse so I kudos to you in that regard I guess ultimately what I uh want uh the public to take away from this engagement um depending on how the will of the body is is that this map that you have highlighted here really shows uh the depth of commitment that your team has made to moving um you know micromobility and bike safety infrastructure forward um it's easy for uh elected leaders to take the credit for the work that staff does and sometimes um that is sort of the role right you do the work we take the credit uh but truly in this case while there has been a broad sense among this Council over many years we want to make improvements in this area it really takes willing staff to commit to the time in part because and I don't think this is revealing too much but of course Miss kosy you're responsible for a pool a public safety center a you know Road improvements uh fire station uh micromobility I mean there's a lot that occupies a day but what I have noticed in the process of understanding more about this and uh learning about micromobility really is that it really takes willing Engineers who have a heart to listen um I think you and the RTC team have been um really uh doing the the the all the Yen's work on it I think when you and I traveled last year to Denver or earlier this year to Denver with the RTC team and and saw some of the micromobility improvements there all of those ideas just continue to percolate and again um I I certainly am not out there measuring the sidewalks and looking at the traffic counts and Miss Pennington is who's done a laboring or on all the Public Communication Outreach um but it gets us to this moment and I also notice that although Mr plen is not here this afternoon I hope he's listening and um understands that um this has also been something where we have wanted and sought out involvement of our biking Community now have there been uh perfect moments in that relationship no um but I think they improved and certainly with your leadership they have last night I understand that you and the RTC team went to uh trucky Meadows bicycle Alliance board meeting and essentially perhaps gave this presentation to them and uh oddly enough earlier in the week we had all measure of pitchforks out ready to just come in and and uh spear you with them there were newspaper articles written op EDS there were substacks making all measure of claims about uh your transparency or work and and at the end of the day last night at I think 9:36 as I recall I saw trucky Meadows bicycle Alliance post their support for this project and of course um this is not unfamiliar territory often times bike Advocates are pushing the envelope because they want a safer environment and they deserve a safer environment I would be remissed to say also before I turn over my colleagues uh mayor shivi has been absolutely um at the Forefront of this from the get-go I'm sort of a newcomer to this world but uh she has been the one who has really long championed a lot of these bicycle improvements and although she's not here today I know she was so very uh happy to see um trucky Meadows bicycle Alliance post last night I know that she is uh thrilled with the work that you and your team and the RTC have done obviously she and I will have some role in at the RTC and in how this is carried forward there uh but at the end of the day I just must tip my hat to you your team for the you know literally tens of years of work on this so thank you so much for that thank you okay let's come to the body let's see if anyone has any questions at this time oh miss breus I'm sorry yeah our our request to speak tab is not working I know I'm so sorry yeah and I I will say um your clock we have very rigid rules here for those who aren't here I objected to those rules over the years but your clock uh didn't start ticking till you'd spoke for 2 minutes so I if I need more time I hope the same Equity would be provided to me um I want to say also that um earlier today I showed up on some other items uh statement that our city manager told to me about my memorialized hostility toward staff which is uh not true not accurate and a a front for improper government actions that are being investigated of him against me but because that is out there I want to preface my comments because I am not in support of what staff is bringing forward as a recommendation to us I also though do want to acknowledge your first five minutes of presentation which involved out naming the staff member and the work they do I started here as a staff member kind of early midcareer in 1998 having worked for other city managers and the city manager would never allow people to call attention to themselves and the staff that but but chain of command has changed Norms have changed um it's not a way that I uh you know brought up as staff to to highlight staff and their individual tasks it was always known that we were part of the organization but I don't discount it and so I want to bring that forward and just say some because maybe there's some sense she's hostile to staff because she doesn't sit there and thank everyone all the time individually for the work they do but I always do acknowledge and I've sat in that seat but the Kudos you know the other first five minutes to the Council on all the great bike stuff they've done I don't agree with that either I think we've been deficient I came on in 2012 and 2014 we did did a pedestrian safety um report we really looked at the numbers we knew we had a problem we have more of a problem now because this body has not focused on safety so I don't think it's great stuff we've done I think it's catchup I think this is catchup and I do have some issues with it I'm sensitive to the parking lot Dynamics along along the the university Way Center Street way but look there are parking garages imposed in 18th century Urban Frameworks in this country Boston New York other places 19 century ones they work everyone knows you're just crawling at a small Pace coming out of the parking garages um the problem is when you come in like I saw on that one side um we've got high-speed streets it's a real engineering approach we're taking to this in my view and I'm a city planner looks at the land use and the hospitality of the whole area for human scale safety is you want to get rid of those high-speed V vehicle routes you don't want to treat your downtown as a thoroughfare and we continue to operate on that mindset and that's why the longest Network which is University 1.5 miles that brings in the most connectivity is discounted and I think it's wrongly discounted if you look at what we've done in the one ways up north in um the other side of the University with Sierra and Virginia Street Sierra Street in particular we've made those more conducive to being speeding routes and we continue to have this mindset that we're going to have a downtown that is a corridor of you know high speeds 30 miles per hour whatever no we want to have a downtown with slow traffic there's a body of evidence that didn't seem to have made it in about how that does for business I mean you can't go along some of these quarters and say business is great right now with these roads but you can point to a lot of other evidence that says when you make these human scale res Investments you get more business opportunity you transform the area this downtown is failing in so many ways it is worse than it was in 2012 when I came in man and we laid off a third of our Workforce with graffiti and no police patrols practically it is worse and less safe than and it's time to take jumps and the best jump that's been on the on the Queue has been humanizing that one way to not make downtown a drive-through area and as long as we can have that engineering directed mode we're not going to get there I want to ask one question in my time on traffic counts that I I I feel so um committed in the Urban Design principles that I bring forward on this that you know I'm not even going to argue it because none were presented it's really an engineering but so the one engineering um concept I want to bring forward because I am sensitive to the to the uh loading of the streets is what what is what is University way carrying from Liberty to the freeway ADT and has any 14,000 14,000 and has anyone ever delineated how many of those are garage services are stop trips link trips because they are link trips you're not going back the other way right so has anyone done any analysis so you got 14,000 trips let's count up all the parking spaces and say there's 3,000 okay 3,000 and maybe some of those get not used one day some do you know so you got 9,000 trips that you're creating downtown to just be a thoroughfare it's not the way downtowns need to operate particularly a small one if were further further aligned they would work um but you know this engineering mindset of 30 m hour 9,000 trips of people just going through maybe 3,000 will use the parking garage is why our downtown is failing among a few other reasons in my you know experience is a someone who's worked in City Planning for 30 years but could I okay and then I'll get to Vine Street no problem thank you Miss breus I'm going to come back to the Das Miss Eber did you have some comments yes I did um so thank you for this presentation thank you everyone for your work on this um I just had some questions about um engagement on this yes so um in the staff report it says that um public feedback virtual and inperson events it says five so is that total public the total number of okay so were those like in city hall or they were in various various locations some were in City fall some were in other locations okay so we did have public oh yes oh yes and then the next line on the staff report it says bicycle community and stakeholder meetings who who do you consider a stakeholder outside of the bicycle community so in stakeholders could also be um the university it could be um the RTC it could be other agencies um those are those are those are our stakeholders um bus I was businesses are yeah businesses are stakeholders okay okay um and then um public surveys placem pilot and mult uh micromobility Network um it says four and then we have in parentheses here um 4,500 what what is that number so I'm sorry that that number is the total number of surveys that were were received and and this the smaller number is the the number of surveys that went out okay so so there was a total of 4500 surveys rece received whether that be through placemaking through the pilot study through the network study that we just did okay so we had 4,500 responses so we had a lot of community engagement so it's not that we didn't have any feedback or engagement we had a lot correct of response okay so that's good I just wanted to call that out that this isn't something that the city just did on their own we had a lot of um opportunity a lot of meetings and a lot of feedback from the community when we were planning this that's that's the community oriented Engineering Process that I was talking about I just wanted to highlight those specific numbers because that is a lot of feedback thank you um and um next line uh it says city of Areno Public Works property business owner meetings 26 that's also a lot of meetings were those individual meetings with businesses or were those meetings that all the businesses were invited to or or what did that look like that was individual business meetings so we actually went door too or made appointments with the businesses that were along the corridors and um and set up appointment to talk to each to talk to those now there was there was more than 26 but at the time I wrote the staff report that was the accurate number that I had so it's well over 30 since then yeah a lot of opportunity there as well okay and then um Community boards NAB R AAC CMAC presentations notifications to all nabs for public engagement did you do um um presentations at nabs or was it just notification to nabs many times it was just a um notification at the NAB okay that there was a survey or something like that correct okay all right so that's it for right now I just wanted to you know highlight how much you know the city did reach out for feedback uh on on these uh tracks I I will have other stuff later thank you thank you Miss Eber Miss Taylor thank you Mr vice mayor I don't necessarily have any comments but I do or questions but I do have a couple comments um the first one is I love to see the collaboration of governments working together and agencies working together and I don't think that was always the case in this space um so thank you very much RTC and City of Reno for coming together and working and developing solutions that our community can be proud of um I did want to Echo my Council woman Ebert's um comments about the Outreach u based on the public comment that we had had earlier I think that statement was inaccurate there was a ton of public Outreach um I saw and attended several things you were out together RTC City of Reno um working hand inand I know Amy and her team were out working with businesses and I'm just really happy that we got to this point um and this is something we should all be proud of and um you recognizing your staff and the team really appreciate that too so thank you very much for working on this I know it's been a long process project um I know we have a little ways to go so um appreciate you all thank you thank you let's go to our colleagues on Zoom uh council member der yeah thank you so much um I think this is a watershed moment in that um I can only imagine how you're feeling right now Carrie um having carried the ball you and your team for so long because I know how personally invested you are in expanding Mobility options you know whether that's adaptive or dealing with people that um have lesser Mobility or need uh you know or handicapp in some way in terms of needing wheelchair um people that walk and people that drive and here we have the micro Mobility um component and I think your goal today is to ensure that these streets are included in the RTC yes uh Improvement plan the r tip that's correct that correct okay that is correct and all of this work to get to that point and why because um the RTC has to be our major partner I mean this is a very big undertaking and they're the ones who have taken the lead on these kind of projects especially as it relates to uh buses but more recently walking pedestrian Crossing safety and streets so I love the partnership um and I've also been engaged in this for a very long time I was here when we were working on Midtown and the huge discussion about whether Midtown should be a narrower Street wider Street have parking not parking have bike lanes and the decision at that time was to focus the uh bicycle activities anyway on the adjacent streets and leave Virginia for mostly actually pedestrian because we ended up making very wide sidewalks and then just reducing it to two lanes for tri for travel car travel truck travel so um that was a huge compromise process um what I've seen here is very similar and I just want to congratulate you and the team for where we are today um I also um though want to thank you for the tour that you did with us uh with us and RTC staff driving us on every single one of these streets so that we could see firsthand um loading issues parking issues pedestrian activity issues um access to businesses all of it and get a much more cohesive understanding and I think quite a few of council members got a chance to one by one or two by two um get that experience and I found that invaluable and I just want to thank you for taking the time to do it because it really made a difference for me I could understand when you say that this the um transportation network has to work for everyone we we have to include cars you know we don't have to discourage cars um in other words exclude cars we have to include them but we also have to get them to move over and make room for all the other uh modes of transportation and I can't say enough about the um the Chucky Meadows bicycle Alliance work in the space I mean they have been at every meeting they have engaged they have been Advocates as they are supposed to they ride and they experience a street firsthand so I'm very grateful for their participation I'm very I don't know what happened last night but clearly something happened a communication wasn't enhanced there was a turnaround people understood that what we really need to do is get this into the RTC Planning Network with not having every detailed design but at least a a basic framework and I really appreciate the framework you've come up with and I'm looking forward to supporting it so I just I want to I don't have a lot of questions because I've spent a lot of time reading the reports reading the letters that have been sent in reading the documents and articles opinion columns um and then also talking with you and your team to where I feel like I have a pretty comprehensive understanding and I think at this point we are moving in the right direction so thank you to the entire team that includes our uh public that have participated our public our businesses and our nonprofits that have participated in this we could not have got there without them so thanks for the opportunity to make a few comments counc member D thank you so much council member Martinas thank you so much Vice mayor um on my part I also want to thank uh you carrye for uh and RTC for giving us those personal tours it definitely allowed me um to see the need and um to experience it firsthand and be able to see some of the the things that you have pointed out not just in this presentation but in previous conversations we've already had and so I want to also highlight uh the collaborative work and how we as a municipality can work collabora with our partners to make sure that we increase the safety for anybody wanting to bike ride a bird scooter or walk uh or drive through our city and making sure that people feel safe depending on their mode of transportation and so I think this is definitely a step in the right direction and I appreciate you Carrie for taking all of your time and effort and knowledge and applying it to this specific case so thank you again I look forward to supporting this network suggestion thank you council member Martinez thank you so much Miss kosy um one of the things that I thought was uh important in this discussion was uh a a moment where we brought last year along with a couple of our partner agencies and friends the Dutch cycling Embassy to Reno and one of the things that stood out in that conversation continues to resonate with me today which is the idea that um you know I think they picked Amsterdam because they were you know from that part of the world and and Amsterdam was being held up as this great bicycle friendly community and they said look Reno is not going to be Amsterdam and Reno is certainly not going to become Amsterdam overnight it may take a 20 or 30 year undertaking to get to that place where we want to and ultimately I think that is telling um you know you showed the slide that had each of the different things that have been worked upon and I know that for you it's more than a picture and a star on a thing it was a project it was a person it was a group of people uh one of them involves someone who's no longer with us David Pritchett who was really an important part of the hul Sinclair project and so where it where some see a failure or a lack of due speed I see an effort on your team's part to make small and Market improvements and you know isn't that often times what happens in government it's the drip drip drop that creates the full bucket of opportunity so I really want to thank you again and and really go back to that thing which was said to us which was you know commit to the principles and ideas that the dut cycling Embassy folks shared with us and really at started to percolate into our work certainly was there before them but it was heightened by it RTC is doing a great job of um being responsive to the board members who are a new configuration over there and and ultimately um while no one is going to say anything that government done us is perfect uh we're working in the right direction I think as council member derer rightly noted and that is really the thing keep on cycling you know and so thank you again for that uh like Miss der I have uh read all the reports I have been at the meetings I have worked with your team and so I have a high degree of confidence in it but more importantly I want the public to have a high degree of confidence in what we've done and part of the thing that uh tells me that that's true is kind of the messaging that's happened over the last 24 hours where um and and by the way that meeting was supposed to have been a few weeks earlier um and and certainly sometimes people's schedules get uh off and and we have to Bob and weave but thank you to you and and all the folks who attended last night I saw Mr Keller was there Miss Pennington I I don't know who else was there I think Miss Venus was there even from the city's comms team because we want to get it right and I think you have gotten it right and I think the of the public engagement and and these uh moments that you've heard from the other Council colleagues are are in support so again I think Miss der also hit it on the head when she said I can't imagine what you're feeling because um as Legacy projects go I know that you'll look back on many of these and and see the impact that you had on this community Miss kowsky so thank you for that let's see you I think Miss Ebert you had some additional comments yeah so I also appreciated my my tour to see the different you know potential routes and you know the pluses and minuses for the the different areas um and I just had a quick question um this is something you kind of informed me about during the tour but what was the Genesis of this like what what kicked this off what what was the trigger for Reno to say hey we're going to have micr Mobility Lanes what triggered the micr mobility Lanes I think the after coid what triggered it was was coid we realized that um transportation was changing People needed other modes they were using other modes they needed safer places to use those modes and um uh the mayor had reached out to me I'd gotten several pictures from you all from other um conferences conferences or or places you had been and basically saying why aren't we doing this Carrie what what's going on and um that's when we undertook the pilot and that was that was the the the whole reason why we decided to do the pilot because we didn't we didn't know exactly what we needed but we knew there was a need yeah so that's where we started yeah so this wasn't because the community said hey we're lacking in bike Lanes this was a decision made by Council that they saw that there was maybe a deficiency here and was a big part of this yes okay okay so um was there any concerns over uh collisions or pedestrian safety or anything like that was that also a trigger for this also absolutely councilwoman breus brought that up is safety is always first and foremost for our transportation Engineers we're always looking for ways to make things streets safer and um as Tom pointed out that um we need to do a better job of making sure that it the safety that the safety infrastructure we put in for uh micro modes also creates safety for for vehicles right because then the vehicles know where they're at they know what to expect and it's been proven that it's it's much safer for vehicles as well okay great so thank you for that I just wanted you know a little bit of history there as to you know how we got here in the first place so thank you thank you I think for my part too Miss eert um what has happened I think Carrie I think is absolutely correct that as we have gone out to conferences to educate ourselves we often come back saying well look at what Boise is doing or look at look at what this city is doing and a number of those continue to be bike improvements and so if other cities are doing great things with their B instructure and we're not it feels like we're kind of not innovating and so I think there was a lot of that but I will say that you know if I provided you a picture you provided the last 90 yards of of runway for it right it wasn't I I don't know what a picture tells you to do or informs you to do but you've always been willing to go out and figure it out and so again I know the mayor could not be here right now she's traveling um right now as well but it really has been her desire to improve the safety of our streets for all users it's also an effort of our sustainability program right it reduces the carbon footprint when people are able to ride their bicycles rather than you know in a car that uh is not as great for our environment so it's a bunch of things right and no no one of them was the ultimate Catalyst I don't believe but certainly I think there were moments that started to crystallize it but it takes a person like yourself to really focus the you know the interests that we have which can be um passing and and and weigh and wax as as you know travel happens um but really it's your team deserves a lot of the credit a highest point for me was when the federal delegation came and I got to to we had the pilot program set up and we got to take the federal delegation around and make a pitch for for for grant funding and we and and Dale was there right alongside me and Bill Thomas and we we made a great pitch and I think they they were we are on their radar um we just have to go about it the right way and I I believe we are by our community oriented Engineering Process that we're using I I believe that we will be successful I'm not sure when but um what's happening around the United States is it's nuclear when it comes to the amount of efforts that are being put in to micromobility and the expectations yeah I also just want to say I'm really happy to see all of the um meetings you had specifically with business owners because that was something I was really concerned about with um putting these in downtown and the impact for parking with local businesses so I'm really happy to see that there's so much um one-on-one Outreach that's been done with these businesses downtown so just wanted to again thank you for everything and just um you know great job thank you okay any additional comments Miss breus mayor oh hold on a second Miss derer I'll come back to you Miss breus is up next yeah I just want to say you know um the center track concept was pre-pandemic and that's why so many people felt there was a bait and switch because Council gave Direction it went into design and then it got bait and switched and I still think it is problematic look I've been on my bike five of the last seven days this is a time of year I ride a lot um and I'm getting more nervous but it's not and and Vine Street which is you know one of the projects we're heralding it is a very safe Street maybe with just some no cost timing because we haven't even talked about signal timing it could be made better but in my view it's a waste of money you go to the harder ones and the harder ones aren't highlighted on here and these are the speed traps the speed or the the speed um streets of Center Street which we said we were going to do also known as University way and Sierra it's too bad that driving tour not take council members walking along those corridors both ways because you would see that it is not human scale it is not conducive to Leisure businesses opening up there because no one wants to have a business and attend to businesses on a street that has screaming 10,000 trips going by you at 30 miles per hour there was not a lot of business community be to be there because there's not a lot of business Community forming on those streets and that's where I think our larger interest should come into play the other point is it doesn't matter if it's a ped a fatality of a pedestrian or a bik bicyclist and everyone is advantaged when you make these improvements sometimes bicyclists least of all it's more the pedestrians who ad are advantaged by enjoying a less Street oriented environment a less speeding environment a more human scale environment but it doesn't matter if it's kitsy where a pedestrian's Crossing or second and Ralston where pedestrian's Crossing and we know that people were killed on those streets this week or in the last couple weeks if I have my ones right you create a network of cues to drivers and the cues to drivers in downtown Reno are speed speed for the cars and if you don't tame those those two high volume highspeed corridors which are really on either side of your your heartbeat arterial Virginia Street you're not going to get a successful downtown and that is why this is a Miss it's why I'm not supporting why I'm not clapping myself on the back as being a p of part of a body that is taking this um seriously and my last point on this is those birds you know there's a lot of things coming clear from the pandemic we're just getting the the distance from it and one of those is that there are some very hostile aggressive driving behaviors going out there in the world you know and and some of the problem in strapped places like us is is enforcement but engineering is a big part of that we're taking a Miss on taming some really hostile streets but it's also personal household incomes if I may have 10 more minutes 10 more seconds a lot of those bird drivers and other people relying upon their own um um devices now scooters and so on are being increasingly priced out of the car industry you are starting to see literature about how expensive cars have become even used ones and how many people need to go into these other modes particularly in a in a sprawling environment like us without a TR working functioning highlevel transit system we need these all over downtown we need to reduce conflicts and the most important ones are the high-speed one-way directionals 10,000 trips a day this is a big Miss to not tame those streets for human scale downtown and safer downtown in my view thank you Miss breas Miss derer yeah thank you um I wanted to just reflect a moment in this conversation I recently had an opportunity to spend a bit of time in Philadelphia you know very uh developed old city where it was developed very incrementally like many cities are not some huge master plan even Washington DC had a big master plan but Philadelphia developed more incrementally and what I noticed about there uh I'll just use bike Network in this case was that it was there but it was very different on different streets it wasn't like there was a uniform approach to it some places had ballards or or dividers some places just had green paint y um some places did not it was a share of the road very narrow street so it was a share of the road conver um perspective like we have some places as well and I guess what I learned from that two things one is that there is no perfect right and that we are trying to retrofit um in our case not a s City that's hundreds of years old but a hundred years old or 1002 um or so we had our 150th um but you know there's there's no like perfect and we got a doover and we get to come in make cyclotrons and make everything just like we would in a more perfect environment if we were starting with a clean canvas and so I just wanted to say that I my expectation is that when we do get this product from RTC and ourselves that it's going to be some of all it'll be some protected Lanes some share Lanes yes some green paint really depends on what type of street it is how WI it is um I think the goal to have bikes on every street may be unrealistic but focusing on some major travel patterns may be very realistic I also wanted to say another thing I noticed about Philadelphia and that was its access to areas outside Philadelphia if you're in Philadelphia it's pretty hard to get to the airport which is very close but there's no no quick way to do that um or let's say North or west you basically have to go through a network of a whole bunch of streets and I think we actually have a pretty good world where we have some if if not faster streets at least streets that you could drive 25 or 30 miles an hour on versus 10 yeah uh versus being in a constant traffic JM which is really stressful for people that are living in cities um I saw tremendous amount of walking and when I was in Philadelphia I walked almost everywhere I I didn't bike I did not take trains um I mostly walked but they had things within walking distance that's the the nature of this Urban environment that it is it's a much bigger much more developed uh kind of place they still have lots of town homes everything isn't big apartment complexes many many walk-ups Town Homes condos um multistory you know homes and um lots and lots and lots of walking and there are many parks uh small Parks we don't have those kind of small parks I've noted that City Center that's what I call it across from Bowling stadium is the only Park in Reno that in the downtown area that has a tree for example but in Philadelphia there had many small parks where streets came together where there were trees benches and maybe a fountain um places that people could um hang out sit observe think so what I want to to say is there's no perfect um I had a chance to see a place we haven't ever really talked about we've talked about Columbus and other places we've visited but it provided a different model and one thing it could benefit from were some let's say protected ways to get out of the city maybe go to New Jersey to a beach go to the airport go to New York um it's a it's a pretty long way 10 or 20 blocks to get out of Center City and um that's part of its charm but it's also part of its challenge so anyway I think we are hitting a very good balance and that's what I really wanted to leave us with is that we are working with what we are Reno Nevada what we have how our city has developed the materials we have um and one of the things that they are doing I will say in Philadelphia is covering an entire street with an elevated Park and you see those more in cities these days um construction's about to begin um so there's lots and lots of things in our future in terms of Urban Design but I certainly think we're making some huge steps here and I just again want to say there's no perfect and the last thing I want to say is thank you thank you to the Trey Meadows bicycle Alliance for coming to a point that you could actually support um the staff recommendation here today it means a tremendous amount to me thank you Council River Taylor thank you Mr vice mayor um I'll I'll be very quick I think it's important here that we talk about truth and more accurate especially as leaders in the community and as a leader um or represent ative of downtown I think it's important when we hear things that aren't true to talk um what is true it is not true that downtown is less or is more unsafe it is actually it is more safe today than it was before and those that's what the data shows so downtown is not um not safe and to say that I think is absolutely inaccurate um also and it's because of the work that we do here and all the work that you're doing the other thing that I heard that was not true is we did walk the corridor you and your team um all of you went out and we did walk it so that was one thing we did get out of the car so I appreciate that and um I just wanted again I wanted to say thank you and I think we need to be accurate in what we say from up here so I appreciate it thank you Mr vice mayor council member D I'm going to come to you for a motion all right well thank you for that honor I would like to make a motion um to approve the staff recommendation in item D3 and forward um this downtown micromobility network of streets group one uh to the to request that the Regional Transportation Commission include these streets in their AR tip or Regional Transportation Improvement plan okay I have a motion by Miss du or a second by Miss Taylor any additional questions or comments at this time miss breus the floor is yours yeah I'm not going to support because I think one um university Way Center Way is the one that we've embarked upon several years ago before coid we got pretty far on it it was a transparent open process and the rug got pulled out on it and I think that was problematic I think there was support for it I think there was technical feasibility to it and when I look at it today on the map it's the longest connection it's the most direct connection and it's the toughest Road for people to participate on in downtown it doesn't matter who you are a driver a cyclist or a someone walking crossing over from our antrak station for example and I think that's the one we need to focus on to make downtown what it really was built as which was human scale for walking and not an arterial Corridor for people getting on the freeway and as long as we continue to treat it that way I think we're not going to see what we want to see in downtown um there's other routes of corridors and access to the interstate then through downtown so I won't support this because we're not focusing on University centerway as we had embarked upon several years ago thank you okay any additional comments from the body hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed opposed motion carries thank you all motion car yeah carry these are generational changes I think so too thank you so much to your team all right vice mayor if you're okay with it I'd like to go back to B12 because we do have um some members here with us yes our esteemed judge Cur Curtis hazelet Stevens is with us and staff from the municipal court so we're on item B12 and this was pulled by council member breus and council member Ebert okay not to worry Karma box folks we're getting there good afternoon vice mayor Rees council members M Lopez welcome always a privilege thank you good afternoon Jackie I want to thank you for continuing our matter to this afternoon to accommodate judge Hazel Steven Stockett we appreciate your time for the record my name is Veronica Lopez I'm the Reno Municipal Court Administrator I'm here before you today seeking a resolution addressing the judge's salary increase historically salaries for the bench have been established by the city council and adjusted from time to time based on occasional ad hoc requests by the court administrator as a result these adjustments were infrequent unpredictable without any guiding principles this chart shows the rate increases through the years the mayor and Council results were almost identical which is why you can't see the line for the mayor for most of the chart the judges fall behind in comparison to the elected and employee salary increases the court administrator requests the benches salaries to be fixed at 10% above the top of the salary range for the court administrator this would allow for the V salary adjustments to be contemporaneous and commensurate with salary adjustments with other city employees as they are reviewed by Council The increased cost to the Municipal Court salary budget is by $165,400 I move to approve the resolution placing the annual salary for the bench at 10% above the top of the salary range for the court administrator retroactively to July 1st 2023 thank you thank you for the presentation Mr Lopez this uh item was pulled by two of my colleagues I'll start maybe with Miss Ebert um who pulled the item yeah I just want to make sure understanding this correctly so the total increase in budget would be 165,000 you know roughly $165,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year yes ma'am okay so that would be across the four judges yes ma'am okay so and since we're already into the fiscal year what would be do you know what the total amount would be for a full fiscal year the total amount the total that's that is the total amount for the four salaries okay um okay that was that was it for me okay uh Miss breus yeah thank you Miss Lopez you said that the council the history of the the bench's salary has been ad hoc and at request to the court administrator that's right have you been with the court a long time I've been with the court 18 years okay because I recall from other budgets and I've been here on the council this is my 11th year that really the finance directors would take you know actually look out for the court not require it at that and say we're taking other people by this am amount we will take the court up by this amount so I recall that it hasn't been I mean I do remember one time judge draulic came and asked for a raise but other times we kind of took them into account and we were fair with them and put them in par with resolutions with what we were doing with other people but that was my recollection and understanding but you're saying that it's been the view of the bench that they have to more or less ask for it through the budget process that is the that is the findings that I found throughout the research over the history of the salaries bench that I've been that I've just recently conducted is that it just it depended sometimes it was a bench sometimes it was by resolution submitted by the HR Director uh sometime the last few resolutions that were submitted were I don't know who submitted those and by at what request so it's just been a mad of variety of ways that the bench has received increases yeah and I I just you know I I feel like it has been working it has been fair you know there were salary reductions all across the organization when we came out of the Great Recession and um you know the charter does say that we set by res resolution and I've objected over the years of the autopilot nature of the council one I think we G the privilege of setting our setting our salary and we owe the Reno residents a discussion on that at some point I tried very hard my early years to have that discussion and was never able to move it forward now we're going to autopilot you all and I I have a problem with that and I'll tell you why it's tied to your salary but how is your salary set or reclassified well the judges don't manage my salary bands my salary band is in this category of the other department heads within the City of Reno which is set by a resolution by city council well it doesn't it doesn't the ma this manager has upgraded and advanced positions outside of council actions and we had some cleanup on that recently to my understanding so I think there is a way to reclassify your position without Council approval it could be by putting you on a part of the police Chiefs and the fire chief because we have different bands of the department heads it could be putting you up in an assistant city manager position and those sort of things have happened I don't think they're right or within the scope of the city manager but they have happened in recent um time I have a few other questions and I'll come back to you Miss bre Miss Ebert had an additional question council member bre is kind of touched on what I was going to ask um since salaries judge salaries would be linked to the admin uh staff salary going forward if this passes if we could just get you know a brief overview of how the admin salaries are set so if if the judges are going to be tied to that then they're you know what are the admin salaries how are they adjusted thank you Jesse Yeah uh Jess PE it with human resources so the admin staff uh there's two levels essentially for court employees the lower level admin staff are done as part of the unrepresented resolutions that are brought to council and the Court Administrator salary is brought forward as part of that management resolution that's brought to council okay so that's something Council votes on correct and how often do we vote on that typically once a year okay so there's not like a set ordinance or anything like that it's no it's um I mean we bring It Forward typically after the bargaining groups have settled and we've approved those agreements through Council and then we'll bring forward the unrepresented individuals um shortly after that okay thank you okay um before you go Mr breus I'm going to sort of say a few comments um first of all Miss Lopez thank you for the presentation uh it's not easy to have to come and ask for increases and I appreciate the hard work that you all are doing at Municipal Court is one of the courts that really is closest to our citizens right there it's the place where we have Community Court which meets in our downtown real Library it's got a number of our specialized courts that are dealing with folks who are going through drug and alcohol addiction and Recovery it's got veterans camo Court one of the most um enjoyable things to attend is a camo uh Court graduation uh and all of our judges deserve a great deal of our thanks for um fairly and thoughtfully administering Justice in this community it's a very difficult thing too because um conceptually you know we have to contemplate the separation of powers Doctrine which is more esoteric than any of us probably want to get into today but we are a body that has some role historical and Charter driven as to how we interact with and oversee a separate but co-equal branch of government and that is a a curious thing and often I think points to some of the conflicts that exist in this process you know we are supposed to have you know a city attorney's office who uh is the sort of executive function which is an elected position and but of course their budget is tied to what we do here similarly we have a Judiciary which is elected in their own right and we fund through our general fund and we have a role in their budget and then we have our that we do which is uh in that more legislative so we have the strange quasy overlap between the way in which our legislative priorities may not always align with the judge's judicial um role and so in in my mind I see this as really uh twofold one is it's an issue of equity I think our judges deserve to be paid fairly and compensated uh on a a salary scale that um allows them to understand what the salary is and the adjustments happen as they they adjust and then the second is it's really a budgetary concern I suppose at any time the city council could in its purview um you know create a budget that would not fund the necessary work that is being done over there I don't think that would happen but because of the way that we have that I think that there are some limitations in the charter and certainly there have been a number of judicial opinions in this state which speak to that as well and so for my role I think you've charted a good path I I'm supportive of the effort that you're here in front of us on today and think that this is the right thing to do for our judges and to provide certainty both to our judicial colleagues today but also people who might be interested in becoming judges at the in the future I mean I think if I'm not mistaken we are the lowest paid judges if we're not we're quite close to that and so um ultimately I think it's a good thing I also note that you've got salary Savings in the current budget for 23 24 that cover the increase that you're asking for it's more important that when we come back and have our budget workshops next year and each department goes budget by budget and we do it through each one you all are going to have to be here to really advocate for your needs of your department whether that's administrative staff whether that's um the folks who are in the unrepresentative group as Mr puit points out or your court um folks because although it's onetime money that funds itself with salary Savings in this year it adds to it now next year right and so ultimately those will be t a moment for us to reflect too on that um but um good on you for making the effort and working through this process I I hope my colleagues will support the Endeavor thank you okay let's go now miss breus this is around two yeah I mean the the issue really is that it doesn't necessarily that follow that the administrator is going to pattern with those adopted by the resolution because the this city manager this city manager has reclassified positions outside of council action outside of Council budget and then come back at augmentations or come back um through the cleanup that we did and adjust those example is I think we had a chief of staff position that became an assistant city manager position we had um a policy um uh direct person who became a director so we've seen a lot of creepage up in the organization uh people being reclassified up and my concern is that the public is going to lose the transparency of seeing your position get reclassified up over the years and the judges go with it and it's more it's not the handson focus in the charter that I have seen um so I have a problem with that I have a problem with the autop piloting of any position we don't we bargain for everything we take it through deliberation in the mix of the budget but also when I had my briefing Miss Brian said well the judges can just set their salary anyway and I I didn't understand that I asked Mr Thornley about that in a followup and while it does say and and judge uh hlit Stevens corrected me and said it says in the charter we set it by resolution may be some case law that the judges can just you know really have that much leeway with the budget once it's passed on to them if that's the case go do your own budget go do your own salaries judges you do great work and add value that was mentioned I acknowledge that but you also are closest to the citizens but also accountable to the citizens so you know with that responsibility if legally you know we have a problem with the charter and you all have the authority to check set your own salaries have at it I either from the seat that I have want to set it in a way that I know each year people will know how it's coming out on the budget or acknowledge that you're going to be doing it and taking on that responsibility if you have that legal Authority which two people who advise me say they say you do so this Middle Ground which is rather hands off might be nice and kind of out of to everyone but it's it's not without risk of I think backd door reclassification and then corresponding salary adjustments to the bench so I'm not supporting this approach thank you okay any additional questions at this time Miss Ebert uh I do have a question if it is true that the judges can adjust their salaries by ordinance why aren't they adjusting them to be 10% above the admin salaries currently I'm going to defer to judge Haz Stevens to answer answer your question thank you thank you I appreciate that Council uh woman Ebert it's an interesting and uh intriguing and hairy issue with regard to the independence of the Judiciary versus the independence of the legislative branch that this body the independence of the city attorney's office these are issues involved in the separation of powers the independence of the Judiciary by virtue of being part of the Judiciary but I don't want to we're not here asking for that we're not here to challenge the city Charter at this point saying we don't believe that the city council is the proper body to set our salary that's not what we're here for the city Charter says that the salaries of the bench are to be fixed by resolution of the city council period we're abiding by that City Charter and that's what we have to abide by and we're here asking for the resolution um you know I think there are arguments that could be made with regard to the separation of powers arguments and whether the budget fixed by the city council is its own Court budget and we can do what we want with that Court budget given the case law that vice mayor ree was alluding to earlier but at the end of the day that's not what we're here to do that's not what we're seeking to do we're not challenging the city Charter in any way and by the way the city Charter is the same city Charter that's the city Charter in City Henderson and the City of Sparks and the city of Las Vegas and the city of North Las Vegas it's not a unique City Charter and so we're not here to do any challenge or pose any challenge to the city Charter we're here working within that City Charter asking for the resolution to fix the Sal salary of the Jud judges pursuant to this resolution that is consistent with how the City attorney salary is set as well okay so you're saying that the other cities currently have their salary set up in in their Charter they have the same resolution that the salaries of the bench have to be set by resolution of the city council okay yep okay so I guess I don't know if that really answered my question so I you know I think the question posed is should should the judges or should the bench be setting their own salaries right given the case law given the separation of powers well I mean if it was stated that they have the ability to set their own salaries CU I was on that agenda briefing as well then why do we need to change it so I'll tell you my answer to it it might not be the answer you're looking for but they we set their budget and once we do that it goes away from us and what they do with it is really them now to their credit and to this jurist thoughtful approach he's saying I am part of this city and the City of Reno know and want to do what the charter tells us to do I probably if I were a lesser person and less thoughtful about it could do what I wanted but he doesn't want to do that so some future judge not this fine judge in front of us today could say pound sand said youo we don't care what you think we can do we'll do what we want but they're not trying to do that that's the shortest answer I can give to you and it might not be right get two lawyers you can get five opinions okay thank you any additional questions or comments from the colleagues okay um uh I'll make the motion I move to approve the resolution placing the annual salary for the bench at 10% above the top of the salary range for the court administrator retroactively to July 1st 2023 second I have a motion that I've made a second by uh Miss Taylor any additional questions or comments at this time yeah I'm just not gonna follow up I had actually you know the the city attorney's deputy resolution was set in the 80s I understand that's a resolution that just rolls forever a lot like the council's one that is an on an automatic escalator and I don't believe in public budgeting that way you lock off decisions when you put a resolution in and it has budgetary rollover consequences the judge's salaries either get set by themselves in My View From however much we want to park into that department each year or they part of The Suite of the resolutions of compensation that we do every year along with how we do you know bargaining agreements for two or three years that's the way you budget in an organization no one should be entitled to an escalator that lasts as a 40-year you know uh clause in their Employment contract and you know it's pretty well documented what I tried to do on those early years because the council one went into effect right right before I came on uh thank you thank you Miss brius I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I I any oppos no motion carries thank you everyone thank you thank you judge okay thank you Vice May ree we're moving on to item D4 David for which is a presentation from Miss isara Mrs sparza welcome and good afternoon I'm sorry and we do have public comment from Grant Denton and Madam clerk I think I saw a number of written correspondents on this issue as well um did you want to add that to the mix I will as soon as uh Mr Denton is done speaking today all in good time Mr Denton for the record Mr Denton uh Grant Denton um so I've been I'm speaking of course for this uh item um I've been working with the homeless and addicted population in Reno for the last seven years and you guys know as as well as we do that we get attacked often you get attacked often Reno gets attacked for how they home handle their homeless problem and so a few years ago I was curious where this homeless Utopia of services is that people keep comparing us to and so I've had friends over the last over the course of the few years host me in different cities nine cities to be exact and uh to to look at their homeless Services the tour how they're solving their problem what they're doing and we know one thing for sure we know a few things for sure one is that um solving this problem is like building a car around a guy that's jogging it's very difficult it's a moving Target there's a lot of moving uh there's a lot of people involved so it's not easy another thing is that there's cities that are doing certain things right and other things not so right one thing's for sure though is that not one city that I've went to or visited has an outreach program as robust as effective and as successful as ours what we've done with Reno uh the clean and safe team what we've done with collaborating with other agencies nobody collaborates like us nobody knows their population on the streets like us when I say successful I'm our measure of success is who we getting off the streets who's staying off the streets people that we're that we identify with building rapport with folks building trust and also moving folks to the next phase um of their lives and so I haven't and even though I don't think that any place has it all together this is a good start we're doing good this program unlike any other program uh and I haven't seen one that actually uses and engages their homeless population to clean the streets to clean the river to clean the railroad tracks um and and incentivizes them for that that gives our homeless a platform for purpose 80% of my employees come from these streets and were in my program and started with this outreach program they're self-sufficient they're contributing members of society we can do that on a larger scale um so of course I'm speaking for this um to get past it's um it's unprecedented and I think that we're setting an example for other cities to do the same so thank you for allowing us to do it so far and hopefully you'll allow us to grow Mr Denton thank you so much also I wanted to point out I noticed the article in the Salt Lake City Tribune recently that was uh Salt Lake who struggles with many of the same things that we all do but they had come here to see your experience and work with you and really test and mod modeled their own pilot project for a safe camp in Salt Lake City and I I noticed that part of the article spoke to the early failings where we start out with tents the tents didn't work on our environment so then we moved to the mod pods but I think that that's interesting because over the course of uh of working with you um you are now the leader in the space and people are coming to the karma box project to see the work that you're doing because they want to model and replicate your success so congratulations in that regard thank you okay Mrs sparza welcome oh hold on Council someone on Zoom all in good time you say yes for the record I would just like to state that we did receive correspondence on this item um as six letters of written support thank you so much perfect now you get to go right good afternoon vice mayor City Council assistant city manager Bryant Cynthia as far as the chief equity and community relations officer for the city of redo before you today is an item that was discussed at City Council on January 26 2022 uh Council directed staff to conduct a public process for nonprofits to apply for ARA funding uh specifically those that are going to address the ongoing impacts of the co 19 pandemic uh before you it will be an overview of the process and also the recommended recipients um 1 million was set aside uh from the arpa funding that the City of Reno received for the nonprofit Community the process included a thorough application and scoring process and at the conclusion of this process four or organizations Rose to the top uh due to the scope of their work alignment with strategic priorities among other criteria that we will discuss momentarily this is federal funding so of course there are uh pretty stringent requirements for nonprofits to comply with throughout the process uh this includes uniform Administration being an active registered organization with the system for award management that's sam.gov and also be equipped to be audited at any time part of this process also incl includes uh reporting that is uh provided to the City of Reno on a quarterly basis and of course these are all aligned with the arpa requirements along with eligibility and general Federal criteria excuse me the projects uh also were included in the application as far as what's the description what's the goal uh a budget was part of the application process with an understanding of the funding available that was set aside by the City of Reno um and also how the project will directly impact the City of Reno um certainly aligning with strategic priorities is key and at the conclusion of this process 18 applications were received when we look at scoring criteria criteria there were eight sections uh that were included execution of the project in a tily manner and ensuring that the project scalability is realistic was really important to the process addressing current needs that are uh longstanding from the coid pandemic we're still seeing impacts today h and that also addressing the quality of life of those that live in the city of Reno and again serving populations that were impacted by this pandemic before you are the four organizations selected uh that staff is recommending to move forward these four nonprofits focus on homelessness mental health and Behavioral Health these are all intersecting issues within the community um and the focus will really Center on overall wellness and providing a continum of care for vulnerable members of our community you heard public comment today uh from both Karma box and Rise they provided an overview of the work they've been doing uh and I'd like to share that this these two organizations are integrated with the clean and safe program really taking the work out and meeting people where they're at with the lived experience uh approach that we may not always have uh and we also recognize that each organization has a different approach and strategy so they really are complimentary to the work that's ongoing um Grant just mentioned uh the karma box project also has a component that helps collect debris um and they work with individuals that are transitioning so really providing a space for growth for that Community as well the second uh the two the third and fourth uh recipients that are recommended Center on mental health behavioral health the children's cabinet specifically uh is seeking support for uh Regional coordination related to youth mental health as was recently shared by the Human Services Agency suicide ranks as the number one ventable cause of death for children in Washo County uh with five suicides alone this year so this position is really going to work on bringing private and Public Partnerships together and creating a pipeline for uh a more comprehensive approach to Services uh for those in in our community and bristle cone um as was shed during a public comment earlier today uh there's significant expansion and Renovations that are in place these additions will create additional support for those in need um specifically the U medical detox center this uh allocation will support the addition of 20 additional beds uh really right next to um our downtown area uh and that bristle cone has been a long-standing partner in the community as well and with that before you is the recommended motion okay Mrs Spa thank you so much for the update let's start here with council member breus thank you for your presentation and all your hard work on this effort so um I did have some questions you didn't list the other 12 no 14 applicants in your staff report did you did I miss that no they were not listed okay so I saw the scorecard and it really caught my attention and you're saying that these are all just like Baseline mandates from the federal government the guidelines the there are arpa guidelines um and then there were also components that were incorporated into criteria alignment with strategic priorities and other direction provided by Council so it was a hybrid scoring focus with the the federal guidelines and then other ones that staff Bel were appro appropriate for the mission yes directed by Council directed by Council so we had that criteria early in the conversations when I when arpa was discussed um part of the issues or the components that came up with allocations was ensuring that funding is allocated wisely and also um looking at organizations um that are currently working with the city aligned with City priorities and also um just providing equitable distri distribution of funding as well so the the challenge I'm having is that you have a scorecard in here and you just have it blank you're not scoring any of the 18 applicants and making a I didn't see at least in the staff report why these and not the other ones and you know even if it was a qualitative you know discussion above and beyond the point scoring and that does raise questions of fairness to me and I brought this up a couple months ago when zero Riverside came forward and um the staff did not even tell us who the other proposer was or give a justification for the other proposer and that proposer had a meeting with me the next week and really felt that they had been wrongly treated by staff in terms of responding to a solicitation and I don't want 14 other organizations to come forward and say you know I got a 36 on this score why did you know Karma box get a 28 and not miss the you you know so I want that information I think it's part of a complete you know con consideration of of this effort and you know it is federal money we need to prove to people went to JC and put themselves on the line that we're being pred on this the the state of Nevada just got Z zinged in the last nine months or so for not administering money in the last great Federal um rescue and and this just isn't reaching to the level for me of comfort did you and I'll I'll continue on um because there were other other information I had about you know your parameters of decision making do you have a response to that though the scoring were these the top four scores these were the top four scores and they met all the correct Baseline correct they met all the requirements were there ties were other people like number five it was top four okay thank you Miss breus can I come now to miss Ebert yeah um so I have concerns too it would be nice if council could see the list of applicants and the scorecards um and I bring that up because I've really um advocated for hopes to get some of this funding from arpa as well um I know that they had um tried to get funding when we allocated the full $5 million to Community Health Alliance for um the space that they're leasing from the City of Reno and I have expressed several times that I feel like they should be considered for arpa funds as well they fulfill a need in the City of Reno that I don't feel that um other organizations do I mean they help with um um housing and mental health and um AIDS care um and I I don't know how they scored or if they submitted because I don't I don't see that in the staff report I I see blank um scorecard so I think that that is a missing step that Council should be able to see who who applied what their scores were and you know as I stated I've several times said that I would like to see Reno engage with hopes feel that they are a good Community partner they're building a campus right next to the car's campus you know so I don't understand why they've yet to be considered for any arpa funds so maybe this isn't the right question for that this specific Grant at this point because that sh ship has sailed uh again but I'd like to say again I'd like hopes to be considered in the future for arpa funds or if arpa funds are gone now at what point are we going to consider them for for any kind of funding they also provide a lot of services within the City of Reno and again they're right next to the car's campus the people going there are using are going to be using them for all kinds of services so I don't understand why they've been overlooked yet again is there any kind of answer to that you know the the applications were all uh assessed they were ranked and the top four are the ones that are before you today staff continues to monitor arpa funding and as we progress through this process should there be additional opportunities for nonprofits to apply for funding they can certainly apply at that point but for this specific uh funding the top four the ones that are before you today okay thank you Mr Spar I sort of take um the conversation in different direction so first of all I think there is no doubt that there are hundreds a very worthwhile and really incredible nonprofits in this community earlier this week I had a chance to go view the K Grace foundation's Warehouse another example um there are the list is long whether you're talking about step the step programs safe embrace the dvrc there are hundreds of well-deserving including hopes um of nonprofits that work in this community but for my part um the kind of hunger game style um where we you know identify them from top to bottom and and in some ways it's like almost a shaming of the ones that don't rank quite as high I make an assumption that they all applicants who uh go through the process and perhaps are not identified in the top four slots um can come to you and ask what they could have done to improve their standing right but I do think there's also a moment where we have to as a body uh take a step back from the absolute minutia of the scoring process and really turn that over to our staff who are doing the work who have created the matrices I didn't create the matrices so maybe I would have a different way of scoring right but I don't know that that's necessarily my role as a council member is to go to that level um it's more that we know as a body we allocated a million dollars to a fund that was intended to go out to all Community uh Partners who wish to apply for it that these have Riven to the top quite frankly I don't know um bristle cone all that well I I know of their history but I'm not in a position to say they're not um worthy they if they ranked in the top four of this category that was fairly done with an open process and there were people on the committee to have judged it I'm happy with that um I don't need to see where each person ranked on that and and certainly um I think those are things that perhaps are better left not in this discussion but it's just me um I think there's are the Val concerns been raised by my colleagues I just come out a little differently on it uh I appreciate the work that each of these entities is doing um I can find no fault with the allocations uh and the goals which each of one of them sub simply have to do obviously too there were these elements of the ranking and scoring process that had to do with you know um working with existing nonprofits that had some track record ones that could deploy the money in the given time ones that met some of the financi reporting requirements and and therefore gave us confidence that they would be able to spend the funds in the way that they were designed me all of those things are part of that decision on how people scored and where they scored as long as they were all scored fairly and evenly within the Matrix that is what it is so that we've uh found a way to uh it's kind of like a blanket you try to stretch it and pull it and a million dollars could have gone very easily to any One Singular organization right but that you've come up with a way to spend the funds with for different organizations doing different work I think speaks to the nature of the application process and really I appreciate the work that went into it and the the decisions that are here are ones that I'll support okay let's see if anyone has questions Miss do yep yep um thank you I just wanted to concur with a little bit of what's been said by almost everyone um like Miss eert I actually asked specifically about hopes myself uh because they've they have applied several times for things and um so I actually had that conversation in a briefing and my understanding was that the categories of work that we prioritized uh was key here I mean in other words they were ranked based on this particular mission that we set out and um so I had come to accept the ranking um I also reflected that I would have liked to see all of the applicants listed I don't find it um a fatal flaw but I do think advisory to staff I think I even brought it up in my briefing that who all applied and you know we all as council members we want more background and we want to understand were there just five and four were selected or were there 20 and five were four were selected I mean that's important to know for us just some context so just going forward I would suggest that we do uh maybe an attachment at least list people who have applied for things so that we know and maybe the amount of money or the proposed project that they applied should be listed um I think we do that with the Arts grants I'm not 100% sure when it comes to council if we're just presenting the ones that the um the arts and culture commission is recommending or we I don't know I don't recall right now but I'm just saying as a good practice it is helpful to have the the whole baileywick uh presented um that said so again I asked about hopes myself because I was thinking surely they're doing carrying out some missions that we're very interested in but again perhaps There's an opportunity in a future uh process because we will have money left I know that one way or the other there's got to be a final round here somewhere so anyway I um I'm going to support this item but I just did want to recognize I had some similar thoughts to my colleagues thank you thanks M D I'm going to come to you Miss Taylor next uh thank you Mr PR chair um yeah I I can absolutely support these and I think it's great news I mean this is something to be proud of again um doing great great work and Mr or Grant what you said was fantastic to hear I think we are just really going above and beyond and I thank everybody from the bottom of my heart because I know the work is grueling so thank you but back to the um scoring criteria when I was looking at it looks to me um the the questions were Equitable objective measurable some of the things that might have been taken into account of why others got funding and some did or did not would have been whether they have received other funding from other sources whether they align with the City of Reno and whether they serve the PE whether they serve or their mission executes the City of Reno goals and objectives so some of the things that um I looked at on how they got funded and maybe others didn't that might have gone into the decision as that kind of accurate that's correct okay um so I'm I'm very happy that we're able to do this and just thank you for everybody and your hard work and I'm honored to be able to support this okay Mr Martinez we'll come back to you oh there you go sorry I know that we're having a little technology problems up there yeah things are a little bit slow over here here but I appreciate the patience with me uh Mrs paraa thank you so much for the presentation and answering some of the questions and maybe if you could provide a little bit more of that uh context for us you weren't the only one uh scoring these applications uh using that rubric that council member Taylor has just mentioned was you know measurable um and Equitable questions but there was a team of you all who scored all of these applications is that correct that's correct and you know the these are very um difficult uh processes uh you want to be fair and you want to ensure that you're reviewing each category thoroughly um and that's how we we this the team reached this uh the top list for the four um a million dollars sounds like a lot but it certainly is is it's not that much um and that's how we got here yeah definitely and I I appreciate uh um other council members acknowledging the great work that some of the other nonprofits and other nonprofits who didn't apply are doing in our community and the need is really great and so if there's any opportunity to keep supporting some of those efforts definitely looking forward to those continued uh conversations and looking forward to supporting your suggestion in funding with this a million dollars from the state and local fiscal relief funds thank you okay Miss bre I'll come back to you for round two yeah and you know I don't know or have anyone else who you know I was thinking would apply or would be Fable I just want a fair process and you said something about categories were there categories that everyone gets one under a different bucket the oh were there categories that you were trying to fill each one fills a bucket we were looking at we had criteria yeah and these there is eight sections uh and these are the the different sections that applied to everyone um did you tell in your Grant announcement that there would only be four recipients and the average amount or something like that some you know another way to look at a council is you know we want capacity in the community to do these Human Services and maybe a better approach would have been to spread it out to you know the ones that met all the minimum threat maybe I don't know you know maybe 13 you know maybe five got rejected because they didn't meet the minimum threshold and maybe you had 13 but maybe another approach would have been to spread it out just to help some organizations I continue to be um to struggle because um you know we didn't say we were only going to go to four there could have been a reason to spread it out we don't know who the other ones were we don't know the scoring of them we don't know their proposed it's just not fair nor it's it's not fair and um I am going to you know I I've mentioned earlier today about how the city manager you know has has not given me access to staff and falsely says that it's because of a hostile hostility I have to our staff that is not true he's the one under investigation for retaliation against me but under normal circumstances Monday morning when I've read the agenda over the packet I would have caught this and said to the city manager hey can we have the other list of them the scorecard you don't have you have a scorecard but you don't have it filled out can we supplement the materials but that dialogue has broken down for me with this manager but I certainly think it would have been a way to say hey remember when we had zero Riverside and those other people came to the table and they weren't even mentioned and they went a lot of work to do their proposal what if some of these other 14 did a whole lot of you know Grand application work that you you know had a packet of and that's not fair so I will not be supporting and I will be going up and making a public records request for every single proposal and the scoring and I wish I didn't have to do things in my job this way but the manager has put me in this place and I'm not comfortable getting three phone calls next week from nonprofits about what they felt was unfair lack of transparency on the council in administering federal funds thank you okay Miss breus thank you so much for my part Mr sparza the process has been open transparent Fair um I'll disagree with my colleague from Ward one uh it is a a process that is laid out I wish we had more money and we could spread it around I I don't believe in the concept of giving everyone some just because they applied and also don't believe that we should make it so that none of them are successful if everybody gets five bucks it doesn't help any of them so so ultimately I think you've navigated a difficult Road here I I trust the decision and the buckets that you've laid out and so um I will make the motion to approve the allocations for karma box rise the children's cabinet and bristel Cone to the total of $1 million in state and local fiscal relief funds received through the American Rescue plan act that'll be my motion and I have a second by council member do where I heard first any additional questions at this time hearing call oh go ahead [Music] I I just wanted to say I didn't get a chance that although I noted um some that didn't receive uh it should be noted by my second I'm completely in support of those that we are awarding and I have a you know I worked with Bristol cone in the past um not not part of their organization but just with them as an agency administrator and I think uh they and all of them uh whether it's um Karma box or um children's cab CET um or I think our fourth one um I'm just what's that rise rise rise rise thank you I think they do magnificent work so I didn't want my comments to be misconstrued that somehow these weren't worthy I think they do fantastic I have close personal knowledge of virtually all of them so thank you thank you so much Mr D I'll call for the question all those in favor please I had a comment too okay Miss Ebert same same comments as council member do you know these organizations are great but again you know hopes is something that does a group that does a lot of great work for the residents of Reno and I think it's really overdue for us to work with them um they do a lot for the residents that that need it most in this community like I said I I don't know any other organization that's helping with um medical care for AIDS patients they do transitional housing and mental health care and regular Healthcare I mean they cover just broad range of services and they're a good partner to the City of Reno and I think it's time that the City of Reno becomes a good partner with them as well and that we um start considering them when we have opportunity to uh use arpa funds um to uh to give to these different types of organizations so I I will support because I think these other organizations are deserving as well but um you know again as we donate or allocated $5 million to a City of Reno facility for a Community Health Alliance to use I think that was a big missed opportunity for us to also um allocate some funds to uh hopes or maybe even some other organizations as well so thank you great comments any other comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I I I any opposed opposed motion carries thank you so much thank you Mrs sparza Madam clerk items g y so item G1 item G1 Madam clerk do we have any public comment on item G1 item G1 we have not received any public comment any questions from Council um I'm prepared to make a motion G1 g girl or good one right sure this is the discussion for appointments to the trucky River fund advisory committee Miss der you're prepared to make a motion or not I am discuss hold on a second Miss der hold disc hold on Miss der let us bring forward a staff member who is the staff member responsible for this item Miss hunsen I mean I'm going do very best I know you are every day okay now that we have Miss Huntsman at the uh lect turn Miss Ebert I'll turn I'm Sorry Miss uh breus I'll turn the floor to you you had questions I think sry Miss breus did you have questions on this item yeah um you know I am on the Tuma so I'm pretty familiar with with what they do um and we have two appointments to make and I'd just like to have some discussion about these applicants I don't think it's a Mrs Miss H Huntsman job I think it's an us job okay I understand so do you have a nomination or you are I mean normally when these hold on one second normally when these items have come before Council the person there's a recommendation sometimes it's by the body that recommends sometimes it's by the lower body is there a concern over who has been nomin because we haven't had a nomination yet do you want to go through each one of the persons individually what is your desire to do here M bre well I heard a motion would and I'm also a member it's rare that we have two people three people who are members I've been the longest serving member on tomoa and rather than jump to you know the chair asking for motion I just wanted to hear um discussion on the nominations and I'm fine to not be the one to start so if you would like to talk to the member who is remote and have them start the kick off the discussion I'm happy with that Miss D I'll look to you for a motion a motion and can I just clarify this isn't a body of Toma so it's it doesn't like report to tomwa it's it's a it's a subsid it's like a function where tomwa donates to this advisory committee and the advisory committee is the one that actually makes motions and spends that money but they they I have the documentation they do not they're not a part of Tuma okay okay Miss St I'll look to you for a motion okay well I also don't mind just sort of going through the applicants I mean um I know some of the people on here about half and I think they we have some excellent uh people to choose from here I just want one of them is our very own staff member uh Nathan ulot with Parks he's newer um just six months within the six months um we also have a person that I I is very high on my list which is Darcy Phillips who's head of ktmb also newer in that role um but I respect both of them tremendously My First Choice was uh Peter Gower for a couple reasons um in the past the Chucky um River fund advisory committee has had a a representative uh from The Nature Conservancy for many years um they haven't for a little while and Mr go happens to serve on the nature conservancy and has also of course just performed eight years of uh very challenging service on our Planning Commission Reno Planning Commission um and has a um certain knowledge of the river and environmental ethic that I think would be very useful on this committee so he's one that you know if I was to make a nomination I would include him um as one of two um I also have a high regard for our former um colleague n jardan she served on tomwa for some eight years as a dis decider a policy maker so she's in my top list as well um and then there are others here too but I would probably say those were my four top people and then I'll I'll open it to the rest of the people to discuss okay does anyone have any more points to make on this issue Miss breus yes thank you um I I defer to miss clerk who says she has the resolution I just know from tah that we budget for this fund and we accept the recommendations and then we take action on those there may be a matter of determination but I'm pretty familiar with it and tamad does a great job telling us how this fund is used and always historically and part of that history and I did call the Tad GM um is that The Nature Conservancy has had a representative on the board an employer or a contractor but they've also sought money from the fund and I I have a problem with that I I think that an organization that seeks money from the fund should not have a seat at the table um I don't think they can serve serve both so for those reasons I I think Peter Gower is a fine person I think he did well as a planning commissioner but he is shown on his resume as a um having a work employment relationship with the nature concern so I would not support him now Mr um ilot our um Parks director I think the City of Reno has also sought money from the fund before and I was unclear if he was um because they put a award down um is he supporting and I guess this is for Miss Bryant because he's in your chain of command is Mr olot applying as a city representative to this board or is he applying as a resident of Reno president of Reno I believe okay I'm not comfortable with one of our staff members um doing that role and I also don't think that there's precedent for staff being on and you know if he's a resident that's fine but he's new here he's got a big job um I I think he should you know maybe engage in his personal time on things that don't overs with his um intersect with his um you know those his elected officials in the city organization partner so those are the two that I did object to um Miss Jordan I sered with her um I'm not going to support her at this time I I know I did serve with her on there but I I think the shadow of a cooling off period still follows her a little bit um because she she had a a fine for um not honoring this the cooling off period and she's just made it made it out of that and I think she needs a little more time the ones that really caught my eye because they have expertise and don't seem to have any conflicts of interest were um well John soberg who I do not know but he seems to be a retired person Megan Miranda Darcy seems fine and Peter um what was Peter's name Stanton so those are the ones that and and and Mr lion as well Preston lion so those are the ones that I was comfortable with and um I don't know if you want want Miss um der to make the motion but um I've I've stated the ones I object to and the ones who I think would bring some very added um value to it okay I'll move to nominate Peter Gower and neoma jardan second okay I have a motion second additional discussion at this time yeah I won't support I'll be watching to see um any conflicts if they arise and I think it's an unfor unfortunate Choice thank you okay any additional questions or concerned at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by i i i any opposed opposed motion carries item G2 Madam clerk give you a second to get back over there thank you vice mayor so we're on item d uh G2 which is appointment to the regional Planning Commission from our Reno City Planning commissioner members okay and Madam clerk do we have any public comment on this item we do not have any registered nor have we received any correspondence okay and my understanding is that the recommendation of the Planning Commission has been Harris Armstrong and car Ry that is correct okay I'll move to make those I want to ask a question about this hold on a second I've made a motion we'll see if I get a second if I do okay I've got a motion a second now we'll open the floor for conversation yeah I don't want to talk on the motion I want to talk on the item so you jumped over our rules of discussion it states that Mr um and this is for staff Mr um what's his name belto is ineligible we don't have term limits why is he ineligible he's currently appointed to the board oh so he's the third one on the board already correct okay so we bring on Mr Harris Armstrong and the last time I think when Mr velto was a appointed um Sylvia villan noa's name came forward and the Council made the unusual um Step of not appointing her did she seek that appointment do we know I can't speak to this I don't know if U Mr pingry can or oh are you the staff okay great hi Chris pingry director of development services um no not that we're aware of at this point um it was the nomination from the Planning Commission was Mr Armstrong and Mr Ro okay okay I can support that thank you then Mr I'm sorry Mr uh VTO is his appointment when does his appointment come up I don't have that information in front of me but it should be it wasn't run co-terminus to their appointment to the Planning Commission so oh co with your appointment on the Planning Commission okay thank you kale call for the question all Mr U Vice may miss derer I just think it's important if Mr pingry could stand up again I think it's important that uh we not have confusion about this my I just want to get the process down and I asked Mr pingr about this earlier and I believe he confirmed that it's actually the Planning Commission themselves who nomin Nate the representatives and we confirm it could you just go over that briefly for us Mr pingry what you stated is correct um the Planning Commission makes the nominations and you confirm okay so they they nominated Mr Armstrong and Miss ROM right that's correct okay so I completely concur I think it's great choices so thank you okay I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you we're moving on to item G3 which is um a revised bylaw for the building enter Enterprise fund advisory committee okay Madam clerk do we have any public comment on this item we do not have any registered nor have we received any correspondence okay are there any questions from Council hearing none I'll ask for a motion please motion to approve okay I have a motion by Miss Taylor second by miss derer any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying I I any oppose motion carries unanimously thank you we're moving on to item H1 which is city council comments okay let me uh start with the folks in the room uh any uh comments under item H1 miss breus anything under H1 direct oh I didn't I I sorry I might have looking direct that to me I have nothing okay no problem let me go now to uh council member der on the phone I don't have anything to do council member Martinez nothing from my end thank you okay Miss Ebert thank you so much Miss Taylor okay and I have nothing so we'll close out that item and come back to you madam clerk thank you we're um seeing as our i1 was withdrawn earlier today we do not have a 6 p.m. hearing so we are going into closing public comment item J1 and we do have one commenter Damen Cole okay Mr Cole thanks for sticking with us most of the day I know you had to leave part of it but welcome back to the lecture I did wait I did have an I'm sorry hold on Mr Cole give us one second and we'll come back to you I did have an announcement oh yeah no problem Miss Ebert um I just wanted to say that we're having a a a grand reopening uh a park up in my Ward w Fork Dorothy mccalden Park um this Saturday um October 14th from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. so very excited about that we're going to have a lot of events for kids we're going to have some pumpkins and some food trucks and uh just really excited to have uh the opening of the new play equipment so just wanted to call that out and just say thank you to the staff for all their efforts and and putting this event together so thanks yeah super cool I can't wait for the kids to be able to use that equipment up there it's all adaptive right yeah fully adaptive yeah it's very very incredible part congratulations thank you okay Mr Cole welcome back sorry for that slight detour it's kind thank you very much for letting me talk again I uh first of all uh thank you very much for passing D3 I just want to say uh it's a good first step we need what now called micromobility used to be called bike networks everyone can use it um I want to clarify for the record one thing I don't know if it was directed at me directly or if it was someone else but during the discussion for D3 it was stated that someone made public comment about how there was no public process I don't know if that was directed to me but I didn't say there wasn't one I said was flawed the flaw was that we started at like step C or D which was we've already selected the routes we've already selected the designs what do you think of them I'm at the the position of well what routes are we picking why and what are the rubrics that we're looking at safety and level of service is only one of them uh many different things like connectivity things like that the directness of the route uh how how often would people actually use them if we're trying to get it done right the first time we have to do feasibility studies things like that uh Second thing Miss breus I share your frustrations about tons of car traffic going through the problem and I know that you probably know this the problem is that in 1966 when they created the I8 freeway Federal Highway Administration decided that America should have cars going right through the center of downtown so unlike Europe we don't have bypasses we have them going right through downtown so now we're stuck with it I don't know what to do about that I've been rcking my brain third thing thank you very much for sealing a new top coat of asphalt onto the trucky River bike path wonderful F experience I would give it 90% there's 10% left and this is a big concern is that the crews when I talked to them when they were doing the job they were under the impression that they were going to go over it a second time and they were going to steamroll it afterward that didn't happen so what occurred is now the entire path is Bumpy which means there's good traction but it had a lot of dips in in Hills all over the path and now that it's raining still water is collecting in many different areas along the path this is going to turn into sheets of Black Ice come winter if we're talking talking about using the path is more than just recreational but actual arterial route in other words a bike freeway for micromobility you got to you got to level it out so when they were shov in and putting the doing the squeegee stuff they were leaving Big like you know um Trails of uneven path and I said oh can you can you flatten that part out and everything said oh no we're we're going to be coming back we're going to be steamrolling it we're going to put a second coat it didn't happen so now we have the potential of the entire path becoming very dangerous when it starts snowing and Ice forming under subfreezing temperatures so that's got to do it or let me borrow a steamroller I'll do it myself for free of charge thank you all right vice mayor and with that just for the record we did receive additional public comments nine of them which were either received after 4M yesterday or General in nature seven letters of favor two letters of opposition those have been distributed to the Reno city council and will be available at the close of the meeting on the reno.gov meeting portal and with that I'm just looking for a motion to adjourn [Music] thank you