e e e e e e e hi everyone I'm uh know vice mayor Naomi der and I just want to give you an update we're scheduled to start at 10:00 we're just waiting for one of our colleagues to join on zoom and then we'll have uh a good number of folks to get started so just be patient with us for just a little bit longer thanks hey Mickey we you let me know when you're ready all right if we can just let me know are you ready okay yeah here good morning everyone uh we do have all of our council members assembled two on zoom and four present um I want to welcome you to the Reno city council meeting again my name is Naomi der I'm the vice mayor uh the mayor is actually on the zoom uh joining us this morning um we have a lot of people in the audience and there's a lot of people out outside so I just wanted to alert you that um as people leave the room uh more people can come in so just be uh aware if you're here for public comment that when you do give public comment you might want to leave and give up your seats so more people can join us we have a limit in the room for uh what the Fire Marshall says we can have um everyone out in the um in the foyer um there are TVs out there in several spots so they can watch what's going on and participate and it's until it's time for them to come in um the way our meetings work since I'm going to guess several of you haven't been here before is that we um start with the Pledge of Allegiance we have a roll call and then we move into public comment and at the top of the public comment we have a special presentation uh this morning that will take place before public comment um what I'm going to do um is to ask um first of all our clerk are you ready to move forward with our meeting is everything online Madam clerk thank you madam vice mayor um everything is up and running at this point I would just like to note too if you are out in the foyer and you would like to make public comment I have some city clerk Personnel out there collecting comment forms um and vice mayor d d did mention it but what we would ask is if you are commenting and your comment is completed please leave the room so that we can bring others in once the population dies down we should have more seats able to like let people back in again later but we need to make sure that we're getting um due process to anybody who wants to make public comment first okay thank you so much and I um am going to start out this morning with the Pledge of Allegiance and I'm going to actually ask our city manager uh Doug Thornley to lead us in the pledge if you'll join us aliance 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 all right beautiful beautiful so the next item will be roll call Madam clerk calling roll for Wednesday April 10th 2024 council member breus here dur here Martinez eert absent at this time Taylor Rees here shivi here Madame vice mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council all right thank you so much and it's a great pleasure to um start this morning with a very special uh Proclamation and I want to call up uh Leah wiro Eric Eldin and uh if you will join us at the podium please Eric knows the way by now it's great to see you Eric all right well I want to announce um that I'm I'm so incredibly excited to announce that Leo wiro is with us today she's just 28 years old and yet she is known and recognized as one of the best groundskeepers in America for pro baseball let's and she's one of only four women who work as a head groundskeeper in pro baseball and she's absolutely the best in the game we couldn't be prouder to have a person of her stature in our community doing this important job we have a very special Proclamation for you um and I asked Eric Edelstein our former assist assistant city manager if he would read the proclamation wonderful is that green on or blue on green is hi morning uh Eric Edelstein for the record uh pleased to to read this Proclamation on behalf of of mayor shivi uh whereas Leo wiro is the groundbreaking head grounds keeper for the Reno Aces in Greater Nevada field and whereas the 28-year-old Northern Northern Nevada native is one of only four head grounds Keepers in all of professional baseball and is truly a big hit in her field and whereas M wiro was recently featured in Forbes as a trailblazing female and groundskeeping Allstar who won the most prestigious ward in her Prof award in her profession when Greater Nevada field was named the professional baseball field of the Year by the sports field management association in 2022 and whereas after internships with the with the Aces and Milwaukee Brewers Miss wiro joined the aces full-time in 2019 and quickly built a stellar reputation for Innovative techniques and Excellence including cutting cutting uh the shape of the Reno Skyline into the grass for opening day just last week now therefore on behalf of Mayor Hillary shivi mayor of City of Reno Nevada do hereby declare April 10th 2024 as Leo wiro day in the state of or in the City of Reno okay thank you so much we're going to call you up for a photo in just a moment so if you want to reclaim your seat and thank you Eric for being here always great to see you um and the job you do over at the Reno ases um we have a second Proclamation this morning or recognition and that is I'd like to call Cody Shadel and his incredibly dedicated Public Safety dispatch team to come forward these folks work incredibly hard to keep us informed about what needs doing and I'll remind you when it snows who is there on the front line at 3:00 a.m. it is both our Public Safety our our Public Safety dispatch team our um Public Works team and so on but this is the team uh that dispatches our emergency responders everyone in Reno to the job um I want to thank you so much for what you do it's an incredibly hard job we all know in fact um I think that the uh it is well known that um the stress and tension that you experience in the job is only matched by the good that you do uh for our entire community so the professionalism the strength it deserves respect and admiration from all of us uh you literally are a Lifeline for all of our citizens and I want to make sure every single one of you knows this uh Cody could you read the proclamation please yeah absolutely thank you vice mayor D and thank you for the kind words uh so I coach Shadel uh director for City of Reno Public secet you might want to come closer to the mic all right try that again uh so we'll read the proclamation whereas City of Reno Public Safety dispatch is engaged in the operation of Emergency Services emergency response systems for Reno Police Department Reno Fire Department the University Police Services Reno Tahoe airport fire and the Reno Marshalls Office and whereas these individuals answer calls for help on 911 and Non-Emergency lines for police fire and emergency medical situations and serve as the critical link for the prompt response of our officers and firefighters in the field to save the lives and property of our citizens and whereas calls include governmental Communications related to all public safety and operations amounting to an estimated 470,000 total calls handled for the year of 2023 and whereas Public Safety dispatch is the single vital link for police officers and firefighters and monitors their activities providing information and ensuring their safety and whereas Public Safety dis employees are dedicated and hardworking often under difficult circumstances and with extraordinary workload and whereas Public Safety dispatch is honored to serve the public daily and in countless ways that the community is often unaware of now therefore I Cody Shadel for Hillary shivy mayor of the City of Reno do hereby declare April 14th through the 20th of 2024 National Public Safety telecommunicators week and in for the City of Reno and encourage citizens to recognize the professionalism and compassion of our Public Safety dispatchers and call takers who provide a vital service to our community yeah thank you so much and I'm going to ask the council if you'll join me for a quick photo with both uh folks that we've recognized thank you thank [Applause] you separate pleas on up here don't thank you again so awesome conat thank you so much amaz okay all right we will now uh get back to our regular order and we're going to move on to public comment and Madam uh clerk could you read our disclosure please thanks Madam vice mayor apologize we've got some craziness going on today okay our first um item today is general public comment members of the public may hear observe and provide public comment utilizing the following link https forward oh https colli n k s period re n o period G oov for SL capital c o u n c i l 04 hyphen one0 it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments under heard under this item will be limited to 3 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'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 for those participating in Chambers in accordance with Council rules 6. 3.11 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 attend in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time um we do have quite a few public commenters registered at this time so please make sure that you're ready to come up and speak on your turn and again we do have members out in the foyer so if you can exit after your comment so the others can come in to participate our first public commenter today is Ron Trevor followed by Terry Brooks followed by George Campion okay and just a note um just because we have a lot of new people here today several of us take notes and it doesn't mean we're not listening I always take notes so I can remember everything that's said so if we're not looking exactly at you know that we are taking notes and paying attention to what you're saying so thank you sir please proceed good morning my name is I'd like to thank the council for allowing me to speak this morning I'm a representative of Save which stands for senior auxiliary volunteer effort that works with the Reno Police Department today I've got the Recaps of the hours volunteered for the first quarter of 2024 save currently has 73 active volunteers with another in training during the first quarter there were a total of 4,223 hours volunteered by members of save this represents a savings of $120,300 to the City of Reno some of the key areas that have been covered are as follows we had 4,191 citizen contacts there were 1,878 48 hour notices placed on abandoned vehicles we had 955 School patrols there were 398 handicap violation citations uh stolen vehicles and fictitious plates located there were 13 any questions from anybody well I'll just start I don't have a question we don't usually do Q&A just again for the audience to know on a public comment but um the save team works for us and um they're incredibly valued volunteers I had a privilege of attending the award ceremony uh most recently where we recognized our save volunteers and special Awards to different members for the good work you're doing so I just want to say thank you um if anyone else wants to speak and just keep our comments brief okay thank you madam vice mayor thank you so much Ron Terry Brooks followed by George Campion followed by Jerry miid good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I feel the responsibilities to address discrimination and politics when it comes to disabilities some politicians want to do what they can to help the disabled in anyway but some politicians don't care about the disabled and just want them to go away some politicians have done what they could to help the hearing impaired and they helped to do such things because they were cared but those who continue to discriminate against the hearing impaired won't explain why they do so because they haven't really cared some politicians have done what they could to help those who are blind and they help to do such things because such caring stays in their mind but those who continue to discriminate against those who are blind cannot explain why they do so they need to change their mind some politicians care about the physically disabled who are in a wheelchair so they help to get ramps in places when the disabled need to go there but others haven't supported such ramps they say it would be a wasteful expense they waste their own time saying such things because they don't make any sense some politicians have supported a lot of mental facilities as a safe and comfortable place for those with mental disabilities but others didn't support them back in the 1980s shut down such mental facilities and forc the residents out on the street who had mental disabilities the best way to help and treat people with disabilities is to let them have a safe place where they can learn to deal with their disabilities I would like to thank Reno's Newton Learning Center where children with disabilities are allowed and welcome to enter all humans have equal rights no one is above another and we all have the responsibilities to care for one another I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and for allowing even me to come in here today thank you Terry always a pleasure thank you George Campion followed by Jerry mied followed by Connie silviera it's okay take your time okay well I want it there you go thank you so much okay we have a problem you can't really read that very good all right well they'll blow it up too as much as it can my name is George campon I am at 301 Gentry Way Unit 302 we 8902 what I'm here for is this complaint right here all right you can see the date 331 2024 all right read it okay why do this all right and what you're going to see is I sent them I you guys all have computers right bring up that case number SE 0045 284 all right and you will see pictures that I downloaded just a few of them all right and since that was done this car was parked all right and you can barely see that but that's okay because it's dark and it's black all right and it but it was in perfect condition all right and and I have the details on this and you could I could actually show you the uh the uh uh the the the date on it if you like all right and uh there okay detail again I don't have that much time but this one shows it was done on April 4th 5 days after that right the same day and that was at 4:30 in the morning Mr Shipman and Mr Hall all right because I did leave you guys a message too all right and that afternoon you want to see what it looked like I'll show you what it looked like oh yeah you guys told it too finally right front end it's missing it's gone all right every window in that thing is busted out except for the front window which they did quite a crack the back window is also cracked and if you look at it I got it I got the pictures all right and Grant you I don't have back and forth but never right this car was owned by somebody maybe you maybe you maybe you and it got destroyed because you've done nothing all right and my complaint is your parking all right all right parking enforcement if you notice right here I said the graffiti needs to take care of the graffiti on Jory park yoryi park and guess what they did it it was done by Tuesday morning all right they do their job parking enforcement does not I have so many pictures that I can show in fact when I was walking past on Sunday Miguel excuse me Mr Martinez all right you grew up in our area right all right well guess what I walked okay right past here all right and what did I what did I have here first off I had this on the sidewalk all right open window right the next one I get and I'm walking a little multi dog for somebody right here's this do here's this car still truck right here and I here this rough rough rough right see if I can get it here see I not be able to see it on this one before I but anyway there's a big old moose do sitting in there dog he threaten you with Mr Campion thank you so much for being here and I I can tell I can tell you're you're legitimately upset I would like to ask that you meet with our uh liaison in the back I know there's lot there's a shortage of room but what I'd like to do is get you with our code enforcement and our police officers to be able to follow up and I really sorry for what you went through absolutely okay thank you for being here today all right thank you for being here today Jerry myth said followed by Connie silviera followed by Craig bronzen the pizza man see a going to [Music] well okay welcome Jerry can I can I get some uh young man he's working on it just give him a second let's P let's have patience today okay it's up good morning city council my name is Jerry myff AKA Jerry the pizza man um I'm going to speak about seniors but be before I do that we have in the room today former councilman member Oscar Delgado let's give a round of applause for Oscar Delgado Jerry thank you we recognize we're very pleased to see council member uh and back in the room and but if you could just focus on us with your comments that would be great she's talking go ahead go ahead wa she took up 15 seconds of my time anyway okay uh since I turned uh 62 about 20 years ago I dedicated my life to my fellow seniors what all you seniors in this room raise your hand Jerry can I ask you to please address your comments to the council that's just the way it's done well I'm just asking you I'm a presiding officer thanks Jerry I appreciate it give me a break um you know seniors we've been there and done that okay we're still here and we're not done yet without us seniors none of you would be here um the the most volunteerism is performed by seniors we've come to the rescue of our own grandchildren by daycare our own grandchildren that saves a huge expense uh we're pushed to the Wayside were forgotten uh many of us live in independent senior complexes uh that senior is dumped off by their relatives and forgotten what happens isolation depression and hunger takes place and who's going to care about that senior you as a society we need to respond to seniors to women to children to homeless people you know we're the homeless epidemic is overtaken the country for years Jerry unless you speaking the mic I'm having a hard time hearing you I want to hear what you I care about seniors you're right on point keep keep it coming I want 15 seconds back here come on Jerry um uh I I I can't think well I could think uh let's see that is um Woodley rice um cheer and dandling um the uh the parks people you see him sitting over here with an English Ascot on that's uh uh I forgot your name anyway um Nathan what a job uh the uh the code people they need money I see at the budget they're overworked they don't have enough thank you Mr M he has to listen to me quite frequently all right Jerry thank you so much let me just say this I totally admire your focus on seniors and Parks those are things I've asked to prioritize in the budget as have our other council members thank you for being here thank you it's good to see you thank you Naomi Connie silviera followed by Craig bronzen followed by Charles Albright [Applause] hi I'm Connie Sila and I'm just here to give you an update on an issue that we're having at Lon Park and have had for the past year back in May of 2023 I did did call the parks department and I also filled out a a Reno direct request and the reason is this is the condition of the playground you'll see the side the slides this one's not quite as bad um this one is the circular one and while they have put up some some of them have the wood put up so kids can't slide down down but half the time kids crawl up slides so there's still a possibility of severe injury um I did follow up with ask Joe Hart on Channel 4 in December because it still had and I had been told in the in last May that they were aware of it and there was a six-month uh lead time on getting parts and then in December nothing happened and so I called Joe Hart and he did a segment on it and I also followed up with Reno direct again and this is uh these were taken yesterday these pictures and you'll see the wood was taken down on this particular slide and this is the condition of it uh towards the bottom and this is another one it does have the wood on it but you can see it's looks pretty dangerous too for kids and so I just wanted to let you know about what's not happening and should be happening there um I know it's kind of a marginal neighborhood but it's a well-used park yeah and if we don't maintain it it's going to get worse I mean you know you do have homeless people at times but if people stop going there with their children it's going to get worse right so please look into it all right Miss syo thank you for being here and I got to say this is unfortunately a condition in many of our Parks including in some of our wealthiest areas for example dman Ranch Park same exact pictures of the slide I I totally hear I just want to tell you it is a problem Citywide that is one reason again that we're trying to prioritize Park maintenance to get these things up to code thank you for being here suggestion is on Marketplace on Facebook they do sell used slides cool so you might look into Marketplace let's check it out team let's check it out all right and let me Madam M Clark could you turn up the mic a little bit um it really kind of have struggling to hear a little bit Craig Bronson followed by Charles Albright follow followed by Gary CLE morning honorable mayor members of city council and staff my name is Craig Bronson I have the honor of serving you as a commissioner on the Recreation and Parks Commission and I'm glad to hear that Parks is on the agenda on a number of issues today I'm here just to lend my support to the moano pool public art project that I think is B13 on your consent and you have a lot of speakers I want to be brief I want to cover two items number one I've spent over 50 years in the Parks Recreation Cultural Arts profession retired to Reno and I want to let Reno know both the city council and the staff and everybody that you were on the Forefront of public art I think public art adds livability to a community it adds inspiration education and I just appreciate all the public art that is going on in this community and the second one is just the caveat to remind city council staff Cultural Arts commissioned and the parks recreation staff which you have an excellent new director and staff is that when public art is designed it needs to have the owners of the property that are involved in it from the very beginning so I think the project for Moana pool is wonderful but when you create an a facility which you have which is going to be a hit you are going to have thousands of people every day you want to make sure that the the add-ons of public art are things that the staff can maintain that don't create additional problems and so as you go forward on more public art which I hope we do on our Recreation and park facilities we remember at the very beginning to have all the people in the room that talk about the type of art how it be maintained in that but other than that I lend my support I appreciate serving you on the recreation park commission you have a wonderful staff we have a wonderful community and thank you thank you Craig and just a note we actually reduced the total budget for the art piece to make sure we had enough for maintenance so I think you're right on point yep great thank you Charles Albright followed by Gary CLE followed by art rangal hello Charles Albright River Advocate I want to thank you folks very much for uh seeing me over the years and knowing that I care about the river yeah and I want to thank you for what you've done with the homeless situations along the river and what Reno director has done and then I also sent you folks uh some emails about the fact that I'd like to see you possibly all get together and take a raft trip through town from Verde all the way to say rock park to enjoy the river but also see all the issues along the river like dams that need to be removed and uh so that's that and then uh I also contacted the wet team yesterday for Reno Sparks and also was County I'll be talking to them as well uh about getting out on the river best time probably May when the flows are higher um next thing is um just want to make the River safe access safety uh and also we I personally want to thank Nate for considering the fact that we might be able to have roll sessions in Reno again I started doing them back in 1978 and did them basically every week sometimes at two pools for for 21 21 years and uh so I stopped that to build a house but uh it would be nice if we had roll s again Areno all there is is Carson City and trucky um so there's that and then also I'm hoping that I can get your eyes open up and see the trucky river is a very valuable asset to us and the dams on it are basically all owned by Tuma and you own Tuma and if and I've been dealing with Andy gabbart at the uh Tuma and I've got basically what amounts to the fact that the proof is that they don't pencil out anymore they don't make enough money plus they get three times more money per kilowatt than the industry standard and if you take 3 million bucks and divide it by three that's $1 million that they're making a year if they make it and then so I'm hoping that we can start working towards getting those dams off our River and letting the river flow naturally and um I've also contacted the Pyramid Lake Indian tribe to see if they would be like to get in on this also so I just want to thank you for your time and please go rafting if you can I'm trying hook you up with your wet team which is the best one in the area and have them take you down the river and all kayak alongside and you can have it okay all right Charles thank you for your advocacy I've known you for uh I think plus a decade and what you've done for our River environment keep up the good work well thank you it's funny going past the bridge on Arlington some guy was standing in the middle of it on the Upstream side on one of the pedestals and taking his stuff off and I didn't know if he was going to jump in so it might be news today I don't know okay thank you that's concern thank you for your time okay thank you Gary CLE followed by Art Rangel followed by Carly Carl fley good morning Madam vican good morning council members um my name is Gary CLE I'm a downtown resident and award five nap member I'm speaking today with reference to budget agenda item D1 our nap members were recently reminded to be Bridges between the community and our ward council member so I'm very pleased to say that councilman betay has been highly receptive to input from many downtown residents she showed Keen interest in a montage resident survey in which 123 respondents Prime issue was quote safety outside the Montage and in downtown in general she's responded effectively to many safety and noise comments from downtown residents she's listened carefully to suggestions to improve the safety and quality of life for downtown residents I can therefore confidently say that the budget priorities Miss Taylor expressed at the council's March 18th meeting are representative of many downtown residents input your package includes supportive comments from a number of them we especially support her downtown safety related priorities and I respectfully urge each of you to likewise support them by allocating sufficient funds in the 2025 budget in in brief first please give code enforce the resources to effectively and consistently enforce coding conditions for Parks entertainment establishments and on the streets in particular please fund their request for an additional code enforcement officer dedicated to the downtown core second to strengthen downtown law enforcement presence so disruptive disruptive Street activity during the day and outside bars and nightclubs at night is curtailed by one the bar car it's more than just a catchy name it really works it was potent rather than being reactive to service calls it was preventive it served as a strong deterrent to the kinds of disruptive Street Behavior mentioned during the recent axar permit appeal secondly please fund RPD walking teams operated by day and night finally the Seas team has been effective and we would appreciate you funding the overtime necessary to support that going forward we also look forward to hearing Chief Nan's enforcement plans for downtown at the April 24th council meeting thank you very much for your attention Okay thank you for being here great engagement good morning good morning good morning I'll be as brief as I can given that I've I want to speak to items um uh D1 D3 and D4 and I have uh left a copy with city clerk of my comments um for the record art Rangel 255 nor Sierra Street um I support the point that Mr CES just brought up uh as a city council you received many requests all of which cost taxpayer dollars the items Mr uh cesil just brought up or no exception the difference is that there are two funding sources available for downtown Reno that did not exist in most other parts of the city we as downtown homeowners pay into the downtown business improvement district in addition our residential housing units are also within the re Reno Redevelopment project Area 1 the boundaries of the downtown bid are almost identical to the boundaries of the downtown Redevelopment project area both the bid and the Redevelopment agency have very similar objectives which is to improve things within respective their respective boundaries in fact state law requires that money generated from the bid special assessments as well as tax increment generated within the project area be spent for the benefit of those areas property values took a big hit in downtown Reno during the Great Recession but now values are an upswing and both the bid and the downtown Redevelopment area will benefit substantially in coming years I want to give you one example we're all familiar with St Thomas uh Cathedral at the corner of Arlington and second for years there was a vacant parking uh lot adjacent to that church the county assessor showed that in fiscal year 2122 while that was still a surface parking lot the value of that property was $377,500 however for fiscal year 2425 it is now valued at 14, 23,6 183 because now it's improved with a five-story 69 unit apartment complex that's the factor of 37.8 times the original value and most of that additional value based on tax rates is required to be spent to improve the downtown Redevelopment area with all the vacant properties we have in Reno now downtown Reno there would be in the future year significant tax increment and property taxes uh generated for the bid in coming years in Clos in I want to say that it's now is the time to honor our request because we all know funding will be there for coming years to support and even expand them one last thing I hope the Redevelopment agency and downtown Bill bid will work together to make downtown safer more livable for residents attract new job high-paying jobs attract complimentary uses in the downtown area as well as encouraging tax increment generating developments over the year thank you all right thank you Mr [Music] mangel Mickey yep Carl fely followed by John compassi followed by Jeff [Music] darling good morning mayor aivi vice mayor dur council members my name is Carl fley my wife Sarah and I have been residents of Ward 5 for the last three and a half years in January of 2020 we entered into a contract to build a new construction home with to Brothers in Somerset and to put it mildly our experience throughout this this time of design building and living in the home is not representative of what to Brothers markets itself as a home developer I'm joined today by Mark Capal longan uh who represents over 32 homeowners of the somerset Owners Association as well as 20 of my fellow neighbors who are here to speak today on behalf of over 150 other homeowners living within the cliffs community in Somerset as you will hear from others I'm both concerned and baffled the City of Reno released the developer to Brothers 3 years go from 90% of the development and revegetation bonds required to permit and develop our community despite the fact this neighborhood has yet to be completed as of today the Cliff's neighborhood was permanent for development over 6 Years Ago by the City of Reno and over 5 years have elapsed since final grading was completed within the community yet today our hillsides are Barren marked by weeds and erosion members of the city council including councilwoman Taylor and councilman ree have been provided this evidence of re revegetation failures over the last 2 and 1 half years in addition to these common areas our experience with Toll Brothers has been finding bottles of urine during job site walks bottles of liquor and beer scattered within underfloor crawl spaces and discussions with construction personnel which lack authenticity and credibility standing here today I can say unequivocally that both Toll Brothers and it subcontractors have in inappropriately substituted the company's General warranty as standards for both International residential code and specifications and tolerances of various construction trade societies this amounts to misrepresentation but what I'm primarily here today is to speak to the Cavalier attitude expressed by this company's Representatives which would lead an average person to believe this company believes and operates as if no one not the federal government not the state government not the state contractor's board or even the city of Areno and development services will hold them accountable to the civil engineering and Architectural plans that they have submitted to the development additionally I'm here from homeowners I'm hearing from homeowners who have contacted to Brothers about these construction defects and are being told in writing by company representatives of the City of Reno and development services approves of these construction methods which have otherwise been identified as non-com non-compliant with International building code so the question is why is the City of Reno approving these construction defects where is the accountability we live in a society governed by a social contract we pay our taxes to the City of Reno with the expectation that the city is a filling its responsibility to serve the public please show us as this is possible please show us that a billion dollar Corporation isn't running the City of Reno thank you thank you uh very much Carl um I'm sorry for your experience in that of your homeowners um I want to make sure I don't know if uh Tyler is around but he helped several of us uh follow up on these kind of issues I want to make sure he has your contact information I know you said you've already contacted of the city but not me per se and probably not several others here too so we want to make sure to amplify your voice in this thank you thank you vice mayor okay please hold your applause John compesi followed by Jeff darling followed by in the back with the tie on right there okay good morning thank you to the council for allowing me to speak my name is John compesi and I'm here with Linda and numerous other residents of the cliffs in Somerset and I'm here to comment on to Brothers pattern of arrogance and lack of concern for City standards and the community safety in the cliffs our neighborhood has been victimized by two burglaries in 7 months due to to Brothers negligence in failing to lock a construction gate at the rear of the cliffs which is a gated community the front gate gets closed the back gate is left open it's their arrogance and sense that they will not be held account accountable by the City of Reno that most offends the residents of the cliffs who do they believe why do they believe they are Untouchable as an example in October of last year I sent an email to the head of uh customer service relations and and production saying that the back gate was left open all week and through the weekend and I sent that on a Friday on Monday I get a response saying uh thank you for your email I am aware the gate was open we plan on leaving it open as needed for the duration of our Construction that flip attitude really set me off um they actually were vandalized themselves at a project area and they installed very expensive uh nighttime monitoring cameras to protect their job sites but they totally disregarded what the uh residents homeowners needed so I asked them what they would advise that they're going to do or we should do for our safety I didn't get a response I followed up and in November I got a response that said hello John told Brothers obviously has interest of the resident safety and job security this gate is an access gate and we will use it as needed while we own it that's the end of that it's a security gate it's not a security gate it's an access gate finally on uh February of this year Well in December uh one of the neighbors mentioned that again access through that construction area uh they had packages on their front porch that were stolen by a random car driving up that backway finally on February 26th two doors down from us our neighbors were burglarized sometime between Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday morning uh they had jewelry and passport stolen the burglar crowbar the side garage door to gain entry and the construction gate was open all through that weekend uh when I sent this information to them I didn't get a response from uh Miss uh crane but finally I did get a response from uh the production supervisor hi Mr kesy thank you for making us aware of this unfortunate event we have a camera out site if the Reno Police department is interested in the footage we would be happy to work with them thanks totally disregarding the fact that homeowners are now forced to harden their homes with extra security precautions at Great personal expense the second issue I'm here to talk about very briefly has to do with common areas uh Mr uh Figley already talked about it I asked in October if those common areas were Toll Brothers responsibility there's nine of them they came back and said yes that it was still theirs uh and that they had a ration plan in effect and I'll take just a couple minut seconds if I can and they acknowledge the revegetation was their responsibility but in uh March we got an a letter to all residents going around the HOA saying that oh we're going to enhance that we're not going to do revegetation we're going to put Boulders and rock uh mulch those Boulders look like slag from a a a steel plant totally unattractive and totally disregarding their responsibility to work through the SOA thank you for the extra time thank you for being here joh we'll try to follow up as I said thank you Jeff darling followed by Mark camp Camp C Kappa Logan followed by terara Tran mayor and City Council Members thank you for your service and the support you provide our city as a resident of Somerset for the past four years living in the Cliff's development by Toll Brothers I'd like some further clarification as to the parameters by which you hold big developers accountable it's my understanding that Toll Brothers had to provide A2 plus million doll performance bond as collateral so they would revegetate hillsides public spaces stabilizing erosion beautifying the hillsides as originally detailed and approved on the original engineering plans this has not been accomplished to date it's also my understanding the City of Reno has released these bonds and told Brother of their obligations to perform the work why was this allowed who authorized the release of these bonds what inspections took place and what were the parameters of the release given who holds Toll Brothers accountable appears they have no accountability to follow and complete the original engineered commitments is this lack of accountability also occurring in other Toll Brother developments in Reno is Toll Brothers the multi-billion dollar company the tail wagging the dog I completely understand the desire of the city to build more houses for tax revenue but how much of that revenue is lost in completing projects the developers originally responsible for case of residences Cliff development will be assessed a special HOA fee to cover the issues that Toll Brothers was required to complete under the original development plan why should the Cliff's homeowners have to pay additional assessments for items that should have been completed by Toll Brothers let me give you a small example of erosion in the neighborhood we have a small Hillside behind our home with a covert between the Hillside and our backyard patio I had a 600 a.m. flight out one morning and it had rained heavily all night before I left left I thought I should check the backyard what did I find the covert was completely backed up from the dirt mud coming down from the hillside the water encroaching into our backyard and Patio in a dress shirt and slacks I proceeded to put on snow boots get two shovels and clear enough of the Culver to negate our home from being flooded with the Lord's help I did make the flight and reported the issue to Toll Brothers on my return their answer to the predicament was I'll see our guys keep the covert clean what about fixing the hillside erosion okay our Hillside erosion issue personally is nothing compared to the other hillsides in the cliff development I would not want to be the owner of a two-story walkout home here in the cliffs with a changing environment we are experiencing in Reno and Western Nevada we could be setting ourselves up for a major disaster as a result of poor risk management ending up like a cond collapse in Surfside Florida we purchased our home from Toll Brothers we were elected to pay a significant premium for our lot it has a open space to the east our space has been used for a staging area Dumping Ground cement truck cleanout and portapotty landing area rather than a park like sh setting shown in Mark in to Brothers brochures I've got more I will sub for the record and we are going to follow up I know you have several with you but it is a very concerning thank you please hold your applause Mark kappal longan followed by Tara Tran followed by Lewis mcgreal uh thank you esteemed members of uh Reno city council and honorable mayor um thanks for this opportunity to speak my name is Mark Capal longan I'm actually the corporate Secretary of the Somerset Owners Association and I'm representing the more than 8,000 homeowners and residents of Somerset I'd like to comment on the um it's a hillside development of over 200 homes and it's been uh developed over the last s years and because of the Steep terrain on this Hillside it's only been possible through expensive grading and cuts and fills and engineered slopes this is a picture of one of them here um City development plans and Engineering specifications were designed to stabilize and protect those slopes from erosion but they've never been followed in the nearly seven years of this development to ensure that this work was completed in accordance with plans and specs the city properly required performance bonds to be released only after this work was successfully complete that process has failed 90% of those bonds have been released by the city some in 2020 and some as late as 2023 despite the fact that most of this work was never done no inspections were ever made no independent analysis was ever conducted right now many of the slopes are still bare dirt and suffer erosions with every rain in releasing in releasing these performance bonds it appears from the paperwork that the city simply relied on a letter from the developers contractor that the work had been complete it was a simple check the box process there was no inspection no verification no enforcement it is disappointing that some of the city council members have actually visited this site in 20122 and seen the issue firsthand and yet thereafter more of these Bonds were released Our concern is that the home builds are nearly finished and that without bond protection Toll Brothers will issue Quick Claim Deed transfer and will simply walk away from this development leaving homeowners to deal with the continued erosion and the cost of comple me in the Toll Brothers commitment under the development plan we have one request of the city please hold Toll Brothers to their commitments under the city plans and specifications for the neighborhood do not allow the release of the remaining performance bonds until this work is complete as inspected and independently verified um I have a letter and independent license uh engineering report which I'll give to the CL city clerk uh homeowners should not be salable these risks and substantial costs of completing the work that to Brothers was committed to do thank you thank you sir and Madam clerk can you make sure that um Tyler gets that letter too okay thanks Tara Tran followed by Ilia arbitman followed by Lily Baron all right um to Tran for the record a w one good morning I'm here to give a little bit of background on the community Assistance Center and the story of how we got to this point for those who don't know the community Assistance Center located on record and Fourth Street downtown by the train tracks was a multi-service facility that provided necessary resources to the people who needed the most it took 25 years and $15 million um um to build with funds from charitable foundations and local and federal funding some specifically for Community Development and support the CAC housed just to name a few of its services a primary health clinic Mental Health Services transitional housing apartments a maternity unit for atrisk new mothers a woman's shelter a family shelter a men's dropin shelter a closed closet and a community garden located in the heart of the urban center adjacent to the St Vincent's dining room in the Sparks Gospel Mission this stands in stark contrast to the city's new halfhazard unsafe and insufficient emergency tent of a shelter the Caris campus now when an unprecedented number of community members are left unhoused with little resources to move forward we must ask what happened to the community Assistance Center under the city's ownership the CAC was shut down and vacated in 2020 it was left a total dce PA and dilapidation at a time when people desperately needed the resources it once offered do du to the neglect of the council and the city manager in particular it accured $3 million in water toxic mold electrical and amenity damages for years your community has pushed for the CAC to be upkept and restored back into the transitional Supportive Housing that we so desperately need for years the city has Shrugged off our concerns of a plan to turn the critical Community Resources resource into unaffordable housing on September 27th of last year this city council denied these concerns and told us that this building was beyond saving but did formally agree to agendize a community discussion on the future of the CAC and we have been left in the dark until today where we have a deal already in place in agenda item D3 a deal that you have been entertaining since July of 2023 the CAC was said to be uninhabitable and Beyond repair but now it is not only good enough to be lived in but good enough to sell for high cost housing it it's going to be sold for pennies and need to serve the people that have been and threatened to be displaced by your quote unquote revitalization of Forth Street from neglect of the building to Shady back room deals this process has been disingenuous deceitful and unlawful if the city intends to sell the property at less than market value it must do so in the Public's best interest as per NRS 26863 you don't you haven't asked what our best interests are the council owes the community to poose items agenda item D5 sorry not D3 and follow through on its promise and agendize a public Community discussion of the future of the CAC to actually understand the Public's needs and interests thank you I'd also like to uh just thank Doug Thornley for his signation thank you thank you Tara Ilia arbitman followed by Lily Baron followed by Natalie Handler he I'm going to use this thingy okay just be patient for a sec he's pulling it up okay so yeah I'm asking that the council decline bash's offer item D5 and put the ca up for an RFP discovering that over the past year while we have been regularly coming here and essentially begging Council to agendize a discussion on the future of the CAC staff has actually been working on a back room deal with a private developer all along I feel heartbroken to be honest and hurt we have been asking in good faith to be part of this conversation and you have shut the public out completely an offer like the one Basha submitted does not come together overnight ban bullentini A bash partner in this proposal was writing to the city I am waiting on Tesla to get back to me on their desired unit mix here in July of 2023 but we seem to have missed a critical step Council never adopted a resolution of any kind on the future of the CAC selling a publicly owned building like this is not a regular commercial transaction especially if the sale is below market value which the proposed sale is Council is required statutorily to determine that selling the property would be in the Public's best interest and how exactly can Council determine such a thing if they refuse to engage with the public on this very topic fortunately there are many compelling reasons to deny bash capital's offer let's start with their foundational premise quote our attainable housing project targets individuals earning between 20 25 bucks an hour a demographic and urgent need of attainable Housing Solutions is this true is this demographic an urgent need um say I earned that much and I'm looking for housing what kind of new construction could I potentially live in well here's the Ballpark Apartments here's Base Camp Turn those so we can see them yeah here's something on Pine Street here's the mod here's Riverside here's some on Street you take a minute here's Grand Canyon Muse okay um seems like there actually quite a few options my need is already seeming a bit less urgent How about if I'm on a fixed income or a very low income or have no income at all maybe I lost my job or had an expensive medical procedure got no cause evicted which is very common here in Reno I'm in need of Housing and the word urgent feels a bit more appropriate here where can I go well there's really only one place that has been constructed in recent years and it looks like that um village on Sage Street technically too uh it's a repurposed Portables next to the dump and they're actually not that easy to get into um Banna seems to be bit confused in her proposal we can forgive her though she has not actually been living in Reno for some time as you can tell by these two now long since closed four Street businesses she included in her slide on the neighborhood the bike project is closed the Morris is closed as well her hly constructed slides that repeat without citing any factual information whatsoever that neither the city nor the county um have quote have the funds to renovate the C CAC or quote reopen the shelter are completely missing the point and incidentally ignorant of what Advocates have been saying for years now the CAC can and should become housing and on this Banna is not wrong Reno does need more housing but the kind of housing we need is not Millennial playtime rooftop view nonsense it's intentional low barrier actually affordable transitional supportive helps people in need housing there's so many different directions A Renewed CAC could take let's actually talk about it please forget about bash have an open conversation with us about what we can do with this unique and invaluable asset at the very least put it up for an RFP thank you thank you IIA and can you make sure we get all of that to the clerk because those looked interesting thank you Mr Madame aing mayor I want to just make a comment about this because I think I was called out in some reporting on this issue and I think um you know it provided some backstory to this issue uh because there was a public records request about these negotiations with bash and um I um was not any part of those I told bash I would not meet with them because I wanted a conversation from this Council about how we were going to deal with that I the concept of Tesla was something I never heard about but there was a public record of a of a meeting of a report that went to me from staff because there's an embargo for me for meeting with staff so I think I kind of showed up as the one who was you know in these conversations they're knowledgeable of this I was not and in fact this item D5 shows my request September 29th pursuant to to our rules asking for a discussion on the future of the CAC you know I I didn't even know the time about this bash I've asked for that I was deprived of that which I think is against our rules any council member can ask to have an item on that's how I wanted the item on but somehow a public record came that I am in discussion those discussions and it was one way communication from staff not even telling me what they were doing well thanks for clearing up the record I'll I'll expand upon this when we get to just been reported in the last couple days there's been references to this discovery and so I want to speak about it at this time thank you you bet okay Lily Baron followed by Natalie Handler followed by Louis mcgreal good morning vice mayor and Council my name is Lily Baron I live in Ward one um I am here just to kind of level set and talk a little tell a little story about a time where the City of Reno I see our champion unsung hero Jackie Bryant back there she does not get enough Kudos uh for the work that she does um about a family that was living outside in a tent uh who will call the woman Iris uh she was pregnant with five children in a tent and uh during 2020 and through the emergency housing assistance program that we had we were able to put this woman in a seagull Suites this was not a unique situation many families were put in seagull Suites and Company valued at over $2 billion and they uh received most of our federal funding as as far as emergency housing assistance goes um throughout the state of Nevada now those uh seagull Suites the one that is right by where I live on 7th Street goes for $1,500 a month for a studio apartment with a hot plate many of the people that live in there have two three four five children um this this family was evicted from a seagull Suites for being two days late on their rent lived in their uh lived in their car for one night at which point um you know a police officer knocked on their door and their children were taken away because it is not not appropriate for a child to live in a car we can all agree with that um after that we were able to get Iris to come to our place which is uh women's and family shelter that I'm the board president of and uh through that process and being able to close the gaps that were that are needed um for our place I can proudly say that four years later that family has not only gotten their five children back they've gotten their sixth child back who was a 13-year-old and they are very happily um working and happy be as a family together in a in a house instead that is appropriate unfortunately there are still many families that I met a couple of days ago that live in seagull Suites and there is no other option for them on my street just to give perspective there is a two-story two-bedroom house with a literal white picket fence that is going for ,650 a month and none of those families in a seagull Suite will be able to move into that house that is 2 200 feet away from seagull Suites because they were paying such an exorbitant rental price um that is the kind of thing that we could mitigate by using the CAC in a better way I think that we have such an amazing opportunity right now because people in Reno have great ideas we have incredible agencies incredible um you know folks that are working on these issues to help bridge the gap between homelessness or temporary Housing and Community Supportive Housing um and this could be one of the ideas I will also remind you that rise submitted an RFP for a project like this two years ago and we have been fighting to be able to open this discussion for many years rise is equipped for this building we have about 30 families on a waiting list and we could be moving these families into homes much like we did independently between Jackie and I as people um I would also just like to with my remaining time remind uh remind you about some things that you said in a similar discussion in 2019 um about the cyani Mansion uh Mr Thornley said we can't just dispose of publicly owned property without a process that goes through an elected body um Council May vice mayor you said I don't want to blow this discussion up in any way but I didn't know how the public would really know how what we're considering here it doesn't tell the public yeah D you finish your sentence and then um we Au thornly also said they wanted to better better understand the development of the potential space and that by going through a formal RFP proposal process the council Council has indicated that they would like themselves in the community at large to be more involved in the decision then what a straight auction or lease of the property will allow I would like that same energy for this project please thank you and we're still the same people and we probably believe the same things I hope so thank um let me just put on the record that um we've been joined by council member Ebert thank you and let me let me just inquire do we have people online yes two okay okay so um thank you thanks for that question too uh who's next Natalie Handler followed by Lewis mcgreal followed by Nicole Anna gaposis hello Natalie Handler for the record um going back to the community assistant center discussion I was going back through some past Council meetings where we were talking about the CAC um and it wasn't in on the agenda um or when it was on the agenda but not in a specific way um other than the insurance policy this was back in September 27th of uh 23 um it was part of there was there was a part of the conversation where council member breus is asking manager Thornley if there's been any discussion with private entities to sell the C AC to make room for ballpark parking he replies no then she asks if there has been any other conversation uh about the possible possible sale of the property and he again replies no on the record at this meeting according to the public records published by this is Reno we now know that that was false and that bash had been speaking with staff and manager Thornley since as early as July 2023 at this same meeting breus asked that the CAC be prioritized um at an upcoming um meeting as soon as possible so the community has an opportunity to talk about its future the mayor States we will all get to talk about this soon yet here we are today with a possible vote to sell with no prior Community discussion nor RFP or any which defines the Democratic process at that September meeting and at many before over the years since it was closed the community has repeatedly stated the need for shelter for women and families which is still high the county stated that 30 plus families were on a waiting list and I know that number is only growing there is also a need for housing to support survivors of domestic violence the women's shelter is always near or at capacity due the due to the lack of housing for them to enter into as they exit the shelters the city often comes down hard pointing the finger at the county for their slow movement on Sheltering and now it's time for the city to be accountable to their responsibility of creating housing opportunities which help people exit out of shelters and into the next level of their housing Journey after looking at bash's presentation which wasn't posted for public viewing until late yesterday I can say that I think this project would be better suited at a different location in the downtown area I can think of around 70 Parcels of land owned by Mr Jacobs who may be willing to support bash in their quests to build market rate attainable housing for Tech workers with all the sight hurdles present presented in their project description I just don't think the record street corner of our community is right for them what would be better suited for this public property and is highly needed is transition additional Supportive Housing or housing that can be attained by those who fit into the 30% Ami bracket not the 80% Ami bracket that is uh proposed in with bash let's open this still very much needed uh open this up to discussion um and not give it away to for pennies um either RFP and Community discussion please thank you thank you Natalie and I just want to since I assume several people are here to discuss this same issue we've already had several comments I just want to explain one thing and that is that the city receives unsolicited proposals that we did not solicit we did not ask people to submit they do submit you mentioned two years ago rise submitted uh this submitted so I don't see it noted on this agenda item but I I will be asking staff to formalize our policy on unsolicited proposals so everyone knows how they'll be handled but it's a it's an important area and one we need more clarity about so everybody understands the ground rules thank you lisis mcgreal followed by Nicole Anna gaposis followed by Bill shrimp hello and good morning Council my name is Lis McGrill for the record and I want to start by thanking you for agendized Center in item D5 I'm happy to see that we are talking about about this however I and the other Advocates here are not happy about the proposal itself or the process or lack of process that's taken to get here so we are in strong opposition to D5 now you've heard from others about the background of the facility and why we're unhappy with the current deal being proposed my comment is to establish our request on how the city should be moving forward instead first and foremost we simply deserve a formal process for public input on the cac's future we've been promised formal discussions and as far as I know nothing has com come through now we're finding out that City staff have been working on a deal since at least J July of 2023 without letting the public know I know that there is a policy of allowing unsolicited proposals to come forward however the emails seem to show that there has been a lot of direct communication with City staff in regards to putting a deal together which to me strikes as more than just unsolicited but rather an ongoing discussion happening behind closed doors the current deal is a complete ripoff it's a lowball offer and it utterly fails to meet the transitional supportive and lwi income housing needs of our community and to be honest the lack of public process in regards to the CAC has been beyond frustrating to witness I saw a Reno Gazette Journal article that came out this morning where our dear mayor who is not here today was unhappy that the community was bringing too much quote dangerous and distracting outside Noise We happen to find that the real danger is an utter lack of transparency and giving private developers sweetheart deals on City properties that are worth millions of dollars I think the actual distract here is gaslighting US into thinking we don't have a right to say something about it with the exception of Jenny breus who has been a great Champion for this issue you can't just sweep the CAC under the rug and you can't wash your hands of it we're simply asking that it be agendized and that the community gets input on what should be done we're also asking that a formal RFP or RFI be put out for this possible sale and future use this would let everyone have an equal chance at putting together proposals ensures equal access to information about the building in the site and lets us have buy into the process after all the city requires rfps for things like fitness equipment at the Moana pool or a video display board at the Event Center or to have artists paint electrical boxes if things of that severity to say not serious at all require an RFP why don't we have one for a multi-million dollar publicly invested shelter to be honest it feels like a slap in the face I also want to Echo attention to NRS 268063 an identical language in the city code saying that the city has to adopt a resolution justifying a private sale of public property as being in the Public's best interest if the city does not pass such a resolution it's my understanding that accepting the offer on the table today would be unlawful and that there would be probably some amount of legal retribution or reaction if they were to accept the offer today we've been asking for months if not years about some action on this issue our request for public engagement here is not only fair but legally necessary so please do not accept the offer put out an RFP and agendize substantial discussions on this facility's future all right thank you Lewis and um I can assure you the council's not going to be taking any unlawful actions I can just give you that thank you for being here if you're gonna Madam if you're going to editorialize on each comment I'm going to editorialize and ask why my letter to you went ignored asking asking of September 29th notifying you that I wanted it discussion on the on the CAC on the agenda me yes you received that you were doing that well thank you I don't set the agenda but I appreciate that discuss okay so Madame clerk Nicole anagapesis followed by Bill shrimp followed by Jeff fredman hi my name is Nicole anagapesis and I'm an organizer with family soup Mutual Aid and I gotta say the tea is piping hot at city council right now this is insane it's like watching us sitcomm anyway um I'm not going to stand here in wax poetic today about the pattern of irresponsibility that the city has shown in its stewardship of the CAC properties the simple fact is is if the city accepts its offer from bash Capital it will be in violation of existing Nevada statute 268063 I hope I got that right um let's see here uh frankly I don't think that the proposal by bash is in the best interest of the public uh its people or the Myriad of created and forward-thinking problem solvers who could have the opportunity to continue the legacy of these properties in fulfilling their original purposes and int itions um I do believe that a lot of folks would agree with me but then again I could be wrong but the fact of the matter is is I don't know and you guys don't know because we haven't had Frank discussions about it um I'm uh requesting that there's an open Forum made in transparency with the intent to inform the people in the community whose future will be directly impacted by any decisions that could possibly be made for today uh we are asking city council to agendize a community discussion on the CAC and open a request for proposal so that other offers can be considered before it is decided what happens with this vital resource um as well in response uh to the proposal from bash Capital utilizing 51% of these uh possible affordable housing units to 80% of the Ami um I'm a person who that project would directly benefit I make about 20 to $25 an hour and though I do believe that there are kind of few and far between options as far as housing for people like me we're ignoring that there is a significantly greater need for other peoples who are below my tax bracket right so I am uh basically directly asking that we no longer continue the cycle that keeps lowincome people in situations of desperation and poverty that we don't continue to um incentivize out ofate real estate developers to gentrify our neighborhoods frankly what we're doing is we're keeping women families disabled people and Veterans on the street people that can't afford to live here they can't afford to move either and where are they going to end up at the car's campus that's already full no they're going to end up on our streets and guess who's not going to want to buy real estate and Reena if there's a bunch of people living on the streets more developers right so this is a long-standing issue we've been actively trying to have this conversation for years now and it seems frankly disingenuous for bash Capital to say that this is affordable housing to anybody it's just not we can do better than this and I would like to see an opportunity for other people to have proposals on this particular bunch of properties so um yeah just do a better job all right thanks thanks Nicole Bill shrimp followed by Jeff fredman followed by Kim Maples well uh good morning um what I have to talk about is small in regards to what everybody else is bringing up but uh I want to say something positive um and specifically um on Sunday I put in a little thing for a pothole to be fixed and by Tuesday afternoon it was fix so Mr Thornley I don't know who does that but if you would please tell somebody who ever actually does that like somebody says keep up a good job on the heels of that here's another opportunity to do more good work okay this is a notice that typically Property Owners receive and this has to do with engagement in the public process and I want to remind the council that when this country was first founded the only people that were allowed to participate in the public process were people who owned property that's it these notices go to people who own property they do not go to people who rent whether you're renting your business or you're renting your home if your neighbor is doing something that changes the character of the aspect of your neighborhood and you rent you don't get this notice that it's happening I want you to notice that the first notice here is the neighborhood Advisory Board the neighborhood advisory boards are really part of the public process it's the first step to really have people sit down and have a conversation change emails change phone numbers and say hey here's what's going on here's my point of view by the time the big yellow sign goes up by the time it gets to the Planning Commission the ship's pretty much sailed right so tell renters they are worth a cheap piece of paper and a 40 cent stamp they are not second class citizens this is an easy fix we have everything we need in the city to to turn this on and to manage it and to measure it this is an easy win we can do this very easily this is the third time I've talked about this in public comment and I've emailed every single one of you and had some lengthier conversations about this this is so easy Madame vice mayor Mr manager please let the people who rent their businesses who rent their homes know that they're worth a small piece of paper and a stamp thank you for being here thank you for doing the job all right thanks Bill very much all right Jeff fredman followed by Kim Maples followed by Tara Webster [Applause] good morning Council my name is Jeff fredman and I've been a resident in Reno in Somerset for 11 years um I purchased another house in October 2023 from Toll Brothers in the somerset Village 6C known as The Cliffs I became aware of an issue with nine common areas that the grading plan says private to be maintained by Somerset Owners Association I've not seen in the plans or specifications defining how these areas are to be improved by the Builder or developer prior to be handing over to the homeowners association I've been informed in written communication by the president of the somerset Owners Association board of directors that the plans and specifications call for these common areas to be seated irrigated and returned to Native vegetation the developer apparently did not communicate adequately with the somerset Owners Association and instead chose to survey some of the residents I did not receive a survey apparently based on these survey results the developer chose to rock these areas and not follow the original plans and specifications granted with the permit the property that I own is a fill lot with 14 ft of fill that backs right up to peine Mountain the rear of my property immediately slopes down to a very steep grade to a Swale that drains several Lots into a large storm drain pipe the Swale has been compromised by drainage that was not on that was on the grading plan that was not constructed and fines have block the soil from draining the City of Reno the county of Washo have come out and inspected the site seen the block SW and confirm that this is an issue that needs to be remediated and addressed the storm water is ponding and directly draining underneath my lot underneath the street that I am based on as well this raises the potential for compaction of soil to be compromised I've been attempting to communicate with the developer about this issue for 10 weeks one of their employees has written to me and put in writing that they in incorrectly verbally informed me that the maintenance of the Swale was responsibility of the S SOA and the employee passed along the name of a executive and email address to address the issue too I did and have not had any response all right thank you for for being here Jeff I appreciate it Kim Maples followed by Tara Webster followed by Vera Miller hello um I'm Kim Maples um thank you guys so much for allowing the public to come and talk to you all never done this before I'm a little nervous yeah um deep breaths okay I am also here on behalf of hundreds of Toll Brothers the Cliff's residents and thousands of Somerset residents who are unable to attend today I move my family and I moved to Reno for the wonderful Community the closest to Nature and for the Cliff's dream home that was advertised to our family by the Toll Brothers of which I still love but um we I have noticed that the hillside is eroding and and in discussion with the other residents you know estimates that have been discussed by people who are way more knowledgeable on the topic than myself are upwards of 10 to 15,000 per resident for remediation which was shocking to me which prompted my attendance here today um as the expense would be very hard to um handle for a lot of the residents and my household included so I'm here on a personal level to ask the uh on behalf of the cff residents who have spoken up previously on the same topic um just to show consensus and support so I guess my res my request um and ask of you all thank you would be to please hold Toll Brothers accountable for erosion control and common area efforts that don't release and don't release more bonds until they fulfilled their commitments to revegetate the Cliff's hillsides to natural habitat with vegetation that includes native species such as Sage Brush and rabbit brush because um we have received com Communications for them saying well we left it alone and it's natural vegetation which in turn equates to cheat grass which is also very flammable right next to our houses so they consider that natural vegetation but we all know in Reno right it's the lovely Sage it's the rabbit brush it's all of that stuff that is what we consider and should be in those areas really providing the erosion control needed uh versus uh large swats of she of CH grass which is there now so anyways thank you all right thanks for being here terara Webster followed by verah Miller followed by Skyler Dart via Zoom hello Council uh tar Webster for the record w 5 I am here today to express my strong opposition to item D5 the proposed proposed sale of the community Assistance Center to bash Capital uh for Market below market value bash capital is proposed to build attainable housing offered 80% Ami to Tesla employees for Tesla employees this doesn't free up urgent housing for minimum wage workers families women and those experiencing or near homelessness our community has begged for years to rehab the CAC to provide transitional housing for those who are in need ultimately this proposed housing isn't attainable for most most of our low-income neighbors many whom all live downtown I'm here to ask that Council opens up a path for transparency and not rush into this deal with bash Capital please stop this back alley deal open this up for an RFP and consider opening the future of the CAC up to community conversation thank you for your time all right thanks Tara Vera Miller followed by Skyler Dart via Zoom did ver leave Skyler Dart via Zoom oh there's Vera thank you for waiting my name is Vera I'm from uh W one um I'm here to ask that we agendize the things that we're asking to agendize but also to agendize the ceasefire and The Siege res resolution which has been emailed to y'all oh sorry I was one in the last time I was here uh someone from Green Peace scoffed and asked a seemingly roral question what does Palestine have to do with anything here 3 minutes will never be enough time to lay out the human rights atrocities Beyond imagination happening right now let alone explaining to you exactly how it is deeply connected to Reno as well as environmental justice and housing Justice I could explain the that billions of tons of bombs dropped on a space the sides of Manhattan what that does to a water table to our ozone layer but maybe it would be more effective for me to stand here and just stop uncontrolling for 3 minutes or play the devastating screams and pleas of people just before they are shot and bombed to death there is 6 months worth of daily stories like to this but I think of Hinn's story today I think about 5-year-old baby Hinn's final words often as I wake up and as I go to sleep the voice recording playing on a loop her and her family were surrounded by tanks hiding in a car they were calling the red crescent to come evacuate them to save them this phone pH call was recorded and in the recording we hear Israel Israeli tank gunfire as a woman is begging on the phone for evacuation she screams then abruptly nothing next to her family member 5-year-old hind picks up the phone she's surrounded by her dead family members in this shut up car she asks if someone will come get her that she's scared imagine being 5 years old Afraid of the Dark begging someone to come get her begging to be got what happened to hin a clearly marked ambulance does reach her about 10 ft away from each other 2 weeks later people find the bomb and clearly marked ambulance next to Hinn's body Council the biggest thing I'd like to explain to you with all the Care and Grace in the world is it's okay to be wrong it's okay to make a mistake and I'm not talking about Israel's intentional shooting execution and bombing of a 5-year-old child and medical staff that's evil and on purpose what is a mistake is to not acknowledge what's happening in pal as a genocide it's a mistake to keep funding entities that fund genocide it's a mistake to not take action right now I am here to make sure that when people look back on history that Reno knows that we gave you the opportunity to make the right choices I hope that when we look back on this time we can say see that you made the right decision listen to the community you are supposed to represent and agendize the things that people are begging you to agendize thank you very much all right thank you very much Vera Skyler start via Zoom all right and Madam clerk um how many people are signed up on Zoom just this one oh just one okay all right I just wanted to give um the audience uh understanding of the progression of events today um around 12:00 we'll be taking a break um it depends on when uh where we hit on the agenda items or where we are in the consent and uh just we'll have been here about two hours so I just wanted to let you know so you can prepare for that okay keep going and will you show them on the monitor okay oh hi there can you all hear me we can please state your name and begin speaking sorry if I'm a little nervous first time speaking at something like this uh my name is Skyler I was born here at was Medical Center in 1997 and I've spent 20 years here I'm really glad to see people showing up to talk about the community Assistance Center item D5 um I work in affordable housing and 20 seconds into reading the proposal I knew it was a terrible deal so uh I'd like to agree with what everyone has said before that what Reno really needs is deep income targeting 30 40 50 60% of Ami I am in the 80% Ami bracket and uh like the woman in the black hat said I do have options would it be great if if there were more options absolutely Everyone likes options but if you're considering an urgent housing need and what to do with a building that formerly was used to help people who literally have nothing uh I think that's what should be done with with the cic and I think it would be great to uh so listen more input from the community and from more developers than just this random person who who appeared on your radar uh back in July or recently I don't know which one it actually was um the other thing I'd like to say is that on the zoom I I understand that maybe some of the Apparently absent council members are viewing via Zoom we can't see what people are showing on the overhead projector so I don't really understand I I was going through the schedule meetings happen every two weeks like I think maybe there have been three variations I counted in the last 6 months where it was maybe an off week how is the city council not entirely present and the people who are viewing it from Zoom can't even see the documents that people are showing I think that's kind of pathetic and I think that the energy that I'm getting is that you all are up there not really caring about what we have to say and not really showing up for us or as in right now talking amongst yourselves instead of listening to somebody in your community who's try trying to speak to you about what I see so uh thank you to the council member perhaps singular who seems to actually listen and um I can't wait for the rest of you to be out of office thank you all right thank you sir um and then Madam clerk was that that it then oh Frank we do have one more Frank shank via Zoom okay Frank if you can unmute yourself and begin [Music] speaking Madame vice mayor his hand is raised we have not had any audible or responsiveness from him at this time if we're able to get him through we'll put him on the next one so at this time I would just like to State for the record that we did receive 20 comments which were General in nature are not directly associated with an agenda item prior to four p.m. on April 9th 2024 these comments were voicemail and or written correspondence received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office copies of these have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available to the public on reno.gov meetings two letters in favor four letters in opposition and 14 letters of concerned and with that we have no additional public comment we're moving on to item A4 approval of the agenda all right so I'm looking for uh information from Mr Thornley about the agenda the only information I have is that items D3 and D4 Delta 3 Delta 4 um we'd like to set those for a Time certain at 1:00 okay 1 p.m. or as soon thereafter as we can um let me just see and could you say what those items are so people know of course so item D3 is uh the downtown Reno Partnerships business business Improvement District's operating plan and budget and annual assessment adjustment and item D4 is the resolution to set the date time and place for the business Improvement District's assessment role hearing okay um very good let me just take a moment and make a note I'd like to be um yeah acknowledge um I'm having a a challenge adopting this agenda with D5 on okay this is a letter of uh inquiry from the spash capital and the narrative that you said is you know we have a process whoever you know puts on a solicitation they ask for it no I said we need to define the process okay we do need to Define but as it is defined is it's on our agenda that item jumped ahead of my request of September 29th that was given to all of you and to the manager for a general discussion on what to do with the CAC and pursuing to these procedures so the only reason that did not go into the agenda onto the agenda because I have the privilege of that okay the process is clear for that one I have the privilege of having items on the agenda is it was an objection by the city manager or the mayor to my reading so I think an explanation is known why my request did not go and why this group got to come on the same topic okay that's that's not right I won't support an agenda that you know does that that jumps a member duy elected to have a discussion here on a topic over someone else's proposal that now I've learned has been in discussion with sta since July of 23 okay so um I'm troubled by that and when bash reached out to me I said look I'm not going to meet with you it's not even fair to them to get come up here and be bashed by the community because of our mismanagement of the agenda here which is in the manager and the mayor's office so I am going to ask that and if you will take a motion you'll take a motion that we pull off D5 today I don't even think it's it's you know I have a little sympathy for bash because I think they're being Mis misled that we pull off D5 and that we do what we should have done with our process is give a member of the body an opportunity to have an agenda item on and that is an open discussion about the CAC so I am not going to support an agenda that has D5 as it's written I want to talk about the CAC but I want to talk about it in the context of process and ideas and not a transactional item which is what staff has brought to us okay all right um and then uh let me ask Mr manager you said uh D3 and D4 you wanted around 1: p.m. we've had a request to remove item D5 um and is are there was that you Mr ree online uh vice mayor that was mayor Shi yeah okay vice mayor mayor shibi hi um couple of things I would like to know if we can obviously have this discussion and I just want to be very clear I don't think that council member is wrong and the reason I brought this forward is because there were discussions and I was told when someone brings forward um an interest that we have to entertain that so for transparency reasons is why I was letting this on the agenda because I don't I think that the council member is correct in that I think the process is flawed um I have not had conversations with them other than yesterday and I thought and I told them directly I thought this is sort of a disservice um to the council to the community and to them um because we did ask for a process and but I wanted to have the conversation left on there out of transparency so everyone would know um what had been brought to staff so I just want to be clear this is the very reason I wanted it on there for complete transparency and as we know a lot of times things can end up on the agenda and the council doesn't necessarily feel that way but I think it is a disservice if we don't bring it forward so the community can weigh in whatever capacity it shows up on an agenda but I I agree um you know partially with councilwoman in the sense that um it shouldn't be heard but I think in full transparency it should be so people can weigh in I think we're doing it backwards and that's problem IC um but I I want everyone to understand that's why I brought it Forward because I wanted people to have a voice regardless of whatever the outcome is um I I think you know the council is very very sympathetic to what the community needs are um so I that that's why I had it on there no other reason to be like hey you know this is the route we're going I thought this was a way to be able to express the concerns of the council and to go back and say what is the process because I know councilwoman de's been concerned um you know the other council member breus and that's exactly why I kept it on here so we could have the discussion uh for no other reason but out of transparency and to have the community come down and weigh in so that's that was my thought behind it uh do I think it was done backwards absolutely but here we are and I wanted to uh because there were disc discussions like I said I haven't been in those um that is why I wanted it to remain on the agenda I hope that gives some background yeah thank you Madame mayor let me ask you one more question though um in terms of approving the agenda do you want it to retain remain on the agenda so that there can be discussion or would you rather have it pulled off I mean I can go either way but I think it's a disservice and it might be a good time that's why I was asking about our attorneys to talk about what it does look like because I don't think that again and I think the council member BR has even mentioned that it's not fair for their time or anyone else but if this is the way that we can get to what the process is going to look like um you know and also I'm sure that that if they're here I don't know bash Capital if they're here or not uh you know if they want to present what they you know brought forward that's fine too if you don't want to have the discussion I think we should have the discussion because I think that we need to clarify what it looks like moving forward that's just my sense right I want to be supportive of what you know council member breus would like to do as well I guess my fear is is if we don't have the discussion how will we know what direction we need to even go in right so you know but I'll be you know I'll support whatever you know the majority of the body wants to do my thought okay thank you I'll just weigh in myself um I was very concerned when I saw this on the agenda as our staff know because it was an unsolicited process and to council member breus this point we haven't had uh open discussion about it and it's important public building in the public ownership so um I'm inclined because the people are here to have the conversation and hear from them we've already heard a lot in public comment but I'm sure there's more to be heard during the item itself plus I would like to hear um and give direction to staff on what we would like to see for next steps and that may very well include a different kind of Workshop so I'd like the opportunity as a council member to weigh in on process myself so that's just some of my thoughts but I am looking for a motion to either approve or amend the agenda Madam VI motion to approve the agenda wait who who was speaking on the line I'll second motion okay Miss Taylor were you making a motion I'm sorry yes Madam vice mayor to approve the agenda the time certain changes changes okay and you were seconding Mr ree yes Madam Vice may I think that we've got a very full audience I want to make sure if there are audience members for a particular agenda item that they can move some of our other um you know routine items so I that would my only request um is that if there are folks that Miss maybe our clerk can tell us who is here for what items and that would help us to prioritize certain of the items but I'll I I've seconded Miss Taylor's excellent motion and we'll see what happens in the consent items going forward that we could move people up so what you're saying is we could potentially move this up given that there's so many people after we address the consent agenda well I'm saying any item for which there are people in the audience I I want able to have the most access and I know that there are people who are working today that don't have ability to sit through some of the theater going on and so I would like them to be able to speak sure okay well a lot I've spoken and a lot still to speak so let me ask is there uh did you have a comment on the motion Miss breus I'm not going to vote onor I'm not going to vote on the motion because I think the statements that you just said to discuss the process and give direction are not contemplated in I they are possible direction to St I think it's a letter in response to the ba in response to the letter that bash is done so that's the starting ground is the letter and the questions only before us or do we go into an agreement with them do we obtain an appraisal with them do we do some boundary line to discussion you know those are the only options we have you know we the RFP um you know I've asked for months to get in the building I don't know if bash was given an opportunity in the building um I don't see anything other than just having bash out here okay and yay or nay on that so so okay and then let me ask our attorneys just since you've raised the question um the the agenda item is titled presentation discussion and direction to staff on potential disposition which I assume means potential non disposition of the community Assistance Center so will you keep us on track I mean can we discuss this proposal and all its ramifications or not yes you can okay we can have a full discussion on this proposal or any related proposal okay thank you so it sounds like it is properly agendized for a discussion okay with that um I have a motion and a oh did you have a comment I'm sorry see you over here com so I I have issues with keeping it on the agenda as well and particularly because we had a council member that asked it to come to council and there's a process there and I with respect to everyone here I know it's important that you're here it's obviously important to everyone so I don't understand why um it wasn't prioritized when it council member asked to have it brought forth um I think we could have had this discussion when council member Reus asked it to be agendized and we wouldn't be talking about it um under the same context we wouldn't be wasting people's time you know if we decide today that this is not the way we want to move forward with it and we we have ideas other ideas we could be in a place where we were actually making a decision today versus you know just talking about things you know had we um had this on the agenda previously and had Community feedback before we were um we came to the process we were we were were having discussions about selling the property so uh I don't I don't support keeping on the agenda today until we have more um Community feedback in uh Direction okay so excuse me okay so we have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the agenda as is along with the time certain uh all in favor please say I I I I okay and uh all mayor yes I I just think if we don't hear it that we are doing a disservice and then how long does it take to come back I think we should recognize the community comments um and there isn't a process so I want to be clear because there was just stated that you know there's a process and that's why I think we should have this discussion I think if we vote not to I think that is problematic and to me you know I heard the community loud and clear they want to know what it is they to know process I think out of transparency and that's why I will support it because I think we should have this discussion today um otherwise we're going to kick down uh the can down the road um so I want to be supportive in order so we can give direction and it sounds like from our city attorneys I want to reiterate that we can uh do that the way it's agendized okay correct okay gotcha so I'm sorry I missed your comment before I called the vote so thank you for that so um I again I'm going to ask for all those in favor of the I have another question excuse me we have more I just a question so will this discussion include the process for getting something agendized as a council person because that's part of my complaint here is that that this was requested to be an a agendized item prior to this and it didn't happen so that's that's the main problem I have with bringing it um on the agenda today gotcha okay I'm sure you can comment on process that's why I want it to be on the agenda okay are there any other council members that would like to make a comment before I call the vote anyone online all right all in favor please say I I I I any opposed opposed okay so motion passes 52 we will have the item on discussion today um and we'll take it from there all right um we're going to move on to the consent agenda and item A5 approval of the minutes for March apologize apologize apologize okay let me go back in my order thank you approval of the minutes we're looking for a motion to uh consider the Reno City Council meetings minutes from March 13 2024 um I'd like to hear a motion motion to approve Mr Martinez second Miss Taylor are there any comments am am commendations on the minutes all right all in favor please say I I I any opposed all right motion passes unanimously we're going to go on to the consent agenda and let me explain what I like given the hour and the fact that we haven't had a break um what I'd like to do is go through the agenda find out which items we want to pull um approve consider the remainder items and then take a a short break for everyone in the audience and all of us and then come back and start on the items that were pulled unless we I will have the clerk um poll um in fact I may PLL are there well let's see what's pulled and then we'll go from there so um opening the consent agenda and I'm just going to go in um Ward order I think today or I'll start with council member breus I'll just come down nothing to pull off the agenda and Madam vice mayor if I might you you do have public comment on the beat items so just before you take a motion to yeah let's see what's remains and what's pulled um I'm going to go through them on word order so on two um I had an item which was um B13 which was about the Moana art okay so w three Mr Martinez nothing for you no thanks okay W four m B9 B10 b11 and B13 B9 B10 B1 and B13 okay and then um W five no Madam vice mayor thank you none okay and then at large Mr Reese nothing for you Madame mayor did you have anything to pull okay nothing all right thank you so just to recap I'm going to go over over these items and please correct me if I missed something I have B9 B10 b11 and B13 to be pulled okay all right uh I'm looking for a motion on the remainder items on the agenda so M vice mayor can we we need to take public comment before before the motion okay very good let's call up the public comment thank you and this should be on just to keep keep folks straight I recommend it's on the action we're about to take which is to approve or deny the rest of the items that's what I would recomend our first public commenter is Oscar Delgado followed by Travis Walker followed by Laura Vargas okay all right all right council member Delgado welcome time we're here for item B1 if you wanted to move forward yes okay that would be fine well we only have one comment period for consent okay so but I appreciate that but let me ask we do have comment period on pulled items no no we don't we only do one comment period for consent agenda well then bring it on I I it was my understanding we have a comment on each of the pulled items so okay but thank you Madame uh mayor who's not here listening to us on Zoom council members city manager and of course the city Reno team great to see all of you um again my name is Oscar Delgato I'm the CEO of Community Health Alliance I'm here today to support I'm here today to provide my hopefully support of B item B10 the community around NE road is one in very dear to my heart there was a time when I was a young boy where I actually lived in the neighborhood and as many of you know I represented those neighborhoods for 10 years blessed when I was in the city council and I'm incredibly lucky to now continue that work as a CEO of community Heth lines I'm a parent just like many of all of you and nothing means more to me and I'm sure nothing means more to you than when your kids are sick that you could provide a safe place for them to get Healthcare imagine that you're that parent with a sick child you don't have health insurance and if you have Medicaid you don't have anywhere to take them because they don't accept the coverage what do you do do you write it out stay home from work hopefully you get pay time off do you go take them to the ER which of course we've been told time and time again don't take your folks to the ER because it plugs up the system Etc do you Google doc jump online and see what can I do to save money before we know the bills start piling on the simple answer is you take them to Cha we provide outstanding Health Care to everyone regardless of their ability to pay or their insurance status and the Health Center on Neil Road has been doing that for more than 20 years first under the banner of St Mary's and now as cha the problem that we're currently that's taking place on NE road is that we're at capacity so those who have been able to take a t understand that we have and utilizing every square inch of NE Road as we speak we serve nearly 4,000 patients a year and it's difficult to get new patients in and then that's where we see an opportunity to expand those Services last year the Council made the wonderful decision to help the ne neighborhood by allocating arpa funds to a building that the city owns that would allow cha to provide Primary Care to an additional 3,600 patients open a prescription food pantry begin offering Behavioral Health Services and also start a pharmacy this expansion and these new service lines are desperately needed as many of you all know and NADA has some of the worst access to primary medical and Behavioral Health Care as we all know and we also know that this is most typically is done is happens unfortunately to communities of color which we all know that's what NE Road is the Neil Road Health Center means a lot to so many some of those people are here today of course and some have to leave unfortunately because like many of the people in the community they have to go to work my hope is that all of you will keep your commitment and supporting not only them but also the community and I thank you for your time thank you thank you thank you so much for being here um council member really appreciate it thank you Travis Walker followed by Laura Vargas uh Madame mayor and Reno City Council Members thank you for your time uh my name is Dr Travis Walker and I serve as the chief medical officer for Community Health Alliance I am a family physician by training uh and a resident of War II um and I'm here to support item B10 I stand before you today to really just extend my deepest gratitude for the city of Reno's strategic foresight in unwavering commitment for Health Equity this decision to allocate $5 million from arpa funding uh for the expansion of the NJ Redfield uh Health Center on Neil Road is really a Monumental step uh toward our shared mission to care for our community uh for those who don't know this Health Center has served Reno citizens as Dr or Oscar Delgado uh mentioned uh for decades and we've been able to take on that mantle of caraker uh since 2012 uh this Center represents the epitome of we at Cha what we at Cha strive to achieve providing Quality healthc Care regardless of RA age race gender sexual orientation ability but moreover the increasingly difficult task of providing Health Care regardless of economic status and income the impact that this Health Center has on public health cannot be overstated data clearly shows that Health Centers like ours significantly reduced health care costs by focusing on preventative care and the management of chronic conditions we reduce the need for expensive emergency room visits and hospitalizations and avoid untimely reactive care in favor of quality proactive care not many people realize either that generations of medical providers uh have also benefited from the city of Reno's foresight to utilize this space as a community clinic I remember being a medical student rotating with Dr Jason Crawford at Neil Road when St Mary's was the tenant countless other medical students physician assistant students nurse practitioner students have passed through NE uh the Neil Road Clinic adding to our shared Mission we aim to continue this tradition of serving and training uh established by our predecessors and address the health needs but also build the base of medical providers that our community needs from growing up as a Reno native to now being able to serve my hometown as a physician and leader I'm proud to know that together we can ensure that your support yields the maximum benefits for the health and well-being of all Reno residents this inv investment stands as a commendable example of visionary leadership from previous City councils through you guys and the ongoing commitment to a healthier and more Equitable city thank you for your time okay thank you Doctor appreciate you being here Laura Vargas followed by Michael Johnson good morning my name is Laura Vargas and I reside in Reno Nevada Ward five I'm currently employed as the grants development director for Community Health Alliance and I'd like to speak to consent agend item number B10 between 1986 and 1996 I was employed by the City of Reno as a community development planner in early 1990 the city began its neighborhood planning program and the Neil Road neighborhood was one of the neighborhoods I was assigned to devel develop a plan for I was at the table with other community Representatives when the concept for the construction of a park and surrounding service facilities came to be the intent at that time was to provide much needed Human Resource Services to lower income families residing in a high density low service area working in partnership with the county and community- based organizations the city made a commitment to the residents of the Neil Road neighborhood to bring the concept to fruition the needs of those residing in the immediate Neil Road neighborhood as well as the general 89502 area have not changed families still need access to healthcare and healthcare related services and Cha has the proven and - tested ability to provide that the planned expansion of the cha Health Center will include additional exam rooms access to Behavioral Health Services a prescription Food Pantry in a pharmacy this expansion will provide more space for additional Health Service Providers and serve an additional 3600 unduplicated patients annually support for this expansion honors the original intention Community Partnerships and commitment made by the city to ensure access to services for residents in the Neil Road neighborhood this is an opportunity to recommit to an investment that has and will continue to have a longterm positive impact and benefit for residents of Reno thank you Michael Johnson followed by Alexis Adams good afternoon Madame mayor Madame vice mayor City Council Members employees of City of Reno my name is Michael Johnson and I'm a board member of Community Health Alliance Foundation I've been with that foundation for 12 years in its existence and prior to that I was a chief operating officer for Community Health Alliance had the responsibility for operating that Neil Rogue Clinic prior to that I was a vice president at St Mary's Regional Medical Center which op operated those clinics on Neil Road and I want to also correct the record in that that clinic has been in operation since the mid90s when on the corner of pekham Lane in Neil Road a Maternal Child Midwife program was established by St Mary's to serve that specific Community I make this point simply because with that kind of track record over all these years of serving that many patients it's a remarkable investment in that Community if makes perfect sense to extend that especially since it is the property of of Reno Nevada my career has been in healthcare and I can tell you with operating Hospital Services community- based clinics the big emphasis needs to be in shifting that burden of care into the community it is the most cost-effective way to do it this concept that cha puts forth in its other operating clinics and proposes for this Clinic is really ground shaking can you imagine seeing a primary care clinic uh professional such as Dr Travis Walker that is accessible it's affordable you're able to get an appointment but with that service you have bundled with that a prescription Pharmacy that is lowcost prescription medications right inside the facility as well as you have Behavioral Health offered now it's a unique opportunity to provide Behavioral Health in a world that is struggling to meet those kinds of service needs I'm a patient of CHA and when you are a patient there your physician does a hot handoff where they bring in a behavioral health specialist right into the exam room to meet with you to start that relationship besides that you get a prescription for food that is necessary for your care not just food but prescribed food that is beneficial in a therapeutic way you have Wick Services you have immunization Services all Under One Roof so for Working Families can you imagine what that saves and them in commun and transportation costs in time and being able to get the kind of services that are bundled around them in an affordable way I urge you to continue your commitment to this particular project because it makes good sense it's a good value for what you have you can see by the people here in support they're actually employees that were from that original clinic in the mid90s that are here that are a testament to the kind of services that they believe in so I thank you for your time I thank you for your past investment and I urge you to consider additional thank you very much thank you very much Mike appreciate it Alexis Adams followed by jacine Maloney jacqulyn Maloney followed by Mana Fernandez right good afternoon Madame mayor and reto city council members and vice mayor my name is Jaclyn Maloney and I currently am the development director for Community Health Alliance I am also the director of Our Community Health Alliance Foundation board I am here supporting item B10 today this is an amazing project that has the potential to do so much for the Neil Road neighborhood as you know the Neil Road neighborhood has historically been one of the most underserved neighborhoods in Reno the council should be commended for choosing to use arpa fund to address Health Equity this expansion will allow cha to serve thousands more patients at our Neil Road Center through the expansion of primary care the addition of Behavioral Health the addition of a prescription food pantry as well as the addition of a pharmacy cha has quite a bit of experience over the last three and a half years with expansion we raised 1.5 million to complete the expansion of our Sparks Health Center in June of 2021 and we raised an additional 2.5 million to complete the relocation and expansion of our Sun Valley Health Center in August of 2022 we feel like we've become pretty Adept at the process as well as the costs associated with these types of projects while we are very confident that the cost of the proposed expansion at the Neil Road will land around 4.5 million we know that we can raise whatever additional funds may be needed to see the project through to completion we've had several discussions with some of our biggest supporters and they are incredibly excited about this project this expansion will provide more health care and Behavioral Health Access to some of our most vulnerable citizens and it'll have a positive impact on health outcomes in this area that's a pretty easy thing to get behind yeah again thank you for the time to speak with you today and thank you for for your commitment to the Neil Road neighborhood right thanks Jacqueline Maria Fernandez followed by Victor Salo hi for the record Maria Fernandez uh good afternoon thank you for having me uh my name is Maria Fernandez I'm a family physician and medical director at Community Health Alliance um and I'm here to speak on advocating for the Neil Road expansion you could say that I'm very biased in this as I practice Family Medicine at Neil Road and so I take care of these patients every single day I see newborns all the way to elderly patients insured uninsured uh poorly insured and so um I can speak first and foremost about about uh what I see every day um the the clinic is located it's embedded in the community um so most the majority of the patients walk to to see me they bring all of their family members they live at the local apartment complexes or they live in the houses nearby and so um it's truly the definition of Public Health that we are meeting the people where they are this expansion would be revolutionary for that uh Community we would be able to provide uh more providers access to more to seeing more patients 3,600 as they mentioned Behavioral Health we know there's a a behavioral health Mental Health crisis here in Nevada um as well as food pantry for my diabetics I would be able to get them access to foods that are good you know when they have diabetes for my patients with heart disease I could get them heart healthy options and then what I'm most excited about is I could um send them over to the pharmacy and a lot of the times when my patients come they say I wasn't able to get to the pharmacy I had Transportation issues I had difficulty getting my medications the medications were cost prohibitive we would be able to avoid all those barriers to care um which actually worsen Health outcomes um and then the last thing I'll say is that a lot of times these community members these kiddos that we've seen over the years as they mentioned they actually come back and work for Community Health Alliance they um become front office staff or they they kind of come back and serve and work with our with our organization um I have a patient someone who was a patient of mine who lives in the local community who goes to UNR is in Pre is Premed and she comes and shadows me and so it's kind of incredible to see this cycle of being able to both serve the community and then also Empower them so I uh welcome you to come spend time with me at Neil Road if you want to uh see this Gem of a clinic as I love working there and I hope that you consider this thank you all right thank you Victor Salo followed by Osvaldo Jimenez es estaa good afternoon Madame mayor M vice mayor members of the council uh for the record my name is Victor saledo with Community Health Alliance as you've already seen and heard um we have a number of supporters here who will happily talk to you about the impact that cha has on this particular Comm community and the excitement of what bringing L new lines of desperately needed services to Neil Road will mean to those neighborhoods I wanted uh to take a little time to address a specific concern that I know maybe some of you may have which is our Collective ability to meet deadlines from the federal government for these funds when the council voted to support this project on March 8 2023 I was the one on the Community Health Alliance team that reached out to the city staff that very next week asking for a meeting to get the ball rolling on this we had that meeting and things got off to a great start after that meeting Community Health Alliance took it upon itself to conduct its due diligence on finding the right design firm for our project our team uh with our through with our own expenses flew flew down to San Diego to meet and tour with an architect that specializes and maximizing space working specifically in the healthc care sector and federally qualified Health Centers such as ours after some time of seeing if that was a good fit we ultimately decided that having a local firm with a tremendous reputation was the best way to move forward that was tonics working hand inhand with City staff through November and December it is our understanding that tonics provided staff with the required conceptual documents on December 20th 2023 at that time the goal was to get on the agenda for the January meeting after some modifications and edits we were told on February 7th that it was ready to be presented to council we were then told it would be on the agenda for March 13th then we were told it was delayed until March 27th here we are now on MAR April 10th now the important thing of where we are now is this tonics is here because they believe they can get this project completed by the deadlines they would not be here otherwise they understand the deadline and they believe it is still possible and considering the need of those in this community that we are trying to help I believe we owe it to them to do everything in our power to bring this to fruition I ask you to please support this project and help bring those desperately needed services to Neil Road I'll also add that at our last meeting City staff agreed with Titanics and with cha that this was still possible um so again I I thank you for your time I thank you for your consideration and commitment to this neighborhood and to bring these desperately needed services to them and I also thank you for your public service and serving in these roles thank you so much thank you Victor appreciated that Osvaldo Jimenez estaa followed by Carolina [Music] Martinez hello Madam mayor city council uh my name is zaldo Jimenez estupinan I'm a small business owner and I also work at UNR as director of Hispanic latinx community relations I'm from Reno and maybe just like a lot of people here I've seen it Grow from more of a small rural Town to what we are today one thing that has always been important to me is Healthcare being from a first generation family access to healthcare was always something we needed support with I'm here today to advocate for Community Health Alliance or cha and the arpa fund grant for the Neo Road expansion or agenda item B10 uh generations of my family have gone to the cha healthcare clinic and I'm currently a patient and board member there the reason that I say I've seen the town grow to what we are today is because I've seen that same thing with ch I've seen it grow and impact the lives of tens of thousands of community members and providing the best health care service possible I've seen them grow and outgrow spaces Neil Road just like all of their clinics has reached capacity and we need to be able to serve more people every day there are more clients Reno and Sparks are growing so much and we need to be able to meet that demand of growth and give people quality and affordable healthcare with the expansion it will give cha the ability to serve around 3,600 more patients we need to ensure that the original Grant is followed through so we can continue to provide the best health care possible I think it's important to note the amount of growth that has happened and the last few years in Reno Sparks we're only going to continue to keep growing and we need to be able to provide the best health care possible for everyone here and everyone who will move here in the future uh this is more than just expanding Neo Road it's about providing the best health in the city and state of Nevada for everyone thank you city council all right thank you sir and I'm also going to help her translate okay hi my name is Caroline Martinez and I'm here to support agenda item B10 I'm here to support Community Health Alliance and then all of the medical and health care services that they have they have amazing staff and doctors and they have helped ensure to keep our life just within more Healthcare making sure that we are all taking care of our and we would like to continue to see them grow and helping and impacting more lives here in the state and in the city thank you so much and we'll appreciate it for our entire lives thank you thank you so much for being here thank you Madame vice mayor and Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comments for our consent agenda for the record we did receive six comments which were directly associated with various um B items prior to 4m yesterday March 9th five letters in favor and one letter in opposition those have been distributed to the Reno city council and are a part of the record on reno.gov meetings okay so um what I'd like to do now um I really appreciate everybody's time and attention I know everyone's been been sitting for a long time almost 3 hours uh me too and so is our Clerk and so what I'd like to do is take a 20-minute break and then I'd like to come back and um tackle our first item on the consent agenda which is P10 um I want to let the uh group know that there are bathrooms on several floors not this floor uh it's on floor uh two and there uh floor three floor four I think I don't know if people need a uh a guide Mickey uh to go on the elevators no so you could go to floor two no problem but anyway we'll we'll be in recess and then at that point mayor shivi will take back over the meeting and we'll see you then mad Vice before we go into break can we take a motion on the remaining items oh thank you for reminding me so just to re reiterate we have pulled items B9 B10 b11 and B13 so we're voting on the remaining items okay question on the aring it the the one we just received input on the health that's only on B10 correct that's what I understood okay I didn't pull it but now that I've heard some of the comments I I wanted to confirm it was so okay yes we'll okay thank you okay all right so I'm looking for a motion uh to approve the remainder items on the consent agenda motion okay I had a motion from mayor shivi a second from council member eert uh are there any comments on the motion all in favor please say I I I any opposed all right motion passes unanimously uh we'll be in recess until uh 10: to1 e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e all right Madam clerk is she over there I don't see her oh there you are sorry Mickey all right Madam clerk will you do me a favor I want you based on the amount of public comment uh present also in the room I always like to sort of prioritize so we can get people back to their jobs and the things that are important in their lives absolutely mad mayor so if you want we're going to reconvene at 12:54 and uh council member eert is absent at this time um so if you would like I think we can just knock out the consent agenda items B9 B10 majority of the population here is for B10 and then I think some of our D items so if you want we can take B9 first Monica promises to be very speedy and then we can do B10 for most of the um commenters that are in the room okay thank you so much and I believe that councilwoman dur took a public comment on that item yep we're all set with public comment so we have no more consent agenda public comment at this time okay thank you so much hi Monica nice to see you too good afternoon yes the floor is yours well uh councilwoman Ebert pulled this item so well she is somewhere in the room but we will get going okay well I have a brief presentation if there is not questions I think she's eating lunch I'll just ask a question I I I wasn't going to pull this but since it's been pulled I had a question about accounting for this money does it show on our books because it seems like it's money that is going to the city it is going to be spent by the council under the government accounting rules is it something that shows on our books and you're not finance department finance department said they'd take notes and get back to us on that CU I just it seems like an off book kind of fun and you know that's where the Auditors you know get involved did you get an answer on that uh Monica k for the record no I did not I do not know if uh director ranen is in here but the funds will be donations from Developers to the Community Foundation to establish a fund for affordable housing initiatives they're not funds coming to the city but in your presentation to me you said the city council some later date would be allocating those funds and I just no the the city council will have authority over how the the the projects for which the um the funds will be spent that's to me seems like a a government action fiscal policy I just I'm going to just raise um the flly that I I I think that this money has to be accounted for in the city's book somehow from my novice understanding of government accounting and it sounds like I did ask that it sounds like no one from Finance looked into that okay Council let let's have her present first and then we'll come back to the body okay thank you and that's fine I just want to I I would like to hear your presentation and then you might have more questions councilwoman breus so uh after we hear what you got for us today so go ahead Monica short presentation again Monica kch for the record um today I'm here to request approval of an agreement with the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada to manage an affordable housing donation fund um as you can see from the slide between 20 and 22 Council approved five projects appr Pro approximately 6,100 units with conditions that um development that the developments would contribute 500 to $1,000 per door to an affordable housing fund uh in November we came back and Council authorized staff to negotiate an agreement with the Community Foundation for the management of these funds the fund will be established to provide a mechanism to collect charitable donations from developers to assist with affordable housing initiatives the contributions are estimated to be approximately 4.2 million and start between and will start coming in between 20 24 and 2027 with a 10 to 15E buildout the Community Foundation has supported the community philanthropically for the last 25 years and has a long history of managing public private partnership funds for charitable purposes since these funds will be tra will be trickling in over the next 10 to 15 years this fund will be established as a mechanism to collect these these donations and invest them in a Collective pool over this time period um at the time that the balance reaches $4 million or at a time Council deems necessary a distribution strategy will be established and approved by Council the strategy will be dependent on the needs at that time um because these funds will be coming in over the next 10 to 15 years and there could be a different need at that time and here is the proposed motion okay all right thank you so much I'm going to start with you councilwoman breus and just to remind everyone we're going to stick to our typical process 3 minutes for everyone we go around again make sure everyone gets their comments on the record and we'll continue to go around again and then uh you know how it works give me a motion and we'll move from there so I'm going to start with Council one breus go ahead yeah I didn't pull this one it was Miss eert but I'll just because I do want these recorded for the record for verbatim so there'll be a history is um I did ask questions in my briefing how these would be accounted for on the city books and um haven't heard you know and no one here is here from Finance but my understanding is that we have money that is under our authority to spend we have money that we've made authority to raise if you will through a revenue action um and I'm just calling out the question does that show on City books under General accounting principles and requirements that are you know in place and the reason I bring this up is I didn't support any of these there's a mechanism under Nevada law to get these um sort of commitments and we didn't do it so it came through again a very transactional way of you know commitments sometimes written at the table of approvals and I just think that um it's a it was a workaround about a Revis statutes of impact fees or exactions uh it was ad hoc and Case by case I think a lot of developers agree with that but as money Trail continues on I just want to make sure that there's accountability on on our books for this money thank you all right thank you so much councilman Martinez anything no I'm good for now thank you all right councilman Taylor go ahead thank you Madame I just have one quick question Monica um as far as Administration goes on something like this if I saw your schedule right it looks like it came to us November of 2023 and then it took another 5 months to get to this point not because of any delays or anything but just because of the the operations of how things like this work so when it came back to council was a difference of five minutes five months correct okay thank you so much all right vice mayor der no nothing all right uh go ahead councilwoman neber I I just had I just wanted to have a presentation on that so thank you all right um Madam clerk councilman Rees on the phone yes I mam mayor but I don't have any questions okay thank you so much uh sending it back to you councilman breus anything uh no I didn't pull this okay uh couple of questions curious um are you seeing other cities do this and if so what does that look like because I guess part of my fear is number one it might be hard to build another affordable housing project for $4 million right we might take a while to get to that $4 million in the meantime we be using those funds uh you know to help assist one of the things that's been and I think correct me if I'm wrong we we we've allocated um and spent nearly $7 million on rental deposit assistance that is which I have seen it be a miraculous program it has been unbelievable because it's really hard for people to save up for that big down payment and then also it really can help us keep people into housing um so I would hate to sort of so I kind of want to see what those mechanisms are because if we say okay we need to get to 4 million then I mean we might be sort of sitting on this for a while uh maybe the council does want to have direction to build you know housing with it um not all housing is the same you know Sage Street type of uh housing could be in effect so I kind of think the council should have um leeway to be able to figure out how those funds should be used maybe it's mental health maybe it's um you know just just different aspects of uh you know helping rise with it something like that have you thought about that Monica yeah agreed uh and that's why there's a clause in the contract that um says when the fund reaches 4 million or at a time that Council deems necessary to um start those conversations again um right now we don't know exactly when the funds are going to start coming in we know it's going to be over a a long period of time and so we are trying to get the mechanism in place for the donations to be made and then um the Community Foundation will come back each year and give an update and then Council can have those discussions on is it time now to decide how we want to use these funds um and with the regards to the question of other organizations doing this the county has a fund also an affordable housing fund set up with the Community Foundation um and they had I guess large seed amount so they were able to start their process right away uh and their doing like a Grant application process um because they had funds in there already we don't have any funds yet um and so this is why we kind of set it up this way so wait are you saying because I know we've asked uh for developers to put into that fund are you saying we don't have any of those funds we don't have any of the funds yet we're expecting that they will start coming in because they're at time of building permit so they are they have to be building yeah so um between 24 and 27 so sometime this year um all the way through 27 is when we expect that they'll start coming in and they'll come in um my understanding from development services is in chunks um like we're going to pull on 20 houses or or whatever the number is and then the fees will come in for those and this will happen in like a 10 to 15E bu buildout yeah I mean it sounds like an incredible concept really support it but I think you have to look at the details so that it really does work and it's super effective um so like you're saying cuz we see a lot of projects that here that never come to fruition right so I understand that time of build and if I'm correct we're having less building uh less permits coming into the city uh a lot of those projects have sort of halted and then how much do you decipher that a a developer should be putting in per door those types of things so I think there's sort of a lot to hash out yeah those those numbers were decided um by Council some of them are 500 per door and some are a th000 per door those were decided um when those those projects were approved back in 2021 and 22 um and so now we're trying to get but we did it here at the table so I I haven't seen consistency so I'd like to just make sure because I think it's a good program it's totally worthwhile so thank you all right go ahead councilwoman Eber I I do have a question so do you think that this will help like with the um weightless time for people trying to get into affordable housing and all um like for rentals or yeah just in general um at this time there isn't a I guess a there it hasn't been decided how the funds are going to be spent because they're going to come in over the next 10 to 15 years and the thought was to get the mechanism in place the Community Foundation is experienced with managing These funds these types of funds and then once there is a substantial amount of money in the fund then Council can decide at that time what the priority is is it it could be rental assistance it could be down payment assistance it could be mental health it whatever it is deemed at that time once there is a sufficient amount of money um in the pool right now there isn't anything um and it there's probably not going to be a substantial amount at at least for maybe five years okay so there's going to be a long time before we see kind of any results from this they were designated as for affordable housing iives which could be many things okay and we didn't want to put those kind of parameters right now if in 10 years it wasn't the same need okay and I would just really stress in the contract that it needs to be the decision of the council so there's public comment public process and not up to them where there's some trigger that hey we want to go do this project because it's affordable housing I do think that the community should weigh and how those funds should be utilized and we set it up with the council having maximum control over over the um pool of money okay they're just being basically the Fiscal Agent okay go ahead Council I'm I'm so glad you brought it up and I'm so glad to hear the answer because that was my main concern I didn't want it the decisions to be made by a nonprofit because we as good as they are as good as they are well they're fantastic and they're our partner but I didn't want the decisions being made nonprofits don't have to do open meeting law uh comply with any kind of public process and that was what was really important to me this whole time you've heard me say it before I brought it up at my briefing I'm bringing it up now so I'm glad to hear the insurances and that's how it's written in the agreement all right thank you so much councilwoman Ebert I'm going to send it to you for a motion I'll make a motion to approve all right thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you all right thank you so much Monica all right sending it back to you madam Clark thank you madam mayor we moving on to item B10 pulled by council member Ebert all right go ahead take it away councilwoman Ebert three minutes or actually you're going to give us a staff presentation and then we'll go to councilwoman Ebert all right good afternoon Madame vice mayor council members I'm Justin George senior civil engineer for the public works department and um what I have for you is a quick presentation on this item um this item is for the approval of a consultant agreement with tectonics Design Group for the Neil Road facility Remodel and Expansion Project in the amount of 34258 this slide shows how this project aligns with the city's strategic plan as a reminder Council allocated American Rescue plan act funds to healthcare priority category and approved the Neil Road facility Remodel and Expansion Project during the march 88th 2023 meeting today we are asking for approval of a consultant agreement for the design and construction Administration services for the project as a reminder arpa funds need to be encumbered by the end of this year and projects completed by the end of 2026 this slide shows the vicinity map for this project the Neil Road complex is in ward 3 East of Interstate 580 to the south of East Moana Lane and Airway Drive and to the north of East pekham Lane building two at the Neil Road complex is currently leased to Community Health Alliance to provide Critical healthc Care Services through a traditionally underserved Community this SL slide shows an aerial view of building two of the Neil Road complex in the center that white footprint is of the existing facility at 5,120 FT and the aqua blue footprint is the proposed expansion of 3,500 ft this project will include expanding the facility by adding 3,500 square ft of new space and remodeling the existing 5,120 Square ft of space for a total of 8,620 sare Ft also required for this project will need to be site improvements for access to the building adjacent parking lot upgrades and utility connections among other ancillary items once this project is complete it will provide 14 exam rooms an on-site Pharmacy on-site prescription food pantry and on-site Behavioral Health Services the preliminary opinion of probable cost ranges from $5 to $9 million this is an early scoping level of the project and includes fees Beyond Construction including fees for design permitting utility connections site improvements adjacent parking lot services and other soft costs to get the project completed once the design is finalized we will get a detailed construction cost estimate from The Design Group narrowing that cost down the schedule shows major this schedule shows major milestones for the project today we're asking for approval the consultant agreement with tectonics Design Group they are a local design firm with commercial Municipal and medical experience they were selected from our unranked s soq list for architectural services the design will begin with approval of the agreement today and will continue through July of this year and at final completion is when we'll get that detailed construction cost estimate based off of the final design following design we've got to get that through permitting and plan review scheduled for August September this year we look to advertise October November of this year open bids in November and bring back a Construction contract for award in December January through January 25 through October 26 is the anticipated construction time frame that concludes my presentation thank you very much okay thank you so much okay Council mombert I'm going to send it to you yeah I have some questions so this this is in addition to the $5 million that we've already allocated of arpa funds or is this just deciding how we're going to allocate five of uh some of the $5 million so the the 342,000 for the consultant agreement comes from the the 5 million arpa allocation okay um and this question um is kind of ties into a lot of the discussion we had earlier today about the record Street facility um I understand that this is an investment in the Neil Road facility that the City of Reno owns so that Community Health Alliance can use the facility um what was the process that that Community Health Alliance went through to do that and is another organization able to follow that same process to use a Community Health Alliance building and would the City of Reno follow that same process to fund any repairs at those facilities I think that question is is uh beyond my purview and I'll ask Carrie to step up I'll help you uh director of Public Works krie kosy um to answer your question we the Community Health Alliance has a lease agreement for that particular building the building is in uh good condition um and basically they are asking to expand their social services okay so how would another organization get a lease agreement for the record Street facility um a lease agreement would have to come through you know once the lease is um uh if for example the health the Community Health Alliance decided they did not want to continue the lease then they would approach the city and then we would bring that forward to council to um make a recommendation to uh go forward go forward with another lease no but she asked about record Street oh with record yeah oh I'm sorry you're asking about record Street yeah yeah I was just saying you know we have kind of a a similar situation with a facility that's owned by the City of Reno and we're using arpa funds to um expand and repair repair a City of Reno property so that an organization can use it and I'm trying to understand what the difference is for this facility versus is the record Street facility which we've let fall into disrepair and is there a process and another organization can use so that we can bring the record Street facility up to what we're doing with the Neil Road facility or does it just require that you know a former city council member run the organization director kusy let me I thank you I'm not certain uh exactly um I I might be misstating it and I'd have to defer to Mr hodj but I don't believe the arp funding is available for ordinary maintenance uh projects which is what the record Street project would be um it is available for the expansion of facilities that um provide care or the establishment of facilities that provide care okay all right that was three minutes so I'm going to move on to anyone else go ahead councilman breus uh something you know I wasn't going to pull this but um a lot of the public comment sometimes helps informed your thinking and then you do want to but when I was reading this um something caught my eye and and I think someone here talked about familiarity with this building you know when they it was originally worked as a clinic and I was City staff in 1998 when it was so I have some history with it also um oh it says here here the Neil Road facility has been leased by St Mary's and is currently leased to Community Health Alliance correct okay and I think I brought this up when the five million came forward where is the lease and I want to understand the lease I haven't seen the lease I've asked for the lease I think we provided the lease in memo to council okay who is the lease with the lease is with the Community Health Alliance the current lease is as a successor to the St Mary's lease uh uh yes okay so that is um what I thought and a lot of leases will have heirs and successor Provisions but I'm really concerned moving forward with an inheriting a lease that contemplates occupation by another party of a completely different facility and to me the front loading of this should have been Mr manager I'll turn to you the new lease okay the new lease and I I I'm really troubled by that that the coun I know there's time frames and that's problematic but the the council needs to have in front of them a lease with CA before we move forward not an error in successor to a lease that it doesn't even contemplate this activity and you've H we've had months to do that so I I just and and and I'm and I'm open to it I'm very open to it but that should jump ahead because the other questions are Mr George you said in response to my colleague this 342 is out of the 5 million so let's say there's 45 million but the project you told me was between 5 and 9 million so you you know where's the 4 million coming from if Community Health Alliance has access to make the project go to 9 million good for them but I want the city to have terms on that lease and that's that's where I'm at I'm okay moving forward I didn't support I don't think the 5 million I thought we should have put it to other things but the council said yes and they want to go forward but I want to do it right okay I want to do it right and you know living with this old lease as we Mo move forward on the design is just not where I can get at this point I'm really troubled why didn't you bring forward a new lease Mr uh Thornley because there's an existing lease in place and it's active for at least another year or two correct there's no reason to bring It Forward right now correct but I think there is because if we're talking about A5 to9 million project and they bring investment and we bring investment you know we should outline those terms of of it I I really you know often I I say the city's too transactional but here's a transaction that I think is leaving us behind and I thank Council bre I'm going to uh move on go ahead councilman Martinez thank you so much for theity I appreciate it uh thank you Mr George uh for explaining uh everything that's going on I do want to just remind the council that we had already made the decision to invest the arpa funding that we had gotten into increasing access to health Healthcare and making sure that we're investing those $5 million in uh that access and providing Equity to a neighborhood which I just walked around over the last two weekends and had heard from our constituents about the the need that they have the benefits that they see from the all-inclusive Family Resource Center that it's located at Miguel Riva Park whether it's the child care center that's provided by the Boys and Girls Club the services that the women and children center of the Sierra provide or getting access to healthc care from our Community Health Alliance Partners uh we see the need need and the amount of folks that come in to that facility to receive Services um and it is a space that was already uh called uh by uh Laura Vargas as a high density low service area that is in dire need of these services and so I urge my fellow council members to continue to support something that we had already put in motion and this is just part of the uh process for us to get there and allocating the $5 million so we can have a full understanding of what the total cost is going to be for us to get there whether it is 5 million or 9 million um it does sound like we have the support from our our current lease holder to meet that Delta and get us to where we need to Across the finish line and so we need to be good partners uh and go on our word and make sure that we support this expansion all right thank you so much uh councilman uh ree sorry yes thank you Madam mayor uh first of all um I want to thank all the speakers who are there today I I was particularly moved by many of the health care workers the doctors who are providing the care but I was also very moved by the speakers who some of them spoke in Spanish uh and have a very personal and deep connection to the work that's being done out of the facility that we own so the second thing I wanted to talk about is when the council originally allocated these monies for the expansion of the facility we own uh we were of course in the throws of a pandemic and post-pandemic world and so I think we all had top of mind the importance of of health and Health Equity and I think it is important to continue that conversation it's not every day I think that this Council gets to have an impact on health outcomes uh sometimes we're dealing with the more minute and mundane issues of city life but in this particular case this really is and does speak to um I think some meaningful work there's Legacy work being done out of this facility and also I think there's intergenerational work that happens here to provide Health outcomes for families who impacted both today and and certainly into the future one of the primary care physicians spoke about seeing entire families so I am very encouraged by the conversations that were had uh by our public uh commenters today the other thing is is council member breus I think is right and correct that an important component of this conversation is uh a lease and an examination of that lease although I I perhaps disagree that they have to be coupled with this particular vote I think we can vote today to move forward with the design process which is a necessary component of expanding the facility we own without having the lease in front of us I I do believe that a lease extension is appropriate and certainly we will see it in its normal course it's not unusual for lease holders to not come to talk about the lease until you know maybe 6 months out from the lease expiring um I will say that this facility has been three or four different entities have operated out of this facility before cha and so I don't I I really am not concerned as to who the operator is it's more about the building we own we own a facility in an area of town where heal and health um access are incredibly challenging uh and so I think no matter who is in the building expanding the physical footprint of the building we own is an important component of our commitment to Equitable outcomes especially in the health space so um again I think council member breus is is wise on this point but I don't think it's preventing us from moving forward today I also think and I'll just say it's sort of a chicken or the egg thing until we make our decision here about spending the money which we've already allocated it's very difficult for the foundation work to be done where other players are going to come to the table and add to the bucket and so I think for us we've got to get moving on this piece so that the next parts of the puzzle can be had thank you madam mayor all right you're 17 seconds over thanks so much okay go going to you councilman Taylor thank you Madame mayor I have some questions I have I I think the work that CH does is phenomenal I've visited the sites I'm it for me this is not about the work that cha does this is about a building that the city owns so I have concerns on the schedule and my qu my first question is is this money time sensitive the $5 million that we allocated for this is there a time sensitive condition to it krie KY your director of Public Works yes it is time sensitive it needs to be um uh we we do need to have a contract in place by the end of this year so yes it is time sensitive so if we don't meet that obligation we're going to lose the money that's correct okay so that's my first concern my second concern is this building that we're thinking about renovating is there anything wrong with it other than it is too small is it dilapitated does it have mold is it leaking is there none it's perfectly usable right now yes okay in the schedule we have an estimate or in our packet of about $5 to $9 million correct and then I also heard that we are in the early stages of the scoping correct when we say early stages the cost estimate that we have like what percentage is that that you're giving us 20 30 40 where are we at in the early stages well in the early stages we're at the very conceptual stage uh the we've met with the uh the architect and the owner and they are we we we've had several conversations about the scope and the layout of the facility is there room for this schedule to slip is there contingency there is um a small amount of room a small amount I would say we've got about 90 days so my other question is when what's the next step of coming back to council for this we allocate $300,000 when will we know what the actual cost or a a 80% 70% level of cost we will know that in July of this year okay and and then you'll bring it back to council we will know that that cost at that time now if say that cost is at $5 million then we will move forward and we will put it out to bid and I'm talking about total project cost here so we've allocated 5 million do total project so the construction cost is going to for the building itself will need to be quite a bit smaller than that right three to three and a half million um say we get those part say that that cost comes in at that amount then we will go forward with the bid um if it goes over what we will do is we will meet and we will look and see if we can make that scalable somehow when we take it out to bid so that um it gives the uh Community Health Alliance an opportunity to fund the Gap that that councilman Martinez was talking about so I I might have another round of questions but I just have concerns again about this schedule because we just heard in an administrative item it took 5 months for us to bring back an item no again no fault of anybody else but for us to to be able to make that decision so thank you Madame mayor sure thank you so much all right go ahead councilwoman do thank you so much yeah thanks so much for bringing this forward um I I am so impressed with the work that cha does and so impressed by the community support it's it's really you know heart filling I I don't know what else word to use they're doing such an important service to our community um that's why we put this item on the um list for arpa um it it was a question at the time I was here and you know the county is generally the one who handles health I mean they have the District Health Board they have health initiatives they have the seniors they have all kind of programs to work in health and what I'm wondering is um I'm I'm trying to understand this 5 to n million because I know most of the people in the room don't know but I'm a geologist I managed a lot of construction projects over my career and one of the things I never did was start a project that I couldn't finish and I'm very concerned that we don't know the cost and that you um your own Department have done a Engineers estimate yes right which is has been quite reliable before what I'm concerned about is the gap I don't I'm not used to hearing five to n million and so what I'm wanting to understand is you said it covers design permitting utilities soft costs well let me ask a few questions what is what does that mean Does it include um flooring yes carpeting yes um Does it include counters like these kind of counters where you come in the furniture and fixtures would be um provided by the Community Health Alliance okay and um maybe I need to call up a member of the Community Health Alliance but I want to understand what do have you done an estimate on what that is I have not we've had some conversations and I believe that they've got set aside approximately $900,000 okay and that's coming out of their own funds correct okay um $900,000 for furniture and fixtures yes okay so what happens if assuming we approve this what happens if let's say it's $6 million you just said we have about 4 and a. half million left after we do this right what happens if it's over then we we talk to the the Health Alliance and we ask them if they are able to make the Gap do we move forward with putting it out to bid can they make make that Gap or can we scale the project back to stay in in budget well what would be a scale back because as I understand this covers both renovation of the existing 5,000 square ft and then building a new 3500 correct it does um so scaling back would be um less square footage but I mean would you add only a th000 square feet I mean what what I'm concerned about what if you're right and what if it's the 9 million right not like six million so I I would think that' be very difficult to scale something like that when we it would and and subsequently since we put together our cost estimate and and what we do internally is we use a square footage number which is not real reliable but it is somewhat reliable um and and and just to kind of give you an idea we have you know for the public safety center it's 115,000 foot building that came in at $650 a square foot okay but if you look at the size of the building that we're dealing with here a 350t expansion and 5,000 remodel it's probably you know we put together a number of around $800 a square foot now they could it could much it could come in lower than that and after talking to tectonics and the Community Health Alliance they've got some ideas on materials that they would use that we're not going to build a Cadillac obviously but we're not going to we're going to build things that were are built to last so they've got some ideas on how we can utilize some different materials that might save cost okay well I know my time's over I'll come back going to cut you off I'm sorry all right I wasn't talking I know I'm sorry I just always want to make sure everyone uh hold on we're on um I'm going to start now we're on round two and I'm going to start with councilwoman Ebert go ahead okay hi thank you um so these updates are they specific to Community Health alliance's needs like I I heard that the facility is functional now that it doesn't necessarily need all this work done so we are taking City of Reno funds to kind of tailor this facility to the needs of Community Health Alliance correct to expand the services correct okay okay um the other thing I wanted to ask is are we considering using union labor to ensure the cost um remains what we've be a prevailing wage okay okay job so prevailing wage but also Union I meaning wage so whatever and isn't that required not necessarily not necessarily okay okay but but the contractors do have to pay prevailing wage okay well yeah I just wanted to make sure specifically that you know that we're consider using union labor not just paying prevailing wage because I I you know having concerns about coming in on budget and on time I think you know we should look into using union labor in our contract documents we specify because it's Federal money we will have to use um uh prevailing wage or Davis bacon whichever is higher and that is that is the strictest that we can require in our contract documents okay thank you all right right um Madam clerk I cannot see on my screen who has their hand up so I've just been calling on pretty much everyone uh at this time I believe councilman ree yes M mayor thank you so much um and I do have my hand raised so I want to make sure that I uh represent to my uh colleagues that I I did visit the site to see what the expansion would involveed and one of the things that I will say is it's not in any way retrofitting the bill building to uh make it better for a particular operator that facility was designed 20 or 25 years ago and it is bursting at the seams they have doctors there in that facility who can not see the number of patients that are coming in the door because they don't have enough exam rooms they the facility is very small and it's they're using every square inch of it um to the best of their ability but they are literally Turning Away potential clients meaning the people who most need health care because the facility is too small to accommodate all of the people who wish to use it uh it is a unique area I was uh I grew up uh just off Neil at filbert and went to smithridge and Pine Elementary School this neighborhood has been long overlooked as a place for our most uh sort of marginalized communities it is large Lely um Spanish speaking um and there are folks who utilize the facility as their only means of healthare access and while I was there I was struck by two things one was how many people they were making use of the space that they had but also they were move operating a dental clinic out of the facility out of a a essentially an RV parked out back um it's just uh this facility needs to be expanded if and and we have the land there now whether in five years or 10 years a different entity is operating the clinical space there they would need the type of space that this expansion would allow either way um I also want to come back to something that Miss kosy said which was about the timelines and feasibility again our Council has already approved These funds we're now being asked to essentially approve spending a portion of those funds for the design work that needs to be done so that we can determine whether or not it can be built for the cost we have I think much like any of the projects we have we sometimes have the initial approval and then we come back as we start approving various contracts I think this is an easy uh win for our community because it allows people to access health care if in the scoping of it or the design phase of it somehow we learn that it is more expensive than we thought well we're going to have to come to our uh tenant and see if they want to put in additional dollars I assume they're going to be working with foundations to do that whatever Delta there is I I think they would be able to meet and so I'm not worried that it's going to be over the amount we've allocated uh we have the time and I think the technical expertise of staff to be able to make this project happen along all the guidelines that are required by arpa and so I'm confident that we'll be able to do it what we need to do is is just move the project forward in this small way today uh so that we can have meaningful Legacy generational impacts for health care in this community all right thank you so much Council breus go ahead you know and I I do appreciate the work of CHA I I met um Mike Rolo I think in 1999 when he moved from New Mexico to run Hawk and then um I think later on uh Charles Durant came over from the state I work with him at the state thought he was one of the most brilliant people I've ever worked with on any issue and then of course I served with Mr Delgado for many years and known other people who worked there and been clients there so I I think the work is good but I I do think the central question to the council is you know if they end up bringing in more money to the deal and not unlike Sky Tavern you know what is their rights and privileges of the building because it almost gets to ownership and that's fine you know maybe it's 30 Years or or something but if it's beyond you know con um typical tenant improvements I think the council needs to go into this very cleare eyed that's that's my thinking because look our responsibility is really to the those who took a tough vote for the federal government to bring this money down to us and we have to be very solid on delivering to that it's it's good faith and this 5 million is what percentage of the money that we got did we get how much do 20% of the money that we got from the federal government this 25 million up that we I thought we got 54 million we got 52 million 25 went to affordable housing the other went to these projects so it's a large contribution of the money that people took hard votes in DC during the pandemic to deliver down here and we have to do a good job and a good faith very solid on that and I here's my concern is that we get a little further down the road and you know the stonic does some bidding and it's five but they want eight and then we get into it with cha and I think we need to clarify the rle rules maybe not to the full of the lease but Mr manager come back in two meetings with anou negotiated with cha to show us how we're going to work through this leading into Concepts into the lease if the there is a design and a preference by cha to go beyond the money cuz we can't be on the back we can't be on the hook for anything more than we've already allocated okay if there is then there will be a negotiation of a lease and you know the the council needs to think you know if cha brings 2 million but you know do they get the bill I mean what do they get in return for that we really that's the central question and we all know it and I think rather than doing that when you get bid documents and you're trying to issue a bid and fundle the money Council needs anou of how to take us through to this point and also then build concepts for the lease because that's that's the problem we've never had a private party bring money into our facility when we're managing the bidding bidding and have money in so I I'm this is a hard one for me but I'm a little uncomfortable and I I really at the at my my biggest heart is being good to those in DC who brought that money down to us okay thank you so much all right any other second round of questions go ahead uh councilman Martinez thank so much Madam mayor if I may I know in the past we've asked the specific folks who are on the agenda items to come forward I'd love to ask uh Mr Barrett Donovan um from tectonics if he can come in and address some of the concerns that have been brought up and I know we are in the initial phases of this and just the initial but if you can maybe talk about some of the concerns when it comes to the timeline and the costs of this project and any of the information you may have to address those concerns uh sure yeah my name is bar Donovan I'm a principal at tectonics Design Group we're an architecture and engineering firm um as far as schedule goes I'd say the schedule isn't necessarily luxurious but it's definitely reasonable if it gets pushed another couple times it may become unreasonable so that's why I'm hoping it gets approved today we have a staff of 25 in our office um we're split between civil structural and Architectural and we have people that are ready to go and start on the project so I don't think schedule is an issue my understanding is we've worked backwards from the time frames we need to meet at the end of the year and that's where we ended up with end of July it seems like a totally reasonable design time frame and I'm used to doing tight deadlines and it's we I've been working at tectonics and a principal there for 18 years I don't think that's an issue um we've talked extensively with the city about making the project scalable I think that solves the budget concerns um we have a lot of options and we've done our pricing estimate it's on the low end of that 5 to 9 million it's at 5 million uh there's two other contractors that have also weighed in with their cost and they're actually lower than ours so we really need to start design to see where we are but I don't see these challenges that folks are bringing up right now as insurmountable challenges thank you for clarifying that and giving some more context I will um also add and not Point any fingers but I know I've personally been asking and just to put this on the record too for updates on all of our projects that have to do with arpa um since November and so um I know we were scheduled to talk about that and we are at this point now um and whatever we can do on the council to not delay any of our projects moving forward um because we've already had discussion of where we want to allocate These funds and having to go back and hash some of that stuff out is just going to to me open up another kind of worms that we're going to have to find ourselves in um and so I'd rather just uh keep moving forward with the projects that we already have unless we have Partners who are not willing to work with us um and that we have identified which is clearly not the case um in this what's in what's in front of us today I will also say uh for the record that I I do think it's imperative that we do look at that lease um with our current leas holder and that we we look at those terms and if it does come to a point where we need to renegotiate those um then we do I think we do need to address that and I just want to say I appreciate the clarification from our city manager of why that wasn't included um here and it makes sense because it wasn't up for renewal at this point Thank You Council marz okay go ahead councilwoman Taylor thank you Madame mayor um again back to the schedule a couple questions on the approval of the AR offense so I guess Carrie this is for you we have um we have a couple of different things that are going to be driving the schedule on this it's not just the design right it's the construction it's the bidding it's so I'm not trying to you know say the design isn't going to go forward or anything like that and again for me it's all about the schedule making sure that we use these funds and not lose them we had a a block of projects that I think we approved in J uh Mr hjj might have to ask this in March of 2023 yes as far as allocation for ARA funds where are those projects um I'm trying to understand where this project lies in the overall schedule of the other projects are we behind on this project are we ahead on this project or are we kind of in the middle of where all those other projects might be I would say k kowsky your dep your director of Public Works I would say we are near the tail end of the rest of the projects um we have um several projects that are still in design um and that are we're looking to scale all of those projects as well so this is not you know way behind but it's not at the at the at the leading the pack either so um there's still time in order to get this one done but it it it doesn't raise a red flag for me okay and then my other question and I'm not sure if you're available or if you can answer this just because of it's a broad question but if we wanted if the council wanted to move forward with the expansion of this building using other money where there isn't such a time there isn't such a schedule constraint on it is this maybe a project that we would be able to look at Community Project funding requests for like we did with evalent Mount or other are other sources available where we might be able to use funds for this Expansion Project uh yes short answer is there is other other uh opportunities out there to put in for a grant for a project like this um I would say that um the amount that we'd be looking for we may have quite a bit of competition in any other Grant uh procurement so um I'm I'm not sure the timing of how that would when that would occur and the grant um criteria the access to healthcare would be pretty compelling and the I okay thank you so much all right uh thank you so much there couple things I just wanted to put on the record I agree with councilwoman breus in the sense that when you talk about bringing the lease forward I asked about that in my brief um and the reason I thought was a a very legitimate reason because you typically start to look at leases 6 months before um so I thought that that was completely legitimate I also wasn't worried because we are the owner of the building we're going to be we're we're going to be good landlords yes um so that was where I you know I think councilwoman breus makes some good points but I think um I wasn't as worried because of that because I know we would do right by the people that we are um the landlord to yes so but that that being said though I think when it comes to Clarity being able to raise money to um look at timelines I think the longterm probably helps them I don't necessarily know but would think that it would be beneficial um then I also understand we have a timeline here so I I think also whoever and typically you know when we look at making a motion that needs to be included at least to bring it back because a long-term lease I do think is beneficial um you know in conjunction y so I don't think that Council and breus is wrong I just think that it probably when I heard it sounded premature y but now sitting here and listening to the long term and and that Vision um I think it could be beneficial okay I'm going to move on to councilwoman derer go ahead yeah thank you um I have a I first a comment then a question so I've been struggling because every single one of our Opa projects with no exception so it's like 10 projects of all come in over budget and when I say budget over the amount that we budgeted for them and we are on dead stop on every single project and every single project needs this needs to meet the same deadline they have to be under contract by December and I don't know how to make those projects which we made commitments to all of them not just to Cha but all of them the river plac making a um the soccer fields uh fencing um and and there's five more yes we make commitments to every single one and yet every single one has come in over so none of them have moved forward and what I am fearful of is that we get to that December because we come in let's say with an estimate here and it's 6 million okay just six million yes not five I mean every Project's been almost double or 50% and we have to either scramble to reallocate one of those projects to to be able to do any of them they are all on hold every single one none of them can move forward as they were originally envisioned and so my struggle is um how do we you know fit I guess uh $40 million of requests into $25 million bucket and so if we're to move forward with this I would want to know a very clear deadline that from tectonics that we're going to get a number and then we have to be queued up to make hard decisions because every single project has come over budget yes we are moving forward none and we are going to leave $25 million on the table not 5 million not any project all of it because we could not figure out how to Mush this all together and move forward with at least some and so that's a difficult prioritization that we're going to have to undertake because I can tell you we already know while we've been waiting for this information every other project has done their cost estimate that's how we know every other project has done their cost estimate done their Community work that's how we know and so my question is every single project has said if you want to move forward go find more money okay everyone every project so or cut it in half in some projects you just can't cut in half I mean I'll just use a simple one half a million dollars you can't cut a fence in half so um you can scale back maybe Place making I mean some of them are scalable and some just aren't and so that's my struggle here today and if we're to move forward I would want to see an and an understanding that uh what concerns me and is the expectation from the community that if we do this cost estimating that means we're doing the project because we're going into 30% design we we have already done 30% design on every project and we know every Project's over so the question is how do we bring all these projects back to the table and figure out where we're going that's my biggest concern I like theou idea personally because I want to know when what I mean is not before it could move in parallel but when we reach that number I want to know when you're coming back and that there's enough time I don't want to waste 25 the opportunity for 25 million I'm sorry I just don't all right um thank you so much we are done with our final rounds uh with that being said out of respect we you jumping in Council or sorry councilwoman Mickey Micky Mickey Council e trying to hold on a second because I think we were on um you've had two rounds correct yeah okay I did have a couple more questions so okay um hold on because we're at our final two uh I would like to ask uh Mr Delgado uh if you would like to come up I always try to ask whoever um is basically the applicant thank you mayor thank you for the opportunity and I appreciate the discussion I know you guys are in a tough position and I know no money ever wants to be left on the table no money especially with the amount of needs that are coming for the council uh I am committed to all of you on speaking on behalf of the organization uh as a CEO and from my board that's vested in me to be able to speak and say we are a strong partner making sure that this project is fulfilled as you you heard just now from tectonics we're working very diligently and making sure that we are at the table constantly make sure that we reach all the deadlines deadlines should not even be a part of the conversation we were ready as of December to move forward and so we are stead ready as tectonics has shared more than enough staff to make sure we hit those deadlines we have Foundation members that are here in the audience as well to make sure we hit that Gap so I am saying to all of you more than happy to sit down and having a conversation regarding M us or bringing a lease to the conversation so that our piece is is out of the way to make sure that we bring again support to 3600 more patients and lives in our community Behavior Health which does not exist right now and we all know the dire need for that prescription food pantry and also of course a pharmacy so that's my commitment Madame mayor uh my word is my bond I hope that everyone uh could appreciate that uh we're just excited to have this opportunity as you all stated before this is usually a county Endeavor where you have healthy human services work with our organization like ours but that was old thinking here's a great opportunity Innovation thinking where cities are actually coming to the table working with fqs like ours to make sure that healthc care outcomes are part of the design and the build out of a city you guys are part of the social determins of health and making sure that cities are not the healthcare isn't just done in the four walls of a clinic it's done throughout the process and so again we're committed as a partner I don't know if you have Partners as part of your other projects we do okay but and and I don't know if they're as fourth coming as I am and maybe maybe a little too overconfident but I know we'll hit it uh we've done it in the past and we we'll be excited to do it again all right thank you so much I appreciate it okay we've exhausted our rounds however councilwoman Ebert I'm going to let you go with um one minute okay and uh so take it away okay so I did have a quick question this might be for Oscar do you guys currently have and krie I have one a quick one for you too um do you guys currently offer Mental Health Services you kind of mentioned Behavior we have offeral Behavioral Health Services uh we do not have inperson we don't have enough room on the road but we do at our wells Clinic we also at our Sparks and also set our Sun Valley okay so will that be included in the expansion we'll have two uh two we have two uh spaces to allow for two providers to come in that's also something the council women that we'd love to do in North Valleys as we're the largest Medicaid provider in North Valleys for your community as well okay okay thank you um uh another question um was this facility originally built to be a medical facility yes okay and then one last question um and this is kind of bigger picture um I know that there's a lot of concern that we might not meet deadlines and and you know Miss the boat on some arpa funds just real quick if you can allow me um maybe I don't know if it's possible for Council to come together and prioritize projects and say if we don't hit a certain deadline with projects that we pull the funding for some and apply it to the higher priorities so that we don't miss the boat on 25 million and I'm I think Community Health Alliance does great work I think that they should be funded as well but um and I'm not saying that this shouldn't be a top priority but maybe we should come up with a uh some kind of contingency plan to make sure that we don't lose any funds um if there's a project that's way behind we just have to be honest with ourselves and say hey we're not going to make it let's put this funding where we can cross a Finish Line so I just wanted to put that out I don't know if it's a possibility but if we could just maybe have discussion about it so thank you thank you for giving me an extra minute all right um that being said I'm going to send it to councilman um Martinez to give me a motion sure happy to uh again thanks for everybody being here for all your input and I appreciate the discussion today uh in terms of item B10 I move to approve the consultant agreement with tectonics Design Group for the design and construction Administration services for the Neil Road facility Remodel and Expansion Project and an amount not to exceed $342,500 and authorize the mayor to sign all right thank you I'm going to second that for discussion because I know this Council so well we're going to go into discussion uh Council breus nothing okay all right Council mom Taylor I don't know if it's discussion I'm just curious um I want to make sure that we have the staff the team that Carrie has to move this forward so go ahead yes I do have the staff to um to carry this forward we have leaned on tectonics to provide the construction um Services Administration services and that that is in their contract so what what I was lacking is in the tectonics contract okay thank you okay go ahead councilwoman the motion I'd like to see a date that this would come back because if the date slips let's say we say July 1 or I think that's what you told us um if the date slips and it's September we're we're so close it it puts every project in Jeopardy I I mean I don't know where to go some of the projects don't have project sponsors except it's all on Reno you know placemaking doesn't have a project sponsor do we not do it you know it's a top priority to fix downtown Reno do we not do it um and so I also would like at least a letter understanding uh if not a complicated mou to understand that I've been here before we've taken a first step on a project and I was told by our attorneys long ago don't Annex if you don't if you think you're going to have trouble in the next phase of the project and have difficulty with conditions don't even take the first step that's what they told me Mr I got to give the credit um to our attorneys they warn me and they've taught me and that's what my concern is here today do I take the first step when I know in my heart every Project's coming over this one is too where are we going to go and there's an expectation from the community I've got expectations from the community on every one of these projects there's a soccer Community there's the downtown business owners for that one there's all the advocates for the river so I would like to see two additions to the motion if the motion makers would consider it one is a date that we expect to have back the um cost estimate and the second is um a letter of understanding memorandum of understanding could be two pages to say that you know that this does not commit funds past this it does not because we we cannot approve a project we don't have the funds for so that's all there is to it so I want to see those two ads all right thank you anyone else for discussion well I mean I support those changes too and you know our practice is once we go into design step more oress has the authority to go to bid yeah well then I'm I would withhold that they have to bring it back I I don't think that Authority is a good idea at this time and um I think the the design consultant needs to come and then as you prepare is the scope involved preparing bid documents yes well I think the council needs to look at those bid documents I agree yeah we need to hear the cost estimate before we take a step of going to prepare all the bid documents and doing the next step Madam mayor make make a suggestion go ahead that i' confer with uh our city manager and look for a date in j lie to we should have our we will have our um design complete we'll have our cost estimate I'll work with tectonics and bring that back to the council before we go out to bid okay does that sound like a reasonable plan all right are there any more comments uh councilman ree is there anything you wanted to say before I wrap up with my comment well no madame mayor I think that Miss kosy has hit it on the head I don't think I need to ask for Mr Martinez to change the motion I just think it's additional direction from to staff to say we've got to see those things in July um I'm I think I'm confident that the motion encapsulates the decision we need to make but I also take very seriously Miss ky's commitment to us which I think answers miss breus and miss der's questions or vice mayor der yeah and I think it's reasonable to ask you know what is what's the clarity where are we at what's the cost because and and this is not cha but with everyone that we've worked with I mean I got to tell you look at pennium not happy with them right um so I think it makes us a little bit more gunshy31 count uh what the role is of a city what the role is of a County uh just so most people know Health and Human Services is over on the county side but I've always said because I think now more than ever with the crisis that we're seeing on our streets with mental health with addiction they cannot do it alone we all have to do it together and that is no joke because it's so massive of a problem I think it's the number one crisis in America and one of the big reasons this is so critical because what we're seeing too is that the lack of access to medications whenever it comes to mental health can absolutely be deadly matter of fact I had a friend didn't have his medications for two days and was found dead in a ditch and that is why on the mental health side of it is so critical for them to have access to um and I want to apologize for one of my Council uh council's comments uh at the beginning of the meeting because the work that you do um is absolutely outstanding and I also want to thank you you I've um asked you to help some of uh you know some of some people that I know um in massive massive need uh on the streets and you immediately jumped in um and we don't talk about those things in public no one really gets to see the work that you do behind the scenes that where you're literally saving lives whether it's with Narcan and things like that so I just want to say I'm so grateful to Cha um and it's funny even there are people that can afford Healthcare they choose cha because honestly the the health care is so good what you do and it's very very rare to see that in a community um but also I I commend you on the mental health side because it's so critical but I also wanted to apologize but I do think uh the work that you're doing is truly truly outstanding the other thing is we if we had just a ton of money it would be great there would be so many other things that you know are so worthy of funding don't get us wrong um I I really want people to understand that there are just so many things that are worthy and it's so hard it's so hard um because i' you know there are other incredible programs like hopes those you know what I mean they're amazing um so I want people to know that it it's very challenging but I do think we've got to start looking at the Mental Health crisis the addiction crisis with and providing every possible service that we can so but I also understand my colleagues concerns about the clarity how much money I don't want to get down the road and then people are like oh yeah it's going to be 11 million like we can't do that either and we also have to have a stop Gap where the city says this is what we provide and then that's it because we would love to provide everything to everyone but we can't and I got to shut up because I've been telling everyone else to shut up so okay that being said um well Madam mayor do we have I I despite my colleagues comments I agree that we don't uh need to U memorialize um our Public Works director but we do need to memorialize a date and we do need to memorialize um bringing back uh or making sure there's an mou in place and understanding so can we would you amend your motion to include that uh you can just say first meeting in July whatever take it away yeah I'd be happy too so um I don't know have Carl do I have to restate the full MO motion or do you want me to just make an amendment to the motion can just amend council member Martinez thank you so much for the clarification so with the motion already in place just like to amend that we're going to bring either an letter of understanding or anou back in July to get an understanding of what the progress is on this project well no what I was asking was that would be in place with our manager and um you know the applicant I think you can do that and letter of understanding about what the process is but what I'm looking for is to bring back the cost estimate and in the letter in the memorandum of understanding that he would have signed he would have explained that this is not a commitment Beyond this commitment you know we're not committing $5 million today we're committing 342,000 that kind of stuff does that make sense that it I'm just asking for a date just say prior to no with these bids I'm asking for our manager to to um um negotiate a letter of understanding with Cha about this process and I'm asking for a date to bring back the cost estimate that's all second meeting and you want to see that before we go out to B what you're yes at the first meeting in July so the second meeting in July is the feedback we're we're getting second meeting second meeting in July second meeting in July okay okay so uh the amendment would be to bring back the cost estimate in the second meeting of July right and to to do for our manager to to uh negotiate with cha on the process and for our manager to negotiate the letter of understanding letter of understanding with cha throughout the process right for the process yes yeah you got it all right and then you have to agree with your second Madam mayor yes okay so thank you appreciate it so I have a motion I have a second I second for discussion we had discussion all those in favor say I I all those closed motion carries all right thank you so much okay moving along and then also I just say we have commissioner Clark in the room I would love to see your participation over at the County as well because I know you care about healthc care correct yes just here as a citizen thank you I appreciate no I we should always recognize when any Commissioners are in uh in the house so thank you appreciate it okay thank you so much moving on I would like to make sure um Madam clerk I was going to call you councilwoman Huntsman but Madam clerk um uh next agenda item and I believe it's that's okay yep we're moving on to item D3 it did have a Time certain of 1 p.m. so we're a little bit behind on that but we're going to go ahead and open up item D3 the DRP fy2 operating plan and budget all right come on forward it must be previous council member days day yeah get two of them back to back hi Chris Shanks I'm the current chair of the downtown Reno partnership just wanted to take a brief second to thank the city Areno um Madame mayor council members staff for the last six years of your guys' support and very strong working relationship with the DRP um just wanted to make my comments known really appreciate working with you guys um our executive director n jardan is going to present our year in review as well as our 2425 fiscal year budget um without further Ado I'd like you introduce thank you and Madam mayor sorry before we actually go into that can we do public comment on this item absolutely but before we even do that process before we start disos I do mad mayor um Madame mayor fellow city council members and Madam clerk in the interest of full transpar transparent IES on items D3 and D4 I am disclosing that I serve on the board of directors of the downtown Reno business improvement district a nonprofit organization designed by city council or designated by a city council to implement a clean and safe program of safety ambassadors and maintenance workers throughout downtown Reno items D3 and D4 involve the drps operating plan and budget annual assessment adjustment and sets a hearing for objections on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office here city council appointed me to the DRP board of directors as a director I have a per se commitment and a private capacity to the interests of the DRP pursuant to NRS 281a 0656 the DRP provides clean and safe services that would otherwise fall to the city to provide because the drps interest goals and operations closely align with the city's interest goals operations my commitment in a private capacity to the interests of the DRP would not clearly and materially affect the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my position to Warr an abstention under NRS 281a 423 see um the public officer is not required to abstain from acting on matters involving a nonprofit a nonprofit entity Madam clerk please accept this disclosure and Lodge it in the record for this meeting in subsequent meetings pertaining to these agenda items thank you thank you received thank you okay thank you so much uh any other council members I believe I have a disclosure so hold on um I don't want to keep anyone uh from moving forward but uh Madam clerk do you have any public comment on this item I do we have Jeff Siri with the club caleva and siries casino yay hi come on up great to see you good afternoon Madame mayor C City Council Members I'm Jeff s I'm the President Chief Executive Officer of Club Cana in series Casino um CA is now the oldest casino in the City of Reno I've been downtown Reno now for 43 years seen a lot of changes in the City of Reno and we've met with a lot of challenges in the last few years with the the the postco issues and with homelessness with drugs with uh uh um mental health issues that have come up um challenges to our business those those challenges include you know people coming into our businesses and and disrupting our businesses and so the DRP has been a fantastic resource in helping us keep our business operating in a manner that is uh safe to us safe to our customers and um hopefully will allow us to continue to be successful along in the future with that saying Naoma has done a fantastic job as the executive director um and I'm I'm happy to support her in everything she does she she's met a lot of lot of challenges over her time and she always finds resources to to make those challenges work and get get things done in this area so um I encourage you to give her the the financial support um and the resources that she needs to continue working with all the agencies she works with to keep this uh DRP moving in the right direction and we can continue to have safe and clean and prosperous uh businesses in downtown Reno so thank you very much thank you appreciate the comments okay uh any more public comment all right we have one more registering right now the one and only Phil McDougall in the house and I should thank you you have a son that is one of Reno's finest at our Reno Police Department so come on come on up and give us your public comment well thank you very much everyone Phil McDougle president of the national automobile museum uh I just want to share just my experience the last three years uh under the direction of Noma and her team I have not seen such a impactful they they've been so impactful I can't even explain it to you I'm going to just share a couple of things that we are on the Lake Street side anything from the Lake Street side it's a different environment from my perspective there and when we have a call when we have a need before I even hang up the phone I walking out the door the ambassadors are there so in our world when people are coming to visit us through our entryway we could not do it without their support and I just think it's important when people are typically talking about their complaints not only today to support them in the budget but make sure the community knows and they know on a regular basis what an impact they make so I'm here 100% behind them to support them in the budget needs because firsthand I see in a daily basis where we are and we could not do it with them their program and their support and her leadership so thank you all right thank you so much Mr McDougall mad mayor else we have no additional public comment but for the record we did receive 12 letters or voicemails um 11 in support and one of concern that has been distributed to the Reno city council okay fantastic thank you so much so here's what I'm going to do um cler uh Madam clerk for the record we will have a presentation before we take any action I need to read a disclosure okay thank you go ahead hello Mr mcardell hello good afternoon Madame mayor vice mayor and council members Brian McCardle revitalization manager for the record do we have my presentation cool excellent April 24 every project great um so we're here today to present uh something we do annually the uh allow the department or the downtown Reno partnership to present the downtown Reno business improvement district operating plan budget and any proposed assessment adjustments this is something we do every year we've done for the last 7 years uh and this is the first step in the process of not only um allowing them to Showcase what their plan is for the year but to start the process to actually Levy the assessment uh and today is the first day where we do that the next agenda item would be uh once that budget is approved is setting the date and time to have a a public hearing where at that public hearing we hear any complaints objections to the assessment as well as any hardship requests uh there is a process for people to request a hardship based on based on income um we will hear those and then on May uh 8th we will hear those and then do the first reading of the assessment and then it gets it gets ratified so this is just the first step in a process we do every year just to bring you up to speed on how the bid was created um NRS 271 allows for the levian assessment for neighborhood Improvement projects and so the downtown business improvement district is actually considered a neighborhood Improvement project and in 2017 that Puma downtown action plan requested or recommended that the city create a downtown business improvement district the following year a management plan was developed and the DRP was contracted the down T A partnership was contracted to uh Essen essentially manage and deploy based on that that management plan and the downtown business improvement district has mainly four objectives it's one to stabilize downtown streets focus on economic development Community Development be a unified voice and Champion for downtown and provide accountability to those people who are paying that assessment rate just to cover what the bid does and does not do uh the bid does not cover standard based services in the downtown area um currently the downtown as a base level receives all the same Services the rest of the city receives what the bid does is provide a budget to do additional services on top of all that um and the first one is the standard service it is a assessment based on the property values and that is to do a clean and safe program which is the ambassadors we see going around they engage with the homelessness provide uh Hospitality Services it also provides for leadership and economic development for all the things that the bid does and then it does a marketing communication so that standard service assessment Prov provides the budget for those three things beyond that there is a premium rate that is based on the linear footage of how those properties faced a designated area and that allows for additional cleaning and services like little removal pulling weeds um cleaning public infrastructure and and facil and facilities and fixtures and then the last one the Third Rate is uh more daily Improvement and M M on Virginia Street specifically and they pay the businesses that up front Virginia Street directly pay for that Services um the bid does contract back so the bid collects the money uh it does contract back with the city uh maintenance and operations team to do things like pressure washing and stuff like that so they collected and they actually contracted back with us to do those things and then for the first three years of that management plan and the contract the bid agreed to pay for supplemental police services but only for the first three years and this is the boundary line everyone in that red uh perimeter pays for that standard level of service the beige area is the premium and that green along Virginia Street is the premium plus boundary in that agreement it requires that the the downturn range of partnership come on an annual basis and essentially do the following things propose if they want to change the boundary line at all uh they will they'll propose the services they provide plan to provide for the next fiscal year uh they estimate what those expenses will be and what sort of revenues they expect from that assessment uh they can change the rate up or down by 5% annually and they have to state if they're if they're rolling over if they have a deficit from the previous year and if they have any revenues coming from outside agencies just to give a teaser and I'll let uh the executive director Neil mardan come up and explain this a bit more uh the bid board can decide to raise rate or lower rates by 5% every year they've decided to lower rates this year uh but that rate essentially has not changed since the creation of the bid either the standard service or the extra Services have primarily remained flat since the bid was created this year they decided to to lower rates by 5% however given that property values have been increasing in downtown even with the lowering of that 5% assessment rate the bid has a 4% increase in their annual budget every year of about $170,000 this is their the budget summary that they uh provided uh the program Services is mainly Ambassador services and things like that they do have some rollover funds from the previous year they do have $100,000 in Revenue that they get from outside entities and then based on the operating expenses and that maintenance they pay every year this is how that budget um lines out and so again this is just the first step of the process I'll invite the executive director to come up and give their annual presentation following that we'll roll into actually the process of of leving the assessment um I can get to this in the next agenda item but the process is that we hold a public hearing we hear any complaints protests and objections and those hardship requests after that is passed we start the process of adopting the ordinance and I'll leave that motion for after the presentations Madam mayor yes do you want to give your disclosure or may I ask a question of Staff want to make sure uh our city attorneys um I'm okay to hold off on disclosure until we before we make any deliberation and action correct um I has the disclosure been delivered to you yes but I'm reading it to for its accuracy right now okay so yes so it's okay to yeah don't you're not participating you are just yes you're this is a placeholder until you can give your disclosure thank you for putting that on the record go ahead K bre has 3 minutes okay so Mr Mardo last year um I did not support the process you know it's multi-step as you mentioned and the reason for that was there was going to be a 5-year review and we you know my history is the longest with this I was the city liaison when I came in in 2012 to the two assessment districts the maintenance and the police ones which the precursors as you mentioned in your staff report I was The Advocate that we do to the downtown action plan that then came into the concept of having a bit so it was kind of like something I was very involved in very invested in for many years but I also understood we had an obligation we did the engineers report that's good for 10 years as I recall but that five-year analysis report evaluation I was never contacted um I never saw it where is that evaluation there was uh some work done to essentially qualify that we had completed that evaluation uh but the bid did do a five-year annual review this year we have gone through and um reviewed all the services provided essentially reassessing and readjusting everything for this next coming fiscal year um that is sufficient in many people's eyes as as for the 5year evaluation but you're correct at the end of 10 years the bid essentially does have to be re looked at and essentially rechartered in a way yeah well you know cuz I have the history and right before Mr um who was the gentleman who was the first director um what was his name Alex yeah he and I were having very solid discussions about the process you know when he was the executive director about what was going to happen and how it was going to happen recognizing you know the importance of it and then it just went away and then I recall he left Miss Jordan came over she had a cooling off period and couldn't participate with the city for a while so I didn't support it last year but I really wanted to see it and when you say some people think what they've done is adequate I mean I'm the one who has to make the commitment to tax particularly the residents so you know I'm the one who I feel needs to be satisfied that we're owning up to and standing up to what you know we outlined of how we do do that and I don't see it I didn't I was really looking forward to reading your proposal and here's the 5year evaluation even though I was never you know asked to be an evaluator but um I just I I don't know I I guess you know I'm disappointed that you know I take it very seriously of assessing these people each year and we're not following through with what we said we do all right any other council members want to weigh in NOP all right anyone else nope okay great then we're going to move forward thank you Nea jarden executive director for the downtown Reena partnership the presentation well hello nice to see you nice to see like I said it must be uh past council members day it must be it must be what an exciting day to be on uh this side of the diets I can say from experience that the work you all do is tremendous and important and um you guys deliberated beautifully earlier and worked through some issues and I just want to say from sitting out in the audience that uh kudos to all of you for the questions you asked I I haven't got to witness it all from that side so thank you very much um I am going to run through some slides I know you all have had a very long meeting and it it it's not even close to being done yet so I'm going to run through these going to do a little look back for the last year and then we'll talk about some of our priorities going forward do I oh oh oh hang on here we go I can do this um so first things I'm going to run through this and where yep I think we got it I think we got it am I supposed to point it at a certain place can I just say next slide this there we go okay so I'm going to run through this really quickly I know um Brian McCardell went over it already again 110 block area that the downtown Reno partnership represents 1500 Property Owners again formed in 2018 we are a 501 C6 nonprofit that is governed by a 17 member board we Levy assessments we do not Levy taxes we again are a private entity we are not a public board uh government board um and I did want to point point out of our 17 member board that five of those 17 members live in downtown so we get great representation in the downtown area uh here I have just a quick summary maybe some of you will recognize some of these faces and the Very diverse areas of downtown or businesses that they represent so just of course we have our board chair Chris Shanks here and our vice chair Tony Marini and you saw Jeff Siri was here a little bit ago he may still be here um and you see behind me is the most important people in the room which is the ambass I'm going to be as quick as I can because we want them out on the street doing their jobs but I know many of you have interacted with them and so we wanted to have them here in the event there were some questions uh just some quick snapshots I we have printed this out and you have it before you um I appreciate councilwoman doers um liking things in a bigger font these days I need them in a bigger font as well so we printed that out and we gave it to you so you could see some of these impressive numbers of which I will run through them with you uh 117200 lb of trash collected in a one-year period this is such an astronomical amount of trash collected and disposed of I just can't even tell you just to quantify how much trash this is it is a lot we were out there 247 collecting it and disposing of it and this is just some visual representations of of what the ambassadors do on a daily basis 486 pieces of graffiti that we remove we remove it from public spaces we try to uh do everything we can if it's on some painted areas if we need some special paint we can paint over it and again they are there quickly to remove it because if you know if if graffiti stays around it proliferates and becomes a much bigger problem so they are very fast to remove graffiti in the downtown area shopping carts 836 shopping carts that we have recovered and returned to their owners in the last year so we at the downtown Reno partnership have made it a priority to engage with indiv ual who may be using these carts to transport their personal items and what we are um talking with individuals about is how these shopping carts prevent them being able to access Services you can't take a cart into a transport to get to a service you can't get into a shelter or a service with these carts and so the ambassadors have great trust and relationships with the individ homeless individuals and we offer them bags or suitcases to better help them transport their personal items and then we collect these shopping carts we have a great partnership with the City of Reno we bring them back to our base and a uh individual with the City of Reno comes picks them up and gets them back to their rightful owners again these are stolen property um and we want to get them back to where they belong five uh over 5,000 pressure washes 15 minutes we try to get there if you call us on our hotline and pressure wash all the things you can imagine that happen on our sidewalks and in the public spaces in the downtown core uh people aren't as diligent about picking up after their dogs as we would like them to be or maybe there's been some uh sodas or things or encampment uh leftovers that need to be pressure washed and we are out there with our pressure washing truck uh on a daily basis responding to calls um and cleaning those messes up over 38,000 stakeholder check-ins this is such a significant part of what we do on a daily basis our ambassadors are always out there cleaning always engaging with individuals that may need services but they also go into the businesses and engage with the Proprietors and they are constantly conversing with them what are you seeing what do you need um is there something that you have been witnessing that's maybe a little different in your area this information that we get from the businesses is just invaluable to help us respond and deploy services and um we find these check-ins to be really really valuable Social Service referrals you can see just the huge volume of Social Service referrals everything from the VA hospital to shelters to Social Security to mental health facilities to Health Care Facilities our ambassadors individualize what the need is and help to transport the individuals to that need so you can see just the volume that we do on an annual basis of those referrals and transports just going to run through some before and afters this is the Riverwalk area you can see some of the encampment um things that con occur there in a very short amount of time the ambassadors engage connect individuals with resources and then they clean up and clear the areas and we try to do that before the sun comes up um and everybody opens their doors for business again just some before and afters under the Arlington Bridge you can see some areas here that they they're addressing and Wingfield Park uh this is a significant Park in our downtown and we spend a fair amount of time here connecting people with resources cleaning and clearing the areas and um coming through and pressure washing after before and after on some railroad tracks at Fourth and record um we had a meeting earlier this week down in Carson City uh in front of the endot board to talk about the difficulties that we at the downtown Reno partnership are having as well as the City of Reno is having in h getting Union Pacific to help in addressing issues that are on their private property this is a representation of where the ambassadors go and help connect people to services and clear the area at a volume that is inordinate to anything else in the downtown the railroad tracks are really a a problem area that we continue to have difficulties in resolving we have the congressman amid's attention and he helped us to get in front of the endot board to try to come up with some resolutions to get Union Pacific to come to the table in a more substantive way to help address these issues on a more in a higher frequency to to address this public health and safety issue so this area here is an ongoing problem and again this is at fourth in record if you're standing on Fourth Street looking North and you can see if you look a little closer there those are fire remnants that uh occur there with some regularity if you stand on Fourth Street again and you look to your South this is looking at record street where the community Assistance Center buildings are as well as uh the Gospel Mission who has some services that they provide and you can see the sorts of crowds that gather here and some of the uh materials that can uh grow here additionally we do see a tremendous amount of trash waste human waste that occurs in this area and uh we come in and help to clean clean up the area but this as you can see on the left is when there is some Services being provided and then on the right um Gospel Mission was closed for a little period of time and you can see that um not as much gathers there overnight ambassadors last time we came to you we were very excited decied to announce the launch of an overnight ambassador program this was such a big deal for us because one it hadn't been done here in in in Reno before for sure but as a 24-hour town the ability to have presence and patrolling over the night hours is so significant for our downtown because as you know um lots of things can happen in the dark of night or they can establish that all of a sudden when the sun comes up people are having to deal with so our team of ambassadors overnight they go out and they patrol all the dark spaces they're going down the alleys they're literally shining a light in the dark places and we really have seen a tremendous Improvement um in some of those early morning things that we would see before because of this overnight team so they don't always get all the Kudos that they deserve because they're out working in the middle of the night but I just want to give a special shout out to our overnight team who has just done a tremendous job two new tools that we gotten the last year we have if you see on the left there we we name all of our equipment and we have dubbed this piece of equipment scrubs scrubs is actually on loan from the City of Reno and it is a sidewalk scrubber sweeper and we take uh her out and and clean the sidewalks and and she's just been a great uh piece of equipment for us to have on the right is uh Tommy truck and our Tommy truck we uh got a arpa contribution from the City of Reno we were able to purchase this truck and I can tell you the pounds of trash that we picked up from last year to this year went up significantly because of this truck because we didn't have a place in which to put the materials and get them to the dump so the truck has done just a tremendous job of helping us to really increase the volume of trash that we can dispose of uh in the downtown core and it's much cleaner because of it City walks I would be remiss if I didn't talk about Jackie Bryant and the incredible uh thing that she proposed about a year ago to bring all the different entities and agencies together to do City walks in down town to do a number of things I don't think she knew when she started this the success that we would have but what it did is it brought everything together at the street level to experience what it's like out on the street you can experience the things you're seeing you can experience what uh homeless individuals are encountering and experiencing it brought together code enforcement law enforcement our ambassadors housing Specialists it really broke down silos that may have existed within the entities and agencies previously because there is nothing like walking with a group of people in below freezing temperatures or 100 plus degrees and dealing with issues and then you just get a great understanding of what other people are doing in a similar space you may have had a perception or an impression but when you're out there working together on a common goal those things go away and you have a better relationship and understanding of the of the the mission that we're all on and that's to make us safer cleaner and more vibrant downtown so kudos to Jackie Bryant marketing and media marketing has always been a component of our contract with the City of Reno and we are happy to say under the great um leadership of Kristen sabini with us if you've seen our social it has increased tremendously and we are out there um on all the social sites posting information providing stats and really tring trying to drive up information about what we're doing on a daily basis in downtown we have uh we have newsletters lunch and learns we go out into the communities and really hear from the individual neighborhoods about what they're experiencing what their needs are what their wants are and um we also have a new website if you've not gone to it it is tremendous and it has a ton of information it wasn't so great before I think it was held together by gum and tin foil but now we can really put some more information in there and do some great things we're also out there doing community presentations on literally a weekly basis at every entity that will will hear us to share information and let them know about the stuff that we're doing and and gather feedback DRP in the news we we try to get out there again and and get some information out to to let our assessment payers know in addition to our our lunch and learns what they're getting for it but to let the community at large know because sometimes there can be perceptions about we what we are or aren't doing and so we really try to get out there and share as much information as we can about the stuff that we're providing and the new initiatives that we've launched and you can just see some of the summaries here um and of course we have some amazing ambassadors that we try to always highlight in some of our media again here's some of our social please follow us uh you can get some great information there again thank you Kristen sabini for doing a great job vac can storefront beautification this was another program that we launched this last year and what this did is it sought to find a way in which to beautify some blighted closed buildings um in a way that was eye-catching colorful and artistic with the clear understanding we want these buildings occupied we want people in there we want the buildings sold we want them activated we all want that you want that the reality ities are we don't always have control and in these instances with private properties don't have the control to make someone do something with their property but what we can do is do a more expanded role of the in between so when we're left with conditions of fencing or or blighted boarded up buildings we can get creative which is some best practices in other cities that we went out and and did some research on and we can engage artists to do some something on the sore frontages while in particular we are in economic downturn we're in a flat period right now and so having some empty buildings is something that we have to deal with the now you know what what are we doing to beautify them in the now while everybody's working on the next or how to get uh these buildings occupied and this is an example that we did with a local artist here Ian Harrison he did just a fantastic job of beautifying these properties they light up and if you kind of squint on the Nugget on the left there the little nugget what's the little nugget known for do you see it it's there on the left there's a hamburger go back to that what did I do okay oh there we go yes so that is a hamburger on the on the lower left there that is the awful offer so he did he did a fantastic job and we got so much good feedback we see so many people taking Instagram uh and pictures in front of this and again at night if you go downtown you'll see they're all lit up and it's it really is a vibrant space that people um otherwise it just would be dark and bled blue carpet treatment we literally for new businesses or expanding businesses in downtown we roll out the blue carpet we have blue stanions in blue carpet and we just celebrate those that are coming into downtown and investing in the core of our city and you can see some of the examples here where we have we have uh come and celebrated those new businesses and we're so thankful for them for for investing in our downtown and we we just scream it from the from the rooftops and that's your Cafe right here in your lobby some hosted events that we did this last year on the left there is roll and Reno it was a roller skating event that we held on Locomotion Plaza and I have to say out of all the special events that we did in the last year this was the biggest hit we must have had 300 people that showed up for this event about 80% brought their own skates which I thought was an interesting uh statistic but the entity that came and put this on they brought the skates they brought the music they brought the lights and we brought some resources in to just activate this space and um we heard from everybody that attended whether it was visitors or residents they said we had no idea what was going on downtown we haven't been down here in a while oh my goodness can you do this more what this does is it brings people who maybe have an old perception of what Reno was to bring them down and have an experience that gives them A New Perspective and so these types of events I think are really critical to have in the heart of our city on the right is we have at our um office location at partnership Plaza we hosted downtown Tuesdays and this is where we brought in food trucks and music and local artists and brought the community members and the locals out to just enjoy the space which we have have totally renovated ated and it's no longer blighted and awful lunch and learns I touched on this earlier we used to do quarterly Town Halls um it's tough to do a town hall and really dive into the specific neighborhood issues because the issues of a business on Four Street is dramatically different than a resident issue so what we did is we divided it up into the different districts and we go into those districts and dive into the specific issues um whether it's the residents or the brewery District or the Riverwalk District the next one will be the Arts Theater and Museum lunch and learn these have had a great turnout we've been able to share a ton of information and we've also built um relationships they've built them with each other during these lunch and learns so these have been a great success and we're very happy about uh the outcome event support we're there for every special event we we surround the areas we clean it we go through it offer um directions you know they need a restaurant referral and we're just there as a additional support during all of our tremendous special events that we have downtown that draw by the way did you know that there is 10 times the entire population of the city of Reno visits downtown for special events 10 times so when you talk about the resources for downtown you have to understand that 10 times the entire population of the city Areno comes to downtown on an annual basis downtown event foot traffic we track all the foot traffic for all these special events this is so that we can see how things things are what events uh how things are trending you can see here some statistics Nathan dangi in our office uh tracks all of our data and does an amazing job as our economic development director and anytime if you need any data for downtown Nathan is your guy he's got it all he can tell you all these things and you can see coming out of the pandemic people are hungry for special events they want to have an experience they want to come together and they they want to have the shared um experience and we want to offer as many of these as we can downtown particularly when economic conditions stall out a little you want to be able to keep the foot traffic coming into the core of your city um while some other things maybe the vertical construction might be uh taking a little bit longer so this is just some examples downtown developments going to hit on this one a little bit here because um I think sometimes uh we can focus on the things that aren't happening but we want to focus on the things that are happening we have some tremendous developments happening in downtown and here's just a few of them from vintage at Washington which I know this group had a tremendous amount to do with Ballpark Apartments the UNR business building the Nevada Museum of Art is doing this in massive expansion it is pretty tremendous and then University Crossing which is right off the freeway um Jimmy John's Wing Zone Teriyaki planets they're all coming in great things coming to downtown to be an amenity for everybody living working or the students um visiting downtown partnership Plaza quickly this is our plaza where our offices are used to be the RTC bus station was if you look at the bottom right photo this is what it looked like previously it had Jagged rocks and all the flower beds it didn't have any seating on it um it was pretty blighted and awful and um it wasn't the best thing when people were traversing from downtown or Virginia Street over to the brewery District or the downtown Event Center or the ballroom this was not a space that you wanted to stop at and it's certainly not a space you wanted to uh spend any time and so what we did was we went in one of the first initiatives when I came on was to completely renovate the space so we have secured it we have planted all the flowers we had over a 100 volunteers that planted over a thousand plants we have 44 mature trees that are fantastic I know that's your passion councilwoman dur and they are magnificent right now if you get a chance come by it looks amazing this has really become a beautiful space and this is what you can do when you put a little elbow grease and get the community to come out and be a part of it City collaborations I want to thank the council members um and City staff that have come out to either be a part of renovating a space or walking with our ambassadors I know councilwoman Ebert you came out on a particularly hot day as I recall but you got a perspective of what our ambassadors deal with 100 plus degrees minus freezing 24/7 and so it it was I appreciate very much all the council members that have come out walked with our ambassadors which are the heart and soul of the organization or or spent some time at our plaa to just experience some of the changes that we're making now we're going to look ahead here's the here's the stuff we're so excited about going forward so we're looking to increase our ambassadors type and the number we're looking to launch a security ambassador program bringing our numbers of ambassadors from 28 to 32 we want to deploy some other resources in downtown and I have a couple slides here I'll just jump right into them so security ambassadors what are these and why do you need them well the national Trend since the pandemic is to move in the directions of licensed security Personnel many cities Across the Nation and there are some 1,600 business Improvement districts Across the Nation are moving in the dire direction of having some component of their organization being security ambassadors I don't know if you all know but our ambassadors current ly don't have any sort of defensive protection measure and they're out there doing the tough work and difficult conditions and so having a security ambassador program to augment what we're already doing while they're cleaning up issues they're engaging with individuals is really a significant safety issue for us but also offers us an opportunity to put security ambassadors in hotspot areas to help deter some of the things that we're seeing repetitively in some of the areas and we work very closely with Reno Police Department and collaborate on a weekly basis about what are you seeing where are you seeing it um they they are supportive of us um going in this direction and this will really just provide an augmented security for the Ambassador team as well as the downtown uh in in everything that they do and it'll help to increase that feeling of safety downtown you know crime has gone down in downtown but people perceive that it's not as safe as it could be so another benefit of deploying the security ambassadors is to drive up that sense of Safety and Security when you're coming to downtown whether you're an employee or a visitor or a student we really want to focus on the security Ambassador team as the next step again many cities Across the Nation have done this um so this is the next step that we want to move to this is a gator to enhance our cleaning uh we can't get our washing truck into some of the narrow areas of downtown so we want to buy one of these four-wheeled Gators to get us on the river path to do some additional cleaning as well as get into these tighter spaces um because our truck just can't get into everything DRP hosted events we want to do more of the roller skating um that was such a big hit we want to continue to do that and then we want to continue to host events at our Plaza as well they can store from beautification so I would be remiss if I didn't tell you some of the blight in downtown has become what you're looking at this is such a significant part of our downtown it is adjacent to the arch the most photographed image in all of downtown and this is what you get to see right now so we are proud to say today that we came up with an agreement with the city center Representatives yesterday and we are going to be doing this so we know we want this space activated we want it populated we want it beautified we want this project to go forward the realities are is that it may be fenced off for a while so we want to be able to screen that so that the the hundreds of thousands of visitors that come to our region on a basis aren't looking at the interior of the blight that's on some of this property and again we as an organization you as as council members don't have control to make them construct this any sooner and some may giggle this is important to the stakeholders downtown very important to those that pay our assessments next we have a map if you go to any other City you will see that uh when you go to your hotel or you you see some imagery in your downtown with its um with some of its branding there's a map and it directs you to some of the highlights or the districts where where you may be visiting so we have put together this map and you can see it's got some creative imagery on it um what's cool about about this map is that QR code that you see down in the right hand corner we are building this out still it's although a lot of it is complete you'll be able to click on this uh scan this code and you'll be able to find every parking spot in downtown whether it's a parking garage whether it's parking meters whether it's customer only parking you'll be able to scan this and and find all that out additionally we're we're building in all of the businesses within the bid boundaries within this map so let's say you're at the Discovery Museum and you want to go get a coffee you could say you know what I want to go let me see I'm going to scan this I'm going to find the parking or or where I can walk nearby maybe get a coffee so this is going to become an asset for everybody visiting the downtown so they can Orient themselves all this is within walking distance by the way state of downtown Nathan de Gangi again has put together tremendous data on all things downtown this is such an asset for our people that want to invest in downtown or considering investing in downtown uh want to know what is the demographic makeup what is what construction is going on what has been completed what is on the horizon how many a just what is the parks and open space so this uh should be published here pretty soon and we are looking to hold an annual state of downtown um luncheon as well to share this information bid parcel groups we were asked last year and sometimes we get asked who pays the majority of the bid assessments so we did this breakdown you can see the vast majority comes from commercial properties followed by residential and City of Reno and again residential gets a 15% discount off of the formula the rate formula and uh nonprofits and governments pay 50% one of the biggest things that our board voted on this about three months ago was to be in tune with the the conditions out on the street what is what is happening with our public spaces and our commercial properties what is trending with our residents what are people experiencing with um getting tenants what is the vacancy rates and what we found is there are still some challenges going on this is not unique to Reno this is global um but what the board decided was to say we're going to do what we can with what's in our control and we are going to lower our assessment formula by 5% so while increases in property values have outpaced the 5% we went to the maximum of what we could do to provide some relief to you know property owners and and to stimulate further interest in the downtown Corp so kudos to our board this hasn't been done before again here's the assessment formula rate table and Brian McCardle touched on this as well this just shows you the history happy to share this if you guys don't have it I think you do though and then the final slide um is our budget you saw this in your materials as well just shows you kind of what our overall budget is and and the main areas um where we're focusing on so with that I hope I wasn't too horribly long um any questions that anybody may have all right thank you so much I appreciate the presentation um and then also I know that uh there was some outbursts over there so maybe you guys could come in public comment and address how you feel about it so I appreciate it pardon yes that would be great thank you madam mayor um hold on before we move on I want to um I want to do something I think that this is really important um gosh I don't know why but like this room just today just have felt so heavy and stressful and no matter what you do you can't get it right you know I know right and you'll be criticized for anything you do even when you do something good it's always going to be criticized and it's um you know it's tough and you know I also want to say like I think we do a pretty good job working with um amongst the community uh one of like I just want to point out um you guys have done a really good job working out with community members I think the city has we certainly listened to your concerns work with rise we sat down made that happen and I so I want to make sure that you guys know um you know we're always at the table I think and open for any suggestions in any capacity um but I do want to point that out because I think it's always it's become an really really incredibly challenging landscape so I also I'm going to read a disclosure before I start um and again it's kind of you know pertains to you know the very difficult landscape uh now more than ever and um you know something that gives me incredible anxiety um and I'm going to read it uh it's in regards to the GPS tracker that was put on my carb and especially since I know there are people in this room that know who did it and um it's really distressing so I also want to put this disclosure on to the record um and then I would ask Madame clerk to please um I would ask to please make copies uh for council members that need this disclosure I think that that's important that they have it for their records as well um fellow city council members and Madam clerk item D3 and four involves the acceptance of the downtown Reno partnership fiscal year 2025 bid operation plan and budget and fixing the public hearing to receive complaints and objections I understand that Josh Hicks and attorney from McDonald corano represents the bid in this matter in my private life I've retained Adam Hosmer Henner a partner at McDonald corano to represent me on a civil matter unrelated to the bid and Mr Hicks I don't even really know you I just know you represent the bid so I want to make that very very clear uh I've sought guidance from the city attorney's office as a client of of McDonald Gano I have been advised that I may have a commitment in a private capacity to the interest of McDonald corano perer to NRS 281 a065 that said any action that I may take on item D3 and four would not be reasonably affected by my commitment in a private capacity to the interest of McDonald corano this item has nothing to do with my civil case to the best of my knowledge at any action I may take today on this item will not have any imp act on me or McDonald Gano given that this is not a clear case where the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my situation would be materially affected by my commitment in a private capacity to the interest of McDonald corano abstention is not warranted absten is not warranted the fact that I am represented by McDonald corano will not impact my ability to impartially review and render a decision upon this particular agenda item Madam clerk please accept this disclosure for this meeting pertaining to this agenda item thank you very much as you can see it's um still very emotional especially when people put um these types of devices on your car um in that capacity so I want to make sure that um I read that disclosure because it's um been very trying and and challenging especially then whenever you have to relive it so thank you very much uh Mr Shipman I appreciate you all right getting back on track um and then just giving me copies Madam clerk would be great um any questions from uh for the bid director neoma jarden go ahead uh councilwoman dur I appreciate you let me just start by saying how wonderful it is to see you and um I appreciate all those comments about being on this side of the D that side of the Das and um the incredibly hard work that you and your team have done I see the ambassadors everywhere um they're always out doing cool stuff working on stuff talking to people introducing themselves I mean it's really working and they are not only taking care of security and um trash but they're welcoming people to our town it's so very important as a major tourist town um that we have people like that even to help them find a bathroom right um so I just I can't say enough about it it's you know the presentation was very informative you made the comment about the trees and it was very I actually teared up myself because there has there had been a proposal to tear down all those trees and put a motel a hotel in their place and um lots of debate about that but now 10 years later you're actually seeing you know getting to enjoy you and your whole staff and team the beauty of those trees and you know it is the only um downtown space uh like that's a Civic Plaza that has trees no other one does it's the only one that we do have um so it's a special place and I'm so so happy that you were able to take out the aggressive uh rocks uh Jagged materials that were placed there and make it a welcoming place that's so important to me um I had a couple just a couple real quick questions because I know we've been talking about this for a long time uh today and that was I was interested when you mentioned the carts and I wanted to know did you have when you talk to people about their carts and that it it prevents them from getting Services did you have another alternative for people in their carts yes what was that we do I'm trying to pull up the slide here I think it was way back it was towards the beginning I wish I would had the photo of what we I almost interrupt I think he just passed it yeah so what we do is um and we're we're always open to donations if anybody has large suitcases with wheels on it 40 East 4 street is where our offices are please donate them that is the the main thing that people are always looking for are the larger wheeled suitcases um we have some great relationships with the Katie Grace Foundation um but we have just cleaned them out of all their um suitcases so those are fantastic and then we also have some additional bags that are kind of a reinforced handles so we help them transfer their items into that um so they have something that they can still transport their items but we can get the um stolen carts back to their rightful owners as well and maybe you even need a backpack or something I don't know we you know what and and Katie Grace has actually been pretty tremendous and and offering backpacks as well but yeah those wheeled suitcases the other question I had you brought up a really difficult issue and that's with the Union Pacific Railroad and I just wonder I mean it's you don't have to answer but I I do want to put it out there it seems incredible to me that we can not even consider finding finding this Pro private property owner for allowing This Disaster to occur on their property so my time's up but you understand what I'm talking about and I really think we should take some kind of enforcement action we've been talking to them for years they have to take responsibility for their property and maybe code enforcement should start writing up tickets I'm sorry Union Pacific but that's how I feel we share in your frustration it is our highest location where we um address issues and we too have been frustrated with their response of coming out lack or lack of coming out uh every 3 months maybe um as you know these issues can't wait three 3 months um and and the the resources that we're expending that your staff is expending and the cost associated with it from law enforcement to the you know toxic waste cleanup is is just it's unreasonable for them they're acting like it's private public property and it's private property it's not so we share in that frustration and we we verbalize that at the end. meeting on Monday okay I also I I I find it just hard to believe too um that they don't care more about uh the dangers of what that could do to someone right we presented some um that's never been part of the discussion with them and it's really dis uh really concerning that they don't have any regard of how dangerous it is for people there's fires uh that are started next to we have a photo that shows a a tanker next to where there was clearly there had been a fire and um you know just the volume of people and materials so close to the railroad tracks is really a safety Public Safety and Health concern and um just to to give you a visual of in a one-year basis between what the City of Reno and we collect and dispose of it would feel fill macki Stadium up to almost my height wow so that's just the volume off of properties along the railroad tracks we're not talking about the rest of downtown or the rest of the city limits we're talking their private property and I know they say we're meeting with the City of Reno and we're being good partners uh there's a meeting coming up and I hope they live up to that but they haven't to this point yeah all right uh councilwoman Ebert stepped out so we will skip her going to council woman uh breus yeah thank you Miss Jordan it's good to see you I appreciate your enthusiasm for um the job you're doing and a lot of good stuff but I you know am the The Five-Year analysis hasn't been done Mr uh McArdle said there's something somewhere that some people feel suffices and I will have a copy of that um because it's in our contract with you I will have that from May 20th but that's you know leving these when the folks you know all the residential folks get their cards about their Levy I I need to say that we're we're following a contractual agreement you know that's what I need to do and I I know you said they're only doing 524,000 for the residential but these residences down here are taxed pretty heavily because they're also paying special assessments on the railroad tracks and maybe even one other so these are the most taxed people in the City of Reno and there are residents and so I hope to see that but um that puts me a concern one question I did want to ask and it would have been in the fiveyear cuz you know I've got the 20 you know how we embarked upon this journey back in 2017 is um your budget was going to have $150,000 at that time of private contribution it's it was said suggested as me private membership and I saw on your budget you have $100,000 of other support where how how is that support coming in that 100,000 and where is it going out what is it supporting that comes from um an RTC contribution that is specific to um the the transfer excuse me the transit station on Fourth Street so that comes from the RTC okay okay so you know that's fine it's your organization to run but you know through the fiveyear and it says membership there I thought you were going to grow a membership organization and have other support to go you know for other services that were coming going to come in from the private sector and you know I didn't hear that and I just want to also confirm that that is those numbers we're seeing is the total budget for the downtown Reno partnership your organization yes yeah okay okay so the 100,000 you don't have a membership you're getting money from RTC to backfill that okay okay no and and just about the fiveyear review um you know we we have met with the residents that was our very first lunch and learn in meeting with the residents and our board did conduct a the 5-year strategic plan um and we do have communications with the City of Reno that said through the city's audit process that we have satisfied that 5-year review you know that you know my conversations with Mr satinsky my agreement to go and Levy these people and set up this was all based upon something different and that's why I'm I continue to have issues with it I'm just sharing what my experience is okay is that it all right what about Mr Martin us anything okay Miss Taylor thank you madam vice mayor I am thrilled with everything that you do and all of the ambassadors I am so lucky to have you in our neighborhoods thank you we're not supposed to be clapping but I'm wondering um I'm so thrilled I want more um so if it would be agreeable to you and your team and our team at city um the city staff I would love to see your service is expanded just a little bit West for all of Wingfield and Barbara Bennett and along the river um that would be my only because I think we the ambassadors do such a great job and then they cross the street um when they're working with people and the I think it causes some more problems for downtown the other thing I would just like to highlight um slide 37 if you could bring that back up again of 444 I apologize we had so much to celebrate we put a lot of slides in here okay hang on one second fourth 5 6 37 yes this is a big deal yes this is a huge deal and I don't I mean I am so excited about this because living downtown being one of the residents down there I it's our top five concern is this building and being able to do anything to beautify it just a little bit is huge and I know that you have worked tired lessly with the property owners and the banks so thank you so much for this it means a lot to the people that live down there and I think to the people that are going to be visiting there so thank you very much that's all I have thank you member eert anything yeah so is is a budget what pays for this artwork here we um just kind of like the uh beautification program that we did uh at the little nugget and the Horseshoe we go in with the property owners and we discuss um you know how we might be able to screen or beautify the project so it's a partnership okay so this budget doesn't cover the artwork it would be within um some of our budget yes okay yeah okay and then the other artwork that you showed um the painting I I don't remember what slide is on I apologize yeah I know let me scan back through all these multiple slides this two was a partnership with the property owners okay so who who picked the artist in that situation is it the board works on it or does the property owner uh a little bit of both because both had a little bit of skin in the game okay so um we worked with the private property owners and then um uh with the with the artist okay did you get any Community feedback on that at all or was it just kind of like because I know yeah since it's private property um and and we we kind of go with what the private property owner and their contribution and investment so we went that that okay all right thank you okay what about um council member ree I don't know if you're still in line or have questions for uh the DRP yes I do thank you so much thanks um first of all um jardan it's a pleasure to see you I'm so sorry that I'm not there in person uh but I will tell you we've had some very substantive conversations about the work that the downtown Reno business Improvement District is doing while I have been here in Washington DC uh everywhere I've gone on the hill our Senators and our Congressional Delegation have been very uh impressed with the work that you're doing so you are not far from my thoughts even though I'm not there today I wanted to first uh sort of comment about what I have seen as I have gone to other communities and and it's interesting because when you are a council member and you start to travel for any reason you look at what communities are doing to bring back to Reno you also tend to notice things that you might not otherwise have noticed so what I have noticed is in Salt Lake uh here in DC in New York City everywhere you go there is a downtown a business improvement district in DC I found out yesterday that there are 12 uh business Improvement districts and each one of them has very similar missions to provide services I wanted to ask specifically about um some of the narc and training that your staff has actually deployed um I just if you could just fill me in a little bit about that that particular issue is important uh to me and so what can you speak to about that yes thank you councilman ree for bringing that up um yes all of our ambassadors are trained and equipped with Narcan so whether they're on foot or you'll see our T3 that three- World unit that's out there um they all have Narcan they completely understand the importance of administering that and I will share a story with you there have have been many a life saved um with the ambassadors deploying Naran and as many of you may be aware it takes more than one sometimes it takes two or three Narcan distributions uh or um you know giving it to the patient to to to revive them and if you don't think that doesn't have an impact on our ambassadors it does they have seen them blue and dying and have brought them back to life so yes all of our ambassadors are trained on Naran and sadly they use it regularly and um it it's just part of your budget that that's how it's paid for that the training is had do you apply for Grants or how does it happen um all of the above so we um have great relationships with different providers that some some will donate Naran um but we have built it into our budget to make sure that we have a sufficient supply of Naran because we understand the life-saving um properties that it it we like I said administer uh sadly on the on a daily basis and then the other questions I had I wanted to ask first about your bringing back uh some of the related events that you showed earlier I was able to go to a number of the events that happened in the um the Friendship Plaza um and I did not unfortunately make the roller skating but what have you got planned for this season so we're going to do two of the roller skating events and let me see if I can pull that slide up because it actually had the dates on it um on Locomotion Plaza so we're going to do two on Locomotion Plaza Roller Skating um and then we are looking to see a special event on partnership Plaza and um we don't want to completely reveal everything yet but let's just say there might be dogs involved so um we have just such great shade trees and it's just such a great experience during the heat of the summer so so we're looking to use partnership Plaza on the right you see we have these great picnic tables we break out and the music and the trees so um we're we're thinking it's going to be dog centered and can really highlight um some of the great assets we have in downtown that are dog friendly and and we're certainly one of those facilities no that's great if you would just include us on the dates for those when you have them uh be sure to come out I I found them to be very engaging especially those at the um friendship Plaza it was a usually on nights where there wasn't otherwise engagement downtown and I think everyone had good time even when we were maybe snowed or rained out let me also ask um what is it that you need from us when I talk to the downtown Reno residents and also the business owners they all seem very happy with the service that's being provided um and believe very much so and I think we got a number of correspondents related to it that the work that you're doing has improved the downtown environment what can we do to assist and be a partner to you um I would say the the biggest thing you can do is just share our hotline 31348 um and and share that we are there as a resource for what our assessment payers and our properties downtown need and even if it's not within our scope to help fully resolve an issue I mean we're not Towing vehicles and dealing with RVs and that sort of thing we help to direct people to the right place um so that they can get some resolution to their issues so I would just say um share information if you hear somebody talking about something in downtown that they either are excited about want to see or have a concern with please connect them with me anybody that has uh an idea or a concern in downtown just reach out we are here to serve the entire Community we understand that downtown Reno is the heart of Reno and um it needs to thrive and and quite frankly the the um study that the City of Reno did a few years back um forgetting the name of it um said focus on downtown that was that was universally from the community members said we want you to focus on making downtown safe clean and vibrant and we're doing level best to to do that the last thing and the most important thing is just thank an ambassador uh again they're out there doing a difficult job in tough conditions 247 so just say thanks to them and the work that they do this isn't about this isn't me this is all the all the folks in blue that do all the work every day all right any other questions for I keep wanting to say coun councilwoman Jan go ahead go ahead councilwoman Eber I do have a question actually and sorry I forgot to go over at this earlier um it's in regard to the security team M can I just get some more information about that security ambassadors because we have have a police department so what what kind of security work would they be doing so just like any other private entity um including the City of Reno you have security guards that help you protect property and people um and many many businesses do and so the downtown r Partnership is no different than that we are wanting to protect our asset which is the only thing we have to offers people and they're out there in their daily work um additionally we know that you can't put a police officer on every corner it's not fiscally possible they are going to hire calls of service and this security ambassador program again has been done Across the Nation in many cities it's really there to act in that middle space in between ambassadors and police to really augment presence and to address issues um as a security a licensed security Personnel so this is a State Licensing they get equipped with additional equipment um and they just have a broader scope what they do so will they be armed like what kind of additional equipment will they they won't have they won't have they won't have okay okay so I guess I'm just trying to understand like what's the difference between the security team and the downtown uh ambassadors is just what they do yeah yes so what what we currently have is our ambassador team is made up of hospitality ambassadors and they go out and they're the ones that um check on the businesses what do you need what are you seeing um they're the initial ones to engage maybe with our homeless population then we have social service ambassadors so if there's a higher level of need um then those ambassadors step in and they are trained and know how to engage uh with those situations and then we have cleaning ambassadors and while all of us are cleaning all the time if you've seen any of us we have a trash bag and a glove all the time um but what this is It's that next level of security ambassadors our ambassadors don't have any level of protection currently this allows them to protect um our our staff and the work that they're doing as well as help to address some issues out in the community in hotspot areas that this this will will help us to position them to do that in a deterrent way yeah I guess that's what I'm asking like what is that layer of pro protection like what's the difference they're licensed security Personnel okay so it's it's just like any your security guards out here they go through an entirely different licensing and training program okay thank you sorry if I wasn't clear at the beginning all right uh thank you so much okay I'm going to send it to you one second there is someone that I do want to recognize because I would shudder to think if you guys were not doing the work that you're doing I have seen it firsthand it has been remarkable there are stories that truly are Miracles out there um and I love also the culture that you have fosted fostered uh with your whole team and they were all sitting here and I'm super bummed that they left they had to get back to work I know I know but I wanted them to stand up um and really recognize how tough their jobs are and how much they really care and for many of them it's sort of it's even bigger um on a whole broad level and people don't know that about uh the people that you work with cuz they're very special and um I know she just kill me but Danielle I'd love for you to come up here and just because your story just I know she I know I'm embarrassing her but and I don't remember I don't remember how we met um but I just knew right away that I was like you have got to be a part of this team and I am so proud that was how long ago was that over two years ago it was two years ago and this girl has been through so much hardship and said I'm going to pull myself up by you know what do you call it your boot straps anything that you could possibly do how many you have two children I have four oh my God she's got four children and we went through this you were living in a motel you were doing everything possible you came from a really really bad situation domestic violence I mean you are like I don't any have I don't think people understand um how special of the ambassador program is and also what it did for you and you're still here and you did everything that you said you were going to do and I just can't even begin to thank you enough and how much you inspire me you inspire me so much but I would love for you to say a few words because it's just I don't think people know that also so many of the ambassadors have been through such hardships and they're out there because they their love for the community and people but also it's not easy to do what you do so I want people to hear a little bit about your story and why you think it's important that this Council supports you um because I I don't think people realize how much you support our community well thank you I appreciate for the kind words but um I don't think there is words to explain what sorry but um this job's changed my life sorry I get emotional because um when we had first spoke it was because I was getting kicked out of a domestic violence shelter because of the time time not anything that I had done or not following rules was just you only get 90 days and you're booted and um I wasn't about to be homeless again with my children and that's when you had reached out to me and you were like you talked to me I think for a good hour on the phone about just my story and I was just being transparent because I just wanted an opportunity to change you know and um and I was able to do that and at first I was like I could just do this temporarily I've never done anything like this to where I want to make this like a lifelong thing of wherever it is but I my my heart is here because not only do I connect with the people that are that are homeless or in the houseless community but also helps me to connect with the businesses as well because being on the other side of the spectrum of being homeless like you we think people in business don't care we think the people that are higher up and are don't care but you you do you guys do care we bring that bridge I think we bring that Gap to being like hey we do and we've been there but guess what this is where you can go as well and if you can bring that you know to any establishment anywhere that you're working and then it's it's a beautiful thing and like I said I didn't think I was going to be doing this this long and now I'm I'm not going anywhere and now I'm and I went from Hospitality to lead to outreach and I love my job and I love the people that I work with and so many of them have gone from zero and then feeling like they're doing something out there which we are doing something and it's not easy M but um I'm also a recovering addict but seeing these people out here it keeps me wanting to still stay clean be sober and being a role model for my children you know um I live in a four bedroom in South Meadows my kids go to demman Ranch High School like to me I never thought that would happen you know what I mean my kids come from a really hard place and so I just want to say like this this company does make a difference it makes a difference in the people who work there and for the people out there yeah and um I just appreciate it thank you you're you are truly a miracle thank you you guys she really is oh my God Daniel I love you she's coming for my job next that was Fant that was fantastic but I I don't think people realize CU they're so quick to judge and criticize like I was talking earlier like it doesn't matter what you can you do you know they're out there criticizing you and you know it's just never enough and I I think it's really important to tell the human stories of how it like impacts you cuz Danielle you had everything stacked against you yeah and I can't tell you how much you inspire me I don't think people have any idea what you've been through and how this job has just been a godsent in your lives and in your children's lives and the people I work with too I love them they're like family to me so see what I'm saying so you know people see it on the outside but they don't see on the inside of what's really imp in uh our community to this level and the thing is while she told her story every one of our ambassadors have a very similar story and that's what I'm saying I didn't want to share those because obviously it's so personal but um thank you for letting us you know share it of course I appreciate thank you for hearing me out and listening I appreciate it future mayor future mayor future Senator Future something you're incredible Danielle you're amazing okay go ahead further no I'm going to send it to councilwoman Taylor give me a motion we're going to get everyone moving because I know we have um all still a very heavy agenda so I'm going to ask council members I'm going to start to streamline um because today has been kind of long and emotional so go ahead take it away Council M Taylor I move to approve staff recommendation all right I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed I'm opposed motion carries all right thanks you guys thank you thank you thank you thank you all right Danielle okay thank you mam clerk next item D4 does council require a presentation on this item I don't think so nope councilman Taylor take it away uh let's see here I move to adopt the resolution all right I have a motion to adopt second I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed okay thank you all right moving on all right mayor shivy if we can go back to item B1 thank you for keeping us on track no worries oh no I'm I'm sorry item d 5 is what I really meant to say all right we're all over here you have the feedback okay all right on this item we do have public comment on this item sorry for the feedback we're looking into that right now so we I'm not really sure thank you our first public commenter is Piper stremel followed by Chris Riley followed by Jeff Church D5 I just haven't updated it yet can we turn it off can actually just go off feels more comfortable for everybody well hello welcome nice to see you I'm shocked you can get away from everything that you all the wonderful things you've been doing throughout our city I'm happy to be here I'm very nervous no don't I feel like I'm about to faint no you're fine you're totally fine I'm very very nervous you're you're doing great trust me just look at me okay and we'll be fine okay I've been there trust me oh my God let me tell you something the three top fears in life they say are public speaking flying and the dentist and I hate all three I don't even know how speaking public speaking speaking and public speaking for me so just look at me you'll be fine and it's very normal so you're you're all good it does feel very heavy in here though I agree well sometimes it it gets like that there's a lot of emotion and um and and so you can just feel it inside especially I think when you're sensitive to how others feel so [Laughter] great I can I can come hold your hand too you come holder first come on come on up hi guys okay hi B take it away hi guys some of you know me I own Marmet properties we're developers in Midtown and downtown uh it's actually a perfect transition from the downtown Reno partnership to this project here because this neighborhood right here is one of the most active neighborhoods for the for the downtown partnership program because a lot of the problems and a lot of the the negative parts of downtown is the areas between the bus station and the the homeless shelters so this project is one of the riskiest neighborhoods for a developer to go in and as a developer we talk as as a local developer who is living right off California AB who all of our team works and lives in Reno all of our investors are here all of our banks are here and there's only a few of us in town we all talk and we've talked about this project we don't want this project uh this developer who's here today they've already put together there so much brain damage to put this project together between talking with lenders investors talking with contractors at this point they're ready to go our recommendation to you guys is give them a really aggressive development contract and let them do this project this building if we were to keep it as is I'm sure every nonprofit wants it but feasibility wise between cost timeline and actual usability of this building it's for it to come back to life it's close to Impossible and for someone to actually take that path it could take them Years A lot of people are talking about doing an open bid RFP for this building the concern that we have with the RFP is if the wrong party buys this building it could very much end up like the west side of downtown where the building is either abandoned sits like that or is a parking lot and that whole neighborhood is not benefited I think I'm speaking on behalf of all the business owners in that neighborhood there we need some action there these guys are here they're willing to put skin in the game and they're willing to sign a development agreement to do this project generally we like to stay within under a rock and and not come out and say things in public I think this is really critical that these guys take this and run with it give them a contract and and let them do the project and if you would state your name for the record please y My Name Is batwan Zade with marm properties okay thank you so much Madam clerk Piper stremel follow Follow by Chris Riley okay wait a minute Chris come up first or everyone gets to go before Piper all right uh thank you all so much for having me um maner Thorley members of the city council uh my name is Chris Riley um my wife and I uh are renovating or have renovated the properties at 300 400 and 424 East Fourth street so Jesse Estella the Morris and aby's Highway 40 um we're commenting in full support of the staff recommendations on taking next steps for this item specifically we're supporting those recommendations to prepare this for sale and to enter in a negotiating agreement with bash capital and as I understand a negotiating agreement and you know I'm sure I'll be corrected if it's not true I do not understand it as being for sale and sold at the dis today I I believe this is to allow that conversation and a really important part of that conversation is over the past decade we've added 336 market rate housing units downtown this statistic sits at the core of so many of our issues and conversations this lack of development for residents leads businesses to have less food TR foot traffic and to close um and you have businesses who really care who have that heart and and who are trying to make that positive impact and I know you all are working hard to help Non-Stop stop we're Co we're hosting residential developers locally from other cities uh to try to see this downtown potential um but there's real headwinds from a cost side you know you can you can build the same product in Austin Portland um and Vegas for up to 30% cheaper and you have less risk less cost and and these are real headwinds um and that's why it's so important just to have this discussion today um developers have already looked at this property uh everyone has looked at this property uh there has been literally nothing stopping anyone else from sending you all a proposal for this uh and that's why I just I really appreciate this conversation because uh as a neighbor on Four Street we've we've had conversations we've cheered others on you know we've we've asked them to take a look at it and you know we're here today um and and I think this group has been doing everything they can to change that you know they're trying to create a creative solution that can be a win um they've met with you know the Reno Sparks goal M they've met with Catholic Charities and receed support from Catholic Charities they' met with Brewery District neighbors to talk through how this could actually work they're led by a third generation Reno white who's been part of inspiring developments in Columbus Ohio that our City's seen firsthand and whose families had a presence for decades and we should absolutely be vigilant in reviewing disposition of properties we also need to be clear these buildings have been shut since 2021 we've been trying to find uses for them and the city does not have those funds ready to bring these back up to code for other purposes and we're investing significantly as a city as a county in other services so you know we have an opportunity here to put these Parcels to use where a single project could do a third of what housing was added in the past decade so let's let's have the conversation thank you thanks Chris Lily Baron followed by Trish [Applause] boltini okay of course hello Lily Baron for the record um I just would once again like to talk about uh this parcel in particular I believe that I live closest to this area of anyone else in this room um I live about three and a half blocks from this parcel I walk by it every single day several times a day my understanding of what is the need of people in this community is probably strongest um of anyone in this room and I have yet to have any conversations with anyone however you do patronize your businesses and enjoy them very much thank you um closest bars to my house um I would like to talk about Solutions based research um I am a part of national think tins on these issues no one comes to us for information you go ahead and uh make decisions based on whatever you think might be the the solution however there are really policy based solutions for these things um I've read and studied these issues I'm constantly engaging people on how we can help where things are falling through the cracks we have fires because we need warm places to go we have human bi biohazards because we don't have enough restrooms and I'm talking if I need to use the restroom and a business isn't open I have to walk from at least a mile to find a restroom myself as a non-person not experiencing homelessness we have waste because we need more trash cans I walk for several with dog poop in my hands because we do not have enough trash cans in my neighborhood and those are just some of the very simple things that if we were very concerned about these issues that we would be seeing um downtown in that specific Corridor on East 4 Street the highest traffic area by the train tracks is in the most need because a valuable housing asset has gone dilapidated and unattended for and that is the parcel that we're talking about right now it has the most need because it used to have it used to serve some of the most uh needy folks in that area I would like to see the kind of housing that we need once again we have market rate housing in that area that people cannot afford because of some re evictions which is a bill that I worked on for the last two sessions it has not been um passed which is not your fault at all obviously but sumary evictions are the reason why these people that are in Seagal Suites who can afford market rate housing are not able to go into the market rate housing across the street because they have an eviction on the record it's very complicated it's much more than what people think that it is it's not that people can't save a first ass insecurity it is they are never able to rent a home again because of an eviction on their record and it's not because they can't pay5 $1600 a month um best practices around the country for cities are to identify a property for disposal and to request for qualif uh the request for qualifications to go out to a city to get the best development team to achieve the goals of the city going to request all that communication between um this group between Brianna and the City of Reno in the past six months to see how we got to this spot um and I guess with my remaining time although Madam mayor who asked me specifically to address quum which I think is ridiculous but here I am um to uh address why you apologized recently for Council Members remark to a commenter however I did not hear an apologies an apology when a council member called other people's commenting theater I'd like to remind that member uh that I host an arcan dispensary I host a community refrigerator I host many of these services that you say that you care about and it is not theater um we have much different repres a much different relationship outside of what happens here the last thing Madame mayor said to me was thank you so much so kind of you L hope you're doing well and keeping up the good fight at the ledge what do you think I talk to people at the ledge about I say the same thing that I said here today they don't complain about how hard their job is they don't sit here and say nobody says you do anything right it takes a thick skin to be able to do public service that's what it takes no one is no one is personally attacking anyone it was funny because offense is the last thing I can think that my neighborhood needs thank you okay thank you so much Lily Trish boltini followed by Piper stremel hi I'm going to make mine real short um so we're at 5:30 four Street we've been there for 85 years um we've experienced a lot of crime we have Night Security on our own we've had to put up different fencing and cameras and all sorts of stuff so when a project like this wants to come into our neighborhood and take over a vacant building I don't see an issue because it's a legitimate good project it's going to bring reasonable housing to that area and I think it'll cut down on the vagrance in that area and the crime that we experience at our job with theft and vandalism and human waste all sorts of stuff every single day thanks all right thank you Trish is there anyone else did you stremel just for the record I Echo Trish all of those comments as well um good afternoon um my name is Piper stremel um thank you for the opportunity to speak today um I am here today in full support of the staff recommendations to take the next steps on item D5 specifically I am supporting the recommendation to prepare the 315 and 335 record Street properties for sale and for the city city to enter into a negotiating agreement with bash capital I have written and Rewritten this comment a few times over the past week hoping to strike a certain academic tone with some and wanting to prove that I understand what good urban planning looks like to others initially my Approach is going to be an argument in favor of the proposal for the purpose of building more housing because that is absolutely the critical need here I wanted to argue that Dynamic and functional downtowns require a healthy mix of both residents and businesses that downtown Reno's lack of residential housing has been an issue for decades and continues to be the main reason we don't see the growth we want or expect to see in our downtown that as a city we can't continue to ask people to invest in building businesses if we don't Aid in growing the residential Community around them there is of course more to say on housing but I wanted to speak on the value of the neighborhood at the heart of this proposal east four Street I am a business owner on east four street but more specifically I own businesses on either side of the record Street properties that are being prepared for sale one of my businesses is a hotel which as a 247 business means I am on East 4 Street morning noon and night and often 7 days a week I'm invested in the street and when I say invested I mean I am physically financially and most importantly invested emotionally invested in the street the street is personal me this the street brings me both incredible joy and extreme frustration but it also brings hope in regards to the proposal to the proposed project to the proposed project at 3:15 and 335 record Street I feel hope there are some projects that spark hope I hope that the hope that we are moving in the right direction as a neighborhood that we are part of the change we want and expect to see in our city the Greater Nevada Field Complex and consequently the ballpark apartment are an example of projects that spark hope I am on the street every day and I here today to argue that I don't believe we have the luxury of waiting for the perfect developer with the capital required to be rewarded this project after a lengthy RFP process only for the project to ultimately not move forward and for the building to remain vacant for another 3 years the property in question has been shuttered since 2021 with no real viable chance of reopening and certainly no chance of reopening to serve its previous use the proposal put forth by bash capital is a real proposal a real proposal that addresses a critical need housing which I think we can all agree on and I'll say that again because it feels so important here a real proposal that addresses a critical need with a clear Mission and obvious motivation in the capital needed to take on this project even with its many many many obstacles our downtown needs more people willing to take risks and less boarded up buildings we need to give ourselves the opportunity to grow into the city we envision from for ourselves in the city we know that we all deserve Piper thank you so much yep he did you did a great job yeah Madam clerk Bill shrimp via Zoom okay Bill if you'd like to unmute state your name for the record and begin speaking thank you y great and just for the record we are on item D5 we did read receive correspondence on this item three letters sorry can you hear me now we can please state your name for the record and begin speaking apologize for that hello good afternoon all this is pH shrimp um yeah it's a heavy room today um I G to talk about D5 a little bit as somebody who used to um drop off diapers and formula in what this facility used to be uh it was kind of kind of an amazing thing uh it's very sad to see what it's become um there's one thing that I kind of agree with everybody on in this and that is that building is not being used properly um the one problem with the bash Capital thing is it really kind of has the look and appearance of a sweetheart back room deal um there are plenty of people who have come this morning and again this afternoon to express report or alternative ideas saying hey we would like to engage and uh it doesn't sound like they've been able to get to the table maybe it's hopes and dreams whereas these guys have a real offer I don't know uh but it sure has the appearance and the perception of a sweetheart back room deal for like a million dollars or $1.5 million like the dirt is worth more than that over there um the other thing too while I was waiting here uh I looked at bash Capital LLC and the Nevada Secretary of State um I don't know who those people are um I look bash Capital LLC on the Nevada Secretary of State it says they were dissolved in 2020 so is this a foreign corporation or is this Nevada based business I heard somebody say that these are Areno people but they're not Incorporated here so my suggestion is yeah keep talking to bash maybe they're really really good maybe it's the right answer but direct staff please ask them to actively reach out to anybody who's come today and in the past and expressed interest and say hey come forward with Something Real the time is now step up to the table let us see what you got and then you as a body can pick the best solution for that property because yes it's sitting the way it is a problem but maybe there's other people who really can do something have a public process go through it make it transparent give people an opportunity to participate thank you very much okay thanks Bill back to you madam mayor all right thank you so much uh any more public comment Madam clerk that is it for our live public comment for the record we received 39 letters or voicemails to our um reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office 25 in favor 10 in opposition and four letters of concerns those have been distributed to the Reno City Council and are available on reno.gov meetings okay thank you so much okay um couple things there is a lot of Dynamics here as we all have heard today which I I that was my um concern yesterday um I think that um I want to be respectful because you guys are here I understand you've put a lot of work in um not to mention your local and I think that that matters um and also you know you just heard the public commenter talk about you know it's like it sounds like a back door deal that is why I wanted to move forward today um to hear this uh because I think if you don't then they could say Hey you know there was back door deals going on which wasn't the case that's why I said you know Bring It Forward right um and it's really really unfortunate I think we all want the same outcome here um which is really important um from a community level and standpoint so I want to make sure that there we live here so I don't I don't want I mean I'm sure Lily do you know some of these people over here personally no I live in the neighborhood okay but you probably Reno small we all know each other right um so we live amongst each other and it's really important that we have Community consensus and the last thing that want are people coming up to you saying oh you're a shady developer you know I'm just over that because I think a lot of good people and good intention um sort of gets uh tarnished of the really good work that they want to do and provide um I think also that it's problematic uh you know council member breus is right I remember when you brought it forward and you said we should have a process we should do um you know know X Y and Z I understand and I'm going to have uh uh what do we call you ACM Atty come up and talk about that because I said where's the process evidently there is a process in place so I want to hear about that because I I think some of us don't remember the process and um so I want to kind of be clear so moving forward that we can have an outcome that everyone can participate in and that it's not being called a backdoor deal um I think it would have been way worse had we not have heard this today I think it would have been um not the right direction I want some clarity and I think the community wants Clarity but I'm going to leave that up to you because I kind of said where's the process and you said we have a process so I need you to clarify that for me thank you Madame Mayor Ashley attorney assistant city manager for the record um to answer your question and clarify for all of council today there was direction from the body back in 2016 to establish a policy for disposition of city property that was enacted it was also updated in June of 2019 and staff has followed that process for an unsolicited bid or a letter of interest essentially The Next Step would be staff gets that and they bring it forward to this body for you to decide what you would like to do so staff is following the process that's why you have this before you today just for clarity again staff did not open up an RFP this came into us so we just follow process and I took it for the opportunity to have this very conversation if this is the direction of the council and if we wanted to so I think that that's the best thing instead of uh pulling it off so you you don't get it both ways I think um you know it's much better if we all get to participate in the conversation Madame mayor go ahead yeah I'm the one who proposed the unsolicited okay thank you go ahead I'm the one who propose the unsolicited process and you know the disposal property and it was never designed this way you know it never was one the concept was if proposals come in they'd be circulated to the council never got that didn't even know didn't even know and secondly um you know it was always the manager's discretion whether or not to bring it forward as a concept and circulate it to us and this manager not only decided to do that he was having discussions or his staff with these people and then we had a discussion it wasn't even disclosed that they were in negotiations I just learned that in in the in the online reporting the other day I mean in September of last year we had a discussion there was no discussion that there's an unsolicited proposal and that were in discussions with someone that wasn't that was asked as I recall and it wasn't even disclosed I don't understand it so three days later I circulated to every member of of the body and and it's there a request to have it on the agenda and what continued to happen was negotiations between our staff and these people I I I'm I'm so stunned I'm so stunned that our process is so broken that under our Council rules a member asked for an agenda item cannot get it on and staff is under negotiations and not even disclosing it I I need to tell my colleagues there's something called the Dewey rule okay and that related to Civic Plaza and the explosion of the old Mapes hotel and that was behind the doors negotiations leading to a decision without having a quorum and the council doing business people challenged it what they found out is that serial meetings were happening coming to a conclusion and a and a council action and I feel that's where we are here we have an action of a negotiated deal you know proposed before us never any discussion never on the agenda I feel there's been serial meetings and a decision has been made to bring this forward as an option to these people I I feel that we have a walking Quorum and we're in Troubled Waters here okay thank you thank you so much mad can I clarify a couple of things but first of all I do want to say the buck stops with us regardless of what staff does I don't care what you guys do um it stops with us councilwoman breus so that's why I want it here I want it open I want it transparent that is not exactly I I think it paints this perception that everyone's doing deals behind closed doors it's up to this Council and I want to reiterate that that's why we were elected we were elected by the community to do that um and no one is bringing anything I just feel like it undermines why we're here today by by using that kind of rhetoric I think it's important um like I said I never met with them until yesterday and I was very clear about hey I think this is honestly come on the agenda and probably going to do a disservice to what you guys have probably worked really hard on I'm being very open and honest and transparent and I think that's critical and to do that we should be doing it here like we are right now I think that that's the best and fair process so anyway go ahead sorry I just want to make sure because that to me whatever you guys do as staff we have a very different role right and sometimes you interpret our our role differently or we can say things and you and you come back and you say Oh I thought you meant this I mean it can be interpreted very different but I also don't want to attack your efforts I get it you guys have a tough tough job uh but at the end of the day the buck stops with us we get to make the final decision um and I think that that's important so I just want to I want to reiterate that okay go ahead thank you Madame mayor we'll get into more details with the presentation but a few things just to clarify for the record there is not a deal in front of council today there have been no negotiations with staff because that direction has not been given by this body there are no deals There Are No Deal points there are no negotiations and additionally the previous policy stated that the manager had the discretion that was changed in 2019 to bring everything before this body as was the request of this body so again no deal has been made and that is also not what is in front of council today you are not being asked to sell a process or sell a property today that is not what is in front of you you are responding to a letter of interest and we'll get into what the specific things in front of you are okay would you like to hear staff presentation at this time Madam mayor can you also clarify did we have some in the past the same I want to say we did on Parcels you did I want to be clear so everyone understands this has actually been pretty common we've had people come forward on on Parcels that are for sale many times I think right so Madam mayor I would say that this body has actually had this process in front of you at least three times zero Riverside and two properties on Fourth Street that the city owned so those were also unsolicited bids letters of interest that have come forward to this body we presented them in the same format Council can choose to engage in that process or to tell staff we're not interested but again in full transparency we bring those staff does not negotiate deals on behalf of council until we are given Direction in public to do so also City Plaza also City Plaza mhm same deal okay we had an offer and we went on an RFP process uhuh on DRP Plaza yeah yes that was yes years back correct I was just looking in the last probably year to 18 months you've seen this three other times okay I I just thought it's just interesting how this one becomes um different and it's not we're following the policy that's been in place for almost five years now okay all right Madam mayor Madame mayor go right ahead thank you Madame mayor i i before we get into a presentation I do think it's important to um point out two things one is that um this question of political theater one of the public commenters had asked about it earlier and I do think that when a member claims that there are backdoor deals going on when a member says that we are violating our rules because they could not get an item on the agenda that's the type of political theater I'm talking about I'm not talking about people who've come to speak in public comment the public commenters today have been awesome but the problem is is we have a member who continually says things that are not true that same member has sued us and today we found out from Judge Hardy that they had lost in court and that member continues to spread disinformation um this the and it's unfortunate because we do have to have Subs conversations about the C site it's an important piece of property it's something that we own it is something that has been talked about for many years I have had conversations with people sometimes just in passing other times people are very much more specific about that site um there are challenges with easements there are challenges with the power pole that's in the middle of it there are challenges about how it was funded and what the funding has to go to but it is not made more is not made easier when people are simply lying and and that really is the theater that I think that we should divest ourselves from we all have different of opinions but one member continues to lie about things and that's what's not acceptable and so that is the kind of theater that I think our public becomes discordant by it is the kind of theater that uh becomes clickbait for um suud journalist this is Carl Hall can we stay on on this agenda item please yes Mr Hall but I will use the time that I have to speak about the issues as I see them um without regard to your comment um you seem to get involved in comments when you uh want to but not when they're needed and so I'm a lawyer just like you and I think I know what is on the topic uh one of the members claimed that this was improperly in front of us because of some email that they sent years ago that is not what our rules say have you corrected the member about what our rules say Mr Hall you know we can have that conversation offline if we could just stick on this agenda item I appreciate it no this was what was started by the membership so the body asked about this item and I want to talk about the I'm asking you to please talk about the item yeah the CAC is the item in front of us and the question was whether or not this had been properly agendized because a member had sent an email that's not what our rule says and so I just want to make sure that the public is aware of what our rules are so that we can situate things similarly when we were on the setting of agenda for the meeting that was the same kind of theater that was being engaged in thank you madam mayor all right thank you so much I appreciate it okay um I think councilwoman Taylor was trying to get my attention go ahead councilwoman eert we're on round one I'm going to remind everyone okay this is wild um so first of all I just want to call it's really not like how hilarious it is to me to make coms about political theater for 3 minutes just the irony of that um also um I want to say that I did have a meeting with the applicants I think they were from um what was it bash LLC and one of the first things they said to me um during the meeting was concerning to me um they mentioned that they had spoken to um former council member Delgado the week prior about the development and this is not the first time I've had a developer or um an organization that's looking to do development tell me that they've spoken to coun former council member Delgato prior to me it raises a lot of concerns to me about the process that the city is following with regards to these developments and what's really going on who's really planning the city here um I know that um council member uh Martinez still consults with uh council member Delgado but he's no longer on the council so I just want to call out that I'm concerned about that I'm concerned about the process that's being followed by organizations um so that's number one I also want to call out that I believe um council member breus requested this be on the agenda a while ago nobody's really addressed that I mean we' talked about the process that we have to talk about it now because somebody's requested um that we consider selling this property but why haven't we talked about why this hasn't been brought to the agenda because council member breus requested it like is there any process there because there's a lot of people that have said that there was interest I've heard that rise wanted to use the facility we have the Gospel Mission right there we have Catholic Charities right there like this is a good spot to have a a facility it was a facility and it didn't fall into disrepair overnight it wasn't um bombed it didn't get hit by an earthquake this was a facility that we let fall into disrepair and now we're going to spend $5 million to um expand and refurbish of the Neil Road facility for Community Health Alliance and I just want to understand why we're not giving the same care to all the facilities that we own and why we overlook this facility to the point where it's now no longer usable and we're discussing you know selling it um you know at a reduced rate so somebody else can put in housing I just don't think that we're being good stewards of the properties that we have so all right thank you so much go ahead Council Mur okay all right um hard to know where to begin right now um I had a lot to say about this item um we have been in this position as um assistant city manager Ashley turny mentioned several times and every time that this happens we are accused of some uh devious doings when we had no idea that a person was going to come forward and ask us to do something and we're sitting here as recipients of a proposal and yet there's allegations made that we are somehow In Cahoots and it's all a big Global conspiracy and a big plan and it just it deeply offends me and I don't get offended easy I got broad shoulders I'm been in this job 10 years um but but sometimes you reach a Breaking Point and you just kind of had it and and that this one is kind of it for me I want a very maybe the process that we adopted in 2019 needs to be further refreshed that's 5 years old and maybe if an unsolicited proposal comes in we need to immediately bring it to council the very next meeting let the let all of us know that it's been received and ask Direction on how to handle it that I think would uh you know in the quickest way possible eliminate some of all this speculation it would certainly eliminate people spending time on things that aren't going anywhere okay and I also support the request for having a public workshop on this meeting on the building because it's a city property and I concur with you de demolition by neglect is a real thing when you neglect something and it then becomes worth Pennies on the dollar that's an intentional move or an unintentional move I mean people aren't always paying attention to every single thing that's happening in the city the way that they need to or should um I I could point to a number of older buildings that we have whether it's the Lear theater the California building the Southside school on and on those are some of our older buildings and they haven't had the love and attention that they need either um so it's very hard given our budget realities to do all the things we need to do to take care of all the things we have and that would include the Corp yard this building I mean this building is from what is it the 60s or 70s it is 50 years old our people live and work here it is finally having a little bit of renovation I have a lot more to say about the proposal what I would I am impressed that someone wants to come forward for housing love that um the question is what kind of housing right and it is more and more difficult for developers I've they've been told me the biggest challenge is buying the land or buying the property to renovate that's their biggest challenge it's not our our uh Title 18 requirements it's it's not all the nuances on the side it's not the setbacks that's what they've told me what it is is the cost of land the cost of property I will come back my second round with some more specifics but I I still had to express myself on this issue okay thank you so so much all right go ahead councilwoman Taylor I was just hoping we can get a presentation if we could start that process maybe are I didn't know if we were commenting the biggest reason why I don't want to do that is because I wanted Clarity of because I went to Ashley and I said what is the process discussion now or are we going to have a presentation so we have something to talk about well first of all I didn't want to waste anyone's time but I wanted some clarity because we're we're being up here criticized for the way we've handled it do you think I I do I think we um have handled it well no I think we could do a much better job when it comes to outlining it to where there's more clarity more discussion before we get in here I was very clear about this yesterday I was worried about this and um and so I don't like it uh the fact that you know you guys have probably done a lot a lot of work and then you get in here and then it's like uh what's happening but our attorneys look at the agenda right I mean you so have we followed the process have we done anything out of line are we okay to hear a presentation and get moving on this well they've been here all day yeah right but I also think that we owe it to what to the public like what it is but the public we haven't done anything wrong and our attorneys we have but I also would like some clarity because totally agree I think we did this backwards I think we really honestly we did and I had concerns about it I was very upfront and honest so I want to I just want people to know that I think we you know the way that this went down I'm sorry I think we are getting we're letting public comment which is very valuable dictate how we operate a meeting because we've had this three or four other times and we have not had this discussion so I mean Ashley uh I'm sorry assistant city manager City Turner just said we had this same agenda same process three or four times we've never had this discussion before is it a good discussion yes great but let's move forward with the presentation and and hear what we're supposed to be talking about in my mind thank you I I'm just saying I I want to be very careful so that it doesn't um backfire on anyone that wants to come over come in and do a great project uh does that make it worse for you I don't know and especially I want to be super senstive because you are local and you do care about this community um so I don't want to do anything that uh puts you in a position position where uh you're maligned for wanting to do something really positive in the community so that's my big concern I'm trying to be sensitive of of your needs as well so um I'm going to let councilwoman breus go ahead and then we're going to move on so so you know um I um he's going to bring up what I sent to the B every all the members and the manager asking to have just the future of the KAC on in September of last year okay I learned yesterday from this is Reno that staff since July has been talking to the bash capital and so I think to move forward I understand the eagerness to you know dive into the item but that letting them give the pitch disadvantages everyone else and I'll add in addition to some of the list miss eir or Miss D said a domestic VI group person kind of spoke to me in 23 and said hey you know what is the city doing with that building I really wanted to get there and I'll tell you why I I have a lot of history with the organization I remember went went into building that building okay and I also know how special purpose it is I also have requests for nine months to go into that building and see for my own eyes it's conditioned we we got this report that it's fallen into repair but I've wanted to go in I've told staff I would has Matt sued up and take the risk to go in and look at the building has bash been in the building I don't know that's what I wanted to do because it's such a special purpose building to be able to understand so you know I know we're having a long day Madam mayor and I I know Miss Taylor wants to hear the pitch but let's take a vote on whether or not to hear the pitch because I'd like to because the pitch gives them a leg up and that's why I wouldn't meet with them on anyone else who's not at the table to propose okay so let's take a vote whether or not to hear the pitch if we say no we're not going to hear the pitch then we'll then we'll do what I asked to do you know when it can come back in that forum and hopefully in between I would like to go in the building and maybe I'll see it so terrible and say yeah this thing does need to get demoed what a shame so that's you know that's that's where I'm at okay I'm ready to speak again um hold on a second I might take a recess just for a minute I think it's been a very emotional day um and I think you know what I'm sure you guys followed the process when you contacted the city right from what they told you to do and so I don't want to put you guys in a position where you're the bad guys I also want to be respectful for all the work that you put in uh councilwoman breus is is probably right and that sense like does that hurt you or help you if we go into RFP right if you come and present I think that's what you were alluding to council breus right well I mean we just have more dis more ability to set set the the understanding of our desires for the for the property if we hear what their desires are we're skipping the step of having our discussion of what the desires are well and that's the problem and I think that that's true um at it actually to find out what do we really want to do with that property I mean honestly like has there been that discussion so um again I just I want to be very careful because I think that you guys did everything you were supposed to do that we asked of you and now here you are and going huh because uh we're not organized and then that's got to be super frustrating so I'm going to actually leave it up to you guys to decide if it's something that you want to present today because obviously um you know it's important to you off sorry can you go up to the podium and state your name for the record so that we can hear you hi I'm Brian B Andi we are absolutely uh going through this today we submitted an offer just like it's always supposed to be done we did it the exact legal way and we are here to go through the normal routine that's done on any city project ever thank you okay so and I think you have um a point there that I mean I'm going to ask our city manager we've done this before in this capacity in this way we have okay so I want everyone to understand that okay um do you want to come up and address it ACM attorney uh Madam mayor if I can help the body at this juncture I would recommend either if you want to take a 5 minute recess to give herbody yeah we're going to take we are we're going to take a five minute recess I want people to go outside I want people to sunshine and then when we come back eat something we all have to come back with a better um frame of mind we'll come back and do staff presentation to go over what's been received what's in front of the council and what the actions are requested of you today we then transition over to the applicant who submitted their letter of interest and then Council can deliberate and decide how you'd like to proceed at that point okay all right thanks so we'll reconvene at 4:25 no how about 4:30 I yeah 4:30 okay thanks everyone [Music] sh e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e get started soon I've got Council bre is here I've got Council woman Ebert here we can if you'd like to we have council member Martinez and council member Reese online all right council member Reese is online and council member Martinez all right perfect would you like to reconvene yes let's go okay we're calling this meeting back to order at 4:30 at this time vice mayor D is absent and council member Taylor is absent okay thank you so much all right I'm going to send it over to ACM attorney or no I guess Mr mcardell you're going to come on up um I want to reiterate for the record that this is been the process uh so I I wanted I want everyone to know that cuz you know how it is in the Press it'll say they didn't follow the process and then you know social media gets going but I'm only on social media this much so quiet down please anyway thank you madam clerk has spoken she wants you to quiet down so anyway okay um take it away all right good afternoon Madame mayor and council members Brian McArdle revitalization manager here at the City of Reno so um City staff has received a letter of interest for the properties located at 350 15 and 355 record Street the building is formerly known as the community Assistance Center and as the process we bring those offers uh before Council to get direction on how they would like to proceed and so just start off with the staff recommendation um given the current status of the property we do have a very clear process on disposition of city property uh and we have a way of of reviewing current city buildings uh and it is based on does the property currently is the property currently used by a city Department uh does it support a municipal function is the property vacant and will be vacant for this foreseeable future uh is it a non-performing and nonperforming asset could it provide greater economic and social um value to the community could it serve an economic development opportunity could it create Future Property Tax if it goes back on the property roles this property does satisfy all those things and so um you know if someone were to solicit an offer uh we would at least entertain the idea mainly because the city is under that building is underutilized um additionally when the process is now that if the staff does receive a letter of interest uh we take it before the body when our Crest is received staff will prepare preliminary analysis at the of the request and present it to council who shall by moot motion instru instruct staff whether or not to obtain appraisals and draft a development agreement with the proposer and so that is what we're here for today um our staff recommendation is to start the process uh we have some general idea of what the property is valued at due to an appraisal we did just assessing the current status of the building a while ago uh we would like to go get current appraisals so we actually know what the true appraisal value is on this property um enter in negotiations with uh bash Capital uh dependent on direction we receive today from this body whatever you would like to see in that we can take that as Direction and go back and talk to them about it and see if we can come up with the deal that we can bring forward um because as of right now we have not talked about any of those issues so far um this this process was initiated by by bash Capital uh and then additionally there is a collection of parcels in that area some of it is on the form of record Street area and we would like to clean up that whole parcel area and do a reversion to acres so it's just a little bit cleaner for us to to handle this going forward and so a little bit of background on the property uh in 2003 Council identified that that location on West on on record Street should be a uh location to coordinate a bunch of city services wraparound services and so a lot of other partners moved into the area The Men's dropin Center the Reno Sparks Gossel Mission St Vincent's dining facility they were all relocated over there and in 2008 the City built the community Assistance Center and that had held a women's shelter a family shelter a triage Center uh and a community resource center um this is a mixture of shelter space of um almost like office space and uh almost Hospital facility space and in when that building was built $20 million went into the to the development of that complex 3 million of it came from Community Development block grant funds which is important uh and I'll get to that in a minute and in 2021 waser County took over providing primarily services for unsheltered population throughout the area and they moved to the the new car's campus further down four Street which Remain the Cur which left the uh Community C Center um underutilized and vacant and in 2023 the last remaining tenants left the building that was WellCare Volunteers of America the current condition of the property is not good it's had substantial degradation much of this degradation occur occurred before even the last of the tenants moved out the building received very heavy use uh over its over its lifetime and um it currently it's been broken into 13 times uh not over a very long period of time but very quickly from the time that the tenants moved out uh we secured the property but it just daily turned into turned into a hazard we looked at providing Security Services at the cost of $300,000 a year um and it just became quite a a challenge and so since then the property's been fully boarded up with plywood um to prevent any further further tampering but there has been leaks in the property after a review there was a it was identified that there is mold in in the area uh there is roof tiles have fell in a lot of copper throughout the building has been stolen a lot of the electrical wiring has been stolen and both elevators have been absolutely decommissioned so if this property were be able to brought back online uh two new elevators would have to be totally reconstructed in the building the five years previously to the tenants moving out the city spent $2 million on the 5year timeline on annual maintenance on the building and based on a review the cost to bring the building back up to a usable state would be 2.7 million uh if it were to come back online we would have the additional maintenance costs as well as the fun required to operate that facility when reviewing the status of the of the those two properties um we really wanted to understand the cost to repair and improve it versus the cost of what it would would be if it uh if it was just uh uh just the land as well as if the buildings were to maintain on it to be maintained on it um the reason why it proposes that the 355 um building be demolished is that was a conrete tilt up building it's very very hard to do any sort of adaptive reuse on that building mainly because once you start poking holes in that or doing other things um it it jeopardizes the structural Integrity so it doesn't look like in any sort of adaptive reuse that that building would be usable the building on the North side is steel structure so there is some there is some capabilities there however the large very large floor plate does not make it suitable for adaptive reuse into housing the building is just far too wide you would have to split the building in half put in a sort of Alleyway with Windows um facing that and the cost to do that adaptive reuse is quite substantial and so all these things just left us in a state where um we we couldn't easily identify a future use of the building no one had come forward to propose a future use of the building and so for a while there um we were just we didn't want to put off for RFP mainly because or requests put off for RFP due to interest rates due to um the labor challenges going on uh the pandemic was still in place and so we left the building as is uh and over that time many many developers throughout town have reached out and inquired about this property we've provided them with the same amount of information that we provided to bash capital and there's mainly two two things two be pieces of information we have is that our best guess on the property is that it could be worth roughly $4 million based on that appraisal and that the city had an obligation of $3 million because we put those funds into the C those cdbg funds into the project if the property were to ever be sold this the city would have a financial liability of $3 million to have to give back to cdbg programs um since then we've found that isn't necessarily true uh that the cdbg funds can go in prata the way they they came out um and I'll get to that in the next slide and so in the in the process of of having this property sit there bash Capital said you know said they think they can make an offer on this property and this is the this is the offer they proposed the term sheet and they did two options given that the fact that we had that cdbg liability option A was um they said the most they were willing to pay for this property is $1.5 million to do a Workforce attainable Workforce housing project um we'll get into some Nuance there but Workforce housing is essentially 60 to 120% Ami average medium median income um and that is roughly people making about $55,000 a year all the way up to I believe about $120,000 a year um under option b those cdb G funds could stay in the project if the project remained eligible under that program which means that it would have to provide at least 51% of rents between that under 8 80% Ami which is people were uh making about $55,500 a year if the city sold a f the cdbg funds would stay within the project and the city would have no financial obligation to to refund those cdbg funds um and as I said since then we have learned that uh the $3 million there isn't a liability of $3 million it's actually since 15% of the funds went in 50% of funds can come out and so if theay if the property apprais for four $4 million the city's cdbg liability would be about $600,000 which is what the city would have to come forward give back to cdbg our hand team here housing and neighborhood development could use those funds to do additional affordable housing projects that are cdbg eligible and so just doing the math on option A and option b uh if option A the city were to sell it for $1.5 million pay back that $600,000 in cdbg funds the city would net $900,000 option b if they sold it for a dollar roughly zero um did not have to pay uh the cdbg funds back it was essentially net $0 option b alternate if the city wanted to C have its cake in needed to it could sell it for $600,000 that's cdbg obligation um and the city could take those funds and deploy those cdbg funds elsewhere I'll mention that if the project does maintain the cdbg funds it's going to take some cost to manage and monitor that project to make sure it's maintaining its eligibility under cdbg and the reason why we think this is a good opportunity to to bring this building back online provide necessary housing is that it has become a blight and nuisance in the area and it is the city's responsibility around that uh not only that it affects the entire area four Street in the brewery district is a thriving area um this property transitioning to housing could provide a lot of substantial benefit for that obviously we know we need attainable and Workforce housing throughout the area as I said it really could Revitalize forry a lot of property owners here today have talked about what it could mean to those businesses down there if this property were to move forward uh and then more specifically it adds the property back into the property tax roles which creates tax increment where we can deploy funds to further provide services throughout the city so that's a very short presentation before I uh welcome the developer bash Capital up to give their um proposal for the property but just to reiterate um if we if Council would like to we can decide today uh to start the process of getting appraisals to enter into negotiations with bash Capital based on your direction uh and then to start the process to do a reversion of acreage of the parcels okay and so with that I will uh welcome up mad mayor can we ask Mr McArdle a question no I I want to move forward I because we'll get around and then we can bring you back up for questions so let's get through this um because we still have a massive agenda let's get through this and then we can ask Mr McArdle questions and you guys so go [Music] ahead all right my name is Troy Keeny partner at bash capital um want to start by sharing some gratitude for just want to share some gratitude um first to Hillary for having us take a second and take a deep breath earlier this morning it has felt a little dense in here and I really don't think that's necessary because every single person in this room every person every citizen who came this morning to speak and everyone who's listening online we're all doing our best to do the best thing for our city so I just want to thank you for kind of calming the nerves for everybody um second I want to thank all the citizens who came this morning and all of the citizens Who provided public comment online whether they oppose us or not the fact that they're taking time out of their day uh because they care about the city is really neat to me it's really nice to be amongst uh community of people that care like us um I live downtown I care about this place these microphones uh so we're going to get into the project now um and start by just introducing ourselves uh so as I said my name is Troy Keeny I've lived in Reno for 10 years uh this summer and when I came here I thought I was only coming for a couple years when I came to UNR but this place stole my heart and I love it here oh you went to UNR huh yes and um yeah the last the last several years I've been buying and building apartment complexes in different location cities across the United States um and now that I've realized that I'm not leaving here I am bringing my business home so this is our first project bash capital's first project in Reno um Banna and I came together year year and a half ago what we realiz we have the same vision of revitalizing and elevating our downtown and um we've been working through that the last year with helps of many people like Chris and Piper and other business owners you know we're identifying projects to help the city with our goal of 10,000 beds in 10 years I want that I live downtown I want more people downtown I want more neighbors so this is why we're here and then we'll after they speak we'll get into the project I will also let you know our slideshow is quite long so we're going to skip some slides today uh so we can have more time at the end of our presentation for conversation here uh my name is Greg ster um I'm an impact investor I uh founded a company uh I spent 20 years doing the evil Real Estate Investment Banking and private Equity world and 12 years ago I left it to set up a company that only invests in environmentally sustainable or socially impactful missions so everything we do is intending to improve the community and help the community we spend about 40% of our my team's time on nonprofit exclusively volunteer pro bono work and 60% of our time am massing capital for cool you know socially impactful Ventures um it was a little difficult to sit through some of the commentary today because I love this person uh Briana boltini is one of the most authentic caring individuals and good friends a person could have uh we I had the Good Fortune of meeting her in 2017 at a place like a leadership and placemaking event that took place by with some pretty impressive other people that were on the table and um of the hundred people that showed up at that event uh everybody loves Briana um and so I really just wanted to introduce that we'll talk a little bit more later about the why I want to invest in this and other people as well thank you Greg hi I'm Brian boltini um I was excited to move to Reno maybe six hours ago CH you know that might have changed I'm born and raised Reno I've been gone for about 15 years but no that's a joke I'm I'm thrilled to be back I am born and raised on Fourth Street um so I am the third generation construction on Fourth Street I've watched it go through many different life cycles and I've seen um this this building be built and I've seen it turn into what it's turned into and I've seen it turn into blight and that's where this started I decided to move back here because I wanted to help solve housing for downtown um my own family employs hundreds of employees on Four Street and there's nowhere for them to live and so I really was passionate about that I have yet to do a groundup or adaptive reuse multif family project here in Reno I've done them all across the country many one that many of you have been to in Columbus Ohio gravity and I was gravity lead so I'm very excited to bring something like gravity here to Rino and uh I wanted to do it in a P3 way I think working with the city and showing a precedent of how we can do something really welld designed that could Revitalize the neighborhood but also bring housing for the workforce there that's not that's not there today so I'm thrilled I also have kind of like a Legacy Drive for this four streets where my grandfather came three generations ago and so I'm called to do it here more than any other place in Reno was on this very Street to carry on the family Legacy I also have never met a female developer in my entire career and I would love to do that in my own Hometown to just leave again a legacy for young female developers that it can be done and I also gave a TED talk here in Reno um on homelessness I lived on skidrow um as undercover for my senior thesis project I'm extremely passionate about the houseless I did an entire project about it that got me a spot to do a TED Talk and also won a few different Awards about it so we're not here to displace we're not gentrifying nobody's lived in this building for 4 years we're here to actually bring more housing downtown and help build and Revitalize the neighborhood so just wanted to start it that way and we're going to go into the project a little bit thank you thanks Bri um before we jump into the project just to for everybody who is paying attention to what is happening right now with this project uh we want to give our history with 335 315 record street so so last summer um Chris and Piper who own the Jesse and the Morris as you know um they brought this to us they said guys there's there's this opportunity and you should look at it I think it's perfect for what you guys are looking for and so we started looking at it we got in touch with Brian and we asked some questions on the property um I think an email or two went to Doug asking some questions we're getting some information on this deal so we could start looking at it um we started Ed spending money and time on Architects and putting together some plans and our first plan was a really big building uh and then we realized we couldn't build that because there's a giant power pole in the middle right in the middle of the site so uh we adjusted our plans and we started looking at the building itself like well you know we're trying to be sustainable environmentally friendly Builders how can we reuse the product that's already there so we've been through the building uh we've had our contractors the contractor who built this building has been through the building with us and we've looked at it and um we're that was in September or October I would say and uh kept doing due diligence and in December we decided that we were prepared to now write an offer so in December we submitted our offer unsolicited we had not talked to any of you in front of us at that point in fact up until two weeks ago I don't think we had talked to anybody at the city really besides Brian um so there has not been any negotiation we kind of just threw a dart at the wall uh so we would hope to get into negotiation after today's meeting though we we feel very strongly that we can get this project done um and then in January we did resubmit our offer after Brian underco uncovered some different nuances with the cdbg funds we submitted a new offer that would benefit the city more instead of having to be net negative dollars for our first offer we provided an option that would make sure that the city was not losing money so that brings us to today um so this is our project 335 and 315 record Street uh so our mission is to transform downtown Reno Fourth Street District um we have met with all of the four Street constituents we have definitely started to intertwine ourselves in that in that submarket and uh the mission is to help transform for Street just like you know Midtown was years ago it's become a really cool place and for Street's on the way and we want to be a part of that we'll skip that one so yeah this is the site as we all know we have about two acres of land and some key points uh so we are going to build approximately 100 units and we're going to have 118 surface parking spots offering over one: one parking um we plan to have several amenities at the property even though it's going to be a Workforce housing product and um we're going to have Studios one bedrooms and two bedrooms anywhere from 370 to 1,000 square ft and uh we don't have it on here but we did say Workforce housing so we are looking to rent to people who make 20 to $25 an hour now it is our understanding that there are 1,400 affordable apartment units in the pipeline right now that's in that 30 40 50% Ami and then we have as many market rate as you know thousands that have come up in the last couple years and are still coming up and those new market rate units are going to be top of Market because construction costs are really high this is that missing middle this provides for the person who's making 20 to $25 an hour that they can't get into the 30 or 40% Nicole that was talking this morning she says yeah we don't really have very many options for the workforce who makes $20 an hour we do need more options for that and we do need the affordable housing and we need the market rate and there isn't very many options in the middle and that's what we see this being take uh this is Brian boltini for the record I also just want to piggyback that real fast just to State we put in an offer just like you're supposed to do um we went through the normal routine just like it's always been done on a city site we didn't do anything different we put through an offer so all of this today um was a little bit we weren't expecting all of this we thought today we'd be talking about the project so really we follow the steps of just submitting an offer like um anybody that's ever done anything on a public private partnership site before so just want to state that um I'm extremely passionate about design I went to architecture school in New York I've worked on several design projects across the country I don't care if we're designing a public water fountain or if we're designing the next City City Hall I think design is extremely important and I don't want that to lack on our Workforce housing so I uh brought in the architect that I worked on the gravity project in Columbus to he this is Workforce housing project in Denver and right around the same budgets almost same specs that we're doing and he has done everything with us thus far we obviously want to continue working with him once we get a warmer agreement um for negotiations but I just want to reiterate that we want to raise the level of housing here and design and amenities as well as integrating with uh the the fabric of the community and so regardless of who we're housing at what price point we think design and the aesthetic is important um for an emerging neighborhood just some more imagery of uh the one in Denver that our architect has done um just for a sake of time we went over a lot of our goals um you know really just providing housing and uh continuing to you know better the better the neighborhood uh without displacing integrating continuing to integrate with our neighbors and uh like we spoke earlier the need with everybody here as the business stakeholders is housing Workforce housing um you know my family's company included there's nowhere for their employees to to live close to their establishment so that's the main the main goal here so I've been really contemplating whether to even touch on this uh the CAC topic because it is a Hot Topic topic uh but I think I should touch on just two points that whether this should be a shelter or not doesn't really matter cuz it's actually impossible for this site to be a homeless shelter legally uh homeless shelter has to be 600 ft from residence from residential property and the new Ballpark Apartments are 400 feet away 470 as the bird flies it's like 300 also um I am told I have not seen this legal drgon yet but I am told that we can all we have been told that we can only have one shelter in the City of Reno now we have the most expensive homeless shelter in the country a mile down the street that was just built so I don't know legally if we're able to even open it up as a shelter again yeah Areno needs housing we all need that we all know that so yeah sight hurdle one I touched on this earlier there is a giant transmission pull uh that feeds it's the main power feeder to the city it's right in the middle of our site I will mention that the old appraisal on this site that happened a couple years ago did not take this into account because it cuts the buildable area of this site by almost half uh there's also an easement 25 feet in radius around the pole that you cannot build on you can have parking under it though um and we Envy energy didn't know what to do with this so they brought in a German uh Energy company to talk to us about this it would cost a million dollars a foot to move so it's not moving uh so no Street Frontage anybody who's in real estate knows that you want some Street Frontage for your property to help pull people in um to you know have presence on the main artill roads we don't have that we're tucked in the back here uh the the buildings are in disrepair as we've gone over and over and over again today I don't think I need to touch on that anymore we are adjacent to train tracks I have been there when the Train's going by it is not quiet so whatever we build we're going to going to be spending significant amount of money on sound dampening on our exterior um the exteriors of the building at least on the southide uh also kind of hard to Market apartments with a train nearby I always to get high rents like we're going to have to again go to the workforce you know hey you're next to a train track uh our next door neighbor The Gospel Mission so around 4: to 6 p.m. every day um their patrons line up outside of their building and um really crowds the streets and can be quite unsightly and and it makes it challenging for Access into the site we're planning on just having access um off of Evans and blocking off the Record Street if the gospel stays uh but we have been in conversations with them they're going to be a good neighbor at the very least and at the most you know we might have some solutions for them but they are next to us right now and it is something to take into consideration uh we do want to preface that even with all of these sight hurdles we still want to proceed forward we see a path um to completion here so we're going to talk a little bit about little more about our team GRE sure I mean I think the development team is clearly Briana and Troy um I have been a a mentor to Briana in different ways and um you know decided to come in and support this project because of what it represents um I'll I'll start with uh I'm just going to jump to this slide right here so my company surf capital invests in Partnerships with municipalities and nonprofits we primarily invest in areas that are um going through some form of revitalization the town that you see in front of you right now is Hemstead New York um it is a 98% um Latino and latinx and uh and African-American community that has about a $50,000 annual income compared to all the communities that surround it which are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year this is this is about 12 minutes from JFK airport in Long Island um my company came in through a master developer agreement with the town and a community benefits agreement with the town and we changed the secr zoning of this whole area to empower about 5 million square feet of new development on a democratic basis so we didn't own any of the sites we did all the work for democratically the whole community in exchange for an option under appraisals to buy land from the municipality afterwards so we are seeing about 700 Apartments come out of the ground now um most of the apartments are affordable housing at this point and our next phase that we're just in negotiations on right now is to build a th units of mixed market rate housing 8020 so um you know the mayor of Hemstead and Lieutenant mayor um love us you know we're like deeply kind of impacting this town to the better um this is obviously a very concentrated situation we have similar Investments and similar relationships in towns around um the the east coast and then in San Jose and not anymore but a couple years ago in San Francisco um when I see Fourth Street I see a lot of the same things and a lot of the opportunity I think we're coming at it through this partnership transactionally with respect to the first project but um it's really about the impact we could have on the whole city on the whole street rather and impact that town so that's why I'm interested um when I go into projects I always focus on investing with people who understand the local market and have the capacity to build trust with the community with bana you have that I've had the pleasure of getting to know Troy pretty well and he's an amazing guy and I think that these two would be amazing stewards so that's uh that's pretty much it oh one more thing real quick so I'm also an adviser and close with a group called shift Capital shift's interested in this shift has done shift has done the most remark able turnaround of some of the worst impacted communities in the United States they started in a place in called Kensington in North Philadelphia um The New York Times called it the um Walmart for opioids so it's it has the highest concentration of op opioid over OD deaths in the country and Brian you see the guy in a little green jacket right there assembled a team they bought 7 million square ft of industrial space totally derel and they've turned it all around and activated a whole part of town amazing heartful fantastic and they're interested in this project all right great um I also just want to go back to some of the hurdles here um we it is very difficult a lot of developers a lot of groups organizations and nonprofits have looked at this site we might be crazy uh but we're committed to do housing we know it's going to take a lot of effort uh we know the city is going to need to be involved regardless of the three options on the table today um but we need housing and so we have committed to whatever this takes to make that happen so I just we stated at all the hurdles just so everybody's aware that this isn't just your average Clean Slate groundup new build multif family project that we can cut a ribbon on in two years this one's going to be it's going to be a tough battle but um through our past experiences us working on public private Partnerships before working with attainable housing bringing experts in like Surf and shift um I'm very confident that we we can we can tackle this this interesting project so just wanted to touch upon that um a little bit about my background uh most of you got to go to gravity uh it's a 12 acre and growing multifamily uh development in an underserved area I was gravity lead and we were able to bring in Workforce housing along with market rate and all new retail on the ground floor and now it's a thriving community so I am passionate about bringing that back to Reno and I think this is a great start especially working so closely with the city on this site um I've also worked on projects kind of all throughout the United States and I'm just really excited to come back here like I said third generation I did work on the post office as a consultant um and brought in and started the basement project so I'm familiar with the city I'm familiar with the process and this will be my first time doing um housing groundup housing or adaptive reuse and like I said I wouldn't want to choose anywhere else um besides four Street just to continue the legacy of of what our family has done there just some pictures of my projects very heavy on activation we're not just heads to beds we love to create lifestyle and really ingrain and include the community thank you uh yeah so a little bit more about me and uh bash Capital uh so bash Capital has been around for about 5 years now I've been in commercial real estate going on nine years um and like I said I've been going to different markets across the country and buying and building multif Family Properties uh I want to quar there a little bit on bash Capital LLC The Entity for administrative reasons moved to Wyoming in 20202 um so that's why you see a dissolved bash capital in the Nevada Secretary of State but it's very much an active company uh this is one of the more beautiful projects that bash capital is done uh this is in Portland Oregon um and it's the only picture of um prop projects that I've put on here because a lot of the projects that we've done are not as pretty we've boughten some classy rough properties in South Carolina and Georgia and given them a lot of love and lit up the parking lots and put security cameras and made these places safe because I think everybody deserves to have a safe place to live um bad capital's motto is instilling conscious capitalism every day and we do this in many ways in development we're using environmentally Sustainable Building methods and Technologies to build the the cleanest buildings we can um and we're also looking into Revitalize or reusing current um materials which is why we're even looking at potentially using the existing buildings at 335 record we don't know if that's going to happen yet or not today but we want to try cuz it's the best thing for the environment on the acquisition side like I said you know we're coming into properties and getting out dangerous tenants lighting up parking lots spending the extra money to make these places safe and clean environments uh so those are the values that bash Capital sits on there's some more photos uh little timeline so we're here in April today our goal would be to have a soft commitment through negotiation by May and be into purchase agreement by June this year we plan to have plans submitted to the City by October and pulling our permits next year in March so this is not something that we're going to buy and just sit on you know like some of the other projects that we've looked at down in downtown if you know what I'm talking about we want to go we we actually wanted to go months ago so um you know hopefully we can actually have this building open that that's a little Tio we want to have the building open by December 2026 um so we're going to go as fast as we can as fast as the city's process allows us wrap it up okay you're one minute over so per not bad good good job okay thank you thank you so much interesting I didn't know that about the the poll and I mean un unbelievable interesting okay thanks so much okay we're going to stick to the regular process I'm going to go two rounds and then uh we're going to go to the council memb Ward uh I'm going to send it right now to councilwoman breus go right ahead three minutes yeah you know I think that was a good presentation by you folks and I thank you for your interest in our community you really are the types of you know um investors that I I thought Mr Jacobs was looking for once he prepped all that land and built it and you know someone said why don't you talk to Mr Jacobs it's on Fourth Street but uh you know we'll see what movement is there but you've chosen our property and you've been inside the building I was told in my briefing you had not I have not as I mentioned I've been asking for eight or nine months to get inside and see the building and I'd like Mr McCardle to come up Mr McCardle you read initially and I'll tell you why this is important on your notes could you put that up what you said the determination that the property is to be disposed of you had a list of findings that have to be made and and the reason why this is important is I was here in my seat when this process was adopted as a matter of fact I championed it it was based upon one that I worked on 25 years ago for the City of Albuquerque in a Redevelopment office that had a lot of land and had processes I took that disposal policy to a rural community that also had a lot of property to sell and had it adopted by that Council so then I come here here in 2012 when people want to buy property and we put in a process and I don't think it's being represented right now could you and and you know no one's fault a lot of people have changed over but what were the findings that have to be made to dispose of a property it doesn't it says uh sorry Brian McCardle revitalization manager in the policy 204 I think it's section three procedures be sale of city-owned property it says doing a real estate review and it says sh from time to time review the city's property inventory to determine which properties are no longer needed for public facilities or to support elements of the master plan and where disposition will provide a greater public benefit um a parcel owned by the city may become available for sale if the property is not currently used by a city department does not support a municipal function the property is vacant and has no foreseeable use uh the property is non-performing and underperforming um uh the city will be relieved of potential abilities or costs to continue maintaining the property um that property tax increment could be generated by putting this back on the property tax roles uh and it could stimulate the economy by providing opportunities for economic development and Redevelopment yeah so that's all familiar to me because it's language that I work to propose but it was never going to be a staff decision okay it was always going to be a council decision the council needs to dis you know we never had that conversation that's why I wanted to have it up here I'm not sure sure that it it should be disposed of I wanted make the determination to dispose of this property we've been at a standstill and it only took this letter of interest as a request to purchase property to force us to yeah you can see if this gets brought forward but your recommendation is make is you know to engage with these folks so by presumption you've ma the decision's been made the council needed to have that discussion I cannot make that decision uh that it goes on the disposal list until I've been in it and you know I feel I own it to someone like Bob gelle whose heart was in that building and who I served with and other staff who helped put it together to to to Really identify is it a goner for other purposes particularly the purpose that it's was designed for it's not necessarily A shelter actually a staff planning staff wrote that ordinance years ago when I came here uh I think it could be a congregate facility um and and other classifications of institutional residential use so as as great as your proposal is as energetic you are I'm H I cannot get there until I have made a determination on breus I let you go a minute over thank you okay heading on over to councilman Martinez you up you there somewhere see on the yes can you all right do you have any questions um not at this moment but I I think I will during the next round I I'll come back to you all right thank you go ahead councilwoman Taylor thank you Madame mayor thank you for the presentation thank you for the work that you've done I always like to say Reno is open for business we're ready to do business and I don't think that we showed you there that today um it's a little disheartening to be honest with you I my question is for our legal team there was something in the presentation that the applicant or The Bash Capital brought up that asked about a shelter can you please confirm we had a lot of public comment about this being a shelter this being something some requests I would like to understand if this can even be a shelter so we can move on from that discussion um we we'd have to get back to you on that I mean I I think the applicant did raise I mean some of the Practical problems um but we'd have to just go back and check code um and in terms of when you talk about shelter are we talking I mean there's a couple different ways that that could be interpreted and there are things that are potentially prohibited um legally under Title 18 and under um um like some yeah there I mean I don't want to get into the specifics the legality but like there was a settlement agreement um on the skyways litigation back in the early ODS that um might potentially bear on whether or not the city has the ability to have more than one shelter in the city okay so it's a valid it's something valid that they brought up in their hurdle and we can inv okay so I'm going to go with we're not going to we're we shouldn't be having a shelter there based on the information that I have from legal and and the ordinances and stuff my other question is is um when you you mentioned something about the power pole and the appraisal the appraisal that we had did not take into account the utility poll that was in the middle there is that accurate and that there was in the presentation you said that that building wasn't even suitable for housing that's why it would be de demolished Brian McArdle revitalization manager yeah that I believe that is true uh we just issued the appraisal just to get a quick idea of the context of putting more money into the property to bring it back up versus the value that it sits on um and I do not believe that they recognize this the complexity of the power pole on that property thank you okay go ahead councilwoman deer okay thank you um sorry I should have gone to Devon and then you said oh fine go okay no go ahead no no go go down go ahead come back to councilman Reese okay um so thanks so much for being interested in building in Reno just start there uh building Housing in Reno let's start there and then I think and this is where I start lacking Clarity when I listen to The Proposal I'm not really sure what you want to build I heard something about housing but I didn't hear uh numbers of units uh goals for pricing uh what population you might serve other than people that make 20 to $25 an hour I heard that um I heard someone talk about missing middle but I didn't really hear Clarity on the proposal and prior to this when we've considered proposals we we've always had a pretty definite idea of what was going to be built sometimes we've had conversations about um would there be an allocation for people at a lower uh price point uh that and and almost everyone that City properties has been involved in we've made that ask so just something to think about um every one of these unsolicited proposals I've asked uh once I realize that there's interest in the property I've asked for two things I've asked for an appraisal and I've asked for the city to engage in RFP um often we've had a conversation about what we'd like to see in the RFP I have a couple things I might like to see I think housing uh would fit one of those bills I'm also open just so you know for potential uh nonprofit Services I always have been ever since I heard that we vacated the shelter um I thought it would be a good given you you brought up yourselves about the collocation of other service providers in that region and I always thought that might be a good use too um I never thought that it should be more commercial because we have a lot of commercial happening naturally so it obviously does need our help uh what does need our help is housing and in fact I mentioned earlier that one of the biggest issues I've heard from developers especially for affordable developers is that the price of property is their greatest obstacle to overcome and um there might be a pre-existing building on it which requires demo and that adds to the cost as well um I don't know what's in this building I was surprised today to hear that it was only built in 2008 uh Which is less than 20 years so to find that we have a very recent building but it's degraded to this point was surprising um I'm impressed with the work you've done I've been impressed with lots of developers that have come to town and and shown what their area of expertise is and you obviously have you know an interest in design I love that um many people have complained that the buildings that are getting built in Reno right now are rather prison-like uh lack of certain Jan sequa about them um don't really reflect the Reno uh modality or interest so anyway my my proposal Madame mayor would be that um if there is this level of interest that we ask get an appraisal and that we go through an RFP process okay thank you so much okay um councilman Reese thank you madam mayor my questions are first for Mr McArdle and I have a lot of them so I'll just see if I can't get him back to the dis okay he's right here great so Mr Mardo I I want to sort of fundamentally understand why your office is running point on this site meaning I I think the public has owed some explanation about our Redevelopment and revitalization efforts so why are you the one running point on this project as a Redevelopment project it kind of sits under me um a lot of the unnecessary properties owned by the city that aren't currently used uh sits in the property asset plan that sort of is reviewed um by the department formally Redevelopment agency but it does kind of sit in there uh I wouldn't oversee the the maintenance operations and stuff like that on the property but if it is a property asset inside the city that is currently being unutilized it would fall likely and if it's in downtown would likely fall under me and how many groups or people or entities have looked at this site in any capacity to see if it was an appropriate thing for redevelopment I would say roughly five serious roughly five serious parties looked at this site and requested due diligence information uh they all look through it they many of them said this is a really difficult site uh even if the city gave it to us even if the city paid us for it we don't want to touch it um which is sort of why we didn't facilitator ask off an RFP because we didn't think that there was a lot of interest out there period And so why go out to RFP if everyone throughout the community has told us that this is an impossible project uh and we you know even if it was was free from the city we would not be interested well and and I was with you when we were in Columbus a several years ago now and looked at the gravity project and and ultimately um I don't know Miss boltini um as well as some do but I was impressed by the work that was going on there it was very encouraging to see the type of Redevelopment that can happen in the city especially in an area of town where there is uh need for redevelopment um but of course it it comes with uh a lot of issues I I tend to agree with Miss breus uh that this is not the process that I would have preferred uh meaning I think that there I know that you followed process and and you brought it to us in the way that it would normally come to us um but it feels like uh many of the community members who might otherwise have interest in it have not necessarily been aware of the the minations of how it comes and that's probably the problem with government sometimes is that we have processes but we need to make sure that those processes don't uh keep uh people from being aware of what's going on I have a some more questions but I'll wait for my second time around all right thank you so much okay councilwoman Ebert go ahead okay so um first I I just want to say too that um the frustration that you guys have dealt with today I'm sure that was really a surprise and I apologize for that and it's been a long day for everyone I know I've had too much caffeine so if I'm a little you know I'm sorry um but um you know Reno's got a lot of stuff going on and we have a lot of conflicting interests and we've had a lot of different discussions today about needs and you know I don't know if you were here for the downtown bador um discussion and we had was Danielle came up and and shared her experience about being in a shelter with her four children and only having 90 days to find a place to live and how stressful that was for her because she had to leave um and I think that highlights the fact that the City of Reno has a gap there we have the car's campus but we don't really have a place for women and to go with their families so um I think that's why there's such an outpouring of um Community input but when this facility came up because we're really aware of that Gap in services and a lot of people have been expecting the City of Reno to rehabilitate that facility and there's been um you know a request from a city council member to discuss it and hasn't come forth so unfortunately you guys got the brunt of it today but um you guys didn't do anything wrong you followed the process I don't you know you're not the bad guy get it um but I just want to say you know we have a lot of conflicting interest and to she's Point like the buck does stop with us like we have to make the decision we're the ones that are going to get the angry phone calls if we make a decision that people don't like so um you know we do have to kind of Wade through all this stuff um so anyways all that being said um you know with this project is there any guarantee if we move forward that this project has to move forward the way they present [Music] it thank question Brian mardle again um that is sort of up to you to dictate how you would like to proceed from today if you would like to proceed with negotiations and put things in there that says that you would like to see this permits filed by xday completed by xday if you would like to see um that commitment of at least 51% of the projects be you know restricted income restricted that is sort of the direction we're seeing if you would like to proceed with this with this negotiation what sort of things you would like to see to bring back that would make you you happy enough to proceed with this project um so that is sort of our question to you is you it's up to you to sort of identify those those points you would like to see okay um I also have questions about the the legal issue with the the location um I know that there's a question about you know can the city have more than one facility but it hey Madam cler is the Caris campus I mean it's in the city of Reen but is it considered C Areno because the county runs the facility yeah it's in the city and yeah so it's it's essentially the city yes okay so I had a question on that and um you know I just I'm I'm just kind of disappointed that we couldn't have those discussions about rehabilitating the car's camp or the record Street facility um and maintaining um the city's properties prior to you guys coming for us um I think that there's a kind of a gap in our city process here um it shouldn't have happened in this order um and I do want to see things happening down toown last time I asked we have a 70% vacancy downtown I think that it's important to activate um but obviously we have a lot of community interest in what happens in this facility and we have to really weigh all of that so okay all right um I'm going to ask you a few questions um often times we see projects before for us that never come to fruition can probably count uh way too many um so you know that that's a real thing so that's another thing that everyone needs to understand it takes a lot of work to get a project off the ground that being said what are the some of the things that we need to identify I would say Obviously an appraisal what I thought was interesting too now there's a bigger discussion to be had this we're just starting now um we actually don't saw I never saw the proposal until today um you know so I think there's a lot more that we got to get down the road I guess I'm just trying to clarify um what that is so an appraisal the other thing I I going back to what um with the power pole you know we're looking at putting lines underground and things like that and then those are some of the things where you go to Envy energy and you say hey hello look at these things right um things like that say it's very real and exists um just so so I guess I'm identifying challenges that we need to know um you know because I think there's a lot of due diligence uh to be had again I don't think people realize how long it takes to get a project off the ground how difficult it is financially I mean everything that goes into a project is tough so it's not like this is just one and done this is going to have to come through a process of of uh identifying what those needs are so uh Mr Mardo tell me what those would be typically uh thank you for the questions typically you would any city-owned property maybe requests that the property either get permits filed by a certain day break ground by a certain day get their certificate of occupancy by a certain day okay um you know under that 1.5 million project with essentially no development agreement it's essentially if you don't want to have a lot of restrictions the price would be 1.5 million but you could request that if they are suggesting a Workforce housing project that they sort of make a commitment to to achieve those types of rents yeah um if you would like the project to be at least 51% uh lwi income 80% below um there's some wiggle room that you would like to see with the price and some other requests so when will we negotiate that when's the best time to like jump into this project if we were to do it after after today I guess we decide to proceed yeah so don't put the of but I guess my point is there's a lot of stuff to unpack a lot of stuff to get through so don't put the cart before the horse is what you're saying let's just like any other development project there's a ton of due diligence that has to occur both on their side and ours uh and that's the part where we haven't really started to get into those because we haven't been negotiating we haven't delved into those things um they have not spent a lot of money on doing Prof foras and getting financing and Architectural rendering uh so there's a lot of work to be done on their part in that process we could take the wants and needs of of council um work with them and try to bring back a project that works for them works for the City Works for everybody that would be the intent going forward from today and then the one thing I do want to point out we do have um our place for women and children um just so that people know for the record that there is a place um that's dedicated just to uh families the family services side correct the record okay um Council breas I'm going to call on you because I'm just going around so do you want me to skip you and then come back um sure okay I'll come right back to you um councilman Martinez yeah thank you so much Madame mayor um I I don't have any questions but I did want to make a couple comments um I think when I am speaking to constituents um in the war housing and the cost of housing is definitely one of the things that um I hear and so when I when I learned about the proposal from bash I think uh I was um uh intrigued about the the thought of bringing more attainable housing into the region um and making sure that we alleviate some of those uh concerns of the number of of units that are available um and it's specifically bringing that into uh the downtown region which is something that we hear a lot from for folks downtown and what they want to see um there um I I I think I'll leave my comments um at that for now okay thank you so much gonna send it back to you councilman breus go ahead yeah I mean I'll just you know I heard during Mr Reese's question about a five five groups have been showing it it just seems like this has been a property on the market and being shown to anyone who suggests interest not a council member who's elected to you know be a steward of the public resources which is is very troubling frankly but I'll reiter reate reiterate to the council you know I remember the great effort the heavy lift it took out of the settlement Bob celle as a new mayor to get this built it was really a big big deal it was a very special purpose designed building unfortunately you know the problem outgrew but I still think the building has a purpose as our asset to be a facility um of some sorts and I think we should have that discussion um you know it's I I really really do um it would be very sad to see it demoed and another thing you know because the council seems like you know con you know looking into this bash um proposal staff's been been negotiating with them since July on it and um not allowed me to have a Forum to talk about you know the the disposal of the property so if the if the council is thinking about it you know think hard about this on the housing market when we did the master plan when we did the downtown study we did housing analysis okay on need and demand and you know these people seem great um I have questions you know because I've worked in subsidized housing before on the monitoring and you know the burden of them as landlords to do income checks and so on um I think it's a landscape I didn't see that they've been in before but um you know it just may not be the need with all the other things coming off particularly that Miss Jordan highlighted of coming on you know it may not be the need we know the social services needs are really out there and are big and to have a building that is designed or that sort of communal living setting um whether it's a you know a an Outreach Center or a congregate Care Facility um I think the social services providers need an opportunity to come forward and get a proposal to us um and so that's what I think but if you are going to go down the housing route you know we sold the property if you recall with the parking lot with the air quality monitoring um station on it that thing took a long time to get going it's not even occupied yet I I just I think that I don't think the mark the feasibility of getting this delivered is is really realistic and so you know I would if you're interested I would have another housing needs analysis done because we are in a market where projects are stalling out left and right thank you okay thank you so much go ahead Council Taylor thank you madam mayor um just again I don't know how many times we can say it staff has not been negotiating this is not a negotiation they have not been negotiating There's No Deal on the table I don't know why it's hard for some people to understand that the other thing is we did receive lots of public comment in favor of this project um maybe uh somebody can let me know but I read through all of the public comment there was at least 30 to 40 people comments that I received that were in favor a lot of them were developers probably I don't know if you talked with them or not but people that have said that this is a very hard site and they are supportive that we would be looking for an RFP the other thing is Catholic Chari supports this when we talk about social SEC uh Social Services coming through and looking at this building or putting out an RFP one of the public comment that we received in favor was Catholic Charities so I guess my question is what was the public comment I know we heard a lot here today unfortunately people can't sit here for 8 hours to bring public comment all the time does does Brian or Mr murle do you know what the public comment was as far as in support of moving forward with this council member Taylor if I can there were 25 letters of support 10 letters of opposition and four letters of concern for a total of 39 comments okay thank you that's my question all right um you know that's kind of interesting because now when I think back about it I've had companies like Black Rock asked me about it I have had like some major major investors I'm actually surprised it took this long to get there so then whenever you say that then I start to think very very true I don't know I just thought that that was interesting um okay go ahead councilwoman derer yeah I I really don't have anything additional to add at this time okay uh Council neighber I was going to ask if there's any other conflict with putting housing in uh due to the proximity to the other services that are happening there that might be a planning question I don't know that um but I don't believe so okay we'd have to look into that okay um all right yeah um and another question for the applicant do you do you live in Wyoming or why is the business in Wyoming now Troy keen on the record Council Ebert uh it is just um it's just for legal reasons I live here uh bash Capital operates in Georgia Portland Oregon South Carolina and Reno Nevada it doesn't really you know a lot of entities are Delaware entities it's just a tax thing okay okay so there's no actual physical location in Wyoming it's just away homie actually that's true I've been there once I've been there once okay all right thank you CC councilwoman do you have any more questions no not at this time thank you okay thank you so much okay we are done uh with our rounds except for maybe councilman uh Rees I don't think I called on you please take the floor and then uh then we're done with our round so go ahead uh thank you Madame mayor I don't think I totally understood the slide presentation from Mr McCardle about the layered funding and how it would be backed out if we sell it for another use um and so Mr mcardell are you able to provide some clarity first of all I think we've we have to have a more recent appraisal it can't just be some speculation about whether it's 4 million or three and then you said that there was a formula for the cdbg recovery I'm just trying to figure out if we did sell it and we don't have strings attached to it what do we get out of it that can be then used to support you know some of the important issues that we have going on in the community R McArdle here um so the cdbg funds are somewhat restricted uh how they're deployed and $3 million in cdbg funds went into this project and so if this project sells for a non-eligible use the city owes the the city has to give back those three the cdbg funds and find another eligible use uh we thought it was $3 million but we now realize that um if if the cdbg funds were 15% of the money going in then whatever it sells for the SE the city's liability is 15% of the fair market value and so if it's $4 million the city's liability would be $600,000 if it's $3 million we can do the math um and so that is the obligation the city would get those funds give them to our housing and neighborhood development team um to find another eligible use uh or to do more Income Support uh rental support things like that but it would be the city's liability to pay that money back if that project on the site isn't cdbg eligible does that answer question it's a little so and and to my colleagues here's why I am struggling this evening I think that bash is a a good uh group of folks that has some energy and quite frankly is the type of developer that we want to attract to the city does that mean this is the piece of dirt where I think that they should jump in I I'm not sure I'm there tonight uh four street is an incredibly important piece of Renos both its history but also its future uh we've had some great public comments today from uh folks who have spent a lot of money an effort to revitalize stretches of Fourth Street and we continue to see groups moving in but of course this site has challenges not only because of where it's located but the the power line the other services that are adjacent to that and I think that we are struggling as a city to get into that 30 and 40% Ami so I don't think I can figure out all of those things tonight uh what I am interested in and perhaps Madame mayor if I may just take a few more seconds is to know whether or not we could work on getting an appraisal and a reversion to acreage without regard to this particular proposal meaning whatever we do we've got to do those two things and I know appraisals go stale uh but I would much rather have us have some of the legal questions that Mr Shipman has to work on this question about the appraisal happen and maybe some more clarity on the allocation of the cdbg funds I just cannot make a decision tonight um too many variables and too many questions for me to be able to you know say that this is the time to dispose of the property um and again I I think there are issues on both sides I just think there's too much that has not yet been resolved uh for me I do um you know one thing that I um was a little curious about any money that is made off of that um or how how does this work Brian maybe you know because aren't there railroad bonds I don't believe this site is encumbered by any bonds or um leans or um retract maybe no um we were able to sell the for stre properties because those revenue bonds were were done away with um I do not believe this site is encumbered by any of those no bond okay what was the other thing cdbg we can't do the cdbg math because we don't know the actual fair market value uh of the property and council member Reit was correct those appraisals only last 6 months before they are they go poof and you you know you don't know the real value of the property so if it lasts more than 6 months and we want to sell the property per NRS St statute we would have to go out and get another appraisal mhm and those take some time at a cost okay all right thank you I appreciate it okay go ahead and then we're going to move on does our disposal property talk about offering properties to other entities um it does uh depending on the type of use uh there's there's a few ways uh you can go out RFP you can go to public auction if you go to public auction yes you do have to notify uh other a agencies if they would like it first yeah I think that was something that we contemplated in that proposal I think it's synced up with state law is offering it for other you know service purposes and that was always the discussion that I wanted to have it's a special purpose institutional building today hearing about all these incumbrances I feel it's even more suited for acquisition rehab probably eligible also for some funding sources that we have through the um you know qualified the qap possibly for a um AC rehab property for transitional housing or something like that so it has a lot of potential that I think really needs to be discussed about using it for a public purpose it's was designed for that it could be eligible for funding for that it's it's a tough property I mean there's so much property downtown for these folks to pursue and you know if the motion doesn't go forward I'm not ready to go get appraisals because I'm not entirely sure to jump over the fact that we're going to sell it rather than offer it that's what I wanted to do I wanted to offer it and we have no shortage of Social Services down there so we'll see where it goes on the vote but I want to let the council know if it doesn't go forward I'd like to have that discussion broadly and I'd like to get into the building please thank you all right thanks so much okay I'm going to send it over to um Okay one minute we got to move on no I'm I'm just here to ask you whether you would like me to make a motion or do you not want a motion today would you like to make a motion councilwoman Taylor I think it's your word it's Miguel's word I'm happy to start with the motion i' I've written out some points for send it to you go ahead um well it was really um I wanted to know what your interest was but um I first a comment it is I've spent a lot of time buying and selling um publicly owned land publicly owned land and council member um breus is correct that generally there's a offer to local governments state governments to see or uh nonprofit to see prior to sale that often happens unless we have our other policy where we're selling to a neighbor next door which we adopted a long time ago if you're interested I could make a motion and we can see where it goes I would recommend that the staff um do an appraisal uh given all of the um apperances and issues with the property um move forward draft an RFP visit with the council uh members in individual briefings to make sure that they understand what the RFP would have and uh any issues such as what member breus brought up or council member Ebert earlier about what their interest would be um and then if uh if that's okay bring it back I mean two options here bring it back to council to approve the RFP just given the heightened interest in this or you could uh recommend that they go forward with the RFP and then finally um I would like to see a change process for the unsolicited proposals that might include notifying Council immediately when one's within 7 days when one's um received and then also um making sure we follow our usual public process so really the bottom line is if if there's interest in the council we could request an appraisal have staff draft an RFP um and uh move forward yeah and I want to move and the only thing I would just say is the timeline because it's been so long um and I think you know the purpose is very very valid whether it's housing or wraparound services or other services right um but I do think that we should move forward instead of you know kind of just sit MH so that's why I'm just saying now I am cognizant of the fact I I haven't gotten a second and I'm cognizant of the fact that appraisals have a shelf life they're only good for six months so I don't want to go into an appraisal process and then be uncertain about what direction we're going while they appra is aging and then maybe towards the end of the appraisal get into the RFP process they want to make sure it's timely yeah also I'm curious does that help you guys in a sense as well I would think um because honestly and like councilwoman Brea said I think I I thought your presentation was fantastic obviously we're in a housing crisis I think there's a lot of times where we not a lot of times we really want to see more housing obviously um in our city and like I said I was I just started thinking about all the people that have inquired about housing and no one has come forward this britini for the record that's what I wanted to reiterate um nobody has put forth an offer whether they're a service or a nonprofit or an organization in four years we are the only one um a lot of people have looked at it including Blackstone institutional including a lot of local other developers who submitted a comment today nobody no nonprofit no Organization no Housing Authority nobody has put in an offer except us in four years yeah so yes an appraisal um and we understand there's a time frame that we need to execute in but going out for an RFP will only delay this process and then also um due to a public comment earlier you heard that this could turn into a parking lot this can turn into a multiple different things if you go up for an RFP and could you put in the stipulation cuz I also love the fact that you're local born and raised here I mean like we should look at those kinds of things yeah well you mean with a preference for a local uh institution or a developer is that what you're saying yeah okay I'm fine with that that would be a preference but not a restriction usually those preferences carry extra points but they're not uh restrictive to other people that want to come in they just don't get extra points yeah and also it may be given to your point that you are the only one who answers the RFP um to your point but what's important about it to me is that the world's been put on notice and it's a fair process and that's what we're hearing government to do is to ensure again that we don't have inside dealing that we don't have our favorite people um come before us and get you know some property at a discount of value those are the things we have to guard against and that's why a formal RFP process is important and uh Troy keny on the record um I understand completely that this needs to be a fair process um but to answer your question mayor shivi um if if an RFP would help us or not I don't think it really helps us our request was to do an exclusive negotiation we understand that's probably not going to happen today it sounds like um but we've already spent considerable resource and time on this so we ask that you at least take into consideration when choosing your uh horse with the RFB about what we've already brought to the table m that even instigated this to go this is how they all happen somebody comes to us every one of these things we've done someone comes they've done an investment they've spent time that's a you know a cost to do in business which we all know I'm in business myself and I do it all the time it's on a speculation I hope it'll work out I expect it'll be a great thing but I also know I'm I'm working at risk but I I totally admire and respect what you've done but that aside every person that responds to RFP will have to do this same in a much quicker time frame MH I guess also you know we do run the risk I want everyone to know that we run the risk that it could sit vacant for a long time and also you know what that what that looks like right I guess no one can answer the RFP that's an option too I will also point out that there are uh cases in the City of Reno where you have just taken unsolicited offers without going to RFP um so it has happened before mhm and that is true like you're exactly right have to go um okay I don't think you have the support unfortunately um but I think I think you're right and that's kind of where I'm leading in the sense of I think um you know I don't like the way that this was done I think it was unfair to you um obviously it caused a lot of stress uh I think your presentation was fantastic it was I honestly I really really hope that uh more developers look at projects like that there's a massive sustainability piece conscious capitalism everything you I mean I've never seen a project like that in Reno ever um and so I I just would really encourage you I I kind of also think though it would be good for you guys to also know what the appraised value is completely I think that also would really help because we could today vote on a different process and you wouldn't even know what that is and then we're going to push that out and that out if you're really serious about about it you'll come back um and then you'll also have this more information because um you know like you were saying there wasn't a deal and you were saying the same thing no one was dealing right no one was making deals so now you have you'll have more information so well Madame may I guess I I'll just say I I would have probably stood alone on this I was super excited um I know we don't have a second but I I was super excited about this project when I read about it um I I you have my full support I would have made the motion as is to move forward I think there's affordable housing is the number one thing I hear from our constituents besides code enforcement adding more housing all types of housing housing increases affordable housing the calls for service at this location are a huge liability and a huge risk to the City of Reno we didn't talk about the costs associated with that I also from the information that I received in my email I don't think this is um a location for a shelter and most importantly you know I talked with the businesses on for street I've had conversations with all of them and this was important to them this is important for people that are investing in forry in our city and it's in a Redevelopment District so like I said I would stand alone on this but um I guess you weren't asking for my call I don't know about that because honestly I I really I think she's right in a lot of ways we want to see Workforce housing especially downtown and stay uh vacant for a long time but also you know we get criticized for anything that we do it's just it kind of comes with the territory we never seem to get it right no matter what it is um but I I would agree with that I don't like the way that this process went uh but I am supportive but I don't think that we have that support today with the council and I was very upfront and honest with you guys yesterday um but I I'm glad we're moving forward anyway cuz I think it's important we needed to do that because otherwise it could take a very long time to even bring a project forward so councilwoman doer I haven't gotten a second so I don't know I will second um I will second I will support I mean I I would have gone differently I would have said um I can live with it but I would have said youall can sit down I I don't know any questions um I would have said you know let's let's get a space analysis a facility analysis what we saw on the property I think was a building inspection like a building inspector I would have gotten a true architect to come through and look at the property and have the starting point for any disposal not just being an RFP everyone out here in the world but one that looks at using that property that building for its an design purpose that's where I really wanted want to be because it's going to be hard for a social service agency like the county or you know someone who really can make it go for a dollar and you know I hear I hear housing too as a as a need but you know what I hear a lot of Social Services needs and a building designed for social services is a hard building to build and there aren't a lot of them around so I would have started differently but I can live with where you're at thank you okay well and I wouldn't be opposed to as part of the appraisal having some assessment of the square footage and the layout of the building I mean included in any RFP I mean that's information that helps people respond yeah I mean maybe when it comes back to sta to us with the RFP um we commission a a use a facility use analysis all right thank above and beyond a just a building okay INSP I have a motion and a second here yes go ahead sorry uh Ashley attorney assistant city manager for the record can we get clarification on the reversion of acreage that wasn't included in your well I did not include that because I wasn't ready to go there that's a process we can do later that's fine we just wanted clarification for the record not to be that's that's a work effort that we have to go through in order to do a sale potentially maybe they only want a part of the pro you know the land they don't need it all May maybe that would interfere with somebody making a motion maybe even these folks only want this part of the property and not this other remainder parcel so just want clarification for the motion thank you um the other thing is clarify for me how quickly we can go through this so that we can get a use for something that's sitting there doing nothing that's become a nuisance what what what does that look like looking for Lori appraisals are going to do you want to if Brian McCardle for the record if we follow the same process at zero Riverside Drive uh we would put out the RFP and have a a short window of time maybe 30 60 days for respondents to come um what we did that time is we went out immediately and got an appraisal and when we release the RFP we released appraisal value as well so that the responders to the RFP knew what the appraisal value was and potentially a description of what exists would help some respondents respond yeah correct and um it sets that timeline to bring back to council within that six-month window before we have to go out again right and so the I think that Expediting the process would be helpful okay I think that that's important because I think we've waited for a long time and we probably could have avoided a lot of this wasn't your fault like to be honest with you I got to say that I have a lot of heartburn here because I think there was process followed and we've done it before on other properties and staff is going to go back and I know how this is oh see the council they bang their head with us the council is so hard to deal with um you know I I think all our critics out there uh at the same time then we hear the same thing from you know people that work in the building oh my God that Council they're so difficult they're so hard you know so like I always like this is where I say we can't win here right so um just Brian and do whatever you can to help us uh move move us forward because I think moving forward is is really important so And Timely well with the exception we've been incredibly consistent on asking you since you've been here and even before you got here to go through this RFP process to just be fair to all people that are interested and just for clarification RFP process at the end does have a proposal and a price attached to it exactly is that what you're thinking correct okay price can be zero I am the county and I am offering zero and I'm asking the city to preload some cdbg and some uh qap um priority applications okay and then don't forget the third part of this was which was just to clarify what our um unsolicited proposal process any improvements we might want to make in that to avoid this kind of um unwieldy conversation make clarity okay mad mayor yes go ahead I I I'm so very sorry but I do not know what the motion is at this point okay it's to direct staff to I'm sorry do you want me to repeat it go ahead yes I have no idea the motion is now it's to direct staff to conduct an appraisal of the property to draft an RFP and to propose uh an unsolicited um proposal policy to come back to council the one question I'm not sure of is does the RFP come to us before it's issued so we can all that's what I would prefer just to clarify just so everyone has clarity about what the RFP says we've spent too much time on this to add any any um confusion so that would be my inclination with this so an appraisal draft r P RFP comes back to council we issue it we receive responses we uh evaluate those and make a decision all right RP I'm sorry did we just say that we wanted to streamline the process or are we going to bring the RFP back I I I'm confused can you clarify can you get the RFP out without us Ashley JY assistant city manager yes staff can move forward with issuing an RFP without approval of council if that's the direction of the body that would be my preference additional Clarity that I need from your motion Madam vice mayor is are you wanting the appraisal to happen first to then come back before the RFP is drafted no we don't have to um well isn't that generally what we do we would they would happen in tandem would be what we would recommend because the appraisal is going to take I'm not saying one has to happen before the other they can happen in tandem that's what I needed a clarification on so it would be up to this body if you want us to bring back the RFP before it is issued that will slow down the process by anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks depending on when that comes back so you could be looking at 120 days or more before that's not what I'm hearing you just said 2 to six weeks I mean in addition once we get all of that information back based off of internal staff report deadlines so depending on your timeline of what you're expecting well I got to say before this goes out I would like to H have the appraisal and I would like to know what we're putting out on the street frankly and I would like to know what that RFP looks like if people don't agree with me that's fine but just given the amount of interest and attention and the amount of time we have spent on this today I think it's important to have a check-in that's me and I that's what I understood when I seconded it too all right well I feel like we've really over complicated this so it's very hard to support in that capacity okay so I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed I'd like to just you huh I was going to make a comment okay just you know I think a lot of this could have been avoided if we could have had a meeting about this I'm just going to say it again way back in was it July or when the initial request was made September September a lot of this discussion could have been had a long time ago and we wouldn't have had to have like an hours long conversation today feel like this was really put on the developer unnecessarily because we didn't as a Council um do something when another a fellow council member asked to review this so I just want to apologize to you guys for that um but yeah I will support the motion okay um all right so you're supporting the motion I am not because I think that we have failed you and you followed the process exactly like we said we've done it before in the past um and so I think consistency matters uh I think you know uh you're it was fantastic so I really hope you guys come back in with an RFP I hope everyone else does too um so that that they know it was fair uh it was a very fair fair process but I think um we failed you guys and we tend to typically air on the side whenever it works for us uh and then air on the other side when it doesn't work for us it's like we always want it both ways up here and um I think you know we did a really poor job today so I'm not going to support the motion all right uh motion passes I believe Madam mayor can I call for a roll call vote please yes please go ahead breus I'm an i d i Martinez no Ebert I Taylor was a no but she's out of the room at this time Rees I'm a no shivi no fails motion fails okay no motion passes passes we have three Nays I have just for the um for the record but oh sorry yes because Taylor's out right now if if we could have or yes she's coming back is there a way I can um modify this motion that we could get to passing I mean I mean what's an alternate motion well council member Taylor what was your vote day all right so then motion fails I'm going back to councilwoman Taylor uh thank you madam mayor I'm going to go back to the original motion that's in the staff packet I move to direct staff to obtain appraisals of the properties enter an into enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement with bash capital and conduct a re version of acreage together with with matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected there with all right I have a motion um I will second for discussion Council dur what did you want me to vote or no I want you to I you always weigh in so um and and then go ahead Council I'm going to go with you and then breus I'm just going to the people that I know have I I mean I'm I'm uh I'm not going to support the motion and it's nothing to say about our um persons in front of us I have been very consistent four years about a public process and I'm completely fine if they are the only um respondent to the RFP but that's just where I am I mean it's good government all right okay anyone else Madam mayor okay yes go ahead thank you so much and and I perhaps this will come back to miss derer in a moment but I was unwilling to support the prior motion because I thought it went too far and required too much and was overly complicated what I am inclined to support is an appraisal and an RFP process without all the other things that have been loaded on to it which I cannot ultimately follow from the comments made well that's what I was asking yeah I understand m d and it just the process is what it is and so I am going to be a no on this motion as well but and it is because I believe we can still do something appropriate with this site but it will take us more time than we have been able to give it tonight on the current trajectory I I think there are lots of variables still to be answered including some of the legal ones so I I am not inclined to S support this motion okay thank you so all those in favor say I I all those opposed no okay um I think that was five that I think that one failed too okay uh roll call vote May yes go ahead thank you so much I'm ready to make a another motion okay um oh sorry council member Martinez we need to do a roll call on that last one sure yeah breus nay D nay Martinez no Ebert no Taylor yes Rees no shivi yes okay thank you okay moving along we're going to get there I promise see and you're everyone's witnessing all of us working together okay go ahead um councilman Martinez go ahead thanks much Madame mayor um I won't be labor the motion with some of my thoughts but I will just move to approve uh the following staff recommendation so staff shall take all actions necessary to prepare the community Assistance Center property uh for sale including but not limited to ordering appraisals and completing any necessary parcel Maps or boundary line adjustments and staff shall prepare and release a request for proposal for the sale of the community Assistance Center I'll second second okay I have a motion and a second can can you repeat the motion sure I'd be happy to I move to approve the following staff recommendations staff shall take all actions necessary to prepare the community Assistance Center property for sale including but not limited to ordering appraisals and completing any necessary parcel Maps or boundary line adjustments and staff shall prepare and release a request for proposal for the sale of the community Assistance Center thank you all right I have a motion in a second all those mad mayor yeah go ahead I'm not going to support I think it's good it's getting there but here's an important thing is we had a discuss hours ago about another city facility that we leas to a so social services provider and that's the community health assistance and this says sale and I think by getting it ready to sell and disposing it for sale it precludes a process for a social services provider uh like cha type or the county to be able to lease our property and it contined to be one of our properties so for that reason um I think it takes us away from some options in the property and I won't support thank you okay I would assume that you could anyone that wanted to come forward with that type of option right that they could do that well I I hope they can I hope they can okay all right so you heard that it's on record yes Madam mayor if I may I for my part I believe that it would allow anyone whether that's uh rise the county cha if they chose Catholic Charities to make a proposal whether that proposal is successful is an entirely another question so I want to make sure that those groups have the same ability to in inquire and put together their best proposal that anyone else does they could have done that for several years but have chosen not to I think most people are going to find when they look under the covers that there are so many problems with the site that they may just not be inclined to do it but I don't want to foreclose that for them because I cannot speak for them okay all right uh we are we can't interrupt the motion so I apologize for any of you guys out there um because I see Hands um but we're going to move forward all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries unanimously all right thanks everyone um we are Madam clerk anything else we are at 6:15 um I need everyone to get up for 10 minutes and um come back could the manager during the break look to see if there's items that could be continued to the next meeting what do we have um we have quite a few things yeah let's see here we go and actually we're going to go 15 minutes 6:30 so here's how I usually do it whoever is in um how many people are in the room obviously tells me that there's a lot of people waiting for an item um Madam clerk did you take a poll you did okay so give me what you got do you want to connect on break or do you want to do it now yeah let's go onak the only thing is what if we end up not hearing gotcha give me everyone in this room will be heard okay give me just a second so that's the most important thing then we can break everyone in this room will be heard we're not going to continue anything that these people are right okay so just so everyone knows we're not continuing continuing anything um if you are here for an item okay so Madame mayor in the um well obviously we have staff here for every item but we in the public side we have um members of the public here for majority of them are for our C items at this time um so C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 um and then outside of that I believe everybody else is here for staff is here for the the the remainder of the D items and uh the B items okay could we continue D6 I don't know what is it it's a policy discussion about code changes for parking yes please I believe there is a timing issue with the budget if we continue D6 we and then the other thing is we're going to take the C items as well I I guess I'm getting reports from staff that there are people waiting on some of the C items so guess what everyone we will be here all night we're going to actually go through the whole agenda all right I think that's going to be the most effective unless you can think otherwise do it that's it yeah we're going to do it okay so then uh we'll come back in 15 minutes 6:30 okay best for you e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e [Music] ch e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e all right now all right Madame mayor if you're ready we'll reconvene the meeting it is 6:44 and at this time it looks like all members are present so we are going to actually open up item F1 f is in Frank one which is the ordinance adoption for dermy trust annexation okay that would be Council woman is it eert all right I have a motion second all those in favor I'm sorry we need the City attorney to read the ordinance number first oh sorry sorry go ahead Carl take it away all right and then we'll move forward okay here we go ordinance adoption ordinance number 6673 case number a anx2 24- 00002 dermy trust annexation ordinance annexing two and making part of the city Areno certain specifically describe property of a portion of each of two Parcels being plus or minus 4,113 ft² of property generally located south of Aspen Trail and north of bridal way together with other matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected there withth the site is adjacent to the city of Reno's jurisdictional boundary but is not located within the sphere of influence upon annexation the site will have a large residential neighborhood master plan land use designation and large lot residential 1 acre zoning designation W one all right thank you so much move to adopt okay thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right Madam clerk thank you we're moving on to item our C items we're going to open item C1 C2 and C3 together I believe okay any public comment do you want to open the public hearing oh uh I apologize at this time I would like to open the public hearing was proper notice given and any correspondents received thank you Madame mayor uh proper notice was given on this item we did receive correspondence and generally speaking we received the same correspondence C1 C2 C3 um those have been distributed to the Reno city council and we received 20 letters of support on these items we do not have any public commenters in the audience who would like to speak okay thank you oh I'm sorry we do have one Zoom participant okay Frank shank Frank if you would unmute state your name for the record and begin speaking okay thank you okay uh Frank shank Cold Springs thank you okay good yeah earlier today on public department uh I tried to speak but I know I got disconnected and um I just yeah i' I've talked to Peter Lesnar and uh and I've also talked to um um Grace madon about my concerns and I'm I'm not against a project I know people you know kind of want to see some retail but I I'm just concerned about the planning you know I hope you know I I've seen some of the stuff in the past like and what happened in Stead area how I thought you know and I just want to make sure that there's some kind of planning done to where you know the buildup IS is already out there and then sudden it's 5 years later to get the infastructure for roads and streets so that was big concern for me and um I'm concerned about the flooding a little bit if if you know was there plan in place you know CU we're in a closed in Basin like Swan Lake and you know I just want to see if there's a plan to you know like if we get a bit big rain or something you know and snow and CU I know there'll be maybe more run off you know from the build out near there because it's right on Dry Lake um and also I'm concerned like when when one calls like police you know how that works and uh it would be good if if they did pass it there was maybe a substation there and uh also on the I heard that it could be double Lanes maybe in 2030 depending on the buildout but I just I would feel good that if there's something in stone that you know that there's infrastructure in place like I said as as Megan can tell you uh councilwoman Megan you know that's why I really supported her and she's done a great job in uh you know on on infrastructure but anyway that's a lot of my concerns and uh oh real quick I would like it would be good to see a bike lane but you know I'm just everything I say it's just an opinion I'm not saying I'm going to do this or anything you know you know I'm just representing myself but um I think that's about it um thank you very much and I know you've had a rough day today everybody you know so but thanks for hearing me out all right thank you Frank all right our next public commenter is Rebecca Flannery via Zoom hi guys hi Rea sorry I know it's been a long day for you guys um I have massive amounts of concerns for this develop development that they're trying to bring out here to Cold Springs we literally live out here to see the stars to have peace to not have Reno okay and I'm born and raised here and I love what are you why are you against Reno I'm just I'm just kidding I'm just kidding we're trying not to take it personal okay keep going never this is my home y'all um I just it and I talk to a lot of people out here in Cold Springs I have lots of family and friends out here you know I grew up in Golden Valley um it's just these people are trying to bring in this big development and they're claiming I watched the Reno planning commission and they're saying like 20 people approved it and two people denied it but nobody out here actually knew that this was happening so I don't know how they're getting the knowledge out here to Citizens and I don't understand the the point that they're trying to make they're trying to destroy our home when we're already being overdeveloped by all these homes our 395 is like horrible to get into town anymore we don't need to add all these extra semis and this extra um I would like to like speak on most of us out here in Cold Springs that doesn't want to see this this is going to be another Swan L disaster um and then we're going to also have to be mitigated with all this semi traffic and Noise We already know what's happening over in Golden Valley with Chewy and their noise the these people can't sit here and claim that they let us know when they didn't so I am speaking for a majority of Cold Springs when we don't want this so I hope you take that into consideration okay thank you guys thanks Rebecca thank you all right Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comment on these items okay thank you so much grace nice to see you sorry it's so late good evening M mayor council MERS mckinin um with development services and I'm here to discuss the White Lake SPD master plan and zoning map amendments so the subject site is located in W 4 in Cold Springs east of White Lake and generally west of White Lake Parkway the applicant is requesting a master plan Amendment from Suburban mixed use single family Parks Greenways and open space to mixed employment and a zoning map Amendment from neighborhood commercial single family 3 units prer and Parks Greenways in open space to a specific plan District that's a lot of zoning districts and colors so we'll discuss these changes in more detail later on in the presentation some of the key issues staff looked at was compatibility availability of services and infrastructure and conformance with the master plan here is the proposed zoning map Amendment that demonstrates the change as you can see there's a handful of different zoning districts that are currently assigned to the site this is a carryover from of County zoning from when the site was originally annexed the proposed SPD zoning comes with a handbook and specific development standards that we will discuss later on in the presentation so although it's all turning to that light pink color there's a breakdown of what's allowed in certain areas within the handbook similarly with the proposed master plan we see a handful of different master plan designations placed with the mixed employment which generally supports light industrial employment and research type uses now we can discuss the SPD handbook and what type of development we can actually anticipate the proposed handbook includes about 12 acres of neighborhood commercial or NC zoning that would typically be located between White Lake Parkway and the rest of the development this would serve as a buffer to have more commercial uses closer to the residents and the industrial uses behind the commercial uses the rest of the area area would be allocated about 182 Acres of mixed employment and 25 acres of open space additionally in this handbook we account for mitigations for Industrial Development near residential zoning include 24-hour use mitigation loading dock restrictions and additional screening requirements the applicant has also proposed a trail along White Lake for residents and future employees to use along the paa there are some major points in the handbook um anything that is not addressed in the handbook will defer to RMC standards as amended oh that was sorry something I wanted to highlight is the 24-hour use this can be impactful to surrounding neighborhoods so I staff worked with the applicant to provide some standards that can help mitigate some of these impacts I would especially like to call your attention to the condition which prohibits backup alarms and beepers between the hours of 10: p.m. to 7:00 a.m. these restrictions are specific to the mix employment Z Zone and 24-hour use in the neighborhood commercial area would require additional review the development standards that are proposed are very similar to what we see in Title 18 for respective zoning districts some of the differences that are more restrictive include lighting and front set backs to ensure compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood additionally with the uses this is similar to the respective zoning districts um and mixed employment we will see that the single family and multif family are not allowed however we would like to show that we did remove the multif family or residential uses in the neighborhood commercial zoning District by recommendation of the neighborhood and through neighborhood Outreach um to make it more commercial Centric in conclusion we do not necessarily know what the final development project will be but this provides us with some parameters to understand what can be constructed in the future on this site we have received a number of public comments and support of the proposed project due to the need for commercial and employment uses in this area we've also received comments opposed to this project with concerns regarding traffic flooding and general nature of Industrial Development here are the findings for a zoning map Amendment the project does not conflict with state law and conforms with a number of our master plan policies here are the findings for a master plan Amendment and finally the findings for a specific plan District Planning Commission recommended approval of this project the recommended motion is on your screen and I am available for questions and the applicant and the applicants representative are also here with a presentation okay thank you so much okay come on up Mr Gordon Madam mayor good evening good evening for the record Garett Gordon uh today representing Lifestyle homes um it's my pleasure to represent the listener family they've been developing in this area for decades I did have three generations of listeners with me but I think I'm down to two uh Bob and Peter listner are here uh in the audience today uh I appreciate Grace's presentation I will try not to be uh repetitive but as mentioned uh the area is approximately 218 Acres on the south um uh on excuse me on the northeast side of Whit's Lake and you can see currently there's kind of a smorgasborg of different uh master plan designations uh you have uh single family you have open space um you have SMU uh we're converting those to just one overall mixed employment master plan designation along with the zoning you can see is currently NC sf3 and some industrial and we're move combining all those into a specific plan we thought this was a perfect location and working with staff for months now on a number of conditions that really lay out how you can bu build and where you can build in regards to this development I should note you can see there's a piece carved out which is the existing Reno trust industrial operation so there's industrial operations there today both indoor and outdoor so we certainly think it's compatible with our handbook and Commerce Center surrounding the uh existing industrial facility so we landed on moving forward with a handbook why because we could lay out really four items a development schedule a land use plan some development standards which were very important and probably took the longest to negotiate with staff uh in in conjunction with um and being sympathetic to the residential across the street and finally some site planning standards so development schedule um you've seen some specific some specific plans come before you recently uh all are about 15 years so there's a 15-year development schedule to build out uh this area and if we don't meet that deadline the plan has to come back to this body and request an extension two a land use plan so you can see even though we are resoning this area to SPD within that SPD are specific land use categories you can see the green there let me start with the open space Planning Commission had a concern you can see on the left side here there's open space zoned uh Land That Remains the same That Remains the Same and that that 25 acres does not change and we're not asking to alter any of the existing open space zoning designation what we are doing are two things one in purple we go to mixed employment about 182 mixed employment acres and what we're also doing which hopefully comes um to the excitement of um council member Ebert and Ward 4 is some commercial uh I know I've been before this body many times the projects in North Valleys we've always heard we need commercial we need restaurants we need retail so it worked perfectly in this handbook to be able to put in a minimum we can always go more but a minimum acreage of of commercial and also have it along White Lakes Parkway not only does that make sense for retail for accessibility for visibility for retail so it's successful but all but also provides a very nice buffer between any of the mixed employment industrial warehousing buildings that may go on the Lakeside there's a buffer of the commercial but between that uh between white Lakes Parkway and the residential across the street so it does serve a couple purposes but mainly to get uh that neighborhood commercial out there so we put together some rendering certainly this is not ex um what potentially what exactly would be built but it could be built under our handbook again a minimum of 11 acres uh we envision a nice uh retail shopping center all the way along whites leg Parkway again we heard from the NAB we heard and let me just note one of the residents said on Zoom that they hadn't been notified we've done neighborhood meetings we've done a NAB meeting and despite my best efforts and recommendation not to engage on next door the client and the listeners put this project on next door including a link to the staff report and the application to be as transparent as possible and addition they went to the board of Woodland Village and made sure that Woodland Village was aware of the application and also the hearing dates so I think we've been as transparent and open as possible about what we're proposing and the dates and time of the hearing so back to the neighborhood commercial there's a use table which would include retail restaurants personal services Child Care Community serving offices like Medical Offices really what this community and neighborhood have been asking for for a long time there's now a requirement in this handbook to have at least about 11 acres of that neighborhood commercial in addition we thought well there could be bars and restaurants and potentially they want to be 24-hour well we put an additional layer of discretionary approvals in there for any businesses going between 11:00 p.m. and 700 a.m. so if there's a bar or a restaurant that wants to go 24hour they have to come back for a minor conditional use permit uh to make sure any um restrictions or conditions are that are appropriate are placed on that permit and again just another Rend in I mean I was got kind of excited about this so of the listeners I mean commercial commercial we've heard for a lot of years that's what this community wants that's what they need so we think this is perfect you can see here not only does it serve white Lakes Parkway and all of Cold Springs but will provide a nice buffer in between any of the other mixed employment uses that could be warehousing or otherwise so this is probably one of the most important slides I have to share with you tonight and really took the longest months to negotiate with staff to come up with some conditions for mixed employment 24 hour operation that really address the residential adjacency across the street so again here's a a rendering of what the project could look like again you have the uh neighborhood commercial on white Whit slake Parkway and then you have the warehousing and Industrial behind what did we put in the handbook that are absolute conditions in order to operate in mixed employment 24hour one the employee parking must be behind a 10t combination burm rock wall within 200 ft of residential so you can see in this rendering there's not only the commercial buffer but there's a parking uh buffer as well two no loading docks absolutely no loading docks within 300 ft of any residential use and those have to be oriented away from White Lake Parkway you can see here in the rendering there are no docks pointed anywhere close toward residential three no docks facing White Lake Parkway within 500 ft of residential use unless screen by another building four all loading and unloading between 10 10 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. have to be between an enclosed trailer and a sealed dock door so all that activity is happening within the trailer and dock door not outside um in the parking lot next no backup alarms beeping between 10: p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and also no running refrigerator equipment between 7: pm p.m. and 7:00 a.m. we think those last two conditions we've heard in the community have been issues in other locations so they're absolutely prohibited uh in the handbook and finally uh tenant buildings are limited to a uh 500,000 square feet if you want to go larger than that we'd have to come back with a a cup to figure out if there's any additional conditions that would be required so we spent a lot of time on this I want to thank Grace and her team I think we got it right in regards to residential adjacency concerns project entries uh obviously we want this project to look great to be aesthetically pleasing as you come up and down white Lakes Parkway um so there's some strict standards about project entries minimum of landscape areas what the trees should look like how many trees should there be um where they should be located um including the height at the time of planting we did pull some of these from other projects that this body has approved making sure that we're consistent with tree standards and provide a really nice project entry to the project also sidewalks uh we have some very strict sidewalk standards and you can see rendering here um there' be sidewalks up and down Whit slake Parkway with Landscaping with trees with some commercial with parking and eventually the larger buildings uh in the back so we worked hard with staff on the sidewalk standard as well traffic so we've heard out here obviously traffic is always brought up of what um benchmarks or what safeguards are we putting in the the handbook to make sure that traffic is adequately looked at when there is a project so prior to the issuance of any building permit the master developer shall be required to provide a trip generation letter to the City of Reno um and that trip generation letter would include what the actual use would be at the time is it an industrial building is it a restaurant is a dry cleaner whatever it is we have a trip generation letter um and that if that exceeds 100 Peak trips then we would have to come forward with a comprehensive traffic impact analysis i' also note in that second paragraph it's absolutely clear that any offsite improvements that are required in these traffic impact uh studies would have to be constructed by uh the master developer trails and open space so when we went to the NAB um and when the listeners went out to their community and got input it was important that there was a trail and a trail connecting um the north side of the project down the lake to the south side of the project project so we have a minimum 10t wide Green Belt shall be preserved from the high water line up to uh the White Lake paa and then we'll also have an all surface weather trail and I have a picture um on the next slide of what that would look like to make sure we have that great connectivity and also some interpretive signs there's some great Wildlife out there there's some great views have some signs out there that really address um some facts about White Lake and Cold Springs and the valley so we look forward to working with the NAB um and council members rebirt on maybe what those Trail signs um should include so you can see here here's a rendering that trail would run U between the lake and uh the project you can see here it it kind of runs uh diagonal uh north to south down it connects to Whites Lake Parkway on the south side of the project and also on the north side of the project and this will in fact be Public Access but maintained by the master developer so there's no maintenance obligations on behalf of the city and again here you can see uh the trail system that we think is pretty neat that really connects um this area and the the east side of the lake it was also important when staff reviewed this kind of came in late but I think it was a good catch making sure the trail comes in you know not at the end but at the beginning and so then the proposed Trail shall be installed prior to the approval of any building permit for vertical construction so when we're doing horizontal permitting horizontal construction the trail has to go in and then we go vertical so that I think is an important point that the trail is coming in earlier in the process sometimes in developments Trails come in later but this will come in earlier and you can see that last sentence maintenance and ownership um would in fact be uh by the master developer fiscal impact um as a master plan Amendment you have to submit fiscal impact analysis uh this analysis anticipates a revenue Surplus for the city and over $200,000 for the city's general fund and over $1.8 million in the city's Street fund so certainly a positive fiscal impact to the city for this project master plan uh Grace touch touched on this um but not only is this a master plan amendment that has to comply with your master plan policies but also it's a finding for your zoning map Amendment uh there are many we could pull out of the master plan but here is a few um certainly uh this area it's encouraged for a modern industrial Hub we think we've done a good job here if there is industrial built we have the safeguards in there for screening um and that neighborhood commercial along White Lakes Parkway Neighborhood Services we think that absolutely the the the uh neighborhood commercial that would be built is going to serve this neighborhood that's well overdue uh and again transition from unincorporated County to open space we think white Lakes Parkway and then you have the commercial the parking the larger building the trail system the green belt then the lake I think we've done a great job transitioning from White Lake Parkway down to uh down to the lake so it absolutely complies with the master plan changes as a result of public engagement very important to the listener family they've been out here for decades making sure we had not only one but two neighborhood meetings um they went above and beyond with the second one had a NAB meeting went on next door went to the Woodland Village HOA and we heard um and we also heard I think uh uh council member Ebert was at the NAB you know commercial commercial commercial so we made sure we added in that commercial and even um added to it a little bit in response to your nav two this was important from your nav they said well you're promising us commercial but one of the uh uses allowed in your commercial is multif family so is this a backdoor way of putting Apartments along that stretch the answer was no but it was a good catch so we took that out so apartments are not an allowed use in that neighborhood commercial it is just strictly commercial retail personal services um that would be allowed there and as I mentioned before probably the most important slide I had was those strict residential adjacency standards uh for the 24-hour use that we pulled from many other projects as well as came up with some new ones to make sure we got it right and then the traffic impact safeguards when a project under this handbook does come forward there's traffic letters there's traffic studies and an absolute statement in the handbook that the master developer uh is requ is is required to fund any improvements that are necessary based on the ultimate project so we agree um with all conditions of approval um we certainly agree with staff recommending approval um there have been numerous public comments in support of this project I believe at the Planning Commission we were close to 15 or 20 in support and they were all focused on this this neighborhood commercial component and finally the Planning Commission voted unanimously our Planning Commission is not always unanimous but in this case they absolutely were they were unanimous uh in approving uh this application and we hopefully ask you uh to do the same and I'm here for any questions and thank you for your time all right thank you so much perfect okay we're going to now bring it back to the body I'm going to send it over to councilwoman Eber it's your word board so please kick us off great um so we do get a lot of um requests for commercial out in that area that's one of the top go ahead sorry one of the top requests I get you know after traffic and infrastructure roads the second thing people want is commercial and in in particular I was out at the senior center in Cold Springs and had lunch a couple months ago and just to meet people interact and I know that's County but the people that live in that area you know surround that this um area um and the people all told they wanted places to shop out there so um I do think that it's it's something that we need out there and um this is something that I had talked about um with the listeners before about the um the area out there that the lake bed I know that when the lake is drier there's some concern with the dust that comes off the lake and that there's no barrier currently between the lake bed and the residential area have you done any Environmental Studies uh regarding the impact of that dust it would be blowing into residential neighbors if there's any uh negative Health impacts for that we did not get any specific Environmental Studies but we do send all these applications out to wash County air quality um we didn't get any comments back from them and so that is not something they didn't provide any comments at this time okay um and also did you say that there is no traffic study done yet it's not going to be triggered until there's actually a permit for development for the record G Gordon thank you for the question yes we have a a table of uses in there that would be allowed we just don't know what the project will be yet to be able to do the calculations for a traffic study so we have the strict standards in there that when a project does come forward if that's an industrial building or a restaurant or a dry cleaner they would have to go through that uh traffic either letter process or study process depending on 100 trip over or under 100 trips okay and if we didn't make these zoning changes what what could this land be used for it's a great question so residential and a lot of residential so I Grace can correct me if I'm wrong but under the neighborhood so the existing zoning there we go the existing zoning is on the left so that NC neighborhood commercial I believe allows by right over 1300 multif family units and the sf3 would allow over 300 single family so you're looking at over 1,600 residential units just by the current zoning with none of these important handbook standards that we've put in so we think what we're proposing is a lot better than what how it's currently zoned okay thank you thanks all right um councilman breus go ahead yeah so um M mackan oh first of all he said he just said 1,300 on the NC how big is that NC um let me pull it up but it's 30 units per acre so whatever that breakdown would be but I can get the exact well I I guess you know I don't want to lose too much time what's the NC zoning how many acres it would be I think it's about hold on if it was all the bill well let me just let me just I I we're so strict here and it's been so late let me just go through compatibility because you said compatibility is important consideration waso County wrote that the existing zoning of the city has a high compatibility to the land use on the county okay so they have a rating scale it's rather objective they say it's high compatible they say the change to Industrial zoning this is was County Community Development represents a substantially higher impact higher potential for impacts okay so you're saying compatible more compatible than the existing zoning W county is looking at it differently can we look at the 24-hour strict standards that Mr um uh Lewis roko was talking about on his okay right there so 24hour strict standards okay no loading docks within three 00 ft of a residential Zone well I sure as heck have heard of 301 ft within loading docks to homes being a real problem have lived experience up on North Virginia Street but that's not 24-hour that's just that's a design thing so 301 ft to a loading dock to someone's existing house no docks facing within 500 ft okay so they can go sideways but they're within 500 ft even 500 ft you know so I agree with waso County all loading and unloading between 10 and seven between an enclosed trailer that means between 10 p.m. and 7: they can be doing this in these areas no alarms or backups between 10: p.m. and 7 a.m. but they can be circulating on the property with their diesel trucks during that area's time within 300 ft no refrigerator equipment between 10: p.m. and 7:00 a.m. but others can I I don't see that a strict 24-hour operation and I've heard time and time again that any 24-hour operation is very intrusive to a residential setting and I have was County here saying it it does propose a conflict now let me let me go into this concept of commercial how wide is the commercial area that's on this SPD so it's not specific to the width but the 12 acres and it has to be in certain areas blocking the um or within the between the residential and the rest of the site okay so 12 acres to me is maybe a Maverick maybe a Starbucks Dutch Brothers and maybe one other use and I and I'm not going to malign those as important uses to people but it's it's not certainly giving people a commercial center in their area but the more important thing to me is the SPD cannot modify other Provisions related to services and infrastructure and I've supported the SPD and here we are way out here at The exurban Fringe bringing in an SPD and I think it is modifying Services the fire chief said what is he 14 minutes away Council breus I'm so sorry cut you off I'll come back to you thanks uh councilman um Martinez um yes thank you I appreciate the insights that were given um today thank you Miss mcadon for the presentation and you as well Mr Gordan I just want to give a huge uh shout out to lifestock homes and the listeners for their abundant including of public comment and making sure that there were multiple ways that folks were able to provide um feedback on this um and I I like I appreciate your attentiveness to the needs of commercial out in that space thanks okay thank you so much uh councilman Taylor nothing councilman ree Madame mayor I would sort of echo the comments made by council member Martinez I know that this community has uh largely been built by listener family over a period of many decades and it sounds like it's finally at the point in time where it can support the type of small uh commercial development and and some light industrial that is needed in that area and so I I'm hopeful that this will spur the kind of uh we'll call it small scale coffee shops and the like that is so desperately needed in the area in which uh council member eert has long championed and so I am uh I am supportive okay thank you so much uh councilman dur yeah I think this is amazing it seems like the applicant has worked incredibly uh diligently with the neighborhood and with our council member Ebert and I love to see that I love projects to to get uh born and then evolve through a process that will work for everyone I mean we heard a couple negative comments but I think on on um balance it's extremely positive I had a couple quick questions I um wanted to confirm I'm glad you have this one up about the time of use I know that's been such an issue and we're looking at changing our regulations uh to not automatically allow this kind of use and to only allow it with a special use permit I believe and then to clear closely evaluate it so it's a little tiny on the screen but what I'm seeing is no backup between 10 and 7 but I guess I'm unclear can they load and unload it says no loading all loading between 7 10 p.m. and 7 p.m. is just on the back side on the side of the lake so it has to be between the um trailer and the enclosed dock door so if you back up your trailer to the dock door you can load and unload in that sealed um location nothing can be done outside of that so but when you say sealed it's an encloser correct and because they can't have the one of the issues that comes up a lot is those backup alarm Speers the flashing right and so that was super important to staff that we address that in some way shape or form and because they can't be backing up between 10: p.m. and 7:00 um the activity on the docks will be limited just because of that action being prohib if it did well you can't back up so you can't really load exactly unless you backed up before 10 p.m. and then you loaded and you could pull away is that the idea okay then um I was I did have a question about the dust and I just it was a little different than council member Ebert's question but I just want to make sure that I mean the doors are going to be facing the lake although it's going to be enclosed and the lake is dry at times and the dust does blow I mean this is a desert terminal Lake I mean it's it's an um it's there and it blows and it's dusty and I just want to make sure everybody knows going into it what that means in terms of activity and how that can affect Machinery you know that the dust is alkaline um you know it could be difficult for the operation so just want to make sure they all know and then um on the trees um I know that uh Mr listener both listeners are very committed to trees I wanted to say that um a dry alkaline lake is not the best environment for trees and um they may want as they get into this project they may want to consider doing something that orat geothermal did which was their location wasn't the best for trees either and what they ended up doing rather than plant trees where they either weren't going to thrive or weren't going to be seen or weren't going to provide a benefit they bundled up the funds they were going to spend on that and um did a donation to uh for mitigation to relief Reno to have the trees planted but maybe not right there there so they may want to consider that for some of the trees so just a thought but good work to everybody okay all right uh Council neber yeah so this round too okay um I'm not sure they think this is more for the developer um so I have concerns about the soil too for landscaping but um we need vegetation in and W four um and I want to make sure that um the funds that we receive go to w four could we possibly explore any other kinds of um Landscaping that would be more inclusive maybe of native vegetation um we have a lot of Sage Brush out there I know there's some trees and things like that but maybe specifically look at Native um vegetation that could thrive in these areas so we're not planting things that die I I don't know what kind of veget you guys were looking into but maybe um you know look to be more inclusive with with native plants uh sure for the record G Gordon thank you for the question yeah I think we worked with our Landscape Architects on the language and on the landscape plan and with your staff I think we feel comfortable what's in there can be planted and Will Survive but we are happy to work with you and your Urban Forester uh to make sure that we get it right so before we move forward we'll we'll come talk to you okay yeah that would be great and also I did I forgot to say thank you earlier for coming to the nabs and for being available for comment and and I did want to say that I've seen changes in this you know during this whole process of coming to the NAB and and Planning Commission that you guys have modified this um along the way based off of feedback you've received from constituents so I just wanted to say thank you for that and um yeah um oh First Responders I had some people ask who would be the First Responders and um I know it's City of Reno but it's pretty far out so if we can just kind of yes get an overview of that yes thank you Grace mackan again for the record so this is within 13 minutes from the closest Reno Fire Department there's a Chucky medows fire department that's you know right there um it is within the automatic Aid area for structure fire response um and that would come from that fire St or the Reno said fire station and then sorry the station that is in Cold Springs I believe is a volunteer station so the closest one would be the Renoe one um and then this is also within the area for Mutual aid but talking to the Reno Fire Department that's more of like an at request basis okay so if somebody were to call the police though would it be roped or sheriffs it would show up it depends on and I'm not an expert on the mutual aid but from what I've heard from Reno Fire Department it depends on what they're calling for and we would either dispat we would dispatch the closest person at that point all right thank you okay thank you so much I'm glad you brought up the um the nabs and also the public process what I have found honestly with um the listeners projects they do the best Outreach of anyone so that is great to hear I did hear one woman on the phone though I think her name was Rebecca and she um said that she had not been part of the process and then I think you had a slide that kind of showed your outline of how you do reach out to people um I guess just to reiterate that in councilwoman eert might be someone through a public comment card that you want to reach out to because I know you do a lot of Engagement she is actually I'm going to be appointed to my NAB later today so yeah yeah at some point today or tomorrow morning oh I was gonna say maybe tomorrow morning yeah um okay well I just want to make sure because I I was surprised only to know because I know how much Outreach goes out yeah and she comes to most of the NAB so she might have just missed this one yeah she was confused okay for the record G Gordon yeah Peter listener I'm sure has already written down her name yeah finding her phone number and we'll go meet with her because Peter lives out there he lives in Cold Springs so that's why he knows everyone and knocks on doors and gets input so that's why I always surprised because I know how much you do and I thought okay something had to have fallen through the cracks but I wanted to reiterate the things that you do do so that's good probably having coffee with Peter in the morning um all right here we go I'm going to send it back to councilwoman breus go ahead it's all you in the compatibility is you know the limit is 500,000 Square fet so that's under roof that's half a metwood mall so time and time again we see that these large industrial buildings with all that docking and 500,000 is pretty big is not compatible it is not compatible we have enough experience whether it's ver North Virginia to see that people's lives are miserable when they are in close proximity to this so if the council really wants to do a specialized District here make this smaller Flex space do not do a mega Warehouse here okay and then I do want to bring up the um the aid or the response because that's one of the findings you know our own 13 minutes and 14 minutes to two RFD stations over a major Hill that sometimes IES down up and I know that because I'm driving up that way quite a bit and if it's if it's medical you know we don't even have a protocol our own Captain says for calling on a medical to T to trucky Meadows the one I'm most concerned about and I've said this time and time again during stonate is running the police up there you think stad is underserved right now cuz they are I mean I've heard before time and time again that on a busy night stead officers have to swing through Urban Reno to go out to Far West Reno that's how stretch thin they are you really think that you're going to expose this whole our fire our police responders over the hill into this area we are not service ready in this area there is no way that we can get over there and do the job that we need to do without compromising already very thin patrols and responses instead and you know here's the world how this should have worked this should have worked for stonate this should have worked for this one we should have convened when we got the annexation Mr listener was the annexation and you think you've got issues coming he and Mr Thomas own Evans Ranch and Silverwing way up off red Brock or Lemon Drive extension and that's going to really when they are able to sell that land that's really going to cause issues but we need to convene the county and do a plan for the Cold Springs Valley There's issues about the plias that we need to understand the science we haven't done that the county did that many years ago in their planning efforts did science through their planning process to understand the ply activities we haven't even talked about sewer now we're sewering over to you know a very inadequate County facility that we don't have an agreement with we can't be doing a specialized zoning entitlement to someone when we're so stretched on Services we're stretched on fire we're doing a real disservice to our poor police officers who are driving call to call instead to may have them go over the hill we just cannot do this and everything in our master plan and I I'm I'm sad to see that staff isn't going into that no of concurrency we were going to have the services ready when we made these sort of decisions staff's saying we have but hasn't even done an analysis on the concurrency the existing zoning is the right zoning up there it's the right Zoning for the services we have up there to respond from the First Responders and for their infrastructure this is a real flawed uh recommendation thank you okay thank you so much I appreciate it okay sending it back to you councilwoman Eber it's your word um I I have one more question sorry okay we'll do one we're going to do one more yeah actually just a couple quick questions okay you go right ahead has there been any flooding there is there concerns about flooding I know that there's no development like right up against her now but has there been historically flooding there yes yeah this is in a flood zone and um as part of development they will have to mitigate that through the north Valley's 1 to 1.3 um which is you know extra than we would see in any other area just due to the closed Basin nature of this area so they will have to do significant flood mitigation a time of development okay and if we don't make this change this developer could in theory put in 1600 homes instead correct correct okay to me I'm not in charge of First Responders or anything but I think that would generate more calls for service than a commercial and Industrial Development um so I just wanted to call that out um okay does anybody else have any other questions I just wanted to follow up on your point about the flooding I didn't hear the answer just this is in a flood zone so they will have to mitigate 1 to 1.3 at time of development and do other flood mitigation at that time and where would the flooding Go I mean it's a it has to fill the lake as to the previous speaker point correct like Swan Lake I mean correct yeah so they would have to mitigate it on site through retention or DET on site through retention yes yeah a couple things if I could just okay hold on one second uh councilwoman Ebert um I was giving you 3 minutes I just want to let you know you only exhausted a minute so all I'm going to go to councilwoman breus I'll come back yeah that's fine okay thanks go ahead councilman breus yeah I don't believe the 1600 units I think that's not a design feasible consideration so I don't know who's stating that information um I I don't believe it two is um uh you the um the there's a reason Stonegate hasn't gone I understand and they're probably waiting in the back Wings to turn their whole land into industrial which is what it was and what I said it should have been when Stone Gate was approved but it was the inadequacy and the considerations of the P I understand the water table was just too high so what do we have here we have a whole lot of development even closer to the lake that's going to be problematic um we need to go out there and do the cents and understand the ability to serve the the public services and the um sewer um utility out there and the water utility what water utility is this on this is Great Basin water territory we've never put city services on these smaller satellite Water Resources Reno is Tuma we don't do deals out into these private investor own water utilities that is not our service level so that's a problem also um and you're saying this the M mitigation is 1.3 for where is that existing code so I do have Trina on the line as well she might be able to answer this question a little bit better but all of our North Valley's areas that are in that closed Basin have to do one to 1.3 cubic feet of runoff to one mitigation yeah let's make sure that because this isn't North Valleys this is Cold Springs Valley and I could see someone working a loophole really easily that says oh that's just for the swan in the Silver Lake Basin it never was done over for the Cold Springs Basin because we never thought about it but we might even need with this being the larger of the pla we might even need more but that's how we get out and do the science this is so problematic this is like Stone Gate all over again this is at the edges of our city going on to utilities that we don't even have any experience on I am just defied that we are not doing planning in these areas and I don't need to hear from Mr Gordon Madam mayor may I address the comment yes go ahead so it's in the staff report council member if you read the staff report page five it says one to 1.3 there's no loophole it's in code for the record we will comply with the one to the 1.3 it's code thank you what's the code reference it's on page the code reference the r five of your staff report yeah what's the RMC uh 180412 in your staff report page five the third paragraph is called hydrology and it answers all of these questions okay thank you okay um councilwoman Ebert do you want me to go to councilwoman derer before yeah I I don't nothing I don't have any further question go ahead councilwoman Eber uh you have got two minutes left okay so I'm I'm pretty much ready to make make a motion unless anybody else has anything to say I just wanted to make sure if you had any more questions yeah I just oh sorry sorry uh any council members on the phone need to weigh in or have questions if not I'm going to entertain a motion from councilwoman Ebert nothing thank you madam mayor okay go ahead Council Ebert you okay so first I want to H put some things on the record um one being that I'm aware of the concerns about infrastructure um getting in and out of the North Valleys it's something that I deal with every time I come in and out of uh Lemon Valley um but with that in mind I think that building 1600 homes which um is allowed right now would have a greater impact on the traffic than this proposed development um and given the thought put into um the accommodations to have um a reduced impact um to the residential area um I'm comfortable with doing this zoning change and also um just based off of the um requests I've received from constituents um regarding commercial development I think that this um fills a need that my constituents have expressed to me and it might not be perfect it might not be exactly what everyone wants but um there's a need there and um I think that this is um a good use of the the land so um I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve okay thank thank you uh I have a motion and just for clarification this is for item C1 we we do need item we I think we need individual motions per item and then we also need the City attorney to read the bill introduction MH so do I need that do I have to have you read it now Carl can you wait might as well okay that way I don't get too far ahead so um ordinance introduction on C3 so this is ordinance introduction bill number 7264 case number LDC 23- 000020 White Lake Parkway master plan and zoning map amendments ordinance to men Title 18 chapter 1802 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning a plus or minus 21869 Acre Site located south and west of White Lake Parkway and Cold Springs east of White Lake and US Highway 395 from plus orus 124 4.32 Acres of single family 3 units per acre plus or minus 38.6 7 Acres of neighborhood commercial plus or minus 24.99 Acres of parks Greenways and open space and plus or minus 3071 Acres of industrial commercial to 21869 acres of specific plan District together with matters which pertain to or necessarily connected there withth W four but but we're on C1 right yes okay so I seconded the motion so I have a motion a second discussion anyone for discussion no all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion carries okay Madam clerk sending it back to you a motion on item C2 all right councilman mebert um does anything need to be read or no just a motion to adopt the resolution uh Mot to adopt the resolution all right I have a motion second second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay back to you madam clerk item C3 a motion to refer the bill that was read by the city attorney's office okay uh councilwoman Ebert C3 C3 Mo to refer just motion to refer motion to refer second I have a motion and a second all those in say I I all those opposed motion carries okay Madam Madam clerk thank you madam mayor thank you Grace appreciate you okay moving on to item C4 which is a bill introduction to be read by the city attorney's office item C4 bill number 7265 case number LDC 24-33 Plum Lane properties ordinance to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno municipal code and titled zoning rezoning a plus or minus 88 Acre Site from professional office and single family residential 8 units per acre to mixed use urban the site is comprised of four Parcels located on the south side of East Plum Lane plus or minus 685 ft west of the intersection with kitsy Lane the site has a master plan land use designation of urban mixed use word one all right great uh Madam clerk do you have any public comment for us we do have public comment on this item okay let's do it Rebecca Flannery via Zoom hi sorry I whatever the plum L thing I'm going to say that we were not notified if they wanted to notify us these developers they would have went to our community center and actually like let the community know that there was going to be a full meeting but none of us knew and then the second thing is that I don't understand why they think that we need commercial development if you ask anybody in Cold Springs literally they will say maybe we need a Walmart or a Smiths or a grocery store they're not looking to warehouses they're not looking to any of these things to have freaking this whole development that these people are trying to do to us so sorry Miss flry if you have public comment on the last item we need you to make that under the J1 closing item cuz we've already closed that one out need to be because I raised my hand and nobody actually responded we had already closed out the public comment period how are we closing it out when we weren't done because I listen to these developers that are completely lie they lie nobody out here knew you cannot look at a yellow sign on a corner when you're trying to drive somewhere and know what they're saying I literally took photos of their signs and you can't even still read it they're not actually out here actually involving our public and our community okay Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comment on this item and we're on item C4 okay thank you so much um presentation nice to see you thanks for staying so late it's been a long M of the council when I started working on my presentation this morning I said I was practicing good morning then I was practicing good afternoon and now it's good night now it's good night yes Jeff Foster associate planner for the record bringing you tonight LDC 2400 z33 uh zone change for Plum Lane properties uh the project site is approximately 0.88 Acres comprised of four Parcels on the south side of East Plum Lane west of ksky uh near Little Flower uh the parcels are two of them have single family homes and two of them are vacant the general development pattern in that area is commercial uh uh retail offices restaurants things like that uh before you tonight is a zoning map Amendment request to change from professional office in single family residential 8 units per acre to mixed Urban which would bring the zoning into conformance with the master plan and no uses or buildings are proposed at this time zooming in a little bit closer the key issue is zoning compatibility um drawing your attention to the surrounding land uses we have office across Plum to the north on the East and on the west and on to the to the South we have single family residential for zoning uh you can see on the on the left that three of the parcels are zoned uh professional office and one of them is single family residential 8 these zoning designations do not conform with the master plan the proposed change is to mixed use urban which would be in conformance with the master plan um and saving the time for now but I can come back later if anyone would like to to look uh discuss the other potential zoning options uh that are essentially not feasible uh diving into the zoning a bit more um professional office uh is essentially designated for uh office conversions and small office developments sf8 is of course primarily for single family detach detach residential mixed use urban accommodates an integrated mix of higher density residential commercial retail employment and other Service uh oriented uses um I have a table on the screen here that discusses the various use types and uses within the table of allowed land uses in Title 18 along with the uh whether or not those uses would be allowed under the proposed Ed and the existing zoning designations the master plan land use is urban mixed use and here are three policies and goals that the uh proposal lines up with the development standards are on the screen for the existing zoning as well as the proposed zoning what's important to note is that um code contains numerous residential adjacency standards to mitigate for things like light noise uh setbacks and whatnot these standards would provide an added level of protection uh to maintain compatibility with the existing residential to the South here are the recommended findings uh and the recommended motion uh noting that the Planning Commission uh approved this unanimously okay for questions thank you so much um I believe is this W two Ward one W one Council M breus go ahead yeah I don't have any questions okay thank you anyone else with questions councilwoman Taylor councilman Martinez councilman Reese no okay uh councilwoman dur no councilwoman Ebert no okay sending it back to you councilwoman breus move to uphold and refer okay I've got a motion second I have a second all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carries unanimously all right thank you madam clerk next well that was the easiest one of the day we're on item C five an ordinance introduction to be read by the City attorney ordinance introduction bill number 7266 case number LDC 24-36 525 East Plum Lane zone change onance to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning a plus or minus Point 0.19 ACR side from professional office to The General commercial the single parcel is located north of East Plum Lane plus or minus 180 ft east of its intersection with Rondell way which is at located at 525 East Plum Lane the site has a master plan land use designation of suburban mixed use word three all right thank you so much um you want to come right up councilman Martinez would you like a presentation um not if anyone else needs it I'm ready to motion okay for you you do that hold on one second by the way Brooklyn nice to see you it's familiar face day um everyone that has come before us today has uh been here many times before but nice to see you I want to recognize that all right um any other ccil members see no questions Madam mayor I'm prepared to make a second okay thank you so much so councilman Martinez give me a motion and uh and then I'll get a second go ahead uh I moved to uphold the recommendation of the Planning Commission refer the bill for a second reading and adoption okay thank you so much I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries unanimously great job okay next Madam clerk item C6 ordinance introduction to be read by the city attorney's office ordance introduction bill number 7267 case number LDC 2441 9590 North Virginia Street zoning map amendment ordance to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning a plus or minus 2 acre side from mixed Suburban to industrial commercial the single parcel is located on the north side of North Virginia Street plus orus 200 ft east of its intersection with double back Road located at 9590 North Virginia Street the site has a master plan land use designation of industrial word for all right thank you so much hi Leah come on up uh okay w w for we're going to hand it over to uh councilwoman uh Ebert go ahead um hold on one sec do you actually have a presentation on this I do I do can we see that absolutely Madame mayor members of the council my name is Leah picatti and I am an associate planner with development services I know you thought the one that Jeff did was prettyy easy this will be even easier so this is a request for a zoning map Amendment site is a 2 Acre Site and it's located up there on the North End of Virginia near stead Boulevard this is the same request you've seen over and over and over uh when we did the master plan we did a master plan land use designation of of industrial all through this area when the zoning converted over it converted to mix juice Suburban which created a non-conformance now we allow applicants to come forward and request to have that change to bring it into conformance so that's what you see here today mixed juice Suburban to industrial commercial the whole area is located in an industrial land use designation you can see those conforming base zoning districts right there do not include Ms but they do include IC main issue that we looked at here was conformance with the master plan land use designation the best part about this is that there's no nearby residential there are existing warehouses all around it and staff found that it is completely appropriate here you can see that summary of uses in the development standards this is the same table you've seen before if you'd like me to go over it I can or we can just move on to the zoning map Amendment recommended findings staff did review and analyze these it does conform with state law and it absolutely conforms with the master plan Planning Commission heard this item on March 20th and made a unanimous recommendation of approval that concludes my presentation the recommended motion is on the board and I'm available for questions very good Leah this is Bam you just hit every single point good job no problem I think you're doing that in your sleep pretty much it's been a long day right yeah but I think you you nailed it okay councilwoman Ebert so just just to be clear and have it on the record that this is a change to bring this parcel into conformance with the master plan correct correct okay so just wanted that on the record um does anybody have anything to say any questions all right I'll make a motion to approve okay I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right good job we you have a good night you too Madam clerk sending it right back to you I would just like it to be noted John krmpotic was very sad that you didn't ask for a presentation well well you know I feel kind of bad cuz they come in and they're you know it I'm sure there's got to be a lot of pressure and there's a lot of work that goes into it and then whenever you don't request someone to bring up that presentation they've probably worked weeks and months and months and months on they're disappointed all right we're moving on to item D1 which is a resolution um and presentation from our finance Team all right hi numbers at 8:00 at night I know like kind how you doing I'm doing well you're doing okay all right very short good evening Madame mayor council members uh Lindsay Hatfield Senior Management analyst with Finance I'm bringing forward the third quarter augmentation this covers augmentations and revisions from January 1st through March 31st of this year this item is in compliance with the council priorities of fiscal sustainability Public Safety Arts parks and historical resources um this should be a pretty quick one generally and this follows this the the general pattern that the third quarter is our smallest augmentation we are not um doing any the procedural things that we do with the first quarter like carrying forward all those posos or on the second quarter um Turing up our fund balance this is just to kind of capture some grants and reimbursements that have come in and any potential um FTE changes that we're proposing really quickly um the general fund were proposing appropriations of $3 million um 3.4 million of that doesn't seem like this maths but hold with me um 3.4 million of that are grants and reimbursements primarily for um Public Safety 2 million of that is for Wildland fire reimbursements and 500 for the um urban forestry grant that parks Department received also proposing to augment for the $867,000 that we got for the sale of the Fourth Street Properties um we have received those funds so this is going to True up the budget for that um then we're also proposing to reduce the budget by $1.2 million this is related to the cad purchase for dispatch originally the e911 board had um proposed to reimburse us for $1.2 million of this purchase now they will be paying that 1.2 million directly so the city will not be responsible for making that payment and we won't receive the the revenue reimbursement so we're just zeroing that out that's really just a cleanup item we are proposing one new um full-time equivalent one new position in Municipal Court this is a grant funded case manager position it will last the duration of the grant it is 100% Grant funded so there's no impact to the general fund for that we're also proposing a reorganization of a vacant position um to add some some needed help in the general fund for Our IT department um with a network engineer and then also proposing to move part of a grant funded position for our housing and neighborhood Development Department over to the general fund so that it's 100% general fund uh covered um this is no change in FTE it is eliminating a position adding another so um zero zero change for that from the room tax fund we're proposing $100,000 be um transferred over to the general fund for special event support in our capital projects fund our fire department did uh sell some equipment that they have so they have auction proceeds of $34,000 they're requesting to augment that so they can spend those funds um and then finally um augmenting for from the sewer fund for the asvestis abatement and remodel um of the 10th floor this floor is um solely utilized by utility services so all of the effort that they perform is for the sewer fund all right good job been here for questions okay I think you did a great job thank you all right councilman breus go ahead three minutes yeah and this is really important stuff particularly leading into budget um and I'm sorry it's late at night so we have a medium term obligation on the cad is that now that going to come off our books we're going to keep it as a medium term obligation it shows as a debt I don't I don't think Vicky bamb and Director of Finance it's not a medium-term obligation it's an agreement in local agreement with the county so I thought we had to book it when we bought those CAD um no okay okay now I also want to bring up you said that there's no new positions other than the one from un yeah but you did reference that the chief Innovation officer position no longer exists right that that is what we're proposing is to eliminate that position add a network engineer into it so that would be a one for one what happened exchange well I understood that we have a third ACM now we didn't budget for it we were told there's a third ACM so where's that ACM money position come from that position was budgeted oh really we closed out last year's budget with three acms is that true go ahead uh manager Thornley go ahead sure we have uh we have three positions in the same band and historically one has been identified as a chief of staff and now they're just identified as three acms okay so the charter requires the city manager to file a staffing complement by July 1 of every year and does the one in place show 3 ACM yes it does okay I'd like a copy of that was it updated midyear or that you as you made this change and got rid of the Innovation officer does that one I don't know if that shows on the existing compliment or not um but I do know that the compliment that you asked for shows three acms like you asked okay um we can agree to disagree but uh we were just told there was a third ACM a new ACM there were only two acms I thought we had stopped doing mid-budget position um hirings cuz if we're asked to come Rectify something during an augmentation and it's already been done someone's been offered a job then we're just doing catchup and I thought we were going to stop that now on page six fire salaries there's a large augmentation there I think um fire 1.3 million coming in page six of your what you're sending down to the state yes those are reimbursements for the Wildland are those the reimbursements okay changes so what about the 1.0 we're adding what what is that for in the service and supplies those are um the rest of those grants and reimbursements that that fire has received so all of that is the 2.5 is that okay cuz I thought we already augmented for fire salaries now okay Council breus I'm going to ask if there's any other questions go ahead councilwoman uh Taylor thank you Madame mayor thank you for the presentation I have two quick questions and I don't know um it might be something for a later time or as we get into budget more but with the sale of the properties that goes into some sort of revitalization do you know what that looks like moving forward and um where that bucket of money what what will happen with with it um it's it lives in the general fund um under Economic Development so it'll be used for economic development efforts okay have we decided what those Economic Development efforts are okay so I guess a a comment or maybe a request is that we take a look at what that money is used for in future um and then the other question I had was on um the activation there was a little bit of funding that was moved into the activation space and again this is probably larger larger conversation but it's just here right now um I'm interested in an overall activation budget because I see some in The Locomotion um agenda item and seen some in list so at some point a a complete activation budget would be helpful to me thank you good comments okay um councilman Martinez or councilman Reese no ma'am okay councilwoman der no thanks all right councilwoman ber no okay back to you councilwoman breus go ahead thank you Madame mayor um so on page three the $878,000 for sales of General fixed asset what what did we sell with that um that is primarily the Fourth Street Properties the majority of that the 867 I didn't realize we were still booking those okay and then you said 1.03 7 out of the sewer fund to reduce City Hall yes that was from item B12 okay you know earlier the mayor made a comment about I'm mad at plenum and plenum as I recall are is our contractor for the public safety center correct and and have we added any money in this augmentation to the public safety center in any facet no okay what is the public safety center budget at right now where can one track that down I don't have that on hand but we can it's not on the augmentation it's not being touched well you know and everyone knows I know I haven't been able to meet with our finance director quarterly like I did for 10 years because of an embargo from Mr um manager so I'm really having the hardest time doing my job on the finances and I'm very worried very very worried and um when I especially when I hear the mayor say things about plenum and our contractor and I understand we're in litigation maybe with them and we are I we're not ination with them okay we're in contract with the re I have my own reasonings and that's based on okay well let me say also is I was going through in preparation for this meeting some old agendas and we used to have the accounts payable as an item on the agenda and every meeting we got multiple spreadsheets on every every dollar that went out of the door here okay and I always felt very up Tod date on where the money was going and that helped me do these items so that's why it's relevant then the council decided to not put those on the agenda we would just get them regularly and ask if we have any questions I haven't seen an accounts payable spreadsheet in months okay so I don't know where they are I think we do have assum when sheema I think we do have an ordinance that talks about letting the council see the accounts payable and I just want to express that it's very hard to read these augmentations not meeting with the finance director but most of all not following through with the practice of having the accounts payable given to the Council on a regular basis and you know this is the stuff that's most important for us to be the final check on the dollars and I think a lot is slipping here um and so I just I just just want to let that know people know when I came on in 2012 the city was in bad shape and every single City per city council member said I never read the caffer I never read the notes that the auditor said about this deficiency that deficiency that deficiency I see the same landscape if the council's going months and months without seeing the accounts payable which build up into these so that's that's that but I am really troubled by a million dollars out of the sewer fund into this building Council breus okay thank you and I won't augment for that thank you okay thank you so much I appreciate it um and the only thing is I would just say if there's any information you need um I'm sure that you can get it via email through Vicki whatever you need on any questions you have no I want to meet with Vicki quarterly well but it would you could I always write down an email as questions I like to see it in writing so sometimes if you need information it might be another good way to get it I need to go have a back and forth on every page on these augmentations I need to meet with their might be a way to get some answers if you wanted them we're we're not doing the job here if we're not see glad you mention the cfer because um we were required to read it and it really got us up to speed and that's one of the reasons we've been so fiscally responsible for the last uh 10 years um quite honestly so I think uh you know we've really been um we've really been aware of what our finances are so thank you is there anything you want to include Vicki nothing okay all right go ahead councilwoman Taylor anything no I was just going to say for those of us that were here at the first budget hearing that we had it was very informative and I thought we were doing a great job when we all showed up for that except for some of us thanks okay good thanks all right anyone else seeting there n uh vice mayor go ahead yeah I'd like to make a motion to uh or to approve the resolution to augment the budget thank you I have a motion second have a second all those in favor say I yeah Madam mayor I I'm a know on one the backup which should be the accounts payable that I haven't I haven't seen this quarter I don't think they've come the full quarter and I am a no of 1.37 from the sewer fund that's being tapped by the need to finish up the stad property has a lot of collection needs has the tubw warf General plan and we just did a lot lot of money out on it for the um the affordable housing so I'm really nervous about the sewer fund which is on a cost of living increase to our rate play payers thank you okay thank you so much all right uh you gave me a motion I had a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay thank you uh Madame clerk back to you thanks Madam mayor we're on item D2 presentation discussion and potential approval for The Locomotion Plaza Mr mardle how are you it's been a long day and you're smiling hi it's me I'm problem it's me you're not frowning go ahead oh before you do that hold on Madam clerk do you have any public comment on this item Madame Mary do not have any public comment on item D2 okay go ahead take it away Mr mardle all right thank you uh good evening Madame mayor and council members uh Brian Mardo revitalization manager for the City of Reno uh we are here to discuss the next step in our placemaking efforts uh following up on the Gil placemaking study and uh what we're going to do to bring Virginia Street and Locomotion Plaza back to life okay how it aligns with our strategic plan uh infrastructure uh is one bringing Arts entertainment culture vibrancy to our parks and Plaza is definitely one and then as it's listed bringing more vibrancy and life into our downtown as it relates to Redevelopment and economic development just a little history lesson how we got here today uh in March 2023 uh in the list of arpa funded projects uh Council uh allocated $2 million towards the placemaking efforts we didn't at that time have the Gil placemaking study done yet but we knew it was uh forthcoming and so two $ million was put aside to uh deploy to towards those recommendations that came out of that that placemaking study the following month in April 2023 uh we did receive that Gil placemaking study they had implementation plan laid out in there and priority number one was to focus on locom motion Plaza and the streetscape along Virginia Street uh and in July 20123 uh portion of that budget went towards engaging a designer to go ahead and start designing uh how Locomotion Plaza would look like uh and the improvements along Virginia Street we have the designer here Cynthia Albright who can answer some questions uh if you have them after the presentation and what we're here to do today is discuss primarily phase one and more importantly stage one uh we do have enough we do not have enough arpa funds available to do everything proposed uh so we're going to take it up in chunks with the with the arpa funds that we have available um so that's what we're going to discuss today uh phase two primarily is more streetscape improvements and micromobility and to start the design a future design of believe Plaza and then phase three as it was recommended in that kill placemaking study is to construct a new Bel Plaza but today we're just focusing on on phase one stage one with the funds available and so just to reiterate what we're discussing today is to approve the design that we received uh that highlights Locomotion Plaza and the streetscape authorize the remaining funds of 1.6 1, 635,000 from those arpa funds to start the process of improving it and then allow staff to move forward with contracts Services agreements because as we know we're on a specific timeline with these arpa funds to be deployed by December and so to not hold up this process any long any further um to go ahead and to start putting those things into place what we won't be discussing today is uh identifying any future funding sources to get that full Suite the future stages and the future phases done and so today uh is where we're introducing this by December we have to have all the contracts laid out uh for the arpa funding if approved today uh completion of locomotion Plaza will be done uh spring of 2025 just in time to host events throughout the summer in that Plaza and then we plan to do activation and events uh with this budget over the next two summers through 2026 and at the end of 2026 that that arpa funding ends um and by that time we we should have really brought Locomotion Plaza back to life and so why do this now you know one thing that came out of the the placemaking study is that downtown necessarily isn't very unsafe it's that people feel unsafe and they feel unsafe uh due to lack of activity lack of other people around uh and essentially just the uh inactivity in the street and so what we really need to do is give people a reason to come back downtown uh it's not that they don't want to come it's why would they come give us a reason to come and so this provides an opportunity for people to gather in a public space IT addresses comfort and the fact that one thing we heard is that in all of our plazas um the physical environment the the the sun and the shade is one of the reasons why we can't use these spaces In The Heat Of Summer uh so provide so handling for shade and providing some seating elements uh make it more comfortable for people to gather and then bringing it back once we have the place uh set up bringing liveliness to it through events and activities and this is actually these are pictures uh that have been done on Locomotion Plaza in the past through special events that Gil study we met with a lot of people I believe 2700 responses we met with stakeholder groups downtown we did interviews uh ran through micro Mobility models that placemaking effort was a a massive Outreach strategy we really heard from everyone on that which informed our our uh decisions on this 90% of people said that downtown is really important they do care about downtown and 70% said that Virginia Street lacks a reason to go and that's what we're trying to solve here and so from if you remember from the placemaking study this was the contemporary design that uh that Gil had given us uh it covers a few things that were addressed Lighting on the site is one uh currently the electrical infrastructure on Locomotion Plaza does not allow um the lighting if someone goes to try to do a special event and plug something in the breakers pop so that has been a challenge uh so we want to bring lighting to the site shade has always been something that has been deemed necessary uh movable chairs movable seating an opportunity for bikes food to bring food trucks on sites and of course what every downtown needs is a roller skater right there and so Nathan olot with uh our Parks managers decided he will volunteer to be that uh token roller skater [Music] downtown so this is the uh we're getting into the full design of um of locomotion Plaza this is how it could look uh this has permanent Shad sh permanent shade um structures uh that are set up these are these are um found they're heavy steel structures they're in the foundation there and they'll provide year round share shade uh T-mobile Plaza in Las Vegas just did something very similar it's really nice they light up at night but it still allows us to do special events vents on site and um bring some movable chairs and movable seating and so as we look at the site just want to break it out what we're looking at here is as we focus on the Virginia Street side you have those shade structures you have movable Furniture you have shipping containers that not only provide for um bar access to do Refreshments but could be used for storage for the for the movable Furniture as well as uh retail potential retail locations um towards the back half on that you have more food trucks you have food truck pads and additional seating back there so from Virginia Street all the way to Sierra uh that is how this this has been designed another component of the placemaking study was to uh get a concept for Street skate furnishings and so we have that and we'll we'll show that here in a second that is uh this is the design that has come up it fits with the aesthetic of of locomotion Plaza gives people places to sit um provides trees where trees can be planted and um allows I think those are metal stru metal Planters and then some are concrete as well and so that could be a future um element to add towards this I lose my Clicker getting back in the budget that we have to work with today it is stage one which is we've already paid for the design the remaining funds of one 1, 635,000 will go to specific elements um primarily the movable Furniture temporary umbrellas and uh the shipping containers phase two is those permanent shade structures those come in at 3,500,000 and then last stage three is uh is some additional Furnishings as well as creating like a selfie area on Virginia Street for them for people to take photos in front of the Reno Arch what hasn't been decided is uh events and activation and maintenance budgets past the end of the arpa funding so breaking this out the area in pink is is phase one stage one where you'll get all the removable Furniture temporary shade umbrella you'll get the shimming containers lighting elements uh fixing the electrical things like that stage two is those shade structures that we identified in stage three would be The Locomotion entrance area and that's how it's breaking up stage one stage two stage three and so as I mentioned first thing is electrical and lighting improvements to make the plaza usable again uh doing umbrella for shade these are uh industrial umbrellas so we know that that the area through that Locomotion Plaza can be wind tunnel at times these are heavy industrial shade structures uh that will be used in place of before we get those those metal shade elements storage containers for beverage Service as well as storage for the movable furniture and Retail components and then unfortunately due to the heavy use that this plazas to receive we cannot pressure wash a clean Locomotion Plaza with that mural on it right now and so we're going to have to go in and and clean up that mural reeal the concrete um and start fresh and that will allow us to keep it clean going forward fixing the gates and fences and then adding uh opportunities to put those ship containers in those food truck pads part of this budget we have activation planned um which is quite exciting to see it's pretty much going to be weekly and monthly throughout the summer from June to September uh Rachel McIntyre our activation coordinator has been working hard working with offb music festival to bring a summer concert series every other Thursday through June to September um some of those bands have already been selected uh we have a Food weekly food truck event either on a Friday uh Saturday or Sunday throughout the summer and then theaters in the Park which is almost like a movies in the park that we we piloted last last October oober and that will be the first Friday of every month and so part of this budget goes towards not only creating a space but activating the space we don't want to build a space without any plan to maintain it and so there is a budget in here to handle weekly cleaning trash removal pressure washing keeping the place clean through December 2026 uh because this will likely have a peak season and offseason those those need needs on around maintenance are adjusted to to recognize that breaking out this entire budget uh between the electrical improvements The Umbrellas the shipping containers the move movable Furniture the site improvements uh with a bit of contingency that is how we get to that 1, 635,000 in the future uh when funding is identified we will go ahead and get going on these uh permanent shade improvements and then opt stage three is creating a selfie spot along Virginia Street this could either be used with pavers concrete etching but part of that will be a selfie spot in the O of locomotion where people can safely take a picture uh of the Reno Arch working with our Arts team to do artistic vents around the retract vents towards the back end of the plaza and then additional uh Furnishings Furnitures and Furnishings for that food truck pad in the back those have a cost of an additional $4 million that we have not identified where that will come from yet what this does and does not include uh it gets us activation through 2026 the plan is is that once we can pilot some activations show people how the how the space can be used private event promoters will want to actually use this space themselves uh once once it's shown it can be done and then some of those current challenges we have are taken care of and so that is the budget we're we're looking at today yep yep are you um okay are you finished I am finished okay great good job really appreciate it you had some slides in there just to clarify I'm I'm just curious uh with designs are is that what the design is supposed to look like are they going to look like that yeah like that yes and how and where do we come up with those types of designs that is what Cynthia Albright worked in her design so if you have questions specifically around that I can ask her to come up okay yeah no I just wonder what makes something look attractive um you know where you come up with that because it's super subjective it's very artistic but it's also very subjective um so I just wonder and it has a lot of holes in it I mean I guess is the purpose that it will be shade is that what that main purpose is yes and it's got a lot of holes in it so I don't necessarily know if that's shade do have they used that same structure in another city do you know Cynthia come on up come come on up good evening for the record Cynthia Alright well to answer your question mayor shivi um we came up with this design because we think it's beautiful and it's interesting and we came up with something that we wanted people to be attracted to the space to it was it we had several different options for shade that we presented to staff so we had a full covered one we had an artistic element and it was kind of universally decided amongst the team including City staff that it was an artistic element that we wanted to proceed with um this is actually the least expensive option and the idea being is that if we were to create ACC cord 10 steel structures with shade on Locomotion Plaza we could we could um copy that element only at half scale in Virginia Street so that we could continue that element in places along Virginia Street with shade that we cannot install trees on and then we could we're trying to also use the same kind of look and feel with believe because believe is a metal structure that has cutting etchings out of it so that was something that we built on too the idea here was to not create a fully shaded area but to provide an area that has a design element that makes it interesting and attractive and then utilize furniture for the purposes of creating spaces for people to gather and this is on local motion this is for Locomotion Plaza for stage two yes okay um I worry a little bit because it it hasn't been used in other cities how much does that cost well um whoops because sometimes we think it looks really great but then the functionality of the design side if it's not something that has been typically used before um you know over in cities you know so you might not know um you know I really want to see shade and we've heard shade shade shade but that concerns me just with some of the holes and and I guess what it sounds like with you did it with staff and anyone else well no yes we we've we certainly have a design team and I can tell you that go ahead our design concept that we created it turns out when I talked to someone in town Paulo um at tuto faroh he actually came up with a design that's somewhat similar to this that the city of Sparks did install on Victorian Avenue if you've been down Victorian Avenue they have 11 structures at they don't look anywhere near as nice as this but they look very similar to this and they cost a great deal of money much more money than what these cost and the cost estimate that Pao gave for that specific project was just as much as what we're proposing and then the contractor okay did a different design than what was proposed so I feel confident in the pricing and I feel confident that it can be built and there's certainly like Brian had mentioned there's something somewhat similar in the city of Las Vegas at the wind Park um okay so first of all I want to just say this is super important for me because we've talked about revitalizing downtown forever and ever and ever and it has not happened this is the first time that we actually get to have significant investment um Cynthia I think you are Beyond talented I love a lot of the conceptual ideas and Designs it looks amazing um and I want to be excited and supportive um I would just ask because I don't want to know it's late and I don't want to suck up anyone's time I actually would ask that we bring back some of the Design Concepts and have um people weigh in cuz here's what I think people forget and this is really important um think about this when that when you go out there and do something like that I can't begin to tell you how everyone thinks that we have approved it we are the ones that are responsible for Designing it we wear it the council ends up wearing it so I don't I want to make sure that we have input if I'm going to wear something I want to make sure the reasons why I say yes I I you know I was responsible for doing that um because we've seen before where you know it might not be something that the majority of the people um it's objective sure right I I completely age I can't believe I can't tell you how many times people say oh my God how dare you you you did this and this we had nothing to do with it was it was the public art uh commission and all of that and so uh I just think that this to me I would like to have more input and it would come through a little bit more for Council to say okay um and we've seen this before I know uh Bob celle actually did it several times I've tried to never stop a a a process in that sense but um I just want to be a little bit more sensitive when it comes to the design if it's not something another city has used and um and also we're talking about shade but I'm seeing a lot of holes in shade here so I'm a little concerned so that's just where I'm coming let let me clarify then for you um first of all this particular action for tonight isn't necessarily to approve this design oh okay I think what it is first of all it's to approve the stage one which includes heavy duty industrial shade umbrellas for purposes of pro [TRANSCRIPT TRUNCATED DUE TO EXCESSIVE LENGTH TO PREVENT PROCESSING COSTS]