Wichita City Council Agenda Review February 6, 2026

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for the agenda review. Can we please stand for the  pledge of allegiance? [cough] [clears throat] I   pledge algiance 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. Play on your own. Today is wear red for women  and heart health month. So, thank you for those   who are wearing some red today. Um, the number one  killer of women is heart disease and so that's the   reason why we're wearing red today. Great face.  City Manager Dennis. Thank you, Mayor. As uh we   look at our February 10th agenda today, the bulk  of the items, it is a night meeting. Want to make   sure that we highlight it is at 6 pm here at city  hall. Um we do have um the focus of the meeting   is on what we call the guard rails or parameters  around the sales tax initiative where city council   can clarify some of the specific items on how you  would see implementation for the overall sales   tax and then the individual buckets. I did want to  walk through a couple the summary memo with the is   it basically you have two resolutions for each  of the five initiatives. We've heard different   discussions from council members on some things  you would like. I don't know if there's consensus   one way or the other. So that's why you have two  resolutions basically for each initiative so that   you all can give us guidance and direction should  the sales tax pass on March 3rd. What we have for   you in the um summary memo, the green sheet is  that we do talk about the revenues and one of the   um overall questions that you all presented  about prioritization of funding. And so we   had talked during our last presentation at the end  of January that the money as it came in would be   um distributed to each of the five initiatives if  it passes based upon the percentage overall. There   is a discussion about prioritizing the first  300 million of the 850 to be raised over the   seven years. And so that is what the second kind  of option is is to prioritize property tax relief,   public safety, and the housing initiatives first.  So we'd fill those three initiatives first over   the first um money coming in. So that's one  of the first options that you will have to   um give us feedback or if you want to adopt those  resolution. Either way, that's what's in there.   Um, but then if you look on the performing arts  center, there's also the question about when would   uh private dollars be utilized and when would  public dollars be utilized. Is there a fundraising   goal of a dollar amount that council wants to see  achieved before the sales tax proceeds are used   for that project? So, you have two resolutions  that outline two strategies to do that.   The same thing with public safety is there are  two resolutions for your consideration and again   um one of them is to clarify that the proceeds are  not to be used for staffing or operating issues.   Just to clarify that it's generally obvious in how  we do that with our capital but just to clarify   for a voter. Um but also you will see there's  some other interest under the public safety   uh capital improvement initiative is about giving  maintenance projects funding priority within the   subset of CIP items for fire and police and  public safety. So that's another nuance to   the language that we just need guidance and for  voter clarity for you all to weigh in on. And then   um you will see um also there is a a resolution  just pertaining to century 2. It does give some of   the clarification about policy 38 reference which  requires that advisory election to be held before   century 2 could be demolished or substantially  remodeled. just to give safeguards again that   if anything is passed with the sales tax, the  Century 2 still has the policy 38 safeguard in   there that it would not be used to demolish or  alter substantially alter Century 2. So that's   just reaffirming that. Um then property tax  relief. You do have two resolutions in there   um about one just doing the tax relief on  the property tax side based upon however much   money is generated from the sales tax. The second  resolution stipulates that you would do a four a   minimum of a 4 mil reduction if 20 million comes  in. So it gives a little bit more clarity about   how much money's contributed from the sales tax  and how much would be offset on the property tax   with specific mill. So we need your guidance on  that. And then um we do get into the housing and   homeless assistant funds. Again, two options for  you to give um staff direction and voter clarity   should it pass is how much money would come  out of the corpus or the um principal amount of   funding. the um sales tax proposals for 150 for  housing and homeless services. Um within that,   some of that money is scheduled to go to Second  Light or our low barrier shelter, whoever is   operating it. Um but you'll see the distinguishing  point on here is the second resolution highlights   that no more than 5 million of the fund principle  would be expended for priority expenditure. So   you all can look through the language there again  in the um different resolutions and then um we do   talk about establishing some tax relief programs.  Um one would be what we call the witchah well one   of them is the low for those who qualify for the  lowinccome energy assistance program to make that   a city program if you qualify at the state level.  Um, but again, we want to highlight any offsetting   property tax or tax relief that council may be  interested in would have an impact on the general   fund. And so if you do a tax relief, it would  come out of general fund revenue. And then lastly,   the homestead, the Wishaw Homestead property tax  is specific as well. That would be a consideration   for you to establish if you want to implement that  or not. And then um we do have other guard rails   in there um specific to the oversight committee.  We have that established in the ordinance to have   up to 15 members. And then if you want to talk  about subcommittees or anything else related to   the oversight committee, we do have it established  that there is one annual financial report required   as part of the ordinance to be provided. If you  want to change, expand that to more meetings,   more oversight, more reports, more audits, you can  give us that guidance and direction as well. And   so the resolutions are the vehicle to do that.  So you have these in front of you and you can   digest those over the weekend. If you have any  other followup or questions, um, let us know.   And then we do have um for other business within  the um February 10th agenda, we've gone I'm doing   some things about a community improvement district  is one of the agenda items on there that you may   see. Sorry, before we move on to one of the other  items, the these proposed resolutions and with the   options, could we put draft on it or something and  then get that off on witchaw.gov/vallot question?   So, so when I'm directing people, I don't have  to direct them to the agenda to find this. If we   can just get it up on like the the ballot question  page, that would be helpful leading up to Tuesday.   And we will have a um PowerPoint. We'll try to get  a draft um out to you so you can see a little bit   more I think concisely the different uh resolution  components and try to give you all some a little   bit more how to digest all this. Um just with a  quick PowerPoint overview as well. Resolution 49   regarding option one and option two. For option  one, it's the prioritization. And I think it   would be helpful if we can show a very similar  graph like the one above that shows the first   300 million would go towards homeless, public  safety, and property tax relief. So having it   in a graph form would be helpful for people to  see. And if we can put that in the PowerPoint,   would that be helpful? Yes, but I think  it would be also helpful. Yeah. On any other questions or  comments for the resolutions? All right. And then again you see the agenda  items for the other some of the consent items.   We have some speakers lined up I see for February  10th. Um so you have that agenda in front of you.   If you have any questions certainly let us know.  We'll be glad to address those for you. And then   um if you want to look quickly at the  um 17th agenda, we can do that. I have   three things to highlight from the 17th  agenda. Anything else though for the 10th? Just the three things to highlight from the 17th  and let you digest if we have time. Just make sure   council's aware. We will have a conversation  about moving forward as we're talking about   um public safety investments, the fire station  construction, land acquisition. Give a little   update on there and we're looking for some bond  resolution authorization so we can start moving   on station 23. So you'll see some information  about that. Also want to call to your attention   that we do have the storm water annual utility  rate um updates. There are three options for   you on how we might proceed with the storm water  utility rate increases. And so that is presented   for your information as well. And then as always  we want to highlight we do have a loan agreement   amendment related to Witchaw Waterworks and the  financing that we've done. it's actually fairly   preunctery or some things we've done just to match  our current payments with existing schedules. Um,   so but anything involving that project I want to  make sure to call to your attention. So those are   three of the many items and I know there are  three more economic development related items   that we'll be adding to the February 17th agenda,  but that's what we have for you. City manager. Um,   I know that you and I have had an opportunity to  discuss this, but I do think it would be helpful   at next council meeting to discuss that there's  a highlevel plan in place should the sales tax   fail for us to come together and just discuss  some options. And I think sharing that with the   public would be helpful because I know that that's  been a lot of question from the from the community   um especially given the articles that have  been coming out about Second Light and   um what's to happen if if this sales tax fails. I  just think showcasing that we are being proactive   and thinking of a plan B though it's not ironed  out is is helpful for the public to be aware of.   Are you are you suggesting that um as we do the  presentation on the sales tax and maybe to talk   about that during the agenda item? I don't  know if it necessarily needs to be spelled   out. I think just hearing you name it um that  you know we're coming together potentially in   the retreat to be able to discuss next steps.  Yes. So yes. So we'll say it now that we do   have a meeting scheduled as a retreat for March  12th and 13th for half a day and that is where   we will talk about no matter the outcome talk  about the uh sales tax referendum. Just one   correction uh on the 17th item number 25 it's not  in district five. I think it's in district six. No no it's just a vacation. 25. Yeah, right there. Okay. Yeah. City manager,  did you say that our planning retreat is going   to be March 12th and 13th? Uh, all day on Thursday  the 12th and half day on the 13th. Can we get that   added to our calendar? [cough and clears throat]  Yes. Thank you. What is all day described as 85?   8 to 5. You get lunch. Okay. Not 10 hours. Okay.  You get lunch. It's shorter than a meeting. Uh we   will probably say though uh some light breakfast  at 7:30 to 8, start the uh retreat agenda at 8.   Okay. So yeah, so you can munch while you  want to or come a little early and we'll   have a little something. So and just a reminder to  anyone who's watching online or sees this later,   it will be open to the public. Yes, absolutely.  We'll have location. It'll be agenda noticed as   every other meeting. Anything else we can address?  We do have a presentation. Um, I do have one   additional item before the department meeting.  Um, I would like to get a report regarding   uh the paid parking plan, not just at city  hall, but what has been implemented so far. Um,   I asked this via email already, but I just  want to make sure that everyone knows that   I'm asking about this. Um there have been  multiple emails I've received regarding   um the system and maybe some discrepancies. So I'd  like to know um what has been happening regarding   citations uh the revenue that has been collected  and making sure that the website is reflective   of the paid parking statistics up to date um  as of today. All right. Thank you. Otherwise,   we have airport lined up for today. Jesse was  on social media highlighting great news from the   airport that he'll reiterate this morning. So,  I'd like to recognize Jesse Romo. What do you   say? I don't know if you're giving upate. Oh, the  legislative update. Yeah. Where's uhim Kimberly's   on? Is she on there? Kim, do you want to get  Kimberly give us an update on legislation first? Go ahead. floor is yours, Kimberly. Oh, you're  unmuted. Okay. Sorry, I wasn't sure. I'm happy   to go either way. Red or accessory are all  scheduled. And I do just have to highlight   it is women's heart health month. So, I do wear  red most of the month. My aunt is the longest   surviving female heart transplant survivor. So,  we um do a tremendous amount to support uh women's   heart health and men's heart health. It is really  important. So I appreciate what the city is um   what the city wish is doing to help make sure  that both men and women very healthy and well.   So that's wonderful. Um sometimes the legislature  can do damage to your heart just by way of getting   your blood pressure up high. Anyway, so it has  been a very very full week and we have another   very full week ahead. I won't spend a ton of  time going through everything. You'll have a   full report that will come out to you all um here  in just a bit, but a couple of key points. Um one,   the there's afford an affordable housing bill,  Senate Bill 418, that had a hearing in the Senate   Commerce Committee this week and the city of  Witchah did weigh in with it with a decent   amount of concerns. Um the city of Oklahoma  Park worked with with Americans for Prosperity   and others to to draft the bill and while the  bill is very loudable in its overall goals. It   does have pretty significant impact on cities  in that it impacts our zonings and um our our   zoning provisions and allows for um single family  residences to be built any anywhere in the county   uh including in industrial areas. And so that can  kind of have an impact on developing planning. So,   actually I did work um with the um author  of the bill and with AFP and and gave them   an update that the United States Senate passed  a package of affordable housing bills several   months ago and the House just this week agreed  to take those five bills up this coming week. And   um one of the provisions in that bill is a  national uniform building code as it relates   to housing. Um and the president signal that he  would sign the bills assuming not much changes   from the Senate version of the bills that were  passed. So I did recommend that the authors of   the Kansas bill reach out to various parties in  DC to make sure that there isn't anything that we   would seek to do in 418 that would conflict with  the legislation at the national level because of   course anything that they would do would supersede  whatever we would enact. So that that is an issue.   um legislation that the city of Witchaw also  weighed in on related to util attachments and   law enforcement. That bill came out of the  Senate Judiciary Committee uh with a couple   of amendments. Law enforcement is is not a huge  fan of the piece of legislation. Um although the   KBI does generally support the bill, there are  some cities that have some concern as well about   you know clarifying the definition of what um law  enforcement surveillance equipment is. So I think   a compromise bill did come out of committee. We'll  see how far and if at all it moves beyond that.   um legislation related to golf carts  and the city of Richtown's ability to   um to allow for golf carts on sidewalks did come  out of the Senate Transportation Committee this   this week with one amendment related to um kind  of a onem restriction. So we'll see where that   heads but of course it's always very helpful  when a member of the leadership um does help   support that piece of legislation. Um there there  is a litany of other bills that are going to have   hearings this coming week. Uh we are preparing  testimony and going to weigh in on many of them.   But there is one bill that I do want to flag for  everyone's attention that that we don't know all   of the X's and O's that are going to be involved  in this piece of legislation, but uh we were told   that um it's one that local government probably  isn't going to like. and it does um have a real   impact on property taxes, film making annexation  um and and several other components. So, we've not   seen that bill. It's being introduced by House and  Senate leadership. Um we're hopeful to continue to   have dialogue with them to make sure that uh local  control and and and home rule is heard and upheld.   So, as that is revealed, we will um provide  additional information to you all about that.   And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.  Just looking my Hey, Kimberly. Um what are the   prospects on the 3% cap uh property tax cap? Yes.  So, thank you for the question. That piece of   legislation um has passed out of the committee.  I anticipate that will be held for a period of   time. Uh this mega bill that is being proposed  by leadership is to also address certain property   taxes. I expect there will be a component of of  that in there which would potentially negate the   need for that constitutional amendment. Um I know  that the provisions in that big mega bill will get   rid of revenue neutral but then also potentially  significantly hamstring local governments with   those appraisal caps and valuation tax as well.  So um I think that that's out there and will be   held [clears throat] for a period in the future.  See how other things are moving. Okay. Thank you. All right. Let's hear about the airport. Good morning everyone. Happy Friday. I  have a little bit of red now on my health. Don't worry, there's 51 slides in this  presentation. It should only take on average   about two to three minutes per slide. So, I'm  glad to see many of you have your cap front. Um,   I'm joking, of course. Every year we do  a annual report to our advisory board   and so it was just presented to them this  past Monday and once they receive it and   uh we then present it to city council. So,  I'm attaching the entire PowerPoint for your   file and your reference, but I'm not going to  go through every detail of each of these. So,   bear with with me as I fly through  this presentation. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Operating revenues are up 6% over 24.  Our expenses 4% below budget. We make more money   than we spend. That's a good thing for us. We're  an enterprise fund. We operate in the black. We   do not accept funding from the city. We don't  take taxes and general fund monies. So, I've   had that question asked of me quite a bit, but  we operate specifically off of airport revenues. We've had over $70 million in capital  spending over the past uh five years,   and we're going to continue to spend mightily as  we move forward. You'll see a couple of projects   later and where the money goes. Our landing  weight is up as well over 2024. So 5% that's   good. We're showing growth in all the right areas,  including our fuel gallons and staffing trends.   We've been pretty stable. We had an anomaly in  24, but otherwise we are pretty stable in how we   uh bring in new hires and process people  outgoing. 25's numbers were actually driven   mostly by retirements in our staff. And so we  have been doing a lot of secession planning the   last couple years and we're still in transition.  Now get into properties and development. Here   are some of the stats. We've executed several  agreements um lots of supplemental agreements   and options. We've got some that are pending  at the end of the year because we're constantly   negotiating. Everything is always ongoing.  And when you look at new tenant activities,   this is not just somebody new to the airfield.  It could be a new location for somebody who was   already at the airport. So they their business  grows and they want a new building, new facility. We're also seeing a lot of interest in both  airports and uh we get a lot of applications   that come through. Some of them actually get  executed into letters of intent and some of   them get executed into agreements. four of the six  uh that we had in LOIs were executed by the end of   2025. And so we've got um investments by tenants,  the capital investments over 1.2 million uh at   Eisenhower and over 34 million at Jabara. And the  pictures actually tell a great big story. So on   the right hand side of the slide you'll see top  right hand corner is a creative project that we   did in getting funding from department of commerce  and partnering with WSU tech in order to build   out the infrastructure for them to develop their  facility. So they have a ginormous new facility   going in which is a lot of the chunk of money for  the development that is occurring at Chabara and   that is ongoing. So if you drive up and down  web you will see it continuously progress. Uh   to the left top left there's additional hangers  and you'll see on the bottom right side of that   picture a new hanger. That hanger's already been  developed. We can't keep up with the development   with our pictures. So, we're always behind the  power curve. And just to the north of there,   there's another one that's actually going to  start here shortly once the uh ground thaws.   On the bottom right, you can see we have east  side development that has occurred. It was a   great public private partnership that we uh got  done there. And so, that hanger is already done.   And we have taxi way and we have some potential  for additional growth on the east side of Jar. a lot of executed contractual agreements as I  mentioned and all these agreements mean revenue   for us and so we measure out what is going to  be the first year revenue increases from new   negotiations $671,000 at the full term of each  of those agreements what is it really worth over   $21 million now it doesn't adjust for all  the other factors but you can see it's it's   quite a bit of money for the long term for us  and this This is just a list of the companies   that have been interacting with us and expressing  interest and we've been negotiating with. We have   a division that manages capital projects  and development for us and one of those   uh projects is the master plan. It's been 20 years  since Eisenhower has completed an master plan for   the airport. This should be completed later  this year and about fall. It looks at several   different components around the airport. It looks  at your runways, taxiways, all that aeronautical   infrastructure as well as the facilities that we  have, the terminal, the park and garage, a little   bit of everything. And so as we move forward  with stuff, we get a little bit more refined   as we do specific planning studies. I mentioned  pavement and earlier I said we're spending a lot   of money in capital investments. This is an aerial  picture or drawing of our runways and the one in   green is the taxi way that's parallel to the our  main runway. That's the longest runway we have.   That runway was reconstructed about oh three,  four years ago now. Oh, maybe four or five.   And this is the adjacent pavement that follows.  So all the tax lane connectors, the taxi way,   a little bit of apron. There's going to be a  follow on to this too because once you do a   little bit of apron work and pavement work, the  next adjacent pavement needs to be done. And so   we just been systematically going through this,  but it's over $20 million in the project. This is   more stuff going on at Jabara. And if you look at  the top right hand corner, that's what our fencing   used to look like on the east side. And now on the  bottom right corner, you can see after some K do   grants and good partnership with them, we got  a new fence. Now we spec it out for wildlife,   but it also acts as a security fence as well. And  so we're excited about seeing the developments   occur there and additional pictures on the lefth  hand side showing more growth. As I was mentioning   earlier for my operating divisions, airport  grounds and fleet actually is the division that   has primary responsibility for snow removal. The  Vegas pieces of equipment are the ones that these   equipment operators do, but they also get trained  on about seven other pieces of equipment. So,   if that interests you, for anybody who's watching  at home, please go to the website for the city   HR because we are hiring EOS and so we could  use your help. Airport Buildings and Utilities   takes care of several of our facilities across  the campus, including the terminal. And we're   starting to incorporate new things like robot  technology to assist us. Of course, we get a lot   of compliments on the airport, the cleanliness,  cleanliness of restrooms. It's great to come back   in and out of Witchaw because it's always so  clean. Well, that is a tribute to the passion,   dedication of our custodial services staff  that reside in airport buildings utilities.   But as we continue to have more people utilize  the airport, it means we have more work to do,   more cleaning to do. And so we don't want to  eliminate positions by introducing technology. We   want to enhance their capabilities and complement  it. So we're incorporating robot things like this   and probably some that you're going to start  seeing floor scrubbers on the public side as well. This division has two slides because they've grown  quite a bit. We had a rework of structure. And   so Arrow is the airport emergency response and  operations. Emergency response includes police,   fire, also includes medical responses that these  guys do. The ones that are pictured are trained   not only to do aircraft firefighting as they're  doing. They're also certified law enforcement   offers off officers and certified EMTs. And they  get a lot of medical calls that they go out on.   Um there's some fun facts on all the different  calls that they responded to throughout the year.   Arrow also takes care of airport operations.  Airport operations includes a lot of federal   compliance. We have FA compliance for aeronautical  side. We also have air FA compliance for safety   management systems and how we do business ADA  compliance as well as TSA compliance and a little   bit of customs. So, uh, everything that goes on  air side as well as anything that hits us from   a federal compliance standpoint is run through  operations. They do one heck of a job. Here's some   fun stuff for you. As I mentioned, we had a lot  of turnover due to retirements and so we do have   a new marketing or service development manager,  Rachel Mayberry. She's not here with us now, but   she's taken over for Valerie Wise and helped put  these slides together. Has [clears throat] been   about 90 days in and uh I think she's still  drinking from the fire hose, but doing a fantastic   job and going to continue to move us forward as  we look at developing air service. So in 2025   we had another record year 3.13% over 24 935,000  passengers total of over 1.8 million. Those are   comingings and going and payments and deployments.  So we got a lot of people walking in and out,   a lot of people using restrooms, which is why we  got to keep the floors clean as best as possible,   right? But they're also spending money on our  concessions. Food and gift is up 13.32%. And   with food and gift, we also have incorporated new  technologies there, enhanced customer experience.   We're 247 markets. And so now we don't have  to increase the overhead for our vendors that   are managing those operations. They can now have  offerings all day long. And so if there's a delay,   if there's a diverted flight, there's an issue  and it's off hours from normal operating for our   concessions, now they have an opportunity just to  go selfch checkckout. Car rentals are also up as   well as parking and parking revenues. across the  board. You'll see we're uh doing really well for   load factors. These are the number of seats that  are filled aboard an aircraft. Uh for American   Airlines, you see 75% is the average. Phoenix is  the high at 83. DCA is low at 63%. And so we were   all tracking DC very closely. Obviously 2025 was  a bit of a rough year. Not only did we have an   aircraft accident towards the beginning of the  year, we also saw a federal government shutdown   towards the end of the year. And so despite that,  we still ended up with 63%. So for a first year   being a new into a market, it's not bad. Not  terribly bad. We we would like to see it do   better. So we hope that you consider some flights,  especially as we have big uh birthday celebration   of the nation this year. Our average airfare  is $443 right now and you can see we've pretty   much stabilized and I'll show you though the  interesting part is how we relate to others. So on   the far left hand side you'll see the na national  average of 385 and that red line is carried   across. We are a little bit above the national  average. Yes, not too far above. But what's fun to   see is how close we are to our neighbors of Kansas  City and Tulsa. Those are two of the airports that   we lose some of our cachment area to our leakage  and we are getting much more competitive with both   of those airports. In fact, first quarter of last  year, we were cheaper than Kansas City fairs by   $2, but we were cheaper than Kansas City for that  first quarter. And so, not only are you adding   time and your own personal money, but you're also  now not saving a whole lot of difference. And if   you went for the quoteunquote direct flight, you  now just drove to your connection. Great sign.   Great market. And speaking of great marketing  signs, uh we still have good marketing partners   with us and we're doing some great campaigns.  You'll see uh throughout the year. We have   some uh good outlooks. Bleisure travel, by the  way, the the bleure market is the blending of   business and leisure. And we've seen that trend  occur postcoid where people who are traveling and   it's it's impacting like our our parking garage  the demand there. So if you're traveling for a   business for three days and your business is  going to pay for the expense you park in the   garage but now I'm going to go to some place  nice and sunny and I want to spend a couple   extra days there. So I'm going to add a little  bit of personal time. So the personal time along   with business is now you're a leisure traveler.  You go well I get five days in the parking garage   but I really only have to pay for two of them.  And so we're seeing a lot of demand shifts from   the bleure traveler. That's just one example  of them. So we're trying to adapt to them as   much as possible. Here are some new uh campaigns  that we'll be hitting later on this year. And I   mentioned about DCA and we'll have a focus there  to try to get more uh more seats on that aircraft.   Now I am not an IT guy and the airport IT manager  Kevin rear is here with me but he does fantastic   work for us partners with city hall Mike M has  been a good partner with us in helping us get   high level design and lowle design projects lined  up and so we are wfully behind the curve as we   always are everybody always is with technology.  Soon as you walk out the door of a store, your   technology is already aging. And so we are doing  a lot of behind the scenes background on improving   things like the UPS and back, you know, the backup  power. So UPS unlimited power supply. We're also   doing security upgrades on the back end. And we  have complete infrastructure rehauls that we're   doing on the back end. And so none of this may  seem very exciting until you think about how does   it impact the actual customer on the front end.  Well, our FIDS monitors, the flight information   display screens rely upon that infrastructure, and  some of our monitors have been going out and going   bad because the infrastructure is failing. We're  going to take out all the back walls, which we   already have. If you walk through the terminal  right now, you'll see some plywood up there,   and we're going to install video walls behind all  the ticket counter spaces. So, not only are we   adding ticket counters, we're improving technology  behind the scenes to also have more common use   equipment. So, common use equipment allows us to  flex airlines in and out. So that way it improves   our capacity for the future. So without having to  build additional by technology, you can just gain   efficiencies. So we're doing a lot of those things  behind the scenes to really help out. And that is   a wrap. I'm not done with my presentation.  That's a wrap for 2025. But the job's not   finished. So for those of you who know Yeah. The  Mamba mentality, right? Of course, you know this   LA kid. I can't shake the liquor in me. But um you  know Kobe was asked going up two games to nothing   in the NBA finals and he looked upset and said  Kobe why are you so mad cuz what am I going to   celebrate? Child's not done. And so my staff knows  this look very well for me because we just keep   pushing forward. And so I can't help myself but  talk about goals. Even though we're accomplishing,   you know, celebrating the accomplishments of 2025,  we got more work to do. So we better keep the ball   rolling because everybody's watching this. We need  to keep it uh rolling smooth. So, we're going to   reinitiate the air uh project. I mentioned the  terminal modifications which will be done this   year. We've hopefully we'll get a grant to help us  out for a phase two. We've got roadway and parking   lot rehab repairs that we need to do across  the board that are getting contracted out now,   including parking garage rehab and repairs because  that parking garage is about 11 years old and so   it's already showing signs of wear. So, we got to  take care of the that garage as well. Uh and we've   got more things going on for development at both  airports. We're getting a lot of interest. So,   we're continuing to ride that wave and put  ourselves in a position to be competitive   and we're improving a lot of the technology. As  I mentioned, it has a lot of customer experience   uh impacts to it. And we can't forget about the  people. We got a lot of workforce development   goals as well. And this is a picture of us all  coming together as mo as much of us as possible.   We got about 150 employees at the airport and  they're all It's 24/7. You can't get everybody   all at the same time, but this represents about  90 of them that we get together annually and we   do kickoff um right around football season. So, we  talk through the the year and then how we're going   to move towards winter. So, we try to get a good  fun work environment. This is also some of the   goals that we have for uh air service development.  And we know we're not taking the eyes off the   prize. We know where our business community wants  to go. We're going to continue to work with that   air service community through the chamber. We  want to listen to the community because our   growth is a reflection of the communities and the  region's growth. We need to know where they need   to go and so we're going to try and continue to  pursue that. LA, New York, our top markets. LA is   our top market that we don't actually serve with  daily service or we had seasonal service and that   just stopped and New York is another one that we  need to get into. So, we're trying. Any questions? Thank you very much. Mayor and council, we don't have any other  items for today. Thank you. Council members,   any breakfastes that you guys want to let  people know about? District 6 breakfast   tomorrow. Evergreen 9:00 and then we have  a town hall on water. Uh same place at 11.   District 4 breakfast. Well, it's really just  donuts. We don't do breakfast. Um, town hall   at Auburn at 9:30. And the best breakfast,  District 1, Saturday 9:30. Council member Ballard,   you should come. I know you do. Uh it's featuring  the city manager, Greater Witchtop Partnership,   and we'll have breakfast from a local  entrepreneur uh and local business,   Haven Restaurant and Lounge, which is actually  in District 6. It's blackowned. Happy Black   History Month. I I think we've already  decided on the best breakfast in Witchah,   but we'll we'll see what the city manager  thinks about. We're going to treat him real   real well. Thank you. Can we have one photo for  American Heart Health Month? [clears throat]