here okay is hello is hello nothing like that oh wow all right are you ready sure we are recording okay welcome everybody thank you for joining us tonight both in person and virtually via zoom this is the first of two sessions that we'll have as a question and answer time period and then additionally an in-person meet and greet time period which we'll do out in the lobby for those who are interested and then as a reminder we do have that second session tomorrow night at the reno fire station 11 which is on 7105 man avenue from five to seven so for those who couldn't participate tonight or couldn't make it out here we wanted to give an additional opportunity for the members of ward 5 both down here in downtown to be able to engage with you and then also out in somerset so that we're kind of dividing and conquering a little bit of that public exposure so that you guys really have an opportunity to meet your constituents or potential constituents and have ways to connect with them um so to begin with we will enter a period of introductions which i will allow each of you three minutes to tell us tell the constituency a little bit about yourself who you are and why you're interested in this position after those three minutes we'll move into a question series we have five questions that have been generated off of the 20 i think 21 questions that were submitted by the public over the last four days of those we really went in and grabbed the themes because several of them were a bit duplicative right so there are people that are asking questions of similar in nature so we've just kind of taken them and compiled them down into questions that are streamlined and hopefully ways in which you guys can target what the what the heart of the questions were that the constituents were asking um those answers will be i'll just ask you guys um in a random order to answer the questions and then you will still be afforded three minutes per question to address the issue we're going to be using the timer in the room so you will get a 30 second warning when that's your 30 second warning to start wrapping up your comments don't be alarmed just wanted to give you a heads up because sometimes if you're not prepared it can be a little bit shocking um after that period of time we will do a two minute two minutes for closing statements all of this should take about an hour is what we're expecting and then at that point we'll go ahead and exit into the lobby where you can meet and greet and talk to any anyone out there who has some burning questions that maybe weren't addressed or that we weren't able to encapsulate into these themed questions that we've come up with today questions oh ready to go so for the publix purpose there is no public comment for tonight's meeting this is again just a forum for the questions that were generated to be asked to the finalists that are here before you the questions that don't get asked today again that's what the lobby time is for is there will be a full hour outside where everybody can kind of walk around and ask your your finalists the questions that maybe weren't addressed in our themed questions that we're asking here tonight and then lastly this is not a debate so the intent is not for either any one of you to rebut something that one of your um challengers or your your um your fellow applicants um that's not the intent and purpose of tonight's question and answer series so it is intended for just our members here to get to know you guys a little bit better all right so in no particular order mr goff if you'd like to start us off with your introductions thank you very much madam city clerk my name is alex goff i'm a proud resident here in the city of reno uh coming here my family and i've had the opportunity to find much opportunity my wife manages a clinic here at local non-profit i'm still finding my way professionally but i know that uh the city of reno will be where ultimately i find whatever i'm looking for i was excited when i saw this role became available i have a lot of optimism and hope for our community and the direction in which we're going and the opportunity i think to work with other members of the council uh citizens such as uh everyone present here today in person or virtually stakeholders uh our city staff to see the direction of our future uh see the direction of our city continue to go into a good future undoubtedly we do have challenges but i know that working together we can help solve mitigate lower the opportunity for those those damages thank you very much for the opportunity to discuss everything with you all today and i'm excited and optimistic thank you elliot if you'd like to go next sure thank you um so i'm elliot malin i am a two-time graduate of the university of nevada um i moved to reno for college and i like to say that i fell in love in reno twice once with reno and then once with my wife which is important because i don't want to sleep on the couch tonight um but we've lived in the ward my entire time i've been here in reno and i love the ward i've i love the community aspect of it and how diverse it is some experience for me i've been in public policy for a long time now so i have a litany of experience that can help and bolster the city through the reno municipal code planning statute and the relationships i bring i just want to make reno the best place to be for everyone and all of our residents and i think that we have uh as alex said i'm optimistic but i think that there potentially is some challenges ahead and unknown economic times with how we uh generate revenue and i think that it's important that we as a community and as a city and as a state address that together and i think that reno needs to be on the forefront of addressing those uh concerns i also want to make sure that we're seeing a smart development we're seeing resources brought into where we're building an example is i'd love to see some fresh food in the downtown area which is i think currently missing and so i'm excited to be here like alex said i'm optimistic for the future of the city i think we have a bright future ahead of us and i'm grateful to be here with all of you thank you and finally miss taylor thank you very much my name is kathleen taylor thank you for being here for taking time out of your day to be here and thank you for being on zoom thank you for giving me this opportunity i feel very grateful to be sitting up here i think everybody has the opportunity to look at our applications and our resumes online so just briefly i currently sit on the planning commission i was chair of the planning commission the last two years i sit on regional planning commission and prior to that i was on bfac i ran a campaign in 2012 unsuccessfully and again all that is available online so i just wanted to take this time to tell you a little bit about myself um my i was born and raised here i'm a northern nevada native i have been in reno for the last 13 to 15 years i've raised two children here i graduated from the university of nevada reno before i lived in ward 5 i lived in ward 1 i lived in ward 3. my first major major public works project was actually downtown about 20-ish years ago with the retract project where i was lucky enough to interact with all the businesses and the folks at that time and i would say maybe that's when i fell in love with reno i was pregnant with my first daughter and the businesses when i was walking in were so gracious and kind and it was just a community that i always knew i wanted to be a part of so i'm sitting here today because i'm i'm very excited at the direction that reno is going a lot has changed in 2000 since 2012. i've been in service every day since that and i think we have a great opportunity to keep moving forward i look forward to working with everybody in this room and who sits up here to make the future of rainer reno where we have clean safe and invigorating communities thank you all right thank you we will go ahead and move into our question section so again each of you will be afforded three minutes per question and we will go ahead and rock and roll so the first question for tonight is that there were themes in the questions submitted by the public centered on recreation pedestrian safety traffic and open space among others when looking at ward 5 what are your top priorities for representing your constituents and we'll go ahead and start with mr malin there we go uh thank you for that question and i i've had an interesting conversation about this yesterday especially related around pedestrian safety um where i live and just so everybody is kind of picture it is off of stoker and 7th street every day i drive home and i see somebody crossing the street in the crosswalk and every single day i see a car blow through that and almost hit a resident a neighbor a pedestrian so one of the first things i want to do is start addressing those problems i want to be here working with the colleagues the various departments with the city to see what we can do to enhance our public safety or traffic safety i know that in the university area we've put up a lot of lights crossing lights i think that's a good start but there's more to be done maybe overhead crossing lights where they can actually be seen and not blocked by brush and plants when it comes to recreation i think that we have a lot of resources within the ward one is more of a regional park but rancho san rafael is an amazing asset to our community and trying to build up and around that and enhance our park system making sure that it's clean and safe my wife grew up in ward 5. and there's a park right by the house she grew up in that is falling apart it's not the most safe park today and so make sure that all of our infrastructure at our parks for our children is safe and clean uh is a priority um and i i want to make sure that we make we see a safe environment for our families um another uh another big concern i have is uh our school zones uh when we're talking about public safety when we're talking about parks uh pedestrian safety people have been blowing through school zones and trying to address those problems with rpd and trying to enhance our public safety around schools and for our children i think is vital unfortunately i think that our resources have been a little thin around that and trying to bolster that and work with the community and community partners to do so is a top priority for me thank you ms taylor [Music] thank you very much um in terms of my top priority for ward 5 and you know ward 5 is really close to all the other awards in ward 1 you walk across the street you're right there so as a city as a whole public safety is the number one thing for me it's the number one priority it's with the city's responsible one of the city's top priorities when we look at the prior the tiers and the priority tiers for city council that's one of the top ones in terms of pedestrian safety and traffic through my professional experience i've been very lucky to be part of vision zero zero fatalities i worked on the strategic highway safety plan when it first came out maybe 15 15 years ago so i was part of those working groups during my time on the strategic highway safety plan there we were able to put a mural down on mayberry um as part of zero fatalities we worked with all the local schools and it was part of the i have a dream campaign don't kill a dream um we asked the students what their dreams were we put it right near our crosswalk we brought attention to that crosswalk so one of that was one of the um i guess more fun things that i got to do we also got involved in traffic safety there were engineering ems all the five e's as part of traffic safety open space i sit on the planning commission in the regional planning commission and open space is something that we don't have an abundance of and we need to keep it as open space there was a project that came over in ward 2 where they wanted to take the developer had planned to take some open space and change it and i voted against that and i believe all of my colleagues voted against that that were on the commission so um we have some developments out in ward 5 where they're actually creating more open space which is always a positive thing in my mind it's a resource that we can't get back and i think that um answers most of the questions thank you so much mr goff thank you very much uh first and foremost affordable housing i heard recently from someone in our community so for full transparency i'm 37 years old and so people like me my age cohort not being able to have the opportunity to be able to attain reasonably uh priced housing and or uh people that we understand that are on house that are on that track back to where they can be you know out of that situation what i hear is a constraint oftentimes is access to mental health services and also access to attainable affordable housing so i think that's first and foremost an important priority uh representing this war is making sure that home ownership continues to be accessible here in this community and also making sure that those who are unhoused have opportunities to get into a place to where they could start to put you know items back together secondly when we talk about public safety we're about to appoint a new police chief for the city of reno so ensuring that our principles are reflected as we as we navigate that opportunity together i want to see someone who looks at community policing how engaged are you with the communities that you're policing also ensuring mental health of police officers i know that as an individual in my work spaces i know that the pandemic and issues related coming out of the pandemic has put stress on a lot of our families and a lot of us as individuals well imagine then if you then had a public facing role where you were dealing in environments where you saw stress or you saw you know unimaginable things on top of everything else day-to-day life so making sure that our police officers and our firefighters have access to mental health services is very important in my mind and frankly we're at large right our entire community we we can do better as a state we know about access to mental health and lastly what i would say is um is we have resources here in the city that we better uh that we need to better harness and better you know make available so we have a river in our community also at the university so in linking in the university downtown linking in the university where the rest of the community make sure that we don't have people graduate from our university and then leave and so making sure that they have the opportunity to start small businesses if you have a dream here in the city of reno city of reno should be where you're able to achieve it and so making sure that kids from the university or students graduates from the university are able to achieve their dreams in the city of reno if that looks like opening up a small business that looks like just engaging with whatever businesses that we're able to cultivate here in the community uh those are important priorities for me here in ward 5. thank you awesome thank you second question for the evening is housing is top of mind for our community including affordable housing and house and the housing shortage in general how do you plan on contributing to a solution for this situation so we'll go ahead and start with ms taylor thank you for the question again i have been lucky enough to be on the planning commission and the regional planning commission and i'm very excited that at our last regional planning commission we were able to take some tier three land and um create change that to tier two land and within that tier 2 land there's a new affordable housing development that's going to be coming with over 200 units so that is a very real project that's going to be coming to our community so i'm very excited about that part of the affordable housing solution is we need more inventory we have to bring on more housing i on bfac we building enterprise funding advisory committee we can i don't want to say predict but when we look at the amount of building permits that are coming in for single-family housing we can sort of gauge how much more housing is going to be coming on in the next quarter i think it's going to be very important to look at those numbers and see where that multi-family multi-family is going to be at last be fat committee it was pretty it was pretty stable and things were still coming in but i think we're going to be able to predict um what we can expect to see in the next next quarter um again i think we have a lot of programs we have a lot of resources of the city of reno but it comes down to we need more inventory of all housing we need a mix of housing because it'll it'll trickle down affordable housing too i know there's some concerns in the downtown um we're getting more housing down there we're gonna have between i don't know five or seven thousand units in the next 10 years possibly residential coming in some of that's going to be work for how for workforce housing and hopefully we see more affordable housing there too thank you mr goff thank you very much uh as i had said earlier affordable housing certainly is on top of mine for me and uh sort of top of mind for a lot of community members so affordable housing there is a legal definition that relates to how much money an individual makes but you know i like to talk about affordable and attainable attainable i think more of of a new family here to the community being able to access a home and oftentimes what i hear from families is you know concerns about economic recession and driving down the whole the home value and so independent of that happening where home value you see a drastic reduction which um i would not necessarily be in favor of seeing a drastic reduction in home value today but making sure that there's creative units to where um home uh where you're able to come in and buy in at different levels right so that means different types of housing whether it be townhouses or studios making available properties for people to be able to own because as we know home ownership is the number one way most americans build wealth in this country and so making sure that we have inventory of houses that reflects our community and making sure it's all across the city and making sure that you you can choose to live um you know hopefully ideally closer to where you where you work where you play is very important as well but making sure the inventory is available and making sure that you're working with stakeholders to hear their concerns you know there's always administrative concerns on the front end about processes about payment so making sure that you're able to address those needs as well so that you're able to get those inventory into the community is important all right mr malin thank you um about six years ago i had the opportunity to get the house i'm in today and i was very fortunate for that the value of that house for today versus then has nearly doubled um i know as alex said i'm 30. um for me buying a larger house a family home is almost unattainable and i know it's not just me there's others like me and it's not just people within my age range so i think it's important to address this we have a critical shortage of housing in every sector today i had the opportunity to do a tour of an affordable housing uh project that was going on and the way that they were doing that and they were satisfying that demand was through working with regional partners and state partners to make that happen a part of that they received arpa funding to do and so making sure that we can work across our partners in our region and our state together as a team i think is vital we have to be a team i love the city of reno but i also love our sister city of sparks we have to work together we have to work with the county we have to work with every agency possible to address this as a region we need to increase our housing supply across all sectors like you had mentioned and the only way to do that is we have to do single family we have to do multi-family we have to do larger residential units and sometimes we have to also look at how we build up and addressing that in our downtown area we have the unique opportunity of some vacant buildings and how do we work with those current building owners to change that into housing that is uh affordable as we move to the future um and we must again this we have to do this as a team uh that means including the community having community input to make sure that all of the housing and the development that we're bringing in is safe that's for number one is safe and affordable we have to make sure that there are necessary resources to respond to any problem that might arise in that community and making sure that we can do that adequately across the region and so i i appreciate this question i think this is vital i heard from some students yesterday about the cost of housing at the university it's about uh seventeen hundred eighteen hundred dollars for an apartment where you share it when i was there and again i'm thirty when i was there it wasn't that long ago and my apartment was six hundred dollars so you see the cost that these students are facing is unacceptable and it's not just them it's also our most vulnerable and so we have to work across every uh part of this to make sure we address it in a healthy and safe manner so thank you thank you all right moving on to question number three reno residents like any other community have differing beliefs and perspectives how will you seek to listen and understand all constituent needs and concerns and mr mellon we'll go ahead and start with you great thank you um some of my favorite questions uh because i think it's so important that we're able to work together i can't ever guarantee that i'm going to agree with you that my two colleagues up here i've known them both for a very long time and we're friends i can't say that we always agree on every issue but we can have a respectful conversation and listen to each other because i think a very valuable tool sometimes is just hearing one another and what the issue is that you're facing um and agree again i i guarantee every single person in this room we disagree on something but we also have something we agree on so how do we bridge those gaps and how do we listen to one another and bring everybody to the table this is a this is a team right whoever is selected for this position represents ward five and so we have to be able to listen to ward five we have to be able to listen to the residents and seek that input one of the first things i want to do is have a listening session not a town hall but a listening session i want to know what's going on and what what am i missing what are you seeing that i can help improve on and i think that that's something that has to be carried on every single month because oftentimes we forget in these kind of positions that our first job is to listen and represent and so i strive to do that i never want to start at no with anybody in this room whenever somebody raises a concern and brings it to me my goal is to start it maybe and then get to yes and then work with you to get to yes how do we make that happen how does this become a healthy discussion for everybody and make reno and the ward a better place for everybody so i i appreciate this question a lot it's a it's a core part of my philosophy within what i already do within policy so thank you mr goff thank you i appreciate the questions well it's almost disappointing that has to be asked though that people feel like they're not being heard from or people feel like they're not being listened to and people want to make sure through this process that the person who is eventually appointed will know how to listen to people and so what i would say is this is that i always like to tell a story about my time in the marine corps where there was a colleague that i had who grew up in puerto rico he spoke spanish eventually he came to mainland to go to boot camp and everyone he had encountered throughout the entire process spoke spanish to him until he got to boot camp and so he quickly had to learn english but it was through the drill instructor's version of english was very harsh in tone the words that they used weren't always the best words to use especially in polite company and so he had to navigate through that and eventually learned how to speak english in a way that wasn't uh like a drill instructor and i say that because even that person deserved to be listened to and earlier at the city council meeting i went over my story my background where i came from my family was vulnerable i came from a mother who was raising three kids as a single mom and there was a time where i didn't believe that i should be listened to i didn't think i was smart enough to be able to discuss these issues so recognizing i think the value and worth in everyone and also appreciating that while someone may come to you and with a lot of passion or frankly maybe because they learn how to speak for marine corps drill instructors that they still have the right and deserve to be listened to i think that's important and i think that this is something that we do every day in our lives right um i know and elliot said this earlier you know ellie and i uh we're friends and uh of course we don't agree on everything but we always have mutual respect and i think that's important to start with people from is mutual respect thank you miss taylor thank you i think that was a really good comment with respect i think as long as we're respectful and we're communicating we can get to where we need to be so i i really i really liked what you said there alex um so as far as listening and understanding constituents needs we have a lot of tools in our community um we have the nabs almost everybody has an hoa i plan on if i were selected to be very very active in the listening and communication part i actually have the time in my life right now to dedicate to this position and i know it's going to take a lot of time what i do right now is i on the planning commission and on regional we usually have a developer side and then we have um the city of reno or the regional teams perspective of it and we're given a whole bunch of information i meet with both sides all the time i meet with developers i meet with residents i meet with the community i do research i try and find out more more about the the info or the issue i read this um i i hate saying staff i'm sorry i read the team reports that we get from the city of reno and i look at that and i think it's very important to do that i do a lot of facilitation in my job i work between contractors and owners and i think it's important also to understand that not everybody communicates the same way i am very much pick up the phone call me please i will meet with you i'll sit down and talk with you if you prefer email that's fine we can do that too there's lots of different ways to communicate i've everybody has our phone number and our email now i encourage everybody to reach out and ask us questions and i said this earlier this week i i've received maybe two or three emails from people so um or or a call i'm accessible i'm available i want to know what's going on there i know that i don't know everything and i'm willing to listen and hear every side of the story and and there are a lot of things especially on the planning commission in regional planning that i don't understand and i have to ask questions so that's got to be part of the discussion too i don't know what i don't know right i mean we've heard that before and i'm willing to find out i'm willing to do the work and research and make sure i have a good understanding and when it comes down to it sometimes on planning commission it's hard because there's findings that we have to make that aren't necessarily relative to what's um what some of the concerns are so i always try to address the public concerns and the emails that we get so even if it's not part of the decision that we make people understand that they're being listened to and they're being heard thank you all right question number four what is one city code or policy you would like to see changed and why and we'll go ahead and start with miss taylor well this one wasn't up front we didn't get to see this one first um this is a great question i am going to tie this back to affordable housing and i wish i could take credit for this but i heard it in a discussion with my fellow commissioners on the planning commission if there was a way to make affording affordable housing the application process easier and streamline it and move because there's a i believe time is money and if there was a way to take those applications move them to the front of the line reduce some of the costs associated with it i think that would be a great great idea now saying that i don't know all the logistics that would go into something like that so community development department don't don't be too upset with me but if there was i i think i would like to see something like that in the near future thank you mr mellon yeah i was afraid of this question too because there's way too many friends into the different departments um and it's really hard to pick one um and i've had the pleasure of working on quite a few but i think um kathleen's right i think we have to address um our affordable housing and how do we get through that process how do we do it as quickly as possible there's been too many times where i've come to city council and this has happened to me um and it's it's not a knock on the members currently i respect their dedication and the questions they're asking but i've i've come to council and i've had issues um punted to the next month because we have to change something and then the next month after that and it takes a long time i think i went through six seven months before i was finally able to get an ordinance change in with the municipal code and when we can address these things especially when it comes to affordable housing up front and early i can cut that red tape and reduce that cost and make sure again that this housing is done in a healthy and safe manner we can benefit as a society in it as a city and as a region and i think that's the first and foremost vital part of that i i absolutely agree with kathleen um city code or policy and so what i so i identified uh early some priorities that i would have as a ward 5 city council member and so acknowledging uh upfront that i'm not as familiar with city code and policies here in the city of marino i would look forward to working with people that knew that information more intimately to make sure that we're able to provide public safety and make sure that we're able to look at fire response be able to look at affordable housing to be able to look at those priorities that we have and work with people who are more knowledgeable about city code and policy to make sure that we're able to implement that in a smart way that's what i would like to see all right question number five and we'll go ahead and start with you mr goff what do you believe to be the most important issues facing city of reno and how would you go about addressing them [Music] thank you very much for the question and so i had said earlier about public safety i think that is an incredibly important issue affordable housing is an incredibly important issue and um i think the way that you address them is that you bring people together ultimately i think that um if you have if you notice and observe a problem um that you make sure that you're bringing people to the table to make sure that you're properly able to address them we referenced earlier the different opportunities for citizen input and making sure that you're leveraging those opportunities to hear directly from the people about how certain issues affect them and make sure that you're working with city staff make sure you're working with the other council members to uh see that you're able to effectively address these problems because uh the reality is is that if you're in front of a room uh simply um you know speaking loudly about a particular issue um probably not gonna be effective in that role being able to bring to the people to the table making sure you're able to listen all voices i think is how you effectively address issues thank you miss taylor i think um growth is going to be a huge concern for us probably always how do we address that we need to make sure that we have the resources to support and the services to make sure that we can support that growth one of the things that i am a hundred percent behind um that i'm seeing coming online that is very exciting to me when i ran in 2012 it was a challenge and i think we're finally getting to some solutions and i am so proud of all of the people that are coming to to the table for this is um the regional coordination of services i think that is huge to have to start having those discussions and that's gonna that's gonna be the start to impact everything that we do for public safety and it is taken years to get to this point and it's such a huge accomplishment to all of the city team to our managers to our regional partners just very proud that this is to be part of this community and like i said the growth um is something that we're all going to have to deal with how do we i said this the other day everybody wants responsible growth well what is responsible growth to me might not be the same as as uh elliott over here but we need to make sure that we're having the conversation and most importantly that we have the resources to address that whether it's you know water public safety air quality all of those things that's the city's job thank you thank you so it seems like we're at 5 42 oh sorry i know you just i know i'm short that's why i chose i am too we're we're right here i know that's why i chose the the woman's pillow so i could be a little bit taller sorry mr melon go ahead it's okay that was funny um i i agree with um both alex and kathleen i think that we have to have a conversation uh when we're about um both growth development and everything else that goes along with that small businesses how do we allow small businesses to flourish our community has diversified better than most of the rest of the state which is fantastic but with that we've seen some challenges with that growth conversely we've set ourselves up better to face the next economic recession which gets me to a big point the way that we fund our cities in nevada is problematic because we were so heavily reliant on property tax um and i know that's not always the popular thing to talk about but we are we're heavily reliant on it and every time a recession comes around our revenue plummets in the cities and what suffers from that is our public safety in our schools that's how we fund those as well and so i would like to see us as a city address that how do we change that how do we diversify our tax base or increase that revenue so that way we can fund our fire department um it was only a few years ago that the fire station by my parents house was finally filled it's been empty since about 2007 and no city in this state has recovered from the great recession not a single one only one city well there's a fly up here i apologize um only one city in the entire state has returned to pre-2007 departments and it's not the city of reno and that city hasn't even fully funded them and so it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when the next economic downturn happens and what what happens to our revenue then what happens to the city what happens to the resources that are there to take care of you uh fire dispatch police when we're talking about all of the stuff that we're talking about growth education schools it's all reliant on our revenue stream and the city the state has to address that or allow the city to address it uh since we're a modified dylan's rural state and i think that it's the most important issue that we are facing i know that's not always the most popular thing to say but it's the honest truth um and we have to have the hard conversation about how to do that and so that's one thing that i i plan on doing in this role or not is trying to address that so that way our citizens our fellow neighbors our arena whites are all safe and our education and our schools are the best that they can be um and and making sure everybody's part of that conversation our neighbors all of you should be part of that conversation and how we fix these problems so thank you for that thank you given that our members that are on zoom can't engage in the public meet and greet portion since we will be turning off the zoom and exiting the room if there is anybody that is in the zoom meeting that would like to ask a specific question i would like to go ahead and ask you to raise your hand at this time and we will go ahead and move you over into the meeting so that you can ask a question [Music] no one has raised their hand yet okay so with that we will go ahead and move into closing comments as it's 5 46 and that will give us just about enough time to get this wrapped up and allow you all time to transition out into the lobby so we will go ahead and start with you mr malin thank you i appreciate this i appreciate everybody taking the time to participate in this i appreciate those on zoom those following on social media every single resident that is participating in this in some fashion i know that there are a lot of residents that said they wish that this was a special election i understand that i empathize with them um and i personally i would rather talk to my neighbors it's easier to talk to a lot of people than the council um so i thank everybody for participating in this i think that the city the council is going to make a a vital choice for this seat and i think we have three very qualified people up here that care deeply about ward five um and that makes me excited and i'm excited to see with whoever again i hope it's me if you know that otherwise i wouldn't have done this but i i hope that whoever it is it takes the time to listen to hear the concerns of the ward to hear what the residents have to say address the heart issues um and make sure that everybody's at the table and i i look forward to being at that table no matter what and making this the best community for every citizen and every resident to make it the safest cleanest and best educated and bridging that gap for every single resident so again thank you everybody for participating mr goff thank you for everyone's time tonight um it's i look through things oftentimes through the where i come from my background my experience and um what i know is is that um growing up how i grew up seeing my mother raise three children as a single mom seeing all the things that she went through recognizing that there are members of our community that are vulnerable on the cusp of vulnerability people who today may have a home tomorrow may not recognizing that city of reno is literally where the rubber hits the road and making sure that with through this appointment process that someone comes out of it that reflects the changing face of the city of reno making sure they have experienced the background a variety of a variety of issues related to you know i remember going through the city of reno's citizens institute and learning about how they repair pipes and i found that process so interesting and recognizing just the complex complexity and the scope of all the things that the city does and recognizing that working together with members of council you can make someone's day-to-day life better in a number of ways but at the pipe level recently i ran for assembly and it was interesting knocking on doors because oftentimes you would hear about issues related to you know the street snow plowing or you would hear about issues related to lights or pedestrian safety or traffic and recognizing that those are city issues and recognizing the importance of upbringing background principles and experience to this role is something that's very exciting to me so thank you for taking the time to come listen to me and i look forward to talking with you all thank you and miss taylor thank you thank you to my colleagues for being here thank you for being here and thank you for being engaged thank you for being part of this community everybody that's sitting here everybody that's online everybody that submitted questions that's important working together i like where our city is going i like the direction that we're headed i want to be part of that i have the time i have the knowledge i have the dedication and the passion to make clean safe and vibrant communities that's my goal that's all i want that's all we all want i'm pleased to be here with you tonight with everybody else here tonight you know my background you can read it online i would encourage everybody to reach out call us talk to us this isn't an election process but i think we're all very very accessible that's a great thing about our government too here in in reno our leaders are so accessible and available and i make this commitment to you i will meet or talk with anybody i possibly can between now and next wednesday i'm available on the weekends i have no labor day plans so um again thank you for being engaged in your in our community and i look forward to talking to you afterwards awesome thank you so much and so i too i think in wrapping would like to just say thank you for those of you who came down to city hall tonight to join us in this question and answer series and additionally to those virtually thank you all for being here with us to our three applicants the next stages of this process obviously are tonight and tomorrow night we're continuing on with our question answer series for those constituents to engage and then on wednesday september 7th we will be doing our finalist interviews which are a live public meeting here in city hall chambers so again with that process what i would suggest or what i would recommend and ask is that our our public continues to engage so thank you for being here tonight but continue like give us the feedback submit your public comments if there's something that you have questions or needs about continue to provide that feedback to our reno city council so that they can be asking thoughtful questions from our ward 5 constituents and from the city of reno constituency something that i would like to note is of the 20 responses about 63 percent of them were ward 5 constituents which i think is amazing so thank you for being engaged in this process it's incredibly important in our council members they really do value that input from from the residents so with that if there's no final thoughts or words we're going to go ahead and wrap our virtual hybrid question and answer session tonight and we will transition to the lobby here shortly where you all can meet the ward 5 finalists thank you you