okay good morning everybody welcome we are going to call the city council December 11th meeting to order we will start with the Pledge of Allegiance and I was wondering if uh Mr Jacob Williams could lead us please be honor thank you thank you now we'll have roll call thank you Madame vice mayor we're calling roll for Wednesday December 11th for the Reno city council meeting council member Taylor here dur here Martinez absent at this time Ebert here ree here Anderson here shivi absent at this time Madame vice mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council okay great thank you we're going to pull items from the consent a agenda item now and then we'll move into public comment we'll start with the councilwoman Anderson I don't have anything to pull okay uh councilman Reese nothing Madame vice mayor and councilwoman dur um give me just one here I think I was good is there anyone online I don't member Eber is okay yeah I'd like to pull a few things today um B5 B6 B8 B10 and B13 please okay looks like everybody else went to their briefing agendas we good um I don't have anything okay we'll go into public comment thank you all right Madame vice mayor our first our first item today is public comment members of the public may hear observe and provide public comment virtually by registering through the following link which can be found on reno.gov meetings https colon SL l i n k s period r e n o o period goov sl3 TX i g E4 it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes for those participating in Chambers in accordance with Council rules 6.3.1 one while in this room please be respectful 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 this Behavior continues you may be removed from chambers if you're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time our first public commenter today is Mark marel followed by Matt means followed by Terry Brooks good morning M uh vice mayor and may CH city council and of course and hi Mrs manager my name is Mark marel and I'm a concerned aren of Resident I was in the front D and crash back when I was 24 it was a long time ago but I still feel it's important that people don't get in the car drink drivers or drink and drive this holiday season uh I I I have a hard time taking care of myself I it's so bad I won't let anybody in my room because of M and I'm just telling you this people because I don't want you to go through what I went through I lost my wife in 97 and then my dad 5 monthes later so I haven't really it it's has been a good holiday season for but I hope it is so good y don't drive for drunk drivers and don't drink and drive thank you Matt means followed by Terry Brooks followed by Will truce hi thank you I'm m means from the UNR Honors College I wanted to address the mayor and the council in a spirit of deep appreciation for allowing us via our students to come present to you a few weeks ago and also Express Thanks for the mayor's recent discretionary fund donation we are deeply appreciative of your good faith and support of the next generation of today's and society's leaders and change agents thank you very much Matt um if you would for just a second Madame mayor was not able to be here this morning and wanted me to just convey her extreme gratitude for your students for coming last week and also she was very happy to make the donation which is on our agenda today thank you very much we're indebted Terry Brooks followed by Will Tru followed by Mack Rossy good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I'd like to address the act of discrimination when it comes to homelessness when people live in poverty and have even lost their home they may find it very difficult to find another home if they have been evicted because they could not pay their rent they'll probably be discriminated against and won't find another place to rent and if they've lost their job and wind up unemployed it's difficult for them to again be employed employers sometimes discriminate against those who are homeless and they tend to blame them saying it's their own fault that they are homeless sometimes they won't hire the homeless because of the old clothes they wear when the homeless really have when the homeless rarely have anything else to we the homeless have less opportunity to receive an education and are less likely to be hired because of lack of education and they're often discriminated against because they don't seem very clean but if you're homeless then you suffer from a lack of hygiene and when you lack any means of trans Transportation because you cannot afford it then you'll also lack occupation some employers discriminated against such people at their first glance instead of doing what they could to give such people a chance discriminators do not try to look at the reality of a situation they just close their eyes and jump into their own false explanation they need to open their eyes and look at the true reality and then they just might get a chance to see equality homeless people did not choose to be homeless they went through various circumstances and they deserve to be aford offered possible ways of advances I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back and finishing what I have to say because this is chapter 45 and just so you know I've only got one more chapter to go and when I come back next time I'll bring the whole book full because Hillary she wanted me to provide it so you could print it out and if you want to publish it and use the proceeds for the needy that's fine too have a Merry Christmas Will truce followed by Mac Rossy followed by Emma doie good morning members of city council interim city manager Bryant and vice mayor Kathleen tayor I'm here today to voice my support for item E1 which serves to make the current prohibition on sitting lying and or camping in public areas more clear consistent and enforcable throughout the city I work with a lot of small business owners in the B District just east of downtown Reno over the last 6 months we've greatly appreciated The increased engagement with city and county officials along with representatives of RPD and the Sheriff's Office to address unlawful activity in in our neighborhood our district is divided by the Wells Avenue Bridge the section west of the bridge is part of the downtown renal Regional Center where the uh this prohibition is already in effect and is now being more consistently enforced officers and small business owners working in this particular area deeply appreciated having the law support their efforts to revitalize this area there was no such Pro Prohibition in place however east of the bridge folks working in this area expressed fear in our district meetings on how much more challenging it would be to revitalize their part of the neighborhood without it these fears and frustrations have been echoed by many members of our small business Community throughout Reno I share the belief that the express the expansion of this enforcement will promote promote and protect Public Health Community safety and greater access for all to public spaces along with the residential areas and the businesses that they're adjacent to instead of allowing these areas to be overrun with un unlawful behavior let's help individuals access the facilities and resources designed for their needs thank you Ma Rossy followed by Emma doie followed by Evony Martinez good morning happy holidays my name is Mack Rossy and I'm honored to be one of the park Commissioners for the City of Reno I'm here on behalf of E1 2 three and four on your agenda uh I would involved with a lot of the parks there needs to be a change and I'm asking for your support thank you Emma doie followed by Evy Martinez followed by Troy Petri good morning esteemed City Council Members my name is Emma doie and I am a senator of the associated students of the University of Nevada in this capacity I have been presented data of UNR students showing that one in four students surveyed this spring indicated they feel housing insecure and I have watched the rising cost of living get worse and worse on our campus as well as in Reno as a whole I am here today to voice opposition to agenda items E1 through E4 which would further criminalize homelessness and not only is this immoral it is counterproductive the staff report for agenda item E1 stipulates that someone found breaking the proposed ordinance can be encouraged to quote accept other Alternatives like shelters drug treatment programs and mental health facilities unquote and this is not sufficient last night the waso County shelter census dashboard showed 98% of beds in Reno shelters are full where do people go we are heading into the longest and coldest nights of the Year clearly no one is camping by the river because they don't accept these Alternatives I briefly worked for a social services facility here in Reno and saw firsthand how limited the current safety net is and getting people housed in the long term long enough to get back on their feet to the point that they no longer need these overwhelmed Services if you want to solve the homelessness crisis it's time to stop punishing people for not going to shelters at are full or finding them money they don't have which puts them only further from getting off the streets and to start looking at what little we have in place for them which is obviously falling short and divert these resources that would be spent on arresting and Prosecuting them towards providing the resources that will actually put an end to camping in public thank you [Applause] Evy Martinez followed by Troy Petri followed by Diego Vasquez good morning members of the Reno city council board my name is Evony Martinez and today I would like to talk to you all about immigration over decades America has been overl lucked by saying America's promise or coming to America is to be given the opportunity to live the American dream what we have represented for America's promise is the Statue of Liberty I'm pretty sure you have all became aware of our history and how people would migrate here to America from the Southern and Eastern parts of Europe on ships and spend hours just to get where they needed to be once they got to Ellis Island in the 1800s they had to go through many different inspections not being aware that it was something they had a face once they got here they were search for medical inspections such as doctors would scan each immigrant for obvious physical or mental health issues they were also looked at for physical exams which had included an assessment of their mental state doctors looked for bashes fever birth effects lymphs labored breather breathing lice and contagious ey disease there was even times where immigrants had to walk the the stairs in the Statue of Liberty to be determined where they were with their breathing if an immigrant did not pass the test they would simply get denied and got sent back to where they came from I know I'm talking a lot about history but I'm aware of history is known for repeating itself the Statue of Liberty is represented a representation of the promise that says give me your tired your poor your hled masses yearing to breathe free as this being that America was with open arms and brings and bring to bring all your worries upon the United States for a better opportunity as well in the United the US Constitution it says we the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare welfare the Constitution out outlines the framer's goals of creating the uring peace and promoting a healthy and Free Nation but for what I personally experienced and what have seen immigrants do not get treated the way they were told they were going to as well as many jobs don't take immigrants because they are either racist or don't look for workers who are not citizens people do not choose what country they are born in nor do they choose the living conditions and laws of their home land and that's why they choose to come here to America but they should have the choice of where they can go to have a better opportunity a solution for this immigration on how to fix this problem is going back doing background checks and looking at the living conditions of the country because there was a lot of problem people that they have there had been a lot of people is by doing back um people that know they have been Tapped Out in their own country or would like to make more money with a bigger dream and opportunity what should come with this background check is by taking their fingerprints to see if they're a criminal or not I say this because I'm aware that you guys will be taking chances of bringing more threats and criminals into America another way we can fix this problem is by Taking Chances of bringing uh take is putting these immigrants on probation for 5 to 10 years with a law that says that they commit any type of crime they got sent back to where they came from no questions asked if they complete 5 to 10 years without crime they got a reward of citizenship the reason why I say this as well is because they are coming into a new country which is a reason for them to try and be on their best behavior that is all that I have for you now thank you for your time Troy Petri followed by Diego Vasquez followed by LS Torres good morning members of the council my name is Troy Petri and my top is is inflation um it has deeply impacted me and my family uh it is almost doubled rent it is really brought up groceries and even to relate it to my generation from a new game over in like 2012 it was like 30 bucks and now it's like almost 100 so I was um times have been ra ra rather difficult lately gas especially making it super difficult for my family to make ends meet and I know I'm not the only one of many out here probably with similar stories every time I go to a store I'm shocked how little I can buy with how much I make with how much it spends with how little I get uh between cutting corners on things we thought we needed and delaying much needed home repairs this financial stress is just hitting our families it's Rippling through our local economy to banking Less in money local businesses we love and hindering the growth we want to see across our community thank you Diego Vasquez followed by Luis Torres followed by fa Fabian AG Aguilera good morning City the jury my name is Diego Vasquez I am a senior at hug high school and today I just want to come talk about the a highway in the street on Clear Acre every afternoon when I get off from University cuz I'm in an upper bound I'm an upper bound student I come home and I go through the cleer on mcaren and knowing that there's a lot of traffic and it takes me at least 15 to 20 minutes to get home knowing that it'll be 15 but every time I go home I always tell my mom and I complain how the ramp going to Lemon Valley instead is closed cuz everyone has to take the Clear Acre just to get onto the freeway and that's the only reason why I'm here because it just affects me and my parents just to to get home and my parents work two jobs they get tired you know I I work too I get tired as well but I'm just here to address that we just need to open the ramp you know it's just hard for people to get home you know they need to get home change or maybe go to another job just to go to work and I just feel like we just need to open the ramp just to get onto the freeway going to Lon Valley oread you know and there and the only reason why is because there's only two lanes and I just feel like we just need to open the other lane to for the people on the freeway to get home faster or just to open the ramp thank you Luis Torres followed by Fabian Aguilera followed by oal o Baldo gimenez good morning city council Reno my name is Luis Torres I'm here to talk to you about the process of purchasing firearms um I feel like it's too simple I feel like just a background check isn't enough I feel like you should go at least through like safety training with Firearms cuz it can be dangerous just to give someone who doesn't know about Firearms um I think a solution to this is just giving a training course before purchasing a firearm and then having them have a certificate in order to purchase one um I feel like like it's like kind of getting a driver's license right you don't just buy a car and start driving you have to learn about the car you have to learn how to what the rules are and then you get your license and then maybe purchasing a car so I feel like it's better for the community of Reno if they made a a a training course for firearms thank you that'll be all Mr Torres would you tell me which of your teachers has You On Assignment to speak in public comment um his name is Mr Dinosaur from Fantastic would you have him reach out to me I'd like to come and chat with your class and just have a conversation about some of these important issues be fun for me to sit with your students and and your classmates and talk about these things it's hard for us because in this process we don't get to have an iterative conversation right and so I'd love to come and speak with all of you in a better less formal situation we love having you in Council it means a lot to us to hear the issues that you're presenting so I just want to make sure I've extended that offer to you to come out and meet with the classmates yeah thank you thanks Fabian agilera followed by Oswaldo gimenez followed by Jacob Williams um good morning Reno city council I am fa Nill and I come behalf of Hulk high school I'm here to talk about gas prices in Nevada but more specifically Reno gas gas prices have been really high lately higher than they ever had before well not before but just they've been really high and people have things to do places to be and I just hope you know you can set like a cat cap limit on how much gas can be per like gas station because people they drive to school they work to school they have jobs they got places to be and now it's getting colder so they got to start their car a little more early in the morning so you know it's it's a tough time people and people don't make a lot of money sometimes and gas can be really expensive it could be like $40 to 100 depending on what kind of vehicle you drive and you know some people can't afford it and they could make it to work and back so I'm just you know really here to talk about how you guys can like you know set like a cap on it and really just care for the people and just kind of put down inflation as well overall everything in society is very high as well but yeah osalo himz followed by Jacob Williams followed by C mums I know we're supposed to address up here but I just want to say I'm so impressed by all the students that came up here and were just saying what they needed to because I still need to write my stuff down um thank you city council my name is wasalo gimenez estupinan and I'm the director of Hispanic latinx community relations at the University of Nevada Reno I'm happily here today to give thank you to the City of Reno specifically the art and culture commission for their support with Theos muos at the University of Nevada aren know uh this has long been a long-standing event at the University uh these events help bring in community members and individuals that may have not seen the university is accessible prior to we have had or we had 800 attendees during this year's event hug High School Latino student Club LED eight craft tables and activity tables where they were able to connect with community members and I saw so many families running around with face paint trying to make it to the leria table and it was an amazing event um I it's amazing to partner with hug High School especially the student group because one they keep me in check and then they're an amazing or it's an amazing opportunity for them to lead this initiative it was an amazing event and we received some of the best feedback for the event this year we will hear some comments from one of the amazing students Elana in a little bit but I just wanted to TK thank the City of Reno and the arts and culture commission for their support with the muos this continued support from the city is the reason we're able to keep this event going and I cannot express enough how much the support means to us the Community Connection is vital to continue to serve our community and have and to have cultural events that represent the background of many of our residents um thank you again the adelos muos is not just a cultural observance it is a reminder of the importance of family and Heritage and the interconnectedness of Our Lives your support ensures that this event remains a vibrant expression of identity and unity and respect for those who have come before us thank you for your commitment in celebrating and preserving the diverse cultural Fabric in Reno and on behalf of the University of Nevada Reno I want to thank city council and the City of Reno for your support thank you Jacob Williams followed by C mums followed by Ilana Ramirez good morning everyone Jacob Williams for the record nice to see you all yeah I just want to say I'm a little late but congratulations to all of you that won your election and Miss Anderson on your new election award six I'm here today to speak in strong support of the proposed uh Citywide no camping ordinance um our downtown is the heart and City City a heart of our city and a place which should uh reflect vibrancy safety and the opportunity uh we value as a community unfortunately despite numerous Progressive initiatives aimed at addressing homelessness our downtown continued to struggle with safety concerns diminished economic activ activity and the erosion of its appeal to family and visitors I did what I called a non-specific poll on a social media site a couple days ago titled what deters you from spending more time downtown in just over two days the post was viewed 11,000 times with about a 100 comments I'll spare the counts of the terms that were used but the overwhelming majority of comments from residents around our city were were in regards to Crime unsafe conditions dirty streets and without sugar coating it the homeless the second highest amount of comments if you're uh if you care to know were about lack of parking in Midtown which I'm sure is no surprise to you this ordinance is not about ignoring the needs of those on the street it's about addressing a growing issue in a way that balances compassion and accountability simply at this point those that aren't seeking or getting the services that we offer are choosing not to I believe we can both have a compassionate and firm uh and be firm in our resolve to create a safer more welcoming environment downtown this ordinance is a step forward in restoring a sense of order and dignity to our city ensuring that everyone including residents business and visitors can enjoy our shared public places I love the work that the downtown partnership has done but they need help and we do too I urge you to pass this ordinance as a part of a broader strategy to address the challenges our community is facing um and now Switching gears councilman ree on behalf of the somerset Owners Association and the thousands of Northwest Reno residents to use Somerset Parkway I want to express my deepest gratitude for your vital role in the completion of our Paving project on Somerset Parkway as a president of Somerset Owners Association I've seen first Hound how you uh your delegation to our residents needs have made tangible differences in the lives and residents of the Northwest Community your leadership is the is a guiding force behind this project and it was crucial in bringing it from reality to concept I'll fast forward here it's easy to elect uh criticize elected officials when things go wrong but we often to forgive them to give them credit when things go right uh you're a great representative and I appreciate all your help thank you all for your time just for the record um mayor shivi has joined us remotely C mums followed by Ilana Ramirez follow followed by skyin cook hi how's it going my name is my name is C momes uh I'm a cultural history PhD student at UNR uh I'm speaking today in opposition to ordinance E1 through E4 um and so I want to begin every day in America people experience homelessness or threatened by law enforcement ticketed or even arrested for living in public spaces uh when they have no other alter other alternative excuse me um rather than providing adequate housing options too many communities criminalize homelessness by making it illegal for people to sit sleep or even uh eat in public spaces in fact a cursory search for our place reveals that there are zero out of 160 available beds to sleep in tonight um if we being intellectually honest you will see that these laws violate moral constitutional civil and human human rights they create arrest records fines and fees that stand in the way of homeless people securing jobs and even housing uh the argument that homeless people should just quote get jobs Falls flat on his face in the reality of the felony charge and jail time make getting a decent paying job and uh renting an apartment nearly impossible in America uh one study by the McCormack Institute on public affairs found that nearly a quarter of guests and homeless shelters have been incarcerated within the previous year um we have to we have to put unhoused people we have put UNH House people in impossible situation that uh laws criminalizing sleeping outside make even worse um Martin in 2018 Martin V Bosey in the ninth uh circuit uh courts held that the absence of adequate Alternatives is cruel and usual punishment under the eth amendment to punish someone for life sustaining activities like sleeping resting or Sheltering oneself um and now I want to shift gears a little bit to uh my work as a Nevada uh historian uh Nevada itself is also conceptualized as the most Libertarian state in the Union because of legalized gambling and prostitution and that construct mixed with uh western frontier Mythos and cowboy setic finds uh a home within the biggest little city in state Reno that's all to say Reno epitomizes Nevada culture in very unique ways uh Michael Bowers Taps into this unique culture of Nevada when he argues Nevada is unlike any other state in politics and culture economically right yet libertarian have widespread gambling and a 247 gaming industry that is all to say Nevada is culturally and financially unique compared to the rest of the US therefore in case the moral arguments didn't sway you um you owe it to your cons constituency to embrace your culture and reject bad fiscal decisions these expensive policies are ineffective at addressing addressing homelessness and and reducing the number of people who must sleep on the streets in fact effective policies like providing affordable housing Services have been proven to cost less than criminalizing homelessness most Rec most recently a study in Charlottesville North Carolina found that theity saved $2.4 million through the housing program all right you are left with a decision uh are you going to embrace the libertarian Legacy that Nevada upholds or are you going to lean into the unfortunate continuity of racism within this city and classism thank you very much Ilana Ramirez followed by skyin cook followed by Bahar jazani hi good morning my name is Elana Ramirez and I'm a senior at H High School for the past couple years I have been giving the opportunity to be able to give back to my community in various ways one of which has been attending the Hispanic heritage culture event through my Latino Club at my school this event is hosted by the University of NAD Rino and is sponsored by the city of Reno's art and culture commission and seeing the community come together and celebrate a beautiful culture has been such an eye-opening experience being able to collaborate with our community as well as giving the same opportunity to other students at my school in an effort of sharing our journey to spread awareness within our district as well as giving people of Hispanic descent a safe space to represent themselves freely community events play a significant role in shaping and strengthening the culture the social economic and cultural fabric of a community they help build relationships and are inclusive to everyone as well as help engage Civic engage encourage Civic Civic engagement and a spirit of giving back being able to host more community events will in the long run be more beneficial to our community each time thank you for your support and thank you for the Reno arts and culture commission for helping bring these Community initiatives together thank you Skyland cook followed by Bahar jazani followed by Josh tiot good morning Reno's city council board my name is skylin cook today I will talk about how littering has affected our community littering has always been a worldwide problem but to see our community be part of it when we could be doing things to start change to make our water better to make our air better to want our community to be clean and not such a mess I feel like this is a big issue because we have such a beautiful city and to see trash everyone makes it less thin and we aren't the only ones to live here they're are Wildlife that takes in everything we give out they have been a part of the issue and with all the rivers in our city the majority of the trash ends up in the water which can clog the gutters and cause floods we also drink this water and even with purification not everything could be perfectly purified but along with the city my school and others have been a part of the issue because kids tend to care less about the environment but how we can slowly CH start change is to make sure our trash makes it into the bin and to clean up any loose trash around you I also think it would be a good idea to have people who are in jail or prison help clean up our city they could clean downtown highways and other high maintenance areas also juveniles could be a part of the help as well for their community service they could pick up trash at schools Parks School centers and other areas where it's safe to pick up trash at but I don't think people who have been in trouble should be the only ones helping I think we should volunteer to help clean up our city if you look up Reno Nevada City cleaning volunteer many links in a number will pop up and they need more credit and to be known as more because there are still good people out there who want to see our city Thrive we could make our group we could make more groups and join these groups and be a part of the change that our community means thank you for your time and consideration Bahar jazani followed by Josh tyot followed by arelia oropeza hello um my name is Bahar jazan and I'm a student at the University of Nevada Reno studying political science and sociology I'm here to speak in strong opposition to agenda item e which introduces an ordinance criminalizing homelessness in Reno as someone with a background studying policy and conducting qualitative research on individuals experiencing housing insecurity I can state with confidence that criminalizing homelessness is a destructive policy failure rather than addressing the underlying issues behind housing insecurity criminalizing homelessness would simply push unhoused people out of public view the issue of homelessness then doesn't go away instead in House people are hurted like cattle from one location to another while we pretend like the issue of homelessness is magically solved instead of punishing individuals for systemic failures we need to be offering more shelter space and resources to solve the root of the issue many unhoused individuals have nowhere to go as the shelters in Reno are full and housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable individuals with marginalized identities like people of color and lgbtq people are also disproportionately experiencing homelessness if this ordinance passes they will likely be targeted by police at a disproportionate rate as well focusing on the effectiveness of the ordinance research has shown that criminalization is the most expensive and least effective way of addressing homelessness comparing the cost of homelessness um comparing the cost of criminal criminalization to the cost of pro providing housing to homeless people shows that ending homelessness through housing is the most affordable option in the long run um similar to the study that c was talking talking about uh in Charlotte North Carolina the city saved $2.4 million over the course of a year after creating a housing first facility tenants spent 1,50 fewer nights in jail and 648 fewer visits to emergency rooms increasing access to affordable housing then Remains the most effective solution as it gets unhoused people off the streets more effectively and is much cheaper than continuously cycling people through courts jails and back onto the streets I'd like to restate my position criminalizing homelessness is a policy failure it does not address the root of the issue it's wasteful it's expensive it's ineffective um please consider the voices of those speaking up against criminalizing homelessness today thank you Josh tyot followed by arelia oropeza followed by Yaris Kaz uh morning Madame mayor uh city council members and from uh city manager and other valued attendees uh for the record my name is Josh Chariot and I'm here to voice my support for the proposed ordinance amendments detailed in agenda items E1 through E4 the residents and businesses in Reno continue to struggle with the challenges of a safe and clean city to live and work challenges such as graffiti vandalism trespassing theft and blight the city county and residents have all worked diligently to provide services for the homeless and those who choose to live on the streets and in public areas these services are available to all but not all choose to take advantage these ordinances would further support Reno residents businesses employees and customers working to maintain a clean presentable and safe living and working environment at many businesses and residential locations there was a fine line between public space and private property particularly in doorways and Street facing zero lot line entrances providing an opportunity to camp sleep and lie in the public way on a sidewalk in a doorway or in a park is counterproductive to our efforts to encourage those in need to use the facilities which are provided for a safe and more humane way of living the more opportunities we provide for those living on the streets to sidestep constructive Services the more we dilute the effectiveness of those Services supporting or ordinances like the ones listed in agenda items E1 for E4 provides an opportunity to check on people Ed educate encourage them to pursue a better lifestyle while providing a safer environment for the public to live their lives and for businesses to contribute to the economy and livelihoods I will end with a quick story I recently heard about a group of UNR students on an educational tour with one of our taxpayers supported Outreach programs as the students approached a man sleeping on the sidewalk they all walked around or stepped over the man the Outreach instructor stopped the group to ask why they avoided the man uh the collective response was none of the students wanted to bother the individual the Outreach instructor approached the individual via the blanket only discover the man had overdosed fortunately there was still time to call the Medics perhaps if the ordinances were in place this man would have been approached sooner before the circumstances had escalated to a dangerously close point of no return thank you for your time arelia orop peza followed by yanari kazer followed by Esther yahari Pedroza good morning members of city council my name is arelia oresa today I would like to talk about the prices on groceries and why they should be lowered because of the prices on groceries families are left with less than $100 and they still need to buy selfcare and hygiene needs I had a negative experience with this worldwide issue for example I was going to winko with my mom and she had just gotten done paying her bills such as rent her car payment the light bill and other utility bills and she was only left with $300 and bought Basic Foods from Winkle like fruit milk eggs vegetables meat chicken rice and beans and all of that came up to $250 I understand that they still have to make their profit and sell their food and the the groceries only left her with $50 left to spend for gas and other hygiene needs so I had to see my mom go through go negative in her bank which is also not a good idea because once the money comes in from well as you guys know once money goes in money goes to the negative and then so I had to join the work environment at 15 to help my mom with what I can yes there are resources such as food stamps but you must qualify to get a and to get a lot of food stamps you must receive low income and have a lot of kids and people with higher salary with the same amount of kids that people get accepted they don't get accepted just because they make higher income and they don't the government believes that they'll be able to pay their bills and still have extra for food and other needs I not sure of many solutions to bring up that's why I'm here to bring the issue to you guys um I do understand that grocery stores need to make the profit and continue to get customers but I feel like if they were to lower down their prices and understand where other people come from that they're not getting the same amount of money that others might in a good work environment and a good salary so they would get more customers and more profit if they would just lower down the prices because people would like to go there more than the other stores if we could just change and lower down the prices on groceries to be more inexpensive life would be better for all of us thank you for your time and consideration yanari kazaras followed by Esther yahari Pedroza followed by Antonio laforge all right good morning members of the city council board and mayor my name is janari cazarez today I will talk I would like to talk to you about our Healthcare here in Reno Nevada because of healthcare issues we are ranked near the bottom of the entire United States with the rank of the 41st overall in all 50 states we have also had a shortage of Physicians which is especially concerning given the rap the rapid population growth in our state as for a solution I don't really know what can be done but from what I have researched we can increase funding and resources for healthcare instructors personnel and technology is critical this includes increasing investments in public health systems to ensure access for all populations ensuring communities have access to the same quality of care as more privileged groups in is essential this may involve targeted policies like free or subside Services cultural comp competency training for providers and addressing social determinant of Health thank you for your time and consideration Esther Yari Pedroza followed by Antonio laforge followed by Chris Riley good morning members of the city Reno City Council board and mayor my name is Esther Hari peda today I would like to talk to you about the following issue how teens are developing negative habits and getting into violence because of this issue I have the following negative experience where people I called family have died because of drug and gang violent and sometimes members members of these gangs and drugs sometimes experience deal time and some of them growing up to being drug addicts also we live in a city where we push young kids into working because there is nothing else for them to do and they or they must help out their parents for a solution what we can do to help them is to get them into other things like hosting events in the community or building things that teens are more into for hosting events we could do teens for teens events where they can do their own stuff and host things or we can make youth centers where they could be theirselves and talk to other kids their ages we could also provide um houses for homeless teens who struggle with drug uh drug abuse so if we could help these team develop positive habits and get them engagement in the community I think it would help them a lot thank you for your time and consideration Antonio lege followed by Chris Riley followed by Jack retti um hello my name is Antonio lege I'm a student from hug high school and I'm here to talk about the lack of sidewalks in Sun Valley it may seem like a small request but the lack of sidewalks in our community is a pressing issue and I believe it is one that deserves immediate attention first and foremost sidewalks are about safety every day people including me have to walk without sidewalks with most the time very thin dirt walkways often forced to walk in the road itself because there is no safe pedestrian path in many parts of our neighborhood this situation creates serious serious risks of accidents drivers are often speeding or distracted and without sidewalks pedestrians are left to navigate these dangers with no barriers between them and traffic um a dedicated sidewalk can make all the difference in uh preventing accidents saving lives and and ensuring that our streets are not just for cars but for people too uh thank you Chris Riley followed by Jack retti followed by Omar Garcia members of the council manager Bryant my name is Chris Riley um and I just wanted to uh submit public comment uh to say thank you to City staff you all and RPD and support of items E1 through E4 on the ordinances um there's no perfect policy um there is a a a true safety concern um that we've had as as downtown business owners um and increasing of late um we've had three recent fires um near wooden structures um two of which we we almost lost uh sections of of buildings and businesses um we we had another instance where a gas line was involved and and cered with and you know we're all just very thankful that that that that was not escalated further um and and from a safety perspective you know this is this is just something you know we are hearing from our customers we're we're trying to balance you know the challenges of everything downtown you know when when we've asked uh individuals um who you know who were using uh glass pipes and and devices in front of customer custers um you know a business owner was recently laughed at and escalated that um and it's just it's it's an environment where we're objectively not changing and and so policies like this uh can help create a safer downtown that that do feel more welcoming um to Citizens so thank you all um for the work and and the continued discussion on these topics Jack roetti followed by Omar Garcia followed by Anthony Nara hello uh Merry Christmas thank you for Hillary sh invited me for my for my pop gun and I got got guys a gift for you guys but I can't build it here but I probably give it to you in your office and and I hope you have a great Christmas day for you guys and my website is jackpin company.com and may Christmas you all Merry Christmas Mr body Omar Garcia followed by Anthony Nara followed by joeel Johnson good morning city council board my name is Omar I go to hug high school today I would like to talk about adding post lights to Sun Valley streets uh this affects uh Us in Sun Valley because I always see people walking in the dark with their flashlights like almost getting hit with cars I witness like almost people like like getting hit with cars when they're walking like in the dark when I go play soccer like uh when I walked to the park I almost got hit with a car it was like it was like it's it's dark out there and I feel like we need post lights thank you for your time Anthony Nara followed by Joel Johnson followed by Anita Barona hi City Board um my name is Anthony Nara and um today I would like to talk about the the road McCaron from Sutro to Virginia Street um when I drive through there um it's it's just very like uneven and wobbly and um I had like a little hot in a Civic when I first got my license and like I was just driving through there and then the STP got all messed up and um and I had to like change it and I had to get a new car and I would just like for you guys to change it the road thank you s jovel Johnson followed by Ana Barona good morning Reno city council my name is Joel Johnson I go to hook high school and I think we need better athletic programs or just in that field because I'm also an athlete and I feel like we have great Athletics here but if we were to have programs where children from established from like a young age were able to you know nurture their skills and be better at sports I feel like it'll be better for the city because people from California are also moving here and there's there's a lot of Athletics out there so I feel like if we kind of on like the same page and tempo as them we can be just as great as Athletics and I've been playing sports since I was five so if I'm able to help a little kid from five achieve his dreams now then that's will be my dream for the city thank you Anita Barona followed by Anna Perez McKay via Zoom followed by amaranthus Heiden um good morning members of the city council board my name is Anita Vara Ooa um today I would like to talk to you about the study opportunities this country offers to students without status adjustments because the student opportunities that this country offers to students without legal status are very limited I have some problems applying for Aid offer by Community College in my case I arrive in the country under a Child Protection Program I thought not having an adjustment of status limits my opportunity to be eligible for financial aid assistance for higher education in this country um there's many nonprofit organization that helps on the coming settings with guidance scholar ERS ships and legal resources of the common students um there are State programs labs and resources that depend on the states um for example States like California Illinois New York and Texas for additional Aid and benefits for oncoming settings I'm grateful that there are options for undocumented students who may be eligible for certain types of financial aid and educational support to access higher education out options are limited due to Legal restrictions out the states and federal levels to qualify for most of these grants students generally must me certain requirements such as having leave in the state for several years per the graduation for example the dream scholarship which it says that is for students who do not having immigration status as for requirements that many students do not many students with DACA may be eligible however students without daa face greater challenges in accessing federal funds the state of Nevada has limited aid for students without status a judgments there you're supposed Aid in only for those who have an agree immigration case that out or meet their requirements but all [Music] of um takes away opportunity for students who have nothing or do not applying um for anything with the criers their request if only we could do something for those who do not have the help to go to college um life will be better for all us thank you for your time and consideration Anna Perez McKay followed by amaranthus heyen followed by Morales Sana uh hello can you hear me we can thank you thank you um I'm Anna Perez McKay I'm a resident of Ward six and I'm here to Str oppose items E1 to E4 I have lived downtown and I work at a business right next to the river in an area where people often Camp to survive the escalating punishment of locals who are trying to survive is in a word abor and this council's fantasy that the widespread punishment of those trying to survive is a real solution for anyone is getting tired as rents and living expenses continue to increase out of control many people and families are more insecure than ever and are increasingly pushed into homelessness I agree with concerned residents That Homeless is awful it's hard to witness its consequences on families and communities are unacceptable the solution is to provide paths to permanent housing and stability not to punish and disappear those who have already been failed indirectly and directly because of the policy choices of this Council there are no shelter beds to sleep inight and the repeated claim that resources are being turned down is blatantly excuse me blatantly dishonest expanding the definitions of criminality makes those who are trying to survive in the cold into criminals without any other choice there are no shelter beds available an incredibly overwhelmed safety net and there appear to be no plans to expand resources to allow our neighbors a chance of safe and dignified living the number of people living on the streets that is such a concern to private businesses and some citizens simply cannot be reduced by punishing those trying to survive it is expensive it is cruel and it makes it harder for people to get off the streets the city has increased punitive measures against people living in public spaces when there is nowhere to go and to pretend that Vanishing get own people into jails and further away from sight with no long-term options for Ral and dignity is adequate is dishonest and Incredibly cruel I would also like to enter into the record a comment regarding item D6 I hope the council will follow the recommendation of the historical Resources Commission uh and go through a community engagement process to develop the historic lyri theater with the community in mind rather than issuing get another request for proposals from private developers uh before the community process has been completed thank you amaranthus heyen followed by Peter atashian followed by Scott Wilcox good afternoon and um I uh if I could just get as many people's attention here as possible that would be great um I am um one of these um offensive people to the public I am homeless um and um I might not look like what y'all think um I have two college degrees um and I actually went to school for City Planning so I know a lot about homelessness and the process around it um I did not choose this lifestyle I got into a domestic violence situation I became violently ill and disabled and I'm still waiting for disability and unfortunately there's no Gap in that if you're waiting for that money and you can't work there's really nothing you can do um I am fortunate enough to be in a shelter right now which I very appreciative of the shelter I'm in though is completely full so had my situation happened at this point in time I would be on the streets right now and I want y'all to understand when people start talking about oh these people are on drugs oh these people are causing fires I want you to look at me I want you to see me like I don't do drugs like not all of us are in that situation and that is just an absolute bigoted idea that you're forming around homeless people if we have nowhere to go it's because we have nowhere to go and it the shelters are full and because and it's cold outside the idea that you would even bring this up while it's so cold outside is crazy I mean it's just wild and offensive like we're UNH human like we're not deserving of any dignity at all I can't control that I became disabled I did everything in society told me to do I went to school I went to internships I went to fellowships I did everything right but I could not help the fact that I got hit with a neurological disorder and then I got hit in a relationship that I was being abused and I had to get away when I was getting away from my situation I had nothing but the things I could grab in a burlap sack and I was walking down the road had no idea what I was going to do and the first thing that happened to me was a lady called the cops on me the first thing that happened to me I was homeless for all of 5 Seconds and the only thing that people in that neighborhood could think of was how do I get this person out of my life how do I get them away from me not knowing that what I had just been through and I want yall to understand that there we are people and we and some you just never know what you're going to go through in this life you could be homeless all of us have that potential so I want you to understand I want you to understand that and I want you to all think about that we're not a public Nuance we're just people that need help thank you Peter atashian followed by Scott Willcox followed by tazac Morales sadonna hi my name is Peter Tashan I'm a business owner here in Reno um born and raised in Reno first generation to cool to see what the city's done and how it's grew I'm 38 years old and I remember McCaron was like the outside of Reno so that was furthest you went out I'm here to talk about for the the ordinances that I'm in favor for the reason I am is I'm a lot of rampant drug use drug dealing crime garbage all in residential areas where there's kids um personally where my businesses there is a residential Zone and every day I see these kids have to go on their way to the school bus with meth seeing meth smoke and you see drug dealing and you see people throwing axes and I know it's not everyone's got a different scenario in their neighborhoods or whatnot but primarily where I'm at I'm seeing that on top of that with tons of garbage tons of just not a good environment for kids to be in and seeing the ordinance help clean up the streets and having them live a better life I'm you know for that um as far as for businesses um yeah it has created loss of income for me with the increase of um these issues that I'm seeing especially with the drug use um because it increases the drug dealers that come by and they kind of they hang around them as how do I say it um they hang around them pray like hey um keep you know living here will give you drugs so um I'm just seeing a lot of that and that's it my first time doing this I'm a little nervous So yeah thank you thank you guys Scott Wilcox followed by Zack Morales sadonna followed by Laura Hirsch hello my name is Scott wox um wanted to talk about the opposition to E1 through 4 so I wanted to talk about a close friend of mine um who has been homeless for the last 4 months or so she's been trying to live in her truck she's been staying on her couch she's been staying on other people's couches she uses her our kitchen our showers um I helped her insulate her truck to stay warm now that it's getting so cold you know so I wanted to outline her circumstances for you you because it's frankly ridiculous and to be betrayed by her own city is just devastating you know it's really really sad as you're hearing other people talk about as well she doesn't have anywhere to go she has had not one two full-time jobs when this within this time um but unfortunately she cannot afford housing because of her medic her medications and ongoing medical issues are just costing her too much which is a whole issue another issue by itself right so she she Services smog machines around Reno you know allowing us to register our own cars and service our own cars uh but it's just kind of ironic in that way that she's not allowed to stay in her car right even even though she's allowing everyone else to have theirs people will still be homeless in Reno regardless of whether or not it's punishable offense criminals will be criminals regardless of whether or not they're housed she isn't a criminal she isn't lazy she's just being failed and let down punishing even arresting people like her and our other homeless neighbors is cruel and unhelpful in tackling the real issue thank you Zack Morales Sana followed by Laura Hirsch followed by Gabriella silverwind um good morning members of the Reno City Board my name is Isaac Morales and today I would like to talk about the wrongful n just convictions the issue with the city or government is how there is so many wrongful convictions over 7,000 wrongful convictions around Nevada it shouldn't be that frequent I believe that the government should be more cautious of who they make judges and who they give so much power to there has been too many false convictions people that are um documented or undocumented for the government to just not care about them um there are a lot of biased judges I feel like that are in Reno um and the court does not care about how those people are treated in other places especially if they are undocumented if they are deported um they do not care about the well-being that they have in another place or if they are relocated in another state um one of my close relatives was longed up was locked up for and deported over a wrongful conviction that that ended up being proven wrong in many ways but he was already deported and it already messed up everything else that he had going on for his life um but the court decided that he was guilty and we couldn't do anything about it in those short six months that he was here in Reno and relocated in La so for us to get him out was um completely out out of our like jurisdiction and to get him back over here since he was reported and undocumented it was really hard to get him back over here especially for him to get his Visa now it is he is unable to do that because he was already found guilty for what was caused I feel as if people that um or the judges that are found wrongfully convicting people should be punished in various ways or taking their license away from that and we shouldn't allow people to Ram free especially if they do faly accuse someone just in case they um cause any more lawsuits insurance fraud or any other stuff like that thank you for your time and consideration Laura her followed by Gabriella silverwind followed by Adrien Lowry via Zoom hello my name is Laura hirsh and I'm here to address agenda item e ordinance adoptions in sections 1 2 3 and four with winter fast approaching and our shelters full again no beds available it is not only unreasonably cruel but unconstitutional and a death wish for the City of Reno to penalize the act of sitting lying down sleeping or camping outside if this city car for its constituents and our safety the city would prioritize the available of the availability of affordable housing it would allocate funds to construct more shelter the record Street Community Assistance Center wouldn't have fallen into disrepair and misuse we wouldn't have to debate year after year with you that making conditions more dangerous for those who are homeless is not the solution it is both embarrassing and disgusting that year after year this city seems to propose the same non-solution to an issue that has a wide range of Band-Aid solutions that could amount to much less preventable death I am not going to expand very much as to why I think sitting lying down and sleeping outside should not be made illegal it is ridic ridiculous to me that we debate this at all what I will do is I will beg city council to observe that often times homelessness is a symptom and a lack of a lack of housing it's a symptom of inequality it's a lack of support system and signs of an unhealthy Community if the city doesn't have the funds to entertain increased beds or shelter the city can allocate land for shelter whether that be tenting or sleeping outside if there are more homeless than there are beds in our shelters there will be people sleeping outside this has been the case for years further punishing homelessness does not make homelessness less likely nor safe if safety is your concern you would ask someone homeless what would make them feel safer again as cited by multiple comments here criminalization is more expensive than providing resources I urge the city to focus more on the housing crisis affordable housing increasing the number of beds available and allowing people to sleep if you can't do that there should be land freely available for people to sleep on again I'd like to remind everyone that there are no shelter beds available right now and this is not about people turning away resources this is about a lack of resources thank you Gabriella silverwind followed by Adrian Lowry via Zoom followed by Nicole anagapesis via Zoom good even good good day uh ladies and gentlemen um in regards to her uh question about um asking homeless what they would what they could do to feel safe um for starters these shelters um uh when we're told that um where we could be safe there and have services that will help us and then those Services don't and we don't feel safe because the care campus in particular has 75 registered Predators on property which are supposed to be 1,000 ft away from a potential victim or prey but yet they're still there um we have I I myself have utilized Services I had an apartment at um Carville but the manager had per had uh had um committed fraud says at when she gets the government money for the 10 for the years she starts weeding them out added to the Discrimination that I have faced the entire eight years that I've been here from pretty much everybody um and had my brain I mean I've had every bit of violence against me anyone possibly can I'm still standing okay because because people think that they have the right to tell us how to live me in particular I fought for this country and the one thing no one has the right to do is to tell us how to live yeah we may not be living how others live but we're living as we the best we can the safest we know how because we don't have anybody else on our back to protect us the police haven't filed a single report in my favor but they sure as heck love to file file them against me so this isn't about um it being you know that we're that most of us are choosing to most of are not or or that we're trying to create a problem we had Tent City okay a lot of us maintained it a lot we kept responsibility we don't trash the area out here because we're out here we have respect for out here okay um this is simply about others telling us how to live or how we should live because we're not fitting their mold I just had the ambassadors I went to my doctor's appointment they threw all my stuff away basically committing a to murdered through my food my clothes my blankets away now I have a tumor in my head okay 98% I get cold I end up in the hospital again I'm on the verge of pretty much dying because I have like about a year left okay so I'd like to see that the home that the people stop harshing on the homeless and start to understand our situation and stop hating on us okay we're not like like people have said we're not all on drugs okay we're not all bad people not any of us okay there's a few bad apples yeah but there's more good people than there are the people don't realize this lady right here okay she is always part of the crew on Tuesdays she cares okay I keep telling people that there are people who care that's where it needs to start thank you Adrien Lowry via Zoom followed by Nicole anagapesis via Zoom followed by Will mantle via Zoom Adrien if you would unmute and state your name for the record hello my name is Adrien Larry and I'm speaking in opposite to items E1 through E4 these proposed ordinances will do great violence to some of our most vulnerable groups and Reno we know that homelessness cannot be solved by locking people away or placing them in for the debt it may feel could for Reno business members or council members could say just get rid of them but it does not solve any problem we know that homelessness is a housing problem and that the path to solving homelessness through housing policy providing uh affordable housing to people uh and not just you know affordable housing because I know that is a a very technical term that does not mean what uh we Cally consider to mean but we need to provide housing for people do not violate these people's humans rights just to have you know a Feelgood solution to this problem that doesn't actually solve anything uh anything thank you Nicole anagapesis via Zoom followed by William mantle via Zoom followed by menuel ducas good morning um my name is Nicole anagapesis and I an organizer with family sup Mutual Aid I did see a few of my friends and allies in the audience today and I'm grateful that they were able to show up in person where I was not um some of the other folks that I saw uh were high school students who seem to be experiencing themselves and their fam some of the same issues that myself and my friends are experiencing that cost of living is high housing is incredibly difficult to access and I challenge all of you sitting right now to consider how an ordinance like the one being recommended um proposed rather uh will affect them in the future this ordinance is deeply concerning and frankly obtuse and uncreative it does nothing to solve the realities the material realities that we all experience on a day-to-day basis which is life is hard people experience homelessness because they are subjected to systemic failure and an ordinance like this strips the liberty of those people away no person may sit at a bench or on a sidewalk what a joke sorry but it's ridiculous and tyrannical by nature to strip people's autonomy in such a way for the comfort of downtown business owners I'm sorry the reason that downtown is not vitalized and isn't getting foot traffic is because there's nothing to do there unless you want to gamble or drink or smoke which frankly I have no problems with I like all of those things it's full of empty lots because the city has stld away Parcels of land out ofate real estate developers who have bulldozed businesses motels Etc that have existed there if the downtown area was going to be revitalized that would have already happened it's a failed project in my opinion frankly and criminalizing poor people and spiriting them away to jail or elsewhere does not solve the problem you people are so deeply uncreative in your problem solving honestly just no freedom fre to sit you people should not have freedom to sit in the seats that you're sitting in right now Jesus Christ man William mantle via Zoom followed by Manuel ducas followed by mariva ducas hello William mantel for the record uh good morning Council I have concerns about the process to appoint Miss Jackie Bryant as our city manager I mean no disrespect to miss Bryant and we have worked together before but the process for her ction is problematic to me in June Miss Bryan unequivocally stated that she wasn't interested in the city manager position she didn't apply and so this body expended a significant $75,000 on a national search for a city manager this body is either Reckless or irresponsible when it weighs $75,000 of taxpayer funds as it has done to make matters worse this body offered an obscene starting wage of $ 36,7 128 in change 10, more than prior manager Thornley received after years of service Mr Thornley left under a shroud of Suspicion and Intrigue following reporting from this is Reno on approving inappropriate and unethical spending by this body now you're dictate appointing Miss Brian as city manager in a completely opaque and circumvention of the usual process way your action has created the Spectre of Suspicion favortism and unfortunately even back room dealing this process plus the high initial pay has set up Miss Bri for extreme criticism when she makes any error innocent or Not That Could favor this body the charter explicitly separates the powers of the city manager from the council but the course you've taken blurs that distinction as much as possible to miss Bryant's detriment you should have followed the proper process you should have been transparent and public facing you shouldn't have considered someone who wouldn't follow procedure what example are you setting for future city recruitments and I sincerely doubt you would have waited wased $75,000 of your own money on a hollow Pursuit unfortunately this all blemishes Miss Bryant's new career out the gate and I worry about how it's going to go sadly otherwise I'm also looking at the Washo County shelter census dashboard currently we have nine beds available in the entire County it's roughly $64 a night per person at the car's campus to stay versus $174 a night at the Washo County Jail which is a difference of 172% recidivis recidivism rates that rate which calculates an individual's re criminalization or again committing a criminal act after they've already committed a criminal act and been incarcerated is roughly three times worse through incarcerating processes and penitentiaries than if they went through a rehabilitative and more Community focused process lastly I'd really like to say congratulations to the high school students who kicked major butt coming up there and speaking their minds nothing can stop you if you work together and push your ideals forward thank you Manuel ducas followed by mariva ducas followed by Chrissa solo when me City [Music] for for [Music] for for for [Music] marz followed by Chia solo followed by mayete aralo Mal malano good morning good morning members of City ccil Board my name is Lu [Music] for for [Music] an for [Music] thank you for your time and consideration chrisa solo followed by mayete Aral follow Maldonado followed by Trey abne hello my name is graa solito and I'm coming from hung high school I'm a senior this year and I'm talking to you guys about the roads during winter time winter time in CA is a beautiful time of the year we have here in Reno with beautiful views and awesome snow but this also means our roads aren't good for our people I know here in Reno weather is very bipolar which means that it can Snell on a random day with no warning and no science but some things we could do to help our community is to ensure that our driver ed class includes more tips and ways for drivers to know how to drive in the snow with precaution and safety most of our new drivers get overwhelmed and scared when it comes to driving in the snow which also relates to myself as well I know there's not much to do to solve this problem especially here in our weather where it's very bipolar but that's why I'm here talking to you guys today to give you guys some ideas to fix this problem with that being said thank you for your guys' time Maya aralo Maldonado followed by Trey abne followed by Griselle Castillo good morning members of the renal city council board my name is m ralo and today I would like to talk to you about healthcare overcharging for regular checkups emergency visits and even accessing Healthcare especially with minimum paying jobs I have found throughout the years that many families around me struggle paying off their medical bills and it becomes a long-term stress for their daily lives knowing that they have other bills to complete as well as checkups are a necessity for our health that sometimes we can't even control come to look at people who have health problems their medicines or even surgeries that they have to take care of in order to get better at truly outrageous medical bills that are due there has been a large amount of hardworking individuals who don't even have access to health care and are sacrificing their day-to-day lives to serve for us as well as provide for their families yes insurance covers a certain amount of it but it still has us looking at a good quantity to O as well as how certain hospitals don't accept all insurances which makes some people pay out of pocket which could be an excessive amount to pay right that moment it's been far too long and our government needs to make a change if we could manage the medical expenses with our paychecks and daily bills we could manage a certain amount to payback that works best for each individual as well as Healthcare affordability to adob stability to provide workers with acceptable care and not having to worry about a financial burden another proper solution is providing Medicare for all each of us has a role in our city so provid this could truly make a change especially because our government's main obligation is to protect its citizens health and wellbeing is a huge is well-being is a huge problem that should be addressed we should prioritize our people over profit and have accessible quality care for all thank you so much for your time and considerations Trey Abney followed by grisela Castillo followed by Lily Baron via Zoom good morning uh Madame mayor members of the council uh for the record Trey abony here today representing naop Northern Nevada the largest uh Commercial Real Estate Association in the region and uh welcome councilwoman Anderson thanks for stepping up to uh serve your constituents of which I am one it's good to see you up there I just wanted to speak uh real briefly on agenda item C2 I've got about 20 Zoom calls and phone calls today so I'm not able to stay until that but I wanted to give High Praise uh Madam manager to Angela fous and her team for working with us over the last couple of years on a zoning code update I am not here to tell you that we got everything we wanted or that we are thrilled with every single word in that document but I can tell you that it was a lot of work and a lot of detailed work uh that went into that and and a lot of Outreach uh to every member uh of this community and several groups and so we just want to thank you for your work this zoning code update will be much easier to to implement to understand uh to work through and to uh develop the community that we all want to see so I just want to thank uh you Madame manager I want to thank Angela fous and her team and I want to thank this Council uh for supporting them thank you very much and sorry I have to leave before that discussion thank you very much Griselle Castillo followed by Lily Baron via Zoom okay uh good morning members of the ren Reno city council I am from Proctor arug high school and today I would like to talk to you about the issue of the cost of Health Care having effects on families because the cost of healthc care being too high my family for example has run into issues where we can't afford necessary treatments such as surgeries Mental Health Care prescription medication including regular checkups because they try to avoid going into depbt this has worried not just my parents but other individuals as well by just having the thought of not being able to rely on treatments and checkups because of how high the cost of the outcome is if if we can improve HealthCare coverage it can be a way to give more people access to a reasonable priced care everyone can benefit from lower expenses through financial assistance or even create plans to cover cost without going into Deb and not stress fam out the goal is to ensure that everyone may receive the treatment and care they require without going over budget a few other actions that can help lower health care cost is being able to support proactive Community Health plans such as free screenings or Immunization Clinics by assisting local clinics and Healthcare centers they could also try to increas access to lowcost Medical Services I hope that these Solutions can help with the cost and coverage of healthcare and can improve the impacts that it has on families into a positive way if if health care cost decrease more people would be able to afford the care they need which can also make a healthier Community it can also reduce Financial stress for many families allowing them to spend money on other important things such as education or saving for housing going back and can also improve the quality of care by having people go do regular checkups and treatments that that has people more likely to notice health problems earlier and better handle chronic disorders when they can afford frequent examinations this can also result in fewer Hospital States and er visits which can be very costly and Dreadful these goals can all possibly be met by communicating with others and taking their opinions as well and creating a future plan I want to thank you all for your time Madam vice mayor our final public comment today is Lily Baron via Zoom good morning can everybody hear me okay we can thank you awesome thank you um I want to just quickly thank so much the people who are currently experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness for coming out today to the meeting I think that your your voices should be held up among the most important for us to listen to as a community and I just thank you for taking the extra steps that I'm sure were not easy to take to make those comments today um thank you so much I have great news actually so um I have been in the last couple of months working with some of our faith leaders downtown and we have finally after years of work secured a community run warming Center so this will be in collaboration with rise Reno Initiative for shelter and equality St Thomas aquinus cathed Cathedral First United Methodist Church Trinity Episcopal Church Cathedral Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and good neighbors like you we are calling this the Good Neighbors warming Center we're going to be open for women and families that means single dads too with kids and it will be from 900 p.m. to 6: a.m. um every single day of the week starting next Tuesday through March 10th this is a community-led effort that will involve Faith leaders Public Health Advocates harm reduction Advocates uh people who offer Supportive Services and of course most crucially other neighbors in our community um I know that there is so much to be done in the in the work of homelessness but there is something that we can do as a community that we can really feel good about channeling the energy that we have about these kinds of ordinances or what their effects may be into a positive Community run solution um so I'm really excited to be able to announce this and this is kind of just a public comment for any one listening if you'd like to uh join or have any more information please email good neighbors Reno gmail.com um I'll also be sending information to councel um and to the impressed people that be as well as um on Instagram and all social platforms um I want to thank everyone who who spoke today I think this discourse is really important as a as award one um resident and someone who runs a harm reduction and a food pantry outside of my house I just have one thing that I would like to say and that is that where your business is is not your neighborhood that's where your business's neighborhood is so please just be sensitive to the fact that your neighborhood is where you live not where your business is um but I think that this could be a really awesome opportunity for anyone who would like to be involved to save some lives this uh winter and make actionable Solutions to some of the problems that we're facing ahead thank you so much and congratulations Jackie Madam vice mayor with that we have no additional live public comment for the record we did receive five comments which were gen General in nature and not directly associated with an agenda item prior to 4m yesterday December 10th these comments were voicemail 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 five letters of concern and with that we're ready to close out public comment move on to item A4 approval of the agenda okay thank you madam clerk I will ask our interim City Manager for updates to the agenda please thank you there are no changes to the posted agenda but we will be hearing it out of order immediately following this item we will approve the unpulled consent items and hear the pulled items after that we'll hear item D4 which is a city manager appointment following that we have a 1 pm time certain for D3 for the annual comprehensive financial report then items D and 7 will be heard together following that we have a 2m time certain for items D6 which is the Leer historic structures report then we will hear item C2 the title 18 zoning Cloe cleanup then we will go back to item D5 the October downtown update after that ordinance introductions items E1 2 and three followed by E4 then we will go back to C1 and we'll finish off with items D1 and D2 from the city attorney's office during lunch today we will have an attorney client briefing also thank you thank you with that we're looking for approval of the agenda so moved second have a motion a second second any discussion all those in favor I I all those opposed motion carries um now we will move into the consent agenda do we have any public comment for this item Madam clerk Madame vice mayor we do not have any public comment registered additionally have not received any correspondence for any consent agenda items okay we will uh look for a motion to approve the items other than those polls wait I do have one comment I did um miss one item I wanted to pull which was b14 if I could pull that also can I ask Miss Ebert you pull a number of items were you able to have briefings this week I was but um and I noticed there was a comment made earlier um if you look at the items that I've pulled they are all specific to W four and as some of the commenters mentioned today too that um my constituents frequently have a difficult time either watching or coming to meetings and while I am able to have briefings and um meetings with staff to discuss these things a lot of times Council meetings um watched later on YouTube are the only way my constituents get to find out um from the staff themselves Who are the the subject matter experts what's happening in the ward so I find a lot of value in having those even if they're brief presentations from staff um so that people I can direct my constituents to those meetings later for those parents that work two jobs or just can't come so thank you understand thank you can we just could you just list those again B5 B6 B8 B10 B13 b14 thanks I heard I had B15 and you had B15 saying I had noted B15 did you want B15 uh just now I pulled uh b14 so it was B I can go over them again it was um B5 B6 B8 B10 B13 and b14 okay thank you all others U Move for the approval of the ones not pulled second we have a motion a second any further discussion all those in favor I I I all those opposed okay motion carries and now we will move on to item B5 Madam vice mayor morning council members plance Fado director of business licensing for the record uh I have no presentation for these items but I'm happy to answer any questions okay so um B5 and B6 are kind of linked together correct that's right okay so can we just kind of talk about the process like what what this is um what these permits are for specifically and what kind of process this type of business has to go through to be approved for these permits if you don't mind sure so uh this is a a license for a cultivation facility and a production facility these two Li can you explain what type of cultivation sry cannabis cultivation cannabis production thank you so um they are already currently licensed in the state they are just moving locations so in this case they come to the city they say we'd like to move to this location we have a hearing determine if it's appropriate then that goes back to the state and the state can confirm and issue the license so there's a there's a number of steps in the process because it is a state approved process ultimately um it just comes to us first to say is this appropriate area for that and do they meet all the criteria so it's essentially regulated by the state with regard to like um proximity to other locations or things like that that's a really a state driven requirement that we just verify their in compliance with that's right and the the RMC does uh you know um it does duplicate some of the state statutes that that govern that information so we look at it as well but ultimately it's regulated by the state okay okay so was there any concerns about location of it is there approxim to schools or um residential area or anything anything that um there was any concern about with no concerns at this time and uh you know for the record excuse me these this facility was previously licensed as a cultiv cultivation and production facility so it already has had the use there so it made it even easier than normal generally speaking if it was something that hadn't had that they would have to come and uh and get it what we call zoning verification letter where we look in specifically is this appropriate does it meet all the criteria and then we move forward but this one they already had it because it was already a facility okay thank you very much for that um so unless anybody else has other questions you do okay go ahead all right thank you um so I kind of the same line as councilwoman eert in the sense I was concerned because as you know we have given licenses where they might be close to um these establishments so with that being said because we don't know because those establishments typically nonprofits uh rehab centers may not have or be required to have a business license so how how land did you were you able to identify that these locations would be um acceptable well Lance FR for the record for speaking from my perspective I go off of what the planning department says so when they when this gets reviewed it's it's to my understanding that they go through and they look at the survey that's been given to them by the applicant so the applicant prepares that information and then staff verifies it um as far as the the issues you've talked about in the past I believe that they've started to look into other facilities and other look on websites to see are there any other nonprofits that are in the area that that could affect this this determination and then they go from there um we we we we appreciate the concerns and um we've been taking steps to try and catch these things before they occur so that we don't have a mishap like we did before um the other thing I wanted to ask you I thought I saw on here maybe maybe I don't because I'm reading through it now and but I might be missing it one of the things is when um you transfer a business or um an alcohol license to one of the businesses um it used to be where I don't think we named on the Cannabis um businesses or those facilities that we were required to put their names in there I think do you remember whenever on the new ly so yeah the the ly that's named in that staff report is the named lense e on the Nevada Secretary State business license so this is held by you know corporate entities above but the the entity that is that is holding the license in Nevada and as recorded with the state is the one that you see on the agenda okay is that the same for alcohol with alcohol generally we we've taken the steps um you you've asked in the past that we we name all the lenses so we've been doing that um since you since you noted it but uh as a as a matter of process over the years yeah it's just been the one appointed primary lense e that we would put on there but we've been doing our best to go through put all the appropriate people on there so you have transparency on on thank you so much I I do think that that I mean it's not I would assume that's on the state side because it's you're getting their information off of their portal sure um but I think that that's it's broken and there should be more transparency when it comes to cannabis licenses and who's owning them and as we've seen many of them were sold to Canadian companies I have no idea who's doing business in the City of Reno um you know so transparency but I appreciate you run it down and it's not on our end so thanks Lance welcome okay all right go ahead all right uh I'll make a motion to approve B uh items B5 and B6 um second I have a motion a second all those in favor Madam mayor let me just quickly ask though based on your comment did you want to see a change or do you think that all the changes are happening no I don't think we can I don't believe we could make the change I think it's at the state level because they're getting the information off the state portal and how how would we run that down because those licenses go through the state of Nevada if we get the opportunity to I don't know if we can change something here that might help us with that transparency of who who is buying or are buying these licenses then that would be great I'm sure Lance is already doing that because he knows that that was sort of my sticking point do you remember oh yes I do yeah okay and then Devon's laughing yes I remember no and I do too because I've been very supportive and I wanted to make sure though you brought up that other issue about the nonprofits and I just I I wasn't clear with um Lance's description if those if we covered all that to the best certain distance requirement to the best of my knowledge that's treat centers and the way we do that is we look online uh the state has uh websites where that they will list nonprofit registered nonprofits yeah um and then we can identify them you know and where they are in proximity to let me ask you my understanding was that we were going to put a a Minimus fee on nonprofits so we had them registered with the City of Reno as well did we do that we did not at this time we still do not require it in code um it is we we urge nonprofits to get registered but that'll take a code change to actually push forward and say you are required literally years ago I thought we were making that change or that we would have seen it somewhere I mean you're updating the business license requirements it's on the top of the list for that section M to to be added when would that be coming back I hope to bring something back to you guys next year okay well I think it's really important that we require even a Minimus $10 fee or whatever for the nonprofits so that we know they're out there we know where they are and we can help um avoid these conflicts amongst other things understood thank you for bring that up because I think we were all concerned about what that looked like um and I know I I've seen some correspondents into my office of concerns from these nonprofits the goal is to be able to identify them so we don't uh hurt them in the long run by putting a use next to them that can be damaging to their ultimate goal of the people that they're trying to help and serve and so um I think it makes sense and you know I think if it's a minimal amount then it it will be okay sounds good yeah when did you say that would be coming forward I hope to bring a um some update on the codes uh in in the following calendar year so okay great nothing's nothing's scheduled in and you know at this time but we're looking for early even if you have to bring that separate because the rest of the code's lagging it might be worth it just to get that done yeah I agree thank you all right so I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay uh B6 Madame mayor that was a motion for item B5 and B6 so we're on item B8 pulled by council member Ebert okay go ahead take it away hi morning morning Dave cooch ra fire chief I'm here on item B8 and I have with me Sam steer who manages all our grant applications and awards and fire inspector T Sky who handles all things defensible space woi um wi interface all that so they are available here to answer any questions you may have great so I would just kind of like at least a high level overview of what what is happening with this agreement because I have um a lot of concerns with my constituents specifically regarding fire and Fire Protection um but I know throughout the city of Arena um we're surrounded by um Wilderness areas that could potentially um have fires I know we had the Davis Creek Fire earlier this year that was County but we still felt a lot of impacts of the city um just kind of secondhand stuff that happened so um if you could just kind of give us an overview of what this this um this covers what this goes over Selen Sky fire inspector so Community Wildfire protection plan plans are developed by communities and areas at risk of wildfire and are created through a collaborative framework um our last Community Wildfire protection plan was developed in 2015 oh excuse me 2005 correction um so with this updated Community Wildfire protection plan we'll be able to identify prior priority areas uh that need uh fuel mitigation and it will also help us with pursuing future grants to do that fuel mitigation having the community Wildfire protection plan is really crucial in our grant applications um to pursue more funding so um Sam can answer more questions that pertain more to the grant as I'm kind of just the project manager on this and she handles the Grant and is this your first time at Council yes nice to meet you thank you for coming thank you you did a good job I know sometimes it's hard but um good job go ahead councilwoman Eber yeah so um just so I'm understanding we're we're using this to come up with a plan and then we're going to use that to go to FEMA and request grants for funds for that plan that we have like our response plan is that an accurate kind OFA steer management assist assistant so we will take their plan they'll have like little projects areas and we'll take those to not just FEMA but any organization that helps us with fuel mitigation to kind awesome get for it okay so like what what kind of plant like you just mentioned fuel mitigation will that be you know clearing old vegetation controlled burns like what kind what is the scope of that what are we looking at in this it could be anything it could be anything of those like the goats were felation and they were Grant talk about the goats everybody loves goats sure'll we coming back talk about the goats yes so yeah that it they're going to help us to find like the projects that are best for that area because there are some areas that are super slopey and we can't get equipment in there but the goats can right can I ask you to move over to the right slightly we're not getting the sound because you have to be under that and near those speakers thank you so much there are people that are watching these meetings at night after we're done with them so I want to make sure they can hear thank you so oh my time's up does anybody else have any questions I will have just a couple more but I don't know if anyone else no okay um so both Mayors are gone yeah yeah go ahead all right so um there was something on the um the staff report that said you know prepare uh the community for wildlife protection plan does that include like Outreach to the community letting people know once we have the plan like hey here's what our our plan is or will there be kind of um engagement with the community to kind of get feedback from them along the way or is it kind of more of like once it's established will communicate the end result with them okay so telina Sky um they'll be involved throughout the entire process we'll have Community meetings um multiple this should take about a year okay so through that process we'll have Community meetings to keep everyone updated and then at the end our final document will be published um on our website and it's going to be very interactive and user friendly to the public so they can go through look at um all the different areas in the community what's at higher risk lower risk as well as work that we've implemented um in those target areas wonderful well thank you guys um just one last thing and it might end up being a bigger thing but is this going to be in coordination with any other fire services like are are we working with them for a plan or will we share our plan with them at the end like um you know we have kind of a close um close Community when it comes to different fire services with forest and you know trucky Meadows and Sparks and all of that will there be any kind of um you know unified approach to this at all yes so it is a collaborative approach this one um the one that we had in the past was countywide okay so this one is going to be very specific to City of Reno fire okay um however they will be included in part of some of our core um meetings um so we'll just have more in in-depth collabor with them okay great well thank you I didn't have anything else thanks so much right and maybe you want to just include I know that you just did a practice run on lithium prevention fire prevention lithium fire prevention which I think you that's a big deal for me yeah will the lithium fire prevention be a part of this or is this more Wildfire related so this is Wildfire specific um and what the mayor is referring to to is we just did a demonstration on a new um extinguisher that's available that the mayor is going to allocate some funds for us to purchase specifically targeted the extinguisher is specifically targeted at extinguishing lithium ion battery fires okay so we start seeing those as a tool in our toolbox as well okay and then I do have a little bit of a concern with those is there cleanup measures associated with the use of those I know that there's not currently any chemicals in there that we know to be toxic but as times change and involve chemicals we used to use in the past for fire suppression we now know um you know we call them forever chemicals P faster contamination is there anything um included in that suppression that um requires cleanup of those materials after the owner and frankly the inventor developer of the product shows us that there is no pasas and that the product once deployed is iner after it's after it's used okay okay so there's no real strategy or plan to like contain that after it's you know extinguished to make sure that any product that's used is not you know going into the the soil or any kind of water table or anything correct okay okay thank you sure okay do you want to give a motion yeah I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve item B8 okay I have a motion second I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries all right thanks good job you made it thank you you survived okay good madam moving on to item B10 pulled by council member Ebert okay go ahead councilwoman Ebert great so this one I just kind of want an overview I know there's a map in the staff report but it's a little difficult to kind of understand what that is so if you can maybe explain it a little bit I am getting um some um concern from constituents in the area regarding changes coming with the um American Flats water treatment facility and the expansion of the the um sewer treatment plant out there you know the building and everything and now there's this power line as well and we have a lot of residential in that area so if you can just kind of explain where this is going to be and and uh you know maybe proximity to any existing housing developments um for the record John Simpson Utility Services um just as an overview I have a a location map of the of the rzw warp facility um to the the further side over here as Military Road um in October Council approved um the admin building expansion out at rarf and as part of that expansion um where the building is right here in blue there's a tele or there's a overhead power line and communication lines that run through the area um due to the location the power pole needs to be relocated and this easement is just to relocate that so that MV energy has um the proper easement in place for the power pole is there any expense to Reno for moving this um the project has accounted for the expenses for the relocation of the PO yes and is there any possibility I'm sure that it's not but I have to ask is there any potential for putting that power line underground um there's there's always the ability to put Power underground at this location the cost for that I I don't think would make sense for for doing that at the at the plant itself but there is a large overhead line already it would just be moving it inside the plant Dowry I don't think energy would be interested in in adjusting that across the the the the area okay okay can you explain this to me I'm so sorry so can you point to where the power pool is now and where where it will be with no with your your diagram is it possible to do that with the ement itself so um the existing power pole is is located right here they're going to relocate that to the north okay and so the EAS Min is just for that piece of the the power line and the power P okay and then the power line will continue can you show the right the route of the actual line on no on the map on the because that's what's in the staff report yeah so the the power line is is coming across this direction right here it will move up to the power pole here and out across to to allow for the building to be installed okay thank you very much but it will stay on the property of the sewer treatment plant yes this is all within the rzw warf um boundar okay so there won't be any impact to the surrounding Parks or residential won't be moving closer to anyone that is correct thank you very much no problem okay anybody else have any questions okay I'll make a motion to approve item B10 uh second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries mayor Shi just for the record um council member Martinez did join us via Zoom at 11:58 okay thank you and we are now moving on to item B13 pulled by council member Ebert one's that here um was it the3 13 okay B13 yeah so this one is for the transfer of property at pompy way is this the parcel that we purchased the City of Reno purchased is it like a year ago year and a half ago I don't know the exact date for the record Johan flansburg infrastructure um the property at 455 pmpi way was part of the settlement that the city had in 20 in uh for the flooding that occurred in Swan Lake it was a parcel that had been impounded with water and made sense we we did not want to see that this um continue in its use of that way so we as part of that settlement we wanted to make sure this was included uh which it was um the intent uh for that was um that we would um uh deed restrict it so it could not be developed yeah uh yeah I understand that part of it but didn't we purchase this home wasn't it still an existing structure with residents in it like there was a settlement to them but didn't we then buy this property like within a year like since I've been on Council no what parcel did we what how did we buy then cuz I know that we purchased a home on PM B way um we voted on it since I've been on Council I I am not sure which which which one you're referring to this one was actually part of the of the lawsuit and settlement okay because I I met a constituent at the um past um presentation we did over at the um uh lemon of we off Lemon Drive um who shared with me that her house was being bought by the city because of Pas contamination and I know that we purchased one so it's not this one no okay I'm only aware the County Purchasing I was going to say is it Poss they meant the county they just didn't realize well we did vote on purchasing a house on pompy way a council because I I asked about it um during the council meeting it had been a consent item so I'm just wondering if this was the same one okay so we at any rate if this was part of the settlement we purchased it one way or another correct and county is receiving FEMA funds for it so we're going to transfer it to them at no cost was there a way for us to apply for any kind of FEMA funds to help us recoup any any funds that we paid out for settlements potential we could have also applied for a similar type Grant to do the work that the county is doing we would of course had a match like the county will have with this uh the advantage of the county doing this is that they have several projects that they'll be doing so they'll be um able to include this as part of that project and the county will actually cover the match um it'll become their property that's the request that they made was that it becomes there and it would be able to be used for a public purpose but would not be allowed to be built on okay so okay I I will have a couple more questions I don't know if anybody else has anything okay doesn't look like it um do you mind if I go okay um so I'm just curious is it is there a reason why we didn't apply for any FEMA um funds for any of the the properties that we had to purchase so this is one of those unique situations where it's a city acquired the property through the settlement of the lawsuit but it's actually an unincorporated Washo County and so typically in these situations Washo County being the flood plane manager uh for unincorporated Washo County um the um they were the ones that were in the position to apply for a grant to do this type of work in an incorporated was um is there any properties now that we could potentially within the City of Reno that we could potentially apply for any kind of FEMA reimbursements um certainly if we had a situation where uh there was a potential for flooding and the the cause would be similar to what the County's doing here I suppose that that certainly that is something that we could actually apply also okay um we don't have a situation like that that I may aware of okay okay well um okay and they're going to just take it over so it's just we're kind of washing our hands of it it's unincorporated count land anyway we're just transferring the ownership over to them we are okay the benefit that we get is they do the work that we would have planned to do we don't have the cost associated with that W county has the land which would be might might come out to some future public purpose project uh they could come up with okay but kind of the presumption is it'll be there for like space for maybe water for flood mitigation in the future okay okay well thank you very much for answering all my questions um does anybody else have anything no okay um I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve item B13 second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay mam clerk item b14 pulled by council member Ebert good afternoon Mike Michelle engineering manager for the record if I could have the overhead please hi hi thank you for for coming up here it's always a pleasure um I um have some um stuff going on with this area um I know that this development is completed um I have been having some um constituent concerns with this general area and some requests for Speed bumps um in the area coming out of here so I know that we're going to be accepting these streets but I just want to kind of flag that there are problems with people speeding and also the um area Avid Drive exiting onto military um I know that there is I've been told it's called a pork chop there to make it so that people are only allowed to turn left out of that particular Development coming out at that at that location however people are frequently going over that or around that and making I'm sorry they're only supposed to go right onto military but people are going around the pork jop and making a left and um I don't know like where we need to solve that problem um but the pork chop that's there is not addressing the issue so I know it's going to be our problem once we take this on so I just want to flag this as something that I'm getting a lot of feedback on um I think it is a problem I have seen W witnessed a horrible accident there too I have photographs of it where somebody making a left out of there hit somebody and just completely took off the backside of a car so um I know that there was really good intentions with that pork chop to kind of stop that behavior but I think we might need some additional um review U by City Engineers so I just wanted to call that out um and uh also you know maybe some um you know just different traffic studies for that area for for speeding and things like that so um I don't have any other questions I just wanted to kind of let you know just pass along feedback that I've I've received from constituents in the area your your concerns are are noted okay thank you does anybody else have any concern conerns or anything okay um all right I'll make a motion to approve all right thank I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right and then um I just want to make sure councilwoman Ebert you're getting everything you need do are you getting briefings and everything yeah okay I just want to make sure because there was a previous council member that accused um of not not getting brief so I want to make sure if you get everything yeah no um that just that particular area no and that's good I think you should I just want to make sure that you're getting whatever you need cuz I think um and actually I think that item raises some really good questions I'm going to ask um when it's appropriate on the agenda that we look at uh some Vision zero mitigation there is I I I'm getting very concerned about the amount of traffic accidents but also deaths and end do and RTC City I would like to see better collaboration because both go like this yeah and so I think if we could put a complete presentation and so that area I think is is um important to include yeah yeah along with McCarron there's just some really I think some yeah and there's just to that point too like I know that you worked really hard to get that light on Virginia by bonanza yeah and um I've noticed that there it's really scary coming out of that street and I can't remember it right now it's like I think it's it's par but once it goes into the like condo area it changes names if you're coming out of there and you're making a left to go towards Bonanza it is scary because there's not an arrow and you can't see people coming up straight at you so I know that's something that the city Engineers are working on and and reaching out to RTC so I know it's something that has to be collected collaboratively done um but I know city of Reno's always been really responsive with getting the traffic studies and getting out there so okay good that's what I want to hear I want to make sure because but your questions Jarred my brain and I think it should be an all City presentation conversation yeah that' be great okay thanks all right um Madam clerk where are we at Madame mayor we're going on to item D4 city manager appointment oh let's see okay Madam clerk I'm done back to you do you have any public comment Madame mayor on item D4 we do not have any public comment we have not received any correspondence on this item okay thank you hi Cody hello good afterno nice to have you back I told you I'd be back I told you I'd be back okay take it away though okay good afternoon uh mayor councel Miss Bryant for the record my name is Cody Freeman HR business partner city of reohr Department I'm here today on behalf of item D4 the potential appointment of M Jackie bran as Reno city manager and potential approval of the employment agreement I do not have a formal presentation for you today but I am here and available for any questions you may have on this item okay thank you so much I appreciate it all right so Cody um what do you need from us first I think you're asking the Council on the possible appointment of yeah so that would probably be the first yeah first thing to do and then from there approval of the employment agreement as well okay thank you very much of course um so go ahead Council yeah um thank you I think that it would be good to put on the record have um you know Miss Bryan speak to the fact that she's interested in the position would like the position and um you know that that her perspectives change in the six months that she's been in that role because a number of commenters and even outside this room brought up the point that she didn't initially apply so I think it'd be good since she said that to say I've I've changed my perspective I am applying and I do want to be considered so that it kind of marks a moment for us thank you for the opportunity uh Jackie Bryant interim city manager and yes um I never saw myself in this role I had been very content as a number two um and assumed I would be taking this role temporarily um as I began to do the work and as I began to develop a different relationship with this Council um I became more more um open to the possibility and to the point at one point I think you know any imposter syndrome I may have had vanished and I could actually envision myself in the role and get really excited about continuing this work continuing to help people um continuing to further your goals and your policies in the most you know transparent efficient and compassionate way possible perfect so thank you for asking and giving me the opportunity to kind of say what I've been struggling with myself good to just clear the air may you know add some clarity to the process the other thing I wanted to address is um one of the public commenters said that because you know if you had applied in the beginning somehow we would not have done a search and spent 75,000 and I wanted to address that because even if you had at that point expressed interest you would have been an applicant amongst others and we would have gone through the formal process so I want to clarify we still would have um I I don't think that we knew you well enough because you hadn't begun the acting role at that point um and I think we would have added you to the queue and done our our search process that's our it's our norm and um so I I want to disabuse people of the notion that somehow we wasted $75,000 we went through the process very deliberately to get the best applicants that were available at the time and um you know we might have made a different decision if you had put your name out there but we might not have also we might want have wanted you to compete with others so we've had that competition and um since we know you we've gotten to know you maybe the whole world hasn't gotten to know but we have um I think it's it's kind of obvious that um you are superior to the other candidates from from me reviewing um what the offerings were so I just wanted to make that clear I I don't think we've skipped steps um I think we have a changed condition um people change their minds all the time and uh change their perspective and I think it's very appropriate okay thank you thank you and I I appreciate those comments Council dur I absolutely would second that uh those comments so thank you I also want to be very clear because we missed uh this point and I I think this is very very important for the public to understand and there was a public commenter and I was a little disappointed um because he does know the charter uh the other challenge that we have is that you have to do this within a six month month process so there are other challenges when it comes to trying to select someone and I I don't agree with that in the charter I think that it causes you to have to rush I think we were also in a really interesting time whenever right before an election uh there are people that are um not applying for jobs uh quite honestly but let me just say something and and I think you can understand this Council wur because I believe we've been here the longest is that we have been through five city managers and um all of them have been incredibly talented but uh previously we had a very very challenging City city council and it made it very hard for a city manager to want to stay and have longevity and when that happens you go through a lot of turnover and when that happens you end up spending a lot of money and a lot of tax dollars on that turnover and I actually would argue the other way this way we can mitigate a lot of that because we absolutely know what we're getting we know the talent we know what she brings to the table so I would push back all day long and and quite honestly offended over and I love you know this is it's so popular right now to be negative and anti- your government right it's it's popular it's it's sounds um cool I guess um so the fact is you know back door deal I think that's what uh this public commenter said uh is absolutely outrageous we have been so fortunate to have Miss Bryant here helping us lead the way you've accomplished so much I have been so impressed with how hard you work how much you love this job and the city and how dedicated you are I absolutely think if we hire outside we're going to probably go through another first of all I know it takes about a year just to get your footing it's really challenging and to to learn the landscape of Nevada we do things very different here in Nevada uh and you know that whether our tax structure we're the only tax structure with depreciation and those types of things and um relationships at the legislature let me tell you Jackie Bryant worked with Governor Sandoval for many years right-hand woman over there because she's strong and and um brilliant and capable never impostor syndrome I think too many women suffer from that I know I do and we're capable right thank and so I think we'd be honored to have her um but I think it's been a great opportunity for us to to know to get to know Jackie I I didn't know you very well but I am absolutely Beyond impressed so I think the other way is where we will end up spending more money um continuing to cycle through city managers because they don't understand the city they don't understand and the landscape of Nevada have those relationships she can hit the ground running and already has and has already proven success so that's why I am supporting her so I would push back but like I said I think it's become you know it's very popular to push back against government that seems to be sort of the buzz and and um you know just I think the typical narrative and all I would say is I think we also should remember is it's your government that shows up when your house is burning down when you need help those types of things so this negative narrative all the all the time is just I I just find it so hypocritical to be honest with you so anyway go ahead coun a follow-up comment um because um most of the public uh because Miss Brian is focused internally as an assistant city manager and just more recently has Braden her uh focused externally even visiting with the governor's office I I think it was this week those kind of things she's just starting to take on um it might be useful in my opinion I I lean to you Cody to um make Miss Bryant's resume available I mean people can look it up on LinkedIn I'm sure but um the public should feel confident too and she has an excellent resume um so I think that that would be a useful thing just to kind of dampen down what I don't want to happen is to and somehow uh if assuming the council appoints Miss Bryant to have that be under a cloud I want as much transparency as possible so if you have that resume or if you don't have it I would this would be my suggestion for processes to make it available and and get it published you know right on our website with with our bios the other thing is that I am a processed person and so I while I'm I am um have reviewed it and I'm prepared to hire Miss Bryant today if if she Contin you know if the support's there from the council there another step could be we have one more council meeting before the final due date um would be to hold an open Forum with the public um just so other people can meet her we've had an opportunity to meet her extensively but I mean uh you know they may not all agree with us but at least they would know what we're getting and we could um still meet that deadline by still crossing off some of the important characteristics or Pol sorry process steps that people have been interested in now we don't have to I'm prepared to do it today but I'm just saying if if if the group feels like that's a valuable step I'm I'm totally supportive of that but I'd love to see your resume out there so others can know how qualified I would also just like to add the other difficulty is the way that the charter sets it up because it has to be a public process and I get transparency but what also happens with that is that someone that might be looking for a new job or to relocate they have to they have to do it publicly so wherever they're working at that current time they have to announce that and then what happens if they don't get selected for the job and now they've created a lot of anxiety with the current position that they work in right so there's a lot that sort of I don't think the charter helps in this process at all so anyway okay I'm going to send it to councilwoman eert go ahead yeah um I also just want to say that you know when I spoke with the um the recruiter I I was still under the impression that Jackie just did not want the job we all kind of hoped that she would take it but um we were just looking for the best that we could get to fill the position without Jackie wanting to step into that role and there was a couple um areas of experience I thought that a few of the city manager applicate um well contenders had um and I um am so grateful that Jackie is willing to take the position I think that um as far as um going through a recruitment process everything that she does um in her role here is subject to public records all the work she does so I feel like that has been part of her recruitment process is the work that she does here and that's all publicly available um so um I think it her her work for the council and for the city speaks for itself and I think she's um you know really proven that she's um qualified for the job um so the only thing I want to say is I hope that we can support her to be the best that she can and if there's any opportunities that she wants to take for any kind of um seminars or training for anything because we have a lot of unique things coming up with like Redevelopment and and things like that I really want to support her in that as well if she has any interest in in doing any of these kind of unique toino things that we have on the horizon I really want to make sure that she's really successful in everything that we do because I know that she really wants to be great and I know that she will so I just want to be really supportive of her in any way that we can and I'm just really grateful that she um has decided to take the position because like I said I was going into that process kind of like well great like we'll do the best that we can but you know concerned also that she might want to leave if we had a new manager and leaving all of that um institutional knowledge and those relationships that we have with her so I'm just really grateful that she's staying and um filling that role so just wanted to share that so thank you Jackie okay councilman Reese thank you madam uh mayor uh a couple of things one is uh thank you Cody to you and your staff for helping to run this process um I think I've been here now for three of the total times and I've also had the privilege of doing this in my my own private life of trying to find a top executive for an organization and it's not easy Nevada's um you know public process makes it very difficult to both recruit and then retain people because it is such a challenging environment I doubt any of us in our own private walks of life have ever wanted to have a job interview that was held in public right whether that's me applying to Baskin Robbins as my first job or applying to the first law firm and so I think that presents its own unique set of challenges uh for my part um as it will come as no shock um I simply want the best person for this organization uh in a strong manager form of government of course we are challenged to make sure that we find a person to help run the organizational needs and that's our you know nearly 2,000 employees at times depending on the season of the year um and also to balance that competing need with working with this body which has its own set of challenges and I assure you there are challenges um we are not an easy Bunch on each other we are not an easy Bunch on our top executive staff and so um thank you to uh Miss Bryant for leading with Grace and dignity I'll point out four areas that are particularly important to me first I think that when we went through the arpa allocations process I know that um Miss Bryant really def demonstrated an Effectiveness and willingness to engage in that process meaning going out and figure out what the community wanted and then working with staff to determine the priorities in programming and allocations so I think that's an area where I really saw some true leadership a second is I think that there are a lot of things going on in our physical building uh here at City Hall which uh Jackie has had a role in including essential upgrades to the uh Ada facilities in this building uh the Reno Tennis Center which has been a particular passion project of mine and so these are things where you don't always get to see the day-to-day operational life of a city manager but areas where there uh Miss Bryant you've proven incredibly effective I also want to uh sort of focus on one very specific thing and that is uh for I think the fourth or fifth year in a row the City of Reno has earned a perfect score on the human rights campaign's 2024 Municipal equality index something that is important to me as a gay man and an elected official in that capacity that we continue to make sure that we are uh ensuring that the space is safe for all who enter this building and for the community that we love and so I know that Miss Bryant has been committed to Leading the change in that area that has resulted in effective policymaking choices and so I Have No Reservations whatsoever about Miss Bryant being named uh our city manager uh I I think everybody on this dis has their own experiences with her and have reached I think a similar conclusion so um and I also heard a number of community members including one that's particularly uh at times challenging in the space who really uh reached out to say thank you for considering this opportunity for Miss Bryant so happy that uh we are where we are today all right thank you so much okay I'm going to send it over to vice mayor Taylor thank you Madame mayor um so much has already been said but I guess I I will reiterate for you miss Bryant um this community and this body and this organization is very great is very grateful to you and we are very fortunate to have you in this position um this is not an easy job uh you will already see that you get criticized and everybody thinks that they can do it um luckily you have been doing it and you have shown that you can do it and you are the best leader and person for this job hands down of everybody that we look for and looked at um I want to Echo what councilwoman Eber says this body is here to support you in your success and for the success of the community so whatever you neede please let us know and we will make sure you get it there were four things also that I was looking for in a city manager one was a leader one the second thing was dedication to public safety third was fiscal responsibility and then fourth was um experience in the Redevelopment space those were the things I were looking for and in the last five months you have shown that again you are an exceptional leader in those spaces and um I am so excited to be working with you and I look forward W to the Future and the opportunities and the challenges that we're going to face together and I know that you are the person to lead us there so thank you okay councilman Martinez thank you so much Madam mayor um interim city manager Jackie Bryan I appreciate first of all your your interest and willingness to serve um as has been stated and I don't want to you know repeat every single thing but I know know that it's a difficult position to be in you know and coming around to being willing to accept the roles and responsibilities of dealing with not just the organization internally and all the employees that report to you but externally with um all the constituents and residents that have the ability to provide their input I think takes a brave soul and so I want to commend you for your for your willingness to jump in there and do that I also want to thank uh Cody and everybody in HR uh that helped us through this process and despite us not being able to find somebody through that search I think we did find the best candidate and luckily she's willing to accept it and I I'm looking forward to working with you whether it's positive negative um I know that you will be able to to lead us in the right direction um and I also just want to make sure I I commend you for your openness and open line of communication I know you have an open door policy and whenever I've needed something um for one of the residents and War 3 has reached out I know I can rely on you to get some assistance for them so thank you so much for your willingness to take on this role all right thank you councilman okay councilwoman Anderson okay thank you well miss Bryant um over the last few weeks I have been on the receip receiving end of being able to live your leadership and um the command of your staff in real life you and your staff has have been really gracious and generous and um real concierge and with that type of service level and getting me prepared for three meetings in my first month as a Ser as a council member so I appreciate that um that is no small feat to keep my brain on track and to get me into this Council chamber confident enough to sit up here and make decisions on behalf of the city and that is really because of you and the team that you've built you're clearly a collaborative leader and that's what we're going to need for the very um diverse challenges that we potentially have coming forward and your command of the the budget is impressive your um ability to share with us that we're going to have hard challenges and you're not worried about it you know how to lead us through them is very um comforting to me and um I'm really looking at collaborative leadership in this in this community because a lot of the challenges that we're going to be faced with are going to require um collaboration and the willingness to be good neighbors and partners and I can see that in you and um the fact that we don't have to retrain somebody and get that subject matter expertise you know up to the top to be able to um address some of these challenges I think is a huge win for our community so thank you for reconsidering um I am very comfortable with being number two as well I like to be able to be very effective and um in the in the shadows and not have to get out in the front and lead and I appreciate your willingness to step up and um reconsider all right thank you nice words um I would say too we we get a unique opportunity which we have never ever ever had before um if you think about it and I actually think it's worked out very very well in our favor where we get the opportunity to have sort of a trial run try before you buy they say sounds strange but um I think that is what really gave us the confidence because we got to see your capabilities your heart your passion firsthand and we are we are a challenge ing group up here there's a lot of personalities with a lot of feelings and the fact that Miss Bryant can um work with each of us and we can all come to consensus on what every single one of us said is pretty miraculous it speaks volumes about who you are and your talent and ability to work with others and that should be what matters most not about process but about people and I love how when it's one or the other then people say oh you didn't follow process that's what's wrong with government there's a lot of process a lot of red tape and a lot of things to sift through that make it much harder in our community to get things done because of process because you had people that wanted to quite honestly make it more difficult or someone that wanted to yield their power in all the wrong ways and so I would push back on that Pro process all day long it should be not about policy it should be about people and I think um I think Reno deserves that I actually think you will see Miss Bryant have longevity in this position and a lot of respect in this community and a lot of respect with this Council not to mention I don't know if we if we clarified this on the record she is 100% capable she was the chief of staff to Governor Brian sandal so I know you have more Talent than we could ever ask for so I am just absolutely grateful that you like us enough to stick around anyway so I'd like to make the motion Cody I believe you're ready I'd like to make the motion to uh motion to make what do you need I had a quick question Who who oh Oh I thought it was Mickey sorry go ahead I just had a quick question um we there was a comment about we have to appoint Somebody by a certain date uh um I just wanted to make that clear too that I know it's been mentioned that we had to do it by a certain time but I'm just really grateful that it also happened after the election so that the people that that were elected got to have um you know a say in who was up here because you know had it just been a month ago it could have potentially been other people so I'm just also really grateful that the council that's going to be here were the people that got to make the decision so and I'm glad Megan you brought that up thank thank you because we had council members that were pushing to do the opposite which wasn't in the best interest of the people was the best interest of of themselves so that they could um basically what we call political theater so than we had one person I we knew one person was going to be new regardless because of the new Ward so I'm just really grateful that council member uh council member Anderson was here to also weigh in and make that decision so just wanted to call that out also but you could have had three new well yeah potentially yeah okay I would like to make the motion to make uh Miss Jackie Bryant the new city manager at the City of Reno second I have two seconds simultaneously literally right on see that's how popular are you get two seconds so I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I all those oos motion carries unanimously congratulations how are you feeling I do you deserve it you deserve it thank you are you proud love excited well I am very proud thank you do you have family watching you have family here no Cody do you need a second motion for the agreement or is it just one motion just how humble Jackie is I'm glad you asked I'm going to defer to our legal team I believe we should have a second motion approving the employment agreement and then we can all clap again it'll be moved took the words right out of my mouth so moved there was um hold on before we do that uh since we are taking a second do we have to vote on that to take a second motion okay so I have a motion no no we we just need a second a second motion yeah second I made the motion wait to accept the agreement yeah and we have a second we just got a second yes okay I want to back up on that I want to pull that contract really quick because there was something in there that I saw um that I don't think was updated so if you don't mind uh where where is that Cody do you have it's attached to the um agenda but I also have a copy with me today you do okay I just wanted to change the provision in there if Miss Bryant is um I think we tried really hard to say uh what was Mr Thornley offered is it comparable um there was something in there that I would ask for modification of that we pay purs um I think Doug Thornley was every what was that one to one right and I have asked because um her purs are different not no two purs look alike I believe so I would ask that we we pay that um every I think it's every other year or every year every does that makes sense and if if she is okay with that I think you want six months per yes it's six months per one year is what it is I don't have it in front of me I wish I did so I I'm I don't understand how that works do some can somebody explain that to me Madam mayor yes my understanding having read the contract the original contract it was that for every year of service for our prior city manager we purchased a year of Pur compensable service time it's just a something that was negotiated in that contract you have asked that rather than pay on a onetoone basis that for every year of service Miss Bryant would get six months of purs that makes sense and so because the that was my motion that was my original motion and so I apologize for not being clear um I thought that that was the version of the contract that was included in the packet but that would be my motion is that we make one modification which would be to the purs compensable um time on that basis okay thank you and that was because of Pur changing I think everyone's Pur life is different some people have been in Pur longer and it's not as much of a benefit to them um right for for my part I I think it's also just part of the negotiation if Miss Bryant is happy with that then I'm happy to move forward with it on that b equiv of Dougs but it's different in cost because she's been in the system longer got it so okay good so that was updated I just want to be clear it um buys her time is that right six months time for every year she serves that's correct okay all right I have a motion I have a second all those in favor real quick does she also pay into it on her regular yes okay okay thank you thank you for that um so I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries okay thanks for the clarification okay now you can you can breathe thank you thank you thank you Jackie we are grateful to have you and we will do whatever we can to help make you successful like you have made our city so thank you thank you thank okay uh Madam clerk Madam mayor I believe we need to go into a brief public comment recess public uh or a attorney client so we'll go into a brief recess we do have a 1 p.m. time certain would you like to is 15 minutes sufficient or should we I I don't think it is because we have attorney client there's a few of us that have to do videos Jackie's nodding probably half of us and uh probably a little bathroom break so I think for I think 1:30 would be perfect okay perfect we'll be back at 1:30 thanks everyone I already s 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 m e yeah absolutely e e e e e e e e e yeah e e you e all right Madam clerk we are back all right we're reconvening at 146 and all members are present with council member Martinez online perfect we're moving on to item D3 which is the act for acceptance good afternoon I'm Matt Taylor assistant Finance director for the City of Reno um today virtually we have um Amanda McClary Moore and Alise horley from our audit for Moss Adams and they're going to be presenting their um management findings um to the council and then I'll be available for questions in another short presentation after okay perfect nice to see you we never get to see you not enough anyway you like that okay all right are you able to see the presentation okay we are thank you okay Elise are you you might have the wrong one up because the one I have has today's I'm oh you're not oh okay so this is the presentation we' provided to the Fab okay got it okay we might skip a over a couple of these slides we had a little bit of a short presentation for you but you can go ahead and go to the next slide U I'm Amanda McClary Moore I am a partner with moss Adams and um I am responsible for uh making sure that we follow all of our Professional Standards in completing the audit and at the end the engagement responsible for uh signing your audit reports uh before I go through the agenda at least do you want to do your quick introduction sure hi everyone my name is Elise horley as senior manager um and I work with your team mostly in the management managing our team managing your team and then making sure everyone is doing what they're supposed to be doing so that's my role all right am I able to move the slides forward or do you need to do that for me um yeah I believe my team will need to do it so if you can just indicate then we'll go ahead and forward okay okay so uh so we have a this a short agenda for you today um I probably we weren't planning to really go over the significant audit areas but I will um touch on those kind of high levels since we've got that presentation here uh we're going to go through what our engagement team looks like when we're completing the audit for the city uh we'll go through the actual services that we provide and then the most important pieces is is is going through our audit opinions or the reports that we issued that get included within your Acer and then additionally uh we have uh a communication to those charged with governance so this is information that is not otherwise included in our audit opinions or audit reports but our audit standards tell us is important to communicate to those charged with governance so today uh it be the city council and then we can just uh High Lev touch on some new accounting standards that will be effective over the next couple years you can go to the next slide please so you've met myself and Elise today in addition um there's some other key team members that I would like to highlight the first is Lori Tish she is a partner in our Seattle office and she is the industry group leader for our government practice and she's not otherwise involved in the day-to-day um details of the audit but she does perform a what we call a conc ing or um independent review of our audit reports as well as your AER and some other key areas such as single audit as part of her review in addition to that um not included on the slide we do utilize a single audit technical review that that reviews just your schedule of expenditures of federal Awards as well as our audit reports as it relates to that so you're getting some high Lev highle review um on some of those more technical areas within the audit additionally we have uh T C with which is our audit senior um on the audit he's been on the audit for a few years now and he's responsible for really um communicating a lot with your team making sure that our staff are able to complete their sections uh and is able to answer their questions and um really keeps the the audit moving and then lastly I wanted to mention and Alison Miller she actually lives um in Reno and she works on the audit with us as well so it's really easy for her to come over and um complet some work on site and and joins us when we're on site as well you can go ahead and go to the next slide that is by no means all of our team members but just kind of wanted to highlight a few of the key ones that are part of the audit so we just wanted to provide a little bit of overview of what an audit of the city's Financial statements looks like and go through the services that we provide as part of that so the first one is that we perform an audit over the city's financial statements and when we're doing that we have to follow auditing standards we follow the first one there is our generally accepted auditing standards so that's what we follow on all audits but in addition to that because you are a municipality and because you do have uh more than $750,000 in federal Awards we do have to also follow the governmental auditing standards which on the slide there is represented as gagas as a result of following those additional audit standards we issue an additional audit report that uh talks about your internal controls and compliance uh that report is not me meant to express an opinion over the effectiveness of your internal controls but if we were to identify some sort of Gap in internal controls which essentially means an error could s flip through the cracks and we think that that err could potentially be significant or material then it would get included within that report the second bullet point there is our review of your financial statements the city does prepare an annual comprehensive financial report and we refer to that as your AER so when putting that document together you not only have to follow the accounting standards under gby but the city has elected to include the additional information which is your statistical section as well as the introductory section at the beginning of the Acer those are required in order to obtain the gfoa cert certificate of excellence that the city receives annually as part of as part of our audit we do review the financial statements for those additional compliance requirements in order to maintain that certificate um and uh make sure that you are uh reporting under the G standards with respect to all of the account balances and note disclosures the third bullet point there is as I had mentioned you receive well over $750,000 in federal Awards and that requires us to perform what is called a single audit and we follow uniform guidance in uh selecting which programs we're going to test and which compliance requirements are required to be tested and as as a result we do issue an additional report under the uniform guidance and the last bullet point there is just our overall reporting we we report to the Fab in the beginning during planning and go over our overall audit plan as well as our timeline and then we are here today to do our final conclusions over um all of our audit reports you go to the next slide so I won't go through all of these in uh a lot of detail uh if you do have questions on any of these definitely feel free to to ask those when we when we're done with the presentation but we just wanted to give a high level a detail of where we spend the majority of our time when we are working with your team and what we audit so the accounts that are listed here on the screen on the screen we are more of our critical audit areas so typically how we determine that whether an area is more significant or critical to our audit is really uh typically um inherent risk as well as um account balance size so when we're looking at cash and restricted cash as well as Investments uh there are quite a few note disclosures required um as part of that it is a large balance so we do send out confirmations we do valuation testing over your Investments and make sure that the um reconciling items are appropriate revenues anding aables is an area where we spend some time uh as part of our auditing standards it's an area that is required to be um tested with a little bit heightened risk the balances are usually uh much larger in addition to that you do have to follow multiple basis of accounting when reporting Revenue depending on what type of fund is reporting the revenue and so there is some potential risk of Errors of um cut off which essentially means recording the revenue in the proper period so as part of that process we do a number of confirmations as well as uh test transactions and then in some cases we're able to use analytical procedures when looking at those those balances for Capital assets uh it's a large balance in your Aur so we do um quite a bit of testing over those balances we look at the balances in the prior year and then look at what sort of additions or disposals have occurred in the current year and test those um for accuracy additionally we're able to utilize what you report in capital out outlay which is essentially expenditures and your and your governmental funds and see how those tie to your additions in the government wide statements and then we also look at valuation of your Capital assets so there is it is have a estimate um component to it because management does have to determine how long each one of those assets is going to last so their lives and then depreciation depreciate it over that period another thing I'll highlight there really is that over the past couple years there have been some intangible or right abuse assets that have been added as a result of the gby statement number 87 on leases as well as gasby statement 96 on subscription based Information Technology arrangements so we there is a little bit more heightened testing over that that area just because it is a relatively new standard for long-term debt we sound out confirmations and we test uh payments we start with your prior your balances to see if payments have been made on schedule and then we uh obtain third- party uh uh confirmations to make sure that those balances are accurate at year end uh acred liabilities what I really want to touch on there really is some of those um large estimates so related to um your pension and other post-employment benefits is what that word OPB stands for right there uh so these are liabilities that get reported in your uh financial statements that have um a significant estimate as a part of their component for the most part you're able to get actuaries that provide you with the the valuation of what those liabilities and how they should be reported in the statements but we do have to do some testing over inputs uh for the plans that you're resp responsible for obtaining an actuary for so we do some testing over that area in addition those do have to be reported amongst a number of funds as well as functions within your financial statements so we do review that calculation to make sure it's consistently um applied so for Grants this year we tested um this is related to the single audit and your federal Awards this year we tested your Corona virus state and local fiscal recovery funds as part of our process the the guidance that we follow the uniform guidance and their compliance supplement that they provide uh is requires that one to be audited annually as it is considered to be higher risk as its newer funding uh for financial Clos and Reporting as I mentioned we do U make sure that uh a disclosure checklist is performed that specifically addresses your gfoa requirements as well as all the gasby requirements and making sure that all of the note disclosures are complete and accurate and then uh for human resources is that's really looking at your your payroll Cycles we do that in a number of areas and depending on um the what the account may be um there's payroll that goes into a lot of different areas such as your single audit Federal Awards as well as reporting expenses in within the the financial statements payroll is clearly a significant um account and so we spend time um looking at that and then on internal controls I kind of touched on that already but one thing I want to highlight here is really that as part of our review of your internal controls and when we're making those assessments and determining our audit plan we also do look at your it environment and what we specifically look at there typically is related to security and access so making sure that the correct people have access to the the right modules and that there is um segre ation of Duties considered when setting up those rights as well as we look at change management so what are the it controls around making changes to your systems you can go to the next slide and so after we do all of that work um that's by no means every not everything that we do but after we get through all of that work we do issue three audit reports uh within your with then your act for document I like to point you to the schedule of findings and question costs that really summarizes all of the reports that we issue our reports are quite lengthy the the first one on the financial statements I think is four pages they're all they're all two to four pages long but the summary of all of our results is really in that schedule of finding and question cost and I'll highlight those items here so the first report is over your financial statements on and we were able to issue what is called an unmodified or clean opinion over the financial statements that means we were able to get comfortable that the financial statements were materially correct as presented in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles and were able to issue that that clean report for the uniform guidance so audit um of your federal Awards uh that does address internal controls over compliance as well as compliance with the award and we did not identify any um internal control deficiencies that rise to the level of significant deficiency or material weakness and we had no um compliance findings that came out of our audit of that award so clean clean reports there as well and then the last one is that governmental auditing standards report as I had mentioned if we identify an internal control deficiency that rises to the level of significant deficiency or material weakness it gets included in this report and as you can see we found the the city in compliance as well as we did not report any significant deficiencies or materiales so overall really good results to to report over our audit this year and um with that I'm going to turn it over to Elise she's going to take us through our last bit of communications and then we will open it up for questions thanksa Mo to the next slide thank you all right so like made said some of these you are items you won't find in the auto reports or within the on the financial statement package but you will have a letter that is with the financial statements outside that's the communications with those chares with governance so if you want to do some light reading I'll go over the major points here I won't go into huge detail but um you can also find them in that letter if you have any more if you want to read more about them um the first one is our plan scope and timing if any of that changed from what we had planned to do our scope of the audit and what we planned to do or the timing of when we plan to issue the audit when we plan to perform audit work um we would communicate that to you in this letter and we did not have any changes in scope or timing and then we'd like to point out some significant accounting policies as part of the audit and there are no we just like to point to note one in the financial statements that lists out every um material accounting policy that the city has put into place in order to draft their statements and then uh we also want to note that there was one new accounting standard in impl of this year is gby 100 which is the accounting changes in air correction and it did not affect the city in any way but they did assess for that and I that's necessary and then as far as management judgments and accounting estimates obviously everything in the in the statements isn't a a factual like cash you have this much in the bank and this is how much cash you have some things take judgment or accounting estimates in order to figure out what those dollar amounts should be B and so we we list them out in this letter and I'll um I'll point to some of those here so um the useful I of your Capital assets um is a judgment call how long do you think that your Capital assets will last and how long should you depreciate them over time so that's an accounting estimate um the fair value of your Investments so what do you think that the fair value of your Investments actually is it's a little bit of a judgment um you use teams to do that and then estimates of claims and liabilities um those are all you know estimates thinking for of what do you think your claims and liabilities will be and then same with those post-employment benefits the purs and the opep obligations I I may to mention some of those are a lot of these are critical areas too so if you're hearing additional um of the same thing it's because we spend a lot of time in these areas because there is judgment and accounting estimates involved in those and so those purs and open liabilities use an actuary but there are assumptions that go into those and they they take into account a lot of different items in order to come up with those um what they think that your estimated liability will be time and then um those leases and subscription based it Arrangements that gby 96 and gby 87 those have a little bit of judgment as well of um what rate do you use to discount them how long do you think you'll have the lease and then what um over time what do you think those will be the actual liability so just some accounting assments accounting judgments we want to point you to and then we also want to point you to some of those uh critical notes in the statements and those are all listed in the letter um and they they kind of all intertwined with these critical audit areas and critical accounting estimates so you'll see them all listed there there's some more details about them in the in the letter and then if we had any audit adjustments made or passed then we would put that in this letter as well we did have one past adjustment this year related to um an expenditure versus an accounts payable at year end and um so you'll see that the letter as well it was not material but it was um above our posting threshold and that was just passed on as Management's judgment and then if management consulted with other accountants during the audit process if we came to a disagreement couldn't reconcile that and they went out and seek different information um we would have to tell you about that as well and we did were not aware of any consultation with other accountants we did not have any disagreements with management or difficulties in performing the audits all good news there and then we did not have any audit observations or recommendations to point out today that Rose to that level of significant efficiency or material weakness um so nothing to report there either which is all good news so you move to the next slide here's a little bit of those those new standards we won't go into accounting lesson here but um gasby 100 is the one ACC County changes in an air correction that was implemented in the current year um no changes on the city's statements due to that and then one to look forward to in the future that is still being assessed um may not have a big impact on the organization either but is a gasby statement number 101 which is the compensated absences and so that'll be effective for next year so the city is working on um looking into that and then that if anybody has any questions we'll be happy to take those down all right thank you so much are you are you ready yes I am okay I have a short presentation as well it's five quick slides to go over so Matt Taylor assistant Finance director for the City of Reno um so again we're here about the Acer we're bringing it because this is about fin or fiscal sustainability and to make sure that we're maintaining an organized and Effective Government um the purpose of the audit is it's required by NRS 3 uh 354 and the single audits required by title 2 because we received more than $750,000 in federal Awards this year we received $26 million or we spent $26 million um typically they're done at the same time to have a an effective save money and we have the same Auditors do it so it can be completed at the same time because they rely on the same internal control testing for both um as a result we had a clean audit opinion we do have a plan of corrective action because there were two violations but there are exempt violations that we have to report to the state um the first one was uh we did not budget the uh interest expense that was from the loan from rda1 or from RDA 2 to RDA 1 so that interest expense has been is being um budgeted for 25 so that won't be an issue for next year um the second issue was that we were over budget by um it's a$1 18 million in the workers comp fund that all comes from the um incurred but not reported Actuarial valuation that's done at the end of the year we don't get those until October and you can't we can't adjust the budget back after the adoption in June so it's a exemp violation because the state understands that there's a lot of assumptions that go into it um but we still have to report to them what it's from the workers comp the Li increased so much this year because there was a $13 million increase just from another year of operations and having another year of exposure but then it decreased because we paid $7 million out of workers comp that year and then they looked at individual claims and there were six that arose that that Rose to above a million dollar a piece and there was an additional 16 that are at o over $250,000 a piece so all of those netted together ended up being an increase of about $19 million to the workers comp liability so and with that I have a recommended motion to accept the annual comprehensive financial report and the um corrective action plan to the state of NADA okay thank you good job all right I'm gonna start to my right Miss Anderson oh what's that oh I was just actually I thought they did a great job and I was prepared to make a motion if appropriate okay hold on anything yeah okay go ahead uh vice mayor thank you Madame mayor um this is my third time going through the budget thing so I just want to make sure I understand what I what I'm doing and what you guys are presenting thank you so much for all of your hard work and um I'm just going to ask a not really ask a couple questions but make sure I'm understanding where we at where we are at with this so we are approving the budget from the year ending June 2024 you are accepting accepting the annual comprehensive financial report for June 202 we're accepting that so everything is final we right now are in FY 25 we're about six Q2 corre and then in a couple months we're going to start planning for FY 26 corre okay so there's a whole bunch of different things going on at the same time they're a little confusing um and when I look at the ACT for I'm not supposed to be able to go through and balance everything because not necessarily balance but adding and subtracting there might come up with little differences because of unrestricted balances and some of the stuff in the in the back that makes everything balance out the section at the front of the AER is the management discussion and Analysis and there's certain components that are highlighted that will not tie in total but they do tie to the financial statements that behind it okay because it's a very large document and then um this is I think most important for me when I go through this the highlights that I see in this report are we're starting to see some revenues decline in some of the funds um through property P taxes and some of our other proprietary funds and we are seeing expenses go up especially in our labor um and some of our benefits yes in the management discussion and Analysis portion we discussed a lot of what happened in 23 versus 24 and we can see that salary expenses have increased because of cost of living adjustments as well as additional employees and the revenues have started to level off and we're continuing to see that Trend into 25 and with the new negotiating or the new bargaining units that that started in July those were not reflected in in these financial statement and then um I guess the last thing is oh there's two things I needed a little help understanding the Capella's debt because that looks a little scary when I look at it and then if there's anything you wanted to share with us for preparation for the next couple quarters in 25 and preparing for 26 I'd appreciate it thank you madam mayor um the Cabella's debt does look a little weird because it shows a negative $17 million balance in that fund it's because as the debt comes due we only pay the portion of the debt that we've received uh Sal taxes from Cabella's for and if there's not a sufficient amount we record that debt as an accounts payable so that's why the fund is showing negative it's currently upside down $12 million and those B bonds are completed in 27 or 28 and at that time we don't pay the difference on it we end up writing off the difference it'll show up as a revenue in that year to zero everything out okay in 28 yes okay I'm all on the record 28 right correct okay that's good you did say something um where the labor agreements for this year are not included in in this it's because this is all retrospective to last year so whatever was implemented through June 30th of 2024 is what is actually these are the actual numbers this next year's act for that's when you're going to see the the impact of those labor negotiations in that act for right and then wouldn't it you'll also see it again when it comes forward with the budget planning process um Vicki will be doing a presentation to show where we're at currently and where we expect to be in the next year that's when you're going to see the big impact okay all right thank you so much you're welcome okay uh councilman ree um you know what I skipped over councilman Martinez sorry anything no worries Madam mayor I'm okay thank you okay sure all right um Council nebert um can I just you know real quick what was the full scope of this this audit was this just for the annual expenses this wasn't like total just for the fiscal year correct they look at the fiscal year and they're looking on the balance sheet items like cash accounts receivable accounts payable to ensure that those balances are reported correctly because those are as an as a date of the items that are reported on the income statement or the statement of activities are everything that's happened between July 1st and June 30th of last fiscal year so last fiscal year so really like just a general fund audit correct so this is all six months old already Okay Okay so this isn't getting into like the sewer fund or any other major funds it includes all of those funds all the governmental or all the government funds like the general fund Street fund Cabella uh the Public Works Capital project funds RDA is all included in this it also includes uh sewer and streets and then all the internal service funds okay as well as the um fiduciary funds that we hold for the opep trust and and sads okay and then what were the the issues again that was were found oh the the issues that were found is that there was a we were over budget it ended up being $177,000 for RDA 1 because we did not record or did not budget for the interest expense on the $1.2 million loan from RDA 2 to RDA 1 and then um the workers comp fund was over over right okay balanced by the 18 million because of the ibnr okay and then the results of these audits do we have to file them with anybody is this a requirement that we have to submit to IRS or is this strictly for um internal use just for us to keep tabs on things and for um just you know process Improvement internally once it's accepted by city council we'll be sending uh copies of the Acer to the state of Nevada and then we have to file our schedule of expenditures of federal Awards with the um the feds okay and is this ever um like put somewhere or it's publicly available like does this get posted on the Secretary of State's website or where would this be posted it's on reno.gov it's available on our website that's right okay so you just got to look and we have um back years I think until 2015 but I think we have until back into 1968 available wow okay so is this a document that going forward will just continue to keep a digital copy do you think or is there a retention um date that we don't need to keep pass and we'll just kind of drop those off over time it's a permanent record and that's why we sent it to the state of Nevada for them to keep as well in the library okay great so even though they'll have it forever we we will also have it posted on the website you know unless something changes with the website correct we keep a I think it's 10 years on the website and then if someone asks for an earlier version we'll be able to provide okay all right thank you very much okay Council Mur yeah thank you uh again good job appreciate all my colleagues comments um at this time I'd like to move to accept the annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ending june30 2024 and the plan of Correction action second I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you madam clerk sending it back to you thank you madam mayor moving on to items D7 and d8 which will be open together thank you um D7 and d8 do you have any public comment on this item thank you Madame mayor give me just a second we do have we don't have any registered public comment but we did receive one letter of concern that has been distributed to the Reno city council and is a part of the record for both items D7 and d8 okay thank you very much all right all right take it away for the record John flansburg Regional infrastructure um we've got a long history with these projects and public engagement and what has happened uh in 2020 uh during covid we had reached out and held public meetings and uh discussed this issue and we've made a lot of progress uh uh in South um Reno in regards to Trying to minimize the horse vehicle interactions uh collisions so I'm pleased to bring this to you today um as part of those conversations early on the Nevada Department of Transportation committed to uh working with us and today we have a one of our items is a reimbursement agreement from NADA department of transportation to reimburses for the improvements that will occur in their right away uh the second item that we have is uh requesting authorization for the city manager to sign um the second phase 2 contract which will which will tie us into the South so with that in mind I'm going to just jump into some pictures uh primarily I wanted to show some of the progress we've made on phase one so in phase one we have uh constructed uh projects about two-thirds complete right now um You might recognize in the upper leftand corner uh from Alexander Lake Road uh where that would be looking at towards the um the north towards miroma and so some of the fencing that's occurred there on the lower right hand corner is an up close picture of what they call a kissing gate um so the ability for pedestrian or a bicycle to go in to move the gate across and then get through but the horses cannot get through uh that type of a of a gate on the lower leftand corner a small picture but it's part of the floodway fence um a fence designed specifically to allow water to pass through but to not allow um uh Wildlife to get through uh that particular area so with today's actions again there's two items one it is the approval of the reimbursement agreement from OT to pay for those improvements on the OT right away in this picture if you look at the upper right hand corner you'll see the blue the fence in Blue uh OT has a specific fence it's not the same as the NADA Department of AG type fence which is shown in red um so our fence will come down tie into Geer grade um the reason that the blue fence goes up to the area that it does is because you don't want to put a cattle guard on a curve so we're putting the cattle guard up on a straight stretch the fence goes up to catch that location come around and then back down to the red line uh down to toll road uh our alignment here shows uh also um uh the green line from NDA coming up and uh and other fencing uh needs and apperances that would be part of the project and I think actually that's really all I wanted to toh say is just kind of clarify what this uh what we're doing today again uh approval of an agreement with endot that helps us with the funding then to be able to award the contract for the southern phasing and then authorization for city manager to approve that contract um once we have the bids in that's my presentation all right good job John okay I'm going to send it to you councilman dur I know this is your yeah I've gone over it in depth with John um I totally support it I'm excited that endot is going to provide I think it was $280,000 of this project so that's a great win for the city and the partnership is really shows the way how we can partner with others all right would you um are there any other questions I don't know no okay I'm going to send it councilwoman do go ahead yeah no just do you think there's a potential that they'll contribute any additional funds later I know that there's you know maybe a little bit of a shortfall do you think that they would be willing to contribute more have we asked for any I will say um I attended a briefing with the um NE Nevada Department of agricultures commission uh last Friday and I told them I'd be writing a letter and I do plan in that letter to request some funding yeah to assist us with the fence yeah just cuz I don't feel like this should be just the sole burden of the City of Reno this is you know uh kind of a regional issue that it should be to keep the community safe and a lot of people in the community use this area so um just be great if we could get more Buy in so okay well and that's why I'm thrilled with the endot response and being willing to contribute so much yeah great and then we're going to be going to of course RTC at the mayor's uh with the mayor's guidance and um advocacy and we'll try to get similar to endot RTC to pitch in too and if I may we also have a request out to wo County um for requesting some funds too so we're continuing to beat the drum great thanks Sean well you looking for a motion tell the audience why it's so important okay that maybe that just are joining us and don't know the background okay well just in case you don't know um uh I've been a council member for South Reno for the last 10 years and during that 10 years in South Reno horse issues have been preeminent and the reason is is that we've had many horse vehicle collisions because and they're all in night because the horses do not reflect and so people are speeding along and they hit a horse they don't even see their I they just hit the horse um and because the horses are so tall usually they crash into the car you typically I think 95% of the cases the cars are totaled so far we have haven't had a human death but almost every horse has either died on the spot or because of injuries had to be euthanized this is not a situation that we want to continue um and it's very important to the residents of South Reno and my partner here Brandy Anderson knows this she lives right in an area where she has horses in her yard almost every day she tells me so um they many people move to South Reno to be with the horses this is the irony of it all and yet um and yet the horses as more development has occurred we've had more human horse interaction so our goal here is to be able to keep the horses safe The Pedestrian safe but not remove the horses from the range but rather live with the horses and it isn't just horses it's all kinds of wildlife that um come into the developments um these fences won't start stop all animals I mean I imagine a bear can climb this fence pretty easily since they climbed a tree in my own very own yard 40 ft high so I'm sure they can climb a fence but um bottom line we want to live with horses it's called proper living with animals Wildlife that are in your region we've done everything from education to slowing speeds to putting in the first in Nevada dual speed limit one speed in the Day a different speed at night to slow people down when all these accidents occur but after numerous public workshops it's become clear that this is the way that we're going to be able to address the problem equitably and reasonably And Timely yeah thank you and you will be traumatized if you come across that when you see a car I will say that has hit a horse it is one of the most horrific things you have on the side of the road crying typically you have people in the car crying there's PTSD involved we have younger drivers that then don't become permanent drivers because of this early accident so yeah okay well I'd like to make a motion for advocacy yeah go ahead please like to make a motion to approve uh the interlocal agreement for reimbursement by Nevada Department of Transportation to the city to install and construct Wildlife fencing along State Route 341 which is Geer grade and as part of the city's horse protection project South phase and an amount not to exceed $280,000 great I have a motion from councilwoman dur second I have a second from councilman Reese all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay great thank you so much John and then item d8 d8 take it away councilwoman um so all so we did D7 so here's d8 um this is simply to award the contract for installation of the wildlife fence and other peren for the horse protection project the South phase so this phase two in accordance with competitive bidding laws in amount not to exceed $660,000 and provide authorization for the city manager to sign the contract okay I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries great thank you so much John for all your work okay okay Madame mayor moving on to item D6 Lear theater okay any public comment on this item we do have public comment from Andre bota Okay and Bradley Carson perfect Andre you're up it's all you okay now I originally came in here to talk about the L theater it's something very dear to me just this weekend they what did they do they redid the uh Notre Dame okay this is our Notre Dame this is something for our community for our kids and I would love to ramrod it so if you're looking for somebody I've already gone out and I've gotten paint for the foyer I talked with my friend Brad Becker over at Reno paint Mart he's willing to contribute now the last time I was there the place was in terrible disarray it needs some serious uh refurbishment in the gr you know downstairs it's like creepy down there like yes I've been there it is creepy in the basement we did a ghost Series in there so what I would like to do is you know raml that project and see it through and then perhaps maybe get paid on it but I'm a very Thrifty person so you don't have to look anywhere else for that I just saved you $75,000 think about that okay I haven't even started the job yet okay now I want to talk to something a little bit more serious seems like the flavor of the day has been all the homeless people and uh there are times when I go home I'm really sad why because I've got heat I've got food I got nice clubes all these poor people especially when I see one of those little old bag ladies we got to fix that we got to do something I mean if it was up to me if I was you for a day Bingo I'd Commander all of these RVs that they're always trying to sell you know in front of the GSR and all the other hotels where we got 50,000 of them okay well I'm going to take a thousand of them line them up in front of a metwood mall put up a fence there bring in somebody that's like a camp host and just start picking up homeless people and give each one of them a house you've been at that place that you guys built over there the care center it's creepy I took shoes over there they wouldn't even allow me to bring in a box of shoes so I took them to St Vinson's and I know we can do better we could be a model for the rest of the country if we only just take the time I mean I worked for a while over at GSR we would throw out enough food on a Friday night to feed 200 people maybe 300 people I'm not exaggerating I mean we can do better okay so I left my phone number if you want to get in touch with me I know you're not going to do any painting for a while over at the uh Lear theater but I would also suggest rebranding it to uh The BLT the best Little Theater okay it can also be the best Lear theater but you know but the biggest Little Theater would be a nice idea it goes along with the uh you know the whole Ambiance and then there's that other little place over there on Fourth Street I've gone to a wedding there it's been closed it'd be nice if we could be known as the city of weddings no longer the city where people come and get divorced right that's all pass say so I guess I'm just about used up Bingo my time that's about all I have to say you have a wonderful day thank you and next time I'll bring another thank you so much Bradley Carlson Madame mayor city council Bradley Carlson for the record um and I'm a commissioner on the city's historical Resources Commission uh I wanted just to highlight some priorities and and process um the staff report covers you know has a good outline of the historic structure report um as far as priorities no surprise building security and securing the site in the building is is Paramount we know we lost the funding for that but that we need to try to find something on that um the and the building stabilization needs to be uh the building need to be stabilized this to secure it for for future use and viability um the historic structure report that was um provided is pretty comprehensive and and we went through it at the last HRC meeting and I um recommend that you take particular note of it and and follow the recommendations and also keep in mind the preservation covenants on the building that those need to be followed and respected um the uh the main thing point I wanted to bring up is is the uh mention of a marketing and Fe feasibility consultant and in my mind I'd recommend that that this be a uh professional independent expert um it's something that that I'm accustomed to in my own practice and and projects and working with owners and finding out if a project is viable from an independent Source it doesn't have any skin in the game um and that would be uh the the market and feasibility study mentioned is more about finding out what the market is it's not so much testing the financial feasibility that's certainly part of it but as a city owned public building there's no presumption that this need to be sustainable on its own as if it were a business um I would recommend keeping that in mind um you know I think of the California building for example that is a public building for use um with that in mind for these surveys for Community engagement and for the for an independent survey done of the marketing facilities um and uh Community engagement is going to be Paramount as well I would recommend that the notion or the idea of issuing an RFP to interested interested parties for use and development be moved to after we already know where we're going with it um I think to do a to rush through and get a um uh to send out an RFP for interested parties I'm sure there's plenty of interested parties there but without really having a a map of what we think the best course is um I think that should probably hold off until we have a better CH a better idea of what our what our strategy is and by all means historical Resources Commission uh work with us on it you know get on our agenda and we're happy to provide our input there's a lot of expertise at the table good job thank you great comments okay next Madame mayor we have no additional public comment for the record we did receive two comments directly associated with this item for uh December 10th at 4 p.m. one letter in favor and one letter in opposition okay thank you Megan take it away good afternoon Madame mayor city council and city manager congrats um we are here to talk about the Le theater historic structure report today we have our Consultants um from architectural resource Resources Group here to present that to you answer any questions you have about that and then to also discuss and potentially give staff Direction on next steps for the Lear so I'm going to bring up our consultant and we'll start with the historic structures report um first okay and I can click with this and this but you can maybe yes use this to great I don't see a [Music] great great thank you for having us um my name is Naomi marolio I'm a principal with architectural Resources Group and joining me virtually is Alicia verani who did most of the heavy lifting and can also help answer questions but just to start it's been an absolute privilege to work on this project together with Megan and Melissa and and uh um we hope it provides uh the intended guidance um that uh an HSR can bring to a historic building so I don't know if you've all read it yet um hope you do at some point but um an HSR has two parts um it includes the developmental history all the background chronology um significance and then the second part are the treatment and use recommendations those are comprehensive interior exterior uh treat treatment recommendations as well as in this case three conceptual alternatives for use oops did I push something I'm seeing me and not the presentation okay great um so I'm going to concentrate um today on the treatment and use um section of the report and one of the priorities for this historic structures report was to really understand the alterations that have been carried out on the building uh there have been a number of design um phases and it was just very unclear what what of all of those phases had been constructed and so we did a a deep dive into that both records and on site and the 2002 construction effort that was only partially constructed is really the only alterations that were carried out and uh those include the expansion of the stage to the north um this is a basement um a basement plan but expansion to the North and then um expansion to the west or the left um for back back of house functions and what's important and what was shaded in the blue um is that because construction was halted um these were only partially constructed and so we are left with um construction that was not meant to be permanent so um some of the coverings were um established in 2002 but were not meant to be um permanent in addition to our own analysis we had a structural mechanical electrical and plumbing um Engineers also take a look they did the same determinations of what is constructed what was constructed what still needs to be constructed and that's included in the um in the report we're highlighting the structural here on this slide um because uh they did determine the foundation work was um all carried out uh seismic analysis was part of this study and so seismic work will be needed in the future and here's are some images if you haven't been to the theater the partial construction I'll just go clockwise here um that's in the basement uh the condition of the Terrace uh so there's some concrete issues the roof um was completed in 2002 it has gone a long way to um preserving this building so should really be commended that that was uh carried out and then an interior view of the auditorium showing some of the partial um um structural work then we did an exterior analysis A conditions assessment um the building is in fair to poor condition um and we just noted some of the vegetation that traps moisture some of the area ways that aren't draining and uh some Door and Window um the ramp is not up to today's standard so um the treatment recommendations also address that and then um when all is said and done and this is um an image of the interior uh the stage has had tremendous um alterations and construction occur the rest of the building the historic spaces are still very much intact um the auditorium except for the stage area is as it was originally designed the balcony the foyer and the entrance so with all these alterations it Still Remains um to have a high degree of Integrity in terms of historic um significance there is one minor uh area that does have um an issue um the roof needs to be replaced you can see that there's plants growing inside never a good thing for historic buildings we do have water damage and cracking and so that is something that um we did identify as as a high priority so we went and uh did also develop three conceptual options the first of those is stabilization and the goal of stabilization is to um create a weathertight envelope so that the building can remain in good condition for a future use that um we don't know how many years away um so stabilization recommendations um address the envelope doors and windows plaster cracking things like that but the two major elements for the Le theater are the roof over and I don't know it's over kind of bottom left um that's the area we just saw with the plants growing inside that needs re-roofing and repair and then to address everything else on the west side that was temporary construction that's starting to show signs of wear and um potential water infiltration then the other two options which are detailed in um in the report but are just summarized here in two different sections through the building the two these two conceptual options included um option two which is a community center um a community arts and culture center um program and that would be a flexible use program intended to um make it possible to have a wide wide variety of events community activities also um stage Productions um it would include a construction of a flat floor um again for mult for maximum flexibility also the construction of a kitchen so that you can do food support for a lot of those community events so that was kind of the program for option two uh the program for option three was a Performing Art Center so kind of complete the um intended program for the 2002 uh phase of work it would include um new stadium seating um to provide sight lines and all of the lights camera action for a community theater program we did prepare cost estimates for these options and that's what's shown here on this slide and just a couple of um of things to note uh the cost for construction is based on prevailing wage um publicly bid projects and uh then we also included some um owner contingen and uh an allowance for soft costs so that I think the seam of the screen you can so we're we're establishing ranges um in in 2024 for what these three options option three had a slight variation where we didn't propose stadium seating and it would just be the um seating on the existing floor um didn't seem to make that big of a difference in terms of pricing but um we wanted to explore that we also added a couple of Alternatives that weren't essential but we think would be value added those are carried in these other AD alternates so that kind of concludes the overview um and I'm happy to answer any questions okay thank you so much I'm curious looking at can we go back to that Mickey that last slide just really really quickly why why I have it up here I cannot see that far so um you have faad 306 okay and then coming down it says exterior landscape I assume those are not the same thing facade would be on the front edge I'm assuming of the building and exterior landscape so so you're looking at Option One uhuh just down the column is yes the facade would be any of the envelope um not just the front facade but all of the um finishes around the um exterior of the building okay the cost estimator just includes that as facade and then Roofing yeah um okay doors windows also would fall under that facade thank you very much I and I'm also just curious to get your feedback this gentleman spoke in public comment and talked about a market a market study mhm um do you think because it sounds like it makes sense have you seen them done before is that Absolut should we have done that before we did this study no I think that this provides the guidelines for what can happen in the building and so the market study has that as the basis as they go and um look into what you know what the market can bear um how it compares to other facilities in and all of that no I think this was a very important First Step because uh a market analysis could come back and say yeah circus would be great at the Lear theater and you wouldn't have a you know I'm being extreme but right okay and I just want to explain how we got here because I think that that gets it gets really lost and also you know it's so hard to prioritize what projects happen how they get funded and quite honestly councilwoman D most of these well all of them were not sitting here at the time but councilwoman dur and I were and we were big Advocates of the Leer Performing Arts Center unfortunately the council wanted to go in a different direction and put Investments towards a pool right so um you know unfortunately that sometimes happens but what I want to sort of give a little bit of background here it was owned by um arttown Our Town said we just don't have the money to do that this is not our space um they you know put on events they didn't want to own the building um and I I commend them for being really honest they kind of had this opportunity and didn't know what to do with it and then then um some people came along I think it might have been an RFP process that they did the um was it an RFP process I can't remember yeah there was an RFP process three groups applied I said through I was on the Leer subcommittee of arttown we sat through all the presentations at the end of the day it's sort of like what we went with the manager none of them seem perfect and so I was advocating for the building to come to the city because the city has people like project managers Engineers well we do it all the time we were more worried because the the things that were presented to us would take it a lot of them predicated on could they buy it so it really was close to falling into the hands of on the private side and what we were worried about is hey that might not be the best interest because there was a lot of talk of reconstructing it and doing something different turning it into commercial use we felt strongly that it should say a community use and be used for the purpose of what it was intended um well it was a church at one time and then it changed into other things of you know performing arts and it would have been a great opportunity so that was really our goal was to preserve what we have now we knew that we did not have the money to do it because wherever that screen went um oh the the numbers that and I were you able to get a hold of an old a an old projection Megan because I remember when councilman iazzi was here he was a big supporter of the Lear the Arts I mean actually thank you to Dave it's one of the reasons our city is flourishing with Arts because of that man but one of the things that we sat down and he showed me a study that was about $20 million to put into the Le theater um so probably shouldn't come as a surprise but I here's I guess here's the problem is that we also don't have the money the intent was for the city to hold on to the property and then have a partnership where we lease it out and maybe that lease is you know sometimes we do with nonprofits a dollar a year and then the community has the opportunity to enjoy it and expand and build on it I would say this I very very concerned I very worried for this building um but that that was the background is we Naomi and I we sat there day in and day out um a lot of people unhappy I think at that time but that's what we fought for is to keep it at the city I think that was a very good fight yeah and well and it started you know uh two different nonprofits had it before arttown and they made some of the improvements that you've identified they too didn't have the um capacity to do the fundraising and and execute on the full vision and when it landed in arttown and that was part of May celle felt like they would be more set up to move it forward but again to the mayor's point they really are focused on programming not building renovation and Building Maintenance and so that's really more in our daily Wick looking at Southside school McKinley um the the terminal you know rail terminal and those kind of things it seemed like this is something we can do for the community and to the mayor's Point uh leasing it out for a minimal amount of money but you got to remember that in those early days with the nonprofit they got money and that money came with strings and those strings were Public Access being open to the public you know every month for a certain period of time and that was going to be very hard to accomplish the only way to get out from under the conditions is to pay off all of those grants and loans and you know it doesn't make sense so that's a great and there was there was a lot of talk of wanting to flip it and they said either we own it or we don't do the deal and that's where we were like absolutely not because the use completely changed there were a lot of underlying issues with very little transparency of what their intent was housing restaurant so it's funny how today you get criticized for trying to keep it in the family and people don't really know the back story that we've done everything to try to hold on to it and it's unfortunate we don't have the money but if the community really wants to support this I think we have to go in a direction where it is a community-based initiative where we're raising money we're asking uh your board to help um every single person in this community that wants to see Performing Arts Center and see this building continue to thrive and survive we are going to need your help from the Alicia Barbers of the world to um you know uh downtown businesses or philanthropies we need your help instead of just talking about it I need a committee to be built put together where we're fundraising we're doing it together I know DB would plant that place like nobody's business but if you really want want it we need your help um I I can't express it more that is a gem in our community if we lose it we are in big trouble and let me tell you something once out of the city's hands you can rest assured we're losing it so you can criticize us all day long I'm not saying you I'm just saying I love you know there's a lot of haters so turn your haters into elevators I always say but I I this is my cry to them because I know they're watching on TV they like to write about us a lot so I'm going to ask and beg and plead please be part of the solution instead of part of the problem we got to do this together and it would be a most beautiful building ever for children for the per Performing Arts and um yeah I just I don't understand why we want to tear each other down all the time but this building is worth it to save it I will go out there and help raise money but I want help um from the historical resource uh your committee you guys love these buildings there are a lot of people in in this town so I'm begging and pleading if there's anything one thing you do write please write we need your help I've seen Partnerships be very successful if May seen it be successful I have seen it be successful and if I may um the I I think that uh the staff have laid out some important steps next steps and I have proposed in the last week since um the money was deauthorized for the Leer and assigned to other projects a number of people come out of the woodwork to me and offered to help and so what I said is after the first of the year in January we're going to have a all call and set up a support group called a cheerleader group not a nonprofit but a group to support us in our efforts to cheerlead to help us raise funds and while it's a disappointment that we've lost this $1 million and it's really $825,000 or whatever not a million but that is a disappointment but we go on I mean it's a it's a setback but it's not not terminal to the project we we have to raise 20 million and so we have to raise 21 million but we're going to do it and with the community's help as you said that that call to action that you just made um I'm going to help you follow through on that and execute on that and I think Megan is here to talk to us about the need for a public input survey for the need this is what historical resources recommended for an assessment of what buildings are out there Performing Arts community meeting space what's out there um and then secondly now survey now public now you know what that will cost you know to run a theater for a full year or to run a community center for a full year because those operational costs have to matter too then we have to come up with um what do we this Council will have to make a decision based on public input what do we want to see built and then we can go apply for the next steps some funding with the support of this uh team that you are asking to be formed and uh I welcome whoever on the Council whoever in the community want it's not an exclusive it's it's an inclusive kind of effort do I have this right Megan and maybe fill in some blanks here for us Megan burner arts and culture manager for the record I didn't introduce myself at the beginning I do have a short presentation that has some of this information in it so if you'd like to see that I can sort of walk through that um I have some back we're already in trouble up here I'm sorry because we've we've exhausted our time so I apologize but go ahead I'm just saying I I can feel it up here they're mad at me um so I don't know if you can pull up that presentation and while you are I'm going to be asking the consultant later what are the CR critical stabilization elements in the short term and how much would that cost I've seen all kind of numbers including numbers you have here today I think that goes up to 440,000 but I think you presented to HRC a number that was closer to the 250 Mark which was just repair roofs and um perturbances and those kind of things we need to know up here what it's going to take to stabilize the building so we can do the rest of this okay back to you Megan right thank you um so really quickly alignment with our strategic plan economic and Community Development and arts parks and historical resources um we did um the as part of their historic structures report the consultant did a a matterport scan which is basically a virtual tour of the Leer I just wanted to highlight this we can walk through it if you would like me to bring it up because you can see the building we did have risk um management or do an assessment of the building and basically deemed that it was not safe for people from the public particularly but in general to be walking through the space um because there are several hazards and so this is sort of an alternative so folks can see um what it looks like and go through it so I don't know if anybody wants to see that right now but um so from what you just um heard the historic structure report I outlined these potential options just to have this on another side because I wasn't sure was going to be yes but I did the cost the estimated cost ranges as well option one for building stabilization does include Roofing and the facade the numbers that I have and that were in the historic structur report was 306,000 for the facade ceiling um to seal all of those gaps and replace that temp orary um membrane that's around it and then the roofing the part of the roofing that is um leaking was 132,000 approximately and that didn't include those soft costs and the owner's contingency so that is included in the estimated cost range and then there are the other two options option three has the additional um alternate for using the existing sloped floor instead of sloping it we asked them to move forward with these conceptual options because those are the ones that have you know been floated around the community the most and just to give us a starting point for talking about costs for the building um the historical Resources Commission received a presentation also from the consultants and the historic structures report and made the following recommendations to to prioritize building stabilization to prevent further deterioration during however long you know it takes to find an occupant and rehabilitate the building and then to install the new secure fence as previously proposed and conduct a market and feasibility study along with Community engagement that includes stakeholders um and hiring a consultant to lead that work those were their recommendations um as next steps and all of these essentially do have costs associated with them um and and then I do want to say really quickly in terms of background on this um the building has been awarded um cultural it's a the commission for cultural centers and historic preservation grants through the state um which puts covenants on the building there are covenants on this building through the end of 2060 that means that um this as long as those covenants are there should be a cultural Center which is defined as a physical space or complex that promotes culture and arts and it can accomplish this through a variety of means including but not limited to interpretive displays events festivals and workshops um it also means that any alterations to the interior or exterior of the building have to be approved by the state historic preservation office so there's a permission um process that we we have to go through or any subsequent owners have to go through um the city did not receive any of these grants but they're tied to the deed the the covenants are tied to the deed um and then that back in 2013 our town did do a feasibility study on operating a community theater and estimated that um operational revenue from that would cover about 50% of the annual projected operation operational costs so there that was done a while back and then I think the number that you were looking for uh May was that they had done plans for renovating and rehabilitating the building and at in 2014 I want to say the cost was 14 million so um so that's some background um before considering potential options for moving forward um and those potential options are listed here mostly based on the um historic historical resources commission's um recommendations but also there's a another one on here to issue a request for proposals or letter of interest process to allow for interest parties to submit proposals for adaptive reuse or development of the building um with whatever caveats you all want to put on that okay anything else Megan that's all I have but have answer questions and all right go ahead councilman ree thank you madam mayor um M burner I I um think the presentations have been outstanding understanding the report uh is important I think to our discussion uh I suppose for my part and this is just a shortcoming of government I think is we like to talk things to death we like to analyze and sit with processes for years I don't think there's anyone in this community who does not not think that the Lear should be preserved should not be preserved for future generations to um enjoy its architectural and cultural significance um the historical significance to the black community is unparalleled in terms of who the architect was and and really the architect at the time that it was built was way ahead of architectural um standards for that era and certainly given Paul Rivier Williams position as the preeminent uh at least West Coast Arch in the black community I think it is worth um all of us are acknowledging that history um but we've been sitting for 25 years it's gone as hot potato to Hot Potato to group to group and then landed with us um I appreciate process um I see on the slide you know different options and somehow we need to go out to the community and ask them what it is every Community member who I've ever spoken to says the same thing save it it can be a theater it can be a wedding venue it can be a combination of those things let's include some historical preservation elements that are related to you know maybe in the lobby there's a museum for the architect all those things uh and there's cost numbers up there so I don't know what the benefit is that we get to going out for yet another process to like cost it out um the truth is and we all ought to be very honest about it is we have you know a $25 million black hole that we don't know how we're going to fill because our budget is not going to find $25 million to repair it um we're not going to get $25 million by cobbling together our piggy banks and different groups fighting very hard for it um because we've tried that before and it's it's not gotten us anywhere the federal government's not coming to save us the state government's not coming to save us um and so for my part I would like us to to act rather than continue to think and and process um so uh folks on the historic Resource Commission and bloggers in particular like to talk about let's have more process we have been having process about this building for 25 years uh it is time for us to decide what we're going to do with it if we have to bond to do it great if we have to um go out to the community and seek a some kind of a tax increase like the wc1 funds to to allow for it um I'm for exploring all those options but the idea that we have to do more process is just anatha to me I I think we've got and and and certainly on this slide you say potential option for moving forward the request for a proposal I think is very attractive um putting it out to the universe to see who might come in I have had three inquiries this week from people who say I will take the Lear on and bring it to pass I don't know if those people are legitimate or real they have beautiful Visions everyone wants to have a big idea about it but I haven't seen a person who's saying here's $25 million let's take that to the bank yet so I I am both um I'm frustrated that the pace of government is so slow yet I'm also heartened by the mayor's statement that we took possession of it to ensure that we had these options right if it just got sold to the highest Builder bidder someone would build a Walmart on top of that spot um and that was the risk right it's why we ultimately took it back um and why the prior stewards their efforts were their heart was in a good place they they wanted to see it preserved too they didn't do anything bad um it's just that they didn't have $25 million check to write either so I I guess I'm of no help to you today other than to say we want to preserve it it's worth preserving it's worth fighting for there's something so critically historically valuable about it so let's go do it um all those talk talking about it I am tired of that I'm inclined to favor seeking proposals to figure out what can be made of it okay councilwoman yeah thank you um I want to say a little different perspective than my colleague and that is because historic buildings are treated differently um we have to understand that every single thing we do has another group looking over our shoulder we can't get away from it um it's it's on the historic register we've received funds there are Covenants we have to work with shipo shipo doesn't operate under traditional permit review standards like 60-day review in fact it took over nine months to get the proposal reviewed and then we had to go through an appeal period so these are not of our making I'll remind my colleague that um my middle name is the doer and the only reason I bring it up is I too am very frustrated but I do know this we have to do it right for it to have legitimacy in the historic sphere and we have to touch those buttons whether we're we're frustrated or we're patient or wherever we are but I do say that you've got two action women here uh the one over here the mayor and myself and um we finally have it within our reach we finally have the historic structures report done which took money and time to do and now we just have to do a couple more steps and I think that uh as soon as January we're going to be out fundraising so we can in fact go do the thing but we can't do it without money and I like your ideas uh Mr ree about potentially bonding I know we have some tough Financial years coming up um you know is this something that our community would support if we wrapped it in with a parks and wreck Bond Parks historic resources and wreck bond that might get us somewhere I would be willing to support that um you know more Goods you know are really needs our deficits but I do think it's incredibly important I did part of the survey when it was with arttown very informal held some public meetings got lots of ideas on the table but I really think it has to be done in a professional way now do I think you guys could do it yes I do I think that our own staff we're doing surveys on all kind of things I'm not saying it's the best do I think that Melissa could do an inventory of um all the venues from Grand Sierra to McKinley to this room itself on what meeting spaces are available who owns them and what can you do in them I think that be a very important adjunct to this we have to know what we're not missing or what we're missing which is a 400 seat theater or a community space of a certain size one cool thing is because it was a church the Acoustics were designed to help you hear in contrast to the McKinley School auditorium which was designed to play in right basketball auditoriums meet meetings it wasn't designed with Acoustics in mine I believe the church was so um I think we have great opportunity I think it's really simple whether we ask our staff to do it it's going to probably take six months I've already talked to Ashley and I don't know Ashley if you want to come up because you expressed some concern to me about just going out with the RFP at this point and Madame mayor I have questions for Miss derer oh sure go right ahead well I I it says engage a consultant can we go back to that slide engage a consultant to do a market feasibility study I I I don't let's ask her what that is and encumbers but my my thought is um we need to just find out what the community is interested in and what the needs are before we do any other steps go ahead Ashley Ashley attorney assistant city manager for the record uh to note a few things as Megan mentioned before there are some pretty significant covenants on this building that will restrict the use in the future uh what a market analysis will do is to let us know truly what will the market bear uh right now we have no idea if our community needs another theater we don't know if we need another Community Center uh this will allow us to understand what the market will hold and then what the feasibility of that project would look like including operational costs because well yes $25 million to get the building habitable that does not include the ongoing maintenance or cost of operations of whatever function would go in there so miss turny we have a group that's doing a market feas St feasibility study analysis related to the gsrs proposal and when I heard them talk to us what they basically say is we need to decide what kinds of theaters do you have do you really think we don't know know that we have a lack of a 400 person theater in this community that's what I don't understand we know we don't have the theater space of this particular size building it's like a gap we have Lawler at the top we have bua maybe the bottom in terms of size so what and and where do we pay for this in consultant to have another Market another study so we do know from an availability standpoint that correct there's not a 400 seat theater available what we don't know is if we need one we don't know if there's a market need for that so we're really looking from a competitive Advantage standpoint is if Council or a partner or some other investor comes along to give you $25 million that falls from the sky to fix it what happens next uh because if the utilization isn't there then this counsel or whomever the ownership lease would need to determine is how much subsidization are you willing to make at that point and so we don't have those numbers um as mentioned with those covenants it is limited in what you can do um this cannot be turned into Megan will correct me if I'm wrong I'm going to make up something that will likely be quoted that will get me in trouble uh this cannot be turned into a multif family housing project tomorrow the covenants will not allow for that uh this will not become a Walmart or a big box store that the covenants won't allow unless those are paid off by someone that's what I was saying and there's millions and millions of dollars tied to the deed that were given to the previous owners I think a good example is a Moana pool we were able to build it we were able to bond for it but at the same time we knew at that time it would cost at least $300,000 to operate it and we had to be prepared to take on that cost or there's no point in building a pool we had to figure it out whether through user fees or general fund um underwriting was the demand there for a pool of this size and we struggled with it greatly should we build a smaller pool or is the demand going to be greater with a bigger pool any funer is going to want to know what is your goal and is this going to work and that's why I think we have to document it uh you know I'm a like let's go do it kind of person but I also know in order to raise the money and be legitimate that they are going to look at our fundamentals and say does this make sense okay thank you I'm going to cut you off cuz you're we're both way over and I know I can I don't know where the feel it up here everyone's like um mam clerk I hate this system I'm so sorry it's so difficult I can't now I can't log in but the but the I have no idea who wants to speak so I know you do but I feel like I should make you make you wait a little bit longer what do you think it's completely all day long okay go ahead vice mayor I'm messing with you my middle name is not a doer it's time efficient well and I was going to say actually you lied Council der I thought you always say your first name is Der um I will stay within my time I do not believe that we have the expertise the resources or any of the skill set to be working in this space um I appreciate the um the sentiment of trying to save this building I guess I would say if it is possible to sell it with the covenants and keep it with what we can and keep it historical but this is not going to be my number one priority especially what I've heard with our budget concerns andless next couple of years I appreciate the effort and the um desire to go out and fund raise we do not have the money and we are not going to have the money um we don't have $400,000 for option one or whatever the smallest option is so along with councilman Reese without all of the words I would be interested in a trying to sell it when we look at all the properties in January seeing if it could go to somebody that who would could keep it and love it and give it the attention it needs or to going out for RFP to see what that brings and um that was one minute thank you all right councilman Martinez thanks so much Madame mayor again uh U Miss burner for the presentation I agree with the sentiment that's already been said about trying to keep the lead theater you know as a community center and I do see the option I don't have them in front of me but um I would concur with my colleagues in saying that getting some action put into place and moving forward would be beneficial I know a lot of folks were um asking about the progress that was happening there and what what we were going to do and so happy to see that there is a game plan and hopefully we can support uh restoring the Le theater to where it once was I know a lot of uh my colleagues on the dice specifically you madam mayor and council member der have been uh Fierce advocates for the leader theater and wanting to see it restored so whatever we can give support you know that I'm there thank you all right thank you so much all right uh Council neber yeah I mean a lot of what I wanted to say has already been said and I agree the cedar is really important and I I just agree that we do do not have the funds to bring it to the place it needs to be like I wish that we did I wish we could bring it to its full former glory and restore it to the way it was designed and meant to be um and you know we're we we know we're supposed to be art town right I think we could find um plays and things to have there if it was fully restored um but I just personal opinion um I think that maybe we should be investing time in and trying to find um some historical group you know philanthropist or something to help um pay for this or at leaste the space to take over because we really just don't have the funds for it and I really um agree that we should not um just sell the the property um and you know hope for the best it doesn't get to I know that there's all these deed restrictions on it so that's probably not the case but I it's my understanding even if somebody took it over they would have to follow really rigid guidelines for what they could do like pretty much anybody that takes it over the end results going to be about the same right due to what is it ship shipo the covenants from shipo yes yeah so I feel like there's probably groups out there um I'm not sure if if we've reached out to any um African-American specific um um groups that uh um give funds to historical um buildings or or locations things like that but I really feel like maybe that would be the route to go um versus trying to find the funds to do these things because didn't we have an RFP and nobody responded like we had bids posted for some of the exterior construction work yes and we had no one respond to those bids yeah so even even when we did have some money we couldn't find somebody to do the work so it's also partially like even if we could come up with the money and have the bids how how long is it going to take us to find somebody to do the work to these very specific um specifications so anyhow um yeah okay thank you Council M thank you madam mayor I I want to be clear too um Miss tour and I are not having a disagreement about our ultimate outcome we're having a discussion about some frustrations that we've experienced I've now served on the body for six years Miss St for 10 um we want for this building collectively to see its full potential in life but the question is how to get there when we don't have any money so when I look at this thing that says potential options for moving forward the operative slide I I'm not sure I personally believe we need a consultant to do a market feasibility study because I think that if you go out for a the the final item issue a request for proposal that anyone who's going to put in a bid for it will figure out their own marketability and feasibility for it right if I want to take this down as the new Performing Art Center for Northern Nevada and the Premier West Coast example of African-American architecture I will figure out my own use for it and whether I can make it pencil right this community engagement uh input on on uses for the building we have been doing that for 25 years every community group wants to see it preserved for all time of Memorial there's I suppose slight disagreements about whether it should be like exclusively a theater because of the way the floor is slanted or whether it should be something else so it could also be a wedding venue I I figure that people who would make proposals would figure out how to make it generate the income to run it so maybe on Monday through Thursday it is a full operational theater company and on Fridays and Saturday or I mean Saturdays and Sundays it's a wedding venue uh I don't know but those proposers would know that um again I know we don't have the money I don't know that we have the wherewithal to do some of these more Consulting feasibility studies I am tired of the studies I I want to act and so that's why and look if if if we put out a request for proposal and no one come to the table which is very likely we we have to face the possibility that is true then you can go back and do market and feasibility studies and conduct Community engagement until the cows come home uh we've done that um and so for my part I I and look if we do nothing we have to stabilize the building somehow and and we'll go out and find the money that's the $600,000 or so dollars to make sure there are not Roots growing through the wall um I I would think that we might even be able to hopefully get some of that stuff done inh house um you know we have people doing stuff all the time and maybe that's the smallest of things we can do is remove the leaves growing through the wall um other thing that I you know what the other thing I thought about this and and Megan maybe you would know and actually you might know um you know the Arts have been really really important to me I think people can see the over the last decade in the city all the murals that we've done all of um the art and culture initiatives and I think they are so so important to the vibrancy of a city I always say you know art is the soul of the city and as you know Ashley I was fortunate to represent Mayors across the country in arts and culture um because of my passion and love for the Arts but one of the things I have not seen is the level of grants that we have seen in other capacity um for historic structures and um tied in with the Arts have do you know of of any I mean I've I've worked with Americans for the Arts I have been directly in the art scene and I haven't seen anything out there so maybe you can speak to that so funding specifically for historic buildings is that what youan yeah tied to the Arts yeah well because I think there's a component of both it's arts and culture historic preservation yeah there are a few through the National Trust save America's Treasures grants and things like that but they are you know matching grants and smaller um but not not much in Saving historical and it's been challenging because I love I know all the historical buildings and our Our Heritage and yeah it's very hard to save unless someone privately wants to come out that has a lot a lot a lot of money right and so the the only The Preserve them right the best funding mechanism is the federal tax credits M um that's the best way that's the largest funding um okay component that we usually see the 20% of the hard and soft cost of construction okay thank you thank you very much um Megan what do you what do you need from us I just going to add about the grants uh one thing to note with the covenants these are tied to Grants and many of these are one-time grants they're not allowed on the property ever again so they've already been given uh so a lot of the funding that you would be looking for that would be available on other historic projects has already been utilized on this project okay Madam mayor what we're looking for you today is Direction I'm going to ask her let me just a couple wrapup points um the reason I'm not excited about going out for an RFP at this time is that we've been there I I was part of a whole team that went out with an RFP everybody had brilliant ideas very little people few people had the ability to execute on the ideas the wherewithal the knowledge of managing a building as far as people not responding to our RFP for construction several unions reached out to me and said you guys should have called us we can get you people that want to work on this building they were very adamant about it and I said well if that opportunity comes around we will certainly call you so in other words they wanted more Outreach um and I just started so I'm not sure why that rang but anyway um we were so excited I want to remind everyone we had a million dollars we were going to go do three things so that this building would be used this summer for weddings and outdoor events we're going to put in the fence do the irrigation and fix the concrete so that the exterior could be used and we would have a Showplace and we could have a reason to raise money that has been dashed so we got to get that essentially million dollars back to do those things so that it can be back in action and people can be surrounding it um finally I guess my recommendation is that we we must stabilize the building when we first talked with Doug Thornley about purchase he said Naomi we don't have money that was a couple years ago I said I understand that but there's an opportunity to acquire it we need to have a little bit of money to stabilize it so that when the economics change we are actually able to move out and execute it I said no Moana pool was down for some 20 years 2007 it was torn down and here we are in 2024 it exists again there there's a timeline to Big projects like this and we just have to recognize and I said as long as we acquire it and stabilize it we don't need to fix it on day one it's just a a misunderstanding of the process so so that's where I am at I think we got to focus on stabilizing the building it's our asset as long as we own it we should be making sure there's not re Leakes and I I you know I think that some of this work can be done by our staff without a lot of money we we need to have a go forward plan in order to get the grants and to your point Ashley you said some of these are one and done we'll have to take a look at that which ones we've already received and we're going to have to be creative you mentioned to me that this is an RDA 1 as a potential funding source in 18 months we should have funds some funds coming through there uh council member Reese mentioned U you know a potential um you know ballot initiative with parks recreation and history it's another option so it's not all about just federal grants there's some state grants that are still available to us there are I've already heard um people with a lot of money in our community that want to see this done so I don't think we should give up today and I'm not prepared to do an RFP until we have a a you know these next steps so that's where I am Madame mayor I can also State um this is in front of the body today because of due diligence by staff this was a report that was commissioned so for transparency purposes that's why it's in front of you for that direction if council is not prepared to take action today and you would like to wait until the proposals for property plans come forward in the spring uh we're happy to take no direction today if that's the will of the body giving as an option also Madam mayor go ahead councilman re I think I just have one last round um but I just want to say part of the thing where Miss D and I maybe are diverging is I think m d what I'm hearing you say is we need to engage a consultant to do a market and feasibility study on engage a consultant to conduct Community engagement and put on use for the building that include stakeholder groups in order to like entice some non-governmental actor to go out and look for Grants is that because I'm not because see in your version of the world you see it as non-governmental actors doing some kind of Grant work and in my view of the world world we are going to have to rely upon some outside entity that may layer funding through those things but maybe they are a private interest who just has a desire to figure out the historic resource credits all the tax things so are am I misund understanding how those work one shift um I want to go back to the pool again we had a very active nonprofit Sierra Aquatics they could not get it across the line could not get the first seminal Grant of 10 of $9 million until the government government got involved and gave credibility to the Pennington foundation in this case to give us the money then we were able to springboard off that money to do a bond so in order to convince a group like Pennington they spent over 10 years building up community support but again it did not happen until a group like the city said you know what we're in and we're going to partner with you so it it took us so my point about this is that I've got to build you know I meaning the historic resources our team have to build enough Community Support whether it's a cheerleading squad financing the first stake whatever it is I don't know what it looks like until we're there crossing that line but I I am not ready to suggest the city spend any money other than I recommend that we put it in the CIP budget if we at least it has a place to live and if we don't have the money to do the stabilization this year then we'll look at it next year just like we did Idol wild pal Virginia Lake all the things it has to be in some line item somewhere to get done but what is the downside to requesting a proposal from interested parties I'm not I have these are the staff's recommendations I know I'm asking you what is the downside to that if that were my desire I I don't know that we have money to hire a consultant just frankly no but I'm saying to request proposal or letter of interest process for allowed interest party submit proposals you said you're opposed to that and I'm trying to find out why okay so we went through that on Civic Plaza we got a three proposals we did song and dance presentations for 6 eight months nobody could execute we did it already on the arct town with um and we got three proposals lots of song and dance presentations money analysis nobody could complete so I feel like before we do something like that we have to get our ducks in so you fundamentally believe that a a an outside party is not coming to save us we're going to save us correct yeah okay thank you all right if anyone else has anything to add let me know if not then I am going to make a motion that we I don't know um Adam mayor would you like a suggestion uh suggestion that I would offer the body is that we put this property into the property plan that will come before Council in the spring we will also be bringing forward the RDA 1 and rda2 capital Improvement project plan to you in the spring in which that would be an appropriate time for Council to say this is an important project to be considered when the funding becomes available um and then direction to staff to not take any action on this property at this time and this will be something that you will discuss through your budget process going into next F1 I think that's important and one of the things I would say because I do believe I've always believed this it should have the fence that should have the facade the outside to councilwoman doers point that we can use that as a place to activate outside so that we can leverage to start having fundraisers and Gatherings and people can experience you know what how incredible the Lear is not to mention I have to tell you I am sure those neighbors are not happy in any capacity and that is not fair that we're adding to the blight of of their neighborhood that is not good and it's embarrassing actually so I really would like to see us get the out outside cleaned up where it's looking beautiful unfortunately I know the inside is a lot of money but the outside has got to look good so we can start to have events there and even weddings people pay for wedding venues outside all the time um so I think there is a way to do it so I and I'm I'm just passionate about this as you guys know I know that we just have not had an easy time uh getting this across the Finish Line not to mention I do want to I want to point out one more thing the reason why we're here now this started this was a conversation it was hot and heavy right before the pandemic pandemic hit and Bam this is now we're picking back up so um this would have been done a long time ago had that not have happened or we'd be in a better place I should say anyway uh so thank you for that I appreciate that Miss tney good good recommendations and how how can we craft this for you um I look to the attorneys but I feel like I have the direction and they don't actually need to take action today the attorneys are happy with that so I say Madame mayor you can close this item and move on with the rest of your agenda thank you so much I'm going to hand it back to Madam clerk go ahead all right Madame mayor we're moving on to item C2 Charlie 2 which is the title 18 zoning code cleanup okay hold on one [Music] second okay uh Madam clerk I will open uh the public hearing C2 correct that's correct okay so this is am I I'm right this is case number txt 23 and this is just for it looks like um unintended deletion of inserts and changes from the 2023 legislative session is that right yes okay uh just to clarify thank you um so at this time I will now open the public hearing was proper notice given any correspondence received Madame mayor proper notice was given on this item we did receive one letter of concern which has been distributed to the Reno city council and we do not have any public comment registered at this time okay thank you so much um so what do you need from us just to make a a motion if you would like presentation I can give a presentation this is a first reading of an ordinance so up to you no we'd like to accept what what do you need Angela sorry one slide we had one change I just want to highlight um as part of your recommendation there's some language in our code that deals with parking in the Wells Avenue area we put in the the wrong language in the draft Redline version so we've cleaned it up again it's a lot of technical information but it basically talking about the parking requirements we're not changing the parking requirements we're just calling them out correctly where we had called them out incorrectly in the red line so the motion is in front of you and does include that language that we would update between first reading and second reading the misprint that we had in the red line document okay I just want to clarify it's strictly towards this right here correct a May sorry before we take a we need the City attorney to read the bill please go right ahead Carl ordinance introduction all right thank you madam mayor ordinance introduction bill number 7283 case number txt 23- 00005 Title 18 zoning code cleanup ordinance to adopt and updated tle 18 annexation and Land Development code of the City of Reno of the Reno municipal code to address grammatical errors inconsistency with regulations unintended deletions or insertions and changes from the 2023 legislative session together with matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected therewi all right thank you move councilman move to refer yes M mayor I move to refer all right I had a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed and just for apologies just for clarification Madame mayor and council members with the additional language that was provided by the staff yes thanks okay all those posted oh wait I I just can I just have one second here Sor sure hey Jackie who wrote this um I think it's Tyler is it better well it's not which one is that that's he want all right Council Ebert you ready yeah no just a second it looks like my packet is missing this one yeah please thank you um we are in a in the middle of a I know what are we in a middle of a motion I know I did ask before the motion was made if we wait okay I just want to make sure that you are on the right page that yeah that's what I'm trying to make sure too okay because it's not I can't find it in my packet here okay and that's fine I'm and I'm happy to wait for you I just wanted to know if that's where if you and I are on the same page yeah okay yeah that's what's happen just one second okay let me know okay the regular agenda with yes thank you that's what I'm following this one this is a good one I'm following this one and you have this for the order M perfect and I do like that okay good that's really good should thank you for the record Angela V assistant director with development services I I I think some of the questions that Miss Ebert was looking for had to do with industrial so I just wanted to highlight some of the changes that we have made when when we've been dealing with industrial over the past few years some of the conflicts we've had has been industrial next to or close to residential so we looked at some changes that we could make to help better protect the residents high level here's some things we did if it's a use such as a warehouse or indoor manufacturing we have additional requirements you'd have to go through rather than going straight to a building permit depending on where it's at so again we tried to make it a little bit um stronger in terms of our ability to condition the Project Specific to those types of uses we also added more regulations on screening and that has to do with um Landscaping in between let's say a residential subdivision and a big industrial building we also have more requirements on walls and how tall those walls can be again just to better buffer when we have industrial uses next to residential anything with outdoor storage we tend to have issues with as well so we added additional requirements on in terms of fencing and Landscaping and then the big one which was 24hour use facilities such as the chewies uh right now our code allows them to go straight to a building permit if they're operating 24 hours a day because they're are Warehouse use that's allowed so we went a step further and we said let's require a conditional use permit if they want to operate 24 hours and if they're within 300 ft of residential so again if you're in an industrial area and there's no residential you can still operate 24 hours a day but if you are within 300 ft of residential we added that extra level of protection Okay so go to prate Angela I'm so sorry I know that people are not going to like this but can we start from the beginning I feel a little lost here uh you know you skipped through a whole bunch of slides because of me and I apologize can we just start over absolutely okay thank you so much because I'm kind of like wait a minute because actually as you start to talk about it I'm like that has been as you know a bone of contention and I think this item really warrants conversation so go ahead take it away so just high level for everyone this is part of what we call our zoning code cleanup we did not try and do major changes we tried to do cleanup changes but we looked at the entire code so there's a lot of things in here that you're thinking wow that's a lot of red lines you're making significant changes understand here's the the reason for these changes there's a lot of sections of our code that our staff does not know how to administer because the way it's worded so first and foremost if we don't know how to understand how to administer it how to regulate it that needs to be changed so we try to take out all of the confusing language we also have things that happened with the legislative session again every two years our legislature meets they have changes that we have to make so we've we've Incorporated those types of changes nothing majored things to dealing with crematoriums birthing center it's a new use in state law so we had to have had birthing center as a use in our zoning code electric fences now we are required to have standards for electric fences again not made major changes but but things that state law has now required that we take on so big picture this was intended to be a cleanup we spent about 18 months going through public review we went to the nabs twice we had a technical advisory committee that was made up of about 30 individuals that are technical experts that review the zoning code and understand the zoning code we also had a lot of smaller meetings with the landscape architect Community with the industrial Community with the school district um and then we had individual meetings with just broader stakeholders we had about nine meetings with anyone in the community that wanted to learn about zoning and the changes that were proposed we did talk to Planning Commission four times got their feedback and formal recommendation and again in the the final kind of Step of this we went back to the nabs and reviewed everything again because this is just a cleanup I wanted to highlight things that we are not touching at this point affordable housing you can check that off the list we just adopted that this July so that's great accessory dwelling units we have um been given feedback from Council to go ahead and initiate that so we'll be starting our stakeholder input process in January changes to a noise ordinance this code cleanup does not touch our noise ordinance if you want to do a separate text Amendment we can definitely have that discussion but just as a cleanup um we did not touch the noise ordinance trees we had some proposed changes related to tree protection we took that out and we'll do with that separately sign code you guys remember that from last week we're doing that is a separate text Amendment and then cell towers or telecommunications separate text Amendment M high level some of the big things we were looking at with this code cleanup protection Angela can I just ask you really quickly so everyone knows I know you go in there and you do some modification because of the legislature every two years but before that how long has it been since you have has the City of Reno changed the codes our our major code rewrite was in 2021 so it's been almost four years now since we adopted the code okay okay go ahead I just wanted background yep absolutely so one of the big things that we've seen while we're encouraging infill we also are running into conflicts where we have existing neighborhoods with new development coming in where we're getting a lot of push back uh while we all want infill we like the idea of INF infill what can we do to protect those existing neighborhoods and that's character so we we came up with a list of things high level here's some of the big picture things uses such as car washes we're seeing a ton of car washes and you've seen them all over the the region um but they they also have some negative impacts they're loud most of them operate 24 hours a day when you go to vacuum and it's outside if you have a house next door it's obnoxious so we we looked at each use and we said what can we do to better protect those uses if they're kind of mixed in with our residential neighborhood so we added new standards which is again we're we're not taking away where they're allowed we're just better protecting how they fit in with that neighborhood we have requirements for any use that's next to residential and our code had conflicting reg regulations in some areas it was uh if you're within 150 ft of residential we have additional requirements in other areas it was 300 fet so we went with the bigger buffer any non-residential use such as a shopping center or a gas station if you're within 300 feet of that residential zoning we do have additional requirements Mr Martinez brought up at one of our previous council meeting meetings how do how do we deal with mobile home parks most of the mobile home parks do not have residential zoning so we've added language that we protect those existing mobile home parks and then when we have new buildings coming in especially in these infill areas we've been running into issues with height and so a lot of these newer buildings are three stories and they're multif family and they may be being built next to one story or twostory single family so we added some additional setback or step back requirements any new building that's coming in if you're going to be over 24 ft which is a twostory building and your next store to a single family development you have to push back your your your third and fourth story so in other words you're you don't have this big building looming over your backyard if you want to get out of that because maybe it doesn't work and you have a better idea of how you can protect The Neighbor Next Door we have a process so you can go through a public review process and say instead of pushing back my building I want to do X Y and Z and again we can go through a public review process get neighborhood input screening was a big one we kind of talked about that anytime we have residential next to any kind of use that's not residential screening is really really important so we upped our screening requirements made it wider um trees have to be more trees are involved um and again fencing was a big part of that related to lighting one of the big things in that middle picture there is a great example anytime we're next to residential whether you're a shopping center or you're industrial lighting by far is one of the the biggest complaints we get so we added a regulation any use that is within 100t of residential you have to have limit how tall your your lights can be that's parking lot lighting and wall lighting such as the picture that you're seeing schools this is one the councilwoman J brought up I I can't even remember what meeting now but um as we're seeing more schools coming into the region we went back and we looked at what can we do to better regulate schools now number one is we need to be consistent with the county and Sparks in terms of setbacks and parking and Landscaping that is a state law requirement so that is something we made sure we are in conformance with them and we're all speaking the same language and have the same requirements number two primary and secondary schools we have different requirements we're finding new schools are coming on board and their Kindra Garten through 12th grade so they're combining those schools when we look at Sparks and Mao County they don't segregate if you're Elementary versus high school you're just a school and so your regulations are tied to your school so we decided to do the same thing again being consistent with the region one of the biggest complaints we get about schools is the student drop off and pick up the queuing so we added language that just notify schools whether it's a charter school or a public school when you come in with a new school these are the things we're going to ask for we want to know how you're going to do the drop off how you going to queue where you're going to put crosswalks where you're going to put flashers you have to show that in the beginning rather than after the school is built and we're dealing with complaints and then the big one this is probably the the biggest impact to schools any school with more than 400 students will now trigger a conditional use permit so more than 400 students will now have to go before Planning Commission that is new that is not something we've had in the past that is not something that Sparks or the county are doing that is unique to US based on feedback from from Council and um Madam mad doer in particular ask for that that request any questions or comments on that slide um thank you Angela really quick on that slide how does that work with what's going on at Regional planning for schools is that a totally different conversation and if it is we can just move on Regional is looking at what will trigger a project of regional significance and I will say the difference between what we look at at a conditional use permit versus them they look at very high level so they're just going to look at generally speaking where school would go we're going to look at crosswalks and um again parking and Landscaping so ours as a very in-depth review there's this high level where do we want to see school's bigger picture and you said this is Reno is the only P entity that's doing this correct Sparks isn't doing it Washo County isn't doing it so if you're a school in Reno over 400 you have to go through the cup process correct okay thank you and I also have a comment real quick on that so um I just want to thank staff for being uh responsive about that because um this came about due to um issues that we were having um we've had a lot of um parents come in and give comments about safety concerns in our school zones um and there's been some um concerns uh with the school district and also charter schools with what safety precautions they're doing and what kind of um impact and contribution they should make to the surrounding area and I know that um you know the first thing that I did as a council member was use all of my um arpa funds were allocated and my discretionary funds to put in crosswalk flashing beacons so um there's an obvious need for more of that kind of safety and I do think that it should be the responsibility of the school district or the charter school to provide those things and not necessarily you know be reliant on the council member's discretionary funds um or maybe they can work in conjunction with like RTC or something like that I believe um the mayor recommended that at that time that you know other groups should be chipping into this it shouldn't all be the burden of the City of Reno but I think it's fair to have that um in there because um we need more than what's been going on there school zones are are not being considered safe by the the children and the parents that take them to those schools so so thank you for responding to that and adding that great and then sustainable development because this is just a code cleanup not a major overwrite we tried to sprinkle in some sustainable elements we do intend to come before Council this next year and have you initiate a text Amendment specific to say sustainable development but smaller things that we could do we added more tree requirements for screening any any um sprinklers that are within 18 in of a street you cannot have a spray irrigation you can do drip irrigation but not spray irrigation the you can see that picture in the middle when we have spray irrigation so close to the street and the wind blows which it does every day in Reno in the afternoon in the summer that water sprays all over the road and it completely degrades that road much faster than it should so we are paying a lot of money to clean up these roads in terms of resurfacing um when we don't need to so this is something that we worked on with the Tuma and the health department and this is this is a positive win I think more for the region and and hopefully saving us some money and not having to do so many Road repairs in the future and then related to Traffic impact analysis normally when we have a development command and they look at traffic we're just dealing with cars but we we've decided to elevate that we also want to look at multimodal so we want to see how you're addressing biking and and walking and pedestrian needs so now we've added that specific language to require it the the big one that I'm kind of excited about is solar at one point we talked about mandating solar and that received a ton of push back that was something that I would say the development Community was not in favor there was a lot of push back even four years ago when this was brought up so instead of mandating it we said what can we do to incentivize solar so we've added some language that if you put in solar panels or solar parking we will allow you to reduce your parking by 5% it's not huge incentive but when you have the these tight sites and you're looking for any way to not have to put in as much parking this is a big win and the more we can do to try to encourage businesses to do solar seem like a good thing I comment on that just thank you so much for this you've really like made a lot of changes based off of feedback that I've shared which was really feedback from the constituent so I want to really thank you spefic specifically for the solar and for the trees and the irrigation like I'm really really grateful for the the help the support that you're um showing for the the constituency and the responsiveness for what the they've said they wanted so thank you great and then Industrial Development so we just went over this slide I think we're probably okay one thing that we have talked about in all of these meetings we've had has been the topic of data centers over the last 18 months we've been talking at every stakeholder meeting we had we've had probably 20 meetings we've talked about data centers as a use right now our zoning code does not regulate data centers we lump them into warehouses and we hadn't seen a new data set a come forward so we just we would have these calls constantly I would say weekly we get phone calls from data centers that want to move to Reno and they ask us well where can I go what zoning districts are allowed and what are my use regulations so we thought we really need to smart about this and be proactive and set some regulations so we started out by looking at what are the data centers that we know we know there're switch and I think for all of us that have driven out to trick it's a fortress it has you know armed guards and fencing it looks like a prison I feel like there should be a moat with Phillies and alligators you know running around it it's it's not it's not the data center that we want probably in in our community um but as we looked at that we said well that's it's also kind of a needed data center you know when we talk to the newer data centers they're saying whoa whoa whoa that that's not how we're operating data centers or building data centers so the technology is definitely changing it's very quickly changing and so we reached out to our state jurisdictions and we said how is everyone else regulating them and they're not they're calling them warehouses so we said okay let's go bigger than that so we went National we looked at Virginia Texas Oregon Ohio and we said how is the rest of the nation regulating data centers there's not a whole lot of jurisdictions that are making them unique to to Data Centers as a use a lot of jurisdictions are just calling them warehouses so big picture the things that from a land use perspective we're concerned with what do they look like what does the fencing look like um how do we control things like the the noise how do we control things um like number of employees and doctors and parking so we put in some standards specific to Data Centers and because we don't know the impacts we added an additional requirement that every day deser that comes in to the City of Reno will have to go through a conditional use permit we don't have many uses that we're that restrictive on but because we don't know about the technology we don't want to miss anything by having them go straight to a building permit so any data center that comes through the city will have to go through that conditional use permit process questions on this topic I know you guys had a a public um comment and I if you have any questions on that I'm happy to give you some some background as to how we came to these regulations I have a comment if you don't mind um so this is just an overview but do we have anything in this code or title whatever it is that talks about the um noise regulations for data centers I know that they sometimes can be loud um or is that going to be in the next separate piece that's specifically for noise noise that is one of the things that we also had concerns with depending on where they're at if they're in truly an industrial area where there's there's nothing but industrial around them they would not have any noise restrictions okay um that also concerned us because we know there's businesses and if you have to go to work and it's loud so at the conditional use permit level we can require a noise study and then determine what's appropriate okay and then my other question um and this is just kind of it was triggered by last week's Planning Commission meeting but it is not specific to that development um what kind of conditions do we have for um electric um what do you call it usage yeah not just usage but that their needs are going to be met like we have to provide like proof that there's enough sewer capacity and that they can hook up to water are there any um things in this code that says here's what we are going to require for proof that they will have enough electricity and also like any kind of backup um you know generator sources of power or anything like that or requiring solar for backups or is there any anything in there regarding electric usage or electricity usage there is not the the one thing that's different with Envy energy is they are completely unregulated by the City of Reno meaning we have zero authority over EnV energy and talking to Envy energy about data centers they have a backlog of probably 20 different data centers that have shown interest in coming to Reno most of the ones that are looking at Reno are are lower power needs the big ones they're looking at more Story County and lion County and in talking to energy you know they've said that they have some some stop gaps to be able to say we don't have the ability to to serve this data center or or a hospital or a new casino right they have they have tools in place to say we don't have the ability with today's transmission line so developer you're going to have to build a substation or upgrade your transmission line so they handle all of that from a zoning code land use perspective we have zero control over that okay so we we have we have stayed clear of regulating something that we don't have the ability to okay but there's no nothing in there okay sorry all right no I'm just going to I'm going to move on if there's anyone else that has any comments no okay and Wild Horse we we worked with the Wild Horse Advocates updated the code again we talked about this uh change and then finally back to the proposed motion okay are there any council members any questions okay if not councilwoman go ahead yeah great thank you and then um you get three minutes and then we're going to got it so um um now I lost my train um oh so we're not going to require I understand that City of Reno is not um you know in any way in charge of what Envy energy does they report to the Public Utilities Commission but was there anything in the code regarding you know what they have to show to prove that they're service and if not is the City of Reno um in any position um for any kind of liability if we say okay you can do this development and then andv energy says we don't have the power you know are they is is any development going to say you know you guys let us build this huge thing and now we can't power it like is there going to be any Fallout for City of Reno if that happens at the conditional use permit stage it's a concept it's a it's a pretty picture we have zero requirements from TLA or or sewer or NV Energy to require what we call a will serve we don't do that until time of building permit okay so by the time they get to building permit they have gone the extra steps gotten water rights from TLA gotten the approval from Envy energy so that's taken care of at building permit okay so they should know by then okay great um and then um you mentioned the additional screening and lighting um requirements if you're within 300 ft of residential can you just kind of briefly tell me what that is like what it used to be what it is like is it fencing is it um you know what what is that um additional um uh screening look like so we gave we gave you we gave the uh applicant or developer options we have three options you can either do a a really wide screening requirement about 30 ft where it's landscaped and there's a big burm and you have a six foot tall fence on top another option is that you just put in a 10ft tall fence and not a chain link fence it's got to be a solid fence another option is maybe that doesn't work because your site's not flat maybe there's some topography or something unique you can go through a major site plan review and show what you want to do instead and so that would go through the Planning Commission and you'd be able to kind of Che up why you think your proposal is better okay so there's different options which is gray but there is a requirement that they do some additional step to block noise and then the light is that just like your your usual kind of Dark Skies requirements for everything Citywide we have dark SK requirements so that's every every use but if you are within 300 feet of residential we limit how tall the light can be and so uh generally a lot of these bigger industrial projects have tall lights you know 30 feet tall in some cases and so we've limited it to 18 ft and we came up with that number we worked with some of the um electrical um folks that that specialized in this we also said well if you're in an industrial area and you have semi trucks we want to make sure that the the lights tall enough that the semi trucks can still work around so 18 ft was more of a a standard kind of best best practices okay that we could still do in your average parking lot okay and you said there was a requirement for conditional use permit if the warehouse is 500,000 square fet or larger so that is tied to different zoning districts the um if in two zoning districts both IC which is industrial commercial and mixed use airport or mixed employment I'm sorry two industrial zoning districts if your building is more than 500,000 ft we have to go through a public review process it would be a major site plan review but okay it's the same as a conditional use permit okay and is that a new new requirement or has that always been there it we we we beefed that up um we also used to have a requirement that you had to have multiple tenants and so we kind of said why we shouldn't be regulating businesses so we took that out and we said we don't care how many tenants you have we're just concerned about kind of the impacts of how you know buildings more than a um 500,000 square feet tend to have a lot more traffic especially truck traffic and employee traffic so that's why we trigger the additional review process thank you I appreciate that thank you for all the time also okay Miguel councilman Martinez I don't know if you you're up on my screen so I don't know I'm okay Madam mayor thank you okay thank you so much all right can I get them uh we were in the middle of a motion is there anything May I'll R my do you want to add anything no but I'll move to refer the bill for for uh second reading okay counc Ebert go ahead yeah I just I just remembered one more thing I know you mentioned council member Martinez asked something about mobile home parks and I can't remember what that was can you just tell me real quick I'm so sorry yes we we have a number of older mobile home parks throughout North Valleys in particular most of them are was County now they're City of Reno so we wanted to add some extra protection a lot of them are near Virginia Street where we have a lot of the industrial so we've added some extra protection that if you are within 300 ft of a mobile home park you have all these additional requirements so the screening the lighting 24-hour use thank you thank you for that yeah no I don't have anything else to add so thank you very much for all the time everyone yeah problem okay so we have a motion second second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you thank you so much okay Madam Clerk Madame mayor we're on item D5 um October downtown update good afternoon Madame mayor vice mayor council members Brian Maro revitalization manager I'm here to give the monthly report uh downtown report for the month of October and why this hits our uh alignment with our strategic plan is obviously we care about a safe vibrant clean downtown we want uh economic activity happening in the area we want to increase the property tax as well and providing things for people to do and see and so it hits all of our uh strategic priorities in the plan just for reiterate um we do have a lot of boundary lines in our downtown area we have the business improvement district we have the downtown Regional Center that the RPD uses we have rda1 we have different zoning areas and so it was decided that the business Improvement District boundary would be the boundary that we use when we talk about the areas uh when we described downtown and we're highlighting three strategic areas uh strengthening economic conditions which is attracting new businesses Investments uh housing job creation enhancing the built environment which is the things you can Fe see feel and touch um that is infrastructure Capital Improvements uh placemaking our restore facade improvements as well as any beautification activities and then enhancing the downtown experience which is how people feel when they're in the area set as our safe and clean activities maintenance uh activation the ambassadors Public Safety and River Rangers and so getting into the numbers I'm not going to highlight all these but I do want to uh mention that we have one new business in downtown that open that is the Alpine uh that opened on West four street that opened as part of the offbeat music festival uh that occurred in October uh we um had a even though it was counted in September but we had the grand opening of the Vintage at Washington station which is 205 affordable housing units and um mayor you attended uh council member derer attended that I think I have a picture here and then the last is we keep uh track of the Harris project uh it's an on goinging concern but we we talked to them almost weekly uh getting updates on how the project is coming along um I have to have hope every day that that they're closer and closer to getting out of bankruptcy and getting that project capitalized and started uh but it's a process idea I mean I keep hearing oh next week next week it was supposed to be next week Bri it's this is so painful it was supposed to be next week they did get an extension with the uh the bankruptcy um trustee how long I think it's another 60 days uhhuh so we'll know in February more time allows them to to have the discussions to uh to do their project plans so they are working on it uh they're just not focusing on the bankruptcy they're focusing on the architecture uh the floor Maps uh the cost to complete everything so they're putting good time and good work into the project but it still has to get out of bankruptcy so yeah okay and this is a picture of that vintage at Washington station ribbon cutting um as I mentioned 205 uh income restricted units for for seniors the next uh page is the built environment so how uh the things you can touch feel see in the area I I'll highlight that uh with the restore project we had one completed this month that was the lead dog and sunset Winery building they redid their signage over there as well as some building improvements I have a picture of that here in a second um plac me activities are on track uh you should start to see a lot of the investments from the arpa funds in terms of placemaking happening in West stre Plaza and Locomotion Plaza uh and those should be completed April and May uh that's extra Furniture that's new containers uh and sort of uh spaces on Locomotion Plaza artwork going in as well as two more years of of activation um the truck year revision plan was approved in the month of October and so we are uh starting to execute on um outlining the potential projects that could come from that plan the um we did submit a large pregrant application to the state Nevada for eligible trucky River uh enhancements projects so part of the trucky River Vision plan outlined more lighting addition additional things both on the riverfront and in the river and so we applied um pregrant for about $7 million in potential projects um to come from that Grant and so if we get that we could fund some of the projects in the vision plan um from that Grant fund and if not we'd look towards other other funding sources can uh discussions continue on the parks District as well as a river service plan those are ongoing uh we did kick off a parking and curb project to identify um how we uh conduct uh maintenance uh the infrastructure as well as um ticketing for all parking in Downtown as well as going through and looking at our curbs do we have too much too many loading zones should we be using um our street curb area for for different uses obviously the ride the rise in ride share has uh required the need to change how we approach the actual curb throughout the area and then we have uh Parks has done significant tree pruning and maintenance with Barbara Bennett Park so I'll just highlight that that is one of the restore awardees uh they redid their signage if you notice on the left uh their signage was so sunburnt you could barely see what what their business offering was uh and with their restore Grant they redid a new uh lit sign there so small tactical Improvement for for the facade there here I'll I'll highlight some downtown code enforcement off uh efforts and so mayor last meeting you asked for uh Zack cheer code enforcement officer to be here he is here so he can answer some questions but if you'll allow me just to highlight some of the things that they do daytoday and so when our code enforcement officers are downtown they're typically responding to active complaints issued by citizens and so if if a complaint is made either through um you know uh Reno direct it would get list and they go by and they they handle those situations but when they're down there they're also initiating proactive Code Enforcement cases so if they see something uh that is a violation of code they're proactively addressing those things um and so in last well to fiscal year to date uh code has completed 72 active code cases there are 11 active ones and 29 well there are 11 active complaint ones that means somebody made a complaint it's being addressed and then there are 29 proactive ones mean meaning Code Enforcement Officers identified something wrong and they have taken some initiative on that um but the best part is with Zach's effort really building a rapport with these downtown Property Owners uh to make a remediation plan to handle a lot of these challenges and so he's built great rapport with a lot of the business owners I believe you hear about it I hear about it all the time um and so those things are being addressed and the last one I'll mention is um enhancing the downtown experience is how people feel when they're in the area um obviously lak Mill Lodge is something we've all heard about approximately 150 people were were displaced uh due to the lodge being condemned but RPD our clean and safe team the downtown Reno partnership and our hand team has all provided immediate assistance when that was announced and helped um find those uh help those individuals find Solutions and mitigate further homelessness so they they did that the biggest thing I want to mention is in October was the offbeat Music Festival this is something that was moved from Midtown to for Street uh I believe they doubled the capacity this year uh it was an incredible event there's pictures of it in the next slide um we had seven venues totally packed with bands from all over the West Coast uh it was a great event that was something new that I assume will continue in the Fourth Street quor in the future um we had planned act activation days so we continued with some of the concert series movies in the park things like that but the um the rolling Recreation uh under parks and wreck they've been stationing in barbar Bena Park Monday through Saturday they had 876 people uh engaged with the rolling recreation activities in such as parks and W going out there doing their own types of Engagement the mobile engagement team is fully staffed um and so you'll see some of those numbers uh with engagement from the mobile team is up to 109 um now that they're fully staffed uh we did hire an economic development marketing program manager under my team J JP wz um so we're incredibly um excited to have him come along and further do some storytelling on the activation uh Economic Development and Redevelopment activities that are taking place and then Parks and Rec hired two additional River Rangers uh for the area so wow that's the report Fant um this is the drps numbers um I don't believe DRP is here to to share their numbers um these are the standard metrics that they they do uh and everything seems to be on par with uh with previous month so and they are they are doing a lot of active co uh Cleanup in the area uh there's a picture here that that is an example of that and then just to highlight the offbeat music festival so this is the Morris burner Hotel they did projection mapping on the building uh so from across the street they do very high powerered um projection and so it lit up the entire building with the um brand of the music festival uh so that was quite exciting the picture above is is one of the acts performing and then the picture on the right is the rolling rolling recreation in Barbara Bennett Park so with that happy to answer any questions all right Brian yeah fantastic job Zach thank you for being here one of the biggest reasons I wanted you to come is that I um you are in a very very tough job um and you have to have a lot of interaction and you have to have a lot of sympathy for people and compassion and I just want to praise you for the job that you're doing because that is probably one of the hardest and you have a lot of respect out there and you should know that um that's very hard for a code officer to sort of Warrant that kind of Praise And um the fact that you are working with the businesses I I believe that that's important that they understand the communication and everything you're doing so I'm very very proud and I'm very grateful if you notice things are starting to turn around um you know from murals to horse shoe sh signs uh to businesses opening uh despite what some media Outlets might say um I want all of you guys to know that I recognize your hard work day in and day out to make it happen um because I also think that they didn't report about the actual data and the numbers I follow it closely so I want to just say thank you from the bottom of my heart because you are making a difference and then it becomes really frustrating I wanted to acknowledge that whenever um I think the media inaccurately reports um sort of that data that we see out there uh matter of fact it's gosh I think Brian we were just talking about today where'd you go I don't know where or maybe you're over there Brian that there's never been more housing units um downtown in how many decades and part of that is because of your enforcement Zach we're seeing people turn on the lights get things cleaned up and revitalizing downtown it's going to take a while and the hardest part is the biggest biggest issue I think we have downtown versus you know this Brian because we did Midtown together we had smaller spaces that where we it was affordable to activate downtown you have massive spaces with casinos that are no longer in business and that is a heavy lift and it doesn't make sense for a small business to go down there usually in downtowns that's why most downtowns um outside of gaming can be really really successful because they have those smaller Footprints but when you have a downtown that had very large Footprints of gaming back in the day when it was successful then that worked but I just want to say thank you I am getting praise about you left and right Zach and um you know that's not usually at my office gets to hear I mean I think my office is that area where I only hear 95% bad and so when I hear the that 5% good I'm like oh my goodness it really stands out so I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart please come to any of these updates if you can think of things that we can do that are Innovative helpful then we want to be able to do that so thank you and I know councilwoman or uh vice mayor Taylor feels the same way am I right absolutely I was in a meeting yesterday and you had an astonishing number of vehicles towed will you share that with us and not just any Vehicles cuz it's one of our number one complaints uh for the record Zach cheer with Reno code enforcement so um I do code enforcement for the city ancillary to that um and within our department is parking enforcement we work hand inand with them um I think they had something like 20 Vehicles towed this last month um don't quote me on the numbers but we can U but you were specific about the RVs y so parking enforcement focuses on the RVs in downtown and they like 14 toad correct correct fantastic yes all right councilman Martinez nothing okay oh yeah sorry Madame may it took me a minute find my unmute button uh I just wanted to uh thank code enforcement and uh Mr Ricardo for the presentation appreciate all we seeing the efforts that are going on downtown and how programs like the restore uh facade Improvement program have made a difference and how much that's going to impact um the liveliness of downtown so thank you everybody for your efforts Council Reese anything no council one minber um not sort of okay goad is there anything that we could do to help with the hairs building like I know we have that thing the B big frustration I mean Redevelopment funds wise or just anything I know it's been such a struggle and there's been people that have tried to do stuff in there but then the building owner has problems that kind of throws a wrench in things is there anything that the City of Reno can help with I mean yet had another project right but um is there anything any tools that the City of Reno has to help with uh a project of that scale we're uh Brian Mardo for the record so we're we're working them with them quite regularly there's not much we can do when they're in bankruptcy um but they are uh we did a walk through the other day with a with a Contractor Building team to identify all the things that would need to be addressed first when they go to redo the project yeah uh they've been meeting with um the planning team The Building Services uh and so they're constantly trying to figure out that once they hit go they should be able to start the project it's just very complicated for us to help tactically right now we have had conversation that when the project is um green lit and they need support from the Redevelopment agency we are prepared to start immediately okay um so that we can and we're spending this time wisely to ramp up some of those conversations but because the project currently is in bankruptcy they're ineligible for any sort of direct Redevelopment but once they kind of get that piece under control they will be in an area like they would be eligible to potentially use the red vment tool to help um with anything okay great and do we know if like the building's okay like it's not going to be a tear down or anything or is that too big conversation okay okay good so yeah a little bit off topic but kind of tied to it so thank you yep that was it good okay do you need anything from us I don't think you need a motion NOP I will say um you know you know the the Ballpark Apartments have opened um and went by and people are moving in and they're really excited they know what they're getting into when they're moving to downtown Urban environments but they're still really excited so when they hear that we have a whole summer for the next two summers of we have 114 activation events for the next two summers 114 things to do during the summertime and the off you know swing Seasons uh as well as a big festival and other activities so they know what they're doing um they're really excited to start living in the environment to see B games across the street and we're we have five more projects to welcome more residents into downtown over the next few months so um things are starting to change what about birdies I saw the lights went on birdies is open I can't give it this is October so I can't get an up away your November bir's opened birdi opened uh last night officially yeah uh so uh they want to get open in uh before the Santa crw the food is amazing so if you have a chance go bu birdie go play some indoor miniature golf uh but they are open okay that's fantastic so I want you to come back with a map that literally shows the red dots where everything is opened um from you know the last like what three years because it's been hard to get out of the pandemic but there has been a lot of movement yeah uh we have a lot of restore projects finishing up right now and so we're probably going to do a big announcement highlighting the next few restore projects that are finishing up birdies is one um California Avenue has one and they two projects along Virginia Street we're getting a new sushi bar sushi restaurant on Virginia Street so we'll highlight all those um but I just I thank you because I think it's important to highlight those because it's difficult when the media says negative things about what's happening and they invest in downtown and they open their doors and create jobs how difficult that is for a small business to sort of be slapped in the face it's really discouraging um and maybe that's they have Vendetta against us but don't take it out on the small businesses they create they create jobs yeah thank you thank you okay moving along Madam clerk where we at mean to accept the report or no okay Madam clerk Madame mayor we're moving on to our e items e item E1 E2 and E3 are going to be open together okay uh do you have any public comment on this item we don't have any public comment registered we did receive a lot of course respondents on these items um and I just want to make sure that they're the same so for item E1 we received 33 total four in support 27 in opposition and two of concern for item E2 we received 32 comments three support 27 opposition two concerned and for item E3 31 total three in support 27 in opposition and one of concern okay thank you very much hello Cynthia hello take it away good afternoon Madame mayor city council manager Briant cynia far as the chief Equity community relations officer for the record uh today you will be hearing uh an ordinance introduction to address an urgent Community need related to encampments this ordinance introduction and the addition to title 8 chapter 8 offens against public peace related to sitting lying sleeping and camping is in alignment with our Public Safety priorities infrastructure and of course environmental priorities over the course of several presentations uh that commenced in April Council directed staff to bring forth tools to help address Community concerns these presentations were centered on Public Safety before you today is an ordinance introduction to address one of these concerns and at your direction today should this ordinance be referred for a second reading it would be scheduled for an adoption at the January 8th meeting which is the first meeting of 2025 as discussed at previous uh Council meetings and highlighted in during public comment today the city is experiencing challenges related to encampments and Associated activity today's uh introduction is an important step to help address this public health and safety concern and is a missing piece to help discourage and mitigate unlawful activity interfering with Equitable and safe access to public spaces for all members of the community to enjoy these pictures illust concerns uh we receive on a daily basis are submitted by residents via Reno direct um or are also taken during uh City walks whether it's a blocking activity blocking a sidewalk uh addressing occupied vehicles with Associated human waste uh as was shared previously it is an emerging Community issue uh or campfires uh the ordinance will help address gaps currently in RMC and also provide Fair application of laws uh certainly it's cold we understand that uh campfires are prevalent right now uh but I do want to highlight one of the pictures that was shared by residents um of a hillside with remnants of several fires um which obviously pose significant threats to the community current ordinances um so wanted to highlight a couple items for you as uh directed by Council staff examined rmc's Regional ordinances and also Trends post the Grants Pass Supreme Court decision uh and there certainly are challenges with what we currently have in place at this time several rmc's related to Camping blocking sidewalks doorways have outdated boundaries inconsistent processes are difficult to enforce and are not addressing today's community's needs the proposed ordinance before you will create one law enforcable Citywide and provide clear understanding of community expectations for all who reside here additionally this amendment is consistent with the US Supreme Court decision uh from earlier this summer when we talk about addressing Community needs I do want to highlight a couple items as well that are built into the ordinance uh one is related to sensitive areas so being mindful of schools Hospital hit Child Care Facilities uh we're also ensuring parks are accessible and safe for all members of the community and families to use uh providing unobstructed access to sidewalks is also key uh as a region there have been significant projects whether it's Midtown or the new wells Audi project with wider sidewalks uh this connects with that as people are you utilizing these spaces but we need to ensure that they're uh free of obstructions and also safeguarding our water sources from biohazard material whether it's a trucky River uh or other public spaces I want to reiterate and share that this will continue for clean and safe Outreach practices and operations will remain intact we will continue to leave with Outreach and connect individuals to services at the same time for many years we've LED these efforts uh within the City of Reno uh for individuals that are living out in the elements uh and while we have made significant progress we continue uh to provide Outreach we are also seeing the a reality that there is a higher level of service resistance in the community uh to illustrate this uh before you have data from the last six months this is data that was collected from all our Outreach uh teams Citywide so from W four to w six East and West out of the 2600 over 2600 interactions 64% decline Services um and while we recognize that every no is closer to a yes uh we also need to be realistic with that this is what we're seeing in the community and an ordinance like the one presented today could potentially help encourage uh service acceptance likewise over the past couple of years we have seen uh and there's new facilities providing shelter space in total at the Caris campus we have 709 beds at the Caris campus in our place in addition to that we are in December 109 uh beds are available that includes beds at uh the Caris campus and our place and of course there are additional uh shelter facilities and transitional living facilities available within the region they have a little bit uh they have different requirements which could present some challenges for individuals to want to accept to uh move merge into one of these programs I also want to highlight that waso County takes the lead on an annual housing inventory uh that will be compiling information on all the beds available within our region and that will be commencing next month uh on that note I I do want to share that after this morning's public comment I did communicate with Miss Lily Baron um we talked about her good neighbor program uh she did share that they're looking at adding an additional 25 to 30 beds in the community I'm expecting an email from her shortly um and we're excited to help get that message out to the community as well and with that I will pass it on to Brian sui Brian City Deputy City attorney for the record so we looked at comparing what we currently have for our laws in connection with Sparks in Washo County and recently we've had our our no camping along the trucky River for for many years now and it's been at 350 ft from the river both Sparks and Washo County have aund or a th000 feet from the river so they obviously expanded their jurisdiction much larger than than what we currently have um if you look at our no sitting and lying in the in the uh sitting lying sidewalk laws ours pertain really only to the downtown Regional Center which is a it's an outdated definition of our downtown it was written about 15 years ago and it doesn't really apply to what our downtown currently the makeup of our downtown looks like we also have a sidewalk ordinance but it really only applies when someone's blocking Ada access and it doesn't address the other activities that are occurring on the sidewalks Sparks recently updated theirs um they they have no blocking obstruction they have no sleeping and they have 150 ft of any crosswalk within an intersection or school so they have a much more stricter uh sitting on the sidewalk law and so does was County and I don't have to go through these each one of them but the one I'll also point out is one of the reasons Reno struggling with the vehicles is we really don't have a precise law that addresses that activity um we have it for camping in Parks using your a vehicle for camping in a park um and sleeping in it but as you can see both the wasow county and Sparks have something that applies to actually using your vehicle as a as a mechanism to camping on a city on their streets and we don't have that so I think you've seen some of the challenges that Reno has faced is we really don't have a law that necessarily targets some of the activity so taking that into account I don't know how to change this click which one that one okay right okay um I wasn't whereare I was doing this part of the presentation but what I what I'll do is is let me just summarize this when your task with drafting a new ordinance it it becomes challenging because you have to take the entire Criminal Justice System into account you have to take the person who would be accused you have to take uh how the community would be affected by the law you have to look at how the police will be able to enforce it some considerations no one ever thinks about is Will prosecutor prosecute it because they have absolute discretion so if they don't like it they don't have to prosecute it and then how the courts will will handle that with the constitutionality so it is a very challenging way to write a law that balances all those parties all at once and when we've had our previous ordinances on our books you look at how our laws are written they're in different codes they're in different sections um it would probably make it hard to really understand what you can and can't do we we have camping along the river we have camping in a park which is in completely different section in the code that's not even in in the sitting in sidewalks we have two different versions of sidewalk laws we have a version you can't sleep in a doorway so when tasked with this it was how can you draft a law that really takes everything that we have under our current code obviously expanding some of its jurisdiction but at the same time making it one concise ordinance that everyone can go to and understand precisely what you can and can't do so that's kind of where you start and then the best thing to do is to start looking at what other jurisdictions have done and I will tell you without a doubt since Grant's Pass which was the US Supreme Court that overturned the ninth circuit with uh sitting lying sleeping laws is being ruled as uncons as unconstitutional for um excessive cruel unusual punishment when that case came out in the summer almost every city on the in the ninth circuit had has enacted different ordinances in fact I found Fresnos and I looked at Fresno really carefully because Fresno enacted this ordinance that they had in April of 2023 it was about two months before the US Supreme Court came out with their decision and right after that decision came out in September they went back and they amended it again and so I took what they had as the start as the basis as to kind of how can we ATT tackle the challenges that we're facing and also how can we take all these different various ordinances and combine them into one so I stole I stole Fresno's Ordnance um and I like doing that only because they're in the nin circuit and and Fresnos resembl as much of other California cities has done too but fral was close enough for us that we we can take theirs and base it and so obviously we're staying within the nine circuit I took that law I took some of our language from our current ordinances I also looked at Portland and Seattle because they just enacted sleeping inv vle laws and so I took some of their language and then I was like well if we're doing this we're also kind of changing our River Ordinance right we have the no camping along the river and I was like well this is a prime opportunity because I will explain to you our camping in a park defines what camping in a park is but our camping along the trucky River does not define what camping is and so we have a conflict within our own code currently and so I went and I and I went to San Antonio because they have a River District they have a vibrant River and I was like I wonder what kind of definition do they have and looking at their definition it it took some of the stuff that we had on our Parks but also address some of the issues that we see along our trucky River such as moving the Earth we don't have that and when we see people camping along the trucky River you have destruction of the river path the destructure of the river banks we really don't have anything that would address that and so I I took San Antonios I took Portland I took Seattle I took Fresno and I took our own current laws and kind of put this all together into one package now the difference is is is that everything that's in our current law is still would still be valid nothing would change we are expanding though its jurisdiction camping would apply across the city no camping the North valys I know are having difficulty with people camping in the North Valleys but we don't have a law that says you can't do that so this would tackle some of the issues that the North Valleys are are seeing so it is expanding that jurisdiction just from a river in a park to the entire city also the sitting lying and sleeping on the sidewalks taking that and expanding it obviously Midtown as Cynthia has described that the sidewalks are expanding they're getting bigger so it'll compass that area as well so it is one law it applies Citywide and and it it's easier to understand and to read and when we did that I also want to point out a couple things I was listening to public comment today and there's exceptions and I think those exceptions were misconstrued as actually being enforced if you're having a medical emergency this law would not apply to you if you are disabled sitting in a wheelchair this law would not apply to you they are written into exceptions if it's part of a parade special event businesses have having outdoor activity doesn't apply to them there's an exception sitting on a bench that's an exception the bench is designed to be sit on that's its intended public use you're sitting in a park you're sitting on a bench this law does not apply to you so I think there was some misconceptions that were early that were stated that these are the exceptions the the law will not be used against those people for doing what the use of the land or chair or bench whatever its intended use is for additionally I did like what Fresno did and um Fresno had a warning in their law and we have some of our laws have warning some of them don't that are currently going if we move forward would be repealed but anybody who's engaging in the activity that would be a violation of this law it requires them to be warned first so it's not an automatic you get enforced it's an information you are in violation There's an opportunity you to correct that so it's not an automatic ticket oneway ticket to jail this this gives that warning it's built in there and that warning has to come from someone who's employed at the city or is one of our city agents so it's not some random person on the street giving warnings it's it's an official who has the authority to do so um Fresno also had something that was really good was is is the idea of offering services in lie of jail or or in citation do you want to go to the shelter do you want to you know do you need to go to a medical facility those type of questions so that's written into the law to give the person an opportunity to choose to do that instead of the enforcement action so there's a lot of choice kind of built into the law which I thought was really unique and that's why I liked what Fresno did and then finally um I I was careful not to use Community Court because I know I've been here for 20 years and terminology changes but Fresno had a a direction from their city council to the courts to encourage the courts to put people who are charged who are less fortunate into those type of programs such that we currently have is our as our community court but I didn't put Community Court in the law but that directions listed there so in case Community Court one day changes its name but once again council's encouraging the courts to be proactive to realize you have different populations in your court system and there's different mechanisms that can be used in lie of the typical fine or jail type type sentence and I'll I'll I'll end with this on this law when the Supreme Court ruled and Grant pass they made a they made an interesting comment about looking at the public camping laws and when they made the difference it says it makes no difference whether the charge defend defendant is currently a person experiencing homeless a Backpacker on vacation or a student who abandons their dorm room to camp out and protest on the lawn of a municipal building and it's interesting that our US Supreme Court said that because as an attorney I think that's a key terminology to look at if you are writing a law singling out a single person and targeting them obviously that's not that's not what you should be doing but when they were looking at these camping laws if the law is not specifically targeting anybody and saying it's applied equally across the board to everyone then that's okay and so when we were looking at how to formulate this and combine our old laws that was one of the biggest things is is this specifically really targeting anybody and that's the question that we have to answer or we have to you know look at when we write it but then when we put the exceptions in as well we are even probably excluding more people out of this law than we are actually going to enforce to it so I'll end on that and I know cynthy and I are here for your questions all right thank you so much really appreciate it okay I'm going to start with you Council Bert go ahead yeah I have a question so um for the enforcement of these changes um does it need to be um called in by people do constituents need to to call like do they call the non-emergency line do they call Reno direct like how does this get enforced so this is probably just like any most of all of our other laws uh either one is yes we would probably get a Reno direct complaint where then staff have to go out to see if the activities occurring you know to to confirm that and then address it that way um this law also allows police officers to to enforce the law if they see it just like every other ordinance that we have okay so all right I guess I'm a little confused on that because it says on here offenses against public peace and we had a big conversation last council meeting discussing how the police technically cannot have their peace Disturbed so I'm wondering how this is different than them not being able to observe the peace be disturbed by noise so it feels maybe like I I don't understand why it's not consistent across the two ordinances so this Falls within the chapter of our a public piece offenses um when we were talking about last council meeting about the peace officer's peace being disturbed that's specifically in into a specific charge that's called disturbing the peace so this that that applies specifically to that charge this is not the same same thing there's case law that says a peace officer's peace can't be disturbed so therefore disturbing the piece like loud music that doesn't apply if a police officer is just thinks your music's too loud they can't just just enforce that they have to have a complaining party this particular case Falls within the chapters which is a generic term that just has encompasses all these laws so all the current laws that that if you should move forward tonight with this minus the camping in the park law all fall into the same section the sitting on the sidewalk is a public peace charge so it's just addressing the activity as a whole so as a community does these activities dis disrupt the community and that's where this Falls okay CU I feel like loud noise is also disruptive to the community and could also be observed by the police like that's kind of where I'm like I don't really like understand why you couldn't say that police could observe the peace being disturbed with noise but regardless um also so let's say we have somebody that's not willing to go anywhere they're camped out somewhere in town anywhere and they've been contacted several times what happens at some point you know theyve had their warning what happens next well I'm not a peace officer so I think the chief is here to address that uh Chief dance for the record yes they can be arrested for that activity so if we've warned somebody about that this is an illegal activity within the City of Reno this is the municipal code um that it falls under and if we contact them again and they are doing that same behavior they can be arrested Okay so um I'm over I don't know if I'll get another chance if that'll be allowed okay thank you I will come back to you um Madam clerk I apologize I can't tell on my screen who's hitting their button so maybe you could go by who is on your screen cool council member Anderson Chief Nance just I just wanted to clarify and this is just building on what um councilwoman Ebert was was mentioning so as I read through this these revisions first step is a warning right yes okay Second Step potential removal or arrest yes okay third step after that charging violation happens they can choose to be offered services or they can um accept Services yes so I guess that those things aren't well the warning has to always come first but the warning and the offering of services would happen at this same time so that would be the second time they've been offered Services yes and so they every time we come in contact with somebody who is experienced homelessness is having an issue of some kind mental health or whatever it is we always offer those services and so they would be offered services at every step even if they received a citation or went to jail they would still get the same offer of services so when you know if when you get out of jail these are the places that you can go this is the services that are optional what do you want and then the jail has a very robust uh service offer offering program also that they utilize when people are booked into jail that are experiencing homelessness or mental health issues okay so every step of the way services are offered one question I have um when items get taken away um when they they're removed moved or arrested they're tossed or are they you know when you get arrested or you go to jail your items are saved for you they're for you uh there is case law around personal property so we have a problem process in place uh and a storage location for items to be stored for 90 days if there is a perishable item something is soiled we will not store that but uh property can be stored for 90 days and we that process is in place uh and there have been situations where someone is detained and they'll contact us later on and pick up their items um at the same time there are also times where people do not claim their items but we still hold them for 90 days okay thank you those are my question okay thank you madam clerk council member Ebert's the only one with her hand raised okay go right ahead right so um I guess I don't know how we'll know if somebody's had a warning like let's say they don't give their name they don't have a an ID when they're contacted by law enforcement like how will we know if somebody's had um a war warning before so if you're contacted by law enforcement and it's a legal detention or contact you are obligated to provide identification or enough information so that we can properly identify you it's part of the law so if we contact somebody um we will go to um all the means that we can to figure out who they are and then if they H we will determine if they've been issued a warning or not prior by our documentation system and our connections with both clean and safe and the Dr and our ambassadors uh we will have a documentation system in place that says that they've prior been warned for this Behavior activity um and then we will be able to move forward with the arrest of the individual if they've already been um documented in our system as having been warned for the activity okay is there ever any circumstances where somebody doesn't have any ID like is that ever a problem it's always a problem uh a lot of people that are experiencing homelessness don't have identification with them or they might not just have it with them but there's a lot of ways that we will utilize to identify that person and we are pretty much very successful in that either they've had contact before with another law enforcement agency in the county um they have a prior driver's license or identification even if it's expired or old or um maybe they're known to our officers we also utilize help with the um the Rangers the downtown ambassadors anybody else that can provide us help on uh helping to identify that person and usually they tell us their name and their birth date and we're able to say this is who they are okay there's a lot of verification systems some place that we utilize on a daily basis okay so what what is the intent with this like what are we trying to get to I mean I know that we want people to get into services but arresting people for not like what is the desired goal here by enforcing this type of ordinance so the it really centers around quality of life for all members of the community and ensuring that sidewalks are accessible parks are clean uh our water quality along you know the trucky River uh that is maintained as well the trucky River also poses significant uh uh could pose crime or harm excuse me when the river is running uh there have people been individuals that drown so it's really a safety um issue like I said we will continue to provide Outreach and be compassionate but we also are being mindful of all our members community members their access quality of life um and something I do want to highlight is a lot of the activity that we're seeing throughout the City of Reno when we talk about Equity uh they are occurring in areas that are lower socioeconomic status who may not report things as frequently uh so really it's it's ensuring that we are taking a holistic approach and serving all members of the community yeah I'm just wondering if it might be um more helpful to people if it was a requirement that they have to go to service and not be arrested like you can't stay here we are taking you to Services because this feels very much like um we're going back to like debtor prison times here where like you have to you're getting arrested and now you're going to have fines and and these people obviously do not have jobs or the means maybe they do have a job there's people that are you know unhoused that just can't afford housing right now um for whatever reason so I'm just really concerned about what is the desired outcome and how we're trying to get there like I would be much happier if we could say like we're going to have to take you to the car's campus or somewhere else I know it's not perfect but it's what we have um but I'm just concerned about giving somebody a record which makes it so much harder for them to get a job in the future um I know what we what we intend to do but um there's always unintended consequences so I'm just worried about that aspect yes Chief Nance again for the record I can uh cover a couple of those things one there is no law in place that allows me to take somebody who's experiencing homelessness and place them someplace else that's not legal I can't force somebody into Services I can't force somebody to the car's campus that would be a violation of the law if my officers did that if they willingly wanted to go there we can provide them transport or provide them services but I can't uh Force somebody to get help that they don't want that's just not um it's not legal um on the side of we don't want people to have uh criminal records I don't disagree with you uh there's a system in place for a lot of these types of crimes that they go to Community Court first so they're they they are going and being then forced into Services they have to go to a place that helps them get Services if they fail in the community Court setting they can get a fail failure to appear which can equate to a warrant can even bring them back into Community Court for a second opportunity to that um this is even if they're relased from jail they can go get remanded back to Community Court so there's still additional steps for services along the way before before it gets to potentially jail time now um with that being said if they fail those Services all along that pathway there could be jail time potentially in um by a judge could issue jail time for their failure to appear on cases or for failure to participate in programs um what we found in law enforcement is that when we do these enforcement acts which you know we are very um in tune with and this is part of this ordinance is to allow my officers a very uh easy way to understand what's legal and not legal as uh um Brian sui said it goes on where there's these laws and these laws and these laws and they're just not consistent it's very hard for enforcement there's areas in town where it could be um end do property it could be private property a sidewalk and a road all owned by different people that we can't really figure out how to enforce there could be four different tents lined up and they all have different enforcement sides this makes that enforcement consistent it makes the treatment that people receive assist um very consistent and it allows us to say do you want to go to Services we want to help you what you are doing is a crime the next time we encounter you if you have not changed your behavior you will be arrested and that says how are you going to handle this differently and then even after the arrest there are still Services provided and so there are still opportunities for Change and opportunities for additional Services the rest is one small part of it but I agree with you that we don't want to take away or give people uh big criminal records this is not a felony conviction it will not interfere with employment and even after they've been arrested they have the opportunity to change those behaviors okay I don't know does anybody else have anything I have a couple more things but I don't want to gonna just say a few things I make sure everyone gets around Madam clerk m madame mayor so council member Ebert has had two rounds um and there's no other hands raised okay um so listen this is something that I have lived day in and day out um it's not something that I've advertised anywhere but a lot of people know in this building that I have had long relationships um with homeless individuals in this community so much so that I now have um asa's dog that lives with me um because Asa sadly passed away but we went through and and you know thank God for Amanda and my sis my sister just doing so much work um in this space that we never talk about but I've spent so much time at M motels I can um give you names of the um Motel managers that know that you know I've done a lot of work like personally in this space many many days and day day out I could tell you stories with Asa it started that he was living outside for a year behind a CVS dumpster with two two dogs he was severely mentally ill he was also highly addicted to heroin and Other Drugs any drugs he could get his hands on and of course if you're living outside you could clearly probably understand that but it's much bigger than that and he was living outside for a very long time and we kept trying to interact with him he would not get Services he would not get Services he was so resistant and it was getting to a point where the weather was absolutely unbearable to live like that he was also going to the bathroom behind that um area and we had employees that were coming back out there and I kept going to him giving him food my sister we went there almost every single day and it wasn't until that we asked the Reno Police Department to help intervene in this CU he would not go he would not go thank goodness we had them come and because you guys were there there he got services and so for many years we had him in housing and we built this incredible relationship and there were a lot of times he kept leaving housing didn't want to live in housing because he had a little bit of financial assistance through disability and he didn't want to spend that money on his housing so we went back and forth and everyone knows the story but we went back and forth of getting ASA and housing not having ASA and housing he called me one night saying I am freezing to death please come and help me so we ran down to the park I have many people that can attested this we ran down to the park to go and help him and when I got there he said I'm not going and it broke my heart well guess what I did I called the police and they said how can we help you came down picked up ASA we went to the shelter many people can attest that I was down at the shelter for hours helping him get acclimated because at that time he lost his housing cuz we'd gotten vouchers and we got him into services and he was doing phenomenal we had him at hopes I we went through this for years but it was because the police came and or any public safety officer whether it's fire or police um they saved his life for many many years and I watched firsthand how they handled it so compassionately um so my experience was obviously a little maybe different than other people have but I've also seen where I think it's very inhumane to let people die in the streets in the cold and just allow us to walk over them I don't know what is Humane about that I am sorry but I think that is awful but where we have failed across this country and no one wants to talk about that about taking away the services in our country for people that are suffering from mental illness and addiction that's what we should be talking about that's where we should all be up in arms and asking the federal government what the hell are you doing when you took all of those Services away and that's what they did and they they strained our cities with it they've strained our our ERS with it they've turned our our um jails into mental health hospitals that's what we should be talking about and if anyone wants to use your voice use it there because that's what's happened and it's it's absolutely wrong but I don't know what else to do anymore to get someone's services but I can't watch people die on the street I think that is so wrong so I just wanted you to know that Chief n cuz you I think you were not here when when we had been going through that but um I just yeah it saved asa's life and he sadly he passed away um several months ago and Jamie Peak here at the city knew ASA very well we moved him in and out of services and housing and and you know I'm fortunate enough I have Max now um you know so I'm I'm lucky to that I have his dog but I just know firsthand it was it was wrong for him to live like that for so long so anyway that's how I feel all right um where are we at Madam clerk Madame mayor we need um the City attorney to read bill numbers but we're ready for I think I've got to I'm G to go back to councilwoman Eber and then yeah then we'll okay move on yeah I just wanted to say that I mean I I agree people just should not live that way and I agree that it's awful that we do not have the support of the Federal Government funding to provide Mental Health Services in the way that we need because the City of Reno does not have the money to to do this um and um I'm just concerned that you know we are able to make laws that make it okay to be a criminal to Camp somewhere but we can't make a law to say that you have to go to Services I just wish that that was the um proposal in front of us today that it was you have to go to available Services you have to go to a County facility like that is your option and it wasn't that you're going to get arrested you're going to have a warning and you know if this happens multiple times you could um you know be arrested so I just I know that we have the ability to make different laws and um decide what the outcomes are of these interactions with law enforcement and I just wish that we um could have the end result be something different so that's all I'm going to say on that thank you so much I good comments agree in the sense that it's terrible that cities everywhere look at this country go ahead uh councilman ree thank you madam mayor for my part um this is a complex issue and so I want to make sure that I give it some of the thought that it deserves um obviously there's a delicate Balancing Act and and now I have had the privilege of serving on this body for six years and even in that short time I think that we have done a lot of good work in this space meaning six years ago we did not have the car's campus uh six years ago we had 7,000 fewer affordable units we didn't have the village on Sage Street Highway 40 hopes the um car's campus uh the our uh Place campus um we didn't have Eddie house or some of those were just coming online and so in some ways it's like the culmination of a lot of things happening it's also true that it used to be that the city was the lead agency in taking the role in homeless Services um and that's no longer true as well I mean the City of Reno does not have uh counselors and staff members on board or or very limited ways in which we do generally um we work with rise and the karma box project because it is not been our responsibility under the laws of the state of Nevada the care and compassion for uh folks who are homeless falls to the county and I want to be able to say that the county has done a really good job in taking the laboring ore and doing this work um but the reason why I preface all of that is to say you know there is a balancing act and in many ways we've done I think a lot of really good things that we needed to do as a community and we're still working we still have work to do uh this community is very expensive place to live uh it is the growing wealth inequality in this country is um it happens and grows every day and as a result we're seeing more people who are becoming Working Poor and and working homeless and so for my part I I just want to acknowledge some of those realities as a preface to saying you know I think that these ordinances are well-intentioned and we should adopt them um they are uh sort of in my mind really making unified approach to how we approach this issue and it gives us the opportunity to make sure that uh everybody can enjoy the public spaces that are in this community whether they are sidewalks or uh Parks um I think that many of the public commentators who came this morning uh really do have a a incredible heart for those less fortunate um but they ignore the other side of the coin which is the businesses and neighborhoods and the impact that some of these um problems are spilling into um and I think that's unfair too I mean uh so again it's really about me viewing it as a balancing act I I don't want to see us uh create a jail full of people a debtor's prison I I don't think that's what law enforcement will do with it I think law enforcement are also very compassionate human beings who live in this community uh who have family members who have been homeless or are addicted to drugs um Madame mayor your statements were incredibly powerful and thoughtful and I know the experience for you as personal as it is for many of us and so again I I want to make sure people understand that I do think that we have to uh make sure that it's enforced in a way that is compassionate uh but it is not compassionate to let people live along the rivers where they can drown to live along the railroad tracks I dealt with an issue yesterday where a man had sort of broken into a power box and was using the power box cuz it was somewhat warm and it was a cold day to to warm themselves and I thought that's not really a safe thing for that person I would hate for them to have been electrocuted having opened the power box um they had plugged in their uh camp stove to it um it just I what we need to do is help that person find services and this was in a residential neighborhood up off um 7th in Kings Row area um and so so I I think these are tools in the toolbox how we use them how our police force goes about using them uh is really a leadership and a training issue and and we've got to make sure that they understand how the limits of these ordinances would be um but thank you for allowing me to speak and for listening to the comments of my colleagues which were all important yeah thank you you know I want I want to bring something up it's one of the reasons why um we've worked so hard for the last seven years on the 247 mental health fac facility that's getting ready to open and sadly the stories you know were on Jacobs and other things instead of I think at the last meeting the most important story was opening is getting ready to open the mental health 24/7 facility where anyone can go at any time um police officers can take you there and the very reason we did that is because there wasn't there wasn't anything available where you could directly have a place to get services and now there will be and that is promising and that's where we have to start and continue to build upon those and we have needed it for so long and I'm so grateful that we're going to have those services that we haven't had for so long especially those of us who have dealt firsthand with loved ones that have mental health or addiction issues and I can tell you they got worse the more I we allowed it the more we got sucked into you you can't want someone's sobriety more than they do it's really really tough and it's a hard hard lesson to learned and we lost that battle you know losing my brother and and sister was a big wakeup call I lived it every single day so it is tough and you have to be compassionate but at the same time that sometimes is the only way that we're going to make a difference is getting people's services and can you imagine to if you're having schizophrenia how could you obviously even decipher whether you need help or not and you're so confused out on the street but okay let's just let you just stay right there that's not okay because sometimes your your mental capacity is so diminished you can't make that that judgment call I've been there I've I've sat with people going through that very situation and then later because they've got on medications or we were able to get them help they've said oh my goodness you saved my life and barely even remember what happened so anyway I'm this is something I'm just very passionate about and and I you know I've been on both sides it's so so so tough anyway okay well we did open three items today uh so there are three separate motions on the board for you uh the first one of to refer the ordinance and then the second to are to repeal the the uh chapters that are currently in title 8 uh that would consolidate everything into um one ordinance okay um so go ahead M mayor we're going to start with E1 and then E2 has several different parts so I'll read so let's just start with the E1 and then we can move to these recommended motions because it's a little confusing right now so we're going to we're going to start with E1 and that is bill number 7284 and ordinance to amend title 8 chapter 18.12 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled offenses against public peace prohibiting sitting lying sleeping or camping on public places including but not limited to sidewalk streets alleys sensitive areas or within doorways prohibited and other matters properly relating there too all right so you want a motion on that one motion to refer please refer second okay I have a motion I have a second all those in favor I I all those opposed motion carries okay so okay next now we're going to E2 and this is uh bill number 7285 at an ordinance to repeal title 8 chapter 18.12 of section 18.12.3 of the reuno municipal code entitled camping on public property in the try River Corridor and other matters properly relating there too all right motion to what did you refer to refer I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries I all right again this is E2 and ordinance uh ordinance bill number 7286 an ordinance to repeal title 8 chapter 18.12 section 8.12.18 of the REO Municipal Code entitled prohibition against sitting or lying in doorways penalty and other matters properly relating there to wait hold on a second I didn't realize we were missing councilwoman eert and I know when I move forward she doesn't get she's not happy with me when I move forward without her so I I apologize hold on do you want to see checking right now she might she might not have realized we were done with um presentation and comments but I don't want to exclude her because I know she she does say hey me so yeah so hold on I'm sorry I didn't realize it for for for comp e second for okay so Madame mayor just you're your microphone wasn't on so we're going to go into a 10-minute recess we'll reconvene at 5:30 yes and then uh we'll wait for councilwoman Ebert to come back and we'll go into a 10 minut recess thank you thanks e e e e e e e e e e e e e e I ready to go and then we lost someone and then we're back and forth and bre all right thank you thank you thank you okay now we are back um and then I would just wait uh ask councilwoman eert do you I didn't realize you were gone so I kept going and then I I wanted to make sure that I didn't keep going without you so do you want to clarify on item E1 so Madame mayor I'm going to go ahead and reread that ordinance introduction okay go ahead so this is um ordinance introduction bill number 7286 and ordinance to repeal title 8 chapter 18.12 section 8.12.18 of the romal code entitled prohibition against sitting or lying in doorways penalty and other matters properly relating there too all right thank you uh I have oh I can't remember who I think motion to refer correct yes yes okay so we have a motion we I have a second wait I'm sorry who was the motion on that one thank you all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries um I oh yeah I just for discussion um I understand the need to um have safety in these areas and I understand the the issues that the business owners are dealing with with fires and vandalism and I understand the need to keep the river clear and safe um I just think that we should be finding another a better path for this I don't think arresting people is the right choice and I know those are the tools that Chief Nance has to um has at her disposal um but I just I can't support this because I feel like these people should be being put into services and not potentially um in jail and and besides that I mean it's it's very costly to put people in jail in our jail space is limited I feel like jail should be reserved for people that are you know violent criminals and things like that I think somebody that's um you know trying to sleep in a tent somewhere is not necessarily a violent criminal so while I I completely understand the business owners frustration and I want to be supportive of them and I know this is going to pass regardless of what I say I just you know want to just symbolically say that I think that we should be looking for ways to make it so that people have to take Services rather than just say we're going to arrest you I don't think this is a problem we can um arrest our way out of thank you so much I appreciate that um Chief Nance will you just clarify that in in the I'm sorry I know um I just wanted you to clarify that because this statement was that um people will be arrested versus getting them into Services that's the goal yes so um CH answer for the record I think the goal is is very multifaceted the goal is to get people into Services because I agree like long-term jail housing for somebody because they're homeless is not an outcome that anybody wants so there are service protections all all along the way what we are really looking for and utilizing this ordinance for is consistency amongst the entire city to ensure that every person here has the same rights has the same responsibilities and has the same opportunities for their safety be protected regardless of where they live or their housing status the second goal here is to ensure that if people refuse services and don't want the services that have been offered many times it will continue to be offered on every single contact that we have with them that we still create a safe environment and we have an ordinance and a law and when people are violating that law BL blatantly we have opportunities our disposal to affect an arrest and ensure that we are still then providing additional Services sometimes that is the wakeup cost people need and sometimes people um will not respond unless there is some sort of consequences at the end but we will continue to provide services and for people that refuse and are causing problems and disruptions in our community and causing harms to our River to our parks to our street and sidewalks and all of the things that go along with it we have a tool at our disposal to utilize for the people that are resistant to that change yeah and I just remember there are times I would beg actually for anyone to pick up my brother off the street beg could have saved his life could have saved his life anyway okay um all those in favor say I all those opposed I motion carries um so I've got another one mam mayor on E2 so this is um do a roll call vote hold I'm sorry Carl vice mayor Taylor yes D absent at this time Martinez hi Ebert um you know as I stated I just I think this should be a move to put people into services so just because of what the the process is I'm just I know just because I think it should be to put people people into services and not arrest them so and just for clarity council member Ebert we're on item E2 this is Bill number 7286 which is the repealing of section 8.1 2.01 Oh I thought we were doing the E1 I thought the mayor waited for me to come back for that if we're Madame mayor if we're going back to item E1 we need a motion to reconsider and then we would need to take a new vote but the item that you're voting on right now is Bill number 7286 under E2 for the repealing of Section 8 0.12.0 one2 okay I thought we were going back to the um to E1 Carl which what did you read that was no we we've been in E2 for a while now we already voted on E1 um all right so then this is for E2 right so E2 has several ordinance introductions so there's three or four of them that I'm going through right now so all of these relate to E2 to E2 okay so council member Ebert your vote on item E2 bill number 7286 um yeah I just don't think it should be illegal to sit or lay down um so yeah for the same reasons um again I'm going to be a no just because I think people should be going into services and not arrested council member ree Anderson thank you thank you okay thank you go ahead Carl right so this is ordinance introduction bill number 7287 an ordinance to repal title 8 chapter 18.12 of section 812.015 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled sitting or lying down on public sidewalks in the downtown Reno Regional Center and other matters properly relating there too all right motion to refer second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed wait can I can explain that one again this is to um ordinance to repeal title title 8 812.015 okay so this makes camping anywhere in the city is that the explanation for this one um we already did these right now this is a repeal of the um sitting in lying down ordinance that's currently in the in the um downtown area right now in the downtown Regional Regional Center oh okay so this is a repeal the first one E1 was to put in the new ordinance and E2 and E3 is a repeal and E2 yes is a repeal okay then my last vote is a yes and then this one is a yes then right so for for the your last vote is a no unless there's a motion to reconsider at this point in time okay and then this um you can vote yes or no on it yes okay so I'm sorry I'm not do we have to vote to repeal this for for E1 to go forward no you do not have to vote for to repeal it for E1 to go forward but it um from a standpoint of administration the recommendation is to repeal it so that we just have one law that we're forcing and not a patch forth workup laws so okay thank you so point of order Miss Ebert do you need a motion to reconsider an earlier vote I'm happy to give you a second but if you're happy with your vote I'm happy to move forward yeah I I misunderstood what was happening with that in with regard to E2 and what how it was tied in with E1 but I don't think it matters um I mean it was going to go through anyhow no problem so yeah so Madam clerk as to the item that we're on now there's been a motion I was a seconder are we going to do a roll call vote on that item as well for clarity sake looks like Madame mayor would like to and I'm happy to oblig so vice mayor Taylor hi door's absent at this time Martinez hi eert um I ree I Anderson I shivy I you do have uh that vote passes okay thank you Carl iend all right so now I think Madam clerk are we going to E3 now we are on item E3 this is another ordinance introduction bill number [Music] 7289 an ordinance to appeal sorry 7288 88 thank you madam Clerk um ordinance to appeal title 8 chapter 18.23% [Applause] number 7289 an ordinance to amend title 8 chapter 8.10 of the Rea Municipal Code entitled offenses against property prohibiting loitering when posted on private property and other matters properly relating there to all right motion to refer um Madame mayor we need um just I think there's an amendment to this um and there's a presentation to it so I just make people aware of that oh let's let's do that sorry go right presentation oh I'm sorry I'll do the amendment I'm a little mix I'm a little mixed up here good evening that's all right M uh Madame mayor council members Chris Jacobson assistant chief with the Reno Police Department for the record good evening uh this presentation is an introduction of uh a prohibit U an introduction and presentation prohibiting loitering on private property when it's posted so this aligns with the Strategic plan that was set forth by the council for us again like uh Cynthia spar uh spoke about the overview this has been to council three different times and and we've received direction to work on this uh and so today I'm here to talk to you about loitering loitering stand or wait around idly without apparent purpose that's one of the one of the definitions um we do have uh there's some language on the slide I'll come back to that that would be the proposed language on the sign we'll come back the current challenges what's going on here is that we currently don't have have a loitering law that that addresses people or groups congregating and hanging out in on private property like parking lots things like that I'll tell you a quick story where this came to fruition for me I when I got uh when I got hired here uh one of the big problems we had earlier this year was uh some of our downtown nightclubs we were experiencing a lot of problems a lot of violence things like this and as we were looking it over um I didn't really understand so I the captains and I we went down did a little field trip and we walked these properties and as we were walking them they were telling me that there was a large parking across uh parking lot across the street from one of the uh nightclubs and they were telling me that a lot of the problems are big groups congregate there they hang out by their cars and they're either drinking they're selling whatever they're doing it's a big group they're loitering they're hanging out but there's no ordinance for us to deal with that unless we were to have the the property owner come out and tell them they had to leave things like that so I'm looking around and there's these signs that say no loitering and so coming from California I'm like hey we just deal with it there's no loitering here and so I go along and I I say this two or three times and they finally say there's no ordinance for loitering here that deals with that specifically so that's how I came to understand we didn't have a loitering law that would help us the at the police department with these large groups that gather uh limitations on private property like I said before what it is is it's private property so we can't go in there and say hey you can't be hanging out in here the property owner has to do that generally we have to call them and ask them to come out it's like a citizen's arrest say do you want these people here do you know that so there's limitations with that a big problem for that is after hours when the business is closed those folks are gone we might not have a contact number and we've got a large group and trouble's Brewing we can see it but we don't have the authority to tell them they have to leave it's a it's an open parking lot it is is private but as an open parking lot we don't have the authority signage we did have signage at the one place but it didn't apply but signage is needed in this ordinance it hinders our proactive response so when the officers are out and they see they're at the the the downtown nightclubs and they see people Gathering hanging out uh they might be drinking from their cars because they don't want to go into the nightclub to buy it they might be selling drugs from the Cars because they don't want to take it into the nightclub and get you know get discovered they might have weapons there we respond to fights stabbings shootings uh disturbances of Peace it takes a lot of our time so it hinders our proactive approach for the officers just to go in and say hey what are you guys doing here what's going on what's your business do you have permission to be here you guys got to go that that's basically the loitering would allow our officers to do that our staff time we were impacted greatly by these nightclubs the the downtown earlier this year with these nightclubs overtime costs special units there we're deploying people in resource to those areas because of all the problems this would be a tool for our officers to maybe limit that that type of response we have to have because they can drive by on patrol and see this and go on and check to see what's going on and take some action so those are the current challenges that this loitering proposed loitering ordinance would would help the the city of Areno and and the police department our business owners private property owners this would this would help us so the introduction on this is It's a title public peace uh Public Safety morals um chapter 8 uh10 offenses against property prohibiting loitering on private property when posted um basically the overview would be we we get the we got the ordinance once we get the ordinance where it's it's prohibited we get those signs posted we get those um those uh on board that want to be part of the program they fill out a consent form a form or enrollment giving us the authority to do so much like the uh railroad where the railroad said hey you can go on our property and either do the cleanups or do some enforcement we don't have to have one of their people come and escort us to do that all right so the other thing is consistent language some of the signs that I've seen is trespassing and loitering things like that kind of can be confusing we would have one sign the signs would be issued uh would be the the the property owner would buy those signs from the city they'd be one consistent land language they would post those permanently on their property officers could see that people could see that that that's part of the ordinance proposal uh originally we had a one-year letter of authority that was just something that I'm familiar with where I come from in California they would renew it it doesn't have to be I think that we would probably seek to maybe even change that uh and and and make it easier for our business owners so each year they don't have to remember but that would be something that if that's what you guys wish we could we could definitely do and and this is definitely a collaborate a collaborative Community approach we do a lot of Deeds uh Deeds operations we have our met teams walking around downtown we respond to problems at these properties all the time this gives our officers an opportunity to talk to a property owner and say hey you're having these problems are you aware of this loitering ordinance if you wanted to enroll give us permission to come after Hours come when we see things many places in California it's during hours one of the big problems that we suffered was in and out bir in Out Burger all the kids would congregate hang out and do nothing in the parking lot it would lead to fights we had a murder where I live a kid got shot because they were shooting the hit a an innocent uh girl um they do burnouts they start racing here that was not here correct no no it was where I come from that's why I'm just laying out that but it impacts the open businesses as well to say everyone that was not in reeno it's not in reeno correct no no correct that was in another city my experience I'm oh my God I'm like hyperventilating over here and then I realiz talk so much about presenting so much about closed business or after hours it can impact the open businesses we get that because this is where our Sideshow people go to meet this is where our street Racers go to meet this is where the people go to congregate before they're going to do something silly this is where the property owners show up and they got broken bottles burnout marks property damage all these things so it's a collaborative Community approach is what I was preaching sorry to freak you out I was like whoa wait wait hold on that was not here but thank you but thank you and I'm so glad that you addressed all those other areas because a lot of people think this is about homelessness it's not it's not at all and especially we see predators that loiter around businesses for young children we see that a lot um and particularly unfortunately in Nevada as you know we have high rates of sex trafficking and those kinds of things so I am all for this 100% And this is an individual like you said an individ individual can be loitering or groups right it's just somebody idly hanging out with no business no reason just hanging out on private property and it is one of the reasons I think that we've had a lot of problems you know with noise ordinance and and in downtown um I don't think a lot of people knew that that we did not have this in place and so what you do is you see them hanging out and they tend to you know be there for all the wrong reasons correct yeah correct okay um and I it's pretty simple uh my portion of this so I'll entertain any questions any questions from the body do you want to put anything on record uh yes M mayor thank you Brian City Deputy City CH for the record before you should take any motions go ahead um the law was written and if you if you look at the actual draft of the law under section three it's it's basically requiring a yearly renewal so they would put the burden on the businesses to yearly renew their intent to keep with this program um I would like to see if Council would entertain a motion to amend that in essence to basically say the letter of authority is valid until either party terminates therefore the businesses would not have to keep track of you know in September I got to renew it and another business may have to do it in in November and so forth but if we were to use that language the letter of authority is only valid until either party terminates for number three that would eliminate number four and so I would ask to coun before you move forward to entertain that motion to amend it before you move forward that way can one um piece of clarification because I know I've had this issue in my business many many many times so um I assume then the business owner actually can act as the landlord because that was part of the issue is that we we couldn't and it really goes with the owner of the property so how do you address that it it the law is written that includes owners tenants or occupant and legal Poss session so that would include the business owner themselves okay perfect all right um any questions for Mr sui or assistant chief go ahead yeah so this would just be I'm just clarifying here this would only be for the perimeters around private property they could say I would like to have no loing signs up and it would just be the property owner the tenant the you know person leasing the space could put this up and it would just be the perimeter of their their private property would be their their private property correct okay is this something that we could use like let's say around like City of Reno property as well we it's it's got to be private property it's not private property so is there any way that we could do like anti-loitering and and public property or is that just you know excludes any kind of congregation at all like usage of parks or anything like that like is there a way to so historically all those laws have been struck down and we have a US Supreme Court case that says you cannot prevent lawyering on public property so there's very limited laws I I will tell you this isn't anything new to our code we have it for uh cannabis establishments alcohol establishments adult Cabaret schools gaming establishments and only in public restrooms and that and that actually comes from case law that the US Supreme Court said in a public restroom you could prevent loitering so those are our current loitering laws this would expand it to all the private businesses to allow them an opportunity Beyond just the The Limited ones we have currently yeah I was just wondering if there's a way to use that maybe like at the bul sign area a lot of times there's people that are just kind of there all the time if we could just kind of move people along sometimes but it doesn't sound like we could do that there with this okay okay thank you and Madame mayor before we take a vote um I just want to note for record we did receive 30 comments associated with this item three in favor 27 in opposition and those have been distributed to the Rena city [Music] council all right Carl what do you need from us oh I guess we're gon to motion to refer refer but amend motion to refer as amended as amended and quick real quick the amendment was to just keep it in place for as long as the business owner is there or just as long as it use from s the same so the the seeking the amendment changes part three of the law which would say the letter of authority is valid until either party terminates okay so in place until either the Reno Police Department says you're no longer part of this program because you're whatever reason they would ever say that for or the business owner is leaving and they're they're out of business and they don't need that they would need no longer need that Services okay so let's say like a property sells and there's a sign there still would that agreement carry forward with the new owner as long as the sign is there no the new owner would have to reestablish that okay so is somebody going to be checking that like checking with title companies if somebody sells their property well if they sell the property and it's a business business department usually will have those notifications okay all right thank you all right so um you have my motion second motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay thank you good night thank you so much I appreciate you good job okay Madame mayor we're on item C1 aerol Leaf zoning map Amendment hold on so this is another ordinance introduction sorry Carl can we have Madam May open the public hearing first oh yes hold on um so sorry oh here we are okay um Madame clerk at this time uh we will open the public hearing has uh proper notice been given been given and any correspondence received Madame mayor proper notice was given on item C1 we did not receive any correspondence we did have a registered public commenter earlier today but they did not stay um so at this time we do not have any public comment okay thank you okay um take it away all right uh good evening uh members of the council Jeff Foster associate planner for the record uh tonight I'm bringing you LDC 25-11 which is the zoning map Amendment for aerol leaf uh the project site is about 1.96 acres in size it's comprised of five uh vacant par about 550 ft north of Harvard's intersection with Vasser on the west side of Harvard um and for frame of reference most of you know where the US Postal Service the primary the main office is at that's where this site is uh the request is a zone change from multif family 30 units per acre to General commercial uh which would provide for consistent zoning over the property which also includes six additional Parcels that are the subject of a separate conditional use permit that was approved at the planning Commission on November 21st as we zoom in here a little bit uh the land uses to the north you have a an auto repair business to the east you have a climbing gym and a vacant parcel to the South you have apartments and to the West you have other vacant Parcels as well as a uh vacant single family residence and the key issue that staff looked at what uh was zoning and land use compatibility for the proposed zone change again the the current zone is multif family 30 units per acre which does conform to the master plan designation uh many zone change requests that we see do not conform to the master plan designation this one actually does however uh the applicant is proposing a zone change to General commercial uh and that is tied to the six Parcels that surround it that are also Zone General commercial four of which are shown here the proposed uh General commercial zone change would allow for a Max maximum residential density of 45 units per acre the two apartment developments to the South and Southeast are developed at densities of 24 units and 56 units per acre respectively given the surrounding uses and The General commercial zoning the proposed zoning map amendment to GC is consistent and compatible with the surrounding zoning and development here's a a chart showing a comparison of the current multif family 30 and the proposed GC you can see there's a fair amount of overlap however clearly General commercial is more permissive in ter in terms of the types of uses that are allowed in that zone the master plan land use is Suburban mixed use and here are three uh policies from the master plan that support the proposed zone change request the development standards are shown in this chart um comparing multif family 30 and GC in terms of height number of stories things like that um the big difference between the two is that General commercial allows uh more height as well as more stories here are the recommended findings and staff can make all the recommended findings and I'm available for questions okay thank you so much okay so I would like to know what is the applicant's purpose for this and who is the applicant the applicant I feel like I didn't see it Mike danels um Pacific was Pacific West companies I think I'm trying to remember the name but um their purpose and they were going to be on the zoom I'm not sure are they on is Mike Daniels on the zoom is he local yes okay yes I'm just I always get concerned when you have applicants that aren't coming and then we can't ask them questions so I mean I would like to continue this um if he would like to come to council yeah Madam mayor we'll go ahead and promote Mike Daniels into the zoom meeting okay thank you of course all right so I'm gonna send the floor to Mr Daniels Mr Daniels you should be able to unmute can you hear me now we can thank you okay sorry Madame mayor council members Mike Daniels with Pacific West um just to give you an idea who we are we've been in town Building multif Family projects for the last 30 years um so we've been here for a long time um this project is um we we've come in it's 168 unit apartment complex that's actually an affordable project um we're uh we're in the midst right now of uh a number of different funding operations um so I guess the I think Jeff did a good job kind of analyzing what we're we're trying to do the thing is is that in order to get the density that we need on this project it's we need to get to 32 units per acre which is a little above and then we're going with a five story and a mf30 only allows three story so be happy to answer any questions Mr Daniel this is councilman Maurice thank you so much for being here tonight I think um what um so I know pack West and have uh known you for probably 20 years or so maybe as long as you've been there so thank you for um what you've done in our community the hard part is sometimes we have questions and we like to see our applicants so I don't know that anyone from pack West has reached out to me so I didn't have a reason to like do a deep dive on the the request um but help us to understand what the goal is is it simply that the density is not compatible on these particular Parcels with surrounding and therefore you need additional density to be able to bring the affordable project to bear at this location because it seems a good location for affordable housing it's it kind of ticks a lot of boxes um it's in an area where we already have a lot of established sewer lines for example bus lines and bus routes so just help us to understand what your vision is for the project because what we want to do as a council is we want to be a good partner with your endeavors but when we haven't heard from you we don't know what the partnership entails well first of all the the on these type of projects the really almost the minimum requirement as far as a size of the units is 175 so we needed to get to 168 units like I said before where I believe are just 32 and a half units per acre we're just over the the density of the existing multif family 30 and then the height restriction the problem is is the property was was subdivided back in 1957 um and then over the years it it came up it it ended up with being partially zoned uh General commercial and partially zoned mf30 so what we're trying to do is just take this property and create one zone for it so that I can combine it as one parcel and develop it I can't combine it if it's it's mixed zoned if I've got a zoning of mf30 and GC I can't combine it into one project and that's the that's the main goal behind this zone change is to allow us to combine this into one parcel and develop it as one piece of property okay thank you for that Mr Daniels and I won't interrupt Madame mayor your train of thought but I might have a question from Mr Foster um which is related to the answer given but I want to turn it back over to you Madame mayor okay um did you say this is for affordable housing that's correct okay um so that's another thing that we love to celebrate and we appreciate what you're doing in the community and it makes it easier to understand what those um when we're looking at because part of me my brain thought okay maybe we're expanding it for a large parking lot or maybe we you know just sometimes the intention but I think that's also really helpful because that area is obviously a lot of Housing and it makes sense so um I just think we I didn't know the reason or you know anyway I think this helps a lot sure yeah the other thing that we're trying to do is you know that the city Areno has a a requirement of one parking space per unit yes um I've developed enough multif family projects around here to really know that that can get to be a problem so we're at 10 um way over that I think we're about 1.4 uh parking spaces per unit and then the other thing is is we're building this as is a just like we would one of our market rate projects I mean it's got a beautiful Clubhouse it's got all the amenities it's got a pool it's got a Tot Lot uh the units are are good size they're they're about 50 square foot less than what we would do at a market rate and it's really a beautiful project so uh we're excited about it all right well thank you so much we look we look forward to more affordable housing we need it and I know it's not easy to build so thank you okay um I'm going to send this is there any questions well I wanted to go one more um question for Mr Daniel so Mr Daniels this is council member Martinez's Ward and he's um been laboring through being ill for the the better part of the last two weeks so I I do want to put a lot on him I know he's online but um you know for my part Mr Daniels we I would like to find an opportunity after this is resolved to meet with you and just learn a little bit about more about what you all are doing out there and how we can uh you know work with you and and learn what your plans are for uh all of your projects yeah that would be great and like uh I know that my partner Bob Lawler has been reaching out um you know I think they've been to Council on several several occasions with regards to funding um and maybe that the two didn't really tie together uh but if if you and I don't know exactly who he's met with um but there's been at least two or three occasions when he's met with public officials with regards to this project but I'd be happy to meet with anybody that wants to delve a little deeper and take a look a little harder at the project yeah no that's awesome thank you so much uh with that being said and thank you councilman ree I'm gonna bless you um I'm going to send it to councilman Martinez I believe he's still on the phone because it is his word I thank you so much to uphold the recommendation of the Planning Commission and refer the bill Mr Martinez hold on one second we can't do a motion yet because Mr Hall has not read the ordinance and I know you're not in Chambers and I think Miss eert still has and yeah exactly Miss Ebert still um I don't want to I want to make sure I include you thank you I just had a question about the zoning what is the current zoning uh in conformance with the master plan and I'm sorry if you already said that I was writing notes so I might have missed that so what it is now is in conformance with the master plan even though it's doesn't match the surrounding zoning correct okay yeah actually both zones are in conformance with the master plan both General commercial and mf3 okay okay right so um yes it is in conformance with the master plan unlike many zone changes that come before this body to bring them into conformance this one currently is both zones mf30 and GC are in conformance okay so it's currently how many units could be there if we didn't do any changes so uh it's the total site is where we at 1.96 Acres times 30 units an acre to 60 units okay yeah okay so so okay I say that hold on a second that's for the the five b the five Parcels that are the subject of the zone change the total site um Mike if you're still online I think it's five something Acres yeah it's 5.9 5.9 so times 30 and you said the um Parcels adjacent to it one has 24 units and another one has 52 units it's pretty much like in between those two correct okay yeah okay that was it thank you okay great so I'm going to send it to Carl Hall take it away you can uh read the bill sorry M may we jumped over you ordinance introduction bill number 7290 case number LDC 25-11 a leaf zoning map Amendment ordinance to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the REO Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning a plus or minus 1.96 Acre Site from multif family residential 30 units per acre mf30 to General commercial GC site is comprised of five Parcels located on the west side of Harvard way plus or minus 550 ft north of its intersection with Vasser Street site has a master plan designation of suburban mix use SMU word three all right thank you so much I'm going to send it to councilman Martinez thank you so much Madame mayor sorry about the quickness on that one but I move to uphold the recommendation of planning Comm commission and refer for a second reading and adoption all right thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay Madame mayor we on item D1 from the city attorney's office okay um Madam clerk do you have any public comment on this item I do not have any public comment registered for this item however I would like to State for the record that we did receive one letter of Correspondence that has been distributed to the Reno City Council in opposition of this item okay um all right so thank you so much I appreciate it that being said do we have a presentation on this m Mayor John Shipman for the City Attorney office no we don't have a presentation on this um we we basically outlined uh the the position in the staff report and if there's any questions generally you know we can answer those but um if there real substantive questions we'll probably have to take it offline and take it into an attorney client meeting so um just two two things um Jonathan okay Mr Conrad had submitted a letter I I read through it and then it had me asking more questions and then it also said that the staff report was not complete can you tell me about that because I I want to make sure yeah that's not the case yeah no I I think I mean for the city attorney's office I can tell you that I we stand behind the staff report um I think there's a just a difference of opinion between Mr Conrad and what we're asking for and why we're asking for it and what he wants and and and and that's understandable but the city attorney's office stands by the staff report okay the other thing I do want to clarify on this it this is about process this is nothing nothing to do with correct this this nothing to do with not wanting to I guess or or how we feel about giving public records requests because I would think these are two separate things because I want to make it clear and and especially to Madam clerk that when someone asks you for those records I would think this body would support that they are given immediately or within that time frame of the law I think every single one of us up here would expect that from you I cannot speak for what happens once it leaves your your hands I would like to understand so you can also because I think this is part of what people don't understand how does it go from you to the city attorney's office and is that a law how how does that work because I think often times the finger get get pointed at you so I would like to know cuz this is where this Council I think feels strongly that transparency and provide those records when asked so maybe you can give me a little bit of background Madam if if I could I hate to interrupt but um I just want to keep this conversation kind of square on this particular item and to answer your question directly it is just a procedural item uh this is just a it has nothing to do with the merits of the the public records that are being requested this has to do with the process in which those records are being requested and I just and I would just ask if we could just keep it within in Cabin the discussion with that I I'd appreciate that okay and I and I appreciate that Jonathan um I I do I appreciate that I just think it's what I'm trying to get at is clarification of what the clerk's role is when she's asked for those records and that's all just the procedure of what that is because I reading it it made it sound like it was her fault and I wanted to clarify that so I just wanted to know what is the process do we know what the process when when a foia comes in what what is the process yeah and if I could just I'll answer that real quickly just to keep it within this and that you know a record request will come in it'll be the clerk's office will receive it it'll be distributed to the Departments that may have the information um the Departments will uh you know gather and Marshall that information return it to the clerk's office the clerk office will look at it um and determine whether or not um portions of it are confidential if there are any questions it'll be referred to the city attorney's office we we will weigh in um and then eventually the uh the records requests are um marshaled and pushed out to the records requester and it's it's done at least in my experience with with the the staff and the resources it's amazing what they do and push it out um and and the effort at all times is to get the record out as quickly as possible but not to make missteps so that's essentially what it is okay thank you I appreciate that and just one last question for Madam clerk you do not withhold records correct that's correct okay I want to make sure all right thank you for clarification okay um that being said what do you need from us uh just uh here's the yeah the the mo is uh uh authorize the city attorney's office to petition the Nevada Supreme Court for writ relief in the case of Conrad V City Reno CV2 24- 2625 okay so moved I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay blash you I feel like we're going back to the sneezing game like we did last meeting okay item D2 Monkey Bar settlement city attorney's office okay I'm G to send it right back to you Jonathan long time no see yeah long time no see um thank you mad and again this is um just a settlement to end the existing litigation with uh monkey bars on the um property that's north of uh the uh Ms Club um just on the other side of the trench um this settlement will settle with a couple parties there'll still be one party outstanding but we just re request um approval of I'm sorry the um City attorney recommends that city council approve the settlement agreement and authorize and direct the mayor the city manager and the City attorney to exact to execute all documents and do other acts deeds and activities the City attorney deems necessary or advisable to effectuate the terms and condition of the settlement so moved a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you Madame May we're on item H1 city council comments okay um I don't know if we really have any city council comments councilwoman Anderson's like no other than I think councilwoman Ebert and I were talking about obviously looking at um I want to look at um some of the problematic areas when it comes to the traffic safety and yeah and I don't know know how to craft that but maybe Jackie you could help us um and invite. RTC here if they are not willing to have that conversation over RTC then let's have it here that me great so let's do that right after the holiday yeah okay go ahead Council Madame mayor I know that this part is for us to talk about boards and commissions or any other comments for my part this will be the last meeting we have before uh Christmas or New Year's uh also Hanukkah I think a number of other different um holidays and so I just want to wish everyone a bright and happy holiday season and thank the staff for all the hard work I'm looking forward to the new year okay well thank you we we all appreciate that okay Madame clerk next oh I I have one more thing sorry um yeah I just I was mention that too that we're going to have um a few weeks without a council meeting but we're be back in January and also um we do have a a senior cooking class um next Wednesday Wednesday from 11: to 2 at the Reno Elks Lodge just for anybody that's watching the council meeting hope you can make it we have um well over 100 people signed up for this class for this month as well so thank you it's third they're always a third Wednesday of the month and they're from 11: to 2 at the Reno Elks Lodge okay so I get there earlier to help set up and the chefs get there earlier to do prep and all of that um but it doesn't officially start start until 11: I was wondering about the California building cuz we have I thought we did have a kitchen in there yeah we would need a kitchen space and um the Elks Lodge already has all the permits and everything from the health department and all of that cuz they have kitchen um and also they have the space and the um like speakers set up for the microphones and stuff so we're kind of limited based off of like things like that so I don't know if we could do if that has all that at the California building I'm not sure sure so just trying to think of a way like maybe reduce some cost but I think to your point it's already there's a lot that goes into that yeah yeah we really tried to find other locations but so far this has been the one that's worked out always open to changes but it's working there because of a lot of the needs that we have so okay thank you thank you okay mam clerk all right Madame mayor we're moving into our closing public comment we do have six speakers in the audience so we'll go ahead head and start that we have may I see F future Mayors over here but then they probably sat here and were like ah when do I get to go home and watch Netflix and get my homework done what school are you guys from hug hug well nice to see you guys um okay we're ready Daniel Quintero followed by Alan msas followed by Stephanie Mendoza CIO Daniel uh hello my name is Den Kino do I need to say my address or no no okay uh yeah um oh on the page oh can I go after somebody can somebody go before me yeah Alan msas followed by Stephanie Mendoza CIO uh hello good afternoon uh city of council um I'm here to present a um issue that I feel like everyone is going through and that's uh inflation um now inflation is not a really easy uh topic to talk about because it's completely everywhere like it's it's hard to get by um it basically affects everyone um mainly um companies small businesses grocery stores uh like Walmart wo housing markets and um families and people alike um I will like to discuss only two of those examples I give and that being um the housing markets and oh the housing markets in groceries in Ren know the average apartment with uh one bathroom and one um bedroom cost about $800 to $1,400 to rent out or to pay it off um I found that one cost about $1,000 to be able to use as an example um the the the average minimum wage worker in Reno makes about $12 an hour and likely that work will probably working 40 hours a week the standard um this worker will probably probably be making uh 400 to $480 per week so meaning that he won't be able to pay it off until obviously the next two weeks or three weeks and so and this is all assuming oh sorry the apartment to pay off monthly and this is also all assuming that he is not paying any taxes or buying any groceries gas um clothing and personal care and all of that um from that the groceries I like to mention that obviously all the stores vary from their own prices but I like to talk about Walmart because it's the one I know the best um Walmart uh increases their prices since 2020 especially uh specifically 25% increase on their groceries on eggs dozens of eggs cost about $3 in 2020 and in 2024 they cost about $7 now and especially especially hygiene specifically deodorant um they're pretty expensive I swear that it used to cost like $8 to 7 now they cost like 11 to 10 it's a massive increase to me and obviously this has affected me personally my family um since then since we moved in from 2020 um we've been paying 5,000 uh $5,000 to $600 6 $6,000 per um bill of um I can't speak um no you're fine take your time utility there we go utility sorry no you're fine take your time since now we have paid it has increased by $22,000 being $88,000 we have paid for utility for rent we had to rent our house we pay about since we moved in from 2020 we had to pay $30,000 $30,000 yearly since 2020 now we pay 45,000 per year um just to get by our groceries used to cost about $60 to $80 it's that's pretty accept acceptable to me and my family now it cost about 100 to even more just to be able to buy groceries now and if we're lucky my mom has enough to afford it or most of the time we would just cut the groceries in half so she only pay half of it and and sometimes we have some weeks that we don't even pay we don't even get groceries we just have what we have in the fridge now I'm just mere human I have no idea what kind of um what kind of process that you Madame mayor and the city council have to go through just to be able to fix a problem like this I have no doubt there there might be a solution to um inflation but at this current moment I feel like there is no solution that's it's just because it's almost unavoidable it's always going to go up grocery is always going to go up housing is always going to go up and yeah thank you for your time thank you what is your name Alan what is it Allan Allan yeah okay listen Alan we want to make sure that you your mother never struggles trying to find groceries ever I will pay for it personally I will and I want you to come because we also have some really great programs that um I want to get you connected to and Jackie just said over here what courage you have and your story is so important and you should be very proud to tell it and your mom would be very proud of you just so you guys know it's very hard to get up here and and speak in public comment because that is um public speaking and I don't know if you know but the three most difficult things to do in life they say the top three public speaking flying anyone know the third dentist the dentist the damn dentist which I hate all three I absolutely hate all three and I have to do all three for my my work so I just um I want to say thank you for coming you guys encourage him because what he did was incredible Brave and to be honest and sharing your story helps others and keeps them relating to what you're going through and I'm sure there are other youth going through the same thing but I want to make sure because we have some great programs that would love to help you and your mom so do not leave here today unless um we have your your contact and you're right it's tough It's very very tough out there what did you say get the contact yes we will Brian's going to come see you okay okay and then like I said future Mayors you guys are our future if you don't run for office who will so we need to inspire you to do that so keep us in mind as a resource because we have resources that we can connect you guys too okay who's next Stephanie Mendoza CIO followed by aret Luna okay Stephanie you ready she says no you got this you got this so just take your time I've never done this before so you're fine you're fine so here's what you can do sometimes just so you have your microphones right there just you're going to be reading from your phone correct so you'll keep your head down don't look at any of us unless you want to look at me and I and I'll just smile at you okay and you've you've got this so don't pay attention to us act like you're in a room with no one in it okay good afternoon loo city council my name is Stephanie today I would like to talk about introducing free therapy to young children it hurts me to see these kids suffer from emotional issues especially because some don't even reach high school because of these issues I have very I have heard very sad stories about these um about that sorry no you're doing fine take your time I have heard sad stories about those who really couldn't find help they um or they weren't really taken seriously or had no one to talk to kids can experience mental health issues or varies of reasons for important um it's important to remember mental health challenges and a child are complex and a rise from comp combinations of genetic environment and social factors children who experience trauma such as abuse neglect or loss of a loved one as well it as well as anxiety anxiety is a big one for me because we all have it so no okay I going skip through that cuz it's like very touchy to me but no no we we want to hear it go ahead um you're doing great so I have a sister who really struggles with anxiety and she has been um going to therapy but my parents just can't afford it anymore and I feel like she's losing herself again and like it's just really hard for me to see that and she'll be telling me stories how people her own age at 12 have been um have been struggling and it really hurts me because they're just young they haven't even reached high school yet and really faced real big challenges in life and they say high school is like a whole new experience where you got to learn new things and feel like a big kid but not being able to see that really hurts me and they don't get to see how how there there's more to the world than just yourself and your own head MH but um um I think we should start a program here in Reno so kids could have therapy for free until they're at least 18 where they could afford it amen although we can't solve The World's issue like everywhere I believe we can start here in Reno for example California has a program called hello bright line where they have professional therapists who can communicate with young childrens about their issue something like this would be something similar like this would change a child's life here in Reno wow congratulations you did a phenomenal job and what bravery are you the older sister um yeah she's my younger I have older siblings but they're all moved out so it's just like me and my little sister it's and you take care of your little sister that is fantastic so a few things um we have some programs we have hope Means Nevada we have also hopeful cities um we are the first city to do hopeful cities we have resources um also the county is getting ready to open their um I don't know what what they're going to call it do you know mental health it's a it's for mental health for youth um this this is a a big one and a big passion of mine but we just do not have enough services for younger um demographics and so uh love to talk to you because there's other things out there that you know you can do on your phone that are really easy to do and sometimes more comfortable especially for your generation cuz you guys know that phone like the back of your hand right um so I would love to get you connected to Services because we can get that through the 988 Services there there are there are things out there um that we can we can help so that's the good news about Reno is that we need more services across this country but the good news about Reno is that we have services in this space so I'm happy to connect you you yeah that's one thing cuz like I was talking to my sister about it like there is stuff here and she's like well I don't hear nothing so that's one thing I want to like get out and like have someone like be more public with it you know like have more kids like go to schools and be like hey here's um a program with this and like yes there's not really people who go to schools and let people know although we have counselors and teachers and well other adults that could like we could talk to but I feel like they don't tell you what you need and I you know that's you make such a good point because we think the counselors know all of these things and I don't think they do because I hear over and over that people don't know about certain services so I think we should have like a counselor's day Jackie we should do something where we can along with the county to show them the services that we do have um because they they're so useful yeah and so I I think we don't do a very good job of communicating that especially your age group your age group has one of the high rates of suicide yeah and we need to do whatever we possibly can to take care of your mental health mhm so you got to be there for your sister and hold her hand tell her you love her and make sure she talks to someone call 9882 if she ever feels like you know she's really really struggling okay okay good job you did it Yay good job future mayor okay next Arlette Luna followed by vivana Gonzalez followed by Brandon colazo alala okay Arlette you ready are you guys all friends back there yeah and if not then you'll be lifelong friends you'll say remember that time we had to go to City Council and it was so so painful no you're going to be great just take your time okay thank you so good afternoon members of the council so I'm Marl and I go to hook high school and I'm here to discuss about um gun violence and like how we could do gun control and just gun redution in general because I feel like a lot of people really struggle with having safety because of a lot of guns MH and personally I wanted to be a CO I want to be a cob in the future you do yeah you want to be a future police chief I think she left but you should meet our our police chief and matter of fact I bet we could set it up you could go on a ride along with her oh thank you because truly I feel like guns have really impacted Our Lives mhm and it it was used for protection but like lately it's just been used for the wor like for worse it like affects behaviors like really changes how people act because of guns definitely it affects like how afraid you are like if anything you always assume that someone's going to have a gun and just even if the the smallest thing like if you PTSD yeah like even if you like go in front of a car if you pass a car you assume they'll get mad and they'll just pull out a gun mhm and I was doing research and I saw like Rhode Island has really low gun rate because they require more things to purchase a gun as then like mental a mental like a kind of a test like a um evaluation evaluation yes and they have like more restrictions and like it's kind of crazy to me how you could get like a gun at 18 like something really something that could like kill a lot of people and like just destroy a lot of things at a really young age and I think we should do something about well I love that that you're so passionate about it that is fantastic and um we have a big gun buyback program and chief Nat is has been really Forward Thinking about gun violence um it's absolutely so incredibly sad so I I could see why you would feel so much anxiety right yeah and then I also hope sorry no go ahead I feel like it'll also just not only help us but like future Generations like especially like upcoming children and everybody they don't have to go to school afraid that whenever there's a cold red it'll be a gun and that there're life is in danger that's exactly right you make such a good point we talked about this we used to worry about oh we got to get under our desk for earthquakes or things like that but you guys have to worry about very very serious issues like gun violence so and I believe you did not read from your iPhone did you no wow so that was all from the heart yeah good for you thank you that is fantastic good for you you'll make a great police Chief thank you okay um sorry I just wanted to say like from my personal experience as well I had a situation as well like personal yeah yes I went to like it was like a it was like a family friendly event it was like a horse race and just because of an argument two people like that shouldn't have guns they like pulled out guns and it could have turned into a shootout and at a family event yeah there was a lot of children I just it made think even more cuz I was like I don't think any children should be like traumatized by anything like that and you experienced it personally yeah this is why you can speak on it from the heart yeah thank you so much that's you guys have so I mean I'm so impressed I am so impressed all of you are so brave to share your personal stories thank you good job good job thank you so much for you guys' consent and time no I'm so glad you're here we love it thank you okay Viviana Gonzalez followed by Brandon colazo alala followed by Daniel cantero all right vivana sorry I'm a little nurse no don't worry about it you're gonna be great who's who is your teacher that said we we want you to come to city council meeting oh um Mr Johnson or what we call him Mr Dinosaur you call him Mr Dinosaur what does that mean he's really he he actually really likes um dinosaurs a lot oh he likes dinosaurs okay okay good all right um well good afternoon members of Reno city council um my name is Lana Gonzalez um today I'm here on behalf of haa High School from Mr dinosaurs class I would like to talk to you about inflation and about the unreasonable prices that we've been having lately um me and my family had bad experiences with inflation from seeing from me seeing it firsthand my mom is someone who has been um sorry no you're doing great this is a personal experience that's great mine so um sorry if I get a little um no emotional take your time sorry no it's fine take your time my mom is someone who has been affected by inflation sorry she's been trying to work her way through it and do her payments will it help you if I stand here it's okay than you it's all right you're going to make me cry so you've got this yeah okay you got this go ahead um she's been trying to work her way through it and do her payments for her bills or try to get typical necessities um sorry what I love is how much you love your mom right yeah so this is why it makes you emotional yeah um um typical Necessities that a person would need like groceries or gas um she's a very hardworking person and I actually really admire that about her I'm sorry I love that no that's that's good you're proud of her but she can sometimes struggle when it comes to inflation mhm I'm trying to pay for our apartment um but they keep raising the prices but she tries her best um to overcome those obstacles and I'm sorry you're doing great great I get the pleasure of reading this and this is this is incredibly well written yeah I tried um you did wonderful job wonderful job um but it can be very hard when she barely has a lot of opportunities here in Nevada since she wasn't um raised here so she does not have many benefits compared to like other people here um but the reason I'm mentioning this is because this relates this can relate to unaffordable prices and my mom can get stressed from such inflated prices and happening right now actually but she doesn't get a lot of money from her work um and with her not really having a lot of benefits here it can be hard for someone to do that even if she gets help she still is struggling mhm by trying to make payments um I love how you love your mom um I'm sorry no you're doing great I promised myself I wouldn't come here but you're doing fine do you want to do you want to finish I think you did a fantastic job I'm really trying but it's hard to really talk about it since okay just read this so the council can hear the rest of your thoughts okay so that you don't leave anything out okay um okay well there are even people out there who don't even struggle at all like for example billionaires um like Elon Musk or Bill Gates and they don't have to worry about inflation and they have they don't have to pay taxes um while the lower class um need to pay taxes um I just wanted to say how we could fix this is if we could um just fix in inflation in general in Reno or anywhere honestly for families that live here and try to lower prices so that many people will be able to afford groceries and gas or the Necessities that we need to live um thank you for listening you did it good job you did it I am so impressed myself is it just you and your mom at home um well no um she has a boyfriend but it's still hard you know so is it are you the only child in the home no I'm the youngest my other sisters are older and they take care of themselves oh so do they live at home uh no no they all have their own lives living okay well let's talk after this but I think you did a great job you made it you made it good job good job your mom would be very proud she'd be very proud that you came and spoke on her behalf so good job so impressed okay thank you for listening to me today Brandon colazo alala followed by Daniel cantero uh good afternoon um my name is Brandon um I'm here to discuss the library budget cuts that are uh affecting a community uh when I was a kid I would beg my mom to take me to the library every week the library is where I found my love for history comics and where I met people who would shape the person I am today um a little story when I was first going to the library that's where I first found out about Spider-Man and that's where I met another kid who also had like Who Loved Spider-Man like I did and he and he would tell me how he wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up and that's where I made my career choice moving forward is I wanted to be a hero like Spider-Man because of the kid who told me he wanted to be a firefighter and now that's where I'm today where after I graduate I plan on becoming a firefighter for the City of Reno okay oh I was just going to say it better be for the City of Reno it's going to be for the City of Reno hopefully no it's got to be the City of Reno but this all started with libraries and after the uh sorry let me get back back to where I was all right uh these budget cuts are reducing Library hours and laying off 23 employees um and these libraries aren't just a place of community but they're also a place of resources of technology and information uh these budget cuts would be would be limiting our community by restricting hours and those hours make it less convenient for people to find that community and to use those resources that libraries provide for us like computers another story about that is my mom's first job she found it using a a computer at a library oh and and that's how she got her start here um and yes the libraries like have always been kind of connected to my life from my career choices to my my love for history my mom finding her first job and uh and my love for books I love reading oh and yeah I just want to talk about the budget cuts and why I think maybe they shouldn't be push on effect so hardly with the technology thing uh with the $5 million being um cut from the budget 200,000 of that is being cut from the technology budget which is a lot of people's main way of Technology there's a lot of people who maybe don't have homes who don't have access to that technology and libraries are a way to connect with that uh with that world and yeah that's all I just thank you for your guys' time I just wanted to talk about libraries again it wasn't as pressing of an issue I love that so much what do you like to read do you like to read oh I love history books or all history or fic or like non-fiction fiction there's this book that I wanted to read or I'm starting to read it's called The Diamond eye it's a it's really cool it's just a it's a it's based off a real story but it's like fiction cuz it's them writing it from their point of view it's really interesting did did you um when well you're not old enough to vote but did you go out there and say save our libraries um I wasn't able to sadly no but but I I am just I'm so impressed and you you got to be future Senator Congressman president um remarkable mayor I'm hoping that this young man will connect with Brian in the back of the room and maybe get an opportunity to meet with one of our Fire Chiefs or captains they can talk to you about what it takes to be a firefighter and they're always happy to sit with you and and maybe you know have coffee or something like that and tell you about what it takes to get into that profession because it's a very Noble profession it's a very hard profession um you know it's a lot of hard work to be a firefighter and firefighters um you know they work sometimes they start as a paramedic and then they move up to a different job and so there's a lot of career paths into being a firefighter I don't know if the mayor wants you to know this either but she also knows a real life superhero Hawkeye oh really that's right so she knows Our Fair Hawkeye who's a resident of this community so meet with Mr culpen at the back of the room and make sure you exchange some information so they can connect you with our fire department yeah I get it doesn't sound that serious when I say that I want to become a firefighter because of Spider-Man but it's it's true and it's been there since I was a kid it's my it's been my dream to be a hero and I'm willing to do anything it takes to get there and you're going to be a real life hero a real hero yeah going to be a real life hero I love that that is fantastic Brian in the back how how old are you 17 when do you turn 18 uh this June okay because I was going to say we should do a ride along make sure you get to do a ride along with our fire department 18 to do a ride along I don't know that's why I asked I'm not sure well I don't think they have ride alongs with fire just so do well yes they do we all got to do one they can make an exception for you no they do my students have been doing them with the university this semester and it's it's not exactly a ride along you can go check out the station and you can maybe get a little ride but ride along with police is a very different thing so yeah Brandon about the Explorers the fire explorers here at the city Areno um have not heard about it okay well give you that information I think that's a program you'd be very interested in thank you guys so much for your time all right thank you thank you okay Madam clerk Daniel cantero all right Daniel sorry about the first time I just got my mind went blank your mind went blank yeah the first time oh did you okay I'm sorry I had to get up so oh no you got this okay uh just take your time yeah so uh I want to talk about uh job opportunities like I I love eating I go to like fast food restaurants or whatever you love eating yeah and like they're always hiring and so I apply but yeah I don't know I feel like I've applied everywhere and they just won't call back what yeah uh I don't know I just feel like there's not that many job opportunities for like cuz everybody's asking for like you already have to have experience but you can't I can't yeah like I can't get experience if you don't hire I think I can get you a job oh that'd be that'd be good okay yeah all right go ahead take it away uh uh uh 4.4% of Reno is unemployed which is around 12,000 people yeah and uh it's in it's been increasing actually uh that was last October was 4.4 this it's increased uh 4.1% since last October yeah I don't know I just want a job you know help my parents get Christmas presents okay well I have a job for you okay mhm you're hired we'll talk about it after okay okay I know a place where teenagers work and they're surrounded by lots of dunks and clothing and things like that so oh that we're g to we're going to get you a job okay okay yeah all right so hang out with Brian and then we'll we'll connect okay good job yeah thank you you're welcome okay next mam clerk Madam mayor with that we have no additional public comment for the record we did receive 34 comments which were either General in nature or received after 4m. yesterday December 10th one letter of support 23 letters of opposition and 10 letters of concern those have been distributed to the Reno city council and are part of the record and with that we are on item K motion to adjourn all right so move I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right everyone if I don't get to see you have a wonderful wonderful holiday and make it count e