hello vice mayor jardin just double checking that you can hear us and if you would mind unmuting so we can hear you then we should be all ready to go i can hear you awesome thank you give me just a second to get everything running thank you all right madam vice mayor we are all ready to go this morning so if you'd like we can call to order the wednesday may 18th reno city council and redevelopment agency board special meeting yes please at this time call the meeting to order all right so our first item today is the pledge of allegiance okay if we could get uh city manager thornley to lead us to the for which it pledges one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice and clerk back to you for uh roll call and public comment thank you councilmember breckis i'm here today you're here delgado weber here jardin here reese phoebe absent this time madame vice mayor you do have a quorum of the reno city council our first item on today's agenda is general public comment it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and council as a whole heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to both matters on and off the council's agenda please note that council may not take action upon any matter not agendized for today when you are called on to speak for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded three minutes if you're an attendee in the zoo meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time and lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there's disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave chambers if the behavior continues our first commenter today is george campioni followed by jerry myth said how does this work if you just place it up there george then we will go ahead and get it up for you all right there we go okay my name is my name is george campagnoni my dad what else my address is 501 west first street reno nevada 89503 in case you don't know that's the truckee river terrace apartments all right put this up here the housing was not affordable the housing was horrific this is a quote by hillary cheeby who happens not to be here okay it was wrong to continue to say that we were away people's housing took away people's housing honestly what happened is it needed to happen a long time ago let it go on we let it go on along and subjected people to horrific conditions for a long time and that's what we should be ashamed of okay first horrific and affordable i hear all of you talking about affordable that is a government manipulated term you guys are using semantics to make people believe you're talking to the people that are concerned about really rent increase the courtyard which jacob has purchased for three million dollars right where is it sitting it's sitting unused how is anybody going to be able to make any money on the courtyard at this point i was paying 600 a month up until january 31st of 2020. they moved me into the truckee river terrace apartments right okay so we get there i'm now paying 970 and i want you to see what they consider proper disposal of trash all right this is this is right outside you have two entrances the front and the rear look at the garbage piled up okay who had a call to get this cleaned up me i had to call the health department who then referred me to the environmental control and of course who do they call cromer to make him sure they cleaned it up and yeah they were out there with their elbows moving all right but you know how long that stood look they started with the garbage cans all right and the reason this all happened was because they did not fix their trash compactor i sat in my room for almost two years with that compactor pounding at the beginning of friday night going all the way through monday morning all right now this is wrong you are not doing a job okay they that you have artificially increased property value jacob's health everybody's jumping on a bandwagon all right because of lease agreements you can't do anything right we have no cause the the laundry services have been discontinued for two weeks we didn't have a laundry because they turned it off all right and i have all the documents i need to show you jerry thank you very much adam kirk jerry smith said and madam clerk after jerry is finished speaking i'm going to turn it to council member rhys to run me thank you we need to quorum over this side not just that side anyway my name is jerry the pizza man that's the name i'm going to use when i run for uh oscars uh after he leaves ward 3. i'm going to talk about technically a paradise park and i wish that we could pay close attention what's happening to the homeless people out of taglia okay number one they're not there anymore number two they're moved and pushed to another side of the city and in some cases they're put on a greyhound bus and ushered out of town that's bad what else about taglia park the ponds they are straight up filled with e coli that develops in the heat of the summer and that goes from coliform which is normal habitat what have you but in the summer time that turns into e coli you folks were not pleased at all when i called the federal epa and to come and check your i i got your testing as a big mistake because they looked at your testing they said it was inefficient and incomplete how you test the ponds the federal epa said you have to remove the ponds drain the swamp that's a phrase take out the ground mr taglia gave you this years ago yeah the palms were there for his cows what are you doing about that well zero i was told at one time uh we have 1.2 million dollars to go into taglia park the federal epa told me it'll take you three million dollars to do something to do that take everything out and replace it you have people fishing you have people fishing there make the signs bigger yeah i've talked to the park people make the signs bigger for god's sakes do you have dogs that are lapping the water i've been out there twice where a mother and a child and a dead dog was laying there i called up the city they did nothing what the hell's going on here you need to put a skirt around all the pond areas if it is going to affect the the animal i mean the the natural habitat you know you see fish floating geese floating you know this is acceptable not really you have what's called reena arch kitty park the big cement animals are all tripped and broken they need to be replaced you promised me a dog park two years ago jeff mann he's retired anybody that i seem to step on their toes they retire where's a dog park it's nowhere in sight you have drug dealing going on in the parking lot you have one light bulb in that parking lot the paradise drive i talked to tony powell of the energy company improved the arms on that street so we stopped the drug dealing outside of that i want you to have a nice day and please do so it's in the poor neighborhood that's why you're not doing anything you want to you're uploading neighborhoods you seem to feed that i'm excited that you'll be considering political life next time you show up in the chambers please dress appropriately for this body that's your wife i asked somebody that's your warning thank you very much what would you dress thank you so much i appreciate you mr mifsud i'm going to have you removed if you do not yes i can thank you your time is up your time is up thank you madam vice mayor next item on the agenda today is a4 approval of the agenda can i get a motion please have a motion in a second all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye motion carries thank you our next item is item b1 budget and fee schedule adoption miss vicki van buren good morning vicki van buren interim finance director for the record i'm very pleased to be here today to present to you the budget for fiscal year 2223 as being proposed a lot of this information you're going to see today is information that we've covered previously in the budget workshops so we have updated it with a few changes that i will highlight in here but a lot of the presentation materials are the same so i will kind of go through them quickly and then if there are questions we can go back to them but i will go ahead and go through the whole presentation as council has seen most of this information previously so first slide here our budget we built this budget and we present it today and we focus it on council's overarching goals and they've really driven the priorities that were put into this budget and we're going to highlight those as we move through the presentation we're going to start by summarizing all of the funds and so the total budget that you're looking at is 915 million dollars the largest being the general fund and then sewer of the second largest and then capital projects as we know we have a lot of capital projects as we went through those in the workshops previously the changes that you're going to see in this budget as opposed to what was presented in the tentative budget the tenant of budget being the one that was presented to the state on april 15th are two additional full-time positions in the sewer put in the sewer enterprise um the sewer capital was updated as well from what was on the tentative budget this did not change from what was presented to this body at the workshops at the beginning of may we did have those updated numbers in there for those workshops it was just uh those capital numbers as we got new numbers in and and kind of refine those uh pub through public works those numbers were not available when the budget was done on april 15th but from what this body saw in may that incorporated those changes the only other change we have in here is an increase to the council donation funds of ten thousand dollars each then this next slide here shows the budget by function so the total budget is 915 million that does include the redevelopment area in this number so it's the total between city of reno redevelopment one and redevelopment too and it gives you a good idea of the breakdown between public safety public works culture and recreation how that shakes out as far as function within the city when we look at the recommendations the total recommendations and this these slides have all been updated with those a couple of changes that i mentioned earlier so the proposed changes uh are 8.5 million dollars in additional cost and that does include 54 full-time positions and then some additional one-time or specific items as well the new positions there's 54 positions that are being presented today new positions general fund almost 29 of those sewer eight and a half and then the other funds you have 14.6 the other funds include street fleet and room tax when we go into the positions as proposed by council priority you'll see that each priority is listed and the number of positions being proposed with that priority are listed as well we have 14 in public safety 16 in infrastructure and 12 in economic development as well as six in fiscal sustainability foreign arts and parks and historical resources and two in the hand program when we look at the items that are being proposed that are not position related this is this slide represents that so you have a few one-time items such as vehicles or a plow truck and then you have some ongoing items such as the on-call funding in streets this is a new slide that was not presented during the workshops but we wanted to give you an idea of the full-time positions and how those relate to the functions and so you'll see in community support we have 14 new positions that are being proposed so the top number is the number that uh we're currently at with the new proposals added and then the proposed for the new budget so we had 105 we're proposing 14 new positions to 119. in public safety we had 772 proposing 14 new so a total of 786 and in total you're looking at 1423 positions when you look at the positions year over year you'll see that the public works department has 28 of the positions that are being recommended are in public works uh 26 in community development and then 26 in public safety there's 15 14 and 14 respectively amongst those when you look at the positions as uh where they're coming from funding source wise the posit i'm sorry not positions these are the totals total dollars so total dollars this would be the positions and the one-time funding or the ongoing funding um that's included in the budget it's those these are the sources so the sources are across the top general fund street building permit room tax and such and then down the side of the department so you have the division of the total dollars being proposed the 8.5 million dollars and how that's distributed between the departments now this slide is actually the positions and this will show you how the positions are being proposed for the departments and then how uh the where the funding sources are coming from so you have the total of the 54 positions 29 almost 29 coming from general fund and then the others from the other funds when we go into the general fund summary this is a slide we talked about previously we're increasing the fund balance the budgeted fund balance for fiscal year 22 was 13 we're increasing it up to 14 percent and we're continuing to fund it make increases in the unfunded liabilities these reserves are funded to reduce outstanding or contingent liabilities and these include opeb risk and workers comp we look at the general fund how is it distributed well we have 269 million dollars in revenue and 58 goes to public safety some goes to parks admin debt service public works munich and community support but the the bulk of it goes to public safety we look at the proposed positions for just the general fund these are how they align with council strategic priorities we have 3.7 million in total for these positions and almost 29 positions recommended this slide gives you a an idea of the breakdown of sea tax property tax and the fees and the various other resources we have we have total revenues and other sources which does include the beginning fund balance here of 301 million dollars the sea tax as proposed is estimated at six percent higher and property tax is estimated at five percent higher when you look at the general fund revenues uh and this just includes the revenue piece of it not the fund balance piece you have 269 million dollars 38 is from sea tax and 26 is from property tax so in total you're looking at the largest portions of the budget are from consolidated tax and property tax when you look at the expenditures for the general fund the general fund expenditures the largest portion again obviously is salary and wages and employee benefits and in total we have the 301 million dollars with an ending fund balance of the 32.1 million dollars which is the 14 percent and so we are presenting to you today a balanced budget this is a visual breakdown of the expenditures so 78 percent are on salary and benefits and 17 on services and supplies and this is typical for a service organization for the general fund 10-year projection this is what we do to ensure strategic strategic investments are being made as we go along each year during the budget process that we're aligning what's being presented to you with council's priorities and we're also ensuring that we can fiscally be fiscally responsible and we can sustain what we're presenting to you so as you can see over this 10-year projection we have an ending fund balance that we're sustaining over the years of anywhere from 14 to 15 percent over this 10-year projection and this is how we actually projected to get to a balanced budget a few years ago i was using this similar technique and maybe miss van buren how much longer do you have in terms of the presentation um probably just a little bit more we have to kind of touch on everything since this is the hearing okay let's keep going with the presentation and then we'll come back and miss breakfast you'll be first up we have listed here the special revenue funds these consist of the monies that have to be accounted for in a separate fund because the funds are dedicated for a specific purpose the largest ones in here are the street fund and the room tax fund so we will focus on those in the next couple slides this is a new slide that we added just to give you an idea of what's in these special revenue funds most of the the funds in here for services and supplies and other items that come through here we do have the street fund you can see salary and benefits as a portion of that and service and supplies but it's mostly capital that's in that one and it's mostly capital in your hud and state housing in the cdbg when you go into the street summary we have 33 million dollars of total revenue most of that is capital projects 54 the additions that are proposed in this budget are 3.25 positions that would be new positions to the street fund and then these are the capital projects that were previously discussed with council at the may workshops 22.1 million dollars in capital projects in the street fund you go into room tax we're estimating to receive about three million dollars in room tax the room tax is split 50 council and 50 to parks and recreation and on the right hand side you have the items that are proposed for the council portion and for the parks portion in next up we have proprietary funds proprietary funds mean means these funds are run kind of like a business so you have the sewer fund in the building permit fund and then we have the internal funds of the fleet risk medical and workers comp and those are internal service funds that we the city provides those services to the departments and then the departments pay into those to pay for those services for the sewer fund it's 120 million dollars that's split between the items that you see on the right hand side are the uses of those funds sewer reuse is a 26 and sewer lines are at 22 as the highs on that there are 8.5 positions that are being recommended for this this does include the two additional positions that were not presented in may that were the change from the tentative to this budget and the total capital projects of 111 million dollars we go into the building enterprise fund that's almost 13 million dollars and half of that is spent on the activities associated with building permits and enforcement 8.35 positions are being proposed in the building permit fund and then we have the internal service funds this is a new slide i just want to give you an idea of what the cash balances are for the internal service funds we have the motor vehicles the fleet the medical plans risk and workers comp you can see that workers comp is starting to gain ground on the cash balance it's still very underfunded but we are gaining ground on it the medical plan you can see stays around 20 million dollars anywhere between 20 and 25 million dollars that's why we've been able to keep the rates relatively flat for premiums for the employees is because that fund is doing very well and then in risk and motor vehicle those are areas that typically right now are running around five million dollars prior to this they were much lower but we have been building those up in the capital improvement plan we have general capital projects room surcharge event center parks and the capital tax fund in the general projects we have the four million dollars that were that was previously discussed with council with these projects and then in the other the other capital project funds these uh projects remain the same as what was presented with the may workshops and then again the bond proceeds this is the anticipated split between the projects once that bond is issued in the debt funds we have the the city of reno debt service fund that includes uh the krebs funds the um fire apparatus medium-term obligation in there as well and also in this one it will include the 60 million dollar bond that's scheduled to be issued in july then we have the cabela's the railroad the event center and the sid funds when you look at the city of reno debt in a chart uh you'll see that the the total debt um is is the two lines together the blue is the general obligation debt and then the orange is the total other debt portion of it and you will see that going up in the 2023 year and that is based on the the 60 million dollar uh general obligation bond and then also the anticipated 30 34 million dollar sewer general obligation bond and that would be done through the state revolving loan fund then we'll move into the fee schedule on the fee schedule when we talked about this during the council workshops um we did present several options one of the things that we had on there was the we had a new fee study done this year a fee report comprehensive fees to determine the cost of these these items that the city is providing that fee study was not completed until march late march of this year and although we've provided that information to council we are not recommending to use that at this point because we just haven't had a lot enough time to really dive into that and so what we're suggesting is that we dive into that this next year and really do so do some more workshops and things on that uh to go over those the last fee study was done in 2016 and we really believe that some more work needs to be done as far as analyzing that and bringing that back to council at a later time so at this time we're just recommending that we go with the proposed cip cpi increase for those fees that are applicable the building valuation table would be updated for the building fees and then parks and recs did present year three of their five-year plan during the workshops that is being presented as well and then there's no change in the the finance or the court fees and with that that is the end of the presentation for the the uh city of reno i do want to mention that we did present this information to the financial advisory board on thursday and they did go ahead and make a motion to support and recommend this budget for adoption to the council okay thank you mr van buren i appreciate it um is it accurate then that we're going to talk about the redevelopment agencies one and two in a separate part or yes okay and will we have to and this is a question for the clerk do we have to re do we have to open the redevelopment agency because they don't see us agendize in that way so perhaps i just want some clarity on that yep we can open it right now and take roll okay let's do that thank you so much so we will call to order the redevelopment agency board for wednesday may 18th i'm going to go ahead and call roll council member reckons delgado weber jardin reese shavey yeah madame mayer you do have a quorum of the redevelopment agency board all right thank you madam clerk uh at this time any public comment madam mayor we have no public comment we've not received any correspondence that we haven't unregistered okay thank you so much uh item e3 approval of the agenda may get a motion i have a motion and a second all those in favor say aye okay all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right mom clerk right um miss van buren i think we're going to move on to item e4 which is the public hearing so we're just going to open that now so that we have both items open so madame open public hearing has any correspondence been received proper notice has been given question yes thank you yes yes all right it was noticed no correspondence received thank you question are we are we asking questions on this first part is that what we're doing or are we continuing to i had originally thought that we were going to complete ms van buren's presentations and then i'll turn it back over to madam mayor who may want to give us additional time because obviously there's a lot here but i don't know which each individual member's interest may be but it just helps miss van buren i think stay on track whatever you want great thank you um we'll move on to the redevelopment agencies one and two just a quick map to give you an idea redevelopment agency one is the downtown areas redevelopment agency two um is spread out over seven seven different areas around town redevelopment agency one the general fund of that receives some motor vehicle privilege tax and then it provides the parking gallery income is the parking gallery rent from the collegers managed parking gallery and then the expenses are related to that parking gallery as well in the debt service for redevelopment agency one um there are three bonds in that one and that's the debt service that you see here we have tax adblorum tax which is property tax that comes in for that it has not been enough to pay that uh debt and so we've been drawing down on the the cash reserves in that balance and so now we are at a point where we're going to be needing to do a loan and council did approve loaning funds from redevelopment 2 to redevelopment 1 in order to make those debt service payments so you will see those payments out there as 1.2 million in the current year and then 1 million for the next year in redevelopment agency 2 those property taxes have been going up pretty well this this agency this area has been doing better than redevelopment agency one so the property tax in here has been coming in pretty steadily and it's increased from two almost two and a half million last year to 4.2 million this year and the baseball agreement is paid out of this redevelopment area too and so it does still have the capacity to loan funds over to redevelopment area one until those bonds are paid off and then redevelopment area one will pay back redevelopment area too in the debt fund for redevelopment area 2 there's just a small cabela's loan in there and that's the only items that we have in redevelopment area 2 and so with that we have supplemental information on the back i'm not going to discuss that information it's just all of the org charts were updated as well to include the two new positions that are being proposed and council has those um you have those at your disposal to use with that that concludes my presentation so i'd be glad to answer any questions okay thank you [Music] that's okay okay then um i just had a couple quick questions um on the room tax i just wanted to understand is the split between parks and art is that sorry parks and council directed i think it's called is that by ordinance or is that by just sort of um past history or whatever it's by ordinance so we made an ordinance many years ago and that was the split correct okay that's what it was really helpful that's what i thought but i wanted to check and then another question was on the fees let me just turn to it um so is this a change or is this exactly what you propose because i was a little confused last time we had the consultant here and they gave a whole presentation but then today you're saying we're not doing what the consultant recommended but were we already not doing it last time last time we brought it to council just to get input on what council wanted to see going forward and we did provide the document with the the fee study information compared to cpi compared to what we were currently charging just so that you could see the changes across those and and as you know the fee the fee schedule itself is very big quite large um and we really do feel like we we need to do a deeper dive into it before we recommend any of those let me just say it a different way is this proposal because there's no backup here on this presentation i mean it's all here is it the same as what you presented last time or is there a change yes it is the cpi changes yes and then the building valuation and then the parks position so it is a specific question i'm not sure where i find it but i know that in the the public realm requesting public records can be you know challenging and there's a cost associated with it are we increasing the cost for public records in this fee schedule and do you know how that i'm not sure you know mr manager like are we in other words i think there's a copy per page fee i don't know i received confirmation we are not that's really good thank you i think that's very good not on records okay i couldn't tell from this because under no change maybe that would be one to list his records requests that's good very good um and i think for the moment i know i had another question i wrote something down um oh one of the other questions was you said something about a five percent is six percent this is right back at the way at the beginning and i think it was at that point because going to out to councilwoman weber said we're going very fast and i wrote it down as quick as i could but there was a five and a six percent change in something could you see tax is an increase of six percent is what we're estimating for next year and then property tax is five percent okay and those are based on trends that you've seen over this last year yes property tax is actually um we get that number from the state and then we verify it on our own two to make sure it looks like it looks correct and it's trending correctly ctex we do get a number from the state and then we do our own projections as well as we talk to other local agencies and make sure that we're in line with the same information that they're seeing property tax comes from the state estimate and the sea tax comes from a kind of a regionalist yes okay thank you all right councilman so um last session we took a vote it didn't pass to roll in at the request of the historic resource commission five that fifty thousand dollars into the budget was that rolled in no it's not included no what was the thinking for not incorporating that manager thornley had some thoughts on that yeah i think that the you know uh that request was made sort of outside the budget workup process um you know and while it's not such a significant amount of money that we might not be able to find it in through an augmentation we were late in the in the budget workup and when would an appropriate time for a one of our boards and commissions to bring this forward when they're considering grant opportunities well i mean i think that you know that particular board and commission with their adoption of a strategic plan um that never made its way to the city proper could have made a request in conjunction with that but that's not the route that was followed there and so you know we need to evaluate that strategic plan see where it fits in terms of how we're deploying staff resources and whether or not there's an opportunity for us to pursue what they're what they're looking for this is very helpful thank you and i'll make sure that they um are able to watch this tape and understand that and they've met since then so thank you this additional ten thousand dollars for council discretion where'd this idea come from um manger thornton did you wanna uh that was a an idea for me um sort of there's always more dogs and bones with with respect to what we're trying to accomplish there i thought it fit nicely with rolling up all those funds from travel and training and making one pot of money for our council to draw from and we've had a number of instances over the last few budget cycles where you know we got to the end of it and and there were more opportunities than we had budgeted for and i wanted to make sure that uh if we were able we were better able to support the council in that space and then this chief infrastructure officer is that you said we're adding 54 positions is this the 55th no when we presented uh previously in may we presented 52 positions okay so now we're presenting 54. correct in the supplemental materials for day i did not see where that position drops into department wise it should be under public works and but it's paid for by the sewer division correct several of the positions that are in public works are paid for for sewer i thought we were making a division in the allocation of the um chief infrastructure officer okay has a management analyst under it correct i thought and it's 100 funded by sewer yes i thought then it's only doing sewer infrastructure it seems counterbalanced to me to have someone funded fully under sewer and be this broad encompassing infrastructure title and be outside of the utilities division can you explain the thinking on that uh manager thornley of course over the next five or six years we have a number of um sewer infrastructure projects that are that are going to take precedence over so many other matters and what this position will do is it will free up bandwidth to concentrate there instead of focusing on many of the day-to-day tasks that our public works team takes on why are you not putting them in the utilities division then well the utilities division is uh really dedicated to running the actual utility not making strategic decisions or overseeing the projects that okay operations okay i didn't realize that i thought operations was over in public works the collection system for our utility operations and there are public works operations and as we you know stand up the utilities division the day-to-day operations of those utilities will reside there and the day-to-day operations of streets and the other you know the facilities maintenance projects that that our public works teams take on so well will reside in public works all right councilman reece thank you madam mayor miss van buren first of all i want to take a step back before i ask some questions about specific things and just say thank you to you and your team thank you to the financial advisory board for the work that goes into this for the public who might watch or consider what we're doing as a city how much time goes into the preparation of the budget from just a sheer human powered output i mean can you just give us an estimate i don't need it to be an exact numerical figure but what's an estimate for how much time goes into it well i you know what i thank you for the question councilmember reece i'm not really sure to the answer to that question i mean we start the process uh generally we start the process in august as soon as this is adopted and then we get the actual pretty version and the online version online version up and the pretty version in the printed form printed and then once we do that we start with the next year so it's really a cycle and it it continues all year long so to try to put a number on that i'm not sure that i could well it's in the thousands of hours oh absolutely thousands and i think it's important because of course people want to make sure that the decisions we make are well thought out um that we are sort of being strategic about those decisions and that we you know aren't at the last minute sort of inserting our own selves into a process that perhaps is taking a considerable amount of time i also want to ask about how many meetings has this body had as we prepare because you talked about the workshops right i think each one of us has had the opportunity to maybe do one-on-ones multiple rounds of them um certainly we as a body it's the largest thing we'll do is to to make the decisions here how many meetings have there been in that regard well with with council we've had three workshops we had in in march and then we had three workshops in may and now we're having this discussion again we also have had you know since january ongoing we've had meetings with the department's ongoing meetings with the city manager city manager's office as our staff so it a lot of meetings well and and for my part you know as i started those meetings early on if i had very specific questions about a specific department i i simply went and asked those department leaders i asked are you getting what you need you know are you finding the resources you need so each one of us has played a role in it too and i guess my point in before i ask questions in my second round is to say this document that you've provided today is really uh incredibly well thought out i thought it also is accessible to people who might be looking at it online they can really find the answers to it in a way that's meaningful to them and so i'm going to hold on to this of course as i do with each year's but this is particularly good and well done and well thought out and i just want to make sure that you understand i i see the work that your team is doing i appreciate the work that's gone into it the thousands and tens of thousands of hours because at the end of the day there are going to be some things where one knit here or there i may disagree with or want change but on balance i'm really happy about the work that's been put in so thank you for that thank you yeah thank you um and i too want to thank you vicky for this work i know you kind of picked up the leadership role here uh late in the process but i i'm gonna reiterate the appreciation for including the org chart and i really like the way you did it which was you have the positions and you've identified where the new positions go and it's really important since you've pointed out salary wages make up the vast proportion of our budget um so thanks for that a couple questions for our manager um many many months ago not just last month i asked and actually last year as well i asked for a fifty thousand dollar consideration for historic resource consultant type person to support all the departments in the city and that also came up at our last meeting um i didn't ask you late i asked you you know way ahead of time and um i i just wondered is that included here or so it's not in this budget what it is included in is an augmentation that will come through in the budget year we are presently experiencing this year yes mr angry has identified an opportunity that will be paid for out of the building enterprise i was one that's was i was gonna suggest okay then similarly we also talked about a tree inspector and the reason for that is even with no change to our tree ordinances one of the biggest criticisms we're receiving out in the public is that for years we have not um you know enforced our current ordinances and i know that you've added people i'm very grateful the tree maintenance workers those are mostly people that um trim and maintain the some 25 000 trees that we have in all our parks but um this is about permitting and i know you added a landscape uh architect i think which i also think is a really good improvement we used to have one um but i i think they need that's in-house and that's reviewing uh permits but i think we need someone outside and i would like while you're in this process whether it's budget augmentation or enterprise i'd love it if you could consider that for that i assume it's not in here because i didn't think i saw it same vein so okay the landscape architect that you've identified that that you referenced there my understanding of how we're going to approach this is is that we will get the landscape architect on board they will be the primary point of contact and enforcement for our landscape requirements okay and if that is insufficient we will move on from there okay and last one is a um thank you and then last one is the parks planner i know that you've also added parks maintenance staff and so on but i know for the eight years i've been here talking to our park staff that one of the needs you know we're growing so much we we also need to add just like we need that police and fire we have to add resources you know park resources for those people have good quality life and i know that they have been really strapped by not having a parks planner that they used to have also and so what i'm really trying to do is go back to you know the pre-recession days bring back some of these jobs that we used to do so we can continue moving our word forward do you have thoughts on that one i do have thoughts on that um i don't think anybody here would disagree with your assessment that we'd like to get back to the pre-recession uh compliment there in parks and rec my conversations with director schroeder uh include sort of a ranking of the needs of the department and maintenance workers and and tree maintenance workers in particular rank at the top there and so just in terms of parsing the request from um the department the parks player was on there but it did not rise to the level of the okay well something to consider strongly for next year you know or an augmentation i would suggest all right thank you thank you madam mayor um last budget we put in this city ombudsperson position i'd argued it should be a contract but it was a position is that still in this budget yes it is is that position currently occupied i don't know why is it not i i have a hard time having rolling over a year with a position that was a new position i felt it wasn't firmly identified i don't even think it was in our slate of compliments um and it did get filled so have you made efforts to fill it do you have a job description do you have a recruitment we've had two recruitments and the candidates back have not been um satisfactory we have not found a person who's a good fit for that role and i think that that role is incredibly important and there's a certain genesee qua about it and we simply have not found the right person to fill it well here's my thinking is one i think we should be provided a memo on the job outline because it's it was a little vague when we left budget it's been a year it's still unfilled two is um you know consideration of contract and three you know i i i don't know i i won't say i i will just reflect my concern about putting this chief infrastructure officer fully on sewer um if they're going to be doing other tasks i've seen this city's budget use the sewer fund in areas outside of the sewer fund and then have problems with that and this chief infrastructure officer looks like you know just by title it's gonna be doing other things so if there's some salary savings for general fund with this ombudsperson i'd certainly slot 40 50 percent of budget over there um general fund just a thought i want to ask about our investment policies and our cash in balance um we've changed up the way we report to the council the fiscal and we're getting some information we didn't get in the past which was where all our cash and balance is hanging out investments i mean obviously we have an investment policy um and i'm bringing up in this context um are we still following that same investment policies yes we have investment policies and we do follow those but um where is the information of how the cash is held and where the cash is held i'd be glad to get that information for you okay i'd like that in the quarterly there's a lot of new financial instruments out there i want to make sure we haven't strayed from those thank you and then um one last thing is i noticed that the resolution that you have prepared for us today has a final whereas related to the baseball settlement why is that relevant and in there it's in there because there was a time when there weren't enough revenues coming in into the redevelopment areas and the general fund was backfilling to pay that they pay that obligation and so as part of the resolution it goes forward because if revenues did not come in the general fund would be obligated to backfill to pay that but that is not something that we're doing at this time we haven't done it for several years yeah it just you know the whereas really is a broad guidance and if it's not relevant you know maybe the resolutions be scrapped and that does re read the last point at our last workshop or actually at last meeting you weren't here for the bond offering we talked about how much general fund we brought into that debt for the bolding building and enterprise la and you you sent me that table again it was in the budget materials earlier but just for refresh and following that loop is last budget we were about 2 million a general fund into that debt service my calculations were about 19 million or so but this year we're not planning any general fund into that debt service correct no we had budgeted in the current budget 2 million but we do not need it because the revenues have have come back up to normal levels from the time when the businesses were shut down and for the next budget that's being proposed in front of you today they're zero thank you all right councilman reece thank you madam mayor miss van buren can we look at slide 51 this is the total city of reno debt and just take a minute to get it up there but two things one is i'm excited about your statement and i think it bears repeating that this will be um a balanced budget right this is something that had been planned for several years and it took some time to get there including you know a pandemic that perhaps created some um slowdown in that effort but how how long has it been since we last had a balanced budget oh i don't i more than a decade so it's a uh uh i suppose again it's it's something that bears repeating that's an exciting thing about the city it certainly impacts our i suppose our bond rating credit rating all the financial indicators are a good thing what is the high level takeaway from this because when i i look at this chart and the first thing that jumps out of me is the 2009 uh 190 million for retract and so then i uh extend out into 2023 where we have made some decisions about strategic investments in our uh parks in our public safety what do you what do you want us to take from this particular slide sure well you can obviously see that the 2009 was was the high point as we go back over this history and so that was more than a decade ago at that point um even with issuing the 60 million dollar bonds that we have coming up we are still not even close to where we were more than 10 where you can fund some things with cash or then you have bigger projects that come up where you need to take out some bond money and so you'll see we pay down debt and then we take out debt and you pay down debt and it's it's really a cycle well and i appreciate that i suppose one thing that would be interesting to me is to compare uh this to our population growth and so if i think about where we were in 2004 and where we are today uh the population has just expanded you know incredibly and so it might be an interesting uh thing to juxtapose against that i suppose it also speaks to the fact that debt is different in among government entities how would you say we are in comparison to other similarly situated cities of our size meaning are we um are we doing well are we how goes it out there and when you look at because you're in your position you spend a lot of time talking both in state and out of state to and examining based on your experience where we are so how would you compare us to other similar side cities we're actually doing very well when we first anticipated going out for a bond to do these large projects for this 60 million dollar bond we had a lot of meetings and we prepared a lot of information as far as what healthy debt looks like and what the ratios are for healthy debt and so we did a lot of comparisons against other agencies uh local and then other agencies um you know in in the the southern portion of the state as well and compared to those agencies we're actually doing very very well and the fact is that we submit to other various agencies i think councilmember dewer sits on one of those agencies that evaluates the way in which municipal and local governments structure their debt but it's to say that it's just not us flying by the seat of our pants we have a lot of eyes looking at what we do all the time right both at the state level absolutely and so um what are the agencies that we submit to or might have oversight or examination of our debt the the agency that you mentioned is the debt management commission and so anytime we issue a bond like this we have to go forward with the debt management commission we provide the information as far as what is backing the what will be backing the payments how that calculates compared to what our maximum caps are there are a lot of calculations based on that we also do submit to the department of taxation as well okay thank you so much all right any more questions from council members i think there are none uh mr manager would you like us to take a motion on this well we have madame clerk i believe we've done the public hearing for both the city and the redevelopment agencies and that leaves us with three um resolutions that we need to vote on okay can we do those yeah can we do them in one and then ask questions if anyone has any other questions on these three yeah for the record um uh john shipman city attorney's office because we have two governing bodies um if we could maybe just take each one in turn um legal would appreciate it okay so we'll i'll give you a motion then um am i correct e you want to do b2 okay so let's take a motion on item b2 move to approve stack recommendations and adopt the resolution okay thank you i have a motion i have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries okay now we are going to head over to um e 4 2 and e 4 3. so madam mayor it's my privilege to move to adopt staff recommendation and move to adopt the resolutions okay i have a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries all right one thing i do i want to bring up because i don't want to forget it because i don't know if you started off this way he's not in the room but i do think that we should sing happy birthday to mr chris pingree i'm sure you are somewhere in zoom land maybe so chris happy birthday what are you 21. sure looks at madame mayor right madam mayor if you don't mind chris is in the room and he's raised his hand so we're going to go ahead and move them into the chat ah there you go well good morning or good afternoon birthday boy there you are everybody for the kind birthday wishes i appreciate it that could have been bad we could have found him sitting by a pool or a virtual background sure sure well madame mayor i'll lead us in singing happy birthday to mr pingree happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear chris happy birthday to you you guys are the best thank you so much all right happy birthday we'll see you soon thank you have a great afternoon you too all right madam mayor so we're going to move into rounding out this meeting so for item e5 to close out rda um is closing public comment to which i have none so i'm looking for a motion to adjourn the redevelopment agency thank you so now we're moving on to item c which is closing public comment for our general reno city council meetings [Laughter] we have done a tremendous job and i know that you have had a lot and you are a rock star and you should be so proud about this budget and what you've accomplished so we want to make sure [Applause] i have some public comment also go ahead thanks i know it's a light-hearted moment but i want to discuss the fact that we had a member of the public escorted by um public safety officer out of our building today um and that's the only as i can recall in almost 10 years i've served on the city council the second time that someone's been escorted um the first time was the guy over at washoe county who threw the the green stuff or sprayed the green stuff and um you know it was over his objections and should that person follow with a complaint on public open meeting laws i just want to be clear one that i do not see in our rules any regulation of dress decorum and that was the i think what triggered this person and i don't i maybe triggered isn't the right word it was the objection that the person was commented on and secondly it is under our rules 2.3 that when the mayor's absent and the vice mayor is not able to preside and i i can certainly understand someone remotely not wanting to preside that it is by a vote of the council who is the presiding officer we did not vote on who was the presiding officer it was more or less assigned to a member and i will in the future raise that point of order i thought you know it didn't matter but i think in this instance it did and i will and i also want to just raise those issues because we could be faced with something i think very likely all right bye-bye councilman and feel free any time before that happens to speak up so i appreciate you bringing it to our attention all right uh so i think you just need a motion am i correct all right i have a motion i have a second all those in favor say aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right great day everyone thank you so much vicky you're amazing good job you