All right. Good morning everyone. We are waiting for a couple council members I think. Oh no, maybe one online. >> None. You have Oh, >> we have one online. Um Oh, I'm hearing some feedback. It's echoing. Do you hear it? >> Yeah, I hear it. >> Yeah. >> Maybe it's a laptop. >> It was a cell phone. >> Cell phone. >> Door. >> Okay. >> All right. Good morning, Madame Mayor. >> Mayor. >> Hi. Good morning. >> I don't know if you saw me. I'm as well. Is this council member Eart? >> Yes. Okay. Good. Perfect. Uh, and then I would just remind you if you need to speak, let the clerk know because sometimes I forget when you're not in your chair. So, just wave us down. All right. Good morning, everyone. How are you? >> That's it. That doesn't sound like a good morning. [laughter] How are you this morning? >> There you go. There you go. So much better. Thank you so much. Okay, we're going to kick off the meeting for Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. And we are going to start with the pledge of allegiance. And I would love for Mr. Rick Murdoch to lead us in the pledge >> to the flag of the United States. >> One nation under God. Okay, Madame Clerk, I am going to send it uh to you to call the role. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Calling role for Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. >> Vice Mayor Taylor >> Der >> here, >> Martinez >> here, >> Eert >> here, >> Reese >> here, >> Anderson here, Shivi >> here. >> Madame Mayor, you do have a quorum of the Reno City Council. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Uh, madame clerk, we have a few uh, special proclamations this morning. I would like to start those off first in public comment. >> Great. >> Okay. So, with that being said, I believe we have one for the ED house, correct? I'm going to send it over to Councilwoman Taylor. Do you want to >> Oh, where is it? Oh, I thought you had it. Sorry. I've got it. But you're on the board. >> Yes. So, I'd love for you to read the proclamation house to come forward. >> All right, all of you in the audience with the Eddie House, come on up. Good morning. >> Where is utility services? They must have >> Devon's got that. >> Sure. >> Okay. Okay. Um, [laughter] >> I feel the same way. Trust me, I can't decide. >> It depends on how bad my eyes are that day. >> Go ahead. >> Office of the mayor's city of Reno, Nevada proclamation. Whereas youth homelessness is a growing concern in Reno and across the nation with thousands of young people each year facing housing instability and many risks associated with it. Whereas homeless youth are among the most vulnerable members of our community, often experiencing barriers to education, employment, and health care that hinder their ability to thrive. Whereas local organizations, including Eddie House provide critical support such as safe, shelter, food, case management counseling workforce development, and life skills training to young people transitioning from homelessness to independence. And whereas rising awareness about youth homelessness encourages greater understanding, compassion, and action from the community to ensure every young person has access to stability, safety, and opportunity. Whereas the city of Reno is committed to working with community partners to prevent and end youth homelessness, recognizing that these efforts strengthen the health, safety, and future of our city. Now, therefore, you say that I >> No, you just say your name. >> Oh, I [laughter] Lisa Schaefer um do hereby declare November 2025 National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. Oh, thank you so much. >> Thank [applause] you. >> Yes, we would. Well, I just of course we just want to extend our gratitude on behalf of everyone at Eddie House. We're so happy to uh be partnering with the city always. Um I know you all were here for our ribbon cutting not long ago and we've come so far and we're all just so very proud. >> It is a beautiful project. It's extremely rare across the country to see something like this and the fact that you guys made it happen. I know you had a lot of stakeholders, but so many people in the community doing all the work with our youth that are suffering from homelessness. It is remarkable. If any of you guys get the opportunity to go, go and see it. It's it's a beautiful mini campus call. >> It's gorgeous. And I'm happy to report to you that we are 1/3 full of our 36 uh transitional uh studio apartments. So that's fantastic as well. Yeah, that is great progress. >> Well, tell Lynette she's amazing. >> Well, she's heading to Las Vegas for a a big um thing down there and um we are part of that as well. So again, the continued partnership, we're so happy for >> Yeah. congratulations you guys. >> We'd love a photo. Yeah. >> Yeah, sure. Let's do it. Oh, sorry. Did we take that? Yes. Thank you. >> You want to seem like you're wanting to avoid me trying to give you a big [laughter] >> And I have a couple phones, so this one's going to take a minute. One, two, three, and then one more. Okay. One, two, three. >> Can we do one more because we have >> Oh, yeah. [laughter] >> You got time again. Ready? >> Okay. One, two, three. And then one more. One, two, three. Thank you. >> Appreciate you being here first. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Amazing work. >> Okay, ready? >> Round two. We have a special proclamation for a Mr. Green who has done outstanding work in our community. And this is going to be a series of keys to the city. And so if any of you have community members or family or friends that would like to be honored by the city, we would love to hear from you. So our first official key to the city, well it's not our first official. Matter of fact, you guys should know I'm a lover of music and our first key to the city was actually to the rock band Kiss. How many of you are fans of Kiss? Oh, come on. Raise your hand. They're all going like this. [laughter] So actually that was our first key to the city because of their work for mental health and veterans. They do a lot of work across the country. They came to Reno, they performed and uh they they um rolled out their huge initiative on mental health and so we thought it was very commendable and gave them the first official key to the city. So now this is part of our series of outstanding community members and I'm going to let Councilman Ree take it away. >> Madame Mayor, thank you so much. And and this one is a special one because it's someone I have really gotten to know over the last five or six years. But I'm going to ask Dennis Green and his family and troop of friends who are going to be with us up here today to come on down. Dennis, where are you hiding? >> Dennis, come on up. [applause] He's blushing. Look at the cheerleaders you brought with you. >> Well, I'm going to tell you all about that. And [laughter] of course, uh I'm excited today to represent uh the city and you, Madame Mayor, who is so graciously uh today uh given Dennis this honor. Uh you can see that there's a lot of people who love and care for Dennis behind me, including a bunch of folks from the university spirit squad um and the cheer program. So, it's a really incredible honor. Um, in June, we did present Dennis with a proclamation. It was part of a special um evening that Madame Mayor, you participated in. Um, but I'm going to read the proclamation and then we're going to let Dennis say a few words before we take some pictures. It says, "Whereas Dennis Green has dedicated over a decade of civic leadership, community service, and advocacy across Northern Nevada, including more than 3,000 volunteer service hours and raising over 35,000 for local nonprofits. And whereas Dennis has been a visible leader within the LGBTQ plus community through his work with the Silver Dollar Court, International Court Council, and his service on the board of our center, enhancing support and resources for marginalized communities. And whereas Dennis has championed youth mentorship through the Big Brothers Big Sisters in Northern Nevada and served nearly a decade with the Nevada Cheer and Spirit program, guiding and uplifting local student athletes. And whereas his outstanding dedication to service has earned him national and local recognition, including a congressional commendation, the Bayard Rustin civil rights honor, and the inclusion of Northern Nevada's 20 under 40. Now therefore, I, Devon Ree, on behalf of Mayor Hillary Shivy, mayor of the city of Reno, Nevada, have declared June 7th, 2025 Dennis Green Day in and for the city of Reno, Nevada. And I encourage all citizens to join me in recognizing his remarkable contributions to inclusion, youth empowerment, and civic pride in the biggest little city. >> A congratulations, Dennis. [applause] >> [applause] >> speech, speech, speech, speech. [laughter] >> Oh. Uh, first time doing this, so apologies for any anxiety. Uh, I have to be so honest with you. The first time I ever saw anyone get the key to the city, I was watching Spider-Man 2 with my best friends. [laughter] And so when Mayor Shivi asked me to show up here today, uh I thought super hard about should I wear a super suit to today's [laughter] possessions. Um and so thankfully I had the the best group in the best team of stylist to make sure that I showed here right and on time. And so all jokes aside, um standing here today is one of the greatest honors of my lifetime. Uh, I fell in love with the city as a student at the University of Nevada, uh, many, many years ago, cheering on the Nevada Wolfpack and learning what it really means to have pride in your community. And I'm so proud to say that that same energy and spirit has stayed with me today. And ever since, uh, what started as volunteering here and there has really turned into a lifelong commitment to service, inclusion, um, and helping people find their place. And so I I've had the honor and and great responsibility to impact um our our community for the better through my work through Nevada Cheer, the Serv Dollar Court, um our center, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Northern Nevada. And I have seen how powerful um it is when people simply show up for one another. With that, I'm also proud to carry that same energy and spirit and sense of community into my career where I get to help build a workplace rooted in people, purpose, and progress. Uh, and I I just have to say this key to the city really uh does not belong to me. As you guys can see, I have a quite the cast of supporters [laughter] today. But uh with that, it belongs to everyone who has made Reno a place where kindness, unity, and opportunity continue to thrive. And so with that, I just want to make sure I say thank you to Mayor Shivi and the city council for this amazing uh honor. And w with that, the organizations that helped shape me because I would not be here today without each and every one of you guiding me to be the leader that I am here today. Um with that, my colleagues at Figure because I am crazy. [laughter] Um and everyone who has walked beside me in this journey. And so um I am so proud to have served the city over the last decade uh super suit or not. And so, thank you guys for everything. >> Well, Dennis, it is an honor. Thank you so much. And I've I've had the pleasure of working with you and um this is very special, especially when you have a team of cheerleaders behind you all the way, but I've seen your work firsthand and I don't know anyone that lifts up people in the way that you do. You have this sort of charisma. I could actually see future senator in your in your um life. So, I just want to say thank you for all you do because there are a lot of people that go unseen and you make sure that they are seen and I noticed that and I've been fortunate to also work um with you in all the circles. So, thank you so much. Congratulations. >> Thank you so much. [applause] >> [applause] >> Yeah, come on up. Let's come on up here. Everybody squeeze in. Please take a photo. >> I know. >> You're contemplating. >> Love each other. There you go. >> Okay. We've got a lot of phones, so you're all gonna have to hold. >> Okay. I know these are also >> Wait, wait, wait. We have someone coming in. Hold on. >> Okay, we're ready. One, two, three. Okay, you guys jump in. I'm going to grab other phones. Um, this one is the next one or that one's the next one. >> I think that one's mine. >> Neither of those mine. Okay. >> Okay. Ready? If you can't see me, I can't see you. Okay. One, two, three. >> He's got it right now. >> One, two, three. You guys, it's so good to see you. I was like, I know her. [laughter] >> Dennis, I hope you're proud. >> Thank you. Good to see you. >> You, too, honey. >> I'm from >> You are just >> You did? That's so cool. Well, welcome Diego. >> Okay, Dennis, one last caveat. That key is not for speeding. We will not come. We will not come and bail you out. >> Really? [laughter] >> Most people say, "If I get the key, can I speed all day?" No. >> I'll promise you to keep it. >> Okay, good. All right. Bye, you guys. Have a great day. All right, >> Dennis. >> Dennis, one one thing. Come here. [laughter] >> I think you're going to need this. [laughter] >> You get a key to the city and I've got it. >> Did or did they get Oh, they gave you one. See, they're trying to give you two. >> I'll take two. >> You'll take two. [laughter] >> Okay. >> Thanks, Dennis. Okay, here we go. >> All right, Madame Mayor, the final proclamation today is for Nevada Flood Awareness Week. >> Great. This is a very important one. Who do we have here? >> Trina. >> Trina >> and team. >> Come on up. Trina and team, >> we have John. >> John, >> who's you're gonna read it? >> I'll I'll maybe do a quick introduction. Madame Mayor, council members, John Simpson, utility service. We have a number of staff here today. Um, >> in the United States, floods, um, floods cause over $200 billion annually. >> Flood awareness week serves as an important reminder on how preparation and teamwork protect our community. Um, our city plays a vital role in um, managing and and and preparing for floods here in our community. Um we have our maintenance and operations staff who are frontline um who are cleaning, maintaining our channels, our storm drain systems and uh our other infrastructure when we need it most. We have engineering staff that maintain our infrastructure and um they also uh um plan and um prepare flood mapping for the public to really understand their risks here in the community. Um, together we can help safeguard our homes, our roads, our waterways, and we encourage the public to visit the Nevada floods.org and the um Truckucky River Flood Management Authority websites, which has fantastic information on our communities and flooding. Um, today we have a few a bunch of staff here, a few of the our staff from our maintenance and operations and our engineering team are going to read the proclamation away. Office of the Mayor, City of Reno, Nevada Proclamation. Whereas the city of Reno recognizes the significant threat that flooding poses to our residents, our businesses, the community, the region, and our local economy. And >> whereas the city of Reno has experienced flood events from the Truckucky River, weather events and flooding of local streams and channels and creeks. And whereas risk can be reduced and communities can be prepared to be more aware and resilient by educating residents and businesses on actions they can take to prepare for flood events. And whereas during flood awareness week, local, state, and federal agencies are working together across Nevada to inform the public about the dangers of flooding and how to protect their homes, families, and businesses from a flood event and plan for recovery. Now, therefore, I, Mary Horvath, on behalf of Hillary Sheibi, mayor of the city of Reno, Nevada, do do hereby declare November 10th to the 16th, 2025 flood awareness week. >> Wow. You guys, I I've never seen the pro in all my years, honestly. So, um I think if I was one of you, I'd be like, "You want me to read?" No, no, no. You guys, you get to do it. Um you did a wonderful job. I want everyone to know who you guys are. You guys are actually um you do a predict predictive modeling. You're always paying attention to what's happening, um weather patterns, what have you. I don't think people realize you guys are like first on the scene. You're already thinking about everything, you know, weeks, months before we even do. You guys were also the heroes. I don't know when was that. Was that last year? I can't remember. But do you remember the pictures that the the media shared and everyone was taking the debris out and all those things from public works? Um th those are the things you guys do. So, a lot of people don't get to see how hard you have to work and how you keep this city safe day in and day out. And you guys really kind of you're sort of the unsung heroes whenever it comes to um these kinds of events and as you know if you've how many of you have lived in Reno your whole life? >> Yeah. Okay. See we remember those floods that were absolutely devastating and so you know um I guess how vulnerable we are and you guys your work is phenomenal. It really is and so we don't thank you enough. We really don't. Um, so we're very very appreciative. Were you like, "Oh, I have to come to council." [laughter] >> No, >> the ones that had to read were worried. >> I know. I I would be nervous, too. But you did a phenomenal job. You did a great job. So, please let us know if there's anything that we can do to help you guys. And I just hope the community knows what you guys are doing behind the scenes. um because they don't get to see a lot of the work that you do and it's stressful and it's hard and it's very unpredictable. That's the one thing about the weather. It's so unpredictable. You don't know what you're going to be dealing with. So, um I I just want you guys to know we really really appreciate you. I'm going to have um Councilwoman Der chime in. She's I always call her the water expert. So, go right ahead. >> Well, I just I want I want to support what you're saying and support the work that you all do. both um council member Martinez and I serve on the Truckucky River Flood Management Authority and they have like three people and there's no way that three people can manage a flooding scenario in any way, shape, form or manner. Yes, they can help give the alert. Uh and I know that you work in collaboration with them to determine are we going to have a flood? you know, they have a whole flood monitoring program uh with the USGS um uh stations and other stations as well. But that's just a hey, we think it's coming. It has to be validated by you and by folks at Sparks and Wo County. And then if there is a flood, you have to staff the EOC and manage through that flood. And even if it doesn't arise to the 100redyear level, that doesn't mean it's not flooding in Reno, right? It can be flooding on streets, can be flooding from ditch overflow. There's there's many reasons to flood, not just the Truckucky River. So again, I want to share what the mayor said and thank you so much for your work. >> All right. Congratulations. You guys all get the day off. [laughter] >> I would take it. >> Yay. You can do # mayor made me do it. [laughter] Are we do >> Yeah, let's do it for sure. Squeeze in there like you like each other. One more. >> You're trying to hide back there. Keep going. Keep going. Let me see if I can get you all. Okay, I can get you all. Ready? One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Ryan. Yeah. Okay. You bet. >> All right, Madam Clerk, I am going to send it back to you for public comment. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. First item today is opening public comment. It should be noted for those in attendance 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 agendaized on today's agenda. When you're called on for public comment, please state your name for the record and begin speaking. The timer will begin when you've said your name and you will be afforded three minutes. For those participating in chambers in accordance with council rules 6.3.11, while in this room, please be respectful. Disruptive behavior from audience members like clapping, yelling, whistling, etc. which impede the meeting may result in a warning issued by the presiding officer. If 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 is Terry Brooks, followed by Bob Pako, followed by Art Rangel. >> Terry, good morning. >> Good morning. >> It was nice to see you yesterday. >> Yeah, it was good to see you yesterday. >> Did you like it? >> Yes, >> it was fun. Okay, go ahead. >> All right, good morning. It's me, Terry Brooks again, and today I'd like to share with you my thoughts on exercise and what seniors go through. As I've been getting older, I've noticed I'm not quite as strong as I was when I was younger. So, I've been trying to learn to still hop along. When I retired, it wasn't long before I realized that I would be getting quite as that I wouldn't be getting quite as much exercise. So, I learned to go for a walk and did so every day. And I got used to bending over and picking up pennies along the way. I even walk here to City Hall to read to you my rhymes. And so far, I've walked here and back home well over 100 times. [laughter] Walking is a good exercise for most people to do. And when you walk somewhere, you have you save money on gasoline, too. Back in 2010, I was in a car wreck, and I lost my ability to walk. I went from wheelchair to walker to crutches and cane, and I gradually learned how to walk. I'd also lost my sense of balance, but I came up with some exercise to improve my sense of balance, and it helped me stabilize. I came up with 12 exercises and did several repetitions each day. It helped me keep my sense of balance and I still do them today. I started out doing each exercise with repetitions of 10 and every year I'd add to some more again and again and again. Doing such exercises regularly is not only healthy to do but counting them as I do them helps my memory too. Such exercises have been one of my starting points to help me strengthen my muscles and help to move my joints. It has helped to me to walk a mile to a better lifestyle and it has been worthwhile to help me want to smile. I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back and I'll be walking here that day. [laughter] >> I love it. Thank you, Terry. Great job. Bob Pako followed by Art Rangel followed by Christina Mu Maktudis. >> Hi Bob. >> Hello. >> I just I got your correspondence. >> Yeah. Should I put the pictures up on the on this? >> Sure you can. Is that good? Yeah. There we go. Okay. Dear members of the city council, I am here as a longtime owner at 300 Kilborn Avenue to formally express my deep concern and frustration regarding the severe negative impact that the recently completed fivestory apartment complex immediately behind my property has been on both my property value and personal privacy. When the city council approved this project, we were at the meeting and spoke against it. Prior to construction, my backyard was private peaceful retreat. Today, [snorts] I am stared down upon by dozens of residents. Residents guests on the upper floors have a direct view into my backyard, patio, and even the interior of my home through rearfacing windows. Simple activities such as gardening, barbecuing, or relaxing with family now feel like public performances. My family's reasonable expectations of privacy has been permanently erased. I have consulted with local real estate professionals that attributes a loss of approximately 15 to 25% specifically to the proximity and overwhelming scale of the apartment building. The constant noise and dramatic change in views have rendered it my property less desirable to potential buyers. The result is a textbook example of spot zoning that has transferred wealth from long-term homeowners to private developer at the expense of our quality of life and financial investments. I have attached photographs for all you. I would be happy to meet with city staff to discuss this matter further. Further, my family chose to invest in Reno because we believe the city valued valued stable livable neighborhoods. I urge you to demonstrate that this is still true by addressing the harm that has already been done and preventing it from happening to others. Thank you for your prompt attention to the serious quality of life and property rights issue. I look forward to your written response within 30 days. >> Thank you, Bob. Definitely. >> Art Rangel, followed by Christina McTudis, followed by Steven White. >> Before my my time starts, I just want to let the council know how encouraged my wife and I were yesterday at the Veterans Parade, seeing all those young people, patriotic, singing and marching. Oh, it was incredible. >> It showed, >> didn't it? >> Oh, it was incredible. I mean, it it made our day. >> Yeah. They said that their um enrollment is like by 500%. >> And we were talking to a veteran who said we were talking about the the u the draft. He says, "We don't need the draft. We've got more people enlisted now than we've ever had." >> That's incredible >> in recent history. Anyway, >> yeah. I'm glad you noticed because they they were hoping someone would see them. They were really proud there. >> Yeah. >> Thanks. >> For the art got a great photo of art. >> Did you? [laughter] >> For the record. Um I'm going to speak in reference to the excessive noise generated by the Jay Resort festival grounds on October 31st. Uh I'm going to read briefly u section of your municipal code is section 18.01.1408 01.1408 uh relative to permissible noise levels. It says noise levels, nighttime noise levels, noise levels shall not exceed 49 dB at residentially zoned property lines between 1000 p.m. and 7 a.m. Daytime noise levels shall not exceed 65 dB levels at residentially zoned property lines. Based on the reportings on social media, it appears the excessive noise experienced by residents over the weekend of October 31st from the Jay Resort is in violation of the Reno Municipal Code and a public nuisance. Please keep in mind that the J Resort festival grounds public notice for the cup was given to property owners 750 ft away, not one, two, three, or four miles away. The excuse given for the excessive noise of October 31st was that it was in compliance with the conditions of the cup. This comment implies that if the city approves any cup for outdoor music that would create excessive noise anywhere within the city limits of Reno, that cup could give away noise level protections provided to residentially zoned properties as well as property zoned plan unit development in the Somerset, Colin Ranch, Deonte Ranch, or other communities within the city. Such policies could expose thousands of residents to prolong harmful noise causing hearing damage and worse at high sea levels. Taken together, the points I just made effectively render the city's current uh noise regulations as worthless. As such, a noise ordinance should address and offer clarity to issues of excessive noise anywhere within the city limits of Reno. On October 31st, no, excessive noise came from the Jay Resort. In the future, excessive noise could come from an establishment that was granted a CU pay within Somerset, Deonte Ranch, Lorage, or other point parts within the community. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much. art. Okay, Madame Clerk, Christina MTudis, followed by Steven White, followed by Alvaldo Gimenez. Is that There it is. Hi, my name is Christina McTudis and I live in northwest Reno. This accident happened on March 17th of this year and would have gone unnoticed except and the reason I am making this public comment is because of a story I saw on KRV News Channel 4 on October 30th of this year. The story headline is why was DUI charge dropped in case against offduty RIO firefighter who caused crash. I read the story expecting an answer to the question in the headline, but the story just raised more questions. This is a direct quote from the news article. The arrest report shows that a Reno Fire Department ambulance drove Price, who was in his uniform at the time of the crash, to Renown Hospital. News4 Fox 11 reached out to the city of Reno to ask if it is allowed under city policy for a city agency to transport one of its own employees. A city spokesperson said the city doesn't have an official policy, but that it's not uncommon for RFD to transport its own to ensure the patient receives immediate continuous medical care from responders who are already on the scene. I believe the important word in that statement is immediate because here is a timeline for the the timeline provided in the story. At 12:55 p.m. Price calls 911 to report he was involved in a crash in the 2300 block of Avenue Danda. Then at 1 p.m. Reno Police officers were dispatched to the crash. At 1:51, Sparks Police Department contacted and asked to take over the investigation. 2:50 p.m., which is now 1 hour and 55 minutes after the accident, Price agrees to a preliminary breath test and blows a.161 blood alcoh alcohol content. And then at 300 p.m., Price consents to an evidentiary blood test and a paramedic takes two vials of blood. In that statement, the key word is paramedic. I The question I have is why was Mr. Price still under the care of the paramedic rather than at the hospital 2 hours after the crash. That is not immediate care. That shows a delay in transport to the hospital. I do not Am I out of time? Sorry. I do not know this to be a fact, but in the comments on either the News4 website or their Facebook page, a person wrote that it was odd that Mr. Price was initially in a REMA ambulance, but the Reno Fire Department arrived, removed Mr. Price from the ambulance, and transported him and Reno police allowed it. This is shocking because police also observed bloodshot and watery eyes and found a mostly consumed pint of vodka on the floorboard of his car according to the arrest report obtained by Fox News and Channel 4. Can I finish? >> Yeah, go. >> Lastly, another person commented that Mr. Price is still actively working for RFD as an operator, which the post explained is a driver of the large fire engines. I did not know that. And with two prior DUIs and this accident where impairment was suspected, why is he still driving for the Reno Fire Department? I personally live in northwest Reno. My son used to drive this road every day on his bike to get to school and I have stopped it because I feel unsafe knowing that Mr. Price is still out there driving a fire truck. I thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much. >> We will I um our city manager is going to reach out to you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Steven White, followed by Ozaldo Gimenez, followed by Dennis Garcia. >> Can I ask Nathan to come up and join me? >> Yes, please. >> Yes, we would love that. >> Uh, >> mayor. >> Nathan, >> good morning. >> Good morning. >> Are you watching out for the bunnies? >> Of course I am. Always. >> Our fans. I'm trying to speak louder so you can hear me. Can you hear me? >> I can almost I got new hearing aids. I can almost hear you. >> Oh, good. [laughter] Okay. >> I brought a photograph last time, but you weren't here. And Nathan and I put this sculpture up in the park a few weeks back. Uh I brought you all a photograph of it. Did you give all you all have a photograph of that? So, what I'm hoping is, you know, this can provide I want to tell you, the last time I was here, when I left, I walked down the sidewalk to the garage. A young man came walking up the sidewalk pulling a little cart full of paintings. And I stopped, of course, and started talking to him, and he shook my hand, got paint all over my hand, and I thought, well, that's typical, you know, an artist. And he was taking his paintings and setting them down on the sidewalk and leaning them against the wall. And it said to me, you know, the creator has given me the message that these things are needed. You know, we need these these venues in all of our public parks, not just here in Nevada or not just here in Reno, but all over Nevada. And Nathan is helping me now, we might be able to get this to all of the uh park managers all over the state. And if we can spread this all over the state, mayor, we can give you an entire package that you can take the national mayor's conference and show them not only the the state law and the federal law and explain it to them, but also show them venues that they can put up in the parks for artists to be able to display their artwork and share the beauty of their artwork with the community. Why aren't we doing this all over the country? It's needed. You know, we need this for our kids. We need this for senior citizens. You know, it's a wonderful thing. This one cost me roughly $1,000, just under $1,000. And I had to pay retail for everything. There's a good chance Nathan and Mayor could work with a company that I got these uh security panels from. They might just donate them to us, you know. And these these things anchor down to the ground. Uh they can be moved around. They're, you know, they're anchored to the ground with metal spikes. the umbrella part of is attached to the framework all the way around so it's not going to blow away or anything in the winter time they could remove the umbrella very easily but and also these venues could be put in uh around the in different parks but also along the riverwalk wherever you want to have artists displaying their artwork you could have these for a very minimal cost I'm hoping that you'll start out with funding this is the tune of maybe $10,000 we could reproduce this at least 10 times and put these around the park. Now, considering the amount of money you've spent on sculptures, you know, considering the amount of money you spent on doggy parks and things and sports venues, I'm hoping it's not too much to ask you come up with $10,000 to help fund this whole thing and get this going in the parks. Let's give our kids venues to hang their artwork and display their artwork. And this is the last one I have and I wanted to give this one to Nathan. >> Oh, thank you. And and I appreciate Nathan. He's my artist apprentice. Nathan's >> I don't want you to give the money to me. I want you to give the money to Nathan and the park and wreck so that he and I can work together and create more of these sculptures. And there again, remember it's a sculpture done by a pretty notorious artist. And therefore, you can use funding from the 2% allocated for the arts every year. no reason why you can't use some of that money to >> I think it would be cool to do sort of an entrepreneurs competition and and I'll tell you why because this is a real need for cities across the country. I looked high and low. I asked every mayor I know there is nothing that is and they have to follow um guidelines too because obviously as you know with weather but also setup um how you store them. I mean, everything has to be like at a certain commercial grade so that a they're safe, but also you can take them up, put them down. So, there's like these requirements, but there's a lot of welders in the city. There's a lot of artists in the city. There's a lot of entrepreneurs in the city. It would be great to do some sort of contest because quite honestly, you could make a business out of this selling this to cities across the country. It is phenomenal. And like I said, I searched high and low and as you know, I served on arts, parks, entertainment, and sports. So, I had a myriad of uh resources and I couldn't find a thing. So, this is phenomenal. We got to do it and we're we're going to figure it out cuz it gives everyone an opportunity to create. >> You know, my entire artistic career started with a butterfly. >> Yes. >> My mom gave me a butterfly when I was 8 years old. 17 years later, the first work of art I ever created was using that little butterfly. >> And my entire life is an example of the butterfly effect. >> Yeah. you know, it's reached all the way around the world. The beating of the wings of a butterfly can through theoretically through physics can result in a storm, a hurricane on the other side of the earth. And I'm hoping we can spread this. That's why it's titled mushroom of the butterfly. >> I love it. >> God bless you all. >> Thank you, Steve. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Oswaldo Gimenez Nathan >> followed by Dennis Garcia followed by Jamie Chapman via Zoom. >> Madame Mayor, city council. Good morning. How are you guys? >> Uh my name is Osado Himenez Estupan and I'm the director of Hispanic Latinx community relations at the University of Nevada Reno. I'm happily here today to give thanks to the city of Reno and the arts and culture commission for their continued support with the Adelos Muertos uh celebration on campus. The Adelos Muertos has been a long-standing event celebrated on campus for over 23 years and it's been a partnership through the city for over 10 years. Um, I can't stress how important this event is because it helps bring in community members and individuals that may have not seen the university as accessible prior. We had over 800 attendees this year. I saw Council Member Martinez and his family there. Thank you. >> Um, over 800 attendees this year. HUG High School students were also a partner in this event and they led craft tables and activity tables that were all free and open for children, families, and the entire community. At one point, I had 10 little kids run up to me to ask me if we were going to play a song from Coco. So, the highlight of the event for me was having those kids run up to the front of the stage so they could uh do the sing along to Proud Koras. A >> I can't stress enough how moments like this help break down barriers for families and children to access the campus. So again, we want to thank the city of Reno and the arts and culture commission for their support with the other loss muertos. This continued support from the city is the reason that we're able to keep this event going and I can't express how much that means to us. So thank you. >> That's fantastic. That's awesome. I want to say Councilman Martinez, thank you so much. Um I think a lot of times we don't know about ways that we can support our events. Um and I was not familiar with this one until uh Councilman brought it. And so I just um I think it's important to continue to support you guys in ways that we typically haven't done in the past. So this is great. 800 attendees. That's huge. >> 800. It's like 850. But yeah, >> thank you so much for the support. >> That's so cool. All right, you guys. Well, thank you so much. Good job. >> Dennis Garcia, followed by Jamie Chapman via Zoom. Good morning. >> Good morning. Hello. >> How you doing? >> Pretty good. Just another beautiful morning. Even though it's cloudy, but I still count it [laughter] as a beautiful morning right? >> Hey, we're all awake to see it. So, good morning. >> Good morning. Uh, so yeah. So, first starters, um, I am Dennis Garcia. I'm the Latino student board president as well as the forico simasa treasure and my major is math and education. I'll be a math teacher. >> Wow. >> And yeah. >> Hello everybody. My name is Emilio Esparza. I am currently a undergraduate studying mechanical engineering and I am the vice president of the Latina student advisory board. >> Wow. >> Good morning everyone. My name is Estrea Maya. I am a current undergrad for international business with a focus in finance and later uh wish to pursue my master's in business administration. I also hold a position in the Latino student advisory board as a media coordinator. >> That's so cool. Thank you so much. And uh for first and foremost um I would like to express my gratitude to council member Miguel Mart council member Martinez and council member Anderson and as well as Mayor Madam and everyone else here uh present um for giving us first opportunity for us to speak here today and uh for I know it's been almost a year since I last came um and it's kind of crazy as well as today cuz I have not met another person named Dennis. So every time they were saying Dennis was like, "Oh, is that me?" No, not yet. [laughter] But yeah, so uh with that said, I wanted to share with y'all an extraordinary opportunity that has uh profoundly impacted our students, the uh the United States Hispanic Leadership Institution, which is a conference that is held annually in Chicago. Last semester with the generous support of council member Martinez and council member Anderson and as well as everybody else here uh we were able to reportedly say that we took six students to this conference or 67 and with that uh I am proud to say that three of those students uh last semester graduated and follow their dreams and careers and that helped with this conference because it helped them create learn and learn as well as leadership networking opportunities unities and as of now from what I've heard they're acting in their own career thanks to the USI conference and therefore which is what I'm also here to say is investing in student organizations and activities such as ELSAB is not merely uh about funding trips it's about investing in leadership community and the future Reno these experience equipped beyond the you know classroom uh all these skills and when students grow into these opportunities they return to our community more confident more capable and giving the community back so which which is why we're here once again. Uh as well as everyone here has been a student, an undergrad, a graduate student, right? And you know how hard it is to uh get funding to go to these type of conferences. So here I am again requesting aid to help bring as many as much as students as possible. But is it okay if I talk? >> Yes, please go ahead. Um, just want to tell you a little bit about what the club has done for me, organization, excuse me. Uh, I grew up in a Latinocentric family, but I went to schools with predominantly non-Latino students. So, that was a big part of my identity, learning how to express myself as a Latino student from I'm a Mexican student, Mexican-American. I'm proud of that fact as well. This organization has helped me immensely in not only understanding myself but being proud and expressing my culture and all the beautiful things that come with it. And seeing a lot of Latino students on campus were quite divided unfortunately. But this club and organization has helped me and others come together representing our cultures. And I just wanted to bring that opportunity to students who are all uh pursuing higher education and wanting to not only meet other Latino students, but also as well meeting representatives of their careers and understanding and learning from those people who have already done it. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. It's always a pleasure and hopefully get to hear get to see you here again. >> Oh, Dennis, great job all of you guys. I mean, your future leaders, I I'm just curious, why is there a divide? You said that there was a divide. I'm I'm just >> So, unfortunately, what I've seen and many other students have uh said that our Latino students aren't together. We're very separate from each other. There's a lot of us on campus, but we barely see each other, talk to each other. Me, for example, me being an engineering student, there's not many of us, unfortunately. So it feels pretty lonely honestly having to go to classes and not being able to speak espanol and just not being able to see or express my culture. People that know me or who look like me who speak the same language as I do. >> Uh that's what I mean by divide. It's unfortunately we are all kind of separate and my goal being the vice president coming in was to help bridge that division and bring the students together and hopefully create an environment where they feel safe and comfortable being themselves. >> Oh my gosh, I love it. You guys also run for office. This is our future right here. You're you guys are our future leaders. Amazing. Please let us know how we can support you. um if the you know even in the smallest of ways uh it's always good to when you come with an ask to dial it down exactly what you what you need cuz then it's much easier. So fantastic job you guys and thank you Councilman Martinez. Thank you very much. >> Again look at how important it is to have someone that represents you on this council. This this should be a defining moment of why this is important to elect leaders that are just diverse, right? So again, Councilman Martinez, fantastic. Good job. >> And he's so humble. He's not saying a word because he's so humble and so kind and very genuine. So, um, but we appreciate it. All right, you guys. So much. >> Good job. Come anytime. >> Our final public commenter is Jamie Chapman via Zoom. All right, Jamie with the Midtown District. Come on over the speaker, [laughter] Madam Clerk. >> Hi. Can you hear me? Sorry. >> Yes, we can. Go ahead. Perfect. Uh Jamie Chapman for the record with Midtown. So, I Hello, Madame Mayor and City Council. I just wanted to come on here and tell you guys thank you. Thank you to council member Miguel Martinez for sponsoring $1,000 towards the Midtown snowflakes this year and to council member member Devin Reese for donating 400. Um these snowflakes were a huge huge lift for us and without you guys we couldn't have done it. Actually just as of this morning we've officially broken even to the penny to pay to install our snowflakes which is huge. Um, we're very excited and we're planning to have them up the Monday before Thanksgiving. And so we would like to invite all of city council to Midtown for Shop Small Saturday on November 29th to support all the local businesses, get your holiday gifts, and enjoy the snowflakes that will be up. >> Okay, that's awesome. Jamie, explain exactly what that event is so people know where shop Saturday. >> Yeah. where they're going and the time and all that. >> Perfect. Yeah. So, it's from 10 until 1:00 and we are doing a scavenger hunt. So, people run they come to the Midtown Welcome Center in Side of Reno Public Market and they get a free tote and a QR code to download the map and then they go use the map, go to all the different businesses that are offering specials. And when they go into the business, it'll automatically track them and check them in and they'll get entered to win a raffle prize. We have like huge raffles this year. I think it's I mean like a $100 gift card, $50 gift cards, a silver Nevada necklace. Last year we had over 400 people participate. So we're looking to grow that. It's important to support local especially right now. >> That's awesome. Okay, just to clar to clarify, these are restaurants all throughout the district, not just in Reno Public Market. Correct. >> Correct. This is Midtown as a whole, and it's restaurants and retail stores, any business within Midtown that's a Midtown member. >> Okay, that's awesome. And I'll make sure that um I also help support your snowflakes. Thanks for the reminder, >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes, go ahead, Councilwoman Dor. >> Yeah. Hey, Tammy. I just wanted to mention, hi this is Naomi Der. I just wanted to mention that a number of years ago uh myself with the assistance of uh my liaison Brad we set up a program called Midtown Holiday Parking and what we did was we went and contacted five businesses with open parking in Midtown that was not typically full up but was not you're not allowed to park there typically and we um got them to agree from from Thanksgiving like this event through after Christmas to allow free parking in their parking lots. Everybody got a sticker. Um they could get it at one of the five businesses and this would allow them to park in any of the five parking lots and it might be time to to uh take another look at that program, revamp it. Um and it worked really well, you know, and it could be part of your advertising to to get people out shopping in Midtown. So, if you're interested or any council members are interested, I could uh check in with you later. I I'm super interested in that. That's actually a great idea. As you know, we get that's a huge complaint we always get is about parking, right? I love >> So, this took open parking lots that are there, but signal that you can't park there and open them to parking by anyone anytime with the sticker. So, it helped the businesses, those five, and it provided parking. So, >> kind of. >> That's great. I love that. Yeah, I would love to get more information about that. We posted a map on the city of Reno website so people would know as extra way to get the word out. So >> Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that you that must have happened. I've been with Midtown for four years, so it was like right before me. >> Yeah, it was right before. >> Thanks. >> That's awesome. Thank you for sharing. >> All right. >> Very big. >> Okay. Reach out to Jamie Naomi. >> What's that? >> Will you reach out to Jamie? >> Oh, I will. Okay, great. All right. >> All right, Madam Mayor. >> I believe is that our last public comment? >> That was our last public commenter. Um, we did receive correspondence, written correspondence to our office, four letters of opposition and 12 letters of concern. Those have been distributed to the Reno City Council and are available on reno.gov/meings. So, we're now moving into item A4, approval of the agenda. >> Okay, before we do that, I'm going to send it over to our city manager, uh, Miss Jackie Bryant for some any housekeeping notes or anything on the agenda. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. We're going to proceed in the order posted unless the mayor decides to move things around based on the number of attendees in the audience as always and during the break today we will have a labor briefing and an attorney client. >> Okay. And actually I am I am going to move up um hold on one second. I'm going to move up item C2 because we have people that need to get to the airport and then we will take So we're going to take item C2 under department items first and then C1 will be a presentation from RTC. >> Move to approve. >> Okay. So I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed. >> I. >> Motion carries. Okay. >> All right. >> Item A5, approval of the minutes to approve. Thank you. I have a motion. Second. I have a second. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion carries. >> Madame Mayor, would you like to take your consent pulled items and then move to C2? >> That would be fantastic. >> Okay. So, we're on item B, consent agenda. >> Okay. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Okay. I'm going to start with you, Councilwoman Anderson. >> I don't have anything. >> Nothing. Thank you. Councilman Martina, >> neither do I. Thank you. >> Counciloman Taylor. >> No. Councilman Ree. >> Council B12, please. >> Okay. And then >> we have councilwoman Eert. >> Are you there? >> Yes. No. No items at this time. Thank you. >> Move to approve all remaining items. >> I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Okay. Uh we will come back to item B 12 uh after our presentations and other council business. All right. Uh, at this time we're going to head into item C2. And I am excited to welcome the team from the RSCVA and Mr. Rick Murdoch. And then one of my favorite people in the world. She's going to hate this, but Miss Rhonda Leap. Um, she's wonderful. I'm super super fortunate to work with them. And I see over there hiding. I didn't even see you Christina Ernie back there. All you guys, it's great to see you. Um, okay. So, Madame Clerk, do we have any public comment on this item? >> Madame Mayor, we do not have any public comment and have not received any correspondence on this item. >> Okay, fantastic. Uh, I'm going to send it right to you, Miss Tney. Take it away. >> Thank you. Um, Madame Mayor and Council, Ashley, Attorney Attorney, assistant city manager for the record today. Um, I'm here to introduce this item, then we'll turn it over to the RSCBA to give you more specifics and for you to be able to ask questions. The item in front of you today is a request from the RSCBA and the United States Bowling Congress. Make sure I get that correct into the record. Uh they're requesting an amendment to the existing contract. Thanks to note that this is not a brand new contract. This is an amendment of the existing one. Uh we are here today because this request came through the Bowling Congress to RSCVA and to us. Uh this contract amendment needs approval from all three entities for it to be effective. The RSCBA voted to approve this item on October 23rd at their board meeting. There are some amendments being proposed. I'll go over them in high level and then turn them over to Mike Laretta, the president CEO to be able to go into that in more detail. Uh this is a five-year amendment that is being requested. The current contract is set to expire in 2033. There's a request to extend the tournament schedule. They would like to increase the bowler site fee. This removes the damages clause if the bowling congress cancels a tournament. It also allows for food and beverage profit sharing between the RSCVA and the bowling congress. Uh with that we do have your motion. However, I will turn it over at this time to Mike Laretta from the RSCVA. He does have a presentation I believe it has available and you can ask questions. >> Okay. Fantastic. Mr. Laretta, welcome. >> Thank you. Great. Good morning. Uh, thank you, Madame Mayor, members of council. Mike Claretta for the record, RSCBA. Um, before I uh jump in, it's it's my pleasure to be here and thank you for the opportunity to present uh the details of the seventh amendment to the United States Bowling Congress and the city of Reno and the RCBA contract. Um, before I go into the details of what is being proposed and the concessions and the terms in the agreement, I wanted to share with council some background in terms of the impact that the United Bowling United States Bowling Congress has on our community. Uh, we held the women's championship in 2024 from April 27th to June 29th. This tournament produced 14,800 bowlers, over 34,000 room nights, 317 team 37 3,700 teams. Had a room tax impact of over a half a million and an increase to capital of $54,000 with an overall impact of 26,329,577. The upcoming tournament, the open championship, and this tournament is generally three times the size of the women's championship. And before I go into the details of the numbers that are produced and we're anticipating starting this March, this is a validation of the unified efforts of what we can do when we get ahead of it. And when I speak to that, what I'm referencing is the efforts of the RCBA, the efforts of the United States Bowling Congress, the offer the efforts of participating hotels, specifically the headquarter hotel, hotels at the row, the things that we addressed in advance that became relevant and important to the bowlers. We identified pricing um opportunities of restaurant hours. We got ahead of the social media and marketing and advertising platforms. We went ahead and purchased a booth and exhibited at the 2025 Open Championship in Baton Rouge. We sent representatives from the RSCVA in the row for over two weeks and worked this booth and talked to bowlers and pushed the importance of coming to Reno. And the collective efforts of all of these entities involved has produced numbers that we have not seen in Reno since 2011. We are anticipating over 55,000 bowlers north of 140,000 room nights. Our number now is about 11,500 teams. In fact, USBC went and extended the tournament by 2 weeks because of the demand we are seeing for the open championship in 26. The estimated room tax $2.8 million. capital 220,000 and an economic mil impact of over $87 million. Again, these numbers to kind of put things in perspective. Like the mayor, I'm very competitive. Our team is very competitive. These numbers are forecasted to surpass the open championship numbers in 2024 held in our friends down south Las Vegas. So, a huge feat to the teams that are involved in these numbers. This is an idea. The three years that are being proposed to extend to the existing uh USBC contract would be two open championships and one women's championship in the years of 2035, 36 and 38. The estimated impact of those three tournaments represents almost 125,000 bowlers, 312,000 room nights, over 25,000 teams, a room tax estimate over 6.5 million, capital of almost a half a million, and an overall economic impact over $22 million. Jumping into the concessions and terms that are being requested by USBC. Again, what we will receive as a destination, three additional tournaments starting in 35, going in 36, and then coming back with an open championship in 38. We will also be awarded one United States bowling convention sometime between the years of 2028 and 38. And then in addition to that, 10 incremental tournaments outside the dates of the United States Bowling Congress Women's and Opens Championship. Each one of these events is forecasted to produce approximately 1500 room nights for a total of 15,000 additional room nights. Again, in the off years or off dates of a women's and men's championship, what we would be providing USBC as concessions to extend this amendment and the contract is we would be removing the liquidated language uh the liquidated damages language in the agreement. And all of these concessions and rewards that we're receiving start in 2029. The RSCVA will be increasing the site fee from 30 to $36. That is coming out of the RSCBA budget starting in 2029. And then we are also on anticipating to uh help them from a revenue standpoint by starting a 15% commission on all food and beverage sales at the National Bowling Stadium during the women's and open championships. Those are the concessions that we are offering back to them. If these three tournaments and this amendment is approved today, this is what we will be looking at in terms of the schedule starting in 2026. What I want to bring to council's attention is that without this approval, there was conversation of us being going to a five or six year rotation after 2033. By approving this and moving forward with this amendment, we will put us in a rotation. With the exception of 2030 and 31, we will never have a vacated time period of more than a year of either having a women's or open championship through 2038. With that, I'm happy to take any questions. >> All right. Thank you very, very much. Something I'm very very familiar with too right? >> Yes, absolutely. Mayor, >> good job. Okay. Uh, Councilman Reef, >> thank you so much, Mr. Luretta. >> Have fun with your light on. Go ahead. >> Thank you so much for the presentation. I I want to say a couple of things. One is uh just a thank you to you and your team for continuing to work through uh the conditions which we find ourselves in wherever we are. Right. I know that your team works very long and hard hours to make sure that we are attracting top level um investments here by outside groups and then to keep the ones that we have. So I appreciate that. Um, this one is particularly important because I think it's one of the cornerstones for our downtown and it certainly is an important part of our downtown revitalization efforts. I'm absolutely in support of the changes that you've identified and think that they are a good partner with us. Having served on the committee that's overseen the renovations of the bowling uh stadium over the last several years. I also think it's important to note how much um partnership that we've had between the RSCVA, the RO properties, and the city of Reno. Literally, there have been moments where uh the city of Reno could not fund the important and improved renovations and had to go out and ask for the assistance of our partners to cover the renovations that needed to get done. And then of course, we paid them back through the fund as the beca fund became uh healthy again. But I think that speaks to the importance of this. Now, you said a lot of numbers, and I know you're a numbers guy, uh, Mike. It is an important part of this. Um, I'm not sure they tell the whole story, and in part because I look at the downtown properties that are there, um, not only the bowling stadium, but the adjacent properties with the event center, the ballroom, and just think about the ways in which they are important to um, engage the downtown core. You know, downtown is a neighborhood, a special neighborhood with some unique issues with it. And you've heard a lot lately about some of those issues, but one of the things you never hear about is, man, we don't like having the Bowlers here, right? And I see the bowlers here when they are here and it's like hordes of and we'll just say the one most recently hordes of Minnesota um moms and grandmothers uh wandering around in packs who are shopping in our stores, eating in our restaurants, tipping our employees, hopefully um leaving some money behind in the casinos. And I think that's an important part of what we really need for downtown Reno. It's an certainly an component of how we continue to thrive and drive the economic development that I think is important for our region. Um, what would you say about the overall impact of bowling? I don't know. I'm sure you've looked at it from inception. Has to be in the billions. Um, it's a big number. >> It it is. And thank you for the comments, Council Me. So just to kind of put things in perspective, the bowlers have been coming to Reno uh under the umbrella of ABC since 1977 out at the old Centennial Coliseum at the convention center. Uh obviously they shifted to the bowling stadium in '95 and then 2012 is when we drafted the agreement with USBC moving forward with as it relates to the capital. But yes, if you look at the overall time period that bowlers been coming in from 77, the number is in the billions. And to your point, um, to add some context as it relates to, and I didn't touch on because I did focus really on the data is that the bowlers not only provide an impact in terms of room nights economic impact, but to your point, they are eating in their restaurants, they are visiting retail, they are staying out of their hotels. And a term that we use constantly in the hospitality industry is they're creating what we call compression. And when you have a foundation of base of bowlers that are here over six months, the outlining properties, they may not see the volume of room nights that maybe the row or the J may say because obviously of logistics and being downtown, but it creates a base and a foundation that allows those other properties to yield their rates and it comes back to the rising tide floats all boats. So, it's it's actually beneficial for everybody. And then the last point I would like to make is the impact that the bowlers may or may not have as it relates to future growth and airlift. If we take 55,000 bowlers out of the equation in 2026, for instance, those are 55 approximately looking for yield and they're looking for capacity and occupancy on their aircraft. And if Reno is not producing those seats, they're going to find another city to put those planes in. >> Yeah. >> Well, and I I think Madame Mayor and I discussed this um and certainly Mr. Culpin, having been at the airport for many years, knows well that those are irreplaceable, right? And we're looking at our airport expansion. We're trying to fund the renovations there. Uh we need to have consistent passenger counts in our region in order to justify the airlines who would keep those routes instead of move them elsewhere. And certainly my hope is that it generates the interest in keeping additional routes. I I continue to want a route to return to New York City, for example, which is seasonal at times. >> Look, there there the the as a lawyer, um I look at contracts and I think about them as agreements. They're only as good as the partners in them, right? And and we've found incredible partners in the Bowling Congress, in the RCVA, certainly the um Caesar Entertainment is an incredible partner to the city of Reno. Um, I think all of these things are very minor things that we're exchanging in exchange for the benefit of having the other things that you've identified on the slide. There's just no question that it's a great opportunity for Reno. >> Happy to support >> and I think you bring up such a good point because I do want to point this out because we really forget this and Mr. Murdoch knows he's the the king of air service. Um, they love him. Thank God for Rick. He's brought in so many flights into our region. But if we don't have these flights, then it's really hard to get other flights. And people are always saying to me, "Mayor Shavey, why don't we have this flight and that flight?" It's impossible to get unless you're really paying attention to your existing air service flights. I learned that from Mr. Rick Murdoch for sure. And so um that is a really important >> uh aspect of it. I'm sorry. >> Yeah. No, go ahead. I was just going to say madam mayor. So I recently um accompanied the airport on a headquarter visit in Dallas to Southwest Airlines and one of the most important takeaways from that meeting was we identified the what they call basically the heat map of where the bowlers are coming from for the 26 tournament. And of everything that we presented in the hour and a half that we had with them, that was the topic they were most interested in. They want to know where the bowlers are coming from so they can assure that they have the lift to provide to get them here. >> Yeah. Absolutely. And since I'm on the board, I should probably provide just a little bit of feedback and sort of how how we're here and all this came to be. I want to remind everyone, I believe they started here in 1972 >> 77 >> 70 oh 77. So think about that 77 and the agreement was till 12. And one of the things because they've been coming here so long, we just assume they're coming. And they have been such phenomenal partners of ours that when when the clause went in there, it created um a little I think distrust with all of us and our partnership and relationship. So what's the total years? And then I would say that that clause was not in there for 45 years. >> Correct. It went into effect in 2012. And the purpose why that clause was added was there was significant capital improvements that were needed within the stadium because the stadium obviously opened in '95. So you now have a building that's been open for 17 years. And so it was tired. It needed some modifications and upgrades. And so as part of the amendment in 2012, there were several projects that were identified that needed to be completed between 2012 and 2018. And therefore the clause was added to make sure to protect an investment. >> Yeah. And the other thing I want to point out is with talking this these negotiations over and obviously we have to go to the different boards. However, we got extensions um but one of the biggest ones and that I should point out is the general services agreement. Um going to our board and getting that passed and that's important because it also goes up every year. I want to say thank you to our city manager Jackie. Um you are just an incredible fiscal hawk. [laughter] She no, she's she's amazing. But the reason why that is important is in in this ask, we would ask that the GSA goes away. Currently, it's 350. It goes up every um time they're here. Correct. >> And that would be in perpetuity. And so that's what I'm going to u make a motion for at our board. And I think that's a huge win for the city of Reno. And the reason why it is is because that money comes from the um the general fund and that is a big deal when it hits your general fund. So in the amount of three years that would be cover the million dollars. Right. >> Correct. >> And so there's really no comparison on the economic impact that it creates. And I think Councilman Ree said it really well. those agreements, anyone could take you to court and and uh bring back, you know, sort of um any contract in any capacity, right? So, >> I think this is a a really really strong partnership. I want to continue to have that relationship with them. Um because it's been it's been pretty phenomenal and we're lucky to have that economic impact right in downtown where we need it the most. >> Agree. And if I could just make a quick comment as it relates to the general services agreement. So we have already just had our preliminary discussions internally with senior staff of how we were going to modify our budget internally to make that work and we're all very comfortable with that. >> Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. I want to head over to Councilwoman Der. Go ahead. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um thank you for being here and Mike, I just really wanted to compliment you on a couple things that are minor in scope but major to me. One, your presentation was eminently readable. We don't often get that. And I also noted that you gave us an extra sheet with all the details on it. That is so helpful when we are quite a distance from this uh to be able to see it. Um and not only see it, but it made sense. And I want I particularly want to call out these multi multi-millions of dollars of economic impact that the bowling congress and the events bring in. I mean, you're not going to see that from almost anything else. I I can't think of anything else in our community that brings in this kind of economic impact and for spread over a period of time. Typically when we're darker, it's darker outside, it's darker in our buildings and we have fewer events. Um, number two, I just wanted to thank you for your time because I did going into this have a couple of questions. I don't serve on this board. I'm not familiar with the day-to-day. What I'm mostly familiar with is people saying, "Why can't we go bowling at the bowling stadium?" the regular people in Reno. And I know that's begun to change. I've I've uh been invited to several charity events that have been held at the bowling stadium uh to raise funds. I think even the mayor sponsored one for animals. Um but there have been I think numerous over 10 or 12 or 15 um in the last couple years. So I hope we can continue that because that is a great use of a facility and buildings don't like to stand empty anymore than people like to not have friends, you know. Um it it's a good thing to have people in there and using a facility, you know, keeping it current. Um so I just wanted to thank you for your time. I I got through the agreement, got to understand the changes. I'm very comfortable with it. And I want to thank you for, you know, leaning in to figure out what these details needed to be. And also the earlier point you made about why um you know some concerns that the bowling congress legitimately had um after their last event or their big event in 2023 I believe it was and how you work to um address them specifically, >> right? >> So that those kind of issues could could be repaired and those relationships could be repaired and and we could continue in a positive way together. So just a a huge thank you to you and your team. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate the comments. Okay. Uh, Councilwoman Eert, you have your light on. Yeah. So, I have a few things that I just kind of want some clarity on. Um, I know there is a lot of information here, but if you could just kind of like explain the why on some things for me. So, um, or just how it work. So, if if the bowling group, the the USBC did not honor this contract, would we have any way to um sue for damages or would it just be like, oh, they didn't show up, they breached their contract? Um would we have any kind of legal recourse if they didn't show up? So the current agreement >> which would be >> uh if if this amendment was not approved >> um they would have the ability we would have the ability should the United States bowling chronograph vacate a contracted tournament and have hold that tournament within the same year in another jurisdiction we could go after them for liquidated damages. >> Yes. I'm asking under the new agreement, what are we able would we be able to would we have any legal recourse if they said we're not coming. We're not going to honor our contract under the new terms. Would we be able to sue them for anything? >> We would not. We would be eliminating that those that language from the agreement. So, yes. >> So, we couldn't say you're in breach of contract. We are going to, you know, go after you >> from a legally standpoint. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I believe not. No. Now that being said, just again to add some context to that, back to [snorts] the point of how long we have been partnered with the United States Bowling Congress and looking at every jurisdiction where they have held a tournament, they have never cancelled. I understand they were canceled based on performance. >> Yeah, I was just curious if you know because breach of contract usually you know there's you can kind of >> I would defer to an attorney but my my assumption is that if the language is removed that that we would not have grounds to go after them for >> Okay. And you had mentioned that uh the existing clause was put in place because of upgrades that were needed to the facility in the late '90s. Well, I noticed that um the um the changes that were made in the fourth agreement in 22 were um updated to include required facility upgrades to include replacing of bowling lanes on the first and fourth floor to be completed by January 2029. Have those all been completed? >> They have. And so the only remaining item from uh capital perspective that's in the agreement is and it was actually moved due to co and the changing of the dates of the tournaments would be a replacement of all 88 lanes. That's the 78 uh on the main floor and the 10 in kingpin in 2029 >> and that is funded by the search charge which we met with the searchcharge committee a little over a month ago and based on the funds they have allocated they they have that that is covered significantly. >> Okay. So, we have the funds available to pay for replacing of all the lanes currently. Even if they don't show up, >> if they don't if they were not to show up, we wouldn't replace the lanes because you wouldn't have usage lanes. Yeah. Right. >> Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, city manager Bright, did you want to weigh in? >> Yeah. I just wanted to make a clarification for the record so that we're clear. what uh the RSCVA with the current proposed agreement is is a elimination of liquidated damages, not all damages. Is that correct? >> That's correct. >> Okay. So, to council member's question, just to make sure we are all on the same page, the liquidated damages simply says that there's an automatic payment and damages are still allowed pursuant to any contract just because you can't really wave those. So, there still could be damages. It's just not as easy to obtain. It's just not as quick. Again, I believe that is correct. I would defer to an attorney based on their interpretation of the agreement, but yes. >> Okay. All right. Councilwoman Anderson, go ahead. >> Thank you. Um >> I don't know that we've we've welcomed Mr. Peters here. >> Chad, welcome. >> We were I did want to say that >> Well, I'm going to embarrass him. I'm not going to embarrass Chad, >> but I did bring cheerleaders. I'm going to embarrass him because the only way I got through physics in college was cheating off of this man's papers. So, [laughter] um, thank you for that. >> Yeah. Yeah. It didn't do me any good. I'm not sure. But, um, okay. As a region, I understand the value of the bowlers and I also understand that Reno, we have a responsibility to keep them here. we don't just get to assume and take for granted that the bowling congress or the bowlers want to spend time here. So, I'm I'm curious if you would be willing to share a little bit more detail about what you learned about how Reno really had to step up, get ahead. What were some of the things that we needed to address to make sure that we that bowlers wanted to come back to Reno? Because that's the number one thing we need to remember is we yeah, we have a bowling stadium, but they still have to come to Reno. So, what were some of those things? Well, um, thank you for the question and the comments. First of all, um, this is a compet competitive landscape just like we do and we're trying to book conventions from all over the country. We're competing with cities everywhere. Bowling is similar. There are other cities and and USBC is soliciting other cities for proposals as well. Um, there was an offer on the table to pay them over $2 million to go to a certain city starting in 28. And so we had to one address that in our discussions with them. as it relates to your question on what were the important um factors in ensuring and giving the Boulders confidence that Reno was somewhere they wanted to come back to not just for 26 and the years that are contracted but extended contract was value was helping with the assistance to get here and working with the airlines was working with our stakeholders and the host hotels about their pricing and their hours of operation and the value that they're offering the bowlers I mean one thing I can say over the the numerous years that I've been in and out of this market is when you go back to the 90s and the early 2000s, the offers and the values that Mr. Murdoch and the Coranos were giving the Bowlers was similar to what is now being offered at South Point in Las Vegas. It was about value and we learned our lesson to Councilman Eert's um point about what happened in 23. We probably took advantage of a situation to the mayor's comments of that the Bowlers are just coming and we were in a position where we outpriced ourselves and it almost jeopardized this jeopardized our partnership with the Bowlers moving forward. Thank God we were able to correct that during halfway through the Open Championship in 23 and then 100% going into 24. And again, that was value, that was pricing, that was added value, that was the cost of food and beverage of the bowling stadium, that was hours operations in within our properties. And now the bowlers are if and and again, it's a reflection of what you're seeing in the numbers in 26. We have hit autocorrect and we're in a good place right now. >> Great. So, we have a huge opportunity to be incredible hosts coming this this March. Absolutely. We haven't seen this volume of bowlers since 2011, you said. What else can we do as a community to add value and not just to the bowlers but to their experience overall in the community? Is there anything that you learned in your travels that Reno has the opportunity to really roll out the red carpet in a new and different way? >> So, a couple things. Um, one, we have partnered with the airport. We are starting conversations with the airport about the experience, right? Sense of arrival. Making sure that we are branding the airport. We're asking our properties to brand their properties. welcoming the bowlers. This is the largest convention by far that we will do uh in any year. In addition to that, other ideas that I've seen in other cities is embracing the bowlers from a lot of times when you when you go to cities and there's a what we call a city-wide convention, they have what they call show your badge program, right? To where if you are there for that conference and you have your badge or you have your credentials, then there's some kind of offer that they are giving. I would love to see and who I give a shout out to a city that does an unbelievable job. Columbus, Ohio. They have a district next to the convention center of restaurants. And when they have a big convention in town, you will see boards and chalkboards and messages on windows and storefronts of welcome bowlers, buy an appetizer, second one free, whatever it may be, right? Those are the ideas and the concepts where it really makes those bowlers feel like they are welcomed in your community. >> Okay. Um, I may have another round. Thank you. Yes, I will come back and just because I sit on the board and obviously um something that you know I am [snorts] I feel like I live a lot of uh the RSCVA board. Um and I wanted everyone to know that we really needed to show that our relationship with um with the bowlers was built on strength and was built on trust. And I think in some ways it was a little eroded because of that and we needed to really reset them. And the clause is very very small compared to [music] um what other cities they would have no problem paying for that business to come here right or go there is my point. But then on the other side um and I will put this in my motion is to the caveat of the general services tax. so that the city can have that money back to the general fund in perpetuity of it goes up every year. So, I'm going to get those numbers as well, but right now it's 350,000. >> And so, it's really um I think very much rooted in a partnership and appreciate having that money come right back to the city. I don't think have this. Sometimes there's, you know, things that happen and they're actually good and this gives us an opportunity at the city of Reno to keep more of our money. I know the RCVA doesn't love that, but you [clears throat] guys are great partners. And not that you don't, but I I think, you know, it really is um a good opportunity for the city to get hundreds of thousands and moving forward millions of dollars back into the general fund. >> Yeah. And just if you look at the con the the current agreements that are under contract and if the three years are approved and extended, that alone in terms of $2.5 million in GSA funds just on those eight tournaments. >> Yeah. Because they didn't have to. So anyway, I'm I'm grateful for their partnership. Um, Councilman Martinez, go right along. Go right ahead. >> Madam May, thank you for your representation on the RCBA and thank you, Mr. Larua, for being here uh and kind of explaining a similar thoughts to what um Council Member Ree, there's a lot of information and data and numbers um in your presentation. And so I'm very grateful for uh you providing the additional uh present attachments that are available electronically in our staff uh packet, but also the print copies that were available to us. I think um in terms of looking at this contract, obviously being on this council, our job is to make sure that the city is in good standing and we're protecting public assets as much as we can. And obviously the city is the owner of this facility and we understand that contractually we have to, you know, fix the lanes and replace those by 2029, which uh the $2 capital search charge committee is already has a timeline for that and looking forward to getting those things up and going. And so, um, I just want to echo, uh, some of the comments that Madame Mayor has already made and asking you to go back to your board to get approval of removing the general services allocation to make sure we have some of that funding coming back to uh, the general fund for the city of Reno to make sure that we have enough to spend on uh, other items that we're we're looking at. I think in terms of the numbers that you've provided, I wanted to get I didn't see it in the rest of the contract. So, I wanted to sort of understand I it sounds like there's sort of a split 6040 between the city of Reno and the RSCVA of the allocation of net income that uh happens depending on if there is like a profit in the terms of programming or events that happen in uh the bowling stadium. Just wondering historically if any if that has taken place or if it's just something that was in the contract and if it ever does what those numbers are if you have those. >> Yeah, I I don't um thank you for the comments uh Councilman Martinez. Uh I don't believe that that split is called out within the agreement. I'm not familiar with that, but I'm happy to look into other agreements as it relates to the contract between the management contract between the city of Reno and RCVA on the downtown facilities. >> Okay. I maybe have been looking at um >> I I think I believe what you're referring to is is in the GSA agreement when that agreement was created it was based on a revenue share if there was profitability. >> Yes. >> Unfortunately, as with most buildings, um the probability of profitability is limited. Um and but I believe that is where the split and maybe city manager knows about. >> Yeah, just um for the record, you are correct. There is a split. Unfortunately, Reno pays the $350 roughly,000 and there's no revenue share on the back end of that because it hasn't been profitable, >> right? >> So, it's just been a a payment on an annual basis. >> Okay. Yeah. Which is understandable. I just want to make sure I understood that >> clearly. Thanks so much. Um, manager Bryant. And then in terms of, if I may, Madame Mayor, just one last question. >> Go right ahead. >> Thank you. um in terms of the economic impacts that you have been uh projecting and looking at for the past uh open championships and women's championships um who has produced that and if have you looked at having anybody else sort of verify the information that you're providing in this presentation? >> So this has been um produced by our our room tax u manager um Robert Douglas who was on staff. He's been doing it for years. He takes several components of data into consideration. We do this for our convention groups as well, the large groups and looking at the profitability and economic impact. And sometimes we do it in advance based on forecast numbers so we can determine the value and how much we want to offer that group to bring their business to Reno. But we look at obviously um room revenue, ADR, um food and beverage spend. We look at gaming. We look at uh whether it's a fly group or a drive group. We look at the demographic of the group. itself in terms of the makeup and their percentage of spend as it relates to looking to an outside company. We just contracted with tourism economics who is worldrenowned and producing data for tourism and DCVBs and DMOs all over the country. I'd be happy for them to take a stab at it as well if that was at the the council's request. >> Yeah, I just want to throw that out there. Not saying that uh your expert isn't producing the correct information. And I just know sometimes even at the city, we ask other experts to come and verify information that we're seeing just to make sure that it's lining up. So, >> thank you so much for that consideration and thank you, Madam Mayor. Appreciate the time. >> Okay, Councilwoman Taylor. >> Thank you. Um, thank you for the presentation. I'm going to ask assistant managers uh Ashley Turney to come up. I just wanted after listening to my colleagues, I had a couple of questions too and I wanted to make sure I understood what I'm hearing as far as um the protection if something were to happen by removing the damage clause. We feel moving forward that the GSA going away that Madame Mayor was going to put in her um motion and the opportunity for more volume, more bowlers covers that risk. >> Ashley Attorney, assistant city manager for the record. uh staff feels comfortable that that helped gets us closer to the space. We understand the importance of bowling to the community and I think having the offset of that GSA would be something that is beneficial for us to be able to have some security in that space. >> Okay. The other thing I wanted to ask you and I think council member Eert was talking about this a little bit was we have to replace the lanes in 29 and then we're dark in between that until 2032. I think the $2 sir charge is going to cover the cost of that capital improvement. Correct. >> Correct. >> So, it will not come out of the general fund. >> It will not come out of the general fund. It is not able to be backed by the general fund. The general fund would be an ineligible source for that upgrade. >> Okay. So, we are absolutely confident that $2 charge is going to cover that capital improvement. >> We are confident the money is in the $2 charge fund now and we anticipate that to continue to grow. >> Okay. Perfect. And again, by the sure amount of bowlers that are going to be coming, um, that looks promising. >> Mike's going to fill up the search. >> He's going to fill up. Um, I I wanted to ask a little bit. We still have a lot of debt on this property. Is that accurate? >> That is correct. Yes. >> And that's how much is that? >> Uh, the bonds are actually we have three bonds on the three downtown facilities between the ballroom, the event center, and the >> uh bowling stadium. And they're coupled. They're not per each unit. Uh currently that payoff amount is about $131 million between those three facilities. >> Okay. >> Those bonds are backed by room tax funds. Uh it's a dedicated room tax source. However, if room tax fails to meet the debt obligation, the general fund is on the hook for those payments. >> But according to Mike, we're going to have tons of room nights. So [laughter] >> Mike is motivated to ensure that room tax uh stays sufficient for all of us. >> Okay. Fantastic. Those are my questions. Thank you, Madame Mayor. All right. Thanks. Okay. Go ahead, Councilman Ree. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. I suppose I want to just put a fine point on something that Manager Bryant said and and I'll sort of direct my attention over here to Mr. Hall. Um, look, um, having written contracts of this type for years, um, it was true that when I went to law school, uh, now 25 years ago, uh, when I was 10, um, I, uh, understood what liquidated damages clauses were, and they were pretty routine, uh, back in that era of contracting. Um, but today, not so much, right? Um, everybody can sue anybody, anytime they want, anywhere. Liquidated damages clauses were an attempt to fix the damages to a certain number so you didn't have to prove them up through the process of litigation. Having them in the contract doesn't make it any more or less likely that you sue or that you can recover it. So from my perspective there is no reason to have it in a contract in that regard because at the end of the day if the parties blow apart the agreement for whatever reason which I don't believe is going to happen um that clause doesn't help us. And so I I want to sort of turn now to Mr. Mr. Hall or Mr. Shipman and just make sure that I haven't, you know, misstated some uh factoid about the law. I and it's not so much academic. I want my colleagues to be comfortable with the things that we do at the dis. Miss Bryant and I have the benefit of having attended law school so we have some knowledge and comfort with it and I want to make sure that we share that knowledge with our colleagues. And for the record, John Shim City Attorney's Office. No, I think that's a fair kind of assessment. I mean, liquidated damages are there in cases where you don't have like really good solid damage calculations and and again, they've been superseded largely in a number of different areas. So, >> yeah. So, Nevada law, we we just dis most disfavor them because they're just they are a part of an archaic legal system that doesn't really replicate itself today. And again, the idea was to fix damages on a dollar amount so that people weren't fighting over what the damage amount would be. Not that it replaces damages any way because you still have the ability to do that. And so that's why when I looked at it, I said, "Okay, they're they're not really asking for much. Um I think what we get in return is um a better relationship with our partner and also it's just um it's like language cleanup in my mind. it really doesn't do anything for us that we aren't otherwise doing for ourselves by knitting our relationship together more closely. So hopefully that answers the questions that Miss Eert and Miss Taylor had about this particular kind of clause. >> All right, go ahead Councilwoman. >> Sorry, I've just got I've got future business questions here. >> Councilwoman Anderson, go ahead. >> Um okay, so two things. So removing the liquid damages clause to me makes it clear that we can't be lazy. Our CVA can't be lazy. The city of Reno cannot be lazy because we are earning this business every single year. And what that tells me is by us getting that GSA budget back, we could be lending our energy, our leadership, and potentially our comm support to creating micro plans with your comm's team around these tournaments to where we're encouraging our community, our restaurants, our bars, our other you other events, you know, in case people do things outside of bowling when they're here for bowling. you know, really rolling out the red carpet for them or the blue carpet, I should be saying, in Northern Nevada, um, to these bowlers. So, I would like to commit to you my interest in any and all ideas that you and your comm's team would have for us to take the ask to our community to really make each and one of these bowling events feel special so that they know that Reno wants them because now there are no liqufied damages. we ha we are on the hook for being the community that they want to keep coming back to. So, please be um really open and honest about the ways in which we can support you and your team and um hopefully this March we can knock their socks off. >> Welcome that. Thank you. That'd be great. >> And that's one of the biggest reasons we have Chad now. You know, he's new to our team actually. So, no pressure, Chad. Look at his face. He's getting all red. [laughter] Okay. Uh, green lights on. Uh, Councilwoman Eert, go ahead. >> Yeah. So, just a couple more questions. Um, [clears throat] there was discussion about getting rid of uh GSA um money that the city of Reno pays to our CVA. What does GSA stand for? >> General Services. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. >> General services agreement. >> Okay. And can you tell me just a little bit about what those dollars go towards? Like I don't need a full itemized list, but what does that money pay for? It >> it's basically an offset of the losses that the RCBA absorbs through managing the properties. >> Okay. So that money goes towards managing the properties like payroll or what does it pay for? I believe it goes back to our general fund as it relates to uh operating expenses um labor anything to any any expense that goes into operating the either the renewal event center or the national bowling stadium. >> Okay. So it's operational it's not maintenance. >> I to be honest with you I'm not sure without reading the GSA agreement. The city manager might know >> we are correct. It's basically a payment that the city of Reno pays RSVC RSCVA to manage the bowling stadium. >> Okay. And we only pay it if something else doesn't reach a certain limit or do we pay regardless? >> We pay it every year. Okay. And if the value of the revenue exceeds the amount, then we get some revenue share back. But Reno is currently on the hook every single year for that amount. >> Okay. So, I just want to make sure that like this is not used for some type of maintenance that's going to lead to more damage that we're going to have to pay for later. like this analogy that I can think of is like skipping oil changes and then having to pay for a car that broke down later. So, just want to make sure that this is not something that's going to bite us later cuz City of Reno's ended up in a lot of deals that sounded great at the time but ended up not being great deals. So, >> obviously, as the organization that is managing those facilities just like we manage our other facilities, if we're going to convert and book business, we have to keep those facilities running at tip shape. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, just, you know, want to make sure that you guys can absorb that kind of loss and we're not going to have, you know, a noticeable decrease in service and maintenance. To Council Member Anderson's point, we need to stay competitive and stay on top of things. So, that's that's not all the money in the world, but it's also not nothing. So, just want to make sure that we stay on top of things to keep everything um you know uh up to uh what the bowlers expect to see in the facilities. Thank you. >> Okay. No other I see no other lights on. Um I I do want to say I I think it's important to point out that every agreement is different based on a lot of different criteria. And one of the things that I think if we all could have the opportunity to see what a long-standing partner would look like. We typically when we get into agreements, we don't get to see what sort of who you're dealing with. You take it face value on a piece of paper and you're and then you go like this and for the amount of years uh how how many years has it been now? >> I mean ABC under the ABC umbrella it's 77 with this since 95 the building of the stadium >> USBC. >> How many years is that? >> 30. >> Yeah it's 30 years. Well >> two Yeah. So >> the bowlers have been coming for since 77. So that's 58 years. >> So >> but but that's my point. A 58-year relationship, we get to see who we are. Well, not quite right. >> 48. >> We you cannot count. >> Mike, [laughter] >> and I'm usually good with numbers. I'm on the spot. >> We cannot 48. >> Um, >> yeah, math never good for me. But it's usually my strength. That's >> Wouldn't it be incredible to see who your long-term relationships were and how they dealt with contracts and how they dealt with um the partnership and we've had this one for a very very long time and that's another reason why I felt very comfortable. But on the other side of it, that GSA is super critical to get back into the general fund. And I want to also remind our council, one of the biggest reasons is there are years that bowling doesn't come here and we pay it. And I I think this is a great way to bring that money back into the general fund and also continue the economic vitality of downtown. We are grateful to have them. I think we took it for granted for a while. I love what Councilwoman Anderson and I want to give this woman a huge shout. Brandy, you're amazing. This was a lot of her brainchild. So, I want to give her a ton of kudos. And I love what she said. Like, we need to step it up. Let them know we appreciate them. We want to do everything we can. She's also kind of a marketing genius over here. So, we're going to lean heavily on Brandy. But, I definitely want to recognize you, Councilwoman Anderson, because phenomenal job. I just I you need to know. So, um and you can work with Chad to embarrass him more to do more. He's doing great. Actually, he's doing great. We fought for a long time to get someone over there to really focus on that facility and we finally have it. And I will say just I'm going to call the elephant out in the room. Um it's been a long fight for me over there at RSCVA. It has not been easy. Uh lots Mike knows. Uh Rick Murdoch knows um I have probably been more like a certain council member that is no longer here over there is how they probably perceive me over there. Um I get scrappy. I get probably a little emotional because I think the city of Reno quite honestly has taken on a lot of responsibility. But the partnership now has changed and we're really really grateful for that. But yeah, I have not been popular over there, just so you guys know. Uh, but things are changing and we have new board members that understand the impact of economic vitality. So, with that being said, I am going to make the motion to approve this and the um I want to make sure though that this is attached to the GSA in perpetuity. So, that would be my motion. >> So, second. >> So, I have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. All right. Thanks everyone. >> Okay. Have a great day you guys. We'll see you at the next board. I think when will I see you next? Tomorrow. No, >> December 11th. >> December 11th. >> Oh, that's right. Okay. December 11th. Bye you guys. Okay. Madame clerk. >> Madame Mayor, if you'd like, we could go >> hand it over to Councilwoman Taylor. >> Back to item B12 pulled by Council Member Door. Thank you so much because I wanted uh Megan to be able to get back to work really quick. All this is is um a $21,000 grant to um create begin the creation of a citywide historic context report. And all I wanted Megan to do was to explain what that is. Um I had to ask myself, she said that it does not um it's not the end, it's a beginning. And I just it's the reason I wanted to pull it is that you know there'll be subsequent items associated. Can you >> Yeah, sure. Good morning. Um Megan Burner, arts and culture manager for the record. Um thanks for highlighting this item. Um this is a grant acceptance from the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office um to start the first phase of a citywide historic context. There are nearly 30,000 properties in the city of Reno with a construction date before 1980, which means that some of them are potentially eligible for the local historic register or the national and state historic register. Um, only about 11% of these have been surveyed so far and we've really taken a peacemeal approach to surveying our resources um based on the modern layout of the city. And so this would actually look at the historical development of the city and prioritize based on that and allow us to really get a feel for what we have here. It would inform subsequent surveying um and addition to those registers that I mentioned. Adding things to the National Historic Register does open up the possibility of historic tax credits and other funding um for owners. So, um, it's really, yeah, that's the gist of it. >> Well, I just wanted to mention often our relationship with Shipo is one where they're a regulator and we are being regulated. Um, they're putting down conditions, we're having to prove that we comply with them and so on. To have them giving us funds to help us do our work, I is a very positive um, step in the relationship and they've done it before. Um, and I just but not necessarily recently. And so I wanted to highlight that as well. And you said it's phase one, but what what are subsequent phases? >> So this this would be the initial um research probably pulling from previous surveys and histories of the city to develop some of that context. And then the second phase which will hopefully happen in next fiscal year um would be to do actual ground level surveys of some of those identified resources to create that bigger picture of the context so we know where to really delve in deeper. >> And then one more thing who actually does the survey both either phase one or phase two. >> So we would be hiring a consultant um for this. We have a few that we've worked with in the past um that are sort of the larger um like environmental consultants that have architectural historians on staff. So we would hire a consultant to work with >> and then the endgame is this to add buildings to either state, local, or national. >> Exactly. Yes. and to help us carry out some of those goals in our um reimagine Reno master plan for historic preservation. >> And does the state actually have I know we have a local program. I know there's a national, but what is there actually a state program? >> There is a state register as well. Um which is really similar to the national register. It's an honorary. There's no regulatory um requirements that come with placing properties on the state register, but they have to do more with significant events and architecture related to our state history. >> Gotcha. All right. Well, thank you. I don't know if there's any more questions from anyone. If not, I'll make a motion to approve this item. >> Second. >> We have a motion to second. All those in favor? >> I. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. >> Thanks for your work, Megan, and that of Melissa. Yes. Yes. I should acknowledge that Melissa Hayy in our department did most of the research and writing for this grant. So, >> okay. Thank you. Now, we're going to move into a presentation from RTC. >> Welcome. Mr. Thomas, always interesting to see you on that side of the dis. >> Very glad to be here this afternoon. >> Look at that tie. >> You know your audience, Mr. Thomas. >> Wear it without getting in trouble. >> I know to start. >> Well, good afternoon, council. Um, I am very proud to be here today to give you a presentation. So, I'm not asking for anything specific, but I wanted to um update you on some activities of RTC that I think you'd be interested in. I will share that I've made the same presentation to the board of county commissioners and the Spark City Council. So, it is my um interest and certainly something that the RTC board likes is for us to go out and lead each of the local governments to update you on what we've been doing. Um the subject that I want to talk about the subjects I want to talk about today are the two recent studies that um we completed and then I'm going to ask Dale Keller who's our deputy director deputy executive director and director of engineering to talk to you about some of the um bigger projects that are going on in the city of Reno currently and in the near future. So when I do these presentations, I always like to start again with a refresh of what the RTC board is. Um I know um all of you are interested probably uh monthly, weekly, sometimes daily on transportation and your wards and what you hear from your um constituents. So um I wanted to share that the board that we have made up of five council me or five members across the local jurisdictions um is really a regional board. So our challenge at RTC is to be aware of all the local entities concerns about transportation but to translate that into a regional perspective. Um I would point out that something that's not commonly thought about is we've been around um for quite a while. We were talking about 70s earlier today. Um we're a creature of the 70s at RTC. In fact, we're only two years um younger than the airport authority. So um we've been in existence for quite a while and we really do as a board I think the board focuses on trying to be responsive to all the jurisdictions. But again to address the fact that the average trip link in our community is a little more than six miles which means most trips that people in our community take cross jurisdictions and the transportation network really does function holistically and um not really individually. Uh another thing I know that is frequent uh in terms of not only the community but also you as elected officials is how are decisions made? There's a common um interest I think in dealing with transportation issues and turning to RTC to say can you deal with this issue and often um the frustration is how long it takes for us to respond. So I did want to uh reiterate the fact that we're a capital agency. We don't provide other than our buses we we provide capital improvements. We do run a service which is the public transportation system but a lot of what u people focus on with RTC is the capital side. So, this is a chart that explains the decision-making process that is developed um in part because of uh regulation, but also a good healthy practice to make sure when we spend in some cases up to hund00 million in the community that we're spending it the right way. So, uh just to refresh the first uh bubble here, which is a regional transportation plan. So that's a holistic transportation plan for the whole region and it's done to comply not only with the federal government's requirement for what we have to do as a community in order to spend federal funds but it also is necessary because of the um NRS legislation that requires in Wo County and this is unique that we have a regional transportation plan. Essentially that first um RTP really is everything that anybody could possibly think of that might be needed in the next 20 years to deal with transportation issues. The second step here is the regional transportation improvement program which is um commonly referred to in local governments like capital improvement plan. So this is our five-year plan where we take the projects out of the 20-year plan and instill them down to ones that are um of the highest importance. And I will reiterate that we don't make decisions arbitrarily. We have a very um established prioritization process with nine key factors that we weigh the projects against to make sure that we're doing the right thing when we're moving them forward. The orange bubble is the one where uh you as local government have the first kind of direct interaction with us. And that is when we have those projects after the five-year plan, we're ready to move forward with them. come to you uh for two reasons. One is RTC doesn't own anything. Everything we do is on the behest of the local government. So if there's a project in Reno, we have to get your authorization to do it. And then secondly, um you would authorize us to use eminent domain, which is often needed in transportation projects to perfect those projects. So that's really the first touch of a formal action from the um from the uh city council. And then lastly, much like you, we have an annual operating budget, which is where we're actually spending the funds to do um the projects in the community. The first study I wanted to bring to your attention is a maintenance study that we completed this year. The study was done with an outside consultant um NCE on behalf of RTC but it involved very heavily the interaction with the local government staffs um the engineering the public works the maintenance staffs of the three jurisdictions and what we did was um we we know there's an issue in maintenance and the ability for all agencies to fund it but we wanted to get our arms around like what is the scope and nature of that and when we're talking about maintenance um RTC C traditionally and historically has been responsible for maintenance as you see in this picture of the asphalt. So when you think about maintenance from RTC, what we do is we do on the regional road network. We make sure those roads that are regional in nature are maintained according to some pre prescribed standards. Um however this study looked at everything. It looked at snow plowing. It looked at crack sealing, potholes, signs, striping, every everything you could possibly think of. um as it related to the transportation network not only at the regional level but also at the local level. And the conclusion of that report um is that not surprisingly we don't have [snorts] even though all of the jurisdictions are spending the funds that are allocated to them um we don't have enough money to keep up with the needs of the system holistically. And our conclusion out of the report was in order to meet what we would desire as a region in all the local governments, we'd need about um $1.4 billion over the next 10 years. So with that staggering conclusion, um we did look at what to do um next or what some of the findings were. And I would I would stress this study was not intended to come up with a solution. And it really was to get our arms around the magnitude of the problem because there's been a lot of conversation but it hadn't really been captured like what is the scale of this problem. So a couple of bullets points of what the study said. Um not surprisingly there's insufficient sun funding um holistically in the whole region to take care of the problems and that as time goes on the backlogs for projects that are not only needed but also wanted um it's going to be harder to meet those needs and that there will be declining network conditions and that is something that I'm sure all of you are concerned about uh because we all drive these roads on a daily basis. So some of the recommendations out of this study were that uh prioritizing preventative maintenance is a key and what that means really is if you look at your limited dollar you have to spend some portion of it needs one which is the funding awareness and when that particular term what we mean by it in this study is we have a process we've been using for quite some years at the regional level which is keep the good roads good. In other words, don't chase after roads that are already bad and put all your money into them because the consequence is your list of bad roads is going to get bigger and bigger much faster than you'll be ever be able to keep up with them. So, the strategy is to really keep focused on things that are in good shape. How can we spend less money to keep those in good shape rather than chasing after the ones that maybe are already in a bad position? Um, and the other two items um really one of them self-evident which is prioritization. And I would say from the regional standpoint, we focus as a top priority is volume of traffic. So again, if you have a dollar to spend and everybody wants it, we start with where are the roads that have the most traffic on them. Obviously trying to focus on the most benefit to the community by those investments. And then um a a more recent u endeavor we've taken on which I'll talk about a little more detail is the intelligent transportation system. And the study did recommend that we spend money doing or focusing on that. And the reason I would say that is because um that's our best bet to somewhat reduce our need to invest in capacity improvement if we can really fine-tune our intelligent transportation system. So we're making the best use of the roads and the capacity in the roads that already exist. Second study that um we undertook at the direction of our board was to look at this growing issue of revenue loss based on um vehicles that are not do not purchase fuel um EVs, hybrid vehicles, and we hired the we engaged the the Gwyn uh study from the the Gwyn Center because they are a nonpartisan group that really does focus on primarily legislative issues and policy issues. So, um we know that all paths eventually lead through the legislature in terms of getting funding or um correcting some of our abilities to respond. And so, we hired them to take a look at this question of what are the options to deal with the fact that um we're not gaining the revenues from fuel tax from vehicles that don't pay fuel tax. So these two charts um are a summary of some of the findings. The one on the left is the actual growth in as you can see here hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles. So um as of 2024 roughly about 5 a.5% of the fleet in other words all the vehicles that are on the road are either EV or hybrid. So you know in the big scheme of things it's not huge now but it's growing. you can see from this chart. And so every year as that sector of the fleet grows, it's going to be a greater impact on um not only us at the regional level, but also you because you have fuel tax that you use to maintain your roads. The second one is probably more troubling, and that's the fact that um the taxable gallons sold has been going down. You accompany that with the fact that the population's grown um I think over 50,000 people in the last 5 years in our region and the vehicle miles travel is up um in the millions in terms of people are driving more. There's more people and they're driving more is the short of it. But at the same time because their their vehicles are getting much more efficient, the fleets are much more efficient. Every time somebody drives they're contributing less to maintain and build roads. So you com you put those two together and it does spell a funding challenge for us going forward on a transportation network that is funded by fuel tax. So the Gwen um senator came forward with a couple policy recommendations. The top ones are ones that would be uh would require approval from the legislature and the bottom ones are ones that could be done here locally. So I'll just touch on these briefly and certainly if you have more questions to the extent we can add details we will. Um the first one is one that's been talked about for quite some time and I would say that um the last numbers I saw 39 of the 50 states have already implemented it which is a fee or a tax on electric vehicles and hybrids. So it's not a new problem. It's one that most other states have dealt with. We just haven't in Nevada dealt with. There's been a lot of discussion over the last few sessions, but no progress in in providing for that revenue source for those types of vehicles. Um, the other one is a more global strategy, which is really moving away long-term from the issue of people consuming less fuel is to move towards a a fee structure that would charge people based on how much they're drive. So, regardless of your type of vehicle, you would pay how much you drive. Um, that's kind of the ideal in the transportation world, but it is also the most complex to do because not only do you have to get consent of the public, which has been the biggest push back by having government know how much you're driving and potentially where you're driving, but also in collecting it. The beauty of the system right now is the wholesalers pay us the fuel tax. So, when people fuel their car, their individual vehicles, the money's already been accounted for way upstream in a much easier way. But if you think about this, every single person's going to have to be accounted and tracked and then build for it. So, um it's the ideal, but it's a very complex one that nobody's figured out. All the states have been talking about it, but nobody has perfected that. And then lastly is just a subset of it, which is electric charging stations. And this is really kind of an offshoot of when electric vehicles started to become prevalent. And that would again be, you know, just a part of it. There's a lot of complexities to that not the least of which the charging stations are not set up to collect money in that way in the same way the fuel pumps are or the fuel stations are. So moving to the second category which are things we can do already. The first one is the supplemental um government services tax. So there is an ability for um the board of county commissioners to impose that. It is in concept for transportation, but it's not in law required to be for transportation, but that could be something where um I believe the number is up to 20 million a year could be generated if the board of county commissioners chose to do that. The second one is an increase um of 1/8 of 1% of the sales tax. That is set up by law in our county to be voted on by the voters. So, in other words, if the people of our community voted to do that, um that would be [clears throat] an additional where it is now about 15 million a year that could go to transportation. So, those were the conclusions um of what could be done, you know, foreseeable future to address this issue. And then lastly, before I hand it over to Dale, I wanted to talk about the intelligent transportation system, which I know we've explained to you, I think we've made presentations before. Simplest way to think about this is having a transportation network that is responsive to the needs at the moment. Right now, the way our traffic signal systems work, they're preset. They're based on some assumptions and they don't really respond to special events. So, this is a system we've been working with your staff and the staffs of the other two local governments to see how can we make um our system intelligent. And in short, what it means is we have a common platform for um the technology we use. We connect our signals with fiber. We have a centralized location where we have a group of people that are working on how to move people at a point in time and be much more efficient about how we move people around our community. So, we have been um advancing that and we're not we haven't perfected it yet, but we have done some things to move this forward. Um, one of them is, and I'll move on to the traffic center in just a second, but we have in Sparks, we implemented an intelligent corridor on the Pyramid Sparks Boulevard area, and that's been um very successful by interconnecting a series of signals and making them smart to make sure that we can get more capacity and it's very successful at doing that. in that quarter. We're now moving on to um the city of Reno to do something similar, which is we're going to be looking at Virginia Street up by the university to test the idea that we can use this system to deal with special events. In other words, a football game or a basketball game or some event where there's a large influx of people that we all have to scramble in dealing with. So, we're going to look at that making those kind of technological improvements in that quarter to see if that can provide us some benefit. Um, so a couple of upcoming issues before I I guess I lied. I'm not ready to hand it over to Dale yet, but some things I wanted to let you know about is we are very aggressively pursuing this concept of having an EV fee um hybrid hydrogen I'm sorry, hybrid fuel fee. And so you'll be hearing likely um in the near future from um RTC about efforts to see if we can get a fee like that imposed in Wo County. And the reason we're choosing that to go down that way and explore it is because so far it hasn't really been successful at a state level. And we feel that um the time is right to deal with this. You know, in simplicity to think about it, there's 5% of the fleet now. as it gets bigger and bigger, it's going to be harder and harder to change the nature of how we collect revenues. So, um that's something you'll be hearing about in in the near future. The other thing at the national level, I think we all know that things are changing there. Um we do know that the surface transportation act is coming up for renewal and that the funding that was provided with the IGA ends in 26. And so, um all bets are off and there's a lot of uncertainty of where the federal government's going to go in terms of transportation. We do know at least from statements that have been given from the power uh the department or the I'm sorry party that's in charge that they won't be funding bikes and art and some of the other things that the past um administrations did. So they're really sounds like going to be focusing on bridges and capacity improvements. Um, we will be watching that and of course we will be sharing with you how we'll be um, making sure we bring those revenues into our community. Um, we're very aggressive in watching the federal government's direction when they say there's money available and we've been very successful working with INDOT to bring money into our community by targeting our projects based on what we're understanding at the federal level they want to see their money spent at or spent on. So, with that, I'm going to hand it over to Dale because I know he's got some projects that you all will probably be interested in understanding their status. >> Thank you, Bill. Uh, good afternoon, Madame Mayor. Uh, city council. Dale Keller, deputy executive director and director of engineering at the RTC. So, I just want to highlight, uh, four projects that are highly visible right now with inside the city of of Reno. Later um after the new year, I'll be back at city council to present the fiscal year 2027 street and highway program uh for potential adoption. At that time, we'll have a more robust update about the street and highway program overall and where we've been uh the work we've been doing here in 2026 and into 2027. So, the four projects, the first one on the top is the Arlington Avenue bridges reconstruction projects. Uh we're well underway. We're looking to wrap up that second bridge and get that out of the water here uh by early December. So, we're continuing to progress that and staying on schedule. If any council members or mayor you'd like to have a tour, you're more than welcome uh to have a tour of some really cool things going on. Very generational project here for the Arlington Avenue bridges so we continue to remain on track. The second project that will start begin next year is the biggest little bite network project which is a very transmoral uh project in downtown Reno. We're looking four different corridors that help improve uh bike mo excuse me bicyclist mobility as well as safety. We're actually touching over 45 different intersections. So, that project is on track to begin the summer of 2026, roughly about $17 million investment. Another project that just kicked off in downtown is the West Forest Street safety project as well as the downtown project uh started here this month. Uh that's over about $ 35.5 million project which actually kicks off all the way from West McCarron all the way into downtown Reno. And so we're excited to kick off that project to both help with safety and mobility for West Fourth Street. And the last highly visible project in South Reno is the Veterans Roundabout Modifications Project. Uh we are looking to wrap that project up around Thanksgiving and have a a ribbon cutting sometime in early December. So that's been a a very successful project. We appreciate everybody's uh patience overall from this summer from our construction projects and we're looking to open that roundabout back up into a new full capacity by the end of this month. Uh, so I'd like to turn it back over to Bill and we're happy to answer any questions. >> I would say we have about 65 projects in various stages of activity right now. So this is just a short um list of what we've got going on, but uh I and last thing I guess I would want to say is we work very closely with Carrie and the city of Reno staff. I'm pretty sure Dale and Carrie probably talk three or four times a week. Uh but it's very important to us to have that engagement with the local staff because they know not only hearing from you but also um the issues that they hear uh in their jurisdictions. It really helps us plan and perform better. So um both Dale and I are available if you have questions. >> Awesome. Okay, Bill, thank you so much. Um, it has been a pleasure working with you guys over there because I do feel like it's a different day when it comes to micromobility and the plans that we have coming along the Truckucky River and just there's just a lot of different dynamics. Um, I think and it's you can see the difference. So, thank you so much. I also think it really helps with your background and knowledge of the city and how you know you really Bill led the revitalization of downtown in a big way with the university. had it not been for you, we it would not look like the way it does today. And remember, it was very unpopular. And today, people's like, "Oh my god, I I haven't been to the university area in so long." And look at the beautiful streets and how it was designed. And um Bill should take all the credit cuz it was [snorts] his vision that really got us there and it's really been transformative over there and made such a difference. So, thank you so much. And also I want to point out that the landscape, that's the other thing that I noticed being on RTC, the landscape is very very different um under this administration when it comes to these federal funds and and so it is a little more challenging and we we don't have the support that we have typically had. Um so we're just trying to trying to work through those things. So it just it's good and bad, right? like it's so anyway I just want to acknowledge the job you guys are doing over there and always working with Carrie has made a big difference too cuz she has to put up with us over here where we complain complain complain you know and she has to put up with that so um so we apologize Carrie but she's she's amazing and so um you guys are doing a phenomenal job you always answer the phone whenever I call even though I might not always be happy um you always uh you know talk me through it and the accessibility has been fantastic, but I really am proud of what you've done over there and how how well you lead the board. So, good job. I don't get to tell you often. Anyway, okay, I'm going to start you with you, Councilwoman Anderson. >> Yes. Hi. Thank you for the update. Um, I was interested in learning a little bit more about the intelligent traffic management. I've been thinking just about all the exciting things that we have coming to Northern Nevada with the stadium, not only, you know, at the GSR, but also all of the music that is going to be downtown, not only on Fourth Street, but also down with the Glow Plaza and the festival and then potentially soccer out in South Reno. And so that that makes me more interested in learning about how we can be prepared for those events and the um you know the growing pains that those traffic patterns are going to cause. >> There's a lot of opportunity, but I'll let Dale who definitely is deep into the details give you some background. >> Uh Councilwoman Anderson, that's a great question and those are great opportunities we're going to look to help address with this traffic management center. So I'd say right now our system, it is smart. We have a lot of different communications. We can talk to all of our signals and the city of Reno staff does a great job managing and and making sure we can make adjustments. But what we're looking to do is actually instead of being reactive, actually have to be proactive to address a lot of these special events that we know is going to happen and we can actually do that in real time. So as we start looking into be more of a smart and bigger city with these different types of events, special events, weather conditions, you name it, crashes, how can we adjust and get the most capacity out of our roadways that we can? And so that's what we're going to look be doing and how can we do that with less staff and [clears throat] more intelligent more technology aspect of that as well. And uh as Bill mentioned we're looking to do a pilot project here on on Virginia Street and North McCarron. So when we have basketball this this winter, how can we get traffic in and out of that event more efficiently? >> Thanks so much Madam Mayor. Thank you uh Bill and Dell for being here and providing this information. And I think the most important question that I have is where did you get that tie and where can I get one? [laughter] >> No. >> No, I'm just kidding. It's a great tie though. I I really like it. Um and I appreciate all the all the context that you provided, the study that you have through the Gwin Center and the recommendations that they were providing. Hopefully, our leg legislators are looking at ways to help us uh fund and figure out those those gaps that are in that are occurring with um the needs for our roads to continue to be maintained and improved while seeing a bigger load uh from vehicles that are becoming more efficient uh or may not be contributing because of their electronic use instead of gasoline powered. So, um I think uh I've had multiple opportunities to meet with you and some of your staff to get to know more of what's happening in RTC. And one of the times that we met, you gave me a map that showed how RTC sort of broke down our region. I believe it was seven or nine different sections. I'm just wondering if you can sort of give more information on that here about um how you're looking at the interconnectedness of our city and how folks travel maybe from the neighborhood to work and experience different parts of our region. >> Sure. [snorts] So um where we start when we do our transportation planning is we have a model that um basically is based on the regional plan which tells us where people are going to be building where people live, where they work and we translate that into a model that tells us where people should be traveling based on that model. But we also do um checking with each of our projects to do some traffic counts. So, for example, if we're doing something um you know in just say McCarron Boulevard area, before we go out and do our projects, we we definitely um look at the traffic patterns and try to figure out you know, not only where are people driving today, but also where are they going to be in the future. Um so it is it is very much a in-depth analysis we do with each and every one of our projects. But we also listen to people. we do um community meetings, you know, to try to understand what people's particular issues are. So, >> um I certainly Dale could go deeper into exactly what he does because he handles the engineering, but [snorts] um it is very comprehensive the way we make decisions on which projects move forward. And I would say that the other thing is we're not once we start on a project doesn't mean that that project is finite. And we want to as we move forward on these expensive projects, make sure we hit the mark on what, you know, the community, the council, the people who drive on these roads really are experiencing and how we can make things better. >> I found it's a neighborhood network plan that I was referring to. Really appreciative Yeah. of uh of the work that's going on there. Want to thank Carrie and public works team for um not just looking at the growth, but making safety features. I know we've had a lot of conversations about the intersections of Miraloma and McCarron and South McCarron near Meadowwood Mall and some of the concerns that we're hearing there. So, just thank you for being so attentive to the issues in WI 3. Thank you, Madam Mayor. >> Councilwoman Taylor, thank you so much for being here. Transportation is near and dear to my heart for obvious reasons, but also because without the infrastructure, we can't really do anything around it. We know that it's the first thing that happens in our communities where we start getting in other investment and revitalization. Um I have a couple of specific questions for you and I'll just run through them. The first thing is I wanted to confirm under the key findings. When we talk about potential additional funding, the city of Reno has no jurisdiction in any of this. Is that accurate? We cannot help with raising GST or authorizing any of that. That's all a different jurisdiction through the legislature or the county commissioners. >> Yeah. All of our funding flows through the board of county commissioners. So, okay. >> Ultimately, they decide for RTC what money we have. >> Yeah. So, we don't have any authority to do that. [laughter] The city of Reno. Um, we went to DC a while back and we had talked about getting some money. I think it was about $6 million for some of our local roads. So, I was wondering if you might be able to give an update on that. I know things have been a little bit iffy in that in that arena. And then I wanted to talk a little bit about the future of rail if that's possible. And then um we also have I think after Arlington Avenue bridges downtown we have Sierra Street [laughter] and Keystone coming up too. So I think those are really important projects if it's still the um if we're still planning on working working in that sequence of bridges. And um then the last thing is I have to ask about the UNR pedestrian bridge and the hopes and dreams of that project. Thank you. >> I will start with the last one and if I can remember get to the first one. So, um we are actually we've hired a consultant um to look at the student crossings of Interstate 80. And specifically, we've asked them to look like it at what would be the best solution, not only practically, but aesthetically for um students, as we know, who are now on the south side of the freeway to get over to the the campus on the north side. Um, we've we hired a firm uh not only with RTC funding, but the city of Reno contributed as well as the university. That consultant's coming to town, I think either this month or early next month to do the first walk through and actually take a look at it. We're hoping by the end of the year to have some concepts that we certainly will be sharing with the city of Reno um that could lay out a better way to move people, move students. And when we talked before, I just want to set the expectation that that would be additional grant funding that we would look at for something like that. Is that accurate? >> Right. Yes. That's not funded. So, we'd have to come up with the funding. We're thinking that um it would fit within one of the pedestrian or oriented funding buckets that the federal government uh might provide or one of the funding sources that we are limited by law to use federal money towards uh pedestrians and bicyclists. There still are certain programs that that money has to go to that. So, that was that's where we'll be starting, but yes, it has to be funded. >> Do you know the status on the the money that we went to go try and get the $6 million for local roads? >> Yes, I do. So, um Congressman Ammedday did approve that funding request and um just to share with the rest of the council, it's um $6 million that would be split amongst the local jurisdictions to do maintenance. So, it's the first time we've really gone after local street maintenance money. And so far, so good. We got past the main hurdle, which is having one of our Congress members put it into the earmarked uh proposal. Now the question is, and we're watching day by day with the government opening back up, will that money be part of um these funding efforts? So fingers crossed, it's going forward. It's now just a question of whether holistically the federal um the Congress decides to keep earmarked funds for transportation. >> Okay. Okay, Madam Mayor, I'll wait until my second round for the other follow-up questions. Thanks, Bill. >> Council Der. Yeah. Uh, thank you so much, Bill, for being here, Dale. Uh, great update. I just have a few follow-up questions. One is, um, first on your point about the revenues and what you're looking at. What what I'm surprised at is I think it's well established that because of the hybrid vehicles and the e vehicles, you know, there's a segment of the population that's not paying to drive on the roads. So what what is the hangup here? Why what you mentioned the legislature, but I'm not sure. So this is a legislative required change in ordinance or could you explain that? >> Yeah, I don't I don't believe um at least the analysis we've done there's any local authority. >> Okay. >> Either the board of county commissioners or the city councils to impose this fee. >> Okay. >> So no matter how we do it, it's going to have to be approved by the legislature. >> Okay. Have we asked, have we sent in a bill request? Have anything? >> Um, we've asked in both both of the last two sessions. We've lobbied. Nobody's submitted a bill. >> That's my question. >> Um, and part of that was because there was a statewide effort led by INDOT to put something together, but >> yeah. >> Um, what we're talking about now is doing it our go our own. >> Okay. So, let's go our own. I certainly would sign on or show up to testify. you know, as much as I support all the alternate uh fun fueled vehicles, they still have to pay for their share of the use of the roads. I mean, they're having an impact. And what I was wondering is you had a footnote in your in your slide, don't know what number it is, but it says NDOT estimates an increase to about 22% I'm not sure of what by 2035 for the combined share of these alternate funded vehicles. It's a footnote on your slide that shows on our slide, but um do you know what the current share is? >> U the last best numbers we have, it's five and a half%. >> Five and a half. So even if we had that whole five and a half, I'm just wondering how big of a shortfall that would cover, do you think? You >> mean dollar-wise? >> Yeah. Like would we be made whole? I kind of doubt it, but you know. So we make we get about um roughly a h 100red million a year in fuel tax >> from fuel tax. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And >> and what is that percent of your budget? Do you know >> for >> it's like 47% I think >> about half of your budget comes from fuel tax. >> Yes. >> Okay. And so this 5% might Oh my. This 5% might be 10%. So it might be another 10 million or something. It's roughly today about five and a half million. >> Five and a half million. >> But the point is, you know, it only gets worse over time. >> Yes. Um I kind of seem to be out of time. But my other question was on the GST. I mean, I'm I'm not sure. I know that the county commission debated it. I think we have a 1% still remaining that's unexed on GST. Have you talked to them about that? >> Um yes. >> Okay. not interested or >> well no I think there's interest um there's a conversation I'm aware of that's going on at the board of county commissioners um my take on it is I think they all see the importance the question is the alignment >> mean what no it's really there's conversations about how to use it but there's also the issue of whether there's desire to do that >> I understand look I've been around a long time I have seen the board of county commissioners debate the use of the 1% GST going back I'm going to say over almost 20 years. I've seen it come up numerous times. So, I'm not surprised that the current BCC doesn't seem to have an interest, but maybe that's not forever. I mean, maybe could be re um reintroduced. I have a second question which I'll wait to second round on just to prepare for Dale on the Biggest Little Bike Network and the roundabout. So, thank you. Okay. Um, I just noticed how I just noticed um your dad is here. Commissioner Clark, you're back to go. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> How are you? Take your dad to work day, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I love it. Nice to see you, Commissioner Clark. I couldn't see you past Bill and then I leaned over and I said, I know him. All right, go ahead. Take it away, Councilwoman Eert. >> Yeah. Um, I just wanted to kind of um echo what council member Derer said and um just highlight the necessity to figure out a way to include the EV vehicles in, you know, a way to help pay for the roads. Um, uh, they're they're there [laughter] all over the place. Tesla's here. Like, it just makes sense to have them contribute. But also, um, I'm interested in finding out if we could do anything with the distribution centers here. We have so many distribution centers here with trucks coming and going constantly and and I'm uh acutely aware of that because the big rigs just crumble our roads up in the north valleys and because of the warehouses that have been put in neighborhoods and other weird planning things that have happened and been approved before my time and after my time. um we have a lot of damage that's, you know, on this long list of RTC roads. It's one of these roads that we don't have the funds to get to uh in a timely manner. Um so I'd like to find out if you know if we pursue anything um at the state level, legislative level that if we can find out if there's anything we can do for these um um logistical centers that come here, these mega warehouses that have trucks coming and going constantly. And I don't know if any of them are using uh EV trucks. I know that those exist, but I don't know if they're being used. And you know, we have to show our our um mileage when we register cars and things like that. So, it's not like this is some unknown thing that we can't um figure out how much mileage people are driving. I mean, granted, we don't know if they drive out to another state, but they still have to drive across Nevada to get there, right? So, um I think we really need to figure out a way to lobby or RTC does um and we could support you um to figure out a way to make sure everybody's helping to pay for our roads because we have some of the the highest gas tax in the state, right? If not the highest. And we still don't have enough money and are what are we like the second highest populated um county in the state also. And we don't have enough money for these roads. like this is kind of ridiculous. Um, we really have to like prioritize this. Um, and that this is not on you. This is just to express the urgency of needing to figure this out. Um, because we've kind of maxed out what I think people are willing to do with regard to paying additional fees on gas or anything like that. I know people would absolutely not be interested in paying an additional fee for registration. if that came for a vote, I think that would not pass or fly at all. Um, so I think it's time to go after people that are using the roads and not currently paying anything towards it. So, just want to kind of echo that. And, um, yeah, that's it. Oh, also one more thing. Um, I do have some areas where I've had multiple fatalities in kind of short periods of time. Um, is that something that can help maybe um move some improvements up the list because there's a stretch of of road on military that's that's going to happen hopefully next year, but we had three fatalities there in a span of 12 months, which is like crazy considering, you know, we're the rural, we're more spaced out and everything. So, what do we do? what process can we follow if we have an area where it's like people are dying regularly pe pedestrians are being hit um what can we do to be a little more nimble and address those areas that are um you know of higher concern that are are more dangerous for people >> so um and answer that question the first thing I'd say is safety is a big part of how we prioritize the projects and what we do um in the last few years we created a uh metric which we call our high injury network count. And so when we evaluate which projects move forward, that's one of the first things we look at. So yes, [snorts] accidents and deaths and um crashes are part of what we use to decide which roads get attention. Um the other thing is that you know a lot the challen the part that's always kind of not mentioned but is one that I think um is is one that needs to be dealt with is driver behavior >> and it's been very tough. Hopefully that's going to change to um get speed cameras or get any kind of tool that would actually change the behavior of the drivers because we spend our time and energy designing the roads to make them safe. >> But we we do our best but we don't control the behavior of the drivers on the road. So short answer is it's a very important part of it. Um long answer is we have more work to do to make sure the roads are safer. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um I did have a couple more things but my time's up. I'll get you on round two. Okay. Uh, Councilman Ree. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh, Mr. Thomas, thank you so much. And I wanted to go last because I have the benefit of seeing you quite frequently. Uh, Madame Mayor, and I serve on the RTC, so some of the things are not new to us. Um, but I want to say a couple things. One is I think you made a mistake in your comments earlier where you said that you thought that Dale and Miss Kofsky um, spoke four times a week. I think they speak four times an hour. Um I I really truly do believe that. Um I think what I have seen in the responsiveness of the various agencies is that RTC uh believes itself to be the sort of the center of the wheel and then the agencies, Sparks, the county and the city are the spokes of it. And I I really do appreciate the collaboration with all the agencies because when we sit over there, yes, we are certainly advocating for the city of Reno, but we were also advocating for our region because regionally we are, um, connected and the transportation infrastructure way so much more. And so, um, our team, I think, are are knit together and it has proved adept, which also answers one of Miss Eert's good questions about, uh, safety improvements, uh, in particular being, um, sort of able to pivot. And I think the difficulty comes is that it's hard when the larger the project is, the harder it is to pivot, right? If we were just talking about like putting up a stop sign, your teams have pivoted very quickly for that. But when they are major projects and that slide you put at the beginning really speaks to that. I do think that when um a con council member has a concern about a specific place, we have to be responsive to those things. I think in the north valleys we've been particularly I worked with your team the last several weeks on a stretch of military that had not had proper striping for um when a roadway improvement project happened. The bike lane did not get repport. I don't know why but they've gone back out and done that. We're working on the pork chop at military as well after some constituent concerns were raised over at RTC. And so there there are ways to be nimble and I think we're trying to do that. what what is the investment in RTC's dollars in the last I don't know let's say five years uh in the north valleys do you have an estimate of that or or could um Mr. Keller, tell us about that. I I think it's in the magnitude of hundreds of millions of dollars in part because it's the area that needs the most advanced planning and I'm not talking about NDOT's work, although we have had to participate fully in those projects as well, but that number must be uh approaching near 6 or 700 million the last time I checked. So, it's I think an important part of the component. M Mr. Martinez spoke about neighborhood by neighborhood. I know that madame mayor and I have really thought very critically about the north valleys about Sun Valley. That's a next step in one of the big projects that will be announced. So there's a lot going on there. Um let me also talk about EV tax so that and I'm sorry Miss Der stepped away and I might have to catch up with her but um those conversations are ongoing of course with the legislature and my hope is that in the next legislative cycle that that will be addressed. If not, what we have discussed as a board at the board level is a a voter uh initiated um uh referendum question or a voter override so that we would have an opportunity to vote on it as a community which I think will overwhelmingly be approved. I drive at least one of my vehicles in my home is an EV vehicle and so I understand the unfairness of not paying into the system. I think that's very important. And then the last thing I'll ask about and you can come back to this on the second time around. Uh, Vice Mayor Taylor talked about the bridges projects and you've identified the Arlington bridges project. Um, but I want to know specifically about the Whitewater Park elements that were underneath the bridge and some ingress and egress issues that have been left unresolved because we have some folks who have been continually asking about those. I think uh is it Charles Albbright, Madame Mayor, um that is asking about those angler community just wants to know about what's happening with that. I'll let Dale get into that a little more detailed than I'm comfortable talking about. >> Understand? >> Absolutely. >> Councilman Ree, uh, good questions. I'll follow up with my team about, uh, the concerns about the Whitewater Park. I know we made some really, uh, very good improvements and working very closely with the Whitewater Park about Arlington bridges and some of the mitigations with the changing of our pier locations. And what I've seen out there is kayakers using and enjoying the new facility. Regarding ingress and egress, I know with the Sierra street bridge that we have upcoming in a 2027 construction time period which is fully funded ready to go. Um we are discussing and working with city what the best access both for maintenance wise and ingress and egress. So I think we have some really good solutions in there we can follow up with for Albbright and then uh for uh vice uh mayor Taylor wise. Then the third project that we have for bridgewise is the Keystone Avenue bridge replacement project. We have that fully funded for design, but we are still looking for funding for construction. We're looking at future formulaic funds for bridge funds upcoming and then also if there's discretionary grant opportunities for bridges, we'll be pursuing those as well. >> Mr. Keller, just know of course as Madame Mayor and I have said before, if we had a great whitewater park and we are restoring it, let's just make sure that whatever improvements we can make to it about getting in and out of the river that we don't make it harder for people who wanted to use that great facility. I know uh Vice Mayor Taylor's also advocated for this as well. We just need to make sure that we don't in the runup to design. Sometimes what happens, we get to the 90% design and we've left something out, but you been able to fix it in the last 10%. I just want to make sure that that's not being omitted. Councilman Rece, if you don't mind, I just want to let you know, I don't want to get anybody in trouble, but the other night I saw people surfing on the new improvement there on the north side of the bridge, and they had their music, and it was really quite fun to watch. So I >> I better see you out there, sir. >> Yes. Yes. Yes, you will. Back flips. [laughter] >> All right, Councilman Anderson, go ahead. >> Yes. I I would imagine that I've got comments for Dale or questions, but um I just wanted to talk about some of the improvements and some of the projects that are in um W 6 right now. Um first of all, now we're about what a year out after the steamboat and doubleR project. That improvement has really changed people's lives in that area. I'm really looking forward to in about a year being able to pull the data for accidents and things there. It seems to me that the quality of life and just the way that people are moving through that corridor has been vastly improved. So, thank you for the work there. And I know it took a lot of um frustration and patience um altogether, but it was well worth the investment. So, the same thing with the roundabout at Veterans and um Geer. It's been an interesting project where it just seems like the challenges have just been flare-ups and it's been timing of people being able to come down Mount Rose when we've had, you know, big truck activity during the days there. But I just want to commend your team and the planning and the foresight on that project. Um it's very clear how well it's going to improve um travel through there. But I'm actually really really excited to see how the pedestrian safety improvements are going to work. I see all the lighting going in. The electricians were out there today. Um it it feels already before I've even seen the lighting start working that pedestrians will feel much more, you know, much more visible and um they will be taken more seriously by the vehicles going through that area. So, thank you for your vision there. One question, and I've gotten this from three or I've received this question from three different people that are um road bikers and the bike lane. Is it true that the bike lane bikers are supposed to go down the center of the the roundabout if they're traveling through that area? >> A great question. The answer is no. >> Okay. >> So, we have these on-ramps and off-ramps for bikes. And so, we are promoting the interaction with bikes and peds more than bikes and traffic. So, you'll see as you're driving into the roundabout, there's a little ramp they can come up and you're on the same wider sidewalk with the pedestrians. We're asking to use the same type of mark crossings as you see that. So, very much as you're biking through a crosswalk, we're asking you dismount, typically dismount and walk through. Now, if you feel you're an avid bike rider and you're in the spandex and you feel you can go with the flow of traffic, then they can do that. But what we're asking a cyclist to do is get out, mount, and walk your bike across the crosswalk. >> Okay. Can I ask your team and our comm's team to create some type of a public service announcement once we do the ribbon cutting on this and provide some kind of video about the best way to get through that for bikes and for pedestrians? I I know it sounds a little bit corny, but being able to let the community know how we intend for them to use it, how it was designed specifically will be helpful because I [laughter] I can hear it already. >> Okay. Thanks, Any other questions? I don't see any lights on other than Oh, I can't see over your papers. Okay, Councilwoman Der and then I'll go to Councilwoman Neighbor. >> All right. Real quickly, um well, I'll just lead with this. Um I I too was so happy having been the representative for 10 years down south Reno to see um Steamboat come to a conclusion, the Steamboat and DoubleR. Um, unfortunately, somehow I missed the ribbon cutting and uh I would love but but I was also a similar advocate for this roundabout and I'm so happy with the progress. Um, I would love to be invited or participate in that ribbon cutting. Um, both of those projects have been critical to how traffic moves in South Reno. So, I just kudos. Thank you for getting it done. On the roundabout, are you still planning to put the cut over from Toll Road over to South Virginia? that a whole separate project >> counc uh correct yes that is a a project that we are currently under uh very preliminary design we're looking through the feasibility analysis of that >> to actually remove the traffic off the roundabout if you happen to be >> one more thing >> headed to >> to Geer up to Virginia City right yep >> that's so we're looking into working with city staff to find the best solution down there >> well you could uh enter that way or exit off uh toll road right >> I think it's off toll road going to have correct maybe I don't have correct by toll road by equestrian there it would take that traffic and not go through the existing >> roundabout okay um and so um so let me know when the ribbon cutting is and I'd love to be there I'm I'm thrilled with it and the second thing is I really not sure what this biggest little bike network is and where it is I I feel really out of the loop on that project but before um I go there I wanted to ask you something about Arlington so I don't think we've mentioned mentioned it here today, but the issues that the co-op is having and I have heard that RTC cannot, you know, help any small business in particular. But what I am wondering is [clears throat] it seems to be mostly one of how to navigate these closures. And I wonder if there just could be additional signage, you know, whatever business is down that street. What, you know, the co-op's not right on Arlington. They're off. I think they're on court and something, but um there there's probably other businesses in there, too. And I'm just wondering if we could have some of these signs that say like an arrow, you know, this way to co-op and this and this maybe three businesses. This is different than professional office buildings because they got to find their way there, right? I mean, they're going there, they got to find their way there. But going to any of these retail operations is pretty optional. So that's why I'm just suggesting something out of the box which made me not direct assistance to a business but help them because I went through this whole thing with Midtown, right? And so did Dale and so did others and so many businesses were impacted and you guys worked really hard to bridge construction so people had something to walk over to get to the business, you know, and that's a place where the business was right on the road. This is at least their step back, you know. So, could you consider something like that? And the second thing getting back to it was just can you explain this biggest little bike network and how we can either be involved or see maps or understand it better. >> We voted and approved it here. >> Yeah, we we voted, but I what I'm saying is I've still heard there's some debate about it whether it's like striped, unstriped, green, are are the the lanes separated with by stansions? What you know, what are some details? That's what I'm looking for. Um, I'll I'll let Dale get into the details. I would though say just to remember what we're doing here. This is a new way of addressing bicycle movement in our community >> and it's instead of doing corridors, which is traditionally what we did. Somebody would say a road, >> fix this road, right? Just but it didn't really address the movement of people around. This is the first time we've really done a network, >> right? And the idea is to connect multiple bike paths together so people can move around safely. Um so that's the that's the genesis of it. It's a big project. It's $20 million. Wow. >> And um Dale can explain what we're going to do because we'll be using it's coming off the pilot project which you may remember. I do >> where we actually tried multiple things. >> I 100% remember all of that >> but I didn't know where we landed. Like I know we voted on it but I really don't know. And look if we don't have the time to get into it all today. I mean a separate thing. >> I wonder if we could do a separate meeting. Is that something that we can work on? >> We can do that. >> We can do an individual briefing with Council Member Der. >> Yeah, I would love that. >> There's a great map. >> Yeah, that's what I'd like to see. So, thank you, >> Councilman Ree. >> I think Oh, sorry. Council member, >> I know you can't see past my stuff here. I'm so sorry. >> Thank you. So, um I just want to say thank you for everything and RTC has done a great job of coming out to my ward regularly and talking with the community about what projects are happening and what's upcoming and and taking feedback. Um, I did also want to share that um there are um some concerns with the Lemon Drive redesign uh or improvements um with building up a burm through the Swan Lake area um what it will do environmentally. I know we've had some um engagement from uh representatives um from the Ottabon Society. Um also there's been a lot of engagement from the community. I know I took a tour out there with the lieutenant governor and um the Ira Hansen, Alexis Hansen, just kind of to look out there and see what's going on and how we could maybe redesign to avoid the lake altogether considering we had such a disastrous um flood out there in 2017 that lasted for so long. Um, I think that there's a lot of concern from the community, um, regarding that in particular, and I just want to make sure that, um, you know, we're doing all the due diligence on that, but also quick because I don't have a ton of time. um Military Road. I I went back and looked at my email and I sent an email to um Mayor Shivy and Council Member Reese um in August of 2023 asking for help on military road because there had been actually four fatalities on that stretch of road. There's one vehicle, two pedestrians, and a motorcycle. Um the vehicle actually I believe the gentleman whose house it was behind is here today. There is a memorial. He has um significant problems with people coming and and setting up memorials and congregating there. I happened to see it last week. There were several vehicles parked there. Um there is an open like trench along the road there. Um he and I have requested frequently um some type of barrier along that stretch of road so that um that doesn't happen again where somebody doesn't go into that ditch. um we've had a lot of kind of back and forth on that or you know it's city of Reno land or it's RTC road or whatever but we're [sighs and gasps] living with the reality of this road is unsafe. Um and we really need to have kind of collaboration with RTC and city of Reno to come up with a solution to keep people safe. not just the drivers but also this gentleman in his property in his home and you know fortunately didn't go through his fence and cause any other damage. Unfortunately somebody lost their life. Now we have other people congregating there but if they get hit by a car because people do speed on that road we are going to get traffic signals which hopefully will help. But there's things that have been going on here. I have been submitting Reno direct tickets for this area for years. We have gotten the the area restriped. That pork chop on Military Road, people have been ignoring it and making left turns over it or around it since housing development went in. Um, you know, it's it's I appreciate the things are happening now, but this has been a known problem for years since before I got in office. I've been complaining about these things since before I got elected in 2022. So, um I just really want to stress that we we need help with collaboration out there. And um also another thing I want to point out with >> council member, do you mind if they can can they respond to a couple of your questions? >> One thing real quick, it's not a question, it's a statement. The fatalities out there, I know that we had to do some research to find out from different agencies how many there was. So, I don't know if that's also a problem where, you know, you have to ask police for them. Um, Washo County Sheriff and then other agencies. I don't know that there's necessarily one database that has all that information at once. So, that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Council Member Ree. >> Thank you so much. Um, I wanted to also uh follow up on an earlier comment that Miss Anderson made about rail. And so I know that that is an important topic that's of conversation because it impacts the uh corridor of downtown Reno and out to the Tahoe Regional Industrial Center. And so for my colleagues benefit of course um that conversation going on largely with UP. EUP holds all the keys to that discussion because they have um significant role to play in whether or not they would allow their rail line to be used if we could put cars cars railroad cars on it. Then the question is is whether we would have to improve to build a second line. So those conversations are happening with our um state and federal delegation partners as well as with UP. Um, and then that also is related to the roadway construction potential possibility that would take a road out of the Tahoe Regional Industrial Center and then come back through essentially the Spanish Springs and then drop into those valleys there. And so those are those are conversations that are happening. It's a unique thing to be involved in because that would involve Story County, NDOT, the city of Reno, the city of Sparks, Washoe County. Uh and so lots of partners that are there, but very um positive conversations are happening in that area. We we know that the folks who live here and work out in the Tahoe Regional Industrial Center are impacted, you know, greatly by the traffic conditions there that they're experiencing. 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Our teams work around the clock when needed to ensure [music] that residents can get where they need to go safely, rain, snow, or shine. At City of Reno, and our sewer [music] and storm drain division, there's 50 of us that take care of just over 800 miles of sanitary sewer that includes 35 lift [music] stations. Our sewer and storm drain division in the city of Reno ensures safe maintenance for over 600 [music] miles of storm water lines. It's our aggressive preventive maintenance program that ensures that your system will respond properly to prevent overflows and flooding, keeping our residents and our environment safe and sound. The fleet management team maintains [music] over 850 pieces of equipment, including police cars and other emergency response equipment. This year, the fleet management team was ranked in the top 100 best fleets in the Americas. And doing work in-house saves the city millions of dollars each and every year. And our final areas of responsibility is facility maintenance. We perform a wide variety of repairs and remodels and preventative maintenance on over 200 city-owned buildings. And just this last year, we completed a seismic retrofit of city hall, which ensures the safety of both staff and the public during earthquakes. Parks, recreation, [music] and open space are vital for creating healthy, sustainable, and vibrant communities. Last November, the Reno City Council adopted the parks, recreation [music] and open space master plan. The plan identifies top priorities and an implementation strategy [music] to improve existing parks, trails, and recreational facilities, identifying and acquiring land [music] for new parks and recreational spaces, activating the Truckucky River Corridor and downtown spaces, and expanding recreational programming. >> But the crowning achievement this year for the parks team is the Moana Springs Community Aquatics and Fitness Center. Opening in August, this 52,000q ft² facility will include a 50 meter indoor competition pool, multi-use indoor recreation pool, an outdoor [music] soaking pool, 5,000 ft² fitness facility, and more. This project represents a vital investment in the health and well-being of our community for generations to come. As we approach the completion of two major [music] projects in our community, the public safety center and the Moana Springs Aquatic Center, it's important to highlight the clean energy components of both projects. At Moana Springs, the city received a community project [music] funding award to install solar and was selected by Envy Energy to be a community-based solar resource host site at the same location. The Moana Springs parking lot features solar covered parking to support this project. and the public safety center will include rooftop solar as well as battery storage to provide [music] energy savings. By investing in clean energy, we are moving towards a cleaner, more resilient and equitable energy future for our community. Reno is one of the best places to live, work, and play. So, we know that growth in our [music] community is inevitable. At the city, we are focused on responsible growth to achieve balanced and long-term development that benefits all [music] residents. Last year, the city of Reno completed the ward redistricting process that transitioned our community from five to six wards. Redistricting ensures that each elected official represents [music] approximately the same number of residents. Final maps for the new wards were voted on by the Reno City Council following a community engagement process that spanned across four months and included 17 opportunities for residents to participate. The new ward maps will go into effect following the 2024 election cycle. We encourage you to visit our online mapping tool to learn more about the new wards. Responsible growth means long-term planning. In January of 2021, [music] the city adopted a new zoning code. And in June of 2022, the city initiated an amendment to address [music] outstanding cleanup items. This includes everything from grammatical errors to accounting for updates in state law. Development services has spent [music] the past year working through these changes and seeking public input. Final adoption of an updated zoning code is anticipated early next year. The city of Reno is working with our regional partners to manage water resources sustainably [music] for future generations through the One Water Nevada initiative. This program is working to ensure there is enough water available to meet the needs of all users while protecting and even improving the region's water quality and environmental integrity. A key element [music] of this project is the advanced purified water facility at American Flats. With construction expected to begin in the near future, this facility will apply state-of-the-art water purification processes [music] and provide the region with the potential for over 2 million gallons of highquality drinking water daily. At the City of Reno, we are focused on ensuring that everyone has access to safe and affordable housing. The city of Reno helps to improve housing stability by providing rental and deposit assistance for all residents, including seniors and veterans. In the past six months, [music] the team has assisted 584 households with rent, supported 175 [music] costbururden seniors, and dispersed $1.5 million in rental assistance. The city of Reno is a leader on the affordable housing front. [music] Back in 2019, the state law changed and since then, the city has been allowed to enact an ordinance that [music] has given us the right to wave or reduce fees for sewer connection fees and building permit fees as long as the project is associated with an affordable housing development. [music] And to date, Reno has approved rejections and waiverss totaling almost $8 million. This has contributed to 1,800 new [music] affordable housing units that are moving forward. City Council has also added conditional [music] requirements for certain development projects and those are to help pay for affordable housing. This has been triggered on five development projects. This is estimated to generate [music] over $4 million in funds which will support affordable housing. Last year, the city of Reno supported the development of 492 affordable units through [music] funding programs and city incentives, including federal home funds, volume cap allocation, [music] and sewer fee reductions. Developments that were supported include the Marble [music] Way Apartments, Copper Mesa Apartments, Oravada Street Senior Apartments, and the Ridge at Sun Valley. And while increasing the number of affordable housing units is a priority, [music] the team is also working to invest in low to moderate income neighborhoods. In the past year, the city funded $1 million in [music] park and pedestrian safety renovations and supported key projects, including park improvements at Robin Hood, Dick Taylor, [music] Paradise, and Mayor's Parks. Downtown Reno is evolving as our community transition from a region focused on tourism to a more economically diverse city that supports urban living, transportation, social gathering, and small businesses. Many consider Virginia Street to be the heart of our downtown and the Virginia Street Placemaking study reinforced that. Gil design firm over three phases of community engagement developed a strategy and a long-term plan of what our Virginia street and our downtown could look like. City Council approved the placemaking study last fall and identified $2.5 million in state and local fiscal recovery funds to implement phase one of the study. This year, state and local fiscal recovery funds were also utilized to create the Restore Reno facade and tenant improvement program. The program provided matching funds to property owners and tenants for facade improvements and interior upgrades. 39 businesses were awarded matching grants with the total economic improvement value of the combined projects being $5.7 million. >> At the same time, the team partnered with the regional transportation commission to [music] develop the downtown micromobility plan, enhancing downtown roadway networks to improve safety for all users and create a more welcoming environment for pedestrians, [music] bicyclists, and other micro modes of transportation. Design is currently underway for this project and construction is anticipated in 2026. [music] And no discussion of the downtown area is complete without addressing the Truckucky River corridor. This year, city council approved the use of state and local fiscal recovery funds to make improvements along the Truckucky River path, including activation efforts, enhanced safety with better lighting, paint refresh, path improvements, and more. Reno is committed to building a [music] community where all residents feel welcome, safe, and able to fully participate in their government. Providing access [music] to city programs and services is critical to building a strong community. From improving ramp access to city hall to the addition of UBO3 [music] and listen everywhere devices, we are working to make government more accessible for everyone. Throughout the year, our [music] team works with community partners to host celebrations that embrace, honor, and recognize the diverse cultures represented in the biggest little city. This includes the Black History Month celebration in City Plaza and the Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration at Wingfield Park. Building a welcoming community requires intentional [music] efforts to embrace diversity, inclusivity, and create opportunities for all residents to thrive. The safety, health, and well-being of all residents is our number one priority as we work to build a community we are proud to call home. >> The Reno Fire Department provides all risk service to the citizens and visitors of the biggest little city. Last year, the team ran almost 50,000 calls, a record high for the department. This includes everything from emergency medical response and water rescue missions to all types of fires, including structure, brush, and vehicle to name a few. The team continues to meet the needs of our growing community by increasing staffing and resources for the department, maintain the strongest training program in the region, upgrading equipment through the fire apparatus replacement program, and investing in proactive fire prevention measures. We are excited to announce that plans are already underway for construction of a new central fire station that will be located in the heart of downtown. The 70,000t facility will house administrative and fire personnel with the ability to respond with up to five separate crews to serve the busiest part of our city. We look forward to its completion in 2027. The Reno Police Department boasts 354 sworn staff members. [music] To meet the growing needs of our community, we added 43 new and dedicated officers to the ranks along with the hiring of seven lateral officers [music] from other departments throughout the country. Last year, our patrol teams responded to over 72,000 calls for service. The traffic team responded [music] to 2,971 accidents. Victim services served over 2,300 victims and the investigation [music] section was assigned 3,762 cases. These cases covered offenses from property crimes to crimes against persons. In September, the department launched a new data-driven initiative to improve crime and blight in downtown. The directed engagement, enforcement, and deployment strategy, affectionately known as deeds, has been in operation for just over 6 months. In that time, [music] we have seen a 12% decrease in the citizen initiated calls for service, a 55% decrease in vehicle versus pedestrian crashes, [music] and a 29% decrease in commercial burglaries. We're excited to announce in August of this year, we'll celebrate the opening of our new public safety center in downtown [music] Reno. >> The public safety center will serve as the headquarters for the Reno Police Department. Located in the former Reno Gazette Journal Building, this facility will be able to provide a swift emergency response to our community. This state-of-the-art facility is double the size of the existing station and provides exciting new features such as expanded public parking, private interview areas, community engagement, meeting space, and improved safety and security features to ensure the building will stand the test of time. >> A fast emergency response would be impossible without the crucial work of our Reno dispatchers. Last year, our dispatch team answered over 500,000 calls, serving as the vital link between individuals in need of assistance and emergency [music] service providers. And this last year, the cities of Reno and Sparks along with Wo County and REMA came together to identify a unified computer aided dispatch program that will deploy the nearest and most appropriate resources to an emergency. The technology will be launched in 2025, improving emergency response for the entire region. Our [music] staff is made up of talented and dedicated [music] people who are passionate about the biggest little city. We've built a workplace filled with [music] integrity, positivity collaboration and diversity. an organization that [music] has been nominated as one of the best places to work in Northern Nevada for three years running and was the first organization in Northern Nevada to be recognized [music] as one of the best places for working parents. Our employees have endless opportunities to make a positive impact in our community. The people [music] and stories behind our programs are why we take pride in our jobs and why we love this city. When we proudly look at the community we've built, we know we are just getting started. [music] We've had a lot of great accomplishments [music] this last year, but the work isn't done. As we begin the next fiscal year, be on the lookout for some major projects. >> Soon, we'll be opening the new public safety center and the Moana Springs Community Aquatics and Fitness Center. These landmark projects will serve generations of Renoites [music] for years to come. We hope you'll join us for both celebrations. >> And keep an eye on downtown as we continue to focus on revitalization using the input and feedback we receive [music] from our community. You'll see improvements to the Riverwalk, activation of Virginia Street, and improvements for pedestrians and microobility users alike. [music] >> To keep up to date on everything that's happening at the city, check out our website at reno.gov and follow us on X, [music] Facebook, or Instagram at city of Reno. Until next year. [music] You know how uh speeders got categories? Categories. Different types, different cars, wannabe race car drivers with zero talent and all the insurance claims. Go on. Yeah. So, you got the I didn't realize I was going 95 type. Like the car magically went 45 over just on its own. Oh, officer. I thought I was going 45. No, buddy. You thought about going 45. Well, then you got the uh I'm late for work guys. Like going 25 over is going to make up for the 30 minutes they spent laying in bed watching Tik Toks. Ain't nothing like risking a reckless driving charge to get to a job that you already hate. We can't forget the I was just keeping up with traffic, folks. Oh, the if everybody jumped off the bridge defense. Just because everybody else is breaking the law doesn't mean that you get a free pass. Nah, but it does mean we all get to sit on the side of the road together while we trade live stories. And I write this ticket at lightning speed. There's one. Yeah, we got a black Volkswagen uh headed your way, guys. Got him. In all seriousness, Reno, we need to slow down when driving on our roads. >> Speed and impairment are the two biggest factors in fatality crashes. That is why the Reno Police Department will be conducting proactive speeding enforcement on McCarron and around the city. Slow down, Reno. You got it. The I'm not from Nevada and pretty sure the speed limit signs all look the same everywhere. [music] >> Do you want to make a difference in your neighborhood? The city of Reno's [music] six neighborhood advisory boards are your chance to shape the future of your community. From parks and public safety to development projects, [music] your voice matters. Joining an NAB is easy and it's a great way to connect with neighbors and city leaders [music] while making Reno an even better place to live. Applications are open now. Visit reno.gov/nab [music] to learn more and apply. Get involved and help make Reno not just livable, but lovable. [music] I'm Corey. I'm a housing manager with the city of Reno. And we are here at our second Love Your Block project pop-up nursery [music] for Yori Avenue residents. We had residents of this neighborhood apply. And we've [music] got about 75 plants and trees here to give out to the neighbors to beautify the neighborhood, get a little more green here. It's one day of planting and a lifetime of new shade and and beautiful greenery in the neighborhood. The Yori Papa [music] Nursery is a project that my neighbor and I kind of came up with. People get to beautify their yards. Sometimes landscaping is intimidating due to the cost. This initiative, this project helps kind of eliminate that obstacle for a lot of people and so it'll be nice to see more plants [music] in more people's yards and just make more of a beautiful neighborhood. Uh secondarily, I'm a huge fan of pollinators and native plants and so getting more of those in the ground is just going to help the environment overall. It's super exciting. I love this project. I started the be friendly campaign which was created [music] to help people talk to their neighbors. So, a lot of times when you start a pollinator garden in your front yard, it doesn't look like a traditional yard. [music] So, I created these signs to kind of help with communication. It's a great neighborhood gathering and I'm super proud to be a part [music] of it. We're just so excited to be here in partnership with Reno Food Systems, Be Friendly Nevada, and the Nevada Division of Forestry alongside [music] all these neighbors to to get in the neighborhood and get planting. My name is Maria Hernandez Bonce. [music] I am a graduate from the community court and I'm here to share my success story. About 5 months ago, you and I sat down for the first time and had a [music] discussion. >> Yes. >> What do you need? What do you want? And now look at you. Tell me. I I got bits of bits and pieces [music] along the way, but share what that was like. What what was it like right before I met you and [music] what is it like now? >> Well, before you met me, I was going through a very hard time. Um, I ended up, you know, having to give guardianship of my son to my brother. Um, [music] I was trying to recover from drugs and here you came, you know, the community [music] court. Um, and yourself. Um, and I mentioned that to you and you told me about all these nice programs and resources that are available to me. Um, and I'm thinking 5 months back like I would have never thought that I'd [music] be here right now. That's for sure. >> Yeah. What connection did you make in community court that helped you [music] achieve that? Well, taking accountability for my actions, you know, realizing um that [music] I had a a problem. Um step one, you know, admitting that you're powerless and [music] your life has become unmanageable. That's definitely very important. Um and then [music] reaching out for help would be the second most important I would say. >> Nice. >> That's so cool. >> Yes. [music] >> You are the the image of what I want everybody that I meet at [music] Community Corp to to accomplish. It's you, >> right? >> Every box I intend to check and rarely do. You do and you [music] check all of them. >> I originally met Maria on our first day of work. Uh we both had the first same start date. So we got to meet each other there and we immediately bonded. I immediately saw [music] huge potential in Maria. Um she is really great. She's a people person and she she just strives [music] for the stars. If it wasn't for Community Corp, I wouldn't be where I am today. They pushed me to get the help that I needed with my recovery. Um, you know, they helped me get my job. [music] They've helped me through every step of the way. >> Community court is an alternative [music] to traditional court. And I in in essence, that's what is different about it is [music] it's it's the alternative approach. Um, I think in traditional court, it's more cut and dry, black and white. You've committed this crime. This is the standard sentencing. [music] Therefore, here you go. Um, in community court, uh, Judge Hazel Stevens, who I I couldn't say enough good things [music] about him and the way that he is driving this court. It's started with the Nevada Urban Indians, her counselor, Troy, um, [music] knocked it out of the park with the substance use uh, counseling uh, Job Connect. Tim is our contact there and he did a great job of [music] working with her. They did the uh the application process right away. They met later that [music] week. They completed all of the online applications. Uh sent out all the information they needed to who then linked her to [music] the placement agency that got her in here. Um she also worked with Downtown Reno Partnership who helped her get her IDs. She wouldn't have been able to get this job without uh those IDs. [music] And so it it was several people working together as one to achieve what uh we consider the perfect success with Maria. [music] Hi, I'm Monica Kirch. I am the director of housing and neighborhood development [music] for the city of Reno. The rapid rehousing pilot program is a program that the city of Reno started in coordination with volunteers of America and the Reno Housing Authority. >> Programs like the rapid rehousing pilot program [music] are important to volunteers of America because it gives us an opportunity to catch individuals who are otherwise potentially falling between the cracks as far as services go. The Reno Housing Authority [music] assists nearly 15,000 Wo County residents through its traditional housing programs. Yet we know there are many more who need assistance. The Reno Housing Authority supports [music] the rapid rehousing pilot program in two ways. Uh the first way is through a financial contribution to support [music] half the salary of the service coordinator who works directly with clients at uh Village on Sage. The second way that we support the program [music] is by um ensuring that clients are on one of our HA's weight lists prior to being housed at Village on Sage. program is new and we just started housing people within about the last month. We have several folks now staying at the village on stage working [music] with a service coordinator. Partnerships like this give RHA the opportunity to assist more families outside of our traditional programs. And it's these innovative [music] partnerships that create a stepping stone from temporary housing into long-term permanent housing. So specifically, [music] this program works with individuals who are on a fixed or low income who can't afford conventional rents [music] and they're eligible for a housing voucher, but they still have to take the time to wait for that voucher. So it allows us to [music] support them in that intermediary time frame so they can stay housed and have access to services. I know um specifically with this program, a lot of our folks are coming directly from the street and haven't had a rental in a very long time. Um, specifically Mikey hadn't paid rent in over a decade and so it was really exciting for him to come to the office with his money um and just celebrate that new experience that he got to have. >> Hi, I'm Mike and um welcome to Village on the Stage where uh Come on, let's go look around this. [music] Yeah. Oh, Harold, welcome. And this is what we get. Um I got a brand new television. It's an element. This is one of the finer finer televisions. Um, you're welcome to bring your transportation inside with [music] you. Uh, nobody cares as long as you keep it neat and tidy. Um, what can I tell you? The [music] doors open, the train's right there, you know. Uh, so if you like trains, excellent. And this is where all the magic happens. [music] This is where the happiness uh, you know, where we come to ground out. This is [music] just where uh you know we can be ourselves. I know it's >> [music] >> do. [music] >> Hi, I'm Monica Kirch. I am the director of housing and neighborhood development for the city [music] of Reno. The rapid rehousing pilot program is a program that the city of Reno started. The community is really going to benefit from the new public safety center in a lot of ways. It's a state-of-the-art brand new facility that's going to allow the public access to us in a way that they've never had before in the city. It takes a lot of people, a lot of effort, and a lot of time. It takes every individual, all of us on a daily basis to make this [music] project work every single day. >> I grew up in the area. Wanting to make this city great and and keep this city safe was a big part of it. It's a great testament to the city of Reno, too, just that they would have the leadership uh and the guts to go forward with a project like this that's so important to the community. [music] >> We needed something that was large enough for the uh expanding police department. the the current site that the police department are on would need to be demolished because the building has some real structural problems along with some hazardous materials that need to be abatement. >> The hazardous conditions that you can find in buildings such as this are things like asbestos, things that um were commonplace in buildings at the time when this was built. You have um old pipes in here. You have old um ventilation. You have dust. >> They're working in jail cells. The water quality is not good over at the other station. It's important for us in our community to realize that, you know, they're doing a great service for us. They're all protecting us and [music] we need to we need to protect them as well. I have employees that work out of old jail cells on the second floor, [music] which is, you know, pretty much an abomination that you spend your life doing a service to our community in a jail cell. It's got bars on the walls, but we're not able to provide the space that these employees need and treat them with the respect and dignity that they deserve. When you work in a building that has issues, that doesn't show the benefits that you are bringing to the community. We looked at the fact that we could reuse an existing facility. You know, there's a lot of character in the city of Reno and we do look at keeping some of that character. This building being the the Reno Gazette Journal had a lot of history and I tell you when I w when I first walked into this building I felt I felt the buzz of all of the media. Um it was just [music] it was really energizing. Justin came over and we took a look at it. We knew that that it would be a big effort but [music] to reuse the the same building we thought that it would it made a good fit. There's a lot of a lot of challenges um a lot of work [music] between our architect and our police department on figuring out how to fit in a police department in this building. >> Police departments generally don't visit people on the best days of their lives. They're usually when they're having something going on that's creating [music] uh some sort of trauma or some sort of experience that usually isn't positive. And then to come into a place that's not welcoming and inviting and comfortable and a place where we don't even have private rooms [music] to talk to people currently uh is going to change that dynamic completely when they walk into the new public safety center. First step is is you've got to have an architect. We probably sat down for at least 9 months going back and forth. Is this space the right size? Does this space have enough windows? [music] um how do we get uh access uh for video and surveillance and that sort of thing. They did an absolutely [music] fabulous job putting together a set of of plans for us. >> When I looked at the designs initially, I was so proud that they were already in that space where they needed to be. There were very few modifications [music] that I even had to suggest. >> We looked at a it's called a design bid build [music] cuz we already had the design. So, we put it out to bid to the public. Plentium builders, they were our selected bidder. >> Part of it is that we knew that the city needed this project. We knew this was a was a a community need and we knew it was a challenge and so we sort of look at ourselves as someone uh or a company that is willing [music] to step up uh and and take on a tough challenge. One of the things that we also looked at in in [music] that time period is funding as as you all know everything doubled in price practically a after co and that was a shock to us. >> The pandemic affected construction uh in so many different ways. All those things sort of you know conspired to go against the cost of the project. Uh so that was a challenge. Uh but you know, I think we did a great job of of uh bidding out the project, getting the right subcontractors on board, vetting the pricing, [music] uh making sure that it was fair and reasonable based on the current economics. >> We sat in a room and we were like, "Okay, what can we do here? How can we provide [music] you the community with the facility that this community really needs?" our project manager, Justin George, he actually came over here and moved his office here and it worked out really well because he had 115,000 square ft to himself. >> One of the the major challenges early in the project is upgrading the the structure of the building. So, this building had to be upgraded from a level two, which is what it was required for when RGJ occupied it, to be a level four risk category building. The upgrades that we did to [music] the structure and foundation make this building able to withstand a a larger disaster and remain operational to be able to provide service to [music] the community during a major event like an earthquake. Some of the elements involved with that upgrade um include upgrading the foundation, increasing the the seismic capacity. So, we had to add larger footings, larger foundations under the columns. We had to add some seismic braces to the building. We reused as much of the building as we can. [music] We salvaged a bunch of steel and a bunch of concrete and a bunch of materials from being demolished and tossed [music] into the landfill. We worked with the carpeting manufacturer to remove all of the carpet in the building and send that off to be recycled rather than, [music] you know, 100,000 square ft of carpet being removed and dumped in the landfill. replaced a lot of the old inefficient 40-year-old um HVAC systems with up-to-date um efficient mechanical systems. Not only does it have a backup generator, but it's also going to have solar and a battery system to provide resiliency in this [music] building to be sustainable and better serve the police department and community. So, sustainability is something we're thinking about from the beginning through from design through to the end in construction. we're able to expand our women's locker room areas um and allow for that growth that we're hoping to see in our organization [music] as we diversify and move forward. There's going to be space inside that facility that will allow us to conduct in-house [music] training. We are going to have a much better access to things like a real-time crime center where we can actually see [music] what's happening in day-to-day providing that privacy, that space, bringing people in [music] and then growing our department in a manner that makes sense. moving into that new building and having all that equipment and that ability to do it is going to be uh very important to help those goals happen. I believe that we through our partnership that we have with the [music] contractor, the architect and my team, Justin and and his team, they work together so well that we are going [music] to deliver an excellent uh facility to for this community. It's going to be a generational project. It is a generational project and I think that [music] our police men and women um deserve better than what they have now. I was very impressed with [music] the team that was on the building team, the design team, um our liaison that's working with the police department. Everybody really had a good working knowledge of what we needed to put into a police [music] department to make it modern but not trendy or flashy. Something that is going to withstand the test of time. I can't say enough about the hard work and dedication that all of the team has put forward and I'm just really excited to see [music] how all their work is going to pay off. >> Feels great to drive by and and be able to point at something like this and say, you know, we were part of that. We contributed. Uh we helped get that over the goal line. >> It gives me goosebumps. [music] It really does. being a part of a a legacy project like building a a police [music] department. It it makes me proud of the the work that I do and it makes me proud at the end of the day when I can go home and and tell my family about the the [music] things we're doing here. >> I want to provide this city and this community what it deserves for the police officers to come to this project, come to this site, be able to grow with this site, and um a police officer deserves the best of the best and that's what this building brings to them, the best of the best. I think about the people really when more than anything. [music] I mean, sure, I'm an engineer and that's what I do, but I think about the people and the people that are involved and that's what gets [music] me right here because I think that there's so much heart in this community. I'm a public servant and and I'm going to do my best and my team, they're going to do their best for the public. >> [music] [music] >> One of the reasons why I joined RCI was just out of curiosity to know more about what [music] the city of Reno does for everyone who lives here. It was a very genuine interaction with all of the people that [music] we were able to meet throughout this process. That experience was incredible. >> I'm a small business owner and so I definitely felt disconnected. Um not in a bad way, but in the way where I'm [music] like, "Oh, if I have an issue, uh who do I call?" This seemed like a great opportunity to get a lot of information in a relatively short period. You might touch the street department or you might touch the police department, the fire department for whatever reason, just being a regular citizen. But you wouldn't learn about almost all aspects of city government and how it operates. >> I have never seen a city that has been so peopleoriented. I mean, it really seems like they care. You know, I love that about Reno. I love it. >> This is definitely eyeopening, informative. [music] It's a way to just learn how this city runs and to meet incredible people street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood. Getting [music] people connected and, you know, running them through some kind of education and connection, I think, is incredibly valuable. >> You'll have an [music] incredible time. You won't regret it. >> It's a benefit all the way around. I think >> Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris Payne. We're here this week with Reno Public Safety Dispatch to discuss calling 911. Erin, what tips do you have for the community? Well, definitely it's a life-saving, life-threatening emergency. You need to call 911. Things for immediate police, fire, or medical response. Make sure you know your location to give the call taker. And only use text to 911 if you can't make a voice call. Well, >> this is good information to know. And what should the residents also know about dispatch? >> We do have a non-emergency number for all the rest of the calls that aren't emergencies, 334 cops. Those are things for like a parking problems or graffiti. It's also important to know that our call takers take over a half a million calls a year. So, we get pretty busy, but we're always looking for more dispatchers. If you're interested, go to reno.gov/dispatch for a job description. >> Outstanding information. Thank you, Erin. And don't forget to follow the city of Reno on all of your favorite social media platforms. So now you know with Reno. I'm Chris Payne for the Reno Minute. Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris [music] Payne. We're here today to discuss community court. Judge Hazlet Stevens, what exactly can you tell us about community court? >> Thanks, Chris. We hold community court each Wednesday here at the downtown Reno Library. It is an innovative approach to the justice system that offers services rather than jail time for our participants, many of whom are homeless. Services needed include those for substance use disorders, mental illness, chronic homelessness, and chronic unemployment. >> This is all good to know, but how does this differ from traditional incarceration? Community courts reduce crime, increase services to victims, reduce unnecessary use of jail, and save money by collaborating with service providers using a problem-solving approach instead of jail. We also recently implemented a treatment readiness program on site. >> This is all great to know. Thank you so much, Judge. And don't forget to follow the city of Reno on all of your favorite social media platforms. [music] So now you know with Reno. I'm Chris Payne for the Reno Minute. >> [music] >> Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris Payne. We're here this week with the Reno Police Department to discuss the dangers of distracted driving. Officer Reza, what advice do you have on this topic? >> Thanks, Chris. Distracted driving claimed over 3,000 lives in 2020. Here locally at the Reno Police Department, we'd like to remind everybody that it is illegal to use any electronical handheld device while driving. Texting has become increasingly dangerous. >> Outstanding. And what other tips do you have for the community? >> If you do need to make a text or make a phone call, simply pull over on the side of the road where it's safe to do so. Once you've pulled over, it is now safe to make that text message or make that phone call. You can even put your cell phone in the back seat, in the trunk, or even in the glove box until you've reached your final destination. >> Thank you, Officer Rea. And dig this. For more information, go to renopd.com. Also, don't forget to follow the city of Reno and RPD on your favorite social media platforms. So now you know with Reno. I'm Chris Payne for the [music] Reno Minute. Hello, I'm Chris Payne and it's time for the Reno Minute. Today we're [music] going to discuss making a fire escape plan. Joining us is Chief Mandel from Reno Fire Department. Thanks, Chris. A fire escape plan is essential because it lets everyone in your household know exactly what to do in case of a fire. Seconds matter in the event of a fire, and an escape plan can make a world of difference. Start by drawing a floor plan of your home and marking all possible exits from each room. Then designate a meeting point outside a safe distance from the home. Practice your escape plan regularly with everyone in your household, especially children. It's important to make sure that everybody knows how to operate windows and doors. It's also important to teach household members to stay low to the ground and smoke and to feel doors for heat before opening them. Thank you, [music] Chief Mandel. To create your own fire escape plan, scan the QR code on the screen or visit reno.gov/fire. So now you know with Reno. [music] Thank you for watching the Reno Minute. Hello, I'm Chris Payne and it's time for the Reno Minute. From lab swimming [music] and dropin sports to fitness equipment, the city of Reno offers many opportunities to get active [music] and have fun. You may even be able to access these offerings at no cost. Kayla, what should residents know about insurance reimbursement? >> Thanks, Chris. Our parks and recreation department recently expanded their offerings with insurance companies, offering memberships to them at no cost. >> Well, this is exciting. How does it work and who qualifies? >> Yeah, the program offers memberships through their individual insurance company. The insurance company then reimburse the city of Reno for each visit that they come and use our facilities. The expansion of this program is especially beneficial to our seniors. However, it qualifies anyone 18 or older. You just need to contact your insurance company. >> Thank you, Kayla. And don't forget to contact your insurance company to learn more. Visit reno.gov/parks andrec for more information. So [music] now you know with Reno. I'm Chris Payne for the Reno Minute. Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris Payne. We're here this week with maintenance and operations to discuss leaves. Tim, with fall being here, what advice do you have about leaf removal? >> Thanks Chris. This is typ typically the time of year we start to see the leaves drop and it's pretty simple. Property owners are responsible for the removal of leaves on their property and we ask them to do this in a timely manner to help from flooding or clogging drains during a rainstorm. >> This is good to know. What other advice do you have for the viewers? >> So, it is unlawful for homeowners or property owners to to rake or blow leaves out into the street. So, we ask them to please place them in their garbage cans or in a bag with the excess waste sticker for garbage pickup on their days. and if they could help out our street sweepers by trimming their trees and removing parked cars and garbage cans would be very helpful. >> Outstanding information. Thank you, Tim. And don't forget to follow the city of Reno on all of your favorite social media platforms. So now you know with the [music] Reno Minute. Hello, I'm Chris Payne and it's time for the Reno Minute. Today we're [music] excited to spotlight the city's new rolling recreation center, a mobile recreation center designed to bring fun and activities to communities [music] across the city. Here's Kayla Snow to tell us more. >> Thanks, Chris. Our rolling recreation center is all about making accessible recreation for everyone in our community. Our mobile recreation center travels to various parks following the schedule of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada Kids Cafe Summer Meals Program. This means that not only do kids get free recreational activities, but also a free meal. Our program offers a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including sports, games, arts, and crafts, and so much more. The Rolling Recreation Center is free and open to the public. We welcome everyone of all ages to come out, have fun, and enjoy our city parks. >> Thank you, Kayla. Visit reno.gov/parks [music] andre to find out when the rolling recreation trailer rolls through a park near you. So now you know [music] with Reno. Thank you for watching the Reno Minute. Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris Payne. We're here this week with the Reno Police Department to discuss the Save Volunteer Program. Evan, what is SAVE? >> Thanks, Chris. SAVE is an acronym that stands for Senior Auxiliary Volunteer Effort. It's a wonderful organization that comprises of seniors and they help the police department with additional resources and through their patrols, they help with crime prevention and observations. >> Outstanding. Also, if someone wants to volunteer, how do they get involved? Basically, anyone in SAVE is 50 years of age or older, we ask that they volunteer 16 hours a month and they can, if you're interested, either call, email, or visit the website for Reno PD. Fantastic. Thank you so much, Evan. And don't forget to follow RPD and the city of Reno on all of your favorite social media platforms. So now you know with the Reno Minute, I'm Chris [music] Payne. Hello and welcome to the Reno Minute. I'm Chris Payne. We're here this week with public works to discuss street rehabilitation and maintenance. Jonathan, what can you tell us about this program? >> Yeah, thanks Chris. Our public works departments were working really hard to improve our neighborhood streets in our community. For instance, we're just finishing up a rehab project in Midtown where we included the replacement of our roadways, streets, sewer, and even out alleyway improvements. >> Well, this is good to know, but how are these neighborhoods chosen? >> Sure, Chris. Good question. The city inspects all our local roadways and calculates a pavement condition index or a PCI score. The streets with the lowest PCI scores are grouped and ranked based on factors such as utility placement or proximity to essential services. If you'd like more information, please visit our website at reno.gov/cap projects. Thanks so much, Jonathan. And don't forget to follow the city of Reno on all of your favorite social media platforms. So now you know with Reno. I'm Chris Payne for the Reno Minute. [music] It's it's [music] very it's very hard living at the shelter. Um it's kind of it's kind of survive if you can [music] uh until you can get out and and and the thing about uh >> which item are you here for? >> My situation was do was a was a conduit for me to [music] thrive. You know, once I was once I got out of there, as you can see, I'm I'm doing pretty well. >> Reno Works is a joint partnership with Volunteers of America [music] in the city of Reno, and he was one of the >> All right, Vice Mayor Taylor, if you'd like to reconvene the meeting. It's 2011, and at this time, Council Member Eert, Council Member Dor, and Mayor Shivy are absent. >> Great. Um, Madame Clerk, we're going to go out of order because we have the presenter for item D2 here. Um, let the record reflect that council is opening the public hearing for item D2. Was proper notice given and correspondence received. >> Vice Mayor Taylor, proper notice was given and no correspondence was received. Additionally, we do not have any public commenters on this item. >> Okay. So, the attorney, would you like to read the ordinance? >> Yes, Madam Vice Mayor. Thank you. Ordinance introduction. Bill number 7322, case number LDC 26-000013, Luwella Garvey House historic resource designation. Ordinance to amend title 18, chapter 1802 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning reszoning a plus or [clears throat] minus 0.36 acre site from professional office to professional office with the historic landmark overlay zoning district. The subject property is located at 589 and 599 California Avenue and has a master plan land use designation of suburban mixed use ward one. >> I'm prepared to make a motion. >> Okay. Do we have any disclosures? >> Okay, go ahead. I move to refer for a second reading. >> Have a motion? >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously. >> Okay, we're moving on to item D1. Um, Madame Clerk, let the record reflect. We're opening this the public hearing on this item. Was proper notice given and any correspondence received? >> Madame Vice Mayor, proper notice was given, no correspondence re received, and we do not have any public comment registered. >> Thank you. Uh, Mr. City Attorney, please read the ordinance. Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. Ordinance introduction bill number 7321, case number LDC 26-000011, South Valley's zoning South Valley's park zoning map amendment. A request been made for a zoning map amendment from mixeduse suburban zoning district to the parks, greenways, and open space zoning district. The plus or minus 69.2 2acre side is located on the west side of Wedge Parkway, plus or - 800 ft south of Arrow Creek Parkway and is bound by Whites Creek Lane and Interstate 580 on the south and South Virginia Street on the east, South Valley's Regional Park. The subject site has a master plan, land use designation of parks, greenways, and open space ward 6. >> Thank you. Council members, any disclosures? >> No. >> Okay. Would you like to make a motion or do you want a presentation? No, I make a motion to refer. >> We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? I >> motion carries namasty. Those sheets are really working, Jackie. [laughter] >> All right. Do we have any here for item D3? >> Jeff Foster. >> Welcome. >> Okay. Let the record reflect that council is opening the public hearing on item D3. Madame Clerk, was proper notice given and do we have any correspondence? >> Madam Vice Mayor, proper notice was given. We did receive three letters of correspondence in opposition of this item. We do not have any public commenters registered. >> Okay, council members, any disclosures? >> No. >> Fantastic. Welcome, Jeff. >> Thank you. >> Um Okay. >> Can I mad vice mayor, my only worry is that the ward member is not here. >> Do we um want to see if she's going to make her >> Jenna, would you mind seeing if she can if she's interested? I would just hate for us to get out over skis and have it be >> totally understand. Good call. >> I see that it is a 70 planning commissioner recommendation, so I feel like it will be um not difficult, but I just wouldn't want to overstep. Is there any >> Is there any interest in moving to item G4, which is the youth city council appointments? >> Yes, we can do that. Uh >> prepared to make a recommendation. >> Okay. Councilman Martinez. >> Awesome. Uh for the youth city council, I'd like to thank uh Karina for coordinating the interviews um and getting that together. I'd like to recommend Daisy Miller, Tristan Martinez, Voucher, Lily Bridges, and Gio Kim to be appointed to the city council. >> Second enthusiastically. >> All those in favor? >> I motion carries unanimously. Thank you. >> G2. >> Yep. >> G2. Council Council Member Anderson. >> Okay. In the same vein, um I want to thank Megan Burner and her work with the chair of the arts and culture advisory board. I know that she did um interviews and um we had robust discussion at the meeting about these um applicants and the the board voted for the educator will be Megan Bavaro, Stephanie Maza, Melissa Olsen, Megan O'Reilly, and Lane Snider. >> Second. >> Motion a second. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously. G3. Madam Vice Mayor, uh, Councilwoman Der. >> Yeah. Um, can we come back? >> All right. Can we come back? I just want to make sure I have the right names here. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> I think we're still waiting on Council Member Eert. >> Madame Mayor, would you like to handle item G1? We're just We've moved kind of rapidly through the You [laughter] guys are so good. >> We are if nothing but efficient. >> Hold on. Okay. Got Yes. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. So, G1 and any public comment on this item? >> We have no public comment registered. >> Okay. Thank you so much. I would like to appoint Councilman Ree. >> Madame Mayor, that's very kind. Um, but I'm going to decline in part because I have a lot going on, but also because I've had it twice and so I thank you for the opportunity to serve again and and certainly am grateful for it. I I'd like to nominate Council Member Martinez. >> Yeah. And >> Okay. Uh, I have a motion. Well, I think you better ask him first. >> I I [laughter] suppose that's true since she didn't ask me. I'm going to ask you, Council Member Martinez, >> Miguel, and I would love I would love to have you. You are a joy to work with and you're kind and you're thoughtful and um but I think we should ask you first. >> Yes, I I would be honored to serve in this role and I appreciate the support from Council Member Ree in appointing me in this position and you as well, Madam Mayor. Thank you for the opportunity. Hope to make you all proud >> and I think that's a wonderful choice. Good job. Council woman, did you want to say anything? No. Everyone's got their lights on. >> No. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion carries unanimously. And I like that cuz Councilwoman Dur, you've had it a couple times. Councilwoman Taylor's had it. >> Yeah. Um, Councilwoman Taylor and now Councilman Martinez. >> Love it. >> We'll go that way. Rune next. >> Okay. Do we want to go back to G3? >> I think we should go back to G3. That would be great. Okay. >> All right. Um, >> I would like to nominate um Susan Kaiser, William Reich, and Joseph Tuvel to the Urban Forestry Commission. >> Second. >> Okay, perfect. I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Well, let me understand. >> Look at who's there. >> Well, one sec. >> I know. Boston. >> One second. Um, it says two here, but when I last looked at the list, it said we had three openings. So that's why I'm a little confused. So, um, is I don't know if there's anyone who can confirm that or if we have any, uh, I don't know if Tyler's here. >> Tyler's on his way. >> Yes. Boston. >> Tyler Shaw, agenda manager. For the record, there are only two vacancies currently. Yes, there's only two. So we can appoint two today and then bring back a future appointment if okay indeed there are more than two. But >> for some reason I had read some other materials. It seemed to say there were three. >> Okay. Um I think it was on the last agenda it said there were three and um that's where I got confused. >> I'll look into that. >> All right. Well if there's only three um I think I'm going to go with William Reich and Joseph Tuville. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Okay. >> We are >> D3. >> D3. We are back at D3. >> Whoops. >> Madam Mayor, uh, this had already sort of begun. Jeff was in front of us, but I wanted to make sure the W four member was here in case there were issues. I I noticed that it was a 70 approval by planning, so I didn't know if anyone needed a I do not require for me a staff presentation, but I'll turn that to Miss Eert in Ward 4. >> Go ahead, Councilwoman Eert. >> Yeah, I'd like a presentation. I'm familiar with the area. There was a presentation at my NAB, but I always like to um you know have this available on YouTube in case I get questions from Ward members that aren't able to come to meetings in person. and it's great to be able to uh send them the YouTube video and a timestamp to watch it. So, um I know where the area is. It's not too far from my kids school. I've taken a a kind of a unofficial tour of the site, but if you could just kind of go over the map and talk about what it is, that'd be great. Thanks. >> Good. >> All right. Good afternoon, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Jeff Foster bringing you High Sierra Gas, uh LDC 26-8. The project site is about 66.8 8 acres in size uh on the northwest corner of Lear Boulevard instead boulevard. It is developed with a large industrial building that was built in 1987. The parcel is surrounded on three sides by industrial uses and undeveloped parcels that are zoned industrial and neighborhood commercial. There are residential uses adjacent to the parcel on the east side that are across uh two roads. The request before you is a conditional use permit to allow a propane storage facility uh exceeding the 10,000lb threshold for propane per NRS. Uh so as we zoom in, I just wanted to point out that the applicant leased a 14,000 ft area in the north central portion of the site and that's in the area under the blue star there. But they did not obtain the cup prior to establishing operations. The requirement for the CUP was identified during business license review. Uh the key issues that staff analyzed are compatibility with surrounding uses, site operations, and agency coordination. The master plan is industrial and the corresponding zoning is also industrial. Um so as far as background, um the 30,000galon storage tank holds approximately 24,000 gallons of liquid propane, which is about 100,000 lbs of propane when full at 80%. The site previously contained three 30,000galon tanks uh in the area you can see on the screen there uh that the prior owner used for backup power for a paper manufacturing facility. These tanks were removed sometime between 2019 and 2021. The applicant subsequently purchased the tanks and reinstalled one of them and then they also acquired an existing propane distribution company and they've been using the site for storage and propane delivery since October of 2021. Turning to compatibility with surrounding uses, as previously noted, the general development pattern in the area is industrial with residential to the east. The three 30,000galon propane storage tanks were located in the exact same spot on the site for multiple decades. The tank is approximately 350 ft from the closest industrial buildings to the north and the south as you can see on the screen. The tank is about 840 ft from the closest residential property line as you can also see on the screen. And the port a portion of the eastern perimeter has a large burm such such that the tank is not visible from the residential area. Um, and based on all of those things, staff has uh determined that the use is generally compatible with the uh surrounding land uses. So, in terms of some site operations, and this is where we get into some of the nitty-gritty, uh, the site is not customerf facing. It has no propane bottle filling. Uh, the 30,000galon storage tank is filled with a large transport propane carrier and then the applicant loads the propane onto their own trucks and delivers it to their customers. The site has 247 security with three locked gates needed to access the facility. Uh condition number five requires that the gate of the facility remain locked when personnel are not uh on site. The other two gates are locked after normal business hours and the main gate off Lear Boulevard is under supervision and the location follows all NFPA 58 code requirements and staff included that as condition number six. Uh the last thing and this is one of the interesting things about uh hazardous materials is it requires uh agency coordination. RMC requires agency coordination with a number of agencies including the administrator of the division of environmental protection of the state department of conservation and natural resources the state fire marshal and the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business business and industry. There are some others [clears throat] that we are supposed to look at as well, but they were not applicable in this case. So, regarding the first one, DCNR, uh they indicated to me uh that propane has a unique exemption from CAP under applicability rules. Basically, um if the facility is a retail facility, uh it's exempt from their standards for the uh CAP program. And because the applicant does provide 100% of their propane to directly to end users, they are considered a retail facility and are therefore exempt. Uh and we received confirmation that uh DCNR had no further comments. The next one is the state fire marshall. They basically want to check that the uh propane tank has a hazardous materials permit. They confirmed that it does have a hazardous materials permit. So again, no further comment. And then last but not least, the state of Nevada Department of Business and Industry does not regulate liqufied propane storage tanks. [clears throat] So, um, here are the recommended findings for a conditional use permit. Staff can make all recommended findings as did the planning commission. Um, because it involves hazardous materials, the planning commission has two additional findings that they need to make. Again, uh, they could make both of these findings. And here's the recommended motion. As uh council member Ree pointed out, uh the planning commission did vote 7 to zero on October 15th to bring this forward to the council subject to all proposed conditions. That's it for my presentation and uh the applicant Carl Wimigler is here should you have any uh questions for him. >> Okay. Thank you. I'm going to hand it back to you, Councilwoman Eert. >> Yeah. Um if the applicant can come forward please. So can you just kind of explain what the difference will be it once this is approved or if it gets approved? >> Uh nothing changes. >> Okay. So I just want that to be on the record. This this site is being used for this. It's not a place where people come and fill up like small tanks for their barbecue or anything like that. This is more for like industrial commercial use. Correct. That's 100% correct. Yeah, it's not our part of our business model. It wouldn't, you know, we we deliver to end users only and uh, you know, like a 4 gallon delivery into a grill bottle just wouldn't meet our business model. So, we do have other locations in California where we have dispenser tanks and they're set up for that. So, it's a totally different system. >> Uh, in California, we have 230s in Beckworth and we do the same kind of operation. And then at our office in Portola, California, we have a dispenser. It's uh similar to our dispenser that we have off Lemon Drive at Ranchers Feed >> and and Bob over there fills fills bottles for customers. >> So, do you take take this and in trucks and deliver it to homes in the area as well or >> and commercial accounts? Yeah. In the area. >> Okay. >> And so the 10,000lb uh to me is is um it's interesting because our trucks have more than that on on board. So it's we wouldn't be able to uh operate effectively and with our margins and things if we if we could only have that little bit of storage. So the >> how how often are you refilling those? Like what's the turnover at this location? >> Uh we usually get one to two transports a week depending on the size. So there's two two transports that we get either between a 9 and 10,000lb trailer or up to a 14,000lb trailer. Uh so it's big loads that we get. And then um so the 10,000 lb will be about a 30% load and that's about three uh truckloads of off of our equipment about three truckload. So in the winter when it's cold that's when our business is um >> where we do the most business. Um and and there are days where where our drivers will deliver 5,000 gallons a day. >> Yeah. Yeah. I have family further out in Lemon Valley that use propane to keep their homes warm in the winter. Um, so is it your company doing the distribution as well or are there like contractors that come and and take the propane and and deliver it? >> Oh, no. It's just us. >> It's just you. Okay. So, you don't have people coming in that aren't properly trained and know how to handle everything. It's not, you know. >> No, absolutely not. >> Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure everybody's aware that this isn't some place where people can just come in and and act irresponsibly and potentially cause a fire or anything like that. This is this is used by the community um quite a bit, especially in the wintertime. It's a community resource and it's not something that the public is h has access to. And also, if you look at the map, I don't know if we can go back to that aerial view, it's um got a little bit of shrubs around it, but it doesn't really have much to catch on fire if, god forbid, something happens. And I know at the nab, you had mentioned that it just kind of is like evaporates. >> It vaporizes. >> Vaporizes. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, any anytime So, it's interesting. Liquid propane's not flammable, >> uh but the vapor is. So, there's an 8020 rule with all vap with all propane tanks. So, we fill it to 80% 20% of its vapor. >> Um, but overgative - 44 degrees, the propane will vaporize or boil off. So, if if I had a gallon of liquid propane, >> uh, >> and I was outside and I poured it out, it would just vaporize. >> Yeah. >> You know, uh, it's it's it's lighter than water and heavier than air, so it'll actually settle to a low point, but it will just go away. >> Yeah. Okay. So, I'm not crazy that there are homes so close, but you have a pretty big buffer around and it's already there and it is something that's used by the community. I just wanted to kind of talk about this on the record that people, you know, understand what's going on there. Um, so thanks for coming up and answering my questions. I don't know if you have anything else. >> Yeah. Uh, council member I just wanted to also point out that um, uh, Fire Marshall Beck did look at this as well and spoke with Carl the applicant. Um, uh, Captain O'Brien is here as well. He can address those issues because Fire Marshall Beck was not able to attend today. But they they did look at the safety of the site um in terms of access to the site uh the distance between the uses and uh just ultimately determined that it was not a a hazard as far as fire concerns. >> So the vapor you know if if all the fuel vaporized would it be a risk to the homes that far away? >> No. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Can I have a motion? >> Sure. Um I'll um make a motion to support or to uphold the decision of the planning commission. >> All right. Thank you very much. I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you for sitting here all day. I apologize. [clears throat] Hopefully you learned something. Hopefully you walk away with >> Yeah. Absolutely. It's been fun to be uh part of the process and kind of seeing what's going on. Yeah. So, >> yeah. So, thank you for sticking it out with us. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. >> All right. Take care. >> All right. All right. >> Good luck. >> All right. >> Okay. Um, >> council comments. >> Council >> comments H1. >> Comments H1. There was something in my brain though that I wanted to put on council comments and now I can't remember. >> Shoot. Brandy knows what I mean. Okay. Do you guys have anything? Nothing. >> Go ahead. Councilman Martinez. Vice Mayor Martinez. >> Thanks so much. >> Vice Mayor Martinez. Vice Mayor Martinez. So, two M's. Good. I like it. some reiteration there. Uh, just quickly wanted to highlight that this Saturday at 11:00 a.m. we're doing a ribbon cutting for the sports courts that were just upgraded at Miraloma Park. So, if anybody would like to join us, we'll be there with some snacks for the family. It might be a cold day, so feel free to bundle up and maybe wet. So, feel free to join us if you can this Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at the Miraloma Courts. >> Okay. Well, that'll be great. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves and predict the weather. >> [laughter] >> Let's, you know, it's Reno. It could be 75 and beautiful, right? >> Right. Let's Let's keep the hope alive. Okay. Anyone else? Go ahead, Council Mander. >> Yeah. Um, when I earlier brought up about the Midtown holiday parking, which is a cool concept. >> Yeah, I love it. >> Um, I just wanted to uh do a shout out to a couple of the businesses that helped us. And one of those who doesn't get a lot of recognition is the Wild Orchid. They actually opened up their parking lot for that parking event. Um, which went on for about six weeks. >> And also, as I remember, Tai Chili was at the south, they were at the north end and the south end was like Tai Chili, which is almost all the way at the south end. And then there were three businesses in between. So, um, I just there there's a lot of opportunity there for both the businesses to get recognition and these parking lots to get used, which they're often sitting vacant. So, I just wanted to do that shout out. Okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Um, anyone else? >> Nothing. >> Oh, I have one more. >> Okay. Go. >> Um, so I do have one of those coffee with the council members this uh this weekend. I believe it is on I don't know if it's Saturday or Sunday, but I believe it is. Anyway, what's different about it is that we're going to be at a complete different venue over at um the California the villages on California right near where Keystone and um California meet. So that's a the house of bread. Some of you may know it. I've been at other events there and and they're just really cool people. Super nice and uh you know I wanted to spread the love around especially >> Was that the original owners >> as to my knowledge? >> Yeah, they're nice people. I've been there for like tennis awards ceremonies for our youth and other things. A house of bread. >> Oh, I haven't been there. >> Yeah. Really neat. And uh it it's a it's it's an awesome I picked it before Swill Coffee and Wine went out of business. And I just did want to do a shout out to Swill. um they found themselves in the crosshairs of a new landlord buying a business and raising rates and them not being able to meet those rates and then they decided well maybe it's time for us to close up doors given given everything. So I did offer the mayor did offer to help them uh renegotiate. I that should be said. I never put that out on Facebook or anything, but um they decided, you know, this is probably a sign. So, they decided to close up shop. But I will tell you that the outpouring from the community, I mean, it's been in the newspaper. It's been in alternate newspapers. I don't know. And I am struggling because I did probably 80% of my meetings there uh that were out of this building. I am struggling because I have been visiting every coffee shop like three miles north and three miles south looking for that both the ambiance but also the seating and I'm struggling. So um >> comic and coffee >> I I right across I've I've had many uh meetings at comic comics and coffee and comics actually and uh I'm just sharing though that one of the unique things they did and this is really a challenge out there is they supported virtually every nonprofit. If someone asked, could we use your space and room for an event? They said yes. And this is pretty much unprecedented. I mean, it was over and over. Uh not to mention the knitting clubs, the card clubs, this the games, you know, just the the seniors hanging out there. Many um groups that wanted meetings, they held them. So that as a resource is pretty hard to replace besides the delicious, you know, offerings. even from other really great coffee shops just don't have that kind of room. But anyway, that's that's it. Just a note of sorrow. Um they will be missed. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Anything else? >> I Oh, go ahead. >> Yeah, just wanted to say um happy overall that we have um you know an continue to have an agreement with the uh US bowling what is it commission. Is that what you Congress? >> Yeah. But just um looking forward to maybe having um more engagement with RSCBA in the future. I know we've talked about it a few times and I know Mike um has come in um to meeting recently, but just hoping to have more collaboration and I know uh Mayor Shiv, you you represent us and you're doing a great job over there. Um, but I just want to continue to to work with all of our different boards and commissions, but especially RSCVA to see, you know, what other ways we can activate just, you know, >> I think you bring up a good point and the reason is I'm not going to be there and I would think that you guys want to start paying attention to >> Yeah. you know, because it's been many, many uh initiatives Yeah. >> that have actually saved the city millions of dollars and I've had to go over there and fight and be very unpopular. >> Um Brandy, you love tourism. And so, you know, I just want you guys to think about that. So, I think you bring up a good point that we need to figure out the best way for you guys to get the information to know what's going on all the time. You can always reach out to Mike. always always and uh if you need anything, you know, I'm happy to help. But I would like >> uh we do have >> Jackie, we have um presentations from like I keep them going. >> I've heard from a couple people there's going to be a neon sign museum on the first floor, which is great. It's going to be opening up. I feel like the council should, you know, have some kind of presentation about that. Um you know, there's other areas of the stadium that could be activated. I know there's a bar upstairs. Maybe that could be like a cool kind of speak easyy thing or something. Um I just wish that we could have just a little more engagement and um input as as a body with that group. >> Um and not so much as like getting informed maybe after, but like be a part of that process. Yeah. >> Together and then you know the council liaison be the you know the voice for us but just so that we can help guide that a little bit. any ideas you guys have, just you got to do it cuz or bring them cuz they're not they're not bad ideas at all in any way. Matter of fact, we put a >> I don't know if you guys I don't remember if you were here, Megan, but we had a um haunted house in there. So, any ideas you guys have, I think it's a great idea to have the conversation. Yeah, Mike should come and have that opportunity. if you guys have ideas, I think it would be great for him to hear those because that probably never would have happened without the council being supportive and those and I think to your point with um Will coming in there um is actually really really cool. It's going to be a good partnership. So, >> but we should know about it because I think we can elaborate on things we can do >> and also [clears throat] like I don't know if we have an idea. Is that something that I should ask the city manager? Hey, could can you agendaize RSCVA or should we just have periodic like workshops with them and and talk about different ideas that we have? That's a piece. So, I'm not sure of like how do we um engage more with them. But anyways, I like it. I I think it's totally a >> worthwhile and a good idea. I don't know. Let me let me ask Jackie what's the best way because maybe we should actually have sort of more of a retreat with them >> in some way. >> I'm down for whatever. Yeah, >> cuz it would be fun cuz you guys should see a lot of the tourism numbers. You'll love those. Brandy already kind of >> is knows all that stuff. But um some of them are impressive >> and they do a lot of cool things over there that we really don't know about that we're doing outside the market. >> But it's cool. >> It would be helpful um for the body to get a viewpoint of where we were 25 years ago. um >> yeah, >> what we were scrapping by with $29 room rates and having no airlines that wanted to do business here and being able to see the progress um and the arc overtime would be really really helpful because it establishes those benchmarks for us to be thinking about how we can help support them and fight for the business because that's what it is. We have to earn business. We need to steal business from other markets by being better than them. >> And we can only be better than them if we're all engaged in that. So I think a retreat is an interesting concept. >> Yeah. >> And um just for on similar line but not about the bowling is um I did take advantage when when Mike was here last time he said come to me with your ideas. So I did meet with him briefly about the um curling um international curling association coming >> and setting up. This is a proposal I brought to the previous RCBA director who dismissed it pretty much out of hand. I had a whole meeting with him and his staff. >> So we're doing round again. Uh Mike seemed much more interested in it as a winter event that then can use the ice which has to be super smooth as a step down to either performances or hockey games or practice you know in that in the event center versus the bowling stadium. Um but I did bring this and the ice that I recommended to them which came to me um [snorts] via one of the members of the Olympic committee uh was ultimately adopted by Joel Grace. You know it's a German [snorts] company that has a tremendous ice product. So I shared it with him and he went for it but our CVA did not go for it. So I'm I'm re uh introducing them to the cops. >> Well and also let me tell you something. I think what's made a huge difference is Mr. Larraetta to be honest. I think we had some >> real push back from >> that's what I'm saying. >> I'm not I'm not going to get into it but trust me that's why I was very [snorts] >> I was probably not wellliked over there for a long time and I stuck it out for 10 years and now we finally have people over there that have vision. They're excited. They, you know, they're ready to go. They're motivated. It's a different day. So, it's a great time for you guys to weigh in because they want to hear from you. They like ideas. They're open to them. You don't you don't get the push back that we have seen in years past. And I just believe in so much of um the overall mission of the RSCVA and how critical it is of our region. So, I just stayed there. I stuck it out and I think um they're doing some great work. So, I love the idea. So, let me let me think about like a retreat or some way. >> Yeah. Yeah, I think that would be good. >> Yeah, >> just get us more connected. >> Perfect. Okay. Um, anything else? >> Nothing else. Okay, Madame Clerk, >> Madame Mayor, moving on to item J1, closing public comment. We don't have any registered, but we did receive four comments. Three of neutral or concern and one of opposition that has been distributed and is a part of the permanent record. And at this point, we're looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> I'm going to send it to Councilman Martinez. Oh, no. No. Sorry. Vice Mayor Martinez. >> Move to adjourn. >> Okay. I have a motion, a second. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. Motion carries. All right. Good job, you guys. Wow. It's 2:30. Is that possible? >> Yes, it is.